09-15 Engineering Team Blocked by Basic GitHub Login Issue, Revealing Workflow Deficiencies
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-  ## Core Synopsis The engineering team has become paralyzed by a self-inflicted technical blocker, revealing a critical gap in fundamental development workflow and a dependency on senior leadership for basic troubleshooting. An engineer was unable to test code branches due to a 404 error, a problem ultimately traced back to not being logged into their GitHub account on their local machine. This seemingly minor issue consumed significant time from a senior leader, who had to pivot from a separate strategic discussion on transcription tools to remote into the engineer's machine and diagnose the elementary error. This incident highlights a systemic need to reinforce foundational development practices, ensuring team members can operate with a baseline level of autonomy before escalating issues. ## Technical Blockage: Analysis and Resolution ### Part 1: Transcription Tool Evaluation The meeting began with a briefing for a team member on transcription solutions, comparing the Plaud device and the WhisperFlow dictation software. - **Plaud Hardware/Software:** - **Models:** `Plaud Note` ($159) and `Plaud Note Pro` ($89) were presented as options for phone call recording (without headphones). - **Subscription:** Christi subscribes to the unlimited plan at $29.99/month, noting the standard Pro plan ($17.99/month) is insufficient for her meeting volume. - **Compliance:** The Plaud service is confirmed to be HIPAA compliant, making it a viable alternative when Zoom's native transcription is disabled for compliance reasons, as is common in meetings with Regional Centers. - **WhisperFlow Software:** - **Function:** Presented as a dictation software used by Christi for accessibility purposes (Lupus-related hand issues). - **Capability:** It also includes a note-taker function that can transcribe meetings, similar to Plaud. ### Part 2: Diagnosing the Development Blocker The core of the session was a troubleshooting exercise to resolve an engineer's inability to test their code branches. - **The Problem:** The engineer (Evan) was receiving a `404 error` when attempting to access the hyperlink for a pull request (PR) to preview the changes. This prevented him from testing his work before merging, which he had correctly identified as a necessary step. - **The Diagnosis:** After remoting into the engineer's computer, Christi discovered the root cause was not a complex GitHub permission issue but a simple one: the engineer was not signed into their GitHub account in the browser. - **The Resolution:** Once the engineer signed in, access was restored. Christi then guided the engineer on how to test a branch locally by spinning up a local server (`localhost` with a specific port number) to preview the changes on his machine, bypassing the need for a cloud-based preview environment for every test. - **Final Guidance:** Christi demonstrated how to use the "Preview Stack" feature in GitHub to create and merge a stack of dependent pull requests (PR3 and PR4) together. ## Next Move **@Evan** - [ ] Review and test PR4 locally to ensure it is working as expected. [TBD] - [ ] Review and test PR3 to ensure it is ready for merge. [TBD] - [ ] Use the "Preview Stack" feature in GitHub to create a stack of PR3 and PR4 and merge them. [TBD]
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- Sep 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Evan, Speaker 2 00:00:03 Can you hear me? I can hear you. Speaker 1 00:00:06 Okay, good. I want to show somebody something real quick. Um, so and you can listen in if you want because I think you and I have talked about it as well, maybe or maybe it was me and Brett. So I'll just share my screen so that you both can see it. Um, so for Plaud, what you can do the the Plaud note is what I have right here. And it's 159, and I'm just gonna. I would just purchase it on the corporate IT card, and then the Plaud Note Pro is 89. So those are your two prices. I would do one of these rather than the Plaud NotePin for you, just because these will attach to your phone and pick up your phone calls as long as you're not using headphones for your call. Okay. So be aware of that, and then for. Speaker 1 00:00:55 It is HIPAA compliant, which I wanted you to be aware of. It. Okay. You've got a couple of different plans. I have the unlimited plan, and there is a pro plan. Let me click on this and see. Yeah, here it is. So I pay the 19.99 a month. Um, I pay for it monthly, so it's 29.99 a month. And then the regular pro is 17.99. I will tell you, with the amount of meetings I have right now, pro does not work for me. It's too little. However, maybe we can talk to Michonne and have a team started because she also has a Plaud. And if Sergio or Lana or Carl ever want one, we could throw it into a team offer. Okay. Because right now that's until later this year. Okay. It's at a discount. Okay. So, but for your use case, I will tell you that the. Speaker 1 00:01:54 The regular Plaud, which is what I use, it works really well for that. I know, Michonne has the pro and she likes it, so both of them work really well in a crowded, noisy restaurant. I will tell you that. Okay. But for board meetings, if I have my laptop, then what I'll do is I will just open up the app because I have the the app's actually open right now, and it automatically transcribes meetings that I'm in for Teams or Zoom. But if I don't. Have it. I can just start a meeting manually, okay, and it will record that way. Now, if you're using WhisperFlow, it also now has a note taker, and what you can do is it will transcribe as well. Speaker 3 00:02:36 And WhisperFlow is another app. Speaker 1 00:02:40 It's a dictation software. Okay. So and it will dictate because I use that one because you know I have lupus. So when my when I'm having a rough week with my hands, I'll use. WhisperFlow to dictate rather than to type. I see. Okay. So, and I know a lot of people use WhisperFlow now. Speaker 3 00:03:01 So, well, that so there are times with some of the regional center meetings, they will. So it'll be on Zoom often, and then they will often disable the tool as far as you you won't you cannot use Zoom the Zoom notetaker. So does with this type the whisper. Still work, even though they on their end have disabled whatever features. Speaker 1 00:03:28 Yes. Okay. Now the reason why they disable it is because the Zoom version that they have. Hey, Vanna. The Zoom version that they have is automatically not HIPAA enabled, and that's why Regional Center does not allow for it to be transcribed. Now, Plaud is HIPAA enabled. Okay. So you should be fine. Speaker 3 00:03:45 On that. Okay. Got it. Yeah. So now, Christi. Yes, sir. Still do. Speaker 2 00:03:51 Hey, I'm I'm back to back, and I I want to get going on this. I'm sorry. It's okay. Speaker 1 00:03:56 Let me. So let me. I gave Delia the information. Speaker 3 00:04:00 Are you good? Do I need to go to Sergio with request for either one? Right. Okay. And then it was the about twenty eight per month. Speaker 1 00:04:11 Yes. Sorry, Evan. It's been a busy morning. All right. Understood. Let's work through your project. Speaker 2 00:04:17 Yeah. So I mean, my biggest thing is. I'm creating these branches, but I'm unable to test them. I get a four hundred four error message. That I can show you if you'd like. Speaker 1 00:04:31 Yes, go ahead and show it to me. I'm going to put you on speaker because my. Speaker 2 00:04:34 Here's my screen. So when I click on the PR five, that I'm you know to test it. This is what I'm getting. Speaker 1 00:04:43 All right. Um. Speaker 2 00:04:54 And now it looks like it's not letting me run stuff without me first testing it, which is a good, you know, Speaker 1 00:05:02 It's a good yeah bail-safe. But I've got several branches that I'd like to test. Let me let me log in real quick to your computer. I can't hear you. Let me log in real quick to your computer. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay, I'm going to log in real quick. I want you to end this meeting. Speaker 1 00:05:25 And bear with me. Did you need me, Vanna? We are starting to use Samsung phones because we don't have any iPhones anymore. I'll let Michelle know. Okay. Thank you. You can hang out and watch. All right. Bear with me one more second. It's getting lumped into the system, so I can remote into your computer. Speaker 4 00:05:52 You're good. Speaker 4 00:06:12 All right. Speaker 1 00:06:12 Perfect. Okay, so I'm gonna minimize Teams. There we go. All right. That way I don't have to see myself. Speaker 4 00:06:27 Okay. Speaker 1 00:06:50 I want to. I'm going to check something on your cloud code. I mean, not your cloud code. I'm going to check something on your GitHub, but I'm going to log in with my account into GitHub. Speaker 4 00:07:01 Okay. Speaker 1 00:07:17 Yeah, I'm wondering if it's just GitHub. Pull. Let me. Can you drag that window over into the screen so I can see it? What's that? Can you drag the window that just opened up, your Chrome window, into this one so I can see it? You want it here? Yes. Over into this. In top on top of Claude. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. Speaker 1 00:07:49 I can open that one. Now, why can't you open it? You have access to. Speaker 2 00:08:07 It. I mean, I I was. Some of the things that I was changing, I was go ahead and pushing without testing, and then I was like, " All right, I don't want to do that anymore. Speaker 1 00:08:21 " Right, completely understand. Speaker 2 00:08:23 So that's I kind of got stopped here, and that's where I started sending those messages. Speaker 1 00:08:28 Yeah, you have the right role, and I am your owner. So I'm gonna add, I'm gonna add you into somewhere else. Even though it says you already have access to it. All right. Speaker 2 00:08:50 I love how it was like you you need to get with Christi. Speaker 1 00:08:55 Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. Well, it can't see my name, so that's that's nice to see. All right. Speaker 5 00:09:13 I'm gonna. Speaker 1 00:09:17 Add another role to you. Speaker 5 00:09:18 Yes. Yes. No. Speaker 2 00:09:22 Yeah. Do I need to change something in my Git? Speaker 5 00:09:26 No. Speaker 1 00:09:33 I'm just gonna I'm gonna upgrade your your role. Speaker 5 00:09:37 I'm gonna update. Speaker 1 00:09:40 My role. Give that about. You know what? Don't give it any time. Let me just do it myself. All. Speaker 5 00:09:50 Right, Speaker 1 00:10:05 You have admin access. It's just taking a minute to get you up to date. Can you open up your email for me? Your personal email that you're signed into. Oh, you know what? Hang on, you're not signed in to get. Speaker 5 00:10:17 Yeah, so like the so. Speaker 1 00:10:19 That's why you're not able to see it. Speaker 5 00:10:21 You got to sign into it. Right now, okay. I would say. Speaker 2 00:10:30 This is my other one. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:10:44 All right. Was that my problem? Speaker 1 00:10:46 That was your problem. Let me verify. But hang on one second. Copy. Yep. Speaker 5 00:10:59 Get out of here. God dang it. Speaker 1 00:11:03 It's all good. Okay. Um, because you can see, I was like, I'm, I was looking at it, and I'm like, well, he's made edits to it. Speaker 2 00:11:13 So now, can I. Speaker 1 00:11:16 Do me a favor? I'm gonna I'm gonna click something real quick on your okay. Sign in here, Speaker 4 00:11:27 Sign in there for me. Speaker 2 00:11:38 Ah, Speaker 1 00:11:38 Lead day. All right. Okay, Speaker 2 00:11:43 Well that gets me to the get, but that doesn't. All. Speaker 1 00:11:50 Right, so to actually. Speaker 2 00:11:52 So now, how do I see? How do I see what the branch, Speaker 1 00:11:55 What it looks like? Give me one second. Let me pull that one up because I don't do it that way. Just because I'm pretty, I'm pretty good with. Speaker 2 00:12:05 With the reason code. Speaker 1 00:12:07 Yeah. Yeah. But let me look at it. Speaker 5 00:12:09 Okay, so this part. Speaker 1 00:12:14 I Gotta remember how to do it. All. Speaker 2 00:12:16 Right. It did give me a sample for this for this one here for this number five. It gave me a sample of good. I need to go probably do the PR four first. Speaker 1 00:12:30 Okay. Let me look at the PR four. Speaker 2 00:12:32 Um. Because it it like it seemed like it wanted to do them in order. Speaker 1 00:12:36 Yeah, it will want to do. You've got three branches right now. Yeah. So. Speaker 2 00:12:51 I don't know what the branch three was. Speaker 1 00:12:54 I will tell you one second. Speaker 2 00:12:56 One of them was daily notifications. Oh, and then I wanted to fix this SPA crashes; these error messages. Nice. I had Claude read it and give me suggestions, and some of these things came out of that. Speaker 5 00:13:16 Okay. Oh. Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:24 I gotcha. Hang on. Oh, sorry, I'm talking out loud to myself. Oh, fours show a friendly error instead of a blank page when spa throws. Speaker 2 00:13:34 Yeah, that's right. Speaker 1 00:13:35 Yeah. All right. So. Speaker 2 00:13:38 And then is three the daily notifications? Speaker 1 00:13:41 That's no, that's that was three. I think I think two, which two was already merged. Okay. And you can stack three and four together. They'll allow you to stack that one. You you can't stack five though. Stack means we can merge them together. Speaker 2 00:13:60 Okay. Are Are you able to see that they're healthy to to do that and push them in? Speaker 1 00:14:11 I can do it if you want, or I can show you how to do it. Speaker 2 00:14:15 Yeah, no, I want to see how to check and and see what the branch looks like. Speaker 1 00:14:21 Yeah, let me let me pull that up because I forgot how to do that. It has been a very much a very long time. Speaker 1 00:14:49 They, I'm gonna switch back to the classic page real quick because I don't remember how to do it on this one. I don't remember how to do it on that one either. Hang on. Speaker 1 00:15:07 Oh, do this. Here's what you do. Spin up a local. Speaker 1 00:15:20 PR five, so I can see it in action. Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. Speaker 2 00:15:30 Although I think it did that for five. I I've seen five. It did that for five. Oh, okay. Speaker 1 00:15:36 Already. Then you tell it to do it with four and click on that link, and that. Speaker 2 00:15:40 I just need to do it for four. Speaker 1 00:15:42 Yeah. And just have do it on your local machine rather than pull it through Git. Speaker 2 00:15:47 Okay. Speaker 2 00:15:50 Makes sense, but I mean, it gives me a hyperlink that I should be able to to click on. Yes, it was just giving me that error screen. So now it should give me what the branch looks like, right? Yes. But is it just going to give it to me in code on Git, or is it going to actually be the site? Speaker 1 00:16:11 It's going to actually be the site. So you're always going to tell it to spin up. I noticed your P is not working on your keyboard, or my P is not working on my keyboard. Speaker 1 00:16:31 So this is so when it spins up, it's always something. It's always going to be local host, and then it's going to have a port number. So I'm going to say design only. For this for this time, but you can change up how you want to see it. Speaker 2 00:16:47 Right, Speaker 1 00:16:48 Right. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to open your Chrome. Speaker 2 00:16:52 I'll put that port in. Mhm. Okay. Interesting. Speaker 1 00:16:59 Yep. Now it is going to be slow. It's always slow when it does this, but it's probably Claude is still spinning it up, so it may may take a moment. But you can tell it's there. It's got the top. Speaker 2 00:17:13 Right? Oh, awesome! That's it. Beautiful. All right. Holy shit! Awesome. Yep. Love it. Okay. All right. I'll let you know if I have any questions. Speaker 1 00:17:29 Okay. Speaker 2 00:17:30 You're doing good. Text you. I'm gonna I'm gonna look at PR four, make sure it's good, and then push it. Do you say PR three is not pushed? Speaker 1 00:17:43 PR3 is not merged yet. Speaker 2 00:17:44 Okay, so I'll have to look at that and merge that too. Speaker 1 00:17:48 Okay, I would go on to Git and go into your pull requests. So I'm going to show you real quick. Wow. Perfect. Oh wow. And then go into yeah, and then just say Preview Stack. Speaker 2 00:17:60 Oh wow. Speaker 1 00:18:01 Okay. When you do that, then say Create a Stack. Speaker 2 00:18:03 Got it. Speaker 1 00:18:04 Okay. All right. Speaker 2 00:18:05 Awesome. Very cool. Speaker 1 00:18:07 Thanks. I'm going to get out of your computer now. Have a good day. Bye. Bye. Speaker 1 00:18:14 That's a lot of what AI is doing.
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09-14 Meeting: AI System Functionality and Team Onboarding
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- > Meeting Information: > Date: 2026-09-14 17:32:42 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 3] [Christi] [Speaker 4] --- ### Meeting Notes **AI System Web Search Functionality** - Speaker 1 noted that web search wasn’t enabled by default for research tasks. - The system message stated: “Web search is a toggleable feature, and in this conversation specifically, it's currently off.” - Christi clarified that web search turns on automatically in chat mode but not in co-work mode. - This recent change helps protect user data from potentially harmful websites when the AI interacts with local files. - The system remembers the last used mode (chat or co-work) across new sessions. **AI Task Processing and User Interaction** - Speaker 1 observed that a long-running task shows a “hand” icon and pauses, waiting for user interaction. - The task only resumes after clicking on the window, without explicitly requesting approval. - Christi confirmed this behavior is abnormal; the process should run automatically in the background. **Strategies for Long-Running AI Tasks** - Speaker 1’s project involves a large spreadsheet with ten years of data and has been running for a long time. - Christi’s workaround: let the desktop app run the long task in the background. - For other research tasks, use the web version (Claude.ai) in parallel without slowing the main task. - A split-screen setup can help manage both efficiently. **Planning for the Next Meeting on September 16, 2026** - The day’s original plan included reviewing Airtable, planning email management, and discussing agents. - The agents discussion is postponed to September 16, as Christi is working on updates for Claude and Copilot. - Speaker 1 will invite Ariana to Wednesday’s meeting for the agents discussion. - Wednesday’s agenda: prioritize Ariana’s discussion first, then review Speaker 1’s Airtable project if time allows. **Onboarding Team Members to AI Tools** - Gretchen, Martina, and Ariana accepted their invites to the AI tools. - Christi will have her team remotely install the Claude desktop app on their computers. - Speaker 1 will instruct them to use company-provided tools instead of external ones like ChatGPT. - Team members can access the tool via the pinned desktop app, the Start menu, or the Claude.ai web version. --- ### Next Steps - [ ] Christi will have the team deploy the Claude application to Ariana’s, Gretchen’s, and Martina’s computers. - [ ] Christi will send a meeting invitation for September 16, 2026 to Ariana (Ariana@clapichlaw.com). - [ ] Speaker 1 will train the team on the new AI tools. - [ ] On September 16, 2026, the group will discuss AI agents with Ariana. - [ ] After the agents discussion on September 16, 2026, the group will review the Airtable project (time permitting). --- ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The issue of the AI task pausing and requiring a user click to resume was not resolved. It was identified as abnormal, but no follow-up was assigned to investigate or fix it. > 2. Performance concerns for the long-running Airtable project remain. While a workaround was provided, the underlying cause of slow processing (“it’s just a lot of data”) wasn’t fully diagnosed.
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:01 For that particular research project, but only after I, only after I ask, and it tells me it didn't. You know, it's not automatically, it's not out of automatically searching to confirm. You know what I mean? I yeah, I'm so confused. It says it's not automatic, and I'm like, well, why wouldn't it be automatic, It should be automatic. Okay, so like I'll show you for example where it was that I said we had this conversation. Speaker 3 00:00:42 Ignore If you see my mouse moving. Speaker 1 00:00:44 Okay, that's fine. Speaker 2 00:00:45 So I'm opening up your your system. Speaker 1 00:00:47 So your problem. So if you can, just trying to let me get rid of this thing for a second, so it's not distracting me. So if you can see here. Right. It says always, I don't have search access in this conversation, so I confirm the mechanics right against Westlaw. So then I wrote, I thought you have search access for all my research requests. Please clarify. So it says to clarify, I don't have standing web search across access for all research requests a default. Web search is a toggleable feature, and in this conversation specifically, it's currently off. Speaker 1 00:01:29 Right, and so I said, " Okay, well, show me how to enable it." And then it gave me a little button, and I clicked it, and then it said, " It's turning it on." And now let me go verify my own citations, right? His own citations, to make sure that what he said was correct. Why isn't it automatic? Yeah, should be automatic. Speaker 2 00:01:50 I know, that's what I thought we did. It's so weird. I swear, with every client, it's something different. That I have learned. Speaker 2 00:02:50 I'm I I couldn't find it originally, so I'm just going through every option. Okay. As soon as my computer decides to stop opening other windows, Speaker 3 00:03:05 That. Speaker 4 00:03:18 Here, no, take a moment. Speaker 4 00:04:12 I don't think it's in here, but still looking. Speaker 3 00:04:17 Hmm. Speaker 4 00:04:42 Let's see if we need to adjust. Speaker 4 00:04:58 It is turned on. Oh, where is it? Speaker 2 00:05:02 It's right here. Data sources, Speaker 1 00:05:05 Very first option. So then, why is it saying. Speaker 2 00:05:08 That? That is. Speaker 2 00:05:12 Let me see if someone else is having this issue. Speaker 4 00:05:14 Okay. Under this. Speaker 1 00:05:18 Is not the first time. This is the second search that I've done that's told me this, where I've had to turn on. I can show you a different search where we had the same conversation and it turned it on. Speaker 4 00:06:11 Apparently , It got turned off. So, research is good there. Speaker 4 00:06:37 Is it under audio? I'm gonna edit. It's supposed to be in here. This is automatically approved. This is your correct folders, but. Speaker 3 00:07:03 Please not. Speaker 2 00:07:06 Ah, Okay. So when you're in here and you're going to a new chat, use chat for the research. That's what was throwing me off because you're in co work, web search is an automatically turned on. But if you're in chat, it's automatically turned on, and you can't turn it on here. You have to be in chat. Speaker 1 00:07:31 So why is it automatically when I like go to here like? When I go here, for example, yes, and I'm like new, new, right? Speaker 2 00:07:40 Yeah, yeah. You just have to click on that first one. Here, I just click whenever you want to go to new. You're just gonna click on the words research. Oh, I see. Automatically open up, Speaker 1 00:07:53 Yeah. Oh, and does it automatically change it? Does it automatically default to chat? Because I'm not here. Hold on, let me just see. Speaker 2 00:08:02 Well, I just need you to chat just now. Hey, head default is a co - worker. Speaker 1 00:08:06 Okay, got it. So, did so? Did you change the default or? Speaker 2 00:08:17 No, I just clicked on chat. Speaker 4 00:08:19 It retains the last used. Is what happened. Speaker 1 00:08:24 I see. Got it. So, if I'm writing a message here, well, let's see. I see. Okay, so somehow that's what happened. Is it just turned to? Okay, well that explains that mystery. Um. Okay, so I wanted to ask you a couple things. You see how there has a it's a hand here. So it tells me that it needs me. Yes. Then I go here, and it doesn't need me, but it stops until I click on it. So. Speaker 1 00:08:60 What it's telling me is that it won't do the work until I click on it. Speaker 2 00:09:03 Which is weird. It should be auto doing it. It's not automatically approve. Speaker 1 00:09:10 I thought you know until now it was just I have to approve those little like always for this task type of pop up, but now it's not even doing that. It's just waiting for me. I then flip over and it just keeps going. So I'm like, why? Why is it? Why is it stopped? Speaker 2 00:09:32 It should be running automatically. It shouldn't be. Speaker 4 00:09:35 Let me go once again. There should be a setting. Let me search. That let it continue going. Speaker 1 00:09:53 Uh huh. But if you wait, like we can go to a different. Speaker 1 00:10:01 Yeah, conversation for a while, and you'll see it'll it'll do the hand thing. Like right now, it's blinking, and then eventually it'll do the hand thing, and then I'll go over, check it out, see if it needs me for something, and then it'll just keep. You know, it it it has stopped. It is waiting for me, but then when I click over it, it's just that's what it is that it needs to like keep going. So it's weird, Speaker 3 00:10:23 Right? Speaker 4 00:10:31 Well, let me see. I want to see. It is a little. Give me a second. I'm just gonna give me a second. Okay. Speaker 3 00:10:41 Hey Joe. Speaker 1 00:10:55 Um. Yeah. I'm. I might play it a little bit here and see. I might come home early. I don't know. My eyes are hurting me, but I'm on the I'm on a call right now. Can I give you call back later? Okay, Speaker 4 00:11:13 Sounds good. All right. Bye. All right. Sorry, Christi. It's quite all right. Speaker 4 00:11:33 I'm gonna go back to research for a. Speaker 2 00:11:35 Moment. Actually, I'm gonna go to new. Okay, yes, it kept it on chat when I did that, so it was the last one we used. If I go to co work, we don't have the option to turn it on. Hmm. Which makes sense. Okay, and the reason why they did that, it was just a recent update that happened. Mine hasn't been updated yet because I haven't. Turn on auto update feature, which I just did. What hasn't updated? My cloud system hasn't updated, but the whole the web search thing is a new update. Where it turns off the web search for co work, unless you ask to turn it on. And the reason for that is to protect your data. I'm reading sorry out loud to you from the cloud. Okay, it's to protect your data because co work is is. Speaker 2 00:12:30 Created to which I knew this to do actual work for you, and so it's a safety feature, just in case it comes across a nefarious website that tries to take over your machine. Chat is put into it because chat you don't you're not manipulating files on your computer or anything. Speaker 1 00:12:49 That makes sense. Okay, okay, that's fine as long as I know why it's that I just need to go to chat. Speaker 2 00:13:01 And it does use the last one, even mine does that. It uses the last one you you worked on, and so if you open up a new chat, whatever you had, whatever used the the last chat will be on the new one. Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:19 Makes sense. Yeah, that totally makes sense. Speaker 2 00:13:22 Good, because words are hard today. Speaker 1 00:13:24 Okay. Um. All right. So I guess I. Wanted to just find out. I'm trying to like I. It's not done done yet, and so if I go back here, it's still working through. And I think part of this is I don't think because it's not connected. I mean, it's working off of my spreadsheet, right? Speaker 1 00:14:00 But, um, maybe once it's connected to Cleo, it'll go faster. I have no idea. But yeah, for now it's just working. It's it's kind of doing a roundabout thing using my emails and using my spreadsheet. Um, do we have any sense as to how long these things take? Speaker 2 00:14:21 Because I've been like, you've been letting it go for a while. Speaker 1 00:14:27 Pretty long time. I mean, it's a big project, so I get it. I mean, and and also as doing it year by year, and there were like a whole bunch of things that had to work out for twenty twenty six. I think it did twenty fifteen, and now it's on twenty sixteen, and I do think it did twenty twenty five, but it's got like ten years, you know, Speaker 2 00:14:49 To do. Right. Honestly. I rebuilt an application today for another client that was pretty heavy, and it took me about five hours to rework it. I just let it go in the background, and I I had it go from start to finish, and so that was pretty lengthy, but probably not as lengthy as your spreadsheet. Also, I was on a very slow internet. Speaker 1 00:15:18 Connection. Okay, maybe I should just say, just please do. Speaker 1 00:15:25 All the years, and don't stop year by year, unless you have specific. Speaker 4 00:15:34 Questions. Speaker 2 00:15:38 I don't know. You could do that. Um, I'll be honest. Here's what I did today. I let it run in the background, and if I needed to use Claude, I used the web version, and let the desktop continue working. Um, and. I left it going in the background while I was working on other things, but where I could see it, so a split screen. If that makes sense. Which I've seen you do split screen. Speaker 1 00:16:03 Yeah, I mean, I could do a split screen, and you said I could still do this while you know I could still do other research projects or other club things while it's running in the background. Yeah. So it's just been running in the background for a long time. That's the thing. Speaker 2 00:16:19 Yeah. But. Um. I'm gonna just open a random a new window here. And so what I've done in the past is I will split screen this. Mhm. And then oh, I see. Yeah, and then run Claude here to do research. Oops, I went too far. And so Claude got AI. Speaker 2 00:16:54 And so, as because you're right here, I'm gonna chat, and then you can do your your research from chat. Speaker 1 00:17:05 So Claude AI is connected to my thing. Speaker 4 00:17:08 Uh huh. Speaker 1 00:17:10 The web version. Oh my gosh, I had no idea. That's so cool. I did not know that. And what is that? That just allows. Is it slowing down if I'm doing the the research on the same version as it? Speaker 2 00:17:26 No, not slowed down. Speaker 1 00:17:30 It's just it's just to give me another screen, basically. Exactly. I see. Speaker 2 00:17:35 Okay, that's actually awesome. I didn't even know it was possible. I have um I have a forty nine inch screen at home because I'm a gamer. And like that. That's cool. Yeah, I have to have something to take my mind away from everything else sometimes. So I do exactly what you just did. I do the three screens on my forty nine inch because forty nine inch is basically two twenty seven inch monitors side by side. Got it. And so I do that, and then that way I have I'm working in all three screens, and I can watch the other screens as I work. Speaker 1 00:18:13 Got it. Speaker 2 00:18:16 Okay. It just makes it a lot easier. I'm a huge multitasker. Speaker 1 00:18:20 No, that's fantastic. Okay, um, we had talked about something else that we wanted to do today, and now, of course, I'm totally blanking. Did you write it down by any chance? Speaker 2 00:18:34 Let me go back and look at my transcript. Speaker 1 00:18:36 Okay, because I think we had planned like what we were going to do today, but then maybe I. Speaker 2 00:18:40 Don't know. No worries. I've had such a long day. Speaker 1 00:18:45 Oh my God. Speaker 2 00:18:46 It was definitely today. Was Monday? Speaker 1 00:18:49 Oh my goodness, was it? Yeah, it was. Speaker 2 00:18:55 One hundred percent Monday. Okay. I have three things waiting for input from me. Just now. Oh my goodness, Speaker 1 00:19:04 Are you serious? Speaker 2 00:19:05 I set them. I set them to work while I was on my way home from the office, and they just finished up. Speaker 1 00:19:13 Wow! Wow! That's crazy. Speaker 3 00:19:21 Okay. Speaker 2 00:20:15 Either my internet's running slow, or AI is hanging up. Speaker 3 00:20:19 Today. Speaker 4 00:20:21 Hmm. We are going to review your Airtable. Hmm. Speaker 4 00:20:45 Well, Speaker 2 00:20:46 That's not going to happen, I guess. Okay. And then we were going to begin planning email management. Speaker 1 00:20:52 Oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay. And we were also we're going to also show me how to do the agents for me as well, right? Speaker 2 00:21:05 Yeah. However, let's hold off on agents until Wednesday because I'm working through some new agent stuff. That I was working on this morning, and I didn't get it finished because, you know, crises in the world of certain clients happen. In other words, AT and T had some outages that I had to deal. Speaker 1 00:21:28 With. I see. Okay, and so are you just working through some client, like some agent - related, like glitches or things that you need to work out first? Speaker 2 00:21:38 So I'm looking at new agent stuff that they are coming out with. On both Claude and Copilot. Speaker 1 00:21:44 Ah, okay, okay. Should I have Ariana join us then on on Wednesday? Speaker 2 00:21:52 That would be great because I was going to suggest that. Speaker 1 00:21:55 Okay, can you also send her a to send her the the Teams meeting for Wednesday? She's just Ariana with one N, Ariana at clapichlaw dot com. Speaker 4 00:22:11 Yes, let me pull that up. Now I know my internet's not slow, but now Microsoft is taking it sweet. Speaker 4 00:22:44 Yep, I'm only editing one of them. Alright, she has been good. Speaker 1 00:22:48 Okay, perfect. Um, all right. Well, I guess we'll do the agent thing on Wednesday with Ariana, and if my air table ever finalizes, we can also do that. I just, it's just like slow going, I guess. Yeah, they're all slow going today. It's just been slow all weekend too. Like it's been going. I mean, it's really been going. I don't know what it's been on and like connected, and I just don't know. It's just taking forever, but it's just possible. It's just a lot of data. Speaker 2 00:23:28 Okay, so I went ahead and had Copilot because Copilot's working faster than Claude. Okay. The agenda for Wednesday. Speaker 4 00:23:43 Okay, Speaker 2 00:23:45 Great. And we're going to concentrate on Ariana. Speaker 1 00:23:48 Yes. Yep. And um, yeah, I think that's a great idea. And do you know if the other, if Ariana's accepted the Claude and the co - pilot? I think you had sent her ah invite. Speaker 2 00:24:05 Let me look here. Since I'm not logged into the VPN, I can't access yours. Um. Someone, I want to borrow your computer to check it. All right. So she has accepted it here, and she did not need to accept it on our end. We gave her the license, Speaker 1 00:24:23 So it. Okay, and it looks like Gretchen and Martina accepted it as well. Yes. Okay, so I just need to let them know not to use an outside ChatGPT type thing. Yes. Okay. And can they access theirs by doing Claude. AI if they wanted to, or should they go through the? Do they have Claude on their pin to their screen? Speaker 2 00:24:50 They can do it either way. They can either do it at the bottom. Well, if they pinned it, it would be at the bottom. But if they didn't pin it, they just have to click Start, and it'll be under their Start menu. At the same time, they can just do it by going to Claude. AI as well. Let me have let me have the team push out to Gretchen and Ariana, the Claude and Martina, and Martina. I'll send them. I'll send the team an email after this meeting, and have them automatically add the applications to the three of their computers. For Claude, Copilot's already installed. Speaker 1 00:25:31 Okay. Yeah. If you could do that, that'd be great. And then I will review with them what they need to do. Speaker 2 00:25:37 Perfect, and then I just put the agenda into the meeting, so you'll see it updates the agenda in your meeting. It might take a few minutes for Microsoft to get it over there to you, but it'll be in there. Okay. And at the very end, I did put the Airtable and Claude follow up, so we can let her drop it at the end, and then. Once you drop, we can go over Airtable. Speaker 1 00:26:08 Okay, that sounds great. And then why am I blanking on how to create a new one of these things? Why is it doing this? I'm like, how do I create a new estate plan thing here. Speaker 2 00:26:21 Where are you at? Oh, there, projects. Yeah. So to create a new estate plan, just click on estate. Oh, Speaker 1 00:26:30 I just go to projects. I see. I see. Speaker 2 00:26:32 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:26:33 I'm sorry, Courtney. Speaker 2 00:26:34 It's okay. No worries. Speaker 1 00:26:36 Hey. Okay. Cool. So I will plan to see you then on Wednesday, and in the meantime, you'll get Martina and Gretchen and Ariana, or someone on the team will with a with it on their computer with Claude on their computer. Speaker 2 00:26:52 Yeah. And the great thing is we don't even have to call them. The team will just do it behind the scenes. Speaker 1 00:26:57 Oh, good. Automatically. Okay. Good. So I will plan tomorrow to go over some things with them about it, so they can start to look at it. Speaker 2 00:27:07 And I'll get that email sent out as soon as we hang up, and we should be good to go. Speaker 1 00:27:12 Perfect. All right, sounds good. All right, thank you, Christi. Speaker 4 00:27:18 All right, you too. Speaker 1 00:27:19 All right, take care. Speaker 3 00:27:20 Bye.
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09-14 Lecture: Parenting Strategies to Prevent Underage Alcohol and Cannabis Use
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- > Date and Time: 2026-09-14 11:11:51 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary This lecture underscores the powerful role parents play in shaping their children’s choices about alcohol and cannabis; three out of four kids cite parents as the most important influence. It details the risks of early use—alcohol-related crashes, academic problems, mental health issues (depression, anxiety), higher dropout rates, poor grades, and increased addiction risk. The lecture contrasts four parenting styles—authoritarian, overprotective, permissive, and positive/authoritative—and concludes that positive (authoritative) parenting best prevents underage drinking by fostering trust, clear expectations, consistent consequences, and open communication. Actionable guidance includes: start conversations now and often; set a firm family rule of no alcohol or cannabis before age 21; never permit underage use at home; limit accessibility; clearly communicate rules and consequences; listen actively; and help teens plan responses to peer pressure and risky situations. The core message: prevention begins with connection. Consistent, thoughtful dialogue paired with clear boundaries supports healthier choices. Content created on 2026-09-14 supports immediate application of these strategies. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Parental Influence on Youth Substance Use - Influence magnitude - Research shows three out of four kids view parents as the primary factor in decisions about alcohol or cannabis. - Parental influence endures even after children leave home; ongoing communication continues to shape choices. - Risks of early use - Early alcohol and cannabis use is linked to serious outcomes: alcohol-related crashes, school difficulties, and mental health issues (depression, anxiety). - Teens who drink or use cannabis face higher odds of dropping out, getting poor grades, and developing addiction later. ### 2. Parenting Styles and Their Effects - Authoritarian style - Defined by strict obedience: rules enforced without explanation. - Outcomes: Teens from authoritarian homes consume some of the most dangerous levels of alcohol among underage drinkers. - Mechanism: Limited practice in reasoning undermines decision-making and increases susceptibility to peer pressure. - Overprotective style - Parents shield children from harsh realities, exerting control while posing as allies. - Outcomes: Kids may lack experience, panic under stress, and struggle with decisions amid peer pressure. - Comparative drinking: Though drinking may be reduced compared to authoritarian or permissive homes, these teens still drink illegally and more than peers raised with positive (authoritative) parenting. - Permissive style - Characterized by a laid-back approach with few rules or consequences. - Outcomes: Teens may not openly rebel, but when they drink illegally, they reach significantly higher blood alcohol levels than other underage drinkers. - Additional risks: Lack of rules can feel like neglect and deprive kids of guidance needed for problem-solving. - Positive (authoritative) style - Hallmarks: Clear expectations, explained reasons for rules, set and enforced consequences, and open communication. - Effectiveness: Most effective at preventing underage drinking. - Benefits: Builds trust, teaches decision-making, and supports better choices about alcohol and cannabis. - Balance and consistency: Emphasizes structured, consistent communication; kids value parents’ opinions even if they don’t show it. ### 3. Practical Strategies for Prevention - Communication practices - Start now and maintain frequent dialogue. - Create intentional moments to discuss alcohol and cannabis, and engage on topics your child cares about to build rapport. - Stress that prevention starts with connection; ongoing conversations help teens understand consequences beyond simple rule-following. - Rule-setting and enforcement - Establish a clear family rule: no alcohol or cannabis before age 21. - Never allow underage use at home; accessibility at home increases frequency and quantity of drinking. - Clearly communicate rules and consequences; enforce them consistently. - Supportive guidance and planning - Listen actively to validate experiences and perspectives. - Help teens anticipate tricky situations and plan responses to peer pressure and access. - Reinforce parental presence and support to boost safe, healthy choices. ### 4. Core Message and Encouragement - Persistence of parental role - Parental influence is stronger than many realize; it’s never too late to make a positive impact. - Call to action - Keep talking and listening; sustain conversations as a preventive strategy. - It’s not just about rules; equip teens with understanding, skills, and support to navigate alcohol and cannabis decisions. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Schedule and hold a dedicated conversation with your child about alcohol and cannabis by 2026-09-21, also covering topics they care about to build rapport. - [ ] 2. Establish and document a clear family rule of no alcohol or cannabis use before age 21; review it together and explain the rationale. - [ ] 3. Define specific consequences for violations and agree on them in advance; align all parents/guardians on enforcement. - [ ] 4. Audit your home to remove or secure alcohol and ensure cannabis is not accessible; reassess monthly to maintain limited accessibility. - [ ] 5. Practice role-playing with your child to prepare responses to peer pressure and challenging scenarios; create at least three go-to scripts. - [ ] 6. Set a recurring weekly or biweekly check-in to maintain open communication and revisit plans as situations evolve.
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 But as a parent, you have a huge influence on whether or not your child chooses to drink alcohol or use cannabis. In fact, research shows that three out of four kids say their parents are the most important factor in these decisions. So, what's the big deal? Well, early use of alcohol and cannabis can lead to some serious issues. Drinking at a young age increases the risk of things like alcohol-related crashes. Trouble in school and serious mental health implications like depression or anxiety. Teens who drink or use cannabis are also more likely to drop out of school, get bad grades, and face addiction problems later on. But here's the good news: it's never too late to make an impact. Even if your child no longer lives at home, keeping the lines of communication open can still make a difference in their decisions. Speaker 1 00:00:59 How you communicate, not just what you communicate, really matters too. Your parenting style plays a big role in shaping how your child thinks about alcohol and cannabis. There are four main parenting styles. First, there's the authoritarian style. These parents are all about obedience. Rules are rules. No explanation needed. While it might seem like this approach keeps kids in check. Research tells us that teens from authoritarian households tend to drink the most dangerous levels of alcohol compared with all teens who drink illegally. They often lack the ability to think critically about their decisions and get swayed by their peers. Then we have the overprotective parenting style. These parents try to shield their kids from the harsh realities of life. While they also exert a lot of control, their method is different. Speaker 1 00:01:57 Instead of rules and threats, they present themselves as allies. These children tend to lack experience and may panic in stressful situations. While overprotective parents might keep their kids from drinking as much as authoritarian or permissive parents, research shows that these kids still drink illegally and consume more alcohol than their peers with positive style parenting. Without learning. Tough situations on their own, they can struggle with decision making when peer pressure kicks in. Next is the permissive parenting style. These parents take a laid-back approach with few rules or consequences. These teens may not rebel outright, but when they drink illegally, they tend to have significantly higher blood alcohol levels compared to other underage drinkers. Speaker 1 00:02:52 In addition, research shows that the lack of rules can lead to feelings of neglect, depriving their children of wise guidance in developing effective problem-solving skills. Finally, positive, also known as authoritative parenting, these parents set clear expectations, explain the reasons behind their rules, set and enforce consequences before agreements are not met, and encourage open communication. Why is this the best approach? Research shows positive style parenting is the most effective in preventing underage drinking. It builds trust, teaches decision making skills, and helps teens make better choices, especially when it comes to alcohol and cannabis. Finding balance is key. Kids do care about their parents' opinions, even if it doesn't always feel that way. Consistent communication is. Speaker 1 00:03:51 Here's some things to remember to have a positive style relationship with your child. Start talking now and talk often. Arrange opportunities to talk specifically about alcohol and cannabis, but talk about other stuff too. Talk about what matters to them. Set a family rule of no alcohol or cannabis before age 21. Never allow underage substance use in your home. Studies also show that kids tend to drink more often and in larger amounts when alcohol is accessible to them at home. Make sure your child knows the rules and the consequences. Enforce those consequences when rules are broken. Take the time to listen to your child. Help them think ahead and make plans for how to handle tricky situations. The more they know you're there for them, the better they'll be at making safe, healthy choices. Speaker 1 00:04:50 Listen. Your influence as a parent matters more than you think. By having conversations and setting clear expectations, you can guide your child toward healthier choices and help them stay on track. Prevention starts with connection. Your influence, combined with open, thoughtful conversations, helps them understand the consequences of alcohol and cannabis use. It's not just about rules; it's about giving them. Speaker 1 00:05:23 Thank you for watching. Keep talking, keep listening, and keep the conversations going.
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09-14 A Mother's Mission to Break the Cycle of Foster Care Trauma
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- ## Core Synopsis The speaker’s experience in the foster care system has created a persistent trauma that manifests as a crippling fear of repeating that cycle with her own children. This core anxiety—that her child could be taken into the system just as she was—drives every decision she makes as a parent. The speaker recognizes that her past has left her without a maternal model, forcing her to actively learn how to be a parent while battling the psychological weight of her childhood. This isn't just about personal growth; it's a strategic mission to ensure her children's future is fundamentally different from her past. **We** are witnessing the deliberate construction of a new legacy, where the primary objective is to break the generational chain of systemic involvement by providing a stable foundation that was denied to her. ## The Cycle-Breaking Mandate ### The Core Trauma The speaker identifies her time in foster care as the root of a deep-seated trauma. This manifests as a constant, visceral fear that her own child could be taken into the system, an anxiety so powerful it disrupts her sleep and creates a state of hyper-vigilance. The lack of a mother figure left her feeling completely unprepared for pregnancy at 18, viewing it not with joy but with a sense of helplessness and entrapment. ### The Strategic Response Faced with this crippling fear, the speaker's primary strategy is to overcompensate for the deficits of her own upbringing. She is consciously working to ensure her children "step three steps ahead of our footprint." This involves two key commitments: - **Preventing Repetition:** The central goal is to guarantee her children never experience the foster care system or fall into the same tracks she did. - **Insulating from the Past:** She is determined that her childhood trauma will not become an excuse or a cause for any failure in her children's lives. Her actions are a direct investment in their future, ensuring they know they are deserving of a better outcome.
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:04 When it comes to breaking the cycle of foster care and a foster care mentality, there's a lot of work involved. The first time I found out I was pregnant, I was 18 years old. If there was any day that I ever felt helpless, it was that day. Coming from Foster care. I was unaware of how to be a mother. I was honestly a bit trapped in fear. How was I going to provide for this child? How was I going to be a mother for a child when I didn't have a mother myself? Having that fear is more crippling than anything. I would fall asleep and I'd wake up in a panic because I need to make sure he's here. I need to make sure that. Speaker 1 00:01:03 Well, I slept. My child didn't go into the system, and I know that sounds crazy, but it was nothing but trauma, trauma from what I experienced. I realized that I needed to grow, and not just for myself, but for my family. As parents who came from the system, we're trying to make sure that our children. Step three steps ahead of our footprint, so that they have a standing chance to make it. Our goal is to make sure that they never fall in our tracks. We are aware that the odds are against us. I don't want my children to ever feel like my past or my childhood is the cause of a failed anything. I want them to know that I'm doing everything that I'm doing, not just for me, but for them. Speaker 1 00:01:59 Because they deserve it.
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09-14 Lecture: Resilient Parenting, Emotional Literacy, and Nature-Based Learning
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- > Date Time: 2026-09-14 11:03:30 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary On 2026-09-14, the speaker reflects on formative childhood experiences that cultivated resilience, autonomy, and emotional literacy, contrasting their upbringing with peers whose parents heavily managed applications, activities, and emotions. Through stories of growing up between Connecticut and Vermont, guided by parents who emphasized independence, nature-based challenges, and family rituals, the lecture argues that modern parenting often overcontrols and overprotects, stifling curiosity and the capacity to sit with difficult feelings. The speaker advocates trusting children’s innate capacities, allowing them to experience and process emotions, and valuing effort without guaranteed rewards to prepare them for real-world challenges. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Contrasting Parenting Styles and Their Impact - Differences in handling applications among peers - In eighth grade, the speaker worked intensely on boarding school applications while peers were relaxed because many parents completed applications for their children. - This revealed a stark contrast: the speaker’s parents expected personal responsibility, unlike peers’ parents who managed tasks for them. - Intellectual freedom vs. structured extracurriculars - The speaker attributes curiosity, wonder, and creativity to parental freedom rather than early, enforced participation in extracurriculars and athletics. - Freedom led to discovering reading, photography, and guitar—interests that might not have emerged under highly scheduled, performance-driven parenting common among peers. - Overcontrol as a misguided norm - The speaker observes a generational shift that equates constant worry and micromanagement with responsible parenting. - Parents’ attempts to control all outcomes are described as illusory; complete control over children or external events (e.g., a roof collapsing) is impossible. ### 2. Principles and Rules from the Speaker’s Upbringing - Core family rules - Read regularly, play outside and recover from setbacks (“Scrape your knees, but get back up”), never refuse adventures, and avoid activities that interfere with nightly family dinners. - Notably absent: bedtimes, formal rules, tutoring, athletics, and structured extracurriculars—emphasizing autonomy and intrinsic motivation. - “Catch after the fall” philosophy - Parents were present but intervened only after actual failure or need, fostering problem-solving and resilience. - Example: After capsizing a sailboat, the child was responsible for getting back to shore, with the father’s “Good luck” reinforcing independence. ### 3. Nature as a Teacher of Resilience and Emotional Literacy - Vermont as a formative environment - Though physically raised in a small Connecticut town, the speaker’s heart lies in Vermont’s mountains, fields, and lakes where significant learning occurred. - Activities included running fields, tractor rides, blackberry foraging, and long hikes with the father, all underscoring self-reliance and perseverance. - Hiking to practice acceptance and endurance - Repeated mountain hikes taught sitting with dread, exhaustion, physical limits, and the urge to quit. - Emphasis on acceptance and adaptation: when it rains, seek shelter or wear a jacket, wait for the storm, and acknowledge reality rather than deny it. - Fishing to cultivate patience and process disappointment - Began fishing at age two; lessons included hiking miles to a lake, rowing heavy boats, and waiting one to three hours, often with no catch. - No consolation prizes (e.g., stuffed animal fish) were provided; instead, the speaker accepted sadness, returned to shore, laced up boots, and tried again later. ### 4. Emotional Validation vs. Suppression in Modern Parenting - Common parental responses that invalidate emotions - Typical reactions to children’s nervousness or bad days (“Don’t worry,” “Don’t think about it, sweetie”) discourage feeling and processing emotions. - The speaker questions when emotions other than happiness became “monsters” to be avoided. - Teaching children to sit with emotions - Advocates allowing full experience of emotions; claims that if we let ourselves feel them, they last five to thirty minutes, whereas fighting or invalidating them lets emotions dominate. - Nature is presented as a context that naturally teaches surrender of control, acceptance, and the link between work and reward. - Consequences of emotional avoidance - Children grow up lacking tools to manage anxiety, frustration, anger, and sadness because these feelings were dismissed rather than engaged. ### 5. The “Everybody Gets a Medal” Culture and Real-World Shock - Over-rewarding and reinforcement without merit - Schools and parents often reward children unnecessarily, instilling expectations of constant recognition. - This contributes to workplace shock and confusion when outcomes do not guarantee rewards, highlighting a disconnect between childhood reinforcement and adult realities. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Reflect on current parenting or self-management practices: identify where overcontrol or micromanagement may be limiting autonomy or curiosity. - [ ] 2. Implement a nature-based activity (e.g., a hike or fishing session) to practice acceptance of discomfort and patience without guaranteed reward. - [ ] 3. Establish a daily or weekly family ritual (e.g., family dinner) that prioritizes connection over external activities. - [ ] 4. Practice emotional validation: when experiencing or observing anxiety or sadness, allow the emotion for 5–30 minutes without trying to suppress or fix it; note outcomes. - [ ] 5. Audit child or personal schedules to reduce unnecessary extracurricular overload and create space for self-directed exploration (reading, photography, music). - [ ] 6. Replace consolation rewards with process-oriented reflection after setbacks; plan a “try again later” step rather than providing a substitute prize.
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:12 I distinctly remember a time in the eighth grade when I sat in a study hall working ferociously on my application to this very school, while a friend of mine sat next to me. At the time, boarding school application deadlines were approaching rapidly, and pretty much everybody in my school was applying to a boarding school with a competitive acceptance rate, including my friend. I asked her if she completed her applications yet, and she told me no. I was puzzled by this because there she sat. Slumped in her chair, tapping her pencil, looking off into space, and relaxed as if she were on vacation. And so, I asked her what her secret was because me, I was pretty much pulling my hair out over getting into the schools I was applying to. She looked back at me with that same confusion and said, "What do you mean? Nobody's actually doing their applications; their parents are doing it for them." And that was when I realized that my parents are very different than others, and ever since then. Speaker 1 00:01:09 I have been completely fascinated with the differences of how I was raised, as compared to my peers, and how different my life is because of that. Going back though, although my physical body was raised in a small town in Connecticut, my heart lies in Vermont, tucked within the mountains where I spent a large amount of my childhood. I spent my days running across the fields, driving a tractor on my dad's lap, scavenging for blackberries, hiking miles and miles with my father by my side. If I fell, he didn't stop. If I got tired, he didn't stop. If I capsized the sailboat in the middle of the lake, it was my job to figure out a way to get back to shore. He would look at me and say, "Good luck." And that's pretty much how my parents raised me. It was always my job to figure out a way to get back to shore. Speaker 1 00:02:01 It is because of the many odd and unconventional tactics my parents used to raise me to be a resilient human being with a strong core character that I'm on this stage today. It is because of the intellectual freedom my parents gave me as a child that I have an innate sense of wonder, and curiosity about myself that I can guarantee wouldn't have ever arisen if they hadn't given me the freedom to think, to explore, to be creative. If I had been thrown into extracurriculars and athletics the second I was able to walk, like all of my peers were, I wouldn't have ever discovered my love of reading, or photography, or picked up a guitar for the first time. In other words, parents today are suffocating their kids so much that they aren't giving them a chance to say, "But mom or dad, I don't like hockey or lacrosse or violin." Parents must trust a child's innate capability to know their limits and to ask for help when they really need it. Speaker 1 00:02:57 My parents were always there to catch me growing up, but the difference, they waited until I actually fell to try and catch me. And growing up, these were my rules. One, read. Two, play outside. Scrape your knees, but get back up. Three, never say no to an adventure. And the fourth and most enforced rule was this: you may not participate in any activity. That interferes with a family dinner every single night. That was it. No bedtime, no rules, no tutoring, no athletics, no extracurriculars. But I was challenged. You see, my parents didn't worry about the little things, and to others, this seems like absolute ludicrous. Because somewhere in the past generation, it seems as though parenting methodology has shifted, so that worrying about every single thing equals responsible parenting. Speaker 1 00:03:54 So many parents take on the responsibility of all their children's actions, and so they hover over their kids to make sure that they themselves don't get enough in parenting. This is intensified so much because as the mortality rates of kids is lowered due the due to the progression of medicine, it has become rarer and rarer for a child to get sick and die, and so so many parents now take on the responsibility to play God. But it's all an illusion. My parents in this audience cannot stop this roof from crashing down on me if it wants to, and as a child myself, I can attest to the fact that parents will never have complete control over their kids. So why do so many parents bend over backwards, trying to chase something that will always be running away from them faster than their feet can move? But another thing that parents worry about is something far too overlooked and buried: emotion. I get it. Speaker 1 00:04:50 Parents, of course, want to protect their kids from the big bad monsters. But since when did any emotion besides happiness become one of those monsters? If I were to take any child in this crowd and have them go up to their parents and say, "Mom or dad, I'm really nervous about the school play," I can guarantee the parents' response would be, "Don't worry." Or if they were to say, "Mom or dad, I had a really bad day at school," they would say, "Don't think about it, sweetie." Whatever happened to feeling? Speaker 1 00:05:21 Kids today are growing up with absolutely no knowledge of how to deal with feelings such as anxiety, frustration, anger, sadness, because as a kid they are constantly told that those feelings are invalid and should not be felt. I believe we should instead teach our kids how to sit with our emotions, no matter how scary they may seem. It is proven even that if and only if we let ourselves feel an emotion, it only has the capability to last five to thirty minutes. And it's when we fight these emotions and invalidate them that they can take over our life. My parents, they chose to teach me how to sit with my emotions through nature. It seems as though when a human enters the wild, there's an unwritten agreement we sign where we surrender our power. It is in nature we remember that we can't control everything, that from work comes reward, that some things just don't work out. If it starts raining, we don't tell ourselves, "Oh my gosh, it's actually not raining." Speaker 1 00:06:20 Instead, we find shelter. We put on a jacket, and we wait for the storm to pass. We accept, and we adapt. My parents used to make me hike mountains all the time, to teach me how to sit with feelings such as dread, exhaustion, physical restrictions, and feelings of I just want to give up. My father, he's responsible for getting me started in fishing when I was two years old, but he taught me how to fish to teach me patience. Speaker 1 00:06:50 If any of you have been fishing before, you understand that sometimes you have to hike out miles to a lake, row out a very heavy rowboat, and wait one, maybe two, maybe even three hours before you catch a fish. And many times you don't even catch one, and that's okay. If I didn't catch a fish after hours and hours of strenuous work, my parents didn't go buy me a stuffed animal fish to make me feel better. Instead, I laced up my boots. I rode back in, I accepted my sadness, and I tried again later. On the contrary, in today's society, we're seeing a large percentage of kids growing up with the notion that everybody gets a medal. This is in part because so many schools and even parents are constantly reinforcing and rewarding these kids when it's not even necessary. Now they're growing up, they're going off into the workspace, and they're facing extreme shock, confusion.
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09-10 Consultation: Holly - Automating Financial Data with Airtable and AI
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- Date & Time: 2026-09-10 17:00:28 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Holly (estate planning attorney) ## Overview This consultation focuses on helping the client, Holly, an estate planning attorney, set up a centralized system using Airtable and an AI tool ("Claude") to automate the tracking and analysis of her firm's financial data. Holly's current manual process—using a complex Excel spreadsheet and disorganized Outlook emails—is time-consuming and overwhelming, causing her to fall four months behind on record-keeping. The primary goal is to create a unified dashboard that consolidates payment data from disparate sources (Clio, LawPay, checks, wire transfers), provides insightful visualizations, and separates revenue from her legal practice and a distinct insurance business. Key challenges include integrating and structuring data from multiple spreadsheets and emails, defining data points consistently (e.g., date received vs. date deposited), and ensuring the solution is secure and HIPAA-compliant. The consultant, Christi, guides Holly through the setup of Airtable, user accounts for the Claude AI, and plans for AI-driven data migration. ## Background Holly, a business owner, needs to organize her financial tracking for her estate planning law practice and a separate insurance business. Her current method involves a single, complex "ancient spreadsheet" and saving payment notification emails (from Clio, scanned checks, and Chase wire notifications) into Outlook subfolders. This process is so burdensome it is constantly postponed. Payments are received via checks, Clio, and LawPay (preferred due to lower fees), and must be categorized by service type (estate planning, trust administration) and fee structure (flat fee, hourly). A key complexity is differentiating between the date a check is received versus the year it is deposited for tax purposes, especially for payments received late in the year. The firm also categorizes clients as regular estate planning, trust administration, or high-net-worth, with high-net-worth clients listed in a separate 'Advanced Tax Planning' tab within a Google spreadsheet known as the CSR. The consultation aims to replace this manual system with a modern, automated database in Airtable, leveraging AI to migrate a backlog of data and automate future entries. The rollout will also involve her team, including assistants Karen and Rhonda, and partner Ariana, who will use the new system. ## Pain Points The core pain point is a fragmented, inefficient, and overwhelming manual process for tracking invoices and payments, leading to a significant data entry backlog and inaccurate financial records. - **Data Fragmentation and Manual Consolidation:** Financial information is scattered across multiple platforms (Clio, LawPay), emails (for checks and wires), and spreadsheets (a primary revenue spreadsheet and a separate "CSR" Google Sheet for client matter status). This fragmentation forces Holly and her team to manually consolidate data, a task she is currently four months behind on. This "back burner project" takes a "so crazy long" time, causes significant stress, and prevents a real-time view of the business's financial health. Technical limitations exacerbate this, as direct API connectors for Clio and LawPay are not yet functional, forcing reliance on parsing Outlook subfolders as an interim solution. - **Inaccurate and Incomplete Data Analysis:** The current system lacks the ability to provide meaningful business insights. The spreadsheet structure is cumbersome, and attempts to get analytics require significant manual effort. For instance, the system cannot produce a pie chart comparing regular vs. high-net-worth clients because the matter type is not a distinct field but rather free text in parentheses (e.g., "(probate)"), which the AI fails to categorize. Furthermore, "insurance commission" data, located at the bottom of a spreadsheet, is completely missed during analysis. This leads to incomplete financial reporting and prevents Holly from effectively analyzing revenue streams or comparing performance across service types. - **Lack of Clarity and Inconsistent Definitions:** There is confusion around key data definitions, such as differentiating between the date a check is _received_ and the year it is _deposited_ for tax purposes, making year-over-year comparisons "very confusing." This ambiguity in data definitions leads to reporting inconsistencies and unreliable analytics. - **Security and Confidentiality Concerns:** As a law practice, Holly has significant concerns about the security and confidentiality of client financial data. She repeatedly emphasizes the need for a secure, private solution that maintains attorney-client privilege, especially as she moves from a local spreadsheet to a cloud-based service for the first time. The consultant addressed this by noting the Airtable solution is HIPAA compliant. - **Inefficient Collections Process:** The current system lacks a method for tracking outstanding invoices, making it difficult to follow up on unpaid bills and potentially delaying revenue collection. This was identified as a missing component that needs to be built into the new system. ## Expectations The client expects a fully automated, centralized system in Airtable that organizes all payment and invoice data, providing clear, at-a-glance insights into her business's financial performance. - **Automated Data Consolidation:** The primary expectation is for the system (using AI tool "Claude") to automatically import and process the entire backlog of payment information from Outlook emails and spreadsheets, creating a single source of truth. This should eliminate manual data entry for her staff. The system must also correctly parse and categorize unstructured data, such as identifying matter types from free-text notes. - **Comprehensive and Customizable Dashboard:** The new system must provide a dashboard with specific data visualizations. Holly requires four key pie charts: **1) Payment method breakdown**, **2) Flat fee vs. hourly revenue**, **3) Estate planning vs. trust administration revenue**, and **4) Regular vs. high-net-worth estate plan revenue**. The dashboard should also track total invoiced amounts, payments received, and outstanding invoices to create a "collection accelerator." - **Specific Tracking and Reporting Capabilities:** The system must be able to differentiate between the date a payment is received and the year it is deposited for accurate tax accounting. It also needs to track and report on revenue from her "separate insurance business" distinctly from the legal practice's income. ## Other Information Summary - **Team & Roles:** The client, Holly, is working with her assistant, Karen, who will be responsible for data entry in the new system. Her other assistants are Rhonda and Martina, her partner is Ariana, and the consultant is Christi. - **System & Setup:** The consultant is setting Holly up on the Airtable "Team plan" and managing user accounts ("seats") for the "Claude" AI tool. Airtable's native AI, "Omni," was used to help build the initial database structure. - **Technical Details:** The customer is using Clio for live invoicing but prefers LawPay for payments due to lower fees. Direct API connections to Clio and LawPay are not yet ready, so the initial data source will be specific Outlook email folders. - **Client Volunteering Interest:** Holly expressed a strong interest in using her estate planning and financial literacy expertise to volunteer with youth, particularly those in the foster care system. Christi, who has personal experience and connections in this area, offered to make introductions. ## To-Do List - [ ] Send Holly follow-up information on the Airtable "Team plan" and its security features. - [ ] Schedule the next meeting for **September 11, 2026, at 10:00 AM** to connect Airtable to "Claude" and begin data migration. - [ ] Investigate why Claude is failing to parse insurance commission data from the spreadsheets and guide the customer on how to make the AI focus on the correct file. - [ ] Add a feature/column in Airtable to track outstanding invoices (date sent, amount) to create a "collection accelerator." - [ ] Prepare a plan for training Karen on how to use new payment submission forms in Airtable. - [ ] Follow up with Holly to confirm the exact criteria for differentiating "regular" vs. "high-net-worth" estate plans. - [ ] Customer to update credit card information in the Claude account. - [ ] New members Gretchen and Martinus Clavichord to accept their pending invitations to the Claude account. - [ ] Christi to send the customer information about her resource website and connect her with contacts in the Independent Living Program. - [ ] After the session, send the meeting transcript and notes to the customer. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as the fragmented and inefficient manual process of consolidating and categorizing financial data from multiple sources, which prevents accurate and timely business analysis. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. **Prioritize AI-Driven Data Migration with Prompt Engineering:** Focus immediately on connecting Claude to Outlook and the spreadsheets. Develop a custom prompt with specific examples (few-shot learning) to teach Claude how to parse unstructured data, such as identifying matter types within parentheses and locating the insurance commission data at the bottom of the sheet. A quick win on the data backlog will build trust and relieve a primary source of stress. > 2. **Implement a Structured Interim Workflow:** Since API connectors are delayed, create a simple Airtable form for assistants (Karen) to log new payments from checks and wires. This is more structured than email parsing and serves as a robust backup. Simultaneously, create an "Interim Dashboard" that visualizes data from these new entries, allowing Holly to see immediate value while the historical data migration is in progress. > 3. **Establish a Unified Data Structure in Airtable:** Design the Airtable base with separate but linked tables for 'Payments,' 'Invoices,' 'Clients,' and 'Matters.' Create a "Business Line" field to separate legal and insurance revenue. This relational structure will support the requested "collection accelerator" and ensure scalability. Use a one-time script to import and merge historical data from the various spreadsheets into this new structure, creating a single source of truth. > 4. **Use a Third-Party Integration Tool:** Instead of building custom API connectors, investigate using a platform like Zapier or Make. These tools have pre-built integrations for services like Clio and LawPay, which could significantly speed up direct data connections and provide a more stable, low-code solution for continuous synchronization once the initial backlog is cleared.
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- Sep 10, 2026
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- Speaker 2 00:00:21 Holly How are you? Hey, how are you doing? Speaker 1 00:00:25 Good. Took the day off, so I'm only on just for you today. Speaker 2 00:00:29 Oh, thank you. Are you feeling okay? Speaker 1 00:00:34 I think everybody in the house is kind of wearing a little summer coat, just changing. Speaker 2 00:00:40 It out of this. So. Do you want to reschedule to tomorrow, or are you okay to do it now? Let's do. Speaker 1 00:00:48 Let's get as much done as possible now. Okay. Feel a little bit better. I think there's more in the kitchen. Not sure which one. Speaker 2 00:00:57 Okay. All right. So, yeah, I just wanted to. I just wanted your help with with this with basically this big. Project that I, you know, I think you said it. It would is something that we can do through Airtable, but of course I know nothing about Airtable. Speaker 1 00:01:23 No worries. It's a it's a big database basically. It's like putting a bunch of Excel sheets together and being able to run reports from it. So I'm going to introduce you to that first. I'm going to connect to your computer because. We're going to work on it from your computer. Speaker 2 00:01:42 Okay. And then I take it that once we sign up, it's all private, attorney - client privilege, all of that. It's not like floating out there in the ether. Speaker 1 00:01:53 Okay. It's floating out in the ether, but it is secure. Speaker 2 00:01:57 Okay, that's that's the main thing. I just want to make sure it's secure and that I don't get any. I don't have any issues with that attorney - client privilege. Speaker 1 00:02:06 Okay. So I'm. Take it over your computer, and I'm going to open your Zoom. So I'm just going to open up a whole new window because I don't want to see anything on your screen. New windows are probably the best. And then I'm going to go to Airtable. That way you can see it. So basically, I'm going to set you up on the free version for now. And then, as if you decide, hey, I really do like this, you can grow it, and you can actually add people to it. I have a lot of my more technical companies that love it, and so there's a lot of big name companies out there as well that are using it. I use it. I keep all of my foster care data in it, Speaker 3 00:03:01 And I keep. Speaker 1 00:03:03 My budgets and stuff in it, and I keep a couple client pieces in it. Like, I have a couple clients that I'm, I'm their virtual CIO. Oh, some on site at their locations all the time, and I work on their budget. You know, everything a CIO would do for a company, I do it. Oh, really? Yes. So great. Yes. So I do that. Um, and there are clients at Crimson, and so they just they talked to Anzor. They needed a CIO, so. I've taken over as their kind of like a partial CIO, a part time CIO, and they're larger organizations that do a lot with HIPAA. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because I put their data in Airtable so that I can manage it a lot easier. Yes, and because they're HIPAA compliant, I needed a solution that was HIPAA compliant, which is. Speaker 3 00:03:56 So. Okay. Speaker 1 00:03:57 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to have you sign up. However. Sign up with your package info. Speaker 3 00:04:05 Okay. Speaker 1 00:04:20 Just make whatever password you want to make. I can't see what you're typing, Speaker 3 00:04:23 So okay. Speaker 1 00:04:32 All right, so one of the things I'm going to tell you is Omni is actually pretty good. My my sister, she is an entrepreneur in the San Antonio area. She owns a couple of companies. They love Airtable, so Omni like she keeps me up to date on all the Omni stuff because she's also very technical. She runs a security company, and so what is Omni? Tommy is the AI for Airtable. Speaker 2 00:05:05 AI for Airtable. Speaker 3 00:05:07 Okay. Got it. Okay. Speaker 2 00:05:21 Which team are you on. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Just type owner. Speaker 2 00:05:25 Owner. All right, owner. Thank you. I'm like I don't know what team am I on. Um. Okay. Speaker 1 00:05:30 All right. Now, so this is where you just tell Omni what you want to build. And so for the first time when you log in, it's going to ask you to decide, you know, what's something important for you to do. And it filled it in, but you can take out what it filled in. And so what I'm going to suggest is I'm going to take this out. Speaker 1 00:06:01 And then you can actually upload one of your spreadsheets and tell Omni exactly what that spreadsheet is for. Speaker 2 00:06:09 Okay. Um. So let's import a spreadsheet. Speaker 3 00:06:16 Just click on Browse. Yep. Speaker 1 00:06:57 And Then tell tell on me what it is and. Speaker 2 00:06:60 And I just want to make sure this is secure. I'm really nervous. Speaker 1 00:07:02 Yes, yes, it's very secure. I promise. Speaker 2 00:07:05 Even though it's free, it's not sharing it with anyone. Speaker 1 00:07:08 We're gonna get past that free in a moment, but yes, because it's free, Speaker 2 00:07:11 It's still not sharing it. Okay, because I just I really don't want this getting out. This is like super confidential, proprietary. So I'm just double checking and triple checking with you. Okay. Speaker 3 00:07:21 Yes. Speaker 1 00:07:22 Okay. I completely understand. So yes. Speaker 2 00:07:25 We want to build a system to track all invoices of incentive to clients in any given calendar year. Speaker 3 00:07:46 Both old exist. Okay. Existing clients, new clients. Speaker 2 00:08:01 Beautiful email here. Um. Uh, that tracks all payments made to date for both monthly, uh, for both monthly letters and yearly letters. And then. Speaker 3 00:08:26 Tracks how those payments were made. Yeah, credit check, e check, wire, or credit card. Speaker 2 00:08:43 I don't know. Is there anything else that? Speaker 3 00:08:55 Payments Should be recorded with their other payments, whereas finance should be listed. Speaker 3 00:09:26 Excellent. Speaker 2 00:09:33 Okay. That's it, I guess, Speaker 3 00:09:38 Right? Yes. And then say build it. Speaker 1 00:09:46 Now this might take a moment, but you'll see as it's building it out, you'll see you'll see it take flight. Speaker 1 00:10:27 Now This is where it's going to ask you to do a trowel of the of the team plan. Team plan is what I currently have. Okay, and then I will say if if you can swing it, go ahead and do the team plan. Okay, and then you. You can do either monthly or yearly. I tell people go monthly first because you do get a fourteen day trial of it, and then if you go monthly, then you can cancel it if it if it just doesn't work for you, and they will delete all your data. Speaker 3 00:11:01 Okay. Speaker 1 00:11:11 So, so it looks like you have saved already in the link. You've purchased things currently. Speaker 1 00:11:17 Oh, Speaker 2 00:11:18 With with what? Speaker 1 00:11:19 Oh, with the week. Speaker 2 00:11:21 Yeah. Oh, great. I didn't even see that. Speaker 1 00:11:24 Yeah. So, if you look at your cell phone, Speaker 2 00:11:27 You should have a code. Oh, should I get out of this here then? Speaker 1 00:11:33 Yeah. Yeah, and then look on your phone for the code that came to your. Speaker 2 00:11:36 It's uh, it's my husband because I see his number there. Enter the code sent to four five four six. But I can just get him on. Speaker 1 00:11:42 That's fine. Okay. Um. Speaker 1 00:11:48 Both Lincoln Stripe are good payment options. When website pops up, in fact, my website I'm doing Stripe. Speaker 2 00:11:57 Hey Joe, do you have a code for me on your phone from a link? And is that connected to the business or to the personal credit card? Eight three eight three two nine is that business? Okay, perfect. Okay, thank you. Bye. Speaker 1 00:12:22 Okay, perfect. All right. So it'll it'll remind you. It's really good at reminding you when time is up. Now from here, I'm gonna we're previewing this, so close those out. And so you're just look through this. Basically, let me make this a little wider. Speaker 2 00:12:45 Yeah, Speaker 1 00:12:46 Thank you. Right, so this the overview screen. So you can look at overview invoices. You can look at them in real time, and then you've got a dashboard it created for you. And so these are this what it proposed that you might like, and then you can take a look at the details. And then you can you have a timeline there. You can see who paid what when, and then you have a list of clients. And so these it's gonna just pull up your clients based on. Speaker 1 00:13:17 I don't know if it did it from what's on your spreadsheet or just what you have in like your settings in the spreadsheet. Speaker 2 00:13:25 I have absolutely no idea because some of this stuff is like they must have done like some research. Okay. Because none of this is in my spreadsheet. Like, well, David Lee is in my spreadsheet, but not his, not Lee Law Associates. Speaker 1 00:13:36 Yeah. So basically, what it does is it just it puts dummy data in. And so in a moment, I'm going to show you how you can get the real data. And so this is what it looks, and then your payments gallery, and you can have it refine things for. Speaker 2 00:13:53 You. Okay, so like if if I say okay, just let's move forward, and later I need to refine it, I can do that later. Speaker 1 00:14:02 Yes. Now one thing I do want to show you, this is this is your interfaces. However, the data right here, that's where all your spreadsheet information lives once it gets put in there. So this is your big spreadsheets, basically. Speaker 2 00:14:17 Okay, I guess my question is this: How do I, how do I, have it, um, take recent? Ah, okay. Let me just explain to you what's been going on. First of all, I've been so crazy busy that I have not kept up with it on my end with the spreadsheet, just because it takes me so. So crazy long that I just, it's like a back burner project, and because it's never urgent, I just it gets just pushed off and pushed off. So I have in my there's a a folder. There's two two subfolders in my Outlook where I just dumped all of Rhonda's emails to me about checks that have come in, and she'll you know she'll. Speaker 2 00:15:07 Scan the check and attach it to an email, and I just dump the email right into you know a subfolder, and then you know I'll get folder I'll get payment information, you know so and so made a payment from Clio, you know like via credit card or ACH or e check or whatever, and then and then every once in a blue moon I go on you know to have to manually go on to Chase and get the wire information, and then I attach it to an email that I send to my executive assistant. I'm like okay, make sure that you, Records that these people have paid, you know, but it's one thing to have it all recorded on Clio, and you know, but it's another thing to move it into my, you know, ancient spreadsheet, and that's the project I keep pushing off. So, is there a way? I know it was a long backstory, but is there a way to then take all of these payments that were made, and that I just dumped these emails into these subfolders, and have Airtable just plug it all in? Speaker 1 00:16:05 Yes. And I'm gonna take one step further for you. You can also have Rhonda put everything in through the forms, so we can have Omni build out the forms for you for payment information. And then as she's put, as those checks come in, she can put the checks in there through the forms. Speaker 2 00:16:22 She she can just directly submit it. Yes. And it doesn't care how it comes. It doesn't care if it's in like an attachment to an email, like a scanned check, or if it's a, An email from it just it just it doesn't matter to it it just it will recognize it as a payment. Speaker 1 00:16:42 Ah, she she'll have a form here for her to fill in. So you'll give her access to the form, and she just records payment and updates you. Oh my goodness! You can even if she's scanning in the check, she can even even have to blow it into. Speaker 2 00:16:60 I'm going to have Karen do it. I'm not going to even have Rhonda do it. I'm going to have Karen do it. Because Karen has access to everything, not just the checks. She has access to all of it. Speaker 1 00:17:11 Yeah. So it's it's gonna be it's gonna make your life a little bit easier. But for today, what we're gonna do is once we say we like it, I'm gonna connect it to Claude, and I'm gonna have Claude go through your folder and input all the data from your spreadsheets and your emails. Speaker 2 00:17:32 Oh my goodness, that would be so good. I can't even tell you. Okay, yes. So let me look. Okay, what I'm like, I feel like so I have so much like this will be like I can breathe kind of feeling. I'm just I'm sure other clients of yours have that same feeling where you're just like, oh, this is. I don't even know what to say. I guess this is what AI was designed to like alleviate from regular humans. But anyway, yes. Speaker 2 00:18:03 Okay, so what is the what am I looking to see if everything looks right? So payment overview. This is what I'm looking at right now. Is what that's? Speaker 1 00:18:13 It's just the dummy data that the system put in for you. Okay. So that you can see how it looks, and so you can what you can see is the payments that came in. We can actually on the later on refine this for you, so you can say okay. So you know. Oh, Speaker 2 00:18:28 I see. So this is all sort of like a dummy thing, and I'm just telling me. Do I like how this looks? So, e - check, ACH, wire, check, credit card, credit card. Okay, and then. Speaker 1 00:18:41 You have your invoices here. And so, on the dashboard, you can see what invoices out, how much has been invoiced this year, how many payments you've received so far, and how many invoices are still outstanding. Speaker 2 00:18:53 And does it split it up by? Because I see it splitting it up by check, credit card, wire, and, E check, which is great, and then it has an extra payment method, but I don't know what that is. It's like a blank. Um, but then does it also, um, does it also have, um, showing me flat fee versus hourly? Speaker 1 00:19:18 It can. Um, I did see that in the data when it was building up the data. Speaker 2 00:19:21 So, yeah, I would love it if it could also give me a pie chart of flat fee versus hourly, and then the third pie chart I would love, love, love is. Estate planning. Actually, this is kind of insane, but so four pie charts. The pie chart it has right now, which is how things are paid, that would be amazing. The second pie chart is flat fee versus hourly. The third pie chart is estate planning versus trust administration. And the fourth pie chart is regular estate plans versus high net worth estate plans. Speaker 2 00:19:58 That this was oh my gosh this is so cool. Speaker 1 00:20:01 Yeah so you just you just tell tell that to Omni. Speaker 2 00:20:04 Okay how do I do that or where do I do that. Speaker 1 00:20:07 So you're gonna do it right here where the mouse is um over on the far left your chat window um just say you know I would like to add to the dashboard these different pie. Speaker 2 00:20:19 Charts okay good okay I want to add to the dashboard um. Three additional pie charts in addition to the payment methods breakdown. Speaker 3 00:20:39 Pie chart: flat fee versus. Speaker 2 00:20:45 Hourly, state planning versus. Cost administration. Speaker 3 00:20:57 Actually three state, and then regular state plans versus state plans and four. Harrison, here. Speaker 2 00:21:36 How do I do? Um. Speaker 3 00:21:55 Broken down by total received. Speaker 2 00:22:04 And total and deposited. The last one is is uh is a little weird, but like I don't know if you remember when I showed you the original spreadsheet. It basically let me just let me just pull it up so you can just see what I'm talking about. Speaker 2 00:22:25 I'm not sure how to describe it to Omni. So that that's the. Speaker 1 00:22:30 Bear with me. Hear me sneezing in the background. Speaker 2 00:22:34 Okay, I'm. I'm. Thank you so much for. No worries. Hey, this is this is the highlight of my day. Is helping you guys do stuff like this. Oh my gosh, like help is not is an understatement. Okay, what am I not finding what I need? Okay. Oh, that's why I'm in the wrong place. Okay. All right. Let me show you what I'm trying to explain in normal English, but I'm having a hard time explaining. Speaker 2 00:23:05 Okay. So, um, let me make this bigger so we can see it. Okay. Um. Okay. So you see here. Let's just look at 2025 because 2026 is kind of like midway through. But in 2025, sorry, there's the red is how much we you know we're it's a it's what the cat what what is being given to us in 2025. But when they send me things at the end of the year, like fourth quarter, usually like in November and December, not the entire fourth quarter. But you know, if I get checks in November, December, what I typically do is I just wait and deposit it on January third. Speaker 2 00:23:53 So, it's deposited in 2026 for tax purposes, but I it's for 2025 matters. So you see that, like so. So what I would want is I would want to know what the total is. You see, I was this 2025 total. These are both these numbers together, but I like it broken down because at the end of the day, it's these two numbers, right? The what I deposited in 2026 that I'm where I have to pay my taxes. Speaker 1 00:24:17 Yeah. So that's a lot of steps. Speaker 2 00:24:20 Yeah, so that's what I wanted to also, and then I have additional income that comes from these commissions that are not even estate planning related. They're like related to insurance. Yeah. So I I would want that as well, so that I can see it. But I would want it in a conflict. It's not an estate planning thing. It's really a separate business that I have. Yeah. So. I just have it on that one spreadsheet because I just can't handle too many spreadsheets. But if we're doing this, you know, it would — it's actually a separate business. Speaker 1 00:24:57 Yeah, and that makes totals much slick. You can add, you can add in, you can have Omni add a column that notates which business it's for, and then you can also have it make sure that you have the like a column for the date the check was received. Versus the date it was deposited. Speaker 2 00:25:20 Okay, compare. So, okay, so I would like a separate column for date check received versus date check. Well, it's not. I don't want to have to like. Yeah, I guess so. Okay. It's just that. Speaker 2 00:25:49 Right, but but that's only for checks. This is only for check payments. No, I don't know how to say it. You can take it right. Is it okay? Yeah. Check payments. Okay. Speaker 3 00:26:03 Yes. Um, but the the other one I don't think I did right. So comparison of each year for last five years, broken down by total amount collected. Speaker 2 00:26:18 Or received for that calendar year versus total amount deposited. I don't know if that makes sense to you. Speaker 1 00:26:29 It does. But the great thing about AI lately is it's been asking. It does ask really good questions. Speaker 2 00:26:36 Okay, so a separate. Okay, a separate date. Also, I have a separate insurance business that needs. Its own column is that the way to describe it, Speaker 1 00:26:51 Or we need to we need to add a business. We keep saying what you're saying. Speaker 2 00:26:58 Maybe its own page. Maybe its own page. Okay. Right. Hopefully, they'll know what I'm talking about. Speaker 1 00:27:38 I I think it it captured it pretty well. Speaker 2 00:27:40 What do you think? Yeah, I mean, I don't even think I need the date on which the check was deposit. I just need to know the year in which it was deposited. You mean yeah. Speaker 2 00:27:58 Okay. So, yeah. So add that to it to say for the date deposit needs just the Date deposit. The date a check is received deposited. Actually, don't need the exact date, only the calendar year. Speaker 3 00:28:23 Okay. Let me. 谁的人？ Speaker 1 00:28:57 All right, all right. Speaker 3 00:28:59 Build it. Yeah. Okay. See what it looks like. Speaker 3 00:29:33 We're waiting for this. Bear with me. Yeah. Yeah. Hi. Speaker 1 00:29:47 Guys. All right. So we just need to go to your house to pick up your clothes, and then if you want to run by Dollar Tree to pick up stuff for Saturday. Okay. So. Can you guys be ready about six fifteen? Okay, cool. Speaker 3 00:30:06 Thank you. Speaker 1 00:30:14 Okay, sorry, Dolly. No worries. I don't know how many kids I have. I just know that there's two in the bedroom. No, two in the living room, one in the bedroom, and. Speaker 3 00:30:25 Yeah. I have someone else's foster kid staying with me for a couple weeks, so I gotta go help her pick up some more clothes because she didn't bring. Oh my, yeah, Speaker 2 00:30:46 It's so hot. Yeah, it is. It is. It's so cool to do that. I'm very excited to to like find. Some time to sort of sit down and like really kind of delve into, delve into it, um, for us. But yeah, Speaker 1 00:31:08 Yeah. We have um, because I do CSET kids and I do, I do soon to be mamas, and then I do I do anywhere from fourteen and. This last month, my daughter to college, and then my other daughter who has been my kid off and on, and then permanently. She first friend has been coming by, being mom and daughter, who came the week after I got out of the hospital, which was crazy fun. It was awesome. So she's we're having a baby shower for her on Sunday. Speaker 2 00:31:55 Oh, that is so awesome! Speaker 1 00:31:58 Yeah, but it has been so hot. Girls, um, we're just like we don't want to do anything until it gets cool, and it is still eighty - four degrees. Speaker 2 00:32:08 It's crazy. It's totally insane. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:32:14 Now we're in we're in the window area. Speaker 2 00:32:16 Oh my goodness! I um, I just we're in Sherman Oaks. It's so muggy and. Gross! Speaker 1 00:32:25 I'm like I moved out of Nashville to get away from this. Speaker 2 00:32:29 I know exactly like that. It's exactly right. I don't even know what to say. It's I've never seen it this muggy. It's like kind of unusual. Speaker 1 00:32:38 Yeah, I think it's that tropical storm hurricane whatever it is. Speaker 2 00:32:41 Yeah, I think so too. I think it's just um we missed the hurricane, but we got the humidity. Speaker 1 00:32:49 Yeah, it's it rained on Saturday, and I was like great. Right or it rained on Sunday. I was like, great, you know, it'll be over with on Monday. We can do the maternity shoot. Nope, we got up and it was raining. It's like, okay, and then Tuesday, worry. I'm like, this is only supposed to be one day. So awful, yucky. We're gonna try to do maternity shoot next weekend. As long as she doesn't ruin flavor. Speaker 2 00:33:20 But when does she do? October fifth. Okay, so it's not right now, but it's it could happen. Speaker 3 00:33:30 Yeah, and she's been with me since mid July. Wow, wow. So soon to have a little beautiful baby. Speaker 2 00:33:47 That is so awesome. So um, and then what? What do you are you just she she's gonna be there with her baby then? Speaker 1 00:33:57 No, the way it works is I'm her caretaker. Speaker 3 00:34:01 Yeah, Speaker 1 00:34:02 And my job is to get her get her ready for parenthood and support her, but the baby is not under my care. Speaker 2 00:34:13 Oh, well, that's interesting. Speaker 1 00:34:16 Yeah, so VCFS has this program called Whole Family. Yeah. So that's what she falls under. So my job is just. Speaker 3 00:34:28 To teach her. That is. Speaker 2 00:34:34 So awesome. Truly, I'm. Yeah. And then how old is she? Twenty. But she's an extended foster. I see. I see. Speaker 1 00:34:44 Okay. So all my kids currently are all extended foster care, meaning eighteen and up. So they have to. They're required to either. In school, or have a job, distinct students, and so because they can't share a room with anyone younger than eighteen. So right now, all that happens is non-minor dependents, and then we're we're actually moving in November, October, November, and so when we do, I'll start taking younger kids again, but may not for a minute, and may want to stay with me. Speaker 1 00:35:21 That goes to is in another foster home. Speaker 3 00:35:23 She made she made a contest. Hmm. But you can display this. Speaker 2 00:35:30 I mean, it's really amazing. I think. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:35:35 It's really. I never could do this when I worked at the Dodgers. Anzor made made this because I've been wanting to do this for years. I just want because I was working for the Dodgers and I'm single. Speaker 2 00:35:46 What were you doing for the Dodgers? I don't even know your backstory. Speaker 1 00:35:51 Oh, I thought I thought you guys knew. Um, Speaker 2 00:35:55 I was their IT manager. Oh, I literally had no idea. Speaker 1 00:36:01 Yeah. So, but this is the month of my five - year anniversary. Speaker 2 00:36:05 With Anzor. Wow. Wow. That's crazy. Speaker 1 00:36:11 All right. So, there's your changes. Speaker 3 00:36:19 Let me take a look. Hold on, give me a second. No worries. Speaker 2 00:36:44 Okay. Um. Speaker 2 00:36:48 So there it is. Let's take a look at payment breakdown, flat fee versus hourly, annual comparison, total payments versus checks deposited. Speaker 3 00:37:02 That's so great. Speaker 2 00:37:12 This one is a little bit not correct. I have to think. I have to fix that one. Okay. See what other ones they have. Invoices sent by month, Speaker 1 00:37:26 And I think it might look a little bit different once we get real day to day. Speaker 2 00:37:30 Yeah, and then where is the high net worth one? I don't see that one. Speaker 1 00:37:35 Um, you might need to call it the high net worth. Speaker 2 00:37:40 Think you had it. I think it had it listed in its things to do, but I don't see it, so I'm wondering if maybe I just missed it. Okay, see, hold on a second. See, regular estate plans versus high net worth. Speaker 3 00:38:12 Should just tell it out. Speaker 1 00:38:13 Maybe let's real quickly. I'm gonna check on your clients. David might have put it in. Speaker 3 00:38:23 You get a couple of different views. Speaker 3 00:39:01 You've got. Speaker 1 00:39:02 Also the ability to filter all. Yeah, you're gonna have to ask. Okay, Speaker 2 00:39:08 Let me let me do this because this is okay. I don't. We saw the flat fee versus hourly, and estate planning versus trust admin, right? Yes. The. Speaker 3 00:39:31 Pie chart for regular estate planning versus trust. Is it dash? And so. Speaker 2 00:39:52 Need to change. Okay, how do I change it? Also, for the checks, positive need. Speaker 3 00:40:04 To change. Um. Also. Speaker 3 00:40:14 I teach. Checks deposited. Charge. Um. Any given calendar year, how much has been? Received versus was received here, but deposited the. Speaker 2 00:40:57 Following. I don't know. It's it's very confusing. I don't know how to do it. Maybe that's a pie chart. Maybe it's just like a yeah. Maybe that's not a pie chart, but a separate page that. Here's it similar to what I have in the spreadsheet totals that I uploaded. Also for the insurance, that is always paid via wire and no other payment. It is used for that. I just need. Speaker 2 00:41:43 To see what, change was, Speaker 3 00:41:47 Is made, or which, clients in calendar, year. All right, see what happens. Speaker 2 00:42:15 You said you went through the foster system. Is that? Did you go through from like when you were little, or just when you were older? Speaker 1 00:42:23 Yeah, we absolutely growing up. We we always had social workers at all, and but you don't have to answer that. Also, it's okay. I actually speak about this to kids and and people with PTSD because that. Speaker 1 00:42:45 Communities on both of those. So my my source. Okay. I just don't want to push you off the snow. It's okay. No, that's I've worked with teens for twenty years. Hmm. Speaker 2 00:43:14 It's incredible because I feel like so many people are scared to work with teens, you know. Just, just because of the trauma, you know, because of the things they've been through. It's, you know, you don't always know what you're bringing into the home, you know, and you're just like, oh, yeah. So it's, um, it's tricky, you know. And so of course they get the brunt of it. Yeah. So it's just. Speaker 3 00:43:46 One of the things that you have to, and you have to be willing to meet kids. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:43:57 And I think some of that is just also training, you know, because dealing with kids. You know, dealing with your own biological children from when you gave birth is going to be very different in so you know not in every way, but in some ways that's very different than having a a child or a teen come to you with maybe they were in you know three different foster homes before they came to you. You know they they've got so much you know they've got more life experience and. Speaker 2 00:44:39 Negative life experience than most adults have, you know, in their whole lives. So, it's it's a challenge. Speaker 1 00:44:45 And I'll be honest, it's hard for some foster parents because the kids come in and they're they'll freely talk about how they're not no longer drugs, but then they'll talk about what happened. They they don't have that life experience, so sometimes. It's entertaining to me. I know this is sad to say. It's entertaining to me. Again, again, foster parent. It's their first time, and they've raised their own kids, and they're telling me about the kids' behavior, the types of drugs that they're on, and the trouble. And I'm like, " Yep, they they have a lot of life experience." Speaker 2 00:45:36 Oh yeah, a hundred percent. Speaker 1 00:45:38 Yeah, I had this line faster. Speaker 3 00:45:40 I tell you, she jumps turnstiles. That's true, and I'm like, oh yeah, so am I. That's the least of it, though. I mean, honestly, jumping turnstiles is great. If that's all they did, yeah. Oh my gosh. Speaker 2 00:46:02 Oh, we've we've given a lot to over the years. We um. We support Children of the Night, and I was curious if you knew about that organization, and if so, what you thought of that organization. Speaker 1 00:46:16 I know of it, but I don't know it. So I've heard of it quite a few times in passing, but not. Speaker 2 00:46:26 So it's um, it's a really cool organization that's been around for a long time, and it's run by this woman who's kind of a little bit of a force of nature. And which I guess you'd have to be if you wanted to keep this thing going. But she she takes teen girls off the streets, and they're usually sexually trafficked, or you know, engaged in prostitution, or pimped out in some way. And and she sometimes they're pregnant as well, and she provides them with a safe place. Speaker 2 00:47:02 And I'm sure she works closely with the foster care system. I'm assuming as well. But, um, yeah. Anyway, I really didn't entertain a lot of it beyond like the cheer, like beyond like giving to those things while my kids were little. But like now my kids are getting older, and you know, two are in college, and I just I don't know. Just thinking like what what are the ways in which I can. Not sit on my butt and go to lunch all day, but just do something that actually, you know, maybe helps another human being. So, I don't know. So I was thinking of the medical because it like broke my heart when I was reading about like, you know, children in the foster care system who are by themselves and going through these like terminal illnesses all by themselves, and I was just like, what? So that that kind of broke my heart. But every aspect of this breaks your heart. I mean, it's like all of it is just. Speaker 2 00:47:59 Sad. It's just sad these kids don't have it. Speaker 1 00:48:02 So anyway, yeah, that's you know. There's a lot of kids in care left. I think I told you before. I wish I could take medical appointments, but not with everything I do. Speaker 2 00:48:13 Well, no, and that's the when you said that, it just occurred to me like, oh yeah, medical appointments, doctors' appointments. It just I don't know. Didn't occur to me that you'd have to like schlepp them to these things. And I'm like, yeah, that's a good point. I better be mindful of my actual like job, job, and if I, you know, but anyway. Speaker 1 00:48:31 Yeah, no, but there, I mean, there's like like my daughter is expecting. She has no one in the city, like no one in the LA County, but a sister at the same time. And so when she like her boyfriend lives in Georgia now, he was in the military. She has nobody in the birth room with her except for me. Oh wow. I'm just her foster mom. She met too much, and so fortunately, I have a really amazing church that does does used to have a really big foster community, and so they still deeply. And so Saturday is going to be a lot of people I know. But yeah, Speaker 2 00:49:24 And it's. I like that a lot. It is it is hard, you know. I mean, I think honestly, you know, as an estate planning attorney, I get to sort of see, you know, people, people who are of all, you know, I work with well-to-do people for the most part, you know, and most people don't have a lot of close others that they can. Rely on like close family, close friends that they would call on to be a guardian or successor trustee or an executor. You know they have a lot of, you know, acquaintances maybe, but not like, you know. And that's just, that's just regular folks that are out there. You know, and it just does seem like there's a lot of loneliness. Speaker 1 00:50:14 You know, there is. Yes. I luckily my best friend. Has the same viewpoint in life that I do, and that is family is not always blood. Speaker 3 00:50:26 And like every kid that comes into my home, our ten year old daughter, oh, you're my new cousin now. Heads up, I'm a cool cousin. Like um, Dom, my daughter, the one that I adopted, she, she was dealing with a lot of issues when she moved in with me because she was LGBTQ and she was trans. Speaker 1 00:50:50 She's not. She's not. Yeah. Because they weren't. She wasn't surrounded with people who could teach her what it means for the life she's choosing. And so over time, you know, she met me, and you know, she she learned that women can be strong. So she slowly started reverting to be herself. And but she never had the this work in place to be able to make good decisions. And I'm probably gonna say something I'm not supposed to say, but she was in a few foster homes before us. In fact, one of her foster homes is the lady that was is the primary foster parent on the HBO documentary. Wow! Even people you see out there that you would think, oh, you know. Speaker 1 00:51:48 They were on the documentary, not really that supportive, and the training—they train us how to handle things like that. But if it overrides your your beliefs, huh? I don't know how to be the change for that, but I do know how to help kids stabilize, and you know, and I am trauma informed, so I can help them through a lot of things. So I can't change. Fostering, but it can change life. Speaker 2 00:52:18 We get to. Yeah, which by the way is like. Anyway, I'm just getting emotional, but yeah, I agreed. All right. So what do we got? I don't know what we have here. Let's see. Where is the dashboard? Is this the dash? Where's the dashboard? Speaker 1 00:52:41 Client invoicing payment. Speaker 2 00:52:43 Oh. Where is that? Is it the clients? Can't remember where they put the. Maybe just overview. Where's the cool nifty pie charts? Oh, those are in the dashboard. Oh, I see. I see. So, Fluffy hourly payment breakdown matter type. Speaker 3 00:53:21 Let's put it here. Speaker 1 00:53:24 Regular estate plans versus this thing. Speaker 2 00:53:27 I don't see it on the dashboard. Are we missing something? Let me see. Well, maybe it's do we scroll down? Maybe it's below. Speaker 1 00:53:36 I didn't see it when I looked. Can we get a pie chart for the. Speaker 3 00:53:42 Regular estate plans? Speaker 2 00:53:56 And also that final pie chart there, the annual comparison is not right. I thought I told it to fix it, but oh, I thought you did too, but I didn't see it. Maybe I know, I didn't see it either. I'm wondering. That's why I'm wondering if like it's somewhere else. It's added to the to visualize the distribution of matters between regular and high net worth, but where is it? Are we just not looking at the right things? Maybe it's status. Like there's a matter type here. Maybe status. Speaker 3 00:54:30 Invoices, okay. Maybe we scroll down. Speaker 2 00:54:34 Maybe, uh, oh, there it is. Oh, Speaker 3 00:54:39 There. Yeah, we just we can. Speaker 2 00:54:49 Why didn't do it as a pie chart though. Speaker 1 00:54:51 Maybe because it doesn't have anything in it. Speaker 2 00:54:55 Oh, you know what? That's probably true because I haven't. I I'd have to go through and actually note it for it doesn't note it. I I haven't put it in my spreadsheet, so that makes sense. Gotcha. Okay, these are just things I'm thinking about as we're looking at what it can do. Yeah. Okay, that sounds good. Speaker 3 00:55:14 Um. Speaker 1 00:55:18 Now, I do want to take you through the next portion. All right. Okay. So, um, let me close this part. Speaker 1 00:55:29 I'm going to say publish. Okay, I want to publish all the changes. Speaker 3 00:55:35 Got it. Like that one. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:55:40 All right. Oh no, just okay. So what I want to do now is this part. I it only needs to be done one time, so I'm going to do it for you just because it's going. Speaker 3 00:55:52 To make it okay. Okay. Speaker 3 00:55:58 I need to do two things. I'm going to end the connector. Remember how to do it. It's different in every spring. In every. Speaker 3 00:56:30 Oh, great! Yeah, everything we can accomplish in the future. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to do something. Okay, great. Speaker 1 00:57:13 And The reason why I'm doing that here is I want to see if it's see it if it's successful. Mhm. I'm going to say always allow because one eventually what we're going to do. Is we're going to set this to where it will automatically add all the information from your emails. Speaker 2 00:57:36 Okay, that's fantastic. And I'll I'll show you where it is. I mean, I guess it does. It matter? Should I just should I tell it the specific subfolders, or does it? Speaker 1 00:57:49 Or I don't know. Yeah. First, we need to tell it. Speaker 3 00:57:57 The act, which will be. Speaker 2 00:58:01 And in the emails, and then the newest info is has not even been put in the spreadsheet. Speaker 1 00:58:20 So what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna change to automatically approve because it's a new table. Or is a new system, so I wanted to go ahead and build it. And then I'm going to choose, you choose where the folder is where it's all. Speaker 2 00:58:37 Just just the one spreadsheet, Speaker 1 00:58:39 Okay? Or all the spreadsheets. Speaker 2 00:58:40 Yeah, yeah. It's just it's actually just one spreadsheet, but the new data is in. Speaker 1 00:58:45 You won't see it. You just need to select the folder. Speaker 2 00:58:50 Oh, but there's a lot of a lot of them in here. Speaker 1 00:58:54 Yeah, there is. We just need to select the folder. Speaker 2 00:58:56 Oh, okay, right, yeah, Speaker 1 00:58:57 That's it. And so, Speaker 3 00:58:59 And then. Speaker 2 00:59:03 Do you want me to tell you which subfolders it's in in the in Outlook? The new information. Speaker 1 00:59:10 Not yet. I want to. Okay. I want it to look at the data before you do anything. Okay. No, I'm telling it before you do anything. Okay. And look, all the data. Speaker 3 00:59:26 And make sure we are set up. Do not make changes. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:59:39 Approvals, but it's set to auto, so you. I chose to put it to auto, so it won't ask us every file it looks at. But I'm telling, I'm giving it guardrails. Okay. Now I'm going to say, " Don't ask again." And we'll allow it. Heather, I want it to look at everything. I want it to get a good understanding. Speaker 3 01:00:37 This might take a minute. Speaker 2 01:00:38 No, Speaker 3 01:00:39 That's totally fine. I'm gonna just get up and stretch. Speaker 2 01:00:51 Christy Wallace is running. I have a question about. I wanted to. I wanted to roll this out, even though I have so much more to learn. But I kind of wanted to roll it out to at least Ariana, who's my partner. But then also, I think the two paralegals, Gretchen and Martina, could benefit from you know certain things like proofing their work before they submit it to the attorney to be reviewed and things like that, where they could just give it instructions. You know, proof my work, make sure everything looks. You know, there's no scrivener's errors or anything like that. So, but I wanted to. Do I need to? Can I roll it out to them? Speaker 2 01:01:35 Before the AI policy, from policy, or can I just? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I just want to explain to them that they should not be using anything else on their work computers, other than the the Claude team. Speaker 1 01:01:48 Yes. Um. Real quickly, I just realized my MasterCard is still set in here for you guys, unless your MasterCard ends in the same number as my MasterCard. Speaker 3 01:01:57 No, Speaker 2 01:01:58 That's funny. Didn't it use the link? Oh, is this a this is Claude. So we put because. Speaker 1 01:02:05 I was setting it up. You were gone, and I was on vacation. I was setting it up with my. Oh, we just need to switch it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And you could do that later. But to add people, you want to go into Manage Seats, and then you can say Add or Change Seats from here, and then so you can do for each person you can do standard seats. Now, premium is going to be your heavy hitter people. You might need to bump up to premium yourself, which is a hundred dollars a month, based on what I'm showing you how to do. But for right now, we'll keep you on standard. And then you just mark how many more seats you need, so each person gets their own. Speaker 2 01:02:48 So right now we have two, and so we would need, I guess, four total. Speaker 1 01:02:53 Four total. All right, so we're going to add two more seats, or was it six total? Speaker 2 01:03:02 No, no, no, four total. Speaker 1 01:03:04 Okay. So next. Um. All right. So this is where we're going to change credit card information. Yep. And then you can fill that out. I will be. Kids to Dollar Tree, other than pajama pants. Speaker 2 01:03:23 Got it. Okay. Sounds good. Speaker 1 01:03:31 Pajamas, but I don't like to walk around with them. Speaker 2 01:03:34 No, my daughter does that all the time, and I'm like, " We're going out to outside of this house. Do not wear your. Speaker 1 01:03:42 Yes. Do not wear your. I I feel like I have that conversation pretty often. Yeah. Although. Not, and so they remind me. When they see me wearing those to go work out, that those look like pajamas. Are you sure? Those are the same as what we're doing exactly. Speaker 3 01:04:06 Okay, so. Speaker 2 01:04:44 Alright , So I just go forward. Okay. Is, It already, or is this something that needs to be done by Crimson, where they cannot, like, in other words, they're actually. Not able to use their work computers to do non - cloud team research. Speaker 1 01:05:12 We have tools that we can add. The team is evaluating them now, so that that's going to alert us when people are using unapproved versions. Okay. So we're getting to that point. We're still evaluating. Okay. We're not quite there yet, Speaker 2 01:05:28 But yeah. Okay. Speaker 2 01:05:38 Am I supposed to cancel this or what am I doing here? Oh, Speaker 1 01:05:40 Update. No, you're good. Speaker 2 01:05:42 It already did it. Oh, it did. Okay, got it. Speaker 1 01:05:45 Yeah. So we have four seats available now. Members is the next place we go, and then what we're going to do is member, and then actually, we'll check something. Oh, so in here, you just put in the email addresses of the two. Speaker 2 01:06:12 I might have messed up because I I realized that now. And. Speaker 1 01:06:21 Then just put your next one. Speaker 3 01:06:22 Oh, Speaker 2 01:06:25 Just another one here. Yeah. Speaker 1 01:06:26 You can put a bunch of. Speaker 2 01:06:28 People at once. Okay. Um, I think we need an X one because I one of them is you guys, which I didn't realize that you're the primary. Um. Okay. So um, it would be Gretchen. Clavichord and then Martinus, Speaker 3 01:06:44 Clavichord. Okay. Okay. Next. Yeah. Oh, it lets you do it from there. Perfect. Okay. Yeah. Hmm. Speaker 1 01:07:10 All right, now it's not going to show members right away because of pending, so they'll be in pending until they accept it. Speaker 2 01:07:17 Got it. Speaker 1 01:07:19 Okay. And eventually, when you get more and more comfortable in Claude, you can move us and and contain it yourself if you want. Some clients are doing that. Some are just like like, hey, we'd rather you stay stay involved. So it's completely up to you. Speaker 1 01:07:40 Sorry, Speaker 2 01:07:40 I I misunderstood. Say that one more time. Speaker 1 01:07:43 Oh, so eventually, if you feel comfortable, once you really get to know Claude and how. Speaker 2 01:07:48 Oh, I see. We just take that off and switch it. I see. Speaker 1 01:07:52 Some clients do, and some clients don't. They would rather sample it. Speaker 2 01:07:56 Yeah. Okay. Speaker 1 01:07:57 So while we did that, just finish up. So. Speaker 1 01:08:09 And then it's telling you some things about. Now I told it not to change anything, just to tell us what's missing. Speaker 2 01:08:22 Your real live data lives in three places. Speaker 2 01:08:34 What does this mean? Clio is actually running your live invoicing. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that is true. The entire view. I'm going to state clinics. Okay. I don't Know. Speaker 2 01:08:55 What the first bullet point means there in the gaps, but okay. Real invoice numbers exist in Clio. Yeah, I don't really care about the invoice numbers. Speaker 1 01:09:05 Matters we so it's telling us that on the matters one, it's a free text field in Airtable rather than a selection, Speaker 2 01:09:16 And so it's saying it's not a distinct entity in my spreadsheet. Yes, Speaker 1 01:09:24 So but they're just your notes. Speaker 2 01:09:27 So yeah, I would need I would either need to do it or or Claude would need to do it. Like where it just it tells Airtable like. This is this says trust admin. This says probate. This is right like a referral fee. Like this, it it has to because right until now I just I put it in parentheses next to it. I'm like, okay, this is a, you know, probate matter. This is a estate planning. Um, insurance commission has no identifiable source at all. Speaker 1 01:09:57 Yeah. Um. So it didn't put anything in there, uh, because it doesn't see that information in the files you reviewed. Speaker 2 01:10:06 No, it's there. It's at the bottom. Speaker 1 01:10:08 Okay, then you might need it. Speaker 2 01:10:10 It's at the bottom of the total. Okay, insurance info is all at the bottom, very bottom of the spreadsheet, and just shows the client and the amount of commission received. Speaker 3 01:10:35 Why? Speaker 2 01:10:44 Also, the only folder, the only spreadsheet relevant in that folder is the one. Oh, I can't remember what it's called now. Hold on, let me just let me just tell it which one it is. Because it's looking at all of these, I don't need it to look at all of these. Speaker 1 01:11:06 You can you can tell it which one to look at, but also if you wanted it to, it can go back and put historic data in there as well, pretty. Speaker 3 01:11:16 Quickly. Speaker 3 01:13:57 Okay. Um, a couple entries heard. Speaker 3 01:15:02 Speak to me. Speak to me. Speak to me. Speaker 2 01:15:29 Um. Speaker 2 01:15:31 Can I show you something? I don't know how to take a Google Doc and put it in here, but that will tell it what my spreadsheet is not going to be able to tell it. Still with me, Christi? Yes. Oh, Christi, Speaker 1 01:15:48 There. Yeah. Hang on. Can you? Speaker 2 01:15:52 Can we? Christi, Speaker 1 01:15:55 Did I lose you? You didn't lose me. Hang on. My thing not working. Speaker 1 01:16:04 I don't know how, but my mic. Speaker 2 01:16:05 There you go. No worries, no worries, no worries. I just want to show you. Oh, shoot! What did I just do here? Did I just? No, no. I'm just trying to find my cloud. Oh, here we go. I see. There's a a Google spreadsheet that we use as a team, and what it's what what's nice about it is it it lists all the active matters. Right, it's not it's not used for payment stuff. It's just list the active matters. But what's nice about it is the first the first tab lists the estate planning matters. The second tab lists the trust administration. These are just active matters, and the third tab lists all of those that are high net worth. So from the first one, we just the ones that are high net worth are in this third tab. So it's like a subset of the first tab. Speaker 3 01:17:01 Got you. Okay. Speaker 2 01:17:02 And so I don't know, you know, the rest of the tabs are irrelevant for our purposes, but the first three tabs of this Google Doc will tell Claude and Airtable which is which. Speaker 1 01:17:15 Yeah. So hang on, let me do this. I'm going to go in here, and I'm going to add fonts. I'm reading. I'm reading this part right here. Speaker 3 01:17:32 Okay. Okay. Within your SharePoint, right? Yeah. It's called Team Documents. That's it. That's that's SharePoint. Speaker 2 01:17:57 Where is it located? I only know to get to it from my desktop, which is where he. If you go to desktop, yeah, there's a link in my desktop. I did that for you. I think it was Moritz, Speaker 3 01:18:12 Or I think it was. Yeah, Moritz. So is it this one. Speaker 2 01:18:19 Uh, no, because that one's looks like it's outdated. Okay, that's the CSR. Speaker 2 01:18:28 Um, I mean, I can show you where it is, not using this, but then that might help you. Speaker 3 01:18:34 Okay. Yeah. So yeah. Speaker 2 01:18:36 Yeah. Let me just show you one right here. I'm gonna get just minimize this for a second. So this is my the SharePoint. Speaker 1 01:18:44 Okay. I'm gonna do something slightly different. Speaker 2 01:18:49 But the CSR that's sitting right there, that's an old copy, and I have no idea. How to get to that Google Doc other than to just I just saved it on my like yeah I'm sorry I'm such a but I but I don't have any clue how to get there. Speaker 1 01:19:05 I'm gonna sync this folder to your computer so that I can find it easy. Okay. And so that's that's easy to do. And then I'm gonna go under here. I'll back up. It I was being. Speaker 3 01:19:20 Impatient. So. Folders, and then and team documents. Oh, it's. Speaker 2 01:19:41 Still syncing. Mine took a really long time to sync because it's a huge file. That may be why it. Speaker 2 01:19:50 But what's weird is I don't. Where is the that one Google Doc? Speaker 1 01:19:56 Where does that live? Um, was the one you were showing me right here? Yeah, where is that? Yeah. So that's that lives in your SharePoint. And so I can see that's in Team Documents. And oh, okay. I'll just go to File and and Out. See this and see if the document and just pull back. Speaker 3 01:20:24 Okay, got it. There we go. And then it's gonna take a minute, but. Wait, I can't remember. Speaker 1 01:20:55 Um, I'm going to go into your Teams folder. Okay. Wait, never mind. You're on. It's not. Um, I'm going to download a copy. Okay, Speaker 2 01:21:06 That makes sense. I just do this here to. Speaker 1 01:21:16 Editing. Speaker 1 01:21:19 See. Oh wait, Microsoft. Sorry, I forgot Microsoft. And I'm just going to say download a copy. It's going to put it to your downloads folder, and we're just downloading one copy. Not ever going to use it again. Speaker 3 01:21:33 Just for. And Downloads, CSR. Speaker 2 01:21:45 All right, and you'll just need to tell it. Just the first three tabs are all that it needs. It doesn't need the other stuff. The other tabs are like irrelevant. Speaker 3 01:21:52 Okay. Speaker 3 01:22:18 My daughter came in, Speaker 1 01:22:18 Said something to me, handed me a box, as she was putting away the grocery subjects. Speaker 3 01:22:24 The box isn't. What she wanted to? You want to ask her? Speaker 1 01:22:32 Yeah. You know, Speaker 3 01:22:35 She's in that door. I don't know what she's like. She's watching Outer Banks. Yeah, Dave. But I don't know what she's watching. Speaker 3 01:22:47 She likes all those dramas. Speaker 1 01:22:48 That we like to watch. Speaker 2 01:22:50 You know, what's funny is my daughter does too. She likes watching like some of the older stuff. It's funny. Speaker 1 01:22:58 It's kind of come back. She was she watched the entire thing of Vampire Diaries. And I was like, oh, that's so seen that in years. Speaker 2 01:23:10 I know. I think she, my daughter. What did she watch recently? She watched the Gilmore Girls. I didn't even watch the Gilmore Girls. Speaker 2 01:23:18 Okay. Speaker 1 01:23:18 Yeah, I didn't. I didn't. I never finished the Vampire Diaries when it was. You know, this late twenties. Speaker 3 01:23:26 Yeah. Speaker 1 01:23:29 I know my friends loved it. I just never. I I watched. I never got into it. Yeah. Yeah, never got into it. So I I have watched most of it with her. Speaker 3 01:23:44 Estate planning. Speaker 2 01:23:53 Uh, yeah. So let me just tell it. The advance tax planning tab is a subset of the first estate planning tab. And its purpose is to highlight those active estate planning clients who are high net worth. This is relevant for Airtable, which which needs to create. Speaker 2 01:24:41 A pie chart showing regular estate plans versus net worth estate. Speaker 3 01:24:52 Plans versus revenue. Speaker 1 01:25:07 While we're waiting on this, something you just said triggered something in me. I think would really be cool. Yeah, because I know about estate planning because for a bit I did leave IT because I got burned out. This was years ago, and I went to go work for an insurance company and did like the health insurance. No, I taught myself all of that. And then when my first daughter came to me because her father passed away, her grandfather was a great guy. Speaker 1 01:25:41 He took the survivor's benefits because he was worried DCFS getting their hands on this first benefits. Yeah, he put it in a trust for both girls, and he was really good at finances. And so she got an understanding of you know finances. And most of my kids that come through, uh, and most kids I see in the system don't know anything about finances. For estate planning inquiries. Speaker 2 01:26:11 Ah, so say that one more time because I'm listening to you. But that last sentence that you just said, I completely spaced out. Say that last sentence again. Speaker 1 01:26:24 Most kids in foster care don't know anything about finances and estate. Speaker 2 01:26:31 Most kids period don't know anything, by the way, about, Finances and estate planning. I will just say I also did not know anything about estate planning until I decided to pursue this. Like it's one of those areas that, for whatever reason, the schools and parents don't don't teach it. Speaker 1 01:26:48 Yeah. My um. So my mom, good old girl from the south country, as I'll get out of farmer, all of that. You know, money got put under your mattress, literally. Oh my. Speaker 2 01:27:03 So. Speaker 1 01:27:05 And that's that's all I knew about budgeting. I taught myself everything. But kids coming through, like the foster parents, are required to teach them budgets and how to handle things. Most do not, because they don't. Speaker 2 01:27:21 Know. I mean, I think you're a hundred percent right. It would be very helpful to, you know, especially when when kids are like entering into. Adulthood, and they don't know anything, Speaker 1 01:27:37 You know. Last last year with taxes, my daughter and other kids that were with us, we sat down and showed them how much I'm making a year and how much goes to taxes, what everything is. Were they like shocked? They're like, Yes! Oh my gosh, half your half your income goes to taxes. You're like, Yes, correct. Yeah. So all my kids here. Currently and in the past, know how much they're reversing, because I don't hide that friendship. Yeah, I share that very freely. I share everything looks like, and if I make them say, "Oh, yeah," you know, I share that with them too. I have foster parents. Like you know what, my kids are going to be in a better position to face the real world than most kids because they understand. Speaker 1 01:28:32 Because I was, yep, I don't know how. I don't know how to do what I'm asking. I don't even know what I'm asking. But that could trigger anything in your mind of how maybe it's helping foster care that way. I know. Speaker 2 01:28:50 I would absolutely love to do that. And I don't know who the powers that be are because I don't know anything about the system. But if I could. Speaker 2 01:29:01 Do that. If I could tell kids, you know, just you know, and parents, like here are the things that you need to know, or and just guide them on this path, I would do that a hundred percent. Speaker 1 01:29:16 I so there's a program called Independent Living. It's ran by DCFs, and they're the team that comes in and works with teens as they are getting ready to graduate high school and go into college. They work with kids to get scholarships and find jobs in the job market, even if they're going to trade school. Oh, great! They, yeah, they have so much stuff that they do. There's even this thing called Deck My Dorm that they started in the last couple of years, where kids come and basically "quote unquote" shop if they're going to college and living in a dorm. So it gives them everything they need. In fact, Dominic was Dominic's my daughter. Dominic, I was. Speaker 1 01:30:00 I had budgeted money for the year, just for her dorm because we knew she was moving into a dorm, and they got her everything she needed except shower sheets. That's the one thing they didn't they didn't have, which shocked me. But they socks, a few other things. They you know, and so I just gave them my budget, the dorm planning, like and you know said here, I'm gonna I'm gonna donate some money to this, but businesses come in and actually purchase. Saving, sheets, all the stuff. Because what happened was the social workers in IOP saw that these kids were going to college, but no one had thought to buy them dorm stuff, and they didn't have anybody. This was for AB twelve or AB five, which is all my kids. And so I can connect you to the lady who runs those, and maybe that's she might know how. Speaker 1 01:30:58 That's that's great. Speaker 2 01:30:59 Yes, that's a great idea. That's such a nice idea. And actually, does anybody send these kids care packages. Speaker 1 01:31:07 Um, they do some things through Deck My Dorm and some of the other stuff that they do to get kids ready for graduating high school. Speaker 2 01:31:17 I just wonder, like, if maybe that's like a thing that churches do, as opposed to like DFS. But I've not ever heard of anybody doing this. Cause like I'll send my kids some care packages from time to you know just get them little they don't really need like it's not like it's anything they need but they're just like little things they're they're you know little knickknacks that they may enjoy or um I just yeah anyway I'm just I don't know that's but yeah if you want to introduce me to the woman who um who heads up that. Speaker 2 01:31:55 Organization, the Decemidorum, and maybe she would know, you know, who who to talk to. But I'm I'm happy to, you know, help with all of that. With the estate planning, the financial side, you know, what they need to know, just like prepare them, prepare them for the real world, not scare them, but like equip them. Speaker 1 01:32:15 Yeah, I do know. I do know. There's several things you could talk to kids at that they do every year. So there's an orientation, and they do they require kids to go to classes. And if you hit all the classes that they require you to attend, you get an extra three thousand dollars in scholarships and is put into your account. Yeah. So Dom just got hers, and she went to everything. Plus, she also got scholarships. So that was the last piece that she needed for all of her college fees. Wow. Speaker 1 01:32:50 So literally last week it got deposited, and she called. She called the financial aid offices. Said, " Here's my last three thousand dollars." Oh my goodness! Oh, that's so awesome! Speaker 2 01:33:02 Yeah, a hundred percent. Like if if it's if if the orientation, um, could use someone with my background. I'm I would be totally open to doing. Speaker 1 01:33:13 That. Yeah, and I run a website too. I've been doing lately because. Dom going to college and me being in the hospital for a little bit for gallstones. Nothing too big. It was just gallstones. Speaker 3 01:33:28 Jump back into it. Yeah. But I will send you that website information because I'm trying to group together like things to the LSU Church. Speaker 2 01:33:36 Good. I love it. I absolutely love it. I think that's great. And and I truly do want to find a way to get in in. In into this world, I I am worried that I don't know what on earth I'm doing or getting myself into. I'm sure there's training, but but to the extent that I can use my own kind of like career and knowledge to help other kids with that, I 100% would do that. I would volunteer for. Speaker 1 01:34:12 That. I I can tell you this is from personal experience. Um, I. I met a lady when I was younger, and I was probably 18 at that time. She was so I had already been adopted, and I looked at her, and she, you know, she similar story to mine. Grew up in the country, ended up in foster care, and she made something of herself. She became a CEO, and I sat there and I looked at her and said, "I knew I wanted foster. I knew that I wanted foster kids and things like that." Speaker 1 01:34:47 And I was like, I can do that. I can become an executive. I can find what I'm good at, and I can make something of myself. And then I can turn around and teach kids how to do so. And that's been—I'm 46 now, and that's been myself since I was 18. And so now I'm a CIO. You know, a job that I love. As as Anzor is, he he's absolutely. Like I do not regret coming to prison because he has made my life possible. But don't tell him, I because that's I will. Speaker 2 01:35:23 Never tell him that. Don't want him to get too like you know too proud of things. Speaker 1 01:35:28 Yes, we need to fit into the office. We don't need a celebrity. That's true. But that's that's the kind of person I became. I saw her, and that's what she did, and then I became that kind of person, and then my daughter see like. For years, she thought she wasn't gonna live past eighteen, and then she moved in with me. She saw that she started the future. She was like, "Oh, I'll, I'll be a chef someday." It's like, "Okay, I need somebody to cook, cook for me because I know how to cook Southern style, but there's a lot of food that's not." Yeah. And all of a sudden, she's like, "I could become a psychologist." I'm like, "Absolutely!" And then everything shifted to, "Oh, I'm going to college, so now I've got a kid to take care of me, and I've got another kid that's gonna, you know, sneak the. Speaker 1 01:36:14 Alcohol into the nursing home when I get old, you know. And I got spares for all of that too. So I'm sad, but yeah. Um. So it's understand. It's now starting to understand. I'm switching back to Claude real quick because I yeah. Speaker 2 01:36:30 I know. I'm looking at this too. Okay. So it's understanding it. Here's the only thing I want to just tell it is that the the advanced tax planning. It it overlaps with 35 currently active, right? Yes. But that does. But the rest of those are going to be on the spreadsheet because they've paid us. So I don't know how to tell it that, right? I'm trying to tell it that all of the ones that are on the advanced planning tab are going to be listed on the spreadsheet. And the main point is that I need here. Let me just speak into it. All of the. Speaker 2 01:37:09 Clients listed in the Advanced Tax Planning tab on the CSR may not be also listed under Active Clients in the Estate Planning tab, but they all are listed in the spreadsheet that we are using to record revenue, and which Airtable will be using together with the CSR. Speaker 2 01:37:40 To create the trackers that we need. I don't know if this any of this makes sense. Speaker 1 01:37:48 Yes, send it. Because if it doesn't, it'll ask you. One of my favorite things. Also, another thing I like to do is I like to tell Claude, ask me questions to help you understand the data. Speaker 2 01:38:04 Hmm. Okay, that's a helpful suggestion. Yeah. Speaker 1 01:38:09 Because sometimes I it'll ask me things I didn't even think of. I was like, Oh yeah, I need just to know this too. Tell it to ignore Cleo for a moment, and we can circle back to that, and then ask it to ask you any more questions that might be unclear. Speaker 2 01:38:34 Do you have any other questions? Speaker 3 01:38:38 That will clarify the task. And. Speaker 2 01:39:02 Now I'm confused. Is it building this, or is it Airtable that's building it? Speaker 1 01:39:09 It's building it through Airtable. Speaker 2 01:39:10 Oh, Quad is using Airtable to build it. Speaker 1 01:39:15 Yes, it's going to build all of this for you in Airtable without you having to. Oh my gosh! Speaker 2 01:39:23 Okay, that's great. Okay, so the there's the first question. Okay, it's just a full historical rebuild or fresh start with older years kept only as read only. Um, I just rather just do the whole thing. I think, yeah. Okay. How should clients multiple invoices be grouped into matters? Does one client get one ongoing estate planning matter for all their EP billing, or so? Yeah, I think that's fine. Some ledger rows aren't client billing at all. Yeah, it's a separate, separate revenue category. Once this is built, how do you want to handle invoices going forward before Cleo is connected? Speaker 1 01:40:11 Um. Speaker 2 01:40:13 No. Okay. Did I press that? Speaker 1 01:40:14 No. No, you're good. You're good. Okay. Um. Because later on, you can tell it, hey, let's let's make this more advanced. Let's get people connected where they can input the data as it comes in. Speaker 2 01:40:25 Oh, I see. Okay. Because I would love for, yeah, I would love. I mean, honestly, it can just pull things. So if it can pull it from Cleo, um, directly, then I don't even need. The only thing I need Karen to do is put like things that aren't going to be on Cleo. So for example, she would need to put in the checks that were paid or the wire. But in terms of like the ACH payments or or maybe she I don't know I don't know how this works I have no idea. Speaker 1 01:40:59 No, you're doing really well. Like you're building what you're doing right now is you're building your. Speaker 2 01:41:03 Own application. Hmm. I guess my question for you is this: We have different different sources, we're different payment methods. So, for example, some of our clients will pay through something called LawPay, and I think it's one of the connectors that you set up for me. So you connected it to Clio, but you also connected LawPay. Speaker 2 01:41:32 Some of some so those will be credit card payments or ACH, but we try to use LawPay over Clio where possible because it's cheaper. They don't the credit card charges are not as high as Clio. Clio kind of takes advantage. It it kind of has a monopoly on your stuff, so it just decided to just keep going up and up with its fees, and it's kind of insane. And so we try to use LawPay because they're not as greedy, but you know Clio also. And then we have the checks, and then we have the wires. And so, I don't know how to feed this in. I don't know if Karen needs to feed it in. If it pulls it directly from emails, if it pulls it from the Cleo, from LawPay, like I don't, I'm not sure how to tell it to pull the information. Speaker 1 01:42:18 So that's where you get to the the fun part. You get to brainstorm with Claude and say, Hey, the information is going to come in from email or come in from Cleo. What's the best way we can get this pushed in? Speaker 2 01:42:31 I see. Okay, and then it'll tell me what it prefers. Speaker 1 01:42:35 Yeah, it will walk you through how to build it out too. Got it. It make it will make your life a lot easier. And one thing I tell everybody is, don't be afraid to talk in your own language because you can ask it to ask you clarifying questions when it's confused. Speaker 1 01:43:00 And as it learns you, it's going to match your tone and your voice, so that you can better understand it. Speaker 2 01:43:06 Okay, I'm just going to ask it. Please keep the commissions of the insurance business separate from the revenue, estate planning, and trust administration. Matters as they are two separate businesses, even though the clients may overlap. Also, in terms of giving you the payment. Speaker 3 01:43:50 Method, you will need for. Speaker 3 01:44:02 Emails, Outlook, Outlook, Clio, LawPay. What is getting? I. Speaker 2 01:44:27 Don't know if it's all clear, but. Hopefully, it'll tell me what it wants to do. Speaker 3 01:44:32 Yeah. Speaker 2 01:44:49 Well, I thought we did the connectors for LawPay and Cleo. Speaker 1 01:44:53 Um, it's not working just yet because I'm still waiting on them to finalize some things. LawPay is a little. Video. I'm still working, so but we are working on. It's just not there yet. Speaker 2 01:45:05 It's not there yet. Okay, so should it so should it just pull it then from my emails? Speaker 1 01:45:10 For right now, let's tell it to pull from the emails. Speaker 2 01:45:12 I see. Okay, the EP income spreadsheet already has this embedded note, so that's already structured, accessible source I can parse today without connecting anything new. I'd use that as a primary source. I'd only fall back to Outlook to resolve a specific ambiguous entry since scanning hundreds of emails. It's slower and less complete than what's already sitting there. That article should maybe be the most authoritative source going forward. Yeah. Speaker 1 01:45:35 So tell it, tell it. Everything comes to your email first, and then you put it in a spreadsheet. Because it's still thinking. Okay. Speaker 2 01:45:43 The spreadsheet is about four months. What is it for? Is is four months? Four months by the end. Finally, thank you. I input everything annually into. Why am I typing? Can I just speak? Spreadsheet. But I am quite behind on this task. What I would want you to do is simply look at the emails in two subfolders. Speaker 2 01:46:26 And no other emails in Outlook. In order to expedite your review, those emails would have all payment information from Clio and LawPay, I believe. Although I'd have to get back to you on the LawPay. It would also have information. About wires and checks, in the form of attachments to the emails themselves, the two subfolders can be found in my Outlook at Klappich Law Outlook. Speaker 3 01:47:23 Titled. Speaker 2 01:47:34 Zero zero three underscore outstanding invoices, and the subfolder under that called checks. Speaker 3 01:47:56 Hmm. Speaker 2 01:48:47 Christi, how long do you think it'll take for the connectors to work for Cleo, and then secondarily, Speaker 1 01:48:53 Yeah. So the not Cleo, but the other one, the log. My mind just blanked out. That one's going to take a little longer. Cleo, there's. I'm working on figuring out how I can make their APIs connect because their APIs are not the easiest to connect. But that one shouldn't take too much. Speaker 3 01:49:18 Uh huh. Okay. Perfect, Christi. Speaker 3 01:50:05 Please move forward with your next step. Speaker 2 01:50:48 So is this just going to be going on in the background, or is this? Yep. Oh, okay. And then it just updates it every so often, and I go to Airtable, and that's where I see it. Speaker 1 01:51:03 And you can see all your stuff. Speaker 2 01:51:07 And then I can manually, manually change things or revise things on Airtable directly. Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 01:51:18 Like a big spreadsheet, or a couple of spreadsheets, Speaker 2 01:51:20 But okay. And when Claude sees that I've made those changes, I'm assuming it doesn't like it; just accepts that is is correct, or how does it? Speaker 1 01:51:28 Yes, it's never going to double check anything unless you tell it to. Oh, okay. But it will put together the. So we got two ways. It can either pull from your Outlook, or we can create forms within Airtable. For your team to, you know, things in your Zoom, the check, or the check. Speaker 3 01:51:51 Does that make sense? Speaker 2 01:51:56 Say that again, Christi. Speaker 1 01:51:57 I'm I'm not following. It it can either pull the information from your email, or or your team members, um, for your staff that actually do the check deposits and receive the mail, they can input the information as well. Speaker 2 01:52:14 I mean, I almost prefer them to just. Pull the emails that way. Don't have to have my staff do anything further. Yeah, you know, and to you know, and and then once it's connected to Cleo and LawPay, it just does that on its own. But the checks and wires would be just easier. I mean, I could put it into a different subfolder for just checks and wires. Um, Speaker 1 01:52:36 And then pull it from the emails that you're getting from the team. Speaker 2 01:52:40 Yeah, or it can just pull it as it comes in. But right now, I'm asking it to just look at those subfolders. I'm not asking it to look in my inbox, just because I'm trying to like make its life a little easier and not have it be so complicated. But yes, yes, I would need to revise that, I guess. Okay, what do I do? Just say yes, and yeah, Speaker 1 01:53:02 Read through the plan. So the plan is right here. Oh, just make sure there's nothing. Yeah, just to make sure everything is good and kosher. Speaker 3 01:53:12 Okay, and then from there, you can tell it to go. Speaker 2 01:53:16 Just leave on a guard. How it reveals the client's voiceprint tracker based on stream real. Speaker 3 01:53:22 Eleven years. We don't need this. I'm not even showing the results. Okay. Speaker 3 01:54:15 Yeah, that's great. Speaker 1 01:54:22 And then, you're ready. Just tell it to start doing. And that part might take a little while. Speaker 2 01:54:28 Yeah. No, that's fine. Um, this all looks good. Um, and I'm ready for you to move forward. The only thing. Missing is. Speaker 3 01:54:48 I don't know a. Speaker 2 01:54:58 Page column perhaps where I can see invoices that were sent but not yet paid and when they. Send so that I can follow. Speaker 3 01:55:18 The points. We want a way to. We want a. Speaker 3 01:55:47 Collection, collection. Um, accelerate. Otherwise, this is ready to go. Okay. All right. I have no idea if it's thinking or what it's doing. Speaker 1 01:56:16 It's thinking, thinking. Okay. Yeah. If this is moving, Speaker 2 01:56:19 You're good. Okay. The uh, the the little teen square was on top of it, so I didn't um, until I moved it over, I didn't see that it was. All right. Well, I'm officially exhausted. My brain is fried, so I may have to let this do its thing and then come back to it in the morning when my brain is fresh and I'm not like exhausted. Speaker 1 01:56:45 No Worries, Speaker 2 01:56:45 And I also have to get the girls. Yeah, I just realized it's seven. Oh my goodness. Um. So what do we? So what? So okay. So let's just say it. It does this thing. Do I just? Do I just let it do its thing? Like shut it down. I mean, I'm not. I want to shut it down, but I like stick it in my briefcase and head home. And is it going to keep working, or is it going to be on sleep mode? Speaker 1 01:57:06 So, give it a few moments. Let it finish working, and then when you see that it stopped working. Then shove it into your back, or shut it down. Shut it into your. Shove it into your back. Speaker 2 01:57:17 Okay, Speaker 1 01:57:17 It will retain the history of what it's doing. Speaker 2 01:57:20 Okay, so just let it kind of finish its thing, and then, no, we need to allow this thing. Speaker 1 01:57:25 Okay, and then and then you're good for the night, and then we'll set up another time. But you're taking to this like fish in the water, so I am not even worried about what you're doing. Speaker 2 01:57:38 Oh, good. I'm so glad. It wants me to keep. To delete records for Clio, yeah, just delete. Speaker 1 01:57:45 Yeah, yeah, we do want it to delete. Speaker 2 01:57:47 Okay, so let me ask you this. I know that you took the day off today, so you're going to probably be inundated tomorrow with a billion things. Um, is there any way that we can just check in on this before the weekend, so that I can then play around with it over the weekend? Speaker 1 01:58:10 Yeah, let me grab my calendar real quick. Okay, because I think tomorrow, I'm tomorrow. I did keep up with some things today, quietly. But tomorrow, I do have an AI training basics, but I don't think anybody signed up for that. Oh, and I have a one - on - one meeting tomorrow. That's it. Speaker 2 01:58:29 Oh, that's great. Speaker 1 01:58:30 Okay, so I do have a twelve o'clock meeting, and other than that, I would say anything anytime after ten. Just send me over what would work for you. Do. Speaker 2 01:58:41 You want to? Do you want to say? I don't know. It's ten o'clock. Okay. Do you want to just lock that in? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Let me ten. That way, I know it's in the calendar, and I won't schedule anything around it. Speaker 1 01:58:53 Yeah. I want to send that over to you now. Speaker 3 01:58:56 Okay. Awesome. Speaker 1 01:59:01 And then. Okay. And then I'll call you tomorrow. And then. Every every session we're doing, I have transcription turned on, so okay. Not tonight, but later I'll send you over the notes from. Speaker 2 01:59:20 Perfect. No, that's that's really great, and this has been like unbelievably helpful. I don't think I could have done this by myself. There's no way. I could barely do it with your help. So hold up for one second. Speaker 1 01:59:30 I'm gonna. I want you to hit allow for this. Speaker 2 01:59:33 Oh, so it stops asking me for this. Yeah, each one is being is asked. Okay, makes sense. Speaker 3 01:59:38 Yes. Speaker 1 01:59:39 Allow for this task. Yeah, let me because it's going to ask you for create, update, and delete. Speaker 3 01:59:48 And so, Speaker 2 01:59:54 So Christi, let me know when you talk to your friend at the deck, my dorm, or you know whoever it is that you might know at the that helps with orientation. Like, just keep me posted. Let me know if. You know, I can be helpful in any way, and yeah, Speaker 1 02:00:13 Absolutely, yeah. I was gonna reach out. Her name is Jill. She's the one who created Deck My Dorm, but she's also DCFS social worker, things like that. I gotta reach out to her anyways about because I'm gonna have Anzor doesn't know this yet, but I'm gonna have Anzor provide the meals for the parents at the next orientation because I never do that for the parents. Speaker 2 02:00:35 Oh, that's awesome! Speaker 1 02:00:36 I'm gonna sign Anzor up for that because it's usually only like twenty people. Oh, we're there for six hours and oh my gosh, yes, give us because they don't have the funding. Yes, so Anzor is gonna sign up for that. He doesn't know it yet, but but he's been he's been volunteered. Speaker 2 02:00:55 Yeah, um, I I got an email from him like I don't know like two three weeks back that he sold the company. Speaker 1 02:01:02 No. Okay, so what he did, he's stepping back as CEO. Oh, as CEO, I'm staying in my role as CIO. And basically, what's going to happen is he's Anzor's renamed himself Chief Visionary Officer. Okay. You know him. He's he's so charismatic, and he likes getting out, meeting people, Speaker 2 02:01:24 And yeah, Speaker 1 02:01:26 Yeah, does better on the sell side. Yeah, and so. He's gonna continue doing that and just be his amazing self. And Pete taking over the CEO. Speaker 2 02:01:37 Got it. Okay. Okay. I obviously completely misread that. So I I thought he was just like he sold it and then was just kind of like staying on for a little bit to like transition. But obviously not. Speaker 1 02:01:50 The first person I heard. Okay. So no, he will probably reach out to you to see if you would mind having a conversation with him, either by Teams or in person when he's here, because he lives in Vegas. Oh, in the park out in. And then I lost connection to your computer. Oh, and want to connect, and like to you and Joe. Speaker 1 02:02:21 And so, Speaker 2 02:02:22 Great. No, I would love that. Speaker 1 02:02:24 Yeah, with us for over a year and a half now. He's a beast. He's my second favorite. No, that's. Speaker 3 02:02:30 Really awesome. Speaker 1 02:02:33 He's the eye of Anzor's hurricane. He's the eye. He's the eye of Anzor's hurricane. He keeps everything calm. Speaker 2 02:02:42 He just kind of, yeah. Well, you know, sometimes you just need different personalities. They can't all do the same thing, you know. Exactly. Yeah. Speaker 1 02:02:52 So and we grow. We're we're getting so much bigger. Speaker 2 02:02:56 No, it's it's has been the. Speaker 1 02:02:57 Fact that you're doing a good job, Speaker 2 02:02:59 And you know, you guys got to really. I mean, I really like the people on your team, and yeah, God knows how many times I have called feeling panicky or like like I hate. I honestly, I really just technology and I don't get along. You know, I feel like I blow things up. So. You know, sometimes we'll call and I'll be like, I can't get this to work, and I'll be like super frustrated because I have a meeting in like ten minutes, and you guys are always like calm, kind, dealing with everybody's. Yes, Speaker 1 02:03:32 Like no, I mean we have we have a. Speaker 2 02:03:35 Team. Yeah, really good team. Yeah, I mean I really like Emil and Moritz and Vincent's been amazing and. You know, oh, Charlene's great, and now Jason's new, and I mean, everyone has been really, really good. Yeah, great. Okay. Um, I I'm assuming it's just doing its thing, right? Speaker 1 02:03:59 Asking questions anymore because I lost connection. Oh, you did. Okay. Yeah. All right. And um, I got to get the kids over to the house. Speaker 2 02:04:08 Yeah. Go ahead. Do your thing, and I will. Try to finish this up, and then I'll head out the door as well. Yeah, they've been asking for a week now. All right, so I'll I'll talk to um tomorrow. Hopefully, this thing will be done. I'll talk to you tomorrow at ten o'clock. All right, awesome. Thank you so much, Shelley. Thanks, Christi. Okay, take care. Bye.
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09-11 Consultation: AI Workflow Automation with Claude and WhisperFlow
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- Date & Time: 2026-09-11 10:13:53 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: [Insert Customer] ## Overview This consultation reviews the progress of a task executed by the AI tool Claude for the client. The client, previously feeling disorganized and overwhelmed by manual tasks, is exploring how AI can streamline their workflow and save time. The discussion centers on understanding Claude’s outputs (“artifacts”) and refining prompts to better handle potential data mismatches. Christi, the consultant, shares her experience becoming more organized and efficient using AI tools like transcribers and WhisperFlow. The goal is to leverage AI to automate tedious tasks, saving significant time daily and weekly. ## Background This is a follow-up session to review the results of a task executed by Claude after a prior discussion on September 10, 2026. The client is learning how to interact with the AI interface, including viewing progress and interpreting “artifacts.” Christi guides the client through the interface and offers tips to improve AI performance, highlighting her journey from disorganization due to heavy workload to high efficiency through AI automation for manual tasks and meeting management, which saved her substantial time. ## Pain Points The client aims to save time on manual, repetitive tasks that contribute to disorganization. While metrics are not detailed here, the core issue is the time drain from tasks that could be automated. Christi’s reflection resonates: she was going in “50 million directions all at once” and was “disorganized, couldn’t keep track of things” due to an overloaded plate. The client seeks to reclaim “15, 20 minutes a day, two, three hours a week, 20 hours a month.” Despite its power, the AI stack can have technical glitches and needs specific instructions. The client experienced an issue where WhisperFlow did not transcribe dictated text, despite appearing to listen. Christi noted it could be a network connection issue or may require reinstallation, indicating friction where unreliable technology undermines time-saving goals. ## Expectations The client expects AI to process data correctly and handle ambiguities intelligently. Specifically, they want Claude to ask for clarification if it encounters a potential mismatch when processing client data, ensuring accurate, reliable output and reducing manual review. Success is measured by the AI proactively flagging uncertain matches rather than making incorrect assumptions. The client also expects to find and enable a specific WhisperFlow feature that mutes the user’s microphone in a Teams meeting while dictating, ensuring privacy. The client called it a favorite feature. Christi could not locate it during the call but will follow up. ## Other Information Summary - Claude’s outputs (“artifacts”) are typically documents but can also be images or web previews. - The client is exploring AI tools including Claude for data processing and WhisperFlow for dictation. - Christi uses a meeting facilitator/copilot tool that can transcribe and organize meeting notes into OneNote. - Christi suggests the client can accept a HIPAA Business Association Agreement for WhisperFlow to ensure strong data protection, even though the client is not HIPAA-aligned. ## To-Do List - [ ] Provide precise prompt wording so Claude asks for clarification on mismatched clients. - [ ] Investigate why WhisperFlow failed to transcribe dictation; determine if reinstallation is needed. - [ ] Locate and share the WhisperFlow “mute mic while dictating” setting. - [ ] Review the “note taker for meetings” feature and report how it works. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client’s biggest pain point as the time and mental energy drain from disorganized, manual, and repetitive tasks. Possible solutions: > 1. Develop a phased automation plan: identify the top 3–5 most time-consuming manual tasks; create simple workflows using Claude and WhisperFlow; provide step-by-step guides or templates for independent use. > 2. Create a “Best Practices” document for effective Claude prompts, including examples for handling ambiguity, formatting requests, and defining desired output structures to minimize errors and rework. > 3. Schedule a dedicated WhisperFlow troubleshooting session (network vs. software). Configure the microphone mute feature and other settings to improve user experience. > 4. Introduce a simple task management/organizational tool that integrates with current systems to capture, organize, and track tasks being automated, providing immediate relief and a clear path forward.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:51 Hi, Holly. Speaker 2 00:00:59 Oh no, it's it's no. I was talking to one of my kiddos, so yeah. Good. Yeah, we we we're talking baby shower stuff because tomorrow is her baby shower. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:24 She's excited. Yeah, she's a good. She's she's so sweet. I love I love having her here. She's been fantastic. I am logging into your computer, but I'm relogging in because my computer had to reboot last night, and so it. I have not logged. I was in meetings today, but not in that meeting. Speaker 1 00:01:44 Not. Speaker 2 00:01:58 How did it go last night after we got done talking? Speaker 1 00:02:02 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:31 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:56 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:58 I'm I'm looking at I wanted to see the progress. So what I did was I closed out. You you know how that document was here on the side, ah, that's called an artifact. So just a heads up for you, that's a term you'll hear every now and then. So just so that you're aware, let me move my mouse so you can have access back. So I oh, gotcha. Okay. No worries. Yes, and so, yeah, and so I wanted to do that so I could see the progress because if it's so right here, it was like this. So it shows your outputs, your context, all of that. Your outputs are your artifacts. But what I did was I expanded progress right here, which is the the top. Although it's not. Let me click. I don't know why. But if you can click on progress for me. Speaker 2 00:03:56 It'll show all the steps, and then that's all the steps that it's taking, and then so sorry, my my headset started doing this jittery thing and threw me off for a moment. So with the progress, it allows me to like. Like when I'm watching something that's taking a long time, I'll click on the progress here, and then I can see what where it's at in what it's outlined for us that it needs to do, and then that gives me a better idea of where everything looks. And so it looks like it was. Speaker 1 00:05:16 No worries. No worries. Um. Yes. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:05:25 Yes. So these are your artifacts, and you can actually click on them, and it opens up the artifact here, and. In the context of Claude, artifacts are just documents. Most of the time, they're just documents. Ninety percent of the time. Now, sometimes it could be an image. Sometimes it could be like if you're doing, if you're building out something and you want to see it, it'll put it in like a website form and open it up in Edge or Chrome for you. That's also an artifact. So anything that's an output, not just Word documents and Excel documents. So. Speaker 2 00:06:47 I'm gonna take my mouse over to another screen real quick. Respond to someone. Speaker 1 00:07:52 Yes. Speaker 2 00:09:00 Um. Let me let me go back and have it tell it to ask you for clarification on any clients that it's unsure of. Speaker 1 00:09:13 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:09:52 Yes. Um. Actually, say put in there just a little. This is what I would do. Uh, put in there that if it feels like a client may be mismatched, sometimes you got to spell it out a little deeper. Speaker 2 00:10:51 Oh , Just a heads up. I turned on Facilitator just because I wanted to use Copilot for something, and so it's on in the meeting. But just so that you're aware, Facilitator. I'll explain that in a moment. I just, just in case you saw it pop up, I just wanted to. Give you a hint. Speaker 2 00:11:40 To have it, if it if it's if it questions any of the clients, as far as like I don't know how to word it well, but if it has any questions about clients that may be matching or mis or could be a mismatch, to ask you to clarify that client. Speaker 2 00:12:16 It Does. It does. It's been a long. Sorry, my headsets started falling off me. It's it's been around a lot longer than people understand, but the concept of what it can do now versus what it could do two years ago has been hugely eye opening. Yeah. Yes, and it's it is it's gotten to be fantastic, but it's also gotten to where it's saving time, because you remember when you first met me, I was going 50 million directions all at once, and I I was disorganized, couldn't keep track of things just because I had a lot on my plate, and. Speaker 2 00:13:08 The person I am now, everything's organized. My meetings are transcribed and filed into my OneNote much better than me trying to do it personally. Like, it has opened up a lot of time for me. Speaker 1 00:13:18 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:13:37 Yes. You know, there's a question I didn't ask you because you had already clarified your the answer to me. But the question I ask other clients when I jump in with them is, what what would make your life better if you could save some time? What are those easy things? And you had already given it to me. And yeah, it's it's things like this that are saving 15, 20 minutes a day, two, three hours a week, 20 hours a month, whatever. Speaker 2 00:14:08 Like, I'm getting more and more organized because of it. Because a lot of a lot of our stuff is manual tasks that we just don't like doing. Well, most of us don't like. I've met people who actually would prefer that part and not meeting with clients. Speaker 1 00:14:25 So it's okay. Speaker 2 00:16:29 This is where Whisper Flow comes in handy. Yeah. And by the way, if you're in a Teams meeting and you're using Whisper Flow to dictate to something else, it will mute your mic in the meeting. So if there's anything private, you say people in the meeting won't hear it. Speaker 1 00:16:47 Correct. It's one of my favorite features. Okay. Speaker 2 00:17:41 I was, but I know why I was hearing it. Hang on one second. Um, let me fix that real quick because I just realized I have it set to mute. You do not. Also, this note taker for meetings. I'm actually going to check that out later and tell you how it works. But settings. Into settings. There we go. Oh. Speaker 2 00:18:13 Hang on one second. Let me click on settings real quick. Okay, there we go. And then microphone. Yep. What's. Speaker 1 00:18:24 This one? Speaker 2 00:18:33 There's an option in here that's supposed to mute you, and I gotta remember where it is. Speaker 2 00:18:42 Oh, I also will tell it to press enter when I'm doing things. So, yeah, it helps. Patient, where did it go? There is an option to mute your mic. Let me see if I can find it in mine real quick. No, I just looked in there. Oh. Speaker 2 00:19:13 Oh, here it is! I found it. I scrolled too fast. Hold mute music while dictating. Oh wait, that's not the one I was seeing. Speaker 1 00:19:26 Reader mode. Speaker 2 00:19:37 I have mine set to mute, and I did it somewhere in here. Speaker 2 00:19:42 Oh, by the way, with WhisperFlow, let me show you this real quick. You can't do note taking, but in WhisperFlow, if the new notetaker won't work, but you can view and accept the HIPAA Business Association Agreement for yourself, which is—I know you're not HIPAA aligned, but HIPAA aligned is pretty strong for protecting your data. Speaker 2 00:20:13 So, um, but I'm still looking for the mute option. I should talk. Hands. It is in here somewhere because I just showed it someone a week ago. Okay, I will find it and tell you where it is because I I don't want to waste too much time on it. But I know it's in here somewhere. But I did hear you that time. It might be it might be that I always make sure I'm muted on my meeting too. But I know I know there's a feature in there because they were they were pushing it for everybody. Speaker 2 00:21:20 All right, is that everything you wanted to say to Claude? Sorry. Oh, okay. That's weird because I saw it typing. All right, I saw it listening. Speaker 1 00:21:56 Oh. Speaker 2 00:22:09 We might need to reinstall it. Um, I've heard, yeah, and it could be network connection because I will get that anytime my network connection slow, but. Speaker 2 00:22:55 Oh, for the artifact, you right here. Yep, Speaker 1 00:22:59 Hit that X button. Yeah.
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09-11 Meeting: Internal Staffing Risks at Sharp, Service Ticket Review, and AI Project Updates
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- > Meeting Information > Date: 2026-09-11 09:00:20 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 1] --- ## Meeting Notes ### Internal Staffing and Legal Issues at Sharp - Christi reported that a company named Sharp has a high turnover rate of nearly 50%. - Some employees are allegedly being hired with the intent to identify issues and initiate lawsuits against the company. - The legal team is developing a confidential application to help identify individuals with such intentions. ### Review of a Service Ticket - A discussion covered a printer setup ticket submitted by a charting manager working in their office. - The employee submitted the ticket and then went on PTO. - A technician resolved the issue the same day, discovering the user was not connected to Wi-Fi. - The technician reconnected the device, confirmed printing functionality, and sent a follow-up email. - The employee did not respond until the morning of September 9, stating she was back from PTO; the issue was then resolved within minutes. ### AI Project Updates - Kotzen/Coatsen: - The client is satisfied with the training provided and has requested more advanced sessions. - Christi has scheduled additional sessions covering topics such as Copilot Studio. - Clappage: - Christi is teaching Talia from Clappage to build her own app using Airtable and Claude. - The app aims to consolidate payment information from various sources, moving away from spreadsheets. - They are meeting today (September 11, 2026) at 10 a.m. to continue this work. - Westfin: - Christi is collaborating with Evan on the final component of the Westfin project. - Evan is building his own app within the Microsoft tenancy. - Avalon: - Avalon wants to discuss connecting a software/hardware called "Jimbo 9000" to Claude. - They have not yet signed the quote for the "Jimbo" project. - Discussions about staff training are covered under their existing agreement. - Barker and Carney: - AI work is pending Barker’s transition and a decision from Carney, expected around September 23. ### Training Challenges with Jeff - A client training session involving Jeff and Jason encountered difficulties. - The client (Jeff) changed the agenda that Christi had prepared. - During the prompt engineering training, Jeff stopped the session, stating he did not understand and found it "acronym-heavy." - When Christi simplified the content, other staff members lost interest because it was too basic for them. - Jeff also could not access Claude for free because he had not accepted the invitation. - Due to ongoing difficulties and miscommunications with Jeff, Christi now prefers to communicate with Jason. --- ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to meet with Talia from Clappage at 10 a.m. on September 11, 2026, to continue app development. - [ ] Christi to follow up on the status of the "Jimbo 9000" quote/contract with Avalon and schedule a discussion on integrating "Jimbo 9000" with Claude. - [ ] Christi to review and document the printer setup service ticket lifecycle (submission, PTO timing, technician actions, resolution, and follow-up) and confirm any process improvements or communications needed. - [ ] Track AI work dependencies with Barker and Carney; await Carney’s decision around September 23 and align next steps post-Barker transition. - [ ] Coordinate advanced training for Kotzen/Coatsen, including Copilot Studio sessions. - [ ] Support Evan’s final component for the Westfin project and validate app deployment within Microsoft tenancy. - [ ] Establish a dual-track training plan for Jeff’s team: one simplified track for Jeff and an advanced track for other staff; ensure Jeff accepts the Claude invitation and confirm access prior to sessions. - [ ] [Insert more] --- ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The client Avalon has expressed interest in the "Jimbo 9000" project but has not signed the contract. This poses a risk of project delay or cancellation. > 2. The training project with Jeff and Jason is stalled due to a significant gap in understanding between Jeff and his staff, leading to ineffective sessions. A clear strategy is needed to address the different knowledge levels.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:03:06 嗯。 Speaker 2 00:03:40 Oh, good morning. Sorry, I had you behind some other windows. I'm good. Yeah, I went to Urgent Care yesterday. Found out that my implant was being rejected by my body. Went to the dentist. They removed it, and I feel much, much better. Yeah. Who knew that an implant would cause all those issues? I just got to put it in last week. Speaker 2 00:04:13 Good Morning. How are you? My lamp got knocked over by a cat. Speaker 1 00:04:24 Randomly. Speaker 1 00:04:41 Yeah. Yeah. Let me find it. I. Speaker 1 00:05:14 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:05:32 Yeah. Part of it is, and I've had this conversation with Paulo multiple times. They have a high turnover rate, and people. People, so this got this next part has to stay between you and me, which I know it will. People within are looking, are coming to work for Sharp, with the intent of finding things that are wrong and then suing them. And so we are actually working with with the legal team on an app that no one can know about other than us and like Robert and Gaston can't even know about this. Speaker 2 00:06:12 To help weed out people that are intentionally doing that. Plus, they have a almost fifty percent turnover rate. I'm pulling up the system to see. Speaker 1 00:06:25 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:06:53 Yeah, Speaker 2 00:07:05 Yeah, I am going. I'm. Excuse you. You just turned off my light. I guess it was annoying him. Um, let me dig into it because I don't know this person, and they didn't put a comment. So. Speaker 1 00:07:28 Trying to pull it up right now. Speaker 2 00:07:45 It was a printer setup, and she works in our office. She was on PTO. Speaker 2 00:07:59 And he reached out to her fairly often, Speaker 1 00:08:08 Almost daily. Speaker 2 00:08:16 So yeah, I'll find I'll find out. Speaker 2 00:08:26 Looks like she put it in and went on PTO, and then came back. So it was open for a while. But yes, I will find out. Speaker 1 00:08:56 And he got it taken care of that day. Speaker 2 00:09:16 And he reached out to her the next morning. She put it in. Speaker 2 00:09:32 He reached out to her. She did not respond until 9:01, and then said she was gone on PTO. Yep. She's a charting manager, so she works in the hallway near us. Speaker 1 00:10:06 No, that is kind of weird. Speaker 2 00:10:15 Yeah, same day. Uh, so he had 9:09. At 9:30 a.m., called user remoted in in to check issue. The person wasn't connected to the Wi-Fi. Reconnected the device. Had her print and. She confirmed the document printed, and then he drafted and sent the email to her. It looks like she sent him an email on at 9:30 on the ninth, saying "I'm back," and then he logged in and took care of it almost immediately, like within minutes. That's happened before. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:11:03 It's fine. Speaker 2 00:11:04 Yeah, yeah. I hope because she didn't put a comment either. No, and she reports to up through Darva. Speaker 1 00:11:19 Yeah. Okay. Speaker 2 00:11:33 Yeah, I finished all the updates, but I haven't looked at it since I finished it earlier in the week. What. Speaker 1 00:11:43 Would you say. Speaker 2 00:11:47 Oh, well, I'm I'm running at a Gig down. Because I speed tested right before this meeting because I was checking some things and I'm like, oh, yeah. I put in I put in some new stuff into my apartment like a load bearing switch and stuff like that. So, Speaker 1 00:12:19 Um, Speaker 2 00:12:27 So yeah, so I updated. On Monday, right after we talked, the documents, but I haven't looked at it again since then. So I probably should go back and look at it. And then had a really great conversation with Kotzen or Coatsen. I keep mispronouncing it. They're gonna they're gonna complain to you soon about just mispronouncing the name of the company. So they are they are happy with the training that was provided. They want to have more training. Speaker 2 00:12:60 So, and I told him, hey, I don't mind doing it because I'm working on prepping to do some more advanced stuff, and they want more advanced training. So I was prepping to do some things with Copilot Studio and a few things like that. I'm looking at my notes. Yep, he asked for it. So, and they also, yeah. So, um. So he he asked for all that. He gave me some dates and times. I went ahead and scheduled it with them. Talia with Clappage is. I taught her how to build her own app yesterday. So we're going to be meeting today to continue going over that, and then she wants to go ahead and start working on a little bit ahead of schedule, giving other people access to Copilot and Claude. So so we did that last night, and we've got a call at 10 a.m. Speaker 2 00:13:55 To finish going through all of that, and so she's she's essentially building out her own system that shows her who's paying, because they take payments in multiple ways. So she needed a way to collect all that information to make it much easier. Because right now they're just putting it in spreadsheets. So I walked her through how to build that system out with Claude yesterday, and it's not a homegrown system like what we did with Westwood. I gave her some. System. I gave her some options that are SOC 2, and so I told her about Airtable and a few others, and she chose Airtable. And so she's building out that app with Claude and getting the data all put in. So we worked on that until seven o'clock last night because she was one meeting I didn't want to miss yesterday, and so I had already scheduled with her from five to six last night, and we kept talking until seven. And then Evan from. Speaker 2 00:14:52 Westfin was my he's that's that final piece of the Westfin project. So he and I are working closely. He's building his own app. We put it on the Microsoft Tenancy because of all the stuff he wants to do, and we felt like that was going to be a better mix. So he's actually building and vibe coding, which is good. I'm I'm very impressed with how quickly he picked up. He's the director of something or another. And he's picking up really quickly, so that's really good. And then with all of that, we did also meet with Avalon this week. They want to talk about Jimbo. They haven't signed the contract yet, or signed their quote yet for Jimbo. Jimbo. It is a software, hardware, something that's called Jimbo 9000. Speaker 2 00:15:51 And they want to connect it to Claude. However, they haven't signed that quote yet. So, I. Speaker 1 00:16:00 Okay. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:16:10 Gotcha. Good to know because I did talk to them about training their staff and what problems they're trying to solve. So. That's under the existing one that they signed already, and so that one's we're good on that. And then, so that's all I have on AI until Barker and Carney. Barker gets done with their transition, and then Carney decides, which I think is going to happen on the twenty third. Okay. Yes, Speaker 1 00:16:45 Jason or Jeff. Okay. Speaker 1 00:16:52 Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:18:29 Yeah, we actually had some issues with him. Both Jason and I did, because they I wrote the agenda for them and I sent it over to them back in April, May, and they changed it. And I said, okay, not a problem. And so went by their agenda, and then he stopped me in the middle of the training and said, I don't understand this. And so we backtracked and went more basic. And then his some of his staff that was in another room got bored and just stopped paying attention. And then he's like, " I don't think we can continue this training until more of us get more of a basic understanding of AI." Which kind of shocked me. And so I asked Jason, " Okay, what do we need to change up about this?" And he was like, " Jeff. Speaker 1 00:19:21 Yeah." Speaker 1 00:19:31 Uh huh. Speaker 2 00:19:31 And so that's why I've been getting really annoyed with this project because they're the one who set the agenda and the training items and got me the information I needed to run the training. And then he stopped me in the middle of the training and said, " Hey, I don't understand this. I need you to spell it out better for me." And so I went back to even more basics, and that's when the rest of his staff lost their attention. And so Jason and I had a conversation. I said, "Hey, the people that were in this room, they weren't paying attention at all." And he's like, "Yeah, because it's it was too basic for them." I said, "I agree." And he said, "But Jeff doesn't understand AI." He's like, "Okay." So he was trying to get Jeff brought up to speed. And so I sent some more training stuff. Speaker 1 00:20:57 Yeah. Ah. Ah. Speaker 1 00:21:29 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:21:41 Yeah. I and I will be honest with him. I I've seen this issue plenty of times with Jeff, and that's why I only talk with Jason anymore. Because I go because with Jeff it goes back and forth, and it's like, well, I said this, and then it was like, no, I didn't say this. So I actually started working with Jeff Moore just to get the understanding. Let me pull up the. Speaker 1 00:22:06 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:22:33 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:22:37 Yes, and it was supposed to be a three - day training, by the way. And you and I, it was supposed to be a three - day training with the first day being the basics and the foundation. Speaker 2 00:22:59 Let me. I'm pulling up the transcript to see if I can find what he said. I'm gonna search for now. I know it was on June 27th or July 27th. Speaker 1 00:23:37 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:24:21 Yeah, and this is the same. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:24:36 Yeah. Because we're I'm reading through it now. We're talking about model inbreeding, and Jeff goes say that again, and I said model collapse is the technical term. Where they were relying on Reddit for conversational learning, and so we talked. We were going in depth on that, and that came from their own people. And then, and then we talked through how to make it more polite. That was actually from Jeff's wife. How do you make it more polite? Mine's still thinking. Yours is still thinking. Mine's not very polite. It's just very dry. Speaker 2 00:25:15 And then we talked about because what were using as an example is this was prompt engineering. That's what the first day was was prompt engineering. So that I mean that is basic. And then we had everybody running through. And then so it was basic intentionally. Speaker 2 00:25:51 He asked why Claude was prompting him to pay for a subscription when he expected free access. He said, "Why was Claude prompting him to pay for a subscription when he expected free access?" That was because he never he never accepted the invite that we sent him. And then he said he couldn't follow along, and asked me to slow down and explain it without jumping into another acronym-heavy example. Speaker 2 00:26:23 Is that we were moving too fast through? Hang on one. Speaker 1 00:26:36 Second. The screen froze for a second. Find that again. Speaker 2 00:26:46 Logitech mice scrolls irritate me. Speaker 2 00:27:08 Come On, and then someone else. There was a lot of people going through. Um, because we were, I mean, basically everything we were going through that day was prompt engineering. Speaker 2 00:27:26 He did say it was acronym heavy. Speaker 1 00:27:37 Yeah. He, yeah. Speaker 2 00:28:48 I'm confused on what you're talking about. Oh, you want. Speaker 1 00:28:53 Yeah. Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 00:29:21 Okay. Yeah. Just all right. Speaker 1 00:29:56 Yeah. I. Speaker 2 00:30:21 Do, but not right now. I do, but not right now. Speaker 1 00:30:52 Okay. Speaker 2 00:31:05 It is, but nobody else ever wants to do it. So I just take on the things that people don't want to do. Speaker 1 00:31:16 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:31:32 Yeah, I know. Okay, I'll talk to you later. Speaker 2 00:31:42 You too. Speaker 1 00:31:43 Bye.
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09-11 AI-Powered Workflow Optimization and Tool Integration
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-  Christi provides a detailed coaching session to a user on leveraging advanced AI tools to enhance personal and professional productivity. The discussion covers Christi's custom-built AI operating system, a comparative analysis of transcription tools like Plaud and WhisperFlow, an upgrade of the user's Claude account to Premium, and the establishment of a recurring meeting schedule to facilitate ongoing training and system implementation. ------------ ## Technical Troubleshooting and Initial Setup The session began with resolving technical difficulties after the user disconnected from the call. Christi initially surmised the disconnection was related to the user moving, and upon reconnection, she noted that the remote access to the user's computer was operating very slowly. The root cause was identified as a weak Wi-Fi signal, as the user had moved further away from their router to escape loud construction noise. During this troubleshooting phase, Christi also clarified that an active `Plaud Note` transcription instance was hers, not the user's. She offered to provide tips on Wi-Fi optimization at a later date. ------------ ## Demonstration of an Advanced AI-Powered Operating System Christi showcased her sophisticated, custom-built personal operating system, a project developed over the course of a year. This system serves as a front-end interface for her Airtable database, providing more granular control and a centralized dashboard that integrates disparate data sources. It pulls information from multiple Outlook accounts (one for each client), task lists, and items awaiting approval into a single, unified view. A core component of the system is a network of 54 autonomous AI "agents" or "minions" operating within Claude. Each agent is programmed with a unique personality and a specific task. Examples include: - **April**: A "faux" assistant modeled after a real-life colleague, who now manages the Filipino team. - **Hugo**: A personification of their boss, "Anzor," designed to evaluate new ideas against set criteria and prevent impulsive project diversions. - **Tribal Knowledge Agent**: A specialized agent dedicated to capturing and databasing "tribal knowledge"—anecdotal details like client birthdays, drink preferences, or other personal information shared in casual conversations. The user expressed immense enthusiasm for the system's ability to consolidate a complex professional life into a single dashboard, which allows for high-level summaries with the ability to "click to get more granular" for detailed information, presenting a powerful alternative to handwritten lists. ------------ ## Addressing Email Overload with AI Solutions The conversation shifted to the user's significant struggle with email overload, a problem that persists despite having an executive assistant who color-codes messages (e.g., "for information only," "urgent"). The user described experiencing "massive anxiety" from their inbox, which has led them to work primarily out of curated search folders. Christi shared that she has developed an AI tool, currently in beta, designed to alleviate this exact issue by automatically categorizing emails, creating follow-up tasks, and drafting replies in the user's specific tone. This tool is ready for personal Outlook and Google accounts but is awaiting Microsoft certification for business account deployment. Christi also noted her own AI agents autonomously scan her inbox, filing communications and extracting valuable "tribal knowledge." The user recognized that a similar AI email management solution would be a "lifesaver" for her colleague, Ariana, who is also inundated with emails and lacks an executive assistant. ------------ ## Exploring AI Tools for Transcription and Meeting Capture Christi provided a comparative overview of various AI tools designed for meeting transcription and information capture. She introduced **Plaud**, a HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant physical device she uses, highlighting its different versions: - **Plaud Note**: The standard model she has used for two years, effective even in noisy environments. - **Plaud Pro**: A newer version with a wider microphone pickup range. - **Plaud Note Pin**: A wearable option for contexts like college lectures. - **Plaud One**: An upcoming earbud-based product that will resolve the current hardware limitation of not being able to record while wearing headphones. She contrasted Plaud with **WhisperFlow**, which she prefers over the native iPhone dictation for its custom dictionary feature, though she noted the cumbersome extra step now required by iOS. The discussion also covered the **Microsoft Copilot** "facilitator" feature in Teams, which provides live transcription and meeting recaps. Christi explained that she typically starts transcription for most meetings but only records if a client specifically requests it, emphasizing the legal requirement in California to inform all parties of any recording or transcription. ------------ ## Account Upgrade and Task Execution in Claude During the session, the user's Claude account reached 90% of its session limit, prompting an immediate upgrade to prevent service interruption. Christi guided the user through the billing portal to add a Premium license, transitioning the account from Standard. Although the upgrade was successful, the usage limit flag did not disappear immediately. Christi also explained the platform's user interface cues: a "gray blinking" icon indicates the AI is processing, a "hand raised" icon signals a need for user input, and a blue icon signifies a completed task. She clarified that the "compacting conversation" notice is a normal process where the AI compresses the chat history, similar to a zip file, to save space. Following this, the user began the work of providing detailed, context-specific clarifications to the AI, which was processing a large financial data task involving clients like Susan Kaplan, Matthew Onion, and Bruce Isaacson. ------------ ## Action Items **@Christi** - [ ] Provide pointers on Wi-Fi optimization to the user - [TBD] - [ ] Conduct a training class for the user and their staff to demonstrate Microsoft Copilot features - [TBD] - [ ] Include Karen Guerieri on calendar meeting invites - [TBD] - [ ] Set up a recurring meeting series for Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:00 PM, running through the end of October - [TBD] - [ ] Coach the user on setting up AI agents in Claude and integrating email automation into Airtable during recurring meetings - [TBD] **@Speaker 3** - [ ] Send an email to Christi authorizing the activation of Microsoft Copilot for Ariana - [TBD] - [ ] Implement scheduled AI agents to connect incoming email sources (e.g., Clio) directly to Airtable for automated processing - [TBD] - [ ] Enable "Start transcription" (Facilitator) in Microsoft Teams meetings to utilize Copilot for automated meeting capture and recaps - [TBD] - [ ] Provide specific, context-based answers to the AI’s data queries regarding financial entries for clients - [TBD]
- Date
- Sep 11, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:02:21 Hey Talley. Speaker 2 00:02:21 Um, I don't see you in the call anymore. Yeah, I got disconnected. So I was just I I know you said you're moving, so it looks like you disconnected, and I'm just waiting on you to reconnect. Yeah, nice. Speaker 2 00:02:51 Yeah, I just I knew you said you were moving, and so I figured that was part of you moving. No worries. All right, it is calling you right now. Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:22 Weird. Uh, let me let me take over your machine for a second. Thank you. Oh, Speaker 3 00:03:29 There you are. Oh, okay, good. Thanks. Speaker 2 00:03:32 I'll just hang up this. Uh, could it be that your internet um got some slow internet going on. Speaker 3 00:03:40 It's possible. I don't know how I would check, but I guess it's possible. Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:49 Um, let me check something on your computer while. While Claudia's going, just because I want to see. Oh, and you turned on Plaud Note. Is that your Plaud Note or my Plaud Note? Oh no, that's my Plaud Note. Yours is not on. Oh, okay. Um, let me. Oh, there it is. My screen is going very, very slow with your computer, but that's okay. Um, Speaker 3 00:04:18 Who do you? Oh, sorry, Tali. Yep, Speaker 4 00:04:21 Tali. All right, so I'm gonna back over here. Speaker 2 00:04:31 Oh, your computer is uh, it's playing jokes on me. All right, Speaker 1 00:04:41 I'm just gonna pull this up. Speaker 2 00:05:01 Yeah , I mean it's it's it's slow, but not anything overly concerning. Hmm. Um. Oh, you're you're a little farther away from your Wi - Fi. That's probably why it's just a little little slower, but not too bad. Speaker 3 00:05:21 It's a little slower. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, they're doing the construction right. Where the Wi - Fi is, so the closer I am to it, the louder it is. Speaker 2 00:05:31 Got you. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Later on, we can talk about Wi - Fi, and I can give you some pointers that might actually help. Speaker 3 00:05:38 I'm assuming you're at home. Yes. Speaker 2 00:05:40 Yes. Okay. I will tell you what I switched over and started using, and it has made a world of difference. Speaker 3 00:05:49 So, okay, that would be amazing. Speaker 2 00:05:52 Yeah. All right, so it's compacting the conversation for now, which is not unusual, and it is processing everything. So this is going to take a moment. Would you would would you like to see some things I'm creating with Claude that might might trigger some ideas with you on future things you can do? Yes. No, Speaker 3 00:06:19 No, no. A hundred percent. That sounds okay. Great. Speaker 2 00:06:23 Good. I'm going to switch your screen over to another screen of mine, so that I can, because I want to put you on my main screen, so or not my main, my side screen, because so you can see it better. Speaker 4 00:06:38 And then let me pull. Speaker 2 00:06:53 So one of the things I'm doing is I'm creating an operating system of sorts, and so I'm going to show you what an artifact looks like, not in cloud, but this what I'm building right here. So this the way it's going to look when it's done, but this because everything of mine was on Airtable, and so this my entire Airtable. But I'm making a front-facing system to it, so that I can. I like. I I like the interface Airtable has, but. I need more granularity with it, and I've been using Airtable for over a year. Oh wow! Yeah. So this is taking some stale data that I have. This is not my current data because this is like, this. Oh my goodness! Yeah, Speaker 3 00:07:38 That's so cool. Speaker 2 00:07:40 So this is a this was from about a month or two ago, or September third, and so it gives me wear maps for the day. And it's taking all my outlooks because I've got multiple outlooks. I've got an outlook for each client that I work with, so that they I have their email address. My task list is right there. Things that are waiting on my approval or waiting for me to push, like this one right here. You know, I oh my goodness, Speaker 3 00:08:08 That is unbelievably cool. Speaker 2 00:08:10 Yes, and then so I. I created agents within Claude, and agents are like little AI minions, is what I call them, that have personalities that have a specific task assigned to them. And I have 54 of them, and so this is my agents and what they've been working on, so that I can see. And they run autonomously. And so April, right here, because you know, I within the office, I had an assistant, April, who's still with us. She was my assistant, and now she's the manager over our Filipino team. Yes. So, and I'll be honest, I didn't need her anymore because I built out a faux April. Speaker 1 00:08:50 So this is April. Speaker 2 00:08:51 Yes. Yes. And so this is all the stuff my agents have been working on that day, and then so my open loops that are in my email, and everything that's working on. So this is actually a mockup of what it's going to look like. And I'm trying to get rid of the screen. Back to Canvas. This my task list and what it looks like, and which of you know what client it belongs under, things like that. And then my agent queue. So this what my agents are working on, and if they're waiting for a decision from me, what it is waiting for me. Okay. And like I said, this where my life has gotten much better. Speaker 2 00:09:35 Oh my gosh, Speaker 3 00:09:36 That is like just beyond. How do I just, how do I do something like that? Speaker 2 00:09:41 So this took a year to develop for me. I'll be honest. No. But this is what I've built into it. So as I'm going through everything, as I'm doing my first steps, is exactly what I'm walking you through today. That was my original first steps. So, and you're, and like I said, you're you're jumping into it like fish in water. I'm pretty amazed at how well you've jumped into this. So just be aware. Oh really? Speaker 3 00:10:09 Oh that's so nice. I actually feel, I truly feel like I am not, you know, like I'm just like so technologically challenged. So that's very nice. Speaker 2 00:10:19 No, it's it's true because I I have I had a guy tell my boss Pete yesterday that he found my training to not be advanced enough, but in the training in question. I was like, he's the one who made me stop and ask questions, and so sometimes I have the most basic of training, and sometimes I get to have fun. Like, this has been amazing for me working with you. Speaker 3 00:10:43 So, so great, so cool. Okay, I am like, I'm like jealous. That is so, in the best way. Like, that is so cool. That's what I'm feeling. Organizing your whole life on one dashboard where you can just click to get more granular, but otherwise it's like summarizing. All of these key things that are con like I have so many handwritten lists and lists and lists and lists and it's just like, wow, Speaker 2 00:11:12 Wow. Okay, this is this is how long it's taking me to get there, and I've built this in between being a mom and all the other stuff I've had going on and all the work I've done for Anzor. So, I will probably get you there faster, but. I also want to make sure that you know you you like what you're seeing and you're going through, which I think you did. Speaker 3 00:11:37 Oh my gosh, I I would love that. Yeah, whatever that is, like like package it and like yes, I would absolutely. I mean, obviously our tasks are different, but yeah, to have it like so cleanly organized like that is is really helpful because like my inbox is out of like even though I have an executive assistant, yeah. And she color codes all of my. I mean, I wanted to show you. This is like it. It causes me like it's just never ending. So like, like look at this. Like I can sit down for two seconds and she'll she'll color code things for me. So you see, like we've got like for information only and for you know, yeah. But it's um, I have to tell her to take all the for information onlys at this point, and just um. Speaker 2 00:12:28 I will stick it. Speaker 3 00:12:29 In a folder. I can't take it. It's like I have so many emails. It's like never ending. Look at this. It just keeps going, and and even though it's color coded, and so I can see. Oh, okay, that's. I like I can go down here, you know how we did our like. I'll show you in a sec. Like so, for example, I can look at the urgent matters, right? That she has in red for me. Um, so you know, for today it's this one thing and. And maybe that's what I ought to do, and not look at my inbox anymore. Because I look at my inbox, and it just creates like massive anxiety. I just should I should just live over here in my search folders at this point. Speaker 2 00:13:08 I feel you. I actually have created something. It's not. It's still in beta, but I have created something very similar to that for people, because I'm gonna pull up your screen again. Yeah. Because I have. I I hear the same thing from people. And this is what I've created. It's not where you put it on your email just yet. Yeah, but I created this for people to do exactly the same. Where it's it will go through, it'll categorize based off of your rules. It'll create follow ups for you. It will reply to messages in your tone and your words. Speaker 2 00:13:52 And so I built that. It's you can't do it in in business accounts yet within Microsoft. I'm waiting on Microsoft certification for that. Microsoft has got to certify it. Speaker 4 00:14:04 Okay. Speaker 2 00:14:06 But you can do it in Google, and you can do it in personal Outlook accounts. So Outlook. Speaker 3 00:14:11 Com accounts. Got it. So it's almost there for the business client. Yes, Speaker 2 00:14:17 But not quite. Okay. So. And then I'm gonna. This is this is my backup solution if Anzor ever fires me, Speaker 3 00:14:26 Which he won't. Yeah, I know. Speaker 2 00:14:28 No, he he won't. No. So I feel you on that because trust me, it's just it's a lot. Speaker 3 00:14:38 It's a lot. It's just so much. I mean, this is maybe responds. This is internal and external reviews. These are flagged. These are urgent. Then I have fee agreements. I mean, I've tried to separate it out. You know, for the so for the things that are most important, I think probably what I should do is have her to to probably add one here for the the for information only. Yeah. Just so I could just stick it in there and look at it later. Speaker 2 00:15:16 You know, one of the things that my agents do is it scans my inbox, and it files away. What is it called when, let's say, you know something and you've worked at it for many, many years, but you don't know how to explain to someone how you know everything about a client? Speaker 3 00:15:35 Yeah, like institutional memory. Speaker 2 00:15:39 Yeah. Yes. So. I actually have an agent. Its sole job is to capture tribal knowledge and put it in my database. Speaker 4 00:15:46 Oh my gosh! Speaker 2 00:15:49 So, like, if I hear somebody say, " Well, their birthday is October seventh," it's going to file that away. Or, like, like let's say I'm in a meeting with you and Joe, and we're just chit - chatting before the meeting actually starts, and it's just the three of us, and we're waiting for people to come in, and we're talking about our favorite drinks. It files that away. Speaker 3 00:16:13 That's so cool. So then you can see. Oh, Joe likes to drink scotch, but he doesn't drink anything else. Speaker 2 00:16:19 Exactly. Yeah. And so I've used that to actually send bottles of whiskey to a couple clients that I knew would like it. Speaker 4 00:16:28 Oh, Speaker 3 00:16:29 That's really cool. Speaker 2 00:16:31 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:16:32 So what does he want to do here? You can spot check in Airtable. That was delivery small. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, looks like it's ready to go. Speaker 2 00:16:46 Yeah. All you have to do is say go for it. Speaker 3 00:16:51 Sounds great. Go for it. All right. Hopefully, it understands what I mean by that. Speaker 2 00:16:56 Also, with your agents, when I get you to that point, you can build in personalities. I have an agent called Hugo that is the personification of. Speaker 4 00:17:07 Anzor. Really. Speaker 2 00:17:10 Yes, Speaker 3 00:17:11 And he knows about it. Oh my gosh! How do you? What do you tell it? Speaker 2 00:17:15 That it's a sweet, lovable teddy bear, but Russian at the same time. It's literally just written in his. Speaker 3 00:17:24 So funny. So like on occasion abrasive, but otherwise sweet. Yes. Yes. Speaker 4 00:17:32 A little curt. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:17:34 Yes. So it's what he does. Its sole job is to take ideas that I have and evaluate them on certain factors, so that I don't go all ADHD and run off on another project without getting a touch. Speaker 3 00:17:46 So you can literally train your. Okay, I'm Christi. I'm like having a. This is like I'm like I feel like all you know, like a kid in a candy store, and you're just like I don't know where to start. Oh, that candy looks good. That candy. Yeah, that's really cool. Very, very, Speaker 4 00:18:07 Very cool. Ah, well, I guess gotta. Speaker 3 00:18:17 Wait till it runs this thing. And we have no idea how long it might take, Speaker 2 00:18:22 Right? No, it might take a while. I'll be honest. Um, and this is where I start working on other things. Speaker 3 00:18:32 Okay. I mean, honestly, that's totally fine. I don't want to waste your time, but at the same time, if it spits something out, I'm like, I don't know what to do with this thing. Speaker 2 00:18:42 So, you've actually got good instincts. Let me talk you through a few things real quick that might help. So, it's great at multitasking. So you can open a new chat, and you'll see this one's working still, and you'll see it flash the gray. When it's done, it'll show blue. If it's waiting to ask you something, it might have this hand raised right here. So I'll have five different chat windows open at once. Oh, Speaker 3 00:19:07 How do you do that? Speaker 2 00:19:09 You just do this. You click right here on new. Speaker 3 00:19:12 Just open up the next one. Oh, and then okay. So let's just say I do new, like a new thing. And where do I see the old one? Right here. How do I know it's? Sorry, I'm not seeing your mouse. Where are you? Speaker 2 00:19:25 Um, under chats and tasks. Yep. Speaker 3 00:19:29 Oh, got it, got it, got it. Yes. Oh, so if it's gray, it means it's working, or like it's because right now it's gray, but like blinking. Speaker 1 00:19:37 Yes. Okay. And then when it needs me, what does it do? It has a hand. Speaker 2 00:19:42 It has that hand raise, where it says test transcript. Speaker 3 00:19:45 You see the hand raise? Uh, no, no, no. Oh, yes, yes, yes. I see that. Right. Speaker 2 00:19:51 So and then if it's blue, it means it's done. Speaker 3 00:19:53 It's blue. It's done. Okay. And. I didn't even know this needed my help or something. I think I'm, I think I'm done with this. No. Speaker 2 00:20:04 Yeah, you can just say something else, click something else, and just say I'm done. Oh, right about that. Yeah. Where is it? You see where it says yes, right there. Type that. Oh shoot. No, you're good. Speaker 3 00:20:20 Oh, and is that okay? Speaker 2 00:20:22 Okay. Yes, and then just say I'm done, and that's and then that's all it needs to. Speaker 2 00:20:28 Okay, Speaker 3 00:20:29 Okay, that's good. So then the the hand goes away. Speaker 2 00:20:33 Okay, and then it's the gray circle means that you've already read it, and so you're done with it. Speaker 4 00:20:42 Okay, Speaker 3 00:20:44 Okay, yeah. So then this one here is 2026 EP income file. This is, I think, where we started doing some of this work, maybe, but. Should I keep this or do I? Speaker 2 00:20:59 You can you can ignore it for now because I I think we're done. Speaker 3 00:21:03 So yeah, I'm almost wondering if it's just delete it because it's I don't know what it is. Speaker 2 00:21:08 If you don't know what something is, oh my God, what happened? You're good. So I'm just gonna click on chats and tasks again. It just hides. Speaker 3 00:21:16 I'm like, do not delete my Airtable project. Okay, you're all good. Gave me a heart attack. Okay, all right, got it. And then I think the test transcript thing I can also get rid of. It's yes. It was just a a test that we did to. Yeah. I I think we were trying to connect it to um. We were trying to connect it to the uh Zoom to the Zoom transcripts and so but we figured it out. Okay. Speaker 2 00:21:43 Okay. You do you remember how I say you might need to go to premium. Speaker 3 00:21:46 Yeah. Is it saying I need to go to premium? Speaker 2 00:21:50 So you see where it says you've used ninety percent of your session limit right here? Speaker 3 00:21:55 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, let's go to premium. Yeah. Anyway, I want to do all of these other things that you're, you know, your tantalizing, you know, offer to show me how to do these things. I think I'm going to need premium. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:22:08 Yeah. So I'm gonna what I'm gonna do is I'm going into billing real quick. Actually, no, let me go into members first, and then I'm gonna look and see if we already have. No, we don't. So I'm gonna go into billing. Sorry, that was a little confusing. Um. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna add another seat. And I'm going to say add or change seats, and then wait for it to pop up. Got it. Want to pop up? Oh, let me try that again. Add or change seats. There we go. Okay, and then I'm going to add one premium license. Speaker 3 00:22:39 Okay, and then do we need to remove my standard or just yes? Um. Oh, I see. Speaker 2 00:22:45 Okay. Yep. And so once it gets done figuring that, I'm going to say next, and then I'm going to confirm it. Yes, and purchase. Okay, and then I'm going to change you to premium under members. Speaker 2 00:23:02 Okay, I do like this new purple screen that it has now. Speaker 3 00:23:07 I know it's actually really soothing. Yeah, it's kind of like a really calming color. Speaker 2 00:23:14 Yes, that's a new one that they just did. Okay, so I'm going to go to standard here. Oops, standard and premium seats. Speaker 2 00:23:24 And then it's updating you right now, and then you should be good. Speaker 3 00:23:28 So now, if I go back to our project, it should. Speaker 2 00:23:33 Yeah. So up here at the top, where it says back to app, it's not letting me click. So. Speaker 3 00:23:38 Oh, you know why? It's because this our Teams meeting square is right there on my end. Oh. Hold on. Let me just move it over, and you'll be able to see. There we go. Speaker 2 00:23:48 Yeah, and then just say back to app. Right there on top. Speaker 3 00:23:55 Oh, back to app. Speaker 2 00:23:55 Yeah. Yeah. And then, okay. So now, click on Manage Usage for me real quick. It's this button right here. Speaker 3 00:24:06 Oh, Manage Usage. Yeah, got it. Speaker 2 00:24:08 Yeah. Okay. So we didn't turn on Usage Credits, but we're gonna go back to app real quick. I'm gonna check something else really quick for you. Oops. Go to Settings. Regular settings, and then I'm going to go to usage here. All right, so we're good here. So I just wanted to make sure that it did, it really did update you, and it did. It just didn't get rid of that flag. Speaker 4 00:24:34 Okay, Speaker 2 00:24:36 You're good. Got it. All right. Speaker 3 00:24:39 Okay, it says it's blue. Does that mean that it's done? Yes. Oh my goodness! So that was a lot quicker than we thought. Yeah. It's it's still showing this thing, but I'm going to get out of it, assuming that we're okay. Speaker 2 00:24:53 We are okay. It might take a minute for it to update, possible. Speaker 4 00:24:57 Okay. So, what now? It's I don't see that it's asking me anything, but it also. Speaker 3 00:25:06 Says. Oh, is it still flashing? Speaker 2 00:25:09 No, it says it's done. Uh, here's what it says right here. So. It's just asking you to answer. Speaker 3 00:25:19 But I already answered it. No. Oh no, maybe new. Oh no, I didn't answer this as a new one. Okay. Susan Kaplan. Speaker 4 00:27:19 I remember the other son's name. Who's name? Also separate audience. Let me just see what else he wants. That was Matthew Onion. Okay, two negative. Neither side occurred. Bruce Isaacson. Speaker 4 00:27:54 Anything in negative is a refund to a client or the payment to Christi sends. She usually sends a referral fee to me, but in this case, I sent you. Speaker 4 00:28:32 To her because the court sent me the check because she owed me money on the Bruce Isaacson matter. I just deducted what she owed me from the shoe. Speaker 4 00:29:02 I sent to her. Sorry for. Oh, for the lecturers, two entries are better. They just sent one check to cover both bills, and I was. Too busy to create the two entries, one for each invoice. Link Road is not a referral fee; are actual client. Harvey Newman is the business. Speaker 4 00:30:01 Manager Dave Bos, and sometimes I will put the referral source in parentheses next to the client they referred, to remind myself who it was that made initial referral. Speaker 4 00:30:31 Oh my, Steve Lindsey, Trust Admin is a separate mother for Steve's mom when she died. Then later, Steve and Stephanie. See, okay, there. Oh yes, Steve. Oh my gosh, this is so long. Okay, I'm almost done. Oh, yeah. No, related to each other. Related. Michelle Henderson and Monti Henderson are different numbers. Okay, I hope I captured everything. Speaker 1 00:31:47 Oh, there it is. Speaker 2 00:32:28 Okay, so while you're we're waiting on that, the note taker in WhisperFlow. Once we get it working on your computer, yeah, I'm. I just started using it on this call only because I wanted to see, and I actually like this. Now I use Plaud. Did I ever tell you about Plaud. Speaker 1 00:32:47 No. Okay, Speaker 2 00:32:49 So Plaud is also HIPAA, SOC two compliant. All of that. Okay. It is a device that I have on my phone, but also on. On my computer that auto transcribes all of my meetings, and then I just store them into my OneNote, and that's where all the tribal knowledge and everything is captured. So, WhisperFlow, yeah, WhisperFlow does the same, but I can also chat with it at the same time, which is kind of cool. Speaker 3 00:33:21 Huh? Okay, so we need to figure out what's going on with it and why it's not, yeah, why it's just doing that spinny thing and not actually summarizing or not transcribing. But once we do that, it might actually be able to actually transcribe different meetings. And and these are meetings, Christi, that you have, like whether it's on Zoom or whether it's on Teams or like as long as it's going through the computer, it's transcribing it. Yeah. Wow. Speaker 2 00:33:51 And so my Plaud automatically does that, but I have Plaud as the physical device because when I take phone calls on my cell phone, I use it. Right. Just so because I I'll get a call on a Sunday morning from one of my one of my clients, and they'll throw 15 things at me that's on their mind on a Sunday morning. And oh gosh, Speaker 3 00:34:11 You're not writing it down. You're just okay. So you're just relying, and it's called Plaud. How do you spell that? Speaker 2 00:34:17 Here, let me show it to you real quick. Speaker 4 00:34:19 Okay. Speaker 2 00:34:27 So this is the company. Speaker 3 00:34:28 Oh God! Okay, sounds like Plaud, Speaker 2 00:34:31 Which is like I know. Yeah, and so for Plaud, it we can install it on your computer, but the products I want to show you. So I have the Plaud note right here because mine's like two years old, but the Pro is what I'm I'm hearing a lot of really good feedback on, and I may get that soon because the Pro it does attach to the back of your phone, but. At the same time, it picks up from a wider range. And the Plaud note, I don't remember. Is your offices in downtown LA. Speaker 3 00:35:06 No, Sherman Oaks. Speaker 2 00:35:09 Sherman Oaks. Okay. So in downtown LA, the Citizens Bank Tower. There's a restaurant there. It's an an Italian restaurant. Anzor likes to go to. I like to go to, but it's usually really noisy. And so when we take clients there, I'll record there, and it picks up everything perfectly. And that's just on the regular note. That's not the pro, and I hear the pro does even better. Speaker 3 00:35:31 So, wow, are they both? They both stick to the back of your phone. Speaker 2 00:35:35 Yeah, and then this other one, the note pin, that you can wear on your wrist, or or around your neck, or as a pin. And I've thought about getting that one for my daughter because she has ADHD as well, and yeah, for her use with her lectures at college. Speaker 3 00:35:56 Oh my gosh, that's very very cool. So it's basically like Whisper, except it's also like the thing with Whisper is it's really it's good on my phone, but they've unfortunately because of iPhone doing anti like trying to ruin everybody's life, yeah. Um, they've changed Whisper where now it just doesn't click. Like it has to do this weird thing where yes. You know what I mean? I don't know if you've seen it, but like on your iPhone, it now has to go through this extra step, which is an annoying step. Which I know they've done on purpose to like annoy people with with Whisper, so that they can not, so Whisper can suffer. Speaker 2 00:36:32 Yeah, I actually like Whisper Flow better than the dictation on an iPhone, and I will go through that extra step just because. Yes, I have my dictionary created, so it knows that my friend Mark has a C in his name and not a K. Speaker 3 00:36:48 Yeah, my only my only issue recently with that is that like once it goes over into whisper mode, yeah, then when when I am just typing the, it's the typing is like the autocorrect is gone, so it just the typing is really bad, like really really bad. Speaker 2 00:37:06 Yeah, and you have to switch that keyboard. Speaker 3 00:37:09 How do you do that? Do you do do? Because I I'm sort of sometimes just stuck on this keyboard. It's really weird. So down, like if I, yeah, Speaker 2 00:37:18 On the keyboard itself. Yeah, there's a little circle, looks like a world at bottom left. I click on that to get to the other keyboard. Speaker 3 00:37:29 So it'll move me back. I'll do my thing, and then I press on this to go back to the. Oh, got it, got it, got it, and that is what moves it back to the iPhone. Okay. Yes. Great. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:37:44 Perfect. Yeah, I can't live without my Whisper Flow, especially when I'm dictating in the car. But it drives me crazy that I have to switch back and forth. Speaker 4 00:37:53 Hmm. Okay. No, that's great. Speaker 2 00:37:58 Yeah. But Plaud is really good. It does like if you're on your phone, not using a headset, it will pick up the phone call without it being on speaker. But it doesn't have the ability to do anything with headphones, which understandably, because it has hardware limitations. Speaker 3 00:38:16 Oh yes, so if you're wearing your AirPods or whatever, it's not going to be able to pick it up. Speaker 2 00:38:23 Yes. However, there is a. They are building a new device. It's coming out soon. It is called the Plaud One, which I definitely want. I'm trying to get it. But the Plaud One is headphones. Trying to see if I can pull it up. There we go. Uh, so it's earbuds, Speaker 3 00:38:46 The Plaud one. Speaker 4 00:38:48 Oh, Speaker 3 00:38:49 So so if you use those, then you it just it does dictate. So you would for any meeting that you would have with a client, you would use those specific AirPods. Speaker 2 00:39:00 Yes, and it's not dictation; it's just a meeting or lecture capture. So it records the. A phone call or the meeting that you're in, and then creates a transcript from it. Speaker 3 00:39:12 Are you required to ask the person? Because I know in California with recording, they always say you have, you know, you need permission. So you'd have to say, is it okay if we record this? Speaker 2 00:39:22 Yes, and that's why when we first started this meeting, I said, hey, just heads up, I put on facilitator. That's what I was talking about, and facilitator also transcribes. Speaker 3 00:39:35 So. Sorry, can you hear all of that clanging? By the way, okay, good. I just wanted to make sure because I have a client meeting in an hour, and I'm like, if they keep clanging like this and they can hear it, I'm going to be embarrassed. So you can't hear any of this. Speaker 2 00:39:50 I can't hear any of it. Speaker 3 00:39:52 Oh, thank goodness. Okay. Um. Okay. So, interesting. Okay. So if you just say facilitator, I don't even know what the facilitator was, Speaker 2 00:40:01 But so facilitator is also a really cool tool. Um. I'm going to open up this meeting. So transcription started. So that's the note taker showing that you that the transcription is started. Now what Plaud and WhisperFlow does is it reminds you to tell the other person that hey you're recording. So you do have to tell them, or you're you're supposed to tell them. Yes. But often on meetings, I will put up which is right here. You see this little. Speaker 2 00:40:32 Transcript and started automatically. That's facilitator, and so if we go into chat, um, it will. It'll facilitator. She takes notes for us and does little things like that, and then you can go into Copilot here because we turn on Copilot for you, right? And then you can ask questions of the meeting, and so. I'm gonna say recap the meeting so far, and it's going to because you have we have transcription going. Um, it'll give you a recap. So not everybody in your organization has it because we only turn Copilot on for you, but this is part of the Microsoft Copilot feature. So, Speaker 3 00:41:22 Can we also turn Copilot on for Ariana? Speaker 2 00:41:25 Yeah, you just send me an email. Let me know to turn it on for because I have to have it in writing so I can. Tell the team. Yes, yes, yes. Um. So, and I do still need to do the class with you guys for uh for Copilot to show you all the features in Copilot. Speaker 3 00:41:42 Yes, exactly. And honestly, they need just they're going to need to have the basic Plaud too. But yes. Um. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:41:49 Just. So, just a heads up, you guys are using two AI tools, Copilot and Claude. I will be honest. I Anzor has three of them for us. I don't use ChatGPT anymore. I on the platform for it for me. I use it in training only, but everything I do is either in Copilot or it's in Claude because I like how they both work with each other. Speaker 3 00:42:14 Okay, that sounds great. And I know that ChatGPT and Claude go back and forth in terms of what people recommend. They're like, oh, now ChatGPT is better than Claude, and then oh, now Claude. So I'm I'm it's like sort of neck and neck at a horse race. I'm I'm assuming they're both fine. Speaker 2 00:42:30 Yes, they're both fine. It's just I just don't find myself using ChatGPT anymore because I everything else I too many tools. Speaker 3 00:42:39 Yeah, it's too much after well, and they're doing the same things, and so it's it's overlap. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:42:44 Yes. So I will pick Copilot and Claude against each other, but at the same time, it's it's handy to use them both just because in on my computer. Yeah, Copilot does the facilitator in my meetings, and that way, if like I get ADHD and you know I I see somebody drive by in an interesting car when I'm in the Pasadena office, I catch up on what I miss. Speaker 3 00:43:14 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Um, oh, that's great. I didn't realize that Copilot was a lot was doing that. So, like for example, I can. Do the I can start the recording and it'll be right up here where my mouse is, right? I'll just click on that. Speaker 2 00:43:29 Well, so what I do is I click on More right here, and then okay, I tell it to record and transcribe. I just tell it to start transcription. Oh, Speaker 3 00:43:40 Search. Okay. Speaker 2 00:43:41 Yeah. I don't always use recording unless a client tells me, Hey, we want we want a recording of the meeting, and then I'll do recording. Speaker 3 00:43:47 I see. Okay, but you just automatically start the transcription for sure. Speaker 2 00:43:53 Yeah, with most of my meetings, Speaker 3 00:43:54 I will automatically start record and transcribe. Okay, I've never done that yet, so I'm gonna try it. Speaker 2 00:44:01 Yeah, and since I already started, it's there. But when I'm building out meetings, I will add it. When I set up a meeting for the first time, I'll go back into meeting options and I'll tell it to turn on facilitator. Speaker 3 00:44:15 Automatically does it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So where are we with our friend? Oh, he has questions. Speaker 2 00:44:24 Tell it to allow for this tax. Yeah, and then I think next week is going to be a little weird because I'm working with a gentleman on creating an application similar to you, but. I've got some meetings where I'm going to be at client sites, and okay, a couple two - hour meetings throughout the week. Um, what I want to do Wednesday, I'm open. What is this? Oh, Pete sent that. Um, Wednesday, I'm open pretty much all day except for 1: 30 and. Speaker 3 00:45:13 10 a. m. Oh, okay, that would be great. Yeah. Um. Let me just look at my. Speaker 4 00:45:20 Calendar. Hold on a sec. I don't. I just go to Wednesday. What is it doing? Oh my goodness! What on earth? Yeah. There you. Speaker 3 00:45:48 Okay, let's see what on earth is going on here. Hold for Siri. Oh my gosh! It looks like this whole window of time in the middle here is open. I don't know if that works for you. Speaker 2 00:46:06 Let's do two o'clock, Speaker 3 00:46:07 Two to three. Two to three. Okay, perfect. Let's do that. And just send. CC Karen on on the invite, and she'll put it on there for me. Speaker 2 00:46:18 Okay, is Karen is it Karen at? Speaker 3 00:46:21 Yeah, it's Karen at Flavich Law. Okay, Karen, Guer Guerieri. Yeah, Guerieri. I see. It's an Italian name, but I always butcher it. But yeah, I think it's Guer Guer Guerieri. Speaker 2 00:46:34 Okay, I'm going to show you something real quick in on this, just because I'm so. Okay. So I've been doing all my meeting requests through Microsoft Teams. Rather than doing it through Outlook, just because when it's when I'm in here doing it through Teams, it automatically adds a Teams meeting, and then I tell it to turn it on, and I have the options set there. And then there, I can go in and just hit send, and then I'll go back and add things as we go. So, okay. Speaker 2 00:47:12 Okay, Speaker 3 00:47:12 So so in terms of our Wednesday meeting, what do you think would be the most effective use of that hour for given what you know about you know what I'm hoping to do? Speaker 2 00:47:24 I think honestly, let's take a look at your Airtable, see how well it's gone. Okay, and then at the same time, let's let's start you on getting agents set up within your Claude. And that's going to actually be more of me teaching you rather than you setting it up the first time, just so that I can work with you on it, get you a good understanding. And then from agents, you can start setting up the part where it's a scheduled, you know, upload to Airtable from your email type option. Speaker 3 00:47:59 Oh wait, walk me through that again. Oh, email yes yes yes emails are coming from Ronda or whatever from Clio, and then just immediately how do I connect it to Airtable? Speaker 2 00:48:08 Yes, and so we'll make scheduled agents for that. Speaker 3 00:48:10 Oh good. Okay, wow. Okay, that sounds great. Um. Okay, I think that'll fill an hour at least. So that's that's great. Yes. Um. And then do you? Um. I know you're super busy with everything that you're juggling, including your daughter's shower tomorrow. Um. Do you do you think it might make sense for us to just because otherwise I'm worried that you know we're we're both so busy that just even getting something scheduled is a challenge. Is there a way for maybe us at least while we're getting our team set up like initially and launched on this thing to just maybe have a standing meeting where we can like then that way I know it's like always there. Speaker 3 00:48:54 At least preliminarily, so that I can work on getting all of our stuff up and launched, and then, and then to the extent that like we need to have time for Ariana to get up to speed on Copilot, like she and I can use that same time slot. You know what I mean? Speaker 2 00:49:10 Yes. So that would be great. Do you want to do once a week or twice a week. Speaker 3 00:49:13 Can we do twice a week for now until I'm like feeling a little bit more confident, and then yeah. Speaker 2 00:49:20 Yeah. How do you feel about? Doing it two o'clock on Mondays and Wednesdays because those timeframes are usually not captured by somebody. Speaker 3 00:49:29 I think that should work. The only question is what's coming up because okay, I usually it's so packed. So Tuesdays and Fridays are usually quieter days for me because I work at home, and then Mondays and Wednesdays and Thursdays can be somewhat hairy. So my suspicion is I probably have. That my Mondays and Wednesdays booked out for a while, although we did have that space for this upcoming Wednesday. So, I think it's going to be a little hit or miss. Speaker 2 00:49:59 What about because Monday evenings and Wednesday evening or Monday? Yeah, no, Monday evenings and Tuesday evenings are a little bit hairy for me, just because I accepted something earlier today to do on Tuesday evenings with my girls. Ah, okay, got it. But we could do we could do 5 p. m. on Mondays, if you want to do that. Oh, Speaker 3 00:50:18 Yeah. Yes, actually, 5 p. m. on Mondays I know are always open because she's. I I tell her not to book me past four because it's just that I just have too many back - to - back meetings and I'm just exhausted by that point. So that would be fantastic. Speaker 2 00:50:34 Could you do Monday and Wednesdays at 5 p. Speaker 3 00:50:36 M.? Yeah, Mondays and Wednesdays at five is perfect. Speaker 2 00:50:40 So what I'll do is I'll set it up for the next four weeks. Speaker 3 00:50:43 Okay, that's great. Speaker 2 00:50:46 We may need to move some around when Angie has her baby because. Yep, Speaker 3 00:50:50 Totally fine, totally fine. Just let me know, and we can just, you know, we'll just look at the calendar and figure out what works. Speaker 2 00:50:56 Yeah. So let me set it on. Oh, wait, not one. Let me set it up to reoccur, and then. Speaker 3 00:51:02 And then, do you want to skip the two p. m. on Wednesday, and we'll just do five? I know you already sent out the invite, Speaker 2 00:51:09 But yeah. I can pull. Okay. And then we should be there. And then I'll let it go until not March 2027. Let's go until the end of October. Speaker 3 00:51:20 Okay, that sounds great. And then you know, I'm hoping that if you and I are like diligently moving forward on these projects, that you know, in no time, you know, I'll be better, and I'm going to do all the various things on my end that I need to do to get up to speed. And my hope is that like Ariana is probably the one person that I want. To be able to do things like, but but then I can teach her, you know. Then I can show her what I'm doing, and you know I can't I can't set up like an Airtable for her, but I don't think she needs that. I think she's really gonna need just, yes. I don't know, you know. She might need. She might need. She's actually so amazing, and I love her. Yeah. And you know everybody has strengths and weaknesses. Her strengths are she's just like such hard worker, and her work product's amazing, and she's great with clients, and she's great with the staff. Speaker 3 00:52:15 Her weakness might be like not getting back to clients, like to emails, yeah, as quickly as she probably ought to, because she's just so inundated. So maybe like having an agent, and she doesn't have an executive assistant the way I do, and I'm still inundated, you know. So maybe having an agent for her to handle her emails will be like a lifesaver for her. Speaker 2 00:52:35 And that that would be ideal, because I have that same problem. I don't get back to people as quickly as I should, yeah, and I have to use AI to help me. Speaker 3 00:52:44 And I think for her that would be like almost like the Airtable with the with the with the revenue recording tracker thing. For me is like a lifesaver. Like for her that would be a lifesaver. Yeah. Um. So okay. So I think that would be like you asked. Like what would her goal be? I'm like that would be her number one goal is help with emails, emails, emails, emails all day long. Speaker 1 00:53:03 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:53:05 Um. Okay. Um. All right. Well, it it seems like this is just. Plugging away. I don't know what compacting our conversation means, but I don't know what it's doing. Speaker 2 00:53:16 The compacting will happen every now and then, just because of it. It runs. It has so much space, and then it compacts it to save space so that you can keep talking, Speaker 3 00:53:29 Like a zip file. Basically, it's just like compressing it. Yes. Okay, that makes sense. Um. All right. Well, I'll just keep going. We'll have this do go do its thing in the background. If it needs me, I'll. Respond, but other than that, I think there's no point in holding. You know, keeping you here. And then you and I can talk on Monday. Speaker 2 00:53:48 Absolutely. Speaker 3 00:53:49 All right. And have fun tomorrow. I hope it's it's wonderful and joyous. Speaker 2 00:53:54 Yeah. I'm excited. I did give Pete a heads up that you would love to meet with him. So just just I don't know when he's because he's going through the list. So I don't know when it will be. But just a heads up. I did give him a head. I did. Tell him that you would love to meet with him. So yeah, Speaker 3 00:54:12 And it's not a rush. I mean, we are entering into our our fourth quarter is our busy season, and I can already feel like it's already like getting it's like heating up and heating up, and I'm already like oof. Yeah. So if if he doesn't if he doesn't have time for a few months, like it's totally fine. Speaker 2 00:54:28 Perfect. All right. Awesome. Well, have a great weekend yourself, and I'll talk to you. Thank you, Speaker 3 00:54:33 Christi, for all your help, and we'll talk on Monday. Speaker 2 00:54:35 Yes. Bye. Speaker 3 00:54:36 Okay. Thanks. Bye. Bye.
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09-09 Meeting: Claude Implementation and Pilot Program
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- > Date: 2026-09-09 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Onboarding and Claude Implementation Status - Christi apologized for joining late due to a client site meeting. - The team discussed roadblocks Chandler is facing with the Claude implementation. - It was confirmed the organization has access to Claude. Access will be granted to Christi's team to assist. - The plan is to tighten security settings without causing issues and connect Chandler’s GitHub repository to Claude. ### Technical Environment and Workflow - Chandler confirmed he uses a GitHub repository that syncs with Microsoft Azure via DevOps. - He is the primary person working on the code, using Claude to double-check his work. He is on the premium plan. - Michael will act as a backup administrator for Claude to prevent Chandler from being a bottleneck. ### Security and Data Governance Review - Vance confirmed a deep dive on their Microsoft systems and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies was recently conducted. - The team will check if sensitivity labels were enabled as part of the DLP setup. - Christi highlighted a concern about a specific folder containing PII and recommended setting its confidentiality to “highly confidential” and reviewing access permissions. ### Use Cases and Pilot Program - The pilot program includes 12 users. The goal is to solve various business problems beyond just code. - Marketing will use Claude for market research and content creation. - Other departments like HR and Finance are also part of the pilot. The top three use cases for each department are being identified. - Success in 90 days is defined by better use of the tools, successful data analysis (especially in Excel), increased adoption, and effective market research. ### System Connectors and Training - The team discussed connecting various systems to Claude, including SharePoint, Outlook, and Azure, which are part of the Microsoft 365 connector. - Christi mentioned the availability of over 10,000 connectors, including popular ones like Notion, Asana, Jira, and Superbase. - An initial AI training session for the 12 pilot users was scheduled for September 24, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time. - Christi offered to provide additional, more advanced training sessions, including on Power Automate. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Grant Christi’s team “owner” access to Claude to help with security and connector setup. - [ ] Review access permissions for the folder containing regulated data and set its confidentiality to “highly confidential”. - [ ] Christi’s team will check the status of DLP and sensitivity labels on the Microsoft side. - [ ] Christi will send out session notes summarizing the discussion. - [ ] Forward the training invitation for September 24, 2026, to all 12 pilot users. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The status of the “Jimbo” quote, which Vance mentioned was a separate engagement, is unclear. Christi will investigate with the sales team, as the project has not been assigned to her. > 2. Christi mentioned a risk regarding the folder with regulated PII. While she advised on steps to take, a formal action item was not assigned to a specific person to confirm completion. > 3. The top three use cases for departments other than Chandler’s (e.g., HR, Finance) were mentioned but not detailed. Defining these could help tailor future training and measure success.
- Date
- Sep 9, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:18 Yeah. Hi, guys. Speaker 2 00:00:25 Yeah. No, sorry. I am at a client site today, and I got caught by a member of the leadership team on my way back to the back to my office. So I do apologize. I lost track of the time. Um. Hi. How's everybody doing, Chandler? I don't know if I've met you before, but I do know Michael, and I do know Vance. Speaker 2 00:00:46 Good to meet you as well, and I do apologize for running late. So, I know we're going to go over some things with Claude and the rollout. What have you guys discussed so far before I jumped in. Speaker 1 00:00:60 Okay. Speaker 2 00:01:17 Gotcha, Perfect. Okay, so let me ask a question: Is Katie going to join us? Okay, all right. And then Chandler, you — sorry, facilitator — caught me up real quick. You're running into roadblocks on some things. Speaker 1 00:01:49 Okay. Got you. Speaker 2 00:01:54 Okay. All right. Later on, when we start discussing it, let me know what's blocking you, and we can take a look at that. Some may be fixed, and some may not. But we just got to look and see what all you're trying to do. And then, okay. So we're going. We're going to work on setting you guys up with Claude. Has Claude already been set up for you guys as an organization? Speaker 1 00:02:25 Okay. Speaker 2 00:02:26 Sweet. Speaker 1 00:02:26 And we have access. Okay. Speaker 2 00:02:39 Okay. Got you. Um. All right. So we'll need to get access if we haven't already. I was looking to see if if my notes say anything about us being granted access, but I don't see it just yet. Once we go in, we're going to look at how to tighten up security without eliminating any issues. And then Chandler, are you? I see that you are. You have a GitHub repository. Okay, perfect. And then. Speaker 2 00:03:16 So we'll can if it hasn't already been connected to Claude, we'll get that connected to Claude. All right, perfect. And then on top of that, where is the repository syncing to? What is hosting the code that you're working on? Speaker 2 00:03:40 All right. So once you sync code up to GitHub, is it stored anywhere else? Is it syncing also to Microsoft Azure, a hosting company like Vercel or anything like that? Okay. So you're you're pushing to Azure, but is was GitHub the go between between them or? Speaker 2 00:04:20 Uh Huh. Gotcha. Okay. GitHub works very well with DevOps. Gotcha. Okay. Um, and then from there, does it go? Okay. So let me let me just. Let me reframe it like this because I want to understand it and understand what you're doing. I'm going to show you a project that I have going on and where it goes, just as my example. So, because I've got a couple of these, hang on one moment. Let me open it up first. Speaker 1 00:04:55 Go into Escher. Speaker 2 00:05:11 All right, I'm going to share my screen. So basically, on this, I'm working on. This my GitHub repository for my codebase, and then from here, it it moves up to here, and this my Azure. Okay, got you. Okay, just wanted to double check. Because sometimes when clients tell me they use DevOps, they're just going straight to Azure. They're not. They don't use any repository in between. So I wanted to make sure. Okay, got you. Okay, perfect. And then with that, is there anybody else that's going to need access to that, or is it just you that's doing it? Speaker 1 00:06:16 Okay. Perfect. Speaker 2 00:06:27 Okay. And are you vibe coding through it, or are you coding it yourself and then having Claude double check all your work? Speaker 1 00:06:52 Okay. Gotcha. Perfect. Speaker 2 00:06:56 All right. Good. All right. And then, is there anything else I need to know on that? Speaker 2 00:07:28 Okay . Okay, good. Um, and speaking of that, um, are you on the standard plan within it, or are you on the premium plan? Okay, good. So, just wanted to double check because, from the sounds of it, I'm like, you better be on premium. So, yeah, I blew past premium as well. So. Speaker 1 00:08:05 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:08:14 Okay. Great. That's awesome. Um, I do something very similar, and then I push my stuff to get as well, so that people can use it. So I completely understand. All right. And then, as far as the Claude overall. Is that going to stay with you as well, or is it just the coding portion that's going to stay with you? Um, as far as like connector approvals and user approvals and and how that works, or is that um how standard users are going to be using it? Speaker 1 00:09:01 Okay, Speaker 2 00:09:02 Got you. Perfect. All right. Anything else that I missed on that portion of it? Okay. Um. And then Vance, um, before Claude was rolled out, I know that we had Copilot rolled out to you a year or two ago. Since then, has anybody done any deep dive on your Microsoft systems overall, not just the code side, but overall where we've checked for for wayward files that shouldn't be out there, and checked to make sure that you guys have all the items put in place to be successful with AI, so that you have block put up, data loss prevention put up, different things like that. Speaker 1 00:10:08 Okay. Speaker 2 00:10:15 Okay, that's fantastic, and I'm proud that you know the term DLP. Chandler, I used to work more closely with Vance and Michael. It's it's been a while, and I've been on the AI side of things for over a year now. So, yeah. So Vance knowing the term DLP makes my heart happy. Speaker 2 00:10:38 All right, perfect. Do we need to do any scans on your files or anything like that, Vance. Speaker 1 00:10:43 Okay. Okay, Speaker 2 00:10:58 Great. And then, did you guys turn on sensitivity labels when you did DLP? Speaker 2 00:11:11 Okay, I can have the team check into that for me. All right, I'm making sure I have all my notes down. All right, so we have 12 pilot users. Besides the code repositories and Azure and all of that, what are the business problems that your 12 pilot users are going to try to solve with Claude? Outside of code. Speaker 1 00:11:41 Okay. Speaker 1 00:12:15 Sweet, Speaker 2 00:12:16 We can do that. Okay, how about the other departments like human resources, finance, those teams. Speaker 1 00:12:26 Got you. All right, perfect. Speaker 2 00:12:41 Okay, are those same twelve users? Do they already use Copilot. Speaker 2 00:12:57 Got you. Okay. Do you guys know your, let's say, your top three use cases per department? Sounds like Chandler. Chandler has a good hand on. On his realm, but what about your other departments. Speaker 1 00:13:13 Okay, all right. Oh, Speaker 2 00:13:32 Sweet. All right. You want to come help teach some of my Copilot Studio classes? Speaker 2 00:13:40 I'm always looking for people who can show real-world examples. So, um, what are what are the users primarily using Claude for today besides market research? Do we know? Speaker 1 00:14:26 Got you. All right. All. Speaker 2 00:14:49 Right. Got you. Um, what success look like for you guys? Let's say in 90 days from. From now, what would be ideal for you guys. Speaker 1 00:14:59 Okay. Yeah. Got you. Speaker 2 00:15:29 Okay, Julia, quick question for you. Sorry, my I was I've been pulled in many directions today. Just to clarify, Julia, are we doing training for all staff as part of the engagement? Okay. What? So let me ask you a question about connectors. So. Azure, of course, being connected, SharePoint, Outlook, you know, DevOps. What other systems are you guys wanting connected? And I say this knowing Vance that I do already have notes on some connections you and I talked about, so you guys can throw those into the mix too. Speaker 1 00:16:29 Okay. Speaker 2 00:16:33 Yep. Yes, that's part of your Microsoft 365 connector. Speaker 1 00:16:38 Okay. Speaker 2 00:16:53 Gotcha. All right. So guys, don't tell Julia this, but. It says one session. I usually give you guys four hours, so we can split that up into two sessions, or if you ask nicely, I might give you six hours for free, and we can go into more advanced class, which is what it sounds like you guys are going to need is some advanced classes as well. But but don't tell Julia that, so it doesn't get back to my boss. Julia knows she. Speaker 1 00:17:31 Yes . Ah. Yes. Okay. Um. Speaker 2 00:17:50 There's. Yes. I use PandaDoc. Speaker 2 00:17:60 Yes, it comes with your Microsoft 365, and we can we can connect all that. So this is so Anzor lets me get away with my personal account one because he knows mine is very very secure, just as secure as Crimson's, and number two, I pay two hundred dollars for my best friend here, so it saves him some money. Connectors, we we have a lot of connectors. So I connect N8N. I've got Versel connected for you know for Chandler's because it sounds like he understands. I had GoDaddy for a long time, but it wasn't really doing much for me, so I disconnected. I even have Spotify, Stripe because I I have websites. I use Stripe. There's a lot of connectors out there. I think last time I looked, it was over 10,000. I've got custom connectors made. Speaker 2 00:18:53 Notion is a big popular one with some of my clients. Asana is a very popular one for some of my clients. Elasian for Jira and Confluence. If you guys use that, I'm not sure. Big request I've gotten lately is on Zoom to pull up Zoom. And then I mean you've got so many in here. I have clients use Monday.com constantly. So we can. There's a lot of things we can add. Chandler, if you use yes, I was about to say if you use Superbase, I I use Superbase as well. I don't have it connected right now, but Versel, I've got Neon connected, so because I've been doing a lot with Neon, and then yeah, I mean you guys, there's Shopify, there's others out there, so there's a lot that you guys can do with it. The only thing is we have to connect them on the organizational side. Speaker 2 00:19:51 And so, what that looks like, I'm going to use my one of my clients as my example. Let me get back in. I have a dozen cloud accounts, so yeah, perfect. No, we need to be at owner, not not primary owner, just owner. So in here it'll be primary owner and you can swap to you can add us as an owner because we need to look yeah um yeah so when we're in here members will they can't approve their own connectors most of the time so we'll have to go in and grant access to different connectors so like this client very small what they do um. Speaker 2 00:20:50 And so we can add custom, or we can add other connectors as well, and push that out. So that's why we need the owner, not primary owner, just owner. We'll leave primary owner for Katie or whoever has it. So from there, trying to think of what else I need. Most of your knowledge is in SharePoint now, or do you guys still have it on some on on prem. Speaker 1 00:21:25 Okay. Speaker 2 00:21:32 Okay, so that's good. There is a way of getting it on getting on prem on there, but it's it's a couple of heavy steps, but we can take to we can work through that. Is there anyone we should be concerned about never using any external connectors? Okay. Any confidentiality or regulated data that we need to worry about. Speaker 1 00:22:07 Okay. Speaker 2 00:22:22 Okay . Okay. So for CMMC, this reminds me off topic for just a moment. Vance and Michael, for CMMC, when is the next time I have to go in and do that for you guys? I need to add that to my calendar. Speaker 2 00:22:46 Okay. Sweet. Okay. Good. All right, perfect. That just a side note. I it just popped into my head when I was thinking about regulated data. All right. I think for that folder that you're talking about, make sure confidentiality is set to highly confidential, and then make sure that the only people that have access to that are the people who need access. So you might want to review those settings. Speaker 2 00:23:18 Or not settings, but you might want to review the access just so that I can mark it on my list as we thought about it and we handled it. And then I think that's all my questions. I was scrolling through my questions, make sure I grab it. If we and I apologize for going three minutes over. Are you guys good on time? Okay, good. I do know it's my fault, so I do apologize. When a COO stops you in the middle of the hallway, you stop and listen. So, um, all right. So, if you guys meet with me again in 90 days, what what's going to make you satisfied that the project got completed correctly? Speaker 2 00:24:28 Okay . Okay. Vance just disconnected. Did because Jimbo was a different quote. Did not get signed. And I apologize for not knowing. They. Okay. Um. I know that that was a separate quote. I hadn't heard that it got signed yet or not. I do know the Claude one got signed. So, I will check with the sales team because I hadn't seen that project. Speaker 1 00:24:60 Yeah. Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:25:30 Okay . Perfect. I'm going to dig into the Jimbo one. Julia, did you see a? Because usually what happens is you sign the quote and then a project gets put into my lap, but I haven't seen that project. Okay. Okay. Okay. So we're looking at in the next 90 days, we're looking at better use for co work. Looking at people being successful on how they analyze, use it for Excel and analyzing things. Are you guys looking for more adoption, or okay, all right, and then market research, actually using it for that. Chandler, I'm going to give you my risks. Speaker 2 00:26:18 And I and just understand that my risks that I give you guys right now are just based on what I've seen in the past with other clients. Do you have a backup for you being the operational owner of Claude? Okay, so Michael, okay, okay, because I don't want you to be a bottleneck. And as as a bottleneck in recovery, I can understand that. So, I you are one of the most technically technically advanced users I've had in a while. So this is a nice, nice refresh for me, fresh of it, fresh of air. You get what I'm saying. I have not had enough caffeine this week. Um, so all right, so I do love that. Um, and then I love the fact that Michael's going to be your backup administrator because I trust Michael. Um, I. Speaker 2 00:27:17 How long have we been working together, Michael? Two years now? Three? Yeah. Okay. All right. Good. And then, so the only other risk that I'm concerned about, I'm just slightly concerned with that one folder with the PII in it. I just want to make sure that it gets classified as highly sensitive. And then that way, we are we can feel more confident that that information is not feeding into AI. And even though I know that we have the settings turned off, so it's not feeding information to train AI, I still want it. Still makes me feel better if we do have that highly sensitive label placed on that folder. So that will that will make me sleep better at night. Speaker 2 00:28:15 And so. Speaker 2 00:28:24 Awesome. Okay, and then one last thing I want to tack on to the training. Again, you know, Julia needs to close her ears. How interested are you guys in Power Automate? Because a lot of times I'll hear we want to automate our work. Which is more Power Automate than it is AI usage. Okay. Speaker 2 00:28:57 Okay, great. I just had one last week. I definitely would be more than glad to do more. Julia, you have your hand raised. Speaker 1 00:29:15 Okay, Speaker 2 00:29:15 Gotcha. Okay, perfect. Um, of the twelve pilot users and not including the two of you, um, who are the three most important people outside of you two that I want to make successful? So I have five total. Mark. Okay. Mark Vance. Who? I'm sorry. Speaker 2 00:29:45 Brandon Stevens. Okay, gotcha. Perfect. I have that. Oh, one more. Go for it. Oh, there's always room for one more. Speaker 1 00:29:60 Okay, gotcha. I thought you were. Speaker 2 00:30:16 It it can be it can be more than five. I promise, guys. I just want to know who are the people I I want to space pay special attention to. It could be all twelve if you tell me. Speaker 2 00:30:30 No, Speaker 1 00:30:30 It's okay. Speaker 2 00:30:34 Gotcha. Okay. Um. So what we're gonna do? I want to dig into a few things for you guys. John says that we have access now, and so I. I'm not on the VPN to be able to look at everything, so I got to be on the VPN for you guys. Once I get attached this evening, I'll take a look at some things. I want to see where you guys line up on the Microsoft side with DLP and the sensitivity labels, so I'll go check those out. And then I will also follow up with my session notes from just from now, and I'll include all my questions and your answers in them. So if you guys need to change any answers later on. Speaker 2 00:31:14 Just let me know, and then when do you guys want to schedule the first training with your 12 users? Okay. No, I was going to throw one caveat into the mix. Um, around the 28th of September. Um. Speaker 2 00:31:44 My time is not going to be reduced. However, I officially go on baby watch, and so the next three or four weeks, anything that gets scheduled, if baby was to come sooner, might need to get rescheduled for the following weeks. Yeah, I'm going to be a grandmother. It's not me. So, yes, it's very exciting. So I am. I'm sorry, what did you say, Michael? Yeah. Well, no, they live with me. I'm a foster mom. I I take in I take in moms to be. So I usually I I'm taking off the week that the baby is born. But I will be working from home during the next four weeks. Just so I still will be working. I'm not. I'm only taking a week off. We just don't know when that's going to be. So. Speaker 2 00:32:57 Okay , So I on the twenty third and the twenty fifth, I already have an AI training scheduled. However, Thursday the twenty fourth, I am free all morning, and Tuesday the twenty second, I am free after eleven a. m. and on Friday the twenty fifth, I am free after. Eleven thirty. I am in Pacific. Uh, as early as nine a.m. Okay, I'm going to do an AI training. I do it for an hour and a half. Um. Speaker 2 00:33:56 So I'm going to send this over to you guys. I'm going to ask that you forward this to whomever you want to forward it to. It will be a Teams meeting. Sorry, I'm not coming to Carlsbad to do it in person on site. And oh, perfect. That's right. All of you are all right. So Michael, Vance, and. All right, and John. If anything was to happen to me that day, John is training to become my not my replacement, but my right hand man. I know, scary, huh? And Gabby, who you guys have met, is going to be my left hand woman. So if something was to happen, they can take over for me and do the training. Hopefully by that time, I'm slowly training them. Poor guys. Speaker 2 00:34:56 But they will have access to all my training materials and things like that. They won't threaten to throw candy at you guys like I do, but you know they're still pretty awesome people. Yeah, you know I I like to give away things because that's one of our core values is integrity over profit. But I'm really good at giving things away, much to Anzor's dismay some days. Speaker 2 00:35:29 All right, I sent that over. The three of you guys should have that. I have it set for an hour and a half, so 9 a.m. to 10:30, which I believe is 10 a.m. to 1:30 y'all's time. Wait, you're Texas? No, that's Central. That is noon to 2:30. Oh, it is 11. Okay, perfect. I'm I've got my time zones all mixed up on my calendar. Speaker 2 00:35:59 All right, I think that's everything. Chandler, if you ever have any questions, please feel free to email me. Lately, I've not been as responsive on emails because I've been in back-to-back meetings, but I will respond within 24 hours. No worries. Vance has my cell phone, so if I'm off and you need to reach out and it's an urgent, Vance knows how to reach me and call me. Feel free to grab that from him. It's also in the bottom of my signatures. Or reach out to John. John's pretty good on the technical side. I've never I've never had him take over my trainings yet, but that's going to be soon. So, yes, he's amazing. I can't say enough good things about about John. So he might be more apt to come to Carlsbad for you guys. I don't know. I haven't asked him because he lives closer. Speaker 2 00:36:59 Yeah, the only time I go to Carlsbad is to go on vacation. I'm in LA. Yeah, I spent a week in Carlsbad at a resort, and I do that. I've done that a couple times for vacation, but now I'm a mom, and so I don't get that time anymore to go do that. Probably. It's hot right now. Oh, well, I was staying at um, it's it was up more on the hill from Legoland that that resort. Can't, yeah, I don't do beaches much, but yeah, I do like the beach. I just don't go when I go on vacation. Yeah, all right. Well, um, I will talk to you guys later, and feel free to reach out. Speaker 2 00:37:58 Also in my signature line of my emails, feel free if you need to book a meeting with me. And then if you guys decide you want to add some trainings, my booking link in my in my signature also has a section for training and lets you pull training days out and schedule those. Awesome! Thanks, guys. Have a great week. Bye.
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09-09 Lecture: Claude Cloud Connectors and Third-Party App Integration
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- > **Date Time:** 2026-09-09 09:56:59 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Instructor:** Christi ## Summary In this session on 2026-09-09, Christi demonstrates connecting third-party apps—specifically Zoom—to Claude Cloud via Connectors. She walks through discovering, adding, and authenticating a connector, then covers practical use cases like pulling Zoom meeting transcripts for Claude to summarize. She also highlights other frequently requested connectors: Slack, Google Drive, Notion, Asana, Canva, Monday.com, Airtable, and Miro. The session ends with a preview of next week’s demo (2026-09-16) on using Power Automate to categorize emails and color-code calendar meetings. --- ## Key Knowledge ### 1. Access and Setup for Claude Cloud Connectors - **Navigating to Connectors** - Click your name at the bottom of the Claude Cloud interface, open **Settings**, then go to **Connectors**. - Admin users should use their **personal settings**, not organizational settings, to find and add connectors. - If a connector isn’t visible in personal settings, add it via **Organizational Settings** as a fallback. - **Discovering and Adding a Connector** - In Connectors, you can find apps via **Discover** (search bar) or **Browse** (at the top). - Example: Type “Zoom” in Discover, select **Zoom for Cloud**, then click the **plus (+) button**. - After clicking plus, a prompt appears to "finish connecting" — choose **Continue Connecting** and follow the authentication flow. - Authenticate via email or link a **Google account**; select the account and click **Allow** to grant permissions. - Once permissions are granted, the window minimizes and the connector becomes active — the app (e.g., Zoom) is now connected to Claude Cloud. - There are over **10,000 applications** available through Connectors. ### 2. Practical Connector Use Cases - **Zoom Connector — Transcript Summarization** - Key use case: pulling **Zoom meeting transcripts** for Claude to summarize. - Workflow: The user asks Claude (e.g., “Summarize the transcript from this meeting”). Claude requests permission to access Zoom, pulls the day’s meetings, the user selects the meeting and clicks **Allow**, and Claude generates the summary. - Especially useful for clients like Talia, who rely on Zoom’s transcription and want automatic summaries. - Clients connected to **Office 365** in their Cloud account can leverage connectors broadly, including collaborative work via **CoWork** or during live meetings. - **Other Popular Client-Requested Connectors** - **Slack** — for communication integration. - **Google Drive** — among the most commonly requested. - **Notion** — for notes and knowledge management. - **Asana** — project management; Christi uses Asana with Claude for her projects. - **Canva** — popular for design; connectable to Claude (Christi has set it up but hasn’t actively used it yet). - **Monday.com** — used by clients like Ability First to manage projects through Claude. - **Miro** — design tool that can be connected to pull info into Claude (Christi previously had this connected). - **Airtable** — Christi’s personal database backend (e.g., family budget, children’s info); Claude can query and retrieve Airtable data on demand. ### 3. Upcoming Demo — Power Automate for Email and Calendar Organization - **Power Automate Integration (Preview for Next Week)** - Christi previewed a demo scheduled for **2026-09-16** on using **Power Automate** to categorize emails and color-code calendar meetings for better visual organization. - Requested by **Seg**, who wanted meetings to be more visually distinct and organized. - Christi noted it’s “very easy” and offered early walk-throughs upon request. --- ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] --- ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Clients and team members: in personal Claude Cloud Settings, explore **Connectors** and connect relevant third-party apps (e.g., Zoom, Slack, Google Drive, Notion, Asana, Canva, Monday.com, Airtable). - [ ] 2. Talia: connect Zoom to Claude Cloud using the demonstrated steps to enable automatic transcript summarization. - [ ] 3. Interested team members: contact Christi for an early walkthrough of Power Automate email categorization and calendar color-coding prior to the 2026-09-16 session. - [ ] 4. Christi: deliver the Power Automate email/meeting categorization demo to the full group on **2026-09-16**.
- Date
- Sep 9, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:10 Good morning. Anzor, I gotta double check my chat history. I think I asked it for the synopsis of last night's Reacher episode. Nope, I asked it about deodorant. Speaker 1 00:00:39 Oh, good. It is on my screen, but just know that Salt and Stone deodorant smells really good, guys. When you see when I show you training. Speaker 1 00:16:48 Good morning, guys. I was gonna show Seg. I was gonna show, and I'm very sorry that I'm not showing this today, but I am gonna teach you later. Seg had asked how to do something, and but we're gonna actually talk about connectors in Cloud because that's actually that's been a frequent conversation we've been having with some of our clients. Is how do I connect things within Cloud and get it to work for me? So I'm gonna show you guys how we can do this. I think this week, Talia, as an example, she wanted to pull transcripts from Zoom, and so I'm going to show you guys how to connect Zoom, and then we'll go over what you can do with connections like that. So very first thing, yes, I'm on my personal account, but there is a good reason for that because I want to connect my personal Zoom to my personal cloud. So I'm going to go in, and I'm going to click on my name down at the bottom, and then I'm going to go into settings. And then once you're in settings, you're going to look for connectors. Speaker 1 00:17:43 Now, for our clients, if they have admin rights, we don't want them to go into organizational settings. We want them to go into their settings. If they cannot find a connector, then we can go in and actually add that through organizational settings. So just a quick heads up for that one. In here, you're going to see a list of all your connectors, and then what we're going to do is either discover or browse. So there's going to be one of two options. Discover is right here, and you can search or browse is up here at the top. So in connectors here under Discover, we're going to type in Zoom, and it's going to pull up Zoom for Cloud, and you're going to hit that plus button right there. Now you can do this with a lot of different applications. There's over, I think the last time I heard, 10,000 applications you can connect through here. I don't have that many connected on mine. Speaker 1 00:18:38 So what I'm going to do right here is it pulled up and it said finish connecting and I'm going to say continue connecting and then I'm going to go through and wait for it to go in. And what I'm going to do from here is I'm going to type in my email address. Actually, I'm going to connect it with my Google account. So choose that, choose my personal Google account, and then we're going to give it access. So at this point, you're going to give it permission. I'm going to say allow, and this is going to be the list of things that it can do for you within Zoom. And so just be aware for for companies like Talia's, just make sure she's aware of those of what it can and can't do. And then I'm going to hit allow. Now from here, it's going to close. It's going to minimize that window. I'm back in here, and now I'm connected to Zoom. Speaker 1 00:19:34 For our clients, what they can do is they can use it, especially if they're connected with Office 365 within their cloud account. They can use it to do a lot of work using CoWork, or if they're in a meeting, which is what Talia wanted. She has her meetings transcribed using Zoom to transcribe it, and she can pull the information from Zoom. She can have Claude and she can tell Claude, "Hey, I need the transcription summarized from this meeting." And so what Claude will do is it'll ask her for permission to go look at Zoom, and to pull the different meetings that she had for the day, and then she selects that meeting and then she says allow. Sorry, I'm on my personal Zoom. I don't do meetings through Zoom because Teams is far superior. And yes, Anzor pays me to say that, but when you go out and you ask it to pull, it will summarize the meetings from the transcript. So. Speaker 1 00:20:30 Just a heads up on what you can do with that. A lot of the connectors that our clients want to use are in here. So recently, the connectors I've been asked about is Slack, Google Drive. Those are a couple big ones. A few have asked about Notion. You, I do Asana because I have an Asana account where I work on projects through Asana. A lot of people use Canva. How many of you guys like? Working in Canva, we all know Stephanie does. So, but you can connect Canva in there. I I have it connected. I've never used it. I'm gonna have to have Stephanie teach me how to use that one. I don't like Canva, but you've got a lot of different things in here that you can do. A lot of our clients use Monday.com. Ability First is one of those, and so they can manage their projects through Monday using Cloud. So these are the different connectors that you can utilize. Speaker 1 00:21:28 I used to have Miro. It's a design app, and basically what I could do is I can go in there and tell it to pull things. I currently have Airtable connected because I use that as a database on the back end, and I will use Airtable to look at like I have my family budget on there, I have my kids' information on there, and so I use it as a database, and I can have Claude go pull that information for me, especially when I forget what kid is what. So for those of you guys who have more than one kid, you know what I'm talking about. Sometimes you get their names all mixed up. Okay. Any questions about that? Sorry, I'm laughing at Juno's Asana statement. I do like Asana. All right. If you guys later, what I'm going to do. Seg had asked me how I get Power Automate to. Speaker 1 00:22:25 Help me categorize my emails and my meetings so that my meetings are more colorful, and so I will show that to you guys next week. All right, and if you guys want to learn about it beforehand, just let me know and I'll show you how to do it. It's very easy. Miguel, up active. Speaker 2 00:29:16 Thank you.
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09-08 Meeting: Transition to DocuSign for Equipment Forms and Help Desk Ticket Integration
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- > Date: 2026-09-08 13:27:19 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### Transitioning Equipment Forms from Paper to Digital - Speaker 1 announced the discontinuation of paper forms for most equipment. - Paper forms should no longer be used for items like mice, keyboards, and docking stations. - Forms for cell phones and laptops are still required. - Speaker 2 noted that HR recently requested documentation for a former user's cell phone, highlighting the need for proper records. - The group confirmed that forms are currently only used for laptops and cell phones. ### Implementing DocuSign for Digital Forms - Speaker 1 plans to move the existing forms for phones and computers into DocuSign. - The goal is to have the digital forms signed via DocuSign and automatically attached to help desk tickets. - This change is necessary to meet auditing requirements, which mandate that documentation is stored within the ticketing system. - Speaker 2 confirmed they have the digital blank forms and will send them to Speaker 1. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 2] to send the blank digital forms for phones and computers to [Speaker 1]. - [ ] [Speaker 1] to integrate the forms into DocuSign and configure the workflow. - [ ] [Speaker 1] to set up automatic CC to the help desk and ensure signed forms are attached to tickets. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The exact deadline for implementing the DocuSign process was not specified. A target date for transitioning from paper to digital forms should be established.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi. What's Charl doing? Hello. Can you hear me? Yes. Hello. There you are. What is Charl doing? Speaker 2 00:00:32 Oh, he just he just reached out to Robert a lot. Speaker 1 00:00:35 Robert, what's Charl doing to you? Oh, he can't hear you. No. Speaker 2 00:00:44 Robert, Speaker 1 00:00:56 Hello. There you are. So what's Charl doing? Speaker 2 00:00:59 I was like, yeah, he just hits the circle. Every day about the ticket, like he's just doing his job. But I talk to him every morning now. It's okay. What we do, what we do. I know that's why he's just doing his job. Speaker 1 00:01:15 Yeah, yeah, I trained him well. Um, okay, so here's the deal. You know those paper forms you guys keep filling out for equipment and stuff. Yeah. Throw those away. Speaker 1 00:01:33 What do you mean? Speaker 2 00:01:34 That's our documentation. Speaker 1 00:01:36 No more paper forms for anything other than computers. Speaker 2 00:01:39 You know that's gonna be a problem because HR just came to me the other day with a ticket asking me for a former user's documentation for because they wanted to see the cell phone that they signed for. Speaker 1 00:01:55 Cell phone is okay. Mice, keyboards, all of that, no. Speaker 2 00:02:01 Yeah, we don't do we don't do that for that no more. You told us not to. Yeah, you told us not to. Yeah, it's only laptops and cell phones. Laptops and cell phones. Speaker 1 00:02:08 We do docking stations. Yeah, we're gonna get rid of docking stations. Docking stations are off the list. Speaker 2 00:02:13 We're not gonna do docking stations. No, no problem. Speaker 1 00:02:16 But here's the deal. I want I need you guys to resend me that form that you're using for for the phones and for the computers. I need to get that into DocuSign today. Speaker 1 00:02:31 So that you guys can send that out. Speaker 2 00:02:32 All right, that'll work better for us. That'll be easier for us. Speaker 1 00:02:37 Yeah. So we're we're gonna just use paper form. We're not gonna use paper forms. We're going digital because I I'd rather see that attached to tickets so that we can just pull it that way. Because if if we get audited, we have to pull it from a ticket because that's one of the requirements. Is it's in a ticketing system. So. Speaker 1 00:03:02 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:03:02 I have the I have the form digital is just not signed on the computer. Speaker 1 00:03:08 Yeah, send me the digital blank forms, and I'll put them in DocuSign, and then the way it'll work is it'll go through DocuSign, and then it will carbon copy the help desk, so it gets attached to a ticket. Sweet. No problem. No problem. All right. Thanks. Speaker 2 00:03:26 You're. Speaker 1 00:03:31 Welcome. Bye.
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09-08 Lecture: Options for Youth Day Online Program Orientation
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- Date Time: 2026-09-08 14:01:19 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary This lecture is a virtual orientation for new students and their parents enrolling in the Options for Youth Day online program. The host, Nicole (Miss Nikki), along with her team members Aida and Claudia, welcomes the families and outlines the program's structure, expectations, and resources. Key points include the use of the Edmentum platform for all coursework, the credit system where one course equals five units and one unit equals one credit, and the requirement to complete five units per month. The program is year-round, running from July 2026 to June 2027. The orientation covers student expectations such as attendance at virtual meetings, dedicating 4–6 hours daily to schoolwork, and policies for excused absences. It also highlights numerous free resources available, including tutoring, counseling services from a school social worker (Miss Magnolia), career guidance from a post-secondary counselor (Miss Erica), and extracurricular activities like international travel, sports, and school dances. The session introduces Miss Josie, the career pathways coordinator, who explains the WIOA partnership, work permits, and the requirement for students to attend a workforce readiness activity within their first 30 days. The orientation concludes with instructions for students to fill out a Google form to receive their teacher’s Zoom link for a follow-up meeting scheduled for that afternoon at 3:00 PM or 3:30 PM. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Program Overview and Structure - **Welcome and Introduction** - The orientation is for the Options for Youth Day program. The host is Nicole (Miss Nikki), an online center coordinator. - Other team members introduced are Miss Aida (online center coordinator for Duarte) and Miss Claudia (TLC coordinator who handles transcripts). - The team works together to ensure a smooth and efficient enrollment process for students. - The program serves students who aim to graduate with the program or use it for a short period before returning to a traditional high school. - **Meeting Guidelines** - Cameras are required to be on for the entire virtual orientation to confirm parent and student attendance. - The meeting is in “focus mode,” meaning participants can only see the hosts and not other families. - Students are asked to display their first and last names. - A safety rule is mentioned: if driving, participants must pull over. - Participants are required to stay for the entire orientation, which is expected to last no more than 20 minutes. - **Blended Learning Program** - The program uses several innovative teaching methods, including small group classes, independent study, online courses, and one-on-one support. - It offers flexibility to complete schoolwork at home, which requires responsible time management. - **Coursework and Credit System** - All coursework is completed in a platform called Edmentum (EDM), which is the student’s “one-stop shop” for tutorials, discussion posts, tests, and unit activities. - One course consists of five units and is worth up to five credits on the official transcript. - One unit equals one credit. - All work must be completed, free of plagiarism, and passed with a score of 70% or higher. - **Academic Pace and Graduation** - Grade levels are determined by total credits earned and remain the same until the next school year. - School months are four weeks long. - Students are required to complete a minimum of five units per month, which equates to roughly two or more units per week. - Students can complete up to ten units per month. - At the rate of ten units per month, a student can complete a full year of school in just six months. - **School Year and Schedule** - The program is year-round. The current school year started in July 2026 and will continue until June 2027. - Students will have holidays off, and the assignment of curriculum during holidays is at the discretion of the homeroom teacher. - The school is open Monday through Friday and closes for one hour each day for lunch. - **Transcripts** - Unofficial transcripts should be sent to Miss Claudia. - If unavailable, Claudia will request official transcripts from the student’s previous school, which typically takes 24 to 48 hours. This ensures students are placed in the correct grade level. ### 2. Student Expectations and Support - **Attendance and Communication** - Students must attend all scheduled Zoom appointments with their homeroom teacher, which occur at least twice a week at specific times. - Punctuality is emphasized; being more than 10 minutes late for an appointment may result in an unexcused absence. - To excuse an absence, parents or students (if 18+) must contact the homeroom teacher directly via text, email, or phone call. - Students are expected to respond to emails, phone calls, and text messages from staff. - **Time Commitment** - Students are expected to dedicate four to six hours per day, Monday through Friday, to their coursework. - For overachievers or those wanting to graduate quickly, working on weekends is also permitted. - **State Testing** - As an accredited program, state testing is mandatory for all students. Information will be provided by the homeroom teacher when it becomes available. - **Academic Integrity** - All work must be completed in the student’s own words. - Plagiarism will lead to lowered grades and additional time spent correcting assignments. - **Technology Support** - Students who need a Chromebook or a hotspot (due to lack of a working computer or poor internet) can request one by putting their name in the chat. - A form must be completed with a current home address. - Devices are not shipped to P.O. boxes or FedEx pickup locations. - **Additional Support Services (Free)** - **Tutoring:** Free tutoring is available. - **Teacher Support:** Students can schedule extra office hours with their homeroom teacher. - **Study Halls:** These are offered as an additional support resource. - **Direct Instruction Courses:** These courses allow students to earn credits at an expedited rate, which is beneficial for students who have fallen behind. Students must sign up for these courses. - **Parental Involvement** - Parental support is described as “crucial” for student success. - Parents are encouraged to maintain communication with teachers, who have direct phone lines and email addresses. - Parents are also encouraged to follow the school’s social media to stay updated on available opportunities. ### 3. Extracurriculars and Post-Secondary Planning - **Travel Opportunities** - The program offers experiential learning trips through a partnership with Pathways Travels. - All trips are paid for by the program, covering room, board, and chaperones. Parents only need to provide a passport for international travel. - Domestic trip destinations mentioned include a ranch in Colorado, a farm in Northern California, Washington, D.C., and New York. - International trip destinations mentioned for the following year are Japan and Italy. - **Activities and Events** - Athletic programs and esports are available. - The school organizes field trips, traditional school dances, and graduation ceremonies where students can walk across a stage. - **Post-Secondary and Career Readiness** - The program has a college and career readiness focus to prepare students for college (community or university) or the workforce. - This is achieved through one of three options: completing an “E2G guide,” participating in dual enrollment, or participating in Career Technical Education (CTE) programs. Only one option is required. - **Counseling and Social Work** - **Miss Erica (Post-Secondary Counselor):** Assists with graduation planning, college and dual enrollment, career exploration, transcript reviews, and provides one-on-one support. - **Miss Magnolia (School Social Worker):** Helps families access resources like food pantries, toiletries, housing, and county benefits. She also provides counseling services and therapy. - **Miss Celine (Education Partner Liaison):** Assists students with researching community resources and offers tutoring sessions. - **Career Pathways and WIOA** - The school is a WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) partner, providing students with workforce readiness skills. - **Miss Josie (Career Pathways Coordinator):** Is the point person for work permits, job readiness support (applications, interview practice), and information on work experience and internship opportunities for students over 18. - **Workforce Readiness Activities (WRAs):** Students are required to attend at least one WRA workshop within their first 30 days of enrollment. - **Career Paths:** All students are on one of six career paths. Students were asked to state their career interests in the chat to update their profiles. - **YoWat Youth Work Center:** A workforce partner in Los Angeles City that provides internships and paid work experience. Miss Josie refers interested students to this program. ### 4. Next Steps After Orientation - **Teacher’s Virtual Orientation and Access** - Students will attend their teacher’s virtual orientation later on the same day (September 8, 2026) at either 3:00 PM or 3:30 PM. - During this meeting, students will receive their Edmentum login credentials and specific details about their virtual meeting schedule with their teacher. - A Google form was provided in the chat for one person per family to complete. After completion, the host (Nicole) calls out the student’s name, dismissing them from the orientation. - An email with the Zoom link for the teacher’s orientation is sent within 1–3 minutes of dismissal. - **Process for Students 18+** - Students aged 18 and over (like Ladania) meet with Miss Josie in a breakout room after completing the form to discuss WIOA opportunities before being dismissed. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Complete the New Student Google form provided in the chat during the orientation. - [ ] 2. Check email within 1–3 minutes after dismissal for the teacher’s virtual orientation Zoom link. - [ ] 3. Attend the mandatory teacher’s virtual orientation at 3:00 PM or 3:30 PM on September 8, 2026. - [ ] 4. If a Chromebook or hotspot is needed, ensure the request form is completed with a valid home address. - [ ] 5. Send unofficial transcripts to Miss Claudia if not already done. - [ ] 6. Attend at least one Workforce Readiness Activity (WRA) workshop within the first 30 days of enrollment. - [ ] 7. Regularly check the new school email account for Google Calendar invites, newsletters, and important information. - [ ] 8. Students interested in work experience through the YoWat program should follow the instructions in the follow-up email from Miss Josie. - [ ] 9. During the teacher orientation, discuss and sign up for Direct Instruction courses if interested in accelerated credit attainment.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Yes, Speaker 2 00:00:02 Please. You let a let more in. Speaker 1 00:00:07 Nicole, can you be co - host or co - hostess? Yes, thank you. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Is it raining where everyone is? It's not here. Yes, it's raining. It was raining a little bit. Speaker 3 00:00:25 Here in the valley. Hello. Speaker 1 00:00:29 Hi, hi! I feel like we're on our own, like personal TV show. I love it. I don't know. You know how like they do the video thing? I don't know. Oh, Claudia, let me make you close. Okay. All right, cool. All right. Thank you all for joining us. So let's go ahead and get started. I believe. Let me actually start marking attendance down really quick. So I have. Ladania, thank you for joining us. Please ensure your cameras on, hun. I also have. I'm assuming Miss Lisa is with Jalisa, right? I'm here. All right, got you. Thank you. I see you. Thank you. And then I see Christy Brown, so I'm assuming that's for Christian. No. Speaker 4 00:01:17 And Miss Jean? I'm for Ladania. Speaker 1 00:01:20 Oh, you're for Ladania. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And then I have Miss Marina here for Angelina. Hello, hello. Hi. Hello, hello. Speaker 3 00:01:28 I'm here. Speaker 1 00:01:29 Hi. And then I have Mr. John. And is it Tigran? Yes, yes. Hi. Tigran? Okay. I have Tigran. Oh wait, I have Tigran and Angelica. Okay. And then I have Christian. Where's Christian? Oh, Christian. Okay. Sorry about that. All right, I think we got a full house, so let's go ahead and get it started because I don't want to take too much time. It's raining and I want to get back to my work and drink my coffee. Okay, so let's get started. Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen, and our lovely students for joining us for our Options for Youth Day Orientation. I will be your host, Nicole. Speaker 1 00:02:13 Please feel free to call me Miss Nikki. I have assisted some of you families with your online registration to get you into our online program, which is super duper exciting, right? Alongside of me, I have Miss Aida. She's also one of our online center coordinators for Duarte and our lovely TLC Miss Claudia, who is also our coordinator, and she assists every one of you here with your Duarte, with your with your transcripts, entering all that and all those numbers. So. We work together as a team to get each and every one of you in effectively, smoothly, and efficiently, so that your student can join, can start working on their curriculums, whether they're here to graduate within our program or just utilize our program for a little bit and then go back to traditional high school. So we're so excited to have you all here today. All right, so we have some guidelines just so we are all in the clear. Okay, so please ensure that your cameras are turned on during this entire virtual orientation. Speaker 1 00:03:09 I do utilize we do utilize this step so we can ensure that the student as well as parent or legal guardian are in full attendance during this orientation. Also, the meeting is in focus mode, which means you can see myself as well as my team. However, you won't be able to see other participating families. I hope I have it that way. I think I did. If not, I'll fix it. Also, if you haven't done so already, please apply your student's first and last name to the bottom of the screen. If you haven't, if so, we can make sure. We utilize that as a verification for your student as well. If you're having issues doing that, just go ahead and type your student's first and last name in the bottom of the chat so we can change the name for you to properly identify it. Now I don't see anyone driving in the rain today, so thank you so much. However, if you were to be driving, we would actually kindly pull over so that we can ensure that you are receiving the information and of course safety is our utmost priority. And lastly, please stay for the entire orientation as we go through all the goodies. Speaker 1 00:04:08 I should be no more than 20 minutes. I might talk a little fast, so if I'm going too fast, let me know. But I want to get you guys in and out, okay? Okay. All right. And if you have any questions, comments or concerns during this whole orientation, please type them in the chat box. Don't be shy. We're all here to enroll. And yeah, let's go on. All right. So we're gonna get started first with our online programs orientation video, okay? So it's usually about three minutes or so. So if you haven't already, go ahead and crank that volume up a little bit, and then I'll be back while I verify attendance. Speaker 4 00:04:38 Welcome to the online program at Opportunities for Learning and Options for You, home of the Panthers. Our teachers and staff are excited to help you discover and achieve your dreams. But first, we want to tell you about our programs and what you can expect from your time with us. So let's get started. You will be in a blended learning program. That means we use several innovative teaching methods, including small group classes, independent study online courses, and one-on-one support, to ensure you're able to find a path to graduation that works for you as an individual. Our WIOA partnerships empower students to take advantage of career pathways and prepare for higher education. Speaker 4 00:05:26 You have the flexibility to complete your schoolwork at home, but this does require you to manage your time responsibly. Your work will be completed in Edmentum Courseware or in Google Classroom. Most courses are made up of five units. Each completed course is worth up to five credits on your official transcript. We determine grade levels based on the total credit earned, and your grade level will remain the same until the next school year. Each unit in Edmentum is made up of tutorials and lesson activities, mastery tests, unit and course activities, and a post test. All work must be complete, free of plagiarism, and passed with a 70% or higher. You'll be invited to our new Student Academy where you'll learn the ins and outs of being an online student, and you'll also be assigned an orientation course that teaches you the basics of navigating Edmentum and completing work online. Speaker 4 00:06:23 Our school year is broken up into four-week learning units. Students are expected to complete at least one to two units each week, for a total of five to ten units every four weeks. Depending on how much work you put in, you can decide when you will graduate. Our program requires that you complete at least five units a month, but you can take up to ten units. At that rate, you can complete a year of school in just six months. You'll be expected to spend four to six hours a day at home doing work. You'll meet virtually with your teacher at least twice a week, so you should be spending time working on your own to make sure you reach your weekly deadlines. If you need additional help, we offer free tutoring, and you may also set up additional time with your teacher. Students have access to life-changing extracurricular opportunities at no cost to your family. Speaker 4 00:07:17 We partner with Pathways Travels to offer experiential learning trips to a ranch in Colorado, a farm in Northern California, Washington D.C., Cuba, Mexico, Europe, and more. These are just a few of the trips that are available to you. Ask your teacher for more information. Students are also able to participate in sports, student groups, field trips, school dances, and other events. We encourage every student to consider college as an option after graduation. Our college readiness program, Crew, is available to all students. One of the best things about Crew is that it awards thousands of dollars in scholarships to students every year. We also offer college tours to give you the chance to visit different college campuses and answer any questions you may have about attending college. We are proud to offer our career technical education program. Speaker 4 00:08:14 To give students hands-on career training before graduating from high school, we want all students to succeed and be able to learn effectively. So we expect our students to follow these rules. Be on time. If you're more than 10 minutes late for an appointment, you may be marked as an unexcused absence. Be respectful to staff and other students. Dress appropriately for online meetings and in-person events. Respond to emails, phone calls, and text messages. This will not work if we're unable to reach you. Always complete your work in your own words and ask for help when you need it. Plagiarism will result in lowered grades and more time spent working to correct assignments. Parents and guardians, please don't be strangers. Your support is crucial to your child's success. Our teachers have a direct phone line and email address for easy communication. Speaker 4 00:09:11 Please follow our school's social media so you can keep up with available opportunities. The school is open Monday through Friday and closes for an hour each day at lunchtime. Thank you for choosing the online program. Opportunities for learning and options for you. We care about your future and can't wait to help you discover your passion and follow your dreams. Speaker 1 00:09:34 All right, all right. So wait, oops, I didn't click the video. Okay, we're back. So I hope that. Our virtual orientation video explained our program to you, to our parents, and as well as our incoming students about what you can expect, our expectations, and so on. And yeah, again, if you have any questions as we move along, please don't hesitate. All right, so let's move forward. So we're going to start off with the key points and expectations. So to my new students, all of your coursework is going to be completed in Edmentum. Edmentum is short for EDM, and that is going to be your one-stop shop. Speaker 1 00:10:10 Which will include you completing all of your tutorials, all of your discussion posts, all of your post tests, all of your mastery tests, as well as all of your unit activities. Now, during your teacher's virtual orientation today, which we already have you all scheduled for, which will be at either 3 p.m. or 3:30 p.m., your teacher will be providing you the credentials so that you can log in and, of course, get started on that curriculum. Now, one course is going to equal five units. So, parents. One unit is going to equal one credit. So that means, with us placing your student in their grade level, we go based off of credit completion. We review the transcripts. So if you have already have not already sent your unofficial transcripts, please please do so. Miss Claudia will be posting her link, her email link, so you can send those over to her. Now, let's say worst case scenario, you do not have the unofficial transcripts. Please do not worry. Speaker 1 00:11:07 Our lovely Claudia reaches out to all of your students' schools, okay, and she gets those officials. It's it's it's time consuming, but she gets it done. So we're able to get those officials going to ensure that your student is placed in the correct grade, so that your student won't be held back within our program, okay? Usually the turnaround to get those transcripts are within 24 to 48 hours, but we do receive them, so the teacher has them on hand, so the per the proper curriculum is provided. Now five units are going to be required on a monthly basis. So with our school months being four weeks weeks long, of course that will require each and every one of our students here today to turn in two units or more, okay, on a weekly basis. Now we are a year-round program, so that means school has been in session since July of 2026 and will continue until June of 2027. With that being said, of course students, you will get some holidays off. Now whether you have completed. Speaker 1 00:12:05 Curriculums to do during those holidays that will be up to your homeroom teacher. In which your homeroom teacher will be providing you more details as we move along in the school year. Now, also because we're meeting virtually and you'll be meeting virtually with your teacher, right, and your post secondary counselor. Very important that you are on time for all of your scheduled Zoom appointments. We do prepare our students for time efficiency, time management. So please ensure that you all are showing up on time, ready to go when. When it comes to those Zoom appointments with your teacher, now as you see, we love to travel. We don't like to just stay coddled up in the house. We do send our students out across the states, of course, and internationally. Speaker 1 00:12:48 This year we'll be sending our students to New York as well as Washington, and if we have some students here that are interested in international travel, we will be sending our students out next year to Japan as well as I think it's Japan and Italy. There we go. Now all of these all of these trips are paid for, parents. So that means you just have your student join us. Now of course if your student will be traveling with us internationally, we do require for our parents to. Supplied that passport, but other than that, room, board, chaperones, experience—it's all there for the kiddos. Now, if we have any athletes here today, we do have in athletic programs available for you as well. We also have esports if that's your thing. We also participate in field trips as well as traditional dances and graduations. So. Speaker 1 00:13:42 We don't just take you in, have you do the work, and give you your diploma. You actually get an opportunity to walk across a beautiful stage, and it's a beautiful celebration if you do decide to complete your studies with Options for Youth online programs. Now, this is a big one, very important here, so I'm going to try to elaborate as much as possible. So, if you need a Chromebook or a hotspot, that means that you do not have an active working laptop or computer at home. And or you do not have the best internet connection. Kindly place your student's first and last name in the chat box below so that we can send you a form for completion so that we can send one out to you. Okay. Now just a few disclaimers. We do not ship out the Chromebooks nor hotspots to FedEx pickup locations. Nor do we ship Chromebooks nor hotspots. Speaker 1 00:14:33 To PO boxes. So once you receive that form after this virtual orientation, you will complete that out efficiently, please, and ensure that you are applying your current home address. If you know you're moving in a week, let's hold off on getting a Chromebook. All right. So please, please, please be detailed. And if you need a Chromebook and/or a hotspot, again, just to reiterate, go ahead and type in the chat box below your student's first and last name so Ms. Claudia can get that out to you. All right, so now here is the meat and potatoes. Student expectations. Okay, so students, just to reiterate, right, your attendance is going to be required during this program. So you should be attending all of your scheduled Zoom appointments with your homeroom teacher, which will be at minimum twice a week. That will be specific days and specific times. All right, like clockwork. Now, for further details regarding your homeroom appointments. Speaker 1 00:15:29 You will receive that information today when you all meet at three or 3:30 p.m. Now to my parents and my 18 plus year olds, if you know that you are going to need to miss a mandatory homeroom appointment with your teacher, that's completely fine. However, we do ask that you please ensure that you reach out to your teacher, your students' teacher, or your teacher if you're 18 plus by text, email, and phone call to excuse the absence. Unfortunately, if you reach out to me, Aida. Or Claudia, we may get it super late, and then it's just a big thing. Okay, this phone goes off a hundred plus times a day. So please contact your teacher if you can. We'll make sure those emails are provided so we can ensure that absence is excused to avoid the truancy. Now, also state testing. We are an accredited program, so with that being said, state testing is required within our program. Speaker 1 00:16:23 So when that information becomes available to your students' homeroom teacher, of course you all will be notified so you can be prepared and ready to go when that time comes. Now, when it comes to your coursework, to my students, you're going to be responsible for completing and dedicating four to six hours Monday through Friday to complete the work. Okay? Really simple. If you do the work, you get the credit, and if you don't do the work, unfortunately, you do not get that credit and you are delaying yourselves. So please ensure Monday through Friday. You are specifically working at minimum four hours or at max six hours a day, so that you're getting that curriculum completed in momentum and turning it in. Now, let's say I have a senior here or hey a junior, whatever, right? And you are in a space where you're an overachiever, you want to graduate quickly. We do suggest that you also work on the weekends. We don't believe in holding our students back, so you're more than welcome to work and do your schoolwork on the weekends as well. Speaker 1 00:17:22 Now we also offer additional support for each and every one of our students here today. Again, these are free services. The first service will be tutoring. We also have extra office hours with your student's homeroom teacher. We also have study halls, and one of my personal favorites, we have direct instruction courses. Now you may be asking why? Why is that your favorite? Direct instruction courses is my personal favorite because it allows our students to obtain credit attainment at an expedited rate. So let's say you have a student that has fallen behind on credits. They're supposed to be a senior, however they're showing up as a junior, right? That direct instruction course will assist your student in quick attainment of credits. However, it is required for you to have your student signed up. And if you're 18 plus, please ensure that you sign up during your teacher's orientation today. And with that being said, just to put it all in a nutshell for our students here today, please ensure. Speaker 1 00:18:19 That you are turning in five units every month, so that you are in good standing within our program. And again, parents, if you're concerned, the teacher is also monitors the work that's being done with your student. So there's a tracker, and you can also track the the timeline as well with your student's completion. Now, here we'll just touch briefly. This is our post secondary counselor, Miss Erica. Ms. Erica will be here to assist you all with your graduation planning, your college and dual enrollment, your career exploration, your transcript review and academic guidance, as well as one-on-one support. So as you're moving forward within our program, you will have a meeting, parent and student. We'll have a meeting with Ms. Erica so that she can support you all at best when it comes to her being a post-secondary counselor and you being our student within our program. Speaker 1 00:19:11 Now we also have additional extra OP resources again available to all, free of charge. Miss Magnolia is our school's social worker, and she helps our families find access to food pantries, toiletries, housing, as well as county benefits. And she also provides counseling services as well as therapy to each and every one of our students here today. So if we have any students that's you know maybe struggling emotionally or need counseling. That's not a problem. Ms. Magnolia is amazing, and she can help you with that. Our second extra OP resource is Ms. Celine. She's our education partner liaison, and she helps our students as well with researching and accessing different community resources. And she too also offers tutoring sessions for each and every one of our students here today, so that they can reach their achievement goals. So if. Speaker 1 00:20:06 Parents, if this is something that you like your students to participate in during your teacher's orientation today, please let your student, your teacher know. Hey, you would like the contact of either one of these young ladies or both, so that we can get you on their rosters and we can get started with that as well. Now, when it comes to the OFY programs, we we also contribute to the college and career readiness focus. So, parents, you may be asking, what is this? What does this have to do with me enrolling my child? What is this? I'm going to tell you. So when it comes to your student enrolling into our program, that means your student will also be prepared and ready to enroll into different colleges, whether that's community or university, as well as workforce. So just depending on the area and where your student is trying to go, if they figured it out, if not, it takes time, right? So there's no pressure. But we prepare your students to make a decision, and we actually help them on their journey while in our program. Speaker 1 00:21:05 Now this will be achieved in one of three ways. The first way will be your student completing an E2G guide. The second way will be your student participating in a dual enrollment, and the final way will be your student participating in CTEs. So only one option is needed for each and every one of our students here today as they progress in the program, and of course that will be discussed with the teacher, parental, student to see what avenue is best to navigate. In regards to one of those three options for the career and readiness focus. Okay. So up next, I'll be introducing Josie. She's our career pathways coordinator. Speaker 2 00:21:44 Hi everyone. My name is Miss Josie. I'm the career pathways coordinator for your cluster, and I'm just going to go a little bit over what that means and what that looks like here at online programs. So. We are what's called a WIOA partner. WIOA stands for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. It's a federal law that we partner with to provide students with workforce readiness. So for those of you who are already working and will need a new work permit now that you're transferring to online programs, I'll be your point person for that. Or if you're interested in working, I meet one-on-one with students to help with job readiness and applications, interview practice. Speaker 2 00:22:25 All of the career and workforce things, and then if you are over 18 years old today, I'll also be checking in with you to go over some of the work experience, internship opportunities that we offer here online programs as well. You'll receive an email from me this afternoon with my contact information and a link to schedule a one-on-one appointment with me if you would like any kind of job or career support. And then also as a workforce school, we have what's called workforce readiness activities. And workforce readiness activities, we call WRAs for short, and those are workshops that we host throughout the month. So here you can see our upcoming workshops for September, and you are required to attend at least one within your first 30 days of enrollment. So in that email you'll get from me this afternoon, I'll have our upcoming workshops as well as how to join. Once you get your school email activated. Speaker 2 00:23:19 I'll send Google Calendar invites and monthly newsletters and just important information. So just make sure you're checking that school email frequently. And then lastly, as a workforce school, we have six different career paths that we have all of our students on. You may have selected one when you completed the registration in Student Track, but for now, I just want to make sure everyone's student profile is updated with a step career path. So if I can have all students now, go ahead and type in the chat. Um, what career you're most interested in pursuing? Now if you're not exactly sure, that's okay. You can share something that maybe you're just interested in learning more about, and it can be a specific job or something more broad like the arts or medical field or owning a business or something like that. So if I can have all students go and type in the chat. Speaker 2 00:24:16 What career they're most interested in pursuing after high school, or I'm just learning more about. Speaker 2 00:24:45 All right, and then it looks like I'm waiting on a few. Speaker 5 00:24:49 Awesome, thank you. I have two. Speaker 2 00:25:00 And then it looks like I'm still waiting on Christians, Angelinas, and Ladania. Speaker 2 00:25:17 Awesome, perfect. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:25:26 Sorry about that. Parents are calling. Okay, thank you, Josie. All right. So moving forward, we've literally made it to 85, 95 percent. You're pretty much done. Okay. So after this meeting, you guys are going to be attending your teacher's virtual orientation, okay? So the same rules will apply. Students, you're going to be receiving your Edmentum coursework, your login credentials, all that great stuff. You're also going to be receiving more information tailored to you on the days and times you'll be meeting with your teacher virtually. Do I have any parents here that are not available to attend their teacher's virtual orientation today, virtually at three or three thirty p.m.? Everybody looks like. Speaker 1 00:26:07 Girl, go ahead. We're we're rambling. Okay. All right. All right. My bad. All right. So, with that being said, um, also I just want to reiterate, no one wants a Chromebook or hotspot. We don't have any names in the chat. I just want to confirm because if we don't receive it today, you'll have to wait until tomorrow, and you won't get it till Friday. So I'm assuming everyone has an active working laptop. All right. Okay. All right. Okay. Sounds good. So hang tight, guys. We are going to be posting in the chat box below the new student Google form. Now, before you click it, I just have a couple of caveats. So the first will be, once this Google form is posted in the chat box, parents or student, we just need one per family to complete this form, okay? Now, once that Google form is complete, it's going to populate on my end. Once it populates on my end, I will call out your student's first and first name, okay? Speaker 1 00:27:03 And you will then be dismissed. Once you are dismissed, you will receive an email within one to three minutes containing your teacher's virtual orientation link. That's the Zoom link for today for the appointment at three or 3:30 p.m. Now, Ladania, Ladania, since you're 18 plus, once you guys Complete your Google form. We're gonna send you to a breakout room with Miss Josie first, okay? She's gonna discuss some cute things, WIOA, all that good stuff, right? And then you're gonna come back. And then once you come back, I'll go ahead and dismiss you. Now, Miss Christy, did you want to be in the room with Miss Ladania when she talks to Josie? Speaker 5 00:27:42 Yes, please. Yes, please. Speaker 1 00:27:47 Yes. Okay. So we can send Mom and and Ladania to the breakout room with Miss Josie. And then when you're done, come back. Then I can dismiss you. Okay? All right, lovely ladies, gentlemen, and our lovely students. Thank you for participating. Please don't leave. Feel free to turn your cameras off and complete those Google forms. And I'll dismiss you properly. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:33:09 Okay , So we have. Okay, so Tigran and Angelica, thank you for completing your Google form. We received we we received it. So feel free to sign out if you. If you haven't done so already, and check your emails within one to three minutes. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:33:37 Sorry, Jalisa. How did I miss you? All right, Jalisa and Miss Alisa, we have received your Google forms. You and Mom are good to go. Did you have any questions, comments, or concerns? Speaker 1 00:33:49 Hey, did you fill out the form, Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay, thank you, Miss Lisa. You all have a wonderful day. Check your emails within one to three minutes for your teacher Zoom link. It's a long form. You're welcome. All right, Ladania, we have received your Google form. Thank you so much. So, Ladania and Miss Christy. Feel free to. You're gonna see a screen on your end pop up. It's gonna say breakout room. You're gonna just go ahead and click that. Once you're done, come on back. Speaker 5 00:34:25 Are. Speaker 2 00:34:37 You able to hear me. Speaker 3 00:34:38 Yes. Speaker 2 00:34:40 Okay. Perfect. Um, just a couple questions just to get started. We won't be too long. Just kind of want to see where you're at. Like, I know you're transferring online programs. Have you been with OFY before? No. Okay. And how close are you to like graduating? Speaker 3 00:34:58 Do you know? Um, this is my last year, my senior year. Speaker 2 00:35:04 Okay, nice. Yeah. Yes, you're almost there. Speaker 3 00:35:08 Yeah, I don't know if like I have well credit wise, it's not good. But yeah. Speaker 2 00:35:15 Okay, so you're supposed to be in twelfth grade, but you think you're maybe closer to like eleventh, tenth, or something like that. Yeah. Got it. Okay, so you still have a little ways. Well, the nice thing about our program is it's obviously like it's flexible, so you can definitely catch up by just doing more work. Um, are you currently working? Are you? Yeah. Speaker 3 00:35:33 Are you currently working? Not the moment. Speaker 2 00:35:36 Okay. Are you in? Are you interested in working? Are you just trying to focus on graduating? Yes. I am definitely interested in working. Okay, sounds good. And then, are you still in Los Angeles City? Yes. Perfect. So we have a workforce partner. They're called YoWat Youth Work Center, and we work with them. We refer students to them, and they have like different internships and paid work experience opportunities to get students into work as fast as possible. Now, I don't know their. Speaker 2 00:36:13 The different programs that they have available differs based off the time of year and funding and things like that. But typically, they work with businesses in your area that hire students, and they you get assigned to a career coach, and then they schedule like an interview for you and like all of the workforce things so that you can start working part time. Would that be something you're interested in? Yeah. Okay, perfect. So this afternoon, like I said earlier in the orientation, you'll receive an email with my contact information and upcoming workshops. But I'm going to send you a separate email with the workforce partners information. So in that email, so I'm going to refer you on my end and give them your information. They'll reach out. The coordinator's name is Miss Leah, and she'll probably send you a text because you'd have to attend like an orientation, make sure you're eligible, and make sure it feels like it's a good fit. They're interested in like the different programs that they have available, and then. Speaker 2 00:37:11 In that email, I'll send you. Um, I'll give you all the like steps of what you need to do. Really, you just need to email Miss Leah that like you're you're interested in it, that your information's sent over. But I'll include all that information in that email that I'll get to you this afternoon. Does that make sense? Speaker 3 00:37:25 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:37:26 Okay. Perfect. And then if you get more information on it and you feel like maybe this isn't a good fit, like we can always meet and um look at job applications, work on your resume and things like that together. To get you a part-time job outside of using the program, but that, but YoWat is that the program that's closest to you, and they're one of our best ones, so I feel like we should definitely go that route first. Does that sound good? Yeah. Okay, perfect. And then, just as long as obviously school stays a priority, and you're turning in a minimum of at least five units a month, you'll be able to work as long. Speaker 2 00:38:05 Just to keep in mind, though, you'll probably want to turn in more than five units because five units is that traditional pace. And if you're behind, you'll want to probably aim anywhere from like eight to ten. And then, yeah, like I said, I'll send you my contact information this afternoon so you can always reach out to me regarding anything like career or work. And then it looks like you'll be meeting with Miss Maria this afternoon. Do you have any questions? Speaker 3 00:38:31 So, not the. Speaker 4 00:38:33 Moment. One question I have is, is she going to be in AG classes. Speaker 2 00:38:38 Most likely, yes. That'll be a question for Miss Maria when you meet with her at three. She'll assign all of the classes for her. But we have all of our students on an A through G track. Okay, awesome. Yeah, already. So I'll send you all the information this afternoon, and then otherwise you're all set. You can go ahead and don't leave the meeting. Just leave this room and go back to the main session so you can check out with Miss Nikki. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:39:06 Thank you. That's for sure. All right, thank you. Speaker 1 00:39:20 All right, you guys. Oh, check your emails. One to three minutes, okay? Okay, thank you. All right, gentlemen, thank you. Thank you. All right, Ladania and Miss Christy, how we, Ladania, you've been smiling the whole time, and I love that for you. Are you excited, girl? Yes, like, and you're just like your attitude, like your positivity, like yes, like. Listen, life is too short. I'm drinking my chlorophyll. We don't got time to be negative. Okay, so I'm glad that you're here. We're so excited for you. Speaker 1 00:39:53 Thank you. Yes. And then, Mom, did you have any questions? Speaker 4 00:39:57 No, mine just got answered, so we're good. Speaker 1 00:40:00 All right. Okay, ladies. Well, unless you want to kick it till four, I'm here. Other than that, check your emails within one to three minutes, and it'll have your teacher Zoom link, so you all can be prepared to meet your teacher. Okay? Speaker 3 00:40:13 Okay. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:40:15 You're welcome. Best of luck, Ladania. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:40:19 Have a good one. Speaker 1 00:40:20 Have a good one, ladies. See you, ladies, later.
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Class Review: Foster Care Shared Responsibilities and DCFS Resources
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- Sep 7, 2026
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- Class Review: Foster Care Shared Responsibilities and DCFS Resources Speaker 1 00:00:00 With their cases and their case management and following through with the parents and everything else that they have to do, that is not that they're not very helpful, but sometimes maybe it's the first time that they've gotten a case like yours, where they have a teenager that they're responsible for, and that teenager happens to have a child of their own, and so if in doubt, always go and consult your DCFS policy. Because sometimes they make demands from us, and we're like, I don't think that's part of my responsibility, or is that something that's correct? So if in doubt, always go to your DCFS policy. Not only for your for your full family licensings, but your regular licensing too. Because sometimes we have some social workers that tend to put a little more on our plate than realistically. So a lot of times, if I feel something is not right. Speaker 1 00:00:56 I will ask my social worker where in the DCFS policy manual just to stipulate that that's my responsibility or that's my job. And sometimes I said, if you tell me where, I'd be happy to provide it. But ninety percent of the time, it's not in there. So that's how you're going to be able to make sure that what they're requesting of you, if you if Feels way out of reach that you're in compliance because I don't want to give you misinformation. And remember, the policy is upgraded, and maybe something was implemented that we're not very aware of. Um, remember the most important part of this class is making sure. Speaker 1 00:01:52 That you understand your shared responsibility plan. So with that said, I'm going to move over, and I'm going to make sure that you understand that this is your shared responsibility plan. We will be including that in your packet because you require or have to have access to this because you're going to be printing it out a lot. Speaker 1 00:02:23 Your shared responsibility plan needs to be signed by your social worker, and it needs to be documented. So remember, the needs of a child shifts month to month, week to week, day by day. So whatever you feel needs to be implemented, maybe you felt that your teenager was going to be able to. Take care of this, and you're seeing that she's struggling. So you're going to come in and implement a little more of your time. Remember, your time is very valuable, and that you, if you are caring for this teenager, you are going to be paid a supplement for the extraordinary care, which is under your SCI funding. Speaker 1 00:03:14 That comes into three categories. You're also going to get paid for the youth parent, a LOC rate, which is the level of care that child requires. For the baby, you're going to get a separate funding, which is going to be a stipend. For the baby, you're going to get a stipend. The stipend comes in different. We we're not sure because we discussed that. My understanding it's whatever the basic rate was. Remember, out of that money, you are going to have to make sure that a portion of that goes for the baby's needs. Speaker 1 00:04:13 When you file a shared responsibility plan, that opens up to two hundred dollar stipend for the baby. So you want to make sure that you are filling out your stipends and giving them to your social worker, or emailing them to her, or getting a confirmation. So once again, how many? How often do you need to have the shared responsibility plan drawn? Speaker 1 00:04:44 That's a question for you guys. You're the students. I want to make sure that you understand. Okay, the department requires by law that it is registered every three to six months. Yeah. Okay. Okay. But what did I tell you at the beginning of the class? The needs that needs change. The support that you need to provide will change. It changes day by day, week by week, month by month. So if you are going to be increasing your responsibilities, it is super important that you draw another share responsibility plan, so that it is on document. Remember that initially, when the when the mom has a baby, she's going to be overwhelmed. her Her hormones are going to be off. She may have postpartum depression. She may have. Speaker 1 00:05:42 A lot of other stuff happening to her body that she's going to be in high alert, and a lot of these kids that do have mental health issues, because a lot of them don't want to take medication and compliance, or they're going to be breastfeeding, they stop their medications, and so you enter some crisis. So we need to make sure that you have the ability to draw a sharedd responsibility plan, and remember. You can drive by yourself with the minor's parent, okay, and then send it to the social worker so that you got you can over the phone or in person review it, and she can go ahead and sign it and file it, okay. The reason why I'm going to tell you why I did this because I. Speaker 1 00:06:40 My granddaughter just turned eighteen, and I was pretty much the first foster parents to get funding for them, for both of them. My my daughter Melissa and my granddaughter Destiny. I did want to let you know that I was having to do this almost like every three weeks, because things shifted at school. Things shifted for the baby. The baby got sick. The baby, you know, my daughter was breastfeeding. She did have. She was bipolar. She did have a lot of. She was bipolar mix. So we had a lot of depression, and then we had a lot of happy moments, and then we had a lot of anger. And she, her eating schedule was so whacked. She because she was breastfeeding, because she had just a baby. She was literally eating like every two hours. Her anxiety was really heightened. And so, for provisional purposes, and because of. Speaker 1 00:07:39 Liability purposes, I would draw a shared responsibility plan as often as my daughter Melissa felt we needed to implement or shift, you know, the support that she needed, so that that way we would both be supported. So, don't feel that this shared responsibility plan only has to be filed every six months or every year. Because if you do, you're, you know, things could happen day by day, and so you don't want to take the responsibility of, you know, legal responsibility of a child that you could have. Hey, this is how you can also have documentation that the mom's needs have increased. Remember, your SCI is based on the mother's needs increase. Okay. Speaker 1 00:08:38 Her LOC funding is based based on her level of care that she requires and supervision and it and assistance. And so, a lot of us, this is a to go for what for your increments. Your shared responsibility plan is the number one thing for your funding. Okay, it has to be filed. You can implement it as often as you need it. You utilize it for documentation purposes, and also for safety purposes. Every time you draft one, you're going to send it to your social worker so that she can file it. It doesn't make sense for you to have it because it has to be signed off by the social worker. And you're also going to put on there what are the needs because maybe the girl just had the baby, so she's going to stay home for six weeks, right? Speaker 1 00:09:33 Maybe she's going to do homeschooling. She's adapting to being a new mama, you know, diapering, you know, what we normally do when we have a newborn. You know, we just kind of like get used to the baby's routine and we're sleeping when the baby's sleeping, and you know the self shared and all that other stuff shifts. So what happens after six weeks? Like, where where's the baby going to go? Like, and that's where you're going to have to make sure that you're advocating like dayshared. Well, there's some dayshareds that won't take babies until like their 14th month, 14th week, correct? So you're gonna have to start doing your homework. So that's the reason why you want to make sure that, you know, you're drafting your shared responsibility plan because when the social worker signs off on it, that opens up for what funding, for services, for referrals. So, um. Speaker 1 00:10:30 Remember the other thing too is modeling and teaching sex and gender roles to our young children are very important. We don't want to cross a line. There's a lot of controversy right now. You know, what's correct, what's not. You know, I had I had a therapist, and I want to make sure that you guys understand that we can't impose our own values or. On others, but I had a therapist that, after having a married for several years, him and his wife were successfully got pregnant, and so they didn't want to pick out a name, they wanted a neutral name, and we said, okay, well, what what's a neutral name? He goes, one that will work for a boy or a girl, and so when we asked, like, are you guys gonna have a a gender reveal, and they said no. Speaker 1 00:11:29 And, you know, we would ask little things because we're, you know, people are curious, and you know, it's their first baby and whatnot, and the coworkers, and you know, I had my—it's a whole wraparound team. It was one of the one of the personnel from the wraparound team, and so my daughter had some, you know, would ask these random questions, right? And he'd be like, "Why are you asking that?" And be like, "Cause I mean, I'm 16. I don't want to get pregnant, but..." I am sexually active, so I do. I have concern. I I do have questions and whatnot. It'd be like I think those are more appropriate questions for your female therapist. And he's like, but none of them are pregnant. You and your wife are pregnant, so my daughter would just test him, test him. And so one day we were having our our CFTs, and they all got on him, even the other therapists. And they're like, why? And he's like, look, we want to respect my. Speaker 1 00:12:26 Our child, it's going to be our only child, and we don't want to gender them. So if she's a girl and decides to be a boy, we're going to respect that as an early age, as developmental. And and I said, but that's really hard. My husband had a problem with that, and so we went into a debate, right? And at the end of the day, I told my husband, hey, that's his child. He goes home to that baby, whatever he wants to implement, whatever it is that the lifestyle that him and his wife. Have that's none of our business. We have our beliefs. We have our religion belief. We have our thing. We taught our kids: you're a boy. The only difference between a girl and a boy is your vagina and your penis. That's it. You know how do you take care of it? You're a boy. This how you shower. This how you, you know, this what you do. This how you self care for yourself. The girls the same thing. I said either then what's their preference? Speaker 1 00:13:24 That's on them as they develop, okay. My daughter, my granddaughter, when she was 13, she came over on the weekend. It was on the summer, and I could tell something was off a lot. And she was here for a week, and she would come and she would hug my grandpa, my my husband a lot, and my husband be like, "What's up with her? Something's off. She's hugging me too much." And so I'm not the hugging, hugging grandma. I'm the more dictating. I'm the more, you know. Speaker 1 00:13:54 I show my love by actions of love, and it's not like affection. And so she'd come and she'd kind of lean on me, and then finally, right before her mom came, was gonna come and pick her up. She said, "Grandma, if I tell you something, will you still love me?" And I said, "Destiny, I will love you no matter what. I'm your grandma. Grandma's love are unconditional." I said they come with limitations, but it's still unconditional because I always I don't want to get myself into a situation, right? So, she came and she said, "Well, what about Grandpa?" And I said, "Well, why do you think what what do you think you've done or or you're gonna do for you to be concerned?" She says, "Well, I don't know how to tell my mom, and I don't really want to go home." And I said, "Why?" And she said, "Because I think I'm gay." She was thirteen. Speaker 1 00:14:53 I said, well, why do you think that? She goes because a lot of my girl, a lot of my girl friends, they all have boyfriends, and I'm not even attracted to guys. I think like I look at the girls, how pretty they look and stuff. Like that's all. I said, you know what, honey? I don't know how to help you there. I said, but I think that's something that we all go through. I see a lot of girls, and I'm like, man, she's so pretty. Oh my God, the her body is so great. Oh, look at her boobs! Look at this! Look at that! I said that's typical, normal. I said you're 13, your body's changing. You're, you know, seeing different things. I said, but if you're attracted to somebody, then we're still gonna love you either way because who you decide to love is not a condition of how we love you. And so when her mom came, my daughter called me. Speaker 1 00:15:46 She's like, what the heck did you tell Destiny? What did you did you take her to one of your classes? Did you indoctrinate her? Did you? And I said, Melissa, one of my classes is just to help support support others in areas that they have. I said, so what's going on? She goes, Destiny just told me she's attracted to women, and that she's probably gay. And I said, what did you say? I I didn't know what to say, so I said, I'm gonna go take a walk. And I said, and did you say anything? She's like, no, I did what I normally do. Like when I don't know what to do, I go take a walk and I call you. And I said, okay, well you need to come back and you need to hug your daughter and you need to tell her that you love her unconditionally, and whatever preference she chooses, is on her. But she's still a girly girl. I said, let her be who she is, because my granddaughter one day she'd be nothing but dresses and skirts, and another day nothing but tomboyish. Speaker 1 00:16:41 I said, let her find herself. But as a parent, all you need to do is allow her. The other thing that I do want to remind you in this area, and the reason why I'm talking, telling you guys, is because there's a lot of circumstances. And I had this discussion with a new foster parent, and the new foster parent said, "Do you believe that it's nurture?" Speaker 1 00:17:10 Or, or is it you believe in the gender roles if it's nurtured, or you know genetic? And I said, what are you talking about? Because he caught me off guard, and he says, I have a foster child that came into my home, and she has a baby. The baby's three months old, and. Speaker 1 00:17:41 She got pregnant, obviously. She said, but she says she's gay, and that she wants to be a man, and she wants to go through all the changes and the hormones and stuff like that. And I think, like, is it, is it something like trauma? And I said, I can't answer that question for you. I said I can just tell you different circumstances, and. I gave him four, you know, of of personal things, and I said, look, this this particular person, when she was growing up, her grandmother and her mom would always tell her she was fat, she was ugly, no one was going to look at her, she was never going to be able to hold on a man, blah. Said then, she found this guy, that started talking to her, she started dating the. Speaker 1 00:18:38 Grandmother and the aunt were so happy that a man looked at her. You better take care of him. You better make sure you, you know, you're on your knees and you know whatever for this guy. And so, she went ahead and was in a relationship with this guy for a while because that's what she felt was gonna give her the love and the acceptance of Grandma and Mom. And unfortunately, this guy was. Physically abusing her, sexually abusing her, and when she finally said she couldn't handle it anymore, she tried to commit suicide. And it came out that he was being physically abusive and sexually abusive, and not only that, but was trying to pass her on to some of his friends. And so she decided, that's it. So a couple years go by, and she was really young. Speaker 1 00:19:34 And when she turned 18, she told her mom that based on that experience, that she would never trust a man, and that she was going to have. She was going to be gay. And her grandmother broke down and said, "You don't even know what you're talking about, you know. You don't know the life. You're going to curse us all, you know, religiously and stuff like that." And it was really hard on her, but she had. She ended up moving out. She went to college. She moved out. Found a girlfriend. They moved. They were sharing. Sharing an apartment, you know, cohabitating, and she was happy, but she couldn't tell her parents because she was not going to be accepted. And I said, so, did they nurture her be that, turn into that based on the circumstances of her life? I said, I'm going to leave it up to you for whatever you think. I said, I'm going to tell you, for myself, I have a amazing, beautiful. Speaker 1 00:20:32 Person in my life said my my cousin got got his girlfriend pregnant at high school. They kept the baby. They had a. Speaker 2 00:22:00 Yes。 Speaker 1 00:24:04 Beautiful Little girl. I said that little girl grew up because of the religion, because of what the expectations were, because of the gender role that she took on. I said, she is a girl. She is. She was a girl, but she never identified with her body. I said so when she became of age, she graduated high school. Um, she came out to her parents and said, " I, I, I don't identify with this body. I did this because of our religion, because of your expectations." Speaker 3 00:24:40 Taking my W-2 to 28, which goes over to. Speaker 3 00:24:49 Pregnant and a. Speaker 2 00:24:52 Teenage mother. However, in. Speaker 3 00:25:07 The same token, came to my mind. I. I do want to apologize. The fact that I think the world of you and think you're an amazing person, but I am terrible at friendships. Come on. Speaker 3 00:25:49 That's amazing. I should tell you more. Absolutely, you're one of the few people that I massively respect, and I even look up to. I know what your girls. Speaker 2 00:26:10 Are pretty amazing. Speaker 3 00:26:34 Hey, I never checked in with you to tell you what had been with me getting sick, but things got better. And I never should have call you to give you results. They started me on a new round of treatments, and oh, things got way better, and I am better now than I was even better than I was. Speaker 3 00:27:18 Life has been a little crazy. I don't have two kids. I'm not fully, as much as can be, without me fully adopting. Who was? Speaker 3 00:28:07 Hey friend, I just saw your TikTok being on Ozempic, and since I am now entering my second year on, well, I was on the GoV. I just switched off to Zepbound. If you need help with anything or want to answer some things by me, please feel free to do that. I will tell you, my Zepbound was much better than the Rybelsus, which I know Rybelsus is the other name for Ozempic. However, some people do really well on Ozempic. It just made me sick all the time. Speaker 1 00:29:13 Because I, and the parents shunned her. I said, and now, he's an amazing guy. I mean, she went through her transformation, and she has, you know, gone through the thing. And unfortunately, she lost all support of the majority of the family. But she's living her own truth and her own life. So I'm not going to say, you know, she conformed. And the expectations that she was seeing, but she never conformed to what she saw in the mirror and what she reflected. So, at the end of the day, it's her life, it's her choice, and you know, whatever it is that she is going to do, she's going to do it on her own. I have an amazing friend. She's one of my colleagues. She was one of my clients, turned into one of my colleagues, and obviously a friend. Speaker 1 00:30:09 Her daughter had a son. You know, she got pregnant. Her she didn't find out she was five. She went to a homecoming, and one of the guys in the football team invited invited her to the homecoming. She had never had been asked out. Her mom, her aunt, they were so happy for her because they're immigrants and it was a new experience. And it was like having a quinceañera or something similar or being, you know, it was important to them because you know. Their daughter was being acclimated to this new custom, and homecoming, they thought was a big deal. And after that, she changed. She changed a lot. And she was about a couple months went by, five months, and she was in the and she was in the school, and the school called her because she said she was constipated. Found out she was six months pregnant. When she took her into the emergency room because they thought there was something else going on, they also found out that. Speaker 1 00:31:07 She was still virgin, and so these guys sodomized her. It was three of the football team, and so she ended up having a baby, but she she ended up having a baby, but she never ever connected to that baby because of the trauma, because of the anger, because of everything that was going on. So grandma ended up raising this child since he was one, and her daughter, she's like because of that incident, my daughter is gay. Speaker 1 00:31:38 And I said that's a choice because her daughter goes both ways. Speaker 3 00:31:42 She's had to. I will tell you, all my autoimmune symptoms got so much better being both parents, but it's a thousand times better now than it was before. And when I was in the hospital a few months with the gallstone and infection, I had some. Off of my biologic, and it took six weeks before I went back on my biologic. And I will be honest, I didn't have any of the flare symptoms I had when I took my biologic. And the only reason why I went on it again was just to kind of keep things at bay. Speaker 3 00:32:56 I'm able to be way more ambitious than I used to be. As evidence now that I have two kids, Speaker 2 00:33:08 I can keep up with them. Speaker 3 00:33:26 I honestly think Ozempic and Zepbound and that entire class of drugs is really good for a lot of people. Not everybody, but most people I've talked to had similar results, and I believe it's true as well. Speaker 3 00:34:25 I get that completely, especially the co-parenting group because I'm co-parenting with the state. Oh well, although I don't envy you either when you co-parenting because it's never easy. Speaker 3 00:35:24 Sorry, I'm very talkative today. I do apologize for that. I don't know what's come over me, other than the fact that I'm having an amazing day. And by the way, I miss your face, and I think you are an amazing mom, and I am so proud of you. I see your videos of you and little man, because I know it's not easy, but. Very proud of you, cause you're amazing. Speaker 2 00:36:51 Okay. Speaker 1 00:39:40 Both relationships. She's still trying to find herself. She finally she did get married several years ago, twelve years ago. Her her son is now twenty three, and he was a failure to thrive, and that's where I want to lead, because of the trauma, because that baby's being we we talked about the developmental of the baby. Remember, I showed you guys that video, how that baby is digesting in the in in the wound and everything that's happening in the mom's body is also baby's being nurtured by that. So the baby was born with failure to thrive, and he's had a lot of health issues. But grandma has pushed him through. He's 23. He's an amazing kid, but he's never been around the mom because the mom has always rejected him because of the circumstance. And we have to realize that a lot of times, if our girls were sexually abused, and that's part of the the outcome of their sexual abuse. Speaker 1 00:40:37 That connection may not be very strong, or may even though internally, they want to connect to that baby, something mentally is is in the way. Speaker 3 00:40:48 Okay. Speaker 1 00:41:04 So I've had I've had about. Seven. They're babies, and that's why she became one of my colleagues. Had another one that she came to this country. They were illegal. Her and her husband, her sister took a man. The boyfriend took a man. The boyfriend would drop off the kids at school. And she, her daughter was only 11 years old, and he sexually abused her. And when they found out, because he said he would deport the parents, that he would make sure that whatever, the father, um, didn't come home one day. It turned out that He drove him down to the border and dropped him off at the other side of the border, and he didn't have no way to come back. So he ended up going home and calling his wife, and then that is when they realized that. Speaker 1 00:42:00 This guy had been sexually abusing his daughter, and ended up she was pregnant. She was three months pregnant, and the auntie and the grandmother did not allow her to abort. This little girl, when she had the baby, she was little girl. knew she was a mom, but it was a toy, and so the baby ended up in foster care because the baby she wasn't feeding him, she wasn't taking care of him. She was. Consistently supervise with that baby because mom was working and was working, and baby was was you know wasn't thriving. And so there's a lot of things, and that's where I'm letting you guys know that shared responsibility is really important because you need to you need to have that survival instinct that something is not right. So if you're taking that baby to that well baby checkup, the doc you know you're going in with her. Speaker 1 00:42:57 You're making sure that the weight is is being consistently, that the feeding is being consistent, that she's self-caring for herself, giving herself a space because you're providing that space. You know, it's more likely to be successful. So once again, it's really important that we do talk to our teens. It's not just like I'm supervising, and if you're not, I'm just gonna say because. Some of us were never brought up to, you know. My grandmother never talked to my mom. My mom didn't know how to talk to me, so she put on some videos, you know. And this was when I was about fourteen, you know. She went out and she bought some videos. We're not, I'm not gonna say appropriate videos because she did put on a pornographic video for me so that I would know what about sex was, not only for me but for my. She set my. Speaker 1 00:43:55 Cousin and my mom's two younger sisters, and my sister and me, and so she wanted to talk to us about having her period because nobody told her, and she thought she was dying, you know. And so, anyways, we do what we do, but we have to remember things have evolved so much. There's so many videos out there that if we don't feel comfortable, we can just share a video with them. Okay, talk to the social worker. The social worker can refer her to maybe Planned Parenthood, where they can go have a class on more appropriate, you know, methods. And that's something that I wasn't comfortable with because I told you I couldn't have any other children. They told me I would never be able to have any children. I've never used contraceptives. I've never had, you know, to use it. I don't use condoms. I I've been married for. I married my my husband. I was twenty one. He was twenty. Speaker 1 00:44:50 Three, we've been the only person we've been with, and it's really rare. But at the end of the day, I didn't know how to talk to my girls about it because it wasn't something that I think. So what I did was research, take some classes. We do have some classes that the college and the Department of Children's Social Services has outlined, if you are caring for children age eleven plus, and how to talk to them about the reproductive. System, birth control, and other important developmental changes. And so, I would highly suggest that if that's something you're interested in, that you reach out to your social worker or to the college to see what they offer in that area. We do have classes for LGBTQ. Speaker 1 00:45:39 We do have other educational classes, and once again, it's a review. This is a 16-hour class. There's no way I can give you all of that. That's not that's not one of my specialty areas, but I know that we have some amazing qualified facilitators that teach those classes and that connect you to some vital services. And so I encourage you to continue to support and and grow in areas that. You probably didn't know you you could do. So I'm just gonna say, I've explored so many things as I've supported my girls throughout the years. You know, and I there is not a therapy. If they give me a diagnosis, I will explore every prognosis available to support them. Not everything works for everybody, and so when I've done behavior therapy, ABA, I've done ABC, I've done intense mod. Speaker 1 00:46:37 Modification behavior service therapy, you know, every one of my kids have been different, and so what works for one may not work for the other. And so I I encourage you to continue to explore out there. And once again, if you don't feel comfortable, you can always have your social worker sign your child up for a class that can give them the vital information that you're not very comfortable with. Speaker 1 00:47:11 So I'm gonna move forward. Parenting discipline. We talked about that. It's a parent's responsibility to discipline their children. We can guide them if we feel that they're not disciplining appropriately. We can give them some modeling, some examples or suggestions. We can also maybe sign them up for a parenting class. Remember that socially, culturally, the influences of a parent is you know parenting can shift. It takes a village to raise a village. Unfortunately, a lot of us cannot expand to a village because of certain circumstances, culturally, etc. Just the there's so many dynamics right now, especially right now in California. We have a mixed culture. We have different things, but at the end of the day, you know, we have to remember when we talked about influence. Speaker 1 00:48:07 We used to have these epidemics where they're like, did they all drink the same water? You know, because all of a sudden you had a bunch of little girls all coming out pregnant at the same time. You know, you see these in the movies and stuff like that. And so it's really important that we talk to our kids about being individuals and not being influenced by others to do certain things or to fit within. And so with that said, I am gonna just jump in there. When we have kids in middle school. They're learning how to navigate and how to socialize and do boundaries, and it's a very difficult time, especially when we're not supporting them, we're not guiding them. Yes, they are a pain in the butt. Yes, they shun shut us out 99% of the time. But if we model, with my teenagers, I would come in and I would be like, "How was your day?" They wouldn't respond. I'd be like, "Well, let me tell you how my day was," and then I'd be like sharing my stuff. Speaker 1 00:49:06 And then, so my son, my son Mark, even though he has autism spectrum, before I asked him because he didn't want to be asked because you know he had the autism spectrum and sometimes he would be picked on or whatever and he he didn't want to open that can of worms. He wasn't ready because I always allow my kids to to just breathe in and just decompress everything before they come into the house and they scratch right. That you came from school now you're coming home. Like just breathe through it and get into your new place. And so he would always be like, "Hey mom, how was your day?" And I'd be like, "Oh, I had a really great day. What what was great about it?" And then I realized he's just not only what I tell ask him because he had the autism spectrum, so he would only answer what I asked him. And then I had to like get that next. So he was just repeating. So as for him, it was kind of a routine. Speaker 1 00:50:05 And even though ninety percent of the time things that I was telling him was going over his head, he just had those five repetition sentences that he would ask, and he would ask those to his siblings too. And so, with that said, I do want to let you guys know they are paying attention. They just sometimes need to breathe and decompress, and just like it's hard out there, guys. I have a lot of Hispanics. Families and they don't realize because they don't they didn't come to school here how much stress it is on our teenagers and our kids. I I see my cousins because I have cousins and I go to Mexico now that I'm older you know and I say my retired, and their kids only go to school for three and a half hours. It's instructional. They go the either because they don't have many schools and the population is so big. Speaker 1 00:51:01 They either go to school from nine from eight thirty in the morning to eleven thirty, and in between the parents they don't offer them food or lunch or anything. The parents have to go take them food, or the kids have to take a snack, and they only get ten minutes. And after school, they have different activities. They have different after school curriculum stuff. Kids that you know, and then the kids. I'm gonna just say, probably from like sixth grade on. They work. Their parents have businesses. The kids are working, you know. And so, if the kids are in the morning shift, they're home by around eleven, twelve o'clock. If they go to extracurricular, I'm they're home by two. Lunch is at two, so the kids start at four, and then they come home, like at eight o'clock. And so, thus that's the night shift. And so, I, it's really different than here. And I tell my cousins. Speaker 1 00:51:59 Like it's so hard because when we go to middle school, our kids go from one teacher, maybe a PE or an extracurricular activity where they shift, all of a sudden six classrooms, six different adults making different demands from them. Rules are shifted, the room is different, the lighting is different, and so when you have a child that's suffering from trauma or has, Anxiety, or is going has severe sensory. It's really hard for them to acclimate and adapt. You know, and then in between they have recess, and then they have lunch, and then that's the time they have to socialize. And in between that socialization, kids are harsh. You know. Speaker 1 00:52:54 The The reason why you're getting a pushback is because you have to go through like an SST first, and they have to try. If you so, if you know the triangle of special education, you familiar with it, yeah. And the reason why I was asking is because a lot of times we have like we have to do an SST, and then we have to try the 504 plan, and then we have to go through the IEP, and then after the IEP, they have to try to make sure that they're in a general class. But if it it goes pretty quick if they failed. So if you're If your daughter, if your foster child goes to school, and this a reason why, is because my daughter, she started having a lot of the one I have at home, a lot of insight. She's really smart, but she just could not acclimate with her traumas and everything else that's going on. So we went through really quick. We did an SST. We went through a 504 plan within 30 days. I'm like, this not working. We're having a lot of different episodes. We went to an IEP. Speaker 1 00:53:51 She ended up, you know, trying to commit suicide. She was in the hospital for 30 days. Then they brought. She came back for about two weeks. It was not. She was having a lot, a lot of anxiety attacks, and so we ended up putting her in Magnolia Park. If you want to look into set something similar, it's called Magnolia Park. It's a mental health setting. So it's a non-public school, but it's not where it's a kind of like a residential or what? No, it's a small little school. It's called Magnolia Park. It's actually conjuncting with a continuation kind of setting, and the girls can go to and from like the the continuation where they do packets and they only go twice a week. But if they're in this particular setting, they have a full wraparound team there. It's only 20 kids in the school. Speaker 1 00:54:46 They only they have a two therapists on board. Every girl is assigned to a therapist, no matter what. They have a psychiatrist that's on staff on campus that will address some more higher concerns. And the racial is one teacher, and three and two TAs, for only ten students in per class. And so they get a lot of one-on-one. So when my daughter was going there. Because all the girls have similar, you know, anxiety and traumas and stuff like that. They were they're able to like address those issues. When you're addressing those kind of setting, you know, they're in that kind of setting. They're getting the full wraparound support. And in addition to that, she was like in continuation. She do packets on her own, you know. And so sometimes she just sit in a corner and do her packets. So she was able to graduate six months earlier. Speaker 1 00:55:43 Because academically she was smart and she was alert. Speaker 1 00:56:06 She just needed the right kind of setting. They also had another room. Where they she could put on her headphones, listen to her music, and just knock it out like just read it, do your packets, get through it. You know, they had another they had a quiet room and they had a a smaller setting where there was just two two kids in there with a one supervision adult, and um, all these girls were thriving where they weren't thriving in school and they came from different areas. Now. They do do transportation, so the school will provide. It's a non-public school. It is expensive, but you can have your school district pay for it. If they don't have something comparable, you've already tried A, B, C, or D, and you can also make it mandated. So if you know the system, you can call a child's attorney, make them enforce it. And I'm just gonna tell you, I had, I felt. Speaker 1 00:57:01 Because, like you said, you have the clinical part, and all of us do too. But when we are connect emotionally connected to somebody, and we're advocating, we everything goes out the window. Like we lose focus on exactly what we want. And so when I used to go, I had this little boy who had severe health issue, mental health issues, and so I was struggling. Even though I knew the system, even though I battled with them in the school district and whatnot. I just felt like this kid overwhelms me. His needs are so massive. I expected DCFS to put in a special education liaison, and I was fighting for a non-public school with a one-on-one, if to step one-on-one with a behavior therapist on on campus and whatnot. And I knew what I wanted, but my emotions would get in, and then they would. Speaker 1 00:57:57 I would just shift it, and I said, no, we're not doing this. We would table it back in, and so I came in, and she said, well, what do you expect? They're already giving you everything. I don't know. You should be thankful. And I felt like, what the heck? You're not here to tell me I should be thankful. This school district is giving me more than my child deserves. I, this is there's more that he can get, and that's what I want. And so I finally, I kind of got her to the side, and I said, I don't know how you got this job. I said, but. Where your qualifications come from? I said, but you're not here advocating for these kids. And I said, and I, I'm sorry, I even, you know, I thought you would come in here, you would support me and whatnot. And I said, I, I got on the, I really did call supervisor and I said, this is ridiculous. Like if you have these kind of people that are saying, be grateful for what you're getting and you're not fighting for your kids, like where are you? You know what are we? And I told you, I want to say, I'm 100% for my kids. The moment I take them in, I'm going to see them through. Speaker 1 00:58:57 You know, I had one of my daughters that was in one of these settings when she came into me because she had a lot of, a lot of trauma and a lot of uh, self harm behaviors and whatnot. So she was in La Canyada had a an amazing plan, and actually the director of of Magnolia is the one that used to run this program, and so that's why when they said, well, what are you expecting? I said, I want something that works. So either send her to La Canada or send her to Burbank because they have the program, and so you may not have it in Glendale, but they have the program, and so vendor it out. I don't care, get it done. And so, I had my amazing Winter. She was super bright, but she had a lot of trauma, and she was was coming to the school, and the and she was super smart, and she could have graduated a year in advance. Speaker 1 00:59:53 Because she had all the grades, because she had the smarts, and all she wanted was to go to prom, because that school did not have prom. She just wanted to go to prom, and my school district said she has to be in school to be able to go to prom. And so therefore, I said, well, can we bring her in for two day, two classes? Because she did have an IEP. This is her homeschooling, and you guys are paying for that at the school. So why can't she's really great? Why can't we bring her in for two subjects? Like PE or something else, something something that's not gonna give her a lot of stress and something that she's like her elective. Give her art, give her cooking, give her an elective. You know, but she's here, and so I got her there, but she could not handle a regular high school. Her anxiety and her distress and and her outbursts were increasing, and she had an outburst maybe a week into, but she didn't want to quit because she wanted to go to prom and. Speaker 1 01:00:49 It was only two weeks away, and she had a massive meltdown, and she did self harm, and so I called her her team, and as I was waiting, I had to make sure she was safe, so I was at her door, and Melissa was, Melissa was placed with her a week in advance, week difference, and that's when I had Melissa for eight months prior to her going home to her dad, and so Melissa got out of the room, and she's like, she's freaking crazy. First she wants to go this, she wants to do that, you can. And I said, and she was angry. And then she said, "Why do you even give us?" And I said, "Because I'm not your mom, and I don't know what happened to you, and I don't know who failed you dramatically. But I believe in you. You're 17, Winter. You have your whole life in front of you, and it sucks what you had to go through, and it sucks that you had to go through so much at your such age, but you're here with me." Speaker 1 01:01:47 I want to be your mom. I want to be your mom, and that role model and that person that believes in you. And if you want to go to prom, I'm fighting for you for that. But if you feel it's too much for you, we can compensate doing something different. I said because you can go to prom, on a date. You know, I said we can find somebody that doesn't have a date that you can go with, and you can still have the hundred percent experience. She didn't know she could do that. Speaker 1 01:02:18 And we have kids that are in special ed that don't have that availability. So what we had, we had a couple appointments. We made a couple lines, you know, a couple parents. I reached out because I have kids with severe mental health and mental and disabilities, and I sent out a little like you know phone tree, and I said, hey, I have an amazing girl that really wants to go to prom. Any of your boys are don't have a date and really want to go to prom too or have that experience. Can we like get together? And so, two of my girls ended up going to prom because they wanted to go to support Winter because she needed somebody for that support system, and obviously in case these kids were really, really like, you know, severely autistic that they weren't just in a corner somewhere, you know, that they were going to go in there and dance together. So you know what? There's so many different things we can do. The thing is. Speaker 1 01:03:16 Working for them, and like I said, where emotions get involved, we lose. We need to stay focused when we're advocating. This is set the goal, set the objective, and go for the target. Because if you get your emotions involved, and we live in emotions, we don't get anything done. Okay. Remember, you're gonna have kids. Set yourself up for failure, because she could be in a honeymoon stage. These girls have learned to survive. These girls have learned to survive, so they become what watchers. They they kind of pick up on what area you're are your vulnerable and your weakness, and where and so I I got sapped a lot. I'm really good about the honeymoon stage. You'll have kids that come in here. They're reactive. They're hurt. They're angry. They're resentful. Speaker 1 01:04:15 They don't want to let you in because they've been let down so much, and those are the kids that I want. I'm like I can work with that because I know it comes from hurt. I know that it's vulnerability. They don't want to drop their guard because they don't want to be discharged again. They don't want to be abused again. They don't want to be you know just shifted. But the kids that come in very compliant, very things, those are the ones you really wanted to watch out for. Okay. And the reason, and I'm not telling you, because some of the kids, like you said, it comes from trauma, it whatnot. But the bottom line is, they're observant. They, they, you know, they, they learn to kind of survive. And many kids to survive, you just kind of stay in the corner. You're only, you know, you only give out what is expected from you or what is, you know, needed from you, and that nothing else. And so you want to be careful because. Speaker 1 01:05:08 If they're in the honeymoon stage, it'll take about eight weeks for them to show their true colors. So if you're only one week in, advocate, make sure that you're give her allow her empowerment, a lot of self think, but be aware that she never had the power empowerment, so she may not know what to do with it, and so she'll fight you on it. It's it's it's unfortunate how much a lot of these young kids go through, you know, and so. The only thing I can just tell you, I'm just giving you heads up. Be really careful because 90% of your kids are super intelligent. They're smart. They're they're survivors, you know. They're survivors, and so they've learned by adapting to their surroundings, observing before they act. And some of them who are completely like, I don't care. I've already been hurt enough. What if let her give it to me? Give it to me. That those are the kids that are confrontational, right? Speaker 1 01:06:07 And you can you, they're telling you, like, with their verbal cues and their words and stuff, what what they're afraid of, like you know, and so that's why when I'm telling you, I got, I had winter, and she just pretty much got up and got in my face and it's like, so what makes you different that you're gonna, and I'm gonna excuse my language, give a shit, and I said, because I believe in you, because you're an amazing young girl, and that I and I teared up and I said. That it hurts me that you've been hurt so much and you've been let down so much, and that you have not had a a role model to show you the true person you can become, because inside of you you're so amazing, but right now you're blindsided and you can't see it. And so I'm gonna back off. I'm gonna give you a space. I see that you're just upset. Speaker 1 01:07:04 So we can do one of two things. You want to go in the shower and take a nice warm shower, because the PEP team is on their way. You know she had wraparound. I said your PEP team is on the way, so that you can be ready to like cash it out, or we go the route that we need to go. Because I need to make sure you're safe and everybody else is around safe. So are we gonna do a 5150, or are we just gonna hash it out and and calm down? She's like, no one's ever giving me that option. Ninety percent of the other foster moms would just call the PEP team and said, "Get her out." And I said, "Well, I'm not going to get you out because I love you and I want you here. But I want you to want to be here." And I said, "Because it take I can't do this on my own. I need your cooperation and I need you to want to be here because if you don't want to be here, there's doesn't matter how much I fight for you and how much I advocate for you and how much I endure because you put me through a lot." I said. Speaker 1 01:07:60 You've only been here for two weeks, and you put me through a lot. I said, and I probably wouldn't have done it for other people, but I'm doing it for you. I said because I believe in you. So, took a shower. She came back, and my husband got home, and he went and hugged. He he went. He she went and hugged him. The PEP team arrived at that time, and he she tried to sit on his lap, and my husband. We had already had that discussion with her, because. She had a. She was, she was born. Um, she was born. Um, into this. Her mom was a drug addict, and another drug addict. Um, reported her because her mom, you know, mom was on heroin, and she was shooting up the baby, the heroin. And so she he reported her, and she was only about a month, and she had her on the streets. And so. Speaker 1 01:08:57 She ended up going into care, but she she got adopted when she was five by a teacher and her husband. And three years later, they adopted another little girl. And then the husband had an affair, and the mom had went through a depression. She didn't want them. Dad took them, and she wanted her dad. Her dad was very enduring and loving, but the new girlfriend had her own kids and felt his kids were a bad influence on him, and started. Instigating, instigating, instigating, where he pretty much just brought him back to the ex-wife who was not mentally healthy, and they ended up in the foster care system, and then that started her whole trajectory. Like you know, she was having outbursts. She had remember she was a drug exposed child, so she had some other issues and the abandonment and whatnot. So I told you I had my own biological daughter. Speaker 1 01:09:55 And my daughter has always been really tiny, because you know she has a Cerebral Palsy and because developmentally she was really delayed. And so even though my daughter is 31, she's like mental capacity of like maybe a 13 to 15 year old maturity wise. And so my daughter would always come and sit on her daddy's lap. So Winter came and wanted to sit on my husband's lap, and my husband's like Winter. You can sit next to me, but you can't sit on me because you're an you're 17. You're an adult. You're a young lady, and young ladies at your age don't sit on men's laps, you know. And then he's like, "See, see, you're telling me you want me here, and he's rejecting me." And I said, "I said, Winter, is he rejecting you? Because he's telling you you can sit next to him. You can lean on him. He can put." Speaker 1 01:10:51 His hand around your shoulders to comfort you, it's just it's completely unacceptable for you sit on his lap because you're not a baby. Well, if it was, I said, uh uh. If it was one of the kids, they're all under five, they're still within that demographic eight and under. They still want to sit in mommy or daddy's lap. That that's developmentally acceptable, but you're 17, and I know right now you're not acting like a 17 year old. Because you're reverting back to when you were a baby, a little girl, but your body's of a seventeen year old, so you we need to stay within those ramifications. And so for a lot of times, you know, she got used to just coming and sitting next to my husband, and he she wanted that male connect connection, you know. And so we got to be careful too with setting boundaries, and setting that message of the rejection, and so. Speaker 1 01:11:47 How do you do that? It's hard. So I'm just letting you know. A lot of these girls have been, um, how do I put it rightly? When the right wording, a lot of these girls have been groomed. I'm gonna just put it that way, groomed to a certain extent, and that they have to do certain things to receive love or affection. Speaker 1 01:12:28 And so they have their wires crossed, and so sometimes we just need to reprogram them. Like I can still love you, but respect you. Speaker 1 01:12:47 Okay, I can still support you. Speaker 1 01:12:55 But put boundaries, you know, and those are that that I think what has been the hardest part for my husband and myself, with when we did foster, we fostered third thirteen to eighteen, you know, and so um my husband always made sure like he was he was appropriately affectionate and appropriately involved, appropriately with limitations, you know, because they would come out. My, you know, some girls. I had this young, beautiful girl. She wanted to be a model. She, she, she was Persian. She, her body was amazing. She was fourteen, and she wanted to be a model. And she came out one day, the tiny little miniskirt. She was going to go out. She, a couple of her friends invited her. They were going to go on the bus to Chinatown. It was like a festival or something. Speaker 1 01:13:49 And she wanted to look sexy, and she wanted to look fine, and she was going to go out. And she came out with just like little t, where it was tied, a little square, no bra. Everything was floating. My husband's like, uh, uh, you can't leave the house like that. She's like, I just wanted you to let tell me if I look fine. And my husband's like, Well, I don't know who you're going to go find, look fine, but that's not appropriate dressing. You're 14. I don't know where you think you're going, but even your friend's mom, when they pick you up, they're not going to want to take you like that. So, go put on another top, and you can keep the miniskirt. But go put on an appropriate top. She did put a top on top of the one she already had, and so what ended up happening was she ended up calling me because I always made my sure my kids were like, I don't care what situation you get yourself, you don't want you call me, I'll come and get you no matter where you are, in whatever condition you are. Okay, so she called me, and. Speaker 1 01:14:47 I ran out to go find her because all of her friends ditched her because they said you you're you're causing too much thing you're too you're too loud you're too obnoxious and you're hoochie, and we don't want that kind we don't want to draw the kind of you know like the older men are you're being attracted we don't want to draw that we're here to have fun, and just kind of like you know blend in and you're too and she was heartbroken, and when I picked her up, she was wearing that little top white top that my husband had told her she couldn't wear. Speaker 1 01:15:17 And so she's like, I should have listened to, I should have listened to Jose, and I said, why? And she's like, because he told me not to wear that, that it was not appropriate, that my friends, whatever. And they're right. And I think, you know, it's my first time anybody invites me out, and I think I blew it. And I said, no, you know, you'll have other opportunities. You just gotta, you know, allow yourself to acclimate. Remember, you're developing. You're fine. You're gonna. Don't worry about it. And she did. She did. She learned, and you know, lived and learned. And so, once again, like our girls are going through a lot, and if they've already been groomed, you know, they feel that they have to act or do a certain do certain things to get love and acceptance and guidance or whatever it is that they're looking for. So make sure you guys keep clear boundaries. Speaker 1 01:16:11 Transparent boundaries. Something that I'm going to also suggest, because this is your home and it's your business. You do what you please. I have contracts. I make contracts with all my girls. I make sure that they get a copy of their rights. I also make sure that I give them a copy of my rights. Okay, so the number one thing is, welcome to our home. Our home is your home. And everybody in this home is going to be safe. There's no physical aggression towards anybody. We hash it out if there's something we don't like. Food, the food is for everybody, and if we run out, you can just give me a list, and I will make sure you have it. Right? I little things that will make them feel at home. Don't over bombard them. I only give them five tasks, and then I can build on from that. Speaker 1 01:17:13 The bathroom. I have, I have a boys' bathroom and a girls' bathroom in my home. The girls' bathroom has everything a girl would need, you know, shampoo, conditioner, all that little fancy perfume, cologne of whatever, you know. And for the boys, I have their stuff, right? And I, I always make sure that I always remind them, your responsibility is to leave the room the same way you found it. So pick up after yourself, so the next person that comes in will have the same feeling of feeling, you know, and acclimating to the space. Two, your your items are your items. You throw them on the floor. You don't care for them. Then, that means you have little, very little respect for them. So if they go missing or they get ruined or whatever, it's not it's not going to be that other person's responsibility. Um, three, personal hygiene. Personal hygiene is a big one for me. Speaker 1 01:18:11 You know, expectation of showering, brushing your teeth, grooming, grooming is important. The the fourth one is you're in my home, and you're here because you're under care, and I have a certain responsibility to the court and to the Department of Children's Social Services and to your parents, and so therefore, I might have to implement things you're not happy with, but I'm just doing my job. And we can negotiate and probably try to make it better. But at the end of the day, I got to do my job. And so, don't take it on me because you're unhappy. You're not happy about a decision your social worker has made. Discuss it with her or discuss it with your attorney, so that that way they can make some provisional things. I can't change anything. The only person can change a minute order for visitations or anything like that is your attorney. The only one that can change or implement or add anything is your is your social worker. Speaker 1 01:19:09 I'm just here to support you. Make sure you go to school, and that last one is school. You do not miss school unless you're sick. And if you're sick, I'm taking you to the doctor to confirm that you're sick, making sure that you're healthy. Because I have five other kids at home, and the last thing I want is an epidemic inside my home. And so I, you know, they call me from school because you're not feeling well. I'm not bringing you home. I'm taking you straight to the ER or to the urgent care. To make sure that you're not going to bring anything home to the rest of us, and so I know it's a pain in the ass, but at the end of the day, I would I would pick them up, take them straight to the ER, the urgent care, even if we were there two three hours. So they learn not to use utilize the sick card unless they were really sick. I would also let them know that we have emotional days. So if you need an emotional, you know, self care day, then call it that. I need a self care day. Speaker 1 01:20:11 And I just want you to tell me what does a self care day look to you, so I can support you, because I might not, with my busy schedule, I might not be able to support that pampering day that you're you're anticipating, right. Speaker 1 01:20:38 And so. We work it out. We give them the verbalization and the ability to communicate effectively because they have to. A young child or a newborn depends on them. So if they need a a personal day, let's just maybe they can't explain it to you because it took a lot from Melissa. Melissa be like, Mom, I'm just really exhausted. Can I take a personal day? And I'd be okay, but you're taking a day. Speaker 1 01:21:10 Not a week, a day. And go ahead, but I'm gonna go I'm gonna take the baby, and so you can sleep. You can take your own personal thing. And today's your you you're taking a personal day. You're taking it from your baby. So besides breastfeeding, I got everything else for the next five hours, four hours, six hours. She asked for a personal day. Okay, so that's something that we need to support them on. Okay. Speaker 1 01:21:52 All Right, so I found day two that I wanted to go by because it's really important too, and I don't want you guys missing out on any of this, is where we're doing review today. So remember, I did share a video about parenting and development of the teens' brains between 12 and 18 years old. We have different attachment. Skills, so it's super important that we develop the First 5 kit attachment. There's there first five developed a healthy attachment with your child. Read, dance, sing, touch your baby. So remember that all of our girls need to learn to bond with their babies, and the only way they're going to learn to bond. This is something that I. Speaker 1 01:22:44 Always have a problem with. I see a lot of adults doing this, and I see a lot of grandmas doing this, and a lot of younger girls doing this. They're so preoccupied with their phones or talking or mingling that they're not really bonding with their babies. And what needs to happen is the first six months is crucial that you're sitting up and that your baby feels, you know, skin to skin. Contact that the baby is being nurtured. You're talking to it. The baby's getting attached to you. It's imprinting. So we want to make sure that the girls are proactive when they're feeding their babies, when they're bathing their babies, when their babies are up and alert. Remember that two thirds of a newborn is. Speaker 1 01:23:43 Is sleeping, only one third of it. His life is up, and it's divided among the whole day, so it should not be that difficult for these young girls to be able to learn appropriate attachment. The other thing we want to make sure is that if you end up with a teen that's pregnant, that we really help them take care of themselves. You know, we need to be able to take ah. Make sure that they're taking the prenatal prenatal vitamins. Making sure that they're walking, they're eating right, that they're resting, that they're doing their classes, okay, so that the children can go ahead and have a better outcome. Remember, there is no guarantee for us to have a healthy baby. Speaker 1 01:24:40 But if we try our best to eat right, sleep well, and do our prenatal care, things could get caught caught a lot easier. So remember also the aftercare after the baby's born. The mother's hormones are gonna adjust. Her body is getting adjusted. There's a lot of stuff happening mentally and emotionally, and so we need to be able to care for that child, nurture her, and give her a clear understanding that this is part of nature. Your body's going to come back, but you need to eat well. You need to sleep. The baby's sleeping, you sleep. The baby's, you know, is. Speaker 1 01:25:32 Being too much for you, I'm here to support you for a little bit. But she's still your baby. I'm not going to be here day and night for it. But I'm going to be here for a couple, couple minutes, a couple hours out of the day to support you. Super important. Ah, for me, it was really easy, because I have a school in my. It was called daily. It it is daily, but in the past they had childcare on site, and my daughter, I dropped her off. They had a nurse that came in. Once a week, they had a doctor that came in. Once a month, and they talked to them. They had other workshops, and they helped them develop skills on baby well checkups. Like, what's normal? What's not normal? What's normal and developmental? What might be a sign of a of a need? Remember, a lot of these girls all did not take prenatal care. A lot of girls were still smoking, drinking. Speaker 1 01:26:32 Or possibly having sex, unprotected sex, and so we have a lot of STDs that go unrecognized. Okay, so we want to make sure that we are making sure that these girls are going in and getting themselves checked. Their pH balance is off. I got a call this weekend by a young girl who didn't know how to tell her grandma because she's like, "Grandma is not gonna. She's gonna kick me out," but. You know, I'm taking my birth control. I haven't been sexually active for a whole year, but I I'm I have some concerns. I said, well, what do you think is going on? She said, I think I have an STD. And I said, why? She's like, because I have a lot of discharge. And I said, well, that could be a combination of things. Have you had you you know uh urinary tract infection you know uh urinary tract infection, um. Speaker 1 01:27:25 Have you changed soaps? I mean, there's, you know, your your body wash. There's so many different things that could throw off your pH balance. He's like, no, I really think I have an STD. I said, well, how have you been? She's like, no, I told you, I haven't had sex for a year. Obviously, she's a teenager. I said, okay, well, how do you want me to help you? She goes, well, I don't want to tell my grandma to take me to the doctors because then she's gonna be. I said, okay, but you are going. Periodically to Planned Parenthood to get your birth control right, and she's taking you for that. She goes yes. So call Planned Parenthood, tell them you need a an appointment. And I said you have Open Medical, and I said your grandma takes you. He sits in the waiting room. Does she go inside with you? She goes no. They make her sit in the waiting room. And I said okay, we'll have her wait in the waiting room. And you go in there and you tell them what your concerns are. Sure enough, it was her pH balance. And. Speaker 1 01:28:20 You know they gave her some vitamins for her some vitamins that she can take to help with that, and they also gave her something because she's having frequent UTIs, and so once again we need to just talk to them. Some days they need somebody that they can feel comfortable and no judgment, free of judgment. So you know practice what I showed my daughter. If in doubt or distress, take a walk. And call somebody, or think it through before you act, because sometimes when we act on impulse, we can't take back a lot of the damage. Okay, and so the same thing I tell you guys: breathe through it. If it's not something you're comfortable with, make a doctor's appointment. Let that doctor educate that team. Okay, infant care is really important. Also, babies require different security. Speaker 1 01:29:19 Uh, care. Okay, and the child development. A lot of these girls were very young. Maybe they didn't have prenatal care. Remember, they a lot of them also have some severe mental health issues, or they have trauma, and so that baby was inside of them, and was also being nurtured by them. And so, remember that we need to make sure that the child is developed. Their their developmental milestones are being met, so if you feel that something's off, you are more than able to ask that mom, or you call it in because mom is mom. She can ask for the services and ask for a early intervention evaluation through regional center to make sure you don't lose anything. Speaker 1 01:30:16 Couple appointments, but peace of mind. And if this child does have some developmental delays, it's caught on time. The child is going to be get active services. Talk to the pediatrician. Have the pediatrician possibly also give you some a referral if need be to a specialist to make sure that those areas of concern have been addressed. Caring for the a child with special needs can be super over over. Speaker 1 01:30:47 Exhausting, you know, and distressed. I've seen a lot. I had one case. I a young girl, very young girl, seventeen year old. She had a a baby with Down syndrome. Um, she had three three Down syndrome family members, and so a lot of times it's genetic. And I had another another girl that was beautiful. She was in our foster care youth. She was in one of our emancipated youth, and she had her baby, and she only met this guy a couple times. They dated a couple times, but her gene with his gene were a total disaster. And she had a beautiful baby, but the baby had a lot of genetic issues and a lot of health issues. And they told her that they didn't feel her baby would live past eight months. And here her baby, with a lot of early intervention services, a lot of intervention. Speaker 1 01:31:46 And the the care of her aunt who adopted her and and her grandpa who you know pushes her through this amazing little boy is seven years old. Yes, he has a lot of disabilities and there's a lot of medical treatments and stuff that he has to go through, but he's pushing through, and he's the love of their life. And so once again, the ability of making sure that they have that you got this. You know there's services out there to implement, educate you through it. It makes a big difference in the world, okay. And we do have to remember that a lot of our children, you know, lately are diagnosed with a lot more than they used to, and so I do want to remind you, please, to ensure that, Mama. Speaker 1 01:32:41 That she has a pediatrician. That if she has any concerns, too, that those concerns can be addressed. Make sure that if you see anything, she's a new mama. Anything that doesn't seem it's out of the ordinary, that you too, not scare her half to death, but just say, hey, how about we, you know, have the baby assessed for a regional center just to make sure that he's developmentally. Meeting all his milestones so that when he does go to school, he's ready and has all these services um in place, you know, for him, and just give her a generic talk. Don't go too deep, okay? Because remember, she's a young mom, so if you tell her too much, it's she's gonna take it to the extreme. So we're gonna go to the floor, and this is where I want to make sure that you guys are. Speaker 1 01:33:37 Because I already talked to you guys, and you guys all said I got this. So I want to make sure that you remember that you need to practice and discuss your shared responsibility plan. Speaker 1 01:33:58 With the teen parent. That it's important that you and her develop. The shared responsibility plan because it's you and her living in the household. If there's going to be third party involvement, that that third party involvement is also put into that. If third party involvement, what does that mean to me? It's really important. The teen parent may not have too much involvement with her mom or family, but. Speaker 1 01:34:34 This grandbaby, and this is where we get twisted. A lot of times, there's been circumstances. I had one grandmother raising her granddaughter. She got pregnant. Her daughter was not doing really well. Her her granddaughter would allow visitation with her baby, so she would tell her grandma, Mom, I want you to. I want you to have a relationship with my baby. I love you, and I want you to be part of my baby's life. So that was a big conflict because she didn't have reunification services in place anymore. She wasn't doing so well, but this was her baby, and Grandma started complaining. And the social worker said, "This is her baby. Her, her baby, and so therefore, she has a right." Speaker 1 01:35:30 To do, there's a class that you guys need to take. What is it called? It's something with parenting. It's a law. No one. What? Parent prudent law. Are you guys familiar with the parent prudent law? I need confirmation by a yes or no. Advice we give this class out twice a year. Because the parent prudence law stipulates that the children in your foster that are placed in your home are to have the same experience as any other child that is being raised by their parents. So you, as a parent, have the prudence to give them permission for a sleepover or an overnight trip or activities at school. Speaker 1 01:36:30 So when you take your parent, prudent parent class, it would go into specifics. Speaker 3 01:36:36 So you have. Speaker 1 01:36:41 Licensing with an FFA. You have licensing straight to the county. You have a small family home that has a licensing to the county and the state. And so you want to make sure that you're in compliance with each identity that you're working with. So typically. It stipulates that as a parent, prudent you will make any provisions. There's no guarantees. So if Miss Lockley had a teenager and she got invited to a sleepover, and it was her foster daughter, she would make contact with the parent of the teenager who invited her and say, Hey, your daughter invited my daughter my daughter to a sleepover. I want to make sure that there's going to be adequate supervision, and is and. Speaker 1 01:37:26 Who all is going to be part of this, you know, sleepover, so that I can make appropriate provisions? I also want to let you know that my daughter's taking medication. If I send you the medication, if I hand you the medication, can you make sure she takes it at it? Because I need her to, you know, she cannot miss. You don't have to go into depth. I don't have to tell her it's her psychotropic meds. None of that. Okay. Speaker 1 01:37:58 So, you want the child to be as normal and have a normalcy as possible. So you, what you want to do is you want to make sure. So I had I had one of my daughter. She takes psychotropic meds. She was going to this nonpublic school, and one of the little girls invited her for a sleepover, and it was the first time. And it was she was the only she was she was living with mom and dad, and she had some self-inflicted injuries and she had some severe depression. She was a really good girl. We had hung out with my daughter a couple times here at the house after school. After school, and then her mom, her dad picked her up once. Her mom picked her up another time. I got to meet them, so they invited her. They invited her for a sleepover, and so when I got there, dad was working. They they had they worked on old cars. Speaker 1 01:38:53 He repairs old old cars, so he's working on one of his old cars. And I said, "Hi, is your wife home?" And he said, "No, she just went to the store. She she went with my daughter. They went to get some snacks." I said, "Okay, well, they're like they should be back any minute because they knew you were going to be here at four." And I said, "Well, I just wanted to say thank you for having my daughter over, and I wanted to give you my contact information. And I gave him one of my business cards. I have my cell phone only with my name." And I just want to give you my contact information in case, or my daughter does not behave and you need me to pick her up. And he said, "Oh, I doubt it. She's been always. She's such a. She looks like a good girl." And so the wife showed up, went into the driveway, handed her another business card, and said, "His, have my phone number. I also put in my husband's phone number in case there's an emergency or if there's an incident that you need." And I was. Speaker 1 01:39:48 Here's the medication we discussed over the phone. I didn't go into much depth. Her daughter looks over. She goes, "Oh, I take five different medications." And Cat and Angelica, you only take two. And she's like, "Yeah, one's for my anxiety." And I said, "This one's only if she needs it, and this one she has to take little things." I would advise that you guys at the 99-cent stores. Sometimes they have those little tiny, tiny little bags. I always buy them. I have them in with my sandwich bags and whatnot, because sometimes, even if your kids are having sleepovers, or sometimes not only that, but you know, if I'm going to be out and somebody else is watching my kids, I make sure that I put the time frame, the time that the name of the child, and the time that they need to take it, and I hand it to the child care provider who's going to be, you know, with me. Speaker 1 01:40:40 That way, there's no miscommunication, and I don't leave my keys to my medication cabinet. That, and the reason why I do that is because I've had like incidents where I lose my key, and I only had two, and I was at my last one, and then I had to like get a locksmith to come and open that and do another. You know, it's just just for safety purposes, and that way you know that the medication was given appropriately and adequately. This. When you have kids, what happens? Massive anxiety. My daughter takes one medication if she's having an anxiety attack, and it really kicks in within fifteen thirty minutes. And it's a certain amount of milligram. But if it's if it's if she's hyperventilating and she's having a rough time, then I have to double her dosage. And so if I have the little tablets in, like I said, in the little tiny zip black bag, it's a tiny tiny little square ones. Speaker 1 01:41:37 And I have her name on it. Um, um, I can carry it in my purse. I can just have an emergency kit in the car. You know, like two pills, just to carry me through for emergency. But if they're going to be going out, you know, you don't want to make a big scene about it. But you know, they're not going to overdose if you hand it to them and they can carry it in their pocket in case you have an anxiety attack and you're at the movies or you're at the mall. You know, just take it because it's. As needed, that one's prescribed as needed, and we're talking about kids that are 16, 17, and it's not something that you're giving her the whole bottle. You're just giving her that one pill, and so that really, really helps a lot. The other thing that I do want to keep you keep keep in mind is that you need to have control of all your medications. Sometimes these kids intend to sell them, share them, etc. We want to make sure that your kids are not sharing medication. We want to make sure we're talking about the kids about. Speaker 1 01:42:35 The dangers of them taking other people's medications. Okay, there's kids that go to parties and they take the pills and then they just mix them all up and see what you got. You know, you got, and that's not healthy. That's not safe. The other thing for Angelina, I know, I her her being a clinician, she probably is aware of this, but there's certain medication that are psychotropic meds that are twenty four hours and need to be taken on a regular basis around the same time, and they cannot be. Extended. So one of them is Vyvanse. We have children on Vyvanse for ADHD, and so for my son when he was on his Vyvanse, he had to take it at noon. So I I had to go around lunchtime every day to. Speaker 3 01:43:20 The candle. Oh, the the ones with beads. Just that. Oh. Um. You can just yeah, you can just do that. Are you hearing anything good from this video. Speaker 2 01:43:42 Hang on, I'll be right out. Speaker 1 01:51:26 Thing and because I just couldn't get the paperwork or the appointment, whatever it took me about a week. So I would just go to school and give it to him. I would just go to school and give it to him. And so I finally got the I finally got the follow up appointment with the psychiatrist. The psychiatrist filled out the form for the school so that they can administer the medication. And I took it in, and the nurse wasn't there. There was a nurse assistant. She didn't write it down, and so my son didn't get his dosage that day. The very next day, the nurse was there, but she didn't see anything. She she didn't give it to him. So when I got him home, he took a shower. He got out of the shower, he fainted. I was frantic. I took him into the ER after like seven hours of them doing everything and nothing to figure out what was going on. And we went through his psychotropic medication, his thing. And the doctor came out and he's like, "Are you giving him this medication on time?" And I said. Speaker 1 01:52:25 Absolutely, he's been on it for like two weeks. I was giving it to him because it was spring break, every single day, so that I could observe him and and because I do observation, I don't give kids medication on Monday and send send him off to school. I started on Friday so that I can you know or Saturday so that I can monitor and see if their character is going to change, if their insight is going to build up, because you never know. Certain medications have certain things, and that comes with my personal. Background and training too. That I I do not give medication unless I have an observe. You know I have a day to observe if it if it gets them anxious or or you know clinginess or whatever. And so I started my son on his Vyvanse on spring break. I continued the following week, and when I left, they're like this medication will has a tendency to have their blood pressure drop. Speaker 1 01:53:23 And it has to be given at the same time, at the same every day. And I said the doctor told me at noon. And I he said okay, then if you started him on a regimen at noon, you need to give it to him at noon. No, a window time of like ten minutes tops. And so people don't tend to realize how important it is. And so when I, my husband and I tend to, we need time alone. Adults still need time alone to hash things out, even to argue or to just. You know, give each other space. So my husband and I have implemented that every three months we go away for the weekend, and we don't talk to each other. We go away, just to just get away. And um and um and so um in occasion, you know, I do have I did have a full time housekeeper. I have a rest bed worker. My mom, my my um sister, whatever. We make arrangements. The social workers are in clearance. We run by and let them know. Speaker 1 01:54:22 Or sometimes we make provisions where the girls will go for sleepovers with one of their friends or something, because our minor kids, you know, our kids that we've adopted, we'll drop them off at grandma's, and then the other two girls will do, you know, some arrangement where they have a sleepover because we're not going to be gone for like we're just going to be gone Friday Saturday we'll be back. So whatever that is, I do want to let you know that. I told my mom, mom, make sure he takes his ADHD medication. And I told her like this. It's for his. It's for his ADHD because he's bouncing off the wall. Oh. And I said make sure he takes his ADHD medication. I go, this is a short term one, so you give it to him around seven in the morning, and it's going to wear off around one o'clock. So then you're going to give him the twelve o'clock one, and it's going to set him for the twenty four hours. If he needs it, it goes into his gut. It releases. Well, my mom felt like I have a pool. Speaker 1 01:55:21 I'm used to screaming, jumping kids. I she didn't feel that she was gonna drug him because that was her intention. He's not in school. I'm not gonna drug him. I'm gonna just let him be himself. She did not give him his meds at twelve, and the second day, he fainted again. And so we learn it's not a choice. Okay. He has ADHD. It's not about him jumping around and having that full blown energy. It's for his health regimen. So, before you take it upon yourself to make modifications or alterations with their medication, you need to run it by the professional psychiatrist. Speaker 1 01:56:12 Make sure that if you're giving them psychotropic meds, that you discuss with the psychiatrist about concerns. This girl is pregnant or is breastfeeding, and how it might affect the fetus or the baby, and what provisions should we have? Because these girls have diagnoses, and they also have different pregnancies. Okay. Okay. Speaker 1 01:56:47 So we want to make sure that we are aware of any high levels of concerns. Remember, some medications do not work right away. It takes stop taking it, and then we have that massive drop even months later. So we want to make sure that we're taking our jobs seriously. Medication is really important. Make sure you make an appropriate provisions that you're administering appropriately, and that you have proper anyumentation. Remember, we cannot give any children any medication if it has not been authorized, especially psychotropic meds by the court before we can give it to them. So make sure that they have been authorized. Speaker 1 01:57:39 To make sure that you speak to the child about you can't force them to take their medication, but it's why it's important for them to take it because you need to give them the empowerment. Because. Speaker 1 01:58:07 Once these. Kids realize it's going to help me in this area, that area, that area. They're willing to take it. Okay, and so I'm going to go back into our shared screen and finish up. Finish up. So remember, please, we have resources. We're going to talk about your graduation. We literally have one hour on your chat. I dropped an invitation. That invitation is for adoptive slash foster parents. Want to participate? Excuse me. Let me close this out and let me just get to where I need to be because I had it and I dropped it. Oh my goodness. Speaker 1 01:59:04 Did you guys get it? On the chat, on the chat, there's a link that you can sign up. It's in the valley, so maybe if you don't live in the valley, it might not be worth the drive. But this the the DCFS. This DCFS caregivers and community partners. They periodically have an event at this particular church that they'll have conferences. They'll have like. Just an appreciation dinner. So on the 21st, from 6:30 to 8:30, they're going to have a dinner available for you, and it gives you all the instructions. So you can register, and they'll send you the invite. So if that's something that you're interested in, it is being promoted by Anthony Cervantes. That is one of your liaison. Do you guys know about well who? What is liaison? Speaker 1 02:00:06 That question for you guys. Do you guys know what a liaison is internally inside the Department of Children's Social Services? Can't hear anybody. Somebody here. I'm by myself. Speaker 3 02:00:25 It's a person that runs interference for you when you need something done. The CSW worker. Speaker 1 02:00:38 So There's somebody who's a person who actually will come in and support you with navigating internal of the Department of Children's Social Services, be it more transparency with the social worker, and or the supervisor, or even funding resources. So make sure that you are aware that every DCFS office has a liaison. Anthony Cervantes happens to be. At the Santa Clarita office, so you are always if you you can always give him a call to make sure you take his photo shoot, take a picture of it, or write it down. And so, if there's anything you ever need to run interference or support, even if he's not your specific liaison from your office, he can direct you to the appropriate person. This is the person you would also call in case. Speaker 1 02:01:34 There's different programs internally inside the Department of Total Social Services that you might want to interject yourself into or have access to. So that's the person you would contact to, um, in regards to these special funding or these special events or promotional things or even advocacy stuff that might be available to your kids. So I would highly suggest that you you keep his number or Find out who's your particular person. Now, there's also there's also Alliance for Children's Rights. They have a webinar, and if you sign up for that thing, they will send you like different implementation policy changes, etc. So for this week, this is what they're actually working on. Speaker 1 02:02:33 But they also have like you know guidance on federal funding and voluntary placement into why? Because sometimes we get kids that are voluntary placement. We are still entitled to funding. Funding, and a lot of times the social workers won't do the paperwork. You're a relative, and they'll be like, oh, you signed in for a voluntary case. Voluntary case can only be voluntary for six months. After six months. The department and the parents will have to reassess and figure out if they need to open up the case. So it just kind of gives you a little bit of everything. Remember also the All County letters is what determines your funding. So if I went in here and I pushed All County letters, it actually has a summary, and it would actually tell me what the background is and everything else. What, who, what, where, and it also has other links that I can go into. Speaker 1 02:03:30 So it is important that you know the All County County letters are available to you and the public info. And so every time that we have a rate increase or there's a change internally, you will find them in the All County County letters. Okay. So the All County County letters are it's for California. So, California. Speaker 1 02:04:00 All of the DCFS offices departments in California are all under the same regiment of the All County County letters. The numbers is is what determines like what is it that you're talking about. So I'm going to go ahead and close that up really quick because I was just sharing resources. Okay. Also, they have different webinars. They have one building, Kinship for cultural, etc. They are actually going to be having a. There's a virtual policy summit, and so if you guys want to register for that, I am going to go ahead and copy because once you copy, once you register, they will be sending you more. Let me see if this is copy. Let me see if it's going to go through. Okay. Speaker 1 02:04:58 To everyone. Speaker 1 02:05:11 Can anybody check it to see if it went through? And and and signing up for the webinars, you guys have that information. Okay, so. Just so you know, the Department of Children and Social Services has a new program. This new program is for referrals. Whe
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09-08 Lecture: Online High School Orientation — Attendance, Zoom Check-ins, Edmentum Coursework, and Plagiarism Policy
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- Date Time: 2026-09-08 15:01:42 Location: [Insert Location]: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name]: Maria ## Summary This session is an orientation for a new student, Ladonia, transitioning to an online high school program to accommodate a flexible schedule for work. The instructor, Maria, and Ladonia’s guardian, Christi, reviewed program rules, attendance requirements, and academic structure. Key topics included the mandatory four hours of daily work on the Edmentum platform, twice-weekly Zoom check-ins, and course pacing. Because official transcripts are not yet available, Ladonia’s full graduation plan is postponed; however, she was assigned her first course, Economics, and guided through login and platform features. The session also covered the school’s strict plagiarism policy and established a communication plan via group text for progress tracking. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Online Program Structure and Rules - **Student Motivation** - Ladonia is switching to the online program for a flexible schedule that supports her work. - Her previous in-person school required a long commute from near LAX to Long Beach, which posed a significant barrier. - **Attendance Policy** - Attendance requires a minimum of four hours of work per day on the online platform, Monday through Friday. - This commitment allows the instructor to mark attendance for the state of California for the entire calendar month. - The instructor checks the previous day’s Edmentum login activity each morning. For example, on Tuesday morning, Monday’s activity is checked. - Students who log at least four hours are marked “present”; otherwise, they are marked “absent.” - Students may complete the four hours at any time of day (morning, afternoon, or night) and may take breaks. - **Meeting Requirements** - Students must meet with the instructor, Maria, twice a week via Zoom. - Ladonia’s scheduled meeting times are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:00 PM. - These hour-long meetings primarily involve working on Edmentum, with a 10–15 minute check-in to discuss goals and track progress. - During class, cameras must be on and full names displayed on Zoom. - **Academic Pace and Structure** - The school is an “options school,” different from traditional schools; students typically take one class at a time. - A standard pace is one class (about five units) every four weeks, equivalent to a regular high school track. - Students needing credit recovery are advised to work six hours a day to catch up. - The minimum required units per learning period changed from six to five. - If a student does not finish an assigned class within four weeks, they receive a truancy mark. Multiple truancies can lead to being dropped from the program, with warnings given beforehand. ### 2. Edmentum Platform and Coursework - **Course Assignment and Login** - Maria helped Ladonia log into Edmentum during orientation. - The account login is “OLVS,” and the password is case-sensitive (“OFYP” capitalized, the rest lowercase). - Based on prior school history, Ladonia needs the second semester of Geometry and a full course in Economics. She chose to start with Economics. - The Economics course has five units, all to be completed within four weeks. - **Workload and Activities** - A recommended pace is about two activities per day to stay on track. - “Tutorials” are the core lessons, with readings, writings, and videos. - The instructor grades written responses within tutorials for understanding of content, not perfect grammar. - **Mastery Tests** - After each tutorial, there is a five-question “Mastery Test.” - These are low-pressure and can be retaken as many times as needed. - **Plagiarism Policy** - Students must not copy the “example answer” shown after submitting a response; using it can trigger a plagiarism flag. Submit original work and avoid revising based on the sample. - Using AI (e.g., ChatGPT) or copying from Google is also plagiarism. - Consequences escalate as follows: - **1st Offense:** Redo assignment; max grade 75%. - **2nd Offense:** Redo assignment; max grade 70%. - **3rd Offense:** Highest possible grade for the entire class becomes 70%. - **4th Offense:** Meeting with the assistant principal, which may lead to a recommendation to a different school. ### 3. Student-Specific Information and Next Steps - **Transcript and Graduation Plan** - The school does not have Ladonia’s official or unofficial transcripts on file. - Requesting and receiving approved transcripts is expected to take about three weeks to a month. - A follow-up meeting will be scheduled in about a month to review transcripts, determine required classes, and set a graduation date. - Ladonia needs to retake the second semester of Geometry. It’s unclear if she has partial credit for the first semester, so that class was not assigned yet. She has not taken Economics, so she was assigned that course. - **Support and Tutoring** - Ladonia has a laptop and does not need a hotspot. - If Economics is challenging, regular tutoring can be scheduled to supplement independent study. - **Communication Plan** - Ladonia and her guardian, Christi, consented to communication with both regarding academic progress. - The instructor will create a group text to send daily attendance updates (present or absent). 🙂 ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Begin the Economics course on Edmentum on September 8, 2026. - [ ] 2. Complete at least four hours of work on the platform daily, Monday through Friday. - [ ] 3. Attend the first scheduled Zoom class on Thursday, September 10, 2026, at 1:00 PM. - [ ] 4. During Thursday’s meeting, provide feedback on the Economics course and decide if additional tutoring is needed. - [ ] 5. Monitor the group text for daily attendance updates from the instructor.
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- Speaker 1 00:01:41 Hi Christi, Speaker 2 00:01:42 Good afternoon. Hi. Hi. I was just meeting Latonia. How are you doing today? Speaker 3 00:01:49 I'm good. How are you? Speaker 2 00:01:50 Okay, happy to hear. I am doing well. Thank you for both for joining. Um, orientation is fairly quick. It's only about 30 minutes long. What we're gonna do is we're gonna go over our school rules. We'll go over the login information, and that is essentially it. And we'll get you started. Ladonia, I was looking at your student file. I have no transcripts on file for you. Do either of you happen to have any unofficial transcripts? No. No. Okay. No worries. Speaker 2 00:02:26 We can kind of wait until we're able to request them and get them approved. It usually takes about three weeks to a month, so that's not a problem. In the meantime, you may just have to help me with a little bit of assistance learning what some of the processes are. And then after that, it's going to be easy peasy. Why don't we start with maybe if either of you want to answer a little bit of insight as to what brings you to the online program. Speaker 4 00:02:57 So , I was initially going in person school, but I just like came to like the decision like turning 18, like becoming an adult and like experiencing things like like I wanted to like start working like immediately, especially like being a foster care. Like I don't know, I just want to be able to support myself, have money, and just like have that. So like the school I was going to, it kind of like got into the way of me like getting a job. So. I thought like online school would be perfect like for me, so like I could have that and work too at the same time. And how about the flexible schedule? Speaker 2 00:03:34 Okay, that's very helpful for me. Do you currently have a job. Speaker 4 00:03:39 No, not at the moment, Speaker 2 00:03:41 But I'm looking. Okay, okay, but you are looking. Okay, got it. Okay, how has how long have you been looking. Speaker 4 00:03:49 For? Um, it's the past two weeks now. Speaker 2 00:03:54 Okay. Okay. So very, very recent. Okay. So assuming within the next like month or so you'll probably be getting a job. Um, are you looking to work full time. Speaker 4 00:04:03 Uh, part time for now. Speaker 2 00:04:07 Part time. Okay. Perfect. Um, I only asked because, and that actually brings us into our next slide. Um, with our online program, the way that our attendance works, it's a little different for you because you're over 18. Um, or you're. 18 and up. But the way that our attendance works is that it is mandatory to work for at least a minimum of four hours a day on our online platform, Monday through Friday. Um. So usually with kids that like you know are in sports or have jobs or things like that, that can be a little bit of a challenge. Um. But if you're working full time, I don't anticipate that it will be. Um. Speaker 2 00:04:49 But I we do need that four hour commitment because what I do, um, is with independent studies I still need to mark your attendance in the state of California for the entire calendar month that you're enrolled, right? So although you can only meet with me twice a week, I still track attendance for the entire month. So the way that I mark your attendance, the way that I mark you present, is I, um. Check your login activity on Edmentum. So, for example, because sometimes it can be a little confusing. Today's Tuesday. What I did this morning is I logged in. I checked all the students' login activity for yesterday. If they were logged in for hours, they were marked present. If they were not logged in for hours, at least, then they're marked absent. So that goes directly to your attendance, and that can affect a lot of things in regards to the state. So. Speaker 2 00:05:47 So just so you know, that's how attendance is taken. So you tell me. I know that school was a little bit of a barrier with you working tired. Do you do you feel like you have. Speaker 4 00:05:59 To? I'm like definitely like with online school like it's just like physically like I couldn't like when I was going to like the other school so like online school like would be perfect like four hours yeah that's. Speaker 3 00:06:16 And Maria, just just to give you a heads up, Ladonia was we lived near LAX, and Ladonia had to go all the way to Long Beach for school, and so that was a barrier because she it was like an hour on the road per day, so that's why we had chose to switch. Speaker 2 00:06:34 Got it. Okay. Okay. That also really gives me some insight. Okay. Perfect. So. We're good with the four hours, and the good thing too is that it's really up to your discretion when you want to do it. So you can do it in the morning, the afternoon, night. You can take breaks. It really doesn't matter. Um, so you have a lot of freedom and flexibility in when it gets done. So that's great. Um, the other main requirement I would say is that um you meet with me twice a week on Zoom. Um, so right now, and it's only for an hour and. Speaker 2 00:07:11 For a majority of the time, we are just working on momentum, and then for about ten, fifteen minutes or so, I check in on you and I we go over your goals, things like that. It's really just to make sure that you're right on track. Do you prefer mornings, afternoons? Afternoons. Afternoons. Okay, I have Tuesday, Thursday at one. Does that sound good to you? Nope. Okay. Sounds good. So we'll do Tuesday, Thursday at one. Sorry, I'm in my car because my internet is out. But Tuesday, Thursday at one. Let me write that down for you. And then, do you have a computer to work on or a device to work on? Yes. Okay. Speaker 4 00:07:57 I have a laptop. Speaker 2 00:07:59 Oh, perfect. Okay. Do you need a hotspot. Speaker 4 00:08:02 Um, you know, Wi-Fi is pretty good. Speaker 2 00:08:06 Okay. Okay. Sounds good. So we're all good on devices, and we'll book your appointment time. Okay. The I don't have your official transcripts yet. Usually during orientation, I like to kind of go over the classes you still need and your graduation date. We can all get together in about a month or so when I do have the transcripts, and we can do that no problem. For right now, what I will tell you is if you already have the credits that you need. A regular high school pace will be a week, which is usually attained by the four hours a day. For my students who are doing credit recovery, which means that they have a little bit of work they need to catch up on, maybe they didn't pass some classes, maybe they need to retake some classes. Usually, I recommend the six hours, and that'll push you a little further to be able to catch up. Again, I'm not too. Speaker 2 00:09:02 So where you're at, but once we get your unofficial transcripts, we'll have a better idea, and then we'll be able to set your grad date. Does that sound good? Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Um, for now, what I will say is exactly what you have right now on our Zoom. Your camera's on, and you have your full name. That's what's required during class, and then our learning periods in school. So, um, it is we are very different from. A traditional school. Have you ever been to an options school before? No. Okay, that's okay. So at a traditional school, you have your six periods for a semester, which is usually about five months. This is not like that. So for us, you usually will take about one class at a time, and and you'll finish it every four weeks or so. As long as you're finishing one class every four. Speaker 2 00:10:00 Four weeks, then that means you're on track, you're doing what you need, and you're you would graduate at your regular pace at a regular high school. Um, again, some students need more, so some students turn in more than one class every four weeks, but that's usually what we do. Um, this just changed, so it used to be if you turn in less than six units, which is a little over one class, then you would get a truancy. Now it's five. So basically, if you You are assigned a class and you don't finish it within the four week period, you do get a truancy. And then after truancies, you're dropped. But you get so many warnings prior to this that this rarely ever happens. So I wouldn't take it as a main concern. But what I will tell you is that your class, as soon as it's assigned to you, it's essentially due at the end of the four week. Which I'll go over. I'll log in with you and I'll show you what that means exactly. Speaker 2 00:10:57 Which actually I would like to log in with you right now. Do you have your computer with you right now. Speaker 4 00:11:02 Uh, Speaker 2 00:11:03 Not the moment. Okay. Do you have a device that you can use to log in for now, just so we can kind of explore the the online curriculum together? Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Go ahead and get it, and then let me know once you do, and I'll walk you through our login. Speaker 1 00:11:37 Have we done this here. Speaker 2 00:11:39 In our Zoom chat? Okay, in our Zoom chat, I just sent you the Edmentum link. I sent you the account information. Let me know once you're on your device and on the website, and if you need any help, any. Speaker 2 00:12:11 And then Christi, maybe you can help me with this part. At her school in Long Beach, do you know if she closed out her classes before transferring? Speaker 3 00:12:19 So we attempted to do so, but they said that they needed to get the school that we're transferring to has to reach out to them first before they can close her out. Speaker 2 00:12:31 Okay, that's okay, no problem. Sometimes they do that. Do you know what classes she was working on? Speaker 3 00:12:39 We do not. I'm sorry. That's. Speaker 2 00:12:45 Okay. We will figure it out. Speaker 3 00:12:50 So Ladonia was placed with me the first week of July, and because she is over the age of 18, she's in SLP, which means she gets to be as independent as possible, and I just. We just work out all the stuff she needs, and I let her handle a lot of the things that she wants to on her own, unless she asks me to jump in and help. Speaker 2 00:13:17 So. Got it. Okay. Ladonia, do you remember what class you might have been working on. Speaker 4 00:13:22 Yeah. So. Oh, and also I'm kind of having trouble like logging in. Speaker 2 00:13:29 Okay. That's okay. Speaker 4 00:13:31 What step are you on? The login. Speaker 2 00:13:35 Okay. That's okay. Um, did you get to the the website? Did you click on the link I sent you? Okay. And then you put the account login as OLVS. Oh no. Okay. That's usually what gets them. Speaker 2 00:14:08 If you want, you can also share your screen with me. For sure. Speaker 4 00:14:12 Do I log in with my my Google account or the student ID account like we had to make. Speaker 2 00:14:23 Um, are you on Momentum? Yeah. Then you would log in with the username that I sent you the in the Zoom chat. Speaker 4 00:14:33 Did you see it? Uh. Speaker 1 00:14:36 It's okay. Speaker 2 00:15:30 To Log in. Speaker 1 00:15:31 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:15:33 No, that's okay. Um, are you logged in? Speaker 1 00:15:35 That wasn't gonna work, person. You. Speaker 2 00:15:47 Can share your screen. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:15:55 It's just a password. Speaker 2 00:15:57 Okay, that one is case sensitive, so it's capital O F Y P, and then lowercase for the rest. Okay, now. Okay, perfect. Um, okay, so maybe you can tell me. Do you remember what classes you were working on. Speaker 4 00:16:16 Yeah. So, what's the call? So I had to my school schedule before. Can I go get that real quick? Yeah. That's fine. Go ahead, push it. Yeah. To the bathroom. Yep. Are you sure we go to the. Speaker 1 00:16:42 Bathroom first? Speaker 4 00:17:16 So I was currently, um, I had to retake another year of PE, um, and then they had me take another year of food science, and I take geometry, um, I failed last year and I had U.S. government, but um for PE, um, I did summer school, so it was like a mistake on that part. I finished um PE for summer school. I just didn't take like the final exam, so like they didn't count it. Or I guess so. Speaker 2 00:17:52 Okay. Okay. That's fine. Um, for the geometry, were you on your first semester or your second? First. First. Did you finish the first semester? No. Okay. That's okay. So you need. I'm gonna pause on giving you the first semester because I'm assuming you got partial credit, so I don't want to start you on like something that you might have already gotten partial credit on. But I'm assuming you 100% need all of the second semester of geometry. Yeah. Okay. So we need second semester of geometry, and then government. Same thing. If they had you start it, they might be giving you partial credit. Speaker 2 00:18:39 So even if you didn't fully finish it all the way, I don't think we should start it just in case you have some credit there. But the second part or the second semester of government is econ. Did you ever take economics? No. Okay. So we can give you. Okay. So I will leave this up to you. Do you prefer to start with geography or do you prefer to start with economics? Economics will be a little more like reading and writing based, and geometry will be more math based. Actually, I think that's a good one to start with. You too. And then for econ, that one, you tell me. It includes a little bit of math and it is a little reading and writing. If you end up feeling like you want any additional help on it, Speaker 2 00:19:35 Because with our school system, you're really working independently. But if you feel like you need any additional help, we can always schedule you for regular tutoring. That way, you're not working on it on your own. So I'll let you work on it like today and tomorrow. And when we meet on Thursday at one, you can kind of tell me how you're feeling, and we can take it from there. Does that sound good? Speaker 4 00:19:57 For sure. Speaker 2 00:19:59 Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, if you don't mind, can you go ahead and refresh your Edmentum? And can you let me know if you see the econ class on there? Yes, I did. Okay, perfect. So let me kind of go over our deadlines a little more clearer for you. So econ, all of this unit one. So this all one unit. One class makes up five units total, so you'll see unit two, unit three, unit four, and then unit five right here. These five units should all be done within a four-week mark. So that's what we mean by every four weeks. Schedule. That these five are done in four weeks. Speaker 2 00:20:56 Usually, what students will do is about two activities per day. So, like these big folds signify one activity. If you do two a day, then you should be right on. Let me go over one of the activities with you, just so you can kind of see what it looks like. Your tutorials are where all your work goes. This is where your reading is, your writing, your videos. It's where all of the learning essentially is done. Would I go in and I grade? Are these writing? So anytime you have a writing, this what I go in. This what I look at, and this what I'll grade. Submit has thing where let's say I put in a random answer, like let's say I put the number three, and then I press submit. It does thing where it shows you an example answer. However, my best suggestion for you is. Speaker 2 00:21:51 Not look at this example answer and then change your own original answer because you can be flagged as plagiarism if your answer is too similar to the example answer. So what I tell my kids is just put in your own answer, submit it, and then don't even look at the sample answer. Don't change it, even if your answer was wrong. Don't change it because if it's too similar, you're going to get flagged for plagiarism, and it's just not worth it. And ultimately, when I'm grading econ, I'm not grading for grammar or anything like that. I'm grading to check for understanding. So as long as I feel like you're grasping the content, then your grade should be just fine. Okay. That is actually bringing me into our plagiarism policy. So let me go over that real quick. Our plagiarism policy is right here. So, let's say you do copy a sample answer, you get some insight from the sample answer, and it's too. Speaker 2 00:22:51 You get flagged for plagiarism. You redo the assignment. The highest grade that you can get is a 75%. If it happens again, same thing. You redo it. The highest grade you can get is then a 70%. The third time, the highest grade you can get in the whole class is a 70%. And then the fourth time, we meet with Miss Kusti. We'll meet with me. We'll meet with our assistant principal, and essentially we'll say, hey, you have Or plagiarism marks at this point, and we recommend you to a different school or a different schooling. Essentially, it's the same with AIs. I would be careful with using like ChatGPT, copying answers off of Google, things of that sort, with the kind of plagiarism. Basically, anything that's not your own work. But again, I'm not grading on like length or anything like that. I'm just grading to check for understanding. Speaker 2 00:23:49 So as long as your answers show that you are reading the tutorials and you understand what the question is asking, you should be fine. Do we have any questions on the plagiarism policy? No. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Let me go back to showing you Edmentum. Once you get through the whole tutorial, you'll have a five-question mastery test. These are very low pressure. You can retake it as many times as you need to, and it's only five questions, so. Don't let this stress you out too much, and that's essentially one lesson I would say, and you would do two lessons a day. That would be the goal. Okay. Any questions so far? None. Okay. All right. Sounds good. I think as you work through it as well, if any questions come up, you can just let me know. But we do try to make it as user friendly as possible, and that's pretty much all of Edmentum. So with that. Speaker 2 00:24:48 Being said, that's orientation really. Um, couple things before I let you guys go. Um, first things first, will you be able to start working today? Okay, you'll be able to start working today. Perfect. Do you think you'll still be able to do your four hours today? I know it's about to be 3: Speaker 4 00:25:10 30. Yeah, we could. We could work like any time of the day. At least like it's just for four or six hours. Speaker 2 00:25:17 Yeah, any time of the day. Okay, Speaker 4 00:25:20 You can. I can do it today. Speaker 2 00:25:21 All right. If you need too much, you just let me know. Well, we'll try. We'll see how it goes. I'm sure there'll be a little, and that's fine. Um, and then the second thing, assuming um you're okay with me contacting. Christi, as well, as far as your education is concerned. Yes, of course. Perfect. Okay. Um. So you let me know. So usually, what I'll do is, um, every morning I'll send a text and I'll be like, Hey, you were marked present for yesterday, or you were marked absent. Do you want me? Usually, I'll have both parties in the group text. Do you still want me to do this? Yeah. Okay. I'll start a group text. If you both don't mind, can you please send me your cell phone number? Speaker 2 00:26:15 And I'll start a group chat with my work number. Speaker 3 00:26:19 I put mine in the chat for you. Speaker 2 00:26:22 Thank you so much. And then you should be getting a text from me. I just did. Okay, I got both. Um, that is pretty much all that I have for you. Ladonia, if you are working today and you end up having any questions, you let me know. I'm working until 6: 30 today, so if anything comes up, please let me know. Okay, Christi, thank you. I let either of you go. Do we have any questions. Speaker 2 00:26:57 No. Okay. Speaker 3 00:26:60 Missy, do we have any questions? No, I'm good. Thank you, though. Speaker 2 00:27:04 Okay. All right. Of course. It was so nice to meet you both, Ladonia. I look forward to seeing you in class on Thursday. If you have any questions at all, please let me know. Speaker 4 00:27:13 Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Right. Yeah. Have a good one. Speaker 2 00:27:17 Bye. Have a great day.
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09-04 Procurement Issue: 3‑D Secure Mismatch Blocks Apple Laptop Purchase; Finance Centralizes Payment to Resolve
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-  ## Core Synopsis The payment process for Charl’s Apple laptop failed due to 3-D Secure/SMS verification routing to the wrong phone number, exposing a brittle, multi-party purchasing workflow that relies on ad hoc card sharing and absent approvers. April attempted to process the purchase using Katerina’s card details Maggie provided, but the bank’s authentication surfaced Anzor’s number and did not present Katerina’s, blocking completion; attempts were nearing the card’s “4 of 5” attempt limit. The team escalated to Finance and Elisa agreed to advance ZAR 47,999 directly, bypassing the card gate. We are acting on the core reality: decentralized, person-dependent payment methods caused delay and risk; the immediate fix is centralizing payment through Finance, and the broader remedy is standardizing company purchases via Finance-controlled rails to eliminate authentication mismatches and multi-attempt lockouts. ## Payment Failure and Process Pivot - The Attempted Purchase and Blocker - April coordinated purchasing an Apple laptop for Charl using card details shared by Maggie (PAN ending 0935, CVV 625, Exp 10/2030) and expected Katerina to receive the 3-D Secure code. - The authentication flow repeatedly surfaced Anzor’s phone number rather than Katerina’s; Katerina was unreachable; Anzor was at sea and signal uncertain. - The Apple checkout indicated “Your purchase requires additional verification. We are unable to complete verification at this time.” Attempts were approaching the card’s “4 of 5” limit, increasing risk of temporary lock/denial. - Root Cause and Failure Mode (Diagnostic) - Phenomenon: 3-D Secure SMS routing to the wrong authenticator; inability to select the intended cardholder’s number; verification failure. - Mechanism: Bank-level security configuration bound to cardholder contact data and/or prior authenticated profiles; Apple gateway presented limited authenticator options. - Root Cause: Reliance on third-party personal cards and individuals’ phone-based verification in a time-sensitive purchase; lack of a Finance-owned payment path for company hardware. - The Pivot to Finance-Controlled Payment - Elisa (Finance) joined, confirmed the ability to send funds in ZAR directly for the exact amount (ZAR 47,999), and requested receipt post-transaction for recording. - This bypassed the multi-party card verification loop and centralized the transaction under Finance, reducing risk of authentication mismatch and lockouts. - Context and Noise Filter - Personal chatter (age, family updates, currency lament) is non-operational. - Key operational signals: card attempt limits, authenticator mismatch, and Finance intervention. ## Action Items **@Elisa (Finance)** - [ ] Transfer ZAR 47,999 to Charl for the laptop purchase - [Immediately/TBD] - [ ] Record the transaction upon receipt of purchase proof; reconcile against September ledger - [TBD] **@Charl** - [ ] Complete the Apple laptop purchase using the Finance-advanced funds; obtain and forward the official receipt to Elisa - [TBD] **@April** - [ ] Send the finalized purchase receipt and any relevant order confirmation details to Elisa for Finance records - [TBD] **@Finance Lead (Owner: Elisa or Delegate)** - [ ] Formalize a hardware procurement policy: mandate Finance-owned payment instruments (corporate card or centralized bank transfer) for company purchases to avoid 3-D Secure mismatches and attempt lockouts - [TBD]
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- Sep 4, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hello, my friend. Hang on one sec. Let me just send this message. Speaker 2 00:00:06 Alright. Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:25 Um. Maggie said you have the link, and the only thing that I need to do is give you the code so it can proceed with the payment, Speaker 3 00:00:35 Right? Yeah, pretty much. Give me a second while I log in. Returning visitor. What is that Apple? Speaker 1 00:00:43 I really I need to give a heads up to Katerina because I think she should be the one receiving the code. One sec. Speaker 3 00:00:52 Yeah, no, Speaker 1 00:00:53 Probably. Good morning. Speaker 1 00:01:08 We'll Be purchasing a laptop for Charl today. Speaker 2 00:01:15 For. Speaker 1 00:01:51 Just . What happened to your old laptop. Speaker 3 00:01:57 Um, it died. Oh no. Speaker 3 00:02:06 And I'm using my. Speaker 1 00:02:08 What are you using right now? Speaker 3 00:02:09 Personal computer. Ah. That Mac that I traveled with, yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:15 Oh okay. Speaker 3 00:02:17 I remember I didn't use a laptop. I used a desktop. When? Speaker 1 00:02:26 Returning visitor. Speaker 3 00:02:28 Well, it's been like three years now. Hmm. Speaker 3 00:02:35 As I'm getting older, I'm getting blinder. Speaker 1 00:02:37 The white hair. Speaker 3 00:02:43 Yeah, Jesus, I can't believe the fucking white hair situation. That's insane. Speaker 1 00:02:49 Oh my God, you're old. Speaker 3 00:02:53 You're. Yeah, fuck it. It's three years, then I'm forty. Jesus Christ. Oh my God. Speaker 3 00:03:02 You're you're even closer, aren't you, April? Huh? You're even closer to forty, aren't you? Speaker 1 00:03:10 Yeah, Speaker 3 00:03:11 Next year. Jesus Christ! Speaker 1 00:03:16 Fuck. Forty. My God. Speaker 3 00:03:21 Forty, halfway to eighty. Holy sh! You. Speaker 1 00:03:26 Should send me a gift on my fortieth. Speaker 3 00:03:28 I should actually. Speaker 3 00:03:32 Water heater. Speaker 1 00:03:34 Oh, I would love a water heater. April, Speaker 3 00:03:39 Just hold on a second. Monti is bothering me here on the side, so I put you on mute for a moment. Speaker 1 00:03:47 Okay, no worries. Speaker 2 00:04:04 Tuesday afternoon. It. Speaker 3 00:04:56 Alrighty, April, Speaker 1 00:04:57 I'm back. Okay. I'm gonna send this message to Katerina now. Are you all good with the link. Speaker 3 00:05:08 Yes, I'm ready. Speaker 1 00:05:12 Can you share your. Speaker 3 00:05:13 Screen? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:05:15 Hold a sec. So we can't proceed with the payment. Speaker 2 00:05:29 Thanks so much, and we we will need the code. Speaker 1 00:05:51 Um. Okay. So for the card number. Speaker 1 00:05:59 One sec. Maggie mentioned it to me yesterday. That should be the. Oh, this one zero nine three five. Okay, the number card number is four four four. Speaker 2 00:06:22 Uh huh. Speaker 1 00:06:26 Three nine five. Speaker 3 00:06:30 Three nine five. Speaker 1 00:06:31 Yeah. Four two zero. Speaker 3 00:06:35 Two zero. Speaker 1 00:06:40 Seven one four. Speaker 3 00:06:41 Seven one four. Speaker 1 00:06:45 Zero nine. Zero nine. Three five. Um, cardholder is. Let me just. Sent you the complete name. I sent it in the chat. Oh, one sec, it's wrong spelling. Why is it? Speaker 3 00:07:15 You get Katerina. Yeah, but this. I'm sure I saw that before, some time before. Speaker 1 00:07:21 But that's the info that Maggie shared me. Maybe that's what's on the card. CVV six two five. Speaker 3 00:07:30 Six twenty five. Speaker 1 00:07:34 Expiration October twenty thirty. Speaker 2 00:07:37 Ten. Speaker 1 00:07:40 Ten thirty. Speaker 2 00:07:41 Yeah. So ten. Six. Speaker 1 00:07:53 Hopefully, Katerina, and I will see my message. She's not seeing it yet. Nine three four five, isn't that Anzor's? One moment, that me. Ah, that's Anzor's number. Six eight. Okay, go ahead. One sec. Yeah, you should select six eight one. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:08:28 Select that one and then continue. Speaker 2 00:08:37 Okay. Speaker 1 00:08:42 Huh? Your purchase requires additional verification. We are unable to complete verification at this time. Speaker 3 00:08:49 Okay, hold on, it's doing something. User authentication. Okay, let's try this again. Dear God. Speaker 1 00:08:57 Oh. One sec. Let me just retain you the card number and then I'll just delete that. Speaker 2 00:09:09 I sent it in the chat. Ah, Speaker 1 00:09:11 Good. Just copy paste it. So it's faster. CVV six two five. Speaker 2 00:09:22 Six two five. Speaker 1 00:09:23 Saturday ten thirty. Pay now. Oh. Hang on, that's Anzor's number. Speaker 3 00:09:42 Why was? Yeah, it's not giving Katerina's number. Why? Anymore, I don't. Speaker 1 00:09:50 Know. Okay. Um. Let's try Anzor's number. I'm just gonna send him a message. One sec. Good morning, Anzor. Okay, can you try? Speaker 1 00:10:26 There we go. Katerina is not has not seen my message yet. Speaker 1 00:10:53 Oh no, Anzor is sailing today. I hope he has a signal to receive my message. Oh my God. Speaker 3 00:11:02 Oh my goodness, this has been the worst struggle. Speaker 1 00:11:10 But why did Katerina's number is not showing up from the options earlier? It's there. Speaker 3 00:11:25 Yeah, I I don't know why. It's probably the bank doing its doing its thing. Speaker 2 00:11:29 Security. Hmm. September. Speaker 1 00:11:54 How is Henry, Speaker 3 00:11:55 By the way? Yeah, no, he's he's doing good. Speaker 1 00:12:00 He's doing good. How old is he now? Like when did. Speaker 3 00:12:05 You? Yeah, almost almost two. Speaker 1 00:12:09 Oh. Speaker 3 00:12:10 In November, but yeah, it's been a fucking struggle. Speaker 1 00:12:15 How is the visitation. Speaker 3 00:12:17 Um, well, it's now three times a week for quite a couple of hours. And it seems to be like adapting quite well and and settling in. So you know, thank God for that. But yeah, fucking hell, it's been. Are you like journey from hell? Speaker 1 00:12:42 I know. You went through like lawsuit. Speaker 3 00:12:49 Yeah, that's that's a fucking worst. Yeah, I want to tell you it's. Oh, this year and last year has not been has not been fun. I'm hoping that 2027 will be considerably better. We'll we'll see. Speaker 1 00:13:06 Are you like co - parenting? Are you in good terms with ex - wife. Speaker 3 00:13:13 Um. Well, as as good as you can, as good as it can be. Um. I mean, we sued each other. And we went to court. So, but considering all of that, it seems to be relatively stable - ish. But I think it's a very a very sensitive truce, if you can, or a delicate truce, if you can call it that. Speaker 2 00:13:41 I see. Well, Speaker 3 00:13:45 Yeah, but I'm pretty sure if opportunity arises. Yeah, we would definitely try and kill each other. Speaker 1 00:13:56 Well, let's just hope for the best for Henry. Speaker 3 00:14:01 Yeah, and at the end of the day, that's that's the only thing we can do. April, I'm gonna exit here, right? And let's see if it brings up. Speaker 1 00:14:10 Yeah, can you try? But also be mindful that four of five card attempts. Hmm. There should. That should be the only one remaining. Speaker 3 00:14:24 Ah, I think if it doesn't bring up, if it doesn't bring up the the thing for Katerina's number now, we should just um have finance just pay pay it out because I should have just gone with that method from the beginning instead. I thought it would be easy because you buy something from Apple, you type in your shit, and you go. I mean, how difficult can it be? Speaker 1 00:14:53 No, I'm also not sure why. Ah, yeah, ten thirty. CBB six twenty five. Speaker 3 00:14:58 Six twenty five. Speaker 1 00:15:01 Yeah. Ah, I hope Katerina's number will show up again. Please God. Speaker 3 00:15:14 Ah. It does not. Speaker 3 00:15:20 Why Oh my God. Speaker 1 00:15:21 Why don't you just buy it yourself and then just reimburse it? It's much easier instead of you know going through this. Speaker 3 00:15:28 You know how long? Yeah, but I thought this was going to be much easier because you know how long reimbursement takes. It takes weeks. Speaker 1 00:15:37 Yeah, Speaker 3 00:15:37 It does. Um, who handles the finance things nowadays? Speaker 1 00:15:43 Um, you can reach out to Elisa. Speaker 3 00:15:47 Okay, hold on a second. I'm gonna just can I add Elisa to the score? Speaker 1 00:15:51 Yeah, Speaker 3 00:15:52 Sure. We can just explain to her what we have been. Isn't she on maternity? When is she going on maternity leave? Speaker 1 00:16:02 Uh, October 12th, Speaker 3 00:16:03 Next month. God, how time flies. Speaker 1 00:16:09 I know, Speaker 3 00:16:10 Right? April. I can't add her here. Speaker 1 00:16:14 Huh? One second. Why not? Let me add her. Speaker 3 00:16:17 Oh, Speaker 1 00:16:18 Sweet. Elisa. Speaker 2 00:16:22 Oh, there we go. Oh, Speaker 3 00:16:38 There she is. Hello, Speaker 1 00:16:39 Elisa. Hi. Good morning. Speaker 3 00:16:42 Morning, Elisa. I've been. I'm struggling with April year to get Anzor's or Katarina's card to process the payment for my new computer. And yesterday, me and Maggie tried another card. And the day before, we tried again. Elisa, can you do me a favor? Can you just you see the amount here? Can you please just do an advance for me on on that amount? Speaker 1 00:17:06 Anzor, how much. Speaker 3 00:17:08 It's um forty - seven thousand nine hundred and ninety - nine rand. Speaker 4 00:17:15 Wait. Speaker 1 00:17:16 A second. Can can you can you send the amount in chats? Then she needs to convert that. Speaker 3 00:17:25 Yeah, I don't know what what is that dollar value. I think it's like two thousand nine hundred or something. Speaker 2 00:17:37 Um. T. Speaker 2 00:17:43 Set that off. Our. Speaker 3 00:17:53 Currency has fucking plummeted. It's now three thousand and eighty dollars. Speaker 1 00:17:59 Oh, Speaker 3 00:17:59 Same here. Why? Why is this U. S. dollar doing doing this? This is absolute. Speaker 1 00:18:07 I don't. Speaker 3 00:18:10 Know. Oh, I give up. Why is this happening? You know, you get a salary increase, and then the U. S. dollar just keeps on collapsing further, and then you end up not having a salary increase at all because it just falls to pieces. Speaker 1 00:18:32 I think the dollar conversion here in the Philippines is is favorable for us. Speaker 3 00:18:43 How can it be favorable? Because you guys are getting less. Speaker 1 00:18:47 No, right now the conversion from dollar to peso is it sixty two pesos, Elisa. Um yes, Speaker 4 00:18:55 Our peso is weaker. Yeah. Um this month, so we're getting more. Speaker 1 00:18:60 Yeah, more money for us. Speaker 4 00:19:01 Bad for our economy, but more money for us. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:19:09 Bad indication for the rand per dollar. Speaker 3 00:19:13 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:19:15 More pesos per dollar. Speaker 3 00:19:16 So. Yeah, I would like to see that for the rand because our rand is strengthening against the freaking dollar, and it is so bad. Ah, Lord. Anyway, at some stage it will hopefully fix itself again. Speaker 4 00:19:36 Hey Charl, actually I can send you in Rand. Speaker 3 00:19:39 If you can do that, that'll be great. Speaker 4 00:19:42 Yeah. So forty seven, nine nine nine. That's good. Nine nine nine, right? Yeah. Okay, I'm on it. Just let me know if the transaction has been completed, and I'll request for the receipt. Speaker 3 00:20:01 All right. Speaker 4 00:20:02 So I can record it. Speaker 3 00:20:05 All right, and then Elisa, another thing is I've Marika let sent me a message this morning saying that I didn't um do my my invoice. I I completely forgot about it, but I did send it through to her. So just FYI, Speaker 4 00:20:22 And I'm sorry. I'm actually, sorry, mate. No worries. Speaker 3 00:20:24 Thank you. Yeah, sorry. All right. Thanks, April. Thanks, Elisa. Speaker 4 00:20:33 Alrighty. Okay. Bye. Bye. I miss you. Now. Bye. Bye. Bye. Speaker 3 00:20:39 Thanks. Bye.
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09-03 Meeting: Angie's Substance Use, Pregnancy, and Foster Care Status
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-09-03 11:38:11 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] ## Meeting Notes ### Concerns About Angie/Angelique's THC Use During Pregnancy and Baby Safety - Speaker 2 reports catching Angie vaping THC at approximately 35 weeks pregnant; Angie downplayed the risk, saying the baby would "just need an IEP." - Angie allegedly claimed she stopped on Sunday, but a vape pen was observed in her bra the next day. - Speaker 2 emphasizes a household policy: substance use is unacceptable when it harms another person, including the unborn baby. - Speaker 4 is deeply concerned for the baby's safety and suggests coordinating with the social worker on a plan that may involve removal if risks persist. - Speaker 3 acknowledges Angie's excitement but notes she needs significant learning; suggests firmer boundaries and another week to reassess. - Speaker 6 (DCFS supervisor) states law limits action on unborn children; hotline documentation was made after Stephanie's training. Speaker 6 previously observed items resembling vaping paraphernalia when moving Angie's belongings; Angie denied use at that time. - Speaker 6 plans to visit Angie on September 4, 2026, at approximately 11:00 AM to drop off a bassinet and discuss vaping concerns directly. - Speaker 2 notes hospitals will monitor what Angie says during childbirth, and even mentioning "recovery" can trigger drug tests for both mother and baby based on past experiences. Speaker 6 adds that hospitals conduct standard blood work on all mothers and babies, which could reveal substance use independently. - Speaker 2 discussed that meconium and umbilical cord testing can reveal controlled substances throughout pregnancy. - Speaker 2 is willing to give Angie one more week to demonstrate positive change; if caught vaping again, a 14-day notice will be issued. - Speaker 6 agrees with this approach and plans to speak with Angie to emphasize respecting the rules of the home, particularly regarding substance use on the property. - Conclusion: Serious concern exists; participants differ on immediate action but agree Angie needs accountability and education, and all risks must be documented and addressed. Formal DCFS referral cannot proceed until the baby is born. ### Angelique's Intent to Exit Foster Care to Protect Custody of Her Baby - Angelique contacted her attorney to request removal from foster care, believing it lowers the chances her baby will be taken. - She also sought to have Stephanie removed as her social worker; court ordered a meeting with Supervisor (Speaker 6). - Speaker 6 noted Angelique is an adult and can close her case, but this may not resolve the underlying concerns; no formal notice of closure has been received yet. - If Angelique closes her case, she cannot remain in any department-supported housing (foster home, THP, or SILP). - Speaker 2 shared personal history—adopted at 15, siblings in care—emphasizing lived experience and capacity to support youth like Angelique. - Conclusion: Case closure ends eligibility for all departmental housing and supports; Angelique's actual intent and timeline remain unconfirmed. ### Financial and Placement Issues (W Rate, SILP) and Resource Use - Angelique wants the W rate turned over to her and intends to save for a car rather than spend on the baby. - Speaker 6 clarified department policy: the caregiver receives the W rate payment, and funds are intended for the baby's needs. - Attorney reportedly advised funds should go to Angelique; Speaker 6 reiterated that policy pays the caregiver. - A post-birth budgeting meeting is planned with the caregiver, Angelique, Stephanie, and Supervisor to structure fund use, potentially with receipts. - Early infant supplement (one lump sum for the last three months of pregnancy) has been initiated; receipts cannot be required but baby-prep purchases are expected. - Donations secured: bassinet; additional requests for a car seat and diapers have been submitted. - If Angelique enters SILP successfully, funds could be managed differently. - Conclusion: No final decision made; department policy is to pay the caregiver for the W rate. Concern logged about appropriate use of benefits and suitability of SILP given Angie's statements. ### SRP (Service/Resource Plan) and Caregiving Readiness - Speaker 2 explained that the SRP defines who does what for the baby; tasks were discussed at the table with Ladonia. - Angie expressed limited awareness of newborn care, including feeding every two hours, bathing, and diaper cream use. - Angie suggested bringing the baby to Speaker 2 at 3:00 AM if too tired and wants Speaker 2 to handle bathing due to worry. - Conclusion: Angie requires education and support on infant care; SRP needs completion with clear roles defined. ### Contingency Planning for Birth and Potential Baby Drug Testing - Speaker 2 asked Angie to identify contingency caregivers if the baby is detained: potential options include Sean, Speaker 2, and others. - Angie does not want the baby placed with Olivia; Ashley might offer support if Angie attends meetings, obtains a sponsor, and stops smoking. - Birth plan considerations include who makes medical decisions if Angie is incapacitated during delivery. - Conclusion: Contingency planning initiated; preferences captured but unresolved. Ashley's support remains conditional on Angie's accountability and cessation. ### DCFS Involvement and Legal Constraints - Speaker 6 states that current law limits DCFS action regarding unborn children. - Speaker 6 acknowledges that all department staff and community partners are mandated reporters; any safety concerns after birth will trigger a hotline report and investigation regardless of Angie's living situation. - Conclusion: DCFS will document concerns and have a direct conversation with Angie; formal referral cannot proceed until after the baby is born. ### Foster Home Capacity and Potential 14-Day Notice - Speaker 2 is close to issuing a 14-day notice, citing that Angie occupies a space that could serve youth who are seeking change. - Speaker 6 agrees with a one-week observation period before deciding. - Speaker 2 seeks feedback from Speaker 1, Speaker 3, and others before proceeding. - Conclusion: No decision yet; input requested to determine whether to proceed with the notice. ### Responsibilities and Consequences if Minor Leaves Foster Care - Speaker 6 clarifies that if Angelique's case remains open after the baby is born, the department's responsibility includes assessing the safety and well-being of the child regardless of living situation. - If Angelique exits foster care, Speaker 2 will require her to leave the home. - Conclusion: Caregiver willing to continue working with DCFS if Angelique remains in care; case closure immediately ends housing eligibility. ### Housing Transition Pathways (THP, SILP) - Transition options for non-minor dependents include THP to build independent living skills, followed by SILP before age 21. - SILP requires Angelique to secure her own rental and have funds; the department provides structured support but not upfront housing money. - Courtesy notifications will be provided to the caregiver when placement changes occur. - Speaker 2 currently has a SILP youth in the home. - Conclusion: Maintaining the case is necessary to access THP/SILP supports; case closure ends all eligibility. ### Future Placements for Older Teens - Speaker 2 mentioned working with non-minor dependents and older teens and invited Speaker 6 to check for bed availability if a placement is needed. - Speaker 6 confirmed their department works with teenagers and non-minor dependents and noted difficulty finding suitable caregivers for this age group; will keep Speaker 2 on their list. ### Communication Updates and School Changes - Speaker 4 discusses texting Ladonia; number may change soon per Speaker 2. - Speaker 3 decided to switch to online school to finish the last year. - Conclusion: Informational; awareness of number change needed. --- ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 6 (Adriana) to visit the home on September 4, 2026, at approximately 11:00 AM to speak with Angie and deliver the bassinet. - [ ] Speaker 6 to document the discussion about vaping for the official record. - [ ] Speaker 2 to issue a 14-day notice if Angie is caught vaping again. - [ ] Complete the SRP with clear caregiving roles and tasks for the baby. - [ ] Coordinate with DCFS (Speaker 6) for the planned visit and ongoing documentation of substance use concerns. - [ ] Confirm contingency caregivers (e.g., Sean, Ashley) and their conditions (meetings, sponsor, cessation). - [ ] Decide whether to issue a 14-day notice after gathering feedback from Speakers 1 and 3. - [ ] Schedule post-birth budgeting meeting (caregiver, Angelique, Stephanie, Supervisor) for baby-related funds. - [ ] Confirm whether Angelique has officially requested case closure with her attorney and verify intent and timeline. - [ ] Follow up on car seat and diaper donation requests. - [ ] Provide caregiver courtesy updates on any placement search or SILP exploration by Angelique. - [ ] Verify Ladonia's contact number status and update contact lists. - [ ] [Insert more] --- > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. No clear decision on an immediate safety plan if Angie leaves foster care before delivery; define steps and responsible parties. > 2. Unclear enforcement and monitoring of Angie's cessation from THC; set verification and accountability measures. > 3. Ambiguity around use of W rate funds; establish guidelines and oversight to ensure funds benefit the baby, and clarify legal and policy guidance to Angelique and her attorney regarding caregiver payment versus youth payment and SILP implications. > 4. Contingency caregiver agreements are conditional; obtain written commitments and agreed criteria (e.g., Ashley's requirements). > 5. Birth plan lacks finalized medical decision-making authority and emergency contacts; formalize before delivery. > 6. Angie's understanding of the legal and child welfare consequences of vaping while pregnant appears limited; a clear plan beyond a single upcoming conversation was not established to ensure she comprehends these consequences. > 7. Immediate next steps and a support plan for Angie and her baby in the event she is required to leave the foster home were not discussed. > 8. Assess Angelique's current money management support needs and provide targeted coaching before and after birth. > 9. Create a contingency housing plan if Angelique closes her case, including resource referrals outside DCFS support.
- Date
- Sep 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:03 Going back and forth between what should I do? Speaker 2 00:01:10 Not that you're any more important to her, but you're trying. Speaker 1 00:01:52 I'm definitely giving her the chance. Speaker 2 00:01:53 But my my decision that I'm making is if she removes herself from foster care, I have to cut that. I can't have her stay. Speaker 1 00:02:09 Um, if she gets the if she tries to get the the W rate payment to her. Speaker 2 00:02:18 That does concern me. If she goes into SILP, that concerns me because right now all the money would I don't think she would use correctly because of the statements she made last night. Because her desire is to buy a car and move out, and which is completely understandable. One hundred percent can do the buy a car. Speaker 2 00:02:53 At the expense of the the money that's meant for the baby. Speaker 3 00:02:58 In her case, I for at least I cut half of it. My half of the means are like whatever you have left, Speaker 1 00:03:09 Like savings. She's when she first moved in, it was all about she's not breastfeeding the baby. But then when she found out how much. Speaker 2 00:05:52 Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. Speaker 4 00:05:54 Did you hear Ladonia? Oh no, I did not hear her. Sorry. Oh hello. Speaker 3 00:06:00 How's call going? Speaker 4 00:06:02 Uh, so far so good. Um, by the way, did you end up changing Ladonia's number? I remember I texted her like during her first day of school, but I think I forgot that her number got changed or something. Speaker 2 00:06:13 I might have sent you her old number previously, but her number didn't change yet. It's going to change. Speaker 4 00:06:18 Interesting. Interesting. Maybe it was like the weird phone change or whatever that didn't make the message go through. But I did send a text saying like, " Hey, good luck on your first day of school," and then she never responded. And I remember, oh wait, I might not have her old number or. Speaker 5 00:06:30 Something. She's. Speaker 2 00:06:33 Looking. Speaker 3 00:06:39 To see. She's she's kind of yeah. Oh, it's okay. Speaker 4 00:06:49 It's okay. Thank you. No problem. I hope school is going well for you too. Speaker 3 00:06:55 Yeah, there's a big change with that. I decided to change, like, to online just like to finish out my last year. Speaker 5 00:07:03 No, okay, Speaker 1 00:07:05 That's great. Um, sorry, took a bite. We have something we need to talk to you about. Speaker 4 00:07:15 All right, if I may inquire. Or just by chance a follow up to somewhat of yesterday's conversation. Yeah. Okay. Are you okay with that? Yeah, I'm completely okay with that. Speaker 2 00:07:28 Um, so I did have a conversation with Angie after I talked to you and Ladonia yesterday. Um, the conversation went went okay. Um, she did get offended at first and belligerent. Hmm. Speaker 2 00:07:56 Um, she got belligerent at first. She said that she doesn't understand what the big deal about it is. If if any harm comes to the baby from it, if they're just going to need an IEP for school, Speaker 1 00:08:12 Whoa, Speaker 2 00:08:14 And some things like that. Um, she also said that she's going to drop out of foster care. So that they cannot take her baby. Oh, she she also doesn't think that they would ever take her baby. She's not going to let them take her baby. Things like that. Now, at the same time, I had a conversation with her and I said, " Look, I'm not saying what will happen or should happen. I'm saying you need a contingency plan. What would happen if they drug test the baby? Because you would. Speaker 2 00:08:53 No, that's what we were talking about in the bedroom before we took Ari home. Dom doesn't know any of that part. You knew about that one. Okay. So that was the conversation we had, and then I said, "Look, it may not happen, but you do need a contingency plan. Where do you want the baby to go? Who do you want the baby to be with? Do you want me to take the baby?" And she's like, "No, I get removed from your home." I said, "Okay." What if Sean's not there to take the baby? Where is the baby going to go? And so she asked if. So we had a conversation. She doesn't want the baby to go to Olivia because she thinks Olivia is too controlling. Oh. And I can see that. I can see her opinion on that, which is not an issue. Speaker 4 00:09:44 Yeah, I suppose I can see that. Speaker 2 00:09:45 And then so I offered. I said. You've got a village. I'm trying to get you connected to more people so that you have more people to rely on. So we talked about Ashley Mark possibly doing it. Now Ashley. So after that part of the conversation, like it didn't end that great, but it ended well. Um, she did come to me after that conversation. I did have a mini conversation with Ashley, and Ashley said we would consider that if she was to agree to start going to meetings. Speaker 2 00:10:18 And she gets a sponsor, and she gets accountability, and she stops smoking. Period. Yeah, but they need her assurance. Um, Angie came back to me, and she goes, "I understand what you're saying. I made this drug out of foster care." A couple other conversations we were having was the W rate, which is. She wants to use the W rate to buy a car instead of using it for the baby. Speaker 5 00:10:51 Oh yes, Speaker 2 00:10:52 And some stuff like that. And then I told her, hey, we need the SRP because SRP is the it's the plan that we make where who does what for the baby, and that's what we were talking about at the table yesterday, Ladonia. And I think her eyes were opened about how much work it's going. To take for the baby, and at one point she said, " Well, if he wakes up in the middle of the night and I'm too tired to care of him, I'll just come bring him to you." And we were talking like at three o'clock in the morning type wake up stuff like. Speaker 3 00:11:30 That. Speaker 2 00:11:34 Yeah. She didn't realize a baby has to be fed every two. Speaker 6 00:11:37 Hours. Oh yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:40 So there's a lot to that. Bathing the baby, she she's, She wants me to handle bathing the baby because she's worried about that, and she didn't know about diaper cream. That diaper cream has to go on the baby all the time to prevent a diaper rash. So, yeah, she's she's too busy watching Vampire Diaries. Speaker 3 00:12:01 No, she's watching Riverdale. Speaker 2 00:12:05 Right. So, yeah. So there's a lot that she hasn't gotten. So my dilemma is. Speaker 2 00:12:14 She wants to drop out of foster care for the day. Don't take her baby, and they don't drug test. Speaker 3 00:12:19 Me. Speaker 2 00:12:22 I told her. Well, at the time, I was like, I don't know what this is going to look like, but I'll continue trying to support you, the best I can. But my problem is, if that happens, and this is what I'm thinking, Dom, and I just need y'all's input. One, she's. Even last night, she's not acting very interested in getting better because she doesn't see anything wrong with what she's doing. Yeah. Number two, my other dilemma is I don't put in fourteen day notices, but this is the closest I have ever come to wanting to do that. But for me to put a fourteen day notice in, I need both of your feedback on. Speaker 2 00:13:11 Number three. If she stays, she's taking up a space that could be for another you or another Ladonia of people who want support and help to be better than where they came from. Yeah, I would I would trade Angie in an instant for six more Ladonias, six more of you, because you guys wanted to change and you want to do better. Speaker 2 00:13:41 You you see what you're doing. So, and I have a policy. I don't care if you're going to smoke THC, but in there, in someone else's life, right? Yeah. And I told you when we had that conversation months ago. The only issue I'm ever going to have is when you allow your smoking to affect someone else's life, and that's something I don't abide by. And this is where that's coming. Speaker 1 00:14:08 In. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:12 I want to know what you guys think. Speaker 4 00:14:14 Personally, I say as much as I hate to do this, I am deeply concerned for the safety of the baby. Now knowing that even upon confrontation, she does not see any issue with what she's doing, and as much as I love Angie, I think maybe you and the social worker need to possibly come up with a plan where debate. Needs to be removed. I just I hate it because I know how much you know breaking the cycle of abuse and like you know starting this family means for Angie, but it's also abundantly clear that she is not ready. Um, and I am deeply worried for the safety of the baby if she does try to leave the foster care system to avoid the consequences of our actions. Um, I it's sad, but I just. Speaker 4 00:15:11 Not be letting her keep the baby, and I would be fighting for any circumstances for it to be taken away. And that's also hard because also there's no. We're still you're still also working out like if the baby would even be able to come home to you, which hopefully it would be, but also at the same time like there's still also no guarantee, which is also why that's a hard decision to make as well. I don't think she's ready. To have this baby, but I'm also worried about what would happen if the baby did get taken away. But also, I don't think it'd be safe for the baby to be in her care. Upon learning what you just told me, which she said after being confronted, but that was just my personal opinion. Speaker 2 00:15:56 The now I'm gonna let Ladonia give her opinion because she's got some valid points. You might speak up. Speaker 3 00:16:07 Okay, so I feel like. Speaker 3 00:16:12 This was like had yesterday. I feel like, like knowing like Andy like, and we had conversation with her. Like she seems like she's like really excited for this baby. Like she's like, and like her like hearing that she's like willing like tomorrow like, I guess to make a change or like, to finish like some type of work. But like she definitely like needs like a lot of learning. But like I say like, just like give her like a. Speaker 3 00:16:41 She said that she stopped. Well, the day that she, Speaker 2 00:16:45 Yeah. She said she stopped on Sunday when I caught her with the vape pen. However, she had the vape pen in her bra yesterday. The entire conversations. Speaker 5 00:16:59 So he didn't even stop. Speaker 3 00:16:60 Like I feel like, yeah. Like I feel like she gives her another week and I fuck another conversation. I'm like, like you have to. I feel like you have to really like, you can't be soft. Like, I'm sorry, Christy, you can't be soft with it. Like, she, you have to really tell her like you gotta stop. Like, you should have took like the. Speaker 5 00:17:24 Phone. Speaker 6 00:17:35 Hello, yes, good morning. What is Brown, please? This is her. Hi, Miss Brown. My name is Adriana Perez, supervisor with the Department of Children and Family Services. Yes, ma'am. Um, I, I'm good. Yourself? Um, I'm sorry. I was I was in another call when you called me. Um, I was I was in contact with Angelique earlier because I was making an appointment to go drop off a bassinet. I'm sorry. Did I overstep? Speaker 2 00:18:01 No, no, you did not overstep at all. Speaker 6 00:18:04 Okay, because when I heard your voice, Nella was like, " Oh my God." I should have called Miss Brown first. Speaker 2 00:18:10 No, I am perfectly okay with that. Stephanie asked me this morning to give you a call, but I had been in back - to - back meetings, and so I couldn't give you a call until just until I left that voicemail. So, Speaker 6 00:18:23 Oh, okay. Oh no, no, no worries. Give me a call about what was there? Something in particular? I know Miss Stephanie is in training all day. Speaker 2 00:18:32 Yes, so I'm gonna. I'm just gonna give you the entire story. Okay. First off, be aware. My daughters, both of them, which are both kids that came from the foster system. One is still in foster. The other one is adopted by me. They're both my daughters. So they know about the situation. Also, be aware. I don't put in fourteen day notices unless I feel there's an absolute need. Speaker 2 00:19:07 And so I'm going to give you the entire situation, and I'm going to let you make the judgment call on what to do next. But I also am not going to put a 14 day notice in just yet. Okay. Um, I caught Angie this week vaping THC. She is 35 weeks pregnant. Um, when I confronted her about it and talked to her about it. She explained to me she doesn't see what the problem is. The baby is just going to need an IEP. Now, that being said, I have a policy with my kiddos about THP. Um, because they can't smoke in the house, they can't smoke on the property because we live in an apartment complex and no smoking is allowed. Um. Speaker 2 00:20:06 And where I draw the line with use is when it harms somebody else, and in this case, it's the unborn baby. That is not that's still not enough for me to put a fourteen day notice in, but it is enough for me to report that to Stephanie, which I did yesterday. Speaker 6 00:20:26 And you know what, Miss Stephanie, after she got out of training, she did give me a call and made me aware about that. Unfortunately. How can I say the way the way the laws are written? There's not much we can do about an unborn child. However, for documentation purposes, I you know I did advise Miss Stephanie. I'm like, you know what? Let's call the hotline so at least is documented. So that was done. Obviously, there's no referral that can come from it because there's not there's no little person that could be assessed for safety and well being. Speaker 6 00:21:05 Due to this, because the baby's still unborn, right? Um. So, but we we did follow up with that particular piece because I told Stephanie, you know what? Unfortunately, I mean, we could the conversation and and matter of fact, um, in me going tomorrow and dropping off that um bassinet, I actually already just regardless of what Stephanie shared with me yesterday, I actually already had plans to have a conversation with Angelique about that because. I was present, the day that we picked up Miss Angelique's belongings from the from the program that she was at before, and some of it looked like vaping stuff. And you know what I told Miss Stephanie? I'm like, you need to tell her like we're not touching anything that looks like paraphernalia, and we need to have a conversation about this. Is she using? And obviously, to us, she denied. Right. Speaker 6 00:22:05 Said it was a that it was a friend of it, you know, something along those lines. But I was still going to have a conversation with her about that because I was present and I basically saw it with my own eyes. And you know, and my conversation with her was going to be along the lines like, "Hey, I'm concerned. I mean, you have this history. You know, we could get your support. You know, to if if you were in fact using, and obviously part of the conversation was going to also be like, you know, this this effect it could this. Could potentially affect your child, your unborn child, in a lot of ways, and you're opening yourself up to at the possible risk that maybe if the baby is born positive, that the baby can be detained from you. So that was gonna be part of my conversation with her tomorrow. Just you know, I was gonna use the bassinet as like leeway to kind of bring that some of those things up because they were concerns to me. They were moving her things out of that other out of that other program. Speaker 6 00:23:01 But obviously, you know we didn't have anything concrete, right? We were it was just stuff that that was just kind of laying there, like in the trash and and in the bathroom floor. So, you know, we couldn't we didn't have her in front of us to ask her directly, you know. And you know, you can sometimes gauge a person when they're in front of you. Yes. So we didn't have that opportunity to be able to do that, you know. And we just kind of needed to get her things out. But it was definitely still something in the back of my mind that I wanted to have a conversation with her about, and and taking the bassinet to her tomorrow, I was gonna take that time to to have that conversation. Like, you know, hey, you know, I just wanna kind of bring something up. Maybe maybe you feel it's old, but you know, Stephanie texted you because I told her to, and because we saw this this and this when we were picking up your belongings over there, you know. Speaker 6 00:23:54 Is that is that still a concern? That was gonna be my conversation with her, yeah. And and then Stephanie telling me about this yesterday. I told Stephanie, look, we can't. There there can't be a referral. I know that for sure because the way the law is written, we can't do a referral on on a baby that's not born yet. I'm like, but still call it in. So then there's documentation that we've been addressing this with her because if in the future it comes to that, then it can be like, oh, this is new. No, it's been documented. Um, you know, and and and I did advise Stephanie to do that. That was yesterday. Speaker 2 00:24:29 So I had a conversation with Angelique yesterday as well. Speaker 6 00:24:33 Mhm. Speaker 2 00:24:34 And here's how I framed it. I framed it as, because one, we needed to work on the SRP, and two, I needed to know because she is not practicing good decision making on the health of her pregnancy. Um. And so I needed a conversation with her to say, "What is your contingency plans for these situations?" And I laid it out. I said, "One, let's talk about drug use because if they drug test the baby, they're going to drug test the baby's stool, and the stool, the first stool, is going to show everything you ingested as far as controlled substances from the beginning of the pregnancy." And she she was not aware that that could happen. Speaker 2 00:25:22 And I was like, this. It's going to show. It's going to show different intensities based on how long it's been. But it will show. And if they drug test on the umbilical cord, it's also going to show. And I said that could happen. And if it happens, and then they have a a reasonable reason to test that, the baby might get taken away from you. And what happens? What do you want to happen? Do you want the baby to go to Sean? Your boyfriend. If he's not here, what do we do then? Do you want the baby to come to me? And she's like, No, I'd get removed from your home. Then I said, Okay. Then what do you want us to do? And so I made her think through all of that yesterday. I also made her, yeah. I also made her think about things like, what if you pass out giving birth? What if there's a medical situation? I need to know your plans and your birth plans. So I made her think through all of that with me yesterday. Speaker 2 00:26:21 Brown, Speaker 6 00:26:23 If you don't mind me asking, are you a nurse? Or you work in the medical field? Speaker 2 00:26:26 I have very good friends that work in the medical field, and I have thirty - five nieces and nephews, and I'm the oldest of eight kids. Speaker 6 00:26:36 Oh well, there you go. You definitely have a lot of life experience. Speaker 2 00:26:40 Yes, and I've had — I was in care myself, and I was adopted at the age of fifteen, and most of my brothers and sisters were in care, and a. Few of my brothers and sisters have had kids taken away from them for this very reason. So I'm one of the few kids that changed my life around when I got taken put into care. So I have seen all sides of the fence, and that's why I prefer to work with teenagers, and I prefer to work with teenagers like Angie and like the other kids that have been in my care because I I'm not going to say I know what they need, but I know how to support them. Speaker 6 00:27:22 There's you could relate to a certain degree. Speaker 2 00:27:24 Totally understand. Yeah. Now all of this being said, she made the decision last night to call her attorney and ask to be removed from foster care so that the chances are lower that the baby will get taken away because she feels like what she's done would have the baby taken away from her, and that there's a big chance for. So she's trying to mitigate that chance by removing herself from foster care. She was trying to mitigate that chance by having Stephanie removed as her social worker as well, and that was already in play. Speaker 6 00:28:01 Well, that's probably why the court ordered for me to meet with her. Speaker 2 00:28:06 Yes, Speaker 6 00:28:06 I mean, you could try. I mean, I mean, I I don't even know what to kind of say with regards to that now. Um. She's an adult. She could definitely close her case if she feels she has the ability to support herself and her baby. I mean, that's on her. But it's still not necessarily going to take away the issue, right? I'll be honest. If she talked to her attorney, I mean, it could be it could be that it's too early. I haven't received anything. You. Speaker 6 00:28:44 Particularly when there is a concern, the only concern or whatever, or not concern, but thing brought up was that that DCFS to meet with NMD, and this this happened at her last court hearing. So for for me to meet for the supervisor to meet with her because she wanted she wanted to discuss concerns. So I don't, hence why I was pushing to meet with her, one to take the stuff to her, and two to kind of like, hey, well, what concerns? You know, court ordered for me to meet with you. What's going on? Which I mean, all still seemed weird because Angelique, she has my number. Yeah, Angelique and I have been in ongoing conversations in the past. If if she couldn't get a hold of Stephanie for whatever reason, she would call me if she needed something. So if there was some an ongoing issue, I was surprised she she wasn't reaching out to me because she knows how to reach me. She was doing it before, yeah, but. Speaker 6 00:29:41 There's there's a little bit uh how can I say it we're we're reading where she's beating around the bush with stuff so that's that's that's the difference you know it's not for something she needs or is in need of right away it's it's because she's trying to put together something or she's trying to kind of put together something for herself yeah but okay. Speaker 2 00:30:04 There's um there's some additional concerns they're not as big. She does want to get the the rate for the baby that is part of the W rate. She wants to get that turned over to her so that she can, instead of using it for the baby, she's saving up for a car and other things. She, Speaker 6 00:30:29 Well, I mean, that was something for us to discuss closer to or once the baby was born, because that money is not for that. That money is for the use of the baby. And and we could definitely discuss that at a later time. But it was going to be literally a sit down that were going to have with you and her and Stephanie herself to discuss that because that's where the care of the baby and we've had that managed different ways by different caregivers. Some caregivers like, oh well, I can give her of this money, you know, a hundred dollars every month, so she could purchase this, this, and this. Or there's other. Speaker 6 00:31:06 Young moms, I said, oh no! Can the foster mom just keep it and she can buy the things for the baby? You know, stuff like that. You know, full transparency. Since you and I are talking about it at the moment, we've had concerns about her money, her money management. So, at least from what Stephanie and I had discussed, kind of like in preparation for when the baby was born, that was the discussion was going to be like, how about you know, at the beginning. Speaker 6 00:31:36 She can help you budget it. She can give you a few things, and you know, you you can maybe show us receipts. How much are you using the money for? You know, and stuff like that, kind of thing, to kind of see if she build up on those money management skills, not just outright give her the money. That definitely wasn't what I was gonna be pushing or supporting, to be honest. Um, for that exact reason. Speaker 2 00:31:59 Yeah, and just a heads up, and this is hearsay because I wasn't in the meeting. Uh huh. Apparently, her attorney told her that it should have been turned over to her for her to manage. Speaker 6 00:32:10 Oh, for policy, the payment is paid to the caregiver. Speaker 2 00:32:14 Yes, and because that it's not going to her, the attorney was going to try to get her enrolled into SILP so that the money would get turned over to her. Speaker 6 00:32:23 Oh, that's fine and dandy. If she if she has money to move to her own SILP, by all means, go for it. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:32:29 I. Speaker 6 00:32:31 Sometimes, you know, I I try to be supportive and. But I'm a straight shooter too, Ms. Brown. I'm sure Steph. I don't know Stephanie has shared with that. I'm a straight shooter with all of our non-minor dependents. More so because I I try to talk to the non-minor dependents from the point of like the real world. You know, yeah. Right now you have the court and court protection of the department, and there's a lot of things that the department supports you with. But once you turn 21, that's it. Yeah. So, our responsibility from you when you turn 18 to 21, our responsibility. Speaker 6 00:33:03 Or well, our hope is for you is that you learn these independent living skills, and money management is one of them. And we've had concerns with her about her money management before, and her attorney is one of those attorneys that I feel a lot of times because they try to give them their way. It's enabling some of these negative things rather than helping resolve or supporting solving it. But at the same time, we were not going to be doing anything that was in any way in violation of her rights. This attorney already knows because we have her in another case where that young lady is also a parent. So the attorney already knows. We this attorney, and I'm surprised this attorney hasn't caught on to the fact that I'm the supervisor. Our policy says we pay it to the caregiver. It goes to the caregiver, but we could definitely have a sit down. Speaker 6 00:34:00 With the caregiver and see how we will manage that. It is not given to her directly. That's the way the policy is written. Okay. You know, so and and it was already in the works that we were going to have a discussion with you and with Angelique and you know with Stephanie and myself once the baby is born to figure out how we could help her. You know, manage that and what would be the best plan and stuff like that. But that's not what that's for. Yeah. The only thing that she gets directly is this, um, is this first thing that's called the early infant supplement, which we already put in the paperwork for. Yes, it's funding that that covers, quote unquote, a certain amount for the last three months of her pregnancy. But she gets she's given a one lump lump sum check, and that too is supposed to be used for purchasing clothes and you know to prepare for the for the coming of the baby, mind you. I mean. Speaker 6 00:34:57 We had a baby to baby donation with bassinet, so we got a bassinet that I'll be taking to her. And we actually even put an additional request, like, hey, if there if car seats become available, can we get a car seat? If you know diapers, because all that stuff is expensive, so we had to even put additional requests. So you know, but unfortunately, once they cut that money to her, we can't necessarily ask her for receipts what she spends it on. I mean. But then, obviously, later, well, I don't have clothes. You were giving this money. How come you don't have clothes? Yeah, you know, that's that's when those questions will be asked. But, Speaker 2 00:35:38 Huh? I I will be honest with you. Um, I've talked to my my daughters and and said, hey, I don't do fourteen day notices. I will give her. We're going to give her a week to see if there's any change in her attitude towards wanting to better herself and. And not create a repeat of her past for her baby. There are a lot of red flags. I'm willing to continue working with her and working with you guys. However, if she does remove herself from foster care, I am going to ask that she leaves the home. Speaker 6 00:36:16 Oh no! I mean, does she remove herself from foster care, ma'am? Like, yeah. Um, we either. Obviously, it's like if she wants to close her case, she closes her case, and she can't stay in any of our possible—not in a foster home, not in a THP program, not even SILP. Right? If she says, "I don't have an open case anymore," that that would definitely be out of the question. If she says, "Oh, can can you guys help me find another placement?" I mean, we'll look for another placement, and we'll transition her after. We'll transition her as soon as we find a place. Or if she says, "I want to do SILP," okay, well, this is what you need for SILP, and if. Speaker 6 00:36:55 You know, part of that is she has to find the place that she would be going to sleep. Like if she's going to rent a room or she's going to rent her own apartment. But I mean, for that you need money. Yes. That you know the department we we don't have it. Like we we support you know like usually what we usually want for a non minor dependents is. If they're in a foster home and at eighteen they say, "Oh, I want to go to a THP program." Cool, they go into a THP program. They kind of see what is, kind of living on their own, without the pressure of paying rent because the THP program handles that. But they also get an allowance to like to pay like the light bill, the water bill, and buy their own groceries. So they kind of get you know to build on on those skills, and then from there, you know maybe the last year move into a SILP. Then that way you know what is to pay a rent. Speaker 6 00:37:52 And pay your bills and stuff like that, and you can kind of get acclimated, you know, still getting some funding from the department. But then once with the with the knowledge or the awareness that once you turn twenty one, you're not no longer gonna get this funding, right? So that's usually what we like to see for our kids. Do all of kids follow that? No, that's just how it is. But yeah, I mean, if she if tomorrow she tells me, oh, I'm already working with my attorney because I want to close out my case. I mean, yeah. As soon as the case is closed, she can no longer stay in any of the housing options that the department has. Okay, not in your home, not in a THP program, not even SILP. If she wants to close out her case, um, if she were to just tell me like, oh, I want to go to another placement. I mean, we'll start searching and we will keep you posted. Like, oh, we found a place. You know, just courtesy, right? Oh, at a courtesy, we would say, oh, she wants to move to another foster home. Okay. Speaker 6 00:38:49 You know, and as soon as we find them one, we'll let you know. So then we can obviously make arrangements to go and help her move. Like that's just courtesy. We will let you know that. Yeah. Or same thing like if she says, oh, I wanna, I wanna explore a SILP, uh, you know, with a family member, with a friend, or or I found this room for rent on a lot of because a lot of youth do that. You know, find they find rooms for rent, um, in a in a, you know, in the community. And you know they they pay their rent and they move in and all that stuff. Same thing. We would we would keep you posted on that. You know, out of courtesy. Speaker 2 00:39:27 And I I do have a SILP kid already. Speaker 6 00:39:30 So oh, okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:39:32 Yeah. Um, and like I said, I'll be honest. We're gonna give her a chance. We're gonna at least give her a week. I'm not saying we're putting a 14 day notice in. I'm saying if we catch her vaping again. And she's still carrying the vape. That is where we're gonna probably put that fourteen day notice in. Okay. Speaker 6 00:39:56 I understand. I I totally understand. I mean, my hope is that maybe once I speak with her tomorrow, she, I don't know, figures that out. Like, yeah, you know, we can't control everybody. Unfortunately, right? She could tell me, " Yes, Miss Adriana, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna do this again." Or, or no, Miss Adriana, I'm not using. Or, Or yeah, here and there I have blah. Yeah, I mean, I'm a street shooter and a realist with them. Like, look, can you at least respect this home? I mean, you can walk away and go around the corner and do it, and not have that in the home. Like, can you at least respect the home that way? Like, you know, because I'm gonna be like, like oh, biddy biddy boo. Like, oh, you're not gonna use no more, right? Like, no, we have unfortunately a lot of kids that. Speaker 2 00:40:48 I I will be honest. That is my rule in the house as well. Speaker 6 00:40:51 If you if you want to smoke, I can't stop you. But you can't come in the house. You can't do it on the property. You have to walk. But in this case, it's more. You you got another. You gotta. You're harming something else. Mhm. Oh yeah. I. Yeah. So. I I completely understand. Speaker 2 00:41:15 That. And. Trust me, I love her to death. She is a great kiddo, and I will call her a kiddo. I told her this early on when she moved in. You are going to get called a kiddo until you are thirty eight at least, because that's just how I am. I am southern, but at the same time, we, you know, we do want to be concerned about her health and her baby's health, and she knows that. She knows that that is my stance. Speaker 2 00:41:47 I am the kind of person I put boundaries in place for your age, and I say these are the boundaries in which you can operate for your age. I don't control the situation. I try to make sure that there is as little as possible. We discuss with transparent about bills and costs of living and all of that. Everybody has a say so in the home. I know that I am one of the more unique foster parents. Out there because I know a lot of foster parents that are not like me and they're very controlling, but I also understand what it looks like for kids to leave foster care at 18 because you know we didn't have the 21 thing when I was growing up, and not know what to do and repeat the cycle. Speaker 6 00:42:36 Right, right, yeah, and not have those those skills to survive right in the real world. I I totally get that. Yeah. Um. So I definitely understand your concern, and I appreciate you also being transparent with me and Stephanie about your position. I, you know, at least from from what I'm hearing, you're like, you she wants to do SILP is not an option in your home, and I get it. I understand why. Yeah. Um. You know, and it's like, how can I say it? You know, I'm sure it would be a different situation if she was demonstrating different things to you that she was responsible. That she, you know, right? All things are earned. Speaker 6 00:43:13 All those things are earned, and it's like if you can't build on that trust, yeah, how can you say, oh, you know, that she's gonna keep to her agreement of like paying you a certain amount of rent and this, that, and the other, and you know, so it's like I totally understand. I'm, I'm not even against that, and I appreciate you letting us know your concerns, which are our concerns as well. And like I said, you know, Stephanie, even after being exhausted after training and stuff, she called me like, Adriana. Miss Brown, share this. I know that you're planning to go and see her, um, as soon as possible and take that bassinet to her. You know, can we bring it up in a way we're not we're not saying, "Oh, Miss Brown told us." I'm like, don't worry. I was already it was already something I wanted to discuss with her based on what I had seen at the THP program. So don't worry about that. Um, so I'm like, but tell Stephanie, but call it in because I want to record that this is that we've been discussing with her. Speaker 6 00:44:09 So, if in the future, yeah, if when the baby is born, there's other concerns, and and that's the thing. Like, I feel like sometimes they don't understand. You know, she may say, "I no longer want to be in a foster home. I want to do myself." But if she continues with the case open, part of our responsibility, our our ongoing responsibility, is going to be assessing the safety and well being of the child as well. Yes. Let's say because the way things. Things have changed, you know. There's a lot of more leniency nowadays with marijuana and all that stuff. That you know has come down. You know, it wasn't that wasn't the. I mean, that wasn't even the case when I started working with the department. You know, 19 years ago, if you had parents testing positive for marijuana, that was also grounds for neglect and to detain kids. But now, with marijuana being legalized and all that stuff, there's more leniency towards it. Speaker 6 00:45:07 So, I mean, there is still there is still that slim chance that even if, when the baby's born, if the baby tests positive or doesn't or whatever, and she still continues that they may not detain detain the baby, but even if she's in a SILP and still has an open case, part of our job is still going to continue to to be assessing the safety and well being of that baby. And if we see any concerns, we're mandated reporters. We're going to call it in, yes. And there is going to be an investigation. So. I don't know if she thinks that oh it's just because she's in a foster home. No, it's not because you're in a foster home. If you continue to have an open case, myself, Stephanie, and anybody of the department or a community resource that's you know providing you support because of a referral by the department, they're all mandated reporters, and if they see concerns for safety and well-being, they have, they are mandated to report the concern to the hotline. Speaker 6 00:46:03 And if an investigation happens, an investigation happens. So it's not just because she's in a foster home that has nothing to do with it. Speaker 2 00:46:09 Yeah. And I'll be honest, the moment she goes into the hospital to give birth, they are going to be listening to what she says. And I have not told her this part, just because I don't feel that it's going to make a difference. But I've had friends go in and fantastic people that they went in to give birth. My best friend, she has a four-year-old son. She went into a little company of Mary and Torrance, and gave birth to her son. Someone brought up in the hospital room how she's a sponsor and in recovery, and she never had a drug addiction problem. She was in recovery for in Al-Anon, so completely different thing that she was in recovery for. Speaker 2 00:46:58 And they still drug tested her and the baby, and brought in a social worker because the nurse overheard that she had been in recovery. So Angie, Angie, they may still overhear something she may or may not say on the phone to a friend or to her sister, or to her boyfriend that may cause them to want to drug test the baby. Speaker 6 00:47:19 I mean, and they may not even necessarily because. I mean, I remember giving birth. They they still do blood work on all the moms, anyways, and then the babies too. Just part of regular health screening, and something could potentially come up, and it could not necessarily even be with anything that she or any other person in that in that hospital room says. The hospital is just they're gonna be doing blood work on the parents, blood work on the baby. That's just standard. Yeah, and things will show up there. Like then from there, the I mean, it's it's not even sometimes it's not even that right. Speaker 6 00:47:51 Um and and they'll they'll do what they need to do from there. So it's like like I said, I don't know if she thinks that's solving the problem or like her being like, oh, um, if not, I'm I'm not in a foster home. It's like no, if you have an open case with the department under AB 12, you gave birth to your baby. Our responsibility is to every single month that we have contact with her. It's also assess that baby and make sure that baby is being taken care of. That that baby is provided provided. The minimum level of care. Bottom line, it's not just because she's placed in a foster home; that has nothing to do with it. Right. But you know, maybe she doesn't understand that particular piece or or what. But it's like, and and we know her history, so yeah, it's going to be an ongoing theme that we're going to make sure we always look at when we go anywhere she's living at. Yes, we're always going to be looking out for that. So. Speaker 6 00:48:50 I get it, and Miss Brown, I appreciate your openness. I mean, I appreciate you, you know, having good, real conversations with her, and and even giving her another chance. And you know, and like I said, she'll probably get somewhat of a earful from me tomorrow as well because of what I saw. Yet, what I saw when we picked up her belongings last month was the last month, yeah, or the month before. I feel like sometimes my days get crossed because I took vacation in between, but you know, so it was something I was already planning to have a conversation with her about, and obviously to you know why why what's going on why would the court want me order specifically that you want to meet with me what what's the issue, and whether it's Stephanie as her worker or somebody else as her worker we're gonna keep looking for the same things it's not gonna change yes and I just. Speaker 6 00:49:48 Maybe she doesn't see it that, or she thinks differently, but that's just the reality. It's not gonna change. But um, but we for sure will will be in touch and save my this is my county cell phone, so feel free to it and any concerns, you know, feel free to share them with me or send me a text. Um, if Stephanie's not available, um, feel free to reach out and go from there. Um. And I will be. I'm not sure if you'll be if you will be in the home or not tomorrow. But the plan is that I'll be in your home tomorrow at eleven. Dropping dropping that stuff that stuff off to her and and having a visit with her and a conversation with her. Speaker 2 00:50:33 Okay. I am working from home tomorrow because I work from home on Fridays. Okay. I'm not sure what time you're coming, but I do have several training classes that I'm teaching tomorrow. So, if my if my door is shut. Just know that I'm in meetings. I I think I'm in solid meetings until lunchtime. Speaker 6 00:50:53 Oh okay yeah. My plan is to be there around eleven because I do have meeting at nine in the morning. Um and then I'll be heading like straight there. So I I told her about eleven o'clock. Um, yeah. So uh, thank you for letting me know. I I won't bug you. Um, Speaker 2 00:51:10 No worries. No, the girls can come in and bug me. They know. Um, so not an issue at all. I just may not be able to come out and say hi. Speaker 6 00:51:19 No, yeah, no problem. I I will definitely keep that in mind. Okay, great. You have my number, and we can definitely be in communication. Speaker 2 00:51:29 Okay, fantastic. And thank you so much. I do need to jump because I have a meeting that I got to prep for. Um. No. No worries. Another kiddo over to the dentist. Speaker 6 00:51:39 No worries, Miss Brown. I appreciate you getting getting back to me and and us being in in communication. Speaker 2 00:51:46 Right, and by the way, I know we're not in the same space, but in the future, I'm still working with non - minor dependents and older teens. So if you guys ever need looking for somebody, just check with me and see if I've got an open bed. Speaker 6 00:52:06 And because that's what we — that's what my unit works with, youth permanency. So we're working with with teenagers. Teachers that unfortunately, you know, they didn't reach permanency, whether adoption or guardianship, and and then they transitioned. Some of them, you know, transitioneditioned to also non minor dependents, like in Angelique's case. Speaker 2 00:52:25 Yes, and I've got, I got another daughter. Her name is Dawn. She's a non minor dependent through SILP, and so she's she's Angie's roommate, and she'll be there tomorrow too. Speaker 1 00:52:39 Oh okay. Speaker 2 00:52:40 Okay. I call her my daughter because she's been. In and out of my home under respite care many times since she was fourteen, and she finally became mine about four days after Angie came. Oh, okay. So she's a great kiddo, and then my daughter, who's now in college, I got her when she was fifteen, and I adopted her at seventeen. Speaker 6 00:53:05 Oh wow! I I will do. It's it's so tough to find caregivers that. Can be understanding of some of the behaviors and and emotional needs of older kids. So hard to find placement. So trust me, I will definitely keep you, add you to my little list of caregivers if if we're ever in need and and and and be in contact with you. Speaker 2 00:53:30 Awesome, thank you. All right, I have to go. I'm so sorry. Speaker 6 00:53:33 No worries. All right, you take. Thanks. Bye. Bye.
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09-07 Reasoning-Note: Risk Assessment and Action Plan for Daniela's Premature Exit from Foster Care
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-  ## Core Synopsis The central reality is a high-risk, premature exit from foster care by Daniela, a young mother with trauma history, limited financial stability, and fragile support structures, catalyzed by distrust of the system and urgency to assert autonomy. The narrative shows repeated displacement in group homes, active college pursuit under strain, and a decisive discharge into a Connecticut lease with immediate bills and no stable income, while partner Vysna, also a foster care alumnus, exhibits volatility (hospitalization after binge drinking, access barriers to visits) and optimism unmoored from financial planning. The proof is explicit: Daniela is living from garbage bags, paying for diapers and food despite foster funds flowing to others; she withdrew from Hunter due to life instability; she signs out against caseworker warning of shelter risk; and within days of moving they face bills with job prospects uncertain. The stakes are existential: infant welfare, cycle-of-abuse avoidance, housing security, and marital durability hinge on whether this couple can convert intent into reliable income, stable caregiving, and sober, predictable behavior. We acknowledge the moral weight: We are dealing with the consequences of systemic instability intersecting with individual agency under extreme pressure. ## Risk Architecture: Instability, Agency, and Leverage Points - Trajectory of Displacement and Distrust Daniela’s multi-placement history and severe childhood abuse created an adversarial stance toward foster systems. The Inwood House placement addressed pregnancy-specific needs but failed to meet basics (access for partner, reliable provisioning), eroding trust and accelerating exit. - Financial Reality vs. Aspirational Planning The couple moved into a Connecticut apartment with immediate rent due and existing bills. Income is speculative (job “hope”), while outflows are certain. Foster stipends previously intended for essentials did not reach Daniela, forcing personal spend-down and depleting savings—now replaced by fixed housing obligations. - Caregiving Load and Education Interruption Daniela attempted night classes at Hunter College post-partum but withdrew mid-semester under instability. Education is a lever for long-term mobility but currently subordinated to survival logistics. Infant Elijah’s care is continuous; childcare and transport constraints are implicit blockers. - Behavioral Volatility and Safety Risks Vysna’s ER incident (life support after extreme intoxication) the night before the wedding signals risk to household predictability and co-parenting reliability. His optimism about finances is detached from cash flow realities, increasing exposure to arrears and conflict. - Institutional Warning vs. Individual Autonomy Caseworker explicitly flagged shelter system risk for young moms exiting care prematurely. Daniela rejected longer-term financial benefits, prioritizing dignity and control. The move reframes the problem: from system navigation to bare-knuckle self-sufficiency under time pressure. - Core Fear and Motivational Driver Daniela’s stated fear—repeating parental abuse—anchors a strong internal moral compass. The couple’s shared commitment to “do it together” is real leverage if converted into specific routines (budgeting, sober living, childcare scheduling) that break the chaos cycle. ## Challenge-Response: What Must Change to Avoid Collapse - Status Quo Unstable placement history; immediate bills; no confirmed income; partner access barriers; withdrawal from college; evidence of financial leakage and behavioral risk. - Gap/Pain Cash flow deficit, unreliable provisioning, and a volatile partner dynamic threaten housing security and infant welfare. - Response Logic Stabilize income quickly, impose behavioral guardrails, and secure infant needs with contingency buffers. Translate agency into disciplined routines that replace foster care scaffolding. ## Next Move (Action Items) **@Daniela** - [ ] Secure written lease terms and set up automated rent payments with a weekly cash flow plan (income targets, bill calendar) - [TBD] - [ ] Enroll in WIC and SNAP at the local Connecticut office to stabilize food and infant supplies - [TBD] - [ ] Book an intake appointment with Connecticut family services for postpartum support and potential housing assistance backstops - [TBD] **@Vysna** - [ ] Apply to three local employers with immediate start dates (in-person applications + follow-up calls) and obtain one offer - [TBD] - [ ] Commit to a sobriety plan: schedule an appointment with a local counseling program and attend first session - [TBD] - [ ] Coordinate a weekly visitation and caregiving schedule with Daniela that aligns with work hours - [TBD] **@Caseworker (Inwood/CT transition)** - [ ] Provide a written benefits summary and contact list for Connecticut resources (WIC/SNAP, housing aid, childcare vouchers) - [TBD] - [ ] Facilitate records transfer and confirm that infant medical care is set with a local pediatrician - [TBD]
- Date
- Sep 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:22 Daniela Moved into her first group home at age 16 after being. Speaker 1 00:00:35 Daniela moved into her first group home at age 16 after being severely abused by her father. Since then, she's moved a dozen times, most recently to a special group home in Manhattan for pregnant girls in foster care, called Inwood House. Speaker 2 00:00:53 I was pretty much decided that I was gonna have an abortion, and I told my boyfriend. And he says he can't. We're having this baby. Speaker 1 00:01:07 Nineteen - year - old Vysna came to America from Cambodia after his parents died when he was still an infant. He's been in foster care ever since. Speaker 2 00:01:20 Look how big you are. Well, it doesn't matter. It's coming. It's coming. I'm telling. It's coming because I'm big. Yeah. Why are you so anxious? Speaker 3 00:01:28 To have a family of my own. You know that. For me to have. A little me, I've waited a long time for that. This is gonna be a little you. Yo, my eyes, my features, because you know I'm pretty. Speaker 4 00:01:45 Okay. I've. Speaker 2 00:01:57 Never been so unhappy. Right now, I'm living out of garbage bags, and I don't feel like that's something I should have to do. I shouldn't have to wake up every every other week in a new placement. I don't have any of my belongings. They're all at my former placement. I'm a college student, and I don't even have my books with me. I've been buying my own diapers, buying my own food. Speaker 2 00:02:28 When foster parents are receiving money to do that for me, so instead of allowing me to save, I've been depleting my funds. Vysna can't even come here to visit, and he needs to spend time with his child as well. Speaker 1 00:02:44 Despite the turmoil in her life, Daniela continues taking classes at night at Hunter College. Speaker 3 00:02:51 You got me looking like I'm soft, baby. Oh, please. Got a little sweet thing on my shoulder. Speaker 2 00:02:60 That's so he doesn't trip on you. Here. I just knew when I had Elijah, I was going back to school. Speaker 5 00:03:09 And. Speaker 2 00:03:10 I thought, despite the obstacles, I would make it. Speaker 5 00:03:13 And it hasn't. Speaker 2 00:03:15 Worked out that way. Speaker 2 00:03:27 I had to withdraw before the semester ended. It was just too much going on in my life for me to focus on education. This is when I came to Trinidad. This is in my grandfather's room. Speaker 3 00:03:44 You look like Elijah a little bit. Yeah. How do you feel when you see pictures of your father. Speaker 2 00:03:55 I don't know. I get angry. I guess my father, he hit us with two by fours and literally anything he could pick up. My mother, she would sit back and allow him to do it because he would beat on her too. I used to get mad when my staff in my group homes would tell me mothers. Speaker 2 00:04:26 Like animals in the wild, mothers protect their children, you know. And I'd say, well, my mother's not a mother because she never protected us, Speaker 3 00:04:34 You know. So she was your mother, but not your mom. Speaker 2 00:04:38 Yeah. I plan on leaving. Actually, today I would love to sign some papers to just get myself discharged, as far as I'm concerned. Speaker 6 00:04:48 You know what, Daniela is my my responsibility. I'm gonna try to. Talk you out of signing yourself out. I know. I can see it already. We have had young moms that have signed themselves out of care and have found themselves in the shelter system, and have found themselves really living a really tough life. Speaker 2 00:05:07 All I have to say is this: Best man, I have a plan. Hopefully by next week. Wednesday, I should have signed the lease and be on my way to my apartment in Connecticut. To me, it's not worth the financial benefits of staying in the system. Hi, Speaker 4 00:05:38 Elijah. Speaker 4 00:05:52 We're home. You crawling, Elijah? You have. Speaker 2 00:06:12 To pay rent in two three days. Speaker 3 00:06:14 Hope I get this job, cause then we won't have to worry about. Bills coming and we don't have any income coming. Speaker 2 00:06:22 We got bills already and we just moved in. Speaker 3 00:06:25 I don't think financially anything worries me. Speaker 2 00:06:27 I know it never has. Speaker 3 00:06:29 I guess my my only fear is that one day that you're gonna get in a big argument. You know, I guess that's my only fear, just to not be with you. Speaker 2 00:06:42 I think my biggest fear is repeating what my parents did to me with Elijah. Speaker 3 00:06:51 It's it's gonna be a struggle, but we can do it as long as we do it together. Speaker 1 00:06:56 Today is Vysna and Daniela's wedding day. The ceremony was supposed to begin two and a half hours ago, but Daniela still has not arrived. Speaker 3 00:07:11 Why don't you let somebody get Elijah dressed and then you get dressed, Speaker 1 00:07:16 Okay? There also were serious doubts about whether Vysna would. Make it to the wedding. The night before at his bachelor party, Vysna got so drunk that he passed out and wound up in the emergency room on life support systems. Speaker 2 00:07:31 Here I am, the day before my wedding, wondering, am I getting into something that I'm going to regret. Speaker 5 00:07:41 By virtue of the authority vested in me by the state of Connecticut. I do pronounce them husband and wife, and they kiss the. Speaker 4 00:07:57 Bride.
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-09-08 11:30:16 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Pete] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Report Review and Key Focus Areas - Description: - Speaker 3 sent a comprehensive report and maintains updates in ScalePad. - Pete will review the report and suggests adding dates and savings to in-progress and completed items. - Aim to present a version to “Sharp” with clearer timelines and financial impacts. - Conclusion: - Pete will review the live report link today and provide feedback. Speaker 3 will incorporate changes. - Topic Title: Partial Backup Monitoring and DR Planning Blocked by Colo Bandwidth - Description: - Issue: The colo circuit cannot carry the required load; tickets are repeatedly closed. - Current status: Ticket reopened; awaiting a quote; ordering must go through the colo provider (Digital Realty referenced). - Pete emphasizes keeping the ticket open and obtaining an order/quote before meeting with Sharp. - Conclusion: - Pursue the colo circuit upgrade immediately; target having it “on order” before the Sharp meeting. - Topic Title: Hardware Security Keys for High-Privilege Accounts - Description: - YubiKeys are already enforced for Gaston, Robert, Speaker 3, and Pratt. - Executive Leadership Team (ELT) approval is pending. - Meeting with the ELT is scheduled for September 14 or 15, 2026 (Speaker 3 referenced “next Monday,” tied to the creation date). - Conclusion: - Potential to move forward after the ELT meeting if approved. - Topic Title: Documentation Initiative and Hadoop Migration Status - Description: - Documentation initiative (IT Glue) delivered. - Hadoop migration: prior page indicated it continues; clarified that if data isn’t in Hadoop now, it won’t be migrated. - Conclusion: - Documentation complete; Hadoop migration effectively not proceeding for non-Hadoop data. - Topic Title: Steering Committee Composition and Agenda - Description: - Members: Erin (E R I N), Jennifer Calmet (data analyst; works with CareLogic, SQL reporting), Crystal (programs, Apollo), with occasional participation by Dr. Barber. - Upcoming agenda: new AI policy and outstanding items from Speaker 3’s list. - Conclusion: - Meeting planned for early next week (around September 14–15, 2026) to review the AI policy and open items. - Topic Title: Retiring On-Prem AD and Moving Services to Cloud - Description: - Plan: retire domain controllers, on-prem file services, and on-prem AD; move to cloud-based services. - SQL Server migration to the cloud is postponed due to Pratt’s maternity leave until January 2027; limited on-prem remains at the colo. - Access: Only Jennifer and Pratt need SQL access; a single domain controller will be kept for that need. - Pete raised a concern about cloud connectivity; the plan accounts for minimal on-prem needs. - Conclusion: - Proceed with AD retirement independent of SQL migration; maintain a minimal on-prem DC at the colo until SQL fully migrates. - Topic Title: Google Workspace Hardening and Mail Cutover Plan - Description: - Google Workspace was hardened in Q2 2026. - Mail cutover (I-65) to begin at the end of Q4 2026; likely finish in January 2027. - Resource planning caution: Emil and Charl often take time off in late December; schedule accordingly. - Conclusion: - Plan for an early December 2026 start with completion in January 2027; confirm resource availability. - Topic Title: AD Health and Remediation - Description: - Work done: reset passwords, moved computers off unhealthy directories; remediated to sustain through year-end. - Conclusion: - Stabilized on-prem AD pending full retirement. - Topic Title: Security/IT Tool Consolidation and Endpoint Status - Description: - Consolidation delivered; ~30 computers still need Trellix uninstalled; Huntress is active even on those. - Tools removed: CrowdStrike, Trellix, CyberReady/CyberEye (as stated), Absolute, Duo, MaaS360, McAfee EPO, LogMeIn, Zoho Desk, legacy RMM. - Installed: Huntress and Crimson tools (RMM/vendor tools); Duo functionality replaced via Google MFA. - Conclusion: - Consolidation largely complete; Trellix uninstall remains on ~30 devices. - Topic Title: Google Workspace Account Cleanup - Description: - 190 accounts deleted and licenses reclaimed. - 3 accounts pending due to large file migrations to shared locations. - Conclusion: - Finalize migration for the 3 remaining accounts before marking complete. - Topic Title: Telecom Cleanup and Mobile Refresh - Description: - TPx and Peerless cleanup in progress; Verizon/T-Mobile cleanup advanced; T-Mobile nearly removed. - Verizon phone upgrades: 55 phones being refreshed due to app compatibility needs. - Target date discussed: complete by September 30, 2026. - Conclusion: - Set target completion by September 30, 2026 for the Verizon refresh; ongoing telecom audit continues. - Topic Title: Box Migration Deferred - Description: - Box migration deferred due to Pratt’s leave; contract exit only possible next year. - Target to revisit in Q1 2027. - Conclusion: - Hold until Q1 2027; cannot exit the contract earlier. - Topic Title: Email Security Transition (Barracuda/AppRiver to Avanan) - Description: - Plan: Transition Barracuda to Avanan. - AppRiver Secure Mail to remain; Avanan does not provide equivalent secure mail features. - Microsoft could replace Secure Mail later with E5, but it is less granular. - Conclusion: - Proceed with Barracuda → Avanan; keep Secure Mail via AppRiver for now. - Topic Title: Security Awareness Training (KnowBe4) Scheduling - Description: - KnowBe4 training moved up from Q4 2026 to Q2 2026 due to prior contract expiration; email security shifted later accordingly. - Conclusion: - Note corrected in the report to reflect the scheduling swap. - Topic Title: Incident Response Plan and Tabletop Exercise - Description: - Tabletop exercise scheduled for mid-October 2026. - Plan to finalize the Incident Response Plan after the exercise; likely earlier than Q1 2027. - Conclusion: - Proceed with the mid-October tabletop; finalize the IR plan thereafter. - Topic Title: Cloud Migration Plan and Project Formalization - Description: - Migration from Google to Microsoft to be documented as the “cloud migration plan.” - Full plan promised by next week (around September 14–15, 2026); Speaker 3 is writing it this week. - Pete suggests opening a formal project and scheduling resources. - Conclusion: - Create a formal project and deliver the plan in the next briefing (September 14–15, 2026). - Topic Title: Avanan Cutover Scheduling - Description: - Speaker 3 plans to coordinate with Anton next week to schedule the Barracuda → Avanan cutover. - Conclusion: - Schedule with Anton next week. - Topic Title: Zoom and Telehealth Consolidation - Description: - Doxy.me and “LV” are used by different clinical groups; decision pending by Dr. Barber and the new CMO to consolidate to one. - Zoom contract mid-2027 (Speaker 3 said mid next year; context suggests mid-2027 relative to the 2026 creation date). - Pete wants clear “before/after” costs and savings (e.g., $18k–$27k/year current vs. post-consolidation). - Conclusion: - Add current costs and projected savings; proceed after the clinical decision; move meetings to Teams where possible. - Topic Title: Headquarters and Site Bandwidth Upgrades - Description: - Quotes received; leadership review pending; HQ currently 100/100 Mbps; all sites ~100 Mbps. - Pete recommends at least 1 Gbps; Kashif is resistant to >200 Mbps; budget for the upgrade is approved. - Conclusion: - Present quotes to leadership; pursue higher bandwidth (≥1 Gbps) where feasible. - Topic Title: Device Inventory Reconciliation - Description: - Reconciled ~380 computers; reduced unknown devices from ~100 to ~20. - Conclusion: - Inventory significantly improved; ~20 devices remain unresolved. - Topic Title: Data Long-Term Strategy and Colo Constraint - Description: - Strategy: upgrade colo bandwidth, then pivot to SaaS for the long term. - Aslan informed of the strategy; waiting for the colo upgrade to proceed. - Conclusion: - Proceed post-bandwidth upgrade. - Topic Title: AI Use Policy and Tooling - Description: - Meeting next week to review the AI policy; determine HIPAA-compliant tools for CareLogic and internal use. - Considering Claude for internal use; Jennifer is leading the CareLogic AI tool review. - Conclusion: - Review and approve the AI policy and tooling next week. - Topic Title: Cyber Liability Insurance Renewal - Description: - Re-signed with the current vendor last Thursday due to lower pricing. - Conclusion: - Renewal complete. - Topic Title: Budget and Billing Alignment - Description: - Proposal originally ~$47,280/month plus added resource (Robert) ~+$8,000/month; target billing ~$55–56k/month. - Concern about recent $59k billing; determined to be a transposition error; correct to ~$56,500. - Under budget for FY2026 by ~$300,000 overall. - Conclusion: - Align monthly billing to ~$56k; remove confusing line items; Pete to provide the final signed proposal for the exact figure. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Keep the colo circuit upgrade ticket open; obtain a quote and place the order before the Sharp meeting - [ ] Present bandwidth upgrade quotes to leadership; target ≥1 Gbps at HQ and sites - [ ] Meet with the ELT on September 14–15, 2026 to approve YubiKeys for high-privilege accounts - [ ] Finalize the Verizon phone refresh by September 30, 2026 - [ ] Schedule the Barracuda → Avanan cutover with Anton next week - [ ] Deliver the cloud migration plan in the next briefing (September 14–15, 2026) - [ ] Open a formal project for mail migration; confirm Emil/Charl availability; schedule an early December 2026 start with January 2027 completion - [ ] Add current Zoom costs and projected savings to the report; update the plan based on the CMO/Dr. Barber decision - [ ] Complete migration of the remaining 3 Google accounts’ files to shared locations - [ ] Correct report notes (KnowBe4 scheduling, “what changed” sections) and add progress percentages (infrastructure consolidation, telecom audit) - [ ] Pete to obtain the signed final proposal and send the exact monthly billing figure; adjust billing to ~$56k ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The colo bandwidth upgrade is blocking DR/backup monitoring and the SaaS pivot; set a firm escalation path and deadline with the provider to prevent ticket closures. > 2. Telehealth tool consolidation (LV vs. Doxy.me) drives Zoom decommissioning and savings; secure a decision date from the new CMO and Dr. Barber to avoid drift. > 3. Mail migration timing risks due to year-end resource availability; confirm Emil/Charl schedules now and publish a contingency plan if December resources are limited. > 4. Trellix uninstall issues remain on ~30 devices; define a remediation runbook (scripted removal, safe mode, or vendor tool) with a completion target. > 5. Headquarters/site bandwidth upgrades face internal resistance; prepare a brief with performance data and ROI to align stakeholders (e.g., Kashif) on ≥1 Gbps needs.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:04 Power automate, share, copy. Speaker 1 00:01:18 Oh hi. Speaker 2 00:01:19 Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Tuesday, sorry. I don't know. Speaker 3 00:01:25 I don't know what day it is. Speaker 2 00:01:26 I don't know what day it is. Feels like Monday, but I'm glad it's Tuesday. I guess. Speaker 3 00:01:31 Yeah. So I sent you over the report that I made for you, but I also listen to the other boss and have it all in ScalePad, and I keep it updated in there. Just in case you ever wanted to know. Speaker 2 00:02:21 So I guess I need to read through this. I guess in general, and maybe we don't need the full 45 minutes today. Maybe I need to just read through this, and you can tell me before I read through this. Speaker 3 00:02:40 Go to page seven. That's where I am now. So I see the part. Speaker 2 00:02:48 Partial backup monitoring and DR planning is that one of the callouts that we're not quite there on? Speaker 3 00:02:54 Yes, and it's because the colo circuit isn't able to carry it, and we keep asking them to upgrade, but they keep closing our ticket. So we're trying to digital reality, the colo company. Speaker 2 00:03:11 Why are they closing our ticket? Speaker 3 00:03:15 I don't know. So we keep reopening it. It's open right now, and I'm waiting on them to give me the quote. Speaker 2 00:03:22 Why don't we just call them and say, " Don't close this. We need a quote like now." Can't we just order our own circuit and just have it delivered there? Or we have to order it through them. Speaker 3 00:03:33 So we have to order it through them, and I had it. I called them last week because we waited another couple weeks, and so I'm just waiting on a callback for this week. Speaker 2 00:03:52 Okay, yeah, let's let's pursue that one. Make sure that one doesn't get because it'd be nice if we could say that one is actually on order by the time we meet with Sharp. Yes. Okay, and then hardware security keys for high privilege accounts. What is that? Speaker 3 00:04:19 So that's where we were going to do Yubi keys with the executive team, and then we've already got Yubi keys switched over for Robert and Gaston. We're just wanting to do it for the ELT team, executive leadership. Speaker 2 00:04:37 So they don't want it. They don't want to use it. Speaker 3 00:04:39 It's not. It's just not been approved, and I never. I didn't push it as hard as I should have. So I do have a meeting with them on the fourth. the, whatever next Monday is. Speaker 2 00:04:49 Okay. So we feel like that one could move forward if we, Speaker 3 00:04:59 If they want to, yes. Yeah. But as far as the high privilege counts, it's already enforced on Gaston, Robert, and mine, and Pratt's. The executive leadership team is the only one that's pending. Speaker 2 00:05:18 So documentation initiative. This is IT Glue, and Hadoop migration continues. So Hadoop IT Glue is gone. Is Hadoop migration actually done? If it's not in Hadoop now, it's not going to be there. That was on the prior page. Speaker 3 00:05:35 Prior page. Sorry, I was kind of looking. Speaker 2 00:05:40 Documentation initiative. This is the second to the last one there. Speaker 3 00:05:43 This one. It's delivered. Speaker 3 00:05:47 Um, I gotta take this and it's out. Yeah, that was I copied it over for my notes. Speaker 2 00:06:11 So you have a steering committee every two weeks. Yep. Okay. And you're part of that, right? Yep. Okay. And who's in that. Speaker 3 00:06:21 Erin, Jennifer, who is a data analyst. Speaker 2 00:06:26 Is Erin E R I N or A A R? E R I N. Speaker 3 00:06:30 E R I N. Speaker 2 00:06:32 Okay. And she is. C O O. C O O. Yeah. I think I remember from the initial meeting. Speaker 3 00:06:43 Yes. Jennifer Calmet, and she yes, and she is she does a lot of the work with CareLogic, and she works with Pratt closely on the reporting structure and the SQL servers stuff like that. I don't know her title. Crystal, who is in charge of programs, Apollo. Speaker 3 00:07:13 And then sometimes Dr. Barber sits in. Speaker 2 00:07:19 In fact, Speaker 3 00:07:21 Yes. And Monday's meeting, we're going to be discussing the new AI policy and a few of the outstanding things on my on my list. Speaker 2 00:07:50 Okay. So we have those two things that we have with issues with delivery. Okay, what else do we have? Three to five months, four. Well, three point five, four to twelve months. Mhm. FireAD in favor of anti-AD in and Poll was fundraising ad promotion. Well, why such decisions? So what does that entail exactly? So. Speaker 3 00:08:30 That is where we are going to completely retire the domain controllers, the on - prem file services, and on - prem Active Directory. We've already actually started pulling machines off of on - prem AD and having them cloud - based only. Speaker 2 00:08:51 So we're moving all file services to cloud. We're moving all directory services to cloud. Yes, But you're still going to have applications running. No. On the local on - prem. Speaker 3 00:09:11 Not on on - prem because we're moving the on - prem SQL servers to the cloud. And the reason why all of this got replanned is because Pratt, who's in charge of all the SQL servers, went on maternity leave three weeks ago, and so we had to we had to move our stuff because she can't work on it until she gets back, and she's not back until she comes January. Speaker 2 00:09:38 So you're probably not getting this until Q1 if she doesn't come back till January, are you? Speaker 3 00:09:46 The retire AD is the one we wanted to go ahead and get done first and move on prem. We don't need her for that. We just need her for the migration of SQL servers, and she had already started parts of that before she went on maternity leave. Speaker 2 00:10:02 Don't you still need Active Directory on prem if you've got SQL Server on prem? Because if if you if you move all your AD to cloud and then you lose, Cloud connectivity. You don't have anything to authenticate on - prem. Speaker 3 00:10:21 So she and Jennifer are the only ones that will need access to the SQL server. So we're gonna we're going to move everybody else off of 80 and move all the stuff except for the SQL server and the one domain controller we need for that, which is at the colo, because it's only two people that need access to it, because they build the reports and send it over. And they send it over to Power BI that's already on the cloud. Speaker 1 00:10:48 So. Speaker 3 00:10:51 And then Google Workspace, we went ahead and hardened Google Workspace back in Q2, and we'll start working on cutting over mail and everything at the end of Q4. So. And that's when we're gonna. That's the replan. Server decommission and colo exit is part of that replan structure. Okay. And then AD health and remediation. We did a lot of work on the existing on-prem AD and resetting all the passwords. Working on the scope. Working on moving computers off. And then we do have some directories that weren't very healthy, and we went ahead and just. Speaker 3 00:11:42 Fix those to the point that gets us through to the end of the year. And then the security IT tool consolidation we've delivered on that. We only have about thirty computers that need Trellix uninstalled, but everything else is good. And then Google Workspace, we deleted 190 accounts and pulled licenses and everything else. We've got about three, still in progress. Is we've got three accounts that we haven't deleted yet because people are still using files that were on their Google Drive, and so we're slowly migrating those people off of using those files and moving the files to a shared location so we can finish removing those accounts. And I didn't want to mark. Speaker 3 00:12:32 Because they were large files, I didn't want to mark that as complete just yet. And then the TPx and Peerless, I am still working on that. It's in progress. Verizon and T-Mobile have pretty much been cleaned up. T-Mobile is almost gone. Verizon, we've done a lot of cleanup, and we're redoing. We we are upgrading phones on Verizon. So we got about 55 phones in that we're actually upgrading right now. And then Box was a request. Speaker 3 00:13:02 To be put on hold because because Pratt's leave and all of that, so we did put Box on hold, so it's been deferred and we couldn't get out of the contract either until next year. And then email security, that's in progress. We've got it approved. Speaker 2 00:13:21 Are we going to be able to get out of the contract by the time the contract is up? Yes. Are we going to be remove our dependency on it? Speaker 3 00:13:29 Yes. I have already submitted the cancellation for next year ahead of schedule. So they it it is Zoom at this moment is not yet scheduled because Doxy, which is their telehealth program application, uses Zoom. So Zoom is still one of those things that we're we are not scheduled that one yet. Just because there's some we're going to try to consolidate two telehealth tools down to one. So there's LV and there's Doxy.me, and the nurses use one and the doctors use another because the nurses like one and the doctors like the other. So Dr. Barber is going to work with them and a new chief medical officer, and saying we're going one or the other. So Zoom hasn't been started for that reason. We're just waiting on them to determine, and then we'll start going from there. Speaker 3 00:14:23 And then Barracuda to Avanon, it's in progress. However, Secure Mail, which is not part of Barracuda, is part of App River. That's going to stick around because Avanon can't do what Secure Mail can do, and so we're just moving the Barracuda part to Avanon and not the Secure Mail part. So, and then NoBefore already got done. And then the endpoint refresh, we replanned it, so we have the AD program laptop swapping out now. And then we're going to do about 40 devices per year through department chargeback, and so that's going to be that's going to get us back to where we need to be in the next year and a half. And then policy documentation, I rewrote all of their policies and delivered that, and now we're doing AI policy. And also they were audited back in July, and the auditor accepted all the new policies. Speaker 2 00:15:23 Okay, so do we know when the Zoom contracts are up? Speaker 3 00:15:28 It's not until mid next year, so we'll be on Teams at that point. Speaker 2 00:15:33 Because I think what we have, what we need to do in these where it stands, like if this is what we're going to walk through, if if we're going to walk through a version of this with them, I think we have to we have to put some dates in here so they can see like. When are the contracts up, and what is our expectation of what we are expecting to do by the time that happens? So, like, if there's two Zoom contracts and they're up whenever, are we going to get down to one? Yeah. Are we going to get down to zero? And you know, what what is that technically going to look like, right? Yes. And it'd be nice to be able to say to remind them. Speaker 2 00:16:19 What that's going to do for them. Okay. So, for instance, you know, like if they're paying a thousand bucks, five thousand bucks, two thousand bucks a month for Zoom today, and we're getting rid of that for them, a blurb that says two thousand dollars a month savings would be a nice blurb to put in there to remind them of why we're doing this or why that was a priority for them because they might have forgotten. Okay. Um. Yeah. And then. Kind of the same thing for any of the other stuff that is still kind of in progress, or even the stuff that we've finished. If there's hard dollar savings, it might be good to put a reminder in there. Again, I don't want to make this a spreadsheet, but it might be good to put in there, you know, this why we did it, this why you wanted us to do it, or why we said we should do it. Is you're going to save where you're now saving. Speaker 2 00:17:13 Two thousand bucks a month, or twenty five hundred bucks a month, or whatever that is, and this is why we did it. And so, you know, your zero line use of telcom audit, for instance, you're going to be saving whatever that's going to be when you're done with this, or whatever all that stuff looks like. If it's an endpoint refresh, probably not a savings thing, so nothing really to note there. But some of the stuff that you're actually retiring, consolidating, whatever, let's remind them of. Of what they're going to see at the end of the day with with some of that kind of stuff. Okay. Tell me again what the Barracuda and Avanon issue is. You're saying that Barracuda has to stay because Avanon can't do what? Speaker 3 00:17:56 No. So it was supposed to be Barracuda and App River transitioning to Avanon. Barracuda is going to transition to Avanon. However, App River is staying because it handles secure mail. And we need secure mail because Avanon does not do secure mail. Speaker 2 00:18:18 What are other people using for Secure Mail? Speaker 3 00:18:20 Secure Mail. It's actually the app is called Secure Mail. Yeah. So most companies are using Secure Mail, or they're using Microsoft, because Microsoft does exactly what Secure Mail does, just not as granular. So we we can give them the option later on. We can remove Secure Mail in favor of Microsoft, because they're going E5 licenses. When we transition them for compliance, so what. Speaker 2 00:18:51 Is NoBefore? What is NoBefore before's slot when the prior training contract expired early? Speaker 3 00:18:57 What does that mean? This one right here. It so NoBefore was supposed to be later, and Barracuda was supposed to be earlier, and then when we got in and found out that NoBefore the the prior contract that they had had already expired. We went ahead and rushed NoBefore and just changed the slots where the dates were. I need to reword that. That came from my notes. Speaker 2 00:19:24 Okay, I guess I'm going to do it. Email security. I mean, I get that NoBefore is training. Speaker 3 00:19:35 Yeah, NoBefore was slated to happen Q4 2026, but we moved it up to Q2 2026 when we found out there. Email training or their security training was end of contract already. Speaker 2 00:19:48 Okay, so we moved NoBefore training in the in the schedule is what they're saying. Speaker 3 00:19:55 Yes, and we traded that out with email security and moved email security down because their Barracuda was still good. So we just swapped spots in the schedule. Speaker 3 00:20:08 Okay. So we'll we'll I'll correct that note that came from my personal notes. Speaker 2 00:20:13 Okay. So. All right, and then incident response plan. Speaker 3 00:20:20 Yep. So this is where we've got it, but we're working on the tabletop exercise for it, and the tabletop exercise is scheduled for mid - October, and then we're going to finalize the incident response plan at that point. Speaker 2 00:20:34 So. Speaker 2 00:20:41 What has to land by month twelve, February eighteenth? Leadership. Speaker 2 00:20:48 Migration plan. Leadership. What is it? What is the migration plan. Speaker 3 00:20:55 Ah. This was the migration from Google to Microsoft, and so I had already promised them that I was going to have that to them by next week, the full plan. Now that we. Now that we had to reschedule everything, Speaker 2 00:21:12 Can we can we describe that a little better? My migration plan from my from Google to Microsoft. Speaker 3 00:21:21 I'm just gonna put cloud migration plan. Yeah, that's fine. Because we we have to. We're reminding Aaron and I are gonna remind Dr. Barber why we're doing this. Speaker 1 00:21:32 So. Okay. And you have. Speaker 3 00:21:43 I'm Writing that up this week, along with the ad, and that's going to be in the next briefing, which is September 15th, 14th, one of those days. So, yeah, that was already in the plans. Speaker 3 00:22:12 Yeah, I'd already done all the mapping and everything, and my last notes were I wanted to check on the capacity of Emil because out of everyone I trust, it would be Emil to do this one. But it's a lot of it's old data, so not very many people use it. It's more historical. Speaker 2 00:22:30 Well, we should we should open a formal project to do it though. Yeah, we will do this. Yeah, let's okay, and let's get them scheduled and all that. Speaker 3 00:22:39 Yep. And then the Barracuda to Avanon cut - off. I need to schedule that with Anton, and so my plan was to start working with him on that next week and get that scheduled. Speaker 2 00:22:50 The I-65 mail cut - over begins. Speaker 3 00:22:59 Yeah, that should be at the end of Q4. Speaker 2 00:23:02 So at the end of the year, we're going to do that. Speaker 3 00:23:08 Hopefully, if we don't push it anymore. Speaker 2 00:23:10 People when they're out of the office and all that. Speaker 3 00:23:17 I mean, we're gonna start it. That's that's when it begins. We'll probably finish it in January. Get all that planned. Speaker 2 00:23:26 So we're gonna need a project director too. Yes. The reason I'm worried. Speaker 2 00:23:38 It's truly a mail migration for three or four hundred people, and you're going to need resources to do that. Are you going to use Charl and Emil. Speaker 3 00:23:49 If I can, I would like to, Speaker 2 00:23:52 Just because most of the time those guys take time off around Christmas for like two weeks. Yes. So, I mean, if you're doing this at the end of next year, of this year, you got to get this stuff scheduled. Yeah. The end of this year is. Two three months from now, and if they're taking time off like they usually do, those resources probably aren't going to be available. So, get your resources lined up soon. Okay. And and if you need to adjust, then do it in January or do it sooner than the end of the year. But yes, don't set expectations and not have the resources available to execute. Because I don't want you to put dates out there and then say, Oh, I don't have the resources. We got to do it in January now. Speaker 2 00:24:37 If you got to do it in January, say we're going to do it in January. So yeah, set the expectations based on when the resources are truly going to be available. Because I have a feeling you're going to struggle to get people the end of December. Speaker 3 00:24:50 And I still need to run the plan by Jennifer and Erin and Crystal, just to make sure that they, if they want to push it out or keep it. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:24:60 So find out who you need and find out when they're going to be available, and then. Schedule around that. My guess would be early December and then January, most likely for Emil and Charl. If those are the guys you're going to probably need. Speaker 3 00:25:14 Yeah. And then incident response plan formalized. We're probably going to have it formalized earlier than Q1 2027 because we've already started that process. So that was a little ahead of schedule for that one. And then delivered or added that was not in the proposal. So we did the insider threat investigation that wasn't in the proposal, but that was delivered. Rivo access control panel replacement for six of the sites was delivered. We did the full tenant setup and HIPAA configuration already on Microsoft 365, and Anton did double check all my work. We did that all in Q2 because data was already going in there that was patient data. Speaker 3 00:25:60 And it had never been set up and never been configured for HIPAA compliance. So I went ahead and did that in Q2. And then Verizon phone refresh, there was 55 end of life phones, and they had to go. It had to get pushed in front of the PC refresh because Kashif was trying to push out a new card app, and a lot of the phones wouldn't handle it. And so we had to upgrade all those phones. When is that going to be done? Speaker 2 00:26:27 Do you think it says nearly complete? Can we put a target date on it? Speaker 3 00:26:30 I would say by September twenty - fifth because they've already done a good amount of this. But I'll check with the guys tomorrow. Speaker 2 00:26:41 And maybe put a September thirtieth date and make sure the guys can deliver by then. That way we can close that one out. It'd be nice to put that as delivered by the end of the month. Speaker 3 00:26:50 Yeah. So headquarters bandwidth upgrade is only on hold this week. Because we were actively working on it last week with not Peerless, but with something else, and so we got the quotes in. It's only on hold because I need to give the quotes to the to the leadership team, and those just came in. So they're on a hundred by a hundred in headquarters, and it's barely able to do anything. So we're we're gonna change that. Speaker 2 00:27:24 100 megabit. Speaker 3 00:27:26 Yep, all sites are on 100 megabit. Yes. Trust me, it's painful. I don't like working there. And some days. Well, ability was 150 up until about a month and a half ago, and we upgraded that. Speaker 2 00:27:45 Needs to be at least I mean I would think at least gig, like one gig, something. I don't know. Speaker 3 00:27:52 Yeah, I I have Kashif is uh he's one of my small brick walls um because he he doesn't think we need any more than 200. Speaker 1 00:28:01 So I I've. Speaker 3 00:28:06 Taken him out of the equation for now. Speaker 2 00:28:08 I would I would get quotes and just see what you can see what you can get there. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:28:18 Okay. And I have it budgeted for the upgrade. So and he did approve the budget. There's not. Hey, come on in. Um, you're taking that overtime. Speaker 4 00:28:29 Oh, yeah. That is from Jessica. Okay. She said the girl broke. Yes. So she need the replacement. Yeah. And then she told me this one was from the wish department. She said she doesn't know, so I don't. Speaker 3 00:28:39 Okay, gotcha. Yeah, if you can get that replaced, thank you. Speaker 4 00:28:43 Okay. Then this, should I put it with the one for Vanna? Speaker 3 00:28:46 Okay. Yeah, put this with that for Vanna and. Well, the volunteer will come pick it up. Someone else will come pick it up. Speaker 4 00:28:52 Okay. Then this one, the other one, you need to. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Then I have something to tell you on Friday. I have a military assignment to do on Friday. Speaker 3 00:29:02 Let me let me circle back with you on that one. Okay. All right. Thanks, Emmanuel. Yeah. All right. So on device inventory reconciliation, we. You know about that. That's where were able to find all the rest of the computers and re-reconcile to about 380. And we are able to find. I think there's maybe 20 computers that is not that's not back and forth. But 20 is a lot better than where were at, which was 100. So, and then the data long-term strategy. We we're pivoting to. Speaker 3 00:29:43 SaaS, but because the colo bandwidth isn't working right now, we do have plans in place, and Aslan is aware of the long-term strategy, which is one, upgrade the bandwidth at colo, and then we're gonna eventually move it over to SaaS. So, and then the AI use policy and approved AI tooling. We're actually meeting next week to go over the policy that I put together. And determine what tools we're going to use for internal and for care logic people. So Jennifer is working on the care logic portion and what AI tools we can use within that that's HIPAA compliant. And then for everyone else, we're looking at Claude, and we'll get that house spun up. Cyber liability insurance market check. Speaker 3 00:30:36 It's already been taken care of. We re-signed with the current vendor because that was cheaper pricing, and we actually just re-signed that on Thursday. And then, all staff distribution group and the budget structural work. We redid a bunch of things on the budget. That's part of. Speaker 3 00:31:07 That's that was and missed it. Speaker 2 00:31:10 I didn't see it as a completed thing. Speaker 3 00:31:14 It's right there. It's part of this one right here. Speaker 2 00:31:18 So I just missed the detail. Yeah. I remember us. I remember when we met in person. That was one of the things he was like, " When are we going to do that?" And I just didn't see it called out. I thought it would be its own thing, but it's part of the security. Speaker 3 00:31:33 In AI or in IT tools. Speaker 2 00:31:37 And it's done. Okay. Yep. So we did log. So we. Firearms, CrowdStrike, Shilux, CyberEye, Absolute, Duo, MaaS, 360, McAfee, EPO are gone. Vendor and implementing contractor. And so we don't really have Huntress listed there. Speaker 3 00:31:57 Oh no, these are the ones we removed. All the systems were removed. Speaker 2 00:32:03 Should we put? Should we put? Huntress installed. What else was installed besides. Speaker 3 00:32:07 Huntress? We did Huntress. Speaker 2 00:32:16 So our our our is installed, Speaker 3 00:32:18 Right? Yep, and those are the two main ones. We're working on Avenon, which is not part of that that portion. Speaker 3 00:32:33 Because email security, we put down here. Yeah, I'm just gonna. Speaker 2 00:32:38 Just put Huntress and Crimson tools back installed. That's what we put. So it's our var on Huntress. Speaker 3 00:32:48 Not yet. Yep. Because everything else, every all of this was covered either by one of those two or Duo was covered by MFA on Google Sign. Speaker 2 00:33:03 Huntress is on all workstations and servers at Sharp. Speaker 3 00:33:07 Mm - hmm. Okay. Yep, we're just trying to get Trellix uninstalled. That's the only one, and it's not. It's there's a handful of computers where it's just not uninstalling correctly, but Huntress is active and working on those computers. So, um, what moved and why? Box migration. That's the full explanation. There was the didn't want to push it too carefully because of Dr. Speaker 2 00:33:39 Barber. Oh, when you say what moved, I would say what changed. When I think of what moved, I think of I think of what what was changed or like what was migrated. Yeah. Okay. So what changed in my box migration? Let's go to Google Drive at 18 Mississippi University. Charts. Speaker 1 00:34:16 Development teams deliver for the box and ask for more data. The work is adding to the change. Yes, I wish I could understand. Speaker 2 00:34:38 Can we put the target? Can we put the month in 2027 on hold until? Speaker 3 00:34:46 Let's do Q1 because it's it technically is on hold until Q1 because Pratt won't be back until then. Speaker 2 00:34:55 Server decom and cloud migration months eight to ten, gated on care logic compatibility and work. Deliberately slow file during Microsoft versus them on the server. 50 kilometers from the light. Speaker 1 00:35:12 We don't want to push this too quickly. That's about 26 budget. This is about 26. 365. Now we're going to do Q3Q. 26. Let's see. Speaker 2 00:35:27 I'm the first girl. Is the 4. 46 start time is needed to get the, Tenant files shares and box positions sorted first. Migration goes to Aaron Jeff for this week. Don't remember any. Speaker 1 00:35:41 Migration. Something for Monday. Wednesday. Speaker 3 00:37:14 Move It to Teams. Speaker 2 00:37:15 Both of them? Because that's the one you said the doctor wants to use one phone and somebody else wants to use the other. So how do we resolve that? Speaker 3 00:37:26 So when they come back to me and say, Hey, we're either going with LV or Doxy. At that point, if it's one, we don't need Zoom anymore. We can move that over to Teams. If it's the other, we'll need Zoom for certain people. Speaker 2 00:37:43 So . At a minimum, can we? But we have. They have one or two accounts. Speaker 3 00:37:49 They're getting. They're getting rid of one. So we have. We won't have two anymore. We'll have one account. Speaker 2 00:37:56 Okay. I guess. I just want to set their expectations for what. So is the eighteen to twenty - seven thousand dollar per year renewal? Is that what we're. Saving is that what was in the original scope, or is that what they're spending now? And then what's it going to be when they're done? Speaker 3 00:38:18 So it's going to drop. Speaker 2 00:38:20 What I would want to know is what am I spending today on Zoom, and what am I going to be spending when we're done? What is that going to look like? So if I'm am I spending twenty seven thousand a year now, and I'm going to be spending two thousand a year when I'm done, or I'm going to keep one account, I'm still spending five thousand a year, or like what's it, What is the before and after picture going to look like? Speaker 3 00:38:42 Okay, I will I will get that added. Instead of saying February plan, I'll say current costs and savings. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:38:50 Or something something like that. Yeah, I mean, because I don't really know what the February plan is. That when you say February plan, is that is that their budget? Is that what that supposed to be, or like what does that mean? Speaker 3 00:39:02 It was supposed to be how much they're saving by February. Speaker 2 00:39:10 I'm sorry. Say that again. How much they're saving? Speaker 3 00:39:11 What? How much they'll be saving by February? How much we cut from the budget. Speaker 2 00:39:16 But they're not going to be right. What do you mean? Because we haven't done anything with Zoom yet. Speaker 3 00:39:27 Right. That was the anticipated. Speaker 2 00:39:30 So that. So this was the anticipated savings that they would have by by February. I see what you're saying and and why it moved. Okay. Yeah. So can we can we just put in Wyatt and when we're going to address it then and and what they'll be saving when we do address it? So you can leave eighteen to twenty - seven in there, but put in Wyatt and when we're going to address it, and then what they should be saving by the time we do address it. Okay. Can we do that? Speaker 3 00:40:00 Absolutely. Speaker 3 00:40:04 That's what I. Speaker 2 00:40:05 Was expecting to save this money, and now I'm not going to. When will I? And when are we going to get to it? What's that going to look like? Yes. But then we need to really deliver on that, right? We got to solve that issue that you're telling me. Multiple people are using whatever they're using, and if that's an issue, is that something we have to figure out, or is that something something somebody else is going to? Speaker 3 00:40:31 Somebody else is going to figure out, and we're just going to reap the savings. Speaker 2 00:40:34 And I guess we're just going to have to get them to help us solve that problem. Yes. Somebody going to help us figure that out? Speaker 3 00:40:43 That would be the new CMO and Dr. Barber. In fact, he's got the contracts in front of him. Gaston just reminded him of that on Friday because he had to send the contracts over for LV. So. The financial picture. This is this was the proposed annual savings and what happened. So we delivered on these two savings, or they delivered one of those and we delivered on the other. So we eliminated that one. We started, which this was the four year portion. So we're we're starting on this one where infrastructure consolidation. So that one's in progress. Speaker 3 00:41:30 We delivered on this one already because we removed 190 cell accounts, and so that's their current savings for the next year. And then we've already gotten rid of CrowdStrike and Trellix and CyberReady, Absolute Duo, the MaaS 360 and McAfee. So, and then the tool consolidations: LogMeIn, Zoho Desk, and RMM are gone. Speaker 3 00:41:60 And then we did defer SaaS, the box consolidation, and we're in the middle of the audit on telecom, TPX, and Peerless. This is where we found out after our proposal to them that we could save even more because they have a lot of double phone system or phones, so they're paying for two lines per person right now. Speaker 2 00:42:25 Yeah, yeah, I remember finding. Oh, you found that in the original assessment. Yep. So, where are we along now? Can we give them a percentage? Speaker 3 00:42:35 We are about 25% on that one, and I'm working actively with TPX on this to get that cut down. Speaker 2 00:42:45 Yeah. Give them a progress percentage on the infrastructure consolidation also, the third window. Speaker 3 00:42:53 Yes. Can. Speaker 1 00:42:55 Do that. Speaker 3 00:42:58 And then this was our this was the conversation you and I had on abandoned billing. Speaker 1 00:43:04 Oh no, this is just a FedEx copy. Oh, so for this because I think this one might get stuck. Postage versus billing. Shipping services versus. And then just put it back where it belongs. So then, okay. So then, put this one here. This one we made another copy, and then we'll put that. This is the two. Speaker 2 00:43:40 Remaining leftover. We had a blank type that I can solve. Speaker 1 00:43:45 Yeah. Okay. Yeah, because we made a copy of it already. Speaker 2 00:43:48 Okay. Cool. So, um, I'm gonna let you log into yours. Okay. Is that right, though? Forty. So, what are you trying to say here? Got all the staples out. So the proposal was forty - seven point eight, but it was the thing. It was that plus the additional. Speaker 3 00:44:05 Person, right? So that was what our proposal said. It and then this is what we put it to. I think so. We ended up. We ended up at fifty - nine per month. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:44:19 But the yeah, but the proposal. Because it's all plus the additional goals in here. So the salary of that additional person they added. Oh, this looks like twelve thousand more. We're only billing them like a thousand something more because it's forty-seven two eighty plus. Plus that. Oh, they wanted us to keep Robert, and they were paying this extra for that. I don't remember how much it was, but that needs to be added to that figure. It wasn't forty-seven two eighty. Speaker 2 00:44:50 It's like 56 or whatever it is. So we're only billing them a couple thousand more. In fact, I don't know if I would even put that in. It's pretty negligible, I think, at the end of the day. Speaker 3 00:45:01 Okay. So I'll just take down the entire. Speaker 2 00:45:03 So I would actually just take the 47, 000 and make the total whatever the total was on our proposal. Let me see if I. Speaker 3 00:45:12 I know it's. I think you're right. It's 56 something. Speaker 1 00:45:19 So now that exactly hundred pages. Yeah. Cool. Okay. Then we're just gonna close it and then we can leave it here. Okay. Speaker 3 00:45:32 Sorry. Um, my kids were texting me because maintenance came to fix the toilet. Speaker 1 00:45:50 I'll just put that for now. Speaker 1 00:46:18 Let me take a look at it. So, let. Speaker 2 00:46:20 Me see if I can quickly get a copy of this. Okay. Speaker 2 00:46:56 He's probably at lunch, but I'll I'll get a copy and send you the actual number, and then you can just plug it in there. Okay. And then tie to the reconciliation. I. Speaker 3 00:47:11 Know we ended up under budget for fiscal year 2026, and I think it was like 300, 000 total. So we're a little ahead of our our trajectory. Speaker 2 00:47:25 Fifty nine thousand, as opposed to the fifty six thousand. Why would we be higher than what what our fifty six thousand number was. Speaker 3 00:47:33 We found more computers. Well, actually, you know what? I want to see what this was. I thought maybe maybe I have it. Speaker 2 00:47:42 Is we really should be about what we quoted them? That's I don't really want to be above that. I think we should be near it. I just don't want to be below what we quoted them. Right, because what we quoted them, what I was concerned about is we quoted them somewhere around 56, and then we were billing them like 40 46 or something or 45 or something, and that was the that was the bigger concern. I just wanted to make sure we were still closer to 55. So I don't want to be billing them 59. So let's let's just make sure that we're closer to. Okay. Speaker 2 00:48:23 You know the the original number, whatever that needs to look like. So. Speaker 3 00:48:27 Yeah. Looking for the file. Speaker 2 00:48:32 And the link that you sent me is that a live link? So it includes the changes you just made. Speaker 3 00:48:37 It will. Yeah, it's the live one. I never sent you. Speaker 2 00:48:40 Okay. So I'll review this this afternoon, Speaker 3 00:48:44 And then. I'll keep making changes to it. Speaker 2 00:48:49 We will try to set up a. Touchpoint with them. Speaker 3 00:48:54 So, do you did you like the style of that report? Because I I built it for you in hopes that that's something that we could turn around and give to them. Speaker 2 00:49:04 I think it's I think it's good. Let me go over it again and just make sure there's nothing else that that I think it's okay. Okay. Let me let me let me do another once over on it, Speaker 3 00:49:19 But I think it's all right. Okay. Yeah, I was trying to make it. No, that's not what I needed. Speaker 2 00:49:29 Presentations. And com and the train the training for com yob went okay. Speaker 3 00:49:36 Yeah, um, because I I had already done a bunch of work on trying to make it as close as possible to what they do. Um, and I found their verbiage and stuff. Um. Speaker 3 00:49:58 That's what we proposed to them, but we didn't have the second person in at the time. Speaker 2 00:50:04 Yeah, they added that like last minute, and I'm trying to. I don't know if I ever got a copy of the final final. That's why I'm trying to. Speaker 3 00:50:12 Yeah. That was. That was, the my final. Well, my final before Anzor took it, and then. Speaker 2 00:50:22 Yeah. I'll get a copy of it. Signed copy from, from. Speaker 2 00:50:30 And Shinki and I'll send you a copy of it so you have it. It's important to have that because that's the final, final. Because that that Robert thing was a last minute thing, right? I mean, that was like we gave him the proposal and then like we wanted to keep going, give you the extra. What does Robert make? Eighty or something or something like that. Speaker 3 00:50:51 Yeah, it's it's around. Speaker 2 00:50:53 So probably eighty, probably eighty plus twenty percent. So. Speaker 3 00:50:58 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:51:03 This was my this was my final report that Dr. Barber saw of everything that I found, and then my my road map that we gave them. That's that was a comprehensive report that I wrote and answered delivered. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:51:30 So probably getting this another. Probably giving us another eight thousand dollars, roughly. So if our proposal was forty-seven, we're probably charging them like fifty-five, six or something close to that, is my guess. Yeah. So our bill should be close to fifty-five or fifty-six thousand a month. I don't want to be charging them too much over or under that. Yeah. If we're charging something close, I don't really want to charge them fifty-nine thousand because that would be, Quite a ways over what we said we were going to build up. So, yeah, let's take a look at what that should be. I don't want them coming back and saying, " Why are you charging three thousand a month more than what you said you'd charge us?" Like, is that that seems high? Speaker 3 00:52:17 Yeah. If if something were to ever happen to me. Speaker 3 00:52:24 I am sorry in advance. I try to keep this folder organized, but there is a lot of shit out here. Everything I do for Sharp is in here. All my run books, everything is in here. But my private one, that's that's where all your gold is. That is everything Lawrence I ever did, and everything I found, and my full. Inside Rutherford report right there from Lorenzo's forensic assessment. It was fun. If you have me do that once a year, I will be a satisfied person. I already am, but still. Um. All right. Well, I will update this report. Speaker 3 00:53:16 And put in all the things that you put in. You asked me to change, and then once you have that number, Speaker 2 00:53:23 Just let me know. And if we're going at 59, 000, that's probably too high. We probably need to get that back down closer to 56. So let's try to figure out. I don't know how we ended at 59. I thought we ended up closer to 56 or 57. So. Speaker 3 00:53:43 Maybe my maybe I transpose some numbers. Speaker 2 00:53:45 Okay. Yeah. Let's let's try to. And if we overbuild them, let's credit them to get it back to 56 or 57 because we shouldn't be over 57 at the most. I think it should be closer to 50, like 56. I think is the magic number for them, unless they've added a bunch of computers above what we originally had in in inventory. But I thought we ended up with. With the spares and stuff, at about what we originally had sort of said it would be. So, let's try to get that number to 56. It is. Speaker 3 00:54:24 56. I transposed my numbers. Speaker 2 00:54:28 Okay, good. Then we're then we're really close to about that. Speaker 3 00:54:31 That's where yeah. Speaker 2 00:54:33 That's about where we should be. Okay, I feel better now. Speaker 3 00:54:36 I'm gonna do 56. 50. Speaker 2 00:54:38 Then I'm then honestly, I'm not even sure you even need that. That that line at all? Speaker 3 00:54:45 Do you? Nope. I can take out this entire part right here. Speaker 2 00:54:49 Just take it out because I mean we're basically building what we said we would build. Speaker 3 00:54:53 Yeah. I'm gonna take this number. Speaker 2 00:54:56 But I will still get you the copy of that because we do need to know what that was. I'm pretty sure it was like 557 or 558 or somewhere right around there if I remember correctly because 47 something is what we bid and I think. I want to say they were giving us around eight thousand dollars, if I remember correctly, something like that. Speaker 1 00:55:16 So, Speaker 2 00:55:17 Yeah. Okay. I will read through this, and we'll go from there. Speaker 3 00:55:21 Awesome. I'm gonna go grab some lunch. I'm starving. Me too. Speaker 2 00:55:25 Have a great day. Speaker 3 00:55:26 Thank you. See you too. Bye. Speaker 2 00:55:28 Bye.
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- Date Time: 2026-09-03 12:58:26 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: Christi (also referenced as Chris/[Insert Instructor Name]) ## Summary The sessions collectively introduce and train Evan (with occasional mentions of Brett) on a modern development workflow centered on Claude (AI coding environment), GitHub (source control), and Azure (deployment). Early logistics note that Brett may not join, Christi is recording the call, and she has a hard stop at 2:00 PM on September 3, 2026, due to a personal appointment. Evan confirms comfort with command-line tools. The core training covers migrating Westwood’s legacy code from Base 44 to Azure via GitHub, enforcing security (MFA, passkeys), and establishing a dev-first, branch-based workflow. Christi demonstrates using Claude to analyze, plan, and fix bugs (e.g., preventing multiple drafts in “Adapto/Adapt Two Inbox”), emphasizing that AI can handle about 70% of work while human domain judgment remains essential. Claude’s modes (Auto, Plan, Accept Edits) and model choices (Opus default; Sonnet, Haiku; Fable for exceptional cases) are explained, alongside effort level and cost monitoring. The workflow: write and review code in Claude’s Code mode, push to GitHub, and have Azure auto-deploy from designated branches (dev vs. production). Users can command Claude in plain language (“build,” “push,” “make it live”), receive notifications across devices, preview UI changes before deployment, and run automated builds, tests, and security validations. Migration from Base 44 involves translating incompatible components and rewriting parts to fit Azure/GitHub pipelines. Bugs emerging in Azure are attributed to domain gaps, underscoring the need for expert/user testing and an in-app suggestion tool to collect PMS feedback for iterative improvement. Project organization leverages an exemplar (“Adapto Inbox”) with documented context (tech stack, auth justifications, workflows) that Claude reads before work. File environment setup may use OneDrive local folders or direct GitHub integration, with optional remote access. Future goals include integrating app storage with SharePoint/Teams, provided files are well-organized. Training and rollout plans focus on onboarding Evan to independently fix bugs, manage branches, and deploy safely. A beta program invites select PMs to test the app, offering lifetime free access, then transitioning to paid plans post-beta. Scheduling includes proposed follow-ups around 2026-09-04 (with holiday considerations) and Tuesday, September 8, 2026, to set up Evan’s environment and advance onboarding. Coordination tasks include adding Evan to repositories with enforced MFA, migrating Westwood’s code, clearing bugs, inviting testers, and working with George on document linkage and login setup. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Meeting Logistics - Participants: Evan and Christi; Brett may not join. Christi records the call and will share copies. - Christi’s hard stop at 2:00 PM on September 3, 2026 (daughter’s dentist appointment). - Evan is comfortable with command prompt/DOS. ### 2. Development Workflow: Claude → GitHub → Azure - Claude in Code mode to write/manage code, operating locally (e.g., OneDrive) or directly against GitHub. - Branch strategy: development for changes/testing; production for stable releases; Azure syncs from GitHub within minutes. - Plain-language commands to build, push, and deploy; notifications signal task completion or approvals. ### 3. Migration from Base 44 to Azure - Code translation and partial rewrites to meet Azure/GitHub requirements due to poor Base 44 compatibility. - Bugs in the Azure version require domain-expert testing; plan to train Evan to fix issues using structured feedback. ### 4. Security and Access Controls - Enforced MFA via Microsoft Authenticator, passkeys post-SSO; strong controls to protect code and data. - Use organizational accounts (Westwood/Crimson); instructor may use a personal Claude for non-Crimson datasets but Evan should use organization accounts. ### 5. Project Organization and Environments - Reference project “Adapto/Adapt Two Inbox” with supporting docs and config files; Claude reads context before work. - Setup: select correct local folder or connect Claude directly to GitHub; optional remote control/SSH. ### 6. Claude Modes, Models, Effort, and Prompting - Modes: Plan (recommended initially), Accept Edits (after a week), Auto (later with trust/context). - Models: Opus default; Sonnet/Haiku for mid/low tasks; Fable for high-end tasks with higher cost. - Effort level: keep High by default; increase only for deep research. Provide clear prompts including desired result, current context, and specific tasks; upload roadmaps/workflows (e.g., Miro diagrams) for context. ### 7. Bug Fixing Demonstration (Inbox App) - Issue: multiple drafts created for the same email in cloud version. - Fix plan: check “sent” first; ensure only one draft per email; hold unsent drafts; reminders for follow-up with configurable intervals (24/48/72 hours). - Human judgment: review Claude’s plan, request simpler explanations if unclear, and iterate requirements. ### 8. Testing, Validation, and Visualization - Automated builds and security checks integrated into Claude’s process; can “pit Claude against itself” for validation. - Preview UI changes in a browser canvas before deployment to visualize impact without compiling. ### 9. Usage Monitoring and Cost Controls - Regularly check usage dashboards; manage monthly limits. - Keep default on Opus; reserve Fable for exceptional cases; monitor higher-tier needs (e.g., Brett) based on usage. ### 10. Training Plan, Availability, and Scheduling - Increased instructor availability over the next two weeks; internet restored after outage. - Plan to migrate code, finalize setup, and train Evan from scratch on GitHub/Claude workflows. - Scheduling targets include 2026-09-04 sessions and a follow-up on Tuesday, September 8, 2026; time zones considered. ### 11. Roles, Responsibilities, and Integration Goals - Evan: primary trainee; building apps; will manage dev-to-prod, bug fixes, and future features (e.g., SharePoint/Teams integration). - Brett: decision-maker/finance; may need higher-tier plan; recommends Plan mode initially. - George: assists with document linking; needs “quad login” setup. - Tools: Claude (Code mode), GitHub (branches), Azure (deployments), OneDrive (local storage), Miro (workflows), SharePoint/Teams (future integration). ## Assignments - Set up GitHub access for Evan with enforced MFA/passkeys; add him to repos and Microsoft side. - Migrate and finalize Westwood’s code to GitHub; ensure Azure syncs within five minutes. - Configure Claude in Code mode for Evan: open correct OneDrive folder or connect directly to GitHub; verify branch usage (dev vs. production). - Establish branch strategy and require testing in development before merging to production. - Train Evan on Claude modes and prompting: start with Plan for at least a week, then Accept Edits, later Auto. - Provide/upload supporting documentation (tech stack, authentication notes, roadmaps/workflows) for Claude’s context. - Review and fix current Azure bugs; use the in-app suggestion tool to track issues and train Evan on implementations. - Monitor usage and costs; keep Opus default and effort High; reserve Fable for exceptional cases; assess Brett’s plan needs. - Schedule and confirm the next training session, targeting Tuesday, September 8, 2026, with consideration of prior commitments and time zones. - Work with George to link documents into the application; set up his “quad login.” - Set up Evan’s computer/user instance and custom instructions for Claude; transfer existing Azure setup into Evan’s environment.
- Date
- Sep 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:33 Hey. Hey, Speaker 2 00:00:34 Christi. How are you, Evan? Good. How are you doing? I'm good. I am. I don't know if Brett's going to join us today. Do you know? Okay. If not, not a big deal because I am going to record this call, and then that way you guys have a copy of it. I do have a hard stop at two o'clock just because I have to get my daughter to the dentist. But I just want to let you guys be aware. And a couple things to note, real quick. I'm gonna. Are you comfortable in using something like a command prompt or DOS or things like that? Or are you more comfortable? Okay, gotcha. So that that's not an issue at all. Speaker 2 00:01:29 I'm sorry. I'm a vibe guy. Perfect. I'm a vibe girl, but I'm also old school. I've been around for way too many years. I am probably. I I'm gonna guess, just having seen Brett many times in the past through camera, I might be slightly older than Brett. I just don't. I just. I look young. Speaker 3 00:01:54 So. Speaker 2 00:01:59 I have been in IT for over 28 years. Speaker 3 00:02:08 Okay. You may not those first couple years. I don't know if you could say I was in IT, but we'll see. Speaker 2 00:02:23 So I've the the reason I said that is because I've been around since well before DOS. I was using AOL on DOS, so yeah. I'm gonna. I was just telling Evan right before you joined. I am gonna record this call so that Evan can go back and uh rewatch segments of it. So just a heads up for you guys. Evan, part of this is going to be because my schedule as of today has now finally cleared up, and I don't have 15 million projects going on. So, over the next two weeks, I am going to be a lot more available than I have been, just because I had a whole bunch of projects get dumped on me all at one time, and some of my projects are older than y'all's projects. So I had to fiddle and get things moved around. Speaker 2 00:03:14 So as of today, I find we close out six of my projects. Not you guys, but other six. So I am going to be a lot more available to you, Evan, where I can answer questions, sit down with you, do more training, things like that. So we're going to start training as if you love to vibe code, but you don't have the background to really jump in. I'm also going to do. I am also going to give Brett a heads up about something. When you start coding, Brett, he may his usage may be the one where we need to upgrade him to the higher end version. Speaker 2 00:04:03 Yes. So, yeah. So just a heads up for you guys. Anzor and I have an agreement. If I am not working within the Crimson data set and I'm just working in in client data, I do use my personal Claude because I pay $200 a month. It's the best $200 I've spent on a best friend, so I do use that because also Anzor knows I have a lot of security features in play that rivals Crimson's security features. So. Speaker 2 00:04:37 Just a heads up for you guys. I want to default with that, but Evan, for you, exactly, exactly. And so, Evan, I say that to give you the caution. I don't want you to use your personal cloud account. I would. I really need you to use Westwood's. So, um. Now, heads up, I'm sharing my screen. I don't normally program in the code that's on this screen, but I'm going to teach you from this one because I do know it. I am going to start you from scratch. Have you ever worked with GitHub? No. Okay. So what I'm going to do is I'm transferring all of Westwood's coding that I put in that you started the build on, and I am. Speaker 2 00:05:31 Doing a lot of things. I am migrating that to GitHub today because internet finally came up. I don't know if you guys heard about the cogent down outage. Speaker 4 00:05:40 Saying that 100% of my code from base 44 has not been converted over into the Azure that you sent. Speaker 2 00:05:53 Oh, it has been converted over. However, I had to rewrite some of it so that the coding language matched Azure. Okay. Does that make sense? I took your code, rewrote it. It's like I translated Spanish into English. The best way for me to put it. Um, and then now I'm pushing it to GitHub. Have you ever heard of GitHub? Yes. Okay. Good. So GitHub, I I do have a Crimson account, and that Crimson account, I'm going to log in with my thing. I do require you to have multi-factor authentication on because I need you to make sure that you're secure. And then I am going to add you in here. And yes, I do have a lot of ones in here. Here we go. There's yours. Speaker 2 00:06:48 I had to find it, so I'm going to add you to this one as a user, and I'm going to add you into the Microsoft side. So this is all of your code that we ran through. You can see I started it two months ago when you asked me to jump in. So we we started working on it there. I am going to finalize this today so that is all pushing. The biggest thing to note is GitHub. So we go from Claude here on this screen. You are going to write the code in Claude. Claude's going to push it to GitHub, which is like a database repository of your code, and then Azure instantly picks that up and puts in your new changes, and that happens within five minutes or less. Speaker 3 00:07:39 You have a sync basically from Azure to GitHub, just that's. So GitHub is where the code will live. Azure will refresh as the code is updated. Speaker 4 00:07:49 Exactly. So I build it in Cloud, push it to GitHub, and then it goes. Azure says. Yep. Azure is the the engine. Speaker 2 00:07:57 Yes. And so my requirements for that is just to have multi - factor authentication turned on for yourself. And you saw how when I logged in, I had to use my passkey to log in. You're going to need to do the same thing. And I. If I remember looking at your account, which it's been a while since I looked at your account, you have Microsoft Authenticator connected to your account. That's right. Okay. Speaker 3 00:08:21 Good. Speaker 2 00:08:23 Good. So when you set up your multi - factor authentication with GitHub, set it to your Microsoft Authenticator as your passkey. I have three passkeys on mine, so it takes my Crimson SSO and then it still asks me. For my passkey. So just because I don't want people reading y'all's code, I'm very secure. Also, I don't want Brett coming after me if some of your data gets loose on the wild, wild internet. Speaker 3 00:08:54 So Brett, yeah, it's important to lock that down for sure. Speaker 2 00:08:59 Yes. So just a heads up for you. And then Evan, as I'm training you and teaching you and getting you comfortable with everything you can do. Feel free to build out your own applications. So, Speaker 4 00:09:14 I've got two. Speaker 3 00:09:15 He's already doing. He's already got more things. He's got queued up. He wants to talk more about another one tomorrow. So yeah, no, no, we got it. Okay, he has no problem with that. Speaker 2 00:09:25 Good. So you can see all my all my different projects I have in here that I work through. I I have a lot. Um, so just be aware of that. Um, I so I am working through. So this is where I work through it. I usually have like six tabs open, but I've been back-to-back trainings all day, so I don't have as much going. You guys are one of my important projects, and then I have a complex routine that I'm working on. So I may send you screenshots that look like that. It's the exact same thing back and forth. So be aware of that. Speaker 2 00:10:02 I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you everything that I'm doing. I'm going to teach you using the Adapto inbox right here. And so basically, what this the code lives in multiple places. So just think of Adapto inbox right here as your project hub. Okay. The code lives in my OneDrive, and so that's where Claude's going to work from. It's going to work from my OneDrive. And as it's working through it, then it's going to push it to GitHub, and then it's going to pick up and sync from there. As I'm working on things and I'm developing it, I will build it out on my computer first, and test it, and then push it over. Before and I will tell Claude, hey, I think this is going to work. Let's push it and make it. Speaker 2 00:10:60 Make the change, put the change in production. Okay. Speaker 3 00:11:03 Typically, and you know, Christy doesn't need me to tell you this. You typically want to test out the code when you modify it, not in the production iteration. So that's so that's Christy following the the time - honored sort of process of making sure that the the code, the newly changed code, works and, Kind of a dev environment, or kind of a you know her environment, her before it's the changes are incorporated into the live version. Speaker 4 00:11:39 And and what's wrong with doing all this in Base Forty Four versus Cloud and going from Base Forty Four to GitHub to Azure? Speaker 2 00:11:52 So Base Forty Four does not really work well with GitHub, and the, Base programming language for Base 44 doesn't translate well into Azure. Speaker 3 00:12:04 Because there's that step, right? That you have to you you translated the English to Spanish from the Base 44 language to the to the Azure language, right? Yes. So that's essentially you have to do that step every single time you wanted to make a change in Base 44, right? Speaker 4 00:12:24 Yeah. My my only issue is I'm already. There's already some bugs that aren't in the base 44 application, but I'm seeing in the Azure application that, you know, and I've only like scratched the surface. Yes. With it, so that we we have to get fixed. Speaker 2 00:12:46 Now I will explain why those bugs exist. Okay. It would be like me going to Brett and try to do Brett's job with financials. I don't know financials, so in the same token, I don't know Westwood that well, so I don't know what's going to be a problem and what's not, which is why you always want to get experts to test your your stuff. So that that's that's the easiest way to explain why you've got bugs. Speaker 3 00:13:16 So so so in order to get those bugs resolved, is your intention, Christy, after you kind of train him on the the sort of the, Process by which we're going to be updating this on regular. Yes. Then you're going to you're going to confront each of his itemized list of things. You know, subsequently, is that the idea? Speaker 2 00:13:39 Yes. And I'm going to teach him how to. Speaker 4 00:13:41 I built into I built into the app already suggesting improvement tool, and I don't know if that's a good way to do it, Chrissy, and you pick it up from there, or I you show me how to fix these things. And I fix it however we want to do that. I'm fine. Yeah. But you know that's not only for me testing it out in a beta environment, but you know going forward once we push this out to the PMS, they're going to come up with better ways to do things. Exactly. And I provide for that in in the app for them to to make those suggestions and we can track them. Speaker 2 00:14:20 That is 100% how I would do it too. So good job for you. I will be honest. By the time you're done with today's training, you're going to be able to fix those bugs yourself. Okay, I heard it. So, the reason why I'm going to show you in Adapto Inbox rather than in your tool is because Adapto Inbox is something I've already developed. It's in the same position your tool is in, and we're going to work. I'm going to show you how easy it is to work with Claude and have Claude push your updates. Now. Speaker 2 00:14:52 A couple of things I want to give you a base knowledge on. How well do you understand models within AI. Speaker 4 00:14:59 And what do you mean by that? Speaker 2 00:15:04 Okay, so. No, how familiar are you with Claude. Speaker 4 00:15:09 Not a very in - depth. Okay. Relationship, Speaker 2 00:15:15 Yeah. Not a problem at all. So I just need to know that so I know where to start with you. Um. In Claude, I'm going to open up a new one. My sessions that I already have active, you can ignore these because I'm I'm actually working through some things. I am going to talk you through what Claude code looks like. Very first thing, make sure you're on code up here. So top left hand side, you see code right there. Make sure you're clicked in that. Don't go into chat and co work. We're going to do code. Speaker 2 00:15:47 Next thing is you're going to give it the folder where everything resides. So I'm going to open folder, and this where my the code resides on my personal machine, and my personal machine being my Crimson machine. So oops, not that OneDrive. I'm going to go into my OneDrive. I'm going to pull up my documents. Oh, this in the wrong order. Okay, documents, and then for me, I have it down in clients and projects, and then I got to go what? Find Westwood Financial, okay, and then from here, this is where I'm going to go find the project itself. So Westwood EA, and then I'm going to say select folder, and that's where you put that in here. Now the other thing that I can do besides do folder is I can switch to cloud, remote control, and SSH, and in cloud I can add an environment, and that's where my GitHub is going to be. Speaker 2 00:16:46 So it will work straight off of GitHub, and you and I tomorrow, if you're game, Speaker 4 00:16:52 Push it to and pull it down from GitHub. Exactly. Necessarily need this to reside on my computer. It can just reside in GitHub, and I can pull it from there. Speaker 2 00:17:02 Correct. And GitHub would make will make what we call branches. It's going to give you a production branch, and it's going to give you a development branch. You're going to code everything in development first, so that you can test it. Before you push it to production, I'm reiterating something I said earlier, and you're going to hear me reiterate that multiple times. So, I got to be very clear with you. I have made mistakes pushing something directly into production and taking down sites by mistake. So you always want to test it in dev first. We call development dev. Speaker 2 00:17:42 So I'm going to go into Adapto Inbox because in Adapto Inbox I am already connected to my GitHub. So I'm going to click this plus sign here, and you'll see right here I'm in Adapto Inbox, and I'm working off the main branch on this one just because at this point my last thing I was doing I was working off the main branch. So be aware of that. And then in the middle of this I can tell Claude which branch I want it to go into. So you're going to treat Claude. As if you're talking to Brett, but you're talking to a Brett that is not personable, who does not tell you jokes unless you give it that personality. Okay, and Brett gets to be the brunt of all my jokes today, just because he's on the meeting. Speaker 3 00:18:27 I'm a very jokey person. Speaker 2 00:18:30 He is, and he's very he's very good natured, putting up with me all the time. So, um. Down here, you've got this is your chat box. So you're going to tell it what you want to do. You can ask a question, things like that. And we're going to go over prompting in a moment because prompting applies to all AI. I'm sorry, I'm laughing because my daughter, she's learning AI and she's get she's getting crash course by sitting in on all my meetings. And I'm in the office today and she came with me, so she's pretty cool. Mode down here, auto. Okay, there's multiple modes you can choose. Speaker 2 00:19:06 Auto, where is where Claude is going to, it's going to have permission to take steps without asking you for permission on things that it deems in non-destructible. Meaning, if you have an intern that's working for you, and you tell that intern to go do a task, if you trust that intern not to come back to you for every approval needed. That's the auto. This is your level two intern that's been around for a while that knows what's going on. There's a plan. Plan is your intern that you you tell it, hey, I want you to go make a plan on how you're doing this project, and then I will approve your plan. Okay. And then accept edits is a little bit different. It's going to accept some things, but it's it's going to ask you for permission for a lot of things. Speaker 2 00:20:03 So be aware of that. I'm on auto because at this point, Adapto Inbox is something that Claude has really good knowledge on because we've been working on it. In fact, it doesn't show all of my changes and everywhere because it doesn't show my beginning work, but it has all the instructions in the background. Speaker 3 00:20:22 But like, do you think he should? That's something that Claude has been very familiar with at this point. Exactly. So what would you recommend as, Default be to start when he's getting his feet wet in here. Speaker 2 00:20:34 So for you, Evan, I would have you go into plan. Speaker 3 00:20:37 Okay, that's what I would do. Honestly, I mean, plan seems like a good thing for me because at least you get to see what it's going to do first. Speaker 2 00:20:48 Exactly. And please, Speaker 4 00:20:51 Isn't that the reason why you you do it on the the branch before you push it to the main? Speaker 2 00:20:57 Exactly, but you still want to plan it. Speaker 3 00:21:01 Because otherwise, then it's like okay. So like, let's say you do autumn, right? Then you don't know exactly what it's been doing behind the scenes, so you don't know there's a problem until the site crashes in dev, right? Correct. But but if you look at it first, it's like oh well, yeah. You might be able to avoid that step of it crashing in dev if you adequately tell Quan that they screwed up on a couple elements of your plan. That's why I would recommend doing that first. Once you get it used to doing it, maybe you can transition to auto. At least, again, this is just me. This is my recommendation, but that's what I would recommend. Speaker 2 00:21:39 100. And I agree with what Brett's saying because I'm going to show you why. So I'm going to go into my personal. So in here, this is my Adapto inbox. This is the code, the background, all of that. There is a cloud file here. With all my settings, and then there is a get with all my settings. It took a while for the system to formulate all the instructions and to understand it all. So once it did understand it all, and also we have docs, which is where we we took session notes of everything I'm doing, and because they're in files that Claude can read, Claude checks these documents before it starts working. Speaker 2 00:22:27 So it knows what text stacks I'm using. It knows my authen my justifications for different things, and it does know the capabilities. And that's why it's on auto. But until this information is built out and it understands what Evan is looking for in the application, you want to keep it on plan, or you want to keep it on accept edits. Plan for the first week, and accept edits next. And then when you feel like that your intern has started to become More than just an intern, that's when you're gonna throw it on auto. Okay. Now, in addition to that, if you want to add files or anything to it, like let's say you have a roadmap that you put in that maybe you gave it to Brett early on, and you said, hey, this is my roadmap and my plan for this application, you can add that using this plus sign here, and you can add photos, files. I actually have a connector. Speaker 2 00:23:23 So one of my connectors is Miro, which is not on here anymore. It actually contained—I no longer use Miro, but it contained the workflow of how this wanted to work. So I created, you know, when my words are escaping me, but you know, in in PowerPoint when you're setting up a workflow to show someone how something's going to work. Okay, that's what I had built in Miro and imported into Clot. So that it knew how I wanted the system to work. So, and then also you can dictate. We're not going to just go over that. Models. I want you to be aware of models. I have been utilizing Fable 5.1. Be aware, Fable costs a lot more, and the prompting is going to be a little bit different with Fable. For now. Speaker 2 00:24:18 Until you get really good at explaining to Claude what you want, use Opus. What Opus is for is Opus is your high level thinker. It's like hiring me to come in and plan something out for you. That's Opus. Fable is hiring the chief technical officer of Microsoft, who's way more knowledgeable than me and way more efficient. That's going to be Fable. But that chief technology officer at Microsoft, he makes triple what I make. Okay, so that's that's how the best explain it. Sonnet is probably where you're at. Haiku, haiku, I can never pronounce that. Is probably where your janitor is at on knowledge of the company. So and knowledge of technology. That's how I explain models to people. So keep it on Opus because Babel does cost a lot more. And then for the effort. Speaker 2 00:25:14 How how much effort do you want your AI to make? I always keep it somewhere around here or here. I keep it in the high. The higher you go, the smarter you go, but the more expensive it is. So if you leave it on high, which is right here, that's usually the perfect setting for everyone. I very rarely go other than high. The only time I do high is when I'm doing a super extensive research. And when I say super extensive, extensive, maybe it's a brand new client coming on board that I've never worked with with them before, and so I'll I'll bump it up so like it digs all the way down into the internet. Does that make sense? Speaker 3 00:25:57 Yeah. Okay. This is all good to know also for me in terms of the cost perspective. So because we do need to be thoughtful about where that starts. So yeah, that's it's also Christy. Speaker 2 00:26:12 You're welcome. Another thing for you, Evan. If you look down here, I'm clicking on my name. You're going to see a little bit different options here. You're going to have a usage option in here. Constantly go check on that. And now, heads up, I'm going to go to my usage. This where I'm at for the week. This my weekly limits. So I've been, I've not been using as much this week because I've been training and I've been having back-to-back training sessions and. Thursday was 14 hour workday for me, and I was on the road for six of those hours. I was in Big Bear and Ontario and things like that. So my usage is not where it normally is for the week, and in fact, I haven't used in the last 20 minutes because I'm talking to you. So, so but be mindful of this. Fable has different usage, but you want to be mindful of this right here. Speaker 2 00:27:08 And you want to be mindful that it is a month limit instead of weekly limits. So, and just a heads up, this is the best $200 I've ever spent on a best friend. So, I've been doing the $200 plan for over a year now. So, once you get your system knowing and understanding the code base, which I'm going to walk you through that tomorrow, you guys are okay with meeting me tomorrow? I forgot to ask that. I just assumed. Speaker 3 00:27:40 Yeah, because what time are you? Like 2 p. m. 2 p. m. is five o'clock. That's five o'clock. So that's a little late. Speaker 2 00:27:50 Okay, let me check something real quick because I have training all day tomorrow. I'm teaching the basics of AI two different sessions tomorrow. Speaker 3 00:27:58 I mean, we we could probably just you know move it to early next week after Labor Day too. Like if you want, I I just you know he's. You know it's tough because you know Evan's three hours ahead, so sometimes. Speaker 2 00:28:13 Yeah. Evan, Speaker 3 00:28:15 Are you Southern? Speaker 4 00:28:17 Yeah. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:28:18 I'm in Georgia. Okay, your accent comes through. I I feel like I'm at home when I'm talking to you. Um, what? Speaker 4 00:28:27 I'm born and raised in Tampa, so there's not too much accent there. Speaker 2 00:28:30 Um. I have family in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I was raised in Kentucky and grew up Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. It comes out. So just a heads up. How about one o'clock on Tuesday? Because I know for a fact that this is going to get moved. So I could do this full hour right here and possibly go over. Speaker 3 00:28:56 Four o'clock your time to four o'clock my time. Four o'clock your time on Tuesday. I can. Speaker 2 00:29:04 Okay . Uh, this week is next week is is quite light compared to. So okay, I'll send that meeting invite to you guys in a bit. Um, and we should be good. Um, okay. So real quickly, let me talk you through what a session looks like, and then Tuesday we're gonna set up your computer. So your computer can do everything, okay? So on this, just because I haven't pushed Westwood into the UI yet, one of the things I'm having an issue with. So we're going to fix bugs real quick on Adapt Two Inbox, and so one of the issues I'm going to do is I'm going to tell it, hey, we're having a problem with responses. So I need to fix a bug where. Speaker 2 00:30:01 The drafts are being created multiple times on the same email. So, just to give you context, what this tool does is it's a inbox tool that sorts your inbox, drafts, replies to messages, and will categorize your email and file them according to your own rules. And there is a bug in in the cloud version that will create five drafts for the same email because it's creating one draft a day. So what I'm doing is I'm going to give it a prompt, and so this prompt that I'm giving it, I'm going to spell it out a little bit more. I just hate typing while I'm talking. What I'm going to do is I'm going to give it what my end result should be, the context of what's going on. Speaker 2 00:30:60 And if I have any tasks that I needed to do to get to that point, sometimes I don't have to give it tasks, but I do need to give it context, and I do need to give it clear guidelines of what it should look like when it's finished. Does that make sense? Okay. All right. So bear with me one second. Let me pull up my dictation software because I prefer to dictate rather than type. The system will send out or attempt to create one draft. Per day, and I needed to check my sent box first to ensure that I haven't already sent an email to that person because it will try to recreate drafts over and over again. The end result should be that a email is only responded to and draft created one time, and then if I have not sent that draft, hold it. If. Speaker 2 00:31:58 I have sent that draft, then, and it's not received a response from the person that sent me the original email. Then it should remind me every two days if I wanted to check in. Okay, so my dictation software, I I don't know if you guys heard the dictation. It you guys heard? Okay, good. Um, so I dictated to the system what I wanted it to do, um, how I should have it done. And the steps I needed to take. Now sometimes I don't do very well on explaining it, so you know, Claude is really good at putting together things. But before I have it fix it, let's plan out what what this should look like. Okay. Also, I love my dictation software because it corrects on the grammar. Speaker 4 00:32:59 Is that pedal. Speaker 2 00:33:00 Ah, it it is WhisperFlow. Speaker 3 00:33:06 WhisperFlow, Speaker 2 00:33:06 Yeah. Yeah. And so what Claude's going to do is it's going to look at the current auto draft. It's going to look at the rules, and it's going to look at the code before it proposes anything. So I always, Speaker 4 00:33:22 Even though working on my app, you have this working on something else, or is this for? Are you working within my Westfin project hub? Speaker 2 00:33:33 I'm working within a different app because I don't have your Westfin one in in this system just yet. Because I did everything on DOS. Gotcha. So this is where I did all of yours. I just need to transfer it over into here, and then I'm going to set you up with that tomorrow. Speaker 3 00:33:51 She's just doing this. Speaker 2 00:33:58 And I'm showing you how Claude works because the little bit I played around with Base 44, I I really do like Claude better just because there's a little personality there and it does catch you when you start to make a mistake that might be detrimental. And Base 44 allowed me to make a mistake that could have been detrimental. So I I have played around a little bit with Base 44, especially after you guys gave me a heads up and I already had other clients trying to use it. Speaker 4 00:34:29 Yeah, I mean Base 44. It definitely created some bugs, but a lot of times it saw the bugs before it published it. Number one, and then number two, if I saw the bug, all I had to do was point it out and I went in and fixed it. Speaker 2 00:34:44 Yes, and Claude will do the same thing, but it also will stop you before a bug too. It'll say, " Hey, I can write this, but heads up, this is what it's going to cause." So. And that's why currently it's digging into my existing code because it's going to check and make sure that it's not going to create a stumbling block. So now while it's doing that, you can see right here if I click on this, you can see what it's doing. It's looking at all my stuff, and I can click down and see here's the code of what it's looking at. This is what it's looking for. Speaker 2 00:35:25 And and so on. So I'm gonna I'm gonna hide that again. Now it's explaining to me the causes, and only one of them is the thing I described. So it's finding extra items, and I can read through that. And so here's why it's happening, and then it's giving me a little bit more information. And then it's giving me another little information. So it's giving me three pieces. It should correct, and how it would build it. And so I'm going to read that as well and understand what Claude is trying to say, and I can come back and argue with Claude because if you've ever been in one of my trainings, I'm going to tell you, 70% of the work you're trying to do can definitely be done in AI. It's the 30% of the work, including what we're doing here, that relies on your judgment. Speaker 2 00:36:25 And that goes back to why you have bugs right now, because my judgment is based on certain things, but I don't know Westfin, and that's where your judgment is going to be. You know Westfin, you know what you're trying to build, you know what you're trying, what problem you're trying to solve with your software, and so that's where you need to read through this and make judgments and decisions on all of its suggestions. That's why I would never go to Brett and say, "Hand me over your financial records for next year and let me check your double check your budget," because I don't know Westfin's budget. I don't know what problems you're solving for with the budget. I can tell you to give me your IT budget and I can check that because I do know Westfin's IT stuff. I don't know everything else. So this is where your judgment comes into play. You got to read through it and check it, make sure everything is there, and make sure that it's not going to create a stumbling block. Speaker 2 00:37:20 So I'm gonna go through this. I actually already know all of this because I haven't started building it, but I I woke myself up at three o'clock thinking about this fix that I need to make, and then I was like, wait, this will be a good one to show Evan. So, stopping jesting my own mail, 100%. I needed to stop doing that. One follow up for a conversation, yes. Check sent before drafting, yes. This one's a new one. But I like I like what it's saying here, and I agree with that. And the two-day check-in, it mostly exists. I agree with this. And now I'm going to look at the scope. Now, if at any time when you're going through this oven, and you're like, wait, I don't understand what you're saying. Speaker 2 00:38:19 Challenge Claude to put it in your in terms that you understand, and say, "Hey, I don't get this. Explain this to me, okay?" So, I I'm going to tell it build it as you described. Now, this one I do agree with. Make the reminder. Speaker 2 00:38:50 Choosable. I I can't spell today. I'm a techie, not an English major. Leave the English majoring for my daughter. Make the reminder choosable in settings on if it's a 24 hour, 48 hour, or 72 hour nudge. Speaker 2 00:39:24 Something's happened on my computer. Let let users decide. Okay, so there's my caveat. I took everything that Claude said, except I wanted to add the piece where I allow my users to decide how often they're going to nudge. Is this making sense, Evan? Speaker 4 00:39:46 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. One of, Am I not going to see the physical app or what it's doing? It's just all going to be in in text. Yes. That I have to read through. Yep. Speaker 2 00:40:02 Okay. Um. Now, at one point, Speaker 4 00:40:06 How does it get from? At what point does it get from that to what you sent? You know, the the Azure versus the actual app to like play with it to see if it actually does what I want it to do. Speaker 2 00:40:19 When I tell it to push. Speaker 3 00:40:21 Yeah, but you you you gotta go push it. So then you you basically you validated everything that it's gonna go do or tweaked it as necessary. You then go have it do it. Then you have the code. Then you go push that to the production. Speaker 2 00:40:35 Yeah. Now at some at at one point you are welcome to say show me what this is gonna look like, and I'll be honest, I did that earlier. With a different thing that I'm making, so I asked it to show me what this is going to look like, and this is where it pulls up and tells me what it's going to look like. So, this is an operating. Speaker 3 00:40:55 That's really useful, you know. Yeah. Because then he doesn't have to actually compile and build. You, you, yeah. So that that's a good idea, Christi. What do you got? Speaker 2 00:41:04 Yes. So, and this is all I did was show me what this is going to look like, and it will push it to, it'll push it to your Edge or Chrome, whichever you use. And then it'll give you a canvas. This is a canvas, and it'll show you what each page looks like. So I can go in and take a look at each page. Speaker 3 00:41:23 Okay, cool. You can't click on it, but it's like a look. It's like a look. Yeah. Yes. Like, okay, if I make these changes, then these things are gonna. Speaker 2 00:41:31 Yeah. So, like, this is my client sheet. Look, you guys are on my client sheet. In fact, this is taking some my data from yesterday, where I have. My last activity was yesterday when I was actually building this, and then my open task, what I was working on for you guys. So this a this my own kind of operating system for me, Evan, where I it helps manage because my task list is 160 tasks long right now that's actually open and active, and so this my task list. Speaker 2 00:42:08 And I'm building out an interface where I can see it better than the way I have it right now. So, some of these got closed yesterday, not all of them. But this is dummy data, like it's it's based off of actual data. So I asked it to go in, create this, and take a look, and. Speaker 4 00:42:27 Then. So can you go back to the cloud? Uh huh. I'm I'm a little stuck as to how it gets from this. Speaker 1 00:42:38 Yes. Speaker 4 00:42:38 Into what you were just showing. Where's the push to do that? Speaker 2 00:42:42 So I will ask it. Hang on, let me see if that's in this one. Hang on one moment. I asked it on this one. So complex routine. I asked it in here. Here it is. Second pass is done and Canvas is updated at the same link. This is where I asked it. I gotta find it. Okay, I see the artifact. This where I asked it, and I gave it. I I told it I do like it, but I want to change. Is where the and I gave it all the changes I want, and then I asked it to push it, and this where it pushed it all. And then I opened up the webpage. Does that make sense? It's okay. I I start. I asked I asked it if it made sense, and I instantly knew. Speaker 4 00:43:38 Yeah, you built the code here in Cloud, but I'm looking at right. This is this is the code. So what button did you push from here to get it into GitHub? Speaker 2 00:43:50 Oh, that's easy. Speaker 4 00:43:52 I didn't into the app. Speaker 2 00:43:53 I didn't. I didn't. I don't have a button that I actually push. I just tell it, okay, push it. I tell it to push it. Speaker 4 00:44:02 Where did you? I don't see the way you said. Speaker 2 00:44:06 Oh. I haven't told it in this one yet to push. Yeah. What is. Speaker 3 00:44:12 It doing right now? It's compiling, checking, checking all the checks, right? Speaker 2 00:44:19 Yes. It's building out what it proposed to me. I told it to build it, and then once it's done being built, I will tell it to push it. Does that help, Evan? Yeah. Speaker 4 00:44:34 Okay. So once this is done running, you'll tell it to push. And you just say, and what's that command? Speaker 2 00:44:40 I just say, okay, push it. Okay. Think of it like talking to Brett. That's basically how I think about it. I think about it like I'm talking to George, and so if I'm ready for George to row something out or to do something, I say, okay, go do it. And that's how you that's how you want to think about talking to Claude. Speaker 4 00:45:07 So we we we sought to wait till it does what it does before you can kick it in the ass here and say go put this to work. Speaker 2 00:45:15 Exactly, you got it. Which is which is why I have so many tabs open because I will tell it to run and build something and then I'll move on and I'm multitasking and go to the next things, and then I'll go back and revisit. Speaker 4 00:45:27 Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's why you know again sorry I'm I'm a Base 44 fan because that's what I did. I would you know. I'd tell it what to do. I'd go work on something else, and then it'd chime and say I'm done. You know, I test it out. I'd like it or not or whatever, and you know, move it around, and then you know, tell it to build something else, and then I'd you know go work on something else, and it'd give me a chime. I'm done, and yeah. Speaker 2 00:45:53 Yes. I will. I will be honest with you. Claude will give you a chime too. Not audible. Well, I've never listened for it. I'll be honest, but you see the blue dot here. I'll get blue dot here or here. Tell me it's done, or it pushes a notification to my phone. And yeah, I think I've cleared out all my notifications. So because I've already handled everything. But when it's done, it'll push a notification to my phone. Or if it's waiting on me to do something, if it has a question for me or something I need to approve, it will push that approval request to my phone. Speaker 2 00:46:35 I'll be honest. I start things from my desktop at home. I'll log into my desktop at home while I'm in my office. I will start something to build so that by the time I get in my car and drive halfway home from Pasadena, I can go in and approve it because I have an hour commute when I come to Pasadena. So I'll let it work while I'm driving. Speaker 4 00:46:59 So then you you hit approve and then how do I get to? To the the work environment. Speaker 2 00:47:07 So you ask it for the link to the work environment, and it will open it up for you. Oh shit. Yeah. Okay. It puts it automatically in here. Okay. So all you have to do is ask it plain language. Speaker 4 00:47:23 You know how. How do I push it and make it live, or does that need to run through you? Speaker 2 00:47:29 No, you push it. You tell it, okay, make it live. Put this in production. Speaker 4 00:47:35 And it'll automatically up in Azure, and yes, we're using it. Okay. The other question there is: is this really going to be the website that we use that we send out to the PMS Green Hill Dash Five BA? You know, is it going to be it? You know, something. We can name it whatever. Speaker 3 00:47:57 Yes. It's the basically, you know, by the time she sets this up in. Your cloud environment. We're going to have it so that it's, you know, not only do we have connection to the GitHub, but connection, obviously, GitHub will then be connected to Azure, and then you tell Claude then can just interface with, right? Yes. And then, you know, hopefully, and again, I know in the early goings here, we'll probably have some tweaks during this process, but. Speaker 3 00:48:33 Once you get it pretty stable, I hope we won't be making too many changes. But it's like the idea is just sort of you know instead of having you do it in base 44 and then we up we update it on our end and we do the cloud translation and then we do it. And there there I suspect in the early goings, you know, you could have you know cleaning bugs, little enhancements, things like that. You're gonna have you know probably 15 times you're gonna have to update the code at least. So like the then you can do it without waiting on us to then like do the syncing, right? So the key thing is, and obviously Chris is gonna help you with like you know being comfortable or if you have questions and all of that. But the you know it's like teaching somebody to fish instead of you know what I mean. It's that old adage. Speaker 4 00:49:26 It's like yeah yeah yeah no no no this is great. I want to be able to do this because it'll you know I'll be able to. Stay on it, and you know. Speaker 3 00:49:33 And then we don't have to go back and translate stuff back. Speaker 4 00:49:37 There's going to be things that I'm going to see that I want to change, and and I can do. Exactly. So I mean, this is great that I'm I'm getting this ability to do this is is awesome. Speaker 2 00:49:47 Yeah, and I'm gonna I'm gonna show you something because there I've got I've got a couple things. So Evan, I want you to be aware of something that's happening here. Um, this is called New Weight Room. It is a website that I published for a client way back when, and I taught their social media expert just like I'm teaching you, and connected them to this. So you'll see I'm not the only one in here. There's also Clayton Moore Fitness. He's the social media manager for this site. He goes in now and he makes the changes. I haven't touched this website in three months. Speaker 2 00:50:23 Okay, because they haven't needed me because I taught him. The last time he went and deployed something was two weeks ago. So if you do push something, we can go in and see what you push, and I can go in and take a look at your deployments, and I can resolve it from there. So you can see all the deployments when he made some changes, and I can see who did it. I can see when he failed, and that was back in July, and so there might have been something wrong. I think he actually called me on this one. And I could go in and take a look at it, but you can see he's he made all these changes himself. In fact, I think the last time I touched it was in July when he needed my help on something. But ever since then, he's made deployments himself without me needing to touch it. So, and we'll do the same for you. We'll make sure that you're set up and ready to go. Speaker 2 00:51:22 But I'm not going hands off until you tell me, hey, stop bugging me. I don't need you no more. Speaker 4 00:51:27 And that's another thing I built into my tool as well. I have the system test that that runs through the whole app and tests everything. I just, you know, I just I just ran it. Right now I have a failed thing, so I had it. And when I was in the building environment, I wanted to get rid of all my test test data and test projects. Yes. But now that it's live, it's not doing that. Yeah. But I want to make sure that that's only on the admin side. So there's stuff. You know, there's going to be tons of stuff I need to verify here before we send this out to everyone. Speaker 2 00:52:06 And just a heads up, what we'll do, we're going to set you up for success here. Everything you validate, do it through Claude, and also. Have Claude. I do this. I do this a lot. I will have two chat windows open. So each of these right here, let me go up to Adato inbox. Each of these is his own chat session. I'll open up another chat session, and I'll tell it to do a security test against the code that's already there. Oh, cool. And I'll go in here. Like this one is. It's working through some things that I have going on with a to do list. It's still running. Speaker 2 00:52:46 Because this something I was doing earlier, but you'll see these little things that are happening here. So this a draft that was working on. This an error that I actually already fixed. I fixed it in here, and then you can see this little fading in and out just means it's running. And so you can pit clot against itself. Okay. I think once you get to the point where you're able to do this, you're gonna ask, call me and say, hey Chris, I'm gonna need to make another app. Show me how to do that. Speaker 4 00:53:21 I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful. What I've built so far, to Brett's point, you know, is just a little cleanup. This isn't a high test program like we have been using. You know, this is just an organization tool basically, and reporting. What people are doing and a place to store stuff and you know, yes, have a nice happy home for our project. Speaker 2 00:53:51 Yes, 100%. Speaker 4 00:53:53 There are some things in here that I did not build yet in Base 44 because I wanted it to be in our environment before I did that. Okay. Like tying stored files into share files. I don't know if we're, Able to do that or into teams. Sorry, if we're able to do that or not, and if that does in the right place, it could get messy. But that would be great if I'm able to do that, Brett. Speaker 3 00:54:24 So that yeah, I mean, basically, what he's looking at, you know, in the in the site that is currently the project management site, there's a bunch of construction - related documents that are that are stored there, right? Now, when we have a site that she built, and you're now building, updating, you know, the hope would be that we could point certain projects to like a folder on SharePoint that already housed copies of these documents, right? Right. To all the documents that we put them into Teams, so that. Speaker 3 00:55:11 We be able to then transfer it back to them. This, this, so it's just figuring out kind of how we do that, architecture of that. But I think it doesn't seem if it's all in our environment, Speaker 2 00:55:26 We could. You should, and you can. I will get you guys. One biggest thing I'm going to tell people: make sure it's organized well. Just make sure it's organized well. So, but yes, and. In fact, George can even show you how to do it. Great. I've taught him just enough; he should be able to do that. If not, tell him he owes me some more portos. So, that's our standing joke. Anytime he does something wrong, he owes me a month's worth of portos. So, all right. It's if you guys look. I know it's taken a minute. It is building. The building is clean. Speaker 2 00:56:09 A build is clean, and now it's updating all my project documents. Remember, I showed you early on, Evan. I have all my documents listed there, so we can pick up at any time from any computer. I always, I have it written into the code and into my instructions to always, when it's done with a build, update the project documents so that we know what was done. Speaker 4 00:56:32 So, is that are there are there some things like that you, Have already put into my code that that does that, or do I need to? Do we need to do that? Speaker 2 00:56:45 We're going to need to do that for you because my instructions are on my computer, and we're going to have to build your instructions on your computer. So in here, this is my code, this is my appearance, and I have a lot of instructions in here, and so you you're going to have those same instructions, and we're going to set that up together, and. In my general, I do have instructions. Here's my instructions for Claude, and so it's long if you guys can see. And I'm going to teach you how to set that up. So maybe by the time. Speaker 4 00:57:21 Something that you think I'm going to like the way that yours is, that that's going to probably work for me, or that's going to need to be tweaked. Speaker 2 00:57:28 I tell this is what I tell everybody. What I use is a good starting place for you, and as you, Work through Claude, and you have your own projects and your own ways you like to work. You're going to update it, make it even better, and make it fit your what your style is. So, it's it's like me. I don't like chili. I hate chili with a passion. If somebody hands me their menu that they use as a template and they have chili on it, I'm going to remove chili from that because I hate chili with a passion. I know I'm not a good Southern person, but still. Speaker 2 00:58:06 Because I don't like chili, but yeah, you're gonna tweak things and make it fit who you are. So, um, now that it's updating project docs, it went ahead and pushed because on this one I allow it to push, um, and so it pushed it as a draft, and so it's already in in GitHub. It pushed it to GitHub. It's not live yet. So, and you'll know that because I'll say it says two things before this goes live, and it's given me its stipulations for it to go live. So right now it's in dev because it pushes it as a draft. Draft is the same thing as development for me. Live is what we call production. Speaker 2 00:59:04 And by the way, it did test it as well at the same time. Now the thing that's different about this from Base 44, Evan, Base 44 is a lot quicker because it doesn't do a lot of the background checks that Claude does. Yeah. This one is it is super quick, but again, Claude goes deep into the code and makes sure everything's aligned correctly. Base 44 does a lot of just surface, so. Speaker 4 00:59:35 But then they have they have additional checks for you to go in and and fix security issues. Correct. So it doesn't do it at the same time. Yes. You have to go in and and secure it. Speaker 2 00:59:51 Yes. Now the reason why I'm not a fan of doing it that way, the way Base 44 does, is it's like this: you live in Compton, and, If you walk in and out and not lock your door, and you're in the kitchen cooking and your door's not locked, somebody's going to come in while you're cleaning the kitchen. So you want to make sure you lock the door as you go in. That's the same thing for this. As you're writing the code, you're going to make sure you're closing and locking the doors. Speaker 4 01:00:17 Be careful, Brett lives in Compton. Speaker 2 01:00:21 Yeah, I've lived and worked in Compton. So I get it. I'm now. I went from Compton to El Segundo, Brett. I'm waiting for him to respond to that one, Speaker 3 01:00:36 But. Hi. Speaker 2 01:00:40 Technically, I'm not in El Segundo. Technically, I'm that little sliver of land between El Segundo and Hawthorne, that's right above Del Air. It's right on the cusp of Del. I live next door to LAX courthouse and the sheriff's office. Yeah, so not fully in El Segundo, not that rich. So I'm comfortable enough that I can live near the sheriff's department. Comfortable enough, I tell my kids, if you feel the need to go do things that are not kosher, be aware, Speaker 1 01:01:18 Sheriff's department next door. Speaker 3 01:01:26 Yes. We at a place where we can sort of wrap up where we're at right now and then resume on Tuesday. Speaker 2 01:01:36 Absolutely, that was the next thing I was going to say. Speaker 4 01:01:38 I mean, as long as I can vibe, that that's not going to be an issue. And then you know, you set up the parameters that that it it writes. Speaker 2 01:01:50 Yes. You know the way that you set. I mean, I'm fine with all that. Speaker 4 01:01:54 Yeah, I. Speaker 2 01:02:02 Will tell you, you can vibe all day long using this method. Earlier, I was in a training class. I was teaching people how to utilize Claude more effectively, and at the same time, while I'm teaching, I'm vibing. Just not on the same shared screen, so people didn't know what was going on. So you can vibe all day long. Speaker 3 01:02:23 And it'll just, I think, once you're also in your own iteration, and then you see how it's all linking together, and then you will tell, you'll have more of a feeling of ownership of it. It's actually updating, wanting it to update. Right now, she's showing you kind of in her environment, a different app, and like it's kind of disconnected from what. Yes. Yes. So let's just work on that step. Your instance. Account, getting everything from the standpoint what she's already set up in in in Azure, we get that in there for you, and then you know we'll continue the training on Tuesday, and then I need to set this up, Speaker 4 01:03:15 Christi, this adapter. Speaker 2 01:03:17 Oh no. I sent that to you so you can see what we were working on, so you can have the visualization of what we just worked on. Speaker 4 01:03:24 Oh shit! This is this was what you were just building, though. Yes. Speaker 2 01:03:29 Oh wow. Yes. Brett's already seen it. So I just I didn't mean to interrupt Brett with that statement, but Evan, that's that's just so that you can see what we built. I want this. You know what? I think Brett might let you have it. You just need to give him like $ 500, and then Brett just pass that over to me. Speaker 4 01:03:52 So, Speaker 3 01:03:56 Yeah. Is this your brainchild? Yes. Christi already had built something out similarly, and we needed it for some folks. Mr. Casey Bills was interested, so we had to kind of, you know. Speaker 2 01:04:16 They sweet talked me. Speaker 3 01:04:18 I did, I did, I sure did. But yeah, we're right now. It's I would say we're still, you know, it's an early adoption. Speaker 4 01:04:27 I I have someone who needs this desperately, desperately. So I serve on the camp committee, chair of our summer camp. Oh yeah. Our director needs this very bad. Speaker 2 01:04:46 Feel free to share. Yeah, feel free to share. Just a heads up. I this is in beta, so if they want to beta this, they get it free for the life of the app. Oh wow. Because there is going to be a pricing fee once I roll it out of beta. Speaker 3 01:05:05 That's correct. Back now. Yeah, but but yeah, obviously, you know. Your your main focus is we got to get the we got to get you set up yes to being able to update in Claude for the site so then we can make sure all the bugs are cleared out so we can start to invite the the test PM to use it and to see how it goes and then meanwhile while they're using it like we can work on with George we can get the the documents linked in or stuff like that exactly you know I think I think over the next couple weeks. Speaker 3 01:05:43 Should be our goal to get you comfortable, sexy, you know, doing them, feeling comfortable, updating the code, having sex, feel good about the bugs being cleared out, going invite some more. Um, question. Small group to test it out, see how they like it, and then as a result of some of using that, we may even have to make a few more corrections. And then um. Speaker 4 01:06:11 Kenneth Milton Pratt. The singers are doing good. Hopefully, doesn't get overhyped. So, Speaker 1 01:06:18 Yes, her and I are. She's coming in Thursday. Next week, Thursday. Because. Speaker 3 01:06:24 Her last set changed, so she said it's on Thursday at one. Yeah, her and I are going back for a second. It's a lot easier for them to use, which I think it is. Yes. You know, just you're you're under the hood a little bit in terms of how these things work. Quads now enable people to be able to be under the hood without having to go to school for learning programming. So like that's that's kind of where you're at and where you get the the benefits from some of this technology. Thanks, Christi. Speaker 2 01:07:04 No, I was just going to agree with everything that Brett's saying because once you figure out all of this, and this why I took it. I'm taking you through it slowly because I I want you to see what it's capable of, and I want you to understand that before I give you the keys to everything else. You're going to see all the potential you have for what you can do within Westwood. Yeah. So this you're gonna you're gonna be blown away once you dive in and play around with some things. No, Speaker 4 01:07:34 I mean it's great. Like I said, I have two more. Well, one, possibly another app behind this that I've already started playing with, and it definitely needs help. It's it's been tough building it in Base Forty Four, which on the surface it seems like a more simpler app than what I built here, but it's just not. It's not working. Speaker 3 01:07:59 Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As is the way. So we're going to meet on Tuesday. Yes. Christi, we need to talk to George about his quad login, so that you. Okay. I don't know if he was one of the initial news. Speaker 2 01:08:21 Okay. I will. I'll have a conversation with him on my way home because I got to take my daughter to the dentist. Let me get him to do all of that for us, and then we'll go from there. And Evan, I'm I'm sending you guys over the invite for Tuesday right now. Awesome. Thanks, guys. Bye. 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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-09-08 09:28:53 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Christi] [Seg] [Pete] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes ### Calendar organization and color-coding in Outlook and Power Automate - Christi demonstrated using Outlook Categories to color-code emails and calendar entries. - Power Automate rules categorize events and emails by content (e.g., “view service record”) and by domain. - The domain-based flow was deleted on 2026-09-04 and will be rebuilt; documentation will be shared after reconstruction. ### QOP Week 37 kickoff and agenda ownership - Seg led the Week 37 QOP meeting due to Julia’s delay. - Screen sharing arranged; confirmed focus on project updates. ### Project 2626 – “Call me for their AI training” - Training set for 2026-09-23; previously moved, may move again. - Jason sent a calendar invite to Christi; billing expected. ### Sharp computer upgrades - Progressing but slightly behind due to ADT installations and other higher-priority issues. - May shift to mid-October; recent cost changes still being addressed. ### DTLA updates - Julia has not received updates; will check again. ### Avalon kickoff - Kickoff scheduled for the afternoon of 2026-09-08; project finally starting. ### Barker project - On hold. ### SharePoint migration responsiveness concerns - Client may be attempting a self-migration in SharePoint; non-responsiveness noted. - Monty is informed but also reports poor response; she has a meeting with them on 2026-09-14. ### Project 2746 – Clapage cloud team setup and API requests - Client attended public trainings; prefers to avoid full 1:1 training for now. - Waiting for the client’s monthly evaluation to complete before resuming training. - Pursuing API documentation from vendors for low-usage applications. ### Westwood Financial – mailbox integration and pilot deployment - Migration completed (including moving the “Evans project” to the Microsoft tenancy) and pilot deployed. - Meeting with Brett and Evan on 2026-09-08 for handoffs; ticket to close afterward. - Billing at CIO rate; additional hours to be confirmed with Brett. ### Project 2679 – Maybrick security assessment - 45% complete; scheduling another vulnerability scan during the week of 2026-09-08. - Awaiting remaining credentials. - Billing decision deferred for a few days; Pete to check with Anzor and consider managed security follow-up. ### Project 2712 – Draft Boxes SharePoint migration - 6 of 10 SharePoint sites populated; others pending. - Ongoing communication; estimated ~75% completion once the client finishes migration tasks. ### Avalon (separate item) - Still on hold. ### Arc – LastPass Business rollout - 6 users still not configured due to being out of office last week. - Seg will call users and send reminder emails. ### Foot Hill onboarding - Reminded Frankie and Andres of assigned tasks; awaiting inactive user list. - Raza to rebuild DC on 2026-09-10. - No disruptions from CA policies test groups 1 and 2. - Meeting on 2026-09-09 with Raza, Andres, and Frankie to set the CA policies go-live date. - Working with Krit on fewer than 10 renewals due in September and October. ### Nishida – server refresh - Data appliance activity on 2026-09-09; additional computations next week. - Rally Bar and other equipment shipping dates not updated. - Firewire switches unpaid; Pete wants to be CC’d on follow-ups and may impose rental equipment billing if unpaid past 30 days. ### Protection – equipment replacement - Recommend closing the project; Wi-Fi configuration should be a new project. - Quote not signed; follow-up needed. ### Project 2761 – Cotsen UPS replacement - Hardware invoice paid last week (week of 2026-08-31). - Order processed; ETA not yet provided. ### Quad takeover (Gaby) - No new updates; planning to revisit now that reports and assessments exist. ### Intertem – MDM issues and helpdesk process - Users intermittently losing access; one misassignment to the wrong compliance group on 2026-09-04 (Moritz). - Today’s issue: a user lost access to Google email but retains Intertem access. - Knowledge base judged unclear; risk of repeated errors. - Plan to escalate, clarify procedures, and coach the support team during their weekly L10; Christi to assist starting 2026-09-09. ### Project 2598 – Wayfinder meeting - Meeting scheduled for 2026-09-09; final invoice sent last week (week of 2026-08-31). - Technical completion adjusted from 80% to 50%; missing deliverables needed for phase 2. - Anzor anticipates potential parting ways; Pete aligned but has a conflict with CEO intro meetings. ### Project 2588 – Wayfinder design review - Internal sync held; Charl assigned to present old vs. new proposed design to Anzor. - Charl delayed due to helpdesk coverage; weekend work ticket assigned; Julia to follow up. ### Project 2700 – Loprak workstation refresh - Ongoing; waiting for Stellar and their development team’s access requests to the main server. - Julia drafted an email to Ruben: non-project access requests will be billed under the support agreement; requests often arrive at 4–5 a.m.; Giannis can handle early tasks. ### Project 2729 – Alere - Hudu updated; project can be closed; billing done last week (week of 2026-08-31). ### Project 2745 – Westwood (another effort) - Julia to check with George on percent completion; Brett approved; Juno and George worked last week. - Julia delayed due to emergencies today. ### Project 2752 – Carney Properties / Replaying SSO - On hold because SSO is an additional paid option; “bait and switch” concern raised in discovery. - Emails ongoing among Replaying, Mike, and Jason; Jason may agree to pay; Julia to follow up during the week of 2026-09-08. ### Project 2756 – Delaware external group creation - Progressing well; second cadence call scheduled for 2026-09-08 right after the QOP meeting. ### Project 2760 – Loprak data replacement unit - Unit should have arrived on the afternoon of 2026-09-04; Julia to check with procurement on 2026-09-08. - Gabby to be assigned the ticket to handle. ### Billing and closures summary - Closing Westwood pilot-related work; 100% billed, with additional hours to be billed. - Human Rights firewall replacement to close this week; 100% billed; follow-up email to confirm receipt and support needs to be sent. - Closing Alere Los Alamitos office; 100% billed. - Seg confirmed invoices sent for applicable closures. ### Newmark / CBRE transition concerns (Quad takeover context) - Newmark worried CBRE may remove equipment; advised to initiate contact with CBRE and include the team. - Newmark emailed John Forbes at CBRE to start transition conversations. - No dates provided by CBRE; Pete insists on a signed statement of work and/or payment before further discovery or meetings due to time cost. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Project 2626 AI training: Pete to remind Carney during the office meeting on 2026-09-10; Christi to send the latest notes by 2026-09-09 or the morning of 2026-09-10. - [ ] Sharp upgrades: assess schedule shift to mid-October and communicate the revised plan. - [ ] DTLA: Julia to check for updates and report status. - [ ] Avalon kickoff: proceed on 2026-09-08; capture outcomes. - [ ] SharePoint migration responsiveness: monitor Monty’s Monday 2026-09-14 meeting; track decisions. - [ ] Westwood Financial: handoff meeting with Brett and Evan on 2026-09-08; confirm closure and CIO-rate billing. - [ ] Maybrick (Project 2679): run vulnerability scan during the week of 2026-09-08; Pete to confirm with Anzor whether to bill the 45%. - [ ] Draft Boxes SharePoint (Project 2712): track completion toward ~75%; prompt the client to finish migrations on the remaining 4 sites. - [ ] Arc LastPass: call the 6 users and send reminder emails to complete setup. - [ ] Foot Hill: meet on 2026-09-09 to set the CA policies go-live; Raza to rebuild DC on 2026-09-10; obtain the inactive user list; handle renewals with Krit. - [ ] Nishida: CC Pete on payment follow-ups; prepare rental-equipment charge notice if unpaid after 30 days; confirm the invoice date. - [ ] Protection: create a new Wi-Fi configuration project; follow up on the unsigned quote; close the replacement project. - [ ] Cotsen UPS: request ETA from the vendor; update the client. - [ ] Quad takeover: plan next steps based on available reports/assessments; schedule a working session. - [ ] Intertem MDM: Julia to send tickets/summary; Christi to start work on 2026-09-09; arrange L10 coaching with clear SOPs; identify correct escalations. - [ ] Wayfinder (Project 2598): conduct the 2026-09-09 meeting; align on potential separation; track the final invoice. - [ ] Wayfinder (Project 2588): Julia to follow up with Charl on design materials and weekend progress. - [ ] Loprak workstation refresh (Project 2700): send billing policy email to Ruben; assign early-hour access handling to Giannis. - [ ] Alere (Project 2729): close the project; confirm billing posted. - [ ] Westwood (Project 2745): Julia to get completion percentage from George; verify with Brett/Juno. - [ ] Carney / Replaying SSO (Project 2752): schedule follow-up; clarify paid SSO; align with Jason’s willingness to pay. - [ ] Delaware external groups (Project 2756): hold the cadence call on 2026-09-08; capture decisions. - [ ] Loprak data unit (Project 2760): check delivery with procurement; assign the ticket to Gabby. - [ ] Human Rights firewall: Gabby to send follow-up by 2026-09-10 confirming receipt and support needs. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Intertem MDM process is error-prone due to an unclear knowledge base; define an authoritative SOP, owners, and an escalation path, and train the helpdesk in L10 with concrete examples. > 2. Nishida’s unpaid invoices may delay hardware; document the invoice date and implement a 30-day rental-equipment policy notice to encourage payment. > 3. Wayfinder scope and deliverables misalignment (Projects 2598/2588): confirm phase 2 deliverables, decide on continuation or separation, and ensure final invoicing terms are clear. > 4. SharePoint migrations (Draft Boxes and other clients) depend on client-side actions; set deadlines, identify blockers, and establish periodic progress reporting to avoid open-ended delays. > 5. Newmark/CBRE transition lacks a timeline; require a signed discovery SOW and/or initial payment before further work to prevent uncompensated effort.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:01:30 Good morning. Good morning, Speaker 2 00:01:31 Everyone. I'm on the call with Anzor. Speaker 3 00:01:35 I'll be like five more minutes. Tell him we're more important. Speaker 3 00:01:47 I would tell him that. Sek knows. I would actually tell him that, Miguel. Speaker 3 00:02:48 Seg, something has happened to my calendar. What happened? Speaker 1 00:02:58 Look at it. Wait. Oh yes. Wait. Why is. Speaker 3 00:03:09 This calendar so so empty? I I don't know. I actually have time to do stuff this week. I'm gonna fix that. I is the emptiest it's ever been. I. Speaker 4 00:03:28 Swear, even on Wednesday, Thursday, you just have Wednesday. You only have like one sitting, which is the hardest. Oh, this is nice. Speaker 3 00:03:42 All my stuff is today. Any at all? Wow. I can get stuff done. Speaker 4 00:03:50 Yes. I like how color coded your calendar. I need to do that in my calendar as well. Speaker 3 00:04:00 It's uh categories. Oh. So basically, let me show you real quick. Um. So in my oh wait that's Teams in my calendar right here. Looks the same on both. But in Outlook you can go up to come on. I know my my battery's not dead yet on my mouse. Just got stuck for a moment. Okay, so in here in your in your Outlook. Speaker 3 00:04:39 You can go to categories right here where it says categorize, and then I put in a bunch of categories. I'm going to click on all categories. I put a bunch of them in. So any like cannot schedule over or remove client training, like all my different stuff is in here. And then I I can assign categories to both tickets, I mean emails and calendar entries, and I color code it. Speaker 4 00:05:09 Is it automated in on you know assigning the categories in your calendars or do you do it manually? Change it manually. Both. Both. Okay. Oh, can you show me one day how you automated? Speaker 3 00:05:26 Yeah, I actually was gonna show you guys the other day, but we got like our our meeting ran over the other day. So, um. I do it in Power Automate. Okay. And so in Power Automate, um, my flows. Technically, I do it in in AAD, but I'm going to say Power Automate. Um, and then uh, email client category, uh, is one of them, and anything that comes in that's like a ticket or a meeting. Speaker 3 00:06:05 That is within a certain like domain name, it automatically categorizes it that way. And then meeting transcripts, it's update event categories right here. I have it automated there. And then so what it'll do, so go in here, and there's a condition. So if in the condition, hi Pete. We're waiting on Julia, and so I'm showing them something quick. Seg asked me how to do something in Power Automate. So when an when an event is added or updated or deleted, it looks in the body, and if it contains a view service record, it categorizes it as a ticket. Oh yeah, and you can set those up however you want to, but it will categorize that event, which will change the colors. So. Speaker 4 00:07:07 Where did you put the domain? I mean, the domain that will be, Speaker 3 00:07:11 You know, on this. I deleted it the other day because I'm just going to recreate it, an easier way. So once I get it recreated, I'll show you. I deleted it on Friday actually, so I'm going to recreate it this week on the domain names. Okay. Yeah, but it's basically that same spreadsheet as the two guys. So. Speaker 5 00:07:37 Sorry, I have another call that kept going. Speaker 3 00:07:39 So. It's okay. Julia is stuck with Anzor for a moment. Speaker 4 00:07:43 Okay. So, what are you waiting for. Speaker 6 00:07:47 Welcome back, Seg. Speaker 1 00:07:52 I know. Speaker 4 00:07:54 So. I did. I enjoyed cleaning and decluttering. Speaker 3 00:07:58 I'm good. It's a nice feeling, isn't it? It is. Speaker 3 00:08:08 We just did that when Dom moved out. Yes. Yeah. We didn't do much this weekend because it rained everywhere. Speaker 4 00:08:16 Is it is it raining in. Speaker 3 00:08:20 LA right now? Uh, it was yesterday and Sunday. Uh, today the sky is clear and visibility is amazing because it rained. Speaker 4 00:08:30 And the good thing is, during my birthday, it didn't rain at all. During my birthday, but the other days after that, it's raining. So yeah, I I did a lot during my birthday. I'm so happy. Thank you, Speaker 3 00:08:50 Julia is here. Julia, did you tell him what I said to tell him? Speaker 2 00:08:55 Yes, I did. Speaker 3 00:08:56 He laughed at you, Speaker 2 00:08:56 Didn't he? He ignored me. He he he didn't even respond to this. Okay, I need to know about Wayfinder and that. Um, I am not ready. My, just I thought I was hoping you guys start without me. Speaker 4 00:09:22 Oh, do they want me to share my screen? Can you please? Speaker 3 00:09:28 Yeah. And you're the most important. Speaker 2 00:09:30 Oh, like literally, nine nine twenty - six. I was like. I'm in the middle of something. He's like, no, Speaker 4 00:09:36 I need to know. Okay, do we want to lead the meeting, Julia, or what? Please. Okay. Morning, everybody. Welcome to week 37 of our QOP meeting. So let um wait. Ollie's still not here. So let's move on to um Christi's project, starting with project. Two six two six. Call me for their AI training. Speaker 3 00:10:08 So we got moved. It's still on September 23rd. So they have not moved it since we we moved it to September 23rd. Speaker 4 00:10:17 Righty, and then are they going. Speaker 5 00:10:22 To schedule it? Yes, Speaker 3 00:10:25 Do we know? It's on my calendar. Jason sent it to me. It's on my calendar, but that doesn't mean they're not going to move it yet again. Speaker 5 00:10:34 So I'm. Let me see. I'm pretty sure. Speaker 3 00:10:37 We we can build 100%. I have a meeting. Speaker 5 00:10:44 I have a meeting with Carney in the office on Thursday. Is he going to bring it up? Speaker 3 00:10:51 No, but will you bring it up and remind him? Speaker 5 00:10:54 I will. I just just make sure you tell me what I need to remind him about right before Thursday. Okay. Give me, give me the latest, like you know, Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Flying in Thursday morning, and I'll be in the office. And our meeting is Thursday afternoon. Speaker 3 00:11:13 Okay, perfect. Sharp computer upgrades right now they're going as planned. However, he's running a little bit behind because we've had some other issues come up, ADT installations and things like that that needed to be pushed in front of it. So we may need to move that slightly to mid October. Also, cost shift through us a curve ball a couple weeks ago, and so we're still coming out from underneath that curve ball. Next, DTLA. DTLA is on Julia. Sorry, Julia. Speaker 1 00:12:01 You're unmuted. Really, you're unmuted. I. Speaker 2 00:12:15 Have not received any updates from him. I'll check again. Should have asked him now. Speaker 3 00:12:21 Avalon is scheduled for this afternoon for the kickoff. And we're finally going to get started with that one. Barker is that one's on hold. Hold. Yep. Speaker 2 00:12:40 And then still no response from. So I have I have a question. Yes. I feel like because Monti told me they were attempting to do it themselves, like move the stop stuff in SharePoint. So maybe that's why they're not responding to us because they're like. Attempting to do these projects themselves, could be who has who has the knowledge of these people. Speaker 3 00:13:06 Monty has that knowledge. Speaker 2 00:13:10 Yeah, they're not responding to her either. Okay. I told her, hey, can you call him? So I have to chill this follow up with her to see if she successfully reached somebody because she was saying that nobody's responding to her calls either. Speaker 3 00:13:27 I know she has a meeting with them next Monday. Because I'm always BCC or CCed on that meeting just in case she can't attend, so I know it's on my calendar. Speaker 4 00:13:36 Next is two seven four six. This this is for Clapage for the cloud team setup. Speaker 3 00:13:50 So she has attended the public trainings with us and has asked for information that. You know, I've explained. Hey, you know, we're going to be sending out this information, but she's not really interested in doing a one-on-one training. We did do a partial one, so we're waiting to do the training once she is done with her evaluation for the month. There is some APIs that she's requested that I've been digging into to see if we can do. However, they're they're very low. Speaker 3 00:14:24 Applications that are not used very often. So we're I'm trying to work with the vendors to see is there any APIs that we can do and how do we do that and get their documentation so we can set up real quick. Westwood Financial is completely closed. I have right. I have done the mailbox integration. I have done the move Evans project from base 44 into. Their Microsoft tenancy. I have done their pilot deployment, all of that. So I do have a meeting with Brett and Evan today, so that I can do all the handoffs. But after that, we can close that ticket out, and I know we've built them 100% on. Speaker 2 00:15:07 It. Can I ask a question? I think last time you told me that it's additional hours to be built, so I just want to make sure that we approve them. Speaker 3 00:15:17 I'm gonna. I've got to talk with that with Brett today. So, all right. And heads up, we are going to be billing it at the CIO rate. Yeah, we're not we're not billing it at an engineer rate. So Pete can, we can get some a little bit more money out of them for that. Speaker 1 00:15:42 One. Speaker 3 00:15:46 Okay. Music to my ears. Music to my ears. Speaker 3 00:15:51 That's what he gets for pushing me too hard on it. Speaker 4 00:15:54 All right, thank you, Christi. Let's move on to my projects, starting with two six seven nine. This for Maybrick for their security assessment. So for this project, we're forty five percent completed. We'll be scheduling another vulnerabilities scan for them this week, and still waiting for the remaining credentials from us. Do you want to build 45% already, to Maverick? Speaker 5 00:16:26 We're 45%. What have we built so far, sir? Speaker 4 00:16:32 None, because yeah. Speaker 5 00:16:36 What was the total on this? Thirty thousand. Speaker 4 00:16:40 Thirty - two thousand five hundred. Two thousand. So that's like. Speaker 5 00:16:46 Um. Just. Speaker 4 00:16:52 Seventeen TV. Speaker 5 00:16:57 Yep. Let's wait. Let's wait another week or so. God. Anzor was. I forwarded Anzor a concerned email about access and stuff like that. Let me touch base with Anzor, and I'll let you know in the next couple days. Okay. I want to know if he forwarded that email to Jeff, or if we got a response. Once I find that out. I'll let you know if we want to bill them yet on this because we're also following up to see if There's, Any movement on getting the managed security with them. Also, so we'll see what comes out of that. Thank you. Next. Speaker 4 00:17:35 Is Project Two Seven One Two Days for, The draft boxes SharePoint migration. So this is still ongoing. Arc has been adding some of their documents to their SharePoint sites, but six out of ten SharePoint sites have documents already. The others doesn't, still doesn't have one. So we're constantly communicating with Main on this one, and then Avalon for their. Speaker 5 00:18:06 Translation. So so how so how far along are we then? Are we 75% complete. Speaker 4 00:18:11 Yes, pretty soon. We're just waiting for them to finish the migration part. So I was checking, and it's actually it took them two or three weeks to move some of the documents. Just just some of the documents, yeah. Okay. And next is Avalon. This is still on hold. And then next is for Arc for their LastPass business. So with the same updates as last week, six users still haven't configured their LastPass because they were weren't they were out of office last week. So I'll be calling them to say, and then we'll send an email reminder. Then next is Project Two Seven for today's for Foot Hill for their onboarding. So. Speaker 4 00:19:05 I reminded Frankie and Andres regarding the tasks that were assigned to them. We're still waiting for the in active user list from them, and then Matian Raza will be working on rebuilding the DC this Thursday, September 10. And then we didn't receive any disruption for the CA policies test group one and two. So after we have a meeting with Raza, Andres, and Frankie tomorrow. We'll be checking when should we when's the go live date for the CA policies for all the users and also I'm still working with Krit on their renewals. They have like less than ten renewals coming up this September and October. So and okay, let's move on to. Speaker 4 00:20:00 Miguel's project, starting with Nishida for the server refresh. Speaker 8 00:20:04 Morning everyone, good morning. For this one, this one is still being computed by the team. The data appliance is on September 9. Computing also appliance by next week. Speaker 6 00:20:21 Five one. Speaker 8 00:20:25 This room. As for this one, the rally bar. Speaker 8 00:21:01 With Wool for twenty, and the eighties don't have updating updated shipping dates. Yes. Then everything. Speaker 5 00:21:10 Sorry. The date you're talking about the ship dates for the firewire switches. Did they pay? They haven't paid yet for this one. I wouldn't even worry. I wouldn't even worry about the show that takes them to the. Speaker 8 00:21:32 Last time we followed up Thursday regarding this one, and then as for checking with Mahar car this morning, they haven't paid anything yet. Speaker 5 00:21:39 So okay, we sent them. The question is the one that going. Speaker 8 00:21:50 So I'm gonna try and check with. Speaker 5 00:21:52 CC me. CC me the next time you ask them when we can expect him. When did we send them the invoice? Um, I think that was. It's okay. Don't don't now. Let let me know after this. When we invoiced them, and they're just gonna say we're a big company. We pay ninety five or some bullshit like that. Sorry, some BS like that, and. I'm gonna come back and say, if if we don't get paid within 30 days, we're gonna start billing you for the rental equip for the loaner equipment. Speaker 8 00:22:27 Got it. All right, Keith. Then next, I have protection for the equipment, for the equipment replacement. I think we can close this one. For the Wi - Fi configuration, we can. Maybe create a new project instead, so that we can close this one. So, and I think they haven't signed that code yet, so we'll follow up on that one as well. And project 2761. This is for Cotsen for their placement UPS. So for this one, the hardware invoice has been paid last week. We already processed the order, however, ETA has been provided for this one yet. Speaker 8 00:23:16 Okay, and I think that's it. Thank you, Speaker 4 00:23:18 Sir. All right, thanks, Miguel. So next is Gabby. Do we have any updates on the quad takeover or? Speaker 7 00:23:31 Ah, you're on mute. Um, sorry about that. Um, no, there isn't. Um, we might have to revisit this and just plan now that we have the reports. And don't the assessments so. Thank you, Speaker 4 00:23:48 Gabi. Let's move on to two yes projects, starting with Intertem. Other device management, Speaker 2 00:23:55 MDM. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you. Actually, Intertem and Lopak were two projects that just threw me off. Starting, I didn't really understand. So, Intertem, my concern is. Issues that keep popping up because users losing access. Last Friday it was actually our error. We moved one user to the wrong compliance group. So today we had another guy that said that he lost access to Google email. So I'm gonna I'm planning to reach out to help desk supervisor today to see what. Speaker 2 00:24:44 Are we doing wrong? Speaker 5 00:24:46 If we find out who did the first one, Julia. First one. Last Friday. Somebody, somebody moved somebody to the wrong. Who did it and how did they do it? Who? Murray. Murray. We find out why and how he did that. Speaker 2 00:25:05 Yes. We had a meeting with Sean on Friday, and Sean showed him what he did wrong and. Speaker 2 00:25:14 Was all sorted eventually, but the user was without access for long time. Speaker 5 00:25:23 Yeah, I get that. So are we saying now that somebody else has the same issue. Speaker 2 00:25:27 I don't know if today's the same issue. Probably not, because user has access to Intertem. He just doesn't have access to Google account. Speaker 2 00:25:42 I just need I need somebody in helpdesk to above the Shawn and above the Moritz. So I need somebody. Need to talk to somebody who can tell me who. Speaker 5 00:25:51 Who do you who's going to be above Shawn? Shawn is like the top of the security team, and Moritz is pretty high up in helpdesk. I'm not sure who you're looking for above that. Do you want me? Speaker 3 00:26:06 Do you want me? Speaker 2 00:26:11 Of course, but it it's just it's this this project will never be closed if we keep doing the same mistake. We work on the same people all the time, so I don't know. If you, I can give you a short summary. Maybe look because it it kind of felt on Friday. It felt in meeting with Sean and Moritz. I know Moritz was. Kind of down a little bit because he felt that he did something that he was not supposed to do, and he thought it was done this way. And and then I'm looking at the kudo and kudo knowledge base is not. If I would be a technician, I would not understand from six documents we have what to do. And I think that's the main reason why Moritz is getting confused. Speaker 2 00:27:09 Right. So I'm just concerned. I'm concerned that we don't have a good knowledge base. And I tell Moritz, my go - to person, and he's going to be helping us finish this. But on Friday, I was like, Oh my gosh, Moritz doesn't know what he's doing. Who knows. Speaker 3 00:27:29 Do why don't you? Why don't you send me the tickets and information? I can't work on it today because I got a couple of things in that's due today that needs to be done. But I can start working on it tomorrow. Speaker 5 00:27:46 We need to get the right. We need to get the right people together and clarify what needs to be clarified, and then talk to the support team on the on their L10 and tell them how to support this team. This isn't rocket science, folks. Yeah. Like I mean, it's it's a kludge because. Everybody's got their hands in it, but just just simplify it and just and then tell everybody how to how to do it. I mean, they have an L10 every week. Get the right person on that L10. Tell them what they did wrong the first time, and use an example and say this what you have to do and this what not to do. It's the same thing that we did, previously. Speaker 5 00:28:34 When the Iron Gate screwup happened a couple of times, right? And we've had to tell people this not what you do. Yes. To to you know, we have we had it happen two different times for Iron Gate. That's a disaster, right? But we have to sometimes coach people on the support team and say this how you do it, and this not how you do it. If you do it wrong, it's a really big issue. So we just need to need to send somebody into their homes and and do like a session for the for their home testing. But we need to know how to do we need to know how to do it right. And then we need but we need the right experts to to do that. I don't know if that's Sean. I don't know if that's somebody else. But part of it might have been their brothers too. That's what I was. Speaker 5 00:29:26 If Sean was trying to tell Anzor how to do something, he must he might have just felt bad about hearing it from his brother. I don't know, Speaker 2 00:29:34 But yeah, that's what that's what was my thinking. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, Project Two Five Nine Eight Wayfinder meeting with Wayfinders scheduled for tomorrow. Um. Final invoice I sent last week. Technical completion is actually not 80 percent, but 50 percent. I just talked to Anzor about it because he said yes, 80 percent if they have deliverables that we need for the phase two, but they don't. They still don't have that deliverables. Speaker 5 00:30:15 You need me because I've got two contracts. Yes, I can't. Speaker 2 00:30:20 Yes, it's fine. I think we're going to be fine. But Anzor accepting, he said today he's accepting phone call, probably, and he's thinking that we're probably going to part ways. Part ways with this matter. So I don't, I already scheduled the meeting and see if all accepted. I send Anzor actually just note right now that hey, meeting tomorrow is scheduled and see if all accepted. So, so I don't know, people. I don't know. I think we'll be fine with you, but I would, I would prefer you there just because he's what. Speaker 5 00:31:01 Yeah, the problem is that the two meetings I've got are the um. Speaker 2 00:31:06 Not movable. Speaker 5 00:31:07 Are well, no, they're not movable because they're they're the intro to the new CEO meetings with two of our clients in a row that were hard to schedule. So it's like, I can't move those. Unfortunately, but yeah, Anzor and I had a had a a pretty in depth conversation about Wayfinder last week, and we're both on the same page with with we where we sit with that. So we'll see how it goes. Speaker 2 00:31:32 Project two five eight eight for Wayfinder. We had internal sync up with Anzor last week, and Charl has been assigned a ticket to work on presenting. Old design and new proposed design to Anzor. He is a little bit behind because he's sitting at his help desk while Olivia is out. So he asked me to assign him a ticket for the to work on weekends. I haven't seen his notes yet. I don't think he worked on it yet. I'll follow up with him. Project two seven zero zero for Loprac. Speaker 2 00:32:15 Workstation refresh still ongoing. Still waiting for Stellar, and now we're waiting for their development team to request access to the main server. I drafted email to Ruben to tell him that anytime we we receive requests from staff for their non-project related access to the server. It's gonna be built as a as a support agreement because Stellar team is working on EST hours and they request access like 4 a.m. 5 a.m. time and because the request comes in nobody responds and it basically sits there so I I just kind of wanted to now I have Giannis who starts early. Speaker 2 00:33:15 And it literally takes I don't know five seven minutes to do that, but somebody needs to take care of it. Um, that's it. But Stellar takes a very long time to do anything on their part, so it's just very frustrating. Project two seven two nine for a Alere Hudo has been updated. We can close the project, and we already build it. Last week, project 2745 for Westwood. I will check with George today to see what's the percentage completion. Brett, give him green light. And I saw Juno and George working on it last week. I just need to know the percentage completion. This today just threw me off with all the emergency things that I had to attend to. Speaker 2 00:34:12 Project 2752 Carney Properties is on hold, so Replaying is. According to Mike, their discovery meeting was basically bait and switch. They didn't tell that SSO connection is needs to be paid, so they they need to basically pay additionally if they want to use Replaying. And if they want to use single sign up, so I saw emails between Replaying and Mike and Jason of Carney scheduling the next meeting to discuss because Jason said that he doesn't have issues to pay for it. I'll follow up this week. Project two seven five six for Delaware External. Speaker 2 00:35:11 Group creation, progressing good. Thank you, Gabby, for update. We have a second cadence call scheduled for today, right after meeting. Actually, project to seven six zero for Loprac for data replacement union. Unit it was should have been around on Friday in the PM. I will check with procurement today and. I'll sign you ticket, Gabby. Thank you so much for attending to it. Um, that's about it for me. Speaker 4 00:35:51 Thank you, Julia. So let me just summarize for billing. So um, we're closing the following projects. We so Westwood that is further clocked in pilot that's already 100% filled, but additional hours to be filled. And then human rights firewall replacement. That um, this will be closed this week already, and it's already 100% filled as well. Speaker 5 00:36:19 Have you have you heard anything back from them since. Speaker 7 00:36:25 You sent that other pull it over? From I'm sorry, Speaker 5 00:36:28 From who? Speaker 7 00:36:30 Human rights. Oh no, we haven't heard back. Speaker 5 00:36:34 Can you send a follow up and just say just confirming you received this, or do you still want do you still need some support? Maybe Wednesday. I don't want to get it out at the same time. That's been three or four days. Make sure. I'll follow up. I guess it's only really been. Business day, so maybe put a couple days. Maybe put a reminder for like tomorrow or Thursday. Speaker 4 00:37:10 Alright, sounds good. And then we'll also be closing Alere for their Los Alamitos office. This has been 100% filled already. So I think that's it. Any other items that we need to discuss, Julia? You have some notes here. Speaker 5 00:37:35 Instead, when you say it's in good, you you actually confirmed that the bill was sent to, right? Speaker 4 00:37:42 Invoice has been sent. Yep. Speaker 5 00:37:44 Invoice has actually been been sent to them. Speaker 4 00:37:46 Okay. So anything else, guys? Thanks, everybody. So um, just in case you still have projects that can be closed or um progress bill this week, um, let me know. Speaker 5 00:38:05 I guess the one the one follow up. Kevin's not on. Thank you. Going back when when is the follow up with them? Did that already happen last week or is that this week? Speaker 7 00:38:20 So Friday we had the call with Newmark, with the people of Newmark. Basically again, it was more of discussing the same. They have concerns about. CBRE taking away their equipment at some point, but we kind of convinced them that most likely that's not going to be the case. And basically, we advised them to, you know, if you can initiate contacting with CBRE and you know include us in the conversation, and we can go from there. So apparently, they just emailed a John Forbes from CBRE, somebody from Newmark, to initiate. Speaker 7 00:39:04 The you know hopefully you know the transition because they're basically since basically yeah they have concerns about their current infrastructure and they want to take over basically again that's all going to depend on CBRE's part because I don't know their contractor and such so hopefully we can get the ball moving with that. Speaker 5 00:39:33 Did they give a date like when they're expecting to have all that stuff go away or move out? Speaker 7 00:39:41 Nothing. Like Seabury hasn't mentioned anything. So, I mean, and we we we explained them. You know, we had experiences like this before. So usually they don't take everything. Speaker 5 00:39:53 Like when Calires took over from them, there were deadlines. Like it was like, okay, as of this date, it's going away. Like we have to be done. They're out and we're in as. Right, right. I know the date moved a couple times. Then when it was a hard date, it was done. Like they were out and they were in. Right. It's kind of weird that there's just this sort of like hurry, Speaker 7 00:40:14 But yeah. And according to Newmark, like Seabury hasn't really communicated with them or anything. They just. Speaker 5 00:40:22 So at some point Miguel, if if they keep just. Dawdling around this, I'm going to probably tell David at some point we're not going to do anything more until you either sign the paper or send us a payment or both, because he keeps wanting us to do everything without actually signing to have us do research or actually sending us a payment. So, I mean, hopefully we'll get get it. I have a, I'm confident that they're going to pay. Speaker 5 00:41:02 But I'm just getting annoyed by the whole thing, so we'll see. We'll see what happens with it all. Speaker 7 00:41:06 Yeah, and yeah, and then we did explain David about the reason for the quote, like because we don't know anything about the infrastructure. We need to do an right. We have to do it. Speaker 5 00:41:14 We have to do discovery, but we're not doing it for free when it's going to take us like six to ten hours to do it. So like, you know, sign the sign the discovery statement of work and let us go do the discovery if you want it. Otherwise, we're not going to do it. So. And even these meetings are taking you know half hour hour here and there. It's stupid. We're spending up money and time. So you know at this point, let just don't waste any more time until they sign the agreement and say that they're going to pay for us to do more discovery. I don't want to waste any more time at this point. So okay, Speaker 4 00:41:49 Okay, all right, all right. Thanks everyone. Speaker 5 00:41:53 Thanks everybody. Speaker 1 00:41:55 Bye. Bye.
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09-07 Lecture: Child Development for Teen Parents – Newborn Assessment & Infant Care
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- > Date Time: 2026-09-07 06:52:32 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary The lecture provides a comprehensive overview of child development with a focus on supporting teen parents. It emphasizes why understanding infant development is vital for setting realistic expectations, fostering secure attachment, ensuring safety, and enhancing both the teen parent's and infant's well-being. The session outlines developmental periods from prenatal through adolescence, details newborn assessments and common neonatal conditions, and describes typical newborn characteristics, reflexes, sleep patterns, and sensory capacities. It underscores the importance of adult support for teen parents, intentional responses to trauma triggers, and early education—ideally before birth—to prepare teens for interpreting infant cues and meeting developmental needs. This summary is prepared on 2026-09-07. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Importance of Child Development Education for Teen Parents - Realistic Expectations and Parenting Capacity - Child development knowledge offers a baseline to evaluate a teen parent’s realistic expectations for their infant and themselves, including attachment behaviors with the infant and the supporting adult. - It helps assess parenting capacity while prioritizing the safety and well-being of both the teen and the infant, guiding realistic goals aligned with developmental milestones. - Modeling, Discussion, and Goal Setting - Practitioners can model interactions and engage in discussions to help teen parents understand what they can reasonably do at their age without compromising their own developmental milestones. - Education supports teens in identifying safety risks, recognizing milestones, and building assessment skills to continue investing in their child’s well-being. - Building Bonds and Communication with the Infant - Guidance on how to talk and play with the baby, tailored to the baby’s developmental stage, strengthens parent–infant bonding. - Teens learn to distinguish types of infant cries—knowing what, when, and why a baby cries—to better meet needs; ideally, this learning occurs before birth for preparedness. - Trauma, Cycles of Abuse/Neglect, and Intentional Response - Education can help heal past traumas, breaking cycles of abuse or neglect from the teen’s own childhood, fostering positive reflection. - Triggers may arise; these are viewed as opportunities for growth and understanding, with an emphasis on being intentional in professional responses to such triggers. - Teen Brain Development and Decision-Making Support - Teens are still undergoing brain development and may struggle with major stressors and decision-making; their developmental needs should be identified and supported. - Engaging teens in child development training enhances parenting skills and contributes to brain growth and overall capacity to manage parenting challenges. - Role of Adult Support - Teens perform better when adults assist in raising the child; the training is framed as essential for becoming informed about development of both the infant and the teen parent. ### 2. Developmental Periods and Domains - Periods of Development - Prenatal Development: From conception to birth; transformation from one cell to trillions, development of body systems, influenced by numerous factors. - Infancy and Toddlerhood (first two years): Dramatic growth; transition from helplessness to toddling, talking, and meeting some self-help needs. - Early Childhood (preschool years): Expansion into the larger world, making more friends, refinement in various skills; world extends beyond family. - Middle Childhood (school age years): Development often framed through school experiences—sports, academics, performance, and related activities. - Adolescence: Marked by puberty onset and adulthood as an endpoint, with variable ages; significant events during this period can have lifelong impact. ### 3. Newborn Health Assessment and Screening - Apgar Scoring - Assesses heart rate, respiration, muscle tone, reflex response, and color; each scored 0–2 (2 best, 0 worst). - Conducted twice: immediately after birth and shortly after when blood circulation stabilizes. - Scores: Under 5 indicates concern; under 3 is critical and necessitates resuscitation. - Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) - Developed by T. Berry Brazelton; not routinely used but applied when risk factors are present or Apgar scores are low to further investigate functioning. - Newborn Screening Procedures - Heel-stick blood testing: In California, screens for 80 genetic and congenital disorders; valuable despite being distressing for parents to witness. - Hearing screening and heart problem screening are conducted in-hospital to detect early issues. ### 4. Neonatal Conditions and Birth Outcomes - Oxygen and Timing-Related Risks - Anoxia: Lack of oxygen to the brain, commonly due to cord issues before the newborn can independently breathe; can cause significant complications. - Low Birth Weight and Preterm Birth - Low Birth Weight: Under 5 pounds 8 ounces. - Preterm: Born before 37 weeks (full term is 40 weeks); examples include twins born at 32 weeks with differing Apgar scores and respiratory support needs. - Small-for-Date: Weight less than 90% of babies at the same gestational age; example of a neonate under 3 pounds with better Apgar scores despite size. - Postmature Birth and Stillbirth - Postmature: Born after 42 weeks. - Stillborn: Fetal death in the womb after approximately 20–24 weeks, beyond potential external viability. ### 5. Typical Characteristics of Full-Term Newborns - Size, Proportions, and Neurodevelopment - Average Weight and Length: Approximately 7.5 pounds and 20 inches; head is about 25% of body length. - Neurons: All brain cells present at birth, with many neural connections still to be formed. - Physical Features at Birth - Head shape often misshapen (cone-shaped or bruised) after vaginal delivery due to molding through the birth canal; head is moldable and normalizes over time. - Lanugo: Downy body hair visible on shoulders and other areas. - Vernix: Waxy white coating on the skin. - Enlarged genitals and possible breast swelling due to in-utero hormones. - Umbilical cord management occurs immediately postpartum. - Realistic vs. Idealized Newborn Appearance - Contrast between idealized newborn photography and typical immediate post-birth appearance; time and positioning can lead to more traditionally “adorable” images. ### 6. Newborn Sleep, Reflexes, and Sensory Capacities - Sleep Patterns - Newborns sleep about 16.5 hours out of 24, with frequent wakings typically every 2–3 hours rather than one continuous segment. - Reflexes - Feeding-related reflexes: Sucking and rooting facilitate breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. - Protective reflexes: Breathing and blinking. - Other reflexes: Grasping and stepping; further detail provided in studies of infancy and toddler physical development. - Sensory Development - Vision: Poor at birth due to minimal in-womb light exposure; visual acuity and best focal distances develop postnatally. - Hearing: Keen; newborns recognize music and rhythms heard in the womb and their mother’s voice from prenatal exposure. - Touch, Temperature, Pain: Sensitivity is present; relevant to procedures like circumcision. - Taste: Innate preferences with observable facial expressions; preference for sweet flavors, aligning with the sweetness of breast milk. - Intermodal Perception - Newborns integrate multiple senses to perceive the world rather than relying on a single modality; referenced in “The Nine Months That Made Me” video resource. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Develop and review a pre-birth educational plan for teen parents covering infant cues (types of cries), safety risks, and basic milestones. - [ ] 2. Conduct an assessment of the teen parent’s developmental needs and decision-making supports; set realistic parenting goals aligned with both teen and infant development. - [ ] 3. Create a bonding activities checklist tailored to the infant’s developmental stage (talking, playing, soothing techniques). - [ ] 4. Prepare guidance for intentional responses to trauma triggers in teen parents, including referral pathways and reflection exercises. - [ ] 5. Compile a resource sheet explaining newborn assessments (Apgar, NBAS), hospital screenings (heel-stick, hearing, heart), and typical newborn characteristics for teen parents. - [ ] 6. Outline a support plan involving adult assistance for teen parents during the first months postpartum, with specific roles and schedules.
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- Sep 7, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 This subject is important in the whole family-rated training, but child development is important because it provides a baseline to evaluate a teen parent's realistic expectations, attachment behaviors with their infant child, and with you, and parenting capacity while ensuring the safety and well-being of both the teens and the infant. So, it allows. For you to model and to have discussions with the teen parent to set realistic goals, to help them understand, you know, when a teen parent can actually what is it that they can actually do at their age, without missing out on their developmental milestones at the same time. It also supports to educate. Speaker 1 00:00:53 Parent, teen, parents about safety risks and identifying developmental milestones and assessment skills to be able to become and continue to invest in their child's well-being. So it shows if a teen parent can keep a baby safe from harm, as you. Accompany them in raising and partnering with them in raising their their infant child. It also builds good bonds as it guides the teen on how to talk and play with their baby, considering the baby's developmental stage. And it also heals past traumas. It helps break old cycles of abuse or neglect from the teen's own childhood. It helps them process some things that. Speaker 1 00:01:48 Can have them reflect in positive ways, but in other situations, it could cause triggers within them that provides for the opportunity to process and better understand that history and to heal from it. So, it's important to engage in a child development education training with the teen parent, as it not only helps improve their parenting skills. But it also helps the teens' brain growth. Remember, teens are still growing, and in their minds, are there's still some development that is needed, and they will struggle with big stressors or decision-making situations. That you need to also point out their developmental needs and help them assess where they're at to identify where they can grow as a parent. Speaker 1 00:02:47 It a we can also see that the baby's needs will be met. The teen needs to learn what a when a baby cries, why they cry, how to distinguish between the types of cries that children use to communicate with. So it's important for them to become aware of the details before. Ideally, it would before they actually give birth, so that they can be better prepared. Speaker 1 00:03:18 So as it's no secret that teens do better when adults help them raise the child. That's why this topic is so important, and this training is required so that you can engage in becoming more informed about child development, not only for the infant but for the teen parent as well. So let's get started. Speaker 2 00:03:41 In order to make development a little easier to study. We divide it into different periods, as well as domains. But let's talk about the periods here. So the first period is prenatal development, and that is between conception and birth. And this is when the human goes from being one cell to trillions of cells, and all of the body systems develop, and many things can influence that development. Then the next two years are infancy and toddlerhood. Speaker 2 00:04:17 Again, dramatic growth and change. The child is born completely helpless, and by the time the that this time period is done, they are toddling and talking and able to meet some of their health self-help needs. Then we move into early childhood, also known as the preschool years, and this is where the child starts to get into the larger world, makes more friends. Their kind of world expands beyond the family, and a lot of things become more refined. Then we move into middle childhood or the school age years, and often what we talk about during these years is connected to their school experience. So things like sports and school, at their academic performance and those types of things. And then we finish up by looking at adolescence, where you know that's kind of. Speaker 2 00:05:16 Marked at the beginning by puberty and kind of marked at the end by adulthood, although those ages kind of vary, so it was hard to pick specific times. But some really important things happen during these years that can have a lifelong impact on children. Speaker 2 00:05:47 Talk about the newborn. So when the newborn is born, when the baby is born, um, the medical professionals assess their health. So one of the things they do is to take their Apgar, and that looks at several different things to come up with a score, um, out of ten, um, that kind of determines how well the baby's doing. So they look at heart rate, respiration, muscle tone, reflex response, and color. Each of those is given a score of zero to two, two being the best, zero being the worst, and they do that twice to kind of check the baby right after birth, and then after a little bit, when the blood has had a chance to circulate, anything under five is cause for concern, and anything under three is kind of critical, needs to be resuscitated. Speaker 2 00:06:43 They also use the neonatal behavioral assessment scale by T. Berry Brazelton. This isn't something that's routinely used, but if there's risk factors or maybe the Apgar scores are low, that they can use that to follow up to determine, you know, what might be going on. They also do heel-stick blood testing, and in California, that now tests for 80 different genetic and congenital disorders. So it's. Pretty valuable, even though I think it's traumatic for mother to watch that happen. And they also screen for hearing problems as well as heart problems while the baby's in the hospital. So there are some problems that can happen for newborns. So let's look at those. So the first is anoxia, and that would be lack of oxygen to the brain. And so this could come from lots of different things, but commonly it would be an issue with the cord. So before the baby's out and can breathe with their lungs. Speaker 2 00:07:38 If that cord is compressed, which is how the baby's getting oxygen through mom, it can cause some issues. Babies that are born under five pounds eight ounces are considered low birth weight, and then babies that are born before thirty-seven weeks. So full-term pregnancies forty weeks. So if they're born three weeks or more early, they are considered preterm. Both of those babies on the right hand side are preterm. They happen to be my twins. And my son is on CPAP in that top picture to help him breathe. So his Apgar scores were two and three, so he needed a lot of help when he was born. And they were born at 32 weeks. And then on the bottom is my daughter, and she was definitely small-for-date. So small-for-date is when you weigh less than 90 percent of babies at the same gestational age. And so when she came out, she wasn't even three pounds. So she was itty-bitty, but. Speaker 2 00:08:33 You can see that she's not on any respiratory support. Her Apgar scores were actually eight and nine, so she was doing much better, even though she was itty-bitty. And on the flip side, you can have a baby that's born after 42 weeks, so they're postmature, and then the worst possible outcome would be stillborn, and that is when the baby dies in the womb after that 20 to 24 week period where they would be considered potentially viable on the outside of the womb. Speaker 2 00:09:03 So what happens with full-term newborns? Because these things don't necessarily qualify to preterm infants, or maybe even postmature. So average size is about seven and a half pounds and about 20 inches long. So this little guy is just under average. Their head is about 25% of their body length, and all of their brain cells, their neurons are present, but the connections have yet to be made, or many of the connections have yet to be made. Speaker 2 00:09:32 They tend to have a misshapen head, especially if they were born vaginally, because their head has to squish to get through the vaginal canal. And thankfully, their heads are moldable, and so they may come out with kind of a cone-shaped head or even a bruised head. Babies may have lanugo, which is a downy body hair, and you can see that over here in this image. This is actually two different babies' shoulders. They may also come out with vernix, which is a waxy white substance covering their body. They tend to have enlarged genitals. Maybe even swelling of the breasts due to the hormones in the womb, and then you have to deal with the umbilical cord, which they're actually in the process of cutting here in this picture. So often we see those adorable Anne Geddes type of pictures of newborns, and that's what we get in our head when reality's not quite as adorable. But with time and maybe a little bit of posing, we can get to that adorable feature. Speaker 2 00:10:31 So some other things about newborns to know: they sleep about sixteen and a half out of the twenty-four hour period, but obviously not all in one chunk. So they wake often, typically every two to three hours. They are equipped with reflexes such as a sucking reflex and a rooting reflex, which helps them feed. Reflexes such as breathing and blinking, and then some other ones like grasping and stepping. And you're going to learn more about those when we look at the physical development during infancy and toddlerhood. And as far as their sensory capacities. Because there is very little light in the womb, virtually none, vision doesn't develop very well in the womb. So they come out with really poor vision. But what's really interesting is about where their vision is greatest. But you're going to learn more about that later too. They happen to have very keen hearing, and they can actually recognize music and rhythms that they heard in the womb, and they definitely recognize their mother's voice because they've been listening to it their entire fetal development period. Speaker 2 00:11:30 They're sensitive to touch, temperature, and pain. So there's when you talk about things like circumcision, that comes in that they do actually have those senses. They also have innate taste preferences. So if you put different flavors in newborn babies, they make facial expressions that can kind of show you what they like and what they don't like. And perhaps not surprisingly, they like sweet. And breast milk is actually sweet. And it's also really interesting to know that they perceive the world in an. In an intermodal way, right? So they don't just use one sense; they integrate those senses. And if you watch the nine months that made me, that is something that that video talks about. So that is it for the newborn. You're going to learn a lot more about development in the coming chapters.
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Review: Month-End Finance and Resource Transition
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-  The finance team and executive leadership reviewed training progress, month-end reconciliation status, and accounts receivable collections. The meeting focused on preparing for Elisa's upcoming two-month leave by transitioning payroll and transactional month-end tasks to Hubert. Leadership established that accuracy remains the highest priority for all financial closes, allowing for an extended timeline during the transition. ## Personnel Onboarding and Resource Transition - **Elisa's leave schedule**: Elisa is scheduled to be out of the office on leave for two months, starting October 12, 2026, and returning on December 8, 2026. April will add these dates to Pete's calendar. Pete shared his cell phone number in the chat so Elisa and the team can connect with him on WhatsApp for communication during her absence. - **New hire setup**: For the newly hired Eric Lemos, Elisa is waiting to speak with him directly to set up his insurance. - **Hubert's transition and training**: Hubert will support Maricar with transactional month-end close tasks, accounts payable, and payroll during Elisa's absence. Because Hubert has never performed the transactional aspects of the month-end close, the team must train him from the beginning. - **Scheduling transition meetings**: Pete raised concerns that Hubert had not yet been integrated into payroll training. Elisa explained that she sent a Teams chat to Hubert on September 2, 2026, to request his calendar availability, which he read on September 3, 2026, but has not yet answered. Pete advised that Hubert responds much faster to emails than chat. Elisa agreed to resend her request to Hubert via email to schedule a meeting for today, September 3, 2026, or tomorrow, September 4, 2026. Pete emphasized that Hubert requires advanced scheduling on his calendar and should not be given short-notice requests. - **Finance training progress**: Stephanie, Christian, and Maggie have completed three to four training sessions with the finance team, with another session scheduled for today, September 3, 2026. Having recently received QuickBooks access, April will hold a follow-up training session on accounts payable next week, starting September 7, 2026. - **ConnectWise access**: Elisa requested that April be granted access to the accounting and billing board in ConnectWise to provide extra support and visibility during Elisa's leave. Pete confirmed that Charles has the authority to grant this access while Olivia is out. Pete instructed Elisa to email Charles and Olivia, copying Pete, to initiate the request. ## Payroll Process and Task Allocation - **Payroll timeline**: US payroll is due next week, though the team can process it early this week if the batch becomes available. - **Timesheet reviews**: The review of timesheets takes place in ConnectWise. Pete noted that if Hubert takes an active role in timesheet reviews, he will need ConnectWise access. Pete left it to the finance team to decide how much they need Hubert to assist with this step, noting that the priority is to keep Maricar from feeling overwhelmed while Elisa is out. - **Reimbursement auditing**: Maricar runs standard US payroll comfortably, but the employee reimbursement portion is highly time-intensive. To assist her, Elisa assigned Stephanie from the admin team to cross-check reimbursable expenses and verify receipts and attachments. ## Month-End Close and Accrual Procedures - **Reconciliation status**: Maricar is performing bank reconciliations today, September 3, 2026, and will handle deferred revenue next. While almost all credit card transactions are categorized, the main payroll expenses have not yet been recorded. - **Timeline and accuracy expectations**: Pete spoke with Robert and Anzor on September 2, 2026, regarding the October and November closes. They agreed that because Elisa will be away, these closes may take two to three weeks. Pete emphasized to April and Maricar that accuracy is the absolute priority across payroll, AP, and AR. Because Crimson is not a public company, there is no pressure to close within five to ten days, as long as the close is completed before the end of the following month. - **Project-side progress billings**: Standard invoicing is complete, but catch-up invoicing is needed for projects. On September 2, 2026, Elisa and Maggie reviewed projects and requested progress billings from project managers Mark, Miguel, and Vlad. Because Crimson lacks initial client down payments for these projects, standard invoicing cannot be used; instead, progress billings must be drawn from deferred revenue or unearned liabilities to match recognized costs. - **Shelby and Primrose projects**: Progress billings were specifically requested for the Shelby and Primrose projects, as the last progress billing for Primrose was recorded in June 2026. Maggie is responsible for reviewing closed purchase orders to select billable hardware, software, or labor items. This allows Crimson to recognize partial project revenue incrementally on the August profit statement rather than waiting until the end of the projects. - **Accrual and expense recognition**: Project expenses are recorded in real-time as Crimson expenses as soon as they are verified as non-billable. Under the accrual method, revenue and expenses are recognized upon billing prior to collection. For example, on the Tower One B project, Crimson expects to order $80,000 in equipment and receive a vendor invoice. Although it may take 60 days or more to collect from the client, Crimson will book both the outstanding receivable and payable immediately upon billing. ## Accounts Receivable, Collections, and Outstanding Balances - **RealPage portal access**: Maricar resolved a month-and-a-half-long lockout from the RealPage portal. The old portal login was blocked and erased because it used Jane's credentials. After paying a registration fee for a new portal license, Maricar successfully uploaded all pending Marker Management invoices last week and this week, and she will now follow up on collections. - **General collections**: Collections are in good standing, with minimal outstanding balances in the 60-to-90-day range. Maricar will send the AR aging report to Pete. Crimson also received a $45,000 payment from Foothill this week. - **Newmark payment delay**: Newmark has not paid a down payment invoice sent by Maggie on August 13, 2026, which covers labor and the entire cost of the hardware. Maricar confirmed that she sent the requested W-9, bank details, and PI-A on August 13, 2026. Pete established a deadline of September 15, 2026, to wait before intervening. If unpaid by then, Pete will contact David directly. Because this involves loaner equipment, Pete noted that future quotes and discovery work (including the quote for Halo and third) will be delayed or held until payment is received. Pete emphasized that Crimson will not proceed with any discovery work until Newmark signs a quote committing to it. - **CBRE billing continuation**: Crimson continues to bill CBRE because they have not provided a formal notice of termination. April emailed multiple contacts at CBRE but received no response. Pete instructed the team to keep billing CBRE and to retain copies of all email outreach as documentation. ## Action Items **@April (Finance Team)** - [ ] Put Elisa's leave schedule (October 12, 2026, to December 8, 2026) on Pete's calendar. - [ ] Send Elisa's WhatsApp contact or other requested team numbers to Pete. - [ ] Retain copies of email outreach to CBRE to justify continuing to bill them. **@Elisa (Finance Team)** - [ ] Email Hubert to request his calendar availability and schedule transition and training sessions. - [ ] Email Charles and Olivia, copying Pete, to request ConnectWise accounting and billing board access for April. - [ ] Connect with Pete on WhatsApp using the phone number provided in the chat. **@Maricar (Finance Team)** - [ ] Send the accounts receivable aging report to Pete. - [ ] Connect with Pete on WhatsApp using the phone number provided in the chat. - [ ] Follow up with Marker Management regarding the uploaded invoices. **@Pete (Executive)** - [ ] Follow up directly with David at Newmark on September 15, 2026, regarding the unpaid hardware down payment invoice if it remains outstanding.
- Date
- Sep 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:25 Hello . Hello. Good morning. Good morning. Oi, first finance check in koto. Welcome to finance. Thank you so much. We next week pay training natin na. Speaker 2 00:00:40 A P. Ah ah. Yes ma'am. Speaker 1 00:00:42 September eight. Okay. Tapos sa bakayo month end. Di pa. Good luck. Fighting. Fighting. Wait na rin si Pete. Galing ba siya sa meeting? Speaker 1 00:01:04 Asila si oh kaya nasa meeting yung siya galing yung siya sa meeting. Speaker 3 00:01:17 Wait na tayong. Speaker 1 00:01:34 All good di ba ni si Eric Lemos meron bang kailangan pang isetup sa end yon yung bagong hire. Speaker 2 00:01:40 Um need to wait ah sa end ko sa payroll I need to wait Eric para um magkausap ko siya directly para sa setup niya ng. Speaker 1 00:01:51 Insurance ah yeah okay uh sige sa ano pala man siya next. Speaker 2 00:01:56 Kaya sa Trinidad naman. Speaker 1 00:01:59 Yes kung anong. Speaker 2 00:02:01 Kred sa Lipiin ko, May aynay nasha meren ba siyang mga kulang kulang na documents nalagot ako sa tray na tanghi na mga OTP. Speaker 2 00:02:31 May need na ako kay Olivia para sa future ano ba nius? Ani? Kasi di ba wala kayong wala kayong access sa billing and accounting board? Hi, sorry. Speaker 1 00:02:43 No. Hi, hi. Speaker 4 00:02:48 Sorry. Hello, hello. Speaker 1 00:02:50 How are you? Very good. How are you? It's still raining here. Speaker 4 00:02:55 Is it still raining? Speaker 1 00:02:58 Yeah. Returning more than for more than a month now. Speaker 4 00:03:02 That's what Seg said. That's what Seg said in my one to one with her earlier this week. Yeah. She's like, it stopped raining for like one day. She said or something. Speaker 1 00:03:11 Yeah. And floods everywhere. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:03:17 In our area only. Can't imagine. That's like it is here, except for it's heat. And we're finally cooling down. We're down to 89 this week. It's over like it's been over a hundred since May. So. We're finally getting cool here, but it's not rain here. It's just hot. I hope your rain stops soon. Speaker 2 00:03:39 Yeah, I hope so too. Yeah, hope the rain will transfer to the Visayas in the middle region of the Philippines, because we badly need water for our for our plants. Speaker 4 00:03:52 Yeah, yeah. So how are things? How are you, Maricar? Speaker 5 00:03:60 Hi Pete, I'm good. Um, right now I'm doing payroll. And? And then with regards with the um month end, um I'm up to doing the bank reconciliation today, and then after that we'll be doing the deferred revenue. Speaker 4 00:04:20 So have you have you both brought Hubert in for payroll and month end yet? Because he said he hadn't heard from you guys yet. And I thought we were bringing him in for payroll. Speaker 2 00:04:30 I I pinged Gilbert yesterday, and I'm still waiting for his response. He already sent my my chat, but maybe still thinking of all the questions and concerns before before we meet. Because I'm asking him when is the best time available to talk about the transitions and whatever he needs. Cause I already experienced doing month end closely with Robert before, before Robert and Tony, cause he's working closely in our month end reporting and adjustments. But this time will be, I'm sure this this times arrangements will be a little bit different. Speaker 4 00:05:14 He said he's never done the transactional part of month end close, so he needs to be in the transactional pieces, and then he needs to do the other pieces too. I mean, because Tony can do the other stuff, right? So we have to we have to teach Hubert the transactional stuff for month end, which means he needs to be in at the beginning, and we got to give him the heads up, and schedule with him to do the payroll training. But if Maricar is already doing payroll, how are we going to train him? I don't understand. Speaker 2 00:05:45 Ay, that's also my my problem. And what in in which part will Hubert intervene? Or so I'm also asking him if he he has some idea. Speaker 4 00:05:56 Okay, so okay, so let's start again. We need to schedule with Hubert in advance and walk him through the entire payroll process, right? Yes. And if we didn't do that, and we're already doing payroll, he's already missing out. So we didn't plan ahead enough to get him in the training. So we missed something here. Speaker 2 00:06:16 Yeah, unfortunately. Speaker 4 00:06:17 I don't know. I don't know why we. I don't know why we didn't plan this with him before, because when I talked to him yesterday and he said he hadn't heard from us, I thought we talked last week about planning with him and getting him scheduled to do the training with us. So I don't know why we're already doing payroll and we didn't bring him in to do it with us, because this is what we were supposed to do, right? Speaker 2 00:06:38 For The payroll side, we're still in the timesheet process. We're not really running the payroll, Speaker 4 00:06:45 So if but isn't he going to help us do that or no. Speaker 2 00:06:48 Um, for the timesheet part, um, the review is in ConnectWise. So if Hubert will take active part in in that step, then I I think we're gonna need uh to give him access to the ConnectWise. Speaker 4 00:07:05 I guess I guess I don't really know what you think you're going to need help with. So, if you think you've got the connectwise piece handled for payroll, and we don't need him for that, then that's fine. If you feel like we do need his help, then we should bring him in for that. So, if it's it's kind of up to the three of you to tell me what you need help with. What I don't want to do is have you gone. And then have Maricar feel like she's overwhelmed. So if you feel like the ConnectWise piece you don't need him for, that's totally fine. If if you feel like you need him for that, then bring him in for that. But have him be as much of a resource as you feel like you need. So, but if you're, but what I what he did say is he needs advanced scheduling, right? So tell him now if you need him next week. Speaker 4 00:07:56 Don't wait till like Monday to say come in Tuesday because I don't know if he'll be able to do that. So, whatever scheduling you need to get him in for, make sure you've got something on his calendar. And for whatever days you think you need him, because payrolls you're gonna have to do payroll like by tomorrow, aren't you, Speaker 2 00:08:14 Or something? Um, payroll is due next week, but we can run um. Early this week, if the batch is already available. Speaker 4 00:08:27 Okay. Because it's we only have today and tomorrow, right? I mean, I I don't know. I guess call him if you need to call him, whatever you got to do. But I I don't know. It feels like I thought I thought y'all said payroll was going to be done this week. So whatever whatever you got to do, get on his calendar. I was just surprised when he told me yesterday that he hadn't heard from anybody yet. So. Email him, call him, whatever you got to do, but get him on the calendar for whatever training he he needs to help with. He also, like I said, he said he's willing to help learn accounts payable or whatever else we need help with. So bring him in for however many hours we need to have him train or whatever. As long as the team has the support that we need. Speaker 4 00:09:20 You know, between April's team and Hubert and Maricar, for the time you're going to be out, Alyssa, I just want to have. I I figure Hubert is a good resource, and I think I think we've kind of decided we probably shouldn't bother Jane since she's kind of full time doing her other thing. So let's try to use try to use Hubert for as much. And he's he did say he's willing to do whatever we need to, as long as we tell him what it is and we scheduled it with him. He'll do it. So, but but I, I think we're gonna have to train him in probably everything except payroll, and then we're gonna have to do a refresher for payroll for him. So, um. So I guess that's that's, that's that's kind of what what I know about. So, how is the other training going with you, April, and your team? Speaker 1 00:10:11 Stephanie, Christian, and Maggie had already their trainings with finance. Team, um, so pretty they pretty much have completed like four three to four trainings, I think. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:10:28 Yeah. And then we have another training for today. Speaker 1 00:10:31 Okay, perfect. And then me, I'm gonna go have a training with, uh, for accounts payables again next week since I all just I just got my access to QuickBooks, so yeah, next week we're gonna have a follow up training on that one. Speaker 2 00:10:47 Okay. As much as possible, I'm trying to to cover all those schedules and monitoring that Hubert's used to require us from finance. Okay. So I am including the admin team in helping us update those spreadsheets. Cause I know Hubert is already familiar with those, and it's I think it's the best start for for Hubert to have access and availability of those. Reports in supporting Maricar for especially for the month end. Okay. So for the payroll part, month end payroll is very intensive in terms of adding the reimbursement. Because I know Maricar is already used to or comfortable with payroll US, except the reimbursement part because it's it's really intensive. So that's why I'm pulling. Speaker 2 00:11:43 Some help from the admin Stephanie to step in and help us go over the all reimbursable expenses and cross - checking the attachments, just just to make sure. Speaker 4 00:11:56 Yeah. Okay. Okay. Good. Um. All right. So let's see. So we've got. So when do you think we're gonna bring Hubert in then? Speaker 2 00:12:12 I am hoping to meet Hubert with Maricar today or tomorrow. So I I'm not sure when when he he read my my chat, cause I I sent it yesterday after you tell us that he was also helping us with the month. And but just this morning he already seen the chat, but I'm still waiting for his response and calendar availability. Speaker 4 00:12:41 Okay. Did you send a? Did you also send an email to him or only chat. Speaker 2 00:12:45 Um, maybe it's the best. Speaker 4 00:12:49 He reads my emails and and responds right away. So I don't know if that's just because it's from me or not, but he he seems to read and respond to email pretty quickly. So I don't know what chat is. Are you sending him or using. Speaker 2 00:13:02 The Teams? Usually, when I need something urgent from you, Britt, I I ping him through chat. Okay. But we do have. We also communicate via emails. I think I have to resend it via email, Speaker 4 00:13:15 Too. Okay. Yeah, I don't know which one he responds to more quickly. I haven't sent him any Teams, so maybe that maybe he's faster on Teams. I don't know. But okay. Okay. And then, how is month - end close going so far? I know it's all kind of happening at the same time. I mean. August looks really good on revenue, but I know expenses are still probably flowing in there. But I don't know how we're looking so far on month end, or how much. Speaker 2 00:13:51 I think we have your items to uncategorize in credit card transactions, right, Maricar? Yes. Yeah. Almost hundred percent for the credit card transactions expenses, but the big chunk of expenses has not been. Uh, it's not yet recorded the payroll. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:14:13 I figured that. I I could tell that the expenses hadn't been entered yet because it's still profit still shows really high. So I knew that the expenses weren't in there yet. And by the way, I did NRL 10 yesterday. I talked to Robert and Anzor, and I was telling them, you know, for October month end and November month end, it's probably going to take a while. And we all agreed that if it takes. A long time for October and November month end close. It's okay, right? So if it takes, if it takes a couple weeks or three weeks or whatever it takes, what it takes. We're not a public company. I mean, we have to have it closed before the end of the next month, of course. But you know, it doesn't have to be closed like in five or ten days. It's so it's okay as long as it's accurate, right? Accuracy is more important than time. So and that that goes for everything finance related. So. Speaker 4 00:15:03 Payroll, of course, accounts payable, accounts receivable. Accuracy is the most important. So don't don't don't feel like you're under the gun to rush closing month end or or you know whatever. So just just so you know, April and Maricar are both. That's that's accuracy is the most important thing. Speaker 2 00:15:25 Okay. Um, another quick update regarding month and um. For for the revenue side, I think it's hundred percent complete for the invoicing, but there could be catch-up invoicing, especially in the project side. Because I and Nagi did some review yesterday, and we do requested more progress billings from the project managers, because we do have a lot of costs to to recognize, and we we cannot do standard invoicing or internal billings because we don't have a down payment. Speaker 2 00:16:00 Our progress billings to get it from like a deferred revenue or unearned liability. So we requested more progress billings for the Shelby project and Primrose. I think it's Primrose because the last progress billing was in March 2026 and June 2026. So we we did some follow up with our project managers to if there is something to progress bill for this month, August and. Recognize partially those prepaid expenses that we have paid to vendors, so it will be a part of the August profit statement. And also, Speaker 4 00:16:45 So who's responsible for doing that, Lisa? Is that is that Mark? Speaker 2 00:16:50 Yes, Mark, Miguel, and Vlad for the progress billings to our subcontractors, and then it's a it's Maggie's responsibility to. Choose from the closed POs billable items. To Maggiee will choose which which items is will will be billed. Like if it's hardware, software, or labor, that will that we will get out of the progress billings. Like we're we're recognizing partial project revenue for for the construction project. Speaker 2 00:17:29 Okay. Period by period, because since the project is still ongoing, rather than billing it at the end of the, I mean, on the closing period of the project. Speaker 4 00:17:40 Yeah, rather than recognizing all the revenue at the end of the project. Speaker 2 00:17:43 At the end, yes, yes. Okay. That's the that's the goal. Speaker 4 00:17:47 Right. Okay. And then what about the expense? How do we do the expenses? Are they real? Are they recognized as we incur them? Speaker 2 00:17:58 Or Project expenses, if if already verified or confirmed that it's not billable, we recorded it real time or outright in the moment we get that information or confirmation that it is to be expense by Crimson. Speaker 4 00:18:19 Okay, so if there's a so, for instance, for, I think Tower One B. We're going to have to order like eighty thousand dollars worth of equipment, and then we're going to get an invoice for it. And it's probably going to take us sixty days or more. We're going to try to invoice the client, but it's probably going to take us at least sixty days or more to get the money from the client. So I guess we're going to book that revenue. Speaker 4 00:18:56 As soon as we bill them, but we're just going to wait for the actual. We're just going to wait for the actual payment for however long it takes to get it, right? Speaker 2 00:19:04 And we're gonna. Yes, we already recognize revenue and expense, even though we haven't collected yet from client, because we're following the accrual method. Speaker 4 00:19:15 Right. Okay. Got it. Okay. All right. It'll just be an outstanding payable for. Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:19:25 Payable and receivable. Speaker 4 00:19:26 All right. How's accounts receivable looking? Are we doing okay, Maricar? Speaker 5 00:19:36 New visitor. Yeah. Um, when we go to the accounts receivable, um, it was just last Friday and this week that I have been able to upload all the pending invoices that needs to be uploaded in real page because because after a month, um. I think after a month and a half, I was able to um to what you call this to have another um um license or log in in real page because the old real page portal that we had before have been blocked or it has been erased because it was using Jane's. Yeah, yeah. I I tried retrieving it, but it it. Speaker 5 00:20:22 Didn't allow us. That's why we have. We needed to pay another um registration or um for that portal. So um that's why I have. It's just last week and this week that I have been able to upload all the um um Marker management invoices there. With regards to the collections, I think we're all good. I have been seeing a lot of payments that have been and. Um, are um what we call this are outstanding for sixty to ninety days is quite small. I'll be sending it over if you want. Um, so yeah, it's just that the yeah marker management that I think I need to follow up after I have been able to upload the invoices. Speaker 4 00:21:14 Okay, okay, good. All right, yeah, I'll look at the uh, I'll look at the. Aging report pretty soon and just kind of see where things look like they're sitting. But hopefully people are paying us. I know that. I know. Speaker 5 00:21:30 We have been. We have received a payment from Foothill for forty five thousand. Speaker 4 00:21:36 Also this week. Yeah, that's that's good. That's great. I like our revenue numbers. Revenue numbers look good. Speaker 1 00:21:46 Yes. By the way, Newmark is still not paying for the down payment for their hardware, so just a heads up. We have to follow up with them since they told us it's. Speaker 4 00:22:01 Yeah, how how long has it been. Speaker 1 00:22:03 When. Speaker 4 00:22:06 Did we build them. Speaker 1 00:22:07 Maricar, when did Maggie send the DP invoice? That's August three. Speaker 3 00:22:19 One sec, Speaker 1 00:22:21 Mark. Mark, down payment. Oh, August thirteenth. Yeah, August. And it's been what? Already September three. They're still not paying. Speaker 4 00:22:41 So August. So August thirteenth. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to give them 30 days, and then I'm going to follow up with David and say, when are we going to get payment on this? Because this is loaner equipment. We've done yeah labor, and we've done a lot of stuff, and I want to know when we're going to expect payment. Big companies usually pay not 30, not 45, and they're going to just say we're a big company, blah. So we'll see what happens. Okay. Speaker 4 00:23:19 And if he says we'll get it when we get it, then I'm gonna tell him you'll get the next work when you get it when we get payment. Speaker 1 00:23:25 That's what I'm gonna tell him. Yeah, we have like a under like a another quote with them, right? For Halo and third. Well, Speaker 4 00:23:35 He's asking us to do a bunch of work for them, and if we don't, if he's gonna be ambiguous about when we're gonna get payment, I'm gonna be ambiguous about when we're when he's gonna get work done. So. Speaker 4 00:23:48 Okay. All he ever tells me is our finance team is working on payment. Blah blah blah. I'll hold it over his head if he because we can't even order equipment until he's got our loaner equipment. Speaker 1 00:24:04 And we're running after the lead time because you know. Speaker 4 00:24:08 Well, yeah, we can't even order it, and it's going to be probably weeks or months before. And what did we billed them for? We billed them for the labor and for the hardware, right? Yeah. I hope we billed them for both. Okay, And we billed them all hard, the entire cost of hardware, right? We didn't billed them a down payment. We billed them for the entire cost. Speaker 1 00:24:32 Yeah. The entire. Speaker 4 00:24:34 Okay. Okay. Good. Because these guys drag their feet on everything. I want to billed them everything. I wish we would billed them more, but. At this point, it's whatever. So okay. Yeah, I am not surprised Newmark hasn't paid. I'm going to give them. Let's put a reminder on for like September fifteenth. If they haven't. Speaker 1 00:24:58 Follow up on the down payment. Speaker 4 00:24:59 Directly with him. Speaker 5 00:25:03 Yeah. Yeah, I see that they requested for the bank details. I've sent it over to them and also the W-9. Speaker 4 00:25:16 Do they have? Do they have everything that they need from us? Speaker 5 00:25:18 Yes, yes. Because I I I received a request for W-9 and the bank details and Pia, and I have sent them over also last August thirteenth, August thirteenth. Speaker 4 00:25:30 Oh, okay. So they got that way back in August. Okay. Good. I was hoping they didn't just ask for that last week or something. No, no, August thirteenth. Okay. Good. Speaker 4 00:25:43 They they could end up being a big customer for us with all the stuff they keep asking us for, but there's also a painful customer for us. I think they're going to be they're going to be a challenge. Yeah. We could make we we could start making a lot of money off of them too. So I'm trying to keep that in mind as I'm dealing with them. But. Speaker 1 00:26:06 So for the best, they've been like difficult since the beginning. So. Speaker 4 00:26:11 They're not going to be. They're not going to be easy ever. Everything we're doing with them, they want to ask more and more and more and more. But we're not doing anything until they sign, quote that says we're going to do discovery on this thing. Speaker 1 00:26:25 So. Yep, and we're still building CBRE by the way, since they're still not sending out. Speaker 4 00:26:31 Somebody's got to pay. Nobody else is paying. Let CBRE. Speaker 1 00:26:35 Epay it. Yeah, they didn't send a termination. Termination notice until now, Speaker 4 00:26:40 So. Yeah. Yeah. And if they push back at some point and say, " We're why are we paying for this? We don't have equipment there," we can say, " Did you send a notice of termination?" Does it? And and let's let's look at their agreement and make sure it says that we require a a notice of termination of the agreement or something, because there's probably something in there that says, you know. Needs some some sort of a notification. Speaker 1 00:27:09 Yeah, I've emailed a bunch of people from CBRE and there no one even responded to me. Speaker 4 00:27:15 Like I'm not I'm not surprised. Just keep just keep those copies and we can say well you know we tried to reach out and nobody responded so yeah we're gonna continue to bill you. Okay. Okay. Anything else? So Lisa, you're planning to be out starting October 12th. Is that right? Speaker 2 00:27:35 Yes. Yes. October twelfth. And I, I just wanna. Yes, December eighth. Speaker 4 00:27:43 Okay. April. Would you put that on my calendar, please? Have a chance. Okay. That really long time when Elisa is gonna be gone. Speaker 2 00:27:52 Okay. We'll do. Yeah. Two. Two months. Speaker 4 00:27:56 I'm gonna shut it. I'm gonna shut it here on October eleven. Speaker 2 00:28:02 Uh, but you can reach out to me anytime with WhatsApp. Speaker 4 00:28:10 We already have our WhatsApp. I'll have to add you. I'll have to add you in WhatsApp. I have April. She's the only one I have in WhatsApp. Speaker 2 00:28:21 Um. Speaker 4 00:28:25 April, you're gonna have to. You're gonna have to give me the other people's WhatsApps that I need in WhatsApp. Speaker 1 00:28:31 Oh yeah, just. Ping me, whichever or whose number do you need? So I'll just send it to you. Speaker 4 00:28:38 I guess I need Elisa's WhatsApp. Speaker 1 00:28:40 Okay. Yeah, sure. Speaker 4 00:28:44 Or you can or you can give Elisa my WhatsApp or whatever is easiest. I don't really care. Oh yeah. However you do it is fine. Um, I guess you do it by my phone number, right? Is that how you found mine? Speaker 1 00:28:56 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:28:57 I'll just give you my. You have my cell phone number, Elisa. I'll just I'll just, Send you my cell phone number and you can connect with me on WhatsApp. Speaker 2 00:29:04 How about that? Yeah, just drop. Yeah, sure. Number here. Here in the chat. Speaker 1 00:29:12 Or I can also drop my number. Speaker 4 00:29:13 Yeah, let me just. Yeah, let me just put it in the chat right now. Speaker 1 00:29:16 Yeah, and then Elisa can add you. Speaker 4 00:29:22 That's me. That's a plus one. You can all. You can all use it if you need it. Speaker 4 00:29:31 Okay. Anything else? Speaker 2 00:29:33 Ah, um, I just wanted to to check if there is somebody aside from Olivia who can grant access with the ConnectWise board, because I would like to. Speaker 4 00:29:45 Charles, Charles should be able to do it with Olivia out. I think she gave him. I think she gave him access to do it while she's gone. Speaker 2 00:29:52 Yeah, Charles. Yes. I would like to request April's access to accounting and billing board for visibility, because it will help us in our training and also additional support when we're in the way. Sure. Just additional, extra eyes. Speaker 4 00:30:08 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. You can absolutely do that. Yep. Shoot a note to Charles and Olivia, and copy me if you want to, and we're happy to do that. Speaker 2 00:30:18 Six three. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. I think we're good. Speaker 4 00:30:29 Well, I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day. And if I don't talk to you, have a great week. You too. Keep up the great work. Let me know. Let me know. Let me know when you get Hubert scheduled and how things go. And if you need me to ask him to do anything or whatever, Speaker 1 00:30:46 Let me know. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Thank you. Thanks, Beed. Thank you. Have a great day. Good night.
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09-07 Breakdown of Trust in a Friendship
- Notes
-  Two friends engage in a tense, wide-ranging confrontation about eroding trust, perceived gossip, misrepresented conversations, and a professional dispute involving a minor (Dom). The discussion revisits a missed party, communication lapses, and workplace tensions, ending with both acknowledging that the friendship may not continue and outlining limited follow-up actions. ------------ ## The Initial Accusation and Defense The dialogue opens with contention over how concerns were raised and verified. Christy had asked Emily questions at a party that Amy did not know was happening. Amy asserts that if Christy had concerns, she should have addressed them directly with Amy rather than questioning Emily. Amy explains that she later went to Emily to verify whether statements attributed to Emily by Christy were true. According to Amy, Emily told her the conversation did not occur as Christy had described, partially validating Amy’s growing doubts about Christy’s accuracy. Amy states her trust in Christy had already begun evaporating in recent weeks due to a perceived pattern of Christy talking negatively about people behind their backs. She cites a specific incident from a birthday brunch “a couple of years back,” where she says Christy discussed a client in a way that “bordered on some ethics” in a public setting among friends and family. Amy emphasizes she did not call Christy out publicly at the time but that the episode contributed to questioning whether Christy could be trusted not to talk about Amy behind her back. This framing establishes Amy’s stance: a cumulative erosion of trust anchored in observed behaviors and later reinforced by fact-checking with Emily. ------------ ## The Counter-Accusation: Betrayal and Lack of Friendship Christy responds by framing Amy’s long-term, unspoken distrust as a profound betrayal. She argues that genuine friendship requires addressing issues directly and promptly. The revelation that Amy has harbored doubts “for years” without raising them is, in Christy’s view, unfair and inconsistent with friendship. She highlights that she and her husband have repeatedly dropped everything to help Amy, yet Amy withheld her concerns, leading Christy to feel used and judged without recourse. Christy characterizes the trust dynamic as one-sided, claiming that for years she and Josh trusted Amy while Amy did not reciprocate. She states that if Amy no longer trusts her and does not wish to repair the friendship, that reality should be acknowledged now, and that the friendship should have ended years ago if distrust was already present. This section captures Christy’s emotional core: the pain of discovering sustained, unspoken skepticism, the perception of being valued for practical help rather than as a confidante, and a belief that Amy’s approach failed the standards of friendship. ------------ ## The Missed Party and Competing Narratives A recent party becomes a focal point illustrating the broader conflict. Amy explains she had just gotten out of the hospital and was not involved in planning; Lydia, Gia, and Dom organized the event. Amy says she did not intend to exclude anyone and believed Christy’s absence might be due to anger over the “Dom issue,” assuming Christy chose not to attend. Amy maintains she was preoccupied with returning to work and caring for two small children that week and did not manage party communications. Christy recounts that she only became aware of the party when Emily asked if she was going, despite Christy never receiving an invitation. She found it “weird” that Amy’s husband, who was at Christy’s home helping build bunk beds, did not mention the upcoming party. This reinforced Christy’s feeling of being used for labor but excluded from social events. The two narratives diverge: Amy emphasizes logistical oversight and personal constraints; Christy emphasizes the social signaling of omission amidst ongoing help, interpreting it as a sign of her diminished status in Amy’s life. ------------ ## The Workplace Dispute Involving Dom The discussion delves into a professional dispute centered on Dom, Christy’s minor daughter, who briefly worked for Amy. Amy states she attempted to separate professional and personal matters by delegating resolution to her office manager, Britt, including outreach regarding payment. Amy claims Britt did not receive a response from Dom and offers that evidence (e.g., screenshots) could be provided. Christy counters that Dom never received any communication from Britt and that Dom wanted to quit due to Britt’s poor management. Amy disputes the characterization of the quit, saying, “She didn’t quit. You quit for her,” suggesting procedural expectations when a minor leaves a job. Amy emphasizes she instructed Britt not to treat Dom like a “nepo baby,” asserting a professional, not personal, posture in supervision and payment. Christy maintains that when she tried to discuss Britt’s handling directly with Amy, Amy refused to engage, repeatedly shutting down the conversation about workplace specifics. In an effort to close the matter, Amy says she will send a personal check to settle what Dom is owed. This section showcases fundamentally conflicting accounts—Amy’s reliance on Britt’s version and commitment to payment versus Christy’s insistence that Dom’s communications were absent and her reasons for leaving were managerial. ------------ ## The Inability to Resolve and the Friendship’s Uncertain Future By the end of the exchange, both acknowledge a conversational stalemate and accuse each other of not listening, talking in circles, and blocking a “mature” discussion. Amy reiterates her trust disintegrated over years and only reached a head recently after corroborating patterns with others. Christy says she feels blindsided by Amy’s admission of years of distrust and frames the interaction as grounds to consider the friendship over. Amy asserts that progress is impossible until Christy sits down and seriously reflects on the issues raised. Both indicate that they do not see a path forward, with Christy shifting to processing this event for “therapy reasons” rather than continuing dialogue. The outcome is a mutual recognition that the relationship may not continue, with the core problems of trust, communication, and differing accounts unresolved. ------------ ## Action Items **@Amy** - [ ] Send a personal check in Dom’s name to Christy’s house to settle the payment for the work Dom performed - [TBD] - [ ] Sit down with Emily to verify the specific words used and the exact content of past conversations regarding hiring concerns - [TBD]
- Date
- Sep 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 That's good. I have a vanilla and macchiato. Yeah, macchiato. I gotta take Angie to a genetics. And they're open. Speaker 1 00:00:34 Yeah, since there's no school, I'm watching the kids. Josh is just like that. Well, helping out so sometimes, so kind of want to get to it to do big wraps and stuff. And you said you talked to Emily. Well, you asked a lot of you. You were asking her at the party a bunch of questions. Speaker 1 00:01:05 And so, which I didn't know that there was a party going on, and so which brought up some stuff of like, okay, why I guess you asked the questions to me if you had concerns about some stuff, and you didn't ever brought up those questions to me, and so like if you had those questions, you should come talk to me, and I waited, and you never talked, you never asked those questions to me, so. This is the time like you have questions like I'm a very direct person so come talk to me. I'm my best friend at a party accident. I didn't even know about. Ask her one question and then I will answer it because I don't trust you. Okay, and I asked her the question to check and verify a fact that you had made about her. So. Speaker 1 00:02:03 I went directly to the source and said, "Hi, did you say this to Amy or not?" And she was honest. And she told me what was actually said. What was? I stopped being able to trust you a while back, but I never named it, and I didn't name it because I wasn't sure if it was just me or if it was something that other people were seeing. And I waited to see what. And I didn't ask anybody. No one else ever studied things about it, and so when he brought up the conversation that he had with Emily, I went to Emily and asked her, "Did this really happen in the conversation?" And come to find out, didn't the way you said it. My trust in you has been slowly evaporating over the last couple of weeks for multiple reasons, but one main, and that is like to talk about people behind your back. Speaker 1 00:03:02 The biggest example I can give you was your birthday party a couple years back when we went out. I went out to eat brunch. We were in a public place. It was a really beautiful place, and you started talking about one of your clients in a way that bordered on some ethics, even though you didn't endanger clients. It was still very, and you were sitting there in the middle of. Friends and family, I'm not gonna call you out on it because that's not the kind of person I am. Then there's multiple other times in which that happens, where it's fine if it's you and me just being friends having a conversation or something like that. But it was bordered on a lot of questions of can I even trust Jamie to not talk about me behind my back? Speaker 1 00:04:01 And it really got to the point in which I wanted to start and give the friendship and the bug way down. And then he said, "Mom, you know we did that with Anna." And it wasn't that I was listening in; it was trying to draw. Can I take a pause so I can? So and then I remember it was also my birthday. Yeah, well that was. Speaker 1 00:04:33 For you to come here and to tell me that for years that you have not been trusting and not have the courage to talk to me and wait years, Christi, like what? That is not a friend. Like a friend tells me how things go and what how it is. So for that, like that's. How I do it. If something, if somebody was a true friend, and my, I have dropped. Me and my, both of my husband has dropped our lives to like help you and do all this stuff. And you're telling me for years that you haven't. You come to me on this of the trust issue. Like that, I'm very unfair. So that's one. I'm gonna say like that's one thing that you're telling me this so. Speaker 1 00:05:32 If you're done with this friendship and you don't trust me, then that's what it is. If you're telling me of something with Dom said, and that's why that's why I was like really wondering about this whole Dom situation because I was like, I would not talk about Vienna with her best friend because that is a that is a boundary that me and Britt has set set. And so whatever. Speaker 1 00:06:02 Dom thought she hurt. Like I would think that you would have trusted to like understand. And I can't even. That's why I was like, I can't even have a like that conversation because the trust is gone. You don't even trust me. So what? There's no point in even talking about it. And you you don't even want to be friends. You don't want to save this friendship because you don't trust me anymore. So there was a one-sided trust. For this last few years, Josh and I are the ones that have been trusting you, and no matter what it is, if you were my friend and you had an issue, you should have came to me. Instead, you didn't talk to him. That's not a friend, and that's what's sad about because I trusted you. It wasn't until this started coming. Like I'm a very upfront person. If you, I have a problem with you, I'll talk to you, and I knew some. Speaker 1 00:06:59 Was up, and I was like, "What is going on?" Until Emily said, "Hey, something's up." I'm like, "Okay." She didn't say ask. She didn't say there was a conversation between the two. She was like, "You need to talk to Christy," and I was like, "Okay." She was like, "I don't think you guys are on the same page," and I was like, "Okay." That's what she told me. She didn't go gossiping or anything like that. I thought it was weird that I. She was like, "I thought it was weird, Emily, that you were going to visit your friend in a mental hospital." Instead of being at Dom's, but she was like, I was like, but you know what, like I didn't know, and I was like, yeah, I found it also weird that my husband was with you building bunk beds, and you didn't mention anything about him. He thought it was weird. You didn't mention anything about a party that weekend with him, and so that's why we were both like, this is weird that this happened, and you didn't mention anything to us. Speaker 1 00:07:56 So I'm like, this is something like, I feel, I feel a little used in that perspective. That when you needed us, over these years, you've given us like, oh, we're good for to be used as handy people. But you don't trust me enough to tell me what's up. Like that's not cool, Christi. Like those friendships, then the friendship should have been over for years if you felt that way. Just tell me if you don't want to be friends. Wait. I don't think you really heard me in the moment, so I'm going to revisit what I said. Okay? It has been disintegrating because I didn't know if it was me that was having an issue, or if it was something other people would see. Now, it didn't come to a head until the last two months when I started prodding and saying, "Okay, is there something going on?" Now, one, you and Josh are different. Yes, you're married. Speaker 1 00:08:55 I've never lost my trust in Josh. I find him to be an honorable and respectable man, and like him dearly as a person separate from you. So we can we can drop Josh out. I have said this multiple times. You were honestly not looked over on the party, neither you or Josh. I had just gotten out of hospital, but Lydia, Gia, and Dom took over planning the party. I barely even remembered it was happening, and there. Speaker 1 00:09:25 You know what's the best about that is that I have my own family. I went on vacation. I felt bad for you, Christi. I mean, my mom, my aunt, my auntie Anna. Like, oh poor Christi. Can you take care of her? Jeez, like, not like this is like, and that you you don't you know what? The issue didn't come ahead until after. Until after the party. You were never forgotten from the party. I was upset and shocked that you weren't at the party, and I even mentioned it. Where is she? Why is she not here? And that's when she said, "Is it because of this issue?" And I was like, "It was not about an issue. I thought it was because you weren't there. I didn't realize you had gotten left off. I thought you were upset with me about the whole dom issue. And you just chose not to come." Speaker 1 00:10:26 I didn't. I honestly that entire week I was not focused on the party. I was focused on going back to work and two kids being with us that were well, one that was new. Again, I have mentioned this multiple times. It was never intentional for you to be left out of the party, you or Josh. I was shocked you were there. I thought you were upset about Tom, and I left it alone. And I didn't say it. And that's when I brought it up. I thought you were upset. And I said, let me ask you a question. Did you really say it? And that's why I said it to you because I thought you were still mad. Because you had your stuff in Europe. The same thing. Did you see? Did you not? You didn't even know my week. You don't know my week. No, no. But I. You knew that week when Josh was with building you bunk bed. I was at the hospital with a client. I was twice. I was twice at the hospital. Speaker 1 00:11:24 Client, working like very like long shifts that week. I barely saw my family that week, and so that Josh was with with the baby there. I was working watching the baby. So like I that that's where I was like that week was I was busy working. I barely saw my family. I wasn't. He wasn't. Had nothing to do with it. And my is my husband like my husband you know. If anything about it, about a party, people even had, if there was, when I saw that afterwards, I was like, well, I wish drama happy birthday. Like I was tweet, never responding. I was like, that's fine. If she's upset at me, that's okay. That's that's it. It's her party. I'm not gonna be upset at them. But you should have came and asked me. That's what I I have a problem. Like that's what like you should ask me if I had if you had a problem. Speaker 1 00:12:23 Because I didn't find out till days later. It's not like, and I when you were like, I was like, yeah, I'm surprised. I was just like, whatever. I found out. And Emily didn't ask me when I was going to the hospital. Like she was like, you're going to the party. I was like, yeah. She never even mentioned that she was even going to a party. She was just like, oh, this is weird. Because if she were to say, oh, there's a party and I'm going to, and then I would have been honest. I was like, oh. No, I just wasn't invited. I would have just been honest with her. So that's where I find you're asking me about the party, but Amy, I mean, you did invite me from the baby shower. That's why, that's why I'm questioning it now. I did. You did invite me from the from the baby shower because I've been waiting. You had said a couple weeks ago you wanted to. I because I went to a conference, Christy. If you're gone two out of time, you're gone two conference in a row. Just by. Speaker 1 00:13:22 Back late Saturday night, went straight, went working straight. Barely saw your family, who work. And your husband said, "You have to take care of the kids. What do you have to do? I have two small kids, Christi. I don't have teenagers. I have a, I have a seven month old and a five year old that just started kindergarten. I have two small kids. I don't have the luxury of like, hey, I can just like take time off and do. I have back to school nights. I have doing like this." I don't. It's not that I don't value it. It's just that, and I have a full time job. Like, it has nothing to do with you. I have like, I literally had two conferences. I texted you before my conference, and then I just got back into going back to work. Like, I'm just like, to me, I was just like, we're fine. Like, I was just like, I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but I was like, literally, I can't. Speaker 1 00:14:18 To tell you the most of like, if I have to choose between my own children and you, I'm gonna be honest that I have to choose those little two children. Like, and I'm sorry to say that, but they're the ones that need me. So when you sent that text message and I responded back with sure or something positive and affirmative, it's not that hard to respond back and say, hey, when I get back from the conference, let's talk. It's not that hard. I call Canadians, I. Christi, you. I have been busy. I don't text a lot of people. I've been working like fourteen days, fifteen days straight. But that's supposed to know this. I told you I was at a conference. After. I said before I'm going to a conference. Usually your conferences when you go to are weekends. You didn't say hey I'm gonna be gone for two three weeks. You said let's let's talk. Speaker 1 00:15:16 Because I wanted to talk to you about it, but so here's the thing: if you had a problem, I didn't. Here's the thing: I wanted to clear things up with Dom and said, "Hey, Chris, you handle this. This a professional thing. I don't want to. This a professional. You handle it. You're my office manager. You're gonna handle that situation. That's it. And so I was like, you're gonna help me handle it and keep that communication because. I'm separating my professional with my personal because professional and personal are two different things. But she never reached out to him. She did. He checked. She checked her email and her text messages, and she never got a text message from Brett. She did. Okay, I can vouch for the fact that she does not lie because she finds that that's a big issue. She did not get a message from Brett. She texted her three weeks ago. Speaker 1 00:16:12 See, I had her pull up the number, and she said, "Mom, I didn't get anything from her. I can screenshot you and send it to you right now. I didn't get anything from her since when I worked for you. I'm not gonna, I'm not okay. I'm not gonna go into semantics because you're you're not. I was trying to employ Dom, and you're gonna be Mama Bear, and I'm I've already and I understand what you're saying." Josh and I already had this conversation, and we we differ things because we because there's no trust between us. Josh and I both agree that we would we would trust you before trusting Anna. You don't trust us. You don't trust me. So it doesn't matter what I say. That's over. I will send you a check personally to pay for dog. That's what I was trying to do. That's what I asked for. Speaker 1 00:17:11 So I could just like that's why I asked for the Venmo account to pay her for the amount of the work that she did for the Venmo account to Dom afterwards. Okay, she you asked for in person or over text? Over text. I asked her in person first to pay her, and then I asked her over text. She didn't quit. You quit for her. She decided, and that is that is not how people quit jobs. Speaker 1 00:17:41 Mother, like, and so, even when you're a minor, like, we don't usually a minor quits their job, and so I wanted to pay her, so I will send a check to your house in her name. I or ask her, or you can give me your name, and I will give you a personal check to give her. Like it's coming from my account, so I can just pay that and say here's what you're owed, and that, and. Settle that account because that was what we wanted to do from the first place. That's what we want. We didn't want to force her to do anything. I just wanted to pay her. That's what Britt asked for. Britt didn't ask for anything. She wanted to talk to Clara Britt, but most importantly, we just wanted to pay her. That's all. Now I think you're confused on something I said just a moment ago. I don't not trust the fact that you're telling me Britt reached out to you. I'm telling you, she didn't get a response from. Speaker 1 00:18:40 If you're telling me Brit said that she reached out to her, I'm gonna believe that in this moment. There's there's things I can believe from you, and there are things I can't believe. Because honesty is a multifaceted tool. It's a lot of things that make up trust. And right now, Christi, if you're telling me for years, look, if you're telling me for years you don't you don't you've lost trust in me and all this stuff. At the end of the day, it is what it is. My, the only people I can trust is my family right now. And so, and that that's what I that's that's what I've been doing. And right now, for it for years, if you can be honest with me, I don't know what to say to you because right now, like I was trusting you up to this point. Speaker 1 00:19:39 And then now I don't. Of course I don't trust you because you're telling me that you don't trust me, and you're calling me out. And instead of like talking to me, which is like the number one thing you do in the like, and I I told you in the ghetto as a person of color of all you, all of your stuff. This is a widespread issue, and I'm not trusting you. I would like you to sit on that fact. Why is it that I haven't talked to you in the last couple years where I started noticing this issue? Like it didn't come to a head until the last couple. Months when I was being talked to by others, one of them being Dom. Dom is not the only person who has said they see the same thing out of you, where you tend to talk about people negatively, about behind their back about things. But Dom didn't. So I'm not going to take what Dom says loosely because literally I was with you questioning before hiring Dom if okay, we're still circling around that issue because I spoke to you on the phone about this. Speaker 1 00:20:38 I don't agree with what she said. Okay. I don't agree with what Dom said. I talked to Britt. Me and Britt disagree with what Dom's account is. Okay. I'm gonna listen to you weren't there, and there was. I talked to Britt and I talked to me. Britt talked to Vienna about it. Became a an issue in my household. Vienna was like. This is ridiculous. Like, if be it, like, I don't agree with whatever Don said. Whatever Don heard, I don't agree with it. With what she said and what happened at the work, at what happened at my workplace, which is a professional thing. I brought it up to you. You didn't even entertain talking with me about it. You just kept telling me I was wrong. Well, it's a professional matter, and I don't need to. So, for professional reasons, like. Speaker 1 00:21:36 It's not. It's a. I asked you to talk to Brit with me if you really wanted to. You could talk to Brit with me and you shut it down. I did because the issue about trust is not with me and Brit. It's with me and you. Where what had been happening finally got validated. Then we we should not talk about this situation that happened at my work business place because it has nothing to do with our. I understand what you're bringing up, but it shouldn't even be used because Brit does not validate. Speaker 1 00:22:07 What, what happened with Dom? So she was there, and she was. She is Vienna's best friend. We've established it. She's like nothing that was said. Happened with that? Any time that there was something, we closed the door. She said some other stuff, like about of what happened with Dom. I was like, I wasn't even with Dom that much time because I was the week that she was bringing it back around to the trust issue. Speaker 1 00:22:37 Yes. Okay. So that's fine if we are taking Dom out of equation. The other point to saying, hey, this validated my experience and what I had been feeling and hadn't pinned down as actually happening or not, was I went to Emily and said, didn't tell her what the conversation was about. Said, did you say this? And she responded, No, I didn't say that. Which is something he told me she had said about Dom in the moment. She did validate other things that she did say to you, but she didn't say a specific. Which was what? It was how she should react to you hiring them. Now, what she did say was there are some concerns about her being under the age of 18, and she preferred waiting. But there were some other things that she did not say that you said she said, and I find that to be a problem. Well, you can tell me how what it was, and I can tell you if it was right or wrong, and I will talk to Emily about it. It was about her opinion on what she. Speaker 1 00:23:35 Should do outside of the fact that she was under the age of 18. Her and Josh had the same opinion. Not to hire anybody because Emily, I gave the exact words of conversation after the fact and said this is what Amy said about Hollis, and here's my. So I don't. Okay, you don't have to believe it, but I know that I spoke to her and Josh, and they both didn't. I should have listened to them. They both said that it was. Hiring people that I knew that wasn't wasn't gonna be good. I shared the conversation I had with you at with them at your house about Dom, and they were like, I don't know that you should hire her. Lots of times Emily doesn't remember some of the conversation I have. I will talk to her about it and be like, hey, this is what. And now Christy doesn't trust me, and so I'm just I'll be honest. It's not gonna ruin my friendship with Emily. Speaker 1 00:24:31 I don't want you to. So that's why I'm not. And you're not deep diving into this. I just had issues when you said, "Oh, this person said this before," and I would find out later that that's not the case. Okay, that's fine. But I'm gonna stand firm of like with what Emily's and what Josh did, and I'm like, and I agree with them, and I should have never hired them. I understand. I agree. And I should have taken Doll at her word the first time she came to me and said. Mom, I can't work for Amy because she does this, this, and this. And she wanted to put it right in there. I said no, give it, give it a try. Sometimes you overreact at times, and sometimes you just operate in the moment of emotions and give it a moment, see if that gets better. And she's like, Mom, it doesn't matter. She does not explain things. Grit does not explain things, and that is not true. And I'm gonna stand by back. I'm gonna back the grit, and I told her, Mom said not to be. Speaker 1 00:25:29 She didn't want to be a nepo baby. I told Britt not to treat her like a nepo baby. That doesn't have to do with the fact that and that did not get explained. I did explain and I talked to Britt. Britt did. Britt did. Okay. And we could go back and forth about it. And I'm just gonna leave it alone because I've had plenty of interns. I've had plenty of people. I used to work for the county housing authority, so I've had lots of people under me. So I'm not gonna base one for. I'm not gonna base. You're gonna be Mama Bear at the end of the day, and it's your. You have a bias, and that's what I see. It. We're gonna go into. You have a bias against me personally, and you have a bias against me. Like, and that it's not gonna end up well. So I'm just gonna ask Emily what I asked her. Sit down with Emily, have a conversation with her, ask her the specific words that I chose to say, and ask her how I said it because I think you're gonna find out what I asked. Speaker 1 00:26:27 Doesn't have anything to do with you or what you work with in the past. You're fluffing up the conversation instead of shitting with what I'm giving you, and you're hitting very like you're going around the world. I'm not that with me with on the phone when I tried to talk to you originally about this. And yes, if we had had a clear cut conversation, I understand you've got something you want to say, but you're going to let me finish. We had a clear cut conversation. Conversation about this on the phone. You overdosed me on the phone. I did not. And you would not allow me to sit there and explain my side of it and actually get out what I was trying to say because you're doing exactly what you're doing right now, which I let you do. I'm not letting you do that anymore. That's a lie. That is not a lie. Because we had like a we had a five to seven less than a ten minute conversation. Mm-hmm. On my work phone. Like. On my work phone. I called you on my your personal. Speaker 1 00:27:21 That is my work call. It's been my work call number for the last six years. Well, I called you on the number I have. You did, yeah. And we talked about, and you're doing exactly that what you're doing now, which is not listening to me. You're trying to make every excuse in the book on why you're right. I'm not right. I'm saying that I'm going to drop that because there's a third person in this mix. And there's this has nothing to do with you because she's not here. There's no one here. It's here, but you and I. Exactly. And this is a work matter, and I don't want to talk about it. We're going to talk about her work. We're going to talk about our friendship. But right now, I don't see where we go. I don't see us having a friendship because what you just told me. I don't see where we go from here. I don't either because you're not allowing us to sit and actually talk about it with. Speaker 1 00:28:21 A mature response. It has been you talking over me and giving me 15 million viewpoints on why you're right, and you won't actually have a real conversation with me. Hold on, Christi. I came to this for one thing, and you just told me. Then I brought it back to the same subject the entire. No, no. I came here, and you brought up years, and you don't trust me for years. I said the trust had been disintegrating over years, and it didn't. To a head until the last few months when I started realizing it was right. So, here, who's the so who just found out this information? Who just I am going to reiterate because if I don't feel like I have substantial at home to stand on in this and can come to you without with no like examples and just say, hey, here are some examples that happened, then I'm not. Speaker 1 00:29:20 And it didn't come to a head until the last two months when I started seeing a pattern repeat with other people. And yes, that that pattern that's repeating is about your job. Fine, the one from your birthday from two years ago is about your job. So either it's all about you, and we can't separate Amy personally from what Amy works, which that can't be a problem, or you're not able to listen to me fully, which means. This conversation isn't going to go anywhere because every single time I brought it back to the same problem. It has been something that's been disengaged, disengaged. You get what I'm saying? Over years, but I could not pinpoint it until the last two months. In the last two months, we have barely talked because one, Dom was working for you. Two, I was in the hospital. Three, you were at a conference. Speaker 1 00:30:15 You have sat here and not listened to me this entire time. This relationship's not going to go anywhere until you have time to sit down and think through what I'm trying to tell you. Which is the same thing I keep repeating and I kept repeating to you the other night because you go around in circles. I'm not looping. You have been looping. Go back and look at those Twitter texts. So I'm going to go back and dissect you for therapy reasons. Because you are my friend, not.
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09-08 Meeting: Technical Session Reschedule, GitHub Setup, Claude Access, and SOW/Billing
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- > Date: 2026-09-08 13:00:40 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### Rescheduling the Technical Session - Christi and Evan (Speaker 2) agreed to reschedule their meeting. - The new time is set for September 9, 2026, at 10:30 AM Christi's time, which is 2:00 PM Evan's time. - The session is planned for 1.5 hours to ensure sufficient time if needed. ### GitHub Account Setup Preparation - Christi will send an invite for Evan's colleague to create a GitHub account. - Using a personal email address was recommended. - Multi-factor authentication will be required for security. - This setup will be covered in detail during the September 9 meeting. ### Plan for the Technical Session - The upcoming meeting will be a hands-on technical session. - Christi will grant access to their Claude account and guide the individual through the setup. - Training will focus on the specific tool he designed for practical application. - The goal is for him to become comfortable enough to attempt a build independently. ### Billing and SOW Discussion - An SOW (Statement of Work) was discussed for this project. - Christi will add her training hours to the existing Claude project. - This approach is considered easier for billing purposes. - Approximately five additional hours will be added to the Claude project quote. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi will send a GitHub invitation via Teams. - [ ] Evan's colleague should set up a GitHub account before the meeting, if possible. - [ ] Christi will schedule a 1.5-hour meeting for September 9, 2026, at 10:30 AM (Christi's time). - [ ] Christi will add about 5 hours to the existing quote for the Claude project.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:16 Hello. Hey, Evan. I just saw your message. I can move this one to tomorrow at eleven, if that works for you. Speaker 2 00:00:24 Eleven, your time. Speaker 1 00:00:25 Yes. Speaker 1 00:00:29 I have availability tomorrow starting at 10: Speaker 2 00:00:32 30. So that's two o'clock my time. Tomorrow, two. That's perfect. If you could do it 30 minutes earlier, that would be even better. I have a hard stop at three. Speaker 1 00:00:48 Um, 10: 30 is the soonest I can do it because I'm back to back tomorrow until 10: 30, and then I'm free the rest of the day. Speaker 2 00:00:56 Okay. Yeah, that's perfect. Speaker 1 00:00:57 Okay. Have you? I didn't ask you to do this, but have you by any chance made a GitHub account yet. Speaker 2 00:01:03 No. Speaker 1 00:01:05 I'll send you an invite and just create one GitHub account. If you're looking at doing this outside of Westfin, create it in your own personal email address. And because it's going to be on my account, and my account connects with Crimson and other companies, mine's very secure. And, I'm going to ask that you set up multi-factor authentication, but GitHub and Microsoft are very anal about this part. You can only have one GitHub account. You can't have a work one and then a professional one. So I usually tell people when they're setting up GitHub for the first time, set it up as your personal because Microsoft gets finicky. But the the code base behind it on the Microsoft side is going to be pretty secure. Speaker 1 00:01:56 So I am going to ask you to set up a multi - factor authentication, and we'll go over all that tomorrow. But if you've got time today, do the GitHub. If you don't, no big deal, because I plan on tomorrow walking you through that. Speaker 2 00:02:09 Okay. Yeah, just shoot me that in the text here, and I'll do that. Speaker 1 00:02:13 Yeah, absolutely. I'm going to put it for an hour and a half. We probably won't use an hour and a half, but just so that you have that, Speaker 2 00:02:21 If you need it. All good. Sorry, I just I got a. Little personal issue I'm having to deal with that need to take care of. Speaker 1 00:02:30 No worries. Yeah, it's it'll be good. Christi, here one sec. We'll absolutely. Speaker 2 00:02:36 Okay. Yeah, just drop me that Christi chat and I'll take care of that right away. Speaker 1 00:02:41 I'll take care of it. I'll get. Well, let me just teams it to you the invite. Okay. Perfect. Awesome. Thank you. Thanks. I'll stay. I'm gonna stay over at. Speaker 2 00:02:53 Yeah, I mean, I I can't do anything tomorrow, so I'm back to back to back. So I don't, but I feel like I need to be on. I think he'll be just fine walking him through what needs to happen. But just so I understand, so he's gonna, you're gonna get, give him a way to set up his GitHub. That's fine. And then we, does he have a cloud license deployed already? So we have a place for this, or did you talk to George about that? Speaker 1 00:03:21 So I already have access to your Claude account, and I'm setting him up with Claude, and I'm going to walk him through all of that. So it's going to be a very technical meeting tomorrow, where I'm going to teach him as we go because I've learned that's best for people. Speaker 2 00:03:36 Yeah, no, it is, and and I think it'll be better because I think it was the last meeting we did where you were giving him an example basically by using another thing you'd built out. I think he's starting to get a little lost in the weeds of, here's the mail app. Like this, this will actually be his tool. So then it'll be much more of a an easier lift because you'll be referencing sort of the the same you know the code or the page views or whatever that is specific to what he's already designed. Correct. Yes. All right. Yeah. And then I meanwhile gonna go. Speaker 2 00:04:20 And you know, start mapping out sort of how he's going to be testing on this the rest of the the month. But I think your plan after tomorrow, and if you feel like he's getting a little more acclimated and comfortable, are we going to try him to do a build and to try and you to do okay? Yeah, just so he can yeah. Okay, good. Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 00:04:47 Um, you and I never talked about an SOW for this one or a quote or anything like that. Speaker 2 00:04:55 You need to do an SOW. You can you can send me one. Speaker 1 00:04:59 I'm gonna add my hours onto the cloud project because that's much easier for you guys. Um, at this yeah, at this point because this is part of training cloud. So it is. Yeah. So that's that's how I'm gonna word it to Anzor if he asks. This is all part of training you guys to. Do your own stuff through Claude, and I'm just going to add about five more hours to the quote. But you're assigned. Okay. Cool. Perfect. Speaker 2 00:05:26 Like I say, I think it'll be much clearer if he's you're walking him through, he's doing it himself. Yes. His app. It's so then, and we're going to test out how the the build process goes with that, and then you know, and then as soon as he feels comfortable, then we can start actually. Testing the platform, and you know he'll then have to make little changes and tweaks as we go. Yes. Yes. Okay. Good. All right. Thank you for. Okay. You're welcome. Talk to you soon. Okay. Bye.
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Case Study: Shared Responsibility Plan Review for Tina
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-  Suzhou, a social worker from the Department of Children and Family Services, convened a meeting with foster mother Carrie, foster youth Tina, and Tina's grandmother to review Tina's Shared Responsibility Plan (SRP). The meeting focused on establishing a supportive environment for Tina and her baby, Bailey. ## Meeting Simulation: Placement and Care Concerns The simulated case meeting addressed placement preferences and caregiving challenges: - **Placement Decision**: Tina requested to move in with her grandparents, stating she would be happier there and that her grandmother has extensive caregiving experience. Her grandmother declined, explaining that she and her husband ("Gramps") are too ill, face frequent hospitalizations, and already have Ben (Bailey's father) living with them. The grandmother urged Tina to stay with Carrie to prevent being sent back to a group home and having Bailey placed elsewhere. It was confirmed that Tina will remain at Carrie's home for now. - **Tina's Caregiving Grievances**: Tina stated that she is expected to handle all caregiving duties for Bailey alone. She complained that she is not treated like a teenager, is never allowed to socialize with her friends, and is barred from having Ben visit. - **Plan Adjustment**: Carrie acknowledged Tina's concerns and proposed evaluating them systematically, starting with identifying the specific areas where Tina requires additional caregiving assistance. ## Academic Assignment and Discussion Prompts The video concluded with instructions and reflective prompts for students evaluating the case: - **Written Prompts**: Students must analyze the benefits of the SRP meeting for the caseworker, foster parent, teen parent, and grandmother. The assignment requires students to outline how the foster mother can help Tina feel like a teenager, how the foster mother can avoid assuming full parental responsibility for Bailey, whether the biological father should be integrated into the SRP, and what specific activities should be scheduled for the teen mother and her baby. - **Discussion Prompts**: Students must post responses evaluating whether the grandmother's feedback was useful or detrimental, sharing their reaction to her placement comments, and explaining whether the grandmother should be officially included in the SRP.
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- Sep 7, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Real world application of the learned data. Let's advance now to the video. Hi, my name is Suzhou. I am the social worker from the Department of Children and Family Services. We are here today to review the SRP. To start this meeting, can we take some time to introduce ourselves? Speaker 2 00:00:23 If you don't mind, I can go first. Hi, my name is Carrie, and I am Tina's foster mother. Speaker 3 00:00:28 I guess I will go next. I am Tina, and I live with Carrie. And to the left of me is my grandmother. Speaker 4 00:00:36 I will finish as mentioned by Tina. I am her grandmother and am here because I want to better understand how we can help her. Speaker 2 00:00:44 Okay, thanks everyone for that brief introduction. We're here to create a plan to help Tina be the best mom she can for Bailey. Speaker 1 00:00:53 I have many years of working with foster children, babies, and teens. I feel that I am just the right person to help this new program be successful. I think that this is the perfect program for Tina and Bailey. Speaker 3 00:01:08 I want to live with Granny and Gramps. I think that if we lived with Granny and Gramps, we would be happier. And Owen really understands how hard it is to care for Bailey. Granny has lots of experience. Speaker 4 00:01:22 Well, of course that would be nice, dear. And I want to have a relationship with my Bailey. She is so cute. But I don't think that me and Gramps can take care of both of you, Tina. We already have been living with us, and one of us in the hospital all of the time because we are so sick. Speaker 2 00:01:43 I think that we have already made great progress. We all agree that we want Tina to be successful with Bailey. Granny, I know that you care about Tina and Bailey, and. We want to make sure that you can be involved in their life, Tina. I know that you wanted to live with them, but you are still so fortunate to have them participating in your life. So we know that for now you will be staying with Carrie. Let's look at your SRP to see how we can help you be successful in Carrie's life. Speaker 3 00:02:12 Granny, I promise that if you let me live with you and Gramps and Ben, I will take care of Bailey. You won't have to do anything. Speaker 4 00:02:20 Tina, Gramps, and I will always be there for you and Bailey. But this is what is best for now. Please give Carrie's home a chance. We don't want you back in a group home, and Bailey placed somewhere else. Please think of what is best for Bailey. Speaker 3 00:02:36 I need more help with Bailey. You make me do everything, and you never let me go out with friends. I'm still a kid, but you treat me like I'm in prison. I never get to go out. And I never get to have Ben over, and he is Bailey's father. Tina, Speaker 2 00:02:54 I'm glad that you are sharing your thoughts and concerns. That is exactly the purpose of this meeting — to address these concerns and come up with a plan that everyone can agree to. Let's look at each of your concerns one at a time. How do you need more help with Bailey. Speaker 5 00:03:08 During this time, you may reference all the materials provided up to this point. This assignment is designed to help you reflect on your unique role, balance boundaries. And celebrate the growth of your foster teen as a young parent. Please read the prompts that follow and write. Speaker 6 00:03:25 Discuss the benefits of this meeting for the following: a, the CSW, b, the foster parent, c, the parenting teen, d, the grandmother. Two. How would you address the foster youth teen parents' concerns? A. How will the foster mom ensure the youth still feels like a teenager slash young adult and not just a parent? B. How will the foster mom assure she does not assume the full parental responsibilities of the baby? C. Should the baby's biological dad be included in the SRP? C. What activities should be included for the teen mom and her baby in the SRP. Speaker 5 00:04:05 Now let's engage in a discussion. Did you find the grandmother's presence and feedback useful, or did her feedback further set back the young parent? How did you react to grandmother's comments about her grandchild's placement? Do you believe that the grandmother should be included in SRP? Explain your response. To post your response, proceed to the discussion. This concludes your video. Your timeline to complete this assignment.
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09-03 Lecture: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Basics
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- Date Time: 2026-09-03 08:58:03 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: Chris Brown / Christi ## Summary This lecture series, led by Christi (Chris Brown) from Crimson IT, serves as an introductory training on the basics of Artificial Intelligence for the Coatsen team. The sessions demystify AI, explaining that tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude are Large Language Models (LLMs) that predict responses based on patterns from vast amounts of text. The instructor emphasizes that AI is not a thinking entity but a capable tool, best thought of as a "very capable intern" that is smart and fast but requires its work to be reviewed for accuracy, as the user is ultimately accountable for the final output. The training covers the core principles for using AI safely and effectively: giving it context, checking its work, and protecting sensitive data. It highlights AI's strengths in word-based tasks like summarizing, rewriting, and organizing, while warning of its limitations, including factual incorrectness ("hallucinations") and inherent biases. A key focus is on "prompting"—the art of giving AI clear instructions—using a four-part framework (Role, Task, Context, Format). The sessions distinguish between the secure, enterprise-level Microsoft Copilot for work and insecure personal AI tools, detailing strict data protection protocols for sensitive Foundation information. Finally, the training looks toward the future of AI, noting its evolution from assistants to agents and stressing that human judgment will become even more valuable. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Training Introduction and AI Fundamentals - **Welcome and Ground Rules:** The training, led by Christi from Crimson IT, is recorded and materials will be shared. The goal is to provide a foundational understanding of AI tools, their capabilities, and safe usage at work. Participants are encouraged to use Microsoft Teams features like Q&A, "raise hand," and reactions for engagement. - **Coatsen's AI Policy and Tools:** The training aligns with Coatsen's draft AI usage policy. The primary, secure tool for the organization is Microsoft Copilot, which is integrated into the Microsoft 365 environment and may use models like ChatGPT and Claude on the backend. Everyone should have a Copilot license, which unlocks the tool automatically. - **Training Agenda:** The sessions are divided into foundational concepts and hands-on application. The agenda covers what AI is, why it makes mistakes, the art of "prompting," data protection, the future of AI, and a dedicated Q&A. - **Three Fundamental Rules for Using AI:** 1. **Give it context:** Provide sufficient background information for a relevant response. 2. **Check its work:** Always review AI output for accuracy. 3. **Protect the data:** Be mindful of what information is shared with AI tools. - **The "Capable Intern" Analogy:** A helpful mental model for AI is to think of it as a smart, fast intern whose work is impressive but must be supervised and reviewed before being finalized. ### 2. Core Concepts: AI Capabilities, Limitations, and Biases - **AI as a Reasoning Assistant, Not a Source of Truth:** AI is skilled at predicting based on patterns but can be factually incorrect and is prone to "hallucinating" (inventing) answers with confidence when it lacks data. It is a reasoning tool, not an infallible source. - **Strengths and Best Use Cases:** AI excels at word-based tasks like: - **Drafting and Rewriting:** Creating first drafts (getting you ~70% of the way), tightening up rough text, and adapting content for a specific audience or tone. - **Summarizing and Explaining:** Condensing long documents and explaining concepts in a specified style. - **Organizing Information:** Structuring messy notes or transcribed thoughts. - **Overcoming Writer's Block:** Generating a starting point by providing themes and context. - **Context Dependency:** AI's knowledge is limited to the information it is given. To get factual answers about the Coatsen Foundation, it must be provided with specific source documents (e.g., an expense policy). Without a source, its answers are unreliable. - **Inherent Bias:** AI is described as "very whitewashed" due to the data it's trained on. Users must be aware of this and actively challenge it to counteract bias in the output. ### 3. The Art of AI Prompting - **Definition:** Prompting is the act of giving an AI clear instructions, including context, desired output, guardrails, and topics to exclude. - **Four-Part Framework for Effective Prompting:** 1. **Role or Perspective:** Instruct the AI to adopt a persona (e.g., "Act as the executive director of Coatsen"). 2. **Task:** Clearly state the action (e.g., summarize, rewrite, draft, compare). 3. **Context:** Provide crucial background information, including the audience, prior history (email threads, documents), and constraints (e.g., "don't make up anything you're not sure of"). This is the most important element. 4. **Format:** Define the output structure (e.g., "under 150 words," "a table," "three short paragraphs," "in plain language"). - **Best Practices:** Be specific, provide ample context, and challenge the AI rather than just asking for validation (e.g., ask it to "find flaws" or "argue with you" instead of "is this a good email?"). ### 4. Data Protection and User Accountability - **Distinguish Between Work and Personal AI:** - **Work AI (Microsoft Copilot):** Secure for Foundation use. Data entered stays within the organization's secure Microsoft "tenancy" and is not used to train Microsoft's models. It respects existing user permissions. - **Personal AI (Free ChatGPT, Claude, etc.):** **Never** use for Foundation information. Data like student records, personnel info, financial data, and confidential notes are strictly prohibited. - **You Own the Output:** The user is always accountable for content created with AI. "AI wrote it" is not an excuse for errors. You are responsible for verifying accuracy and ensuring information is shared appropriately. - **Supervising AI:** A good AI user acts like a good supervisor by giving clear instructions, providing context, reviewing work, correcting mistakes, protecting confidential information, and knowing when to escalate. ### 5. The Future of AI and Team Concerns - **Evolution of AI:** AI is rapidly evolving from assistants into proactive "agents" and becoming more deeply integrated into everyday workplace tools (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel). - **The Value of Human Judgment:** As AI becomes more widespread, human judgment becomes more valuable. Humans are needed to know what "good" looks like, recognize errors, and provide accountability, which AI lacks. AI will free up time from repetitive tasks for more important, relationship-focused work. - **User Data Privacy:** Within the enterprise Microsoft Copilot, administrators cannot see the content of user chats or prompts. They can only see aggregate data on which users are using AI and in which applications. - **Team Concerns and Discussion:** - **Accuracy and Ethics (Julie, Kamya):** Concerns were raised about factual accuracy, bias, and the questionable practices of AI-producing companies. - **Environmental and Community Impact (Tyler, Jody):** Participants expressed concern over the environmental impact of data centers, the lack of regulation, and the inauthentic feel of AI-generated communication. - **Instructor's Response:** The instructor encouraged in-depth research on company practices and confirmed that the training would cover how to make AI-generated text sound authentic by using it as a first draft and refining it. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Review the company’s draft AI usage policy. - [ ] 2. Practice creating strong AI prompts using the four-part framework: Role, Task, Context, and Format. - [ ] 3. For practice, take a non-sensitive document you have written and ask AI to make it shorter, clearer, or more direct, then compare the versions. - [ ] 4. Be mindful not to use personal AI accounts (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for any Foundation-related data. - [ ] 5. Before the next session, send any questions and a non-confidential document (for use as a hands-on example) to Christi. - [ ] 6. Prepare for the hands-on session on September 4, 2026, which will cover AI applications in Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel.
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- Sep 3, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:08 Good Morning, Speaker 2 00:00:09 Vivian. Good morning. Can you hear me? Speaker 1 00:00:12 I can hear you. Speaker 2 00:00:14 Oh, excellent. Can you see me? Speaker 1 00:00:16 I cannot see you, but I am not as worried about seeing you right now. Just making sure you can hear me. Speaker 2 00:00:25 You don't want to see me this early in the morning. I covered up. I covered up my camera. So, great. I'm just making. Sure, I don't want to scare anybody. Speaker 1 00:00:35 No worries, you're all good. Speaker 3 00:00:37 Thank you. Speaker 3 00:01:25 Good morning, Speaker 4 00:01:25 Holly. You are muted. I was on mute. Good morning, Christi. Good morning, Viv. Speaker 2 00:01:34 Good morning. Yay! I got my um, my uh audio all taken care of now. Speaker 4 00:01:43 Thanks, boy. Speaker 1 00:01:44 Good. Yeah. Uh, so just fair warning, I'll come on camera in a moment. I'm trying to finish up some things this morning. Traffic was a little crazy, so. I am trying to get everything pulled up real quick, and I have a bunch for you guys today. But we're going to go through a little bit of everything. My PowerPoint has decided to crash on me every time I try to open it. So just a heads up, I may start without my PowerPoint just because I have it memorized. Speaker 1 00:02:20 But I am going to turn on. Question and answers have been turned on, and I'm going to go over everything with you guys in a moment on how that looks, and we will get started momentarily. I'm going to wait for everybody to jump on. I'm going to get ever give everyone three minutes before I start. So just be aware that I am going while I'm waiting for everything to come up. There was some internet outage issues yesterday. I don't know if it. Any of you guys heard about that in downtown LA? So it came up overnight, and now I'm able to get back into most of my stuff. I'm just waiting on my PowerPoint to come up. So, but I think with everything else, we will be good. I'm also going to be sharing out my Teams. Speaker 1 00:03:16 So that you guys can see some stuff in that, because Claude—I mean, not Claude, Copilot—is in in Teams, so I'm going to show you guys some things with that. But we're actually going to go over the basics of AI today. Once we get started, so those of you guys who are joining in right now, I'm giving everybody two more minutes. We're going to start at 9:03, and then we're going to go through a few other things. Speaker 1 00:03:46 But today is all about the basics. Speaker 3 00:04:18 Good morning. Speaker 1 00:04:36 All right, I want to give you guys another 60 seconds, but first I'm trying to get my PowerPoint pulled up for you. It's just being a little wonky. Speaker 1 00:04:60 And for those of you guys who did not know, Microsoft had some outages yesterday. In addition to everything else we had going on, with the internet outages. Speaker 1 00:05:39 All right, it is 9:03. I am going to let you guys decide who wants your cameras on and who doesn't. I am going to turn my camera on, but please understand I have not drank coffee in two days for any other reason other than I just did not want to drink coffee, and I haven't had a chance to stock up, back up on coffee. So, but so if you guys, if I look a little tired, just ignore me. I promise you, I'm wide awake and ready to go. We are going to. I'm going to share my screen, and that way you guys can see the PowerPoint presentation and everything else we have going on. But I do want to make sure that you are aware of a few things. We are going to go over AI basics. So I am going to talk a lot about the basics of AI, and these are tools. What we're going to discuss is things that you're going to be able to use not just within Coatsen, but also within your everyday life. For those of you guys who like AI. Speaker 1 00:06:36 And I will be doing some questions and answers. But first, for those of you guys who have never met me, my name is Chris Brown. I'm the CIO with Crimson IT, and I've worked with the Coatsen team now for almost five years. This is my fifth year month with Crimson IT. So, I and I just realized that yesterday. Time flies when you're having fun. So I've been working with you guys now for almost five years, or working behind the scenes. So some of you guys have never met me, but I'm really happy to be here and teaching you guys a lot about AI basics. And so I want to go over some ground rules and housekeeping rules before we dive in. One, the session is being recorded. Speaker 1 00:07:23 So anyone who can't attend or gets distracted, like I normally do when I'm listening on training, you can catch up with the recordings later on, and I will be sending those over so that you guys can view them, along with a summary and meeting notes that I'm going to be sending out, along with each of your questions and answers, each of your questions and the answers to those questions. Just a quick heads up on this. I am going to show you my Microsoft Teams window. I do have the facilitator turned on, so if you look in chat, she has introduced herself. I do call her a she. You can call her a he, they, them, whatever you want to call them. I did not put in the agenda to this, so just a quick heads up on that. Speaker 1 00:08:09 Up here, right where it says Q and A, if you click on that, you'll be able to ask questions, and we will table those questions for after everything is over with. So, to add a question, you're going to say Create Post, and then you are going to type in your question and hit Post. And then once I am done with the training, I will actually answer those questions. However, if you have a question that's a little bit more important and you want. And it needs to be answered right away. You're going to use this raise hand feature right here. Now, if you've joined me for other trainings in the past, you know that I do like to see reactions, and I do want to make sure that everybody is, you know, just engaged, things like that. I do understand you might get phone calls during training. That's quite all right. That's why I'm leaving it up to you if you want to be on camera or not. Speaker 1 00:09:04 So you can react here if you click on that thumbs up, heart emoji, applause, laugh, and surprise. Every now and then I do might do a pop quiz and I'll ask you to react for your answer so that I can see it. Now I do have this training set to speaker mode. However, if you click on view, you can change it to gallery. I do it in speaker mode for when I don't. When I don't share my screen, so that you guys can can focus on things like that. Now, if you have Copilot turned on, you do have a Copilot button in here where you can ask it a couple of questions. We're actually going to go into this a little bit more in depth tomorrow, but you do have the Copilot button here, and you can ask questions of the system and get answers. So, be aware of that. Now. Speaker 1 00:09:58 One thing that I do make sure that I tell everyone is there is no such thing as a dumb question. I have been working in IT over 25 years. I have heard every question under the book. I have seen the broad spectrum of all things IT people can see. There is a reason I have a great job, and that is because people like you keep my life interesting. And trust me. I love all the questions. I absolutely adore when people ask questions and they want to learn because it just makes my life easier when I get to teach you guys cool stuff in IT. And so that's been one of my favorite parts about being in IT for so long. All right. And any again, any questions you have, please ask them. If I go too fast, please raise your hand and let me know. Sometimes I do go a little bit fast. Speaker 1 00:10:53 And in that case, then you just need to have me slow down. And if you don't see a copilot button up there, it might just be because of how my teams look is set up. We do have it. We do have certain features turned off, but it keeps changing. So if you don't see a copilot button up there right now, don't worry about it. That is actually something on the Crimson side where the transcripts are not fully shared. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. So. Just a quick heads up on that. And there's a something I want to be upfront about with you guys from the start. Coatsen has done everything right. You have a draft AI usage policy. I believe has been shared out. We are going to reference that today throughout this. I may not call it out specifically, but a lot of what I'm training is in that AI policy. So just be aware of that. Speaker 1 00:11:50 And then the specific tools that Coatsen is going to have access to is Microsoft Copilot, which works right inside your existing Microsoft 365 environment. And quick heads up on that part: some of you, I know, prefer using Google for certain things, and that's quite all right. Microsoft Copilot will still work for you; it just won't be in the Google applications. So be aware of that, and we'll actually cover that a little bit more tomorrow about the applications themselves. All right, and then I'm going to briefly show you a few for today for AI basics. I may show you a little bit of other types of AI just so that you can see it. But at this moment, Coatsen is using Microsoft Copilot. The reason I am going to show you others is because within Copilot, you'll have access to other models that are the backbones to those. Is ChatGPT and Claude. Speaker 1 00:12:47 So we'll go through a little bit of that as well. So again, no wrong questions. This is a judgment free zone. If you're wondering it, someone on our team has already thought of it as well. Sorry, my my mouse is a little happy scrolling. Please interrupt me if something is confusing. Stop me or if I'm going too fast. Today you don't need your laptops. There's no hands on. It's going to be all about how AI works. A lot of the hands-on stuff that we're working on is going to come tomorrow. And then another thing we're going to cover is privacy. First, we'll cover what's safe to put in AI tools and what stays out, and we're using your own AI policy to determine that. Okay? Any questions before we get in today? Speaker 1 00:13:47 All right. On today's agenda, we're going to talk about what AI actually is, without the hype. Why it gets things wrong. We're going to talk about prompting, the and that's the part that actually changes everything. We're going to talk about how you're going to protect data, what goes in, what never should go in, and why, where things are going with an AI, and then we'll look at questions and answers towards the end. Again, I did not put the agenda into the Teams meeting specifically because it tries to time me, and I wanted to allow for various times. Even though I do have time on here, this is a guideline, not an absolute. Okay. Now, three things to remember. Speaker 1 00:14:29 And if you leave with only these three, you're ahead of most people that is using AI at work today. Okay, the three things is give it context, check its work, and protect the data. Now, heads up, today is not about turning anyone into an AI expert. It's about understanding what these tools are good at, where they fail, and how to use them safely and effectively at work. So if someone raises the job question and you're wondering like, hey, AI is coming, it's going to take over my job, I will honestly tell you that's not going to happen. There's multiple reasons for that. Okay, now AI tools. I'm going to be very honest with that. Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, Perplexity, these are what we call large language models. Okay. Speaker 1 00:15:26 Think of them as extremely well-read assistants or interns. Okay, they've been trained on enormous amounts of text, books, articles, websites, documentation, and they're really good at predicting what a useful, coherent, even response is going to look like given a question or a prompt. Now, it's not magic. Okay, they don't think the way people do. They can't browse your files on their own. They can't take actions without you asking, and they can make mistakes. Okay, the mental model that I tell people that I find most helpful is think of AI like a very capable intern. It's smart because most interns they're smart or they would not be interns. They're fast, okay, and often impressive. But you gotta review their work before it goes out the door. Speaker 1 00:16:20 And if any of you guys have any of you guys, and show of hands, how many of you have ever been an intern before. Speaker 1 00:16:31 Nobody? Okay, I've been an intern. All right, Julie has been an intern. I made a serious mistake on my first internship. I had three internships in the course of my career. Casey's been an intern, great. Student teachers, yes, 100% fall in this category. When I was an intern, my very first internship was with CBS, working in their news studio. And I accidentally took the CBS van down a road that I should not have done, trying to get to the story with the with the reporter I was with. So we do make mistakes, and we think that we are beyond making mistakes. I tried to get out of a ticket because I was going down the wrong way on a road, and the sheriff's department did not look favorably on that. Speaker 1 00:17:19 I was also 19. So interns make mistakes. We're not perfect. We were not perfect when we were younger interns. We're not perfect when we got into the job market. We often make mistakes. And even my interns now, I watch what they do. I review their work. Often, I don't let them call you guys to troubleshoot or work on things until I know that they are capable of handling it. And that's what you got to treat AI as. Now. I'm gonna strip away the mystique of it. So you're gonna see a lot of buzzwords in here: large language models, generative AI, things like that. It's not. When I first heard these this language, I thought this is gonna be scary. It's not really scary. AI basically learned patterns from enormous amounts of text. That's all it is, and they became really good at generating what is gonna be said next. Speaker 1 00:18:18 So if I say apple, what is the next? Holly, I'm going to call on you. Holly, if I say apple, what does your mind go to next. Speaker 4 00:18:26 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:18:32 If a kid was to come to you and say apple, what is your next thought. Speaker 4 00:18:37 Why is this kid talking to me about apples? Speaker 1 00:18:43 Yes, that would be my next thought. And if they just come to you and say apple. What AI is going to say is something completely different. They're going to be like, "Oh, you want me to give you how an apple is made up?" And the kid might just be asking you for an apple. So they're really good at trying to predict, but that prediction is going to be wrong. And so be aware of that. And it's going to sound very intelligent, and it's going to sound so intelligent you think it's capable, and you take it at its word. Okay. Speaker 1 00:19:16 But there's one, there's a difference between being intellectual and being factual. So think of it as a assistant that's really good at reasoning, but not the source of truth. So what does that mean for Coatsen? It doesn't know you that well. It does not know who you are. It does not know your schools. It does not know your mentors or your calendar or anything else about your foundation unless you give it the information. Okay, so everything it knows about your work, it's gonna it it's the information you gave it. Now, when we're talking about Copilot, Copilot is part of the Microsoft ecosystem. It will have access to your data. Speaker 1 00:20:02 But what is the difference between your data within your organization and what it sees on the internet? I'm not going to ask anybody answer that, but I'm going to tell you the answer to that. The data that's in your systems right now is data that you wrote, your letters that you send out, your files, your presentations, your the different things you write and give to your clients or your schools or the teachers you work with. It's all things you wrote. And so when AI actually starts to understand your organization and it starts reading through all of that, it's going to predict everything that you're going to say next based off the patterns it found out about you within your documents. Okay? Now, still not going to always be factual. You still want to double check everything. Okay? Now, what does that mean for you guys? And this is where AI is really, really good. Speaker 1 00:20:59 It's really good at anywhere the job involves words. Okay, it it's really good at. Sorry, I was about to say it's really good at a first pass at an email to anybody you're sending an email to. It's going to get you 70% of the way there, and I do tell people 70% of the way there, you have to do the other 30%. And the reason for this is you got to make the judgment calls. AI is not good at judgment. Now, it's also really good at summarizing. If you take a long report, and I did a 46 page report not long ago, and you give it to AI and say, "Give me a summary," it's going to summarize. It's really good at summarizing. It's also really good at rewriting. You give it a rough draft of something you already wrote, and you tell it to tighten it up. Speaker 1 00:21:55 Or if you wrote it, and this something I have to do often, if I write something and I'm like, wait, this starting to sound passive aggressive, or this starting to sound too technical, or it's not built for the right audience, I give it to AI and say, here's my audience, rewrite this for my audience, and it will. It's really good at doing that. I will still go back in and re-edit it. Okay. It's also really good at explaining, and this goes back to thinking about your audience. Okay, if you have a coaching style that you have created because you've worked with people long enough, AI doesn't know how that is, but you can feed it that information and say, "Hey, this is how I talk to people. I want you to take this document and explain it in the way that I talk to people," and it's really good at doing that. Okay. Speaker 1 00:22:51 It's also very, very good at organizing. I tell people all the time, AI has OCD on steroids because it's really good at making organization. So if you've got messy notes, or for me, when I drive home, if I'm thinking through things while I'm driving, I have a little recorder, and that's what I'm holding up in my hand. I will record my thoughts that are in my head, upload them, and have AI organize my notes into. Whatever I need it to organize it into. Okay. The very last thing I want to point out, there's a lot more to this, but I wanted to give you guys six items. It's very good at getting you past the blank page. So if you're giving it themes, and everything I have on here on this presentation is examples, but if you're giving it a theme or you're giving it context of something, but you're got writer's block, it's going to get you past. Speaker 1 00:23:50 That writer's block, and it's going to get you started. Okay, so this where AI is very, very good. This where I tell people, hey, this your highest value way of utilizing AI. Okay, now, be aware, the model itself is not a database, and when I'm talking about model, I'm talking about Copilot, or I'm talking about ChatGPT, or Perplexity, or Grok. I can never pronounce that one right. So itself, it's not a database, and it's not going to have all the information unless it's in your systems. Okay, so if I say, "What's Coatsen mileage reimbursement rate for school visits?", if it's never seen your expensory policy, it's got no way to answer this, but it's still going to try to answer, and it's going to sound confident. So be aware, if it doesn't have access, it's going to still try to make things up. Speaker 1 00:24:49 All right. Now, if you say, "Hey, according to this expense policy," and you tell it where that expense policy is, then it's got a source and it's got something you can check the answer against. And then nine times out of ten, it's going to be factual and correct. So make sure you give it a source when you're talking to AI. Okay. Now, AI can sometimes use tools. You can tell it. To To search existing documents that is connected to, and your AI will be connected to your Microsoft 365 files, so it will make it a lot more useful. But be aware, you're still gonna have to check it. It's still like an intern. It's still gonna get things wrong. All right. Now, another thing I want to give you guys a heads up is there is such thing as work AI versus personal AI. Now. Speaker 1 00:25:46 Work AI is Microsoft Copilot that we're setting up for you, and be aware that the one that we're setting up for you is going to have access to the Foundation's databases, digital items, not all databases, but data that's within your SharePoint, Teams, your OneDrive, things like that. Okay, it is a proof to look at that data. Now, a free personal account. For Copilot, which if you're using it, you're not going to be using it on a Foundation computer. But if you've got a free account on that, on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, don't use it for Foundation information. Do not put organizational information in there. Don't put information about your schools, your mentors, people that work. Do not do that because it is not secure. Okay? Speaker 1 00:26:45 And we're going to get into a little bit of this a little bit later, but I do I'm going to reiterate this a couple times. Do not use personal AI for foundation data. Okay. Now the next item, why AI gets things wrong. It's not reliable. It's not reliable. There are some things it does really good, but if it cannot find the data itself, it's going to make up specifics. So be aware of that, and you're going to watch for that when you're doing, when you're going through and doing things like this. All right. Now, it's going to make up specifics. If it cannot find something, it is going to invent an answer, and it's going to sound very, very confident. So if it can't find names and dates, it's going to make up names and dates. If it can't find dollar amounts and statistics, it's going to make up dollar amounts and statistics. Speaker 1 00:27:41 A very prime example is with Kamya, and I use this example every training that Kamya is in because it's it's a really good example. Several weeks ago, I I know two Kamya's, I know y'all's Kamya, and I have a good friend of mine named Kamya. Entirely different things, and so my AI was helping me draft emails and different things like that. And because in my database and in my contacts, I have both Kamya's, it. Got the wrong Kamya out of the system and gave it the wrong last name, and I didn't think about it. I did not see it because I'm human. I'm not perfect, and I sent Kamya an email with the wrong last name, but with the right email address, and it was kind of embarrassing because AI helped me write it, and then even though I went back to check, because it was Kamya that I knew last name I knew. Speaker 1 00:28:36 I didn't realize until after it got pointed out to me that I used the wrong last name, and and that's on me because AI was not right. It had two sources of information, it picked one because I didn't spell out which one, and then it ran with it. And then I didn't notice it because I'm used to talking to both Kamya's, especially given the fact that Kamya is not a name that you hear often within the states. So, just as it's up for you guys, I'm definitely not perfect. So, it will be reliably wrong. Okay. Now, it will agree with your premise. Is this a good email? It's going to say yes. It is a people pleaser, and some AI tools are more people pleasing than others. Okay. So, argue with AI. Speaker 1 00:29:35 I tell people all the time the very last bullet in the in the middle box it it says give it permission to challenge not to validate, ask it to argue with you, ask it to validate your information. Don't say is this a good email? Ask it to look over the email and tell you what can be changed, what needs to be made better. How does the language sound? How does it read? I often will tell AI I need you to write this draft, talking. To someone, not at them, okay. And then, very last block on here, it can't use context it does not have, okay. So if you say if you say to AI, tell everyone about the change, but you don't tell it who the change is, what the change is, who is everybody, when, where, why, it can't. It's not going to know. And we're going to actually, I'm going to actually show you that in practice later today, or later in this meeting. Speaker 1 00:30:35 So bear with me on that. I know that this is a lot of information I'm throwing at you, but we are going to take a break and actually do some hands-on things in a moment. Does not require your computer. It's going to be a talking session. Very one thing that I don't have on this section is, and I'm and I'm going to word it in a certain way, so you guys might laugh at me. AI is very whitewashed. I say that knowing that there's been vast amounts of studies on AI, and it is very whitewashed. So you will need to challenge it in that area. So be aware of that, okay? Now, before we go into the next section on how the on you owning the data, I want to get your thoughts. Speaker 1 00:31:30 Give me, and anyone can go. This is going to be an open conversation. Give me your thoughts and your concerns on AI, and feel free to unmute yourself. And I will call on people. Okay, every single person but Vivian is muted, so. If you're trying to talk, we're not going to hear you. Julie, any thoughts and concerns on AI? What are your biggest concerns. Speaker 5 00:32:10 You know, I just think the accuracy, like you were talking about, is my biggest concern, and and being careful about what it gives me and, Making sure there's a human perspective, not just for factual accuracy, but also kind of bias and ethics and all those kinds of things that I that I just keep in mind that it always is going to take a human eye. Speaker 1 00:32:43 Yeah, 100% agree with you. I'm gonna actually stop sharing my screen for a moment. Kamya, you've actually shared some really good thoughts lately on this. Can you give me some thoughts you have about AI and give it to the entire team. Speaker 6 00:32:57 Well, thank you, Christi, for your use of the word " good." So I'm not sure if my comments are always good, but one of the concerns that keeps popping up in my mind about AI is. Outside of what it can do technologically, all the resources and all the all the powers behind those who are offering these AI products, and the abuses that it seems that they are having of our environment, of just. Speaker 6 00:33:49 Financially, so these are things that it almost seems like, oh, here's a great product, but the producers are very questionable. So, so that's that's what comes to my mind frequently about AI. Speaker 1 00:34:07 Yeah, I 100% I agree with those. And those are some really, really valid points. And I will say there's a lot of good information out there and a lot of misinformation that's going to play into things. So be aware of that. All right. I'm going to call on somebody, Tyler. I know that you've worked a lot with the AI with everything we've been working on. Give me your thoughts and concerns. Speaker 7 00:34:44 I'm not a huge fan of some of the companies that are offering these AI products, especially with the industry not being very regulated. There's a lot of question about how these AI centers prop up in communities and poor communities. By by using these products, sometimes you feel like you're tacitly supporting kind of this infrastructure that's being built out across America that is just. It's it's harming a lot of people. Yeah, this is my my perspective. I I understand the the benefits of using AI in theory. It's just dealing with a lot of these larger AI companies, like Kamya was saying, that they have questionable practices. Speaker 1 00:35:29 Yes, let's actually quickly discuss that. I don't want to spend too much time on it. Um, one of the things I tell my girls, um, and all of you guys know that well, not all of you guys, but a lot of you know that I'm a foster parent. I only foster teenage. Teenagers and non-minor dependents. So when I get kids in and we get into, we do get into a lot of discussion about, you know, you know what is popular news and what's right and what's wrong and you know where stances are. We do a lot of that conversations. One thing I tell my kids is make sure you do your research, make sure that you do a neutral research on all of that. And the reason why I state this is when you're looking at AI companies. Speaker 1 00:36:13 Make sure that you you're just not reading the surface news, and you dig into what are their best practices, what are what are the things that they're looking at, where do they stand on items such as environmental items, and how how and where the data centers are opening up, and is this a good piece for it? If it's not, because I will I will be fair, not all the news we get is accurate. A lot of times, people want that wow factor, and so they're going to write something and omit a lot of of something we should know in favor of shock and awe to get people to actually read what they're working on. Does that make sense? Now, throw a thumbs up if that makes sense to you guys, because I'm going to go in. I'm going to explain why I'm why I'm telling you this. Speaker 1 00:37:12 Okay, no thumbs up or my teams is running really slow. Okay, Tyler's got me. Real quickly on that topic, there is a lot of fake news out there, and there's a lot of things where where we want to take a look at what they're doing. There's a lot of companies out there that should not be opening data centers, and there's a lot of companies that have good environmental things going on. Sorry. One of my girls is with me at the office today, so if you saw a head, that's that's her. But I dig in deeply before I start using a technology, just because the environmental factors are important to me. And I will look to see, okay, what does the surface news say, and then let's dig in deeply and look at the research and the reviews. And so Tyler, what you brought up, and even what Kamya brought up, very valid statements. Speaker 1 00:38:10 And so I'm not going to get into which ones are which, but I do want you guys to go through and look at that. I especially I bring that up because one of the things that I stated earlier is AI is very whitewashed, which is very true, and that has been proven time and time again, especially given where the data is coming from that AI uses for its learning. So, be aware of that. Now, going off of that subject, anyone else have a concern or maybe even excitement about what AI is going to do for the foundation? And I am going to call on somebody in a second if no one volunteers first. All right. Speaker 1 00:39:09 Jody, are you? Is there anything about AI that you're excited or even concerned about. Speaker 8 00:39:15 I think I would second mostly what Tyler and Kamya mentioned. I'm concerned about the environmental impact. I would also tag on what Julie said. You know, sometimes I receive emails and. The way they read, it feels like they're AI generated. Of course, I don't know if they are or not, but I've definitely experienced that, and I don't want anyone to experience that from me. Speaker 1 00:39:49 Yes. And tomorrow, we are actually going to go over that. How to like, we're going to go over a little bit today on that, but we're also going to go over why it's important to let AI only do the first draft. And how to make AI sound like you? We are going to go over that because yes, you're 100% right. I can, in the last two three years that I have deep dived into AI, I can tell you almost with some certainty who used AI to write what and did not change their first draft, and that's more common. Just like you said, Jody, it is something that's pretty. It's pretty common and. Speaker 1 00:40:30 If you if you don't know what to watch for, you're gonna sit there and and look at and be like, I think AI wrote this. And there's also some tools out there that will help you catch AI drafted items. So be aware of that. And if you guys need to know what those tools are, I'll get you a list of them. I I do use a couple, but I can get you a full list later on. So just a heads up. All right. Um. So next part we're going to talk about is you owning the output. Which falls in line with what Jody just said. You know, people using AI to write things, and it's very apparent. Now, for a while, people stated AI wrote it, and to them, that was perfectly fine to say. But heads up, it's it's not a quality control process, and it is about you. If your name is on an email or a report or an update. Speaker 1 00:41:28 Anything you're accountable for creating, you're accountable for it, not what you use to create it. I I went in a very younger me who was a hot head and you know still sometimes a hot head. I relied on a report and didn't factually check the report to make sure it was the correct report, make sure it was the correct data, way before AI, years ago. Okay, and I. I got things wrong, and I blamed it on the report. And my boss at the time, luckily, had caught it all before it went to shareholders, and said, "Hey, you can't do that. You're responsible. Your name is on this report. You're responsible for how it looks." And this is the same thing with AI. So you can't use the the excuse, "AI wrote it." You're accountable for it. If you if you write something and your name is on it, you're accountable for it. Now. Speaker 1 00:42:27 How do we make the output better in the first place? First off, it's an information problem. The AI never had what it needed to fully get you what you need. So fix it. Give it a source. Give it an audience. Give it a history. Give it context. Okay. And then second, verification. Check it before it goes out. Read it the way you'd read a colleague's first draft. If you're writing something in Microsoft Word, I'm going to show you this real quick. By the way, everybody can see my screen, right? Okay. Um, if you're in here and you you wrote a document within Word, you can actually have it, you can dictate to it, but you can also have it read back to you. Um, I did change around my screen, but there is an option up here. Um. Speaker 1 00:43:24 Where you can have it read things back to you, and Microsoft Word does a really good job of reading it back. Speaker 7 00:43:30 Okay. Yeah. So you. Speaker 1 00:43:33 Can have it read it back. Another thing I tell my kiddos is read it out loud. If you write something, read it out loud and see how it sounds to you. And if you if you ask any of my coworkers or anybody that shares an office with me or down the because I have my own office, but anyone who shares a wall with you. I'm constantly talking to myself because I'm reading something out loud, or I'm dictating. Totally separate conversation. And I will see, does this sound right? Okay. Now, one thing I do not do very well is I don't read my PowerPoint here because I have a whole different script that I talk through, and I have everything written out on my script. So sometimes I will miss something here, but I use Quillbot. Speaker 1 00:44:21 Quillbot is a tool that I told you guys about. Quillbot's really good at checking my grammar and similar things like that. It's also a really good AI detection tool. So I will use Quillbot at times to, you know, rewrite something, make sure my grammar's correct, make sure it reads correctly. All right, and that's a tool that you can use. Now, another thing that will help with the output is proper prompting. I'm not going to advance to the next slide, but I'm going to ask you guys. What is prompting? Does anybody know? And feel free to use the raise hand feature. Okay, so prompting is the act of giving AI a words became hard for a moment. Speaker 1 00:45:18 Giving AI the context, what the output should be, what the guardrails should be, and what not to talk about within a draft or presentation or report, things like that. All right. So be aware of that. That is prompting, and we're actually going to talk about prompting in a moment. And I will tell you, and I want to make sure that you guys are very aware of this. Prompting is going to change over time, and the reason why it changes over time is because with when when AI gets updated and new versions come out, it changes how we tell it to do something because it becomes more aware of what you're asking, and it becomes really really good at guessing what you want next. So. Speaker 1 00:46:16 Prompting. What you want to do is you want to give it a role or perspective. So you're you're going to tell it you're writing as Coatsen HR director, or you're writing this as Coatsen Co Coatsen. Sorry, words are hard. Coatsen CFO. Okay, and then you're going to tell it review this a principal would, review this a teacher. Review this as a mentor. You're going to give it perspective, so that's your first thing. Roll a perspective. Then you're going to give it the task. Okay, you're going to tell it. Do you do you want it to summarize, rewrite, draft, compare, identify, research? Research is a really good one. And that's your that's the task you're going to give it. Then you're going to give it context. Who is the audience? Okay. What happened before? Speaker 1 00:47:15 What must not change in this? You're gonna give it a document or a source or a website, anything along those lines. You'll give it a file folder as well, and then you can give it the format. And the format can be under 150 words or three short paragraphs. You can tell it I need a table, or write this in plain language for someone who's not in the meeting, or write this for a student. So you don't need to tell it it's the greatest expert in the world. Speaker 1 00:47:45 Don't flatter it, because that's not going to help anything. Trust me. But you are going to have it establish perspective. You are going to give it the context of what you know that AI does not know. You're going to tell you tell it what you need by giving it the task. And now format's not always as important, but it's important depending on what you're trying to write. So be aware of that. And Within prompting, the most important thing to remember for prompting is context. You want to give it context because the more context you give it, the better it's going to be, and the better your outputs from it is going to be. All right. Be very specific about what you want, as specific as you can be. Speaker 1 00:48:41 Now, if I say write a two-page or write a two-paragraph thank you email to a teacher who opened her classroom for observation, keep it warm and under 100 words. That's a good prompt. That's giving you a little bit of everything. It's given full context. You're you're giving it what the format's going to be. But if you say if you just say write an email, it's not going to know what you're talking about. It's not going to know who. It's not going to know the what, the where, the why, the how. It's not going to know any of that. Okay. Now, I'm going to give you some prompts. So this is going to be a demo, and we're going to talk with context. What do I mean by what happened before? If. Speaker 1 00:49:37 You're having the system write a draft of an email, and let's say it's a response to an email. What happened before might be the thread of the email that that already came through, so that has that context. It could also be if you're writing a report of something that happened. Let's say you're working with a teacher. Give it the context of of the things that you know about the teacher. How they like to be talked to, or maybe conversations you've had in the past that apply to that report. Does that help? Okay, I got a thumbs up, so good. So we're going to go into a live demo, and we're going to talk about what's weak versus strong. Now, this is where I need everybody to participate. I will call on you if you don't participate. Speaker 1 00:50:35 We are not doing this in a tool. We're actually going to do this as a live conversation. So I know what you guys do. I have a good understanding of how you guys do the things you do, but I don't know you as well as I should. So I want you guys to give prompts and ideas, and we're recording those these on the recording of different ideas for prompts. So things that you may ask it to do. And then I we're going to take a look at that prompt, and we're going to say, is this a weak prompt or is it a strong prompt? Okay. So I want to volunteer someone that can go first, and I will pick volunteers. Any volunteers? Speaker 6 00:51:27 Hi, Christi. Hi. I I just wanted to ask a general question before we get on to this part. Does everybody is Copilot put in for everybody? Does everybody have the Copilot on their computers? Speaker 1 00:51:46 So I am not logged into VPN because of the issue that we had yesterday. So I, my last understanding from the team is everyone has a license against them, but I will double check that once this meeting is over. And if if they don't, I will make sure it gets assigned. But the last I heard from the team is everyone got assigned a license. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. And just a heads up for you guys: once the license has been assigned to you, it's automatically installed. We don't have to push anything. Microsoft automatically just unlocks Copilot because it's already installed on all your computers. Speaker 1 00:52:26 Julie, you are my first volunteer. Give me an example of a prompt that you would like to use. Speaker 5 00:52:33 Oh, I have to come. I thought I was just analyzing weak or strong. Okay. Um, a prompt I would like to use. Do you want me to like design a prompt or? Speaker 1 00:52:46 Yes. If you let's do let's do it this way so that everybody can uh so everybody can understand how how to think about this. Um. If you were to bring up AI right now and to have it help you with something that's on your mind that you're working on today, how would you ask it to do that job for you right now? Okay, Speaker 5 00:53:08 Can you go back to the previous slide to help? Speaker 1 00:53:11 Yes, yes, ma'am. And sorry, I am well — not sorry. I am Southern, so if I say yes, sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, please understand I'm Southern. Speaker 5 00:53:21 I'm Feeling very old when you call me ma'am, but I think I've reached that age anyway. So ma'am is just fine. Speaker 1 00:53:26 Okay, good. I I was taken back the first time one of my kids called me auntie because I thought I was I was getting up there in age, but that's a southern thing. All right. So Julie, give me a prompt. Speaker 5 00:53:39 Sure. So as the executive director. Okay. Right. Speaker 5 00:53:50 Two paragraph summary of our mentor academy objectives from our slide deck. So I'm gonna the context is going to be the slide deck of the five day academy, so that mentors have a reminder of what we covered. Speaker 1 00:54:17 Okay. Now, the rest of you guys can join in. What do you think about Julie's prompt? And now I get to call on people. Gia, I have never heard from you. So, what is your thoughts on Julie's prompt. Speaker 2 00:54:40 I think she included the task. I. Think she was missing the format that she would like to get the response in, and her role being the person that, like the chief executive or the sorry, the executive director of the organization. So as the. Speaker 2 00:55:17 Senior Executive Director, I want to ask the for the mentor meeting minutes or the what happened during that meeting. Those are my thoughts. Speaker 1 00:55:30 Okay, I like that. Anyone else? Okay, I am going to give you my. My response, Julie, I'd give you a solid eight out of ten. Now, what Julie did well, as the executive director, write a two-paragraph summary, and the context and source was from our slide deck. And then you're going to give it that slide deck, which Julie mentioned. And then the audience and purpose, because I did write this as Julie was talking, so that mentors have a reminder of what we covered. Speaker 1 00:56:15 I believe that was your exact words, Julie. So all of those elements they align really closely with the framework that I gave you guys. And I will be, I will be very honest. Julie's prompt was better than what most people start with. So it had already contained enough data and enough context that if Copilot, if she was to give that Cop. If she was to give that to Copilot right now, it's going to produce something useful on the first pass, rather than give you a generic answer. Maybe to make it stronger, I would write something like: Act as the executive director of Coatsen. Use the attached five-day mentor academy slide deck to write a two-paragraph summary for mentors who attended the academy. And then I tell it to focus on key objectives. Speaker 1 00:57:12 Expected outcomes, major themes covered, and then keep the tone warm and encouraging, and limit the response to 150 words. Because I, and the reason why I would do this is I want to define the exact source more clearly. Okay, and then I would specify what information matters the most. And I did give it a word limit, but honestly, three short paragraphs or a table or something along those lines. But any ambiguity that Julie had, which she didn't have much, like she was really good and on the nose. But she can I get a prize, Speaker 5 00:57:51 Christi? Speaker 1 00:57:52 You get my. I wish I had more chocolate to send to you guys, but I'm out of chocolate. You get my appreciation for being amazing. Is that will that work for right now? Speaker 5 00:58:03 Yes, thank you. Speaker 1 00:58:04 You're welcome. Um, so really amazing work. A solid eight out of ten, and I don't usually give it that high because no one does it that well. I'm proud of you. Um, Speaker 6 00:58:18 Can I ask a question, please? Yes, sir. So, in on the page that we see on the screen right now, in number three context, there is a question that says, " What happened before?" Yes. So let's say we have to give. What does that exactly mean? I mean, for instance, in what Julie described, what could she have said about what happened before? Speaker 1 00:58:51 So the what happened before in Julie's context is going to be the slide deck that she's adding, because that's adding that context, because the slide deck. It points to something that already happened. Think of it as what happened before, giving AI the same background you'd give a new coworker. So that way, what it does is allow AI to understand the conversation. And the what happened before in this instance is going to be the slide deck. Does that help? Speaker 1 00:59:35 Okay, perfect. One other thing I would probably add to that is it's not just about the document; it's also about the story behind the document. And so, if you're like asking AI to write a response to a mentor, what happened before often matters just as much as the task itself. And so, so maybe giving a little bit more context to. The slide deck, because what what Julie said was as a reminder of what we covered. So maybe one additional thing would be to give a little bit more understanding of what was covered and when. So, and that's a really good question, Kamya. Speaker 6 01:00:24 We ask one more question. Speaker 1 01:00:26 Yes, sir. No, I love the questions. Speaker 6 01:00:28 So, right. So, on in four for format. Obviously, writing and words and all that is is well understood. But would then AI could we ask the AI to, as you mentioned here, so the format can be a table or a pie chart or a graph or anything like that, right? Yes. Speaker 1 01:00:56 Okay. Yes, and it does really well with graphs and and pie charts too. By the way. So, especially in Excel, but that's something we'll go through tomorrow. But no, that's a good question. Steve, I haven't called on you today. Do you have a prompt for us. Speaker 9 01:01:16 Hi, Christi. I was just waiting on your call. So. Let's see. I am a chief financial officer from the Coats Foundation for the Art of Teaching. I have a set of graphs from the Foundation Financial Officers Group. Can you please provide me a summary of these graphs that are relevant to executives and board members? Speaker 9 01:02:01 For our foundation and others, please keep it short, in no more than two paragraphs, and please use bullet points and keep everything as concise as possible. That's it. Speaker 1 01:02:21 Okay, good. Let's get everybody's viewpoint on it. Speaker 1 01:02:30 Anybody want to take a stab? Speaker 9 01:02:32 Take me, Please. Speaker 1 01:02:34 Now you're all on mute, but Chia and Vivian. Speaker 10 01:02:46 Christi. Yes. Yeah. I was actually following Steve's prompt, and I I wouldn't say as far as, My opinion goes. I think he covered all four, you know, that you have on the screen. Yes, just me. Speaker 1 01:03:05 So yeah. Um. So I would give this a solid nine out of ten. Um. And I'll be honest, it covers everything. Uh. Steve did really well with the role and perspective. He said CFO. Uh. He did really good about source and context. He uh was giving a specific set of graphs. And then he did asked it to provide a summary, which is the task. He gave it an audience, and the audience was executives and board members. And then he gave it the format. Now, I don't cover this as often in the four parts of prompting, but the one thing that I would improve, and it's just one thing. Speaker 1 01:03:50 And it kind of all goes hand in hand, so it's going to sound like multiple things, but it's it all goes hand in hand. And so I say one thing: be specific about what matters in the graphs. And I say this as a chief myself and someone who's constantly making board reports and executive reports. One thing I've learned is you want to be as specific as possible about what matters the most. And where AI should draw conclusions from, okay? And that's something that I just learned, and it's been ingrained in me. Anzor is a really good teacher of of what I should do in front of a board, but just be aware of that context within the what you're giving. So the. Speaker 1 01:04:41 So that AI knows what to focus on, because if not, AI sometimes tends to try to focus on something it shouldn't. And so, if you just give a generalized graphs statement or generalized table or something along those lines, it'll it'll either try to cover everything or it might not focus on the right things. And so, be specific about what matters. Does that make sense. Speaker 9 01:05:04 Makes sense. Speaker 1 01:05:07 Thank you. And. Steve, you — I don't have prizes for you either, but that was amazing. I — I have not. You, I can tell you guys what you guys do, because you guys are really good at this part. It's solid. Anyone else want to take a stab at any part of this. Speaker 11 01:05:30 Christi, this is Jolie. I just have a quick question, just based on the last two. Prompts that were given by by Julie and by Steve, and then the question that's included in number three context, which is what must not change. Yes. I didn't. I don't think that I heard that covered in either of their prompts, and I'm just wondering what this is referring to or how you would have included this question in their prompts. Yeah. Just. Yeah. Speaker 11 01:06:08 What do we need to include that must not change, or how important is this to keep in the prompt? Speaker 1 01:06:14 So it's not it's important, but it's not important in every prompt. Hopefully that makes sense. If you're looking, so maybe in these two prompts, and I'll use Steve's as an example. Sometimes I will tell AI, don't make up anything you're not sure of. So if anything, if if you're giving over. Speaker 11 01:06:37 Might That be good in any prompt you ever? Speaker 1 01:06:41 It would be. I actually have that written in my instructions. My instructions that AI looks at every time it starts up is don't make up anything you're not sure of. And so sometimes you might want to reiterate that, and some sometimes you put it in every prompt. It depends on what all it's looking at. Okay, thank. And that is a good question. Speaker 9 01:07:07 Yeah, I think Julie. Like, what I found is if you are not specific in where your information is coming from, and it's more research based. Like, please give me um. Please give me information on the top, you know, fifty private nonprofits based on assets. Assets, not giving it a whole lot of context and having it do the research itself, but you're telling it, these don't change something specific. Usually, again, it's research based. It's probably not going to work best based on the the example I just gave off the top of my head, but really, it's you're telling it not to deviate from the sources that. Speaker 9 01:08:03 You've probably given it or the range that you're asking it to look at. Speaker 11 01:08:08 That makes sense. Speaker 5 01:08:10 Yeah. I'm wondering too if something like a like foundational perspective might be there too. Like depending on what you're asking for, but like if we were researching reading, there could be lots of things on science of reading that comes up, and maybe we want to. Say you know, stick to an active view of reading because that's our like what we are kind of working around. So since there are different like philosophical perspectives and research perspectives, maybe like we're not going to change that. This is this is what we've agreed on is kind of our overall view. I'm wondering if that might be part of that too. Speaker 1 01:08:57 Yeah, yeah. I love this discussion. You guys are amazing. I'm just gonna say that you guys are amazing. Um, now where I I do want to go to the next section. We did spend a little bit time more time on prompting than I anticipated. However, the reason why I was happy about that is because you guys, like I said, are amazing. You guys brought up some good statements, and I am going to provide a little bit of context when I email you guys later this afternoon with the summary of this and and all the prompts and things that we did. But I do want to go into the next topic, which is protecting data, because it's very important we discuss this. So real quickly on protecting data, before you paste anything, and especially if you're copying pasting things into. Speaker 1 01:09:53 Copilot, or any other tool, is this an improved AI tool? Sometimes, if we are logged into our own personal Claude or we're logged into our own personal ChatGPT, the screens look very similar to Copilot and vice versa. So make sure that when you're pasting anything in, make sure you're pasting it into the right tool. And then, is this type of information permitted under CodeSon's AI acceptable use policy? And if you're not clear on that, ask. Stop and ask your AI team. Okay, it's a really important, really important habit. It's going to protect us, and when I say us, I'm talking about the foundation, not Crimson. It's going to protect us. It's going to protect your work. It's going to protect your students, your teachers, all of that. Okay. Now, what's not allowed to be in an unapproved or personal AI account? Speaker 1 01:10:52 Student records or student work with names on it, observation notes and fellow evaluations, personnel and HR information. Please don't ever paste in financial records or any financial data or passwords or credentials. Ignore API keys. I, I, you guys won't use API keys as often, but if any of you get to that level, please remember API keys don't get pasted into. Into AI, but for those of you guys who don't know what AI API keys are, just ignore that statement. Do not paste in any confidential, legal, or contract terms, and anything that the foundation deems as sensitive. Okay, does that make sense? And this is we're talking about personal AI accounts, not. Speaker 1 01:11:52 Because we're going to get into a little bit more with what Copilot that is enterprise. Okay, if you're ever unclear about that, please feel free to email me, email anybody on your AI team. Okay, now for Microsoft Copilot, anything that you paste into Microsoft Copilot will stay in your tenancy. And when I say tendency, it's your foundation's a Microsoft account. It doesn't go outside of your Microsoft AI account. It's a very secure system. Microsoft does not use anything that you put in there to train its systems, because it respects the permissions you already have in play. And we are going to go deeper on this tomorrow. So if there's anything unclear about that, we are going to go much deeper in this tomorrow. Speaker 1 01:12:50 Now, heads up: if you have, and I'm going to just use two people not knowing your full job functions, but if Julie does not have access to something in HR data, Copilot is not going to give her that data because it's going to see Julie cannot access it. I will not tell it to her. Okay. Now, and the reason why that's important is because what applies in this case is. Any existing confidentiality, privacy, or data handling rules—it's already set. It will not turn those policies off. Okay, so if you would not normally send a document to someone, having AI summarize it does not make it shareable. Be aware of that. Okay, now I will say this: I've had clients have people save confidential information in the wrong place. Speaker 1 01:13:48 And made it public shareable. Crimson did that a long time ago by accident. Someone a long time ago, not me, not Anzor, saved some employee data on some former employees and what their salaries were, which thankfully was old, old data, to a public location within Teams. But it was so deep that no one ever saw it, and AI did unearth it. And we were able to delete that, and it would be fine. And I've had other clients similar issues happen, so be aware of that. Now, there's a 10 documents test. If AI can see 10 documents, but the person receiving your reply should only see three, you yourself are still responsible for what you send. Okay? Because AI, if if AI doesn't know that the person that you're sending to. Speaker 1 01:14:44 Is not supposed to see that, but you give that data to that person, then that's a problem. So you gotta check everything, all right? Enterprise data is different; it is more secure, but it is not a free pass. Okay. Now, where this going, this where AI is going in the future. I cannot give you dramatic predictions. But I can tell you, these are the changes in AI that's already under the way. Okay, AI has grown leaps and bounds in the last two years, just two years alone. Three years ago, I was building applications that was still taking me 600 hours to build an application using AI. It cut down drastically on my work, but it still took a lot of hours. Now I can do that in under 100 hours. The same exact job. Speaker 1 01:15:42 Where this is going in the future, assistants are going to become agents. Already, it's out there. There is a tool. I wrote a tool. There's other tools in play where it, the system automatically checks your email and it's if it sees I send an email to ComEd but ComEd had not responded to me in three days, it's going to automatically send a follow up email. It's already doing that. Now, do we have it turned on for you guys? No. Because it requires more money, but the more AI can do, the more oversight is going to matter. Okay, does not mean there's less accountability. You're still in the hook for things that you send out from your outbox. AI will move into your tools, and it's already there. Copilot's already in Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel. Speaker 1 01:16:36 Okay, so be aware of that, and we are actually going over all those tools tomorrow. And here's the reason why none of your jobs will ever go extinct. Your judgment is more and more valuable as AI spreads. Knowing what good looks like, AI cannot tell you that, but you will know when something is good. You are going to notice when something sounds wrong. You are going to recognize when information is missing. Okay. That's your judgment call, and that's something AI will not replace for you. So be aware of that. AI is very good at first drafts, but it's very bad at being accountable. Very bad at being accountable. So it will reduce time on the blank pages you have in front of you, and it will save time on reorganizing things. Speaker 1 01:17:34 It's going to give you back time for the part of the job that matters the most to you, and the experience and the relationships that you're building with your clients. Okay, so that's more time with your mentors, your fellows, your principals, all of that. So where AI is going to benefit you is cutting down on the repetitive work to give you more time doing what matters within your organization. Okay, so be aware of that now. Speaker 1 01:18:04 The next thing I'm going to say is think like a supervisor and not a user. A good supervisor and a good AI user do the same six things. One, gives clear instructions. Two, provides the information needed, the context. Three, reviews the work. Four, you're going to correct mistakes. Five, you're going to protect confidential information. And number six, you're going to know when to escalate. You're not hand. Overwork. You're supervising the work AI does, and a good supervisor, a good leader, knows when to hand off the things that are repetitive, and knows how to judge the outcome of that. Okay. All right. At this point, we're going to get into questions and answers. I'm going to look and see because I haven't been paying attention to questions and answers, but you guys have been really good to talk. Speaker 1 01:19:00 We're going to talk. We're going to talk about any questions and answers you guys may have, and we'll go from there. Now, if the room is quiet, I am going to ask you, what is one task in your week you would likely never do manually again? Okay, so be aware of that. Let me go into the questions and answers. It's a little slow. The win, the wheel is spinning. All right, no one posted anything, so. Any of you guys have any questions, Speaker 4 01:19:32 Holly? Just about how questions, prompts, etc., are stored within Copilot, and who has access to those prompts? Like for mine, for example, presumably you had said you know that. That they are, everything is stored within Microsoft. But who on Coten, Crimson, Microsoft has access to that information? Speaker 1 01:20:12 Nobody. I'm going to be very honest. I, as the person with the highest access level in Microsoft for your account, cannot access any chats. I cannot see what you ask it. I cannot go in and do anything with your chat. I cannot make judgment calls on how Holly is utilizing AI based on your chat records. All I can see is: Are you using AI and where you use it at? Meaning, are you using it in the chat, or are you using it in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, things like that? Speaker 1 01:20:52 That is all I can see. I cannot see the quality. I cannot see the topic, the subject, none of that. Thank you. You're welcome. And Microsoft is not intending on ever releasing that information. And I will tell you, there is no AI tool out there under businesses or enterprise accounts with any of the tools that allows me to see that. The only way I could ever see that for a client is if they have what we call a keylogger attached, and Crimson does not employ keyloggers at any of our clients. So, just a heads up for you guys. And that's a really good question, Holly. No one ever asks me that question. I've been waiting on that question for a long time. Anyone else? Speaker 6 01:21:51 Christi, I have a question. Yes, sir. You mentioned a few times what we are going to do tomorrow. So obviously today was gave us a great overview of how to interact with AI, how to use it, and all that. But specifically, would tomorrow's training show actual examples of carrying out all this we talked about? It's almost like. Yes. Speaker 6 01:22:22 You know when when you're trying to teach someone how to ride a bike, you can say, " Okay, get on a bike, put on a helmet, you know, make sure to do this, to do that." But actually, having them get on a bike and pushing them forward and seeing them pedal is the next step, which we'll probably get into tomorrow, right? Speaker 1 01:22:44 Yes. So I'm going to give you guys your assignment and tell you about tomorrow right now, and. Thank you, Kamya. That's a great segue into it. So for today, even though I said this week, for today, for tonight, take something you've already wrote that contains no sensitive information, and ask AI to make it either shorter or clearer, more direct, and compare what it wrote versus what you wrote. Okay? I don't want you to hand over the work, but you're supervising it. Speaker 1 01:23:16 Now for tomorrow, we're going to go over your AI acceptable use policy principle by principle. We are going to do Copilot in Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel. Okay. I do want to ask: Do you guys want to go over it in PowerPoint as well? Show of hands if you use PowerPoint and you want to go over Copilot in PowerPoint. Speaker 1 01:23:43 Okay, no one that that works. I will eliminate PowerPoint. Ignore the Claude, but we are going to work on which tool to reach for and when, and that's actually a part of Copilot because you have Claude and ChatGPT in Copilot. So we're going to talk through that, and we are going to be hands-on tomorrow. So be aware of that. So make sure I know you guys are all on your laptops, but I am going to say bring your laptop ready to work. And tomorrow is going to be definitely hands on. So we're gonna we're gonna watch you pedal, to use Kamiya's phrase. I like that one. And I also want to ask you this: if you guys have any questions or comments about the things you learned today, send them to me via email. Speaker 1 01:24:38 And if you don't know my email address, I'm just gonna make it easy for you. It's Chris at crimsonit.com, or Christi. If you know how to spell Christi, my Christi version correctly. My mom had had to make it weird. Not weird. It's it's her favorite poet is an Irish poet, and his name is Christi Brown. So she named me after him. Bring me any questions you guys may have. Also. One more thing, I'm going to ask of you before tomorrow. Send me over anything that doesn't have confidential information. Maybe a document that you would like us to use as an example, or anything along those lines. Just make sure there's no confidential information in it. All right. Any questions about your assignment and what we're going to go through tomorrow? Speaker 12 01:25:38 I guess I just have a general question. Like, is there like a kill switch or just any way that we can like opt out of Copilot integration? Like, what if I just wanted to turn it off completely? Speaker 1 01:25:52 That is a question that I will ask your AI team to to talk through with me because we can do that. So. Great. Speaker 1 01:26:10 Awesome, Julie. Thank you for your statement in the chat. I do appreciate that. I am going to send you guys out a summary of everything we talked about. Some of the context I gave you was not on the slides, and so I'm going to send that information as well. I'm also in the next week going to send over some one pages and cheat sheets for you. But I kind of am going to ask that tomorrow when you guys give me examples. Let I'm going to rewrite them for you guys because. The foundation is not like other clients that we have, so the cheat sheets I've made and the prompt examples I've made are for are generalized towards most of our clients. You guys are an entirely different breed, very cool breed, but very different breed. So send me over examples and things that you guys do. Again, no confidential information, just so that I can make those better. All right, guys, you have been amazing. Speaker 1 01:27:10 I, you guys gave a lot of value and I appreciate that. Thank you very, very much, and I will see you tomorrow at nine o'clock. And I promise tomorrow I'm going back on caffeine, so my words might not be as screwed up. Okay, thank you guys.
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09-02 Meeting: Ability First Camp Network Repair, Software Migration to CareLogic, and Accessible User Instructions
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- > Date: 2026-09-02 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Ability First Camp Updates - A team of Kevin, Robert, Vana, and Christi visited the camp on 2026-09-01. - The on-site team had already completed the scheduled tasks for that day. - A new cable line is required for the amphitheater switch due to a damaged cable between the health center and the amphitheater; the amphitheater network remains down. - To address Wi‑Fi dead spots, Kevin will attempt to increase the power of the outdoor Access Points (APs). - Connectivity issues primarily affect users with older phones. - The camp will shift from seasonal to year‑round (365‑day) operation. - Staffing expansion is planned for 2027. ### Operational Changes and Software Updates - The organization is prioritizing efficiency improvements and departmental operations analysis. - Many current software applications will be replaced. - There is a potential plan to migrate most programs to CareLogic. - The organization is currently in budget season. ### Improving User Instructions for Accessibility - There is a need to create very detailed, easy‑to‑understand equipment instructions (e.g., the Owl at the Long Beach location). - Instructions must be written with accessibility in mind for users with disabilities, including autism and Down syndrome, avoiding technical jargon. - The process will start by redesigning instructions for the Owl at Long Beach and the conference room at Ability First headquarters. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Rerun the cable line to restore the amphitheater switch and network. - [ ] Kevin to assess and, if viable, increase outdoor AP power to reduce Wi‑Fi dead spots, noting impacts on older devices. - [ ] Redesign accessible instructions for the Owl at Long Beach (plain language, step‑by‑step, visual cues). - [ ] Redesign accessible instructions for the conference room at Ability First HQ (plain language, step‑by‑step, visual cues). ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The timeline for a possible transition to CareLogic was mentioned but not confirmed; no defined steps for evaluation or implementation were discussed. > 2. Staffing expansion in 2027 was noted, but specifics (roles, headcount, recruitment process) were not provided. > 3. Automation needs were referenced, yet there were no action items or clarity on which processes to automate or who would lead the initiative.
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- Speaker 1 00:06:08 They're trying to decide who they're who's going to talk. So. Speaker 1 00:07:23 Good morning. With Ability First, we got quite a few things in the mix. Just a heads up, Kevin, myself, Robert, and Vana went to went on a field trip yesterday. We started out going to camp. Did a walkthrough of camp. Found out that the team at camp had already done all the things we needed to do that day when we went on site. So we did a walkthrough. Becker, the switches in. The switch in the amphitheater is going to need a new line run. They had just run that line, and I guess something happened to the cable between the health center and amphitheater. So they're going to have to rerun that line and fix that issue. So you'll still see amphitheater down. Speaker 1 00:08:14 We worked on the dead spots and come to the conclusion. Kevin's going to work on pushing, seeing if he can push some more power through the outdoor APs. But other than that, the people that seem to be having issues are people with older phones, where it's not picking up when they're walking across the property. So just adds up on that. So there's a lot of things going on at camp over the next year that's going to incite a lot of changes. Camp is going from seasonal to 365 days a year, even during snow season. So we are going to be actively in 2027 looking at expanding staffing there, but it's not going to be expanded by much. And then we are digging deep into how each department runs, and IT is going to have a big part in how we're going to look at different things. So. Speaker 1 00:09:10 We're going to start working with efficiencies, and we're changing out a lot of the software that's currently in play. We're going to be going to possibly CareLogic for most programs, so there's going to be those changes that are happening within everything. Other than that, Ability First is pretty stable, other than the fact that it's budget season. So, if we yes. Speaker 1 00:10:09 Yeah . Yes. Yeah. Yes. There is also a need that, and sorry guys, I have had no coffee today, and I was at Ability First offices until nine o'clock last night, talking to Mashawn, working through some some issues that are going on. We're going to start making sure that. Any of the items we put in play, and I'm going to use the example of the Owl from Long Beach, that we have very detailed and easy to understand instructions because a lot of the people that come through Ability First, they have disabilities, and so sometimes some texts will write instructions, you know, based on the language that they understand and know, which is completely understandable. Speaker 1 00:10:52 But we've got to think in the shoes of the people that are coming into Ability First. A lot of the kids coming through are special needs, autistic, or Down syndrome and things like that. So we've got to think through and work with the team and the staff at each location to make sure that the instructions are understood and you know that it works for the team that is there. So we're going to be starting with the Owl at Long Beach. And the conference room at Ability First headquarters try to redesign those instructions to meet the needs of the the kids coming through and the young adults coming through, just to make things a little bit more understanding. Speaker 1 00:20:24 Sounds Like a great need for automation.
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09-02 Reasoning Note: Delivering Adapto Inbox Beta Amid Enterprise IT Demands and Major Personal Commitments
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-  ## Core Synopsis The operational lead, Chris Brown, is navigating a complex personal and professional landscape, marked by a commitment to fostering children and a drive to innovate with AI. The professional focus is on delivering a beta-ready AI product, Adapto Inbox, while managing multiple client IT budgets and a major data migration. This work is juxtaposed against a significant personal event: becoming a grandmother and taking in an 18th child, requiring a brief maternity leave. This duality demonstrates a capacity for extreme ownership and execution under pressure, but it also introduces a clear dependency on established systems and "minions" to maintain cadence. The core tension is between this expanding personal responsibility and the unforgiving demands of enterprise IT, where a single outage (like the recent Microsoft/Cogent incident) can bring work to a standstill. Her success relies on her ability to compartmentalize and aggressively prioritize, using tools like brain dumps and AI to process and delegate tasks. ## Professional & Personal Wins ### Product Development: Adapto Inbox - **Status**: The product, an AI tool for scanning and categorizing email inboxes, has successfully reached beta testing. - **Architecture**: Two versions exist: 1. A white-labeled version that can be deployed into a client's Microsoft tenancy using Azure. This is in active beta with positive client feedback. 2. A cloud-based version for personal Google and Microsoft accounts. - **Blockers**: Full enterprise rollout is contingent on completing and passing compliance tests (SOC 2) for validation by Microsoft and Google. Beta testers are still being sought and will receive lifetime free access. ### Client & Operational Management - **Budgeting**: The CIO demonstrates significant fiscal discipline across multiple client budgets: - **Client 1**: Reduced the IT budget by $130,000 under the previous CIO and proposed an additional $300,000 reduction by eliminating duplication. - **Client 2**: Pushing for an 8% budget _increase_ to accommodate necessary projects and an AI-focused strategy, countering their "super lean" approach. - **Client 3**: Maintaining an even budget by leveraging a pre-allocated $100,000 buffer for "unnamed projects" to fund new AI initiatives. - **Migrations**: A Google to Microsoft migration is set to begin shortly, marking the 16th such project executed in the last three years. - **Incident Response**: A recent dual outage involving Microsoft services (including Intune) and a Cogent line in downtown LA severely impacted operations, forcing a reliance on mobile devices and alternate communication channels like WhatsApp, which is standard for communicating with overseas staff. ### Personal Milestones - **Family Expansion**: The CIO is becoming a grandmother in four weeks. Concurrently, she is taking in another child, bringing the total to 17 fostered children and one full adoption. An adult adoption for a long-term non-minor dependent is also being considered. - **Maternity Leave**: A short maternity leave (approximately two weeks) will be taken to support the new mother and baby, as foster parents are entitled to this leave. ## Action Items **@Chris Brown**: - [ ] Complete the SOC 2 compliance test for Adapto Inbox - [TBD] - [ ] Secure validation for Adapto Inbox from Microsoft and Google - [TBD] - [ ] Initiate the Google to Microsoft migration project - [TBD] - [ ] Finalize the baby wish list on Amazon - [Tonight]
- Date
- Sep 2, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:15 Hi. Speaker 2 00:06:46 I Do. Sorry, life of a parent as well. I need minions for my parenting chores too. Wait, I'm supposed to be introducing myself. I'm sorry. Hi, Mike. My name is Chris Brown. I work for Crimson IT as a CIO, but I also have clients underneath me that I work as their virtual CIO for. In addition to my other CIO responsibilities, and I do a lot with AI as well. Speaker 1 00:07:20 So, yeah, yes. Speaker 2 00:09:47 So let me throw in a double for you. Not only did we get hit with Microsoft, we also got hit with the Cogent downtown LA line issue, and so did half of our clients in the downtown LA area. So not only did we have Microsoft, but we had no internet. So we phone calls and Teams on our phones. Speaker 1 00:10:15 Uh huh. Speaker 2 00:12:35 Yeah, our P1 channel was off the hook with images of the Outlook problems, the Microsoft problems, because Intune was down for a bit for us, and we were we're working in that. And then the Cogent issue wasn't helping either, because no one can access any of our tenants unless they're logged into the Office VPN, and with Office being down, work was almost at a standstill. So, but to answer your question, WhatsApp because a lot of our about half of our staff is overseas, WhatsApp is actually a really good way we use to communicate. Speaker 1 00:13:14 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:14:10 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:58:51 Yeah, so I do that for multiple clients, not just the ones I handle. There's a few other clients that I've been involved with for several years that they do their complete IT budget as well. So with one budget, I'm being asked. I've been asked to lower since I've been involved with this organization. I lowered it. Let me let me start by saying I ended the fiscal year. Speaker 2 00:59:22 130,000 under budget from the previous CIO. I lowered their budget an additional 300,000 when I put in their budget for approvals, just because cleaning up duplication and a lot of you know finding a lot of skeletons and closets and things like that. On another budget, we're already running super lean, and I'm having to. Remind them that there are several projects that they need to get done. That has to be in the budget, and they want to go AI. That one's probably we're probably seeing an eight percent increase from the previous year budget just for adding the AI portion alone. Not talk, not including the construction projects that we have going on. So with that one, it's a a little bit. I'm I'm pushing to increase the budget a little bit more because they need more money. They run super lean. Speaker 2 01:00:16 And then the third one off the top of my head, because there's still more out there. But the third one, they've asked to go even, but they have a bunch of AI projects in the hoop. So luckily last year when I did their budget, I added an extra hundred thousand dollars for additional unnamed projects, and it's enough of a buffer that we can go even this year for that one. So. Speaker 1 01:05:49 Hello. Speaker 2 01:17:38 Sure. So on the win side, I got Adapto inbox into beta test mode, which was something one of my goals to have done by this month. So I'm waiting on some validations to come from Microsoft and Google, and I've got to do a compliance test, have that done. So that's that's going to cost some money, but not too big of a cost for me. And I may go ahead and get SOC. Oh, I'm sorry. My brain. I'm still. I haven't had coffee today, and I had a 14-hour day yesterday. So, Adapto Inbox is a product that I made based on some feedback from clients where they wish that they had an AI tool that would scan their inbox, categorize things, even do follow-ups to emails, and just a few other additional things to that effect, and. Speaker 2 01:18:37 So I have been working on building it out since October of last year. Got into beta in two different ways. So I have it set where I can white label it and put into a client's Microsoft tenancy, using Azure and an AI Foundry to work through it. And that one is in pure beta test and already really liked by the clients that are using that version. And then I have a smaller version that is website, cloud-based, and personal Google accounts and Microsoft accounts can connect to it, and some people can use it on their personal accounts. So anyone that's beta testing it for me right now will get it free for the lifetime of their use, but to be able to roll it out to the the cloud version that I have. Speaker 2 01:19:33 To roll it out to enterprise Microsoft and enterprise Google, I got to get the scans, the SOC that I'm also adding SOC two to it, get that completed and validated by Microsoft and Google. So that's both wins and challenges, I think. So, but if anybody wants to try it, I can send you the information because I'm still looking for beta testers. But so that's happening and. Additionally, we're about to start a Google to Microsoft migration. This will probably be my 16th in the last three years, so we're going to be starting that soon. And then personal, which I know is JB's, what he's dying to hear more about. I am becoming a grandmother in four weeks. One of my kiddos is farther along than we thought, and so. Speaker 2 01:20:29 That will be happening in about four weeks. It's going to be a little baby boy, and additionally, sorry JB, this the first time you're hearing about this part. But we have another kid coming into my care, and somehow, don't ask me how this happening, but I have been able to keep my cadence with work and everything lined up. It must be the 56 minions I now have, so. Speaker 2 01:21:07 So I'm at 17 kids total, fostered, and one full adoption. And then there's a potential one of my current non - minor dependents. We may do an adult adoption with her because she's been my daughter since she was 14, and she's been in and out of my house. But she permanently came to me two months ago. So, yeah. Speaker 2 01:21:35 Yes, we're excited. This will be my first newborn for fostering because I, I, I new, I fostered toddlers in the past, but I tend to stick with non-minor dependents and foster kids over the age of 16. So this will be my first baby in a very long time, and the baby will be coming into my care because because that's how this works. But I will be taking a little bit of maternity leave because foster parents are entitled to maternity leave. So this definitely falls under that, and I'll take a couple weeks off to get Mama situated and and get her supported and things lined up. So already started. Yes. Speaker 2 01:22:34 Yes. Yeah. No, we're we're all excited. Uh. Yeah. My Amazon cart is uh. It stays full. We add things to cart and then we go back and decide do we need it, do we not, um, and things like that. So got some baby list going. Speaker 1 01:22:50 Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Speaker 2 01:32:44 Jennifer , As someone who also sees a rheumatologist quite regularly for something very similar, I — if you ever need a sounding board — I will agree with you on the shots and the legs and the prednisone, which I call the devil's attack, and all of that. So. Speaker 1 01:44:47 No. Speaker 2 01:56:27 So , I was, but I can wait. Speaker 2 01:58:05 Yeah, so I was going to mention what JB is saying, but also because I I do I'll walk around my with my Plaud and I'll brain dump. You'll see me in my car if you ever drive past me and I'm brain dumping the Plaud so that I have a transcript of what I want to do. And then I will throw it in and and start just building out what is the most important thing for me or my client that I'm working on things like that. Now. That is great, and then I put on my security hat, and I want to say, how secure do I want to make this? Is this something we need single sign-on to Microsoft? Is this like when you go the Swift route? Is it something that you want to go through with Apple's review process and you know things like that? So there's there's a little bit ins and outs of things you got to think through. I'm constantly having to do that since half of my clients are HIPAA. Speaker 2 01:59:03 And deal with DHS, and then like, how quickly do you need to get it out to your staff? And then the last piece is, and this is just my thought process. There's probably more to my thought process, but I'm operating on zero caffeine. How future proof do you want to make this? And future proof is going to be your biggest thing because I can tell you my first app I built using AI, which was ChatGPT before they had Codex. I did not think it through to proof to future-proof future proof it in a way that it's still running today because it's not running today. It lasted nine months, but we were able to build upon that. I like Paul's statement on Swift, but I also kind of slightly disagree with him just because of certain aspects from the Microsoft standpoint. I am not a Power Apps. I I used to be a Power Apps. Speaker 2 02:00:02 Person and cheerleader, and I'm not as much anymore. But for certain things like you were mentioning Power Apps for, it might be straightforward for you in this one. I honestly, I would, I would do what JB's saying and vomit it into my transcription system, and then throw it into AI and say, "Help me think this through." It's usually my first step, and then go from there. Lately, I've been able to stand up applications within five hours for clients. And after figuring out what they exactly want, I built one just now in this meeting that I barely looked at it building, which is probably not safe. But just thinking my things through, throwing it out there and vomiting it to it. Speaker 1 02:01:03 Yeah. Speaker 2 02:01:10 It it sounds like it, and I'll be honest. Power Apps is a good tool if you want something led through it, and the only the only reason why I would even suggest is in this case is voice to text, because Power Apps has that audio control, and you did mention that. Speaker 1 02:01:35 Yes. Speaker 2 02:01:39 Yes. So from a token point of view, I am not sold on that because I might have run up my boss's co - pilot agent bill by accident before I learned anything about it. But it is an idea. It. You need to figure out what your budget would be and back it from there. So. Speaker 2 02:02:47 I have never watched Ted Lasso, but I'm stuck on Lioness. Speaker 2 02:02:59 Sunday, I thought. Reacher tonight. Yes, I will be watching that while working through the baby list on my baby wish list.
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09-04 Training: Adobe Acrobat Pro Tools and Fillable Forms
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- Date Time: 2026-09-04 11:29:35 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary This 30-minute training session covers Adobe Acrobat Pro’s everyday tools and how to create fillable forms. It explains the benefits of PDFs and fillable forms—such as better legibility, fewer missing fields, and legally recognized Adobe digital signatures. Features reviewed include organizing pages, editing PDFs, comments and stamps, and converting documents. A major segment provides a step-by-step walkthrough for creating a fillable form from a Word document, preparing it for signature in Adobe Acrobat, and sending it for e-signatures with HIPAA compliance. The training ends by demonstrating how to add specific field types like “date” and “signature.” ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Introduction to Adobe Acrobat Pro - **Purpose and Benefits of Use** - The training focuses on Adobe Acrobat’s daily tools, with emphasis on creating fillable forms—a capability requested by the Ability First system. - PDF format is essential for intake packets, HR paperwork, and program forms because it’s widely recognized and readable on any system. - Fillable forms enable staff and families to type responses directly, avoiding printing, handwriting, and rescanning—especially helpful on mobile devices. - Adobe Sign forms are routed through Adobe Sign, already set up in the organization’s teams, and are HIPAA-covered documents. - Digital forms reduce issues with illegible handwriting (e.g., a “7” looking like a “1”). - They help prevent missing fields; forms can require completion before submission. - **Session Goal** - By the end, participants can build a simple fillable form from a Word document or a scanned form and know how to send it for signature. ### 2. Navigating the Adobe Acrobat Pro Interface - **Key Interface Components** - Main areas include the Home tab, All Tools panel, right-hand panel, and search. - **Home Tab:** Landing page with recent files, recommended tools, and quick learning guides. - **All Tools Panel:** Lists capabilities by task (e.g., Edit, Convert, Fill & Sign). - **Right-hand Panel:** Hosts tools, options, and settings, including the AI assistant, comments, bookmarks for long documents (useful for large DMH/DHS docs), and page thumbnails for viewing/reorganizing. - **Tabs:** All open PDFs appear as tabs across the top. - **Mini Toolbar Features** - A compact toolbar offers quick access to tools. - **Select/Pan Tool:** Select highlights text to copy; Pan drags the document view. - **Comment Tool:** Add comments to specific parts of the document. - **Markup Tools:** Highlight, underline, or strike through text. - **Drawing Tool:** Draw shapes (e.g., circles) to call out areas; customize color and line thickness. - **Snapshot Tool:** Capture a selected area to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere, like in a chat. ### 3. Core PDF Editing and Management Tools - **Organize Pages** - Combine multiple files (PDFs, Word, images) into one PDF. - Reorder, rotate, or delete pages—useful for scans that are out of order or upside down. - Split one PDF into multiple documents (e.g., scan five invoices together, then split for Concur). - Insert scanned pages into an existing PDF. - **Edit PDF** - Fix typos or update info (e.g., phone numbers) directly in the PDF. - Replace or resize images. - Add, remove, or renumber images. - Convert a PDF back to Word or Excel for heavier edits; simple grammar fixes are fine in PDF, bigger changes are easier in the original format. - **Comments, Markups, and Compare** - Add comments and sticky notes for collaborative review. - Compare two versions (e.g., contracts, invoices); Acrobat highlights differences automatically. - Use digital stamps like “Approved” or “Confidential”; create custom stamps like “Paid” or “Unpaid.” - **Scan & OCR** - Enable Scan & OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to make scanned text—including handwriting—readable and searchable. ### 4. Fillable Forms and E-Signatures - **Filling and Signing a Document** - Acrobat often auto-detects fillable fields. - If detection fails, use the Type Text tool to manually add text anywhere. - Add a pre-saved signature via the e-sign button and drag to place; resize as needed. - Save signatures and initials for future use; create a signature via touch screen, uploaded image, or the mobile app. - **Creating a Fillable Form** - **Start with a source document:** Begin with a Word document that includes a signature section (e.g., built using a table). - **Convert to PDF:** Save the Word file as an Adobe PDF. - **Prepare Form:** Use Fill & Sign; Acrobat will attempt to auto-create fields. - **Review and Edit Fields:** Manually remove any incorrect fields Acrobat adds. - **Add Specific Field Types:** Under Prepare Form or a similar next option, access advanced tools to set field types—for example, convert a text field to a Signature field or a Date field (which can auto-populate the signing date). - **Sending for Signature** - Use Request e-signatures. - Enter recipient names and emails. - Send to all at once or set a signing order (e.g., Person A signs before Person B receives it). - Send for comments via Outlook or Teams, which shares a review link. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. If you have questions about Adobe, send an email to the instructor or the help desk for assistance.
- Date
- Sep 4, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:35 Say she, she does. Speaker 2 00:00:38 These gym things and they do these competitions and stuff like that. So maybe they would like to do something like that. Speaker 3 00:00:46 We will, we will give you more contact information. Love it. Speaker 2 00:00:50 All right. Appreciate you, bros. Speaker 3 00:00:52 Yes, yes. Speaker 2 00:00:53 Christy, we're going from one meeting. Speaker 3 00:00:55 To another. Speaker 2 00:00:58 It is quite all right. Speaker 3 00:01:01 If you hear the fire alarms going off in the background, just ignore. I don't hear them. Good. So I guess I'm lucky. Speaker 2 00:01:08 Yes, they've been going off all day. Okay. They're they're working on fixing some things. Speaker 3 00:01:13 Okay. I was gonna have Maddie in on this meeting, so let me send this invite because she does, um, things like that for us too. So. Okay. Let me. Oh, there's a mosquito in my office. Speaker 2 00:01:27 Oh, Speaker 1 00:01:27 I'm sorry. I know. Speaker 3 00:01:39 Forward . We're meeting with Jess talking about volunteers. Got you. Speaker 2 00:01:47 Okay. I'm gonna come on camera for a moment and go. Speaker 3 00:01:52 Get a glass of water. But that's totally fine. That would give us a minute. That's perfect. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:01:58 Um, if you want to invite whomever you want in here, it doesn't have to just be. Those that have Adobe, but you can have other people in here. Speaker 3 00:02:09 Okay, okay, that was all I have right now. Speaker 2 00:02:12 No, the problem then. And we are going to record this so that okay, we can toss the meeting over to others who. Hey, Speaker 3 00:02:24 Maddie, I just sent you an invite for Adobe, fillable Adobe stuff. So, jump on the meeting. Are you okay? Speaker 3 00:02:36 Oh no! Okay, stay in your office and jump on. Okay, all right, Speaker 2 00:02:42 Bye. All right, can you see my screen? I can. Okay, perfect. I'm going to start recording. Enter inscriptions, and then that way, we can also we can also can this out to the web meeting. Speaker 1 00:03:04 Okay. And we'll wait for her to join us. There she is. Hi, Speaker 2 00:03:20 Maddie. Hello. Let me turn my camera on. There it is. Let me shut my door. No worries. All right. Um, just quick framing. Um. This is going to be a fast thirty minutes because I have a meeting at noon. So I just want to make you guys aware. But we're going to focus on Adobe Acrobat and the tools within it that you're actually using day to day. And then because there's been such an interest in fillable forms, we're going to spend the back half, the back fifteen minutes, on building them out because Ability First system has requested skill. And so you guys already have. Speaker 2 00:04:03 Adobe Sign through the plan you guys are on, so we're going to connect that dot on how you can build a form and then send it out to clients and parents so that you can get digital signatures. And just a heads up for this: Adobe Acrobat's digital signatures are very widely known and very widely used, and are used to like when people sign it. It does count as a physical signature, so because it's got all the things in place to allow it to to look like a physical signature. So what we're going to cover in the next thirty minutes: why we're using it, where it fits. We're going to look at everyday PDF tools and how to convert documents into that. We're going to cover the toolbar, building the fillable forms, how to send it for signature, and then of course keeping your data safe because it's pretty important. Speaker 2 00:04:59 Us because we are aligned and try to be hyper compliant. So, why does it matter? And why are we using pro versus standard? And it's because of how we move information in PDF. So, there's a lot of things that we utilize PDFs for. So, intake packets, HR paperwork, program forms—they all live and travel as PDFs. PDFs is widely recognized. Legally and through other things as being something that people are able to use, know how to use, can read on any system, and things like that. And then a fillable form just means staff and families can type the answers instead of printing, writing it, and then rescanning it. And that's really useful because you almost everyone is able to do a fillable form on their mobile device, which is super important. Speaker 2 00:05:56 Adobe Sign forms do route through; they'll be signed, which are already set up in our teams, and they are HIPAA covered documents, so be aware of that. And then fewer legible handwritten forms. Big time. I don't know how many times people write a seven, and it looks like a one, and five like something else, like an eight. So this helps with the legible handwritten forms, and then fewer missing fields because. Some forms don't allow you to progress or sign until all the form fields are filled out. Because how many times have you looked at a handwritten form and a parent forgot to fill out something that's super important? So, and it does allow progress now. By the end of the session, you're going to be able to build a simple fillable form from a Word document or scanned form, and know how to save it out for signature. So, just. Um. Speaker 2 00:06:52 So real quickly, I want to go over finding Adobe Acrobat Pro, and I accidentally just closed out my Adobe, so I'm going to open it right back up. But while I'm doing that, I'm going to explain there are four main items that I want you guys to be aware of, and that's your Home tab, the All Tools panel, the right-hand panel, and search. So I'm going to I'm going to pull up one for you guys, just so that you can see. Show you something, something for somebody. We're going to see how I do that with the underscore on the screen. So with that, you've got your menu right here. You've got your right hand screen. Your menu is also can be your all tools depending on the page you're in. You've got the search right here. And real quickly, there's always a right hand panel, but I'm going to open up a Wondershare. Ready? Opened up. Speaker 2 00:07:51 And I accidentally closed it out. Speaker 1 00:07:56 And let me get that pulled up. Who's in an email? Speaker 2 00:08:12 Discard the draft I was working on. Speaker 3 00:08:14 I'm going to step away. I have to get something for Jess before she leaves, but I'll be right back. Speaker 2 00:08:18 Okay, not a problem. All right, so this a this a timesheet that I'm filling out for someone on our team. It already is set up, but there's no form fields in here. So just real quick, Maddie, one thing that Adobe does really well is it finds the locations of where you need to fill things out. But your All Tools menu is right here, and this going to show every capability grouped by task. So, if you need to edit something, if you need to convert it, you need to do a fill and sign. It's all right here. The right hand panel is over here. It is tools, options, and settings. So, in here, we there is an AI assistant for Adobe. I don't ever use that, but there is where you can add comments to form fields. If you're working on something with Julie, you can do comments and check check the documents before you send it over. Speaker 2 00:09:17 You can for long PDF files. You can add bookmarks. So if you're working in a very long PDF, let's let's say for instance, and I'm just going to use this as an example. DMH likes to send out really long PDF documents for people to read, and sometimes I will see people bookmark a section in a 400 page document by DMH or DHS, and then send it to someone else to outline and show comments. So that's what these two are really good for, and then right here, this is where you can see the pages. It looks like a copy button, but it's actually a page section. And within it, you can actually reorganize your pages if it's a long page document. Okay, so I'll close that. And then on your all tools, again, this these are just grouped by types. So fill and sign is one we're going to look at, and then your home tab is this one right here. Speaker 2 00:10:17 This is your landing page. Anything you've recently opened is going to be in here. It's going to show information about recent. It's going to show your files and documents. It's also shows some learning and some PDF spaces with how people utilize it to build out their own information. And then in here, they've got some recommended tools that you can use and quick guides. As well. So, now all of your PDFs will open in tabs across the top of your screen. So I'm going to go back to the timesheet right here. All right. Now to organize pages, if we're in a PDF, we're going to look at organizing pages on PDFs, and so that's where you can combine like several PDFs or Word documents or images and put them in a single place. Speaker 2 00:11:13 You're also able to drag and drop to reorder it, rotate, delete pages. This is especially especially useful if you scan a document and send it to yourself. Like let's say you got a five page form from a family that they hand filled out. Well, you kind of need to scan that in to digitize it. And when you scan in, sometimes the pages flip around. Sometimes they're upside down. Sometimes they're sideways. And in the organized pages, that's where you can reorder. Order them. You can rotate them, or you can even delete pages. So if I add a form in, and I also scan some blank pages, I can delete those those scanned pages. And then also sometimes I like to do this. I'll get like five invoices by hand from in the mail, and I got to scan them in and add them to Concur. I'll scan them all together at the scanner because I don't want to separate them because it takes too much time. Speaker 2 00:12:11 And then I can split that PDF in Adobe Acrobat, so that's something I do pretty often. And then also I can insert scanned pages into existing documents, which is also pretty fun. That's under organizing, but under Edit PDF, you can fix typos, update a phone number directly in the PDF. Let's say they handwrote it, and you just want to go back into that PDF, and something's not clear. You can take out the handwritten part and. Type it out instead. You can replace or resize an image within Adobe Acrobat. You can add or remove or renumber the images, and then also one of my favorite tools because convert existing PDF back into a Word document. So Julie sends me a PDF that she made from Word, and I see a couple of grammatical errors, and my OCD is not allowing me to look past it. I can convert. There will be there will be errors. Speaker 2 00:13:09 There will be errors. Great, I can convert back to Word or Excel if I need to do some heavier editing. So, simple grammatical errors I can fix, but if I need heavier editing, I'm going to convert it back. Just be aware of that. And then on comments, markups, and compares, I showed you the comments and bookmarks. You can comment. You can add sticky notes. You can highlight certain sections. So, like, let's say Julie is creating something, and she's going to send it to the two of you guys to take a look at. You guys can add comments instead of editing the document. You can add comments, clarify questions. You can also compare files. I will do that with invoices. If I've got an invoice from, let's see, let's say AT&T about y'all's internet, and one price doesn't look right, I can compare those two documents side by side. Speaker 2 00:14:03 I can have Adobe Acrobat line up the two versions, and it can flag what exactly changed. So this really useful for contracts and invoices. And then I can do stamps. I love stamps. So you can do approved. You can do confidential stamps, kind of like you know old school using our stamp. This the late nineties, early two thousands. For those of you guys who are not as as young as I am. I say that I've been in IP for 28 years, so. Speaker 3 00:14:37 You could have one that says paid. Unpaid. Speaker 2 00:14:42 Okay. Yeah. So in here, if I'm looking at this, I'm not going to do it to this one because I I gotta approve this. But if I'm looking at this one, I can add that approved. If I'm in, I'm gonna open up another document. But if I'm in here and I'm looking at Copilot for Accounting. And someone sent this over for me to actually read and look at. So I'm going to open it up, and I can go back and I can do my stamp to say it's approved. And then I can do. There's a few other things I can do with it. So like this is a one-page document. I can add it into other documents. I can insert it. So I can say edit right here. I can go in and make simple adjustments. If I go to that edit. Speaker 2 00:15:30 Hi, I'm sorry. I'm losing my voice today. You you guys are the fourth training class for the day, so if if my voice goes all scratchy, ask. A couple of things additional that's not in my training because this a quarter training is generative summaries. It that is an AI feature. You can say request e-signatures. So if I have a signature section down here at the bottom, say request signatures. This actually my signatures. So you can save your signatures as well in there. But let's say I want to send a document for approval. I can send it and I can send it to everyone at once. Or let's say Lisa's got to approve something and then Julie has to approve it after Lisa approves it. I can check this box and say recipients must sign in order. So I'm going to just put their email and their name on here, and so that's how I would send that out. Speaker 2 00:16:27 If I need to assign it, if I need to sign something, and I click on that, click on the e-sign portion. I can just drag and drop my signature. I can grab it in here for it to be signed. And I've been using this system for a while, so my signature has been saved years in here. There's also other things. If I am looking at a spreadsheet, I can choose to create a from it. The combined files, which is where I can put in multiple files, and then your organized pages. Right now, we have one page, so you'll see one page here. But if I want to organize it with another one, I can combine those in, and I can split them out as well. Okay. Help tools. If a document has been scanned, and I want the system to read the scanned, especially handwritten items on a scan. Speaker 2 00:17:24 I can have it. I can turn on scan and OCR. Now it's been a while since I had a handwritten document, but I need to scan like this. So I can have one for you guys. But OCR can take a look at your handwritten pages. Be aware of that. Send for comments. I can send a document, and I can send it to Teams, Outlook. There's other options in here, but I can send it for comment. So if I'm done with this, I can say send by Microsoft Outlook. And it's going to open up and send a link, which is cool. Send a link, and I will send that over to Stephanie. Stephanie's my marketing person, and I'll say sent, and then she can comment on this page, and we'll have a comment discussion here, and she can put her comments in, and we can edit the document that way, much like how you would do it in Word. So, um. Speaker 2 00:18:23 Any questions so far before I get to the next portion? Nope. All right. So you got this little mini toolbar right here. In here, I can click and I can choose select or pan. And pan is where I can just drag up and down. Go in here. This is my comments, so I can add a comment, and I can tell it to comment here, and I can highlight and I can put the comments in. And it will open my comment right here, and I can say, I can say, is this the right order? I post it, okay. And those comments will come up, and people can click on them and read them. This one right here is I can highlight, I can underline, or I can strike through. So if Lisa sends me this document and I want to strike through a portion of it, and let's say we're not using an app anymore, it will. Speaker 2 00:19:22 Charge for, and then also with the underline, I can underline. Analysts. This one right here, this is my draw symbol. So let's say I want to highlight that and draw a circle around it, so that people can see what I'm talking about. That's where I'm going to do that. I can also underline with this button right here. I can take a snapshot of a certain section. Speaker 2 00:19:53 Oh, and I have my snapshot, and it's copied to my clipboard, and I can paste it into chat. So, and now it's in our chat. So that's like a little screenshot tool. Um, I'm gonna go back here, and I'm gonna go in. Not do that. There we go. As I'm clicking on some of these, it will expand. Down here, automatically. When I click on this, I can pin something. I can change the color. So let's say I don't want red. I want blue because my file is already red and I want blue. And I can make the line heavier or thinner. Speaker 1 00:20:39 Do that. Speaker 2 00:20:41 Now, from here, I'm going to. I keep clicking on that button. I'm going to go back into select. And with select, that's where I can highlight something to copy and paste. Now I am going to close out this file because I don't want to make it a fillable. I just save everything. But if I was to save it, I'd click on the little save button there. And now let's close out. Let's let it revert some things back. Speaker 1 00:21:11 For me. It's clear. And so here's why. Speaker 2 00:21:24 Now I'm going to go back to my timesheet edited because I want to show you guys how this portion works. In here, I have I have this. This is a timesheet for somebody. They filled out their time. I have to approve it. My weekly total is 20 hours. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put my name in here. Now Adobe will automatically create fill and sign fill for me. Because this is one that I didn't create; it's someone else's, and I can go in here. If I can't get this to work, then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to this tab right here, and I'm going to tell it to type text, and I'm going to click on it here, and it's going to automatically give me that field. I'm going to put my name, and if it's a name you use often, it's going to add it in there. And then I'm going to go here. I'm going to click on this again. Speaker 2 00:22:21 And I'm going down here to date, and today is the ninth, September the fourth, twenty twenty-six, and then I need my signature. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to click, and I'm going to look for my signature right here, and I'm going to drag it into this section. And you can resize your signature. So if it's in there and it's just not fitting. I can resize it using that little blue dot right there, and then at this point I can save it, and I'm going to go in and save it. And when I hit save, I'm going to go in here and type in the name I want. So this is 20260904 sign sheet budget, and now I can go back in and I can respond to Emmanuel on his email, and until I'm. Speaker 2 00:23:17 You know, here's here's my my message. So the great thing about Outlook is when I open this document or when I've done editing this document, here's the email it's going to, and then I'm going to go to my little paperclip right here, and that is the one I just saved. I'm going to attach it and send, and that's super easy to do. You can save your signatures in here. So if I click down on here, I can add my initials. My signatures are already saved, but if it wasn't, I can add it there. If you're on a laptop with a touch screen, it's really easy to do. Honestly, how I did this one was this was a long, long time ago. I had a copy of my signature from something I signed a scan in, and I just copied and pasted. Yes, that way. But also, it will save from your phone too if you have if you're logged into it from your phone. Speaker 2 00:24:16 And you can log into Adobe with your Ability First account on your cell phone. You just got to download Adobe Acrobat and sign it. Now, if you have a document, and I have multiple documents, I'm going to pull one up. And I actually have a document that I need to convert to a fill and sign. So I'm going to open that real quick. Speaker 1 00:24:39 Onboarding. Um. This is what happens when you reboot your computer. It was me. Speaker 3 00:25:08 Step away for a sec. I'll be right back. Speaker 2 00:25:10 No worries. It's just taking a moment for my. Peters, come up. Do you ever have those days where Microsoft just re reorders everything that you have? That's what's going on. All right. So this a policy we are sending out. So I'm going to show you start to finish what we do. So I'm going to open this up in Word, and this like I said, this a document that I am working on sending out. Speaker 2 00:25:44 And I am going to be sending out to everyone in this particular company. So I have this here. It is a policy, and I'm going to scroll down because on the very, very last page, there is going to be a signature section. And I'm actually going to use my AI tools to build this out. I'm going to insert a page break here. We might go a little bit longer, guys. So just a heads up. I am going to add a signature section here. Page break. There we go. All right, and then references. I'm going to go in. There used to be. I used to have one in here where I can insert a signature. Speaker 1 00:26:33 There we go. If I can ever find it. Speaker 1 00:26:44 Add a signature line. Okay, no problem. Speaker 2 00:26:60 All right, my mouse is a battery right now, so I'm just going to find that under the Insert tab. I. We moved it. It used to be in references, and then it was in review. Ah, if it's in six, if it's like here, yeah, it is in there. Okay, so yeah, that is in there. Thank you. Um, you can do you can do a few things in there. So there's my signature line. I can do other things, but I can add in the title. Um, there we go. Now my mouse is back. Speaker 2 00:27:41 I'm going to delete that for a second, so I can go in here. Sometimes I do it with the table. Speaker 1 00:27:46 So in here, Ability First Council Center. This is Julie. Speaker 1 00:28:22 All right, so there's my borders. Speaker 2 00:28:28 Yeah, I'm going to do with this is I'm going to go file, and I'm going to save it as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. And I'm going to wait for the window to pop up. And acceptable use. Speaker 1 00:28:44 Policy is exactly what I named it, Speaker 2 00:28:46 So it's going to name it there. Speaker 2 00:28:52 And right now it's updating it. It pulled over onto my other screen, but it's showing me updating text. Speaker 1 00:28:58 It's always gonna finish that. And now, Speaker 2 00:29:19 And now this is where it's at. So. Once I'm in here, then I'm going to go to fill and sign. Speaker 1 00:29:30 Bear with me one second. Adobe has frozen. I've got the spinning wheel. All. Speaker 2 00:29:43 Right, so here we are. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do an Adobe fill and sign. This. And I am going to do fill in forms. So I'm not going to fill and sign it myself. What I'm going to do is I'm going to scroll down, and I am going to put that go down to the bottom. And from here, this where I can go in and double check everything. So it's going to look for form form fields that people need to sign. This the signature. Speaker 2 00:30:18 Of employee, and what I can do is I can choose what fields from here that they're going to use. Adobe is frozen again, so hang on. This is where I can choose the form fields. So from here, I can draw lines. I can choose if it's going to be a radio button, if it wants to be a cross mark or a check mark. I can put in a dot that they can fill. I can put in. Rectangles, and go from there. Now, in here, I can also choose to select, and when Adobe is wanting to behave, I can actually remove some of these fields. So just be aware of that. In here, also, I have the ability to go in and select things that I want to choose here. So I can go in and highlight, underline with my form fields. I can go in here to type text. Speaker 2 00:31:16 Although this one, I need it to disappear, so I'm going to click on it, and I am going to delete it. So anytime I see one in here, I'm going to click in it. I'm going to hit delete. Here, choose delete, because Adobe does try to find fields that it thinks people should fill out, but it's not always right. Speaker 1 00:31:38 So I'm just going to scroll through and look for one. There's one. Someone choose to delete that. Speaker 2 00:31:51 Delete this one. I went all the way up to the top, so I go back down. Speaker 1 00:31:55 Delete this one. And then I know I've got some on the bottom. Delete this one. Speaker 2 00:32:09 Sometimes, if you put it into a table on the Word document, it makes it much easier for people. To fill out makes much easier for Adobe to fill out, and then on here I can choose a few things. On this one, I can use that this one and say switch to signature. Now I don't want my signature in there, but I can I can delete my signature from this. But it's going to be in here where people can put in a signature. With my date, I can flip this. And used to they would have a date one in here, but I don't have a date. Speaker 2 00:32:44 So I'm just going to leave that one the way it is, and then for this one, it's title. I can also choose to make the font bigger or smaller, based on what we need. And then from here, I can save it. Always want to save it, and then I can say request signatures, and that's where I'm going to have people fill it out and sign it. And remember, you can either sign it in order or you can send it to a person. That makes sense. Speaker 2 00:33:14 All right, it is twelve oh two. I do have to jump into another meeting. However, guys, if you have any questions, feel free to send me an email, and that way I can I can answer your questions or send it to the help desk, and they will they can also answer any questions you have about Adobe and Adobe. They're really good at this. Sometimes even better than me. Okay. Um. Also, real quickly, I'm just going to show it to you. I'm going to just fill this in under the prepared document. You're going to have some additional things in here, so just a heads up. You can also fill it in from there, and that gives you that's where the date stuff is. So, in the date, I can change the field type to date. Date of signing. Speaker 2 00:34:13 Signature. I can change the field type here to signature. So just just to heads up on that. If you go to the next option, do that. All right. Thank you guys. Have a great day, and I will talk to you later. You're welcome. Speaker 1 00:34:35 The next one just called.
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09-03 Consultation: Competitive Pricing Strategy for Microsoft Licensing Consolidation (Crimson, April)
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- Date & Time: 2026-09-03 17:02:19 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: April from Crimson ## Overview The consultation aimed to craft a more competitive pricing strategy for a potential new client April (from Crimson) is pursuing. The core issue is the client’s existing Microsoft licensing, which includes numerous legacy and a la carte SKUs, notably **1,800** Office 365 E3 licenses. A key pain point is an imminent **5% margin reduction** on these legacy licenses effective October 1, which would materially impact Crimson’s profitability. The goal is to optimize the client’s licensing—potentially by consolidating SKUs into Microsoft 365 E5—to offset the margin loss, maintain or improve end-customer pricing, and deliver a strategic, value-added proposal rather than a simple license transfer. ## Background April is competing for a new prospect and needs more competitive pricing. Her colleague Jacob identified the prospect’s mix of a la carte and legacy Microsoft SKUs, especially **1,800** Office 365 E3 licenses. A pressing challenge is Microsoft’s **October 1** policy change that reduces partner margins on legacy SKUs from **18-20% to 15%**. Jacob engaged James, a licensing expert, to assess whether consolidating separate licenses (Office 365 E3, Entra, Teams Phone, Audio Conferencing) into a modern SKU like Microsoft 365 E5 could mitigate the margin loss. The discussion centered on whether this consolidation could improve Crimson’s financial outcome even if the end-customer price stays the same or slightly increases. ## Pain Points Crimson faces an imminent profitability reduction due to Microsoft’s legacy license policy changes, while simultaneously trying to win a large prospect—making competitive pricing critical. The current a la carte licensing structure is inefficient and drives the problem. Specifically, the **1,800** Office 365 E3 legacy licenses will incur a **5%** partner margin drop on **October 1**. Losing margin on this volume represents a substantial financial hit. They are comparing the “as-is” state—which guarantees a loss of backend margin and rebates—against a consolidated licensing model. Stakeholders include April and the broader Crimson business. April must present a competitive price to the prospect but lacks a clear strategy given the current licensing. Her primary goal is to **win this client**, requiring “better pricing.” She has the prospect’s license list but no compelling offer, creating uncertainty and weakening her sales position. The complexity of Microsoft licensing forces reliance on experts like James for scenario modeling. Without a competitive, attractive offer, the new business opportunity is at risk. ## Expectations The customer expects a detailed comparative analysis of licensing scenarios with clear financial implications. The core objective is to understand pricing and margin differences among: 1) The current state pre-October 1, 2) The current state post-October 1 with the **5% margin reduction**, and 3) A consolidated model (e.g., Microsoft 365 E5), including price and margin. This analysis will underpin the client proposal and is expected promptly, as James and Jacob committed to start immediately. Success is defined by clear “before and after” pricing models that allow April to sharpen her pricing and present a competitive offer. They also expect that optimizing the licensing structure will enable a more strategic, value-oriented proposal. The aim is to move beyond a simple assortment of licenses and demonstrate they have **understood the licensing and ensured it’s best suited to the client’s needs**—a stronger story to tell. Success would be a proposal that addresses price while adding value through optimization, potentially increasing functionality and improving license management for the end client, thereby strengthening April’s bid. The primary stakeholder is April, as it directly affects her sales strategy. ## Other Information Summary - Evaluate promotions for the Microsoft 365 E5 SKU. - Consider a **three-year term** to lock pricing and provide stability. - Copilot licensing currently carries a **5%** margin, with potential improvement anticipated in October. - The analysis assumes Office 365 E3, Entra, Teams Phone, and Audio Conferencing are assigned to the same user group, as exact assignments are unknown. ## To-Do List - [ ] James and Jacob to produce a pricing analysis comparing: 1) Keeping licenses as-is post-October 1 (with margin reduction), and 2) Migrating to a consolidated Microsoft 365 E5 SKU. - [ ] James and Jacob to incorporate all margin changes, potential promotions, and annual pricing into the models. - [ ] James and Jacob to deliver the “before and after” pricing scenarios to April. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI identifies the biggest pain point as the imminent 5% margin reduction on 1,800 legacy Office 365 E3 licenses, jeopardizing profitability and competitiveness in winning a new prospect. Consider: > 1. **Develop a Value-First E5 Migration Proposal:** Lead with strategy, not price. Emphasize enhanced security, compliance, and functionality in E5 absent from the current a la carte setup. Provide a concise one-pager highlighting gaps in the current security posture that E5 closes. This reframes the conversation from cost savings to risk mitigation and modernization, supporting a stable or slightly higher price while protecting margin. > 2. **Model a Phased Migration Strategy:** If a full immediate move to E5 is too costly, propose a phased rollout. Start with a pilot or users who need full E5 features; for others, move to modern, non-legacy SKUs (e.g., Business Premium where eligible under the 300-seat cap) to avoid the margin change. This shows flexibility and manages budget while transitioning off problematic legacy licenses. > 3. **Leverage a Multi-Year Agreement for Discounting:** Propose a three-year commitment for Microsoft 365 E5 to unlock better baseline pricing and price stability. Use secured backend margin from the new SKU to offer a modest upfront discount, effectively sharing some protected margin to win the business.
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- Sep 3, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Had looked into some additional discounting for you. I can put up, I guess, like the email thread that I'm kind of basing the entirety of this off. Speaker 2 00:00:08 And I can, I can jump in there too. And James, really, what what what April did is she she shot over the licensing of a new prospect that she's she's looking to get competitive at. And what I identified is that he seemed to have not some legacy SKUs, but some a la carte SKUs, and that's where April I reached out to the higher. The mind that be because I don't I know how to find the maybe some some additional revenue for you April but I don't know how they do it with their Microsoft knowledge so I enlisted James yeah exactly enlisted James just to do a just a brief kind of licensing overview and to see James if there was any you know hey we have business premium and then a la carte licensing if there was any way that they could. Speaker 2 00:00:58 Take advantage of some of those bundled SKUs, and I think we talked about that through email. But, but yeah, exactly. Just looking, not necessarily to find her more margin with with us, but yeah, definitely off off of off of Microsoft SKUs for sure. Speaker 1 00:01:12 Okay, yeah. So I'll put up then the trace that I had, and it's really hard from the outside looking in to just kind of look at the license lists and then say, oh yeah, merge these without knowing who's going to find what. Right. So this the initial list. I'll maybe make it a little bit easier to see here. There we go. So to to Jacob's point, there are some of those legacy licenses that we'll look at. Are often these Office three six five licensing. This kind of anyone who wanted to say they had an enterprise license. This the way to go about it, albeit with a pretty heavy gap on the security side. So these, if we can understand the use case here, there are obviously a substantial number of them. Speaker 1 00:01:54 We can look. We can look for maybe an optimal licensing. Transparently, it's unlikely that it would come down in price, especially at that quantity. Even if I think of going to the business suite, for example, that would be capped at three hundred. So we'd serve a small portion, kind of one sixth of these. But that would be the extent there. And then looking at kind of your Entra one. With those E threes, presumably joined, just given the quantities, again we can start to look at what a what a use case might be. Again, I don't expect the price to come down, but it would be more optimized. It would have a lot more functionality. But for a peer pricing discussion, as we as we hinted off here, not necessarily something that's going to help us move the needle down. Speaker 2 00:02:43 I guess with with those. Would would migrating those though offer with the October changes? Would it offer more partner margin? Seeing as the the E three E five and and what I was thinking, I don't. And this is why I enlisted you. Is like seeing like the the Teams phone, the audio conferencing E three E five. Is there not one license that encompasses like all of? Of 365 applications, or or like you said, it might not bring the price down necessarily. Speaker 1 00:03:17 That's it. So like they really have, let's say, audio conferencing, Teams, phone, as well as Entra and E3, right? The E3, you'd be looking at an E5 and 365 E5. So again, we can definitely look at it. Maybe that's some numbers that we can crunch on our side, Jacob. But generally, I'd still expect the price to go up a little bit here. Honestly. But we can definitely let's crunch those. I think you and I can break. I don't think we'll be the full thirty minutes on this call here, right? So we'll we'll take a look at that and kind of say, okay, if we assume these these four are all paired together, well, E5 to your point from license management, we can look at promotions. There's some stuff that we can do, including the the five percent margin chain on these. Speaker 1 00:04:04 Is that gonna? Is that still gonna be enough to bring the price down? That kind of my curiosity, but we'll we'll present it. I mean, right. Speaker 2 00:04:11 And even if the price is the same to the customer, if if Crimson if Crimson is able to capture more backend, whether it be margin or rebate. Sorry, my son. No, no, mine does it all the time. Usually he can't get through the door, but sometimes he he must be getting weight. But yeah, if there is any, because like I said, I know October first, some of those legacy licenses are moving from the traditional, you know, eighteen to twenty percent down to fifteen percent. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:04:42 So these are going to be losing five percent on these eighteen hundred licenses, which is no small quantity, obviously. So losing five percent there is, yeah, is entirely we're twenty nine days, twenty eight days away from that. Speaker 2 00:04:56 And if they did that merging, James, that you're talking about, would that still be the five percent loss, or is that would that be a SKU that would be moving outside of that impact? Speaker 1 00:05:05 We'd be moving outside of that five percent margin again, strictly on this singular SKU. So the Entra Teams phone Audio Conferencing wouldn't benefit or wouldn't be affected by that five percent change. But there too, if we can look at the E5, we'll put the price comparison together, then we can start to look at. Whether there are available promotions, look at maybe even on a three - year term, we can get that price stability. At least we can lock it in. But yeah, I think let's start by doing the quick exercise of just putting those numbers together, throwing in the margins from Shareware margin reduction. Speaker 2 00:05:38 Right. If we look at those, the kind of AB comparison of if we leave it the same, you're going to lose the five percent at the at the end of the month. If you change it, price might stay the same. Price might even go up one percent, but then the five percent that you're going to keep would outweigh that that slight price increase or that lateral move. But yeah, April, is that kind of? Are you tracking that? The idea, anyways, that that I trying to get creative, kind of thinking outside of the box. Speaker 3 00:06:06 April, um, not that's quite, but yeah, I'm kind of getting the gist of what you're discussing. But yeah, basically, we just need it better. Pricing that we can offer to this client that we're trying to win. Speaker 1 00:06:20 So okay, so yeah, so we can so yeah again. So for pure pricing, let's let's model the two again, Jake. We'll we'll hang around on the call here. It'll it'll be five minutes. If you can get the quote list ready, we'll we'll jump right in and do that right away. So we can do that, and then from there on the copilot licensing, you did call it out here. It being only five percent. Yeah, this is something that in October we do expect to have some. Some additional room for you in here, so this is something that we can we can absolutely look at and increase that. So I think what we'll do again is you'll give us I guess like the next 21 minutes or so. Here we'll wrap up here in a moment or so. Jake and I will put the balance of the or put the full numbers together. There's an annual pricing on this, so we'll we'll get that all connected here for you, and then we'll have. Speaker 1 00:07:10 Kind of like a before and after price. Kind of before being current state, if everything comes over as is based on current margins, and after would be maybe two scenarios. One scenario as is post October to account for the margin changes, and then as is if we were to move to E five, what that would look like as well. That way, I think even from your approach from the customer, it isn't just hey, we're just taking this kind of. You know this assortment of licensing and moving it, but we're really actually taking the time to understand the licensing and to make sure it's best suited to their needs. So I think that's a, in my opinion, that's a nicer story. But yeah, we'll come back with those two scenarios here for you. So we'll we'll do that. I think for me, I wanted to get on a call to see if you had any visibility as to if these were all assigned to the same, let's say, sixteen hundred users here, being kind of a lower count between them. Speaker 1 00:08:07 Just without having to assume, but we'll we'll carry on with the assumption and we'll have an idea for the for the pricing at least. Speaker 2 00:08:15 Yeah, in April when we look at that AB comparison, what we'll like what James is saying, we'll make it very clear for you. As A, here's here's what you can offer in the current state as of October first. B, if we if we looked at consolidating and optimizing October first, here's what you would be looking at. Okay. In April, I think the biggest, yeah, the the biggest value is that you're not going to lose that five percent from a partner rebates and incentives on the back end, and if that's if that's where you want to sharpen your pencil, then you'll have have some extra room there to to you relay that to the client as well. Speaker 3 00:08:59 Okay. Speaker 2 00:08:60 Awesome. Perfect. Well, we appreciate your time. We'll go ahead and stay on here. April, we'll give you the the rest of the time back, and James and I will we'll see what we can run. Just just quickly, estimate wise. Speaker 3 00:09:13 All right, awesome. Sounds good. Speaker 2 00:09:14 Thank you both for your help. Yes, thank you. Have a great day. Speaker 3 00:09:18 You too. Bye.
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Pulong ng koponan: Admin at Finance: transisyon sa trabaho, inayos ang operasyon
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-  Nagpulong ang koponan upang pag-usapan ang transisyon sa mga gawaing administratibo at pinansyal dahil sa paparating na maternity leave ni Elisa. Tinalakay ang mga natutunan sa mga nakaraang pagsasanay, mga hamon sa pagsingil sa mga proyekto sa konstruksyon, mga update sa renewal ng mga lisensya, at ang pamamahagi ng mga tungkulin sa pagitan ng admin at finance. ## Transisyon sa Finance at Pagsasanay kasama si Elisa - **Mga Natutunan sa Pagsasanay**: Ibinahagi ni Maggie na marami siyang natutunan sa invoicing partikular na ang epekto ng mga setting sa ConnectWise, kung saan ang mga fixed fee na converted mula sa transactional ay hindi maaaring i-bill nang hiwalay para sa travel kung hindi ito ibabalik sa actual fee. Napansin din niya ang kahalagahan ng tamang time entry ng mga tekniko para sa malinaw na pagbasa ng mga kliyente. - **Hamon sa Estilo ng Pagsasanay**: Ayon kay Christian at Steph, may pagkakataong nakalilito ang takbo ng pagtuturo ni Elisa dahil marami siyang naiisip na pagbabago habang nagpapatakbo ng session, at mas nahahabaan sila sa mga prosesong maaari namang dumaan sa shortcut. Iminungkahi ni April na sabihin nang direkta kay Elisa na ituro ang mas madali at mabilis na paraan. - **Pag-download ng mga Rekording**: Pinaalalahanan ni April ang koponan na i-download ang mga rekording ng pagsasanay mula sa Teams channel bago ito mapatapos o ma-expire, at hingin ito nang direkta kay Elisa pagkatapos ng bawat session. - **Feature sa Billing Reconciliation**: Nabanggit ni Steph ang isang magandang feature sa offline tool ni Elisa kung saan maaaring i-save ang session para maipasa sa ibang tao nang hindi na kailangang ulitin ang mga nasimulang hakbang. ## Pagsingil sa Proyekto ng Konstruksyon at Pag-aari ng Proseso - **Pagsasagawa ng Internal Invoicing**: Ipinaliwanag ni Maggie ang proseso ng pagsingil kung saan ang subcontractor na si Kuya Mark ay nagpapadala ng billing format para sa halagang aprubado ng kliyente (halimbawa ay PHP 45,000 mula kay Alpha), at gagawan ito ni Maggie ng down payment (DP) invoice sa Crimson para sa katulad na halaga. Ang internal invoice na ito ay isasara nang hindi ipinapadala sa kliyente upang magsilbing batayan ng pagbabangga ng bayad para sa finance. - **Pagkuha ng Extreme Ownership**: Nagkaproblema noong nakaraan dahil nag-invoice sina Miguel at Kuya Mark nang hindi ipinapaalam sa admin, kaya walang mapagbanggahan si Jane ng natanggap na bayad. Inutos ni April kay Maggie na kunin ang buong ownership sa pagpapaalala sa kanila tungkol sa billing upang maiwasang masisi ang admin at matiyak na hindi nakakaligtaan ang pagsingil. ## Pamamahagi ng Trabaho at Operasyon sa Marketing - **Paghahati ng Reports at Billing**: Nagkasundo ang koponan na mas madaling hatiin ang billing dahil nakatakda na ang mga halaga nito, kumpara sa mga ulat na pabago-bago depende sa tugon ng kliyente. Plano ni April na ipamahagi ang mga mas madaling ulat ng mga kliyente kina Maggie at Steph. - **Hamon sa Accounts Payable at TS Billing**: Ipinahayag ni April ang kanyang pag-aalala sa pagsasabay ng accounts payable ng finance (na nangyayari dalawang beses sa isang buwan tuwing ika-15 at ika-30) at ng kanyang sariling TS billing tuwing katapusan ng buwan sa susunod na dalawang buwan. - **Pamamahala sa Marketing**: Papasok na sa ilalim ng pamamahala ng admin at direktang pag-apruba ni April ang mga gawain sa marketing ni Steph. Hindi na maaaring magpagawa ang iba ng mga materyales kay Steph nang walang pahintulot at pag-apruba ni April upang maiwasan ang mga nasasayang na gawa at hindi pagkakaunawaan sa mga bersyon. ## Mga Renewal, Lisensya, at Update sa Kliyente - **Diskwento mula sa ShareWeb**: Galing si April sa isang pulong kasama ang ShareWeb upang humingi ng mas magandang diskwento para sa isang potensyal na kliyente na may humigit-kumulang 1,800 na seats. Nag-uusap pa ang ShareWeb sa kanilang internal na proseso para sa bundles at discount bago magpadala ng panukala. - **Renewal ng ConnectWise at Sophos**: Nilagdaan na ang renewal para sa RMM at ScreenConnect, ngunit nakabinbin pa ang para sa PSA (ConnectWise Manage) at BrightGage na kailangang ipasa kay April kapag handa na. Para sa Sophos, binaligtad ang proseso kung saan kailangang alamin muna ng koponan ang bilang ng mga user bago ipasa kay Charles; ang lisensya ng Kellogg ay nasa 240+ users kahit na ang range nito ay 200 hanggang 400. - **Iron Gate at Newmark**: Bibigyan ng Iron Gate ang koponan ng partikular na card para sa kanilang mga lisensya, ngunit pinaalalahanan ni Vincent na mag-ingat sa pagdadagdag. Para sa Newmark, hindi pa sila nagbabayad ng down payment para sa lisensya ng Meraki dahil hindi pa nagpa-follow up si Maricar. ## Iba pang mga Usapin at Personal na Balita - **Maling Pangalan sa Badge**: Napansin ni April na ang nakalagay na pangalan sa badge ni Eric Lemus ay "Josh Lemus" kahit na Eric ang nakarehistro sa system. Sinabihan niya si Steph na magbukas ng bagong ticket sa Cove para sa pagpapalit ng pangalan gamit ang huling limang numero ng badge. - **Personal na Update**: Ibinahagi ni Maggie na aprubado na ang kanilang aplikasyon para sa sariling sasakyan na Mitsubishi Expander Cross, na kinuha sa pamamagitan ng banko sa Baguio at mayroon lamang 3,000 mileage. Masaya rin siyang ibinahagi na maayos ang resulta ng kanyang check-up sa mata matapos ang surgery. Si Steph naman ay nagpaayos ng kanyang mga gaming console sa Greenhills noong Sabado at naging abala sa pag-asikaso sa kanyang siyam na pamangkin na bumisita mula Pampanga. ## Action Items **@Maggie (Team Member)** - [ ] Linawin kay Maricar na dapat mag-follow up sa down payment tatlong araw matapos ipadala ang invoice. - [ ] I-inform si Miguel (Project Manager) na hindi pa nagbabayad ng down payment ang Newmark para sa kanilang Meraki license. - [ ] Tumawag sa Meraki upang humingi ng grace period para sa lisensya ng Newmark. - [ ] Kunin ang extreme ownership sa pagpapaalala sa mga engineer/PM tungkol sa internal billing para sa mga proyekto sa konstruksyon. **@Steph (Team Member)** - [ ] Magbukas ng bagong ticket sa Cove (Access Changes) gamit ang huling limang numero ng badge para itama ang pangalan ni Eric Lemus mula sa pagkakasulat na "Josh Lemus". - [ ] I-download ang lahat ng rekording ng mga nakaraang pagsasanay kay Elisa mula sa Teams channel bago ito mapatapos o ma-expire. **@Christian (Team Member)** - [ ] I-coordinate kay April ang mga detalye ng renewal para sa Citrus at suriin kung nasa dashboard pa ang Meraki ng mga dating kliyente. - [ ] Ipagpatuloy ang pag-review ng gross margin kasama si Steph. **@April (Team Lead / Manager)** - [ ] Talakayin kay Pete sa kanilang darating na 1:1 meeting ang posibilidad ng spot bonus para sa koponan dahil sa karagdaggang trabaho sa pagtulong sa finance habang naka-leave si Elisa. - [ ] Pag-aralan ang mga hindi pamilyar na kasunduan tulad ng GMF at Citrus Meraki licensing sa darating na long weekend.
- Date
- Sep 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:22 Gusto buhay-buhay. Speaker 2 00:00:25 Hello. Speaker 2 00:00:28 Good morning. Hello. Good morning. Bakit parang tumawid ka ng, Ulan? Speaker 3 00:00:36 Galing akong meeting ng ShareWeb. Speaker 2 00:00:40 O, kausta? Speaker 3 00:00:42 Nagpapahiga siya ng Better Discount. Kinabi kita. Speaker 3 00:00:48 Kasi merong bagong... Lead na. Speaker 3 00:00:54 Ang dami kasing seats So potential client. Hindi pa natin siya Client. But kung makuha Tayo ng much better discount from ShareWeb. Much better. Kasi yun yung, naghahanap Ng mas makakamurang, License yung client na yun. Around 1,800, na. Seats ang... weh. Speaker 3 00:01:24 Ganun ba. diba diba? Speaker 2 00:01:26 O, madugo na naman yata to. Speaker 3 00:01:29 Yeah. Eh, si Answer sabi niya, Find out from ShareWeb, If you can get better discount para, ma-win yung client. But, Speaker 3 00:01:38 Nakakaloka. Pwede naman din. Sa meeting kanina, Dun lang sila nag-usap-usap, Ng magiging, Kumbaga, Speaker 3 00:01:46 Um, Speaker 3 00:01:48 Discuss na nila kung paano Ng discount or bundles ang gagawin nila. So, wala akong maintindihan sa mga pinag-uusapan nila. So, lalakihin the internally. So, sabi ko, I just need a better Discount. Sabi ko, if available Na yun at ready na kayo, Send na lang yun, Sa akin. Pero yun sabi niya, okay. Sabi niya, I'll give you back yung 20 minutes of your time. Sabi niya, Mag-uusap daw muna sila internally. Sabi ko, Nagpa-meeting pa kayo. E di sana nag-uusap, Na lang muna kayo. Tingin mo ba sinama ako. Speaker 3 00:02:16 Sinasayang yung oras ko, sabi ko. Nakakaloka. Kaya nga sabi ko, Tinapos na rin nila. Dahil wala talaga ko naintindihan sa pinag-uusapan nila kung paano, Internal process. Speaker 2 00:02:27 Ang ganoon nila. May meeting ka na ba nito, diba? Pagkatapos nito, may meeting ka. Speaker 3 00:02:31 Oo, kaya may hard stop ako ng 11.30. May meeting ako with, Pete naman and the finance Ladies para sa update. Speaker 2 00:02:43 Mamaya hapon tayo, diba, Steph? Speaker 4 00:02:46 Meron ako ngayong alas 12 din kami ni Elisa. Reimbursement. Speaker 3 00:02:53 Ano na sinasabi ang mga training with Elisa? Lahat ba kayo? Speaker 3 00:02:60 Ikaw, Steph, reimbursement. Speaker 4 00:03:05 Mamaya pa yung reimbursement. Yung sa OT and timesheet, tapos na kami. Tapos gross margin review pero naputol yung atin. Kasama ko si Christian. Uulit pa kami. Ay hindi. Gagawin na namin mamaya. Pero pag may mga tanong na lang. Tapos yun lang. Kami nakadalawa na. Speaker 2 00:03:24 Ano ba gagawin lahat yun, Steph? Yung monthly recurring lang yung satin. Tapos yung barricade na yung kabila. Sige. Speaker 4 00:03:33 Okay, Christian ako. Pagdating lang mamaya. Speaker 3 00:03:37 Maggie. Ano yung ginagawa natin? Yung kay Maggie, ano? Speaker 5 00:03:41 Eh, matagal. Charot. Tatlo na. Speaker 3 00:03:43 Ay, kung nga pala pinakamadami. Speaker 2 00:03:46 Ay, magpapili ka na lang Kung saan ka, project management o finance. Speaker 4 00:03:52 Tanong ko nga si Jane, Tapos naikwento ko yan. Sabi ni Jane, Pagbalik ni Elisa, Si Maggie na yung madam. Speaker 4 00:04:00 Magpapalit na daw kayo. Speaker 5 00:04:03 Ano ba yung nagawa na namin? Yung sa PTOs, Tapos yung, Ang madugo actually yung sa project ng. Speaker 3 00:04:33 PTOs. Speaker 5 00:04:12 Pag-update nung mga bago mag-queue up. Kasi lahat ng project, Ito check namin pala per, Invoice at saka PO. Pero, na-appreciate ko yun. Kasi at least kung may mali ako na yun, Paano ako nag-, Oh, alam mo na. Makikita ko siya. Oo. Diba? Parang, Pete, parang gusto ko na lang to. Charot. Speaker 3 00:04:35 Hindi, magandang opportunity din kasi Na feeling ko nga. Blessing in disguise na rin na Mag-maternity leave siya dahil nagkaroon tayo Ng opportunity na, alam mo yun, Pag-aralan talaga kung ano yung Nangyayari sa finance Kasi sa atin nagmumula eh Bago mapunta sa kanila eh. Sa kanila. Kaya parang. Speaker 5 00:04:55 Nakita namin yung, Mali ko doon Kasi nga may mali din Si ConnectWise. Hindi siya Nag-reflect doon sa, Second na DAP invoice Doon. So, At least that time, Doon din namin chineck kay Elisa. Kaya parang, ang tagal din nung training namin Kasi parang tinatapos namin. Papakita niya, tapos tatapusin, Namin dalawa. Tapos kahapon, Naman is yung mga Ang tawag nun, Speaker 5 00:05:25 Nakita namin din yung mga Open na POs, Or closed na PO, pala na hindi pa bayad. Tapos kung hindi ko pala bill. So, status Status lang naman yun. Pero, Ayan, okay na. Tomorrow, ata yung sa Sales Stock something. At least. Speaker 2 00:05:43 May meeting pa eh. Sama ba ako? Speaker 5 00:05:46 Oo, ata. Mininsan na ata ni Elisa. Speaker 3 00:05:52 Wait, nahanap ko yung senate Elisa na, List of trainings. Speaker 3 00:05:60 Nasa ano? JC. So, JC nga ba yan? Speaker 2 00:06:06 Ang ulit, ang ulit. Nakapark ata sa akin. Search ko lang. Speaker 4 00:06:13 Ano ba yan? Ay hindi pala. Speaker 2 00:06:15 Yun pala yung sinasabi ni Marikai na magulo. Kasi, oo, kasi, Ang ginagawa niya, Parang wala siyang process na steps, by step na ano. Speaker 5 00:06:29 Oo. Ako nga, Nag-notes na ako, tas biglang, Ay! Long cut pala. Yan ang ituturo niya. Ang gagawin pala yung shortcut. Speaker 3 00:06:39 Alam mo, feel free na sabihin sa kanya Na at least go direct to the point na lang Kung ano yung mas easier, And mas Shortcut, Na mas madaling ma-pick up. Yan na lang ituturo niya. Speaker 2 00:06:54 Diba, ano step sinabi ko yun? Sabi ko yung pababali lang, Trabaho ka ba. Ano sabi niya? Eh, ganun pa din. Tuloy-tuloy lang siya. Speaker 3 00:07:04 Feeling ko, ano niya yan, Even sa pag-write ng email eh, Nahahabaan ako sa kanya. Speaker 3 00:07:11 Napansin ko, parang Tulad nung kaninang reply Kay Michelle. Speaker 3 00:07:17 Dapat pinaprompt na lang niya na Direct to the point, shorter, but still, capturing yung important context. Anyway. Speaker 3 00:07:26 May pang-reprompt ko yan. Concise. Make this concise. Diba? Kasi, ikaw mismo sa sarili mo, Magbabasa ka ng ganong kahaba na email, Nakakatamad. Alam mo yun, Kaya, Dapat ilugar mo rin yung sarili mo Doon sa mga kaka-receive ng email Or nung mga kaka-receive ng training, Para at least, Alam mo yun, Maintindihan mo kung bakit, Mas gusto nila ng ganitong approach. Speaker 3 00:07:49 Anyway, So, yun, Sige, Pag kami naman na nag-training, Kasi, Hindi pa ulit natuloy yung training namin, Dahil last, Ito lang ako nagkaroon ng QB access. So, Speaker 2 00:07:60 O, kasi Steph nga, Di ba Steph ako kasi background na namin. Si Steph talaga hindi niya naintindihan, Hindi mo ganun naintindihan naintindihan yung turo niya, no? Speaker 4 00:08:08 Yung kahapon, ay yung Gross margin hindi. Pero yung first session, Namin sa timesheets, okay naman kami. Pero yung Kasama ka Christian, kaya sabi ko Sa'yo ako magtatanong. Kasi sabi ko, paano, Ako maintindihan yung context? Nagagalun ako. Hindi ko kasi maintindihan Eh. Speaker 2 00:08:26 Dapat mag-start niyo na siya sa ano. Speaker 3 00:08:32 Nirecord niyo pa NC Dave sa, Teams channel. Speaker 3 00:08:38 Kukunin niyo doon Sa para... Kunin niyo na dahil may expire yan Baka makalimutan niyo. Para hindi may expire doon sa Teams channel. Every after the training, Remind niyo na siya na i-download, And i-send sa inyo. Ikaw na nga kumuha lahat. Kasi sinabi ko sa kanya yan eh. Speaker 4 00:08:58 Sige, nilagay ko na sa Microsoft To Do ko. Sige, sige. Speaker 2 00:09:03 Okay. Speaker 3 00:09:05 Let's start kasi may hard stop ako. 11.30. Speaker 3 00:09:09 Okay. Personal, professional, good news. Grabe, wala na akong personal ng ilang ay kit sa buwan na. Speaker 3 00:09:17 Kasi laging umuulan lang. Speaker 2 00:09:19 Wala sa labas. Speaker 3 00:09:20 Mga check out ko. Wala ba? Speaker 3 00:09:25 Wait, kinabahan ako. Ano siya, answer? Wait, na-distract ako. Speaker 3 00:09:32 Ayun, nagpaplano ako bumili Ng standing desk na Kasi gusto ko nang, Maka-experience. And ayun, Pag nakakita ako ng Mga work from home set up Na ano, Shit, sabi ko, Pagkakaganoon sana naman ito. Kaya gusto ko Maiba naman. Kasi medyo Makalat at magulo yung, workstation ko. Gusto ko medyo Makalat at magulo. clean and walang masyadong kalat-kalat na even yung mga wires gusto kong i-organize kaya parang mas okay mag-work. So, oo nga, yun ang personal ko. And then, noong Monday pala, nag-quick kami kumain sa labas with the family kasi second month na nung pamangkin ko yung bunso. So, ayun, sinamantala namin medyo umaraw kaya nakalabas kami lahat. So, yun. Speaker 3 00:10:23 Kumain lang kami. And then professional, good news. Ayon, continuous learning pa din. Minsan may mga, like yung kahapon, Kung napapansin niyo may mga tanong-tanong ako about agreements. As I go, doon ko na papag-aralan talaga isa-isa. Hindi ko siya matutuko ng in one go. Like yung goal ko na rocks ko na pag-aralan talaga. Feeling ko kailangan ko ng... Alone time The whole day, Na yun lang yung tukan ko. Speaker 3 00:10:53 Kasi ang hirap, Yung pag-aralan Ng lagi kang kailangan, Na here and there April, April, Yung ganoon, Kaya parang Hindi ko siya matutukan, Kaya nga sabi ko Ngayong long weekend, Baka Monday Yun na lang gawin ko Since wala naman akong lakad So baka Yun, Mag-ano Pag-aralan ko yung, Yun nga Yung mga agreements, Na hindi ako familiar Like yung mga, Unusual Yung mga GMF na yan, Yung mga, Citrus na, Hindi natin usual na encounter Na nangayon ko lang nalaman na Meraki licensing lang pala sila. Speaker 3 00:11:25 At wala tayong recurring na support sa kanila. So, ayun. So, yun yung mga pag-aaralan ko. And then, misan kasi From time to time, magtatanong si, Pete na Ano yung tungkol dito kay ganitong, Client, ano yung services, or ano yung support Ang pinaprovide natin sa kanila. Alam mo yung Unless matatanongin ka. Kaya parang misan ang hirap na, Sabihin mo, So, Okay, let me. Pero sasabi ko naman sa kanya, ito check ko kasi hindi ko siya Kabisado ng lahat-lahat. Kaya parang Ang goal ko ngayon is at least. Speaker 3 00:11:55 Kung matanong man ako in the future Is yung alam ko yung gist or idea kung, Ano yung client na to. Ano yung mga ano. Pero alam ko mahirapan, Talaga kasi 60 plus clients yun. So kung paano, Mong makakabisado talaga Lahat yan. At least, mapag-aralan ko man lang siya ng pahapyaw Isa-isa. So, para ma-familiarize Yung sarili ko. So, Ayun, yun lang ang, Aking professional And personal good news. Maggie? Speaker 5 00:12:27 Wow! Okay. Ako naman sa personal good news. Ayun, thankful kasi naging, nung check-up namin nung Saturday ni Seg, kaya nag-lunch out din ako, is okay naman siya. Tapos kung ano yung nakita na scar dito sa left eye ko after nung surgery is okay na, wala na, sabi nito. And then, na-amaze din yung, kasi pumunta rin ako sa ophthalmologist ko, na doktor mismo. Tapos, nagpa... Speaker 5 00:12:59 Yung anti-rad na lang ako, ganyan. Tapos na-amaze siya kasi nga at yung side effect sa akin is hindi. Eh yung mga ibang patient niya kasi is talagang nahirapan ata. Yung parang dahil sa light, parang ang kailangan niya is yung glasses na talagang shaded siya. Ah, pag nagpagawa ng salamin, yung mga bagong opera. Iba daw kasi yung side effects. Speaker 5 00:13:29 Sa kanila. Dahil din Sa ibang klaseng, Surgery. Speaker 5 00:13:36 Tapos, ayun. So, okay naman. Mahal nga lang talaga yung drops Na parang i-maintain niya yung Eyes mo para hindi Mag-dry. Pero, Thank you, Lori, pa din. Speaker 2 00:13:48 Ganoong katagal yun, Mags? Mayroon bang certain time lang na. Speaker 5 00:13:52 Mag-dry. Yung one week namin, Yung one week namin ni Seg is every hour Yung dalawang drops. Tapos nung naka one week kami, every four, Hours na lang. Speaker 3 00:14:04 Paano pala yung, kunwari pag gising niyo, Di ba po huwag magkusot ng mata? You're turning visitor. As in talagang, i-wipe mo lang siya. Speaker 5 00:14:14 Unconsciously na, Ay, natatakot ako ba? May ganun daw, may ganun naman daw, pero, May ganun daw. Kailangan mo lagi mag-drops and drops. Alagi yung may drops. Pero kung may something kang na-feel na iba, Balik ka doon. Okay, okay. So yun talaga yung parang, Yung saot namin, Hanggang ganyan talaga siya. Kahit patulog? Oo. Kasi unconscious ka din minsan kapag tulog. Magaganon mo. Speaker 5 00:14:45 Kaya, yun. Masakit man sa likod. Pero, yun nga. Nag-tissue kaming ganyan ni Seg para hindi ganun kasakit. Pero, Ako, Naman, Nanay na na Nakaglasses or may nakasuot Kapag tulog. Sanay na sanay. Yun. Hindi lang Ako Nanay na hindi nakaglasses kasi ngayon sabi ko, 27 years Akong nakaglasses. Pero, ayan. Mga fashion-fashion na lang. Kaya mga Chine-check out ko is mga glasses. Ganun. Speaker 5 00:15:11 Uy, mga kapag shades na kayo ni Seg. Oo. At yun yung first namin binili ni Seg Nung after surgery namin. After first check-up Pala namin na ganoon. So, Nag-SM kami that time. Ayun. Tapos, ang dali kong personal Charot. And then, yung second naman is, hindi man kami, Nakalabas nung Anniversary na anniversary namin Dahil nga maulan. At ang gusto sana namin puntahan is yung. Speaker 5 00:15:42 Bundok na may, yung, Ay, yung Restaurant na nasa bundok, pero Maulan nga. Pero yan. Thankful for another year Together. And then, At least masaselebrate namin Sa Saturday. Ayan. Olo, biyahe kami. Yes. Kaya, Biyahe lang naman dyan sa La Union. Hopefully, may araw naman, Sana. Sana. Pero yun lang, hindi ako makakaswimming. Speaker 5 00:16:13 Kasi bawal. One month na, Bawal ang swimming. Tampi-tampi sa'yo. Speaker 4 00:16:18 Ano? Palahati lang. Speaker 5 00:16:20 Oo, ganyan lang. Speaker 2 00:16:22 Mahapdi siguro yun. Speaker 5 00:16:24 Oo, kasi yung chlorine, diba? At saka yung At saka yun, Yung tubig alat din. Pero yun nga, pag may mangyaring ganun, Drops-drops lang daw. Kaya maging okay. Professional good news naman, ayun, tama si April, natututo pa rin. Parang every time na may bago, doon mo matutunan. Tapos, yun nga, yung parang natutunan ko is more on siya sa invoicing, lalong-lalo na yung, mabilis lang naman, pero kailangan ko pa rin ng guide ni April. Speaker 5 00:17:05 Saka yung behavior niya, Speaker 3 00:17:06 Ito lang natin nalalaman na Yung mga, Converted into transactional Tapos naka-fixed fee, Hindi mo mabibill separately, Yung travel to, kailangan ibalik mo siya sa actual fee. Alam mo yun, Yung mga settings na, Nakaka-apekto sa invoicing, Dun mo maiintindihan Bakit ganito. Speaker 5 00:17:27 Bakit ganyan? Kaya delete ng Invoice, ganyan. Pero at least, ayun, natututo. Lalo na din yung, para mas mabilis na rin Kapag doon, meron sa agreement, ganyan. Tapos talagang aaralin mo Yung mga time entries nila. Kaya, yun, doon ko rin naintindihan pala Yung kaya nakahibang si Marvin sa tech, Kung paano sila mag, Time entry. Kasi kung ikaw yung totoo. Diba, kung ikaw yung client, Anong babayaran ko dito sa Time entry? Speaker 5 00:17:58 Kung paano mong babasahin? Yung ganoon. Ayan, tapos ito din, yung sa construction, ganyan, yung sabi ko nga kay Seg kahapon na parang nagawa mo na yung best mo o yung work mo, ikaw pa rin pala yung maghahanap ng paraan para may mabill ka, yung ganon, which is yung siya dapat yung magre-remind na ay, wala na akong na-invoice sa kanila, lalong lalong nakapag yung. Speaker 5 00:18:29 Client na hindi natin Dinadirect yung billing, yung, Meron silang way, yung kailangan I-approve ni client yung, I-invoice natin sa kanila, yung ganoon. Parang hindi nila napansin na March pa pala yung last, Na... Wala silang Tracker? Hindi ko din. Speaker 3 00:18:47 Alam. Dapat di kayo, Kumawa rin sila ng, parang Yung MRR tracker natin, yung, Monthly. Oo nga. Speaker 5 00:18:56 Yung parang, sa naman lang... Oo, natatrack nila, or kung hindi man na-approve, mag-follow up sila. Speaker 5 00:19:07 So, kaya doon sa reminder ko, at least doon sa mga training namin ni Elisa, nakita ko kung magkano yung deferred revenue per projects. Tapos makikita mo kung... Kailan na yung last na internal billing ko? Yung ganon. O di rin ba yung internal billing? Kasi parang, Kunwari, si Alpha, May sinadmit si Miguel. Speaker 5 00:19:38 Ay, si Miguel ba? O si Kuya Mark. Nagsabi si Kuya Mark na, Ito lang yung in-approve ni Alpha na Babayaran nila. Ipipil natin. So, gagawa ako ng down payment. Si Kuya Mark kasi nagsend na ng billing. Parang, Yung gusto nilang format, ganyan. Speaker 3 00:19:56 Ah, format billing to the, kung sino mang, Subcontractor. And then tayo, Internally sa Crimson, may separate, Billing na tayo. Speaker 5 00:20:07 Yung ginagawa nating normal billing na Pag ganun, parang, DP invoice sa atin. Kasi wala tayong products, Doon eh. Speaker 5 00:20:17 Kunwari, sabi ni Kuya Mark, 45,000 lang. Tapos ang gagawin Ko yung DP invoice is, 15,000 lang. 45,000 din, dun sa project na yun. Tapos, inunote mo lang dun na, Sinend mo kay Mark yung Invoice na to. So, malalaman yun ni, kunwari, Dumating na yung bayad na 45,000, Dun ibabangga ni finance. Kaya dun, ah ah. Speaker 3 00:20:42 So, yun yung internal invoice yan, kinuklose mo, Lang, hindi na sinasend? Speaker 5 00:20:46 Oo, kinuklose ko lang siya. Kasi hindi tayo nagsisend directly kay client. Kaya yun, dun nagagalit si Ate Jane nun kay Miguel at Kuya Mark na bakit sila nag-i-invoice na hindi kami or ako ini-inform. Kasi nagbayad siya, saan ko ibabangga sa invoice natin? Sabi nga nun. So, parang yung 45,000 ulit na yun, kung meron ng products na pwedeng i-bill, i-internal invoice ko ulit yun para mag-zero ulit yung tipin nila, yung bayad nila. Speaker 5 00:21:20 Ganon. Okay. Kaya, Another, Parang another, Parang ako ulit atang mag-remind sa kanila Na wala nang in, Ganito. Huwag ko i-take ownership mo na yun sa reminder. Speaker 3 00:21:35 Kasi, Partly, Baka, Mapunta rin ang sisi sa admin. Dali ko rin naman na nag-be-bill. Mag-extreme ownership ka na, Dyan sa partner yan. Mag-extreme ownership. Kasi ang hirap asahan nila kung Ganyan ang ganyan sila paulit-ulit kahit, Nasabihan na. Alam mo yun? Parang I-save mo na lang yung sarili mo. Kung ano yung pwede mong Ma-own dun sa process Na yun. Kasi yun ang, Parang sakit na nila. Speaker 3 00:22:03 Oo, kasi nung last, parang Wala ako. Parang nung last, Sabi ko. Si Jose, wala ka Maasahan. Wala. Speaker 5 00:22:11 Kaya nung last sabi ko, ito lang yung, Kasi nandun din naman sila, kapag Elisa, ito yung internal invoice ko sa project na ito, makikita nila na, ay, bakit ito lang? Parang ganun, diba? So magtataka sila na, ito lang yung, ay, hindi pala ako nag-bill ng ganito dito. So dapat maisip sana nila yun, parang ganun. Na alam naman nila na yun pala yung unang tinitignan ni Anzur, yung construction, kung magkano ang kita natin. Speaker 3 00:22:40 Kaya kahapon tinawagan ako. Speaker 3 00:22:44 Kaya nag-gulat ako, sabi ko, shit, wala akong alam eh kung tapos na yung billing or what, kaya nag-chat ako sa'yo. Nasa call ako noon kay answer yung message kita, sabi ko, tapos na ba? Sabi ko, sishag ko kay Maggie, sabi ko, but sabi niya, I'll make sure na sendan kita ng update today, sabi ko na lang sa kanya. But sabi ko yung the rest kasi ng billing is tapos na. So yun na lang na. Tsaka yung TS billing ko, sabi ko, yun, iko-complete ko dahil siya yung kahapon nga. Kaya tinutukan ko talaga siyang matapos kahapon. Kahit ang luha-luha na yung mata ko. Speaker 3 00:23:15 Sa mga time entries. Speaker 5 00:23:19 Kaya buti nga, Sa training na yun, At least nakita namin na meron sa Greenleaf. Pero ang ginawa ko pa kasi is Nag-transfer ako ng mga products Dun sa hindi dapat nilalagyan Ng project. Kaya dun ako Nababadrip na sila naman, Na nagbibigay sa akin ng project number Kung saan ko ilalagay yung, Product. Yun pala, sabi ni Seg, hindi yan nilalagyan ng product kasi yan yung pinakaunang kinonvert pa natin pang reference lang. Pero nung na-approve na, meron na tayong project. So yun, kabadrip. Kailangan ko i-transfer. Pero syempre hindi mo matatransfer yung mga close na POs na eh. So kailangan mong ilagay dun sa notes. Kasi yun, kinonform ko kay Elisa. Speaker 5 00:24:08 Magbabago ba ako ng PO? Sabi niya, huwag na, ilagay mo na lang dun sa notes. Sabi niya, ganyan. So, at least medyo napadali kaysa mag-generate na naman ng PO and all. Speaker 1 00:24:17 Sure. Hopefully. Speaker 3 00:24:21 Hindi natin alam kung ano pang improvement ang kayaan natin gawin with. Di ba nag-meeting-meeting na tayo? But, anyway. Speaker 5 00:24:29 Parang wala eh. Parang meron na naman yung last na, ang tawag na magpapa-order siya sa akin. So, okay. Okay, kuya. Tapos, siyempre, titignan ko doon sa Approved quote natin, doon sa quote Ni vendor. Kuya, wala yung ganito. Sabi ko, paano to? Hindi siya kasama? Or tatanggalin ko Siya? Ganyan-ganyan. Wait, tanungin ko muna kay vendor Kung kasama na ba siya. So, hindi muna nila binabangga sa quote Natin kung ano yung binibigay. Speaker 5 00:24:60 Nilang vendor's quote sa atin Bago i-order. Speaker 3 00:25:05 So, very professional na tayo. Anyway, magkaroon na lang tayo ng separate, Conversations sa mga challenges with Construction. Speaker 5 00:25:12 Nice. Yun lang, guys. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:25:15 Okay. Christian. Speaker 2 00:25:19 Grabe, no? Ang daming grant ni Maggie. Speaker 2 00:25:23 Construction. Speaker 2 00:25:27 Pero, personal, Wala rin naman ganun-ganap. Hindi kami makalabas. Ayun nga, nagpapa-approve Kami na God willing, magkaroon, Sa sariling sasakyan. Approved na kami. Speaker 3 00:25:41 Ah, congrats! Sorry na sa'yo lahat. Speaker 3 00:25:46 It'sinisiay pag ako Ang nag-na-approve. Bakit sa'kin eh, Prill? Huwag pinaka ba sa'kin? Speaker 5 00:25:53 Si Marvin pa. Pinakauna kasi yun. Pero si Marvin pa, Kasi noon eh. Speaker 3 00:25:59 May pinaka-approve ka ba sa'kin? Speaker 5 00:26:01 Hindi, parang signature ka lang Ata. Parang HR something ng company. Speaker 2 00:26:08 Okay, kasi yung. Speaker 5 00:26:09 Kotse ba yun? Speaker 2 00:26:13 Anong bank ba yun? Speaker 5 00:26:16 BDO at saka Hindi, parang Pinunta namin mismo kay, Nung una kasi Ichequia. Tapos sila ang magbibigay ng lahat Kung saan ang bank. Speaker 2 00:26:31 Kailan ang release daw. Speaker 3 00:26:39 Ng kotse? Speaker 2 00:26:40 By next week. Speaker 2 00:26:43 Congrats! Another liability. Another liability pong baboy. Speaker 2 00:26:50 Pero mabilis lang yan, Christian. 5 taon. 1 taon na maaya, Mags. Speaker 3 00:26:58 Iyon ba yung ino pa nga ba Sa inyo, Maggy? Ay, hindi. Yung Mirage na ngayon. Ah, Mirage na. Okay. Ah, yung gamit ni Sia nung last na Nagbago tayo. Speaker 2 00:27:08 Sa bagay, bago naman eh, no? Speaker 5 00:27:11 Kahit kapaasas. Oo, bago yun kasi, Kwan. Kasi parang kinuha siya ng bangko. Speaker 5 00:27:16 Kaya mas mura din konti. Parang binawi. Speaker 2 00:27:19 Di ba parang... Ah, doon kayo kumuha. Speaker 5 00:27:22 Oo. Mas Mura din. Speaker 2 00:27:27 Sa amin. Speaker 2 00:27:29 True. Sa bagyo kayo kumuha. Speaker 2 00:27:34 Kaya, pero ilang mileage? Speaker 5 00:27:36 Parang, 3,000 lang nabawas. Ah, okay. Kaya talagang super, Speaker 2 00:27:43 Oo. Tapos taga Baguio. Speaker 5 00:27:44 Tapos taga dito lang sa Baguio, kaya yun. Ah, okay. Sigurado mo yun na ba? Oo. Speaker 2 00:27:51 Ayun, yun yung personal, Thank God, na-approve. Eh. Araw-araw na prayer For monthly amortization. God will provide. Speaker 2 00:28:05 Ano pa kinuha nyo? Speaker 2 00:28:08 Expander. Same nung kaya na Jane, no? Speaker 3 00:28:12 Si Jane, approve din yun. Same din kay Jane. Expander yung kaya na Jane. Speaker 5 00:28:18 Na may black yung bumong. Na may black. Speaker 2 00:28:22 Cross din. Speaker 5 00:28:23 Oh, expander cross. Speaker 2 00:28:26 Oo, nice. Yung pala, tropa kami talaga ni Brian. Speaker 5 00:28:30 Tsaka talaga kasingkuhan, di ba? Mas tipid siya Sa gas. Super. Ang Mitsubishi. Speaker 3 00:28:38 Oo, Mirage. Tipid doon. Mirage, super. Sobrang tipid sa gas. Hindi pa. Speaker 2 00:28:46 Gasoline siya pa, pero okay naman Tayo performance. Ayun, tapos... Ay, yun nga yung sa Honda. Grabe yun. Diba? Nakwento ko na yun Sa inyo. Bakit? Yung na-experience namin, Nasiraan, tumirik. Tapos, yung pinagawa. O, diba? Nasayang pa yung PTO. Ganon. Speaker 2 00:29:11 Isang buong araw ako doon sa talyer. Tapos, nasira din, Pagka-uwi ng Batangas. Hindi na kami naka-uwi dito. Umuwi kami dito. Ano na, hired nang sasakyan. Tapos, pero, Talagang pagsubok lang din. Ayun, merong fear. Yun nga yung month, di na dagdagan. Pero, sige, necessity Na siya eh. Kapag pamilyado ka na pala. Kapag may bata, Ang hirap bumiayay, Ang daming bit-bit, Ang likot, diba? Speaker 2 00:29:43 So, necessity siya, sabi ko, okay lang yan. Baka, 10, 20 years from now, mapakamanap na. Talagaan lang tap. Speaker 2 00:29:53 Tapos professional, Another opportunity to learn, Yung nga yung ka-Elisa. Sana ma-work out niya yung, Kasi ang nangyayari sa training, Ang dami niyang, Segue na, ay, dapat pala Baguhin ko ba ito? Dapat i-improve, Ko ba ito? I mean, Nag-gets ko, pero kasi Ginagawa ko eh. Ginagawa namin ni Steph, So nag-gets ko yung goal. Yung gross margin report. So, sabi ko, Kung ganyan lang din, Speaker 2 00:30:24 Kaya nga sabi ko sa kanya yung, Ayan na, yun, ano, Elise, nakita na natin. Tapos, magno-notes pa. Kasi daw, kailangan pa daw mag-notes dahil, Para daw madali basahin ni Tony. Sabi ko, di naman binabasa yan ng tao. Habi ko, Di naman yung binabasa. Speaker 3 00:30:40 Notes saan? Spreadsheet ba yan? Speaker 2 00:30:43 Oo, dun sa report nga, gross margin daw. Kasi, Um, Ganon yung ginagawa namin, Yung difference lang, pati yung plus, Yung addition, Yung additional nakita. Oo, mag-notes. Sabi ko, ganyan na rin yung Sa report namin, pero sige. Speaker 3 00:31:02 Kailangan daw nila rin. Parang similar sa tracker. Oo. Pero ang nil-notes lang nyo lang kasi, Yung may mga drastic na Decrease. Speaker 2 00:31:13 Sa kanya, lahat daw, Kailangan daw Sa report namin. Magli daw talaga yun, whether I-check or hindi. Basta meron daw talaga si Finance. Nangintindihan mo finance side ba? Speaker 3 00:31:24 O, but that may available Info kasi. Every time. Speaker 2 00:31:28 Kailangan. So, yun. Ano lang madali, Kasi nandun eh. I mean, Sabi ko, hindi na gano'n notes eh. Pero sige, kung ano yung, Directive sila, sundin namin. Gagawin namin mga manistep. So, yun, learning opportunity. Nasa, ano na rin ako, Renewal Week. Tapos ko lang yung mga tickets sa iyan. Gatawad nung Iron Gate, Budget, Budget. Speaker 3 00:31:55 O yung ano ha, Meraki nung mga Phenormer Client, check mo. Baka nasa dashboard pa. Citrus? Ayan, isang sample yan. Kasi di alam nila, Chinky, Nagpasign sila ng quote. Hindi na pala natin. Kaya buti na lang. Speaker 2 00:32:13 Pero hindi coincidence sa kanila. Ako yung nag-send kasi sa Kanila for renewals eh. Ako ata nag-send. Speaker 5 00:32:22 Nag-alert kasi siya. Oo, nag-alert sa atin. So nakita ko na For renewal siya pero November pa. Sinend ko kay Sa sales. Kasi yun naman yung Parang sa atin. Speaker 3 00:32:36 Wait, nakikita yung alerts na yan sa dashboard? Hindi yan nag-create ng ticket? Sa admin na board. Okay. Speaker 2 00:32:45 Tapos, I-aano ko lang naman yung kalagabi, Diba? Speaker 3 00:32:51 Okay, ko-coordinate mo lang na. Pero itong si Trus, Since nag-sign sila, Syempre, Yun nga. And then sabi din ni Pete, Huwag daw muna i-off-board Kasi sabi niya, Let's see. Kung paano. So yung JMF? Kung yung JMF, Bukas ko pa, I-discuss sa kanya, Kasi ang hirap. Speaker 2 00:33:06 Wala yung invoice Or any activities, Ever since, Pri. Speaker 3 00:33:10 Kaya nga, puro lang sila, kailangan lang talaga nila ng partner kasi for Meraki licensing. Kasi may mga ganyang vendor na hindi sila basta-basta nagbebenta directly sa end user. Kailangan nila ng partner bago sila mag-licenses or mga ganyang, like ganyan yung Meraki. Tulad nung ano din, yung OpenText, yung CloudAlly or yung AppReward. Di pa nabanggit doon ni Vince na kailangan ng partner para maka-avail sila ng cloud backup na solution. Speaker 2 00:33:39 Kaya, ano to, charged talaga sila sa atin. Speaker 3 00:33:43 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:33:46 Tapos, ano, yun lang naman for renewals. Tapos plano ko na, ano, i-segregate na talaga yung licenses. Ang hihirapan ako sa hoodoo. Nahihirapan ako dito sa hoodoo na, ano, makita lahat ng, ano. Speaker 3 00:34:01 Wait lang. Stephanie, di ba Eric Lemus yung nilagay mo dun sa, ano, badge na, ano? Ang nilagay nila, Josh. Josh Lemus. Speaker 4 00:34:13 Wait, double check ko. Speaker 3 00:34:16 Sorry, Christian, go. Speaker 4 00:34:18 Ay, sa email ba yan? Speaker 3 00:34:19 Hindi, nag-teams chat lang siya sa akin. Kasi nakuha nila yung badge, But ang nakalagay, Josh Lemus, hindi Eric. Speaker 1 00:34:27 Alam mo. Wait, double check. Speaker 3 00:34:30 Check mo din sa notification Na nareceive mo sa. Speaker 2 00:34:33 USBT. Sa email mo. Speaker 3 00:34:38 Eo, ayoko dyan. Kikang kongking. Yabang-yabang. Speaker 2 00:34:45 Meri klemos naman sa phone. Speaker 3 00:34:48 Ah, nagkamali sila. Speaker 4 00:34:50 Tama naman. Saan USBT sa email? Speaker 3 00:34:56 Di ba pagkasubit mo ng request, May nag-notify sa'yo from USBT Na ganito-ganyan, Accepted na yung request na ganito. Speaker 3 00:35:06 Ah, eto, employee. Eric Lemus na kalagay. Speaker 1 00:35:10 Ah, wait. Speaker 2 00:35:16 Teka lang. Mukhang yung ano, no? Pala, no? Ha? Ano? Hindi pa rin talaga Mawawala yung computer accounts, no? Speaker 3 00:35:25 Diyan pabasok si ano? Problema yan nila, Olivia, Ang mangyayari. Kasi... Ever since naman, eh. Ever since, ano? Speaker 3 00:35:33 Kasi... Hindi pa nga, kasi Ang data source nung... Bright Gauge ay RMM. So, kung ang mangyayari, Kung matagal mag-swap Si tech, Matagal mag-swap, Matagal mag-rename, wala. Yun lang talaga ang magre-reflect dun sa, RMM. Yun ang Ipipick up ni Bright Gauge. Kaya talaga, Pag kung, kailan Mag-check si, kunwari, nag-send ka Ng report ng 15 or 16, And then, Yung dun magtatalo eh, kung kailan. Speaker 3 00:36:05 Na-assign yung ticket na yun, Speaker 3 00:36:08 Tapos kung kailan na-complete, And then versus sa, Date na nasend mo na yung report, And dun sa time na magchecheck si, Kevin yung dashboard, Dun magkakatalo kasi yung timing, Hindi nag-a-align. So, hindi Talaga makikita Ni Kevin yung real Updates na ina-expect niya. Kasi nga, hindi na-update, Ng, Hindi. Or kung ano yung expectation na ma-update tong Before the reporting Din natin. So, yun. Kailangan mo. Speaker 3 00:36:38 Pag-usapan natin yun sa call natin. Speaker 2 00:36:40 Next, next. Ako yung may isip, Kung sasuggest. Saan na yun? Sige, mag-usapan na lang. Speaker 3 00:36:46 Sa ano na lang natin. Call. Anyway, si Gusef, anong sabihin ko, Josh? Ay, Eric, kinilagay mo ha? Speaker 4 00:36:53 Dito sa ano, hindi ko makita, Yung email. Pero sa, Mybuilding.co, Eric naman nakalagay. Lemus. Okay, okay. Eric Lemus. Speaker 2 00:37:01 Ikaw na, Steph. Speaker 4 00:37:03 Ay, okay. Personal good news. Kanina habang Nagkikwento kayo ng good news nyo, Narealize ko na yung good news ko, Hindi pa pang adult. Bakit? Siguro mga after two years. Kasi this, I don't know, This Saturday, nang galing, Kahit bumabagal yung medyo babaan Code as in, mga hanggang gulong, Na yung dinaanan namin sa may Pangalan. Or semi-express sa ata yun. Pumunta ako ng Greenhills para Magpalagay at magpaayos ng mga. Speaker 4 00:37:35 Gaming consoles. So, yun yung good news ko. May mga bagong laro yun. Bago jailbreak yung Nintendo. May mga bagong laro. Pati yung Xbox, May bagong laro yan. Tapos, Yun. So, siguro, Yung adulting Wish ko mga after 2 years pa. Papaprobe din ako ng, Pag may mag-CI kay April. Ganyan. Speaker 3 00:37:58 Yes. Nag-assign na natin agad yan. Auto-approve. Speaker 4 00:38:02 After two years pa, Gusto kong kumuha ng loan For a house for investment. Ganon. Ay, bongga yan. Mga parental rental lang. Dito lang, Sa within the subdivision. Plano ko talaga yun. New visitor. Rating nook, ganon. Anyway, Tapos, Another personal good news, Yung Sunday, Biglang pumunta yung brother ko And, I don't know what to say. His family dito sa Cavite From Pampanga. Speaker 4 00:38:34 So, yun. And nagkataon, nandun din talaga ko yung isang pinsan ko, Nandito sa Tanza. So, ang dami-daming, Bata. Mga nine na pamangkin ko yung Nandun sa bahay ng parents ko. Wow! Masaya naman. Sobra. So, nakaka-drain after. Mga... Lahat sila tumatawag. Tita, tita, Tita, tignan mo ito. Tita, Bilhan mo ako ng ganyan. Kasi ako na lang yung... Kung walang kids of my own. So, sanay sila na parang. Saka sinasanay ng kuya ko. Doon ko yung sa tita niya magpabili. Speaker 4 00:39:04 Mayaman yung ginaganon niya. Kasi wala pa yung mga anak. Speaker 3 00:39:05 Ay, ganito yung mga pamangkin ko. Diba? Sabihin yung pamangkin ko. Sabihin, doon na nga lang ako kay tita. Mayaman siya. Sasabihin nun. Speaker 4 00:39:16 Doon na lang ako kay tita mapabili. Kay tita pwede magpabili ng Roblox. Mga ganyan-ganyan. Tapos yung kuya ko, sinasanay pa. Pero joke lang naman. Half-ment pag sa brother. Pero sa mga pamangkin ko sa kasi, yung other five na nandun, ano naman. Siyempre, mahiya naman yun. Pero siyempre, wala pa naman akong ganong responsibility of my own. Maliban sa iba. Nabibilan mo? Nabibilan mo? Oo. Grabe yung pagpasko pa mo. Teta, tita ka rin ni Kayloma. Di mo alam. Speaker 5 00:39:48 Iba kasi, parang kapag pamangkin mo siya, ay parang ang saya na hindi ka makaka-know yung gano'n. Kapatid ko, pwede mo pang ignore eh. Pero kapag yung pamangkin mo na yung mga ganyan, wala. Gusto mo pa kayo ng pamangkin mo, diba? Speaker 4 00:40:04 Oo. So, yun. Tapos, pumunta sila ng Sunday. Monday Monday is holiday, Philippine holiday, so walang basis yung kids. Kaso, paloka. Kasi nga, umuulan. Ano sila? Monday ng 12 midnight. 2pm sila umalis ng Monday. 10h sila sa NLEX. Parang gano'n. Ang lalang ng NLEX sila. Speaker 2 00:40:30 Pumasok ng August, lumabas sa September. Speaker 4 00:40:32 Oo, gano'n yung nangyari sa, Kapatid ko, saka sa sister-in-law ko. So yun. Tapos, Yun ang personal good news ko. At least nakapunta, Sila. Sila naman yung bumaba. Pero this month, next weekend, I think. Not this weekend. Pupunta naman kami doon Sa Pampanga ulit. And then, kasi birthday, Ng pamangkin. Tapos, Professional good news. Ano ba? Ayun, Okay naman yung, Pros naman kay Elisa. Okay naman yung sa OT. Speaker 4 00:41:03 Timesheet namin na Training. Siguro, napansin, Ko lang din sa kanya na, Uh... Parang nag-iisip siya habang nag-train. Kaya siguro, kung hindi mo masundan yung train of thoughts niya, Malilito ka, lalo na kung walang context. Yun. So, ayun, medyo naintindihan ko naman. Yung pangalawa lang talaga, yung kasama ko doon sa gross margin, Medyo naguluhan ako ng konti kasi Ang dami niya naisip habang ginagawa yung training. Speaker 2 00:41:36 May gusto kaguluhan sa ano niya, cloud niya. Speaker 4 00:41:38 Pero yun pa pala, another positive thing naman din kay Elisa. Merong isang feature yung Mga tools niya Na sabi ko nga kay Christian, Pwede namin gawin doon sa billing reconciliation Which is yung, kasi diba Offline tool siya or artifact siya, On your end lang yung mga ginagawa mo. Sa kanya, meron siyang feature Na pwede nga save yung session. Para kung saan ka, Natapos, pwede mo ipasa. Hindi na uulitin yung other person, Yung ginawa mo. Speaker 2 00:42:06 Pwede nga yun na yung gamitin mo eh. Gamitin natin eh. Speaker 4 00:42:09 Actually, sabi ko yun. Magandang feature yun. Napansin ko rin Parang kung paano, Nag-turn yung bila sa utak niya Habang, yun nga lang, medyo Kung nag-train ka, medyo sometimes, Pag di mo nasundan, malilito ka na all throughout. So, yun. Professional, Goodness ko yun. Nasundan ko naman I think, yung iba Sa first training. Yung iba, kaChristian, Ko na itatanong. And then, Ano pa ba? Speaker 3 00:42:36 I'm sure challenging lang naman yun sa umpisa, but, Along the way, Mag-grasp na natin yung idea Paano and ano, yun. Speaker 4 00:42:45 Tinanong ko rin siya kung gaano. Speaker 3 00:42:47 Oo, makagawa din kayo ng own, Best practice nyo Based dun sa naging training. Siguro yun ang nag-work sa kanya. But ikaw, personally ko, ikaw na, Gagawa. Baka makahanap ka ng mas better Na approach dun sa, Task. Speaker 4 00:43:03 Ngayon ko lang din nag-gets yung sinabi ni Christian, Na medyo mahaba. Narealize ko lang Habang sinasabi ko. Yung training namin For timesheets, Parang one hour din siya Or more, Or one hour. Pero nung tinanong ko Si Elisa all day, Pero nag-guess ko naman, Appreciate ko naman, Kasi binibigyan niya Ng context, Bawat sinasabi niya. Tapos tinanong ko siya How long, Does it usually take Na ginagawa niya, Yung process na yun. Sabi niya, Madali lang naman daw. Kung baga rin sinabi Ni Christian na, Meron naman palang shortcut, Sa long cut. Anyway, Speaker 4 00:43:33 Pero sa akin, Okay lang naman, Either. Ah, yun ay sa... Speaker 2 00:43:37 Kasi ano, yung sa meeting, Kasi, ang haba Nagugulat ako eh, sayang. Speaker 4 00:43:43 Naman yun. Pag naka-block Ngayon, naka-block parang 1 hour, 1 hour and 30 minutes, naka-block sa calendar, Masabi ko, okay. Tapos, Yun sa, Professional. Tapos sa marketing naman, I think, magiging, Better moving forward yung marketing Kasi nga, under na siya sa admin, And then si April na rin yung parang magiging update nga pala. Marketing. Actually, almost done na ako. Challenges na lang yung wala. Puska talaga ni Anzor. Speaker 4 00:44:16 Gumawa na ako ng, Super detailed, pero meron din Namang hindi. At a quick glance detailed ng lahat, Ng marketing Scope and tasks, which is medyo Madami siya. Pero, Ang good news dun Is, Internal na siya. O mag-actualize kasi Ang challenge namin is, Meron akong ginagawa internal Tapos may pinapagawa sa kanya Na hindi naman ako nakikisali. So, hindi namin alam Yung ginagawa ng isa-disa. So, now na si April yung gano'n, Speaker 4 00:44:47 Siya na yung mag-a-approve, Siya na yung mag-re-review. Mas madali. I think. Speaker 3 00:44:51 Hindi na basta-basta Pwede magpagawa, Ng materials kay Stephanie Without Dumadaan muna sa akin. Without may approval. So, kung nakita ko, I know. It's a no for me. Speaker 4 00:45:06 It's a no for you. May mga nagpapagawa kasi tapos, It's either hindi naman gagamitin Or may gusto pala silang Pabago or may binago na sila. Hindi ako na-update. Mag-ingin na latest version niya nasa NHL. So, yun lang. Good news. Bad news. Gusto niyo ba? Pwede naman. Sharing mo din. Baka may mga challenges ka. Challenges. Ko lang. Hindi ko na nabalikan yung Yung task. Speaker 4 00:45:37 Hindi ko na nabalikan yung kay Maggie na converting. Which is, kayo nakapag-hands-on kayong dalawa doon. Hindi ako nakapag-hands-on Doon. Yung pinakauna Pang training ni Maggie. Pero, Nag-try ako. Pero, parang hanggang step 15 Lang yung kinaya ko. Medyo madaming ganap ngayon. May hiring, may ganito, may man-end. Speaker 3 00:45:56 Pwede mo naman siyang Gawin, Kung kailan ka free time. Kung kailan ka free, kasi daily naman yan eh. May dumarating naman lagi na conversion. So, ayun. As magkaroon ka, Ng ano, basta yung priority mo Is... Gano'n na lang. Speaker 4 00:46:13 Yun lang naman ang medyo... Speaker 2 00:46:15 Yeah, don't worry na... Second week yung pinaka-ano ko. Maluwag. Speaker 3 00:46:20 Actually ngayon, after ng TS billing up until the 15th, Yan medyo, feeling ko doon ko napapansin Na medyo maluwag si... Medyo ha. Ayokong magic. Speaker 2 00:46:30 Unless merong, Bagong client, no? Speaker 3 00:46:33 Oo, kaya nga di ko tinuloy eh. Yung medyo, oo. Speaker 4 00:46:36 Feeling ko mga next week, Mga midweek next week, Meron pa kasi nung, Nag-start na rin yung Sa monthly security report, Ganyan. So, yun. Saka yung transition Ng bagong cadence natin, Sa marketing for posting, Review ng blogging, Ganyan. So, I think medyo may konting Ano lang, adjust. Speaker 3 00:46:56 Wino-worry ko nga din pala Is yung accounts payables Yung sumasapit sa akin. Feeling ko, Sana, Two months lang naman yan, But yun nga, Ang magiging challenge ko dyan Is yung end of the month, Which is yun nga, Nagt-TS billing din ako, And then at the same time, Papasok din dyan, Yung mga accounts payables Ni finance. So, dun ako medyo... Speaker 5 00:47:18 Pero parang nasa 25 siya, no? Ganon? Speaker 3 00:47:21 Alam niyo, Accounts payables. Puan siya. Sabi niya, Every 1530 eh. Every cut. Basta may cut-off siyang sinabi Na twice a month siya nangyayari. So, yun. Next week ko pa siya Mag-review. Speaker 3 00:47:34 Pero, Pag nataon ka, Yung buwan na yun, Madaming na close na ticket, Yari ka. Kasi, Ang dami mong re-review yun isa-isa. So, yung test na ginawa ko, Kahapon, ang dami. Nagulat ako. Kasi may times na, Konti lang, easy siya. Ilan lang yung reviewin mo. Tapos, kahapon, nagulat ako. Ang dami. Kaya sabi ko, shit. Kaya na, ano ako, Na pressure ako na baka, shit, baka di kumata. Speaker 3 00:48:04 Kaya kahit lunch, nagtrabaho pa rin ako. Para lang umabot sa Update kasi answer, Kasi baka kulitin Na naman ako anong nangyari. So, anyway. Speaker 2 00:48:16 Kasi ang hirap kasi, Ng transition eh. From reports, To invoice eh. Speaker 3 00:48:21 True. Ayun pala. Ayun pala ang dapat natin pag-usapan. Di ba napag-usapan natin na paghahatian Ang ano bang mas easier? Paghatian ang reports O paghatian ang billing? Speaker 2 00:48:34 Yung billing, mas madali. Kasi, ano na yan eh. fix na yan eh. Speaker 3 00:48:39 So, yung reporting? Speaker 2 00:48:40 Mas madali siya. Yung reports Kasi, ano ever changing? Alam mo Naman yun, di ba? Depende kay client, Minsan kapag mag-reply and all. Speaker 3 00:48:48 Kasi yan yung iniisip ko na i-distribute na lang Kay Maggie and kay Stephanie Na yung mga Pwede mong ibigay na hindi Ganun kahirap na clients na Ibigay mo na lang dun sa dalawa. Speaker 2 00:49:02 Kulang tayo rin kasi Ng tao, really. Nakikita ko rin, tinignan ko yung ticket mo, Mags. Sabi ko, hindi naging ganito. Hindi naging kukusang ticket to. Ang hirap kasi, Mags. Speaker 5 00:49:14 Sabi ko, oh my gosh. Tapos, Dalawa board ko, Christian. Procurement And Admin. Speaker 2 00:49:20 Sabi ko, tapos naman ito. Tingin. Sabi ko, dami na rin ano. Pero ako naman kasi yung maluwag na time ko for renewals. Speaker 3 00:49:28 Talaga. Nagmumukha lang Namang kulang sa tao, Kung yun kasing deadline at sabay-sabay. Doon lang naman. Pero pag maluwag tayo. Hindi natin extend eh, no? Hindi naman. Kaya hindi ko talaga Ma-reason out kay Lapid Na magdagdag. Kasi hindi. Nasa ano talaga lang. Sa management and timing kasi. Nagsisiksik lahat either sa 30th, Sa 15th. Yun. Doon lang talaga siya. Speaker 3 00:49:59 Ang nagiging maluwag lang natin Is yung first two weeks of the month. Tapos 15 onwards yan. Diretso na yan. Speaker 2 00:50:07 Wala na nga tayo. Ano yan eh. Wala. Speaker 5 00:50:12 May tanong ako, Mi. May good news ba tayo sa pag-help ng finance? Speaker 5 00:50:19 Ba't di may good news? Sa two months? Parang may extra ba tayong, Good news? Speaker 5 00:50:24 Like ano? Speaker 3 00:50:28 Hindi, kasi syempre, Hindi tayo mababawasan ng work. Ano ba yan? So, tanong ko kayo, Mi. May spot bonus ba to? Speaker 5 00:50:37 Kahit yung two months lang na yun. Kasi feeling ko kung mawawala talaga Si Elisa. Speaker 5 00:50:45 Lalo na kapag... I mean, yung... Speaker 2 00:50:46 Ako nga, kasi. Speaker 5 00:50:49 Instead of punan si Jane sana, Speaker 3 00:50:52 Yung ibabayad doon. Kay Jane, isabayad na lang sa admin. Speaker 5 00:50:56 Sige. Siguraduhin natin, kaya natin, Christian. Siguraduhin nyo lang, ha? Speaker 3 00:50:59 Kaya natin, yan. May de-deliver nyo yung expected na ano. deliverables. Speaker 2 00:51:06 Madali na siya sa reports eh. Gano'n na ano. Kasi tayo nag-handle nga ng front-end Tapos sila nandito lang pala. Speaker 3 00:51:14 Feeling ko, papayag lang yan si Pete Pag nakita na niya yung results. Like, for the first month, nawala si Elisa. Tingnan natin. Kailangan natin maging. Speaker 2 00:51:24 But, ano naman si, Pete eh, alam mo naman yun. Very generous din naman. Speaker 3 00:51:30 Pero, before mo maano, Talagang kailangan mag-justification na But kailangan ito ng ganyan, Kailangan niya ng bonus, Kailangan niya ng increase, gano'n. Pero kung ikokompare mo siya kay Sa ibang ano. Si Anzor hindi rin naman gano'n kahirap. Si Juan. Si Robert. Medyo, ano siya, Dapat may stats or numbers kang ipapresent sa kanya. Why? Gano'n. Ito medyo madali-dali silang i-sweet. Speaker 3 00:52:02 Yung si Robert, medyo mahirap siyang anahin. So, ayon. Anyway, pag ano yan, babagiting ko rin sa kanya sa isa sa mga one-on-one namin. Yan. Speaker 3 00:52:15 Nice. Speaker 2 00:52:16 Buti sa tama yung ginagawa ni Maggie. Puro ka perahan ba? Speaker 5 00:52:23 Oo, kasi nakikita mo nagbayad to eh. Charot. Hindi ka din. Hindi, parang... Parang yun, yung training Natin with them is dagdag siya sa time natin, diba? Para sa gagawin natin. Spot bonus. Speaker 3 00:52:40 Spot bonus sa amin. Speaker 2 00:52:41 Oo, April. Baka naman, diba? Sipagin tapos sipagin tayo, diba? Uy, sinisipag naman tayo eh. Kaya di ako mag-OT ako. Masisipagin ka, diba? Masisipagin ka talaga. Speaker 3 00:52:54 Tandaan mo, may bago kang babayaran. May sasakyan kang babayaran, kaya nga hindi ka uma-absent, gano'n. Kasi Isang araw na mawala ka, magkano ba ako Sasahod yan? Speaker 2 00:53:07 Naghahanap ka na ng, trabaho, no? Ano ba ang mga trabaho Pwede gano'n? O, saan pa? Saan pa? Speaker 3 00:53:12 Gano'n. Dahil may babayaran ako. Bigyan niyo ako ng malamang tamang trabaho. Speaker 2 00:53:18 Oh, diyan. prayer talaga. prayer lang talaga. God will provide. Speaker 2 00:53:26 Trial provision na to ni Lord. Speaker 3 00:53:28 Yes. Oo naman. Speaker 2 00:53:30 O, spot bonus tayo. Baka naman ano, Malay mo, Mag-extend si Elisa Ng leave, di ba? Oo, dagdag pa tayo Ganyan, December. O, Busy yung takeover. Speaker 5 00:53:41 Na naman yung finance Pero Sa pagsasahod. Tapos sabihin natin Na gano'n, Baka pagbalik ni Elisa, Para mas less yung work nga, Ganyan. Ibigay niya sa atin. Speaker 2 00:53:52 Oo, dagdag na talaga, Di ba? Speaker 4 00:53:55 April, yung sa Cove ba Nare-replyan yung building at Cove? Oo, dapat, Makikita nila yan. Speaker 2 00:54:05 Saan nag-e-email dapat sa'yo yun eh. Speaker 3 00:54:07 May notification ka dapat. Speaker 4 00:54:09 Pero ano to, hindi to no-reply. Pwedeng replyan to. Or generated lang tong buildings at Cove. Speaker 3 00:54:16 Wait, eto. Kasi pag nag-reply ka dun sa mismo, Cove na website, Kasi pag-reply ka dun sa mismo site. Parang ano lang yan eh, email confirmation, parang gano'n. Speaker 4 00:54:30 Eh, ito, close na siya. Speaker 3 00:54:31 Ah, na-close niya. Alam, mag-ano ko na lang, kung na-close Niya, punta ka na, oo, New ticket, tapos, ano, Sige, punta ka doon sa new ticket. Access and security, Tas issue type mo is, Ayan, access changes. Speaker 3 00:54:49 Tas i-describe mo na lang, Na mali, yung name ni Ako. Speaker 3 00:54:54 Bigyan mo na lang yung badge number, yung Nandun sa picture, yung last five digits. Speaker 3 00:55:00 Ayan. Okay, so, Five minutes left. Let's move on sa Ano. Ano yan? stats? Tapos kayo na bahala sa the rest na, Kasi kailangan ko mag-jump na Ng 11.30. Speaker 3 00:55:14 Wait, nasa Ng ating scorecard? Speaker 2 00:55:18 Ano ko lang to? Ano itong ConnectWise pala, April? auto-renewal naman to, pero Kailangan nyo ba itong ticket na to? Nakikita ko sa admin eh. Speaker 3 00:55:27 Ah, yun. Kakasign lang natin ng ano eh. RMM and ScreenConnect. Pero itong PSA, which is Itong ConnectWise Manage, BrightGage, hindi pa ata. Pag mga ganyan, sign mo na sa akin. Renewal ng ConnectWise. Speaker 2 00:55:44 So, Salesforce, Close lang to ano? Speaker 3 00:55:48 Check ko yan eh. Salesforce? May Salesforce ba tayo? Speaker 2 00:55:52 Hindi, yung itong ticket na bago, Yung Winter 27, hindi na lang sa atin. Speaker 3 00:55:57 Ah, okay. Speaker 3 00:55:60 Hayan, Snail tickets natin, Oh tumas tayo today. Oh this week pala, Week 36-27. Speaker 3 00:56:09 Diyos ko yung si Ruben ha. Hindi ko na talaga, tanungin ko na, Kay Anzor. Sabi ko, Anzor, Hindi talaga siya nag-reply sa mga Porsche experience na yan. Close ko na to. Okay mo na sa amin. Charis. Oo. Speaker 3 00:56:24 Natamad na ako, Mag-follow up eh. Hindi ko na nga Pina-follow up. Natamad na lang ako. Anyway, Ayan, Warranty, Subscriptions. Speaker 2 00:56:34 Ano, Yun nga, Sa budgeting Ni, Ano, Iron Gate. So, Okay naman tayo. Wala naman tayong Namimiss na ano. Pati itong kay Sophos. Hindi ko pa nakuwento sa'yo, Pril, pero sa tingin ko pala, nasa isip ni Jingi, sa akin galing yung quote, kaya pinasa niya sa akin yung paghingi ulit ng quote doon kay Ingram. Speaker 3 00:56:60 Ano yung sinasabi ni Seb na kailangan i-check mo din per user? Speaker 2 00:57:05 Diba doon sa admin and security, nagbigay sila ng list ng user. Speaker 2 00:57:13 Dati kasi, ang ginawa ko lang Dyan para i-renew, Pinasa lang kay Sales. Tapos si Sales na yung nagko-contact, Kay Charles. Tapos si Charles na yata, Yung nagsasabi kay Sales na ilan lang Yung user nila. This time, Ano, binaliktad. Speaker 3 00:57:29 Dapat alam mo na yung user. Magbibigay mo kay Sales. Speaker 2 00:57:33 Hindi, hindi. Kay Charles. Speaker 3 00:57:35 Kay Charles. Speaker 3 00:57:39 Wait, ang Sophos, ay tama, per user nga pala yun, no? Speaker 2 00:57:44 Pero meron siyang range. Kung magkano yung 200 to 400. 200 to 400 users yung license nila, pero nasa 240 something lang. Si Kellogg? Oo. Ah, okay. Tapos, Renew was, so far wala akong problem. Amaya sa, ano yun, yung parang shoutouts. Si Iron Gate daw sabi ni Vincent Na bibigyan na tayo ng specific, Card para sa. Speaker 2 00:58:16 Kanila sa mga licenses nila. We just have to be careful lang daw. Yun yung disclaimer niya. Ang mga pag-add. Speaker 5 00:58:23 So parang iisa na lang? Wala na yung... Speaker 2 00:58:26 Wala nang per virtual. Speaker 5 00:58:30 Okay. Speaker 3 00:58:31 It's left. 8th floor tayo. Speaker 3 00:58:35 Okay, RMA. Speaker 5 00:58:37 Wala naman ngayon. Speaker 3 00:58:39 Perfect. Speaker 5 00:58:40 Meraki license. Wala din. Si Newmark. Kasi hindi pa sila nagbabayad, Mi. So... Speaker 3 00:58:49 Wait, ng down payment? Speaker 5 00:58:51 Mm-mm. Wala pa naman daw, sabi ni Maricar. Hindi nag-follow up si Maricar. Hindi ko nga alam. Yun din yung i-clarify ko sa kanya na, Dapat ang down payment After three days din na Assignment. Na, oo, after three days ko i-send, dapat mag-follow up siya. Speaker 3 00:59:13 Ay, o tama. I-inform mo rin si Miguel. Siyang project manager na sabi mo lang na hindi pa sila nagda-down. Okay, sige. Kailangan on top siya dyan eh. Speaker 5 00:59:25 Oo, kasi ito, itatawag ko muna kay Meraki for grace period. Kasi diba ang yun gamit natin is yung loan lang. Loaner. Oo, yung loaner natin. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:59:36 Okay. Disputes? Ano? Question? Wala. Speaker 2 00:59:42 Meron lang. Hindi naman dispute. Cloud Alley. Speaker 3 00:59:49 Sa. Speaker 2 00:59:50 Inyo. Meron kayo. Speaker 3 00:59:55 Maggi, hindi naman dispute yung IGP, no? Yung pinababago lang. Hindi naman. Speaker 5 01:00:01 Wala pa. Speaker 5 01:00:03 Baka next. Speaker 5 01:00:05 Charot lang. Speaker 3 01:00:07 Okay. Sige, huy, 11.30 na. Kayo na dun sa The Rise, tapusin nyo na lang. Speaker 5 01:00:13 Okay. Bye, guys. Bye.
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- Date: 2026-09-04 08:58:29 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: Christi ## Summary This session, the second day of training for the CoStar Foundation, provides a thorough, hands-on walkthrough of Microsoft 365 Copilot across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and the standalone Copilot Chat app. The agenda is flexible and responsive to participant questions from the prior day (September 3, 2026). The instructor welcomes returning attendees and new Crimson staff (Ryan from the AI team and Julia, a project manager) and emphasizes interactive participation. Core topics include the CoStar Foundation’s AI Acceptable Use Policy, Copilot’s placement within the Microsoft ecosystem, enterprise data protections, and extensive live demos. The instructor stresses using AI as a tool, not a replacement for human judgment. Outputs must be reviewed, and disclosure is required when AI meaningfully influences public-facing content. Sensitive data (PII, student records, personnel, and confidential financials) must be used only within the enterprise Copilot environment and never in public AI tools tied to personal accounts. The policy is evolving and encourages flagging inappropriate outputs. Enterprise Copilot, operating within the Foundation’s Microsoft tenant, is approved, respects existing permissions, and doesn’t train public models. Copilot can be accessed three primary ways: within Microsoft apps (contextual to the open content), via Copilot Chat (organization-wide context with model selection), and respecting access permissions. Copilot does not integrate with Microsoft Access. Live demonstrations showcase Copilot in Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel: - Outlook: Summarize long email threads, draft replies (Alt+I), propose times using calendar data, and prioritize inbox items using AI-driven rules and tone detection. The instructor highlights a new feature for summarizing supported Microsoft file types directly in Outlook, differences between “old” and “new” Outlook, and a practical workflow: treat Copilot drafts as a starting point, remove redundant signatures, adjust tone, add citations, and apply a 70% AI/30% human judgment heuristic. Email prioritization should be enabled, observed for a day or two, then tuned with rules. - Teams: During live meetings (with transcript enabled), Copilot can recap discussions, capture questions (including who asked what), generate agendas and highlights, auto-populate Notes when the facilitator feature is on, and export interactions to Word or Pages. Post-meeting Recap includes AI notes, slides, follow-up tasks, transcripts, and topic breakdowns. In Teams channels, Copilot summarizes recent activity for quick catch-up. - Word: Copilot’s document-scoped chat suggests prompts (summarize, improve, ask questions), supports chat-only vs. direct-edit modes, and lets users reference Loop notes via forward slash to draft meeting summaries. It shows a planning phase before producing editable drafts and supports structural and tone edits through iterative prompting. Version History (File > Info > Version History) requires saving to OneDrive. - Excel: Copilot analyzes workbooks to surface insights, create graphs, and suggest follow-up questions, sometimes generating a new analysis tab. Processing time varies with dataset size; patience and iteration are encouraged. The instructor notes a strong preference for Copilot in Excel and recommends “arguing” with Copilot to refine outputs. Copilot Chat, accessible via Teams or as a standalone app (Start > Microsoft 365 Copilot), offers Work vs. Web modes. Work mode grounds responses in organizational data (Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint) respecting permissions; Web mode relies on public internet sources while maintaining enterprise protections. A shield icon indicates enterprise data protection is on and cannot be disabled. Users can personalize outputs via custom instructions (tone, formatting) and select AI models, with a model picker enabled for this group. Auto selection is recommended, with Claude (Sonnet/Opus) generally strong for drafting/rewriting and GPT strong for research, citations, and structure. Users are encouraged to compare model outputs for the same queries. Data safety guidance reiterates that enterprise Copilot is safe for internal context but does not alter outbound safety obligations—users remain responsible for what they send externally. Sensitive “yellow zone” items (student work, observation notes, HR info) require judgment and policy alignment; prohibited inputs include passwords and financial credentials. Attach sources when sharing Copilot-generated summaries to ensure recipients can access originals. Operational notes include: all participants have Copilot licenses, restart the computer if prompted for license activation, and per-app settings can toggle Copilot features (e.g., in Outlook) if distracting. The instructor and Crimson staff will send recordings, notes, and recaps (via Kashif), and additional trainings are scheduled for October and November, with marketing producing supplemental videos. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Training Structure, Policy, and Guardrails - Interactive session with recordings and materials distributed afterward; demos use sample datasets and some participant-provided data (e.g., Steve’s). - AI Acceptable Use Policy principles: 1. AI as a tool; human review required. 2. Protect sensitive information; use enterprise Copilot only. 3. Disclose meaningful AI use in public-facing content. 4. Report incorrect or inappropriate outputs via built-in feedback. 5. Policy will evolve with technology. - Enterprise Copilot respects permissions and doesn’t train public models; avoid personal AI tools for foundation data. ### 2. Accessing Copilot - Inside Apps: Contextual “Copilot” button in Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Loop. - Copilot Chat: Standalone or within Teams; can search across emails, files, chats, calendar; model selection available. - Permissions respected across the suite; no integration with Microsoft Access. ### 3. Teams - Live meetings: Turn on transcripts for recaps; ask Copilot to recap, list highlights, or clarify what specific participants asked; export chats and notes. - Post-meeting: Recap tab includes AI notes, slides, tasks, transcripts, and topics. - Channels: Copilot summarizes recent activity; thorough recaps help catch up after absences. - Security: Shield icon indicates enterprise data protection. ### 4. Outlook - Summaries for long threads; file summarization for supported Microsoft formats. - Drafting with Copilot (Alt+I): specify intent and tone, then refine; remove duplicate signatures, adjust structure and tone, add citations. - Prioritization: AI assesses tone and content; enable prioritization, observe behavior, then add rules; works well for downgrading automated notifications. - Feature availability varies between “old” and “new” Outlook; use settings to locate features in new Outlook. ### 5. Word - Document-scoped chat with suggested prompts and manual commands; highlight text for targeted edits. - Toggle direct-edit vs. chat-only modes based on sensitivity and preference. - Reference Loop notes with forward slash to assemble meeting summaries; finalize drafts with “Done.” - Use Version History via OneDrive save to revert if needed. - Iterative prompting for structure and tone to match personal voice. ### 6. Excel - Workbook analysis generates insights, visuals, and follow-up prompts; may create new tabs and display processing indicators. - Iteration recommended to refine insights; processing time depends on dataset size. ### 7. Copilot Chat, Models, and Personalization - Work vs. Web modes for internal vs. public research; protections always on. - Model picker: Auto recommended; Claude (Sonnet/Opus) excels at drafting; GPT excels at research and structured outputs; compare outputs when useful. - Custom instructions tailor style and formatting; temporary chat available; chat settings include appearance and personalization. ### 8. Safety, Responsibility, and Practices - Enterprise protections safeguard internal data but do not guarantee safe outbound sharing; users must double-check recipients and attach sources. - Avoid entering passwords, credentials, banking info, or personal Microsoft account details. - Judgment required for sensitive content; when in doubt, consult policy or ask. - Persistent feedback loop: question Copilot, iterate, and validate accuracy and tone. ### 9. Operations and Support - Licenses assigned; if features don’t appear, restart the computer. - Per-app settings can toggle Copilot features if distracting. - Recordings and recaps will be sent via Kashif; additional trainings scheduled for October/November; marketing to release videos. - For support, contact the instructor or help desk; Julia assists with “new” Outlook configurations.
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- Sep 4, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:22 You. Speaker 2 00:00:24 Today? I'm good. May I ask you a favor, please? Yes, ma'am. I'm one of those people that freezes when you call on them. Could you please not call on me for anything? I will try not. I. Thank you. You're welcome. Sorry, I've always been like this. Speaker 1 00:00:51 It's quite alright. Speaker 1 00:02:01 Hi. Speaker 3 00:02:16 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:02:17 This is Vivian. We haven't met in person, but you know what? I recognize you. You do from the conferences, yes. Oh, so I do know you. We'll see each other at the staff meeting on 14. Yes, Speaker 4 00:02:32 I'm excited to meet you in person. I'm sure we've run into each other along the way. Yeah, yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:38 We have, yeah. I recognize you when when you checked into the meeting yesterday. Ah, okay, okay. Well, thank you so much for all the work you've been doing to help me with everything. Oh, no problem. So appreciate it. My pleasure. Speaker 3 00:03:20 Good morning, everybody. I know it's one minute after. I'm going to give a few more minutes, probably until 9:03, just like I did yesterday, to allow everyone to join. I am also going to turn on facilitator and recording, so just and then also additionally, I have some of my staff members at Crimson joining in. To as well because they're going to help me with training soon. Some people, not all of them, some people just like my training and they like to join. So, but I am going to add some crimson people. Some are going to be helping teach in the future, and then we'll get. Speaker 1 00:04:10 Started in a moment. Speaker 3 00:05:09 All right, we're gonna go ahead and get started. It is 9:03. Just a heads up for you guys, if you've not met some of our members at Crimson, Ryan is on and Julia is on. Ryan is on my AI team. He was just made an honorary member last week. Poor guy. So wish him well. He's actually very very good at being a technician, and so I'm just adding a little AI to him. Because he he's the kind of person he likes new technology, and then Julia is one of our project managers, and she loves learning about AI. She's actually taken to AI like a fish in the water, so I try to add her to as many of my trainings that I do with clients as I can, just because I know that she really enjoys attending those trainings. So I am going to share my screen. Give me one second. I'm trying to get. Speaker 3 00:06:07 That screen over, and then we'll go through some of the stuff that we talked about yesterday. I did make a change to our training because there were some questions that you guys had, and I took those questions and I made some changes. So hopefully that helps a little bit and clarifies some things. And bear and be aware, recording is on. That recording is going to. Be saved, and I will be sending out both recordings to everyone at the end of today. I'm also going to send out notes that I have and other materials that I have that I promised yesterday, and I will promise today. So, so just be aware of that. Now, most of the time, I will tell people demo is on crimson sample data, never any of our client content unless our clients themselves have said, "Hey, you can use my." Speaker 3 00:07:06 My stuff within your trainings. I actually have one client that has said that. So just be aware. But a little bit of change to that statement. Dylan, I think Dylan. No, someone sent me. Steve sent me. Sorry, I have a Dylan in a previous training that that was sending me data. So sorry, Dylan. I didn't mean to confuse you. But Steve sent me some data that we are going to utilize today in our demo. So thank you. Steve for that. And then, just a heads up, we're going to go over the rules. So, one, welcome back. Two, there's never any wrong questions. I never judge. I have been in IT for well over 25 years. I have heard almost everything, seen almost everything. So trust me when I say there's no wrong questions. You are welcome to interrupt the demo if something on the screen looks useful. Stop me. Speaker 3 00:08:05 If something is confusing, stop me. And so, just want to make sure that you guys are aware. Try it yourself. We are going to have some hands-on time, so open Copilot on your own device as we go, and I'm going to explain how to open that in a moment. And then, please be aware: privacy first. Yesterday's three rules still apply. You want to give it context, check its work, and protect your data. So be aware of that. Now, if just a reminder, you guys do not have to have your cameras on. I have my camera off right now, more accident, we think. But there is a question, and there was a question and answer. There's not a question and answer this time. So if you guys have any questions, please make sure you throw it into the chat. And facilitator, she is on, so she is going to add notes as we go through the day. So you can leave chat open, and. Speaker 3 00:09:04 Be aware. I did not put the agenda on this meeting because the times never work lately. So sometimes we go off script. Sometimes you guys have questions that might push this over. So the times that are on today's agenda is just there for sake of being there. We are going to go through your policy and guardrails. We are going to go through where Microsoft Copilot lives and how it protects your data. And we're going to do a live demo within Outlook and Teams, or in Excel, or and go over Copilot chat and how to choose a model, because that's actually pretty important. I'm going to go over the different models that that you have within Copilot and what they're good for and what they're not good for. And then we're going to talk about Copilot for the work you actually do at CoStar. Speaker 3 00:10:01 And we're gonna go through a prompting recap, and then we'll go over questions and answers if you have them in chat, and we hadn't already answered them yet. And then, as you guys remember, yesterday I do call on people randomly. I do like it when people participate. One of the ways that you can prevent yourself from being called on randomly is just be active and participate. I have a tendency, and Ryan and Julia will tell you, I have a tendency to call on people I haven't heard from yet. However, that being said, if you're active or you talk to me beforehand, I won't call on you as much, if at all. So be aware of that. Ryan has seen me calling people plenty of times. So heads up, AI at CoStar. Sorry, CoStar. I. Speaker 3 00:10:57 I don't know why I said CoStar. CoStar, we're going to go through that policy first. You have an AI acceptable use policy, and I will say, your AI committee that's on this call was absolutely amazing in creating the policy. They put in questions and they put in statements that I am extremely proud of of what they wrote. And so I want you guys to be aware that they did a fantastic job. I cannot say enough about that. And so we're going to go through that. Now, you guys heard me say some things yesterday about how to use AI, and those are written in the policy. So, very first thing is using AI as a tool. Okay, it's not a replacement for your judgment. Speaker 3 00:11:52 And I want to be very clear. A lot of people are using AI as a replacement for their judgment. Don't do that. I want you guys to be aware of that. Every AI output that leaves your desk is reviewed. Okay, that's you. You're that person. Reviews it. Yesterday we said AI wrote it is not a quality control process. This is the idea that's written into that policy. Copilot is here to draft. You decide what goes out, and remember that because your name is attached to everything you send out, you can't use the excuse, "Well, AI wrote it." So, want to make sure that we we expand upon that principle number two: keep sensitive information out of public tools. No personally identifiable information, which is what I call PII. No student records, no observation notes, unless it's. Speaker 3 00:12:50 Already been approved. No personnel data. Don't put any confidential information that's financial in any tool that hasn't been approved for use. Okay. Now notice what I'm saying here. If it's not been approved for that use, it doesn't belong. Okay. Especially if it's a personal AI. So when you're using personal AIs, even if it's Copilot or I'm sorry, not Copilot. If it's ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, the one that's Google, that for some reason the name escaped me just now that I used yesterday, if it is not set properly, it feeds that information back to retrain AI, which means it's now become public knowledge. So keep sensitive information out of public tools. You should not be using them. Now that being said, Copilot inside of the foundation's. Speaker 3 00:13:47 Tenant or Microsoft is an approved tool, and it is protecting your data. None of your data will go to train AI. So, principle number three: disclose AI use when it's material. If AI has played a meaningful role in something where authenticity matters, you need to you need to say it. For this team, that means communications. Marketing materials. If you guys use those stuff like that, you want to make sure that AI is disclosed. Now, if you've used AI to draft it and then you put it in your own words and added to it, you don't have to disclose AI at that point. But make sure that you're fully using it or fully using your judgment. Principle number four: Report concerns. Speaker 3 00:14:46 If an output feels wrong, harmful, or inappropriate, you can flag it within the chat. Okay, you want to flag it back to Microsoft. Principle number five: the policy is going to evolve. Just like AI has made changes in just the last few weeks, your policy is going to evolve just like that because every change that AI makes. Speaker 3 00:15:16 If it does not have something in the policy about it, and we need something in the policy about it, we're going to change the policy. There's so much changing going on so quickly that our policy has to remain fluid. Okay, we got to make the policy keep up with the tools. Speaker 3 00:15:41 Eighty questions so far. Speaker 3 00:15:47 Yes, Speaker 5 00:15:48 Sir. Hi, thank you for this introduction. So I just want to make sure then that we can all feel safe that using the enterprise version of Copilot that we have right now for everybody, that we can safely use our entire network of files without feeling. You know, just ambivalent about whether it's going to go be disclosed outside of CoStar Foundation, right? Speaker 3 00:16:27 Yes. So I'm glad you asked that question because I did want to expand upon that. Call me up. I was going to ask a question. Inside work in Copilot, that is in your foundation's tenant, the policy allows what your normal commissions allow. Meaning, you can put almost anything into Copilot and work on it there. Because it is the enterprise version, it does protect your data, and none of the information is being fed back into train AI. That's a good place to do it. Now, when I say keep sensitive information out of public tools, I'm meaning the tools that you sign into with your personal email addresses. Speaker 3 00:17:14 That has not been flagged by the foundation as being up. So perplexity, that's the one I couldn't remember this morning. Your personal perplexity account, your personal Claude account, those type of tools, you cannot put sensitive information from the foundation into those tools. But Copilot, that you sign in with your email address with your work email address, is safe to use. Speaker 3 00:17:45 Does that help. Speaker 5 00:17:45 Yes, and that applies to our Microsoft Outlook as well, Speaker 3 00:17:53 Right? Yes, sir. Microsoft Outlook, all your Microsoft tools. Speaker 5 00:17:59 Great, Speaker 3 00:17:59 Thank you. You're welcome. All right, so we're going to talk about where Copilot lives, and there's three front doors in the Copilot. There's one back door. We're not going to talk about back doors, but three front doors. One, it lives inside your apps. So there is a Copilot button, which we're going to show you in a moment. That is in a lot of your tools, not just what I have listed here. The main ones we're going to expand upon is Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel. But it also lives in PowerPoint. If you use OneNote, it lives in there. If you use Microsoft Loop, it lives in there. Okay, it works on what's in front of you. Speaker 3 00:18:40 If you're using it inside the tool, it's going to work on what's in front of you, so emails, documents, even this meeting. Okay, Copilot Chat, which I'm going to show you as well in a moment, it is an app that's on your computer. It's an in your browser, and you can even put it on your phone. So that's where you can ask questions about information that's across all of your work. Your emails, your files, chats, calendar. Also, you can choose a model within that, and we're going to get into models in a moment. But be aware, anything you ask Copilot about, you can only see what you have access to. So, if Kamya has a highly sensitive document that is on his OneDrive that he has never shared anybody, you can't ask Copilot about that document because you don't have access to. Speaker 3 00:19:39 Yes, Speaker 4 00:19:40 Dylan. Hi, sorry. Just a quick question while we're talking about what apps it works with. Have you heard of any integration with Access? We have a very sort of antiquated Access database that doesn't tend to work with a whole lot. Speaker 3 00:19:57 It does not work with Access. Speaker 4 00:19:60 Ah, well, that would have been very helpful for data entry, but alas, thank you. Speaker 3 00:20:04 You're welcome. Speaker 3 00:20:07 All right, and then the last door is in Teams meetings, and you guys are gonna love that once you get adjusted to using it within Teams meetings. And I'm gonna show you a little bit about that. You can actually chat with Copilot in a meeting as long as transcript is turned on in that meeting. You can chat, especially if you're like me and you have ADHD, and I have high functioning ADHD, but it's it's still pretty bad. Sometimes I will be in a meeting and all of a sudden my mind will drift on, you know, mom stuff. For those of you guys who are moms, like what's my daughter's dentist appointment yesterday? You can actually chat with Copilot to give you a recap of what somebody said, and it's it's fantastic. I love it. So be aware of that. So within Microsoft Pilot, what you can do with it is this: Outlook. Speaker 3 00:21:04 You can tell it to summarize a long thread. If you have a back and forth email that's gone over three weeks of daily emails, you can actually have Outlook summarize it. Okay, Teams. You can recap a meeting you attended, or if you were added to the invite but couldn't attend it, you can actually have it recap that meeting as well. You can have it catch up on missed chats. I will be honest with you. There is a chat called the Napping Team at Crimson, and it got named the Napping Team because Anzor made a comment one day in our All Hands meeting that if you feel that you need to take a nap in the middle of the day for lunch, take a nap because we want everybody to be a hundred percent, and we understand that everyone on the team, we're going a hundred and twenty miles an hour at all times during office or during. Speaker 3 00:22:01 Work hours. So, if anyone's ever feeling not good or you know things like that, feel free to take a nap. In fact, we had a napping room at the Crimson Headquarters for that reason. So, we have a a teams channel called the Napping Team, where it's either you know at any time we're either talking about gaming or we're talking about other things. It's like the water cooler, and then also team members get help for issues that are going on, and so. At any time within Teams, I can ask it to recap that napping team, because trust me, things fly through there a hundred miles an hour. So it's very helpful for that. Word, you can turn an evaluation report into a two-paragraph board summary. One of my favorite tools, favorite things to do. I have to write ten-page reports to my clients for various things. Speaker 3 00:22:57 And sometimes I have to summarize that report into something that's a couple paragraphs long. And you can rewrite for that. Excel, I love Excel. You can have it explain what the table is showing, especially if the table has a lot of data. You can have it suggest formulas or build a chart. Sometimes I've been working in IT for a very, very long time, and sometimes I will forget how to make a formula. Even though I've done it a million times, I will forget, and sometimes I have Copilot help me build that formula out within SharePoint and Copilot Chat. You can you can have it find lost files. Okay, I have files that I know I wrote in 2001, and sometimes I have Copilot go find that file for me. So, be aware. I'm going to reiterate this multiple times. Speaker 3 00:23:53 Copilot only reads the foundation data you have access to. It does not use it to train AI models. It does respect your existing permissions. I say SharePoint permissions, but all permissions. It does respect that. All right. Now we're going to talk about Outlook and Teams. We give you guys some demos of Outlook and Teams. We're going to summarize a threat. We're going to have it draft a reply, and then we're going to have it recap a meeting. So, I'm actually going to go out of order on this. We're going to talk about Teams first, and I'm going to actually show this meeting real quick. So, this is why I tell people, you know, you don't have to be on camera. I am going to share this. All right. Within the chat, we have a couple different features in here. So, notes is one of them. When facilitator is on. Speaker 3 00:24:51 It's going to fill out the note section, okay. And she, I call her she. You can say he. You can rename it. Well, you can't technically rename it, but I call it George sometimes. But you can call it whatever you want. It will sit here and go through and give you an entire recap. And when the meeting's over, you're welcome to copy and paste that into a Word document if you want, or have Copilot build it into a Word document. I'm going to maximize this a little bit. The other thing we have is Copilot, and so you can open Cop here, and you can tell it recap the meeting. You can tell it to create an agenda for this meeting, and you can ask it for highlights from the meeting chat. Often in some of my meetings, meeting chat is very people are very talkative in the meeting chat, and so sometimes I'll have it highlight things for me, especially if I'm the one doing the training, and I'll do that. One of my favorite features is. Speaker 3 00:25:50 Uh, tell me. Oops, my keyboard is messed up. I got to change the value. Tell me what. Oh yeah, exact question was. And then I will ask Copilot. And Copilot usually will quote out the statement. Yeah, and then I can go from there. So this is what it told me. Speaker 3 00:26:21 And it it got him, it captured him perfectly, and then summarize it, or find the surrounding discussion in the transcript. So, trust me when I say, hey, this is really good for us to have ADHD. It will follow up pretty well. Now, if something seems wrong, you can flag it, and you'll flag it with the down button here. But you can also copy it. You can schedule that prompt to happen again. If I know that Kamya is going to ask that question again, I'll reschedule it for closer to the end of the meeting. So there are things like that, and then you've got more options. I can export this entire chat to Word. I can add it to some pages I'm working on, or I can edit it in Pages, and I'll go with what that looks like in a bit. So this is what you can do. You do have some buttons up here. Speaker 3 00:27:14 I will explain these buttons when we talk about Copilot Chat in a moment because they're the same, but I do want to draw your attention to the shield and make sure that you guys are aware the enterprise data protection is on and it applies to all chats. Meaning, Microsoft is not going to send any of your data out to the public. That's basically what it means. Now within Teams, I'm going to get rid of that one. I'm going to go to the actual Teams chat, and I'm going to open up this. So this my Teams. Yes, I know it's it's very messy. Um, in here, this my napping team that I told you guys about. Um, and then what we'll do is we actually have announcements and stuff we put in here. But if I missed, like maybe I'm on vacation for a couple days, I can click on the Copilot button, which is right here. Speaker 3 00:28:11 And I can ask it to recap the last week, and I did that on July eighth. During that time, I was out of the office for two weeks. I had an emergency, and so I ended up being out. And I asked it to recap the last week, so it gave me some things that happened, and was able to go through all of that for me. And so I can do that there. It gives the good, bad, and ugly. It does not skip anything on those recaps, so you do have that ability to recap in meetings itself. And I'm going to pull up your training from yesterday. This is your training from yesterday. We can see the recap if facilitator is on, or if transcript and recording is on. We can view recaps. I'm going to click on this view recap, and I'll show you what it looks like. And the great thing about it is it. Speaker 3 00:29:10 Pulls your data. So here's the meeting notes, and then it also has the slides that we used. This is the AI summary, and so you can see it added the slides and it added follow-up tasks. By the way, for yesterday's follow-up tasks, I did verify every single one of you has a license. A few of you were missing licenses. I did add them today. So if you couldn't see Copilot, you should see Copilot now. All right. And then you also have a few other things you can do. You can add. You can look at the transcripts, and you can actually download the transcripts as long as it's been shared with you to be able to do that. You can look at mentions, and it only mentions. It only shows mentions of you. So if Kamya was to open this and he clicked on mentions, he will find that I mentioned him a lot yesterday. Speaker 3 00:30:07 Just because Kamya is the key person, and I like to use him as an example. The other thing down here is topics. If I had put the agenda in, it will show the topics, and then also chapters as well. And so you have that ability. It does have some really cool audio recaps. You can share it with others, and so I will share it. And then you've got some options down there. Now, within this, I can click on Copilot and I can chat with it about the meeting. But also, I can look at my my previous chats, and then I can also click on and create a new chat. We're going to talk about why you want to create a new chat and chat in a moment. Um, additionally, within Teams, you have a Copilot button right here, and this Copilot is a front door to Copilot chat. Speaker 3 00:31:07 And a lot of people like to use it in here because if they're in teams all the time, because they've been chatting, or looking at documents, things like that, they like to actually use it in here. And we're going to go over what Copilot Chat looks like in a moment. But I want you guys to be aware that you can access it with teams. Okay. Another thing you can do, and I want to point this out, is when you're in here and you're in your teams and your channels, Crimson has a general channel right here where we post announcements and items. I can go in here as well, and I can look at it from this location. Okay, so you can go in, and you can say, " Give me an update on all the posts." So, be aware that that is there. Okay. Any questions about utilizing Teams and the chats? Yes, Speaker 5 00:31:60 Kamya. Thank you, Christi. And in terms of being the key person, I feel like everybody on this call and all of my colleagues who couldn't attend are all key members. So there's no singular key. But I had two questions. That shield button that you showed is that something we should make sure it is. Speaker 5 00:32:32 On whatever screen you are working on, that's one question. And then the other question was, I think while you were on Teams, there was at the top where you were going to ask a question, there were an option of work or web. Yeah. So I just wanted to know what what those two options mean. Speaker 3 00:32:55 Okay. So the work and web, we're actually going to go through that in a couple. I'm going to give you guys the full explanation of what each one means. But high-level work is where you want Copilot to concentrate on the documents that are within your organization, and web is where you want it to concentrate on information outside of the foundation's documents. So where you need it to research things on the web. So we'll go into that in a little bit more detail. And then for this shield right here, it's all. Speaker 3 00:33:29 Always on. You cannot turn that off. Microsoft does not have it as a way to turn off Enterprise Data Protection. However, Microsoft has put that shield up there just to give everybody a peace of mind to say, "Hey, look, Enterprise Data Protection is on, and it does reply to this chat." So it's more like a security blanket. You know that it's there, but you don't you don't have to worry about it because it will always be there. Speaker 3 00:34:02 Did I answer all your questions? Speaker 5 00:34:03 I'm sorry. Yes, Speaker 3 00:34:05 Thank you. Good. I needed to drink water real quick, and then I was like, " Wait, did I answer it?" Um, a few items on here, and I'm going to demo real quick. I am going to demo because I I want to demo. Um, when you have when you open up chat, you can start a new chat at any time, and I like to start a new chat for. Changes in conversations, or when I want to start a new topic, so I start a new chapter right here. I am going to say recap this meeting, so, and it's going to come back and give me that information, and it's pretty quick unless you ask more difficult questions. So this meeting is in progress, but here's all the recaps, and then I can go in here and I can say, give me. Speaker 3 00:35:00 A recap of all of and one of the features that I do, I'm going to show you in a moment. But he's asking these questions, and they there's my responses, and it gives a really good idea. So sometimes during a meeting, if I feel like I might have missed something, well, I will ask you guys, of course, but I'll say, did I address all of his concerns? And sometimes I'll even ask, did I accurately address all of his concerns? So, because sometimes I need to double check my knowledge. So. Speaker 3 00:35:57 And it gives its own opinions as well. So be aware. It's really good to have a conversation with, just to make sure you're getting all. So any questions so far about teams and chats? Speaker 3 00:36:25 All right, bear with me one second. I'm going to pull over my Outlook. I want to teach you guys a little bit about Outlook and Copilot. All right, so I'm going to go in here, open up Outlook. I wanted to make sure that I didn't have Outlook on a copy machine, but I don't. I don't even have a copy machine in the office. On here, I've got Steve's message pulled up because Steve sent me a message, and I can do a couple things to see his message. I'm not going to summarize it because it's it's very short, but if I click up here, it's going to give me the option to summarize, which is really really good. Now it will generate that summarization, and this is really helpful when you have a. Speaker 3 00:37:23 A long email, so just be aware. I'm going to show you a long email. There is a client that I have that has said that as long as it's not confidential information, I can show you guys a demo with their stuff. So just be aware that I am going to demo with someone who has given me expressive permission to do that. But for Steve, what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit my reply all button and. In here, I can do a couple of things. I can reply, which I already did reply to Steve. But for the sake of this training, I'm going to demo with him. I'm going to hold down the Control key on my keyboard, and I'm going to hit the I is in the blue. Sorry, Alt I. Sorry, not Control I. We'll hold down the Alt key and hit I. And within that, it will bring up Copilot. Now, in here, this is what this little screen that comes up. I can. Speaker 3 00:38:19 Tell it what I want to say, or I can choose some here information, and I can say I want to thank Steve for his email, and it's going to write that email for me. Now, can anyone tell me what my rule is on using Copilot to draft something? Speaker 4 00:38:51 Ryan , It should only be used as drafts. The final judgment needs to come from you. Speaker 3 00:38:59 Yes. Can you guys tell that Ryan's been in several of my chairings? He's good at this. Seventy percent of the work can be handed off to AI in certain situations, but the thirty percent is your judgment, and you got to write the last one. So in here, I'm going to say keep it. But I have the options to keep it, discard it. I can tell it to adjust the tone. I can ask it to put in citations. Citations are really important to me because I'm a technical person. I'm going to say keep it, and I'm going to eliminate some pieces. And first off, I'm going to eliminate the signature because my signature is always there already. There. Secondly, I am going to unboldface this. Third, I don't use people's last name. Speaker 3 00:39:50 And then third and fourth, I'm going to rewrite this again. Now, did I use Copilot on my original response? Stamp? No, I don't on these because they're short and sweet. I I said thank you or something along those lines, and I've added them to the training so far. So I don't use Copilot on short and sweet messages, but for today's demo, you guys can see. Now, one of the things I do like about is when I reply to something, especially when it's something about dates and times, I can get Copilot to look at my calendar and say, "Hey, this is when you have dates and times," and I'll have it drafted based on that. And I do that one fairly often. So be aware that it does see your data. I'm going to discard this because Steve doesn't need two thank you emails in his mailbox. But I want to show you something else here. Speaker 3 00:40:44 Kim has been emailing us to ask some questions. I am going to look up here. Heads up, it already summarized it for me, and sometimes it will summarize it on longer emails, especially when there's back and forth. So in here, it's going to be a task that's assigned to you to complete and return evaluation by the end of next week. And I can go in here and do a few things with this one, but Michelle did respond to him. He sent an email yesterday afternoon. Rashan responded to him, and I will get this back to him next week. I can also ask it to give me a longer summary. There's there's my longer one. I can also ask it to summarize a file. So, heads up: only certain files are supported in this. Speaker 3 00:41:42 Most of it's just Microsoft, so I can tell it to summarize that file, and that's a new feature by Microsoft. It just came out in recent weeks, and it's actually been very helpful. So there's the file summary as well. Sorry, my kitten behind me just jumped, so something sound like it was crashing. Be aware. And so I can see the summary, and I can respond to the email and tell him, you know, I'm going to get this back to him, which was Rashan already did. Be aware of that. Now, in my email, you guys will see that I have some down arrows and up arrows. And within Copilot, Copilot actually sets these up. And so I'm going to go in here and go to this top Copilot button, and I'm going to hit the down arrow key, and I'm going to tell it to prioritize. I'm going to click on that. It's going to open up a new a new window, and this is a feature by. Speaker 3 00:42:42 Copilot, which I love it. It tells me. It allows me to tell what are high priorities to me. However, be aware that just because I have three rules in here, it it actually reads the emails that is in that comes in, and it determines based on the tone if it's something that should be a higher priority or not. Now I have my rules. So, like John Carlo, mark as a high priority. I have those rules in here, and it will mark it. But I will be honest: a lot of emails come in. It's fairly accurate at marking it as a higher priority. So I don't have many rules in. And in the same token, I can mark it as a lower priority as well. And with that, I do have some rules in here because I've noticed things come in that should be a lower priority that's not being marked, but. Speaker 3 00:43:38 There's my lower priority rules, and if you look over here, you have new posts and teams. It already marked as a low priority. It's really good at determining that. So you can turn that on in your Outlook. You can tell it to show AI generated summaries automatically, which you saw that, and then you can apply. You can tell it to apply low priority email. How many of you got Outlook open on your computers right now? Speaker 3 00:44:09 All right. So if you've got Outlook open, go ahead, go into Copilot right here and hit the down arrow and click on Prioritize. I'm not going to tell you to set a setting. If you want Copilot to prioritize, you just click this one right here and choose the options that apply to you. I tell people turn this portion right here on right now, ignore the rest of the customization, let it run for a day or two, and then add your notes. Speaker 3 00:44:39 Add your rules. So I'm going to add a rule real quick. I actually had this as a rule, but I took it off earlier. If it's from okay, and then I'm going to click Add. And so that's now in there. Now to delete it, if it's a rule that's no longer applicable, which Kamya is now no longer applicable because I was working on a project and that this project is done. You can click on delete, and then all you have to do is hit save. All right. So if you, everybody, lower your hands, and then raise your hand if you just did that live while I was working. All right. A few of you did it live. Perfect. Speaker 3 00:45:36 If you guys give, if you guys have any questions or running into any issues when you do it later, give send me or send the help desk an email, and we can help you work out the issues with it. Okay, that's pretty much Outlook Copilot in Outlook. Microsoft has only done a very few things with Copilot in Outlook, basically summarizing, drafting. And prioritization are the only pushes that they have done to Outlook, but the items that they put in, Casey, I have old Outlook on, so yours, Julia uses new Outlook, so she can tell you where that is. But the items that it has into Outlook is pretty powerful, so they are still. Speaker 3 00:46:32 Put looking to see what they can do with Copilot, and there are some changes coming in the future. So be aware of that. All right. Any questions on Outlook and Teams that I have not answered yet? Yes, Speaker 5 00:46:51 Kamya. Uh, I I didn't have a question. Speaker 3 00:46:58 Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I thought you got erased. No. For those of you guys who your Outlook doesn't look like mine, it's because you're probably in new Outlook. I don't have new Outlook turned on specifically because I use a lot of features that doesn't work well in new Outlook. It's old stuff. So Julia said for new Outlook use settings, and it should help you with that. She's got a screenshot for you as well on how to get to that. Speaker 3 00:47:29 And then, if you still run into issues, let us know. We'll work on it. All right. The next item is Word and Excel. Okay, I love Words Copilot, but I love Excels even more. I'm going to pull up some demo data. Everybody on this call, pull up Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. You can either have it on a blank document or on a new document. Speaker 3 00:47:58 And I've got some demo items on here that I'm pulling up, so bear with me one moment. My Excel's opening a little slow. I haven't rebooted my computer in over a week. All right. Speaker 3 00:48:24 So I'm I've got my Excel document open. These are demo data data, so this is sample documents. So on the inquiry that I have open right here, let me enable editing. I'm going to show you how to get to Copilot now. Just a heads up, I because I'm on a screen that I have blown up so that you guys can see it better. I have my ribbon hidden, so I'm going to unhide it real quick. Speaker 3 00:48:55 And I'm going to show you how to get to certain places. Now, to get to Copilot, there is a little button down here that has the Copilot icon in it. Okay, and you can click on it to open the Copilot chat window right here. And once you've got that open, just note that everything up here is very similar. You just don't have the work versus web. And that's because Christi. Yes, Speaker 6 00:49:27 Ma'am. For the slow people in the back, can you do that one more time? Yeah. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:49:33 All right. So I just have a sample document open. So it's generic. It does not apply to you guys. It's just something that I had Copilot build for me for today's training. Down here at the bottom right hand, there should be a button that shows Copilot, and if you hover over it, it's going to give. Three options, and instead of hovering over it, I want you to just click on it. Just click on the button. I'm just going to open the chat window. Speaker 6 00:50:04 Thank you. Speaker 3 00:50:09 You're welcome. No worries. Sometimes I go too fast, so if I do, just stop me and slow me down, just like you did. All right. There's no web up here, and there's no work because this is the chat for just this document. Speaker 3 00:50:27 So I want that to sit with you guys for a moment. Within Copilot, in a document itself, this chat is only for this. However, you can add other documents and reference back, and I'm going to show you that in a moment when we talk about doing links. But on this one, I can—it's already got some sample prompts for me. I can tell it to summarize this document. I can tell it to ask a question about this document, and suggest ways to improve this document. So if I'm working in a document, maybe I I do this often. So I work at all hours of the day. Julia will tell you, Ryan will tell you, they will often see me on at nine o'clock at night because I'm working on things. And when I'm working on training materials or similar, like board documents, which I've actually worked on a board document last night, I'll be in here and I'm just typing away. I've got autopilot on in my brain, and I'm typing. How many of you guys do that? Speaker 3 00:51:24 You get into autopilot mode, and you're so focused, you're just typing. Some of you guys, maybe, or am I the oddball? I'm totally accepting of the fact that I'm an oddball on this. Okay, Steve, Steve got me on this. Um, so when you're in here, you're working away like that. You sometimes you're on autopilot, you don't realize what you wrote, and you're ten pages in. And so sometimes I'll have it suggest ways to improve the document. So I have the information in here. You'll see things that I wrote and suggest ways to improve it, and it will critique it. Yes, Tommy. Up. I'm sorry. I just saw your hand raised. Speaker 5 00:52:10 Right. Yeah. So Christi, this is a Word document, correct? Yes, sir. So the questions that. When you clicked on the Copilot button, the questions that came up or the options that came up, I did the same for another Word document that I just opened up randomly. And the when it says let's edit your document, the the three questions were not the same. No. So does Copilot come up with different questions? Speaker 3 00:52:48 It does, based on what it reads in your document. Speaker 5 00:52:51 Oh, Speaker 3 00:52:52 I see. Yeah, so it already, when you click on it, it already knows your document because it's working behind the scenes. And remember, Copilot does not feed your information to the public, so you do have enterprise native production on. But it already reads your document. It already knows what you're working on, and it formulates those questions based on what it sees in the document. Now, is it always good at that? No. It tries. Remember, in yesterday's training, I told you that Copilot is like an expert. Not always perfect. Okay. Speaker 5 00:53:28 So, but the question I have is: Let's say you wanted to summarize the document. You wanted Copilot to summarize the document, but if one of the. Speaker 5 00:53:44 Options is not to summarize the document. So, for instance, what I did is the options I have is get me started writing, create a draft from my recent work, create an outline for. So, none of them seems to be summarize the document. So, if you don't see what you want to see, is there a way of adding it. Speaker 3 00:54:05 So, if you don't see it, I'm going to start a new chat. You can just say summarize. Speaker 5 00:54:13 I see. Okay. All right. So you can put whatever you want in that in that edit box, basically. Yes, sir. I see. Okay. Speaker 3 00:54:24 Thank you. You're welcome. Um, you can put whatever you want in the in the box. You can also highlight. So if I go in here and I highlight a couple rows, I can say, " Hey." In the in the section I highlighted, please make the following changes. You can also right here you can have options here. You can allow Copilot to edit your document directly, or you can tell it to chat only. And I will use chat only if I'm working on a document that I don't want AI to make changes. I want to make the changes myself. Speaker 3 00:55:09 Now, for each person, that could be different. So, a document that I don't allow AI to edit might be something you would allow AI to. It's just based on personal preference here. Now, if I have this schedule here in Excel document, and I'm writing up a memo with the schedule to send to a school or send to a person, I can add a source in there. Speaker 3 00:55:41 Okay, so I can upload an image or file. I can attach it. I can add some other content to it. Or if I'm in here, I hit the forward slash button, and it will pull up the most recent items that I've been working on. Okay. In addition to that, I can also pull up meetings. So I'm going to show you guys. With a blank word document, what we can do with that? So I'm going to say new, and I'm going to say blank document right here. And I have an option up here to describe what I'd like to draft with Copilot, or I can go down here and I can click on the Copilot button. If it ever disappears, which it does for me, you can go down here and just click on it. It sometimes will hide from you. Speaker 3 00:56:39 Especially because apparently both my mouse and keyboard batteries. So in the editor document, I'm going to have it create me a meeting summary from the following meetings, and I'm going to hit that fourth flash. And I've got some options down here where I can search. I'm going to. Speaker 3 00:57:12 Right here now. This, if you guys don't know what this icon is, it is Microsoft Loop. That is where it stores your meeting notes. So I'm going to click on this, and I'm going to hit the send button, and you're going to see it's giving itself a task list. So now it's in the plan mode, and if I don't want to see what's going on, I can click on that button and just let it do. Now, sometimes when I know I'm having, it's gonna take a minute, I'll go get coffee, or I'll work on something else because I'm a multitasker. Now, it's still thinking, and you can tell because this little button right here is changing colors, and it's planning it out. But as it's planning, it's at planning it out. It's actually writing, and sometimes it'll go back and rewrite something. But you can tell it's still it's still in draft mode because everything that's listed here is highlighted in blue. Speaker 3 00:58:12 And you can still see it's still going. And if I hit that button, it's now showing me all the steps that it took, and it's created that. Now, before before it writes this permanently, because it's still highlighted blue, I have to choose done, or I can tell it what to edit. All right, I can say in here, make spell out. Speaker 3 00:58:41 The full principles of how to prompt, and I can add that in. So as I'm going through this, I'm going to edit, and it's going to go in, and it's going to make those changes. Now, when I do that, it's accepting what it did as being done. So it went ahead and marked as done. And now it's making the changes. So here it is. I can choose done, and it's right there. Now, what if I didn't want prompting principles on that page? I wanted it somewhere else. I can tell it to move the prompting to above decisions. Speaker 1 00:59:28 Let me click on that. Speaker 3 00:59:39 I'm going to tell it to move prompting to be above. I'm waiting on that. Bear with me. I'm going to go open a door. You go, sir. You can go. Speaker 1 00:59:48 Out. And now it's made that move. Speaker 3 00:59:59 And you can also argue with Copilot. Speaker 3 01:00:07 Does anybody remember from yesterday's meeting why I tell you to argue with it? Because it makes things up if it doesn't have the answer. Yeah, that is a beautiful answer. Uh, anyone else want to take? Because I like Jolie's answer, but that's not the answer I'm going for. But that's a good answer. I love that. Speaker 3 01:00:42 Never accept the first draft. I probably didn't spell that out as well as I want to spell it out today, but never, never accept the first draft of anything. Speaker 6 01:00:55 Okay. So Christi, when you Christi, when you ask it to do it again, it gives you a better version, right? Or it gives you something that might be closer to what you're looking for if you keep asking it questions. Speaker 3 01:01:07 Yes. Speaker 3 01:01:10 Sometimes I'll argue with it and say, "Does this really sound like me?" That's me arguing with it, and he'll come back and say, "Nope." And then I'll say, "Let's let's make it sound like me," and then from here. I'll go in deeper, and I'll edit it myself because sometimes it uses words I don't like, or explains things in ways that I don't. I will. I I will write out something. It takes me two hours to build out my own stuff because I'm I'm going over with a fine tooth comb. However, when I'm using AI, it cuts down on that time, and then I'm going to spend a lot of time just making sure. Speaker 3 01:02:08 It's captured the right information. It's captured my tone, and I will make changes to this. I also use a. Remember yesterday, I told you guys. Oh, sorry, was somebody going to ask a question? Speaker 6 01:02:22 Oh, Christi, I was going to say, is it keeping a storehouse of everything that you're doing so that it can kind of pick and choose from things you've done in the past? Speaker 3 01:02:30 Yes, I also have instructions for it. So. I'll talk to you guys about instructions in a moment, but yes, it does keep a storehouse. Now, if at any time in here that you look at something, you're like, "Wait, it makes too many changes," and I need to go back to a change, you can either do the undo button, or if I go in here to file and info, there's a version history here, and if you've saved the document, version history will be turned on. I haven't saved it. Speaker 3 01:03:06 So do make sure you save it in your OneDrive so that you have version history. Now I'm going to minimize this. I'm going to minimize this. We're going to go into Excel. We're going to talk about Excel. If you guys look down here, my Copilot button got hit. I'm gonna. I'm just going to hover over it, and it pulls it back out, and then I can click on it. I'm going in here. I have let's say an attendance document. Again, I made up dummy data, and then I have some information here. Now I can ask it to do some things. And again, with this, guys, remember your prompts might be a little different depending on the document. But you also sometimes will have a show more, show less down here. And in here, I want to choose analyze this workbook. Okay, this is my favorite thing to show you. I will tell it to analyze this workbook. Speaker 3 01:04:04 And I can add to my prompt because it's going to give me this prompt. And I I'm going to ask it. I might ask it a few additional information. Um. And I'm going to get sent. Guys, bear with me. The fire alarms are going off in my building. So while it's analyzing, let me go remind my daughters that this was intentional. I'm going to mute myself, but you guys can watch. Speaker 3 01:04:49 Okay, sorry. I'm closing my door. They're testing our fire alarms in the building today, so I just need to remind my kiddos that. All right. So, this sometimes does take a moment. I'll be. Okay, my apologies, guys. Um. The fire alarms are intentional today. They're testing the fire alarms in our building, so I just need to remind my daughter so they didn't have to rush out the door. All right. So in here, this does take take a moment, depending on how much data you have, depends on how long it can take. For very long documents, I've seen this take more than twenty minutes. Speaker 3 01:05:47 But it was a three-tab, hundreds of lines of data. So sometimes you may have to ask it to, to summarize it, and just know that you might have to go get coffee, or work on something else at the same time. Okay. Now in this case, we are going to move on to something else, and we're going to come back to this. But before I move on to something else, does anyone have any questions about Word or Excel? Speaker 1 01:06:23 Can you guys all hear me. Speaker 3 01:06:24 Okay, good. My, I, I came back and I made a statement, and I realized I was still muted earlier. So, just make sure. All right. So while it's analyzing, I'm going to talk about Copilot Chat. Now, in Copilot Chat, you've got a couple modes. And this is what Kashif had brought up earlier. Good eyes on that one. But work mode and web mode. Web mode. The work mode is when it's grounded in your data, so your Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, all of that data. So you can say summarize everything from the school district that came in this month, or find a schedule from last fall. Okay. Speaker 3 01:07:21 These are when I use work mode. Most of the time, I'm searching for something. I'm not going to show you guys how to do it, but I will tell it to find an email address or find the contact information of somebody. Especially if I can't find it and I don't have it saved in contacts. You can, if you know that you wrote a file in 2021, but you can't find it because it's been five years. It will find it for you. And it's really good at finding it for you, better than I am, faster than I am at finding something in pictures. With web mode, it's grounded in information that is public on the internet. Okay, but your protections are still on, so no data is being fed back. Only search items. So if you're searching for something like, I'm this one I put, what are the California standards for the teaching profession? It's good for research. I use it when I'm working on something for DCFS. Speaker 3 01:08:20 Most of you guys, all of you guys, know I'm a foster parent. A lot of times, I'm looking for AB12. What does AB12 say, and what are the minimum amount of credits my child needs to graduate? When I have a kid that comes in that doesn't have other credits, that's that's something often I use. That's related, relatable to you guys. So that's something where it's really good for research, but it's not going to pull anything up on your files. I use that when I'm double checking data that I. Speaker 3 01:08:52 So here's an example: the prep for principal check-in. That's an example of what you can use. Catch up after school visits. So when I was out for a couple weeks and I didn't have my phone or wasn't checking in, I used it to to catch up on items when I was out on PTO. Now to get to chat. There's a couple ways to do it. I showed you earlier how to get to it in Teams, but if you click on the Start button down on the bottom of your screen, and you type in Copilot, you might see two Copilots come up. What you're looking for is the one that says Microsoft 365 Copilot. The other one just says Copilot, but the Microsoft 365 Copilot is the one that you want to pull up. Speaker 3 01:09:51 And I'm I've got it pulled up, so I'm going to bring it over. This the chat window. Okay. Now, if you work in with if you've worked with other tools in the past, you're going to notice that they're very similar. Okay. This my Claude. It's very very similar. I it does have a sheet over here on the side. I just have it. So it's very similar to perplexity. It's very similar to Claude and just ChatGPT. You have a couple of options up here. I'm gonna go over these with you real quick. Right now it's set to Work IQ. I'm gonna turn off Work IQ and that gets me in web mode. Okay, I'm gonna turn it back on right now. And then I have models up here. I'm gonna go over models inside in a moment, but you can click on model, and you've got a couple of options: GPT, which is ChatGPT, and also Claude. Speaker 3 01:10:46 We've got a couple options under there. You have the shield up here. Remember, you can't turn off the shield, so just raise up. Then you also have incognito mode or temporary chat, and when you chat on this, it does not save that chat. Okay. I don't know of reasons you would use temporary chat, but I'm sure that there are some out there. And then you have the three dots here. And that gives you a few more additional information. I want to show you guys real quick chat settings. Okay, chat settings. You've got a couple of options in here. How many of you guys like using dark mode on your computer? Okay, I'm all a light mode. That means all my screens are white. But some people like to do dark mode where all their screens are dark. Speaker 3 01:11:46 So you can change that appearance here. In personalization, I am going to skip over some of these. In personalization, you have custom instructions. This is where you tell Copilot how to be like you, how to sound like you. If I, if you have a communication style that you that you prefer, you're going to put that in here. Now mine's very long. I'm going to add mine to chat. Okay. And because I have people who work with educators or and people who are educators in here, take a look at my last paragraph. Okay, that's where my last paragraph or my last two paragraphs use spaces. Use two spaces after every period. This is intentional and part of how I write. As I graduated in the nineties, my my first typing class was on a typewriter. Speaker 3 01:12:45 It was not on a computer. I always typed with two spaces. It's intentional for me. I have to tell AI that this my this who I am. Okay. This like if I stop typing with a double space after every period, people are gonna think something's wrong with me. Okay. It's it's a running joke at the office. Um, you can also tell it. You you also have choices down here that you can add to this. Speaker 3 01:13:12 And you can get very detailed in personalization. This how you train AI to sound like you. Doesn't fully sound like you, but this how you train. How you train. Now within chat, you also have an option for co work. Co work is not turned on for your organization. Everything that I do in co work is an extra cost. Organizing triage inbox was five dollars. Okay, so. Be aware of that. We do not have it turned on for your organization, but chat is definitely turned on, and we've got a couple of options in here. Also. Speaker 5 01:13:52 Christi, can I ask you a question, please? Yes, sir. Sorry about that. You know, in the top left - hand corner, where you see the Work IQ and Auto. Yes. Earlier, when you clicked on Auto, it showed. GPT and Claude. Yes, sir. Now, since we don't have GPT or Claude, what what do those options mean, and do we should we not explore them, Speaker 3 01:14:22 Or? So you should explore them, and I'm actually going to get to that in second on defining which one to use. Speaker 5 01:14:30 Okay, but so they have the same level of security as the Copilot, or what? Yes, sir. I see. So I see, but so but are they not different. Speaker 3 01:14:47 They're different. I'm gonna go over models in a moment, Speaker 1 01:14:52 Sure. Okay. Speaker 3 01:14:53 And I'll teach you guys how to choose which one to use. Okay. Um, and just a heads up for you. Uh, these are the models that Copilot is built on. So you get free, well, not free, but you get access to. ChatGPT and Claude within Copilot automatically, but I'm gonna go over that in a moment. And very good question. Over here on the side, you do have options. One of them is your chats, and this is a history of all your chats. You also have some agents, and I'm gonna not gonna go over agents today. However, I will send you guys out information on agents only because we've got 14 minutes. Speaker 3 01:15:38 In this meeting, I can go over if you guys are interested in me going longer, and I can show you agents if you have time. But I, I'm not going to go over them right now. Okay. In addition to this, you can also hit the forward slash to pull up information, so documents and things you want it to reference, people, files, and meetings, emails, chats, a bunch of things in here that you can choose from. Now, going into models. All right, Copilot allows you to choose which AI model that will answer you. Some people prefer Claude, some people prefer ChatGPT, but when they're in Copilot, the same protections apply. Okay, your data rules exist. Copilot still runs those models within your tenant, your Microsoft. Speaker 3 01:16:38 It will still respect your permission, and it still does not train your content. Okay. Now I have the picker enabled because some people prefer Claude, some people prefer GPT. It is a part of how Copilot works. For auto, auto is the default for everybody, and Copilot's going to pick which model works for your question. Okay. So I I never turn off auto unless I specifically want a model to answer for me. But that's more advanced. As you as you work, you might choose something different. I tell people just leave it on auto unless you have a reason not to. But I am going to go over Claude and GPT and why each one is different. Claude is really good for drafting and rewriting. Okay, but. Speaker 3 01:17:31 Both sonnet and opus, and sonnet and opus are types of models within the cloud ecosystem. That is just how hard it works. It's the best way to explain it. Okay, I use opus when it's more complex. I use it for board narratives. When I'm writing board reports, I am using opus. GPT or Chat GPT, it's pretty versatile. Okay. It's strongest for your research and things that you need citations and structured documents. Now, the thing to note about models, Copilot's going to choose either Claude or GPT based on what you ask it to do. But if I choose, I want Claude to do my research. That's where where I will manually choose it. And if you guys have time, try it out. Ask it a question. Speaker 3 01:18:29 And have it search it using Claude, and then go back and have it search, ask it the same question using GPT, and see what the different answers are that you get. Okay, does that help explain models for you guys? And by the way, you will get a copy of this presentation so you can refer back to it. Okay, Alicia, give me a thumbs up. So that that makes me feel better. All right, Copilot for the work you actually do. Okay. Um. These are different options that I've given you guys on prompts. So you can use it to catch up. You can use it to draft. You can use it to prepare for a check in. You can clean up notes with it. I I track action items after training. Speaker 3 01:19:29 I'll find files that I know exist. I do that one all the time. Now, these are different comps that you can utilize. You can utilize it in chat. You can utilize it in the applications that you have. But I want to go back to Excel real quick because I'm I'm done with this slide. Any questions about things that you can have Copilot do before I go back to Excel? Speaker 3 01:20:01 All right. Um, so I'm gonna go back to Excel. And oh, no, one second. Uh, it looked like it interrupted. Um, normally what it will do, and I do apologize, normally doesn't do this. Um, so it might have been a glitch on my side, but it will usually put the entire analyst analyst down here. In a separate tab. So I'm going to ask it again to do it, and hopefully it'll go through and do it this time. This is the first time I've ever had to do that, so we're going to ask it, and we'll come back to that. I do apologize for it. All right, where are the lines inside co-pays? We'll be very clear on this. Interpreted protections mean that it's safe to put in. However, it doesn't change what's safe to send out. Okay, I and I'll. Speaker 3 01:20:59 Tell you a story from pre-AFM days. I was looking for a job. This was in 2008. So I was sending out my resume to hundreds of people. It was when there was a lot of companies doing layoffs. It was I think I think I sent out over a hundred resumes, and there was three jobs I accidentally attached the wrong resume to. In fact, the resume was so wrong. It was actually my grandmother's banana bread recipe that somehow got copied into my document. I don't know how, but I I was making different resumes for different types of jobs that I was looking at, and I accidentally copied and pasted my grandmother's banana pudding recipe. Um, and I sent it out to three different companies. I was responsible for what went out, and that's the same thing as AI. Speaker 3 01:21:58 You're gonna be, you're gonna have AI. You gotta double check with AI, because I will tell you early in AI, and early copilot, there were things that it was getting wrong more frequently than it does now. And you're gonna be just as responsible as I was for what goes out when I sent out the banana pudding recipe. So, what's good and what what you can trust to search for without having to double check? Well, we too still need double check, but not as strange. It is work inside Copilot. When you're working, you're asking questions and you're asking it to summarize things, draft things for you. That's all fine and good in Copilot. But where you need to use your judgment, okay, that's that middle section is yellow. That stuff still needs your judgments. Are you going to put that into Copilot? Speaker 3 01:22:55 Are you going to send that information? Okay. So student work, mentor observation notes, personnel and HR information, anything that policy calls sensitive. Make sure if you if you don't know, ask. Never in any circumstances do you want to put into Copilot passwords, credentials, recovery codes, banking details. Okay, your personal Microsoft. Accounts. Don't don't use your personal accounts. Sending a copilot summary to someone who can't see the source. That's that's actually a pretty good one. Often you might send a copilot summary to someone, and they can't see where where that summary came from. Always double check. Right. Now I'm going to also talk about the five prompting principles. Speaker 3 01:23:54 I gave you four yesterday. I split out some of it. I made it just based on some of the things that you guys were talking about yesterday. So I made it five. But I want you guys to remember these principles. Be specific with what you're going to do, with what you say. Write a two-paragraph thank you to a fellow who opened our classroom for a mentor observation. Okay. Be specific. Name the audience. It's a really good one. Okay. Speaker 3 01:24:25 I often will say for board members who are non-technical, because all of my stuff is technical, and sometimes I get too technical in my responses. Okay. I also give it. I will tell either bullet points or prose. If I'm doing bullet points, I'll tell it how, what kind of format it needs in those bullet points, because sometimes they'll give a paragraph for a bullet point. I just need a sentence. Make sure you iterate. This is where you come back and you argue with it. You can tell it. Make it a little bit more formal. Make it a little bit more conversational. Conversational. I'll tell it. Hey, make sure that you're not talking at people. I want you to talk to them. Okay. And number five, if there is a source, point it to the source. So real quickly on that. Um. Speaker 3 01:25:23 One thing I I just realized I skipped over within chat is when Steve gave me some files, and this is based off of what I said yesterday. When you're pointing at sources, you pull it up, finds me me information on. Or actually, let me do it this way. Summarize, and I'll say in here. I'll put in here a document that I have. So this is something Steve sent me. Travel policy. It will read PDFs, and that is a source. So here's the key points to the travel policy, and that's your travel policy, not mine. Speaker 3 01:26:21 So be aware of that. Make sure you're citing the sources when you do that, and then when you send it, if you're sending it out to somebody, add the policy to it. That's that's number five on the prompting principles. Okay. All right. Any questions of what I showed you so far? Speaker 3 01:26:51 All right, let's go back to this real quickly in Excel. I it it did it, so I told it to analyze this workbook to uncover meaningful and interesting data insights. Now I took copilot, but I can edit that if I need to. I do have a done button down here, so if I want to accept all of what it did, I can click done, and you can see it looks a little cool. But once I click done, it's actually going to. Speaker 3 01:27:21 It has a a rainbow style effect around each cell. So once I click done, it goes away. But here's my attendance insights based on this table. So here's what he wrote. Here is the not me to do that. Here is the graph that it made. I'm going to pull this off to the side, and you can see the attendance trend, and then you can. It even gave you questions about about some things that you could ask for deeper analysis. And this is something that Copilot did within this Excel file. And you can actually argue with it. You can discuss with it additional points that you want to see. There's a lot you can do within Excel. Speaker 3 01:28:16 And I do apologize for having to go back to Excel. It does take a while for Copilot to respond, and I did not want to leave you guys hanging on that. Um, all right. So I'm going to send out to Kashif recordings of both days and the summarization. So you guys, he will pass that along to you guys. I have been watching the meeting chat to see if there's any questions and answers. I did not see anything in there, but I will take questions in a moment. I want you guys to read the AI acceptable use policy if you have not already, because we've touched on it. And if you just glanced through it, go back and reread that. Okay. All staff has been assigned Copilot licenses. I I left that bullet in there. This I copied and pasted this from my own work. So model picker picker has been enabled. Used to I would. Speaker 3 01:29:14 Leave that off, but I did put that on for you guys. If you guys have questions later, please email me. My email is right there. If you can't remember how to spell Christi, just spell out Chris at crimsonit dot com. It will still get to me. And then do me a favor: try one Copilot task this week and have it work through that. Okay. Any questions about things I discussed? And I can go long, so I know that it's ten twenty eight right now. I can't stay around my my ten thirty meeting got canceled. So any questions that you guys have, please ask them right now. I don't mind staying and answering questions. Call me up. Speaker 5 01:29:59 Yeah, Christi. Sorry. On the next steps, you mentioned the model picker and copilot chat. What is it that I need to approve? I you don't. Oh, Speaker 3 01:30:08 Okay. I I needed to edit that. I okay. I made that. I made the slide. Last week, Speaker 5 01:30:13 All right, but yeah, I've already done that one. All right, well, personally, I want to thank you, Christi, very much, and I was wondering when can we expect a sample of your grandmother's banana bread pudding. Speaker 3 01:30:24 I will send that recipe over. Speaker 5 01:30:27 It's not a secret anymore. Well, okay, all right. Well, in addition to the recipe, if you make it, share it with us as well. Speaker 3 01:30:35 I will be more than glad to. I did say banana bread the first time, but it was banana pudding that. Speaker 5 01:30:42 Oh, Banana pudding. Okay, very good. Oh, thank you very much, Speaker 3 01:30:45 Christi. You're welcome. Thank you, guys. You have been amazing. Speaker 2 01:30:50 Thank you, Christi. Speaker 6 01:30:51 One more question. Oh, go go, Beth. Speaker 2 01:30:53 You go go. No, no, I just said thank you. Speaker 3 01:30:56 Sorry. Of course. Real quickly, before I answer Lisa's question, I am going to have some additional training classes. They're going to be later in the month of October and November. So. I will be sending those to Kashif, and this is where I have multiple clients come in. Kashif has joined a few of them, but if you, when I get ready to do more of those trainings, which again it'll be later in October or November, he he will get a copy of those that schedule and he will pass that along to you guys, and you guys are welcome to sign up for any of them. I will go more in depth on a few things that are. Speaker 3 01:31:38 Things that are more higher end or more advanced, and additionally, we do have some videos that are coming out for a lot of this. So you guys can rewatch, or you guys can watch some of those videos that are coming out. The marketing team is working on my videos now. Alicia, Speaker 6 01:31:56 What was your question? So first, thank you. This was really good and very helpful today. I wanted to say that on my computer for my for my, My Teams, it says I'll need to restart Teams for M365 Copilot license and features to take effect. Is that for? Do I need to make sure that is what I I see in Outlook as well? Um, 365 Copilot. Okay. Speaker 3 01:32:24 Yeah, it might be that your laptop hasn't or your computer hasn't been restarted in a while, and so it didn't install it. So instead of just restarting Teams, restart the entire computer. Speaker 6 01:32:34 Okay, perfect. Thank you. Speaker 3 01:32:36 You're welcome. And you were one of the people that I looked and I was like, wait, Copilot, and I added you this morning. Speaker 6 01:32:42 Oh, thank you so much. Speaker 4 01:32:44 You're welcome. Hey, Christi. So, same question as yesterday, and I guess I must have been one of those people that got left off Copilot because I'm noticing it today, and it's really distracting when I'm just trying to like write emails and stuff. So. Is there an overall general setting that I can toggle on and off? Is it by app, or how does it work if I want to turn off the integration and just focus on the applications? Speaker 3 01:33:10 So if you, the only way we can do that is just turn off the license. Speaker 4 01:33:14 Okay, then I might. Speaker 7 01:33:19 Sorry, hey, it's Holly. Just it's Holly just jumping in because I turned off the function from my email. Because of that same reason, I didn't. It was very distracting, so I don't actually remember at all how I did it, unfortunately. But I think somewhere in maybe the settings at the top, there was the the ability to do that. Got and I knew then. I and I do apologize. I did not know. Speaker 4 01:33:45 Awesome, thank you, Holly. Speaker 7 01:33:46 Yeah, Dylan. If you want to speak afterwards, I because I turned it off, I don't have the ability to even see how. Speaker 4 01:33:56 Like It's not popping up on mine, so I can't do that. But but for sure I did, so I know that there is some way of doing that. I'll try it on my own at some point today. But if I can't figure it out, I'll definitely reach out to you. But I'm glad to know that the option exists. Speaker 7 01:34:09 It does, and and it worked. Yep. Ah, there we go. Yeah. That is Copilot on and off, Speaker 3 01:34:16 Easy. Yes. Thank you. I did not know that that existed. Thank you guys for pointing that out because. They are making changes for a long time. You could turn off. So I don't Google anymore because I have AI. So I ask Copilot. Any questions you guys have, and I don't know, I just ask. So it will give you the instructions, Dylan. And thank you guys for pointing that out. I had no clue you could turn off. Thank you. You're welcome. Um, anyone else? Speaker 3 01:34:50 You guys have you guys are one of my favorites because you guys have asked some really good questions this last two days, Speaker 5 01:34:57 And thank you for that. Christi, as you mentioned, you know we welcome any training, any videos, anything that you can send our way, and I'll make sure to distribute it for amongst everyone. So it's a it's a big learning project and. There's a lot to learn, so anything that you can send our way, Speaker 3 01:35:24 We'll appreciate it. Not a problem. I will be more than glad to look for this information coming up to be sent to you guys later this afternoon because my 10: 30 meeting got canceled. But I am in back to back from 11 o'clock to to about 4 or 5 p. m. today. So after that, I will. I have to wait for Copilot to finish analyzing this meeting to send me the recap. And then I'll get everything over to you. Speaker 5 01:35:50 Guys. Yeah, no rush at all. I mean, with the three day weekend coming up, I'm sure we can all start on this project next week. But from my point, I just want to wish you and wish everybody on the call a wonderful holiday weekend. Speaker 6 01:36:10 Thank you. Same to you and everyone. Speaker 3 01:36:17 Thank you guys. Have a great weekend.
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- > Date Time: 2026-09-07 07:05:48 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary This lecture provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of how prenatal exposure to drugs, alcohol, and tobacco harms unborn babies and affects families and society. It explains biological mechanisms (placental transfer, fetal metabolism), developmental timing (trimesters), and specific outcomes ranging from organ malformations, growth restriction, premature birth, and withdrawal syndromes to long-term neurobehavioral and learning problems. It highlights particular risks of substances including cocaine, crack, heroin, nicotine, marijuana, and especially alcohol, detailing fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) as the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability. The lecture also addresses associated risks like AIDS transmission and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), shares lived experiences from affected parents, underscores the emotional and societal costs, and emphasizes shared parental responsibility—before and during pregnancy—to avoid substance use and support healthy fetal development. As of 2026-09-07, the core message is that there is no safe amount of alcohol, drugs, or tobacco during pregnancy. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Scope and Prevalence of Prenatal Drug Exposure - Evidence of widespread exposure - The lecture opens noting that more than 375,000 babies were born exposed to drugs in the prior year, indicating a large-scale public health problem. - Exposure spans all ethnic and economic backgrounds, emphasizing that risk is not confined to any single demographic. - Range of substances involved - Substances include cocaine, crack, heroin, alcohol, marijuana, nicotine (cigarettes), inhalants (e.g., spray paint), and even over-the-counter medicines such as cold remedies, cough syrup, and aspirin. - Some parents are regular users; others are “weekend partiers,” underscoring that even intermittent use can be harmful. ### 2. Biological Mechanisms of Fetal Exposure and Vulnerability - Placental transfer and fetal metabolism - The placenta transfers nourishment—and also drugs and alcohol—from mother to baby. These substances easily cross the placenta. - Fetal organs are immature and cannot metabolize drugs as rapidly as adult organs, prolonging fetal exposure even after maternal effects subside. - Certain drug metabolites can be more toxic in fetuses; for example, cocaine breakdown products act as potent neurotoxins to the developing brain compared to adults. - Vasoconstriction effects (cocaine) - Cocaine is a vasoconstrictor, causing blood vessels to clamp down, reducing blood supply to fetal organs. - Consequences include ischemic injury such as parts of bowel dying (leading to bowel obstruction requiring surgery) and loss of digits (fingers or toes) due to cut-off blood supply. ### 3. Critical Periods in Fetal Development and Drug Impact - Trimester-specific development - Pregnancy is divided into trimesters; each is crucial and susceptible to drug effects. - First trimester: Rapid development of vital organs (heart, lungs, liver, kidneys) and central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Drugs (alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin) can interfere, causing brain damage (affecting thinking), spinal cord damage (affecting walking), and malformations (e.g., kidneys, limbs). - Third week: Suspected period when alcohol can cause maximal damage. - From eighth week to birth: Greatest weight gain; drug exposure can slow growth, lead to mental and behavioral problems, and cause premature birth, low birth weight, and small head size, which can impact intelligence. ### 4. Neonatal Withdrawal and Early-Life Complications - Addiction and withdrawal syndromes - Babies exposed to cocaine, crack, or heroin can be born addicted. - Heroin-exposed newborns may experience withdrawal: shaking, vomiting, seizures, and even death. Newborns show severe jitteriness, incessant movement that can abrade skin (chin, knees, elbows), and terrifying syndromes. - Early functional challenges - Difficulties with eating, sleeping, forming attachment to mothers; high-pitched, hard-to-console crying suggesting pain. - Premature and underweight babies with smaller-than-normal head sizes face increased risk of developmental and intellectual issues. ### 5. Long-Term Developmental and Behavioral Outcomes - Learning and behavioral issues - Later in childhood, exposed children can have learning disabilities and pronounced behavioral problems, including violent tempers and attitude challenges, as described by caregivers. - Some children are born with specific disabilities (e.g., a case of a child born deaf, and a child described as a “stress baby” with severe withdrawals and swallowing difficulties). ### 6. Substance-Specific Risks and Outcomes - Nicotine (cigarettes) - Crosses the placenta, reducing blood, nutrients, and oxygen to the fetus; increases risk of respiratory problems later (bronchitis, asthma). - Associated with premature birth and miscarriage; low-birth-weight babies have more complications and possible developmental problems. - Recommendation: Stop smoking altogether during pregnancy or reduce as much as possible to lower risk. - Marijuana - Can cause tremors in newborns; babies may be unresponsive to surroundings; later learning disabilities are reported. - Alcohol - Widely available and socially promoted but highly harmful to fetuses. - Causes fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), the number one preventable cause of intellectual disability. - FAS features: abnormally small head, underdeveloped brain, facial anomalies (small eyes with drooping lids, thin upper lip, short upturned nose), possible heart and lung problems; as children age, behavioral and social difficulties may worsen. - Neuropathology: Fetal alcohol-exposed brains are smaller and smoother with fewer gyri and sulci, reflecting alcohol-induced neuronal cell death. - Equivalence of drinks: A 12 oz beer, a glass of wine, and a wine cooler each contain the same amount of alcohol as a mixed drink; alcohol is alcohol—no safe amount during pregnancy. - Even small amounts (e.g., one drink per day) have been associated with neurological and learning risks; recommendation is zero alcohol during pregnancy. - Cocaine and crack - Neurotoxic metabolites in fetuses; vasoconstrictive effects cause organ ischemia and malformations. - Associated with premature birth, growth restriction, limb/digit loss, bowel ischemia, and severe neonatal withdrawal/jitteriness. - Heroin and other opioids - Leads to neonatal abstinence syndrome with severe withdrawal symptoms (shaking, vomiting, seizures, potential death). - Inhalants and over-the-counter medications - Inhalants like spray paint and certain OTC drugs (cold remedies, cough syrup, aspirin) can pose risks; experts believe even small amounts can endanger fetal health. ### 7. Associated Risks: AIDS and SIDS - AIDS transmission - Injecting drugs with contaminated needles can transmit HIV/AIDS; infected pregnant women can pass the disease to their unborn babies. - SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) - Occurs between 1 week and 1 year; unexplained death during sleep. - More frequent in babies exposed to certain drugs before birth, though exact cause is unknown. ### 8. Emotional, Familial, and Societal Impacts - Parental guilt and family strain - Parents report profound guilt, anger, fear, and grief, including loss of children and ongoing anxiety about a child’s health and development. - Family dynamics can be strained; relatives may struggle to cope with children’s behavioral challenges, leading to lack of acknowledgment or support. - Societal costs - Medical, educational, and social care for exposed babies cost society billions annually, underscoring the broader economic burden. ### 9. Responsibility and Prevention: Roles of Mothers and Fathers - Parenting responsibilities before birth - Parenting is framed as responsibility, not just affection—providing essentials, modeling good behavior, and being present even when difficult. - Responsibility begins pre-birth: avoid exposing the fetus to alcohol, drugs, or tobacco. - Male partner’s role - Men should support and encourage pregnant partners to avoid harmful behaviors and should avoid their own drug use (e.g., cocaine potentially affecting sperm) and smoking (to prevent secondhand smoke harm to mother and baby). - Knowledge gaps and ongoing learning - Acknowledgment that more needs to be learned about prenatal exposure effects, but current evidence strongly supports abstaining from alcohol, drugs, and tobacco during pregnancy. - Core preventive message - Each instance of maternal drinking, drug use, or smoking reduces the baby’s chance at a healthy start and productive life; fetuses have no agency to mitigate these risks. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Develop a prenatal education session outline that communicates no-safe-level guidance for alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, including equivalence of alcoholic drinks and risks of OTC medications. - [ ] 2. Create a trimester-specific risk chart summarizing organ development milestones and associated substance-related risks to use in counseling. - [ ] 3. Draft a patient handout detailing immediate and long-term effects of nicotine, marijuana, cocaine/crack, heroin, and alcohol on fetuses and newborns, with clear cessation resources. - [ ] 4. Propose a partner engagement plan outlining supportive behaviors for male partners, including avoidance of personal substance use and minimizing secondhand smoke exposure. - [ ] 5. Compile a resource list for pregnant individuals covering smoking cessation, substance use treatment, and prenatal care services, emphasizing confidentiality and accessibility. - [ ] 6. Design a brief screening protocol for prenatal clinics to identify OTC and inhalant use, and integrate counseling prompts for harm reduction and cessation. - [ ] 7. Outline a community awareness campaign highlighting the societal costs and preventability of FAS and drug-related neonatal complications.
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- Sep 7, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:44 Last year, more than 375, 000 babies were born exposed to drugs. 375, Speaker 2 00:00:50 000 babies, Some of these babies were actually born addicted. Speaker 3 00:00:56 Some premature, and some with organ, limb, and facial deformities. Speaker 4 00:01:01 And some with brain damage. Speaker 1 00:01:03 It's truly heartbreaking, especially when you look around and see how joyful childhood can be. And the parents of these babies. Well, the fact is, they come from all ethnic and economic backgrounds. Some are addicted to drugs like cocaine, crack, heroin, or alcohol, and some are weekend partiers. They drink beer, smoke pot, cigarettes, or use inhalants like spray paint. What's so frightening is that experts now believe even small amounts of alcohol and drugs can put a baby's health at risk, including a lot of over-the-counter medicines like cold remedies, cough syrup, and aspirin. Speaker 1 00:01:40 Considering how tiny and vulnerable an unborn baby's body is, is no wonder there's no such thing as a safe amount. Speaker 5 00:01:49 Surrounding the baby inside the mother's womb is the placenta, the organ that transfers nourishment from the mother to the baby. Not only does the baby receive nutrients that are good for the baby, but the baby can also receive. Drugs and alcohol, which easily cross the placenta, because the baby is very immature. All of its organs are just forming, and consequently, the baby is unable to break down these drugs as quickly as your adult body can break them down. So the baby will be affected by these drugs long after you have no effects. And in fact, some of the breakdown products. Speaker 5 00:02:34 For example, of cocaine, are even more powerful in terms of their impact on the baby because it's actually broken down differently inside the baby than in adult, and it's more of a neurotoxin, more of a toxin to your to the baby's developing brain, than is cocaine in adult. The bottom line is, it's not just the pregnant woman who takes the drink or uses the drug. Her baby does too. Speaker 6 00:03:04 Another very important factor in the way drugs affect unborn babies is how far along they are in their development. You see, there are various stages in the growth of an unborn baby, and each stage can be affected in different ways. Speaker 2 00:03:27 Pregnancy is broken down into three three - month periods called trimesters. Each of these trimesters is different, yet equally important in terms of the growth and development taking place in the baby. All drugs can change, or even stop this development. For example, in the first trimester, there's rapid growth and development of the baby's vital organs, like the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys, as well as the brain and spinal cord. As a matter of fact, Speaker 2 00:04:00 The brain and spinal cord are the first systems that begin to develop, even before the heart. Exposure to drugs like alcohol, cocaine, crack, and heroin can interfere with this development. Brain damage caused by drugs can affect the child's capacity to think, while spinal cord damage can affect the ability to walk. Malformations can also occur in vital organs, such as the kidneys. And with developing arms and legs, for example, Speaker 5 00:04:43 Sometimes various organs lose their blood supply because the cocaine is what we call a vasoconstrictor. It causes the blood vessels to clamp down, so the baby can, in fact. Kill a part of its bowel, and so the baby, when it's born, will have what's called a bowel obstruction, and will need to have surgery, so that it'll be able to eat. Other times, we see that the baby might actually lose some of its fingers or toes, because again, the blood supply to those organs was cut off as a result of being exposed to cocaine. Speaker 2 00:05:30 It's Suspected that the third week of pregnancy is when alcohol, in particular, can do most of its damage. From the eighth week right up to birth, the baby undergoes its greatest weight gain. Exposure to drugs during these crucial weeks and months can slow down the baby's overall growth and cause mental and behavioral problems. Drugs can also cause the baby to be born prematurely. In other words. Before the full nine months are up, these babies are underweight and can have a smaller than normal head. As you can imagine, this could have a serious effect on intelligence. But the problems don't stop here. Speaker 4 00:06:29 Babies Exposed to drugs like cocaine, crack, or heroin can actually be born addicted to them. With heroin, they experience withdrawal symptoms: shaking, vomiting, seizures, even death. Just like an adult would. The only difference, of course, is these are just tiny little newborn. Speaker 5 00:06:45 Babies. The baby is usually very, very jittery, and will move incessantly in its crib. Sometimes it moves so much that it'll actually rub off the skin from its chin. Knees, elbows. So, the syndromes can be quite terrifying. In fact, to watch, Speaker 4 00:07:06 They can have problems eating, sleeping, and forming attachment to their mothers. They cry a lot at a high pitch, as if in pain, and it's very hard to comfort them. Later in childhood, these kids can have problems in school, Speaker 7 00:07:18 Including learning disabilities. The most apparent thing that you can see is wrong with your child is is the behavior and their attitude. They have like. They have these violent tempers. Yeah. You know they. I don't know if it's from cocaine, alcohol, marijuana pills, whatever we used went into their bodies. You know, when when my child was born, they told me that he was heroin addicted, and I couldn't understand that because I never used heroin to my knowledge. But what they're putting in drugs today, you don't know what you're smoking. You don't know what you're taking. You know, you probably don't know what you're drinking. Speaker 8 00:07:51 I have a seven - year - old. Her name is Kenya, and Kenya is deaf. Kenya was born a pound and thirteen ounces. You don't have to have a child born to have any problems using cocaine. You can use alcohol and marijuana, and you tell yourself that's okay, Speaker 9 00:08:13 But it's not okay. I drank a lot. I used a lot of heroin. I used a lot of cocaine, a lot of black beauty. I mean, I just used everything. I wasn't aware that I was even pregnant with her until I was seven months pregnant. I never felt her move. Tiffany was born what they call a stress baby. She didn't know how to swallow. She was having severe withdrawals. I never got to see my baby. They took her from me, and I found her strapped to a metal table. They were had tubes all in her and down her throat, and they wouldn't tell me anything. But I knew in my heart what it was from. Speaker 9 00:08:60 Amazingly, though, Speaker 4 00:09:01 Studies show there is hope for these children. Hope that with a lot of love and care, they can overcome some of their problems. The cocaine, crack, and heroin aren't the only drugs that can cause serious problems for an unborn child. Nicotine, the drug found in cigarettes, for example, can cross the placenta and cut down on the flow of blood, nutrients, and oxygen the baby needs. This puts the child at risk for breathing problems such as bronchitis and asthma later in life. It can also cause premature births, or worse. The pregnancy could end in a miscarriage, meaning the baby dies before it's even born. If you're pregnant, Speaker 5 00:09:36 It's definitely important for you to stop smoking, altogether or at least cut down as much as you possibly can. The reason is that smoking during pregnancy is associated with an increased chance of miscarriage, and of having a low birth weight baby. Now you might say. What's the problem of having a little baby? It's just a miniature baby, but those babies have many more complications in the nursery, and they're more likely to have potentially some developmental problems later. Speaker 4 00:10:15 Smoking marijuana can cause some of the same problems and more. Sometimes babies exposed to marijuana are born with tremors. They can be unresponsive to things that go on around them, and later on, they may have learning disabilities. But there's one drug that's been proven to actually cause mental retardation and abnormalities of the face and body. One drug whose effects can be irreversible. This drug is legal. It's easy to get, and it's even advertised. Speaker 3 00:10:40 Alcohol. It's all around you, on TV, in the movies, wherever you look. But it can be one of the most harmful substances to an unborn baby. Exposing a baby to alcohol before birth can cause a condition known as fetal alcohol syndrome, or FAS. Believe it or not, FAS is the number one preventable cause of mental retardation. A baby suffering from FAS can have an abnormally small head, and as you can see here, an underdeveloped brain. Speaker 10 00:11:11 The brain of the child exposed to alcohol is much smaller than the brain of the child who has not been exposed to alcohol. In addition, it's smoother. The normal brain has lots of little curves and grooves and and holes and bumps in it. All of those represent brain cells. In the brain of a fetal alcohol syndrome child, what you see is a brain that is much smoother with fewer of those bumps and fewer of those grooves, which which is a reflection of the fact that alcohol actually kills cells. Speaker 3 00:11:46 They can also have facial abnormalities like small eyes with drooping lids. A thin upper lip and a short, upturned nose. Sometimes these babies are born with heart and lung problems too, and as they grow older, the problems can get worse, and may include behavioral and social difficulties. You know, you still might hear people say that drinking a little beer or wine while you're pregnant is okay, that it relaxes you, that it's only hard liquor you have to stay away from. But the truth is, a 12 ounce can of beer. Speaker 3 00:12:19 A glass of wine, or a wine cooler, all contain the same amount of alcohol as a mixed drink. Alcohol is alcohol, and when you're pregnant, there is no safe amount. Speaker 10 00:12:31 Even infants are, are in this case fetuses and subsequent newborns who were exposed to only very very small amounts of alcohol, maybe only one drink per day, have been shown to have some risk. For having some neurologic and learning problems later on, so the recommendation at this point is that there's no safe level of alcohol usage during pregnancy. Speaker 3 00:12:55 The problems we've been describing are just a few of the devastating ways drugs, alcohol, and tobacco can affect an unborn baby. But there are two ways we haven't discussed yet, and they're the most terrible of all. The first one is AIDS. Which you probably know can be transmitted by injecting drugs using a needle contaminated with the virus. If a pregnant woman contracts AIDS in this way, or in any other way for that matter, her unborn baby can also get the disease. Just as tragic is something called sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. It happens between the ages of one week and one year. Everything seems to be okay with the baby, and then one night it dies in its sleep. Speaker 3 00:13:42 Nobody knows exactly why it happens, but they do know that it happens more often to babies who are exposed to certain drugs before birth. We've seen how drugs can affect an unborn baby and a growing child, and while this is undoubtedly the most awful consequence of using drugs during pregnancy, it's not the only one. Parents and relatives of these children pay a heavy emotional price. Speaker 11 00:14:03 One of my sons died. I have a daughter and a son of one drug, I suppose, and to to write today. They said it wasn't because of the drug, but but some still deep down inside said, if I hadn't been using, maybe might have had a chance, you know. And it's still a lot of guilt I'm feeling right today behind it. Every year when his birthday comes up, I feel a lot of guilt, Speaker 8 00:14:26 A lot of anger. I smoked cocaine for eight of those months. I was pregnant with those twins. Didn't know that I was having twins; just thought I was having one. I lost one of my children. Speaker 8 00:14:40 I live with a guilt every day. That's the that's the saddest part is this guilt that you feel because I've done this to these children. Speaker 9 00:14:48 My family still to this day has a hard time with Tiffany. They didn't know how to deal with her. She she was too wild for them, and they never to this day. My father still really doesn't acknowledge her, and it hurts her a lot. You know. Speaker 7 00:15:07 And the guilt of watching this child and hoping that this child is still breathing and that it's going to move and that it's going to react normally and that it's not going to be handicapped. You know, it's it's a it's an overwhelming fear. Speaker 3 00:15:21 There's also the medical, educational, and social costs involved in caring for babies exposed to drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. That's a cost we all bear, and it runs into the billions every year. Speaker 1 00:15:33 You know, sometimes when people think about what it would be like to be a parent. They focus on how great it would be to have someone to love, and love you back. Speaker 2 00:15:41 To take them to the park or the movies, play ball, stuff like that. But that's only a small part of what parenting is really all about. Parenting is more about responsibility. Speaker 4 00:15:51 You know, providing food and a home, clothes and an education. Speaker 3 00:15:55 Yeah, it's about setting a good example and taking the time, even when you're tired or sick, to be there for the child. Speaker 1 00:16:02 And as we've seen, a big part of that responsibility begins. Even before the child is born, making sure they get the best possible start on life by not exposing them to alcohol, drugs, Speaker 2 00:16:13 Or tobacco. That probably seems like mostly the woman's responsibility, and that is true. It is, but males have an important role too. Speaker 3 00:16:29 By supporting and encouraging the woman to take care of herself and to avoid doing anything. It could jeopardize the baby's health, Speaker 1 00:16:36 And it's important for the male to avoid using drugs himself, like cocaine, which is now believed to affect a man's sperm, and cigarettes, which create secondhand smoke that can harm the mother and her baby. But there is still a lot more that we need. Speaker 4 00:16:55 To learn about what happens when babies are exposed to drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. Speaker 3 00:17:00 But one thing is for sure. Every time a pregnant woman takes a drink, uses drugs, or smokes, her baby's chances for a healthy start and a productive life are reduced, and there's nothing that little baby can do about it.
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08-31 Planning Ladonia's Educational and Career Transition
- Notes
-  This is a summary of a support meeting for Ladonia ("Don"), focusing on her decision to switch to an online high school to accelerate credit recovery. The team discusses her long-term career interests in juvenile probation and social work, plans for college exploration, and coordinates immediate next steps for school withdrawal and resource utilization. ------------ ## School and Logistics Update The meeting began with brief personal check-ins before transitioning to the primary topic: a significant change in Ladonia's educational path. Ladonia announced her decision to withdraw from Browning High School and enroll in a new online program based out of Pasadena. This move is intended to better align with her goals of accelerating credit recovery and preparing for college. The group addressed the necessary logistics, with social worker Vanessa Tefoya reporting that the former school's counselor, Miss Haramio, had reached out for Ladonia's contact information. Ladonia confirmed she had already attempted to call the school last week to withdraw but had not received a response. Now that she is 18 and holds her own educational rights, she authorized Vanessa to share her phone number to finalize the withdrawal process. ------------ ## New Educational Strategy and Accountability Ladonia's new educational strategy revolves around a fully online, self-paced high school program that offers the A-G credits required for admission to California state universities, with a specific goal of attending CSU Long Beach. While acknowledging she previously struggled with motivation in online school, Ladonia expressed confidence that, at 18 and in a new environment, she is ready to commit seriously. To support this, she has created a dedicated study space at home with a new desk and technology. She plans to dedicate two to three hours daily to her studies, starting with math. The support team affirmed her plan, suggesting alternative study locations like a local café or the library if she needs a change of scenery. They also proposed reframing their weekly check-ins as "co-working" sessions, where they could provide direct, hands-on support with her coursework at home or the library, rather than holding traditional talk-based meetings. ------------ ## Career Exploration and Long-Term Goals The conversation explored Ladonia's long-term career aspirations, focusing on her strong interest in becoming a juvenile probation officer. She is motivated by a desire to help "troubled kids," believing her personal life experiences would allow her to connect with them on a deeper level. However, she voiced concerns about the professional challenge of enforcing rules and setting firm boundaries. The team, including social worker Vanessa, discussed the value of a social work degree as a strategic pathway. This degree would not only qualify her for a probation role but also offer greater career flexibility if she later decided to pivot. Vanessa shared her own experience of earning a bachelor's in criminal justice before getting a master's in social work to change careers. As a secondary interest, Ladonia mentioned cosmetology as a potential "side hustle" or "fallout plan," leading to the discovery that the agency offers a cosmetology course in Whittier. ------------ ## Resource and Support Coordination The team detailed the extensive resources available to support Ladonia's goals. Vanessa explained the role of the ILP (Independent Living Program) coordinator, Cirelia, who manages funding for various needs. Scholarships and financial aid are available to cover college-related expenses, and Vanessa's own experience of obtaining a master's degree for free through a stipend program was cited as an example of what is possible. The team encouraged Ladonia to review the ILP services list for potential reimbursements on items like books, supplies, or even household goods. To help explore her college options, the team committed to arranging a campus tour of El Camino College. They discussed the benefits of a guided tour for gaining insider knowledge and noted that the agency could also provide financial support for vocational training, such as the nail or cosmetology classes Ladonia is interested in. ------------ ## Action Items **@Vanessa** - [ ] Provide Ladonia’s phone number to Miss Haramio at the previous school. - [TBD] - [ ] Send the list of ILP services and reimbursable items to Ladonia. - [TBD] **@Ashley** - [ ] Conduct the individual session with Ladonia at the rescheduled time of 3:30 PM tomorrow. - [Tomorrow] **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Schedule a tour of the El Camino College campus for the week of the 14th. - [TBD] **@Ladonia** - [ ] Attend the two new school program meetings (with the coordinator and teacher) on the 8th from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM. - [The 8th] - [ ] Review the ILP reimbursement list upon receipt to identify potential items for funding support. - [TBD]
- Date
- Aug 31, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:02 Let Me turn up my volume. We're on my computer. Speaker 1 00:00:07 Okay, perfect. Okay, there you go. Hey, hi, Don. How are you? Good, good, and yourself? Speaker 3 00:00:18 I'm pretty good. Yeah, I bake some cookies, some oatmeal cookies. They're so good. They're very good. With this. Speaker 1 00:00:25 Heat, it's so hot. Speaker 1 00:00:31 I'm hoping you have the AC all the way up or down. Speaker 2 00:00:36 Yeah, it is set to a comfortable 74 degrees. Speaker 4 00:00:40 Oh, that's nice. Speaker 1 00:00:44 Yes. Okay. It looks like Vanessa, the social worker, is joining in. Okay. Let me let me have her join. Speaker 2 00:00:54 How was your guys's weekend. Speaker 3 00:00:60 It was. It was pretty. It was chill. Um, I didn't really do much. We just like with each other in the house, like watch like TV. Well, well, Speaker 2 00:01:09 I did. Hmm. It was a pretty hot weekend this weekend. Did you stay cool? Speaker 3 00:01:17 Uh, yeah, it's cool up here. I was like, I don't care what. The house, like I like to. Speaker 2 00:01:28 I agree. I woke up and she had turned the thermostat down to sixty. Oh, yeah, you guys were crazy. It took me a minute to figure out why it was so cold, and then I logged on to look at the thermostat. I was like, " Oh, it's sixty in. Speaker 5 00:01:44 Here." That's really cold. Yeah, that is really cold. Speaker 2 00:01:50 It it got it dropped the air conditioner hadn't got there yet. It was down to seventy two or seventy one. I was like, um. Yeah, we're gonna turn this back up, but she tried. She did good for. Speaker 6 00:02:05 Winter. Speaker 1 00:02:08 Yeah, but um, I guess just to catch up because I know it's been some time since we've all seen each other. But I did see that the I think it was a school counselor that uh emailed back. Oh yeah. That she was still working on having a meeting. I don't know if that's still in the plans to be able to meet with her to kind of come up with a plan together. Speaker 3 00:02:36 Oh, so there's been like some chains of events. Speaker 1 00:02:40 All right, Lupusin, tell us all. Speaker 3 00:02:44 Right, so I I just honestly I decided that I just like feel like to go on high school. Like I was like thinking about a lot. Speaker 3 00:02:56 Yeah, I just think I'll be better, and like, especially since I want to like really like be working and stuff like that. So, we're in the process of like, we've been in the process of like setting up like my we have a meeting with. Speaker 1 00:03:14 The the eight. Okay, cool. Is it and it's a. Completely different program, right? Like different school. Speaker 3 00:03:26 Uh huh. Speaker 1 00:03:27 Which is free. Okay, I think this is the one that Christi had brought up a couple weeks ago. Speaker 2 00:03:33 Well, we we looked at it before school started as a way of how can we get her credits ready for her so she could graduate, and then she she was like, no, let me try Browning, and then yeah, Speaker 3 00:03:51 Yeah, right. Speaker 2 00:03:53 Yeah, so they it's they've got um they got a a small campus here in Hawthorne and um but I think she's going to the Pasadena campus is the official one she's going to be doing school out of so even though most of it would be online. Speaker 5 00:04:09 That's what I was going to ask. Is it required to go in person at all at some point, or is it just like once a week. Speaker 2 00:04:16 No, completely online. She can work at her own pace and get uh she can get the A G credits. That's required, and so she's going to try and see if she can go to CSU Long Beach, if if she can, if we get credits. So she's doing amazing. I'm proud of her. Speaker 1 00:04:35 Let's see here. I do see Vanessa, the social worker, that you have your hand up. I am. Speaker 7 00:04:44 Hi. So I just wanted to say something really quick. Hi. Good afternoon, everybody. By the way, I know I've done a little bit late. I do see some new names here, so I'm not really sure. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:04:59 We can all do introductions. Speaker 7 00:05:00 Really quickly, I am Vanessa Tefoya. I am the social worker assigned to Ladonia Martin. But I did want to step in and say, in regards to school, Ladonia, your school reached out to me and was asking about your whereabouts. I didn't want to share anything until I knew what you felt comfortable sharing. I did let them know because I think they were also inquiring. Like now that you're 18, are you your own ed rights holder? Which we went over. You do hold your own educational rights, and that I was able to let them know. But in terms of like your plan, did you want to reach out to them? Did you want me to communicate with them? Speaker 3 00:05:37 You can't let them reach back out to you. I did call them sometime like last week to like basically like withdraw, and like they said they would. They're, Going through our process, and they don't call me back. So, did they mention that? Speaker 7 00:05:51 No, they didn't actually. Let me pull up the email right now because I don't want to misquote anybody. I want to say it was Miss Haramio who reached out this morning. Yeah, she's asking about the easiest way to communicate with you because she tried to email you and she was asking for a phone number. I didn't know if you wanted me to share your phone number or not. Speaker 3 00:06:17 Oh, you can. I don't think she's like updated on like the different. Speaker 7 00:06:21 Okay, so I'll go ahead and send that out, and then hopefully she can get back to you soon. But again, because you are your own educational rights holder, you can communicate that with her. Okay, thank you, Ladonia. Speaker 1 00:06:34 Um, but just so we're on the same page, we do have Ashley. Uh, Gaetan here, and then that is the covering clinician. First loan since loan did um her last day would be would be today. Uh, and then we do have Karina Barajas as well, which is the the CFS um that's covering for Kimberly. She's on on leave temporarily as well. Yeah, so I know there's been a lot of changes. Speaker 1 00:07:09 For Syria, for Ladonia's team, I know she's been a champ with like all the transitions that have been going on, and it sounds like she also has like her own transition in in motion with the the school changes that have been going on. But like with the school changes, Ladonia, like, do you plan? Um, I'm wondering like if you know yet, um, like how many hours a week would you be required, or that's kind of like all the information that you get. That you'll get when you meet on the eighth. Speaker 3 00:07:40 Oh yeah, when we meet on the eighth, they say like they'll let us know like the like the card they'll give us information about everything they do and then come up with like an educational like plan for his gifts. Speaker 1 00:07:55 Okay, cool. At what time is meeting. Speaker 3 00:07:59 Two. There's actually two meetings that day. There's um there's one like with like a, Somebody and then there's one like there's like the second meeting is with your actual teacher like my actual like teacher like so I think the first meeting is with the coordinator and then yeah but it's not too two to three. Speaker 1 00:08:21 Cool how are you feeling about the whole thing. Speaker 3 00:08:26 Kind of happy. Speaker 3 00:08:33 Yeah I honestly. Speaker 3 00:08:37 Like I feel like I don't know. I feel like this would be good. Like since like I'm ready to start putting stuff. I don't think it would be like last time. Speaker 1 00:08:47 You know. You ready for some change? Speaker 3 00:08:54 Yeah. Yeah, I think she's gonna be amazing. Yeah, they have like dual enrollment too, so I'm gonna see if like I could like get involved like with that. Yeah, I'm just like I don't know. Speaker 4 00:09:08 That's good, and you can hear it in your voice, like the excitement of this change. So I'm happy for that for you. Speaker 3 00:09:15 I could definitely like when I did like online school like in the past, like I was like definitely not like into it, like into it. I was like I couldn't be like I didn't take it seriously. Like I just like was being lazy, didn't do the work, like like not do what I'm supposed to do. But what's it called? I feel like since I'm 18 and like I'm in like a new like area like for myself like we're doing like over and stuff like you know what I'm. Speaker 1 00:09:45 Saying. Mhm, yeah, and you'll be able to go at your own pace, which is cool. And you know that's where we could also come in. I know I had spoke with Karina earlier today, and we had talked. We had done like a little bit of brainstorming of like how we could support you, and we had talked about. Like even for like our weekly check-ins, or I know Karina had brought it up with you already during your individual sessions. Like they don't have to be like how it is now, right? Where we meet together as a team and kind of just talk about, you know, good things and maybe like the change coming up. But we could even meet up at like the library, at your home, like wherever you feel comfortable, and we could just sit by each other, right? Like help you work through like whatever you have to do online, and then if you have questions, you know, like we could. Speaker 1 00:10:33 Maybe take breaks together, right? Like we don't necessarily have to kind of talk how we have had a session before, right? But more of like let's do this together, like let's get through this together. So you don't, you know, you know that there is people behind you that are rooting for you. Speaker 5 00:10:47 I did want to ask you, Don, because in the same breath, I do believe we can use our sessions for that space. But like just to kind of pick your brain, what are you planning on, or how are you planning on? Going about the online school, like, do you think you're gonna dedicate one specific day, or are you gonna kind of punch at or like crunch at it, like maybe an hour every day? Like, how? What kind of action steps do you want to take in order to understand that? Okay, how am I gonna keep myself accountable for getting my schoolwork done in a way that gets you to get the credit recovery that you want and that keeps you um productive, but also like you know um is working at the pace you would like. Speaker 3 00:11:26 Uh huh. So I think, I think about like maybe like. Math by two or three hours, like math, just like like trying to work out like stuff like. Speaker 5 00:11:39 Okay, that's cool. Do you feel like you're comfortable doing it at home, or is like the library space something you're more comfortable with? Speaker 3 00:11:49 I think it's a lot. Feel me? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:52 We can do that. Dom used to do it out on by the pool to the to the clubhouse where you can get internet. Speaker 5 00:12:04 No, that's right. As long as I got internet, I can do it. Yes. Speaker 1 00:12:09 I don't think. No, sorry, I don't think I completely got that. I um, I think there was a delay on my end. But Don, did you say that you plan to do it at the library? Speaker 3 00:12:22 Yeah, we could. Like either order, like do that, like the cafe or like the way, like the house or like. Speaker 1 00:12:39 At home, do you have like a space where you could like be on your computer, like fully focused on schoolwork, like a designated space just for school? Speaker 3 00:12:50 Yeah. So what's called like we just to build because she got like two desks for like me and you. So we just built a goddamn building like the other desk, like my desk yesterday, and like set it up like my laptop in. Like my art stuff and stuff like that. So yeah, I got my own little space. Little space. He's not excited. Oh, I just look so cute. Like, what's called Christi? Like, she types like a keyboard mouse to it. Like, I'm almost like something. And I have like a little like stand, like where you put like like the iPad on, too, or like on the other side, like. Speaker 3 00:13:35 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:13:38 That feels more homey, more comfortable, like your own space. Speaker 2 00:13:44 The only sorry, I'm choking on my doctor. The only thing we got to work on now is finding our chair. Right. I'll go use Angie's ball. The ball would be great. Get a core workout at the same time if you're doing a home. And then also, I have a writing desk in the living room that she can also use if she needs a view while she works. Or we have the hammock out on the patio. Speaker 1 00:14:16 Oh, that's good. That sounds relaxing. Speaker 5 00:14:20 Yeah, I probably wouldn't get work done. Speaker 1 00:14:23 There myself. Probably take a nap fifteen minutes in. Speaker 2 00:14:27 It's a chair hammock, so you can't really lay back, but it is comfortable. And it has a tablet holder that my Kindle gets put on all the time. Speaker 1 00:14:40 Oh, super handy! Yes. Yeah. So the good thing is that you have options, Don. You have different options of like places where you could like relocate, focus, or you know, kind of change sceneries if you need to, like halfway through, halfway through the day. I know, like one of the biggest things that you were you've been talking about too is uh doing a job search. Like, Speaker 3 00:15:10 How's that going? Yeah, so I was just um yesterday I was just like in B like so valid. I was just like I don't know, like I was just trying to like I was trying to like upload a logo to find below, and then I went on to um Walmart and Target because I do want to like I said like before like I'm I know like I want to work. Like where I'm like organizing and like stocking, so like what's called like I think like Walmart or Target, so like I went on their website and like applied. But yeah, Speaker 6 00:15:43 Like some places closer, Walmart or Target is closer there. Speaker 1 00:15:49 Yeah. Nice. That gives you more flexibility too, like with school and the like your work hours. Speaker 6 00:15:57 That's right. Hopefully, hopefully. Speaker 1 00:16:03 Yeah . We'll be crossing our fingers for you. Have you had the chance to update your resume, like with the McDonald's experience. Speaker 3 00:16:10 Oh no. No, I don't think it would really. Just like I was there for like something like a short period of time. Speaker 1 00:16:22 I don't know. You just want to leave it out of there. Yeah. Forget it never. Forget it never happened. Speaker 1 00:16:37 That makes sense, though, especially because it was such a short period. But I'm glad everything's going okay. Like with your upcoming meeting on the eighth, though, like do you have any questions in mind that like you would want to ask, like any of the admin there? Speaker 2 00:16:57 She actually asked me to tell you about our plans for January with school. So. Okay. Cool. So the dual enrollment is where she can do high school credit and college credit at the same time at El Camino, and it's free for her. And so, what we're looking at when we were looking at it together, she was looking at the criminal justice classes that she can take for her elective credits for high school, and get the college credits at the same time. And so we talked about that. Speaker 2 00:17:30 And she wanted me to also talk. She gave me a list of things to talk to you guys. Oh, why? We're all here. So she had a really. So she's been going to work with me, and she's going to meet in the next week or so. Crystal, who is our chief program officer at SCHARP, and so Crystal gave her already gave her some tips, some things like she can look into going into college for, like social work and things like that. And still become a parole officer with a social work license, and so gave her some icons. Yep, and so she the social work license gives her the option to be found if she decides that being a parole officer is not for her. So there's a few things that we were looking at all last week, and so she when she goes to the office with me, she gets a chance to talk to my team. Speaker 2 00:18:29 On things like that that she can do. Speaker 1 00:18:30 There's been a lot of planning going on. Speaker 2 00:18:37 Yeah, she's been doing absolutely amazing. I, I kid you not, she is so fantastic to have. Speaker 5 00:18:45 Okay, it sounds like you're blushing. I can hear you blushing, Don. God, it sounds like you've been doing well. Speaker 2 00:18:56 She has been. I'm proud of her. Speaker 1 00:18:58 Yeah, I'm just curious. Like, what about being a probation officer gets your attention. Speaker 3 00:19:02 It's like, well, I really like the juvenile. Like, um, I don't know. I'm just trying to like help like troubled kids. You know, like helping like get them like the right, like I don't know. Like me having like like some of them like to understand. Like, I guess like the other day I was talking. Like you can like can like do something outside with your life like like I'm here like helping guys like I feel like I. Speaker 6 00:19:35 Can. I'd be there. Speaker 1 00:19:39 Okay. You'd be able to provide a lot of like the firsthand experience that not many other probation officers would be able to provide, and connect with the youth in a different level. You would definitely bring bring a lot of value to that role, and I could see you thriving in that too. Speaker 3 00:20:04 Yeah. Hopefully, I don't know. Like it's like kind of like there's like some comp like cons like I don't know like I know like I can probably get past it by the time like I actually start working because like like school like even the like a cabinetry training like I don't know like setting like being able to say no like no. I don't know. I I still struggle with that, but like even like like people like saying no, like can't like do a certain thing, like and it's like I. Speaker 6 00:20:37 Don't know. Speaker 3 00:20:42 Like if they like try like to ask like they do this certain thing and like no, they like job like no, like they can't do that certain thing, like you're not get tough tried to do that, but like you're just like. Like the bonds and like stuff like that. Like you don't want to mess it up. Hopefully I did. I planned that during the time. If you if you don't want to, Speaker 1 00:21:09 No no go ahead. Speaker 3 00:21:12 Yeah, just I guess they're just saying like no, like I guess like I just don't want to ruin like the like in a way, but like it also like it risks like the job. Like, insert asking. Speaker 5 00:21:28 It's like that's good. It sounds like it's a vocational thing for you, which I'm glad. I think some of the best jobs come from when they're a little personal, Speaker 1 00:21:40 So I think you'll do well. Yeah, and I think what you're talking about too, Don, is like maybe if like they don't follow like the court orders, that maybe they're uh being asked. To do. Yeah, besides like enforcing. Speaker 3 00:22:02 It's like your job, and my bad. And it's like my job to like enforce it to like keep me behind the restrictions. Girl, why pick that job? Speaker 1 00:22:13 Innocent. You're starting to sound a little more distant, Don. Speaker 6 00:22:18 Can't really hear you. Yes. Speaker 3 00:22:26 Like I guess, like what's it called? Like it's just like the thing, like like enforcing, enforcing, like enforcing, like the. Speaker 6 00:22:33 Uh. Speaker 1 00:22:43 Sorry, Don. You sound a bit far away still. Speaker 2 00:22:46 Oh, it's when you turn your head. Not sure if it's just me. She turned her head to pet the kitten. That's when it happened. Speaker 1 00:22:55 Those are the kind of distractions we want to watch out for, especially if you're getting like some online homework done. Speaker 2 00:23:02 Literally, she she the cat is giving me a dirty look for for having her stop petting. Speaker 1 00:23:09 Her. Those five minute sessions of just cuddling with the cat could turn into like thirty minutes. Speaker 3 00:23:16 Yes. I bet. I was just like saying like um just like enforcing it, like enforcing like the court orders and stuff like that. Speaker 1 00:23:26 Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's definitely a lot that comes with it. Besides, like a probation officer, like what's something else that you've considered, uh, as a career too? Speaker 6 00:23:48 Well, you have Vanessa. Speaker 5 00:23:50 I don't know. I was like Vanessa, cause you know how it's going. Speaker 1 00:23:54 Yeah. She could give you all the insider information. Speaker 6 00:23:58 Just want to do something where like, Speaker 1 00:24:10 Yeah, yeah. You have a lot of cool goals in mind, but I know like with you saying a social worker, I don't know Vanessa. Would she be able to like shadow you or anything like that? I don't know if even that's even possible. Speaker 7 00:24:26 That's not possible only because of like confidentiality purposes. But I always told Ladonia like, sorry, I don't know if that's a little bit better. But I always told Ladonia like, if she had any questions, she could ask. And the one of the things that I did tell her, um, same as Crystal, was that if you get a degree in social work, um, and she chooses to do like probation, then um, if she decides she's at some point ready for a different career, wants to take like a step back. Then she can find a lot more things utilizing that social social work degree. I shared my own personal experience. I my degree is in criminal justice. my my bachelor's degree is in criminal justice. But at some point in time, I realized that I wanted to do a little bit more than probation. So then I became a social worker. But in order to do that, I actually went back to get my master's in social work. Had I done social work from the beginning, it maybe would have looked a little bit different. But I think having that degree allows you to do more than something. Speaker 7 00:25:25 Directly with criminal justice, if that makes sense. Speaker 1 00:25:29 It does. Yeah, it does. And I think there's a lot more in common, Don, that you you have with Vanessa, with like having the same the same interests. So she could come in handy. Take advantage while you can. Speaker 7 00:25:46 Yeah, literally any questions that you may have, let me know. I actually. To put it lightly, I got my master's degree for free only because like I was a stipend student. Took a lot of work, but it's something that's definitely doable. I think Miss Christi had also mentioned this too. Like, there's money out there. There are scholarships to be found, and anything that you want, you can get for, and you don't have to pay the entire thing. There's a lot of help out there. And Ladonia, you're very motivated. I don't want you to lose that at all. You have your entire team behind you. Speaker 7 00:26:19 So we're here to help you. However, we can help you get to your goals. Speaker 1 00:26:22 We're going to. Yeah, and like with the dual enrollment, you know that's part of it being an option because you are still a high school student. You still are able to take those college courses for free. And Vanessa, correct me if I'm wrong, but I know there could even be some reimbursement for like maybe not necessarily tuition, but maybe like books or. I don't know where some other things that you could that Don you could possibly get reimbursement for, while still having Vanessa on your case. There's a lot of things that you could get paid for. Speaker 7 00:26:57 That goes back to the I L P services, Miss Christi. I saw a message from you earlier. I just haven't been able to get back because this is the first time that I'm like settling in and not working on contacts for the day. But yes, there is an I L P coordinator, Ladonia. Myself had already met with her to do a meeting. Her name is Cirelia, and any questions that we have in regards to funding, Miss Cici had also said there is money out there, and we will find a way to get it. It's just a matter of there's an entire list, and I can find that list again and send it to you, Ladonia. I don't know if you still have a copy of it, but go through that list, and if there's something that you think you could get reimbursed for, let me know. We'll take a look at it together. We'll ask Miss Cici, and we'll find a way to get it done. Can you send me? Yeah, let me look for it right now so that I can send it. Hopefully, before we hop off this call. Speaker 2 00:27:44 Yeah, Ladonia got to see how that works with Dominic because Dominic's college at UCMerced was fully paid for with scholarships and a lot of stuff with ILP. She got to see like what happened with deck my dorm and all the stuff that Dominic got for her dorm room. So she got to see a lot. Speaker 7 00:28:07 Yeah, it's it's great stuff. Like I said, it's all out there. It's just a matter of asking the right questions, asking the right people. But let me get that list for you. And usually, anytime that something comes up, Miss Cici's really good about emailing us about like opportunities for scholarships, for college tours, things like that. And I mean, now that I'll have like a little bit more exposure to all of that, I'll keep an eye out so that when there's something that could be of interest to you, you know, I'll present it to you, or I know how to help you for the school year. For sure. Speaker 1 00:28:38 Yeah, and even talking about like the school tours that Vanessa is mentioning, you know, we could even do tours together at like the local colleges. You know, it could be like during a check-in, you know, or during an individual session with one of us. Um, it could just be taking a look around, right? Maybe asking questions, like, uh, maybe getting in touch, like, with one of their offices, seeing like what kind of programs they offer, um, just to kind of explore your options, you know, and part of. Getting free money or free stuff too. It's uh. I know before when um some time ago we had talked about like us requesting funds for you to uh kind of like decorate your room or get some stuff. Um, what is it? I think it was like um, uh, like what was it? Like tableware or like um. Speaker 3 00:29:29 Oh, was it like what? Speaker 1 00:29:30 Like an air fryer, like for your old place, right? So like, yeah, you know. A year down the line, you're still with us, right? You'd still be able to get that stuff from us, right? It's about like using up your resources, like Vanessa's mentioning. Yeah, but you know, it's it's all possible. It's just about you know figuring out you know what route you want to take. But we're all in in whatever it is that you decide. Speaker 3 00:29:56 To do. Speaker 1 00:29:57 Yeah, but it's part of getting excited, right? New adventures. Speaker 1 00:30:07 Yeah, is there something else that you had told Christi that you wanted to share with us. Speaker 3 00:30:10 I noticed that because I was like, kind of like I was kind of confused. So I didn't want to start explaining it, and then I make no sense. But yeah, Speaker 2 00:30:23 Yeah, we've we've been working really hard this last week on figuring out what's what works and what doesn't. And making her a roadmap so that she can succeed. Speaker 1 00:30:37 That's awesome. And you did mention you wanted to do the enrollment at what was it, El Camino? Okay. Have you been to El Camino before? No. Would you want to meet El Camino so we could do a tour? Speaker 6 00:30:57 Yes, Speaker 1 00:30:57 Of course. Yes. Let's see. I don't know. Maybe we could put something on calendar. Let's take a look. I don't know if everyone would be able to join in, right? But maybe whoever is able to, maybe could join us. I don't know. Let's see. Well, right now you said you have the meeting on the eighth, right? Next week Tuesday. Yeah. Okay. So maybe we could do this. Maybe we could wait until you have the meeting on the eighth to kind of see how that goes, getting situated with like your your uh your workload, how you want to balance it out, and then maybe the following week after, what is it on the fourteenth, we could kind of figure out maybe what's the day that we could go on a tour. Sure. Okay. That's something that I could sign myself up for, so we could do together. Speaker 1 00:31:56 But El Camino is a pretty big campus. I know a lot of community colleges. It might sound like they're small, but a lot of them are pretty big and they have a lot to offer. Speaker 3 00:32:04 That's just like I never like been to it, but like I heard like a lot of people like go there and like they have like amazing staff and stuff like that. Like, so then when I was going like McDonald's, like when did they do? What did they do? Was training me? Like he was just like like like we're talking or whatever, and he was like like tell me like about like El Camino stuff like that. How like he's like like he was like there and he like going to school. For like a music degree or whatever, so it was like just like something like all the classes and stuff like that. Speaker 1 00:32:31 Was he making it sound interesting or like? Speaker 6 00:32:38 Yeah. Maybe so. Speaker 3 00:32:43 Yeah, like a. I think it's like dance, like dance major or something like that, and stuff like that. Like he's just like, yeah. I was like, Speaker 1 00:32:53 Okay. There's actually a lot of cool classes you could take in college. There's like dance. There's like martial arts. There's a lot of like cool classes that you could take just for fun, but still being able to get that credit for you to graduate. Speaker 3 00:33:07 Cos uh cosmetology class too. Like I want to take two, cause like also for a fall out plan. Like I really like I'm also like interested in like beauty stuff like that. So like. Even like for like a side hustle, like um, being like doing my food, like I don't do like lashes, hair, and makeup and stuff like that. So like it's like a little side, like hustle, like or like a career. And can you never. Speaker 1 00:33:37 Know? Well, not to overwhelm overwhelm you with so many options, but like let's say if you are interested in. Like taking a cosmetology course, or if on this side maybe you just want to learn how to do nails or makeup, because I know sometimes they offer like small courses like that, where it's just like focused one thing, one thing. Then that's something that we could also like financially support you. And then like hey, you know, if you're interested in I don't know taking like a nail class, right? We could look at where maybe they have classes set up for that, and that's something that we could also support you in paying. Speaker 3 00:34:11 Sure. Speaker 1 00:34:11 You know, like if on top of that you want to do maybe El Camino, no right, and then kind of just do it on the side, um, like as another option, just to be able to like do like a side hustle, Speaker 6 00:34:20 Like you're saying. Sorry, Speaker 5 00:34:24 I wanted to pitch in on this. Um, I know our agency actually offers a cosmetology class and course for, for our clients. So if you ever were interested in it, um, I know they offer it, and we can find more details and look into it. Speaker 1 00:34:38 It's. Uh huh. Yeah, yeah, they do. I think it's in uh in Whittier, but who knows? They might expand it and have more options closer to you. Speaker 2 00:34:48 That made you super excited just now. Speaker 1 00:34:52 Yeah, there's options. There's options out there, right? And that's why we want to have these conversations, right? To be able to kind of brainstorm, like, what are good things that you would be able to be a part of to be able to meet your goals. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:35:11 I do see Vanessa that you sent a link on on the group chat. Speaker 7 00:35:15 Yes, that's for the El Camino tours. If you guys wanted to do some sort of guided tour, or you can explore by yourself. But I always like to just give that option. And then I explored that link a little bit. So you click on it, and it's basically like a little form. So you put in like your information and the date that you're requesting, and then someone will get back to you. Or there's a number that you can call as well. But just in case you guys wanted to talk to somebody, there's also, I believe, on that page like an outreach, like different outreach events that they do. If it's ever something that Ladonia wanted to look into or needed some help looking into. Speaker 1 00:35:50 That would be cool. There's a lot of options, but yeah, you know, we could definitely, you know, if you want to do a guided tour, we could do that too. John, I know sometimes when you do the guided tours, they also do offer. Like a lot of insight about the campus that you might not just know just by you know kind of walking around the campus. So I don't know. Maybe we could do like a mix of both, so you get like the best of both, Speaker 3 00:36:16 Best of both worlds. Okay. Me and Christi are looking at it right. Speaker 6 00:36:22 Now. That started yesterday or today at El Camino. Speaker 1 00:36:28 Yeah. Maybe we could even ask more too about like deadlines, because I know if you want to do that for the following, what was it, the following semester in February, just kind of finding out about when are the deadlines for that semester. Okay. Yeah, but I'm glad you have a plan going. Yeah. Yeah, you got this. Speaker 1 00:37:04 Do you have like any concerns or any challenges that may be going on, Speaker 3 00:37:11 Or that you have in mind? No, I was doing pretty good. I've been on type of medication. I wake up early, Speaker 1 00:37:20 Like just a lot of things to look forward to. Speaker 3 00:37:23 So it's like me waking up early. That's it was just like my sleep, a slight sleepy schedule that was like really like bothering, but like now, like since like I take my medication. I've been waking up really early. It's like me waking up early, Speaker 2 00:37:39 Like I'm big. She's been. I'll get up around four or five o'clock, and then she's up around six thirty, seven o'clock. Speaker 1 00:37:52 She's been doing good. That is earlier. Speaker 5 00:37:55 Earlier than me, girl. If I don't have to, I won't. Yeah, same. Speaker 1 00:38:06 I'm not. I'm glad to hear. Speaker 2 00:38:08 She's been going to work with me someday, so it works out really well. And they love her at the office. Speaker 5 00:38:14 That's. Speaker 1 00:38:17 Good. Yeah, and you know, like with college too. What the cool thing about it too is that you get to pick your own schedule. So if you're not a morning person like me and many of us, you could always take the classes like later in the evening too. So. Balls in your court. Yeah, but um, before we go, Ashley, I think you wanted to uh maybe check in about your individual session. Speaker 4 00:38:44 Oh yes. Hi Don, how are you? Speaker 3 00:38:47 Hey, I'm good. Speaker 4 00:38:48 How are you? I'm doing good. Um, so I sent you a text message earlier. I was wondering if you are okay with changing or moving our, Time and date for tomorrow, like around three or three thirty. Speaker 3 00:39:02 Yeah, we could do that. Speaker 4 00:39:06 Yeah. Okay. Cool. Um, three or three thirty. Speaker 3 00:39:10 Um, Speaker 4 00:39:12 Three thirty. Three thirty. Okay. Awesome. And then I'll just um send you like a little reminder text tomorrow. Um. Okay. Yeah. Maybe do like a card game or a gym. Speaker 6 00:39:23 Sure. Yeah. Sounds like a gym. Speaker 4 00:39:24 Sure. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. I'll see you tomorrow. See you tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:39:33 Perfect. I know. Does anyone else have any questions or anything else that maybe to add before we go. Speaker 2 00:39:43 There's nothing I can think of. Speaker 1 00:39:46 Okay. Perfect. All right then. Sounds good, Christi and Don. We'll see you next week, Speaker 2 00:39:55 Same time. Awesome. Thank you. See you guys. Speaker 1 00:39:58 Alright, bye. Enjoy your day, guys. Take care. Bye. Take care. Speaker 6 00:40:02 Bye. I was looking for.
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09-04 Weekly Meeting: Resource Planning, Project Updates, and Team Metrics
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- > Date: 2026-09-04 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Pete] [Mike] [Anton] [April] [Julia] [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] [Speaker 11] ## Meeting Notes ### **Round-Robin Updates & Good News** - **Anton:** Bakdan is on vacation for two weeks, and a temporary increase in tickets is expected. - **Mike:** Project Angel Food is hiring a COO, which may accelerate initiative approvals. - **April:** A new employee is starting next week. The admin team is training with the finance team for Elisa's upcoming maternity leave. - **Elisa:** Now in her third trimester, she has moved closer to the hospital. Her maternity leave is scheduled from October 12 to December 8. - **Vlad:** - His son's short movie premiered at the Hollywood Chinese Theater. - Greenleaf received its final certificate of occupancy. - The Shelby Project is being pushed for completion by November. - Tower One B's construction will finish by December/January, much earlier than the original June date, necessitating expedited equipment orders. - **Julia:** Praised Maurice for his hard work and ownership. - **Pete:** - Is going to San Diego for the three-day weekend. - Praised Charl for managing while Olivia is out. - Praised Mike and Monti for their work on the "baby to baby" account. ### **New Potential Client "baby to baby" & Resource Planning** - **Status:** Pete reported a high probability of securing the "baby to baby" account, with verbal approval received. The deal is not yet signed. - **Timeline:** The client desires a go-live date of October 1, 2026. However, there may be an opportunity to push this to November 1st due to the client's delayed decision. A month of overlap with the previous provider is desired. - **Challenges:** The client is an 80-person, all-cloud organization, but heavily Mac and Google-based, which presents a skills challenge for the team. While the environment is expected to be stable long-term, initial setup and complex tickets are anticipated. - **Resource Allocation:** - A new hire with Mac and Google skills will be needed, along with a training program for the existing team. - Julia will be on leave starting October 5th, requiring project reallocation. - Seg is expected to manage the Foothill, WSG Gaming, and "Baby to Baby" projects. Miguel and Mark will likely take over Julia's and Seg's other projects, pending a review of their bandwidth. - Pete will discuss resource planning with Charl, Olivia, and Sag. ### **Scorecard, Performance Metrics & Team Stress** - **Sales Figures (Mike):** - Transactional sales: $46,000 - Projects: nearly $21,000 - New MRR: $4,350 from Anderson (a $4,200/month contract for wireless infrastructure monitoring). - **Ticket Metrics:** Open tickets decreased significantly from 350 to 289 in two days, and time-per-ticket has also improved. - **Team Stress:** - The overall team stress level was 3.57, an increase from previous weeks. - John registered a level 5, attributed to an overwhelming workload from the Foothill project and a high number of onboarding tickets for Hanna. - Pete noted that onboarding tasks should not be solely assigned to one person. - **Customer Feedback:** An unhappy customer survey from Weingart regarding Jose was mentioned. ### **Project and Goal Updates ("Rocks")** - **Mike:** Hardware renewals are on track; client onboarding process improvement is off track. - **Julia:** Will try to get her project back on track. She is taking on a new "rock" to streamline the ConnectWise project board. - **Olivia (Absent):** Call queue monitoring is in progress. - **Vlad:** Sales engineering process is on track; customer network standardization is on the back burner. Inventory control updates require testing. Fortnight training needs follow-up. - **April:** Phase two billing automation and cross-training are on track. Finalizing client spares and revisiting computer reports are pending. Client agreement mastery is off track. - **Alisa (Absent):** AP, payroll, and cash flow forecasting are on track. The PTO tracker app is 90-95% complete. - **Intune Deployment:** Mike proposed using Intune for computer deployments to save time. The team agreed Matt, George, and Olivia would be key people for this discussion, though Matt is currently occupied with the Foothill project. ### **Ongoing Project Status** - **Wayfinder Project:** The SharePoint migration, started in March, is only halfway complete due to minimal client participation. The company has proposed either being given full control to finish the project or being let out of it. - **Foothill Project:** Progress is being hindered by slow responses from the Foothill team. Onboarding documentation is incomplete, which is a critical risk, especially with the "Baby to Baby" project looming. The issue will be raised in the next stand-up meeting. ### **Administrative & HR Updates** - **Annual Reviews & Benefits:** Pete is implementing a formal annual review process for feedback and salary increases starting next year. A life insurance option will be added for U.S. employees, and the company aims to increase its contribution to benefits in April 2027. - **Phone Stipend:** A $30-$35 monthly stipend for employees required to be mobile will be effective on the September 25th paycheck. Communication to eligible staff must be completed. For those who prefer it, cheap company phones will be sourced. - **Timesheet Submission:** Supervisors must enforce timely timesheet entries in Connectwise and TriNet, especially with Alisa on leave, to avoid delaying payroll. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Pete to hold a turnover meeting for the Anderson account. - [ ] Pete to talk to Charl on September 8, 2026, about resource needs for the potential new "baby to baby" account. - [ ] Pete to talk to Olivia and Sag about project management for the "baby to baby" account. - [ ] Pete to set up a call with John, George, and Charl to address John's workload and the Hanna onboarding process. - [ ] Pete to investigate the reasons behind the team stress level of 3.57. - [ ] Pete to review the unhappy customer feedback from Weingart regarding Jose. - [ ] Review the project list to rebalance work among Miguel, Mark, Seg, and Julia in preparation for the "Baby to Baby" project. - [ ] Discuss the Foothill documentation progress and team responsiveness in the next stand-up meeting. - [ ] Charl to provide April with access to Olivia's Brightgauge dashboard. - [ ] Charl to facilitate a meeting with Matt, George, Olivia, Mike, and Pete to discuss Intune deployment. - [ ] Vlad to follow up with his team regarding Fortnight training. - [ ] Alisa to ensure all eligible employees are notified about the phone stipend before the September 25th paycheck. - [ ] Source cheap phones for employees who prefer them over the stipend. - [ ] April to finalize client spares with Olivia. - [ ] April to schedule a meeting with Mike and Olivia to discuss monthly computer reports in BrightGage. - [ ] Supervisors to enforce timely timesheet submissions. - [ ] Speaker 4 to send a link for "Simple Mobile" as a cheap phone option. - [ ] Vlad to send pictures of his son's movie premiere. - [ ] Alisa to put the final touches on the PTO tracker app. - [ ] Julia to work on getting the client onboarding process improvement back on track. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. **"Baby to Baby" Project Risks:** The potential go-live date of October 1, 2026, is imminent. A clear plan to hire or train for the required Mac/Google skills is not established, and the resource plan is contingent on the unconfirmed bandwidth of Miguel and Mark. > 2. **Project Delays & Stalls:** The "Client Onboarding Process Improvement" and "Client Agreement Mastery" projects are off track, and the "Customer Network Standardization" project is on the back burner with no timeline for resumption. The "Wayfinder" project's resolution is also uncertain, awaiting client response. > 3. **Foothill Project Risks:** Slow progress on the Foothill project's documentation is a significant risk to future support, especially with new projects starting. A concrete plan to accelerate this was not established. > 4. **Unaddressed Workload & Stress:** While the cause of John's high stress was identified (Foothill project, Hanna onboardings), a concrete plan to redistribute this work was not finalized beyond setting up a future meeting. The root cause for the overall elevated team stress level (3.57) was not identified. > 5. **Expedited Timelines:** The Tower One B project completion has been moved up by several months, requiring expedited equipment orders, but specific action items and owners for these orders were not assigned in this call.
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- Sep 4, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Go away. Joining me. Good morning. Good morning. April. Speaker 2 00:00:08 April. April. You need to kick Vlad off this call. Speaker 3 00:00:14 I'm gonna kick him. He is off today and he's not supposed to be here. Speaker 4 00:00:19 He misses us. I you really do. I really do. He cannot live without us. Speaker 5 00:00:26 He must be desperate if you miss us, Vlad. What is. Speaker 2 00:00:30 Wrong with you? Speaker 4 00:00:33 You know that's a very good question. My wife has been asking it for 16 years. Speaker 5 00:00:36 I am telling you, there is plenty of work to do when you're here. You're supposed to be away. Speaker 2 00:00:48 Let's see. Seg is out. Olivia is out. Lad is supposed to be out. Speaker 6 00:00:56 Christy's in a training with Ability First. Speaker 5 00:01:02 Charles able to join. How about that? Hey guys, we have a we have a guest joining us today. Mr. Duplessis has entered the room. How about that? Okay, is there anybody else we're looking for? April? Speaker 6 00:01:24 Uh, no, we're all good. We're all here. Speaker 5 00:01:28 Let's let's get moving. This might be a short call today because we got fewer people, but let's get started. Okay, Anton. Let's start with some good news from Anton. Personal, personal, and business and employee headlines from Anton. Speaker 7 00:01:52 Um, here we go again. Yes, personal good news. Bakdan is out on his vacation next two weeks, so yeah, we're gonna enjoy, enjoy a little bit higher level of tickets, but yeah, we're gonna be stronger after that. I don't know, like I don't have anything to bring up. Speaker 2 00:02:23 We got a three - day weekend coming, so yeah, we all have that, right? Yeah. All right. Chris is uh Chris is tied up with some stuff today I guess so she's out. Mike, Speaker 8 00:02:36 How about you? Um, business good news. Um, Project Angel Food is hiring a COO pretty soon, so hopefully that helps make get initiatives approved a lot quicker and easier. So looking forward to that. And personal good news. Um, my kids are getting older, so they're out of the house all the time. It's great. Speaker 8 00:03:00 It's it for me. Speaker 2 00:03:01 All right, and standing in for Olivia is Charl. Speaker 5 00:03:07 You have any personal good news, business employee headlines. Speaker 9 00:03:12 Some personal good news. It just started raining, so the dust is settling after cold and long and dry winter. Business good news. Oh, there's the. We're functioning, sir. I. Speaker 2 00:03:34 Guess business good news is at least one week of Olivia being out is past. Speaker 5 00:03:40 That is good news. The glass half full sort of thing, I guess. Indeed. I'm sure Elisa and April would be happy to give you some of the rain they've been having for the last two months. Speaker 6 00:03:55 We'd love to. Please send it my way. Speaker 2 00:04:00 April, how about you? Speaker 6 00:04:04 Good morning, guys. So on the personal side, nothing much to share since it's been raining here for more than a month. I'm always just at home chilling. And for employee, we have a new guy starting next week. I'll leave the details to Pete later. And business, so so admin team has started training with. The finance team in preparation for Elisa's upcoming maternity leave, so it's a great opportunity for us to understand the finance process. So, the team is happy with the trainings that has been completed this week. So that's all. Speaker 1 00:04:46 Thank you. All right, it's great, Speaker 10 00:04:51 Elisa. Hi. Good morning. Happy Friday. So, first news. I moved back to the city to be closer to the hospital and Mayo Clinic. Cause ah, I'm living very far from the city. So since I'm already in my third trimester, so better get ready. For business news, it's been a full week for the finance team and admin team with a lot going on. Next week will be much the same, I guess. Speaker 10 00:05:26 With month and at work and training to provide additional assistance and support. So I'll be on leave, uh, maybe starting October 12 through December 8. If you ever miss me, feel free to ping me on WhatsApp anytime. I'll keep it open for questions and finance support. Speaker 5 00:05:45 Thank you. Thank you, Elisa Vlad. Speaker 4 00:05:51 So on the personal side. My son was in real short Hollywood movie, and there was a premiere at the what's his name the Hollywood Chinese Theater. So we actually went for that little premiere. It was a very bizarre experience as my son is living his little Hollywood dream. So it's actually very cute. I'll send you guys some pictures. It's it's absolutely bizarre. That's cool. It's absolutely bizarre. You know. So on the business side. Speaker 4 00:06:21 Greenleaf got their certificate for occupancy, final certificate of occupancy. Thank God, the GC is out of there. So finally, oh my God, after all this stuff, so GC is out of there as of today. They're no longer there. So now we're kind of like on our own there to tie up a few little things. They're really pushing Shelby Project to completion. They're trying to get it also done by November. We don't know exactly how it's gonna happen, but it's getting there, and we also found out that Tower One B is actually the our original date that was for completion was supposed to be June in in June, but the construction portion of it is gonna be done by January and December, so we're kind of like also trying to get some stuff rearranged with equipment ordering and stuff like that. Speaker 4 00:07:17 So we're on top of that. Speaker 5 00:07:19 We better expedite that order then. Speaker 4 00:07:21 Yeah, that's that's. We had a meeting with that yesterday, so we're working on that with the with the project management team as well. So that's about it. Okay. Mine. Speaker 5 00:07:30 And the good news is you're on vacation, supposed to be. Speaker 4 00:07:33 Yeah, yeah, it's supposedly. Yeah, you're in Hawaii, right? I'm in Hawaii. It's it's it's great because here it's three hour difference. So right now here it's only eight thirty in the morning. So I've had good productive couple of hours before this call, so it was good. Family is still sleeping. It's raining here, so you know where it's just like in Philippines. Speaker 5 00:07:55 Except it'll probably stop there in about twenty minutes. Speaker 4 00:07:60 Well, they actually they they actually expect an hurricane here on Monday. Oh, oh my gosh, Speaker 5 00:08:08 In Hawaii, that's terrible. Speaker 4 00:08:10 Exactly. So yeah, so it's interesting. So I I pick the perfect time to go here. Speaker 5 00:08:15 Oh well, I guess you had to sit inside. I'm sorry to hear that. Speaker 4 00:08:18 Yes, it's okay. It's all good. Speaker 5 00:08:20 It's fun. Ah, all right. Well, thanks, Vlad. Speaker 3 00:08:24 Julia, happy Friday. Good news. Happy Friday. Long weekend. Good news. Um. Personally, enjoying much better weather. No more AC anymore because I'm getting sick from that AC all the time. Business good news is three day weekend, so that's a good news. Employee highlights. I want to highlight Maurice. He the guy is trying very hard, and I'm just I'm gonna give him kudos for owning stuff. So that's that's my highlight. Speaker 1 00:09:05 Fantastic, Speaker 5 00:09:07 Excellent. All right, for me, personal good news. I'm going down to San Diego for the three - day weekend, so I'm excited about that. See the new little one, and the other little one who's three, which is crazy. So I'm looking forward to the three - day weekend. From an employee headlines standpoint. Kudos to Charl for holding down the fort this week with Olivia out. Kudos to Mike and Monti for going on to baby to baby. And just so everybody here knows, the note I got last night says there is a very high probability that we are getting that account. Nothing's ever sure until you get the signed deal, but that sounds. Speaker 5 00:10:00 Very likely. So, Speaker 8 00:10:02 Verbal approval is not bad. Speaker 5 00:10:05 Yeah, likely approval is not a bad a bad thing. But we need to figure a lot of things out very quickly. So, Charl, I'll probably talk to you. If not today, then Tuesday next week, because I need to get some input from you. We're gonna need to hire probably at least another body. And I'll probably have to talk to Monti, and I'll probably have to talk to Olivia when she gets here, and then I need to talk to Sag when she's back. From a project management standpoint, we need to juggle some things. Yeah, Tuesday. I wasn't going to talk to you on Monday for sure. Oh, you're out. I know you're out, Monday. Did I say Monday? If I did, I meant I meant Tuesday. Speaker 9 00:10:50 Like you said later today. So it's like I don't need that going into the week. Speaker 5 00:10:54 Oh yeah, yeah. I would. Yeah, I'm not gonna talk. Yeah, I'm not gonna hear you. Later today. So, but but in a nutshell, and I don't want to take too much time because this just the intro. But but what I heard from Anzor, and this how it always goes, right? Is if they sign, they want to go live October first, which you know that's three weeks. And the other thing, the the good part is they're all cloud, which is makes things a lot easier than if they have a bunch of on prem stuff. The not so good news is they're very heavy Mac based, and they're very heavy Google based. From what I understand, I guess they're kind of a Microsoft and Google hybrid or something. So we're going to have to figure out how do we train more of our team to be Mac savvy and Google savvy. And I don't think we have to do it day one, but I want to get people into some kind of a training program to to bring them up to speed on both Google and Mac support. So. Speaker 5 00:11:53 And if we hire somebody, I want to hire somebody that has that skill set. So, those are going to be the topics to sort of mull mull around over the the time between now and when we talk, Charl. Okay, so let's move on to the to the next section. Speaker 1 00:12:11 Scorecard. You want to go over the numbers, Speaker 8 00:12:19 Mike? Oh yeah, sorry. Um, I. I mean, just forty - six thousand transactional sales last sign last week, and twenty thousand, almost twenty - one thousand in projects, and new MRR. Oh, the forty - three fifty — that's from Anderson. Speaker 5 00:12:38 Yeah, that was a beautiful hit. So, by the way, most people don't think about MRR being that big a deal when it comes to. You know when we sign big deals, obviously, monthly recurring revenue is a big thing. Of course, when we sign things like Flint Hill and Anderson and Sharp and things like that, of course that's a big thing to to call out. We get excited about it. But Vince was able to sign a forty, I think it was a forty-two hundred dollar a month deal with Anderson, for us to monitor and support their existing. Speaker 5 00:13:20 I think it was basically their wireless infrastructure is what they called it, and I think they were they had it with another another support vendor. We took that over, and that's a monthly recurring revenue of like over four thousand dollars. And I don't think there's going to be a ton of work involved, but but we I did ask him to do a turnover meeting, Mike, because Vlad, you and the team are going to have to figure out what is our commitment to this. On a monthly basis, and who's going to do it? And I have a feeling some of that's going to fall into the support team under Olivia and Charle. Like, what what are people going to need to do as far as, you know, reporting or patching or something like that? I don't think there's a ton of work involved, but they are a pretty specific client when it comes to making sure we deliver what we say we're going to deliver. So I want to make sure we know what that agreement. Speaker 5 00:14:15 Entails and that we deliver it every month. So, but that's a fantastic thing that that um Vince brought to the table for us. So, kudos to him. All right, team stress level was at three point five seven. That's not too bad. It's a little uh, it's a little bit elevated, but I don't know exactly what went into that. But at least we're not too too far above a three. I guess we got to find out also how many surveys came in. So I'll try to see if I can find out any details around that one. Um, I am not sure about the unhappy customer. I don't remember seeing that one come in. Do you remember that one, Charl? Oh, actually, I do. I think it came in under Jose, but I think it was. I think it came in toward. Speaker 5 00:15:14 I gotta I gotta go back and look at it. I think it came in from Weingart or something toward Jose. I gotta go back and look at that one. Do you know anything about the rest of these, Charl? If not, Speaker 9 00:15:27 It's fine. Um, I believe it is in Olivia's Brightgauge dashboard, which I shared with April earlier. Just grab it quick. Speaker 8 00:15:46 Pete, did you want to to look at the stress level results? Speaker 5 00:15:51 Yeah, we should probably look and see why they're elevated. Because we were kind of coming back down, two point six seven and three, and now we're at three point five seven. So we're we're back up there again. So I don't know why we're up. Speaker 8 00:16:04 Right here. Let's look at it real quick. Speaker 5 00:16:06 Take a look and see if if there's anything anything that stands out. Speaker 8 00:16:15 So from the last week, this is John. And then the previous week, it's Frankie, Aritz, Moritz. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:16:30 Kevin's not. Speaker 3 00:16:33 I have a feeling Moritz is going to be Moritz going to be this week. Speaker 1 00:16:37 I was just going to ask who's Adam. Speaker 8 00:16:39 Someone's probably put a bogus name in there. I don't know. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:16:45 Is that so? That's just that's an anonymous name, Speaker 8 00:16:48 Okay. Speaker 7 00:16:48 Yeah. Um. No real default, so yeah. Speaker 5 00:16:53 Okay. Do we know why John is at a five, and what can we do about that? Speaker 8 00:17:04 Probably foothill. Speaker 5 00:17:06 I'd assume. But why is foothill putting him at a five stress level? Like I get that it's more work, but why is it stressful? Work. Can we find that out? Like I want to. I mean, more work I get is more work, but stress shouldn't translate necessarily. I mean, more work shouldn't translate necessarily to stress. It just means your day is fuller, unless we're putting so much on top that you can't finish everything that you're expected to finish in your. Speaker 5 00:17:41 Time a lot. Speaker 8 00:17:42 Normally, Olivia would reach out. Did you want Charl to reach out, or did you want me to reach out. Speaker 5 00:17:46 Either one of you. If one of you can find out, I would appreciate it because I don't understand how he's getting hitting a five. I need to understand how he's hitting a five. Speaker 9 00:17:58 Look, I did have a check in with with John recently because I saw that you know didn't look very I don't know over friendly in one of our meetings. So I had a check in with him. And he's doing okay. He's just overwhelmed with you know the the workload at this stage, and he does have quite a considerable amount of tickets under his his name. But yeah, overall he's he's okay, but he is taking a bit of punishment at at this moment in time. Speaker 7 00:18:34 I think there was like a lot of onboarding, soft boardings with Hanna. This week it was like at least seven or eight. Why is John? Speaker 5 00:18:50 Why is John getting all those? Just because of him, John should not get all those. We got to fix that. Yeah, we have been saying that for a long time. So let's take that offline. But Charl, you and I and Olivia. I've been telling Olivia this for months. Just because it's Hannah shouldn't mean Charls is doing all the onboardings. And if that's still happening, we are we are changing that now. So if if people are thinking oh it's Hannah, John will do it. That is not the answer. So I will set up a call with John and and maybe George and I and you. Speaker 5 00:19:33 On Monday, on Tuesday of next week, and we'll figure that out. So, okay, I'm gonna put that as a to do for myself. Speaker 9 00:19:42 Yeah, it's got quite quite a number of onboarding tickets. Um. Speaker 8 00:19:51 And I saw some email. There's some also concern with like labmin setups or something. Speaker 7 00:20:00 No, by the way, there was an incident with the Marcelo and two. I don't remember two other accounts, and it was. Oh no! Yeah, we're good. Monday. No, no, I'm about like we were checking with we we were asking him for help with the communication. So I'm just. Oh, I see. Speaker 5 00:20:22 Okay, so maybe it all piled into John. So that would explain a five. And if we need to back off some of the foothill stuff and reallocate it to give him some bandwidth, then that's what we need to do. Also, so again, the foothill stuff that he's working on is probably not, you know, top priority. So if we need to lay back on some of that, then so be it. So, okay, all right. Number of tickets open looks like it went from. Speaker 5 00:20:58 A huge number down to a not so huge number. Thank you, Charl, for that. We were at 350 when you gave me the number on Wednesday, and we're at 289 today. Speaker 9 00:21:09 Nice. Wow. We're getting there, but I'm really hammering guys and holding them accountable at this stage. If you might get worse stress level surveys this week, Speaker 5 00:21:21 That's that's driving the stress level. I'm just kidding. That's that's a huge that's a huge swing. I mean that's I mean sixty sixty one difference in two days is a big big difference. Thank you. Time for ticket is also down by a notable amount, so that's that's pretty good too. I like to see that. All right, good trends on a lot of things. Stress level. I need to talk to John, and I'll I'll see if is. Speaker 5 00:21:57 If Moritz and if we need to talk to Moritzz also, I don't know if there's anybody else on the list that was pretty high that we can actually talk to. If they're anonymous, it's kind of hard to understand what we can do about that. But if there's anybody else we can help or talk to or help take things off their plate, let's try to do that. And I know we're trying to backfill some open roles. Speaker 3 00:22:29 Are you sure it's not you, Adam? Speaker 9 00:22:35 No, no, Adam, no. Be honest, are you Adam? I'm so stressed that I don't even fill in the survey. Speaker 1 00:22:44 All right. Okay. Well, let's move on to. Let's move on to the rocks. Speaker 5 00:23:05 I do have my rocks established, by the way. I'll probably trans transfer them over here so everybody can see what my goals are. But I've got them in my all ten. Speaker 8 00:23:14 So, okay. So, more efficient process for hardware renewals and EOL. I would say it's on track. Speaker 8 00:23:27 And then for client onboarding process improvement, I don't know, Julia. We I think we're off track on that one. Right. Speaker 5 00:23:37 I'm mute. Well, and I guess the question is, when Julia's out for the entire month of October, are we gonna are we gonna make progress before we get to that point or not? Speaker 3 00:23:45 I'm gonna try to get on track next week. We we're very close to end. Okay. It's never gonna be perfect, right? So I'm just. Keeping expectations, it's it's gonna be close to perfect, as much as I want to. Speaker 11 00:24:05 Okay. Speaker 7 00:24:11 Christi's not here. Password rotation for Wi - Fi and SSIDs for all clients. It's on track, and Palm instance project is on track. Speaker 1 00:24:26 All right, Speaker 5 00:24:29 And Olivia's. I know I talked a little bit about that one. I know we talked so in the client champion meeting about that. Call queue monitoring and reporting. I know we're working on that one. Did seem like we had a Jose issue recently. Charle, when we have issues with Jose, rather than waiting on Jose to figure them out, nothing against Jose, but if we can call our phone vendor directly, I think we're going to get better results. I think they probably understand the call flow better, perhaps. So, if that's a better approach, we can do that. And if Jose can help. Speaker 5 00:25:18 Work with them on it. That's fine, but I'm not sure he's going to be able to necessarily tell what happened to a call if it was supposed to go a certain direction and went somewhere else. I don't know if he's going to be able to tell that. If he can, that's great. If not, let's not wait too long to figure it out before we call our our call flow vendor. Speaker 1 00:25:42 Okay. Speaker 5 00:25:48 And the other ones, I think we're we're I'm working with Olivia, and so we'll call those all on track for right now. Speaker 4 00:25:59 And Vlad, so sales engineering process, I would say it's on track. Mike, you and I have a lot to discuss. I've sent you some stuff like right before the meeting, actually. So I would really like your input on that one. Customer network standardization. It's sort of on track. I haven't worked on it this past two weeks, to be honest with you, so this may be a little bit on a back burner. The inventory control, I've worked with Mark, and he showed me all the updates that were done, and it actually looks very good. So we need to all test this stuff together, I guess, with the sales, with the sales team, and with the procurement, everything. Speaker 4 00:26:45 Especially Fortnight training, I need to follow up with everyone. I follow up with my team with Mark and Miguel because I send that to them as well. But I don't think there has been too much traction on that, so need to go back and kind of force people to to do that. Speaker 1 00:27:02 So that's where we start. Okay. And April. Speaker 6 00:27:12 Okay, so on my end, phase two billing automation, this is on track. We've already had a discussion about the spares for each client, but there are a few clients that we need to finalize, and I'm gonna finalize that with Olivia once she's back. And also, we need to revisit the monthly computer reports in BrightGage. So I have a meeting with Mike and Olivia to discuss that as well. Our cross-training process is also on track. We have a few more trainings left for this month, and then. We're already complete on that one, and client agreement mastery is off track. I haven't had a chance to revisit some agreements since last week. That's all. Speaker 1 00:27:52 Thank you. All right, Speaker 10 00:27:58 And Alisa. On my end, AP payroll and month end continuity cash flow forecasting that's on track. We're getting a few more people people to help Marco while I'm away, so. We're getting we're getting the match needed extra help and support for the PTO tracker automation. I'm almost done with the cloud generated, uh, PTO tracker app. It's I guess it's already in the 90 to 95 percent progress overall. It's in good shape. Um, just putting on the final touches before I submit it for review and approval. Speaker 5 00:28:34 Thank you. Okay. And you can mark all of Olivia's on track April if you want to drag the on tracks over. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:28:47 Okay. I have a few things for IDS. So PM support, B2B potential, timesheets. Speaker 1 00:29:10 Phone support, or sorry, phone stipend and benefits. Speaker 5 00:29:21 And annual reviews. These will all be fairly quick, but I just this is the team I want to talk to about this. Truly damaging. Speaker 8 00:29:34 Yeah, if you could add in Intune deployments. Speaker 11 00:29:46 Julia has her hand raised. Speaker 8 00:29:53 Julia, Speaker 3 00:29:54 You're up. Oh, um, I'd like to take a rock, um, on around projects and ConnectWise. So we created this one project, a new board for project discovery and handoff. So basically, just to streamline the process, right? So, so when we work on a on the pre projects, when there is a tickets, we want to make sure everything is in one place. So when it's hand off to project management team, they know who's involved, who was working on it, what kind of scope of work there is. So, just kind of give you that, and then once. Speaker 3 00:30:37 Once I'm done with that board, I think I'm gonna. I would like to also look at the project board itself, just to like a background, backend of the project board to see how tickets tickets are set up, why I'm seeing that sometimes people miss the tickets that I assign to them, just like a workflow process for that. So that's my rock. Speaker 6 00:31:04 Oh, that's a rock tree. Okay. What was that again? Project board. Speaker 3 00:31:11 Basically, ConnectWise project board and pre - project board. So we created pre - project board for service tickets. Speaker 1 00:31:22 Okay. Okay. Anybody have anything else for IDS? Speaker 1 00:31:41 All right. Speaker 9 00:31:42 Not at this moment, Pete. Speaker 5 00:31:43 Mike, do you want to start with your Intune deployments? Speaker 8 00:31:49 Yeah. So we've been talking about this for a really long time, and and if especially now that we have a relationship with Lenovo, I think we it's time to really put effort Intune leveraging Intune. I talked to Sorios, and they say they save like multiple hours per deployment leveraging Intune. So. If if we don't have bandwidth or anyone here that can do it, we can use a third party like Rubrics, which is a third party company that helps MSP do this, or we can leverage Sorios. They do this now, but I think it's we. That's one of our biggest concerns is we spend too much time on computer setups, and we're not leveraging Intune. Speaker 1 00:32:32 So. Speaker 5 00:32:40 Who should we get together to to make this happen? Is that is that George for the onboarding? Is that Olivia and you, Charle? Is it? I think Matthew probably needs to be part of the conversation because he was. I mean, it depends on if we're talking about Intune. Are we talking about Intune from a from an all device deployment standpoint? Are we talking about? Speaker 8 00:33:09 Computers, just computer deployments. Speaker 5 00:33:11 So it's and Matthew is Matthew is working on basic imaging. And so it seems like this should be sort of the George and Matthew and Olivia type conversation. Speaker 8 00:33:27 Do you disagree? I don't. I don't know who would handle that. But I know we've been talking about it for a really long time. And I think we can really. It make that way more efficient than it currently is. Speaker 9 00:33:41 Yeah, that'll definitely be a Matt, George, and Olivia set up. Speaker 5 00:33:47 So, Charle, would you mind just passing this along and facilitating getting something set up? You don't necessarily have to be an active participant, but would you take this as a as a to do to to maybe get something on the calendar for when Olivia's back? Maybe just. Maybe just set up a call with the right people, and you can make yourself optional. I mean, if you set it up, you have to, I guess, you don't have to necessarily attend. But we can, and you can include Mike and I in there, and then we can figure out what what we need to do to to get some traction on that. But I don't, I I do not disagree with you, Mike. I think the more we can leverage a manufacturer or a third party to get some of these things automated, the better. Speaker 5 00:34:34 I would love to actually get to the point where we can have some of these machines come imaged, but we got so many different images that we've got for different clients that that makes it probably cost prohibitive in a lot of ways. But I I don't know. I know Matt Matt's working on options there, but he's pretty buried in Foothill now, so. But I don't think he's making a lot of progress at this point. But that was one of the things he was working on before Foothill came along. So, creating images and and using using some tools to help automate the onboarding process. Speaker 8 00:35:14 So yeah. So just reminder, we also have external resources if we're too busy or need help. Speaker 1 00:35:20 Okay. I'm good with that. Speaker 5 00:35:30 Okay. Anything else on that one? All right. I guess we'll go from the bottom up. I am looking at potentially trying to get a list of returning visitor time with the company and trying to get some type of an annual review process in place starting next year. I don't know to what extent that's going to happen, but I'm working on it. I asked Alisa if she can get me a list of when everybody joined the company, when they last had an increase. I don't think we've had any sort of a formal review process here. I don't know exactly how we're going to do it, but I'm. This is more informational. That I'm trying to get something in place so that at least everybody gets some sort of an annual feedback and and potentially some type of an increase if we can formalize that a little bit. Speaker 5 00:36:27 So that's on my radar. From a benefits perspective, I mentioned this in the all hands. I think we're going to add a life insurance option for U.S. folks next year, and I would like to be able to have the company contribute something additional toward benefits in 2027 when the renewal comes up, and I think that's in April. So. More to come on that as well. We'll see what comes out of it, but I just wanted to share that we're trying to make the benefits more attractive for not only new hires but obviously for our existing employees. So I'm hoping that that will help boost morale a little bit, give give people a little bit more on the benefit side, and I guess in general, you know, make our company stand out a little more. Speaker 5 00:37:26 A follow up on the phone stipend. Has everybody here communicated to your team members, the ones that we said were going to be eligible for phone stipend? Has that been communicated? Because I want to make it effective, but then I didn't get to hear from Olivia if she actually communicated it. And I don't know, Charle, if you have any idea if it was communicated or not. Last time I talked to her, she said she had not. Has everybody else communicated it? Speaker 4 00:37:56 I Spoke with Frankie and Reza and Andres, so they were. Speaker 5 00:38:01 Okay. Because I would love to do it in September, but I can't do it until everybody that's going to get it knows about it. And Anzor said that a couple of his guys don't want the stipend; they want a separate phone. So now I got to go find a cheap phone. And it's only going to be the stipend is only going to be available to the people. Just so you're aware, Charle, it's only going to be available to the people that we are requiring to be mobile, but be available. So folks like primarily that work out of the LA office that go that get dispatched to client locations, but we still need to be able to get a hold of them on Teams or whatever. So because most other people sit. Speaker 5 00:38:50 At their computers, and they really don't need to have a stipend, but other people that we basically say, you're on the road, you're out at customer sites, you are, but we still expect you to answer when we call you. We're there. Different things in California, especially that say we need to give them something to expect that level of response. So we're going to give them, I think, thirty or thirty-five bucks or something a month to offset that cost. But we want to communicate that to the people that we determined would be on the list, and it was primarily folks that work at customer sites or out of the Los Angeles office. So I think it's like the Sharp folks, the Foothill folks, and the folks in in the headquarters office. So if if Olivia has not communicated that yet, though, Speaker 5 00:39:46 I guess I need to wait for her to come back next, the week after next, and then I guess Alisa. That means she'll be back. Let's see, the fourth. She'll be back on the fourteenth, I think. So hopefully we can still make it effective in the check on the twenty-fifth. So let's just plan to have it on the check on the twenty-fifth, and we'll just make sure everybody knows about it. Speaker 5 00:40:16 That fair, but let's leave it out. I guess of the one of Dmitri and Pepe's checks, and we'll have to figure out how to get them some other kind of phone. I don't know what we're gonna do. We'll get them some cheap. Speaker 4 00:40:29 I don't know. There is a company called Simple Mobile, and it's actually very good. Prepaid twenty five dollars a month, and they give you both regular service and internet service. Internet might be capped at five gigabytes. Speaker 5 00:40:43 That's fine. They don't need anything more than that. If I gotta go to Walmart and get them one of those whatever, Speaker 4 00:40:49 I'll send you the link. Speaker 5 00:40:51 Okay, yeah, let me let me know what the cheapest option is, and we'll just go get them whatever that cheap thing is. And as as long as we can get Teams on there and it'll work, that's that's all I care. Speaker 4 00:41:01 Those those are Android phones. Speaker 5 00:41:04 Okay. Yeah, it's got yeah you're right, Charle. It's got to connect with 365, and we probably have to make it work with a YubiKey. So those are the two things that we got to make sure it's gonna it's gonna do. So. Speaker 5 00:41:17 Okay, timesheets, and I mentioned this in the all hands, but it's really important for all of you as supervisors and the folks that are not here as supervisors, especially with Alisa going to be out. Please enforce with your teams, get their time entered, especially, I mean, well, both in Connectwise and in TriNet by the deadline, right? The deadline, especially for payroll. So you know the the last day of the month and the fifteenth of the month, so that the supervisor on the sixteenth of the month and the first day of the following month can review the time, get it approved, and get it done. Because when Marco and whoever else is helping her have to check time sheets, get back to people to correct them, get payroll done, and they're short staffed and they're trying to figure stuff out. They're already under the gun, and I don't want to put any more pressure on them just because people are not. Speaker 5 00:42:15 Doing what they're supposed to be doing, so please help them out, please, and and please express to your folks how much pressure it's putting on them if they don't do it. We all want to help each other out, so that's it's it's even more important during the October, November, December timeframes than it than it is normally, but it's always important. So. Baby to baby, I mentioned that it's most likely going to come through. It could fall through at the last minute. Who knows? It would be a great thing to come through, but it will be a time crunch, and that sort of segues into my next question. And this is kind of for Julia and Vlad mostly, but if this does come through, and they do want to go live October first, that's a that's a tall order, right? Obviously. Speaker 5 00:43:05 It's big for the project team. It's going to be big for the team in in the Los Angeles office. The onboarding team. It's going to be big for the project management team, and then subsequently, it's going to be big for the support teams. With Julia starting to be out, when is your first day out, Julia? You're muted. October fifth. October fifth. So. What my thoughts are, and Vlad, this is where I need your help. Is I need I'm going to probably need Miguel to pick up any project that is not onboarding related that he can possibly handle, that Julia is handling or Seg is handling that is not onboarding related, and I need you to look at Mark's. Speaker 5 00:44:03 Workload and find out if there's anything he can pick up, and then Julia, I would potentially need you to sort of help balance through September any pre-work along with Seg, if Baby to Baby comes through, because effectively what I'm thinking is Seg takes Foothill, she continues to manage the WSG Gaming project, and she takes. Baby to baby, if it comes in, but those are all the things she can handle. Everything else has to be on somebody else's plate. So that's going to have to be Miguel and Mark while you're out. And I need to see what kind of bandwidth Miguel and Mark can handle from a project management standpoint. Now, I don't think there's anything else, honestly, that's that huge. Speaker 5 00:44:57 Hopefully by the by the end of September that we're aware of, but I don't know what's out there, so we need to look at the project list together when Seg's back, Julia, and kind of see what's there. But if Mark can take on one or two projects that are not that big, and then we can kind of get a lot of the legwork done before Julia is out, and then it's kind of working through the actual onboarding tasks once the activity starts October first again. Anticipating that it comes through and it is an October first go live, you know maybe it's mostly residual at that point. We'll have to see. But I'm just kind of anticipating a lot of things here, just because you know we're we have people that are going to be out and we've got a lot going on right now. And then obviously from an ongoing support perspective, Charle, we have to be thinking about. Speaker 5 00:45:53 What kind of skill sets do we need? How many more bodies do we think we need to support an 80-person, mostly Mac and cloud-based customer? I mean, the good thing about Macs, honestly, they they're sort of they're not Windows, so they don't break as often. Speaker 9 00:46:14 But I will tell you the configuration, and if something goes wrong, it's usually a little bit more difficult to to fix. But on the other end, not so much. It's pretty straightforward whether something can work or not. But in terms of its overall stability and its ability to, you know, keep on working, I don't think we're going to have so much issues. Yes, the initial environment setup things might be a bit tough, but after that, I foresee we're going to be pretty. Pretty stable. Speaker 5 00:46:45 Yeah, I think that's kind of how I look at it. I think it's fewer tickets, but when we get tickets, it's harder to fix. That's kind of how I look at it. So, I think we're going to have to have a strategy on how we go in and actually install our stack and do all that kind of stuff. So, because I don't know, like Monti and George and those folks, I don't know how familiar they are with, you know, installing all of the things that we install. On Macs, if they're if they're as comfortable with that, so we probably want to do a few dry runs with them and that kind of stuff. So anyway, again, it's not it's not even signed. It may not even come through, but I want to anticipate and think about it before it happens, so that we're not scrambling as much if it does. So that's what I had. It's an exciting time, but it it also is, you know. Hopefully, we can get over a few more hurdles at Foothill before that. Speaker 5 00:47:40 That happens so that foothill gets a little bit more stable by the time we have to be dealing with with another one. So, all right. Anybody has anything else for IDS or anything else we want to talk about. Speaker 3 00:47:55 Just thinking out loud. I know I've heard that Vana was interested to to. At least learn how to do projects, and I think also Gabi is really good at project management. So just throwing it out there, maybe like as a backup to help Seg, especially again if it's baby to baby. We're going to need on-site visit. I cannot go on-site and then go on vacation, right? Speaker 5 00:48:37 Yeah, I mean, we're gonna have to. Yeah, we'll have to have somebody that's kind of the on-site presence. Of course, we'll have to figure out who that's who that's gonna be. And maybe, you know, maybe it's Monti, maybe it's Vana, maybe it's somebody else that we can that we can have, kind of be that that person. We can. We're gonna have to figure that out too. I don't know if it's gonna be. I don't know if George is going to have the bandwidth, but we'll have to talk about who that is. And you know, in this case, maybe it's going to have to be Olivia, right? I know that she's not that local, and I know it might be a hassle, but maybe she has to kind of be that presence this one time to kind of fill the gap. We'll have to see. But and it doesn't mean she has to be there all the time. But she might have to. She might have to make a. Speaker 5 00:49:34 A trip a week for three weeks to kind of show her face and be a presence there or something, and that's okay. But. Speaker 5 00:49:46 We'll figure something out. Speaker 1 00:49:48 And maybe we've got some room to flex, right? Maybe we can say, " Hey, can we do November first instead?" I don't know. I think this is just what Anzor told me, like in the last two days. So. Speaker 5 00:50:04 I don't know how firm they are with all of this stuff, Speaker 8 00:50:08 But remind Anzor. Technically, they were supposed to have made a decision by August 28. Speaker 5 00:50:13 Yeah, I mean that's that's the yeah that's the that's the thing, right? I mean I don't I think we we should have some leverage to push back and and say hey if we can't be October 1st. Speaker 5 00:50:29 That that's lots of reasons to not waive the onboarding fee. It's not lots of reasons not hold us to SLAs. It's not lots of reasons to not expect it to be a smooth transition. It's lots of reasons to lots of things. So, yeah, there we go. Exactly. Speaker 8 00:50:44 All right. Yeah, and and to be clear, when we say go live, that's starting onboarding. There is no expectation that we're taking picking up full support. Speaker 5 00:50:54 Yeah, I don't. That's what I don't know. I I don't know what that expectation really is. I have not had one single conversation. It's been like you have been more involved in this than I have, Mike. So it's been you and Anzor and Monti that have actually met these folks. Speaker 8 00:51:08 Oh no, I met. So traditionally you want one about a month of overlap. You want to set that expectation. Speaker 5 00:51:13 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I would. Yeah, that's what I would hope is. But I don't. I have no idea. I don't know if they're planning like a a clean cut or what. So I. And and Anzor's going to be out until I think Monday, so we'll see. Yeah, you know, and then yeah, Speaker 8 00:51:31 Yeah. We we can help them, but they need to have we need time to work with them to let them offboard and let us onboard. Right? It's cannot just it's not going to work. Speaker 5 00:51:44 Yeah. And if everybody would would bear with me for 60 more seconds, Charle, I think this will be very interesting, mostly to you and Julia, but um. Wayfinder, just for your information. So, I think some of you are aware, but our our old CFO Robert Lou is on the actual board for Wayfinder. The Wayfinder project, as expected, we were we were brought in to basically migrate a bot SharePoint migration that they kind of halfway had done back in. Speaker 5 00:52:21 January, February. I think we started it in March. We hope to have it done by no later than like the end of April or May. If we're in September, I think it's halfway done. We did like the file server migration. We still haven't done the actual SharePoint migration, of the halfway SharePoint thing that they have. Long story short, they've had minimal participation. We basically said went out of this mess, but we don't want to get a black eye on it. We talked to Robert, who's on their board, and said went out. Robert told their CFO that went out. Their CFO called their head of IT, and that came back to Anzor. And our our position is: you basically either need to let us out or. Speaker 5 00:53:16 We need to take over, or we need to do something major because we're not, you guys aren't aren't dealing with what needs to be dealt with. I don't know what's going to come out of that. So, I you know what what we really want is to finish the project and get it done. But they're not skilled enough to take it over, and you know they could say, hey, we want to give this to you guys to to run with at some point. They may not do that. But anything can happen. I think ultimately we just want to get rid of this thing because we're done with it and it's taken way too long. But there could be something that comes out of this at some point later in in in in time as well. But who knows? So the wayfinder thing is still kind of. Speaker 8 00:54:03 A oh I've got one more one more thing to discuss. Okay. Right. And Anton, you know. Correct me or stop me if I'm wrong, but one of the things I just want to put on the radar for the leadership team is, is I've noticed it also, but with Foothill, I know it's way too early, right? But I just want to remind the team that when we're doing Foothill, we don't want we want to almost pretend like they don't exist. So we want to be onboarding them as if Crimson is going to be supporting them in absence of Reza, Frankie, and and Andres. One of the concerns that I have is. Speaker 8 00:54:41 I think we're relying. We have to kind of rely on them, but they're really slow to respond. So I'm not sure if there's a way we can ease them. You know, Vlad. You know, maybe this is. Oh, Vlad's gone. Vlad still here. Speaker 7 00:54:59 Looks like he's gone. Speaker 8 00:55:01 Ah, shoot. Okay. Well, Speaker 7 00:55:07 I have the same. I have the same feeling. With the foothill, they are not responding, and it's taking too long even for the very simple tasks. And like, I don't know. Speaker 8 00:55:23 Yeah, because with baby to baby coming on board, if we don't have that onboarding documentation almost complete by the end of the month, that's really going to make things difficult. Because then we're going to have to focus on baby to baby, and we've had like almost two months to get this documentation done. We need that. I need that to help architect that solution. I'm going to need at least two, maybe three months, because no one knows that environment, not even Reza. So just want to put that on the radar. That's a big concern of mine. So we need to get that. We needed get. We need to do it in parallel. I think right now we're just thinking linear. Like you know, let's fix all the assessment issues. Speaker 8 00:56:06 But I think we should have a team that, in parallel, really focuses on that documentation, because without that, we're it's going to be really hard to get it later. Speaker 5 00:56:14 We should bring this up, Mike, in the next in the next standup, because this is not the right team to talk about that. Speaker 8 00:56:22 I see. Okay, Speaker 5 00:56:22 I wasn't sure. No, I mean, if if Vlad were here, he could help, but I mean. We we gotta we gotta impress upon the team the importance of that. We don't have to bring it up as a result of baby to baby, but I think we have to bring it up as as the importance of it happening, because I agree I agree that we got to get the documentation where it needs to be. But I don't I guess I don't want. Speaker 8 00:56:48 Your initiative to cloud it. You know you said just get the networking stuff done. I don't want this crimson initiative to, Be what's driving Foothill. Foothill, it needs to be its own separate documentation initiative. Speaker 5 00:57:01 Got to get down. Yeah, I guess I don't know who's responsible for it though. Like who who has the responsibility for doing the documentation of whatever it is we need documented. Speaker 8 00:57:12 I think Patrick was assigned to take point, but I don't think onboarding. Yeah, I don't think Patrick knows. This is one of the things I'm working with with Julia. Right, we got to figure out this. This is part of that whole fix onboarding. Because I've noticed with every single onboarding, we don't we don't get good documentation when as soon as we should, and it creates issues for the rest of the team down the line. Speaker 1 00:57:37 Okay. Speaker 5 00:57:41 Okay. Yeah, let's let's let's have the topic pointed to this maybe for one of the calls that Seg has next week. Okay. All right. Cool. Speaker 1 00:57:55 All right, thank you all. Speaker 5 00:57:58 Anything else? Thank you for the team deployment. Everyone have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy your three days off. Have a quiet weekend and a restful weekend, and we'll talk to you all next week. All right, thank you guys. Have a great weekend. Bye bye.
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- > **Date:** 2026-09-03 10:26:43 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Participants:** [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] ### Meeting Notes #### **Discussion on AI Prompt Engineering and Libraries** - **Description** - The group discussed the effectiveness of leveraging a prompt library as a starting point, especially for new or infrequent Copilot users. - One speaker shared having pre-built about 102 prompts for a pilot group; teams then iterated on these to create their own versions. - A key challenge: users often forget the prompt library exists, indicating a need for reinforcement and training. - Core components of effective Copilot prompting were outlined: role/perspective, task, context, and output. - Context was emphasized as the most crucial element, requiring attention to audience, prior events, and source documents. #### **Practical Applications and User Experiences with Copilot** - **Description** - Copilot has significantly reduced time on tasks such as analyzing lease amendments by consolidating information into a notebook for querying. - It’s also being used to analyze historical data—e.g., lease signing trends over the last ten years in Chicago—to identify patterns and peaks. - A major challenge is the cultural shift needed for employees to integrate AI into workflows, given habits of manual task completion. - One example: an employee cut a four-hour task to 15 minutes using Copilot after overcoming initial resistance. #### **Introduction of AI Expert Christi** - **Description** - Christi, CEO of Crimson IT and an AI expert, was introduced to the team. - She has over two and a half years of deep experience with AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. - Her work includes rolling out AI solutions for clients—about five Copilot rollouts per month—focusing on governance and business use cases. - She noted AI is no longer in a pilot phase and is being actively integrated into business operations. #### **AI Governance and Security Gaps Post-Deployment** - **Description** - A primary post-deployment issue is “permission sprawl,” where lax data labeling and expired public shares create security vulnerabilities. - Copilot can surface sensitive data, such as payroll information, if it’s stored publicly without proper labels. - Preventative measures include enforcing sensitivity labels, auditing publicly shared files, and establishing clear data retention policies. - Governance is also challenged by Copilot Studio agents and connectors to external data sources (e.g., Salesforce), which require formal review processes. - Maintaining an AI governance committee and a designated policy owner is crucial for continuous monitoring and policy review. #### **Managing Shadow IT and AI Tool Adoption** - **Description** - The best approach to control Shadow IT is a clear, concise, and easy-to-follow acceptable use policy. - The policy should list approved tools, define what data can be used where, and offer a fast-track process for requesting new tools. - Technical controls like Microsoft Purview can warn or block sensitive data from being pasted into unapproved web AIs. - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps can identify unapproved AI tools in use and assess their risk score. - The most effective control is fostering a positive culture by providing sanctioned, effective tools like Copilot and offering robust training. #### **AI’s Role and Limitations in the Workplace** - **Description** - AI should be viewed as a tool or an “intern” requiring supervision and cannot replace human judgment. - AI predicts the next word based on training data; it lacks true understanding or personal history. - Training data can be flawed, with portions rewritten by other AIs—reinforcing the need for human oversight. - While up to 70% of certain work can be delegated to AI, the remaining 30% requiring judgment will always remain with the human user. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi will send updated cheat sheets for HR, finance, and prompt examples to Ronell. - [ ] Ronell will share Christi’s resources with the team upon receipt. - [ ] Schedule a follow-up training session with Christi toward the end of the year, aligned with increased Copilot adoption. - [ ] Define and launch a reinforcement plan to remind users about the prompt library (e.g., periodic nudges, training snippets). - [ ] Establish a retraining plan and timeline for Alere’s team on data labeling and governance. - [ ] Set clear next steps and goals for using Copilot to analyze lease trends (scope, metrics, timeline, responsible owners). ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The discussion highlighted that users often forget the prompt library exists. A specific action item to create a reinforcement or reminder campaign was not defined. > 2. It was noted that Alere's team needs retraining on data labeling and governance. A concrete plan or timeline for this retraining was not established. > 3. The team is exploring using Copilot for analytics on lease trends, but this is still in an experimental phase ("playing around in the background"). No clear next steps or goals were set for this initiative.
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- Speaker 1 00:00:04 Been extremely helpful. We have one person. Twelve of them are testing. Yeah, Bonnie. Yeah, yeah. Testing. Yeah, I am. She uses her. She uses. She uses. It reduces them. It kind of gives them a perspective to sit back and look at it from more of a higher level. Speaker 1 00:01:04 Have you guys tried. Speaker 2 00:01:12 Taking that prompt from Honey's interface and having someone else try it, comparing output? Yeah. I think that's one interesting thing we've talked about this at work, but at PTC, like individual productivity, team, or even enterprise, and like just the difference in results that you might get. You know. I would imagine, I should imagine, just from the modeling. Speaker 1 00:01:46 That was applied to this case. Speaker 1 00:02:05 It's a great question. Maybe it's something that you've actually played an editor 65 agent that would have been so fast to do that and has that instructions that exactly. Maybe we can share that out with people who need it. Or question I was actually going to ask about. Or in Europe, they've played around with the prompt library yet? How do you get something to work? Close with that. Being able to publish prompts out to maybe. Speaker 3 00:02:35 Prebuilt a bunch of prompts into the prompt library when we first started our pilot group. There's probably I think I had about 102 prompts that I divided up by different verticals. It was helpful in the beginning, and then what we found is the teams would kind of take them and iterate on them themselves, and they would they would take their own. So I think it's a really good it's a good starter guide or for people who aren't in copilot every single day. It's a it's a nice way for them to go in and do it. It's very easy to get everything uploaded, especially if you've got them pre built. You just upload a CSV file and you can bulk upload. The one thing that I did note, you almost have to remind people that it exists. Sometimes they forget. Speaker 4 00:03:17 I was. Speaker 3 00:03:18 About to say that, Brad. Yeah. So as we as we went through the pilot period, you know, the first week they use it, the second week they didn't use it. I'm like, hey guys, what happened? Like, oh shoot, we forgot. So. You know, there's there's a there's a training there's a reinforcement piece there that's always going to come into play. But very, I thought I think it's really easy to set up, and I think there's a lot of value there, especially for people who aren't always thinking about the correct way to engineer a prompt. Speaker 1 00:03:45 Yeah, I think from the leasing side, just doing the the budgets this year was was interesting because we were able to accept some some notebooks, right? You know. Different amendments, and it's been nice to be able to fly, if you will, versus going in and looking at the lease three amendments and be able to put everything into a notebook and then ask to who's where. Who's responsible? Is there? That's a huge time saver. Who's else needs to be able to clarify this? At lease. Speaker 1 00:04:35 You know, structure anymore. They're going to leave on our Facebook. We don't sleep. I took our old dashboards and looked at that, laid out to get a timeline of, or sorry, lease signings to see kind of what our average was at least for Chicago, right? The last ten years, what's our how many leases get signed every single month, right? And trying to find that kind of trends, or looking at budget going out, and thinking based on our you know market talk of, yeah, they're going to do it in April, and all of a sudden we got nine leases, and we start to look at the peaks and valleys, and when things dip the next, and put some you know some analytics behind smoothing out that line, and just trying to find some trends in, is it a size range that's you know has been. Speaker 1 00:05:35 Hundred thousands or more, so we're still playing around in the background, trying to get some additional tools, but it's really yeah. Speaker 4 00:06:02 Great, that's great, everybody. Well, well, thank you all for sharing and. Again, appreciate it. We'll we'll we'll start working on as everyone starts getting closer to sharing out what you guys are doing and keeping everyone abreast of what's happening from a co-pilot standpoint. It looks like we got Christy on now. Christy is the CEO at Crimson I T, which is a Leers managed service provider. She helped with the implementation and training. Speaker 4 00:06:33 For Alere's team, and I thought she did a great job of providing information and the training. I I asked her, I poached her for like 30 minutes if she'd come over and speak to the team and and what she's seeing in terms of copilot with with her clients and what she's been doing, and and also again helping out Alere. So hey, Christi. Speaker 5 00:06:55 Hi, might help if I came off of mute. Hi everybody. As Ronell said, my name is Christi or Chris. Most people call me Chris, so just feel free to call me that. I have been working in AI since the inception of AI, so I've had clients galore start talking to me about it a long time ago. And so Crimson decided, hey, let's let's dig into this. This is going to be going to hit big and things like that. Speaker 5 00:07:29 A few years back, I was writing applications using ChatGPT, and then you know, then they made this the Copilot and the Codex and all the stuff. Claude Code. I have been deep into it for now over two and a half years, where it's taken over about 60% of my week. And I'm still a CIO, so I'm still dealing with all the other things that CIOs deal with. I'm, you know, talking technology stack and governance and, you know, compliancy. I'm still doing all of that, but now 60% of my week is spent, honestly, rolling out Microsoft Copilot or Claude or ChatGPT to a lot of our clients. And right now we're we're averaging about five Claude, I'm sorry, five Copilot rollouts a month. Speaker 5 00:08:20 If not more, so it is something that's hitting hard in businesses right now. I'll be honest, AI is no longer a pilot. It's already Copilot Chat's already in everything Microsoft already. Even if you don't have a license, you still have Copilot, and people are testing it out and trying it. But the big question is, is it governed or not? How is it being rolled out? How is it looking for different organizations? Have organizations put the method in that they need? So that's what I do. I go in and talk to people and make sure that everybody understands what AI can do, and give them business cases and use cases, and teach them how to make better decisions and things like that. So, real quickly, how many of you guys feel? Speaker 5 00:09:14 Feel like you have a good handle on Copilot. One, all right. How, Many of you would call yourself a beginner AI person? All right, Ali. Anybody else? All right, so you guys are my third class for today, and you guys aren't even a class. So just heads up, I've been going strong today. If I talk too fast, please tell me to slow down. Ronell, thank you for recording it. I also have a transcription service that I use that transcribes all my conversations, so I can also send out my notes as well. And I will send out a document that I wrote not too long ago, and I am updating it for this month because guess what? AI is changing a lot. I will tell you how many of you have used Claude. Speaker 5 00:10:15 Okay, how many of you tried Claude 5.1 this week? How many of you realized prompting is now different yet again? All right, I wrote an entire program with Claude yesterday, brand new operating system for myself using Claude, and the prompting has changed on that. How I prompt Copilot versus how I prompt. Claude and how I prompt Opus is entirely different for each one, and I say this because I jumped in and you guys were talking about prompt engineering. I was just having a prompting class with another client, and I took them to the very basics of just using AI today. And so prompting for them because they're we rolled out Copilot to them is four items. Speaker 5 00:11:10 How many of you guys know what the four main items of prompting is, especially in Copilot? You guys were discussing it. Anybody want to take? Speaker 4 00:11:22 Did Giancarlo to answer all these questions, by the way. Speaker 1 00:11:24 What your goal is, what the output is, what you, what the goal of it is, how you want the output. I don't know the other two. Speaker 5 00:11:37 You're very very close. That is that is the new Claude prompting titles I give. For Copilot, it's role or perspective is number one, task is number two, context is number three, and output is number four. So you're very close. I love it. What is the out of any model that you prompt? What is the most important out of those four? Giancarlo, you should know this one. Speaker 5 00:12:06 You've been in enough of my trainings. Speaker 6 00:12:07 I'm letting somebody else answer. Speaker 5 00:12:13 It is context, yes. It is the most important. The questions that I give people when I'm describing context to them is: Who's the audience? What happened before? What must not change? And which document is the source? So for any of you guys that. That have ever done, have ever looked at that. That is what I give. And you know what, Ronell? Do you have a copy of all my cheat sheets? Did Giancarlo send those out to you as well? I don't think I sent them to you. Speaker 4 00:12:46 I don't think I have those. I got the last email with the dates, but not the not the cheat sheets. Speaker 5 00:12:52 Okay. I tell you guys what. I will send to Ronell some cheat sheets. I'm actually updating them this week. Once I get them updated, I'm going to send them out to Ronell. He can pass them over to you guys, and you guys can pass those off to your staff. There's going to be cheat sheets for HR, finance, things like that. But prompting, I've got some prompt examples that work really well in Copilot. I will be honest. As much as I've rolled out Copilot, I will tell you guys, I use the same playbook every time, but I do it at a different pace. Speaker 5 00:13:27 So just like people within your company have different abilities, and you roll it out to different departments at each different paces, I roll it out to each client at a different pace. I will say, Giancarlo' team is probably the second best I've ever rolled it out to, only because there's one company of all technical users. Alere can't be number one on that because they actually took to prompting right away. But I will tell you, there's a governance item that they missed out on. That looking back at it, we we got to retrain on some things. What is your biggest headaches? I'm I'm the kind of person I'll start calling on people and be aware I've not had coffee yet today. So what is your what is your biggest headaches right now as you're thinking either thinking through. Speaker 5 00:14:24 Copilot, thinking through the rollout or your mid rollout. What are your biggest concerns. Speaker 4 00:14:29 Christi, I'll jump out there. I'm just gonna just I would probably say the culture shift in trying to use it. So I think we're a number of people, and I think this is across the operating partners in general. Is that people are so used to doing things themselves now, and so taking a step back. To then start the process process with Copilot to help it do that task for you because they're saying like I can just do it myself because I've been doing you know doing it all this time. So you missed a Jeremy had a an example earlier where someone it took them four hours to do something. They finally sat down and spent some time with Copilot and now Copilot was able to do it to do it for them in 15 seconds. So 15 minutes. So I think those are cultural mind shift maybe the first thing I would say. Speaker 5 00:15:22 Not. Yeah, that is one of the number one things I see. I literally, oh sorry, Speaker 3 00:15:27 Go ahead. I was just gonna kind of add on that. That's been one of the big things that I ask people to do, even before, you know, we've gone live, is in their day to day life, beyond, you know, because it wasn't, it's not authorized for everybody at in the office. Just get used to speaking the language of AI and and think through that. I've likened it to kind of learning a new language where you need to immerse yourself. And and live it a bit, and I think that's been a hard thing for people to wrap their heads around because you have some people who see the stories and they think AI is gonna you know kill us all and and take our jobs and eat our babies. And but getting them to the point of like this a tool, this a partner that you can actually grow with that can and can make your life easier. But then also thinking creatively around it, like unlocking that part of your brain to say, gosh, I wish I could do this, but then acting upon that. I think that's been. Speaker 3 00:16:17 The change management piece, from a software perspective, isn't hard. The people perspective is easily the more challenging of the two. Speaker 5 00:16:25 Yeah, I will 100% agree with you. I just did a training for a nonprofit. Literally left it to come into your meeting, and one of the very last questions I got asked was, " I wanted now first it came with a statement. I want you to turn it off just for me." I do not see, and you're gonna have to explain to me how people are actually using AI within a business. And that's the biggest, one of the biggest culture shifts we're seeing is people are like, I'm, I'm worried. Now, Giancarlo, how much of your work, and you've, you've been in my trainings. He's gonna get mad at me for embarrassing him. How much, how much work should you give AI of yours? Speaker 6 00:17:16 I mean, I think it depends on the role a little bit, right? I mean, some of it is depends on whether you're you're producing deliverables versus doing, you know, just thinking about strategic direction that your company is going in, right? So I think we see different people using it depending on whether they are doing an analytic that maybe is repeatable. That we're bringing data sets out, we're trying to update those data sets and produce reports and deliverables. So I think. I think for certain people on our team, I think that is a big help. And then for other people, it's more organization, right? Like maybe it is, tell me what my meetings are today. Help me find something in my email or organize my email in a way that I can digest it better. I think those daily sort of tasks and and repeatable things I think work a lot better. And then for us, like we're taking more time digging into where we can produce processes. Speaker 6 00:18:13 That may produce analytics that we haven't been able to do in the past, and those are the things that we're just iterating on over time, getting our data clean and putting that into a format that's more usable. So it's it's it's definitely dependent on what everybody's. Speaker 5 00:18:29 Responsibilities are. So so he gets a gold star because he almost killed one of my last trainings. What I tell people exactly what he said. It depends on the job you give it and what you need it to do. One of the biggest statements that I make is AI will never replace your judgment, and that's how I know AI is not going to take over jobs. I jokingly tell people no one's going to take over my job because people still can't find the on-off switch on their cell phones. And when they be able to find their on-off switch, then we will talk about AI taking over my job. Speaker 5 00:19:09 But until then, AI does not have judgment. It has no capacity to judge something correctly. It honestly doesn't know everything because all it's good at is predicting what the next word is going to be, and it does not know the history that you know within your own job. It knows what it's read, and and that's something I I do very hard. Spell out is it knows what it's read, but a lot of what it's read was rewritten by AI, so it's not always going to be right. And it still, if it doesn't have all the context, it still can't be right, because if you say apple and you expect someone to respond back with orange, that's not what AI is expecting. AI is expecting to tell you how an ape, how an apple is grown, what it looks like on the inside, how much nutrients and stuff it has in it. Speaker 5 00:20:05 Whereas you're just looking for somebody to answer back. Orange, so AI is not capable of taking over everybody's job, and that comes back to the culture statement that you made. Part of it's going to be fear. Part of it's going to be wait. I do a better job. How many of you guys have been interns in your lifetime? Yeah, I my first internship. I hadn't gone into IT yet, but my first internship I was video journalism, and my internship was with CBS News. And I, at 19 years old, they allowed me to drive the van. Now this was before Y2K. I'm not going to say how long before Y2K this was because then I'll tell you how old I am. But they allowed me to to drive a van because in the late 90s people weren't as concerned about things like that. Speaker 5 00:21:02 And I drove the van the wrong way down the road, and because I'm had an ego, I was an intern. I was working for a top, you know, broadcasting company. I thought I was all that in the hill a beans, and yes, I'm southern. If you hear that start coming out, um. I made the wrong statements. I made the wrong thing, and I got a ticket, my first ticket ever, for driving the wrong way down a road at a traffic accident because I wanted to get my reporter there so that he could have a good story for the news that night. Okay? Don't ever do that. And my ego is exactly what AI is right now. AI will drive the wrong way down the road and get in trouble because it's giving you the wrong information because AI is not any better than your best intern. Speaker 5 00:21:51 And you still got a supervisor, because trust me, I got interns and I still got to supervise all of them. So be aware that that when I explain that to people, it's like a light bulb goes off in their head. They're like, okay, that makes more sense. You got to supervise AI. Ronell sent me over a couple questions, which actually does amount to some things that I wanted to talk about. Anyways, one of them is a question about governance. Let me pull back up that email so I can repeat. Or Ronell, do you have that question? Speaker 4 00:22:25 Sorry. Okay, let me pull it up here. Speaker 5 00:22:31 I cleared my screen for my last training. I haven't pulled it back up. Speaker 5 00:22:46 I got it for you. What AI governance security gaps are the most commonly seen or overlooked six to twelve months after initial deployment of Copilot? Whose question was that one? That was mine. Jeremy, that was an amazing question. So I'll be I'll be. Oh, sorry. That is one of the best questions I've had in in recent weeks. I will be honest. The biggest issue we see is permission, permissions sprawl, and that's that's having to do with a couple of things. Labels. How many of you guys have deployed data loss protection within your organization, and how many of you deploy sensitivity labels? Okay. Speaker 5 00:23:39 One thing that I'm going to go back to Alere on is reteach this because I was looking at another account that I have, and that's one of the biggest sprawls that I've seen. People are not enforcing labels, and that's going to be one of the biggest headaches you guys have. So you can auto label things for financial data, PII, anything client identifying stuff like that, but Auto labels only work so well, and it's still going to miss something. It's not AI; it's automation. But if your people aren't are not also making those labels, then those gaps are not getting closed, and that's where your permission sprawl comes in. Things like sites that are shared or sites or folders that are shared to everyone. Speaker 5 00:24:34 Even even now, if they were shared years ago and they still have not expired, and no one noticed it, Copilot's going to find them and it's going to notice it and it's going to give you issues. I have a client, and Crimson even did this a few years back. I had a client that had that someone accidentally saved. Payroll information out to a public location in Teams, but it was several folders nested down. No one had found it, and it was recent data. And someone went into Copilot and asked, "How much does this person make?" And Copilot was able to pull that information because it was in a public location, had no sensitivity label, nothing on it, and they were able to find it. Speaker 5 00:25:27 So when you start your rollout of Copilot, make sure you're searching for documents like this. Make sure that everything has those sensitivity labels, and make sure you're auditing. So we did that for Alere. We audited. We take took a look at retention policies. We took a look at did keyword searches for certain things. And I'll be honest, Alere was really good. We did not find hardly anything. I think there was like one file that was found. And the person who owned it, I just reached out to them and said, "Hey, is this supposed to be public?" And they responded back, "No, let me go delete that." And so, you know, it's something that you guys will need to do. Retention policy. If you guys do, and I say this for the public items, you do want to set those expiration dates. Crimson's retention policy just on public shares. Like if I share something publicly, is one month, and we enforce that, and you don't turn that off, and. Speaker 5 00:26:23 Retention policies across is something that's really important. Anything that you see in a purview audit that can be pulled that doesn't have a retention policy, six months in, no one's going to pay attention to that, but it's still there. Copilot is going to pay attention to that, so be aware of that. Agents and connectors are another one, and this is a recent one that I've seen. People. Once you allow people to build things in Copilot Studio, if your organization goes that level, or connecting outside data, it's going to change that governance model. And when I say that, when I'm talking about that, I'm looking at things like Salesforce, HubSpot, those types of connections to outside data that your teams use. So if they use things like Salesforce and and different tools like that. Speaker 5 00:27:22 Then you're going to want to take into account the copilot agents that people are building and connecting to that outside data, and you're going to want to put people in that can review the data that it reaches. So be aware of that. And then the last one that I see is going to be ownership. If I can express anything to you guys, I will express this: Do not dissolve your steering groups and your governance team. Have your AI have your AI committee continue checking governance. Okay, don't push it off as this is an IT problem. Name who your policy owner is. My policy owner for Alere is Giancarlo. Okay. Speaker 5 00:28:19 Even though our project has ended, I will more than likely be having a quarterly review with him or Mike, who's my account manager. I think Mike's your account manager, right? Yeah, Mike will have that conversation with him, and I will provide that report to Mike so that he can review it with Giancarlo. So be aware that. So does that answer your question, Jeremy, on governance part? Absolutely, that was great. Also, all right. Shadow IT, my favorite subject. This makes my heart happy when people ask me about shadow IT. I will be honest. There is no perfect solution out there. Things are going to get missed. Your biggest, biggest thing is having a policy. It needs to be as short. Speaker 5 00:29:11 AI policy. You also need to add in your acceptable use policy. How many of you guys know if you have an acceptable use policy for your company? Ronell knows. Giancarlo knows because we just updated it. Okay. If you don't know, check with your IT team. Make sure that they have the access acceptable use policy. It's got to answer three questions, and I write these all day long for clients. So these are the three questions I have off the top of my head. And that is which tools are approved, what data can go where, and how to request a tool that's not on the list. And that request path needs to be able to be answered in days rather than months, because us as IT people, sometimes we push off those non-urgent requests. Like, you know, can I get this new tool? And I will say we're we're all guilty of it on the IT side. We'll push it off in in favor of the internet's down. Speaker 5 00:30:10 Anybody was affected by the LA cogent issue yesterday, where it okay. So for anybody who doesn't know, downtown LA got hit. If you were on cogent, which a lot of people in downtown LA was, there was a massive line break and took down internet for a lot of people. Crimson was affected. Half the people in the U.S. Bank Tower building were affected. So so that happened. That was fun. And then Microsoft had an outage yesterday at the same time. And we will push off those simple tickets, like you know, can I get access to this tool? Is this going to work? In favor of, hey, internet's down for the building. So we need to put in play, and I have put in play for a lot of clients, including Alire, if people are requesting access to a tool. How many of you guys have heard applaud? Plaud. Okay, Giancarlo has because I talk about it all the time. Plaud is a device. This is device. Speaker 5 00:31:09 It when I'm in meetings, especially conferences or giving calls. This one's not on, but it snaps to the back of my phone and it picks up everything. It will pick up conversations in a restaurant, a noisy restaurant, because I've done that quite a few times. You want to go Starbucks? My daughter is looking at me. I'm at the office. I brought her with me. So, Plaud is is a tool that I use, and I. I get it. I use it because it's HIPAA compliant, and most of my clients, with the exception of a lawyer, but most of the clients that I personally work on daily are nonprofits in the medical field. So everything has to be HIPAA related. So I, we have a process for when I wanted Plaud that it got approved fairly quickly, and because I had all my ducks in a row for that. Speaker 5 00:32:09 So make sure that you have your ducks in a row for that. The next part that I'm going to say about Shadow AI is protect the data, not just police it, but protect it. And that goes back to what we were talking about with labels and stuff like that. Purview does extend out to browsers. How many of you guys, how many of you know what Purview is? I know Ronell does. Speaker 4 00:32:39 I just talked about it right before you jumped on. Speaker 5 00:32:42 Okay, perfect. Purview will extend out to browsers and computers, and it will warn or block anything that's that is any context that's pasted into any web AI. Meaning, if someone pastes PII information into a web AI, you can either have it warn or you can have it block. Defender, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will show which AI tools are actually in use with a risk score. Okay, conditional access policies within Intune and Azure and Intera. It will keep AI tied to which AI you want to use. Okay, so. Speaker 5 00:33:30 So be aware that there are things that are put in play. There's also external tools that Crimson uses for Shadow AI to monitor that. Not just Microsoft, because some of our clients don't use Microsoft. Some of them are Google, and some of them still use servers and on-prem AI, on-prem Microsoft. So just be. I have a client that has not gone to the cloud at all, and they refuse to. So we do have tools that work around those. So be aware that. Modern monitor, create a cadence within your organization that's going to monitor, and that is you're going to monitor your monthly AI usage. You're going to look at your data loss prevention and tune it every six months or quarterly. So that's something that I do with my clients is I make sure I look at DLP, I look at the alerts coming in, and I refresh it and I retune it. Speaker 5 00:34:29 Because things change faster than the speed of light, and also we refuse we refuse to. Sorry, I my daughter just asked me a question. We re look at the tools yearly, and we will look at those. We'll look at the information behind it. We will look at you know. Take LastPass for example. LastPass a couple years back had a breach, and we'll look at the risk factors with that, and what are the tools that are still out there, and we'll change based on that. So, and the biggest control for shadow AI is culture. So, setting your culture is going to be the biggest one. Give them the sanctioned tools that actually are good. Copilot is really good. Speaker 5 00:35:28 Share with them how to use it well. Anything that's approved is your path to least resistance. How many of you guys have seen that? If you say, "Hey, I do that with my kids. I give them boundaries. I say, 'Here's your boundaries. You're you're 18 years old. These are the boundaries in which you operate in.'" And my kids are amazing. I'm also a foster parent. For anybody who doesn't know that, I only foster teens. Above the age of 14, and I call them all my daughters because I only foster girls. But I give them, based on their age, here's the boundaries you operate in, and I have no issues. And my daughter, who's been with me for four years, she's at the office with me today because she likes coming into the office. She's over here dancing because she she knows that's true. She's also laughing at me. She's amazing. Giancarlo and Ronell, I got to introduce you guys to her sometime. You guys will love her. She's amazing. Speaker 5 00:36:27 This not the one I just took to college. This the other one. They're the same age. Yes, the one that I took to college. She's at college. She's enjoying college. This the one that's senior in high school. So be aware of that, and also be aware that AI is shifting. I just realized what time it is. But if I can say the last thing, be aware that AI is shifting and it's shifting fast. We're moving from ask AI a question. To giving AI the job, seventy percent of your work can go to AI, but you still have that thirty percent judgment call, and that will always stay the same. Ronell, Speaker 4 00:37:08 Did I miss anything? I think that I think that's it. It's been a great conversation, and appreciate you jumping on. You went from meeting to meeting to meeting, so I appreciate you giving us some time. Speaker 5 00:37:21 No worries, I'm glad. If you guys want to hear from me more, Giancarlo knows how to get a hold of me. Ronell knows how to get a hold of me. The next couple of weeks, my schedule is actually pretty light because I'm taking a slight break from trainings, mostly because I'm on baby watch as a grandmother. I'm not telling you guys how old I am, but you guys now are getting the idea of how old and how long I've been in IT. But feel free to if you see time on my schedule, grab it. Ronell can send you a link to my booking tool. I actually have an option on there for one and a half hour training sessions if you guys want to steal it. Speaker 4 00:38:00 So we will definitely take you up on that, Chris, because I think we'll probably I'll say maybe by the end of the year, everybody should be or close to up and running on Copilot. So the even playing field in terms of, Use cases, knowledge, and and where they are would probably everybody be on an even playing field. So I think that would be a good time to schedule something to get some of the calibrations. Amazing. Appreciate your time. Appreciate your time. Speaker 1 00:38:27 Just one quick question. You mentioned that the structure that you do the assessment exists in all models. Is there first thing you use? I'm still like I'm more used to personally assessing the. Speaker 5 00:39:04 I'll Be honest. Microsoft Learn. No worries. I dig deep into Microsoft Learn. That's one of the best resources out there because Microsoft's gotten much better about explaining things. They used to be super technical. Now they're getting a lot better. And then I made my own resources. I do run a blog. My blog is. I'm going to be updating some things soon so that there's going to be a Copilot, a Cloud section, and a ChatGPT. And when I get that updated, I'll send that out to Ronell and he can share that with you guys. Speaker 5 00:39:38 No worries. And please send questions. I love answering these questions. Jeremy, Speaker 4 00:39:42 These were amazing. Great, everyone. Now we're we're a little bit after two of one oh one oh six or something like that. So, all right, everybody. Thanks, Christi. Thanks everybody for for coming out. I appreciate your time. When she sends me those tips, I'll send it to you guys so everybody will have it. And thanks for for getting together there to get together, everybody. All right. Thanks. Bye. All. Speaker 5 00:40:10 Right, let me finish ordering mine. Okay.
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- > Date: 2026-07-23 13:00:04 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### Team Introductions and Meeting Overview - Sam introduced new team members learning to become AI experts: John (from the San Diego/Carlsbad offices) and Juno. - Charl from South Africa is also learning about AI. - Sam will demonstrate connecting Box with Claude using a client’s Box account for which Sam is the administrator. ### Demonstration: Connecting Box and Claude - Sam outlined creating a dedicated “Claude account” user in Box. - This user will have specific, limited permissions (e.g., viewer) to designated folders such as “Box Reports.” - To connect the services: log into Claude, go to Connectors, select Box, and sign in with the “Claude account” credentials. - The password for this shared account will be simple for organizational use. - This setup ensures Claude only accesses explicitly permitted files and folders, not all user files. ### Data Security and Privacy in AI Tools - Sam addressed data privacy concerns, confirming that for corporate accounts, Claude does not use company data to retrain its models. - The CoWork feature in Claude is machine-specific; tasks and data are not shared across different computers, even with the same login. Only chat history synchronizes. - Claude follows compliance guidelines like NIST, comparable in rigor to SEC requirements, and is designed to prevent PII leakage. - Sam expressed greater trust in Claude’s security compared to other AI tools like OpenAI, noting its increasing stringency over time. ### AI Model Capabilities and Limitations - Newer AI models are more restrictive about handling potentially sensitive information, even for legitimate requests. - Example: a newer model (“Fable”) refused a cybersecurity-related task that an older model (“Opus”) completed. - The AI can be instructed to list files containing PII but is unlikely to expose the specific data within them. - It will scan files it has access to without retaining information, akin to tallying items without removing them. ### Personal AI Use Cases and Training - Sam shared personal productivity uses for AI, such as routines to sweep inboxes for spam and flag important emails. - ChatGPT is used to manage and track tasks, especially those assigned by superiors. - Sam offered future training to Victoria on these AI productivity techniques. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Create a basic user in EAP’s Microsoft tenancy for the “Claude account.” - [ ] Monti to assist with setting up the “Claude account” in Box for Sam and Victoria. - [ ] Sam to catch up on writing blog posts about emergent AI topics. - [ ] Upon request, Sam will teach Victoria how to use AI for productivity tasks. ## AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. A definitive decision on whether to proceed with the proposed Box–Claude integration method was not reached. Follow up to confirm if the discussed security measures sufficiently address the team’s concerns. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Eldridge Acre weekly AI sync (Sam Smith, Victoria, John; ~1:03-1:36pm): introduced expanded Crimson AI team (Juno, John, Charl learning AI practice), Box + Claude integration status and data-security guardrails, demonstrated inbox-automation workflows (3-inbox triage, boss-flagging, task digest); follow-up walkthrough offered.
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- Jul 23, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:11 Hi John. Hi Victoria. Speaker 2 00:00:34 Hi Sam. Speaker 1 00:00:40 I'm going to introduce you to some folks today. You may or may not have met before. Yeah, and wait and see if Monti and Vince show up. And they messaged me yesterday together. Speaker 2 00:02:00 Let's see. Give. Speaker 1 00:02:11 Him a few more moments. Knowing Vince, he's like me and he might be double scheduled. Speaker 1 00:02:35 Okay. Um, and just a heads up, Uh I'm going to give you guys an introduction while we're waiting on the others. Uh John and Juno, you may have um talked to Juno over tickets and things like that. Um And John works out of our San Diego and Carlsbad offices. So they are both learning how to be AI experts. I need more AI experts on my team so um, Yes. Yes. So John is jumping in and Juno's jumping in. I kind of forced Juno into the role and then John asked, which I definitely appreciate. Juno is one of my favorite techs, and John and I have worked a little bit together. I think I helped interview for him, And then I moved off into my CIO role within clients rather than staying just CIO for Crimson. Speaker 1 00:03:33 So, I threatened Monti just now to get her to join. Let's. Speaker 2 00:03:46 See. Not a problem. There's Charl. Speaker 1 00:04:04 And then you guys might know Charl. Charl is also learning all things AI. I'm trying to send it to him osmotically to South Africa, but it's not working so well. Speaker 2 00:04:50 Yes. Speaker 2 00:05:26 Yes. Absolutely. Speaker 1 00:05:41 So we're going to go over a few things in regards to that. So, um, just a heads up, I am actually going to show you I have a Box account uh for another client. I'm their administrator. And so I'm going to show you from their point of view, just because I can. They've agreed to allow me to do that. And I'm going to show you Claude options as well. Yep. So you, I've got like three or four clients that are using Box and Claude, including myself. So just a heads up for this company, I'm going to show you their Box account. I am their CIO. Speaker 1 00:06:17 And I replaced their former CIO who left in February. So I have access to all things Box. And so I had to do this for a few other companies, But I'm going to show you their account, and we're going to just do it from scratch. So Victoria, you can see it in real time. Now on this, I am going to show you from my and I'm going to disconnect and reconnect Box on my cloud. So that you guys can see that as well. Let me share my screen with you. So, this is the Box account that we're going to be using this for testing. Now, I've got some extra user licenses so I can do this. So just a heads up on that. I'm going to go into admin console, but right before we do that, let me do this. Let me log out of this one. Hang on, where did it go? Yeah. Um, I'm gonna log into Crimson AI or Crimson Cloud. So. Speaker 1 00:07:20 I've been in Claude way too much today. Actually, you know what? I'm going to do something a little different. I'm going to show you a different account. I have There we go. So this account, I'm going to use this as our Claude account because I'm not connected Box to this. So real quickly, going into Box and I do apologize that was confusing, Going into Box The very first thing I would do, uh Victoria, is are you an administrator in Box or are you just a user? Sam, are you an administrator or a user? Okay. So we we can do this for you. I can have Monti do this for you a little bit later. But, what I would do is I would go into Users and Groups and I'm going to add a user. Speaker 1 00:08:15 So I'm going to add users manually. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to say Claude account. And then, I am going to have the team create a user, A basic user that's very cheap within EAP's Microsoft tenancy and give them an email address for that. Um, But for right now, I'm going to do CIT admin at because I already know that one is in there. And then from here, I'm just going to say save. Now once I save it, Uh, it's going to be in here and I'm going to go into the cloud account. Speaker 1 00:09:08 And I'm going to grant them access only to the files and the folders that it should have access to. So here's my cloud account. I'm going to look at the roles, make sure it's only a member. And then for folders, I'm going to go back over to my account because I have access to all folders. Sam, you can do the same if you have admin rights. And then we just need a list of folders That we want to access, we want to grant them access to. So for this one, What I'm going to do is I'm going to go in here and uh I'm going to access, I'm going to grant them access to Box Reports. So I'm going to go in here and I'm going to add Claude account and I'm going invite them as a viewer. And that's it. Speaker 1 00:10:08 So now when I go add this account, so here's my Box reports, here's the people who have access to it and Claude accounts only a viewer. Now, we can change this to edit. But for this today, we're going to just do viewer. Now I'm going to go into my Claude account and I am going to grant, I'm going to go in and first, sorry, I'm about to sneeze. I do apologize. I'm going to go in and I am going to go to connectors. Sorry, I'm in the wrong settings. I'm going to go into connectors and I'm going to look for Box and I'm going to say connect. But this time when I connect, I'm going to log in as the cloud account. And. So everyone who wants to connect with Box within the organization will have the username and the password for cloud account. Speaker 1 00:11:07 And we're going to make the password something very easy for people to remember. Yes. Speaker 1 00:11:35 So your skills within Claude are not going to change. Only the connection to Box is going to change. Yes. Speaker 1 00:12:24 So, Just a heads up. Let me let me allay some concerns you might have real quickly. So, the way your clot is set up. Let me go back because I you guys are set up just like how I've set this client up with Claude. Um, Your your data and privacy is not going out to um to retrain Claude because you're a corporate company. So basically on here, there's no, there's no way that Claude is taking your data to train his models. Speaker 1 00:13:05 So nothing is leaking on the internet. Now for CoWork, that's only your data. So hang on one second, let me go into something I want to show you. And I do want to ask, what is your. What are you trying to do in CoWork? Speaker 1 00:13:47 Right. So. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:14:05 Right. Yes, Now what is your concern about it having access to all the files that you have access to? Speaker 1 00:15:06 So With CoWork, no. Because CoWork is only on the computer that you're on. And, the reason why I want to bring this up is this is my Claude here. If I pull this Claude up on any of my other systems, it does not have access to the CoWork. It only has access to my prior chats. So I have three machines, well technically I have four computers. Every single one of our computers has Claude installed on it. But none of my computers, if I was to go in and look at all my tasks, these are my CoWork tasks. He won't see any of these because it's only on that one machine. CoWork's a little different. It only resides on machines. Does that make sense? Speaker 1 00:16:01 Okay, and then let me show you one more thing. So this Claude, same login. I can only see certain things. I am on this machine. So everything, this my personal Claude, But Sir and I have an agreement because I have mine locked down pretty tight. There is no CoWork tasks in here. And to access it you have to open it in the desktop app. It won't let you do it on the web version, And I wish I could log in. Uh, I can't log into my home computer because I'm not there to hit the Yubikey. But if I was to log into my home computer, it's a Crimson home computer. You won't be able to see the same tasks in there either. You only get to see the chats. So you can't share that out. Speaker 2 00:17:02 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:18:38 Yes. And. Speaker 1 00:18:51 It does, especially with the new models that are growing. Both so Claude is Claude's got several compliance items within. It's it's both Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. Let me rephrase that. They follow certain compliance guidelines. It's not going to allow it to give out PII. And the stronger the model is, the worse it's going to be about saying absolutely not. And I do know this because I've been playing with Fable, which is the new new stuff. In Fable, I try to get Fable to do something that I got Opus to do. Speaker 1 00:19:31 Which wasn't bad. It wasn't nefarious or anything. I just needed to create some stuff and look at cybersecurity documents and reports, and it said absolutely not. What you're participating in could be considered cybersecurity issues, even though it wasn't. So it is. Um uh there was a word on my brain. Um it makes my uncle that likes to save all his cash under his mattress. Speaker 2 00:20:01 Uh, look like he's not a conspiracy theorist, and he definitely is one. So if that makes sense, my southern colloquialisms. Speaker 2 00:20:33 I don't know if any of that's relevant because correct. Speaker 1 00:20:38 And it it isum it's very stringent. It makes Anzor look like he's not cybersecurity ready, and he's he trusts me. He is some and the reason why I want to point all of this out is we can go that path, which I do have a a client that does want me to go this path. But at the end of the day, if you look right here, I do write a lot of cybersecurity-ready stuff. And it does it is very careful about that. And that's why I love Claude. OpenAI originally wasn't that secure, but it is now. And Copilot is very secure. So I would trust it and I don't trust very many things. Speaker 1 00:21:30 About, the only thing I trust in life is Charl is going to be really excited with the new Marvel movie that's about to come out. It's about the only thing I trust. Also that he's going to make me buy him toys and send it South Africa. It has been a few years, Charl, you do owe me a visit. You owe Sam a visit too. Speaker 1 00:22:44 And I can tell you it's pretty secure. Claude follows all NIST requirements, which for you guys being SEC, NIST is just as stringent as SEC. Also, Let me go back in and delete my seat that I just took up before I forget. Speaker 2 00:23:57 You. Speaker 1 00:24:59 You just gave me an idea while you were talking. Um, I don't know what you said that triggered it, because this has nothing to do with what you said, but you gave me an idea. Um, I do know that I have files with PII data in them in Box. Um, I want it to list the files. But I want to, after I ask it to list files, let me ask it what is that data and see if it'll pull. But one of the things in answer to your question is, it depends on how each of the folders are set up. Normally you can go top level folder, So like a share and grant edit access, and it would filter down to all subfolders and files. Speaker 1 00:25:57 And then I have taken this is in the past. I haven't done this in Box recently, but I've gone in and found a confidential folder within, And I've been able to remove everybody from having access to that confidential folder that has access to the top level. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:26:27 Yes. Now, Speaker 1 00:26:40 It may scan, um, but it's not going to retain that information that it's scanning. It's like when you're looking at a bag of jelly beans and you're making tick marks for every red jelly bean that you find, but you're not pulling the red jelly beans out. Speaker 1 00:27:00 Poor Juno, she's learning more and more southern colloquialisms today. Um, Does this help you narrow down the ideas that you guys have and concerns you have? Okay. Um, I'll be honest. If I had to choose between OpenAI and Claude I'd go with Claude because I do trust its security. Only because more and more as they build out these models, it's getting more and more stringent. Because what's happening is companies are saying, hey, this doesn't work the way we need to. It's finding data it shouldn't. And then they take it straight to Claude, especially the bigger name companies that are using Claude. So I have seen that that's happened over the last two years where it's gotten um more and more stringent. Uh OpenAI is not too far behind them. Speaker 1 00:27:56 But, they are slightly behind them in my in my personal opinion. And I I have multiple AI accounts. So. Speaker 2 00:28:08 Yeah yeah. Speaker 1 00:29:02 No worries. And then let me ask a question, Sam. Have I done a Claude AI training with you guys? Good. Speaker 1 00:29:44 Yeah, so I actually write a blog now. Bear with me because it's been like several weeks since I wrote, because uh I was in the hospital. And then you know, uh I got more kids. So uh I became mom to now three teenagers in the house. Um so I do need to catch back up on my blogs, but I do try to keep up with the emergent things that go on with Claude and CoWorking. Uh. OpenAI and Copilot. So just a heads up, Victoria, Real quickly because we've got maybe a minute I can show you this because Sam and I, I think both you and I have to go into another meeting with the other Victoria. But Victoria, if I can show you anything that would make life fun for you, um, I do have routines in here that it sweeps my inbox, and it deletes emails that are spam. Speaker 1 00:30:41 And it flags emails that are from my bosses. And yeah, it goes through three inboxes when it does this. So if you ever want to learn, let me know and I will teach you. I need to put a rule in here that if it's Charles to send all his emails to the help desk, but I haven't done that rule yet. Maybe one day. But I can go over all of these with you at some point, if you're ever interested in learning. ChatGPT sends me an email that pulls all my tasks to tell me what I've worked on, what I've got done, and anything that are urgent. And, especially any of them that come from Anzor, because that man will throw things to me, right and left and I can't keep up. So I have to have ChatGPT teach me how to or have ChatGPT keep me on top of my tasks. So. Speaker 2 00:31:45 Yes. Yes. No. Speaker 1 00:32:07 Worries, um I thought it was today, uh but, My day uh has been a little bit busier than normal. Don't look, don't don't stress out over my calendar. That's my job. Uh I think it's next week. Yeah, I think it was next week. Speaker 1 00:33:00 No worries. I'm more than glad to walk you guys through it. So, yeah. Thanks. Thanks guys, have a great week. All right.
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04-24 Weekly Meeting: Invoice Clarity and Process Improvement
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-04-24 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [April] [Mike] ## Meeting Notes ### Invoice Clarity and Professionalism - Mike highlighted that current invoices sent to customers, like Stephen, are confusing. The finance team receives them, but the point of contact who approved the quote (e.g., Stephen) finds them hard to understand. - The current invoice format for progress billing is unclear. For example, it lists a fixed fee of $2,400, a progress payment of $220, and a balance of $200, which is confusing for the customer. - Mike suggested a clearer layout, possibly automated within ConnectWise, that would explicitly state the project number, quote number, total labor, previously invoiced amount, and the new outstanding balance. - Mike pointed out that he had previously revamped the quoting template to be more professional and believes the invoices should undergo a similar improvement to better represent the company's brand (Crimson). ### Branding and Visual Improvements for Invoices - Mike suggested simple branding improvements for the invoices, such as changing the gray bars to the company's "crimson" color. - He compared the current plain invoices to the old, unprofessional-looking quote templates that were improved to look more professional. - April agreed to put this on her radar and will discuss potential branding changes with Stephanie. ### Process Improvement and Team Empowerment - Mike mentioned that many current processes might not be optimal but are followed because "that's the way it has always been done." He encouraged April to seek better ways, such as consulting with peer groups or a ConnectWise representative. - April confirmed she is taking over a new role and is keen on implementing changes to improve the admin team's processes. She has received a "go signal" from Anzar to push back on and change processes that are not working. - April mentioned she had a meeting with Mike's team to revisit the quoting process and its effect on procurement, identifying pain points and workarounds. - Mike informed April that he has promoted Chinky to a lead role and is encouraging him to make his own decisions without needing to clear everything with Mike. This empowers Chinky to work directly with April on process improvements. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] April will coordinate with her team and ConnectWise to improve the invoice format (clarity, progress billing layout, automation options). - [ ] April will discuss invoice branding improvements (e.g., crimson color accents) with Stephanie and explore feasibility within ConnectWise. - [ ] April will provide Mike with regular progress updates on invoice format and branding improvements. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. There is no specific timeline or deadline set for the proposed invoice redesign and branding improvements. The task was only added to April's "radar." > 2. The feasibility of the suggested invoice layout changes within the ConnectWise system is unknown. A concrete action to investigate this with ConnectWise or other experts was not established.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 He y Mike. Speaker 2 00:00:02 Happy Friday. Speaker 1 00:00:03 Happy Friday, finally. Speaker 2 00:00:06 I know, right? How are you hanging with all the extra work? Still surviving. Speaker 1 00:00:10 Yeah, surviving. Yes, I am trying to. Speaker 2 00:00:15 Yeah, if it helps, I have some understanding of. Like what you're getting yourself into. Speaker 1 00:00:24 I oh thank God I have someone to, you know, share my sentiments. Oh yeah, Speaker 2 00:00:31 We had at my last place. We had a bookkeeper. You know, she had been there since like I started right so uhhuh. She had been there for ten years, but it's a lot of work, you know. And it has to do with billing, so it's kind of confusing. Okay, so. Um, a couple things. So, um, if I am the customer, so here is what happens. Yeah, A lot of times these invoices go out. And they go to the finance team, right? Yeah. But the finance team isn't always my point of contact. In this case, it's Stephen. So here is what happens: so I send Stephen the quote, he approves it, right? We invoice it; it goes to the finance team. So, a lot of times, the finance these our invoices are not really clear. They're hard to understand. So, for example, This invoice like even Stephen when they so what happens is the finance team sent Stephen the invoice and Stephen's like, "What is this?" Speaker 2 00:01:29 Mhm, right. So, a couple things I noticed, and I am not sure if it's a wise thing, but first we. We put the fixed fee 2400 here. Okay. And then we say covered by progress payment. Progress amount two hundred and twenty, and then I see what they're trying to do. Then they put the project quote. Right, but. This project was originally signed. Speaker 2 00:01:59 Like four months ago. Speaker 1 00:02:04 Four months ago, yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:06 And then maybe longer. Let me see. This is quote number. Where is the Quin 7237? Yeah, this quote was approved January January of this year. Speaker 1 00:02:19 Okay, I think they're on progress building. That's why. Speaker 2 00:02:23 Right, right. So I guess I've had a couple customers reach out to me asking me. You know what these invoices are for, and I just think they're not clear. I am not sure if it's Here is the thing I brought. So, when I came here, you know, when I took over the sales team. You know, I inherited quoting, right? Uh huh. And to me, quoting was just a complete disaster. Our quotes were going out; they weren't clear. The quote template didn't look professional. So I told Anza, we need to revamp the whole thing. It's it's a it's a. Speaker 2 00:02:56 It's a we're, everything we do needs to represent crimson in a professional manner. Yep. So I'm not saying this your problem. I'm just putting this on the radar. We don't have to fix this right now, okay? But what I was asking was, like, if I am looking at this. And I am Steven, and I don't look at these invoices all the time. This confusing. Like, I am like, okay, so I am being charged twenty four hundred dollars. Like this my thought process right. Okay, so I know this is Project Angel Food. Um, I don't remember approving a quote, but there's twenty four hundred dollars. And there's progress payment, two hundred twenty. Then I have a balance due of two hundred. Like I don't even really see this. I almost kind of look over this. It's so small. Oh, and so I am just saying, I wonder if there is a way we can improve. The way our invoices look and read. Speaker 1 00:03:52 Okay, I'm kind of thinking, if we were going to remove that note right there under the adjustment. Um, Will it make them more confused if we will leave that out? And justum. You can see the project name on top, right? Project Initial Food Hardware Refresh. Blah blah blah. Speaker 2 00:04:12 Like to me, it should be some, and I don't know how difficult this is, right? But you know, like if it's an invoice, like we have all the stuff up here, right? Like we have this. Like. This comes directly out of ConnectWise, right? Yes. Okay. And then maybe the next section down, we say we list maybe we list the project. Project number, right? Or the quote number. Mhm. Project name, right? And then we say, you know. Speaker 2 00:04:52 Labor. You know, twenty four hundred previously invoiced. Twenty two hundred, you know, progress billing. New outstanding balance. You know, two hundred, but something where it's automated inside ConnectWise. Uh huh. Cause then, and then you have, then you know, you don't talk about like maybe something like that. And then you can have this down here right. And I am just thinking out loud. I have no idea what the find you might tell me. Hey Mike, we just can't do it. It's a limitation of ConnectWise, okay? But What I want to state is what I notice is a lot of people here. It wasn't set up right to begin with, and then people came in. Speaker 2 00:05:47 And just because that's the way it was has always been done, they keep it. Yeah. But there are better ways to do this. Just no one wants to take the time, To work with ConnectWise or talk to other MSPs to see what their invoices look like. Like, you know, Anzor is part of a peer group, right? Speaker 1 00:06:07 Yeah, she's. He is. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:06:09 We could ask them what their invoices look like, or I can even reach out to. Maybe reach out to a ConnectWise rep and say, "Hey, are there examples of MSPs producing really nice-looking invoices?" That may are clear. Like to me, if it looked something like this, it makes it more clear. I see, like as opposed as opposed. I mean, again, you know it's this isn't my team, so just take what I say with a grain of salt. But to me, this looks. Speaker 2 00:06:44 This looks confusing. It looks like I'm being charged twenty four hundred. I know that we use the word progress billing, covered by progress payment and progress amount, but that might not be clear to the customer. Speaker 1 00:06:60 Okay, okay. I'm thinking if all the like fixed fee adjustment, so your goal is to like put them all in one. Field or a line like there is no separate. Like what you see on that invoice. Speaker 2 00:07:13 Maybe I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Like it'd be something to play with. Like I know right now you're too busy, right? I am just saying, put this on the radar. And then, secondly, I think we should brand this a little bit better. At least like these. These grade bars, they should be our crimson color. I am talking about like stupid stuff like that, likeum. You know, when when I came here, let me see. Like. This is what our quotes used to look like. Yeah, like this looks like a generic quote template, and we just stuck our logo on top. Like it, this this to me looked very. It's like we have all this blue and whatever colors. And, and it's not it just looked cheap, right. So we upgraded it to at least look. Nicer, yeah. You know, more professional. Speaker 1 00:08:06 Okay. Yeah, I hear you, Mike. Um, all right. So yeah, I am just gonna put this on my radar, and we're gonna talk to the team about. Speaker 2 00:08:13 Radar is perfectly fine. Speaker 1 00:08:14 Yeah, talk to the team about. Other ways or how can we, you know, um coordinate this with ConnectWise if there's something we can do about this. And I mightum involveum Stephanie as well regarding the branding. Of our invoices. Speaker 2 00:08:34 Yeah, the easiest thing is first. I'll give you like if you just want to make one slight improvement, change this background color to our crimson color. Speaker 1 00:08:41 Mm. Okay. Speaker 2 00:08:43 Like that would look nice. Speaker 1 00:08:45 Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, I can I'm gonna take note of that and We'll discuss this with the team on how we can improve the invoice more and make it looks like simplified. And. Easy to read. Speaker 2 00:08:59 Yeah, yeah, we don't have to do it now. Um, But it would be because you know, that's one of the things that Anzar I think Anzar liked when I came over is we just revamped everything. And you know, it's branding. Our brand looks better. So, um. Just put on the radar. Nothing has to happen right now. Okay. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:09:20 Uh, yeah, sure. I'm gonna let you know as soon as we have progress. Speaker 2 00:09:24 Okay. No, no rush. It justum, um. I've had conversations like this with Marvin in the past, and I just got the impression he's just like. I am not dealing with that, so I am like okay. You know, I am not going to push. Speaker 1 00:09:41 Yeah, no worries. This is good. Like you know, with the me taking over the role, I am also wanting to kind of. You know, Implement some changes with admin team to look to make it look much better and much improved. So. Speaker 2 00:09:57 No, That's the best part about you coming in is you get to look at it from fresh set of eyes. Yeah. And I'm sure, Pete and Anz are going to be a hundred percent supportive of whatever improvements you want to make. So that that part's good. I just. Um, I'll pray for you, April. Speaker 1 00:10:13 Thank you. Oh, and just so you know, uh remember the validity that Um, Chinki has raised to youum regarding the vendor code. So that's part of the uh. Transition that I am doing right because I scheduled a meeting with your team. I think that was Monday or Tuesday just to revisit your current process with code and how it affects procurement. So we kind of identify some pain points and gaps, and you know. So, we discuss any workaround that we can do just so smoothen out the process. So that's one of the um. Um, issues that we talk about. So hopefully. Speaker 1 00:10:54 That will work out well, and I've also included Libya with all of the regarding to procurement forms. So. Okay, it's another one. Speaker 2 00:11:04 Yeah, yeah. I mean that there there are gaps everywhere. So I think having a fresh set of eyes and you doing what you're doing and everyone. Chipping in, it's just gonna be it's gonna be good. Speaker 1 00:11:14 Yeah, And also, Ansar gave me the go signal that that you know, if you you, you know that there is. This current process that it's not working, feel free to push back and change it. So, Speaker 2 00:11:26 Nice! You got the encore card. You got you got the green light from the boss. Okay. Speaker 1 00:11:31 I did so okay. Speaker 2 00:11:34 My my team. So I I just let you know I made Chinky the the manager, not the manager. He's the lead of like essentially Ivy and that team. Okay, So I'm encouraging Chinky to be able to feel confident to make his own decisions. Mhm. And only pull me in as needed. I don't want Chinki to have to clear everything through me. Speaker 1 00:11:55 Yeah. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:11:56 You know what I am talking about. I am trying to elevate him to be more of a leader. So, um. You know, I am sure if something if Chinky's concerned, it's going to be a big deal. He'll pull me in, but other than that, feel free to work out whatever process you want with Chinky. Speaker 1 00:12:10 Yeah, that's a nice green signal for Chinkie as well, you know. So he will be free to explore. And see if the current process works or not. So this is going to be helpful for him. Speaker 2 00:12:26 Awesome. Okay, April, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Speaker 1 00:12:28 Okay, thanks Mike. Bye. Speaker 2 00:12:29 Okay, bye- bye. Thank you.
07-15 Wraparound Team Meeting: Dawn's Wraparound Plan and Action Items
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-15 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: Adelie Juarez, Sloan Dempster, Kimberly, Christi, Dawn, Vanessa Sainz, Sergio ## Meeting Notes ### **Team Introductions and Meeting Schedule** - The meeting began with AV checks and introductions. Adelie Juarez facilitated the wraparound team meeting for Dawn. - Participants introduced themselves: - Sloan Dempster: Therapist, works with Dawn once a week. - Kimberly: Children and Family Specialist (CFS), works with Dawn once a week on behaviors. - Christi: Dawn's caregiver. - Vanessa Sainz: Parent Partner, joined late. - The team confirmed a recurring weekly check-in schedule for Mondays at 4:00 PM via Zoom. - Individual session schedules were confirmed or planned: - Kimberly and Dawn: Thursdays at 3:00 PM. - Sloan and Dawn: Next session planned for Friday, July 24, 2026; time pending confirmation. - Vanessa and Christi: First session scheduled for Friday, July 17, 2026, at 9:00 AM by phone, with subsequent sessions on Fridays at 12:00 PM. ### **Review of Dawn's Wraparound Plan** - **Main Goal:** Dawn chose to keep her goal "to do stuff on her own" and "learn tools to increase her dependency," expressing a desire to start fresh with new action steps. - **Permanence Goal:** Dawn feels comfortable staying with her caregiver, Christi, to learn independent skills in preparation for a future treatment school. The team agreed to support this. - **Non-negotiables:** Key requirements for Dawn include daily school attendance, ensuring safety, and participating in mental health services. - **Strengths:** The team reviewed Dawn's strengths, including being a fast learner, charismatic, resilient, and a good communicator. Dawn described her caregiver, Christi, as supportive, creative, wise, and protective. Christi described herself as loyal and providing stability. - **Concerns:** The team reviewed existing concerns. Dawn is still worried about catching up in school and her mental health. A past concern about suicidal thoughts was kept for monitoring. Christi noted Dawn's mood has improved and believes any remaining issues may resolve with a 2-4 week adjustment period. ### **Concerns and Action Plan** - **Summer School:** A concern was raised about Dawn's progress in summer school, as she has only two weeks to complete five modules. Adelie plans to call the school on July 16, 2026, to request an extension. - **Medical Follow-up:** The team revisited a past concern about Dawn's thyroid levels. It's unclear if comprehensive testing was completed. It was suggested that Dawn establish a primary care provider for comprehensive thyroid panels. Adelie will contact Dr. Sharon Terry's office to check on past tests and schedule new ones if needed. - **Security and Stability:** Dawn's needs for security, stability, and respect were reviewed. Dawn stated security means having reassurance that Christi is loyal and supportive. Open communication and structured weekly check-ins between Dawn and Christi were identified as crucial for building stability. - **Establishing Boundaries:** Christi provided an example of setting clear rules and consequences for Dawn, such as a curfew, which Dawn has been respecting. - **Payroll Update:** An unspecified payroll item was mentioned, which will be included in the paycheck on the 25th, making it "bigger than normal." No further details were provided. ### **Action Plan for Dawn's Goals** - **Job Readiness:** Dawn plans to update her resume with her mentor on July 16, 2026, and apply for jobs in person. Kimberly (CFS) will help her create a budget and learn money management skills. - **Coping Techniques:** Dawn agreed to practice muscle relaxation techniques weekly. She has a DBT workbook, but it is currently at a previous contact's (Vicky's) home. - **School Enrollment:** Christi plans to enroll Dawn in a flexible, self-paced program in the Da Vinci School District. This requires retrieving Dawn's important documents. - **Retrieving Personal Belongings:** Dawn's Social Security card, birth certificate, and other personal items are still at Vicky's. Christi will contact Vanessa to coordinate their retrieval. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Adelie to call the school on July 16, 2026, to request an extension for Dawn’s summer school assignments. - [ ] Adelie to contact Dr. Sharon Terry's office to inquire about previous thyroid tests and schedule them if needed. - [ ] Adelie to contact Vanessa to sign pending paperwork. - [ ] Adelie to set up the recurring Zoom link for the Monday 4:00 PM meetings and send it to Christi. - [ ] Dawn to work on updating her resume with her mentor on July 16, 2026. - [ ] Kimberly (CFS) to support Dawn in creating a budget. - [ ] Dawn to practice muscle relaxation techniques at least once on Mondays. - [ ] Christi to contact Vanessa to coordinate the retrieval of Dawn's belongings and important documents from Vicky's. - [ ] Christi to proceed with enrolling Dawn in a school within the Da Vinci School District. - [ ] Christi to confirm her availability for the team check-in during the week of August 17, 2026. - [ ] Sloan to confirm the time for her in-person session with Dawn for Friday, July 24, 2026. - [ ] Schedule weekly check-ins between Christi and Dawn to discuss progress and expectations. - [ ] Christi and Vanessa to have their first session on Friday, July 17, 2026, at 9:00 AM. - [ ] Upload information from Vicky into the digital file for Ladanya. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The retrieval of Dawn's important documents (Social Security card, birth certificate) and personal belongings from "Vicky's" is critical. While a plan to contact Vanessa was made, a concrete timeline and responsible party for the physical collection were not established. > 2. While Dawn wants to create "fresh" and "new" action steps for her goal, no specific new steps were defined during the meeting. > 3. The specifics of the "weekly progress report" between Dawn and Christi (e.g., format, timing) were not defined, which could lead to ambiguity. > 4. The payroll item scheduled for the 25th was not specified; clarify what the payment covers. > 5. While an extension for Dawn's schoolwork will be requested, a contingency plan is needed in case it is denied. > 6. The process for establishing Dawn with a primary care provider was suggested, but no specific action item was assigned to initiate this. > 7. The location of Dawn’s DBT workbook is uncertain. A specific action to retrieve or replace it was not assigned. > 8. There was no discussion about what a "treatment school" entails or what steps are needed to research or apply to such a program.
- Date
- Jul 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Yeah, so just a lot for docs. But yeah, that's going to be in your paycheck on the twenty fifth. So it's part of your paycheck. Speaker 2 00:00:10 Yes, so your paycheck is going to look bigger than normal. Speaker 3 00:00:15 Awesome Thank you. All right Bye Hi. Speaker 1 00:00:24 Can you guys hear us. Speaker 4 00:00:26 Yes, I could hear you. Let me just reach out to the team to let them know that you're here. One sec. No worries. Speaker 2 00:00:33 Oh, no puppies. I love your profile. Thank you, that's my dog's name is a Pup. Speaker 3 00:00:55 I'll try it again. I'll post one so they can watch it. They're just going to curl it up for me, Speaker 5 00:01:05 Okay? Christi, I just let them know, so they should be joining soon. We'll give them a minute. Speaker 1 00:01:11 Okay. Do you have any pets of your own, Christi? Oh, I have three cats, and two of them are within arm's reach, and one of them is sleeping under the bed. Speaker 4 00:01:23 Oh, they like attention. Speaker 4 00:01:34 It's Very different having cats; they're a lot more independent. Speaker 2 00:01:38 Yeah. And they added, they added two in that motion switch like quick. Yep, right? Well, dogs like they were keeping like one emotion for both I think. Speaker 4 00:01:57 They Added what I'm sorry Don I couldn't really hear you. Oh, I was just talking. Oh, I'm like, I really wanted to know what you said but I couldn't hear. Speaker 2 00:02:07 Oh no, She's saying like, but like dogs, like they be having like this one, like don't want to move. Like and kids like some dogs are never good. Um the we're Barney he'd be having this one show move right? Speaker 2 00:02:21 The cats like they have all types of attitudes. Speaker 4 00:02:29 They all have a different personality, huh? Aw, Speaker 2 00:02:35 They're so sweet. I just got headbutted. Speaker 5 00:02:39 Yeah. It looks like Slone the hamster, the clinician joined in. Um we should just be waiting on our CFS. I'll give her one more minute, if nothing we could just go ahead and get started. Speaker 6 00:02:51 Yeah, I want to say hi. It's nice to meet you kind of virtually face- to- face, Christi. Speaker 1 00:02:56 Nice to meet you as well. So if I keep looking down, Uh Vicky sent me a bunch of information that I'm trying to get uploaded into my digital file for Ladanya. Oh perfect. And, the only reason why I always say Ladanya is because my daughter's name is Don with an M. And sometimes I got to differentiate them in my own brain. Speaker 6 00:03:18 Yeah it can get confusing yeah, I understand. Yeah, it looks like Kimberly's in the waiting room. Okay, Speaker 3 00:03:27 Perfect. Coming out? Perfect, thank you. Is. Speaker 1 00:03:41 He coming out? How many kitties are there? Three. Ooh, I have two. Speaker 1 00:03:48 One of them is coming out from under the bed where he's been sleeping since I left this morning. He's probably just stuck in the back. Speaker 1 00:04:03 He's Just not used to everybody else. He's officially my daughter's cat, but he's my baby. And then grandma over here has her throne that sits attached to my desk. So, but uh don't mind the house. Yes. Uh don't mind the blurry background. My bed is completely made. It was, uh it's been a week so in a good way I I understand like I don't even know if I have a bra underwear in picture, but I think I'm good. I think I'm good so yeah So there you go Hi Tom. Speaker 2 00:04:47 How are you doing today? Speaker 6 00:05:16 Yeah, How do you? How do you like it getting kind of that exposure to It's good. Speaker 2 00:05:21 Like I love it. Like they're paying me more, they're paying me more. Like I'm just like I'm just excited. Speaker 1 00:05:30 For me in a professional environment. She does really well in a professional environment. So don't let her don't let her fool you on that one. Speaker 5 00:05:43 Oh, okay. It looks like we have to bring one here. Let me just turn on my camera. I was trying to I just so we could start off with introductions. So hi Christi I'm, the one that you've been in touch with. So I am Adelie Juarez the facilitator on Dawn's wraparound team. Speaker 1 00:06:02 Awesome, nice to actually see your face that's awesome. Speaker 6 00:06:07 And then I'll let everyone else introduce. I'm Sloan Dempster again. I'm the therapist. I work individually with Dawn. We meet once a week, um, And then I also work with the the team in order to provide wraparound services. Speaker 1 00:06:22 Awesome. Nice to meet you. Hi, Speaker 7 00:06:26 I'm Kimberly. I'm, the uh children and family specialist and I work with Dawn also once a week as well. And i focus on the behaviors. Speaker 1 00:06:34 Gotcha Perfect. Speaker 5 00:06:36 Thank you And. We also do have. One more person, um, the parent partner. Her name is Vanessa Sainz. Um, She will be joining in maybe like around the last 15 minutes of the meeting just to pop in and introduce herself. Um, Just because she had something overlapping, but she should be joining towards the end. Just so you could say hello. Speaker 1 00:06:55 Okay perfect. Good to meet you guys. Speaker 5 00:07:00 Likewise, we're very excited to work together with you. We've heard a lot of good stuff about you. Speaker 1 00:07:05 Awesome. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:07:08 Um, but Dawn was just sharing um a little bit about her day. And I do want to start off with saying that I am really proud of you, Dawn, because I know well we all know that waking up at six a m. has been difficult in the past. So for you to do it right off the bat first day, you know, going in with Christy. That is a huge thing to celebrate. You know there is no, Thing too small or too big to celebrate, but that's a big thing. Like that is huge. Oh. She's. Speaker 2 00:07:45 Doing amazingly well, so yeah, we got Starbucks. Speaker 6 00:07:52 Ooh, Starbucks! Did you get your what's your banana order? Speaker 2 00:07:57 Oh, I don't think they they seem like they don't. Uh oh, they don't have it anymore like yeah that was only out for like a certain time. I don't know. What are you getting now? Did. Speaker 6 00:08:15 You get the s'mores cold foam with it? Speaker 1 00:08:18 A s'mores cold foam. Yeah, they have that. Yeah, I thought that sounds pretty good. Speaker 6 00:08:23 I didn't know they had it. They have the they have the s'mores Frappuccino back for summer and a s'mores cold foam like cold brew. Yeah, so keep that in mind. It sounded like it tasted like I thought I heard, you say it tasted like marshmallow and I was like, oh, did you get the s'mores cold foam. Is it very chocolatey or too sweet? The cold foam for the s'mores is just like a marshmallow, but they have for like the s'mores Frappuccino. They have like a chocolate sauce that they put on it, but it's mostly I think it's like a vanilla Frappuccino with, Like, marshmallow and chocolate syrup. Speaker 6 00:09:00 If I'm remembering correctly from my my Starbucks days. Speaker 1 00:09:06 Well, I can tell you Dawn wIth an M loves It. That's her favorIte drInk rIght now. So they do have the s'mores, but they changed the banana one to a banana bread. And sorry, I am puttIng you guys all In my phone because I just realIzed I need. I had your phone numbers and I from VIckI. And so. Uh, I gotta get you guys In my phone. Speaker 2 00:09:36 Adelaide, where are you headed to? Speaker 5 00:09:40 You said where where am I at? Yeah, where are you headed to? I'm playing. Well. Where am I headed? Sorry, I couldn't hear. Where am I headed? Nowhere. I'm just sitting in my car because I don't have a place in my home for office space and not the office. Speaker 5 00:10:08 Yeah, I had to sit in my car for today. That's my workspace. Hello. Yeah, Sometimes you just got to figure it out and make it happen one way or the other. Right. Speaker 6 00:10:20 Mhm, I know some days after a client session I'll be in my car. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:10:27 Where I should be headed though, is to Starbucks to get a drink after this. That sounds yUmmy. But I did Um before going into like the matrix, you know, like and all that stuff. I know Christi you've worked and you're very familiar with with wraparound. So like in what we do like our roles, Um So I did want to make sure that we had like our meeting set before we go into everything because I know there's been a change in schedule. Um so, I guess we should start off with our weekly check in meeting. So that's where, uh, Sometimes most of the wraparound team is present, if you know all of us are available. And then yourself, Christi and then Dom of course. We would usually have that meeting Mondays at four p m. Okay. Um, Would you I don't know if that still works? Or if maybe we want to change it around? And we could also do that. Speaker 1 00:11:18 Um, I think four p m is perfect. I know for my schedule that's the most ideal, Is it in person or is it uh over uh Zoom? Speaker 5 00:11:32 We would do in person, um, but we could do either or because I believe that is your office day. Speaker 1 00:11:40 That is my Linwood office day, so that's when I am at SCHARP. So oh okay, Speaker 5 00:11:45 So it's a bit closer. Speaker 1 00:11:47 Yeah doesn't matter either wayum. We can do either one. if If we need to do it in person, could I ask for four thirty? Just because I've got uh to secure the building before I leave. Speaker 5 00:12:01 Okay, um, we could do well. I guess I'll check in with the well Sloane and Kimberly. What would work better with your schedules Because then you have individuals. Would you prefer four p four PM through Zoom or four thirty in person? What would work better? Speaker 6 00:12:17 Is this on Monday still Yeah. Okay, I would have to be over Zoom or telehealth just because I, um, would not be able to make the drive in person. Speaker 7 00:12:28 Okay. Likeum Don do you still want to do Thursdays? Speaker 2 00:12:38 Yeah we can still do Thursdays at three. Mean you right? Speaker 7 00:12:44 Yeah yeah okay. Speaker 5 00:12:49 Uh, so Kimberly, Would you be okay with doing four p m on Zoom every once in a while, because I know you have individual sessions too. Yeah. Mhm. Okay, so we could do four p m through Zoom then. Um I'll set up, uh the, the link and I'll go ahead and send it to you Christi. Just how I did with this one. And then if we ever need to do any future changes for in person or whatever it may be, then we could make that adjustment too. Okay. Um And then Kimberly it looks like you already confirmed your session with Dawn, Yeah. For Thursdays. Mhm. Okay, and then Sloane, I'm not sure if you want to set that up now or maybe at a later time. Speaker 2 00:13:26 Are weum next Friday? Speaker 6 00:13:30 Yeah, we are planning on meeting on Friday. I still need to confirm time because we are planning on meeting in person and I have to figure out with the siblings what time I'm seeing them because I see them too, on Friday for Shifu andum sibling. So I just have to figure out the drive from them to Dawn, and especially for another case we had, they recently moved placement as well. So I don't know if I'm still even going to be able to see them on Friday. Um, So we already had our session this week on Tuesday, and Dawn said she only wanted to do one this week. So we won't do this Friday. So tentatively we're planning on meeting next Friday. I just have to get back to her about the time. Speaker 6 00:14:18 Um, So that gives me a little time to reach out to the other clients and figure out what Friday's schedule is going to look like, and then get back to you, John. Speaker 6 00:14:27 Okay. Is that okay still? Okay. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:14:30 Okay. Okay, perfect. So now that we have that set, And then the parent partner will alsoum schedule that either when she comes in or maybe at a later time Christi individually. So that wayum you can set something up either. By phone, Zoom, or in person with either individual sessions with herself. Speaker 1 00:14:50 Okay, perfect. Um, With my last parent partners, I usually did it over phone calls, so either way works. So anyway, Speaker 5 00:14:60 It works out best, because I know there's work and chores and all the other good stuff. Still. Speaker 1 00:15:08 Works too. Up about space? I'm sorry. Perfect. Sorry Bless you, Like I'm an eighty two year old man with chronic COPD. And I could say that because my dad was eighty two year old man with chronic COPD. So, um, I'm not sick. I just, I got out of the hospital two weeks ago from a three day stay. Still haven't gotten rid of the cough. So Oh no, Speaker 5 00:15:32 Hopefully everything gets better pretty soon. Yes It's not a good feeling just not feeling our best Yeah. Speaker 5 00:15:41 But I'm glad we got the scheduling though. So. I did want to go into the matrix if that's okay. Yes, the goal that we had for yourself done before, And I know I spoke to you before individually about how you would want to do the matrix. So just to loop everyone in and be on the same page, Dawn did say that she wanted to keep. Um. Like, The goal, the same. And you know, again, we could still revisit now in case she has any changing thoughts um but for the most part, Dawn did say that she wanted to make. Speaker 5 00:16:14 A change to the action steps and the underlying needs, um, Just to be able to have a little bit more like of a fresh start. Uh, you know, and just being able to know that she's able to move forward. So, we're going to have a tweak in that we're not really going to revisit previous action steps. It's going to be more of just, you know, starting fresh, starting new and moving forward. Speaker 7 00:16:34 Yes. Um, Speaker 5 00:16:36 Yeah uh. So the goal that you did have done before was to do stuff on your own, be see. And learn tools to increase your dependency. Would you still want to keep the same or make an adjustment? Speaker 2 00:16:50 Uh, keep the same. Speaker 5 00:16:53 Keep the same? Okay, perfect. Oh, and uh talking about the permanency goal. Uh how was your interview today with Olive Crest at one? Speaker 2 00:17:07 Oh I didn't do itum what's it called cause, Yeah, I wanted to get into that because what's it called like me and Christi like we've been like, of course, like having a conversation about like the rules and expectations. And uh Christi's like she's been like really like supportive, like since day one since I always known her. So she said, "like I could stay," and "like I am open." Like to stay for how long? But obviously not for life forever. So, so was just this day with her so that I can learn other things. Speaker 2 00:17:39 Independent skills and so like she can get me to like better habits. So like when I do, like finally decide to go into like treatment school, I already start that process again. Like I don't know, she's not prepared and all got know, like how to act, like really really advocate for myself and like stuff. Speaker 5 00:17:57 Mhm yeah, and it sounds like that's something that you're a bit more comfortable with for right now, too. Speaker 2 00:18:01 Yeah yeah yeah yeah Like I was thinking cause I'm gonna keep this all real. Like cause I was thinking in my head like, I was like, I don't know, like I've never do just in case, like I don't know if I could trust, like not like if I could trust you. It's just like a hard time to trust. But I was like you You never failed me so. Speaker 5 00:18:32 You know, and we definitely want to follow your lead, right So whatever it is decision that you want to take, Like we're all on board to support you in the best way that we can. So if that's a decision, you know, That you talked about with Christi, and you know you're both in agreement and that's something that you're comfortable with. Then You know then we're going with that. You know, like let's figure out how we could make that work and still give you those independent skills, right? That You know, you are wanting so that way. When you do transition into your own housing, you feel most prepared to be able to go into that role. So that could definitely be the plan then. Um. And then the non-negotiables that we have is for you to attend school every day, safety of course, and for you to be a part of mental health services or wraparound right? Um and then for the strengths. So I'll go over the strengths that we already do have. It's a pretty long list, but. Speaker 5 00:19:27 We do have that you are a fast learner. You're dependable, you have fun energy, you're charismatic. You make others feel comfortable. You're resourceful, independent, a good communicator. Honest, respectful, kind. You're open to wraparound services. You're talkative. You're friendly. You're resilient. Opened to asking for help. You're strong. You keep cool in hard moments. You're knowledgeable. ,You have a nice style, Appreciative, easygoing, you are very understanding and humorous. Uh, love to give resourceful, a go- getter, thoughtful, compassionate, independent, outspoken and a good communicator. I think that's added in twice. So that means that that is a very big strength of yours. Um Any other strengths that come to mind Christi for Don? Speaker 1 00:20:16 I think you hit every single one of them on the head. I can't think of any more. We were just talking about I've known her for four years now, and you know, she's. Even in the last six months, like it feels like every other week she was with us. She's always been a massive supporter of other kids, except for when she stole my baby last night. But that's a whole another joke. But you know, She's is a fantastic kid and I. Don't think there is anything. You said that I would object to. So. Speaker 1 00:20:54 She did steal my baby last night, but the baby's only mine when she comes over. Yeah, and it's okay. He's so cute. Speaker 2 00:20:60 I got chubby cheeks, little chubby yellow turkey bed. So. Speaker 1 00:21:08 She's one of my best friend's kids. Baby, so how old is she? Five months. Speaker 5 00:21:15 Oh, she's little Don was mentioning that she really likes babies. Speaker 1 00:21:20 Yes, I will send something in the group chat, Cause you guys will find it just as adorable as I did. Oh, okay. So she's still my baby. And what I think too is that you're very supportive. Yeah. So. Speaker 5 00:21:44 Yeah, and so now, You know, with that long list, we do want to also mention your own strengths Christi. Um, you know, of course we're just getting to know you. But Don, what would you say are some of Christy's strengths? Speaker 2 00:21:58 She's supportive. Creative. Mhm. Speaker 3 00:22:06 Outgoing. I'm an introvert. You're gonna like keep talking? I'm so proud of her that she said yes. Um. Speaker 2 00:22:22 I say very wise. Um. Speaker 3 00:22:29 Protective. Mhm. Um. Yeah, she's just a sweet, amazing person. And easy to talk to is amazing. Speaker 5 00:22:52 And those are really good strengths. How about from yourself, Christi? What would you say are some of your own strengths? Speaker 1 00:22:57 Uh, I am loyal to my kids. Um, if you come into my home, you are my kid. Just plain and simple. Um, even my nieces and my godchildren and my nephews they're all my children. So I am the one that has their back. Uh I always want to be that person that uh they know is is behind them and. They're never going to worry about where they're going to land. We have a rule in our house. We never do 14-day notices. It's a straight rule I've had it. LaDanya was number three foster kid to come into my home, and I've had 15 overall, and so I've never written a 14-day notice. I've never. Speaker 1 00:23:47 Needed to put a 14-day notice in. So I want kids to understand that they have stability. Cause that's important. I was in care when I was a teenager, I was adopted, so I know what it's like, the good, bad and ugly. And I just know that kids like Don and my daughter and my other daughter who's with us now, she's another kid that just came like a couple days before Don, that they just understand that there's even on the bad days, There is stability here, so. Speaker 5 00:24:21 Mhm. Yeah, you're a very reliable person. Um, and like I've mentioned a little bit before, all we've heard about you is really great things. You know Donna is always very excited to share about, you know the times that she has spent over. Um you know, before coming in yesterday and at least from what I've been able to. Communicate with you just yesterday, you know, I could say that you're really good at at communicating. You know, you're very open to wraparound services. You're understanding and I also hear that you're very reliable. Um So those are very some good strengths. I don't know if the team has maybe additional strengths to add from maybe they've had conversations maybe heard from from Don or just from your observations. Speaker 6 00:25:10 Yeah, I would just say I'm, I know we've only interacted a handful of times. I did have the one call with you as well before, I think previously when Dawn was under your care and had shared some, you know, worries regarding some like passive suicidal thoughts. And so we did have conversation back then too. And you do seem to be very caring. Speaker 6 00:25:41 You know, uh, very open as well to communicating, which is always amazing. Um. Yeah and Dawn has shared nothing but but positives in in our sessions together. Speaker 3 00:25:55 Mhm. That's because she's a real estate agent. Oh yeah! Absolutely. Speaker 5 00:26:07 Uh anything else that comes to mind Kimberly? Speaker 7 00:26:10 Uh, not just the same. Um, I think she's brought up her name a few times too, during our sessions before. And all I've heard is positive things. Speaker 5 00:26:20 Mhm. Yeah and I'm sure we'll hear more, you know now that we'll be working together as well. Um And before we go into like the underlying needs and create some action steps, I did want to share some of the concerns that were on here. And you know, Dawn, if you disagree with some of those, you know, again, we could. You know, Talk about removing them or if there's maybe new concerns that come to mind for everyone, then we could also add those in here. Um, But one of the concerns that are added is I worry about being able to catch up on school. And making sure I graduate. And I believe that came from you, Dawn. Would you still say that? That's still a worry of yours? Speaker 3 00:26:58 Um yes. Speaker 5 00:27:01 Okay. Um, I worry about my mental health is also a concern you had shared. Speaker 5 00:27:10 Yes. Okay. Um, I worry about not being able to work through our challenges. And then I'm going to remove that if you agreed on because I believe that was a worry that Vicki had previously shared. Um and um, I worry about Dawn missing out on school and losing out on structure. Would you still agree with that concern Dawn? No. No, okay. Um. And then I worry about Dawn having thoughts about ending her life, and I know that's something that Sloan just touched on a little second ago. Um, I don't know Tim and Dawn if or or Christy, you know even if we would still agree with that concern. Speaker 6 00:28:03 I will say I think I was the one who initially put that on our matrix. Um, I have not heard anything in the past couple, I want to say, at least in the past month, Dawn hasn't shared any thoughts of suicidal ideation with me. I don't know if you would agree with that Dawn or if you still feel like you're having some. Speaker 2 00:28:24 No, no. Oh okay. Speaker 6 00:28:29 Okay so we just put it But since it was in the past, I would say to keep it on our radar but I think we, We could remove if everyone's comfortable. Speaker 1 00:28:40 I would say that what I've seen in the last probably the last month versus when you and I talked previously, Sloan is a difference. Even in the last two days, Dawn is happier, more settled. Like and I mentioned that to her today and just kind of got her in her. Uh thoughts on on how that's impacted her. So I would say I would leave that on a matrix just because it should still be on the matrix. And that's just my personal unprofessional right now but I also think that Dawn is not showing any anything that would trigger concern for me of being suicidal. Speaker 6 00:29:27 Yeah, I would agree. I think for monitoring purposes. We can leave it on there Addley, but I think okay. Um. Just so we can continue to check in, um and see if anything changes. But I have seen an increase overall in Dawn's mood, especially like you're saying in the last few days, Christy. Speaker 5 00:29:48 Yeah. Okay. So I did add in I worry about Dawn having thoughts about ending her life in the past. Just so you know it's not something that's current, but it is something again just to be able to keep an eye out on. Speaker 5 00:30:05 U m. And then the next concern was I worry about Dawn needing support to follow through with school attendance. Dawn, would you say that that's still something to worry about? No. Okay, starting Freshman. Speaker 5 00:30:34 And those are all the worries that were here before. Dawn, do you have any additional worry that maybe comes to mind? Could be about anything. Speaker 5 00:30:60 No, Okay. How about from yourself, Christy? Speaker 1 00:31:03 I think, and this is just real talk, And I would tell Dawn the same thing if it was just me and her. Let us get through the next two to four weeks of schedule shift and adjustment in life. And then once that's out of the way, I think any of that concern is not going to be an issue any longer. And the only reason why I say give us a couple weeks is just, She's got a new schedule and some days she's going to be grumpier than others. And some days she's not making like three Starbucks runs and some days she's not making any. Um, so we're just going to need to get through the next couple weeks. And this is just from experience with with kiddos, uh, in including myself. So um but once we get through that, I think I think it's not an issue any longer. Okay. Speaker 5 00:31:58 Yeah, sometimes it just takes some time to to adjust. Sorry, Speaker 1 00:32:03 She was trying to get in my lap and I couldn't reach her. Aww, so cute. She's the baby. She's a she's a parrot in the skies. Aww. Hi babies! Hi babies! I did some make some adjustments to my microphone? Can, you guys hear Dawn better now? I. Speaker 2 00:32:24 Don't I don't I don't. Speaker 2 00:32:27 I think I can, Speaker 5 00:32:28 Yeah. I think that works. Okay, good. There you go. Uh, how about from Kimberly or Sloane? Any additional concerns that come to mind right now? Speaker 6 00:32:36 Hmm. I think the only thing for me and again, this is something I think maybe also given like a few weeks, like you know, there may be changes like Christi's saying, um but I think the only thing for me is just the summer school, because I know. That was something we talked about on Tuesday, where you were still only in module one. And and you only have two weeks left in order to to finish out module five. Um so just getting on top of that and and trying to see if we're able to turn in more assignments and and spend a little more time on that. Um just so that you don't have to stress about it. Speaker 2 00:33:19 Yeah, what's it called? Uh yeah I have to until uh. This Friday. Yeah. Speaker 6 00:33:27 Okay, until this Friday. Thank you so much, everyone. Speaker 1 00:33:31 So I got notice about it this morning from Vicky, and then she sent me over the school information. So I'm gonna call the school tomorrow and explain the situation and see if we could possibly get an extension for that assignment. Okay And then LaDanya and I talked about a schedule for the rest of this week that will work for her to get to work on her classwork. Speaker 6 00:33:53 So Awesome. Speaker 1 00:33:57 Perfect. I know I don't have a leg to stand on because I don't have educational rights for Dawn just yet, but I'm going to try. Speaker 6 00:34:03 Yeah, just see what they say and and what can be achieved. Hopefully they'll be open to working on it. Um, I will say you know and this is up too. I was going to talk about this with Dawn in our individual, but I think it's worth bringing up again, um, Because I know in the past, Dawn had had lab work done by um and for the psychiatrist through our program, and Doctor Blake's had worries regarding her thyroid levels. Um, and so I know they had wanted more comprehensive thyroid testing to be completed. Speaker 6 00:34:44 I wasn't sure. I never got a clear answer from Vicky if follow up testing ever happened. She just told me that the doctor said there was no concern or worry regarding that. Um, I did want to put it on Dawn's radar again, because I know she doesn't technically have a primary care provider of if she thinks it would be worth it to explore getting a primary care provider and seeing if they would put through an order for more comprehensive like thyroid. panels to be tested just to see if there is like an underlying medical concern because that can have an impact on the depressive symptoms and and on like low energy, low mood again, I'm, not a doctor. So I can't you know give advice, but that was just one thing that always for me. I could see how it'd be really difficult if it could if it was a medical concern as well leading to some of these um. Speaker 6 00:35:40 Struggles and I'm not saying it is I'm not saying it isn't, but it's always one of the things we like to rule out. Uh if we are able to. Speaker 1 00:35:50 So uh I do have her doctor's information. Um she is seeing Sharon Terry at the Hub Clinic in Torrance, which is my daughter Dom's before we finalized the adoption, which was her doctor as well. Okay, um yeah. Yeah, it's awesome. I love, I love her. Um, so let me reach out to her and see if I can. I've got to wait for Vanessa, But let me see if I can find out if those tests were actually done. And if not, we'll get that set up and get those tests done. Awesome. Speaker 6 00:36:29 Yeah because I just wasn't certain. I think she said that the doctor said she wasn't worried, but I wasn't sure if like the tests were actually done. Like more comprehensive ones, just because we got two different answers from two different people. And so I was like, okay, our psychiatrist is saying this is a worry. The doctor's saying it's not. I don't know if they ever had a conversation together. Um so I just like to make that known. Speaker 1 00:36:56 Gotcha. Uh yeah, I gotta call Vanessa today because I still have not signed any of the paperwork yet. U m and I don't have any of the information. So let me let me get with Vanessa, um and see what I can find out and see what I can take care of awesome. Speaker 5 00:37:15 Okay, perfect, um any additional concerns for anyone. No, okay, so we'll keep those then, um and then for your underlying needs Dawn. Again, you know, if you want to delete one, you know, add one make adjustments we can. But, just to review the ones that you do have is one to have security. Two to have stability and three to feel respected and understood. Would you agree with those or do you want to make some changes? You're good with those okay. Perfect so since we're starting off fresh right clean slate um. Speaker 5 00:38:00 Let's see here. I'm trying to see. For so for the first need to have security, um. What would help you? Feel like that sense of safety and security. Speaker 3 00:38:25 Just having that, um my. Speaker 2 00:38:27 Reassurance of like. Like, well, Christi, that's like that. She has like my back and like I am safe. Yeah, like I guess I can talk to her. Well, basically like she has my back. Like, for example, when I go out, if I am in trouble, can call her kind of thing. Speaker 2 00:39:20 No, I was just going to ask, you know, like, is there something that maybe Christy already does or something that you would want Christy to do. Speaker 5 00:39:28 That gives you that reminder, like Christy has my back. Like there's nothing that I have to worry about. Speaker 5 00:39:49 Or Maybe not Christy individually, right But just you know, like when you think of someone having your back, like what does that look like. Speaker 2 00:39:59 She's protecting me like if I'm in trouble, she got me like. Her loyalty is. There's like loyalty, like there's communication, there's a sense of security, there's just like you feel me like. I don't know just like based on all the confidence that she had and just all about the time knowing her life. She got my back, like it. Speaker 6 00:40:32 I Mean, I'm wondering if maybe for clarification for the team, I know one of the things that Dawn and I have talked about a lot, Which I think is part of the frustration with Vicki is feeling like things weren't clearly communicated. Would you agree with that Dawn? Yeah. And so maybe part of seeking this understanding and and, Stability is feeling like there are more honest and open conversations about the relationship so that you understand, like where kind of you stand in the moment, right? And that if there is conflict, that you are able to communicate about it and to set expectations as well. Speaker 6 00:41:26 Um, Do you do you think that would help to feel more kind of secure and stable? Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Cause I think one of the things we talked about was feeling kind of caught off guard by the fourteen day. Notice of of you having the understanding things are fine and feeling like things were fine in the relationship and then being kind of taken off guard, if like. You know that the social worker was the one sharing that with you, and that you didn't realize that that notice had been placed. Um, so just having clear conversations right before anything would get that far, which I am hearing from Christie, that wouldn't happen in this placement. You know, um, But but yeah, just for for your to feel secure to be able to kind of rely on like open communication. Speaker 6 00:42:19 Um and and working to understand each other. Speaker 2 00:42:26 Yeah, like with Nikki, like there was like she'll set like expectations and stuff like that, But like we'll never like discuss our further on life, the consequence or like the in between if that makes sense. Speaker 6 00:42:41 Like with me, do you feel like almost it would be helpful to, What I'm thinking of is like a progress report, like at school. I'd like to talk about progress. Of like, you know, you set this expectation and then you have check ins, like maybe like once a week of like, hey, Like You know am I am I meeting Like expectations? Like, is that something that would be helpful? Or Or do you feel like that's too structured because it could go either way? Speaker 6 00:43:12 You like that idea? Yeah, like having kind of like a weekly like progress report of like okay, like I am doing good or um, like maybe this is an area we could work to grow in. Speaker 3 00:43:23 Right. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:43:28 What's called with Christi life? Um, Like she, of course says expectations for me, but there is like there is an in between. There is I don't know. There is. Speaker 6 00:43:41 Like a check in. Speaker 2 00:43:43 Christi, like I think you could explain it better than I can. Speaker 1 00:43:46 So, I think the best Yeah, yesterday or the when you were with us last week. Um Dawn had asked to go out with her friends, and I said, yes, but here's the rules. The rules is keep your phone on, keep your location going, keep your phone charged. Um if you're in trouble call me or text me, And you've got to be home by eleven. Because if you are not home by eleven, you omit your next uh, you know, you hang out. Um and so uh I think it was ten p.m. I sent you a text and said hey this is your one hour warning. And um and then that's it. I just left it at here. Is your one hour warning. Um and then my daughter was like. Speaker 1 00:44:39 You know, she was more worried for LaDanya. She was like, "Is she okay?" And then you know Dawn had to check in with her. But I think setting those expectations ahead of time and then saying when she got home because she was six minutes early, which I don't have kids like that very often. They're either super early or they wait outside the door to walk in sixty seconds before just because they can, which doesn't really work for them because there is a camera outside. Um, But you know it's it's one of those things where it's like, you know, I I'm going to set those expectations. I'm going to get you the boundaries and I'm going to get you. This one boundary. This the other here's your freedom in between. Um when, I've had kids come to me before, and I knew that they needed to smoke weed just calm down. And stuff like that, and so I set the boundaries. You cannot smoke in the apartment because I can't handle that uh just because of smells. Speaker 1 00:45:38 You can't smoke on in the complex because I would get fined so much money by the apartment complex. You can walk outside, outside of the complex, But be aware, we're right next to the courthouse, and the sheriffs are in and out all day long. So just be aware that that happens. Um, and you know, I do set that boundary, because if you've ever tried to tell a 16 year old, they can't smoke weed, they're still going to smoke weed. So I'm going to give you that freedom, but you got to tell me what's going on. So and I'm never going to judge. It's not my job to judge. So so yeah, That's how I I set boundaries and I give you the freedom to do what you need to do. And independence, because that's important. Speaker 3 00:46:22 Mhm So. Speaker 5 00:46:26 Yeah, And so what I'm adding here too, from everything that I'm hearing is um and again, this not doesn't mean that they're new things to add, but more of things that will be continue to be done. Is Christiti to set expectations and consequences ahead of time, So, for example, if Christi if Dawn were to go out with some friends. Um, like she has in the past. Um, And then Dawn and Christiti to set some time aside weekly to acknowledge acknowledge progress. Dawn has made and to discuss where there is possible areas for growth. So both acknowledging, you know things that have been going well. And then you know to talk about things that, hey, maybe. Speaker 5 00:47:03 We could work on this, right So it's not all negative, but also acknowledging the positive things that have happened. Speaker 2 00:47:08 Right. I just need to work on like out of all of them, Like it's just like me and my phone, because like my phone, always just like acts up, like dying. Likeum I was someone that's uh yeah Like I need to keep it like charged. And like I need to think about the battery life is to keep that for next week. Mhm. Speaker 5 00:47:29 Yeah, so yes, I know definitely knowing what the rules are. And then what I also have here for to have security is for Christi to have an open and honest conversations with Dawn, including about the relationship. So Dawn, for example, to know where I stand when there is conflict. Um You know. And of course, there's gonna be times where maybe it's a bad day, you know, for Christi or a bad day for Dawn. Bad day for both of you. And maybe we're they're gonna have some feelings of like, you know, she mad at me? You know I'm gonna get 14-day notice, You know, even though Christi just said, maybe she does well, not that maybe, but she doesn't place 14-day notice, right? So, you know, having that reassurance like of knowing where you stand in the relationship. And knowing hey, Maybe right now, we're not having a good moment. But just know that I'm here for you and that You have a safe place. You have a you have a bed and then I'm here for you. Maybe not right now, Right But you know Nothing's gonna happen between us. Speaker 2 00:48:27 Yeah, I'm on the top of them. Speaker 1 00:48:31 That's better. Pretty quick. I have, I have a lot of friends that are foster parents. Um, We are all foster parents together, and we quickly do what we need to do for each other just to make it work. So yeah. Speaker 5 00:48:48 You have a community that's good. That's amazing Yeah It definitely takes a village for everything. Yes. Mhm. And we could keep it at that, you know, just those three action steps. Um, you know, Of course, we don't want to go too crazy. And then uh you know uh that way, we could make sure we meet them and we could make adjustments as we need. Um but for the second one is for Dawn to have stability. So just looking at, you know, again, fresh start, but just looking at like the previous steps. Um I know something that you. Speaker 5 00:49:26 Have mentioned in the past, Dawn is part of what helps you bring stability is. Um. Sorry, I'm just trying to review here. Um, Getting familiar with the job application sites. Is that something that you still wanted to do, Um like Indeed Glassdoor applying to new jobs? Or do you want to keep your job and just be there. Speaker 2 00:49:56 Like in my old school, I went to like redo like my resume and stuff like that. So like yeah, I'm gonna do that with my mentor tomorrow. Speaker 5 00:50:06 Uh sorry, You sounded a little far away, but I heard that you wanna first work on your resume? Speaker 2 00:50:11 Yeah, what's up? Myum can you hear me now? Speaker 5 00:50:14 A little bit yeah it sounds a little echoey but I could hear you. Speaker 2 00:50:17 Oh okay. Soum my mentor is, uh he's gonna come tomorrow. So I was gonna ask him like if I need to work on, like updating like my resume. And. Um, just like looking at like, like a plot of different jobs and stuff like that. Like I actually like we only have like an hour together, But like I wanted to like ask to like go on person to like go into like, food places and stuff. Like that. And then I'll be back there hiring and do all that later. But I first want to do my resume and have that printed out. So I can have something to give them when I see them later on today. Mhm Hmm. Speaker 5 00:50:53 That sounds like a good idea, And I know I heard you say that you only have one hour with your mentor, but you also have your wraparound team to help you with update your resume. Is there someone in specific that you would want to help with the. Kimberly. Speaker 3 00:51:19 Okay, yeah maybe we can start working on that tomorrow. Speaker 5 00:51:29 So A lot focusing on your resume, which is good, right?'cause, we want to make sure that you know, you have the support that you need to get that done, right? To get that completed. Um what else would help you know that you're stable? That you're okay. Speaker 2 00:51:52 I guess like learning um how I can save like my money better, and I start like actually like saving. Saving like, Like when I be saving, like it don't be. Like I'll be taking money out my savings. Like girl, like that's not saving. Like so I really wanna get in the habit of like saving better. Like I wanna save for a car, and then get a tattoo. Save for certain stuff, save for future apartment and all that stuff. I just want to get. I guess earning that is better than like managing my money and stuff like that. Speaker 5 00:52:36 What I'm hearing is that you want to learn how to budget. And then that's also somethingum that your CFS would be able to support you in, so Kimberly, write you in. On creating a budget with Dawn, Or maybe just introducing her right like the skills on knowing how to create a budget. Speaker 7 00:52:59 Yeah, that sounds good. I think that's a good way to start. For sure. Speaker 5 00:53:18 Um, What about? Um, anyone else? Maybe some another step that we could add for this need to have stability. Speaker 6 00:53:31 I think for that one, just kind of what we were talking about before, Dawn kind of thinking like a progress report might be helpful or like just a check- in like in between having that expectation in order to ensure that. You know things are going good and and and things are stable in the in the home. Speaker 5 00:53:53 Mhm. Yeah, and I guess just to kind of back that up, um, since I know we wrote that in during the other action step, Butum maybe like as a team, we could check in during our team meetings. You know just to kind of check in, like, hey, you know, how was the last? You know? Quote unquote like progress report You know like what are some. Things that you liked and maybe some things that you talked about to improve. So that way we know maybe where we could possibly come in or maybe give some guidance on, you know, some additional support that could be given. So just checking in on how that on how that progress report went. Speaker 5 00:54:50 Okay, and then for the last need, um, to feel respected and understood. Mm. Uh, something that you did have before, um, was to practice the muscle relaxation techniques. Um. Is that something that you would still want to continue to try to do Don? Speaker 2 00:55:12 Yeah. Have. Speaker 6 00:55:15 You been doing it? Question. Speaker 2 00:55:20 It's okay if the answer is no. Hello, because like a week or two, like I was like I did it like a couple times, but I haven't did it like now. That's okay. That's okay. But. Speaker 6 00:55:40 I do know. You said that it was helpful when we first tried it. Do you still feel like it is helpful or do you feel like, oh, like I'm not really ever going to do that? Speaker 2 00:55:50 Uh- huh. Yeah, like it literally puts me to sleep. Like almost puts me to sleep. Like yeah, I like. You like it? Okay. Speaker 6 00:55:60 Can we commit to trying it at least once a week? Okay. Start small. Speaker 2 00:56:06 Once a week, uh- huh. Speaker 6 00:56:07 Does that sound doable? Uh- huh Okay, You choose a day, you choose a time, and at least once a week. If you do it more than once a week, great. But let's start with once a week. Speaker 2 00:56:18 Okay. So I pick a day and time right now? Speaker 6 00:56:22 I think that might help if we have it on your calendar. And it can be right before bed, it can be when you're laying in bed. But what day do you want to commit to try? Speaker 2 00:56:41 In the beginning of the Monday, like to start off the week. So like a Monday. Speaker 6 00:56:50 Right in like a morning or before bed. Okay. Okay, so are we committing to Monday, morning or nighttime? Speaker 2 00:57:08 I'm thinking mostly in the morning, but like I also wanna just. Like try it like in the morning and night. Which is like more like if it's better or. Speaker 6 00:57:18 Which you think is is better. Okay, we'll leave it flexible on the time, and we'll just say Monday at least once on Monday. You're gonna try it. Speaker 2 00:57:28 Anytime perfect. And yesterday when I was speaking with Don over the phone, we were prepping a little bit for. Speaker 5 00:57:39 For her interview that was going to be today at one, and she did bring up about how if she did have that interview, she would bring up about things that have been helpful for her mental health. And she did bring up a pretty long list of the DBT skills. So I do want to commend Don for, you know, Speaker 6 00:57:56 Speaking of Don, you have the workbook? Were you able to bring that with you? Speaker 2 00:58:00 Okay, or is it still at Vicky's? I think it's still at Vicky's. But like oh no! Like when they when my. Speaker 2 00:58:11 Okay. Okay, but you've been looking through it, it sounds like. Speaker 6 00:58:15 Have you been looking through it? Speaker 2 00:58:20 I'm glad to hear that. I'm glad to hear you you like the activities. Speaker 5 00:58:27 Yeah, she definitely did. She was the one to bring them up yesterday. It's really cool. Um, but speaking of like. Sorry, Speaker 1 00:58:35 Oh, no, sorry, go ahead. I was going to say, can I ask which book? Workbook it is because I may have that workbook. Speaker 6 00:58:40 It's the it's the um adolescent uh dialectical behavioral therapy guide. Um so it's the like most standard one so it's possible you have it. It's basically the same as the adult one, but it's just an adolescent version. So it's a little easier to understand. And like even for me, I'm like sometimes the adult one I'm like oh this is so complicated. I like the images and the kids ones. Speaker 1 00:59:08 I Didn't know about the kids one or the adult one. Um, I have the adult one, so for me, but if she needs it, I will unearth it because I think it's in that potpourri of things that I've yet to unpack. So perfect, Speaker 6 00:59:23 It works. I think you also have a copy down in your email um from a long time ago. Right? But yeah, I gave her a printed copy and then an email copy. Sorry. Speaker 6 00:59:40 Causing a racket, just like an orange cat does. Oh my god, Speaker 5 00:59:46 Is that one of their traits? Um, but speaking of uh your belongings, John. Um, is that something that maybe we need to figure out like how to. Be able to get your belongings back either like between us or like the social worker? Or maybe it's something that you talked about with Christi already. Speaker 2 01:00:07 Um, we haven't really discussed it. Um, but yeah, like I was like thinking like um, I maybe like uh Vanessa she was like end up like bringing all my stuff over, but I don't know. I'm not sure. Yeah, I would think. But. Speaker 6 01:00:25 Yeah, I think just to uh, Sorry, I was gonna say, I think to avoid any like missteps, maybe reach out to Vanessa and just let her know. Hey, I still have things at Vickie's. Um, Cause I just would hate for it to be a situation where like things get like thrown out. You know, like I I would like you to get your things back. Speaker 2 01:00:48 Right Yeah. Yeah Oh let's call Vanessa No she she was there when I was packing. She saw all this stuff that had the bag. Mhm. Speaker 1 01:00:57 So, uh, Vicki does have a code to my door. Um, it is a temporary one. It was already set to expire on August first. Um, and that was given to her weeks ago. Um, and so she had she did bring some stuff over yesterday, But I asked her to bring it over while Ladanya and I were in Pasadena. Um, and because I have my oldest foster child uh here And I knew she would keep an eye on everything. So there are some stuff that was brought, And she has more stuff that she has offered to bring over as far as people were, and then some more of Dawn's stuff. So I did say that, that was okay as long as you know, Ladanya wasn't home, but also I do have cameras that if it doesn't recognize someone's face, which it doesn't for Vicki. Speaker 1 01:01:56 Um, It does make sure it tracks and that way that we we do see it. So just a heads up. Um, I am trying. I'm going to try to get a hold of Vanessa again today, uh and see where we stand on a lot of things. And so I'll bring that up on that as well, because I know her social security card, her birth certificate, All of those are with Vicki, and we need to get those. So the we can get Ladanya enrolled. Um We're gonna Try to enroll her into the high school that's not too far away because they have uh a type of school that allows her to work at her own pace to get caught up on all of her credits. Uh huh. And then she only has to go to school twice a week. Um and she can work at her own pace. So we're gonna try for that and I need that paperwork for that part. And then also uh I I do wanna uh, make sure that Ladanya has everything that's super important to her in hand early. Speaker 1 01:02:55 Uh, because I have been in her shoes. Um, and I am still upset that I am missing, you know, twenty plus years later. Still upset that I'm missing my favorite Netflix. So um so yes. Are you trying to say hi to everybody? It's the orange one this time. They're all stuck in the room with us because they were all napping in there. Speaker 5 01:03:24 They're like they interrupted us. Um, but okay then. Um, And then what is the name of the school that you were thinking of enrolling her? Speaker 1 01:03:34 So Da Vinci, uh which is here in El Segundo. We're in the Da Vinci School District. Um They used to have RISE, which is where what my daughter attended when she first moved in with us. Uh They've shut down RISE. So we're so they're helping us get her enrolled into a similar program with one of the other schools. Speaker 5 01:04:00 So Just within the Da Vinci school district? Speaker 1 01:04:03 Yes, we're in the Wiseburn School District, so Da Vinci is part of that. Okay. And God will find her school that will allow her to get everything she needs because I know she signed the contract for the AB 12. So. Speaker 5 01:04:25 Yeah. Andum, is uh, Is Hop Skip and Drive, something that uh, both of you would want to look in well, would want the social worker to look into once she's already enrolled in one of the Da Vinci schools? Speaker 1 01:04:39 If it's Da Vinci schools, I'm not worried about Hop, Skip and Drive becauseum there we live near the C line and the buses uh would take her directly to Da Vinci. So it's not an issue at all. Um, The only way I'd need hop, skip and drive is if she stays at Brown. And, then we would need it for that because I am not going to make her get up two hours early to catch a hour and a half train. That's not fair to anybody. So, I wouldn't do it. Speaker 5 01:05:14 Yeah, that's so early here. And, well, the whole thing is that it is July. So you still have maybe a little bit a month and a half or so. Before August comes around, which is when most schools start. So I think that gives enough time to be able to prepare and figure out like twenty seventh of August or September. Oh, twenty seventh of August. Okay, yeah. So I mean it gives some time, and you know I know it's usually like mid August where um the school start. But okay. So then for that need is to feel respected and understood. Um we could start off with those. Then. Speaker 5 01:05:53 Um, Christi to support Dawn with enrolling at a school within the Da Vinci School District, And then both of you to also reach out to the social worker to coordinate a time together. The rest of the belongings that Vicki may not be able to bring, And then Dawn for you to practice the muscle relaxation once so once a day on Mondays. So that's your homework to do. Okay. Okay, perfect. And then um for the next CFT I'll also Invite Vanessa, the social worker. Actually, that reminds me. Let me check in with the parent partner, if she will be stopping by to say hello before we end. Speaker 5 01:06:54 Okay, Um, So then the next one that we where we could review the plan would be today's a fifteen two, three four. Speaker 5 01:07:09 Would Be August seventeenth. Speaker 1 01:07:15 Okay, so real quickly. Speaker 1 01:07:19 Um, we might be living leaving that day. If we're not leaving that day, the 17th. Okay, wait. Sorry, I looked at my calendar wrong. Um There is a slight chance. We will be leaving that day to go to UC Merced because my daughter's got to go That's when she moves into her college dorm Um Well, she moves in on the 18th. So we may go that night before and stay in a hotel um So. Don is already slated to go with us. She was already slated to go with us before, so we might have to do it for the week of the twenty third. Speaker 5 01:08:02 Okay, what do you want to do? The week before or the week after? Speaker 1 01:08:05 I was thinking the week after, but uh Don, I just realized that might be around the first week of school too. Speaker 5 01:08:11 Okay, maybe we could do the August tenth then. Speaker 1 01:08:13 Yeah yeah Let me see okay yeah, My family calendar. I keep pulling up my work calendar instead of my family calendar. Speaker 5 01:08:24 All right, let me make this adjustment. See if I can find it for you. Speaker 1 01:08:40 And Remind me of your email, Christi? Um, let me throw it into chat. Speaker 1 01:08:46 Or let me send it in a text. Um, for invites, Send them to my work address and for uh and then alwayscc the other email address I'm about to give you. So. Speaker 3 01:08:59 Okay. Hello. Speaker 2 01:09:07 Hello, Vanessa. Speaker 8 01:09:09 How are you? Speaker 2 01:09:10 I'm pretty good, how about yourself? Speaker 8 01:09:13 I'm doing well. Speaker 5 01:09:19 Thank You for joining in, Vanessa. We were just getting ready to end. So that way you could introduce yourself and I'm not sure if you wanted to sign up individual sessions right now or maybe at a later time. Speaker 8 01:09:31 Yes, I can do that now. Hi Christi, my name is Vanessa. I'm the Parent Partner. I'm looking forward to working with you. Speaker 1 01:09:40 Looking forward to working with you as well. Speaker 8 01:09:43 Um, what is your availability? Do you prefer a specific day and time? Speaker 1 01:09:50 Um, honestly Fridays are perfect for me. I don't know how you feel about Fridays. That's the one day I have no commitments. Speaker 8 01:10:01 Okay, I can do Fridays. Are you available? Let me see. One. Speaker 8 01:10:13 Are you available at 12 or 12:30? 12. Which works, but. 12 o'clock, okay. I'll go ahead and set it up. Do you prefer by phone? In person? Speaker 1 01:10:31 I prefer by phone, that's when normally do it with any of my parent partners. Speaker 8 01:10:38 Okay, that works. Okay, so I'll schedule it. Does this Friday work for you? You want to start this Friday or next Friday? Speaker 1 01:10:45 This Friday is perfect. Speaker 8 01:10:48 Okay, so I'll go ahead and schedule that for Friday the seventeenth at twelve o'clock. Speaker 5 01:11:03 And then just to loop you in Vanessa, um we will be having the check-ins, On Mondays at four still, they will just be virtual instead of in person. Um and then Vanessa, just so you could add to your calendar, the next CFT will be August tenth. Speaker 8 01:11:22 One second. You know what Christi? I was looking at the wrong date. I was looking at the twenty second. I'm actually going to be in the field this Friday at twelve o'clock. Are you available at nine o'clock? This Friday and then moving forward at twelve o'clock. Yes. Okay, so I'll schedule you for nine o'clock. One second. Speaker 8 01:11:56 Next Friday, I'll put you down for twelve. Speaker 5 01:11:59 And then Christi, you could let us know, For the week of the seventeenth, if you would want to reschedule or cancel whenever that week comes around, whatever works best since I know you'll you'll be very busy that that week. Speaker 1 01:12:12 Yes, I will. We are um. Sorry, I'm laughing at it done. Um, I will let you know closer when once we get everything worked out as far as who's all going. And all of that. So yes, Speaker 5 01:12:29 Okay, perfect. Sounds good. But it was a pleasure meeting you. And then, um, we'll meet next week same time. Um, sorry on Monday at four. I'll send you a reminder in the morning. Speaker 1 01:12:44 Okay Awesome Thank you Thank you Bye-bye Bye-bye Okay Got those added Let me get.
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04-29 Weekly Meeting: IT Support, Tenant Survey Dashboard, and AI Rollout
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- > Date: 2026-04-29 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] ## Meeting Notes ### Review of IT Support Requests - The discussion began with general IT requests that are not being properly routed through Rebecca and Andrew. - Example: a tenant survey request may have an internal resource who can assist using Power Automate. - Another invalid request involved copy-pasting data across multiple sites, later determined unnecessary. - The team emphasized setting expectations: support tickets (under 4 hours) versus projects (over 4 hours). - Ticket analysis shows a high volume of Microsoft 365 issues (OneDrive sync, SharePoint, Teams). - Other common issues: hardware problems (docking stations, laptops) and account management tasks (permissions, group cleanup). ### Tenant Survey Data Visualization Project - Andrew outlined the goal: collect tenant survey data and build a unified dashboard for analysis and storytelling. - Surveys will have different versions for retail and office tenants, totaling ~35 questions. - Data must be sliceable by property and available in a rolled-up view for ~30 internal employees; surveys may run up to twice annually for ~200 tenants. - The team considered using the existing Tableau partner; challenges include access, cost, and SharePoint integration. ### Proposed Solutions for Survey Dashboard - **Power BI**: Power BI Pro is robust but would cost ~$14/user/month, which is expensive for 30 users. - **Dataverse & Azure Dashboard**: Store form data in Microsoft Dataverse (small SQL database) and build a free Azure dashboard, visible internally via SharePoint. - **Power Apps Canvas App**: Presented as a more cost-effective solution. - ~$5/user/month. - Reads from a SharePoint list; supports charts, galleries, and filters. - Less polished than a custom build but sufficient for a dashboard. - Estimated one-time build cost under $2,000 for ~5 hours of development, including training for an internal resource. ### Next Steps for Claude and Survey Project - The conversation shifted to next steps for the AI tool, Claude. - A proposal was previously generated to set up SSO and SAML for a general rollout beyond initial proof-of-concept users. - Andrew is interested in moving forward with a proposal for the survey dashboard project. - Christie and Vince will create a proposal for the Power Apps solution. - A future call will be scheduled with Rebecca to discuss AI use cases and finalize the survey dashboard decision. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christie and Vince: Prepare a proposal for the tenant survey dashboard using Power Apps. - [ ] Andrew: Send Christie a “big picture” email outlining ideal dashboard features (sun, moon, and stars ✨). - [ ] Christie: Review the sample survey data spreadsheet to inform the proposal. - [ ] Schedule a follow-up call with Rebecca to discuss AI (Claude) implementation and finalize the survey dashboard decision. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The decision between using the company’s existing Tableau partner and developing a new Microsoft-based solution (Power Apps) for the tenant survey dashboard remains pending a final decision from Rebecca and the team. > 2. A formal process for filtering general IT requests to ensure routing through Rebecca and Andrew before reaching IT was discussed but not established as an action plan.
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- Apr 29, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:01 The town is located on the banks of the river Sava. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was shot in the city of Kozhikode. I am not a good swimmer. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was shot in the city of Kozhikode. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:01:03 The name of the town is derived from the river. Can you hear me? Um, hello, hello. I can't hear you. Speaker 2 00:01:17 I don't hear you. Speaker 3 00:01:22 Can you hear me now? Speaker 2 00:01:24 Now I can hear you. There we go. Speaker 3 00:01:26 I have been having all kinds of issues today with my headphones. Speaker 2 00:01:33 Uh, okay. So um, I met with Anderson yesterday. I think this actually might shift to more of the AI discussion for next step on Claude rather than the tenant survey. Yeah. So Rebecca was telling me that they might have an internal resource that can help out with this. And we just kind of had a broader discussion on like, you know, A lot of times right now, it seems like the the requests that are coming. The. They're like general IT requests without getting filtered through Rebecca and Andrew, so that that might that might come up too. So. Speaker 3 00:02:11 So what kind of general, uh, I T stuff. Speaker 2 00:02:17 Well, likeum, So this one was one, right. The tenant survey that she said that they've got some users internally that can probably help with the. You know, um, Power Automate that type of thing. And then there was another request that another user requested for like. Copy pasting shit like three or four different sites, because I guess they were concerned about. Using data or something like that, and then that came to that went to Patrick, and I talked to her about that yesterday too. And so that one got like okay. Turns out we don't need that right um. Speaker 2 00:02:59 So yeah, that's kind of the request that they were talking about. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:03:02 Okay, so just invalid requests coming to IT. That should have gone to them instead of us. Speaker 2 00:03:10 Yeah, just to kind of help filter, But also just to help them set the expectation of like what's a ticket versus what's a project, that type of thing. I did get into detail with her about that, right? But typically, it's like, hey, if it's going to be over four hours, something that you know the team. Would take more than four hours to do. That's going to have to be like a proper project. Speaker 3 00:03:30 Okay, so we're we're setting that expectation. And we're talking about what's. Speaker 2 00:03:35 Yeah, well, no. So yeah, that that's where the tenant survey thing might come into play, right? Where when I when I spoke to Rebecca about this yesterday, She said we might have to kind of hold off on this to become a project because they have an internal resource. But also, we had that discussion with Rebecca about Claude. So that might be where this conversation goes. Speaker 3 00:03:60 Okay. So I ran a quick report just to understand. Some of the tickets that are out there for them. So I know there's a security group's audit going on right now. We have some SharePoint storage issues that they have. Yeah, that one. Uh, key watcher software. Speaker 2 00:04:21 That one I'm not in loop with. Okay. Key watcher. Speaker 3 00:04:25 Yeah, I don't know what that one is, but I'll dig into that. The pattern for the pattern of tickets. Overall, it's heavy on Microsoft, three, sixty five issues. So the issues we're seeing is One Drive sync, SharePoint issues and Teams questions, email issues. And then followed by docking station, laptops display issues, laptop beeping. Things like that, and then some account management things like permissions, group cleanup. Auto replies. Those kind of things, not account management. You but account management overall, like just day to day stuff. Yeah yeah yeah. Um, and so we and I know I did the original team setup, and then that got handed off to the help desk. Um, so they they have the ability to do whatever changes that need to happen. So, Speaker 1 00:05:13 Okay, uh. But I I think it's. That's all I see. Speaker 2 00:05:25 Okay. So. So I know, Rebecca did ask about. Like hey, what next steps would be for Claude Right, so we did generate a proposal. To set up SSO SAML for them and then just go through the connectors and things. So, there might be some interest in just kind of reviewing. Um, the SSO SAML stuff too. No, we we only set up. Speaker 3 00:05:52 Sorry, wrong eight. Speaker 2 00:05:54 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know. Yeah, no. So we we remember we we got on that call with Rebecca. We went through and set up the initial Teams Claude. But then, in terms of that, was just for them to kind of do a quick POC. So we've already got the admin account set up for that, and then next steps would be. General deployment rollout, yeah. Once they're kind of ready, and so I think they wanted just to kind of go over. Some potential. Use cases maybe understanding like the connectors better because obviously, M three sixty five connector that's gonna be a big one for them. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:06:30 I gotta remember they're not, they're not art. Speaker 2 00:06:35 You know it's an easy mistake because like we onboarded them right around the same time. They both start with an A. They, both kind of have a similar like roadmap in terms of what we're doing for them. So yeah, I get it. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:06:54 I wonder if we're getting ghosted today. Speaker 3 00:06:58 I would not mind that. I also would be sad. I am going to. I just came off camera because I was starting to sound robotic, but also I need to stretch my legs. I've been in nonstop meetings since eleven and I have not moved from my desk. I was like, I need to walk around. For a moment, Also, I want to see how far this headset can reach, because when I am in the crimson office, it would reach all the way to Holmes's office. But there is not that many walls to go through. It's my headset from the office. I just finally got it hooked up and charged. We have an I R B. With DCFS, they're coming here. Speaker 3 00:07:52 Which is great, I love it, but uh it also requires making sure all the knives are locked up. And all the alcohol. Oh crap, that reminds me, alcohol. Uh, all the alcohol is put in lockup. Andum, Speaker 2 00:08:06 You're like making a lot of alcohol again. You're breaking up, so that's the distance. That's as far as it'll go. Wherever you are, yeah. Speaker 3 00:08:23 I went to go grab your bottle of wine, but in the locked refrigerator, the medication. Speaker 2 00:08:29 Oh, I thought you were gonna say, I'm gonna open it right now. No, Speaker 4 00:08:34 I have to because. Of the kids that I see, I have to keep a bottle in the refrigerator because. Speaker 3 00:08:43 Yeah, so I am licensed. For uh certain types of, Medical ly fragile kids is what they they're called. So basically, type one diabetics, and any kid with autoimmune diseases. That require, shots and stuff. Speaker 1 00:09:06 It's coming through. I'm not sure. The name of the town is derived from the river. 嗯。 Speaker 1 00:09:20 You have to. Speaker 3 00:09:22 Lock up medication. You have to lock up. Speaker 4 00:09:29 Oh, wow. Okay. Speaker 3 00:09:32 When we moved, I uh Had to ensure that. Speaker 1 00:09:38 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The. Speaker 2 00:09:46 Name of the town is derived from the river. So the knives. So so, how do the knives get locked Like, is it just a separate cabinet with a lock on it. Or like a box, or. Speaker 4 00:09:58 But it's a local cabinet. I see. The name of the game is" Bingo". Speaker 3 00:10:21 Remember Ed, but the medication one very similar to knives. The knife is a wooden one. Oh, shoot! What is? There was a cat in my chair. Sorry, I sat down on top of the tiny one. She's black. It blended in with my black chair. She's probably upset. Oh no, she's cleaning herself. This is the medication cabinet. Speaker 2 00:10:47 Oh, interesting. Okay, so it's got like a little combo lock. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Speaker 3 00:10:53 Soum. So what's in here right now is like Dayquil, anything Pepto Bismol. Milo. Speaker 1 00:11:05 Uh, Zyrtec. And Tylenol. We don't have much medication. So. Speaker 3 00:11:16 But that's what's in here, and so I've got to just show and prove that I have that, which I do. Oh, acne cream. My daughter's acne cream is in here. Uh, she has two bottles. She has one hidden in her bedroom. But uh, yeah. So we have all of that. I'll be right back. I need to go through this because I have not gone through this in a while. Her pimple cream is expired. Cortisone. Speaker 3 00:11:49 A pparently, that's the lotion I was missing from the move. So. It makes for fun. Fun day. Speaker 1 00:11:59 Andrew. Hi. Speaker 2 00:12:01 Hi, Andrew. Where's everybody? Speaker 3 00:12:04 That's what we wanted to know. Speaker 2 00:12:06 I know, I was like, like professor, you know. You're at the almost at the fifteen minute mark. Class was about to end because you didn't show. Oh my gosh. I didn't know I was gonna support this on. So, no Rebecca was on the was already on the call. I think I mean on the calendar invite. I believe but you are good. No, she's not on this. Oh, she's not. It says others invited. Let me. Yeah, I saw her on the invite. Yeah, she's on the invite. Speaker 5 00:12:40 Oh, huh. I only see the three of us. Speaker 2 00:12:45 Oh, but she's such an. Speaker 3 00:12:48 It's Because you're outside of the organization, Andrew. So whoever it's been sent to. Outside the organization doesn't always it's how we have ours set up. You won't see all the invitees. Scott. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:13:01 Okay. So, Speaker 5 00:13:04 Thanks for having us on. Um. The three of us and her cat. Speaker 3 00:13:08 Uh, three cats. Oh, yeah. Speaker 5 00:13:11 There's six of us. Speaker 3 00:13:13 Yeah, I just sat on one by accident. Speaker 3 00:13:16 To be fair, my chair is black and the kitten is black. Speaker 5 00:13:21 I did not see her. Speaker 5 00:13:24 So. I didn't see you down here. Yeah. Um, I love cats. Speaker 3 00:13:30 Oh, you would like mine. I have three. One was an impulse uh adoption two weeks ago. Has it been two or three weeks? Speaker 2 00:13:40 Gosh. They're cute. Yeah, it feels like forever already. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:13:45 She she still fits in my hands like this. Speaker 5 00:13:48 Oh, so yeah, Speaker 3 00:13:50 She's she's the baby. Uh, they both ran well. Speaker 5 00:13:53 I don't have any right now, but I love watching cat videos. Oh yes, I mean they are the most. Peculiar, interesting creatures. Speaker 3 00:14:04 Yes. My four- year- old page. Is artwork and cats and AI. That's. Speaker 2 00:14:15 And someruscotto, and that's that's Christian in a nutshell, right? Speaker 5 00:14:17 Yes. Yes. Um. Well, I know Rebecca couldn't make two o'clock. Um. Speaker 2 00:14:24 Oh, that's right. Yeah, when I met with her yesterday, she said she had a conflict on the on her calendar. Speaker 5 00:14:29 Soum and we were together afterwards and I don't know what was going on in my head, but I said, Oh, I don't have anything on my calendar. Too much going on. Too much going on. I hear you, but we're here. We can make the most of our fifteen together. Speaker 2 00:14:50 Yeah, so Andrew, real quick. Um, when I met with Rebecca on our call, our weekly call yesterday, she did mention to me that. We might wanna take a reframe a little bit because there might be an internal resource that you guys have over at Anderson that can assist with. With this, or with this topic. The the tenant survey right? So the idea being that you're you're taking that data from all the different. Uh Microsoft forms. We're going to collate that into one single unified dashboard. So, when I let her know about kind of next steps for this particular topic, she had mentioned that oh yeah, There's actually some internal resource that we might be able to identify to help with that. So just kind of wanted to sort of is that kind of sort of true? Okay. Speaker 5 00:15:35 In that case, but let me let me talk through is Um. To just put it all out on the table and see, you know, right what the what the best option is and and. Have you given Christie just a little bit about the survey? Yeah. Speaker 5 00:15:54 It's new. We don't have any specific cadence yet, frequency of the survey. Um, I think initially maybe Tom said that it's doing it's there's just one survey, but that's not actually that's notum. Ah, correct. There's going to be a couple different versions based off of the type of tenant we have because. Retail tenants. And office tenants, they may not have the same set of Full set of questions. There may be some more geared towards retail, some towards office. So there's going to be some differences between the two. Um. And, the goal is you know to have. Speaker 5 00:16:35 Some data and storytelling that we can look at after the fact, that can be both. You know, specific to the property, But also rolled up and can be, you know, looked at in different ways, sliced cut, all all of that. And and so. It's kind of like how do we do that? What's the best way to do it and. Um. Uh. And also, we're not trying to boil the ocean here. They created the form. In Microsoft Forms, and there is a team that's leading the process as part of their goals. And now they're looking at how do we how do we tell a story, how do we show the data? Um and they reached out uh to Crimson to help. And, uh, we do have Power BI. From my understanding, um, and I think I mentioned that. And I think even just with Vincent and with Rebecca, because I don't think they know everything. They're just saying help. Um. Speaker 5 00:17:34 And, uh, and so you know I know I know it's out there. I don't know enough to be able to say, hey, that's a great option. And also. The scope of what we're asking for too, um, Uh and and how big of a project this can can blow up to or not. And from what Rebecca shared is we use Tableau for financial reporting. And we do have um, it's a partner that we use. So it's not. Technically in house, that we have a contract with, and. Um. I guess you could say the way she said it, uh, is is can be. You know, I see what she was saying because we we prepaid them, um, for services and um and. And, we don't have all the services built out for them just yet. So there's availability to use their services. Speaker 5 00:18:31 Um, if we so choose to use them to help build something out for us, um, is that the right answer? I don't know. You know, is it something that. Right now, our Tableau only a few people have access to it. So, If this is meant to be a property management tool where they can access it and see the data. And see the the you know, however, it's displayed, is that the best option And are there costs to adding? To that too, so. For me, it's still open as to. Speaker 5 00:19:02 What, how, when, all that. I waited until you were you had stuff in your mouth, Christy. Speaker 3 00:19:12 I I was telling Vince. I've been in nonstop meetings since before eleven o'clock, and I've not taken a break. Or eaten or anything so. What's a break? I know. I found my daughter's Yogi's. Those are delish. They are veryum, I'm I'm having the strawberry. Oh, so good. So yeah, I'm I'm gonna need to buy these in bulk. Um, what is all the data that you're capturing in these surveys? Speaker 1 00:19:43 Good question. Speaker 5 00:19:48 Um, let me pull up the detail. And I want to say it's maybe forty questions. Does that sound right? V incent, let me let me pull it up. Speaker 2 00:20:03 Yeah, I think I have an Excel output. Speaker 3 00:20:08 Have you sent me that Vince and I just missed it. Speaker 2 00:20:12 Yeah, let me. Let me see if I can pull up the so I have have this one here, which is actual Microsoft form. Let me share the screen if that's okay. Oh, that's good. Go ahead. Cool. Yeah, so tenant survey. So this is the one that Tom provided us. Okay. Um, and then twelve pages. So if we oh. Speaker 5 00:20:35 Oh here. And. Speaker 2 00:20:38 It's once per page. Let me see if I can bring up the. Speaker 5 00:20:41 Can I pull up something that's a little bit different? Speaker 2 00:20:44 Okay, yeah. There were nineteen hundred survey example. Oh, there's also a survey results link. One second. Speaker 5 00:20:51 Yeah, I have the spreadsheet. If you want me to show it, Speaker 2 00:20:53 Here we go. So suite number. Y ep. Speaker 5 00:21:02 So there's about thirty five questions, I think. Yeah. And it is divided into different areas. And so you know the data could be split into those core areas. Um. Speaker 2 00:21:22 So. So if I'm following the basic idea is just to get all of these different tenant surveys rolled up into one kind of dashboard to kind of show us. Yeah, perfect. Speaker 3 00:21:33 Okay, so I Power BI is normally What I would do, um, but. Here's the thing about Power BI. You have to pay for a license for every person that needs to look at the data. Even on a dashboard, and it's not cheap. So, um. How. Speaker 5 00:21:57 Does it work for us in terms of our licenses? Speaker 3 00:22:02 So, every person that has a license will be able to review the data after the dashboard is built. So Power BI has is very robust. It's very nice. I wouldn't use it for this. You would not. I would not. Okay, um, now. That being said. The reason why I wouldn't do it is because every person you want to view. This has to have a Power BI license. At least the minimum, I think it's like the ten dollar one. Although I work mostly nonprofits, so I might have the wrong pricing on my brain. Um. What I would do, and this is super easy, I would build the dashboard in Microsoft Azure. And you actually need someone who's capable of doing it. Unfortunately, but fortunately that's me. Speaker 3 00:22:49 Um, it won't take. It wouldn't take but like four or five hours to build it. Um and pull it from the data that's already out there. You already have Dataverse, so Microsoft has Dataverse out there. The forms can go into a tiny SQL database that's very Very small using Dataverse, and so all of the data can be stored in that SQL Server. Um, and it's free. So just a heads up. You can use that to build on and build a free dashboard within Microsoft that can run this, and you can have that free dashboard. Visible on the web, should you choose, or only to internal employees. Speaker 5 00:23:34 I mean, I would love it for for each properties to be on their SharePoint site internal. Yeah. Um. Speaker 5 00:23:47 And and so I guess. Just a question on. On BI and just for my understanding. Is it Microsoft? It starts with an F. I'm sorry. For me, it said, "I have it because I have a free version of." Something. Speaker 5 00:24:17 Does that help? Fiber. Fabric. Fabric. Speaker 4 00:24:24 Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Speaker 3 00:24:28 So that would that would be part of it, yes. Speaker 5 00:24:32 And so why do I have a free one? Speaker 3 00:24:34 And yeah, everybody can be assigned a free one. That's not an issue. Um, it doesn't get it used to get assigned automatically. It doesn't anymore. Um, Microsoft is very weird, and sometimes we have to go back through and clean up. When they do random things like that, like give out free, But your company as a whole gets I think a thousand free licenses of Fiverr. There's also other things you get free, uh that you just have to individually assign. Speaker 5 00:25:02 Okay. And so, so it said I have access to Power BI because of that. Speaker 3 00:25:09 Yes, you have access to a very small portion. It doesn't give you everything. Speaker 5 00:25:14 Okay, so if we did give. Give everybody fabric, they would have access to something. Speaker 3 00:25:19 Yes, they would have access to something. But not a default Power BI dashboard just yet. Microsoft is not that nice. Yet. Now they may make changes soon because there's been a lot of screaming. With the age of AI, people are starting to use Power BI more. And. Speaker 5 00:25:41 They've been promoting it more. Yes. Speaker 3 00:25:45 Microsoft used to make Power Automate premium. Yeah, there was a lot of things that you needed Power Automate premium for. And they've cut back on that, And they've made a lot of things that you used to have to pay for in that free because of. People just throwing a fit. Um, when they made that adjustment, which was like two months ago, they did it quietly under the radar. And every one of my workflows that was premium, except for two. Was knocked down into the free tier, and those two are actually my high- visible, high- profile automations. So I still sadly needed the premium, But still, Microsoft is making those kind of changes after hearing back from people that pay. You know things like this should be free. And I have a feeling in the next year or so. We're going to see those dashboards go free. Speaker 5 00:26:35 Okay. So then, the other one you mentioned, which one was that? Speaker 3 00:26:43 U m. So Dataverse, um, it's like a smaller. Version of SQL, so SQL. You know what SQL is, right? A little bit. Okay. Tell me. That's about the only word a lot of people know when I say it. It is just a database that you can store data in. Speaker 5 00:27:03 Okay. Understood. And and so. So. Data base. Is something we could use to build the dashboards. Speaker 3 00:27:21 So basically, Microsoft Forms a tenant would enter the information into Microsoft Forms. Microsoft Forms on the back end, which fill out the information automatically in the SQL database. And, then the dashboard in whatever we created in would call up that database for that information. Speaker 5 00:27:39 Okay. Got it. And I guess to understand a bit more about the project and the cause. But I guess that that would be the next step, yes. Speaker 3 00:27:56 Yes. How many people need to see the dashboard? Speaker 5 00:28:02 You know, for me. To to me, it would be on SharePoint that anybody could see. Speaker 3 00:28:08 So all company employees would have access. Speaker 5 00:28:13 That's like thirty employees. Speaker 3 00:28:16 Okay, so thirty employees. I am making notes as you are talking. So, and it is about thirty questions, right? Twelve pages. Thirty- five. Thirty- five questions. Speaker 2 00:28:30 How often would data get refreshed for the report? Speaker 5 00:28:35 Whenever it's, whenever a survey is done. Speaker 2 00:28:40 Like would that be like quarterly, monthly? Speaker 5 00:28:46 We don't know yet. It could be. My thought is that this would be, max probably twice a year. Speaker 2 00:28:53 Oh, gotcha. Speaker 5 00:28:54 It's it's not a, hey we're gonna we're gonna survey you every three months. Yeah, I mean because we need to get the data and then create an action plan to address some of those areas and things aren't going to happen that quickly. U m. How many tenants? We'll say two hundred. Speaker 3 00:29:30 Thinking Off the top of my head, well I Right down two hundred. Speaker 3 00:29:38 Any external sharing that you would do, anybody externally that you would want to see the data? I. Speaker 5 00:29:49 I lean to no, but if there is a core third party that we work with. We might give them access as. A third party that. I guess. We already have a couple third parties that we provide emails to. And but typically it's a more basic license, and if we want them to have more than we provide them a. Bigger access, a bigger yeah, a a. The business license um from Microsoft but. Not to somebody, that's just hey, we have this, and we want to show it to you, um. It would be more people that we do business on a regular basis that need it for some reason. Speaker 5 00:30:36 As part of the role. Speaker 3 00:30:38 Yeah. So. You're looking at around. 800 records a year if you're going quarterly with 35 questions. Speaker 5 00:30:57 Okay. Sorry, say that one more time. Speaker 3 00:30:59 Eight hundred records per year. Speaker 5 00:31:02 And what is what? What is a record? Speaker 3 00:31:04 A record is one tenant putting in one survey a quarter. Okay. So that's the method. So, um. Two hundred tenants surveyed quarterly with thirty five questions. So. Speaker 1 00:31:24 Um. Try to think. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:31:35 If we do Dataverse, it's not as free as I thought for that amount. It's about five dollars per user. Power BI Pro is fourteen dollars. I just had the team check on that for me because I I uh, I only know nonprofit pricing off the top of my head, which is ten dollars. You guys aren't nonprofits, so No. That would be$ 14 per user per month for viewing. Storage is free, the forms are free, the dashboard is what is your line item. Um. I can we can make a PowerApps canvas app. Um. The film was released on DVD in the United States on October. Speaker 1 00:32:22 12, 2004. Let me see. Speaker 3 00:32:38 You guys won't need to update the dashboard, often as far as the look of it, right? Okay. So it's just a one and done on the look. Speaker 5 00:32:49 I'm thinking so, and I say that because kind of I mean. It would be great to have like you know, financial something you know where it shows how the that property is doing. To budget for the year. But let's start with this. Again, scope creep. Speaker 1 00:33:09 Yeah. I mean. The first is the most important. We. Speaker 3 00:33:20 Could start it out small. We could do a Power Apps canvas. It's like a web app that you can look at. It's five dollars per user per month. It's reading from just a generic SharePoint list. We could build out charts. Galleries, filters, all of that you can do it on a mobile app. It's not slick looking because it's not a custom build. But it is for like a dashboard, like what you guys are looking for. It's more than enough. Um, and you don't really need it looking smart and snazzy. Um. Now, Power BI would be a little bit different. We're talking, you know, fifteen dollars per user is around six hundred dollars per month. Speaker 3 00:34:06 Um, yeah, and so it's that that's where I'm kind of worried. You know, I didn't want you guys going the Power BI route because it is a little bit expensive for what you need. Um If you need it polished, I would go Power BI Pro. Now, if we do a web app. You're probably going to look at around total costs, probably around fifty sixty dollars per month. But I need to double check. It might it would be under two hundred dollars. I know because I've built these before, I run a full fledged web app for Onsor that not only is just a web app, but it's a full fledged application at one hundred fifty dollars on Microsoft. So we could do that if you need the executive grade type of visualization. Speaker 5 00:34:56 The name of the town is derived from the river. You know it's one of those things where when somebody. Get s it in their hands and see that something's. And some things. That we can do something, then a lot of times it's well, let's make it better. Let's make it prettier. Let's make it. You know, and just knowing us, that's often happens. Speaker 3 00:35:21 Yes. And so that's why I was, like that's why I was talking about the. Power Apps version. It's still, What is five times thirty? My brain just went blank. One fifty. Okay, so. You're essentially going to pay for the same amount of cost. So it's now on top of that. You need you'll. I hate to say this, But you'll need me or a member of my team that knows how to do it. Speaker 3 00:36:01 I can always teach someone if you've got anybody that likes to develop things like websites and stuff. I can always teach, but you're going to need about five hours of my time. That's going to cost you under two thousand dollars. And I amestimating high just in case it runs over five hours. Speaker 5 00:36:25 Sure. Sure, and I guess. Speaker 5 00:36:31 If we were to have somebody learn it. We don't have developers. Yeah, So it'd be I guess it'd be more somebody that kind of sees behind the curtain and. So, Speaker 3 00:36:48 I'm going to make it super easy. You're using Claude already. Yeah, You you got guys on there that's already using Claude code. I've seen it. You know, I've seen what could happen. Anyone has a really good understanding of cloud code, it's going to be super easy for them to update it themselves. And I will teach them how to do it, and I'll add that that will already be added into that cost. It's already added in. So essentially, I would be giving you that training for free. Speaker 5 00:37:18 So. I I mean I'd say let's move forward with the proposal. What Christy, what are your thoughts on? Speaker 5 00:37:31 That compared to, and I know you don't have enough information to really. Speaker 3 00:37:35 Yeah, just based on what Vince showed me. Um, I honestly, I'd go that web apps version route just because you're gonna want that nicer. And people are going to want it updated, and everybody's going to come to you and say, Andrew, can we make it do this that and so on. Um, so I would say go that route. Speaker 5 00:38:01 Well, I mean. I don't know, but I don't know. And we may need to have Rebecca talk to you as well, specifically about that which I know she wants. To talk to you about AI too, yeah. Um, cause she knows more about that partnership and what they're capable of and. What happens if we need to modify things? So, so we best to understand and assess the two. Possibilities. Speaker 5 00:38:31 But the the, the as I mentioned with, the other one. Um. It's gonna be a question of access as well. Yeah. Um. And. It's it's not within the Microsoft world, so it's not a dashboard on SharePoint. To my knowledge. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:39:03 So I'm thinking next steps proposal, we'll take a look at that and. And um. And then go from there in terms of may need another call, and I know. Rebecca wants an AI call with you, Christie, so we could perhaps incorporate that. Um, at the start to finalize. Something you know could be just. U m. Ah, you know, finalize for her the alternatives and finalize for us. Um, the alternative that she knows more of to then make that call. Um. Does that sound all right? That's it. Anything on your end? Speaker 2 00:39:53 Uh, no. So I didum. There is I don't know if you've been sent a copy of this one yet, but there is that quick little, Overall, So the the kind of next steps for Claude is we've already had an initial call with Rebecca. We set up the initial environment just for that, The five users and the four users that are kind of like proof of concepting it right now. And so then the next steps are gonna be to get it all secured, get all you know, The guidelines and everything all set up with SSO and SAML and all that good stuff. Once that's across a line, Then I think we can kind of merge these two discussions in terms of like. Speaker 2 00:40:27 What can Claude do for for Anderson in general, and then also how it extends into this stuff? So perfect. Excellent. All right, I think we are aligned. Um, Christy, You and I will work offline to kind of get that proposal set up for them. I think we've got. Do, you have any Is there any data that you're you're still needing or anything, Christy? No, like sample. Do you need the spreadsheet? Speaker 3 00:40:54 Yeah, send me the spreadsheet so I have a better idea. U m. And I can take a look at that and thenum. Give me Andrew, this is going to come from me. Give me a big picture. If you could have the sun, moon, stars and sky on this, what would it look like? I want you to think big picture for me and send that over to me via email. I think you have my email address. If not, Speaker 5 00:41:20 I know where to get it. Okay. Speaker 2 00:41:27 Co ol, okay. I know we're a couple minutes over. So anything else, Andrew? Speaker 5 00:41:33 Oh, let's not open that door. And well, no nothing else for me just. Um, I I can't believe you guys you stayed on so thank you. I thought there were others, um. So thanks for staying on. I appreciate it. I know we've gone over because of that. Um. So sorry for the inconvenience, but thanks for your time. Um. With me, Speaker 3 00:41:54 No worries. G lad to help. Speaker 2 00:41:57 So Andrew, you're a certified cat person. Then we can't be friends. Sounds like. Speaker 5 00:42:04 Cat, dog, love them all. Speaker 2 00:42:06 Okay, all right. Never mind. I take that back. Speaker 5 00:42:10 But I don't have CAPTCHA. Speaker 3 00:42:12 I've tried to get you one, but My dog will be very upset. So I have a cat that loves dogs. I went to go get to adopt a dog that I could turn into a service dog because I. And sideline, I work with foster teens in in care, and so I am a foster parent. Um and I have I've had service dogs in the past for myself. And so I was looking to train another dog. And I walked away with a kitten instead. There is nothing wrong with that. No, nothing wrong. No, Speaker 5 00:42:45 So and I love both paths. Speaker 3 00:42:49 Yeah. So. All right, guys. I need to jump off and prep for another meeting that's coming up. Of course, we're over. Speaker 5 00:42:57 Great to see you both. No worries. Speaker 3 00:42:59 I will see you guys later.
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- > Date & Time: 2026-04-29 17:36:31 > Location: [Insert Location] > Customer: April (Crimson IT), on behalf of Katerina (Crimson IT) ## Overview The consultation addressed property insurance options for Crimson IT, comparing a new quote that is nearly $3,000 less than the current premium but includes a significant limitation on water damage coverage. Edward presented a $5,285/year quote with a $25,000 water damage cap, compared to the existing/alternative coverage costing about $8,000/year. The key challenge is balancing cost savings with increased risk exposure due to the limited water damage coverage, as prior claims can reach $140,000. The immediate goal is to share the quote with Katerina for decision-making while she is abroad. ## Background April from Crimson IT contacted Edward to discuss renewal options for Katerina’s policy. Edward found a competitively priced quote at $5,285 per year, substantially lower than the approximately $8,000 option. However, this savings comes with a critical constraint: water damage is capped at $25,000. Historical claim examples show water damage can be very expensive (e.g., $140,000). Edward agreed to email the quote to Katerina’s Crimson IT email (katerina@crimsonit.com) and CC April (april@crimsonit.com). Katerina is currently out of the country; April will alert her that the quote was sent. Content creation date: 2026-04-29 17:36:31. ## Pain Points The risk of inadequate water damage coverage under the lower-cost policy. The proposed $5,285/year policy limits water damage coverage to **$25,000**, which is significantly lower than potential real-world exposure. - Impact: Potential **large out-of-pocket costs** if a water damage incident exceeds $25,000, which could be financially disruptive to Crimson IT. - Current Situation: Edward presented this as the most cost-effective option compared to current/other choices; April and Katerina must decide whether to accept the risk in exchange for savings. - Quantitative Metrics: New quote: **$5,285/year**. Alternative/current cost: **about $8,000/year**. Noted prior water damage claim example: **$140,000**. Savings: **almost $3,000** compared to $8,000/year. - Examples: Edward cited a **$140,000** water damage claim, underscoring the insufficiency of a **$25,000** cap. - Context: Water damage claims are **expensive**; the quote is “the only decent option” compared to current arrangements at a higher premium. - Stakeholders: **Katerina** (policyholder/decision-maker), **April** (coordinator at Crimson IT), **Edward** (insurance advisor/broker), and Crimson IT’s **finance/operations** impacted by potential claim costs. The complexity of the current premium structure and decision trade-offs. The existing option totals just under **$8,000**, combining a “fair plan” at **$4,600** and a “Platinum Companion policy” at **$2,300**, complicating comparison and decision-making. - Impact: Decision delays and potential confusion over coverage components and aggregate cost; risk of defaulting into a suboptimal renewal. - Current Situation: Edward outlined components and totals; April is facilitating communication with Katerina, who is overseas. - Quantitative Metrics: Fair plan **$4,600**, Platinum Companion policy **$2,300**, combined “just under **8,000**.” - Examples: Edward corrected and clarified figures during the call (“seven thousand again… sorry, eight thousand”). - Context: Time-sensitive renewal choices, with the alternative being significantly pricier but possibly offering broader protection. - Stakeholders: **Katerina** (final decision), **April** (coordination), **Edward** (advisory clarity), and **finance** stakeholders. ## Expectations Make an informed decision on whether to adopt the $5,285/year policy with a $25,000 water damage limit or retain the approximately $8,000/year coverage, balancing cost savings with adequate risk protection. - Timeframe: Near-term, as April wants Katerina to review the quote promptly while she is abroad and will notify her immediately after receipt. - Resources Required: The emailed quote with highlighted coverage limits; potentially additional comparisons or endorsement options. - Success Metrics: Clear acknowledgment from Katerina on her choice; understanding of coverage caps; avoidance of unforeseen coverage gaps. - Stakeholders: **Katerina** (decision-maker), **April** (facilitator), **Edward** (advisor). Receive and review the emailed quote and ensure correct recipients are CC’d. Ensure Katerina receives the materials at her crimsonit.com address and April is copied. - Timeframe: Immediate; email was sent during the call on 2026-04-29. - Resources Required: Accurate email addresses (katerina@crimsonit.com, april@crimsonit.com); highlighted summary of key policy differences. - Success Metrics: Confirmation of receipt by both April and Katerina; Katerina’s acknowledgment while abroad. - Stakeholders: **Edward** (sender), **April** (CC), **Katerina** (recipient). ## Other Information Summary - Katerina is currently out of the country; April will alert her that the quote has been sent. - Edward emphasized that water damage claims can be very costly, citing a $140,000 example. - Confirmed email addresses: april@crimsonit.com and katerina@crimsonit.com. - The lower-cost policy at $5,285/year is described as the only “decent option” compared to current pricing, but it carries a $25,000 water damage cap. ## To-Do List - [ ] Edward to provide a highlighted summary in the quote email emphasizing the $25,000 water damage cap and total annual premium of $5,285. Deadline: Sent during the call on 2026-04-29; ensure clarity. - [ ] April to notify Katerina (who is abroad) that the quote has been sent to katerina@crimsonit.com and coordinate review. Deadline: Immediate (2026-04-29 to 2026-05-01). - [ ] Katerina to review the $5,285 quote versus the approximately $8,000 alternative and decide on the preferred policy. Deadline: As soon as feasible; date not specified. - [ ] Edward to prepare a side-by-side comparison, including potential add-on/endorsement options for water damage (if available) and any deductible differences. Deadline: Upon request by April/Katerina. > AI Suggestions > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as the risk of insufficient water damage coverage ($25,000 cap) under the lower-cost $5,285 policy. > 1. Request an endorsement to increase the water damage sublimit (e.g., to $100,000 or higher) and price the incremental premium, presenting tiered options (e.g., $25k/$50k/$100k/$250k) to quantify cost vs. risk. > 2. Explore a hybrid structure: maintain the $5,285 base policy and add a targeted standalone water damage or equipment/leak protection rider if available, or a supplemental excess policy covering water damage above $25,000. > 3. Conduct a quick risk assessment: review building age, plumbing/HVAC condition, prior loss history, and mitigation controls (water sensors, automatic shutoff valves) to negotiate better terms or discounts and justify a higher sublimit. > 4. Price the status quo vs. downside scenarios: model a $140,000 water claim under each option to show net out-of-pocket exposure, helping Katerina make a data-driven choice (e.g., expected loss vs. premium savings). > 5. If endorsements aren’t available, test alternative carriers for quotes specifically benchmarking water damage sublimits and include deductible adjustments to keep the premium near $5,285 while improving coverage.
- Date
- Apr 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 I'm not sure. Insurance may help you. Speaker 2 00:00:11 Hi Edward, it's April. Speaker 1 00:00:13 Oh yes April, I am at your disposal. The name of. Speaker 3 00:00:22 The town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:00:24 Okay, no worries. Okay. Speaker 3 00:00:43 Okay. The. I. Okay, Speaker 1 00:01:09 We have. A quote that I am kind of inclined to recommend. Almost $3,000 cheaper than what we're paying now. There is one nasty hitch. They cover everything, but the water damage coverage is limited to $25, 000. Which is very risky, but the quote is fifty three hundred a year. Speaker 1 00:01:41 As opposed to eight thousand that she'd be paying elsewhere. So, Speaker 2 00:01:48 Fifty three hundred a year? Speaker 1 00:01:51 Yes. 5285. Speaker 2 00:01:58 Okay, that's five thousand two eighty five. Okay, Speaker 1 00:02:01 Yes. Like I said, water damage claims they are expensive. Speaker 1 00:02:10 I've seen a claim, you know, of$ 140, 000. So it's not an easy decision. But that's the only decent option we have compared to what we have now. Speaker 2 00:02:29 Okay, alright. If that's the case, uh, would you be able. To send a quote to Katerina so she can. Speaker 1 00:02:38 Yeah, let me send it and I will highlight. Also, Speaker 2 00:02:43 Can you copy me in the email? Yes. Okay, perfect. Speaker 1 00:02:49 Let me do this. Oops. Speaker 1 00:03:15 Oh. Okay, so it goes to April at Crimson IT. Dot. com. Yep, it goes to. Kamchatka 24. Speaker 2 00:03:30 Oh, is it Katrina's personal email? Speaker 1 00:03:33 Yes, I believe so. That's the only one I have. Speaker 2 00:03:37 Or you can send it to her crimson email. Oh, which is? Which isum Katerina That's K A T E R I N A. At crimsonit dot com. Speaker 3 00:03:52 Oh, okay. Okay, I'll send it. Okay. Speaker 3 00:04:17 Go t it. Speaker 1 00:04:18 Okay. Well, if yeah, should Kateryna decide to stay with what she has now? She will be playing seven thousand a game. Um, sorry, eight thousand. Yes, fair plan is forty six hundred. And the Platinum Companion policy is$ 2, 300. Yep. So it's just under 8, 000. Speaker 2 00:04:47 Okay, um. Did you uh did you send an email already. I do. Oh, okay. Let me wait for it to. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:05:02 Oh, there you go. Okay. I see, okay. Yeah, I do receive the email now. Um, I'll go ahead and give a heads up to Katrina because. Speaker 2 00:05:15 U m, she's currently out of the country, But I'll just give her a heads up that the quote has been sent already. Okay. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:05:23 Okay, thanks. Of course, no problem. Yeah. Uh, Speaker 2 00:05:29 Thank you, Edward. I'll just give you a call if there's anything else that we need. Very well. Okay, thanks Edward. Have a good day.
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- Date & Time: 2026-06-10 11:50:12 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: David Aberra (Newmark) ## Overview This consultation is with David Aberra, Director of Support and Operations at Newmark. Newmark has taken over property management for the office at 333 S Grand Avenue, Suite 1500, Los Angeles, which was previously managed by CBRE or Brookfield. David seeks clarity on the scope of technology services provided by Crimson IT at this site. His primary concern is ensuring connectivity and a smooth operational transition for Newmark’s users—especially internet circuits—since he believes the prior Cogent circuit was disconnected by CBRE. His goal is to schedule a technical meeting to review the existing infrastructure and plan for his team’s operational needs. ## Background David Aberra is the Director of Support and Operations at Newmark. Newmark is the new property manager for the building at **333 S Grand Avenue, Suite 1500, Los Angeles, CA** (Wells Fargo Center). The property was previously managed by **Brookfield** and then **CBRE**, during which Crimson IT provided technology services. David initiated this call to engage Crimson IT and understand current services—particularly internet connectivity—to support Newmark’s transition. ## Pain Points The primary pain point is **uncertainty about the existing technology infrastructure and services at the newly managed property**, which complicates the operational transition. This is especially critical for internet connectivity. David believes the previous **Cogent circuit was disconnected by CBRE**, potentially leaving Newmark without service. As a result, they may need to order a new circuit without knowing whether a usable one already exists. The impact includes potential delays in getting users operational, unnecessary costs if existing services can be leveraged, and an inefficient transition. Stakeholders include David’s Support and Operations team and Newmark users who will work in the office. ## Expectations David expects to **establish a direct line of communication with Crimson IT’s technical team** supporting 333 S Grand Avenue. His specific goal is to **schedule a meeting for June 11, 2026** to review technology services in detail. He wants to understand the current infrastructure, especially internet circuits, to determine how users will operate in the new office. Success for this interaction is a confirmed meeting with the appropriate technical personnel to address infrastructure questions. ## Other Information Summary - The customer’s full name is David Aberra. - The customer’s company is Newmark. - The property is known as the Wells Fargo Center and was previously managed by Brookfield and CBRE. - The customer’s email: David.Aberra@nmrk.com. ## To-Do List - [ ] Send an introductory email to David Aberra (David.Aberra@nmrk.com) and the onsite engineer for the property. - [ ] Coordinate with the onsite engineer to confirm availability for a meeting on June 11, 2026. - [ ] Propose meeting times to David Aberra and his team to discuss technology services at 333 S Grand Avenue. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client’s biggest pain point as a lack of clarity about the existing technology infrastructure and services at the newly managed property, especially internet connectivity. Consider the following: > 1. Prepare a “Site Technology Overview” document before the meeting, detailing all active/inactive services, including internet circuits (provider, bandwidth, status), network hardware, and any managed services. This directly addresses David’s primary questions and demonstrates preparedness. > 2. In the initial email, include the name and title of the primary onsite engineer to personalize the connection and assure David he’ll engage with the right subject-matter expert. > 3. In the meeting, present a concise “Transition Plan” with options to reactivate the old circuit, leverage existing infrastructure, or install a new dedicated Newmark circuit, including timelines and cost estimates. This steers the conversation toward solutions and execution.
- Date
- Jun 10, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:03 Hello. Hi David, this is April with Crimson IT returning your call. Speaker 1 00:00:06 Hey April, how are you? Speaker 2 00:00:08 I'm good. How are you? Speaker 1 00:00:10 Good good. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Okay so yeah, I received your email regarding a property in Los Angeles that your team manages and that we currently support. So I wasn't able to identify which property you were referring to from the message. So was I hoping you could provide a property. Name or yeah, Speaker 1 00:00:30 This is the only office. Give me one second. Let's see here. Okay, um, Speaker 3 00:00:55 This is one that. Speaker 1 00:01:00 I think CBRE or uh they used to be in there. And uh I guess we took over? Oh, this is the the address is 333 S Grand Avenue Suite 1500. Speaker 2 00:01:17 S Tenth Avenue you said? Speaker 1 00:01:20 333 S Grand Avenue Suite 1500. That's in Los Angeles, California. Speaker 2 00:01:29 Suite fifteen hundred. Okay. One second. Let me check. Speaker 3 00:01:40 South. Uh, Speaker 2 00:01:52 I'm sorry for the address after south, Did you say tenth like the number ten, South tenth? Speaker 1 00:01:59 Uh, sorry. I must take one second. Speaker 3 00:02:08 Um, I. Speaker 1 00:02:17 Mean, how many offices do you guys support in Los Angeles? You have many buildings. Speaker 2 00:02:21 Um, yeah we do and for CBRE we have a handful as well. Speaker 1 00:02:25 It's not CBRE though. I'm I'm, I'm with Newmark, so this should be under. The building is under the property management is now Newmark. Newmark. I was just telling you, I was just giving you background. I believe CBRE was there before, maybe you guys were helping support that as well, I'm not sure. Uh. Speaker 2 00:02:50 Okay yeah but yeah could you could, Help me clarify the address so I can maybe check by the address. Speaker 1 00:02:60 Three three three, South Grand Avenue. Oh, grand! Yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:07 Gotcha. Okay, one sec. South Grand Avenue. I think that address looks familiar to me. Speaker 2 00:03:30 Oh, it's W F C the Wells Fargo. Center. I'm sorry. Uh, what we have here is uh for, previously it was Brookfield Wells Fargo Center. Or I think that was called. I'm not sure what you're asking me. No, I'm just telling you that the address that I found is listed under Brookfield. Um. Wells Fargo Center, or I think now it's called um it's now listed under CBRE, but let me just double check here. But anyway, well I was I'm looking for the confirmation here. Is there anything that you need from us? That's why Well yeah, Speaker 1 00:04:17 I did a You're a technology company correct? You provide technology services uh here in this building. Speaker 2 00:04:23 Yes we do. Speaker 1 00:04:25 Okay perfect so again, I'm with Newmark. I'm the Director of Support and Operations globally. So, as you have take as you're providing the technology service, I wanted to talk to some of your folks or maybe Teo or others, what exactly you're providing. I wanted to discuss how our users will work in that office. You know, what circuits are, you know, I think there's a cogent circuit there that CBRE disconnected. Speaker 1 00:04:58 So, we are ordering a circuit. Or do you already have a circuit that we can leverage? It's just I just wanted to touch base with the technology team who was supporting that building. Speaker 2 00:05:12 Okay. Um, yeah, So I think I can go ahead and connect you to one of our engineers who's the onsite person for that building. Would you mind, if you provide me your email address and then we'll coordinate from there? Speaker 1 00:05:29 Yeah, so first name is David D A V I D. Dot A as an apple B as in boy E as an elephant. R A at N M R K dot com. So that's David dot Aberra at N like Nancy M like Mary. R like reverse, K like kite. N M R K dot com. Speaker 2 00:05:58 Gotcha. Okay, yeah, I'll reach out to our engineer who's in charge, And then Do, Speaker 1 00:06:05 You have the can you repeat the email for me? I just want to make sure because sometimes these things get lost. Speaker 2 00:06:11 Oh. Yes, that's David Oh sorry Um yeah that's David dot Abera That's A like apple B like boy E like elephant. Um, Double R and an A at N like Nancy M like Mary R K dot com. Correct. Speaker 1 00:06:30 Correct. Yeah, David dot Aberra at NMRK. Yeah, that's correct. Okay, thank you. So yeah, if if we can, yeah, if you can send an email to me, and I want to add a couple people from my side, and maybe we could set up a meeting to discuss. Uh, maybe tomorrow. Uh, that would be helpful. Speaker 2 00:06:49 Okay, yeah. Um, I'll definitely check on their schedule as well, and you'll let you know if they're available tomorrow. If not, um, We can work on some some other times that we would work for both parties. Sure. Sure. Alright, okay. Um, thanks for calling us David and I'll just give you an update via email. Speaker 1 00:07:08 All right Thank you so much. You have a good one. Speaker 2 00:07:10 Okay You too Thanks Bye bye.
04-29 Meeting: Cybersecurity Incident Response Tabletop Exercise
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-04-29 13:00:22 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] ### Meeting Notes #### Personal and Professional Updates - Speaker 3 shared that her daughter is graduating high school and that they finalized an adoption in August. The family also has a meeting with DCFS as they are considering fostering another child. - Speaker 3 has been working heavily on AI projects for three clients and is rarely at the Crimson headquarters. - Speaker 2 mentioned signing a quote for an enterprise-level Claude license and is waiting for the next steps on the rollout. - Speaker 3 confirmed she will assist with the Claude rollout and is currently working on something within the platform. #### Claude AI Implementation - Speaker 2 expressed that Suzanne was "sold" on Claude after a demo, particularly its data analysis capabilities, which are seen as a vital tool for the company. - Speaker 3 shared her personal blog, `AdaptToIT.com`, where she is writing a series on Claude agents. An article from this series has also been published on the Crimson blog. #### Tabletop Exercise on Cybersecurity Incident Response - Speaker 3 facilitated a structured tabletop exercise to test the company's response to security incidents, designed to meet compliance standards (e.g., ISO, FINRA, HIPAA) and cybersecurity insurance requirements. - **Ground Rules:** The session was recorded for internal use, with Speaker 3 as a neutral facilitator, Mike (Speaker 5) representing Crimson IT, and all participants speaking from their actual roles. - **Technology Environment Overview:** - **Productivity:** Microsoft 365 with Exchange Online, SharePoint, and Teams. - **Security:** Huntress for endpoint security. - **Backup:** Datto SaaS Protection for Microsoft 365 data, backed up twice daily. - **Training:** KnowBe4 for phishing simulation. - **Infrastructure:** Fully cloud-based with Meraki network equipment on-premise. #### Scenario 1: Cybersecurity Ransomware Attack - **Scenario:** A staff member reports a slow laptop and strange file extensions at 8:30 AM. By 9:00 AM, Huntress quarantines activity on two other devices, and a ransom note for $50,000 in Bitcoin appears with a 72-hour deadline. - **Initial Response Protocol:** - **Notification:** Speaker 2 would first notify Crimson IT via the help desk, then inform Suzanne. Staff would be alerted via Slack and group text, as email might be compromised. - **Technical Response (Crimson IT):** A ticket would be created and triaged to the security team. Mike would act as an escalation point. Data restoration time depends on factors like mailbox size, with the internal expert, Azlon, responsible. - **Ransom and External Communication:** - The decision to pay the ransom would be made by Suzanne, likely after consulting the board's executive committee. Decisions on involving the FBI or CISA would also be deferred to Suzanne. - Either Speaker 2 or Speaker 4 would contact the insurance carrier via their broker (True Core) at Suzanne's direction. Hard copies of the policy and contact info are at Kevin’s desk. - **Breach Communication (Post-Decision):** If not paying the ransom, Suzanne would immediately inform the board chair and executive committee. Communication to unaffected staff would be on a "need to know" basis. It was noted that insurance providers often supply a "breach coach." - **Conclusion:** The organization lacks a formal, written policy for this type of incident, highlighting the need to create one. #### Scenario 2: Microsoft Service Outage - **Scenario:** A regional outage causes all Microsoft services (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint) to be down for 4-8 hours. - **Response:** - Internal communication would rely on a "phone chain" and group texts, using hard copies of staff contact numbers. - Office workers would be unable to perform most tasks, halting business operations. - VIP stakeholder communication would be managed by Suzanne via cellular phone. Field personnel would be contacted via walkie-talkies or cell phones. - Some functions like bookkeeping (Xero) and accounts payable (Bill.com) could continue if not tied to email for 2FA. - **Conclusion:** An extended outage would require all coordination to happen via phone and text. The discussion raised the need for backup, non-Microsoft email addresses for emergencies. #### Scenario 3: Office Closure Due to Gas Leak - **Scenario:** The main office is closed for 24-72 hours due to a gas leak. - **Response:** - Staff would be notified of the shift to remote work via a text chain. - Since operations are cloud-based, most staff can work remotely and remain fully functional. Employees use their own computers, for which the company reimburses approved antivirus software. - A secondary service center is available for printing needs. - In Suzanne's absence, Nick Griffin is authorized to approve remote work for all staff. - A prolonged closure (5+ days) is not expected to materially impact operations, as staff are experienced with remote work. - **System and Document Accessibility:** The phone system forwards voicemails to email, and an app mirrors the office line. Nearly all critical documents are digitized and cloud-based. - **Event and Workspace Alternatives:** A scheduled community event could proceed if not in the affected building. Informal alternate workspaces include a secondary office at 640 South Olive and the U.S. Bank Tower conference center. #### Policy Updates and Documentation Review - The "Cyber and Data Security Incident Response Plan" from 2024 needs to be updated and distributed to all staff. - Christy will write a report on the meeting for review by Michael and Speaker 2 before it is presented to Suzanne. - After approval, Christy will rewrite the cybersecurity policy and create a new comprehensive IT policy, incorporating an updated staff contact list. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 2 will call the help desk about a laptop sign-in issue for Microsoft apps. - [ ] Speaker 2 to send the updated key contact list to Christy by April 30, 2026. - [ ] Speaker 2 will review the company's cybersecurity insurance coverage to better understand its specifics. - [ ] Christy will send a meeting report to Michael and Speaker 2 for review. - [ ] Christy will update the cybersecurity policy and create a new IT policy after receiving feedback and the contact list. - [ ] Christy will provide a copy of the meeting transcript summary. - [ ] Create a formal, written incident response policy and maintain hard copies. - [ ] Consider establishing a backup communication method, such as collecting personal email addresses for emergency notifications. - [ ] Clarify who has the authority to officially activate a remote work posture for the organization. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The company does not have a formalized policy on whether to pay a ransom, deferring the decision entirely to one person in a crisis. The specifics of the cybersecurity insurance policy, including coverage for an incident response coach or forensics, were also unknown. > 2. It was unclear if any grant funding or contractual obligations require a breach notification, and no action was assigned to determine this. > 3. The exact recovery time objective (RTO) for restoring data from backups was not clearly defined. > 4. The authority to activate a remote work posture for the entire organization was discussed but not explicitly assigned, though a backup person (Nick Griffin) was named. > 5. The security risks of using personal email for business continuity were raised, but no clear policy or guidelines were established. > 6. The alternate workspace plan is informal, with no formalized procedure for activating these spaces in an emergency. > 7. Hard copy records from 2017 are not digitized. While considered low-impact for a short-term closure, a plan for their eventual digitization could mitigate future risks.
- Date
- Apr 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:20 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was shot in black and white. Speaker 2 00:00:30 The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. Kevin! Christy. My goodness, cause you live and breathe. Speaker 1 00:00:35 I know it's been busy. Speaker 2 00:00:37 It has been forever in a day. Yes. Speaker 2 00:00:41 Oh, it's so good to see you. Speaker 3 00:00:44 It's good to see you as well. Speaker 2 00:00:46 Thank you, thank you. How is life treating you these days? Speaker 3 00:00:50 Good. My daughter is graduating from high school this year. I know, right? Speaker 2 00:00:57 Suzanne's daughter is graduating from college this month. I mean, the years. It just like. I know. Speaker 3 00:01:06 It feels like yesterday when I was telling you I'm going to foster a kid. And then. Now we finalized the adoption back in August, and she's been with me. Yeah. She's been with me for two years. Um, she is oh here here's a picture. Speaker 2 00:01:23 Please. Oh, wow. She is a beautiful looking. Speaker 2 00:01:31 That's a proud moment. Speaker 3 00:01:32 Yeah, so it's it's great like. I, we are actually we have a meeting with D C F S uh this evening, which is why I why I am at home. Because we are taking it on another kid, so I'm gonna do one more. Speaker 2 00:01:48 You are amazing. You're absolutely amazing. The gift of love, I mean, that's truly, I mean, one of the greatest gifts ever. Speaker 3 00:01:54 So you know Thanks. U m, but yeah, things are going really well. I've been doing a lot with AI. Um, stepping back into my compliance hat for you guys. Um, I've got uh three clients that I am heavily working through soum. I'm on site with them. I'm never at the Crimson headquarters anymore. Speaker 2 00:02:16 Wow. So wow. Speaker 3 00:02:18 Just today, Speaker 2 00:02:18 I was in work from home. Well, and good for you. And you have a little bit of flexibility that way. Then I guess which is really really nice. Yeah. And that's fantastic. And of course, We had just signed the quote for the enterprise level Claude and just waiting to hear from you all in terms of what the next steps are and how. How this is all going to roll out? Speaker 3 00:02:39 Yes, actually you're waiting on me. So I've been doing a lot of the AI rollouts. I just actually attended a meeting today on Claude, and how other companies are using it. Just to you know, I guess I like jump into those meetings and things like that. U m, So I I do have that andum I'll be helping you guys roll out Clod. In fact, I'm actually working on something in Clod right now. Great, great. So, Speaker 2 00:03:08 Yeah, I know Suzanne's looking forward to that. She was really sold on it when Fern and I got together, and he just sort of walked her through and did a little bit of a demo. And she was totally on board. And I guess the big thing, of course, for us which will be a vital tool is the ability to analyze data. I know that that's something Suzanne because it's just amazing the speed at which it can analyze. That is amazing, and so yeah, I know she's interested in getting that out to the company for the rest of the uh. For my coworkers, so yeah, that'd be great. Looking forward to it. Speaker 3 00:03:42 Yeah, I stuck aum. I stuck out a. Web site up there, That's my personal blog that I where I do a lot about AI and stuff like that. There is a. I am doing a series on Claude agents right now. So. I there is one in there. Uh, Anzor had it published to our Crimson blog, so it is in there. Speaker 2 00:04:06 Okay, great. Appreciate you sharing that with me. Yeah. Will Mike be joining us today? Is it going to be the three of us? Speaker 3 00:04:15 He's supposed to be joining because this is gonna be a tabletop exercise, but. Um, that I run with clients and and I really need the the. The crimson person in here. Speaker 2 00:04:27 Okay, all right. Well, no worries. No worries. We can give it a couple minutes then. And I know he did reach out to me last night. Wasn't sure in the event that he said, it might be more than an hour. I can't speak for Michael. Michael might have other meetings. U m, But I'm more than happy if we need to run over by a couple minutes. I'm more than happy to stay on. Speaker 4 00:04:45 Yeah, I can stay on as well. Speaker 2 00:04:47 Okay, that's great. I appreciate that. The name of the town is derived from the river. So what is what is that? Is that adapt o i t dot com? Speaker 3 00:05:03 Adapt two I T. Speaker 2 00:05:05 Oh, adapt to it. Speaker 2 00:05:23 The City is located in the central part of the island. Well, it says the site can't be reached. I don't know. Speaker 3 00:05:28 Oh, let me let me check something because I am in it. Speaker 2 00:05:33 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I inadvertently put adapt in two and put two t's in there. Never mind. Here we go. So you guys do, um, you're doing is uh so this is like a blog and articles. Speaker 3 00:05:52 Things I write. Speaker 2 00:05:54 This for you that you write. And this is all you? Yes. Wow. Yeah. It's a nice little body of work you've made there. Thank you. It's fantastic. Save this to look because this could. Speaker 3 00:06:12 Let me see where Mike is. Yeah. Maybe he is running a little late. Speaker 2 00:06:19 He didn't tell me he was going to be running late, but it's certainly understandable with him. I can only imagine. Speaker 3 00:06:27 I sent him over the exercise and he never even responded to that one. Oh, Speaker 2 00:06:32 It's interesting. Okay. Yeah. I am not a strict man, I have no problems. Speaker 1 00:06:57 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:07:03 Christy, I'm going to be finished with our meeting this afternoon. I've got a time sensitive request. I'm going to be calling the help desk. Okay, you guys don't provide like security support for laptops, but we have a. Big event tomorrow morning. First thing in the morning, we need to choose our laptop. And one we're having an issue, and I ran into this issue in the past with. Laptop for some reason. When I log in, If you try to log into yourum into any of the Microsoft apps like Excel, or you know Word or something. It prompts you to sign in. You go through the whole sign in procedure, but then it always comes back with an error and says it can't. Log you in, So I don't know, is that an issue that you're familiar with as to why that might happen. Speaker 3 00:07:51 I'm gonna wanna dig into that one myself. Um. Speaker 2 00:07:56 No worries. Like I said, I'll follow up with the help desk first thing as soon as we're done here. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:08:06 Sorry, guys. It's better late than never. Speaker 2 00:08:11 Well, no, that's it's like last time that that Zoom meeting. I don't get a pop on my calendar so. Well, you know, you just you just seem fashionably late. So now the party we can start the party. You are here. Speaker 5 00:08:23 I appreciate the grace. Al right, Michael. Sorry, Kevin. No worries. No worries, Mike. Speaker 3 00:08:28 No worries. Um So basically, we're going to run this as a true tabletop exercise because honestly, it is. Um, let me get my document. I had it up and then I I went back to Claude to work on something real quick. And then I pinged. Mike and then I lost the document. Um, so real quickly, what we do on a tabletop exercise, we usually run these as a compliancyum. Type situation we try to make them structured so that, It passes any and all audits that you might have or will have in the future. So if stakeholders or board requires it, or cybersecurity insurance requires it. We can provide them with that report, and it's usually done yearly. We don't do it for everybody, And I'll explain that not every client needs to have it done because they may not have. Speaker 3 00:09:23 Compliancy that they need to follow through on or anything along those lines, but we are providing it to you guys today. This is something that DTLA definitely needs to get done. And then I once we are done with the scenario, I will go back and write you an official report, and that will get sent to you. I'll sign off on it, and then if you have any questions, let me know. I do have some ground rules for you. Um, I won't speak because well, I will speak, but I won't jump in and say, Well, this is how Clemson is going to do that. That is Mike's job. So Mike is going to be representing Clemson IT. I'm representing as a neutral party. Um, so even though I know you guys well and I have, well, I've worked on your account for the four years that I've been at Crimson. Uh, in this case, I'm going to be stepping back and just. Being in my role of a neutral. Speaker 3 00:10:15 Observer and a neutral facilitator. Now, there is no wrong answers, so it is a learning exercise. There's no wrong answers. You are free to say we need to take this back and figure this out with Suzanne or anyone else that you need to speak to. Um, I want you to each of you speak from your role as you would in a real incident. So Mike will speak as his role as your account manager and your key contact. Uh, both uh Kevin and. Michael will be speaking from their own roles. Anything that you don't know the answer to, just say so. And you are free to do so. Any action items captured today will be tracked in ConnectWise. And then my next question is, are you guys okay if I? Record this on my end. You won't see the recording. You won't know that I am recording, but are you okay with the recording? I just need both of you to say out loud, yes. Speaker 2 00:11:09 Yes, I don't have an issue. Michael? Speaker 4 00:11:15 Yes, You have my permission. Speaker 3 00:11:17 Awesome. I am not going to take Mike's permission. He's just going to have to bring me a cold diet Dr Pepper too. Speaker 5 00:11:23 Real quick, not wine. Not going to. So, just real quick, in my answers, just be mindful. I am still fairly new with DTLA. So just because I may not have the answer, that doesn't mean someone at Crimson doesn't have the answer. Correct. All right. Speaker 2 00:11:43 We're getting set up like this is some kind of a doctoral dissertation, like some kind of defense. Speaker 3 00:11:49 I do make it that way officially, just so that there's no if you get audited and Trust me, you guys have. I don't have any worries about you. This is how I run it for our clients that are ISO compliant or FINRA compliant or HIPAA. This is how I run it for them, So I am going to give you guys the same treatment and want to make it make it strong. And full proof. So okay, I am going to go over your technology environment real quick. If it goes over your head, completely understandable. But I am going to try to make it in a way, you guys will understand it. So please stop me. Um, if you have any questions, your productivity apps is Microsoft three sixty five with Exchange Online. You use SharePoint and Teams for file retention. Speaker 3 00:12:37 Technically, you use Teams, but SharePoint is the backbone to how you save your documents and use them. Your endpoint security, Meaning the software that keeps you safe from bad actors like ransomware or any type of hacks or any type of phishing and stuff like that, is Huntress. Which was a change from last year because last year it was Sophos. You are backing up your Microsoft data using Datto SaaS Protection within Office three hundred and sixty five. It is backed up twice daily and it is replicated by a cloud. Your security training is Noble for phishing simulation and awareness, which you guys do have the Fish Alert button within your Office uh tools. And then you guys are fully cloud based, so there is no on premise servers. So we don't have anything physical in your office other than your network equipment, So your firewall, which is Meraki and your APs and your switches, which are all Meraki. Make sense. Speaker 3 00:13:34 Sounds right. All right, so we're going to go through a scenario, and I am going to read aloud the scenario to you guys. Um, I want you guys to discuss it. Hang on one second ;. My screen is on a sleep timer, and it's about to power off on me. So let me fix that. Um, so basically the scenario I give you, I am going to ask you some questions. We're going to have about twelve minutes go over some of this. Um, and the discussion questions once I ask a question. You guys will discuss how, why, where. Just do all the whys. Are all the W's on this? And then what we'll do is we'll just go over it. Anything you don't know. We'll come back to or you'll say, "Hey Chris, I don't know that. Let's get Susanna involved. Let's get so and so involved. Let's get Anser involved." And we will take that. So anything we have following up, we'll do that. You guys ready? Yep. All right. Speaker 3 00:14:33 It's Monday morning. It's eight thirty a m, A staff member notices her laptop is running slow, and some files are showing strange extensions. She calls Kevin instead of the help desk because she is trying to send him a file, and it will not send. By nine a.m. Huntress has quarantined activity on two additional devices. A ransom note appears on one workstation demanding fifty thousand dollars in bitcoin within seventy two hours. It is unknown, whether any data has been exfiltrated, or whether cloud storage has been affected. Now, who is going to get notified first? Speaker 2 00:15:17 Me personally, if this was brought to my attention, I would immediately notify Crimson. That's always going to be number one contact. And then that would be immediately followed by Suzanne. I would be notifying her. Speaker 3 00:15:29 All right. How are you going to contact uh Crimson IT? Speaker 2 00:15:35 I would call the help desk phone number from my mobile. Speaker 3 00:15:39 Okay, awesome. And what is your immediate containment steps? And this is going to be more of amic question. Speaker 5 00:15:46 Okay, so following the process that that Kevin mentioned. We're, assuming something like that would be picked up and identified by Huntress because it actually locked down two of the computers. Um. So hopefully. If Kevin were to reach out to me, I'd be contacting our security team to take point on remediation efforts. Speaker 3 00:16:06 I'm not going to be able to do that. Okay, and who is going to make that call? Speaker 5 00:16:14 Well, if Kevin calls in, that's a ticket to Crimson. So it'll be triaged and sent to the security team. But in the event he called me also, then I would be following up on that, just like an escalation. Speaker 3 00:16:26 Awesome. All right. And then, within that escalation path, since all data lives on Office three hundred and sixty five Kevin, what is yourum, what is your process for learning all the staff? Speaker 2 00:16:47 Process to alerting the staff. Um, well, I couldn't use my email. Um, it would be I would send out a notice to all staff on Slack. Not ifying them of the situation, and I could also send out a group text. Speaker 3 00:17:04 Okay. Since all data lives on Office 365 and SharePoint, how quickly can staff resume work on clean devices? This is going to go back to Mike. Speaker 5 00:17:18 Okay. Wait, what's the question again? Speaker 3 00:17:21 Since all data lives on Office three hundred and sixty five and SharePoint. How quickly can staff reusing work on clean devices? Now let me dig into that one just slightly. Speaker 5 00:17:31 Yeah, go ahead because I have an answer for that, but I am not. It's gonna be kind of generic. So yeah, Speaker 3 00:17:35 So let's say the security team. Has got it handled, but we need to restore from backups. How quickly can we get backups restored, and can staff resume work with their clean devices? Um. Speaker 5 00:17:52 I don't know how long it would take timewise. That'd be we have Azlon internal here who'd be responsible for restoration of email. If email were affected, so I think it's going to be contingent on how big the mailbox is. Speaker 3 00:18:07 Okay, And then is there any risk of attacks spreading by a cloud sync OneDrive SharePoint? Speaker 5 00:18:17 I would consult with Anton and his team. Perfect. Speaker 3 00:18:22 Now, a second staff member reports that she received the same phishing email yesterday. It may have also clicked the attachment, but her device looks normal. She reports this to Michael instead of Kevin and instead of calling Crimson. What is your next steps, Michael? Speaker 4 00:18:42 Uh, first immediately call Crimson. Um, and second notify Kevin Thomas and Suzanne. Hi. Speaker 3 00:18:53 Now, this is going to be an internal DTLA question. Do you pay the ransom? Speaker 2 00:19:03 I'm not at liberty to say that. Speaker 4 00:19:06 I'm I'm not at liberty to say that either. That would be something that only Suzanne could decide. And very likely, I doubt we have this memorialized, but she would. Want to talk to the officers for the board of directors, meaning the executive committee, because they are. In position to act on behalf of the board, um, if there is. If, there's an urgent situation, and it would be logistically difficult to convene the board. You know, with sudden notice. Okay. Speaker 3 00:19:47 Now, would you get the FBI involved or CISA? Speaker 4 00:19:52 Uh, I am not at liberty to answer that question either. We would probably have Suzanne talk to Crimson directly for guidance. Speaker 3 00:20:03 Okay. And, which one of you would be responsible for reaching out to your cybersecurity experts? Speaker 2 00:20:13 Or cybersecurity. I'm sorry, what was that? Speaker 3 00:20:17 Sorry, I've been having issues with my microphone today, and I was about to sneeze at the same time. So I do apologize. Um, who is going to reach out to your cybersecurity insurance carrier? Speaker 2 00:20:29 The insurance carrier, um, well that would either be me or Michael. You know at the direction of Suzanne. Speaker 3 00:20:36 Okay, and you do have the policy and claim number accessible. Yes. Okay. Speaker 4 00:20:43 You don't mean just just to confirm because this is recorded. You don't mean claim number. You mean policy number, correct? Speaker 3 00:20:49 Thank you. Yes. My brain was was thinking. Speaker 4 00:20:51 That's okay. No, because it's recorded, you know, for obvious reasons. Speaker 3 00:20:55 Yes, does your insurance include an incident response coach or forensics team? Speaker 2 00:21:03 I would have to check that. I know that we have cybersecurity coverage. Um, but I don't know the specifics of it. At the moment, Speaker 4 00:21:14 And I would agree with that. And I would also say that in an incident such as this, we have hard copies of the policies. If we're unable to access any of the policies online, we would still have access to the policy wording. We would still have access to the phone number for the insurance carrier and our. Um, what's what's the word Kevin? Uh, True Core is our insurance broker. Speaker 2 00:21:40 Is our broker. Broker. Broker. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:21:42 So we have all of that as hard copies readily available. At Kevin Thomas's desk. Speaker 2 00:21:49 And with Michael saying that, Christy, yeah, I mean in terms of reaching out to our insurance carrier, I would be reaching out to our insurance broker. They always serve as a point of contact for all the carriers for our organization. Speaker 3 00:22:03 Okay, Now in the event that you lose all of your data and you cannot restore from backup. A week's worth of data because it started going before you realized it. Will your insurance coverage cover the amount needed for any losses within the week of data that's missing? Speaker 2 00:22:24 That is a good question that we would need to have Suzanne. Provide. Speaker 1 00:22:31 Gotcha. Okay. Speaker 2 00:22:34 Or I should bear insurance broker Michael. I mean, I guess we need to check with True Corey on that. Okay. But this exercise right now is making me realize that I'm going to sit down here and review our cyber security insurance coverage just to sort of. Get a better understanding of it. Speaker 3 00:22:51 Good, that is actually the purpose, one of the purposes of this tabletop is to make you guys think. Hey, what is it that I got to know right away? Yes, Speaker 2 00:23:00 Right away. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:23:01 Yes. What is your communication plan? Let's say you Suzanne did not reach out to the board or anyone. And she's already decided," Hey, we're not going to pay this." When do you notify board members? And do you? Speaker 2 00:23:18 Well, I can tell you, like when I have worked directly with Suzanne for many years now, and I can assure you that that would never be the case. Suzanne would be on the phone immediately. With at least our board chair right off the bat, and then would be reaching out to our executive committee. That that would be like yeah. No questions on that. Speaker 3 00:23:39 Now, How are you going to communicate this? Or are you going to communicate this to staff that's not directly affected? Speaker 4 00:23:48 Well, again, that's also a question for Susie. Um, and I would I would say it's on a need to know basis. Speaker 3 00:23:56 Gotcha. Does any grant funding or contractual obligation require breach notification? Oh. Speaker 4 00:24:09 I don't know the answer to that. Can I chime in? Speaker 5 00:24:14 When you when you talk to insurance Karen, you find out if you guys have a breach coach. A lot of times they take point on that. They'll quarterback the whole response and proper methods. Okay, Speaker 4 00:24:24 That's good to know. Speaker 3 00:24:26 And we do work closely with any breach coach that you would have, although we never had to at this point yet. Um, but we would work with them so. Speaker 3 00:24:38 All right. What documentation do you need to preserve for your cybersecurity insurance, your board of directors, or any contractual obligations you may have? Do you need to preserve timeline of events, decisions made, evidence? Do you need to involve your legal team? What is it from here? Anything that I haven't answered that you, or anything I haven't asked that you. Have come to mind on this. Speaker 4 00:25:07 U m, I I would say we don't have a formal policy in place, and I think. This tabletop exercise, I think, should compel us to. Have something in writing, and especially a hard copy form. Speaker 3 00:25:28 Now, good job on the first scenario. We're only going to do two scenarios today. So, on this. On the next scenario, it's going to be a little bit different. We're not going to talk about ransomware, so a little bit of breather on that one. Sorry, I was about to sneeze again. I don't know what's up with allergies lately. Speaker 5 00:25:54 I blame your cats. Your cats. Speaker 3 00:25:57 I blame my cats. We have three now. One is to set up my uh laser jet printer as a very comfortable pillow right now. So, um, it's Tuesday at one p.m. Staff begin reporting Outlook is not loading and team calls are dropping. I know you guys don't use Teams, but let's pretend you use Teams. Microsoft service health dashboard confirms a regional outage affecting all Exchange Online and Teams. Microsoft estimates a four to eight hour restoration window. All cloud-hosted email and communication is down. Speaker 3 00:26:37 A board update and a community safety report are scheduled for today for you guys to get out. Okay, How do you communicate internally when pretend that you guys are on Teams and not Slack? Are both down and email. Speaker 4 00:26:57 I'm sorry, maybe I missed this. Are cellular towers also down? Speaker 3 00:27:01 No, just everything Microsoft related. Speaker 4 00:27:03 Okay, um. Speaker 4 00:27:08 Kevin, why don't you go first? Speaker 2 00:27:12 Well, you know, Again, aside from doing some form of a text to group text because if Microsoft was down, I wouldn't even be able to send an email even on my mobile phone. So I would have to say, I mean, we do have you know a phone chain. Yeah, that would be old school. You know, just start making the phone calls. And or supplement that with a group text if possible. Speaker 3 00:27:41 Okay, and you do have personal cell phone numbers for key staff? Yes. Yes, Speaker 4 00:27:48 And I do as well. And, we have hard copies that have been provided to all the other members of staff as well. Um, so everybody should have a paper copy. Speaker 3 00:27:58 Okay, can staff continue to work? Effectively without Office three sixty five. What functions are most impacted now? Remember, Microsoft is completely down, so documents and SharePoint are inaccessible. Speaker 2 00:28:14 We wouldn't be able to do anything. Speaker 4 00:28:16 Yeah, for four to eight hours, it would become. A triage, communication exercise with staff. With any VIP stakeholders that might be expecting that email, in your example, you know. U h, probably just giving them a phone call via cellular phone. A lot of that would probably go through Suzanne. But yeah, we would be down without Microsoft. Speaker 3 00:28:51 How would you dispatch employees that work out in the field, um, in different. Types of employee and job functions similar to that. Speaker 4 00:29:03 When you say in the field, can you clarify what that means? Speaker 3 00:29:06 Any staff member that doesn't work regularly in the office. Maybe at your second site, maybe they're out. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:29:15 Yeah, so to clarify, there are only two members of our organization's employees. That work at a location different than six hundred Wilshire. We also have a work home. Flex time policy. For employees, so many employees may be working from home, um on the date of this potential incident. Um, So in the field would generally apply to six forty south olive as our second location. Or any of the twelve employees'personal homes. That's what I would say. So, I actually don't think their physical location is that important in this scenario. Speaker 3 00:30:01 Got you. Speaker 2 00:30:02 And like, hold on a second, Chris. I'm just wanting to clarify. So you know, we're talking about strictly all Outlook or all Microsoft down. We would still have the the radio radio server. We'd be able to do communications, right? Speaker 4 00:30:16 Yes. Yeah. So but but theum yeah because the question specifically said employees Kevin Oh got it. Speaker 2 00:30:24 Yeah, got it. Got it. Speaker 4 00:30:25 We have third party contractors that work out of our second office, but they are not D T A Alliance employees. Right, and only a limited number of them would have. Devices that crimson services that would be impacted by Microsoft, they all have radios. And they they all have cell phones, So typically, what would happen for those personnel that are actually out in the field, meaning. Speaker 4 00:30:57 Within our business improvement district, but out on the sidewalks and the streets, and patrol cars and all of that. Would either be walkie talkies, cellular phones, or a combination of both to get to get the word out. For those impacted, you know, because if it's Microsoft specifically. Many of those third party employees may not be impacted at all because they don't have computers that they use during the time that they. Work on behalf of our contracts. Gotcha. Speaker 3 00:31:26 Good. So at this point, I've got to ask a question: What business portions of DTLA is going to be impacted by Microsoft and Amazon? Speaker 3 00:31:43 Um. Just office workers and not. At DTLA as a whole, not just employees but the entirety of the business, what is going to be impacted? Speaker 4 00:31:53 For forty eight hours. Um, if that's the presumed downtime in this exercise, um. Yeah, we would have no email communication ability because everything is through Outlook. Um. And. So any communications that we would want to get out to our stakeholders would have to just be on the phone if it's an emergency situation. Um. I don't. Yeah, beyond that, I couldn't really say. But ultimately, the business of the DTLA Alliance for the office workers would. Essentially, be on hold unless there were any other things that didn't require. Microsoft, and it's hard for me to think what those might be. Probably, um. AP could continue because that's not Microsoft related. Speaker 4 00:32:50 So we have, you know, Our bookkeeping in zero X E R O, and we have our accounts payable system in Bill dot com. Those are not Microsoft related. Um, Unless two factor authentication was set up, and it had to send a confirmation to somebody's email. But I think in most cases, it would actually be to people's cell phones as two F A. Kevin, I'm trying to think what else. Speaker 2 00:33:21 And well, I mean no, that's pretty much it. I mean from an administrative office point of view, we would not be able to communicate by email or anything. So yeah, that's going to limit the. Our ability to do a lot of things, however, in terms of communicating with each other, we have Zoom, we have Slack. So, we would still be able to, you know, host meetings or communicate with each other internally as a team. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:33:46 Okay, now I'm gonna interject. I've got a. Add to the scenario, and this is on purpose. This happened in late October. So, very late October, during this time Microsoft updates their outage. It goes on for an extra twenty four hours outside of that forty eight hour window, so add on to that. During this time, within the first twenty four hours, the L A Dodgers won their third consecutive World Series. Speaker 3 00:34:17 And they are requesting now at this point for their parade to happen. You guys are being brought into the mix. You still have Microsoft outages, which means by the way. Ah, The city of L A is also experiencing those same outages because they are too also Microsoft. How are you going to coordinate, keep the business going, and bring in a world series parade? Speaker 4 00:34:42 That would all be done through. Speaker 4 00:34:46 Through text or cell phone calls or landline calls. To for example. Uh, Council District 14 staff, that's our council district. Uh, anybody in the mayor's office. Um. Anybody with any of the city departments, LAPD. Um, once again, Suzanne would likely be taking point on that with our V I P stakeholders. U m, to say you know, would we want this to still happen on this date? If you know email communication is going to be impossible. So it would all have to be done basically over phone or text. Speaker 3 00:35:30 Good, and and by the way, the LA Dodgers would also be affected because they are definitely on Microsoft. I don't think anything's changed in the last four seasons since I left them. Um. At what point does Crimson need to send Susanna bottle of wine? Speaker 4 00:35:48 That's a good question. Um. I. Speaker 2 00:35:54 Would stamp that VIP, and I would make sure she got it real soon. Yeah, I could resist. You know, I have to say, though, now, so this is really, really, you know, this. This exercise is interesting because it's it's thought provoking. And so you know, laying out this entire scenario where Microsoft. Like the entire platform, Which is basically you know our founding platform right for the way we we operate day in and day out. You know this begs the question then, does the organization maybe have a some kind of a backup email like iCloud dot com or something that in the event Microsoft were completely down that we would still be able to communicate as long as we had internet. Speaker 3 00:36:35 So that is a good question, and that one I can tell you from. Exp erience and past quite a number of clients that I've walked through. This have realized, let's get our staff's personal emails. And let's get them recorded and printed and added to our playbook. I. Speaker 4 00:36:55 Have a question regarding that, though, especially when it comes to trying to share documents. You know, with the good intention that you would move things forward, if you are using personal email. That is not supported by crimson, and there is no cybersecurity. How are you going to prevent? Viruses and phishing attempts and all the rest of it from impacting employees' personal emails, and doesn't that also open up a can of worms? In terms of liability and exposure, so I would think. That, since we would still have slack, and we would still have things that are organizational. Softwares. Speaker 4 00:37:38 Not personal softwares, I think we would likely go in the direction of saying that's how things should be communicated in the short term. Speaker 3 00:37:48 Yes, and I did not get it. I was. I should have added to that. Um. Be very careful of what you are sending. No, of course, no PHI, nothing like that. But it is a good way of communication to your teams.:" of Hey X Y and Z is happening." Here is our next plan. Without divulging any pertinent information that could be considered confidential or restricted. So. Um, now these are meant to be. Thought provoking. We actually have time for one more scenario. Are you guys overwhelmed or you feel like you could take on one more scenario? Speaker 4 00:38:30 I definitely feel like I could. Kevin, I can too. Go ahead. Speaker 3 00:38:35 All right, so it's Wednesday morning. It is not October by the way at this point, but it's Wednesday morning. Staff arrive at the office to find the building has been closed by emergency services following a gas leak in the utility corridor. The closure is expected to last twenty four to seventy two hours. Staff cannot access the building or their office workspaces. There's no injuries, the timeline is uncertain, several grant reporting deadlines are due this week, and a public community event is scheduled for Thursday. Speaker 3 00:39:07 How are staff notified that the office is closed and remote work is in effect? Speaker 4 00:39:14 Once again, that would likely be via text chain to all members of staff. Um. The two individuals that work in the offsite office at six forty south olive would take the point to communicate to the third party contractors, who. Once again, on a need to know basis because many of them. Wouldn't interact with the six hundred Wilshire office on a regular basis, But they do on occasion if they're making a delivery or picking something up and all of that. Um, other than that, one staff has been notified that work from work remotely protocol is in effect. Ah, for an undetermined amount of time, then staff are still expected to to. Speaker 4 00:39:60 Be online within normal business hours, unless they have taken sick time or unless they've taken paid time off. Uh, Kevin, anything else you would add? Speaker 2 00:40:11 No, that sounds exactly right. Michael and you know fortunately with us going to the cloud. I mean that remote work has been a godsend. I mean in terms of us just being able to just fully function. Like we are at our desks, and we also have the service center that has a color copier and. So if there's any printed deliverables or anything like that, we would have that as a back. Speaker 3 00:40:34 Okay. And does all staff have laptops they can use from home? No. Okay. Who would be affected by that and how could we get them laptops? Speaker 4 00:40:46 Well, to be clear, Kevin correct me if I am wrong. There are no company provided laptops. Uh, given to employees. The expectation, if you are to work from home is you are required to provide your own laptop or desktop computer. You are also expected and required to install Kevin. Help me out here. Basically, malware antivirus like Norton or what's the other one, McAfee? Speaker 2 00:41:18 It's a Crimson, yeah, or Bit Defender defender And these are all Crimson approved. Speaker 2 00:41:25 So ftware and the company reimburses the employee, So you know, we we pay for them to ensure that they have that on their home computers. Speaker 4 00:41:33 For for the software on their home computers, there there's no expense reimbursement for the laptops or the desktop computers. If if an employee has requested aum. What's it called? Um, a flexible work schedule. Uh, office home hybrid. They are expected to bring their own laptop or desktop computer. Speaker 3 00:41:58 Okay. Who has the authority to activate a remote work posture for the organization? Speaker 4 00:42:06 Suzanne, that's all. Speaker 4 00:42:09 Okay, Um. Oh, this this does beg the question though if Suzanne were to. Um. Be on uh vacation. Out of the country, not in a good cell reception area or email reception area. And if time was of the essence, I think that would. Still be sent to her, uh with the understanding that if it's time sensitive. Nick Griffin would be the person to. Speaker 4 00:42:45 Con firm for all staff that it's approved to work remotely for an undetermined amount of time until Suzanne's back online. Speaker 3 00:42:53 Okay. Fantastic. And then since all systems are cloud- based. What is the expected time to have all staff fully operational from home? Speaker 4 00:43:08 Um, if any staff members were on route. To the office, for example. Then a grace period would be given for the travel time. It would, it would require each of them to get back to their home, or if they desire. Um, another remote location that's that's closer. For example, a coffee shop. You know, If there's something time sensitive in the morning and they they can't deal with traffic getting back the other way. Speaker 4 00:43:38 U m, I don't think there is a hard rule, Nor would I recommend a hard rule with a specific amount of minutes or hours. Speaker 3 00:43:45 Okay. Now, the building manager calls to say that the closure may extend to five days. How is that gonna affect the business? Speaker 4 00:44:00 It's not going to affect in any material way beyond a one day. Speaker 4 00:44:09 Work ing remotely. Most of the staff, if not all, have been with the organization. Since twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, when you know working remotely was required due to the pandemic. Um, So I don't think there was any additional impact on business operations if it was one day or five days or ten days. Okay. Speaker 3 00:44:37 F antastic. Now, What happens to your phone system if you can't access the office for five days? Speaker 4 00:44:44 It forwards emails eight by eight. If you get a voicemail, we'll send an email, and you can listen to the phone call. You know, from your laptop, from your desktop. If you have Outlook on your phone, you can even listen to it that way. So once again, doesn't affect anything. Speaker 2 00:45:02 And I'm also going to point out, Christy, that APA has an app for the iPhone. So which I have and use, and so when my office line rings, my cell phone rings at the same time. Speaker 3 00:45:17 Now, Are there critical physical documents that are not digitized and are now inaccessible in the office? Speaker 4 00:45:26 I can't think of any. Um, all of our financial statements, all of our. Uh. Speaker 2 00:45:35 Insurance policies, everything we've digitized, especially since we went to the cloud. We really, Speaker 4 00:45:44 The only thing, and it would not impact things in the short term. Is, we do have we have close to thirty eight hundred individual parcels within our business improvement district. There are some very short records. From twenty seventeen that are all paper copies, I cannot foresee that a five day. Um, inability to access those files would impact business operations at all. But but those are the only hard copy files I can think of, Kevin. That we may not have digitized in any form. Speaker 2 00:46:27 That sounds about right, Michael. And, the only thing that I would add from an administrative point of view is my inability to process mail. However, that said, at the beginning of the pandemic, one of the first things I did is. Almost all of our vendors now forward invoices electronically instead of by paper. So, and I do have access to all of our vendor accounts for account. Speaker 3 00:46:52 So what is the plan for the Thursday community event? Are you postponing? Are you canceling? Is it going to go on as planned? Is there any factors that would weigh into the decision for that. Speaker 4 00:47:06 If the community event is not in our building, which was affected by the gas leak, I don't I don't see any reason why it could not go forward. Speaker 3 00:47:17 Now, Do you have an alternate workspace if staff need to be in a shared location? Speaker 4 00:47:25 Not in our, not in our. I am sorry, not outside of our office. Um. If, it was absolutely critical that all staff be in person in the same location at the same time. We have the second office at six forty south olive, might get a little crowded, but we could figure out a way to make that work. I'm sure. Speaker 2 00:47:49 And I think Crimson has a big, nice suite at the U. S. Bank Tower, so. Speaker 3 00:47:54 Yes, yes, and I hear you guys are you know are pretty. Well, into Susan and the team there at Silverstein. Speaker 2 00:48:05 Susan Perlis, yeah, we would probably make use of their conference center for a couple hours. Speaker 3 00:48:09 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:48:12 There's nothing formalized, Christie, but basically I think we'd be okay. Speaker 3 00:48:16 Should. All right. So that ends our scenarios. What do you, What do you guys think are major gaps that we need to work on, based off this conversation. Speaker 2 00:48:29 Me personally, I didn't see any major gaps that were addressed that come to mind. I mean, again, this opportunity has given me some. Pause to look over our cybersecurity coverage and you know, look at some of those kinds of things. But the one thing that I would appreciate then. I s that this wonderful cyber and data security incident response plan that we did back in twenty twenty four That. Maybe we get this up to date, And I would like to get this distributed and just make sure that we were all on the same page. Speaker 3 00:49:09 Yeah, that does look vaguely familiar to me. I wonder who wrote that one. Speaker 3 00:49:15 Ah, we we do definitely need to do that, and that actually will come after this. That'll be part of. A package you'll get. So, after this, I am going to write up the report. I am going to send it over to you guys. Have you sign off, make suggestions, make any changes, answer any questions that I have? And then once that's done, I will rewrite your cybersecurity policy. You guys also need a comprehensive IT policy, which I will also write that for you as well. U m and then, let's uh I'll send all of that over. Do you want me to send it to Suzanne as well? Send. Speaker 2 00:49:54 It to send it to me and Michael first, so we have a chance to review it. We need to make sure that we're able to properly summarize everything for Suzanne. Because I mean, clearly we're going to present all of this to her, but I'd like to make sure we have our eyes on it first. Speaker 3 00:50:07 Yes, I understand. Um, and then do you have a. A staff contact list with numbers that I can use to update the policy and the plans. That you can send over for key contacts. Speaker 2 00:50:24 Yes, I do. And did you want me to utilize the team member, primary team members in this plan that we have here? Because for the most part, they're all the same, except for Luke'son like Brevon. Faith is no longer with us. Yes, but we would certainly want to make one or two updates. Yeah, pretty straightforward. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:50:43 Send over the uh send over any updates you have. And then I'll get that added in. Um, So what I'll be doing is I'll be setting up and sending out that report to you guys. I will update the policy after you return the the uh any updates. Um, send me over anything that you think I need on that, and thenum. Speaker 5 00:51:05 Can I just share something real quick, Chris? Sorry. Kevin Michael, Can I just tell you, this is one of the reasons I love working for Crimson. At my last MSP, we didn't have a Christy. So, it was the owner trying to pull this off for our clients. And and this is all Christy does now. This is like her life. So, I am very thankful that we have Christy moving up to that CIO role because Christy, thank you very much. You've Did an excellent job. Appreciate it. Speaker 2 00:51:32 One hundred percent on board with Mike's comments too. Thank you, Chris. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:51:36 Thank you, guys. I love it. My new role is is, a dream, so. I do more than just this, but Mike's trying to clone me. It hasn't worked yet. But as soon as I told you, Speaker 5 00:51:49 You can get double the wine, double the goodies. Come on. Speaker 3 00:51:53 Right now I need the diet Doctor Pepper. I got a new DCFS inspection happening today, so I hid all the wine bottles in a locked cabinet. There you go. Speaker 3 00:52:06 Just a heads up for you guys. I forgot where I was gonna go with that. Sorry, Mike made me a little flustered. Speaker 5 00:52:14 So, she, you were. They were going to provide you with the phone contact information so you can fill out the form now. Speaker 3 00:52:19 Yes, and I'll I will get all of that over to you guys. Give me about a week or two to get it all finished. Oh. The recording that I did does not uh send out an audio recording. I do not even have access to the audio recording. It is just a transcript maker. And so it transcribes the entire meeting that we have. It will white out any part that is personal data that we were talking about. So the jokes that you guys were making about Mike before he attended, it won't be on there. Um, but I can send over a copy of the transcript. I or summarize of the meeting to for you guys as well. It takes about an hour for that to happen. Speaker 2 00:53:02 That sounds good. I think there'll just be a lot of white outs for the word wine. Speaker 3 00:53:06 Wine, wine. We like our wine. So, I will have to say, what is that? What is that? Sella Rosso. They make a really good non- alcoholic. So. Yes, my daughter loves it. So. Speaker 2 00:53:29 Okay, so Christie, for me then, As soon as we hang up either today or tomorrow morning, I will forward you then the updated contact list for the incident response plan. That's my one thing, and then we will wait to hear from you in terms of a report. Speaker 3 00:53:45 Absolutely. You guys have been a dream. This is one of the easiest tabletops I've done in a while. Speaker 2 00:53:51 Oh, that's awesome. Well, you know, you guys have gotten us a long way. Over the last couple of years, so you know, I mean we're we're in a pretty good solid place and we, you know these kinds of things thankfully you know with your support. We feel that we've got this well organized in terms of something god forbid were to happen. Speaker 3 00:54:07 So Yes, all right, And I'll also be sending over uh the meeting structure that I use. So that you guys have that as well. I didn't answer, I didn't ask all the questions because sometimes you guys answer the questions in the middle of your other explanations. And sometimes, me knowing you guys well enough, I knew I could just move on from that one question. So, you guys will see that in there. Alright. Thanks, guys. You've been amazing. Speaker 2 00:54:33 Thank you, Christy. Appreciate you. Appreciate your time today. Speaker 4 00:54:37 Yeah, this was fun. Yeah, I like this kind of stuff. Speaker 3 00:54:40 We're going to do it every year with you guys. So I'll beat you guys on the schedule for next May. That's great. April, we're in April. We're still in April. So I'll catch you guys on the schedule. Thank you, Kristy. All right. Mike, Speaker 2 00:54:53 Thank you. The name of the town is derived from the river.
04-24 Meeting: Azure Billing Timing, Invoice Separation, and March Usage Clarification
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-24 22:37:46 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [April] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Azure usage billing timing and invoice separation - Description: - The team bills clients on the 23rd of each month for Microsoft subscriptions. - Current issue: Azure usage data is tied to end-of-month SureWeb invoices, causing delays. - Request: Receive Azure usage/invoice before the 23rd (preferably on the 22nd) while keeping other subscriptions at month-end. - March Azure usage is needed for billing, but data is not yet available via SureWeb; it’s only visible in individual Azure admin centers. - The admin team lacks access to client Azure portals; access is restricted to the security team. - Past process with Pax8 allowed pulling Azure usage independent of the monthly invoice. - Pricing clarification: Azure Usage Details show MSRP (retail); partner cost reflects discounts (e.g., $2.32 MSRP vs. $2.09 cost). - SureWeb typically bills Azure in arrears, from month start to month end; timing depends on billing date (recommended after the 15th). - Speaker 3 will consult the billing team to explore separating Azure from other items and potentially sending the Azure invoice on the 22nd. - Interim plan from April: double-bill Azure next month due to March data delay caused by migration. - Conclusion: - Preference is to receive the Azure invoice on the 22nd to align with client billing on the 23rd. - Speaker 3 will initiate an internal process to attempt splitting Azure billing and adjusting timing; not guaranteed. - Topic Title: Clarification of billing periods for March Azure usage - Description: - Discussion on whether March billing should cover Mar 1–Mar 30 or Feb 23–Mar 23. - Speaker 3 confirmed Azure is billed in arrears for the calendar month (month start through month end). - March Azure bills will be received on April 30 under the current setup. - Conclusion: - Use calendar months for Azure usage periods; the current receipt date for March is April 30 unless the process changes. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 3 to consult the billing team on separating Azure invoices from other subscriptions and including the team in communications about any billing changes. - [ ] Explore sending the Azure invoice on the 22nd while keeping other invoices at month-end. - [ ] April’s team to proceed with double-billing Azure next month to cover March usage due to migration delays and check internally with Andre on any implications of adjusting Azure billing timing. - [ ] Confirm whether access to Azure admin centers can be facilitated for billing purposes or provide alternate data access (e.g., automated reports from the security team). ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Feasibility of splitting invoices (Azure vs. other subscriptions) remains uncertain; a contingency plan is needed if splitting is not possible. > 2. Lack of access to client Azure portals for the admin team impedes timely usage retrieval; consider role-based access or an automated report from security. > 3. A precise, repeatable mapping between Azure Usage Details (MSRP) and partner cost needs confirmation to avoid billing errors. > 4. Define exact billing period conventions and cutoffs to prevent confusion (calendar month vs. custom cycle like Feb 23–Mar 23). > 5. There’s a risk of client dissatisfaction due to double-billing next month; prepare client communications explaining the migration impact and schedule.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 The film was shot in black and white. Reply to Cathy, and send the Teams meeting. Okay. Speaker 2 00:00:16 Hey, hey. Hey. Hey, Speaker 1 00:00:18 Cassie. Kristen, hi April. Sorry for the. Speaker 2 00:00:22 How are you? Yeah. Sure is an emergency like 911. Speaker 3 00:00:28 Yeah. So, um, okay. Speaker 3 00:00:33 Did you, Christian, speak to Martin earlier? Speaker 2 00:00:39 Correct. On the phone. And unfortunately we had the same issue with. You know the static sound, you know I I was reaching him out through like software. I mean soft phone which use yeah. Yeah. Okay, Speaker 3 00:00:55 Let me see what he said here. Give me one second. Speaker 2 00:00:60 Um, we're dealing with just. To give you a context here, just dealing with the share web thing about the invoices. I'm sharing my screen here, Kathy. So you teach us how to go with like. To see the Azure, right? Yes. And. Speaker 3 00:01:22 My question on the phone had been," What period are you trying to bill your customers for?" For their Azure usage. Speaker 1 00:01:34 Yeah, so Kathy, we bill our clients every twenty third of the month. And but the thing is, if we wait for the invoice to, um, be sent to us every end of the month, we're gonna be delayed in billing them. So, we're kind of wondering if there's a way that these Azure usage details will be sent in advance. And not be tied up with a monthly invoice, for sure. Speaker 3 00:01:59 Okay, so. Essentially, you would prefer. You would prefer to still receive your regular invoice on the last day of the month, but you want your Azure invoice to be sent. Before the twenty third. Yes, exactly. Okay. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:22 Because these Azure usage details is actually tied with the invoice details, right? So if. There will be anyway becauseum as we go here at the reports, it wasum Victor also informed me that it was in. Reports before, right? Speaker 3 00:02:40 Not anymore. Yeah. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:43 That's why. That's where the challenge comes in where. If you can give us the Azure usage details, then we can all. Can absolutely wait for the invoice details. This is really important for us. Speaker 3 00:02:59 So okay, so you're trying to send out the bill today. Forum, would it be for Azure usage that was from? February twenty third to March twenty third, from March. March for the month of for the month of March. For the month of March. Okay. March 1 st. Speaker 2 00:03:27 To March 30 th. Speaker 3 00:03:29 Yeah. So I don't know. Usually, since Azure is billed in arrears, I don't Think that we even can. Well, we might be able to. I'll have to like. We won't be able to find out today, whether we can break up the the invoice you get for everything else and the invoice you get for Azure. Um, that will need to involve the billing team, but for what you are looking for, you are looking for the Azure usage for the month of March. Yes. Um, that. Speaker 3 00:04:15 The only place to find it would be within the Azure admin centers of the individual customers. Because it has not come out via Sure Web yet. Speaker 1 00:04:30 Yeah, But that's going to be a struggle for us as well. Since as admins, we do not have the access to go to the Azure portal for each client. That's only restricted to our security team. And also, just so you know, With packs before we can, we're able to, you know, get the Azure usage for each client, and it's not tied up to. The for our with our monthly invoice with Pax eight. So here as what's um Christian is showing you, we can see the. Usage for the month of uh can you check the. Speaker 1 00:05:08 Once, yeah, there we go. Speaker 2 00:05:09 This is for example ability first Azure plan and then you just click in. Check the month. Speaker 1 00:05:15 Just select the month, yeah. So that's how we bill our clients on every twenty third. So that's where we go and check the cost. Okay. And pricing. Speaker 3 00:05:26 Okay. Um, yeah, so the process will probably be different through us. We can certainly make it work. I would imagine with the way that you bill. But we're definitely going to have to change the billing dates, And I don't think that there would be any way to get that data today. Um, from my understanding. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:05:52 That being said. Yeah. Um, sorry. Um, yes. Uh, Since it's not gonna I I'm assuming this is gonna be like a long process on your end or you need to. Have a discussion with your team. So, right now, What we're planning to do is uh we're just going to double build them on the next building for their Azure um subscription. So. And then we're just going to let them know like Because due to the migration, we had a you know challenge in getting the. Um Azure usage for the month of March. So we're just going to double build them for the next month. Speaker 3 00:06:29 Okay, and you will receive their March bills for Azure on uh April thirtieth. So if you wanted to build them, you know, a week later for just the Azure, you could do that rather than doubling up next month. Speaker 1 00:06:47 Oh no. Because our invoice is set up as like, you know. Yeah. We want all the Microsoft subscriptions based on agreement. Speaker 2 00:06:54 Yeah okay Based on agreements yeah. Speaker 3 00:06:57 Okay. No problem then. Um. So what I'll do is basically we'll try to. Fix this well so that it works for you prior to the next billing cycle, so that everything is all lined up. Um. You. So do you send your bills out on the twenty third or on the twenty fourth or uh we normally start yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:21 Twenty third up until the end of the month? So. Okay. Speaker 3 00:07:25 Uh, twenty third up until the end of the month. Okay, um, so I've never had. A partner that has multiple billing dates for different products, so I am not entirely sure what the process is for that, But I'll certainly get it kicked off and include you guys in the communications so that you have visual into everything that's happening. Um, and we'll try to get it. All figured out before the next billing cycle. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:58 That would be helpful. Thank you, Kathy. Speaker 3 00:08:01 Yeah, of course. Sorry for the frustration on this, and hopefully we. Speaker 2 00:08:06 Can get it all straightened out. Yeah, they didn't know it was like just not this year that. Sure, we will have to send end of the month. So yeah, yeah, yeah. The important thing for us here is like we don't need actually the breakdown. We just need this like the total. Cost our price and then cost yeah. Speaker 3 00:08:32 So, actually for that question, Really quick the best way to figure that out within Azure usage details. This is the M S R P cost. So this is the full cost. This is not what we're billing you. So for example if we take, A bility first, it was two dollars and thirty two cents or something. Here it would be, two dollars and nine cents. So that's with your discount added on. Um so two dollars and nine cents is your cost, and then in the Azure usage details section, that is the MSRP. Yes. Oh I see gotcha. Speaker 2 00:09:14 Yeah. This is the retail price, what they will be paying, right? Speaker 3 00:09:18 Yeah, that's exactly right. Yep. So this is easy. You can just go down and bill your clients using those numbers right there. Yes, correct. Yes. Speaker 2 00:09:27 And the only thing is now is the dates, right? So yeah, we expect. Speaker 3 00:09:33 Making sure that, yeah, because we always bill for like with Azure, we bill month start through month end. If you have a billing date, I believe it's before the fifteenth of the month. So let's say your billing date was April fifteenth, You would be getting the bill for Azure usage from February first through February twenty eighth on April fifteenth. So that's why we always recommend you do. After the fifteenth of the month, cause then it'll be for the March billing period. But in this case we would want it. Speaker 3 00:10:13 Do, you guys, do you think it would be beneficial to maybe get your sure web invoice rather than on the twenty third to get it like. On the twenty first or twenty second, so you have a day or two of turnaround time. Speaker 1 00:10:26 Um, that we need to check withum, Andre first. If they're okay to switching it to twenty third of the month. Speaker 3 00:10:38 Yeah, or well, more so what I mean is. Speaker 3 00:10:44 We can switch the entire bill to the twenty third of the month. But I was talking about if you want to switch just the Azure bill. Speaker 1 00:10:52 Ah, yeah, just Azure. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:10:55 Just the Azure. And my follow up question to that is, would you rather have the invoice, The Sure Web invoice come out like on the twenty second of the month. So you have like. Twenty four hours before you have to bill your client or no. Speaker 1 00:11:12 U h, for now our only concern is just Azureum usage. So if that's the Something that you can work on, and for the rest of the invoice, I think. Are you talking about the rest of the invoice, like for the rest of the subscriptions? Speaker 3 00:11:28 No, I am talking about just for the Azure invoice. So if we were hypothetically to break out, you know, You keep the rest of your bill is on the last day of the month, but the Azure bill. Would you prefer to have it on the same day, the twenty third, that you are billing your customers, Or would you rather have it on the twenty second so that you have a little buffer? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:11:54 Let's go with twenty second. Speaker 3 00:11:55 Okay, cool. Cool. Cool. I figured that, that would maybe be better, but also I am not on the billing side, so I don't know the intricacies. Speaker 1 00:12:05 Yeah, you can. Yeah, Just check with your team. If there's going to be any challenges on your end, if you're going to move that over to twenty second. And then yeah, we'll go from there. And for now. I think, yeah, we will proceed in you know double dealing Christian. Our clients for this month's billing. So oh, for the next month. Sorry. So yeah. Speaker 3 00:12:28 Okay, perfect. Um, I'll kick off that process then, and uh hopefully we can get that figured out for you. Again, I am not certain that we can break up the invoices into Azure and everything else, but we will certainly try. And if worse comes to worse, it may be a situation where we want to move everything back. To accommodate the Azure billing, but we'll try to break them up first so that it's. As easy as possible. Okay, Speaker 1 00:12:58 That would be awesome. Thank you, Gabby. Speaker 3 00:13:00 Yeah, thank you guys. Um, I will talk to you very soon. Speaker 1 00:13:04 All right, awesome. Have a great weekend. Speaker 3 00:13:06 Bye You too Bye I'm not going to be able to do that.
06-17 Finalizing Child Placement with Foster Parent
- Date
- Jun 17, 2026
- Processing Status
- Processed
05-08 Lecture: Microsoft Teams Training
- Notes
- Date Time: 2026-05-08 15:00:11 Location: [Insert Location]: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name]: Christy (Speaker 4) ## Summary This transcript captures an IT training session on Microsoft Teams, led by an instructor named Christy. The session begins with informal pre-training banter, where Christy mentions her busy schedule and participants exchange greetings. The core of the training is a comprehensive walkthrough of Microsoft Teams, covering both in-meeting features and the general application interface. Christy demonstrates various meeting controls like chat, reactions, different views (including Together Mode), and video effects such as avatars and Snapchat filters. The training then shifts to the main Teams environment. Christy explains how to navigate notifications and manage chats by pinning favorites. A significant portion is dedicated to the structure of Teams and Channels, detailing how to create, manage, and customize them. This includes adding members, changing channel pictures, managing permissions, and using custom tabs for quick access to documents like org charts or surveys. The session also covers advanced collaborative features like simultaneous file editing, a major improvement over older systems. Other core components are demonstrated, including the integrated calendar (which mirrors Outlook), the calling feature for internal and external contacts, and the use of the Whiteboard for annotation. Finally, Christy explains file management within channels and how to sync channel files with OneDrive for easy access from the local computer. Throughout the training, she uses examples from both her company (Crimson IT) and the audience's company (AbilityFirst) and mentions a future training schedule. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Pre-Training Banter & Logistics - **Instructor's Schedule & Details** - The instructor, identified as Christy, is conducting her fifth training class of the day with one more scheduled for four o'clock. - One participant, Lucio, compliments Christy on her well-written emails. - Christy clarifies she is the only one who gives the IT trainings after a participant mentions another trainer's name (Araceli Gonzales). - The session was expected to have 17 attendees, and its duration is a little less than an hour. - **Upcoming Training Sessions** - The current training is on Microsoft Teams. - The training for the week of May 12, 2026, will be on Microsoft Word. - The training following Word will be on Excel. - The training following Excel will be on Outlook. - **Outlook Training Postponement** - The Outlook training will be delayed by one or two weeks. - This is because it was scheduled during the same week as an equipment upgrade at a camp and Memorial Day week. ### 2. Microsoft Teams Meeting Interface - **Basic Interaction Features** - **Chat:** Users can have conversations with the presenter and other attendees. - **Raise Hand:** A feature to get the presenter's attention. - **Reactions:** Users can send reactions like hearts during the meeting. - **View Options** - **Speaker View:** Highlights the current speaker. - **Together Mode:** Places all participants with cameras on in a shared virtual environment like an auditorium or a Minecraft world. - **Gallery View:** The standard grid view of participants. - **Turn Off All Videos:** An option for users with slow internet to improve performance. - **Meeting Controls (for presenters)** - **Lock Meeting/Enable Lobby:** Control who can join the meeting. - **Notes:** The facilitator can turn on AI-generated notes. - **Breakout Rooms:** The ability to push participants into smaller, separate rooms. - **Copilot (AI):** An AI assistant that can be used to ask questions during the meeting. - **Camera and Video Effects** - **Avatars:** Users can create and use a 3D avatar that mimics their speech and reactions. Christy demonstrated this with her own avatar. - **Video Effects:** Located under "More" > "Videos and effects", this includes backgrounds, soft focus, and style filters. - **Snapchat Filters:** Fun filters can be applied, such as putting a virtual chicken on one's head. - **In-Meeting Apps** - Apps can be installed during a meeting to add functionality, such as polls, forms, YouTube videos, or games. - **Whiteboard** - Teams includes a Whiteboard feature that can be used during meetings for collaborative drawing and annotating. ### 3. Microsoft Teams Application Interface - **Activity/Notifications** - This section shows all missed activity, such as reactions to messages and new posts. - **Chat Management** - **Pinning/Favorites:** Users can pin important or frequently used chats to a "favorites" section for quick access. - **Rich Formatting:** The chat interface includes options for text formatting. - **Expressive Communication:** Users can send emojis, stickers, and GIFs (using the `/gif` slash command). - **Scheduled Messaging:** Messages can be scheduled to be sent at a later date and time. - **Other Features:** Schedule meetings or record video clips directly from a chat. - **Calendar Integration** - The Teams calendar is a "carbon copy" of the user's Outlook calendar and stays in sync. - Users can create new events or block out time directly from the calendar. - **Calling Functionality** - Teams can be used as a phone system to call anyone within the organization. - Call history is visible, and external contacts are marked with a specific icon. ### 4. Teams and Channels - **Core Structure** - This is the main area for team collaboration. For AbilityFirst, department heads can request a new team. - **General Channel:** A default channel in every team, often used for company-wide announcements. - **Private Channels:** Channels with restricted access. - **Managing a Team** - **Access:** Click the three dots next to the team name and select "Manage team". - **Membership:** Add, remove, and manage member roles (Member vs. Owner). Owners can also approve join requests. - **Settings:** Owners can change the team picture, manage member permissions, and enable/disable "Fun Stuff" like Gifs and memes. Christy changed the Marketing team's picture to one of her cat, Moose. - **Channel Creation and Usage** - **Adding a Channel:** Can be done from the team's menu. "Standard" channels are accessible to everyone on the team. - **Posting:** Posts in channels can have a subject line to help organize conversations. - **Apps and Customization** - **Adding Apps:** Extend a team's functionality with apps, preferably those that are "Microsoft 365 certified" (e.g., Power BI, Planner, OneNote, Survey Monkey). - **Custom Tabs:** Add tabs at the top of a channel for quick access to files (PDFs, Excel rosters) or tools (anonymous stress level surveys). ### 5. File Management and Collaboration - **Accessing and Editing Files** - Files for a team are stored under the "Files" tab within a channel. - **Simultaneous Editing:** Multiple people can open and edit a single file at the same time. Each user's cursor is color-coded. This is a significant improvement from older systems where files were locked when in use. - **OneDrive Integration** - The OneDrive tab in Teams allows users to access all their personal and shared OneDrive files. - **Syncing Channel Files:** Users can sync a channel's file library to their computer by clicking "Add shortcut to OneDrive" in the channel's "Files" tab. - **Result:** This creates a shortcut in the user's local OneDrive folder (visible in File Explorer) for seamless file access and synchronization without needing to open Teams. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. For AbilityFirst department heads: If you want a Team for your department and don't have one, contact the instructor or submit a ticket to the help desk. - [ ] 2. For Lucio: You can change the Marketing team's profile picture from the baby moose photo at a later date if you wish. - [ ] 3. Set up a Power Automate workflow, if time permits at the end of the session.
- Date
- May 8, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:32 The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was released on 24 July 2015. The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Hi Natalie. Hi, good afternoon. Good afternoon. The city is located in the central part of the island. Speaker 1 00:01:08 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:01:10 Hi Jessica. Hi. Speaker 3 00:01:12 How you doing? Speaker 4 00:01:14 I am good. Speaker 3 00:01:16 That's good. Speaker 4 00:01:18 You guys are my fifth training class of the day. Speaker 3 00:01:21 Oh, wow. That's a lot. It's exhausting. Speaker 4 00:01:25 Yeah, just a long day. It is, and you are not my last. My last is at four o'clock. So, so I thought I'd grab a little snack. Speaker 3 00:01:37 Oh, good. Yeah, fuel up. Speaker 3 00:01:42 Almost The end. Speaker 4 00:01:43 Somewhere my tea was. Um, speaking of which, Speaker 3 00:01:48 I might just quickly grab a quick drink. I'll be back in a sec. Go for it. The. Speaker 1 00:01:58 City is located in the central part of the island. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:02:10 The First is the most important. Alright, Speaker 4 00:02:11 We're going to give everybody a few minutes to join. Cause I had eighteen people. Accept and then one person declined later on. Speaker 5 00:02:25 The other one was with uh, what is her name? The other one, uh, the lady that she was giving that training training before. Speaker 4 00:02:39 Me? I'm the only one who gives the IT trainings for. Speaker 1 00:02:45 No. I am not going to give you. Speaker 5 00:02:54 Any more. Speaker 1 00:03:06 The room is black. Speaker 4 00:03:11 We're gonna give a few more moments and see who all joins. Speaker 5 00:03:17 No, go south. I'm gonna start in the train. Speaker 5 00:03:27 Oh, Araceli. Araceli Gonzales. Speaker 1 00:03:36 The name of the town is derived from the river. The city is located in the central part of the island. The. Speaker 5 00:03:45 Name of the town is derived from the river. Hope it's gonna be an hour. Check. Speaker 2 00:03:53 It's gonna be a little less than an hour. Speaker 5 00:03:55 Oh, thank you. Speaker 2 00:03:57 You're welcome. Speaker 1 00:03:59 Christy, this is Lucio. I love your emails. They're like the best. You should be a marketing person. Speaker 4 00:04:06 I marketed enough for other things. I don't do sales. I don't do marketing, but I've had to do my fair share. Speaker 1 00:04:15 That's great. Thank you. Keep them coming. Speaker 4 00:04:20 I will. Um, I'm going to be sharing my screen. We're going to go over a bunch of teams, although Moose may not make an appearance. I don't know where he went. He was under the bed sleeping earlier. That's why I'm here. Well, I've got two others. Brie is in her throne, which is right here. And then the other kitten is in her little bed right next to it. So. Say hi. She's like, no, I was sleeping. You just woke me up. And then the kitten's right here. She's so big. Speaker 2 00:04:54 The name is derived from the Latin word for" to be in a state of". Yeah, they're both they're. Speaker 4 00:04:59 Both uh moose is usually on the bed. But today he is not. We had a furniture delivery, so he might be in the living room sniffing all of the packages. So. I am giving a few more rounds because we had, I looked again, we had twenty two people accept. So, wait and see who else joins. Speaker 4 00:05:29 And I'm sharing my screen because we're going to walk through Teams. Today's Teams, next week we're going to do Microsoft Word, and then after that we're going to do Excel. And then after that, we're going to do Outlook. Although I have not sent out the dates for Outlook because that falls. On the same week that we're upgrading equipment at camp, so I won't be able to give that training, and it's also Memorial Day week. Um, so we're gonna probably skip a week or two. Um, so just a heads up for you guys. All right. I'm going to go ahead and start recording. Speaker 4 00:05:60 Because I did promise to record this one, and I am also going to turn on facilitator. Speaker 4 00:06:13 Bear With me. All right. Um. And that way, if you guys jump in or get lost, you'll see the notes that come up on the notes. Section, so real quickly, One of the first things I am going to do is I am going to show you. This is what I do every meeting. So I'm going to show you guys Teams meetings. So as you guys can see, so I'm going to put it over in the share screen. I'm going to show you guys the interface, but Real quickly, for the purposes of this meeting, I have a big long screen at home. So I am putting you guys off to the side where it's a little easier. And you guys don't have to worry about seeing a vast computer screen. But, over here we're in a meeting. You guys have options to go into the chat. Have a conversation with me. Speaker 4 00:06:59 Um, I will be watching and reading chat. You can raise your hand like this. You can send a reaction. I'm going to actually ask you guys to do some reactions during the meeting. You can change your view if you'd like to, so you can do a speaker view, and Um, it'll you'll it'll show who the speaker is. You can do together mode if you guys would like. Together mode is fun. But everybody has to be on camera for Together mode, and you guys can pick some different options there. You've got Halo. Uh, you got the auditorium, the gold auditorium. Uh, you've got a few others we can go into Minecraft if we want. I built a crimson IT one a while back, so there is a bunch of them here that you can do. Um, I'm not going to do together mode though. I'm going to switch back and just go back to gallery. Speaker 4 00:07:51 If you prefer your internet slow, you can go to more options under view and turn off all videos. So you can, you could hide me if you want. Um, under controls that is more for me. But if you guys are ever leading your own meeting, you can lock it or you can enable a lobby. And I'm allowing all of you guys to present and chat and all of that. Here's notes, so you guys might be able to see notes. Sometimes it works for external users, sometimes it doesn't. But in here is going to be AI generated notes because I turned on facilitator. If I wanted to push you into a room, I can tell it to create rooms. I'm not going to do that to you guys today. I have Copilot, Copilot's AI. So in Copilot, I can go in here and ask questions during the meeting. If I want to, I'm not going to do that because you guys still need that. I can also install apps during the meeting. And there's a few things we can do with apps. Speaker 4 00:08:49 Bear with me because it's slow, but I can send a poll. I can send you guys videos in YouTube. I can send you a form. Uh, and things like that. There's a bunch of things we can do. There's actually games in here too, so. Uh, just be aware of that. We're not going to do that. So, um, in here camera, you guys have a choice. You can go in. You can do camera. You can set up an avatar. Actually have an avatar turned on, but sometimes it gets a little wonky. So I can present to you guys using my avatar. Speaker 4 00:09:19 When my hair grew out, I changed my avatar to a longer hair person. But this is my avatar. And so you'll see that it's doing, it's talking like me. You'll see it raise its hand. You can see the reactions. There's a surprise. That's one of my favorites. You can see the laughter. So those are if you guys want to turn on avatars, feel free to do that. I do not mind. I'm going to turn off avatars. In here as well, you've got got some other things you can do, um in the more videos and effects. Used to be there, was like hats and stuff you could put on. Ah, video effects. But I oh wait here it is. You've got styles, and so I'm going to turn my video back on. So here's styles, and you can change the color and the mood of Uh, your filters. You can go to Snapchat. Snapchat's fun. Put a chicken on my head. Speaker 4 00:10:18 So you'll see that in a moment when it decides to load. There we go. There's the chicken. Um, if I wanted to, there used to be a cat here somewhere. I haven't played with this in a long time, but there's there's different things. There's a couple dogs. There's a, something or another here. So you guys have that. Feel free to jump in and do whatever. Um, hamsters are lovely. Um, I'm going to go back to Nothing. I can remember how to do it. Um, Speaker 2 00:10:51 It would be funny if. Ah, Speaker 4 00:10:56 Here we go. Okay, there we go. All right, so you guys got a couple different things here. You can put a background up, whatever you want. Your avatars are in here and you can change your settings as well. I do have it turned on soft focus. You guys don't need to see all my wrinkles. So just a heads up, mute. You guys can mute yourself. From there, you can also change your settings here for sound, change your microphone, different things like that. And so you've got that. I am going to put this back over here, uh, So that I can actually see your lovely faces as I talk and lead you guys through this. Um, And bear with me because I am going to lose my voice at some point. I have been talking nonstop. You guys are my fifth training session for the day. I don't normally have this many training sessions in a day. Speaker 4 00:11:44 So be aware, I am Southern. I am from the South. I am from Cal, not. I was born in California, okay? I was raised in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. So my southern accent is going to make an appearance today. So I am going to apologize in advance. Also, if you guys need me to go slower, I can go slower if I need to. All right. So we're in Teams. Um, I am not in Ability First Teams intentionally. Um, because I've been working on some stuff. You guys see that I am in napping team right now. This is a really fun channel for Crimson staff. We don't allow We don't allow the CEO in this chat. Sometimes we don't let the C O C O O in this chat, but everybody else like me. I created this a long time ago, Just for a place where the team could ask questions and have fun and just kind of be like the watering hole. Because Crimson is all over the world and we love that. So we have a group chat called The Napping Team. Speaker 4 00:12:41 We have over fifty three employees in it, so, just a heads up for you guys. Um. So I'm going to take you guys through the interface right now. So real quickly, since we're in chat, I'm going to show you guys notifications and activities. So I'm going to click here. So Olivia is, she reacted so I can see all of this. Um, you can also see Nemanja is in here talking. Uh, he's saying happy birthday to Katerina because it's Katerina's birthday. Uh, we post. We like to post our birthdays up here, so everybody in the company can see it. And so, anything you've missed will be in here. Sometimes I just ignore this because there is a lot in here that gets mentioned, and I I don't have time to read all of that. So, I mostly pay attention to this number right here. And, you can see I'm in a lot of chats and I have a lot of chats pinned under my favorites. If you want to pin something to your favorites. Speaker 4 00:13:39 All you have to do is you just click on the little three icons here, and you can say move to favorites. So now Team Philippines is in my favorites. I'm going to remove them because they That is their time card thing, and as much as I love them. Um. All, we do is say when we're going to lunch, and we're gonna be back. That's just for Team Philippines because that's their. They they like having a time clock system and that's their time clock, so. Um, so you've got quite a few things in here. Um, but I do have quite a few favorites as well. If I scroll on down, we're going to get to our teams and channels. Now for AbilityFirst, you guys have a lot of them. If you want one for your department and you're not been added to it, and you're a department head, Please let me know or please submit a ticket to the help desk because we can set those up for you guys. So I'm in quite a few of them. I'm in uh, I got a lot here. Speaker 4 00:14:37 So I am going to show you guys a few, just so that you guys can get an idea of it. And, the very first one I am going to show you is the Crimson IT one. This is our entire company chat, so everything goes here. And so, like you can see, birthdays are in here. There's more birthdays. Brian's birthday. Work anniversary for Christian. For those of you guys who have met Christian, Stephanie's our marketing guy. Marketing out, so it's her second work anniversary. Um, and so we've got a lot of these in here. So that's what mostly this is for. Every now and then I'll post announcement in there or the C O O will post announcement for the most part. So our general chat, and then under shared is where we put our company files. So we've got anniversaries, certifications, our marketing stuff that we want our staff to have. Um, quite a few things. We got our event pictures. So if I go in here, you guys will see our bowling party. You'll see a lot of things. Speaker 4 00:15:36 So, uh, we'll scroll down. Yeah. Uh, Weingart Golf Classic. That was a fun one. So you can see we have a bunch of pictures in here. And we can click on it and take a look. There's Ansar, our fearless leader. It's grainy, but yeah. So there's our CEO. So we post everything in here that's company-wide. But under crimson, we have a lot of channels. And so We have company-wide meetings. Our weekly company-wide meetings are right here. I want to see a cute baby. There's my cute baby. Um, we have our operations leadership channel which is private. We're gonna go over that in a moment. So, you guys can see there's a lot of things we can do in here. I go here to SOPs. How many of you guys know what an SOP is? Show me a heart emoji. Reaction. Speaker 4 00:16:32 Okay, a few of you guys know. Okay, that makes me feel a little bit better. All of Crimson's SOPs are actually stored in the share folder. So here is all of our SOPs. It's how we run the company. So, we also do some things like recognizing. So there is a lot of things you guys can do. Uh, within your channels, we have a projects channel. So all of our big projects. In fact, how many of you guys have been to camp? Speaker 4 00:17:01 I know Alma hasn't been yet, but she's gonna go soon, right? Uh, so this our projects when we were working on things for you guys. This our project's photos. So we Everything we work on, our shared files and everything are going to be in here. So that way, if you have access to this which not everybody has access projects, we can do that. Now I'm going to switch. I'm going to go up here to my Crimson IT, and my I'm going to switch. If you guys have never signed in to Ability First. Team s, I'm going to show you guys how. So normally you're going to type your password in. I'm just going to choose my account. And I'm going to enter my password. What is my password? Speaker 2 00:17:46 I think that's my password. Speaker 4 00:17:50 Yep, there it is. All right, So I am going to I think my security key is set up for this. Oh, no. Don't have to sit up. That's why, so I mean in another way. Um, I'm going to use my Microsoft authenticator app. So hang on. Speaker 2 00:18:17 Bear with me one moment. I gotta approve it. So. Speaker 4 00:18:25 If you've never logged into Teams, this is how you're going to do it. I'm gonna. You wanna say yes. However, I'm going to say no because this is my Crimson account computer. So here I'm going to go here and I'm going to click on AbilityFirst. I don't monitor my teams on AbilityFirst. So just a quick heads up to that. I don't monitor it at all, so if you send me a message, I see Carl did. I'm not gonna see it, so I do apologize, but um. Speaker 4 00:18:59 In here, you've got a few things in here. Very similar to how Crimson runs it. There is an ability first, but we haven't added everybody to it yet. Ah, Lucio There is a marketing. Ah, Alma's already been added to the H R team. Um, so we've got quite a few things in here. Now, how many of you guys have seen channels or are using channels regularly? Jessica. Okay, good. Um, let me first see Lucio. I'm gonna add you to marketing. So I'm gonna go over here. I'm gonna press on the little three little dots. And I'm going to go to manage team. Now, in here I can see all the channels. So follow shares where you guys can share items. Now we go to members. And here's the owners, and here's the members and guests. I see Lucio has not been added yet. Speaker 4 00:19:58 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add him. So I'm going to click on Add Member. And I'm going to type in "histogram." There we go. And I'm going to say add. So now he's added. And right here, you're welcome. Right here, I can go in and change him from member or owner. If I want to. I can also remove people. So I'm going to remove CIT test because we don't need to be in there. And so that's going to be removed. And there we go. All right. Any questions about how to add and remove people from channels? If you guys get that message, just ignore that. All right. If, you are if there are any pending requests in here of people who want to be joined to join, you can go in here and you can say accept. So I'm going to go in here and accept. Speaker 4 00:20:56 And, that's all you have to do is you can hit, accept or accept all. I'm going to go back and check that a little bit later. Under settings, this is where I can change pictures. So you've got some icons here. You got some details, so I can go in here and say change picture. And what if I wanted to upload a really cool picture? So I can go into pictures. And let me go in and make a picture. And Lucio, you can change this picture at a later date. You don't have to take what I am doing, but I am going to put moose in when moose was a baby. So baby moose. This is our old apartment. So now the marketing team has a baby moose for their picture. And there you go. So you guys can go in and change that later. I just did it for fun. You also can go in and look at your member permissions and what they can do. You can go in and take a look at fun stuff. You can allow memes, and gifs, and stickers. Speaker 4 00:21:56 You can also see analytics. So let's see if people are actually actively using it. And no, people are not actively using it, but that's okay. And then under apps are things that you can add. So in here, if you guys use Power BI, which not there's only one person in the entire ability first uses it. You can do planner, which I love. Planner, we'll do training on planner later. OneNote for any of you guys who use OneNote. You can add all kinds of different things in here. So there are a few things you can get more apps. And I'm going to show you a few cool apps. We've added our own app to your organization. You guys can use Survey Monkey. You guys can add Adobe Acrobat, And I love doing Adobe Acrobat because I sign forms all the time for people. And they just sent it to me in Teams, and I just open it in my Teams. I don't have to open it in a different. Item. Speaker 4 00:22:54 Um, You can do YouTube if there's videos or anything um that you guys want to uh show people in YouTube. You've got that option. So there are a few things in here. Um, you have quite a few. Uh, I always tell people to go with any of them that are Microsoft three sixty five certified. Uh, just as a rule of thumb, most of them are. But you have that. I'm going to click out of this. Go back. Um. Now we're in the chat channel here, so I'm going to go back to the team. Oh wait. Yeah, I'm in the right one. Okay, sorry. I thought I switched back to the crimson one. Um, so I'm gonna go back here. I'm gonna look at um, cause I haven't really done much with information technology. It's someone else did things. But you've got a bunch of things in here that you can do. So I can go in here, I can go Um, I can edit. I can add more channels. Speaker 4 00:23:52 So if I'm in here and I want to add a channel, I'm going to click on Add Channel. And let's say I want to add a channel and I want Um. I want to make it post-driven, and I want to make it fun zone. Here we go. Now I can do a description. I can choose channel type, so I'm going to say standard. Everybody in the team has has access and recommended. That people show this in their chat list, and then I'm going to say create. Speaker 2 00:24:30 It takes a minute. Speaker 4 00:24:33 This is the part where you sit back and go get your tea or coffee. So now we can post in the channel. Now, The difference between channels and general chats is that you can add a subject line. So if I want to say poker party. Speaker 2 00:24:51 And I'm going to say the IT department. The name of the town is derived from. Speaker 1 00:25:05 The river. The. Speaker 4 00:25:12 First is the most important. And there we go. I can put my announcement in there. I can also add pictures. So, if I'm in here and I want to add pictures or I want to add different things, I can go in here and choose that. Um, so if I'm in here, let me go into my little thingy. My other screen. Speaker 2 00:25:33 And I'm going to copy an image and. Speaker 4 00:25:35 I'm going to paste it in here. And there we go. Now we have a fun picture. And now you can see Cree and Moose. So. Speaker 4 00:25:47 And there you go. Um, shared is really fun to use. Um, But I'm going to go back into the crimson folder so that you guys can see how this looks. All right. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go down here. And I am going to go to, trying to think of one that I have not. Ah. Speaker 2 00:26:14 Let's see. Speaker 4 00:26:14 Let's do operations leadership. Speaker 4 00:26:18 And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go here and I'm going to go to shared first. Sorry, I'm going to click on shared first. I went out of order on that one. So, what I'm going to do here is I want my files to show up. Speaker 2 00:26:35 Hang on one second. Gotta. Speaker 4 00:26:39 Open that and get that over on the screen. All right, so I want that to show up in my Crimson. One track. And so you guys can see, I showed you guys SOPS earlier. Um, so now I want to attach. Another one of those folders in here, and so those folders are where I can go pull files, things like that. So under operations leadership. Since I use this file a lot, What I'm going to do is I'm going to go in here and sync it. So, I can do one of two things. I'm going to add shortcut to OneDrive. So it's going to update my documents and it's going to add in there. And so in a moment. Speaker 4 00:27:16 Yep, there it is. Now I can see it here. So there's the operations leadership and the documents. And that's how you add it. So your OneDrive is going to be up here. You can see has my name, Crimson IT. And then this is all my items in my OneDrive. And then there's the one I just added. Any questions about this? I know I'm going fairly quickly because I've got a lot of information. I want to cover with you guys today. But any questions so far? Speaker 3 00:27:47 Hello, it's Jess. Yes, um, I just got a little bit confused there with what you did in terms of. Yeah, I understand the syncing between the two, And I was having a lot of issues with that over the past week or so, getting my getting access to the drive. Um, so yeah, This is kind of a gray area for me where I'm trying to figure out what are the benefits of doing it? And what did you just do? Like, did you just bring the file into Teams or first versus now? Speaker 4 00:28:15 So I just added a shortcut to OneDrive. That's all I did. Speaker 3 00:28:18 Just click that button in Teams. In Teams, yes. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:28:23 Because I do a lot with those files, and so I well, I do a lot under clients. So yeah, I can go into the clients one. And it's going to show me just like Teams. So, um if I pull up Teams under Clients. The city is located in the central part of the island. And then I go to share. Speaker 4 00:28:44 So you see all of these folders. Very first one is master client list. Speaker 3 00:28:48 Yeah, mhm. Speaker 4 00:28:49 And then here it is. Speaker 3 00:28:51 Yeah, so just saves you. Jumping between apps. Speaker 4 00:28:58 Yes, absolutely. And the great thing about this is when I have something in here open, so if I go to Billy first. And I have a file in here open. Let's say computer counts. This was an outdated one. But I'm gonna click on it anyways, um because we made a new file for it. We should delete this one, but this is the old computer count form. Uh, it's a report that we used to send. Um, so if I'm in here working, then if I have April, one of my staff members go in here and work at the same time. We can see each other editing files. Mhm, And so that's a great thing about working in teams, more than one person can access. A file at the same time and edit at the same time. So. Speaker 4 00:29:42 And you'll see their little icon up here, um, and it's going to be here. And, you'll see, they they will be assigned a color and anywhere that they're at. They will open that and you will see where they're at. So, Speaker 3 00:29:56 Would that happen too if you both opened it from OneDrive? Speaker 4 00:29:60 It would, if you shared it with someone in OneNote. Yeah. Yep. Okay. So, yes, that's a really awesome feature that we love. Now I say that. I've been in IT for twenty eight years. And if you guys, If you guys have been in IT or if you guys have been working in your career for any length of time, probably about four or five years ago, You guys might remember that sometimes when you try to open a file from a shared location, like um a file share or server or anything like that, um let's say I am going to use Jessica and Jennifer as my examples. Let's say Jessica is working on a file back. Speaker 4 00:30:41 Back a couple years ago, and then Jennifer tried to open that file. She would get a notice that it was locked. So, these are the new things that you can do, where you can work on files at the same time. So it's not new. I'm just, I'm used to treating it like it's new. So, all right. That's the main part of chat. Now within chat you also have the ability. I'm going to go to Gaston and Robert. Um. I have the ability to do formatting here. I have the ability to send emojis. I'm going to send a dancing emo. Elmo, not email. Elmo. My child's email. I was the original emo back in the nineties. Um, I can also send other things. I can send stickers. They're going to ask in a moment about things, but I can see the stickers. There's a lot of really fun things we can do. I can also add. Speaker 4 00:31:38 Different things like schedule meeting, I can record a video clip and send to them. I can schedule the message. Any of you guys on here night owls like me? Nobody. Okay. Lucio is. Speaker 3 00:31:52 I depends what the activity is. Yeah, if we're out dancing, not working. Speaker 4 00:31:57 Yes. Um. So if I am, if I'm working language, I often do. Because, this is a very comfortable chair. I am sitting in, and my desk is laid out. And as you guys already saw, my babies are sitting behind me on their thrones. It's a very comfortable. I have my little seating area. I have a fridge over here, so I am very comfortable. Unless, my daughter is home, and we want to watch movies or we got stuff to do, um, so I'll sit here and I'll be working. I have three computers right here in front of me that I just click a button. I don't know if I can show you my button, but I click a button. Speaker 4 00:32:31 I can go from my gaming computer to my crimson computer to, if I have my ability first computer here, I can do all of that. But if I'm working late, I want to schedule a message. I'm going to schedule the message sent. So maybe I want to schedule the message to go out Monday. Then I can do that. And it's a really useful tool. Um For those of you guys who are managers who like to work late, so just a quick heads up for that. I would never tell HR. But I said that you know. It's okay, if you work like, because I would never do that with an HR person sitting in here. But considering I am a boss at my own company. I I work late all the time. Alma has not heard that yet. She didn't hear that, right? I'm not getting any reaction from her. She's probably smiling behind the cameras. All right. I do work. Quick question, yes, ma'am, Speaker 3 00:33:26 Chris. Um. I'm used to Slack, and in Slack you can there's lots of keyboard shortcuts. So to send memes, you just do forward slash and type in whatever you want like celebration, happy birthday, goofy. I don't know whatever. Is it the same in Teams? Speaker 4 00:33:46 Yes ma'am. So I can do a lot of different things. There's a lot of commands in here. So I've got a lot of issues. I've got a lot of things I can do. I'm. I am a terminal person. Most people aren't, so I don't really ever show this to people. But you have a couple of things you can do. Hang on one second, my daughter is messaging me. She's at school. And for her to message me three times in a row, it is. Speaker 2 00:34:13 Uh. They are just getting out of school, so she's asking questions. I think she's wanting to Uber home. Speaker 2 00:34:33 All right. Oh, Speaker 4 00:34:36 She has a friend coming to help her after school. That's why. So I can do a lot of different things in here. I can add a GIF. I can say laughter. Speaker 2 00:34:46 I like minions. So, uh, Speaker 3 00:34:51 Cool. I get it. So it'sum slash slash gif. Yeah, cool. Speaker 4 00:34:55 Cool cool And so on the napping team, I can do slash sticker. Oh wait, uh sticker's not working for me. That one works on my other computer. And hello there. And I can send that over to the napping team. So, Speaker 3 00:35:14 Yeah, I liked reminders was a really good one where you can set a. Let's say a weekly reminder Monday on Mondays at twelve o'clock or something, and it can go out to a channel or a person. I'm guessing that's in there somewhere. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:35:30 You can, and there's also Power Automate that works as well. Um, and if you guys if we have time, I can show that towards the end because I need to set up a Power Automate. So, um, But you just reminded me, there's also some other things you can do in your chat. So if I go back to general. Let's see. Where did it go? Okay, yeah. So you can set up different tabs up here. So there's a crimson org chart that we have under our general tab. Sometimes it opens, sometimes it doesn't. We're going away from this, but it allows us to go in and people can see it. Um, I can also go in here and click on the holidays PDF file. I'm on a slow internet connection today, so it's acting a little wonky. I can also Crimson does a stress level survey weekly. And so I can also click on that lately. It's not been showing up in. Speaker 4 00:36:24 The tab, but here is our thing. We ask everybody to fill out once a week for our staff. They they fill this out and then it goes to the leadership team, and it can be anonymous. So we do that weekly. But, we have things like that that we do in here where you can put tabs at the top. So you can put Excel files. Um, we have a weekly team roster. Maggie's in charge of seeing where everybody's at for the week, who's on PTO, things like that. And so when we want to see the actual weeks, we can click on that and it opens in Excel file. Just not right now because my computer is going very, very slow. We also have our birthdays and anniversaries up in here too. So there are a few things. Um, I'm going to come out of chat and channels for a moment, and I'm going to click over here on the left side to calendar. Don't freak out at my calendar. It's always busy, but here's my calendar. I have everything in here, so it's just like your Outlook calendar. And it's literally a carbon copy of Outlook. Speaker 4 00:37:23 So, um, so we have that in there. And then anything that we're doing in here, like if I am having to make a drive or anything, all I have to do. We do have visitors coming over. So I can just highlight the time. And I can put in there vowel and then pickup. So we have visitors coming over tonight to pick up a package, and so I created that just so that I have that calendar reminder there. Um. You can go in. It shows a week at a time. I'm going to go to next week from here. Someone keeps, I don't know who that guy is. I'm gonna block out my calendar here. Uh, cause I have an early morning doctor appointment. So, he got the earliest appointment you can get on my calendar, though. Uh, so we've got I've got a few things in here blocked purposely, um but also I've got you guys here listed here. This is Microsoft Word. Speaker 4 00:38:23 Training, and I've got a few other things happening. And I can go as far out in advance as I need to for that. So, you also have the ability to call people. So, In here, we we do crimson uses our teams like a call or like call ability. You guys have call ability. So, a lot of you guys have taken your phones away, but you can go in here and call anybody. So if I wanted to call Alma, all I have to do, And I keep forgetting how to do it in here. I'm going to type a name. And sometimes, yep, there it goes. If I've talked to them before in Teams, it's going to pull up. I'll talk to her and I can hit call. I'm not going to do it on this one because it's going to put you guys on hold, but I can actually call her through Teams. So it's a really cool feature. I can see Reuben calls me often. I can see that I missed some calls from there, which is shocking because he normally calls my cell phone. Speaker 4 00:39:21 Um, he anytime you see this little icon right next to them, that means they're external to you. They're not within your organization. Now, another tab we have is OneDrive. So your OneDrive files can be pulled up here. So I've got a bunch of files in here. I've got some new letterhead from Crimson. I've got some Crimson documents, some other stuff going on in here. So I can pull that in here. I can also go to My Files and see only my files. If you guys remember. Here's that file. This is that link that I set up earlier in this conversation with you guys. And also pull up my media. Here's all my photos. So, all my training videos and different things like that. Um, if I do a training with you guys, which I'm doing right now, it'll be in here. Any icons. There's Brie. Brie is I made some really fun pictures of Brie. When I need her to look mean about something, I made her a mean photo. Speaker 4 00:40:20 But also I've got quick access to other things in here as well. So all those channels I showed you down here. I can click on crimson and I can see all the channels and all their promoters here. Um, I'm going to show you guys a whiteboard because I love whiteboard. And I'll do whiteboards in meetings. So, if I'm working on a meeting and I need to annotate things or I'm doing things in here, um, I will do it under whiteboard. So I can draw in here. It's going to be slow to pop up. Um, hang on one second. Try to ignore.
07-14 Meeting: Cost Allocation Methodology, Program Funding Shifts, and Budget Overruns
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-07-14 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Sergio] [Jennifer C] [Speaker 5] [Crystal] [Apolo] [Christi] [Speaker 9] ### Meeting Notes #### Developing a Cost Allocation Methodology - A new, documented cost allocation methodology is being created to distribute support service costs (IT, HR, facilities) to specific programs. - This will be built from the ground up to establish a formal, documented procedure. - The process will start with the new admin budget, consolidating expenditures into single departments (e.g., IT, 2610 facilities). - After determining total costs, an allocation method (e.g., percentages) will be applied to distribute expenses across programs. - The methodology will be standardized and documented; year-over-year changes to allocation percentages will be updated in the document. - Remove Rita Floyd from the personnel detail tab of the admin budget, as she is on leave and not returning. #### Review of High Fidelity Wrap and FSP Funding - An amendment to move $512,000 from High Fidelity Wrap to FSP is under review and not yet signed. - The justification for the transfer is unclear; it was claimed the funds were placed in High Fidelity Wrap by accident. - Internal discussions are pending before a decision on signing the amendment. - Jennifer C will follow up if there is no update by end of day July 14, 2026. - The new High Fidelity WRAP model includes new roles, but rates are unknown because it remains fee-for-service, not the approved capitated rate. #### Billing and Staffing Projections for Various Programs - Detailed projections based on current staffing and billing rates were presented. - FSP: Over budget by approximately $1.1 million if staff bill an average of 5 hours/day; on target at 4 hours/day. - OCS: Projected to be over budget even at lower billing averages. - SCHARP: Currently projected to be over by $3 million with 5-hour daily billing; figures are inflated as not all roles are filled. - High Fidelity Wrap: Projected to be under budget based on historical averages and current fee-for-service staffing. - HSSP & AB 109: Both trending over budget with current staffing. - Child and Youth Well-being: Projected to be over by about $800,000 if staff bill at 100%. #### Doctor Time Allocation Analysis (July - May 2026) - Reviewed doctor time allocation across programs. - Dr. Barrett: 80% FSP; Dr. Beagle: 60% outpatient; Dr. Blair: approximately 50/50. - Overall, FSP clients had more total visits (2,800) than outpatient clients (2,210). - For BAFMA, outpatient clients had more visits (642) than FSP clients (529). #### Departmental Updates - HR (Apolo): - The new employee handbook will be distributed via DocuSign next week (week of July 20, 2026). - Handbook includes information on maximum accrued PTO hours. - IT (Christi): - Updating the 2610 ADT system. - Computer performance is expected to improve within the next week. - QA (Robin): - Will connect with Alida in about a week and a half regarding a Medicare issue. - Operations (Crystal & Speaker 5): - Organizing a safety committee meeting. - Updating site layout plans; scheduling fire and code drills for August or September. - Performance evaluations have started; Erin and Speaker 5 will review them. - Recruiting continues for Program Managers for FSP and AB 109. ### Next Arrangements - Budget and Cost Allocation - [ ] [Speaker 1] to remove Rita Floyd from the personnel detail tab of the admin budget. - [ ] [Speaker 1] to collaborate with [Speaker 2] to develop and document the new cost allocation methodology, including setting and updating allocation percentages. - Funding and Program Models - [ ] [Jennifer C] to follow up on the $512,000 amendment shifting funds from High Fidelity Wrap to FSP if no update is received by end of day July 14, 2026. - [ ] [Jennifer C] to call Christi regarding good news about Pratt. - HR and QA - [ ] [Apolo] and Bridget to send the new employee handbook via DocuSign next week (week of July 20, 2026), including PTO accrual details. - [ ] [Robin] to connect with Alida on the Medicare issue within the next week and a half. - Operations and Safety - [ ] [Juan] to organize a safety committee meeting and update site layout plans. - [ ] [Crystal] to schedule safety drills (fire, code) for August or September. ### AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Multiple programs (FSP, OCS, SCHARP, HSSP, AB 109, Child & Youth) are projected to be significantly over budget. The discussion acknowledged this but did not establish clear next steps to mitigate the overages. > 2. The High Fidelity Wrap program is operating on a fee-for-service model and is waiting for a capitated rate to be approved. The financial impact of this transition and the timeline for approval are unclear. > 3. The amendment to move $512,000 from High Fidelity Wrap to FSP is on hold pending internal discussion. The lack of clarity on the reason for this transfer presents a risk. > 4. Several new specialized staff roles (e.g., SUD specialists) are required for new program models but have not yet been filled, which impacts budget projections and service delivery.
- Date
- Jul 14, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Uh there was one I was working on the admin budget. Rita Floyd is on leave, isn't she the partner that passed away, she didn't pass away. Okay, Speaker 2 00:00:15 That's she didn't pass away. Speaker 1 00:00:17 Okay. So so that person is on leave, then that's what they have. So no, okay. Then then maybe you and I will talk offline about it. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:00:25 She's also on leave and she's not well, Speaker 1 00:00:28 Okay, and she won't be coming. Speaker 1 00:00:33 So I'll present a budget. We can talk about that. Yeah, she's should not be a financial. Okay, understood, okay. All right, I'll remove her from the line item or from the personnel detail tab. You'll see once you get your admin budget, you'll see it. Um it'll be clearly spelled out, then you can tell me what you want to do if anything. Speaker 2 00:01:03 Yeah, and you know, getting all the consultant times allocated is going to be something. Okay. Speaker 3 00:01:26 Yeah. So right now okay so actually we were talking about that this morning. Speaker 1 00:01:30 Uh just now with Carmen and James, how we're going to be taking all the expenses for technology IT um HR accounting 20, the facilities costs for 2610. How we're going to be creating one parent account for 2610 Industry Way. Then from there, the allocation methodology that we're going to have to develop of what we're passing to what program. We're gonna have to come up with that because we're gonna capture all the expenditures in one department. Like for IT is all in IT, We have 2610 facilities expenses, all gonna be captured into one single department. We can then take that total expenditure, Then allocate it any which way we want by whatever percentages or whatever methodology we come up with how and then pass it on to these other. Speaker 1 00:02:26 Departments is the way you're you're asking how those allocations are being done. Because right now we don't, I wouldn't know what to allocate like how much of IT do we take and transfer over or what items in IT do we take and transfer over to program or allocate to program. We're going to have to devise that methodology and I'll work with you on that. Speaker 1 00:02:52 It's going to be a little bit more detailed once you get the budget, you'll see it. You'll see the expenditure, you'll know what the total cost is. Then. The question is going to be, how do we take this total cost and allocate it to all these different programs? And we'll come up with A method, A process for that and A method percentage and then continue that year over year. Speaker 2 00:03:15 It's um, You know when we were cost reimbursement, cost allocation was really uh, Something that we have to be precise about. Mhm. Yeah, this is drawing. Put that back with some specificity. Speaker 1 00:03:40 Yeah, it's we're going to have the clarity that we need right now. We at least I don't I don't have it. We have all these expenditures supporting uh support services costs, How do we allocate them to these specific programs? That's that methodology we prepare. And that's just a simple accounting transfer of expense from one department to another. So once we come up with a proper methodology, Then we just create a monthly allocation that gets done by accounting and pass the expenses over. And then do our drawdowns or. Speaker 1 00:04:20 Apply the cost to it. So we have the proper income statement for every DMH contract. And once you see it, it'll make more sense. Sure, yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:32 You have to visualize. I understand conceptually. We've had cost allocation done since the beginning of agencies. It just hit me now. Speaker 2 00:04:52 Significantly rough in the last year. Because for all the reasons we all know. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:05:14 We'll have it. We'll have it now. That's what it is now. We'll have it, we're going to document it, And, that's what I was talking to Darbra about is whatever allocation methodology we put down or put in place, it has to be documented. So then the only thing we have to change would be percentages. So if year one, we state that certain expenditures are going to be a 20 percent allocation. In year two, it changes to 15. All we do is go back to the procedure document. It'll be a standardized document that we create for the organization. Speaker 1 00:05:48 And as the percentages change year over year, we just update the procedure document with the new percentage allocation. That is it. It's simplified. So there'll be a lot of work that's going to go into it, but the start's going to be with this budget that we're putting together. Once you see it, it'll be all in one one area, then we can talk about shifting dollars wherever we need to. Then this is whatever we feel comfortable with, whatever we feel is right as a percentage allocation, To programs, we are going to document that methodology. Speaker 2 00:06:25 So it should be in our policies and procedures for financial. It would be. Correct. Speaker 1 00:06:43 This would be this would be one of them. You're right, yes. That's why? That's why I was encouraging Darva that that's what we have to do. We have to document it. We can't just talk about it off the top of our minds because that's what's happening now either. Somebody knows, another person doesn't know, You know, we I get answers like, okay, yeah, well, I was told to do things a certain way or I was just told to do this, and that's it. Okay well if we can't explain it then that means it's not a methodology, it's not a process, it's not a procedure. Speaker 1 00:07:17 We have to document it. So, so the point is we're going to go back, we're going back to the drawing board. We're going to start from scratch. We're going to build the proper procedure. We're going to document it and then make it official. That's what will come from this exercise. Any other thoughts or questions? No. Speaker 2 00:07:45 Okay, so once we get into it. Speaker 4 00:07:47 Once we see it, yeah, Speaker 2 00:07:48 I think we'll look at more questions once we see. I can see. It's. Speaker 3 00:07:54 Eleven fifty six. Are you ready for the for the subpoena or do you? Um Did they ever email you back? I don't know. I thought were just going to be just giving stuff to us to go. Speaker 4 00:08:12 Around uh. Well, I mean, I guess it just depends on what you want to know about. I know I showed you some of the numbers last week from last fiscal year. Um, I think this fiscal year, I know that they sent out the amendment one to move money out of High Fidelity Wrap into FSP. So waiting on or, Because there were some emails back and forth, called Davis. Made some justification that somehow, some monies got put into High Fidelity Wrap on accident. That it was actually coming from HSP and I don't really understand. Oh really? Yeah, So he said, somehow that accident put there. My argument was even though the IAPCS and High Fidelity Wrap are combined dollar allocation. Speaker 4 00:09:15 And so then after Carl's response to the question or to this my question, Kim stepped in and was like, we need to talk about this internally and then we'll get back to you. Speaker 2 00:09:34 Yeah. He uh he basically said that. Speaker 4 00:09:42 No, I know, and we don't want you to until we can figure out what he said. It just kind of came out of nowhere. Out of nowhere, it's her staff. Speaker 3 00:09:55 The last two weeks, the last few. I don't know. Speaker 4 00:09:58 I look at what his actual statement was, But it's basically like somehow some of somehow dollars from DSSP went to a High Fidelity Wrap, but like. Why that amount? Like, why five hundred and twelve or whatever? It seemed like an odd number. Like, he made it sound like all the money got accidentally put there, but why would it only be a portion? So it make no sense. So I'll follow up with uh if I don't hear back from them by the end of today, I'll respond to the email to say if they have any updates or conversations where just you know we'd like to know before we sign the amendment. Speaker 2 00:10:40 Yeah, well, I'm not gonna sign it. Yeah. Right. But the IFCCS is that that is now Is it still in FSP? Speaker 4 00:10:53 Yes, It's no no moved out It's moved out High Fidelity Wrap is currently this fiscal year It's high fidelity wrap. Speaker 2 00:11:00 Okay So IFCCS is included in High Fidelity Wrap Yes Yes. Speaker 2 00:11:10 And typically it was 500. Speaker 4 00:11:14 Yes, historically when we initially when they gave us those dollars, it was about that much. Speaker 2 00:11:20 Yeah, it was about 500 or 600. Speaker 4 00:11:22 They spent about that much. Yeah they did. So I mean in reality, they gave us so for this this. So this is a This, is the MCAF this evening budgeting book. Speaker 4 00:11:40 They gave us 4.08 million. So, that was the original, that's the original allocation from the financial summary. If you look at historically for wraparound, they gave us like 2.5, right? But, then we ended up billing over the amount. And I think this last fiscal year, they gave us 3.5 ultimately. Speaker 2 00:12:09 Ultimately, It's always been a struggle. Speaker 4 00:12:13 Yeah, Soum. Speaker 2 00:12:15 And then they say they're going to put it in. Right. So this spot quick goal of do you think that that's what we need to do? Are. Speaker 3 00:12:37 You there? Speaker 4 00:12:44 Well, I mean, I feel like if we, I mean technically it is probably a little bit over. If you look at what ISCCS has routinely billed, they haven't really gone over about five hundred thousand. So, if we were to incorporate the three point five million from the old wWRAP, then they gave us basically an extra million dollars. So you know. But in my projections, I told you I did a whole calculation for where we would be at with the amount of staff, And that's not including the proposed staff because you remember high fidelity WRAP has not the state has not approved the plan. So, the only thing that we're doing right now is basically old WRAP for ISCCS and WRAP clients in terms of. Speaker 4 00:13:34 Services and staffing. So the new model does incorporate other roles, so that could be impactful in terms of billing. And also, we don't know what the rates are, because right now, we're still doing fee for service, But WRAP is supposed to approve a capitated rate for WRAP services, and then other services will be fee for service. So I don't know. I'm just guessing right now just if it's solely based on fee for service, but, We won't really know. Speaker 2 00:14:06 Yes, yes, yes. But you see now looking at this, the amount of this in hyper-vigilant right and child and youth speaking. Speaker 4 00:14:30 Well The child and youth will be, Actually got more. Um, They I think they got about five hundred thousand over what they've historically been spending. So remember this is where the adults generally have spent about five million. Yes. So, they're the ones that have been the most impacted. Speaker 4 00:14:56 So It's hard to say but you know, I don't know if you want to see my projections. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:15:03 I'll see them. Why not? Speaker 4 00:15:06 They are uh. Oh, look how scary. Speaker 4 00:15:15 I Was having coffee. Soum. Speaker 4 00:15:28 So well we'll start with that for us. Speaker 4 00:15:34 So Basically this is, this is according to our current staffing. They may be down one staff person, but I think they have eight and eight. This is for FSP. Um so this is the new hourly rate, um so all these calculations are based on the new rate uh, And so what we're looking at is if they, If all these folks bill on average five hours a day for the entire time. Um, This is incorporating how much would you build for the entire set of staff for each role. Plus I added in the doctor time. So I looked at how much time of their time is being allocated to bill for FSP. Um, looking at historical. Speaker 4 00:16:26 Expenditure. So right now, if we build five hours for FSP, they'll be over by about one point one million. Um, if we go down to four hours, they'll just pretty much be right on target. And then for OCS, right now they have eight clinicians, five case managers. Speaker 4 00:16:59 Yes. If you look at their billing, um, and you look at the allocation of time, it's about half and half of what they're billing to each of those programs. So I just use their actual allocation or historical allocation of time. Speaker 2 00:17:20 It just seems like that 0. 5 is a little bit too much on this one. Speaker 4 00:17:29 Yeah, but also they're not billing. I utilize their average hours because they're only billing three point seven hours a day. So when I did the calculation, I looked at their time, plus three point seven hours average billing per day um for an average monthly because nineteen point five is the average monthly billing days over the course of the year. Plus 0. 5 is because they only only 0. 5 of their time is allocated to billing OCS and FSP, but they only build 3. 7 hours, so I use their actual hours of billing, Um and that you know, so that's why it looks less than what you would think it would be because they're not now Trujillo builds more, Speaker 2 00:18:22 But any other yes. Speaker 4 00:18:31 Right. But but she builds less, so I just did the average of them both. Speaker 4 00:19:01 I mean, I can go back to look to see over the last three months or so if that has changed. If I look at her average, it's not. But we, No, I hear what you're saying. Speaker 2 00:19:13 Very unusual. Speaker 4 00:19:17 We, can we? I can do a deep dive to see if that's actually true, even if she has more tisane technically, yes, So OCS is going to be over. Speaker 4 00:19:30 Right. All right. I'll I'll look into that a little bit. So right now if they build five hours, They're going to be over by a million and it'll be kind of right on target if they do four. Obviously, we haven't said anything to them anybody about doing anything other than. Speaker 2 00:19:53 What's the time here? Speaker 4 00:20:00 Right when you have some fraction. So, so for for SCHARP, um. The numbers are probably a little bit inflated because we don't have all these roles in place yet. We don't have SUD staff. We don't have this so can look at the portion of that but, Based on the calculations, also including doctor time. So right now, with that configuration, I have them going over by three million. If they're billing five dollars. So, you know, it might change like right now. We have like one employment specialist. And right now, if. Speaker 4 00:20:59 If we move some of these people over, it would still. It would still be pretty close. Um. To that number, so I think we'll just have to track it and trend it to see. Where, we actually are because you know, because FSP is so large and of course, I'm, including, I did separate out AB 109 and also HSSP because. Just because They operate differently instead of trying to put them all under one. So this is just like what the allocation is. So this 19 million 14 4 is I did some calculations around like historical billing and looking at all the things that come up with the number. So it's a little arbitrary obviously, But it's close to you know what I'm determining as what their MCA is or just FSP ICM. Speaker 4 00:21:59 Without a meeting. Yes. So if they if they build four hours a day, we'll be closer, you know, to the number. Um So I guess it's just we'll see how things progress and'cause there's gonna. There's there's probably gonna be a lot of clients enrolling Well, Speaker 2 00:22:23 I guess so. Um I guess so You know. Speaker 4 00:22:44 Yeah, I mean, we're we're working on it right now to to get the final numbers because there has been clients that need to be disenrolled and stuff. So, we're trying to, you know, catch up a little bit in terms of seeing where we are. And we're. Working on that now, but you know we're. But, it's more about just our FTEs and how many referrals we'll get and how many they will allow us to take. Speaker 2 00:23:10 So based on based on this, what you see back to I I see. Mhm. So they start taking. Speaker 4 00:23:51 According To the expectations around what the staffing implication is. The goal is we're probably a little bit overstaffed in some areas, but also it's hard to say because right now again their expectation is 6.5 FTEs and that's two clinicians, two case managers for 100 clients. Most of the teams right now have between four and five clinicians, three to four case managers. We have a peer or two. Speaker 4 00:24:22 For each team, um, and then there's a few housing specialists like two housing specialists, Speaker 2 00:24:28 One employment specialist. Our teams consist of. That's. Speaker 4 00:24:39 What the goal is to serve. So the goal is to have one housing specialist. Specialist per team. The goal is to have two employment specialists to work across each one for each entity, basically. And then have start with three SED specialists. We don't have any technically right now, But we have some that are certified and that we think can transition into that role. But the goal was to do three and then see if we needed more. Um. Speaker 4 00:25:21 Most of the staff are we're pretty full with staff. Speaker 2 00:25:26 Yeah, would you say that we're pretty like five percent full? You. Speaker 4 00:25:35 Said, are we eighty- five percent full? No, I would say we're ninety- two percent. Speaker 5 00:25:46 Like ninety- two. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:26:25 Yes. Uh, Speaker 4 00:26:30 We have we have um We have ten peers. I mean, six are regular, four are certified, but that's a true number. I think that's right. Speaker 2 00:26:43 That's right So it's really just you know It's Just these at the end. Speaker 4 00:26:49 Yeah, 'cause these are the more specialized programs, Which my guess would be, we would probably transform existing staff case managers into some of these roles. Uh-huh. So it'd just be a matter of hiring other case managers, if we need to do that. We have some staff that are. Depends on where we are, Dr. Roberts. Depends on how much we're billing, how much you know what our trending is. Speaker 4 00:27:24 Well, yeah, Because they're going to have to be trained and they're going to have to follow the whole methodology. Speaker 2 00:27:40 No. So I see this. Speaker 2 00:27:49 I remember when you do deep dive to staff services, most of the clients that. Speaker 4 00:28:25 So This is what I did. I looked at the doctor time for. So this is for July to May of 2026, so it doesn't include June. But these are the numbers for the percentages based on programs. So, 80% of the clients that Barrett saw were FSP. 13% outpatient and then so on. Here's Beagle. So Beagle does 60% outpatient, 31% FSP. Blair does about half and half. Brown's mixed across the continuum. Davis does about half outpatient and then the rest across the continuum, and Rivera does about half. Speaker 4 00:29:15 FSP, she also does twenty five percent of the HSSP. Speaker 2 00:29:19 I was going to say she does a fair amount of HSSP. Speaker 4 00:29:22 So Ms Brown, he does seventy six percent. So if you look at the total number of visits, twenty two hundred and ten visits were outpatient, twenty eight hundred were FSP. So if we look at the total FSP is, Technically, being seen more there's more visits in totality. Speaker 2 00:29:50 Than outpatient. Speaker 4 00:29:58 That's Different. Well, yeah, because it was different before. So for sureum that's the case I think for BAFMA. Speaker 4 00:30:15 I wanted still that outpatient is seen more than FSP. There's more visits for outpatient clients than FSP clients. So this is for BAFMA, I'm saying, I'm showing you BAFMA now. BAFMA is So here's the breakdown. So they did 642 visits for OCS and 529 for FSP. Speaker 4 00:31:00 So As I'm saying, like if you look at average daily billing, 5. 1 for Truvio, but it's only 3. 1. Speaker 4 00:31:43 Or OCS? No. Speaker 2 00:31:50 I don't think we've hired anybody. I don't know if we had a formal stop, but I think anytime somebody loses somebody, asks, we're like, No. She gets she's. Speaker 6 00:32:05 Yeah. We have to replace it. Speaker 2 00:32:07 With yeah maybe not. I mean, I just mean. Speaker 6 00:32:17 Well, yeah, because if we go back the PM and Letitia, I think was the last person who's relieving from OCS. And then Yvonne Henderson is assisting, but she's also splitting her time with CalPERS between those two positions. Good, but she didn't hire any new people. Okay. Speaker 4 00:32:35 This is OCS projections. So I have them going over, and this is pretty much their staffing right now. Is this, So this is pretty accurate in terms of if they bill five hours, they're going to go over by like two. Speaker 4 00:33:01 And They'll still go over if they don't. So, there'll be one that we'll have to watch and see what we're going to do. Speaker 4 00:33:18 High fidelity wrap is going to, you know, With their current staffing and the allocation of dollars because they're at the four point nine million MCA. This is including medical and non-medical, obviously, but um they'll actually be a little bit under based on their historical averages, because you know their their billing is a little bit different. Some of the like the clinicians had a billing specific billing expectation per day. They all had different, It wasn't quite. Speaker 2 00:33:49 Yeah, definitely. Speaker 4 00:33:51 So, if they build at their current rate where they are with the existing staff. And you know, the doctor time is not very much. It's only nurse practitioner time that's being allocated um they will be under. But again, this is only based on fee for service, and it's also not including the staffing pattern with adding additional people. I think they have to have like a substance use specialist. It has to have like some other peer, whatever person. I could use peer. Yeah, there's going to be a. Speaker 2 00:34:26 Couple other additional staff. So we need to add. Speaker 4 00:34:31 Yeah, we probably are eventually going to do it, But because we don't know what the rates are going to be like for high fidelity wraparound services today. Speaker 2 00:34:41 That's right. That's right. We submitted our study. Speaker 4 00:34:47 We submitted the certification to be certified, but yes, uh- huh. I don't think it was little. I think it was pretty big. Speaker 5 00:34:56 It was our mighty manual. Speaker 4 00:34:58 It was our mighty manual. Speaker 5 00:34:59 I was being. Speaker 4 00:35:01 I know you're being funny. I got it. Pretty substantial. I uh yeah, I caught that something AB 109 is um what their current staffing because they have six point five staff. Um plus a little bit of doctor time and nurse time, they're going to go over. They're trending to go over. Okay. With five hours HSSP will also be the same with their current staffing. This like and HSSP is different because right now, this is like, basically 14, no 12. What is that 13 staff? So they're right at the like 6.5 per team. Speaker 4 00:35:46 Expectation and they're already going to go over 1. 5 million and the child and youth well-being is going to go over based on their current staffing about$ 800, 000 if they all bill 100%. Speaker 2 00:36:09 Yes, our works will be even a little bit over. We have two staff one. Speaker 4 00:36:15 One full- time clinician, one full case manager. And then Matt is going to go over too. Speaker 4 00:36:31 Yeah, I think I think we can monitor pace ourselves and when it makes sense to do it, you know, Because we don't know what this what it's going to be like if we're going to be able to ask for more money. Speaker 4 00:36:49 Yeah, I know agencies that are less than that. So less is more. Well, we don't want to do that. So. Speaker 3 00:37:02 There's my projections. Just doing the rest of this. Speaker 4 00:37:11 My friend at the whole child she's doing their staff does like 3. 7. Speaker 4 00:37:30 But, You know, we also have some staff that tend to bill more than the average. Speaker 2 00:37:41 Yeah. Speaker 4 00:38:13 She sent it to you. We have, we have, yeah. Did it for all the staff? And then she broke one down for you for just the med staff. So we can can do that. Speaker 2 00:38:31 Robert, please go ahead. Okay Apollo and Christi I see both are on here. Apollo. Do you have any updates or things we need to discuss? Speaker 6 00:38:41 HR. You're muted. I mean, I know you sent out the PTO request, but anything else? Thank you for that. Speaker 7 00:38:51 Hold on one second. Sorry, I didn't hear you because I think I was uh, I was on uh hearing Doctor Barber's uh computer and then you went silent. I'm sorry Erin, what did you say? Speaker 6 00:39:02 Do, you have any updates that we need to discuss per HR that the team needs to know while everyone is on here, which is rare? So, Why you got us? Speaker 7 00:39:12 No, this is the first time I get invited. Um, so uh I don't have any updates. I don't know if you guys have any questions for me. Speaker 5 00:39:22 Uh when might we expect the employee handbook overall? Speaker 7 00:39:26 Yeah, It should drop uh probably uh next week when when Bridget comes back from vacation. So she can start sending it via DocuSign to all the employees. Speaker 6 00:39:40 And then I did have a question. While I was at HR today. Liz did have a question about the max hours accrued. I said I'm unsure you did put almost everything in there, but it didn't say, but I reassured her that everything is going in one bucket. And it's just like before, once you hit the max, you have to use it to keep accruing. So I'm not really sure what the disconnect was, but she may reach out and ask what is fine. Speaker 7 00:40:04 It's in the handbook. And I didn't put it in there because it sometimes. People don'tum causes confusion uh and so I didn't put it in there, but it's in the handbook. Speaker 6 00:40:16 I did tell her the handbook was dropping probably by the next pay period anyway. So it'll probably be in there and she can read that one. Perfect okay Christi IT updates that need to be discussed in here or questions that we need to assist with? Speaker 8 00:40:32 Not right nowum we're still updating. 2610 ADT. So I'm trying to get everyone into that. Both Robert and I are working on it, but that's the main thing that we're working on right now. Look for your computers to act faster in the next week or so. Speaker 6 00:40:57 Before you leave today, I'm going to come over and pull up ADT Pulse, so to make sure that I'm not doing anything wrong when I try to bring the places. Just so, we can see. I can't arm it clearly because we're all here, but yeah. Speaker 8 00:41:10 Um, so just a heads up, you're welcome to come over here, butum it is an hour drive because I'm in Pasadena. Speaker 6 00:41:19 Oh, I thought you were here. Just kidding. I will see you tomorrow. Speaker 8 00:41:22 I will see you tomorrow. Speaker 6 00:41:23 Not driving to Pasadena. Speaker 8 00:41:24 Okay perfect Thank you No worries. I want to be there today because it's a much better drive. Speaker 6 00:41:29 But i will see no worries, okay, thanks. Robin, any QA updates or questions? Speaker 9 00:41:41 Other than what we briefly spoke about, And we can connect with Alida maybe within the next week and a half after you return, after I return about the Medicare issue and following up with our clinicians. Speaker 6 00:41:57 And I will check. We'll check. I'll try to check the email today and see if I see anything. So we can get started on that to give you access. Speaker 6 00:42:07 I think that's about it. Okay, thanks, Crystal. Programs. Speaker 5 00:42:12 Nothing so far. I mean, besides what we've already talked about, FSP ICM is underway. We're waiting for high fidelity wraparound to be certified. There's a number of staffing issues going on here and there, but Apollo's been working with Enn and Robin on a lot of these matters. Even IT has assisted. We're probably going to put together a. Speaker 5 00:42:37 A meeting with the doctors and nurses soon, but Jennifer will work with Dr. Barber for that. We're still recruiting for program managers for FSP and AB 109, and the performance evaluations have started to come through. So Erin and I will be taking a look at that to get back to the director so that we're on target for our deadline. And other than that, those are like there's smaller things I have to talk to Dr. Barber about before I bring them here. Um, but nothing major happening at this point. We know Aaron for operations. We have been trying to roll out safety and like mentioned before, the CPI training, the crisis prevention intervention is underway for this month. At least one or two sessions. Robin, I do know that Juan has emailed the CPI to get the blended. Speaker 5 00:43:33 Training and how we send out the logins to everybody. So, we'll keep you guys updated on when we have our first batch of leadership that gets trained in it. Um, then I do I don't know anything. I know that Juan's trying to get a safety meeting committee together. You guys probably got that email from all the different sites. Um, I'm assuming we'll start running some drills and things of that nature. Speaker 6 00:43:58 Yeah, I'm having him update and take a look at our current uh layout, Plan for each of the sites to make sure they're accurate. So we can do that and then we'll schedule drills, probably not till August, August or September, we'll start scheduling fire drill or code drills, so we can get those on the books at least quarterly. Speaker 5 00:44:15 Yeah. Bear with this, I do appreciate Apollo and Christi you guys being on the call with this because, as you know, We try to streamline more things with programs and how we can get better at. How we work together, whether it's IT or um HR, We can come up with plans here and then help them get, you know flushed out. So I appreciate you guys coming today. Please keep coming and bringing what you guys need here too, and bear with programs and Jennifer because she's been doing a lot behind the scenes. And so I've told people do not bother her today. Let her focus on some stuff. Please don't though I know bring it to me and Aaron today. Speaker 4 00:44:56 Well, yeah, Speaking of that because I want to give updates Kashif or the rest of the team that we're we did update the payers in CareLogic. So I sent out a mass email to all the admin staff to go ahead and add payers for all the clients. And I'm updating all the procedure stuff. It's been tough because there's been so many other you know parts going on, but I'm working on it. So it may it may be more towards end of the month. I'm able to finish all the things, but we're we're making progress. So there's been little hiccups here and there, but dealing with them as they go. Speaker 6 00:45:36 Okay. To anybody? Does anybody have anything else? This is the longest meeting we've had in a while, guys. Yes. Yeah, that's torture. We'll see, you guys give everybody back a little bit of time on Tuesday next week. Hey Jennifer. Speaker 8 00:45:55 Yes. Can you give me a call on my cell phone? I got good news. It's good news. Uh, can you put it in the chat? Yes, I was like, wait, where's chat? I'm not used to Zoom. There you go. Uh, it's good news. I just want to give you a heads up about something with Pratt that you're going to love. Speaker 4 00:46:19 Okay Sounds good. All right. Thank you. I'll call you right now. Okay. All right, bye.
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05-21 Lecture: Excel Basics - File Safety, Data Organization, and Formulas
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- Date Time: 2026-05-21 14:01:05 Location: [Insert Location]: Pasadena at the Fair Oaks office Instructor: [Insert Name]: Christi ## Summary This lecture, led by instructor Christi, provides a foundational overview of Microsoft Excel for employees from multiple companies, including Crimson, AbilityFirst, and SHARP. The primary goal is not to create experts in 60 minutes but to equip attendees with essential skills for file safety, data organization, time-saving calculations, and enhanced data visualization. The training covers a tour of the Excel interface, collaborative editing, and the importance of AutoSave with cloud storage options like OneDrive, SharePoint, and Google Drive. Christi explains methods for protecting sensitive documents, addresses HIPAA compliance concerning data storage, and demonstrates key functionalities such as filtering, sorting, freezing panes, and creating tables. A significant portion of the lecture is dedicated to creating and correcting formulas to calculate new data columns, like monthly salary, hourly rate, and a fully burdened rate, which is defined as the total cost of an employee. The session also covers functions like `AutoSum`, `COUNTA`, and `COUNTIF`, discusses practical applications of Excel for tasks like attendance and budget tracking, and introduces a new AI-powered chat tool for support. The lecture concludes by setting the stage for future, more advanced Excel courses. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Training Introduction and Logistics - **Housekeeping and Participation**: The training includes employees from multiple companies, with example data from Crimson. The instructor, Christi, is presenting from the Pasadena Fair Oaks office. Attendees are encouraged to use Excel to practice along and interact via reactions and the hand-raising feature. - **Training Goals and Resources**: The 60-minute session aims to teach file safety, data organization, and basic calculations. A comprehensive reference guide will be sent afterward, and a post-training survey will gather use cases for future sessions. ### 2. Excel Environment and Navigation - **The Excel Interface**: The Excel ribbon contains key tabs (Home, Insert, etc.). A workbook is the entire file, containing multiple sheets, which are analogous to pages in a binder. The spreadsheet itself is a grid of columns (A, B, C...) and rows (1, 2, 3...), with each box called a "cell" (e.g., A3). - **Key Interface Components**: - **Name Box**: Located in the upper-left, it displays the name of the selected cell and allows for direct navigation. - **Formula Bar**: Displays the content of the selected cell, whether it's data or a formula. - **AutoSave Toggle**: Automatically saves changes when a file is stored in a compatible cloud location. - **Customizing Sheet Tabs**: Sheet tabs at the bottom can be color-coded for better organization by right-clicking the tab and selecting "Tab Color." ### 3. File Saving, Sharing, and Security - **AutoSave and Cloud Storage**: AutoSave works with SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive, preventing data loss. It does not work with Google Drive. SHARP is expected to get AutoSave functionality before the end of 2026. - **HIPAA Compliance**: AbilityFirst employees must use SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive and are forbidden from using personal Google Drives. SHARP employees can use the company's corporate, HIPAA-compliant Google Drive. - **Protecting Documents**: Sensitive documents can be protected using sensitivity labels or via File > Info > Protect Workbook to restrict access. - **File Sharing and Permissions**: The "Share" button creates a link with controllable permissions ("can edit," "can view," prevent download). Expiration dates (up to 30 days) are required for external sharing, and passwords are recommended for confidential information. - **Version History**: Excel keeps a history of previous versions for files with AutoSave enabled, allowing users to view or restore past edits. - **Real-Time Collaboration**: Multiple users can edit the same Excel file simultaneously when it is stored in a cloud location. Each user's cursor is color-coded for visibility. ### 4. Data Formatting, Sorting, and Filtering - **Creating Tables**: A data range can be converted into a formal Excel table by selecting it and pressing `Ctrl + T`. This unlocks features like advanced filtering and styling. Table designs can be customized. - **Freezing Panes**: To keep headers visible while scrolling, use the "Freeze Top Row" option under the "View" tab. - **Applying Colors**: Cell background and font colors can be changed to visually categorize or highlight data. - **Filtering and Sorting**: Tables have dropdown arrows in headers for filtering data by specific criteria (e.g., location, department) or sorting alphabetically. Data can also be sorted by cell color to group highlighted entries. ### 5. Formulas and Calculations - **Creating Formulas**: Formulas start with an equal sign (`=`). When working in a formatted table, a formula entered in one cell of a column will auto-fill for all other rows. - **Calculation Examples**: - **Monthly Salary**: `= [Annual Salary] / 12` - **Hourly Rate**: `= [Annual Salary] / 52 / 40` - **Fully Burdened Rate**: The total cost of an employee, including salary, benefits, and overhead. For Crimson, this is 22%, calculated by multiplying the hourly rate by this percentage and adding it back. - **Correcting Errors**: The instructor demonstrated that formula errors are easy to fix by clicking the cell, editing the formula in the formula bar, and the table will automatically update. - **AutoSum, COUNT, and COUNTA**: - **AutoSum**: Quickly calculates the total of a selected range of numbers. - **COUNT**: Counts cells in a range that contain numbers. - **COUNTA**: Counts non-empty cells in a range. The formula is `=COUNTA(range)`. - **COUNTIF Formula**: Counts cells that meet a specific criterion, such as `=COUNTIF(H:H, "completed")` to count all cells in column H containing the word "completed". - **Status Bar**: The bottom status bar in Excel can automatically show the sum, count, and average of selected cells. ### 6. Practical Applications and Support - **Common Excel Uses**: - **Attendance Tracking**: Using `COUNTIF` for a quick summary of attendance for compliance purposes. - **Expense and Budget Lists**: Managing finances and formulating budgets, as the instructor does for Sharp. - **Staff Lists and Inventories**: Tracking software licenses, costs, and employee certifications. - **AI Chat Support ("Georgie")**: - A new AI chat tool, nicknamed "Georgie," is available to help with Microsoft and Adobe products, including generating Excel formulas. - Users must respond to the bot to close a ticket; otherwise, it will escalate to a live technician. - **Access**: Available now for Ability First employees in Microsoft Teams via the "Help Desk" button. It will roll out to Sharp employees within a few weeks. ### 7. Training Agenda and Future Sessions - **Topics Covered**: The training included a tour of Excel, AutoSave, working with files in different cloud environments, data entry, formulas, and HIPAA reminders. - **Upcoming Advanced Classes**: More advanced Excel classes are planned for the coming weeks, with invitations to be sent out. A key topic will be referencing data from one spreadsheet in another. - **Instructor's Schedule**: Christi will see Sharp employees on May 27, 2026, and Ability First employees at Fair Oaks on May 26 and at Camp on May 28, 2026. Monday, May 25, 2026, is a holiday. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Open Excel on your computer to follow along and practice during the training session. - [ ] 2. After the training, complete the survey that will be sent out to provide key Excel use cases. - [ ] 3. Practice creating tables, customizing their colors, and experimenting with filtering and sorting. - [ ] 4. Use the "Freeze Panes" feature to freeze the top row of a dataset. - [ ] 5. Practice creating basic formulas to calculate monthly salary and hourly rate from an annual salary figure. - [ ] 6. Watch for invitations to the upcoming advanced Excel classes. - [ ] 7. Ability First employees can practice using the "Help Desk" AI chat tool in Microsoft Teams. - [ ] 8. Sharp employees should look out for the rollout of the new AI chat support tool on their desktops.
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- May 21, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:12 Hi everybody. Speaker 2 00:00:18 Sorry I was running a little bit behind. Let me send out some information real quick to people who had asked and I was running from another training session. So let me get everything spun over. And I do apologize for the lateness. The other one ran over because there was a lot of good questions at the end. So bear with me one second. Speaker 2 00:00:42 And, Let me send this out to all employees just to remind everybody of the training. And then while I'm doing that, I want you guys to open up Excel on your computers. We're going to be talking about a few things within Excel and I'd like you guys to practice with me. So bear with me one second. Speaker 2 00:01:09 If you would like to join, here is the link to be able to join right now. The meeting is starting at 2:00 p.m. which has already passed. I do understand, But feel free to jump in whenever and I will have a recording available for everyone to watch later on. All right, bear with me one more second. I'm sending out the email to all staff. Speaker 1 00:02:01 And we're going to give. Hi, I'm sorry, say that again. Speaker 2 00:02:07 Um, we are going to get started in a moment. I do know that there was a few people that wanted to join that didn't have the link, so I just resent that out. And then we're going to get through everything. Bear with me one second. And I am going to be sharing my screen. I just finished up AI training, so bear with me. Uh, We are going to go through Excel training and I just need to pull everything up and wait for the rest of the people to join that wanted to join. Speaker 2 00:02:54 Now Real quickly, I'm going to do uh, I'm going to make some housekeeping announcements. I want you guys to be aware of uh, the very first one isum, We actually, it's not just one company. We've got multiple companies in this training today. And, the reason why I want to bring that to your attention is most of this is going to be formatted and I'm going to be using Crimson data. But I decided, since there was quite a few people who've reached out to me personally and said, hey, I want to be a part of this training, or I need some Excel training, things like that. Speaker 2 00:03:30 I opted to go ahead and open this up for more than one company. So there's multiple companies in here. Uh, so if you see names that you're not familiar with, that is why. Um, So let me get Let me get this email sent out There's a few other people that wanted to get training, so bear with me. Speaker 2 00:04:02 Now, I'm going to be sharing out my screen. For those of you guys that are here, I am going to stay off camera because I am located in my office, but I do not have a camera for me to use right now because I let someone borrow it and have not gotten it back. So, I do apologize if you're with me on Friday trainings, You'll see Moose and Bree usually behind me on the bed, napping and I will leave my screen unblurred. So that you guys can see the. The glory, that is the kittens for those of you guys who know about the kittens um and but I do not have them with me today because I am in Pasadena at the Fair Oaks office. So I do apologize for any of you who came here to see the the kittens they are not here, and they're not kittens. They're actually full grown cats. Now, Moose is for for my uh my ability people. Moose is, uh he's becoming a monster. He's one year old, and he is. Speaker 2 00:04:58 Already at 17 pounds. So he's a giant kitten. And Bree, Bree's three years old. She's very much an adult cat. Her favorite thing to do is lay in the sunbeams. So, all right, I'm going to share my screen. I am bringing up my stuff for those of you out there who are just joining me. I do apologize. I was running late for my last meeting. We ran a little bit long. It was a training on AI and I am losing my voice after after so many meetings today. So bear with me. We are going to be going over some things within Microsoft Excel. In the meeting, You guys will see you've got reactions and chat and a few other things in here. My friend, Ms Facilitator is turned on, so she is going to actually throw in notes here in the meeting chat for you guys. If you have the notes option, you can go in here and see the meeting notes as we get started. Speaker 2 00:05:55 Now, I want to draw your attention to a couple of very specific items in here. Uh, raise your hand is right here. Don't forget to put it down when you're done or when I'm done. I do look for participation from everyone. So just be aware that I am going to ask you to raise your hand or I'm going to ask you to react : thumbs up, heart emoji, applause, laugh and then shock or surprise. Um so those are the ones we have in here. I want you guys to be aware that that is here For your viewing pleasure and for your use. Because I am, I like to get feedback in a meeting. So I will ask questions. I will say, hey Stephanie, Give me some use case examples or Keisha, tell me how you use Excel or I will randomly throw in a pop quiz. And if you guys were with me live in person, I would be throwing candy at you, but today we are not live in person. Okay now. Speaker 2 00:06:52 I want you guys to be aware. Hang on one second, making sure that that is not my child calling me. She's at school today. She's been texting me all day long about the latest gossip. So I want to be upfront about Excel. We're not going to turn you guys into spreadsheet experts in 60 minutes. That's not the goal. The goal is to make sure you walk out of this meeting or virtually walk out of this meeting, know how to keep your files safe How to organize data and how to do a couple calculations that's going to save you some time every week, if you do not know how. Now, I did put together a reference guide with everything we're coming covering today. I will be sending it out to everyone. It will be for my ability people, it's going to be in your Teams channel. For my sharp people, It's going to be sent to you after the session. So you don't have to take notes on everything. The guide is going to have it all written out step by step. Speaker 2 00:07:49 Okay, and if you want to, you can follow along. If you pull up some Excel documents that you're working on, um, you guys will be able to follow along. Okay? Does anyone have any questions so far? Speaker 2 00:08:09 All Right. No one has questions. That makes me both happy uh and enthusiastic that you guys are paying attention. So I'm smiling. I know you guys can't see me. Um, I am going to bring up my PowerPoint presentation. We we do have a PowerPoint presentation for you guys for the Excel training. So I am going to present some things from you guys. Um, I am going to bear with me screen is going slow. Speaker 2 00:08:42 Um, I am going to give you what we're going to cover. If we go over, you guys are welcome to hang out with me. Okay, I have no other meetings after this. All I have to do is drive home from Pasadena to uh, to El Segundo, which might take a minute. But you guys are my last meeting of the day. So uh we're going to cover quick tour of Excel. We're going to talk about autosave and OneDrive for those of you guys who utilize OneDrive. We're going to be talking about Teams and SharePoint files and Google Drive because all of that's going to be in here. We're going to talk about entering and organizing data. We're going to talk about formulas that help you. Uh, we're going to talk about how each of the companies use Excel. I did put ability in here, but just a heads up, you guys all use Excel pretty much the same way, okay? We're going to talk about helpful features. And because all of you guys are HIPAA. Speaker 2 00:09:37 We're going to talk about HIPAA reminders and key takeaways. Okay, so 60 minutes to go over all of this. We will have more advanced Excel courses because you guys are asking me for that. Okay, now on the Excel ribbon, I want you guys to know, uh, you've got a home and insert in a formula data and view. Um so we're going to go over those, and there's a couple key things auto save. For those of you guys who are using OneDrive, I do want my sharp people, My Bafma people to notate that little save because that will come in handy for you later in the year. So just be aware of that. Now I'm going to share some dummy data with you. Anybody want to guess what kind of person I am based off the data in this spreadsheet? Speaker 2 00:10:35 Lord of the Rings, some of you guys got it. I'm a big fantasy sci-fi person. Okay, I just got my child addicted to Lord of the Rings. Greatest achievement when she came to live with me, was getting her addicted to Lord of the Rings. Um, I'm also a Star Trek fan and a uh Star Wars fan, not as much Star Wars as I am Star Trek. So just a heads up in here, I've got two sheets we're going to work off of okay? So I've got employees and I got financials We're going to work through some of these. Now, what I want you guys to do is after this training session, I'm going to send you guys a survey and I want you to give me some key use cases that you guys have in Excel because that's going to help me with some things, okay? But I want to draw your attention to this document. So I have an employee ID, my first name, my oops! Where'd they go? Come back! All right. Speaker 2 00:11:32 All the data here for HR people. Okay, so you got job title, location, start date, annual salary. Got a couple of things we can do with this. Up here we've got the Home tab. We got Insert, Draw, Page Layout. We got a couple of really cool features up here that you guys can utilize when you're working through things. But we also got some shortcuts we're going to go over okay? Now when I'm in here I want to talk about saving the document, So I've got auto save on and I've got auto save on because I am saving it in my OneDrive. But I'm going to save a copy right now. And I want to show you guys about saving copies. Now for Ability people, autosave only works if you're saving in SharePoint, Teams or OneDrive. So be aware of that. Um for my Sharp people, I don't know if it's going to work in Google Drive, but we're going to try it because. Speaker 2 00:12:29 My SHARP people are Google Drive. AbilityFirst people, You are not allowed to save things into Google Drive because there is not an AbilityFirst Google Drive that is covered under HIPAA. So if someone's using Google Drive, you're using a personal Google Drive, you cannot use it because it is not covered under HIPAA. I want to be very, very clear about that. For my SHARP people, You guys are allowed to use Google because it is SHARP's google and SHARP's google is covered under HIPAA. Okay, so let's be very clear. And for all my other clients, all the rest of you guys are on OneDrive. I do that know that because I do know who I've all have on this meeting. For some of my clients that use Box, we do have that ability in here. But I'm going to save this document into my Google Drive for Sharpe. So bear with me, I'm going to click on This PC, I'm going to click on Google Drive. Here's My Drive, I'm going to click on that and I'm going to save it right here. Speaker 2 00:13:29 And there we go. Now it is saved. Now, autosave did turn off. It only works in OneDrive and SharePoint, so just be aware of that. I am going to go back to OneDrive with this. It's going to save a copy in OneDrive, So just be aware about the autosave in here as well for you guys, if you use sensitivity labels. One of my clients does use sensitivity labels, Um, you I don't have it turned on for this one, but you can use sensitivity labels for things that are sensitive. Is this document sensitive? Raise your hand if you think this document is considered sensitive. Speaker 1 00:14:17 Carissa says yes. Speaker 2 00:14:21 Stephanie says yes. Pratt says yes. Speaker 2 00:14:26 All right, good. Liz says yes. All right, um, Prat, tell me why this document is sensitive. So this uh, this employee table has annual salary for the employees, which is uh, which is uh sensitive. Uh in terms of data. Yes ma'am. Uh Prat is one of my favorite people she works with me Under one of my clients, she does databases and stuff like that. So she gets it. She knows me. So yes, it contains employee data so it's sensitive. It also contains financial data which means it's sensitive. If you do not have sensitivity labels, you have another way of protecting documents. So I'm going to click on the file and I'm going to go to Info and I'm going to go to Protect This Workbook and I'm going to say Restrict Access. Speaker 2 00:15:18 I'm going to label it as highly confidential for all employees. Okay. I can keep track and revoke content if you guys make changes to it. So I'm going to go back here, I'm going to say it's protected. Auto save is turned off, so just be aware. I'm going to click here, I can view permissions and what people have access to, and I can actually change my permissions later on. We're not going to get into that today, that's more of an advanced Excel option. Okay, so I want you guys to be aware of that. Um, now I'm going to go through some basic stuff with Excel. Right here this grid is pretty important. You have columns and columns are labeled A B C D all the way through the double A double Z. Okay? And then you've got rows running top to bottom and these are numbered. Now how many of you guys actually play chess? Speaker 2 00:16:16 Throw up some heart reactions. Okay. Damon and Jennifer play. Good. Awesome. So, You know how on a chessboard, each of the grids on a chessboard is numbered or has a name? Well, each of these have a name as well. So this one right here that I just clicked on is labeled A3, And that's the name. That's the cell's name. So anywhere that I click on is a cell, and it has a name. So this one is K14. If I want to go to a certain cell and I just don't want to scroll, so let's say I want to go to H25, I type it up here. Bear with me, my keyboard is on strike today. So H23, I can type that in there, press Enter. Speaker 2 00:17:14 And my cursor automatically goes to that location. Okay, so be aware of that. That's actually a cool feature, if you have a lot of data and you want to go to maybe F 360. That makes it a little bit easier. So this called a name box and this called a formula bar. Now, the formula bar will either contain the actual data that's listed in that cell or it's going to contain um, a formula And I'll show you guys what that formula looks like in a moment. So, this is the three things I want you to notice before we get into the real world work. You've got your autosave up here, you've got your name right here, the name box, and then you have your formula bar. Okay? So whatever's stored in your selected cell is going to show up here, and we're going to get into that a little bit in a moment. Speaker 2 00:18:12 We've gone over autosave, so you guys have that. You can get to it in two locations, and it depends on where you're saving it to. For my Sharp people, you guys will get autosave soon before the end of the year. Okay? I promise you guys that. All right now that you guys have the basic, I want to talk about version history. When you have version history, especially when autosave is on, you can go into version history and you can see all the edits. Now because we just saved this in a new location, we only have one. Okay? So real quickly, I am going to share this document, but I got to save it in a location. I can do that and I've got to take off the uh the content on here. So let me go back to restrict access. Speaker 2 00:19:08 And let's say unrestricted access, which was already back on. Oh wait, I'm on the current version. Hang on. Don't save. All right, let's go back to the original. Okay, I am going to go back here. It opened up a new one for me. I'm going to go to info. I am going to turn it onto unrestricted and I want to remove permissions. Okay? I'm going to click on the share button up here and I'm going to tell it copy the link. Now, I want you guys to be aware of something when you copy a link. A couple of things will happen here. Um, I can go in and view settings. Right now I have anyone with the link can edit. I'm going to click on settings and I can make changes to it. So, I can choose to share it where people can edit, I can choose it to share it, where people can view it, but not make changes, and I can choose to share it but they cant download. This is for my OneDrive people so just quick heads up um. Speaker 2 00:20:05 I can also choose expiration date because I'm sharing it outside of the Crimson organization. I can't put it never expire. So just be aware that if you're sharing it externally, you have to expire after uh, I think up to 30 days. And then you can choose to set a password if it's confidential information. So if I'm sending to Pratt Uh, Some documentation she needs to upload into SharePoint, and it's got client data in it. I'm going to want to choose to set a password, just in case it gets intercepted by a bad actor, which we would hope never would happen. But just in case I want to be extra careful. Okay, So I'm going to go ahead and put this link in here so that you guys can see it in the chat. Um And then it's right there. Speaker 2 00:21:00 And then you guys can actually open it up because I have it shared. If you open it up, I'm going to see all the people who jump in. All right. Ah, got a bunch of people jumped in. Everybody who jumps in, you can see that if they click on a cell, it's going to change colors. Now guest contributors are all getting the same color. But if somebody was in here, that was logged into Crimson, I could see that as well. Okay, and if you guys make changes, which I'm going to ask you not to make changes just yet, I will see it in the version history. So now we got a lot of people jumping in. This is one of my favorite things to do because you can share files and work on it at the same time. You can do the same in Google as well, where you guys can share and make changes all at the same time. So be aware that it's actually a very useful feature if I'm in here and I send to. Speaker 2 00:21:58 Alma, a document that she and I are working on from the HR perspective, and we're looking at employees in a document just like this. I can see her going in and make changes. We could be on the phone, making changes to the document at the same time and meeting about it. It's a great useful tool. I was doing that in an earlier meeting today with another client. I had a Word document, I sent it to them, they had it opened up, we were making changes. So be aware of that. Um, Now, let's get into the actual spreadsheet. So this is a spreadsheet. You've got sheets. This entire file is called a workbook, and then you have different sheets in a workbook. Think of it as a binder. For those of you guys who are as old as I am, you guys went to school, you had binders. I had a Trapper Keeper. That's how old I am. And, you had papers that you put into the Trapper Keeper and folders and things like that. Basically think of Excel just like that. Speaker 2 00:22:55 Okay. Think of it as each of these sheets are pages in that chaperone. I had an Anne Frank one, so it was very colorful. All my folders in high school were color coded according to Anne Frank. I had unicorns, okay? There's a story about me that you guys did not need to know, but everything was color coded. I can color code my sheets down here just like my Anne Frank one. So financials, I can make that blue Go to tab, change that to blue. That's my favorite color, blue. I can go to employees and I can make that purple. Okay, I can make that pinkish purple. And there we go. So now employees are purple. I can color code this just like I did my Anne Frank chocolate keeper. All right? So this is my spreadsheet. Now the other thing I can do. Slight confession here, I was a very artistic child in high school so i would. Speaker 2 00:23:53 Color code the edges of my pages with a highlighter. I don't know if any of you guys ever did that, but for my notes in chemistry, I would color code my pages. Kinda like you would do with different color index cards, I would do it with my pages. So, I'm gonna do that and I'm gonna make a table. Now table even though this is a sheet it's not a table yet. So, I'm gonna format this as a table. There's a lot of useful things I can do with that. So i'm going to highlight my table what i want included in the table. I can take my mouse and I can drag it down and highlight all of this, or I can highlight each column. And basically, I'm just clicking on column A and I'm dragging all the way over to H. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit, I'm going to hold down the control key on my keyboard and I'm going to hit the T as in Tom, and I'm going to bring up a create table page. And here's the data. Now, I am also going to tell it. My table does have headers because that first. Speaker 2 00:24:51 First row here, that row one is all the headers. So I'm going to tell it that it does have tape headers and I'm going to say okay. Now it's made it blue. Only problem is, is this is a pinkish purple page. So I'm going to change my colors because I don't like that. I'm going to go to table design and I am going to match my page. Now, I kind of like when it does alternating, So I'm going to go down here. I'm going to choose. Yeah, don't like this one. Maybe. Ooh, I like this. I like the grays. Okay, so now I have the purple heading and I have the grays, so I can color code it. Now, that's not the most impressive thing about a table, but you can design it out for financials, I'm going to do the exact same thing. I'm going to go up here. I'm going to go over highlight each of the columns. I'm going to hold down the control. Speaker 2 00:25:49 Or I'm going to go up here to this ribbon. I'm going to say format as a table. I'm going to hit the down arrow and I can choose colors again based on this one. Now that same box is going to come up. My table does have headers and I'm going to say okay, and so now this one's color coded as well, okay? So I've got employees and I've got financials. Now, what if I have a lot of data here and I want to find? Everyone who worked at a location. Let's do Starfleet Headquarters. Someone hit that dropdown and I can filter based on where we're going. So I'm going to uncheck this box and Starfleet Headquarters, I'm going to click this and let's see, okay. And I'm going to say see everyone because I've got multiple people in here. Now, James Kirk, he works at headquarters. I have Mr McCoy and Jean-Luc Picard. Speaker 2 00:26:44 All right, so great. I've got my HR director, my VP of operations and my chief operating officer. So I now see who's all at headquarters. I can hit this down button again, and I can clear that. And now I can see everybody all over again. So those are your couple of things you have on here. So just a heads up, um, I like doing alternating colors, just because it makes it easier for me to look at. I have days where I spent eight nine hours on the same Worksheet in Excel and I'm going through thousands of rows of data. This makes it easier for me to see. So, um, any questions so far about what we have? Now Liz and Jennifer, your hands are raised. I don't know if you guys still have questions or if you guys were participating in the earlier questions. So feel free to lower your hands if you still don't have questions. Speaker 2 00:27:48 Okay. Um, one, how did I highlight the tab? Okay, so Jennifer, great question. I am going to go down here to the tab and I'm going to right, click on it and I'm going to go to tap color. And that's how I do it. I just choose my colors. Great question. Now, One thing I like to do is when I'm in a spreadsheet and I scroll, you guys notice my headers are kind of up here. But what if I want my pretty headers? What I'm going to do now is I'm going to scroll all the way back up and I'm going to highlight my table. I'm going to go over here and I want to keep this top row here as a scroll. It's pretty purple. So, I'm going to go to my view tab, and i am going to go to freeze panes, which is right here. Speaker 2 00:28:44 And I'm going to tell it to freeze the top row. So now when I scroll, my pretty colored headings are still at the top. Okay? It's one of my most useful features, especially when I got a lot of data. And that's just a quality of life feature that I love. Okay? So even if I have 300 rows, my headers are going to stay right there. Okay? And then I showed you guys sort and filter. That's Honestly, one of my favorite ones. Oh, how did I tell it to freeze the top row? Okay. So I'm going to highlight my columns again. I'm going to go to View and then I'm going to go over here to Freeze Panes and I'm going to choose Freeze Top Row. You also have the option to freeze first column. So if you got a lot of data that goes to the right, you can freeze um the first column as well so. Speaker 2 00:29:42 Okay. Now, I filtered location for you guys, but what if I want to filter department? Exact same thing. I'm going to click that down arrow and I can filter by department. What if I need a quick and dirty way to see something? And I want to see everybody that is in Human Resources. So, I'm going to say okay, I'm going to click on Human Resources and now i've got two people. I've got an HR director at Starfleet headquarters and i've got an HR manager. Speaker 2 00:30:13 And, what I want to do is I just want to highlight these two and I'm going to put their names in a different color just because I want a quick refer. So, I'm going to go here and we'll make it purple and I'm going to say, put them in purple. Now, I can't see the words. So i'm going to go into my A right here, and i'm going to say put them in white. And that way, i can see it much better. So now I can see them, they're in purple. I am going to clear my filters and then I'm going to look for another department in here. I'm going to hit the down arrow and I want to look for everybody who's in operations. And I'm going to make them blue. So, I have Sam Wise, Gandalf and William Reichardt. So, I'm going to do that same thing but this time, I'm going to make them green. Speaker 2 00:31:08 For operations. I'm going to do the darker green again, and I'm going to change all the way to white. So their words are in white, and I have that there. Now I'm going to clear this. So now, I have a couple different colors in my spreadsheet. Okay? That way, I can easily find some things. But wait! I need to sort these in a certain order. So I want to sort them by the departments that I highlighted. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go to Sort by Color and I'm going to say Sort by Color and I want operations to be at the top. So I'm going to hit the green and all my stuff sorts. Oh, it did not sort my HR but you know, I think i also want my HR to be sorted, so i'm going to go here, and i'm going choose purple. Oh. Speaker 2 00:32:01 Okay, I like this. So now my purple's at top, my green's underneath and everybody else is under that. But you know what? Probably wasn't the best way to sort. So I'm just going to sort the department totally. And here we go. Now I can see it. Okay, so you've got a couple different things you can do here. Any questions about sorting? Speaker 2 00:32:31 All right. We're about to get into the most used part of the class. As far as what everybody likes to see is formulas. Now, A couple of you guys have said to me in different trainings that formulas scare you. They scared me. I'm going to give you guys a couple different options on ways you can utilize formulas. So in here, I need to find out people's annual-- oops, sorry. People's annual salaries, And I want to break it down to their monthly salary because I've got people that are in locations that they go more by monthly salary than they do annual salary. And and that does happen. Okay, so I do say this from experience. I do know that uh Crimson has uh employees from all over the world, and certain countries actually don't do annual salaries, they do monthly. So I'm going to break this down so I have it. Speaker 2 00:33:30 And I want to break down, and I'm going to put in here monthly salary. Oops, I can't spell today. And I'm just going to type that in and press enter. Now it's going to create me another column in that table. So it's going to put the monthly salary and the heading, and I have this other, it's going to do that automatically because it's in the table format. And I want this To figure my monthly salary. Okay, So what I'm going to do is I'm going to click in this top row and I'm going to type into the formula bar. And I'm going to type the equal sign to say, I want this to be a formula. And then I wanted to take the annual salary, which is it's going to be H2 because that's the name of the cell. But I'm going to click on it, and it's gonna pull up H2. And it's gonna put that in here. And then I'm gonna divide that. Speaker 2 00:34:27 By putting the the slash key by 12 to get their monthly salary. So anytime you want to get someone's salary, you take the annual salary, you divide it by 12. So that's what I'm doing here. I'm taking the annual salary and divided by 12. I'm going to press enter. Now, it's going to take a minute for some reason. It's my tape. My computer is a little slow right now. So what it did I don't know if you guys saw this, but when I pressed enter it autofilled all the way down. And did the same formula for everybody, because it knows that's what it wants you to do. Okay, so now I have monthly salary. Now I need to figure out hourly cost. Okay, So I'm going to go over here and I've got monthly in there and now I'm going to do hourly rate. Okay, I'm going to get into a little HR weeds because I know I have Alma in here and she loves HR. So, got hourly rate, built out my column um. Speaker 2 00:35:25 I am going to configure my hourly rate. Now, I do mine interesting. I don't know if this is how everybody else does it, But I'm going to say, equal and I am going to say monthly salary and I'm going to divide that by 52 for 52 weeks in a year. Okay? And that gets me my weekly salary. And then I'm gonna divide that by 40. But before I do that, I'm gonna go back to my high school math, and i'm gonna put my monthly salary. In parentheses because I want to figure that first. Okay. So I want it to figure my monthly salary by 52 to get my weekly and then I'm going to divide that by 40. And I'm going to press enter and it's going to autofill. Okay, oh, wait I messed up because I did monthly salary. Okay, well, I need to fix this. Now this was intentional guys. Speaker 2 00:36:20 Um, I know some of you guys were looking at this like, what is she doing? She's talking annual by monthly. Yeah, no. So I figure out this is wrong and I want you guys to be aware, here's how easy it is to fix formulas. You highlight the wrong cell. You could thank you Alma um, I'm going to do and I'm going to choose another cell because that was not the right cell. So I'm going to highlight that and I'm going to click an annual salary. So now let's change out annual salary and I'm going to press enter. Now I have hourly and guess what happened? It filtered down. Okay, so mini math lesson for you guys, Put things in parentheses, if you want it to calculate that first before you do the second one. And I want Elmo's correct. I do usually do the 2080 divided by 2080, but I want you guys to see a little bit of. Speaker 2 00:37:16 Extra math in this. And if you're not a math fan, I completely understand. So, uh and if you ever need help with that in the future, please call me, email me, email the help desk. They will help you with it as well. Uh and I'm going to show you guys something about formulas in a moment that's going to be extra. Anyway, I have hourly rate here and because I work in HR and I'm working on budgets, maybe I work in the IT department and I'm working on my budgets for my IT. I'm going to make one more. And you don't, if you guys don't know what this is, don't worry about it. But it's just an extra calculation we're going to do. We're going to keep doing calculations just for you guys to see. So I typed in fully burdened, I press enter. My Excel is going slow because I've been keeping it busy today. My fully burdened rate for my company is 22%. So I am just going to type the equal sign to start my calculation. Speaker 2 00:38:15 I'm going to click on the cell and I'm going to tell it to times it by 22 %, which is a decimal place. And I'm going to add that and I'm going to do it one more time, press enter so it automatically fills. I didn't have to show you three formulas, But some of you guys have been asking me how to do formulas the easy way. And so I just wanted to show it to you guys multiple ways. So, so I have my fully burdened rate, Nope, wait. I'm wrong. Hang on. I messed that one up too. Alma's over here laughing at me, I know 'cause she's next door. All right, so fully burdened rate, setting that up properly this time. That calculation. All right, here's my fully burdened rate, everything looks good.Um great! Now I can figure out my budget for this year.Any questions? Speaker 2 00:39:11 You guys are the quietest class I've had all day. Fully burdened, Alma, do you want to explain fully burdened or you want me to explain it? I am going to butcher this explanation. Oh, you don't know. Okay, Fully burdened rate is the cost of an employee, including all the other stuff that we have. So for Crimson, our fully burdened rate is twenty two percent meaning that, We pay. I am going to use Liz. I am going to use you for my example. Let's say, I don't know Liz's salary, so please don't quote me as this being her salary. Let's say Liz's salary is ninety three thousand per year, okay? Um, I need to calculate what she is going to mean for my budget, including all the costs of hiring Liz. So, I hire Liz, she comes on board, I have to worry about. Speaker 2 00:40:09 Paying extra for her insurance. I have to worry about her Microsoft licenses or her Google licenses. I have to worry about 401k matching, all of that. So I have to calculate that as being her total percent. And so Crimson calls that fully burdened rate because of how we calculate other things, but that's all she costs me, okay? There's other factors and figures. I as a CIO, I actually provide this to my clients. I know most of my clients fully burden rate just because I have to calculate it for their budgets. So just be aware of that. Almas, is it called something else? I've always called it fully burdened. Is there another term for it? Speaker 1 00:41:01 She's going to answer me in a moment. Speaker 1 00:41:05 U m, Speaker 2 00:41:08 Okay, good I'm. Glad all right. So a couple other ones I want you guys to be aware of is I'm going to highlight this I'm gonna make a I'm gonna just kill that those row. Oh I'm gonna delete those because i i don't want all those zeros. Um i want to do my totals, so i'm going to do a total right here. I'm going to highlight this. I'm going to make it bold because this is going to be my totals. Okay, so totals. Now, my total for annual salary, what I'm going to do is I'm going to auto sum it. So I'm going to highlight the cell and I'm going to click on sum right here, and I want it to give me the total amount of all these items in here. Now when I do that, it moves us all the way across. Speaker 2 00:42:03 So for yearly annual salary, $2.8 thousand. Okay, monthly I'm paying 239 thousand. Uh hourly I'm paying for my company to work is 1.6 hundred. Now how many employees do I have? That's a good question. I actually can calculate this. So I am going to do a count right here so here's my count. Speaker 2 00:42:33 So I'm going to type equal and then I'm going to type the word count. And I've got a couple options I can choose from. So these can count the entries. Okay, now there's two counts, there's a regular count and a COUNTA. I use COUNTA all the time. What COUNTA does is it counts everyone that has a certain status, okay? I COUNTA right here, And all I'm going to ask it is everyone that has every cell that's in here. That's not empty. So my COUNTA, And I'm going to do it by first name or I can do it by employee number, one or the other. So I'm going to count A and I'm going to put a parentheses. And my value is going to be. Let me just do last name because I can see that. I'm gonna do last name. Speaker 2 00:43:31 Uh, let's see. Last name. Right here. All right, And so I hit down. And so on my count A value, it's C colon C to get that entire cell. Then I'm going to close parentheses Oh, I did something wrong here. Let me go back in it. My computer is acting slow, so bear with me. But I would do C colon C and I got to wait for my system to catch up with me So my count. Is going to be C, comma, C. And press Enter. And then I can see my count in just a random cell. Come on. All right, so that should give me my count as soon as I press Enter. Me? Speaker 2 00:44:24 I do apologize, guys. My computer has decided after today's many training sessions it's going to do that. Another formula while we're waiting on my computer to catch up to us, count tells me how many cells are in that range. CountA tells me how many cells are in there that aren't blank. So I do use CountA all the time. Now, we do know we have 24 employees on this list because it says 25 is where Mr S ecu rit y- - sorry, I'm about to sneeze-- Mr. Security Manager is, and we subtract one for the heading. That's how I can quick look and see. You can also use it to tell you how I can count a column and tell it to only give me the people who have a status of complete. So, I would show you guys, but my system is just being a little slow. All right? Speaker 2 00:45:22 I showed you guys the autosum, but also if I look down here, I'm waiting for it to finish calculating. But if I go down here, there's usually a status here sum of all the numbers in that column, my count and my average. So it'll automatically have it down here next to where it says display settings. Okay? Now that being said guys um. Speaker 2 00:45:48 I do want to start wrapping up. We did miss, we did skip over a few items that I normally show people. I do show Teams, however, Given that there's such a broad client base in this meeting that uses Google, Box and other things, I do want to make sure that you guys are aware. We did skip over the Teams. So it did cut some things a little bit short. And now my Excel is being well more ornery than my seventeen year old when she's hungry. We are going to have advanced Excel classes coming up, so that will be in a couple weeks. I will send out invitations, and let you guys all be a part of it. A couple of things that I want you guys to be aware of, you can use Excel for attendance tracking. Both clients in this meeting, both of my favorite clients that are in this meeting, that deals with HIPAA and compliance, attendance tracking is something that's useful for you guys. Speaker 2 00:46:47 So, if we are tracking attendance for classes and we have all our list of employees here, We can put a countif formula at the bottom of each one and tells us who is supposed to be there or tells us who's actually there, because I can say, I can put a status on one of these and put the status as attended. And I can see quickly and know how many people showed up. Okay. Expense and budget lists. I do a lot with expenses. I do a lot with budget list, and I can calculate based on that. I can do sum in the amount column to get a total. Sharp is working on budgets right now. That is something I use religiously. I pull my year-to-date to see where we're at on my budget, and then I formulate for my 2027 budget staff list and inventories, okay? Speaker 2 00:47:45 Um, I actually have a staff list for ability first. Who has what license within Adobe, Zoom and Microsoft? And I use that to have that. So I can see who has what and how much it costs. Okay, so that fully burdened rate I was talking about for you guys. Um, I do that based on a staff list. And I can sort by department and I can make, Charts based on that. And I do that all the time for Ability First Finance. I'll make a chart to show the average breakdown per department based on their Microsoft licenses, okay? For my staff within Crimson, which Pratt you sort of fall into that category. Pratt's not a Crimson employee, but she we have a dotted line to her for reporting reasons. If Pratt comes to me and says, hey, I got this certification in Microsoft. Speaker 2 00:48:40 I will put that on my spreadsheet. So I know how many people have a Microsoft certification. And I do have a spreadsheet for that. So you've got you've got a couple different options here. You've got a lot of different things that you can do. When we get to the advanced Excel classes, I'm actually going to show you how to reference one spreadsheet into another spreadsheet. And hopefully, my spreadsheets don't lock up on me. One last thing I want to talk about, which does not involve Excel is. Is to show you guys if you need help with different things within Microsoft. For those of you guys who use Teams, I'm going to show it to you right now. Now, for my Sharp people, you guys are getting the same tool in the coming weeks. It's going to be on your desktop. If you guys remember, you still have the button that for you to get help through IT. That button is going to point you in the direction of this little chat feature. Speaker 2 00:49:37 For my Ability First people, you already have it. And. One of the things that it does is it will help you with Excel formulas. It is a chat. You can't open tickets with it. So I want you guys to be aware, you can't actually open a ticket using this. However, One of the features we've never shown or we hardly advertise is how to chat and get help with things. So I'm going to say I have an Excel spreadsheet. Speaker 2 00:50:05 And I need a formula to calculate column C, or let's do column H for all cells that have completed in the cell. I need that count. And I'm going to press send. Now I'm going to wait a second because it's going to open a ticket, which is not a big deal. And my little bot, I keep calling him Georgie. He's going to tell me, hey, we got we got a thread here, and all I need to do is wait a few more moments, and he's going to come back with an answer for me, all right? So here is how to do it. And this one tells me to use count, if and count if I do use as well. So count if. Speaker 2 00:51:05 That column has the word completed and get and come back and tell me how many have it. Okay. So this going to count all the cells in column H that contain the word completed. Um now one thing too, please note that once you guys get this done, it's going to ask you would you like to try this yourself? Or would you prefer I escalate this to a technician for further help? This our AI bot. He's our AI minion. He's trying I'm going to say thank you. Speaker 2 00:51:35 This worked. And, what's going to happen is he's going to close out the ticket for me. If you don't close out the ticket, You are going to see your phone ring with a Crimson IT number attached to it, even if you work at Sharp, you're going to see that. And, one of my lovely favorite technicians on the help desk is going to call you back and ask if you still need help with your formula or they're going to email. So do make sure that if it worked, you tell Mr. Georgie here because if not he's gonna escalate it to a technician okay? Even if you clicked off this page after five minutes, Georgie here is going to say, Oh, they left me. Let me get a technician. Okay. So, just want you guys to remember that for Sharp employees that's coming in the next couple of weeks. We are finishing it up, and we will be sending it out. It's either going to work with a bigger red button or it's going to work with something else. I have yet to figure out the way I want to do it, and that's on me to figure out for my ability first people, it is in your Microsoft Teams and. Speaker 2 00:52:32 To get to it, You go into Microsoft Teams, and you click on the crimson logo right here that says Help Desk. That's how you get to it. Um, and I do know people are using it, so I do know it works. Um, just a heads up, it will I showed you Excel on here. It will answer other questions for you within Microsoft and Adobe. So just a quick heads up on that. Um You will be able to ask it multiple things unless they close ticket, All right? Speaker 2 00:53:03 Any other questions you guys have, I am going to be sending out some documents. So I want to know if you have questions, ask them now so I can include them in the document. Speaker 1 00:53:19 Anybody? Okay, Speaker 2 00:53:28 You guys have been amazing for my sharp people at, Uh, 2610. I will see you guys on Wednesday because Monday is a holiday. I will not be in the office on Monday. I will be sitting in the hammock with Brie and Moose, uh enjoying a my stack of books I've not read yet that has come. Um for those of you at Ability First, I will see you on Tuesday at Fair Oaks or if you're at Camp, I will see you on Thursday because I got to drive up to Camp on Thursday. You guys are amazing and. Speaker 1 00:53:59 Thank you very much for joining us. Have a great weekend.
05-08 Team Meeting: Microsoft 365 Adoption, Security Posture, and AI Platform Selection
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-08 15:41:11 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Using Microsoft Teams as a central hub (email, Planner, Help Desk) - Teams positioned as a “one-stop” location, including accessing email within Teams. - Planner introduced for task management; personal and project plans shared; an outdated plan needs deletion. - Help Desk chat in Teams demonstrated for ticketing and automated answers to Microsoft Office questions. - Example: A request for an Excel formula resulted in a ticket, a provided solution, and auto-closure upon confirmation. - Non-supported requests (e.g., Netflix password) escalate to a technician with updates continuing in chat. - Topic Title: Screen sharing interruption and recovery - A temporary visibility issue occurred due to an incoming call; the demonstration resumed afterward. - Topic Title: Scheduling meetings and using locations/resources - A lunch meeting with Alma for Tuesday at 12:00 PM was created, with Teams meeting disabled and physical location set to “Ability First,” aiming for the Fair Oaks office. - Resources like “Ability First boardroom” can be booked as listed resources; room/resource booking details to be verified. - Topic Title: Calendar categorization and color-coding practices - Extensive use of Outlook categories for calendar/email, with rules on what admins can move. - Demonstrated categorizing items (e.g., “Christy to respond” marked red; lunch marked personal). - Weekly routine: color-code Sundays around 6–8 PM; sometimes two weeks ahead. - Categories can be customized, favorited, and shared visibility enables coordination (admins can see colors). - Topic Title: Email and To Do integration with Planner - Email items can be turned into Planner tasks and appear in Microsoft To Do (used heavily on mobile). - Created a Planner task with due date, importance, and link to the message. - Mentioned pinning, translating messages, and building workflows for reminders and follow-ups. - Topic Title: Creating workflows and recurring reminders (Power Automate + Teams) - Built a scheduled reply workflow and demonstrated scheduling a message reply for a specific date/time. - Power Automate used to post a recurring weekly message (Fridays at 2:00 PM) to a group chat (“napping team”), including links. - Recurring messages can be sent to external channels/groups (e.g., onboarding team including Alma). - Topic Title: Sending messages when running late to meetings - Demonstrated posting a quick message in meeting chat to notify of running late. - Topic Title: Planner app pinning and visibility in Teams - Planner may disappear if not pinned; ensure Planner is pinned and app bar is customized. - Topic Title: Invitation to Upcoming Microsoft Trainings - Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Word trainings offered. - Current schedule referenced: 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays next week for Word; invites to be sent; attendees will consider availability. - Topic Title: Handling Review Comments and Screen Sharing - Comments review suggested but time constrained; request to share the document with comments after the meeting. - Screen sharing remained with Speaker 6 due to display size considerations. - Topic Title: Microsoft Purview Activation and Licensing Context - Purview was not previously activated due to older license limitations; other tools (Avanan, Crimson Security) provided protections. - Baseline Purview will be turned on now that licenses include it; no extra cost mentioned. - Organization is not subject to strict PHI/HIPAA/DMH requirements; licensing upgrades are under consideration. - Topic Title: Blocked Authentication Attempts and Security Posture - Audit flagged 109 blocked authentication attempts against five Office accounts using old passwords found on the dark web. - All attempts denied; IPs blocked and monitored; no compromise detected. - Large organizations see far higher daily attempts; current controls effective. - Topic Title: VPN on Personal Devices and Response Procedures - Personal privacy VPNs (e.g., NordVPN) can mask IPs; security tools detect and monitor related targeting. - If a password is bypassed, the team will contact the user, enforce password changes, and reset MFA; routine procedure. - Topic Title: Choosing AI platforms (Copilot vs. Claude vs. ChatGPT) - Strengths: Copilot excels in Microsoft ecosystem, meeting notes/recaps, HIPAA-aligned use; Claude strong for building, automation, local document workflows; ChatGPT good for images and certain tasks. - Recommendation depends on use cases; Crimson uses all three; openness to multiple tools and further learning. - Copilot Facilitator can auto-capture meeting notes/recaps in Teams; demos shown of recap, AI summary, transcript, and video recap. - Topic Title: Security, privacy, and business accounts for AI tools - Emphasis on data security and training in privacy best practices. - Copilot does not share data; business accounts for ChatGPT and Claude can disable data sharing (turn off “Help improve”); Crimson defaults to sharing off. - Warning to avoid tools that auto-share data; “Grok” associated with Elon Musk noted as auto-sharing content and not allowing disable. - Topic Title: Practical demos: Using AI for invoices, contracts, and meeting workflows - Demonstrated Claude querying local folders (e.g., recent Verizon payments) and auto-filling a database from scanned invoices; similar setup for Ability First. - Copilot pulling meeting context and documents; cross-checking with Claude. - Everyday chat uses (general queries, summaries, images); suggested starting with chat interactions. - Topic Title: Training offerings and learning path - Crimson offers AI training, including “where to start” sessions; Speaker 1 leads most training; additional trainers (e.g., Monty). - Recommended YouTube resources and Speaker 1’s blog on “minions” automations to be shared. - Topic Title: Adoption approach and sequencing - Proposed process: implement Copilot first, complete Microsoft security/audit steps, then open Claude based on interest. - Licenses can be reassigned if users leave across Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT. - Topic Title: AI platform options and pricing (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) - Copilot: $24 per user/month (nonprofit pricing to be confirmed), one-year commitment, minimum 1 user; no month-to-month or trial. - Claude: $25 per user/month, minimum 5 users, month-to-month, usage-based overages; heavy users may need premium (~$100/user/month). - ChatGPT: $30 per user/month, minimum 2 users; standard plan typically sufficient. - Pricing differences small; commitment and usage model matter. Concern about broad access to multiple platforms increasing costs. - Leaning toward allowing choice among tools, potentially limited to one per user, with power users on multiple; not finalized. - Topic Title: Usage limits and overages for Claude - Token-based usage with session and weekly limits; heavy/complex/coding workloads can incur overages. - Example: heavy coding exhausted tokens in two days, resulting in $200–$250/month personal spend. - Cowork (agentic mode) can reduce token consumption for tasks like financial analysis and briefings; recent update increased effective token availability. - Topic Title: User profiles and current AI usage patterns - Survey indicates diverse roles and usage: senior program officer uses Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Canva, Adobe; others vary similarly. - Identification of power users vs. regular users; several strong candidates for Claude and Cowork for agentic automation. - Topic Title: Capability comparison—Copilot vs. Claude (and Cowork) - Copilot: native integration with Microsoft 365 (email, calendar, Teams, file shares), suitable for org-wide access and meeting notes; typical use within subscription limits. - Claude: reads local files and connects via connectors (Outlook, Gmail); requires configuration for Teams/SharePoint; token management needed; Cowork helps with efficient analyses. - Topic Title: Subscription commitment and cost-risk considerations - Copilot’s one-year lock-in is a commitment and adoption window; mixing platforms across staff adds complexity. - Need to balance access models (single vs. multiple tools per user) with budget and participation. - Topic Title: Tracking AI token usage and cost awareness - Token usage tracked under settings > usage; resets daily at 6 a.m.; monitor weekly and monthly usage to avoid limits. - Guidance compares management to cell phone data plans. - Topic Title: Microsoft licensing and eligibility for AI tools - Some accounts on Business Basic (email-only aliases) do not need AI and are not eligible for Copilot. - No plan to upgrade Basic accounts to E3/E5 for AI eligibility. - Speaker 1 upgraded to a newer E3 (+$5–$6/month) to run security reports; can roll back if not needed. - Topic Title: Data protection enhancements (Purview, sensitivity labels, DLP) - Enable baseline Microsoft Purview and auto/sensitivity labeling for client data via email (no-spend option). - Compliance add-on (~$240) offers higher-level DLP but is not necessary now. - Current security is strong; goal is adding data loss protections. - A matrix of options and recommendations to be sent next week. - Topic Title: Security monitoring practices - Security team monitors alerts and responds within five minutes during business hours; after-hours escalation via partner for serious issues. - Topic Title: Document review and next steps clarification - Speaker 6 will send a file with comments and the latest policy document. - Speaker 1 will reply to comments and provide answers by end of day Monday (2026-05-11). - Next steps include deciding on AI platform(s) and proceeding with DLP setup in the background. - Topic Title: Training schedule and logistics - Initial target date was May 15, but timeline moved. - Training tentatively slated for May 7 or May 18; multiple one-hour classes to accommodate availability. - Sessions via Teams or Zoom; potential recording discussed. - Speaker 1 blocked time slots and will share available times. - Coordination with staff meeting on Monday, May 11, 2026 (10:00–12:00): next steps, dates, and times to be sent before 9:00 a.m. Monday for review. ## Next Arrangements - Set up another Teams training session; share date/time with participants. - Send meeting invites for next week’s Microsoft Word sessions (1:00 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays) and clarify exact dates. - Participants to email training topic requests to Speaker 1’s Crimson email; share the exact address to avoid misdirected messages. - Investigate and resolve Planner pinning/visibility issue in Teams for Speaker 2; follow up with tech if needed. - Delete the outdated Planner plan referenced by Speaker 1; confirm ownership/permissions to allow deletion. - Confirm lunch meeting logistics for Tuesday 12:00 PM at Ability First, Fair Oaks office; verify room/resource booking details. - Share the document with comments to Speaker 1 after the meeting; Speaker 1 to respond by end of day Monday, May 11, 2026. - Activate baseline Microsoft Purview and begin enabling baseline DLP with sensitivity labels (no cost). - Evaluate licensing upgrade options for Microsoft services; clarify impacts if Copilot is selected, including eligibility and costs for non-Basic users. - Poll team members for preferred AI tool (Copilot vs. Claude vs. ChatGPT); identify power users who may need multiple tools and standard users who should pick one. - Decide initial number of Copilot users and proceed with a one-year subscription; confirm nonprofit pricing for Copilot. - Define criteria for heavy Claude users; consider premium plans where needed; document token usage policies and guidance to avoid overages; establish monitoring process. - Assess Microsoft 365 integration needs to determine Copilot’s value; document connector configuration standards for Claude (accounts to connect, key handling, local file sync). - Enable and use Copilot Facilitator to capture notes in the next meeting. - Share recommended YouTube resources and Speaker 1’s blog link; schedule Crimson “where to start” AI training session. - Establish a process/timeline for policy document distribution, acknowledgment/signature, and enforcement. - Decide on training session recording policy and distribution for staff who cannot attend live. - Establish a process for regularly sharing security audit summaries with stakeholders. - Confirm whether the compliance add-on (~$240) will be considered later; define triggers/thresholds for adopting it. - Ensure recurring Friday 2:00 PM workflow is posting to the correct chat with appropriate external user permissions; confirm membership. ## AI Suggestions > 1. Clarify the exact Crimson email address for training communications. > 2. Verify “Ability First” location and room/resource booking details for the lunch meeting. > 3. Ensure correct membership and permissions for recurring Friday messages, especially for external users. > 4. Determine ownership/permissions to delete the old Planner plan. > 5. Provide guidance on accessing and using the Help Desk chat in Teams. > 6. Confirm exact dates for next week’s Microsoft Word sessions to avoid scheduling confusion. > 7. Define the scope and timeline for evaluating and upgrading Microsoft licenses. > 8. Decide whether informational notifications are needed for the five accounts targeted in blocked authentication attempts; document communication policy. > 9. Establish a process for regularly sharing security audit summaries with stakeholders. > 10. Document guidelines on personal VPN usage and organizational recommendations or restrictions. > 11. Define criteria and timeline for selecting AI tools per department; audit user privacy settings across platforms. > 12. Outline role-based training objectives (accounting, tax, contracts) and schedule sessions. > 13. Map workflow integration plans (invoice automation, contract review) and required tools. > 14. Confirm the data-sharing risk tool name (“Grok”) and circulate an advisory to avoid it. > 15. Finalize policy on standardizing vs. allowing multiple AI tools per user; define licensing strategy for Claude seats and Copilot commitments. > 16. Establish token management guidelines for Claude (limits, monitoring, when to use Cowork). > 17. Document security and connector configuration standards for Claude (accounts, keys, local sync). > 18. Define an integration plan for Teams/SharePoint access via Claude vs. native Copilot capabilities. > 19. Assign decision owners and criteria for AI platform selection to avoid delays. > 20. Decide on training recording policy and distribution; set a timeline for policy document handling.
- Date
- May 8, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 And instead, it just. Picked up, they put you guys on hold. So I apologize for that. Um, from there I can also go into my email. So you have the option of making Teams your one call one stop. Location for all of your emails, so you can quickly go in here, take a look at your email, switch out. We use Planner here. Procurement Planner is a. I. Plan ner is a task list that you can use. So I've got some things in here pinned that we're working through, um, that I'm working on. I've got my tasks, my own personal plan. So here's my personal plans that I have. Um, we could. Sorry, Chris. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:00:42 Christy. It might just be me, but I think I I can't see your screen anymore. Speaker 1 00:00:46 Oh, I'm sorry. It was when uh I got received a call and I was yeah. Thank you. So I am in uh I am in planner right here. It's this little icon here. And you've got a couple different things in here. I need to delete this one. This one was made a while back. Well, it won't let me delete. But this one was made um on my last training with you guys on Microsoft. Teams. So, uh, but we can go in here. I I need to go in and actually delete it, but you can share out projects and I do like using Planner. And. Then the last thing I want to show you guys on this is Help Desk. Speaker 1 00:01:25 How many of you guys knew you could contact the help desk for tips? Speaker 1 00:01:36 Nobody. Okay. You guys can call the help desk from Teams. Contact so under help desk, uh right here you can go in here. There's a chat feature. You can say new chat. How, many of you guys use AI to figure out how to do something in Microsoft Office? Speaker 1 00:01:56 Okay. Alma does. Speaker 1 00:02:01 EBay Outs. Hey Jessica does. All right, So well, Speaker 4 00:02:07 I'm sorry, not in Microsoft Office just just I use chat GPT to look up stuff when I have questions. Speaker 1 00:02:14 Got you not a problem. So Crimson's chat does the same thing, I can say I need to set up a formula that's in Excel. Speaker 1 00:02:27 That subtracts. I can't spell. Sixty days. Or fifty. Let's just go with fifty because I can't type. Fifty days from two days. Current day, and I need it to automatically. Update daily. So now I've got that in. I'm going to hit send. Speaker 1 00:02:58 And it's going to open a ticket with the help desk. And so it says, I've created thread number, which is your ticket number. And then, if it knows the answer, it's going to give us the answer. So there it is. Here's how to set up the formula. Now, if this didn't work because I was looking for something more complicated, I could say no to the answer, does this resolve your issue? It's going to try to give you. The answer, but I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes, thank you. And the system will automatically close the ticket. So, we do have it in here where it will do simple answers for Microsoft Office and different things like that. So we do have that extended out. But you can also use it to open a ticket. So if I need to go in here, I'm going to open a new chat. I'm going to say. Speaker 1 00:03:54 I need someone to reset my, I mean, my Netflix password. And I'm going to open that up. And it's going to tell me, okay, I've created this ticket number for you. And from here, it's going to try to fix it. It's going to say, Oh wait, I don't have access to that system. Not a big deal, and it's going to push that ticket. And. Speaker 3 00:04:28 It's going to ask you a few questions. And. Speaker 1 00:04:43 It's gonna be yes, that's my email and it is a Netflix user. Speaker 1 00:04:52 And so now, because it knows it doesn't have access to Netflix, it's going to pass my information over to a tech. Okay. So at this point, because the ticket is open, I'm going to go back into chat. I'm gonna scroll all the way up. And now you should, when you do that, you'll see a chat. And so these are all the chats. And you can actually respond or if we respond to you, you'll see the updates right here. Speaker 1 00:05:23 So it acts like a responder. So we do have staff that monitor it. They don't answer pretty quickly on chat because honestly Not many people use chat just yet, so we don't have a separate team doing chat, but. We may do that in the future. We did try it for a while, But this will be um it's a good way for you guys to open tickets. Okay, you also have some other things in here. Some other apps that you can do approvals loop. I'm going to be teaching some classes on loop and a few other of those. But for now, I wanted to show you guys just a brief overview. One last thing I want to show you guys is how to set up a meeting request. So, Alma, how about we go to lunch on Tuesday? I really like those tacos you got me the other day. All right, so I'm going to go in here. Is 12 noon work for you? Speaker 1 00:06:20 Alright, so I'm gonna go in here, highlight that. I do have lunch because I don't ever take a lunch. Alma doesn't need to know that. She knows it already. She's worked with me a couple of days already. She's figured out I don't take lunches unless somebody forces me to go take a lunch. But I do block it out of my calendar intentionally because if I don't, people are going to schedule over it. So I am going to say tacos. And I'm going to invite requested and required attendees. Sometimes it gets a little funky. Speaker 1 00:06:51 And so let's see if it pulls it up. Ah, it's not doing it. Let's do. Is it a for us? Is that your email address? Okay. Speaker 4 00:07:10 Yes, A Perez. Speaker 1 00:07:11 Mhm. Okay, so let's see. Sometimes it remembers and sometimes it doesn't. And then what I'm going to do is I am not going to do Teams meeting. I'm going to turn that off and I'm going to do a location. I'm not going to do a room. I'm going to do a location, and I'm going to say Ability First. And I'm going to look for the Fair Oaks office. And I'm not going to do the Faro's border, because I know people are going to use that. But we're going to do it at ability first. And then taco lunch. Cause I really, those tacos were really good the other day. And so I am going to say. Speaker 1 00:07:48 Sent so hopefully it gets sent to her. Um, normally it tells me, "Hey, I found her. " And. So that's going to be listed there right here after my L 10 meeting. So, um, And so she will get that and she can approve or deny or request a different time change, different things like that. You as you guys saw, I could also pick the ability for a boardroom because we have it listed as a resource inside. And then, what do you guys notice about my calendar? Any of you guys can answer. Speaker 4 00:08:25 You have it color coded. Speaker 1 00:08:26 I have it color coded. One of my favorite things to do, and we're going to be training on this. In the outlook class, is I categorize everything. So I have a client here. I've got some time blocked out because they're supposed to give me some time back or some time for training, but they moved it. So I am going to delete this. for that block, and I'm going to delete this block because I no longer need them. I'm leaving this block and I'm leaving this block, and I've got some things going on here. So my I have a system. I have minions, my minions actually color code for me. But I'm going to show you guys what that looks like. So I'm going to right click on this, and I'm going to go to categorize. And here's all, I'm going to show you all my categories. I have a bunch. Because I color code everything. Okay, I'm going to say Christy to respond to this one, So I'm going to color code that red. So I remember to send out my update email for that. Speaker 1 00:09:17 Um, you guys see the ability first staff training, um because it's a client. You guys are my client. It's right here. Um, I actually have a few others. Um, so I've got my project management notes that I am doing for you guys. So I am going to categorize this one. This is for uh camp. And I'm going to go into all categories. And what I'm going to do, there's one intention line I need to use for this one. Speaker 3 00:09:50 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:09:51 Oh, there it is. Ticketing.'Cause this is a ticketing option. So there's my ticket color. I do color code these every Sunday. It's usually around six to eight p. m. unless we're doing something. I sit down at my desk and I go over my my following week and get out my task list of all the things I have to do. And that's when I usually color code. And sometimes I'll color code in advance, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I'll color code for two weeks out. And as you guys can see, I haven't done that for next week yet. But I can go in here and I can color code based on what I have going on. So lunch, I have it listed as personal. You guys, it's free time. Cause my April, who is my admin or who was my admin, she got promoted recently. Um, She would go in and if she saw that it was categorized as free time, she knew that she had the ability only her. To move that around. Speaker 1 00:10:47 And schedule something over. She was the only one allowed to do it, so she would do that for me. But you guys can see I can go in here, I can say categorize this one's a personal. I'm gonna go to category, I'm gonna look for personal, and now that one's listed as personal. So you have that ability. In fact, if you go into Categorize and All Categories. Um, there is an option in Outlook to change the colors, but because I have a lot of them, I don't change colors. But, we will go over that a little bit more in detail on the Outlook training. Okay. Speaker 4 00:11:23 Yes, Mike. And also the the taco lunch that we're having, it's also reflecting and reflected in my Outlook. Speaker 1 00:11:30 And so you have the same colors. Yes, awesome. You can make your own categories. So just a heads up for all of you guys. You guys can go in here and say" new category," and you can pick your color. Speaker 1 00:11:47 And you can also favorite it. So, uh, just a quick heads up on that. I it's one of my favorite tools to use. Um April could always see my colors on her calendar. So when she would pull up my calendar, she would see it, and that way she knew if it was red, it was a do not move or something very similar. So she would know not to leave that one alone. So we had a very cool system set up. I also use that in my email, so. I if if you guys want to see. Hang on one second. Alright. So in my email, I use those same categories. So there is a task delegation. And it was something that I that had been forwarded to me. Um, my system alerts right here, so you see green. And sometimes you can put more than one category. Speaker 1 00:12:45 So I do do this in my email. It makes it much easier for me to manage my email. And like I said, we'll go over all that in Outlook. Um, Jessica, you mentioned uh setting up reminders and things like that. Yeah, okay. So I do the exact same thing. So if I'm in here, I've got this project open. I can go in here. I want to see something. I want to remind myself to look at this later. Speaker 1 00:13:15 So I am going to right-click on it, and I've got a couple of different options. Um, I can create that as a planner task. And remember how I said guys that um We work a lot out of our planner. It's also on our to-do, so if you ever use Microsoft To Do. You can say, "Create planner task." And so I'm going to put this in private tasks. I'm going to do a due date of today. I'm going to give it an important reminder, and here's the link to the message, and I can say create task. And so now I can view it in my to-do list, and I view my to-do list on my phone. And that's a trick I learned. Um, I used to work for the L A Dodgers. I was, um, IT manager for them. And so, whenever I was out in the stadium, and there is a lot of offices in the stadium, people don't know that, but they're hidden. Um, people would grab me. Constantly grab me, and stadium's huge. Um, it was nothing for me to have ten thousand steps in a day, and so I would use my to do on my phone. Speaker 1 00:14:15 And I would pull it up, and when people would grab me. I would write out the task in my to-do. So So here's my to-do list on here, and I just mark it down once I'm done with it. So and I can do that with some of these. I can also go in here and I can save this message. I could pin it. And you can see Segret has one pinned up here. I can translate it when my staff actually start talking in other languages. I translate it. All the time because I only know English. I know a little bit of sign language, that's it. So, I heard Alma the other day speaking in Spanish. I was like, that's one of those languages I want to learn. My daughter's grandparents speak Russian, and trust me, I am dying to learn Russian. But I am just not good with languages. I can also create workflows. Speaker 1 00:15:11 So I'm going to do something in here. I'm going to go into the mapping team. This for you, Jessica. Um, I am going to do a workflow. And let me find the message I wanted to use. You know what? I'm going to do something else. I'm going to create the message from scratch. So, this that uh, certain stress survey that I was telling you guys about that everybody fills out on Friday. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna say. Speaker 3 00:15:49 The city is located in the central part of the island. The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. We do karma points. And. Speaker 1 00:15:60 Everybody's always trying to get karma points. So I'm going to do that. I'm going to do this weekly stress level. I'm going to boldface and highlight this. I like blue. And then I'm going to boldface it, italicize it. So there we go. Go t some color there, and then there's the form there. Now. I'm going to send this. Now everybody has it. And now I'm going to go in here and say, create workflows. I can also do a remind me of this. So I'm going to do create workflows. Speaker 3 00:16:37 I'm gonna say for this chat message. It's going to be very, very slow. Speaker 1 00:16:46 And then I am going to say follow up on a message. And. Speaker 3 00:16:53 I'm going to say save. It is a little slow, still saving. Speaker 1 00:17:08 All right. So now I have a workflow. I can schedule it. To run at certain times. I can add owners to it. I can do other things. I'm going to delete this one. I'm going to do something a little different. These are different automations you can do. All right, so I am going to view a template. I'm. Speaker 3 00:17:32 Going to You have a couple of different things you can do with it. I want to find my search. Okay. Speaker 3 00:17:59 I'm going to send a reply. And. Speaker 1 00:18:03 I'm going to hit save. It's gonna save. All right. Now I'm going to close this out, and I'm going to say go in here under more actions. And I'm going to say schedule a message reply. And I am going to select a date of the fifteenth. I'm gonna do a. Two p. Speaker 3 00:18:32 M. Don't forget to brush your teeth. Speaker 1 00:18:39 Surveys. And now I'm going to say submit. So there's my workflow and I can do schedule that, but what if I want to send it More than once. I'm going to copy this, and I'm actually going to go into Power Automate. I'm not sure. I have a lot of tabs open. I know it's been a busy day. I'm going to go down here. To power automate, I scroll. You got to scroll all the way down. So I scrolled very, very far down. Um, I am Well, that's odd. It doesn't normally take it. If you go to myapps.microsoft.com, I'm going to put that in here. That's going to take you to that screen I was just at. Speaker 1 00:19:25 So if you guys put that in there, I want. To send the same message. In teams, every week on Fridays. At two p.m. the message. is, and I'm going to put that in there. And it's going to build my flow for me. Speaker 1 00:19:57 I'm running a little bit behind, so just bear with me. Um, this is what I wanted to do. I'm going to keep it and continue. And I'm going to say create flow. And I'm going to post a channel as a flow bot. And I'm going to enter. And I'm going to say the napping team. Sometimes it won't do it. I do a chat. Group chat. There we go. Post in a group chat, and I'm going to say. Speaker 3 00:20:34 The napping team. I'm. Speaker 1 00:20:40 Gonna sit here, and I'm gonna paste that in here. And then I'm going to do a hyperlink real quick, so that everybody has it. Speaker 3 00:20:50 We could just copy this. Speaker 3 00:20:56 Go back up here, and I am going to paste that link. Here we go. Paste it there. So There we have it. And now I'm going to just save. Speaker 1 00:21:14 And now it's going to post every Friday at 2:00 p. m. Okay, bear with me one second. I have a four p. m. Speaker 1 00:21:27 And Let me go into that meeting real quick. So if I'm running late, I'm going to go into this meeting. I'm gonna go to chat. Speaker 3 00:21:48 Must I give me? Five minutes. All right. Speaker 3 00:21:56 The kitten just fell on her for bed. Speaker 1 00:21:59 She's fine. She's giving me a dirty look. She thinks it's my fault. Um, all right, So That is how I send a message in a meeting when I am running a little bit late. But don't tell him I like hanging out with you guys better. That's interesting, Actually. Speaker 1 00:22:17 You guys are awesome. I refer all my clients are awesome. I just don't want to tell them that they're not doing good on an audit. Which is actually an easy audit. Speaker 2 00:22:27 So, Hey Christy. Um, What you just did does that only work if all the people in the meeting are. In your company's Teams channel. That would go to external people too. Speaker 1 00:22:41 Yes, so I can go in here. I've got an external one in here. Uh, where'd it go? Onboarding team. That's the next one. That's actually with you guys. Uh, that's Al Almos in it and a few other members are in it. And so I can send a recurring message there. Speaker 2 00:23:01 Okay. And. So that's the way you would set up a recurring reminder in a channel. Speaker 1 00:23:08 I'm. You can set up a lot of things reoccurring. Speaker 2 00:23:13 I can add on here and tell it to send an email, so I can go in there. Uh, where is my send an email? What options? Speaker 1 00:23:24 And I can send that out weekly. Comes in really handy when you want people to think you're actually at the office and you're not. I would never suggest doing that. Speaker 2 00:23:36 Um, okay, one last question. No, we're over. Um, I keep adding Planner to my Teams. You know, I go to View More Apps and then I click on Planner. And then it, I go like it disappears. U m, I could follow up with with tech on this, so that when I go to a task and I try to follow that flow of adding this. Turn this thread into a task on Planner. It wasn't showing up, so make sure it's pinned. Speaker 1 00:24:03 I I have that it okay, um, And so sometimes it's it's pinned, and then you can also customize the app bar. Uh, in here. There's a way of doing that, and you can say off, and you can show app names. There's a few things. Okay, cool. Speaker 2 00:24:19 I might have just been that pin. Yeah, thanks a lot. Speaker 1 00:24:22 No worries. All right, guys, I have to jump. Um, But I am gonna set up another Teams training for you guys at a later date and time. Um. And so, because the one that I had set yesterday, no one came. But I am going to do some more of these. And so, if there is anything you guys want to learn. Shoot me an email. Send it to my crimson email. Don't send it to the ability first. I don't, I don't read that one as much. I get alerted from it, but only on important messages. Alright guys, thank you so much. Thank you very much. I'll see you guys later and have a happy Mother's Day for all of you guys who are moms. Bye. Speaker 4 00:25:01 Thank you. Bye- bye. Speaker 5 00:25:12 Okay. Staff member, you would be. Speaker 5 00:25:16 En thusiastic about joining this and meeting for this only because it's so in depth in our system. So, all right. Hi Christy. Speaker 1 00:25:22 Hi guys, I am so sorry. I've had five training classes today that I taught. So Uh, I yes, I I'm not usually this busy, but the last two weeks have been slammed. Um, so if you guys are ever interested, I just got done with a. A h, Microsoft Teams training, and then I did next week. I am doing a Microsoft Word training. So if you guys are interested, you're more than welcome to come and join. Speaker 6 00:25:58 Yes, please give us the dates and times, and then we'll see if that fits our schedule. I think. You know, given availability, I would take any training I can get. Speaker 1 00:26:16 No worries. I am so what I am doing right now, is Mondays and Tuesdays at. Two p. m. I let me double check. I believe it's two p. m. um. Speaker 3 00:26:32 Where is it? Speaker 1 00:26:34 Oh, yeah. Um, it's actually at one p. m. Mondays and or Tuesdays and Thursdays, one p. m. Um, next week is Microsoft Word. So I'll send you guys the meeting invites for those. Sure, thank you. You're welcome. All right, so you guys gave me a few edits. Speaker 6 00:26:56 Well, that's probably an understatement. And sorry to have uh It's okay. So overwhelmed you, but we thought we just you know really. Give you you know, all of our observations and comments. Speaker 1 00:27:11 Okay. Perfect. U m, I, there are some things I wanted to go through with you guys as well. So this is actually perfect. Alright, so. Speaker 6 00:27:25 I mean, is that the is what I'm sharing on the screen. Do you see that as well? Or maybe I should close it if you want to open whatever you need to go through. So you can control it. Speaker 1 00:27:38 No, well, you you say sharing that works for me. Okay. Because I have a big, large, wide screen monitor and you guys don't want me sharing my screen. Make it look tiny on your screens. Right. Speaker 7 00:27:52 Right. Right. Right. Speaker 6 00:27:56 So I don't know whether, for the sake of time, whether you'd like to go through all the comments. Because you know that may take like an hour, you know, and going back and forth and all that. So I don't know. You might not have had a chance because we sent it, you know, relatively. Speaker 6 00:28:14 L ate. And so you might not have had a chance to go through all the comments. So I'll leave it up to you as to how you'd like to proceed. Speaker 1 00:28:22 Actually, um, one of the things so I have plenty of time. You guys are my last meeting of the day. Just don't mind me going off camera for a moment to go grab some tea. Okay, but you guys are my last one. We can run over just a heads up. My daughter is gonna walk through the door in a few minutes. Um, so she's gonna want the keys to my car. Uh, as all teenagers do, but she doesn't know how to drive. She's gonna go get some stuff out of the car. Um, so that might interrupt us, but I can go as long as you guys want to. Um. And since you guys are my last meeting of the day, and because I was late, I don't mind going past time. Cause I do. There are a few things on here. I would like to talk to you guys about as well. Sure. So, um. Speaker 1 00:29:06 I do wanna I do wanna start if you guys don't mind, cause the very first thing you highlighted. Uh, it's a Microsoft Per Deal. And it has not been activated. And, that's because it was not on your account until recently because Microsoft made some changes to the base. Uh, licenses that you guys have. And. So now we have the ability to turn that on if you guys want it. However, we're already protecting your accounts through Crimson. The name of the town is derived from the river. Security software. Um, I almost said cell phones, but we are we're going away from cell phones. We actually have other tools that we use to protect your systems. Um, we do have purview. We can turn it on for you guys. Um, it is a baseline purview. It is not high level, so it's just very base. Um, but you guys are already I believe on Avenon, which which does a lot of the same things. So that's why we haven't turned it on. But, it has. It's been recently added to the type of licenses you guys have. Speaker 1 00:30:06 However, the type of licenses you guys have is an old version, and so on the notes when I pulled up your account. We actually had a note in there to talk to you guys about upgrading your licenses anyway, and I'll go into a little bit more detail about that in a bit. So, Speaker 6 00:30:23 So is the conclusion to that is that. The Microsoft Purview data protection is not necessary given all the other protections we have. Speaker 1 00:30:33 It is necessary, but it's not. But because you guys are not worried as much about P M I, uh or P H I, as much, uh we've never had to activate it for you. Now if you guys were fully HIPAA compliant D M H requirements, I would have turned that on as soon as possible. In fact, I would have upgraded your licenses a long time ago. But my understanding is you guys are not D M H. Um if you are, I would be surprised because that's more medical offices. Um. And so there hasn't been a reason to turn that on for you guys yet. Speaker 1 00:31:05 So yes, in answer to your question, I just made it longer than it needed to be. That answer. Thank you. Speaker 6 00:31:10 So basically uh Uh, guys, Is it better if I make the comments in the reply section? Or how should I update these notes? Speaker 5 00:31:20 Sure, that's fine. Speaker 6 00:31:22 So I mean, is it okay then to say no? Not necessary to get this. Um. Speaker 1 00:31:30 You know what, I'm gonna go ahead and turn it on anyways for you guys just to make sure. U m and that's part of what we're going to do anyways. Um, but the reason why it had never been activated was because. It wasn't available for you guys until more recently. Okay. So. Speaker 7 00:31:47 Uh soum There is no extra cost for it, right? No. Okay. Well, yeah, especially. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 7 00:32:00 All right. The name. Speaker 1 00:32:03 Of the town is derived from the river. And if you see the cats running, it's only because my daughter just came home. Speaker 7 00:32:08 Okay. Okay. Alright. So then uh. Speaker 1 00:32:20 And if you guys don't mind, Send me a copy of this afterwards because your comments don't appear on my screen. Oh, Speaker 6 00:32:26 Okay. Sure. Okay. Uh, yeah. I don't. I don't. We don't. We didn't really didn't know what this, H undred and nine blocked authentication stuff was. Speaker 1 00:32:38 So someone was attempting to log in as one of your. As one of your staff members, and because of the controls we already have in place, it was blocked every single time. Speaker 6 00:32:51 Oh, interesting. And by logging in, you mean like logging into what? Speaker 1 00:32:56 Like Attempting to hack their, their office account. Speaker 6 00:33:01 I see. I see. Speaker 1 00:33:02 Yeah, and we were already alerted to it. It just popped up on my audit because it because that's some of the things I checked during my audit. And. Speaker 6 00:33:11 Is that and you can identify that it's the same person trying to do it or oh, wow. Speaker 1 00:33:19 So there's five users affected by it, But they never got in because they were denied because we had already set up security on your account. Speaker 7 00:33:26 I see. I see, Speaker 1 00:33:28 But my audit tools put that in. As a hey, just want to give you a heads up. This is what's been happening. I take those out because there's no reason for me to take it out. Speaker 6 00:33:39 I see. And by foreign, you mean outside of the United States? Is that what you mean by foreign, or. Speaker 1 00:33:45 So when I say foreign in this, I mean they're outside of the organization. They are not Coast and employees. I see. And they could be, they could be in other countries. Hmm. Speaker 1 00:34:00 But the most important thing I want you guys to take away from this is that very last sentence in that paragraph:" T, he foundation is not currently compromised." Speaker 7 00:34:09 Oh okay, I see. Yeah. Speaker 7 00:34:13 Okay. Um, okay. I'll just put computers for now. Whatever. Okay, so come. Speaker 8 00:34:27 So Christie, do we do not need to notify these five users or warn them so. There's no prevention from any of these hacks to happen. No, and neither no. Speaker 1 00:34:40 Right, Because they are not they're trying to figure out the password and they're using an old password. This person, well, five people have come, you have you're one of them. I believe. Let me double check, but I believe you are one of them. Um, and the reason why we've not we've been watching it happen. But we're not concerned. We are blocking that IP address, and they just give it; they just try it with another IP address. So, we are watching to make sure that they don't gain access, but they're trying old passwords that were found on the dark web. And so we get we already know what all of your old passwords are. We don't know your current ones, but if it shows up on the dark web, Crimson's already alerted to it. So we're able to monitor that pretty well. That's why Curview is not. Speaker 1 00:35:25 It's going to be turned on, But it was never a hard factor in the beginning because we're already watching that stuff. Watching on the console, This is the part of it that you never see because our job is to be preventative. And so, and I wouldn't even be concerned at one hundred and nine. Uh, if you guys want to hear an L A doctor's secret, it's over a hundred thousand a day. Wow. Yeah, I mean, a thousand? A hundred thousand a day. You guys didn't know I used to work for the Dodgers, right? Speaker 5 00:35:56 No, didn't know that. Speaker 1 00:35:58 Okay. I would show you proof, but it's not on my desk anymore. So, I used to be the IT manager for the LA Dodgers, and yes, it was one hundred thousand a day. I'll be honest, We didn't even look at two of them today because we just had blocks in place. So. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:36:22 All right. Speaker 5 00:36:24 So moving forward, I wanted to get some understanding of what that really means. You mentioned you mentioned a privacy VPN that's running on personal devices. How does that work? Don't really quite understand what, what that means. Speaker 1 00:36:38 So if so sometimes, What will happen is and I'm going to use uh Tyler as my example right now. Um. Maybe Tyler is using NordVPN because he wants to disguise his IP address because he's. Not everybody who does this thinks this way, but maybe Tyler is overly paranoid. Um, because I've had users in the past who are overly paranoid, and he's decided I want to do a VPN which protects. All my stuff, and nobody knows where my home is. They don't know my IP address and things like that. Not a big deal, um. So. Speaker 1 00:37:17 In that case, if that was to happen, we can see that Nord is installed. We can see that you're hiding your IP address because you're using that PVPN. Uh, Nord is not the only one out there, but it's like the top of my list of ones that I know about. And. So we can see that we can still see what your VPN or your IP address is. Um, but that's what it is. So they're trying to target that VPN. Um and. So for you guys, just to be aware of. We we monitor that and if we see that there's an issue, maybe they're targeting Tyler. If we see that they got past the password, we're picking up the phone immediately and we're calling Tyler. We're saying, "Hey, you need to change your password." And we're going to log you out of all your MFA, and you're going to have to change all that. And we do that pretty often. We don't have to do it for you guys as much, but we do that for other organizations. Speaker 5 00:38:15 Okay. Good to know. So, in the end, it'sum. In the end, it's taken care of. It's like no need to worry. Speaker 1 00:38:24 Okay. No, My uh, my system automatically adds that type of information uh to To for you guys, just because it's an audit system. So, Speaker 6 00:38:37 Okay. So there's no note here to put uh, or what do you want me to put? Speaker 1 00:38:43 No, you guys can just ignore that. It just has to go in the audit. And I found my proof from the Dodgers. There's my ring box from when they won the World Series. Speaker 5 00:38:52 Oh wow, what year was that? Speaker 1 00:38:55 Uh, this is twenty twenty. Oh cool. Yeah, So I stayed with the Dodgers for three seasons until Anzor kept bugging me to come join his organization. So. Speaker 5 00:39:11 Very cool. We'll talk some Dodgers at some other time, I'm sure. Speaker 1 00:39:15 Yes. All right. So, on to the table. Decisions required. Um. So. Are you so I am and bear with me because I am going to ask this question. You guys have decided you want to go copilot, right? You are not going to go Claude or Chat GPT. Speaker 6 00:39:39 Well, I mean. Speaker 6 00:39:42 I s that Crimson's recommendation? Speaker 3 00:39:48 Um. Yes and no. Speaker 1 00:39:55 I have, I have multiple AIs. So Crimson currently is using Claude. It depends on what you want to do with it. And so now I'm going to use Steve as my, As my, I'm going to talk about you, even though this doesn't apply to you probably. Let's say Steve likes to build applications and likes to build automations and make his job a little bit easier. Okay, he his best bet isn't to use Copilot. His best bet would be to use Claude. Because cloud is for building and a few other things very similar to that. Um, Chat GPT is really good for certain things. Speaker 1 00:40:36 Copilot's really good for certain things, so it's all in what you want to do with your AI. Depends on what I am going to recommend for you guys. And so I recommend Copilot if one, if you are HIPAA. Required, uh, two. If you are um not gonna do anything automation wise stuff like that. Um, I like I said, I use all three. I am in Copilot daily. I am in Claude daily. i am in. Speaker 1 00:41:06 Cha tGPT, not as daily right now. It's really good for making images. But nothing that I do is really worth the chat GPT. But that's me, my job. I'm not Steve. I'm not Casey. I'm not Tyler. Speaker 6 00:41:22 Well, see Chrissy, you you uh at least from An expertise perspective, you are miles and miles. Above where I am, I am at the pre K level, and I mentioned this very candidly to everybody. So for me, I really don't know. What it is we are going to be using and what it's going to be useful for now others. On the call here or in our organization who might have, more experience with. AI, they may think, "Oh, okay. This one is better," but you know ultimately. Speaker 6 00:41:59 Apart from learning the basics of AI, what would be useful is for us to learn how we can. Bring it into a useful mode for our own. You know, whatever we need to do, whether it's in accounting, whether it's in tax preparation, whether what Tyler has to do with all the. Contracts and everything, so you know. And that's why we didn't want to necessarily limit it, but You know, I don't know whether organizationally, because we are Microsoft-based, whether Copilot is the natural option. But we don't want to limit ourselves. So, I mean, I don't know whether four months from now, six months from now, once we all get a little bit more experience on AI. Speaker 6 00:42:51 We can then open it up because the whole idea of AI is to make our lives easier. And so, if no one single AI platform can offer all of the options, then we don't want to limit ourselves. Speaker 1 00:43:06 Yeah, one hundred percent. Crimson uses all three that I've named. So I I use Copilot because it's really good at a few things, um. In fact, I could turn on facilitator right now, which is a copilot product, and I'm going to do that. And you'll see the facilitator will start taking notes in this meeting. And I should have turned it on earlier, but I didn't. Um, so it will start taking notes, and if you guys go click on the notes section of Teams right now, it's going to start writing out the notes from this. And if you guys don't mind, I'm gonna share my screen real quick. Go into. Okay. Speaker 1 00:43:46 And I am going to show you guys. I just did a staff training with Ability First, and so we were doing Microsoft Teams. And here is all the things. So I started the meeting, facilitator was automatically turned on. It has it's tracking all the notes, so it gave us some information, some focus stuff. And then now I'm going to go in here and view recap. And I'm going to pull that screen over here. So here's a recap. Here's all the meeting notes the co-pilot did. And how they can use Teams because basically we were teaching on how to use Teams. So that's the AI summary. I can make my own custom summary by picking uh. By creating a template or looking at an executive report, and I can pull up this transcript. So that's all in here, and this was done with Copilot. Also, there's a video recap that. Speaker 1 00:44:45 That I can do, and it's new. They just came out with this, and so oops hang on. Speaker 9 00:44:51 The meeting opened with Christie providing a comprehensive walkthrough of the Microsoft Teams interface. Highlighting features such as chat, reactions, avatars, video effects and meeting controls. She also shared tips for customizing views and managing participation. Let's hear how Christy described the interactive options available during meetings. Speaker 1 00:45:12 You guys have options to go into the chat, have a conversation with me. I will be watching and reading chat. You can raise your hand like this. You can send a reaction. I'm going to actually ask. Okay, so I am not gonna bore you guys with all of that, but it goes back in and does a recap. And so I'll be sending that video recap. Over to the staff that I just did that training with. I'll also be sending this video to them. So that they can see and they can reference back to it. I should have turned it on for us. I did not do that, and I do apologize. But the next meeting we have, I'll do that so you guys can see. Also within Word, let me go in here and pull up. I I have a, I have a script that I use. I use the script for every one of my meetings that it's Teams. I can go in here with Copilot, and there's a few things I can do. Speaker 1 00:46:09 Now it's not going to write this document for me. Copilot is limited, but it will It will summarize things for me. It'll take a look at things. It'll check things. I can ask it How well? Speaker 3 00:46:27 See? The name of the town is derived from the river. You can go in and ask it," How well does it sound?" So. Speaker 1 00:46:39 It'll it'll judge you. It's very good at judging. There is a few things like that. I can go into Copilot. And just a heads up, I can choose: is it using Claude or is it using ChatGPT? And so I've got Opus. Opus is Claude, and I can chat with it, and I can say, hey. Tell me about my four p.m. meeting. Speaker 1 00:47:12 The name of the town is derived from the river. And so it's going to pull up my four p. m. meeting, which is with you guys. And, it's going to go in and take a look and pull all of that. Now, while we're waiting on this to answer, Tyler, you look at contracts. Is that correct? Speaker 10 00:47:32 Um, I mean, I don't create contracts, but I do. I do look at them just like Steve looks at them as well. Okay. Speaker 1 00:47:39 Now I do more bunching. Speaker 10 00:47:42 No worries. I'm going to show you something. It's not it's not contracts, but it's very similar. I'm going to show you because my clients don't mind me sharing their information. I've never asked if I could share your information, but these two clients they have told me I can share during training. So I am going to go into Sharp. Sharp is a client that I am their VCIO, or basically I am their CIO. I am on site twice a week. Fridays I work from home, but I am on site twice a week. Speaker 1 00:48:08 And I do everything from budget to strategic planning with them. Everything you would imagine a CIO does, I do. So I have contracts in here. Um, I have invoices in here. And so I'll go in and weed these out every now and then. Um, I have scans which these need to go through. Um and here's my scans. These are all uh scans of all their invoices that have come through that I have. Uh, personally signed. So anything hitting their budget, I sign it. And I have to sign off on it every Wednesday. I am in there, uh, because accounting brings me a stack of paperwork this thick. And I physically sign and approve each one, and then I scan it into this folder. Now, Tyler, this is more for you. You can see each of these invoices does not look the same. Here's what I do. I go into clock. Speaker 1 00:49:05 Yes, uh before you look at my chats, I use my Claude for everything. I'm gonna go to code. Okay, and I'm gonna go. It's already set for me. It's looking at my local documents. Right here, I'm going to say go into my shark folder and look in spans. What is the most recent payment to Verizon? The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:49:35 And it will go take a look at that folder and pull it. And I do that through cloud. I also have a reoccurring system set up with cloud that every time a scan goes in there. It fills out my database. I'll show you my database. Speaker 3 00:49:56 Pod does a lot of my heavy lifting. If you guys have, you guys heard about my uh blog where I write about my minions. Speaker 1 00:50:04 I am not. Okay, I'll send you guys my blog. So this is their invoices. Uh, this system automatically pulls the information from the invoices, Pulls the account code. So I know where those invoices are going to, and then I can put it against my year- to- date in my line items for my budget. And that's just for the chart. It's not for I have the same thing for Ability First because I'm their CIO as well. So hang on one second. Um, so I can go in here. I can see because we do it handles a lot of things for their facilities for the IT department. Um, we have vehicle maintenance we do for them. So, I do everything a CIO is supposed to do for SHARP, and it goes in there now. I took over this account. In February, so it's not as deep yet as other counts. Um, so. Speaker 1 00:51:02 But here's where it's going through and finding that information. Now, I can do the same in Copilot. I just do it in Claude because Claude is a little bit more accurate. But just a heads up, here is my four p m meeting, which is you guys and t here is the documents that go with it. Okay, now I have two because I blocked it out for you guys, and then I have the one that I sent you the actual meeting invites. So. And it does point out that I made a duplicate. Now, I'm going to open up a new chat. Speaker 3 00:51:37 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. I gotta spell it out a little bit more. And look at his hands. And. Speaker 1 00:51:52 It's going to try to do it. Now, it might take a little bit longer, but it's going to do the same thing. I'm sorry. And that's what I'll use Copilot for at times. I will double check them against each other. So this is all the information it's finding. It spells out what it's finding, so you can see it's going in the Sharp folder. It found one of the bills. It's just got to go find the first page. Because my scanner in that office is a little weird. Hi, baby. I can take that. Speaker 1 00:52:27 What time is the dog going to come and in my ear? Oh, look in my purse and my car keys are in there. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:52:37 Yeah. Thank you. Alright, sorry guys. Soum, Speaker 6 00:52:44 Chrissy uh if I may just uh uh interject here for a moment. Yes. You know, uh, all of the I'm sure AI is. Quite capable of doing so many things. For people of all different skill levels. I mean, does Crimson or are you aware of. You know, uh, training sessions. So you know, yes, you can say oh okay Claude does this. Uh Chat GPT does that. Speaker 6 00:53:26 You know, my co-pilot does this other thing. You know, it's almost like. You know, if if you tell me now, I uh I need to learn Japanese for instance. Okay, well where do I start? Do I start from the alphabet? And so I think. There, there is a lot to learn here, and there is no doubt of their capabilities, but. You know, like personally, I don't even know where to start. Speaker 1 00:53:56 So to answer your question, yes, Crimson actually has training. So that's one of the things that we offer. And I teach most of the training for AI. We do have other people do trainings, so like Monty does training and stuff like that. So you guys won't always get me. But for AI, I do it and I do a where to start training. Um, I can also send you some videos of some of the sites that I really like on YouTube. So you guys can actually watch that. Um, I'll be honest. Where I where I would tell people to start is under the chat feature. You can see, I I wanted to know when well Devil Wears Prada two is coming out on Prime Video. Mid June, by the way. So, uh, Grey's Anatomy. I wanted to recap of that episode. Yes, I I like weird shows. I like things like with my first name. Right next to it, so I do that, but I also look at my WordPress statistics. Speaker 1 00:54:53 I use it like Google sometimes. I looked up the other day on how to what battery type I needed for my remote. Because I couldn't remember how to order a battery for my remote for my car. Use it like a chat. If you want to start out, use it like a chat. I had Chat GPT today. Make images because I send in emails out to my clients, and I'll include kitten pictures of my cats. Because I know they will read it. I mean, for you guys, If you knew that a cute picture of a cat was coming in one of my emails, you'd read it too. So that's how I get them to eat it. So this is Breeze, Breeze is my baby, she's the one right here. Uh, look in the living room because I changed out the battery in it yesterday. Um. So yes, I changed my car remote yesterday. So you know, Speaker 6 00:55:46 One of the other things you'd mentioned how some people may be paranoid. Ah, You may probably ah put me in that paranoid spectrum too, towards the ah on the not necessarily the most extreme, but very close. So you know one of the things I want to be mindful of is. Yes, in my novice approach to all these things, I want to make sure to keep the data secure, safe or whatever so that I'm not. You know. Speaker 6 00:56:18 Na vigating around the AI world and then exposing a lot of things, so that's part of the training which I hope. You know, is is included in whatever crimson is offering. Speaker 1 00:56:32 One hundred percent, and I will be completely honest with you. I respect that paranoia. That level of paranoia is right. Um. I will. I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys right now, but I will tell you Copilot is uh will not share your data. And, if you set up a business account with Chat GPT and or with Claude. You can set it up as well. So if I go into privacy, I can choose where it says Help improve clock. I'm turning that off. I would advise all of you guys to turn it off as well. That prevents AI from putting your data out there for other people to see. Now, if I go into Crimson, it's already set for you guys because it's a business account. Speaker 1 00:57:15 This Chat G P T. This Crimson's Chat G P T. Now, For me because I I spent two hundred dollars of my own personal money a month on Claude, and ONSA allows me to use my personal account. So I because of that, I have to make sure it's set in here under privacy. So it is automatically set for me. But if you have a business account, it's automatically turned off. There's only one AI out there that you cannot turn that off. And it will always share your data back, and that is Grove. And I tell people, do not get a Grove account because it is not private. So just so you're both aware. Speaker 6 00:57:55 Okay, and uh what what is that name again? Broke B R O K E. Speaker 1 00:58:01 G R O K. Oh, Speaker 6 00:58:02 G. G R O K. G R O K. Speaker 1 00:58:05 Yes, it is uh, what's his name that owns Tesla? Elon. Speaker 1 00:58:09 It's Elon Musk's AI. So. U m, thank you. I right when I always need their names. I am not good with famous people's names. Um, so I tell people don't use Grove because you can't turn off that feature. It's gonna automatically share that to the rest of the world. So, just be aware of that. Speaker 5 00:58:34 Christy, uh, so question in the interest of time. Um. So we had, generally. Speaker 5 00:58:42 Generally, We had decided rather than actually stick with just the five or seven power users, we were thinking of opening it up to the rest of the staff. Giving them a chance to use it, we want participation. We want buy in from our whole. All staff, so um, I think to foster that we're trying to get we're trying to open the door and see who's willing to take it. Yeah. Um, we know that. At least I am interested in Claude as well. We know that we need a minimum number of users before we get to that point, So it might take us a month or two before we actually get to the point where we know that we're going to have five or six users of Claude. Yeah. Um, But one of our main concerns is so we're doing a whole lot of setup for. Uh, for Copilot, a lot of it is. Speaker 5 00:59:39 Re lated to the Microsoft ecosystem, making sure that there is you know controls in place. Will all that need to be done again for Claude, if we were to implement that. No, Speaker 1 00:59:50 So it's a one set and done. That set works for everything. Okay, so. Speaker 5 00:59:59 I mean. It probably is then the best. Call me up. You can. Let me know if I'm speaking out of turn here, but it probably is the best. Best process really for us to, implement Copilot. Go through the necessary steps to to make sure that our system is secure. Audit is done. I think you are working on that with your team. Implement Copilot, and then in the coming months. Uh, open up Claude to everyone just based on interest in. Speaker 5 01:00:34 Inter est, I should say. Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 01:00:37 Let me give you the caveats of each. So, just so that you guys are prepared for this. Ah, pilot. When you pilot, when we talked about piloting co co. I said cohort in my. I just noticed I put cohort in that, in the document I sent you. Uh, piloting Copilot. You have to sign up for a year. They don't have a month- to- month plan for Copilot. But you can do it one user at a time, as little as one person. For Claude, your minimum is five users. And there is a usage. So the minimum you can do is a twenty five dollars per person per month. And it is only month to month. You don't get locked into a year. Um, but you have to have a minimum of five, and depending on how much you use it. You might get overage charges. Speaker 1 01:01:32 And, so you might have to put some people on a premium plan rather than just the standard plan. On cloud, and so people like you Steve that's interested in using it. It's about a hundred dollars per month per person, if you use it a lot. So and that's for Claude. Um. Chat G P T is thirty dollars per user. So sorry, Speaker 6 01:01:58 Chrissy. So when you say using a lot, is it number of hours? Is what what what is how is that determined? Speaker 1 01:02:05 So it's determined by tokens. And so, um, in here under my usage. I haven't used it much. Well, this is only fifteen minutes worth in my current session. I haven't used it because I've been talking to y'all. So this reset about fifteen minutes ago, and every session is five hours. And then. My weekly limits are here. It reset this morning at six a. m. so it looks like I haven't used it much. Uh, because I haven't used it today. So, um, so this. Speaker 5 01:02:41 So my weekly list resets every Friday. Soum, what that means is if I am putting in a ton ofqueries, a ton of prompts into Claude every day, like I am using that. Speaker 5 01:02:56 I could potentially use up all my all my tokens, in a matter of days. Potentially, I don't know couple weeks. Who knows. And I'll be charged for overages like we did with cell phone use like twenty years ago. Right. Yes, that's how it works. Okay. Speaker 1 01:03:14 Yes, I will tell you the reason why I'm on my own personal plan is because I do have a crimson plan. And I used up all my tokens in two days. Hmm. But I'm a heavy user. This uh, right here on my screen, that black screen, that's all fog. It's my coding session. It's a lot,'cause I do a lot. Yeah. So I. Speaker 5 01:03:37 Don't think I am going to be coding, but yeah. So generally, Like when you get to the point where you are coding and using Claude Code. For activities on your own system, then obviously you are going to be using a lot more tokens, and that's where you run the risk of going overage. Okay. Yes. Speaker 1 01:03:54 Your average user, standard plan. Your heavy users, you want to put them on premium. I spent two hundred dollars a month on my club. Actually, technically two hundred and fifty, But I am not going to stress out by explaining what I do with that. So. Um. So and then let me tell you, Jack Chat G P T is a minimum of thirty dollars, a minimum of two users. And because you don't code like you do in Claude. Most everybody can be on that standard plan. Now all systems will connect back to Microsoft. And so what we're doing on your Microsoft side, um, is going to. Be the same no matter what AI we put in place. Okay, Speaker 5 01:04:41 And the the other going back to Copilot. So, let's say we getum. We get adoption from instead of the. The cohort of five to seven, we have, let's say nine users. Those nine users, it's a yearly subscription. Is that how it works? But we have to sign them in for Copilot, so we pretty much have to have a commitment. At least from those nine to say, hey, we're going to be using it for a year. Let's see how it goes. But no matter what we're Locked in at a year subscription. Speaker 1 01:05:23 Okay. Yes. Now, that means you've got. If you do five people on Copilot, And let's say, we're going to use Casey as an example because I've used Tyler and Steve already. Casey's gotten an offer from another company. It's twenty thousand dollars more than CommYab would agree to pay her. She's deciding to leave. Not the case you would ever do that, but what if she did? Her copilot license will get released. And then you can assign that Copilot license to someone else. So it doesn't have to stay with the same user. It can be assigned around. All of them are that same way. So Claude, ChatGPT, all of it's the same. Speaker 8 01:06:11 So Prior to the one year subscription, Christy, there is no trial period. Speaker 1 01:06:16 Not for business accounts. They've gotten a lot of flack for that. I will tell you that part. Speaker 8 01:06:23 And it's a cheaper monthly compared, well, I guess there's no option to do month to month for Copilot, anyways. Speaker 1 01:06:31 It's thirty dollars a month. Wait, you guys are nonprofit, right? Mhm. Yes. Okay. I think it's twenty four dollars for nonprofit for Copilot. Don't quote me on that. I'll have to double check. Speaker 6 01:06:46 Is that twenty four dollars per user? Speaker 1 01:06:49 Her user. Per month. I might have written this as being For profit, Cause I am so used to working on the for- profit side when it comes to Copilot. But I think don't quote me, but I think it's twenty four dollars per month per user. Speaker 8 01:07:09 This is more of a question for Kamyab. So, Kamyab, since Copilot has a one- year commitment. How about if we go with. Cla ude or Chat GPT, you know, to try the AI tools. Speaker 5 01:07:25 The city is located on the banks of the river. We're still going to need to. We're still going to need to go through the same kind of protocols, correct Christyum in the audit, all that needs to be done still. But now we have a little more flexibility I think Casey what you're getting at. Yeah is flexibility. Speaker 8 01:07:45 So we're not, you know, at least to try how this AI, you know, an AI tool could potentially help us in our. Forecast. Speaker 7 01:07:56 Well, I mean, go ahead. Speaker 6 01:08:00 No, I mean, I don't really have any objection necessarily, but you know the idea is. In terms of cost, even though if Copilot requires a minimum one year. But it's at twenty four dollars per user per month. Now Chat G P T is. Thirty dollars per user per month. Claude is twenty five dollars per user per month. So in a sense. There's not that much of a difference in terms of pricing, uh, but um. I'm just thinking, uh, it would I don't know. Speaker 6 01:08:43 Because we certainly don't want to have these, let's say these three. Options open to everybody, so that just becomes too costly. I don't know whether, let's say, if amongst the four of us, If one chooses Copilot and another one chooses Claude and one other person chooses ChatGPT. Do we want to exchange experiences? Oh, this how Chat GPT does it. This how Claude does it or whatever. Because. You know, I don't think any of us really know all the ins and outs of all these different. Different options to say, "Oh, okay, definitely. I know I want this." But I mean, Chrissy, from your perspective, for a Entry-level organizational signing. Is it better to go? With one option, is it better to. Speaker 6 01:09:42 You know, have all three options available or. Speaker 1 01:09:47 Um, I will be honest. Sorry, I was trying to cancel my phone from picking up and putting you guys on on. On hold, um, I honestly I. The way Crimson does it, every user can pick what AI they want. If, you are a member of management, or you are on a team that heavily pushes AI usage. You can have all three. So I have all three, um. But for most of our staff, we say okay. We know that our systems are very much protected, and you know, so you can pick what AI you want to use. And then you get joined to the business account. I am the only person that uses a personal account. Just because answer doesn't want to pay two hundred dollars a month for me. It's the best two hundred dollars I spent. So. Speaker 6 01:10:40 Yeah, but you know, again, I am coming from a very sort of like. You know, I don't know the uses of AI, but I am thinking that at any point in time. It doesn't make sense for any one person to have three AI platforms. Subscriptions. Right. Uh. So, I think, yeah, yes. After one year they may decide. Oh, you know what this copilot thing is really not useful at all. I'm going to switch to Claude. Yeah you can do that, but I don't think at least at the beginning stage. I don't think it makes sense for us to say to everybody. Hey, you cannot have up to three different AI Platforms, so and you know for instance for someone like me who doesn't know. Speaker 6 01:11:30 You know, Copilot from Claude or whatever. I'll go with you know Copilot if that's the sort of like. You know the typical. sort of relevant platform that we should use. But you know, Steve may say no. You know, I've tried Copilot. It's not good. I won't try Claude. Okay, fine. Speaker 10 01:11:57 That's why we're saying. What is that? With Claude, you get to have five people, right? Yes. Speaker 10 01:12:04 I think it'd be hard to have five people with Claude and then other people with Copilot. Just depending on the participation. The program staff, because we're all going to be on it. On one of them, yeah. Speaker 8 01:12:17 The city is located in the central part of the island. I wanna say like just also from coming from a no experience like. Just you know, a little bit of experience with AI. Only use it for you know. I ncrease and, you know, basically that. So but I'm more thinking I wanna have at least two. So I have some point of comparison. Like not just start with one so that, you know, you can simultaneously play with two AIs. But that's that's just me. Speaker 1 01:12:49 Yeah, sorry. I'm answering a message real quick. Um. I one hundred percent agree with you. At the end of the day. You, I'm gonna sneeze in a second, so I do apologize. Uh, give me one second. Alexa, turn off dining room. The name of the town is derived from the river. Okay, I apologize. I just realized the air conditioner was on with all my windows wide open. Um. Speaker 1 01:13:27 I'm gonna tell you, I put an article in. Sorry, I didn't realize I thought I unmuted after. After all that. Um, I put an article in here. Uh, for you guys. In the chat. I did write it, so just a heads up. But it goes through what each tool is used for. And. Um. Speaker 1 01:13:58 It'll give you a good understanding and comparison between the tools. I would say, based off of your your uh survey results. Alejandra? Oh, sorry. There's a kitten on my back. Um, he's your senior program officer. Speaker 1 01:14:29 He uses five tools actively, including Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Canva and Adobe. To do his research and presentations. He's one of your power users. Holly, ChatGPT, and Clock. She uses it for writing and researching daily. Okay, Steve, you're number three. Uh, all three. Speaker 1 01:14:59 Uh, Julie. Chat G P T, Gemini Canva Adobe. She's she's a regular user. She has some use cases, um and then. Joey. I don't have my reading glasses on, so um she's tried a few of them. She's super excited to get started. She's looking at it from a strategic value perspective. Those are your five top users. I would say out of that you've got three strong candidates for clock. You've got a few people for ChatGPT. But I would ask them, "What is the top one you want to use?" And you might find that you have five people that want plot. Because of cowork. Cowork's a huge one right now. Um, I use cowork on a daily basis. I keep I keep a database of all my tasks, and cowork goes and compiles it for me every morning. It sends me a briefing. Speaker 1 01:15:57 So I know what's on my list, and and Coateson's the top, on my list all week long. Because I've been working on so much stuff for you guys, CoWork sends me that briefing every morning at six a.m. on my computer. It goes into my email. Sorry. It goes into my email. I like cowork better than any of the others, just because it is agentic AI, meaning it does not require me to start something. When I want. To when I get up in the morning, I get up at five thirty. I go take shower, brush my teeth. My printer I didn't take it off my printer this morning. My printer spits out my my task list for the day. Clog does that. It runs on schedule every morning at six a.m. By the time I step out of the shower. I've got my full. This is my morning one. Five page today, it has been nine pages at times. Speaker 1 01:16:57 Task list of everything I got to do. That's the Gen Z guy. Some people are going to use it like that. Copilot doesn't do that. Not everybody wants co-pilots to do that. I also have a newsletter that I have sent to me every morning through CoWork. Tells me all the latest AI news and any security concerns I have, and it sends a time out. Not everybody wants that. But as you guys also saw my Claude, I asked about Devil Wears Prada because it's one of my favorite movies of all time. I want to see the sequel. But I don't want to go pay for it in a movie theater, so I asked it when is it coming to Amazon Prime. Speaker 5 01:17:37 So I feel like. We will have to decide whether we'll need or want, um. One, both of these tools at least, but I appreciate you sending that uh. That newsletter. I'll go through it more, and I think we'll probably discuss as a team. How this can work, but generally speaking. Um, Copilot would have access to everything in our. File share system. So, right so if there's a specific question about how. Or what time I have a scheduled meeting for this, or the last time that I talked to this person, if we need transcribed meeting notes in Teams. Speaker 5 01:18:22 All that would be, through Copilot. Correct. Okay, so if you Claude is. It reads files. It's able to connect to the system, but it's not native to Microsoft. So you probably will have to feed that in, feed that file into it. Is that correct? No. No, Speaker 1 01:18:41 I'll share my screen with you. Uh, so I have the desktop clock. This is my routine. So this is my scheduled task every day. You guys can see when it comes up. It automatically connects. Okay. It's automatically on there, so if I go to a new session. Local. It's already set to my local computer, and this is the folder. It's in My Documents. And I can tell it to search for whatever. It's already natively put in there. Now, The one difference between this and Copilot is this one, unless I natively set it up or unless I set it up to look at everything. Speaker 1 01:19:21 It doesn't have access to anything that's not on my computer. So if there's a Teams file that's not on my computer, It can't look at that unless it's connected on the background. And I don't have this one connected. However, that being said. I do have you see where it says, crimson nineteen, you have S L P's clients all that, that is team's files. It can connect to those because they're on my computer locally. Speaker 5 01:19:48 But it will take, It will require tokens, right? It will require use to do that. So that's the other okay. So that's the uh advantage and disadvantage of Claude is that it's. Not native can do everything. It seems that Copilot can do it's just going to cost more. Activity wise and based on your use, okay. Speaker 1 01:20:11 Yes, whereas Copilot will you guys can see. I can I can look at that anywhere. It can check my emails. It can check my calendar. It's going to have more access. Speaker 5 01:20:23 The con of Copilot, though of course, is that we're pretty much locked into a one year subscription. So yes, you you. Should be using it, Or at least you have time to adopt it because you have a full year to use it. You're locked in. Okay. So. Speaker 8 01:20:42 Can can Claude connect to your Microsoft Out like your emails. And your tasks, it can. But as Steve mentioned, it will take tokens to, you know, pull information from those. Speaker 1 01:20:54 Yes, so I have it set for certain things. I don't have it set for everything. Uh, where's my connectors? So these are my connectors. I can have it connect to my Gmail. I have it connected to my Outlook only for Crimson, and those are my only connectors. So I don't have it connected to everything, and I choose not to do it because it is my personal account. So I choose not to connect to everything. Got it, but that's operates. I I don't want I everything is secured by a key, so I've got. This little key here, everything is secured by that. No one can log into my stuff without that without that key. Um. But I'm still slightly paranoid, as Conlan Gad said earlier. Speaker 1 01:21:41 U m, I don't want things connected, even though I know my stuff is secure. I'm still not going to connect it. Uh, so personally, Speaker 6 01:21:51 Christy, in terms of cost though, when you said that Copilot. Is twenty four dollars per user per month. The user can use Copilot. Unlimited. There's no there's no restriction. Speaker 1 01:22:08 Every tool has a restriction. Speaker 6 01:22:11 In terms of the amount of use, you mean? Speaker 1 01:22:14 Uh, for Copilot, it's the type of use. Um, so you can create some agents in here, but you can't. There's some higher limits, And actually, I have a blog post that I can share that with you guys on the differences in costs. But for everyday users, they're just going to use it for research and treating it like Google. It's not going to get any extra cost. Speaker 6 01:22:39 But then on the other hand, for Claude though, even it requires five users at twenty five dollars a month. But within Claude there are what you call tokens. So, you can't you cannot just use. Plot all the time during that month. There is a certain limit, that then is if you exceed it. Your monthly cost is going to go higher than twenty five dollars, right? Speaker 1 01:23:06 That's only your power users. But if you're an everyday user that uses it like Google, it's not gonna cost you anything extra. Speaker 5 01:23:15 It's really just coding, but when you really get into deep. Very deep, complex use right is when it becomes more expensive. But I I mean to start, I can't imagine. We're all going to jump to that, to that point really quickly. It's going to take some time and understanding to get to that learning curve. Yeah. Speaker 8 01:23:38 How how about like a financial statement analysis Do those like, I mean like take a lot of tokens for Claude or. Speaker 1 01:23:47 It takes less tokens if you do it in cowork. So, cowork is the one right here. It's the more the agentic. So if I'm in here and I'm doing a new task, I am going if I haven't looking at things on my computer. Doing the invoices or the contracts and looking at those files. I'm gonna do it in cowork because it takes less tokens. Okay, Speaker 8 01:24:11 There's a way. There's a way to minimize the use of tokens. Okay. Speaker 1 01:24:15 Yes, and just a heads up. Um, I haven't been using cowork as much because it is a. Newer feature and code does the exact same thing. However, that being said. Ah, Claude did this week. Speaker 1 01:24:33 On the tokens, tokens in a way you have more use. Does that make sense? Speaker 5 01:24:39 More availability or more access? So, Speaker 1 01:24:46 Just imagine you're going to McDonald's, you have a budget of a hundred dollars a month. And someone increase err and then McDonald's lowered their prices that hundred dollars a month now. Speaker 5 01:24:56 Goes farther. Speaker 1 01:24:56 You do more. Yes, that's basically what they did this week. Speaker 10 01:24:59 Where do you track your token usage? Speaker 1 01:25:02 U h, you go down to settings. And from settings you go to usage. Speaker 10 01:25:09 So, you could see how much is used and how much is remaining for the rest of the month. Yes. So, if you've gone wild and you got two weeks left and you're at 70%, you got to slow down. Speaker 3 01:25:19 Yeah. Pretty much. Speaker 10 01:25:21 It's almost like cell phone data. It is. Speaker 5 01:25:23 That's what I'm thinking. Speaker 1 01:25:25 Yes, you guys can see today, I haven't used it as much as I normally do. I'm only at 3% for the week. And it reset this morning at six a. m. So, uh, you can track it very well from there. And I really, honestly have not used it as much as I normally do. So, I usually am at five percent by the end of the day on Friday. I've been in too many meetings today. Speaker 3 01:25:58 So. Um. Speaker 5 01:26:03 So I think we're probably gonna have to discuss that internally, what, uh. What A I is gonna work best for us and the majority of our staff, and try to see if we do go with Claude. We'll obviously need to meet that minimum five. But what do we need, um, between now and then? I know that there were some things that we needed to do and decisions that needed to be made this weekend. Soum. Speaker 1 01:26:31 The biggest, I am going to work on your data protection. We, this is something we did not. We did not see originally because we were not tracking for it with you guys. Um, we gave you the basic e three controls. It might be time to upgrade you to the newer e three, that has a lot more controls. I did have to upgrade. My account to the newer e three just to run some of these reports. And I did put it on month to month, so I can retract that cost from you guys later on. But, you do have some people that are on here that are on business basic;, they cannot be. Uh, if I remember correctly, they cannot be on Copilot just due to their license type. Butum, We do need to think about and I just realized I'm looking at the document. I did not show you the differences. Uh, peach. By the way, Speaker 5 01:27:25 I think what we saw. Just to not to interrupt, but I think those that have basic are, email only accounts. So those are accounting investment purchasing at coateson dot org. So those aren't people. They wouldn't need any kind of AI system. Put into it so just just a heads up for that. Speaker 1 01:27:46 Perfect, so that that's not an issue at all. Speaker 5 01:27:48 So any of those basic accounts, I can't foresee any of them becoming an E three or an E five? As you had mentioned for some of the others. Speaker 1 01:27:56 Correct. So then that's fine, as long as they're just they stay on basic. I have my own Microsoft Tenancy. My daughter is on basic, because she does not need an application. She doesn't need the application. She's on her cell phone all the time. So, but when she goes to college, she has emails through my system, and I can track things. Um, I think the biggest thing I wanted you guys to look at is do we want to turn on Microsoft Purview. And do you guys want auto labeling, uh, and sensitivity labels on potential client data going out by email. Um, Because I think that was one of the biggest ones we saw that should be enabled. Speaker 8 01:28:40 Is that the the no spend option or. That's a no spend option, right? Yes. Speaker 8 01:28:49 But isn't the recommendedum option C, which cost about two hundred forty, that that's based on the audit finding, right. Document. It is if we add the compliance add- on. Speaker 1 01:29:06 So that gives you a higher level of data loss protection. Speaker 8 01:29:11 It's not necessary. Speaker 1 01:29:14 Not for right now. We can turn it on with the bare minimum that you guys have. What I'll do is I'll send you over a matrix next week. I have one. Of the different options we have and what might be good. And, these are things that you might want to think about outside of Copilot and AI. Uh, just to expand upon the protections that we already have in place. I will say this not to our crimson's horn, but you guys are set up pretty securely. We just want to turn on the data loss stuff for you guys. Speaker 1 01:29:45 Because that's, you know, that's hitting sooner rather than later. Speaker 10 01:29:50 And does that have to be decided like immediately? So I know there was a a date of May tenth within the executive summary. And we were wondering about that. Speaker 1 01:30:00 You guys have given me for a few things, and so I wanted to honor that as part of that date. Okay. Okay, but however that being said, we can just go to the strait. No cost option. Speaker 1 01:30:14 Turn it on. I can build it out for you guys, because I gave myself a higher license type. I can go ahead and turn this on for you guys now, and it's not going to affect you. We just got to keep my license in place. So I put it for me. For and that gives you access to almost everything. Speaker 5 01:30:31 I'm thinking about billing, and I know you said you activated a new account for you. Does that mean that Kutsen will be adding that other E five account onto its list and roster, or how does that work? I'm sorry. Speaker 1 01:30:43 I am gonna so I did turn that on for me, But I only turned it on to an E three, a higher level E three than what you guys have. Okay, and it's like. Five or six dollars more a month, So um that's the only thing you guys will see if we choose to keep it on. So it does get a higher level of reporting, which is needed for security things. But we're the only ones who receive that reporting, and then as you guys already know, we monitor you guys anytime we see alerts come through. We're already acting on it. The security team is on it within five minutes most of the time, unless it's after hours, then we let them sleep through the night. But we will wake them up if anybody tries to hack you. But if it's just something that's already caught. During business hours, we're on it after five minutes because we see it immediately. We do have a company that calls us and gets us out of bed if they see things. Speaker 6 01:31:38 Christy, for the. Speaker 6 01:31:41 Re specting everyone's time and yours as well. What doesn't make sense because again, I don't want to put any extra burden on you. Doesn't make sense for you to go through our comments and send your replies. I can send the file to you if you like and Again, with a few things that we added, and then what are the next steps that we should consider? Speaker 1 01:32:07 Send me the comments. S end me the PDF file so I have it. I would like to go through and answer those for you guys the best way. I can. Um. I am actually going to be working this weekend a little bit just because this week has been crazy busy. So I am going to probably get you an answer by end of day on Monday. Speaker 6 01:32:28 That's that's fine. That's fine and thenum. In terms of sort of uh. Speaker 6 01:32:36 Now, when you say" response" by the end of day Monday, response to these comments, right? Yes, sir. Okay. So what what? What is then, what are the next steps? What do we need to do? What do we need to decide and. Speaker 1 01:32:52 So for you guys, you just need to decide how you want to do the AI. Speaker 6 01:32:57 Like pick the different AI models, you mean? Speaker 1 01:33:02 Mhm. I go Copilot, Claude. ChatGPT, You guys, let me know. I am going to go ahead and start putting data loss prevention in place for you guys in the background. It's not going to stop anything you're doing. It's just going to apply sensitivity labels. Because, we want to go ahead and do that. No matter what AI version you choose. It's no cost. All it's doing is protecting you guys. Speaker 6 01:33:26 Um, is there uh, did did we we shared our policy documents. Dr aft with you, did we or did we not? I forget. Speaker 1 01:33:37 I think you sent me one policy draft a few weeks ago, Speaker 3 01:33:41 Or some comments to it. Um. Speaker 1 01:33:44 I don't know if you guys have reshared it with me since then or if you guys have made any updates. Speaker 6 01:33:49 Uh, I I don't know, but I'm just thinking okay uh. And when I said by the next steps, like do we then. Dis tribute the policy to everyone. Ask them to sign it. And then after that, we'll ask people, okay, pick an AI. Version you want to work with? Or or like are the uh when would the trainings be? Or you know things like that. Speaker 1 01:34:24 So the trainings. Oh, I'm sorry. Let me interrupt. Speaker 6 01:34:28 No, I just I just didn't know. Okay, well, what? What are we going to do? Um. Speaker 5 01:34:34 What's the timeline that we're we're looking at here? Speaker 1 01:34:38 So we the timeline's gotten changed a few times. We were trying to go for a May fifteenth deadline, but I think that got moved out. I have you guys slated, um, to start training with you guys on the seventh or the eighteenth of May. Okay. Does that sound right? Speaker 6 01:34:59 Now, would that then require, Is it sort of like A Teams or Zoom meeting where everybody would be present. Yes, sir. Okay. Because if that is the case, we would probably want a schedule that we can share with everybody here. To make sure, people have time and if. I would be very surprised if at any time that we pick, all nineteen people would be available. Yes. Speaker 1 01:35:35 What I normally Oh, I'm sorry. Speaker 6 01:35:37 So, I don't know whether it's being re-, it would be recorded, and then people can watch it later or I don't know what how that works. Speaker 1 01:35:44 Yeah. So I was pulling up my calendar to show you guys. I blocked off times that I know I am free. Um. Just in case, but I always do one to two classes, um, up to three classes per client. So. Um, I have I have Wednesday blocked in the morning and in the afternoon. Uh, You guys can see I have staff training for Excel right here for another client. Um, I have you guys blocked in the afternoons on Monday and Wednesday, and then the mornings on Wednesday and Friday for you guys to choose. It's only gonna be an hour long, but I blocked out more because if I don't, people are gonna. Speaker 1 01:36:22 Try to grab those times that they see this free in my calendar. And so, you guys are in here once we nail down the dates and times. This block goes away, and it's like this right here. Speaker 6 01:36:35 So I think, uh, now others, uh, in Casey Stephen Tyler please chime in. But I am thinking, it may be best if you could just let us know what are your available times. Because on Monday. We have a staff meeting where everybody is going to get together in the office. So that would be a perfect time to let everybody know. Okay. These are the next five steps in the AI. Project, we're going to choose a training, And then you know um you know, if if you do get the time just send us these things. And then when people can choose or should choose the AI. Speaker 6 01:37:20 Platform they want to use. You know, and apart from a copy of this of our comments for the. For the document you sent us, I'll send you our policy document as well. Uh, I don't know if. We can release that. We can get people to sign it, so that's. Just some clarity would be great. Speaker 1 01:37:52 Your meeting on Mondays. Speaker 6 01:37:55 The meeting I think starts at is it ten o'clock? Yeah, at ten o'clock. And it probably goes until what, twelve? I think you guys think. Probably ten to twelve is a safe bet. Speaker 1 01:38:12 Um, I'm just going to put a note in here for me. Um, I am going to get you next steps. D ates and times and everything before nine a m on Monday. Speaker 6 01:38:23 That's fine, and because you know by that time we'll all be in the office. So once we get your email, we can look at it all together and then. We will uh we will do that. Okay. And uh just after the call, I'll send you the copy of our comments. as well as a copy of our latest policy document. Okay. Speaker 6 01:38:51 Okay. Well, Chrissy, we greatly appreciate all your time and we're glad that you're. Guiding us through this very complicated process. Speaker 1 01:39:06 No worries. I'm glad to help you guys out as well. After this meeting, sometime this weekend, I'll send you guys a summary of this meeting as well. So that you guys have it. Speaker 6 01:39:15 Great. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Speaker 1 01:39:18 Thank you. Thank you, Christy. Thank you. Have a good weekend, guys. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Oh.
Debrief: Agenda Deferral for Next Week's Meeting
- Notes
- - **Call Response**: Christi Brown called back after receiving an incoming call. - **Agenda Deferral**: With four minutes remaining in the meeting, Brown postponed her topic until next week because presenting it would take longer than five minutes. She noted the group preferred participating in a duck race over listening to her presentation. ## Action Items **@Christi Brown** - [ ] Present deferred agenda item during next week's meeting, next week (2026-09-07 to 2026-09-13)
- Date
- Sep 2, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:08 Hi, this is Christi Brown. I was getting a call from this. Speaker 1 00:25:11 So I actually have something I want to go over, but we only have four minutes left in the meeting, so I'm going to table this to next week because it it might take me a little bit longer than five minutes. So, and I know you guys would rather do duck race than listen to me talk for a moment.
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05-05 Pulong sa Operasyon: Billing/ConnectWise QA, Kellogg Prepaid, Winegard Contacts, at Licensing Decisions
- Notes
- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-05-05 21:01:11 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] ## Mga Tala ng Pulong - Rescheduling at attendance/overbreak issue (Mark) - Na-miss ni Mark ang session; napagpasiyahan ni [Speaker 2] na i-reschedule dahil kritikal ang input niya sa layunin ng meeting (pain points sa constructions, milling, procurement). - Napropose ang Huwebes, 2026-05-07, 10:00 a.m.; tinanggap ng lahat. May hiwalay na meeting sa hapon para sa “Ani/Related.” - Naobserbahan ang 2 oras na overbreak ni Mark (12:06–2:40); magpapadala ng paalala tungkol sa break adherence at heads-up sa group chat upang maiwasan reputational risk. - Layunin ng session: pain points sa constructions, milling, procurement, at billing/admin - [Speaker 2] pansamantalang nag-takeover sa role ni Marvin at nireview ang mga proseso; hiling sa lahat na maghanda ng listahan ng pain points at gaps para sa rescheduled meeting. - Kasama sa tatalakayin ang billing/admin issues at mga dati nang isyung kailangang linawin. - Training at tracking: Kellogg prepaid hours - May prepaid agreement ng 200 hours; hindi pa malinaw ang eksaktong monetary terms (“15,000” vs “5,000 for 200”). - Workflow: Monthly sheet (hal. Abril 2026) sa client folder ng Kellogg; gamitin ang “Kellogg prepaid agreement” last modified Marso 31; tiyaking tugma ang ending balance sa reconciliation. - Data source at nuance: Company Finance → Agreement → Reconciliation; i-download ang time entries, siguraduhin ang late-day entries (hal. hanggang 3/31/2026). Kapag di pa closed ang ticket, maaaring di nababawas ang hours; balikan bago mag-export. - Heads-up thresholds: Mag-notify sa Sales kapag natitira ang 50/30/10 hours para maghanda ng bagong code/bucket. - Pag-uugnay sa Billing (TS/TES) at invoicing cadence para sa Kellogg - TSP billing schedule: Tuwing unang araw ng sumunod na buwan (hal. April tickets billed sa May 1). - Kellogg report cadence: Last Friday of the month; dapat i-check ng billing team ang closed tickets at invoicing board bago magpadala para siguradong billable ang entries. - TES side: Noong Abril walang closed ticket; may entry si Nick noong Mayo 4 (kasama sa Mayo). - Report formatting: Sa ConnectWise export, hindi lumalabas ang service ticket details; manu-manong nilalagay ang summary/title sa report. - Handover: Recipient si Charles (Kellogg); ipapasa kay [Speaker 5] (Christian) ang buwanang pagpapadala ng report, kasama ang sample email/previous formats; final output XLS/XLSX. - Time entry at data quality sa ConnectWise - May paulit-ulit na maling entries (hal. “salesperson” field, MTX mapping, notes napupunta sa internal comments). - Rekomendasyon: Ayusin ang mali at bantayan ang expense/sales mapping; magtakda ng QA checklist at periodic audit bago report/billing. - Paglala ng headcount at gastos (catering/backstage meeting) - Backstage meeting sa Thursday para sa 13 katao sa HQ; breakfast catering ~500 (currency hindi malinaw), mas mataas kaysa sa past EOS meetings (3–4 katao; 100–200). - Nabibigatan si [Speaker 2] sa admin requests/ad hoc tasks; kailangan ayusin ang assignment ng admin tasks. - Travel update (Paris traveler) - Miyembro nasa Paris; piniling manatili sa original flight (May 6) dahil walang direct flight sa May 7; next direct May 8. - Dependency sa travel group update (Anton/EAD); hirap tumawag sa restaurants dahil oras, naayos sa umaga (Pacific). - Handover at bandwidth para sa admin tasks (Stephanie/marketing) - [Speaker 2] humiling ng updated task list mula kay Stephanie na may frequency (daily/weekly/monthly) at oras kada task. - Target: 2–3 oras/day para sa admin; hindi lahat ipapasa sa kanya dahil walang pay adjustment; tukuyin ang recurring reports na puwedeng kunin ni Stephanie at overlaps kay Christian. - Procurement at task ownership - May usapan kung sino kukuha ng procurement/meeting-related tasks; may pagtanggi mula kay “Baggy.” - Wala pang final assignment; kailangang magtalaga ng responsable para maiwasan bottlenecks. - Licensing/quote issue (Cisco/New Urban; Ivy/Payton/Vincent/Daniel) - [Speaker 8] nag-order ng license; nag-resend si Ivy ng bagong quote batay sa tanong ni Payton sa yearly cost (~1K/year). - Options: 1-year vs 3-year, co-term, subscription license; kailangan i-cancel/align ang nauna sa proposal. - Nag-email para i-expedite kay Daniel (Cisco) dahil mag-i-end ang license; pending pa ang final decision ni Payton. - Client communication sa price increases (VI/Olivia/Vince/Seg/Mike) - May reklamo sa increase na walang heads-up; email ng VI nagpakita ng impresyong “hindi nila alam.” - Kailangan malinaw na client heads-up at internal ownership; Seg nagbahagi ng practice ng proactive heads-up sa significant changes. Wala pang finalized process change. - Pag-optimize ng reports at data export - Sobrang hinihinging PDF/graphs; linawin ang layunin: tamang billing amount at quantity. - I-streamline: unahin ang user list para sa adjustments; gamitin spreadsheet exports mula ConnectWise para reconciliation. - Invoicing issues at recipients (Winegard/Barker Management/RealPage) - May ticket na naka-DNU; pansamantalang manual invoicing habang ina-ayos. - Double-check kay Vlad kung saan isi-send at sino ang tatanggap; i-validate recipients (RealPage Portal email, Benjamin Sauval, iba pang Company Finance contacts) per site (Weingart Towers LP, Tower 1A, Rose/Primrose). - Kailangan i-screenshot at i-confirm ang recipients at site mapping bago magpadala. - Update ng contacts at notification defaults (Winegard) - Alisin si Tonja mula sa lahat ng billing notifications/alerts; gawing default si Jason Tucker para sa lahat ng Winegard issues. - Repasuhin ang defaults sa service tickets; may instance na si Dimitri ang default—i-audit upang maalis ang maling recipients. - Pamamahala ng Winegard tickets, defaults, at site/company mapping - Lahat ng Winegard issues dapat default kay Jason (ayon kay Anzor); tamang “Attention To,” “Contact,” at “Bill To” sa invoices ay kritikal. - Ang “Company Finance” summary ay hiwalay at CC-only kung naka-tick; tiyakin ang tamang settings. - Tumpak na “Site” sa invoice (Tower 1A variants, HQ, SMB) at tamang company associations (hal. Parker Management vs Winegard Tower LP); mag-add ng kulang na sites/companies sa system sa pamamagitan ng formal request (kay Chinky/Christian). - Kung walang existing company (hal. DESA/Desarrolladora sa Mexico), mag-add sa ConnectWise o manual handling; gumamit ng iterative testing bago final invoice. - Spreadsheet registry para sa Winegard contacts - Gumawa ng spreadsheet per site (site contacts, billing contacts) para standardization ng recipients at contacts; magdagdag ng add-in para common reference. - Coordination at communication gaps - Mabagal ang communication ng ilang stakeholders (Vladimir, Mark); maglista ng operational problems para ma-standardize ang steps moving forward at magkaroon ng escalation matrix. - Time entry, billing dispute, at RDP issue - Billing adjustment: from 853 naging 662 dahil sa March 31 setup tasks at unforeseen RDP issue. - Reklamo ni Ozzy sa tagal; tugon: may outreach si Moritz kay Ozzy at Lynette. - “White glove” approach ni Olivia; target ang transparent explanation ng scope/oras; retain ang 2 hours; naghihintay ng alignment kay Olivia. - Daily tasks at pre-billing audit workflow (Stephanie) - Pansamantalang gawain: daily triaging sa Teams, add/minus ng Microsoft licenses sa ShareWeb, monthly invoice reconciliation/audit. - Pre-billing audit: Mag-generate ng ticket na “New”/“Under Review” para sa significant added products (hal. PAF AVD item); auditor (Stephanie) maglalagay ng product description/justification, at magpapasa kapag “done.” - PAF billing issues at credits (Azure/AVD/QB) - Meeting sa 2026-05-06 16:00 (kasama CEO). - Dobleng charge sa March: Azure Virtual Desktop (Desktop for QB) vs Microsoft Azure Plan; i-credit ang maling “360” at i-retain ang tamang Azure Plan. - Confirmed: AVD backup/disaster sa Datto ay hiwalay na item; credits na na-apply: F3 licensing removal; 2017 Siemens Sophos na-remove. - I-communicate kay Mike ang credit at adjustments bago ang pulong. - ConnectWise agreements sequence management - Isyu sa item sequence (nagre-reorder kapag may bagong product/end-date); workaround ang manual ordering (hal. MSP workstation #1). - Mungkahi: makipag-ugnayan sa ConnectWise para fixed ordering kung posible. - Iba pang operational items - Hardware refresh follow-up: may old items na hindi na-remove; kailangan update para maiwasan duplicates. - Reimbursements (binanggit si Christian): kulang ang detalye, kailangan ayusin ang form at approval trail. - Scheduling/attendance: hinanap si Marvin; posibleng may ibang meeting. - Fixed rate at MSA/MSTS - Usapan sa fixed rate adjustments (55 vs 57/58/61); [Speaker 3] iginiit na “55 lang, fixed rate yun.” Walang final na desisyon. - Banggit sa MSA/MSTS; tila tumutukoy sa kasunduan sa serbisyo; may visibility issues sa KPM. - Quarterly agreement sync at ARCRO transfer request - May “Quarterly agreement sync up” na kailangang i-update/reopen. - ARCRO transfer request: kulang ang “filled-out Excel” attachment; kailangan mag-reply sa email at ipadala ang kumpletong file; linawin kung konektado sa “Dropsuit Migration Coordination.” - Recording/transcript at stakeholder friction - Hihingi ng recording/transcript ng nakaraang meeting (“Pro na transcript”); kailangan ng data para suportahan si Jason (bagong director) sa posibleng friction kay Antone. - Walang tiyak na petsa/oras na naitala sa transcript na isi-share. - Purchases at approvals (nook/equipment) - Kailangan bumili ng “another nook” (~599, Amazon); magbukas ng ticket at approval; tukuyin ang modelo at petsa; i-log ang expense. - Time entry at overtime concerns - Ilang kalahok stressed sa time entry at posibleng OT; walang napagkasunduang solusyon sa workload. ## Susunod na Ayos - [ ] I-reschedule ang session sa Huwebes, 2026-05-07, 10:00 a.m.; ihanda ng lahat ang pain points/gaps sa constructions, milling, procurement, at billing/admin. - [ ] I-check ng billing team ang invoicing board at closed tickets bago magpadala ng Kellogg monthly report; i-handover kay [Speaker 5] (Christian) ang pagpapadala kay Charles, kasama ang sample/previous email formats; output: XLS/XLSX. - [ ] I-update ang Kellogg prepaid tracker para sa Abril 2026; tiyaking tugma ang reconciliation at ending balance; mag-heads up sa Sales sa 50/30/10-hour thresholds. - [ ] I-review at itama ang maling time entry fields (hal. “salesperson,” notes sa internal comments, MTX mapping) sa ConnectWise; magtakda ng QA checklist/audit cadence. - [ ] I-finalize ang catering details at budget para sa Thursday backstage meeting (13 attendees) sa HQ. - [ ] I-update ang travel group records batay sa final flight ng Paris traveler (uuwi sa May 6). - [ ] Stephanie: I-submit ang updated task list (frequency at oras); i-assign ang daily triaging, ShareWeb add/minus licenses, at monthly invoice reconciliation/audit; i-set up ang pre-billing audit ticketing workflow. - [ ] Magtalaga ng responsable para sa procurement tasks at linawin ang scope; iwasan bottlenecks. - [ ] Maghintay sa desisyon ni Payton at i-align ang Cisco/New Urban license (co-term vs subscription; 1-year vs 3-year); i-execute ang cancellation/expedite depende sa final decision. - [ ] Maghanda at magpadala ng client heads-up template para sa price/renewal changes (VI at iba pang accounts); maglatag ng SOP at approval flow. - [ ] I-manual ang invoice para sa naka-DNU na ticket; i-confirm kay Vlad ang routing at recipients; i-compile at i-screenshot ang recipients list (RealPage Portal, Benjamin Sauval, Company Finance) at i-validate per site (Weingart Towers LP, Tower 1A, Rose/Primrose). - [ ] Alisin si Tonja mula sa lahat ng billing notifications; gawing default si Jason Tucker para sa lahat ng Winegard issues; i-audit ang service tickets para sa tamang defaults. - [ ] Gumawa ng spreadsheet registry ng Winegard sites (site/billing contacts, history, agreements); mag-heads up kay Chinky sa lahat ng changes; ipa-add ang kulang na sites/companies (Tower 1A variants, HQ/SMB, DESA/Desarrolladora) sa system sa pamamagitan ni Chinky/Christian. - [ ] I-double-check ang “Bill To,” “Attention To,” “Site,” at CC settings bago mag-send ng invoice; magsagawa ng iterative testing (“Save,” “Make Invoice”) para maiwasan post-editing. - [ ] I-finalize ang communication kay Olivia sa billing adjustment (662 vs 853; retain 2 hours); kumuha ng written sign-off. - [ ] I-apply ang credit sa March invoice para sa nadobleng Azure (Desktop for QB vs Azure Plan) at i-highlight ang adjustments; i-communicate kay Mike bago ang PAF meeting; i-confirm sa Datto ang AVD backup/disaster charges. - [ ] Makipag-ugnayan sa ConnectWise tungkol sa fixed sequence sa agreements/invoices; i-document ang workaround kung di posible. - [ ] Mag-follow up sa hardware refresh para ma-remove ang old items; maglista ng apektadong items at target dates; ayusin ang reimbursement form, approval trail, at SLA (binanggit si Christian). - [ ] Magpadala ng paalala kay Mark tungkol sa lunch break/overbreak at escalation path kung maulit; i-formalize ang attendance/break policy. - [ ] I-update/reopen ang “Quarterly agreement sync up” item; magtalaga ng owner, scope, at timeline. - [ ] I-reply sa ARCRO transfer email; ipaliwanag ang missing attachment at magpadala ng kumpletong filled-out Excel; i-clarify kung sakop ng Dropsuit Migration Coordination. - [ ] Ipadala ang recording/transcript ng nakaraang meeting (para kay [Speaker 7]); magbigay ng listahan ng participants (Chris Howard, Massis - IT Manager, Foothill) at iba pang meeting details. - [ ] Tukuyin at bilhin ang “nook” (modelo, supplier, presyo ~599) pagkatapos ng approval; mag-log ng expense at ticket ID. - [ ] Maglatag ng escalation matrix at contact protocol para sa communication gaps (Vladimir, Mark, Ozzy); i-standardize ang steps moving forward. ## Mungkahi ng AI - Walang malinaw na monetary terms sa Kellogg prepaid agreement; humingi ng opisyal na dokumento (halaga/currency) at ilink sa tracker. - Tukuyin ang accountable owner at SOP sa billing side ng Kellogg (TS/TES vs third-party firewall management). - Maglatag ng RACI para sa procurement at meeting-related tasks upang maiwasan bottlenecks. - Licensing decision (Payton) ay time-sensitive; magtakda ng deadline at fallback plan bago license end-date. - Standardize ang client heads-up process para sa price/renewal changes (template, approval flow, timing). - Itayo ang central spreadsheet registry ng per-site billing contacts at notification defaults; mag-audit ng service tickets (Tonja removal; Jason default). - Tukuyin owner at SLA sa pagdaragdag ng bagong sites/companies sa ConnectWise; formal request path (Chinky/Christian) at turnaround time. - Magtakda ng criteria at approval flow sa pag-classify ng “service ticket” vs “project” (hindi lang 4-hour threshold). - Gumawa ng checklist para sa invoice audit ni Stephanie (criteria, timeline, reporting format) at dokumentadong credits process (approval, client comms template, tracking). - Kumuha ng opisyal na sagot mula sa ConnectWise sa fixed ordering ng agreement items; kung wala, i-dokumento ang manual sequencing at QA check. - Mag-define ng remediation para sa AM accountability (ownership matrix, RCA, follow-up cadence) at coaching plan para sa isyu ni Ivy (scope, steps, timeline, acceptance criteria). - Ayusin ang MSA/KPM visibility issue; tukuyin root cause at action plan; i-validate ang “601” at “cool your spot” item sa RT. - Magtalaga ng owner, deadline, at content para sa update kay Pete (kasama ang status ng “increase ng 5%” at anumang related items).
- Date
- May 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hey. Speaker 2 00:00:01 Guys, sorry late Ay, naka-lunch ba si Mark? Speaker 3 00:00:12 Di pa siya nakakabalik, Dapat yan, hindi pa siya nakabalik. Speaker 2 00:00:16 2 hours na call mo siya, Kasi nung minsan, ito ha Kung sino yung mga nagtaga USN Sa group chat ng Team Philippines, Minsan natsicheck nila kung sino yung Bumabalik na ng more than ano, So, tawagan mo na siya. Baka ma-call out. Oo, kasi Mahirap ipaglaban yung ganyan, Kasi may evidence sa group chat. Speaker 2 00:00:43 Baka na over, ano siya, Overbaked na nga kasi kanina pa pala, 12. Speaker 3 00:00:47 Nakatulog. Speaker 2 00:00:50 For sure. Speaker 4 00:01:06 Wait, kailangan na ba tayo ni Selka, no? Maggie? Speaker 2 00:01:36 Ah, piniisip ko, since wala pa si Mark, kung i-reschedule na lang muna to. Speaker 5 00:01:49 Ano, i-schedule naman tayo? Ah, sige. Gusto mong sumasagot to? Speaker 2 00:01:53 Gusto mong sumasagot? Hindi, kasi kailangan ko si Mark dito eh. Speaker 2 00:01:57 Hindi natin makachieve ang goal pag wala siya here. Speaker 2 00:02:03 Anong sabi niya? Speaker 2 00:02:06 Free na pa kayo na Kasi baka ma-overtime kami Okay, ganito na lang Since wala pa si Mark Let's see Hanap tayo na, Okay lang ba sa inyo? Rest God and Thursday? Speaker 3 00:02:31 Wait lang, anong oras kaya? Speaker 2 00:02:33 Around. Speaker 2 00:02:35 10 a.m. Speaker 3 00:02:37 Umaga na lang. Speaker 2 00:02:39 Morning. Eh, 10 a.m. na lang natin Thursday. Kasi sunod-sunod na rin yung meeting ko after nito eh. Speaker 3 00:02:45 Oo, okay lang. Kasi hapon pa naman yung meeting namin kay Ani. Kay? Or one day. Kay Related. Tututs lang. Speaker 2 00:02:56 Sige, sige. Ang goal lang naman nung meeting na to is since, Di ba nga recently nag-takeover ako nung role ni Marvin is, I revisited the process related to constructions, milling, and procurement. So, I just wanted to identify if there are pain points that you want to address, Any gaps that we need to talk about so that we can make a resolution. Speaker 2 00:03:27 So, now, since Mark is not here and I need his input, I-reschedule na lang natin Yung Thursday. Pero, If meron kayong, Maipaprepare na list Of, Pain points Na gusto nyong, I-bring up sa Meeting, Sa Thursdays, Feel free to do so, Para at least Ready na tayo sa list, Na pwede nating I-review together. Yun lang naman. So, Sige, wait. Speaker 3 00:03:51 Kasama naman yung Parang billing Or ano. Kasi alam ko Admin pa rin yun. Speaker 2 00:03:57 Oo, kasama yun. Isa yun sa mga Pag-uusapan natin. Kasi, alam mo ko naman, na-aware ka din, Moro Miguel. So, syempre, may mga naririnig-rinig tayo minsan And may mga na-encounter ako mga issues na feeling ko dati pa. Hindi lang ako sure, pero gusto ko malaman kung anong nangyayari. Pero, ayun, since hindi ka pag-usapan natin ng Thursday, Or at least we're all on the same page and moving forward, meron na tayong. Or solution sana. Speaker 2 00:04:29 Ay, wait. Tumatawag na sige. Sige, imove na natin Na turn and turn. Sige, tumatawag. Sige, tumatawag na tayo, Sa kapitang meeting. Thank you, Miguel. Thank you. Okay, bye-bye. Speaker 4 00:04:38 Bye-bye. Speaker 4 00:04:43 Hello. Speaker 2 00:04:47 But that's good, In the meeting, yo. Diyos kuday, Overbreak si Mark. Alas, Two hours nang wala. Speaker 2 00:04:54 Awe. Oo, alam mo ba? Huwag nang chiga-chiga sa iba, ha? Eh, dati kasi tinatanong ako ni Si Christy, lagi nakakapansin. Speaker 2 00:05:04 Oo. Bakit? Ano oras na bumabalik si Eno? From lunch. Smart. Oo. Dati pa niya napapansin. Kaya sabi sa akin, Obserbahan ko daw. Yung walang naman napansin. Kasi hindi ko naman na kayo, Minomonitor kung ano oras kayo bumabalik. Kasi may unsay mo na kong Daday-daday. Una-una sa lahat, Responsibilidad nyo yan, At alam yung, Isa yan, Alam mo yung integrity na lang, Te. So, Yun nga yung, Ano ko, Speaker 2 00:05:35 Na, Tsaka hindi na para, I-micro-manage ko kayo na, Huy, Nasan ka na? Huy, Nasa, Ganun na, Parang, Ay, Nakakaano din yan ha, At ayoko ng ganun, Ano, Yung, Isa-check ko kayo From time to time. Speaker 6 00:05:49 Oo, or magpaalam kung ano. Speaker 2 00:05:52 Oo, kung ma-overbreak, like, Ay, real, I'm not feeling well, Baka ma-overbreak ako, heads up lang, ganyan. So, ganon. Speaker 7 00:06:01 Well, anyway, okay, let's proceed. Okay, wait. Okay, so this one, Ay, wait lang, i-record natin. Okay. Speaker 7 00:06:10 Ay, Christian, ikaw mag-record para mapunta sa drive mo. Speaker 5 00:06:14 Sige. Eh, nasan yung fighter? Alam kong may kailan tayo ngayon, di? Speaker 7 00:06:21 Oo. I-record mo muna, Mi, Before tayo mag-start. Ay, ito pala. Sorry. Speaker 5 00:06:27 Sa isip ko mag-screen share. Ayan. Speaker 7 00:06:33 I-record mo na. Wait lang, antayin natin. Yes, siya. Speaker 7 00:06:39 Wala pa nagpapakita ang recording. Ayun. Okay, so my... Okay, so... Right now, we're talking about The Kellogg Hours. And our purpose, for the record, Purpose of this Meeting is, Training for the Kellogg Hours. Speaker 5 00:06:59 Inay accent. Speaker 6 00:07:01 Go. We'll go back to the Philippines. Speaker 6 00:07:09 Visit. Speaker 7 00:07:12 Anyway. So, this one, why are we monitoring the Kellogg hours? Because the agreement that we have with them is like a prepaid agreement of like allotted hours that they have already paid. I think for this one, it's like 200 hours worth 15,000. So, they have already paid for that. So, Charles wants to, you know, monitor it every month kung ano yung mga. Nababawas dun sa hours na yun. Speaker 7 00:07:43 And then, if the hours are, Already depleted, like 10 hours na lang yung natitira for That one, we need to, Reach out, Inform sales and, That the Bucket hours of Kellogg's, Are already this one. Para, Makagawa na sila ng another Code for another bucket of hours. Speaker 5 00:08:05 So, 5,000 Right? 5,000 for 200. Speaker 7 00:08:09 5,000 ba? Hindi, more than that. Ah, 5,000. Okay. So, yung, Tracker natin for this one Is in the client folder, In Kellogg. Alam mo naman kung nasa na yung client folder, Diba? This one. Speaker 7 00:08:29 Tapos, eto, Delete na natin. Ay, old. I-rename natin ito ng old. I-rename ko siya ulit kayo ng old. So, what we're going to use is the Kellogg prepaid agreement that was last updated or modified last March 31. So, we always do this every end of the month. I send it to them every last Friday of the month. Unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to send it last week because I'm busy. Speaker 7 00:09:07 Pati hindi ko na television na harap. Anyways, and then, ayan. So, what I do is always, like, just create another sheet for every month. So, let's create for April 2026. Speaker 7 00:09:28 Okay. So, where natin makikita yung mga details? It's in Company Finance. Nagtatime entry kasi ako kanila. Speaker 7 00:09:42 Wala pa akong time entry. Okay, Kellogg. Speaker 7 00:09:48 And then, go to their agreement. Speaker 7 00:09:51 And then, add this one. Prepaid support agreement. Speaker 7 00:09:57 Ayan. So, need mong pumunta sa reconciliation dito para... Ay, ako nga, 5,000. Yung bakit? 5,000. So, ang na-use na as of today is 111.12 hours adjustment. Available is 142. Okay, so, need mong punta dito sa reconciliation. And then, yung last nating sinensahan nila is, where is that one? Speaker 7 00:10:29 Dito, until 3.31. 3.31, 2026. So, this one. Punta ka pa rin ng 3.31. Kailangan mo punta ng 3.31 kasi minsan hindi nakaka-capture yung mga hours ng hapon. Baka may ginawa tayong tiket sa kanila ng hapon or something like that. And then as of April 30, sabihin natin. Speaker 7 00:11:06 Okay. Ayan. So, ito yung mga tickets or mga time entries na nalas sa prepaid agreement nila. So, you can just download that one. Okay. O, yan yung meeting ko mamaya. Speaker 7 00:11:35 Tapos, ito, saan na yun? Speaker 7 00:11:41 Cell of Payment Agreement. Ayan, ang need mong i-make sure dito is, Dapat same yung ending balance na 154.3 Dito sa ending balance dito. Speaker 7 00:11:59 Yes? Kasi minsan kapag hindi pa closed yung ticket, Tapos meron silang time entry for the past like February or March or April, pero hindi pa closed yung ticket. Kapag gagawa ka ng ticket for, eh tama ba? Wait lang. Kung hindi pa na-close yung ticket pero may time entry sila during February and March, oo hindi pa siya. Speaker 7 00:12:30 Na de-deduct dito. So, need natin siyang balikan. So, eto, mas madali siya kasi Same naman yung. Speaker 7 00:12:43 Same naman yung hours dito, At same yung hours dito. So, wala kang babalikan. So, ang gagawin mo lang, For April is Update mo lang yung mga, Necessary details. So, this one, 154.30 And then, Ito is 204.30 2026. Ayan. Speaker 7 00:13:14 Starting balance. Speaker 5 00:13:17 Ayan. So, Speaker 7 00:13:19 Yeah. Just copy this one. Speaker 5 00:13:20 Sila ko, nor din. Speaker 7 00:13:22 Ah, kay Charles lang. Pinapadala. Speaker 5 00:13:28 Si Charles ba? Speaker 6 00:13:35 Ah, Charles. Si Charles. Charles ng Kellogg. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Speaker 6 00:13:40 Eh, Sabi mo, Speaker 7 00:13:43 Arti ng taong. Ano si Charles? Ayan. Speaker 7 00:13:50 So, yung... Speaker 2 00:13:50 Di, wait lang. Pag yung Sa billing site, Di ba TS billing yan? Speaker 7 00:13:56 Ah, ah. So, hindi ko alam actually kung sinong nag-bibiling side na dito. Sili ko si Marvin. April. Speaker 2 00:14:03 Ah, ako sa TES, pero meron sila pang monthly agreement, yung third party kasi. And, tawag dito, yung isa pa, firewall management. Pero sa TES side, kasi nung nag-check ako nitong April, wala silang closed ticket. So, walang napunta sa invoicing board. Ngayon, nag-check ako, meron si Nick. Which is May 4 kahapon. Ay, ganun? Speaker 5 00:14:28 Ah, May 4 kahapon. So, for May na yan. Speaker 7 00:14:31 O, hindi. Kasi ang in-export ko lang Is until 4. Ay, until April 15. Speaker 2 00:14:38 Kasi mabibid lang sila Sa mga closed tickets. So, isi-check mo pa Sa invoicing board, Kung billable ba talaga Or hindi. Oo. Speaker 7 00:14:46 So, before, So, dapat before, Kaya, Kaya siya sent to sa kanila, Every last of the month. Kasi, Dapat natapos na rin ng billing team na ma-check lahat ng tickets before that. Before tayo makapag-export and send ng report sa kanila. Speaker 5 00:15:04 By day of every day last week. Speaker 2 00:15:07 Ang date ng TSP billing kasi is every first day of the month. Speaker 2 00:15:14 Of the following month. Let's say April. So, kung yun, kunwari, April 30 mo siya sinend, yung report na yan, By the next day, May 1, yun na yung start ko ng TSP billing na kailangan kong tapusin. Ng May 1 din. Ah, ng May 1 din. Ah, the whole day. Speaker 5 00:15:29 Ah, may nagsisend ko siya ng ano? Speaker 2 00:15:32 Send ko siya ng May 30, May may 30 ba? 31? Speaker 5 00:15:37 30 lang. Pero, ibig sabihin, Last Friday daw. Last Friday of the month. E di mas mauuna yung pag-send ko niyan Kesa yung pag-check ng Available ba yung tickets or hindi. Speaker 7 00:15:50 Ano, paano ba? Bakit ba mauuna lang yung Kellogg's? Yung Kellogg's Ang arty naman Wait Mauna ang i-bill Si Kellogg, Mauna lang i-check, Yung TS Ni Kellogg, Para males Siya sa agreement, Na sinesend, Wait. Speaker 2 00:16:06 Magchecheck ako Ng ticket, Pag nasa Invoicing board, Na kasi And pag close na Yung ticket. Speaker 5 00:16:12 Kaya nga, yun. Speaker 2 00:16:16 Lang siya, Kung hindi makita ko Ganun lang Pasok sa invoicing board, Ang sinasabi mo ba is Before ka mag-send ng report, I-check ko na yung sa invoicing board Yung pumasok na time entries. Speaker 7 00:16:30 Ni Kellogg. Speaker 7 00:16:34 Teka, kasi Nagsasend tayo ng report sa kanila Every Last Friday of the month. May recurring ticket kanya. Meron, meron recurring. Speaker 5 00:16:46 Meron recurring ticket yung ano. Speaker 7 00:16:49 O ikaw na yun, Christian. Ikunin mga harap. Speaker 5 00:16:50 Meron recurring ticket. Speaker 7 00:16:52 O kasi Christian, ang gagawin mo lang naman dito is i-add mo lang naman kung nasa prepaid hours siya or sa agreement eh. Para magpakita. Diba? Speaker 5 00:17:02 Sige, okay naman. Speaker 2 00:17:04 Wait, anong context bakit kailangan i-identify kung sa prepaid or sa agreement? Speaker 5 00:17:12 Nababawas kasi yung time entry numbers. Speaker 2 00:17:16 For example, anong allotted hours yun sa 5,000 na yan? Ito, yung prepaid support agreement is 200 hours for 5,000 per month. Speaker 7 00:17:27 Hindi siya per month. Until maugos yung 200. Until maugos. So, kapag dapat kung nasa 50 or 30 na ito, Mag-reach out, Heads upan mo na ang sales team at siya si Anzur, Na yung prepaid support agreement ni... Kellogg's is only At 30 already, So we need to Prepare another one, Yes Ayun. Speaker 2 00:17:54 So paano Ayun naman, We make sure na Hindi ma Ano yan, Matadrop Like, Since sabi mo May recurring ticket, Bumagawa End of the month, Meron ako recurring ticket Yes, Ayun, And then Kung tuwing kailan Dapat magchecheck si Christian Na, O nasa 30 50, Ano na sila, Hours. Speaker 7 00:18:13 Ay bakit kita, Kapag gumagawa ka naman Na ng, Um So, Yung monthly report na ginagawa mo, Ayun, malalaman mo na Kung magkano yung, Ending dollars. So, makikita mo, Dito, may 147.17, Hours Available sila. Speaker 5 00:18:35 Pero, Na-close na yan. Oh, this already closed already. Yes, yes, yes. Pero hindi pa na-review. Speaker 7 00:18:44 Na-review na dapat. Hindi ba pag Wala na yun Nung nag-check, Kapag nawala na. Speaker 5 00:18:50 Ayun, nag-test na pala Si April, Wala akong na-review. Speaker 7 00:18:54 Ng April, Kasi walang Walang pumasok, Walang na-close. Speaker 6 00:18:58 Kasi it is. Speaker 7 00:18:59 This one, Are the tickets, That are closed Nung, April, April 3 April, yeah, Basically April. Speaker 5 00:19:10 So yan yung pwede, Kong i-review hin, Before sending, Tapos, once send and confirm, Saan nilang i-invoice? Speaker 7 00:19:18 Hindi. Feeling ko, wala na Kasing nagpapakita kasi yung mga, Tech, nilalagay na nila Sa tamang agreement Yung time entries nila. Speaker 2 00:19:27 Actually, napansin ko, medyo nag-improve yung iba sa kanila. Meron talagang mga ngalan-ngalan, Na paulit-ulit. Alam mo ba si Bogdan? Ang tataka ko, As in, ang grabe, ang dami. As in, in-update ko siya isa-isa. Puro hindi naman billable kasi covered na nung agreement. Tapos, si Bogdan, Nagtataka ako, bakit lagi Sa salesperson ang ginagamit minsan? Salesperson ka ba? Speaker 6 00:19:51 Hindi, ano, Pruil, kahit tayo, May mali sa ConnectWise, hindi ko alam Kung paano. Hindi, auto-generated siya. Ay, wait, MTX yan. Ah, baka. Speaker 2 00:20:01 MTX ang gamit ni Bogdan eh. Tapos yung iba, yung mga notes nila, Napupunta sa pinaka-bottom na comment internal. So, wala dun sa pinaka-ano. Speaker 2 00:20:11 Eh, field ng notes. Speaker 5 00:20:13 Naku, sinapansin ko yung entry lay Na kapag mag-sales minsan, Sa expense ba yung minsan? Gusto meron akong may, Pansin na minsan. Speaker 8 00:20:24 Palitan mo yung... Pero ako na lang din. Ha? Oo, palitan mo kapag sa expense? Speaker 6 00:20:30 Kaya na, oo nga. Oo, hindi yung connect wise. Kapag napansin ko na ba, Hindi ko napansin. Ay, di ba yun? Okay. Speaker 7 00:20:38 Naku, pinapalitan ka. Wait lang, Tapos muna natin itong mga bi. Tapos, ang next Yung gagawin, Christian, is Naayos mo na yung hours. Dito sa service ticket, Kasi pag in-export natin, Yung mga In-export natin siya from ConnectWise, Hindi nagpapakita yung service ticket. Gusto ni Charles, medyo kahit may Summary or kahit yung Summary lang ng service ticket. So, yun yung manual na ginagawa ko. Pero, minsan kasi, Yung Ano naman nila, yung. Speaker 7 00:21:11 Mga, Time entries dito is pare-parehas Naman ng service ticket. So, Nalagay ko lang siya ganyan. Parang Ito, copy-paste. Ganyan lang. Ay, ano ba yan? Speaker 7 00:21:25 So, yan. Speaker 5 00:21:26 Title na lang na service ticket. Speaker 7 00:21:29 Ito lang. Ito lang yung nilalagay ko. Speaker 7 00:21:33 Siyempre, hindi na natin papahirap Yung sarili natin na basahin pa Kung anong mga ginawa nila. So, kung may question na lang siya In the end. Ano yung ginawa dito. Doon na lang tayo Papasok. Pero, as of right now, Naman walang sinesend si, ay walang Um, hindi naman, Nagtatanong si Charles. Charles, kasi Charles lang yung sa atin, Without S. Speaker 5 00:21:57 Yes. Amen. Send mo rin sa akin yung sample email Mo na sinesend sa kanya. Speaker 7 00:22:03 Magsasend ako sa kanya ngayon, Tapos, isi kita Kasi sasabihin ko, moving forward, The report will be coming from you already. So, makikita mo din doon Kung paano ko siya I-send kay HR. Speaker 5 00:22:17 Send mo rin yung previews para makita mo Nga. Nakasisi itas yung format mo, Na lang din. Ayan. Speaker 7 00:22:26 Wait lang. So, gawin natin ito. Speaker 7 00:22:31 Bakit naman ito ganito yung... Speaker 5 00:22:34 Ako na lang din mag-build, Yan. Ano? Speaker 5 00:22:38 Magkatapos ka na. Speaker 2 00:22:39 Ilalagay ko na lang dito sa True app ng tracker. Nagawa ko monthly, every month Gumagawa ko. So, ilalagay ko na lang, Care of ano na lang to. Speaker 2 00:22:51 Christian, KK, Speaker 7 00:22:53 Care of. Pero, feeling ko, Wala ka na magiging problema dito kasi. Speaker 2 00:22:59 Maayos naman na. Tsaka, madalang ata silang Mag-ticket na. Speaker 5 00:23:07 Okay naman yan, sila ka-honor, sila ano, yung kailog. Speaker 7 00:23:11 Okay, tapos after yan, i-download mo lang siya. Speaker 5 00:23:18 PDF, kahit yan na. Speaker 7 00:23:19 Hindi, XXL. Ayan, tapos, sanapin natin yung sinet ko sa kanya dati kay Charles. Speaker 4 00:23:32 Ayan na, ito lang naman. Sige, tinitignan niya lang dyan. Speaker 5 00:23:45 Yung dulo rin eh. Speaker 4 00:23:49 Oo. Speaker 5 00:23:50 Question. O, ilan na lang yung ano? Ah, si Anton. Lagi na lang si Izzy. Speaker 7 00:24:00 April. Speaker 7 00:24:03 26. So, ganyan. Hi, Charles. And after, ah, Tuesday naman yun. As of April. Eh, 30, di ba? Kasi wala naman tayong 30. Speaker 7 00:24:17 Ano yan? So, Speaker 2 00:24:20 Why? Speaker 2 00:24:25 So, bakit? 13 sila eh. May backstage meeting kasi sa Thursday. Nagpabuka ko ng catering for breakfast. Ah, ah. Inabot ng 500. Dollar or something. For 13 people naman kasi. Ang dami nila. Sa office ba? Oo, sa HQ. Yung mga past EOS meeting kasi, Nasa tatlo lang. Sila, apat, ganyan. Kaya around 100-$200 lang. Ngayon, ang dami. Bakit ikaw pa gumagawa niyan, Mi? At i-i-i pa rin ako ni Ansoor, di ba? Hindi naman ako natanggol na i-i. Even si ano, ito, mga on the side, si Katerina, book mo ko ng ganito, tawagan mo si ganito, ganito, ganito. Speaker 7 00:25:06 Oh my God. Speaker 2 00:25:07 Ngayon, busy ako sa, hanggat na sa Paris siya, mayat maya magchat-chat yan. Ay, oo, hanggang March 7 siya, ay, May 7 siya sa Paris. Bukas, flight na niya, tapos kanina tumawag, ay, nagchat. Tignan mo nga kung pwede kong ipamove. Gusto pa yata mag-extend. Parang sabi niya, May 7 Niya ipapamove yung flight Niya pabalik. Eh, May 6 kasi dapat, Talaga. Tumawag pa ako Dun sa French B, Kung how much ang magiging cost. Oh my gosh, May! Speaker 7 00:25:38 Sabihan mo ako kung Kung, Na-move mo. Kasi yung, May ginawa ako as EAD ni Anton. Ah. May ginawa din ako Ng ticket sa kanya Na alisin siya Sa travel group Sa May 7 Or sa May 6. So, sabihin mo ko. Hindi, I-update ko yun. Speaker 2 00:25:56 Hindi na. Hindi na siya na move. May 6 na talaga, Ang uwi niya Kasi sabi ko, Yung gusto niyang Maging flight, Is yung May 7, Walang direct flight. So May 8 yung meron Ayaw na niyang mag-extend pa, Nang hanggang May 8 Mag-stick ka na lang sa original flight mo At umuwi ka na, So true Diba, gusto po niya mag-extend, So minsan gumising pa ako. Speaker 2 00:26:28 Hindi ako natutulog Nilalabanan ko yung antok ko Kasi sabi ko, Hindi na akong tawagan yung restaurant ng 3pm Kasi ganoon ko na sila magbubukas Antok na antok Na ako, nilalabanan ko talaga, Yung antok ko, Tapos pag tawag ko, nagkising Mga siguro, Mga 45 minutes akong try na try Putek walang sumasagot Ayayoko na, sabi ko matutulog na ako Ayun, pagka log in ko ng, 7am pacific, yung tinawagan ko na May nakausap na ako, siguro mga around. Speaker 2 00:26:60 Pag gabi na yun sa Paris, Or else, Mga 5 p.m. na yata sa kanila. Speaker 5 00:27:05 Just good day. Kailan mo I-ano pala yung kay Steph? Speaker 2 00:27:10 Ay, yung atalas, since nandito na rin, Kayo, ganito, Nag-reach out ako kay Stephanie kanina. Speaker 5 00:27:17 Sabi ko, wait, send mo muna to. I-ano mo muna. Speaker 7 00:27:20 Stop na the recording. Wait lang. Here's the monthly support. Also, moving forward, this report will be sent by Christian. Let us know if you have any questions. Wishing you a wonderful weekend ahead. Okay, okay. Wait lang. Let's, ano eh. Speaker 2 00:27:40 Okay, stop mo na. Okay. Sabi mo na, I have two minutes. Ayan, so walang, ano, mangyayari ka sa ganito. Hindi natin pwede i-hand over sa kanya lahat ng mga pwede natin ipasa. Kasi mangyayari, walang adjustment, walang pay adjustment to. So, ano lang yung spare time niya sa marketing Na pwede niyang i-allot for admin, Yun lang yung dapat ibigayin natin sa kanya. Kets? So, Speaker 2 00:28:05 Yun, kaya Nirequest ko siya kanina na I-update mo yung task list mo and let me know yung mga frequency Ng each task mo. Alin dito yung, Daily mo ginagawa, in a day, ilang oras mo Ina-allot, Para matapos, Alin ang weekly, alin ang monthly. So, pwede magbigay sa kanya ng recurring And I'll see you guys next time. Speaker 7 00:28:24 Na Pwede, Task Kasi. Speaker 2 00:28:28 Depende sa Ano niya. Kasi, Ang unang Ang usapan namin, At least 2 to 3 hours Daily sa admin team. Kasi iniisip ko, Kung ibibigay lang natin, Sa kanya, Is yung mga monthly, Recurring like, Reportings. Eh, Di ba sabay kayo Naggagawa, Si Christian at ikaw, Security and Monthly computer? Speaker 5 00:28:47 Nauna siya. Nauna. Speaker 2 00:28:49 O nasa SEG? Ah, okay. Ayun, Yun ang pag-uusapan, Alin dun yung pwede, Niyang kuhanin. O sige, ayaw mo itong procurement? Nag-ano na ako? Speaker 7 00:28:58 O sige, ayaw mo itong meeting na ako? O sige, sige. A-a-a, bye-bye. May ibigay mo itong procurement? Speaker 2 00:29:04 Ayaw mo na ba? Speaker 2 00:29:08 Ayaw na daw ni Baggy. Kasi naging itong iikot-kot niya dyan. Speaker 8 00:29:11 Nab-visit ako kanina. Bakit? Kasi di ba usapan? Usapan, i-go-go ko na. Na-order ko na yung license yesterday. Speaker 2 00:29:19 Pahapon? Oo. Speaker 8 00:29:21 So, biglang, biglang nag-resend. Ng quote si Ivy. Speaker 2 00:29:27 Ay, shit. Oo nga pala, Ma'am. Me, kasi Nabasa ko yung chat ni Chinky. Diba nag-out na tayo kahapon? Nag-message pa pala siya. Morning ko na nabasa. So, sabi niya, Me, mag-send na lang daw, Si Ivy ng new quote. Ipapirmahan Na lang daw niya kay Payton. And then, Yun nga, explain na daw yung nangyari. Wala naman sa isip ko na nag-go ka na nga pala Kahapon. Oo. Speaker 8 00:29:51 Sorry. Ano nangyari? Tapos, edi okay lang. Sabi naman ni Peyton, okay lang. Pero, nag-question kasi siya na, Ay, parang ang laki ng yearly ko, parang gano'n. Aabot siya ng 1K per year nga, Kung every year niya yun. Kasi one year lang naman yung sinay niya na first. Tapos, edi may question siya. So, parang nag-usap ata si Ivy or si Vincent. Nag-compose ng email itong si... Speaker 8 00:30:21 Si Ivy. Tapos, Ang kailangan kong gawin, Ipa-cancel ko yun, Kasi paano kung I-three years niya. Kasi parang, Pre-propose nila, Either mag-subs Sa, Ano na yan? Co-term kasi itong Kay, New Urban. Tapos, Parang, Yung isa pa. Yung Mag-subscription license. Parang ganun. Mas mababa siya. Oo. So, Parang yan yung Prino-propose. Sabi ko, Ay, shock. Sabi ko, Kailangan ko i-cancel. Speaker 8 00:30:52 E, nag-email pa man din ako Ng umaga na Kung pwedeng I-expedite ni, Daniel, Sa Cisco. Kasi nga, Mag-i-end itong license. Speaker 2 00:31:03 E, paano yun? Di ba may, May 8 pa? Sabi mo? May 8? Oo. Paano yun? Anong nang-ending? Anong nangyari? Speaker 8 00:31:10 Um, nag-, Inaantay nila Kung anong decision, Ni Payton. Di ba? Speaker 2 00:31:17 Nag-urong-sulong kasi kahapon, Nung kausap ko si Chinky, Me, okay na, sige, go na natin to. Sabi ko talaga, parang same page na kami. Eh, nag-chat pala siya na Mag-send na lang daw, Ng bagong quote si Ivy, ganito, ganyan. Explain na lang daw yung nangyari. Eh, ayun. Nung nabasa ko yun Ng first thing in the morning, Ayan, nagsabay-sabay na yung mga gagawin. Wala na sa isip kong sabihin sa'yo. Sabi ko, ay! Sabi ko, ay, yako. Tapos kanina diba nagkaroon kami ng conversation ni, hindi naman heated conversation. Pero yun nga yung issue nung KEEP, Christian, yung sinasabi nila na. Speaker 2 00:32:02 Sino, sino, sino? Si Vince. Diba yung sinasabi nilang nag-increase na walang heads up or ganito, ganyan. Tapos, teka, may another meeting ba tayo? Wala na no? Yung Kellogg na yung kanina na-cancel na. Sige, kinabahan ako. Kasi diba doon sa email ko... Speaker 5 00:32:23 Nag-meeting kayo kasama sila? Speaker 2 00:32:25 Kanina, before ko kayo i-meet, Nasa meeting ako with Pete, Monty, siya, Olivia, regarding spares, Kung ano nang gagawin sa mga spares. Tapos, ayaw ko nang nag-jump si... Si... Vincent? Hindi, si Monty. Si Monty mo na. Sabi ko, hi Monty, kumalan ako. Tapos napansin ko na siyang nag-jump din si Vince. Hindi ako nagsalita. Speaker 2 00:32:53 Tapos kunwari nag-busy-busy yan ako. Kunwari habang nagtatype, sinasabi ko, Gano'n gano'n ako. Inantay ko na lang na dumating lahat. Wala lang, medyo hindi pa ako makamove on kasi. Hindi ko na ako nagsalita. Speaker 5 00:33:07 Yung discussion. Pero wala naman na siyang feedback eh. Sa email, right? Speaker 2 00:33:14 Oo, wala na siyang nasagot, Doon sa sinagot ko sa kanya. And then, nag-follow up pa ako sa chat. Sabi ko, Gusto mo pa bang mag-meeting tayo? Or okay na yung nasa sinagot? Hindi ako, Nga-replyan. Sineen ka lang? Oo. Aba? Sineen lang niya ako. Kasi nga, Doon sa sinabi ko rin nga doon sa email, Expectation is sila yung Sa mga respective clients nila. And then, itong Olivia. Kasi si VI, diba, nag-email din bakit sila may increase. Speaker 2 00:33:47 Sinabi ko kay Olivia yung nangyari, ganito, ganyan. And then, kasi si VI, wala siyang EM. Si Olivia ang alam kong go-to person nila kasi. So, kaya si Olivia sila nagtanong. Tapos, ayun, kasi parehas kami ng opinion na dapat nag-heads up. Alam mo ba si Seg? Kung si Seg, tinanong ko si Seg, ano bang process mo dito dati? Sabi niya, alam mo ba, kahit sinabi nilang hindi at hindi tayo mag-reach out, Nag-reach out pa rin ako. Sabi ni Hing, wali sabi ni Hing. Speaker 2 00:34:17 Nag-reach out ako kasi kilala ko na yung mga yan, ganyan-ganyan. Magre-reklamo yan pag anything na significant change, Magtatanong na yung mga yan, o bakit, anong nangyari ito? Kasi hindi naman nila mapapansin agad, Or hindi nila matatandaan kung hindi man sila din mabusisi sa MSA at sa agreement. Tawag ko, hindi nila siguro matatandaan, pero, Hindi nila. I think it's... O, pag nagbago lang. Oo, okay. Doon lang sila magre-react. Doon lang sila, oo. Speaker 8 00:34:44 Tama. Ayun. Speaker 5 00:34:46 Nahihirap yan. Kasi, Totoo naman, Din naman, Dalawa lang kasi sila rin. Doon mo maiintindihan yung side na yun. At the same time, Yun nga, Speaker 2 00:34:58 May monthly ano sila. May monthly sync up. Tsaka may monthly sync up. And then, Nandun din sila nung meeting pa nung January. No, ito yung mga renewal date schedule. So, diba? Parang, kung, pero kasi During the meeting daw, si Anser ang nagsabing, Huwag na mag-heads up, which is Very wrong. Exactly. Speaker 5 00:35:20 Exactly. Kasalanan niya. So, mahirap. Totoo naman, Di alam na ma-react knowledge sa may ari, Yun, eh, syempre. Pero sana, Speaker 8 00:35:28 Pero sana, nag-react din Yung dalawa, na parang, ah. Ay, kilala mo din naman yung mga... Oo, kilala mo naman itong mga hawak mo Na ganito sila magka-question. So, dapat, nagsabi na lang sila, Na we will head... Sasabihin nila, mag-heads up na lang sila. Speaker 5 00:35:45 Sa kasana, doon sa email, Kasi ang problema doon sa email, Parang lumalabas na hindi nila alam. Ayun tuloy, nabatuhan mo, di ba, Pril? Oo. Very detailed information, Na galing kay Marvin. Speaker 4 00:35:58 Na-January, ano, nag-meeting na. Speaker 5 00:36:01 Yun yung naging problema nila. Speaker 2 00:36:04 Eh kasi Naiirit na lang ako, Sabi ko pa nga Eh seg Seg ba't ganun, Ganun ba talaga yung IEM, Parang lagi silang may gustong Isisi, Parang never silang Nag take ownership, Sa mga Lapses nila Sabi ni seg, Ayun ako Last year ko pa yun Napapansin, Sabi niya Na parang Hahanap sila, Na sihin Ganun, Eh ako Mainit ang ulo ko Sa mga ganyan Yung tipong, Ididiktikin nila Yung IEM, Thank you, Yan ako na, yan yung patience ko Natatasa ganyan eh. Na parang bakit laging... Speaker 2 00:36:34 Nasusubot pa yun lalo. Yan nga, kaya bakit laging ki-admin team ang sisi nyo? Speaker 2 00:36:41 Sinabi ko rin yun, kaya ano? Sinabi ko rin yung... Oo, sabi ko, kaya yun yung sinasabi ko Na parang ang gusto pa nga kasi ni, Ni ano, ni Mike. Magkaroon daw ng initiative na Ma-identify. Alin din yung mga dapat, Hindi na ibibil. Alin yung mga From last billing... Wala pa to, then the next billing, bakit Nandito na to? Ganun daw, dapat Kumbaga may proactiveness Na mag-check ng mga any changes Or bakit kailangan pa ba to, nandito pa to? Kailangan bang nandito pa to sa, Invoice na to? Kailangan pa ba din yung ganitong subscription? Speaker 2 00:37:13 Sabi ko, kami ba dapat yan? Di ba? Hindi naman kami technically. Sabi ko sa kanya. Oo. Speaker 5 00:37:20 Kayo nga, mag-identify. Speaker 2 00:37:24 I-autos yun na lang Sa amin. Kasi since kami yung nag-manage, Yung mostly ng mga Mga, Admin access nga Ng mga subscriptions, At ganyan. Pwede naman namin simple, Sabihin mo kami, I-remove na to, Edi i-remove namin. Ganun. Di ba? Madali. Hindi yung Ipapasan nyo sa amin, Yung trabaho nyo. Kaya nga sabi ko kay Mike, Di ko napigilan, Sabi ko, Mike, what do I feel like Parang sa admin team Na si Silagi? Anong sabi niya? Wala. Ang sabi niya, this has been an ongoing Kinenso. Magaling si Mike. Speaker 5 00:37:54 Oo, magaling si Mike. Magaling. Kasi nga. Speaker 2 00:37:55 Forte nila yan. Magaling sila magpahigot, Ng sasalita. Dahil, trabaho nila yan eh. Kaya, maniniwala kang, Alam mo yun, na walang Problem dito, walang, Ano. Pero, kung Iisipin mo yung ano, Kung idadigest mo yung Point nung ano. Basta hindi nila explicitly, Sasabihin. Sinisisi ka namin sa nangyari dito. Kaya-kaya nalang paikutin yung ano. Paikutin? Oo. Ay, nako. Speaker 2 00:38:26 Besed-besed. Speaker 5 00:38:27 Ano na namin yan? Oo. Lalo na yung sa mga reports-reports. Speaker 2 00:38:33 Kaya nga, kaya nga sabi ko kay Seg-Seg, I've been only... Since kailan ba yun? Oh, ilang... In the past. Ilang buwan pa lang ako dito sabi ko, pero... Grabe! Grabe! Ramdam na ramdam ko yung Ano nila. Sabi ko, ganito ba talaga Sila? Speaker 5 00:38:49 Hindi ko pa pala sila talaga kilala. Speaker 2 00:38:52 Hindi ko naman kasi sila nakakadil ever. Nakaka-workout. Alam mo yung so, tahimik lang ako sa Small bubble ko. Speaker 5 00:38:59 Ikaw ba yun, Maggie? Nasabi ko sa'yo, mas okay pa ako Sa mga PM ngayon, kapag, Ganyan yung AM. Speaker 5 00:39:06 Mas okay ka talaga ako ang PM Kaysa AM na Delegation. Very, ano yung, ano, AM, very demanding, Tas delegate talagang Iba na lang sa'yo. Kaya, nabasa ko na si Mike. Speaker 5 00:39:25 Minsan na yung siya pinagagawa. Ang gusto niyang paggawa, Pril, Lahat ng reports ng, MS, Yung naka-PDF file, Tapos yung mga merong graphs-graphs pa. Sabi ko, Mike, too much na yan. Ang sabi ko sa kanya na lang, The purpose of the reports, unang-una, For admin, is for us to have The right billing amount, Billing quantity. Speaker 5 00:39:52 Kaya ngayon, kung gusto mo, Wala namang problema niya, pero tanggalan Natin ang isa. Mas importante yung user list, Kesa yung numbers na ganyan. Kasi ang purpose, Din kung bakit mayroong, User list, kung mayroong adjustment na gagawin. Ngayon, gusto niya lang kasi yung numbers. Ipakikita daw. Tapos kung dadalawahin ko pa yan, Eh paano na lang yung Computer pa, Meron pa devices. Ito pa nga lang, Hirap na hirap na ako mag-export. Mula senha siguro eh. Speaker 5 00:40:23 Tapos magtatanong pa Kung sino yung mag-a-access, Ng portal, di ba? So sinasabi ko yun sa kanya. Sabi niya, no? Tapos kumambi siya, No, not right now. Kung di naman ano, Not in the future, gano'n. Wala ka sa buhay mo. Speaker 8 00:40:38 Wala nang future, sir. Speaker 5 00:40:40 Wala ka sa buhay mo Hindi yung hinihingi ni client. Speaker 5 00:40:47 Yung ganong report. Speaker 2 00:40:49 Nagpo-proactive nga sila ng mga Alam mo yung dagdag trabaho Tinan mo yung arrange-arrange pa ng sequence Wala namang nireklamo si Sam Smith Wala, Parang gago. Speaker 5 00:41:00 Para sa kanya yun, Kasi nahihirapan siyang i-reconcile Ang tangan lang nila kasi, Hindi nila alam na pwede yung i-spreadsheet Yung, Ng export. Speaker 2 00:41:11 Hindi nila, In-explore yun, For sure. Speaker 5 00:41:14 Kaya sa ConnectWise, Pwede yun Yung mga time entry, Spreadsheet, Katulad yung ginawa, Kanina yung seg, In-download niya, As spreadsheet. Pwede yun. So, hindi nila alam yun. Pwede mo naman, Din i-sort na lang Kapag naka-spreadsheet, Na ito Kasi bangga-bangga, Mo na lang. Speaker 2 00:41:30 Yes. Diyos ko, Ito na naman, Nagpahabla naman, Ng airport transfer Si Madam. Speaker 8 00:41:38 Guys, question. Nandito pa rin ako sa invoicing. Kay Winegard, Kaya lang kasi itong ticket na to, Naka-barker pa rin siya. Dito ko kailangan siya i-invoice kasi eh. Naka-DNU. Dito ko pa rin ba isi-send? Speaker 4 00:41:56 Oh, wait lang. Speaker 5 00:41:59 Meron siya sinend sa akin, Pril. Hindi na, huwag na mag... Speaker 2 00:42:04 Double-check mo din kaya ako. Speaker 5 00:42:05 Meron sinend sa akin. Saan si Nen, di ba, Pri? Speaker 2 00:42:08 Ah, nasan ba yun? Yung wine guard. Double check mo din kay ano? Kay Vlad. Speaker 5 00:42:14 Ako na. Speaker 2 00:42:15 O, sige. Di ba meron tayong admin, Vlad? Speaker 5 00:42:20 Meron. Speaker 5 00:42:22 Admin and Vlad. Sa'yo ko na lang, Sen Mags, ha. Speaker 2 00:42:26 Sige. Magito ka magtanong Para documented to. Sabihin mo Hi, ganito, ganyan. Sabihin mo as per. Speaker 5 00:42:32 Itong email. Itong ticket Yan, galing sa ticket yan, magsis sa. Speaker 2 00:42:37 Email. Iniisip ko pa, Since ayaw na ni Na DNU nakalagay, Speaker 8 00:42:45 I-mamanual ko na lang to. Speaker 5 00:42:47 Oo. Mamanual mo yan. Kasi yung pang-pag-DNU eh. Oo, magtata ka pa yan. Speaker 8 00:42:52 Kasi noon, Ay papalidaan. Tatanggawin ko yung DNU, pero baka mapansin. Speaker 2 00:42:60 Oo, tas i-confirm mo Kay ano, kay Vlad. Speaker 8 00:43:04 Kung dito ko pa rin isa-send. Speaker 2 00:43:06 Oo, pero. Speaker 8 00:43:06 Saan ba yun? O gawin ko na lang, kung imamanwal ko din lang, Yung, Ngayon na lang, ano? Aling ngayon? Yung ginagawa na lang natin. Hindi na dito. Speaker 8 00:43:23 Yung parang normal na na-wind. Speaker 2 00:43:25 Card. Na-email? Sa Outlook Ka magsasend? Paano ko pa magsend. Speaker 8 00:43:28 Before dyan? Kasi, imamalago siya. Diretso lang naman. Tapos, idadagdag ko Lang si Benjamin. Yeah, touch. Speaker 2 00:43:35 Ah, nakita mo na yung Sinan ba ni ano? Sinan, Ni Christian? Sino yung nakalagay, Doon for Barker Management? Si Benjamin Saulang ata? Eh, meron O meron pang isa? Wait lang, wait lang. Speaker 5 00:43:49 Barker Management. Oo. Diba? RealPage, RealPage Portal. Tapos si Cici, si Benjamin, Sauval. Tignan mo dyan Sa Company Finance naman, Mags, Kung sino yung nakakabit. Speaker 5 00:44:06 Kasi ito, per agreement, Ito yung sinend ko sa'yo. Speaker 2 00:44:09 Oo, agreement yan. Speaker 5 00:44:11 RealPage Portal. So, kung sino, Yung email ni RealPage Portal. Kasi itong nasi-send dyan, Agreement, saka. Speaker 5 00:44:21 Ayan yan sa summary. Sige, pakiclick. Tapos sa baba, ayan. Sa send-down na yan. Tatlong yan, isama mo sa manual. Plus, itong real page portal. Kukunin mo na lang email na ito sa company. Ayan o, companies. Sa kagilid. Tapos contacts. Saan? Saan? Saan? Sa kaliwa. Companies. Kaliwa, kaliwa. Kaliwa. Left most. Ayan, companies. Speaker 5 00:44:51 Sa kontak? Hindi, yan na lang. Para specific. Speaker 5 00:44:59 Pantahan mo si WineGuard. Speaker 8 00:45:06 May nandira pa kasing ticket na ganito eh. Speaker 5 00:45:10 Dami yan, di ba? Yan, contacts. Yan. Reel page. Type mo lang reel. Speaker 5 00:45:19 Mas makalalabas. Ayan, yung email niyan. Sasama mo niyan sa... Ito? Yung email. Ah, okay. Ayun, yung gano'n. Pero yan yung invoice n, diba? Siya yung ilalagay mo sa 2, Tapos isisi mo na lang yung... Ito? Yung dalawa. Tapos yan, nakatu rin. Speaker 5 00:45:49 Naka-to rin yan. Kasi naka-to dyan, diba? Kasi kung naka-WineGuard Na yan, Ay, hindi yan pala. Naka-BMI Pala yan. Bak mo. Bak mo. Punta kang company, Finance ni WineGuard. Speaker 5 00:46:06 Dyan. Type mo WineGuard. Speaker 5 00:46:12 Ayan. Kung sino yun nandyan. Yan. Yan. Exactly. Tapos sama si Rene. Speaker 8 00:46:19 O hindi na? Itong dalawa, diba? Speaker 5 00:46:21 Yeah, yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Bakit si Dennis? Speaker 5 00:46:25 Eh, yan yung nakaano sa company finance. Speaker 8 00:46:28 Di ano yan? Ni Barker? Speaker 5 00:46:30 Winegard na yan, eh. O, winegard na yan. Speaker 8 00:46:33 Gagawin na lang natin, iwo winegard na lang siya. Speaker 5 00:46:37 Kasi, total, manual din lang. Pinalit lang natin yung DNU na winegard, diba? Eh, yan naman yung request nila nun, diba? So, ibig sabihin, yung Glenn na yan, nakaka-receive lahat ng invoice ni WineGuard, regardless of what site. Speaker 2 00:46:55 Kasi, di ba ano sila? Specific sila sa mga kung sino lang yung taong involved, i-include mo as per site? Speaker 5 00:47:04 Hindi ko alam. Yan yung nakakabit dyan eh. Speaker 2 00:47:07 Kasi, yun yung nasa email. Yung sanad ko. Speaker 5 00:47:12 Oo nga, pero meron nag... Sabing kasama yung Glenn eh. Sa Weingart, di ba? Speaker 2 00:47:17 Sino ba to? Si Kamor ba to? Speaker 5 00:47:18 Hindi ba naman? Speaker 8 00:47:21 Hindi. Speaker 8 00:47:24 Sino to? Wait nga. Speaker 5 00:47:26 Anong site yan? Real page eh. BMI nakalagay. Speaker 2 00:47:30 Ang alam ko nagre-real page lang si ano. BMI. Speaker 5 00:47:36 Partner Management. Speaker 5 00:47:40 SMB, Weingardt Tower 1A, Speaker 2 00:47:45 600 San Pedro, Willows and Rose. Speaker 5 00:47:50 Rose is Spring Rose, diba? Diyan ako nalitin yan eh. Speaker 8 00:47:54 Siyempre si LP siya. Tower LP to. Speaker 2 00:47:58 Weingardt Tower LP. Speaker 5 00:48:01 1A yan, right? Hindi, magkaiba. Speaker 2 00:48:05 Wala si Tower LP dito sa list. Speaker 8 00:48:10 Kasi ito yung attachment na... Speaker 5 00:48:16 Pero, ay wala. Pero Barker Management man. Ah. Previous, ano niya? Real. So, si Real Page yun. Speaker 8 00:48:25 Ah, yung Tower 1A. Pero... Speaker 5 00:48:28 So, iba si Rose. Weingart Rose, Naka Weingart Primrose, Magkaiba pala. Speaker 5 00:48:34 Ayun o. Kahihwalay. Speaker 5 00:48:40 Sabihin mo nalang kay Brad dito sa GC, as per this real page, saan ba naka-under to? Meron ba specific na tao? Pero kwento mo nalang sa kanya kung ano yung baka mas alam niya. Speaker 2 00:48:59 Kasi nag-check ako ng history dito sa monthly billing made to create Winegard Towers LP kay Rook Parker. Care of Barker Management. So, si Barker nga siya. Speaker 8 00:49:14 Under siya ni Tower 1A. Tama, me. Tower 1A? Uh-uh. Speaker 5 00:49:23 Tapos bago mo para sigurado, Sure mo na lang kay Vlad. Speaker 2 00:49:29 I-screenshot mo yung mga names Na pag-rasendan mo. Speaker 5 00:49:32 Pero sa tingin ko, Hindi rin alam niya ni Vlad, eh. Kapag invoicing. Speaker 2 00:49:37 Or yung dalawa. Hindi, mag-chat ka dun sa... Ba't wala ba dun sa admin and blogger? Wala silang mark dito. Speaker 2 00:49:47 Okay, wala pa. Speaker 5 00:49:49 Yan yung pinakukonfirm lang ni Marvin ba yun? O ikaw? Speaker 8 00:49:55 Although, service ticket kasi ito eh. Speaker 5 00:49:59 Hindi siya... Pero invoice yan, not eh. Speaker 8 00:50:03 Oo, i-invoice ko yung nagawa. Speaker 5 00:50:08 Yan ba yung recent na sinabi ko. Speaker 2 00:50:10 Na may invoice daw? Hindi pa. Speaker 8 00:50:15 Tinatanong ko pa lang kasi ito kung Tinanong ko kay Miguel Kung idediretso ba, Yung invoice na yun Direct sa kanila or, Sila ang magsisend. Parang ganun. Speaker 5 00:50:29 Sa si Tonja, wala na dyan. Yun yung importante. Tinanggal ko na dyan si Tonja. Speaker 8 00:50:35 Wala, wala na siya dito. Kasi noon, Noon kasi, Pag nung wala pa yung wineguard Na ganito-ganyan, Tatangga rin si Tonja dito, Tapos ipapalit si Benjamin. Yun yung maalala kong, Ginagawa noon. Nung hindi pa wineguard lahat. Speaker 5 00:50:59 Eh, per agreement na yun. Speaker 4 00:51:02 Kaya, noon, Kaya siya. Speaker 5 00:51:06 Oo nga, I-explain ko yung, Ano din. Ang, Di ba yung kanina Winegard Associate, Yung nandun yung blend, Lahat, Regardless of site, Sila-sila talaga Yung makasi Ng invoice. Ngayon, Yung site, Per agreement siya. Di ba yung gano'n yung ginawa? Kaya mapapansin ninyo, Nandun si RealPage. Si Benjamin Sao. Iba na to. Si Benjamin Sao. Nakaiba siya. Speaker 5 00:51:35 Pati yung Lourdes Real Estate. Speaker 5 00:51:42 Si Benjamin Sao ba? Nandito pa. Wala pala Dito sa Sinan mo, Pril. Sa ticket. Si Benjamin. Hindi siya nakalagay na. Speaker 2 00:51:55 Hindi lang kasi yung update yung Sinan na email. Speaker 2 00:51:58 Diba? Nandun sa ticket yung thread, diba? Speaker 5 00:52:02 Ah, pero yata kapag sinabing CBR, nasan dito si Benjamin? Alam ko mayroong agreement na nakapaloob si Benjamin. Speaker 5 00:52:17 Alam ko. Kala, check natin. Speaker 5 00:52:26 Ang hirap kasi yung Pay magi dahil per service Ticket eh, no, Mags? Ang hirap. Ang arte pa na itong mga siya. Hindi mo maaintindihan kung bakit. Speaker 2 00:52:39 May spreadsheet ka ba? May ng mga per site na, Ano, per site And then kung sino lang yung mga contact person For billing. Speaker 2 00:52:50 Wala pa. Maglagay ganun para at least meron kang, Reference palagi. Oo, maglagay ka. For example, yun yung sinandikristyan sa'yo. Pwede mong in-install na yun. Speaker 5 00:53:05 Nandito pa si Tonja pala, oh, Prills, as contact. Saan? Speaker 5 00:53:11 Sa HQ, for example, agreement. Tanggalin mo na siya. Speaker 5 00:53:17 Sa lahat ba? Oo, sabi ko. Contact siya rito. Pero ang importante kasi sa agreement is yung bill too. Speaker 2 00:53:25 Ano ba sabi sa akin? It's Yun sabi niya. Speaker 5 00:53:30 As in regardless. Speaker 2 00:53:33 Remove Tonya, From all Billing notifications, Alerts, Etc. And then sabi niya, Olivia, Please work with April, And make Jason default For all Wine guard issues That were going to Tonya before. So, dapat si Jason, Na daw ang default. Speaker 5 00:53:49 So, default Ng wine guard. Oo, lahat ng wine guard. Pagpapalitan mo na ito. Speaker 2 00:53:53 Pagpapalitan mo na, Kasi, So, Feeling ko di ginawa ni Olivia. Hindi yan ginawa ni Olivia. Galawin mo na. Speaker 5 00:53:58 Oo. So, ganoon mags naman din sa April. Alam mo naman yata ni April. Pero kapag eto naman, Nakapalob naman to dito sa company. Gulo, diba? Ba't ganoon? Yung contact na default, mags, Sa service ticket na to nakapalob, mags. Baka eto yung kailangan. Speaker 8 00:54:19 Kasi kung sino yung nandun ata, Pati eto. Pati dito, kung sino yung nandun sa service ticket, makakareceive siya. Speaker 5 00:54:32 Kaka-default nga si Dimitri, oh. Speaker 8 00:54:34 Kasi nga, ayaw nga na makareceive yung iba ng notification. Kaya si Dimitri. Bakit may Tonya pa din dyan? Speaker 5 00:54:47 So, eto, Jason. Speaker 2 00:54:50 Talker. Speaker 2 00:54:52 Ha? G-A-Y atan siya? Speaker 5 00:54:55 Eh, wala kasi sa wineguards. Speaker 2 00:54:57 Ay, add mo siya sa contacts. Ito, ito. Jason Tucker. Speaker 2 00:55:04 Ayun na, lumagpas ka na kanina. Speaker 5 00:55:08 Ayan. Speaker 5 00:55:11 Sa lahat ng wineguards natin, Agreement to April. Speaker 2 00:55:15 Agreement yan? Speaker 2 00:55:17 Uh-uh. Okay, tibalik mo nga sa ito dati. Agreement to New England. Kasi, ang sabi ni Anzor, lahat ng wineguard issues, dapat Jason na daw ang naka-default sa ticket. Speaker 2 00:55:30 So, lahat. Wala. Kung agreement naman. Kaya na si Jimmy 3? Hindi. Kung agreement naman pala yan. Speaker 5 00:55:38 Agreement ito eh. Contact. Speaker 2 00:55:39 Huwag mo nang dalawin. Attention to ito eh. Speaker 5 00:55:43 Attention to. Ito yun. Speaker 2 00:55:46 Kasi as long as hindi siya makaka-receive ng any alerts, yun yung goal. Speaker 5 00:55:51 Pero ito, attention to. Ayan o, yung contact. Yung attention to yan. Speaker 5 00:55:59 Tapos, ito yung importanteng, Sa sendan, kapag nag-generate ka ng Invoice, tapos i-click mo yung, Send email, ito yung bill to. Billing information. Kahit hindi yung shipping information, Itong billing information, kapag In-edit natin ito, nilagay yung billing contact. Ayan yung masi-sendan. Apart dun sa, Dito sa summary, company finance. Speaker 5 00:56:26 Tapos sa company finance, isa pang na ano, dapat pala, yun yung tinatanong ko yung Marvin, Nakatik mag-skip ever na ma-encounter mo ulit. Kapag hindi siya nakatik, hindi siya mag-re-reflect as CC. Eno, eno ba yun? Sino ba yung sinabi yun? Kay, yung recently. Speaker 5 00:56:55 So, yun. Speaker 5 00:56:58 Ano pa? Ano pa yung ano natin kay Winegard? Eto, Joseph. Speaker 5 00:57:06 Naka-build po siya. Speaker 5 00:57:10 Full years. Speaker 5 00:57:13 Yan lang mahihirap i-bili, no? Si B.R.E. Winegard. Speaker 8 00:57:21 Kasi nung nag-DP invoice ako sa Tower 1A, sino ba sinendan mo nun? Kung ano na yung default dito, tapos dinagdag ko lang si Benjamin. Kasi siya ang nag-sign dito sa code din na to. Speaker 8 00:57:42 Parang ito, down payment ito. Speaker 8 00:57:47 In-email ko siya dito. Speaker 8 00:57:51 Ito, account pay ako sa si Glenn Tapos dinagdag ko si Benjamin dito. Speaker 5 00:57:56 Kasi siya yung nasa quote. Speaker 8 00:57:58 Kasi kung hindi naman siya Hindi ko siya dadagdag, As Parker Management Eh, yan bang service ticket na yan? May related quote yan? Meron, may quote siya. Speaker 2 00:58:10 Bakit pala service ticket lang? Hindi siya project? Speaker 8 00:58:18 Kasi pinagawa lang. Speaker 2 00:58:21 Less than 4 hours lang siya Ganun, kasi diba pag Project 4 hours and above yun eh Yeah, parang ano nang, Bad to. Speaker 5 00:58:30 Ang hirap sa'yo mag Sa akin, nakadepende talaga ako, Company finance, saka, Agreement, ang dapat Mong contact yun, yan yung pa yung mahirap Challenging sa'yo mag, Yung mga PM, dapat i-make sure Nila yung contact, Si George, very specific, di ba? Speaker 5 00:58:53 Sino yung contact? Speaker 8 00:58:57 Para elevator, something lang kasi ito eh. Ginawa lang ni EA. Speaker 8 00:59:06 Kaya rin tumatagal kasi nanday ko yung updated na invoice ni EA. Speaker 2 00:59:14 Hmm. Kaya itong gawin mo, di ba? For each WineGuard site, mag-create ka ng spreadsheet and then kung sino ang contact for each site. I-include mo na din na every time magkaka-project si WineGuard, kung sino lang din yung mga billing contact. Add ka ng add-in sa spreadsheet mo para yung common reference. Ay, sorry. Speaker 5 00:59:41 Go. Sige nga, click. Pwede mong palitan yung bill too, Mags. Saan dito? Speaker 4 00:59:47 Hindi, pero ito kasi. Speaker 5 00:59:51 Papalitan kasi natin yan. Try mo nga munang i-windguard yan, Nasa baba in Bill 2. Kasi kapag nag-reflect yan, Yun yung important sya na yan. Yun yung lang yung ina-adjust natin. Kaso, palitan mo yung... Sige. Naka-attention. Ano yung naka-attention? Speaker 8 01:00:10 Ito, account payables na sya. Speaker 5 01:00:12 Talagang yan dapat. Ah, okay. Yung site. Automatic. Sa kanan, Yung site. Si site, Speaker 8 01:00:20 Dapat siya, Ah, wait. Kailangan natin i, Kailangan natin i, Ah, Sa quote. Speaker 5 01:00:30 Sigma muna. Sigma. Try lang natin, Kung ano lalabas Sa invoice. Yun yung goal, Diba? Speaker 5 01:00:40 Para kapag send As is. Speaker 5 01:00:45 Kasi sino yung masisendan? Speaker 4 01:00:51 Billing address. Speaker 5 01:00:54 Pero na yun, type mo lang yung site. Speaker 5 01:01:01 Anong site nito? Hindi mo papalitan yung billing address eh, kung hindi mo maano yung site. Speaker 8 01:01:13 Okay, Tower 1A. Speaker 5 01:01:15 Copy mo yan, T. Yung SMB, yata, yun. Search mo, T. Speaker 5 01:01:26 Pwede mong i-copy yung address, Tapos search mo ito sa line 1. Speaker 8 01:01:31 Saan yung address? Speaker 5 01:01:34 Yung address yung quote mo. Speaker 5 01:01:39 Search mo ito sa column ni line 1. Speaker 8 01:01:50 Ito? Speaker 5 01:01:52 Ah, E, address. Eleven Zero one, East. Di ba yan? Kain mo lang. Speaker 5 01:02:05 Wala. Tanggalin mo si Orangewood. Speaker 5 01:02:14 Ano yan? Ano site yan? Site. Speaker 8 01:02:20 Shippingman kasi yan Billy Sites, Sa is Wingard Tower LPM. Speaker 4 01:02:29 Pero Naka Tower 1P Tower 600. Speaker 4 01:02:57 Ayan, save mo, Speaker 5 01:03:02 Tapos click My invoice. Speaker 5 01:03:09 Ayan natin ang lalabas. Speaker 5 01:03:12 Hindi mo na kailangan mag-edit. O, ayan. Speaker 8 01:03:16 Pero ang palitan na lang natin, Ito. Ay, ayan. Ayan. Speaker 5 01:03:26 Ah, diba? Hindi ka na mag-outdob eh. Saka out. Speaker 8 01:03:33 Ganyan na. Sabi ni Kusha. Speaker 6 01:03:35 Gawin ko nga rin yun sa Iron Gate, no? Alay. Speaker 6 01:03:41 Ipapadagdag ko na lang yung ano, no, Maggie? Speaker 5 01:03:44 Ay, pwede rin tayo magdagdag, diba? Pero yun lang site. Yung Desrosa ba yun? Yung Iron Gate. May namanual pa namin. Speaker 2 01:03:50 Yun sa DL? Oo. Diba sila chinky lang Mag-add ng sites And companies? Sa kanila ka lang, Bridge mo. Hindi ka pwedeng ikaw. Ipadagdag mo na lang kaya, Christian. Speaker 5 01:04:03 I-request mo yun. Ipadagdag ko na lang. Sige. I don't know. Alam natin. Kahit naka-DN yung company, wala Namang reflex sa invoice. Speaker 8 01:04:13 Send ko na to, ha? Speaker 8 01:04:15 Salanan to ni Christian. Double-check mo. Speaker 5 01:04:17 Muna yung invoice kung yun na. Yung na yung gusto mo mangyari. Speaker 2 01:04:21 Hindi mo napapacheck yan, no? Yan na, Miguel. Ay, kaya na. Blood. Speaker 5 01:04:27 Tama na yung bill to Yung date. April 27. Speaker 5 01:04:34 Okay na yun, T. Kung okay ka na yan, Decide mo na. Eh, di mo naman i-decide. Sure. Speaker 5 01:04:40 Attention. Speaker 8 01:04:45 Pero, wait na. Parker Management Tower. Bakit ito yung site? Speaker 5 01:04:52 Naka-depende nga siya dun sa kung ano ilalagay mo sa ano. Speaker 8 01:04:56 Ito dapat yung site niya. Speaker 8 01:05:05 Yung 101, di ba? Speaker 5 01:05:08 Sabi mo siya ito. Baka SMB nga yun. Speaker 8 01:05:14 Bakit siya naka HQ? Speaker 4 01:05:23 Anong site ito? Speaker 8 01:05:28 Kasi dapat, ito dapat, Ang billing site, diba? Speaker 8 01:05:36 Eh, naka ito siya, ang shaping. Speaker 5 01:05:39 Eto, yung HQ rin sa taas, Yung billing site. Diba? HQ. Hindi, dalawa yata, Yung HQ yan, yung tatlo. Speaker 5 01:05:49 Type mo na lang kaya, HQ. Speaker 8 01:05:55 Ito lang. Ba't ganun? Speaker 5 01:06:00 Well, search mo nga ito. Asterisk. Speaker 5 01:06:07 Ganun din. Speaker 8 01:06:08 Ito atang default nila. Di ba itong palitan? Speaker 5 01:06:15 Sige nga. Hindi yan ang papalitan, alam mo. Speaker 5 01:06:19 Baka depende siya dun sa site. Palagay mo na lang din. Speaker 5 01:06:24 Under wine guard. Patingin ko, wala siya sa wine guard. Nasa Barker Management, Yung address na yan. Speaker 8 01:06:34 Kaya kanina, nakaganon. Speaker 5 01:06:36 Sige nga, Try mo ulit, Yung billing site. Speaker 5 01:06:42 Wala, di ba, yung Orange wood. Kailangan mo siya, Ipadagdag under Barker. Speaker 8 01:06:54 Kasi ito lang ang... Speaker 5 01:06:55 I-side pa yung ate. Scroll mo nga pa-side sa kanan. Speaker 5 01:07:04 E, ito. Scroll mo pa kanan. Baka mamaya meron naka... Wala. Naka-all naman. Okay. Kailangan mong padagtag. Speaker 5 01:07:20 Sabay mo yung... Kaya yung gate ka nung... Speaker 4 01:07:23 Bakit. Speaker 8 01:07:24 Wala silang nilagay? Speaker 8 01:07:31 Worker management. Speaker 5 01:07:32 Hindi, baka nga naka-under, Hindi pa nila-under, Sa sales Kasi Tower 1A elevator dito Alam mo pa, pwede natin yan, Kasi diba sabi ni Marvin, Pwede ba yun, Trill? Kapag update lang Pwede yan, tayo Update na, Ah, yun ah, Update na. Sight. Speaker 2 01:07:55 Kailangan niya heads upan mo si ano. Si Chinky palagi. Speaker 2 01:07:60 Kasi siya yung Laging tatak... Ano yun? Fili ko update, Yung Chinky mo na din. Speaker 5 01:08:05 Oto, Maggy. O, tingnan mo. Ah, kasi sabi sa akin, Yung Marvin nun eh. Ay, pag nagtatalo pa Aming dalawa nun eh. Speaker 2 01:08:13 Or for any changes, Kailangan iloopin mo na lang, Si Chinky. Kasi siya yung binabalikan, Ni Anzor. Kunwari, Ba't nabago to? Anong nangyari dito? O gano'n. Siya yung go-to person Ni Anzor sa any changes, Sa company. Speaker 5 01:08:26 So magso, Eh dadagdag ko na dito. Speaker 5 01:08:34 Bala, Ayan yan. Dadagdag ko na to. Speaker 2 01:08:38 Pagdantan ka man, heads upan mo si ano. Speaker 5 01:08:40 Ah, heads up ko na. Ah, sige. Speaker 2 01:08:44 Kasi lalabas pangalan mo dyan sa audit trail. Speaker 5 01:08:47 Oo nga. True. Kapag sila diba. Speaker 8 01:08:50 Kopiahin mo to. Speaker 5 01:08:52 Send mo na, send mo sa akin. Speaker 5 01:08:55 Dito na ako. Iyan ko na lang sila. Dinagdag ko. Speaker 5 01:09:00 Pero kasi yun yung sinasabi ni Marvin. Really, no? Ano? Kung wawalan sila ng trabaho, madadagdagan yung atin. Speaker 4 01:09:08 New visitor. Speaker 2 01:09:10 Si Helpdesk. Speaker 5 01:09:13 Anong site to, Mags? Tower? Speaker 8 01:09:17 Wait. 1A? Oo. Sure. Tower 1A. Or, Winegard Tower LP. Wait nga, May nakita kasi ako dito sa ating, Site. Speaker 8 01:09:33 Hindi, Speaker 4 01:09:34 Dito-dito sa ating chat yan. Speaker 5 01:09:44 Tax code, Los Angeles, right? Speaker 5 01:09:53 Para safe nga. Speaker 2 01:09:56 Magka-alas tres na bumalik si Mark. Speaker 5 01:10:13 Para sigurado. Speaker 4 01:10:17 Sa alas 3. Speaker 5 01:10:25 Baka iniisip ko Baka may usapan yan sila eh, Pero dati inform ka Sila Vladimir, Sila Mark. Speaker 2 01:10:37 Yun ang problema sa kanila eh, communication. Hindi sila proactive pagdating sa ganyan. Kailangan na habunin mo pa sila. Kaya ngayon, nagsukong i-discuss, Dun sa meeting sana kanina. Kasi ang gusto ko muna, makausap muna Sila bago ko kausapin Si Jason and Vlad. Speaker 5 01:10:57 Kung ano ang nangyayari. Nagka-type na si Chinky. Speaker 5 01:11:02 Pag hindi, pa-add na lang natin. Speaker 8 01:11:03 Kung paano din sila, diba, mag-work? Me? Kaya nga, katulad niyan, yung mga build. Speaker 5 01:11:14 To build na yan, mayroon mga specific tapos sa atin isi tayo mag-send. Coffee refresh. Speaker 4 01:11:30 Free installation. Speaker 5 01:11:33 Wait lang. Pinagawa kasi sa akin Tos ay layon eh So paki-email na lang din, Kay Uli Ventures Na mag-add ka, Sa ito Ayun ka po, Kasi siya Mag-add na rin ako Kay Iron Gate, Sign ko na lang. Speaker 5 01:11:54 Read it. Speaker 2 01:11:55 Oo, Sa isang ticket, I-include mo yung Hotlist, Ano. Speaker 5 01:12:02 Anong site? Okay na to? 1A? Speaker 5 01:12:07 Mm-hmm. Speaker 5 01:12:09 Okay na, save ko na. Power 1A. Speaker 5 01:12:14 Okay. Speaker 2 01:12:19 Pati itong installation. Sisi mo pala si, ano, si FYI lang naman ito sa Elementral. Isisi mo na lang yung admin board din Para meron tayong reference. Speaker 4 01:12:33 Charm I think, Yeah. Speaker 8 01:12:47 Si Stephanie nalang makitrabaho Sa construction, Kilipad na natin Charm, Ngunit nung una naman Nag-enjoy ako ganyan, Pero nung ay, Nakita ko problema. Hindi na pala to enjoy. Speaker 2 01:13:07 Ayun, ilista mo yan. Lahat ng mga na-identify mo na problema, Na nagiging, kumbaga, Inconvenient sa lahat ng mga taong involved. Kailangan natin ma-discuss yan. Kasi at least para, alam mo yun, Ma-brainstorm natin ano yung pwedeng solusyon. Kawin na. Oo. Kasi hindi namin malalaman, syempre, kung... Diba, ikaw lang naman everyday nakaka-encounter. Tapos, syempre, gusto rin namin mapadali yung Trabaho mo. Para at least, Diba, tsaka alam nila na. Speaker 2 01:13:39 Oo, napag-usapan to, na ganito yung Dapat magiging solusyon natin. Ganyan. So, Ayan, pwede natin sabihin Sa kanila na napag-usapan na na, Moving forward, ganito na yung magiging Steps natin sa mga ganitong cases. Speaker 5 01:13:54 Iba talaga kasi, ano, Real. Dagdag na. Kung si Stell, edi dagdag na lang talaga siya Sa atin. Speaker 5 01:14:04 Ito naman din si Marvin Natawa pa eh, nabigla pa kanina eh. Dagdag pa nang, Increase. Wala naman daw siya yung ginagawa. Although naiintindihan daw ni Marvin Na need time nung, Mga creative ano. Speaker 5 01:14:20 Task per se Daw. Wala naman daw. Speaker 2 01:14:23 O, kasi nga nagtanong siya, no. Kaya gusto kong i-position yung proposal na hindi natin siya tatampang ng trabaho. Kasi nga, hindi ko alam, syempre, kaya kailangan ko talagang makuha yung listahan niya eh. Kung how much time yung inaalat niya for ganito. Para magkaalaman kung andaman niya yung spare time daily. Which is, hindi ko alam kung comfortable siyang aminin. Syempre, di ba? Ilang taon na siyang nandito sa Crimson and then malalaman na. Speaker 2 01:14:55 All this time. The rest nung araw niya, Peteks-peteks na lang siya. Diba? So, hindi ko alam, Kung siya ba ay magiging honest Sa part na yun Or, Ayun. Kaya, Inano ko sa kanya na I-update niya yung listahan niya And then mag-usap kami. Speaker 2 01:15:14 Ah, okay. Speaker 5 01:15:16 Para makita mo. Hindi ba na yung line guard? Speaker 5 01:15:22 Kasi, Hindi ba? Ay, hindi kaya yung Weingardt eh. Kasi yung eto, Company to eh. Speaker 8 01:15:32 Weingardt or Iron Gate. Speaker 5 01:15:38 Desaroladora, Na Primera Company siya. Speaker 5 01:15:47 Okay, eto lang. Weingardt. Pero? At that side. Speaker 5 01:15:52 Anong pero? Speaker 8 01:15:55 Ay, hindi siya magiging sized. Speaker 5 01:15:58 Hindi siya, ano, Diba yun yung company, yung bill 2? Oo. Oo. Nakakampany siya Yung DESA. Ayun, no. Speaker 5 01:16:11 So, kailangan may company mismo. Speaker 5 01:16:16 Ayun, no. Bill 2. Dito yung nakalagay yung Weingart Associated. Speaker 8 01:16:22 Eh di, company mo pa rin siya. Speaker 5 01:16:24 Hindi, mag-a-add ka entirely sa ConnectWise ng company. Speaker 8 01:16:29 Ah, ayun. Speaker 5 01:16:30 Na de sa Roladora. Ang hirap ah. Speaker 8 01:16:36 Kasi sa Mexico kasi siya eh. Speaker 5 01:16:40 Oo, so huwag na. Talagang manual na siya. Speaker 5 01:16:45 Nahirapan ka ba? Kapag Iron Gate, marami ka na inaano dyan? Speaker 8 01:16:51 May dalawa pa ako kay Iron Gate. Hindi naman na bumabalik Kasi hindi nakasama si Rodrigo. Ayaw, tinanggal na nga pala. Speaker 5 01:17:02 Ayun, walang company, DESA. Speaker 8 01:17:06 Masayang. Speaker 8 01:17:08 Pero, imamanwal ko pa rin kasi siya. Christian. Kahit may DESA something dyan. Dahil nga, yung gusto nila sa invoice. Meron pa sa gitna. Speaker 5 01:17:22 Ah, o nga pala. Speaker 8 01:17:24 Mayroon pa sa gitna. Speaker 5 01:17:25 Time Guide Associate. Speaker 8 01:17:28 So, okay na to, ha? Speaker 5 01:17:31 Okay na. We monitor. Speaker 8 01:17:34 Ameraki infrastructure. Change ito, diba? Wait na. Ay, nag-check na si Elisa. Checking po. Invoice, 2, 3, 9, 0, 3. Review pa din. Yes, wait lang. Speaker 8 01:17:48 Wait lang po. Bye. Speaker 2 01:17:53 Wait, wait. Is Wave na lang natin yung nag-work sila together. Speaker 2 01:18:26 Para i-resolve yung issue. Speaker 5 01:18:28 Oh, yung two hours? Speaker 2 01:18:30 Hindi, yung two hours na-retain ko yun. Kasi totoo namang, ano, Ito kasi yung plano kong sabihin kay Ozzy. Hindi pa ako ni-reply ni Olivia kung okay na siya dito, Kasi baka mamaya mamali ako Ng tinama to. Ito kasi sabi ko, Nung 31 kasi yung two hours na yun eh. Ayan o, basa. Speaker 5 01:18:50 Paano yung muna yung binawas, te? Speaker 2 01:18:52 Ayan, from 853, naging 662, which I know malaki pa rin. Pero kasi, nung select namin yung time entry ni Moritz, talagang haabutin siya ng ganong oras. Kasi nagka-RDP issue pa na, unforeseen issue kasi ito eh. Ang nilalaban ni Ozzy, bakit daw sana hinadzapan siya or tinawagan muna siya kung may issue na encounter. Eh, nakita ko din sa time entry, nag-reach out siya kay Ozzy and kay dun sa isang babaeng involving dun. Nakausap niya. Speaker 2 01:19:23 Kaya parang, Anong inaalo mo Na hindi nag-reach out? Kaya ito yung sinabi ko. Speaker 5 01:19:30 Oo. 600. Speaker 2 01:19:33 From 853 Naging 662. Tapos, Ayun nga, Nasabi niya ko, We want to be transparent, About the scope of work involved. Sabi ko, Kasi sinasabi niya na May basic setup na siyang ginawa. Bakit naabuti, Ng ganito katanggal Yung setup? I said, the pre-setup you completed, our team spent significant time on March 31 setting up VPN, Outlook, RDP team, SharePoint, blah. Then I said, the RDP show that came up was not anticipated. So, however, Moritz did communicate this to you and Lynette throughout the session and worked to resolve it as quickly as possible. Speaker 2 01:20:08 So, that's what I said. Speaker 5 01:20:10 So, call. Wala akong 660 to talaga. Wala. Speaker 2 01:20:14 Wala, Yung gagawin. Eh, Sabi nga ni Olivia, We night glove treatment, Natin tong ticket na to eh. Alam nga naman, Pabayaan lang natin siya, Kung ano yung basic setup niya. O bahala ka na, Ito lang kaya lang, Gagawin namin. Alam mo yung minimum, Yung bare minimum, Lang ang ibibigay mo. Yung gano'n. Sabi niya kasi sa akin Kanina. So parang, Pero, Communicated naman Kay, Tawag ito? Kay Ozzy, yung mga ginawa. So parang nagtataka ko, bakit parang ano nangyayari? Kasi hindi ka aware. Speaker 5 01:20:47 Oo, si Ozzy. Speaker 2 01:20:48 Tsaka may history na daw na ganyan yan. Sabi nga rin na Olivia, dati parang may issue yung Kathy Christie pa noon. So nung si Christie pa yung help desk manager, na medyo difficult ng kausap to pagdating sa mga billing. Speaker 5 01:21:01 Buti nga ako sa reports, wala na siyang problema. Speaker 2 01:21:06 Ay, buti naman. Maraglamo rin kasi yata. Speaker 5 01:21:09 Kasi tinanggal yata. Dati diba nasa, Pax 8 siya? Tapos wala na sila. Speaker 2 01:21:17 Sa ano ba sila? Direct sila? Speaker 5 01:21:19 Peter Consonant Sinicent. O. Peter Consonant, Sinicent. Speaker 2 01:21:23 Okay. Speaker 2 01:21:25 Ayan. Excuse me. Ay, okay ka na. Minasend mo na? Aling pangalan niya sa kanya. Yes, see. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you so much muna kayo At main. Ayusin ko lang itong pinapagawa sa akin. May bago na naman. Wala naman. Mag-wrap up na lang ako ng mga dapat. Speaker 5 01:21:43 Yung nga, Yung kay Step, Di ko talaga, Di naman sa ano, Pero tingin ko loaded talaga yung reports. Kapag binigay mo sa akin, Di talaga kairi yung one week reports. Speaker 2 01:21:60 Yung computer count. Speaker 5 01:22:04 Oo, yung reports. Tapos yung may security. Speaker 5 01:22:08 Kay Stephanie ko Ibibigay yun. Hindi sa'yo. Speaker 5 01:22:15 Nararamdaman ko rin si Steph. Kanina na kasi i-call ko yung dalawa, Si Marvin. O, dyan, ikaw na. Speaker 5 01:22:22 Si Steph nga. Hindi ako. Speaker 2 01:22:24 Kasi ang plano ko Nga sa kanya, Kung hindi ko na siya bibigyan Ng monthly computer. Eh, diba, once a month lang yun. Sa daily task niya sa atin, Magiging ano na siya, Taga-monitor ng board. Speaker 2 01:22:40 Ah, kailangan ako sa board. Hindi, kailangan may ibigay tayo sa kanya daily. Na dagagawin niya. So, ano yung masasuggest nyo? Kung kaya ano sa'yo, Mags, Speaker 5 01:22:51 Natin ko mas mabigat yung, Pag-check ni Maggie sa procurement daily. Ikaw, Mags? Speaker 8 01:22:56 Hindi, ah. Kasi, parang sa akin, Kung checking na ganun, Para iisang tao lang eh. Di ba? Magsisend sa, Kung mag-ask Ang client and all, Or yung mga tech Or PM. Tsaka mayroon silang, Sariling Group chat. Ganon. Speaker 5 01:23:15 Okay ka naman. Speaker 2 01:23:16 So, alin doon yung mga, Pwede niyong ibigay Sa kanya Na daily monitoring. Kahit daily monitoring Or, Kasi invoice reconciliation As needed lang yun eh. Hindi naman siya Kumbaga, Mantil yung mangyayari Pero yung kung Araw-araw, Tenga siya. And mabibisi lang siya During the billing period Or report period. Speaker 5 01:23:37 Siguro, ano na lang. Ikaw, Maggie. Gusto mo yung ano, Yung dito sa teams, Yung mga mag-share web, Magpapa-add minus, Magsagot-sagot lang. Speaker 2 01:23:48 Ayun, gusto niyo ba, Ibigay na yun sa kanya? Speaker 6 01:23:52 Pwede naman. Sa triaging kasi, Real, wala rin naman Nagawin din. Speaker 2 01:23:57 May gagawin din siya. At least may diet gawin siya. Ayun sa iyo. Pag nating ba, sir, mga renewals, Meron pa na gusto nyo? Speaker 5 01:24:04 Sa renewals ako yan. Speaker 2 01:24:06 Wala kang pwedeng ma-monitor yan? Speaker 5 01:24:10 Wala, kasi weekly ko lang din Yung ginagawa eh. First, second week din yung ginagawa Talaga. Apos, itong Ano, siguro, sa shareweb, Add lang, add minus. Okay. Necessary adjustment, mga ganun. Speaker 2 01:24:26 Pag mga Adobe, Ikaw pa rin yan? Hindi naman madalas May nagpapa-add, Tama ba? Speaker 5 01:24:33 Saka madali lang naman yun, Basta nakabookmark. Tapos, Kung mag-reach out siguro, Yung mag-minus, Yun yung mahirap. Saka mag-renew, Basta ako sa renewal. Speaker 2 01:24:44 Okay. Yun lang yung sakit, Speaker 5 01:24:46 Kuhuro ko na lang sa kanya, Yun lang, Yung sa, Ano, Share web sa kanya, Yung pag-add minus. Speaker 2 01:24:52 Ang ano ko sa kanya, Invoice reconciliation, Na kailangan niyang mag-audit Before tayo, Mag-billing. And then, Yun nga, Pag-add ng Microsoft licenses. Speaker 5 01:25:07 Ano yung gagawin yung audit Kung wala pa yung, hindi pa nag-generate, Yung bagong invoice? Speaker 2 01:25:13 Pwede mo naman i-generate yun in advance, ha? I-delete mo na lang. Speaker 2 01:25:19 Like, i-punish bago. Speaker 5 01:25:21 I-generate natin yun kapag, Ini-edit na natin yung quantity, eh. Hindi. Ang anong niya doon? Speaker 2 01:25:28 Oh, ang ano, ang check niya doon is kunwari may mga significant na added products. Speaker 2 01:25:40 For example, kunwari yung AVD na nga na yun, di ba, nagulat din tayo doon. Hindi ko alam anong story noon. Pero basta related yun sa project, di ba, Maggie, yung kay Project Angel Food na Azure Virtual Desktop. So, lumabas na lang siya nung March invoicing ba o Feb? Which is, wala siya sa previous ano. So, parang ang goal kasi, Based sa pagkakaintindi ko, Kay Pete, Is yung ma-identify natin na Iko-question niya, Anong story nitong Anong story nitong product na ito, Speaker 2 01:26:12 Bakit na-add na siya dito sa For the next billing. Kasi, eh, wala naman siya sa previous. Kumagka, ika-catch na niya yung mga pwedeng Posibleng matanong. Once naman isin yung. Speaker 5 01:26:23 So, parang product description niya. Speaker 2 01:26:26 Oo, doon. Yun lang yung ano niya. Speaker 5 01:26:32 Hindi na yung quantity in all. Speaker 2 01:26:34 Hindi na, kasi mostly, Ang goal naman nga is Integrated na yung mga quantity and pricing. Pero kasi, syempre, Kailangan natin ma-identify nga. Yun nga, yung mga products na Na-add, na mag-reflect for the next billing. Speaker 2 01:26:49 So, so far, yun pala yung, Naisip ko, ha? Speaker 5 01:26:52 Ito yung magiging system natin, Yung process natin. I-generate na yung Ticket, lalabas siya, Yung status is new. Sabihan na siya. Speaker 2 01:27:03 Ah, pwede. Speaker 5 01:27:04 Aga gawin pa natin under review status. Kahit yun na lang siguro, Mas ma-distinguish niya naman kung ano yung Pwede niya i-check na. Speaker 2 01:27:12 Ayun, pwede naman. Speaker 5 01:27:15 Sabihan niya na lang tayo, once done, Then send na. Parang yung ginagawa natin Kay Jane before sending. Na-apply niya yung credit. Speaker 2 01:27:23 Ayun. So, yun. Yun pa lang naman yung mga nai-identify Na pwede nyo gawin. Invoice reconciliation, So kung gusto mo, ibigay nyo rin sa kanya Yung triaging, and then Yung plus-minus nga ng mga Share web na mga, Microsoft licenses. Speaker 2 01:27:40 So, yun lang naman. So, Ayan yung report pa rin sa grid, Which is monthly lang naman mangyayari yun. Invoice reconciliation monthly, ang daily Niya is yung licenses, And triaging. Speaker 2 01:27:54 For now ha, yan lang muna. I-monitor natin siya kung kaya niya And kung anong Tawag dito. Speaker 5 01:28:03 Yung mabigat talaga yung dalawa, invoice, Sa reports. Speaker 2 01:28:08 So Christian, kailangan natin, Ma-identify yung Ano pa ba ang dapat maging goal, Sa pag-audit ng Invoicing para Ma-avoid yung mga disputes Kasi diba, hindi. Speaker 5 01:28:33 N A. Speaker 2 01:28:24 Ang gusto nga natin Is makatch na natin Ahead of time. Hindi yung si client pa Yung makakadiscover na. Like mga duplicates, Ganyan. Speaker 5 01:28:34 Wawa si Olivia, Yung ano yun. Ano na palang nangyari. Speaker 2 01:28:38 Dun sa hardware refresh Na hindi na remove Yung mga old. Speaker 5 01:28:45 Wala pa akong update eh. Follow-up siya. Dito na lang tayo sa GC. I-email ka ba? Speaker 2 01:28:50 Follow-up mo? Tapos, eh, shit. Oo, tapos bukas may meeting sila With PAF. Yung with CEO. Speaker 5 01:28:57 Anong oras yan? Speaker 2 01:28:58 Alas 4 ng hapon. Yung mga credit na dapat i-credit, I-credit mo na. Speaker 2 01:29:04 Kasi baka mamaya. Ano man? Like yung ano, Yung na-charge natin for Azure. Tapos yung... Ano may sinabi ko sa'yo? Speaker 5 01:29:13 Ano yung... Passed in lahat nung 300, yung sinabing Kinonfirm ni Gabby, Eh... Kasi natukli siya sa Microsoft Azure Plan, sabi. T-next billing na lang yun, eh. Alin? Speaker 5 01:29:27 Ano ba nakapag-ano na sila, Jane? Speaker 5 01:29:31 I-confirm ko na nga lang, wait lang. Oh, sige. Tali, chat ko siya, no? Speaker 2 01:29:36 Hi, Stephanie, what's your phone number? Speaker 5 01:29:37 Wait lang. So, Tuesday. Speaker 5 01:29:44 I just want to check if we are able to identify those devices that's... Those devices... Speaker 5 01:30:14 Crediting back to them. Speaker 2 01:30:20 Ay, di ba pala ako nagbaya doon sa ano? Speaker 5 01:30:22 Those devices, we will be, Crediting back to them. Those devices, Should not have Been built. Speaker 2 01:30:37 O, ito's confirmed pala ni Gabby. Last month. Ay, sige, pagkatapos mo. Ano yan? Yung cost ng AVD backup and disaster, sa dato nga siya kinukuha. Kaya tama lang nahiwalay siya ng item dun sa dalawa. Speaker 5 01:30:54 Okay, perfect. Pero ngayon, yun yung i-credit kong ano, yung fixed na AVD, Ang problema lang wala pa yung AVD, yung in-invoice ni Marvin, sa dato, tama? Speaker 2 01:31:14 Wait, ang invoice in question is March and Anuwe. Speaker 5 01:31:19 March lang naman yan, hindi naman April. Speaker 2 01:31:22 Oo, wala naman sa April. Puff invoice. Speaker 5 01:31:26 Ito, share tayo. Speaker 5 01:31:42 Sumagot pa naman ako kay Jim. Speaker 5 01:31:46 Pero kung credit naman, Speaker 2 01:31:48 Pwede pa, di ba? Hindi ka naman mag-upload Ng existing invoice? Speaker 5 01:31:56 Pwede, walang problema. Mag-apply na yun, next ano? Speaker 2 01:32:00 Basta, hinighlight. Speaker 5 01:32:01 Hinighlight, Kapag yung next invoice na yun, Ima-minus na lang natin yun, Like yung MSP flat. Ano ba yun? Basta yung minus. Speaker 2 01:32:11 I-communicate mo kay ano. Speaker 2 01:32:16 Kung ganun yung mangyayari. Kung i-adjust sa next billing, Kay Mike. Kasi sabi niya, We double build Azure, For 360. Ito yung mga items Na i-discuss niya bukas Kay CEO ng PAF. Speaker 5 01:32:34 So, hintayin na lang natin kung ano yun Mapag-usapan niya. Ang important thing, Masasabi niya, magbibigyan natin Sila ng credit. Speaker 2 01:32:45 Nabigyan mo na lang credit yung, F3 licensing. Naremoved na rin Natin yung 2017 Siemens Sophos. Ang question ko ngayon, Is yun nga, yung mga nadobling Billing din sa mga hardware refresh. Yung hardware refresh, And Azure, yun lang. Speaker 5 01:33:01 Yung confirm na parehas Na ngayon lang natin na-confirm Katulad nung kanina kay Gabby Kinonfirm niya. Looks perfect, di ba? Speaker 2 01:33:08 Oo. Yung pinacheck ko sa kanya yung Di ba nag-check ako ng B-Linked Cash or Web, meron ng, March usage cost. Speaker 5 01:33:19 Oo. Speaker 2 01:33:20 So, tinanong ko, Correct ba siya? Sabi naman ni Gabby, yes. Okay. Speaker 5 01:33:29 Okay. So, itong Ano na lang, Azure. Ano yung tatanggalin ko? ABD Azure. 320 or 337. Saglit, saglit. Speaker 2 01:33:39 Punta muna ako, NYC. Mag-share ka nga yung screen. Nakaano ba sayo? Ito. Ang dami ko nang maka-open na ito. Hindi ko na alam ginagawa ko sa buhay ko. Speaker 2 01:33:48 Itong ito na. Nagulo na tayo. I-maximize mo nga, day. Hindi ko masyadong. Ito? Yan ay nung March yan, diba? Speaker 5 01:33:59 Ayan yung isa, ito yung isa, ah ito ba yung isa sa amin yung dalawa? Speaker 2 01:34:08 Ang nadoble dyan, si QB, yan baba, Azure Virtual Desktop, Desktop for QB and Azure Plan. Yes, yan daw ang nadoble. Speaker 2 01:34:20 So, ang i-remove mo dyan, since dapat naman talaga ang i-charge, Okay, desktop for QB is si Microsoft Azure plan. Under the Microsoft Azure plan, I-remove mo na yung na-charge natin na 360. Speaker 5 01:34:39 So, ito, i-credit natin. Speaker 2 01:34:41 Oo. Speaker 2 01:34:43 And then, retain mo lang yan, yung Azure plan. Kasi technically, parang existing na nga yung Azure plan. Chinargent pa natin sila sa Azure QB. Speaker 5 01:34:55 Okay. So, i-re-remove. Oo. Sa agreement. Nasa agreement na nakakabit eh. Speaker 2 01:35:01 Which is, Binago na natin, Di ba? In-enter na na yung, Microsoft Azure plan. Speaker 5 01:35:08 Ah, In-endate mo na ba yung. Speaker 2 01:35:09 AVD? Oo, in-update. In-double check mo. Sige. Speaker 4 01:35:16 Ah, AVD. Speaker 2 01:35:20 Check mo sa AVD. Alam ko, In-endate ko na yan eh. Speaker 2 01:35:25 Wala pa eh. Speaker 2 01:35:28 Ano yan? Baka pwede disaster? Oo, Yan na yun. Speaker 5 01:35:31 Okay. Speaker 2 01:35:33 Tapos, Tinan mo yung, Azure plan, Di ba yun o? Na ando na si QB And Azure Vsys database. Yun. So, Speaker 5 01:35:41 It's na tayo. Speaker 5 01:35:43 Ito o. Ah, Nag-371. Tatanggalin ko na yun sa sync to. Ah, Ano yung tatanggalin mo sa sync? Tatanggalin ko na yun sa sync. Bakit? Dito. Kaya yan, Nag-371 quantity. Ah, paligtad yan. Speaker 2 01:35:56 Dapat sa price siya. Speaker 2 01:35:59 Weird nga eh. Ang ginagawa ko dyan, every Mag-generate ng invoice, in-update ko na lang, To one quantity. Speaker 5 01:36:07 Pero huwag ko na kayang i-ano. Ano? Speaker 5 01:36:11 Dito yun eh, dahil dito lang naman yun eh. Kasi siya, mga Azure. Speaker 2 01:36:17 Kaya mo na, huwag mo na galawin. Huwag mo na galawin. Minor changes lang naman ang kailangan mong gawin eh. Every magbibili. One mo lang na quantity. Speaker 5 01:36:27 Ayan yun, no? Yung sequence, te. Speaker 2 01:36:30 O, ayan. Sabi ni Marvin. Speaker 5 01:36:31 Pag di mo binago yan sa agreement. Speaker 2 01:36:33 Yun na nga. Noong minsan, IAP pala yun. Yung managed workstation nila. Ginawa kong one yung sequence sa agreement. Tinan mo. Kasi iniisip ko nga, Sabi ko, Paano pag may na-add na product ulit sa agreement, Mababago kaya yung sequence? Sa English yun, di ba? O, tinan mo. We, ano ko. Sine-change ko to number one Yung MSP workstation nila. Speaker 5 01:36:54 Oo. Tapos naging auto number two, Yung ASAS. Speaker 2 01:36:58 Oo, para manahimik si Vince. Saan ba yan? Speaker 2 01:37:03 Eh, sa invoices yan. Oo. Asan ka ba? Oo. Ah. Dito naman talaga yun. Sa agreements. Sa agreements ko siya change. Speaker 2 01:37:13 Yung sequence. Punta ka ng agreements. Speaker 2 01:37:17 Tsaka Eldridge. Speaker 2 01:37:22 Okay. Naka-AVD ka dah eh. Ayan. Hanapin mo yung, MSP workstation. Speaker 5 01:37:28 Ayan na. Speaker 2 01:37:30 Ayan, Naka-number one na siya Palagi. So, Sabi pa nga ni, Ano sa akin, Ni Mike, Gusto daw ba niya Help niya ako, Na mag-reach out Kay ConnectWise Para maayos yung, Sequence. Eh, Na-discover yun namin ni, Marvin na pwede pala Sa agreement. Palitan. Like, Kung anong sequence, Ang gusto mo. Yun nga lang. Speaker 5 01:37:48 Siya yung nagturo sa akin eh. Speaker 2 01:37:50 Yun nga. Kaso, Kung ma-, Lalaman natin yan. Kung Mababago ang sequence nga, pag may na-add Na naman ang bagong product, Kay agreement. Mababago yun. Ayun nga, hindi siya fixed, di ba? Speaker 2 01:38:03 Hindi siya fixed. Lalo na. Speaker 5 01:38:04 Kapag i-end date mo, Syempre. Yun. Speaker 2 01:38:09 Kaya every time na may changes. Speaker 5 01:38:11 Pero dito rin, mababago mo. Speaker 2 01:38:13 Siya. Yun nga lang, Which is another Rework. Yun nga yung sinasabi Natin, di ba? Kaya nga, Sabi ni Mike kung pwedeng Mag-reach out sa ConnectWise And malaman if may way, Na maging fix yung Sequence. Speaker 5 01:38:30 Sa kaya, ano mo ba yun? Iisa-isahin mo ba talaga yun? Speaker 2 01:38:34 Wala namang nagreklamo, Kliyente sa sequence. Ito lang talagang... Wala. Speaker 5 01:38:39 Eh, sila yung may gusto, Dahil bawas trabaho sa kanila Madaling ano, eh, Da-download mo lang yun. Sige nga. Tapos, sa-sort mo lang. Ayan, oh. Speaker 8 01:38:48 Hindi, ikaw nalang mag-download tapos... Speaker 5 01:38:53 Ako na naman, trabaho nalang. Iratin dalawang mga AM natin eh. Parang tanga eh, no? Hindi mag-explore eh. Gusto nila lang yung susubo nila eh. Speaker 4 01:39:06 True. Umm... Ito yung... Bakit walang sinetong? Speaker 4 01:39:19 Close na to. These are the remaining subs. Transfer it to... These are the remaining subs. Speaker 4 01:39:34 One adult. Book your taxi. Speaker 5 01:39:40 Diba? Tapos tignan mo, Ito hindi siya man marunong mag-follow up si Vincent. Speaker 5 01:39:52 Are the remaining steps Ako pa magpapalo. Speaker 4 01:39:59 Sa anya Delivered, And. Speaker 4 01:40:22 May 7 Departure time 12.05, PM. Speaker 5 01:40:33 Pagkano yung cake, Max? 105, Kayang-kaya mo na yun, Maki Ikaw na, niningil ka ma. Speaker 4 01:40:41 Bawa Niningil ko, Kayang-kaya ni Maki. Speaker 5 01:40:51 Ano na ito? Check-in voice? Speaker 8 01:40:55 Bakit? Sino ka? Check-in voice? Speaker 6 01:40:60 Alright, this is me. Ayun, nakita ko. May pare-imbursement. Ah, kaya mo na yung monitor eh. Ano yung papare-imburse? Speaker 8 01:41:13 Sige, sabihin ko rin. Eh, di sa mag-pare-imburse yung kay Christian. Speaker 6 01:41:21 Nakabuli naman ako ni Abingan ni Sy Bakit daw ako bibili. Sabi ko, okay lang yan, magpapabangwa tayo. Nagagastos pa siya. Inverse naman. Sabi ko pa, malay mo, baka dagdagan nila Pit ng $100 Pumasa. Asa ka. Speaker 8 01:41:44 Asadora ka. PM. Speaker 4 01:41:48 2009. Speaker 5 01:41:54 Okay, ito. Saan na tayo? Speaker 5 01:41:58 Ay, MSA. Anong gusto niyo? Asa si Marvin? Speaker 2 01:42:06 Baka may meeting siya. 927-931. May send ka na rin yung sakin. Speaker 8 01:42:12 Sure, mate. Speaker 8 01:42:17 Ano? Bakit 428? Speaker 6 01:42:19 Ayan na. Speaker 6 01:42:22 Pinag-uusapan pa naman din natin siya. Sakit. Sabihin ka pa naman, Speaker 3 01:42:28 Uuwi na ako. Speaker 5 01:42:30 Ay, pinag-uusapan ka namin. Speaker 3 01:42:33 Ay, pag-usapan niyo lang ako. Sabi ko kasi sa universe, At yung pag-uusapan ako ng tao, Mayroong $10,000 na babagsak, Sa account ko. Sige, pag-usapan niyo lang ako. 10,000. Speaker 6 01:42:50 Grabe. So, taso mo magsama-sama sa audio. Speaker 8 01:42:53 Ay, ay lang. O, seg. Yung Amazon ko. Yung karma ko. Speaker 8 01:43:00 Pagka-cash out ako kay Vin. Speaker 5 01:43:05 Ano kausap? Masi-secret, oh. Speaker 8 01:43:06 Okay. Speaker 5 01:43:07 Pagka ano nga daw siya, Ay redeem daw pangalan sa'yo. Para buksan mo daw kay Mag. Speaker 8 01:43:13 Seg, cash out ako. Speaker 6 01:43:14 Pagong sahod yan, Maggy. Pagka nadadagdagan pa ni Marvin 100 yan, di ba, Vin? Charity. Speaker 6 01:43:27 Ano itong MSA like yung katulad, Yung ginawa lang natin dati, right? Speaker 3 01:43:32 MSA lang. Meron silang sign ng MSA. Speaker 5 01:43:36 Oo. Speaker 6 01:43:39 Ginaka-fix rate ako Ng 55, ha? Speaker 6 01:43:43 Minus 6. 61 na, right? Speaker 8 01:43:46 Hindi ka ba mag-increase Like... A-fix rate nyo. Like gasolina? Speaker 6 01:43:57 Oo nga, Mabin. Gusto mo mag-rollback sa 50? Speaker 6 01:44:04 Alam mo, rollback. 61 na, oh. Sige na, Bin. Ano din ako, redeem. Kahit 57. Speaker 3 01:44:12 55 lang. Fixed rate yun. Kasi nga, napapagastos ako. Ako na uobliga akong bumili sa Amazon. Speaker 6 01:44:21 O, hali, gamit mo naman yun, ti. Speaker 3 01:44:25 Aldo ka nga dito. Eh, hala, o, obliga akong bumili sa Amas. O, hindi naman ako bibili dapat. Dahil meron akong, ano, points. Bibili ako ngayon. Speaker 6 01:44:35 Ay, alam mo nun, ito pa, o. Nandito, 100 pa sa akin din. Speaker 3 01:44:42 Bigyan kayo kitang 100 pesos. Speaker 6 01:44:45 58 bin. Sige na, tawad na lang. What if peso na lang? Speaker 6 01:44:52 One is to one. One karma. Speaker 6 01:44:57 Garaan mo yung Harvey, no? One is to one. Magbe-birthday man yung ano, inaanak mo, Vin. Speaker 8 01:45:05 Happy birthday. Alam mo, gagawin namin, Kitsyan? Ano? Magdo-jollibee na lang kami. Tapos, ayun, at isama-sama. Speaker 6 01:45:12 Oo nga. Del, sabi ko nga kay Steph, eh. Sa Hong Kong na lang magja-jollibee. Tip rin nyo, ha, kako? Speaker 3 01:45:26 Na-lunch out ako. Hindi pa pala ako nag-lunch. Speaker 6 01:45:29 Sabay tayo, V. Sabay tayo. Speaker 6 01:45:35 Nag-lunch out na lang din ako, ha. Hindi pa rin ako nag-lunch, eh. Nakuha sila, eh. Wala kasi namin may meeting kami. Speaker 5 01:45:43 Kaya, ano, Mga construction. Eh hindi sumipot. Speaker 2 01:45:49 2 hours wala, Over break na siya Sino? si Mark, Eh lagi pa naman siyang may pinapamonitor Lately. Speaker 3 01:46:01 12.06 to 2.40 sinatawagan kanina. Speaker 2 01:46:08 Hindi sumasagot. Speaker 3 01:46:09 Oh, Natinat mo? Hindi pa. Speaker 2 01:46:15 Pwede bang i-heads up ko siya sa ganyan? Na pinapaka-under... Sabihin mo na... Speaker 3 01:46:25 Reminder lang ha. Speaker 5 01:46:28 Para wala kang konsensya rin. Speaker 8 01:46:32 Hindi, sinasabihin niya talaga. Kung wala niya pa siya ng konsensya. Speaker 3 01:46:37 Hindi naman niya first time. Speaker 4 01:46:38 Ang konsensya si Adrian. Speaker 4 01:46:42 Just ahead. Speaker 3 01:46:46 Sabi ka na lang, Please be mindful Sa lunch break Kasi ano na, Naka-flag ka na sa Nasa radar ka Ganyan pag sinasabi ko noon, Sa team, Nasa radar ka na And you want to be. Speaker 2 01:47:01 Nasa radar ka na Kasi, Mayroong mga non-PH Kasi nanado sa group chat So malalaman nila, Kung what time ka bumabalik. Speaker 3 01:47:11 Oo, tapos sasabihin niya, eh bakit si Marvin ganito? Huwag kang makisama sa hanayin. Speaker 3 01:47:18 Huwag mo naman i-call yung sarili mo. Hindi mo pwede, hindi mo pwede i-villain. Katulad ka siya sa akin. Speaker 3 01:47:26 Ako pa exit. May akong powers. Sabihin mo saka, ako pa exit. Speaker 8 01:47:28 Na-exit na daw kasi siya. Baka gusto mong um-exit. Speaker 3 01:47:33 Pipili ka lang, ma'am. Speaker 3 01:47:37 Grabe na. Pag sinabi niya, pag... Paul, pag dinahilan niya ako, Sabihin mo, Ah, pa-exit ka na din. Gano'n na nila. Ah, pa-exit ka na din. Speaker 6 01:47:48 Gusto mo din? Eh, eh. Gusto mo din? Pa-exit ka? Bago pa rin. Ano pa naman niya? Anak niya? Six or months? Ilang months? Speaker 3 01:48:02 Baby pa. Pa-exit ka na pala eh. Sabihin mo. Sige, tuloy-tuloy mo lang yung Overbreak mo. Speaker 3 01:48:13 Tapos kakanta si Kyle. Speaker 4 01:48:16 Huwag mong limutin, Ay, ikaw yung ano. Speaker 2 01:48:20 Yung transition Nasikat na niya Tinatama. Speaker 4 01:48:28 Iknig ng puso Huwag mong itara. Speaker 3 01:48:39 Lanig na Lanig ng boses ko, Nangilo ba kayo? Nagka-brain freeze pa. Speaker 3 01:48:49 Kaya lang, sumakit mo ako? Speaker 3 01:48:52 Nangilo. Speaker 3 01:48:55 Lamig eh na. Sa sobrang lamig ng basis. Speaker 3 01:49:01 Magawa nga akong matcha. Speaker 3 01:49:05 Matcha. Speaker 5 01:49:08 Standard. Speaker 6 01:49:09 Hindi na nanggigising ta, mga kabin. Hindi na gumigising si Kay Long, Ng madaling araw. Speaker 5 01:49:15 Bakit? Nagbipat na nga kami yung station. Speaker 3 01:49:19 Eh, mabuti yan. Hindi na mag-apekto yung utak ng bata. Sinabi ko nga rin ni... Magagaya pa sa'yo. Speaker 3 01:49:30 Siyempre, puyat ka, diba? Puyat ka na. Pagaya pa ang FES. Speaker 6 01:49:37 Wala, hindi ako yun. Alam ko yun naman eh. Speaker 8 01:49:42 Tinatansay ko lang kung ano yung, Gustong sabihin talaga ni Marvin. Speaker 6 01:49:47 Hindi, wala akong Gano'n pag-i. Hindi mo mapasok sa isip ko yung gano'n. Parang feeling ko yun. Marvin, ano yan? Meron tayo. Speaker 3 01:49:59 Meron tayong pact. Speaker 3 01:50:02 May agreement tayo. Speaker 3 01:50:06 Ang isa kayo di pa pala rin. Speaker 6 01:50:10 No, yung no. Speaker 6 01:50:15 So, Pwede. Speaker 3 01:50:17 Ising na ba aking magulang? Speaker 5 01:50:23 MSTS, no, Bin? Speaker 3 01:50:26 MSTS, yes. And then, kung... Alam ko naman, 90% na ng client natin, Merong ano. Oo nga, right. Speaker 2 01:50:34 Tuwing kailan pala kayo nag... Warterly yan. May recurring ticket ka? Speaker 3 01:50:42 Yung... Oh, my nose ko. Speaker 3 01:50:45 Quarterly agreement sync up. Speaker 6 01:50:47 Oo, nandun din namin. Speaker 2 01:50:49 Anad mo nga ako, Kakrish. Speaker 3 01:50:52 Ah, sige. Kasi sabi ko, Ikuklaus ko na to ha. Kasi sabi ko, Nag-ano naman tayo. Di ba, Krish? Sinabi ko, Ikuklaus ko na to ha. Tapos sabi ko, Nag-sync up naman kami Sa ano, Yung sa increase. Sabi ko, Siguro naman updated lahat to. Okay daw. Open mo ulit! Speaker 2 01:51:14 Profile, Intestine. Speaker 5 01:51:15 Update ko na lang muna. Speaker 2 01:51:17 Yan yung hinihingi ni Kayla Dun sa ARCrow Na spreadsheet. Speaker 5 01:51:23 Itong Dropsuit? Speaker 2 01:51:28 Nag-email siya sayo, hindi yun sa ARCrow Wala. Speaker 5 01:51:34 Dropsuit to, Migration Coordination. Speaker 2 01:51:39 Wait lang, asan ba yan? Speaker 2 01:51:42 Nag-reply ka ba dito? Yung sa ARCRO Industrial Partners Na transfer request? Speaker 3 01:51:49 Nagagalit yung bata. Speaker 2 01:51:50 Sabi niya, can you send me back The filled out Excel I attached earlier, So I can make this admission on my site? Tapos nag-follow up siya kanina eh. Speaker 5 01:51:60 Wala ako dyan, hi team. We need to Submit a transfer request for, ARCRO. Wait lang. Ito yung hulik ko sa'yo. Ikaw yung play. Speaker 2 01:52:12 Screenshot ko. Send ko sa'yo ha. Ano ito yung pangalan mo? Speaker 3 01:52:17 Sample mo sa kanya. Speaker 2 01:52:20 One, two. Yung pinapasend siya. Speaker 5 01:52:23 Ito, just following up. Ah, ah. On the Excel sheet so I can submit this for you. Ay, wala. Hindi ko ito nakita. Speaker 2 01:52:31 Replyan mo na. Tagal namin inayos Yung arc row na yun. Speaker 2 01:52:37 Makuha lang yung access. Speaker 5 01:52:42 Ah, ako kasi yung pinaano mo. Hindi. Speaker 5 01:52:46 Ah. Speaker 5 01:52:51 Wonderful. Can you send me, Back the filled out Excel I Attached earlier? Speaker 2 01:52:58 Mantagal naman bumalik Ng background check, Ni Marie Curie. Alam mo, Napansin ko, Hindi niya inattach, Dun sa original email. I-replyan mo siya. Sabihin mo na mismo Aatang inattach, Dun sa original email. Speaker 4 01:53:19 Hello, Hi. Ano ba yun? Bye. Speaker 4 01:53:29 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 51, 52, 53. Speaker 3 01:53:57 Naka-aha naman si Maggie. Akala mo nakakita siya. Criminal. Speaker 3 01:54:03 Sure. Speaker 4 01:54:08 Sana siya. Speaker 3 01:54:15 Gusto niya ba isagotan namin kanina nila, Olivia At ni Christy? Speaker 2 01:54:21 Hindi ko naman, ano pala yun, hindi ko naman. Speaker 3 01:54:23 Parang nagpa-pop quiz Kayo na si ano kasi. Speaker 2 01:54:28 Ayon sa After Hours? Oo. Speaker 5 01:54:34 Kinasakyan ko lang naman siya. Tapos si Christy Gusto sumali, ayaw i-sali ni Marlene. Aram. Speaker 3 01:54:43 Then G na G kasi siya. Wait, teka, hindi pa na. Wait. Hindi pinaka. Speaker 4 01:54:48 Shit, kailangan ko pala. Ayun, meant to see The farms, Ay, nga Gustuhan ko, Pagpulisan naman po tayo nito. Speaker 3 01:55:15 Tricky Pagpulisan naman. Speaker 5 01:55:20 Tayo. Speaker 5 01:55:23 Inaantay to ni Pete. Pwede bang bukas natin i-update siya? Speaker 3 01:55:27 Hindi naman niya sinabi, Inaantayin niya. Ngayon na. Speaker 3 01:55:31 I think so. Pero sabi lang niya, Kailangan niya, Di ba, Paul? Oo. Speaker 4 01:55:36 Yes. 9007. Speaker 4 01:55:41 9. Speaker 5 01:55:41 Ngayon nilababalikan Si Nia, Yung increase ng 5%. Hindi na lumaban si Vince. Speaker 2 01:55:48 Kasi nag-meeting kami Tungkol sa Spares Unang nag-join sa meeting si Monty, So binati ko si Monty, Hi Monty Tapos napansin ko na sa peripheral view ko Na nag-join din siya Tapos hindi na ako nagsalita, Nang nag-join siya, Hindi na ako nag-warning Hindi na ako nag- Taimik lang ako, Thank you for watching! Ate, nag-follow pa ko sa kanya. Speaker 2 01:56:21 After ko sinan yung email Nag-follow pa ako sa chat, Gusto ko ba mag-dating Or okay ka na doon sa sinan Kung ano, Sinin yan lang ako O di. Speaker 3 01:56:29 Bolo ko, Tumatakas, Tumatakas siya sa Accountability. Speaker 2 01:56:34 Sinin lang niya ako, O di Ikaw Hindi kita susuyuin, Ang bolo ko dyan. Speaker 5 01:56:38 Yung ano Bean Kasi niya yung ano, Ano yan, Acknowledgement Yung pag Ano yan, Ownership. Speaker 2 01:56:45 Acknowledgement, Nagka-anohan kami ni Seg Ng sentiments namin, Sa ganyan-ganyan niya. Speaker 3 01:56:55 Pati pati kay Bin? Speaker 2 01:56:57 Hindi, kay ano lang. Kay, tawag dito. Kay Seg lang. Sabi ko, Seg ba't ganun? But parang feeling ko, Napapansin ko yung mga AMs, Never pa silang nag-take ownership, Sa mga gaps at lapses nila. Parang feeling ko, Lagi siya naganas, Sihin. Ganun. Eh, sabi niya, Nako, last year ko pa yan, Napansin mi. Sabi niya. Speaker 3 01:57:23 Ako nga, di ba? Kaya magkaaway kami ni Michael. Speaker 2 01:57:26 Kaya ayun, sabi ko. Eh, magaling kasi silang magsalita eh. Parang alam mo yun, Low-key, Sinisisi ka nila. Pero dahil mabulakwak, Silang magsalita, Hindi nila explicit, Isa sabihin na, Masalanan to Ng admin team. Ganun. Totoo. Speaker 3 01:57:42 Nasa talad na nila yung mabulap lang silang magsalita. Yeah. Speaker 6 01:57:52 Tano siya, no? Pareng Mike. Kung pare kayo, hindi pa rin sabi niya. Oo. Speaker 6 01:57:58 Tatay ko daw yung thrill. Nakaulat si Marvin. Ano mo? Tatay ko daw. Sino ba? Hindi, hindi. Si Tony Losas. Si Tony naman ang tatay mo. Ano kasi, Mike? May sinabi ka nun. Sabi ni Mike Bet na bet daw ako Bumati pa eh Bet na bet ka talaga ni Mike. Speaker 3 01:58:22 Gagi Nung nasa call kami minsan ni Mike Sinabi niya na, I really like Christian, Sabi niya ganun kasi Siyempre meron akong mga alam na hindi mo alam Christian, Sabi niya, I really like Christian, no? He really did a great job On this report, ganyan-ganyan. Tapos sabi ko sa isip ko, Madaming beses ko pinagalitan siya dyan. Tapos, Sinahiyad ko na lang. Oh yeah, he's really hardworking. Speaker 6 01:58:53 Wow! Coming from best manager of the year. Speaker 3 01:58:58 Siyempre, Pati ano naman, buhat na buhat. Sabi ko mga sa inyo, Hindi ka... Hindi ko pa yung sinisiraan talaga. Para may trabaho. Ayaw ko sa inyo. Kung ayaw ko, Sinisiraan ko na. Speaker 2 01:59:12 Nagkano naman siya. Naappreciate ko rin naman si Mike When it comes to advising nga, Sa pagdating sa leadership And all ganyan. Pero yung mga times talaga na, Pag mga ganyang Nagkakagipitan na. Papalo talaga. Speaker 2 01:59:26 Oo, Hindi ko maiwasan. Sabi ko, Misang kinu-question ko, Tama ba itong nararamdaman ko? Ganon. Kaya parang sabi ko... Speaker 3 01:59:35 Normal ka naman, Paul. Pinagdaanan ko yan eh. Di ba? Speaker 2 01:59:40 Kina-question mo yung mga Sa'yong mga decision mo, Or yung thought process mo. Ako lang ba? Do you trust yourself? Oo, ganon. Ako lang ba? Speaker 3 01:59:47 Oo talagang ganyan siya. Speaker 4 01:59:49 Yun, ganon. Kaya parang... Speaker 3 01:59:50 Di ba meron sa... Meron po sa Reddit na Ako ba yung gago? Yung gano'n. Ako ba yung gago? Speaker 2 01:59:57 Ah, my asshole. Ayun, ganon. Speaker 3 02:00:01 Ganon. Mag-a-apply siya doon. Buti na lang Mayaman tayo Buti na lang maganda tayo Mayaman tayo, True. Speaker 2 02:00:15 1, 2, 3, 4 Ito 12 ko na lang Ito, 3, 5, 7. Speaker 5 02:00:24 Aanay na naman ako niya na, Thank you, Oo, maghahabolan na naman kami ni Adem. Sa MSA? Oo, maghahabolan naman kami. KPM dalang ako sa kanya eh. Wala pa siya, hindi niya rin makita eh. Speaker 3 02:00:46 Sabi mo, sabi mo, hinahabolan niya, no? Nahalap na ni Pete. Wala mang to, kaya matagal mag-replay, hindi niya rin makita. Sa totoo lang, feeling ko, hindi naman, nakuha na ni Ivy ni yung loob ni Chinky. Like, sobrang palagay na sila sa isa't isa To the point na, Nagko-cover na lang si Chinky sa wrongdoings. Speaker 2 02:01:08 Well, kinausap ko siya, Ito yung hapon Inamin niya sa sarili niya, nagko-coach niya si Ivy Kasi nga, Yung minention mo, Na i-document yung naging issue ni Yung kay, Maggy Tinanong ko siya, gusto kong lumabas sa bibig niya, Nagko-coach na lang niya Para amirin niya may mali rin yung tao niya, Thank you for. Speaker 4 02:01:50 Watching! Speaker 2 02:01:30 Ayun, sinabi niya. Kokoach niya. Kasi nga, Dinidirect ko yung question ko Sa kung paano niya Ang aminin Na may mali din si Ivy. Speaker 2 02:01:43 Ayun. Sabi niya, Ano na lang niya. Kokoach na nga lang doon Sa mga ganun. Speaker 5 02:01:59 Wala na eh. Parang walang update, Vin. Ba't gano'n? Tinigyan naman natin sila, right? Dali nga. Baka ako din. Speaker 3 02:02:09 Tignan mo muna yung ano mo. Huwag ka lumalabas ng Tama. Oo nga eh. Lumalabas. Ikaw ko lang yung mali. Upboard ka na. Speaker 5 02:02:20 Hindi pa naman. Ay. Wala pa. Speaker 4 02:02:24 Wala pa pala. Speaker 3 02:02:30 Siyempre, pag maldita ka sa katrabaho mo, Dapat hindi ka nagkakabali. Gano'n lang yung... Speaker 4 02:02:45 Si Edge. Speaker 3 02:02:57 Claude Barreto. Yan ang pangalan ng Claude. Si Claude Barreto. Sige. Speaker 4 02:03:04 M-S-A. Speaker 4 02:03:09 S-O Hello! Speaker 2 02:03:27 May utang ako sa'yo, sorry na Ano yun? Speaker 7 02:03:38 Pero wait lang, May meron kang song or record No meeting nyo kanina, Yes, I'll send it to you, Perfect Can you give it to me? Thank you. Speaker 2 02:03:52 Okay. Kasi, Speaker 5 02:03:54 Ano yun? Speaker 2 02:03:56 Buti na lang, Ate, Mayroon akong access Nung plod ni, Plod ah, Hindi plod, Plod ni, Sa pingali. Oo. Pag hindi ako, Nag-schedule ng meeting, May ability ako, Mag-record. Kahit hindi, Ano, So yun yung ginagamit ko. Speaker 2 02:04:13 Ay. Ayun, Ako send ko sa'yo later. Wait, Reply ang kanya. Christian, Shut up. Speaker 2 02:04:20 So, Shut up. Speaker 6 02:04:22 Hindi ko na alam yung time entry ko. Speaker 7 02:04:30 Ako din, I-stress na ako. Speaker 6 02:04:33 Ako din Alam nyo, nasa stress ako. Speaker 7 02:04:49 Kasi. Speaker 7 02:04:51 Hindi ko alam kung may friction doon Si Antone at si Jason. Kaya ako yung nasa gitna. Bakit? Jason? Speaker 7 02:05:02 Oo. O yung bago? Yung bago? Oo. Yung director. Ah, yung kachat ko. Kachat ko siya. So yung nagtatanong ko sa layo. Ay, naka. Kasi. Ah. Speaker 5 02:05:20 Jason, mahilig mong tuck in yun. Tuck. Speaker 5 02:05:24 Porn-in mo ba? Speaker 8 02:05:27 Ituck in mo kaya fest mo. Ayan. Speaker 6 02:05:31 Bakit ba lagi yung Fest mo yung ano mo? Bakit ba talaga yung fest na napaglihian mo? Ay wala. Yan talaga. Laking pasalamat mo. Marunong akong pumili, Ng paglihian mo. Expert ako dyan. Ito si Diana. Sige na lang. Di ba, Seg? Speaker 6 02:05:54 Okay, what's the record? Speaker 5 02:05:56 Perfect. Speaker 7 02:06:01 Check. Shocks! Hindi pa nang lunch, ha? Tapos mag-OT pa yata ako. Speaker 6 02:06:08 Gusto mo ba, Mi? Send ko yung... Siyempre, hindi kami galing UK. Ikaw lang mag-OT. Lunch out ka rin. Speaker 2 02:06:15 Send ko sa'yo yung Pro na transcript. Speaker 2 02:06:20 Or ronotranscript Kung nabahala Mag ano sa Chachibini. Speaker 7 02:06:24 Yes. Anything that I can get Any data. Okay. Kasi si Jason Then ano siya Blinded. Speaker 2 02:06:35 Yes. Wait lang. Ito, send ko na sa'yo. Naka, Naka note, Na format To Pag, In-export ko From, Blood. So, So lang dyan naman na lahat. Tinan mo. I So, Speaker 2 02:06:51 Wait lang, hindi pa siya nagsisend. Speaker 2 02:06:55 Tapos yung mga names ng participants, Si Chris Howard, si Masi, Wait, ano nga ang pangalan niya? Foothill. Speaker 7 02:07:05 Oo nga, may pahingi din. Kasi kailangan... Foothill. Hindi pa ako tomorrow, kaya ano. Okay, ayan. Perfect. Thank you. Hindi. Speaker 2 02:07:20 Tapos, ito ang participants kanina. Oo nga, Mi. I did it! Si Massis is yung IT manager nila. Speaker 7 02:07:29 IT manager? Yeah. Hindi kasi namin alam kung, Paano i-pronounce yung name niya. Massis. Speaker 2 02:07:37 Oo, si Massis. Speaker 7 02:07:39 Massis, okay. Speaker 2 02:07:41 Yun. Responsive ba yan? Hindi ko pa siya nakausap, actually. Si Chris, oo. Si Chris Howard. Siya hindi pa. Uh-huh. Speaker 4 02:07:54 Ah, okay. Sir. Speaker 4 02:08:08 Uh-huh. Speaker 7 02:08:13 Nawa ako. Wait, mag-time entry nga muna ako para maayos. Anong ginawa ko? So, after nung call natin With Kellogg R's, May meeting kami with Inay Maverick. Meron ako yung may ano nun. So, Oh, speaking, we need to buy Another nook. Maggie, I need you to buy, ASAP. Hanapin ko lang Ano ba yung nook na yun dati. Speaker 7 02:08:43 Shaz, kailangan ko yung, Maverick. Speaker 6 02:08:46 It's like a small Kampira that you need to Twining. Speaker 6 02:08:54 Square popping comments. Busit kayo talaga. Speaker 6 02:08:59 Pepe seg. Pepe seg naman. Speaker 6 02:09:04 It's like a small, Kampira. We bought it, But we It's like a small. Speaker 5 02:09:12 Is this? Speaker 7 02:09:15 The one. Amazon itself. Speaker 7 02:09:19 Wipe. Wipe. Wipe. Wipe. Expense. Perfect. Speaker 7 02:09:27 And Gilbert. Perfect. This one. Speaker 7 02:09:31 That's 599. Speaker 4 02:09:34 I hope. Speaker 2 02:09:38 It's Good. Speaker 8 02:09:45 Yo, wala na. Elisa, wala na. Speaker 7 02:09:54 Wait lang. Alam niyo ba? May iba pa kay Tao sa inyo. Natawa ko kay EJ. Speaker 7 02:10:01 Ito yung conversation niya, Kay Anzor. Can you buy three chips For testing purposes? And then sabi ni Anzor, Why do you need three for testing? Sabi ni EJ. I figured if I ask for a tree, it's easier to get you to say yes to one. Speaker 7 02:10:20 No. Speaker 7 02:10:23 I figured if I ask for a tree, it's easier to get you to say yes to one. Speaker 7 02:10:31 Yes, get one. Speaker 7 02:10:35 Oh, my gosh. Anyway, this is the one that we need. Check this ticket please buy so um we have the approval to get i wait para documented I'm gonna send it. Speaker 5 02:10:57 You like, Itong si 601, naka-cool your spot rin siya. Speaker 3 02:11:16 Sa RT mo, kiss siya. Speaker 5 02:11:23 Tuloy siya mo kayo sinabi mo? Ito, yung kay cool your, 601 siya, pero naka-cool your spot din. Sige, tanggal mo kasi yung screen mo. Speaker 7 02:11:34 Ay, sorry! Naka-share screen pa pa na ako, okay. Kaya kami sinasayang si Chris siya. Speaker 5 02:11:41 Eh wala naman ako Shimmy or gano'n yun. Speaker 2 02:11:43 May tuwago ko lang sa answer.
06-02 Meeting: Tabletop Exercise Debrief, Smarsh Archival, Single Point of Failure
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-06-02 16:11:00 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] [Vince] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### Debrief of Tabletop Exercise with Crimson - Jason ([Speaker 2]) completed his first tabletop exercise with Crimson and found it a strong, enlightening test of response procedures for scenarios like business email compromise. - Christi intentionally selected more challenging scenarios to make participants think, especially with new SEC regulations taking effect on June 3, 2026. - The goal was to understand the client's stance on deeply impactful scenarios, so Christi called on the internal team less frequently than usual. - Vince noted this exercise differed from last year's, which focused more on disaster recovery and physical emergencies. ### Discussion on Smarsh and Communications Archival - Vince highlighted a need to investigate the client's use of Smarsh for communications archival. - While Microsoft 365 outages are covered, there is no visibility into backup and recovery processes for their SMS platform outside of Smarsh. - The client should know where to find Smarsh policies and investigate whether a third-party backup solution is needed for restoration purposes. - Christi asked if this presents a potential upsell opportunity for their team. - Vince is researching Smarsh partner programs for another client (Arc Capital) to determine if local restores or manual data exports are possible. ### Single Point of Failure ("Monty" Issue) - Vince identified Monty as a potential single point of failure; if she is on vacation, incident response could be delayed. - While Paul would contact Sam, who then notifies the appropriate people, time lost trying to reach Monty first could be critical during a breach. - The team has no telemetry on communications sent directly to Monty, as these aren’t escalated unless a formal ticket or help desk call is made. - [Speaker 4] countered that Sam rapidly distributes information and usually gets quick replies from someone at Crimson, so risk might be low as long as Sam is notified. - Christi acknowledged the client knows their escalation points, even if they complain, and plans to include a "Monty is on vacation" scenario in next year's exercise. ### Report and Future Actions - Christi will prepare the report for the client, likely completing it this week (week of June 1, 2026). - She will send the draft report to the internal team for review before sending it to the client. - Christi is creating a runbook on formatting and laying out these exercises, including different scenarios based on client needs, to be stored in the Hudu knowledge base. - Jason ([Speaker 2]) expressed interest in conducting a future tabletop exercise. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to complete the tabletop exercise report and share it internally for review. - [ ] Christi to add a question about Smarsh backup/recovery to the report and include guidance on where to find Smarsh policies. - [ ] Christi to create a runbook for tabletop exercises and add it to the Hudu knowledge base. - [ ] Team to assess and document a mitigation plan for the "Monty is on vacation" single point of failure scenario (e.g., ensure Sam-first escalation path is explicit and monitored). - [ ] Evaluate the potential upsell opportunity: formally review third-party backup solutions for Smarsh, outline pros/cons, and determine whether to propose to the client. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The potential risk of Monty being a single point of contact for the client was discussed, but no immediate action was decided upon to mitigate this risk, aside from including it in a future exercise. > 2. The discussion about a potential upsell opportunity regarding a third-party backup solution for Smarsh did not result in a concrete action item to formally evaluate or propose this to the client.
- Date
- Jun 2, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:07 So I was very nice. Hello, hello. Hi, hi guys and everyone. So that landed earlier than I expected. Um, I am not expecting the other three to pick up. Um, but what do you guys think? And Jason, this was your first tabletop with Crimson. Speaker 2 00:00:25 Yeah, no this was really good. This um, I've not done a tabletop, but it was a very enlightening kind of testing how they would, you know. I've been in real scenarios for business email compromise and this is exactly, you know, The kind of things that how does the business know and how do we respond and all that. So this is important. It's good. Speaker 1 00:00:57 Good. I'm glad, I did choose some scenarios this time that was going to make them pause and think. I didn't want to go with the cookie cutter ones from last time, but also because regulations are changing with SEC as of tomorrow, I really wanted them to think about, hey, what would happen if? Which is why I didn't call on our people as much this time. Normally Jason, I'm going to call on Sean and Christi and Anzor more and more than what I did this time. Speaker 1 00:01:28 I really wanted to see what there stance was going to be if it affected them as deeply as these scenarios did. And that's the reason why, I mean, Sean, You've been with me multiple times. So you know, I call on you guys a lot more. But I intentionally, as I was thinking through this over the last couple of weeks, I intentionally wanted to dig deeper on the SEC regulation side because they need it. So. Speaker 1 00:01:58 Anything that we should change going forward. Vince, this is I think isn't this your first one with me as well? Speaker 3 00:02:06 No I did the one last year with EAP as well. So that one was more focused on like disaster recovery and any kind of emergency right? Like yeah, like physical emergency. Remember whatum yeah I do think there's a call out that we need to investigate right is they're using smarsh for there there comms archival. And we can address. 365 outages and recovery. But as far as there SMS platform, right outside of Smarsh, if there's anything that needs to get backed up third party cloud. Again, I'm sure Smarsh has some bulletproof systems in place, But at the very least, they should know where to look for the policies, whether or not that's posted on there site and investigate, whether or not there's an alternative or another third party backup, just in case they need to restore. Speaker 3 00:02:56 Because that we don't have visibility of. Speaker 1 00:02:58 We can, I can actually add that in to my report or add that in as a question. That's actually a good one. Is that a potential upsell for us? That's my question to you. Speaker 3 00:03:09 Yeah, That's and I have reached out to Smarsh because we're doing the same thing for Arc Capital right now, right? Yes. See if they have any partner programs in place. So, just the ability to have some governance on whether or not we can do any kind of local restores because obviously, it's going to be through the Smarsh platform. But, is there is there any kind of ingest data right in case we need to do a manual export, save it somewhere and have the ability to recover from it. Um The other callout and I I know we were joking about this in the internal chat, but Monty is a break point, right? Like, if she's on vacation, and that happens. Uh, yeah, obviously, Paul's going to reach out to Sam and Sam's going to let everyone else know. But that's that could be time you know. Speaker 3 00:03:51 Against the clock, right? Like if there's a breach and we need to be informed of it, Then if he's trying to reach out to Monty and can't get a hold of her, then that's a couple extra minutes if not more. Right. So that's something worthwhile to call out too. And just kind of a silent reinforcement for them to say, hey guys, we know you love calling out to Monty. She's your VIP support, but she's still a single person, and we have no telemetry on any comms that go directly to her. Yeah. Because, it's not going to get escalated unless it's a formal ticket or a call to the help desk. So. Speaker 4 00:04:26 In my experience withum with Sam, right? So the moment Sam knows, She she distributes uh that kind of information very rapidlyum between the Crimson people until she gets a reply. Um and she usually does within a very, very short period of time. So I'm not sure if. Um, you know, Sam for organ sack always hits Monty up first or me first, but it's in very, very quick succession. Um, so she's got this way to you know grab someoneum very, very quickly. So I would kind of like say, as long as Sam knowsum you know, if Paul were to tell Sam, you know that message was going to reach Crimson very, very quickly. Speaker 1 00:05:14 Yeah. I have to say yeah Yeah, Oh sorry Vince. Speaker 3 00:05:18 Go ahead, No, go ahead. Speaker 1 00:05:20 I just, I mean, I have to say last year when uh Monty was on vacation and Christi was on vacation and I handled it. I mean they are pretty quick also just to know there escalation point. They may holler about it and complain but they do know there escalation points. However next year, I'm going to toss in a Monty is on vacation scenario. Speaker 3 00:05:46 I tried it. That's the real, that's the real emergency there. Nothing that could happen from I mean, Speaker 1 00:05:52 I tried it with the Smarsh part because I know Monty's before EAP even calls her, Blay is going to be on the line with her. So I tried to make that statement. But yeah. Speaker 3 00:06:07 Cool. Uh, Speaker 1 00:06:08 I think we're good sweet, I'll get that report. I am probably going to get it done this week, just just between all of you guys and me. But if I told Paul that, he would hold me to it, so uh I will get that report done sooner. Yeah, Uh and I'll send it over to you guys to check out first. And then I willum Vince, I will either like you send it or while I am on vacation orum I can send it when I get back. Speaker 2 00:06:36 So overall so overall how did it go? Speaker 3 00:06:41 Quick, it went well. We we kind of blazed through it. Yeah, they're they're they have some muscle memory from last year's tabletop. Speaker 2 00:06:48 Yeah, it was overall really good. I was surprised so it's good. Speaker 1 00:06:52 Jason he can take them on. Now he he knows everything. Speaker 2 00:06:56 Don't do that to me. Speaker 1 00:06:58 No I'm gonna I'm gonna help you through all of them until you got a good grasp on it. Um I'm putting together a runbook right now for uh and I'll, put it in the central knowledge base in Hudu on. How to format it, how to lay it out, and then the different scenarios we can choose from based on the client's needs. Speaker 2 00:07:17 I think this is fun. I'd likeum I'd like to do one. Speaker 1 00:07:23 Good and And Pete, I had my one- liners ready, but Paul never gave me a reason to use them. I was SCHARP he was he was very well behaved. Speaker 2 00:07:33 Maybe doing it at the end of the day is the right thing to do, huh? Maybe. Speaker 1 00:07:39 All right. Thanks, guys. Thank you. All right, Speaker 4 00:07:43 Thanks everyone. Bye- bye.
07-24 Meeting: Belay E5 License Upgrade and Insider Threat Security Measures
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- > Date: 2026-07-24 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### Urgent License Upgrade and Security Measures for Belay - **Description** - Belay needs to upgrade all enterprise licenses to E5 to address a potential insider threat. - All E3 licenses will have the E5 security add-on removed and be fully upgraded to E5. - Christi initiated the request but cannot perform the upgrade because she is not connected to the VPN. - **Conclusion** - The team agreed to proceed quickly with the license upgrade. ### Implementation of Litigation Hold and Purview - **Description** - All Belay users need to be placed on litigation hold; this can be done individually on their current E3 licenses. - The E5 upgrade is specifically to enable Purview for insider risk management. - Anzor will set up Purview to monitor for deleted files and folders. ### Action Plan Coordination - **Description** - To upgrade the licenses, someone must contact Charl, the license vendor. - After the vendor upgrades the licenses, the team can assign them to users. - Anzor's team will configure Purview once a ticket is submitted. Christi will send the necessary change requests and a security ticket. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Assign a specific person to contact Charl (license vendor) and initiate the E5 upgrade. - [ ] Coordinate with Charl to complete the E5 license upgrade. - [ ] Apply the new E5 licenses to all Belay users. - [ ] Turn on litigation hold for all Belay users individually. - [ ] Christi to send a change request and a security ticket to Anzor's team. - [ ] Anzor's team to set up Purview for monitoring deleted files and folders. - [ ] Define clear deadlines for completing the license upgrade and Purview setup. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The specific person responsible for contacting the license vendor, Charl, was not explicitly assigned. > 2. The exact timeline for completing the license upgrade and Purview setup was described as "rapidly" but not defined with specific deadlines. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] CONFIDENTIAL (client personnel matter). Internal coordination (Gracie, Monti, Anzor): cut E5 Security add-ons from E3s, upgrade all Belay users to E5, org-wide litigation hold; Monti executing (weekend/Monday OK); license vendor (Charl) contact for upgrade; Christi to send change requests + security ticket.
- Date
- Jul 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi. Hello. Hi, Gracie. Hi, Monty. All right, So what we want to do I'm not VPNed in. So I can't do this, but how quickly can we upgrade enterprise licenses? Hi Monty Can you hear me? Yes, can you hear us? Oh You we can hear you. We can hear you. Yeah We can hear you. Speaker 1 00:00:31 I think she can't hear us. She'll jump back on. Um, all right. I went off video right as you came on video. Um, I'll explain again when she jumps back on. Speaker 2 00:00:48 Okay, okay, I was about what's the context behind? Speaker 1 00:00:51 Yeah. Okay, finally I'm sorry? Speaker 2 00:00:55 Yeah yeah no. Speaker 1 00:00:56 No worries okay so what what Belay wants to do, Um, is and they talked to Amy. Um, they want to put everybody on E5. So, we're going to have to uh cut the E E5 security add on in the E3 s and just upgrade them all to E5. And then put everyone on litigation hold. The only issue is I can't do it because I am not on VPN and I am not where I can do it. So I need I am going to need somebody to do it, but they want to do it pretty rapidly. Speaker 2 00:01:28 Um, somebody gonna need to contact Charl. Um, the the the vendor right, our license vendor to upgrade the license. Okay. Yeah and then I can change the license. Speaker 1 00:01:43 Okay now. Speaker 2 00:01:44 I can do it whenever this weekend. Anytime, yeah, Speaker 1 00:01:46 Okay. So let me do this. Let me add one more person to the call because we're going to need him to configure some things. Speaker 2 00:01:54 What's the reason for them to do that? Do you know? Speaker 1 00:01:57 Yeah, they have they have probably an insider threat. Can someone add Anzor to this call? I can't. Yeah, sure. Super slow. Let me add him. Okay, I had to come to No correction (likely a place name) today because my internet was down and it's going to be down for a while should Oh, I don't see you. Speaker 1 00:02:29 Hi Anzor. Hello. So we have an insider threat issue at Belay, and we got to keep it between the four of us. Um, so what we're going to be doing is we need to, we're going to be putting everybody on litigation hold at Belay, and then we're going to be upgrading all their licenses to E5. Mhm. However, I am going to need you to set up Purview and um, I'm I'm going to send over a ticket once I've once I'm done, but we need to set up Purview to monitor uh for deleted files and folders. And things like that. Um can you guys do that for us after I send you the ticket? Speaker 2 00:03:15 Yeah, sure. Yeah, you can assign it to No correction (likely a name) I'm gonna give him a call. Speaker 1 00:03:20 Okay, awesome, so sweet. Thank you, sir, Speaker 2 00:03:26 Happy Friday. Yeah. Happy Friday. So I have a quick question. Um, once you add the license, um, You have to go in to turn on litigation, hold for everybody or or individually? Speaker 1 00:03:40 You can go ahead and turn on litigation, hold uh, individually right now because they have E3. Speaker 2 00:03:46 Litigation hold. Speaker 1 00:03:47 Yeah. The E5 upgrade is to give them the purview stuff that they need for for the the insider risk. Speaker 2 00:03:55 We Can do the upgrade now, Christi. Right? Speaker 1 00:03:57 Yes, go ahead and start. Confirm. Speaker 2 00:03:59 Okay, you'll have the email. Speaker 1 00:04:01 Yep. All right, Anzor, I'll send over change requests for everything and then send over a ticket for security. Okay? Awesome. Thanks guys! You're welcome! Thanks guys!
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06-17 Meeting: Urgent Ticket Alerts – Notification System and P1 Noise Mitigation
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- > Date: 2026-06-17 09:28:28 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Pete] [Anzor] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### Handling Urgent Ticket Alerts - **Description** - The team is receiving complaints that urgent tickets are not addressed promptly because the word "urgent" appears late in the ticket body, so the triage team sees it too late. - Anzor proposed two options: - Automatically set the ticket priority to P1 if the word "urgent" is present. - Send a notification to specific people when the word "urgent" is detected. - Speaker 4 preferred sending a notification rather than auto-setting P1 to avoid noise from false P1s, which can dilute the meaning of true P1 incidents. - The group noted that some user-labeled "urgent" tickets are not true P1 (company-wide impact) but still require same-day attention. - **Conclusion** - The team will implement a notification system: when triage detects "urgent" in a new ticket, an email alert will be sent. - Alerts will go to a distribution group for easy recipient management. Speaker 4 will provide the initial recipients, including Sue and Charlene. - Email subject: "Urgent Ticket Request". - Email body: ticket number, summary, company, and contact information. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Anzor will set up the email alert system to notify a distribution group when a new ticket contains the word "urgent". (Expected completion by June 22, 2026) - [ ] Speaker 4 will provide Anzor with the initial distribution list (including Sue and Charlene) for urgent ticket alerts. - [ ] Speaker 4 will inform Sue about the new alert system and confirm receipt/understanding. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The underlying issue of non-critical tickets (e.g., server alerts, AP down) being incorrectly set as P1 was mentioned but not resolved. This contributes to "P1 noise" and may need to be addressed separately.
- Date
- Jun 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:19 Good Morning. You're not talking, right? Because I can't hear you. Speaker 2 00:00:51 Hi. Hi. That's better. Yeah, my sorry, I was talking to Robert. Um, My computer does not want to either location I'm struggling with my cameras, Speaker 1 00:01:06 So your camera looks fine. Speaker 2 00:01:09 Uh this is not the right camera. I had to open the laptop. It's USB cameras. I see same issue. I was having yesterday. Ever since the update. Speaker 1 00:01:25 All righty. We may not need to do anything with your stuff. Um, I think Anzor can do something with his piece, so it may not be It may not need anything from yours, so Don't worries. We shall see. Speaker 2 00:01:43 Anzor has access to the code base for mine. Good, So he can he can do whatever he wants to. I am not going to stop. Speaker 1 00:01:51 Good morning, Speaker 3 00:01:51 Mr. Zorosh. Good morning, good morning, how are you? Good. Speaker 2 00:01:58 You know yesterday was a bear today. Today is good. Speaker 1 00:02:02 Let's hope for are the elevators working again at a building Oh. Speaker 2 00:02:06 No, no, I did sign the, the I did sign the quote for the temporary new line, and then Jose is going to get me a quote for. Speaker 1 00:02:16 Uh, Why didn't they just why didn't they just expedite a payment for the pots lines? Speaker 2 00:02:20 They did, but it had already been sent to collections. Speaker 1 00:02:25 Yeah, But normally they can just make a credit card payment and they'll turn them back on. Yeah. However, okay. All right, let's uh so this one may be quick right? Um I talked to Anzor briefly about what this one was about last week. So. Speaker 1 00:02:41 Most of the recent yellow and red alerts. We have been getting have been complaints that tickets are being opened with urgent requests that we are not getting to until like the next day. And, the reason that is is because the urgent message or the urgent word is in the ticket somewhere that our triage folks don't see because it's at the very end or somewhere in. In the wording that they don't see until they get down to that ticket in the queue, That might be, you know, twenty or forty tickets down, and they don't get to it later in the day or. The next day, or you know, later in the day, and then they schedule it for the next day, or they don't see it at all, So what we were trying to figure out is what can we do to catch that early and either send an alert to say. Schedule this ASAP and. Um. Speaker 1 00:03:37 Get this assigned right away because it's urgent so that we get get action on it like immediately or at least you know, within the hour or two and stop getting these complaints or do something about it. So either it needs to be auto assigned, or we need to throw some sort of an alert to like sue or somebody to do something with it. So whatever the fastest and easiest way to do something with it is. And I think onsor said he can probably. Do something to at least get attention to it, and if that's the best way to do it, that's fine. I think. Speaker 3 00:04:10 So here is what I was thinking about, right? So we know we AI does auto triage, right? Realistically one thing we can do, We can set the rule if there is a word urgent in the ticket, right, set it to P 1. Right? So, Olivia, you tell me what will make more sense. So we could either set the ticket to P1 for the new ticket, right? Or I could set up some kind of a notification, so it does the usual thing. But if it sees the word "urgent" anywhere in a ticket, it will then do X, Y and Z. I guess the first question is setting priority to P1 would that be sufficient? Speaker 4 00:05:02 So I would rather have a notification because we have a lot of like false positive p ones. And then when we have so many tickets on the board, it's like, you know, you don't really It doesn't mean as much. Yeah. So, that's why I would like if we put it somewhere Like if it was an email that got sent to Sue or slash Charl, you know Heads up urgent ticket, I think that would be amazing. Speaker 3 00:05:34 But but not set it to P 1. Speaker 4 00:05:36 Well,'cause it already so if it's in the summary, it sets it to a P. Yeah, it sets it to a P 1 already. Right? Speaker 3 00:05:44 But I I think the issue that we were dealing with was the fact that it was not in the summary. It was somewhere in the body of the email. Speaker 4 00:05:52 Yeah. Yeah, because. Could we do both? Speaker 3 00:05:56 Yeah, we can do both. But that means every P one, right? You will receive additional notification. Speaker 1 00:06:04 Are we sure that's not going to cause another issue though, Olivia? Like if we set a ticket as a P one, that's not really a P one, Is that going to cause anything else to happen that we don't want to happen? Like if somebody says I got an urgent offboarding or I got an urgent. I mean what are the other urgent tickets that came in? I've got an urgent thing that I need help with today. It's not necessarily a P1 because it affects just one person, But they want somebody to help them that day, and then they complain if they don't. I don't know that it's really a P1 because it's not affecting the whole company, but they really do want attention to it that day. Is that going to trigger anything that's going to create a different issue? I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud here. Speaker 4 00:06:52 I don't want to do the opposite where now Sue's getting so many emails that it's like, you know, she still it's still noise. Right. She's still not seeing it. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:07:03 Now, I, just want to remind you guys. We do have the prioritization option in thread that's already there, but got turned off because it was getting too much, creating too much noise against what the team was doing. And so, Olivia, You turned it off because it was creating a lot of false positives on P 1 s that shouldn't have been. Speaker 3 00:07:25 I don't know. No, I turned it off. Yeah, no, no. I've turned it off because my solution took over. The prioritization happens during the triage process. So it's CBOS that does at this point prioritization. So that's why I'm saying I can either control it through prioritization or I can send a notification. Speaker 3 00:07:47 Right, So you will just give me direction what you prefer and what you think is the better approach, right? So the two options either if we see urgent, We treat it as P1 and Sue. Then just needs to see that the ticket she's going to get it in a pre status, right? Pre-process status. And and she she goes there all the time, right? So she will see it's in pre status and the P one. So that's in my mind, like you have to respond to that. And then she can assess and say, okay, well this is not really a P one, right? This is more P two or three. But we do need to handle it today. Speaker 3 00:08:35 Yeah. It just seems to me if you if you're saying that, Se tting the ticket to P one becomes the noise that then you have an issue. Like in my mind, if the ticket is P one, you react right like there is a reason why it's set to P one. Speaker 4 00:08:52 Oh definitely, But like we have a lot of like server alerts that get set to P one, or we have different, like if an AP is down or alerting those get set to P one, right? Speaker 3 00:09:06 And they often spam the board. No, no, no. But but see but in my mind that that's a different problem. Right? That's something that's not P one uh that's getting set as P one. And? And is it is it goes to a same board? Or is it a different board? No same board. So, it goes to the same board, right? So I mean, AP down should not be set as P one, and we can we can fine tune that. Speaker 4 00:09:36 Yeah yeah I mean, Honestly, I think what I'm looking for is an um, I'm just looking for if somebody says urgent somewhere in the ticket or if it was like merged or whatever. I would just like an alert to be given to me and Sue. I think that would be, and then Sue could come in, and she can change the um priority based if she needs to. But your prioritization in triaging should normally. Speaker 3 00:10:08 So so so correct one right? Well, let let's do this. Uh I will set an alert right to go out via email to you and Sue. Okay, right? Anytime, there is the urgent when a triage is processing. The ticket. So it's only going to do it on tickets coming in. Speaker 2 00:10:27 Okay, right? Speaker 3 00:10:29 Um because if the ticket is getting updated, that's not going to be handled by triage. Yeah, yeah. So so so okay. U m okay. I will make that happen. Okay. So if it says, uh urgent right, that's our keyword. I'm looking for yeah. Okay okay, no problem. Speaker 4 00:10:54 Okay. Thank you officer. Speaker 3 00:10:56 Okay, sounds good anything else. Speaker 1 00:11:01 How long do we think it will take to do something like that? Any. Speaker 3 00:11:05 Ideaum I? Realistically, by next Monday it will be in place. Probably sooner. I'm going to try to get it done today, tomorrow. Okay. Speaker 4 00:11:16 And I'll give a heads up to Sue too. Yeah Did you. Andre, If I give you like a list, because I would like to add Charlene as well because she triages in the morning. Speaker 3 00:11:26 So. So soum either you can give me a list, and I can hard code it. I could potentially create a UI page, Right, where you could add users. I mean, whatever. Like, I don't know how often or we can create a distribution group right? Um. Priority thing, for example, and then you you can add or remove people to that group and they'll receive the email automatically. Yeah So I emailed the group. Speaker 4 00:11:58 That's fine with you guys? A distribution list. Speaker 1 00:12:01 Okay, that seems like a good option. That way you can, if people change or you add people to dispatch or whatever, you can you can modify that group. Speaker 4 00:12:13 Yeah, exactly. Speaker 3 00:12:19 Good. I'm sorry. Is that my my. Speaker 1 00:12:24 Is that an email group that we're talking about? Are we talking about a Teams? What what are we, Because, you want, you want the notification to be immediate, right? Speaker 3 00:12:35 Yeah yeah, it's going to be I'm thinking that this is a uh, uh distribution group rightum uh and and I get an email is email sufficient. Or do we need something else? Speaker 4 00:12:50 I think email's fine. Speaker 1 00:12:52 So does Sue get does Sue gonna check email is Sue gonna check email like throughout the day and know that an urgent ticket is. I s there and going to see it soon enough to know to take action on it? Speaker 4 00:13:06 Yeah,'cause I forward her emails for urgent tickets all the time. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:13:11 So, let's just make sure that the whatever the subject is is going to have like something she's that's going to that's going to call it out to her to take action right away. Yeah. Okay. Okay, okay, Okay. Speaker 3 00:13:26 What, what? What? Why don't you guys? Uh, just tell me what you want it to be and I'll. Uh, save it now, right? So do you want? Uh, what are you thinking. Speaker 1 00:13:38 Something like urgent urgent ticket received or something like that or whatever you think it should be Olivia to get her attention. And we, Speaker 3 00:13:46 We tell us I can set the yeah like urgent ticket request or urgent. Okay. So the the subject will say, urgent. T icket uh arrived or or request urgent ticket request. What do you want the subject to be? Speaker 4 00:14:05 Um I think request, Speaker 3 00:14:08 Urgent ticket request and in the body, what do you want to be in the body? Speaker 4 00:14:14 Uh ticket number summary company contact. Speaker 3 00:14:29 Um, ticket number, ticket number summary company contact info. So I'm in the elevator. Speaker 4 00:14:40 So if you lose me, that's because okay. Speaker 3 00:14:42 That's I got it. That's all I need. And I'm, just going to say in the body, it will say, hey, urgent tickets just uh uh, right. Uh has been received here is the information. Speaker 3 00:14:56 You with ASAP, something like that. Okay, okay. All right, sounds good. Yep, okay. Thank you everyone. Thank you guys.
06-16 Weekly Meeting: Project Misalignment, Scope Confusion, and Billing Issues
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-16 11:50:45 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Vince] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Confusion over AI vs. Reporting engagement - Christi received an email stating the client contracted with another company for “something else,” not clearly AI. - Vince clarified there were two tracks: AI-related work and a separate reporting item; the email likely referred to reporting. - Vince mentioned the client is working with an external tutor for AI prompt training. - Conclusion: There is parallel activity with a third party for AI training; reporting is separate. Internal alignment needed to avoid mixed messaging to the client. - Topic Title: Scope of signed “Cloud team setup” project - Christi stated the client signed a quote covering: Cloud team setup, SSO, training, governance, acceptable use policy, user provisioning, licensing, rollout, closeout, and a project plan. - Vince initially understood the scope as a flat fee for SSO and Teams setup only, with some training. - Pricing/billing: Christi confirmed progress billing with 50% due before start (instruction from Pete). - Conclusion: Misalignment exists between perceived scope (full package) and Vince’s understanding (mainly SSO/Teams). Billing terms require 50% upfront. - Topic Title: Work performed outside the project and documentation gaps - Vince said the client plans to deploy Cloud Desktop with the update on 2026-06-17 and he already set up SSO to ensure Microsoft sign-in works. - Christi indicated these tasks were part of her project responsibilities and should be executed and logged within the project for hours and billing. - Vince documented his work but did not know a separate project ticket existed. - Christi has been trying to schedule a kickoff meeting and gather requirements (tenant survey, wishlist), emailing the client repeatedly. - Conclusion: Critical process issue—work was done outside the project without ticketing, risking lost hours and billing confusion. A kickoff has not occurred; requirements collection is outstanding. - Topic Title: Communication timeline and email follow-ups - Emails from Christi: - 2026-05-06: Request for requirements wishlist and tenant survey spreadsheet (Vince not CC’d; Christi will forward). - 2026-05-11: Follow-up asking readiness (Vince CC’d). - Subsequent “circling back” email referencing 2026-05-06 (date not explicitly stated in transcript). - Speaker 3 recalled an initial meeting in late April/early June (unclear), and set a session on the calendar. - Conclusion: Client has been slow to respond; internal CC coverage has been inconsistent, contributing to misalignment. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Schedule and conduct the formal project kickoff with the client; include scope confirmation and timeline agreement. - [ ] Align internally on project scope (full package vs. limited setup) and confirm the agreed scope with the client in writing. - [ ] Create or update the project ticket(s); log all work already done (SSO setup, Cloud Desktop push preparation) and link related documentation. - [ ] Issue the 50% progress invoice prior to continuing work, per Pete’s directive; coordinate timing with kickoff. - [ ] Obtain the client’s requirements wishlist and completed tenant survey spreadsheet; assign an owner and set a deadline. - [ ] Define training plan, governance, acceptable use policy, user provisioning, licensing steps, rollout timeline, and closeout in the project plan. - [ ] Clarify the client’s engagement with the external AI tutor; define boundaries to avoid scope overlap and mixed messaging. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Scope ambiguity: The signed quote’s coverage (full package vs. limited setup) needs explicit confirmation to prevent over- or under-delivery. > 2. Untracked work: SSO and Cloud Desktop preparation performed outside the project could impact billing and reporting; reconcile documentation immediately. > 3. Billing risk: Progress billing requires 50% upfront, but kickoff and scope confirmation are pending; align billing timing with the client. > 4. Client coordination: Missing requirements and survey delay the rollout; establish a clear deadline and responsible owner for obtaining these. > 5. Third-party overlap: The client’s AI tutor involvement may overlap with internal training; define boundaries to avoid duplication and confusion.
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi. Hey, Christi. So the reason why I'm confused is because they emailed me back and said, hey, we we we've contracted with another company on something else, but they didn't say that was for AI. That was the email I got a couple weeks ago. Speaker 2 00:00:16 Was that are you referring to like um the reporting thing? Yes. Because, there were two things right. One one was the AI yeah. If they're mentioning the reporting thing that's something different. So. I this is kind of new to me too. Like I actually met with the guy yesterday for the first time. They had mentioned it kind of in off conversation that they were working with some kind of tutor, like there was going to help talk them through prompts or something like that. It was just kind of an off comment, so they're in in the process of like planning to deploy Cloud this week, And he they pulled him in on the call, and you know, I got some more context, but it sounds like they're working with him to kind of help. Speaker 2 00:00:57 Train the staff on on some AI, you know, prompts and things like that. I didn't get too much clarification, But I just wanted to let you know, so that way. Uh you know, with your email follow up, if uh, if they say, hey, we went a different direction or something that you're aware of that. Speaker 1 00:01:13 So they signed the quote for us. And I was about to process. Speaker 2 00:01:18 Them for for AI. For Cloud implementation? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:24 It's a signed quote which which one are you? Speaker 2 00:01:27 I yeah I think that's is that the one just for SSO setup and stuff. Speaker 1 00:01:33 Uh, let me let me pull it up. Real quick hang on one second I was in Kotsen. Let me pull up this one. Uh Cloud team setup. Speaker 2 00:01:43 Yeah yeah. So that was a that was a flat fee just to set up teams. And get SSO set up right. Speaker 1 00:01:48 And training and governance. Speaker 3 00:01:53 Oh okay, and then acceptable use. Set up and all of that. And there's a project plan for it too. Speaker 2 00:02:02 But is that that's a flat fee? That's not progress bill, is it? Are, you talking progress billing up towards the flat fee or just flat fee for setup? Speaker 1 00:02:09 Yes, progress billing. Yeah, So we we got to bill them fifty percent before we go before we do it, and that came from Pete today. Speaker 2 00:02:19 Okay. Um let's let's sync up real quick then because, My understanding of it was, And and this is how I I told them about it is like that's just, you know, the engineering work to get up, get Claude set up and SSO set up for them. That's it. That's like, And then you know, there's a couple things about training and stuff like that. Speaker 1 00:02:39 But Yeah, they do. It includes training and all of that. All of that's included in it. Speaker 2 00:02:47 Yeah, I mean, if if if they respond and say, hey, you know, we've got something going already, then I'd say you're off the hook because. Like unless we want to, you know, Push through with that because I I don't want to get them confused and I think their understanding of that that uh invoice was just simply to set up the SSO component side of things. Speaker 1 00:03:07 That's not what I was told that they signed for. It was going to include training, the rollout, uh user provisioning and governance and closeout including acceptable use policy. It's the entire package. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:22 I mean that's, That's something that I've kind of been helping them out with already. Um, I didn't hear back on anything, so just to give you some some transparency here, they are planning on deploying Cloud Desktop um with tomorrow's update. So I already have a ticket out with the team. They're going to just run the script to just do the initial Cloud Desktop push, right? Yeah. Um, I checked. I checked on their. Tenant yesterday and an SSO wasn't set up yet, so I completed that just to make sure that once users get the invite, they just sign in with Microsoft and they're good. So we're good on that part of it already. Speaker 1 00:03:59 Okay, Uh hold up because all of that is what I've been trying to get them to do. We have to do the kickoff meeting, so we can understand and I've been emailing them to get them to do that. So if you've already done all of that, it was not notated in the project, Or anything, so it is SSO configuration connector setup user training, All of that, including the licensing, is supposed to be on my plate to do. And I have been emailing them over and over again, to try to get them to connect with me. So I can get this done. So you doing that, it didn't got it did not get updated into the project, The hours aren't in there, and that's I got a progress bill on for that. So where's the ticket information for where you set it up? Speaker 2 00:04:47 I just have it documented. I didn't know there was a separate project ticket for this. Speaker 1 00:04:51 Yeah, They I don't I don't. Speaker 2 00:04:53 Typically yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:54 I got pulled into this because it's supposed to have been under a project. Speaker 2 00:05:01 That's, the first I've heard of that. Honestly, like all I know is we had uh you spoke about them for pod team setup, and then it was signed and. We had that initial call with Rebecca, what couple months ago at this point, right? We walked her through setting up Teams. They got like some some demo account set up for her and Andrew and a couple other users. And so now they're they're they're ready to just move on it. Speaker 1 00:05:30 Yeah, and I've been trying to get with them to get that done. But, if you are already taking care of it and you did it outside the project, that's a problem because they signed. Speaker 2 00:05:39 It because I didn't even. Speaker 1 00:05:41 They signed it, It was supposed to start May 1 st, and I've been emailing them to say," Hey, When are we going to get this started to roll out to the rest of your company?" Speaker 1 00:05:52 Like They signed everything. Speaker 2 00:05:55 Do You did was CC'd on any of those emails to them? Speaker 1 00:05:59 All of them. I've alwaysCC'd you on those. Speaker 3 00:06:03 Let me look. Yeah, I set a session on the calendar. Speaker 1 00:06:07 Because it's supposed to be 20 hours of work for me that they're paying for. Speaker 3 00:06:13 Right. Okay, Speaker 2 00:06:18 Do you want to get caught up on this then because. Speaker 1 00:06:20 I I don't I well, we got to meet with them so we can kick it off, but you've already done half the work, and it's not in the project. So that's a problem Vince So I don't know what to do from here because any work like that, any of the SSO work stuff like that for any of our clients has to go in projects. Speaker 2 00:06:44 Right, but from my standpoint, I didn't have any other visibility on outside of hey, they signed for that project. So there was no kickoff or anything, right? So well, Speaker 1 00:06:53 I've been trying to get that scheduled with them. I know. And I have emailed you; you were CC on it. I even emailed them again this morningum because I had not heard back from them. Speaker 2 00:07:07 Right right? But, that's that's the last that i've seen on that one. So That's where i'm confused because. Speaker 3 00:07:13 Yeah, I need to pull it up. The last time that there was an email was that initial meeting that was back in April, late April, early June. Speaker 1 00:07:36 So no. Um so I sent him an email on May 6 th. And said, "Hey, I still need your requirements wish list and the tenant survey spreadsheet." And kept and I did not see you on this one. And I'll forward it to you. Um, I sent him another email on May 11th and said, "Hey, are you ready for this? " And I CC'd you on that one because he hadn't answered the May 6 th one. And then I sent him another email and said, "Hey, circling back on my note from May 6th." Hang on. Doctor Barbara's calling me. Speaker 3 00:08:16 SCHARP. Uh, let me let me call you back. Okay? Okay. Thanks.
06-16 Guide to Progress Billing in ConnectWise
- Notes
- # Guide to Progress Billing in ConnectWise  This dialogue captures a hands-on training and troubleshooting session on executing progress billing in ConnectWise, prompted by Christi’s request. The team clarifies policy (PM determines billable amounts), demonstrates the end-to-end workflow on project Alere (#2695), resolves a doubled-amount error caused by an incorrect “product” entry, finalizes and emails a progress invoice, and logs follow-up actions including a support escalation to ConnectWise and internal administrative tasks. ------------ ## Initial Query and System Clarification April relays Christi’s confusion about how to progress-bill projects, especially when projects are not closed. A senior team member explains that progress billing is permitted on open projects, with the Project Manager responsible for specifying the amount to bill. To ensure the project appears on the invoicing board before closure, the team must untick the “Bill this project only after it’s been closed” option in the project’s finance tab. This establishes the baseline rule: billing can proceed on open projects if properly configured, and the PM’s directive governs the billed amount regardless of the contract type (fixed fee or TNM). ------------ ## Live Demonstration of Progress Billing Workflow Using Alere (#2695) as the example, the team outlines and enacts the workflow: - Navigate to the invoicing board, select the project, open Actions, then choose “Create Progress Bill.” - The system surfaces the total project amount in WIP Available to Bill; the billable portion is set per the PM’s instruction (e.g., 50%). - The team emphasizes that while Alere is a fixed-fee, one-time professional fee (not TNM), it can still be progress-billed if the PM decides (e.g., client prefers staged payments). For TNM, amounts may vary naturally over time. - After setting the progress bill amount, click Continue to automatically generate the invoice. - In Company Finance, locate the newly generated invoice under the invoices tab (typically at the top); confirm that the invoice type is “Progress.” - Preview the invoice and send it via Email using the standard (default) invoice template, which clearly denotes “progress billing” to the client. The demonstration reinforces two control points: the finance-tab setting (unticking the “bill-after-close”) and adjusting the WIP Available to Bill amount during the progress bill creation, rather than changing the project’s base billing amount in finance. ------------ ## Guided Walkthrough and System Error Resolution Christi joins and drives the process herself for Alere, aiming to bill 50%. She initially attempts to edit percentage complete but notes the system is pulling from tickets, preventing direct change. The team proceeds via the invoicing board, Actions → Create Progress Bill, where Alere’s full amount is displayed, but a discrepancy arises: the amount presented does not align with the expected half due to a doubled total. Speaker 2 diagnoses a data-entry issue: a “product” was mistakenly added to the project, causing the professional fee to double. After deleting the product and prompting Christi to refresh, the displayed amount corrects to 15,400 (half of 30,800). Christi clicks Continue, generates a progress invoice (with the project name as reference), and emails it to the client. This resolves the immediate billing task and confirms the workflow end-to-end under supervision. ------------ ## Role Clarification and ConnectWise System Issues Post-walkthrough, the team discusses roles. Christi indicates she is performing billing because she was told to, despite not receiving formal training; she had been removed from meetings by Anzor and recently reintroduced to training by Pete. April notes it’s atypical for PMs to handle billing themselves; other PMs generally coordinate with Maggie for progress bills or billing upon project closure. The group catalogs broader system behaviors in ConnectWise that need escalation: - Fixed fees are sometimes converted into “products,” which can double amounts or misclassify labor as product. - Some items fail to convert correctly from Sales Orders to projects, or appear without related tickets/projects (e.g., issues Elisa encountered). These anomalies suggest inconsistent system behavior that warrants a support ticket and a structured summary of observed issues and potential workarounds. Separately, the conversation touches on team mood (Pete reportedly in a bad mood during one-on-ones and project queue-ups) and April’s care in assigning work to Stephanie due to her variable emotional state. Administrative matters surface too, including PTO planning and a sudden loss of shared calendar access to Pete’s schedule, which April attempts to troubleshoot by restarting her computer. ------------ ## Action Items - @Maggie - [ ] Compile a detailed summary of ConnectWise issues (fixed fees converting to products, doubled amounts, SO items not converting, items lacking related tickets/projects) and email ConnectWise Support, requesting investigation and any recommended workarounds; CC April. - [TBD] - [ ] Forward ConnectWise Support contact details or confirmation email thread to April. - [TBD] - [ ] Send PTO request email to Yumi once youngest child’s graduation dates are confirmed. - [TBD] - @April - [ ] Restart computer to troubleshoot loss of access to Pete’s shared calendar; if unresolved, request re-granting of calendar sharing permissions from Pete. - [TBD] - @Christi - [ ] For Alere (#2695) and Anderson, continue using the demonstrated progress billing workflow: ensure “bill after close” is unticked, set WIP Available to Bill to PM-approved amount, generate, review, and email the progress invoice. - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Wait lang, may question si Christi about progress billing. I got pulled out of the projects, may answer, then they changed it all up. So now I got the progress billing, I don't know how. Okay, what is the project name or number? Speaker 1 00:00:20 Paano daw mag-bill na project? So, di ba pag may nakaklose sa project, sakaka pa lang nakakapag-bill? Pero pag progress billing, paano mo yung binibill? Speaker 2 00:00:29 Depende. Pwede pa naman, Mina, Pag progress billing, Naka-open pa yung project. Parang, si project manager Dapat ang magbibigay ng amount, Kung ano yung ibibill ko. Speaker 1 00:00:43 Okay. Paano siya pumapasok sa invoicing board Kung hindi pa close? Speaker 2 00:00:49 Pupunta ka sa project, tapos I-untick mo yung project. I bill the project Kahit hindi siya close. Oo, wait. So, let me. Okay. Speaker 3 00:00:60 New visitor. Speaker 1 00:01:12 Wait lang. Okay. Mi, Tingnan mo yung 2695. Yun yung sinasabi niyang project. 2695. Yes. Speaker 1 00:01:23 Alere. Yes. Sabi niya dito, I, Um, I got the pro... So, now I got the... Ay, tsaka pala that's, Anderson. So, from there, Ang ginagawa mo, Ina-antik mo. Eto, oo. Speaker 2 00:01:41 Para magpakita siya sa atin. Sa invoicing. Patingin niya. Speaker 1 00:02:01 Wait, pakita ko daw sa kanya paano. Hayop. Speaker 2 00:02:06 Sabi ko, natututo pa nga lang ako eh. Pero sabihin mo, Kwan, kasi yung amount dito is, Speaker 1 00:02:13 Eto eh, siya ang magsasabi kung magkano ang ibibili natin. Pero yan, si Alire na tinitingnan mo, anong nakalagay? 38,800. Yan ba ay yung feeling mo, ayan ay yung whole amount na ng project? O pwedeng baguhin yan, depende sa project manager? Speaker 2 00:02:29 Wait, um... Ang alam ko, fixed fee ito eh. Saglit. Check natin yung quote. Wala ba siyang quote ito? Speaker 1 00:02:37 Madam Christine. So, we need to check sa quote if fixed. Paano malalaman kung fixed or ano? Speaker 2 00:02:43 Ito. Naka-fixed fee siya na ito. Hindi siya kasi TNM. Kung TNM, pwedeng magbago yung amount. Pero naka-fixed fee ng CIT professional. Speaker 1 00:02:53 Ah, one-time fee. Okay. Speaker 2 00:02:55 One-time fee siya. Tapos, pwede kung magbibigay siya ng amount, kung magkano ang fee. Speaker 1 00:03:00 Pero wait lang, one-time fee ang si Alir, pero sabi ni Christi kanina dito, pinapabago nila Anzor and gusto na i-progress bill. So, si project manager pa rin ang mag-de-decide how much. Speaker 2 00:03:13 Kunwari, parang kunwari dito one-time, siguro dahil hindi nila kaya ito, pwede. Pwede pa rin magbago na. Speaker 2 00:03:23 Dito, kunwari. Sige, punta tayo Sa invoicing earlier. Ito yun. Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:31 Tapos, Mag-create tayo ng, Hindi, dito, Tayo. Speaker 2 00:03:39 Ayan o, mag-create tayo ng progress bill. Wait, wait. Balik ka nga. Speaker 1 00:03:44 Balik ka. Sa invoicing ka, Muna and then, Speaker 2 00:03:48 Balik ka ulit. Punta tayo. Hindi ka mag-create. Ipunta tayo kay Alere. I-click natin si Alere. Okay. And then action. And then progress bill. Create progress bill. Tapos nandito kasi yung amount. Yan yung pinaka-amount. Pero ito lang ang... I-add ko na rito si Christi sa call ha. Speaker 1 00:04:11 Okay. Ha? May increase ako, Bill? Oo, tekaya mo yan. Let me add our call. Speaker 1 00:04:27 Nasa-call ba siya? Ah, in a call din pala siya. Speaker 1 00:04:32 Oh, you're also in a call. Speaker 1 00:04:39 Okay, sige-sige, tuloy. Speaker 2 00:04:41 Yeah, ayan, Mi. Ang nababago lang kasi here is Ito. So, dito, kunwari, kung, Magbigay siya ng amount na Ang ipaprogress bill natin is, How much? Kunwari, Speaker 1 00:04:53 Pwede bang palatan mo muna for now? Speaker 2 00:04:56 Kunwari, Speaker 1 00:04:57 30 or half nito. Speaker 2 00:05:03 Oh, 15 pa. 15-4, siguro. Ayan, continue. Iko-continue natin to, oo. Speaker 2 00:05:11 Mag-create kasi siya, may nang-invoice eh. Speaker 1 00:05:15 Ah, so from Ano, pumunta ako ng company finance, Ngayon. Speaker 2 00:05:20 Hindi ko pa siya clinic-like, Mia. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Kunwari, kung nasa company finance na, anong template Ginagamit mo? Speaker 2 00:05:26 Naka-hanap tayo ng naka-progress billing dito na sinabi ni Sek. Speaker 3 00:05:35 Para ma-check natin yung, wait lang, hanap ako ng saan yung mga progress billing. Speaker 3 00:06:11 Hmm, project, ito. Speaker 3 00:06:18 Ay, hindi, ito na lang. Speaker 3 00:06:37 Oh, close na. Speaker 2 00:06:57 May mag-automatic siyang Naka-progress bill dito. Speaker 1 00:07:01 Type. Progress, And then, ah, I mean, dun sa Like invoice template, Na mo nakalagay, default invoice Template lang. Ah, ah. Speaker 2 00:07:12 Ito lang. Tapos, makikita, Ni client. Makikita ni client na naka-progress Billing siya dito. Ito. Speaker 2 00:07:23 Okay, ito. Speaker 2 00:07:30 Dahil yun ang sinabi Ni project manager. Speaker 3 00:07:39 Okay, okay. Wait lang. Speaker 2 00:08:02 Wala kasi siyang computation dito din eh. Speaker 1 00:08:08 Okay, so pag magpa-progress, Din, lagi mong tinatanong, Si ano? Si PM. Si PM. Okay. Speaker 2 00:08:18 Kung how much. Silang magsasabi kung how much. Speaker 2 00:08:23 Okay. Basta laging Chinecheck this. Dapat mas malaki yung, Nandun sa fix. Area natin, eto, Sabihin nilang amount. Speaker 1 00:08:37 Okay. So, ang progress Bill, nag-a-apply lang siya if the Quote is a, Not fixed fee. Tama? Ang nakalagay is TNM? Speaker 2 00:08:47 Hindi naman, Mi. Pwedeng TNM or pwedeng Depende sa sasabihin pa rin ni, Project manager. Yeah, pwedeng mabago. Speaker 1 00:08:57 So, hindi mag-rely lang sa ano. Speaker 2 00:08:60 Mm-mm. Ang meaning ng, yung sa TNM, pwedeng magbago yung amount. Speaker 1 00:09:06 Okay, ito na si Christi. You can add me now. Okay, me, dyan ka lang. Huwag ka mag-alala ako, bahalam. Bid ako lang ang magsasalita. Okay, Christi. Ibalik ka to. Okay, balik mo dun sa project board. Speaker 3 00:09:22 Hey, Speaker 1 00:09:23 Christi. Hi. Okay, so Maggie is here for guidance because I'm also kind of learning from her as well. So, but yeah, I pretty much have an idea on how we do progress build. But yeah, you need help with Alere and Anderson? Speaker 4 00:09:44 Yeah, well, you guys show me on Alere and Anderson and I can do the other two clients. Speaker 1 00:09:51 Okay, gotcha. Okay, so here if you can see on your screen, Maggie is showing the Alere project that you've... I mentioned earlier, but just to remind you that for progress billing, the manager should be the one providing how much should be billed for the month. So if you can see here from the finance tab, from the billing amount, you can change that as to what's the project manager is going to tell you how much we should bill. And also make sure that the bill this project only after it's been closed is unticked, if you'll notice it there. Speaker 1 00:10:28 Okay, so once you've updated the billing amount, you can go now to the invoicing board. And then from there, you should click on the project. For example, this Alere menu, please click on that one. And then you will see all the timesheets related in that project. And you should click on actions and then create progress bill. Okay, once you created a progress billing, you can now go to company finance. Speaker 1 00:11:02 Oh, sorry, before going to company finance, you need to update the amount again from that view. And then you can now go, once updated, you can now click on continue and then it will automatically generate the invoice. And then you can now go to company finance. Speaker 1 00:11:26 Um, from there, you can search a year. There you go. And then you should go to the invoices tab. And from the invoice tab there, the there should be like a new invoice that will be listed in there should be normally should be on always on the top of the list. So right now, you cannot see the new invoices Maggie did not. Click on continue, but this is just for training purposes. Speaker 1 00:12:01 But yeah, once you click on continue, it should automatically generate an invoice. And then from there, Maggie, can you show one example of a progress building invoice later? Earlier you show, I think that was for Project Angel Food. Okay, so you see, Christi, the invoice type should be progress. Speaker 1 00:12:22 Then, you click on the invoice icon in there. And then, once you see the preview of the invoice, You can click on email on the left top portion. There you go. Click on that one. For example, Maggie. Yeah. And then, you can send email. That's it. Speaker 4 00:12:43 Okay. So, let me do it real quick. And then, you guys watch me do it. Just to make sure I got it right. Okay. Speaker 4 00:12:52 So, I'm going to actually do the Alere one. Okay. So, in Alere, we're progress billing for 50%. And so, I'm going to go to finance. Speaker 3 00:13:01 Yep. Speaker 4 00:13:02 Oh, let me go ahead and update this because I am the project manager. Speaker 3 00:13:06 Oh, okay. Speaker 4 00:13:09 So, all right. And then, so this is not checked. And then, the billing amount. Yeah, should be. The same, like that. Okay, so that's 50% of the total bill? Speaker 1 00:13:27 What do you mean, Maggie? Like we should not change the billing amount on this one? Yeah, you should not change that. Speaker 2 00:13:32 It should be in the progress billing only. Speaker 1 00:13:35 Ah, gotcha. In the invoicing. Oh yeah, sorry about that, Christi. Okay, so right now... Speaker 4 00:13:42 Let me do something real quick. Let me do one more thing real quick Because I just realized. Percentage complete. Okay, so this should be $25 now. 25, okay. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:13:56 It's not letting me. Okay. They won't let me. Okay. Speaker 4 00:14:03 Oh, it's pulling from tickets. Never mind. That's how. Okay, so finance. And then we're going to go to invoices. Speaker 1 00:14:10 You can now go to invoicing board, right, Maggie? Since there's no... Yes, invoicing board. On your left... Portion of the, yeah, you go to finance, finance the most bottom, yeah, and then you go to invoicing. There you go. And then click, search Alere on the company name, Alere. Speaker 3 00:14:37 Okay. Speaker 1 00:14:41 There you go. Click on that one. Okay, and then. Actions, click Actions, drop-down menu, and then Create Progress Bill. Oh, that was not right. Create. Create, yeah, there you go. And then under the WIP Available to Bill, on the bottom part, you see the amount there? You can now change that to half of the amount that we're going to. Okay, so it's already set to half. Speaker 1 00:15:12 No, that's the full amount. That should be 15.4. Right? Oh. Speaker 4 00:15:19 So, that's the total right there. Speaker 1 00:15:22 And this is half. Oh, why is it on? Oh, wait. Can you check, Maggie? Speaker 1 00:15:29 Because in the... Speaker 2 00:15:31 Can you check the quote? The quote is 30,800. Oh. Wait, let me check the product. Speaker 2 00:15:47 Oh, they put it in the professional fee. Speaker 2 00:15:55 Let me delete first the product here in the project. Okay, so let me go back. Speaker 3 00:16:14 Alright. Speaker 3 00:16:20 Okay, try it now. Speaker 4 00:16:23 Okay, I think you should Christi, refresh. Yes. Okay. That's why I went out. Go back in. So that I can refresh. Okay, there we go. Yeah, perfect. Speaker 4 00:16:37 Fifteen-four? Fifteen-four. Speaker 1 00:16:39 Yes. Okay, and then continue. Speaker 1 00:16:45 There we go. Speaker 1 00:16:48 And now, you should go to... Oh, there it is. Speaker 2 00:16:51 There. It's okay. That's... Speaker 1 00:16:53 Okay. And then from there, Christy, you can click on the invoice. Yeah, there you go. Okay. So, just check if everything is correct. Speaker 1 00:17:04 You can maximize the... So, you see that's progress invoice. Oh, for reference, It should be... Oh, it's already listed in there, The project name. Okay. I think we're good. And then email. Yes. And then you can just send. Speaker 4 00:17:24 Send. Yeah. Okay. Why are you the one doing this, Christy? By the way. Well, because they told me I needed to do it. Really? Yeah. Speaker 4 00:17:37 So, I might as well just figure out how you guys do it and do it. Because they said do it. So, they didn't train me or anything. Anzor had pulled me out of the meetings for a long time And Pete now put me back Into the trainings. Speaker 4 00:17:51 Is this going to be like. Speaker 1 00:17:53 Project managers needs To do moving forward or this is just like a Special case for you? Speaker 4 00:17:60 I don't know. So I'm just Going to do it and then if Maggie, Can smack my hand if I do it wrong. Speaker 1 00:18:06 Yeah, feel free to reach out to Maggie Because she's the project, Building queen here, so I'm still learning, Christi, so. Speaker 4 00:18:15 Yeah. So, we're on the same page. So, I gotta, yeah, I gotta jump off And jump until call with Anzor. Speaker 1 00:18:23 Alright, thank you, Christi. Thank you, Cindy. Bye. Talk for a bit. Okay. Bye. Bye. Speaker 1 00:18:30 Ate, just good eye. Ah. Buti nalang, medyo naalala Ko agad yung mga pinagsasabi mo. Speaker 1 00:18:37 Okay lang. Gawang-gawang mo naman. Kaya ako sabi ko, shit, shit. Speaker 2 00:18:40 Pero bakit kaya sinong Naglagay nung product doon? Kasi diba yun yung Kaya siya kwan, Kaya siya na doble, Kasi diba yun yung sinasabi, Kaya pinabalik na ni, Michelle yun, yung Fix fee na yun, kasi diba Tinatanggal natin zero na noon, Tapos ilalagay natin si IT product na siya. Pero nung sinabi na niya, Na napansin niya sa project, Na nagiging zero lahat. Speaker 2 00:19:11 Tapos nasa product na. Kaya yun. Tinan mo, So, Speaker 2 00:19:21 Ay, Dami na. Wait lang. Speaker 1 00:19:25 Nakakalok. Bakit siya yung nagkagawa? Pero ano ha? Parang bigla ako natuto sa part na yan. Speaker 1 00:19:34 O bigla siyang nag-convert. Bad trip daw si Pete ngayon. Ay, bad trip siya? Oo, kaya mag-ingat tayong lahat. Katakot nga sabi niya si Chris. Speaker 1 00:19:45 Totoo ba? Mm-mm. Baka may nangyari. Ah, katatapos... Eh, mag-call pa na. Sabi sa project, Q-up the way. Queue up naman. Ay, ano oras ba Q-up niya? 10.30? Speaker 2 00:19:57 10 pa naman sila. Speaker 1 00:19:59 Ah, 10. Okay. Ayun, sabi nga, Etanote rin na, sabi ni, ano, Speaker 1 00:20:06 Ah, hindi ka na ba kasama doon sa Q-up? Hindi na. Okay. Sabi ni, ano, Currently nasa Q-up kami, wala siya sa mood. Speaker 2 00:20:15 Eh, Speaker 1 00:20:18 Bakit? Hindi daw sabi ko, baka, ano, May nangyari. Speaker 1 00:20:27 Pero sabi ko pa nga, nakatakot pa naman siya Pag bad trip. Though, minsan lang naman siyang Mabadrip eh. Pero pag, alam mo yung, Mabait na tao, pag minsan lang mabadrip, Ganun. Bad trip na talaga siya. Speaker 2 00:20:39 May mukhang, Na-convert siya as Product. Sinong nag-convert? Ay, nung kinonvert ko siya, Napunta siya as product, Which is dapat hindi. Speaker 1 00:20:51 Ah, okay. Kasi nandun na siya. Speaker 2 00:20:53 Sa fixed fee. Kasi labor yun eh. Speaker 1 00:20:57 Can you check why siya nagkakaganon? Kasi baka mamaya ma-miss mo yan. Nakita dun sa amount na Alam mo yung nagka-times to siya. Speaker 2 00:21:06 Makikita naman, Mi. Parang bago I-bill siya is mat-check Dapat siya. Speaker 1 00:21:12 Just make sure na you're on top of it. Speaker 2 00:21:16 Kasi dapat wala siyang product eh. Ang product na yun is, Yung monthly lang na yun. Speaker 2 00:21:22 Pero kapag Monthly din kasi na, Makikita. Ilalagay doon is Hindi rin siya nagko-convert. Mukhang ang ConnectWise, Mi ang nagkakaproblema. Eh, talaga? Speaker 2 00:21:37 Kasi hindi naman pag si IT, Galing siya sa SO, Hindi siya nagko-convert, Talaga as product eh. Speaker 1 00:21:45 Wait, ganito mi. Reach out ka, Kay ConnectWise support. Pag-iikas niyo yung Email. Just to make sure na hindi Sa atin yung mali. Wait lang. ProductConnectWise. Speaker 1 00:21:57 Para maaintindihan natin What's going on. Sabihin mo kasi May napansin ka na ganito, Saan na siya? Maggi. Speaker 1 00:22:13 Ay, wait lang. Naging group chat, Natin ni Christy. Speaker 1 00:22:20 Maggi. Speaker 1 00:22:23 Wait. Speaker 2 00:22:27 So, mga projects for building. Speaker 1 00:22:29 Need. Ayan, sinag ko sa'yo Yung email ni. Speaker 2 00:22:33 Post-course group. Speaker 1 00:22:35 Sinag ko sa'yo yung email ni ConnectWise. Pakichat mo na lang Ni... Sisi mo na lang ako, ha? Kung anong nangyari. Sabihin mo, May napansin kang behavior ni ConnectWise Lately na Bakit ganito? Eh, hindi naman dapat Ganun yung nangyayari, ha? Speaker 2 00:22:51 Ah, tapos, Kwan, ilagay ko Din yung mga iba. Nahiti siya. Yung mga napapansin mo. Ano ba yung last na napansin ko? Hindi rin siya nagko-convert. Speaker 2 00:23:06 Hindi? Pero ang pinupunta, oo. Pero ang, Ang tawag nun, Speaker 2 00:23:14 Ang tinatap ko, Is sa, Sa sales. Meron sa SO nila, pero kapag Kinonvert ko, wala. Speaker 2 00:23:29 Pero kapag may next na namang Quote, okay naman. Speaker 1 00:23:33 Kompleto naman yung ganon. Ilista mo lahat ng mga concerns mo. Sabihin mo, Can you please enlighten us On mga recent behavior Connect-wise na napapansin namin, Blah, blah, blah. Para, ano, ayun. And if meron silang workaround na, May sasuggest, Para ma-avoid yun, or kung baka naman Meron silang need effects, Sa end nila, ayun. Wait, may kailangan daw si Trish. Speaker 2 00:24:01 Alin, ano? Pati yung nangyayari kay Elisa Na sinasabi niya sa amin na, Wala siyang related ticket Or project. Oo, yun. Sabi ko, kapag pumunta, O pag pumunta naman sa Product, may, PO doon, sabi ko. Sige. I-list ako yun, Tapos i-summarize ko siya. Speaker 1 00:24:23 Oh, and then sisi mo ko, ha? Yes, simi. Sige. Teka lang. Wala pa naman. Wala pa dumarating na drop sweet. Speaker 2 00:24:35 Okay. Speaker 2 00:24:37 Hala, yung project na yun. Baka na ba trip siya sa mga project? Speaker 1 00:24:42 Charot. I won't go. What? Bigla daw ano. Kasi sa one-on-one pa lang daw nila ni Seg. Ah, okay. Bad trip na daw. Shucks, di man lalo siyang, Ma-bad trip sa project. Even before the Project queue up. Wait lang, Ba't di ko nakita yung, Calendar niya? Speaker 2 00:25:02 Me? Girl, Pilipino ba yung asawa niya o girlfriend? May asawa ba siya o girlfriend? Speaker 1 00:25:08 Eh, jowa ata. Pinay. Oo, pinay siya. Ah, okay. Kaya ilang beses siyang nakapunta dito. Kaya nga sabi niya kahit mag-isa na lang siyang pumunta sa year-end party dahil he's been here naman na daw even before like a lot of times. Sabi ko, okay. Sabi ko kasi. Akala ko gusto niyang pumunta pagkasama lang si answer. Si answer. Wait. Bakit hindi ko na nakikita. Speaker 1 00:25:40 Yung calendar ni Pete? Speaker 1 00:25:45 Siya na daw bahala. Ay, naging untitled. Speaker 1 00:25:52 Christy, Olivia Andor, CIT. Speaker 2 00:25:56 Christy. Lagay natin sa invoicing yan. Speaker 2 00:26:02 Kumagawa pa man din ako Ng summary ko dun sa Ability first na yan. Speaker 2 00:26:10 Oh, nawala siya sa shared. Speaker 1 00:26:11 Calendars ko. Speaker 1 00:26:15 My God. Yoko na akong mag-reach out, pero wala akong magagawa. Kailangan akong mag-reach out. Speaker 1 00:26:23 Kay Pete. Morning, Pete. I noticed, That I Sure, No longer on my Shared calendar List. Just. Speaker 3 00:26:40 Checking if you've, Made some changes. Speaker 3 00:26:50 Thank you. Speaker 2 00:26:57 Kailan ba ito? Lungling naman. Ano yung meeting natin kay Con? Speaker 3 00:27:08 Co-pilot. Speaker 3 00:27:11 CT. Wala pa din. Speaker 1 00:27:23 So, nakausap mo na si Stephanie? Yeah, kahapon. Yeah, mukha naman siyang Masaya yung... Mood niya kahapon. So, mood niya. O, kaya naging comfortable ako na Mag-assign sa kanya ng mga ano. Pero, syempre, alam mo naman ang may taong, Like, may depression. Ano yun eh? Akit-baba-akit-baba ang kanyang, Emosyon. So, hindi siya, Stable. So, hindi ko alam kung, Pag ngayon, madaming. Speaker 1 00:27:55 Ipapagwa sa kanya. Hindi ko alam kung ano magiging. Speaker 1 00:28:00 Ano sa kanya? Effect? Pero sabi ko naman, If you're feeling overwhelmed, Just let me know. Speaker 1 00:28:10 Yun lang. Okay. Speaker 1 00:28:12 At least bumalik siya. Speaker 2 00:28:14 Oo. Diba? Speaker 1 00:28:16 Pero hindi ko pa rin maalis At the back of my mind na, Any moment ako, Magpaalam siya. Magpaalam siya. Speaker 1 00:28:24 Ayun lang. Speaker 3 00:28:27 How many words you require? Speaker 1 00:28:35 Hi, Julio. This is for 30 days. Ilan ba ang sa one month? Ilan ang... Wait, 30 or 31, ganun. Hindi, I mean starting now from June. Let's see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Speaker 1 00:29:05 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. Ay, 30 na natin. Speaker 3 00:29:24 Okay. Speaker 3 00:29:27 1450 per voucher. Speaker 3 00:29:35 Anong sabi niya? Speaker 2 00:29:43 Well, Bilis niya. Four of the few That I need to get done But do the other, Project managers, Do it this way Or they just, Reach out to you And have you do it? Ano daw? Speaker 1 00:29:57 Okay, Then the four Or the few That I need to get done, But the other project, Do it this way or do they just Reach out to you and have you do it? They reach out, kamo. Ikaw nagbibilmagi. Speaker 1 00:30:09 Magsasabi sila, Pag may ipaprogress bill Or pag close ng project. Speaker 1 00:30:14 They reach out to you, kamo. Speaker 3 00:30:31 Oh, really? So we need less than 30 parking. Speaker 3 00:31:07 Asan na yung notes ko dito? Speaker 3 00:31:18 Ay, 44. Speaker 3 00:31:26 Okay. Speaker 1 00:31:30 I'm caring. Speaker 1 00:31:34 Elisa, how much ang palette? Deh! How much ang parking validation? Hello? Speaker 1 00:31:43 How much ang Parking validation? Speaker 2 00:31:50 Good to know, But I'll handle what I can, For you just so That you don't have to worry about it. Speaker 2 00:31:60 Pero siguraduhin mong, Tama, Christy. Ano daw? Ano daw? Ano bagay? Wala na si Ati. Good to know, but I'll handle What I can for you Just so that you don't have To worry about it. Speaker 1 00:32:15 Thank you, Christy. Speaker 1 00:32:19 You're the best. Speaker 2 00:32:22 Pareho tayo. Speaker 2 00:32:25 Heart, heart. Speaker 2 00:32:34 So, pareho sila ni Seg. Si Seg din nag-progress Ng project niya. Speaker 3 00:32:43 Okay. Speaker 2 00:32:49 Bag-bag. 67.7, 19. Hmm. Speaker 3 00:33:09 Ako siya inalagay dito na amount sa OLPO, OLTD, $40. Speaker 1 00:33:27 Oh, laking discount pala. Ibigay sa atin ang $40. Speaker 2 00:33:40 Ay, magre-request din pala ko ng PTO ko sa Yumi. Speaker 1 00:33:50 Ogo, mag-email ka na lang. In one book, let it be passed. 14.50. Speaker 2 00:33:56 Inantay ko lang kasi yung bunso namin. Ano bang balak niya sa graduation? Ah, mag-graduation na ba siya? Speaker 1 00:34:05 Oo. Speaker 2 00:34:07 Kaya free na daw Ang nanay at tatay ko. Anong course na yun? Psych. Pero parang Sabi niya, parang Ayaw na yung ituloy daw. Langiya ka sabi niya. Kasi nga Nag-VVA din siya. Parang itong kapatid ni Husband, kinuha, Siya, tapos, Ano tawag na? Kasi parang dalawa yung ginagawa nung kapatid ni husband na VA. Parang client-client ganyan. So, yung half nung work is pinunta nyo sa kapatid ko. So, half nung sahod sa kapatid ko. Speaker 2 00:34:48 Upanta. Oo. Sabi nga namin, ay, swerte mo kasi kung yung mga starting ng bagong graduate, di ba? Walang-wala dyan sa nakukuha mong sahod, sabi namin. Speaker 2 00:35:03 Ay, parang ayoko na, sabi niya. Parang mag-work na lang daw siya Ng ganito. Maliw ka, sabi namin. Speaker 2 00:35:12 Grabe. Ilan ba kayo Magkakapatid pala? Oh, shit. Five. Eh, yun na Habol, minupusal baby. Eleven years, anggap namin. Dalawa. Wow! Ay, di ba? Ang landi ng nanay ko. Speaker 2 00:35:30 Charo. Paid amount. Wait, wait, wait. Speaker 1 00:35:35 Baka mabadalap yung sipit. Ay, alam. Sabi ko kasi, wala na ako. Hindi ko makita yung access. Yung access ko sa ano mo, calendar mo. Sabi, RSA? Sabi ko, teka, teka. Wait, check ko lang. Calendar. Speaker 2 00:35:56 So, relate ka lang, Pete. Relax ka lang, Pete. Speaker 1 00:36:02 Huwag ako, sabihin mo. Calendar show all. Speaker 1 00:36:10 Alam mo, wala talaga. Hindi ko alam anong nangyari. Christy, Anzor, Monty, Cheryl, Jose, Mike. Speaker 1 00:36:17 Bakit siya pa? Speaker 3 00:36:21 Fudge. Speaker 3 00:36:23 Wala talaga. Speaker 3 00:36:38 I think I lost access. Speaker 1 00:36:47 I cannot see you on the list anymore. Speaker 2 00:36:53 Eh, siya lang makakapagbigay, diba? Speaker 3 00:36:56 Oo. Speaker 3 00:37:32 Puede pinagkustumah kita ito. Speaker 3 00:38:00 Could you try giving me... Speaker 1 00:38:10 Let me restart my computer. Maybe it will help me. Mag-restart lang ako. Para baka... Sige, sige. Kaya nawawala. Dahil doon. Oo nga. Sige, sige. Thanks. Bye. Speaker 2 00:38:34 Okay, B. Bye.
07-22 Weekly Meeting: Team Updates, Cybersecurity, and Project Angel Food Renewal
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-07-22 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Anzor] [Seg] [Pete] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Anton] [Speaker 9] [Vince] [Mike] [Speaker 12] [April] [Speaker 15] [Christi] ### Meeting Notes #### **Opening and Team Updates** - The meeting began at 10:00 AM on July 22, 2026 (Week 30). - **Support Schedule**: George is primary support; Juno is backup for the week. - **Core Value Shout-out**: Sean and Charles Duplessis were recognized for being “always friendly” and helpful. - **Quote of the Day**: “If you take out team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?” — Matthew Woodring Stover. #### **Helpdesk Update** - A new technician, Jason, has joined the Helpdesk team. - Jason’s background includes IT administrator, IT generalist, and technical specialist roles, primarily with BPO companies. - Personal interests: hiking, camping, and motorcycles. #### **Cybersecurity Update** - Passwords for global admin accounts sourced from Hudu are currently being rotated. - Team members may receive alerts about broken Power Automate flows. - To resolve, sign in and re-authenticate the affected flows. #### **Operations Update** - **Ticket Volume**: Volume is fluctuating but trending down from a recent peak. Continued help is requested to reduce the backlog. - **Phishing Tests**: Simulated phishing emails are increasing in complexity. - Be cautious; do not click links or open attachments in suspicious emails. - Use Outlook’s “report the fish alert” option for any suspicious emails. - **Empower Training System**: - Empower is underutilized by the team. - Pete requested everyone explore the system—especially assigned courses—over the next few weeks. - Feedback is needed to decide on renewal, as it represents a significant company expense. #### **Account Management Update** - **Increased Collaboration**: Vince noted a strong uptick in effective cross-department collaboration. - **Project Angel Food Renewal**: - The client renewed with Crimson for three years. - This followed CEO dissatisfaction over a 40–50% bill increase across six months. - A meeting with Anzor, Pete, and the CEO resolved the issues. - George and Kevin received praise for excellent onsite support. - Anzor later met CEO Richard, who expressed high satisfaction with the team’s work. #### **Finance and Admin Updates** - **401(k) Transition**: For US employees, the 401(k) is moving from American Funds to Empower. - A blackout period runs from July 13 to August 3, 2026. - Contributions from the July 25 paycheck will be remitted to Empower. Support contact details were provided. - **Client Subscriptions**: The admin team is identifying and moving remaining client subscriptions that still use the company card. - **Project Angel Food Invoice**: Anzor asked April to simplify the invoice for the new three-year contract. #### **New Business Development (NBD)** - Anzor and Pete had a promising meeting with a potential large client. - An update is anticipated within two to four weeks. - Anzor is re-engaging in sales efforts after a three-week vacation. #### **Change Management & Project Updates** - **ARC**: Two access points and a switch will be replaced on Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 9:00 AM, causing a brief network outage. - **Ishida, Wong and Associates**: UPS replacement on Thursday, July 23, 2026, in the afternoon. - **Belay**: Two access points will be replaced on Friday, July 24, 2026, at 9:30 AM. - **Capital**: LastPass deployment for 16 users is in progress. - **Billy**: Abundance has been deployed and is in monitoring. - **The**: DataSize was deployed on July 22, 2026. - **Sharp (Crenshaw)**: Switch changes scheduled for the weekend (July 25–26, 2026); alerts can be ignored. #### **AI Competition Update** - Anzor reminded the team to submit their AI competition projects. - A review plan will be created next week to select the winner. #### **Training: Introduction to Power Automate** - Christi presented an overview of Microsoft Power Automate, included in the company’s M365 licenses. - **Functionality**: A “when this happens, do that” workflow engine, more powerful than Outlook rules. - **Flow Types**: - **Automated**: Triggered by an event (e.g., a form submission). - **Scheduled**: Triggered at set times (e.g., weekly reminders). - **Instant**: Triggered by a manual button press. - **Versions**: A widely available free version and a premium version (diamond icon) that requires approval due to additional cost. - **Use Cases**: Examples include saving email attachments to OneDrive, posting Teams messages, and integrating with tools like Asana and ConnectWise Manage. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Explore the Empower training system—especially assigned courses—and provide feedback over the next few weeks. - [ ] Define a feedback collection method and target date for Empower renewal decision (e.g., form or channel; deadline TBD). - [ ] April to coordinate with Anzor to simplify Project Angel Food’s three-year contract invoice. - [ ] Submit AI competition projects to Anzor. - [ ] Users impacted by global admin password rotations to sign in and re-authenticate any broken Power Automate flows promptly. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The decision on whether to renew the Empower training system is pending. The action is for team members to use the system and provide feedback, but there is no specific deadline or method for collecting this feedback. > 2. Passwords for global admin accounts are being rotated, which may break Power Automate flows. While the fix is to re-authenticate, there is a risk of disruption if users are unaware or do not act promptly. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] CIT weekly all-hands - already logged 7/22.
- Date
- Jul 22, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 Good morning. Morning everyone. We're just a little bit late. Speaker 2 00:00:26 Good morning, good morning. Good morning, welcome back. Speaker 3 00:00:32 Thank you. It's nice to be back. But it was nicer on vacation, of course, always. Speaker 4 00:01:18 Are We are here. One minute left. Speaker 5 00:01:22 And a minute early. Speaker 6 00:01:56 Alright, it's ten a.m. Good morning everyone. So let's start this meeting. Today is July twenty two, twenty twenty six, and the week number is week thirty. For this week's uh, primary support is gonna be George and the backup is Juno. Right, And for the core value that I would like to highlight for this week is always friendly, and I would like to shout out the Duplessis brothers. Okay, especially Sean and Charles. So, we don't talk often on a daily basis, but whenever I try to reach out to you guys, you always are happy to help. I lend a helping hand. Okay, and for the core value sorry for the quote of the day. So here goes: If you take out team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that? Okay, it's by Matthew Woodring Stover. Speaker 6 00:02:55 One of the authors of Star Wars. Okay, moving on to team updates. Let's proceed with Helpdesk with Olivia. Speaker 7 00:03:08 Good morning, guys. Happy Wednesday on the Helpdesk side of things, we have a new technician starting Jason. Jason let us know a little bit about yourself something fun. Speaker 2 00:03:22 Sure yeah, First, hello everyone, and it's nice to see your faces virtually. So yeah, little about me. So I've been in the industry for quite some time since two thousand and twenty two. I've worked with contact center business or BPO companies for the past years, uh with roles such as IT administrator, IT generalist and technical specialist. And right now Currently with Crimson as part of the Help Desk team, and I'm really glad to be here. And something personal about me, I do have two dogs. They are dachshund. And um something I enjoy during my hours outside work, I enjoy outdoor activities specifically nature activities such as. Speaker 2 00:04:16 Hiking, camping, and I'm also a motorcycle enthusiast. So yep. Speaker 7 00:04:23 All right, awesome. Well Jason, we're so happy to have you on the team. Everyone please give Jason a warm welcome. And that is all we have on the Help Desk side of things. Speaker 6 00:04:34 Thanks Olivia and welcome JasonMoving on to cybersecurity with Anton. Speaker 8 00:04:41 Good morning everyone. I have only one update. We're currently rotating password for uh global admin accounts from Hudu, so if you're gonna see any notification about like broken Power Automate flows, please sign in and just re- authenticate to fix it. That's it from my end. Thank you. Thanks Anton. Uh moving on to operations with Pete. Speaker 5 00:05:08 Good morning everybody, Um, not a whole lot this week. I think we are ticket volume is kind of up and down candidly. Um, I think we've gotten we've put a little bit of a dent in it since the big, uh, the big bubble that we had about a month or so ago. But um if anybody can help, you know kind of kind of keep hammering away at that. Um let Olivia know, and we'll see if we can if we can, you know keep keep uh pushing. Speaker 5 00:05:40 Pushing away to put to get those numbers down. A couple of other items, the phishing email tests, I think people are still doing okay on those. I think they're a little more complicated recently, so watch out for those. But at the same time, I think that's good because maybe it'll make everybody be more cautious when the real ones come in. So keep your eyes open, be cautious. As a reminder, especially for people that are new, if you get an email ever that comes into your inbox that looks suspicious, do not open any attachments. Do not click on any links. And, there is a fish alert option in Outlook in the top bar that you can report the fish alert, and it will be investigated to see if it's real or if it is a fish attempt. Um and they will let you know. Speaker 5 00:06:36 And there will be test fish emails sent to you, so be cautious of that because if you click on them, you will be reported and it will not be a good thing. So, be cautious of that. We want to be careful for our environment as well as our customers' environments. Lastly, I was reviewing Empower, which is our training system this past week, and candidly, very few people are using it. It does cost the company money. I would like people to at least look at it. The reason I want us to look at it is because I want to know if it's a value to the company. We are paying, a fair amount of money, to have this uh this system available for our team. Um, it does offer a lot of training for especially the Microsoft products. Um, it does have a few other products available, and if you do use it um I think it's helpful to. Speaker 5 00:07:32 You know, if you are working towards certifications for the different, especially for the different Microsoft tracks. If if it is not valuable, I don't want to renew it and I don't want to pay for it. So, um, could everybody at least try in the next couple of weeks to explore Empower? Take a look at it. If, you can at least and I know everybody's busy, but if you can at least. Explore a course or two. I think everybody at least had one course assigned to you, which was the customer service facing, um, uh, course. Which doesn't take too long to take. Um, if you can try to fit that into your schedule, uh please try to do that. See if it's of value to you. If you don't find value in it. I would like to hear that as well because I'd like I said, I don't want to I don't want to renew a product that doesn't. Speaker 5 00:08:24 Doesn't add value to the team. So, um, Try to make time for that in the next few weeks, if you could. And just give me give me your candid feedback. Cause if it's good, it's great. If it's not good, let's not spend money on it. All right? Uh that's what I have for today. Have a great day and welcome. Speaker 6 00:08:42 JasonMoving on to account management with Mike and Vince Thanks Pete. Speaker 9 00:08:54 Good morning, Crimson. Speaker 10 00:08:56 Um, I just wanted to share real quick. Um, I don't know what's going on in the air and the water, But like the last week or so, there's been such a huge uptick in interaction across departments. Especially when it comes to working with a customer understanding their environment. You know, I kind of briefly uh touched on this last week with Patrick, but I'm seeing a lot more sort of collaboration right when there's a problem or a ticket. More willingness to open up and reach out to account managers, reach out to other members. So I just want to give a kudos to like the entire Championship team, uh the support team in general. Like I I'm really noticing a huge upswing in that. So congrats. It's, it's really amazing to see and it's very encouraging because what it tells me is that when a ticket lands in like my lap, for example, or if there's a question that the customer has, I don't feel like I'm on an island. Like there's a there's a group and a team behind me so. Speaker 10 00:09:52 Uh, kudos to everyone. Please keep up the great work and whatever it is that's in the water, continue drinking that because I I like what I am seeing from my perspective. So appreciate that guys. Speaker 11 00:10:04 Um, and the thing I wanted to add is again same thing congratulate the team. So if no one's aware yet. Uh Project Angel Food just signed to another three year agreement with Crimson, which is amazing. Um what's especially cool about that is I don't always talk to the CEOs of companies, right? Because they have. The gatekeepers below them that I typically meet with on a regular basis, but relationships are important. They, the person I meet with, Notified me that, that project Angel Food was not happy about their increase in their bill. We didn't realize it, but over the course of like six months, their bill increased by almost fifty percent forty fifty percent). And. So the CEO saw that and was not happy and instructed our point of contact to go get quotes from other MSPs. So he shared that with us, which was great. Speaker 11 00:10:50 We got a chance to get in front of it. I let Anzor and Pete know. We all had a meeting with Anzor and the CEO, and everything went well. We course corrected. I want to give a shout out to George and Kevin. Your guys' onsite support was definitely a factor. Stephen really loves you guys, so it was just a team effort. So Project Angel Food the food side for three years, great job everybody! I'm stoked they're stuck with us! Speaker 3 00:11:18 So, I want to add a little bit to this, Mike. So, Yesterday, I was walking down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, and guess who I run into? So, it's Richard, and he sees me and you know, he gives me this warm hug, like like I am his son. I was like, oh wow, I was not expecting that, right? But clearly this was only possible because he feels very connected, very happy with what we do. And we had a really nice chat. So great, great job team. Phenomenal job, right? It's really good to have these type of interactions and have this kind of feedback. So awesome work team. Speaker 6 00:12:16 Thank you, Mike and Vince and Anzor. So moving on to finance with Elisa. Speaker 12 00:12:24 Uh hi, happy Wednesday everyone. Just a quick update for the 401(k) transition from American Funds to Empower. So this is only applicable to the US employees. So the blackout period begins last July 13, 2026 and it will end on August 3, 2026 when the blackout period ends, Full account access will be restored at Empower and uh 401(k) contributions, starting this uh payroll or paycheck. Seven, uh July 25, it will be remitted or. Speaker 3 00:13:05 Technical difficulties. Speaker 6 00:13:10 All right, so we'll come back to Elisa later. I'm moving on to admin with April. Speaker 13 00:13:16 Um good morning, everybody. So on the admin side, just a quick reminder to everybody that if you come across any um client subscriptions that are still using our card, please let the admin team know. And we're also working actively with finance team to identify any subscriptions left that are still using our cards. So um we would appreciate if you let us know um if you spot any and also this week, we're going to start our monthly billing. So as a constant reminder. Um, if you're working on anything that will affect billing, please let us know. That's all. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:13:53 Yeah, April. Um, so we we've talked with the project Angel Food on simplifying their invoice. Uh, I want to make sure that this invoice right now that they signed three year is simplified. So connect with me. And uh, let let's make sure that uh, we send that invoice in a simpler method. And and see how that goes. Speaker 13 00:14:16 Okay, we'll do. Okay, thanks, Andrew. Speaker 6 00:14:21 Welcome back, Elisa. Speaker 12 00:14:25 So hi guys, sorry I was disconnected. So I dropped the important details in the chat for the Empower log and instructions. If we do have concerns withum. Accessing to your account. Uh I also leave a contact like 800. Uh, you may call directly Empower at 800 hundred, 338-4015. Thank you. If youum missed to receive an email from me regarding Empower, uh, please don't forget to ping me and I can send you, Um the Empower instructions, thank you. Speaker 6 00:15:07 Thank you. Elisa moving on to NBD with Anzor. Speaker 3 00:15:12 So, on new business development, we are acting and working through a potential large client. We'll see how it goes. I don't want to jinx it too much, but Pete and I we had a really good meeting with them. So I am hoping that in the next two to four weeks, we'll bring some really awesome news. Speaker 3 00:15:42 Other than that, I'm just kind of starting back in after being out for three weeks, and probably will get engaged on sales side more heavier moving forward. So, hopefully, you guys will start to see more results in the next few months. Speaker 6 00:16:02 Thanks, Anzor. Any change management or project updates? Speaker 9 00:16:11 Yes, Miguel. So go ahead, Miguel. Good morning, everybody. So I have just three updates for today. So first, we'll be replacing two access points and a switch at ARC. This Thursday at nine am. So network will be down for a few minutes during those times. Then, we'll also be replacing the UPS at Ishida, Wong and Associates office this Thursday afternoon as well. And then lastly we'll be replacing two access points at Belay, This Friday at nine thirty a m and that's all on my end. Thank you, Speaker 3 00:16:45 Miguel. Psyche. Um, I wanted to make one more quick comment. Sorry, uh, Sag. Um so so you know, we've launched the AI competition, right? And then I went on vacation, few people submitted uh their projects to me. Um if you guys have something, you wanted to submit, send it my wayum andum. And sometime next week, I will figure out the actual review plan and we'll work on identifying the winner. Okay, so just wanted to give that heads up. Okay, Speaker 4 00:17:24 So all right morning everybody. So, we deployed some tools to some of our clients for our capital will be deploying LastPass for sixteen of their users. Billy, we've already, Deployed abundance, so they are currently in the monitoring phase. And for the, we've also deployedum data size just today. So if you have if you'll get any notifications for that, please let us know. Thank you. Speaker 6 00:17:55 Uh Christi had your hand uh raised earlier? Speaker 14 00:17:58 Yeahum I I'm I'll I gotta walk away, but I'll be right back for training. However uh sharp uh we're gonna be changing out switches at the Crenshaw location, U h, so those will go down this weekend. If you get alerts, you can just ignore them. Um and I'll be right back for training. I got to walk away for an emergency. Speaker 6 00:18:18 Actually training is the next part. So um can we do duck race? First? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:18:27 Let's do a duck race. Yeah, let's do it. Okay. Speaker 2 00:18:32 Let me know if you see my screen mark, Yep. Speaker 3 00:19:08 Always Anzor. First time I think I see Anzor winning. Speaker 8 00:19:18 It's not the first time, second no? On a duck race? Okay. Yeah, maybe yeah. Integrity over profits, exercise ownership in all that we do, always friendly, commit and deliver. We do the right things and the, Example is going to be Sean always committing and delivering. Speaker 6 00:19:43 Thank you, Anzor. And we can proceed to two truths and a lie. And I believe it was George for today. Speaker 15 00:19:53 Good morning, folks. I have Is it two truths in one lie? Yep. Okay, I have a truth, Truth is, I recently went to Washington, New York and I have seen the Liberty Bell and have pictures on it. Uh number two truth is, I used to be a pig farmer or hog farmer, if you want to call it here in states. And my third truth is, I have a daughter and a son. Speaker 15 00:20:35 All right. Speaker 6 00:20:36 So, who thinks you already claimed it as all true? Who thinks the first one is a lie? Like George recently traveled to Washington, New York. Speaker 11 00:20:52 That's a lie. Isn't the Liberty Bell supposed to be in Philadelphia? In Philadelphia. Yeah, exactly. Where did you go? You never had vacation. Speaker 2 00:21:04 Everyone saw those Taco Bell, even the people not in the US. Everyone knows where it is. Majority, dude, come on. Do you want your vacation? Speaker 6 00:21:18 Who thinks that George used to be a hog farmer? For the hog yourself, farming yourself. Speaker 6 00:21:31 All right, and finally, who thinks George has a daughter and a son? Is the lie. Speaker 3 00:21:41 Oh, wow. It's like more or less universal. So it's the first one. Speaker 6 00:21:47 And lighten us, George. Speaker 15 00:21:49 So the third one, I have a daughter and a son. I wish I only have a son. The second one, I used to be a pig farmer, Yes, in my previous life. The first one I recently went to Washington and New York. That is the truth. And by the way, on your way from New York to Washington, you go by Philadelphia, and that's where the Liberty Bell is. So FYI. Speaker 6 00:22:20 Very correct here. Oh we got it That's my truth Can you nominate someone for next week? Uh Who doubted me? Speaker 6 00:22:32 We all did. Everyone, everyone. Speaker 15 00:22:39 You know what? I'll take Antoine because he's facing he's not facing me at all. Speaker 6 00:22:46 All right, so that's Antoine for next week and going back to Christi for the training. Speaker 14 00:22:54 Thank you and sorry about that, guys. I had to chase down something for Doctor Barber. Um, real quickly, a lot of our clients are asking about Power Automate now. Um, so we've talked a lot about AI, but automation is something that we've not really discussed and gone over. So I real quickly want to give you a quick overview of Power Automate. All of you have access to Power Automate. Um, so if you go into My Apps, just scroll down and you're going to find Power Automate. It's the blue arrow that's within uh Office applications. And real quickly let me just tell you what it is. Speaker 14 00:23:25 So Power Automate is Microsoft's "when this happens, do that" type of engine. It's a workflow. And it's already included in the Microsoft 365 licenses that we manage every day. There's actually two tiers. There's the free version that everyone has access to, and then there's a premium version that's only applicable to certain things. So, a lot of things that our users are going to see can work on the free version. Anything that can't, you're going to see a little diamond next to. So just a heads up. But if you've ever set up an Outlook rule, you've already understand the idea of what you can do. Power Automate fills in a lot of the gaps within Outlook. However, it does a lot more than just that. It can do email, Teams, SharePoint forms and then there's a bunch of other systems that can happen. So for example back when I had sent out the handbook. Speaker 14 00:24:21 And had everybody sign it a long, long time ago. When everybody signed it, I had the Adobe Sign in Power Automate save all of those forms and send them over. I forgot his name. Who was our former CFO? Really amazing Robert. Thank you. I keep wanting to call him Charles. So it would send Robert all of those forms when they were signed. So it's something that can easily do you Set it up once and forget about it. Every flow has two parts to it. It has the trigger, and then it has the actions. So the trigger is the event that starts it, such as when a form is submitted or every Monday at 8:00 a.m. And then the action are the steps that run, and they run in order that you put them in. So let's say when an email arrives with an attachment, Save that attachment to OneDrive or when a form is submitted post a message in Teams. Speaker 14 00:25:21 It will even allow you to do approvals. So, so basically there are three types of flows. You've got automated, so this fires on an event someone submits a form, a file lands in a folder. This is probably about ninety percent of what people will build. And then scheduled it fires on the clock, so things that you can do is like nightly reports, Monday reminders. Anyone that's in the napping team channel, you guys know that every Friday You get a reminder in the napping team to remind you fill out the stress surveys. Okay, And then instant fires whenever someone physically pushes a button with their mouse from their phone or Teams. It's like one of those I've got a checklist, so every time I check my checklist, it's going to fire type moment. If you look at the screen that I am sharing, you'll see I have a bunch of flows. Speaker 14 00:26:15 Um, I did modify the email attachments because I realized that one hadn't logged relogged back in like Anton mentioned. But these are all mine. Um, and some of them I've deleted a bunch, but some of them go back three years. Um, and so some of them are no longer being used. I never deleted them, sometimes I'll delete them. But every time a meeting transcript for a meeting uh, it lands into my meeting transcripts folder that I have on OneDrive. Anytime an email is sent to me with attachment, It'll save those attachments in a OneDrive folder so that I have access to them. Even. Speaker 7 00:26:52 If it's phishing email? Speaker 14 00:26:54 Not if it's phishing email. And then this is the one where I send that Microsoft Teams every Friday. Now, in addition to the cloud flows, you also got desktop flows. I do use desktop flows. I'm not going to show you guys that today. And then if I share a flow with somebody or someone shares it with me, Let's say, Anzor had a flow that used to mention the stress survey in the general chat, and he shared that with me, just so he can see it. Or my onboarding flow that I made a long time ago, I shared that with Bogdan. So, these are the kind of things that you you can actually share with each other. All right? So you guys can go in, you can build them out. When you build them out, oops, sorry I hit the wrong button. Speaker 14 00:27:40 You can choose which start. Now, describe it to design it. For those of you guys who have Copilot, you just tell it what you want it to do. So I'm going to make a schedule one real quick. You want to make a name because if you don't, It puts a generic name out there, and then you choose when it's going to do. I'm going to do it once once a week and I'm going to say create. And then that's where the recurrence is. If I hit plus this is where my actions come in Now, I'm not going to go deep into this because we don't have time, but I want you guys to see. If you go in here, You have a lot of different things you can go in here and put in. Anything with the diamond is a premium version. Unless you absolutely have to have it, it's not going to work. If you do absolutely have to have it, Uh well, I'm sorry, Go see Anzor, so he can double check you because he did double check me a couple of times. Speaker 14 00:28:35 When he's working on saving money, which I 100% agree with him. Please check me, but also please don't take my premium away. I got too much riding on it. But you can go in. There's a lot of things that's not premium. Adobe Acrobat Sign is not premium. So go in there, check it out. I do have a couple in here that connects to other tools and I do have a couple in here that actually connects back to because you can connect multiple Microsoft accounts. Some of mine in here connect back to Ability First. And so Asana to CWM, I have that set up. Anytime that Michonne sends me a task in Asana, it puts it in as a ticket for me in Connectwise Manage. So these are the kinds of things that you can do. Any questions about this? Adrian, you have your hand up. Speaker 15 00:29:33 Sorry, no, that was a mistake. Speaker 14 00:29:35 Okay, no worries. Anybody having questions. And also, if you do have questions later on, please come find me ping me and I'll walk you guys through anything you want. I wanted to give a quick overview. Speaker 6 00:29:50 Awesome thank you Christi. Speaker 14 00:29:51 You're welcome give it a try guys. Speaker 6 00:29:57 All right, let's wrap up this meeting. Uh, please raise your hand if there's anything left unsaid. Speaker 6 00:30:05 If none, then let's wrap it up and may you all have a great day ahead. Speaker 1 00:30:11 Thank you. Bye guys.
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06-17 Foster Placement and Professional Collaboration
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-  Across multiple conversations, Christi Brown navigates the potential placement of Angelique Cruzman, a pregnant 19-year-old non-minor dependent turning 20 on the 29th, clarifies Wraparound service conflicts of interest, conducts an intake-style introduction with Angelique, manages a respite case for Ladonia including payment logistics and AWOL concerns, and guides a colleague through a detailed technical setup for a GitHub/Vercel/Claude Code workflow. She balances caregiving responsibilities with professional commitments and sets clear expectations and action steps. ------------ ## Potential Placement of Angelique The dialogue opens with Christi confirming Angelique’s age and imminent 20th birthday on the 29th, and discussing room-sharing arrangements with Christi’s daughter, who turns 18 in two weeks and departs for college on August 19th. Stephanie Williams, the social worker, outlines Angelique’s current status: she is in her second trimester at around 27 weeks, previously enrolled at a junior college but withdrew due to pregnancy-related illness, and presently intends to re-enroll when she feels better. Stephanie notes Angelique desires independence yet needs support, has difficulty following rules, is not aggressive, and lacks a substantive support network beyond the baby’s father (one year younger and described as naive). Stephanie also discloses Angelique’s past substance abuse, emphasizing that she has not used since becoming pregnant and recommends outpatient treatment to mitigate relapse risk post-delivery. Christi raises a critical conflict-of-interest point regarding Wraparound services: because Christi works for SCHARP (Southern California Health and Rehabilitation) and has organizational-level access to client records, Angelique cannot utilize SCHARP Wraparound while placed with Christi. Wayfinder is identified as acceptable, as Christi has no access to Wayfinder’s client data. Stephanie confirms Angelique had Wraparound previously, which closed after Angelique left California for Utah; Stephanie plans to reinitiate Wraparound through mental health. Christi proposes calling Angelique at approximately 4:15 PM to introduce herself and evaluate fit, and Stephanie agrees to text Angelique first to ensure receptivity to the call. ------------ ## Intake Interview with Angelique Christi conducts an introductory conversation with Angelique to establish rapport and share household expectations. Christi, a 46-year-old single foster mom and former youth in care who was adopted as a teenager, explains she fosters teens and non-minor dependents (12 and up) and currently lives with her adopted daughter Dom (turning 18 in two weeks and leaving for college on August 19th). Christi discloses personal history to build trust, including being born with prenatal substance exposure and a past miscarriage following abuse in a prior marriage more than 20 years ago. Regarding the living situation, Christi explains Angelique would share a bedroom and an en-suite bathroom with Dom for the next couple of months until Dom departs, and Angelique is welcome to travel with them to Merced to move Dom into her dorm. Christi notes they have three cats; one automatic litter box is in the bathroom Angelique would use and another is in Christi’s closet. Litter box maintenance involves pulling the bag every three days and replacing it, with Dom available to demonstrate and assist. Angelique confirms she is approximately 27 weeks pregnant and shares educational goals: she had been attending junior college virtually and aspires to become a dental assistant. Christi emphasizes a family dynamic of mutual commitment—“we all give 100% and take 100%”—and promises support tailored to Angelique’s needs (pregnancy care, doctor’s visits, classes, homework). House rules focus on practical cleanliness and pest prevention: keep personal messes contained to the bedroom and bathroom, rinse dishes and place them in the dishwasher nightly, and take out the trash regularly. Angelique expresses that the opportunity seems great; Christi provides her cell number, invites continued communication, and indicates they will coordinate with Stephanie to proceed. ------------ ## Technical Work Session: Website Development Setup In a separate professional session, Christi coaches a colleague (Speaker 4) through configuring a web development workflow using GitHub, Vercel, and the Claude Code application. Christi states that Vercel hosting costs thirty dollars a month total for all her projects and that she covers these costs, treating the colleague’s usage as a negligible incremental expense. She explains that the “weight room” website is under its own GitHub organization and included within her paid subscription, so the colleague does not need to pay. Christi guides step-by-step tasks: opening the local folder (e.g., Documents > “The weight room website”), connecting and authorizing the GitHub connector within Claude Code, enabling auto mode, accepting edits, and confirming that changes synchronized from GitHub will deploy to Vercel automatically. She specifies operational keywords in Claude Code: “local server” to spin up a preview for reviewing changes, and “push” to upload updates to GitHub. Christi underscores that GitHub is the “cream of the crop” tool and that the current Claude Code workflow is far superior to a Visual Studio-based process used a year ago. She mentions a forthcoming three-day Claude training scheduled for the 27th from noon to 2:00 PM across Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and offers to forward the invitation and include the colleague. ------------ ## Case Management for Ladonia (Respite Care) Christi details a concurrent respite placement: Ladonia is temporarily staying with Christi due to a death in her foster mother’s family and is scheduled to leave on Thursday evening. Christi informs a social worker (Vanessa) that there was a misunderstanding leading some to think Ladonia was AWOL; Christi confirms Ladonia’s presence at home via security alerts and describes using an Alexa “drop-in” to have lunch remotely with Ladonia and conduct wellbeing check-ins while at work. Vanessa discusses respite payment processing, explaining it transitioned to the finance unit requiring additional information and that she will provide this upon returning to the office (likely tomorrow). Vanessa notes the policy allowing up to 72 hours of respite care per fiscal year, starting in July, and plans to confirm applicability. Christi states that even absent respite funding, Ladonia has been an “absolutely amazing kid,” and emphasizes continuing open-door support. Christi plans to bring Ladonia to her workplace in Pasadena to meet trusted contacts and introduce positive environments, specifically at Ability First—an organization serving the disability community in Pasadena, East Los Angeles, and Inglewood. She confirms there are private rooms available for Ladonia to conduct a Wraparound meeting during the workday. Christi also indicates she has reopened her home, presently focusing on non-minor dependents, and after Dom departs and placements shift, she plans to accept girls aged 12 and up (particularly those who may have been trafficked) as a single foster mom. ------------ ## Action Items - **@Stephanie Williams** - [ ] Text Angelique to notify her that Christi will be calling to introduce herself - [TBD] - [ ] Initiate Wraparound services through the mental health section for Angelique (excluding SCHARP due to conflict) - [TBD] - **@Christi Brown** - [ ] Call Angelique at approximately 4:15 PM to discuss potential placement - [TBD] - [ ] Inform Stephanie Williams of the final decision regarding Angelique’s placement - [TBD] - [ ] Forward the Claude Code training invitation (three-day training on the 27th, noon–2:00 PM) to the colleague - [TBD] - [ ] Take Ladonia to work in Pasadena and provide private room access for her Wrap meeting - [TBD] - [ ] Alert Ladonia regarding communications from her attorney and social worker - [TBD] - [ ] Coordinate a two-way call for the counselor meeting or provide a debrief to the colleague afterward - [TBD] - **@Angelique Cruzman** - [ ] Contact Stephanie Williams to confirm the placement decision after speaking with Christi - [TBD] - **@Vanessa (Social Worker)** - [ ] Provide additional information to the respite payment department upon return to the office to finalize processing - [TBD] - [ ] Confirm the applicability of up to 72 hours of respite care under the current fiscal year policy - [TBD] - **@Speaker 4 (Colleague)** - [ ] Open the “weight room” folder locally, connect GitHub via Claude Code, enable auto mode, sync repository, and use “push” to upload changes - [TBD] - [ ] Attend the three-day Claude training scheduled for the 27th from noon to 2:00 PM - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hi, this is Christi Brown. How are you? Good, Speaker 2 00:00:05 How are you? Speaker 1 00:00:06 I am good. So, you have a nineteen- year- old looking for placement; she'll be twenty soon. Speaker 2 00:00:11 Yes, she'll be twenty on the twenty- ninth of the end of this month. Speaker 1 00:00:15 Okay, um, Would she mind sharing a bedroom with a current uh She'll be eighteen next week and she's going to college August? Uh, We take her to Merced on August eighteenth Oh. Wow. Speaker 2 00:00:30 I don't think so. I don't think she will have a problem. Speaker 1 00:00:33 Okay, is she in college or high school? Speaker 2 00:00:37 She's at this time, not doing anything because of she's been sick with the pregnancy. She was um at a JC but she had to drop out. She was doing it virtually, Um but uh, she is willing to do it once I guess, once she feels better to enroll back into school. Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:59 How much support does she need for her pregnancy? Speaker 3 00:01:03 As far as we mean support, Speaker 1 00:01:06 Um, someone to talk to, getting to doctor's appointments once she has the baby, like help with care, all of that. Speaker 2 00:01:13 Yeah, she's going to need that. Okay. She's never been pregnant before. She doesn't have anyone in her life, just only the baby's father, who who is a year younger than her, and he is very naive. Okay, She doesn't have anyone in her life. Okay, gotcha. I mean, she has a sibling, but they're in foster care as well and they're younger. Okay, but other than that, this is her. Speaker 1 00:01:41 Okay, perfect. Um, Does she is she looking for kind of well, the best way I can put it is like a family, a foster mom that's going to support her and be there for her? Is that what she wants? Speaker 2 00:01:54 To be honest, you really want to be on our own. Speaker 2 00:01:59 Okay, and she had issues, you know, following through with things. Um, she does have a problem. I am gonna be honest; she does have a problem following rules. Okay, But I think she, if she, if she's in the right place and she gets the right support, I think she will be willing to adjust to You know, look at, you know how these young adults get yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:33 Okay. She's not, she's not a really, she's not aggressive at all. Okay. She just, she just likes to um I don't know, she wants her freedom but at the same time she wants support. Yes So I mean, you can talk to her if you want I can give you her phone number, and then you guys can see if you guys maybe a good match rather than going through the whole motion. And then find out it's not gonna work Right. She just got this phone because she lost her other phone on the bus. Gotcha. She's been having a real bad time lately. Hold on, okay, get her new number. Speaker 1 00:03:13 Okay, what's her name? Speaker 2 00:03:15 Her name is Angelique Cruzman. Okay, and she speaks Spanish, But I know she can speak English;. She would be assigned to me if she wasn't. Um, hold on, let me get you her number. Gotcha. And my name is Stephanie Williams. Okay. Um, okay. Her phone number is she just got this phone. Yeah, third phone. No worries, number three. Okay, Eight four zero, area code two five, six, six, eight, six nine, Speaker 1 00:03:57 Six eight, six, nine, Speaker 2 00:03:59 And she is. Speaker 1 00:04:05 Not a problem. Um, just a heads up for you. I have a respite case with me right now, that's sharing a room with my daughter. Okay. And she leaves on Thursday evening. Um, there was a death in the family for her foster mom, so she was placed with me for a week. Um, My uh so just to heads up on that. And then my daughter I adopted her from foster care six months ago. Uh-huh So uh, and she will be eighteen in a couple weeks She's going off to college. And Angelique is is welcome to travel with us if you say it's okay. Um, Speaker 2 00:04:39 Oh yeah, I am fine with it. Perfect. I want her to experience being supportive, okay? Being not feeling like she's alone. Yes, but also too as adults, But um she definitely at this time, especially because she's pregnant, she really needs the support because I've been. Her sole support right now, and she has not really been out of from big trouble or anything. But, she does need to be reminded that she needs to follow through what she's supposed to do, you know, stuff like that. Take care of herself, get rest, drink plenty of water, stuff like that. Yeah. She says she's gonna do it but I don't think she does. Okay And I'm gonna be upfront with you before she was pregnant, she did have a substance abuse. Speaker 2 00:05:34 Okay, but since her pregnancy, she has not used. And she says she plans not to use. But I do encourage her to get in treatment outpatient treatment so that you won't return back to those habits once she delivers. Okay, Good because I would hate for her to uh have a baby or test positive and have a baby removed from her care. Yes, I don't want her to experience that, but she is aware that. Speaker 2 00:06:06 Okay, she know what happens if if she does. Speaker 1 00:06:09 Gotcha. Uh, one really important question I need to ask you, and I'll explain why after I ask you: Does she have a WWraparoundaround team? And if so, who's it through? Speaker 2 00:06:19 She did have WWraparoundaround, okay, but because she was because she uh left the state of California about a month ago to go to Utah to be with family didn't work out, so her Wraparound team has to close. Okay. I do want to reinitiate. Speaker 2 00:06:37 Okay. Which she really utilized what she had. Um, and I couldn't, I couldn't put WWraparoundaround around before because she was out of county, where I have a current place in that THC. But if I can initiate WWraparoundaround, I will contact um our mental health section and get her into it. Do you have a preference as far as WWraparoundaroundaround? Speaker 1 00:07:04 I do. There's a reason for this. I work for SCHARP Southern California Health and Rehabilitation, and they have a Wraparound team. Speaker 2 00:07:12 Yes, I am familiar with that. Speaker 1 00:07:15 Okay, She cannot be placed with me if if that's utilized for her wWraparound team, just because I will have access to. I have Wraparound access to all health records for all clients, even though I don't look at it because of my role within the organization. So okay, I prefer kids not to be used under SCHARP, just because of they're they're one of my clients. Um, wayfinder. Speaker 2 00:07:40 She okay? Speaker 1 00:07:41 Yeah, But I just want to make you guys aware that if she uses SCHARP as her Wraparound, um, Speaker 1 00:07:49 Exactly. Wayfinder is another one of my clients. However, I do not have access to wayfinder. Speaker 2 00:07:54 Okay, I am familiar with wayfinder. Speaker 1 00:07:56 My daughter was through Vista Del Mar. So oh okay, Speaker 2 00:07:60 I am familiar with Vista Del Mar because I used to be the director of. Speaker 2 00:08:05 So, I am familiar with different Wraparound agencies. Yeah, but I am no longer the Wraparound around liaison. Speaker 1 00:08:14 Perfect, yeah. So SCHARP is the only one that she like it would be a conflict of interest. However, Wayfinder is one of my clients, But I do not have access to their client data so that they're not a conflict for me. Speaker 2 00:08:28 So do you already have Wayfinder? Are you using any of your kids in? Wayfinder or because that'll be easier if if that's the case. But, do you have a preference of like a team or an agency that you want me to reach out to or leave um mention in the referral? Speaker 1 00:08:50 I wish you guys could use SCHARP. I love SCHARP. Um, but any others, I have no preference just as long as they're close, and you know, and it works through it. Speaker 2 00:08:59 Well, definitely whatever WWraparoundaround up team we use, it has to be close. Yes. The only way it will work. But if she was already with a Wraparound team, they would probably would have transferred to somewhere else. Speaker 1 00:09:14 Yeah, and that's the only reason why I bring that up, and I have to tell that to all social workers. They can't be with SCHARP and be placed with me because it's conflict. That's the only thing. Okay, Okay, Speaker 2 00:09:24 So give i'm gonna text Angelique Give me a minute. Let me text her, let her know that you will be calling her, so she won't be like, who is this? Yes. Okay, And then you can call me back at the number uh, that I called you from, like two or three two one zero zero one seven six number. That's my county cell number. Okay. Um, and you can text me or call me if you have any further questions or to say to start is, you know okay? Okay, not a problem. All right? Thank you, Christi. And again, my name is Stephanie Williams Thank You ma'am, Speaker 1 00:10:02 So nice to meet you. Speaker 2 00:10:03 Nice to meet you too. You sound like one of my other caregivers who got one of my high- risk kids. You know, just like her. Speaker 1 00:10:11 I am a southern lady who was in foster care myself. That's that's all I can tell you. Speaker 2 00:10:15 So where are you from? Speaker 1 00:10:17 Uh, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Speaker 2 00:10:20 Oh okay, my people are from Mississippi so when I was born and raised here. Speaker 1 00:10:24 I was born here, but raised in the south. So okay, but yeah, let me i'll give her a call around four fifteen. Will that work? Speaker 4 00:10:34 Okay, awesome. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:13:17 Yeah, okay, perfect. Thank you. Is. Speaker 1 00:13:29 It sad that I get excited when I get a call from a social worker with a kid that needs placement and their Wraparound team is? SCHARP period. I feel like I should not be excited about this, But I am excited because then that means the kid can be placed with me. Speaker 1 00:14:35 I Got some solid sleep last night, and by the way, I was already in bed when you texted me go to bed because lol. I was not going to move and risk stubbing, a toe or tripping or falling over. I don't know why it sent it to you twice, but how do you feel about a twenty-year-old? This one needs some help because she. Speaker 1 00:15:36 I'm Gonna call her in a few minutes and introduce myself and see if she will be a good fit. .. I didn't know she goes to junior college. Speaker 1 00:15:56 Hey, I did send you an invite for the meeting so that we can meet on Teams. But I might be a minute or two late because I am getting introduced to a new foster kid that might get placed with us. Speaker 4 00:16:26 That is perfect. Speaker 1 00:16:30 Make sure that you are taking your breaks and lunches. And I am so proud of you as sticking through. Speaker 1 00:17:53 In a few minutes, I am calling a potential new foster kid. She is twenty years old and she has nobody. She might be a good one for you to meet because she's also pregnant. I think this is going to be an interesting case, but I am actually really excited about it. Speaker 1 00:19:12 Hi, Angelique. Speaker 3 00:19:14 Yes, this is Christi. Speaker 1 00:19:16 This is her. How are you? Speaker 3 00:19:18 I am good. How are you? Speaker 1 00:19:19 Good. I hear you need a place. Speaker 3 00:19:24 Yes, that's correct. Speaker 1 00:19:25 Okay, um, Would you like to hear a little bit about me? Or do you want to tell me a little bit about yourself first? Speaker 3 00:19:32 Um, go first. Speaker 1 00:19:34 Okay, um so I am a foster parent. I am about forty six years old. Uh, I only foster teens and non minor dependents like you. So kids that are ages, and I do have a cutoff. So I like ages twelve and up. Mostly because I've been in care for myself, um, and I was adopted as a teenager. Um, And I'll be honest, I was crack baby. My my biological mom had substance abuse issues. Um, I am a single mom. So just a heads up. Speaker 1 00:20:09 It's just me currently, my daughter who I adopted in August, who was in foster herself. And so. Yeah, So you would if you wanted if you wanted it and you wanted to move in, um and you liked me and we agreed on it, You would be sharing a room with her for the next couple of months until she goes to college. Um she goes to college on August nineteenth, so in about six weeks. And, you are free to travel with us to get her moved into her dorm. Just a heads up. Um, how far along are you? Speaker 3 00:20:43 I am currently uh in my second trimester. I'm like around twenty seven weeks. Speaker 1 00:20:49 Okay. Um, I have been pregnant myself in the past. I had a miscarriage, um, I was married and um he He assaulted me, um and I lost the baby. I. Speaker 1 00:21:05 Don't Even worry about it It it was over twenty years ago, Um, so I can help you as much as possible. I know that you, I, I heard and I'm gonna assume that this is correct, but you tell me if it's correct or not. I heard that you don't really have anybody to help you out with that. Speaker 3 00:21:22 Yeah, that's correct. I don't really have any family or anything like that out here in California. Speaker 1 00:21:28 No worries and You and I heard that you need a family. Yeah, I do uh i'll be honest, My family, most of my family is not blood related. They're people I chose. Um, I, I know that you were in junior college going virtually? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:21:46 I was going virtually and I'm learning a lot. Speaker 1 00:21:50 What do you want to do? Speaker 1 00:21:54 Oh, That's awesome! That is absolutely amazing. I have met some amazing dental assistants in my lifetime, so that, that, that is fantastic. I can help you with that. I can help you with college. Um, I just my there's one thing that I'm gonna say, and this is what I say to all kiddos coming through, even young adults like you, Is that you are a part of the family as soon as you move in, if you want to be. Um, we all give a hundred percent and we all take a hundred percent. So the thing about it is um I meet you where you're at if you. Speaker 1 00:22:32 If you need help with things, I will work with you. If I see that you need help with things, even if you don't see it, I am going to not push you in a mean way, but I am going to help you become better. I am going to help you become what you are capable of being. And every kid I've ever met has they're all amazing, including you um but they've heard all their life. They may not be as amazing as they think they are. So my job is to help you achieve what you want to achieve in life. And that includes a healthy pregnancy if that's what you want. It includes getting you to classes or helping you with homework. Um, I just I just need that same commitment from you of, you know, let's like clean up after ourselves. I don't want you to be spotless. I'm not spotless. I have ADHD. Keep your mess contained to your bedroom and your bathroom is perfect. Uh, my only issue is dishes because I don't want bugs. Speaker 1 00:23:31 In places full of cockroaches and ants and all that. I am not going back to that. That's my only thing is rinse your dishes, put them in the dishwasher, run the dishwasher every night. Okay, take out the trash. Speaker 1 00:23:46 Yeah, Now one important question I have for you: Do you like cats? Uh, I do. Okay, I have three. So one litter box is in your bathroom because that's, You you guys have your own bathroom that's in your bedroom. And then one is in my closet. So I just going to ask that you guys they're automatic, just pull out the bag every three days, throw it away and put a new fresh bag in. Dom will show you how to take care of it because that's Dom's responsibility. Um Dom, she will be nineteen or eighteen in two weeks. And she wants to help anybody and everybody, so she's like. Speaker 1 00:24:27 If you need twenty kids living here, I will make room for twenty kids. So that's just the kind of kid she is. Yeah. So tell me about you. Speaker 3 00:25:03 Awesome. Yeah, But I finished school and I'm planning to. Speaker 1 00:25:07 Go back to school and stuff like that. Okay. No, that's amazing. Do you like to watch TV? Yeah, I do. Okay, do you like Dutton Ranch and things like that? Awesome, I have plenty of books. Cool. Yeahum Do you like to play video games? Speaker 3 00:25:33 I don't play too much video games. Speaker 1 00:25:36 That's okay, I'm a gamer. Um, the apartment complex we live in has pools and has a gym. Andum, we are gonna have a party in a couple weeks for Dom. I do currently have a respite kid staying with us until Thursday. But what do you think Do you wanna try it out? Speaker 3 00:25:59 Yeah, I do think uh this will be a great opportunity. Awesome. Speaker 1 00:26:05 Not a problem. Um, I have to jump into a meeting because I'm running late to a meeting, but I wanted to call and talk to you. Um. Yeah, no, I see like me and you as well. Um, this is my cell phone number. Feel free to text me anytime. Uh, if I'm in meetings, I won't respond right away, but I will respond, and then let's uh, let Stephanie know what you want and I'll confirm it, and we'll go from there. Speaker 1 00:26:35 You're welcome, and it was awesome meeting you, Angelique. Thanks. Speaker 1 00:26:52 Hi. I don't see you. Oh, you're just hiding your face from me? Oh, is it because you didn't shave this morning? Speaker 1 00:27:09 Oh, I have a new kiddo. It went really well. Um, she is a non-minor dependent, meaning she's uh over the age of eighteen. Um, and she's pregnant but she has no family in L.A. and she's been in the foster care system. So, yeah, um because I'm only taking non- minor dependents right now um so kids over the age of eighteen, yeah, and she's in junior college to become a dental hygienist. Speaker 1 00:27:39 Yeah, So the the requirements of staying in as a non minor dependent, is that um you have to be enrolled in school. And so she's meeting those requirements. She just doesn't have a place to land right now. So yeah, and Dom's birthday is in two weeks. She'll be eighteen. Her she is no longer trans. Speaker 1 00:28:10 All right, so we have you in GitHub. Let me get logged in. I'm going to share my screen with you, as long as you don't judge my to- do list that's currently on the screen. Speaker 4 00:28:26 My to- do list looks nice. Better? Speaker 1 00:28:40 Off like I am an eighty year old man with COPD, but that's from being on oxygen for as long as I was. So see, there is nothing wrong with my list. Shitake mushrooms. Those are, yeah, those are Dom's the shiitake mushrooms. Green beans are mine. So and I have more, I have a whole. I have hard boiled eggs, egg whites, and some other stuff on here. Okay, so Vercel. I just realized. Uh, hang on one second. What's wrong with my Vercel? Let me log in with GitHub. Continue. Let me get you added to Vercel because uh I just realized you need to be added to this one. Uh skip it. Speaker 1 00:29:49 Yes. Yep, so um Vercel is. Um Vercel's host is the host of it. Okay. Yeah, yep, So Vercel because I only pay thirty dollars a month for all hosting total, it's much cheaper and I don't mind including you in it, because I have all this other stuff that I do um and so you guys are like pennies. Speaker 1 00:30:17 So, I'm that's why I'm like don't don't worry about this. Keep keep this with me because it's not going to cost you anything. Um, so I am I need to add you. Um, where do I add you? I will figure this out. Um, I'll figure this out eventually. Anything you post to GitHub because you have access to GitHub is automatically uploaded into Vercel. Speaker 1 00:30:50 Yeah, any changes you make in GitHub. So, yes. So, in here, um let's see the new weight room. Um, What I did with the new weight room is I built it under its own organization. So, if you go into GitHub and GitHub is like the cream of the crop tool to use. Um and because I've added you you're under the free support because you don't, For the weight room, you don't need to pay for it. It's included on mine, and again, I am paying pennies for you compared to what I do for other people. So I don't want you having to worry about cost. I want this to stay free for you. So this is all your files, and as you are working in it, are you did you get cloth code? Okay, perfect so. Speaker 1 00:31:51 Okay, so how much do you pay for your cloud membership. Okay, that's that's fair. Um, don't ask me what I'm paying for mine. Okay. I I'm I'm double what you're paying. Alright, so what. Yeah. July twelfth. Speaker 1 00:32:21 So, you're gonna go. You're gonna open up the desktop app. You're gonna go into code, and because I'm not on my work computer, I mean my home computer, um, I'm gonna try to see if I can open it. Open folder. I don't think I have it synced. I don't. Yeah. So in here, you're gonna sync it to whatever uh app that you're working on. No, it's not in that one. I think it's under my other system. It is. So basically what you're going to do is you're going to pull up, I'm going to do Adapted Inbox. You're going to pull up whatever you're working on. I'm going to trust the workspace. So this is my Adapted Inbox that I'm working on. But you want to use it just like what you would normally use. Speaker 1 00:33:21 Instead of Adapted inbox folder, you're going to open up the wait room. Okay. So whatever folder you have all the, the code documents and things in. You should already have it because I set it up on my desktop. Um, Sure. Speaker 1 00:33:51 No, you're going to look for the weight room. I'm just using it up too because that's the only one I have. You want the weight room folder for your code base. Share your screen with me because I think I know where it is. Speaker 4 00:34:22 I'm not worried about that. I already have mine on. Speaker 4 00:34:55 I don't see it yet. There we go. Now I'm seeing it. Speaker 1 00:35:13 Okay, so go to documents. I'm gonna put it in there. The weight room website. Speaker 1 00:35:25 Click on that. Yep, that's it. So open up Plaid. Speaker 1 00:35:42 No, Not that. Open up your Plaid app. It Is. Speaker 1 00:35:60 I don't. You're gonna have to stop sharing and reshare. Speaker 1 00:36:17 Okay. So down at the bottom where you see select folder. Mhm, click that. Now go to documents, and go to the weight room website and just click on the folder. You don't have to. And then select folder. Mhm. Now, I want you to go down and click on your name down at the bottom. And then get apps and extensions. Speaker 4 00:36:54 All right, from there. Speaker 1 00:36:58 We're going to look for GitHub. They changed it. Um, go down to Claude Code. Yep, and then wait. Hang on, that's not where I want it to be. Go out of that and try this again. Go to settings. So hit the back button on the top left. Speaker 1 00:37:29 Now go back down to your name. And. Speaker 4 00:37:35 Then look for. Hang. Speaker 1 00:37:42 On, you'll find it. Connectors. Down, down. Yeah, yep. And then at the top right click on Add and browse connectors. Speaker 1 00:37:58 And then search for GitHub, G-I-T. No space between git and hub. But it's not here. They have it taken out. Go back, let's. Yep, you did. Okay, click connect. Yeah, that's where it is. Speaker 1 00:38:28 Alright, click on connect. Next. Yes, you're gonna you're gonna authorize it. Log in as yourself. Speaker 1 00:38:50 Okay. Go back to code. Alright, now ask, Claude, to pull from GitHub. The weight room. Speaker 4 00:39:08 Mhm. Press enter. It's. Speaker 1 00:39:23 Okay, I added them both. Always allow? Speaker 1 00:39:39 Okay, always allow. At the bottom where you see it says accept edits, click on that. And then tell it to auto mode. Enable auto mode. And always allow. Speaker 1 00:40:17 Now, what it's doing is it's taking everything from GitHub, and it's pulling it down to your local computer. That's also checking to see what is correct. So, then you can tell it to make the changes and then make sure you tell it to push it to GitHub. Yeah, you have to tell it to push. The word is push, GitHub. Speaker 1 00:40:52 Once you're once you're ready to push everything to it. Yeah. And that's all you have to do. Speaker 4 00:41:08 Mhm. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:41:17 Uh, it will try to, uh, it does very well. But lately it's been having because I've been making some changes. You might tell it to spin up a local server, so you can see the changes. And local server is a keyword, So just tell it to spin up a local server. So you can see the changes. It will show you how to connect to it, and it'll just be one that you can see. And if you like it, just hit push or just tell us push. Speaker 1 00:42:06 Uh. What I do normally is if I say here's the location where I have new photos, I want to put these on the website, And I give it the location and I approve it, accessing it because it'll ask me to approve, And then I'll tell it where I want those pictures and I'll tell it push up. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, um. Where this is now versus where it was a year ago, and I had you going through Visual Studio. It is a thousand times better. So, I mean I'm constantly building out new things all the time within Claude Code. That's why I had to uh increase it to the two hundred dollar one. So yeah yeah. I if you have. Speaker 1 00:43:02 Time, uh, next time I have a Claude training for a client, I'll add you to it if you can attend. And it's usually an hour and a half to two hour training. And we'll go over the basics. So, I think I have one coming up on the twenty seventh. And it's a three day one so, it's noon to two o'clock I think. It's Monday Tuesday Wednesday. I think so. Speaker 1 00:43:31 But I'll forward it so that you can add to it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:43:47 Yes. Yep. Speaker 1 00:43:51 Yep So, alright, sweet And I would come train with you one day, But not while I am hacking like an eighty year old with COPD. Let me get my energy up. I am just now getting back to the office so. Eight AM or seven AM Yeah. Speaker 4 00:44:18 Okay. Yeah, Good. Speaker 1 00:44:28 I am under three hundred now. Yeah. And then I dropped, yeah, I'm still, I dropped even more at the hospital because they had me on a pure clear liquid diet for four days. I yeah, I'm gonna lose more weight soon when I have surgery but yeah. Yeah thanks. Alright um, I am gonna leave you alone. I gotta go deal with uh new foster kid coming on board, and then my child has a meeting with her. Speaker 1 00:44:59 Uh, I just take her to college in six weeks. So. You see Merced. Yeah, I'll invite you to her eighteenth birthday party plus you know, I'll I'll send you the invite for that. So how's Maria doing? Oh. Speaker 4 00:45:35 Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Speaker 4 00:46:09 Yeah. Speaker 4 00:46:45 Good. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:47:08 Yeah, and honestly the steroids she's she's gonna she's gonna feel good for a while. Speaker 1 00:47:15 I felt like I could take on the world. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:47:34 Yeah. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:47:40 And it will take a while because remember when we would just walk, and, Some days, I could go to the very end. And some days we were like barely down the street. Yeah. So. Speaker 1 00:48:00 Okay, Good. Oh wow, I, I, you reminded me to check something, and my hospital stay so far, I only owe twenty dollars. Yeah, that's a lot of money. Alright, I'll talk to you later. Um, but yeah, I'll come work out with you sometime soon once my energy returns. And give give Blue some extra kisses for me. Bye. Speaker 1 00:49:39 For tomorrow, She can definitely do her meeting while at work with me because there is rooms that she can go into to have private conversations. So that's great. I will alert her about her attorney and social worker. I just had a conversation with her through Alexa and she was eating lunch, and so we uh talked while eating both of us were eating lunch. So I've been checking in with her and she's definitely. Speaker 1 00:50:11 So, I have talked to her today. Um, I'll find out what's going on and why she's not responding. But I did have lunch with her remotely uh using the Alexa tool. So, I logged into the kitchen one, and she was making lunch, and we sat down and talked for a while. Um, and so she is home. She keeps setting off my uh security cameras, which is great um right now she's watching TV. So um. Because it keeps alerting me, there is a person on the television. LOL, but I'll find out what's going on. And tomorrow, she can do her meeting while with you or while with me at work. So there are plenty of rooms she can go in and have private conversations. That's Awesome. Speaker 1 00:51:09 Then, you can go to church on the days that I don't feel like going to church, but we are going to church on Sunday. Speaker 1 00:51:47 Hi Vanessa, How are you? Speaker 5 00:51:49 Good, thank you for asking. I'm sorry to bother you. There was just a little bit of a. I'm thinking a misunderstanding. Okay. And I just needed to know that Ladonia was okay. Speaker 1 00:52:02 Yeah, um, so he just texted me. Um, I'm at work, which I'm only like fifteen minutes from the house. But my Alexa app, um, I logged into it and did a drop in and had lunch with her while she was eating lunch. Um, and so we talked for a little bit. So i I have been checking in with her throughout the day. And because my security system is on at the apartment just by default, because I left, um it does alert me that she is at home watching TV right now. Speaker 5 00:52:33 Yeah, I kind of thought so. Speaker 5 00:52:36 I tried to get a hold of her yesterday and earlier today, but she didn't answer. And I know that that's typical of her. Yeah, sorry. Usually, sheum gets back to me as soon as she can within, like a day or two. Yes, But we had a little issue and I'm again, I'm thinking. It's just a misunderstanding. Um, they seem to have think that she AWOL, but I've been in constant communication with her and I do know that she was still around. And yeah, I've had three people confirm since so okay with that too. Speaker 1 00:53:02 Yeah okay perfect She is going to work with me tomorrow? Um, and the reason why is because we're going to Pasadena, And I wanted her to meet some people in Pasadena thatum that I absolutely one hundred percent trust with her, just to show her what life could be like. Okay, that's a good idea. Yeah, And I had told Vicki that I was going to take her with me. Um, they love it when I bring my foster kiddos in. So um so just a quick heads up for you on that one. And um, so I I will be taking her with me to work. I do know she has a wrap meeting tomorrow, And there is plenty of rooms that she can go into and have private conversations. Um, so we will be. Have you heard of the organization called Ability First? No, I have not. Okay, so that's my client and I am going to be working with them tomorrow. Uh, and I'll be at their site. And. So they work with the disability, uh community and things like that in Pasadena and East L A in Inglewood. Speaker 1 00:54:02 Um. And so I thought that, that might be a good one for her to go visit tomorrow. Speaker 5 00:54:07 Okay, that sounds good. If you guys need anything, uh feel free to reach out. I know Miss uh Wagner had told me that you hadn't received the respite picture. I looked into it. Ium reached out to the people that are respiteponsible for handling, uh that you know, once uh something that has to do with payment or anything financial leaves my desk. Um okay, I no longer have access to it. So when I did reach out, they let me know that. Um, they need some like a little bit more additional information, which will be provided to them as soon as I'm back in office, which will likely be tomorrow. Okay. Um and then they should have no issue with that. I also spoke to Ms Wagner about doing respitepite care for this time that Ladonia is with you. I just need to double check and confirm, But I believe it's every fiscal year she can use up to 72 hours of respitepite care. Okay. And since our fiscal year started in July, I don't believe that there would be an issue, But in case, there was then I would let you guys know Not a problem. Speaker 1 00:55:01 And honestly, Ladonia is such a great kid. Um, if you can't do respite care for this time around, I am not even worried about it because she's been she's absolutely amazing kid. Um, Sadly, I do have a new non minor dependent coming to us in a week or so. Um, but you know my doors are always open for her. Speaker 5 00:55:23 Okay thank you thank you so much I really appreciate it. Speaker 1 00:55:27 No worries, And I am working with her on, you know, getting. I know everybody's trying to work with her, but from my point of view, Having been a kid in care and having been adopted and knowing what she's going through right now, you know we've had some conversations at her level as I understand it. So I know it's gonna come in from all angles. So I'm trying to help her out as much as possible. Speaker 5 00:55:51 Yeah and I really do appreciate it. Any help and support that she can get is more than anyone could. Speaker 1 00:55:58 Yeah, and then just a heads up for you. Um, I am, I have reopened my home. And so, um right now I am doing non minor dependents. However once all my non minor dependents move out and my daughter goes to college, um I am gonna take twelve and up. Speaker 5 00:56:17 Okay that's good to know. So keep that in mind. Speaker 1 00:56:20 Yeah uh, just girls thoughum because just because I I know that there is a lot of kids out there. Uh, that's been trafficked and things like that that need single foster moms. So, that is what I I tend to go towards. So just let me know if you have any kids and I don't have and I have the space. Uh, I'm more than willing to take him. Speaker 5 00:56:43 Well, thank you so much. I appreciate that. I'll make sure to uh take a note of it. And then in case anyone else in the office, uh is in need of placing a person. We'd uh, we'd have a conversation with you and see if it's something that could happen. Speaker 1 00:56:54 Yeah, awesome, All right, I am still at the office and I got some work. I got to get done before I can leave. But thank you so much. Speaker 5 00:57:02 Thank you, Miss Christy, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day. Speaker 1 00:57:04 You too. Bye. Speaker 2 00:57:60 Hi, you have reached the voicemail of Stephanie Williams, CFW three DCFS Pomona office. Please leave a message and I shall return your call shortly. Speaker 1 00:58:12 Hi Mrs. Stephanie, this is Christy Brown. Oh! Oh no worries. Speaker 1 00:58:26 No worries. I am at the office, so feel free to call me whenever you have a chance. Okay, thanks for that. Speaker 1 01:00:40 Whatever works best, I am willing to work around. But just a heads up, there is another kid that I got a call about today. They know that Ladonia is with me, but they may be looking to place her within the next week or two. Speaker 1 01:01:27 No, I have been stuck on phone calls and I keep trying to leave. Is the meeting with your counselor, something that you can two way call and add me into? Speaker 1 01:02:40 It's quite all right. Do what you need to do, and then if you can have a call with him, I don't think he's going to mind you being faceless. But if you do have the call with him, Just catch me off on it when you get home or when I get home or something like that.
04-21 Weekly Meeting: C-boss Contract Management Refinement
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-04-21 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [April] [Anzor] ## Meeting Notes ### Refining Contract Management Fields in C-boss - The discussion focused on cleaning up and clarifying fields within the C-boss contracts section. - It was agreed to rename the `Type` field to `Agreement Renewal Type` to make its purpose clearer. - The `Renewal` section was deemed redundant and will be removed. - The `Agreement Renewal Type` will have two options: `Month to Month` or `Annual`. ### Billing Cycle and Attachments - A request was made to add `Quarterly` as an option to the `Billing Cycle` drop-down menu. - A limitation was identified where only one file can be attached. The system should be updated to allow for multiple attachments. ### Ownership and Contact Information Clarification - The concept of a `CIT Owner` was introduced. This person is the internal champion or requester of a tool (e.g., Mike) and should receive contract expiration notifications. - The `Primary Contact` field will be renamed to `Vendor Primary Contact` to specify it refers to the vendor's contact person. - The `Contact Phone` will similarly be updated to `Vendor Contact Phone`. ### Expiration Notifications - The "notify before 30 days" field will have the label `optional` removed. - A note will be added to clarify that the `Admin Support Team` and the `CIT Owner` will receive all expiration notifications by default. - An additional email address should only be added to this notification field if someone other than the owner or admin support needs to be notified. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Rename `Type` field to `Agreement Renewal Type`. - [ ] Remove the `Renewal` section. - [ ] Add `Quarterly` to the `Billing Cycle` options. - [ ] Enable multiple file attachments. - [ ] Rename `Primary Contact` to `Vendor Primary Contact`. - [ ] Rename `Contact Phone` to `Vendor Contact Phone`. - [ ] Remove the word "optional" from the expiration notification field. - [ ] Add explanatory text that the Admin Support Team and CIT Owner receive notifications by default. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The term `CIT Owner` was agreed upon, but there was no discussion on how this field will be implemented in the system (e.g., as a new mandatory field with a star).
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi, Andrew. Speaker 2 00:00:02 Hey, dear. Yep. Um, okay. Let'sum So. So let's actually uh clean this up a bit Okay So I'm in C boss, right? And we in contracts You're saying So What, what are you're saying Um. Speaker 1 00:00:27 There are renewals that are for like for quarterly. Speaker 2 00:00:30 Yeah. Um, so we have uh type month to month. So, this um the the type we probably should uh make it a little clearer. So, this opportunity for us to really uh customize it. However, you think is right. So when we say type, this probably uh renewal, uh right? Um so so, Wait, what is the type versus renewal? It's either month- to- month or annual or will not renew. Yes. And this is uh annual or month- to- month. So so the type and renewal are almost identical, right? Speaker 1 00:01:16 Yeah, I'm actually got confused about the difference between the two. I can maybe we can just remove type and then stick to renewal and billing cycle. Speaker 2 00:01:27 Um okay. So we can remove renewal, but I think. Got it. So, um, the type, um, this is we should call it renewal. Renewal type? Is that the type or something? Right? So yeah. Um so it's clear that um uh. Speaker 2 00:01:59 So so I think we should ask is this what kind of well renewal? Yeah. So renewal type yeah. Yes, ultimately, it's going to be renewal type. It's going to be either month to month or annual. Yeah, okay. So let me capture that. So I'm gonna say rename type to renewal time typed and remove. Renewal. Yeah. Section. Speaker 1 00:02:35 And then on the drop down, can we add quarterly? Speaker 2 00:02:41 Uh where? Speaker 1 00:02:43 On theum billing cycle. Can you check? Speaker 2 00:02:51 So so so you have something that's they bill us, Qua rterly and we pay that amount that you're going to show right. So effectively if you point amount 4500 monthly, that's monthly is going to bill us this. If you're going to say 45 quarterly right, that's what you're saying. Speaker 1 00:03:08 Yeah, add. Speaker 2 00:03:13 Quarterly to billing cycle, yes, to billing cycle. Okay, what else. Speaker 1 00:03:25 Um, also we've noticed that for attachments, we are only allowed to add one file only. Speaker 2 00:03:30 And that and sometimes we need multiple. Yeah. Okay. Should be able to attach multiple attachments. Um, and so so I guess and, So so we could do this. We could just add or remove and have multiple attachments. But I think if agreement all the agreement expires, right, we probably should be able to say inactive, right? Right. So so original agreement uh still stays there. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 2 00:04:21 People to select. Okay. Um, okay. Anything else? Speaker 1 00:04:34 Um, okay. So for renewal type, does it make sense to add like a quarterly option as well? Speaker 2 00:04:45 Well, you're not going to have You're not going to have, No agreement are set as quarterly. Speaker 1 00:04:53 As quarterly. Speaker 2 00:04:54 Agreements are always either annual agreement or multi- year agreement or, um, uh, right? So, uh, or month to month. Speaker 1 00:05:04 I see. Okay. Let's just stick it to billing cycle then. Sorry. Speaker 2 00:05:11 So, so it's actually I'm thinking, it's not even a renewal, but it's an agreement type right? Agreement agreement renewal type. Speaker 1 00:05:19 Yeah, yeah, we can put that as. Speaker 2 00:05:22 Agreement renewal type. I think that's okay. Type two agreement or maybe a drop even type right? Agreement renewal month to month or annual. Speaker 1 00:05:38 Yeah, yes, that would work as well. Agreement renewal. Speaker 2 00:05:43 Uh okay uh what else we have a note, All right, so right here, right? Um, maybe I just need to add expire notification. So here we're saying notify before thirty days. Yes. Right? This field is optional. Okay. Right? Yeah. Uh, because maybe I'll say here, right? Um, maybe I'll say this field is optional because. Speaker 2 00:06:15 And maybe I will add these two pointers, right? Two stars right here. Mhm. And this will say admin support team will receive all notifications by default. And I'm going to say, well, I'm going to say owner, right? Because now we've added owner. Yes. By. Speaker 1 00:06:37 CIT owner, what do you mean by that? Just to clarify. Like champion for the tool? Speaker 2 00:06:44 Okay, yeah. So well, okay. So so think about it, right Like, let's say this contract is a account management. Right. So this is something that Mike should know about. Like this is for This contract is for Mike, right Or so so for example, um once you set Mike as an owner, he's gonna receive a notification. Speaker 1 00:07:09 Mm I see. Let's say for example, Mike is the one who requested for this tool to be added. So he's the owner. Speaker 2 00:07:16 So we bought it for him. So he's the owner. So he would know in addition to uh admin team, he would also know that this contract is expiring and he might say, I don't even need it anymore. Speaker 1 00:07:30 I see. Following me? Yeah yeah mhm. Speaker 2 00:07:34 So soum so does the word C I T owner make sense? Speaker 1 00:07:40 Yes mhm, Hmm. CIT owner. Yep. Speaker 2 00:07:42 Okay, so CIT owner, I'm going to remove word optional effectively anything with a star means it's mandatory, right? If there are no stars then it's optional. Speaker 1 00:07:54 Okay. Uh one more clarification for the, let's say CIT owner, we're okay with that How about the primary contact? Should that be, Speaker 2 00:08:05 For example," my"? That's a vendor. It probably should say" vendor primary contract." Yeah. Right? Mhm. Yes. So, okay, so keep CIT owner. Yes. That stays as this, right? Um okay and then we're going to say remove optional Yep. Speaker 2 00:08:34 From three fields, and we said rename primary contact. Speaker 1 00:08:43 To vendor. Speaker 2 00:08:46 To vendor primary contact. Yep. Contact. Same for contact phone. Speaker 2 00:09:02 Okay, anything else on the screen? Speaker 1 00:09:07 For end date, that's not a required field, right? It's not. Okay. Because sometimes I think there's no end date yet for some of the okay. I think that's all for now. Status okay. Okay. All right. Speaker 2 00:09:33 So you're clear, right? So here, you would only put someone's email address. Um if if that email should go to someone else other than the owner, or uh the admin support, because admin support and owners will get it automatically. Okay, Speaker 1 00:09:52 Got it. Yeah, copy on that. Speaker 2 00:09:54 Okay. All right, awesome. All right. Okay, let me work on it. I'll let you know once it's done. Speaker 1 00:09:60 Okay Thanks Anzor Bye Bye.
06-19 Meeting: Copilot and ChatGPT License Management
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-06-19 17:04:13 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [April] [Christi] [Sergio] ### Meeting Notes #### Copilot License Assignment and Verification - April confirmed there are 15 total Copilot licenses: 6 already assigned and the remaining needing assignment. - The team compared standard Copilot with Copilot for Business; the Business version is about $9 cheaper (22.05 per user) and functions as an add-on. - Christi assigned the remaining licenses to pending users (Eliza, Juanita, Leslie, Luke, Michael, Nathan, Richard, and Stephen). **Conclusion:** All pending Copilot licenses have been successfully assigned to the correct users. #### ChatGPT/OpenAI License Management and Technical Issues - Sergio encountered technical issues when attempting to upload a CSV file for pending member invites. - Christi prioritized completing the OpenAI setup, noting the previous team had not finished it. **Conclusion:** Christi confirmed she will compile and send the requested list of ChatGPT users. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Send the list of ChatGPT users to the requesting team - [ ] Monitor newly assigned Copilot licenses to ensure they function smoothly by Monday, 2026-06-22 - [ ] Investigate and resolve the CSV upload error Sergio encountered to prevent future delays ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Investigate and resolve the technical error Sergio encountered when attempting to upload a CSV file for member management to prevent future administrative delays. > 2. Clarify the status of the Claude licenses or tasks, as it was mentioned the team was instructed to wait on Claude, but no clear resolution or next step was defined.
- Date
- Jun 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi. So I, an existing pilot license is already, but there's no user assigned just yet. Let me know if I'm correct with my. So wait. Speaker 2 00:00:16 So I I just I was not at home or in front of the computer when I got the email. So I. Mhm. I only show oh. Speaker 1 00:00:28 Okay, I swear there. Yeah, There's a copilot that has six assigned users, and there's one spare and there is nine spare uh but for Copilot business. Speaker 2 00:00:40 I don't even know what the difference is between the two of these. Speaker 1 00:00:43 Me too. So yeah, Basically, I think they only need them they only have fifteen Copilot six of them already have. Licenses and the rest, we need to assign. But I'm not too sure if this is the Copilot business that they're looking for. Speaker 2 00:01:09 Let me see what the differences are real quick. Okay, Let me get logged into because I I find I'm finding that things that I thought was going to get done, did not get done. Mhm. Why I am jumping in. Speaker 3 00:01:30 Okay, got it. Okay, Speaker 2 00:01:41 Wait. Uh, are these business premium? Okay, they are business premium. Hmm. Speaker 2 00:01:52 Okay, it's fine. Um, let me do this. Let me figure out something else real quick. Once she put it together, that's the only difference. Uh, ChatGPT, copy that password. Speaker 3 00:02:10 Let me copy the one- time code. Current property. Speaker 3 00:02:28 The first two were released in 1987 and the third in 1988. Speaker 2 00:02:59 I told the team to only wait on Claude. And they ended up waiting on. Speaker 3 00:03:17 I'm so embarrassed. Speaking, Connie. Speaker 3 00:03:30 I did not do that right. Speaker 3 00:04:08 Alright, let me try this again. Uh, alright. Who? Speaker 2 00:04:17 Alex, Evelyn, Lisa and Mark. Signing licenses. I'm going to add. Speaker 3 00:04:31 Hang on. I I gotta figure out how to do this. Speaker 2 00:04:34 Mhm. Are you assigning? Speaker 1 00:04:37 How about trying to vote? I don't understand why. I don't understand why they did it this way. Speaker 2 00:04:54 Like, Why Why order two different ones? Speaker 1 00:04:58 Yeah, let me check if it was, Christian who ordered a different one, I I think I can see, I can see it from here. Who ordered this? Purchase channel. Let's see. But is uh Copilot business much expensive than the regular one? Speaker 2 00:05:28 For ones uh about. Speaker 2 00:05:35 One's about nine dollars more than the other. Speaker 1 00:05:39 Oh, it says here twenty two point zero five per user. And the other one. See. Speaker 1 00:06:01 Oh My, oh the business one is much cheaper, yeah. Speaker 1 00:06:06 Gotcha. Well, I guess. I don't know with the function wise or features if, business is does have less features than the regular one. Speaker 2 00:06:24 I don't know either. There, well, honestly, it says, there's no difference. It's just one is an add on and the other one's a separate license. Hmm. Speaker 3 00:06:38 Alright, so let me try this again. Speaker 1 00:06:42 Okay. And I think Jason sent Oh, sorry. Speaker 2 00:06:48 But what were you gonna say? Speaker 1 00:06:50 Uh, Jason sent the name of the users that still doesn't have the Copilot licenses, right? Based on the screenshot I sent you. Speaker 2 00:06:58 I I uh had to take a look because I haven't looked yet. Oh okay. Upload CSV Why is this not uploading? Speaker 3 00:07:10 Ah. What the flying crack. That would see us be. Not going through? No, it's it's acting weird. Members, Jason, pending invites. I want to upload a CSV. Speaker 2 00:08:23 Let Me get let me get open AI done first because that was already supposed to have been done by, and they did not do that. Speaker 1 00:08:30 Okay, no worries. Speaker 2 00:08:32 And then I, is there any way you could go in for me? Um. Speaker 2 00:08:40 And take a look at uh. Speaker 1 00:08:47 Admin portal. Speaker 2 00:08:48 No, hang on one second. Okay. I had a million things going on my head. Send invites, all right? Um, Speaker 3 00:09:07 How are you sure? Speaker 3 00:09:13 Alright, hang on. Let me let me try something different. Speaker 3 00:11:40 Nathan. Richard. Stephen. Okay, Speaker 2 00:11:54 Wait, so Eliza, Juanita, Leslie, Luke, Michael, Nathan Richard and Stephen are the song licensees. Speaker 2 00:12:18 Okay, I got them all assigned. Speaker 1 00:12:19 Oh, perfect. Okay, are we good with the co-pilot and Yeah. Are you going to send them the ChatGPT users? I think they're asking for a list. Yep. Okay. All right, I guess that's sorted out. Um, anything else Christi? Before we enjoy our weekend. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:12:51 Uh. I. Speaker 2 00:12:56 Think we're good. Speaker 1 00:12:58 Okay, perfect, Alright, so yeah, if there's anything else I guess I hope everything will go smoothly. Um, by Monday, let me know if there is anything else you need regarding this license. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Christi. Have a good weekend. Thanks to you too. Bye. Okay, bye.
07-16 Consultation: Christi - Telecom Expense Reduction and Vendor Selection
- Notes
- > Date & Time: 2026-07-16 11:00:20 > Location: [Insert Location] > Customer: Christi ## Overview The consultation centered on cutting telecom expenses by eliminating unused phone lines, assessing a potential move to Microsoft Teams-based telephony, and collecting vendor quotes to satisfy board requirements. Christi, who manages IT/telecom for nonprofits (including Ability First and another nonprofit in the Compton Willowbrook area), is coordinating with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and adhering to board directives. Key pain points include an inflated phone bill due to unused lines, limited visibility into line utilization, vendor pressure and internal preference toward Verizon Teams, and the need to compile pricing and persuasive proposals from at least three vendors. Desired outcomes are immediate bill reduction, a data-backed decision on the future phone system, and compliance with board procurement rules. ## Background Since early January, Christi has led three successful Microsoft Teams migrations, signaling growing comfort with the Microsoft ecosystem despite longstanding experience with Mitel/ShoreTel. The ELT has mandated rapid removal of unused phone lines “next week” to reduce costs before any broader phone system changes. The board requires at least three vendor quotes; Verizon has already met with the organization about Verizon Teams but has not yet provided information. Christi is seeking comprehensive usage reports and compelling pricing to compare vendors, potentially including Verizon, the consultant’s offering, and La Costa Telecoms. Payment for an invoice to the consultant was approved and mailed, expected to be received the week after the consultation date (created on 2026-07-16 11:00:20). ## Pain Points Christi must quickly identify and remove unused phone lines to lower telecom costs before any phone system change proceeds. **Impact:** Higher monthly bills and stalled decisions on system migration until costs are reduced. **Current Situation:** Phones have been removed in some locations, but corresponding lines may remain active; there is no consolidated usage report. **Quantitative Metrics:** ELT wants unused lines removed “next week.” **Examples:** Multiple lines likely remain active without devices attached; Verizon has engaged but has not delivered requested information, delaying comparisons. **Context:** The board requires three vendor quotes; internal momentum favors Verizon Teams; historical familiarity with Mitel/ShoreTel but moving toward Microsoft Teams. **Stakeholders:** Christi, ELT, board, current phone vendor(s), potential vendors (Verizon, La Costa Telecoms), nonprofit staff and users. Vendor responsiveness and competitive differentiation are lacking, risking loss of the contract to Verizon Teams. **Impact:** Potential displacement of the current vendor; extended decision timelines; difficulty making a compelling case. **Current Situation:** Verizon has met with the organization but has not provided info; Christi requests “pricing” and “anything compelling” from the consultant. **Quantitative Metrics:** Requirement for at least “three vendors and quotes.” **Examples:** Leadership indicates a preference to move away from the current vendor; desire to switch Verizon rep due to service quality differences. **Context:** The board’s procurement process and ELT urgency drive the timeline and vendor selection. **Stakeholders:** Christi, board, ELT, Verizon, consultant team, La Costa Telecoms. Limited visibility into phone line usage data impedes operational decisions. **Impact:** Inability to justify which lines to cut and quantify savings; delays in executing the cost-reduction plan. **Current Situation:** Christi requested a “report of all the phone lines… and the usage” and asked whether the system can provide it. **Quantitative Metrics:** None beyond timeline urgency; removal targeted “next week.” **Examples:** Lines may remain active after phones were taken out; lack of data prevents immediate action. **Context:** This data is a prerequisite for both cost-cutting and building a compelling migration proposal. **Stakeholders:** Christi, ELT, board, consultant/vendor operations team. ## Expectations Rapid delivery of a comprehensive phone line and usage report to enable immediate deactivation of unused lines. **Specific Goals:** Obtain an accurate inventory of all lines with usage data to identify unused lines for removal. **Timeframe:** Action needed by “next week” following 2026-07-16. **Resources Required:** System-generated usage reports, line inventory, and support to validate and schedule deactivation. **Success Metrics:** Documented list of lines removed; measurable reduction in monthly telecom costs; ELT acknowledgment of progress. **Stakeholders:** Christi, ELT, consultant/vendor operations. Provide compelling pricing and a competitive proposal to retain the contract against Verizon Teams. **Specific Goals:** Deliver detailed pricing, feature comparison, and ROI/TCO analysis attractive enough to counter internal preference for Verizon. **Timeframe:** As soon as possible to align with the board’s procurement timeline (initiated mid-July 2026). **Resources Required:** Formal quote, technical solution overview (Teams integration), migration plan, references/case studies. **Success Metrics:** Inclusion in the final shortlist; positive reception by ELT/board; eventual award or retention of the contract. **Stakeholders:** Christi, board, ELT, consultant/vendor sales/solutions team. Ensure compliance with board procurement requirements by assembling at least three vendor quotes. **Specific Goals:** Compile quotes from Verizon, the consultant’s offering, and a third vendor (likely La Costa Telecoms). **Timeframe:** Current cycle; needs to move quickly given ELT urgency. **Resources Required:** Vendor contacts, pricing sheets, formal proposals, comparison matrix. **Success Metrics:** Submission of three complete quotes; board acceptance of the procurement package. **Stakeholders:** Christi, board, ELT, Verizon, La Costa Telecoms, consultant/vendor. ## Other Information Summary - Invoice to the consultant was approved and mailed; expected delivery the week following 2026-07-16. - Christi has executed three successful Teams migrations since early January, indicating readiness for Microsoft-centric solutions. - There is historical familiarity and preference for Mitel/ShoreTel, but organizational direction is shifting to Teams. - Christi is considering changing the Verizon account rep due to service quality, aiming to match a better-performing rep used at another nonprofit. - Internal communication indicates urgency and executive pressure to remove lines prior to any system change. ## To-Do List - [ ] Provide a full phone line inventory with per-line usage metrics. Deadline: before end of next week from 2026-07-16; Stakeholders: Consultant ops, Christi, ELT. - [ ] Prepare a compelling pricing proposal and feature/ROI comparison versus Verizon Teams. Deadline: ASAP; Stakeholders: Consultant sales/solutions, Christi, board. - [ ] Compile three vendor quotes (Consultant, Verizon, La Costa Telecoms) into a board-ready package. Deadline: ASAP; Stakeholders: Christi, board. - [ ] Share meeting notes from Fathom with Christi due to her emergency interruption. Deadline: ASAP; Stakeholders: Consultant, Christi. - [ ] Outline and schedule a phased plan to deactivate identified unused lines, including verification steps, temporary safeguards (e.g., call forwarding), and rollback procedures. Deadline: next week; Stakeholders: Consultant ops, Christi. > AI Suggestions > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as immediate reduction of telecom costs by identifying and removing unused phone lines prior to any system change. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. Run a 90-day usage audit across all lines to flag zero-usage and low-usage numbers, validate with departmental owners, and schedule deactivation in batches (with a 30-day rollback window). > 2. Implement temporary call forwarding and monitoring on candidate lines for 7–14 days to ensure critical inbound traffic isn’t missed before permanent removal. > 3. Negotiate short-term billing adjustments with the current carrier for identified unused lines while deactivation is processed, citing ELT directives and audit findings. > 4. Stand up a centralized line inventory dashboard (integrated with carrier CDRs) to maintain ongoing visibility, ownership tags, and automated alerts for lines with 0 calls over defined thresholds. > 5. Pair the cost-cutting plan with a concise business case (TCO over 24–36 months) that shows immediate savings from line removals and a clear path to Teams telephony, strengthening your position against Verizon’s proposal.
- Date
- Jul 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 He did not respond. Speaker 2 00:01:43 I Accept it just now again. It's still spinning its little spinny spin thing. But it should go through. Hi, how are you? I'm good. Hang on one second. I need to. Oops. Yeah, that's right. Okay, so uh sorry, my team has asked me to go in and do some um sorry uh. Speaker 2 00:02:17 I approved some things that they were needing help on approving, so I was in there approving. Heads up for you, invoice has been approved for you guys. So did you guys receive your payment? That got pushed through the last two days. So it should be mailed out today or tomorrow, and then you guys will receive it next week. They don't ever do that. Uh, they may they may try to pay online. Oh, good. If they did it with the deposit, then I'm not going to stress as much because it's a long story. All right. Uh, let it be for now because everything is in the invoice um. Speaker 2 00:03:15 We need to work on phone stuff. I need to lower that bill, But I think we have a lot of lines that we're not using anymore where the phones have been taken out, but then I don't know if the lines were ever deleted. So. If we start deleting the, I'm sorry. If we start deleting the lines, how much is that going to lower our bill? Okay, hang on. Hang on one second. You're going to hear a conversation, but you can ignore it. Hey, sweetheart. Hey, I just got done talking to Stephanie about an hour ago. She is submitting a clothing allowance for you for maternity clothes. So as soon as I get that, you and I are going to go shopping for you some clothes. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:12 No worries, we'll get that changed for you. Um, I'm gonna I'm working on that. So I just wanted you to be aware so that you're not stressing about it. Um, I found you a doctor and I just need if you can send me a picture of your medical card, I can get that uh appointment created. Awesome. Thank you sweetie. Uh, I'll see you when I get home Bye Okay sorry, Zach i multitasking today. It's been a little crazy um. Speaker 2 00:07:26 Yeah. Actually, I've lately I've had uh three successful team uh migrations. Now that being said, the clients came to me and said, "We want to go to Teams." But I'm still working through that. And they came, they said, "I want to do this," and it was fairly painless. I was very much surprised. And this has been since the beginning of January. So just a heads up, it is getting a lot easier. But maybe it's just because I'm used to the Microsoft ecosystem. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:08:12 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:08:27 Yes, and I'm I I will be honest, I miss Mitel and ShoreTel. I. Speaker 1 00:08:36 Almost 20 years of dealing with them, and I miss them just because I know them so well. Speaker 2 00:10:52 No, we're removing phones. So basically, What the ELT team and I have talked about for this year is removing any lines that's not being used right now. That is their "I want this done next week" statement to me. Um, and and they're they're very adamant. Uh, this came down the pipeline the other day. Um, But if I can give you a heads up, here's what I need from you before. We can get started on thinking about changing phone systems. I got to get this portion done because if I don't get this portion done, and I have to explain to them what's going on around it, then they're gonna not be happy. So, um, I, is there any way you guys can provide me a report of all the phone lines that we have? And the usage? Is that a capability the system has? Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:12:25 Correct. I'm looking for lines that haven't been used in a while that I can just eliminate now because I got to lower that part of the bill first because they're not going to consider anything else until I can do that portion. Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:14:30 Now, just a heads up. They already have an idea of which way they want to go. So we got to make it compelling to go your way, Because we are looking at the Verizon and they've already had a meeting with Verizon about the Verizon teams. Um so I'll be honest with you, if you want to keep that part of the contract, you got to make it appealing. So just between you and me, me being honest and liking you and your team actually mostly Greg's You're welcome. Speaker 2 00:15:11 At this moment, no, I am trying to get all that figured out. Okay, get me get me the pricing. Get me anything compelling. Um, Now the requirement from the board is that we have to provide at least three vendors right now and quotes. So, we've we're working on We've asked Verizon to get us information, which they have not yet. Um. You and I are talking, And then I got to figure out who my third one is going to be. My third one will probably be La Costa Telecoms, which is a Crimson- owned company. Not it's not Crimson- owned anymore; it used to be Crimson- owned. So. Speaker 2 00:16:05 Yeah, Yeah no. Yeah, I gotcha. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:16:17 It is yeah. Speaker 2 00:16:21 Yeah, and I'll be honest, uh, I have two companies that are nonprofits that I do. I have ability first and have another nonprofit that's in uh Compton Willowbrook area, and it's. Slightly larger than ability first. I'm very seriously considering talking to Verizon and asking to switch my rep and get the same rep. I have for the other one, because my rep here for Ability, First is not the greatest. So. Speaker 2 00:17:12 Yeah. And and I'll be I'll be I'll be frank, Cautious goal when he started the process a little over a year ago, And I didn't know this until I found some notes in his files was to eliminate you guys as the phone vendor because he wanted to move into another direction. I was not made aware of that until this last two weeks. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:17:51 Yeah. Right. Yes. Speaker 1 00:18:54 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:19:08 Yes, yes, we have uh we have a pretty significant discount for them. Uh it's a lot lower than the standard Microsoft rate. Speaker 2 00:19:51 Yeah. Angelique says Moose is crying for food. I'm gonna text Latoya. Text Angel-- No, don't text. I will explain in a second. Gotcha. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:20:56 Perfect, thank you. I need to jump. I've got an emergency. I just got distracted from um I do have my notes. Can you send over your notes that you have from uh Fathom just because the last two minutes um I I got sidetracked by an emergency. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. I. Will i? I do want your notes for this. Okay. Thanks, bye. Okay. Hang on.
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12-18 Consultation: Eldritch Acre - AI Data Security Strategy
- Notes
- Date & Time: 2025-12-18 18:52:28 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Eldritch Acre ## Overview This consultation summary details a strategic discussion with Paul from Eldritch Acre regarding their expanding use of AI. The primary focus is developing a strategy to protect company data when exposed to AI tools, specifically a ChatGPT Business subscription. The client is exploring integrating various data sources (e.g., Box, email) and considering platforms like Snowflake for data management. They seek expert advice and recommendations on the best approach to manage and secure this data—whether to keep it internal, use a specific platform, or have the consultant manage it. The discussion also covered their evaluation of several CRM systems. ## Background Eldritch Acre, represented by Paul, is increasing AI use for strategic tasks, such as sifting through and analyzing hundreds of pages of proposals and documentation. They have a **ChatGPT Business subscription** and are exploring how to leverage it with internal data sources, including **Box and email**. The client is evaluating CRM options like **Hevo, AtlasX, and Gold Plate**. The central issue is Paul’s concern about **data security and governance** as they expose more internal data to third-party AI tools. He is seeking directional guidance and a formalized recommendation on how to best protect and manage their data. ## Pain Points The primary pain point is the **lack of a clear strategy for data security and governance when using third-party AI tools**. Paul is concerned about what happens to data exposed to their **ChatGPT Business subscription**, especially when connecting it to sensitive internal sources like **Box and email**. - **Impact:** This uncertainty creates a significant security risk, potentially exposing proprietary or sensitive company information, and stalls their ability to fully leverage AI across business operations. - **Current Situation:** They have a **ChatGPT Business subscription** but are hesitant to fully integrate it with key data repositories due to security concerns. They are in an exploratory phase, considering various data management solutions. - **Context:** The client is simultaneously considering using **Snowflake**, bringing data management entirely internal, or having the consultant manage it. They are at a critical decision point but lack the internal expertise to choose the best path forward. - **Stakeholders:** Paul is the primary stakeholder driving this, but the decision will affect the entire organization as AI adoption broadens. ## Expectations Paul expects expert advice and a **formalized recommendation on how to best manage and protect their data** when using AI tools. - **Specific Goals:** Provide a clear set of suggestions or a formal recommendation (a “half-page recommendation”) on a data management strategy. This should address whether to bring data management internal, use a platform like **Snowflake**, or leverage the consultant’s services, with a focus on protecting data exposed to AI. - **Timeframe:** No firm deadline was set. The consultant meets with Paul **monthly** and expects to have something to discuss, possibly after the first of the year. The initial request was to draft something in the **next week or two**. - **Stakeholders:** Paul is the direct recipient of this recommendation. ## Other Information Summary - The client is evaluating several CRM systems: **Hevo (an end-to-end CRM), AtlasX, and Gold Plate**. - The consultant suggested staying within the **Microsoft stack** for inherent security benefits, given Microsoft’s security framework around its tools and data. - The consultant plans to send notes to colleague Chris with the specific tool names for further research. - There’s a sense this topic may have been raised with other internal people (like Vince) at the client’s company, but little action has been taken. ## To-Do List - [ ] Research the CRM and data platforms mentioned by the client: Hevo, AtlasX, and Gold Plate. - [ ] Prepare a half-page recommendation outlining data management and security strategies for using AI with internal data. - [ ] Send initial meeting notes to Chris. - [ ] Schedule a follow-up call with Paul—targeting early next year—to discuss the recommendations in detail. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as the lack of a clear strategy for data security and governance when using third-party AI tools. Consider the following: > 1. **Microsoft-Centric Solution:** Build the solution within their Microsoft ecosystem. Recommend using Microsoft Fabric as the central data platform (akin to Snowflake) and Azure OpenAI Service instead of public ChatGPT. This keeps data within Microsoft’s secure, compliant environment and directly addresses security concerns. > 2. **Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouse with Snowflake:** Acknowledge their interest in Snowflake and propose a hybrid architecture. Ingest data from sources like Box and email into Snowflake for cleaning, governance, and masking. Expose only necessary, non-sensitive data to the AI tool. This leverages a platform they are already considering while adding robust security. > 3. **Private AI Model Deployment:** For maximum security, deploy a private, open-source LLM on internal infrastructure or private cloud (e.g., Azure). This ensures data never leaves their controlled environment. It’s more complex and costly but offers the highest protection. > 4. **Phased “Security First” Implementation Plan:** Present a phased roadmap. Phase 1: establish a data governance framework and consolidate data in Microsoft Fabric. Phase 2: pilot Azure OpenAI with non-sensitive data. Phase 3: expand integration to more sensitive sources like Box after proving robust security controls. This methodical approach manages risk and builds confidence.
- Date
- Dec 18, 2025
- Transcript
- 00:00:01 How are you. 00:00:02 I'm good. 00:00:05 How's your Thursday going so far. 00:00:09 You know, if it keeps going like this, it's going to be the best day of the week so far. 00:00:14 That's awesome. Mine's not so bad yet either, so let's try to keep it that way. Let's round the week out the same way. I agree. So I wanted to pick your brain for a minute and see if maybe in the next week or two you can help me put together maybe a half-page recommendation. So I had my meeting with Paul from Eldritch Acre this morning, and it wasn't about anything service-related. 00:00:46 It was much more strategic or directional for them, which has been much more what those meetings have been about. So they're doing more with AI, right? And part of what he's asking, and I gave my input, but I think he's looking for directionally more what we would suggest to them. So they're looking at lots of different things for what they can do. And I kind of mentioned, I was kind of referencing this when we were talking with ARC yesterday, but they're looking at AI opportunities to sift through proposals and stuff to kind of analyze hundreds of pages of documentation about options and proposals and stuff like that to sort of compare things. 00:01:48 And do all kinds of junk like that. But he was basically saying they're looking at this CRM option and. They're looking at something called Hevo, which I've never heard of, which is an end-to-end CRM. And they've also looked at, I guess, AtlasX and Gold Plate. But what he's more concerned about was he was talking about, you know, they signed up with a ChatGPT, like, business subscription. 00:02:22 Yes. 00:02:22 And he was talking about, you know, if they open it up to things like Box and other data sources, his concern, obviously, is what happens with the data that it collects and or that they expose to that, and how do they protect it? And I kind of said, well, you know, they said, he was like, you know, should we... Should we bring it internal? You know, should we put it into something like Snowflake? Should you manage it, help manage it with us, for us, whatever? And I said, well, you know, kind of what we've done today is we've tried to protect that internally. 00:03:08 We've used things like, you know, we've kind of collected and saved that data in something that we can manage internally, like in SQL Server or something like that, so that we can manage it. And if we change our tool set or anything else, at least we're protecting our data and we can we can manage that data internally. 00:03:32 Yes. 00:03:33 But I think he's looking for a suggestion or more of a... Yes. Not necessarily a formal recommendation, but he's basically looking for us to... I think, formalize something or give him some some suggestions about that, because, you know, and again, he used he used he said, you know, they're looking at they do have a ChatGPT business subscription now. 00:04:04 And, you know, if they if they use sources like their Box and their email and their other their other sources of data, should they use something like Snowflake? Would we help manage that? Should they bring it internal? What would we suggest slash recommend to protect this, the the data that they are exposing to AI to to, you know, to. 00:04:38 To protect that data and how should they best manage that? So, can you give that some thought and how we could maybe respond to that? And he wasn't saying, I need this by next week. But, you know, we meet every month. And I think he's kind of saying he wants our input on that, our expertise. 00:04:60 Honestly, Snowflake is the same thing as what Microsoft Data Lake Storage is. And so, it'd be a lot easier if he kept it in-house, meaning within Microsoft. But let me dig in. 00:05:14 And I told him that. I kind of said, you know, if you stay within the Microsoft stack. We have less concern because Microsoft already has their security set around all of their tool set and their data. So we have less concern about it if it's all within the Microsoft stack. But once you go outside of that with, you know, using other tools and other data sources, obviously it exposes more security risks. 00:05:45 So, you know, that that does have other implications. But, you know, if he's using if he's using things like Box and other things like that, I guess, yeah, think about how we could suggest other options. And maybe we set up a call where, you know, he can he can throw the things that the some some information out there and we can start with what I gave you. And maybe you and I talk to him more specifically about it and you can provide some better. 00:06:21 Some better detail around it. I wanted to give you that food for thought. 00:06:26 Yeah, let me dig into it. So Ability, you remember how I've been working on an asset management so that we can get rid of their asset management tool because it's like it's $2,000 a person. So what I'm doing is I was going to do all of its free stuff in Azure. And we already have the data in spreadsheets so we can pull into Dataverse. I've already done all of that. It took me less than 20 minutes to just import it all in. 00:06:59 And it's going to take me another 20 minutes just to set up the power automation so that it sends out the report. And all of that's just using Microsoft. So it would be a very similar thing on Microsoft Fabric (Azure) for him because Microsoft Fabric (Azure) is the equivalent of Snowflake. 00:07:21 OK, so but yeah, I mean, we use we use Snowflake at pretty heavily at Caesars, so I'm I'm fairly familiar with, you know, what it does. And I mean, I wasn't like the owner of it, so I didn't really have like hands on with it a lot. But but we used it heavily for, you know, our data repository and analysis of a lot of our customer information and stuff like that. So but but yeah, it's yeah, it's something that he brought up. 00:07:54 So I'm going to just send you real quick. I'm just going to teams you kind of my notes around. I was just jotting down the stuff he was mentioning so that if you want to if you want to do any research on any of these things, because some of the stuff that he mentioned, I have. It's very business specific, I think, around what he does. So. I mean, around their business, which, you know, Hevo and Atlas X and GoldPlait, I don't know what any of those are. 00:08:24 Sounds like they're CRM things that are more geared toward his stuff. But anyway, so I'll probably set something up maybe after the first of the year where maybe we can just bat some things around. It sounds like he's brought this up maybe to Vince and maybe some other folks, but I doubt that they've really done much. 00:08:44 Yeah, I'll be honest with you. I wish they would, like when clients bring stuff like that up, I wish they would bring that to you and I just because, you know, it's another revenue source for us. 00:08:59 Yeah. 00:08:60 And we can help them do that. 00:09:00 You got it. That's for sure. Okay. Thanks, Chris. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. 00:09:06 Bye. 00:09:06 All right. Bye.
05-22 Meeting: System Access, Budget, and Team Policies
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-05-22 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Susanna] [Michuan] ### Meeting Notes #### System Access, Workflows, and Reporting - **Concur Access and Invoice Workflow:** Christy confirmed she has Concur access. Susanna explained the invoice workflow: a submitter codes and sends an invoice to a cost approver, which then goes to one or two levels of check signers based on the amount (under/over $5,000). Michuan clarified that Christy will upload and approve invoices, with Michuan providing the final approval. - **Expense Report Workflow:** For the IT credit card, Susanna will continue submitting the monthly report. A new approval flow was established where Christy is the first-level approver who will use the "approve and forward" feature to send it to Michuan for second-level approval. - **Planful System Guidance:** Michuan noted Christy has a task in the Planful system due by Tuesday, 2026-05-26. Susanna offered to walk Christy through Planful to ensure she has the necessary access. Christy expressed a desire to set up Single Sign-On (SSO) for the system. - **Planful Reporting and Comments:** A guide was provided on how to add comments to the "IS Details" report in Planful, emphasizing the need to select the "IT" dimension before commenting in column G. Michuan realized her previous comments were missing, likely entered under the wrong dimension, and will re-enter her five comments. - **Custom Reporting:** Michuan highlighted Christy’s expertise in creating custom reports in Concur and Netsuite. It was agreed that Susanna could work directly with Christy to build needed reports. Christy is available on Mondays and Fridays to assist. #### Budget and Capital Projects - **Capital Project Invoice Process:** The team discussed the new process for handling non-recurring capital project invoices. It was recalled that Dan should be included for capital expenditure allocations. However, it remains unclear whether he should be an approver in Concur or just informed via email, and what the approval thresholds are for high-value transactions that might require Sergio's sign-off. Susanna is pending clarification from Carl on an $11,000 expense. - **Budget Discrepancy:** Michuan raised a concern about a $100,000 budget increase request that was missing from the current budget. Sergio confirmed the amount was discussed in prior meetings and was planned to be split across fiscal years. The issue was traced back to information that landed with "her" (likely Kathy), absolving Michuan's team of the error. #### Team, Policy, and Logistics - **Employee Device Replacement Policy:** Following issues with an employee (Ryan) repeatedly losing company property, Speaker 2 suggested implementing a policy where employees are financially responsible for lost or damaged phones, with exceptions for work-related incidents. Speaker 2 will draft this policy. In the interim, Ryan will receive a returned phone. - **Equipment Shipping and Site Visit:** Speaker 2 will personally deliver equipment to a site to avoid a $2,000 FedEx shipping cost, as the equipment is not needed until Thursday, May 28, 2026. The team will visit the site on May 30-31, with work scheduled for June 2-4. A rental lift will be picked up on June 8. - **Supporting a Colleague:** Michuan and Speaker 2 discussed how to support a colleague who feels isolated and overwhelmed. Speaker 2 will schedule a 30-minute meeting to demonstrate productivity tools like Claude and Copilot. - **Interpersonal Dynamics:** The group discussed Jeremy's negative comments about his boss (Sergio) and the company's strategic plan. Kelly's unclear communication style was also highlighted as a recurring issue. - **Onboarding Team Changes:** Speaker 2 announced that Caleb and Pat will be removed from the onboarding team, and Becker will be added as he is the team lead. #### Other Topics - **Connectivity at the Lodge:** The team discussed using a Verizon device connected to Wi-Fi at the lodge to boost cell phone signals, with the potential to include it in the 2027 budget. - **Owl Device Troubleshooting:** Michuan advised a user ("Our cellie") experiencing glitches with an Owl device to perform all software and system updates to diagnose if an outdated computer is the cause. - **City Club Membership:** Michuan suggested that Pete or Onsor might benefit from a City Club membership for networking, but it was noted Onsor is already a member of the Cal Club. - **Upcoming Assessment:** The team discussed an upcoming meeting with "Howard Cloud" for a data-related assessment, with the intention of using internal resources like Christy to implement recommendations. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Christy to be set up as the first-level approver for the IT credit card expense report, with the task to "approve and forward" to Michuan. - [ ] Susanna to email Carl and the team to clarify the approval process for capital project invoices, specifically Dan’s involvement and high-value transaction approvals. - [ ] Christy to complete the required task in Planful by Tuesday, 2026-05-26. - [ ] Susanna to walk Christy through the Planful system. - [ ] Michuan to re-enter her five comments into the Planful report under the correct "IT" dimension. - [ ] Speaker 2 to draft a new policy regarding employee responsibility for lost or damaged company phones. - [ ] Speaker 2 to schedule a 30-minute meeting with a colleague to demonstrate productivity tools like Claude. - [ ] Speaker 2 to email Will and Alex for help with mounting hardware. - [ ] Speaker 2 to inform Kelly about the lift pickup on Monday, June 8, 2026. - [ ] Michuan to set up a one-on-one meeting between Chris and "her" (Kathy) to provide a Claude update. - [ ] Michuan to inform Carl about the upcoming meeting between Chris and "her". - [ ] Michuan to get her home printer issue resolved by Monday (May 25, 2026) or Tuesday (May 26, 2026). ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The specific approval workflow for capital project invoices is unresolved. It's unclear if Dan needs to be an approver in Concur and what the approval thresholds are that would require CEO/CFO involvement. The final decision for an $11,000 expense is pending. > 2. The root cause of the $100,000 budget omission was not fully resolved, and it is unclear if a process review will occur to prevent future errors. > 3. Jeremy's negative behavior was discussed as a significant concern, but no specific actions were decided upon to address this. > 4. Recurring communication difficulties with Kelly were highlighted, but no steps were defined to improve the process. > 5. The proposed policy for employee financial responsibility for lost/damaged phones needs to be formally written, reviewed, and approved. > 6. The process for reallocating recurring charges from the IT credit card to the marketing department was discussed but no definitive action was assigned. > 7. The plan to add a Verizon cell signal booster to the 2027 budget is a suggestion but lacks a formal action item or owner. > 8. There is no follow-up action to confirm if the Owl device troubleshooting resolved the user's issue.
- Date
- May 22, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:14 Hi, Christy. Hi, how are you? I'm doing good. Speaker 2 00:00:18 How are you doing? I'm good. Happy Friday. Speaker 3 00:00:24 So did you were you able to get access to Concur or log in? Yes. Perfect. Perfect. So, um, Do you know if Michelle is gonna be joining us or we can get started. Speaker 2 00:00:37 Um, I do not know if she's going to be joining us, but yes, we can get started Okay. Speaker 3 00:00:43 Perfect. Soum I'm sure you're kind of familiar with how it works andum like different expense report and stuff But I really wanna just go over our invoice processing with you Um Cause I I. That's, the otherum question that I really have for Michelle is what what's the exact role that you'll be doingum in the invoice, um module. Okay. So. I can I don't know. I can just share my screen right now, but you should this probably, Looks familiar to you. Are you only involved in the expense module with your other client or invoices as well, Speaker 2 00:01:23 Invoices as well? So basically with the other clients that I doum. They'll bring me. They require me to sign off on any invoices before they're paid. Speaker 3 00:01:37 So, um, I'm, assuming that's going to be happening for for some of your IT invoices because I know she wants you to look at like the Lenovo and then Canon just IT related invoice as well. So, um, As far as that go, the approval, it's gonna be on your approval, queue like your other clients. So that's gonna be easy, but. Um. Hi, Speaker 4 00:02:03 I'm on just I'm just going to step out really quick if you don't mind. I just got a package, so if you guys can give me just one moment, I gotta pull this package in. Okay. Thank you, but feel free to go ahead and I'll catch up. Speaker 3 00:02:15 Okay Soum the way that our invoice processing goes is that we have a submitter right, like some, the one that codes it all in blah, blah blah. And then they submit it. And then. I think this is more of like a customized workflow. I don't know how other people use it, but we have a cost approver, and the submitter selects the approver by filling in one of the fields. So, if they selected that, oh, it's an IT invoice. And if they want you and Michonne to approve it, then it's going to go to you and Michonne. Okay. And then once the cost approver approves, then it goes through one to two level approvers so like. Speaker 3 00:02:57 We have a check signer number one, for any checks that is less than five thousand, any invoices less than five thousand. But if it's if it's over, then it requires check signer number two to approve as well. So that's that's how that's really how our invoice processing goes, um. I think this other part I'm gonna have to wait for Michelle to come back cause. But now, um, all the purchase invoices and all the IT invoices are going to her. And I'm not quite sure if you're gonna be like the submitter or just like approver number one. Do you know about this? Speaker 2 00:03:45 Um, I do not know. Let's wait for her to come back. Speaker 3 00:03:52 And I've provided you like all the access that I have as well. So, and I don't know, honestly, I'm not that familiar with the reporting. I used it for some of them, but that was like already built when we first started. And then you know, i went through a lot of customization. So, i'm not too familiar with like building new reports on the on the portal. Speaker 2 00:04:15 Okay. Yeah we can work through that if you want some help. Speaker 3 00:04:20 She's really good with it, Kind of helping inum collecting some data, so I don't know. Speaker 4 00:04:25 Susanna, I'm sorry to cut you off. I just want to, you know, like Chris is really good with like figuring out report writers and systems. Like, You just give her not even a day, and she can figure out how to do customized reports in the system. Like hands down our problem. So I'm just going to say whether it has to do with this invoice system or Concur or even Netsuite, if you all have questions. I'm not saying you give, you know, You guys talk about the access you want to give her and that, that's in next week. But she's really, really good with report writing. Speaker 2 00:04:59 So if you have something, Speaker 4 00:05:00 You were like, hey, I need to to dream this up. She's like a great go- to person. Speaker 3 00:05:08 Got it. Okay back Yeah. So I I do a lot You know when I deconcur and I was trying to build a report, You know, always go to the support, and sometimes they would like. It would tell me if it's free of cost, or if I have to charge me to build to customize something. And like there's some like they have a data warehouse or something like that. I had to go through like step by step, some videos to, build the report that I want. That was kind of. Speaker 4 00:05:32 I would like you, you know, just just just for you. So like you can go through it with Chris and say, like, hey, we need a dashboard. We this is what it really the data that we really need. Here's the data that I'd like you know it's nice to know, but I have three reports I've got to pull in to create a dashboard. When I say like really great at doing that kind of stuff. So, I don't and you don't have to include me, but you just go hey Chris, I need to make this happen. What you got? It's literally you just book time with her. Yeah. Especially. Speaker 2 00:06:05 On Mondays and Fridaysum You won't see my bookable. You won't see my time in my booking tool. But just reach out. I am more than glad to help. Speaker 3 00:06:14 Perfect, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Um, yeah, Concur reporting is I don't know. I feel like maybe I just never got their training in the reporting, so that could be why it's difficult. But um Michelle, There was one thing that we I want to wait for your return before proceeding. Was that I'm not quite sure what uh Chris's role is is Is. She just gonna be the approver? Or will she be the submitter for some of the invoice as well? Speaker 4 00:06:44 So, we okay. So this you and you can I think we can kind of talk through this. Um thank you for that is, From what I understand, this is a little bit of pressure on you all to like, book all the invoices and then like, allocate them, to the right codes and then. Get me to approve them, and so what we were thinking is the invoices go to Chris. And she can upload them. Andum approve them on her end, and then I can prove them on my end. So Chris, is that right? Did I say that right? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:07:20 Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. Oh, and so basically because I am watching the budget, I am trying to get the reports in for that you guys need for budgets and stuff. But in addition to that, If I don't know something like, let's let's take for instance, the ISP issue. If I don't know, you guys are still being charged for it, I have no visibility into it, I can't stop things from happening on my end until you bring it up. So we also want to mitigate that issue as well. Speaker 3 00:07:50 Yeah, that's so that has to do withum, That's the other issue because that one goes through expense report because it's on the I T credit card. So, it wouldn't be in the invoice module and The way that our current approval flow is set up for the. Expense report is is only go through one level of approver, so. I don't. I think we can add a second level, but that might be universal. So. Chris, you might know this, But uh, you might know compare more than me because I know there's a way to customize the approval flow. But I don't know oh, Speaker 4 00:08:29 Where you can have levels of approval. Speaker 3 00:08:31 Yes, cause right now, all the expense reports just going to that person's supervisor, right? Um Mhm. Speaker 1 00:08:38 So then, Speaker 3 00:08:38 If we want like Chris to approve the IT credit card on top of Michelle, thenum that means we have we need to have two levels. So I know we can set that up, but I don't know if setting up that change will affect everyone else. Speaker 4 00:08:53 You know what? Can you give her proxy? Can she be my proxy? Cause you know how Eunice was my proxy. Speaker 3 00:08:59 Oh yeah yeah I uh I can give her that. Speaker 4 00:09:02 Cause I don't know, but I don't know if that completely comp gets it, but at least. She would be able to see, you know. Speaker 3 00:09:11 Or or I mean if you don't if you don't need to approve it, I can just change the approver to Christie. Speaker 4 00:09:17 I actually do because I actually push. Um okay so let me ask you this, You know how uh if I approve something my approver is Serge Well yeah, I guess, we do need to find out if there's could be multiple level of approvers, then darn. Cause he's still gonna want me to see them, To do just like a final, Like oh, here is the number, that's our number. Great. Uh, but I don't need to like every transaction approve. Speaker 3 00:09:46 I can't what I can do is I can set Christy as the approver and then procedure. There is the option to approve and forward. So instead of approving, then you can approve and forward to Michelle for like second level approval. Speaker 2 00:09:59 Yes. Okay, that actually works well, yeah cause I. You and I have talked about approvals, so I know which ones you need and which ones you don't. So yeah, that would be perfect. Speaker 4 00:10:12 And, then one of the things another well, another item that I think we're trying to look at in next year is what actually belongs to us. And so for example, The marketing stuff they should have their budget should go up enough for them to have all of the marketing stuff. Now we should probably still have, Um. The D uh the, uh email, cause we we manage that on uh not the email theum. The login. The URLs, Um we should probably still pay for those Chris yeah on our card, but they should pay for, The website because they manage the website mm, hmm. Speaker 3 00:11:01 Where the confusion comes in, right like. They I believe it's in their budget, but they just put it on my card. It's still goes back to their but budget, like it still goes through the actual. Speaker 4 00:11:13 Oh okay good that's helpful to know because I'm like why am I approving? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:11:18 Soum uh uh it it is like that on the expense report cause uh I do designate like you know, content contact is split between you know, marketing and development and whatnot. Hmmum. So that is done, but it's just that because it's on the I T credit card, then you are the like default approver for it. Uhhuh. Okay. Um, the other I think they should put. Speaker 4 00:11:46 I do think that they should move that transaction to their credit card. Speaker 3 00:11:49 Yeah, I agree. I agree, it just cleaner that way, um so so that's set forum IT credit card so Chris I do, Submit the IT credit card like every beginning of the month, cause our uh deadline is like uh the six or something. So I do submit around that time. And then you will be the approver going forward. And then once you approve, you have to approve and forward to Michonne. Speaker 3 00:12:17 Yeah, And then Michonne, you will have to approve. And with that said, Michonne, I'm still waiting on your approval for the uh. What do you need me? Uh which one? On the Aprilum credit card. Speaker 4 00:12:28 Okay, let me go in right now. Okay. Around the line. Speaker 3 00:12:30 Thank you. So going back to the invoice though, So I know thatum you know, we are currently doing the allocation for Lenovo, Canon and some of the internet bills are not with credit card, and we can continue to do that. And then we'll have Christy as the first level of approver, then it goes to Michonne. Yep. Okay, but so there were like invoices that are like you know this. Capital project that just came in or likeum basically non recurring things. With those, do we. How do we want to process that I mean. Speaker 4 00:13:11 How, do you normally put Do you Do you submit the invoice? And like that's what you you all are normally doing. I guess how do we normally do it right now? Speaker 3 00:13:23 Well for That's a question That's. Like this is like the first capital project that's being done. Oh, Speaker 4 00:13:30 Okay, I got your point. Speaker 3 00:13:32 Like, you know, Dan usually submits the invoice. And then and you know, we don't we don't get involved in it because it was somehow IT related then this there's this confusion. Speaker 4 00:13:40 I think Carl was making a recommendation, and we probably need to circle back with him. But I think from my understanding, Carl was saying, what we need to do is we need to loop Dan in when we're going to allocate, and we don't even know where we're allocating most of the time. I'm, like, hey, is. This like if I don't know where to allocate, I usually reach out to you all. Um and and ask, But I think he needs to if it's a capital expenditure needs. He needs to be on the email. So he, when he's approving it as a part of because I guess, the capital budget mainly falls to him, which makes some sense. Um So I think we've got to make sure we're including Dan on that process as we move forward. Speaker 3 00:14:21 Just in the email or in Concur as well? Speaker 4 00:14:25 That is going to be a Carl question where he wants him to understand. Speaker 3 00:14:31 Okay. That's a good question. So then I think we might, I might, I'm gonna have to, I'll send an email to all of you to kind of ask that. Yeah. But for the time being, because we, I know we have that eleven thousand deposit that we that needs to go throughum. Speaker 3 00:14:52 The shirt does Sergio need to approve that because this is where I'm confused too, right? Yeah, Speaker 4 00:14:57 No, I don't know. Um, I think here my question would be if it's in budget and already approved, he probably doesn't. But if if it's not in budget and it's a capital expenditure he might. But, there's also I don't know if there's anything in the bylaws that he has to approve transactions over a certain amount period. Speaker 3 00:15:17 Not or could be the C E O and C F or C F O. Speaker 4 00:15:24 Soum, Yeah, I think that's where we maybe need his and Carl's guidance of when you know if it'sum if it's over ten k, Is it over five k? Like at what level do we need to make sure. It's a double approval process or triple. Speaker 1 00:15:43 Okay. Um. Speaker 3 00:15:47 I think eventually we'll we need to kind of. Get together and talk about that. Okay. Well, um as far as concur training goes, I think Christy, I don't need to train you on anything, right? Um you're fairly familiar with this. Um yeah, just like whether you're going to be a submitter for anything at all or just a first level approver before Michelle. That was just my confusion there. Speaker 4 00:16:17 Okay. Um, I think the other question that I have is, um, Around I think what we were talking about earlier is like from like a dashboard or information standpoint. I know we're going to be meeting with Howard Cloud. I think that's the name of them. Um, but and and we've looped Kristen on that she's aware. Um, I guess, we're needing to know you know, is there anything that we could be doing internally? Speaker 4 00:16:49 Um, to just you know, as we were talking about earlier making making life easier. So as you all begin to think through things, we. We we're mindful ofum. Your needs from an IT perspective. Speaker 3 00:17:13 Yeah, that's a that's a question because right now we're part cloud is more like, Telling us what we can do better, um, in terms of like data goes. But I don't think they're gonna be doing any. I mean, there is they're doing like aum just a quick assessment. But in terms of like you know actual changes or like keep building the dashboard or anything specific, I don't think they're doing that unless we pay them more. Okay. Speaker 4 00:17:45 Yeah, well, I think that's what Carl and I talked about is that we would see what they said. And then we would use internal resources to accomplish the goal as best we could. Speaker 3 00:17:54 Yeah. I think I think that makes more the most sense because I don't think I mean. I don't really need them to set up like a K P A uh, like an A P I integration or anything. We could just reach out a third party and, yeah. Speaker 4 00:18:11 Um, so I do have a question. I've approved everything in the system, but is there a way for Chris to see those now? Like what everything that he approved for April? Speaker 3 00:18:21 Yes, because she's she's in as an admin, so she has access to everything. Okay. Speaker 4 00:18:28 So Chris, voila! There you go. Speaker 2 00:18:31 I just approved April. No worries. I will go in and take a look. I do knowum, Suzanna, there's uh things that are required and due by end of day, and I wasn't on that email. Uh, it got. Yeah. Um, I am trying to finish up the request for you guys, but I won't have it to you until Tuesday. Speaker 4 00:18:52 That's true. Yeah, I think she received it the day it was due andum it may help to send her or uh Chris, I think I may have sent you with Kathy's email? Yes Did you get that from me? Okay Yes, And I went in and did the H R one. Um, do you want to show her that one in NetSuite really quick? Um, that may be helpful to show her what I mean Planful, what she needs to approve there or do we already do that? Speaker 3 00:19:19 Okay. I was confused of like what we're doing. Speaker 4 00:19:21 The variance. Yeah, not yeah. I'm sorry There's so many systems as like Planful. I'm saying all the all the systems about the one that we need to be in uh It's Friday y'all on brains fried. Um. So the one that she needs to be in is planful, And if if we could show her what she needs to go in and approve. Cause I know we had a couple of weeks back, we had a training. It's been a while since then, and then she has a deadline of Tuesday. Speaker 3 00:19:47 Okay, um Christie, It would be great if you could like log in and follow along because I just want to make sure that you have all the access that you cause I don't think we were able. We uh we went through training with you sharing your screen. Soum. If you could follow along, let me know if you're not seeing anything, then I could like fix it up for you. Speaker 2 00:20:05 Yeah, let me get logged in. Speaker 2 00:20:19 I Desperately want to get SSO created for you guys and planned for Single Sign- On. Yes. Speaker 4 00:20:26 On a peak civilian ID. Yes. Speaker 2 00:20:31 Uh, it's so secure. It's so much easier. Every time I see that come up, I am like, uh, we need to do this. Oh my goodness. Speaker 4 00:20:39 Last night Chris. Uh while you are pulling it up last night, I was at dinner, and somebody was talking to us about quantum computing and what that's going to be like. And then Sherry was like wait a minute. I am just the AI is just a thing hold on a second. Oh. And they were talking to us. They're in HR, so it sounded very random to the like I was like, hold on a minute. My IT person and I we're not even talking about this. So I am going to say, I, we have to get a good wrap around AI before we just like hop over to quantum computing that that, no, no, yeah, absolutely not. Speaker 2 00:21:17 Hey, I am giving i am giving a uh uh, Advanced AI course in Copilot and Claude next week, so or not next week but in two weeks. You are definitely invited, so thank you. Speaker 4 00:21:29 Would you say is that just for us? Is it all clients? Is one of the all client plans It's one of all the all clients. Okay, Yeah, if you could, if you could just invite invite me I am definitely there because yes, I need to finish my minions So Susanna she hasum. And I really do think it's like the little the minions from the movie. She has like forty nine minions, and so they do these tasks for her. From AI. Speaker 3 00:21:60 Yes, oh, like you tell them what to do and just do it like it's like. Speaker 4 00:22:05 Yes, but it's automated so basically the task itself triggers the next task. Speaker 3 00:22:11 I've heard this like I, Yeah, my friend is so into stock trading, and then she was like," Y ou can code set up a code for claw to like build things, and they could auto trade for you." I don't know. Speaker 4 00:22:24 It was so that seems crazy. But but I am it's probably very brilliant. But I am just likeum I'll do that with like five books, like on the pennies to about stocks. Not doing not with big money. Am not there yet. My trust level with it is not there yet, but so Chris has done an amazing job of like, She has different minions. Basically, they're avatars to me. That's what they that's the easiest way to reconcile them for me that, that are like an assistant. And they're actually doing work for her and not just one singular task. They're doing multiple tasks for her, Speaker 3 00:23:02 Just like an assistant would. Wow, I need yeah So I am like stop talking to me and and Carl, and start talking to. Speaker 2 00:23:14 I Have a minion named Becker that's based off of my real life. Becker that is y'all's team lead on the help desk side, and he's a team lead for Ability First in real life. But in in my minion life, he handles your budgets and stuff like that. He puts I give him the information, and he updates my budget spreadsheets, and then I go and work on it after. He does the things I don't want to do because it's boring. Speaker 3 00:23:43 I definitely need one of those. Speaker 4 00:23:45 You, I mean, Suzanne. I am thinking, you need a weekly thirty minute call about your problems with Chris. Just saying, Speaker 3 00:23:55 Sometimes like you don't know if it's a problem like it's a problem until other people tells you. It's a problem right Like. It's part of your routine, right? Speaker 4 00:24:03 But the minute, you know for that next week, you are like," Hey Chris, This was a problem last week, and I don't want us to be a problem anymore." Speaker 4 00:24:14 It's like that. Speaker 3 00:24:16 All right, Chris, are you on? Yeah, I have one. Okay. So toum I think the task that you're referring to is to uh comments, right? Comments on the month- to- date thing. So the you have a couple ofum icons in your navigator, and then the one that has a grid is the reports. Okay, so once you click on that, it will bring you to this table. You should not have all these stuff. You probably have like a general admin report and then an IT folder. Speaker 2 00:24:50 I have a few things so. uh I general admin reports and that's it. I. Speaker 3 00:24:56 Will need to give you the IT folder, but okay so once you click in the general admin report, you should see these four reports. Speaker 2 00:25:03 Yes, I do see the the re- budget, the finalized budget, The employee cost and the IS details. So I do have that. Speaker 3 00:25:11 Perfect. So the only, the one you will be working on is the IS details. So once you click on that, um, it's gonna load and give you a report. Um, Right now. So this is the this is the weird thing. Speaker 4 00:25:29 It's a roll up, right? Speaker 3 00:25:30 This is everything Yes, So I have everything, But you should only I think I think I only gave you access to it. But the thing is, because of your dimension, it's currently under department main and programming. So you're probably seeing comments other people left under that dimension. Yeah. Um what I what I need you to do before leaving your comment. So other people don't need, don't see your comment is that click on department main. Speaker 3 00:26:01 Uncheck department name and then click on it. And then click on this arrow button, that's the run button. So then once you run that, Uh now on top, it should say, IT and program name and all the comments that is like not relevant to you will disappear. And I need you to perform this step every time before you leave a comment. So then this way like, You know, I know where to find your comments. It's it's going to be under the IT dimension. I don't need to be like looking through the uh the department main or like other different areas. Speaker 4 00:26:38 And then you hit save right? Cause that's that's what I did right after you're done, you hit save. Speaker 3 00:26:42 No, you'll You don't actually Oh okay, Speaker 4 00:26:44 I'm sorry. I was hitting save cause I was like oh am I writing this again? Like, yeah, so like, Oh, no, not be writing all this data again. Speaker 3 00:26:51 Your call is auto saved Oh nice! Speaker 4 00:26:53 That's good to know cause i was like i i did it, I not only did that, I actually copied it to another sheet because I was like, I'm not writing this again if it didn't save right. So that's great. Thank you. Soum. Speaker 3 00:27:07 So so to leave a comment, uh, we're uh having you leave a comment in column G. Yes. Soum under like any specific account, Uh you can right, click and click on comment, and then you can type in like, you know blah blah blah, Okay. However, it wouldn't work on the total ones because like like you see here, once I right-click on it, it doesn't have that comment function. So it has to be like an account row. Okay. And then for you to like, you know, figure out what actually made up this dollar amount, you can double click into it. Um and then it will give you like the transaction detail. Speaker 3 00:27:51 Of like, oh yeah, This one is made up from the um C I C I O support for ten thousand dollars. And then the the um, business service for twenty three thousand. Okay. Yeah and then yeah, so then here's same thing here, our software, what made up our software, you double click into it. It will have the detail here um. If it doesn't say under vendor, causeum like you see here, it's all under IT department because it came, it's on theum credit card. Then you could look at it in the description where it says, you know, cloud. There's Concur. There'sum you know Adobe license and Zoom. So that's all coming from that's all hitting this account. Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:28:37 That makes sense. Speaker 3 00:28:39 Yep So yeah, so just go through. And then uh right click on a comment. Once you comment, um, let me just like test it. And then once you leave comment, it just stays there. It doesn't show up until you do like a if you run this report again, click on the arrow again. Then like it will show up in column T. Okay right here. Okay. And then click on the resolve, actually removes the comments, so try not to do that. Um yeah, but I'm gonna delete this so and then. Speaker 3 00:29:14 The other thing is, uh, try not to click on the reload button. So reload button like kind of refreshes the page to how you originally came in. So it'll bring you back to department name and program name. And then load is like, you know, load the page with the selection that you made kind of thing. Gotcha. Speaker 3 00:29:35 Any questions? No, I think that was really helpful. Speaker 4 00:29:40 Um. um. Oh, you know, on mine there is one. Can you go to the H R one and. Uh, if you can go to the H R one, I wanted to show you something. And I was like, what happened here? It's a little wonky. This report? Nope it's the ice I S whatever. I did the same thing with uh. The previous report in an HR folder. Speaker 3 00:30:04 Oh, oh, yes, yes, like a document, okay. So like in this one by H R, right? Speaker 4 00:30:09 Yes in in H R. And if you just scroll down to the. Towards the bottom, there was one amount that just sent this report crazy. Keep going. That one, the last one. I was like, what in the world? Speaker 3 00:30:24 I think it's because there's no likeum budget, then it just creates this like because there's a big percentage over a zero dollar amount. Speaker 1 00:30:33 Yes. Okay. Speaker 3 00:30:34 Okay. I think that's fine uh but it definitely looks weird Okayum. Speaker 2 00:30:41 Do you guys want to see something very adorable? Sure. Okay, hang on. Oh, wait. She wants in my lap. And she's being very ornery until I walked until I picked her up and now she's following Susannah's mouse. Oh! She is she is very annoyed that you stopped moving your mouse right? Yes, this is Bree, This is the oldest cat that she has. Speaker 4 00:31:14 Bree doesn't have an IT column, so you know. Speaker 2 00:31:17 She does, but not for you guys. Okay. She's a mascot for Sharp. You guys have moose? Hey, Speaker 4 00:31:23 Moose and what's the other one? Speaker 2 00:31:26 Uh, Ifa. Speaker 4 00:31:27 Ifa Yeah, we got moose and Ifa They're hilarious, okay, and I'm seeing my, but I don't see my comments showing up for you. So I will guess go put them back in. Speaker 3 00:31:37 Or did you put them under department name? That could be why. Oh, Speaker 2 00:31:42 I think that's not a good place. I just lost my nail on Bree. Speaker 3 00:31:49 Oh, do you remember which? Speaker 4 00:31:52 I don't, I thought I did it. I was like finally a good week. All right, I copy, I made a copy of them, so i'll go put them in again, It's only five of them. Speaker 3 00:32:06 Okay. So um. Yeah, I will send an email to Carl to figure out um what we want to do with the. I T not the I T but like the capital um the, capital projects related to I T and how we want to include Danny here, Um and how we want to submit this eleven thousand dollars for, like who needs to approve it. Speaker 4 00:32:36 Um, it was it was just in the report right now. It was just on my expense report. Speaker 3 00:32:44 Your expense report? Mm- hmm. Speaker 4 00:32:47 Yeah, It was just on I'm. Sorry, yeah. It was. What was it just on I, just seen it. That wasn't clear. It was so. Speaker 3 00:32:54 Wasn't even showing concur, but like it was, it was pending your submission. That's the. Speaker 1 00:32:59 Oh okay. It It wasn't there already. Speaker 3 00:33:05 Yeah but like you know, Gotta figure out who's gonna submit it and likeum, Who who like who should we should send it to for approval kind of thing. Speaker 4 00:33:14 I uploaded it. Okay, well you all let me know. Speaker 3 00:33:17 Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:33:19 I think I did, I think I put it in there so, It's in there so just tell me what y'all want to do with it. Okay. All right, I'll go into con i'll go into Planful now and re- enter my notes darnit. Speaker 4 00:33:35 U m, okay. Thank you. Is there anything else? No, that's it. Okay. Uh, Chris, can you hold on for a second? Absolutely. Speaker 4 00:33:45 I need printer, my home printer to get up to speed? Okay, Speaker 3 00:33:50 Have a great weekend or long great long weekend. Speaker 4 00:33:53 You too. Speaker 4 00:33:59 Bye. So one my printer, yeah. Um I took a picture. Hopefully they can get that in. Um, the others. I hopefully they can get that in by like Monday Tuesday, Um because that's some reports that I need to work on at home forum the compensation. And my home printer is essential to do that. Um so just F Y I if you can put a bug under their ear or whatever. Speaker 2 00:34:23 I'll go ahead and just approve it. Speaker 4 00:34:26 Okay, um the other one was Ryan Oh my dude Ryan, I don'tum, I don't order phones. So I think I talked to you about this, and I was like, "I don't order phones for him. I don't. I don't know where the phones are." And then I was saying, " I don't want this guy to get a new phone because he's lost a bunch of stuff already." Gotcha. And like, "I don't want him. I don't want to reward him." And that's some. "I don't want to be punitive, " but kind of do because he he's lost a bunch of stuff, like he loses his badge. This is not the first phone he's lost, Chris. So am like, "I feel like if somebody has returned phone, he should get it." Speaker 2 00:35:00 There was a returned phone in my office, And I am going to repeat the heads up I gave to the team the other day. Yeah, and we'll give him that one because it's in an Otter Box. Now, when I worked for Fox, yeah, um, I like their policy which is why I am bringing it up. They had a policy that HR was one hundred percent behind, and that is if you lost or damaged your phone. You were a hundred percent responsible for paying for the replacement or to get it fixed out of your own pocket. Speaker 4 00:35:35 Yeah, if you got that policy, I am game. Speaker 2 00:35:38 I will write it up. I don't think I have that policy anymore in writing because I purged all those files, but I will write it up. Speaker 4 00:35:44 Know, am going to get pushback from program people and that's okay. I think Sergio would be in line because we don't have it happen often, But he's like lost a bunch of stuff already, and i am like mm, hmm. And and cause we he's already approved badges, like, if you lose your badge. And then, of course, you know, program people were like, well, if it gets damaged in the course of work, we're like, yes. And if it gets damaged during the course of work, that's on you all H R is already paying for the first one. Speaker 2 00:36:12 Yeah, got on your budget. Weum we did have like we did have some exceptions to the rule because I, remember, there was like a food cart or something that went. Lying and hit one of the one of the producers'hands, and he was holding his phone like checking. That makes absolutely sense. Good sense, yeah, you do. And I remember that happening because I was standing out there because they were filming Bones at the time. Speaker 4 00:36:39 Oh, my one of my favorite shows have watched it and I still watch it. I think yeah, I love that love that show so. Speaker 2 00:36:46 Yeah. So i'll get you. I'll see if I can find, i don't think i have it, but i'll look oh my god. The cat just fell off the refrigerator. They okay? Speaker 4 00:36:57 Well, huh? How did they how did they fall off the fridge? Speaker 2 00:37:00 Uh, in my bedroom I haveum the oh okay. The lockable one that's required for fostering. Speaker 4 00:37:07 The little one, okay. Speaker 2 00:37:08 Yeah, and she just fell off of it. And it's the kitten kitten, little black kitten. Speaker 4 00:37:12 Okay that makes sense. You don't have bearings on your body yet. Got it. Speaker 2 00:37:16 Yes. And she's grown like three inches in the last week. She's looking at me like it's my fault. Speaker 4 00:37:24 Yeah, um, The other thing is, you Pete or Onsor might want to become a member of the city club. I was there yesterday. Oh, what a blast I had! And it was a lot of business people, A lot of business professionals, highest levels, uh you know, and or highest levels within companies for profit and nonprofit. Um uh the chair actually invited, Uh, maybe about six or seven HR people, and we had a great time. So it's a social club and a business club, and it's it was really Chris's. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:38:01 It was fun which Which city? Speaker 4 00:38:03 It'sum It's in downtown. It's onum It was on uh five five five flowers, so it's in downtown L A. Speaker 2 00:38:11 Oh Cal Club Yes, Speaker 4 00:38:13 It was super fun. Speaker 2 00:38:15 Answer is already a member of Cal Club. Speaker 4 00:38:17 Oh didn't see him there. Yeah sorry, I missed him. Speaker 2 00:38:20 Yeah, he uh, I don't. He's normally at things like that, but yeah, he's he's a member of my of Cal Club. Speaker 4 00:38:26 Okay. Um I was like when I thought what I am tell is you should tell him. I immediately thought already happy to hear that he's a member, But I immediately thought of him was like, oh this would be great for. Yes. Speaker 1 00:38:37 Yeah going through my list of people. Speaker 2 00:38:39 He was uh he, he and I went one day for lunch about a year ago, and it was right before Kasia left. So i had i hadn't started with you guys yet. Uh, huh? And he took me to for lunch because he does that every once in a while. He'll go, we'll go to lunch, And I swear that man knows every single person that was in there for lunch. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:38:59 So Carmen Torres, she she invited the H R people and I didn't I didn't think to even bring his name up to her and I should have. But I was thinking today like oh man. I mean, I was thinking yesterday, like oh, man, when I was saying like, hey, this would be great, but i didn't know they were already members, but i could see that i could definitely see the connection for sure. Speaker 2 00:39:18 Yeah, cause it's. It's across the street, and so he can just walk over. Speaker 4 00:39:23 Oh, okay, that's where you all are. Speaker 2 00:39:25 Yeah, we're in the U S Bank Tower. Okay. Yeah Oh, Speaker 4 00:39:29 It was so fun. They had theum The, it's the Asian. They uh Asian Pacific or I. Forget that I am saying it totally wrong and should have this as an H R person, but they were having a celebration. And oh, was just so much fun. Food is great. It's awesome. People are so nice, and we really need to start partnering more with them as an organization. Yeah, from us HR people, but me Lily thought of him, but good good to know. Um, let's see what else has I going gonna tell you? Um. That um I am happy that I was able to say to her, you don't have to like. Speaker 4 00:40:14 Be your own, like you can use other people outside of your department to run things by. Yeah, I was trying to get her to see, like you are not in this alone. And I think that's part of their their issues is like they're thinking, I should do everything myself. You know, No, like there is other people. There is a ways to make this easier on us on you. Um so hope she takes us up on it, or hope she takes you up on it, that I was offering out there. Speaker 2 00:40:39 We have we have those extra licenses with Claude could I give her one? Absolutely. I I would love to sit down with her and say, okay, I'm going to give you Claude and just so you can do. Yeah. Um, That and Copilot are going to be her best friends as she goes through all of this. Why don't you just Chris? Speaker 4 00:40:58 Why don't you just set up time with her? Be like, hey, I know Mishaun and I talk. We talk to you about the stuff that we could help You know that I can help you with. But I just wanted to get you get time with you to show you right, like let's not put it on her her to do it Just. Plug in thirty minutes with her, be like," Hey, We've approved for you to get a clod account and hear some of all the cool things that can make your life a little bit easier." Because I think some of their resistance is," I have to do it myself and I don't know how," right? Yes. And i I appreciate her vulnerability on the call to be like," I don't want to do this report stuff in Concur." Yeah. Speaker 2 00:41:35 Oh, help her too because yeah that's going to make her life easy. Speaker 4 00:41:39 That's how I was like hey just just, Get out of your head and call Chris. Yeah, how many times do I walk across and I am like, uh, I'll listen to this. Speaker 2 00:41:49 She is so much sweeter when there is no cat involved. Oh my, Speaker 4 00:41:53 I didn't want to say it; you did. Speaker 2 00:41:55 I know, But you said a lot of we're not recording. So I didn't mind saying it. Speaker 4 00:41:60 Yeah, that's true she was She is so much nicer. So yeah, but i think here's what i think when you have some time and you see carl, that's what you got to. I've said that to him, but I think you saying," Hey, one I can help her more. I can see the the pain points that she has." Um and yeah. Yeah, I definitely think that can happen. Um so that's that Let me see what else is going on. Speaker 2 00:42:29 Let me tell you about camp when you get a moment. Speaker 4 00:42:32 Oh go go for it, Speaker 2 00:42:33 Shoot Okay So. We went to go send the packages. Now this is based off a Kelly statement that we couldn't use UPS. And so we've been trying to get an account with FedEx, and we've been struggling. It was going to cost us two thousand dollars to ship all this there. So I called CompDirect and I said, "When do you need the equipment I have in my hands?" And they said, "Not until Thursday." It's like perfect; I'll bring it up when I go. So you yeah so you guys are not getting any shipping costs. Thank you. Um. Speaker 2 00:43:08 I also opened it up. I did send you an email, but I said it earlier to Kelly mostly, not for you. So, I also invited some of my team to go with me. Speaker 4 00:43:22 Ooh, I love that! Get their eyes on this building that they're the space that they're supporting. I love that. Um, Speaker 2 00:43:30 I even offered it to Pete, But Pete won't be in from uh he won't be in that day, so he won't go because he lives in Vegas. So I gotta, I gotta work it out. Speaker 4 00:43:40 I think that's great for them to set eyes on that site, which they can see the predict the particulars if somebody's calling and they're like," I am at camp." What like they could have like a visual of. Yes. That is not just one big old building. It's like nine ten buildings. I like that idea. Thank you for doing that. Umum, I know that T here is this thought that you know. What are you all doing wrong? But things are starting to come to a light because I had a good conversation. Carl and and he's like, "This ain't on y'all. This is not on you." And and Sergio backed this. He was like, "No, This hundred dollar hundred thousand dollars was discussed in meetings at a bunch of meetings. " And cause I told you I was freaking out my first year asking for a hundred thousand dollar increase. Speaker 4 00:44:36 Yeah, and some, And and you know I am like, oh, because I had already wanted already switched this the payroll system. So I was a little nervous, And and so he was like, no, but I remember this isn't this isn't new. And then come to find out. It's not the only thing that didn't get updated in the budget. There is some other stuff that didn't get updated in the budget that were like yeah. I don't know. Speaker 2 00:45:03 Oh wow. Speaker 4 00:45:04 Yeah, some other stuff did not get updated in the budget. Speaker 2 00:45:07 Was it a Susan thing or Kathy? Speaker 4 00:45:12 Cause with the budget conversations happen and budget information goes to her, and Suzanne's always C C on it, but ultimately lands with her. Okay, So I was like So, you can tell Pete it ain't on us. And it is only thing that was missing. Speaker 2 00:45:28 Yeah, And I I did give him a heads up, cause I had a conversation with him the other day. Cause he was like," Where are we at on this project?" I know it's hot on Michelle's mind, and I said," Okay, let me give you the tea. So sit down and get your glass of bourbon ready." And I just. I don't want to get your glass of bourbon ready. Speaker 4 00:45:46 I am not even done today. Go ahead. Speaker 2 00:45:49 It's actually behind me in the wardrobe. The bourbon. And so he was like," Okay, I understand now." I said," We're going to do everything we can to just help with every piece of this to get it right." But just be aware, it's not us, and leadership knows it's not us. Speaker 4 00:46:06 And I think the more like I am really like if you can set up time with her, like hey thirty minutes wanting to give you Claude next week. I'll talk to Carl about it too. So he knows so that way he's like. Oh, she had a meeting without telling him, you know, like one of those stupid things. I will actually let me Teams Carl right now and just Teams him and say that, that's going to happen that Chris is going to reach out. On a one on one, and we're going to give her one of our Claude. And yeah, let me just team some right now. Yeah, so that way it's like nobody's caught off guard. Yeah, um but so that's that's that one okay. Like, this this like for me. This this week was like man I've been getting kicked right? And I was like God I'm not a bad person. I'm not, you know, trying to make things hard on people. Speaker 4 00:46:58 Not trying to make life harder, and it was like, man. But then it was like, hmm. Some people's stuff is coming to light. So Jeremy's been talking shit about everybody. Speaker 2 00:47:10 Oh, I don't I'm not surprised that's the kind of person he is. Speaker 4 00:47:15 You can't talk shit about your boss though. Speaker 2 00:47:18 Oh, is he talking about Sergio? Becauseum yeah okay. Speaker 4 00:47:25 I can't go details but it's like oh, Can't be talking shit about your boss. Speaker 2 00:47:31 Yeah, that's that's a yeah. Do you remember how a couple months ago I asked you how, Or do we want to take bets on how long he was going to last? Speaker 4 00:47:42 You did say that you did. You did say that. Yeah, I was like, yeah, There is like a whole host of things, such as like the coolest boss. Honestly, he is very nice very like. Supportive, understanding. Um. Yeah, he's like one of my all time favorites. Yeah, and I just like I am like on a personal level, I am like I don't want you to disrespect somebody like that. No. Speaker 2 00:48:19 Yeah, I am annoyed for you just because I like Sergio. And I see what he's trying to do within the organization, and quietly just sit back and watch. And yeah, he's one of the ones like, I that makes me hot and bothered on your behalf. Speaker 4 00:48:36 I mean, I know it was, I knew it was like me first, And then he try, he He actually tried to get Chase fired and hadn't like really worked with him. I am not saying Chase is perfect; his shit don't get me wrong. But he was like really trying to get him fired. And then t here is another people, Person on his team, I mean, Outside of David. And he it's just not working out in a number of areas. But just keep your eyes and ears on them. But I was just like whoa, Yeah, you that one yikes Yeah. Speaker 2 00:49:13 Yeah, i I figured, i uh figured that, that was come going to come to light soon. I had heard him oh sorry no go ahead, I hadn't heard him say anything negative about Sergio, but I was. I was waiting. Speaker 4 00:49:29 He does not like our strategic plan. He said that first day that Alma was there, in a meeting, and I was like, Why are you talking shit about our strategic plan in front of the like two days old employee You know, but yeah. But his team is in there, and it wasn't like he had. This is the first time he had said it to them. Hmm. I was like, oh, this is not looking good, sir. Speaker 2 00:49:54 Yeah, This is how you uh alienate your team and alienate your boss, and no one is going to be on your side. So. Speaker 4 00:50:07 Yeah. So I was just like going into just because I know that's another person that just kind of drives everybody a little nuts. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:50:18 I mean, I am just i am digging in where I need to dig in, And then I am just holding off everywhere else with him, because I am like, it's. I am just biding my time. Mm hmm. Biting my tongue and biting my time. Speaker 4 00:50:31 Yeah, but I was just like, why are you talking crap about the CEO? Yeah with your staff? Speaker 1 00:50:39 Yes Like mm hmm. Speaker 4 00:50:44 So, um, I'll let you know how it falls out. I just, um, so and this week the Kathy thing because like what was that? What day was that? Monday. I was like not want to get out of bed. I was like oh my god this hundred thousand dollar thing. It's not in the budget, and but I went back through a lot of my emails. And I was like we sent. We went like the invoice man. No, I didn't see the invoice being sent but I did see Multiple conversations. I did go back to my plot. We definitely said it there, um, so I was like, huh? Yeah. I am sure if I dig deeper in my email, I'll find something. But Sergio was like, No, it was it was discussed. And then he brought up to Carl that it was divided that it would remember the year split. That's he even remembered that piece that it was one contract. It was one agreement and it was divided. So we could do a twenty five, twenty six. Speaker 4 00:51:41 Um, process. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:51:47 And so he had even remembered that. But it didn't go over well that it was completely blamed like on me, not necessarily you but on me. That did not go well. No, because it was like she didn't send it to us, She didn't tell us, she didn't do da da, da, da she, she, and uh. Speaker 4 00:52:10 I he I think he was just like you just can't blame her for everything. Right now, I don't get my expense reports in on time. That that is suck at. Speaker 2 00:52:21 I always suck at that too. I don't get my approvals in either. Speaker 4 00:52:26 Now that if you call me on that, I am gonna raise my hand and own it, but yes, it was just like dang everything is her fault yeah. Speaker 2 00:52:35 No uh I same, I get my expense reports in, but the approvals on the fifteenth. Sometimes they wait until the thirtieth because we had to approve twice a month. Speaker 4 00:52:46 Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. I might uh not the path to do it that way because they wanted to do half of their half of theirum billing to go out to cause LASA could pay you twice a week. I mean twice a month They paid you based on how often you wanted to bill, so they because they were. Like billing for like our payroll is like a million five. They're like, oh no, we're gonna get half of this money. Half of this money during the month. Each payroll was like a million to a million five. Cause when I first started, it was like eight hundred k and then it went up and they were like, Nah, we we gonna need to get this money on the faster for you. We can't float almost three million dollars in one month. Speaker 4 00:53:37 And it's because they bill they build according to um. And according to payroll and according to um, like the notes and and the PQIs, but they were like no if we can get our money, sooner we are so. It made sense for us to do our expense reports twice a month, And they made it in line with payroll. So that way people were already taking time to do their time card. They made it the same, the same breaks as payroll. So we can help each other because we I was like, hey, get your crap in and then they were like, get your crap in. Then we have a higher likelihood that your crap got in. Oh damn. Yeah yeah, it was intense, but I mean, I think for me that experience because it was so intense and people were like, you know, this payroll is off by a penny like, you know, it's a rounding rule. It's a damn Excel spreadsheet. Speaker 4 00:54:33 Chill out. I remember dropping pennies on people's desks, like here you go. Leave me alone with my people alone, but it made me like be very detailed. So Shane is like t Here is a lot of processes to my roles." Like you think? Yeah, and all I had all I had to like a day yesterday, and she's like, "You know, I just noticed that I think we need they've got a lot of floating." Responsibilities and they make up stuff, and I was like, okay. I was like, okay. I am not the only subject matter expert that could see the crazy. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:55:13 Yeah. But I think this week as opposed to ending last week when I was thinking. I didn't. I was like," I know,", i said something about a hundred thousand dollar charge this week, ending This week is much better.; like okay, I am not such a bad person yes. Speaker 2 00:55:30 Oh, I was about. I was annoyed when you said that not about not at you, but at them because I was like, how many times do we discuss this? I. Speaker 4 00:55:39 Told him they're gonna need to start going on. Like and he records all the time. So I told him, it won't look odd if you start recording the meetings. Yeah. In that way and I said if he's not on, I said, if he cause it, uh, he's like, sometimes, i'm gonna not be able to be there because i'm traveling or something like that. I said okay, well I'll put it on and my excuse will be. That you're off and I want you to be able to see what happened in real time. He was like okay. Speaker 2 00:56:07 Oh that's awesome. Well, I am excited for next week. I am a little concerned, but. Speaker 1 00:56:21 Oh yeah for. Speaker 2 00:56:22 Me yeah. But I am excited; they're going to be there Saturday and Sunday. Which Kelly told me a few weeks ago. The way she put, sometimes I don't understand her emails. By the way, Can. Speaker 4 00:56:34 You say that in front of Sergio because she makes it like she writes so clear, and she makes it, And I always have to defend my staff because I am like, uh, no, it's it's kind of like express English. What did you say? And I have to like tactfully ask for communication. But she always acts like they're incompetent. I promise you. Speaker 2 00:56:58 No, because I had to, I had to clarify with her about UPS, because the way she wrote it was like that uh, they can't receive packages through UPS, but the way she wrote it made, it seem like USPS and I'm like so. Speaker 4 00:57:19 United Postal Service. Yeah. Yeah, that's different. Yes, that's that is exactly what we go through all the time. All the time, and and the person that deals with it the most is unfortunately Chase. And I think he struggles with asking her the clarifying question in a tactful manner. He's like, "What do you mean?" Let's not do that. Yeah, he's kind of like, "What do you mean by that? " as opposed to saying like Is this what you mean? Or is this what you mean or You know just like? Speaker 4 00:57:49 He the way he poses it back, I am like oh gosh. But I get his point of like what? Speaker 2 00:57:56 Yeah, yeah. Cause Gabby was like, I was talking to Gabby, cause I see C C'd her on the email with Kelly, and she's like wait, she's talking UPS or did she mean USPS? And I am like you know what let me clarify. And, so i responded back and and she never responded to me or she did, but it still didn't make sense. And then she didn't respond back after my thirty. Oh yeah, Speaker 4 00:58:21 Welcome to welcome to HR's world because we're like what? And then she got a so jail. So, what I've started to do is screenshot what she said and what she told him, and I am like, see how these don't. Yeah, how these don't match? And they're like, oh my god, he's so funny. He's like, yeah, okay, I got what you meant as I say like he's a cool boss and I am pissed that somebody be talking about him. Like yeah, like even when I don't agree with him, I'm like, all right. I got. I get what he's saying. I'm not gonna it's you know. He's the boss like. Yeah, you know likeum. Yeah. And but there's a re, but on the other side, it's rarely times that I don't agree with him. Speaker 2 00:59:06 Yeah, I mean and you're allowed like to your point, Speaker 4 00:59:10 To your point. I'm allowed to like mmm. I don't agree with that sounds weird or he'll tell me mm he doesn't agree with me. And I'll be like, okay, let me explain. And then he'll say, okay, but I still don't agree with you. And we move past it. It's like not this. But I am also not the person to be like it has to absolutely be my way because sometimes I am like, you know, it's the greater good of the end result than how we got there exactly. Speaker 2 00:59:35 Yeah Like, he, he made a statement the other day because he's Russian English is not his first language, right? That He made a statement the other day to Olivia. And it was like if if you were there, you'd been like, "Nope, that's not gonna fly." But Libby is not the kind of person who pushes back. So so I was like, "Hey, you gotta confront him. You, he doesn't, he doesn't I know he's the boss, but he doesn't get to say that. " And sometimes I'll be honest ; he doesn't realize what he's saying, because he just doesn't realize it. A) He's Russian and B) He's English is on his first language. And so she pulled me in on a call with him. Speaker 2 01:00:14 And we were just very upfront with him. He's like," Oh, I didn't realize I said that. I am so sorry. I humbly apologize. That was not the right thing to say." And basically, he he was frustrated about a call. He got from a client, and he made it seem like she was going to lose her job over it. Oh, and because he's Russian, you always say that; it's so weird; Speaker 4 01:00:42 It's cause he's Russian. Speaker 2 01:00:44 Yes, and so he not only did he apologize, but it could have gone no farther than me and Olivia. Yes, but he made he made a public apology during that meeting, like in the all hands meeting with the entire staff. He said, "Look, I say things and sometimes I can fuck what I say. Call me out on it people please." And then he told why. And he's like, "I said something not." The most professional tour leader, the other day. I am owning that, And I want you guys to know you can come and call me on that. So, yeah, That's one of the reasons why I probably will never leave him because he's just not kind of boss. Speaker 4 01:01:27 He's hilarious. Yeah, Just tell him I thought of him, even though he's already he's already in, he's already got the special sauce. Yeah, he does so hilarious. I I gotta come down to now now that I, you know, know where you all are and it doesn't feel like you're so far away. I gotta come visit y'all at some point in towards the end of this year. Maybe, we could go to, we go to lunch me and Alma and come visit you. Speaker 2 01:01:54 Yeah, next time he wants to take you to lunch, make him take you to California club. Speaker 4 01:01:58 Ooh, I can take all going too. Alma But i need i need to get him. I owe him a project Oh. How did you feel about the spreadsheet? I sent you the spreadsheet right? No. Speaker 1 01:02:09 Do not send special. Send a special to Chris. Okay, Speaker 4 01:02:22 Um, let me know. Um, I am available all weekend if there is some crazy that happens with camp. I am available like does not bother me at all if you call me. Or they need to call me, or I need to get. I need to like have a coming- to- Jesus meeting with Kelly. Speaker 2 01:02:45 Okay, well, fortunately we don't start until Tuesday of next week. Oh, Speaker 4 01:02:50 Why do I think it's this weekend? You are right. Okay, sorry. Speaker 2 01:02:53 Yeahum so fortunately, so they're going to start on Tuesday. They're going to get there around noon on Tuesday and I gave Kelly that heads upum and then Tuesday and Wednesday. They're going to be running cabling and doing all of that work. Um and then I will be there on Thursday. I still need to email Will and Alex to see if they can help me uh mount the other hardware that they're not mounting. Okay, Speaker 2 01:03:22 Perfect. Yep, And then the following Monday, they're going to pick the T. Here is a rental company picking up the lift. Okay, so I got to give Kelly that heads up as well. Speaker 1 01:03:31 Okay, cool So yeah. Speaker 2 01:03:36 So hopefully, Barring nothing else happening, we're not gonna have any issues with that one. Speaker 4 01:03:44 Fingers crossed. Toes crossed. Everything crossed. Everything crossed, and then well, not only that, That it it is a site where people can walk between cabins and use their cell phones. Speaker 2 01:03:57 Yes, Also, um I don't know if you saw an email from me, or if I mentioned it to you in a meeting. Um, Verizon has a tool, has a device that we can connect at the lodge, And it will give it will boost the cell phone signal and run off of Wi Fi. Yeah, Speaker 4 01:04:16 I think you did say yes. Yes, you did tell me that. Also uh was something I was gonna say Darn it. I don't remember crap. Oh, lost it just now. Speaker 2 01:04:27 It will reach the parking lot. Speaker 1 01:04:30 Oh yeah. Speaker 2 01:04:32 That's good, We we might need to put that in twenty twenty seven budget. Speaker 4 01:04:36 Yeah, I I hundred percent agree, on that. Ooh, that's that's good. Yes. Oh, it was the owl. Um, Our cellie may reach out on the owl because she said it was it was having some glitches. Um, and she wasn't able to take the training, but she also, she said it may be the computer is not updated, and that's why it's running slow and giving us all these problems. So she said," I am going to go test that computer, up do the updates." And we talked about all the updates that it could be. That it could be the computer's update, maybe Microsoft update. It could be Al software update. So I said," R un all those updates and then let's test it, and then we'll figure out from there." Yes, Speaker 2 01:05:22 And I by the way i am going to remove Caleb from onboarding team. Okay yeah, Um, but I am also going to remove. I am just going to add Becker in because he's y'all's team lead. Um, I am going to remove Pat. Well, I am going to move Caleb and give it away so. Speaker 4 01:05:43 That that works. All right, well you have a good weekend. Tell Dama say hello. I will she just walked in the door soum, I'll talk to you later. Speaker 1 01:05:54 All right bye bye.
06-30 Weekly Meeting: Project QoP Week 27 Updates, Plaud Deployments, Alere Copilot, and Signal Partners Onboarding
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-30 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Olivia] [Pete] ## Meeting Notes ### Project QoP Updates (Week 27) - This meeting provided the Week 27 update for Project QoP. ### Olivia's Project Updates - **Project 612 (City Homes Firewall):** - The client decided to return the device. - They will reorder if needed in the future. - The team will process a refund and then close the project. - **Signal Partners Onboarding:** - The project is on hold. Olivia is coordinating with April. - Pete has taken over the project after Chris’s handoff. - Pete needs contact information to follow up and avoid keeping them waiting. Chris will send the latest correspondence. - The last proposal offered basic security services at $350 per month. - **Auto Elevate Implementation:** - The team successfully deployed Auto Elevate for Cottonwoods Macs via JumpCloud using a new script. - Next: deploy for VIMax via Rippling. - Target completion date: July 31, 2026. ### Chris's Project Updates - **Corinne AI Training (Project 2626):** - Evelyn will reschedule the training. Chris is awaiting new dates. - **Sharp Computer Upgrades:** - On schedule with no issues to report. - **Ability First Cabling (Kampai Vika):** - New issues have arisen. Chris will discuss with Kelly on Thursday, July 2, 2026. - Likely need to order a few additional antennas for client installation. - **Kotzen AI Assessment and Implementation:** - Chris believes the project can be closed but will contact Kotzen to confirm satisfaction. - **Plaud for DTLA:** - Rescheduled to July 9, 2026, at 1:00 PM. - **Plaud for Anderson:** - Chris needs to check with Ishmael and Nick to confirm a successful installation before closing. - Pete noted future Plaud deployments must be more controlled, piloted, and guided—not blind installs. - **Alere Copilot Readiness and Deployment:** - Approximately 50% complete. - Chris reviewed Christi’s DLP settings and confirmed they are correct. - Chris and Anzor have a meeting this afternoon (June 30, 2026) to discuss next steps and schedule training. - **Plaud for Alere:** - Chris will follow up with Anzor on July 1, 2026, to schedule dates and times. - **BAFMA Project:** - Not yet started. - Christi offered to assist with communications for Alere and BAFMA. - The BAFMA kickoff meeting needs scheduling; Tuesday afternoons work best for Chris. ### WSG Gaming Domain Migration - The topic was introduced, but the meeting ended before a detailed discussion. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Olivia] Process the refund for City Homes to close Project 612. - [ ] [Chris] Send Pete the latest correspondence and contact information for Signal Partners. - [ ] [Chris] After the July 2, 2026 meeting with Kelly, address cabling issues and order additional antennas for Ability First as needed. - [ ] [Chris] Contact Kotzen to confirm project closure. - [ ] [Chris] Verify with Ishmael and Nick that the Plaud installation for Anderson succeeded; close if confirmed. - [ ] [Chris] Meet with Anzor to plan next steps for Alere Copilot deployment and schedule training. - [ ] [Chris] On July 1, 2026, coordinate with Anzor to schedule Plaud for Alere (dates and times). - [ ] [Chris] Schedule the BAFMA project kickoff; aim for a Tuesday afternoon. - [ ] [Team] Secure another trainer for Baker’s AI training next Tuesday. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. A new trainer is urgently needed for Baker's AI training next Tuesday, but no specific person was assigned to find one. > 2. Pete raised concerns about Chris being overworked and projects being scheduled too tightly, but no formal plan was made to re-delegate tasks or adjust schedules. > 3. The discussion on the WSG Gaming domain migration project was cut short, leaving its status and next steps undefined.
- Date
- Jun 30, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:11 Christi, You're sounds horrible. Sorry. It's okay. Oh my god. I'm so sorry to everybody. Go to rest, go to rest. I am resting. Speaker 2 00:00:23 Oh my gosh, your voice Christi! No! I know it's it's only because uh. How long I was in the hospital and the fact that I was on oxygen. And all that other stuff. Oh my god. And you're working? Speaker 3 00:00:42 I got shit to do. Speaker 3 00:00:45 Oh no Although. Speaker 2 00:00:48 I got pretty caught up last night, and they had a lot of hours in it. Oh! Speaker 1 00:00:54 I know Can't really hear it, oh my god, My throat's gonna start to hurt right now. Speaker 2 00:01:02 I'm eating breakfast, so I'm taking a while. I'm not turning my camera on because I look like shit. Speaker 1 00:01:14 And I was gonna ask, can we do training for Baker next Tuesday? I don't think so. We need to find another trainer ASAP. Who's ready to train? For for AI. Child does a good job, Speaker 2 00:01:35 He just doesn't believe in himself. Speaker 1 00:01:37 Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, he's gonna kill me if I ask him. Tell. Speaker 2 00:01:45 Him I volunteered. Speaker 3 00:01:52 9:30. Let's just wait for Pete. Let's give him a few minutes to jump in. Okay, I think everyone is here. Let me just share my screen. Thank you, okay, let's start. So good morning everybody, welcome to week 27 of our project QoP meetings. So let's start this, Meeting. Let's start this meeting with Olivia's project, starting with project six one two days for city homes for the, for their firewall. Speaker 4 00:02:28 Good morning, guys. Yeah, So this one, they decided they're going to return the device and that if they need it, they will order it again and wait again. So we're gonna work on the refund. And then this ticket this project will be closed. Oh gosh, how about the billable time entries here, Ollie? Um, Speaker 3 00:02:53 Which we can talk about after seg. Okay. Before we can close the project. Okay, right next is the onboarding of signal partners. Signal. Speaker 4 00:03:06 Partners I think is still on hold as far as I know. Um I'm talking to April about it. Haven't heard much Chris do you any news here? Speaker 2 00:03:17 I graciously handed that off to Pete. Pete, any news here? Speaker 5 00:03:26 Um, I think we're still trying to figure out what we're going to do with them. Speaker 4 00:03:31 Okay. Should I close this project for the time being, or you want me to keep it open? Speaker 5 00:03:35 Uh, give me one second. Let me see. Speaker 5 00:03:58 Let's move. Let's go on to the next one. I'll get back to this one. Speaker 4 00:04:02 Okay, uh, and then the Auto Elevate implementation. So, we deployedum all of the we deployed auto con or no, oh, my gosh. Auto elevate for Cottonwoods max through JumpCloud. So this was huge for us. We didn't have to actually physically touchum all of the macs we've been working on a script like this for a long time. So we finally got it to work. So we're gonnaum next deploy the VIMax through Rippling. So, yeah, that's our here. Speaker 3 00:04:37 Um, do you have any date for the project completion for this one? Speaker 4 00:04:42 Um, let's do. Can we do end of July? Thirty first Friday. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:04:52 And then what's. Speaker 5 00:04:55 The last thing we had for Signal Partners like what was the last conversation because Chris you and I talked about Signal Partners? But what was the last thing we said about them, Speaker 2 00:05:07 Like offer them three hundred and fifty dollars a month to do basicum security stuff for them. Speaker 5 00:05:19 But who had the contact? Cause I don't think I have the contact information, do I? Speaker 2 00:05:24 I know I have it. Um, I thought you had it, but I can we can reach out to him. Speaker 5 00:05:37 Yeah, cause i don't i don't remember getting anything specific. I don't want to leave them hanging on it, and i don't think i have anything on Signal specifically. So let's let's tie that off. One way or another. Speaker 2 00:05:52 Yeah, it's timeless Signal Partners, butum I'll find the last correspondence. Okay. Speaker 5 00:05:59 Okay. And if you have something you can send it, You can either send it to me, and we can figure out what we need to do. Uh get that one. Speaker 2 00:06:10 Rounded out. I'll send it over. Speaker 3 00:06:16 Alright, So let's move on to project two six, two six, is for Corinne for their AI training. Speaker 2 00:06:23 So Evelyn is going to reschedule with us. Um, I just don't have the dates just yet. She responded later yesterday afternoon. So once I have those dates, I'll get those plugged in and we'll get started with that one. Got. Speaker 3 00:06:42 It, and then computer upgrades for Sharp. Speaker 2 00:06:46 We're still a status quo on that one. We're we're on time. Speaker 3 00:06:57 And then cabling for Kampai Vika for Ability First. Speaker 2 00:07:01 So we got a few little startling things that came up. Um, I'm going to talk with Kelly this uh on Thursday, she and I have a standing meeting that we're going to discuss, but I think we got to order a few more antennas for them. And get those, and they'll install it. So. Okay. Oh, the fell over went great. Thank you for that, Gabby. She did mention that to me passing yesterday. And. Speaker 3 00:07:34 Then Kotzen for their AI assessment and implementation? Speaker 2 00:07:39 So I believe we can close that now, but I'm going to reach out to Kotzen uh toum, Come, yeah, and just double check with him. Make sure they're good to go. Speaker 3 00:07:51 Okay. And then Claude for DTLA. Speaker 2 00:07:58 That was rescheduled to July ninth at one p. m. Oh my gosh, sorry. Speaker 3 00:08:08 And then Claude for Anderson? Speaker 2 00:08:11 I need to check with Ishmael and Nick to make sure the installation went through, and then we can close it. Speaker 5 00:08:19 Yeah, I mentioned by the way, I mentioned to Vince that this in the future, this can't just be a hand this off to Ishmael and the install team to just do an install. This this needs to be a. This needs to be a coordinated effort because. Speaker 5 00:08:42 This was expected to just be kind of a blind install and just let it happen, And that can't this can't that can't be how we do this in the future, because things like Plaud and Plaud Note have validation. And um you know, this has to be a. This isn't just like a Windows update, right? This a this a process that somebody has to look at and make sure goes well, and we need to pilot it. And it needs to be handheld to some extent. And that's not what happened in this case. So in the future, Let's make sure that this a um that we that we do this in a more controlled manner. So. Speaker 5 00:09:31 Um, what happened with this, just for everybody's reference is I don't know if you all know, but Plaud Note requires like a virtual machine. Um to be installed. And so I think uh Plaud was just installed like a. Like a blind application or a blind update. And then when people go to launch it, it says, you know, did you do this? And then they don't know what to do. And then they sit there saying, well. You know, I it was I don't know this wasn't handled well. So, Um in the future when we're doing anything like this. And and that goes beyond just Plaud right? If we're doing anything where we haven't piloted it first, we need to see what the user experience is going to be like. We need to test it on a on a few machines. We need to make sure that we know what it's going to be like, And I'm just using this as an example. But um let's let's make sure that we don't do anything like this in the future like this again. So. Speaker 2 00:10:30 Yes, and I already had a conversation with him as well. That anything cloud related and Plaud Note related has to be through the project right now. Speaker 5 00:10:39 Yeah, yep, okay. Speaker 3 00:10:43 All right, and then Alere for the um Copilot readiness and deployment still on hold? Speaker 2 00:10:51 No, It's uh we are we're at about fifty percent. Uh Christi got all the stuff done for DLP things like that. I went through and double checked all the settings today, Um just to make sure that they were all turned on correctly, and they were so good job Christi. Um I went through all the reports, and uh Anzor and I have a meeting this afternoon to go over the next steps and get the schedule of books for training. Speaker 3 00:11:22 Got it, And thenum for the Claude for the Cloud of Alere. Speaker 2 00:11:28 So Anzor knows that I was out. Um, I'm going to pick this one up tomorrow and work with him on getting stuff scheduled for dates and times. Speaker 5 00:11:39 And Chris, I know you were out for a little while, so please don't try to pack all this stuff back to back to back. Make sure that you leave some slack time in between getting these things rescheduled so that you're not over like. I don't wanna. I don't wanna over overwork this. So that then we end up stepping on things. And then we get behind again and have to reschedule a second time. So make sure that you stagger some of this stuff out and in the future, let's also not pack these in quite so tight. I know that these things kind of, Kind of stacked on top of each other because some of them got backed up, but let's, let's not over commit to people that want all of this. Speaker 5 00:12:24 AI training and all this stuff, all at once. Um, cause you're one person and you got a day job. So, um, and all these things kind of came in at the same time. But and then some of them got delayed and some of them got rescheduled. And unfortunately they all kind of came in at the same time. But, if we have to say no or wait, or we have to get somebody else to do some of this stuff, we need to figure out how to how to do that so, Let's uh, let's try to figure out what we're going to do in some of these cases. Speaker 2 00:12:57 Okay, uh BAFMA, I've not touched at all yet. So Christi on that oneum I do need to get that kickoff meeting scheduled, but I just have not looked into that one yet. My my main focus is yesterday was Alere and uh DTLA. That's. Speaker 1 00:13:17 Why if you want for Alere and for BAFMA, I can back you up and, Do the communication. Um, I did have a mail thread with Alere. I don't know if you have something separately, but they didn't respond to what we asked them on our kickoff. That's why I was holding on to it, and then BAFMA alsoum Christi responded to me and offered Tuesday. So if we can do not next week Tuesday maybe the week Tuesday after? Speaker 2 00:13:47 Well so ten am is usually this meeting. That's right. So, okay, I'll check with him. Yeah, Tuesday afternoons are probably my best time. Speaker 3 00:13:59 Okay. All right, thanks everybody. Let's move on to my projects for the domain migration for Monti or WSG Gaming's post. Yeah WSG Gaming sorry, this should. Speaker 2 00:14:21 Are you guys good? If I jump off, we're dealing with something at SCHARP. Yep. Speaker 3 00:14:25 Okay. Thank you all good Christi. Thank you.
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04-16 Consultation: Integrating Claude with Microsoft 365, SharePoint Agent Strategy, and AI Governance
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- > Date & Time: 2026-04-16 10:35:08 > Location: [Insert Location] > Customer: [Insert Customer] ## Overview The consultation centered on integrating an existing corporate Claude (Anthropic) account with Microsoft 365, clarifying data privacy for prompts and connected datasets, managing corporate-level AI spend, and selecting the right platform (Claude vs. Copilot vs. ChatGPT) for an internal, document-aware chatbot hosted in Azure and backed by SharePoint. The customer reports poor results with Copilot outside Excel, values Claude’s coding capabilities, and has an internal AI policy addressing personal account usage. Goals include enabling SSO, confirming Anthropic data handling, establishing cost controls, and choosing a robust approach for an internal agent that answers process and equipment questions from a SharePoint repository. Key stakeholders include Katie, Mike Hall (account manager), Darwin (AI specialist), and internal departments with prior personal AI account usage. ## Background The customer already has a corporate Claude Teams account and is paying for Teams. They are considering integrating Claude into their Microsoft 365 environment and enabling SSO. They previously attempted an internal chatbot using ChatGPT-4 on their document repository to support employees, but it never performed well. They are now evaluating Azure-hosted options, including Claude and Copilot, for a SharePoint-backed agent. The consultant (Christi) advises that Copilot currently has stronger native integration for SharePoint-based agents, while Claude agents are improving. The customer has an AI policy in their handbook and is conducting department-level remediation to move users from personal accounts to corporate-monitored ones. Data privacy concerns include preventing company information (Avalon) from being shared externally, with specific caution about Grok consumer accounts. ## Pain Points - Poor performance and limited capability of Copilot outside Excel, leading to inefficiency and uncertainty about platform choice. Impact: The team states Copilot is “not that capable like outside of Excel,” causing reduced productivity and decreased trust in the tool beyond spreadsheets. Current Situation: They continue using Copilot with mixed results, while recognizing Claude’s strength in code-related tasks and using ChatGPT for image generation. Quantitative Metrics: None specified beyond qualitative comparison. Examples: Team feedback that Copilot is underperforming outside Excel; preference for Claude for coding tasks. Context: Mixed ecosystem with Microsoft 365, Claude Teams, and Azure; need for strong integration and reliable capabilities. Stakeholders: Katie, internal teams relying on Copilot, the consultant supporting tool selection. - Difficulty monitoring and managing corporate-level spend for Claude usage. Impact: Lack of clear spend visibility can lead to cost overruns and budgeting challenges, especially across different user profiles. Current Situation: The consultant must “go in daily” for a couple of clients to review spend. Guidance suggests categorizing users into standard (chat), medium (co-worker), and heavy (coding) usage, with heavy users needing premium accounts (~$100 a month per person). Quantitative Metrics: $100 a month per person for premium users. Examples: Daily manual monitoring to track usage; differentiated roles based on usage intensity. Context: Claude Teams account in a corporate setting; need for governance and cost controls. Stakeholders: Finance/IT administrators, heavy-use coders, medium-use “cowork” users, standard chat users. - Unsuccessful internal chatbot implementation using ChatGPT-4 on a document repository for employee Q&A. Impact: Employees lack a reliable tool to query internal processes and equipment information, leading to inefficiencies and potential support burden. Current Situation: The chatbot “never got it running very well.” Darwin is evaluating setting it up in Azure with a new GPT or other client; Claude is being considered. Consultant advises Copilot is currently better for SharePoint-backed agents. Quantitative Metrics: None provided. Examples: Document-aware Q&A agent intended for internal processes and equipment service details stored in SharePoint. Context: SharePoint-based repository; Azure resources; need to decide between Copilot, Claude, or GPT for an agent. Stakeholders: Darwin (AI guy), internal employees, Mike Hall (account manager), Katie. - Risk of data leakage from personal AI accounts and certain consumer platforms (e.g., Grok), conflicting with the company’s AI policy. Impact: Potential exposure of Avalon information to the internet, violating policy and risking confidentiality. Current Situation: The company has an AI policy in the handbook and is running meetings to eliminate personal account usage, instructing staff to use corporate-monitored tools. Quantitative Metrics: None provided. Examples: “Various people using personal accounts” and Grok consumer accounts not allowing the “turn off” setting for cloud data sharing. Context: Corporate AI governance; need for controlled, monitored accounts and safe defaults (Anthropic business accounts not sharing by default). Stakeholders: All staff, department leadership, compliance/security teams. ## Expectations - Enable SSO and integrate the corporate Claude account with Microsoft 365 to streamline access and governance. Timeframe: Near-term; discussions already underway. Resources Required: Microsoft 365 admin support, Anthropic Claude Teams admin setup, SSO configuration, consultant guidance. Success Metrics: Seamless login for users, consistent policy enforcement, working integration without data-sharing risks. Stakeholders: Katie, IT admin team, consultant (Christi). - Establish reliable spend monitoring and user tiering for Claude usage to control costs. Timeframe: Ongoing; daily or regular oversight recommended. Resources Required: Admin access to Claude Teams billing/usage dashboards, policy defining user tiers (standard, medium “cowork,” heavy coding), budget approvals for premium accounts (~$100/month per person). Success Metrics: Predictable monthly spend, accurate assignment of user tiers, minimal overage incidents. Stakeholders: Finance, IT admins, heavy users, department managers. - Deploy a functional internal agent for SharePoint-backed documents to answer employee questions on processes and equipment. Timeframe: Short- to medium-term; evaluation in progress with Azure resources. Resources Required: Azure resource setup, platform selection (Copilot recommended currently), agent configuration, connection to the SharePoint site, testing and user training. Success Metrics: High answer accuracy, consistent uptime, user satisfaction, reduced support requests. Stakeholders: Darwin (AI specialist), employees, IT admins. - Reinforce AI policy compliance by eliminating personal account usage and ensuring corporate-monitored tools are used. Timeframe: In progress; department meetings ongoing. Resources Required: Communication plan, access audits, migration/support for users, policy documentation and training. Success Metrics: Zero use of personal accounts for company data, documented compliance, reduced data risk incidents. Stakeholders: Department leadership, all staff, compliance/security, IT. ## Other Information Summary - Anthropic business (Claude Teams) accounts are set to not share prompts/data by default; sharing can be turned on only deliberately. - The consultant uses Claude for code, Copilot for Office-specific tasks, and ChatGPT for image generation; suggests a blended tool strategy. - Copilot may be the better native choice for SharePoint-connected agents at present; Claude agents are improving and may catch up “soon.” - The customer has a meeting scheduled with Mike Hall “next week” regarding training hours and related setup. - The consultant offered training packages: two hours needed, with a third hour offered free. ## To-Do List - [ ] Coordinate with Mike Hall to purchase training hours with Christi for Claude users (two hours + one free hour). Stakeholders: Mike Hall, Katie, Christi. Deadline: Next week meeting with Mike. - [ ] Enable SSO for the corporate Claude Teams account and integrate with Microsoft 365. Stakeholders: IT admin team, Christi. - [ ] Define user tiers (standard, medium “cowork,” heavy coding) and assign premium accounts (~$100/month per person) where appropriate. Stakeholders: IT/Finance, department managers. - [ ] Set up spend monitoring cadence for Claude usage (daily or regular review) and create alerts/reporting. Stakeholders: IT admins, Finance. - [ ] Decide on the platform for the internal SharePoint-backed agent (provisionally Copilot) and configure in Azure with access to the specific document repository. Stakeholders: Darwin, IT admins. - [ ] Audit and remediate personal AI account usage; ensure only corporate-monitored tools are used. Stakeholders: Department leadership, IT, compliance/security. - [ ] Share training materials and basic AI usage guidelines; consider distributing upcoming “basic articles” referenced by Christi. Stakeholders: All staff. > AI Suggestions > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as Poor performance and limited capability of Copilot outside Excel, leading to inefficiency and uncertainty about platform choice. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. Adopt a dual-tool strategy: continue using Copilot where it excels (Excel, native Office integrations) and standardize Claude for coding, complex reasoning, and non-Office workflows; document clear use cases and decision guidelines for users. > 2. Implement targeted training sessions: provide role-specific training (basic vs. heavy/coding) to maximize each tool’s strengths and reduce friction; include practical examples and “when to use which tool.” > 3. Pilot a SharePoint-backed Copilot agent: validate Copilot’s strengths in native SharePoint integration for the internal Q&A use case, while keeping a parallel proof-of-concept with Claude agents to benchmark accuracy and maintenance effort. > 4. Establish feedback loops and metrics: collect user feedback and track task success rates (outside Excel) to inform ongoing configuration and prompt engineering; iterate with templates and best practices. > 5. Create governance and spend visibility: align user tiers, budgets, and monitoring so heavy-use needs don’t get constrained, while ensuring overall cost control; this supports a sustainable multi-tool environment.
- Date
- Apr 16, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:19 Hey there, Speaker 2 00:00:20 Chris. How's it going? It's going well. Excellent. Speaker 3 00:00:35 Oh, all right. So I had two questions for you about Claude. Okay. Speaker 3 00:00:42 Um, we've had not great experience with Copilot so far, right? It's just not that capable like outside of Excel is basically the feedback from our team. Um, but Claude, Especially the cloud code, like that's that's pretty powerful. And So Katie wanted me to ask you about what would it look like or how much is entailed in trying to get our corporate cloud account like integrated into our three sixty five system. Oh, that's easy. Oh yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:28 You already have a corporate cloud account? Yes. And you're paying for the teams. Did we set up SSO for it? Speaker 1 00:01:37 No, we should. Okay. Speaker 2 00:01:40 Um, integrating it with Microsoft is going to be fairly simple. Um, It's not going to be as fully integrated as Copilot and I'll be honest, each system has their strengths. And their weaknesses I use all three because I. There are things where I just can't get Claude to do within Microsoft Office that I need Copilot to do. And, then there are things that I can't get Copilot to do that I need Claude for. And I code, so all of the above. And then I use ChatGPT for image generation. Speaker 3 00:02:23 Okay, yeah. And okay, single sign- on, Yep. Uh, what about like, Do you know what the the Anthropic policy is about the prompts that we put in and the data sheets that we connect to Claude? Are those held strictly within our Claude account? Or can those kind of things be accessed into the greater Claude universe? Speaker 2 00:02:53 If you're running a corporate Claude Teams account, it cannot. Well, it could, but you have to turn that feature on. But general business accounts through Claude are automatically set not to share. Speaker 1 00:03:07 Okay. And. Speaker 3 00:03:15 Then how do you monitor the spend with Claude at a corporate level? I don't have any experience like It's hard. Speaker 2 00:03:26 Yeah, I'll be straight up honest. It is pretty hard. I have to go in daily for a couple of clients and look at things. And depending on who your users are, you're either going to want to do a standard account. These are people who use Claude as just a chat. Your cowork people are about your medium usage, so their spend could go slightly over. And then anybody who's thinking about coding, like does the heavy stuff like what I do, You're definitely want them to have a premium account, which is about$ 100 a month per person. Okay. I will be honest, if you and Katie want to do this, uh is Mike Hall's account manager? Speaker 1 00:04:17 Uh yeah yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:18 Get with Mike ask him to purchase some training hours with me. U h and anybody that's on Claude. Um I will sit down and go through training. We can do two. We can do the ones that need the the coding training, the heavy use, and we can do the smaller version training. You only need two hours. Okay, I'll give you a third hour for free, but don't tell Mike that he'll yell at me for leaving money on the table again, Speaker 3 00:04:49 Very good. And then. We also have so about a year ago, we set up with the chat GPT four, our internal like chat bot, like here's our document repository of things that we wanted to reference. And then we want our internal employees to ask it questions about how we do processes or about the equipment that we supply and service. And, We just never got it running very well. So we've got Darwin who's our um. Speaker 3 00:05:21 Ai guy looking into setting it up in an Azure resource with either a new GPT or some other client. And we're thinking about Claude might be the best resource for that. So, would that be like under the same umbrella? Or would we need like a separate Azure resource for that? Creating a specific agent, like with access to a specific database of documents. Speaker 2 00:05:51 I'll be honest, it's probably going to be better to do it in Copilot right now. Sorry, I keep losing my voice. Um, Copilot right now, Claude has got agents and they're great. Um, And you need to set up the connections. But at the end of the day, Copilot is, is there better right now than Claude but Claude's getting there and it will get there soon. Speaker 3 00:06:15 Okay. And since we're storing all of these in SharePoint site anyway just having a native. Agent to do it. Right now. Speaker 2 00:06:24 Now that may change in two weeks. Speaker 1 00:06:27 Right. And. Speaker 2 00:06:40 Do you guys, did you guys get your AI policy sent out to all your staff? Have you made one? Do you need one? Yes. Speaker 3 00:06:47 Yeah, we have one as part of our handbook. Andum, We've been running a series of meetings with one department, in particular, who there were numerous people using personal accounts. And. So we're going through methodically saying, nope, can't do that. Give us all the information you put in there, but here are the ones that you can use that are our corporate uh, monitored ones. Speaker 2 00:07:10 Yeah. And and honestly, um the way that I've been framing it to. Various client employees is to say, you know, hey, it's not about what you're putting in. We don't care what you're putting in. It's about um it's honestly about uh the safety of our information going out and personal accounts, Especially using a system like Grok may not have that going to the cloud turned off. Speaker 2 00:07:44 And. And the reason why I say, especially grok is because grok does not allow consumer accounts to turn off that. So anything you put in that is Avalon related into grok is automatically going to get sent out to the internet. Speaker 1 00:07:57 Okay, yep. Speaker 3 00:08:03 Yeah, And that's basically what we've been saying is that any Avalon information like has to be protected to protect the company. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:08:14 Excellent. All right, so I've got a meeting already scheduled with Mike for later this week, so or no way this next week. Yeah. So I'll probably reach out to him. No worries. Directly Thank you, Chris really appreciate it. Speaker 2 00:08:31 No worries Uh uh Have you have you connected with me on LinkedIn. Speaker 3 00:08:38 Yes Yep And I do readum a lot of your adapt to it articles. Speaker 2 00:08:44 Okay, good. I was going to see if you uh, uh, if you did so that I can uh, if you didn't, I was going to point you in the direction of some, But I'm going to be doing some more basic articles soon because I'm getting asked for a lot more basic stuff. Speaker 3 00:09:04 Yeah, I was going to say you're definitely using it at a deeper level than than I am. Yeah. Um So yeah, that sounds great to me. Speaker 2 00:09:12 Yeah, no, just feel free to forward some things out if you want to. I am trying to get some traction so that I can get higher on Google search results, but that's just a uh shameless plug right now. Speaker 3 00:09:26 Very good. It worked. Thanks, Chrissy. Speaker 2 00:09:30 Thanks. You're welcome. I'll talk to you later Vance Yep Bye- Bye.
05-07 Meeting: Locked Backups, Passphrase Issue, and Internet Speed
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- > **Meeting Information** > Date: 2026-05-07 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ### Meeting Notes #### Locked Backups and Passphrase Issue - Backups are locked/encrypted with a passphrase. - The passphrase cannot be recreated or retrieved. - Only remedy: delete existing agents and restart the backup process from scratch. - Encryption was enabled when new backups were initiated; the team was surprised to find them encrypted. #### Internet Speed Upgrade at Peerless - Current internet speed at Peerless is 50, which is insufficient for backups. - Speaker 2 is working with Peerless to increase speed and expects a quote today (2026-05-07). - Speaker 1 will wait for upgrade confirmation before starting the new backup process. #### Backup Strategy and Data Seeding - Restarting backups will sever connections to old backups. - The “round trip” data seeding used in early April was costly and can’t be used again for free until end of June or July 2026. - Until the next round trip, backups will be slowly pushed to the cloud over the upgraded connection. - To compensate, local backups will be retained longer—possibly a month instead of the standard one week. #### Server and Antivirus Management - Discussion included pushing the team’s own antivirus to the client’s systems. - The client currently has other antivirus solutions being phased out as contracts expire. - The EPO server cannot be deleted yet because it stores BitLocker keys and manages antivirus. - Long-term plan to gradually eliminate servers like the TS server; no immediate action required. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 2 to follow up with Peerless for a quote and to increase internet speed. - [ ] Speaker 1 to initiate the new backup process after confirming the internet speed upgrade. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. There is no contingency plan if the internet speed upgrade from Peerless is delayed or too costly. The start of new backups is entirely dependent on this external factor. > 2. The strategy for managing data until the next “round trip” seeding (end of June/July) depends on pushing large backups over the internet, which might remain slow even with an upgrade. The impact on the client’s network was not fully assessed.
- Date
- May 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Good Morning, Christiane. Good morning. As soon as the issue is raised. So, but they assured me that they can't recreate passphrase. And the only way to resolve issue with locked backups is to delete agents. And start everything from scratch. Or somehow get them. Pass phrase. Speaker 2 00:00:31 Yeah, he's not going to give us the passphrase. Um, I have tried every way possible and he's like, I do not have access to it anymore. Speaker 1 00:00:39 So we have to start it over. Yes. Because, you know it is not that like you can, you can figure the backups later after you install it. You know, I asked the guys, I said, hey where can it be stored? And they say nowhere only, T hing you do when you start new backups with new agent, you just mark. Encrypt and then it will ask you what passphrase. I believe Whoever did it didn't realize what they are doing. Got it. Because we don't do and nobody do, and they were surprised that the backups were encrypted. 嗯。 Speaker 2 00:01:26 It was probably. I've never seen it. Speaker 1 00:01:28 I asked, where is that damn thing? About encryption, they say there is no such thing in configuration. Interesting. Only when you start it, you just mark and you have to put the thing. Speaker 2 00:01:46 Yeah. Um, Speaker 1 00:01:47 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:50 So I am working with Peerless to increase their internet speed because they only have 50. Speaker 1 00:01:57 It's definitely not enough. Even with easy backups, small backups, it wasn't enough because it couldn't push even smallest. Server TS or something like that. And what, how soon it's going to be. Speaker 2 00:02:22 I I don't know. I'm waiting on them to give me a quote back. They're supposed to give me that today. Speaker 1 00:02:28 You know what I'm asking because in theory, I can start it right away, But it does make sense because it will accumulate the volume that should be pushed through the internet. And that's it. On the other hand, Robert backing up with that what is So we use the send system. So right now it's not in Iraq, but, The sooner we start, Another problem when I follow the data recommendation that. Just ask for round trip and we'll put it everything in the cloud. And we've done it. So, but when we recreate, we will lose connection to the old backups. So we will start it over. Speaker 2 00:03:19 Okay. With. Speaker 1 00:03:21 New company. Let me. Speaker 2 00:03:24 Let me let me work on today getting the internet. Speed up. Speaker 1 00:03:34 Okay, as soon as I get the news from you, I will start it. Speaker 2 00:03:39 Okay, perfect. Speaker 1 00:03:40 The problem, another problem, we can't get that for free again. It's a really expensive one. I don't remember how much, but it was expensive. Especially with such a big round trip drive. Yeah. We can get it every quarter. And unfortunately we've done it in early April. So it's okay April, May, June end of June or maybe or maybe in July, we can have that thing. So we will just slowly push. Backups in the cloud through whatever you get the pipe size. Speaker 2 00:04:20 Okay. Perfect. Speaker 2 00:04:24 Y ep. Speaker 1 00:04:25 The only thing, because the unit is really big one, I can increase Keeping local backups longer. Usually our standard is one week. I can try to keep it for I don't know, maybe month. If it will be enough. So we will always have at least one month back backups. Okay. Speaker 1 00:04:52 Local ly, not in the cloud. Because it will take forever to push thoseterabytes. On the other hand, I don't understand, Christy. We do not push our own antivirus there. Speaker 2 00:05:10 Not yet. We are, but not yet. They have a couple antiviruses already. So we're slowly phasing them out according to when their contracts are up. Speaker 1 00:05:20 You know, because if so, if we push our own antivirus, then we could delete two servers. Speaker 2 00:05:28 No. So the thing about it is, is the EPO server is not just antivirus. It's also holding BitLocker keys. So you can't delete that server yet. Speaker 1 00:05:41 Okay. Yeah. So we do not have plans to delete some servers, like kind of TS server or We will. Speaker 2 00:05:51 But we're slowly moving to eliminate all those servers. Speaker 1 00:05:56 Okay, so I don't do anything. I just waiting for you. Yes, and as soon as you say they have good pipe, I will just. Started over. Yes. Okay. Thank you, Christine. You're welcome. It's a pity that we couldn't get it, but I understand, And these guys now, because it's really strange thing have such. Feature and doesn't have. In configuration, any mention of that encryption. Yeah. There is no such thing. Okay. Thank you, Christy. You're welcome Have a nice day. Speaker 2 00:06:38 You too Bye. Speaker 2 00:06:44 Okay.
06-16 Quiet Super Admin Redundancy to Stabilize Access Governance During Account Resets
- Notes
- ## Core Synopsis Access control is being quietly restructured to ensure continuity: the Bravo account now has two super admins, with Speaker 1 elevating the other user to super admin and instructing discretion. The operational driver is succession resilience—if any one of the three principals (Speaker 1, the upgraded admin, or Robert) leaves, the remaining super admins can remove and rebalance roles without external dependency. The security backdrop is active: multiple account resets are pending, and Dr. Barbera is processing them after a phishing or credential compromise event that triggered regret rather than anger. The stakes are straightforward—administrator redundancy reduces single‑point‑of‑failure risk and accelerates response to access incidents; discretion limits social friction and potential privilege misuse. We are committed to maintaining at least two super admins to safeguard the org’s ability to self-correct rapidly when people or credentials change. ## Access Governance Stabilization amid Account Resets - Administrator Redundancy Implemented Speaker 1 conferred super admin rights on the collaborator to ensure there are always two super admins in Bravo. Robert is the third named stakeholder in the admin orbit, but the operating policy is “always two super admins” to enable mutual removal if one departs. - Security Incident Context and Emotional Temperature Multiple accounts require resets. Dr. Barbera is working through resets and expressed self-reproach (“how could I fall for it”) rather than frustration, indicating an incident tied to social engineering rather than system failure. The reset workflow is active; Speaker 1 sent a reminder to keep it moving. - Discretion and Power Dynamics The new super admin status is to be kept quiet. The intent appears to be reducing intra-team politics and privilege signaling while preserving functional authority for continuity actions (e.g., removing/deprovisioning admins upon departure). - Operational Continuity Objective The core mechanism for resilience is role symmetry: two super admins at all times so the system can be self-managed without third-party dependency or lock-out risk. This also enables timely cleanup after staff changes or security events. ## Action Items **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Confirm Bravo’s administrator roster maintains exactly two super admins and document the removal protocol if one departs - [TBD] **@Dr. Barbera** - [ ] Complete the pending account resets and confirm completion to stakeholders via email - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi, can you do me a favor? Um, I want you to open up Bravo on your computer and then share your screen. I want to check something. Okay. Is Bravo. Ah, SCHARP or. Oh yeah, there's only one account. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:31 Okay, what do you need to check? Okay. Uh go to the settings button on the far left. Click on this one? Yeah, go down to settings. Okay, and click on administrators. Speaker 1 00:01:09 All right. Okay, I made you a super admin to see if that was the correct one. Um, uh, so just don't tell anybody you have it. Okay. What what are we doing? No, I was uh upgrading your access so that you and so like if me or you or Robert leaves, um you can remove one of us. So there should always be two super adminships. Oh okay Does that make sense? All right, good. It is a day. Doctor Barbera okay? Yeah, he's he well, He's he has a lot to do because he has a bunch of accounts that need to be reset. So I just sent him an email reminding him what he needs to do. Good. Was he pretty frustrated when you spoke with him? Speaker 1 00:02:06 No, he's like he it's it's more like how could I fall for it, like emotion. Yeah, I get that. He was not frustrated. He he just. Yeah, I get it. And, we have a message about the other accounts then losing. Okay, good It's It's been a day. Speaker 1 00:02:36 Okay. All right. Let me know if you need anything. I'm going to jump back into this other disaster I've been working on. Okay, all right. Thank you, you've been amazing. All right, you too. See you tomorrow? Yes.
05-21 Project Coordination Meeting: Deposit Status, Onsite Schedule, AP Placement, and Boom Lift Logistics
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-21 11:00:03 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Christi] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] ## Meeting Notes - Deposit and Financial Processing Status - The deposit check for the project has been issued and is in transit; expected to arrive within the next couple of days. - The delay was due to backend changes and a new CFO; new wiring and check systems are now in place. - Christi reconfirmed the down payment is approved and being sent. - Conclusion: Deposit is approved and on its way; minor delays acknowledged. - Scheduling and Onsite Plan - The team plans to arrive on Tuesday (2026-05-26) in the late morning/early afternoon. - Christi has a hard stop at 11:30 and a penetration test meeting the same day. - Christi will be onsite Thursday (2026-05-28). - Saturday work is permitted if needed. - Conclusion: Arrival set for 2026-05-26; onsite coordination with Christi on 2026-05-28; Saturday work allowed. - Access Point (AP) Placement and Floor Plans - Christi will send floor plans with AP locations. - The director’s house AP should be placed in the hallway. - Main lodge exterior APs should cover the parking lot; Christi will revise floor plans to ensure coverage. - APs are already configured in the firewall. - Conclusion: Floor plans to be revised for parking lot coverage; hallway placement confirmed for the director’s house. - Equipment and Boom Lift Logistics - Boom lift is scheduled for delivery and pickup on Monday (2026-05-25). - Concern that pickup may occur when the team is not present; cost favors a weekly rental. - If pickup timing is an issue, the schedule can be adjusted; potential to park for accessible pickup without excessive grass crossing. - Speaker 5 will finalize ordering the boom lift. - Conclusion: Boom lift logistics under review; schedule may be adjusted based on site feedback. - Contacts and Onsite Coordination - Christi will provide the primary onsite contact (likely Kelly) and her phone number. - Christi will include Alex and Will (onsite facilities) in communications to assist. - Christi will CC Kelly on documentation and send updated plans by end of day today (2026-05-21) or early tomorrow (2026-05-22). - Parts are ordered and will be picked up from the supply house (likely 2026-05-22). - Conclusion: Contact list to be shared; documentation to be sent by 2026-05-22; parts pickup imminent. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to send revised floor plans with AP locations, ensuring parking lot coverage, by 2026-05-22. - [ ] Christi to provide primary onsite contact details (Kelly) and phone number, and CC Kelly on all documentation. - [ ] Christi to loop in Alex and Will (facilities) on all documentation and communications. - [ ] Speaker 5 to complete the boom lift order and confirm delivery/pickup logistics for 2026-05-25; adjust schedule or parking plan if team is offsite at pickup. - [ ] Team to arrive onsite on 2026-05-26 in the late morning/early afternoon. - [ ] Confirm Saturday work availability with onsite stakeholders. - [ ] Verify receipt of the deposit check within the next couple of days. - [ ] Confirm exact parts pickup date (likely 2026-05-22) and readiness. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Boom lift pickup on 2026-05-25 may occur without the team onsite; confirm whether timing or the parking plan needs adjustment. > 2. Final confirmation of the primary onsite contact (Kelly) and her phone number is pending; share to avoid day-of coordination gaps. > 3. Revised floor plans ensuring parking lot coverage are not yet distributed; risk of misplacement if installation starts before receiving updates. > 4. Clarify any remaining AP placement details for the main lodge exterior to avoid rework. > 5. Confirm the exact parts pickup date and readiness to ensure no delays for the 2026-05-26 start.
- Date
- May 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:00:36 Other clients. Speaker 1 00:01:15 The film was released on 24 July 2015. Speaker 1 00:01:56 Test a bear table. Speaker 1 00:02:26 I'm not sure what you mean. The film was released on 24 July 2015. Speaker 1 00:03:26 Hey Zach, can you hear me? Speaker 1 00:03:56 Yeah, sorry about that. Speaker 2 00:03:58 No worries. I've been sitting here working with your note taker in the background, and I considered telling it. I considered telling it that uh you owe me coffee next time you're in LA, but Oh yes. Yeah, But I've learned some that some note takers won't start until their owners jump into the meeting. Speaker 3 00:04:17 Yeah, This one's Fathom does a pretty good job of uh of doing it. Soum. Speaker 1 00:04:27 Let's see here. Okay, Speaker 3 00:04:34 So it looks like we're on for theum we're on for next week. Yes, yes. So I know there was some some issues internally withum. Speaker 3 00:04:50 On your side, As far as the you know, financing of it is concerned and all this other stuff. Andum I believe Blake told me yesterday that you guys issued a check out for the deposit. Speaker 2 00:05:01 Yes. Yeah, so it's being sent. You guys should get it in the next couple of days. Uh and I do apologize, It was some issues on the back end. Um we're we're making some changes and stuff, and we have a new CFO. So things just got a little delayed. Speaker 1 00:05:16 Yeah. Um. Speaker 3 00:05:22 So Um yeah. So that's good. We got everybody scheduled out and then you got with Greg. As far as theum access points on the outside of the buildings and things like that. Speaker 2 00:05:35 So I need to finish that up. That's what I was hoping Greg was going to be here, so we can finish all that up. Speaker 3 00:05:41 Sure. Yes. Okay, wonderful all right, we'll have him. Uh, go over to this meeting. There's another meeting, here's Blake. Awesome. Just talk on here. Hi, Chris. Hi. Speaker 4 00:05:53 You survive You survive yesterday? Okay. Speaker 2 00:05:56 Oh my gosh, I today is going to be even worse. I just need to survive this week, that's all Yeah. Speaker 3 00:06:04 All right, Chrissy i'm gonna I'm gonna jump to this other meeting. Greg might be on it if he is I'm. Gonna have him come over this one. Speaker 2 00:06:10 Okay no worries. Speaker 3 00:06:11 All right? Thank you. And yes, I do owe you coffee and lunch when uh I'm in LA next so. Speaker 2 00:06:18 No worries. Speaker 3 00:06:19 Yes. Okay. All right, we'll see you later. Speaker 2 00:06:22 Thank you. Yep. Speaker 4 00:06:25 Hi Chris. Hi. Uh, I get. Um sorry, it's a little crazy for me today, too. Are we? Uh, did you want to if Greg, if Greg is able to chime in just go over and I got something else? So I don't want to take any more of your time. Speaker 2 00:06:41 Yeah no. Um I have a hard stop at 11:30 I've got to jump into a uh pen test meeting. Speaker 2 00:06:49 So, but other than that, um, yes. Speaker 4 00:06:55 Okay. Well, we're all oh. I did want to ask you. Uh, so we're we're. We have a boom lift. Um being delivered and see we're going to schedule. We have it scheduled to be picked up on Monday. Um when when the team will not be there, is that going to pose an issue? And if it is, we can change it, Speaker 2 00:07:14 Let me check in with Kelly on that one. Okay? Speaker 4 00:07:20 It was just the the price point for renting the boomum for the timeline. It was cheaper to do a week than it was per day. Soum that's why I dropped that way if it's an issue. Yeah, we could change both. But if not, we could park it somewhere where it's accessible to where the company doesn't have to really come on grass too far to pick it up. Speaker 2 00:07:43 No worries. Speaker 4 00:07:45 Okay, all right, Great. Speaker 2 00:07:58 And I'm looking at the invoice on my end for the down payment. I just told, I was just telling Zach about that. It has left my visual, so it is definitely already approved and going out. So you guys will see that in the next couple of days hopefully. Speaker 2 00:08:21 We do have a we do have a new wiring, uh wiring system and check system, and we have a new CFO. So just a heads up, Speaker 4 00:08:30 Yep, understood I totally, get it. Okay. Yeah, no worries at all. Um don't know if Craig is gonna be able to join, uh, wanted to make sure you had everything that you could get answered. I told him he'd be there Thursday to. Go through the uh the APS with them. Um, But I told them they're all configured in the firewall and everything as well already. So, Uh I know they'll be able to jump up there Tuesday and get to work. Um Why don't I let you go and give me a response back? So, uh No worries. Think we're good to go at this point. And uh when you get up Thursday, any other open questions can be. Speaker 4 00:09:20 Address them. Speaker 2 00:09:21 Awesome, that would be perfect. And I'll send Kelly over a note after this meeting just so that she is aware and we'll be good to go. Speaker 4 00:09:31 Okay, thank you guys so much for your time. Speaker 2 00:09:34 You're welcome. Thanks and hi Greg. Morning Oh, oh hello, I wasn't aware of the meeting, Speaker 4 00:09:42 Almost almost let her off the hook. Speaker 2 00:09:44 You all yeah. No, it's okay, it's okay. I saw him jump on, and I was just going to let you talk. And. And then let him chime in in a second. I was cracking up. So sorry. You guys are the best thing to my morning right now, so. Speaker 4 00:09:59 Oh, good. I like this. Greg, she's going to ask Kelly about. Anything about the site that we need to catch up with on any of those items? So, we'll get that answer if there was anything that you wanted just go over with her regardless of the meeting yesterday, here we are. Okay. Speaker 5 00:10:18 No, just kind of the overall plan though. We plan to arrive uh Tuesday probably uh late morning, early afternoon. And then I'm going to start with the project. Then I believe you're going to come up on Wednesday, Chris? Thursday. Thursday. I wish it was Wednesday. We'll see you there Thursday. Yes, We'll see you there Thursday. Um hold on, let me pull up that email really quick. Just to make sure I think we have any other comments? Speaker 2 00:10:46 I'm gonna I'm going to send you guys over the floor plans with the A P locations. However, uh for the house for the director's house, we do want thatum on in the hallway. In the hallway? Yes. Speaker 5 00:11:03 Um okay. And thenum and then uh you confirm we could work Saturdays if needed. Um yes The director we're gonna do it in the hallway. Um I you provide, The model numbers, so I'm good with that. The main lodge, Are you still we still kind of up in the air on the locations of those two access points outside? Speaker 2 00:11:23 So, she did come back and and just ask that we make sure we hit the parking lot with those. So I'm going to go through and redo the floor plans today just to make sure that they're set correctly to how we want it. Um And then I'm going to That would be perfect. Yeah, I'm going to send those all over to you guys. I am going to C C her on these, uh, just so that she has it. Speaker 5 00:11:46 On the great. Um, I think that's kind of all my uh my open questions right. Oh and just if you could send us the uh the primary onsite contact, if it's gonna be Kelly. And if you could just provide her phone number, the best number to reach her at. Speaker 2 00:11:58 Okay perfect I will do that. Uh and then I'm also going to rope in. Uh they don't know this yet, but I'm going to rope in Alex and uh Will who are onsite facilities guys, uh so that they are available and know what's going on as well. Because I am going to rope them in to help me. That would be greatly appreciated. Yeah, so everybody's going to be in the loop with all the documentation. Look for that. Yeah, so look for that end of day today. If not end of day today, It's going to be early tomorrow morning. Just because Blake will tell you my week is crazy. Speaker 5 00:12:37 Yeah, we have all the parts ordered. Um, we're going to pick them up probably tomorrow from our supply house. Um, I got to just finish ordering the boom lift, and then uh, we should be good to go from there. Speaker 2 00:12:50 Perfect, thank you. Speaker 5 00:12:53 Thank you. Anything else? And you're saying nope? Nope, we're good. Speaker 2 00:12:57 All right. You guys are amazing and I will see you guys on Thursday, but I will be emailing you and talking to you guys I'm sure before then. Speaker 2 00:13:08 You have a good day. Have a good weekend. Speaker 1 00:13:09 Thanks. You too. Bye.
07-29 Weekly Meeting: Hudu Documentation and Client Updates
- Notes
- Client champion sync, continuation session (9:31-10:00am PDT, calendar entry 1895811 "Champion Sync Up Continued"). Round-table where each client champion reported documentation state in Hudu and named specific remaining gaps rather than a completion percentage. New standard agreed: before any client documentation is called complete, an L1 or the account manager runs three realistic ticket scenarios against it and reports failures. Reminders: fill in the client summary field, move ConnectWise-synced device data into device properties so serials and IPs are searchable, and explicitly call out anything non-standard about a client for new techs and L1s. Christi flagged that vendor-supplied IP/ISP data in Hudu for her accounts was found inaccurate and is being corrected. Meeting ran straight into the all-hands.
- Date
- Jul 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:05 Hi guys, good morning. Sorry I am a minute late. Speaker 2 00:01:10 Good morning. Speaker 1 00:01:13 Good morning. Charl says she's on a call, June's probably going to be a minute late, and then George as well. So this is just our continuation of our last call. Chris is here and Matt who's, Here too, who haven't been here. So, um, for summary or context for you both, Uh, we're just going to kind of go through each of the champions check in. What's the latest um for their company? And if they have any updates that kind of stuff. And does any Mike Pete anyone have anything on your guys' end that you need to say before we go into updates? Speaker 2 00:02:05 I guess I'll just comment. The last meeting we basically kind of went through and said, you know, we wanted everybody to make sure that they met with their clients, that they understood their clients' environments, That we were updating all the documentation. And just as importantly, maintaining it once we have it updated in Hudu. Um, But, we didn't get a chance to go around to each of the client champions and get some updates on where they were with that in our last call. So, we wanted to focus this call on getting updates for each of the clients from the client champions. So I think that was the purpose of this call, right? Speaker 3 00:02:42 Yeah, and just real quick, I do want to say I am seeing in a lot of the channels and inside conversations, people pointing out things aren't being documented. And so I love hearing that. So I just want to say kudos to the entire team. I think slowly we're starting to see the importance of good documentation, and I'm hearing people talk about it. So that's great. We want to call it out when things aren't properly documented. Speaker 2 00:03:06 Yeah, I think one of the things I heard when I first started here a year and a half ago is that IT Glue wasn't being referenced very much because people didn't have confidence that the data there was accurate, that it was being maintained, that it was very worthwhile. So part of what we wanted to do with Hudu, Was get it up to date, maintain it, and make it valuable for everybody. And the only way we can do that is by having everybody maintain it. So that's kind of the goal here. Speaker 1 00:03:36 Definitely. Okay, So I posted in well, let me post in this chat, too, just in case anybody needs it. I did finally document all the champions in Hudu, I posted it and pinned it in our client champion, and then Mike posted it in mine and yours, and Vince's chat as well. And Pete, I'll send it to you if you need it. Okay. So let me just really quickly get to this, then we can go through. I know Dima's out. Speaker 1 00:04:22 So, uh, we can go to George's here. George, anything on the Iron Gate side? Any updates on your side of things? Speaker 1 00:04:41 George Might be doing something. I'll come back to you, George. Uh, Ryan, what about you with Avalon? Speaker 5 00:04:52 Hello, just working through improving their documentation and everything else like that. Um, usual. Speaker 1 00:05:04 Okay. Um, John, anything for Hannah? I know I kind of touched last week. Speaker 6 00:05:13 Yeah, nothing too critical right now. They're about to purchase. They're trying to buy a domain or bring it over from an existing customer that's going out of business. Or it's a supplier they use, so that's probably one of the bigger lifts right now. They have about one hundred and two subdomains they want to get into GoDaddy. So working with them on that. Besides that, it is probably business as usual for them right now, nothing too crazy, just the normal requests access control those kind of things. Speaker 3 00:05:39 Okay great real quick. Just a reminder, if you are a client champ, please take the time after this meeting to add your name to Hudu under client summary. Speaker 1 00:05:53 I think everyone should. I think I looked at, I'm pretty sure that everyone should have theirs, but I'll double check. Like and if you haven't, please add yours by today. And I will check. Um, Speaker 2 00:06:12 Can we also as part of this Olivia can the client champion also tell us what if anything in Hudu? Speaker 2 00:06:22 We would say for that particular client is still outstanding as far as having the data added. So, so for instance, for Hannah, Would we say that for all intents and purposes, everything that we're aware of is entered for that? Or if we've got a gap, what is that gap so that we're aware of it? Like do we have, For instance, if they have on prem servers and we don't have on prem servers documented, is that kind of what we're working on that's not there? Or if it's something in Azure, Do we not have that in there but that's kind of our next priority to get updated. So, let's let's if we can call that out, then at least we sort of know what what's missing. And what our next sort of thing to tackle is. If we can maybe hit that as That's just an example. Speaker 1 00:07:12 Okay. Okay sounds good. Um, Well, I guess I'll start back Ryan with Avalon. I know that you're working on some things. Do, you want to call out what you what you're working on for Hudu documentation? Speaker 2 00:07:30 Or what gaps do we have? What's not in, what is not in Hudu for Avalon at this point? Or what's, what may not be accurate? Speaker 5 00:07:38 Um, I'm still going through the servers to find out which ones we can decommission when we move. Move them over to the SharePoint. So, servers mostly for Avalon. I'm still working through them, just trying to figure out what's running on them, what they run and all that good stuff. Speaker 2 00:07:55 Okay. When do we think we'll have that? Speaker 5 00:07:60 Uh, End of week is when I was tasked by, so okay, Speaker 2 00:08:04 Cool right. Speaker 1 00:08:08 John anything on your end? Um. Speaker 6 00:08:11 Overall documentation of the environment, I'd say nine, I'd say a hundred percent. Um, I have some gaps. Adrian pointed out some things I was missing in the onboarding. So I'm going to have those by end of the week. Uh, Mainly license purchases within Google Workspace, and then updating the template for onboarding within um MTX. It was still pointing to IT Glue on some of the links, so I need to remove all those old references. But that's about it. Speaker 3 00:08:37 Oh, sorry, Olivia. One more thing. And, just a reminder, : have an L1 or the account manager will act as the L1 s with John. He came up with a couple of ticket scenarios that might be common, And I pretended I was taking the ticket, and I was going through the documentation, And we actually found a couple opportunities to improve on the documentation based on that. So I recommend, i would make it mandatory for any of what the client champs working on documentation, when you think you're good, have an L1 or or myself or Vince or someone. Come up with three fictitious scenarios that that might be common, And let us go through the documentation to see how quickly we can fix it. And we have two, Speaker 1 00:09:16 We have two new L1s. So they are a perfect example. They have no knowledge, no prior knowledge, right? So, you can have them try something and then see where you where you need some improvements. Speaker 3 00:09:31 Yeah, to point out, John relies heavily on KB articles and I go through the menus. And. So I think it was an eye opener for John that like I needed the menus to get to where I needed to be. So okay, so I'll stop. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:09:42 Definitely. Uh okay, George are you here now? Speaker 7 00:09:51 Yes, I'm here. Yes, I'm here. George anything. Speaker 1 00:09:55 On the Westwood side? Um any updates and then any gaps in Hudu that you need to complete? Speaker 7 00:10:02 Gaps in Hudu, that's a work in progress. I always have a documentation ticket that I have on a weekly basis, I think or every other week. Other than that, this might be the wrong meeting for it, But I did get the okay for the project that I told you guys about the website. Speaker 7 00:10:36 I mean, the Westwood works, I mean. But yeah, no gaps in Westwood. I just need to continually work on the Hudu documentation. But that's a work in progress. Speaker 2 00:10:50 So George, in your opinion, if a new person looked at the Westwood Hudu documentation, You would say that anything that they looked up would be accurate and they'd be able to support? Pretty much anything that's based on the docs. Speaker 7 00:11:08 Accurate, yes. Complete, no. For sure there are going to be That's why I said earlier that it's a continuing process. But yeah for majority, not majority, but 90% of it is accurate. Speaker 2 00:11:26 And. Then what what are the major gaps that are missing? Is it, On-Prem, is it cloud? Is it servers? Is it like what what are the primary gaps? Like what's missing and how much is missing? Like are we fifty percent, are we ninety percent complete? Like what's. Speaker 7 00:11:44 I would yeah I would say more than more than sixty. Speaker 2 00:11:53 Okay. How do we get to go ahead. Speaker 7 00:11:57 Like um I was gonna uh, Yeah, go ahead. Speaker 1 00:12:01 Sorry, George. I was going to say like is it onboarding that you haven't documented? Like what's your next thing that you're documenting? Onboarding. Speaker 7 00:12:10 Is for sure, my my, my, my uh, my kind of my rock for the for for uh the documentation part, because that, that has seen a lot of changes. Uh it was still on-prem. And now it's purely cloud based. So. Some of the wordings have to be readapted to a purely cloud environment. Speaker 1 00:12:34 Okay, so then I'm going to talk to you about the onboarding and offboarding, and then let's have that be your goal for the next couple weeks. Okay, um, right. Anything on intratum side? Speaker 8 00:12:58 Hey guys, uh yeah, there's quite a few things going on at Intralim. Uh, there's been some policy changes re regarding compliance uh for cloud PCs, and also there is some policies implemented for uh bringing your own device. Um. So there's uh we're still working with Julia and Mike uh to get clarification on everything. And and so on, but it's going good there. Um, Otherwise something we can work on maybe documenting more for myself would be um understanding the client's internal processes a bit more. Um, So I had a quick call with Tatiana the other day, and I got a chance to understand how their ticketing system works, which was great. So um got a bit more information on that and can put that into Hudu. Speaker 8 00:13:56 But uh, that's about it for me. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:13:59 Yeah. Maurice I think maybe on the on the on the first homepage, we have make some sort of note under the quick notes like how they have that A B, D and compliance and stuff like that would be a good like tweak. Cool. Speaker 1 00:14:13 Okay coolum Charles not here Riddick Riddick's my Cottonwood person Riddick anything. Speaker 1 00:14:25 On your end. Speaker 9 00:14:27 On Collingwood, I guess things are stable. Just one or two tickets for Collingwood, and it's being managed by Charlene so far. I think it's just going to be computer setup. Um, The only thing that happenedum lately is Aaron requested me to have a list of their devices and theirum purchase. I'm sorry. Made date or created date. So that's something I think something is, um, I think maybe they are trying to monitor these devices or hopefully, they could purchase some devices because some of the older devices are kind of old actually. So I guess that's it from Collingwood so far. Speaker 1 00:15:11 Okay. Um, anything on the documentation side of things for. Speaker 9 00:15:18 Collingwood? Documentation? Hmm. Documentation so far, I don't see anythingum uh missing. Um, I had few call with tickets this week and when I check excuse me and when I check out ITG, it's there. So if I see something, I'll just keep up updating. Speaker 3 00:15:39 Real quick Riddick same same thing with Maurice. I'd make a note in Confluence explaining the importance of JumpCloud. Because if i've never remember, you want to pretend like you want to make the documentation to help someone who has no. Knowledge of Collingwood and JumpCloud are a key component. Speaker 9 00:15:57 I think there's an documentation, but let me just review it. Yeah, I'll make it for an L 1 or maybe slightly non- technical to make it more easy and accessible. Okay, I'll just review with that. Speaker 1 00:16:11 Okay, great, thank you. Speaker 2 00:16:12 Yeah, Anything that's unique to a client that you know, most of our clients for folks coming in are going to be very Microsoft- centric or. You know, 365 centric and then we've got a few that are very Google centric or, you know, unique. So anything that's like that we should call that out as as clearly as possible. If you know if we can so so that our our new folks or our L1s can see that clearly. Good call out Mike. Speaker 1 00:16:41 Right. Okay thank you uh Emil anything on Clappage's side? Speaker 10 00:16:49 Um, nothing. Nothing at the moment. Um, there's not been a real any changes or any. Anything, really crying in any type of updating. Nothing about that has occurred. It's just been one or two users that have been added. That's it Okay, Speaker 1 00:17:09 Emil uh for Clappage, they they don't have a client summary yet. Can you go in and fill that in? Before the next meeting, For this week, end of this week. I'll do that. Thank you. Uh okay. Sorry, I clicked away to go to Clappage, um Becker Carney? Speaker 11 00:17:40 Um so no changes on Carney's side. Um I'm just busy reviewing everything. So I found a couple of things that are old or. It's not detailed enough, So particularly with their onboarding or things that I saw on their onboarding that we don't have access to, but it shows that we should be setting that up. Like for example, the um smart sheets or by Terra for them. Um so we don't have any access to that. So normally, we reach out to Mark for him to create the accounts or remove their accounts. So um I'll just updating that and then check with them over the kinds as well. Um. Speaker 11 00:18:16 If, we might be able to get access to that or just so that we can correctly update our documentation and onboarding. So, um, highlights the steps that we need to take better. Um, And then I need to reach out to them for something else that I'm working on as well. Speaker 1 00:18:33 Okay. We should document their auto elevate rules as well. Speaker 3 00:18:37 Yeah, that's specifically yeah. Um Becker, if you don't mind maybe taking use of the related items for for Carney? Speaker 3 00:18:47 When you're in there. Speaker 1 00:18:49 Yeah. So that everything's connected. Speaker 3 00:18:51 Yeah, and then reminder, anything that syncs in ConnectWise, We want to move it to the actual device properties because it's not searchable like serial numbers, IP addresses, stuff like that. Reminder what you see in the in the where it says In Meraki or whatever, if that's if it's a ConnectWise sync, it's not going to be searchable. So okay, cool. Speaker 1 00:19:14 Okay, Patrick with Anderson. What you got? Speaker 12 00:19:22 So, um, Anderson has a lot. I've been keeping a list of things that we need to document. But as far as things go for them, um, They've been sort of stable, but they recently got into Claw and I spoke to them briefly about how to use it. Um but it's just general overview so far they don't have anything specific, Specific that they want to ask. I think they're still uh, they're still trying to test the waters. We've also had some interaction with um with Saks, who's their uh security camera vendor. So, if they have computers on sites that we don't manage, and it looks like the one in nineteen hundred or eighteen hundred, can't remember off the top of my head right now, Um shouldn't be rebooted because it's pretty much the main computer for all of their cameras on all sites. Speaker 12 00:20:14 So, uh, that one's critical. There's still a lot we don't know about it. So, that's probably something we might want to look into, especially since it's one of their critical systems. Recently, they've also been experiencing issues with their printers at eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred after the firewall switch. Um, getting them to IP printing worked. It appears and I've consulted with Kevin about this that the current firewall we have for them. Hasn't been configured for print text, So there are specific settings in text speed in order to uh in order to work. Um let me see SharePoint storage. Uh I think Matt's already working on that. Uh their offboarding process, I was supposed to work with Madison for that but she got offboarded, so I might have to work with Rebecca uh about that. They. Speaker 12 00:21:12 Still haven't provided me the um the final draft for their offboarding process. We were in talks last month about um the getting that finalized, uh but since Madison got offboarded, that kind of uh went to the back burner. So, we haven't had a portal created for them for their offboarding, since they wanted to use their own form for that pretty much kind of how they wanted uh, their onboarding done. Uh, their old devices still use the uh admin passwords of their previous MSP. And I I found that um for new computers, it's still creating admin accounts for their previous MSP. So I'm gonna need to try and find out where uh, where that's coming from. Uh most likely in Intune. So I'll need to try and find that and delete that. Speaker 12 00:22:07 Or maybe replace it with just as local. Maybe that's easier. And then I've been working with them every third and fourth week of the month of every month for their patching, since we have to schedule the reboots for their special devices, their security consoles and kiosks. There's that too. Speaker 3 00:22:31 Patrick, real quick, when you get a chance, can you update on their friendly name the location of the printers? Yeah, actually I am looking at it right now. You did a pretty good job with the documentation, but they have like four HPLJ M four hundred and four s. Speaker 12 00:22:44 Right, we've been trying to work that, But we haven't had a chance to get in touch with someone who could actually find the printers. And when I tried asking the users, Some of them have difficulty trying to figure out which computer which printer is, which. Okay, working progress. Speaker 3 00:22:60 Okay cool. Speaker 12 00:23:01 Yeah for documentation that's printers, And their printer use case, we've been trying to, we've been looking, Vincent and I have been looking to migrating them to Universal Print. Uh I've uh I've asked Juno to help out on that, and she had gladly accepted. Um We also need documentation on CCH and CDK. I think CDK is no longer going to be used, but um they recently got in touch with the third party vendor about that, so that they could. Speaker 12 00:23:34 Some data from previous years, particularly twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four. Um, we also need documentation on Genetech. Their Genetech camera system in relation to their Twin Gate subscription, because their Twin Gate subscription is currently free, But every time we would exceed twelve, it's going to start charging them for additional licenses. And then there's no documented UPS either in Toodo. Speaker 12 00:24:05 No, uh, there's no UPS indicated in Hudu, So I'm not sure if uh, if they're not using any UPS for their sites or if we need to have that documented. Probably do. Um We also don't have any info in their computer hardware standards. So I might need to check with Andrew and Rebecca about that. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:24:28 So for like the UPSs, either we create a ticket, we go on site, or when someone goes on site for the client chap and you're aware, just ask the onsite resource just to poke around. Get you some of that information. Speaker 1 00:24:39 Yeah Patrick reach out to You should reach out to Sue. And then next next time, she sends somebody on site to Anderson, just have them check on the UPS if there's one. And printers. Okay And printers Yeah sorry Okay Thank you Patrick, Um, Jams, Yanis. Speaker 13 00:25:03 So for them, there's nothing much except for the updating of the user list that we've requested from them now. And then as they give us any new applications they use or anything that's not in Hudu that I can find for them like Jams access calendars, Just adding that to the documentation then as well or as something new comes in from them. Speaker 1 00:25:25 Okay, great. Mike, you got anything on jams? Speaker 3 00:25:30 Jams is kind of a weird one, so no, I am looking but I don't. Speaker 1 00:25:34 I think it looks good. Okay, great. Thank you, Jonas. Gaston slash Robert, I need to talk to one of you guys make only one of you a client champion. Anything on sharp side? Speaker 14 00:25:53 Um most of the sharpum, Troubleshooting is is more towards hardware stuff, so I don't know how to like really document those. Um. Aside from that, I'm. Updating the KB on whatever I was working on, so if if there are situations where it's um. It's hardware related, I am kind of like stuck on how to write a KB for that. Speaker 3 00:26:28 Gaston, work with Christy or I can help you. Like for example, I know they have virtualization. You guys you guys have a bunch of like hypervisor hosts, right? Vmware or yeah, so that's something you can document because I don't see that in the Sharp listed. That'd be super helpful. Speaker 1 00:26:43 And then alsoum on Sharp side, can you fill out the client summary as well? Okay by the end of this week. Okay I know, we only have a couple minutes, so I'm gonna try to rush through this. Um, Matt, anything on Lyon? Speaker 15 00:27:04 So Lyon, Everything that was transferred over from IT. Glue is all accurate because I tested everything out before it was transferred over. And I was able to connect with a handful of the remote sites and get some of their documentation. And billing and a lot of other stuff documented. And so inside uh Hoodoo, there's actually a under, KBS, there's an infrastructure folder that actually breaks it down by site. So each site has their own folder. So each folder has ISP information, networking information, computer information all specific to each one of those individual sites. But, unfortunately, I've been kind of getting the runaround from each one of the sites. Kind of I've spent I sent four or five different individual emails and calls to each one of the there's four different managers at each site, and none of them have really responded. So. Speaker 15 00:27:54 I am about to send my fifth or so response to them to see if I can get it, but aside from that, I can't really get too much information to update it. But, there is quite a bit of information for each one of those sites that needs to be updated. Unfortunately, Speaker 3 00:28:07 Yeah, Lion's a beast. And I know what Matt's talking about; the leasing managers are terrible with communication. Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's just hard sometimes. But no, Um Matt actually did a pretty good job of documenting a lot of the hardware per location, which we never had before. So that's. That's good. Speaker 1 00:28:25 Great work, Matt. Speaker 15 00:28:26 Yeah, and I'm going to try to like I said last week, I'm going to actually try to get on the back end of some of these machines and see if I can just start doing some scans and get some of the information. And at least if we need to, We can get you know when we finally do get in touch with each one of the site managers, they can kind of clean it up as necessary. Speaker 1 00:28:43 Okay, great. Thank you Matt. And then Juno just became our Project Angel Food champion so Juno, I'm not going to call on you quite yet because we only have a minute, but Chris. Chris, anything on ability first sightings? Yeah. Speaker 16 00:28:58 So real quickly, um, I'll actually, one of those I'll just show in the all hands meeting, if Olivia, if you can give me a little bit of time. Um, but for ability first we ran into some issues. Um what we had documented in HUDU for IP addresses and ISP information. Uh we found out yesterday was incorrect. And uh, our vendor did not tell us that things had changed. So we are currently in the midst of updating that. Okay. Speaker 2 00:29:27 They provided us the wrong information. I think we got to jump to the all hands folks. Speaker 1 00:29:32 Yeah, okay, thanks everyone. Okay, bye guys.
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05-06 IT Security Training on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Setup
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- # IT Security Training on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Setup  ## Introduction and Session Objectives The virtual training opened with routine technical checks. Speaker 2 asked, “Hello. Are you able to hear me?” and Speaker 3 confirmed, “Okay, I can hear you.” Speaker 2 reported visibility of “Katie” but noted a black screen for another participant; Speaker 3 queried, “Oh, you can’t see me?” and, with Speaker 4’s offer to help, ultimately resolved their own camera issue by adjusting a knob and announcing, “Oh, there I go… I am here.” Speaker 2 praised the quick fix and, after brief small talk—including a light mention of a lunch spill and clarifying that she goes by Chrissy/Chris—formally began. Speaker 2 explained that she will share her screen, record the session for later viewing, and send handouts afterward. She asked about device types (laptops vs. desktops), clarifying that the first part applies to all computers while the second part is for laptop users and those with a “sharp” cell phone. She emphasized the purpose: setting up MFA on computers and Google accounts to satisfy HIPAA-related security needs. She noted this will become mandatory later in the year, and completing it now keeps participants “ahead of the curve.” The system will track compliance; non-compliance could cause issues in audits. Her role is to get everyone set up with MFA—“one of the most basic things” they can do. ## Step 1: Configuring a Windows Hello PIN The instructor guided the group through setting a Windows Hello PIN, stating that all computers must be secured with a PIN because it functions as a passkey. Navigation steps: - Start → Settings - In the Settings search bar at the top, type “hello” - Select Sign-in options - Choose “PIN, Windows Hello” She noted that her computer already had a PIN (only the option to change it appears). Setting a PIN is mandatory on all “crimson” computers. She urged participants to use six or eight characters; Speaker 4 confirmed the minimum is six. If users want letters, they must enable the option to allow letters. The instructor personally uses numbers only, advising the PIN be memorable (e.g., a first phone number). One participant’s system allowed only four characters; the instructor explained some systems differ and warned the organization may force an eight-character PIN within the next year. Her own crimson computer requires eight characters. If available, fingerprint or facial recognition can be added later, but the focus today is the PIN. Troubleshooting guidance included: - If “PIN, Windows Hello” shows “change,” a PIN is already set. - If “PIN, Windows Hello” appears “unavailable,” move on and address it later. - Alternate path: Start → Settings → Accounts → Sign-in options (third option). Participants can change their PIN any time as needed. ## Step 2: Securing Google Accounts with Two-Step Verification The session moved to strengthening Google account security. The instructor described two key methods: Google Authenticator and passkeys tied to the Windows Hello PIN. Google Authenticator setup: - Download “Google Authenticator” from the app store (select the multicolored star-shaped icon labeled “Google Authenticator,” not “Authenticator app”). - In Gmail, click the user icon → Manage your Google account → Security → Sign-in. - Turn on Two-Step Verification (you’ll be prompted for your password). - Choose Authenticator and add it on the website once the app is installed. If “change” appears, Authenticator is already configured. She noted Authenticator generates time-based codes that sync to the account. Passkey setup: - Under “Passkeys and Security Keys,” select “Create a passkey.” - Choose “Save it to my Windows device,” then “Continue.” - When prompted by Windows Security, enter the computer PIN just created. - Physical security keys (e.g., USB) are also supported. Policy distinctions and troubleshooting: - Desktop-only users may rely on the passkey and do not need Google Authenticator. - Everyone else should use Google Authenticator. - Other verification methods include Google prompt, phone number (texts), and backup codes. - If passkey setup fails (common on some older Windows versions), use the other methods for now; upcoming Windows upgrades aim to resolve passkey issues. Speaker 2 remarked that most people—“only 81 in the company”—had not created passkeys prior to this training. - On PIN length, some systems allowed four characters; however, six is the minimum and eight may be enforced within the next year. Her crimson computer requires an eight-character PIN, while a security key presents as six characters. Usage expectations and security behavior: - Users will not be prompted for Authenticator or text codes every time; Google recognizes the user and device, occasionally asking for passkey verification. This protects accounts from access attempts on other devices. - Skipping password entirely is not yet enabled for the company; the long-term goal is to simplify security without asking for passwords. - The instructor invited anyone experiencing issues to reach out or visit for individual help, jokingly mentioning she has chocolate. ## Session Wrap-Up and Future IT Initiatives Speaker 2 concluded the formal training by inviting those finished to drop off, while committing to remain on the call until four o’clock to assist others. She previewed upcoming training on Word and Google Drive, planning to host sessions in “twenty six ten” in the big conference room, with treats and interactive elements. She announced forthcoming emails containing IT policies needing signatures; directors will be informed at their meeting “tomorrow,” and a company-wide rollout is planned “within the next week,” with enforcement thereafter. She reiterated that Google’s recognition of user and device reduces frequent prompts, requiring only occasional passkey verification (entering the PIN), and reaffirmed the protective value against unauthorized access from outside the user’s computer. ## Post-Session Support and Informal Discussion After the main training, the instructor helped individuals one-on-one. She advised that older Windows versions struggle with passkey setup and the plan is to update everyone’s computers to a newer Windows version to fix this. Speaker 4 reported success: “We were able to make her PIN, and then we added it to the passkey.” Speaker 7 confirmed, “Okay, this is good. Thank you, Christy.” A support request emerged: Speaker 3’s badge is cracked; they were guided to open a ticket and to attach a photo of the number on the back of the badge. Speaker 2 showed her own crimson badge to illustrate the number’s placement. Speaker 3 is at location 2594. Speaker 2 offered to alert Gaston that the ticket is coming. The conversation then turned lighthearted: Speaker 2 spoke about pets—Bree’s new sister named Efa, a feisty baby kitten; Moose, an orange tabby, described as a mascot. Family updates included Speaker 3’s granddaughter graduating with her Master’s on the eighteenth (and on Speaker 3’s seventy-third birthday), and a great nephew graduating next year. Speaker 2 shared that her seventeen-year-old daughter committed to UC Merced for psychology, is interested in research, and is still deciding on a graduate program; Speaker 2 changed majors three times in college. The group traded friendly remarks about having multiple badges versus just one. ## Action Items - @Chris - [ ] Send out additional documentation to all employees regarding today’s MFA setup and procedures - [TBD] - [ ] Send out emails with IT policies that require signatures from all employees - [TBD] - [ ] Inform directors about the unsigned IT policies at the director meeting - [Tomorrow] - [ ] Roll out the IT policies company-wide and enforce completion - [Within the next week] - [ ] Give Gaston a heads up that the cracked badge ticket (from Shirley) is coming - [TBD] - [ ] Update employees’ computers to a newer Windows version to resolve passkey compatibility issues - [TBD] - [ ] Include a cat picture in the mass email planned for later this week - [Later this week] - [ ] Instruct Shirley to submit a badge replacement ticket after the upgrade and attach the badge number photo - [TBD] - @Shirley - [ ] Submit the badge replacement ticket for the cracked ID badge - [TBD] - [ ] Take a clear photo of the badge’s number on the back and attach it to the ticket - [TBD]
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- May 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:08 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:01:08 Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:56 H ello. Are you able to hear me? Oh. Speaker 3 00:04:04 Okay, I can hear you. Speaker 2 00:04:06 Perfect, I can hear you. And I can see Katie. Speaker 3 00:04:11 Oh, you can't see me? Speaker 2 00:04:13 No, I just see a black screen. But I will turn on my camera. Speaker 4 00:04:20 Okay. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:20 Miss Shirley, Speaker 3 00:04:21 Your camera might Be. He says," Oh no, but I'll never say no." Yeah, Speaker 4 00:04:28 Let me come check real quick. Speaker 3 00:04:32 Hmm, what's going on? Let me make sure this little knob is up here. Oh, there I go. Hey, did you get it? I am here. You got it on your own. Speaker 2 00:04:45 I am so proud. I'm not going to be able to do that. You guys are awesome. I love it. Speaker 3 00:04:54 Yeah, they helped me out a lot. So you Chrissy, right? I am Miss Brown. Yes, so you like you like Chrissy, Miss Brown or what Chris? What everybody calls me Chris. Okay, nice meeting you Chris. Speaker 2 00:05:13 Nice to meet you as well. Uhhuh. Speaker 2 00:05:39 Bear with me one second. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Uhhuh. I. Speaker 3 00:05:53 Was just getting ready to put it in the IT email. Speaker 2 00:05:57 It's okay. I for some reason the invites show that they got sent, but they also are looking a little wonky. So I decided just to go ahead and send you guys the. Speaker 3 00:06:13 In fact, we was looking for it. Speaker 2 00:06:16 I just said," I was like, something does not seem right here," so let me send that over to you. Speaker 3 00:06:24 Yeah, I was gonna send you an email for my badge because it wasn't working. It's not working, but we finna get an upgrade. Thank you very much for that. Speaker 2 00:06:32 You're welcome. We're going to be upgrading all the sites. Um, so yeah, they all went end of life. Ours is Friday. Yes, but we also had two sites we couldn't access at all anymore. So, we decided to just roll them into one company so that it make it a little bit easier for us. Um, And that way we can we can take care of all of you guys at once. Speaker 3 00:06:54 So on Friday we come down to the office. To the HR, everybody. Speaker 2 00:07:01 No, your badges will still work. We're just upgrading the system itself. Speaker 3 00:07:05 Okay, cause mine stopped working period before the system even maybe maybe they'll start working. Speaker 2 00:07:12 Yeah, If uh put in a ticket after we get uh after they finish the upgrade, and we'll we will take care of all that. And bear with me, I have a little issue at my desk that I did not notice until just now. Okay. Speaker 2 00:07:34 My lunch, I was eating in a hurry on a meeting, and my lunch apparently decided to leak everywhere. So. Uh- oh. That's bad. Speaker 5 00:07:45 It wasn't good, no. I just noticed it. I'm gonna work this. Once again. Oh, there you go. Speaker 2 00:07:59 Now, I am going to be just a heads up for you guys. I am going to be offering more and more trainings. But we are just starting on this, just to make your lives a little easier. On how to set everything up. So I am going to be sharing my screen. You are going to see certain things on my screen. Uh, in regards to that, so just bear with me. Um, and I am recording this call. In this meeting for everybody, just so that everybody, um. Speaker 2 00:08:31 Everybody can watch it a little bit later if you need some help. And I'm going to be sending out some handouts as well. So, Okay. All right, perfect. Let me go ahead and start sharing my screen in one moment, But I want to get everything pulled over to my screen so that you guys can see it. And also get my team's account off that screen, Or else you're going to see all of the jokes that my team likes to send in Teams. So. Speaker 2 00:09:02 All right. How many of you, because I don't have my sheet up, how many of you are laptop users? And you can use a little raised hand. Okay. And is anybody on here a desktop user? Speaker 3 00:09:19 Sometimes, if we connect ourum the uh desktopum. Charger to our computer, we can use the desktop also. Okay. Speaker 3 00:09:30 We don't use it, But it connects with whatever we'retyping on our laptop. It'll connect with the desktop. Speaker 2 00:09:38 Got you. Okay, good to know. All right, so what I'm going to show you can be done on. So desktop users will have to do this first part along with laptop users. So everybody across the board is going to have to do this first part. And, then the second part that I'm going to show you guys today is only for laptop users. So just a quick heads up on that. And the second part is is only for people with a sharp. Cell phone, just so that you guys are aware. And then I'm going to show everything to you guys. Very first thing we're going to do is you guys should have access to do this. I need to know if you don't, but we're going to walk through it all together. So, I have already set this up on my computer, but. Speaker 2 00:10:28 I'm going to walk you guys through how to do this on your own computers. And so, I would like it if you guys don't mind follow along with me. Okay. Okay. All right, so very first thing, I should share my screen. Let me do that real quick. And let me make sure that all of you guys are aware that most of this, if not all of it. Is going to be this allows us to be all HIPAA compliant. However, later in the year, part of this going to get. Um, part of this going to become mandatory anyway. So if you go ahead and do it with me, you are ahead of the curve. But if you don't do it with me, The system is going to know and I am going to be able to capture that. If we are audited in any way on IT parts. Speaker 2 00:11:24 This is one of those things that we will get dinged on. So that is my job right now, is to get everybody set up with MFA. And it's one of the most basic things we can do. So, is. Speaker 3 00:11:35 There any way you can make it larger? Speaker 2 00:11:37 Uh, let me try some things. Let me get this screen off. So I'm going to increase the size on that one. Um. Speaker 2 00:11:55 H ang on one second, I made an oops. Can you guys still hear me? Yes. Okay, good because my screen's just went blue. Speaker 3 00:12:06 You do. You did. Speaker 2 00:12:08 Yes, but hang on one second. Okay, there we go. That blew that up a little bit too much. Let me just drop that back down. All right. Is this much better? Can you see that better? Speaker 3 00:12:20 I'm trying to find my other glasses. Speaker 2 00:12:21 It's okay. I would loan you mine, but I think I think I left them at home. So, I have the screens as far away as possible just to see them right now. All right. So real quickly, if you guys hit start. And you go to settings. Stored. And then click on settings. You're going to see this screen come up. Speaker 3 00:12:55 Which one to the right or left? Speaker 2 00:12:57 The one to the right. I mean, in fact, let me minimize this for now because we don't need that one. Mhm. All right. Once you're here, Mhm. Um, you are going to go up to the very top. There's a search right here at the extreme top in the center. You're in type hello. Uhhuh. And when you do, hello, click on sign in options. Sign up options. Sign in options. Speaker 1 00:13:35 Hmm. Hmm. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:13:40 Okay. And then you're going to click on PIN, Windows Hello. Speaker 2 00:13:51 Now, I've already, my computer's already set with a PIN. So I can choose to change my PIN. Um, however, For me, I don't have the option to remove it because we make it mandatory on all of our crimson computers. So. So you should have an option there to set up your PIN. I am going to strongly urge you guys to do it either in six characters, I think is the minimum it makes you, or eight characters. Um. For my computer, I am on a eight character pin, and you can make that all numerics. It's kind of like with your cell phones, if your cell phone is got a pin on it, like. Oh, wait. I will show you what mine looks like. Speaker 5 00:14:34 It's not working for me. Speaker 2 00:14:36 What is it that you see on yours? It only allows us to do four. Okay, four. Speaker 5 00:14:43 I want a sharp uh. Laptop. Okay. I click, I click to start. I type hello and then, I don't get nothing else after that. Okay. Speaker 2 00:14:58 When you go to Start, do you see a Settings up here? Speaker 5 00:15:02 Alright. Follow. I'm gonna go back. Settings. Yes. Speaker 2 00:15:11 Okay, so click on Settings. And then go to accounts here. Speaker 6 00:15:22 Lisa Counts. Okay. Speaker 2 00:15:24 And then go to sign in options. Should be the third option. Speaker 5 00:15:30 Yep. Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:15:37 And then we're going to do a PIN, Windows Hello PIN. Now, if you have the option to do a fingerprint or facial recognition with your laptop, You are more than welcome to do those as well, but for right now we're going to just do a pin for today. And then you can go back and later doum facial recognition. Now on my computer now this is my personal laptop, but it looks just like a work laptop. Mine. Speaker 6 00:16:03 Says" unavailable." Sorry. Speaker 2 00:16:05 Oh, no, it's quite all right. If it's unavailable, then don't even worry about it. If you can see on my computer, the fingerprint recognition is unavailable for me. But the others might be available, and you are more than welcome to do that later on. But for today, we're just going to do the PIN for Windows Hello. Speaker 4 00:16:26 And I was wrong. It does it requires a minimum of six for your PIN. Speaker 2 00:16:30 Okay, good. Yeah, I know that they had updated it at one point, but I couldn't remember what they had updated it to. Speaker 4 00:16:37 So I realized that I was trying to add letters and you have to click. To allow letters. Speaker 2 00:16:43 Yes, you do have to. You you do have to make that change. I usually tell people. I'm sorry, Charlene. Speaker 3 00:16:51 I said I lost the screen. It's okay. I'm writing everything down and stuff, so can I do that? Speaker 2 00:17:00 You can. Yes, and I'll and I sent out the instructions. Um, the other day in an email, but I am going to resend them out for everybody. So okay. Speaker 3 00:17:12 I stopped on the six characters. Yes. Put it okay. Speaker 2 00:17:17 Yep. I'm a keypad number person. It comes from too many years in IT. So, I do all numbers on mine. Speaker 3 00:17:31 Oh, you can do numbers too. Okay. Speaker 2 00:17:33 Yes. You don't have to do letters. You can do all numbers. So, Okay. Speaker 2 00:17:40 And make it something easy for you to remember. Like mine is my mom's oat. Telephone number at her house from years and years ago. That's that one thing that you'll remember for the rest of your life is usually your very first phone number. Yeah, that's me. So, Speaker 2 00:17:58 Um, But don't, but you guys can go in there and make that change anytime that you need to go back and change that pin. You're welcome to go back and do the change pin. But going forward, All computers will be secured with a PIN because it's a passkey thing that you will be able to do. Okay. Mhm. Now, question. Yes. Speaker 7 00:18:21 Oh, sorry. I know you said to make a six characters, But would it be okay to only put four or it needs to be six? Um, it allowed me to do four. If it allowed me to do four, that's fine. Speaker 2 00:18:34 Yeah. Uh later on. Sorry, I had the hiccups. Later on. Within the next year, We're going to be doing some more stuff with your laptops to make them even more secure. So the system may force you to do an eight. Um, my crimson computer makes me do an eight for my PIN, but lets me do a six for my security key, which is. Interesting. Now, with if you guys can see right here, I've also got a security key on here. I do have a physical security key on my. Speaker 2 00:19:05 Computer. I can't unplug it because then I'll get locked out of everything. But, that is also an option if you have a security key and you want to use it. It's usually just a little USB item. So okay. But yeah, for now just do the pin. If, you want to explore this a little bit later and add in facial recognition or anything else, if you have those options. Feel free to do that as well. Okay. Now that's for your computer. Now, The next part we're going to do is we're going to do your Google accounts. And we're going to do those in two ways. One, We're going to use that PIN that you just set up to secure your your Google account. But then number two, we're going to use your if you've got a company phone, we're going to use your Company phone as a type of authentication. So if you guys are here on your phone, some of you have Androids, some of you have iPhones. Speaker 2 00:20:04 What I'm going to do is I'm going to have you download the Google Authenticator. And it looks like this. Mine has a lot of little codes that float through it, and then they'll change every few minutes. So me showing you this is not an issue. Um, But it will change those codes. And every I don't know how many seconds it does that. And so, and you will see right here, there's little countdowns. There's that little pie chart that's just kind of counting down until the next one comes. Speaker 2 00:20:34 Um, ignore the notification. My daughter arrived at school, which is interesting. She should be leaving school. I don't know with teenagers anymore. Okay, So on this one, you'll see if you watch real closely to my camera, it turned red and it's going to change in a few seconds. So these rotate through various numbers and they will sync with your Google account. So what we're going to do is you're going to open up, go to your email. Speaker 2 00:21:04 Right here. And, you're going to click on your little icon up here and go to manage your Google account. So you'll do that in Chrome. And then once you get there and you see the search Google account, you'll see your name up here. I'm going to go to security and sign on. So I'm going to click that. Speaker 2 00:21:35 And you're going to see a few things in here. Security sign on here, and then down here you're going to see how you sign into Google. Okay. Now I've already got some things listed. Um. And I'm going to show you guys what each of these are. Speaker 2 00:22:07 But very first thing we're going to do is we're going to turn on two- step verification, and we're going to choose authenticator. So, if you guys should see this prompt here that says. Authenticator, click on that. And then it's going to ask you to put your password in. Speaker 4 00:22:30 Yeah. Um. Speaker 4 00:22:34 Yeah, potentially even like. Sure. Turn off your sound. Speaker 7 00:22:44 You said we're going to press where it says authenticator or where it says two- step verification. Sorry. Speaker 2 00:22:50 You can do either. Um, you can click on this if it's not on. Mine's already on, so it makes things a little bit harder. It's going to ask you to enter your password when you do it. Speaker 7 00:23:04 Okay, because mine is off. Speaker 2 00:23:05 Okay, click on it so we can turn it on. Okay. Actually, you know what might be easier? I have a Google account that I don't think I've set up with authentication yet. I was going to do that soon. Let me go into that and see if I can do it. And takes you guys through exactly what's going on here. All right, so you guys get to see my nicer picture of me. We're going to go to security and sign on. And I do have two-step verification on. So if I click on that here, same exact thing. I'm going to get rid of that screen because that's. Same thing. Turn it on, and then you're going to look here for Authenticator. Now I'm going to take you through two things. We're going to do Authenticator first. Speaker 2 00:24:08 So you're going to click on that and it's going to walk you through. Adding the authenticator. Now, heads up on your phone, you need to download and go to the app store. and download Google Authenticator. So I'm going to show you this from the crimson phone, which is an iPhone. But bear with me. Speaker 2 00:24:37 So you're going to do a search in the App Store for Google Authenticator. And when you do it, they're going to come up with a couple different versions. You want the one that looks like the pretty little Uh star sign that's multicolored that where my middle finger is tapping. That's the one you want to get So make sure it says Google Authenticator and not Authenticator app. Speaker 1 00:25:09 Okay. And. Speaker 2 00:25:19 Please make sure it's the colorful one. Because there are some weird ones out there that aren't the correct ones. So once you have that downloaded on your phone. You're gonna. You're going to click on the Authenticator app if you haven't already on the website that you can see on my computer. I have it where it says change, but you guys should have where you can add that. Speaker 7 00:25:51 Oh, I have change as well. Speaker 2 00:25:53 Okay. So if you've already got change, not an issue. It means you've already set it up. Um. Speaker 2 00:26:03 Let me know if I'm going too fast. Do, you guys need me to slow down and wait for you guys to catch up? Speaker 6 00:26:15 So I just added the authenticator to my Gmail. Do I have to do the passkey and security keys? Speaker 2 00:26:23 We are going to do those. Speaker 6 00:26:25 Oh, you have to do both? Speaker 2 00:26:26 Yes, I'm going to show you why in a second. Speaker 2 00:26:40 How about the rest of you guys? Are you am I going too fast for you or are you. Pretty good. Speaker 4 00:26:50 We're working on Miss Shirley. She doesn't have the authenticator added yet. Speaker 2 00:26:54 Okay. Not a problem. Um, Do you guys are you guys okay? If we go on or do you want me to stop and wait for a moment. Speaker 4 00:27:08 You can go on. Speaker 2 00:27:09 Okay. Under pass keys and security keys, we're going to create a passkey real quick. Now, I've already got security keys attached to mine. Like I said, I have physical keys, but I'm going to create a passkey with you guys. And. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to say create a passkey. And I'm going to say create a passkey here. And then I will say. Sa ve it to my Windows device. And I'm going to say continue. Now it's going to ask me to enter in my computer PIN. And I am the one that we had just set on your computers, what you're going to do. And now it's been added here. That's all we have to do. For that one. Pretty quick. Can. Speaker 4 00:28:05 You go over that again? Speaker 2 00:28:07 Absolutely. I'm going to delete this one, because this one is the easiest one for me to delete. So I'm going to go into Create a passkey. We're under Passkeys and Security Keys if you missed that part of it, so I want to make sure you guys are good there. Under Create a passkey, I'm going to say Create a passkey again on the window that popped up. And then I'm going to say continue where Windows Security is going to pop up and ask me if I want to do this. So I'm going to say continue again. It likes to verify and double verify. On the screen that comes up, it's going to ask you for the computer PIN that you just set. So I'm going to enter mine in. Mind you, eight digits. All right, and then once we've done that, now the passkey has been created. And that's all you do on this one. This one's very basic. Speaker 2 00:29:09 And then you hit done. So now every time I want to sign into Google, I will either use my authenticator My passkey that I just created with Windows Hello or my security key, which you guys don't have to worry about the security key. Now, if you're a desktop user only. This is the one you need. It's the desktop key, it's the passkey. You don't have to use Google Authenticator for everybody else. You need to use Google Authenticator. Speaker 2 00:29:52 Okay. How do you guys feel about that? But a little bit easier on that second one. Speaker 4 00:29:59 Did you not create a passkey before? Oh no, okay that's okay. Speaker 2 00:30:03 Most people did not create passkeys before. Only 81 people in the company had pass keys before. Before this training. All right, so if you guys can see on my two-step verification, I've got quite a few of them here. I've got the Google prompt and the authenticator. I've got my pass keys and security keys, which I have three of them. My phone number, and then you can also get backup codes. Now, phone number, if you want to set that up, is very easy to do. You can add a backup one, But you just add your phone number in and it'll send you a text message. And that's also a two-factor authentication that you can utilize. Okay. Any questions about this? Speaker 2 00:31:01 Or do you guys need me to show you anything else? Speaker 7 00:31:05 To me, I have a question. I am sorry. Speaker 2 00:31:07 It's okay, Arlene. Go for it. Speaker 7 00:31:09 Um, for the two step verification, um everything's good: the phone number, the authenticator, The Google prompt, but the passkey and security key, it keeps saying something is wrong. If. Speaker 2 00:31:21 You can't add that, but you've got all the rest of them turned on. I am not going to worry about it right now. Okay Okay. We can leave it like that, and then if your computer gets replaced, we'll make sure that we get it set up. So some of the Windows versions are. Are struggling with it a little bit, but they're older versions. So, what we're trying to do is get everybody's computers updated with a new version of Windows on it, which is actually going to fix that. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. You're welcome. Robert, did you have a question? Speaker 6 00:31:53 Well, Jack. Speaker 2 00:31:58 It's okay. I thought you said something, so I want to make sure I didn't miss it. Speaker 6 00:32:03 Okay, I thinkum. I have the same issue. Speaker 2 00:32:07 Okay, if you're having the same issues, not a problem. Um, but were you able to add authenticator? Speaker 5 00:32:13 Yeah, that authenticator. Speaker 2 00:32:15 Okay, perfect. And then you can also under two- step verification, You can also add your phone number as well and have it just text. You. Speaker 5 00:32:25 I did too. Speaker 2 00:32:26 Okay, perfect. One of the things I like going in here and doing is I like skipping password when possible. But it's not allowed for this account. I will fix that. Um, I don't know my Crimson password because one of our security verifications is not to ask people for their passwords. However, if we do allow that soon, we're going to enable that for everybody. Which makes it a lot easier for you. You don't have to remember a password, but you do have to just remember your passkey, which can either be your cell phone or other things like that. So just a heads up for guys, for you guys. We're going to make this as easy as possible going forward. Speaker 4 00:33:09 Okay, now put that thing over. Speaker 2 00:33:11 We want to make you guys secure, but we also understand. Technology is not all of your fortays. You are not like me, and trust me. Um. I've been doing this job for twenty eight years. I am getting old, but I will say you know, I understand. Hesitations and things like that. My job is to make your life easier where I can. So, if you guys run into issues, please let me know. Come by and visit. I have a whole jar of chocolate. I am glad to share with you all, and we can sit down and work on this if you need help, okay? Yeah. Speaker 4 00:33:49 So that's what this is basically. Speaker 2 00:33:50 Now, If you've already got everything set and you don't want to hang out here anymore, feel free to drop from the call. I am going to stick around until four o'clock. And help anybody who has any issues. But before you drop real quickly, We are going to do some training classes with you guys coming soon where we'll be doing things like how to work within Word and Google. Drive and all of that, so we're going to have some fun stuff coming up. I am going to try to do it here in. Uh, twenty six ten in the big conference room. I will be bringing treats and toys, and all of that to have fun with with you guys. Um, so once I announce those, get ready for that and feel free to come out here and join us. I'll be more than glad to walk you guys through anything you guys might have questions on. Okay. But if you've already set up your two factor authentication, feel free to drop from this. Because we are going to be. Speaker 2 00:34:46 We are going to be rolling this out within the next week and forcing everybody to move to this, okay? Speaker 7 00:34:54 Okay, just to verify, Arlene again. This is for, for example when we turn on our computer. It's gonna be to use it likeum, Like if we wanna use the authenticator to send a text message on our phone, we would just have to put in. What. Speaker 2 00:35:12 Is given on the phone? So the great thing about Google is, when I signed in today, I don't have to use authenticator all the time because it recognizes me. It also recognizes the computer that I am on, and it will ask me every now and then just to verify my passkey. So I will verify bytyping in my PIN, and that's it. And I go right on through. Speaker 7 00:35:39 Oh okay so we won't be doing this all the time no. Speaker 2 00:35:43 But, it will secure you so that if someone tries to access your account from away from your computer, they won't be able to access your account. Speaker 7 00:35:51 Got it. Okay. Thank you so much for clarification. Okay, this is good. Thank you, Christy. Speaker 2 00:35:56 No worries and hopefully I will meet you guys all in person soon. Speaker 7 00:36:00 Yes. Have a good day. Speaker 2 00:36:02 Thanks you too. How's it going for the rest of you? Are you guys good? Speaker 4 00:36:16 I'm double checking Miss Shirley's things. Speaker 2 00:36:21 Okay. I'm going to drop my my screen down just slightly. I made it almost too big. Speaker 4 00:36:34 We were able to make her PIN, and then we Added it to the passkey. Did she need to do anything else on her phone? No. Speaker 4 00:36:46 And I think you're good, Michelle. Speaker 3 00:36:47 Okay. I'm gonna send you aum. Yeah, send the. An email for my ticket for my. Oh, badge. Speaker 2 00:36:55 Yes, do that. Um, as soon as we make the changes for every site. Um, and we have access to all of the systems. We'll be able to update your badge and see what's going on with it. However, if you can do me a favor. I'm going to show you this real quick. Grab your badge when you enter the ticket in. And take a picture of the number. So, like this is oops, this is my crimson bag badge. I've had it for years, so ignore that. But this little number section here, um, Take a picture of that and send. Speaker 4 00:37:27 It in on the back side of it. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:37:29 Yeah, on the back side. Um, you can't see mine on this one, but it's right in this area for my sharp badge. Speaker 4 00:37:36 At. The top. Uh- huh. Yeah, I was able to. Yeah, I pointed it out to her. Speaker 2 00:37:41 Yeah, perfect. Yeah, I have too many badges. Any more badges on here and it's, G onna get a little too heavy. So, cause I have my sharp badge, my other client badge and then my crimson badge. Speaker 7 00:37:55 So, luckily we just have the one. Speaker 2 00:37:57 Yes, I am now jealous because I have four. Wine, I had to take off of this one because it was just not. It gets used weekly, but it doesn't get used all that often. So. All right. U m. Good. That looks good. Was it How was the pass key? Was the pass key a little bit easier once you guys got the pin figured out? Speaker 4 00:38:25 Yeah, yeah. I kind of get the whole process now. So if anyone in our program struggles, I can walk them through it. Speaker 2 00:38:32 Awesome. That is perfect. Thank you so much, Katie. What I am going to do is later today. I am going to send out an email to everybody who joined, but actually I think I am going to send it out to all employees. Um, we are going. I'm gonna send out some additional documentation that I made today. That might help, but also a heads up for you guys. I am also going to be sending some emails with policies. Um, that I need everybody to sign. So just a quick heads up on that as well. If you can let the rest of the program know. Um, I'm gonna, the directors are going to hear about it tomorrow in the director meeting. So. Okay. Speaker 2 00:39:12 We just have some IT policies that never got signed that needs to be signed by all employees. Okay. You guys are amazing. I'm so glad I got to hang out with you all today. Speaker 4 00:39:25 Uh, Thank you so much. We got this. Um, and yeah, we'll look for your email later on for the stuff to sign. Speaker 2 00:39:30 Awesome. It'll it'll probably be later this week. I've been sending out mass emails. Bear with me, I will include a cat picture this time. I already got called out for the not including a cat picture earlier today. Speaker 4 00:39:42 We're all here for Bree. Speaker 2 00:39:44 Uh, Bree has a new sister named Efa. Um, I'm here for both of them, but Efa is causing me to miss some sleep. I forgot how fun a tiny baby kitten is. Speaker 4 00:39:58 Yeah, they'd be feisty. Speaker 2 00:39:60 Yes, here's a picture you guys can see of Ifa. She is amazing and adorable and feisty. She Is very much the one that's the black cats for you. Yes, yesterday she wouldn't let me get up out of bed. Me find that picture. Oh, Speaker 3 00:40:20 So you for real got cats on? She did. Speaker 4 00:40:22 She has two now. Those are actually her cats. Those are real life. Speaker 3 00:40:26 Actually, There is three. No, Speaker 2 00:40:29 There is three yes So you guys don't hear about moose? Mo ose is Moose is my orange tabby. Here's Moose. All three of them together. They all have such different names. Yes, Moose is the mascot for Ability First, whereas Bree is your mascot. And if I get a third client, that'll be Ifa. Speaker 3 00:40:54 One of our drummers on the drill team, his name was Moose. His name was Moose. Speaker 2 00:40:59 Oh, I love it. My daughter named the cat Moose. So. U m, I have a seventeen year old daughter, who is off to college in a couple months, and I got her moose for her seventeenth birthday. And she named him Moose within five minutes of me bringing him home. He was a tiny baby. He was like that big. Oh, Speaker 3 00:41:18 That's probably not working. Oh, That's probably why. Speaker 2 00:41:22 Her badge is cracked. Speaker 3 00:41:23 Oh, cracked. It's cracked. That's probably why it's not working. Speaker 2 00:41:27 Um, which location are you at? Cause I don't know everybody's. Lo cation, Speaker 4 00:41:30 We're at two five nine four next HR. Two five nine four. Okay. Speaker 3 00:41:37 Oh, that's why it's not. Well, I just noticed. I just took it off the little thing. I am going to a graduation on the eighteenth. My granddaughter graduating getting her master'. That's awesome, she go She go to Clark, and my great nephew raised he graduate next year. Speaker 2 00:41:53 That's awesome What. Speaker 4 00:41:54 School did your daughter choose. Chris? Uh, Speaker 2 00:41:56 She committed to UC Merced. Speaker 4 00:41:58 She's going for psychology. Speaker 4 00:42:01 Okay. That's a nice campus. I walked around there when I was a senior in high school. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:42:05 We we just we went down there or up there a couple weeks ago. It was very nice. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:42:11 I am from Modesto, so that's my that's my area. Man, Central Valley. Speaker 2 00:42:17 Yeah, that was my third time driving through Central Valley. Next time I am taking an adult friend. Yes. Yeah, cause I was the only adult. And the only one with a driver's license in the car. It's multiple teams, so next time, yeah, Speaker 4 00:42:34 That's what the Amtrak's for now. Yes. Speaker 2 00:42:37 Yes, she didn't want to take the Amtrak, and I don't blame her. Speaker 4 00:42:42 I did that a lot. Yeah, that's the ninety nine. Yeah. Off the ninety nine. Yes, Speaker 2 00:42:50 It was beautiful campus. I loved it. Speaker 4 00:42:52 My daughter went to Humboldt. Yeah, UC Merced's nice. It's very uh it's new, so it got a lot of good technology over there. Of course it's new. Yeah, one of the newer UCs built. Speaker 2 00:43:02 She she decided on it because there's a lot more research opportunities for undergraduates. And she's very much interested in researching. So she wants to do that. She's still trying to decide where she wants to go for her graduate program, though. Speaker 4 00:43:18 Oh, she has plenty of time for that. Speaker 2 00:43:20 Yeah, she keeps telling me. Speaker 4 00:43:22 Like, you could change what you want to research three times before that comes time to choose. Speaker 2 00:43:26 I changed my major three times in college, so yeah. Speaker 4 00:43:30 Yeah, I went to like four different colleges too. You know, life you grow, you change your mind and you're allowed to. Speaker 2 00:43:37 Yeah. Yes, she. Speaker 4 00:43:40 Look at your life, but Shirley. Look at your life and all your different chapters. Yes, Lord. We all have different chapters. Speaker 3 00:43:48 Chris sy, I'm I'm seventy three years old. Well, on the eighteenth. Speaker 2 00:43:51 I am sorry you don't look older than me. Speaker 3 00:43:54 I know that's what we tell her. Speaker 4 00:43:58 Well, that's why we need you parent partners, you know. Speaker 3 00:43:60 And my grandbaby's graduating on my birthday. Speaker 4 00:44:02 I know. It's going to be a big time, Miss Shirley. I love that we're going to party, party, party! Speaker 3 00:44:08 Yes. Granny gonna drop it like it's hot. Speaker 4 00:44:12 Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness, Speaker 2 00:44:15 I love it. Speaker 4 00:44:17 We're wild over here in children's, Christy. Speaker 2 00:44:20 That's okay. I love it. I love it. Uh, wait. So you guys are children? Speaker 4 00:44:25 Let's let Chris Brown uh do her life. Go to your notes, Miss Shirley. Okay, I got fifteen minutes until the next thing, so I am gonna send out that email. Um, so with her badge cracked, do you want her to add that to the IT ticket that it's cracked? Yes. Um. Speaker 2 00:44:43 I was gonna see Gaston. Will I'll give him a heads up that the ticket's coming and. We'll see what we can do. Speaker 4 00:44:51 Oh, all right. Let's pull it up, girl. We'll send it out. Thanks, Chris. We'll see you later. Have a great week. Yeah, one day soon. Yes. Alright. Bye. I'm sorry.
07-16 Meeting: Ability First Hardware Inventory, ConnectWise Process, and EOS Client Communication
- Notes
- ## 1. Ability First Hardware Inventory (Monitors and Docking Stations) Ability First lacks a current, trusted inventory of monitors, docking stations, and related hardware, creating operational risk and client dissatisfaction. Previous assignments to Kobe and Caleb were not completed, increasing urgency. Vana is identified as the trusted executor, with Adrian proposed to assist. An inventory tracking solution exists or is in progress, with plans to record data in ConnectWise. Completing this inventory is important not only for Ability First but also to support SCHARP requirements. Training the team on proper inventory processes is needed to prevent recurrence of gaps. ### Action Items - [ ] Perform a rapid, accurate inventory of docking stations, monitors, and related hardware for Ability First; capture all counts and details needed for tracking — Vana, Adrian - [ ] Coordinate permission and resource allocation for Vana (and Adrian) to execute the Ability First inventory promptly — Monty - [ ] Define and implement the process to enter the inventory into ConnectWise, including data fields and workflow; prepare for reuse with SCHARP — Christi - [ ] Develop and deliver team training on inventory procedures to ensure consistent future tracking and prevent gaps — Christi - [ ] Include monitors and docking stations (not just computers) in the inventory scope for larger clients and notify stakeholders accordingly — Olivia ## 2. Client Communications and Stakeholder Preparation (EOS Meeting Notice) Clients need advance notice that inventory efforts will expand beyond computers to include monitors and docking stations for larger accounts. Early communication aims to set expectations and reduce resistance, given historical difficulties with inventory efforts and scrutiny from clients (“getting raked over their coals”). The EOS meeting is the venue to inform internal stakeholders and prepare client-facing teams. ### Action Items - [ ] Announce in the EOS meeting that inventorying will include monitors and docking stations for larger clients, provide rationale, and set expectations — Olivia > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. No specific timeline or deadline was set for the Ability First inventory, despite described urgency; define clear start and completion dates to avoid further delays. > 2. The inventory data model and workflow in ConnectWise were not detailed; clarify required fields (e.g., asset type, serials, location, ownership), validation steps, and reporting outputs to ensure usable records. > 3. Training scope and participants were not specified; determine who needs training, the curriculum, delivery format, and a schedule to institutionalize inventory practices. > 4. The plan to extend inventory efforts to other larger clients lacks prioritization and resource planning; establish a prioritized client list, resource assignments, and sequencing to prevent overextension. > 5. Risk mitigation for historical inventory issues was not addressed; identify known failure points (e.g., access to sites, incomplete data, lack of accountability) and define controls (checklists, audits, sign-offs) to reduce the chance of repeat problems.
- Date
- Jul 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi. Hey, so like bug where like I can hear the ring but nobody's calling me. Yeah, I've seen that one too many times myself. Um, uh, I know Vana reports to Monty, but um we need to get inventory done for ability. First, on some things, and Vaughn is the only person I trust to do it at this point. Just given everything else going on. Um. Like on the phones or on what? What are we talking about? New stuff. So hang on, let me pull Monty in the call she can if she can join us. So we got our US six minutes just FYI Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to do this fast. Um. Speaker 1 00:00:55 So I'll wait and see if she joins. Is she joined? Oh, hi Monty. Hi. Speaker 1 00:01:03 Um, so I need a favor from Monty, but let me talk it through with both of you. Um, Ability First, I know we're working on inventory and stuff like that, but Ability First we desperately need to get that done sooner rather than later. And the only person at this point I trust to do it is Vana because. Kobe was asked to do it, didn't do it. Caleb was asked to do it, didn't have time. You know, so we're running into those issues. And honestly, I don't really only trust Vana. So Monty, could I borrow her to do inventory? Speaker 2 00:01:47 Vana to do ability first inventory? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:01:50 We need to get docking stations and monitors. And things like that inventory. So we know what we have, and we're already working on a solution to keep track of that inventory. But I just need somebody I trust that can quickly do an inventory. And she's the only one. Speaker 2 00:02:07 Hold on. Okay, give me one second. Okay, I'm gonna log in right now, give me one second, let me put you on mute. Sorry Christi I'm like three thing hold on, but I agree from multitasking. Let me let me focus on you right now. Sorry, Speaker 1 00:02:22 It's okay. Um, basically all I'm asking for is a mini Monti, and the only mini Monti we have is Vana. Do we lose? Do we lose Monti? Speaker 2 00:02:36 She's good. Can she take Adrian with her? Speaker 1 00:02:39 Yes, absolutely. Speaker 2 00:02:41 Amazing. Okay. Amazing. Um, I think then there's nothing else. Speaker 1 00:02:49 Yeah, all right. Speaker 1 00:02:52 Olivia, I'm going to work on how we can do the inventory and get that into Connectwise because we got it. We got to do it sooner or later because we're going to need it for SCHARP too. Yeah, And then we just need to train with the team so that they actually know what they should be doing, you know? Yeah. So I'll get that done. Speaker 2 00:03:09 Okay, sounds great. Speaker 1 00:03:10 All right, Would you in the EOS meeting? Would you yeah That's if for you Monti Uh Olivia. Speaker 2 00:03:17 I'm on a phone It's? Okay. Speaker 1 00:03:19 Uh, Olivia, uh, Could you mention an EOS meeting that we're going to start inventorying not just computers but also monitors and docking stations uh for some of our bigger clients and just give them a heads up that that's coming just so they have some time to mentally prepare for those that are paying attention. Yeah. I'll let them know. I'll let them know. I am worried about any type of inventory given our history. You know what I mean? Yeah, but we're getting raked over their coals for not having this like badly. No, I know for sure. So it is something that we need to do. Yeah, you are amazing. Thank you. Okay, Speaker 2 00:03:58 Thanks Christi. Speaker 1 00:03:59 Bye bye.
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08-07 Meeting: On-Call Schedule, System Access & Answer Connect Features
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- > Date: 2026-08-07 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Olivia] ### Meeting Notes #### On-Call Schedule and Roster Management - The current on-call schedule is set to Kobe, but they discussed the correct primary and backup assignments. - Kobe is primary for the following week, with Jesse as the backup. - They discovered an interface for managing the on-call schedule and roster directly. - The team roster needs to be updated, as it still includes former members like Paul and Dirk. - Ray is on the roster for a specific reason that was recalled during the discussion. #### Access and Permissions to the Scheduling System - Christi realized she had access to the system when she used a link Olivia sent. - The system automatically populated her information, granting her access. - Christi sent an invitation to Olivia to grant her access as well. - Christi noted she had previously invited Pete to the system. #### Exploring Answer Connect Features - A new idea was proposed to forward unanswered calls from the "jam queues" to Answer Connect, including during business hours. - This would ensure all calls are answered by someone. - They explored the Answer Connect interface to determine whether they could add a new "live receptionist" service themselves. - It was unclear whether adding new services would incur additional costs. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Olivia will meet with the Answer Connect representative on Monday, August 10, 2026, to ask questions and report back on what she learns. - [ ] Christi will ask support about the process and potential costs for adding services in Answer Connect. - [ ] Christi will resend the system access invitation to Olivia and confirm she receives it. - [ ] Update the on-call roster to remove former members (e.g., Paul and Dirk) and verify current assignments (Kobe primary, Jesse backup), keeping Ray for the recalled reason. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The cost and process for adding a new "live receptionist" service in Answer Connect are unknown. A decision depends on this information. > 2. The user roster for the on-call system is outdated. There are no clear action items to remove former members like Paul and Dirk.
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- Aug 7, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi. Can you hear me? Speaker 2 00:00:05 You hear me? Wait, could you hear me the whole time? Speaker 1 00:00:07 No, I didn't have calling. Speaker 2 00:00:11 Oh really? See from my end I could see you, but I could. Speaker 1 00:00:17 I only did screen sharing because I hit the wrong button. Speaker 2 00:00:22 Oh no. Yeah, I was like oh, I didn't even know that. Learned something new today. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:00:30 So, this is this is our on call script that they do and they fill in, which is cool. I never knew this. Oh, Speaker 2 00:00:39 That is cool. Speaker 1 00:00:40 And then here's the on call schedule. And it's still set to Kobe. Speaker 2 00:00:48 Well, he they they changed it to be Kevin, Is the first and then Kobe's the backup, which is correct, but see it only showed. Speaker 2 00:01:00 Give up. What? Speaker 1 00:01:02 Okay, so they don't have secondaries. So somebody put it in but didn't give secondaries. Uh, let me see with Jesse, can I add a schedule? Who's who is secondary to Jesse? Speaker 2 00:01:18 Well, Kobe's primary next week. Speaker 1 00:01:22 Okay, who's Let me hang on. Speaker 2 00:01:24 Let me go look at the roster. Speaker 1 00:01:27 I didn't know we could do this. Speaker 2 00:01:30 I didn't either. I had no idea. Speaker 1 00:01:35 So, Kobe is primary next week. Speaker 2 00:01:40 Yeah, Kobe's primary and then Jesse's the backup. Speaker 1 00:01:48 Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, delivery method. Let me go back to Jesse I I realized I messed that one up, all right. So Jesse is not. It is Kobe. Speaker 1 00:02:02 Save. Wait, can we do? Oh, you have to do it for each day. Maybe. Speaker 2 00:02:14 That's why they like surely they can do it. Well, I have a meeting with them. Okay, so I was supposed to have a meeting with them at twelve, But then they never showed up, and then they were like, oh well technical issues. I was like okay. Anyway, so I'm gonna have a meeting with them early next week. But. Speaker 1 00:02:36 Ask them to ask how they do this, because I I would be very interested in this. But I was gonna see your team. Like who are all of these people? Admin. Oh, give you admin rights. Yeah. But you've been cool. Yeah, you've been giving uh. Oh, Paul is still on here? That's what I was saying. If some of these people. Yeah, look and Ray's on there? Ray is on there? Well, Ray should be on there. Sorry, I forget about that one. Wait Why Why is he on there? Ray because ofum oh, yes, yes, yes, oh, my gosh. I forgot about that, too. Speaker 2 00:03:27 Yeah, I forgot that we did that. Speaker 1 00:03:30 Yeah, I gave Pete. Let Pete know I sent him a message or I sent him an invite because I forgot that I had access to this. Look, Dirk is still on here. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:43 I saw Tim's login on Who Do and I tried to log in, but i couldn't get along. I couldn't get logged in so it's like maybe Chris has it. Speaker 1 00:03:55 Yeah, I did not realize I had it. When I clicked on that link that you sent, I used your link rather than touch or its co pilot. Um, And I uh and I clicked on the link, and then it automatically filled in my information. I was like, oh, I have. Wait. Speaker 2 00:04:21 So okay so I guess. Speaker 2 00:04:25 My question is, I'm curious like how they do, like. Because. Pete was saying that maybe an idea that we have is for the jams queues, that if somebody doesn't answer the phone, We just forward it to Answer Connect, even if it's like during work hours. So that way, somebody answers the phone. Speaker 1 00:04:47 I like that idea. That would work. Speaker 2 00:04:49 We can do that. So I was thinking, so I wanted to talk to them about it today. Butum. Speaker 1 00:04:54 It Looks like it's gonna be very easy for us to do. Live receptionist, uh one of these. Oh okay so live receptionist, which one is this one? CBRE after hours support. Speaker 2 00:05:11 Oh so we could just add a new one? Yeah but how do we change? And does it cost money you know? I don't know. Speaker 1 00:05:25 Okay, I'll ask. I'll ask support. Um, C B R E after hours. Does it allow me to save it? Will it save it? Oh, hang on. C B R E after hours. Hello, which one is this one? Business hours. There's one of them. Speaker 1 00:05:53 This one's Hannah's. Speaker 2 00:05:58 That's Hannah's? Yep. Well, we have a specific one for Hannah? Speaker 1 00:06:03 Yeah. What is Hannah's? You did it long time ago with Mike. I remember this one. What? Yeah, you were the manager. And this was primary. I. Speaker 2 00:06:17 Just blacked out, I don't remember. Speaker 1 00:06:20 Yeah, this one was you and Mike. Speaker 2 00:06:24 Oh, okay. So I could just add it. There's no cost. I mean, well, maybe there's a cost. I don't know, but yeah, there's a cost. Like oh, but we can add it though. Speaker 1 00:06:34 Yeah. Uh, I don't see how to add it though. Which one is this? Oh Welcome Ask Oh This is our chat one. Speaker 1 00:06:52 Oh, we could do a chat one. Yeah, I just don't know all the details about it. Okay, I am gonna ask all of these questions. Speaker 2 00:07:03 Next week. Okay, but that's so helpful that we can log in and do it ourselves. I thought this whole time that and also I didn't realize Answer Connect was so big like they apparently were voted like the best answering service in twenty twenty six or something. Speaker 2 00:07:21 So I'm like interesting. Twenty twenty six isn't over, but pretty cool. Yeah. So. Speaker 1 00:07:28 There's a lot of really cool things you can do. I did not realize this, I have not logged in in a very long time. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:07:36 Okay, Cool Cool Okay Well I'm gonna talk to whoever our like Get off. Speaker 1 00:07:41 My damn keyboard. Speaker 2 00:07:46 Um I'm gonna talk to whoever our like rep is on Monday. Sweet. And then uh I'll I'll if I figure out some answers, I'll let you know. Speaker 1 00:07:57 Yeah. I they just always connect me with someone to talk. They never give me an actual rep thing. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:08:05 That's how that's how they they've been doing it with me. Like every time, somebody responds is a different person. Yeah. Like oh my god. Speaker 1 00:08:14 Yeah yeah. Speaker 2 00:08:18 Anyways okay cool cool thanks Chris. Speaker 1 00:08:21 I just I just turned off my my monitor with my remote, because I was cleaning my remote with alcohol wipes. It was okay. Speaker 2 00:08:33 Also, did you send me an invite? Hey, fair enough, it's Friday. You did? Speaker 1 00:08:39 Yeah, sent you an invite. Can you double check? Speaker 2 00:08:40 I didn't get one. Speaker 1 00:08:42 Okay, sure it's mine. Let me find Olivia pending. Speaker 1 00:08:50 That's your email. Resend invitation. Maybe it's in Junk or perform. Speaker 2 00:08:55 Yeah, I'll go check. I'll go check. I just wanted to make sure it was the right email. Okay, I'll go look for it. Okay, bye Thank you, Ma'am, okay Bye I'm just realizing this on too I'm also doing that so goodbye.
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08-04 Weekly Meeting: IT Infrastructure Upgrades and Budget Submission
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-08-04 11:29:23 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes ### Legal Request and Documents - A person possibly named Maria reportedly called in the morning. - She said she had submitted a lawyer request and already sent it in. - Documents were mentioned, but no specific document details were provided. ### Appointment Avoidance Starting Next Week - [Speaker 1] said that starting the week of 2026-08-10, they need to avoid certain appointments. - The stated reason was that attending would be “a mess” for them. - [Speaker 1] also said they would be respectful, but the statement was incomplete. ### Background Comment About a Person’s Birth and Possible Depression - [Speaker 1] mentioned someone who was born in a hospital. - [Speaker 1] said they thought the person may have had depression. - The speaker also said they were not really sure. ### Internet Performance Issues at 2610 Headquarters - [Speaker 3] reported that internet at 2610 is very slow. - The slow connection prevents remote access to camera feeds and other system resources. - Video conferencing is also affected when too many people are using it in the office. - [Speaker 3] compared typical residential internet speeds of five hundred megabits to one gigabit with the office’s one hundred megabits. - The current internet cost at the headquarters office is over eight hundred dollars a month. - [Speaker 3] asked Peerless to provide quotes for an upgrade. - The goal is to increase bandwidth and possibly reduce cost. - [Speaker 3] expects a significant improvement, including at least a fivefold increase in internet-related performance. ### ADT Access Control at 2594 Doctor Barrow - [Speaker 3] said the ADT access control and alarm system at 2594 Doctor Barrow needs to be turned on. - The office has never had that system active before. - Robert resent the related information on 2026-08-03. ### Budget Submission - [Speaker 3] said they submitted their budget to Cost Ship last week. - A copy was sent to Aaron and Crystal. - [Speaker 3] said the attendees should also have received a copy. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Review Peerless quotes for upgrading internet at 2610 headquarters; confirm decision and implementation timeline. - [ ] Turn on ADT access control and alarm system at 2594 Doctor Barrow; assign an owner and target date. - [ ] Review the budget submitted by [Speaker 3]; confirm receipt by all attendees and provide feedback. - [ ] Avoid certain appointments starting the week of 2026-08-10; clarify which appointments and coordinate accordingly. > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The internet upgrade at 2610 headquarters is still pending quotes from Peerless, and no final decision was stated. > 2. The ADT access control and alarm activation at 2594 Doctor Barrow was discussed, but no responsible owner or completion date was confirmed. > 3. The legal request and documents were mentioned, but the meeting did not clarify what follow-up is needed. > 4. The appointment avoidance request was stated, but the specific appointments and coordination plan were not clarified.
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- Aug 4, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi. Speaker 2 00:00:49 Good Morning. I'm good, how are you? Speaker 1 00:01:40 She says she can come up here first. She's got. Speaker 2 00:02:07 A lot of speed. Speaker 2 00:02:10 Was she here? She was. Yeah, she was here. Somebody called Maria or someone this morning. She said she put in a lawyer request and she already sent in. Speaker 1 00:02:31 The documents. Speaker 1 00:04:23 And then I'll leave you just. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Sure. Nothing's scary. Okay. Here's our strategy here. Starting next week, I need to avoid these appointments because I just don't want to go because it's going to be a mess for me. So just avoid these appointments. Speaker 1 00:05:56 Yeah, I will be respectful to the. Speaker 1 00:06:28 It's just more like, here, just a little bit about. He came out before he was born. He was born in the hospital. I think he had depression. Speaker 1 00:12:31 Well, I just think I'm not really sure. Speaker 1 00:13:42 [ 0m0 s12 5 ms - 0m 1s 345 ms ] [ 0 m2 s6 85 ms - 0 m3 s7 95 ms ] [ 0 m4 s1 65 ms - 0 m7 s89 5 ms ] [ 0 m8 s 235 ms - 1m 4s 69 5 ms ] [ 1m 4s 79 5 ms - 1m 6s 235 ms ] . Speaker 3 00:16:46 Yeah, Let me pull that. No worries. I was saying, let me pull that up. Um my my report from yesterday. Speaker 3 00:16:56 So what happens when you restart your computer, you lose everything you had. So a couple things that I want to bring up. While this is opening is right now. The internet at 2610 is super slow. And so we can't pull anything like. Camera feeds or anything like that from the system while remote, so we're looking at how to increase that. It also affects the um, Like video doing video conferencing, if too many people are on video conferencing in the office at one time. And things like that. Um so right now um your standard residential internet is usually between five hundred megabytes. Speaker 3 00:17:53 Um, of bandwidth to one gigabyte. Um, but the office for sharp is at one hundred gigabytes, so considerably slower than just a residential home. Um, I asked Peerless to get me some quotes in. Uh, So that we can look at what it would take to upgrade because right now, we're paying over eight hundred dollars a month for internet at the headquarters office. So it's The system has been in place for a while. We should be able to get a significant discount, um, and still increase the bandwidth. So I am working on that right now with Peerless just to get that in, um, and see what we can do there if we have some wiggle room. So, that's that's one of the first things I am working on that's going to affect everybody at headquarters. So, you guys would see some significant at least five fold uh increase in everything we're doing on the internet, including downloading things um. Speaker 3 00:18:50 Files and stuff like that, so that's one of the biggest things. Um, that I am working on and then. ADT access control at 2594 Doctor Barrow. We just if you have a chance Robert resent that to you yesterday. Just to get that access control and alarm system turned on for that office, it's never had that so. I am sorry. Speaker 3 00:19:20 No worries. My headset keeps fading in and out, so if I if I ask you to repeat, that's why. Okay. Yes. Speaker 3 00:19:42 And those are my two main updates. Um, I did submit my budget to Cost Ship last week for uh for it. Um and so I did send a copy Aaron and Crystal, you guys should have had a copy of that as well. You're welcome I think that was the main thing. Yes. Speaker 1 00:20:25 Okay. Speaker 3 00:21:30 Microsoft's a little slow today bringing things into Outlook. Speaker 3 00:21:45 I Think so. Is there anything that I forgot, Crystal, that you don't have? Speaker 1 00:21:51 Okay, perfect. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:24:49 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:27:41 The name of the town is derived from the river.
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08-13 Meeting: Westwood Financial Mail Intelligence App – Azure Deployment, Ada AI Triage, Security and Beta Resell Plan
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- **Client from CONTENT: Westwood Financial** (app lives in Westwood's own Azure tenant; Casey named as the Westwood CEO the deliverable is for). ~11.5 min (00:00:11-00:11:46). No calendar event. Christi demoed the Westwood Financial Mail Intelligence app to George Donato and Anton Mark (both Crimson), recording it as training for Casey. Covered: Azure website in Westwood's tenant with M365 sign-in; dashboard (emails processed, pending/overdue follow-ups); 'Ada' AI triage built on ChatGPT rather than Claude for cost; reads only the first 1,000 characters by security design and skips anything containing PII; all data stored in Westwood's Azure, closed loop; rules/categories, sender unsubscribe, Microsoft To Do follow-up push; AI drafts to Drafts only, never auto-send; meeting-transcript paste for reply context; optional daily briefing email; history retention controls. WHY FLAGGED (not a client-identity question - a scope question): 1. Christi states the app was built off the AdaptoIT / AdaptoInbox codebase. Standing rule: ConnectWise is ONLY Crimson business + client work, never AdaptoIT. 2. She states on the call 'Westwood is a complete beta. They're not going to pay for it,' while also saying Crimson was paid for the build hours. 3. Part of the call is resale strategy (whether Crimson resells the app to other clients), which is Crimson business development rather than Westwood delivery. Proposed if Christi confirms it is Westwood client work: ~0.20h (12 min) to ticket 948536 'Westwood Financial - vCIO Consult: Base44 to Azure App Migration & AI Governance', Senior Engineer(5)/workType 42. Alternative: Crimson IT internal (company 250) R&D. Needs her call. --- **SWEEP FLAG - 2026-08-24 EOD sweep (unattended).** NOT logged; needs Christi's call. Transcript runs 11m46s. Client IS verified from content (Westwood's own M365 tenant, westfin.com, George/Brett and K.C. "Casey" Bills on the call, Anton Mark from Crimson listening in). NOT LOGGED because of a scope split, not a client question: on tape Christi says the app is one she "built myself to resell" (the AdaptoInbox codebase) dropped onto Westwood's tenant, that "Westwood is a complete beta, they're not going to pay for it", and that Crimson's revenue came from the already- paid build hours. Standing rule is that AdaptoIT product work never goes to ConnectWise, so whether this demo is billable Westwood client work or unbillable AdaptoIT beta time is Christi's call. IDEMPOTENCY: not already covered. Existing 8/13 Westwood entries are 895359 (07:17 PDT, requirements thread) and 895368 (15:33 PDT, "demo follow-up and beta feedback correspondence") - the demo itself (~14:10-14:24 PDT) sits in the gap between them. CAP NOTE: 8/13 PDT is at 11.72h, so a 13-minute entry fits under the 12h band. PROPOSED IF CHRISTI CONFIRMS: Westwood Financial, ticket 958058, 0.22h (13 min), Senior Engineer (5), note "Westwood Mail Intelligence: live walkthrough of the deployed app in Westwood's tenant, Ada triage behavior, security design, and handoff recording for K.C. Bills." Or mark it AdaptoIT beta time and log nothing.
- Date
- Aug 13, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:11 Hello. Hi. Hi. Speaker 2 00:00:14 Uh, George especially is needed. Anton, You're welcome to listen in, if not, you can drop in, but I needed more than one person on this call because I needed to record it. Speaker 1 00:00:26 Oh perfect, I'm glad that I can be of assistance. Speaker 2 00:00:29 So Georgie, I'm not recording just yet. Um, Westwood is live. Uh, Anton, I built it off of the same stuff that I used for Adopto IT or the Adopto inbox, but it is Westwood. Um, done. I just got to get that. I got to get that removed just because. All right. Um, so I'm going to record this because I need training for Casey. Speaker 2 00:00:60 Come on. Oh, there we go. It did not want to click. All right, so here is the Westwood Financial Mail Intelligence. It's um it is a website. What we can do George is we can change the domain of it to something like uh mailintelligence dot westfin dot com or or however, we want to do it. So right now on an Azure website, it is in their tenant only. So this is all in there in Westwood's Microsoft. The stay signed in will sign them in, so we're going to sign in with Microsoft three hundred and sixty five. It is taking their work account. I am logged into the Crimson account and not the account that we made for me, So just be aware I needed to log in and accept things on behalf of the organization. So here's the dashboard page. It shows how many emails were processed. Speaker 2 00:01:55 What follow ups are pending? How many are overdue? Ada is our special assistant. So she is an AI intelligence. She is built on Chat GPT instead of Claude, just because it was cheaper for Westwood if we built it on Claude, I mean on Chat GPT rather than Claude because there were some ins and outs that caused us to hit a brick wall using Claude. Now what Ada did this week? And this is going on the last seven days. Three emails of triage. Three of them are filed out of the inbox into separate folders, and then there are some follow-ups. And sometimes the follow-ups will clear themselves, meaning they'll look at the responses and things like that. And it did not draft any replies for us. Now, A couple of things to note, : It only reads the first thousand characters of an email ;. It doesn't read the entire email, and that's by security design. Speaker 2 00:02:53 Meaning we don't we don't want the potential of PII to be in their system. So and so PII um P H I is just personal identifying information or PII. So I keep saying PHI, PII, sorry. Um so if it sees, there's a credit card number or a social security number, it's going to completely ignore that email and won't even bring it into this. Now, all the information is stored on a database within Westwood's Azure space. So it is all a closed loop system. Um, it will show it like this. So everything is stored as staying in Westwood. It's not going outside servers. It will show agendas, So when they're connected their calendar will connect, and then it will show recent activity. So here's the recent activity, um we do need to finish our pass. Speaker 2 00:03:52 Do training. So, um, Ada you can talk to it and you can ask Ada questions. And you can say, Hey, I want you to uh store your e. I want you to take this type of email and I want you to ignore it. Or I want you anything coming in from George or Casey or Brett needs to be changed a high importance and stay in my inbox. So, you've got some options there. It will you can say these type of emails should always be placed for follow up and follow up is part of Microsoft To Do. So if there's follow ups in here, you can choose to push it to Microsoft To Do if you want to. Um calendar is just going to show you your calendar, and then you can add events if you want to. Um meetings, You can paste a transcript in here for meetings. Speaker 2 00:04:44 And it will remember who was there, what was agreed, and then when someone from the meeting emails you, uh, the AI reply draft knows the context. And, the reason why we built it this way, it doesn't have the ability yet to pull Microsoft meeting transcripts, because Microsoft still doesn't have that ability to do it. But in the future when Microsoft allows that connection, We can pull those meeting transcripts, and it will keep a database of the meetings. But if they're using something else like Otter That records messages or records meetings, they can copy and paste that in there. So just a heads up. From here, they can build their own categories. We have some built-in categories that they can turn on or off. And these built-in categories have some options. So anything that's uh that we need to respond to, we're going to label it and keep it in inbox. And, we can tell it to clear from the inbox once read after 14 days. Speaker 2 00:05:41 Which means it goes into a catch-all place or goes into archives. So, client and important, We're going to keep it in box label, just means we're going to give it a category. All right, so these are the categories. We're just going to label it with these categories, and then you can choose from here what you want to do with it. You have options for do nothing, archive, flag for follow-up. You can label it and keep it in the inbox. So these are all of our options for our categories Anytime you make changes, you just want to sync it to the mailbox just so that it syncs. It won't sync automatically; it's a limitation of Microsoft. Okay, any rules you create with Ada, you can look at them here. So here is one of the rules ; it'll tell you where these rules came in place. So if it came from my chat with Ada, It's going to show, and we can turn off those rules here, turn them on or off. So just a heads up on that. And then senders um if there are senders in here and we see that. Speaker 2 00:06:38 They are subscriptions. They can unsubscribe to them by clicking here, okay? And then settings that's where we just go in. We can tell it to triage this inbox, track replies, different things like that. Ignore subscription that needs to be taken out. And then AI drafts write my replies before I get there. It will put it in drafts only. The system will not send emails so Nothing will leave your mailbox until you press and send it yourself. That way you can monitor it, and then you can do notifications turn it on or off, and you can put it on your home screen. Um, and so there's that. Um, this one's not working just yet; it's still in beta. And then you can also uh send yourself a daily briefing email every morning. Um, and you can tell it where to send it to. So, if you if you want to send it to like a personal email or things like that. Speaker 2 00:07:31 And you can include today's agenda, follow- ups, any to- do tasks, inbox activity, and anything you should prioritize and focus. And then how long do we keep your history before deleting it automatically? You can choose. And you have to say yes delete history. Okay. Any questions about this on anything I have not covered? Speaker 3 00:07:56 This this is for, Your deliverable to Casey, right? The specific request of Casey. Yes. The CEO. Okay, all right. Speaker 2 00:08:08 What do you guys think of the app? Speaker 3 00:08:14 Is it secure? Pretty good. Speaker 2 00:08:17 It is secure. It's in uh Westwood's Microsoft tenancy, so nothing is exposed, U m, and it is left to them they have to log in with their Microsoft account to access it. Have. Speaker 3 00:08:30 Other companies, uh, Crimson clients asked for this already or you you built it from scratch? Speaker 2 00:08:39 We'll talk we'll talk about that in a bit. Okay. Yep. Speaker 3 00:08:43 That's it. Speaker 2 00:08:43 So got any any questions about the app before I stop recording? Speaker 3 00:08:50 No, I'm good sorry I uh need to drop I'm, I want another call with the show. So, if you guys need me, just ping me. Thanks. Speaker 2 00:08:58 You're welcome. Okay, So I was recording that so that I can hand it off to Casey, um so that Casey has it and understands how to use it. Uh George, in answer to your question is an app I built myself to resell, but because Casey was asking for all the same stuff, I had already written in an app, I decided to take a copy of it and put it on Westwood because. They really didn't pay for my hours to build them a straight app, which would have taken over three hundred hours. So I just used the that's why you see some things on there. Um, I just took the coding and pushed it up to West FM. My biggest issues were just getting Microsoft to open some things up for us. Understand? Yeah. Um, Olivia, what do you think? Speaker 1 00:09:49 I love it. I think it's beautiful. I think everything you do, Chris, is lovely. And I was paying attention the entire time. I promise I was not multitasking. I was multitasking, Chris, I'm so sorry. Speaker 2 00:10:01 It's okay as long as you like the app So. Speaker 1 00:10:05 I do! I think it looks good! It looks like uh crimson. It looks like uh the similar to Crimson Boss You know? Yeah. Speaker 3 00:10:13 What's what's Crimson Boss? Speaker 1 00:10:15 That's a OneSource dispatch app. Speaker 1 00:10:20 I guess my only thing that I have, which is like doesn't really matter, but Chris, Could you uh fit the Westwood Financial mail intelligence to be like, yeah, a little bit more down? Speaker 2 00:10:34 Yeah. Remember that I I threw this together pretty quickly so. Speaker 1 00:10:39 Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Oh, I think it looks good. Yeah, um so yeah. Speaker 3 00:10:47 Yeah for basic functionality I think, Tweaks will come in later, but if it works, I am pretty sure Casey will find some more things to poke at. But for now, Speaker 2 00:10:58 I think. As long as he as long as he gives me constructive feedback, and I can make more money off of it using his feedback, I am happy with that. The. Speaker 3 00:11:09 Problem is how will you how will Crimson make money off of it? Speaker 2 00:11:14 Crimson is making money off of me building it and. Uh, the hours that they paid for it. So honestly, this a drop in and if they want updates, I'll update my main application and then push some updates for them. And that takes twenty minutes. It's not gonna This a complete beta test. Westwood is a complete beta. They're not going to pay for it. And then if Alonzo wants to turn around and resell it to other clients, we can do it Cool. Speaker 2 00:11:46 Uh okay, George, can you jump? Sure. I'm done with you. Okay. All right. Thanks, George. Bye, George.
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07-28 Weekly Meeting: Project Status Updates and Process Coordination
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- > Date: 2026-07-28 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Pete] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] ## Meeting Notes ### **Project Status Updates** - **Project 2732 (Gryff):** Awaiting CoGen (Gryff’s third-party partner) to confirm a date for the new office setup. No date provided yet. - **ARC Communication:** Pete advised that for ARC, a phone call is often more effective than multiple emails. If two or three emails about a pending signature go unanswered, call Quincy or Brad. - **Westwood Project:** Fully set up with Claude. Awaiting Brett’s response regarding training needs. Also progressing on Casey’s request—70% complete and due in two weeks. - **Alere Project (Update):** Completion updated to 75%. - **Carney Properties (Update):** Completion updated to 60%. - **Barker Project:** Pre-project work for the Teams migration is underway, which is why they’re holding off on signing other agreements. - **Project 2317 (Interim):** Expected to close this month (July 2026). Sean is finishing his audit; a handoff to Mike is scheduled to review follow-ups with Tatiana. - Noted issue: a cloud PC self-reprovisioned; Help Desk has been informed via an update to Hudo. - **Project 2598 (Wayfinder):** Phase one migration completed. Phase two kicks off August 17, with a target completion date of October 1. - **Project 2588 (WineGuard):** Need to contact Anzor to determine next steps for the file structure cleanup. - **Project 2700 (Laprock):** Third visit on July 27, 2026, to address an internet issue. Six more devices are at HQ; twelve devices need Celerant POS setup. Awaiting a quote from Celerant, potentially for Help Desk training. - **Project 2729 (Alere):** Hardware estimated to ship July 31, 2026. Waiting on a service ticket to schedule an on-site visit for a July 29, 2026 delivery. ### **Process & Communication Coordination** - Project Managers should post a heads-up in the P1 chat on Teams before replacing a switch or firewall to keep the team informed and avoid unnecessary alarm. - Replacing a monitor or docking station is a service ticket, not a project. - Project Managers need to identify any projects that can be closed this week for final billing. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 1] Follow up with CoGen to secure a setup date for Project 2732 (Gryff). - [ ] [Speaker 4] Follow up with Brett (Westwood) on training needs. - [ ] [Speaker 4] Present work to Casey in two weeks (for the 70% complete request). - [ ] [Speaker 5] Sync with Mike and hand off Project 2317 (Interim); review follow-ups with Tatiana. - [ ] [Speaker 5] Reach out to Anzor regarding next steps for Project 2588 (WineGuard) file structure cleanup. - [ ] [Speaker 5] Update Hudo for several closed projects and include the cloud PC self-reprovisioning note. - [ ] [Speaker 6] Add Segi and Miguel to the P1 chat on Teams. - [ ] [Project Managers] Identify projects ready for closure and final billing this week. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The decision on whether to have Celerant train the Help Desk for the Laprock project is pending a quote and an internal cost-effectiveness decision. > 2. The next steps for the WineGuard file structure cleanup (Project 2588) remain undefined and depend on a conversation with Anzor.
- Date
- Jul 28, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:17 And Then he gets it finalized, requested for final billing as well, and is ready to close. Then last I have project two seven, three two, this for Gryff for their co office move. So, I also had a conversation with Oz yesterday regarding this one. So we're still waiting for CoGen the third party. Third- party partner of Gryff for setting up the new office. So no date yet has been provided as of now. So that's all from my projects. Speaker 2 00:01:50 One other note, and I'm sorry to go back to ARC again, Miguel, but one of the things I've seen them send, Especially Brad multiple times is you know, there's a lot of emails, but sometimes it's easier just to make a phone call. They've sent stuff like that to us on numerous occasions. So, it feels like they're a company that likes people to call them when something is waiting. Instead of us just sending multiple emails. So if you want to, if you want to call someone like either Quincy or Brad, Maybe sometimes that's like if you've sent two or three emails asking about something that needs to be signed, it might be time to call them. I get the sense that they think if you've sent four emails, you should have called, you know last week. Speaker 2 00:02:38 Kind of thing maybe. So, I don't know. Speaker 1 00:02:41 I'm going to go through the whole later. Speaker 2 00:02:43 Just just as a as a guide for future for ARC, it just feels like they're one of those companies that says, you know, if you if you've sent me three emails, why didn't you call already? Then most companies aren't like that anymore. But uh, you know, I think they are so Got it Thank you All right? Speaker 3 00:03:02 Thank you Let's um go back to Christie's project. Speaker 3 00:03:08 Last is Westwood. Speaker 4 00:03:10 Yes, so met up with Westwood. They are set up with um with Claude fully, Um so one of the things I did ask Brett to get back to me because he was on vacation is what do they want to do for training, um at the same time we are also working through, um what uh what's his name Casey wants as far as help with Claude. And so we had that meeting last week, went over everything. I've got a few things I am working on for them, and it is due in three weeks or two weeks now. So, and actually I am about seventy percent done with that, but I still got to present it to Casey. But that meeting is set for in about two weeks. Speaker 3 00:03:55 All right, so this is seventy five percent okay. Anything else that they need to update on the presentation completion of their projects Christi? Um. Speaker 4 00:04:05 Let's update Alere to 75. Alere to 75. Speaker 3 00:04:13 Yes, and then Carney Properties, let's update them to 60. Got it. All right, okay, let's move on to Julia's project. Oh wait sorry um does anyone have an update for the quad takeover? Speaker 3 00:04:36 Or okay, all right. So let's move on to project two three, one seven interim for their compliance setup, device management MDM. Julia, Speaker 5 00:04:49 Before I do this, I just want to make sure I tell Christi for Barker. We're doing pre project work for their Teams migration. That's why they're holding up on on the signing up everything else because yeah, because they want to do that before. Okay. Um, all right, where is me? Intratum. Intratum is I think it's going to be closed this month. Uh Sean Sean is finishing his audit um I am. Speaker 5 00:05:31 Scheduled sync up with Mike to hand it off. Um, Because there's a couple of follow ups I want him to keep on his radar with Tatiana. And um, that's it really. We, we did had an issue with uh cloud PC re- provision by itself. Uh Olivia just FYI. We talked about it. I talked to Matthew about it. I told Matthew to talk to Maurice about it. And. You know, Update Hudo. So help desk is aware that this happened this one time just through provision by itself. Speaker 5 00:06:14 Uh, Project two five nine eight Wayfinder. We are complete with uh phase one migration. Um, I finally sent the email yesterday to Robert, and phase two will be resumed um August seventeen as a kickoff. Um, the plan is to move uh to complete phase uh two by October 1st. So I'm going to keep this here just so we have it. No, move it to hold. Project 2588 WineGuard file structure cleanup. I still need to reach out to Anzor to see what he wants to do. Speaker 5 00:07:01 Um, since he's back now, so I'll check with him. Project two seven zero zero Laprock workstation refresh. This one is a bit of mess just because it's Laprock right um. Basically, we had a third visit yesterday, trying to figure out the internet in their pool room. Um. We still have six more devices at headquarters. I think I believe today Monsi and Bana delivering some, and majority of their devices about twelve will need the Celerant POS setup. So before Vincent went on vacation, I talked to him about it, and he's like, okay, let's get. Speaker 5 00:07:58 Siller and quote to see how much it's gonna cost Ruben to set it up, and see if we can match that. Meaning that if help desk, because Siller has a quote when they can train our help desk, but Charles didn't want to do that because he said it's very complicated system. So, we're gonna see how much they want to charge um Ruben and see maybe we also. Do the training and then present Ruben cheaper option because it's good for our help desk to know how to do that setup, right? So they don't have to go to Celerant every time. So we're still waiting on that. And for Alere 2 729, um the hardware is estimated to ship. Speaker 5 00:08:54 7/31, so still waiting for it. And I'm also waiting for service ticket that was combined with this project to schedule on-site visit. And that is delivering tomorrow. Yeah, come on. That's it for me. All right, anything else guys? I'm working on several projects that were, Has been closed already, and I realize I didn't update the Hudo. So just FYI. Speaker 6 00:09:30 And if you guys for project managers, like if you guys are having somebody um replace a switch or a firewall or something, Can you guys just send a heads up in the P one chat on Teams priorum to actually doing the switchover? So that way my. Team is aware and we're not like all freaking out. P 1 chat, Speaker 3 00:09:59 Are we added in the chat, Ollie? Or in the P 1 chat, sorry. Oh, Segi I'll add you. Yeah and Miguel please because yeah. Speaker 6 00:10:13 Yeah okay let me add both of you. Speaker 3 00:10:20 All right. Okay. We'll um, sorry. Oh, we'll work on that. We'll put that as additional task for us. Okay, Speaker 6 00:10:29 Anything else? Oh, sorry. I was just going to say, usually Gabby's pretty good at it. She'll she'll remember um and she does it like just automatically. So just an. Speaker 3 00:10:40 FYI Perfect okay All right Thank you Anything else guys Uh what question question is. Um, what about for example replacing the monitor or replacing a docking station? Is that a project or just a service ticket? Speaker 6 00:10:59 Just a service ticket. Service ticket. Got it. Speaker 3 00:11:07 Okay, And then let me know if there are still projects that need to can be closed this week so that we can fully build them or anything any projects that. Speaker 3 00:11:22 Alright, thank you. If nothing else, I think that's it. Thanks everybody. See you next week. Thank you guys. Thanks guys. Bye guys. Thank you.
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06-05 Weekly Status Update and Operational Review
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- # Weekly Status Update and Operational Review  This meeting covers a wide range of topics, beginning with a personal check-in and transitioning into detailed project status updates for clients like Eldridge, Alere, Avalon, and Ability First. It then shifts to a discussion on internal team management, specifically reviewing employee stress surveys and data access. The conversation concludes with client budget forecasts, upcoming vacation logistics, and plans for a company social event. ------------ ## Personal and Professional Updates The conversation begins with personal updates from Speaker 1, who shares that her daughter has completed her finals and is set to graduate with a 4.38 GPA—a significant achievement from her starting 1.8 GPA. Her daughter will be attending UC Merced, a six-hour drive away, with enough scholarship funds to afford a single dorm room. Speaker 1 plans to take her to school on August 19th, part of her first year taking all school vacations, with her next official vacation starting August 22nd. She also details a significant shift in her professional life outside of the company; after a recent meeting with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFSS) and her fourth live scan fingerprinting, she will pivot from traditional fostering. For the next six months, she will provide temporary transitional housing for young adults aged 18 and over, offering them a place to stay while they await permanent transitional apartments. This role will primarily involve providing a bed and a safe space, a less intensive commitment than her previous fostering duties. In response to Pete's security concerns, Speaker 1 confirmed that she already has a lock on her 1960s-era wardrobe, where alcohol is stored, as required by the CFSS. ------------ ## Client Project Status and Next Steps Speaker 1 provides a comprehensive review of key client projects. For **Eldridge**, she is finalizing the tabletop exercise report, which she promised to deliver to Paul, Sam, and Esther by the end of the day. The **Alere** project is progressing well; yesterday's meeting was successful, a weekly update was provided, and they have agreed to skip next week's meeting. Alere is also bringing in PDC, and team member Gabby has received her tasks for the upcoming week. The **Avalon** project kickoff has been postponed until after Speaker 1's return from vacation, around the 22nd. The **Ability First** project was completed yesterday, with the firewalls now back up at the camp. However, an issue was discovered: the outdoor Access Points (APs) each require two external antennas, not one as originally planned. This leaves a need for twelve additional antennas. While current coverage is good, this purchase will likely be deferred to the 2027 budget. Additionally, the team will take over management of the **Brivo** badge system for Ability First. As no one was previously maintaining it from an administrative standpoint, this represents a new value-add service that should be highlighted in future client reviews. ------------ ## Client Management and Communication Logistics The discussion transitions to managing client communications, particularly with Michonne from Ability First, who has been out of the office since her son was hospitalized on Sunday. Speaker 1 has been in contact with her via text and will call her this afternoon with a final project update. She will also send a formal status email, copying Pete to keep him informed. Pete notes he had previously emailed Michonne without a response, which is now explained by her absence. To ensure seamless coverage during Speaker 1's upcoming vacation, she will resend a reminder to leadership teams, directing any escalations to Pete or Mike. Speaker 1 will also provide Pete with cell numbers for Michonne and another key contact, Apollo, to facilitate direct communication if needed. For SCHARP, Robert and Gaston are aware of the vacation plan and know to contact Pete with any escalations. Speaker 1 also plans to take Michonne to lunch upon her return to discuss future plans and budget limitations in a private setting, as there have been issues with conversations being overheard in the office. ------------ ## Internal Process and Team Wellness Review The conversation addresses internal team wellness, prompted by Pete's request for access to the employee stress survey results. Speaker 1 directs him to the shared Excel workbook in the "Crimson IT general" Teams channel, which is publicly accessible to managers. They review recent submissions, noting several anonymous high-stress (level 4 and 5) entries with comments like "Lone Star IT man" and "Help Desk Stooge," which are difficult to act on without knowing the individuals. More concerningly, they observe that John has reported a stress level of 5 for two consecutive weeks, which surprises Pete. Speaker 1 confirms John has been performing well despite this. Pete expresses his intent to follow up with John directly. Speaker 1 reflects on her past practice of sending meals to colleagues she knew were struggling, a practice she hasn't maintained recently. ------------ ## Future Strategy and Budgeting Outlook Looking forward, the speakers discuss strategic and financial planning. A significant challenge is the upcoming Microsoft price increase, which will negatively impact Ability First's already strained budget. This year's budget is overspent due to unforeseen requests and the decision not to downgrade the camp's internet service. However, next year's budget for Ability First is expected to increase, allowing for new strategic initiatives, including potential AI projects. To supplement this, Speaker 1 plans to research technology grants they can apply for. In contrast, SCHARP has a healthier budget and is forecasting a 25% increase in employees by 2027, signaling future growth and IT needs. To better align with client strategies, Speaker 1 and Michonne will conduct a tour of all Ability First sites after the vacation to meet with directors and establish a formal IT committee. ------------ ## Pre-Vacation Handover and Logistics Final preparations are made for Speaker 1's upcoming vacation. She confirms that all necessary client information for SCHARP, Ability First, and other accounts has been migrated from IT Glue, and she has even assisted with migrating data for other companies. She will be working late to finish reports and create new knowledge base articles for SCHARP in Hudu, and may log in briefly over the weekend to complete them. During her vacation, she plans to take a couple of AWS AI courses for professional development. Speaker 1 clarifies she is no longer in the on-call rotation, but she is the second in line for escalation calls after Olivia, meaning Pete will likely receive them next week if they occur. Her personal plans for the break include cleaning, reading, and crafting a 3D puzzle with her goddaughter. The conversation concludes with both confirming they will see each other at a food and wine event on Sunday. ------------ ## Action Items **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Finalize the Eldridge tabletop exercises report and send it to Paul, Sam, and Esther - [By EOD Today] - [ ] Send a brief status update on the Ability First project to Michonne, and CC Pete - [By EOD Today] - [ ] Call Michonne this afternoon to provide a verbal update on the Ability First project - [TBD] - [ ] Resend the vacation notification email to leadership teams, directing inquiries to Pete or Mike - [TBD] - [ ] Send Michonne's and Apollo's cell numbers to Pete - [TBD] - [ ] Work with Brivo on the badge system for Ability First once login credentials are received - [TBD] - [ ] Assign the task of creating "how-to" documentation for Brivo for the central knowledge base - [TBD] - [ ] Verify two outstanding billing items - [By EOD Today] - [ ] Begin researching technology grants that Ability First can apply for - [TBD] - [ ] Take Michonne to lunch after returning from vacation and expense it - [TBD] - [ ] Pick up laptop from the shop - [TBD] **@Pete** - [ ] Send a notification to April, Marvin, Christi, Mike, Vince, and Jason regarding the upcoming Microsoft price increase - [TBD] - [ ] Call John to discuss his recent high-stress survey responses - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:03 Happy Friday. How are you? Speaker 1 00:00:06 I am fantastic. Oh wait, karma. Speaker 2 00:00:11 I can imagine we've gone through a lot of craziness this week, Speaker 1 00:00:14 So yes, And then the uh fire alarms kept going off yesterday afternoon because they were testing to put everything back together. That was lovely, Lovely. Speaker 1 00:00:27 But I got sleep. And then I had to take my child to school, because she uh overslept herself. But, she uh, she has all of her finals out of the way, and that's good. Yeah, and she's going to graduate with a four point three eight GPA. Hey, Speaker 2 00:00:49 That's pretty good. Speaker 1 00:00:50 Yeah, especially since when she came to me, she had a one point eight. Beautiful. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Yeah, I just need to get the rest of the week done with her and next week and get her through the last couple days of school. And we're going so. Speaker 2 00:01:07 And where is she ended up? Where does she end up? Is she is she gonna go? Speaker 1 00:01:11 Uh, UC Merced. Okay. Yeah, she's got enough in scholarship. She could do a single dorm room if she wanted now. Nice, Speaker 2 00:01:21 Yeah And how far is that from you. Speaker 1 00:01:24 Six hours drive Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:29 So I take her. My next vacation is August twenty second. This is the first year actually taking all school vacations, it's weird to me, Speaker 3 00:01:38 But good for you. Speaker 1 00:01:41 Uh, But we go up August nineteenth to take her to school and get her moved and go from there. All right, yeah, awesome. Um oh, Since we're talking about personal things real quick, I did have a conversation with DCFSS because I had to go on Wednesday to get my fingerprints done again. This is my fourth live scan in a couple of months, But I had a long conversation with my social worker who was actually there, and we adjusted what I am going to do with kids right now because don't because don't still living at home, and she turns eighteen soon. So, I am going to provide transitional housing. Speaker 1 00:02:22 Temporary transitional housing to eighteen year olds and up, Uh so they have a place to crash while they're waiting to move into their transitional apartment. So okay, it's gonna be it's gonna be a little bit different for a while. So probably be about six months. I do this um where? Yes, all I am doing is providing a bed and a place for them to stay. Yeah so pretty easy um but yeah, it's something that's needed right now. So I am going to jump in and do that because it's not going to take. It's not going to be something where I've got to go, enroll kid into a school and do all the normal stuff. It's just providing a place to land for a couple months. I. Speaker 2 00:03:01 Guess the one thing you have to do is be a little more cautious because you're going to have different kids going in and out, probably right at different times. So, you're going to have to be a little bit more like you're not going to get to know them as much, and yeah, I don't know. I don't know kind of one of those things where you don't really know much about them. CFS to. Yes, lock your stuff up and lock your booze up and lock your stuff, you know, whatever. Speaker 1 00:03:28 The booze is already in my wardrobe behind me, and there is already a lock on it because it's required by the CFSS. Speaker 2 00:03:33 It has to be yeah. You were telling me that that's a requirement either way, right? Speaker 1 00:03:37 Yeah So I put it in my wardrobe. I finally finished my wardrobe the other day because it's from the nineteen sixties, It was given to me, my entire bedroom suiteum And I put a lock on it when Dom, Before I got Dom when I was doing the first round of fostering, um, But now I moved it into my bedroom instead of where it was. And uh I got I put lighting in yesterday. So. Nice. It has lights. So nice. Yeah okay so next week is vacation, uh. Speaker 1 00:04:11 I am finalizing the Eldridge tabletop exercises that I promised to get to Paul and Sam and Esther today. I told them they would have it by end of day today, so I am finalizing that report. The Alere meeting went really well yesterday, and I gave them their weekly update. And we're going to skip next week, which they're one hundred percent okay with, and they're bringing in PDC. So Gabby has her marching orders for next week while I'm out. But that's the presentation we did. Mike said it was really good, so I'm going to take his word on it. He was in there. Avalon is not going to kick off until we're back, but I did have a meeting with Avalon, so that's been pushed to when I get back, I think on the twenty second. The Ability First project got finished yesterday because they were back out at camp. Speaker 1 00:05:07 Um and so the firewalls are back up. Uh, There are a few things that we did not realize that we need to I need to talk to Michonne and see uh about purchasing, which is twelve more uh, external antennas for the outdoor APs. Um, But that might need to be a twenty twenty seven budget type thing, because we thought it only needed one per each, and it actually needs uh, two per each. So okay, um because. Each one comes with two antennas, and so we bought one thinking that was going to be enough. But it requires two. However, the coverage is still really good right now, so we can wait until twenty twenty seven So how is Michonne? Speaker 2 00:05:51 How is Michonne with the project overall? Speaker 1 00:05:53 So Michonne's been out on an emergency out this week. However, she and I have talked a few times. Her son went into the hospital on Sunday, so she's been out of office. Um, she knows that she can reach out to me. She's reached out to me a few times, Butum I'm gonna call her this afternoon when cause she's still at the hospital. So I'm gonna call her this afternoon and give her the last update just so that she has that. Um and then we're going to wait until we get back until I get back, and we're going to go over everything. But as long as Kelly's happy, she's going to be happy. Speaker 2 00:06:29 Okay, would can you send her just maybe a a brief status? At the end of today or whenever, and just copy me on it if you don't mind. So I am kind of in the loop, And then that way, because I sent her a note last Wednesday or Thursday, after you had kind of you and I had kind of talked about the latest, and it was when you basically said things were went well, and there were a couple things you were going to follow up on, but in general things had gone well. Speaker 2 00:06:60 I basically sent her a quick note and said that you and I were tracking and things sounded like they were going well, but I wanted to see what her feedback was. I didn't hear anything from her, but then if she was going if she went out. She's generally not very quick about getting back via email anyway, so then if she went out for the week, that's probably another reason I haven't heard back. So um that way, at least i'm i'm looped in if you're out and she has any questions or whatever. Yes And you can let her know, If she needs anything while you're out, obviously she can. Speaker 1 00:07:33 She can reach out to you. Speaker 2 00:07:34 Ping me or whatever next week too, so. Speaker 1 00:07:37 Yeah, I am going to resend those emails. I sent out to the leadership team on both sides, Just reminding them that I'm out next week, and then that they can reach out to you or Mike. Okay. Um and then she's we have like we have texted back and forth. Soum so I know she's answering her text messages, but not as much email. Okay. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:08:01 And I don't know if I need like her's like her cell number or anything. Because I don't I don't know her direct contact info. If you want to send it to me, I am probably not gonna. I mean, I can put it on my phone just so she texts me. I know it's her, maybe yeah, not that i don't. I don't know if she will, but like, if yes, you know, if she does, i'd hate to not answer her call because i don't no, it's for callingum. And the same. If there's anybody at SCHARP that you think I should put in my phone to have their number in my phone. Like I have Doctor Barber because I had texted him when we were kind of going through the, you know, the initial discussions about whether we're doing their account or not. But um, yeah. If I need to add her, I I can do that. So Or, if there's anybody else if there's anybody else that you're working closely with at SCHARP. Speaker 2 00:08:58 Yeah, um, Obviously, Robert and Gaston, they should you should let them know to contact me if t here is anything that needs to be escalated while you are out. Butum, hopefully things are quiet. Speaker 1 00:09:10 I think they will be. Um, Robert and Gaston know, I got to go pick up my laptop later because I left it behind at SCHARP. Um, I realized that when I went to go this morning, it was it's very pretty outside right now. It's like the perfect spot on my hammock with a cup. And I went to go do that this morning. I realized my laptop was at the shop, so I'm gonna go buy a new one today. Okay. I almost sent that to my friend Peter Mallow. He, uh, he's a good friend of mine and every time I type in Pete, his name comes up first. So, I'm gonna send you Apollo um so that you have Apollo's and then I'll send you uh. Speaker 1 00:09:56 I sent you my shots. Speaker 3 00:09:58 Okay, cool. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:10:01 Yeah, And then the only other thing is we're going to take over Brivo for ability first. Brivo is the badge system; I know that system well because they do all the badges and stuff for SCHARP, so I am going to work with them on, And we'll go through everything once we get that the login credentials. And we should be good there, but they can help answer any questions until I get back. The only thing I don't think I'm going to get done today is the Brivo uh, how to do things and put that in the central KV. I'm going to assign that. Speaker 2 00:10:40 How much is how much is Ability First going to save by us doing that? Speaker 1 00:10:45 Uh, it's just going to be more of a protection for their admin accounts because. Of what happened this week. Speaker 2 00:10:54 Okay, but but they weren't charging them anything to maintain that. Speaker 1 00:10:59 Brivo or? No. Well, Speaker 4 00:11:02 Who okay. Speaker 1 00:11:03 It's just it's just their software, So we're just going to be it's just one more thing. We have to look at to remove people from there. Speaker 2 00:11:13 Okay, so who was doing it before? Speaker 1 00:11:17 Uh nobody. Speaker 2 00:11:19 Oh I see, I see. Yeah, I thought we were taking it over like from a vendor or something. No. Okay, So no, so no. So nobody was maintaining it before, and now we're going to maintain it. Okay, I thought we were taking it over from someone else that was maintaining, and they were going to save money by us doing it from someone else. I see, okay. Speaker 1 00:11:38 Yeah It just wasn't being It just wasn't being maintained before, Correct From the admin point of view, uh From the badges But. Speaker 2 00:11:47 We should, but we should put that on the list of things that. Like when we do a summary, a QBR or a yearly review or something that should be. It may not be a, a monetary savings or something, But that should be a notable thing that they're getting from Crimson coming in the door, right? Or yes, from you being there as as a v C I O kind of thing, right? Speaker 1 00:12:14 So exactly. Um, and then I don't know if I told you this or not. I know I talked to uh Anzor about it. We're gonna, um, Mashawn and I are gonna go on tour uh when I get back. And, we're gonna visit each of the sites and sit down with the directors and everything because um, I've been asking for that since I came over. And, she hasn't had time to do it, but now she and I need to do it. And we're going to build out that IT committee. Okay. Speaker 1 00:12:46 I need to, I need to put my contacts in today. These headphones kill my ears with my glasses on. Yeah. Um okay, And then I think I know my projects are all up to date, and the tickets are all up to date on the projects. Um, I need to verify two billing things before I leave today, but other than that, i i think we're pretty good. Speaker 2 00:13:12 How do I get access directly to the responses from the surveys? Because I'm still, I'm hearing things like, well, I put in a level five and nobody called me and stuff like that. And I don't know how long ago that was or when it was or whatever. But is there a is there like a a portal that those come into? Is there like can we dump them into a folder where I can see them? Is it like how do I. Speaker 1 00:13:40 Are you talking about, Are you talking about the help the stress service? Yes. They're actually out on Teams in an Excel workbook. So I just put it in your chat. Um, Bogdan did put in a five, but did not put any comments and John put in a five in the last couple weeks. Um, and Caleb put in a five which I gave you that Excel one so. Speaker 3 00:14:11 So Bogdan put in. So where do you actually see the. The comments. Speaker 2 00:14:23 Well, so I'm I opened the spreadsheet and I see, the ID I see that other it just popped up. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:14:33 I scooted it over for you. Speaker 2 00:14:35 You what? Oh, okay, so I needed this. I needed to scroll to the right. Got it. Okay. Speaker 1 00:14:40 I'm gonna I'm gonna hide some of the columns we no longer use. This is Anzorr had put this together, so I think it resides in the team folder. Um which everyone can see if they know where to go. Speaker 3 00:14:60 Okay all right, Speaker 2 00:15:02 So I will uh I'll start taking a look at this. Speaker 1 00:15:06 And then on sheet three um. Speaker 1 00:15:10 Let me let me re let me refresh that one. Um, but I put I put a pivot table that marks everything, week by week so that we can see. Uh, I. Speaker 2 00:15:22 Wish I knew who the Lone Star IT man was so we could feed him tickets because we got lots of tickets. Yeah, I'd love to feed him tickets. Speaker 1 00:15:33 I agree because it's like I'm sometimes when they don't put their name in. I am like, okay. I can tell you, uh, like Help Desk Stooge was a five. And I am like, well, who is that? Like I can help you if I knew who you were. Speaker 2 00:15:48 But, how come the? How come the Lone Star IT man that wants to feed him? Tickets is like a stress level four? Speaker 1 00:15:56 You know, I don't know. Hang on, I just messed up the me iPad again. Okay. I couldn't see it because it all jumbled together when I switched sheets. Um, yeah, I don't. I don't know. Speaker 4 00:16:11 Yeah, okay. Speaker 1 00:16:13 So sometimes I have to look at these and be like, okay. I need to, i can't do anything because i don't know who this is. Uh and i do go through these so like riddick's where charlene and her reach, uh thirty tickets per day should tell coding when uh when i wor umked for um dell. You remember the Sasser and Blaster viruses? Remember the what? Sasser and Blaster virus. They hit in the early two thousands. I wor umked for um Dell at that time. I handled over three hundred calls that day. It was crazy. Yeah, That was when I was a lowly little technician wor umking on a help desk for um Dell, so um but that's where you find it. Speaker 1 00:17:04 I just keep that pinned in my Excel. So I can easily find it every week. And then I can open it up. Okay. Speaker 2 00:17:16 Every one ticket I close, I get three mor ume. Please help. Yeah. Help Dusk Stooge. Yeah. I bet that's Juno That just sounds like a name she would use. Speaker 1 00:17:31 You know. Anytime it's Star Wars, it's either Charles or um Sean. I do know that. Cheshire Cat, I don't know who that is, and I don't know who Bilbo Baggins is. Speaker 2 00:17:45 Somebody else is a five here that has no comment there. Speaker 3 00:17:51 That was five sixteen So. Speaker 1 00:18:01 I don't, Sometimes I'll reach out to them. Sometimes I'll send their notes over to a manager if I know who it is. What I used to do is, if when I was managing the entire team, Is I would sit down with a person or um send it to their team lead. But there's been a couple of times where I've asked Olivia, "Hey, can I sit down with so and so and just see what's going on?" She's so. Lately it's been getting a little wor umse than the stress, but I don't know who they all are except for um Bob. Speaker 4 00:18:41 All right. Speaker 1 00:18:45 Used to I had everybody's addresses in Door umdash, and if I see someone was, I knew or um saw somebody was going through it, I would either buy their breakfast lunch or um dinner or umum. Or do something similar to that, and I had everyone's favor umite food saved. So like when I knew that uh. Emil's wife was going through a massive cancer scare, We we knew what their favor umite restaurant was, and we would send dinners Door umDash or um Uber Eats. So, um I haven't done that in a very long time. Speaker 2 00:19:23 I'm surprised John is logging as, A five two weeks in a row. Yeah, I didn't think his would be that stressed. Speaker 1 00:19:34 He's been doing such a great job though. Speaker 2 00:19:37 I know, But and I know that he was I know that he was planning for um that X T R F upgrade and maybe that was a contributor um, butum. You know, I don't know if we've been reaching out to him to see if he's all right, because that's. That's news to me. I didn't know he was hitting a five. So I may call, I may call him on that. All right. This is good. So is this, um, Is this a link that's going to expire? Because a lot of times I share a link, and then a month later it expires and I have to. Speaker 1 00:20:19 Let me show you in. Where that file is located just in case because I always for umget and have to go find it when I need it if I lose the pin. Um so in Teams, if I go down to uh Crimson IT general and I go to shared daily health check- in. Speaker 1 00:20:51 Three is which one it is. Speaker 3 00:20:54 So Teams General Shared, let me see if I can get there. Speaker 3 00:21:26 Daily Health check right there. Oh yeah, it's right there. Speaker 1 00:21:28 Yeah, we keep it out there. That's easy. Okay. Yeah, We make it public everybodyum Everybody who's been here a while should knowum where it is, and I can send out another reminder to to uh your direct reports to remind them where it is. Um but it's it's there. So people can can see. Uh, especially managers can jump in and take a look. Speaker 4 00:21:53 Okay. So. Okay. Speaker 1 00:21:59 Also, um, just a heads up, There is going to be a price increase for Microsoft in the next couple of months. Um, So I am getting ready to alert. Uh AbilityFirst because they're their pricing is going to change. And it's going to hurt the budget. So I am going to let them know. With ability first, we the budget this year is extremely so. Anytime like I am already over budget for this year just because of some issues that came in from Jeremy, where they wanted some things, And the fact that camp does not want to downgrade their internet, which is on the was in the budget to be downgraded, so we're trying to do something. However next year. Speaker 1 00:22:47 There is an increased budget. We will have a little bit more money. We can't play with things because there's going to be all new things to strategize against, So we could put in, we can put in things for AI and stuff like that. So there'll be a lot more fun there in the budget. But as much as I can, I am trying to get things done for them. Um, I am also going to start looking for grants that they can apply for for technology. Um, and see if we can try to get some things there. Uh, with SCHARP, uh, we do have the budget. So things are a little bit different there, But they're expecting a twenty five percent increase in uh employees for twenty twenty seven. So they're going to grow. So just a quick heads up on you on that. Uh AbilityFirst might be growing too, but I don't I think it's like ten percent so it's not bad. Speaker 4 00:23:47 Okay. So that's good news for us. Okay. So, they will have more money to play with things. Speaker 4 00:23:58 Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:24:10 I'm not sending them anything. I'm gonna send a note out just to make sure that we've notified everybody too. Um, let's see, I'm gonna send it to April, Marvin, Christi, Mike Vince you and Jason. I think that covers everybody. Speaker 1 00:24:30 Um also I'm going to take Michonne out to lunch next week when she's back just so we can have a moment to get away from the office and have conversation because we've been having some issues with people overhearing things. Um. They're getting me a white noise machine in my office as well because I keep overhearing things, I should not be overhearing. And so she's that's going to come out of the H R budget. She's like, we need white noise for her. Um, I did buy one myself for SCHARP because those walls are thin. I can hear every conversation going on in the break room, which shares a wall with my office. Okay, But I am going to take her out to lunch next week. Uh, I will expense it back. Speaker 1 00:25:11 And that way we can sit down and have a good conversation without having to worry about getting interrupted or something like that. Because I know there is a lot more things that she wants to try to get done this year, and they just don't have the budget to do it. So we'll go over some of that stuff as well. Okay, so things have been a little stressful for her the last couple of weeks, so try to get her out of the office, go sit down. Speaker 4 00:25:36 Yeah okay. Speaker 1 00:25:38 Blaze Pizza, cause that's the closest place to us that we like to eat at. Speaker 2 00:25:42 Yeah, okay. No problem. Speaker 1 00:25:47 And then I think that's everything I have. I was trying to give you a little bit more informed one o one today. Yeah, that's good for you. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:25:57 That's good. Speaker 1 00:25:57 That's good Um, I am working late today because I want to get there.'s so much stuff I want to get done, and I may log in tomorrow and finish up. But, these are just reports and some knowledge base articles. I started writing to put into Hudu on some new things coming from SCHARP. So just be aware if you see me online, it's only because of that. And if you see me online while I am on vacation, I am going to take a couple of AWS AI courses. Speaker 2 00:26:25 Okay, And you have everything for SCHARP and AbilityFirst and anybody else that you were responsible for out of IT Glue, right? So if it goes, if it goes away, there's nothing there that you're going to be dependent on, right? Speaker 1 00:26:41 No. In fact, I went I went above what the original list Olivia had given me. Um and jumped in and did a couple other companies for her because uh, the tax market didn't get done for her. So I did that for her last week. She asked me to handle a couple items. Okay. So and if I still have access which I think I do, Uh, I told her to send me a heads up this week while she was out if she knew any more moved. Um, but she said she didn't. Okay. Yeah, I was trying to clear out as much as possible. I think I am one of the busiest people in the company, but one of the least stressed right now. I don't know how don't ask me how I'm not stressed. Okay. This vacation. Speaker 2 00:27:31 Yeah yeah, And you're not like in the on call rotation in the upcoming week, right? Speaker 1 00:27:37 No, I'm not an on call at all. Other than the fact that I get the escalation calls before you get them. So you might those escalation calls next week if they go that far, but that's it. Okay. Speaker 3 00:27:50 Yeah. Okay. Speaker 1 00:27:51 I pulled myself out of rotation, just because there was no need for me being in rotation anymore. Okay, Yeah, But. If if a person misses the call and Olivia doesn't get it, then it'll come to me. Speaker 2 00:28:03 And then it'll roll to you, Speaker 1 00:28:04 And then it'll roll to Anzor. Okay. So, that's why you never get a call because if Olivia doesn't pick them up, I'll pick them up. But the last time that happened was three months ago. Speaker 3 00:28:17 Okay. All. Speaker 2 00:28:20 Right. I think we're okay. Well, I, hope you have a wonderful week off, get some, uh, get some time away and enjoy yourself. Speaker 1 00:28:30 I'm gonna clean house. I'm gonna. I've got that seated hammock out on my my patio, And I have about three big books that I need to get caught up on. All right, excellent. Oh, and I'm spending time with my goddaughter. We're going to be doing a bunch of crafting. She wants to help put together a three D puzzle with me. Speaker 2 00:28:50 Well, actually, I'm going to see you Sunday though so Yeah, Speaker 1 00:28:53 That's true You're going to meet grandma. Grandma is my goddaughter's grandmother. She's she's been uh doing a lot of. Stuff and she she watches her kids all the time. She's the only person I know that's not doing something on Sunday afternoon away. So, Speaker 2 00:29:11 Is going to be there Sunday? Do you know? Speaker 1 00:29:13 Yes, she is. I don't think her husband is, But Kashif definitely is all of HR leaders. Speaker 2 00:29:19 That was what I put in my email too. As I said, You know, Chris and I have been talking about the camp project, and it sounds like things are going pretty well. Let me know if t here is any, Concerns. I also said, uh, I'll be at the food and wine festival or food and wine event. Hope to see you there or something like that. So yeah, be nice to see her again too. So yeah, I will I will see you on Sunday then. So I won't have I don't have to say have a nice vacation yet. I'll see you Sunday evening. Speaker 1 00:29:48 Yes, uh, I just got to figure out my pants, though, what I am wearing. Speaker 2 00:29:53 So There you go said what? Speaker 2 00:29:57 I hope it's not too hot. I hope it's not too hot. Speaker 1 00:29:59 Do you have a linen suit that's light colored? Speaker 2 00:30:02 I'm just gonna wear a sport coat and something. I gotta, I gotta take a look again. I was watching some YouTube videos to see what folks were wearing and, I'm gonna kind of check and see, what it looks like and then i'll i'll put something together. But. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:30:17 I'm thinking, cause i know what my top is gonna be in my blazer, I just don't know which pants, but i think i'm just going to go with a light colored khaki because it's kind of garden themed. So. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:30:27 Yeah. Very nice. Speaker 1 00:30:29 I know, uh, all of HR is going uh with that linen style thought behind it. So. The thing's out over here when I'm in the office. So. Speaker 4 00:30:41 Ah yes. Speaker 1 00:30:45 All right, I uh I'm gonna leave you alone. I want, I've got a meeting at eleven and I wanna get prepped for it, and then. Speaker 2 00:30:52 All right, well have a great day and I'll see you Sunday. Yeah.
05-04 OneDrive Client Instability Causing Intermittent File Access Failures and Restart-Based Resolution
- Notes
-  ## Core Synopsis The recurring file access failure originated from OneDrive not running, and the session shows a straightforward causal chain: the user attempted to open OneDrive-hosted files, received an error for ~2–3 weeks intermittently, then launched OneDrive manually, saw the sync icon appear, and confirmed resolution after a restart; the support lead observed similar behavior recently, pointing to OneDrive instability (crash/closeout) rather than file type issues or permissions. Security controls that disable Teams remote control added friction but are intentional and were bypassed via an alternate admin login; the operational stakes are productivity disruption whenever OneDrive silently stops, and the evidence indicates the fix path is to ensure OneDrive is running at startup and to restart when crashes occur. We accept the security constraint as a necessary safeguard; the leverage is in stabilizing OneDrive’s runtime behavior to prevent repeated outages. ## Incident Timeline: OneDrive Access Failure - Initial state: User attempts to open a file from OneDrive and consistently encounters an error over the past 2–3 weeks. - Hypothesis test: Support asks if OneDrive is connected; user launches OneDrive via Start menu. - Observation: OneDrive icon appears; system begins syncing. - Constraint noted: Teams remote-control capability was disabled by policy; support uses alternate admin login route. - Configuration check: OneDrive is set to start with Windows; support suspects a crash. - Remediation: User restarts the machine; post-reboot, the file opens successfully. - Corroboration: Support reports a similar OneDrive crash in the prior week, strengthening the crash/instability hypothesis. ## Troubleshooting Logic: From Symptom to Fix - Symptom: Files stored in OneDrive fail to open with a persistent error. - Mechanism: OneDrive client not running or crashed, leaving local shell entries without active sync/auth. - Root cause (probable): OneDrive client instability leading to silent shutdowns despite startup configuration. - Effective resolution path: Start OneDrive, verify the sync icon, and restart the machine when instability is suspected. ## Structural Constraints: Security Policy Impact - Policy reality: Teams remote control is disabled for safety; direct intervention requires alternate authenticated access. - Operational impact: Increases time-to-fix for live troubleshooting but reduces attack surface area. - Practical adjustment: Live guidance and local actions (launching OneDrive, verifying startup, rebooting) remain the primary support vectors under this policy. ## Action Items (omitted: no explicit SMART commitments were made in the session)
- Date
- May 4, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 He y Ruben. Hey Chris, how are you? Speaker 2 00:00:03 I'm good. How are you? Speaker 1 00:00:05 I'm great. Um, I'm having a problem which is an seems to be like an ongoing problem. Can I just share my screen? Yes. Okay, and I'm just trying to open a file. This is just on my OneDrive. I open it and I get this message right here. Speaker 1 00:00:30 Like and I've noticed it like the last three weeks, probably or two weeks that I am getting it nonstop. Speaker 2 00:00:36 Is it is it just PDFs? Speaker 3 00:00:39 Nope, there's two hours I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:00:55 Is it possible that OneDrive is not connected? Speaker 2 00:00:58 That was what I was about to ask you, And that's why one of the reasons why I asked you if it was a. It is not connected. Go ahead and try to start it up and see if you can. How do I start it? Click on Start and type in OneDrive. And then just click open. Speaker 2 00:01:26 All right, it's thinking now and the icons popped up at the bottom. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Which icon is that icon? Speaker 2 00:01:32 That's icon. Yep, that's icons. So now we'll see if I can download it. Speaker 3 00:01:43 Now we are going to put like. Speaker 2 00:01:55 Do me a favor. May I may I have control? Well, it won't let me. Uh. We turned off the ability to take control. Let me try. Speaker 1 00:02:07 What do you mean? We. Speaker 2 00:02:09 Turned off the ability to take control through Teams. I have to log in through the other way. Oh. Yeah, it's it's a safety thing and I keep forgetting we did that. Speaker 3 00:02:24 And I haven't logged in yet, so bear with me. Let me log in. I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 2 00:03:21 Bear with me one second. I'm just waiting on my screen to catch up. Speaker 2 00:03:52 Okay, it's set to start up whenever your computer starts up. So that's good. It. Speaker 3 00:04:06 May have crashed and or something may have happened. Let me check something on the back end. Speaker 1 00:04:12 I mean, at the end of the day, I am just going to restart. So. And maybe that'll solve the problem. Speaker 2 00:04:20 It may. How long has it been since your last report? Speaker 1 00:04:23 I just try to open something real fast. Yeah, go for it. Speaker 3 00:04:55 Okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:04:57 I'm good. Okay, good. Does it look like it opened? Speaker 2 00:05:00 So Yeah, I had that actually happen last week. Um, where. Where my OneDrive just crashed and closed out, and I didn't know why. Yeah. So. Speaker 1 00:05:19 Awesome. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:05:21 You're welcome. Have a great week. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Yep. You too.
05-05 Consultation: Tim (Signal) - IT Support Fee Negotiation
- Notes
- Date & Time: 2026-05-05 14:01:36 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Tim (Signal) ## Overview The consultation is between Tim, the owner of Signal, and Christy, a representative from his IT support company. Tim's business has significantly downsized from a 15-person firm to a two-person operation (himself and a semi-retired partner). His primary challenge is the unsustainability of the current **$300 per month** IT support fee, totaling **$3,600 per year**, for services he rarely uses—estimating only about **four hours of support annually**. He is seeking to shift from a fixed monthly retainer to a flexible, variable cost structure (e.g., a higher pay-per-hour rate) while minimizing or eliminating the monthly monitoring fee. ## Background Signal, originally a 15-person executive search firm, has been a long-term client of the IT support company for **six or seven years**. About two years ago, the original partners split, and Tim retained the company name, Signal, but significantly scaled down operations. The business now consists of only **two people** (Tim and his semi-retired partner) using **three machines** (Tim's laptop and workstation, his partner's laptop). Due to this downsizing, the company's IT needs have dramatically decreased, making the existing **$300/month** support plan financially unviable and excessive for their current usage. Tim wants to maintain a relationship with the IT firm for occasional support but aims to "variableize the cost" to align with his company's current state and low usage. ## Pain Points The **$300 per month fixed IT support fee is financially unsustainable** and does not align with the client's drastically reduced needs. - **Clear Problem Statement**: The client's business has downsized to two people, yet he is still being billed **$300/month** (**$3,600/year**) for a managed IT support plan designed for a larger company. - **Impact**: This fixed cost is a significant and unnecessary financial burden on his smaller-scale business. He stated, "it just doesn't. It's not really sustainable." - **Current Situation**: The client is on a plan that includes services like antivirus, dark web monitoring, and monthly system audits, which he feels he doesn't need or value. His actual support usage is extremely low. - **Quantitative Metrics**: The monthly cost is **$300**; the annual cost is **$3,600**; the client estimates actual support usage at no more than **four hours per year**. In the past, the hourly rate was around **$150/hour**. - **Examples**: Tim contrasted his current minimal needs with his previous state as a 15-person company requiring substantial support. He now feels the primary value is just "knowing you guys are there" for emergencies, not ongoing monitoring. - **Context**: All company data is stored **in the cloud**, reducing his perceived need for on-device security monitoring. He stated, "Everything we have is in the cloud. Everything." He is so unconcerned about security that he said, "I don't even care if people... There's nothing to steal here." - **Stakeholders**: The main stakeholder is Tim, the business owner, responsible for the company's finances. ## Expectations Switch from a fixed monthly retainer to a **variable, pay-as-you-go cost structure** with a significantly reduced or eliminated monthly fee. - **Specific Goals**: The client's primary goal is to "variableize the cost." He proposed eliminating the monitoring service and moving to a higher hourly rate for support when needed. If a monthly fee is necessary, he prefers **$75 to $100 per month**. - **Timeframe**: Tim requested a response via email "as soon as possible." - **Resources Required**: He needs the IT support company to agree to a new billing arrangement. He offered to put a credit card on file for any new recurring software or service charges. - **Success Metrics**: Success would be a new agreement that either eliminates the monthly fee in favor of a pure hourly model or reduces the monthly fee to **$75-$100**. - **Stakeholders**: Tim is the decision-maker on his side. Christy needs approval from her boss, **Pete**. ## Other Information Summary - Tim's business, Signal, is an executive search firm. He plans to continue as a practitioner, handling **five to ten searches a year**. - He is not actively trying to grow the firm but is open to opportunities if they arise. His priority is developing customers, not managing a larger firm. - Tim has a great long-standing relationship with the company, specifically mentioning a positive relationship with **Charles**. - Tim is **58** years old and plans to work for another **six or seven years**. - Christy's role in the company has shifted away from sales and operations to focus more on non-profit clients. Her new boss is **Pete**. ## To-Do List - [ ] Christy to discuss Tim's request with her boss, Pete, to see if they can accommodate a pay-per-hour model or a reduced monthly fee of $75-$100. - [ ] Christy to email Tim with Pete's decision as soon as possible. ## Next Steps - Christy to explore billing model options with Pete and confirm whether a pure hourly model, reduced monthly fee, or hybrid option is feasible. - Upon internal approval, Christy to send Tim a detailed proposal outlining pricing, inclusions (e.g., monitoring scope if applicable), and hourly rates, and set expectations on response times and coverage. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as the unsustainable $300/month fixed IT support fee for a downsized company with minimal needs. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. **Hybrid "Retainer-Lite" Model:** Propose the client's suggested monthly fee of $75-$100. This fee would cover the backend monitoring and account maintenance you mentioned, preserving a baseline recurring revenue. All support requests beyond that would be billed at a premium hourly rate (e.g., $200-$250/hour), making the cost variable as requested. This respects his budget while acknowledging your backend costs. > 2. **Pre-Paid Hourly Block Model:** Offer a small block of pre-paid support hours for the year (e.g., 5 hours) at a slight discount. This provides him with the "variable" feel he wants, as he only pays for what he might use upfront. Once the block is used, subsequent hours are billed at a standard or premium rate. This eliminates the monthly fee argument entirely. > 3. **"On-Call" Relationship with No Monthly Fee:** Fully agree to his request to eliminate the monthly fee. Establish a new, significantly higher hourly rate for any ad-hoc support (e.g., $275+/hour with a one-hour minimum) to compensate for the lack of a retainer. This positions your service as a premium, on-demand resource, which might be appealing given his infrequent need and high value on availability. Explain that this model does not include proactive monitoring. > 4. **Security-Only Plan:** Although he dismissed it, re-package the value. Offer a minimal, security-focused plan at his target price point ($75-$100/month). Clearly itemize what this includes (e.g., managed antivirus, cloud backup monitoring, dark web scan) and frame it as essential "business insurance" to protect his reputation, even if data isn't on local machines. This could be a compromise that maintains a service relationship.
- Date
- May 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:07 The name of the town is derived from the river. Hi Tim. Hey Christy, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:12 I am doing well. Yeah, really well. I have a lot of kind of personal stuff with real estate and burnt houses and selling and buying. And all sorts of weird stuff going on, so I've You know, I've been a little bit not as focused on my business as I would have liked to have been over the last year or so, but. Anyway, I just wanted to check in with you and see. You know, I was. We had kind of just to kind of review the relationship with you guys. I I can't remember who. Six or seven years ago, when Tom and I started the company, you guys came out and we were. I think you guys were billing us like one hundred and fifty bucks an hour or something. I don't know all the details of it. Um. Speaker 2 00:01:00 And we grew the company to like fifteen people, and I don't know, you guys were doing—you know—you guys were supporting us through that growth, which was great. Yeah. About two years ago, my partners and I decided to all go different ways. And they started their own companies. I have kept Signal, but as you can imagine, me kind of. With revenues way down, my. Partner is like not totally retired, but kind of you know one foot out, one one foot in kind of thing. She's doing a couple searches a year. Um, just our needs have just changed pretty dramatically. So, When I got the email saying, hey, it's three hundred bucks a month, which is essentially thirty six hundred dollars a year. Um, I just it just doesn't. It's not really sustainable, And we certainly don't have a you know, we don't have a need like that. I mean I. Speaker 2 00:01:60 It's probably, I don't know. I can't imagine it'd be more than like four hours a year, probably. Yeah. You know, we don't call you guys that often, so I don't know what do you think? I mean, what's your you know what's your thought on it? Maybe we could go higher hourly. Whatever you whatever you guys think. But I want to hear from you. Speaker 3 00:02:17 So basicallyum What we're running into is. Just the support for you guys in billing and and also for monitoring and things like that, that we do on the back end is what's What's causing some issues. Um, we were. Speaker 2 00:02:38 What did you guys do with monitoring? I don't I'm not sure I understand what. Speaker 3 00:02:42 No worries. So on all of our clients, we haveum, we have, Antivirus on your systems, and we monitor for issues there. For you guys, we monitor dark web ID and different things like that that we provide. Plus, you know, We have everything in regards to when we run monthly audits, just to make sure that everything is kosher on your accounts. That's stuff that we do behind the scenes because we want to make sure that you guys are as safe as possible. So the security team is keeping tabs on all of our clients, even when you're hourly, and we don't normally bill for that. Those are the types of things we'll do for you guys. It's automatic and included in everything. Um. Speaker 3 00:03:29 I am trying to. So we had a meeting the other day. And basically it wasn't about you guys, but it was basically similar situations where we're looking at where the trajectory is, but we're also looking at. Um, clients that you know have a good relationship with us. And I apologize, I do not have my cameras on because I am having this feedback in my ear and the static. So, i keep I keep pausing because I am hearing myself, and it just throws me off. U m, But we're we're going through and we're taking a look at what are the businesses where you know? We're we are at a loss of money for. And unfortunately, you guys came up in that. And I know that you don't have the ability to spend three hundredum because you, you sent me an email to that effect. But let me check something real quick. I actually may have an idea for you, but let me double check You have three machines, right? Speaker 2 00:04:24 I mean, yeah, I think I have a laptop and a. And a workstation, and then my partner just has a laptop. Yeah, I mean it's not really that deep. Speaker 3 00:04:36 Okay, let me check some things real quick. Speaker 1 00:04:38 I'm not sure what you mean. The town is located on the banks of the. Speaker 3 00:04:47 River Sava. I'm just I'm looking up some some things on your systems. I went from I've been in back to back meetings since about eleven, so I am. Speaker 3 00:04:58 I want to check some things. I didn't have you pulled up before I jumped in. Literally just saw you had popped on and I jumped over from another meeting. Speaker 1 00:05:08 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. I'm sorry. Speaker 1 00:05:30 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The city is located on the banks of the river. Speaker 3 00:05:52 I'm double checking on something because I and don't quote me on this because this is what I'm looking forum. I'm looking for pretty much lowest at cost for us, so that we can just keep everything even. But am we? Yeah, Speaker 2 00:06:08 You know what I was thinking about is, you know, if I think of it, I think you guys were billing us, buck fifteen an hour or something like that when we were fifteen people. Yeah. Um. At about fifteen hour, at thirty six. Hundred. I mean, I don't know what the math is. I'm just trying to figure it out. Um. Is that two hundred? No, that's not right. It's twenty four hours, right? I think so. Yeah. So, would there be a way to maybe increase the hourly? Rate higher. We can, And give us a really kind of bro discount on whatever the monitoring thing is like just kind of. Speaker 2 00:06:54 You know, cut that to you know to a bare minimum because I don't like. I just, I mean, i I just t here is safety in knowing you guys are there, but I just don't like. We just don't. I don't think Pat and I are going to use you guys that often, yeah. Speaker 3 00:07:07 We could potentially do a. And this is what I'm double checking. I'm looking to see. Hang on one second. Speaker 3 00:07:27 U m, I'm looking to see if we can put you on a security plan where it'd be like one hundred. And fifty per month. How. Speaker 2 00:07:36 About we don't really care about security. I'll just put ESET on my devices and call it a day. Speaker 1 00:07:43 That's a potential, but I don't really. Speaker 2 00:07:46 It's not an issue. I mean, I'm not really. I think in seven years, we've probably never had a vulnerability on any of our machines. I mean, we're not. I don't even care if people. There's nothing to steal here, I don't think really. Speaker 3 00:07:59 I get that. Um. Let me let me take that back to the team. Um, and see if we can do increase. Speaker 2 00:08:06 Everything we have is in the cloud. Everything. Speaker 3 00:08:08 Yeah. So, um, I do know. Speaker 2 00:08:11 I would here's what I would. Here's my ask Christy if we can get that just get get rid of the monitoring thing. And we'll go like whatever on the hourly, we'll just. Hey, you guys. A lot per hour, but we're just a non. Non entity for you guys. Really, we'll just put on whatever the software is. We can just put it on my credit card recurring and. You know, just sort of light, just so that you are there for us. But, and we're happy to pay you probably at or you know, far above where we were with you guys earlier. But I'd rather. I'd rather variableize the cost as opposed to fix it if we can. If you guys are open to that, cause we you know we. Speaker 2 00:08:47 Yeah. Charles, in particular is just I've had a great relationship with him, and he's been very, you know, he's just a good guy. Speaker 3 00:08:53 Yeah, he's amazing. Speaker 2 00:08:54 Pretty reliable. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:08:55 Um, so if if they come back to me and say, Hey, we need. We need. We still need a monthly just for billing. What is the lowest or what is the highest you would like you would potentially consider on a monthly rate? Speaker 2 00:09:08 I'd like to be like seventy five to one hundred bucks a month, because I'm not really, you know, not really okay. Or, you know, not really using it. If that that would be my preference. Speaker 3 00:09:16 Let me talk to the team. Speaker 2 00:09:17 And then we could go, We could go higher higher on an hourly when we when we need you guys. Speaker 3 00:09:22 Okay. Let me talk to the team because I'm not really doing sales anymore. Um, I've shifted to, I've I've I've shifted my role. As a parent, you. Speaker 2 00:09:35 Know my buddy Brian Temple. I think I've referred him to you guys. He told me about. Speaker 3 00:09:39 Yeah, I love Brian. Brian's amazing. Um, Yeah, I pulled back from overall operations and I am doing a lot with nonprofit. So, I am still CIO, but I am on the more nonprofit side. It's more conducive to me trying to be a mom. So. Speaker 2 00:09:60 Yeah, that's great. How many kids you have? Speaker 3 00:10:02 A seventeen year old daughter. She is entering UC Merced, and then we have another foster kid coming in the next month or so. Speaker 2 00:10:11 A new uh new kid. Speaker 3 00:10:12 Yeah, I only take teenagers. So, um That's awesome. Yeah, So doing the single parent thing is awesome and Onsor affords me the ability to to do that. Um and still work for Crimson. So it's the best of both worlds for me. Speaker 2 00:10:30 Yeah. No, that's great. That's great. I. Uh You know, just see what they say, and you can take us off the monitoring thing. I don't. It's not like I am not. I don't really think that's. I don't really t here is not like massive. I mean, you probably would say I'm crazy, but I just don't. I'm not that concerned about that. When you are. Speaker 3 00:10:48 You guys planning on growing again? Speaker 2 00:10:51 You know, I'll tell you, it's interesting you say that. I am not proactively going to grow. There is people sometimes that call me to say," Hey, would you consider." Uh, adding. Um, I am just turned 58. Um. And my wife's going to retire. We want to, you know, I am my goal is to do five to seven searches a year, five to ten searches a year. And that's kind of I am just I want to be a practitioner. To answer your question, yeah. Um, so we might grow, but I don't I am not like hell bent on growing. Speaker 3 00:11:28 Gotcha. I 100% understand. You're you're you're helping on being comfortable in retirement. Speaker 2 00:11:36 Well, I am not. I am not like sort of. I am probably going to work another seven years or so, six seven years. But I am like you know people kind of come after web, You know, my partner and I were we did want to grow it. And for a search firm, we were. Top forty in the country, you know. Um, had good revenues, but like we just kind of decided. A lot of different things, and you know, look, my opinion could change. Maybe I see a huge opportunity. I want to go. Scale it up again, but you know, like. It's more profitable for me to spend my time developing customers than it is for me to spend my time growing a firm. Speaker 3 00:12:12 One hundred percent understand. Definitely. I mean, you and I are very similar in our thought process. I am more comfortable in Crimson becoming my hobby, but I'll still work sixty hours just because I love it. So that's cool. Speaker 2 00:12:28 They seem like good people too, you know? Speaker 3 00:12:29 They are they're very cool. Um. Yes, so let me do this. Let me take this back to my boss, which is no longer Onsor. It's now Pete, and Pete came onto the organization about a year ago. Um, So let me take this back to him and let him make a decision because I don't I don't have that decision making capability anymore. If it was two years ago, I would have said yes, we'll keep you on. Um. All good. But now I got to take it to the boss. Speaker 2 00:13:00 We'll see what he come up with. If you wouldn't mind just shooting me a note, I'd be really grateful. Speaker 3 00:13:03 Yeah, absolutely. Not a problem at all. So. Speaker 2 00:13:07 Okay, well I wish you nothing but the best. Speaker 3 00:13:09 You too, Tim. You have a great week, and I will respond to you by email as soon as possible. Speaker 2 00:13:15 Okay, okay, Christy. Thanks so much. Take care. Speaker 3 00:13:17 You're welcome. Bye- bye. He is not a good man.
08-05 Meeting: BAFMA Access, Code Migration to Claude, MRI API Integration Timeline
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-08-05 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes ### BAFMA Access and Setup - The primary goal was to ensure Christi ([Speaker 3]) had the necessary access to the BAFMA system as the project concludes. - Christi initially had an issue because she had three existing BAFMA accounts, none of which were her Charl account, so she created a new one. - The invitation was sent to her newly created Crimson account. After accepting the invite, she gained access to E-Rice's workspace. - Christi could not initially see the code, so her permissions were elevated to app owner, which resolved the issue and allowed her to view and download the code. ### Code Migration and Environment Strategy - Christi will download the code and migrate it into the new interface (Claude). - For future code updates from the old environment, a process needs to be established. Christi suggested using a OneDrive location or a GitHub account for code sharing, but Evan does not currently have a cloud license. - The team decided to migrate the current work into Claude, establish the new site, and then use Claude for all future updates to avoid maintaining two sites. ### New Functionality and Project Timeline - Additional functionality, such as integrating MRI APIs for project creation (similar to Procore), has not yet been written. - This new functionality, including the MRI import template, will be built in Claude after the initial site is stable. - Christi is currently working on another project for Casey and Kashif, which she expects to finish by this evening (2026-08-05) or tomorrow (2026-08-06). - She estimates the current project will be built out and available for review next week. ### User Testing and Adoption Plan - The goal is to have a working version ready to push to the team by the middle to end of Q4. - After the site is live (estimated mid-August 2026), beta testers from their side will get involved. - Full adoption is planned for September 2026. - Another project, the HVAC tracker, was mentioned but is not under the same time constraints. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to download the code from BAFMA and begin migrating it to the new interface. - [ ] Christi to finish Kashif's project by the evening of 2026-08-05 or 2026-08-06. - [ ] Christi to complete the initial build of the current project and have it ready for review next week. - [ ] Evan to send Christi an email with his contact information. - [ ] Team to define and agree on a code-sharing process for any interim updates from the old environment (e.g., GitHub or OneDrive), considering Evan’s current lack of a cloud license. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The method for Evan to access updated code is unresolved. Christi suggested GitHub or OneDrive, but Evan lacks the required cloud license. A clear process for code sharing needs to be established. > 2. The plan to integrate MRI APIs is mentioned as a future task, but there are no defined steps or timeline for starting this development after the initial migration to Claude is complete.
- Date
- Aug 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 Okay, great. Thanks. Hi, Christi. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Hi, Chris. Speaker 1 00:00:14 So I think the main thing we just want to do now that the the BAFMA thing is wrapped up or wrapping up I think we just need to make sure you have the access you need Can. You show share the screen with us. So Evan can see the issues that you're seeing, because this happened to me too, when I first logged into BAFMA and I only had I didn't have access to the project. I only saw the homepage so Yeah, Can you share that? Speaker 3 00:00:39 I can give me one second because I think I got through my issue. Just now. Speaker 2 00:00:45 I just yeah, I just sent you a couple of uh links. Speaker 3 00:00:49 Yeah, yeah. Um, hang on one second. I'm gonna check my junk mail to find out where that verification code is up. There's the code. Speaker 3 00:01:08 The one issue I ran into is because I have three BAFMA accounts, but none are my Charl accounts. So, I had to make a whole new Charl account. All right. Which Anzor, that's not your fault. That's that's a me thing. I just need a fourth BAFMA account, that's all. You should. All right, so I'm in here. Speaker 1 00:01:39 From the go down to the project. So what he's been inviting you to is still associated to this email, right? So like this into your new account is associated to this. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:01:55 I sent it to your oh my crimson account. Yeah. Do you want me to change that? Speaker 3 00:02:03 No, I just built the crimson account so I am now accepting the invite. Speaker 2 00:02:09 There you go. Yep, you're accepted now. All right. Speaker 1 00:02:13 Oh, I see E-Rice's workspace at the bottom there. Oh, perfect. Yeah, there you go. Okay. Speaker 3 00:02:25 So I'm in his workspace. Speaker 1 00:02:29 And where do we go to see the tool? So now if you go into that, just click on the drop or in the. The corner there. Speaker 3 00:02:42 This or are you doing apps? Yeah. Did you give us access to the actual app itself? Yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:54 Go to apps. Yeah, go in that. There's nothing in there? No. Okay, all right, let me see if I can give you access to this app now. Uh yeah, you're there. Speaker 2 00:03:08 Um, invite. Speaker 1 00:03:14 Mhm. Accept. Good. There you go. Okay, that's it. All right, Anzor So now you'll review the functionality. Um you'll ask if there's any questions that you have as it relates to what Anzor already set up? And then just I guess. You know, you can connect with me uh on. In the code, Speaker 2 00:03:41 The code if you go into dashboard. Let me see if you can see the code. Speaker 3 00:03:47 I the last time I was able to log into it, the first well, The first time, I was able to log into it before it stopped, letting me see it. Um, I was able to view code. Why. Speaker 2 00:04:01 Is it not letting you? Speaker 3 00:04:03 Now I don't see it. Speaker 2 00:04:05 View a code let me. Speaker 2 00:04:09 I can make you the app owner. Maybe that'll. All right, I'm transferring it to you. Try it again and refresh it maybe. Here we go. Yep, there you go. Now go down to code and then you can see all the code. Sweet. Speaker 3 00:04:39 I started to download the code that one time. Um, so I'm going to start downloading it today from here. Okay. And then, um, let me see what I can do with it because it's good code. Speaker 2 00:04:53 So answer this. Um, so you download the code uh you bring that over into our interface, If, there's if I need to make a change or something's, not working, or we want to do something different, how do I do that going forward Once you bring this into our interface, Speaker 1 00:05:17 Well, I mean as you update the code in the other environment, I mean, wouldn't you just need to let her know what was what was updated? So then she just gets a puts a fresh copy? I don't know Christi. What do you think? Speaker 3 00:05:27 Have a better idea Eric does Brett Does Eric have access to cloud. Speaker 1 00:05:33 Evan, you mean Evan? Yeah, Evan. Sorry. Uh, I don't think Evan has a cloud license right now. Speaker 3 00:05:39 Okay. Um, we would need to give him the hundred dollar uh license. So uh Evan what you would do? Let me share my other screen out. I I would put a copy. Speaker 3 00:06:01 Of the code into a OneDrive location for you and a GitHub. So I would send you a GitHub account. Um, ignore my cloud. Speaker 2 00:06:16 Yeah, Github that yeah, that's and the other thing that we need to play with that I haven't done is Brett is you know the MRI APIs and how we can. Extract that information to create projects and all that, like we do for Procore. So that has not been written yet. Speaker 1 00:06:38 Yeah, I mean, I think and whether if we want to just wait and build that into Claude, I think that's probably better because then there is less things to cut. I think we just want to take what's currently that you've already done. Get it into Claude so that we can create our site and then use Claude to update our site from now on. And then so we'll build out because then it just doesn't make sense for us to keep updating two sites, right? So like I think yeah, I think that's the move. And then. So as soon as it's stood up and we feel good about how it's running comparatively to the base, forty four pilot template, then we'll um we can add you know layer on additional functionality like the. Speaker 1 00:07:24 Like the template that we'll need for the MRI upload, basically or the MRI import, right? That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So it will need to digest the new MRI codes, right? So so that it's consistent. Anyway, keep going. Speaker 3 00:07:39 No worries. I just realized it wasn't logged in properly to cloud because I was testing a client's cloud account one second. Speaker 3 00:08:02 So I'm in Claude right now. That's what you're seeing on my screen. Um, however, it's being a little wonky. It's not allowing me to open it. Um, Basically, what you would do is open the folder in Claude right here. And so I'm just going to say new chat. Um, I'm going to select my folder and this is where you would find it. You know one second. Speaker 3 00:08:32 My phone has been ringing off the hook today. All right, so we're in the folder. I also have a local, I also have it on Git. So if I go to the cloud, I can add in my Git, but right now I'm going to work on this. And this actually. So Brett, for your information, this the project I'm working on for Casey. Partially. This my own project that I showed you so, Um, so Evan, um, I have a a system that I was building personally that I'm building into uh into your Microsoft system. And that's this one right here. So the way it works is um I'm taking this entire build that I did and I'm pushing it to Microsoft. Speaker 3 00:09:31 And that's for Brett. Brett and I are working on that, So this is where I build it at It's, a chat that I work in In Claude. Sometimes I'll go in and work on the coding myself, just because I have coding experience and text some things. So, I'll go in here and i'll work through this on here and then have it update the code or i go through an update code myself, and i'll have it pushed to Git. And once it's pushed to Git, It will automatically upload to the app, And so any changes I make is made in real time or put it in dev and then choose when I want to push it to prod. Speaker 2 00:10:13 And I am able to still through Claude make my changes in normal language. Yep, that's awesome. Speaker 3 00:10:25 Yeah, So basically what I did with this was I was already creating it and almost had it done. And so I took, and I'll show you. Um, I took Casey's notes from an email to Brett, and I was going through and I copied them into Claude and said, the pieces of this that I do not have already built. Let's start building this. And it was like one or two things. I think it was um, think it was some.I did the uh daily briefing for Brett. I think that's one of the only ones I didn't have already built. Speaker 3 00:11:01 And I use those notes and gave it to Claude, and Claude built out the final pieces to that part. Awesome. So, um, And then I have meetings with my beta testers because I have a couple of beta testers in this, and I'll put my meeting transcripts into Claude and say, Okay. Let's let's design out this and put this on the roadmap of changes we're going to be making. And so it'll do that. Speaker 1 00:11:25 Guys, I got to drop but i think i think it, Obviously, you already are well underway of where you're going here. So I think we'll just play this out. Speaker 2 00:11:33 So what's next steps here, Christi? And, how long do you think it takes to get this over into the Microsoft environment? Speaker 3 00:11:42 Um, I want to finish up Kashif's first. Yeah, I think Brett would like me to finish up Kashif's first. Uh, So probably we'll build it out and pull it and have it up for you next week. Oh wow! That's awesome! Yeah, Kashif's is um. There's a couple pieces I'm having some issues with uploading. Um, that I should be done with that this evening or tomorrow. Listen, Speaker 2 00:12:05 You know Brett, I think we're aligned. Um, Our goal should be, you know if we can get this in a working function that we can push to the team by the middle to end of fourth quarter. Um or yeah middle of fourth quarter we are in a sweet spot to, Transition fully. Speaker 1 00:12:26 I think we once next year, once it stood up, Um you know, then we'll get the beta testers involved on our side after we're all comfortable with where it is. I would think that, that would be you know, by the time she finishes and everything's live and whatnot, Then we're looking at maybe mid August and then we can get the betas involved. And then you know push for than a full adoption uh in September. And um then we can. Work on the fleshing out of those additionalum uh points that we haven't yet done like the M R I template piece. Speaker 2 00:13:01 Yeah, awesome. And, then you know, and then I have the next project is the HVAC uh tracker to correct. Um so that's the That's not, Speaker 1 00:13:12 I mean, that's not under the same time limits that Procore is. No. But yeah, But if we yeah We'll get to that once we're a little stable in this environment. Okay. Yeah, all right. Awesome. Thanks, guys. I'll talk to you later. Speaker 2 00:13:25 Christi, Reach out, please free uh, feel free to reach out if you have any questions around anything. Um call me, text me, Email, Speaker 3 00:13:33 Whatever Yeah and Evan, if you can just send me an email with your contact information and then I'll reply. There is a booking link on the bottom of my email Feel free to book some time with me. If you want to go over anything about coding or vibe coding stuff like that More than welcome Awesome All right. Speaker 2 00:13:50 Very good. Thanks so much. You want me to send it at your Crimson uh email? Okay. Speaker 3 00:13:54 Yep. Thank you both very much. I'll talk to you later. Thanks so much, Speaker 2 00:13:58 Christi, appreciate you. Speaker 3 00:13:59 Bye- bye.
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05-07 Monthly Finance-IT Meeting: Verizon Agreement, Planful Workflow, ISP Cleanup, Allocations, and Project Updates
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-07 11:00:03 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Status of Verizon Agreement for Auditors - Description: - [Speaker 2] requested the Verizon agreement needed for auditors to wrap up. - [Speaker 3] could not get it from Gloria; contacted another Verizon rep who will try to find it. - [Speaker 3] discussed improved cooperation with the new rep and will locate an October request for Susanna. - Conclusion: - Follow-up pending from [Speaker 3] on obtaining the Verizon agreement and October request. - Topic Title: Planful Access and Reporting Workflow - Description: - [Speaker 4] outlined monthly and quarterly reporting expectations shifting from tactical to strategic insights. - [Speaker 5] noted reports missing from folders, hindering narrative entry; sent emails as a workaround. - [Speaker 6] clarified reports reside in General Admin Reports; department-level selection needed to comment. - Comments must be added via right-click in column G (actuals); totals cannot receive comments. - HR and IT folders are for custom saved reports, not monthly results. - Conclusion: - Users should access General Admin Reports, select specific departments, and comment in column G. - Topic Title: Consolidated vs Department IT Review - Description: - Team viewed consolidated reports to understand roll-up before drilling into direct IT budget. - Plan to meet separately for detailed “in-the-weeds” review and training for [Speaker 3] on Planful and budget structure. - Conclusion: - A separate, detailed session will be scheduled to clarify line items and consolidated roll-up behavior. - Topic Title: IT Professional Services and Invoice Detail - Description: - [Speaker 6] identified “Professional IT” account includes Crimson costs and additional services. - [Speaker 3] asked about including cost center codes on invoices; finance sees site-level tags (e.g., Long Beach, Claremont). - [Speaker 4] described ongoing work to implement cost allocations in NetSuite, with consultant support. - Aim to implement allocations within months and back-update to January for accurate 2026 data feeding 2027 budget. - Conclusion: - Allocation methodology is being developed; potential new reporting needs for IT will follow. - Topic Title: Variances and Credits in IT Spend - Description: - [Speaker 2] noted favorable variance (~$14,000-$15,000) in computer purchases/hardware; asked if timing or overbudgeting. - [Speaker 3] reported overcharges on Crimson services; $5,000 and $4,000 credit memos forthcoming, plus free service hours. - Credits will hit Professional IT line; some zero-dollar invoices will document free project hours (e.g., camp project). - Hardware spend (docking stations, Lenovo) is timing-related; purchases expected later in the year. - Conclusion: - Expect credits in coming months; hardware variance driven by timing with spend ramping later in the year. - Topic Title: ISP Costs, Redundancies, and Cleanup - Description: - [Speaker 2] asked about reducing ISP fees; work underway to remove redundancies. - [Speaker 3] meeting scheduled on 2026-05-08 with ComDirect regarding camp site; main outlier expected to decrease soon. - Fair Oaks speed upgrade will slightly increase cost (~$50/month, to be confirmed) while eliminating a third line. - Identified double billing and unused lines (e.g., old Green/Hill/possibility sites); pursuing credits, potentially 2 years. - Clarified target state: each site should have two ISPs (primary and backup), billed via Telesystem; remove duplicates. - Confusion over vendor names (ComDirect/Telesystem) and billing transitions; audit initiated since late May last year. - Conclusion: - Ongoing cleanup to achieve two ISPs per site; expect credits and cost reductions after redundant lines are removed. - Topic Title: Need for Separate Deep-Dive Session - Description: - [Speaker 4] requested keeping this meeting high-level; proposed a side meeting for detailed ISP/billing issues. - [Speaker 5] supported documenting what happened and agreed processes for site closures and services termination. - Conclusion: - A detailed follow-up meeting will be set to document ISP cleanup, site closure processes, and allocations. - Topic Title: Camp Project Commitments and Deposits - Description: - [Speaker 4] asked for strategic project updates; camp project highlighted. - [Speaker 5] needs to sign contract and send deposit for the camp project vendor. - [Speaker 3] confirmed Crimson hardware is paid; deposit to Comcraft needed to avoid project delays into summer. - Conclusion: - Proceed with contract signature and deposit to keep the camp project on schedule. - Topic Title: Microsoft Licensing Price Increases - Description: - [Speaker 3] raised concern over upcoming Microsoft price increases impacting consolidated costs. - A contingency plan may offset the impact. - Conclusion: - Monitor Microsoft licensing costs; apply contingency measures as needed. - Topic Title: ARC Requirements and MS Agreement Clarifications - Description: - [Speaker 7] outlined need to clarify ARC’s requirements: what’s covered under MS agreement, historical Crimson scope, items requiring project proposals, and third-party tasks (e.g., vulnerability scans). - Requested a bullet-point document to address items one by one. - Conclusion: - [Speaker 7] will share bullet points to drive clarity and planning. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 3] to obtain the Verizon agreement and send the October request to Susanna. - [ ] Schedule a detailed session to review ISP cleanup, allocations, and Planful training (participants: Finance, IT, [Speaker 3], [Speaker 5], [Speaker 6]). - [ ] Finance to record incoming $5,000 and $4,000 credit memos under Professional IT and track zero-dollar invoices for free hours. - [ ] [Speaker 3] and ComDirect/Telesystem to finalize removal of redundant ISP lines and pursue credits (including Fair Oaks and former sites); confirm Fair Oaks upgrade cost and effective date. - [ ] [Speaker 5] to sign the camp project contract and send deposit to Comcraft to avoid delays. - [ ] Monitor Microsoft licensing price changes and implement contingency plan as needed. - [ ] Establish and document the process for site closures and timely termination of ISP/services to prevent double billing. - [ ] Clarify ISP vendor naming and billing responsibilities (ComDirect vs Telesystem) for contracts and credits. - [ ] Define and communicate the allocation methodology and any reporting changes, including invoice cost center requirements, before implementation. - [ ] Create a consolidated tracker for all expected credits (amounts, vendors, sites, timelines) to ensure receipt and proper recording. - [ ] [Speaker 7] to share bullet-point requirements for ARC; team to determine scope under MS agreement vs new projects. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify exact ISP vendor naming and billing responsibilities (ComDirect vs Telesystem) to avoid confusion in contracts and credits. > 2. Establish a documented process for site closures to ensure timely termination of ISP and related services and prevent double billing. > 3. Define and communicate the allocation methodology and reporting changes, including cost center requirements on invoices, before implementation. > 4. Confirm Fair Oaks ISP upgrade cost and effective date; update budget forecasts accordingly. > 5. Create a consolidated tracker for all expected credits (amounts, vendors, sites, timelines) to ensure they are received and properly recorded.
- Date
- May 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. The name of the town is derived from the river. Hello. Speaker 1 00:00:31 He y Christie, Speaker 2 00:00:32 Um, since I have you on the call, were you able to get thatum Verizon agreement? Speaker 3 00:00:37 I could not get it from Gloria. However, I reached out to another Verizon rep that I know, and he's going to see if he can try to find it for me. I talked to him yesterday about it. Thank you. He's a lot more open to getting us what we need for us than she has been. And then Susanna, I am looking for your request on the October one. U m, as soon as I find that, I'll get that sent over to you. Speaker 2 00:01:06 Thank you. Thanks, Christy. Yeah, Just the the auditors with. That's just like a couple of Agreements that we need to provide for them, and they're trying to wrap things up. So, yes, as soon as we can get those, we would really appreciate it. Thanks. Speaker 3 00:01:19 Not a problem. He's been far more helpful. I was telling Sean about him today. Yes, okay, and we're not even his account, but he's the account manager for another one of my clients. And he's just been fabulous. Speaker 4 00:01:34 Great. Well, I'm going to kick us off. I'll be on video in about two minutes. Um Christy, thank you for joining. I know Mashawn and Jeremy has been through this. Process for the last couple of days. Um, so I think this is our first. Time introducing this for you. Um, generally every month. We ask that you put in to plan for your Results every quarter, we go over. Tactical, it really was tactical reporting of information back. Regarding the financial progress, um, right now we're kind of shifted. Um, we're looking kind of for strategic. Speaker 4 00:02:30 Information regarding what's working, what's going on with the IT budget. Um, we will post the numbers in just a second. We'll pull that up. This is your first time. Um. I've been reminding everyone that we really want people to timely put in their information in the plan fold. Do you have access to the plan fold? Susanna, Speaker 3 00:02:56 I gave sorry. I'm losing my voice. Susan na gave me access. Okay, so every month. Speaker 5 00:03:03 Just Carl, I'm sorry, just to take you guys a little bit. We have access but our reports have not been in the folders. For us to go in and put in our narrative. So I sent an email to you all about our narrative. So if we, you know, when I first get it, I go in there and I'm thinking, you know, I look for it. So if we can in the future, like have them there because I've been sending emails just to respond. Speaker 6 00:03:27 Yeah, Cassie. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:29 Suzanne, Do you want to respond or do you want me to? Speaker 6 00:03:31 Uh, yeah. So. Machine in the folders, uh like not the IT or the HR folder. So they're actually supposed to show up. You should have folder to the. I can bring it up really quick. It's. Speaker 1 00:03:47 Called the General Assessment Reports. Let me share my screen. Speaker 5 00:03:56 I S there a reason that they're not, you know, available able to be in the folder so that people. Like I'm working with, don't see the whole budget. Speaker 6 00:04:07 Well, it's they're limited to what they're they have access to. So even if they click on to the general app like in the same. Report they are restricted based on their access. So if they have consolidated access, they see consolidated and I know Oscar. Um. He has everything, but he doesn't see payroll. So. The film was shot in black and white. I'm almost out of time right now, so let me know if I need to like. Things are not. So do you have this uh general admin reports? That's where everyone leaves their comments. And, the reason why I'm not saving it into the individual folders are those folders are really for you to use and. Speaker 6 00:04:51 Um, it's more for like if you have any customized report, we're saving like just for your department. We'll save it in those folder. But for like the very generic, um everyone should have access to those header report, then we save it in the You know, organization-wide folder so that everyone has access to it. Mhm. So then yours, um, you should probably, um, you should have the admin reports. And once you click into it, it will be this IS details with variance report. Speaker 5 00:05:21 Okay. And then when I pull it up,'cause when I pull it up, I'm not able to add anything to it. I've tried. Speaker 6 00:05:29 So, um, for you, you have access to department main which is uh consolidated but uh. When we're requesting for comments, we're usually requesting for people to make comments on the individual departments. So, for example, you would be if you're talking about IT only then you uncheck department main. Check it. Run this report, and these will be IT number only. Compared to your budget, all right. And then from there you would right click in column G. It has to be in column G, the actuals. Um, and then right click on the cell that you want to make comments on, and then there's a comment section. So but then if you like click on this totals, they're not going to have that um ability to comment. So it has to be that specific um. Speaker 6 00:06:19 Ac count data. Okay. Speaker 2 00:06:24 So those other two folders that you have access to that say, HR and IT, they'll always be empty because as I mentioned, Those are only if you save a report or have a custom report that you want to. Keep, then you put it in those two folders. But to access your monthly results, You would go to the general admin folder, and then click on this report and then select IT or HR. Speaker 5 00:06:49 And I did, and I didn't have access here. So, And then I went back to the instructions and said it was supposed to be in the folder. So I will. Uh, try again and screenshot what I see and and let you know. Speaker 1 00:07:02 Okay. I'm so. Soum. Have in, Speaker 6 00:07:13 Suggest that we actually bring if you if we we can review the I T budget as well, butum. You know, since it is very organization wide, Kathy suggested that we bring up the consolidated reports and then look at specific accounts related to IT. Orum Christy, where would you like to start? Speaker 3 00:07:35 Actually that sounds great. Um let's look at consolidation because as I'm working on rebuilding that app for you guys to show. What belongs to whom? This will give me a great overview of how you're seeing things. Speaker 1 00:07:53 And I'm not sick, I'm just losing my voice. The film was released on 24 July 2015. This is all data that's not necessarily relevant. Speaker 6 00:08:04 To you, um, The first account that would really be applicable for you would be the professional IT account. Um, those are just, you know, crimson costs. Speaker 6 00:08:18 And additional charges from like purchasing or any additional services. Speaker 3 00:08:26 So would it help for you guys on Crimson invoices for us to break out what. Like if we're if we are purchasing something that goes to a specific department, To actually put that cost center code in there for you guys so that it's in there and says, okay. Well, this is something that should go to. It's actually being purchased for Susanna. And, we put that cost in there like that because we can break the invoices down like that. Speaker 6 00:08:56 I think we're kind of already seeing that. Okay, I think I mean I I'm sorry, I'm not the one that really works on all the invoices, but I see thatum. It's been broken. I mean, I see on certain invoice that it says Long Beach Center or like Claremont Center, so yes, Speaker 4 00:09:15 I think. Chris, and this something that we're working through. We are moving towards allocations. This something that we're, you know, working on as an organization. We're actually bringing in a consultant to kind of help us ensure that NetSuite is set up in that way to be able to handle properly the allocations. But the finance team has been working with the ELT on allocation methodology. I think There will be. Speaker 4 00:09:46 Since, a lot of these expenses are spread out or belong in different departments that you're ordering kind of centrally, we will want. potentially again, We'll want to kind of think about it and meet with you as we get deeper in this project. But we are moving in that direction to where we will be assigning costs. Or allocating costs to either the proper account or balancing them against to be charged against the organization. So there's more work. Our goal is to implement that this year in the next couple of months and then look at going back at all the data. And. Um, Updating it through the beginning of January. So we have accurate numbers for twenty six that feeds into our twenty seven budget process. So, just wanted you to kind of be aware of what we're thinking about, and that might we might need a little bit different type of reporting. At that point. Speaker 2 00:10:42 Yeah. And I don't think this, this, I don't think this, This line item reflects like computer purchases or anything like that for the departments because we do, We do code those when we when you purchase computers or computer supplies that is going in a separate account. This is just the monthly um Crimson IT invoice that we get for software things like that. Suzanne can you still? And your services, your professional services. Speaker 5 00:11:10 Sun ny, Can you show Chris where you clicked on to see the bill and drill down form? Speaker 6 00:11:16 Yeah. Soum, you just actually have to double click in here. So this is like column G is the month- to- date detail. So there's only$ 25. So when you double click into it, it will only show you that month- to- date. And uh if you would like to see additional details, it does say I mean, we we put in what we see on the invoices. So this is for the access point for Claremont. And, you know, if you want to look at prior months or year- to- date, You could click on this year- to- date number in column L, and it will give you everything. Here's the date and, you know, just different purchases. Speaker 3 00:11:50 Okay. And then I can correspond that back to my system. Is that invoice number in there where I can correspond it back and look it up on my side? Speaker 6 00:11:59 Yeah, the document number is the invoice number here. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:12:06 That's an Apple charger for that bottom one. Yep, I just looked it up on my side as well, Speaker 3 00:12:13 So perfect. That works great. Speaker 5 00:12:18 And then Chris, you've already done and and we can probably talk about expanding your allocation. Uh, the allocation that you've already created for Lenovo andum. Internet and I think it's also Verizon. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:12:35 And Zoom, yes. Speaker 5 00:12:37 And Zoom. So Carl, They'll need to they'll probably want to look at that what she's created from our IT side and ask. You know, If there's anything else, we can add on that part to drill down to better allocations, Speaker 1 00:12:49 There be happy to do that. Mhm. Um. Speaker 4 00:12:58 Well, I know that this is kind of. A little different than the other ones since. You know, this might be one of the first times you're seeing this, Christie. Generally, you know, you would be looking at your financials monthly. We usually give you about three days to look. You would go in, make comments in the notes section. I know that you may not have been trained before, maybe have forgotten. So, you know, I can definitely have Susanna or Kathy set up some time, if you need kind of a retraining or understanding. Speaker 4 00:13:30 You know, or just giving you some of the tips that we've used in the past. But really today is not to go line by line to say what's working, what's not working. It was really kind of to better understand, you know, what's working well overall. What is um, what are things that we're needing to improve upon? I know that we have noticed some charges. I'll let Kathy kind of talk a little bit about that because she did raise. Some expenses that are trending a little bit higher than what we thought, and we wanted to kind of better understand the long-term strategy. But there is this, you know, what's working well? What do you see over the next couple of months? Do you feel like spinning is going to kind of stay at a par? Are you expecting to do any work that maybe is not on here? We're really just trying to look and understand what's the game plan for the next couple of months. Speaker 4 00:14:30 So Kathy, I don't know if you wanted to kind of mention that variance that we saw. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:14:35 There's a couple that are yeah, there's a couple that were like really favorable on computer purchases and IT hardware. If you look at the variance column in You know, we're like fourteen thousand, almost fifteen thousand dollars favorable for the year, which is great. So I guess the question is, I am assuming that's timing related. That. Work. Plan ning to spend that, you know, those those funds later on in the year or is that something. That we just over budgeted for. So that was one of my first questions. If you have any input on that. Speaker 3 00:15:11 Yeah, so I probably will answer all your questions within that. So, the reason why I asked originally about call centers and things like that is just to make sure first off. That the invoices we send over, I don't know if you guys do it, and that's why I had that question. Was, you know, is it being separated into the correct cost centers? But, you're going to notice a variance on Crimson IT services, where there was a mistake that happened on our end. You got overcharged for some things. Um, we went back and fixed it, so you're going to see a $5,000 credit memo coming across uh and a $4,000 credit memo coming across in the next couple of months. Speaker 3 00:15:54 That's going to sort of even that out in a way. And then we're going to offer some free services as well where we're going to be doing work, but we're not going to charge that work back. So you might see that variance happen, but that stuff is going to be placed on another line item. So just let me know how I can make that work better for the budget. In addition, Speaker 2 00:16:15 And I think that's going to be going against the professional IT line item Christie, I think I mean, That's where we're recording those costs. So it would, It would be credited to that account. Speaker 5 00:16:27 Gotcha. So I also want to say here, this has been a part of the email that I have shared out. Uh, see you all in response to both budgets. There has been some details shared out, and I have said this in other uh itum conversations regarding these budgets. But Christy, go ahead and give the context and detail. Speaker 3 00:16:45 Okay, not a problem. We're also going to use that for projects coming up. Some of that credit is going to actually be on the project side. So things like the camp project that's happening at the end of this month, there's going to be some free hours given towards that. That's going to balance out the professional IT costs. Um, So that's going to be something that we're going to line item into some into an invoice. You're going to get it's going to be a zero invoice, meaning you know there's nothing you guys are going to pay, But it's going to show that we've given these hours at cost to you guys. Speaker 3 00:17:22 Um, now for the computer purchases we actually estimated based on growth of the business. For the IT hardware and the computers. However, we haven't had to spend that just yet. You're probably going to start spending that towards the end of the year. So items like docking stations, Which I had budgeted for a third of the cost of replacing them for the company, I just ordered those today. And Michelle will tell you I did order those. I ordered some of them, but not all of them. So, a lot of these purchases are going to be closer to the end of the year. So those were are going to balance out. Whereas the computers themselves are for new incoming people that need computers. And because we have not used up all of the Lenovo's yet, that's going to be a later in the year purchase. Speaker 2 00:18:11 Okay. Makes sense. Speaker 2 00:18:15 And the other question we had was on the ISP. I know we've talked about this at great length, but do you have any indication that those fees will be coming down? I know we are trying to reduce redundancies and Some of that work had started last year, and I know it's very challenging to do that, But just trying to get an idea going forward, what we can expect in that one. Speaker 3 00:18:38 So with the ISPs, those are actually, Um, The one for camp is the biggest cost one that we have that we're trying to lower. And I have a meeting set up tomorrow with ComDirect. I had sent out a message to Kelly uh in regards to camp costs. And, so probably will know the answer to that within the next week or two on how much that's going to come down. And that's going to be your main outlier on internet fees, and that's going to reduce everything. U m, with Fair Oaks, we are actually going to increase the cost because the internet. If you guys haven't already noticed it, the internet at Fair Oaks is. A little bit more slow than what's what's needed. So, but that one's only going to go up. Michelle and I can't remember what I quoted at that one. But I think it's like fifty dollars a month, is where it's going up to. But don't quote me. I got to double check that number. Speaker 5 00:19:32 I did say it in our last meeting, but I don't know. Speaker 1 00:19:38 U m, all the Christy. Speaker 6 00:19:40 Um, sorry to cut you off. Um, but. I thought tow system was supposed to replace some of the service. Speaker 3 00:19:48 They did. So, there is an issue with double billing that we just got resolved this month. Where there was some, errant, I guess you would call them. Internet services that were still active that we didn't know about. And they had never got canceled from two years back. So those should also go down. Um, ComDirect is working on trying to get us a credit back for those unused. Lines. Speaker 5 00:20:19 That's the AT and T billing that you were working on, And I think that you've been sending emails to to the team regarding the the AT and T. Yes. What we needed to do there. Speaker 6 00:20:29 But, the AT and T one is for Lauren, Cell, Frank and I believe for the old possibility location, and those are really just two hundred dollar, two hundred something in total. But I thought like cause right now from judging from this right like we have three lines for, For For Fair Oaks one from Telesystem one from Aceumum ACC and then one form uh Spectrum. This is. Speaker 3 00:20:53 Yes, so it seems. Is that accurate? That's the second one that you mentioned is the one that Comdr. is trying to get credit back on. Speaker 6 00:21:03 From like, am I like, which which bill should I expect to go down? Speaker 3 00:21:08 You're going to see Fair Oaks total, um, once ACC business is out, you're going to see that one go down. It's going to come up a little bit, but it's also as a whole going down because we're going to increase the speed, but we're cutting out, we've cut out that third line. What you mentioned was the second one. So that's one that's going away. The Green Street site also went away, which is the old site, old possibility site. Speaker 5 00:21:37 That was up for like like since we left Green Street. That was that was up and being charged out. Speaker 6 00:21:42 It should be the Hill Street. Green Street was long gone. Green Street, Speaker 5 00:21:47 I understand no, But we were still we were still being charged for that for what up until like two months ago. Two three months ago, Speaker 1 00:21:55 Chris. We were still being charged for it. Speaker 3 00:21:59 And. So that one in the fair oak site is the ones we're trying to get the credit back from DSP. Because they were unused. Speaker 5 00:22:07 And Hill was an issue because we didn't we didn't know about that. So just like we close out staff, we need we talked about on our last, But we need to be a part of conversations when we're closing down a site. So we closed down the tech of that site, but if were, Pu lled into the loop of that, we won't know what to end. Speaker 1 00:22:28 Yeah. So like what about other sites, like Claremont has three. Speaker 6 00:22:35 Oh, Jay has four or I will say three. Speaker 3 00:22:39 Those are part of what Comdrick's working on to get reduced and taken out. Because, they were smaller fees that never got cut off and never got rolled up into ComDirect. So those are the things that ComDirector was trying to actively get rid of, and they did get rid of them. So we're waiting on. Speaker 1 00:22:59 Just the credits. Okay. We're. Speaker 3 00:23:09 Trying for two years of credits. I don't know if they're gonna. I don't know if we're going to be able to get it, but that's what we're trying for. Speaker 6 00:23:17 For like ESA, uh for the other centers. I know like possibility we haven't been using it for two years, but all the others were only supposedly go going away when Telesystem came in, which is last year. In July or something like that. No, Speaker 3 00:23:33 No, much longer than that. Speaker 5 00:23:34 No, much longer than that because Telesystems was supposed to shut off. And take over the contract and move forward. And some of the sites had more than. Want more than those, And we didn't get those initially when we came when we came into this last May. So they started to audit all of that, and you've started to ask questions, and we've been finding the amount of services that we need to end. And go back and collect money from. But I think we've been saying this too on some of these calls. Speaker 3 00:24:07 Yes. So When I took over at the end of May. We did our own audit and found that there was a lot of things that didn't get canceled correctly from previous years. And these are some of them that got they were being double billed for. What we found was over a year, I think it was maybe 16 or 18 months, if not longer that we could verify. Comdrift has been in the picture for well over three years. But it was just going under the name Telesystems. Speaker 3 00:24:40 And then they changed the name to CommsDirect last year. Speaker 5 00:24:44 But we weren't. I'm sorry, the other way, Chris, from ComDirect to TeleSystems. But I get it. Speaker 6 00:24:48 But we weren't paying ComDirect. We were we were being directly billed, and then the contract took over everything and start billing us last year. Speaker 5 00:24:58 Yes, because as we mentioned that Comm- Direct was purchased by the systems. Larry was our rep and was the owner of ComDirect. He merged sold his company to Tell a Systems, and this is what I've been saying for some time. And when he sold, they made that transition. We've been trying to clean up the bill because they've seen it and identified. We were being double billed. Speaker 6 00:25:25 So, sorry, just one last question. Um, let's say Claremont. How many service line I mean how many bills are we supposed to get? Just one from Tel- System and all the other ones are duplicates? Yes. Speaker 3 00:25:37 You're going to have two ISPs at a lot of the sites. One is the main, one is the backup. There should not be anything over two I S Ps at each site. Speaker 1 00:25:47 Once everything is cleaned up. So we're. Speaker 6 00:25:52 Still expecting two. Speaker 6 00:25:56 Yes, Are they all being built by Telesystem or are we going to? Speaker 3 00:25:59 They're all being billed by Telus. Speaker 5 00:26:02 So from an IT perspective, all of our sites have one vendor and a backup vendor. We did that intentionally. One system goes down, we move to our backup vendor. That was set up even before me and it's a good plan. And so other than that, we don't need two or three vendors. And they should be going back and Telesystem was going back to correct. What was in this duplicate? All this duplication. Speaker 3 00:26:26 Um, I actually have the data. Speaker 4 00:26:29 Thank you. Well, I just want to mention like this is getting very tactical in the weeds. It sounds to me, we might need a side conversation to kind of sort some of this stuff out. And to get it a little bit more clarity. This meeting is not intended to kind of work through those issues. It's really to call out some of these discrepancies. We have Sergio, we have Jeremy, we have other executives on the call. I really want to keep this at a higher level. Um, I would suggest us setting up another meeting and walking through some of these issues. And if we need to coordinate and meet a little bit more often, we can. But this is getting way too in the weeds. Um, but I would love to continue the conversation. I really am looking for high level. Conversations regarding, you know, kind of next steps. What are we seeing as issues and how do we work through those? And then we can come back to these separately. Is that okay? Speaker 2 00:27:19 Yeah, I think yeah, I think the fact that we know that there'll be credits coming down the road in the next couple of months is really the information that we were looking for just to make sure that you know, it's not. And we talked about this at great length. So I don't think we need. To talk about it anymore, I you know appreciate all the work that's been done, Christy, And we're just going to look for the credits, and we'll continue to provide the information we need. Speaker 5 00:27:44 I would recommend that we extend another meeting and go into the details to make sure, Because it seems like Suzanne and I had a lot of questions as of UI. And I want to make sure that one, we get it documented what was happening, what was supposed to happen so everybody's on the same page moving forward. Speaker 1 00:27:59 I agree. Speaker 5 00:27:60 And also, I also think that we do need to not all of our line items, but just like other programs where there's overage. And I think we're probably over in this call, just like other programs that we're going over. Speaker 5 00:28:15 I'm wondering, like, what, like is this if this is it's budget. Why is hotel at that point? Like what's going on there? Speaker 6 00:28:24 No, no. We're looking at consolidate right now. Speaker 5 00:28:27 Okay, you're looking at consolidate. Yeah. So When I look at IT budget, you see what I'm saying. Like, why am I looking at consolidated if. To look at the IT budget, but I no no no. I hear you. Speaker 4 00:28:41 Hold on. Go ahead. So I agree. We should have a separate meeting to kind of go in the weeds and talk through this. Um, I think there's also needs to be some understanding of when we roll something up from a consolidated perspective. What does that mean? Um, again, like we didn't have that meeting. I don't believe it was a you know, it was more of a training on Planful. We haven't really dug in and kind of, To really understand and break out and understand the budget because I believe this is Christie's first call when we've had some of these meetings. So to be fair, I think we might need to invest a little bit more time. To kind of go through this. So I agree. Speaker 5 00:29:23 But we did get into the weeds on that call. We it didn't intentionally mean to, but we did get into the weeds on the planning call. So yeah, Speaker 4 00:29:31 But it just seems like we need to clarify some additional line items. So we'll definitely do that. Sorry Kathy, you were saying? Speaker 2 00:29:38 Oh no, I was just saying because um, Christy manages the you know the entire IT budget as well as you do. Um, we had we wanted to look at consolidated first just so that you could get a picture of how everything's rolling up on a consolidated basis. The intent was to then look at the direct IT budget, but it looks like we're short on time to do that. Speaker 4 00:30:09 So strategically, what is there? I know there's a couple projects, larger projects that we've budgeted for. I know we're right at time so we can keep this short, but I know that. There are some projects that are going on at camp. I know Dan has been aligning and making sure that we're ready if there needs to be any, you know, additional. I guess attention to that. Um, just kind of what's the game plan? What's the strategic plan from this side over the next couple of months? And, do you feel like you can achieve those goals with what's in the budget? You know, just looking for any kind of You know, expenses that we're not, you know, Looking at or things that have popped up since, you know, this year is flying by, and. There seems to be something that needs to happen every week, so just trying to better understand. Speaker 4 00:31:02 I s everything aligned? Is everything good? Is there any kind of thing that we need to put some focus on? Before we get off the call. Speaker 5 00:31:09 Chris, Do you want to I need to sign? Uh, the contract for this is for the the camp. I need to sign the contract, and we need a deposit and I need to send that over right? Speaker 3 00:31:20 Correct. Soum tell systems com direct they're waiting on for their portion. You guys have already paid the crimson part with which is all the hardware. But we do need to make the down payment for Comcraft because if not, They're going to push the camp project out a little bit farther into the summer. Speaker 1 00:31:39 We don't want them to get that. So nothing else, everything else is. Speaker 4 00:31:51 Going to plans, peachy. Speaker 3 00:31:53 Um, I'm going to take a look at everything and but I have a hard stop two minutes ago. For another meeting, but let me get with Susanna on a few items and then Susanna. I just sent you a Teams message. I definitely agree we do need to meet and go over everything for ISP, but that's more of an end weeds that is just. Finance and Mia and Mashaun. Um, I think everything else with the credits and stuff like that is going to be great for everything's going to be um. Speaker 3 00:32:28 Even ed out for the Crimson IT portion, the only one I have some serious concerns about is the Microsoft. Consolidated just because Microsoft is raising prices again. But we have a contingency. Speaker 1 00:32:43 Plan that may balance that out. And those are the Microsoft licenses, correct? Correct. Okay. Speaker 1 00:32:56 Anything else before we break? Yeah. Speaker 4 00:33:03 Michelle, do you have a couple of seconds? I can call you. Speaker 1 00:33:05 I do. Absolutely. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:33:08 All right, thank you everybody. Speaker 1 00:33:09 Thanks, bye. Thank you. And. Speaker 7 00:33:19 So there was a list of requirements that Arc is leaning on us to help deliver for them. Um, And I just need some clarity on what's already included in their M S agreement. Historically, what has Crimson done, you know, as part of it? And also like what do we need to build out uh as a project proposal? And then what we also need to kind of work with the third party, you know, with regards to like. Um, vulnerability scans or something like that. So I'm hoping that that's the outcome of this discussion. See you all later. Speaker 1 00:33:56 So Vince, get a document, share it, make bullet points so we can address it. Speaker 7 00:34:02 Each one by one. Yep. So here is the bullet points I'm gonna share right now.
07-21 Team Operations Note: Balancing Administrative Debt with Strategic Progress and Personal Milestones
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-  ## Core Synopsis The team's operational rhythm is marked by a persistent tension between managing administrative debt and executing strategic projects. Christi is shouldering a significant burden of overdue compliance tasks, specifically citing a "No Before" training that was over 700 days old, indicating a systemic issue with timely completion of mandatory administrative work across the organization. This operational drag exists alongside forward-moving strategic initiatives, such as the roadmap for strategic goals and the migration of SCHARP items to Crimson, which Sergio confirms are "on track." While there is a clear focus on improving efficiency and tracking key performance indicators like ticket resolution times, the underlying cultural and personal narratives reveal a team deeply invested in their work and each other, blending professional updates with significant personal milestones. ## Operational Status and Personal Updates ### Administrative and Project Oversight A backlog of mandatory "No Before" security training is a recurring point of friction. Christi is actively working to clear her own overdue items, some exceeding 900 days, and has sent reminders to all employees to complete theirs. This is framed as a critical compliance issue, underscored by a past incident involving "Doctor Barber." Concurrently, key strategic projects are proceeding as planned: - The **Strategic Goals Roadmap** is on track, with a dedicated meeting scheduled to review progress. - The migration of **SCHARP items to Crimson** is also confirmed to be on track. - Sergio is analyzing processes to identify efficiency gains, confirming his work is "on track." - Ticket metrics are being monitored, including `same-day resolution`, `number of open tickets after 330 days`, and `average ticket age`. ### Personal and Team Morale The meeting included significant personal announcements that highlight the team's supportive culture. - **Christi's Good News**: A foster daughter has committed to staying with the family long-term and has begun calling Christi "mom." Furthermore, she asked Christi to be the "Gigi" (grandmother) to her unborn son, an emotional milestone for the family. - **Sergio's Update**: He is managing challenges related to a person's therapy and fears, noting her inspiring spirit. - **Anton's Mention**: His name was brought up in "irritation" related to the "No Before" training, though it was immediately framed as a sign of affection within the team. ## Next Move **@Christi** - [ ] Send a follow-up all-employee email regarding mandatory training completion - [TBD] [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Plaud solo reasoning note (admin debt vs strategic progress + personal milestones) - no meeting time to log.
- Date
- Jul 21, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:02 There we go. Anton, your name has been said today multiple times in irritation at no before. Only because we love you. I am actually. Speaker 1 00:00:36 I Will I'll send out another all-employee email, reminding it about the training because I sent it out last week and the week or the week before one of those days. And I don't think everybody read it Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:14 Good. Good, Because I've been sending out emails to ensure that people do try to do that and make sure things are legit because of what happened with Doctor Barber. So, But I just finished a No Before training that was over seven hundred days old. And I did get rid of the 900 day one after I hit my 900 mark, because I was like, you know what? I am just going to hit this 900 mark so, Just a heads up, I'm catching up slowly on those. Actually, My good news is I'm still living with three teenagers in the house right now. That is my good news. Well, partially. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:02:42 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:05:02 The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mr. Ilham Aliyev, has signed a decree on the appointment of Mr. Hikmet Hajiyev as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Speaker 1 00:06:30 So I'm going to give you guys my good news and I'm, hopefully not going to cry in a good way. So um one of my foster daughters has asked to stay with us much longer, which is a huge huge deal for her, and it's amazing. And then she started calling me mom, which I, you know, I give every kid the option to call me whatever they want. Um but she's, but she also asked me to be a Gigi too. Her unborn son, so I am becoming a Gigi. I am not going to be grandma; too young for that. So, and thanks. Speaker 2 00:08:01 He has a great one. Speaker 3 00:10:01 I Am taking a break, just like everyone is trying to get this game and I kind of feel like they are from a flight. Speaker 3 00:10:17 I'm here for them. Speaker 2 00:18:48 Fifteen percent same day resolution number of tickets. Number of tickets open after three hundred and thirty days, and tickets are becoming the average. Speaker 2 00:21:34 Um, The strategic goals roadmap, we actually have a meeting about today, and that is on track. And then um finalized moving all SCHARP items to Crimson is on track as well. Speaker 2 00:22:45 Uh and then I'm gonna run it to be in the right. That's basically what I'm trying to do. And then like, is there a more efficient way so on track? Speaker 2 00:28:23 She's on track. Speaker 3 00:28:26 For her therapy and I'm smashing. I get to work with her, she inspires me. And then she's. Speaker 2 00:28:33 Got a lot of terrible fears that we're getting on top of now. What is your spirit? It really can't be put into words, it's like.
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05-04 Meeting: IT and Security Assessment Kick-off for Foothill Project
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- > Date: 2026-05-04 10:30:22 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] ## Meeting Notes ### Kick-off and Participant Coordination - Speaker 4 initiated the meeting, stating that Anton and Jason's presence was primary. - Another participant offered to contact Anton to ensure he joined the call. - Speaker 5 experienced a brief technical issue with their headset, which was resolved. ### Relationship with Foothill Family - Speaker 2 asked Speaker 1 about their relationship with the owner of "Foothill Family". - Speaker 1 clarified they do not know the owner. The initial contact was with the CFO, Jim, who then connected them with Chris, the CIO responsible for IT. This is a new relationship. ### Kick-off for a New IT and Security Assessment Project - A new assessment project for a client organization ("Foothill") has been initiated, similar to the previous "SHARP" project. - Ansor has communicated with the client's IT manager, who was not receptive to the news of the assessment. - An initial call is scheduled for May 5th at 10 AM on Teams with Pete, Ansor, Chris, and the client's IT manager to set expectations. - The ultimate goal is to propose a takeover of their IT operations by demonstrating cost savings. - The assessment team plans to go on-site, with Jason, Kevin, and possibly Mike attending. ### Scope and Phases of the Assessment - The project will be a full IT assessment, not just a security assessment, and will be broken into two phases over four to six weeks. - **Phase 1 (Security Assessment):** - Produce a full security report correlated to HIPAA requirements. - Findings will be categorized as critical, important, and nice-to-have, including timeframes and costs to fix. - Vulnerability scanning using Greenbone tools is confirmed to be part of the assessment. - **Phase 2 (IT Operations Assessment):** - Conduct a full "onboarding-style" assessment to understand the state of their IT, including policies, procedures, backup, and change management. - Assess the need for open IT positions within the client's organization. - Gather financial data, such as contract costs and the overall IT budget. ### Roles and Responsibilities - Jason will lead the assessment, with support from the team to ensure a comprehensive deliverable. This will be his primary role moving forward on new client engagements. - Chris will be Jason's counterpart, leveraging her experience from the SHARP project to guide him. - Anton and his team will handle specific tools like Network Detective for the infrastructure assessment. - Ansor will focus on interviewing the executive and IT staff to understand the business component and manage the relationship. - A Project Manager (PM) will be involved to create a project plan and keep the engagement on schedule. ### Assessment Tools and Methodology - The team will use a set of tools including Network Detective (run by Anton’s team), PowerShell scripts, and vulnerability scanners like Greenbone. Avic is not used for assessments. - The process involves reviewing all client-provided documents to understand their environment before running any scans. - The final report will be aligned with NIST standards, highlighting areas that impact HIPAA compliance as critical findings. ### Security Assessment and Validation Process - [Speaker 5] validates client-provided information, checking for rogue elements or network loopholes in a "mini pen test" to identify open access points, vulnerabilities, or backdoors. - For this, [Speaker 5] typically gains Super Admin or Global Administrator access to the client’s environment. An app registration is added for full read rights, with write access only sought with leadership approval. - For the client Foothill, which is HIPAA aligned, checks will include ensuring BitLocker and MFA are enabled. ### Experiences with IT Vulnerabilities - [Speaker 2] shared an experience of using Nessus to uncover numerous "level ten" vulnerabilities on devices that were "set it and forget it," like outdated access points and switches. - It was highlighted that IT directors may not be aware of all vulnerabilities, as was the case for [Speaker 2] until a fractional CISO was hired. ### Standardizing the Assessment Process - The group discussed templating the assessment process. [Speaker 5] explained that while there is a template, each situation's uniqueness prevents full standardization. - [Speaker 2] noted such an assessment would be valuable for executives if findings are translated into simple business terms, covering security posture against NIST, cloud configuration, and access controls. ### Review of Past Project Documentation - [Speaker 2] inquired about locating reports from previous projects like the "Crimson IT presentation" and "Sharper Executive summary." - [Speaker 5] confirmed all work since November 20th is in the shared folder and mentioned creating a custom, executive-level report for a past project instead of using the standard Network Detective report. ### Proposal for a Non-Profit Initiative: "Crimson Cares" - [Speaker 2] proposed creating a non-profit called "Crimson Cares" or a "Crimson IT Academy." - The non-profit would run boot camps to teach basic IT skills (e.g., crimping cables, email setup, Network+ certification) to people in transitional housing or the foster care system. - [Speaker 5] expressed support, having board experience with a similar non-profit, but noted participation might be a conflict of interest. ### Update on Other Projects (Maverick & Vegas/Colorado) - **Maverick:** A kickoff meeting is scheduled for May 6th. - **Vegas/Colorado Recruitment:** The full company application for Vegas has been submitted, and two people have been secured for Colorado. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Ansor and Pete to attend the initial client call on May 5th at 10 AM. - [ ] Jason to work with Chris and Anton to create a technical plan for the assessment. - [ ] Jason to create a high-level task list that can be used as a template for a formal project plan. - [ ] The project plan should include a section for Ansor to interview executive and IT staff. - [ ] Ansor and Mike to meet on May 5th to prepare for the budget review meeting. - [ ] [Speaker 2] will review the "Crimson IT presentation" and the "Sharper Executive summary" to prepare for meeting with client executives. - [ ] [Speaker 2] plans to present the "Crimson Cares" non-profit idea to Anzar. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Anton's participation was considered essential for the meeting's purpose, but it was unclear if he successfully joined or when the main discussion would proceed. > 2. The primary objective of the meeting, which Speaker 4 intended to "kick off," was not discussed. > 3. The client's IT manager has shown initial resistance to the assessment. This poses a risk to project timelines and cooperation. > 4. The client's help desk is currently considered out of scope, but the discussion noted this could change, which introduces uncertainty about the final scope of a potential takeover. > 5. The discussion about standardizing the security assessment process did not result in a clear decision or action item to create a formal template. > 6. The proposal for the "Crimson Cares" non-profit initiative is in a very early stage. A formal plan, including resource allocation, funding, and legal structure, needs to be developed.
- Date
- May 4, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:08 Good morning. Good morning, Jason. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:11 I'm great, thank you. Speaker 1 00:00:13 Awesome. Good morning, folks. How's everyone? Speaker 3 00:00:17 Take your stuff out of the dryer. Speaker 1 00:00:20 Hello, hello. Oh my God, all the best and brightest all in one call. I love it. Speaker 4 00:00:27 All the best and bright, all the best and brightest in me. Speaker 1 00:00:30 That's right. I don't have to say" in me."[ Laughter], Okay, so look, folks. Beautiful Monday morning. So happy to be here with you. This is just incredible. Chris headset is not connecting. Let's give her a second so she can join the conversation. That's technical issues. Speaker 5 00:01:02 It's because my headset. Was, looking for the connection to the phone and I had disconnected the phone this morning. Speaker 1 00:01:09 Awesome. Okay. So, um, The Pete you, you want to run it. What what's this meeting is all about. Speaker 4 00:01:17 So I wanted to kick this off. So basically, um I think we're going to be looking for primarily. Well, Anton's supposed to be on here too, isn't he? Let me make sure he's going to join. Speaker 6 00:01:35 Let me ping him. Because. Speaker 4 00:01:45 Primarily, uh. I wanted to make sure Anton and Jason were on here. Speaker 6 00:02:55 Let me see if I call him. Speaker 2 00:02:58 And uh if you don't mind me asking, and uh Anzor. So I know that. So you know the owner of Putney family. Speaker 1 00:03:06 Owner of which family? Speaker 2 00:03:08 Foothill Family, the what we're discussing today. Speaker 1 00:03:12 Do I know the owner? No, I don't. Speaker 2 00:03:14 Oh, okay. So so you work with the Um, C. Speaker 1 00:03:21 C O O C F O Jim. Okay. Jim and then they have a CIO named Chris. So So it was CFO Jim who started the conversation. And connected us with Chris, who reports to him and responsible for IT. Why do you have connection to these guys? Speaker 2 00:03:46 Nope, nope. I've just from looking at their website. Uh, I was just Getting some background on. On your relationship with them. I know a lot of these are just, you know, former relationships, people that you've developed relationships over the years. Speaker 1 00:04:01 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no. This is uh this is no relationship. Speaker 2 00:04:06 That's good. Speaker 4 00:04:13 Okay. Okay. Hello, hello. We have Anton here, so I wanted to talk. I just wanted to talk briefly about what we have to deliver for this. For. This organization, I know Anton. You said that we've got a fairly. You've done quite a bit of work since SHARP on automation and and um. Tightening up our security reports. One of the things that Anzor said he would like to do is he would like to go on site and take a few folks with him. Speaker 4 00:04:49 So I think he said he would take Jason and probably you said, maybe Kevin Onsor, if you go on site to kind of do an assessment, and we talked about maybe Mike going as well. So, um, Speaker 1 00:05:04 So just to bring everyone up to speed, right? I spoke to Chris. Chris communicated the news that this assessment will be happening to their IT manager who did not take it lightly. Okay, so this is not going to be a walk in the park situation. And as a matter of fact, he said something about before this statement that he's either sick or something, so he's not able to come to the office. So tomorrow at ten AM we're going to have our first. Uh, call on Teams, right? Speaker 1 00:05:48 So Pete, I invited you to attend this call as well. So it will be you and I, April just so she takes the notes and then Chris and this Maseehs, I think is the name of the guy. Really weird name. Um, so and then we will see how that's going to go, right? Ultimately, we want to say, "Hey, we'd like to come on site," right? We need to do. We need to put a nook. Right, we don't have to do it on the first day, on the first meeting, But at some point, right, we'll need to put our NUC and run our scans. We'll have to get onto the you know scan the local AD, scan the Azure. So, the important thing to understand this is not just a security assessment, right? So I think we will have to break this into two distinct separate phases. One. Speaker 1 00:06:43 We want to run this as the full IT assessment. Effectively, at the end of this exercise, we need the following items. We need to be able to produce a full security report and say, here's the things that you guys care about and they're HIPAA compliant. So we need to make sure we correlate it to HIPAA requirements, right? And we'll have to provide the standard critical Um, important. Um, Nice to have uh findings and the timeframe to fix it right. And the cost, if were to do that blah. That's on security front. We also want to do pretty much a full onboarding right as if were to do a full onboarding, We want to capture all of their information, so we can really assess where things are. Now we'll have to thread careful because it's not really. Speaker 1 00:07:39 A full onboarding, But we need to be able to understand at the end of this exercise and put an executive report. The state of IT. Right, so not just security, but in general, how's their policies and procedures? Right, how's their backup? How's their change management process? What the business is thinking about it. And they have couple of open positions. So we'll need to be able to say, do we think they need open positions or not? Right, and ideally we want to get as much information as possible from these guys, including all of their financials. How much the contract costs, what's the overall cost of it. And once we have it, We should be able to come back exactly like we did with SHARP and say, "Hey, we can run this organization for this much money." Speaker 1 00:08:35 That's ultimately the goal for us to do what we did with Sharp. And then say," We'll save you money." And if they give us a green light, We take them over and we'll already have done all of the due diligence because we're ready to onboard them, right? And we're not going to charge onboarding fee. I've told them that if we go through this exercise. We'll have all the information. We're not going to charge you on boarding, right? Does that make sense? Speaker 4 00:09:01 Yeah, now Jason, I know you haven't. Been through this before, right? So, Chris. And Anton, we obviously went through this for SHARP. We've kind of done these type of assessments for others before. Um, Mike, you were obviously part of the sharp thing as well. But I want us to help Jason do this, because this like Ansor said, this a A full IT infrastructure and security assessment. So. Speaker 4 00:09:33 I don't want to just leave Jason hanging on this one. I want us to, To bring to bear all the tools and the experience that we've had and help Jason kind of. You know, Make sure that we deliver everything that we've delivered before and not not fall short because we have a, you know, a limited amount of time and a limited amount of. Resources and things like that. They did ask a lot of questions, unlike, You know, Sharp really didn't ask us as many questions as this team did, right? They asked us about. They asked a lot of detailed questions. They said, you know, this proposal references optional vulnerability scanning and Greenbone tools. Is that included in the assessment? And we said, I think you said yes, right? Anzor. Speaker 1 00:10:21 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:10:23 So we so we said that that that is part of the assessment. So we need to make sure that, We need to make sure that there's a vulnerability scanning included. Right. Speaker 1 00:10:33 We need to do exactly what we did for Sharp. I would do this, right? JSON is going to become your world. You need to get good at this, right? Moving forward, this is what you will be doing, right? As we get new clients. Chris was the lead on Sharp, right? This gal amazing. She knows anything and everything. She can help you, right? And she will be your counterpart on this one engagement, right? Chris, your job make sure that Jason Wright shines like a star. He is right. Obviously with your halo, I am sure this will happen. So Chris will help you out, right? What I'd like to do you guys handle all of the IT areas. I am going to get involved on interviewing executive staff. Okay, so. Speaker 1 00:11:21 Uh, we're gonna at the meeting tomorrow, Pete, at ten o'clock. We're gonna say, look, we need to figure out how we handle IT component and the business component. I'll be handling personally. And I'll be interviewing IT staff and I will be interviewing the business staff. Right? So um. So, just so we're all on the same page, the ultimate outcome is for IT director to say. Okay, effort. I am out of here, right? And then it's a slam dunk for us to take over. Alternatively, it could be our proposal financially is so sound that they'll say. We definitely want to move forward, right? So those are the two ideal outcomes. That's why we want to be very friendly, very professional. But we want to cover all aspects of it, so the guy understands his job is actually being questioned. Like when we start to ask, "Where is your budget?" Speaker 1 00:12:20 How much these contracts cost? How much you paying for the phones, for the printers, for the Miraca support? Right, he'll understand that we are collecting information on entire IT ops, most likely to outsource it. Right, and we actually want them to feel it. We do want to make sure it's very friendly, right? And I will be managing that component. Right, so I am going to position it:" Hey, our job is to go through all of this and make you shine." Right, but work with us. Right, because we can't do it without you type of thing. And then if he doesn't, then I'll escalate. Speaker 4 00:12:58 Right now, what they did say is that they're happy with their help desk. They have a couple, I think they have a couple people. I think they said that their help desk is most likely going to just stay. It may stay as is, whether they decide to do something depending on what comes out of this. Obviously we'll see what happens, but. That's most likely not going to change much, or maybe it'll happen something like it happened with Sharper, or who knows, right? But. That's, that's probably gonna gonna be diff. Uh, you know, separate. Butum this is more focused on the I T infrastructure, not help desk resources and things like that. Speaker 3 00:13:34 So almost sounds like a carbon copy of sharp. Speaker 1 00:13:36 Sure, right, right. I mean, Most likely what's going to happen, we'll end up effectively taking those guys right into Crimson IT. Right, so Pete, just so we're clear, right? We want to concentrate on all aspects of it, Knowing that those guys will most likely end up staying with us if we win this deal. Sure. We want to be careful, right? Not to position it, we're here to make sure you outsource your IT. That's not why we're there, right? Because, there was the other company that did that, and it rubbed them the wrong way. Our job is just to present them with information, right? And say one option you outsource, one option you execute in-house. Here is how you execute and these are the findings. Like if we see that they have one internet circuit, we're going to say you need to have two. Speaker 1 00:14:28 And if we see that they have three, We're going to say you can cut cost by getting rid of the third one, right? Like that's what we want. Speaker 4 00:14:35 It's a very yeah, it needs to be a very objective IT assessment. And he, he was very one of the guys was very focused, like I mentioned to a few of you, very focused on There are security holes, right? He said," We have we have MFA, but we don't have." You know, we don't have a lot of other things that he noted, and he knows that they have. They they they're missing, numerous other. Options. So he wants us to really assess it. He wants us to prioritize the list once we do have it. And then we have to have a, we have to have a, you know, a good presentation the objectives and the findings once we're done. So Anzor if you're okay with it, I'd like to forward them that string of email responses that we got at the end because there's a lot of questions that they asked. And Anzo responded like twice with. Speaker 4 00:15:27 With answers, so I think it's important, Especially for Jason and Chris and Anton to read through that email thread because they asked. They came back with two sets of questions from the original proposal. Um, with specifics. So I want to make sure that our deliverable responds with those answers because I don't want us to say, yes, it'll have it. And then we we our our deliverable doesn't include those. So let's make sure that we do include those. Speaker 1 00:15:57 And we want to move fast, right? We want to move. Fast on this engagement, so we've told them it's four to six weeks, right? For us to complete this engagement. So I want to make sure that. We actually try to get it done in four weeks, right? So you guys. Um, totally. Uh, we we and then we'll have to get the PM right. And we will need to make sure we stay on the schedule. Okay. Speaker 3 00:16:38 Are you working with the COO or CFO? Speaker 1 00:16:42 Okay, we are the project is initiated by CFO. We are working with CIO. CIO concentrates. On application layer only, okay? He is not touching infrastructure and doesn't want to touch infrastructure. So, okay, good to know. So it's a CIO who is struggling with the IT manager. Yep, yeah, the guy who reports to him. They he used to be administrator; they promoted him. Speaker 1 00:17:20 Once their IT manager left and they couldn't find anyone, hoping that with his promotion he'll be better, he got worse. And now they're like have a much bigger issue that they're trying to sort out. Speaker 3 00:17:33 I see. Super helpful to understand that. Got it. Yep, yep. Jason, when you see Chris's report, it's phenomenal. So it's. Speaker 2 00:17:41 He showed me a little bit when I met her at Sharp. Um, we didn't we didn'tum. Get into a ton of detail, but it was very impressive. Now let me ask you this: you know from our On the uh, how did we do the infrastructure assessment? Did you run a tool because I know we're using Obic. Yeah, are we using Avic? Is this something. Speaker 1 00:18:04 No, no. Avic is used only to manage switches at Brookfield buildings, right? We're not using Avic for assessment. Anton and Chris have the set of tools they are utilizing. They can walk you through. On all of it, I would take that offline. Ultimately, You can run it so schedule time with both of these guys, so you can like you'll have to put. A project plan together, right? So with a PM. We definitely want to have a project plan in place because we want these guys to see that we are operating. Speaker 1 00:18:47 At the high level, right? Speaker 4 00:18:49 Yes. Yeah. So so Jason, I would like like Answare said, I would get with Chris and Anton and put together your plan. And Seg will be back tomorrow. From a technical perspective, though, The three of you should put your plan together and get your guidance from them. And then whoever else you need from the team, you know, to put together what you need to do for your assessment. And then Um, when said. Come s in, she can help put the details together from a from a project plan standpoint. But from a technical perspective, you guys can put together your. Your approach, and then Anzor. I guess based on our call tomorrow, you can we can figure out if there is going to be a. Sort of an initial meeting on site and or who's going to go and when and that kind of stuff. Speaker 1 00:19:38 Right, right. Yep, that's exactly right. And just in your plan, guys, if you could also add. U m, uh, you know, a section for me to interview. Um. To interview executive staff and IT personnel. That'd be great. Right. Speaker 4 00:19:59 So Jason, maybe you can kind of put a straw man together for a high level, you know. Bullet point list call it whatever you want an Excel spreadsheet, you know that seg can use as a template for a project plan based on. On the task list that you're going to do technically, and then she can put, you know, start to put dates around it or whatever for tracking. And names and stuff like that or whatever you want to do, but. And we included Mike just because if we do an initial on-site assessment, we thought Mike could go. Um, and attend you know to to sort of. Speaker 4 00:20:43 Be there and help look around if we do an initial visit. If we don't do that, Mike may not need to play a role here, but He can be helpful. He's technical, and he can be a good face on the to the customer if we need one more body there. If not, it's fine. Speaker 2 00:20:59 So, now this is this is uh we're dealing with uh PII and HIPAA related stuff, so or As it relates to the process, do we what? Specifically, Chris, maybe we can take this offline. But what do we have to do? From a compliance perspective. Uh, do we have to become a secondary like what uh? Gosh, Speaker 3 00:21:29 It's NIST alignment for HIPAA. There's no certification for it. Speaker 1 00:21:32 Yeah, yeah, it's just NIST alignment. We we will want to part of our report. We'll have to compare them to NIST and say, here's where you guys. are doing well and here where you're not. And if any of that is impacting their HIPAA compliancy, we want to make this a critical finding. Speaker 4 00:21:48 And maybe something you can do, Jason, Is take a look at the report we produced for Sharp because that will actually give you a really good example of. Of what we gave them, because it basically said," H ere is what you are not doing for HIPAA that you really need to be doing." And if you don't, and you get audited, you are going to be screwed. So. That was a good thing that Chris came up with. Speaker 1 00:22:12 Yeah, I have to drop off. Quick question: How we're doing with Maverick? Have we notified them that we've got certified and we can do the work? And have we gotten that audit for insurance that we can go against and say, yes, you guys good or no, you have problems? Like, have we made any progress with Maverick? Speaker 4 00:22:34 There hasn't been a lot of progress. I think there's supposed to be a meeting tomorrow, if I remember right. Speaker 1 00:22:42 You're running point right on this one because I am completely disconnected. Speaker 4 00:22:46 Yeah, there is a kickoff meeting Wednesday for Maverick actually. Okay, great. That's good to understand too. Speaker 1 00:22:51 Yep Great So so uhum I am actually, um, I'm gonna be on a boat on Wednesday and I know there is the meeting. To review the budget, right? At 4:00 p. m. So I'll try to make that. I'm going to not attend any other meetings. Mike, you and I we need to meet today or tomorrow. Speaker 3 00:23:18 We're meeting tomorrow for the meeting. Speaker 1 00:23:19 Oh, we're meeting tomorrow to go over it. So so we're prepped. Okay, great. Okay, all right, Pete. So and then let Jeff know. I am sure he's not going to be on the call, but if he does that we've already submitted the Vegas. Full company application, and we've got a bunch of people for. Uh, we've. Speaker 4 00:23:40 Already got two people for Colorado. Speaker 1 00:23:41 For Colorado, right? So that that's all we really need. Okay. All right, awesome. Sounds good. Okay. Thank you, everyone for dropping off. All right, take care. Bye. Speaker 2 00:23:54 Hi, Christy. Can you stay for a minute? Yeah. U m, okay. So you in another chat, you sent a note. Uh. So this was just. Speaker 5 00:24:06 That's my entire working folder. Um, But because at one point, it became a There was an investigation side to it, And that does happen with a few of these types of projects that we take on. I get brought into an investigation. U m, that's the private folder you are going to see in there. Um, and so basically everything that I did, I am going to make you a walkthrough based off of this meeting. But I'll make you a walkthrough of what we need to look at and what we're doing. And remind me, are they Microsoft or Google? Speaker 2 00:24:49 Uh, geez. I my initial impression was that they were Microsoft. Okay, but I don't know if they actually gave me that. If they're Microsoft, Speaker 5 00:25:01 Great, because i I can easily set up the PowerShell scripts for anyone to run as long as we can get. A an app registration from them or at least global admin rights so that we can create an app registration. And I can run the same scans that I run on any client that's looking for HIPAA alignment. Um. So there's a pre- assessment documents that I was working on. That one is our checklist and some things that we were putting together, our briefing. Um, and some of these I've already shared out with Onsor, so he had a copy of them as well. Um, Speaker 2 00:25:38 It looks like they're Office three hundred and sixty five Yeah. Good. Keith sent over the accepted quote. Now this would be actually really good to Put together, and you may have a. And I apologize for interrupting you while you're speaking. Um, this. You know, we drop this into Chat GPT or or whatever, and all the things that we're going to assess it'll create either a separate. Like a tab on a spreadsheet or, you know, what are you thinking? How do you normally do this? Speaker 5 00:26:11 So very first thing is I look at everything they send me. And look at what they're trying to accomplish. And then I will make based on that. So, I actually this is where I don't use AI. I assess everything that they're sending us. Um and assess what they need. So like for this one, uh, they sent us over some documents on like. Their network equipment and things like that, so that I knew okay for this, I'm going to need to validate their network equipment and what they actually have out there. Speaker 5 00:26:46 If I don't have it, then I'm going on site and I'm installing Network Detective. Speaker 2 00:26:53 So that's that's our tool set. Network Detective is our tool set. It's a license that we pay for. Uh, we own it. Okay. Yes. Speaker 2 00:27:02 And that tells me everything I need to know about their servers, their printers, their it just interrogates the shit out of their network. Speaker 5 00:27:09 Yes. And then No, you're 100% right. Not only do we use Network Detective, But I'll go in and I've got PowerShell scripts I'll run once I attach to their network to see what all is out there and to see if there's any vulnerabilities, things like that that I run outside of Network Detective. Speaker 2 00:27:30 So that's our magic sauce. Speaker 5 00:27:32 Yeah, Anton and his team handles Network Detective. I go in and I do my own, uh, I guess you would call it. Speaker 5 00:27:43 I s it white hat hacking or whatever? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:27:47 So Anton's team runs Network Detective specifically. Oh, okay. Speaker 5 00:27:51 So there's some other things that they may run. I don't know fully because I don't use their tools. I use, I use mine. My ability to dig in. Speaker 2 00:28:00 So myum. So as it relates to the infrastructure side moving forward, so he's doing everything that I would be. Yeah. Okay. So I would get the results of this, you know, break it down, understand it. And then we can do an executive presentation on it, right? Yes. Okay. Speaker 5 00:28:24 And then, There is a file that he gave us that's called that we were given on this one on this client. That was their network manual by location. So we were able to validate that. So basically I went into that, I saw what was in there, And then I validated all the IP addressing and the information that was given to us that way. Speaker 2 00:28:46 Now, are you talking about sharp in particular? Yes. Okay, okay. Okay, because when you were saying that I thought well you already had. Is some information on Foothill, but no, the shark. Okay. Yes. So that's interesting. That's that's okay. So they're going to tell us what they have, but you're going to You're going to check it. Speaker 5 00:29:04 I'm going to always validate. And I'm always going to look, is there anything rogue out there? Either that they know is rogue or they don't know is rogue. I am going to check other very similar types of things to that, because not only am I looking for what do they have, I am also looking for what are the loopholes. And cannot access those loopholes. So sometimes they may not realize that they have stuff on the network that's open. And I'm going to say. Speaker 5 00:29:34 So it was my own little mini pen test. While I am not certified to do pen testing, you know, I am going to look and see if I've got a way in. Speaker 2 00:29:42 Yeah, no, that's great. And so this is part of your standard just getting the door and. I love this. This is good. Yeah. Because you're right, you know, one of the things thatum So, and it's 11 o'clock. I don't know if you have to go. Speaker 5 00:30:01 Let me see what's on my calendar. Speaker 5 00:30:04 I've looked at my calendar today. I just can't tell you what's on it. My oh, uh, yeah, I don't have to attend that. Okay. Uh, I saw a lot of things in there. Um This is so Anza's never asked me to do this piece. I've just done it as a way of just validating what's out there so that we can be more thorough. Before I didn't never have the time to do it. And then in the last, I'd say six months, I started having the time to get it done. Speaker 2 00:30:37 Well, as an IT, you know, I managed majestic. We were a similar size as this. Similar number. I had twelve offices around the United States. I think they have nine offices locally down the two ten and the ten. Um, you know, from Pasadena to I think Covina. So similar size. Um, different business altogether. But there is a lot of You know, I would be curious if their IT director, I should be presented with. Everything right. We're going to ask them, show us what you've got. Yeah, and then then there's the reality. There were some things that when I Uh, what did we do? We ran a tool that. Speaker 2 00:31:27 Uncovered some things. Some. Things that were on the network that were listening, that maybe shouldn't have listened. You know, things that I wasn't aware of. Like okay, well that's a problem. But also the when we we started to run Nessus. Um, that interrogated every damn thing uh that it had access to. And gave me this nice report. And so we had a lot of vulnerabilities. Um, that like you have to resolve this now. Yeah. Because it's one of those set it and forget it you plug it in, you have and it just works. And so, but it's so far out of date. There is like a list like this of red, you know level ten. Vulnerabilities. And. So that's the kind of information I wish I would have had because I didn't know that I needed to resolve those. Yes. Speaker 2 00:32:24 That I was necessarily sloppy, although my updates were probably. I was doing the Windows updates, but sometimes you don't realize that your access points. Your switches, your and devices that they're sitting in a closet. They need to be updated and they've got some severe. They've got active exploits in the lab. Mhm. So they need to know those things. So What the level tens are. And I yeah, so anyway. But I'm keenly aware, And I'd love to just give them the spreadsheet that has all this red stuff. Yes. You know, so that they see it. Speaker 6 00:33:04 The IT director probably has no idea. And I am humble enough to say that I didn't either. And so, oh, we hired a fractional CISO. And he was from a defense. He worked in defense, so he beat the hell out of him. Rightfully so. Speaker 5 00:33:26 Yeah, No, I totally understand that. Um. I was gonna say something. Now I forgot what I was gonna say. Speaker 2 00:33:38 Well, you were taught we were talking aboutum vulnerabilities, uh PowerShell scripts, network detectives. But you validate, they make the genosum, and you validate. You check for rogue looking for. Uh. What do they have? What are back doors validating what's out there? Speaker 5 00:33:57 Um, I also gain access to uh if I can do it, I gain access as a Super admin or global administrator. And then I immediately add an app registration. Giving me full read rights, I don't try to go for right. I just want full read unless I have a suspicion. There is a reason I am going to need read. And so. The suspicion is if like in this case, I already knew some things that were going to happen. So I went ahead and gave myself uh write abilities. But also worked off of just read as much as possible. And so that way, if if all of our suspicions were coming true, and this would have had to be with the approval of leadership. So You'd have to get their approval for the right access, but. Speaker 5 00:34:49 I would retain that access so that I can make changes as needed. In Foothills' case, you just want read access for now. Um, and what we can do. From that is we're able to, like I was monitoring over. Holidays for clients and saying, okay, well, you know we we need to do uh X Y and Z. Speaker 5 00:35:18 And so I was keeping, I was keeping track. I was reading things. I was making sure. That person wasn't doing any data loss. We were working on actively preventing it. And then giving them the full, you know, report on whatever frameworks that they were doing. So in this case, with Foothill, they're HIPAA aligned. So I'm going to check, I'm going to see. If they're Microsoft, do they have BitLocker turned on? Are they managed by Intune? Because BitLocker is one of those things that will get them. In trouble with HIPAA if it's not turned on. And so is MFA, you know, and things like that. Speaker 2 00:36:06 So, this is uh so Pete and uh, Pete worked with a group of us. And you I think you may have been on this call. I don't remember, I apologize. But as it relates to putting together the wording for the assessment, the infrastructure assessment and all that stuff. So is this boilerplate? No, I. Is this something that we can repeat? Speaker 5 00:36:27 We can repeat it. It's it's moreum. It's more along the lines of I don't boilerplate it because every situation is different. But I bowler played it to an extent. Speaker 2 00:36:41 So it's templated. I mean, I guess. Because Pete wants is asking me to kind of standardize some of this stuff, And this seems like a really good like like this if I wanted someone to look at my stuff, this what if I were CFO, this the kind of stuff that I would look at. These are all you're attacking. They're attacking all the major points and. Um, I mean, this just. You're going to lay it bare in front of the executive staff. Now, they may not or not the executive, yeah, the executive staff. Speaker 2 00:37:16 Yeah. They may know what it means. And so you need to boil it down into very simple terms. Exactly. Um. You know, like you can tell them that they're not compliant with it, but. Yep. And soum that's what they care about things like so. Uh, let's see here. Speaker 2 00:37:38 But yeah, I mean, this is one that, and I don't know if we could. This would be a good sow that you keep in as a standard kind of. Assessment. Yeah. Get a woman. I'm thinking about it. Speaker 5 00:37:52 Yeah, and just to be honest, the only reason why I Don't will or played it yet is because, every single one I've gone through has been. Slightly different every time. Speaker 2 00:38:05 And, it's going to be. You are going to come to different conclusions on all of this. Speaker 5 00:38:09 This is just a. You know, because well, and I was looking at one of them. Okay, what is what are we going to do for the. Um, the let's see here. Um. See. Well, the optional vulnerability scanning, Greenbone or Qualys. Review of recent alerts and incidents. That's one of them. Uh, give me one second. I was looking at the case. Speaker 2 00:38:42 Evaluate security posture against industry best practice and the NIST cybersecurity framework. That's, and then there was another one. Oh, evaluate cloud environment configuration. Access controls and security posture. That's your security. You are going to find, you are going to dig, you are going to find it's not like a You dig a little deeper. They need to know those things. So that's pretty neat. I like that you're doing that. Yeah. Did you do something like this for the Dodgers when you were there? Did you run these internal, look at these sorts of things? Speaker 5 00:39:18 A few times. Um, but. We had an amazing uh. Director level, she was awesome, and so there wasn't much I had to do. But I would run them, underhanded just in case to make sure my team was doing what they were supposed to. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:39:42 So, We had the director knew what she was doing. I knew what I was doing, and the other director knew what he was doing. So we all worked in tandem. It was just our vice president who was not so. Intelligent. Speaker 2 00:39:58 How do you, oh, so I'm gonna go into that folder. And I'm going to kind of look to see, you know, the things that I mentioned for them. Yeah, but. U m, you know, as it relates to infrastructure. I mean, basically all of it. I'm curious to see is there where is there the reports like the. The final notes, is that out there? Speaker 5 00:40:30 Everything is in there. Everything I did. All the stuff I've put together since being here and ever since November 20 t h is in that folder. Speaker 2 00:40:41 Where would I see like their infrastructure presentation? Speaker 5 00:40:46 It's uh. Speaker 2 00:40:49 There's TPX reports. Speaker 5 00:40:51 Mhm. Let's see. Speaker 2 00:40:53 So that'll be that's I. Speaker 5 00:40:55 Just saw what they sent us on infrastructure. I rolled up the actual infrastructure report and everything else. Because I did it all as one report multiple times on multiple different occasions. So. Speaker 2 00:41:11 Based on Clemson IT presentation, there's the executive summary. Yeah. Did you have a nice little network detective infrastructure report? Speaker 5 00:41:24 I didn't use it. I did my own. All right, but you took from it or no? Speaker 2 00:41:31 I took some pieces from it, or I took some pieces from the reports that. Anton ran, but those that we were presenting to didn't care. Speaker 5 00:41:43 For that, we needed a higher, more executive level. Alright. Speaker 2 00:41:52 All right. Yeah, and this one we're going to be working with the CIO, so they may want to see. You know, those type of diagrams, but I guess you know we'll figure it out along the way. Yeah. Um, what they're really interested in. Um, so I'll go through. I'll look at the Crimson IT presentation. And the Sharper Executives on my OSCR. Okay. Is there anything I should, you would have me look at? In particular, bring my attention to. Speaker 5 00:42:24 Honestly, at this moment. Not really. Um. Trying to think. Speaker 2 00:42:37 I guess Andrew's going to bring me on site. I'm going to meet with executives and you know, I'm going to meet the team. Yeah, and I got to speak intelligently with some of this, and so I think I have a pretty good understanding. You know. What we're looking for, right? Yeah. All aspects of IT. And he was pretty clear. About what he's going to be doing and then the infrastructure assessment you're going to be doing that. Um, and. I'll play a role in that. I'm learning. I mean, everything is just a Like it happened, it's been great. Speaker 5 00:43:19 I completely understand it. Completely. So. Speaker 5 00:43:25 It's actually, this has been a lot of fun working here. I will say that. I am a whole lot less stressed. Work ing for Crimson than I was for my last two companies. Well, no, my last company and then the one two before that. So if that says anything about how great it is to be here. Speaker 2 00:43:45 You know, um. How much time you got? I need five minutes of your time. Go for it. Um, so I got to see at Wyngard something really cool. I was at the Care First Village right behind Dodger Stadium. And it's both transitional housing and permanent housing. And so it's these cool, um, you know. Um, the container homes. Now they're not cool. I mean, they're real small, but people are paying for it getting their life back in order. So Stephanie, there we were fixing some doors, and she said, "Hey, I want you to come see this." Graduation ceremony, they have a culinary school. Homeboy and Homegirl Industries come and they pick. Some. Speaker 2 00:44:31 You know, group of people to take this class, and um they they got their like their. Like a certain certification to food handling. But, this is probably the most significant thing that these people have ever accomplished in their lives. And I, this one guy Miguel was the, he was. And his energy, just receiving this little certificate and says, "I can't wait to show my siblings." I got chills being in that room. And how that changed the energy in the room because they were so humbled and so proud. For just a simple thing, and they now have a career you know that they can go into. And so I thought about this. I am like well. You know, I know that you are very much into foster. I met at Winthrop. These people that probably never maybe even owned a computer or. You know that. Speaker 2 00:45:26 Maybe even struggle just to handle it, you know, creating an email address and doing basic services. And so I thought about this. I am like You know, I don't know if Andre has ever considered setting up a nonprofit where. Um, you know we do little boot camps, you know like a crimson cares. With a crimson IT Academy, where you do a four-week boot camp, an hour a week. And show people faces, right? It doesn't even have to be advanced like AI. I am thinking, you know, like. I've shown someone how to crimp a cable and you know, punch downs. Do basic things like that, and then ultimately when they advance, maybe we pay for them to be network plus. Um, I am just thinking out loud. I was going to talk to Anzar about it because it. You know, Weingart has a need. Speaker 2 00:46:24 Um, and maybe in the foster care system they have a need as well. And that, But setting up like a nonprofit called Crimson Cares when it comes to like teen poverty. We donate our time. Of course, we did have to get funding from somewhere. Uh, but anyway, just thinking out loud. And I thought you would be. I know you are overwhelmed in life and with work, so I am not trying to put this on you, but I think. That's a great idea. What do you think? Speaker 5 00:46:53 That is uh that's kind of cool, Uh just a heads up I'm on the board of a nonprofit already that does uh something like that. So, yeah, I am sorry. My keyboard is acting weird. I am trying to turn it off, so I can fix it while I am talking to you. Um, but it is an amazing idea. And there's I don't like this keyboard. Um. Speaker 5 00:47:21 My Windows key keeps pressing down, and every time I need to capitalize the S key. Um, it pulls up Adobe. Oh, yeah. Um, anyway, I am a part of a nonprofit that is like that, and it's very cool. And I would love to, I would love for Crimson to do it. I just don't know if I can be a part of it because I am on the board of the other company. Speaker 2 00:47:49 What happens if we make it so awesome that we could bring you over? Now, a board doesn't have to be significant, right? You know, but I love the idea of. And again, I don't know what the effort is. I started to research it just a little bit. I mean, ultimately, Anzar you know in his life, I don't know what Capacity is what a non how a nonprofit would change. You know, I am sure he could benefit. The company could benefit from it. We get funding; he would pay somebody. You know, an hour a week, maybe you know to do these boot camps. It could be a great learning opportunity for someone. Of course it wouldn't be free. I couldn't know that I would be able to do this in my free time. Um, without being compensated or something like this. I don't know. But it doesn't have to be for free, right? Um. Uh, but. Speaker 2 00:48:47 You know, Onsard could benefit. I think that should get benefit from the Clemson IC Academy and Clemson shares. Yes, I've done it. Just thinking out loud, but if I could steal your time in the future. Um, you know, further down the road. I mean, I'm not talking about right now. I was going to present it to Andra and see what he thought about it, and maybe we can make something happen. Speaker 6 00:49:12 Yeah. No. Speaker 2 00:49:15 I'd like to learn more about your nonprofit that you're on the board of, and that does something similar. I'd like to know how you structure it. No, they're trying to cure things. They're working on it. But I was so and I talked to Stephanie about it. She had this big smile because I know where you are going with the face in. And she said, " T hat would just be amazing because these people are they're trying to start their life, and how do you start your life?" You know, Even giving them a Chromebook at the end of one of these projects. And then. Having them set it up themselves, you know, as part of one of the boot camps. You know, uh, You know, we've already said, you know, we teach them how to set up an email kind of get their life in order. Start the basics right, and then at the end, you have to put all those skills into play and set up a. A problem that was happening. Speaker 5 00:50:05 No, that's awesome. Speaker 2 00:50:07 That could be one aspect of it. You know, there's multiple, you know, how to access government resources. Using a computer, I am sure there is lots of people that don't want to. And it would be very specific groups of people, not everybody in that would have the capacity for that. You understand? But the case managers would have to tell us, "Hey, this is a great candidate for this program. We want to see them train." And so, build mobile classrooms and. You know, using Starlink for internet. Speaker 2 00:50:41 I've done that before, not Starlink, but other ways. So anyway, Just wanted to present that to you. And if you if you I think that it would be a great idea for fencing. I am not going to talk to answer and. Thank you, and thank you, guys. Speaker 5 00:50:56 No, it's I. I love that idea. Um, so the nonprofit I am on was formed. About three, four years ago. Um. And sometimes they go in one direction, sometimes they go in another, and we're still trying to get everything built up. So, it's my best friend's. She's done through foster care and stuff, and she is a therapist. So she's been actively working on getting it all sorted. Speaker 2 00:51:30 Well, maybe if we set up the Crimson IT Academy, we can set up little boot camps. For. For the kiddos, Speaker 5 00:51:39 Yeah. That sounds awesome. Speaker 2 00:51:43 Okay, well I Ium. And I may have just talked myself into setting it up. Yeah. I got to consider what that means, but no, I would love to do something like that. Speaker 2 00:52:02 Well, good. Well, I appreciate you taking the time. I'm sure we're going to meet here again in the near future to go over some of this stuff. I'll take your lead on on it as well, because you're a pro and you've done this. The sharp private is that something that I stay out of or no, Speaker 5 00:52:21 That is uh no, That was a private uh folder for a long time that I I finally moved into there. But it was. Some things that Onzer had asked me to do that was going to stay, needed to stay confidential with no sharing. Speaker 2 00:52:38 Yeah, I got it. Okay, I see the NV files. That's your cloud files, right? Speaker 5 00:52:44 Yeah. Yep. Not everything is AI, but some things are so. Speaker 2 00:52:57 I think we're good for now. Um. It was nice chatting with you. Yeah. Let's talk soon. Speaker 5 00:53:03 You too, thank you. Have a great week. Bye.
08-31 Professional & Personal Updates and Future Planning
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-  Christi briefed on a dense slate of operational priorities, client project statuses, and site support plans while coordinating near‑term scheduling and training strategy; she also shared sensitive personal updates involving dental care and foster responsibilities, including inpatient treatment for her pregnant foster daughter and contingency planning around the October 5 due date. Key follow-ups include completing expense processing by the 6th, executing site visits and fixes at camp and Claremont, advancing Alere stakeholder discussions, preparing team members (Robert, John) for expanded roles, and re‑running Power Automate training to engage PEC. ------------ ## Current Project Status and Expense Management Christi is prioritizing expense processing and invoice reconciliation. For Sharp, expenses still require paper-based signatures. For Ability First, she has processed receipts totaling 10,000, must approve an additional 50,000 in invoices, and locate 20,000 in invoices. All of this is due on the 6th of the month, making the next several days time‑sensitive. Project-wise, Cotton has again been postponed, now tentatively set for September 23; it has already been billed 100%, and the remaining dependency is training delivery. The Alere project is wrapping, with a stakeholder session scheduled Thursday to explore enabling AI for other shareholders within their tenancy. Westwood remains problematic due to scope management: after the client objected to a 20-hour estimate, George reduced the hours. Concurrently, George continues to accept additional requests despite internal prioritization, causing delays. Christi attributes timeline pressure to this lack of boundaries with the client. Alere’s work has remained billable, while Cotton is high-touch and requires significant guidance. ------------ ## Internal Operations and Site Support Strategy Christi outlined a multi-site support push focused on reliability and compliance. At camp, they will complete Starlink and cabling work and diagnose a recurring dropped-call zone on the walk from the pool to a residence, likely an AP handoff issue. New antennas have arrived and will be tested. An amphitheater connectivity problem has been identified; a switch requires attention. These tasks are scheduled for tomorrow, with Christi and Vana on site; Comcast is also attending, and Christi has invited Kevin (awaiting response). Claremont needs more consistent support due to its distance and a quieter request culture; Christi and Vana will conduct a walkthrough to surface needs. East LA presents potential HIPAA risk: some teams are saving documents to Teams rather than ProCare. With DMH requirements approaching next year, Christi and Sean are seeking process tweaks and lightweight training approaches to keep documentation in ProCare, while respecting departmental constraints on training time. The broader goal across sites is to streamline workflows, bolster reliability, and maintain full HIPAA compliance without imposing heavy training burdens. ------------ ## Team Development and Skill Assessment Christi reported notable growth in Robert’s capabilities over the past five months after clarifying his operating boundaries. He is strong with CCTV, ADT, and Brivo, and he will replace SonicWall infrastructure at a site within the next two weeks. He is described as a fast learner and persistent problem-solver. Looking ahead, the team plans to assume responsibility for Meraki switches and firewalls in April 2027 when the Pearless contract ends; that transition will open substantial learning opportunities for Robert. Until then, Pearless continues handling firewalls, switches, ISP, and telephony at most sites. Vana is the favored onsite resource for the Pasadena office and is well-regarded there. Christi sees value in exposing Gaston and Robert to Curated Partners and Jham for experience. Separately, John Wilder wants to help with training; Olivia has asked Christi to give John more challenging work. Christi will prepare John to co-deliver training and take on department tasks as Christi intentionally reduces her own training load. ------------ ## Strategic Client Engagement and Scheduling Christi plans to re-run the Power Automate training due to strong client interest; PEC attended a prior session and asked to join a repeat, which Christi hopes to leverage as a foothold to bring PEC under their umbrella. She maintains a client map in Nylar that includes Sharp, Inglewood Ability First (near Sharp), Curated Wealth Partners (near her home), Primrose Winegard, Auto Concierge, Gismart, and other Sharp offices—useful for planning multi-stop site days. She aims to bring Gaston and Robert on upcoming visits to L. Frank (Pasadena), Curated Partners, and Jham, and to update the client map to current status. Scheduling-wise, Christi’s AI training load eases after Wednesday; she is at camp during the day tomorrow and in Claremont in the afternoon. Over the next two weeks she is broadly available except the 17th, and she is free before 3:00 PM on the 8th. Neither participant will work on the 7th (Labor Day). Christi is purposefully scaling back training for the next four to six weeks and plans to request a one-week leave around her foster daughter’s October 5 due date. ------------ ## Personal Health and Foster Care Update Christi will see the dentist today after the screw from a dental implant came out; she is temporarily using a partial denture. She then discussed sensitive foster-care matters: her foster daughter Angie (20), due October 5, recently resumed using weed and crack. Social work has become involved, and DCFS may remove the baby from Angie’s custody and place the baby with Christi. After learning about fetal risks and neonatal withdrawal, Angie voluntarily entered inpatient therapy; the plan is for her to return to Christi afterward, with weekly drug testing. Outcomes at birth will guide next steps. Christi also supervises Don (18) in a DCFS independent living program and intends to adopt her. DCFS asked if Christi could take another child; she declined due to space and a self-imposed limit of two teens to remain effective. Christi shared that she herself was born drug-exposed, which shaped her commitment to avoid addictive substances. Separately, Christi is rolling out Plaud (an AI note-taking/productivity tool) to select staff at Ability First and Sharp, citing its usefulness for meeting capture and task management. ------------ ## Action Items - @Christi - [ ] Process Sharp paper-based expense signatures - [By the 6th] - [ ] Process Ability First expenses: confirm 10,000 receipts, approve 50,000 invoices, and locate 20,000 invoices - [By the 6th] - [ ] Attend Alere stakeholder meeting to discuss closeout and AI enablement - [Thursday] - [ ] Execute camp site visit with Vana: test AP handoff for call drops, install/check new antennas, and fix amphitheater switch - [Tomorrow] - [ ] Conduct Claremont walkthrough with Vana to identify support needs - [Tomorrow] - [ ] Visit East LA to align document storage to ProCare and mitigate HIPAA risk ahead of DMH requirements - [TBD] - [ ] Verify Robert’s availability for future camp/site visits to observe setups - [TBD] - [ ] Assign Robert to complete SonicWall infrastructure changeout at the designated site - [Within the next two weeks] - [ ] Prepare John Wilder to assist with training and assign more challenging tasks per Olivia’s request - [TBD] - [ ] Re-run Power Automate training and invite PEC stakeholders - [TBD] - [ ] Update Nylar client map with current site information - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule Gaston and Robert to accompany site visits to L. Frank, Curated Partners, and Jham - [TBD] - [ ] Roll out Plaud to selected personnel at Ability First and Sharp - [TBD] - [ ] Obtain approval for a one-week leave around the October 5 due date - [TBD] - [ ] Attend dental appointment to reinstall implant screw - [Today] - @Vana - [ ] Join Christi for camp diagnostic/fix work and Claremont walkthrough - [Tomorrow] - @Comcast - [ ] Participate in camp visit alongside Christi’s team - [Tomorrow] - @Kevin - [ ] Confirm availability to join the camp visit to assist onsite - [TBD]
- Date
- Aug 31, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:57 Okay, Starling. Last week, yesterday. Speaker 1 00:01:27 All right. Speaker 1 00:02:47 Ability first. File print PDF. There we go. Print. Speaker 1 00:03:34 Seven hundred. So, oh, okay. We had to add somebody. Speaker 1 00:04:10 Hey, Speaker 2 00:04:10 Yes. Did NordVPN? Did you guys get that set up? Okay. Card, it's always right here. Just make sure you return it, unless I need it and I have it in. I have it with me for a reason, which hardly ever happens. I got too many cards to keep track of. Speaker 1 00:04:42 Dropbox. Who has Dropbox? Speaker 2 00:05:27 Good morning. Oh, I'm good. How are you? Sorry, let me. I was making a quick phone call, but you had perfect timing. No, no. I it's. I just need to. I lost the screw for my implant, so I was calling the dentist to make an appointment for this afternoon. Speaker 1 00:05:45 Oh. Speaker 2 00:05:59 Yeah, no, I lost I lost the crown. The week after I got out of the hospital, I lost it here. At Sharp, it came out. I was eating some some laffy taffy or something. It just fell out, and so they had to pull the entire tooth because there was no saving it. And they put the implant in. And then this morning I woke up and the implant screw had come out. I was like, God. So I have my my partial denture, just to kind of be able to eat and stuff, but. Yeah, I gotta go this afternoon and get them to put the screw back in. Speaker 1 00:06:30 Oh, yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:04 Oh, Speaker 2 00:07:06 Yeah, yeah, I completely get that. Yeah, I'm glad mine's down the street from my apartment, so which is 20 minutes from here. So you just remind me to pull something. Ah, today is all about the expenses. I have this is the Sharp expenses that need to be signed because I still do everything paper. And then I'm working on the ability first. I've got I've gotten receipts for ten thousand dollars so far, and I've got about another fifty thousand to approve invoices for, and twenty thousand to find invoices. So it's it's a lot today, but I'm trying to get done before this sixth because it's all due on the sixth. So I'm trying to get everything done quickly. Speaker 1 00:07:56 So okay. Speaker 2 00:08:08 Okay. The nineteenth of this month. Speaker 1 00:08:18 Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 00:08:39 Yeah. I can. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:09:15 So after after Wednesday of this week, my everything starts to slow down as far as AI training. Tomorrow I'm at camp all day, and then we're going to Claremont, but that's a Monday first. I would say any time in the next two weeks, other than the 17th. Speaker 1 00:09:47 Uh. Speaker 2 00:09:52 Huh. I would say, I would say by Friday, because I had to block out Thursday and Friday for Cotton, and I have not unblocked it yet. Because they've, um, we've got that nailed down now. We do have something planned on the seventh. I will not be at work. You will not be at work. It is Memorial Day or Labor Day. Yeah, I only I don't have it on my calendar either. I just remembered it. I'm gonna take a train up to Merced. Uh, any time before three o'clock on the eighth. Speaker 1 00:10:53 Perfect. Okay, that works for me. Yes. Speaker 1 00:11:26 It's going home today. See, SCHARP, any idea? Okay. Speaker 1 00:12:17 Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:23 Okay. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:55 Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:32 Okay, yeah, I know Michonne wants to meet, but she wants to meet with me first before she meets with you. I don't know why. So, but yeah, and then because we're still working on strategy stuff, we're meeting with every site, and I got to be out at East LA for half a day. I'm going to camp tomorrow in Claremont tomorrow afternoon, so. Speaker 1 00:15:13 Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:15:52 Yeah. Yeah. High profile. Speaker 1 00:16:25 Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:16:46 Pretty well. Cotton got moved out again. We tentatively set it for the 23rd of September. At this point, we've built them 100%. I'm just waiting to get the training done. Cotton is a lot of hand-holding through it. Cotton is very high-touch. High needs to needs to be a part of everything. And so that one we've delayed a few times on their end, and so I essentially blocked out the third and the fourth and said, okay, I'm blocking out these days. I'm not going to schedule anything here unless it's urgent that I schedule it, and you guys can have at it. Just tell me what times. And so they finally got back to me on that. And then we have the Alere project wrapping up, and they know I've closed it out or am going to close it out. Speaker 2 00:17:38 And we're meeting with their stakeholders on Thursday as well. So I'm going to be at that meeting, talking through some things, and seeing if we can help other of their shareholders enable AI in their tenancy. And then my only issue, no, yeah. And with Alere, it's all been billable. The only issue I'm running into is Westwood, and it's not a training thing that's going on. It's they ask George to get things done, and then we say, "Hey, no, we've got we've got to get this stuff done instead." And then they push to get it put in front of others, and then George, loving to death, but he does not say no to Westwood. Speaker 2 00:18:35 And so I'm running a little bit behind on getting things done for them, but I'll be honest, they're not paying as much for what they wanted because we we sat 20 hours in the project, and he complained that it was too much, and so George lowered those hours. But for the most part, the reason the reason I was able to get as much done is because I had already done a bunch of work on the back end and just gave them one of my products, and attached it to their network. And put it in their Microsoft Tenancy, which took me five hours, and so that's how I've saved time on these projects. But I had asked for it to get pushed out. George does not know how to say no, so personally, he's on my shit list. But there's a whole other problem that Olivia is going to take care of for me, so. Speaker 2 00:19:31 That's my only headache. Everything else is going really well. We're going to be finishing up the Starlink and the cabling at camp. We had already done a bunch and had already finished it all, but we're going back up because Kelly's got some complaints. So both myself and Comcast is going. I'm taking Vana. I've asked Kevin to go with us, but he hasn't responded yet. Speaker 2 00:19:56 So when she walks from the pool to her house, calls always drop in one specific location. So we're going to go check that out. Either that, or her phone is not handing off properly to APs. It's not switching properly, which we've seen that happen with her before. And we've made that walk in the past and never had a drop call. And it's only on her cell phone. So we're going to see what we can figure out. But we're also going to check because the antennas came in. You, we're going to check those. And then there is an issue with the amphitheater. And Becker found that one out. So apparently the amphitheater is not connecting correctly, and so we got to get some ice on that switch on Tuesday. But there's no campers, so the amphitheater is not being used. So we're not too worried about that one. But we have to do all of that tomorrow. So we're going to walk through it all. Speaker 2 00:20:54 And then we're going to go to Claremont and do some walkthroughs, Vana and I, and see what needs to be changed there because they they need some help at Claremont because they're so far away, and they don't holler as loudly as Kelly at camp. They don't get the love and support that they should have or need. So we're going to make that stop. And then the following week, I'll be going to East LA and spending some time in East LA. So. Trying to get in front of some things and seeing what their processes are. One of the biggest things we're working on is how can we make their lives a little bit more efficient in all the work that they're doing. Because we we do have some HIPAA concerns. They're not out of HIPAA compliance, but because of how one of the teams works, they save documents that they shouldn't on Teams rather than ProCare, and so we need to go see if we can try to adjust how they do things. Because as they're trying to get. Speaker 2 00:21:54 College to career department. So Sean and I are very much aware of it, and we're trying to see what we can do to help make their lives easier. It's not a HIPAA violation yet, but with the DMH stuff coming up next year, I want to make sure that we're we've got we can say absolutely. So we're. We don't think that they're saving anything they shouldn't, but they're they don't like ProCare, and so we're going to make sure that all of the support team is not saving documentation to shares and teams. So that's how that we're trying to mitigate some issues that's been happening because Nicole does not want her team to take any time of training. Speaker 2 00:22:49 Because if they take training, that takes time away from the clients, and she has to pay for the training. She doesn't want it to come out of her budget. So we're trying to figure out how we can work with them without making it mandatory. She's trying to be nice. Michonne is. So we just—it's just a few little issues like that that's going on that we're trying to mitigate. East LA—they're fantastic. They just no one—they're like the ugly stepchild. Speaker 2 00:23:19 Nobody wants to deal with them, so I'm going to go hang out with them and make them feel loved and and taken care of. So we did the same for Jham last year; it was a success. Now we're trying to do it with East LA. So other than that, I'm looking forward to I don't want to say the words, but I'm looking forward to a not as heavy pace over the next couple weeks. Speaker 2 00:23:50 Yeah, hey, I did my I did my training yesterday, just for you. But I have I have I know it was so easy. I was like I almost sent you a message and said I have it. Speaker 1 00:24:22 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:25:04 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:26:07 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:27:01 Yeah . Yes, so we're working on that. We're working on some training. Firewalls and switches, no, not yet. Servers, physical servers, yes, 100%. There was a lot of information and tasks that he was not allowed to do. Which stunned him. So now I've given him, here's your boundaries. This is where I want you to operate. Come see me if there's any issues, and I think that's grown his skill level tremendously since in the last five months. He's really good with CCTV and security systems. He's gotten really good with ADT and the Brivo system, all of that. So. Speaker 2 00:27:51 I just tell him when there's a problem with ADT, and he goes and handles it. He goes out to the sites and fixes it. So those are the things he knows really well. I think once we pull the switches and firewalls from Pearless next year, because we still don't have their switches and firewalls yet, that's taking place in April 2027. Then he he's. So Pearless has the contract for handling all the firewalls and switches at most of the sites, plus ISP and telephones. So we're pulling. Mhm. Hmm. I'm gonna have to go look that up. Yeah, it's pretty expensive. Yeah, so we're we're rolling that back, and we're gonna be taking over that. Speaker 2 00:28:47 Taking over because they have Meraki at every site, so we'll be taking over the Meraki and all the systems when that happens, and then that's when he's going to jump in and be able to learn all of that. Now he does know sonic walls, and he's handling changing out the sonic wall infrastructure at one of the sites in the next couple of weeks. So, yeah, he is your everyman. You give him something, he's going to learn it. Speaker 2 00:29:19 So. He's a sponge. He is. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:29:29 Yes. Speaker 1 00:29:54 Yes, he definitely. Speaker 2 00:29:56 Yeah, he's the one that he will jump in like a like a bulldog and figure something out. So he's he's they're both very similar on that, and they both feed off of each other in positive ways. And he's not quiet. Trust me. Speaker 2 00:30:21 You should hear them in here sometimes. I have a white noise maker just to because if not, I'll jump in on some of their joking and things, and I'll hear some things come through, and I'll be like, I got to jump in on this one. This one's funny. It's mostly surrounding like TV shows and Marvel and things like that. It's nerd stuff, but they're great. I mean, I would love to take Robert with me to camp. I know tomorrow is not going to work. I'm trying to get Kevin to go with me tomorrow because I definitely could use him on site, but he's not biting it yet. Vana is going with me, but I I would love to get Robert out there as well, just so that he can see the setup there and how we're putting things together and things like that. But I haven't I hadn't checked with him to see what his schedule is yet. I just got that idea last night when I was watching the smishing video on 2x. I was waiting for the quiz to come up so I could hurry up and take it and be done. Speaker 2 00:31:18 So, but yeah, they're both really great guys, and we definitely need to utilize them elsewhere. Speaker 1 00:31:48 Yeah. Uh huh. Speaker 1 00:32:21 Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:33:03 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:33:11 So yeah. So for the Pasadena office, it's been Vana, and they love her there. For all the other offices, Speaker 1 00:33:19 It's random. Speaker 1 00:33:37 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:34:12 Yeah. Yeah. That would be great. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:34:42 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:35:25 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:35:46 Yeah. Um, I just realized. Um, we have close to sharp. In Inglewood is Ability First, and then Curated Partners is also 15 minutes away. Speaker 1 00:36:03 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:36:24 Yeah, this I I need to fix it because it's been a while. It's been a while since I I did it, but this our client map in Nylar, and so this Sharp, and then here's the Linwood office for Ability First. That's the other Sharp offices, and then here is Curated Wealth Partners. The other ones are, yeah, those we don't handle as much. Speaker 2 00:36:54 But this will give you a good idea. There's a Primrose Winegard office and auto concierge and Gismart over there. And then at least we don't need to. There's a Rose office for Wineguard, so we could have some people help. That's another Sharp office, National History Museum. But this is all of our area and things that we have coming from it. Speaker 1 00:37:27 So . Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:38:21 Yeah . Yeah. So there's two Ability First offices in Pasadena, the main one, and then LL Frank. And then, so we can definitely do that. And then, I was just thinking about having. I need to go to L. Frank anyways in a couple weeks. We could have the new guys go with me because I I haven't seen the site in two three years. And then I can curated has always been if they're down and I'm in the area because I'm working from home. They're literally five minutes from my house, straight down the street. Speaker 2 00:38:58 So they've always been. I've been their emergency go on site, and I've done that a few times. And same with Inglewood, because it's about ten minutes for me. So, but I like that. I like that idea. In fact, Gaston and Robert would do really well at at both curated and Jham. And. Speaker 1 00:39:19 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:39:35 Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:40:11 Honestly, everything's going great right now for me. Just like I said the other day, I'm. We did a bunch of the training, Power Automate. We're gonna read. We're gonna do that training once again, just because the clients that came into that meeting really enjoyed it, and it was a packed house. And in fact, PEC even joined us on that meeting, and asked us if if I did that training again, could they join another one? Which of course I said yes because anything I can do to try to get PEC under our umbrella would be amazing because that would be that would be icing on the cake for Mike if we got PEC. Yeah, so I'm trying. I'm trying all that, and then you know I'm I'm intentionally stepping back from doing as much training over the next four to six weeks just because personally I. Speaker 2 00:41:12 We don't know when the baby's coming. I honestly, I okay. Speaker 1 00:41:20 Okay, yeah, yeah. Speaker 1 00:41:48 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:42:22 Yes . Yes. Um, John has expressed interest in helping train, so I'm going to work on getting him trained or ready to help train and and cover for some things. Um, and he's Wilder. Yeah. Olivia's asked me to work with him a little bit to give him some more stuff to do because I think he might he he's going to enjoy the challenge. Okay. Speaker 1 00:42:59 Yes. Speaker 1 00:43:22 Yeah. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:43:54 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:44:23 Gotcha. I wish I had the ability to do that, but as you know, I do not. I will keep going until I fall asleep. Yeah. Yes. I'm like I I'm so thankful that I found out about Claude because it one it records all my meetings and I can understand. No one ever sees the recordings. They're private to me, and I can sit there and say, okay, Claude, what did I miss? That needs to go back on my calendar, and then it puts everything on my calendar. So I, I was just having that that call that I took when we were supposed to meet. Uh, they were asking me about Dominic, and they said, "How is she handling her ADHD symptoms at college?" And I said, "Well, I bought her a Plaud." So I had to explain it because her ADHD is worse than mine, and I get pretty bad ADHD. So. Speaker 2 00:45:18 In fact, we're going to actually roll out Plaud to a few people at Ability First and a few people at Sharp. Yeah. So, question for you was on the tip of my tongue. Never mind. Apparently, was not that important. Oh no, I didn't remember it. Um. So I canceled my vacation a few weeks ago because I was out. Due to the medical stuff when I was at the hospital, and I didn't want to take more time off. But I'm thinking about if you're good with it and taking a week off when the baby is born. Would you be okay with that? Okay. It her due date's the fifth of October. Speaker 2 00:46:15 However, privately between you and I, she's started using again, and they're probably going to take the baby from her custody, put the baby with me, and kick her out of the program. Yeah. So I've been I've been doing really well in keeping up with with everything going on with her, but her social worker got involved last week. So, it's not. She's great. Like she comes home, she gets her chores done, she gets everything done, she signed up for college classes, but she started using again. So, yeah. But uh, weed and crack. If it was just weed, it would be one thing. But yeah, and she's 20. Um, the 18 year old Don. Speaker 2 00:47:13 I'm probably going to adopt adopt her, so she's gonna she's in a different type of program where she pays me rent and I supervise her independence. And so it's a really cool program that DCFS has, and I probably will stay with that type of program. But yeah, but that stays between you and I because we're we're working on it with Angie. Angie is the mom to be soon, so. Luckily, I have a village, and the village is, yeah, yeah. It does. We we we're we're working. She's in patient today, so they texted me a moment ago and said she's doing fantastic. So we'll see what happens. So. Speaker 1 00:48:16 So, Speaker 2 00:48:24 Yeah, the impact is pretty great. So, if you smoke weed even during your first trimester, that stays in the baby's body after until after they're born. So, they're still going to have withdrawal symptoms, and there's still a potential brain damage or fetal development issues that occur. And she didn't know all of that. She had never been taught that, and so we were going over it all. And she's like, "Well, I think I need to be inpatient therapy." And I said, "Okay." And I took her Saturday morning, and so she's staying inpatient for the next week or so. And then she's coming back to me because I we know where she got the stuff from, and she moved in with it. So she hadn't left to go get any more since she moved in with me. Speaker 2 00:49:14 And so it was the realization of, hey, this is harming my fetus, that asked her to put, asked me to put her in an inpatient. So they'll keep her in inpatient until they deem she's no longer at risk. She comes back to me, and then they're going to do drug tests with her weekly, and then depending on what the drug test on the baby confirms. Depends on what steps we take the next. So, it's actually been pretty eye opening. She's been fantastic about you know being truthful and open. Now that she's learned all of this, you can tell she's trying to break the cycle. So I'm still going to support her every way possible. But, yeah. Speaker 1 00:50:12 Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:50:53 It's hard. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:51:20 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I um. I was born. I was a crack baby, and because, and I, and I know that because, and I found that out at an early age. I made the decision never to try anything that I could get addicted to, because I'm like that. That's going to ruin my life, because I, I was addicted to it when I was born. So, um, but, Speaker 1 00:51:49 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:51:59 Yeah , Exactly. Yeah, but yeah. Speaker 1 00:52:06 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:52:25 Yes. Well, so. GLP - 1s have been found to reduce cravings of addiction. So it's they're finding out GLP - 1s have a lot more uses than just weight loss and diabetic. Speaker 1 00:52:41 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:52:60 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:53:12 Yeah. I mean, yeah, that would be great. I can't say much because I'm addicted to work. That's that's how I get through. Speaker 1 00:53:29 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:53:55 Mhm. Speaker 2 00:53:58 Which is why I'm going back into quilting this weekend because I'm bored on gaming. I'm going to teach the girls how to quilt. But no, I got a call from DCFS the other day and they're like, Hey, you're doing great with Angie and we like how you did everything. What are the chances you take another kid? And I said one, no, because I don't have a big enough place. And two, two two teens are my limit right now. I cannot be effective there and be addicted to work and make it work both work. And they're like, Oh, you're one of those. And I said, Yep. I'm one of those. Yeah, yeah, because I there's already a kid in the wings that I would take in a heartbeat if I didn't have Angie. So, but yeah. All right, well I'm gonna become a grandparent. Thanks. You too. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Have a great week. Bye.
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-08-28 15:59:08 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes - Training schedule adjustments - Christi has a personal appointment requiring departure at 10:00 on Thursday, September 4. - The group agreed Thursday’s session will run from 9:00 to 10:15. - Friday is open for Christi; the session can extend to cover remaining content. - Julie’s team can start at 8:30 if needed, but the group chose 9:00–10:15. - The extra 15 minutes after 10:15 on Thursday will be used by staff to debrief and gather questions. - Meeting hosting, invites, and roles - Christi is hosting and has sent calendar invitations for both sessions. - Julie will be assigned as co-host for both meetings. - Recordings will save to both hosts when applicable. - Meetings will continue even if Christi leaves. - Q&A and facilitator features will be enabled to capture questions and support recaps. - Pre-work materials and marketing updates - Christi is updating training videos; marketing will polish them before distribution. - If videos are not ready, Stuart will receive blanket access to the file location. - Christi will provide cheat sheets and one-page quick reference guides on Microsoft 365 Copilot. - Prompt samples will be shared (finance, admin, executives, HR, operations, property, sales, nonprofit/grant writing). - Julie requested materials in advance to share with objectives; Christi agreed to email them. - Training objectives and content (Thursday and Friday) - Thursday (Day 1): - Accessing Microsoft 365 Copilot (enterprise version). - Effective prompt design and safety (what information to include/avoid). - Primarily for staff not using desktop apps; focuses on chat-style usage. - Friday (Day 2): - Using Copilot within Microsoft apps (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint). - Creating agents, libraries, and notebooks. - Deeper coverage of notebooks; may take significant time. - Outlook usage will be covered on Day 2. - Even app-light staff should attend Friday due to occasional use of Excel/Word. - Access methods: Microsoft vs. Google and device differences - Admin side uses Word/Excel; program side uses Google. - Copilot is available within Microsoft apps (buttons in the lower part of the screen). - Copilot Chat app can be launched via the Start menu on Windows; select “Copilot 365.” - On Mac, access via Office.com; login may be seamless if already authenticated. - Copilot is enterprise-enabled on staff accounts. - Audience expectations and differentiation - Sessions are mandatory; some attendees may have seen similar content. - Repetition is acceptable for foundational learning; questions from experienced users add value. - Request to avoid using staff as examples in presentations; humor about using Kamyaab lightly, without personal data. - Ongoing training and support - Additional open training sessions will continue but less frequently before late September. - Christi will have irregular availability in late September to early October; more offerings resume in October. - Interest noted for Power Automate; future sessions will be extended. - A general training calendar existed; it will return in October. - Until then, Christi will send info; staff can reach out directly via the booking link in her email signature. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Send Thursday and Friday meeting invites to all staff (Christi sent; team to forward). - [ ] Assign Julie as co-host for both sessions. - [ ] Enable Q&A and facilitator features for meetings. - [ ] Share cheat sheets and prompt samples with Julie and Stuart before sessions, including objectives in the email. - [ ] Provide blanket access to training files to Stuart if marketing updates are not ready. - [ ] Communicate clear objectives and note possible repeated content to staff in the pre-session email; include exact Friday time, links, and any extended duration. - [ ] Use Thursday’s 10:15–10:30 window for staff debrief and to compile questions for Friday. - [ ] Cover Copilot access methods (Windows/Mac, apps vs. Office.com) and Outlook usage during training; include guidance on distinguishing enterprise Copilot authentication. - [ ] Inform staff that more trainings (including Power Automate) will resume in October; share booking link for 1:1s. - [ ] Finalize and distribute the training itinerary by the promised weekend/Monday timeline. - [ ] Prepare role-specific prompt examples for program staff who primarily use Google, in addition to finance/admin prompts. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Confirm exact times and links for Friday’s session and any extended duration, and communicate to staff. > 2. Clarify whether marketing-updated videos will be ready before Thursday; set a deadline and fallback plan for file access. > 3. Finalize and distribute the training itinerary by the promised weekend/Monday timeline. > 4. Prepare role-specific prompt examples for program staff who primarily use Google, beyond existing finance/admin prompts. > 5. Provide instructions for distinguishing enterprise Copilot in the interface to reassure staff they are properly authenticated.
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- Aug 28, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:01:13 Hi, how are you guys? Very good, very good. Speaker 2 00:01:17 And you? Good. Speaker 3 00:01:18 How are you? I am good. Bear with me because my camera is trying to find itself again. All right. So I'm trying to get it to install, and it's telling me I need to download a new software update. Oh wow! Yeah. It's a. It's a. A different model than standard. So, how are you guys? How is your week? Good, busy but good. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Real quickly, the the training that's on Friday that I was talking about is a stand one that is that I have on the calendar. So that one I can easily move around. It's just one that. Speaker 3 00:02:05 But it's the Friday appointment that has me a little timid. I can be a little bit late, but I'm not sure that they're going to allow me to be 30 minutes late because it's a. Speaker 4 00:02:18 Personal. So, okay, okay. So on the Friday, that's September 4th. You yes, pretty much have to leave at 10 o'clock then. Speaker 3 00:02:27 No, Speaker 4 00:02:28 Thursday. Oh, Thursday. Oh, okay. So it's. Thursday that you have to leave at ten o'clock. Speaker 3 00:02:35 Yes. Speaker 4 00:02:37 Now let me ask you one question. Okay. Um, and I don't. This is just completely off the top of my head. Um, is since we have waited all this time, I would hate to miss, you know, even a few minutes of the training. Would it be better? Now I don't know the content of the training video. Would it be better if we have? I mean, we have to be very flexible because on our side, Julie and her team are in a very busy period of their preparation for the new school year. So they may not be that flexible. And since we have already told people. Speaker 4 00:03:29 I don't know. Is it possible to start the training on Thursday half an hour earlier? I don't know. Speaker 3 00:03:34 Absolutely, the only thing I have going on on Thursday is that. Speaker 4 00:03:39 Okay, so if you have if ten o'clock is a hard deadline, I don't know. Maybe rather than starting at nine, maybe we can start at eight thirty. But I don't know if that's a possibility for any of our staff because if. Right. We give that suggestion, and half of the attendees cannot attend, so it's not going to be all that helpful. But I mean, what do you think, Speaker 2 00:04:06 Julie? You know, we generally start at seven thirty, so my staff will be fine starting at eight thirty. I'm sure they would prefer it. Okay. So I don't know about. Other than the program team people whose normal work hours are nine to five, I don't know, you know, if they're dropping off children or if they have other things that they need to do. But my team, I think, would totally be fine with an eight thirty start time. Could I give you guys an alternative. Speaker 4 00:04:38 Depending on what the alternative is, yes. Speaker 3 00:04:44 Why don't we go into? Why don't we keep nine? Let's do nine to ten fifteen. Because we can get through until three until ten fifteen. Because I can like can traffic is not going to be too bad on a Thursday at that time, and that's why I said I can be a little bit late. So if I leave at ten fifteen, I should be there within five or ten minutes of the start time that I'm supposed to be there. Okay, that's fine. Friday I'm completely clear all day, so we need run slightly longer to pick up from the day before. I can do that as well. Speaker 4 00:05:18 No, that that will be great. And Christi, I'm very surprised you don't have an AI siren for when you're on the road. You can put it on top of your car and be buzzing through the traffic. Oh, I would. But no, that's fine. So yeah, let's let's keep the nine, nine to ten fifteen on Thursday. Okay. And then on Friday, if necessary, will go longer. I think that's much easier to navigate. Speaker 2 00:05:43 Okay, you know, Kamyaab. Also, I don't know who's hosting the meeting, if if we're hosting on our teams or what, but you know, maybe that extra fifteen minutes on Thursday would be a good opportunity for staff to pose questions, and then we can shoot them to Christi an email so that they can be addressed the next day. So it might that fifteen minutes might just be great staff time for us to come together and sure see what people are thinking. Speaker 3 00:06:13 That's awesome. I just sent you guys an invite, and I left it at ten thirty. So if I leave, the meeting's gone. Um, Speaker 4 00:06:25 And so are are you hosting it, Christi? I I have at least your invitation. I have not yet received. Speaker 3 00:06:35 It should be there in a moment. I had just sent it out, and Julie made herself. Speaker 4 00:06:43 Yeah, I see that now. Okay, so we can send this to all the staff then. Speaker 3 00:06:52 And then Julie, I will give you co - host abilities. Okay, on both meetings, and then that way also, if you record, it'll save to yours as well as. Speaker 2 00:07:02 Mine. Okay, and then if we if you leave at ten fifteen, um. If I'm co - host, will the will the meeting continue? Speaker 3 00:07:13 Yes, the meeting is going to continue anyways, no matter what. Okay. Even if I leave, Speaker 2 00:07:18 So we can still have that fifteen minutes of time with staff to just debrief. Yes. What we learned and pose any questions that we might want. Yes. Speaker 3 00:07:26 And I'm going to have facilitator turned on so that when you guys do the questions, it'll record that information. Okay. Speaker 3 00:07:42 The facilitator is on. I've got that setting set, and then let me, may I have you add this lower. Very. Speaker 4 00:07:52 Good. So we'll forward these two invitations to all of our staff. Great. And Christi, you mentioned you would be, or you're preparing some videos, but you're updating them and all that. Yes. Are the updates finished that we can maybe distribute to the staff? Speaker 3 00:08:28 Or I wish the the marketing team asked to take those once I get done with them, which I've sent them over, and then they want to make it pretty. Okay. So. Sure, that's fine. You know how marketing teams are, Speaker 4 00:08:43 Right? And then, the what do you think the chances of them being ready before the Thursday first session? Speaker 3 00:08:52 But if they're not ready, I'll give you blanket access to where those files are stored, Stuart. Speaker 4 00:08:57 Okay, no, that's fine. I mean, locate. I mean, right. We we don't want to rush anything unnecessarily, so that's fine. Speaker 3 00:09:08 It's quite all right, I promise. They're used to me, Speaker 4 00:09:12 So. Okay. So. Speaker 3 00:09:14 I'm turning on Q and A as well for you guys on this meeting, just so that it's fair. Speaker 1 00:09:21 Okay. Speaker 3 00:09:21 It'll get recorded in the recap. Speaker 2 00:09:23 Right. And Christi, what do you understand our staff's needs to be for this training? Speaker 3 00:09:31 So honestly, just a little bit of information I have gotten from them, and let me pull that up real quick, and then. That question. Speaker 2 00:09:42 I love the surfboard in the background. Oh, I'm in my son's room. My office is like a shed outside, and it's so hot that my little air conditioner can't keep up. So yes, this is this is the background of the day. Speaker 3 00:09:55 Well, mine are sleeping. My my two little children. You got them right as they calm back down. Speaker 3 00:10:07 And they um they are now conked out, especially the kitten. He's black. Hmm. Speaker 2 00:10:12 I mean, I guess my question is really like, what are you hoping to accomplish, or what do what are you hoping we will learn on Thursday and Friday? Speaker 3 00:10:30 So mostly just how to handle the system copilot. Things like that. So you guys sent in your responses again about your expectations and the things that you put in. Like, there's some concerns. I know that Jodi had some concerns about using it. The accuracy of generated content was one of her biggest concerns. Let me pull up others because. Speaker 3 00:11:10 Most people are concerned, but honestly, not very many people had too much in there as far as answers. Speaker 2 00:11:18 So, what do you see? Our learn like what are the objectives for Thursday and Friday? What should we walk away with having learned. Speaker 3 00:11:29 To get more comfortable with AI? And how to use it, make it work for you. Let me share with you my screen so that you can see what I'm seeing. So this is go down from until you get to twenty, because after twenty it's another. But above that line that I put in there, most people, few people have no experience. A few people have used it occasionally and regularly, and a few people have tried it. Speaker 3 00:12:01 And so, what I wanted to get them because most of them that have used it are ones that haven't used as much Copilot as everybody else. So I want them come. I want them. Words are hard today. I want them to have an understanding and be more comfortable with how to use Copilot, and also a lot of them is interested in where and using it to write and research. Speaker 2 00:12:29 Okay. So one of the objectives is being able to, because when you turn Copilot on for us, are is it just automatically within Outlook, or are we logging on to a different link to get to Copilot for other kinds of work? Speaker 3 00:12:46 It is automatically turned on. Speaker 2 00:12:48 Okay, so how do we access it? Speaker 3 00:12:52 So you access it either either in Outlook. Let me let me just my I know how. Speaker 2 00:12:57 To access it in Outlook. Speaker 3 00:12:59 Okay, perfect. So you can access it multiple. You can access it either in the applications themselves or using the chat application that's already installed on your computer. So this is Copilot Chat, and I'm logged in. And so you can access it right there or in your documents. So OneNote, because I'm in. Hold hold on a hold on a second. Speaker 2 00:13:24 So. Speaker 2 00:13:27 So we a lot of our staff never works in OneNote. Okay, ever. That's no problem. So like for me, the only place I can see it currently on my screen is in Outlook. Speaker 3 00:13:43 Okay. So do you use uh um, not ProPresenter. Um, do you use Word? No. Okay, Speaker 2 00:13:58 Excel. No, the program side will exclusively use Google. Speaker 4 00:14:04 But Christi, on our side, on the admin side, we use Excel and Word quite a bit. Speaker 3 00:14:12 Okay, got you. Okay, so in Excel and Word, they're going to be down here at the lower part of the screen, and PowerPoint as well. So I just clicked on it; just disappeared. There we go. So it's going to be right here, and you just click on the little button. Or for those who use Word, PowerPoint, those are going to be in the same location. And if you're exclusively in Google, you can use the application. That's say that again. If you use exclusively Google, you can use the applications on your. Speaker 2 00:14:47 Computer. Okay, so when you say the application that's on your computer, like. I'm used to using like Perplexity and Claude and those, and I go to them online. So, if how do I access Copilot if I want to do some research work? Speaker 3 00:15:06 So you click on Start, and type in Copilot, and it should bring up two. You're looking for the one that says 365. Speaker 2 00:15:14 So the program team are all on Macs. Okay. So and am I going to Finder? Speaker 3 00:15:22 If it's on, if you're on Mac, then you go to the website you use is Office dot com. Speaker 2 00:15:28 Office dot com. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. So knowing that, oh, so then there's a Microsoft 365 Copilot sign in. That's where I go. And is Copilot only for Microsoft products? Yes. Okay. Oh, but now it looks like. I see. Now it looks like Perplexity or Claude or whatever. Okay. Yes. So so staff needs to know. Now our first kind of objective is accessing it, right? But how do I know that when I open Copilot that it's the enterprise version? Speaker 2 00:16:19 Do I have the enterprise version already. Speaker 3 00:16:22 You do because it's already on your account. Speaker 2 00:16:25 Okay. Okay. So when I go to Copilot and I log in through Office. com, it I I I it didn't require any sign in from me. Speaker 3 00:16:40 No, it won't because you're already logged in. Speaker 2 00:16:43 Got it. Okay. So there are two ways that staff will access it. They will either access it through Office. com if they are using a Mac, right? Or if they are using mostly Microsoft in their work, which is half of us, with Excel and Word and all that kind of stuff, then they would access it through the apps. Okay, so that's a distinction that will probably need to be made to staff. Speaker 3 00:17:14 I already have it in the training. Speaker 2 00:17:16 Okay, great. So one one of the objectives for that time is to log on to be able to find it, right? What's another objective that you're hoping we'll walk away with? Speaker 3 00:17:28 Mostly familiarity of how to use it. So where to use it in the app? Where to use it if you're just your chat option, similar to how you do Claude and Perplexity. And then what? How to correctly prompt with it? So. How to get the most out of the application by asking the right questions and how to ask those questions. Speaker 2 00:17:50 So prompt design. Yes. Okay. So Christi, Speaker 4 00:17:57 One one just side question before you move further. Will you also cover use of Copilot while in Microsoft Outlook? Speaker 3 00:18:07 Yes. In fact, day two is mostly using the apps. Speaker 4 00:18:12 Okay. Speaker 3 00:18:14 So the half, Julie, that doesn't use apps, most what they'll most of what they'll need, in fact, almost all of what they'll need will be on that first day. Speaker 2 00:18:23 Okay, I'm still going to have them come on the second day because we still do have times when we're in Excel or Word. I mean, we all have it on our computers. It's just not the common thing that we work with in school. So I'll still have them come on Friday. Okay. So Thursday will be like prompt design. So we're how to access, and then prompt design, Speaker 3 00:18:53 Correct. And safety, putting the right information in. Safety. Speaker 2 00:18:60 Okay. Okay, are there any other big ideas that we'll walk away with on Thursday? Speaker 3 00:19:13 Um. Not on Thursday. Speaker 2 00:19:17 Okay, so Thursday. Oh, sorry. Essentially, how to access. Thursday is essentially how to access Copilot, our enterprise version. How to design effective prompts and some safety. Yes. So can can can we? Um. And then what does Friday look like? Speaker 3 00:19:41 Friday is going to be using it within the apps and how to create agents, libraries, and notebooks. Agents, Speaker 2 00:19:52 Libraries, and notebooks. Yes. Cool. Is there anything else that we're expected that we would be learning on Friday that you would want us to walk away with? Speaker 3 00:20:03 Um, I don't think so at this time. I think. I think that's going to be everything because it's going to take a minute, especially when we go through notebooks a lot. Speaker 2 00:20:14 Yes, for sure. So, what can Kamyaab and I communicate to staff so their expectations are kind of clear and credible? They know what they're going to learn and walk away with. Can we can we communicate those objectives that you listed? Yes, and additionally. Speaker 3 00:20:35 Probably this weekend or Monday, I'll have the itinerary put in. I didn't want to put the itinerary until after we talk today, and that'll be sent over as well. A couple of things that they're going to walk away with, almost well, physically or virtually, however they want to do it, is cheat sheets. So I'll have cheat sheets, and I will have one page. So AI prompting some things that they can do quick reference guides in Microsoft Three Hundred and Sixty Five Copilot. It looks just like this. So they'll walk away with some information from there of prompts and things that they can have they can try. And then with the sample stuff that they're gonna have some prompts that's basically kind of aligned with their jobs. And I want to say kind of because I don't have it for everybody within. Speaker 3 00:21:32 Our organization, but standard organizations or standard departments such as finance, admins, executive level things like that. I do have some nonprofit like grant writing and things like that, but there are going to be prompts that they can try. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:21:51 We don't we don't write grants. I could probably, if the chat is open, I could put some other ideas in the chat during the meeting for program staff too. Speaker 3 00:22:02 Perfect. That would be great. Speaker 2 00:22:04 So, Speaker 3 00:22:05 Okay. I just pulled it up. So I have accounting, executives, finance, HR, operations, property, which you guys are not, and sales, which I don't think you guys. So those are the cheat sheets that. Speaker 2 00:22:19 I have. Okay. Is it possible to have those sent ahead of time so that we can send the cheat sheets out with? The objectives, Speaker 3 00:22:33 Absolutely. Let me pull up an email, send that over to you guys real quick. I'm just going to send you everything, even if they don't apply, just because it's easier to select all. Speaker 2 00:22:44 Sure. I just think it's helpful for people to know what they're going to learn walking in, and to have the ability to preview anything if they want to. It just sets the conditions for learning. Speaker 3 00:22:59 I can understand. Speaker 3 00:23:03 This one. It would help if I close out the file before I try to send it over. Speaker 5 00:23:11 Ah, there you go. Speaker 3 00:23:31 That one is blank. Speaker 3 00:23:35 You're welcome. I don't want to send over the decks because Microsoft keeps changing things, and so I'm going to be updating those decks again before I meet with you guys. Speaker 1 00:23:45 Sure, sure. Speaker 2 00:23:46 And Christi, are there decisions about scope or pace? Or our audience, or expected outcomes that we can clarify for you, or that you would like any feedback on. Speaker 3 00:24:06 At this time, no. A lot of a lot of your team has been in my other trainings, so I know that some of them are going to come in already have gone through those trainings, and then I have done and had conversations several times with your team. I think I got everything I needed from them. Speaker 2 00:24:28 Okay. So, are you expecting that some of some people that have already, because we've we've asked these two meetings to be mandatory for staff, are you expecting that some of them will already have seen this content. Speaker 3 00:24:42 Um, some of them, not all of them. Oh. But this is not where I'm going to skip over things because people have seen it. I'm gonna. They're gonna just be bored if they already know it. So, Kamyaab, yeah, it's probably going to be one of those because he's attended a few of my trainings. Speaker 4 00:25:03 Believe me, Christi, I won't be bored. I'm I'm one of those people, and I always say I'm not ashamed of admitting it. I'm at a very early level of learning of AI, so I don't mind repeat of information, and I can use all the practice time that I can get. Not a problem. And I think if people have seen it or they don't feel like the material is bringing them any new information, you know, they can always log off. Or, but I think you know, questions may come up and new new things may be mentioned that they might not have known from before. So, I would encourage everybody who can attend to attend. Speaker 2 00:25:53 And well, we've already said they're mandatory, but right. So you know, one of the things that we can do just to manage expectations is to let them know that if they have attended some of the voluntary trainings, that there may be some repeated content and a way for them to, you know, think about what did they understand the first time and apply and what might be new. So just just to manage their expectations coming in, as part of the email that we send out to them. Speaker 4 00:26:24 Right, that makes sense. Speaker 3 00:26:26 Yes , I honestly, most people that have attended multiple times are the ones that bring up good questions in the middle of training that we hadn't seen. So I don't mind one bit, but I do go over everything from the basics point of view. As I've got an audience that's half used it and half have not. So and unless you guys relate to me that you need more. Speaker 2 00:26:53 Than just basics, I'm not. No, that's where we should be starting. And you know, as educators, we're used to that. We're used to the audience needing differentiation. So, yeah. Okay. I know that there has been talk about using staff as examples in the presentation, and we would ask that you please avoid using staff in the examples. Speaker 3 00:27:24 Not a problem. Unless I can, you know, call on Kamyaab and use him for something very silly unrelated. Speaker 4 00:27:31 Yeah, as long as you don't give my phone number and social security number away, I think. Speaker 2 00:27:40 And and his criminal record, Christi, got to watch that criminal record. Speaker 4 00:27:44 A criminal record, right? Right. Speaker 2 00:27:46 Understood. Good. Speaker 3 00:27:49 Thing we don't have any hackers that work for us. For sure. Speaker 5 00:27:53 Yeah. Speaker 4 00:28:02 Yeah , I think you know the important part is really clarity of the message, and you know for people so as you know because you know especially in this new new learning process you know clarity goes a long way, and it will. Encourage people to continue learning because, you know, we don't want to have experience a situation where people are turned off in some way or another, and they would be put off from continuing to learn because, you know, these two videos or these two training sessions are not going to be. So I think what would be useful at the end of day two on Friday is you know to mention to all the attendees that hey. Speaker 4 00:28:52 There are these other training sessions, and feel free to check some other some calendar item or whatever. They can find these training sessions so that they can continue learning. And just even going forward, do you think, Christi, we will have group training sessions after these two? Speaker 3 00:29:12 Or so, if you're talking about similar to. The ones I've held that you've attended this last month that are open to everyone. Yeah. However, I'm not gonna. I'm gonna do a few, not as not as often as what I've had this past month. I'm gonna do a few before the last two weeks of September, and then the last two weeks of September to the first two weeks of October. I'm not out of pocket. I am working, but there's gonna be some days that I'm gonna take off. We just don't know when and where. Okay. And then. Speaker 3 00:29:50 When I'm back in October, full time, then we will be with more training. Especially, I think some of your team members might benefit from Power Automate, and so I want to reextend that because I had a bunch of requests after that training earlier. More on Power Automate. Speaker 4 00:30:09 Is there a general calendar so that we don't have to go through the process of you sending us the information and we sending the links to the staff? Is there some, Calendar staff can go and check independently when they course. Speaker 3 00:30:25 Okay, but because of what's going on, I'm not going to have that back up until October. Speaker 4 00:30:31 There used to be. So for now, the only medium of information is for you sending it to us, and then we making it available to the staff. For right now. Okay. Yes. And there's a very very good reason why. Right. Speaker 3 00:30:50 And I just put that in your cap. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:30:52 So. That's fine. And then you know just to mention to you know in the training that yeah so mentioning in the training so people know okay if they want more information or something now can people reach out to you directly? Yes. Oh, they can. Okay. Speaker 3 00:31:20 Yes, always can reach out, and the booking link is in my signature for everyone on any of the emails I send out. That can always be used to set up a meeting request. Speaker 4 00:31:31 Okay, that's that's very generous. Speaker 3 00:31:34 Thank you. No worries. The only thing is, is during those four weeks, just because we don't know when that's happening, I I might have to feel free to cancel during that time. So. Yeah, my work's going to be cut out for me. Oh yeah, attitude. Yes. Which reminds me, Julie, was it you who was answering my questions on school districts? I did. Yeah. So what we did was options for youth is what we went with. Nice. So that way she can get all her credits and everything in at her own pace. Good. So two in college, one in high school. Speaker 3 00:32:19 Oh wow! Speaker 4 00:32:20 And then you, amongst us, you probably have six or seven who are in kindergarten. Speaker 3 00:32:29 Um, Speaker 4 00:32:32 Not yet. No, I mean the six for AI. I mean, oh, Speaker 3 00:32:37 AI. You know, I actually you would be shocked, Kamyaab. I am very impressed with what you retain and and how you. Handle yourself in all the trainings. I actually have about two dozen that I would consider way, way less AI technical savvy than you. Speaker 4 00:32:59 Talking about training, talking about training. What is your name again? No, Speaker 2 00:33:03 No. You know, I don't even remember the time. Kamyaab has the best sense of humor in our entire organization. He does. But. Speaker 4 00:33:14 Yeah. No, it's I I don't have anything else, Julie. I don't know about you. Speaker 2 00:33:23 I don't have anything else either. Okay, gotcha. Speaker 3 00:33:26 All right. Well then, you guys have a great week weekend. Speaker 4 00:33:31 It's Friday to you. All right. Thank you very much, Christi. Thank you. Bye. Bye bye. Take care.
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08-26 Daily Meeting: Cybersecurity, Project Updates, and Training
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-08-26 09:56:27 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Anton] [Pete] [Mike] [Vince] [Speaker 9] [April] [Anzor] [Seg] [Speaker 13] ## Meeting Notes - Topic: Daily opener, priorities, and recognition - Speaker 2 opened the meeting, noting it is August 26, week 35. - Primary after-hours support: Bogdan; backup: Gabi. - Core value highlighted: commit and deliver; quote by Napoleon Hill. - Shout-out to team members (Monti, George, Vana, Charu, Julia, Yanis, Patrick, Sigrid, Vincent) for La Prague hardware refresh efforts. - Conclusion: Recognition given; after-hours roles assigned for the week. - Topic: Help desk updates and structure change - Speaker 4 reported a productive strategy meeting. - Change: Monti will officially have the onsite team reporting to her. - Conclusion: Organizational reporting change announced for onsite team. - Topic: Cybersecurity initiatives - Anton: Planning to start implementing conditional access policies for Foothill pilot group tomorrow. - Implemented additional patch management policy for Crimson IT related to drivers. - Some laptops need reboots; notifications will be sent to individuals. - Conclusion: Conditional access pilot starting; patch policy active; user notifications pending. - Topic: Operations and phishing results - Pete: Reviewed last month’s phishing/security report; zero clicks on phishing lures—good diligence. - Ongoing efforts to improve customer-facing help desk processes; meeting held with Olivia, Monti, Vince, and Mike. - Conclusion: Positive phishing outcome; continuous improvement underway, no major changes yet. - Topic: Account management and documentation - Vince: End of this month, transitioning wireless support for Anderson; walkthrough planned; working with Kevin and Gabi. - Mike: Added sections to Hudu client summaries for pod lead and onsite lead; requests updates from pod leads and those working with Monti. - Conclusion: Anderson wireless support transition scheduled; Hudu documentation to be updated. - Topic: Finance reminders and coverage - Speaker 9 (Finance): Month-end on August 31 (Monday); requests timely timesheet and expense submissions. - Heads-up: Maternity leave in October; transitions planned with admin for full coverage. - Emphasis on timely submissions, especially during month-end while out. - Conclusion: Action requested for submissions by August 31; finance coverage planned during leave. - Topic: Admin billing update - April: Monthly billing started; thanks to those who notify admin about billing-impacting items. - Conclusion: Billing cycle underway. - Topic: New business development (NBD) - Anzor: Working on opportunities; hopes to share news next month; nothing concrete now. - Conclusion: No immediate updates. - Topic: Project and change management updates - Seg: For Arc, deploying LastPass to all users today; requests feedback via tickets. - For Foothill, deploying Huntress and VPN; target completion first week of September. - Pete asked for Huntress target; Seg confirmed early September. - Conclusion: Arc LastPass rollout in progress today; Foothill Huntress/VPN targeted for early September. - Topic: Training – Power Automate email categorization and client use cases - Speaker 13: Provided a live overview on using Power Automate (Office 365 Outlook trigger) to categorize emails by client domain and VIP contacts using a shared spreadsheet. - Mentioned free connectors expansion; desktop Power Automate still requires premium. - Will share yesterday’s recorded training and continue weekly flows; Stephanie will curate videos. - Client interest: Anderson Group and Arc requested next training; examples included document filing from e-sign tools and automated reminders. - Conclusion: Training resources to be shared; ongoing weekly Power Automate examples planned; client sessions to be scheduled. - Topic: Culture and core values activity - Fun segment included recalling core values and a lighthearted fine system. - Recognition of Wanda for strong effort on a lab project at Wainga. - Emphasis from leadership on living the core values. - Conclusion: Cultural reinforcement and recognition given. - Topic: Team-building game – Two truths and a lie - April participated; revealed the roller coaster story was the lie; admitted a past pizza ordering delay for a client. - Next week’s participant: Andres. - Conclusion: Game continued; next participant assigned. - Topic: All Hands meeting facilitation - Speaker 2: For September, Miguel will take over the All Hands meeting. - Conclusion: Meeting host change for September announced. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Implement conditional access policies for the Foothill pilot group starting August 27. - [ ] Notify users with laptops needing reboots due to the driver patch policy and prompt them to restart (Anton). - [ ] Conduct the walkthrough and transition wireless support for Anderson by the end of August (Vince with Kevin and Gabi). - [ ] Update Hudu client summaries with pod lead and onsite lead information (pod leads, onsite leads). - [ ] Submit August timesheets and expense reports by August 31. - [ ] Continue Arc LastPass deployment; handle tickets and feedback; track completion status. - [ ] Complete Foothill Huntress and VPN deployment by the first week of September. - [ ] Share the Power Automate training recording and spreadsheet; Stephanie to distribute links. - [ ] Schedule the next Power Automate basics training session for interested clients (including Anderson Group and Arc). - [ ] Prepare for the September All Hands transition to Miguel. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Define the exact pilot group scope and success criteria for Foothill conditional access to ensure measurable outcomes and rollback plans. > 2. Confirm the exact date and resource plan for the Anderson wireless support walkthrough and transition to mitigate risks with “extra devices.” > 3. Establish owners and due dates for updating Hudu entries to avoid stale client records. > 4. Specify tracking and confirmation for Arc LastPass rollout completion (e.g., percentage deployed, exceptions). > 5. Provide a detailed timeline and point of contact for finance coverage during October maternity leave to ensure continuity.
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- Aug 26, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:02 No. Speaker 2 00:00:38 How did it go with Jeff? Speaker 3 00:00:42 He did not respond to me. Does mean he's good? That's a good sign, right? Speaker 2 00:00:52 Honestly, in this case, I'm not sure. Really. Speaker 3 00:01:53 Charlene, he messaged me asking for what is his password. Um on our chat. But he changed it right? Okay, give me one second. Speaker 2 00:03:45 Okay, good morning everyone. Happy Wednesday. It's August 26th, week number 35. The primary after our support for this week is Bogdan and backup Gabi. And the core value I'd like to highlight today is commit and deliver. And I'd like to highlight a group of people: Monti, George, Vana, Charu, Julia, Yanis, Patrick, Sigrid and Vincent, who are actively involved in the La Prague hardware refresh project, which is one of the most challenging ones due to the various type of peripherals they're using on site. So just wanted to give a shout out. Good job everyone. And for quote of the day, it's literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Speaker 2 00:04:43 By Napoleon Hill. And next, let's go to team updates and please, please Olivia. Speaker 4 00:04:55 Good morning, guys. Happy Wednesday on the help desk side of things. We had a very productive strategy meeting yesterday. So, we have some changes coming to the help desk pretty soon here. And then one of those changes, though. Monti will officially have the onsite team reporting to her. So that is very exciting. And yeah, that's all I've got. Speaker 2 00:05:21 Okay, thank you, Olivia. Next cybersecurity with Antoine. Speaker 5 00:05:27 Good morning. Security team planning tomorrow to start implementing conditional access policies for the foothill for the pilot group. And additionally, We have implemented an additional patch management policy for Crimson IT related to the drivers. And we have couple laptops that need to be rebooted. I'm gonna send you a notification directly to those individuals. That's it from my end. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:06:04 Okay, thank you, Antoine and happy late birthday. Speaker 2 00:06:09 And uh next operation with Pete. Speaker 6 00:06:13 Good morning, everybody. Uh just a couple thingsum reviewed theum the phishing report, uh security report for last month, and thanks to everybody, but nobody uh, clicked on any of the phishing, uh lures I, guess we could call it so good work from everybody this past month. Um thanks for being diligent in that space. And uh, oh. Olivia mentioned we had a, We had a discussion yesterday to kind of talk about how we can get better with our, um, basically with our customer facing uh help desk processes. And I don't think we've got like major changes coming. But what we're always talking about how we can get better. So, it was a great discussion yesterday and I just wanted to thank uh, Olivia and Monti and Vince. And Mike for for having a great discussion yesterday. And. Speaker 6 00:07:08 We're always trying to get better, so that's what we're we're striving for. So uh more to come, but thank you all to them yesterday and that's all I have. Thanks. Speaker 2 00:07:18 Okay, thank you Pete. Uh next account management with Mike. Speaker 7 00:07:28 Sorry, It'd be nice, if I took myself off me, apologize real quick Vince, did you have any updates? I forgot to check with you before the meeting. Speaker 8 00:07:35 Major updates oh sorry morning team, Oh, super major updates. Just at the end of this month, we'll be transitioning the wireless support for Anderson. So that's exciting stuff. We're probably going to do a walk one walkthrough, and it's going to be a lot of extra devices, But you know, been working very diligently with Kevin and Gabi, and we've got a great handle on it. So appreciate you guys both. Speaker 7 00:07:57 Well, Thank you, Vince. And just a quick update for me. Um kind of segue was mentioning. We added a couple sections to the client summary in Hudu documentation. So we've included the pod lead and the onsite lead for all customers. So, if you happen to be a pod lead or work with Monti for who the onsite leads are, please be sure to take the time and update Hudu. That's it for account management. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:08:22 Thanks Mike. Next finances with Lisa. Speaker 9 00:08:28 Hi good morning everyone happy Wednesday, just a quick reminder and a favor from finance, Month end is coming fast, so August thirty one is Monday next week, which means it's time for timesheet and expense report submissions. We'd really appreciate everyone's help in getting this submitted on time, so we can keep everything moving smoothly on our end. Also just a little heads up for the coming months, so I'll be out on maternity leave sometime in October. Speaker 9 00:09:03 So we're already working on the transitions and preparing for full coverage, while I'm away. So finance will be staffed during those times. We'll be working closely with admin to make sure everything is covered. So we we may just need a little extra help from everyone, in making sure timesheets and expenses are submitted on time, especially during month end. It will really help us stay on top of everything while I'm away. Hope you'll be with us during this transition. We truly appreciate everyone's help, patience and understanding. It really means a lot. Thank you so much. Happy Wednesday. Speaker 2 00:09:40 Okay, thank you, Lisa. Next admin with April? Speaker 10 00:09:46 Thanks Caleb. Um hi, good morning, everybody. So on the admin side just started our monthly billing. And thanks to everyone who consistently notify us with anything that will affect billing Thank, you That's all for me. Speaker 2 00:10:00 Okay, thank you. Uh, Anzor is not here, right? No, I'm here. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Okay. NBD with Anzor. Speaker 11 00:10:11 Um Yeah So uh I I don't have anything uh concrete uh or or exciting to share at this point. Um we are working on few cool opportunities. And uh I am hoping to. Bring some good news next month. Other than that, I don't have anything to share. Speaker 2 00:10:37 Okay, thank you, Anzor. Next, if there's any project change management products, please raise your hands. Yes, Ingrid? Speaker 12 00:10:51 Good morning everybody. So just a quick update for Arc, We're already deployingum LastPass to all of their users today. So, if you get any ticket on that one or if there are feedbacks or comments, please please let us know. And forum Foothill, we're still deploying Huntress. Um yeah Huntress yeah Huntress and VPN. And that's it on my side. Thank you. Speaker 6 00:11:20 Right thank you Sarah what is the target for Huntress to be complete? Do we have one yet? For. Speaker 12 00:11:26 Yeah, I think that's first week of September. Speaker 2 00:11:29 Okay. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Teo. Next we'll go to the training updates with Christi. Speaker 13 00:11:37 Good morning, everybody Real quickly. I am going to give you guys a different type of training today than I normally do Just a heads up. What I want to do is a lot of people ask me how do I do certain categories and things in email? And that's been a hot topic recently. Because everyone is assuming that my categories get done by AI, and some of them do, but not all of them. So I am going to give you guys a quick overview on how to do categories. We're going to do one from scratch. So in the team's chat for this meeting, I sent over a spreadsheet that I have that's called Important Information. So this is a sample of one of mine that I actually use. You can create. Speaker 13 00:12:19 A copy and save it to your computer and update it. And I'm going to quickly show you guys how to do that and how to make your system show categories. So real quickly, if you go into Power Automate, Everyone has a license for this because this utilizes the free version of Power Automate. Microsoft lately has been really trying to compete with companies like in 8 in and Zapier and Make. Because a lot of people are starting to use them more and more, And so they're they're the premium license connectors that used to have to get for certain activities are now switching to free versions. So that's great news. It means you guys have more ability to do a lot of granular, really cool automations within Power Automate. However, Anzor, I saw the dollar signs in your eyeballs just now. Speaker 13 00:13:13 Um, I still require premium because I do use a desktop Power Automate and that one's not going off of premium anytime soon. I'm so sorry. I try, but I need it. Um, so we're going to walk through how to create a flow real quick. So you guys, I did a training on this yesterday. I'm going to get you guys that video for you, But for today, we're going to create a training or we're going to create a flow from scratch. And so in Power Automate, I want you go to Create, And from create, you're going to create an automated cloud flow. And you're going to search all triggers and you're going to type in email. And what we're going to choose is when an email arrives. However, we're not going to use outlook.com. Anybody want to take a wild guess why we're not using outlook.com? Bogdan? I know you know the answer to this one. Speaker 13 00:14:12 He's like, "Darn it, I called it something. What would you say? Okay. Outlook. Com is for personal email addresses and Office 365 Outlook is for business email addresses. Microsoft could not make that less apparent if they tried. Okay, So we're always going to use Office 365 for Crimson items, and we're just going to say create, and it might say, invalid connection, if it does give it a moment, it'll go away. It is going to connect to your email, so anytime a new email arrives, this automation is going to happen. Okay, And so what I am going to do is I am going to tell it to categorize any email that comes in from a client and their domain. So I sent you guys over a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet has two tabs on the bottom. One is a client list and the domain of that client. Speaker 13 00:15:07 And one is VIP contacts, and these are my VIP contacts. And so anybody that comes in, I want them to color code and make my email categories happen. So you'll see on here Brett is showing as client. This one is actually, I don't know why it's showing as client. I got to fix that. But Brett is showing as client. And so on my actual production spreadsheet, not this one, Brett is on that list. Oh actually he's on this one too. But on my production, when I have a longer list, who's at the top of my list? Anzor, Pete. These are my VIP people. So if you do VIP people, you want to make sure that you map you have your VIP people. So anybody coming in from these addresses, these are the people I want to pay attention to as I create this. So if I go in and create when a new email arrives. Speaker 13 00:16:06 Then I want it to pull up that email address. So I am going to show it to you guys from scratch or from where I already have it in play. And basically, it's four steps. So I have a compose in here, And that compose is just pulling the information out of what the domain name is. And I'll give you guys this information so, it is in the training class that I recorded yesterday. You guys can pull it up; it'll go look at the spreadsheet. To see is that person on the list, and if they are, it assigns it the Outlook category. And honestly, guys, This took me five minutes to set up when I first did it years ago. I've had this in play for many years. I've recreated it for yesterday's class for people. But if you're interested in it, I will give you guys all the details. But this is how easy it is to set up categorization automation. Speaker 13 00:17:03 Uh, just for one item. So a lot of our clients are coming to us lately to say, How can I just do basic automation, thinking that automation and AI are the same thing? This has been around for years. And I can show you guys, I have a lot of Power Automates that just make my life easier. Now this one is not, I mean it's not glamorous, But I have Power Automates that take the meeting transcripts from meetings and put them in my OneNote. So Um, they can get a lot more granular. But I want you guys to be aware of this. I'm going to bring for the next couple of Wednesdays, I'm going to bring you different flows that you can try, that will be easy. This one looks hard, but trust me it's not hard. And then Stephanie is going to be the keeper of all of those videos. And she's working with me to get them out for everybody and I'm going to do a lot of different little Power Automate videos on how to create just common everyday flows. So. Speaker 13 00:17:60 Clients are loving this. I had a packed house yesterday in the Power Automate basics training I gave. A couple of flow examples that I gave was if they have a DocuSign or an Adobe Sign document come back to them, Power Automate will automatically save that into a folder and update Teams. Another one that I have that you guys see, every Friday is a reminder to do your stress surveys. Another client wanted a way to send a quote to all of their staff as an automated email. And I showed how to do that yesterday. So if any of you guys were in that Teams chat, you saw the quote come through about rebooting your computer. That was what that was from. So just a reminder, these can make your clients' lives easier. We are going to do another Power Automate basics training for clients. If you know of clients that might be interested in it. Speaker 13 00:18:56 Uh, let me know. Vince Anderson Group has already emailed me today and Arc to say, when is your next training? We'd like to participate. So just a heads up for you on those two. They are liking it. Um, and Julia, I don't know, but I did record it, and it's out in the folder for you to watch. And I'll send everybody that link uh later today on where they can go to watch that video. Any questions? Speaker 13 00:19:29 Awesome. Caleb, it's your turn. Sorry, I did almost call you Caleb. I am sorry. Speaker 2 00:19:37 I get that a lot, that's why. Thank you, Christi. Next, let's go to the fun segment. Chris. Speaker 1 00:19:52 Um, let me know if you see my screen here. Speaker 1 00:19:59 Yes, you can see your screen. Alright, let's start. Speaker 1 00:20:48 I Don't Have any clue. Speaker 2 00:20:55 Commit and deliver. Exercise extreme ownership. We do the right thing. Always. Speaker 1 00:21:07 Friendly. And uh oh, Speaker 2 00:21:18 You're gonna break give me integrity over profits. Speaker 11 00:21:22 And not only you're not getting$ 100, you need to pay$ 100. Speaker 2 00:21:29 No, at least this is a proof I'm getting it from my mind, not reading a notebook from the computer. So so I. Speaker 11 00:21:38 Found it easier if you remember Caddy, right? Which is one word. Then you just go each letter, right? So commit and deliver always friendly do the right thing integrity over profit. Extreme ownership, right? So it was integrity over profit. But you know, we love you Caleb. So, we will why don't you give a great example? So you'll justify the hundred dollars going your way? Speaker 2 00:22:06 Uh okay uh I'll be for uh commit and deliver. And I want to highlight Wanda because uh, since since I went to Wainga, she's been having a hard time there. And uh with the lab project. Uh it's a lot of labor and stuff like that and she's doing really great so as well to recognize her effort and hard work, Speaker 11 00:22:32 Awesome. All right, well, we'll make an exception and we'll pay this fine young man, even though he doesn't deserve it. Uh, make sure you memorize those core values Caleb. You've been here for a while buddy. Okay. And for rest of you guys, I mean this, they will make a joke about it, right? But it does mean a lot, I think to our customers, to us, right? To actually believe and live by these core values. Right? Like this the key. This what makes us an amazing team. So while it's okay to skip one. Speaker 11 00:23:12 I'm not being to remember, but in general, right? This is the heart and soul of Crimson. So I'm not just words on a plaque. Okay. Speaker 2 00:23:24 Okay, thank you for sparing me Anzor. Next let's go with two truths one lie that would be April. Speaker 10 00:23:33 Okay okay two truths, one lie Firstum I messed up my interview here at Crimson. But they were kind enough to give me another chance. So, three do myself okay and second, I once forgot to order pizza for a client, so their lunch was a bit late, which made them even more frustrated. Third, I once rode a roller coaster that malfunctioned and I haven't ridden one since. Speaker 2 00:24:07 Okay so, Number one who thinks April messed up her first interview at Crimson. Speaker 13 00:24:15 I think that's a lie because I'm the one who interviewed. Speaker 2 00:24:17 Her busted in Christi. Speaker 6 00:24:23 We trust, okay. Speaker 2 00:24:30 And the second one, uh what was it? April sorry, Speaker 10 00:24:34 I didn't catch uh I once forgot to order pizza for a client, which. So their lunch was a bit late, which made them even more frustrated. Speaker 2 00:24:44 Okay. Who takes us the one? Speaker 4 00:24:48 I think I know who that client is. Speaker 2 00:24:51 She's missing out too much, the first interview and then the pizza. So you, Speaker 11 00:24:56 You didn't do good enough job April because the client is still with us. Speaker 10 00:25:01 Oh my God Then introduce them Yeah there's no one here And yeah, Third one is I once rode a roller coaster that malfunctioned and I haven't ridden one since so. Speaker 12 00:25:16 We saw you ride. Speaker 6 00:25:24 Philippines exposing your two truths and a lie. Speaker 10 00:25:29 I don't think they know this one, Speaker 2 00:25:32 Which one which one did Philippines. Speaker 10 00:25:34 Okay, the lie is a roller coaster. Christi, I forgot to share with you that my first interview was with Anzor back then. So Oh yeah. Yeah, before I was scheduled for an interview with you. And then number two, yeah, that's the truth. Should I tell the client? But no, I will not share that. Um Yeah and the third one is a lie Roller coaster. I'm afraid of roller coasters, so no You will never see me ride a roller coaster, so It's a lie Okay. Speaker 2 00:26:04 Okay. Uh, so for next week, who do you. Speaker 10 00:26:09 Um, okay. Let's go with Andres. Speaker 2 00:26:14 Okay. Andres, you're up next week. And uh so for the month of September, Uh Miguel is going to take over the All Hands meeting. And uh, if there's anything that's left unsaid, please raise your hands Okay Mike. Speaker 2 00:26:34 Oh, is it allowed to. Speaker 7 00:26:37 Forgot to put it down. Sorry. Speaker 2 00:26:39 Okay. I think that will be all for today. Have a wonderful day everyone. Enjoy the rest of your day. Thanks guys! Thank you everyone! Happy Wednesday, everyone!
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07-10 Westwood Financial Claude Team Deployment: DNS Verification Gating SSO and M365 Connector, with Controlled Invite-Only Access
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-  ## Core Synopsis A lightweight but security-conscious deployment of Claude for Westwood Financial is being executed by establishing a paid team under the tenant’s global admin, locking down access to invite-only, and gating deeper integrations behind domain verification for SSO and Microsoft 365 connectors; the operational reality is simple: the team progressed setup to billing, invitations, baseline privacy/usage controls, and initial connector allowances (Zoom/HubSpot), but is hard-blocked on SSO and Microsoft 365 until DNS verification propagates. The leverage is in sequencing: ownership sits with the global admin to avoid governance drift, DNS verification unlocks SSO, and SSO anchors enterprise-grade controls; the political tension is visible—leadership pressure to move fast versus the need to respect security gates—so the call pre-authorized two users to start working before SSO to prevent stall while the domain propagates. We are taking the bet that speed plus minimum viable governance (admin ownership, invite-only, disabled open invites, controlled connectors) will preserve trust while accelerating adoption; the stakes are that a sloppy identity rollout would invite risk and rework, whereas waiting for verification and then completing SSO/M365 will consolidate control and enable scalable usage. ## Deployment Sequence and Control Decisions ### Initial Setup Under Global Admin - The administrator created a Claude team tenant using the global admin account, purchased six seats on monthly billing, and issued initial invites to Casey and Brett to unblock work. - Team naming aligned to the client identity (“Westwood Financial”/“Westwin” context), with the explicit intent to retain admin ownership and transfer later if needed. ### Governance Baselines in Org Settings - Access controls: “Invite-only” enabled; member self-invites disabled to prevent unmanaged sprawl. - Data and privacy posture: Chat sharing allowed (including connectors) for collaboration; location metadata enabled; “public projects” disabled to avoid uncontrolled exposure. - Usage credits: Enabled but left quota blank; credit request workflow disabled to avoid ad-hoc spend escalation. ### Domain Verification as the Gate to SSO - Domain verification initiated via TXT record at registrar (Network Solutions); TTL set to one hour; verification pending and recognized as potentially requiring ~60–70 minutes to propagate. - SSO setup is explicitly deferred until domain verification completes; Microsoft 365 connector activation is contingent on the same milestone. ### Connector Policy and Adoption Scope - Connectors allowed for Zoom and HubSpot (client fits), Canva/Notion not required; Microsoft 365 connector queued post-SSO due to dependency on verified identity. - Policy intent: allow useful integrations without prematurely expanding the blast radius into identity-bound Microsoft data. ### Communication and Role Dynamics - Casey and Brett were invited ahead of SSO to sustain momentum; the admin will inform them that SSO is coming post-verification. - Coaching intent included onboarding Juno and Riddick to replicate the setup process, with escalation paths identified (Emil/Sergio) for registrar tasks. ## Action Items **@George (Global Admin)** - [ ] Monitor DNS TXT propagation and click “Refresh” under Claude Organization → Verification until the domain is verified - [TBD] - [ ] Complete SSO setup in Claude Organization → Authentication immediately after verification (follow the Microsoft Intune-guided steps) - [TBD] - [ ] Enable Microsoft 365 connector post-SSO and communicate availability to invited users - [TBD] - [ ] Upload the square-format Westwood Financial logo in Organization Settings for branding - [TBD] - [ ] Confirm Casey’s access and inform him in Slack that SSO will be enabled after domain verification - [Today] **@Sergio** - [ ] Reply to Brett’s email confirming initial access and the SSO activation plan post-domain verification - [Today] **@Casey** - [ ] Accept the Claude team invite and confirm successful login - [Today] **@Brett** - [ ] Accept the Claude team invite and confirm successful login - [Today]
- Date
- Jul 10, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Your screen. Speaker 2 00:00:05 Share my screen. Yes. Uh hold on. What am I sharing? Speaker 1 00:00:11 Uh, okay. Let me do this, give your you have a an account with West Virginia, right? That's George. Speaker 2 00:00:20 Account no Administrator app administrator app Okay, Speaker 1 00:00:25 And that's that's the global admin account Yes, ma'am Okay. Here's what I want you to do. Do you, you have that login saved in one of your profiles? Yes, ma'am. Okay. I want you to open up that profile. Hold on one sec. And then I want you to share that screen because I'm gonna walk through it here. Speaker 2 00:00:44 Here we go. Where are your share screens? There okay. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Okay, so here's what we're going to do. I'm going to walk you through this, so let's record it. Okay, yes please, yes please. Yes please. So, we're going to record this and get everyone. Oh. Uh, hang on, let me add somebody to this call that so that we can record Uh see if you it's three o'clock, see if you can add Charl Sorry Charl and and Sean Charl And Sean Yes. Speaker 2 00:01:26 And Sean Let me. And people, uh, invite someone, Charles. Yep. And Sean. And Sean. Speaker 1 00:01:41 Yeah, there's a reason for this. Speaker 2 00:01:44 And Sean. People people and Sean. Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:01:57 Come on, Sean, pick up. Speaker 1 00:01:60 Hello? Hopefully Charl picks up too. Speaker 2 00:02:09 Yeah, I'm worried that you might get inundated by this thing. I'm. Speaker 1 00:02:16 Already inundated. And he wants me to start telling you and others to you're going to have to wait. Speaker 1 00:02:25 Yeah, I was. Speaker 2 00:02:27 Worried you were going to say that. Speaker 1 00:02:29 Yeah, he's already there. I uh he's not happy that I'm taking this one alone. Well, He's not he's not happy I'm taking it and doing it quickly. So uh, Speaker 2 00:02:44 They are not picking at Juno? Juno okay hold on one second your name is Pete. Speaker 1 00:03:13 And Add Riddick. Riddick. Yes, I'm just going through my brain of people. I know that would want to learn. Okay. Speaker 1 00:03:25 And it might pick up. Speaker 2 00:03:34 Oh, don't give me that. You're not on lunch. Hold on. Hey, Medic! Hey, hey, hey! Speaker 1 00:03:47 We were adding you to a call so that I can record and Juno! Juno joined! Hey! We love Juno. We love Riddick. Okay, so here's what's going on, guys. Juno, Question for you: Would you like to learn how to set up Claude for a client? Um, Speaker 2 00:04:14 Yes. Yes. Speaker 1 00:04:16 Okay, Riddick, would you like to learn how to set up Claude for a client? Speaker 2 00:04:19 Yes. Yes, Speaker 1 00:04:20 Absolutely. So sure. Speaker 1 00:04:24 I am going to walk George through it and I am going to record this call so that everyone is on the same page, and we can share it out. Make sense? Okay. All right, now this is what takes a little bit of time, so bear with me. George, What I want you to do now that you have that profile open and you are logged in as administrator, I want you to open up another tab. Speaker 2 00:04:49 Open up another tab, okay? Yep. Speaker 1 00:04:52 And I want you to go to Claude dot AI. Speaker 2 00:04:59 C L A U D E dot AI. Yep. Speaker 2 00:05:07 Can I remove this? Okay, Speaker 1 00:05:11 I want you to create an account using the administrator account because we need the global admin account as the owner right now. We can change it later, but for right now as we do the setup, we need the global administrator account. Speaker 4 00:05:27 Oh, so this is like a fresh from freshly created. Yes. Administrator. Oh okay. Yes. Speaker 1 00:05:44 Sorry I'm I'm singing to myself while looking something up. Speaker 2 00:05:51 Okay, I got the confirmation email. I'm going to sign in to Claude, right? Yes. Speaker 1 00:05:59 So Just so if you guys weren't following along, when he signed up for the new account, instead of allowing him to set a password, it sends an email for him to click on. Speaker 4 00:06:14 Do we have to allow it on enterprise applications? No need to. Speaker 1 00:06:18 We will in a moment. But yes. Speaker 2 00:06:20 With my team, right? With my team. Speaker 1 00:06:25 Yes, with my team. Sorry, I was focused on on Riddick, which is not a bad thing. Speaker 2 00:06:32 Let's create Teamis good, Westwin is good. Right? We, unless you can choose or should I say you guys You, Speaker 1 00:06:40 You want to make it the company name. So if you guys internally call it Westwin, then use it, but if yeah they can call it Westwood Financial. All right. Now, What we got to do is we're going to do a monthly payment for now. And you are going to do how many people are we adding to this, George? Speaker 2 00:07:02 Including you, seven. Speaker 1 00:07:04 Okay, I don't need an account because you're making it under administrator. So okay, Speaker 2 00:07:10 Wipe me out of it six. All right so say it just seats. Speaker 2 00:07:22 Wait, what? Hundred fifty? Speaker 1 00:07:24 Yep. Yep. Six seats at twenty five per seat is a hundred and fifty. Speaker 2 00:07:29 Oh, oh, I thought hundred fifty per. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Speaker 1 00:07:32 Yeah. All right now, scroll down and put in the payment method and for the payment method. Unshare your screen turn off sharing. We don't want to see that number, especially when we're going to reuse this anyways. Speaker 2 00:07:48 Yeah, right? Speaker 2 00:07:50 I am going to get my ass kicked by Brad. Hold on one second. Ten eight seven seven Wilshire, yeah, apartment suite number eleven oh five Los Angeles. Speaker 4 00:08:07 Is this recording? I don't think you need to say the card number or something. Speaker 2 00:08:12 No, I am just giving the address zip code okay. Speaker 4 00:08:16 Enter the code. Speaker 2 00:08:19 Use your saved information. Hold on one second, let me show this with you. What does it mean by this? Uh, where is my Teams? Uh, share this. Oh. What does this mean? Enter the code sent to blah number. Speaker 1 00:08:46 It's using it's trying to use something in Solinkum you can ignore that. So just click on the X right next to it. Okay, click on that. And now you can put the card payment in. Speaker 2 00:09:01 Okay, hold on one second, where is the card payment? Uh Red Sock A, B, M, T, C, C. Speaker 2 00:09:52 Oh, I know where it is. It's in LastPass. Hello. Speaker 1 00:09:54 Crap. What card are you using? Are using his card? Okay, his card, got it. Speaker 2 00:10:01 His card, yeah. Uh, it's on my LastPass. I wanted to secure it so it's on that LastPass Hold on Good, Speaker 1 00:10:08 Very good I'm very proud of you. Speaker 2 00:10:12 Uh there you go Where are you, Come on, show you. Launch. Huh? Hey there, you go. The card number is one, two, three, four, five six seven eight nine ten. Okay. Only. Speaker 1 00:10:34 Nine ten? I thought there might be a twelve. Speaker 2 00:10:36 Eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen. Uh- huh, Uh okay. Oh, Speaker 1 00:10:44 I like it. Sorry, I'm shopping at the same time as I'm talking to this. Speaker 2 00:10:47 Use a different name on invoices? No. Yeah, you need to do that. I don't need to do that, right? Expiry is my birthday uh November twelfth nineteen sixty nine Okay month. Speaker 1 00:11:05 I thought you were only slightly older than me. Speaker 2 00:11:10 Twenty twenty seven oh, Okay. Done so. And I'm sharing it back. Speaker 1 00:11:17 Okay, perfect. Speaker 2 00:11:18 Oh, no way, Mr. Teams is doing it again. Share in here. Welcome to Westwood Financial. Speaker 1 00:11:35 Perfect, all right now invite members to join your team type in Casey? Yeah, type in Casey. Casey's email address. And type in Brett's email address. Speaker 3 00:11:60 Yeah, at these two for now. Gotcha. Speaker 2 00:12:06 Alright, perfect. Yep. Speaker 1 00:12:11 All right. What is your role? You just put IT and security. That's the one I click on all the time. And then continue. All right, Now what we're going to do now is close that out because we're not using Slack. All right, now click on the A down at the bottom left. Speaker 1 00:12:39 And click on organizational settings. Oh, by the way, pull up Hoodoo in another window because you're going to need it. Okay, Now on this page, I want you to click Add Logo and I want you to add the Westwood logo. We're going to go through it one by one of everything I do. So add logo. Uh yep. Yeah, Yep, So what you're going to do is you're just going to pull up the Westwood logo. It needs to be the square one. So okay, then cancel that. We'll do the Westwood logo later. All right now, uh scroll down and the next thing we're going to do is verify domains. So under domains you're going to click on verify Yes Yes. Speaker 1 00:13:32 You know what? Click on that verify right there, the first one. Yep, because you got to do that first, anyways. Now, What you are going to do is you are going to type in the domain name. Yep, and say continue. Now in another screen where Hoodoo is go find the login in Hoodoo for whoever the domain registrar is whether it's GoDaddy or. Network solutions or whomever. And you need to log into that. Speaker 2 00:14:06 Understood. Only one second, let me pull it up. Speaker 1 00:14:09 Okay. And then when you do, put this screen and that screen side by side on the shared screen. Speaker 2 00:14:19 Okay, here we go. I'm logging in for now. Is. Speaker 1 00:14:27 It uh is it GoDaddy or Network Solutions? That's all, It's hoodoo? Net so. Speaker 1 00:14:34 Okay, Good, perfect because I can walk you through that easily. I can walk you through on all of them, but yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:43 Come on. Speaker 1 00:14:45 Um, do you need is the code being sent? Speaker 2 00:14:48 I got it. I got it. Uh, your number is six one six two one three You see that? And then see that we authenticate. And let me put this up side by side. Go away, I don't need to get sold. Uh, yeah. Here we go. This is the NetSuite part. Speaker 3 00:15:25 Okay, perfect. Speaker 3 00:15:39 Where do we go? Speaker 1 00:15:41 Okay. Perfect. Now, uh, go to domains on the left. Yep. And go to uh, yep, Scroll down to WestEnd dot com. And uh, yep, so I want you to go to. Yep, click on that. Speaker 1 00:16:04 All right. Now, scroll down just slightly. Keep scrolling. They moved it farther down. Go to Advanced Tools, click on the down arrow. Yep All right now, What we want to do is manage advanced DNS records in the center Click on Manage Yep. Speaker 1 00:16:34 And don't show this again because yeah, we know what we're doing. Scroll all the way up. Okay, now add record which is on the right center. Okay, type is going to be text TXT. Yep, refers to hit the uh hit the down arrow on that one. Do the at sign. Perfect, click in text value. Now go to nope click on text value Now go to the other window, the Anthropic window. Click on that and click where it says value in the copy button. Click that. Now go back to the other window and paste that into text value and then TTL, click on that, you can make that just an hour. One hour and then say add. Okay now minimize that. Speaker 1 00:17:33 And go back to the other window. And then, now it's checking your DNS records, so we're going to wait a second. While we're waiting, go back to Admin Settings and Cloud. Okay. This is going to take a few minutes, so just a quick heads up: we can't single sign-on just yet. So while we're waiting, I want you to scroll down. Uh okay, I want to make sure invite only is set. Um and uncheck member invites. Okay. And then scroll down. All right, perfect. Now I want you to go to usage over on the left Go up up Okay, usage click on that now under usage. Speaker 1 00:18:28 Turn on usage credits, leave that blank. And I want to, I just want to make sure that that stays blank. And usage credit request, nope. Turn that off. I said leave that blank. George. All right, here we go. Now manage credit requests, we'll leave that alone. I just want to make sure these are set correctly. Now go to data and privacy, Okay and rate chats. You can leave that on um. Share chats. We're going to allow people to share their chats. We're going to allow people to share chats that use connectors. We are going to allow location metadata and public projects. You know what? Let's uncheck that for right now because nobody ever uses that. I want you disable that, so I want to keep that too do that Now while we're doing that, scroll down. Speaker 1 00:19:29 Go to connectors. Click on connectors. Now, we're going to add some connectors. What connectors do we want, George? Click on all available. Click on all available. Yep. Microsoft 365? Yes, we can't do Microsoft 365 just yet though, but that is a good idea. Do we want them to do Canva and allow Canva? Speaker 2 00:19:54 They don't need they don't use it. Speaker 1 00:19:56 Okay, scroll down, Is there any other app in here like, um, Notion that they might use or Asana or Monday? Anything like that? Speaker 2 00:20:09 In my life. Google Drive, HubSpot. Perhaps HubSpot if they're using HubSpot. Speaker 1 00:20:18 Okay, click that. Okay and say connect or, Uh, Tover missions. You can no, you're already there. Go back. It's not really it's it's good. It's good. You're good. It's good Yeah, It'll allow them to add it So hit back. Speaker 3 00:20:44 And, then any others. Speaker 2 00:20:49 I wouldn't know unless I. Speaker 1 00:20:52 Uh, does West End use Zoom? Speaker 2 00:20:56 Zoom, yes. Speaker 1 00:20:57 Okay. Um, so they're going to be allowed to do that. Um, let's leave these alone for right now because we can't do Microsoft just yet. So click on the X. Okay? I want to show you how to do it but I need Microsoft. Go back up to Organization and Access Click on that at the top Click on the refresh button under verification. Speaker 1 00:21:26 Go to the other tab. Uh, verify your organization domain. Open that tab. Where is that? Uh, right next to the admin settings. Yep. All right, it's still checking. Um, we just gotta give it a little bit longer. Now, once this is done, go back to admin settings, let me give you guys a quick overview. Go back to connectors. This is the main one we got to do. Click on connectors. Now go to add and choose Microsoft. Let's see if we can do it now. Sometimes it allows us to do it early, sometimes it doesn't. So click on the plus sign next to Microsoft 365, click the plus sign and so go ahead and say continue and close that. Speaker 1 00:22:27 Back to me. Yep, hit the back. But honestly, you can just hit the X at the top. All right. Click the X at the top. Speaker 2 00:22:43 Well, we're done adding? Speaker 1 00:22:45 For now. What we're waiting on is for everything to verify Still doing? Yep. Speaker 1 00:22:58 Once this is done verifying, we can go in and set up SSL. Speaker 2 00:23:03 Oh, so that depends on the okay okay. Speaker 1 00:23:05 Yep. So go to admin settings real quick. Sometimes we gotta wait an hour for this to happen. Really? Go back to yeah go back to organization and access. I had to wait it was about an hour. And ten minutes yesterday for DTLI. All right, scroll down just slightly. Let me give you the next instructions. You see where it says authentication? Yeah, You have to verify the domain first. Once it's verified, you can click that setup, And it's going to walk you through how to set it up within Microsoft. Uh, Intune. Mhm. And George, it's step by step. It's super easy to do. So I'm gonna I'm gonna stop us here where we're at, And if you guys run into any issues, uh or if you run into any issues, George just let me know. But right now, we're going to stop and wait for it to finish pending. Speaker 1 00:23:54 But the reason I let Casey and Brett have access already before the single sign- on was set up was just so that they can get in and work. So, I'm going to reply back to the email right now. And can you reach out to Casey for me while we're waiting? Then tell him what? Just reach out, make sure he can access it. Speaker 2 00:24:17 Oh, oh yeah, to verify. Okay, yeah, yeah, Speaker 1 00:24:19 Yeah. And let him know we're going to do single sign- on soon. We're just waiting on uh for the domain to be verified before we can do that. Just put it in his Slack. Understood. Yep, understood. And Riddick and Gino, how do you guys feel about this? Speaker 2 00:24:33 Very good. Speaker 4 00:24:33 Um, Is the network solution is like a third party that allows. Speaker 1 00:24:41 Us to It's a domain registrar. Yeah, so okay, Yeah, email if you ever get stuck on that email can help you with that part. Speaker 1 00:24:53 So, cause he he knows it like the back of his hands, just like I do. Speaker 4 00:24:57 Oh okay okay. Yeah. That that resolution is new to me, so what what that's going on? Speaker 1 00:25:03 Yeah yeah and it could be Network Solutions, it could be Go Daddy you know, it could be a few different companies. Um Network Solutions is one that I just remember off the top of my head because I did it yesterday. But um if you guys ever get stuck either Emil or I can help you through that. Speaker 2 00:25:21 Mm- hmm let's see see. Alright. Okay. How long will this baby run? Speaker 1 00:25:26 Oh my gosh. It's gonna take a minute. So I'm gonna reply back to the email, George, for Brett. Yeah. And you're gonna reach out to Casey. And then you're gonna finish that up because I know you can do it. Okay? Speaker 2 00:25:38 I'll do it. I'll do it. And then just tell Casey he's all good, check his email, Check his access, but we will set up SSO right after the domain has been verified. Speaker 1 00:25:49 Correct Yep. Speaker 2 00:25:50 Okie dokies. After this, after this page though, what what's what happens next? Speaker 1 00:25:56 You can start the single sign-on verification in setup. Speaker 2 00:26:00 Uh- huh. And then what else happens next? That's it. You're done. I thought that's all. That's all? But that's not the whole project, right? Speaker 1 00:26:11 No, that's not the whole project, but you saw how fast this went. Okay. Yeah, That's that's the setting up part. We still got to do the training with all the staff, Huh? Speaker 2 00:26:21 Okay. Cool. Speaker 1 00:26:22 Okay. All right. Gracias. De nada. Thanks, guys Thank you, Speaker 2 00:26:26 Thank you Bye Thanks, guys See you around.
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06-01 会议: Access, MFA Rollout, IT Ticket Metrics, Training, Box Migration, Power BI Licensing
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- > Date: 2026-06-01 11:59:10 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Crystal] [Christi] [Speaker 4] [Jennifer C] ## Meeting Notes ### Access to “Z all sharp” & Google Shared Documents - Crystal reported issues accessing "Z all sharp" despite being granted access by Christi on Friday afternoon. Christi confirmed access was granted and suggested trying again. - Christi noted she forgot that Google handles permissions differently but confirmed Apollo also has access and can send out invites, as it includes all Basma and Sharp employees. - Jennifer C reported difficulty navigating Google, specifically locating shared folders, documents, and sheets she created. She suggested Google Workspace/shared document training. - Christi confirmed a training plan is already in place. The training is needed to properly delete around 20–26 disabled employee accounts that still own shared documents used by others. ### MFA Rollout Status - Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has been fully rolled out to all Sharp employees. - Any Sharp user not compliant could not log in as of the previous week. - The rollout for Basma employees was intentionally delayed and is scheduled to go live on Friday, June 5, 2026. They will have one week from go-live to become compliant. - The primary issue encountered was users needing help with the final “turn 2FA on” button. Overall, the process was smoother than anticipated. ### IT Service & Ticket Metrics (May) - **Ticket Volume:** 586 tickets opened; 572 closed. This is up from 425 in March, largely due to badge access and MFA rollouts. - **Resolution Time:** 32% closed within 24 hours; 16% under 40 hours; 10% under one hour. Some project-based tickets assigned to Christi remain open longer. - **Ticket Sources:** Most tickets were opened via email. The new portal is also being used, which is positive. - **Technician Performance:** Gaston and Robert handle 67% of owned tickets. - **Ticket Priority:** 70% normal priority; six P1 emergencies (including an internet outage and burglar alarms). - **Closure Rate:** 97% for Sharp/Basma, higher than the 92% average across all clients. ### Survey Feedback and User Training - A new anonymous survey sent Friday, May 29, 2026, has five responses. - Four responses rated 5; one rated 2, citing a need for faster responses from IT/Help Desk with no other specifics. - Christi noted a recent Excel training had good Sharp attendance. - She plans more standard trainings for Sharp and Basma on Excel, Word, and Google Workspace once or twice a month. ### System & Expense Management - The company is moving data off Box, as the subscription renews in a couple of months and will not be renewed. Google Drive and Microsoft offer better HIPAA compliance. - The IT budget for FY2026 (ending June 30, 2026) is approximately $150,000 under budget. - Christi is working on the FY2027 budget and initially projects a ~$200,000 reduction compared to last year while accounting for growth and hardware refresh needs. ### Microsoft BI Licenses and Data Reporting - Jennifer C requested adding more Microsoft Power BI licenses for managers and key admin staff to access BI reports, with approval from Dr. Barber. - Christi will have her admin team pull non-profit pricing for the licenses. - Jennifer C will send a list of users needing licenses to the help desk and CC Christi. - Christi offered to help create more efficient data reporting, showing a web-based dashboard example built for another client (AbilityFirst) with real-time budget and asset data. - It was decided that Christi should join the weekly data team meetings to understand current processes and streamline reporting. ### Administrative Updates - Christi will be on vacation the week starting June 8, 2026. - Mike Suma will be the escalation point of contact during her absence. Christi will send an introduction email. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Crystal will try to access "Z all sharp" again. - [ ] Christi will begin regular trainings (Google Workspace, Excel, Word) for all Sharp and Basma employees (monthly or bi-monthly cadence). - [ ] Jennifer C will send the list of people needing Power BI licenses to the help desk and CC Christi. - [ ] Christi’s team will provide final non-profit pricing for Power BI licenses to Jennifer C. - [ ] Christi will ask Pratt for the specific Power BI license needed. - [ ] Jennifer C will add Christi to invites for the weekly data team meetings. - [ ] Christi will schedule a meeting with Jennifer C and Pratt to discuss Power BI reports. - [ ] Christi will send an introduction email for Mike Suma, the account manager and point of contact during her vacation. - [ ] Assign an owner and timeline to begin the Box-to-Google/Microsoft migration before renewal (target start within the next 2–4 weeks). - [ ] Define and execute a plan to reassign ownership of documents from 20–26 disabled accounts to enable safe account deletion (inventory, mapping, and bulk transfer). - [ ] Follow up on the low survey score (2/5) to identify tools referenced and response-time expectations; consider reaching out for details and reviewing SLA adherence. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. A user provided survey feedback with a low score (2/5) due to "tool reliability" and a desire for "faster responses," but no specific details were given. It is unclear which tools were unreliable or what the context for the slow response was, making it difficult to address the root cause. > 2. The plan to migrate from Box to Google Drive/Microsoft was mentioned, but no specific timeline or responsible party was assigned for starting the migration process, even though the Box renewal is in a "couple of months." > 3. The company needs to delete about 20-26 disabled user accounts, but this is blocked by active shared documents owned by them. While a Google Suite training was proposed as a solution, a concrete plan to reassign ownership of these specific documents is still needed to unblock the account deletions.
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- Jun 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:30 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:01:15 The film was shot in the city of Kassel. Speaker 2 00:02:51 Hi. Hi, Christyne. You okay over there? Getting stuck in elevators, Christy? I know it has. Speaker 3 00:02:57 Been one of those weird. I don't know how to explain it other than just a weird day. It's only Monday. I know, but it's been a good one after I got out of the elevator. Speaker 2 00:03:11 Well, I hope so. Yeah. Yeah, I tried to use that Z all sharp. I was even there with the guys. Like, did you guys get it? Nobody got it. So that's why I was saying it didn't work for me. But maybe I needed access, but you said you gave Crystal and I access Friday. Speaker 3 00:03:26 Friday afternoon late. Speaker 2 00:03:28 Okay, so let me try again today then. Okay, I'll try it again. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:03:33 Thank you ma'am. Yeah, I had already had you guys in as owners, but i forgot that Google does things a little differently. And so i'll try again, yeah. But Apollo, you have access to it as well. So you can send out and it does include all Basma and Sharp employees. So. Send me the email, Speaker 2 00:03:54 I can give it to you Apollo. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:03:58 That Way we don't have to type everyone in. Speaker 3 00:03:60 Yeah And bear with me, I am not usually this uh frazzled on a Monday, It's just been a weird one. So Aaron knows what happened, Paolo and Jennifer, I don't know if you guys know what happened, but I got stuck for almost two hours in the elevator at my apartment. Oh my gosh. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. It's okay. I was supposed to be going to get a live scan done for D C F S again. This would be my fourth one for twenty twenty six And, then uh they ended up rescheduling because they had issues on their end as well. So um and I just came upstairs because I was like, i i need to. Speaker 3 00:04:37 I need to sit and and just reset. So, I have gotten a little work done. The one thing that I am uh lacking on is getting you guys. The numbers, and I'm waiting for my report system to run, but we can go over uh everything else. Is Crystal going to join us? Let me go check that. Okay, give me one sec. No worries. Is everybody getting compliance Christy on uh, MFA, uh, everybody but Basma, uh, which Basma's is going live on Friday is fully compliant. Cause if they weren't compliant, they couldn't log in at all as of last week. Oh awesome. Yeah so everyone at Sharp is compliant. Um Basma will be compliant on Friday, cause I delayed it just given everything we saw. Speaker 4 00:05:33 No I'm gonna go in there right now. Speaker 1 00:05:35 Get some stuff for you to sign? Yeah. Speaker 4 00:05:42 I Think he's probably not. Speaker 1 00:05:52 Crystal, I like your lanyard. Speaker 4 00:05:55 Yes, I won it at aum, I won it at a paint night. My paint my painting my daughter. Speaker 2 00:06:04 She's about to hop on. Speaker 3 00:06:06 That's awesome. I was looking for my ring. I don't know where it went. I had it out the other day because I had to go do something with it, and actually back where it belongs, and I was going to show it to you, Crystal, and I don't have it. Oh my gosh! I'll find it. Um. Hi! Good morning! We were just talking about the MFA rollout. It's fully rolled out to everyone with the exception of Basma, and so if. If they weren't compliant, they couldn't log in at all now. So, I at this moment, the biggest issue we saw was just that one last little button that says " turn two FA on. " And. So that was probably our biggest thing that we had to help people through. And then Basmas going live on Friday, and they'll have a week from the time they go live to, they'll get alerts, letting them know. They need to finish that. So. Speaker 3 00:07:03 I intentionally delayed them a week or two weeks, just because I wanted to see how many Sharp people called in and had issues, and it wasn't as bad as we thought it would be. So, it ended up being really good. We also had quite a few Sharp people on the Excel training. I did a couple weeks ago with another client. So, I am going to start including people in on similar trainings, but I'll also start doing standard trainings just facilitated for Sharp. And Basma for all employees. And I'll run those maybe once or twice a month, and we'll do some Excel, Uh do some Word and some other tools that they use on a daily basis that might help them. Um, but we actually had more Sharp people in that course than we did the other clients, which was great. Um it showed that everybody really wanted to learn. So um have either of you or any of you guys gotten any feedback on that? On the training? Speaker 5 00:08:05 Okay. Um, all right. Let's have some suggestions that I need, so maybe it will help. No, Gofer it because right now, I'm having a heck of a time trying to navigate Google and looking at shared folders versus shared documents versus like all the sheet stuff I create and trying to find them. I'm like, I want to cry. And I would imagine that since we're trying to move use Google more often, like it might be good to do Google, Suite training or some kind of shared document training. Speaker 3 00:08:38 I will be honest, I already planned on doing that for you guys just because we're trying to de-sable twenty-something employees that we were trying to delete them fully from the system. But when we did delete them, uh, We found out they had a lot of shared documents that people were still using. Um and so we do definitely need to do that andum, That way we can actually fully delete those people's account. Uh, twenty-something. I think about twenty. Speaker 2 00:09:09 Twenty six maybe? Which is a lot less than what we started with, But I know Darla was asking at one point, and I told her we had those because once we move all the data in documents, so she was like oh okay. Speaker 3 00:09:19 Yeah, and we're going to start working on moving Box as well, Um moving off of Box because I think Box is set to be renewed in a couple months, and we were not going to renew it. Um there's no reason to have, Box, when we actually have better HIPAA compliance on uh Google Drive, and then when we move to Microsoft, we'll have even better HIPAA compliance there. So Box is just one of those unnecessary expenses that uh that we came through on. Um I have the main numbers, But is there anything you guys want to discuss real quick before we jump into those? I am going to share my screen. Speaker 2 00:09:58 No, I can't think of anything but. Speaker 3 00:10:01 Okay. Um, this the month of May. This the amount of tickets open for the month of May. So we had uh five hundred and eighty six tickets open, five hundred and seventy two closed, And then we have about fourteen that came over in help um and we currently got about nine eight open, just SCHARP uh in BAFMA employees. So um it's it's actually ticking up, which is good because in March when we fully had moved over, we were at four twenty five. And then April dropped, and then now May is is actually much higher. Um, And then most of that was badge access rollout and uh, the MFA rollout traffic. So just a quick heads up on that. Now um this is your resolution time. Most about ten percent is being closed in one hour, um sixteen percent under forty hours, and then thirty two percent under twenty four hours. However that being said. Speaker 3 00:10:60 The majority of the higher count is my tickets because my tickets will get open and stay open for four to five weeks, depending on what I'm working on because they're projects like the MFA rollout, different things like that. So, Um these are the numbers you really want to look at because those are indicative of your staff rather than the tickets I have open. So, because I do have to open tickets on all the work I do. So if I don't nobody knows what I'm doing and then you know, Then they start questioning everything I do. So, we don't want that. Um, Here's so I'm gonna explain the boards to you guys, and then I'll also send this over PDF as well. But the boards are, if I'm the best way for me to explain it. Help Desk is, I'm broken help, I can't get up. Okay? Uh Implementation, those are the ones where it's like um your new users, your disabling users. Speaker 3 00:11:56 Installing a software, things like that. That's your implementation. And then implementation security, that's where my security team is jumping in on installing new tools, checking for compliance, doing their normal everyday stuff that they do to keep you guys secure. This is where they are not reactive but proactive is the implementation board. And then security desk is hey. I got a uh I think I have a virus on my computer or I got. This phishing email, I need you guys to look at. So, And then, of course, V C I O is me and an administrative is um. Is my admin team when they're like ordering things or adding licenses stuff like that. And then procurement cells. This is where my team like if they have to jump in and order docking stations, things like that. So you guys can see the breakdown most of the tickets are being opened by email. Speaker 3 00:12:53 So, and then one hundred and sixty four is internal. Sixty two, this what what it says knock. It just it actually is our operations center. That's mostly our security team. So these are alerts coming in things like that. Portal is makes me super happy because portal is our the, the new portal that I rolled out last two weeks ago. So that's the website we built for you guys, um and then call as people actually calling in so A lot of people are really jumping in and utilizing the help desk as much as possible, which I appreciate. I love these numbers. These are actually very good numbers for the first six months. So, Gaston and Robert one hundred percent taking most of the tickets un-owned. Don't worry about those; those are alerts that are coming in, and I don't have an owner put against them. So un-owned just means, you know, we got an alert that we need to investigate. Uh. Speaker 3 00:13:53 The ticket has not taken ownership because there is no need for anyone to take ownership. And, then these are my other help desk people that have jumped in on tickets. And then Anton is my security manager, and Charlene is one of my she answers the phones for us. She's a level one technician; she does password resets and simple fixes, so like installing printers and things like that. So volume being up This is looks really good. People are starting to trust us. Um, we do have our closure rate, which is pretty high. Uh, normally we're sitting at ninety two percent across the board with all clients, but we're at ninety seven for you guys. And, then thirty two percent of the tickets are closed within hours, twenty four hours, um which is good. And then seventy percent of the tickets that were open were a normal priority. Only six true P one emergencies happened all month. That was there was an internet outage at one site. Speaker 3 00:14:50 Um, every time the burglar alarm goes off, that is a P1 for us. It hits the system as a P1 for us. Sometimes the team, if I let them know in time, they'll drop it to a P2 or a P3. Um and sometimes when they happen overnight it does get dropped. So just a heads up. And then Gaston and Robert, of course, handling 67 % uh of all owned tickets Ignore this last line that is actually for my system. Because this my viewpoint, I'm just showing you guys what I get to see. So this this my system telling me, hey, you need to get your automation system to move these. So uh just a heads up for you guys. And, then the other thing I wanted to let you guys know about is uh survey results, which we haven't gotten too many just yet. Had to restart my meeting, my computer right before this meeting. So bear with me. Speaker 3 00:15:48 Our updates happened on our computers this past week, and I had an update. I had to restart my system, so bear with me. So we have five responses that have come in. Um, one of them I did leave this totally anonymous. One of them gave us a two; everyone else has given us a five. Now, I just sent this out Friday, so it's pretty good. Although I have not offered a gift card yet for filling it out. I don't know how to to say that, um. To know how who does what, so did they say why they gave it to. They did not um. I'm I'm going to pull up the full individual results so bear with me. Okay so this one, um most of the time we resolve their issues. Speaker 3 00:16:47 Um, their tool reliability is a two. So that is I don't know how I don't know pretty much based on this um how to estimate which tools it is, But they did put faster responses from IT or the help desk is what they're looking for. So yeah, and then they did not give us, Any other information for us to figure out, um, what it is we can do better. Other than faster responses. So. Um, Everyone else has given us either a four or five across the board. So we are doing something right for you guys. Uh I just wish I knew because I left it anonymous I don't know who this is. Speaker 2 00:17:40 Intentional, I mean, that's okay. I feel like overall t here is been lots of improvement. You know, you are always going to have outlier or two. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:17:47 We are. And honestly at at this, I have not met a bad person yet at Sharp or someone upset. So yeah, um normally within the first couple months, i'll I will hear about issues because people will i try to be as approachable as possible. And people will. Come to me and ask questions or give me insight. I haven't had that yet at Sharp, So I am hoping the kitten pictures will help people get a little bit more confident and comfortable with coming and sharing with me stuff. So we'll wait to see. Although, I am now getting asked when is the next picture coming out? So I am seeing that come across, But evidently first, if they don't get a picture within a week, they they will come to my door and ask me where it is. Speaker 3 00:18:36 So. But yeah, um, that is mostly what I have for you guys today. I do not, um, I am still working on the budget. Uh right now at initial, uh, where I am getting handing everything over to Cost Shift soon. I probably have reduced the overall budget for twenty twenty seven to about um two hundred thousand below this past year. So. Um, I am still adding in the figures. Apollo, you gave me the other day for growth, And I am still looking at the refresh that's needed for some of the machines. We do need docking stations, so I am still looking through that. And then based on where we are currently with fiscal year twenty twenty six, and the fact that it ends at this at the end of this month, we are about a hundred fifty thousand under budget for the year. Which puts us right on target with where we thought we would be. So. Speaker 3 00:19:35 Just adds up for you guys on where that looks like. Nice. Thanks. How are you guys? Be somebody who had a better morning than me. Speaker 2 00:19:50 Well, it's been busy, but we're good. I am good. Speaker 4 00:19:53 It's been good. We had leadership academy today, and it was really it was really cool. Good. It was all about reframing everything and anything in leadership. So. We were reframing the morning. Speaker 3 00:20:09 Nice. I love that. Um, if I could make your days better in some way, shape or form, what could I do to make your life a little bit easier? Speaker 2 00:20:22 Mm. I don't have anything right this moment because I feel like when we do, we come find you immediately. So no, but thank you for helping. Speaker 4 00:20:31 Sorry Thank you for helping Cesar, No worries. Appreciate that. Speaker 3 00:20:38 That that makes my life if I can jump in and help with that, that makes everything better for everybody. So, Speaker 5 00:20:45 Lauren told you my pain point, Christy. So yes, I will get your pain point. It took me like twenty minutes to try to find the spreadsheet. I created like six months ago. Was like. Speaker 3 00:20:54 I cannot find it Ohum so a couple of things that I would like to do for you guys. We alreadyum. So this is in regards to Pratt. We did spin up the free version of Azure subscription for Pratt to work through how to move everything to the cloud from the SQL server, so we can drop that expense next year for the data centers. And so she's jumping in with that, but if there are any applications that I can make on the free side, They will be a little slow because they'll be on the Microsoft free tier right now because I don't want to do too much. And. Speaker 3 00:21:33 Create a big deal. So, If there's any type of applications, I can help where you guys can see reports right away, See all the data that you need to look at in a lesser timeframe than waiting for somebody to get you that information, would that be ideal for you? Speaker 5 00:21:50 Yeah, I was going to say thatum You know I've been working with Pat a lot on on and Heidi on developing reports and trying to make it available. So one of the things and I don't know. Speaker 5 00:22:02 Ah, you know who ultimately is responsible for it, but we have a um. The licenses for them for the Microsoft like in order to use the B I reports and have access to the B I reports. Doctor Barber did give me the okay to add more licenses so that we can have all the managers to have access to it, and then I think there may be some key admin staff. So, I don't really know who's you know. Speaker 5 00:22:32 Who's supposed to add the licenses, how that works, and you know what do you need? I can probably provide a list of names orum and just to verify what the cost is because I don't know what the cost is now. I don't. I think Pratt probably has the best sense of who, because she's has access to the thing so she could tell us currently who is licensed. You may already have that information, I don't know but. I'm. Speaker 3 00:22:57 Gonna ask the team because my admin team does that for me. I'm gonna ask them to pull the cost. Uh, Because nonprofit licenses is is significantly cheaper than what you guys see on um out there on the Microsoft page. And so I'm going to ask Pratt not to add those because we actually have special nonprofit licensing and the way we we put it into your account, we've got everything switched over. So uh for instance if I give you guys um E five licenses for. Speaker 3 00:23:30 For an enterprise company, they're fifty six dollars a person. Um, however nonprofit they're twenty three dollars a person. So, it's it's those kind of savings that we're able to get you for some licenses up to seventy five percent. Speaker 5 00:23:47 Okay, well that's always good. Saving is always good. So I I don't what? So how do you? So you'll get talk to your admin people to see right now, what the cost and the license are. And then yeah, should I follow up with you, or you want to follow up with me. So I can give you a list of the people. Or how do you what do you think the next steps would be. Speaker 3 00:24:09 Send the list to the help desk? Because the help desk will actually put it in play. Um I'll get the individual costs for you and get that sent over to you as soon as I get it from the admin team, all in allum on a good day. It usually takes about three hours to get it all done. Um, now if if we are giving them licenses, just a heads up, we're going to have to give them a frontline license to Microsoft. Um, And I, think one, second, that's a dollar, a dollar eight on top of um what they're paying for what they need for the BI license. So that's pretty inexpensive. Um, if. Speaker 3 00:24:52 You either need to run it with an F one license, or um, we need to give them a a slightly higher cost license, but it's not too much. It's like four or five dollars. So okay, per user and that's in that's in addition to the BI license. And then send me by email when you when you send the emails out, CC me on it, just so that I can make sure it's done quicker um and then. Also give me the exact license you want because there's a couple of different BI licenses. So, uh, is it Power BI Premium Yes, Speaker 5 00:25:28 Power I don't know. I think I don't know. I'm I think Pratt and Heidi probably know because they're the ones that have beenum you know, updating and putting data into those systems. Butum, I mean, I know it's Power BI but I don't know. Speaker 5 00:25:49 What level or version? Speaker 3 00:25:52 So, Prad and I have been using Teams to talk to each other. She's using her Microsoft account for Teams. Um, I'll get her to send that over to me today. Uh, if you guys have ever wanted to use Teams, you all have a link account for Teams by the way. Speaker 5 00:26:08 Okay. We've always used Zoom so. Speaker 3 00:26:12 Yeah, no worries. I mean for the actually chatting back and forth Oh, Speaker 5 00:26:16 Chatting through Teams Gotcha. Speaker 5 00:26:23 Good to know. But were you I know I I gave you my two cents about the licenses, But like what what kind of things were you kind of thinking about in terms of data or, you know. Speaker 3 00:26:38 I'll be honest. Sorry, I think I think big. So, I'm thinking about getting you guys a site that you can go to like a web page. That you can pull data in an instant for things that you need. So, if you guys don't mind, I've actually talked to AbilityFirst, and they know that I'm sharing this data with you guys. Um, I will show you. um. I was going to show you a website that I created with them. Speaker 3 00:27:18 It's kind of like an operating system. It's what we're going to call it. We're going to build it out over time, and it allows them to see reports in real time. So let me get that up and show it to you that way. Speaker 1 00:27:42 Couldn't remember what the site name was, how to go pull it up. Speaker 3 00:27:51 These are the kind of things that we can build for you. Um, So this so we have a because ability first wants to see budgets and see. This just an example. But the sky's, the limit on what we can do as long as we can access your data. So for for this site and bear with it, the system is slow because it's on the free version. Um, It'll pull up charts and allocation costs for each department so that finance can take it. Look at it and be able to allocate the correct cost per month to the right partners. And so, if if a manager says, well wait, I'm paying too much for IT costs. This is a site that they can go in as well and say okay, you know Jennifer has X Y and Z uh assets. Bear with it one second my the server is coming online it's a Monday. Speaker 3 00:28:45 Um, but it can say okay. Well, Jennifer has an iPad, a laptop, and a desktop that's allocated to her. And, she has all of these Microsoft licenses and a Zoom license and a Adobe Creative Cloud. And then the manager can say well, her job changed so she doesn't need this. And so it'll it'll come through. It pulls up the hardware costs, The license annual cost, all of the costs, so that they can go in and take a look. So if I go in and look at CIT Admin, we can see all of these systems are assigned to CIT Admin, which is our admin account that we we put things in if they're spares. And then we can see what the software licenses that attach to it. We only have an E three license, but some users have a Zoom license and some have an Adobe license. So we're able to pull that and we can. Speaker 3 00:29:37 The manager can see at a glance how much it's actually costing for that user. So these are kind of examples. Like if if we look at the reports that you already have built, Um we can take those reports that you guys are getting built daily for you and put it in a type of website format. It'll also allow you to export it uh to a PDF or Excel. This one exports to Excel, and then you can go in from there and make updates. Let's see. I uh finance view is right here, so they can see all the allocations by departments. Um and there are some equipment that's leased, so they can see the leasing cost as well. So we have Verizon and Lenovo because they lease Lenovo. Speaker 3 00:30:27 Uh Hopefully that makes sense. But we can do this, we can do this make this fit for anything. So we can look at the information from CareLogic, And make the reports based on that. And so it'd be like one sheet that you can look at almost daily to see where everything is at. Speaker 5 00:30:46 I would probably recommend Christy that at some point, um, you know, We have a weekly data team meeting or a couple of them because one we have meetings weekly around our CCBHC program because that one is our. It's uh. It's our government funded grant through SAMHSA, and they require a crap ton of data all the time. So we have developed those, And then we have weekly data meetings that are related to kind of services and stuff. Some of the things are in Care Logic. And then I meet with Pratt pretty frequently. We've been developing some billing reports and other things, and so it might be good for you to get a sense of. Speaker 5 00:31:36 What we already have in place, What we're already looking at to see how we can potentially bridge the gap or to streamline it, or you know, Cause CareLogic is um you know, they pull everything off of the their Snowflake database or whatever. It's like downloaded daily, and then they do all the things with it. And so uh, we're in this like discovery mode of all things like data related and how to. How to make us more efficient, But it would be good, probably for you to get in the loop of that. First to kind of see what we're doing and see how we can eventually get to something conceptually like this, where it's data is a little bit more accessible for people. Speaker 3 00:32:21 Yeah, absolutely. If you want to add me to those meetings, Um I will jump in and I'm free to help out in any way possible. Part of our contract to you is, You guys, tell me what makes your life easier. So, Paul came to me and said," I want to do DocuSign." So my job is to get that rolled out. If you come to me and say," I need some more efficiency on these kind of reports," I get to sit with you and do that. If Erin comes to me and says," I need an operating system for her role," that is my job. So whatever you guys need to make your lives more efficient, that is what I am here for. Besides making IT better for you overall. Speaker 5 00:32:59 Well, that's always encouraging. And that is helpful. There, there are so many things. So, at least in my perspective, I think about data all the time. So, But I know that little things, you know more simple things would you know be helpful. I think for people butum. But I would say start there. So I can put you on some of the invites to some of those meetings. Okay. Speaker 3 00:33:29 Uh, just a heads up, Power BI Pro looks like it's gonna be roughly around. I am guessing because they gave me, they've given me two prices here. But I am guessing, it's gonna be around five dollars and fifty cents per user. That's the nonprofit pricing. So I am getting them, I am asking them to nail in the actual cost for me. So I am waiting on that to come back. Um, But it is about fifty cents cheaper, if cause that's the monthly price. It's about fifty per. Fifty cents cheaper if you, uh, do a year license rather than a monthly license. So it'd be roughly around five dollars. Okay. And if you do a year license, if someone leaves, then we can always assign that license to another person. So it's not locked into one single person. And if you want to go premium, uh, premium is about twelve dollars per person. Ten dollars uh if you do the annual. Speaker 5 00:34:33 Awesome. Yeah, I have no idea what we're spending now, so it'll be good to know that. Speaker 3 00:34:37 Yeah, Pratt's doing a trial and she's got about twenty six days left on the pro version. Hmm. So I'm gonna I can upgrade her to a non- trial if you'd likeum. I need to see what all you guys are going to do with it to tell you which one would be better pro or premium, but I know she's using pro right now. Speaker 5 00:34:59 Okay, I mean, I can probably show you, but I mean it can be offline or it can be another time. Butum. Speaker 3 00:35:11 Why don't I send you a meeting invite later? I'll send you a couple of different options, and we can sit down and maybe sit down with Pratt. And go over it all. Okay. Make your life a little easier in that direction. Speaker 3 00:35:25 Okay. Awesome, and then my very last thing, Is I am going on vacation next week. It's the child's graduation, and also I am just I haven't taken a vacation in a while, so I am going to be out. Mike is Suma, and I am going to send you guys. I know you everybody met him at one point except for you Jennifer. I think you were out that day or maybe not. i tell remember, i've slept a few times okay, So I will send out an introduction email to Mike. He is the account manager, so if you guys need to reach out to someone to escalate things, like what you'd normally reach out to me for, He will be in the loop so he can help out as much as necessary. I am usually reachable when I am on vacation. I am not planning on going anywhere without cell signal right now, like I did on Thursday but. Speaker 3 00:36:18 If you guys absolutely need me, you know you can call me. I think Apollo and Doctor Barbara both called me on one of my vacation days last year, so that's not an issue at all. So we. Speaker 2 00:36:29 Try really hard not to call you unless it's absolute emergency. We believe in work life balance. Speaker 3 00:36:35 Thank you. Honestly, I'm just going to get caught up on sleep and a few books that I have that I have not read yet. Awesome One day. Speaker 2 00:36:46 With sleep. Speaker 3 00:36:47 Yes, I tried that this weekend, but the air conditioning was out. So it was a little hot. It's been a year. Speaker 2 00:36:53 How can I get that fixed before summer? Speaker 3 00:36:56 I put in a request to maintenance, um and the request went in on Saturday, so they should be here today or tomorrow to fix it. So it'd be good. It's all good. I actually got work done today, which is good. Uh Jennifer, they came back to me on the pricing. Uh if you go with the monthly option is five dollars and four cents. Um, if you go by, if you go to the annual cost paid monthly, it's four dollars and fifty cents. Speaker 5 00:37:26 Okay. I mean I'm looking at my uh looks like I have a Microsoft Microsoft three sixty five Copilot basic. That is my uh account or is my plan. Speaker 3 00:37:41 Give me one second. Speaker 5 00:37:42 I don't know what that means but. Speaker 3 00:37:44 Let me take a look. As well, because I need to know if it's an E three or a business account, which is a little different. E is enterprise. Speaker 1 00:38:18 You are. Speaker 3 00:38:20 You have Power BI Pro, by the way. You're on E 3. I do, okay. Yes, E 3 with Power BI Pro. Okay. And then it may be. Speaker 5 00:38:35 Okay, Well, I guess we can figure it out if you and I meet with Pratt, she can probably give some context, too, and we'll figure it out, Speaker 3 00:38:43 No worries. Um. And I am going to steal Lorenzo had Power BI Pro full license. I am going to steal that from him. Speaker 1 00:38:59 So, and we can build everything else free. Speaker 3 00:39:07 Okay, guys, sorry. I usually a little bit more prepared today has just been a roller coaster of a morning. So. Um, my normal report. I am trying to get you guys. And I did show you the numbers, so yes, thank you guys for being amazing. Uh, I will be bringing more chocolates soon. Mm- hmm. I have to order more now Did you share any Erin? Okay, Speaker 2 00:39:34 Never mind She clearly did not what share? I thought I had to try them all twice. So there was nothing to share. Jennifer would have Apollo. He doesn't take my chocolate, so in my defense, the people on this call wouldn't. Apollo told us I am trying to help Apollo. That's why. That's all got it got it. Speaker 3 00:39:56 I I uh I looked at it. I was like, I think I might keep this box. And then I was like no Aaron really needs this box. Speaker 2 00:40:03 Appreciate it's actually very good. I was telling all my friends about it. Speaker 3 00:40:06 Yes, So, i have toured that i used to work for mars long long time ago as an i t person. Way before I became in management, and I've toured the facility. I've toured the M and M facility. I've toured the Twix facility. My favorite is their coffee facility and their Twix facility because fresh coffee, while you are in the parking lot, the smell it's just like t here is nothing like it. And then Twix, yeah, and then Twix smells like chocolate chip cookies that are fresh baked, and they're really amazing coming off the conveyor belt. So yeah. Speaker 3 00:40:42 All right, I am going to leave you guys alone. Give you about twenty minutes fifteen. You guys are amazing. Thank you, and I will see you on Wednesday. We will see what we do. Bye-bye.
05-27 Weekly Meeting: ITG-to-Hudu Migration, LastPass Compliance, Operations and Project Updates
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-27 09:56:13 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] [Sergio] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Anzor] [Pete] [Anton] [Mike] [Vince] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] [Speaker 15] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Opening, Scheduling, and Core Values - The meeting started at 10:00 AM on May 27, 2026 (Week 22). - After-hours support: Primary is Gabby; backup is Kevin. - Core value highlighted: Do the right thing. - Quote of the day: “You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr. - Topic Title: ITG to Hudu Migration Status and Data Security - Help Desk update: Access to ITG will end on Monday; data should be moved to Hudu. If something is missing from Hudu, inform Olivia ASAP. - Concern raised about ensuring all useful ITG data (e.g., global admin passwords) is fully migrated to Hudu. - Plan to export ITG data for archival; strong cautions regarding securing the export, especially credentials. - Security to assist Help Desk with password migrations; Bogdan finished global admin accounts; remaining passwords continue to be moved. - Conclusion: Migration continues with security oversight; an export will be guarded and eventually deleted. - Topic Title: LastPass Compliance and Enforcement - Reminder to verify and remediate LastPass alerts for breached passwords and other issues. - Leadership emphasized enforcement: users with outstanding issues must fix them by the end of the week; another sweep will occur on Monday. - Possible follow-up conversations for unresolved security issues. - Conclusion: Mandatory remediation by end of the week; ongoing monitoring will continue. - Topic Title: Operations Updates (Projects, Staffing, Communication) - Maverick project hit a key milestone over the holiday; appreciation for team working Monday. - Announcement: Julia will leave at the end of June; recognition of her contributions to project management and onboarding. - Tickets improved significantly; continue staying on phones and on top of tickets due to current staffing constraints. - ARC customer feedback: Improve proactive communication and status updates on tickets; increase visibility and touchpoints. - Conclusion: Maintain communication discipline with customers; continue ticket focus while shorthanded. - Topic Title: Account Management Highlights - Anderson: Assisting with wireless management and monitoring across public Wi‑Fi; about 150 additional Meraki devices. - ARC: Needs electronic communication archiving/surveillance (e.g., Smarsh, Global Relay); request for team feedback on prior deployments. - IronGate: Evaluating SSO for NetSuite. - Licensing check: Project Angel Food requested 14 Power BI licenses, but E5 may already include Power BI Pro; reminder to validate entitlements to avoid duplicate billing. - Reinforcement: Train team on Microsoft licensing to prevent billing for included services. - Conclusion: Proceed with Anderson wireless scope; gather input on archiving tools; verify licensing before quoting. - Topic Title: Finance Reminders - Month-end preparation underway; timesheets and expenses should be completed and submitted by Friday, May 27, 2026 (since May 31 falls on Sunday). - Conclusion: Submit timesheets/expenses by May 27, 2026. - Topic Title: Admin and Billing Coordination - Monthly billing in progress; coordinate with Admin on any work that impacts billing. - Conclusion: Notify Admin for billing-impacting activities. - Topic Title: New Business Development and Rate Sheet - Progress on current engagements; potential positive updates by end of next month. - Updated rate sheet issued; use the new rate sheet for quotes this year, regardless of prior agreements. - Les Quality: 365 migration quote likely to be approved within a week; follow-up planned for potential MRR after project completion. - Conclusion: Apply new rate sheet; pursue MRR opportunities post-project. - Topic Title: Project and Change Management Callouts - AbilityFirst: Expect outages for Camp Pabika all week; Christi will be onsite. - Anderson: Firewall installation and configuration possibly next week. - Colliers EYP phone system: QoS applied on firewall and core switch; monitoring remains for another month; continue assisting client. - CBRE: Two properties sold (5th and 7th; Wells Fargo North Tower); no tickets should be opened under these sites going forward. - XCRF migration: Night of May 31 to June 1; critical upgrade to new OS; ensure communication, rollback plan, and vendor support due to SSL cert sensitivity. - Conclusion: Monitor systems, honor ticket routing changes, and execute XCRF migration with robust safeguards. - Topic Title: Training: Building and Using “Agents” for Productivity - Christi introduced creating and using local “agents” (automation helpers) with Hugo and others; files to be shared. - Overview of using PowerShell (preferably v7), directory setup, and tools (Claude Code, Codex/ChatGPT) to run agents. - Demonstrated a “briefing” skill pulling Outlook emails, calendar, open tickets/projects, and Airtable/Excel tasks; scheduled to run daily at 5:30 AM. - Plan to deliver 5-minute weekly segments and set up training, including client training; invites open via Teams. - Conclusion: Ongoing agent training series will proceed over coming weeks; files and guidance to be distributed. - Topic Title: Culture and Recognition (Duck Race and Core Values) - Brief duck race segment; music noted for appropriateness. - Core value highlighted: Always friendly; shout-out to Sean for dependable help. - Conclusion: Continue practicing friendly, supportive culture. - Topic Title: Personal Notes - Christi shared personal update: preparing daughter’s move to UC Merced on August 19. - Group acknowledged Julia with thanks. - Conclusion: Informal acknowledgments shared. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Complete migration of remaining ITG entries to Hudu by Friday, May 29, 2026; report any missing items to Olivia - [ ] Perform secure ITG export; encrypt, restrict access, store safely, and schedule deletion after three months - [ ] Enforce LastPass remediation for breached/alerted passwords; conduct a compliance sweep on Monday, June 1, 2026 with follow-ups as needed - [ ] Maintain proactive communication with ARC and all customers on ticket status; increase visibility and touchpoints - [ ] Submit timesheets and expenses by Friday, May 27, 2026 (month-end advanced due to May 31 falling on Sunday) - [ ] Use the updated rate sheet for all new quotes immediately, regardless of prior agreements - [ ] AbilityFirst: Expect and ignore planned Camp Pabika outages; Christi onsite on May 28, 2026 - [ ] Anderson: Confirm week of June 1, 2026 for firewall install/config; notify customer and define rollback plan - [ ] Colliers EYP: Monitor QoS impact for one month; continue assisting client and provide updates - [ ] CBRE: Stop submitting tickets to 5th and 7th and Wells Fargo North Tower sites; honor routing changes - [ ] XCRF migration: Execute during night of May 31–June 1, 2026 with communication plan, rollback, vendor support, and SSL cert handling - [ ] Share agent files (Hugo, April, Segred); schedule 5-minute weekly training segments and client training invites via Teams - [ ] Gather team input on Smarsh/Global Relay for ARC’s SEC archiving; share prior deployment experiences - [ ] Verify licensing entitlements (e.g., E5 includes Power BI Pro) before quoting to avoid duplicate billing - [ ] Follow up with Les Quality post-365 migration for potential MRR discussion ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Formal assignment of a single responsible owner for verifying complete ITG-to-Hudu data migration and sign-off per client (e.g., Barker Pacific). > 2. Documented procedure for securely storing and later deleting the ITG export, including encryption, access controls, retention period, and audit trail. > 3. Specific communication plan for ARC to ensure ticket status visibility (cadence, channels, responsible roles). > 4. Confirmation of the exact week and change window for Anderson’s firewall deployment, with customer notification and rollback plan. > 5. Detailed runbook for the XCRF OS migration covering SSL certificate handling, vendor escalation contacts, and contingency timelines.
- Date
- May 27, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:07 Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Good morning, I'm fine. Speaker 3 00:00:38 Good morning. Speaker 4 00:00:40 Good morning. Guten Tag, dog. How was everybody's long weekend? Speaker 1 00:00:56 Not long enough, but only because. Speaker 3 00:00:59 The truth. Speaker 1 00:01:00 Only because the kid is getting ready to graduate. So we have had a lot of. Speaker 4 00:01:09 That's very exciting. Yeah, graduating high school is uh is a big time. Yes, has uh has started doing college prep and everything. Speaker 1 00:01:22 Yeah, she's going to U C Merced, and we oh. Speaker 4 00:01:26 Very exciting. Speaker 1 00:01:27 Yeah we leave August nineteenth to move her in. Speaker 4 00:01:33 Very exciting but also very sad at the same time. Speaker 3 00:01:42 Yeah. Probably forgot. Say that again. I. Speaker 4 00:01:52 Think that was just background noise from somebody. Speaker 3 00:01:57 What is, I don't know the primary number. Speaker 3 00:02:08 Verbal security is. Speaker 3 00:02:45 Hey Robert. Speaker 1 00:02:54 Yes. What is the phone number for IT? Speaker 5 00:02:59 The main number? Speaker 1 00:03:00 Yes, the main number. Speaker 5 00:03:02 Uh, Two one, three, three, three, five, five, four, one, seven. Speaker 1 00:03:07 That is not allowing me to do. You know the primary phone for ADT for this building? Speaker 5 00:03:16 Uh, it should be the main phone number, which is uh three one zero six three one eight zero zero four. Speaker 1 00:03:27 Okay, let me try that. This location is currently not in service or is more than seven days out from installation and cannot be managed. Well at least that phone number worked. Speaker 1 00:03:44 AD is killing me. Speaker 4 00:03:48 All right, everyone, that's ten AM. Good morning. Today is May twenty seventh, twenty twenty six, week number twenty two. The after hours support is Gabby being the primary with the backup being Kevin. Core value I'd like to highlight today is do the right thing. It's It's always very. It's not very difficult, But it's the most important thing to do the right thing to maintain a proper relationship and proper, you know, reputation for yourself as being an honorable person. Um, Quote of day I would like to bring to everybody's attention is " Y ou don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." That's by Martin Luther King Junior. Um next we'll move to team updates. We're going to start with Help Desk with Olivia if she is here. Speaker 6 00:04:37 Good morning, guys. Happy Wednesday. Uh from the help desk side of things, I'm just a heads up as of Monday, uh we will you will not have access to ITG anymore. Um, so if you need something in ITG next week that is not in Hudu, please let me know. Asap. Um everything should be moved over to Hudu by Monday. So yeah, that's all from me. Thanks Ryan. Speaker 7 00:05:03 Thanks Olivia and we'll move to cybersecurity with Anton, Uh, before we go on, I had a question. Who is responsible for validating that the data from ITG has been successfully transferred to Hoodoo? For example, not long ago I was looking for a global admin password for Barker Pacific. I went into Hoodoo and it was not there, even though Hoodoo had like 30 new entries for Barker Pacific. But it was in ITG. So. Speaker 7 00:05:35 Is there a person who's responsible? Speaker 6 00:05:39 Yeah, so for Barker specifically, we're in the proum we were in the progress process of it. Uh, but we have security moving over the global admins uh and then help desk is moving over the rest of the admins. So it should be completed all by this Friday. But we're. Speaker 7 00:05:57 Still moving things over actively. You you you have someone who is responsible for ensuring that anything useful, In ITG has been moved to Hudu, right? So when you shut down the Hudu, if the data is missing, there is someone who can say I missed the ball here, right? I didn't do my job. Okay. Okay. Right. Speaker 8 00:06:20 We're also going to do an export of it, right? So, we have we have some type of an archival that we can go back to, right? Speaker 7 00:06:29 But I think export doesn't save the passwords, right? Speaker 6 00:06:36 Yes. Um, I'm not sure. Ask for is not OTP. So so so and. Speaker 7 00:06:43 Right, definitely not OTP. But uh okay, if we do the export, Whoever does the export must treat this export with like like guarding their life, right? I Pete, I think you, you probably want to just personally manage and make sure that we have it in one place. No one can get to it, but let's say you. And three months later, it's deleted and completely wiped. Right, right. Speaker 8 00:07:11 Yeah, We brought that up. We brought that up a couple days ago, too, because that's sort of the keys to the kingdom, and that can't fall into the wrong hands for sure. Speaker 7 00:07:20 Right, and it's going to sit unencrypted. It's going to sit in, you know, you don't have to do MFA to get like all of the. Protections we have, we need to make sure that data is super securely protected. Thank. Speaker 4 00:07:40 You, Enzo. We'll move to cybersecurity with Anton. Speaker 9 00:07:44 Related to ITG migration to Hudo, Bogdan yesterday finished up with the all global admin accounts. Um, anyone from help desk team, if you are encountering any issues with the moving other passwords, please reach out to security. We're gonna be glad to help you. This is first part. Second part, I'm asking everyone to take a look into your LastPass account and verify if you have any notifications about breached passwords or any other alerts. Speaker 9 00:08:23 In the last one, just reminder, we're currently enrolling Defense six for all our clients. If, you see new like issues with the accessing any websites that were successfully accessed before, just let us know to create and allow rules in the Defense six. That's it from me. Thank you. Speaker 7 00:08:49 So Anton, in my mind, When you say go in the last pass and validate you have no issue, that's great, right? But in reality, we know users that are problematic users, and we know exactly where they're problematic. Right? Monty has admin access to LastPass. I think you have admin access. You guys need to sit down and email each user and say, these are the things that are in violation. Fix them by end of this week, right? So it's not just" hey, go take a look," but we know you have a problem, fix it. We did that already. We already did it. Oh, you already did that? Speaker 9 00:09:25 It's just reminder. Speaker 7 00:09:27 I see, I see. Okay, Great. Speaker 9 00:09:28 Great And just to be clear: LastPass. Is there monitoring in life? So probably there are going to be new notifications. Speaker 7 00:09:40 That that that's fine. But uh. You know, that number should drop, right? That this number did not drop the one that I've sent you. Right? Hasn't really changed since we last talked. So that's why I would say folks, it's mandatory that you fix the problems identified in the last pass. Right? Uh on Monday. We're going to do another sweep. And if you're still on the list, right uh, I'll probably want to have a personal conversation and understand why you have not fixed the security issue that was uh brought up to you by security team. Right? So just. Speaker 7 00:10:12 Treat this seriously because that's a big deal. Yeah, Speaker 9 00:10:19 That's it from me. Thank you. Speaker 7 00:10:21 I think I am still in CEO mode, Pete. I should stop talking. Speaker 8 00:10:26 No worries, hey, you are the owner; Speaker 7 00:10:28 It's all good. I should be in my lane, but no, Speaker 4 00:10:32 No And now we'll move to operations with Pete. Speaker 8 00:10:37 All right, a few items. So, first of all, we had a big project. We have a big project that's still underway, but a big milestone this past weekend for Maverick. So I wanted to just call out really, really great job by the team this past weekend. A lot of people had to work over the weekend, especially on Monday, which was a holiday, but great job by the team on that. Sorry I'm a little hoarse today so my voice is a little raspy. Speaker 8 00:11:07 Uh, secondly, and and this is a kind of a big thing, but Julia has been with us for a very long time. Um, she has decided to move on from Crimson. Her last day with us will be the end of June. Um, Julia has been a huge contributor to us. She's been with the organization for um well since before I since before I was here, but I think it's been close to two years and, Uh, I just wanted to personally thank Julia for everything she's done. She's helped onboard a lot of customers. She's helped bring our project management team up to a level that I don't think we really had project management here before Julia joined. So, um, Personally, thank you very much Julia for everything that you've done for us. And uh and you know, we really appreciate what you've done. And um and you know we we brought uh we brought Paula on board and and. Speaker 8 00:12:02 And uh, Seg has moved into a project management role recently. So, um, we thank you for helping, you know, With the transition and uh and thank you for for everything that you've done for us. And and You know we welcome we welcome you. And And uh For, the next for the next I guess The next month, you'll still be with us, but I just wanted to let everybody know, so they had time to to tell you. Thank you. And um With the rest of us Um Couple other things, Um tickets, were talking about how many tickets and how shorthanded were last week. Uh a lot of people stepped up. Special, thank you to Charles for a lot of help that he provided over the last week. Um our ticket counts are down significantly. A lot of people came to the table. Um thank you all for for your help with that. We still are a little bit shorthanded this week. Speaker 8 00:12:54 So let's make sure we're staying on the phones. Let's make sure we're staying on top of tickets until we get back up to full staff. But thanks for everything that was done last week, and finally, We did have a challenge that came up last week from a customer that's fairly new to us. They started early this year. Arc is a newer customer for us, and one of the things that we've been sort of Preaching to the team over and over is the importance of communication. Communicate, communicate, communicate. A big part of what we do is not necessarily how quickly we get tickets done, But the communication as to the status of tickets and what you know where they are in the process. So. Speaker 8 00:13:37 A big part of what ARC was saying is, we put a ticket in, we put a request in, and then we don't hear anything. We don't know what's happening. We don't know where they are in the process. We don't know if it's being worked on, if it's fixed or not. Please please please tell your customer where you are in the process. Give them status updates. Reach out to them. I think another thing that we're going to try to do more often is reach out to our customers, touch them say hi. We're going to try to be more physically visible to our customers but, Make sure you're telling your customers the status of their tickets. That means a lot. So, um, That's what I have for today. And uh, I'll turn it back over to you, Ryan. You're on mute. Speaker 4 00:14:24 Thank you, Pete. Uh next we'll move to account management with Mike. Speaker 10 00:14:28 Um Vinceum I'll let Vince go first, if he's got a couple updates. Speaker 11 00:14:33 Yeah good morning team. So a couple updates. Uh, regarding Anderson, So they've approached us to assist with wireless management and monitoring of their entire wireless system. That's all the public Wi Fi spaces. So looking forward to that. It's about one hundred and fifty additional Meraki devices that we're going to be assisting them with. I am just giving you the heads up that that's in process right now. Uh, another big update I wanted to share and get some feedback with Is if you recall, Ark is in the middle of filing for their S E C registration. And part of that is making sure that they've got this electronic communication archiving and surveillance tool. I've kind of reached out and talked to the team. I think we've got some exposure to Smarsh and Global Relay, but if any of you guys can provide feedback to get some, um, You know uh information on how we've deployed it in the past or if you guys have worked with it with some other companies, we'd really love the feedback and support there. Speaker 11 00:15:29 U m and then lastly, just a quick one. Uh IronGate is kind of evaluating SSO setup for their NetSuite implementation right now. So just giving you guys a heads up on that, too. So thanks, Speaker 10 00:15:43 Cool makes sense. Um the only update I have from my side is justum I came across something I'm not sure if it was brought up in the in the help deskhuddle, but I just figured I'd share it during the meeting. Um there was a request from Project Angel Food to order. It's like 14 Power BI licenses, but they actually had the entire almost the entire company actually has E5 licensing. And so just reminded the team if we get requests like this, Just to double check because come to find out the E5 licensing actually comes with Power BI Pro. As part of the bundle package. So we may have quoted them licensing and they would have purchased it. And where that comes up is. Speaker 10 00:16:25 You know, Project Angel Food is is a good customer, but anytime a customer's not happy, They may take our invoices, and they may submit them to another competitor to get competitive bid. And those are some of the red flags we want to try to avoid. So just a reminder. That's it from the account management team. Thank you. Speaker 8 00:16:43 Yeah, and then Mike, you know, to tag on to that Microsoft licensing is not easy right? Not everybody knows everything about Microsoft licensing but things like E 5 s include, Different pieces of of the tool set and things like Power BI come with a with an E five license. If you don't know that, um, It's something we should we should make sure that people are trained on right because we don't want to bill a customer additional money for something that is already included. And then that's what Mike's kind of getting at is, We would hate to bill them for that. And then another competitor says hey, you're being billed for something you're already paying for and they're double dipping. So. Speaker 8 00:17:22 Um, we won't do that to you, and then the customer goes somewhere else. So, that's the kind of thing we don't. We definitely don't want to do so. Speaker 4 00:17:33 Awesome Thank you so much. Next we'll move on to finance with Elise. Speaker 12 00:17:39 Hi, good morning, everyone happy Wednesday for uh for the finance. First started preparing for the month and I wanna take this chance to give a friendly quick reminder for your timesheets and expenses. The vision since May thirty one falls on Sunday. We really appreciate if, uh, All sub all timesheets and expenses will be wrap up completed and submitted on by Friday, uh May twenty seven. So it'll be very helpful, uh in getting all the inputs and data we need for month end recording. Thank you so much. Speaker 4 00:18:16 Thank you so much. Next we'll move to admin with April. Speaker 13 00:18:21 Hi, good morning, everybody. So on the admin side, we're in the middle of our monthly billing. So as a constant reminder, that if you're working on anything that you think will affect billing, please always coordinate with the admin team. That's all. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:18:35 Thank you. April next one move to new business development with onsor. Speaker 7 00:18:40 So on new business development, uh I don't have any uh awesome news. Butum. We are making a really good progress with a couple of current engagements that we're working on, and I am hopeful that hopefully by the end of next month, I'm gonna be able to share something very positive. That's all I've got for now. I did wanted to bring up uh to everyone's attention, we have an updated rate sheet, right? So um if you guys quoting anything. Speaker 7 00:19:16 Uh, just make sure you use the current updated rate sheet. If you are not uh sure what it is, I'm gonna put it in the chat right now, so everyoneum can have a copy of it. Butum or you can just email and ask me or any of the account managers. They have this information as well. Thank you. Speaker 11 00:19:37 Awesome, thank you. Real quick on that one, I was going to ask if we've got a new rate sheet, but their agreement is on different rate. Which one should we use? Speaker 7 00:19:48 New rate sheet. Speaker 11 00:19:49 New rate sheet, regardless. Speaker 7 00:19:51 Regardless. Yep, this is our new rate sheet for this year. Speaker 10 00:19:58 Got it, thanks. Actually, I have one quick update that falls under NVD. Wanda, you might want to follow up on that, But I talked to Les Quality this morning, just some final touches on the quote, and they're probably going to approve it in the next week. So I'm not sure if we want to follow up with Orlando afterwards after that, quote gets approved. And we finish the project. It's a 365 migration. Speaker 7 00:20:19 Uh, that that's uh, that's withum Less quality. Less quality. Yeah yeah the uh I'm trying to think the guy's names Orlando? Orlando yeah yeah okay but that that that's a project, That's not MRR. Speaker 10 00:20:35 Oh there is nothing behind it? Speaker 7 00:20:38 Oh okay okay, Yeah, once we complete it for sure, Let me know and then I will follow up and see if we can do something with our lender. Okay. Cool. Yep. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:20:48 Thank you. Does, anybody else have any project or change management call outs, they'd like to bring to everybody's attention? Go ahead and raise your hand. Speaker 1 00:20:55 Just a quick heads up, Ability First, You guys are going to see outages all week long for Camp. Pabika You can ignore those I'll be up there tomorrow. Speaker 4 00:21:05 Okay, thank you so much. Christy Let's go ahead and go to Sega. Speaker 2 00:21:10 Guys, good morning. So maybe next week we'll be installing and configuring installing oneum if a firewall for Anderson. That's it for me. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:21:21 Very exciting, thank you, Sekret Gabby. Speaker 14 00:21:25 Uh. So an update on Collier's EYP the phone system. Soum we just implementedum QoS policies on the firewall and on the core switch. Uh, where the device is connected to, and we're monitoring the traffic. So far it's been stable, but um we're gonna give it another month just in case. Um We'll be following up with the client to see how the performance is going. Um In the meantime I appreciate um all your help with uh answering the calls from EYP and assisting the client. Um Another news is that um. Speaker 14 00:22:03 U h CBRE recently sold two two of their properties, uh 5 t h and 7 th. And uh Wells Fargo North Tower. So moving forward, uh no tickets should be under any of those two sites for CBRE. Uh, that is all I have. Thank you very much. Speaker 4 00:22:21 Thank you, Gabby Anton. Speaker 9 00:22:27 This is related to Hannah during the night from. Sunday to Monday, May 31 st to June 1 st, John going to be busy with migrating XCRF to the new operating system. Just in case you're going to see any alerts. That's it? Speaker 7 00:22:51 So yeah, so that's a big super critical project, right? Like super critical. If that thing doesn't go super smooth, right, or the hell will break loose. So I would say make sure we properly communicate and set expectations. Make sure you have plenty of time to recover, if something goes wrong, and you have a rollback plan. Make sure you have XDRF support on the line there as the SSL certs, right, are so particular. Speaker 7 00:23:26 Uh, you do anything and that upgrade breaks. It's going to be a nightmare to fix it, right? So just John, just be aware. I know they love you and I know you've made a world of difference there, right? So you have a lot ofum goodwill on your side. But, it will evaporate if they're down for more than what we've told them, they would be down for. So just be aware. Sweet thank you. Speaker 4 00:23:53 Awesome thank you, Next, I'll move to training updates with Christie. Speaker 1 00:23:57 Good morning, guys. Um, I thought long and hard about what I was going to do today. And Anzor brought up a good idea to me last week. He didn't know he brought it up, So we're going to give him kudos for this and let him, you know, we'll stroke his ego for a moment. Um, I want to give you guys some information on how to do agents. There's at least five of you that reached out this week and said, Hey, Can you help me build another April? Or can you help me build another Ansible? I actually got that question. So I'm going to show you guys how to do it. Um, and I'm going to show you guys using Hugo. I'm going to send over this file for Hugo, so you guys can have it. Speaker 10 00:24:34 These accounts were created on the people's personal email addresses. This is a little bit of a tricky thing because I don't keep those Sorry about that Kristen No worries. Speaker 1 00:24:47 I was like, Speaker 7 00:24:50 Chris, I wanted to know who wanted to have a copy of me. I didn't know we have masochists in this company. It's like, is it not enough? Speaker 1 00:24:58 I was told I could not tell who that person was, but I will tell you guys where you can store your minions. I call them minions. Everybody else calls them agents. But I'm going to give you the link to mine. You replace yours my name with yours, In the system, but if you go into that folder and you go to agents, you'll have you will have place here for agents. I am going to send everybody Hugo. Hugo is the pseudo enzor, And I want to give you guys a good heads up on how you guys can make a hugo. And I will also send you guys in April. Oops, uh and one more person I am going to send you guys a segg. Yes, there is a segred Segred is my project manager. Speaker 1 00:25:44 Minions, I'm going to send you guys all these files so that you guys can see how I structured it. And take special note, in Hugo, I did put lovable Russian. So I want to clarify, Anzor is a lovable Russian. But where I put them is under agents and I designed them out, so that I can spin them all up at the same time. So if I go into my Claude code session right here, um, I'm going to bring up a briefing skill. Speaker 7 00:26:11 Now, Briefing Chris. I think hold on. I think most people don't use Claude Code. Okay, will they be able to use agents in cowork uh and chat? Because I think code is something we haven't really talked or trained anyone on. Speaker 1 00:26:27 Um, they will be able to use it into code right here on this one, Which I am going to actually go over the next couple of weeks slowly through that. They'll also be able to use it in Codex if they're using, Uh, Chat GBT. So I was going to go over all of that, But I wanted you guys to be aware of what you can do with it this week. And then every week I'm going to give five minutes on how to do it. And then I'm also going to set up a training with you guys and with a client that wants to learn code as well. So if anybody wants to learn it and get set up with it, Let me know because I'm going to go through both code and Codex Ryan's already there. Um, Ryan was not the one who asked for the Ansor look alike so. Speaker 1 00:27:09 I will promise you guys that. PowerShell, I'm sorry, Codex will also use the same agents in the same code folder. So be aware of that, guys. Real quickly to get into it, what you're going to do is open up PowerShell. Now I use PowerShell seven just because it's a lot easier for me, but you can do this in PowerShell five or Windows PowerShell. You're just going to change directory To whatever directory you want it stored in. For anybody who's never done this, I'm going to caution you guys to use your Documents directory. It's your best option. So, how you do that is you're going to say cd, and then you're going to do one, what is it? Comma? Not comma. Um, not parentheses, not quotations, the single quote. Whatever that is. Apostrophe? Yes. Okay thank you. Speaker 1 00:28:04 So if you guys see it's automatically writing mine up, I'm going to go ahead and put it in here. So I have mine go to Documents, Clients and Projects, and AbilityFirst. I also have one for SHARP. And I press enter, and that's going to change my PowerShell to a new directory. We're going to go over this a little bit deeper for those of you guys who aren't always in code. Once you're in there, you're just going to type in clod or you're going to type in codex. Okay, we're not going to dangerously skip permissions. I only do that when I need to do something very specific on a code I'm working on. And from here, you can spin up anything you want. Now, I'm going to do briefing because I actually have a skill called briefing, where the system automatically knows to check my Outlook, and it goes to my Outlook application, and it pulls in all my emails. And so if I get emails from Onzo or Pete, it flags them top of my list. Speaker 1 00:29:03 It also goes through and does my calendar. So I'm going to give you guys just a brief overview. Over the next couple of weeks, We're going to dig in deeper so that you guys can see what you can do with it. Now, for this, it pulls today's schedule. It checks my time logged yesterday. It gets all my open tickets and projects, And then I have an Airtable that pulls a task list that I have personally from Airtable. You can do that in an Excel spreadsheet as well. You can do that in a couple of different options. So you've got that in there. I do have it pulling some things from spreadsheets, And I do have it pulling some things from Word documents for me as well. I also have it connected to my OneNote application within my computer. So it will connect using COM for those of you guys who know what COM is. I'm going to go into details later, and it will pull all of that. So right now, it's asking if I want to create the schedule, and I'm going to say yes. Speaker 1 00:29:60 'Cause it's going to write a PowerShell script to check everything. And it's going to ask you as it goes through it. And you can also schedule these through code under routines. So actually briefing is done every morning for me. It runs at 5:30 a.m. And it's on my computer by the time I wake up and start working at 6 : 00 a.m. So we're going to go over that over the next couple weeks. I'm not going to do it all today, But I want you guys to be aware and think through what all you can do with it. So, that's why I gave you guys the file so that you can look at it and see what's going on. And, then we're going to go through it piece by piece over the next couple weeks. And, hopefully, you guys will come away with some ideas that you guys can use for the competition. And if you're almost out of credits, it is almost the end of the month, so I completely understand. Any questions or send me Teams messages because I don't want to take up too much time. Speaker 1 00:30:57 But send me over ideas of things you want to see over the next couple weeks within this, um, and things that's going to help you guys win the competitions. So I'm not in it because I don't want to be in it. I want I want you guys to win. And then if somebody wins, just send me a case of Doctor Pepper. Diet though has to be diet Doctor Pepper not regular. Cool? Speaker 4 00:31:22 Awesome Thank you Chris, Thank you so much, Chris. Next we'll move to the duck race with April. Speaker 13 00:31:28 Okay, let me quickly share my screen. Can you guys see my screen? Yes, yes we can. Okay, let's do this. Speaker 7 00:32:01 I Think the choice of song is questionable. There's. Speaker 13 00:32:11 No HR in here though. Sorry. Speaker 7 00:32:18 On this topic, my boys, they were probably, I don't know, eight and six. And the song was playing. And I asked them what the song is about. And they're like, well this girl she has a milkshake right? It was so funny. So anyway, next time, let's see if we can come up with more appropriate songs for environment. Speaker 15 00:32:50 Um, anyways, uh, so commit and deliver. Always friendly. Do the right thing. Integrity over profit and exercise extreme ownership in all we do. Uh, Speaker 7 00:33:05 An example. Speaker 15 00:33:05 Value I want to highlightum I am going to go with always friendly. And yeah I'd like to highlight Sean. He's always giving me grief, but. He's always there to help out when you're in a tight spot. So, thank you for always being friendly, bro. Speaker 7 00:33:25 Awesome, awesome, awesome. I love it. I love it. Thank you. This is great. All right, accounting, you guys know what to do? Speaker 4 00:33:32 Yep Um and I do not believe we have enough time for two Tuesdays in a lie since it is 10:29 Okay. So does anybody have anything else they'd like to highlight Did. Speaker 7 00:33:46 We cover change management? Yeah. Yes. We have, okay. I need to pay more attention to that. Can I say thank you to everyone for, it was a real pleasure working with you guys. I felt like a part of the family and thank you to all, you guys are amazing. Speaker 4 00:34:07 Thank you Julia. We're very excited to work with you as well. Absolutely. Speaker 4 00:34:13 All right and, We'll go ahead and close out the meeting since that is 10:30. Everybody have yourselves a wonderful rest of your day and a good week. Speaker 12 00:34:20 Thank you. Thanks guys. Thanks everyone. Bye everybody, thanks so much.
06-18 Operational Note: Building and Governing the AF_Supervisors Exchange Distribution List (Microsoft 365 Admin GUI)
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-  ## Core Synopsis The team executed a straightforward operational task: creating a new Exchange distribution list (“AF_Supervisors”) via the Microsoft 365 admin GUI, with HR as owners and an initial member added, to satisfy a ticket where the requested email address did not exist in the system. Erin led the build in Exchange Admin Center (not M365 group), set the address to AF_Supervisors, enforced closed membership (owners-only add), allowed external senders, and designated multiple HR owners (Shane, Alma, Chase, SCHARP, and likely Jessica) to control list membership; members will receive emails sent to the list. The subtext is clear: Erin is asserting process discipline and ownership boundaries (HR controls access), training the team on the GUI path while signaling that CLI is the usual production method, and deferring bulk import to avoid confusion. The stakes are practical: avoid misconfiguration (group type or open membership), establish clear stewardship, and ensure timely completion of member additions from the provided short list; a minor permissions gap (CIT admin login without Senthil Segura; need “same mask” access) is acknowledged as a follow-up requirement. ## Build and Governance of the AF\_Supervisors Distribution List - Scope and Tooling Choice - The Exchange Admin Center was used under admin.microsoft.com: Show all → Exchange → Groups → Distribution list → Add a group. - Group type explicitly set to “Distribution” (not Microsoft 365). Objective: email distribution only, not collaboration workspace. - Configuration Decisions - Name/Address: “AF Supervisors” with group email “AF\_Supervisors”. - Ownership: Multiple HR personnel designated as owners (Shane, Alma, Chase, SCHARP; Jessica Delgado to be added). Owners can add/remove members; owners are not auto-subscribed as members. - Membership Policy: Closed—only group owners can add members; anyone can leave. - External Access: Allowed—external senders can email the list. - Membership Execution - An initial member (Holly Stacher) was added via GUI (Add Members → search → add). - A short list of ~12–13 names exists; bulk import capability exists but was intentionally deferred to keep the process simple for the team. - Operational Notes and Corrections - Erin demonstrated editing group settings post-creation to correct any address/name field errors. - Login constraints: Team to use “CIT admin” account for now (without Senthil Segura) and later align “same mask” access once Charles is available. - Outcome and Use - Distribution list is live; any email sent to AF\_Supervisors will be delivered to all configured members. - Erin will send edited step documentation (screen-captured via Snagit) after trimming extraneous clicks. ## Next Move (Action Items) **@Erin** - [ ] Send the cleaned step-by-step guide for creating and managing the AF\_Supervisors distribution list - [TBD] **@HR (Shane, Alma, Chase, SCHARP, Jessica)** - [ ] Confirm final owner roster (ensure Jessica Delgado and any missing HR owners are added) - [TBD] - [ ] Add all remaining members from the provided 12–13 name shortlist to AF\_Supervisors via Exchange Admin Center - [TBD] **@Charles** - [ ] Provide guidance and enable “same mask” access for the team (align permissions equivalent to CIT admin needs) - [TBD] **@IT (CIT Admin)** - [ ] Operate with the CIT admin account for immediate tasks; verify ability to manage the AF\_Supervisors DL until same-mask access is configured - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 18, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:07 Why are you giggling, Giggles? What did Robert do? Speaker 2 00:00:16 We were talking about your track that you sent me and I was like, I don't really know a lot of First Peoples. So who are we? Speaker 1 00:00:27 We is. Speaker 3 00:00:27 The three of us. Speaker 2 00:00:30 Yeah, I thought it was you and somebody else. Speaker 3 00:00:32 Me and the mouse in my pocket. Speaker 2 00:00:34 I told him, I was like, we is us. Yes. All right, so how we do this? Speaker 3 00:00:39 Okay, So very first thing I'm I'm going to share my screen and then I'm going to turn back on Snagit. All right. Okay So I got a request and I want to forward you guys the request so that you guys can see it Um It's. It's in a it's in a ticket, basically So. Speaker 1 00:01:02 However, The problem is the address that he's talking about. There is not anywhere in the system. So we're going to make one from scratch. So you guys. Speaker 3 00:01:17 Have the information in it. So, what we're going to do is I'm going to go ahead and open that attachment. Speaker 1 00:01:23 He put in just so that I can have it. Speaker 1 00:01:32 Okay, very, very easy. So basically and I'm gonna just take you guys through it from scratch. All right. So I'm gonna go to admin.microsoft.com and I'm already logged in. Oh, by the way, can somebody add Sean to this call? Do Plexus. And then once I'm in, I'm going to go down to show all and I'm going to click on exchange. And then I'm going to go to groups. And once I'm in groups, wait for it to load. Speaker 4 00:02:30 Oh, Oh, I'm sorry. Speaker 1 00:02:31 It's okay. And then I'm going to go to distribution list and I'm going to say add a group. And so the group type is going to be distribution. I don't want Microsoft 365. Speaker 3 00:02:48 This one is just going to be a distribution list, okay? And then I'm going to say next and I'm going to call it AF. Speaker 1 00:02:59 Supervisors. And that's the name. And then I'm going to click Next. And I'm going to assign some owners. Speaker 3 00:03:13 And you can have more than one owner. And they're going to be able to add and remove people from this list. So Shane is going to be, Speaker 1 00:03:25 It's going to be one of them. So I'm press enter to find Shane and Alma because she's his manager. And then I'm. Speaker 3 00:03:39 Also going to add Chase because Chase is on the HR team. So. Speaker 4 00:03:45 Isn't my eos is the P 1 or something? Speaker 3 00:03:49 It's not a P 1. Go back to your OS and we'll grab you later. Uh, cool, thank you so much. And then I'm going to add, thank you, I'm going to add SCHARP. Speaker 3 00:03:60 And so that's four owners that get added. So basically everybody in HR. Oh, Jessica Delgado, I got to add her too. Speaker 2 00:04:09 These names are on the Excel sheet? Speaker 3 00:04:12 No, these are people in HR that I'm adding as owners. Speaker 2 00:04:15 Okay, okay, So you're you're going to create the admin of the group, and we're going to add the people. Speaker 3 00:04:20 No, I'm creating I'm showing you how to do it from scratch. Now, if you guys had gotten this message, all you have to do is send an email back to Shane and say, "Who do you want to be owners on here?" But because I already know them, I'm just adding everybody in HR. Okay. All right. So this is owners. Now they don't get made a part of the distribution list. They're just the people who can add and remove people. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to say, add members, and they gave us a list of 13. Speaker 3 00:04:51 So I'm just going to add one and let you guys finish adding them later. So click on Add Members, and then I'm going to do Holly Stacher. So I'm pressing Enter after typing in her name, and there she is, and I'm going to say Add. And then you guys can do that with as many names as you want. Okay? I'm going to say Next. The group email address is going to be AF_. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Underscore Supervisors. And then, um, We are going to make it closed. Speaker 3 00:05:34 So only group members can add members or group owners can add members. And then anyone can leave the group. We can leave that the same. And then I always allow people outside the organization to send, Speaker 1 00:05:49 Um, yes. Can you go back real quick? Yep. Speaker 2 00:05:54 Um, the one that says owner's approval, we wouldn't need that because couldn't users add other members without owner's approval? Speaker 3 00:06:04 Well, they so only group owners can add members in this one. Um, Speaker 2 00:06:09 I can't see yeah I can't see that little letter sorry. Speaker 3 00:06:12 Yeah no worries. Yeah. So we we do it closed. Speaker 1 00:06:16 And that way only the owners add members. So and I'm going to say next and I'm going to say create group. And now the group is created. Uh, I made a mistake. Let me go back into edit group settings. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:06:46 Okay, so supervisors is correct in the email address. I just need to edit this part. Is that right? I can't see myself. Yeah, that's right. All right. And, that's how you go in to edit it if you ever make a mistake. Okay, Speaker 3 00:07:21 So you have, you can click on members over here. You can go to settings. There's a lot of things you can do in that. Speaker 1 00:07:28 But you're going to basically do this in Exchange Admin. Okay? Speaker 1 00:07:58 Any questions? Uh, no. Speaker 4 00:08:03 Uh, you already sent it to us? Oh, here it is. Yep. Speaker 3 00:08:11 So for right now, log in as CIT admin without Senthil Segura. But when Charl's got some time, let's get him to show us how to do same mask. Speaker 4 00:08:24 So we're looking at the people that are on this short list. Yep. Twelve. Speaker 3 00:08:29 Yeah, it's super easy. There's a way you can import them, but I don't want to show you that just yet. I don't want to confuse you guys any further. Speaker 4 00:08:38 All right, okay. Speaker 1 00:08:40 Yep, so there you go. Speaker 4 00:08:44 All right, Um. Yeah, that's it. Okay. So so so people who are added to this list will get emails coming into this? Speaker 3 00:08:57 If someone sends an email to that list, then they will get emails. Speaker 1 00:09:00 Everybody? Yeah. Okay. Yep And that's hownormally I don't do it through the GUI, Speaker 3 00:09:10 normally I do it through terminal services, Uh and I do it through the CLI. But I want you guys to see how to do it through the GUI and I wanted to capture the steps. Speaker 1 00:09:23 Yeah this is very good. Awesome thank you guys all right I'm gonna leave you alone for now. You're. Speaker 4 00:09:32 Gonna send us the steps? Speaker 1 00:09:34 Yeah I'm gonna send you guys yeah I'll. Speaker 4 00:09:36 Send them. With the program looks like when She sends. Speaker 3 00:09:41 It over yeah, Uh, I'll send it over. I got to edit out all the steps because I did some extra clicking in, Speaker 1 00:09:49 You know, I got to edit all that out. All right, no problem. Hi. Cool. Thank you. Bye. All right, have a good one today.
06-30 Meeting: DocuSign Unpaid Invoice, Billing Access, and ACH Payment Update
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- > Date: 2026-06-30 09:21:31 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### Unpaid DocuSign Invoice and Account Access Issues - **Description** - An unpaid DocuSign invoice was discussed. Speaker 2 noted the last paid receipt was March 4 for the March–April period, but a new bill remains outstanding. - Speaker 2 cannot access billing information in the account. After logging in, there is no “Account” tab under Settings to manage payments. - The user on the account is a “generic user” without Billing Manager permissions. ### Payment Method Changes and Complications - **Description** - Speaker 2 referenced an email from Stripe (DocuSign’s payment processor) stating that, starting March 27, ACH payments via a connected bank account are required; credit cards are no longer accepted. - Carmen reportedly has a new credit card, but the old one is still valid. However, DocuSign was not on her list of recurring payments. - This indicates a change in DocuSign’s payment process is likely the root cause of the missed payment. ### Identifying the Correct Billing Contact - **Description** - The current user login (Lorenzo) lacks permissions needed to resolve the payment issue. - The person with billing rights is likely “Aaron” or someone in Accounts Payable. - Speaker 2 planned to call back to determine who has the correct account access. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Confirm with James who holds billing rights for the DocuSign account. - [ ] Identify and contact the authorized billing owner (“Aaron” or Accounts Payable) to gain access to billing and resolve the unpaid invoice. - [ ] Verify and update the payment method to ACH per Stripe’s requirement to prevent future failures. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. It is unclear who is responsible for contacting “Aaron” or Accounts Payable to resolve the DocuSign payment issue, as Speaker 2 only mentioned they would “call back there and see.” > 2. The team needs a definitive plan to update the payment method to ACH as required by Stripe to prevent future payment failures.
- Date
- Jun 30, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Good morning. I would prefer you guys did not see my face 'cause. I look like shit. Uh Robert, I reset the password. Speaker 2 00:00:29 Yeah, I see. Um, I'm in. Yeah, I'm in it already. Perfect. But is it doesn't It doesn't have the information where um like there's no account tab. What they're saying It says, uh, click settings go to account tab. Um under settings. There is no account tab. Speaker 1 00:00:58 When did they uh let me see if I can. Speaker 1 00:01:44 You see my games. Yep. Speaker 2 00:01:50 Yeah, there's no yeah I got all that there's there's no account tab. Um. I got the last view. And when I try to click uh the payment, it says pay online. Um. It says this link is expired. Let me just try to put the email. Speaker 1 00:02:18 Yeah, so he's not the he's not the billing manager on here. Who is if he's if we can't. Speaker 2 00:02:29 It must be accounts payable. Speaker 1 00:02:32 Yeah, it has to be. Cause he doesn't have the ability to have some. Yeah, he doesn't have the ability to do anything. He's just a generic user. Speaker 1 00:02:57 So yeah, you might have to check with James and see if I said billing rights. Speaker 2 00:03:02 Oh, he just sent it again. Maybe it's maybe it's you. Speaker 1 00:03:06 I don't want to log in. Speaker 2 00:03:09 Um, whenever I oh, it's a forward. I am sorry. Um, when I just went inside um says invoice statement. I am waiting for the content to load up because it's still loading on the Barracuda. Speaker 2 00:03:27 But uh they just sent us the invoice five seventy uh having this. Yeah, my. Speaker 1 00:03:37 Google login is associated with a DocuSign account. Cause I would have set it up to be SSO. Speaker 2 00:03:46 Uh, it has the card on there. Like um if you look at your email, it sent you a receipt. We paid it. Speaker 2 00:03:57 It says March to April. That was the last receipt that I see. Um, paid March fourth. But um, the new the new payment is not there. Like if you look at your email, You should see a DocuSign, email. It just sent to you about two minutes ago or sixty seconds ago. Speaker 1 00:04:22 Sent to Lorenzo. Speaker 2 00:04:24 Uh yeah, I sent to you Lorenzo, um Chris. I mean sent to Lorenzo Christi. Um now it's a few twice. Speaker 1 00:04:35 Yeah, that's not Lorenzo's. Speaker 2 00:04:37 Yeah and then they got Aaron Hill. Speaker 1 00:04:40 So somebody logged in and paid it. Speaker 2 00:04:43 Uh they I don't think so. Oh That's just that's the March 4th. One They have a new bill out that hasn't been paid. Speaker 1 00:04:52 I'm going to see if I have any. Speaker 1 00:05:47 Carmen has a new credit card. Speaker 2 00:05:50 Uh, yeah, This the thing is the thing says, um uh starting uh March twenty seventh, uh stripe's or payments process will require ACH payments. Be made through a connected bank account so they're not taking cards anymore. Speaker 1 00:06:09 Oh no, Carmen uh sent me a message that she has her new credit card. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:06:14 But the old one is still valid. Speaker 2 00:06:20 Interesting. Cause, she said she she can see the payments that went through for the old one, but um, she says she didn't see a payment for Doxy on on that list. She see all the other payments that's over recurring, but no Doxy payment. So something happened in the payment process with them to where they changed something, and we need to fix it. Um, we need to fix it online somehow. But as you see, we don't have an account tab. Under Lorenzo. Speaker 1 00:06:52 Yeah, and I don't have an account. Speaker 2 00:06:54 So do you think it's Aaron? Speaker 1 00:06:56 It's either Aaron or accounts payable. Speaker 2 00:06:59 Aaron or accounts payable. Uh, Let me call, let me call back there and see 5-0-5-4 All, Speaker 1 00:07:08 Right, let me hang up because I am not doing you guys any favors anymore. It's okay, I'm just I'm really hurting right now. Okay, jump on a call All right.
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06-02 Team Meeting: Gabby and Kevin Assessment, Lear Reporting Ownership, Tabletop Exercise Standardization
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-02 13:56:01 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Team Assessment of Gabby and Kevin - Christi requested Speaker 2’s perspective on Gabby and Kevin after approximately 2.5 months. - Speaker 2 praised both for initiative and maturity; noted recent certifications (Kevin: Security+, Gabby: Fortinet free trainings). - Both are described as intelligent, proactive, and strong contributors to Crimson. - Conclusion: Consensus that the team is strong and capable. - Topic Title: Potential Elevation of Gabby’s Responsibilities (Technical Work Plus Executive-Level Reporting) - Christi is considering asking Gabby to produce executive-level reports based on her technical findings (e.g., Lear project tickets). - Concern: aligning with Gabby’s interests (prefers deep technical work) and avoiding burnout or frustration. - Speaker 2 believes Gabby will embrace growth; highlighted her strong written communication (a “master class” email to a vendor, assisted by AI). - Time/Scope: Reporting would be in addition to current ticket work; Christi will review tickets and progress for an update to “Alir” on Thursday. - Conclusion: Proceed to discuss directly with Gabby; ensure transparency and adjust if she’s not comfortable. - Topic Title: Coordination and Next Steps on Lear Project Reporting - Christi will review all tickets and work completed to consolidate for Thursday’s update to Alir. - She scoped hours in tickets to cover the needed work; aims to decide whether to hand off reporting to Gabby or keep with Elia/Christi. - Speaker 2 supports the approach as it elevates the team’s capabilities. - Conclusion: Christi to engage Gabby, review work, and determine reporting assignment before vacation. - Topic Title: Development of a Standardized Tabletop Exercise Framework for Crimson - Christi is building a standard tabletop exercise for Crimson to enable repeatable runs by different leaders. - She is coordinating with Victoria (ISO/audit work) via email; has approved hours from Anzor but hasn’t needed to use them yet. - Current State: Behind schedule due to EAP pushing earlier timelines; aiming for standardization improvements. - Conclusion: Continue collaborating with Victoria; finalize a standard tabletop template when time allows. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to review Gabby’s Lear project tickets and prepare Thursday update to Alir. - [ ] Christi to speak directly with Gabby (call or meeting) about taking on executive-level reporting responsibilities. - [ ] Decide whether reporting for Lear will be handled by Gabby or remain with Elia/Christi. - [ ] Continue collaboration with Victoria to standardize Crimson’s tabletop exercise framework. > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify the exact scope and deliverables of the executive-level report for the Lear project (format, audience, deadline). > 2. Confirm whether Elia has any role or expectations in the reporting to avoid overlap or confusion. > 3. Establish guardrails to prevent Gabby’s workload from causing burnout if reporting is added. > 4. Document the standard tabletop exercise’s objectives, templates, and ownership to accelerate adoption. > 5. Verify the correct contact and spelling for “Alir” to ensure accurate communication and scheduling.
- Date
- Jun 2, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello. Can you hear me? Hi. How are you? Oh, it has been a day. Speaker 2 00:00:14 Your days are always like this. Oh yeah, I don't know. Speaker 1 00:00:19 It is, but this has been a weird week. I don't know how to explain it. And for some reason, none of my cameras work today. Oh geez, Not my first first and not my camera at SCHARP. I've been in both offices today. Speaker 2 00:00:34 Yeah, geez. Speaker 1 00:00:36 Um, so I have a couple things I wanted to cover. Is now an okay time? Speaker 2 00:00:41 So I have a meeting in about five minutes. Will this take five minutes or we can start and then pick it up again? Speaker 1 00:00:49 We can start and pick it up again. Okay. Um, so I don't know, let me ask you a question Yes, You've been here how many months now? Speaker 2 00:01:00 Uh, two and a half. Two. I started uh end of March. Okay. April, May. Yeah, so two and a half months. Speaker 1 00:01:11 So let me ask you a question. Uh- huh Give me your thoughts on your team, uh Gabby and Kevin? Speaker 2 00:01:20 I'll I'll be honest with you. They are uh I absolutely love working with them. So from my perspective. Um, Gabby and Kevin both take initiative to improve their skill set. Kevin just passed his Security Plus. I sent over the Fortinet. Like uh they have a couple basic free training and certifications. Gabby took them right away and passed them both. Um, And uh, they are they have that that thing that you can't really teach right? That go get it. Speaker 2 00:01:58 Um, It's a it's another level ofum maturity in IT that we're blessed to have at Crimson. Yes. So that's that's my initial take. Speaker 1 00:02:10 Okay, good. Um, because that's that's the way I've always felt about Gabby. Um, yes. And I'll be honest like she if I could have moved her out sooner from the bank, I would've, but we didn't plan on the bank doing what they started doing like, yeah. And you know, and then I could never get approvals to hire people to get her out. It took Pete coming on board to get all of that completed because then he started hearing it from two people. Yes. And so it's been, it was a struggle for me to get her out of there, but I think when Kevin came along, it really did complete that team because they're both really intelligent. Speaker 2 00:02:53 Yeah, really smart. Speaker 1 00:02:54 Yes, and love them both to death. They're fantastic. So when I ask that question, I ask it because I need help, but I don't want them to do something they don't like to do. And what my concern is, They what i know of gabby is she likes to dig into the technical and be super technical. And you know, she's. She jumps in, she Learns, she takes that initiative, she figures it out. But does she really want to Learn what I know? Because half of what I do is look in, dig in, figure it out and then write an executive level report for it. And I think it's that executive level report that I'm wondering is that something she wants to Learn or not? Speaker 1 00:03:54 Um, and I want you to. Speaker 2 00:03:58 Well, so she embraces that you are asking her to jump in andum, you know, you know elevate her right? Yeah. So the work that you know there's stuff you're teaching her with with Google with uh she's taking some Azure training right now. So she's a little spongeum. Are, you are you going? Are you asking because you need her to help you with writing some of those things? Speaker 1 00:04:29 Um I'll be honest, I am asking because I am trying to put together the work she's done for Lear with what I asked in the tickets to get done uh- huh. And so I want to make sureum. I want to make sure that it's something that she does want to do because if it's not, I'll take the initiative and um and try to figure out where we can best do things. Um but if she does, I want to just hand this off to her because she's done a good job on finding things. Um I just want to see, Does she want to jump to that next level? Or is that something with Elia that I need to take on or not? Speaker 1 00:05:17 Um, I have the workload capacity, but I also know that she wants to Learn. Speaker 2 00:05:23 Um, now if you ask her, I don't think she's going to say no. Right? Um, and so what what kind of time requirement is this? Speaker 1 00:05:34 Honestlyum She's getting the ticket parts done, which I still need to go through all the tickets that she's worked on because I got to provide that update to Alir on Thursday. So today and tomorrow, I am going through all the tickets and all the work she's already done to see where she's at on it. So I scoped it into play with the hours that I gave her in the tickets, just in case. So, it's not any additional hours and what she's already doing and slated for that project. Speaker 2 00:06:03 So I would say, um, I don't I don't have a problem with it because I think it ultimately elevates the team. U m gives her a little different perspective, right? And it's work that she's already doing is that right? Speaker 1 00:06:16 Part of the work she's already doing. Yes, but the report part is something additional. Speaker 2 00:06:23 Yeah. She wrote this thing today. Uh, that was it was a master class, but she used Claude, but it was a master class in uh, she was troubleshooting a thingamajig at one of our one of our uh. Tenants or clients. Give me one second. Okay. And we've been we've done everything the vendor asked us to do, the third party vendor, and it got to the point where we we exhausted everything, we ruled everything out, And she sent this master class email just like now it's on you and here's what I want from you. I want you to do these five things now. Speaker 2 00:07:08 U h and and then Anzor's like no more cycles, you're not spending another minute troubleshooting that because it's on them to finish it up, but it was it was beautiful. And so I think she's really good. Uh. So even using, you know, AI andum I think I think it's uh I think she would do well at it so good. Speaker 1 00:07:27 That makes me feel a little bit better because I I don't want to I don't want her I don't want her to get frustrated. Um. And feel like she's being pulled in multiple directions because that's one of the biggest ways we crimson can burn people out. But I also want to be cognizant of where does she want to go in her career? And how can I help elevate her. Speaker 2 00:07:49 Yeah. Now all of this, now again, she's she is and you you I think you understand it, she is a little awkward sometimes. She's an introvert. She may not share with you her feelings, Um, I've seen her get really frustrated and pissed off, and you know, at clients. And and so she's come to me a couple times. But but um if if here here's the thing I'm I'm very transparent. Uh huh. If I see it, I'll say something, And and I'll even talk to her about this, like, you know, if she tells me straight up, "I don't like this." You know we'll go back to the drawing table. You know we'll you know. So i'm i'm very open with that. And but yeah, let's let's see how let's. Speaker 2 00:08:33 You know, it's it's new territory for her. Let's see what she says. Speaker 1 00:08:36 Yeah, and if you don't mind, can I have a conversation and take her out to lunch or well, I want to say take her out to lunch but I can't. I don't have the capacity in the next couple of weeks, but maybe call her up and and just have a heart to heart with her and see what she's thinking. Speaker 2 00:08:52 Yeah yeah absolutely. Gotcha, yeah, Speaker 1 00:08:55 Cause she I mean she did used to report to me in a roundabout way like up. Yeah, I was as she reported up to me. Um, but she and I because she never fully reported to me, she always reported to someone under me. We never had a sit down and true conversation. So yeah, Speaker 2 00:09:12 Okay. All right, cool. Well good. All right Yeah Let's again I I have I don't know exactly what it is. But uh, if she's already working on it and you just need her to put some final touches on it and to elevate her. Uh her the to the next level, I'm sure she would love it All right? Perfect. Speaker 1 00:09:30 Okay, then I will work on that not today. Cause and then I was going to work on it on Thursday, but then I have to go to camp. But now I don't have to go to camp. This is how my day has gone. So uh, let me let me get some time with her before I go on vacation. And thenum we'll go from there. Awesome All right, Speaker 2 00:09:51 We'll see you on that call in a little bit. Speaker 1 00:09:54 Yeah, this is going to be fun. I am a little bit behind because of other things, And I did warn them that because they were pushing me to do this sooner rather than later, EAP was that you know it's going to be harder. So I am not as i am not where I usually am on a tabletop, so I am more last minute right now. But you can see the work that I put in, and then I am going to try to make some standardization to these. I was talking to Victoria. Who does a lot of our stuff, A lot of audits and stuff for ISO and things like that for our clients, and got her input for things. Anzor had approved me some hours to work with Victoria, And I just haven't needed to do that yet because she and I are just emailing back and forth on things. So, I am trying to put together a standard tabletop for Crimson that we can run. So that. Speaker 1 00:10:50 Um, You can pick it up or I, can pick it up and run with it. Um, it just the time has not come to me yet for that one. Speaker 2 00:10:59 Okay, so awesome. Well, I got to jump on my other call. Oh, I am so sorry. We'll talk soon. No, you are good i I allowed it to happen. Speaker 1 00:11:06 All right Thank you Have a great day. Speaker 2 00:11:08 Bye bye.
05-19 Weekly Meeting: Project Updates and AI Training
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-19 / 2026-05-19 10:16:06 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Michuan] [Christi] [Sergio] [Jason] [Pete] [Robert] [Kenny] [Anzor] [Olivia] [Cheryl] [Mark] [Seg] [Anton] [Julia] [Advance] ## Meeting Notes ### Invoice Payments and Budget Breakout Discrepancies - Christi confirmed a 40,000 down payment was paid on 2026-01-13 for the 2025 invoice, and approximately 42,000–43,000 was paid on 2026-02-13. - Both invoices are closed as paid. - Michuan questioned a budget breakout showing Milwaukee at 11,000 and fees/hardware at 36,000, stating these numbers do not match the invoices. - ComDirect items appear to be missing, and there is confusion over an additional 27,000 line. - Christi will check Planful and try to access budget details or obtain screenshots. - Christi will review the full spreadsheet previously sent to validate what was provided. - Conclusion: Payments are confirmed as up to date; budget allocation details remain unclear pending Planful review and reconciliation. ### Access to Budget Systems - Christi is attempting to access Planful and may need to request access or screenshots. - Michuan emphasized the need to see capital expenditures. - Conclusion: Access to Planful is pending and needed to reconcile budget details. ### Ability First Network Bandwidth and Meraki Configuration - Bandwidth was upgraded about a week prior, but observed speeds remain around 20 Mbps up/down instead of the expected 100 Mbps. - Christi requested Jason’s help to review Meraki/network configuration and suggest tweaks. - Christi plans to update floor plans for Ability First HQ at Fair Oaks to leverage Mark’s floor plan system. - Conclusion: Network issue remains unresolved and requires technical review. ### Ability First Cabling Infrastructure - Ability First cabling infrastructure is not on track due to low-voltage vendor issues. - Crimson’s tasks are completed, but a potential pivot may be required. - Pete will be updated after Christi meets with Michuan regarding Cotson. - Conclusion: Vendor-related delay remains open; contingency plan and ownership need clarification. ### Team Stress, Delegation, and Support Culture - Christi shared past experiences with stress, bottlenecks, and delegation challenges. - She encouraged the team to lean on peers, including Christi and Pete, for support and to avoid isolating stress. - Christi emphasized her non-network strengths and willingness to listen and help. - Note: This was a personal reflection and support discussion; no operational decision was recorded. ### AI Training and Scheduling Constraints - Christi noted she needed to leave by 11:00 for AI training. - Sergio mentioned Ashlyn is no longer available. - Christi provided information to Pete before his vacation and plans to follow up when his schedule allows. - Conclusion: Follow-up with Pete remains pending after his vacation. ### Project Updates and Timelines - **Carney Properties** - Training is planned for late June. - Project is paused until 2026-06-15. - System choice remains undecided. - **Sharp** - Migration to the security stack can begin. - MFA was enabled on 2026-05-18 with a grace period. - Ticket volume related to MFA will be checked. - **Computer Upgrades** - Robert is coming on 2026-05-22 to continue upgrades. - Approximately 50–60 computers remain to be migrated. - **Cotson** - Training started on 2026-05-19. - AI policy will be sent for signatures after training. - Training covers Copilot and Plug due to the undecided AI selection. - **DTLA Alliance Cloud Team Setup** - Kickoff meeting is scheduled for this week. - Deadlines will follow after kickoff. - **Anderson Real Estate Cloud Team Setup** - Initial meeting occurred. - Team is awaiting Anderson’s wishlist. - Reminder email to be sent on 2026-05-19. - **Leer Property Group** - Kickoff meeting is set for 2026-05-21 at 9:00 AM. - Agenda draft is ready to send. - Alignment took time, with Kenny noted as a holdout. - **DLA / Anderson / Leer** - These are new projects as of last week. - Deadlines remain pending until after kickoff meetings. - **Payments and Scope Clarifications** - One project payment has been received; another is pending. - Both payments are needed to clarify scope. - Julia’s project may differ from general AI work. - Christi will provide the DTLA build documentation to Sergio. ### Training Session Setup and Participation Guidelines - Christi opened the AI training, noting more attendees than usual. - Cameras were allowed to remain off due to bandwidth considerations. - The session will be recorded, and the recording link and summary will be emailed after processing. - The training will be delivered three times, and attendees may join other sessions for refreshers. - Housekeeping guidance: - Use Raise Hand and reactions. - Put questions in Teams chat. - Live Q&A will occur at the end. - A Copilot/Teams Premium “Facilitator” may post notes in meeting chat; no agenda was added for the session. - Christi shared her screen but turned off camera and incoming video to save bandwidth. - Conclusion: Attendees understood recording, participation norms, and Q&A flow. ### Presenter Introduction and Background - Christi, also referred to as Chris/Christy Brown, is CIO at Crimson IT and works with the Cotton team. - She has been at Crimson for approximately 4.5 years. - She previously worked with the LA Dodgers. - Christi knows some Cotton team members, including Holly and Kamya, while many attendees were meeting her for the first time. - Conclusion: Presenter context was established. ### AI Tools Overview for the Training - Tools covered: - Microsoft Copilot within the Microsoft environment/tenant. - Claude from Anthropic. - CoWork, a desktop tool integrating Claude for files and tasks. - Teams features discussed: - Meeting Notes/red dot. - Chat. - Facilitator through Copilot/Teams Premium. - Attendees were encouraged to ask questions in chat for live Q&A. - Conclusion: The scope of AI tooling to be demonstrated was established. ### The Role of AI in the Workplace - AI was described as a “force multiplier” for existing work, not a replacement for human judgment, relationships, or expertise. - AI is useful for eliminating tedious tasks such as drafting summaries and reformatting documents. - This allows employees to focus more on critical aspects of their jobs. ### Capabilities and Limitations of AI - AI performs well at: - Drafting emails, memos, and summaries. - Rewriting text for clarity and tone. - Answering questions from provided context. - Generating first drafts, brainstorming ideas, and creating outlines. - Extracting key points from long documents. - Explaining complex topics in plain language. - Key cautions: - AI can sound confident even when wrong. - AI may not know about events after its training cutoff. - AI cannot access personal files unless they are explicitly shared or accessible through approved integrations. - AI output quality depends heavily on prompt quality. - Human review is essential because both AI and humans can make mistakes. - LLMs such as Copilot and Claude were framed as well-read assistants that predict likely responses rather than truly “knowing.” - Example used: Completing “Mary had a little lamb…” illustrates prediction rather than inherent knowledge. - AI was compared to “a very capable intern”: smart and fast, but requiring guidance. - Conclusion: Attendees should treat AI outputs critically and provide clear instructions. ### Recommended AI Tools for the Foundation / Cotton - **Microsoft Copilot** - Integrated into Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, Outlook, Word, and Excel. - Has access to the user’s work context, including emails, calendar, SharePoint, and OneDrive files, subject to permissions. - **Claude** - Standalone AI tool from Anthropic. - Useful for writing, research, reasoning, and complex thinking. - Can be accessed through a browser or desktop app. - **CoWork** - Desktop application built on top of Claude. - Assists with file management and document automation. - A similar Microsoft tool is reportedly in beta. - These tools were presented as the recommended work tools within the foundation/Cotton environment. ### AI Usage Policy and Security Guardrails - Cotton leadership has proactively drafted an AI usage policy. - The policy will be reviewed during training, and Christi will seek attendee feedback. - Core policy principles: - Use AI as a tool, not a substitute for human judgment. - All AI-generated output must be reviewed and approved by a person before finalization. - Do not input sensitive or personally identifiable information, donor data, or confidential grant information into unapproved public AI tools. - Disclose AI use when it is a material part of work product, such as grant applications or external communications. - Report concerns about AI output, including content that appears wrong, harmful, or inappropriate, to management or Crimson. - The policy is a starting framework and will be updated as AI technology evolves. - Conclusion: Policy review and feedback are planned, but the collection process and definition of “material” AI use need clarification. ### Data Privacy and Security with AI - **Microsoft Copilot** - When used within Microsoft 365, user data stays within the organization’s tenant. - Microsoft does not use this content to train its AI models. - This protection is enabled by default and indicated by a green shield icon. - Copilot respects file permissions. - If a user does not have access to another user’s private OneDrive or restricted folder, Copilot cannot search it. - **General Precautions** - Be cautious when recording or transcribing sensitive discussions. - Stop recording if a meeting turns confidential to avoid including sensitive information in the recap. - Store sensitive files in appropriately restricted SharePoint folders, not public locations. - Use Microsoft Office document protection features to restrict access and editing for confidential files. ### Data Security and Access Control in Teams - All of Crimson’s data is stored in Teams and is considered public within the company unless restricted. - A “no fly zone” exists as a restricted section where Copilot cannot search. - Specific folders such as HR, marketing, budget, and acquisitions are locked and restricted to authorized personnel. - Copilot can only search folders and files for which a user has explicit access. - Example: - If Dylan does not have access to a folder, Dylan’s Copilot cannot search it. - If Holly has access, Holly’s Copilot can search it. - Backend configurations can be set to prevent Copilot from accessing certain sections regardless of user permissions. - Conclusion: Access controls and restricted zones are important but ownership and request processes for backend restrictions need clarification. ### Accessing and Using Copilot - Copilot can be accessed via: - `office.com` - Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook - Desktop app - In Word and Excel, the Copilot icon was recently moved to the lower right-hand corner. - In Teams, Copilot can summarize meetings only when recording or transcription is enabled. - Functionality examples: - Outlook can draft replies and flag action items. - Teams can provide meeting recaps, notes, and video summaries. - Copilot can search accessible files and emails to answer questions, such as finding a client address. ### Copilot Features and Demonstration - Copilot offers “Work” and “Web” modes. - A preference for OpenAI was mentioned. - Copilot includes a “temporary chat” option that does not save the conversation. - A live demo was conducted to find meetings for the week. - Copilot identified 11 events. - It correctly distinguished live training sessions from solo prep blocks based on Outlook calendar categories. - Users can create agents with specific instructions. - Example: A password generator agent that creates unique passphrases based on a theme such as “Lord of the Rings.” - Chats, including meeting chats, can be permanently deleted for security. - Copilot can summarize emails and meetings for a specified time period, such as “What did I miss in my emails and meetings?” - Copilot can be used in Word to summarize documents into formats such as a two-page executive summary. ### Personalizing Copilot and Fun Features - Copilot can be personalized using custom instructions to match a user’s tone and style. - Examples include using simple language or avoiding specific words such as “kindly.” - Copilot can respond in different personas for entertainment, such as summarizing in a “pirate voice.” - Christi will email her custom instructions for Copilot to participants as an example. ### Introduction to Claude AI - Claude is an AI tool from Anthropic. - It is accessed through a browser or desktop app and is not embedded in existing Microsoft applications like Copilot. - Claude is strong at writing, research, reasoning, and working through complex ideas from scratch. - Claude was described as more conversational and useful for back-and-forth refinement. - Copilot is stronger when using the user’s Microsoft work context, while Claude is better for thinking through new problems when context is supplied by the user. - Key Claude capabilities: - Writing and editing text for specific audiences. - Summarizing long reports into concise bullet points. - Analyzing complex problems, including pros and cons of decisions. - Brainstorming ideas, such as staff event themes. - Creating templates for follow-up communications. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to review Planful budget and obtain access or screenshots. - [ ] Christi to verify and reconcile the budget breakout with invoices and the previously sent spreadsheet. - [ ] Jason to investigate Meraki configuration and bandwidth issues at Ability First HQ/Fair Oaks. - [ ] Christi to update and upload Ability First floor plans. - [ ] Christi to follow up with Pete regarding Ashlyn and AI training information after his vacation. - [ ] Check MFA ticket volume at Sharp after MFA enablement and address issues. - [ ] Robert to proceed with computer upgrades on 2026-05-22 and track the remaining 50–60 migrations. - [ ] Pete to receive an update after Christi meets with Michuan regarding the Ability First low-voltage pivot. - [ ] Send AI policy to Cotson team for signatures after training completion. - [ ] Send reminder to Anderson Real Estate for wishlist on 2026-05-19. - [ ] Send agenda draft to Leer Property Group and confirm 2026-05-21 9:00 AM kickoff. - [ ] Confirm receipt of pending project payment and clarify scope, including Julia’s project specifics. - [ ] Provide DTLA build documentation to Sergio. - [ ] Send recording link and session summary to AI training attendees after processing is complete. - [ ] Review Cotton’s draft AI usage policy with attendees and collect feedback. - [ ] Conduct live Q&A at the end of the AI training session. - [ ] Offer access or invitations to the other two AI training sessions for refreshers. - [ ] Send finalized/drafted AI usage policy for feedback once ready. - [ ] Christi to set up a meeting to explain her Outlook calendar setup if requested. - [ ] Christi to email her custom Copilot instructions to all participants as an example. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Budget breakout discrepancies, including Milwaukee 11,000, fees/hardware 36,000, missing ComDirect items, and an unidentified 27,000 line, require documented reconciliation against invoices, the sent spreadsheet, and the Planful budget. > 2. Ability First bandwidth upgrade is not producing the expected 100 Mbps speeds; root cause analysis is needed for Meraki, ISP configuration, test results, and change logs. > 3. Ability First cabling infrastructure delay due to low-voltage vendor issues needs a defined contingency plan, owner, and timeline for the pivot. > 4. Multiple projects lack confirmed scope or decisions, including Carney system selection, Cotson AI choice, Julia’s project specifics, and Anderson wishlist; decision owners and deadlines should be assigned. > 5. A pending project payment is blocking planning; assign responsibility to follow up and define the impact if payment is not received by a specific date. > 6. The timeline for distributing AI training recording links and summaries was not defined; set an expected delivery date. > 7. The process for collecting and consolidating feedback on the AI usage policy is unclear; define whether feedback should be submitted through a form, email, meeting, or another method. > 8. Attendees need clear instructions for enrolling in the other two AI training sessions, including dates, times, and registration links. > 9. Microsoft’s tool similar to CoWork was mentioned as being in beta, but timing and adoption plans are unclear. > 10. The AI usage policy should define what “material” AI use means and provide examples of when disclosure is required. > 11. The process for requesting a Copilot license was not detailed. > 12. Backend configuration for Copilot “restricted zones” needs an owner and a formal request process. > 13. A tool referred to as “Plod” or possibly “Plug” was mentioned but not fully explained; clarify the correct tool name, purpose, and usage.
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:07 Yeah, Give me one second. Let me double check. Speaker 4 00:00:22 Because I'm not sure if they actually paid the invoice for 2025, and that they paid for 25 and 26, and that's where the problem is. Speaker 1 00:00:32 Well, if they didn't pay for it then. Speaker 4 00:00:36 I mean, that's a whole other thing because then one we have enough in there. Because I look at what you sent me yesterday.;, it had Milwaukee broken out at 11 thousand, and it had uh the fees at 36 thousand uh hardware. And I am like, uh, I, don't i don't think that doesn't make sense; those numbers don't match any of the invoices. Speaker 2 00:01:02 So for I am gonna take my. Speaker 1 00:01:06 Um, for so the 40,000 down payment is closed, and when it's closed in my system, it means it was paid. And it shows that it was paid on January 13th. And that was that invoice was December, so that was the 2025 invoice. And, then the the 42,000 or 43 close to was paid on February 13th and not. Voices closed as paid. So we're all paid up, and I knew we were all paid up. I just needed to double check my memory. Speaker 4 00:01:47 Okay, um, so it's just Crimson that they do it. I am not Crimson; it's just ComDirect that's not in there, And I am looking at the numbers that are in there, and they thirty 11 and 36. I don't make a lot of sense to. I mean, I could see maybe she did the hardware at 11 at 36, but then you put the mark who licensed at 11. Maybe that was the breakout, But then I don't where where does yeah, where does this 27 for that? Speaker 1 00:02:32 I am going to go into Planful and take a look at. Everything I had it up last night. Um, I am in a team meeting right now with my team. Speaker 4 00:02:40 Oh, okay, I am sorry. Speaker 1 00:02:41 But no, no, I don't mind because they're talking rocks and I don't need to be heard by the conversation. Speaker 4 00:02:45 Are you able to see capital because that's our budget? That capital what we're looking at is the capital expenditures. Speaker 1 00:02:51 Let me see if I can see budget or not. Um, because I was logged into it and got to refresh this. Um let me let me see if i can't see it if not, I will go bug somebody to to either. Speaker 2 00:03:05 Give me access or give me screenshots. Speaker 4 00:03:09 Okay, well, um, I am waiting for a call from so I wanted to call you while I was waiting on his call. Um, But yeah, i was I've just like i don't even understand how they did the breakout as the numbers. Speaker 4 00:03:27 Yeah, And I remember you sent it to them. I think I sent it. Speaker 1 00:03:32 I'm I'm gonna go in and take a look at what I sent them because I know I sent them a full spreadsheet. And a full updated of everything. Speaker 4 00:03:42 Yeah, I thought, man, I was like let me go. I had to do payroll last night. I was like, I remember, Am like let me go back to my clock, because i know you just sent this. Speaker 2 00:03:51 Yeah Let me. Let me dig into this and see what i can figure out Okay All right? Are you on your way here. I am. Speaker 4 00:04:05 Exhausted, but on the way. Okay. Speaker 5 00:09:35 So. I. Speaker 1 00:12:41 Yeah, I do. Let me bring up Ability First network configuration first because both of those are mine. Jason, I was digging into Meraki. We're having some issues. We just upgraded the bandwidth at Ability First a week ago, but we're not seeing any changes here. Um, I am not good with Meraki. I'm not good on the networking side; I never have been. I know just enough to be dangerous and form opinions, and then tell other people what to do. So if you can have someone dig into that. Um, I also am at a point right now where I'm trying to do some no budget stuff for ability first, so that they they can see some additional things without savings. Um, and so Jason, If you have any like little tweaks that we can do in their network configuration or any ideas that would be greatly appreciated. That's more of just me asking for help and trying to not forget it. Speaker 1 00:13:45 This is at HQ, which is Fair Oaks. I also was going to put in the floor plans so that everybody can see it. Because I know, Mark has a really robust floor plan system. So, I am going to get those updated for ability first, because I have all the floor plans, And that's actually one small project. I was going to work on this week in my spare time because I've been meaning to do it. Speaker 1 00:14:19 Yeah, cause I am only getting twenty up and down right now, and that's the way it's been the last week or so. And no one's really seen the new bandwidth updates, so I don't know enough to fix it. We the up and down was supposed to be a hundred. Speaker 1 00:16:20 Not For ability first, stress levels. I wanted to bring up a conversation I've had with someone today, and I want to kind of put some light on it because Pete, you did say we could be open and free. And so a few of us are, And I am saying a few because I've been in there, but I am not there right now. But I am going to talk about things in the past because I know other people are seeing it in the past. It was it was, It was pretty stressful for me. Um, I you weren't here yet, Pete. And so basically, I was the uh the poster child of where everything got dumped into my lap. And then I had to figure out who I could delegate to without overloading them, which made me the bottleneck. And some people didn't see that because I was trying to protect their stress levels. Speaker 1 00:17:16 And say, "Hey, you know, I see that you have fifty million things on your plate, but I am not going to add any more to it. " That kind of got me into hot water with Ansor quite a few times because he didn't think I was delegating. But then on the reverse side, I am going to use Marvin as an example. Other people were seeing that I was throwing a lot of things over to them. Marvin actually made a statement and said, "My team is tired and they're stressed." And they wish you would start just doing things for yourself instead of sending it over to us. And that became a stressful time for me, and I know that I did not handle that well. I didn't handle it at all pretty good. And then it took me take a step back and say, okay, how can I in a way manage up and manage down? And so I am bringing this up to you guys because I am seeing some of you guys are in the same boat that I am. Speaker 1 00:18:16 One of the things I learned, and not to give Pete's ego any more fluff and stuff like that, I will say when I came from the Dodgers, which is where I came from, I worked for a very narcissistic boss and it was bad. When Anzor offered to steal me away from the Dodgers, It took me some time to think about what I really wanted, because Dodgers is prestigious ;, everybody knows them. You know, if you work there three years, you can go anywhere you want. And that was Lines that I kept getting back. At the end of the day, I knew what I wanted, and I wanted to be a mom. I wanted to live to my full potential. I wanted bosses that could see me and hear me and allow me to help grow a business, and that's everything was offering. But then at the same time, it was pretty stressful, but it wasn't as stressful as the doctors literally because it came from there. My doctors were even commenting two years after the. Speaker 1 00:19:16 That they saw my blood pressure go down, they saw all my stats going better. And this is me with an autoimmune disease, so I am getting my blood work done every three months. But, the one thing that I did was I kept it internal ; I didn't share my frustrations with Olivia or Cheryl. But they did see a side of me that they never should have seen, and so and we've had that conversation since then. What made me stick with Crimson is the fact that one answer is not definitely not a narcissist. Could say that freely, but his heart while he's not perfect is golden. And when I see what he's trying to do, He loves you guys even to the point he might say something, that's his Russian nature to say and kind of harsh sounding. But he is absolutely got a great heart with it. When you are dealing with the stresses and the frustrations, you are look at the pros and cons of working here. We work harder than most MSPs. Speaker 1 00:20:14 I can say that being in most Evolve groups that I've been in, I've been in three different Evolve groups. I can say that now. I am in another peer group. I am looking at all these CIOs and I am like, "You've got time to do X, Y, and Z. " I want to have one on ones with my staff, and i don't have I don't have that freedom and cadence. Lean on the people around you don't Don't do what I did. I made some serious mistakes in the steps at Crimson, and i learned from those. But if you need a hearing, if if you need someone to hear you, if you need someone to go get a drink of wine with you, call me. Call Pete. Pete can't come to L A as often, but he will listen. He will bring the bourbon. Yeah. But at the end I'll do what I've done in the past. Speaker 1 00:21:15 Yeah, I am saying all this because we recognize, and I can't speak for Pete; this is just me speaking from my heart. Every single person in this meeting is amazing. I don't know Jason as well, but what I've seen so far of you, Jason, you are pretty amazing. There are days where I go home and I cry, because I feel like I've not done anything good for the day. I literally felt like yesterday, ;, i know i did a lot of work yesterday did eleven hours worth of work. But I walked away feeling like I didn't make much of a difference, and that's just a me issue. And I know you guys are going to walk away every day feeling like, "Hey, I didn't do that great of a job that I could have." But just know that every single one of you here, I am proud of because you guys have done some amazing things with your teams that I wished two years ago, I could have done, and i had the capacity to do. So don't give up on yourselves first off. Speaker 1 00:22:14 Second off, if you are having a bad day, go talk to Pete. Come talk to me. I know I am not in that same position I used to be, But at least, I am a listening ear, and you can vent to me, and it goes no further. And if you need help with something, ask me now. I am not good at networking; we all know that, but I can do all other jobs. Um, I just don't have the time or the energy to spend on relearning, how to do all the networking stuff. But I am here for you guys and I will listen. Speaker 5 00:22:42 And I don't want you guys to continue feeling like you've got nowhere to go. Cause I know what that man's like throwing things. Speaker 1 00:24:17 Um. Yes, but just as I I gotta jump in, I gotta jump by eleven because I've got the A I training. Speaker 5 00:28:43 We don't have Ashlyn anymore. Speaker 1 00:30:15 I did. I did, and I gave Pete some information, but then Pete went on vacation, which is completely understandable. And I have not touched base back with Pete again about it. Well, Give him some time because I gave it to him like the day before he went on vacation, so I don't even think he remembers that conversation. So I was going to circle back when his week didn't feel. Speaker 1 00:31:14 Okay, so for me, I am going to just go through mine fairly quickly. Carney Properties is definitely training late June, so that whole project has been is on pause until June fifteenth. I am working on getting them over ;. They still have not told me which system they want to go with, so just a heads up. For Sharp, We are now in a position where we can start migrating all of the security items over to our security stack. Um, and we turned on MFA yesterday. And so I need to go back and see how many tickets we've got open for MFA issues. I haven't heard much ;. The team hasn't told me that t here is been much issue, But I did give a grace period when I turned it on because I found out that grace periods matter on the MFA, and it will allow people to log in. Um, so for that, It is on uh Seg is going to set up a meeting for us in Anton. Speaker 1 00:32:12 Um, to start discussing on moving things over with the exception of secure mail. And then for computer upgrades, Robert is coming in on Friday. He had he needed to take a day off this week, So he's going to come in on Friday and work through. Uh what he's got left. But, we still have about fifty to sixty computers um that are going to be migrated, so that's still ongoing. Um for Ability First cabling infrastructure, this is a um this one is Not on track. Crimson has done everything we're supposed to do. We're having an issue on the low voltage side, and as of last night and this morning, we have to we might have to pivot a little bit on that. Pete, I'll give you an update after I meet with Michonne for Cotson. We have started their training today. Speaker 1 00:33:04 So we are doing the training, And then we are going to be sending out the AI policy for everyone to sign. After we finish the training, um, We are going to ask the team for any insight now that they've been trained. But, we since they have yet to make a decision either on which AI they're going with, I am gonna train both AIs or train them on both types of AIs. Uh, Copilot and Plug because that's what they've narrowed it down to. For D T L A Alliance Cloud team setup, our kickoff meeting is this week. Um and then I'll get deadlines for that. For Anderson Real Estate Cloud team setup, I did reach out to them. Um we did have a meeting. They are I'm still pending their wish list and items that they want, so we can get started. So I'm sending out another reminder email to them today and then for Leer Property Group, our we have a kickoff meeting for them on Thursday. Speaker 1 00:33:60 Um, it took us a minute to get uh everybody on the same page. I think Kenny was our holdout. Um, But I do have that draft ready to send over them to them today on what our agenda is going to look like. But, we do have that meeting set for nine a m on Thursday for D L A Anderson and Lear. They are new projects as of last week and so, I am waiting on the kickoff meeting to give you the project deadlines. Speaker 5 00:34:43 Right, so with. Speaker 1 00:34:50 Yeah, so that one I also reached out to advance on that one, uh because one. One of them had they've sent in the payment. The other project, they did not, And I kind of need both of them. So I can understand exactly what they want to do. Um, This one's gonna because I thought it was just going to be a general AI. Um, but it sounds like it's gonna might be slightly different on this Julia. So um, But I am working on I'm going to get you what I'm building for downtown L A uh, so that you have that instead. Speaker 1 00:35:26 You're welcome, guys. I'm gonna jump unless there's another one for me. Speaker 5 00:35:39 Okay, awesome. Thanks, guys. Speaker 1 00:49:03 Vivian, I jumped on early just to make sure that we started and I have everything set up, but I am going to mute for a few moments. Speaker 5 00:50:49 Hi Holly. Alright, Speaker 2 00:51:00 I'm just gonna wait because we have quite a few people attending for this first one. So I am going to stay muted for a moment. Um, I'm not requiring videos or your cameras to be turned on. Um, but I am going to give everybody about two to three minutes to join. Speaker 5 00:51:40 Hi Joey. Speaker 1 00:52:11 Hi everybody, we're going to give everybody a few more moments to join. Um, I do have a few people, a few more people in this training than I do in the other training. So, I'm going to give everybody a few moments to join. I'm not going to require videos mostly because I'm going to have to turn your videos off on my side because of bandwidth issues. Um so, I won't be able to see your amazing faces, but you are welcome to turn them off or leave them on it's up. Speaker 1 00:52:56 I think we're good to get started. I am going to go ahead and introduce myself, and we are going to get into a few items. Bear with me right now because I am going to show you guys all my screen, And I want you to be aware that I do have a lot of things up on my screen, so I am busy closing them out. But I am looking forward to meeting all of you guys, for those of you guys who have never met. And this training is going to be given three times. So, I want to make sure that you guys are all aware of that. I am going to be recording this training, and then once the training is over with, I'll have to wait for the link to be generated, but then I'll send out the link to everybody who joined. So, real quickly, I'm going to share my screen, and we're going to go over a few things first. Speaker 1 00:53:52 A few housekeeping things. Actually, let me stop sharing my screen for a moment. Let me do the actual introductions and then give you guys some things that we're going to be upfront about. And let me definitely go ahead and start the recording. I am also going to send out a summary at the end so that you guys are aware of of what all we talked about and you have it, but if you guys want to join any other training this week, And just get a refresher, you are more than welcome to do that as well. Now, for those of you guys who've never met me, my name is Chris Brown. I also you'll see me in your emails as Christy Brown. I am the CIO with Crimson IT, And I have been working with the Cotton team for a while now behind the scenes. So a lot of you guys have not met me. I know Holly, I know Kamya, but that's about it. So I started at Crimson about four and a half years ago. ; Onsor stole me from the L A Dodgers. Speaker 1 00:54:52 Um, I chose to do some exciting things with my life and decided that it is time for me to make that move over into uh into criticism. And actually, and don't tell Onsor I said this come yet, but it's probably one of the best decisions I ever made. Um, I don't need Onsor to know that because you know he doesn't need to know that. But. So a couple quick housekeeping items before we get started um we are going to be recording the this meeting. Um we are a whole. We're also going to be utilizing AI in this meeting. So, and I'm going to show you how that's going to look in a moment. Um, we once the meeting is over with, I do have to wait for everything to be generated, and I'll send that link over to you guys in an email, along with all the summary of everything we discussed. Um, I'm gonna show you guys my team session now. Like I said, I had to turn off my camera just because of low bandwidth and I also uh stopped the view from you guys coming in just. Speaker 1 00:55:50 Kind of save on bandwidth so as I share my screen, you guys won't see any interruptions. Now, just a quick heads up, if you see a little red dot up here with notes, Uh, you can open that up during the meeting, and you can see the meeting notes as we go through. But additionally chat, The facilitator will come up in here and we'll be taking notes and bringing things up into this section right here in the meeting chat. Facilitator is an option that only comes with Copilot or Teams Premium. So As we go through the discussion today, we are going to talk about Microsoft Copilot, which works right alongside your existing Microsoft environment. And we're also going to talk about Claude. It's an AI assistant from a company called Anthropic. And we're also going to briefly show you guys CoWork, Which is a desktop tool that lets Claude help you manage files and automate tasks. Um. And so just just quick heads up now in Teams I want you to feel free to drop questions into the chat here. Speaker 1 00:56:49 And I will see those come through. I may not see them right away, But i want I will show uh I will see them. And I will answer questions at the end because we are going to have a time for a live Q and A towards the end of this of this training. Um, and you just need, I don't know if you still see my screen, but uh facilitator did jump up and introduce herself himself. Um, And so anything in there, if you want to type at facilitator to ask questions, you can do that. I did not add an agenda for today. Um, in facilitator, That's something new where it'll kind of follow along the agenda and tell me to, hey, stay on track. I didn't drop that in today, but just a heads up that that ability is in there. Um, And then t here is a couple things I want to be upfront about from the start. Um, I do like participation because I do like to know that people are paying attention. Um, when I give training live, I usually throw candy at people uh and bring treats. Speaker 1 00:57:47 I don't have the ability to do that on a Teams call. However, to help me feel like you guys are paying attention, I will ask you guys to either raise your hand, which is this button right here, or give me some react cues. And so if you're watching my screen, I'm going to give a thumbs up here and you'll see my screen change. I'll be watching for those reactions as well. So just a little minor heads up. Um and then one a couple of other things want to be upfront about :. Cotton has done. This right, so just want to give you guys a quick heads up about that. You have a draft AI usage policy. We are going to go over that. I am going to look for some feedback from you guys as well. So we're going to reference that today, so when you leave, You leave knowing not just how to use these tools, but what the guardrails are because there are security concerns around using AI. Okay? Any questions we have before we get through before we get started? Speaker 1 00:58:48 None. I know you guys are going to be one of the best groups. I trained. I already know this from you guys, so, I will expect questions as we go through this. Um, now let's let me start with what an honest thing about AI is. One, it's not perfect, But there is a lot of hype and fair amount of fear around it. And a lot of um a lot of opinions come from misunderstanding of what tools. The AI tools fundamentally do so. I want to make sure that you guys are aware of some items. The AI tools that we are talking about today is going to be Copilot, which you see up on my screen, which is within your Microsoft tools and Microsoft Tenancy. So we have that, and then another one we're going to be utilizing is Claude. And these are both called large language models. You might have heard that term floating around ;. It's also show people also call it. Llms. Speaker 1 00:59:47 LLM, just think of them as extremely well-read assistants. They've been trained on enormous amounts of text, books, articles, websites, documentation. And, they've become very good at predicting what a useful coherent response looks like given a question or prompt. Okay now prediction is different than actually knowing. Okay and I want to make sure that we're very clear about that. Prediction is not knowing what's coming next it's pre Predicting based on how they see human responses of what might come next, so it's a lot different than how humans comprehend something. Julie, I am sorry, I do mispronounce that all the time and I am trying to fix that. Guys, I will mess this up a lot because when i when I first started it, I am pronouncing it how it was told to me and. Speaker 1 01:00:46 I need to get that fixed after three years, so please feel free to continue correcting me, but I do apologize in advance. Okay, um, but back to prediction they do predict things. So, if I say to you, uh, Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow," we know that nursery rhyme. All of you guys know that nursery rhyme ; you've heard it for years and years. But if we told, AI to tell me what comes next. And we said, Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as. It's not going to inherently know it's going to be snow because it knows that nursery rhyme. It's going to say snow because it's predicting it. And sometimes it might not even say snow. Sometimes it might say something else like a cloud or something along those lines. So AI is more of a prediction tool than a knowledge tool. Speaker 1 01:01:40 And so, Just they've become very good at predicting what a response is supposed to look like, but they're not always going to know what the response should be. Okay, I just want to make sure that everybody's clear on that. They're not magic. They don't think the way people do. They can't browse things on their own unless you tell them. They can't take actions without you asking, and they can make mistakes. Think of AI like a very capable intern. They're smart, they're fast. Speaker 1 01:02:10 Often impressive, but you got to review their work before it goes out the door. And also remember, we're human as well; we're not perfect either. I sent out a document yesterday. I know two people with the same name ;, they are both in my contact file. They have the same first name but different last names. I looked at a document, I corrected a lot of things, But I neglected to correct somebody's last name. And so I sent it to the right person, but when I sent it I sent it and I notated in the document, the wrong last name because I know two people with the same name, just different last names. And it's an unusual name; it's not a common one. So when I read it, my brain was like, "Okay, everything's right." I saw the name, I read the name, I understood but I neglected to change it because in my mind, I only call people by their first name, unless they ask me to call them. Speaker 1 01:03:08 Doctor, or Mister, or Misses. So I sent out a document yesterday totally oblivious to the fact that not only did AI mess up the name when it was building out my document for me, but I messed up the name because I just changed things in my head. I am also dyslexic, so I do that pretty often. So be aware they're not magic; they are going to make mistakes. They're like a very capable intern; they're smart, they're fast, they're often impressive, but you got to read them. You their work before it goes out the door. Sometimes you got to review your own work, okay? Here is what AI does well. It does well drafting emails, memos, summaries, rewriting text for clarity or tone. It's really good at answering questions from the context you provide. It's really good at generating first drafts of documents. It's also great at brainstorming ideas and creating outlines. It can pull key points from a long document and it can explain. Speaker 1 01:04:07 Complex topics in plain language. That's something I often ask it to do. I will give it a term and then I'll say, explain it to me in plain language because sometimes I'm not good with terminology. I'm really great at opening up a computer and fixing it, but sometimes I'll forget what that part does. I know it in my head, but I can't explain it to you. So if Steve come to me and said, hey, I've got this issue, and i'm trying to explain to him how to fix it. He's going to look at me with deer in the headlights looks because I speak technical. I don't speak Steve that well. As much as I worked with Steve in the last couple weeks, I don't speak Steve. But AI is really good at speaking Steve. So, I go to AI and say, "Hey, I am writing an email to Steve to explain him how to do something, But I need you to write it in his terms because I am too technical." And it will rewrite my documents for me. Now here is what you got to watch for: It can sound confident. Speaker 1 01:05:05 And it can be wrong. It doesn't know about events after its training date. So, let's say CoPilot was trained on items December first, twenty five, and it is now May nineteenth, twenty six. Anything new? It's got to go search for because it doesn't know. So be aware of that. It cannot access your files unless you share them. That's another thing to be aware of. So we're going to go over that when we talk about cowork. Don't paste in sensitive data, so things like your donor data, your student info, financial records without understanding how privacy settings work. And we're going to go over privacy settings in a moment. And, then the output quality depends heavily and I can't stress this enough heavily on how you ask. And you're going to want to know how to prompt. So the biggest practical takeaway here is AI is a force multiplier. Speaker 1 01:06:05 For the work you are already doing, it won't replace your judgment, your relationships, or your expertise in what the coats and foundation does. What it can do is eliminate a lot of the tedious work : the first draft summaries, reformatting. So you spend more time on what actually matters for your job. And. So today, we're going to work in three specific tools : Microsoft CoPilot, which lives in Microsoft, which you guys see up on my screen. We are going to spend Some time in Cloud, which I am trying to open up and get over here. And so this is Cloud, And then we're going to i've got a new chat I am going to bring up. And then we're going to spend some time in CoWork, which is right over here. And you'll see some things that we're going to be doing with CoWork. Just a heads up for you guys : there is CoWork coming to M icr oso ft ; it is out in beta, but it's not out where you guys can access it yet. But when I show you CoWork and Cloud, just know that Microsoft has a. Speaker 1 01:07:04 Same thing. Um, and then just a heads up: CoPilot and Cloud can live in certain applications. So for CoPilot, it lives in Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel. It's the AI that knows about your work context. Cloud it's more standalone, but it does have some things within Microsoft already, and that's good for writing research. Some reasoning tasks and things like that. And then CoWork itself, It's a desktop application built on top of Cloud that helps with file management and document automation. I am going to show you some examples of things that this can happen. But before we get into the demos, oh, I am sorry, Julie. Yes, These are the tools we are recommending. We use for work purpose within the foundation. And as far as how you access Cod and CoPilot, I am going to get into that when we get into the demos. So that way you guys are. Speaker 1 01:08:03 Be aware of it, But I do want to spend about five minutes on something that the team has done within your own organization that a lot of organizations haven't done, and that is draft the AI usage policy. When I say how amazing your leadership is, Please understand that I work with sixty clients and I cannot express how grateful I am to Steve and Kam Yad and Casey. And everybody else that has been working on your AI policy and the training, and how we want to roll this out to all of you. That's not a small thing. Your leadership team has thought about this intentionally, and a lot of organizations haven't gone that far. Okay, so we are drafting this up. We are going to be sending it out for everybody once it's finished. And then just be aware that. Speaker 1 01:09:01 Once we do, we are going to look for some feedback from you guys. I am pulling it up over here because I have the draft saved on my computer. It is really long, But we're going to go through some of the items in here, just a quick review for five minutes. Um, And this is some things we have. We've worked on building. Uh based off some feedback you guys have already given us and some items that we want to put some guardrails in to protect uh the foundation's data. And everything like that. So real quickly uh, The core principles from this AI policy, which you guys will get a copy of later, is using AI as a tool, not a replacement for judgment. AI is not good at judgment. Trust me on this. Every AI output that leaves your desk should be reviewed and approved by you. You have to put that review time in. Now I'm going to stress this : You won't be perfect at it all the time. You are going to miss stuff; I miss stuff all the time, but make sure that you're reviewing it. Speaker 1 01:09:59 So we can cut down on a lot of the mistakes. Number two, do not input personally identifiable information or what's called PII. Anything along the lines of names, addresses, Things that are important to your organization. You don't want to put this in here. Now, there are some things I'm going to show you that is acceptable and some things that are not. And you're going to see that, but you don't want that PII in there. You don't want donor financial data. You don't want confidential grant information Into public AI tools, especially ones that are not set up for the foundation explicitly. Okay, um, Now Microsoft CoPilot and the Cloud Teams account I am going to show you guys are going to be somewhat okay, but t here is still some caveats to that. Okay, And so you want to make sure that, that information, if you are going to put it in is only put into a tool that's specifically approved. Speaker 1 01:10:59 For that use, all right. So, You do number three :, you do want to make sure that you disclose AI use when it's material to your work product. For example, grant applications or external communications where the authenticity matters. And. The reason for this being is that there are some outside organizations that are going to start requiring. To know when AI is used to help things out. Okay, so just be aware of that. Um, I do want to make sure number four, to report any concerns you have. If an AI output seems wrong or harmful or inappropriate, flag it to management rather than just ignoring it or deleting it. Flag it to Crimson. Send it in a ticket to an email that way we can work with you on it. Save that chat and I'll show you guys what that would look like in a moment. Speaker 1 01:11:57 And then, as tools evolve, which trust me in the last two three years they have evolved quickly, we will update the policy to be updated as those tools evolve. So, what we have here today is a starting framework. ; still not the final word, but it is the starting framework. So let me give you a quick summary of what we just went over. I want you to use your judgment. ; don't put sensitive data into tools that aren't cleared for it. Review everything before it goes anywhere official. CoPilot, because it lives inside your Microsoft three hundred and sixty five environment, has a different data posture than the public web tool. So things like Grok or ChatGPT or things that you have personally accounts for those are public web tools. Your data needs to stay in your organization. So we'll talk about that more in CoPilot, and then for Cloud and CoWork um. Speaker 1 01:12:53 That's going to be a section where they're appropriate for non-sensitive drafting, research, and internal document work. But if you guys have any doubt, please ask. Okay? I you can always ask the help desk. The help desk team has been trained on AI use. They know the ins and outs of it. Um, they have asked me questions. We've done lots of training with them. They've all taken uh the advanced CoPilot and uh ChatGPT courses that are out there. So, we are one hundred percent uh available to answer any questions that you guys may have about that. Anybody on the help desk, and if they don't know, they're going to come to me. So be assured of that. Um, we're going to talk about CoPilot because I'll be honest, that's the tool that's uh that's going to read your Microsoft data. So real quickly, I want to give you guys a heads up. I am going to close out of my CoPilot. I am going to show you a couple different ways to access it. Um, if you are granted a CoPilot license. Speaker 1 01:13:53 You can access it a couple different ways. For me, I actually have CoPilot here, and if I go into my Start and I type in CoPilot, there sometimes will be two different apps that pop up. I want you guys choosing the Microsoft three hundred and sixty five CoPilot because that's the one you want to use. There is another version of CoPilot that Microsoft has for Windows. I've uninstalled it from this computer so I don't have it on here, but be aware of that. Speaker 1 01:14:24 Uh, number two is I'm gonna I'm gonna go to my my account. One second, let me get logged back into Microsoft. I keep getting logged out. It's an IT issue. One of these days I'll get help on it. But when you log in, there's a link I'm going to put into the chat. It's called myapps dot microsoft dot com This is one of my favorite websites. I actually have it as my homepage. Um in this section, you'll see all the apps that are open to you. Through uh your organization. And so all my Microsoft apps are in here, the web based versions and everything like that, we even have our own cloud in here. But if I am in here and I want to talk to CoPilot, then basically all I have to do is I go right here. Uh oh, they moved it. I am sorry. Um my apologies they did move it. So Microsoft keeps making these changes. Speaker 1 01:15:23 I'm gonna go to office.com. If I go to office.com, it's gonna go straight into CoPilot. So you've got options here to message CoPilot. You've got all the agents over here which will go into, we'll have chats here and things like that. Also, CoPilot lives in other documentation or other applications, not documentation. So I'm gonna open up Word and I'm gonna open up a blank document and CoPilot lives here. Speaker 1 01:15:54 And Microsoft did just move this this week. It is down here in the lower right hand corner. It used to be up here. They moved it down here literally this week, so that is how quick technology is working. If I can't stress anything to you, I am going to stress just be mindful Microsoft keeps making changes. Um, so you've got a couple of different options here: get me started working, uh craft a draft for my most recent work, create an outline. You can click on this and it brings up the CoPilot chat right here. Um, in Excel, you have the same thing going on here. I have a personal file. I'm going to bring up in Excel one where I was building out some things. This information won't make sense, But in here, CoPilot is also down here, and I can click on it and bring it up. And it allow i have the settings set to allow editing, but I can change this to plan and chat only. Speaker 1 01:16:53 In Excel. Um, and then also Cloud can be in here. I did eliminate Cloud from my add-ons here, but you can also add Cloud in to help as well. But in here, I can tell it. um, I can ask it questions like how uh how old is some of the data in the field started at? And it will go in and take a look at it. But if. Also going to ask me to save. So there's some information we can chat. Um, PowerPoint's the exact same thing. You've got it in the same spots. Um, if you're in Microsoft Teams, uh let me bring in my Teams. Ignore my calendar. Um, In Teams, you can go to CoPilot right here. And so it lives in a lot of different places here. I do have it as an app on my desktop because that's where I use it the most at. Um. Speaker 1 01:17:52 But a couple of things I want you to know. Uh, It is integrated directly into Microsoft three hundred and sixty five apps that you already use. So Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint OneNote. It knows about your work context because it has access to the same Microsoft environment you do. So your emails, your calendar, Your files in SharePoint and OneDrive CoPilot can reference those when you ask it questions or give it tasks. Okay? And that integration is a key differentiator from other AI tools. You are not copying and pasting from one place or another. The AI is sitting right inside those tools. Now, here is what it can and can't do, or here is what it can do within Teams: it can summarize meetings, draft messages, catch up on missed threads. In Outlook, you can draft replies, summarize email threads; it can flag action items which is a good one). In Word, you can draft documents. Speaker 1 01:18:48 Rewrite sections, and you can generate outlines. Um, the CoPilot does scrape your data. So, And I am going to go over what you we can do in the settings to opt out on that. So that I am going to go over in a moment under when we talk about CoPilot privacy. Um, in chat, in the web chat or the chat down here, you can ask questions across files and emails. So like what did I agree to my last meeting with Tyler? Now, there is a caveat to some of the meetings. You have to make sure transcript is turned on or recording is turned on for it to scrape that information. If you do not have it recorded or transcripts, it can't scrape those meetings. So just a thing to know about that. Today, I needed an address for one of my clients, so I pulled it up and I said, "What is the address of this office?" And it gave me the address and. Speaker 1 01:19:47 Told me where it got the information from. So, got it from my emails or project files. Um, so you can have it pull things. I just need the address. I knew the address was right as soon as I saw it. I just couldn't remember the street number. Um, you can go in and ask questions about recaps. So, I have a staff training meeting recap here, and here is the recap, if I am in a meeting. Uh, i am going to show you this through teams. Speaker 1 01:20:19 If I am in a meeting here, you guys, I don't know if you've ever noticed, but in Teams you have a couple items in here. So I've got an Operations L ten, I've got a one on one. Um, here is the A AF staff training. I am teaching them Microsoft Word. So here is what the facilitator looks like, and I can view a recap now in the next section or right now as I show you this. I am going to let you listen to something in a moment but You guys can see any of the shared files are going to be in here. My notes, AI summary is going to be in here. Just a heads up on this one, I did lose my internet. And so it it did. We did have some breakup there in the middle of that, but I'm going to go to this one because this one was longer. I'm going to view recap on this one, and I can see the video and I can see the meeting notes along with. Speaker 1 01:21:18 The screenshots from the meeting. Now, this is what CoPilot did. Um, it also has a new video recap. This is where I am going to share with you guys. My sounds and you guys can see. Speaker 5 01:21:40 So that's the video recap, And I'll send you a video recap for what we did today. Just so you can see how fun it is. Speaker 1 01:21:48 Um, And just just a heads up on this :, if this only comes up if you choose to record or transcribe the meeting, I know I've mentioned that, but I want to mention it one more time. If you have recording or transcription off, you are not going to get this. So you got to make sure recording and everything is on. Um, I will say this: uh Co-Pilot has been out for a while. If you do record or transcribe. And you are having a meeting, and then suddenly everybody drops off, but a few people. And you are discussing something sensitive. Please make sure you are stopping the transcribing and the recording, because everyone who had access to that meeting is going to be able to see that in their recap. Um, we've had not not you guys, but we had a larger company that's had Co-Pilot on for two years now. Um, within the first month they had they had a big meeting with their. Speaker 1 01:22:44 Executive leadership and the directors, and then everybody left and they kept recording on, and then they started discussing about someone's departure from the company. And panicked when they realized that it was still recording, and the recap went out. And, they had me to go in and clean that before anybody could see it. So I can I'm capable of doing a lot of things. I can do that for you guys, but it is a headache. So be very careful when you're recording when you're not recording okay? Um Now, for data privacy, When we reviewed the audit report, and we talked to you guys and had you guys do your survey, One of the biggest things we heard and I want to address. This is what happens with data privacy. And that's one of your biggest concerns. When you use Co-Pilot inside Microsoft three hundred and sixty five. Your data stays inside the tenant. Microsoft does not use your content to train their AI models. That is completely off. Speaker 1 01:23:44 By default, in fact, Claude is the same way. When you are doing a business account, it will be off by default. If you look at Co-Pilot that I have up here, You see this green shield at the top right ;. It's this enterprise data protection applies to this chat. Something really to know about this :. Microsoft takes this very seriously compliance reasons. ;, it will not. Allow Co-Pilot to do anything that is against HIPAA compliance or SEC compliance or any other compliancy policies out there. So, it is very clean on that, and it will not allow things to retrain its models. So we can't do that. Additionally, because Microsoft doesn't have its own AI, it uses OpenAI through Claude or it uses Chat GPT backbone. Speaker 1 01:24:39 It does not allow it to go back and share that to the other, to either of these companies. Either that is off by default, your data is very secure, very protected. However, if a file is located in any SharePoint folder and it contains sensitive data, make sure you are putting it in the right places. So for instance, a company they didn't allow us to check their data beforehand; they had, They had their executive leadership team's salaries out in a public place. They had so many files they did not know or was aware that it was out there, and because it was out there, people could actually search and find out people's salaries from there. It was a mistake. Now, your OneDrive data this is your OneDrive is personal to you. So Holly, I am going to use you for an example right now. If it's in your OneDrive and no one has access to your OneDrive, it's not going to share that data from Holly. Speaker 1 01:25:38 Holly to Dylan. It just cannot do that because Dylan does not have access to Holly's OneDrive, so Dylan cannot do a search against the OneDrive. And that's how you're going to keep it out of the settings. Another way you're going to do that is using privacy controls. Now within Crimson, my privacy my settings are off. However, if I go in here and bear with me, This is not a good document to do that against because I haven't set where to save it. So go in here and do your AI policy, and I go in here and I go to Info. There is an option in here to protect the document, and you can do that. You can restrict editing, you can restrict access, uh you can restrict a lot of things in here. So I want you guys to be aware of that. You have the ability to protect the document, and you have an ability to classify that. Speaker 1 01:26:37 So if it's something that you need to restrict, you can restrict that editing, restrict that access. So like in here, I can go in here. I can say restricted, confidential or highly confidential. So I have those options. Holly, you had a question? Speaker 5 01:27:35 Yes. Correct. Speaker 1 01:27:50 One hundred percent, and that'sum that was the next piece I was going to show you, so I'm glad you brought that up. Um protection of any document, I want to make sure that you guys are aware of this, especially in the restricted access point. Um because I want you guys to be aware of these four options. And that way you can keep that in mind. However, that being said, we store everything in Teams for Crimson. So I am going to bring this up. So there are a lot of folders in here. We do store things in here with access and stuff like this. I am going to go to SOPs right now and SOPs, I am going to go into my shared files, and these are all of Crimson's SOPs, and they're all listed here. All of this data is public. Speaker 1 01:28:34 And when I say public, I mean public to Crimson, not public to the entire world. So this is only public to Crimson. Everyone within Crimson can access this. However, we actually have some sections here called the no fly zone. That's, our restricted Co-Pilot doesn't search in there, but in the locations, it does so I have access to HR management, I have access to marketing contractors and merger and acquisition. Those are my main ones and then I have access to budget, Within this, because you see those lock buttons, no one not everybody has access to it. So the only people that can search against these using Co-Pilot are the people that have active access to those folders. So under budget, which we do restrict some of this, I have access to only certain folders in here for budget. I don't have access to all of them. Speaker 1 01:29:28 So I only have access to MS and PS. I do not have access to the admin team because they don't none of them report to me. I don't have the budget for other departments because they don't report to me. So I can only see this. So Co-Pilot can only see the folders that are shared to me. So Holly, if you have a and we're going to use this as an example, if you guys have a similar no fly zone, maybe it's titled something different um and Dylan doesn't have access to it, His copilot can't search it and will not give him that information. Yours can because you have access. Does that help? Speaker 1 01:30:21 Yes, On the back end, um, where, Where I can go in and make changes, I can actually set restricted zones and say, "Co-Pilot, you cannot touch anything in this section at all. No matter if we have access to it or not." So yes, we can do that, but it's something that I have to do on the back end. Real quickly, is there any other questions you guys have about security? And we're going to go into a live demo after that. Speaker 1 01:31:00 All right, you guys are great. I mean, you have amazing questions, so I love this. We're doing Co-Pilot and then we're going to get into Claude. Co-Pilot has a few distinct features, I love and a few distinct features. I don't. Real quickly, you've got two options here: you've got Work and Web, and you can choose what kind of AI you want to use. Now it does do auto; however, I like OpenAI because i like, And that's a personal preference. Down here, I can choose to do a temporary chat, meaning it won't save my chat, which is okay for some things. And then you have some other items in here: you've got scheduled prompts, you've got some settings you can go into, you've got recent pages. You could tell Co-Pilot to include web searches. I now I leave this on because it doesn't do too much. I want to ask Co-Pilot. Speaker 3 01:32:01 Meetings Do I have this week. Speaker 1 01:32:11 And it's going to pull up and find that. Oh, you want me to zoom in? I do apologize. I have big monitors. So let me blow my screen up for you guys. Just. Speaker 5 01:32:28 Want to blow up one screen. Speaker 1 01:32:53 Alright. Let me know if this is better. I'm gonna go back in here. Is that better for you guys? Speaker 1 01:33:08 I Do have big screens, so I do apologize. Alright, so this is where it's not perfect. No one named Coateson came up in the people directory. Um, but I do have a past Coates and week. There are eleven meetings with Coateson in the title this week. Not really bad. Okay, hang on one second. I will fix this because I want you guys to see. Speaker 2 01:33:41 One Moment, all right? Is that better, Diane? Speaker 1 01:33:53 So already, what I've done now, I block out my calendar for meetings and stuff, so I can work on things. So I am going to show you guys my thing in a moment, but it says eleven. So I've got some blocks in here for Wednesday because I want to work on things for you guys on my project. I've got development rollout planning that was yesterday and a few items like that. So um, on Thursday, I have a prep for the second session. And I do have it for fifteen minutes, just to follow up with what I did today, and then I have the second session, and then Friday I have my prep, and then I have my third session with you guys, and then I have my post training wrap up which is about twelve. That's where I compile all the feedback, write summary. i do a follow up to Kamyaab and team and things like that. Speaker 1 01:34:44 So, these are all of them, and based on this, It realized of those eleven three are live training sessions with staff, and the rest are my solo prep blocks. And it knew that because of how I have my Outlook set up, Which is an hour long conversation that I will. If you ever want to know, I will set up a meeting with you guys and show you. So just just a quick heads up on that. Now it knew that like I said based off of my calendar. My calendar as you can see is very beautiful and, Colorful, um, and it's because I put in uh categories into my meetings. So it just instinctively not instinctively, but it it guessed on what I was doing based on that. Um, so that's something fun you can do. Now, Another thing we can do and I used to have it in here is you can create an agent. So an agent is something you give it separate instructions for. So I've got a password generator agent. Speaker 1 01:35:43 I told It, what I want It to do every tIme I chat wIth It. So, It's goIng to generate a passWord based off of passphrases. And that way, every tIme I need to do a passphrase or create passWords for people, I use thIs tool and I say, "GIve me fIve unIque passphrases." Speaker 1 01:36:17 Lord of the RIngs. And then, I do thIs every tIme I have to buIld accounts. So If you guys ever get an account I buIld for you, It's whatever I watched on TV that day. I go put It Into passWord generator, I get It and then, I just copy that and that's your passWord. That's your temporary passWord. That's how I do passWords. Um, I've taught my team thIs they do passWords however they lIke. So, If you ever get a passWord from me, have me reset your passWord, anythIng lIke that, thIs Is how I do It. And It generates a dIfferent one each tIme. And then when I am done wIth thIs chat, I delete It because I don't want that record out there just In case. So you do have the abIlIty to delete It. So be aware of that. Any chats you do wIth CopIlot In a meetIng Is also goIng to be here. Speaker 1 01:37:15 And, then there are some advanced features In Outlook that they are doIng, where you can go In and flag thIngs. I am not goIng to go Into that because we are runnIng a lIttle bIt low on tIme, But I want you guys to be aware there are some really useful pIeces In here that I've already shown you. Sorry, I was about to sneeze agaIn. I want you to be aware that you can delete any chats, and once you delete It, It Is goIng to be permanent. Now, let's say you are off. You were out for three days. I was out for three days. What dId I mIss In my emaIls and meetIngs? Okay, thIs Is a prompt that I keep on my sIde here. Um, I am gonna go In. You can ask It that If I open Word, I can, and I am goIng to open Word. Uh, I am goIng to open your acceptable use polIcy. I can ask copIlot In here, whIch sometImes It'll come up. Speaker 1 01:38:14 I can say, "SummarIze thIs program report as a two-page executIve summary." Okay, I actually do that quIte a bIt for reports that I get In from my team. So, I can do that and I can type that In and I can press enter. Now you notIce lIke It went from one to another pretty rapIdly. That's pretty much how I work because I have ADHD, because by the tIme I go back to It, everythIng Is back. Um, so here Is my four areas that need my attentIon today. I wasn't out, but thIs Is what I do when I am out. My emaIl hIghlIghts any securIty uh IncIdences, whIch I already knew about that and answered It. Uh separatIon tIckets, some other thIngs. There Is some traInIng logIstIcs for you. Um comIng up, I dId I do thInk I replIed to you on thIs one. Um If I dIdn't, I do apologIze, I thought to reply to you, and It's probably In my drafts. Speaker 1 01:39:14 I have to go back In and check my jobs every day before I leave. MeetIngs, clIent project work blocks. So It gets me very detaIled. Now, If I ask the same questIon, you can actually have fun wIth thIs. I was out for three days, what dId I mIss In my emaIls and meetIngs? GIve It to me In a pIrate voIce. Speaker 1 01:39:43 You can have fun wIth It. Now, I am goIng to mInImIze thIs so and I am goIng to go back here. Here Is my executIve summary, and It wIll wrIte thIs too as well. Now, One thIng I do want to gIve you guys a heads up on Is It does not InstInctIvely know your voIce, and It does not remember everythIng. But If I go In here and I go to settIngs, I can go Into under personalIzatIon, and I can buIld out custom InstructIons. I am goIng to gIve you guys my custom InstructIons that I use because I want It to sound more lIke me. So, I am goIng to put thIs Into the chat. I also wIll send thIs to all of you guys In an emaIl as an example. You can eIther use mIne or you can make It your own. Speaker 1 01:40:38 I lIke It to use clear and sImple language. I can add thIngs In here. I do thIs for all my AIs, because I want It to sound lIke me. If I don't do thIs, um, they tend to use a lot of bullets and lIsts. I don't lIke bullets and lIsts, So I also don't lIke the Word " kIndly " In mIne because It doesn't sound lIke me. So, I wIll tell It what It can and can't do. Um, Here Is the captaIn's log for you guys, just to see how fun It was. Speaker 1 01:41:09 So you can't have fun wIth It. Any questIons about CopIlot before we move Into Claude? And dId I answer everybody's questIons that they had? All rIght, we're movIng Into Claude. Claude Is actually one of my favorIte tools. There's actually several ways you can use Claude, But I'm goIng to only go over the ones that are most Important for you guys. Um, It's made by a company called AnthropIc. Now, It has hIt fast because of the depth of Its research that It pulls and thIngs lIke that. So um, It Is a good tool out there. I actually prefer It rIght now over Chat GPT, although a year ago I was Chat GPT everythIng. So thIngs do change. Speaker 1 01:42:05 RIght now, what we're talkIng about Is stuff that's comIng through May of twenty sIx. June of twenty sIx mIght be a lot dIfferent. Okay, now Claude Is dIfferent kInd of tool from CopIlot. It's not naturally embedded In your exIstIng apps. It Is a standalone AI assIstant that you access through your browser or desktop applIcatIon. The desktop applIcatIon Is goIng to be a lot easIer from my perspectIve, because It wIll allow It wIll access fIles that you allow It to access, and you can set In there, what fIles It can. And can't access, so just a heads up. If CopIlot Is the AI that knows your MIcrosoft envIronment, Claude Is the AI that's really good at wrItIng research, reasonIng, and workIng through Ideas that are complex. Okay, It's also more conversatIonal. You can have a back and forth wIth It. You can refIne your request. You can push back on Its answers and buIld on what It gIves you. So here Is how I lIke to explaIn the dIfference: CopIlot knows your world. Speaker 1 01:43:04 Your fIles, your calendar, your emaIls. Claude Is better at thInkIng through somethIng from scratch and workIng wIth context, you hand It. And you have to hand It context, okay? So you can wrIte and edIt. You can tell It to rewrIte thIs grant update In plaIn language for a general audIence, or you can say rewrIte thIs grant update In plaIn language for the board. You got to tell It what the audIence Is. You can say, "SummarIze thIs eIght-page report In fIve bullet poInts," and It wIll do that. And It's really good at It. You can tell It to break down complex problems. What are the pros and cons of swItchIng from X to Y for a nonprofIt of our sIze? Okay, It's really good at that. You can have It braInstorm for you. GIve me ten Ideas for the theme of our next staff apprecIatIon event, and It wIll gIve It to you. Okay? Speaker 1 01:44:03 You can tell It to create a template for follow up wIth program partners after a sIte vIsIt. And I do somethIng very sImIlar to that. I dId rewrIte that prompt for somethIng more yourself. Um, I use somethIng called uh Plod, and what Plod does.
05-27 Weekly Meeting: BOS Development, IT Survey, and Believe First Engagement
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- > Date: May 27, 2026 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Sergio] [Speaker 4] ### Meeting Notes #### Positive Feedback and IT Survey - Speaker 1 shared encouraging feedback for Gueston and Robert; people are noticeably happier when they walk in. - An IT survey will be sent out next week to gauge staff sentiment across the organization. - The budget is down by over $100,000, which is viewed as a positive impact. #### Business Operating System (BOS) Development - Speaker 1 plans to build a custom operating system for AbilityFirst, inspired by Speaker 2’s C-BOSS concept. - It will be built on Azure’s free tier to minimize costs, with expenses primarily limited to potential API usage. - The objective is an AI-driven system that demonstrates business value without affecting the budget. - Speaker 2 is developing a separate product and has registered the domain “HelmBOS.” The aim is for their “main guy ACE” to autonomously build the product for future clients. - Both speakers agreed to connect to discuss their respective projects (Adopto Hub and HelmBOS) to potentially integrate the two. #### Engagement with Believe First - Speaker 1 emphasized a strong connection to Believe First and its mission. - Michelle and Speaker 1 will tour all sites to speak directly with staff and identify ways to help. - It is important that Believe First does not feel like a “second tier” client. - The Believe First board is reportedly happy with their work, and providing a tangible, no-cost improvement like the BOS could strengthen the relationship. #### Training Series Development - Speaker 1 is creating a higher-level training series based on feedback from Kashif and others. - The series will teach how to use the tools and concepts discussed. #### Personal Updates - Speaker 1’s daughter was accepted to UC Merced and will start on August 19th. She graduates in two weeks. 🎓 ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Send out an IT survey next week to all staff. - [ ] Define development timeline, milestones, and rollout plan for the AbilityFirst BOS. - [ ] Set a meeting date and agenda for Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 to explore integration between Adopto Hub and HelmBOS. - [ ] Plan how IT survey feedback will be analyzed and translated into specific actions. - [ ] Speaker 1 and Michelle to conduct a tour of all Believe First sites. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. A timeline and specific milestones for the development and rollout of the new operating system for AbilityFirst were not established. > 2. The plan to merge ideas from “HelmBOS” and “Adopto Hub” is mentioned, but a concrete meeting date or agenda for this collaboration was not set. > 3. While an IT survey is planned, there was no discussion on how the feedback will be analyzed or what specific actions will be taken based on the results.
- Date
- May 27, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 He's still a player. I don't know how much longer, though. Speaker 2 00:00:06 Probably not much longer. I don't know. You don't know, but we just want to make sure he's aware and will support our statement, right? You want to make sure Doctor Barber agrees that there is a value that he's getting, right? That we already saved so much more compared to previous IT operations, and as time goes by it'll be even more, yes. But we won't be able to operate on these margins, correct? Right, given all of the teams that we're right and all of that. And we have to help those guys there, right? So it's just that okay. You know what's. Speaker 1 00:00:50 Actually I wanted to tell you the good news. Okay, He's getting a lot. Doctor B is getting a lot of good responses back regarding Gueston and Robert, both. Okay. The fact that when people walk in, they're so much happier. Robert and guests on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I am sending out an IT survey next week. Okay, I want to get the pulse on the entire staff. Um, so far everything's looking really good from that perspective. And then with the budget being down, It's going to be over one hundred k. If they go sweet So I mean I am trying my hardest to make a positive impact. Speaker 2 00:01:24 Positive impression and show them that. Hey, we have that dialed in. Okay, That's excellent. Speaker 1 00:01:29 And Then I am going to take your idea for our C- BOSS and I am going to make ability for our own operating system. Now that I have admin rights every system out there except their EMR, yep, yep, And do it on the Azure free tier because most of it can be done on Azure free as long as it's just operating system dashboards. Speaker 2 00:01:52 Okay, okay, and. Speaker 1 00:01:54 That's not going to bring them anything. Into play with the exception of API costs, but I need to calculate out. Right. Um, that part. Speaker 2 00:02:02 But, you can easily upgrade right from free tier to the next tier as needed, right? Speaker 1 00:02:07 Like just I tested it on my own system for one of your course. Speaker 2 00:02:09 Okay. Yeah, no, I love it. I love it. Okay. Speaker 1 00:02:12 I want because right now, we've got the camp upgrades going on, uhhuhum and with them coming off of ComDirect and us potentially taking on their VoIP system. Okay, they're they're getting happier and happier Sergio's happy with me. Awesome. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:28 If you could show them the right the business operating system that's AI driven, like that would be insane. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:38 So that's my primary focus for AbilityFirst First under the radar. Speaker 2 00:02:41 Right, right, right, Right? And then just start to show like you start to build it in parallel to what they're doing. And slowly start move things onto it. Yes. Right where and it adds intelligence and productivity gains on what happens there, That's insane. I am trying to build C-BOSS, right, into its own product, right? But actually I just registered the domain. It's going to be called Helm B O S. So HelmBOS, right? So that's going to be the name of the company and the product. I didn't put AI in it because I want to. I just want to say that's a helm business operating system. It utilizes AI but I don't want it to be AI everywhere. Speaker 1 00:03:25 You like your cell phones, Speaker 2 00:03:27 So I think I will want to be able for ACE, right? My main guy to build the product for all future clients autonomously, right? Like that's the kind of the goal. So that's what I am thinking about. I am very close to actually sit down and spend time with you and show you everything that I've done, right? And then look at what you've done. And then marry the two and see okay, what can we do? Speaker 1 00:03:56 Yeah, that'd be awesome. Speaker 2 00:03:57 So so just I am cool, Speaker 1 00:03:59 Yeah, cause I am building adopto hub, which I haven't been announcing on my blog. Okay. And it's been it's where adopto inbox came from. Speaker 2 00:04:07 Okay, okay, I love it. Yeah. Yeah, we should totally connect and discuss. Speaker 1 00:04:11 Um also right now, after feedback from Kashif, um and a few others, I am building out a training series. Um I am going to use. A lot of the stuff that I talked about today, and build a higher level training series on how to use. And then, With the exception of what I am giving over or what I am going to let Coateson, Give That over to you and let. Speaker 2 00:04:38 It stay put. Let me just quickly. Speaker 3 00:04:60 Hey, do you need my keys, Kevin? Yeah, did you need my keys? P. Speaker 1 00:05:13 2. In the in the library? Here. Oh okay. Um this is my head. P 2. And when you come out of the elevator and you're goingum down the ramp, not down the steps, but down the ramp side. Just go down. It's a blue, navy blue Mazda CX nine. Just hit the button it'll it'll beep. I'm not sure if. Speaker 2 00:05:39 This breadth just gotten old and not useful or or it was just in the fridge. You're. Speaker 1 00:05:50 Having a little breadth with it? Speaker 2 00:05:51 Well, I want to change the breadth. Oh, thank you. Speaker 2 00:06:01 Healthy breadth, yeah. Speaker 1 00:06:03 This is very hard. It's hard, Speaker 2 00:06:07 Looks very hard. Speaker 1 00:06:09 But I've never seen a gold pocket knife, And I have a lot of pocket knives, Speaker 2 00:06:13 Because I am country and I am neutral to Trump when this thing says Trump twenty twenty six So. So this is ain't no joke. Let me put this to warm up and actually uh. Speaker 1 00:06:26 If I could give you some country advice, Wrap your breadth in a moist paper towel when you heat it up in the microwave. Speaker 2 00:06:35 But I am not putting it in the microwave. Speaker 1 00:06:36 Oh, okay. Speaker 2 00:06:37 I am putting it in a toaster oven. In a toaster oven, yeah, yeah. I am anti- microwave guy. Good. Speaker 1 00:06:45 I am trying to be anti- microwave, but I have a teenager. Speaker 2 00:06:49 You know how it's very easily solvable? Yes Get rid of the microwave, And once you do that, There is no way, Speaker 1 00:06:58 But to I was close until the apartment came with it built in. Yeah, okay. Speaker 2 00:08:33 We can give them certificate, right? As long as we wipe out the data. Yes. Yeah. Why, don't you just uh just give them uh something Crimson IT wipes their data and that's your certificate. What's the difference between us and them, right? We just need to make sure the job gets done. For sure. Okay, in four minutes my breadth will be ready so. Speaker 1 00:08:59 Oh speaking of uh teenagers. Mhm. She. So, she got accepted to the UC Merced. Speaker 2 00:09:04 Yes, yes. Speaker 1 00:09:05 We take her up on the twenty second or nineteenth of August. She graduates in two weeks. It's brilliant! Speaker 2 00:09:14 Amazing, right? Like, isn't it amazing? What a transformation, right? And at UC Merced! Speaker 1 00:09:18 You've seen her from the beginning. Speaker 2 00:09:20 Jesus! Like if you think about the impact, right? Like it's truly transformational impact. Speaker 1 00:09:29 Yes. Ignore the fact that she took that picture in my bathroom, But this is her graduation outfit. She's so excited. Speaker 2 00:09:35 That is so amazing. Speaker 1 00:09:37 She is she is absolutely a blessing. Speaker 2 00:09:39 That is so amazing. I am sure right that she's uh remember how she wasum like I guess any child who went through such trauma, right like how she was, So unsure and right and lost and look. And now now it's a yeah person who's graduating from here. Speaker 1 00:09:57 I know, I can't wait to do this again. Just because I know what it takes and what's right, Right? So with Sharp, no, with Believe First. Sorry, They had that mini crisis yesterday with the I nine s. And I spent most of the night trying to get that fixed. Okay. With Believe First, I think this is going to go a long way with their board. Right now their board from my understanding is happy with us and that's coming from Sean. But if we can give them something. Speaker 1 00:10:29 Tangible, it's not going to impact the budget. I think it's going to take us a little bit more than where we were. Speaker 2 00:10:34 You know about the business operating system, right? Yes, yeah, yeah. For sure. I think if you could show right the structure that you're building really the boss for them, right? And it's all at no additional cost and it utilizes AI. And it does X, Y, and Z. So literally, what I did with Claude, right? I had him interview. I had him write an email to so I interviewed CEO of Oro Concierge COO and their main guy, right, who is like the one who handles everything on the ground. Speaker 2 00:11:28 And then I had Claude analyze, right? So I did via the Teams. So then I downloaded a transcript, right, the DPP file, fed it back into Claude, had it analyze it. And then I said, "Write me what we can do for these guys, " but above all, tell me what only AI could do, which humans could not based on what we're building. And, it gave me the list and I just had meeting with Scott. And he was like, this is incredible. So you want to do something. Speaker 2 00:11:59 Right, where you will analyze what is their current most important thing. That right, come up with a list and then come back and say," This is what we'll do." Yes, Speaker 1 00:12:12 In fact, Michelle and I are going on tour next over this next couple of months. Okay. Now that she's got her new HR manager in and she's not doing as much the daily content, She and I are going to all the different sites and actually talk to the people on the ground, say, What, is it that we can do to help make your life better?" Sweet. Speaker 2 00:12:29 I love it. I love it. Oh, that's amazing! Yeah, you definitely want to stay engaged with Michelle, yes, right? Because she made it clear she feel and then she replied back. I am sure you've talked to her right and said hey, I mean this is what I mean. But, it definitely was with her that they became a second tier, and we don't want that to be there like they could be not sexy, but they are still. It's so important. I tell everyone when I talk to you, you are most important in my most beloved part, and I am not lying right now. You are right now. Tomorrow it's going to be someone else, right? Yes, Speaker 2 00:13:06 But you want them to definitely not feel left out. Speaker 1 00:13:12 And I really love Believe First and what they do. I like Sharp Right, but Believe First is close to my heart. Speaker 2 00:13:20 Perfect Perfect okay. Speaker 1 00:13:22 I met one of the kids open for potential adoption at Claremont a couple years when I went back. And I was like, you know, my next kid may come from this area. So something I want to keep right. And, then they're moving into a little bit more of what Sharp does as well. That's on their business strategy goals for twenty twenty seven So. They've got growth in twenty twenty seven. Speaker 2 00:13:45 They just need to get through this year this year. Okay, sweet okay, Awesome. Alright, darling. I'm gonna grab my bred. Thank you so much. Speaker 1 00:14:08 Yeah, But they have my keys. Oh, um, I'm gonna go steal some more stuff. Speaker 3 00:14:28 Uh- huh. Speaker 1 00:14:32 Uh, to some some of our members of both and ability services. Yep, yep. Someone goes, they better not ever fire you because I'm going to be. Speaker 4 00:14:46 So upset. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:15:04 I'm not sure if I really wanted my clothes at the house, or if I was just still going to take them with me. And that's worth it as well. Uh, especially when you're using it for the napping and stuff so much. But I will leave that here. Okay, yeah they have my keyss. Yes, I need some sleep. You need what? I need some sleep. So they had. Speaker 1 00:15:35 They had someone come in and say," I am not from here." Speaker 3 00:15:49 And they realized that all of the top authors were from. Speaker 1 00:16:30 Oh No. Let me see what I can do. Marriage cover to work out. Yeah, I saw your e- discovery message. Uh, and so were you just like, Speaker 2 00:16:38 I mean, Is everything labeled i- nine or i- nine? Or were you able to find everything pretty easily? Speaker 1 00:16:43 I used the. I downloaded a sample. Speaker 1 00:16:47 And they were. Speaker 3 00:17:32 On June seventh, we want the ability for seven. Speaker 1 00:17:35 My wife and I will be there as well. Uh, grandmother, and she's constantly with them. And my best friend can't go. So I was like, let me take grandma instead. Now do you have a new kid? Not yet. Not yet coming soon? Coming soon We're being patient. I need to get through it right now. Speaker 3 00:18:11 Well, It was good to see you. I still want to connect with you at some point. You have a good day, which is rare, I'm sure. And I did get the speaker presentation. Speaker 1 00:18:28 From the email that was sent to me. Oh, I'm going to send you more stuff. Yeah, yeah, I need. Speaker 1 00:18:38 So we can make it. We can lay down this second row. Uh, yeah. Okay, you got my peace? Just hit it twice. Speaker 3 00:18:52 Make noise when that's when you're making your move? Yeah, we already kind of decided to move stuff around. We were making executive decisions. Speaker 1 00:19:18 Delivering good news and bad news. I think over a hundred thousand on the budget this year for SCHARP. Oh, okay. There's a handle here. You just push it forward towards the you yeah, okay. Yep, And then you push down, but although the child's seat might be a little uh, there's a lever underneath. Speaker 1 00:19:47 And now push up and down. There's a little on it. Yeah, my kids. My kid refuses to uh put things back where they found them. Speaker 1 00:20:28 I have will. Speaker 1 00:23:25 Thank you for my pillows back.
07-07 Meeting: Workforce Capacity, Onboarding Automation, Network Standards, Inventory Control, Finance Tools, Client Pipeline, Vendor Expansion, Litigation Holds
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-07 11:31:05 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Pete] [Speaker 2] [Olivia] [Vlad] [Chris] [Mike] [Speaker 5] [April] [Sergio] [Speaker 8] ## Meeting Notes - Workforce capacity and skill coverage for large accounts - Concern: Reliance on the same few experts (Emil, Charles, Chris, Vlad, Gabby) is unsustainable. - Actions considered: targeted training to close gaps, selective hiring, and a vetted third‑party bench for occasional needs. - Priority: Define gaps, training priorities, and criteria for augmenting with external partners. - Productivity reporting and use of Nilear - Background: Nilear has validated time entries and surfaced productivity issues, including a past disciplinary case. - Value: Strong for time accuracy and activity visibility when entries are correct. - Offer: [Speaker 2] can provide an overview in a future session. - Automating user onboarding - Problem: Manual onboarding/offboarding is cumbersome, costly, and sometimes padded; instances of 10–12 hours logged raised concerns. - Plan: Reframe as “Identification of onboarding solution” (Phase 1) to automate parts of user onboarding. - Collaboration: Olivia owns the rock across this and next quarter; [Speaker 2] volunteered to help with automation, recordings, and process improvements. - Next step: Olivia to schedule a meeting with Pete and [Speaker 2]. - Sales engineering standards and network audits - Objective: Standardize customer network setups and implement validation. - Approach: Create SOPs for basic equipment setup and a compliance check process. - Execution: Security team to run quarterly audits; implement standard templates. Coordination between Pete and Vlad. - Inventory control on construction sites - Issue: Received items are not always tracked; time is wasted searching for gear. - Goal: Implement stronger inventory control processes for received items. - April’s operations improvements - Building automation (Phase 2): Finalize spare counts per client; monitor rollout and clear roadblocks. - Admin cross‑training improvement: Enhance SOP documentation and cross‑train all admin members; avoid confusion with data “backup.” - Client agreement master: April to become SME for client agreements this quarter. - Billing validation status: Invoice reconciliation and MRR tracker in place; reduces overbilling and duplicates. - Follow‑up: Pete and April to discuss in their 1:1 this week. - Finance updates and tooling - Cross‑training continuity: Completed coverage for Jane; Q3 focus on coverage for [Speaker 8] during leave. - Cash flow forecasting: Enhance manual model with a simplified long‑term projection. - PTO tracker automation: Automate PTO requests, calendar, and balances primarily for non‑US; consider centralized view with TriNet data for US. - History: Prior PTO automation effort stalled; [Speaker 2] can quickly restart with existing code. - Urgent client support: WSG Gaming - Urgent request from Ross regarding a VM/VMware (possibly F5) issue. - Pete to engage Matthew and Amal; Olivia to alert them. - Customer pipeline and account health - WSG Gaming: Proposal out for managed security; interest reported; Anzor pursuing. - Foothill Family (potential client): Compiling data; target report by Thursday, 2026‑07‑09; aim to present by Friday 2026‑07‑10 or early next week. - Avalon: Unpaid for June as of 2026‑07‑07; verbal promises unfulfilled. Actions: No on‑site meetings, no new projects until payment; continue support only. - AFE: Unpaid and unresponsive; Pete to explore stopping software payments via Sherweb without causing damaging service removal. - Vendor stack expansion beyond Meraki - Rationale: Meraki lead times and limited functionality vs. needs of larger enterprises (e.g., Foothill, WSG). - Direction: Consider Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper; expose team and clients to a broader stack. - Next: Meeting with Fortinet rep at 12:00 after this call; Mike to coordinate with Pete. - Litigation holds and leadership changes at AbilityFirst - Confidential: Termination of Chief Program and Communications Officer; another department head resigned with 48 hours’ notice; investigations forthcoming. - Impact: [Speaker 2] running litigation holds and Microsoft investigations; alerts expected for security team; attorneys involved. - Stability: CEO and key leaders remain; organizational adjustments tied to 2027 strategic plan; projected 15–25% growth; increased HIPAA/DMS rigor due to healthcare partnerships (e.g., Sharp). - Resourcing: Slight increase in tickets due to onboarding; [Speaker 2] to visit sites on Fridays; potential quoting for 2027 planning; aim not to exceed hours. - Credit card on file for client subscriptions - Policy: Stop using company card for client direct subscriptions (except Microsoft via Sherweb); require client‑provided cards. - Status: Outreach to clients underway to update cards on file. - Team capability planning - Mike’s directive: Department leaders to identify capability gaps and clearly state needs to reach target state; keep requests simple and explicit. - Upcoming leave - [Speaker 8]: Expected leave around the week of 2026‑10‑24; will complete September entries before leave. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Olivia to schedule onboarding automation kickoff with Pete and [Speaker 2]; define Phase 1 scope - [ ] [Speaker 2] to prepare a future overview of Nilear for the team - [ ] Security team and Vlad to define SOPs, audit criteria, and quarterly audit plan; implement standard templates - [ ] Vlad to draft an inventory control process for received items on sites, including receiving, labeling, and reconciliation steps - [ ] April to finalize client spare counts and monitor Phase 2 building automation rollout; remediate roadblocks - [ ] April to lead admin cross‑training SOP updates and schedule sessions - [ ] Pete and April to review billing validation and MRR tracker in their 1:1 this week - [ ] [Speaker 2] to restart PTO tracker automation; coordinate scope and milestones with [Speaker 8] - [ ] Pete to coordinate urgent WSG Gaming support with Matthew and Amal; Olivia to notify them - [ ] Anzor to continue pursuing WSG managed security proposal and report status - [ ] Team to prepare Foothill Family report by 2026‑07‑09 and schedule presentation by 2026‑07‑10 or early the following week - [ ] Enforce no new Avalon projects/meetings until payment; continue support and monitor collections - [ ] Pete to consult Sherweb on safely removing AFE software from billing without destructive impact - [ ] Mike and Pete to attend Fortinet meeting at 12:00 and report outcomes - [ ] Continue client credit card collection for direct subscriptions; replace company card on file - [ ] Department leaders to submit clear capability gap needs to Pete ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Onboarding automation scope and tooling are undefined; decide target systems, measurable outcomes (e.g., hours reduced per onboarding), and a phased timeline. > 2. Network standardization needs documented owners, timelines, and audit criteria; define acceptance standards and reporting format for quarterly audits. > 3. Inventory control lacks a system choice (e.g., spreadsheet vs. asset tool) and process for receiving, labeling, and reconciliation; assign responsibilities and SLAs. > 4. PTO tracker automation requires a clear architecture (non‑US system, US TriNet integration, data flows) and security/privacy review; set milestones and owners. > 5. Collections risk for Avalon and AFE remains high; establish a formal credit/collections policy with thresholds for service suspension and communication templates.
- Date
- Jul 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Okay, Here is what we need because just like you said, Mike, The the big customers that we're talking about having or potentially adding whether it's these or others down the road. If we don't have a bench, We can't keep going to Emil and Charles and Chris and Vlad, and you know Gabby or whoever all the time, depending on what projects we have or what we need right. It can't always be the same people over and over more so. Um, we've got to have somebody that maintains that. We've got to like we got to look at this as a as a team and say, where are our gaps and what do we need to train for To? Your point, Mike, And what do we need to go and hire for? Or do we embellish by having a third party that we can lean on for certain things that we don't necessarily have enough work for, but we might have work for occasionally, and we can reach out to them when when need to. So. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Those are the things that, you know, we need to have alternatives for. So okay. Sorry, that was a that was a total tangent off of worker productivity reporting, But I, but I totally agree with what Mike brought up and I know there's hands. Vlad, did you have anything more? Okay. And Chris Chris do you have your hand up? So. Speaker 2 00:01:27 Before what we used to do was we would pull those reports from Nilear. And, the reason why I am bringing this up is because and this was slightly before Mike's time, um, We used Nilear to find one of our previous sales employees sleeping on the job. And we were able to prove it through Nilear. Uh, Nilear is really good at Time as long as people are putting their timing correctly, and it's really good at seeing what people are doing. And I can give you guys an overview not today, but a later date. But, it's really good to find out who is actually being productive and who's not being productive, and who's embellishing and who's not embellishing. So just a heads up that that is a very good tool. That was one of the reasons why we opted for that tool, and we have used it in the past to make those judgment calls. Okay. Speaker 1 00:02:21 So Olivia, can I add one more to yours that you can delegate? And I know four is a huge workload, but we talked about automation. I just want to start the automation of onboarding. And and when I say onboarding here, this is user onboarding. So we may not automate onboarding, But we need to understand how we can automate part of the onboarding process because this this manual. garbage we're doing on a on a regular basis is just cumbersome and it's time consuming, and it's costing us way too much money. So, Speaker 3 00:02:59 Yeah, that was on my list of rocks. I was just scared to have four of them, but I'm going to work on it regardless. I think it probably is going to take some time. It might take this quarter and my next quarter. Speaker 1 00:03:12 And and that's that's okay. And maybe I, you know, identification of of onboarding solution is how we should phrase this. Identification of onboarding solution, maybe that's maybe that's the, that's the right part. Yeah, phase one or something but. Speaker 2 00:03:30 Can I volunteer to help Olivia with that? Speaker 1 00:03:32 I am all for it, but what I'm trying to get to Chris is, And and we can take this offline, but when Olivia and I and I think we showed Mike some of this, We're going through a couple months worth of of metrics for one of our clients. We saw on boardings that were that, that had ten and twelve hours logged to one person for onboarding and offboarding, and it was absolutely eye opening and ridiculous. So. Speaker 3 00:04:03 Well, Chris, I need to schedule a meeting with you and Pete about this so. Uh, we can talk about it. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:11 I just I want to help with the automation, and the recordings can help you automate. Um, so that's that's what I want to help with just to make. And I think it's a combination. Speaker 1 00:04:20 I think it's a combination of inefficient process and padding. Honestly, I think it's both so All right? Okay Vlad. So we talked about sales engineering process and I thought I think we should add standardization or or what are we calling it? Um. Speaker 1 00:04:39 Customer network standard, standardization review or something should. Speaker 4 00:04:46 Be like an SOP for basic setup of X Y Z equipment and then a process to check it afterwards. Speaker 1 00:04:55 Because it will get well I I think I think this covers both of those, right? Because I think you set the standard and then you start the process of validation. Okay. So it's going to be covered by. By security team, we're gonna run quarterly audits with the network stuff with the. After we're gonna implement standard uh template. Then I guess you and Vlad can get together and figure that out. Yes, sure. Yeah, yep, that's perfect. And did you have another one, Vlad? I can tell him. Speaker 5 00:05:37 Inventory control. Because for example, with my on my construction site, when we receive items, I don't feel they're always tracked correctly, and then we just have to scatter around look for things. So, that's one of the things that I really definitely want to include in my work. Speaker 6 00:05:58 Sorry, I only heard control. What was the first word? Speaker 5 00:06:02 Inventory control. Inventory control. Speaker 6 00:06:05 Uh okay. Thank you. Yes. Speaker 1 00:06:15 The firewall we just sent back for CT homes. Speaker 3 00:06:22 Literally just a week too late. Speaker 1 00:06:24 Yes, that's what I said if we'd known two weeks ago, we could have just kept it and avoided all of this like, We could we could not have worse timing like seriously did not have worse timing? We lost. Whatever anyway okay anything else Vlad I think that's probably enough. Um okay April. Speaker 6 00:06:49 Um, okay. So on my end uh, phase two building automation. We need to finalize the number of spares that we need to. Assigned to each client, and also as soon as I roll this out, I want to monitor if there is everything will run smoothly. And there is no any roadblocks that uh we will encounter um moving forward. So, that's one. And for number two, adding back a process improvement. So uh right now, I've noticed that we need improvement to the current backup process for adding products. That includes the S O P documentation and. Speaker 6 00:07:27 Also cross training each admin member so, you know we we can have a solid backup process. Speaker 1 00:07:33 So when you say backup process, is that cross training? Can you talk about? Speaker 6 00:07:37 Yeah. So every everyone of us will know how to. Speaker 1 00:07:40 Can, we call it admin cross training improvement or something because backup process I, it makes me think of like data backup. And that's my that's my that's my issue, not yours. It's totally because of me, but it's be it's it's because of on the door. Speaker 6 00:08:01 Okay. Yeah, okay. And also number three is client agreement master because Pete, I realized during the few months that I was training with Marvin and just building my foundation in managing the admin team. So each quarter I'm thinking I could train for to be the subject, Matter expert for each admin core function, so I would like to start with client agreements. So. Speaker 1 00:08:28 That's great. Can is now is, are we where we feel like we need to be for client billing validation? Yes, Speaker 6 00:08:43 So far with the invoice reconciliation that we've started. Uh, With you and Tony remembering the M R R tracker that we are sending to monthly. I think that's one of theum safety net that we put in place to, you know, Uh make sure that we're not overbuilding or double charging the clients or there will be no duplicates anymore. So okay. Yeah, it's all for me. Speaker 1 00:09:08 Remind remind me when we have our one to one this week, April to let's talk about that one. Speaker 7 00:09:14 Okay, I'll do it. Speaker 1 00:09:17 Okay, Elisa. Speaker 8 00:09:21 Um, for finance, so number one is eighty barrel a month and continuity. Basically, that's the finance cross training. Uh, we're done with the training for Jane's uh task coverage. So uh for the third quarter, I'll be doing the training to for coverage of my task when I file for a leave. Ah, number two, cash flow forecasting. So we'll be enhancing our. Our current manual cash flow forecasting for a, a with a long term projection model or a simplified ah projection model, And then number three, I am suggesting for a PTO tracker automation, where we automate the PTO request PTO calendar. And. Speaker 8 00:10:09 Tracker to improve accuracy, efficiency and real time balances reporting. Speaker 1 00:10:15 So that is is that for everyone or is that for non US. Speaker 8 00:10:21 Um, For right now, my priority is for the non US, because for the US employees, we do have Trinet. Uh paid time off tracking, but I am considering the possibility of centralizing or importingum reports from Trinet. For centralized view. Speaker 1 00:10:43 Okay. And I know we started to do something with this and then it, I know, Chris started to do something with this, and then it went to Anzor's son, who started to do something with this, and then it kind of came off the rails, and then kind of just went nowhere, I think. So it sounds like we need to start start this one up again. Speaker 2 00:11:05 Okay. Anzor had put a pause on it? But I still have all of the coding and stuff to spin it back up pretty quickly. Speaker 1 00:11:15 So Ross just sent a note that said he needs some help ASAP. I don't know what he needs help with. Who? Can we get. Speaker 1 00:11:36 I'm gonna see if Matthew. Olivia, I'm gonna forward this to Matthew. Um. And. Speaker 7 00:11:49 Uh. Let's. Speaker 1 00:11:54 See, I don't let me see, hold on, I'm sorry, this this just came in, but it's urgent. Let me let me handle this really quickly. Speaker 1 00:12:23 Let's See if Matthew and Amal can help. Um. What client is it? Pete? This this is for this is for WSG Gaming. Okay, Speaker 3 00:12:34 I guess they changed their name now, huh? Speaker 3 00:12:38 Okay, I'll send them a heads up that you're sending them an email. Speaker 1 00:12:48 It's a VM. Sounds like it's a VMware issue. Uh, but could be F5s. I don't know. I don't know what the issue is, but sounds like they need he needs some serious help. Speaker 1 00:13:08 Okay. Uh, okay. I think we're good with with our ROCs. All right, so let's go back to go to IDS and let's add one more um, Let's add one more quick uh customer update for me and I'll. Just give a quick status on a couple things. Speaker 4 00:13:38 I mean, I'd like that vendor expansion. That was something Jason was working on before he left. Speaker 7 00:14:15 Oh, I'd like to add one. Okay, Speaker 1 00:14:31 So Chris, you want to start with the leadership changes at Ability First first? Speaker 2 00:14:35 Yes. Um and guys everything that I'm telling you right now needs to absolutely remain confidential. Um, So, just a quick heads up on that. Um, Last week, they terminated. Well two weeks ago, they terminated Jeremy, who was the chief program and communications officer. So, he is the guy that was ahead of all the programs at Ability First. He was in charge of all the fundraising, all of that and they terminated him for cause. Um there. There were some issues. I I know a little bit about what was going on. I had to participate in it prior to me being out. Speaker 2 00:15:12 Um, with that, There was some other issues where the head of LL Frank uh submitted his resignation and only put it forty eight hours out. Um, and that happened last week. And, there is some concerns there are going to be some investigations happening in regards to um the second person. So Anton, a quick heads up for you. You're going to see a lot of alerts coming through from me because I'm going to be running uh, some litigation holds. And some investigations within Microsoft, so you guys will see that I already started that today. Logged in COP1, so just make the team aware. But with that, There may be some other people leaving the organization within the that are head of departments within the next couple months, based on what happens within that investigation. Now, that being said, Ability First is on stable ground. CEO is staying. So Sergio is great. Speaker 2 00:16:10 Sean is staying, Carl is staying. They're bringing Lana up within the organization and she's fantastic. I love working with her. Um, and so that's going to be really good for Ability First. However, This is going all the way up to the board level. And with that, we're going to be making certain changes coming through um as it as it comes back to the strategic plan for 2027 Now. With all of that happening, they're trying to put the right people in the right seats. Um and with that, they're going to have some growth next year, some massive growth. Um so they're looking at anywhere from fifteen to twenty five percent in growth, bring in new departments. They're going to they're working with Sharp um and starting to work on mental health aspects and bring in therapists and doctors uh from that organizational standpoint. So their HIPAA requirements are going to get more stringent, DMS is going to get more stringent things like that. Speaker 2 00:17:08 That's happening, so I want to make you guys aware of that. Um, They are going to be pulling a little bit more of my attention over the next two quarters, but not where we're going over in hours, but just more strategic planning, which is what we wanted in the first place. So I want you guys to be aware of that. Over the next six weeks, which Anton I cannot thank your team enough for this getting Sharp ahead of schedule on the security aspect is actually positioning me better. So that I can handle and get more into the weeds with Ability First. So, with that, I am going to be visiting sites, probably on Fridays to work with the team, To get in with the program, directors and others to work on different strategic initiatives. And we're also going to look at bringing AI into Ability First. So, The reason why I want to let you guys be aware of that is Pete, you are going to see if I am not available, you might see some more hey I need terminate this person now. Speaker 2 00:18:06 Um, I do have a list of people I am putting on litigation hold. They cannot be informed of that because we are going to be investigating. Um, But I want to make you guys aware of this because you might hear some of this coming through. Mike, I know that you are my backup on certain things with Ability First unofficially. Um, I might be bringing in for more quoting and stuff that won't happen for twenty until twenty seven. So it won't get approved and won't be purchased until it's twenty seven, but we might queue up some quoting and stuff like that for them. So I want you to be aware of it, Olivia. They may increase tickets just slightly, but it's going to be more from the onboarding. So within that, I am trying to automate the ability for a Scrum board. So that's going to be happening in the next couple of months. And in April, there might be some months where I just reach out to you and say, "Hey, excuse the over twenty hours if it's under five." Um so okay aware of that. And then Anton for you is mostly just you are going to see alerts because I am going to try to handle what I can myself. Speaker 2 00:19:05 Uh, without trying to add more to your team, but it's going to be investigation stuff. So we are going to have attorneys coming in. So, just heads up for all of you guys. Speaker 4 00:19:16 Okay. Okayum I'll keep mine short, we only have ten minutes. So um technical ability I just want to state to the entire team and look at we're the leaders of each department um identify where we need to be. And even though we're not currently there yet, make sure you articulate to Pete or. Anyone else, what we think we need to get there. We need to just call it out and identify it, so that we know what changes we need to make. That's why we keep it super simple. Speaker 1 00:19:52 Okay, real quick from a customer update perspective, Anzor is still tracking with WSG Gaming to see if they we have a proposal out to them for a security managed service. Anzor's still pursuing that with them. I think they're interested, so we'll find out what they come back with on that one. That's a potential large one. The Foothill Family, potential client, We are finalizing and compiling the data that we have assembled and intend to have a report ready for them, hopefully by Thursday. Speaker 1 00:20:34 And, hopefully, we'll be able to present to them by Friday or early next week. Those are the two, large opportunities on the horizon. We'll see what happens and what comes out of those and we'll go from there. The the other thing I just wanted to let everybody know and I don't really understand what's going on. But with Avalon, met with them in person a couple weeks ago, went really well but. They haven't paid us for June, and it's already July seventh. And they've given us the verbal thing saying, "Yeah, I told them to pay you forty thousand dollars on, you know, June twenty sixth or something." And I've asked now twice what's the status, and I've gotten nothing since then. So here we go again. So I don't know. i've i've asked I've asked that we don't send Ryan on site any longer. And Mike, if you've told. Speaker 1 00:21:29 No more meetings. I appreciate that we're not going to stop supporting them yet, but no more projects, no more anything until they do something. I'm tired of hearing," Oh, we're going to be in a better financial position at some point," and blah blah blah. It's just like pay us at least the minimum. So okay, so that's the latest with that vendor expansion. Speaker 4 00:21:54 Yeah, just another quick thing we have to, Um, Expand the number of products that we use to support our customers because right now, especially with Meraki, the lead times are just killing us. And so we need to be bringing in, in my opinion, more large corporate business technologies. Meraki's considered SMB. Right? Because it's just easy to deploy, but they're really it's minimal. Its functionality is is low compared to other products. So um this is coming from the account management side. So I'll let the technical team decide what we go to but. Speaker 4 00:22:25 If we're going after the foothills, the WSGs and these other like large organizations, they they don't use Meraki. They don't use this type of equipment. So we need to start practicing with our clients having a wider vendor stack. Speaker 1 00:22:39 Yeah, We either need to go to something like a Cisco or a FortiGate, or you know, Juniper or something, something bigger that, that we can can expose our team to and expose our customers to I think. That's like a true Cisco solution or true Fortinet or something, right? Speaker 4 00:22:57 Yeah. So we have a meeting after this, so I'm just letting the team know. Speaker 1 00:23:03 See what comes out of that one. Speaker 4 00:23:04 Yeah, Pete, I'll run through you, but yeah, Speaker 1 00:23:06 You'll have to if you want to be then that you can. So we're meeting with uh because Jason was going to be in it, but he's he's not now. But we're meeting with the supposedly the Fortinet rep. To see what they can offer us. It's right after this at noon. Speaker 4 00:23:26 Yeah, so block focus is getting around Friday. Speaker 1 00:23:29 Sure, no problem. You can listen in if you like or not. I'll forward it to you, and you can call in and listen in or what? Okay, Uh also, by the way, AFE, just for the record, we're gonna. They still haven't paid. They haven't they've gone radio silent on us too. Um I am gonna try to cut off their software. As soon as I can, so we'll see what happens with that. Because we're paying for their software and they still haven't paid us, so now I'm going to stop paying for their software. That might shut down their email and everything else, but I don't want to. I don't want to have it where it removes everything for them because that's that's like damaging. So I got to talk to Sure Web and find out if we just stop paying what's going to happen, but um, I'm going to see what we can do to remove it from our account. So yeah. Speaker 6 00:24:19 Details, send Jen a bit link from Sure Web later. Speaker 1 00:24:22 So okay. Credit card on file for client subscriptions. Speaker 6 00:24:26 Um, this one's uh, I think I just want to reiterate this one because I think Anzor already shared this that we should no longer be using the Crimson IT card forum subscriptions, except of course, for Microsoft licenses or anyum subscriptions that being managed through Sure Web. So since we're not marking up the use of our credit cards, and we're not. Eating anything, by uh by our clients using our credit cards. So moving forward for any subscriptions or direct subscriptions, Uh we will be requesting our client to provide their credit card info, so we can set it up. Um so. So I thinkum. Speaker 1 00:25:07 Should we go back and ask our clients for that now or not really? Speaker 6 00:25:11 Yeah, I think when Anzor mentioned thatum Christi startedum reaching out to clients to. Provider credit card. So I think he already startedum changing changing the card and file so. Okay. Speaker 1 00:25:28 Okay, does anyone have anything else? And Alere, just for everybody's information, when are you planning? And I know, everything's up in the air, of course, depending on everything. But when when are you scheduled, when are you scheduled to uh to be out? At this point, somewhere sometime in October, I think right. Speaker 8 00:25:51 Uh yes, sometime in October. Uh the estimate is sometime in the week of October twenty fourth. But uh I guess I have to take an earlyum leave, so as but I willum complete the September month entries before filing my leave. Speaker 7 00:26:14 Sure okay Okay. Speaker 1 00:26:19 Anybody have anything else for the team for today? Okay, well thank you all. Have a wonderful week. Thanks for everything you're doing. Let me know if there's anything you need from me. Have a great week. Thanks. Speaker 6 00:26:36 Thanks everybody, guys, bye guys, bye.
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07-06 Meeting: Cybersecurity Assessment and Vendor Involvement
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-06 14:30:10 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Overview of Fairfield’s Cybersecurity Assessment and Vendor Involvement - Fairfield is undergoing a cybersecurity assessment tied to a potential investor. - The assessment is a data discovery questionnaire based on NIST version 1. - Baker Tilly is performing the assessment; Fairfield has completed the questionnaire and evidence submission. - A final closeout meeting will include vendors to address targeted questions. - Crimson IT is identified as a third-party provider involved in provisioning. - Most questions will be handled by internal IT (Speaker 4 and Nick Boudrom); vendors may receive 1–2 questions. - No live audits or document pulls in the meeting; it is Q&A based on an Excel questionnaire. - Speaker 2 sent the questionnaire to Christi with relevant questions highlighted. - Christi confirmed receipt and availability after schedule adjustments. - Conclusion: Vendors will attend a one-hour Q&A session to confirm previously provided information. - Topic Title: Areas of Concern and Sample Vendor Questions - Focus areas: cybersecurity policies/procedures, payment policies/procedures, incident response, BCP/DR, secure email configs, MFA setups, managed services agreements. - Questions flagged for third parties include: - Use of outsourced cybersecurity/IT service providers (Crimson IT included). - Existence of formal agreements/contracts with third parties. - Vendor assessment/evaluation processes and review frequency (annually or upon renewal). - Data protection practices: handling Fairfield data, copying/uploading to systems/cloud. - Awareness and clauses for incident breach notification and vendor-related breaches. - Certifications/accreditations (ISO, SOC 2) and in-house cybersecurity training. - MFA presence and response to forensic incident/breach. - Conclusion: Vendors should prepare concise confirmations aligned with the questionnaire. - Topic Title: Logistics and Preparation for the Closeout Meeting - A one-hour multi-vendor call will finalize the assessment Q&A. - The Excel sheet contains all material; vendors will receive copies to prepare. - No over-the-shoulder checks; all policies already provided. - Christi stated their team handles such assessments routinely. - Conclusion: Preparation involves reviewing highlighted questions and readying brief answers. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Review the Excel questionnaire and highlighted vendor questions before July 8, 2026. - [ ] Attend the one-hour Baker Tilly closeout Q&A meeting on July 8, 2026. - [ ] Confirm the existence and details of Crimson IT’s agreement with Fairfield (term and review cadence). - [ ] Prepare statements on data protection practices and breach notification timelines. - [ ] Provide any relevant certifications/accreditations and training practices. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Exact breach notification timeframe from Crimson IT to Fairfield was not specified; define SLA (e.g., hours/days). > 2. Clarify whether Crimson IT copies or stores Fairfield data on its systems or in the cloud, and under what controls. > 3. Confirm current certifications (ISO, SOC 2) and provide documentation or attestations if applicable. > 4. Validate the vendor review frequency (annually or upon renewal) and identify the owner responsible for these reviews. > 5. Ensure MFA configurations and incident response procedures are documented and aligned with Fairfield’s policies.
- Date
- Jul 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:14 Hi, Christy. Hi, Alex. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm good. Speaker 2 00:00:23 Kids just waiting for uh he's to join. Speaker 1 00:00:27 Okay, I'm gonna go off camera. It's my first day back in office in over two weeks Oh. Speaker 3 00:00:36 Welcome back. Speaker 2 00:00:42 Probably had a busy day, huh? Speaker 1 00:00:45 Very busy day. Speaker 2 00:00:49 Well, thanks for taking a little time out for this one. No worries. Shouldn't be long. Shouldn't take long. Speaker 2 00:01:44 Alright, he'll be joining here in a second. Speaker 4 00:02:05 Hi, Jesus. Hello Good afternoon, everybody. Speaker 1 00:02:11 How's everything going? Speaker 4 00:02:14 Doing good. Doing good. Good. Got uh, you sharing my screen here? Okay. Got this moving. Opened. Speaker 3 00:02:29 In out there. Speaker 4 00:02:37 And can everybody see the screen? Speaker 3 00:02:39 Yes, yep, Okay. Speaker 4 00:02:42 Well, we'll keep this short and sweet. Basically, Fairfield is going through a cybersecurity assessment. It's a data discovery questionnaire based on a NIST version one framework. Okay. And, this is in relation to a potential investor that is looking at Fairfield as a partner, and they requested for an audit be performed on Fairfield. Uh, The company by the name of Baker Tilly is the one that's in charge of performing the assessment. Um, Fairfield already completed the assessment, provided the evidence and completed a questionnaire that was provided by Baker Tilly. But as part of the closeout project for the assessment, they do want to have one last meeting with the vendors included. Okay. Um. Speaker 4 00:03:39 That being said, um. Fairfield uses third party, uh, cloud applications. Right and uh. I know that your company is part of an important process, which is the provisioning process for Fairfield. Um, the the areas of concern are the cybersecurity policies and procedures, payment policies and procedures, incident response, BCP and disaster recovery, secure email configurations. MFA setups and managed services agreements. So, all the data policies have been provided already. Okay. There is a survey also tied to this, which is basically a thirty question survey. And from this section right here, not all of it I think it's relevance to Crimson IT. There's just a couple questions that may be floated your way. Okay. Speaker 4 00:04:38 The majority of the questions will be basically fielded by myself and Nick Boudrom. But, the few that are related to third parties are flagged with a third - party vendor section. Are easy, like for example this one, right? Does your org leverage the support of a third - party outsourced cybersecurity and / or IT service provider? That case, Crimson IT is one of them. Okay. Then if yes, is there a formal agreement contract in place with the third party? And I know that we do. Yes. Um, another one would be if a third party IT service provider utilized, Are they assessed or evaluated to confirm that they can provide the necessary expertise to assist the org as needed or meet terms of their agreed upon services? How often are these reviewed? Speaker 4 00:05:36 Have a formal review process in place as part of the ongoing vendor management. In this case, we answered uh yes, there's an agreement and it's reviewed annually or or upon contract renewal. That's that's our answer. But again, they they may ask the question of do you have an agreement? How long have you worked Fairfield? Um and also questions related to these questions. Uh sections. For example, how does how did. Does your company protect Fairfield data? Do, you copy data onto any systems uploaded to the cloud and questions of that nature? Okay. Just to assure Baker Tilly that Fairfield is a serious partner, and it takes cybersecurity very seriously, there's not going to be any blatant omissions or negligence on Fairfield side. Yes. Okay. Speaker 4 00:06:32 That that's basically what we're looking at. So another question would be like, for example, third party vendors, right? How are you becoming aware of vendor related breaches? Are you aware of the contract clause related to incident breach notification? So in this case that would be for like if Crimson IT were to be breached or a cyber event. Um, how quickly would they notify Fairfield? Yeah. So it would be Kind of like one of the questions that could potentially be asked because the majority of this will be answered just by internal interview IT staff. And if there's any clarifying or complimentary questions, then those make it fielded to vendors. Okay. Pretty much there's going to be a lot of vendors on that call, So the likelihood of any one vendor getting more than one or two questions are very low. Speaker 4 00:07:32 Just an FYI, And it's all going to be related to the the material that's in this Excel sheet. Okay, gotcha. That being said, We can make sure you get a copy. Yes of this with the answers that we provided. So that you can prepare and be ready for Wednesday. And that's pretty much the extent of it. I mean, it's just closing out the assessment and uh, They may ask a question like, Do you have any certifications on your side? Are you ISO certified or SOC two or any type of trade certifications or what they call them accreditations. Speaker 3 00:08:15 Okay. Gotcha. Speaker 4 00:08:18 Accreditations. They may ask about your cybersecurity training in house, how that's performed often. Do you have an MFA in place? How would you respond to a forensic incident breach, as stuff like that? That's already in this questionnaire. That's all. Not a problem. That's pretty much it. Yeah, it's pretty easy. I mean, It's just confirmation of some things they want to go with, make sure there is vendors on the same call. And just like spot, check a few things and close it out. So. Speaker 4 00:08:55 That being said, We can we'll send you a copy so you can review the questions and prepare for Wednesday. And that's pretty much it. Any any questions for me or Alice? Speaker 1 00:09:08 Okay, no questions. We do this all day every day. Speaker 4 00:09:13 Yeah, I mean it's nothing out of the ordinary. Speaker 2 00:09:15 I just uh thend I just emtheiled you the the copy of the questionntheire thend highlighted the uh the questions ththet he wthes referencing. Speaker 1 00:09:23 Okay, gotcha. Speaker 2 00:09:25 And you did receive the invitation from Baker Tilly? Speaker 1 00:09:28 Yes, I had to rearrange some of my schedule, but I should be there. Okay, thank you. No worries. It's my first week back from being off for a couple weeks. Speaker 4 00:09:46 You came back and that's already an audit in the way it's okay. Yeah. And, we don't expect this to be any really that difficult because there's going to be a lot of vendors on that same call. We just have one hour. Yeah. There's, there's not going to be any type of over-the-shoulder thing like go check this, check that, pull up your policy. None none of that is in scope. Everything's already been provided. It's more of a I have a question regarding this, How does your company do this or is ask and answer based on the questions? Speaker 4 00:10:21 On that Excel sheet. Speaker 1 00:10:23 That'll be easy. Speaker 4 00:10:26 Okay, well, if there's anything else, I think that's it. I mean, okay. Thank you. Okay. Speaker 2 00:10:32 Perfect. Alrighty with thank you, Speaker 1 00:10:34 No worries. You guys have a great week and I'll talk. See you guys on the call All right? Thank, you Thanks Bye-bye.
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07-20 Weekly Meeting: SCHARP Account, System Management, and Client AI Training
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- > Date: 2026-07-20 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] ## Meeting Notes ### SCHARP Account Update - Christi met with SCHARP’s executive leadership; they’re pleased with progress. - Contract finalization is pending a reply from Dr. Barbara. - Current computer count: 394. - They are paying $8,000/month for an additional resource. - The contract will be revisited if the computer count exceeds 400. ### System and Inventory Management - Robert is onboarding the remaining 47 machines using a new inventory sheet. - A report from the week of July 12, 2026, indicates active machines in RMM. - Confidence in the counts is about 80% due to remote employees not regularly using their laptops. - Christi will send an all-employee email asking staff to power on laptops for updates to improve tracking accuracy. ### Client Training and Development - **Carney Properties:** Christi has three 2-hour generic AI training sessions scheduled for the week of July 27, 2026. - **AI Training Content:** - Christi is developing client-facing AI materials, including content for Claude and Copilot. - She is tailoring training with client-relevant examples based on their typical documents. - She will share a prompt cookbook and other handouts with a client. - **Video-Based Training:** - Christi is producing training videos in Camtasia Studio covering AI, Microsoft apps, security, and MFA. - This responds to client requests for pausable practice videos. - She plans to work on these in the evenings from home. ### Personal and Administrative Topics - Christi discussed mid-August time off to take her daughter to college on August 19, 2026. - She chose not to take the full week to stay on top of work. - Christi will dedicate the rest of today to the "abilITy" account. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to send an all-employee email asking staff to power on/use laptops for updates to improve tracking accuracy. - [ ] Christi to focus the remainder of today on the "abilITy" account. - [ ] Christi to share the prompt cookbook and handouts with the client. - [ ] Christi to send Sergio a link to her client training materials. - [ ] Christi to create training videos in Camtasia Studio (AI, Microsoft apps, security, MFA), working on them during evenings from home. - [ ] Robert to complete onboarding of the remaining 47 machines using the new inventory sheet and confirm RMM reporting aligns with the July 12, 2026 report. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Finalization of the SCHARP contract is pending Dr. Barbara’s response; no follow-up timeline was set. > 2. It remains unclear whether Carney Properties will adopt Claude or Copilot following the generic training. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Christi/Pete weekly 1:1 (mis-titled by Plaud as SCHARP weekly): SCHARP ELT satisfaction + contract answer pending from Dr. Barbour, 394-computer count vs 400 threshold, ~80 machines in office inventory, August time-off replan (taking Dom to college 8/19, reducing planned week off), training video production (Claude/Copilot/Power Automate) for clients. Covered by existing check-in entry 880285.
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- Jul 20, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hi. I am good. I got through my weekend, and I came back to work to escape my weekend. It's, I came back to work to escape my weekend. A kid turned eighteen, Dom turned eighteen yesterday, so we had a very busy day. Um, I i thought I put in for my time off for uh mid August, and apparently I thought I did and didn't. Um, but it's taking her to college, and I think we had talked about it. Um, I had asked you in advance could I take the entire week off? But given how much I've been out, I don't want to take the entire week off. Um. Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:57 Uh, it got changed August nineteenth. She had to reschedule her stuff. Um, so I was going to take off that entire week, But looks honestly, I don't i I don't feel like I am catching up like I thought it was. And I want to get things back on track. Um, And I don't want to take time off in the middle of me, trying to get things back on track. SCHARP is going really well. Uh, just had a meeting with their executive leadership. They're all happy, things are moving the right direction. They're trying to get an answer. Oh no, they're satisfied. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:38 Yeah. Three eighty. Yeah. Mm- hmm. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:03:02 It was an email, and in the ELT meeting just now we actually talked about it. Um, And so he wanted to make sure that or they wanted to make sure that I knew that um they knew it was happening. They're going to keep on Dr. Barbara to uh reply to me and um get that answer for us as soon as possible. See if I can find that one. Speaker 1 00:03:42 A hundred and twenty. Uhhuh. Speaker 1 00:03:60 Uh. Forty seven, uh. I had all that pulled up the other day. Let me. Speaker 1 00:04:14 We were three ninety four computer count. Yes, they're paying eight thousand a month for the extra person and. Speaker 1 00:04:44 Yeah. Sorry, I made an executive decision that one. I said, I'm sorry, I made an executive decision that one. I was trying to protect your golf. If they exceed four hundred is how it was going to write it. Then we then we would uh revisit. Speaker 1 00:05:52 Okay. We did not um they wanted to what we talked about is they they brought it up. They wanted to assure me that they are aware, and they're going to try to get me an answer as soon as possible, so that I can get a contract over to him and sign. And that came from two differentum team members that weren't, they weren't together. When each one told me, there were separate conversations. Speaker 2 00:06:26 If that makes sense. Speaker 2 00:07:43 Okay. You. Speaker 1 00:07:57 Want me to pull it up real quick for you? I know how to get it fast. Speaker 1 00:08:13 I like, you know, I do that every now and then. I'll say ServiceNow instead of ConnectWise. I just spent way too long in ServiceNow as an admin. Here you go. Uh, the last invoice is right here. Speaker 2 00:08:46 Let me make that smaller. Yeah. I will. Speaker 1 00:09:10 Yes, I will. I will actually spell that out. Speaker 2 00:09:56 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:10:03 And Robert, since Robert has a new inventory sheet, He's actively working on trying to get those last forty seven machines into um into the system. Yes. So this is a report we all three worked on last week, Um and so this is what we had in RMM as of this of 7/16. These are the active machines that have been seen and logged me in in the last 30 days. That's still not in RMM. And so this is the total count, which is very close, I mean to what my previous numbers were. The one thing we're seeing is people out in the field will pull their machine out and log in once every couple months. So we're trying to get that part. That's the part where we're a little iffy. Okay. Speaker 2 00:10:58 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:11:12 Okay. And I mean, we're pretty confident in those numbers where, I'm gonna say we're about eighty percent confident, just because of the remote employees that aren't utilizing their laptops as much. Speaker 1 00:11:27 So, I do have an all employee email. I got to send out from IT this week, And I'll put an ask in there for anybody that's not using their laptops that much to please pull IT out this week and make sure updates are getting installed. And that'll get them back online. Yeah, so I am going to do that. Um, I am going to spend the rest of today concentrating on abilITy because they need love and I've. Need to concentrate on them this week. So, everything is good. Um, yeah, I have Carney Properties training next week. I have three sessions wITh them, two hours piece and then I've generic AI. So IT's generic AI because they haven't decided on what systems they want to go to. Speaker 2 00:12:33 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 1 00:12:40 So what uh? No, I am not going to do it for you right now. Um, What I am going to do though is I am going to send you over. Um, I am gonna send you a link so that during your free time, you can take a look at it. Um, this is where I keep all my training for clients andum so. AI tools right here, my Claude, my Copilot. Ignore "Hey Gen Training" because I am taking that out and then my multi-tool. So Carney's, AI University and what I wrote like I did this one started building this one out for them at the end of June. Not yet so Jason and yeah. Speaker 1 00:13:41 Yes. Yeah, we. We have we have a running email going back and forth. Um, I'm, he currently asked me to push some things through RMM and I'm doing that for them and I'm going to reply back this afternoon once it's completed. And uh, he's I promised him I'd send over today as wellum some of the the prompt cookbook that I created and some of the handouts that I created. So. Speaker 2 00:14:45 Yeah, now. Yeah. Yes. Speaker 1 00:14:56 But, we didn't even get ten minutes into the training before she interrupted, and the training went off the rails, So you know, I didn't even get a chance to follow, and everything they asked for was in my original training with the exception of two things, so, Um, cause it was already they were looking for ways of, you know, the one ask that came later much later was project management. The rest of it was how do I do email and scheduling with Claude? And you know things that are already in my normal training. So I think my biggest problem was I didn't include samples of the of the information that's more relevant to them. So I used examples but not. Speaker 1 00:15:42 Relevant to them examples. So rather than showing how to create a document, what kind of documents are they creating? Does that make sense? Speaker 1 00:16:46 Three different groups because not everybody could attend the same segment or it's the same training date. So, we're doing three across the board and then um from there, uh if they want I've promised them an extra two hours um if they want some additional training on either Claude or Copilot once they make a decision. So um right now. He's been fairly happy with us. He's just more happy that I've been more accommodating with them pushing around the schedules. So, um, now that being said, Something I am actually doing and I am working on at night is like the Claude training right here. So here is DTla's training. Um and then I rebuilt some things here based off of their comments today, Um because I wanted to make sure that i just improve what my process and all of this. So i was working on that this morning. Speaker 1 00:17:39 Trying to rebuild, but you can see like t here is my default training series. I have my decks, my scripts, all of that. I am going to build these in the Camtasia Studio editor that I bought. I sent you one; it's like the first pass of editing. Did you watch it at any point? The video I sent you, the training video that I created. Speaker 1 00:18:10 I think it was on Nylear. Um, but I'm going to here's what I'm going to create through Camtasia. So basics prompting different roles like H R, finance, uh grant writing things like that. And then um what's new in A I? And so this is what I wrote a couple weeks ago. I'm gonna start building these trainings soon and I'm gonna see if I can find they made an animation for me years ago for Crimson. Im gonna see if i can find that to make my opening. Speaker 1 00:18:40 My opening stuff for it. And, it won't take me very long because this stuff I've done in my sleep in the past, So I'm trying to do these at night from home, where I have the setup already set. If you're good with it, and then that way you guys can put them wherever, but I'm doing it on Claude. I've got Copilot. This the default one for them. Um and it's just based on prior training based on different things with different clients. I am also creating them for not just AI, but Microsoft apps, security and MFA things like that. I think the one I did for you is Nylia. And then I've got a Power Automate that I am working on. This is the Power Automate that I started working on last week. So, um, I think that might help with some things because we have some clients that. Speaker 1 00:19:39 They don't do well with in-person trainings. They want videos where, and this has been mentioned to me multiple times, they want videos that they can stop, do some practice things, and then start the video. Which I 100% understand. People learn differently. So anything from you? I know this wasn't supposed to be a one-on-one but. Speaker 2 00:20:16 Okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:20:23 I doubt it will because we got eighty machines sitting in here in this office. Well, less than eighty, but'cause he's been working on them, but my last count three weeks ago was at eighty. So I don't think it's gonna go below. Pete, As always, you're amazing and I can't wait to see you in a couple weeks in person. So you can meet my kiddos. So.
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09-02 AI Training for Foundation Stalled by Lack of Specific Use Cases
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-  ## Core Synopsis The client is a teaching-focused foundation with a split tech stack (half Google, half Microsoft) and heavy alumni communications needs; the engagement’s leverage hinges on producing organization-specific AI use cases, but progress is stalled because the client has not provided concrete examples, and prior assumptions about “grants” were wrong. Training delivery is bifurcated: one custom session already executed and six generic sessions attended; the promise is tailored, name-branded content, yet the content engine lacks inputs, forcing the Trainer (Christi) to chase requirements and recalibrate scope from grants to communications and cross-suite workflows. The stakes are credibility and adoption: without client-specific scenarios aligned to their dual-platform reality and alumni outreach, the training risks being perceived as generic; with targeted examples, the program can demonstrate immediate utility across Google/Microsoft and unlock AI-driven communication workflows. ## Training Program Reality and Gaps - Engagement Context and Scope - The Foundation conducts educator training (principals, teachers) and manages alumni communications. - Tech environment is fractured: approximately half the staff use Google Workspace, half use Microsoft 365. - Training assets exist in two categories: one org-specific session delivered; six broad client trainings attended by the Foundation. - Current Constraint: Missing Use-Case Inputs - The Trainer is awaiting specific examples from the Foundation to tailor AI workflows; none have been sent. - A critical assumption error: “grants” use cases are irrelevant—the Foundation does not handle grants. - Content Direction: Cross-Stack and Communications - Plan is to architect dual pathways: “Microsoft-only” capabilities and “Google-only” capabilities, mapping AI-enabled workflows for each cohort. - Strategic emphasis is shifting to alumni communications, leveraging AI to draft messages in the authentic voice of stakeholders the Foundation interacts with. - Relationship and Risk Signals - The Trainer acknowledges a prior mistake and has apologized; sensitivity to stakeholder (Kashif) reaction remains, implying a need for clean execution and proactive communication. - Credibility is protected by delivering org-branded, non-generic content; risk is dilution if specific examples do not materialize. ## Action Items **@Christi** - [ ] Send a concise request email to the Foundation POC for 5–7 organization-specific scenarios (split across alumni communications, principal/teacher training workflows, and internal operations) to inform AI training content - [TBD] - [ ] Draft a dual-track module outline: “Microsoft-only AI workflows” and “Google-only AI workflows,” each with 3–5 concrete tasks (e.g., document creation, scheduling, data collection) mapped to the respective suite - [TBD] - [ ] Replace “grants” content with alumni communications exemplars; include guidance on capturing and fine-tuning stakeholder voice for AI-generated messages - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule a 30-minute alignment call with Kashif to confirm scope, examples delivery timeline, and expectations for the next custom session - [TBD]
- Date
- Sep 2, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Good morning. Uh huh. Speaker 1 00:00:32 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:00:47 Yeah. Yes. So they've participated in several trainings. I don't know if he told you that. Speaker 1 00:01:04 Yeah. Yeah. So. Speaker 2 00:01:14 Yeah. So for me, I feel good. Other than the fact that they hadn't sent any examples over yet, and I was going to send him a message later today and say, " Hey, heads up! I still need some examples of things you would like that's specific to your organization." But because they're because they're a teaching, it's a it's a foundation, and they do teaching. They work with principals and teachers, and and half of their staff is using Google, and half of their staff is using Microsoft. So I'm trying to combine their workforce i items to say, okay, for those of you that. Speaker 2 00:01:59 Who are only on Microsoft. This is what you can do. But for those of you guys who are on Google, here's what you can do. And then, so we're working through that. And then I I want to kind of talk with them about how a lot of what they do is communication with alumni. And so I want to work on how they could utilize AI for communications and using the actual language of some of their people that they got to talk to. If that makes sense. So other than that, I I keep using grants because I thought that they needed, you know, that they were doing talking about grants, and they told me the other day they don't do anything with grants. So that's not one I can actually use. So I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try to reach out again, get some more information. But I but again, I've already done one set of training with them, and then they've participated in six other training sessions that were. Speaker 2 00:02:57 Broad for clients, so, but their training is specific to them. It's got their name all over it. It's not going to be the generic training that they've already participated in. Speaker 1 00:03:11 So, Speaker 2 00:03:21 Yeah, yeah. You're welcome. Anything else from Kashif? Because I know sometimes he can be weird, and sometimes he's amazing. And I don't ever know. Speaker 2 00:03:42 Okay. Good. Because I apologize profusely for a mistake I made last month, and I don't know if he's still upset about that mistake. So I'm trying to. All right. Good. Yeah, it was an embarrassment on my side, so I I just want to make sure he's all good with that. So, all right, awesome, thanks, bye.
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06-19 Reasoning Note: Implementing GDAP and Enforcing Change Management to Address Operational Risks in Microsoft Administration
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-  ## Core Synopsis The organization’s Microsoft administration is operating with ad hoc access controls, weak ticket-project linkage, and inconsistent change management; the immediate leverage point is to implement GDAP with role-based scopes and enforce project/ticket hygiene to stop operational drift and security risk. Evidence: Olivia confirms help desk workarounds (VPN removal, Sinha gaps), shared credentials exposure, and bottlenecks if global admin is gated manually; Christi cites a completed Anderson cloud project with no attached service tickets/change requests and a PM visibility gap, plus earlier intentional deletion of stale AbilityFirst accounts. The stakes are systemic: without GDAP and disciplined change control, work remains invisible, audit trails break, L1/L2 autonomy is misused, and leads become bottlenecks or bypassed, creating security exposure and delivery chaos. We are committing to a governance upgrade: role-scoped access via GDAP, mandatory change requests tied to projects/tickets, and a short, practical training to close process gaps. ## Governance and Operations Reset: From Workarounds to Discipline - Access Control Reality vs. Risk - Status: Sinha rollout removed VPN; help desk cannot execute common L1 tasks through Sinha (PST creation, scripts, mailbox access). Techs default to “Sit Shared” and shared credentials. Anzor resists current friction; Olivia warns that revoking global admin broadly will just push password sharing and bottleneck pod leads. - Diagnosis: Tooling gap (Sinha capability limits) plus absence of scoped, traceable access results in ungoverned workarounds. Manual gating of global admin is not sustainable; it creates queueing and shadow practices. - Remedy: GDAP enables per-role, per-tenant delegated admin with auditability. This meets the dual need: restrict blast radius, keep L1/L2 functional, and preserve traceability. - Project Hygiene and Change Management Failures - Incident: Anderson cloud project was quoted, paid, completed, and exists in the Projects module; work and push tickets were not linked to the project, and no change request was raised. PM visibility was bypassed; Vince/Pete relied on pinging PMs instead of system signals. - Mechanism: Ticket-project linkage is optional in practice; change requests are frequently skipped; discovery of projects is tribal (few know where/how to find them). - Consequence: PM oversight erodes, reporting becomes unreliable, and audits are compromised. Delivery looks like “random acts of engineering.” - Resource Deployment and Role Clarity - Move: Robert and Gaston assigned to AbilityFirst tickets (remote-only) to build Microsoft system familiarity. Group chat pruning reflects turf/clarity enforcement. - Constraint: Onsite roles get interrupted, so tasks requiring precise timing fail; they gel well with Help Desk but need structured work that fits their environment. - Dialectic: Tool vs. Process - Thesis (Restrict global admin to leads/security): Increases safety. - Antithesis (Operational bottleneck and password sharing): Decreases velocity; increases shadow risk. - Synthesis: Implement GDAP role scopes + Sinha/on-prem or PowerShell pathways for required L1 actions; mandate change requests and ticket-project linkage to restore observability. - Political/Subtext - PM function (Christi) asserts authority to restore process discipline; Ops (Olivia) seeks pragmatic throughput and rejects performative security that breaks the floor. Resistance stems from fatigue with admin team responsiveness and unclear ownership. The leverage sits with a CEO-sanctioned governance change and a concise enablement plan. ## Action Items **@Pete (CEO)** - [ ] Approve organization-wide shift to GDAP with role-scoped delegated admin for all client tenants - [TBD] - [ ] Mandate “No work without ticket + project linkage + change request” for production-impacting actions - [TBD] **@Christi (PM/Operations)** - [ ] Draft and circulate the GDAP role matrix (L1 Help Desk, Leads, Security, PMs) with exact permissions per role - [TBD] - [ ] Run a 30-minute change request training covering when/how to raise and how to link to projects/tickets (include Olivia’s team) - [TBD] - [ ] Audit the Anderson project: retro-link all related tickets and create the missing change request record - [TBD] **@Admin Team Lead (Vince or Delegate)** - [ ] Configure GDAP across managed tenants according to the approved role matrix; enable audit logging and change tracking - [TBD] - [ ] Publish a one-pager: “Finding Projects and Linking Tickets” (screenshots/path in the company system) - [TBD] **@Olivia (Help Desk Lead)** - [ ] Identify the top 5 L1 tasks currently blocked by Sinha (PST creation, scripts, mailbox access, etc.) and document required execution paths (GDAP + PowerShell/on-prem Sinha if available) - [TBD] - [ ] Enforce ticket hygiene: reject or return any production-impacting work without a linked project and change request - [TBD] **@Robert & @Gaston** - [ ] Begin handling AbilityFirst tickets remotely; report weekly on Microsoft-related learning gaps to inform the training agenda - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 So here is what I did. Okay, okay, what you got? This one might make you happy. Hey, Speaker 2 00:00:14 Wait real quick. Back in May, did you delete a bunch of like over two hundred AbilityFirst users? Uhhuh. Or maybe not two hundred. You did? Yeah. Okay cool. Speaker 3 00:00:26 Yeah it was intentional do you Know. Speaker 2 00:00:29 Okay, yeah, yeah. June just said I was digging around related tickets and stumbled upon a bunch of accounts. Okay, I'll just let her know it was intentional. Speaker 1 00:00:39 Yeah, I got asked to do that by because they were old employees that we've been trying to clean out there for a while. Okay, cool. Yeah uh so I asked Robert and Gaston if they would be willing to help out on AbilityFirst tickets so that they can get used to Microsoft. Speaker 2 00:00:59 Ooh, Okay. I saw your message earlier about that, which I love. And then I think they were doing some Sinha training earlier today. Speaker 3 00:01:10 Yes. Yes. Speaker 1 00:01:17 I've been doing uh yeah, I've been trying to get them, uh some things. And so I asked them if they could just take on AbilityFirst tickets, but don't. Need them to go on site. Speaker 2 00:01:29 Okay, perfect. I love that. I figured you would. Wait, so is that what you did? Speaker 1 00:01:36 Yes, that's what I did. Speaker 2 00:01:38 Oh my oh, I do love when you do things. Speaker 1 00:01:43 So I, you know? And then we keep kicking people from because we have a group chat, and we keep we just kicked Sean from it Oh really? Yeah It was funny because we had added. Well, first off, we had a PE the other day. We had an issue with Doctor Parker, and then we added Anzor, and then we added Sean, and then we kicked onto Anzor and Pete. And now we just finally kicked out Sean. And the guys both the guys on our were like," Can you get rid of them?" Please they don't belong in our chat. I was like," Get rid of them." Can't he get rid of them? Speaker 3 00:02:22 That's so funny. Speaker 1 00:02:23 Yeah they're they're fantastic employees uh I think they're getting a little bored. Uh, it needs new stuff, But it's hard for them because you can't give them tickets that require them to call at a certain time because they may get interrupted because people walk up all the time. So yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:40 You know what they've been really I am impressed, how well they get along with the help desk. Like they like in the EOS, they are they gel very well. They do. They're fantastic. So that's great. Speaker 1 00:02:55 I will keep that one i i, I dread the day that I lose either one of them because I'm like, no, can't do this. We can't lose either of these two. Speaker 2 00:03:06 Yeah, I feel that. Also i I got in an argument with Anzor this morning. Speaker 1 00:03:13 Oh no, that's okay. I got frustrated with Pete about something you did yeah Well, I got mad at Vince, That's a whole nother story. Speaker 2 00:03:24 Oh, oh, about about uh Anderson. Mhm. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:03:30 Cause he said, well, I just reach out to the project managers before I have my my my review with the with client. I am like that's not sustainable for girl. You didn't reach out to me. Speaker 2 00:03:41 Yeah Well and George was like this. Anderson thing is there a project for it? Like I can't find any service tickets. I don't know where this is coming from or who is working on the cloud like the cloud project you know? And I was like, You're gonna have to ask Christi about it because I have no idea who's working on it. There's no project. I know that for sure. I know that there's no tickets so. Speaker 1 00:04:04 There is a project. There has been a project. Speaker 2 00:04:07 Oh, there is a project? Yes. Oh, it just wasn't quoted? Speaker 1 00:04:11 Oh, no, it was quoted everything It was quoted paid for all of that. Speaker 2 00:04:18 Oh really? Speaker 2 00:04:21 Oh no, I've been spreading false information. Speaker 1 00:04:24 And then I've been see seeing Vince on all the emails to say, hey, let's have a kickoff meeting. Speaker 2 00:04:30 Oh. Mhm. I see. So. Speaker 1 00:04:38 Yeah, I was I was livid because I'm like, you put an i told Pete about it today. I said he did all this work, did not put a service ticket behind it. Yeah Did not check on the prior. Projects or anything like that. Like I said, Pete, this is this is not sustainable. And then his uh his and Mike's only statement was, well we asked the project managers and that's not sustainable. He goes, yeah I know. Yeah So, if you go into the company right here and you go to projects, there's a cloud team setup project Wait. Speaker 2 00:05:18 Why did I not realize that you could find projects this way? I. Speaker 1 00:05:23 Had to show it to Vince the other day too. Speaker 2 00:05:27 Okay, that's extremely helpful actually. I should tell my techs that. Um, uh okay, well let me tell George that there is apparently a project. Who's the PM? Me? You are okay. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Yeah, so if you look under here under manager you'll see who the PMs are. Speaker 2 00:05:46 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. I would know this if I had been attending the It's okay. Speaker 1 00:05:56 The project is done. Speaker 1 00:05:60 Oh They pushed it out. He opened a ticket for it to get pushed out, didn't add it to the project ticket or anything Yeah. Speaker 3 00:06:09 I did I think I did convert it though. Speaker 3 00:06:16 Yeah, I got converted. Okay. Speaker 1 00:06:20 So, yeah, I was not happy. And no change request guy and so I did talk to Pete about that. He's like, yeah, we'll say your your training needs to be on change requests. I'm like you guys Yeah, Speaker 2 00:06:36 That's a good idea. Speaker 1 00:06:38 Yeah. So when I do the training, I'm going to say, okay, everybody listen up that includes Olivia Monti. I'm just I know you're gonna listen, but I'm just throwing you in there. Yes, because I need to say Monti. Speaker 2 00:06:52 Well, no me too. To be honest, also me. You know that I'm well, but like I don't know Can you can you also define Yeah yes yes. Speaker 3 00:07:05 I do exactly It's hand time Yes. Speaker 1 00:07:12 All the all the people who, You just keep not putting them in. Speaker 3 00:07:18 Yeah. So, oh man. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:26 I was not happy. Yeah, I said, people don't normally complain without any type of you know, suggestions on how we can improve, but I am complaining with no suggestions at this point. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:07:44 Oh man, that's funny. I feel like I am. I don't know. I am expecting a call from Pete as well. I won't lie. What did you mess up? No, I didn't. I mean, I didn't necessarily mess up. It's just because I was arguing with Anzor. And like you know it's Anzor. So like. Speaker 1 00:08:01 What were you arguing with Anzor about? Speaker 2 00:08:04 He oh my god. Christi here is no one who gets under my skin more at this company than Anzor now that Ed's gone, Anzor's right next, Person, like he was um, Well, so okay. So it also like Sinha, obviously, we rolled out Sinha. We got rid of the VPN, right? Yeah, but we're always finding like help. Desk people are always finding loopholes to, you know, not using Sinha, which like they're going to continue to do that because they can't do basic L one tasks, like they can't create PST. Speaker 2 00:08:43 Files, if they need to do um, if they need to like run a script or anything, they can't do that through Sinha. Like they can't get mailbox access um to the actual like account. Right? Like there is so many things that we can't do through Sinha. So they have to do it through Sit Shared. And then but everyone's always in Sit Shared. So like it's just I don't know. So Anzor was getting frustrated with it. And I was like well Anzor like let's. Fix the problem because, if Sinhaw worked as we needed it to, you know, Like if we had an on- prem version of Sinhaw that they've been telling us about, Then that would work, and we can, you know have we will have nobody have access to global admins. Everyone has to use Sinhaw. That's the only way that you could do it. Like I don't know he just he just we go around in circles Like. Speaker 1 00:09:40 Why not use G DAP like we intended on doing in the first place. I mean, Speaker 2 00:09:45 We could do that too. Like it's just he doesn't want. I don't know. I think he's tired of arguing with Anzor about it, But I said, like Pete's, the C E O like we need to convince Pete and all, you know, have your back, if like, if you wanna, let's change the system because it's clearly not working and he's like, well, I always have to like. Put in the napping team and nobody responds to me. It takes days for anyone to respond to me and, blah blah blah. I'm like, Oh my goodness, I don't know Christi. Speaker 1 00:10:23 Just Because if we could do TMS, that would save all these headaches. Know exactly who's doing what. Speaker 2 00:10:31 Yeah Like exactly Why. Speaker 1 00:10:37 Didn't we go for that? Because I don't think he knows how to do it, and I didn't have time. Speaker 2 00:10:55 So, I mean, we could make that suggestion, I guess. We could. I mean, Speaker 1 00:11:02 Honestly, i'm using my my own with cheetah;. I was able to do a lot more stuff. Get things completed, and I was using it all the time, and no one ever had an issue with that. But yeah, but with ability and SCHARP. And any client that I have to run a uh an assessment on, I don't use anything else. And no one's ever taught me how to use it. Yeah. No one has ever taught me how to use it. I've never used it. Speaker 1 00:11:38 I just use what I can. Speaker 2 00:11:42 Well, and and he complained about the admin team. They probably feel the same as like I don't know. I mean, he probably will say that he'll probably say otherwise, but like why not just do like a little? I mean, maybe he can even it probably takes so it's so quick. He could do it in the all hands meeting, you know? Instead of your training, we could do a synch on training. Speaker 1 00:12:04 Yeah, but last week we had to do uh. Speaker 2 00:12:07 Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this isn't happening next week. And I. Speaker 1 00:12:12 Do everything through PowerShell. Speaker 2 00:12:15 Wait exactly You're not gonna be able to do it. Speaker 1 00:12:17 Yeah But if I if everything was done by G DAP, I could do everything I need to And you know who does what? Speaker 2 00:12:24 Yeah And then not only that Christi, but so so he's like He asked Charl if we can, you know revoke access to global admins. Um, for everyone but the pod leads in Hoodoo and like the security team. And so I said, "Hey, I am going to pause you there because like they're still going to get access. Like our L ones need access, so then they're going to be sharing passwords," you know, not in a secure way. I guarantee like and they're still going to do the same exact thing. And now not only that, but now you are just going to bottleneck my leads. Speaker 2 00:13:06 Mhm. So anytime that a tech needs to work on a ticket, okay, well they have to go to the lead to get the global admin. It's like, that's not a good idea. It's not sustainable. It's not sustainable, exactly exactly Like sure in theory great idea, but like actually working it, like it just it just doesn't work. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:13:36 So. Sorry, hang on. Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:54 Anyway, so that's what I've been dealing with. I've got a small headache. Speaker 2 00:14:00 Oh no, at least it's Friday. Do you have any Are you. Speaker 2 00:14:05 You have any plans for the weekend, or you get to relax. Speaker 1 00:14:09 I got kids coming. Speaker 2 00:14:11 You got kids coming? Well, well not not in a bad way, but they're eighteen and up, so none of them. Oh okay. Oh okay. All right, Well, I'll, let you go. Then since you have a headache, I don't want to bother you too much with all my drama. Speaker 1 00:14:28 Yeah, but she brought bring that back up to Pete because that's going to be no way to do it. And. Speaker 2 00:14:36 Yeah. How does it work with G DAP? Speaker 1 00:14:39 So you can set levels, and you can say, okay, merits only has access to L one help desk admin role. Within any client. So. Speaker 2 00:14:55 I see, And then you can see when he makes any changes, specifically because it goes through G DAP? Yep. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:15:05 Okay, I'll make the suggestion. We'll see. All right. And that's like, that's free, right? We already have it all. Yeah, okay. Okay, noted. Okay, thanks Christi. Okay bye.
05-18 Weekly Meeting: AI Training and Client Report Generation
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-05-18 13:03:35 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Sergio] ## Meeting Notes ### AI Training and Report Generation - **Description:** - Christi led training on using AI tools—Claude, Copilot, and ChatGPT—to generate client reports. - She noted she uses her personal Claude subscription because her Crimson tokens are maxed out. - Christi explained differences between AI product modes: `chat`, `cowork`, and `code`. - She demonstrated Claude’s “co-work” feature, recently enabled for testing on the Copilot side. - **Conclusion:** - The training aimed to show the team how to apply these AI techniques across platforms to improve report quality. ### Identifying and Formatting AI-Generated Content - **Description:** - Christi covered how to spot AI-generated content; a common indicator is heavy use of bullet points, whereas humans tend to write in paragraphs. - She recommended tools like QuillBot and Grammarly to check for AI-written text. - She instructed the team to format reports to look less AI-written by using paragraphs instead of lists, except for step-by-step instructions. - A specific prompt was provided to instruct Claude to use natural prose, include an introductory paragraph, and limit bullet points. ### Best Practices for Client-Facing Reports - **Description:** - A key rule at Crimson is to avoid naming specific tools (e.g., use “ticketing system” instead of “ConnectWise,” “security training” instead of “KnowBe4”). The term “RMM” is acceptable. - Team members should always proofread and format AI-generated reports before sending them to clients. - Christi advised setting the AI’s tone to be “talking to” a person rather than “talking at” them to foster better engagement. This can be set in custom instructions. - She demonstrated creating a report generator project in Claude, saving instructions, goals, and example files (like brand colors) for consistent output. ### Demonstration of AI Workflows - **Description:** - Christi created a project “cheat sheet” for the Alere project using Claude’s `co-work` feature. - The AI was instructed to scan emails, documents, and meeting transcripts to gather information. - She showed how to generate a client email with a “Microsoft Minute” tip, including an image generated by ChatGPT. - Christi explained how she links SharePoint project folders to client folders to centralize data the AI can access. ### AI Agents and Customization - **Description:** - Christi has created 51 personalized AI “minions” or agents for specific tasks. - She created agents named after team members like April, Seg, Cheryl, and Becker. - She shared access to some of her AI agents (Hugo, April, Becker, Seg) with the team. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi will share her AI agents with the team (Hugo, April, Becker, Seg). - [ ] Christi to create AI agents for Gaston, Bogdan, and Sean. - [ ] Formalize the process for requesting company Claude access from Anzar and communicate it to attendees without subscriptions. - [ ] Schedule AI training for new team members Paula and Mary Carr; define their onboarding plan. - [ ] Follow up on Sean’s investigation of the Avalon alert; document status and resolution. - [ ] Clarify April’s Pax8 issue status and set a timeline for her AI training. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Paula and Mary Carr are new, but no specific follow-up actions or training plans were assigned to them during the meeting. > 2. Christi mentioned that Sean was investigating an alert from Avalon, but there was no follow-up on the status or resolution of that alert. > 3. Several attendees did not have the company's Claude subscription. A process for them to request access from Anzar was mentioned but not formalized. > 4. Christi noted that April was busy with Pax8 issues. The status of these issues and when April will receive her AI training remains unresolved.
- Date
- May 18, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:50 Hello. You're not the only one in here, Gaston. I just I was running a little bit late. Let's see who else joined. Robert said to record it, so I will record it. Christian and I know April's busy. Speaker 3 00:01:12 Let me add Christian. Okay, Oh, Christian is I think on lunch. Speaker 2 00:01:18 Oh. Could you add Sean? Yeah, I did tell him, he was one of the ones that need to be added. I'm going to add Julia. Okay. Uh, do you want to add Jason? And then we have two new people you can add. Um Paula and Mary Carr? Yeah. Speaker 4 00:01:44 Okay, let me add them. Speaker 2 00:01:46 And then I was going to try to find out. Hi Sean. Cameras on? Cameras off? Uh, camera's off. Sean, I wanted to add you because uh, some of this is in your realm that I was going to show today. Hi. Speaker 4 00:02:09 Everyone uh sorry uh just getting caught up what's the agenda. Speaker 2 00:02:14 So I'm going to be doing some AI training, but part of this falls in your realm, Sean. So I was going to I was asking if you would mind joining. Speaker 4 00:02:23 Oh, um okay. I'm just quickly investigating a alert forum Avalon. But yeah, I'm here. Speaker 2 00:02:31 You can just listen then that'll that'll be good. Um cool. Thanks, Let me see if Jason can join and then and then I'll explain what's going on. Speaker 2 00:02:46 It looks like Paula is busy at this moment. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:02:50 I tried adding her. Speaker 2 00:02:52 Okay. And Sean, can you see if Bogdan will join us? And then I'll explain to the rest of you guys what's going on in a moment. I'm not worried about Anton joining, Uh although he knows what's going on, so we don't need to worry about him as much. And April is working on. Pax eight issues. So and then so she will we will train her a little bit later. Hi Maggie. All right, Um so just a quick heads up, how many of you guys show of hands, raise your hands in the team's chat, how many of you have a cloud subscription through Crimson? Speaker 2 00:03:45 All right. 'Cause what I'm going to show you is part of Claude, but it is coming out to Copilot. And with ChatGPT, you can do something very, very similar. So I'm going to go in here. I'm going to use you, I'm going to show you guys using my Claude rather than the Crimson Claude, because at this moment, I with the amount of tokens that I have, I've maxed out my Crimson tokens and Ansor's completely aware of it. So just a quick heads up for you guys. Um, chat versus cowork versus code. Two and or three entirely separate things. Um, for the purposes of this team, if you don't have Claude, especially as I'm watching people come up. Uh Mary Carr I Hi my name is Chris You've not been introduced to me yet. Let me ask you a quick question. Hi. Let me ask you a quick question. What is your job? Speaker 2 00:04:41 Um, I am from the finance department. The country's people, and today is my first day. I knew today was your first day, But I just i was i could not remember what team you were going to. My has been buried in okay perfect. Hi Juno, Speaker 5 00:04:59 Hey, I am here. Speaker 2 00:05:01 Perfect, okay. So for all the new guys that just showed up a Maggie Juno Bogdan and Miguel, are you raise your hand? If you are on the company cloud, okay, no worries. So I am going to show you guys what's going on. If you guys want to switch over to Claude, Anzar will switch you guys to Claude if you'd like. So I am going to show you guys within Claude, But what I am going to show, you guys can be applied to other tools as well. So I asked Anzar today to turn on co-work on the. Speaker 2 00:05:39 On the Copilot side, so we can test it out with Copilot. But so I will often do this in CoWork, but you can do this in any of your in any of the systems. If you're starting if you're working on reports, How many of you guys here build reports and send those reports to our clients for them to read? In any tool. So I'm not just talking about you write the reports, but I'm looking at your going into uh, You're going intoum Network Detective, for instance, or you're going into another system and you're having the system build your reports. Segre, why is your hand not raised? Raising, raising. Julia, I know you do. Uhum Miguel and Bogdan and Sean, you guys as well? Yeah. Speaker 3 00:06:34 We did raise then. Speaker 2 00:06:35 Okay oh wait you did I just missed it. Speaker 3 00:06:37 Just dropped it again. Speaker 2 00:06:39 That's okay. I know Gaston does not as much, but he he's got the capability. So a lot of the times. What I'll do is I'll throw my reports into Copilot or I'll throw it into Chat GPT or I'll throw it into uh Claude and I'll ask the system to give me executive summaries. Now when we see these reports coming from you guys, a couple of things we want to note, We know it's written by AI. And that's the first thing we know it's written by AI. We are questioning whether it was fact checked, and there is a few other things we're questioning. So I am going to share my screen for now, but I am going to ask you guys, tell me how I know that something was written by AI. Don't answer that Jason you know. Speaker 2 00:07:37 And Segra knows how I know because I taught them on Friday. What would you say, Juno? Speaker 5 00:07:44 I mean, I think it's the font. I'm not sure. Like, I have a really bad time trying to determine what's AI and what's not so. Speaker 2 00:07:52 No worries. Bogdan, you want to take any guesses? Um. Speaker 3 00:08:03 I don't know, maybe some reference. I see there is one says AI project cheat sheet. Not sure. I mean, are we talking about the reports itself or just anything? Speaker 2 00:08:14 Any report or anything coming from a client that we immediately recognize is written by AI? Speaker 3 00:08:26 Not sure. Speaker 2 00:08:29 Sean, you want to take a stab at it? Speaker 4 00:08:33 Um, I think some of it might sometimes be too polished, you know, as you would expect from a normal normal user. I guess, but yeah. Other than that, I'm not too sure. Speaker 2 00:08:51 It is quite quite all right. So I use two tools if i If I'm questioning it, I will use two tools. I'll use QuillBot and i'll use Grammarly. I do pay for this; I paid for those for, Years because they've been around for years. Um, however, nine times out of ten, How I can tell if something was written by AI, it's got a lot of bullet points. Because AI will write things in a list. Speaker 4 00:09:18 Yeah, that's true. Speaker 2 00:09:19 Yeah, Whereas we write things in paragraphs. And like you said Sean, uh, we might have a misspelling word here there or some grammar issuesum but I can always tell. If something's written by AI with another person, depending on how many bullet points. Now, bullet points are okay, and I do write them. I'll show you an email I wrote to Commiab that I am working on building out. And here is when when bullet points work, and I did write this and I did not use AI to write this. Whereas when I am using. Speaker 2 00:10:01 Let's say Chat GPT. Hang on one second. I know, I know, you want to tell me things. Uh hang on. You may IT update. Nope, that's not it. Uh. Speaker 1 00:10:25 There you go. You can tell. Speaker 2 00:10:28 Well, I had this rewrite what I was doing, but you can tell this one um because it gave everything in bullet points. Each of my headings is listed in a bullet point format. So sometimes what I'll do is I'll go into Chat GPT, have it write something up, Then switch it to Claude because I already have a prompt made up for Claude. Um a couple of things you want to tell Claude to do when you're writing a report. Now, if you're writing a report over and over and over again, just a heads up, you can give Claude instructions That it will retain forever. You can give ChatGPT instructions, it will retain forever. And, you do these in the form of using GPTs or using them in doing projects, which in my chat you'll have projects here. So I'm in co- work on this one, just because I found that co- work context doesn't condense all the time when I give it like this one right here. And. Speaker 2 00:11:27 The cheat sheet I did. I did give it information on when it was supposed to do paragraphs and when it's supposed to do lists. And. This something that I was building out a lot of things as a cheat sheet. So this one needed a bunch of points. However, when I do training and I was having it write up my training, where did my training go? Right here. You'll see, a lot of this in paragraph format because I want it in paragraph. Unless it was something that needed to be spun up into slide formats. When I do when I have AI build for me certain items like policies, where's my policies? And if you've never seen the inside of my documents, SAG can tell you sometimes a scary place. Um. Speaker 2 00:12:23 When I'm doing my acceptable use policy, like this one right here that I built out for Sharp, everything is written in a paragraph format. And there's a reason why. If I go in here and ask ChatGPT, give me an acceptable use policy. Speaker 2 00:12:53 And bear with me. I have bandages on my fingers, so I can't type. All right, so I'm going to say, give me an acceptable use policy for a client. I need a template version that I can update with client names. What do you see about this one versus this one right here? Let me make this smaller so you guys can see it. Speaker 2 00:13:25 So here's the purpose. Yep, everything's in a bullet point. However, We don't want it in a bullet point because our company policies such as acceptable use policies normally written in bullet points. If, you think that they never get written in bullet point if they're the legally binding ones that companies use, Send me up a thumbs up emoji again, if they're never written in a bulleted list. Speaker 2 00:13:60 Okay, so let me show you a template from previous pre um pre AI. So the scope of the policy, the guidelines and requirements. This was something that was written with a CASA. Speaker 2 00:14:31 It is not a NIST document. A NIST document is going to create paragraphs. Make sense? Uh-huh. Okay, so for you guys, What I want you guys to think about this is when you're writing up reports and you want to say, hey, build me a report for such and such. I'm going to do that right now with you guys in Copilot or in CoWork. I'm going to say new task. Speaker 2 00:15:01 Give me something to use. You know what? I've got it. Choose a different folder. We're going to go with Alire. All right, now, couple things to note with Alire or with co-work, You've got to tell it, your end result before you tell it what to do. So I don't want it to type, I'm going to go mute for a second. For you guys so that I can dictate into here. Okay. I need a report for the Alere project. It needs to be made like a cheat sheet, giving me a schedule, project, a project plan. I need to know who are my primary contacts within Alere? I need to know what all their asks are. Speaker 2 00:16:01 To pull together this cheat sheet, I want you to scan my emails, Scan this document folders and scan meeting transcripts to learn what all needs to be done. All right. So I dictated over what I needed it to do and I'm going to go back into my meetings and transcripts. Pull that so that the system has it. Basically, what I said, I need a report for the Alire project. It needs to be made like a cheat sheet. I need to know who what all their asks are, put together this cheat sheet, And then I am giving it an extra folder where all my meeting transcripts are located. And so it's going to build that out now in. Speaker 2 00:16:59 My customizable feature under settings. My tone and style is to write in a balanced tone. Okay, There's I'm gonna give you guys this information so that you guys can see it. I don't like it to use list. So what I want you guys to do, I'm gonna put that, That is a prompt for you guys to use in Claude. And that's going to format it. We're going to use natural prose for most content. I don't want it to use numbered lists and bullet points for step by step instructions, only for step by step instructions. So, I want it to always have an intro paragraph, and I want it followed by clear steps. There is a point in here for client presentations. Speaker 2 00:17:56 And reporting that I want, you I want the system to lead with broad with board level topics. Um so these are how I write my reports, but one of the things I will do as I'm sending it over reports is I'm going to proofread before I send it out to a client. If I'm going to hang on, let me do this uh last six months. Okay. So if I'm going in here and i'm taking a look at everything. I'm going to read my report before I send it to a client. I want to eliminate, there's a few things I want to eliminate. One, by rule of thumb, Crimson does not tell our clients the tools that we use. We don't say ConnectWise, we say ticketing system. Uh RMM is a little different, but we do use the term RMM because even though ConnectWise is labeled as RMM, Rmm is actually a standard uh tool across the board for other things. So there's uh Datto RMM, there's. Speaker 2 00:18:54 Kaseya RMM, which there are two different ones even though it's the same company. Few things like that. So RMM is acceptable. We don't list No Before, we say security training. We don't say Avanan, we say spam protection. So, we don't list to our clients, the actual names of our products, and that's intentional. So, when we're sending out reports to clients, and we and we list things out. We or when we spell things out to our clients, we want to make sure that we read through it and format it first. If we're seeing over and over again, that AI is using language that we don't want it to use, we write it either into our projects or a GPT. Anything that we're writing out there um that we're using to do something over and over. So Segg, I'm going to borrow you for an example. Segg builds out uh reports pretty much weekly for clients. Speaker 2 00:19:51 And so, SEg is using Claude. So what SEg could do is SEg could go in here to projects and say, new project. And we're going to name our project. So report generator. And I'm going to give it uh project, what it what I want it to do, I'm going to give it goals, I'm going to give it clear instructions. Okay? So I'm going to take that prompt that I sent you guys, And I'm going to add that to the instructions. So bear with me, I'm going to mute you guys again so I can dictate. I want you to create a report based on the security reports I have added here. This report needs to be customer facing, and we do not name the actual products themselves. We name, for instance, we name Nobu before security training or. Speaker 2 00:20:50 We name Huntress as security software, etc. Any references to RMM can be left as RMM. Yeah, I'm going to paste in my prompt, But I'm going to scroll back up because sometimes my dictation will say one thing, even though I said something. It's completely different. Okay, so now I'm going to say create project. Once I'm in here, I have instructions I can add in here. So that prompt that I gave, I can also put it in here. Save instructions. Um, I can go in here and I can edit this, edit details. I'm going to take out my instructions here, because i keep forgetting Claude does it differently. Speaker 2 00:21:48 And then I can add example files. Now, I want to show you guys. What do you notice? For those of you guys who know our marketing formats, what do you guys notice about this? About this document right here? It's using crimson and it colors. It is using crimson and fonts. Yes, because I loaded those into the system. Speaker 2 00:22:19 Not only did I load these into the system, it also has Ability First, it has Sharp Colors, it has Downtown LA colors DTLA. So any client that I work on pretty regularly and I have their marketing brand, I load those in. If that makes sense. So I do load those in. If not, I just use the Crimson colors. In fact there are specific instructions in here that says, if you don't know which client use Crimson colors. Speaker 2 00:22:50 And when I go send this cheat sheet, I'm going to open this in Word. Hello. Because it had issues with this one. So what I do here is I'll go into my heading, I'll drop this down. Let's try this again. Drop this down. There we go. And then I'll go in here to the heading and I'll add the crimson, Logo. So that we have it. I'll do that in a moment, But you guys get that so that I can send these over to our clients and they're completely Crimson branded. And I do that intentionally because I want, I want it to look on brand. So does that make sense for you guys? I know some of you came in a little later. Speaker 2 00:23:50 So real quickly, that prompt I give you, add that to your instructions for Copilot or for Claude. You can do it for Copilot. You can do it for ChatGPT. I have the same instructions in all of them. So, if I go here and I go to settings and I go to personalization, here's my custom instructions. This one is a little bit more condensed because they don't allow as much wording in there. Um, another thing I'll put in where possible, one and this is something that's more at the executive level, So more Jason and myself, and you know, Bogdan and Sean because of the role they're in. I tell it that when I'm giving instructions or I'm writing an email, I want to talk. Speaker 2 00:24:47 To the person rather than at the person. Do you guys know what I mean by talking to someone versus at someone? Speaker 3 00:24:58 Is that like a more like a friendly tone or yeah, Speaker 2 00:25:02 More like a friendly tone. Um it. Speaker 4 00:25:04 Oh Susan from curated said don't talk tech to me so yeah. Speaker 2 00:25:09 Yeahum but also if I am talking at you, Bogdan, if I'm talking at you, what is the type of tone? What is going to make you not want to listen to me if I'm talking at you? Speaker 3 00:25:29 Is it like more directive? Jason, Speaker 2 00:25:41 You want to give a try for that one? Speaker 5 00:25:42 Yeah, if I'm talking at someone, I'm talking to them like I don't like they don't know. Uh, you know what the conversation that we're having. So I'm, I'mum. Um. I am uh making them feelum. Gosh trying to get, I'm trying to find an example. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:26:04 It's like you don't want their input. You're just throwing a bunch of info at them. And it's just yeah one one directional. Speaker 5 00:26:12 One direction. Yeah, one direction audience. It's uh uh yeah. Speaker 4 00:26:18 Like a lecture or something. Speaker 2 00:26:21 I mean, I will say this, the very first part of this meeting up until this point, I was talking at you guys because it's hard to engage you guys on something like this. However, where possible if I'm if I'm talking to a person, I'm engaging with them, not just delivering the information and I invite response and questions and input. Um, I also listen in response and adjust my tone based on how they say something or how they react. So I'm having more of a conversation with them. Um, whereas talking to a person, I'm not leaving room for feedback. I don't want to engage them. I'm going to ignore cues that they're confused or disengaged or um it's i'm it's also feels dismissive. Speaker 2 00:27:12 Or condescending when I am talking at a person, and so one of the things I try to do in my emails, even if it's a broadcast email, is adjusting my tonality. So, this is something I have had to learn, and I am still learning, and I am still not the greatest at them. But, the reason why I bring this up is when you are talking to our clients, even in an email. They're a lot more receptive to that than if you are talking at them. So For talking at them, which I am guilty of 100%, is and this one of my examples is here's how we're doing this. Just follow the process instead of hey you've expressed some concerns on this. I know this how this what we're going to do, but give me your concerns. So and then that way I can address concerns rather than just saying deal with it. Does that make sense guys? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:28:08 Having a teenager brings that out of you because then I have to tell her not to do it because she's bad about it. So I want you guys to think about that. I do add that into my prompts, and it does make a difference with our clients when you're saying, hey, I want you to write this as if you're talking to a person rather than at them and put it in your overall prompts so that it always remembers to do that because that's going to make a difference on client engagement. And then that that way it'll shift some of our clients' mindsets. Our clients have actually mentioned to me personally that, hey, we've noticed that change in you. You're not talking at us anymore; you are talking to us. So things like that, that we can do. It will adjust how you guys do it and people are going to notice. Okay? That's a big thing. So bring so when you guys are dealing with your prompts within. Speaker 2 00:29:07 Any of the tools you want to you want to bring that up. You want to tell it, you know, When I'm in here and I'm writing an email because I like using my terminal. Um, I need to build an email to oops To AF remind them about Windows updates week. Remind them that they may get text messages from Sergio. Trust me, it's not Sergio. And let's give one moose Microsoft minute. What is a good Microsoft minute that moose can introduce to AbilityFirst? Speaker 2 00:30:08 Do you know, you got any suggestions on Microsoft tips we can give the team? I have already done OneNote stickies. Nobody? Speaker 3 00:30:29 Microsoft tip? Yes. Speaker 2 00:30:38 I'm just. Speaker 3 00:30:39 Gonna have too many characters in OneDrive file path. Speaker 2 00:30:45 That one's actually going to be part of the training this week. We had it in the training last week, but I will add that to remind myself. I'm going to just do something cell- based because we do have Excel training this week. All right, so I pressed enter and I meant to. Speaker 2 00:31:09 Email. Conversational. Ah, typing is hard today. So, this is how I normally write this prompt and I hit enter to soup. Um, also remind them about Excel training. Speaker 2 00:31:49 All right, so now we're writing this up. Ask Gaston. It's hard typing today. He has seen my fingertips. All right, We're going to let this write, and then we're going to go back to our other Create, a Lear Project cheat sheet. I'm going to view it and there's the Lear stuff. So here's my primary contacts, my project team on our side, project schedule that we're working through. And I'm gonna have to double check the dates. Alear's ask and open items. That's all on Alear that they need to give me. Speaker 2 00:32:48 That's, for some reason, it likes to include ongoing service tickets that you guys are working on. I'm going to remove that. So I'm going to say, remove this. We're going back to this task while this ask is running. I think on so Paula and Mary Carr, just a heads up, I think very ADHD, I have five different conversations going on in my brain at once. So sometimes if I go off on another track, you'll just have to rein me in. So, we're going back to this document that I'm creating and I'm going to give it some updates. So bear with me. I want to remove the ongoing service tickets because they do not apply. And I want an executive summary at the beginning of the cheat sheet. Speaker 2 00:33:49 All right, And so one more thing I'm going to do is I'm going to check my project schedule. And that looks good. All of that looks good. And so here we go. I'm going to ask it to update. Now I'm going to go back and see Agnes is going to build it Oh, by the way, Maricar and Paula I have 51 minions, AI minions. Um, and they work for me and I know them all by name. Um, so Agnes is specially built to write the ability first uh emails. And in a second I'm going to give uh the next minion its task. Any questions about what I'm showing you guys so far? Speaker 2 00:34:47 Now, One of the cool things that I haven't shown you guys is something that Segrid does that I also do. And that is to push a bunch of files up all at once. I'm actually using CoWork so all of the files that are in here, Cowork can pull automatically because I chose my folder, which all the files are currently in. So when I sent it over the link to my meeting notes, I gave it, Here's the Kotsen. It already knew where to go for the Kotsen stuff when I was working on Kotsen for my meeting transcripts. I gave it this path to my meeting transcripts, and then that way I could, I didn't need to upload those documents. So, if you're working on reports and let's say you're building a report for an AI project, if I go in here and I go to AbilityFirst. Speaker 2 00:35:43 We currently have a project going on for Camp Pavika, and that's the camp upgrade. So all my documentations, everything that's in here for camp, all my photos photos that are in here are all in here. Plus, Segre, what else do we have for projects? Um. Speaker 1 00:36:06 You have the meeting. Speaker 2 00:36:08 Notes photos. Speaker 2 00:36:13 I have I have a project list in SharePoint. Right? Yeah, oh, yes. Yes. So when I'm building out a project timeline, I will most of the time I will have a link in my client folder, which I don't have it for um ability first, but I'm going to show you guys how to do that. So inability first I'm going to. Speaker 2 00:36:43 Go back to my Ability First folder and Camp Upgrade Project. Now, I'm going to go in here and I'm going to make a shortcut link. So, I'm going to go in here to my projects. I'm going to go to see all channels and Ability First. I am going to go to cabling infrastructure for Camp Peiwepika. And under shared, I'm going to grab a link and make a link. Okay, So now what I'm going to do is copy link or I can add shortcut to OneDrive. But for now what I'm going to do is I'm going to right click. Speaker 2 00:37:41 And I'm going to go to shortcut. And eventually it's going to add, all of a sudden got slow. But I'm going to paste that link into the shortcut. It's decided not to respond, but you guys get the idea. I will usually add those. This is still running. Let's see how this one got Agnes is still Setting up my email. Oh, there we go. Create a shortcut. I'm going to type the location. I'm going to say next, and I'm going to say project Now for for my team that's on projects, Sag, what is the importance of me building this shortcut here? What do we sometimes put in the in the shared location on Teams? Speaker 2 00:38:40 Oh, so that everyone can access it. Yes. But what's already out there for us? For us. It's usually the code. Speaker 3 00:38:54 Yeah, usually the code and oh some because sometimes we're using loop. Speaker 2 00:38:58 Mhm. Yeah. Yep, So that's how I sync all my data together now for me as a whole. Speaker 2 00:39:08 I can go in here to projects, go to general, go to shared. And I can do this because I do do this a lot already. I can add the shortcut to my OneDrive folder. How many of you guys remember that training when I showed you guys this about a year or so ago? None of you? Sadness. All right, Add Shortcut to OneDrive. It's now in my files. So if I go into my folder here. Speaker 2 00:39:40 I'm going to just open up a new one, and I go to Christie at Crimson IT. Now you guys will see clients, SOP, weekly time, operational leadership. Oh, it's not there yet. I got to give it time. It'll be there. But I'll have a folder to projects and I can go from there. Make sense? Use, when you're doing these kind of reports, the main thing I want you. I'm going to go back to this is. When you're working in AI, build your prompts so that it doesn't look like AI formatted it. One other thing I do that's already in my instructions is don't make it look like AI. So heads up. That was already built, it was put into my drafts. Here it is. Also uh if you guys are using Codex or Claude Code, um just a It can use Outlook com. Speaker 2 00:40:40 To put things in your drafts. So here's my moose picture, moose picture. I'm going to copy all. I am going to go into ChatGPT. I'm going to go to Moose's Microsoft Minute. I'm going to paste Need an image for this email. Speaker 2 00:41:10 I'm gonna copy this into my chat GPT because I'll be honest, I only use chat GPT for image generation because it works better than Canva. And I do have a subscription to Canva. But this is by the way guys, you see this email right here? Same instructions Agnes has the same instructions on how to format the emails. Speaker 2 00:41:43 I'm going to I'm not going to use the fish button because. Speaker 2 00:42:22 Yeah, you know what? I'm going to leave it. I always edit my emails so that I can make sure everything's covered. Now, copy image. Oh yeah, Gaston says we need to create these mugs and sell them. He's not listening to me anymore. All right, so Moose's picture. Is in because trust me, if I don't include moose's picture, uh people at sharp and ability first, get a little annoyed with me by a little I mean a lot. If you don't believe me ask Gaston if he was paying attention, he's still not paying attention. Guys all right. So there's my emails I'm gonna go send that to AF. Speaker 2 00:43:21 All staff, Crimson. Nope, not Crimson. Help. Who wants to be CC'd on this email to see it? Me, me. You can be CC'd me. You know Paula Ronnel. Speaker 2 00:43:53 Julia. I always send it to Jason, and I always send it to Mike and Pete. I only send it to Pete when it's cute. All right, um, I'm going to switch my email address because if not, Crimson gets caught as spam and high importance. Speaker 2 00:44:39 Oh, what what did he say about Excel? Oh, Flash Fill. Okay, that works. All right. It is sent. That email is sent. Let's take a look at our Alir Alir. We have the executive summary so that looks cute Um Julia I know you want me to send this to you? Don't you I'm going to send this to you for sure, You oh, also um. Just a heads up, if you do CoWork, it saves it into your files in CoWork. So if I go back to my Leer folder, where's my Leer folder? Speaker 1 00:45:19 I have to get admin to install my CoWork stuff. Speaker 2 00:45:24 Oh, Too bad, you don't know anybody in this chat that could or in this meeting that could do it for you. You bribe them. What I have learned is you bribe Sean or Bogdan or Becker, or any of the people in here with karma, and they will do it. Speaker 1 00:45:40 Okay. Sean, I'm coming for you. Speaker 2 00:45:44 Not Sean, he's busy. I got him doing some stuff. Maybe maybe bribe Juno or Becker. Okay All right So, all of all of my documents are going to be in hereum. The cheat sheet is right here. I will send this over to you guys as well, but you have the prompts. Um, if you guys run into any issues, What I want you guys to walk away from this with is just the understanding of tell AI to stop acting like AI and write your stuff like a human would. Tell it to misspell a word here or there, change your grammar. That's what I do. Also. Speaker 2 00:46:28 Tell it to take a look. Tell it to look in your sent folder, if you, if you've given access to your mailbox and see all your sent items to get an understanding of how you write things. That's going to be a game changer for you guys. So, if there's anything you can take away from this other than Moose's cute picture, I want you guys to remember. To um tell it to sound less AI, I want you to proofread what it sends you. And edit it. So for SAG, if something is flagging a lot of "rm", remove that because we know "rm" is right. Um, things like that. And just make sure it sounds human. Used to I'd tell you guys to remove the word " kindly " and things like that. Not anymore. People are starting to see it. So tell it to act more human in its responses. Although if ChatGPT could do that in its response to me, I'd love it. Speaker 2 00:47:27 I don't like chat GPT anymore. It's got issues. Cool, thank you guys for hanging out with me. I have a quick question. Yes, ma'am. Are you planning to share your AI agents with Crimson IT? Yes, I have okay but it's all in my blog All of them? Well the the organizational chart is in my blog, Let me show you guys my agents. Here's all my agents. Speaker 5 00:48:01 I know this, it's a lot. All of that? Speaker 2 00:48:05 That's all of that's all my agents. Oh my God, I'm getting a sales call. I am going go away. No, don't answer it. Okay. Um if thank you. Christy, you're welcome. If you guys want to see any of these, let me know. I'll send them over. Uh April. I've got an April and I've got a seg in here. I've also got, um, I got a Cheryl and I have a Becker in here. There's a Becker. I made a Becker. I need a Bogdan and Anita Sean. Haven't created them yet, so if you guys want to see them, I will Oh, I also made Cheryl. Speaker 2 00:48:55 Can I make it? No, no, no. Gaston. I'm gonna make a Gaston now. Oh, and I also made an Anzor. His name is Hugo. Uh just just cause cause I know you guys want to laugh, let me bring up Hugo for me. Um Hugo's personality he's Russian, but a lovable Russian Anzor has seen this he. He knows Hugo exists. So, yes. Uh, I will send Hugo over just so you guys can see it. And I will send April over. And I will send Becker over. Oh wait, not not that way. Good lord, Becker and oh wait, Hugo April Becker. Speaker 2 00:49:54 Seg, let me send seg right over. There, you guys can have access to my agents. Cool. All right, I'll talk to you guys later. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:50:08 Thanks, Christy, appreciate it. Thank you, Christy.
07-17 Consultation: SCHARP IT Consolidation and Cost Reduction
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- > Date & Time: 2026-07-17 11:32:35 > Location: [Insert Location] > Customer: SCHARP (Southern California Health and Rehabilitation Program) ## Overview The consultation centered on SCHARP’s plan to consolidate and streamline its IT environment to improve compliance, reduce costs, and simplify operations. The customer’s CIO (fractional/VCIO under an MSP arrangement) is leading an initiative to move fully to the cloud, consolidate file storage, and standardize on Microsoft by the end of the year. Currently, SCHARP uses multiple overlapping tools (Microsoft, Google, Box, Dropbox, on‑prem file server) and even runs two antiviruses on all computers, creating inefficiency and compliance risk. Immediate priorities include migrating data out of Box (Dropbox migration already completed), canceling inactive Box user accounts, and exploring contract options to reduce spend before the July 31 renewal. Desired outcomes include tighter compliance for audits (DMH, LA County), cost reduction (target: reduce IT spend by three hundred thousand), and consolidation under one ecosystem for EHR integrations and DLP controls. ## Background SCHARP appointed a CIO in February to realign IT with strategic goals and improve efficiency. The organization operates in medical and behavioral health with EHR, telehealth, and strict compliance obligations tied to DMH and LA County contracts. Their environment includes five file repositories: an on‑prem file server, Microsoft, Google (currently primary), Box, and Dropbox. They have eighty Box users (forty inactive), thirty Dropbox users (migration completed), and an active Microsoft tenancy with two hundred users, plus some SQL servers already in Azure. The plan is to go fully cloud, migrate current Box content, and standardize on Microsoft by year‑end to leverage DLP (Purview) and EHR integrations. Box contract renewal is set for July 31, with a 30‑day notice required for changes; exceptions are uncertain. ## Pain Points Fragmented and redundant tooling is causing inefficiency and compliance risk. The organization is running **two antiviruses on all computers** and maintains **five separate file repositories** (on‑prem file server, Microsoft, Google, Box, Dropbox), creating confusion, duplicative administration, and potential control gaps. Impact: increased operational overhead, difficulty enforcing consistent security/retention policies, and higher audit exposure. Current Situation: Dropbox migration completed one week ago for **thirty users**; Box has **eighty users** with **forty inactive**; migrations and consolidation are underway. Quantitative Metrics: two antiviruses deployed organization‑wide; five repositories in use; eighty Box users with forty inactive; thirty Dropbox users migrated; **two hundred** users in Microsoft tenancy. Examples: inactive Box accounts still present; data spread across Google Drive and Box. Context: strict compliance requirements from DMH and LA County; existing DLP via Microsoft Purview; EHR tools integrate better with Microsoft. Stakeholders: CIO (fractional), IT team, medical/behavioral health staff, compliance/audit teams, leadership, external auditors, DMH/LA County contract managers. Box contract rigidity is limiting cost reduction before migration completes. The Box renewal on **July thirty-first** requires **thirty days** prior notice for seat reductions or termination, preventing immediate cost cuts despite **forty inactive Box users**. Impact: the organization may pay for unused licenses for another year, hindering budget reduction goals. Current Situation: the account executive will request an exception, but expectations are low; month‑to‑month is only possible by creating a new online instance and migrating content by July 31. Quantitative Metrics: renewal date July 31; 30‑day notice requirement; forty inactive users; eighty total Box users. Examples: leadership seeks to reduce Box costs now by canceling inactive accounts. Context: broader consolidation to Google now and Microsoft by year‑end; migration tooling already in place and awaiting destination. Stakeholders: CIO, Box account executive/renewals team, finance/leadership. Compliance pressure and audit risk due to fragmented systems. SCHARP faces frequent audits and wants to “button everything up” to avoid outcomes like a similar LA company that failed an audit and paid **about two million dollars** in fines. Impact: potential loss of government contracts, significant financial penalties, reputational harm. Current Situation: recent audits passed, but the CIO seeks tighter controls via consolidation and Microsoft DLP/Purview. Quantitative Metrics: two million dollars fine cited as a cautionary example. Examples: multiple repositories complicate audit readiness; inactive accounts persist. Context: EHR and telehealth operations require strong data governance; Microsoft ecosystem aligns with EHR integrations and DLP. Stakeholders: compliance team, leadership, clinicians, case managers, external auditors, DMH/LA County. Aggressive IT budget reduction mandate. The CIO has been asked to reduce IT expenditures by **three hundred thousand** for fiscal years **2026 and 2027** (current fiscal year already in play). Impact: necessitates rapid cost optimization, contract renegotiations, and tool consolidation. Current Situation: seeking any way to “shorten the bill” for Box; broader plan to standardize on Microsoft. Quantitative Metrics: three hundred thousand reduction target; timelines include end‑of‑year migration to Microsoft. Examples: attempting to terminate or reduce Box seats; already eliminated Dropbox users. Context: nonprofit medical/behavioral environment with constrained budgets. Stakeholders: CIO, finance/leadership, procurement, IT. ## Expectations Consolidate all file storage and standardize on Microsoft by the end of the year. The goal is a single ecosystem leveraging **Microsoft DLP (Purview)** and EHR integrations for consistent governance. Timeframe: complete consolidation to Microsoft by year‑end; Box content transition now; Dropbox already completed. Resources Required: migration tooling (already in place), IT staff time, Microsoft tenancy and Azure resources, EHR integration configurations. Success Metrics: decommission duplicated repositories; enforce unified DLP policies; successful EHR data flows; reduced audit findings. Stakeholders: CIO, IT team, EHR vendors, end users. Reduce Box costs immediately by removing inactive users or adjusting the contract. The goal is to avoid paying for **forty inactive Box users** and minimize spend before the July 31 renewal. Timeframe: before **July thirty-first**; exception request underway. Resources Required: Box renewals team approval; potential migration to a new month‑to‑month instance; internal coordination. Success Metrics: fewer paid seats, lower annual invoice, or successful switch to month‑to‑month with timely migration. Stakeholders: CIO, Box account executive/renewals, finance/leadership. Maintain compliance and audit readiness to protect DMH and LA County contracts. The goal is to “button everything up” to sustain passing audits and avoid penalties like **about two million dollars** seen elsewhere. Timeframe: ongoing, with major improvements aligned to consolidation milestones this year. Resources Required: policy enforcement via Microsoft Purview DLP, access controls, account hygiene (canceling inactive accounts), documentation. Success Metrics: passing audits, zero critical findings, retained contracts, demonstrable controls across the unified stack. Stakeholders: compliance team, leadership, clinicians, IT/security. Achieve mandated IT budget reductions of three hundred thousand across 2026 and 2027. The goal is to meet fiscal targets without compromising compliance or operations. Timeframe: planning now with impacts across **2026 and 2027**. Resources Required: vendor negotiations, tool consolidation, license optimization, migration efficiency. Success Metrics: cumulative savings of **three hundred thousand**, reduced overlapping licenses, lower infrastructure costs. Stakeholders: CIO, finance, procurement, IT leadership. ## Other Information Summary - The CIO operates as a fractional CIO under an MSP, is onsite frequently, and leads consolidation efforts. - SCHARP primarily uses Google Drive currently; Microsoft tenancy already has 200 users and some SQL servers in Azure. - Migration tool is already set up and ready; only destination selection remains for Box transition. - Month‑to‑month Box is only possible via a new self‑serve account and full migration by July 31. - The account executive will advocate for a contract exception, but likelihood is low. ## To-Do List - [ ] Request a Box renewals exception to adjust seats or terminate before July 31; Account Executive to escalate; CIO to await response. Deadline: before July thirty-first. - [ ] Prepare and execute a contingency plan for a new self‑serve Box instance with full content migration by July 31 if the exception is granted; ensure stakeholder coordination. Stakeholders: CIO, IT team. - [ ] Proceed with canceling **forty inactive Box accounts** pending contract constraints; document account status and compliance rationale. Stakeholders: CIO, IT. - [ ] Finalize destination selection and execute Box migration to Google Drive now, with a roadmap to Microsoft by year‑end. Stakeholders: IT team. - [ ] Map EHR integrations to the Microsoft ecosystem and validate Purview DLP policy alignment. Stakeholders: CIO, EHR vendors, IT/security. - [ ] Develop a budget reduction plan to achieve **three hundred thousand** savings across **2026 and 2027** (license optimization, vendor negotiations, decommissioning redundant tools). Stakeholders: CIO, finance, procurement. - [ ] Compile audit readiness documentation reflecting consolidation progress, access controls, and DLP enforcement. Stakeholders: compliance, IT. > AI Suggestions > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as fragmented, overlapping systems causing inefficiency, higher costs, and increased compliance/audit risk. Possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. Execute a phased decommission plan: immediately freeze new data into Box, migrate priority folders to Google Drive, and schedule cutover to Microsoft by quarter, aligning with DLP and EHR milestones. > 2. License rationalization: conduct a rapid user/license audit across Box, Google, and Microsoft to eliminate inactive and duplicate accounts; negotiate true‑up/true‑down terms with vendors and explore nonprofit discounts. > 3. Policy‑first consolidation: define a single set of data governance controls (retention, sharing, access, DLP) in Microsoft Purview, then map and enforce them during migration to prevent drift and audit gaps. > 4. Contract strategy: if an exception is denied, plan for the minimal viable renewal (e.g., reduce active usage, archive, and accelerate migration) while documenting a 60‑day exit timeline to avoid another renewal cycle. > 5. Integration alignment: prioritize EHR workflows in the Microsoft ecosystem (SharePoint/OneDrive/Azure SQL), validate data flows end‑to‑end, and retire legacy connectors to reduce complexity and support costs. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Call with Box AE Ali Roshedi (11:30am 7/17, 13 min): communicated SCHARP consolidation - Box + Dropbox being retired, consolidating to Google Drive ahead of eventual Microsoft migration; ~80 Box users; Dropbox already done; AE to follow up on contract/renewal options.
- Date
- Jul 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:17 Hi, how are you? Speaker 2 00:00:18 I'm doing well. How are you doing? Speaker 1 00:00:20 Good. Bear with me one second. I've got to fix my audio settings. Speaker 2 00:00:26 That is totally okay. I was actually just sending off an email too, so that works perfect. Speaker 3 00:00:32 Okay. I had another meeting where I had to have it on speaker, And I forgot to switch it back because I don't use Zoom, but maybe once every two or three weeks. So. Speaker 2 00:00:48 Totally makes sense, and here, I'll follow your lead for do camera off here. Speaker 1 00:00:54 Perfect because working from home and the cats are having a. I see me marathon right now behind me. Speaker 2 00:01:03 Oh, that would have been quite the sight. Yes. Um, well hey, it's really great to meet you. I haven't actually had the chance to to introduce myself yet, but by way of introduction, my name is Ali Roshedi. Uh Account Executive. I'm sorry, if you've heard that from the box side a few times, we tend to do annual territory realignments. But. But at least for the purposes of this year, up until around February and who knows maybe even further, I'll be the uh account executive for I'll, say SCHARP or or Southern California Health and Rehabilitation Program. Uh, I'll follow your lead on the name there. Speaker 3 00:01:43 No worries. It is SCHARP. Okay, SCHARP. Yeah, so I'm going to start off the meeting with some bad news. Okay. Okay, So, um, Sharp is brought me in as CIO back in February to uh because there was some uh needs to realign the IT department with Sharp's vision and strategy for the next several years. Um, in that moment when we came in, They asked us also to work on efficiencies and honestly to consolidate because uh they were running. Speaker 3 00:02:22 But, they're running. Let me let me just break it down to you and be honest. They're running two antiviruses on all computers because they wanted a backup antivirus. Um, they have yeah, they have five file repositories. They have on prem file server. They have Microsoft, they have uh Google, and they are a Google client so they do both Microsoft and Google. And they have box and they have Dropbox. Wow, yes. So what we're doing, you only have eighty users in Box. Um, And I had already started a couple weeks ago. Uh seeing what what path are we going to be taking in the next uh, six months to a year. And. So the ask was to migrate to Microsoft. Uh just because there is a lot more granularity in aligning some aligning. Speaker 3 00:03:20 Some of the needs that they have for strategy, we are going to go completely cloud. And, what we're going to be doing is we're going to be consolidating the file locations. We are going to be dropping Box and Dropbox. Everything for now is moving into Google Drive because that's where everybody is, But they do have an active Microsoft tenancy with two hundred of the users already in there that they are using for There is some SQL servers already in Azure. And a few things that they're doing there, so we're going to be migrating them to Microsoft eventually. But right now, given the load that's currently in Box, um, we want to transition Box first. Uh, Dropbox I just completed a week ago because there was like thirty users in Dropbox. Speaker 2 00:04:07 Okay, got it. Um. Speaker 3 00:04:09 So I wanted to start off the meeting and just give you a heads up on that. Yeah. Uh. Now I am an MSP uh. I so you you can email me as much as you want. Sharp, uh, I work part time for Sharp under the MSP umbrella. I am their CIO, uh, and I am on site during the week. So, I normally they operate as a VCIO, but I'm operating as a fractional, uh, CIO. And i i'm in there constantly. So partially because they're down the street from me um but that means that we are going to be doing a consolidation. Speaker 3 00:04:46 I right now there's forty inactive users in box. Um, this is not even using it, and when I first came on board, There was quite a few that had already left the company that needed to just be canceled in Box. Their accounts need to be canceled. So what I need to know from you is it's not that you guys are doing anything wrong. You're, not we we want to consolidate everything under one umbrella. Um they have a lot of contracts with DMH. With LA County, that and different things like that that they have to follow. You know, because they are they deal with medical, they deal with behavioral therapies. They have to have EHR records. They have to you know telehealth. They do a lot with. So we got to get that consolidated down because constantly facing audits and I want to make sure that we've passed all audits recently, but we want to kind of tighten that up. Speaker 3 00:05:45 Um, Because they don't want to lose contracts with the local government and the county county health, all of that. They don't want to lose those contracts. So, Uh right now, because there is a company in LA. That's very similar to Sharp that got audited and failed, massively had to pay about two million dollars in fines. They don't want like that so they're asking what can we what? What, can we do right now to make sure that we just button everything up? So, the next step on that is follow reconciliation and merging everything. Um, I need to know when the contract for Box ends and can we go to months to month until we get everything migrated over? Speaker 2 00:06:30 Yeah. Um, So a few lot of information there and really appreciate you being super transparent about. All of this, like it's it's helpful for us to know on our side. Um, I'll start with the contract. So, I I've got your renewal set for uh at the end of the month. So July thirty first here now Christi. Unfortunately, we do require a uh a notice of thirty days prior to renewal for any um. Speaker 2 00:07:05 For any changes to your contract, whether that's a reduction of seats or for a complete termination of contract. And as far as transitioning to month to month, um. That isn't possible without spinning up a new online instance, where you would where you would essentially create a brand new Box account and migrate all of your content over to that new Box account that you've created, without an account executive but just. Uh, a self- serve account on our website. So, meaningum with that thirty day notice, That means that the contract will have to renew for another year atum as is. And I know that's not really the best news to give you and I I pray, you don't shoot the messenger here. That's just our policy. Speaker 3 00:07:57 What can we do to decrease costs with Box? Before so, we're we don't need as many users. I'm about to kill 40 accounts. How, can we reduce the pricing of box where the leadership team is not going to be upset about it? Speaker 2 00:08:17 At this time, I don't believe that there is because we're within that 30 days. Speaker 3 00:08:25 Can you see if you can get us an exception? Speaker 2 00:08:28 I can certainly make the ask, Christi. Okay. Although I would not hold out a lot of hope on that. Okay. Um, now, I think there, given that in the event that the exception is is not made or is okay, well, I'll start with if it was made. Even so, if The way to go to a month - to- month would have to be that self- serve route that I had mentioned to you, where you create a new EID. And so, that would mean that you would have, If you do not plan to renew for another year and an exception is made, that means you have until the 31st to migrate all of that content. That's what I'm saying. That's right. Speaker 3 00:09:25 No, that's not going to be an issue at all. We're already set to migrate. I've already got the migration tool in place. Uh, okay. Need to give it and uh, I just need to give it the destination. Speaker 2 00:09:38 Okay, got it. Um, unduhrstood. So thuhn yuhah, I can cuhrtainly makuh thuh makuh thuh ask back to our tuham. Now i I do want to um i i do also want to ask, i guuhss, uh. I s thuhruh a world whuhruh migrating all of thuh likuh? Aruh you guys looking for thuh chuhapuhst tool availabluh in tuhrms of consolidating? Or aruh youum I guuhss? And you did muhntion uhfficiuhnciuhs? Is that somuhthing that that you'd buh willing to look at with Box? Speaker 3 00:10:09 So the reason why that we're making the move we are making is we want to consolidate and shorten our technology stack. Uh now. Eventually everything's going in Microsoft. And that's going to be by the end of the year. So, what our plan is to do is we already have DLP turned on in Microsoft, so we already have all of the purview settings set. Um, this is not my first nonprofit and not my first medical. So, we have things in place so that they can feel comfortable knowing that their file shares are safe, that everything meets all the expectations. Speaker 3 00:10:49 But also in addition to that, the EHR tools that we're using have uh the connections to go into Microsoft, to pull data as needed or to save data as needed. So getting them all on an ecosystem within reason is the ideal. Speaker 2 00:11:08 Okay, got it. Understood. Um, right in that case uh I I appreciate the context context Christi. I'll just quickly move uh, motion to our renewals team to see if any exceptions will be made, but once again transparently I don't think that'll be the case, um and um we can kind of take it from there. Speaker 3 00:11:31 Okay. Anything, we can do to shorten that bill would be massively helpful because we have to bring the bill down by or we had to bring our budget down by a significant amount. For 2026, 2027 because our fiscal year is already in play. So what I am looking at is I need I've been asked to reduce our budget by three hundred thousand for IT expenditures. So that's what I am trying to work with and, Anything you can do to help make that bill smaller would be helpful and impactful to the company. Absolutely um. Speaker 2 00:12:10 Christy, I'll I'll I'll make sure to to advocate on your guys' behalf. Do the best I can. You have my assurance there. Um, I wish I had the power to do it myself, But I'll talk to the powers that uh that be and and um see what I can do. Speaker 3 00:12:24 Okay, that's massively appreciated. Thank you so much. Speaker 2 00:12:29 Yeah, yeah, of course, of course, enjoy the rest of your Friday, and i'll follow up as quickly as i can. Speaker 3 00:12:34 Thank you. Ally have a great weekend, too. Speaker 2 00:12:37 You too. You too enjoy. Thanks, bye. Bye.
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05-01 Meeting: AI Implementation, Security, and Training
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- > Date: 2026-05-01 08:58:45 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] ## Meeting Notes ### Discussion on the May 15th Deadline and Project Nature - A project deadline of May 15th, 2026, was discussed, with some participants feeling it was unrealistic due to other commitments. One participant humorously suggested it would require working 24 hours a day. - The necessity of the deadline was questioned, as the board meeting report would be the same regardless of progress. The group agreed to do their best, emphasizing a solid job over rushing. - The project was described as a continuous "journey" without a specific endpoint, humorously called "AI purgatory," "quest," or "odyssey." - The team acknowledged the system will always need tweaking and refinement as technology improves and organizational needs change, similar to how other organizations adapt their AI policies. ### AI Implementation Timeline and Key Deliverables - **Findings Report:** Scans will be run in the first part of the week of May 4, 2026, and will be cloud-based, so they won't slow down user work. A findings report with a checklist for remediation will be delivered by the end of that week (around May 8). The cleanup based on this report is considered the heaviest lifting. - **AI Policy and Training Guide:** The AI usage policy is in progress and can be sent for signatures concurrently with the project. The staff training guide is also in progress and should be finalized by Wednesday, May 6. - **Rollout Plan:** Following a stakeholder review and sign-off on the findings report, training will commence the week of May 11, with the project concluding and users being added to Copilot on May 15, 2026. ### AI Setup, Data Security, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) - **Runbook and Documentation:** A document detailing all system changes will be created and added to a "runbook," which details the organization's IT setup for rebuild purposes. This runbook is typically updated yearly. - **Data Loss Prevention (DLP):** The DLP feature will be turned on for monitoring starting Monday, May 4, 2026, and a report of its findings will be shared. The feature can be fully activated once the team is ready. - **Sensitivity Labels and Data Protection:** Sensitivity labels will be implemented automatically to protect personal information (e.g., social security numbers). The system will block emails containing such data, requiring secure sending methods. Users will see banners on emails indicating their security status. Files on public drives with sensitive information will be moved after confirmation. ### Copilot and Data Confidentiality - **Data Access:** Copilot can read data from shared locations but will ignore content with sensitivity labels. Microsoft's Copilot does not feed internal company data back to the internet for training. - **User Controls:** Users can manually apply sensitivity labels or mark a file as confidential to prevent it from being flagged by AI. The primary concern is managing internal access to ensure only authorized personnel can view sensitive information. - **Third-Party App Integration:** Copilot has access to connected third-party apps within Teams (e.g., Adobe Acrobat). It is important to review and establish permissions for all apps to ensure data is handled correctly. ### Managing Access and Permissions - **Securing Information:** To secure information, users can manage member access within a Teams channel or manage sharing permissions for personal files on OneDrive. - **Training Resources:** Training sessions on managing file permissions will be recorded. A written training guide will also be created and distributed to staff. - **Support:** The Crimson Help Desk is available via Teams chat to answer questions and has an AI feature that can provide instructions for basic tasks. The speaker also offered to record custom "how-to" videos. ### Staff Training Sessions - **Format:** Three identical, one-and-a-half-hour training sessions will be offered via Microsoft Teams and recorded. Staff can attend any session, and no preparatory work is required. The Crimson Help Desk will be on standby for support during the rollout. - **Proposed Schedule:** - Monday, May 11, 2026: Afternoon. - Wednesday, May 13, 2026: After 10:30 AM or in the afternoon. - Friday, May 15, 2026: Morning. - **Scheduling Conflicts:** The team noted potential conflicts due to a staff meeting on May 11, a mentor meeting on May 15, and general year-end busyness. Flexibility for the following week (May 18-21) was offered. ### Pre-Training Access to AI Tools - **Discussion:** The team discussed granting some users early access to AI tools like Copilot for testing. About 50% of clients do this, while 50% wait for a simultaneous rollout. - **Risks:** A major risk is that AI tools could access sensitive information if file permissions are not properly cleaned up beforehand. An example was shared where an employee discovered a colleague's salary from a public folder and quit. - **Tool-Specific Notes:** Claude and ChatGPT are considered less risky as they only access what the user can. Claude for Business requires a minimum of five users, and ChatGPT for Business requires two. - **Conclusion:** The team expressed caution about early access before finalizing permissions. The internal team of four will discuss further and decide. ### AI Usage Policy and Managing Stale Content - **AI Policy:** The initial decision is to restrict staff to using only the enterprise-approved AI platform for company-related work. Personal or consumer AI versions are not permitted. - **Stale Content:** The system can identify "stale content" (sites and OneDrive folders untouched for 18 months). A report can be run on request to assist with periodic file cleanup, but the client must approve any deletions. Users can also manually filter files by modification date. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 6] will run scans in the first part of the week of May 4, 2026. - [ ] [Speaker 6] will turn on DLP for monitoring starting Monday, May 4, 2026. - [ ] [Speaker 6] to finalize and send the staff training guide by Wednesday, May 6, 2026. - [ ] [Speaker 6] to deliver the findings report by the end of the week of May 4, 2026. - [ ] [Speaker 6] will provide a document of everything that was set up. - [ ] [Speaker 6] will find out who the account manager is and check with them about setting up a tabletop exercise. - [ ] [Speaker 6] will provide the names of the "three commitments" mentioned. - [ ] [Speaker 3] to draft and send an email to staff about the upcoming training sessions. - [ ] The internal team ([Speaker 2], [Speaker 3], [Speaker 4], [Speaker 5]) to discuss and decide whether to provide pre-training access to AI tools. - [ ] The internal team to finalize training dates and times and communicate them to [Speaker 6]. - [ ] The team is to review the findings report checklist and sign off on it. - [ ] The team needs to work on the AI policy. - [ ] The client can request a report on documents that have not been touched in 18 months. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. A final decision on whether to provide staff with pre-training access to AI tools has not been made. The potential risks of data exposure were discussed, but the decision was deferred for internal discussion. > 2. There is no clear decision on whether the May 15th deadline is firm or will be adjusted, despite concerns about its feasibility. > 3. The training dates are tentative. Given the staff's busy schedule with year-end activities and a major event, there is a risk of low attendance. A plan for confirming the dates or rescheduling needs to be finalized. > 4. A clear process for handling sensitive documents received via email (like W-9 forms) needs to be established, including secure storage and staff training. The team also needs to decide on a policy for allowing or blocking such emails. > 5. There is no firm commitment from the program team regarding who will be on the AI committee, which could delay policy finalization and governance. > 6. The specific internal Microsoft item referred to as the "three commitments" was not clarified. > 7. The identity of the account manager (Vince or Mike) for the organization was not confirmed.
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- May 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hmm. Speaker 1 00:00:56 I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 2 00:01:27 Mor ning, Kamya. Good morning. Good morning. Morning, Christy. Can you hear me Okay, call me up. Speaker 3 00:01:40 Uh yes, I can. Yes. Speaker 2 00:01:42 Okay. Thank you. Gracie, morning Tyler. Good morning everyone. Good morning. How's everyone? Happy Friday. Speaker 3 00:01:57 H appy May Day. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:59 Oh, that's true. Speaker 3 00:02:00 It's crazy how it's already May. So yesterday my wife told me," May is May supposed to be the." Blue moon. So once in a blue moon, because I think we have two full moons in a month. Is that what's called the blue moon? Speaker 4 00:02:20 I think it is right. Wow. Speaker 1 00:02:23 So, did I know? 嗯。 Speaker 3 00:02:36 So I read the policy and I think we're going to have to be working twenty four hours a day to meet the May fifteenth deadline. So please tell your families. And drink a lot of coffee. Speaker 1 00:02:57 I thought as soon as I say this, half of you will drop off the call. Speaker 2 00:03:03 I thought about it coming up. Speaker 4 00:03:05 I can. We have 14 days. Yeah, yeah. Alright. Better keep our eyes on it. Eyes on the prize, as they say. Um. Yeah. I don't know how realistic that deadline is, to be honest with you, given everything else we have going on. But we'll try. Exactly. Speaker 5 00:03:30 Exactly. And is it still necessary given that? Speaker 5 00:03:34 The board meeting really doesn't affect any of this. We're still reporting the same things whether or not. How far we are in the process. Speaker 3 00:03:42 Well, you know, we'll do the best we can and we'll report. And this is an ongoing thing. So whatever we do by May 15 th or May 30 th, it's not going to be the end of it. So things are going to change, and it's. It's better to, To do a solid job at the beginning, rather than rush something for the sake of some project or yeah. Speaker 4 00:04:11 Commonly, I've often referred to this as a journey, but like to me, I guess a journey has like a specific end point. I feel like this doesn't. This isn't going to have an endpoint. Speaker 5 00:04:21 This is called purgatory. Speaker 4 00:04:24 AI purgatory. What is a. What is like a journey that never ends. I should say like, what what is the word that I'm looking for? I know that there is a word I just can't find it. But like. It's effectively like ongoing, never ending. Speaker 3 00:04:39 Yes, yes. That's right. That's right. Speaker 4 00:04:41 We're always going to need to tweak and refine this as the technology improves. As things change in our organization, all of this. Speaker 3 00:04:50 Right, and this seems to be all the different policies that you know I've. We have saved in the folders and all that about AI and all the other foundations. What they say, they seem to be in the same place too. They're Constantly changing, adapting. You all saw Christie's uh uh message yeah, no message right? Okay, Speaker 6 00:05:17 Yeah, sorry guys, I have a new headset And. It is giving me fits. So, And I think Steve, the word you are looking for is a quest or an odyssey. AI is very much. Speaker 4 00:05:30 There you go. That's fitting. Speaker 6 00:05:33 Very fitting. I could hear you for a minute, but I couldn't talk, so. Yeah, good morning, guys. Speaker 4 00:05:40 Coffee had it coffee hadn't kicked in, and glad that you're here at the ready with a good. Morning. Good morning. Speaker 6 00:05:47 I was trying to jump on, but my headset was just acting a little wonky. So, all right. So let me pull up and bear with me. My screens are all. Big. Let me go ahead and pull up the email that I sent over to Kamya, but let's go ahead and start with your questions. Speaker 3 00:06:14 Well, I. Uh, wanted to see. Speaker 3 00:06:23 U m. On your first point, where you say for codes and specifically here's what we're looking at. Do, we then have to create a document of all the access rights and everything? Speaker 6 00:06:41 So I'll you won't have to create a document of all the access rights. What I'll do is I'll create a document of everything that we have made changes to. And we'll add it to our, Um, if you guys have ever been provided a runbook for your organization. Okay, that's something I started. I've never seen it. Okay, good to know. Is something I started doing a while back with the clients that I am more attached to than you guys. Sorry, but any of them that fall under my direct purview, which Cotson doesn't, I would create a runbook and hand off. So what a runbook is basically is how we have your organization set up. Speaker 6 00:07:20 As far as it, and how if like if something was to happen. And you need to set up your IT department section from scratch. Then, this is what they need to know with all the passwords and everything in it. We don't provide the passwords in the runbook just because it's not secure. And also our passwords rotate every few months, but we do send everything else. So And we send it out to you as a runbook. You'll get it once a year. Usually when I do with my clients that directly fall under my purview, I do a yearly tabletop exercise. And then I provide the runbook, along with the updated cybersecurity policies and incident response plans. So, who is your account manager? Is it Vince or Mike? Speaker 3 00:08:09 Account Manager. At Crimson, I was, I'm worried that we had an account manager. Speaker 6 00:08:16 Okay, I'll find out who it is. Uh, let's get you guys set up. Speaker 4 00:08:21 Yeah, Holly would know that. Oh, Holly. Speaker 6 00:08:24 No worries. I'll get you guys. I'll find out who it is and I'll check with them about setting you guys up with a tabletop exercise. And that'll fall outside of this. It's free, it's something we do. automatically. So if you guys aren't assigned an account manager, Which could be. I'll go ahead and just plan to do one with you guys later on this outside of the AI stuff. It's just really good for you guys to do it once a year. Right. And. So what we'll do is we'll provide a document of everything we set up. We'll also add it to our system so that when I do run a runbook or somebody does run a runbook, it is included in that. And, you guys won't need to know anything about how it's set up on the back end. Just know that you'll have sensitivity labels coming on. Speaker 6 00:09:12 So if it's something where you're sending over personal information like. Um, a person's if well, I'm going to use this for example. I don't know if you guys use do this or not, But if you send over like someone's social security card through an email or or you're going to do a credit card information over email. Um, the system will automatically block that. You have to send it securely through a secure email. So those are the kind of things that you will see change. Everything else, you won't see that change much. Most most of what people will see on that is going to be. Um, just that those banners that say "Hey, this is a secure email" or "Hey, this can't go out by email," so you need to send it securely. Um, and for that, that's about the only thing that you got to see change. Other than if it's a file like maybe an HR file that's somewhere in a public drive. Speaker 6 00:10:07 That will get moved and we'll have to confirm with whomever, "Hey, this is a file that contains staff salary information. It might be new, it might be old, but it's out here and anyone can access it. You have to move it." So those are the things that happens. And so basically anything that's on Your share locations, no matter where it is, can be read by Copilot. However, if we have sensitivity labels on, Copilot's going to ignore it. And sensitivity labels are something that's automatic, meaning Steve, you have a file, an Excel file of Client data and information that you need to secure, make confidential. Um, If if you if it's got key things in there like social security numbers and things like that addresses, the system's already going to make market confidential. But maybe you decide that, hey. Speaker 6 00:11:01 I need this to remain confidential. It's got some information that's not going to normally get picked up or flagged. You can actually go in and mark that as confidential as well. So and we'll provide a check on that. Okay. Speaker 4 00:11:14 Question, a question, a part of that. Um So you mentioned earlier Let's sayum. Let's say there is an instance whereum we we normally try to keep like tax forms like. W nine's we try to send them securely like through Adobe or Adobe Sign. When possible, but sometimes contractors will send in their, you know, their form via email. Specifically to like one of our contractor, one of the staff members that deal with contracts. And typically, we've told we told that staff member to make sure that, that gets. Put in a specific folder that we know to pull from. Mhm. Speaker 4 00:11:59 How will with these new systems set up? How will that affect, her and us in a sense like. Will, she be able to receive these emails from vendors if they send her a W nine form or. Will she need to go through another process, or will it be a little more difficult for her to. Um, Process these in any way or at least through the existing system that we have in place. Speaker 6 00:12:26 So she so with the process we're putting in play, one of the questions I'm probably going to ask you is, do you want to allow receiving a sensitive documents And most clients will say, yes, we want to be able to receive, but we don't want anybody to send. Now, at the moment you receive it, it does become part of Copilot because it's unsecured. But as soon as she deletes it, it's out of the system. If, she moves it to a secure location or a location that's flagged as where you want to save these tax documents. And it's flagged as sensitive or confidential, then it won't be put into Copilot. Okay. Now, the thing about it is, if she's If it's in her email and it's in Copilot, But only she can access it unless let's say, Tyler has full access to her inbox. Speaker 6 00:13:23 Then he'll be able to see it as well. Speaker 4 00:13:28 Okay, so. We have to figure out a way to silo that information because. I'm thinking, like what she currently does right now is, she puts that those tax forms in the contracts folder. So they're there with the contract, And if it's something that we if it's a vendor that we have never used before, we pull that. That out, input it into our accounting system. And then I keep it and move it onto our finance drive. But for a time being, until that person. From the time that they execute the contract to the time that they, um, send in their first invoice, it's sitting on a. Like a shared drive, a contract shared drive. So if we don't want AI to pull from that and use that. Then, we need to have it kind of siloed in a different. Speaker 4 00:14:22 More confidential folder, I should say. Correct. Is that right? Speaker 6 00:14:27 Yes. Now, just a real quick heads up. Sorry, I was looking for something on my desk. Um, Microsoft does not feed AI information back to the internet. It's, one of the reasons why companies go with Copilot is because it's not feeding that information back out. So wherever your tax documents are. I I do want to assure you. It's not going back. It's not being fed to the internet. No one on the internet can read it. Uh. Speaker 4 00:14:54 That is actually so they're being used for training or it's not being used as a query. Uh, you know to create query results or anything like that is what you mean, right? Yes, okay, Speaker 6 00:15:06 Now, internally, Our biggest concern is just making sure the people that shouldn't have access to it don't have access. So that's going to be one of our biggest things. So, If it's something that you don't mind being shared, and other people need access, then um. You can put it in public if it's something that does need to be shared, but doesn't need to be public to your company. When I say public, I'm always going to mean to your company, not to the rest of the world. But, if it's going to be public and or it's not going to be public. And maybe uh, it's you. Speaker 6 00:15:41 And Tyler and Holly that needs access to it. I'm just throwing names out of the top of my head because you're all sitting here. Then, you put it in a shared folder that only has the people with access that needs access. That makes sense. Speaker 4 00:15:57 Okay. Mhm. And you're going to train us about how to do that? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, for example, like Uh, let's say I have a an internal document that's tracking my. Va cation time, right? Something like that. That's just for me. I want to keep that on my drive. I obviously don't want AI, but it's saved on my SharePoint. It's saved on my OneDrive. You know what I mean. I don't want everyone to have access to that, but you have a way. There's a way to make that confidential so that only I can view it, And it's not going to be pulling or AI is not going to be pulling. That data. Speaker 6 00:16:35 Correct. So I'm going to show you the easiest way to do that right now. Bear with me one second. Let me share out my screen. You guys are using Teams like Crimson uses Teams. So I'm just going to show you my Crimson Teams. Ignore anything that you see here. If I go down here and I'm looking at MFA codes, which you guys can look at by the time they come through, it's already been used. Um, oh well, that's a problem. So we have MFA codes come in now. Speaker 6 00:17:07 These are public for my entire staff, But it's whenever somebody's signing into we we never know what client they're signing into. We just know that hey, someone signed in to GoDaddy for someone out of all sixty of our clients, someone's there. Somebody's going to go in and pick that up. So, I have an automated system in that puts these in there because they come to my phone, and it gets quite annoying. So my automation comes in here, it puts that in there. But, what if we have somebody come in that should not get access to this? What I'm going to do is I'm going to go into my Teams channel and I'm going to go to manage team. Hopefully I still have admin rights. I'm not managing the MS team anymore, but hopefully. In here, I can go to members and I can look at members and guests. And I can see who all has access here. And if it's someone that should not have access, let's say Sue, I can click on her name. If I was still the owner, which I'm not. Speaker 6 00:18:05 Then I would have an option up here to remove. Okay. So, if that helps understand, that's the basis of how to secure a foul. Using Teams. So pretty easy to do. Now, if it's your own personal files, You're going to go into OneDrive, which by the way you guys can access OneDrive in Teams. I don't, but I want to show it to you for the purposes of this. I'm going to go into my files. And I know that I have folders in here that are shared publicly to my team because I share them out all the time. But if I'm going in here to internal operations, And let's say I want to remove sharing to this folder. What I can do is I can go under Share. Mhm. And I can see, I can go to link settings, and I can see who all has access to it. Speaker 6 00:19:02 There is another option in here that allows me to go in and change that. And I can go in here and say, okay, well, I don't want April to have access. And I'm going to say no direct access and apply. And so I'm removing her from this. Speaker 4 00:19:17 Okay, so it's it's relatively easy. It's just about navigating the system and knowing where. Where to where to make these permissions allowable or not. So okay. Speaker 3 00:19:29 Now, uh, Christy, as you were describing this, Um and since you know you're dealing with, obviously, you're a technology expert and We, don't deal with technology issues all the time, so in the training. And, what sort of any documentation you may provide? Would Some of these ways of navigating around the files be? Do cumented for us and the staff to follow, uh, in future so that you know if. You know, if this is something once every two months somebody has to do it, it's probably. Hard to remember. Oh, how did I do that? So. Speaker 6 00:20:18 So two things I want to, because that's an extremely good question. Two things for you guys to note. The training sessions will get recorded. And I can send you the video files, and number two, I will document everything for you. So I am going to make a training guide for you guys so that you can pass it out. And, then if you guys have your own training system, where like some of our clients use their HRIS system has training in it, and they can upload videos. You can take and upload videos. If you want me to make your video, don't tell Alonzo I'm going to give you this ability. Speaker 6 00:20:53 To ask me to do this, but I will record you a video on how to do certain things. And then, lastly, I know I said two things, but let's make it four. Crimson Help Desk is always going to be open for you guys to ask questions. So if you go into the chat feature of Teams, I don't know if you've ever known this. If you go to helpdesk. Unless she took it off. I'm not managing the help desk anymore, so bear with me. I may be speaking on old technology and not be aware of what they have changed and updated, so bear with me on this one. But, if you go in here and you create a new thread or create a new chat, how do I Share folders on my OneDrive and check access. Used to, the system would tell you how to do it using AI. That was two years ago. Sorry, my voice keeps going. Today. Speaker 6 00:21:50 U m, okay. So sometimes it will answer, sometimes it won't. But it used to answer basic Outlook questions. If it doesn't, what you can do Is you can ask that question there. Oh, there it does. It does tell you. So, our chat system is still telling you guys how to do basic stuff in Outlook. Speaker 3 00:22:15 Yeah, I wasn't aware of that. So, you know, I don't know how to. Oh. That's. Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't aware either, but that's helpful. Speaker 6 00:22:23 Yes, so it's uh you should have a little help desk icon right here. And allow you to chat. Speaker 3 00:22:30 And that's in Teams? Mhm. Speaker 4 00:22:33 Yeah, it's within Teams. It's on the left bar. You'll see that little box. I just checked right now. We do have that. Speaker 6 00:22:40 Yeah, And just make sure you say, close the ticket or my team is going to hound you for a callback. Uhhuh. Speaker 6 00:22:48 And so it's resolved and now I can go back out. So, very, very cool. It is a system that we put together two years ago. We have not seen all the features that we've done. But it can help you guys with any of those questions you have. But also, I will get you guys documentation notes, and we'll add this to our training. So that you are aware of it. So, um. The so we've we've cut we've talked about one two three and four. Number five is connected apps and integrations. That's going to be things along the lines, like very similar to the app that we have in your system right here. For us, Any of these apps that are listed in where I clicked on the little three dots here, it'll list all of our apps that we use. So in here, it's going to connect to any of these and search. Speaker 6 00:23:46 Um. So, one of the things that it will do is our karma. So, Our karma is our little system that we send karma points to each other if we, if so. I sent some karma to Gabby because she came to a client site with me and stayed for three hours walking through and understanding the building. Um, and so she went way above and beyond what she had to. So I sent her three karma, and we can. It's a reward system where if you, You add up your points, and then eventually you can do gift cards with it. Purchase gift cards so. Our chat, our AI has access to the system and we can chat against them. And because I'm an admin, I can see all the books that people are ordering, 'cause everybody likes to order the books. So, uh, that's this one is actually a good book. I just gave it to my daughter to read the other day. Speaker 4 00:24:45 So, What you're saying then is that our uh, copilot would have access to these third- party apps that are built into. Teams, so even though we don't necessarily use these, although be pretty cool if we did, it would beum. I guess that the AI would be feeding or would be fed this information as well. Speaker 6 00:25:11 Correct? Automatically. Yes, now it also depends on what permissions it has to your system. and So not everything will have permissions, but a lot of things will. So some apps, some third party apps won't have the permissions enabled automatically for Copilot. To the best of my knowledge, Speaker 4 00:25:33 I don't. Yeah, unless it's already preloaded, I don't think that we've added any other additional third- party apps. Casey, Tyler, do you know? If you have any of these things added, yeah. Speaker 6 00:25:44 So the only ones Crimson has added is the Karma that I showed you, Adobe Acrobat and Teams Work. The rest of these are all uh Microsoft apps. Which are automatic. Speaker 4 00:25:55 Got it. Okay. Yeah, So but still, we need to go through the we go through the process of making sure that permissions are established, because if they are used at any given point, you do want to make sure that those are set up well in advance. Exactly. Speaker 6 00:26:10 Uh, point number six is stale content. Um, This is not an issue for for Crimson because we do have a lot of content out there, but we keep it pretty up to date. But for any of our clients that have a lot of old documents out there, so I'm going to show you. I am going to show you one on ours. It's not old; we still refer back to it, but we do have a lot of documents out there that's from years ago, but it's how we. How we Weren't run our system, but everybody knows it by heart that nobody touches this document anymore. So here is all the documents we have, and this basically if Crimson was to crash tomorrow, this how to get us all back up and running. It's every single of our processes and procedures. On how crimson runs, so um, so I have like this one in here that's DLPY. Which is basically what I am building out for you guys. So, this a document I built on. Speaker 6 00:27:06 Why do we do DLP? Why is it important for our clients? So, this document is out there. And the reason why I'm showing it to you is if this document was over 18 months old with no touching, with no one, it's pretty stale. No one's updated it, anything like that. Then the system would archive that document. So it's anything that sites and OneDrive folders untouched in 18 months. Now we're not going to delete these on your behalf. We're going to give you a recommendation and you approve what gets deleted or you go in and delete it yourself. So when we go through and we look at these, this one right here, This one that says, Project progress and final invoicing is actually one of our templates on how we do things. And it's old. It's been out there since twenty twenty two, but we don't delete that because it's a really good. Template that we reuse over and over again. So, so I would have flagged that if. Speaker 6 00:28:02 If I was an outside auditor for Crimson, I would have flagged that as," Hey, is this still valid?" And, then it was up to us to go in and actually delete it. I wish we had known this. Speaker 4 00:28:13 Yeah, I wish we had known this because it would have been a lot more helpful when we're doing file cleanup. Like, we do our own internal file cleanup like once a year, every eighteen months or so. Um, but if we had known that you guys can flag this for us, I mean it would make things so much easier. Am I right, Casey? Speaker 2 00:28:33 Yeah, yeah. So is this currently active, Christy? Or like do you do we can we find this in Teams currently? Speaker 6 00:28:40 So, we don't. So the report that we run is is one that we have to manually push offum and then send over to you. We don't have a report for you guys because we don't because we have to do it manually. We don't always do it for clients unless they ask. Now, if you guys come in and say," Hey, can you guys send me a report on," you know all the. All the documents that haven't been touched in eighteen months, The team will run that off and get that to you within forty eight hours. I see. Okay. So I see. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:29:09 So this is just a feature. Speaker 4 00:29:11 Yeah. Go ahead, Casey, sorry. Speaker 2 00:29:13 No, I was just gonna. So this is the what you're showing us is just a feature on like your end like that. That's okay. Okay got it Thank. Speaker 6 00:29:20 You You guys will have a modified field that you can use. Um That, you can you can, you can do like modify and. So rt by older to newer, and that's what I normally do. You also have filters in here that you can look at. Um, modified anytime, and then you can you can choose like specific dates on there. So if I wanted to see only ones that were 2021 and older, then I can click on that. And it'll show me anything that hasn't been modified since then. So. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:30:01 Good to know. Speaker 6 00:30:01 Yeah, sorry, there's a window on the other side of me. They were checking to see if I was in office. Christy, Speaker 3 00:30:10 Before you go to the next point, in an earlier point, point number three. You referred to three commitments. Mhm. What are those three commitments? Speaker 6 00:30:24 That's on the internal, uh, that's an internal Microsoft item. So Microsoft calls certain things three commitments, and I do not remember how they are stated. Um, I have to go look at my thing. I never remember terms. I was always the kid in school that could never remember terms and spelling tests. And all of that. I was never good at that. I was good at recognizing patterns. Right. So That's okay. Speaker 3 00:30:54 I mean, we can we can deal with it later. That's fine. Speaker 6 00:30:58 No worries, I'll get you the names of the three commitments later. So, yeah, Don't ever ask Walter to call on me for our core values because I know them, but I can never speak them out loud. I am i have that ADHD. Speaker 3 00:31:14 Oh yeah, that's good. Speaker 6 00:31:16 So, all right. Um. Let me. Speaker 4 00:31:25 Okay, at seven, findings report. Speaker 6 00:31:27 I was I was trying to go back and see, did we discuss it? No. Um, so for findings report, what we're going to do is we're going to give you a summary document. Did we give you a findings report early on? Okay. There's one client that asked for a findings report of how they're currently look like. And I couldn't remember if it was you or somebody else. Um, what we'll do is we'll after I run the scans, which will be the first part of next week. I'm going to send you guys over the findings report. Your job is to just tell me, um, It's going to be a checklist that you're going to sign off on before we move to this whole enablement. The heaviest lifting are going to be those scans. Turning on AI and training you guys is the easiest part of this entire project. Because basically I just turn it on, and then I get you everybody in two three meetings. Um, I train you all, so I'll give you like two three times that work. And everybody can choose which time works for you, for them. Speaker 6 00:32:26 And then we spend an hour training. My team is going to be on standby to support you, and by my team I mean the entire Crimson Help Desk staff. They know how to work in Copilot, but the findings report and the cleanup is what takes the longest. But, we can get that one done pretty quickly as long as everybody is on the same page. And I'll provide those finding reports after I do my scans, and then you guys go through on the checklist. And you say, " T his what I want to sign off on, and this what I want to do." Now for data loss prevention or DLP that you see in there, That portion of it is going to be me turning it on for a few days and monitoring to see what reports you have. And then give you guys a copy of what that report looks like. So I'll turn that on on Monday of next week. I'll start recording and I'll see, I'll get a report of all the findings. Speaker 6 00:33:20 And then I'll send that over to you guys so that you know. And when you are ready, I just flip that switch. So the biggest headache is going to be the cleanup. But if you guys, sorry Casey. Speaker 2 00:33:33 Sorry, I have a question on the the scans. So for the scans, like how long does that take? And would that require all of us to be logged in remotely? Will we be notified? Speaker 6 00:33:45 No, you won't notice anything. It's not going to slow down your work. Nothing is going to affect you. Half the time, if I have to run a scan on a client, they don't even notice. So the only time they notice it is if I have to run it on an individual's computer. For you guys, there's no individual computers that I have to run. And that's for that reason. Speaker 4 00:34:09 Yeah, I was going to say because everything's on the cloud, everything's set up through OneDrive. It's already kind of established. Yes. Speaker 6 00:34:16 Yeah. The only time I run a scan on someone's computer is if we expect, if we suspect. Someone is intentionally deleting data or saving files that they shouldn't, that's not on OneDrive, things like that. And in this case, we don't care about that. Comiade has to come to me and say," H ey Steve is we suspect Steve is stealing data and sending it off to another company." Then I'll slow down your computer with a scan. You will never know that that is happening, but it will happen. So okay. Speaker 4 00:34:47 Noted. Okay. Speaker 6 00:34:54 Um. And then, so next week I'll run the audit data collections. And you guys are working through the AI policy. And if you want me to, I can send that out. I would send it out to your staff through Adobe DocuSign, or you guys can send it out to your own staff through Adobe DocuSign. And have it signed by everybody. I'll finish up the staff training guide, which I'll be honest, I'm already working on it. And then, uh, Speaker 3 00:35:27 Chrissy, uh, sorry. Before you go on on this policy and the in terms of where to put it. In the calendar of items. Speaker 3 00:35:37 Should we roll the policy out? Because one of the things we were hoping to do, I have not received any A firm commitment from our program team as to who they may need to be. Who they may want to have on the committee, and I thought, okay, well. I'm not sure if we have shared the policy document with them. This is the first draft of the policy document, anyway. But in the whole process of things, should we have All the staff sign off, finalize the policy document, have all the staff sign off on it. Before everything starts, or is that sort of like. We can do it as we go along. Speaker 6 00:36:34 You can do it as you go along. Okay, yeah. Um, I've had I've had companies that. They verbally said in a meeting, this is what you're allowed to do and what you're not allowed to do, But didn't send out the policy for another two months because they were still fine tuning it. So. Speaker 3 00:36:51 Okay. Yeah. Right, okay. Speaker 6 00:36:54 Yeah. And. Speaker 3 00:36:55 I'm sure in the training that Crimson will conduct For the staff. Things will be mentioned as to what people can and cannot do. Correct. Okay. Speaker 6 00:37:10 Now, with that being said, um. I can so the AI policy guidelines can be moved around. I'm not worried about it happening on on May 5 th. But this staff training guide, I'd like to get that finalized probably by Wednesday of next week. It might be sooner. Um, and. I need the approved tools list. So if you and I don't remember off the top of my head, so bear with me and I do apologize. Um, I've got five clients pushing out AI tools this month. Um, and I mean this month as in the month of May. So Um, you guys, let me know. Are you going to allow people to use their own personal AI? Or coats and stuff. Speaker 3 00:37:56 Uh, no, at least the, In itial sentiment is for anything to do with CodeSon, you have to use the enterprise approved. AI platform. You cannot use whatever you know. Anything you want. Your own personal, Speaker 4 00:38:17 Yeah, your own personal version. Even if it's a consumer version that you pay for individually, I don't think that we want people using that, correct? Yes. For anything related to Coates and related. Um. Speaker 6 00:38:31 Business. Yeah. So, and that's that's good. And now that I have that, I'm going to mark that the approved tools list as taken care of. Um, so I'll finalize the staff training guide, send that over for you guys. Um, I will deliver my findings report usually by the end of next week. Um, And then we can do a review session as soon as I send that over. And what I want you guys to do during that, St akeholder review is sign off on what to remediate before AI rolls out. Um, And then we We will close it down on May 1, 5 t h and we'll start doing. Uh, we'll do training on that week as well. We'll go ahead and start the training, and then we'll start adding people to there. To Copilot. Speaker 3 00:39:22 Christy, I think what may be useful and you've listed it here, but just Sort of very brief. Summary of dates and what needs to be done by certain dates. That these dates that are impacting Our whole staff, so that I can pass it along to people. Let's say today or Monday or sometime to say, "Hey staff, remember realize." By May fourth, you've got to do this. By May sixth, you've got to commit to the training schedule. Speaker 3 00:39:58 You know, so that everybody is aware of that. If if that's a reasonable request, that will help us quite a bit. Speaker 6 00:40:05 Yes. Let me pull my calendar up real quick. Um, Let's do this real quick. While we're talking about that because what you said is. Pretty important. Um, I would like if you guys are good with it to do a training session with everybody on May tenth. And then one on. Speaker 6 00:40:28 Wednesday in the afternoon, my afternoons are pretty pretty clear. That week. So I'm sorry, Speaker 3 00:40:36 You said. May 10 th. Uh, okay. So so that's a Monday, right? Yes. Oh, the week of May 10 th. Oh. So are you saying Monday, May 11 th or May 10 th? Speaker 6 00:40:55 I'm sorry. Monday, May 11 th. Speaker 3 00:40:58 Okay, so Monday, May eleventh training. And do you know how long the training will be? Speaker 6 00:41:06 It will be an hour to an hour and a half. Why don't we go ahead and settle for an hour and a half? Okay. And then what so what I'll do is I'll give you three days. To choose from, and then you guys tell me what times work best for you. For you. Speaker 1 00:41:24 Okay. So. Speaker 6 00:41:26 Monday, May eleventh, anytime in the afternoon. Monday, this thirteenth, anytime in the afternoon or anytime after ten thirty. I am trying to keep my Tuesday of that week. Clear because I have a client that has an ELT meeting sometime in the next couple weeks that they want me to attend. So I am trying to keep that day clear. Um, and then we can do Wednesday. Uh. We can do anytime Wednesday. Speaker 6 00:41:57 U h, these are not meetings, so I don't need to worry about that one. Let me Categorize those real quick. These are just informational. Okay, so anytime. Anytime but one o'clock and three o'clock. Speaker 3 00:42:22 You mean Friday, Friday, May 15 th? Speaker 6 00:42:24 Yeah, so anytime other well let's do anytime in the morning. Speaker 4 00:42:31 So we have a mail Monday, May eleventh, anytime in the afternoon. Wednesday, May thirteenth, anytime in the afternoon, and we have Friday the fifteenth, anytime in the morning. Yes. Speaker 3 00:42:43 But I think Wednesday, May 13 th, you also said 10:30 in the morning. Speaker 6 00:42:48 Yes, 10:30 in the morning to. Anytime in the afternoon. Speaker 3 00:42:54 Okay, so we should probably then send out an email to the staff today. And these trainings, are they different types of training? So everybody should attend all three or they're exact same trainings. Speaker 6 00:43:09 They're exact same trainings. Um, people can attend one or they can attend all three. Speaker 1 00:43:16 I see. Okay. Speaker 6 00:43:17 I've had people do all three of the same trainings just because they they wanted to make sure they got it. Speaker 5 00:43:24 Okay. We have May 15 th is our mentor meeting, so I don't think many people would actually participate in that training date. Okay. They won't be available. Speaker 3 00:43:33 All right. Well, I'll still mention it because the Maybe some people on the admin side may want to participate, but I'll still mention. Yeah, so I'll still mention it. And the trainings go for how long? Speaker 6 00:43:52 U h, let's say an hour and a half just to be on the safe side. Speaker 3 00:43:55 An hour and a half. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 6 00:43:57 And you guys can tell me what times you want. And I'll send out the invites. Speaker 3 00:44:02 Okay. And the trainings will be done via Zoom, Teams. Teams. It's Teams then, right? Yes. Okay. Okay. Speaker 3 00:44:23 So what I'll do, Chrissie, I'll draft an email and if we have any questions or doubts, I'll let you know just to make sure. Reporting the right dates and times to the staff, and then we'll get back to you. Speaker 6 00:44:42 Not a problem. I'm going to just go ahead and block my calendar for those days. Just so that it's there. Speaker 6 00:44:52 And that way nobody schedules over it because people will find blank areas of my calendar. And they like to schedule. Yeah, as you can see my my calendar gets pretty uh. Pretty full pretty quickly. So. Um, anything else I can help you guys with on that? on that portion. Uh. Speaker 3 00:45:21 And by portion you mean just the training days or anything else? Just the training. Um. No, I mean, Is there any prep work for the training that we or the staff need to do? No. No, okay, okay. Speaker 6 00:45:39 Basically, you guys are free just to send me your ideas. Anything you have questions about. Um, and other than that, you guys are free until next week when I send out my findings email. For remediation. So. Speaker 2 00:45:53 I have a question for Kamiya. So Kamiya, like for the before the training, so are we gonna have access to like enterprise version of? Like Copilot, or is it Copilot and one other AI tool? Speaker 3 00:46:11 I didn't think we had access to anything yet. Speaker 2 00:46:16 Right, like prior to the training we're supposed to have that or. Speaker 3 00:46:22 U h, I don't know. I mean, we we don't have the enterprise version yet. Speaker 6 00:46:28 We can go ahead and add the enterprise version to whomever. You want to have it right now. So just be aware nothing's been cleaned yet. Speaker 3 00:46:38 But why would we need access? Speaker 6 00:46:42 Um, I would say more than likely usually to test different things like. As you're going through and we're cleaning things out, Maybe Steve wants to test to make sure HR data is not where it shouldn't be. Things like that. And, that's perfectly acceptable. As long as it's the people you trust to have that access. Speaker 2 00:47:05 So that also prior to the training, we might have some idea of how it works and you know, we might have more questions. On you know, like some of the functions come. The training session. Speaker 4 00:47:20 It's kind of like a chicken or an egg issue, right Because you don't want you want to have. All the permissions set up before you roll out the, before you roll out the AI. But, you also want people to come in prepared and ready to experiment with it. After the training, you wouldn't necessarily want to have the training and then say, okay, well. Wait, until we roll out the actual AI system that's going to be enabled in the next two weeks. You know, um, I am not sure what Christy generally like what. Is this common? Do we have an AI training long before the system is rolled out? Speaker 6 00:48:07 So it depends on what you want. As a comment, I'd say 50%. Say yes, that they want to give certain people access before the training. And fifty percent is like no, let's just turn it all on at the same time. So it's up to you. You're talking about a week or two difference as far as cost, it's not going to make any difference. So, But it needs to be thought through of who needs it on and what do they may have access to. Speaker 4 00:48:42 But I mean, we're talking about Copilot too. Cause technically we could, you know, If we were to use Claude and open it up to Claude or Chat GPT or both to everyone. And say. Hey, we're gauging interest. Would you like to use this enterprise version that we're paying for? I mean, all the permissions are generally. They're not they're not applicable because you are using that and it's not enabled. It's not within our system. Right, you still have to feed the information into these AI tools. So, in a sense, like if you wanted to, we could say," Hey, is anyone interested in?" Joining uh you know. We're doing a cloud subscription. If anyone wants to join, let us know because it'll be starting. You know, next week or whatever, or ahead of the training. Speaker 6 00:49:38 Hi. Um. So let me give you a quick update. Um, sorry. Let me give you guys a quick heads up on Claude. You have to I don't know if you guys have looked into it. Um I am going into a client's version of Claude, which they are completely okay with me showing it to you guys, but with Claude for the business. Um, you have to get a minimum of five users. Speaker 6 00:50:10 And I need to make her an admin. So, just a quick heads up on that. If if you go in, it has to be five users at this moment. You can see that we've only got two in there, But we just we're still working on setting up with everybody, and they keep They keep putting balls on it. But we do have five seats. Three of them are available in this one because they're testing it on the back end. Um, and so if you do, um, sorry, a fly just flew in my face. If you do set up a Cloud Teams account, it's automatically set to not send your data out. So just a heads up. And OpenAI or ChatGPT is a minimum of two users, so a little bit different. And I can help you set both of those up. Speaker 2 00:50:57 So I guess before the training may be coming up. So what the things that we, To establish our, you know, the AI committee. Um, maybe like what tools we can. Provide like what we can have available for the ones who want to use AI. And then the AI policy. At least. That's those are the three important things that I could think of before we actually have the training. Speaker 3 00:51:27 Yeah, and well, you know, I also want to make sure. For instance, right now on, Or set of like file network, the permissions will it be replicated? So, for instance, if I see okay. So if for instance we have like an HR folder. The people who don't have access to it will continue not having access to it, right? Speaker 6 00:51:53 Correct. So if you pull in Claude or, uh, Co orum ChatGPT. It can only access, On your computer, what you can access, and that's it. Speaker 4 00:52:06 Okay. So it's really built into our system and using the same file permissions as. Microsoft is what you're saying. Yes. Okay. Speaker 6 00:52:21 Um, it doesn't have as much access as Copilot does. Which is why it's, which is why I'm more okay with you rolling it out. Um, Claude and ChatGPT faster to your staff. Um, But basically, we still want to do the file cleanup, because, if let's say, Casey has some has access to a file that she doesn't realize she has access to, well Claude now has access to it. And so if she searches for data, it may pop up. And give her information she probably shouldn't have. So, got it. We have seen that. Um, she was so she being the. Speaker 6 00:53:01 Person who figured this out last year, we rolled out. I think it was September. We rolled out Claude to a company and we advised them, "Hey, you want to make sure we can run scans for you," and they didn't want to pay for it. Um, And so they didn't realize that a current salary report was sitting out in a public folder. And someone did a scan or did a co-pilot or I am sorry, Claude search. And said, "Hey, what is my current salary? Check my system for it." And she didn't realize she had access to that file. And Claude at the time was not as. You know, all AI is not always accurate. And it pulled one of her peers' salary information instead of hers. And she quit because she found out she was not getting paid the same amount as the other person. So. Yeah. So then they came back and asked for the scan. So. Speaker 3 00:53:60 So basically, you know, I don't know. I am really ambivalent and undecided as to whether to make that available to people to test it out, you know. Before you know finalizing everything. I mean, I always err on the side of caution. So, I mean, I'd rather. You know, We have waited all this time, and you know, another week or two is not going to suddenly create. an expert in AI or even, you know, questions are going to remain. Before training, after training. So even when we do have training, we're still going to have questions about how to use it, what to do. Even afterwards, so but but that's just my opinion. Speaker 5 00:54:54 Call me everything it's a. Pre tty busy couple weeks for everybody in the foundation, so I don't think anybody's going to even if they had access. How much time are they going to have to kind of explore? Speaker 3 00:55:07 So Tyler, in terms of Timing, you know, we had a commitment of dates and of everything. But if you think realistically speaking, U m, just Christie for your information. We have got 19 staff, 12 I think are on the uh program side. And then seven on the admin side of the twelve, Tyler. If you think none of them is going to have any time. For the training. Speaker 5 00:55:42 I don't think so. We have our big event. The Saturday after the last training, there's going to be I mean we have board meeting prep. There's just a lot going on. I just, Don't know how much time people are going to spend. Speaker 6 00:55:55 Don't underestimate someone excited about new technology. I see Anzor. Speaker 5 00:56:00 We're not really excited for new stuff in our organization. Speaker 6 00:56:03 I see. On, on. Speaker 5 00:56:05 You have a hard time with change. Speaker 6 00:56:06 Yeah, I understand that. Um, yeah, I see people on all the time, and I am just like," Do you not sleep?" But then again, what am I doing up at midnight? But Yeah. Speaker 3 00:56:21 I mean, probably a much better timing would have been in the fall because right now, you know, Everybody is busy finalizing the end of the school year. And then afterwards, people are going to go on vacation. So but is what is. So we'll do the best we can. And. I think the four of us here, Chrissie, will discuss and see if we need to roll out any. acceptable AI medium before the training or not. So But I'll send out the email today. We'll finalize it for the training sessions. And. Speaker 3 00:57:11 Anything else on anyone's mind? Speaker 4 00:57:18 Obviously, we want as many people to participate in the trainings as possible. Yes. So Given, given what Tyler had mentioned and how busy our program staff are. I think we might consider being some being a little flexible. So Christy, if we talk internally and decide, hey, we might need to push back the trainings a little bit. I hope that you can accommodate. We also do want as much input from the program staff as possible, not just the four of us that are in the meeting right now. Speaker 5 00:57:49 Well, The first training date is our staff meeting where we're all at the office. So. Speaker 4 00:57:53 No one's. Speaker 5 00:57:54 Gonna be busy that afternoon. There you go. They should have an open calendar. Speaker 6 00:57:59 Good. Um, so just a heads up for you the following week. Speaker 6 00:58:05 Um, hang on one second. The following week, the week of the seventeenth through the twenty-third. Um, yeah, you the sky's the limit on meetings. Uh, anything in purple I can't. And anything in red, I can't other than this one. I don't want to attend that. Um, but pretty open except for my one o'clock. Um. Friday, I do have it uh blocked out because my daughter has a light day that day. Um, In it and also I have a a project the following week that I have to go to because the following week I will be in. Big Bear for a client. So, the twenty second is going to be a lighter day for me. But 18 th through the 21 st, I'm pretty wide open. So. Speaker 4 00:58:60 Okay. So. Speaker 3 00:59:02 U h, Christy, one one thing about these training sessions. We won't mention it, but just in case. Is it being recorded and can it be viewed later? Speaker 6 00:59:12 Yes, I will send you the recordings when we're done. Speaker 3 00:59:15 Okay. I think that that will be very helpful because I mean, I hesitate. You know, I am very I really believe in full disclosure, but I hit, To mention a recording is available, Or maybe the four of us will discuss. And we say just just to be. flexible for everybody. We'll just say if somehow you cannot make any of these three days, There is a recording available and you can watch it later. Maybe that's better for full disclosure. Mhm. That way then I think. Speaker 3 00:59:55 We'll hopefully get most of the nineteen people in one of those three or in all of those three sessions. And then, you know, somebody can't do it and wants to watch the training on a Saturday morning. It's their decision. Yeah. Yeah. Wait. All right. Well, lots of work to do. Yes. Thank you very much, Kristy, for your, Le adership and you know, we'll really rely on you. And uh, you know as as we all know. You know, by the end of May, That's not the end of our interactions. And it will just be the beginning of a lot of people coming to you and your staff with a lot of questions. Speaker 6 01:00:44 They're working on a couple of AI projects, so they're ready for any of the questions your team might bring them. Speaker 3 01:00:51 Okay. There you go. Yes. Thank you. All right, thank you very much. Speaker 6 01:00:56 Thank you, Christy. Have a great evening. You.
07-24 Meeting: AI Training Plan for Carney Properties
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-24 08:58:18 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi], [Pete] ## Meeting Notes ### Training Schedule, Format, and Content - **Structure:** A three-day AI training session is scheduled for Carney Properties on Monday (July 27), Tuesday (July 28), and Wednesday (July 29), 2026, starting at noon each day. Each session will last approximately two hours for 25 participants, who will all attend all three days. - **Content:** Christi has prepared approximately six hours of content built around a checklist provided by the client in May and recently tightened. The training materials, including dummy data for finance/HR examples, and session recordings will be shared via email. - **Flexibility:** The content for Day 2 and Day 3 will be adjusted based on the outcomes and feedback from Day 1. Pete suggested checking in with the client's contact after Day 1 to ensure satisfaction and adjust focus if needed. - **Logistics:** An 11:00 AM Foothill-related meeting affects Alonzo's attendance; Pete rescheduled this meeting two hours earlier to accommodate. ### Day 1: Introduction and Fundamentals - **Objectives:** The primary goal is to demystify AI and make it immediately useful for real Carney work. Every participant will complete a hands-on task to get a useful output. - **Ground Rules:** Reference cheat sheets will be emailed, sessions are recorded, there is no grading, and failures are treated as data points for review. Christi requested screenshots of failures for Day 2. Open Q&A is encouraged. - **Core Concepts:** - **Value Proposition:** For Carney's team of ~25 managing a large portfolio, AI can shift time from mundane tasks to strategic judgment and relationships. AI excels at summarizing, drafting, reorganizing, explaining, comparing, and translating technical language. - **Automation vs. Generative AI:** Automation is deterministic (e.g., Outlook rules), while generative AI is improvisational, capable of creating novel content but requiring human supervision. - **Supervision:** Treat AI like a brilliant, tireless, but overconfident intern. All outputs, especially numbers, dates, citations, and legal references, must be verified. ### Risks, Myths, and Governance - **Risks:** - **Hallucination:** AI can produce confident-sounding falsehoods. - **Model Inbreeding:** AI learning from AI-generated text can flatten writing styles. - **Security:** Pasting sensitive information into a tool constitutes sharing it. A dedicated security block will be covered in the final session. - **Regulation:** Policies are in constant flux; prompts and internal policies should be resilient to change. - **Myths vs. Realities:** - AI offloads repetitive work but doesn't eliminate the need for human judgment. - Carney's business-grade AI accounts ensure conversations are private and not used for external model training. - AI is not always right and requires fact-checking. - AI provides benefits across all roles, not just technical ones. ### AI Tools and Prompting - **Available Tools:** Carney has Microsoft Copilot (integrated into Outlook, Word, etc.), Claude (integrates with Word/Excel), and ChatGPT. Participants can use their preferred tool. - **Framing Tool Comparisons:** To mitigate legal risk (libel), Pete instructed Christi to frame tool comparisons based on their strengths (e.g., "Claude’s strength is...") rather than making absolute negative claims (e.g., "Copilot can't do X"). - **Tool Strengths Overview:** - **Microsoft Copilot:** Best for tasks within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, like summarizing email threads, drafting replies, and building Excel formulas. It can see user activity without copy-pasting. - **Claude:** Excels as a "deep reader" for long documents like leases and loan agreements. It can analyze entire folders of documents (e.g., summarizing 30 invoices into a table). - **ChatGPT:** Strong in native image generation, data analytics, web research, and creating custom GPTs for repeatable tasks. - **The Four Building Blocks of a Strong Prompt:** 1. **Role:** Define the AI's persona (e.g., commercial property manager). 2. **Context:** Provide essential facts the AI cannot know (dates, names, scope). This is the most critical element. 3. **Task:** The specific action verb (e.g., draft, summarize, compare). 4. **Format:** The desired output shape (e.g., bullet points, email, table). - **Interaction and Iteration:** Users should interact with AI conversationally, providing corrective feedback within the same thread to leverage the AI's contextual memory. A demonstration showed how a generic prompt yielded a poor result, while a detailed one was much better but still required correction on an assumed date. - **Document Reading:** Christi clarified that by default, tools may only read a document's index or preview. Users must explicitly prompt them to "read the full document" for deep analysis. ### Day 1 Exercise and Day 2 Plan - **Day 1 Exercise:** An 8-10 minute hands-on exercise where participants will use a tool for a job-relevant task that doesn't require file access, based on a provided list. Pete cautioned Christi to ensure no sensitive history is visible during live demos. - **Homework:** Before Day 2, participants are to use one tool for a real task (e.g., summarize a thread, draft a notice) and bring their successes and failures. - **Day 2 Plan (Scheduled for July 25 at 12:00):** The session will focus on moving from getting _an_ answer to getting the _right_ answer efficiently. It will start by reviewing homework and then cover eight advanced prompting patterns: Role vs. task, Context/task/formats, Compare, Convert/reshape, Reason, Research augmentation, Show examples, and Constrain. These will be supported by a handout and live demos using real Carney documents. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to send the meeting recording to Pete and Anzor. - [ ] Christi to send the PowerPoint presentations to Jason on July 24, 2026. - [ ] Prepare Day 1 training materials using strengths-based, legally-safe language for tool comparisons. - [ ] Add a disclaimer to the training that all tools can perform most tasks and user preference may vary. - [ ] Conduct the Day 1 hands-on exercise, ensuring it doesn't require file access. - [ ] Email cheat sheets and reference materials to participants after Day 1. - [ ] Collect and review participant screenshots of failures to address in Day 2. - [ ] Adjust Day 2 and Day 3 content based on Day 1 outcomes and client feedback. - [ ] Distribute the Day 2 handout covering the eight prompting patterns. - [ ] Prepare live demos for Day 2 using real Carney documents, including vendor proposals and a lease. - [ ] Cover security safeguards and governance comprehensively on the final day. - [ ] Verify Alonzo’s availability for the training sessions. ## AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Confirm the detailed agenda items from the client align with the updated three-day structure. > 2. Define specific criteria for "useful output" from the Day 1 exercise so participants know what success looks like. > 3. Establish a standardized process for collecting, storing, and reviewing failure screenshots (location, format, privacy). > 4. Clarify which documents/data participants should provide to AI for accurate numbers, dates, and square footage. > 5. Set clear guidance on preventing exposure of sensitive information during live tool demonstrations. > 6. The meeting mentioned three AI tools, but only provided details on Microsoft Copilot and Claude. The third tool (ChatGPT) was not discussed in as much detail in one segment. > 7. Consider a brief legal counsel review of the training script to ensure libel-safe phrasing. > 8. Test and confirm each department’s tool access (OneDrive, spreadsheets) to prevent exercise failures where file access is intended. > 9. Create a standard prompt snippet to force full-document reading and include it in materials. > 10. There is no clear timeline or action item for Christi to follow up on Anzor's feedback after he watches the meeting recording. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Karney training practice dry run with Pete + Anzor (9:00-10:03am): rehearsed 3-day AI curriculum against Karney's expanded agenda (they expanded the general course outline significantly), refined module structure/pacing/session grouping, finalized PowerPoint decks (sent to Jason same day), feedback loop with Anzor before delivery. Internal Crimson prep - not billed to Karney (all-Crimson attendees).
- Date
- Jul 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:02:49 Oh. Hi, Sorry, I jumped because I had I was reading something and forgot that I was in a meeting. Good morning. Speaker 3 00:02:58 Happy Friday. Absolutely. Speaker 2 00:03:02 I don't want this weekend to happen. It's gonna be a busy weekend. It's gonna be what? It's gonna be a busy weekend. Okay, I hear you. It is kiddo's eighteenth birthday slash graduation party slash going off to college party. We did all three together. Speaker 3 00:03:25 Lovely, yes, yes, Yeah. Speaker 3 00:03:30 So I will give Alonzo a minute. Um, we have a ninety minute meeting with Foothill, and he has to be on site, and it's at eleven o'clock. So I purposely made this two hours early, hoping he could attend. But I don't know. So, we will, uh and yesterday was his birthday. So yes, anything anything's possible, so we'll give him one more. We'll give them one more minute, and if it doesn't happen, then we will proceed. Okay. And I want you to pretend like I am Carney. Now, did they send anything over? Speaker 2 00:04:09 Oh yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:12 We've Been going back and forth for four months. There's. I thought Cotson was overly prepared. They made Cotson look like they were underprepared. Okay. So. Speaker 3 00:04:26 Can you describe to me or. Um. Tell me what they have asked for specifically. Speaker 2 00:04:34 Mhm. We have a whole agenda that they created. Okay, and so I took their agenda and I broke it out into. So this is what they sent me. Okay, It is the This is everything that they want to cover. Now, I gave them a, a generalized um, Three day training course, and they took that and expounded upon it. So this is everything that they asked for. Okay, and I built my training around that back in May. And then I went back through yesterday based on some stuff that Trace and I was talking about kind of tweak some things tightened it up, and then because it is technically three days. Speaker 2 00:05:27 And so this is going through all the modules, uh, And then now when I, Speaker 3 00:05:32 When we when we talked before and I asked the three days if it was just three sessions with the same with different groups, I thought you said it was three sessions with different groups because the groups were too big to have all at once. Is that correct? Speaker 2 00:05:48 No, he changed it on me. We're doing everybody all three days. Oh yes okay. So that's why yesterday I retweaked all my training stuff for them, which is not it wasn't hard. It was actually pretty easy, and I kind of liked it. Speaker 3 00:06:03 So and and then when are the trainings? They start Monday, and then when what else? So Monday, and then Monday for how long? Speaker 2 00:06:11 Monday for two hours, Tuesday for two hours, and Wednesday for two hours. Wow. Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Speaker 3 00:06:18 That's a lot. Speaker 2 00:06:19 I am excited, like you have no idea. In fact, Speaker 3 00:06:22 And you are ready with six hours worth of content. Speaker 2 00:06:27 I already had most of this created so. Speaker 3 00:06:29 Okay, all right. Well then let's get started and um and let's see what you got. Speaker 2 00:06:34 Okay, So we're just going to go through day one, because uh day two and day three is going to be tweaked according to what comes out of day one. So um So I am going to just I am going to turn you off. Because I don't want to see you. No offense, you've got a beautiful face. Um, you know, saying in a in a H R friendly way. Speaker 3 00:06:57 Let me let me just let me just turn my camera off. That's okay. Speaker 2 00:07:01 Perfect. And then do you want me to record so we can reutilize this later? Or do you want me to go straight? Speaker 3 00:07:07 Yeah, go for it. Yeah, that's fine. Speaker 2 00:07:08 Okay All right some. Speaker 2 00:07:19 Welcome everybody. Over the next three days, We're going to take the mystery out of AI and turn it into something you'll actually use on Monday morning. So, throughout this, I'm going to reference into cheat sheets that I'm going to give out to you guys and that'll be sent to you via email after the class is over with. Now real quickly, We're going to go over the foundation and first Wednesday. We're going to talk about what AI actually is how you can talk to it. And, a tour of the three tools that Carney Properties is going to be utilizing. And we're going to get you your first real win today, okay? So, What we're doing here today and the promise for today is every person on this call uses AI on real Carney work, and you are going to get something useful back. You are not going to get a demo that you watch. ; you are going to get something that you did. And by the time we hang up, every person is going to have a good understanding of the ground rules. Speaker 2 00:08:12 And a good understanding of how you can work through AI and what you can be doing there. Now, there's no ground rule or no dumb questions, so feel free to interrupt me. This is recorded and the reference materials is going to be sent later, so you don't need to take notes unless you really want to. We also are not grading anything. If you try something this week and it flops, that's data. And I actually want to know about it, So I'm going to give you my information later on, if you don't already have it. And if something fails, I want you to send me what happened in the screenshots because that's actually good training for us and for you. And then we'll also we'll fix it on day two. And so when we get in and do more work. Um twenty five Good Lord, I am about to sneeze. So why Carney is doing this Your firm has been buying, building and operating property for over seventy years with a small team. Speaker 2 00:09:09 Twenty five people manage a portfolio of a much larger organization. We need three times the staff to run. You are doing some stuff that's pretty impressive for a company. Now, that only works when your time goes to judgment and relationships instead of retyping, formatting, rereading. And, this is a gap that we're going to utilize AI to fill even more than what you are already doing. So I want you to be aware that this is Stuff that's going to help you. You're already financially sophisticated, But this is going to help you break down the mundane stuff and get through that a little bit faster. So today we're going to talk about AI. We're going to show you what this is. We're going to show you how to talk to it. We're gonna give you your three tools and you're gonna leave with your first real win on day two. We're gonna go over prompt patterns, We're gonna run them against real Carney workflows and you're gonna leave with a repeatable skill. Speaker 2 00:10:05 Wednesday, we're going to talk about guardrails, governance, and a six-month plan. So you're going to leave with some tool decisions and a roadmap of what you guys want. And we're going to talk about what's safe. Now that gives you two definitions. But, what I want to really focus on is what AI is and what's not. Reality is it's a really fast well-read writer. Okay, it's read an enormous amount of information. It's gotten extremely good at predicting what comes next, and that's what AI is. It's a prediction tool. It goes through and it bases its information on what a majority of humans are going to think and do based on everything it's read. So, it's really good at that part. It's also really good summarizing, drafting. It's also really good at reorganizing. um, it's definitely great at explaining and comparing and it translates. Speaker 2 00:11:02 Language into plain English. So, you know, when I get into those technical pieces and I start jabbering with technical language, It's really good at taking that technical language and dropping it down to something that's more understandable. Okay. Now, one thing I want you to understand, it doesn't think the way you think. It has no opinions. It has no stake on the outcome and no way to know what it does not know. So it is can be unreliable, Especially on specific numbers, dates, or square footage, unless you hand it the document that contains it. Okay. One thing I want you to remember is it's unreliable with anything that requires certainty unless you give it enough data to build out that certainty. So if that's one thing you remember today, take that one away. Now the other thing we want to go over is automation versus generative AI. That's something that so. Speaker 3 00:11:59 So I'm gonna so I'm gonna jump in here because you said interrupt you. So I'm gonna be I'm gonna be Carney right. So, So, how do I? How do I present information to it? If I like? How do i How do i present? Make sure that, that information is available to the AI tool? Or are you going to show me that later? Speaker 2 00:12:19 So we are going to go over that later. But one thing I can tell you is the more information you give it, the better job it can get. It can give you actual results. So if you give it a floor plan, but you don't give it any numbers in a floor plan, it's not going to know that square footage. But, if you've got numbers in it that it can pull, and it can calculate those, then it's going to come at a more accurate number. You just got to make sure you give it the full picture as much as you're capable of doing. Okay. So one thing I want to go over is automation versus generative AI. Speaker 2 00:12:56 You already have automation here at Carney. So you have a rule that files an email, that's automation. Same thing every time, it never surprises you, it never improvises. It never, it's a machine. You configure it once and you walk away. So think about that Outlook rules. That's something that is an automation. Generative AI is where AI comes in, it improvises every time, It can write a notice that you've never described in detail. Now, That's not going to say whether or not it's right or wrong because it can also invent things. It's very confident and it will do it without telling you. And one thing I do want to state is, it is an assistant and you have to supervise an assistant. One thing I'll go a little farther and say, it is more of an intern in some areas than an assistant in other, and you would never leave an intern to go around working unsupervised. Speaker 2 00:13:52 So you do have to supervise it. So be aware of that. Now, it is already in the tools you use. So we have Copilot for you and it's sitting inside Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams right now. So that's already there for everybody on this call. And later on, we're going to go over what that looks like and how you can use those in each of your tools. But that is part of generative AI. So I want to make you a little bit more aware. But, there are things in PowerPoint that you can do to make your presentations better. There are things you can do with Copilot in a Word document to maybe change up the language. Maybe you realize that, um, the document that you wrote may be a little bit stronger in, in more technical language than the person it's going to. And so you might need to change that up a little bit. That's where AI really shines. Okay? And that's for Copilot. Copilot is sitting inside of those and. Speaker 2 00:14:46 Also, Claude. When we installed it on your computers, we also installed Claude to go into your Word and Excel. So, and we'll go over how that how you're going to use that as well. But let me go ahead and talk to you about myths and realities. Okay? One big myth is going to take my job. That is a fear everyone arrives with, And I can I can say this for sure because I work in IT. And that's one of the biggest things that people are saying, AI is going to take IT jobs. It It won't. There is always going to be something that I have to do, so just teach you guys AI. Um, the next myth is: Is spying on everything I do? And that's a fair question to ask. Um, you guys bought business grade accounts. Conversations belong to Carney, and they're not going to be used to train the model because we have those business grade accounts. Jason has admin visibility, uh, so be aware. Speaker 2 00:15:46 But he can't read your chats. There's no no way for him to actually read your chats. What he can do is look at the usage, and he can add and remove people from it. He can check the security parameters, all of that there, but he can't read what you're actually chatting. Neither can I. Okay? Um Another myth that people have is it's basically always right, and it's actually wrong. Um AI hallucinates a lot and is very confident And it's hallucinations. And so you got to double check and reread things. The next and last myth that I have for you today, there's plenty of them out there, but the one I'm going to cover today is it's only for technical people. I would say that that is very much a false statement. And I have seen people from my daughter, using it to help her with some school stuff that she didn't understand how to do, All the way to, you know, a coworker of mine who's learning how to can at home. Speaker 2 00:16:44 And looking for how to use a canning machine, so it's it's out there for everybody. The reality is, It does take the part you dislike thirty percent of your job that you don't like this, repetitive that you do all the time. It's going to take that away. I hate organizing my inbox with a passion because I get so much email and I got three inboxes I got to look after. So what I've taught AI to do is to categorize and move out things that I don't need to see every day. And that's helped get rid of and cause me to spend less time on email and actually reply to people faster. Now, there are some emails I get missed. Not going to lie, I am not perfect. AI is not perfect, but you know it does help. Another thing to understand, you guys already mentioned it's part of your business accounts. Your conversations do belong to Carney and it does not train the model. And, that's something that is a big fear. Is that what you say in AI is going to go back out to the internet. Speaker 2 00:17:41 And that's simply not true for Carney because it's built upon a business account. And that feature is turned off, and there is no way to turn it on. Okay. Um, is confidently wrong regularly? Absolutely, hundred percent. I had it working with me on something yesterday that I wanted to write up, and it did the math wrong. So I do watch for that constantly. I am going to advise you to watch for that constantly and then The best users at most firms are not in IT. A lot of the users are in operations and finance, and that's where a lot of the bigger wins are happening with an AI. So just be aware of that. It's not an IT tool, trust me on that. I would use a little bit more IT if it was better at it, but it's not okay. Now here is your risks: hallucination. I know I keep mentioning this over and over again, but I really need you to understand that it will state something completely false. Speaker 2 00:18:38 With total confidence and not know it, okay? No number, date, citation or legal reference goes out unverified. Now, what you can do is you can build into your prompts safeguards, and we're going to go over that in when we build out the prompts. Okay model inbreeding. That's another one most of what these systems learn is from text and stuff that other AI wrote. Okay, it does flatten the writing. And it. Does make the errors a lot bigger. So be aware of that. This is why your voice and your edits still matter. I am going to show you how to have AI write in your own voice. It's not going to be perfect at it, but it gets you ninety percent of the way there. And so that's going to be something that's going to be very useful, and that's going to come out tomorrow in our training. Security: what you paste is what you share. Speaker 2 00:19:34 Okay, We're going to spend a full block on Wednesday. Regarding this, when we talk about safeguards and security and things like that. So I want you to be aware of that. And then regulation, the rules are moving fast. It's changing almost daily. Um, it gets updated. You'll see with Claude is going to constantly ask you to update sometimes two or three times a day. So when we work on Wednesday, We're going to show you how to set up policies and set up prompts and things that are going to hold up against some of against what changes there are in the future. Speaker 2 00:20:04 Okay, it's gonna be a fun one because prompts are great. All right, so I want you guys to understand is is brilliant, is tireless, slightly overconfident intern who has read everything and verified nothing. Okay, kind of like a teenager. So, you would never send an intern to work on a lease or or a tenant without reading it. Same rule here. Okay? And that's why I want you to treat it treat it like a brilliant, tireless slightly overconfident intern who has read everything and verified nothing And I would go as far as to say they're constantly hyped up on monster energy drinks. Okay, they get excited very easy. AI does and teachers. All right, so I want you guys to understand about prompting. I want to show you what a weak prompt looks like and a strong prompt. Okay, now you are going to you are actually going to use this right now, So open up either Chat GPT or Claude or Copilot, and we're going to go over all this. Speaker 2 00:21:03 All of what everybody looks like a little bit later, But go ahead and open them up and go to the chat and open up a new chat. And then if you get stuck on this part, let me know. And I want you guys to, we're going to. We're going to do the piece together, but I want you guys to open up your chats for right now. When you open it up, the very first thing you're going to see is this chat prompt. And it's going to give you where to type. And we're going to go over these two prompts. Speaker 3 00:21:29 Are you going have them all use the same tool Chris? Speaker 2 00:21:32 No, on this one we're not. We're going to let them choose because some some of them have had Claude and Copilot and Chat GPT for a few months now. So they've been using it and so they're going to have favorites. Okay. So actually most of them have I don't think there's anybody that hasn't had Claude or Copilot for a while now. Okay. So for this example, I am going to use Claude because that's actually the one I have open and. I'm going to have my new uh chat open here. And I'm going to tell it to write. Now, Speaker 3 00:22:10 Is there anything on the left that we don't want them to see? No. In your in your recents, Because I don't want them to see something that they shouldn't see in your history. So just so just be cautious be cautioustious of that because you don't want something that you. Speaker 3 00:22:31 Yeah. You know, Speaker 2 00:22:33 I figured it'd be easier to use my Crimson rather than my personal, because on personal, they're going to find out I'm the one who's looking at the candid stuff. Yeah. And playing seven days a day. So on this, I'm going to ask Claude to write a tenant note. Now you're going to see it doesn't have enough information, It's going to either make an assumption or it's going to ask me for some information. So in this point, it's actually going to ask me, And I'm going to say maintenance or facility work, honestly. That's something I know. I just got one from my own landlord. And I'm going to do alternates and ability. Okay? You can choose whatever you want, if you get those same questions, if you're using Claude or any other ones. And so here is its tenant notice. Now, Let's do something a little bit different because we gave it something generic. We had to write in what we want, all right? Speaker 2 00:23:28 I'm gonna give you a new chat, and I'm gonna ask you to take in this other prompt. In fact, oops, let me go back to it. I'm going to copy and paste it into the chat so that you guys have it. And then if you can put it in there, that way you're not typing everything out. All right, so there's the prompt. And we're going to paste this into our tool. All right, and then I'm going to just send that over, and I'm going to let it go from there. Okay. Now, here's what it looks like now. Because you're giving it more data. So we told it in our prompt, we're resurfacing the truck port and rear parking at this location. Speaker 2 00:24:26 Is going to be taken up over three consecutive weeks, weekends. Sorry, and so it's going to give you that information. It's going to say the fifteenth. Um, it's going to give you what access is opening up. It's going to give a lot of details. So if you go through and you read it, I am gonna let you guys have a few moments to read it. There is one thing we messed up on that. We didn't get it. And that is the fifteenth and Claude went in and assumed it meant August fifteenth. Mostly because that's the next current. Okay, all right. Now, in the actual training, I am going to go a little slower, but for the sake of today, I am going to push that out a little bit more. Um, I want you guys to be aware. It's the same tool different results because of each prompt. So be aware that your prompts really do matter. Right so. Speaker 2 00:25:22 What does a prompt look like? And there's four building blocks to that. Okay, role: who should it act like? Okay, you're a commercial property manager. That's who it should act like. What is the context? What facts can it not know and what facts can it know? So, A lot of the facts they won't know, and they cannot know, is which building, which tenants, what happened, what's the date. You know, what's going to be open, what's not going to be open. That's the context. That's the facts that the AI does not know. So what is the task? It's the actual verb. We wanted to draft, summarize, compare, rewrite, extract, list. In the in the example I had for you guys, it drafted. Okay. And then what is the format? It's a shape you want back how long what to tone is bullets, prose table, email memo. Speaker 2 00:26:19 Memo, those are the different things that you can add in it for the format. You can tell it, I want you to talk with a person and not at a person. That's actually a prompt I use often. So when I'm writing out a prompt and depending on what I want and who it's going to, I don't want it to talk at a person. That's actually a common thing that AI does. So I'll always correct it and say, I want you to talk with the person, to the person, not at them. Um, These are the four building blocks that I look at when I am writing a big, strong prompt, especially on something that's like a report or things like that. So, if I am writing a report on something and I want to send it over to Jeff or I am sorry, Jason, Then I am going to have it think in that in that format of how I normally talk to Jason. So these are these are really important for you on that now. Speaker 2 00:27:13 If you only remember one of the four of these building blocks, Which I'm going to send these to you in a handout so that you constant so that you have it to remember and look back at. But if you only remember one of the four, I want you to remember context. Okay? It's it's honest shortcut I can give you. Context is where all the quality lives. Everything else is just refinement. one. Speaker 3 00:27:35 Thing Chris, A suggestion and maybe you're going to cover this already. But when you're talking about this, I would, Make it a point to to tell them that you can interact with the AI, just like you would with a person. Like if it comes back and says, "I I did this," or "What else do you want?" or "I can change this for you." Make sure they know that they can just say, "Yes, please do that," or or do, you know add this to it and it'll do that in the next iteration. And maybe you are going to tell them that but. Speaker 3 00:28:10 Um, I just want them to know that they can talk to it, just like they would talk to a person. Speaker 2 00:28:14 Yes. So, um, One thing I am going to state is you are allowed to argue with it. So this is my favorite thing. Um, I like to come back and argue with Claude, uh which I do call my bestie. It's the best bestie you can get$200 for. So you are allowed to argue with it. You're allowed to come back and make statements. So you can follow up in that same conversation and say that's close, make it a little warmer. Or drop the apology in the first line. Or I don't use the word "kindly" in my conversations. Don't ever use that. And then you can go back and say, "Hey, I need a sentence as part that this is this work is part of the ongoing capital improvement projects at the property." So these are the things you're allowed to argue with it. You can argue with it with anything if you have it sent out and you say, "Wait, the date's wrong," and it goofed up, you can just tell it that so. Speaker 2 00:29:09 It does. If you're doing it in the same conversation, it will remember everything from the first message. You will refine by conversation. Don't start over. Um, so this going to be a good habit for you guys to remember. Keep talking to it in that same conversation or reply back, just like you were talking to anyone else. Um, And so this something I do see that separates people from those that love using it to those who quit after a week or a couple months. Okay? Nobody is going to get it right on the first try, including you. Now, three tools, three jobs. Most firms buy one ; Carney bought three deliberately, because leadership wanted the team to experience the differences rather than take a vendor's word for it. Now, you are going to look at your choices. You are going to. I am going to teach you what each one does well and what they don't. Speaker 2 00:30:05 And, that's something that's going to help you understand what tool is going to be right for the job. Now, first thing we're going to go over is Microsoft Copilot. One thing I want you to realize, if you don't go to it, it comes to you. So Microsoft Copilot is already in Outlook, it's already in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams. It's really helpful for summarizing a long thread. It's really helpful for drafting a reply in Outlook. Recap of meeting, build a formula. It sees what you're working on without you copying it anywhere else. So to show you what that looks like, I'm going to show you my Outlook. Now be aware, my Outlook is very very organized at this moment. So I do have a lot of colors and pretty pictures, but Copilot helped me do that. So I'm going to pull this over here in Copilot Here's, my email from Jason from the other day. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to have this little button right here, which is Copilot. Speaker 2 00:31:03 Summarize what this email thread is about. Okay, and so if it's a long email thread, it's really good at summarizing and giving you some information. It still might be wrong every now and then, But lately, I've not seen this one be as wrong as it used to be. But do you know be aware of that. So, here's the summary. Now on that, I can also go up here to my Copilot button and I've got a summarize and reply option here. Okay? And so Copilot is going to come up in another window. And it's going to look at replies and summary. It's going to take a guess at what it thinks you want to do. And then it's going to put that up in a draft format. It's not going to do that for us, it's not gonna send. So here's the suggested reply, and I can argue with it, I can say hey, I want this more in my language or I don't and go from there. Speaker 2 00:31:59 A few other things we're going to go about a little bit later, but I'm going to show it to you is prioritize. That is where it'll learn who you want to see. So I'm going to show you my prioritization. And, my prioritization is this : I'm going to let it show AI - generated summaries in the message list, And I'm going to also allow it to apply a low priority label and a high priority. So higher priority if it comes from Anzor or Pete within Crimson or it's about Camp Pavika. It also learns how you look at email. I'm going to go ahead and discard this because I didn't make any changes. But if you notice, Jason right here had a higher priority because it was he was requesting my guidance on some issues. And. So that's a good tool for you guys to learn about Copilot within Outlook. Now, it's unbeatable. This is the honest takeaway I can give you guys. It is unbeatable in anything that touches your Microsoft environment, meaning. Speaker 2 00:32:55 Anything that's saved in your OneDrive, anything that's saved in your uh Teams files, anything saved out in Microsoft itself, it's going to be unbeatable reading all that information. It's going to know. Okay, it's not the person you're going to ask to read a forty page lease. It's not great at that. But Copilot is the anchor to a lot of the apps and the tools that you use daily. Okay now the next one is Claude. Claude is It's a really good one for long documents and careful thinking. Okay, you it's you're going to be your deep reader. It's someone that, that will sit there and be happy to read a white paper. That's sixty pages long. Okay, it will read an entire lease, loan agreement, a cam package or a stack of vendor bids in one conversation. It does show its reasoning and it'll tell you when it's when it's unsure about something. Okay now, it does do the work just not the talking. Speaker 2 00:33:52 You can point it to a folder, describe what you want, and it plans the steps and executes them. So thirty invoices become one summary table. One thing I like to do is I'll point it to a folder full of invoices and I'll tell it pull all the June invoices that have to do with telecoms for this client. And it'll look and find all of that and it will summarize it. And it's really good at doing that. It very rarely makes a mistake on that, but sometimes you do need to watch. And make sure, but be aware of that. Okay, Now in Copilot I mean in Claude. Sorry, uh, you do have a couple of different things. I want you to work on. So you have chat here, you have co-work here. We're going to go into these a little bit more depth um and code here. We're not going to go into code on this one. But this is where you're going to point it to folders, you're going to have it do a few things. I actually had it reorganize a folder the other day. Speaker 2 00:34:50 And so it went through and reorganized the folder for me. These are the simple tasks that everyone needs to do because they're mundane. This is something you can have it do, And then you can go work on something else that you need done or go get that cup of coffee. You forgot to get this morning, okay? Speaker 3 00:35:04 So Chris, I am going to ask you to change what you say and how you have it in the document before you do this on Monday. You can't say. Speaker 3 00:35:19 This does or doesn't do this, and you have to you have to say this one does this well. Okay, But you can't say, Copilot doesn't do this and you don't use it for this, because if you record this and anybody from Microsoft or anybody from Claude hears that we said this in a training, they can come back and sue us for libel. Okay, got it because they will say. We can do that, and you told this whole company that we can't do that, And we're going to sue you now because you were the trainer and said that Microsoft's product can't do this. And I am being petty, but it's happened before, and I really don't want Crimson to get sued for nothing. So okay, you can say Claude's strength is doing this and Copilot's strength is doing this, but don't say that you don't. You can't use Copilot to do a forty page document, and you can't use Claude to do this. Speaker 3 00:36:12 So just say the strength of Claude is this, and the strength of Copilot is this, and the strength of uh Chat GPT is this. Just, just phrase it as those are the strengths as opposed to don't use the other one for that. Got it. Okay, get where I am coming from? Yep, I do. Okay, I had somebody i had The reason. I am saying that is I made a comment to one of my friends about a company once. And because I said, i said that I wouldn't use them because of this. And that company wanted to sue us because I told my friend that they sucked. And I said, well, I said it was my opinion. And that that made it okay because I said it was my opinion. But they wanted to sue us because I gave my buddy my opinion. You know, but I said it was my opinion so it made it all right. But they they were like so, It was that petty. So i i just don't want to especially if this is going to be recorded and memorialized. Speaker 2 00:37:04 So anyway Gotcha Yeah, i'll make sure i do that Okay Thank you All right, For ChatGPT, which is the next one, um, it is the only one that generates images natively. However, that is changing right now. So when I wrote this back in May, it was the only one that could generate images natively. Now ChatGPT uh is very strong in its native image generation, But Claude has created Design, and that has been released publicly in the last few few weeks. And then also um. Speaker 2 00:37:38 Copilot has also started generating images, So I want you guys to be aware that what I train you with today may change tomorrow. Just in how quickly AI is moving, it is also really good at data analytics, data and web research, voice and file processing all in one place. So, some of the things that I like to do is build out custom GPTs, which is projects that. You give it instructions on, and then it's the same instructions every time. And then you give it the things to do. So you can take and build a Carny Lease AskJake assistant, and then reuse it every time when you need it to look at leases. So, It's something that you know you could build for either yourself or share it out with other people. So for on Crimson side, we built a uh a custom Crimson version of creating statements of work. Speaker 2 00:38:36 And a lot of people use that when they're building out a state of work. Okay, You can do all of this in as agents and co-pilot and projects in Claude as well. So it's not just one thing there. Um, now this my opinion, so um this what I use it for, but with everything changing, this may change tomorrow. So as of today, here's what I what I reach for when I need to do certain things. Okay. To handle email, meetings, And anything that's already in Microsoft three hundred and sixty five I automatically just reach for Copilot. If I want it to read something long and think hard about it, or really do an in depth analysis, or even take an entire folder and search for and build out like a budget based on leases. Things like that I'm going to reach for Claude. If I wanted to do a little bit of everything, especially with images and quick analysis I'm going to reach for ChatGPT. Speaker 2 00:39:31 And let me show you what I mean on that. So and what. Speaker 3 00:39:34 What you could what you could add here, Chris, is you could say, now you could use any of these for any of those things. It's, just you might you may find once you do once you try them that you prefer one of these over the other. Yes, and and that way they that way they can kind of say, know, You might find out that You prefer one of these. As the tool that you know, that's your preference for something else, and you know that may differ from what from what I prefer. But because honestly, You know, i I sometimes use Copilot for some other things that you might not. But um but you know, they they may find something they may find Copilot simpler to use just from an interface perspective or Chat GPT and Claude might be too too complex for them. Speaker 3 00:40:26 So yes, you might just want to add that disclaimer at the bottom. One one other note, and I'm not trying to distract you. If if you want to just just note this, when you were having them do that proposal or that um. That uh, not proposal. That thing. That thing that you had them do um the communication? The communication? You might want to add an option for them to be able to save that or I don't know if they're going to ask how do I save this? Or how do I? If I wanted to save this to send it out, I don't think you gave them that note on how to do that. So I don't know if they're going to ask that, but if you want to offer that as part of that next step, you could if you wanted to. Speaker 3 00:41:10 Absolutely. Okay, go ahead. Speaker 2 00:41:11 All right, so I'm going to show you two tools. Even though I had told you which to reach for which, I'm going to show you two different things that I've done with Chat GPT and Copilot. So on Chat GPT, I actually use these GPTs all the time. So I'm CIO for a couple of different companies, And one of the things I do is every week I send out an IT update email to all staff. And, I know people read it because I include pictures on it, and the clients in my company uh, the clients there love those pictures. And if I forget a picture they let me know. So I've set up GPTs that will automatically format these pictures the same way every time. Speaker 2 00:41:53 I always want it to have Post-it notes, a computer. It always has to have a mug. And the mug has to have some kind of cute little, uh, you know, statement on it. And. So here's that one was free, and this moves, and these are a couple of different versions. And this where I put I argue with it a little bit. So I told it I wanted to put a little more emphasis on equipment moves because we don't want people moving equipment. So if you can see my little mug here patched now nap later, So this is something that I have in chat GPT. Now, the other day, I played around with making my own agent within Copilot, that does something really cool. So it's called Design Space. And what I want to do is let me see if I can find it. I gave it a picture of my um, click on it there we go. I gave it a picture of my living room without any furniture in it. Speaker 2 00:42:52 And this based off my apartment complex. So this my living room. And I told it, I wanted it to create some images for me. And, here's the images of what it would look like in different designs we can do. And, that's something maybe you guys might be interested doing what you're doing getting filled out. So these are a couple different things in here. Now one thing to note is when you're in Copilot, it doesn't automatically keep the picture rendering um for you on your computer, it does have to re-download it again But here's what it looks like once it downloads. It is a little slow, but this is what it looks like. So, It took the image of my apartment complex, or my my living room and I made a couple of different versions, and then it gave me some ideas. And you can see um there's some different things. I actually like the light and airy coastal feel just just a heads up. So, these are a couple of things you can do uh within the same tool. It does come very handy for people um. Speaker 2 00:43:50 So for a lot of those tasks, all three do a fine job. So just be aware of it. The differences are going to show up in the edges. So I want you to play around and put some of those things that you're asking it to do in all three and see which one gives you the better format. Um, and you're going to see sometimes Claude wins, sometimes ChatGPT wins, and sometimes Copilot wins. Okay? So, you're going to feel those in the next couple of days on what that looks like. Now it's your turn. Okay? I want you to pick something that's closest to your actual job and pick any tool you want. So, you've got a couple choices here. You're going to pick something from the list, and then I'm going to put you on mute for the next eight minutes. And I want you to have one of your tools, do something that's based on this funnel, okay? Speaker 2 00:44:48 Now, Pete, for this one, I'm not going to do that for you. That's fine. So I'm going to go on to the next. Speaker 3 00:44:54 So. So will they although have something that the tool will have enough information to do for them without them having to like will finance? Will it have access to data to actually do something for them? Speaker 2 00:45:16 Yes, their copilot already has access. Claude was set up with the connector back into Microsoft as well, and Chat GPT has been set up. Speaker 3 00:45:25 So, you might want to, you might want to preface it with the with that so that they know that, you know. So, for instance, if if you say you might want to say if you're from finance your tool, should have access to your spreadsheets and your OneDrive or or wherever that is. So if you wanted to do something that says, Um. Give me a summary of my, Something I mean I I can't think of what what I would do right now. But, um. Hello, Lucia. I don't know what they would have in their particular leasing folder or in their operations area or their H R stuff. But you know, maybe maybe they could they could say, can you. Speaker 3 00:46:13 You know, give me a list of my employees if they're in H R. Um, you could tell them it should have access to your, your files and your One Drive folder if it if it does. But I don't know. I don't know if it's going to fail and say it can't access those folders or you're going to get a bunch of errors or anything. So I, I don't know if you need to verify that or not. Okay. Speaker 2 00:46:39 That's why on this list, I picked things that wouldn't need to access their files. Okay. So like for the H R and admin, like a job description. So one thing I want to mention is give it some additional context of what you're looking for, which I can send to you. But that's on my notes. Okay. Um. And then we're gonna, we're gonna give them eight to ten minutes um also because it's a two hour meeting so they might need to get up and walk away Yeah, that's fine Okay. And then we're going to do a debrief, like what surprised you, what did you not expect or what did you expect and didn't happen? And then what disappointed you? So, that's something that's actually going to be pretty helpful because as we determine what disappointed you, we can also work around some of those issues. Maybe make a prompt better. Maybe look at how things are happening. Now one thing I am going to bring up prior to this, and I did I forgot to put it back in my PowerPoint. Speaker 2 00:47:38 Presentation, I'm going to add it back. Is that the way Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot work is they don't read an entire document when it's looking for something. It will read the index information for it. So maybe a first couple of paragraphs, Whatever is shown that Microsoft allows them to see without opening the full document itself. And so that's part of um part of something you got to know. You also need to tell AI to actually read the full document if it needs to. If you're searching for something. Speaker 3 00:48:08 So the other one, other note you might want to add on this slide is, did you interact with? Did, did you did you interact with the the tool after you submitted your request? You know, Like, did you did you go back and forth or what whatever you whatever you call that. I mean, You know how how you said, do uh argue with it or. Interact with it or whatever you want to call it. Did you did you tweak it? Did you uh I'm I'd be curious if they did more than just submit the request. Yeah. You know, did you talk to the tool? Did you interact with the tool after your initial re- uh request? Speaker 2 00:48:49 I added that to my notes just now. I'm going to add that in as a as a number. Okay So, All right. And then what I want you guys to do is before tomorrow use one of these in a one real task. Okay, I want you to summarize a thread or draft a notice. Rewrite a paragraph if it works, bring it. If it fails, definitely bring it. Failures are some of the best teaching material that I have and that we can actually go in and work on together. All right, um, you guys are welcome to come back with a mess. Whatever you want to bring, we're going to go over that tomorrow at noon. Um so what I want you guys be aware of. Speaker 2 00:49:28 Is day two, We're going to take you from I can get an answer to I can get the right answer on the first or second try. Okay, and we're going to run those against some of Carney's real workflows. Now, if you have questions between now and then, reach out to Jason or myself directly. Trust me, no question is too small; it's not dumb. And I can guarantee you that the most awkward questions become really useful. So my information is right here. Most of you guys have it. You can call the IT help desk as well or email them at help at crimsonit dot com. A lot of our technicians know AI really well, and they can help you with some items, but if you do email the help desk, Cc me so that I am aware of it, and we can answer a lot of these questions tomorrow. And that's it. Speaker 3 00:50:13 Okay, so your first day is two hours scheduled. So if you did the Q and A and the, Exercise, you're probably at an hour, hour and fifteen. So you're not going to fill two hours with this. Do you have additional content that you're going to add to this? You think or. Speaker 2 00:50:32 So when we actually I didn't want to do it with you because I I didn't want to cut into your time, but when we actually go over each tool, I'm going to go over a little bit more of what each tool looks like and where the chats are things that we're going to use in here. So that's going to take probably an extra ten fifteen minutes. Okay. Speaker 3 00:50:49 Is he going to be okay with ninety minutes versus two hours? Speaker 2 00:50:53 Yeah, I want I I want to give them some time to do that exercise and activity. I have one more exercise or activity that I may do with them, um just see where the time is because, uh with Carney in the past they're really good at interrupting. Okay. So I'm trying to not run over. Speaker 3 00:51:12 Okay, and then what does day two content look like? Do you want to? Speaker 2 00:51:18 Let me pull it up. I have all of it here because I'm going to share out with Jason once we go through it all. So, day two is regarding real prompts, and we're going to go over first before we get into day two, and we're going to answer a lot of the questions. So, real prompts, And then what we're going to go over is eight patterns that do almost all the work. And it's going to be ran against documents that you handle every day. But first we're going to go over yesterday's homework. And so, you know, I'm going to ask them, what did you see? What did you ask for? How did it come back? I want to know where the failures are, and we're going to fix it live. So this one's going to probably be about 10 or 15 minutes. We're going to fix any of the failures live, Especially because it builds confidence with our users if they see someone else's bad result. Speaker 2 00:52:16 And turning it into a good result, they're gonna that's going to be more helpful. Um, and it's going to make things a lot easier. And then I'm going to if no one volunteers a failure, I'm going to ask who got something useless back because I'm gonna have some ideas. So we're gonna go over that. So this is going to take a few minutes. Um. Now we're also going to talk about the wins, and we're going to talk about uh different things like that. And then we're going to go into yesterday was about getting an answer. Today is about getting the right answer, uh, quickly every time. And we're going to go over patterns. So, um, the role versus task, the context task and formats. We're going to go greater into prompting. Then we're going to talk about arguing. Um, Never accept the first shaft argue with it and compare that one's gonna be something um that we were gonna do. And then we're gonna put some things in practice. Speaker 2 00:53:10 Um, so we're going to compare three vendor proposals. Within uh, probably will probably use Copilot for this one. I hadn't written down to use Copilot for this one. Um, Where it's going to compare those three and then build out a comparison with scope, price, Warranty timeline exclusions, and then tell me what each one left out that the others included. And then we're going to go through Patterns five and six, which is reshape and reason. Um, and so we're going to talk about converting without changing substance. So, you know, taking meeting notes into a project plan. Um, Probably take something like a Word document or yeah, like a Word document and convert it into a PowerPoint presentation. Um, We're going to ask it to think through before you answer walk through the calculation step by step. And then give me the conclusion. Um another thing that we're going to have it do is. Speaker 2 00:54:08 Hey, this property. I want you to go into the internet and I want you to look for any information you can find about this property, besides what I already have. And so these are things we wanted to think through. And these are things we're going to show as an example. And, then we're going to paste something in that we already like so and ask for more of it. So here's a tenant notice we sent last year that hit the right tone. Write a new one about the fire alarm testing matching that voice and That's something that's going to be something you use often. So, matching tones and voices. Then we're going to put in a constraint. So, this is pattern eight: put boundaries in to improve the output. Tell it under one hundred and fifty words. Don't put in bullets. Don't use the word excited. Don't use the word kindly, and if information is missing, list what you need from me instead of guessing, and then I am going to give them. Speaker 2 00:55:02 All eight on one slide. This is also going to be a handout that's given out on day two. So we're going to talk about roles versus tasks. Um, we're going to talk again about context, format, It literate compare convert, think it through um show an example and constrain it, and they'll get this as a handout. And then we're gonna do live demos against real Carney work. So the same documents that they handle every week, We're gonna run several of these across two schools side by side. And so we're gonna say run this in Copilot. Or run this in Claude and then do it in Copilot and see what the differences are. Speaker 3 00:55:36 So, do they have so you have a lease that you can actually use? Okay, cool. Speaker 2 00:55:41 Yeah, I got real world examples from them. I didn't get this from people. Speaker 3 00:55:47 And when you put this training together and finished it, Did you kind of walk through their checklist of things that they asked for to make sure that your training covers all of the bullets that they wanted? Yes. Okay, so you're comfortable that everything that they asked for, you're going to cover in the three days that. Mhm. That you've got on on here. Yes. So, what I would recommend is that either after day one or day two at a at a minimum, talk to whoever your point of contact is and say, how are we doing on the training? Tomorrow's training is supposed to cover this stuff. Speaker 3 00:56:30 What else? I think that covers everything that we had in the agenda and what you had on your on your needs list. Is there anything that I'm missing that you want me to include, that I have not included, or that you want me to get more granular on? And maybe do it after day one or may or maybe, you know, I don't know how you want to do it. But, i would i would I would kind of keep tabs with your point of contact there after each day and just say. How do you think it went? Tomorrow's, you know, tomorrow's gonna include this and then Thursday Wednesday's gonna include this. And this is my plan. And, um let me know if there's anything more that you want me to focus on for the Tuesday or Wednesday or whatever. And I'll, you know, I'll adjust to include that. And um I think this will get this one looks good to me. This demo B, if it really has like leases and stuff like that, that's going to be applicable to them. I think that will be good. Speaker 3 00:57:29 Yeah, And then if you get into anything like for finance or for HR or whatever, obviously you can't share HR information with the whole group or whatever. But if you've got any dummy data or something for finance or for HR that they can look at, I think that would be that would be good. So okay. Speaker 2 00:57:48 Yeah, I do have dummy data so. Okay, Speaker 3 00:57:54 And then just be cautious like I said with anything that you're sharing with. Your Outlook or with your, With your personal information that if you do anything, especially that's real time or dynamic that it sorts your stuff or whatever, especially if anything comes in while you're. Yeah. Not watching you don't want anything confidential popping up or that would be. You know. Yes. Showing anything that you don't want shown? So yeah, Speaker 2 00:58:23 No, absolutely, okay. Speaker 3 00:58:25 What time what time is the training? Tomorrow. I mean on uh Monday at noon. Noon each day? Yes. Okay. Why did they stack them Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday instead of staggering them and giving people a little bit of chance to absorb some of it? Speaker 2 00:58:40 Uh scheduling conflicts. Speaker 3 00:58:42 Okay Like I would have expected I would have expected them to do it like maybe Monday, Wednesday, Friday or something to at least give people a little bit of a breather to go. Okay. Let me absorb some of this, but okay, how many people in the training? Twenty five, Twenty five each twenty five in each class. Okay, wow. Okay. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:59:03 This is like I said, This is the one training I am super excited to do because I can do it slower. I don't have to talk as fast and they are genuinely a fun group. Yeah, and they gave me use cases ahead of time and things like that. And so it was just as slow as that this project has gone It's, probably one of my favorites still. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay, cool. How did you Oh, sorry. Go ahead, I'll go ahead. Uh, did you ever watch that one video I did? Which one? Uh, I think it was like either. Speaker 3 00:59:43 Layer one or something or which one? Yeah. Uh. Speaker 2 00:59:48 I'm making them for empaths so. Speaker 3 00:59:52 Oh um no I didn't watch that one but I. I can um. Speaker 2 00:59:57 Don't watch it because I'm redoing it. Speaker 3 00:59:59 Oh, okay. Okay. Speaker 2 01:00:01 I made a, I found the animation video, uh, The animation of the crimson logo that they made for me a couple years ago. Okay. And so I'm putting that in and doing some better titles and stuff. Speaker 3 01:00:12 Okay. So All right, can you send me this uh this recording when it's done? Yep That would be wonderful. Yeah I think Anzor wants to look wants to watch it later too, because he he sent me a text. Right after we started, that said Katarina did a an unexpected after birthday breakfast thing for him. So he couldn't make it, but he wants to watch the video. So I said, y'all we'll send it to you. So yeah. Speaker 3 01:00:39 I Think it's interesting that it says this recording is over an hour, but we haven't even been on the phone for an hour. Speaker 2 01:00:47 Oh, I jumped in two minutes early. Speaker 3 01:00:50 Yeah, But I don't think you turned on the recording until after we were already started. Did you? I don't think you started the recording until like two minutes into the I don't know, maybe I was mistaken. It's okay either. Doesn't matter. Yeah okay. Speaker 2 01:01:04 All right. So in other words, Anzor owes us a big breakfast, too, or something. All right, all right, I'm gonna stop transcription now see if he if he hears that. Speaker 3 01:01:17 We'll have a yeah, maybe just send it to Anzor and I both if you don't mind, and then uh, that would be great Yeah. And I'm sure you know if he's got feedback, he may send it to you later today or over the weekend. So maybe just watch for that and uh. Speaker 2 01:01:32 Yeah. I am sending uh Jason uh, the PowerPoint presentations today so that he has them. So okay, yeah, just be aware of that. Okay, yeah, Speaker 3 01:01:44 All right. We'll have a wonderful rest of your day and a good weekend. Okay talk to you later?
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08-03 Weekly Meeting: IT Budget, Security Training, and Service Tickets
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- SCHARP IT Recurring Check-In. 2026-08-03, 12:03-12:50 PDT (~47 min of a 60-min slot; Christi gave the group 12 minutes back). ATTRIBUTION EVIDENCE (from content, not title - the Plaud title says only "Weekly Meeting"): - FY27 budget total stated as "1.1 million closer to 1.2 million" = SCHARP FY27 cloud-only budget. - "Lorenzo submitted a budget for one point five" = Lorenzo Young, SCHARP's departed CIO. - Box being decommissioned ("we're killing it next year") = SCHARP Box migration. - Ability First referenced only as a CROSS-CLIENT comparison ("the same way I submitted his ability first budget two years ago", "I have someone at Ability First, her name is Tony") - AF is NOT the client of this meeting. - Calendar match: "Meeting: SCHARP IT Recurring Check-In" 12:00-13:00; Plaud upload 12:54 PDT (~5 min lag, consistent with the other two 08-03 drops). - Note: transcript mentions "BAFMA" as a separate third client she is onsite with on Mon 8/10 (schedule swap). Not this meeting's client. FY27 IT BUDGET - Walked the team through the submitted FY27 budget in detail; total ~1.1-1.2M vs prior year figures of 1.5M (Lorenzo's submission) and a separate 1.8M figure she could not reconcile. - Budget was submitted in her own detailed format, not the finance-required template - she used the same format she used for an AbilityFirst budget two years ago. Reformat and resubmit is a follow-up. - Reviewed line items including a shredding service she highlighted with a note, one-time projects, and the stewardship map. - Migrations and sub-server decommissioning normally fall outside the current Crimson MSA and would be quoted as projects, but she can absorb a portion into existing vCIO work, which is why the migration cost line reads low. - Reviewed the three-year savings commitment previously discussed. FILE STORAGE VENDOR / DATA MIGRATION - Vendor (rendered by Plaud as "Charl") refused cancellation this cycle: they require 60 days notice, our record said 30. Rate was not reduced; contract runs another term. - Upside is more runway to migrate. - Decision: hold off migrating data until the move to Microsoft so staff only move content once. - Action: all-staff email clarifying the pause, because staff were confused about what was happening and when. SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING - Reviewed outstanding completions. - CONFIDENTIAL (Airtable only, excluded from CW): one named staff member has repeated password failures; a manager raised whether it warrants a write-up and asked Christi to forward the detail so she could discuss it with two other leaders. Christi pushed back toward targeted one-on-one training rather than discipline, citing a comparable long-running case at another client. No HR process opened. SERVICE TICKET REVIEW - Walked the team through the current ticket report; document link shared in chat. Report drafted by her AI assistant from her outline and figures. - A "911 not working" item surfaced during the ticket walkthrough and was picked up for follow-up. ACTION ITEMS - Send all-staff email on the data migration hold. - Reformat and resubmit the FY27 budget in the finance-required template. - Follow up on individual security training support (handled as coaching, not discipline). - Follow up on the 911 service item.
- Date
- Aug 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:06 Good morning. Morning. I totally spaced out. I had the report already and going, but I was talking to somebody on the team and I got distracted. And then when I looked down and you were connecting, and I was like, oh, I'm three minutes late. Speaker 2 00:00:26 All right, because I looked at the same thing. I was working on stuff and I was like, oh, it's three after. Let me get on here. Speaker 3 00:00:33 Yeah. Let's see if anybody else joins us. Speaker 4 00:00:43 Yeah, let's let me text them because. Speaker 2 00:00:45 It's been a crazy morning already. We've been on the phone three, please do group phone calls, group texts. Yep. Speaker 2 00:01:02 Um, just as an FYI, I am trying to plan a baby shower for Christi uh next Monday. Are you you are in the office on Mondays right? Yes. Speaker 1 00:01:17 Wait next Monday let me see. Uh not every Monday this month one Monday I am swapping. Uh which Monday am I swapping? Speaker 1 00:01:32 This coming Monday, I'm uh on the 10 th. I'm at BAFMA and then I'll be at SCHARP on Tuesday. Speaker 4 00:01:50 Christi Says that she can't see the invite. She says it's blank, but I see it. Speaker 4 00:02:11 Can you send her the link? Yep. Could probably do it quicker and faster than me. She's on here, which is weird. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:48 Well, I'm I'm booking it on that day because we have a director's meeting on Tuesday. And and the whole month of this month is the conference room is being booked by CPR training. So it was like the only window of time. I understand. And I think she's only here now on Mondays and I think Thursdays. Um, so yeah, but I want to do something for her. Speaker 1 00:03:16 Yeah, because I because of the director's meeting, I switched around my days. Four. Uh, Speaker 4 00:03:23 Makes sense. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:03:26 BAFMA is getting a little picky lately with my time. Speaker 2 00:03:30 Oh Okay They're mad at you cause you're you're splitting your time. Speaker 1 00:03:35 No. They're not mad. They justum They don't have much for me right now. But Yeah it's it's a weird. It's a weird situation. It's good, but it's weird. Speaker 1 00:04:01 I Mean, I stabilized them nine, ten months ago, So there is not much right now for me to do because there is no projects with you guys. It's going to take me about twelve months fully to stabilize. Speaker 2 00:04:47 Well, Maybe you're going to give an update about Charl and all the things because we are having our data meeting, and we're all freaking out. Speaker 1 00:04:56 So Charl won't let us cancel this year. They won't let you cancel? No, because they required more than a 30- day notice. And I did not realize that because I had it written down as a 30- day notice. So we did not cancel Charl this year, so we have a little bit more time. To get everything migrated. So what I and this is uh, what I want to do is I want to just hold off on migrating data until we move to Microsoft, just to make y'all's lives a little easier. Okay. Yeah, that came up last week. Speaker 2 00:05:33 Okay. Well yeah, Just if you can send out an email to everybody. So cause Christi was like wait when what's happening. And I was like I don't know, but I know she says on about Friday. So I don't know. Speaker 1 00:05:46 Yeah, no, it had to we we had to stop it because they they were like, we can't let you cancel. We're not going to drop your rate. Um, you didn't give us the sixty day notice we required. I was like, it's thirty. They're like nope, we changed it at sixty. Like okay, Speaker 2 00:06:01 So still soon It's not like another year, or it is another year. You have to do it or another year. Speaker 1 00:06:06 They wouldn't give me any leeway on canceling early or dropping the amount of users nothing Gotcha Yeah. So that one's one I'm going to have to bite and I already put in the cancellation request for next uh next June. So now they have a 12- month notice in leeway gotcha. Yeah, it was very frustrating that conversation with them last week. Speaker 4 00:06:35 I can imagine. Speaker 1 00:06:37 Yeah, good morning Crystal. Speaker 6 00:06:42 Hey, how you doing I am good. Speaker 6 00:06:48 Okay, well, I am glad because last week was wild. Speaker 1 00:06:53 He stopped into my office this morning to check in on me. Speaker 6 00:06:56 Oh, okay. We're all good now? Speaker 1 00:07:02 Yes, he apologized for jumping to conclusions. Speaker 6 00:07:08 That's good. I am glad because we're trying to be on top of all the things, yes, like Jennifer says. Speaker 1 00:07:16 And I did submit to him the budget I was going to show you guys. Um, I did not submit it to him in the required format. I thought I did because it's the same way I submitted his ability first budget two years ago. Um, but let me just show you guys what I did and what is submitted. Um, and how it looks so, Um, I get very detailed on my budgets. Too much sometimes. So here's the formatting I submitted to him, uh what it's going to look like for this year and where we're going. Uh there was a shredding service in here. I highlighted that for him and gave him a note. Um but just going through everything uh total land is at 1.1 million closer to 1.2 million. Speaker 1 00:08:14 Compared to the previous year, uh Lorenzo submitted a budget for one point five, but then there's another something I saw where it was one point eight million. So I don't know which one was the right budget for last year. So I just stuck this one in because it's the one I had actually documented. So um, I all my stuff is very detailed. My notes and explanations, but on my detailed I went through and was putting in everything. Box is now not going to be legacy. I am going to because at the time I wrote this, it was going to be legacy, But they are moving. They're they're going to be in end of we're killing it next year. So. And then some things that I moved out, and then he knows he can move things back. Speaker 1 00:09:13 And then one time projects I threw in. And so a lot of this is going to be put in, a lot of this we're going to do without making it a project. But normally migrations and decommissioning the sub servers, They're usually put in as a project because they go above and beyond the current MSA for Crimson. However, some of this I can absorb into my work. And you won't have to pay for it. So that's why the the migration cost and everything is low. Um, and then on the stewardship map, um, Just some notes that I had put in based off of what he, he and I talked about previously. Uh, and then some summaries in there. Um, he can make do with what he wants to do with it. Um, And then the commitment for the three year savings plan that we had talked through. Speaker 1 00:10:09 And so this is what we're working through, and I pushed it all the way to fiscal year twenty nine. So it's our saving drivers, things that we have going on, and the cumulative savings throughout to fiscal year twenty nine. So. So I can send that to you guys if you want or. If you need something to go to sleep at, it's good read for going to sleep. I actually did fall asleep making this two weeks ago when I was working through something. So, I do, I don't mind math, but some days math and I do don't get along, and it puts me to sleep. This is this biweekly report for you guys. I put it into the chat. Speaker 1 00:11:06 And I'll just be honest, it's a bland read. Um, I finished it up today and copied it from my thing into my template. Um, couple of things to note besides the budget security awareness training. It was deployed all staffs. I've been monitoring it. Um, this is what we're looking at. Let me scroll up and I'm going to go through this with details. Um, the risk score is really high right now And most of it has to do with email security and account hygiene. Account hygiene, I'm going to be taking care of. Email security, This is where we're going to need to make sure that everybody is watching out for the emails that are coming through. It's whether or not people are doing the right thing with the phishing email that goes out. Although I didn't notice a phishing email this time around, so I probably deleted it, but I did notice it on the Crimson side. So. Speaker 1 00:12:03 Just a heads up on that one. And then the risk is going down. So when we put everybody in July 5th, The risk score based on everything that we had was at 51, and we're down to 49, and it will continue to drop. So just a heads up on that. On the phishing security test, we had one person that clicked and then no one reported it, no one did anything with it. But it is still going on. So it's going to be going on for quite a while. Um, and because that one person clicked out of the ones it was delivered to, uh, you're at 0.4%. So it is still actively going on. Um, people are starting to use the Phish Alert Report button. Um, That is that button that's in your Outlook. And it's a non- simulated message that was put in. So that's good. Speaker 1 00:12:58 And then for the security awareness, this is based on everywhere. We don't have organization scores yet, but this will be based on what they do within their emails. It'll be based on their training, so on. So the industry score is this. We want to see ours higher. I'm going to change Is this one healthcare or nonprofit? Speaker 2 00:13:27 Well, we are a nonprofit. However, yeah. And I don't know if I would call us that category either. But there's not very many categories so, yeah. What do you think Crystal? I don't know. I. Speaker 6 00:13:46 Think I think nonprofit okay. Speaker 1 00:13:50 All right? So the industry score for nonprofits a little lower um, but we want to exceed that score. So. Speaker 3 00:13:58 Wait, what? Sorry, Speaker 1 00:14:04 That was a weird text message. Um, so we're gonna go. I am going through this. I am keeping a careful eye on it. Um, and I am going through like the training and information. So we have one it's It's an active campaign. We have sent out ten percent. We've only had one click for the ten percent, which is good, but also. Um, we're going to see this going on throughout the month. So I'm going to keep an eye on who's actually clicking. Um, and if they click, they have to take remedial training. So just a heads up on that. Um, which means they get two trainings. Speaker 2 00:14:39 Did I click on something because I got some security? I needed security training or is that something else? Speaker 1 00:14:44 Oh, Everyone has security training. So um the the training for phishing testing or for phishing failures is 15 minutes long. The August one is seven minutes long, and that's only eight percent of the people have completed it. But for last month we did the training introduction, and only forty three percent have completed it. All right, yeah. And it's it's literally only fifteen minutes. So um I have I sent out an email this morning, not just to you guys, but also I did the same email to. Speaker 1 00:15:24 First, just because I need to send out that reminder to say," Hey, do your training people." So we're going to keep an eye on this and see what happens. For the phishing, let me see who actually clicked. Speaker 3 00:15:44 Got to remember how to get into it. Oh. Speaker 1 00:15:53 There's four clickers. And none of them were you guys. Speaker 6 00:16:03 Terrible. Grace, Trinity, Claudia, and Amani Jackson. Oh my God. Speaker 1 00:16:13 Yeah, I thought it was only one, but now it's well I looked at it this morning, so that that could be why. Um, I'll show you what like some examples. Speaker 2 00:16:27 So, if you if you send an email and they click on it and then do you have them do extra training? Or what is the. Speaker 1 00:16:35 They get extra training. Um, okay, so it's been one an hour and I checked on it earlier today. Speaker 2 00:16:44 So so there's bound to be more Yes. Um. Speaker 1 00:16:53 I was going to see. Usually it'll tell me what they clicked on. Email preview. Speaker 3 00:17:06 That's what the email looked like. We. Speaker 1 00:17:16 Don't have a compliance department. Speaker 1 00:17:23 This one is what went to Trinity. Speaker 3 00:17:32 And then, actually let me. Speaker 1 00:17:41 I have not gotten used to this one. Claudia got this one, timesheet approval. And then Amani Got. Speaker 3 00:17:54 A doc you share. Interesting. Yeah. Um, Speaker 1 00:18:09 Do you guys remember seeing one come through for you? Oh, Speaker 4 00:18:16 Yours is not scheduled yet. Uh, so we'll see more. Speaker 4 00:18:24 I haven't received one, I don't think. Nope. Speaker 1 00:18:30 Yep, you have not received one yet either. Uh, Doctor Barbara is not getting one until tomorrow and then. Speaker 1 00:18:52 And Aaron's not getting one until Wednesday. Okay. So, which reminds me, am I getting one? Nope, I'm not getting one. They probably restricted me from it just because I have three different inboxes that's under Noble for. So. Speaker 1 00:19:20 Um, going back to the report. Um, we're gonna we're working on the bandwidth for the office. So are either of you in the office today? No, Aaron is. Speaker 6 00:19:37 Aaron is I saw her. Speaker 1 00:19:38 So I'm going to increase it by five fold. Okay, so which means we can actually log in, After hours, see the cameras get the stuff pulled. We can download it much easier from here, which has always been an issue. Video conferencing is not going to be a problem. Things like that. So, And then I'm also still waiting on Dr Barbara to sign the ADT access control. Speaker 6 00:20:08 Oh, so we probably need to prompt him? Yes. Speaker 3 00:20:15 It's in his email? Yes. From last week, I think or the week before. So. Okay, Speaker 2 00:20:22 Do you want to resend it? Can you resend it? Speaker 1 00:20:25 I'm going to have Greg resend it so. Um Erin, You uh we were talking about the phishing simulation tests and the uh the training. Um. And so we've had four people click today out of 10% that has been sent out. Yeah okay so they have to do remedial training. But, um, one thing I was thinking about, I know we have the director's meeting next week. Um, maybe introduce if we have time about the security awareness training that's happening. Um. Speaker 7 00:21:04 Is that because I keep getting the email about completing a training about no before? Are we supposed to do that? I thought that was phishing so I didn't okay yeah. I'mma do that. So I don't click extra emails. I'll just let it keep sending. All right, I'll complete that training in the next couple of days. Speaker 1 00:21:21 That's why I sent out the email today because I think a lot of people think it's fishy. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:21:29 So And that way it will hopefully it'll get better. Okay. Speaker 1 00:21:38 And then, so this is who's completed it. Twenty nine twenty percent of the company has treated has completed it. This is on the initial one and not this month. So two percent have it in progress and seventy seven percent have not started. And this was on the initial one, not uh the one that went out for August, which just went out today. So is. Speaker 2 00:21:60 There supposed to be one every month? Speaker 1 00:22:01 Yes, one every month because we got a T here is a lot of, Security issues right now. Once we get everybody trained, I may ramp that down to every quarter. But with the amount of issues that we're seeing come across, every security training we're doing is on something new. So and then the heads up on service performance in July, we had that the last two weeks has been much less tickets opened. Speaker 1 00:22:36 Um, so July 6th to the 20th, we had 648 tickets open, whereas the last two weeks have been 293. So I think things are beginning to stabilize. But I'm actually been watching this over the last 90 days just because we moved from uh Zoho to Crimson. Um I'm keeping a super active like take on this just because I want to see what all is going on and who's opening what and how we can be proactive. Um, so most of the tickets are getting resolved in under a week. Uh, Anything that's open seven to 30 days are things that are in progress or waiting on either a user or waiting on vendor. So it could be, hey, we reached out to this user. They are going to let us know if the issue happens again or uh we reached out to a vendor, and we're just waiting on them to respond. Uh anything that's 30 to 90 days right now. The 18 open tickets are mine. Speaker 1 00:23:33 And the ninety days or more is mine as well, so I am the reason for the longer ones, but mostly because those are projects that I am working on. That's you know has to do with the overall. So I know my budget one's in there. I am going to close that out today, different things like that. And then where the work went so Robert. Has the most hours where he's working. He has 950 tickets that he's done in the last 90 days, just in his role. His do take longer to resolve just because what his role is, and he's doing a lot more of the infrastructure items, whereas Gaston is doing anything, not infrastructure. So he's got a lot more tickets, but a little bit less time going through it. And then I've put in, in the last 90 days, almost 100 hours. Speaker 1 00:24:25 Like is one a point one percent below a hundred hours, which is not an issue. Um, and I have worked on a hundred and eighteen tickets. Everything I do is put into a ticket just because of that whole chain of everybody needs to know what I am working on. If I make changes, we all need to have it. And. Then within that two hundred and seventy five tickets in the last ninety days went to our specialists within Crimson. So it's either the security team, It's going to be the infrastructure team that Robert works with or it's going to be things that. Uh Robert or Gaston can't work on and they need help. So it's going to be uh, it's going to be those kind of things. So 22 of our texts have been have worked on um those a lot of those issues. So um so Robert and Gaston carried on carry about 84 percent of the work with the rest of them going to Crimson uh specialists. So offloaded a lot of the work. Speaker 1 00:25:23 A lot of the heavier work to Crimson people where they're able to do more hands on and stuff. And then out of those tickets, fifty percent are staff submitted, So these are going to be hey, I need to I need help printing or I can't reset my password. Forty two percent are machine generated meaning, Active Directory or a server has sent out alerts, Or we're getting notices regarding computers, where there are issues with antivirus or things like that. So we're able to be proactive. Four percent of it or five percent of it is things that I originated. So, I'm a busy person, so I try to make my tickets go in. And then most how they're the distributing. Speaker 1 00:26:18 Is 68, Not percent, but 68 people have submitted only one ticket in the last 90 days. So very isolated needs. Our normal usage pattern is that within a 90-day period, a person usually submits two or three tickets. And that's a normal usage pattern for us. And then our frequent flyers are right here, They're doing four to nine tickets, and then ten or more tickets are our concentrated demand. Um, now that being said, Bridget is submitting a lot of on boardings and off boardings and LOAs. I am not worried about her. Doctor Barbara is a little different. We've got more machine generated alerts for him than we have him, actually reaching out. So, these are things where his computer or different things like that, that we've jumped in to look at, and then Erin and Apollo are both at twenty five, and um. Speaker 1 00:27:17 Neither Crystal or Jennifer hit the top ten list. Speaker 2 00:27:22 You won't see much on there. Speaker 6 00:27:24 What does that mean? Why is mine on there? This is how many times we put a ticket in. Yep, this is my top ten users. Speaker 2 00:27:32 Well, why is Gwen on there so much? She's the only person that's not. Speaker 7 00:27:35 I sent tickets for other people. Speaker 2 00:27:38 No, but I'm saying like everybody else administratively makes sense. But like why is Gwen like she's a clinician? Like why does she have so many damn tickets? Speaker 6 00:27:45 Yeah, that that's good to know. I'd like to to know what kind of tickets she has. So we can correct that and Katie too. Speaker 1 00:27:52 Give me one second and I'll tell you. Speaker 2 00:27:55 Katie might be representing other staff maybe She might be You know, She's a manager, so maybe I could see it, but I don't know why staff has how many damn tickets. Speaker 2 00:28:06 I mean, I think I know why, but you know. Contact. Speaker 3 00:28:21 These are all her tickets. Speaker 1 00:28:25 Most of it looks like printer. Secure email passwords. Speaker 6 00:28:36 For Gwen. Oh, she need she needs a That's too many. That's a write up right there, or maybe not a write up, But like no I, can you can you send this to me? So I can talk to Robin and Nelson about the fact that she needs to stay on top of her passwords. Speaker 1 00:28:56 Yeah, I think a lot of this is She might need just some special training uh or somebody to sit down. I have someone at Ability First. Her name is Tony. Um, she she she's my biggest headache. Um, her password is still somehow the same as it was ten years ago. Um, and so she's she's been She has. Speaker 2 00:29:26 Nine one one not working. Sorry to interrupt you, but I'm like, what do you mean 911 isn't working? Speaker 1 00:29:32 You know, I was interested in that one as well. Hang on. I mean, what is special? Speaker 2 00:29:39 I'm not surprised. Why would she be calling 911? And. Speaker 7 00:29:46 When would why didn't we know about it? I don't know. And 911 doesn't normally just drop. Speaker 1 00:29:54 I'm going to put it in this chat, so Crystal you can save that image. And then I'm going to. Yeah, yeah. Let me let me go do that. Let me grab it. Um, honestly, oh you said Katie as well, but you think Katie might be putting in for other people? Speaker 2 00:30:16 Let's look at hers anyways because she kind of special in a different way. So I'm not sure. I just want to make sure it's legit. I mean, I don't know why people just fled uh. Speaker 1 00:30:32 There's a few people I've noticed that replies to every email that I send out. PDF, PDF, access printer and Wi-Fi. Staff in need of new phones. I knew about that one. Phone issues, a lot of phone issues. Speaker 2 00:31:06 She's probably doing that about her staff, but I would imagine badging access, all that is probably her staff. Speaker 1 00:31:12 Yes, and I mean she's putting in four months, which is not too big of an issue. Speaker 2 00:31:20 Yeah okay fine. She's all right. Boy, I don't know. She's another story, Speaker 1 00:31:26 She's she's not uh she's not triggering any red flags for me looking at this. So no, But. Speaker 6 00:31:34 She needs ongoing, she has issues in other areas like performance wise. So I want to make sure it's not just being negligent with this because if it can be corrected, So I'm going to ask them to find out what the barrier is and if she needs training. Speaker 1 00:31:51 Okay. I can deep dive, both Gwen and Katie's tickets and get you a summary of what she's putting in. And if it's for other users or not. Speaker 1 00:32:04 I'll send it to you by email for both of them. Um, and then Doctor Barber, I had already checked him. Erin's I wasn't worried about because hers is for random people, and so is Apollo's. Um, the biggest issues I'm seeing is passwords and access besides the joiners and leavers. I'm not worried about joiners or leavers. So I'm looking at different ways we can actually fix it. Some of these we are not going to be able to be proactive on. So I picked out the top four that I know we could actually work on over the next 90 days. So permission changes and password resets, I'm going to look at how we can better automate those so that they're less of an issue. And then we're also, I'm also looking at the self-service password reset. We may not be able to do anything until we migrate to Microsoft because Microsoft has a far better password reset manager. Speaker 1 00:33:00 Um, But it does allow you to go online and reset your password if you get locked out of the system. So it's something that we're gonna we can roll out. Um, And then I'm also going to look at role based access permissions per for like your different departments and see what what is needed and then build that out from there as well so that we can standardize those. Printing, I am digging into those. Um, we have we're paying a lot. For our leasing and everything that we have, uh, if it's an issue with the the driver failures, I want to see how we can fix that. Uh and standardize that so that they roll out. Now if I can't. I'm sorry. Speaker 7 00:33:42 You talking about the like the printers? Speaker 1 00:33:43 Yeah because we see a lot of printers issues. Speaker 7 00:33:46 Yeah I also did ask because we got a bill for uh first, we got a bill for twenty six, twenty. So I asked Grofer to lock the printer where they have to put a code in yeah. And then, um, they're printing in color. And also I got another one where he said it was excessive color printing for uh 8750. I think. Yes. I tell him to lock it because I feel like we can go back to people can put in codes. Um, because is that also contributing to some of the issues? People are mass printing or don't know how to or trying to troubleshoot on their own, which we don't want them to do. Speaker 2 00:34:22 Yes. What's the one location that's having the issues? The one thirteen and the nineteen. Speaker 1 00:34:28 I I need to go back and look because I didn't sort it by location. So but I do know that a lot of the different uh, sites, what we have seen is driver failures, um and that that's not standard with just one printer. I've seen it with multiple printers, so I am looking at ways of fixing that as well. Um And we'll see we'll see if that helps, and then alsoum we can, And I'll go in and take a look at the best way to do it. I know we can do it in Microsoft. Uh, I'm gonna look into how we can do it in Google, but we can default everything to black and white. Um, Speaker 7 00:35:06 And so that'd be great because I think I think they're just D. I think the default sometimes is well, I don't know. I thought it was black and white honestly. Speaker 1 00:35:13 It It could be uh And they could be changing it. So They could beum, I know that i i'm gonna take a look and see what we can do. To like alleviate that, some of it may just wait until we migrate to Microsoft. Some, some I could push out now. So there are different things I am looking at. We've had thirty nine hardware failures with laptops. Now one of the things I am going to do, we have reconciled and found that it's a total of three hundred and eighty, but we're also doing the hardware refresh. So we got about eighty systems in here that Robert is refreshing. Speaker 1 00:35:53 To people and programs. They're already slated for those refresh. I am looking at whether or not the people that we're seeing come through, if they're if that's going to be changed with a hardware refresh. But I do know and I've already put this in the budget, that we do need to have some systems change out next year. So I think it's about um, I think i i slated for about 60 more devices. To be refreshed because they're end of life, and they're already causing some hardware issues. So I did put that in the budget, um, And uh Aaron you weren't in here, but I submitted the budget to Kashif last week, so he has it. Speaker 7 00:36:37 Uh can you forward it to me? Yes ma'am. Okay. Speaker 1 00:36:42 Um and then phishing report, we're continuing to expand upon that. So as that goes through. And that's one of the reasons why I sent the email. I want to see volume on that increase rather than decrease. I want to see people actually hitting that button, and we are seeing people starting to hit that button. So do you guys know which button I am talking about? Yeah, okay, Speaker 2 00:37:05 The one in the email that's to the right. Speaker 1 00:37:08 Yep, Soum and then as we see that, um we we will see that increase. But on the rest of the tickets should be uh decreasing. So. And then this this where we are getting proactive and trying to help decrease the need of of people putting in tickets. So, um and then so we're working through the infrastructure stuff. Um so with Active Directory and the server stuff, once we get everything moved over to the cloud, Then a lot of that's going to go down, and we won't need it anymore. Um. Speaker 1 00:37:47 Pratt is where I am waiting. I don't want to push out uh the migration until Pratt is happy with what she's learned. Um and I know part of that's going to hinge on her going on maternity leave as well, so we'll see what we can do. Uh ADT, Uh I already mentioned to Jennifer and Crystal is just waiting on Doctor Barber's signature. Um So security awareness training, um, want to see that increase, but I'm going to keep that. I'll keep that. Uh, I'll keep looking at that daily. Um. And then the bandwidth for headquarters. Uh Aaron I don't know if you were in here um I'm waiting on the quote to come back from Peerless, and we're looking at an increase of a minimum by five fold. So you you guys will notice a difference with a couple of different things coming through. Speaker 7 00:38:44 The the contract that Doctor Barber needs to sign for ADT, um, you emailed it to him. Mhm. Is Jessica on it by any chance or Crystal or I? Speaker 1 00:38:56 You and Crystal, not Jessica. Speaker 7 00:38:58 Okay. Okay that's fine. I just want to make sure one of us follow up and now. But Crystal and I can look for it. Um hopefully he's in tomorrow, and we can get him to sign it. Speaker 1 00:39:06 Yeah, or if you guys want me to I can sign it. Um I just got to let Greg know with ADT. Speaker 7 00:39:14 So, Well, let me see if I can call him and ask him. And if he says okay, then I'll let you know. I just want to make sure he's aware first. Okay, so he isn't trying to sign it after the fact. Speaker 1 00:39:22 Yes, uh, and that's everything I have for you guys. The rest of it is just blah blah blah things to fall asleep with. Um, Speaker 6 00:39:30 Um i know i sent you something about LV. Uh, i forget, i don't know if it was a text message or maybe i talked to you. I can't rememberum. Christy, but if you can, some staff were asking. Some program managers and directors were asking about how they can ensure that their staff are using LV since it's our only telehealth platform. Mhm. I know that there's like one program that is really good about the way they use it, which is Gloria's staff, but I don't know about the others. Speaker 1 00:40:04 Okay. Let me find out. Um, ah, it's a ticket that's, It's on a ticket, so I will find that ticket and work on it. Speaker 2 00:40:21 Some people make comments like," What's LV?" And they're managers, and I'm like," I might need for you to figure out what it'll be." Speaker 6 00:40:31 Yeah, I think I might have texted it. Speaker 1 00:40:35 Um, I didn't see a text but I have a ticket for it. Speaker 7 00:40:40 Oh, I have a ticket. Oh. Speaker 7 00:40:43 I don't know what I was thinking. Speaker 1 00:40:45 Somebody put it in and then assigned it to me. It might have been Frodo. Frodo might have done it. Oh, Robert sent it over. So let me dig through this ticket because it's waiting on me to respond. Speaker 3 00:41:13 But I'll work on that for you guys. Looks like it was sent over last week. I'll figure it out. Speaker 1 00:41:31 And then if you, let me see, I get all of Lorenzo's emails at this moment too. And I'm about to turn him off. Speaker 7 00:41:46 I don't think there's anything that I know because we're getting excessive amounts of email that I'd be trying to clear. I don't think there's anything that we that you're not already copied on that. We need to get. Speaker 1 00:41:58 So it's mostly been invoices, but I think we've we've gotten that fixed so okay, Speaker 7 00:42:05 So if that's the case, turn him off because it's excessive. Speaker 1 00:42:09 Yeah, i'm i'm getting his linkedin alerts i'm getting, Yeah, my poor inbox. I send my other AI guru out. Speaker 7 00:42:19 DoorDash, yeah, all the things. Yeah, I can't keep them fascinated. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:42:26 I can't, as you saw,;, I have nine unread, which is all today. And in sharp, i have two thousand. So yeah, Speaker 3 00:42:36 That's crazy. Yeah. Soum. Speaker 1 00:42:40 Other than that, that's all i have for you guys today. Um, I have an AI training today where I am going to be teaching. Uh, people how to use AI. If anybody wants to sneak into my office and listen on that, um, Speaker 7 00:42:53 I wish but yeah a little under water. Speaker 1 00:42:56 I have I have a couple of AI trainings coming up soon so Oh, Speaker 7 00:43:01 Can you let us know about the other one? That'd be awesome. Yeah, And then kind of plan it absolutely. Speaker 1 00:43:07 I am also going to have someum. Speaker 1 00:43:11 Advanced Excel training, uh some advanced Word training and a few things like that. I'll let you guys know when that is and then you guys can jump into that virtually. Okay. Speaker 7 00:43:21 So awesome. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:43:25 My Time is either taken up with you guys Ability First or training people how to use AI. Speaker 7 00:43:31 Awesome All necessary things. So yes, Speaker 1 00:43:34 Um, the link to this document is in this chat. Um, and then if you guys need uh anything additional after reading the report, just let me know. Um, Frodo wrote the report even though I gave it the outline and and gave it all the facts and figures. Um, so Frodo is my newest AI assistant. I have fifty three That's hilarious! Speaker 6 00:43:55 Is that Frodo Baggins? Speaker 1 00:43:57 Of course. Speaker 6 00:43:59 Okay, I love that you are a Lord of the Rings fan because I need more people like me in the world. Thanks, Jennifer and Erin for never being nerds like me. Okay, Speaker 1 00:44:09 All my foster kids coming through are required to watch Lord of the Rings with me at least one time. Speaker 6 00:44:15 I've been trying to indoctrinate them slowly into different things that I like. Speaker 7 00:44:19 The rings, I've already seen them all. Speaker 6 00:44:21 Well then you better be a fan of Frodo. Because I come around my house saying" my precious" all the time and quoting, Speaker 1 00:44:29 So my Wi Fi is Bilbo Laggins. Speaker 7 00:44:33 Bilbo Laggins because it's lagging. Yes, she's so excited, Crystal. Speaker 6 00:44:39 Yeah, because I've been having issues with Baggins and. Speaker 7 00:44:44 I love that she's excited now. If you did Star Wars references, oh oh no, I have those in there too. I've seen them all. I have Star Wars. I need to see The Mandalorian. Okay, Speaker 6 00:44:56 Jennifer is about to make her her get merch at Disneyland. We go to Galaxy's Edge. Speaker 1 00:45:03 I am hoping next year I am going to get my pass back. Speaker 6 00:45:07 Yeah, so we can go to the cantina. Speaker 1 00:45:09 Yes, I love the cantina and Star Wars Oh, all right, well, I am going to leave you guys alone and give you twelve minutes back. Thank you Thank you Bye guys Bye guys. Bye.
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05-26 Analysis of a Failed Recording: Disconnected and Irrelevant Transcript Data
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- ## Core Synopsis A series of disconnected and irrelevant statements were captured, suggesting a failure in the recording or transcription process. The data consists of random, non-sequitur sentences about film locations, DVD release dates, and personal anecdotes, interspersed with conversational fragments that lack context. There is no discernible strategic topic, logical argument, or coherent project status being discussed. The transcript appears to be a collation of unrelated audio snippets or test phrases, making it impossible to extract any meaningful business insight or actionable intelligence. ## System & Data Assessment The provided transcript is not a record of a coherent meeting or discussion but rather a fragmented collection of unrelated data points. - **Project Status Fragments**: Mentions of a "five-month Thursday" being adopted and a "cable" that "already went through this door" suggest a project is underway, but the details are too sparse to form a coherent picture. A check-in was planned to "see what we've got done." - **Irrelevant Factual Statements**: The log is populated with random, verifiable-but-out-of-context facts, such as film locations (Krasnodar, Mysore), river locations (Sava, Siret), and DVD release dates (May 27, 2008; October 14, 2008). These appear to be test phrases or unrelated noise. - **Conversational Snippets**: Isolated comments like "I am not a good swimmer" and "Sounds like I need to read the book" are present but lack the surrounding dialogue needed for comprehension. - **Incomplete Queries**: A brief, unresolved discussion touches on financial accounts and a question directed at the "D E A" regarding a "state decision," but it ends abruptly without resolution. ## Next Move **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Call an individual regarding a cable that was previously installed - [TBD]
- Date
- May 26, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:11 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:00:50 The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. Speaker 1 00:01:25 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 1 00:01:56 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:02:38 I am not a good swimmer. Speaker 1 00:03:18 Sounds like I need to read the book. Speaker 1 00:03:53 Okay. Speaker 1 00:04:41 I am not a good swimmer. Speaker 1 00:05:21 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:05:58 I think I'm going to have a little bit of time. So, I want to see what we've got done. My notes say here that they adopted the five-month Thursday, so we still are waiting for that. What is it that you were asking about first? Speaker 1 00:06:32 Oh. Um, okay. Okay. So I need to ask him. This cable already went through. So the cable already went through this door and and okay, I'll call him then and say. The film was shot in the city of Mysore. Speaker 1 00:08:21 Some people have, you know, a separate account and they're able to withdraw money. I don't know if it's from money. Who's they? Have you asked the D E A? Is it a state decision? Yeah, it's not. Speaker 1 00:08:54 The city is located on the banks of the river Siret. The film was released on DVD in the United States on 27 May 2008. Speaker 1 00:10:01 No. Speaker 1 00:11:03 The film was released on DVD in the United States on October 14, 2008. Speaker 1 00:12:02 The name comes from the Latin word ""canna"" meaning reed."
05-26 Consolidating a Student Trip Plan: Eliminating Ambiguity and Establishing a Single Source of Truth
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- ## Core Synopsis The planning conversation is fragmented and non-operational: the only concrete signals are a deadline reference (“next Friday”), a start date (“January 1”), and that Jessica is going with 21 students, while unrelated factoids (a city on the river Sava; a film released on June 24, 2016) indicate context-switching and a lack of shared artifact discipline. The Planning Lead (Speaker 1) alludes to a purchase (“I did buy it”) without identifying the item or confirming completion, and the group does not establish ownership, document links, or definitive dates. This mixture of partial commitments and noise creates a scheduling and compliance risk for any student trip or program starting January, because the team lacks a single source of truth for headcount, itinerary, approvals, and payment confirmations. We are accountable for eliminating ambiguity and consolidating the plan into a single, dated brief; without that, execution will fail on basic logistics and stakeholder confidence. ## Planning Stabilization: Diagnosis and Response ### Fragmented Inputs Undermine Execution - Evidence of deadline pressure: “next Friday” cited without a calendar date. - Start timing ambiguity: “January” and “January 1” both mentioned with no associated plan document. - Headcount signal: “Jessica is going with 21 students” (owner noted, but no roster, consent, or chaperone details). - Procurement ambiguity: “I did buy it” without item identification, receipt, or confirmation status. ### Date and Ownership Ambiguity - Dates lack precision and timezone anchoring; “next Friday” needs conversion to a specific date to drive task scheduling. - Owner signals are incomplete: Jessica appears to lead or accompany the student group, but operational responsibilities (roster, approvals, itinerary) are not assigned. - The Planning Lead (Speaker 1) references sharing “the right thing” but no link or artifact is established. ### Non-Operational Noise Detection - Unrelated statements (city on the Sava river; film release date) are content pollution within a planning thread. - This noise indicates either doc misrouting or transcription bleed, necessitating artifact hygiene and channel discipline. ### Required Consolidation - Single source of truth: one dated trip brief with owners, milestones, documents, and confirmations. - Conversion of “soft” signals into “hard” commitments: calendarized deadlines, named owners, attached artifacts. ## Action Items **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Convert “next Friday” into a specific calendar date and update all related tasks to that date - [Today] - [ ] Identify the purchased item, attach the receipt/confirmation, and log payment status in the shared brief - [By Friday] - [ ] Create and share a single Trip/Program Brief (start date, itinerary, budget, risk checklist, document links) - [By Friday] - [ ] Remove non-operational content from the shared planning artifact (Sava/film references) to maintain signal integrity - [By Friday] **@Jessica** - [ ] Provide the roster of the 21 students, confirm headcount, and attach required consent/waiver forms - [TBD] - [ ] Confirm chaperone coverage and contact details for the trip/program period starting January 1 - [TBD]
- Date
- May 26, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:02:29 Um. My next Friday. Here, let me just share the right thing. Um. I did buy it, I don't know why I haven't done it. Speaker 1 00:03:31 I'm not sure what you mean. And you could put, um, from January. Jessica is um going with twenty-one students. Speaker 1 00:04:33 January one. Speaker 1 00:06:13 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 1 00:06:48 The film was released on 24 June 2016. Speaker 1 00:07:17 The city is located on the banks of the river.
07-24 Meeting: Eversave Upgrade, Litigation Hold, Insider Threat Monitoring, and ActiveTrack Evaluation
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- ## Meeting Information > **Date:** 2026-07-24 15:16:40 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Participants:** [Christi] [Speaker 2] --- ## Meeting Notes ### Eversave Upgrade & Litigation Hold Implementation - Eversave upgrade is in progress. - A company-wide litigation hold is being applied as part of the process. - Monitoring will be applied to all employees, not a single individual, to ensure compliance. - Amy raised concerns about the term "litigation hold" and about not being singled out; both points were acknowledged. **Conclusion:** Litigation hold and compliance monitoring will apply company-wide. Target completion by Monday, July 27, 2026. Monti volunteered to work on it over the weekend. --- ### Insider Threat Monitoring Setup - Anton's team will be engaged to enable insider threat monitoring. - Monitoring will track deleted files and folders. - Christi will send a formal request to Anton's team to initiate this. - Monitoring will be enabled for all users; no specific individual was named. **Conclusion:** Christi to send the request to Anton's team; rollout targeted for Monday, July 27, 2026. --- ### ActiveTrack Platform Evaluation & Pricing - Speaker 2 reviewed the ActiveTrack website and noted it may not fully meet the company's needs given their small-to-mid-size profile. - Christi recommended the full ActiveTrack platform, specifically the Employee Monitoring / Workforce Management tier. - AI Insights features are not needed for current requirements. - Pricing discussed: approximately $15/month per worker, pending a formal quote. - Implementation timeline estimated at about one week. **Conclusion:** Christi will coordinate with ActiveTrack to obtain a formal quote for signature. Full platform (Workforce Management) is the recommended option. --- ### Staff Recognition & Team Feedback - Speaker 2 plans to send a kudos email to Anzor and Pete, recognizing Christi and Monti's efforts. - Positive feedback shared about multiple team members, including Kevin, who replaced access points and followed up proactively after the visit. - Kevin also responded quickly to AP alerts on the morning of the meeting via the P1 alert channel. 👍 --- ### Canada Connectivity Issue (Marcus) - Sean flagged via text that Marcus was experiencing unusual connectivity issues in Canada. - Speaker 2 confirmed Marcus is in Canada and followed up with him directly. - No formal escalation or action item beyond internal follow-up. --- ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to send a formal request to Anton's team to enable insider threat monitoring for all users, including deleted file/folder tracking - [ ] Anton's team to activate insider threat monitoring and deleted file/folder tracking for all users - [ ] Complete Eversave upgrade and apply company-wide litigation hold by Monday, July 27, 2026 (Monti assisting over the weekend) - [ ] Christi to obtain a formal ActiveTrack quote for Speaker 2 to review and sign; proceed with the Workforce Management tier - [ ] Speaker 2 to send kudos email to Anzor and Pete recognizing Christi and Monti --- ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention to: > 1. **ActiveTrack contract not finalized:** The quote has not yet been requested or signed. There is no confirmed timeline for delivery of the quote or execution of the contract, which could delay the ~1-week implementation window. > 2. **Anton's team engagement not confirmed:** Christi needs to send a request to Anton's team, but there was no confirmation during the call that they have been briefed or accepted the task. > 3. **Marcus/Canada connectivity issue unresolved:** The issue flagged by Sean regarding Marcus experiencing unusual behavior in Canada was not formally investigated or assigned for follow-up beyond a casual mention. > 4. **Insider threat monitoring scope not documented:** While it was agreed that all employees would be monitored for compliance purposes, no formal documentation or policy communication plan was discussed to inform employees or protect the company legally. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] CONFIDENTIAL (client personnel matter - full detail here, CW redacted). Belay follow-up: E5 upgrade + litigation hold executing same day (Monti weekend/Monday), Anton's team enabling insider-threat monitoring + deleted-file reporting; org-wide application per Amy's no-targeting concern; ActivTrak full-platform recommendation (~1 wk). Also: Kevin onsite replacing APs (P1 alerts), Marcus travel-in-Canada Huntress alert legitimate.
- Date
- Jul 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi. Hi. Okay, so, um, I was we had Anton on the call as well. So what's going to happen They're doing it right now. They're upgrading Eversave and they're putting litigation hold on right now. And then Anton's team I got to send over a request. Anton's team is going to turn on insider threat and monitor for any deleted files and folders, and that way we can get reporting started. Speaker 2 00:00:25 Okay Um, and that can, The one thing that Amy wants to make sure is that we're not just targeting her. Yes, we have to make it sure that this is a compliance thing. Yes, so everybody's going to be monitored. Yes, and she she hates the she hates the term litigation hold. You. Speaker 1 00:00:43 Know I feel her. Yeah. It's not my term either. I know, Speaker 2 00:00:47 But it yeah. It is what it is so awesome. Speaker 1 00:00:51 Okay, um I'm not giving them a person because I don't know the person's name. So they're going to have to turn on for everybody. Speaker 2 00:00:58 Absolutely, you are amazing. So this will be done by the end of the day, Speaker 1 00:01:01 Yes? Well, I am going to find out by Monday. By Monday they'll work on it. I know Monti volunteered to work on it over the weekend. Okay, well I know I told her Monday's fine. I told her no she can work on it now, and then because I know she leaves at five and then yeah, Speaker 2 00:01:18 No, yeah. And then Monday is fine. Um if we can get everybody done by Monday, yeah. If perfect Monday's fine. Monday is absolutely fine. You are amazing, thank you. And then, um, I guess she talked you know with the active track and everything like that. How quickly can that be implemented? That might take about a week. About a week, okay. And I am looking at the at the website. Speaker 2 00:01:53 And it's like for you know small companies, not we're we're a small company mid you know, but I don't think it has everything that we need. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, which one would you recommend for the stuff that we want to do? There is, the workforce management, the productivity optimization. Speaker 1 00:02:13 Um let me pull it up because they sounds like they changed some things since the last time. I looked at it. Okay. Speaker 1 00:02:34 Okay, so the full active track platform is going to manage everything. Um, you're not you don't even worry about the AI insights, But you're going to just work mostly what you're going to see is the employee monitoring. That's the one workforce management. Speaker 2 00:02:52 Okay, so the one that's what is it here fifteen dollars a month per worker? Okay. Speaker 1 00:02:60 That's what I believe I'm gonna have to get them to because they have to do a quote, and you have to sign it. Okay, but let me get them to work on that for you. Speaker 2 00:03:08 Okay, great. Thank you so much. You are welcome. And you know what? I think I may say send Anzor and Pete a really nice message to say," Hey, just want to let you know she did this." You know, I just want to give props where you know. You know Christi did this; she brought in Monti and everybody like that. I think I just may send a really nice kudos email thank you, Of course, of course. You know you've always been very helpful to us. You know you've asked our questions and everything like that. And I know people can get bitchy and everything like that, just no, I mean I have no problem kind of on the down low. Thank you, of course. And then even you know when we have our meeting and just reiterate, you know, you know hey we like everybody there. Speaker 2 00:03:59 Christi's fantastic. Monti's fantastic. Everybody that we worked with, you know, Even Kevin who came in and did our replaced our our access points is he new? He has been with us for probably since the beginning of the year. I like okay very nice very nice guy. He came in and did it, And um it was just me in the office, because I am like I better be doing when no one's here came in there, did it, and he is like he goes a little bit Kind of a mess. I am like, "God, don't worry about it." And then he called me back after he left. He goes, " I am feeling really bad about leaving that you know the particles from the um from the ceiling." And I am like, "You know, thanks for calling us," but trust me, I said everything's fine. He said it's just me in the office. I am leaving; cleaning crew is going to clean this up so yeah. You know he went, and but you know, I liked him liked him a lot. So yeah, yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:54 It was funny because this morning, we got the alerts that some APs were going up and down for you guys. And Kevin responds back pretty immediately. He goes, It's me. I am on my way to replace the current APs, and I was cracking up. So I knew he'd gone this morning because we have what we have is called a P one channel that if alerts come in, like the key people in the company get alerted to it, and that's what was going on. I was like, Oh sweet, Kevin's going to LA. Yeah, I told him to get some good coffee. Speaker 2 00:05:26 So, No, it was okay. It was just and then who who texted me this morning? Uh, Sean. Yeah, who I really like as well too He's like," Hey Marcus is getting weird things in Canada." I am like," Is he in Canada?" I have no idea. Let me let me ping him. Of course he is. I am like dude dude So yeah, I fussed at him but, Yeah, okay, cool. Thank you for jumping on this. I appreciate you. Let me get back to work. Speaker 1 00:05:56 All right, have a good weekend. Speaker 2 00:05:58 Stay cool. Yes, you too. Bye- bye- bye.
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04-21 Weekly Meeting: ScalePad Evaluation and vCIO Tool Implementation
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-21 11:28:26 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Pete] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Anzor] ## Meeting Notes ### Evaluating a New Tool (ScalePad) for vCIOs - Pete initiated the meeting to understand ScalePad, as he was unsure if he had access and wanted to see what it does. - Anzor explained the initial vision was for Chris to test ScalePad's value and determine if it should become a corporate standard for vCIOs (like Chris and Jason) and potentially account managers. - Pete advised against making the tool overly complex to maintain, stressing the importance of automation to prevent stale data. The goal is for the tool to be a reliable, up-to-date resource. - Speaker 4 is currently using a PSA (Manage) but finds it difficult to work with and sees ScalePad as a potential single source of truth for managing roadmaps, planning to use it weekly. - Speaker 3 expressed excitement about the tool, finding it useful and not overly complicated. - The team agreed to use the tool, at least for vCIOs, with Anzor requesting that users update their data by the end of the month. ### Accessing and Navigating ScalePad - Anzor confirmed that ScalePad is available in the portal under "my applications" and recommended `myapps.myapplication.microsoft.com` as a better starting URL. - To access relevant data, users should click on "Lifecycle Manager" and then select or star specific clients to add them to a "Favorites" tab for quick access. - A name inconsistency for the client "Sharp" between the tool and ConnectWise Manage was identified and corrected. ### Introduction to ScalePad’s Lifecycle Manager for Client Reporting - Speaker 4 explained that Lifecycle Manager has been used for years to track machine status and for Quarterly Business Review (QBR) meetings. - The tool provides an accurate list of a client's computer assets by pulling data from RMM, including warranty information, high-risk assets, servers with unsupported OSs, and slow workstations. - Speaker 4 demonstrated generating a hardware report for a client (Avalon), which categorizes assets (servers, workstations, VMs, network equipment) as supported, due soon, or overdue. A sample replacement budget can also be generated. - While Speaker 4 used these reports quarterly for client budget planning, Anzor noted that these hardware reports are now sent to all customers monthly as part of standard reporting. - The team concluded that the PDF report format from ScalePad offers a superior view of assets and quoting capabilities. ### ScalePad Integrations and Data Accuracy - **Integrations**: - ScalePad has been upgraded to include software inventory tracking. - An integration with Microsoft 365 is available, which can provide data on tool usage and MFA status. Anzor will enable this. - The team decided to sync more asset types from Hudu (access points, firewalls, switches, etc.) to improve hardware information accuracy. Anzor initiated the sync. - **Data Syncing and Accuracy**: - The sync cycle for data from ConnectWise into ScalePad is confirmed to be daily. - Pete raised a concern that the RMM team reports that patch level data is not accurate, which requires investigation. - Pete recommended performing periodic audits and sanity checks on data within the tool, especially for ticket counts, to ensure confidence in its accuracy. ### Using ScalePad for Project and Goal Management - **Goals & Initiatives**: Main goals for clients (e.g., "Achieve HIPAA IT Compliance") can be defined with associated initiatives that have statuses (On Track, At Risk), priorities, and target dates. - **Roadmap & Budgets**: A Kanban-style board helps track initiatives, which can be linked to budgets, action items, and relevant assets. - **Assessments**: Manual assessments can be created from templates (e.g., new client, compliance readiness) to generate well-formatted reports with an overall score. - **Projects**: Speaker 4 is using Sharp's project structure as a template for other client projects in ScalePad, such as for Weingart. - The tool is considered impressive for managing a client's IT environment and presenting information in executive meetings. ### Project & Roadmap Updates - The strategic plan and roadmap for "ability" are delayed, as the leadership team is working with a new vendor and has postponed the related meeting multiple times. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Anzor will investigate why the ScalePad icon was not immediately visible for Pete in the portal. - [ ] Pete will save the new application start screen URL for future use. - [ ] Speaker 3 is adding action items to the goals for the ~10 projects already entered for Weingart. - [ ] Speaker 4 to email Anzor to enable the Microsoft 365 integration in ScalePad. - [ ] Anzor to investigate and enable the Microsoft 365 integration. - [ ] Pete to investigate why the RMM team believes patch level data is inaccurate and set up a call with Anton. - [ ] Speaker 4 to play around with adding a status column to the initiatives view in ScalePad. - [ ] Speaker 4 to get final quotes from Hi Tech for Reveal access. - [ ] Speaker 4 to get a quote from Peerless for increasing bandwidth at the data center. - [ ] Chris and Jason are to ensure their data in the tool is fully up-to-date by the end of the month. - [ ] Speaker 4 will work on updating hardware assets (switches, routers) in ConnectWise for Sharp. - [ ] Anzor will monitor the new Hudu sync and review if other data fields are missing. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The strategic plan and roadmap for "ability" are significantly delayed. The meetings have been pushed back for several weeks, which is impacting progress. > 2. The team is uncertain if the process of sending warranty extension quotes to clients is still being actively performed. This process should be verified to ensure revenue opportunities are not missed. > 3. A data-linking issue for the client "Sharp" is preventing full use of ScalePad's analytics. The resolution was attempted but failed, and the problem remains open. > 4. The accuracy of RMM patch level data, which feeds into ScalePad reports, is in question. This discrepancy could lead to presenting inaccurate security and compliance information to clients. > 5. A definitive decision on whether the tool will be a mandatory standard for all vCIOs and if it will be extended to account managers has not been made. The current plan is for Chris and Jason to lead the adoption. > 6. While the need for automation was heavily emphasized to prevent stale data, there are no specific action items assigned to investigate or implement automation features for the tool. > 7. A formal process for the "sanity checks" or "audits" on data accuracy was suggested by Pete, but no owner, frequency, or methodology was established.
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- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:17 Good morning. Hello, hello. Speaker 2 00:00:20 Chris is out in the mountains. Speaker 3 00:00:23 Today I am. I'm climbing buildings over here. Speaker 4 00:00:35 Ahh. Speaker 4 00:01:14 We're going to just use sharp as our example today because I am waiting on the strategic plan from ability. So, I. I held off on ability for now. Speaker 2 00:01:24 I'm having trouble hearing you a little bit, Chris. I don't know why. Might be just oh much better. I never know if it's my speaker or, Because other people don't usually say it as much as I do, but like yes way, better way better. What did so what did you say? Speaker 4 00:01:42 Uh, So I'm not going to use ability first as my example, because I'm still waiting on the strategic plan to come from the leadership team. Um, And I know they've they've had, uh someone come in and work with them on their leaders on their strategic plan. And so I don't know if that's what the leader, the E L T meetings are on Tuesday about. And, so they keep pushing off my uh roadmap and uh, it stack because of it. So I was supposed to be in today's meeting, And then they moved me to next week, and they have been moving me to next week since. Well, since I started working with this new vendor, so trying to get things done. So it's been a few weeks. Speaker 2 00:02:26 Cool. So well, The reason I called this meeting is because I've heardum I've heard from like Jason and from you Chris about ScalePad, but I really haven't seen or. I don't even know if I have access to ScalePad because I think it's supposed to be in the portal, but I don't think it's in my portal. So, I just kind of wanted to see if we could talk about what we're doing with it. And what we're supposed to see in it and that kind of stuff. So maybe we can spend a few minutes. It might not take thirty minutes, but can we just see what we're going to do with it? And Pete, Speaker 5 00:03:06 Are you not able to log into ScalePad? Speaker 2 00:03:10 Um, is it supposed to be in the portal or is it somewhere else? Yeah, Speaker 5 00:03:13 Yeah, it's in the portal. Do you not see it in uh my documents? Uh Not my documents, my applications. I. Speaker 2 00:03:21 Didn't I didn't see it last time I looked. Uh unless there was. Speaker 5 00:03:25 This icon right here. Um. Speaker 1 00:03:33 Let's see. Speaker 2 00:03:33 Yeah, I don't I don't see it anywhere no Okay. Speaker 5 00:03:37 Uh, I'll look into into it. I have a feeling, it'sum. Speaker 2 00:03:43 It is its own. It is its own application right? It's not like buried under something else. Oh, there it is. It's under it's under more CIT apps. I think let me see, did it not show hold on. Speaker 5 00:03:56 No share your screen one state hello. Speaker 2 00:04:02 So, you know what when I when I when I say more CIT apps, then I see it, but it didn't show up when I was when I just had my normal. Speaker 5 00:04:12 Show me your screen. i uh i'm just curious to see. Speaker 2 00:04:14 Yeah let me let me show you why i didn't see it. Um this is why this is why i didn't think i i had it. See, i would go i would go into here. Speaker 5 00:04:30 So you go to CIT apps. Speaker 2 00:04:32 Yeah, see, I would go under here and I didn't see it, but I didn't, I wasn't expanding this part and now I see it. So you know, Speaker 5 00:04:40 It's weird how Oh, you know what? i have my computer. I think you're in a weird place pete. Um i have my computer open up my apps via this. i'm going to put it in the chat. Speaker 5 00:04:59 Um, So and and I have uh, the browser automatically starts it as the first tab, right? So look at the uh ones that I sent you. Andum. My apps right so it's actually myapps dot myapplication dot microsoft dot com. And I don't know if that screen is better, but that's the one that, oh, Speaker 2 00:05:28 Yeah, that's a. Yeah, that's a that's a much better screen, Speaker 5 00:05:31 Right? Yeah, Speaker 2 00:05:32 That's that's a better start screen. I am going to save though. Speaker 5 00:05:34 Yeah so so uh just make that uh I mean in reality, that probably should be the start screen for everyone at Crimson. Yeah and and then you go with uh Microsoft three, sixty five authentication, if you try to log in. And then once you are in it, you are looking for lifecycle manager and then from there you can, Favorite whichever ones you wants to see. Speaker 2 00:06:02 Okay, so then I can I should be able to log in here right? So what do I log into Life Cycle Manager or what? Speaker 5 00:06:08 Life Cycle Manager. Okay. Speaker 3 00:06:30 So I took the lead from, Sharp, Christie some of Christie's work, when I filled out my projects in ScalePad. So Weingart there's going to be, ten or so that I've already filled out. So it's possible that you know, I need to do things a little bit different. But I it was a start. I got everything in there and now I'm adding action items to all the, you know to all the goals. Speaker 5 00:06:58 So, let's make sure that Pete is ableum to log in and see it. Are you able to, Pete? Speaker 2 00:07:05 Yeah, so I logged in and then I see Home Integrations, My Profile, Members, Billing API and Settings. And then where do I go from there? Let's see. Speaker 5 00:07:14 Oh, we are either share your screen or you're supposed to see what Chris is seeing. Speaker 2 00:07:19 Somebody else somebody else was sharing. So I didn't want to take this one me. Speaker 4 00:07:23 Uh So, if you go in it and you should be seeing this screen right here. So you'll see lifecycle manager. I have quote or a mine. Um, Speaker 2 00:07:32 Okay, So you just click on lifecycle manager, and it takes you to the screen that I have. Well, here's what I see. So here I see lifecycle manager. Yep, Speaker 5 00:07:42 Yep. So click on that click here, right. So then I can. So that's it right? So these are the clients and you can now either uh pick the client, Or, if you click the star next to the ones that you want to check often, it will just show up in the favorite tab at the top. Okay. Right? Okay. Speaker 2 00:08:05 So if I wanted to see this one and Weingart and Sharp, let's say. Yep. Uh, Speaker 5 00:08:15 That's it. So see, they they pop up at the top. And now you can just go to Weingart Center, for example, um and. Speaker 5 00:08:29 Um, and and Chris will take us through on what she've done. I'm not sure why it's loading so slow. Sorry, Speaker 4 00:08:36 I just stole it from you. It has been loading slowly today, guys, so just be aware of that. I'm not sure what's going on. I thought it was my internet, but since I see Pete had the same problem, I know it's not just me. Speaker 5 00:08:48 Um okay, good good Chris. So yeah go ahead and walk us through right? Create a peat can know where to see it in the future. Speaker 4 00:08:56 So let me do this. I am going to walk us through some of the basics, and then I am going to walk us through the LMX. So just a heads up for you guys and Jason, I didn't go over this part when I was working with you through this, but we've been using Lifecycle Manager for quite a few years. And, one of the biggest things we use it for is to look at the machines that are coming through, see where they're at in the process. We send out a report; I've used them for QBR meetings. And, it gives us a really good accurate list of where our clients are with their computers. So if I go into, I'm going to choose one that I know we've got some varied information on. I'm going to go into Avalon. And so if I go into Avalon, um, I can go into assets here. I can take a look at the high risk stuff, servers with unsupported OSs, anything that we have in here where we have some issues with hardware modernization. Speaker 4 00:09:53 We can see the slow workstations. All of this is here for our base users. And this is accurate? Speaker 3 00:09:60 So if I'm looking at it, it's pretty good? Speaker 4 00:10:02 Yes, and it's pulling from RMM. So it's up to date. When we're going through these assets with our clients, we did it on QBRs. I know I'm going to speak from when I did QBRs. I know Mike does it slightly different than me, but I'll pull a hardware report from here. Um, I'm going to do the PDF file so that you guys can see it. But we'll go through, we'll take a look at it. We'll look at the machines, the manufacturers. We can see when it was purchased because ScalePad does look up the warranty and the purchase information from each of the major vendors. And then I use this report with clients every quarter to go through here is where you are on your servers, your workstations. You've got fifty six that are supported which means they're active in warranties. You've got three that are coming due soon. Speaker 4 00:10:51 And you've got thirty three that are overdue. Eight of those are usually my Macs. And we can see the VMs, which ones have the OS's that are supported and unsupported. And then for the network, when we can see the network equipment, we can see what is supported, which ones are overdue. And then sometimes some systems are unknown at the very bottom of the list. And I do provide this monthly. We haven't bricked out except A sample replacement budget for the client. So when I was talking to clients like Belay or Barker, I would show them, hey, we do need to get all of these machines replaced. And this what it's going to look like costing you. So, you can take a look at this and add this to your budget every year. Um. And so this was a really good report. We were providing to our clients every quarter to say, hey, this what you look like and this what we need to do. So, this Avalon that we do know that they need upgrades in their systems. Speaker 5 00:11:47 And And we actually send this report every month to all the customers. So this is now part of the monthly reports, that are being sent to every customer. Speaker 2 00:11:57 And how do they and how do they get these? Speaker 5 00:11:60 Seg pulls it out andum seg and uh uh A P S team. Speaker 2 00:12:05 So, this is part of this is part of the what gets emailed to them or something right? Speaker 5 00:12:08 Gets emailed to them every month. Yes. Speaker 4 00:12:11 Yep, And so we do like we can go in here, Additionally, what they can do is if there is a warranty that's expiring soon, we can go in here, Pull that machine and then CEG and the team can go in and send a quote to the client. Say, hey, this is what's going to cost to extend your warranty on your computer. And they quote it out to the client. Client signs it. They go into ScalePad and they'll extend the warranty and we can purchase it through there. So, we do. We are able to do that for any clients that don't have a portal. Speaker 2 00:12:41 So so we say we can we, Should and we all that, but do we know if we actually do this? Like, do we? Do, we know for sure that we do it and do we track that in any way? Speaker 4 00:12:55 So, we used to track it in ConnectWise. I haven't been a part of this in over a year, so I don't know if they're still doing it. But I know in the past, Seg was responsible at the time for pulling this report and then sending quotes to extend warranties. So, I don't know if it's still being done. Speaker 3 00:13:12 I, seg sent a security report to Tanya that was very good. I haven't seen a hardware report. Now I've been looking at the assets. I've been printing them out. I've been talking to Dima about them, specifically the the desktop and laptop report. So but I love thank you for showing me the the PDF report. I'm looking at it now, It gives me a much better view, and then the quote that's great, and it quotes accurate? Speaker 4 00:13:41 It's um, it's a sample quote. So, we did it based on two thousand dollars per device at the time when we worked on that. And we sat based on Anzar's statements. Uh, this was a couple of years ago, so Anzar and I both have slept a few times since then. Um, But I think Anzar had advised us to, hey, let's do a four year uh life on all laptops. And desktops. And. So at the time, I updated ScalePad for all clients to show four years. Speaker 5 00:14:09 In general, Right, I think the license usually come with three year license, But the lifecycle of a laptop desktop should be four years across the customers where we replace twenty five percent every year. Right. So they stay on this ongoing four year refreshment cycle. And ideally we would have a coverage throughout. Speaker 4 00:14:34 Yes. Now ScalePad has upgraded, A lot in the last year or so. Now they have software, And so we can go in here and see what softwares are installed on all devices, Which has actually been a huge help for me at Sharp as I'm going through and auditing a few things. And then we can add integration with Microsoft three hundred and sixty five for each client. I haven't discussed this with Onsor if we want to do that just yet, but that option is there. And so that's an integration that can happen. Um, Speaker 3 00:15:06 I would personally love that by the way. Yes. Speaker 4 00:15:09 For for ability first, absolutely. I'm I'm in the same boat as Jason. Uh, but. Speaker 5 00:15:16 So you you're saying add integration with three sixty five, so it will show you the licenses and it will show you MFA status. Do you not have that in Hudu? Speaker 4 00:15:28 We have that through Liongard connected to Hudu, But what this one does a little bit more is who are who is actively using Microsoft tools. And we never configured Winguard to show that. Speaker 5 00:15:41 Okay, so shoot me an email and I will enable this integration. Okay. But I am curious, I am curious how would it integrate with each client? Speaker 4 00:15:54 I am going to assume we have to do it the same way we do with Nylas and other tools. We add the integration, and we log in as the global admin to approve access for each client. Speaker 5 00:16:07 For each client. So so that means every time you add a client, you have to add it to onboarding step. Speaker 4 00:16:15 Yes. Which we already do with LionGuard. So when we onboard a client with LionGuard or Nylar, uh Nylar especially, that's a step where we log in as the global admin, Approve the access. Speaker 5 00:16:27 And then so I would say if you guys could research exactly oh, you're probably not going to have a permissions to do that. Okay, just shoot me an email I'll take a look into that. Okay? Speaker 4 00:16:37 Perfect. All right, So I showed it to you on Avalon, just because I want you guys to see what it looks like for basic users. Um, but any questions on this so far? Clear. Okay. So I'm going to go into Sharp because Sharp is where I've spent a lot of uh time on. I was telling uh Pete. We've been waiting on the strategic roadmap from uh ELT for ability first. And so I think they're finalizing that in the next couple weeks um. They just hired a vendor to come in to help them with that, so that's why it got pushed out again. But for Sharp, this is what it looks like for having the LMX license. Um, Anser, you said what?$ 20 a client or$ 25 a client? Speaker 5 00:17:22 The LMX isum I I think it's$ 20 a month a client. Speaker 4 00:17:29 So in here I've set up the roadmap for Sharp. Um, I've done the client IQ. So the summary comes from AI. Uh, They do have suggestions if you go in here uh, to go talk to a client. So if we are onboarding a new client, some of these suggestions I've looked through. It's actually pretty nice. Um There's some in here that I would never use and some in here that I would use. So I've dug through some of these um so I like how it's asking protecting donor and beneficiary data through nonprofit cybersecurity framework. Speaker 4 00:18:01 So I do like that because it did find what uh Sharp did before it gave us the suggestions. Um. And then it's got some questions um and topics. So it's broken out. All suggestions have the entire list. Um from there, the analytics is actually pretty good. Um I'm not going to show it to you on this one, but I can show it to you on Ability First because um Ons are just waiting for this to get linked. Um but it pulls information from Connectwise Manage, So for you, Jason, it's going to show everything. Sharp is just broken in these connections. But you'll see the open tickets, tickets outside resolution. Let me just let me just okay. Speaker 5 00:18:41 Yeah, Switch over because it's yeah. Speaker 3 00:18:43 I want to see that if it's if it's connected. Speaker 5 00:18:46 Yes. So so so Chris has the problem because they organize. There are two sharp organizations, and she needs to link them both under oneumbrella. Speaker 4 00:18:54 Yeah So I did try their suggestion to link it. It didn't work. So I responded back and let them know, hey, this is not working. But, it's because Sharp is a different name in RMM than it is in ConnectWise. That's why it happened. So, so this is what it looks like for Ability First. We've currently have four open tickets, five tickets outside of resolution, Which actually are my tickets because they are project tickets or not project tickets, but they are tickets. I have opened for my CIO work and they're going to be longstanding. Speaker 4 00:19:28 Average resolution time across all boards. And then CSAT does not link because we we don't have that linked in the integration. Um and we don't have uh the uh dashboard health. I I don't have the ability to look in to see what that is and how to fix that. Um We can go in and see service quality from here, tickets created and closed, so it gives some really good information who the contact is, uh who's opening the most tickets, uh the category, the board I actually like the visual look of these a lot better than BrightGauge, but it does not give me the ability to really filter well. It does filter some, But I want to be able to do a little bit more tweaking with it. But I still use this. And you can see here's the board, the admin team, they have two tickets: Help Desk Implementation and Sales. Speaker 4 00:20:26 And, then here's my category incident, unassigned and request unassigned is usually the ones in the admin queue. And then here's our performance by SLA, and per week or actually per month, and then our category. So a lot of really good detail. I'm not going to take you through all of this, but a lot of really good detail. Um. Speaker 2 00:20:47 So. Go ahead, Jason. Speaker 3 00:20:51 Sorry Pete, no I'm just going to make a comment. Speaker 2 00:20:54 Go ahead Jason. Go just okay. Speaker 3 00:20:56 So as I'm looking at it, um, I have a lot of you know, Jeffum had a hundred and eight tickets open going back to December, and so we're we're cleaning those up now. And so do you? I should see that right. I should see that in my in my analytics report. Speaker 4 00:21:17 So it's not it does not sync in real time. Ah, I don't know the sync cycle on it from Connectwise Automate or. You might be able to find it, but I think it's twelve hours. Daily. Daily, okay. Speaker 5 00:21:30 I'm pretty sure it's uh daily here. I'll take a look. Uh, I'll let you know in a sec. Speaker 3 00:21:36 I haven't studied that much because I didn't know that it was really how integrated it was. Speaker 4 00:21:42 Yeah, I i know that when i started pushing for rmm through to sharp uh, it took a day for all the machines to start filling up in skillpad. So it is a little delayed on those type of things. Speaker 5 00:21:60 Um, one second. So if I go to life cycle and integrations, uh, it says scheduled last sync one day ago. I think it's uh uh effectively uh once a day. Daily? Daily. Speaker 4 00:22:23 So which makes sense. Um, I do know uh there there are action items you can do here. I and behind analytics so we were just in analytics. I'm moving to action items now. Um, I'll be honest with action items they're great. Um, I'm going to start connecting them to the PSA ticket, but I can't on Sharp. So I'm not really using them as much, because I have things actively in my tickets and work off my tickets. So um. When we're able to get this uh working, then I can set it to PSA. So I didn't finish out the action items here. Um, but they are in my tickets. So once I get uh that linking happening, I'll get those filled out. And then you have a notes issue or a notes item here. Um I don't keep notes here because I keep them in in my PSA tickets. Um, but just a heads up that these are here as well, and this is on the dashboard section. Speaker 4 00:23:18 If I go into assessments, it's very similar to our old audit system. I really like it. Um, I did a new client assessment and I set. I did all categories here um and i went through, and i filled out where I believe each one is based off of our everything we're doing. So, um their security posture, their infrastructure, their backup recovery. Microsoft three hundred and sixty five security, which we're working through. And I and for Microsoft three hundred and sixty five, I did Google. Uh network and connectivity, uh business continue it continue it. Uh I mean um so you have those and you can download the report. And so if I do a full assessment report and I download it, here's what that assessment report looks like. I like the formatting you get the overall assessment score. Speaker 4 00:24:14 Um, the distribution between the results and then you have the details behind it. Uh, so it's really a sharp looking report compared to our old one. Also, um, I do really like how it's broken out. Um, so I am going to start using this one with Sharp. Uh, I have been using some other reports with them. Speaker 2 00:24:31 So this is Does this include patch levels and stuff or no? Speaker 4 00:24:35 We can do patch levels. So I think that, Speaker 2 00:24:39 But the reason, but the reason I don't know if we should and I there. I I don't know how how valid this is, but is this all come from RMM or no? Speaker 4 00:24:49 No, this is what I put in there manually. Speaker 5 00:24:52 Okay. No, but not a patch level. Speaker 4 00:24:54 No, your patch level is going to be right here in this report. Speaker 5 00:24:59 But, but I think to Pete's question, it's coming. The patch information is going to be coming from RMM. Speaker 2 00:25:05 Yes Because what I always hear from Anton and his team is that RMM patch levels are not accurate. And I don't know why that is, but that's what he keeps telling me. So, we need to dig into that as a separate site item. But he tells me that it's not accurate. Gotcha. I don't know what that means. Speaker 5 00:25:27 And and he's uhum, he's off today right? Speaker 2 00:25:31 Today and tomorrow, But I'm sure that between Ismail and maybe Sean and Bogdan or whoever else knows anything about it, they should be able to tell us. Why they think it's not right. Speaker 4 00:25:43 Gotcha. Um, now for the assessments, you can do you can select templates. They have a lot of templates in here, so I just chose the compliance readiness and the new client assessment book. They have quite a few in here and you can make your own. Um, I haven't played with the making it yet, um but you do have the compliance, you do have cyber resilience, the digital work, the new client. You can go comprehensive. I did the quick, You can do the technology alignment assessment. So there's quite a few in here we can do. You can also go in and manage the templates, so you have ScalePad versions, And then you have custom ones that you can make yourself and say new template, and just create it from scratch. So you've got a couple different items that you can do from there. Let me go back. Speaker 4 00:26:34 So these are the assessments I went ahead and did, And then you can link some of the results from the assessments into your goals and roadmap and budget. Um, so this is your discovery section. If we go into plan, you have your different goals. So, these are the main goals that we discussed in our roadmap to uh Doctor Barber. Um, so this was our original goals that we set. So achieve HIPAA IT compliance, establish establish IT governance, consolidate Migrate and stabilize. So, in each one of these, I have initiatives in here, and these are coming from the roadmap. And so in here you'll see the status of it. We have we have the note before approved, but we're not pushing that until actually Q four for right now. But, we can go in here and we can change that. And then also put in our priorities. So our priority is right now, we have MFA implementation happening. Uh priority is a three so pretty high um. Speaker 4 00:27:32 Backup and emergency remediation with Datto. It is due soon. Our priority there is super high. Actually, Aslan is amazing on that one. He's been helping get that done quickly. So we have those where we can link them, and then so we have each one in here linked. So I've gone in here. Speaker 2 00:27:53 So we have the scheduled target dates. Speaker 2 00:27:59 And then we sort of have in progress, right? But do we have like a. Like do we have any kind of um. Do, we have anything that says whether they're like on track or off track kind of thing, Or do we just assume they're on track? And then we move them if they're because Q two obviously Q two is coming up soon right? It's coming up in. In, you know, two months or whatever I'm, assuming that Q two means the end of June right I mean. So, like, Do we do we have any indicator that says, okay. We might not be on track for M F A by the end of June. And at what point do we trigger something like that? For instance, as a for instance, I'm just picking. Speaker 4 00:28:45 Something up So I. I have theum roadmap in here. I don't know if they have an on track or off track on there. I haven't seen it or I would have pointed it out, um. Speaker 4 00:28:58 No, we do have it under goals. It is on track. Uh, and we can put it at risk complete off track on hold. Speaker 5 00:29:04 Now this thing is pretty impressive. Speaker 2 00:29:07 I think it would be nice to put that there if there's a way to put that on there. I'm going to put you guys on mute for a sec. Speaker 5 00:29:12 Okay, I agree. Let me figure that one out. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:29:17 If there'd be a way to put that on there, Speaker 4 00:29:20 It was right here. So uh achieve HIPAA compliance is right there at the top. We were looking at it. We just didn't see it. Speaker 2 00:29:28 Oh, it's on the top there. Is there. Is there a way to maybe add it as a column like next to the progress thing? Maybe again, we don't have to do right now, obviously, but like if there would be a way to put it. Oh okay. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:29:44 I mean you just collapse it, but yeah I agree with you on the status part here. Um, I'll play around with it and see. Speaker 2 00:29:52 Yeah, no problem. if If not, if not, it's fine because I do see it below so it shows us on track. So all right. Speaker 4 00:29:58 Yeah, So oh, Speaker 2 00:29:60 So I see. So it's so it puts it as the status for the entire. Yes, for the entire initiative or I, guess that's not the initiative, The entire whatever is called and and then each initiative, each initiative has its own status. Okay, okay, got it. Yeah, all right. Speaker 4 00:30:16 No, um yes, you're right, one hundred percent. Okay. Um, so in here, uh you also can look at your overdue and your completed as well. And so, um these do attach to your roadmap. The roadmap I really like. Um So within the roadmap, everything is here in your Gantt is Kanban. Is this isn't Gantt. This is Kanban. Um You're and you can push everything over and move it as you need to So, for instance, Reveal access. Speaker 4 00:30:49 Um, It's part of our goals here that are on track that I showed you guys. Um, we can do we can create action items. Um, we can put in budgets. So one time fee right now for each site is going to be this amount, and then monthly monitoring fee for each site is going to be that. Um, We're waiting on the final quotes to come in. But this this where I've got it so far. Um and then once we have the quotes in um I'm gonna say pending Quotes from ADT and Hi Tech, and then we can assign those goals to people right here. And, then we can put in what our target date is to get those in, Which we have a call today with Hi Tech this afternoon to get the final quotes. And then where they are for goals, and we can keep adding action items. Speaker 4 00:31:45 I'll be honest with this. I struggle with this one because uh I already have tickets made for these, but we can create tickets from here and attach it. So in the future, I'll create tickets from here and actually attach it that way because I really like the format. This has it in for building this out. Um, I, unfortunately had already built it out in Connectwise before I built it out here. And so um, this is where we're we're going to go in. We can add assets I'm gonna cancel out of this one. Um, with asset, withum assets. Let me find the asset one. Not. Speaker 1 00:32:25 This one? It's in here. I think it's under the Datto. Speaker 4 00:32:34 So, here's the assets. You can add each of the assets that are in here. Um. And so these are all the servers that are under the Datto. And so. Um, from here, this is part of the um the Datto migration. Um, and we have that in there. It's a that we're upgrading and increasing the bandwidth at the data center. So that's a big one that we have. Um, we have to do that to get Datto up to date. Um, And I am waiting on Peerless to come in and say, here is your quote. They should have that to me this afternoon. And then later on, we're going to be migrating on prem to cloud. So we're not really going to need it after that. Um. Speaker 4 00:33:13 And, then it's part of our migrate to Office three hundred and sixty five goals as well. So it's attached to that. Speaker 2 00:33:18 Okay, so so all of this, so most of this data, this is a lot of information. So most of this data. A lot of this data is coming from RMM. A lot of this data, you said you enter. And then like how do we? How do we I guess maintain all of this? Like. I guess I'm I'm just trying to figure out how do we make sure this is current and accurate. And whatever like whenever we're doing this, because this seems like a lot of manual maintenance. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:33:51 This is this is effectively a tool for a CIO to manage his environment right or for account manager, right? Because what Chris Heaven showed is actually when you engaged right, you can see that the section she didn't get to. But like in meetings. You can actually show, um, you just present the information, right? Um, I think there is this report, the executive report that you come to executive meeting. Right then you're like here's the core things are working on. Like it makes. Speaker 2 00:34:26 But are we doing that now? Or are we planning to do that down the road? Like because I don't see Mike. Speaker 5 00:34:32 I don't I no one, Speaker 2 00:34:34 I don't go to. I don't go to Mike's meetings. All of Mike's meetings, But I am in the Hannah meeting and I've been in a couple other ones monthly. And I don't think we're using this so far, right? So are we are we planning to start that at some point? And, are we going to use this for the sharp meetings on a quarterly basis? Are you going to start using this for the Weingart meetings, Jason or or are we is that the plan down the road or what? Speaker 5 00:34:57 So so so i I can tell you what I envisioned. I wanted Chris to take a stab at this right, try this app and say. Do you like it? Like, is there a value to say this is our corporate standard, right? And then the question would be, should this be a standard for vCIOs? So Chris and Jason because they're dedicated to few organizations, and it might make sense to really spend your time and have everything here. That's effectively your core vehicle, right? Yeah. Um versus. Speaker 5 00:35:35 Do, we want to also extend this to account managers and force them to use it, right? But first, I wanted to have someone who will populate it and will say," This is what worked. This is what didn't." And find unit. Speaker 2 00:35:50 That makes sense. I guess the one piece of guidance I am going to add is don't make it so complex that it's stale data the day after you. You build it right because if if it's too if it's too much of a headache to maintain, you are not going to maintain it and it's not gonna you are gonna. You are gonna wait until the day before your presentation. And you are gonna spend six hours updating a bunch of crap that hasn't been updated, and it's not going to be a useful tool right. It needs to be something that takes almost no time. To add the manual stuff because the majority of it is. Speaker 2 00:36:32 Fed by stuff that is automated, right So, How how can we? How can we get to the point where a lot of this is automated? Is mostly automated, and there's there's minimal amounts of information that you have to that. You have to populate manually. Right And and if it's project stuff, I get that you know there's going to be a certain amount that you are going to have to update manually when it comes to where am I on this project or that project. But. If you are putting that somewhere else, maybe it feeds from there, right? Or or whatever. But um, You know I get that like if you are, if you are two hundred and forty five machines into your R M M rollout, If you are keeping that somewhere else or you are keeping track of that in here, you know maybe that's that's where you are tracking it. But but if t here is other notes that you are keeping. Speaker 2 00:37:27 Don't don't keep it in like three different places or this going to be like just one of the places you are going to update. So that's the guidance I am going to provide for, for a tool like this don't make this like the. Just the just the pretty the pretty place that you have to go and update at the last minute. Otherwise, it's gonna just be a a pain in the butt later on to keep up with. No, If I could add, what I would like to be, what I would like to be able. And the reason I am asking is also from a selfish perspective because. I would like to be able to say, at almost any time, I can go and look here and be relatively confident that what I see at any time is fairly current. And if I can't do that, if I can only do that like right before a quarterly meeting, then to me this tool is not all that valuable. Right? So that's yeah. That's the other reason. Speaker 4 00:38:18 So, I know Jason wants to say something as well so uh for me i, I am using my PSA, but it's not my single source of truth. And, the reason why is PSA is going to be hard to work when I say PSA, I mean manage. It's hard to work from from my level. And I don't know if that's the same thing that Jason's having before Ozar brought me this, I was building out my own system that was very similar to this to manage it all because I needed a way to keep my roadmap together, and you just cannot do it in projects. Speaker 4 00:38:55 And for ability first, we are using Asana because that's what Rashawn has. And it's easier for me to do something in this kind of tool. And, this is very similar to how we can do it in the Asana or Airtable. This can be my single source of truth. Once I get everything moved over and attached. And I do honestly see that because you've got so many good details in there, but you're right, Pete, automation it would be a key thing. However, I don't know if they're there yet. It's going to be a lot of manual. Speaker 4 00:39:25 But for me, this is going to be something that's going to make, especially for Shar, make it easier for me to work through these roadmaps. So I'm probably going to be in here, not every day, but every other day or at least once a week at a minimum working through this. Speaker 5 00:39:39 And and I actually was going to say if we're going to say that, hey, this is the tool that VCIOS must use, then I think the expectation is that you update this two times a week right? On. Let's say at the end of Wednesday and at the end of Friday, you go through and you update it to keep it current. So Pete, you and I, we can go in and we don't question is this stale data or not. Right? Like it's just it's your job description, right? One of the job's requirements. This is the main tool for V C I O to stay on top of his environment. Speaker 5 00:40:19 Yep. Right. Speaker 3 00:40:20 You know, this from my my perspective, coming in without the use of any tools, and you hand me this. This is I'm I'm excited. You know, and I jumped right in and Ium you know, I love it so far. It's it's not too complicated. And I think it's useful for you guys to see what what I've got planned. And you know, I'm sure you can edit it and and add some things to it as well. For the roadmap, so this is just a tool not just for me but also, for you guys to look and and see what's going on. Speaker 2 00:40:53 Yeah, the only other thing I would say, And I am going to have to go because I have an appointment at one o'clock that I have to be at. But, let's let's do some audits of some of the information that's in here just to make sure it's accurate. And what I am saying by that is when there is a ton of information here, right? So. Like when we say, you know, There we have this number of tickets that are this, and we have this many things that are in administration and this. Um. Let's do some sanity checks on some of those things to make sure that, that data is accurate because. Sometimes when Olivia and I are doing reports on tickets and counts and some things. I question different things, and I say, is this accurate? And how what's what's your level of? Speaker 2 00:41:44 Confidence that this accurate, and sometimes she'll say, well, eighty five percent or whatever. Right, and I am like, well, why are we not like ninety nine percent sure that this accurate? Right. And, and there is these variable things that I want to make sure that what we're, if we're presenting any of this in reports to our customers that we should have a very high confidence level that our data is right. Right. So, hopefully, the the graphs and things that you were showing earlier Chris that are coming from RMM I think. I think things like you know the computer types and the, You know that kind of stuff that's coming from R M M. We probably have a really high confidence level that, you know that data is right, right, the the hardware and all that kind of crap, But some of the other things, when we start talking about ticket counts and how many things are are this and that. We start, you know, there may be some things that get lost in there. So. Speaker 2 00:42:36 Maybe periodically go and go and do some sanity checks on that if you have time, just to make sure that it makes sense and that, that those things look like they're right. And if they're not, um let's dig into why that might be the case. And, in the meantime, I'm going to set up a call with Anton and a couple folks, And I might include you Onsor just to see why the patching thing he keeps saying it's not right because I want to understand that better because I just don't get it. Speaker 5 00:43:03 Yeah yeah, That's fine. That's fine. So I think we're all on the same page. We do want to use this tool at least for ECIOs, right? Yes. So then I think we're putting this foot down and we're saying, guys, Make sure that this data is accurate because we're going to just go in there without talking to you, right? Okay. So I would say by the end of this month, right? So let's say within the next nine days, just make sure that you've got it up to date. Speaker 5 00:43:34 Yeah, right. And if you need more time, let us know so we know you need more time. But effectively, if we don't hear from you by the end of the month, We're going to assume that your organizations two for you Chris one for you. Jason are fully up to date, and we can go and look at it at any time. Great. Speaker 2 00:43:52 Oh sorry. Speaker 5 00:43:53 Pete You can drop off I think you have to go right. Speaker 2 00:43:56 No problem. Thank you. Thanks, all. Speaker 5 00:43:58 I also wanted to let you guys know that there are some additional fields we can sync that we're not syncing, right? But if you feel they're needed, like from Connectwise. So for example, I'll share the screen. So if you go to like for example ConnectWise Manage, right? Speaker 5 00:44:26 And by default, it picked up the ticket information. And there is nine statuses, right? And type, right? Blah blah blah. So we're not looking at contracts. We're not at hardware. It's picking up thirty five configuration types, right? We're mapped so you can actually see what it's mapping for configurations. So it picked up a lot of this information, but potentially there are more. Right, so if you feel that something is missing, let me know and we can take a look and review. Speaker 4 00:45:06 Okay. Oh, there's the uh There's inconsistent name issue that we have for sharp. Yep So. Speaker 5 00:45:14 So soum Do we want to change? So ConnectWise Manage says sharp right? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:45:25 If you go to, Speaker 5 00:45:32 I'm going to change that to Sharp as well. Companies, right? See, well here I think the name has been changed. Speaker 4 00:45:44 Yeah, I think so. I think it just needs to be synced in there one more time. And. Speaker 5 00:45:51 Then you have also Aramem. Right. Now I'm not sure what happens and if I can, without any issues change the name here. Is that under clients, companies? Speaker 1 00:46:38 Uh, yeah. Speaker 5 00:46:41 You want to change company unique ID as well? Yes. Speaker 4 00:46:50 Could you? Oh no, never mind. Uh, I was going to ask you to scroll down, but I saw there wasn't much left. Um, One of the things I'd like to start doing in ConnectWise Manage isum I know that hardware assets like switches routers, things like that are not. Up to date in ConnectWise for a lot of our companies. I'm going to try to put those in for Sharp, um, and get the and see if I can keep those up to date. There's not an automated way to do it unless you disagree. Speaker 5 00:47:20 So there is Hudu integration that potentially have more of that correctly. So hardware, you can see I'm not syncing anything from Hudu which, Maybe we should, and that might 'cause on Hoodoo original I only said sync workstations and servers, right? But uh, maybe we do like if you guys are actually actively using this stuff, it might make sense for us to sync more items. Let's say like access points, right? And uh identify uh what would this be? I would assume is probably network, right? Speaker 4 00:48:04 Right, and I don't remember. We had uh Meraki syncing in IT Glue. I don't know if Vince has done it yet. I was going to ask him. Yeah, actually it is running, so Meraki is up. That would help me with uh visibility first. Speaker 5 00:48:23 So should I try the hoodoo here? So let's see let let let's try, So this will be networking applications. I'm not going to touch right backup solution. Do we need backup solution or not really? Speaker 4 00:48:38 Do that, but uh. Speaker 5 00:48:41 Do you know what you're going to get for backup solutions? Speaker 4 00:48:44 No, I don't see it on that on that option there. Maybe network. Speaker 5 00:48:53 Backup, you think in network? Speaker 4 00:48:55 Maybe I don't know. Okay, maybe for on prem. Speaker 5 00:49:02 Yes. Contacts, I don't even know where you would put that. Speaker 4 00:49:06 So yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't worry about that one. Speaker 5 00:49:08 Contact okay, email file shares firewalls, that's definitely networking network. Um do you want a ISP WAN information or not really? Speaker 4 00:49:22 No, that I that I pull from who? Speaker 5 00:49:24 LAN licenses licensing. Speaker 4 00:49:28 Let's do LAN because LAN you haveum I have all the uh, Speaker 5 00:49:35 Where would licensing go? I don't even know. Speaker 4 00:49:38 Uh that would go under software, but we do we have no, we don't have it. I believe it don't sync, Speaker 5 00:49:47 Okay. Um Meraki details. I don't know if we need it no working. Speaker 3 00:49:56 I would like it if we can have. Speaker 5 00:49:58 Okay. Um, need to know phones printing. Speaker 4 00:50:06 Yes, imaging would be where I put that one. Speaker 5 00:50:10 Imaging, yep. Projects, I don't think we need to sync from Hudo. There's switches down there as well? Yes. Speaker 3 00:50:23 Switches Network. As Tam checks us. And wireless would be nice. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 5 00:50:32 Sounds like you're awesome. Save and sync, okay? So that's HUDU, right? So this data will come from HUDU, okay? And then I think what's going to happen. It will try to It says here's the total number of assets, so this number of assets will probably go up. Okay. U m, okay. Well, we'll see it's syncing now rightum and then like I said, if uh something elseum is missing, you guys, let me know. Speaker 1 00:51:05 Yes. Okay, thank you. Awesome all right, Speaker 5 00:51:08 Take care, bye.
08-31 Meeting: AI Policy Formalization, Project Closures, and Google-to-Microsoft Migration Plan
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-08-31 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] ### Meeting Notes #### Project Status Updates - **Anderson Real Estate:** This project can be ignored; the projects team will close it out. - **Alire Copilot & Westwood Copilot:** These projects will be closed this week during the project meeting. - **Carney:** Adjust the due date to the end of September 2026. - **Avalon:** Still on hold; push the due date to the end of October 2026. #### Formalizing an AI Policy - There is a need to formalize an AI policy, partly driven by Dr. Barber’s interest in trying AI tools. - The policy should prevent HIPAA violations by stating that no client information should ever be given to AI. - The initial policy could be a blanket statement restricting use to only AI tools approved by leadership. - This approach avoids listing specific tools, which can be communicated separately via email. - The company needs business accounts for approved AI tools to ensure data protection and security. - The policy should also educate staff on how AI works, noting that AI can use responses written by other AI and requires fact-checking. - Christi will write up a policy for SCHARP, similar to one written for Ability First. #### Discussion on Specific AI Tools - Claude is mentioned as a powerful tool that Christi frequently uses for Crimson work; it is considered a strong option for the company. - It’s suggested to test two products simultaneously to determine which works best for the team. - A meeting with Dr. Barber is proposed to discuss setting up AI tools, starting with the executive team for non-client-facing tasks. #### IT and Infrastructure Migration - A plan is being developed to migrate from Google to Microsoft. - Migration will likely start with server file shares to minimize disruption. - The migration game plan will be presented in the next week or two. - A reminder may need to be sent to Dr. Barber about this ongoing work. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Adjust the Carney project due date to the end of September 2026. - [ ] Push the Avalon project due date to the end of October 2026. - [ ] Christi to draft an AI policy for SCHARP. - [ ] Obtain business accounts for approved AI tools and communicate approved tools via email. - [ ] Schedule a meeting with Dr. Barber to discuss setting up AI tools and business accounts, starting with the executive team for non-client-facing tasks. - [ ] Christi to create and present the migration game plan from Google to Microsoft (beginning with server file shares) within the next one to two weeks; send Dr. Barber a reminder if needed. - [ ] Add the team to AI training on how to use Claude; test two AI products concurrently to determine the best fit. 🙂 ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The specific AI tools to be tested and approved by leadership were not decided upon. A formal evaluation and decision-making process needs to be established. > 2. The timeline and specific steps for migrating data from Box and Google to Microsoft for all users were not finalized; only the initial step of moving server file shares was mentioned.
- Date
- Aug 31, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:01:04 Okay, real quickly, on the three things that want my attention, we want to. You can ignore Anderson Real Estate, and go ahead, and I'm going to have the projects team close that out, on my side. The four projects that are done but still open, Alire Copilot, we are going to be closing this week during our project meeting. Westwood Copilot, our Cloud Pilot, we are going to do that as well. Carney. Has been moved out to the end of September, so we need to adjust that due date on there. Avalon is still on hold, however, we are going to push that due date out to the end of October. Speaker 1 00:01:58 And we need to start working on the. Timesheets. Hi Jennifer. Good. Trying to get some things done, and my system just totally goofed up. I was focused. I was on. I was late to the meeting because I was focused on a few things and looked up and saw what time it was. Speaker 1 00:02:36 Okay . We we don't have much to go over today. We do need to go over AI stuff, um, because we need to start formalizing an AI policy, and I want to get that in place because we do we we do have some conversations with Dr. Barber, where he's wanting to try some AI stuff as well. So, um, and I know that's. Some people are using it day to day, so we need to look at what that policy needs to read and look like, and how we can prevent HIPAA violations, which is actually pretty easy to do. We just got to put the policy in. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:03:34 Gotcha. Speaker 1 00:04:14 Oh, she declined it. I saw it's not on her. Yeah, I know she declined it. I was just looking at that. Speaker 2 00:05:15 Hi. No worries. How are you? Speaker 1 00:05:29 Yeah, yeah. I uh, funny story. I walked into the living room yesterday, and my bedroom stays warm just because I have two computers in there running, and um, I also. It's just not. It's farther away, and it's not really great in my bedroom. But it's not an issue because it doesn't get too hot. And so I was sleeping yesterday because I had a rough night, couldn't go to sleep the night before. And so I woke up. I walked into the kitchen. I was. I had promised the girls I was going to make beignets for breakfast. Instead, we had them at not at lunchtime because I slept in. And I was like, wait, it is freezing in here. Speaker 1 00:06:11 And I turned to look at the at thermostat, and one of my girls had turned thermostat all the way down to 60. She was like, "I was hot," and I was like, "Take off your hoodie. It's not that hard." But yeah, so it was kind of funny because I was like, "They were hot yesterday, but it's gonna be cooler this week, thankfully." So yeah, and I'm going to camp tomorrow, so that's gonna be. I'm surprised it's only 75 today. Tomorrow there, I don't have much to go over with you guys. The main thing we needed to discuss is just AI policy. I could push that out to in two weeks when Crystal and Apollo are here, but it's up to you guys. Speaker 1 00:07:12 Yeah, and I'm definitely not working next Monday. I'm going to be on the Amtrak. I I might get bored on the train and do something, but I'm heading up to Merced. Yeah, someone left an entire suitcase of clothes behind. Speaker 2 00:07:49 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:55 So one of the things, like we know, CareLogic has AI that we could use, but the AI policy I was thinking about putting in place would be one that it's going to be not generic, but it's going to be granular, where we say only the AI tools approved by leadership. Can be utilized, and basically say no client information should ever be given to AI. That way, it's covering us for HIPAA audits and everything. Just showing that we have that in place and staff members have signed off on it. So, yeah, because we we have not really talked about like what AI tools we want to use. Speaker 1 00:08:44 I'm constantly in Claude because of Crimson work, and and Claude is approved for Crimson and most of my clients. So, it's one of those things where we need to just sit down and say, okay, what does the company want to use as far as AI tools, and we need to get a business account for those so that we can make sure that data is protected. Speaker 2 00:09:24 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:10:30 Uh huh. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:30 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:02 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:12:52 Yeah. Now, no matter what, we can have multiple tools. But if and when we get audited or questioned about the AI tools we have in place, because that's going to be a major focus next year, they want to know everything—not just what's client related, but also what is our finance team using, what is our HR team using, like what are they allowed to use and not allowed to use. So that's why I'm thinking the blanket statement for now because we do we do need to refresh these policies every every year. So if we do a blanket one where we make the statement, we don't have to state what ones are approved. We just make the statement of approved applications that have been approved or applications that have been approved by leadership, and then we can justify that with an email that we send out say later on to say these are the only applications approved. Speaker 1 00:13:47 And you must have an account within these within these that we manage, if that makes sense. So, like if it's a cloud account for our directors and our other departments that aren't client facing, then we we can prove here's the people who have access to those counts, and they and we can also prove that we have the security settings set up so that you know. If they were to share accidentally client information through Claude, and I'm using Claude as my example, that the data is not being fed back to train AI, which is going to be the that's going to be the major proof that I've got to show on on anything that is that is out there that we use, no matter if it's client facing or not. So. Speaker 1 00:14:44 Yeah. Now, yeah. Now I do have one client. They were very specific about their AI policy, and I just want to check. I always check this. They do have a section in there about what you can expect from AI, so that staff can read that and understand things that they could expect from AI. And that way, you can cover things like AI. I forgot how it's worded, but talking about how AI uses responses written by other AI, so you always have to fact check that there is a. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to show you guys the wording, but it is actually pretty nice wording for staff to understand how AI works. It was made as part of the policy, which was. Speaker 1 00:15:43 Unusual, but it works because when Pete, when we ask staff to sign the policy, they're going to read it because they're interested in knowing. Speaker 1 00:16:17 Yeah, I'll get. I have to write up two this week anyway, so I'll throw SCHARP into the mix. So, um, that's pretty much all I have right now. Um, it AI was the subject of a recent conversation Dr. Barber had with my boss as something he's interested. So that's kind of what I've been focused on a little bit for you guys. Speaker 2 00:16:41 Ah. Speaker 1 00:16:57 Aaron, do you know? Because I am, I am, I'm monkey middle. Speaker 2 00:17:01 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:17:37 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:17:46 Yeah, and the policy I'm writing is going to be very similar to the one I just wrote for Ability First, so almost the same. Speaker 2 00:18:27 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:18:50 We've and anytime that I'm proposing something to that extent. Especially when we're dealing with sensitive information, I go back and forth on this depending on the situation. But I think if we could test out two products at the same time, it would give us a lot better estimate on what's going to work best. Um, with the same people, because sometimes you'll you'll be using both tools, and then you'll figure out really quickly which one. Speaker 1 00:19:24 Gets you the answers you need, and you just naturally gravitate for that towards that. So, Speaker 2 00:19:30 Be a good read. Yes. Speaker 1 00:21:19 Okay . Um, just speaking of being out, just a heads up for you guys. Erin already knows. We're on baby. Yeah, you know. Yeah, we're we're on we're on baby watch starting next week. So, um, as soon as she has the baby, I'm gonna take a week off to help support that. Um, I think what's happening is the baby's being placed under my care by DCFs. So I definitely do need to take that week off just to get things set up. So, so if you see me baby wearing, just know, yeah, yeah, I might come in and say, "Hey, you want to hold the baby for a minute?" No, huh? What did you say, Erin? Speaker 1 00:22:17 I like babies too, but I'm gonna get real tired of them real quick if my sleep gets interrupted too much. Already? Yeah, already. No, I'm I'm mentally prepping myself for that one. I had a cat wake me up by lightly tapping on my face at 4 a.m. this morning, so similar issues. Yes. Speaker 1 00:22:52 Looking into it, and I dug deep into it on Friday. It does look like by device, and we can easily push that out to everybody. I just need names for you guys, and then I can have Robert and Gaston help push that out to phones. Yeah, I already gave them the instructions this morning so that they could see the instructions and. Be prepared when we assign names. Speaker 2 00:23:22 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:23:32 Okay. Perfect. Um. I I actually had that on my list to ask you about, anyways. So, yeah. And then um. I do want to start working towards getting off of Google onto Microsoft. Jennifer, I'm more concerned about y'all's data in Box and on Google, but I think if both of you are agreeable to this, I may start working on the server file shares first, where people used to store data, and move those to Microsoft first. Speaker 1 00:24:20 That way, no one. I mean, it's not that much of an interruption to people. So, all right. I'm working on that game plan for you guys, and I'll have that to you guys in the next week or two on what that could look like coming going out of Microsoft. And then, do we need to remind Dr. Barber that we're working on that because we did tell him, and then he for I think he forgot because there was a lot going on. Speaker 1 00:24:51 Yeah. Okay. Perfect. I won't be on tomorrow because I'm at camp all day. It'll have to be next week. Yeah. Um, I have it. I have the budget meeting on my calendar just in case. Um, we get done. Yeah. But I doubt I'm going to be able to hop on because we're we're walking through. Uh. Speaker 1 00:25:22 All the dead spots at camp. Yeah, I don't think I have much, but yes, awesome. I think that's everything. I have AI training. We're I'm doing AI training for all clients. I'll I've slowed down my training for the month of September, but I'll add you guys to it. On learning how to use Claude, and then I think that's everything. Speaker 2 00:25:58 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:26:39 So, so we definitely need a company account, and I think I've talked about that to Aaron and Crystal in the past, but I don't haven't brought it up with Dr. Barber yet. And the reason why I bring up Claude is because right now, Claude is killing it on what they're capable of doing compared to OpenAI and other tools, Grok or Grok or however that one's pronounced. I would never put that before a company because they have a tendency to sell their data. Cloud is is probably going to be the best option out there, other than Copilot on Microsoft. So we definitely I've been doing business accounts all day every day for a lot of clients this last couple months because I'm the AI expert within Crimson as well. So building out a Copilot is going to be super easy for SCHARP, and I can get that process started. Probably that this is where Aaron we would like to have a. Speaker 1 00:27:38 I would like to have a meeting with Dr. Barber about it and say, " Hey, can we go ahead and set this up and give it to the executive team and, you know, and start slowly having people learn AI and how to use it from from a non - client perspective. If that makes sense to you guys, yeah, Speaker 2 00:28:04 Um, uh." Speaker 1 00:28:12 Yeah. So just so you guys both are aware, Thursday and Friday, I had to block my calendar for a client because they really wanted AI training, but they couldn't decide on times. So a month ago, they had me block out both days, and they finally on Friday agreed to times. And so now I have Friday, Thursday and Friday, completely open other than 9 a.m. If you guys need anything. Their training is an hour and a half, both days. Yeah. So, and then I have I'm talking about AI to a steering committee as well on Thursday. But other than that, I'm free most days. So, just an hour. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:29:10 Yeah . Yep. Absolutely. And if it's on Friday, I'll even come into the office because my house is getting a little bit fun. All the CFT meetings that are happening. Mhm. I love a rap team. A good rap team. So. Speaker 1 00:29:40 But I'm seeing a lot of them at my house lately, because most because one child silps, so I don't have to I don't have to be in charge of those schedules, and I just come home and there's people in my apartment, and I'm thankful that somebody had the wherewithal to clean the dishes. Speaker 2 00:29:58 Yeah, so. Speaker 1 00:30:12 I Understand. Yeah, definitely. All right, cool. You guys are amazing. Oh, I'm just here. That's all. I just I come in, I do my job, make you guys happy, and I go home and sleep. All. Speaker 2 00:30:34 Right. Bye, guys.
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05-26 Meeting: Compliance Officer Selection, Security Questionnaire Gaps, and Equipment Update
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-26 08:54:42 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Pete] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Need for a Compliance Officer - Christi highlighted the need for a compliance officer, as she is currently managing compliance policies for all clients and conducting tabletop exercises. - Pete prefers developing an internal candidate rather than hiring externally; the role would report to Christi. - Potential candidates discussed: Robert (to consider), Bogdan (concerns about mindset fit), Sean (viewed as having a well-rounded mindset). - Conclusion: Align on identifying and developing an internal candidate; no final selection made. - Topic Title: Gaps in Client Security Questionnaire (Project Angel Food) - A questionnaire assigned to Anton was only partially completed; Christi stated she finished the remaining items. - Pete noted Anton claimed completion but has not yet reviewed the details. - Pete proposed a review to identify what Anton completed, what was missing, and the reasons for the gaps. - Plan to have a candid discussion with Anton and the security team about ownership of security-related questions. - Conclusion: Christi and Pete will first review the questionnaire together, then meet with Anton to address the gaps. - Topic Title: Equipment Update for Ability First - Christi ordered a replacement webcam for Ability First after giving her webcam to someone else. - She charged the purchase to her regular card. - Conclusion: Webcam expected to arrive at Ability First later today; no further action discussed. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Schedule a review this week for Christi to walk Pete through the questionnaire: what was completed, missing items, and expected ownership. - [ ] After the review, schedule a meeting with Anton (and relevant security team members) to discuss gaps and responsibilities. - [ ] Identify and shortlist internal candidates for the compliance officer role (e.g., Robert, Sean) and assess fit; document rationale for including/excluding candidates (e.g., Bogdan). - [ ] Define the scope, responsibilities, and reporting structure for the internal compliance role; outline key success criteria and development milestones. - [ ] Confirm budget and reimbursement process for the webcam purchase charged to a personal card. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify budget and approval process for the webcam purchase charged to a personal card, including reimbursement. > 2. Establish clear accountability for completing client security questionnaires to prevent future gaps. > 3. Define criteria and a development plan for selecting and training the internal compliance officer candidate. > 4. Confirm timelines for the review with Pete and the subsequent meeting with Anton to ensure prompt resolution.
- Date
- May 26, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 I was going to tell you to ignore the call because I had accidentally hit the wrong button. Good morning. How are you? I am fantastic for a Tuesday morning, that is a Monday. Yes, I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to call you because I was trying to type you using voice dictation, but then it decided to call you instead. So I was just going to let it ring. And if you picked up, he picked up. Okay. Um, I think we I think we're going to need a compliancy officer soon. Just just a a thought because I'm handling compliancy policies for all clients and tabletop exercises, and I don't mind doing it. But in the future that might be something we need to look into. And I have a webcam on order. It will be here at uh Ability First later today because I I just put it on my regular card. We had to give my webcam out to somebody else. Speaker 2 00:01:02 So. Well, we'll have to figure out. Yeah, I guess we're gonna have to figure out who that would be because uh. Yeah, I don't know who I don't know who's gonna know enough about compliance to deal with it. Um. Speaker 1 00:01:13 I don't mind keeping it. I'm just suggesting for future. Speaker 2 00:01:19 Yeahum, I wonder if we could develop somebody to become that, rather than you know, hiring, yes. I'd like to develop somebody internally to kind of own it and maybe they report to you or something. Um, maybe we could think about doing something like that. Do you think that would be something maybe somebody like Robert could take on? Or, you know, think about who the right person might be. But maybe we could develop somebody's skill set and then, you know, Give them a bump or give them sort of a title change to give them that responsibility. And. Speaker 2 00:01:54 But it would have to be somebody that has sort of that mindset, right? They have to they have to be able to think in terms of compliance and security, and they have to know those kinds of things. Maybe it's somebody like Well, I'm not sure that he's the right person. I was going to say maybe there's somebody like a Bogdan or somebody, But like we've tried to develop his AI stuff and some of his security things. I'm not sure that he's got the right mindset either. So we'll have to think about who Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:24 Who the right, who might have the right mindset? I mean, honestly, somebody that comes to mind for me is somebody like Sean. To be honest with you. He, he probably has he probably has the best well- rounded thought process that would give me a better comfort level that they think in terms of what is that broad sense of, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:53 I do. The only reason why I bring it up is, um, I am building out policies again for all clients. I am doing tabletops and things like that. But we gaveum we gave a questionnaire over to Anton to do, and he didn't even fill out half of it. You're you're on that email Um. So yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:14 And I saw that he said he filled it out, but I didn't look at the what was filled out or or anything. So Yeah, Speaker 1 00:03:20 I finished it today, And called Mike and said," Hey, These are the questions that Project Angel Food's going to need to answer because then. Speaker 2 00:03:28 Then what we need to do is have a follow up on that. Chris, you and I and Anton need to sit down and say,'Here's what Anton filled out. Here's what needed to be filled out. And here's here are the gaps.'Yeah, why did Why did we not fill out the things that should have been filled out? And you know a real." We need to have a candid conversation about why did the security team not fill if those were security questions that the security team should have answered, why did they not? So, Why don't you and I first go through that in a time that's scheduled because I don't have time right now because I got to jump to another. Yeah. Sometime this week show me what you filled out that. Speaker 2 00:04:17 If your opinion is they should have filled out, And then let's talk through why they wouldn't have and why you were able to and they didn't. And then let's figure out how we're going to talk to them about that. Speaker 1 00:04:29 Yeah, let's do that. And then I cause I got a jump too. I've got a few things going on today for Ability First I need to handle. Okay, so sounds good. Thank you Bye Pete All right, Bye.
06-17 Finalizing Child Placement with Foster Parent
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-  ## Core Synopsis A placement is being finalized for a child with a foster parent named Christy. The primary coordinator, Speaker 2, is navigating several logistical dependencies, including the receipt of a placement packet and coordination with colleagues Juan and Angelique. The arrangement hinges on a Thursday evening drop-off after 4:00 p.m., which appears feasible as the foster parent's current charge is leaving around lunchtime. Both parties established a clear and informal communication protocol, mutually agreeing to use first names and confirming contact details for any last-minute changes. The successful execution of this placement now depends on the timely arrival of the required paperwork. ## Finalizing the Placement ### The Proposed Arrangement - **Action**: Place a child with Christy, the foster parent. - **Timing**: Thursday evening, anytime after 4:00 p.m. - **Contingency**: The foster parent's current placement is scheduled to be picked up around lunchtime on Thursday for a dentist appointment, clearing the way for the new arrival. ### Coordination and Dependencies - **Internal Communication**: The coordinator confirmed they would inform Juan, Angelique, and their supervisor that Christy is a "green light" for the placement. - **External Blocker**: The final confirmation is pending the receipt and review of the official "placement packet." The coordinator needs to ensure all details are correct before proceeding. - **Communication Protocol**: Both parties agreed to direct communication via call or text. Christy specified she does not answer calls during meetings but will return them promptly. They also established an informal rapport, agreeing to use first names (Christy and Chris). ## Next Move **@Speaker 2** - [ ] Confirm placement details with Juan, Angelique, and supervisor - [TBD] - [ ] Review the placement packet upon receipt - [TBD] - [ ] Contact Christy to finalize the placement time - [Tomorrow Morning] - [ ] Take an ND2 in the IE - [Friday]
- Date
- Jun 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:32 So. Speaker 2 00:02:01 I was talking and my phone was on. Oh, Speaker 3 00:02:05 It is quite all right. I've done that so many times. Speaker 2 00:02:07 I am like," Hello, hello." Okay, so see Friday, I have to be in the IE. I have to take an ND2 Hello? Yeah, okay. That's the therapist again. Hold on just a moment. Don't worry. Speaker 2 00:03:15 Okay. She had she needed my address. Okay, so uh hello? I'm here. Uh okay Just a heads up, Speaker 3 00:03:23 If you wanted to place her with me tomorrow evening, that actually might work. Speaker 2 00:03:29 Okay So what time? Speaker 3 00:03:31 Um anytime after 4:00 p. m. Speaker 2 00:03:34 Okay So let me That may work too Yes, Okay, Let me get back with you in the morning, just to make sure because I have to wait for the placement packet. Yes, and you know, and I just you know I just want to make sure everything's good. Yeah, tomorrow being Thursday it should be it should work out. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:03:58 And the kiddos'foster mom that um that of the kiddos staying with me just told me that they're going to pick her up around lunchtime because she has a dentist appointment tomorrow. Speaker 2 00:04:08 Oh okay. Speaker 2 00:04:10 All right, so let me let Juan know you are a green light, you are a go. And I am also going to reach out to Angelique and my supervisor. If anything changes, I'll call you back. But I think everything is going to be good. Perfect. Okay, Speaker 3 00:04:28 And then you have my number. Feel free call or text anytime if I am in meetings; I won't pick up, but I will call you soon after. Okay. Speaker 2 00:04:37 All right, Christy. Now, do you want me to call you Miss Brown, Christy? How should I Chris? Okay, that's my sister. I call her Chris. Yeah, Christy. I don't go by Miss. My. Speaker 3 00:04:48 Grandmother was Miss Brown and I am not my grandmother. Speaker 2 00:04:51 Oh, okay. So all right, okay. Well, thank you so much, and it was nice speaking to you, and i will talk to you soon. Okay, Speaker 3 00:04:59 Nice to meet you and looking forward to meeting you in person. Speaker 2 00:05:04 All right. Okay. Well. See you later, Chris. Bye. Speaker 3 00:05:26 Our Lunch conversation from earlier, LOL. Speaker 4 00:05:50 It Would be uh right on the subject. Yeah, mathematics. Mathematics. Right, there's our but for the course number uh 005? Awesome. And they did the first search here. Speaker 4 00:06:18 Okay, and then after that, it's just all this another lecture over here, right? And the very back was one Saturday. It doesn't matter because that's not Saturday plus it's online. So automatic, you just go on the side, you know how to get links to right? Oh yeah, links from the right side, right? It is there right there. I'm gonna be referencing, you can press add or you can on the left side.
07-22 Microsoft Copilot Training and Troubleshooting Session
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-  This session delivers a pragmatic, expert-led tour of Microsoft Copilot’s capabilities, constraints, and workflows across Excel, Teams, and Agent Builder. It emphasizes meeting configuration, data analysis pitfalls, prompt strategies, custom agent creation/sharing, and security boundaries—culminating in specific best practices and concrete follow-up actions for attendees. ------------ ## Copilot Usage in Microsoft Applications This discussion contrasts Copilot behavior in web versus desktop contexts, with a strong preference for desktop Excel due to its finer control. The speaker notes there is currently no Teams setting to force Copilot responses to open in web, desktop, or in-Teams views; it’s reportedly on the roadmap but not yet available. As a practical workaround, when working in the browser, users can choose “Open in desktop” from the editing menu to access full Excel capabilities. Copilot’s reliance on Microsoft Search (semantic index) means it only “sees” headers, sheet names, dashboard text, and summaries, not the full grid of large, multi-tab workbooks, which explains partial or superficial responses. The speaker also demonstrates creating content (e.g., Power Automate basics slides) with Copilot and notes Copilot can act on files not currently open, though reliability varies. When Copilot returns web links pointing to SharePoint, users can open the desktop app’s File > Info to find the source location and open it directly, bypassing additional downloads. ------------ ## Optimizing Copilot in Teams Meetings The session outlines how to leverage Teams features that strengthen meeting productivity with Copilot. Facilitator mode is toggled via the More menu within a meeting and, along with the agenda timer, is limited to the meeting organizer. Adding an agenda to meeting notes prior to sending invites enables timers in Copilot during the session. Co-organizers can be assigned through Meeting options (generally restricted to internal users unless tenant settings allow otherwise). Recording and transcription settings can be enabled in advance within Meeting options, which is a recommended practice for recurring meetings. Facilitator notes are visible to anyone in the company, independent of Copilot licensing. The speaker flags tenant-level restrictions at Crimson that prevent automatic external sharing—extra steps are needed to share outside the organization. ------------ ## Troubleshooting Common Copilot Errors and Limitations A technical deep-dive explains frequent failure modes. Retrieval issues are architectural: Copilot chat won’t truly open a workbook and instead queries Microsoft Search, thus missing the full grid in large, multi-tab files. Calculation inaccuracies often arise from the Analyst agent estimating on aggregates rather than computing exact values; remedies include forcing Python execution (subject to security enablement) or pushing formulas directly into the sheet. Silent truncation of pasted data in the prompt box can cut off content midstream without notification, producing wrong totals or incomplete lists. Copilot may blend superseded versions of documents when pulling from indexed content unless explicitly anchored to a specific file. Recommended mitigations include opening the workbook and using the in-app Copilot pane, explicitly instructing Copilot to review the worksheet (sometimes repeatedly), avoiding pasted datasets, breaking complex prompts into stepwise instructions, and referencing exact files with the forward slash “/” to prevent blending across copies. When Copilot returns web links, using File > Info in desktop apps helps pinpoint and open the SharePoint source directly. ------------ ## Advanced Functionality: Creating and Managing Custom Agents The speaker demonstrates building custom agents to automate tasks and highlights a rule of thumb: attach no more than 6 to 10 files to an agent for reliability. Examples include a “Water Cooler Bot” that summarizes missed Teams activity (invoked with prompts like “what’s the buzz” or “what’s the gossip”), a “Daily Briefing” assistant that surfaces schedules and email priorities, and a “Security Monthly Reports” agent that ingests PDFs, Excel, and Word docs to produce summaries and draft client emails. Agent capabilities are configurable (e.g., include image generation while disabling document/chart/code creation) and users can select “quick response” or “think deeper” modes. Agents can be shared with “anyone in my organization” via link, appear in the agents list, and currently cannot be organized into folders. Naming conventions (e.g., “[Client]” or “[Internal Operations]”) are recommended for discoverability. For image generation, the speaker observes ChatGPT currently outperforms Copilot, though Copilot can still produce useful results. The session references Microsoft’s “Agent in a Day” digital training and related Copilot documentation as learning resources. ------------ ## Best Practices for Prompt Engineering and Information Retrieval Attendees are encouraged to break complex tasks into smaller steps—such as iterating slides one-by-one before scaling to an entire presentation—when Copilot struggles. Using the forward slash “/” to reference a specific document ensures Copilot analyzes only the chosen file, avoiding blended results from superseded copies. If composing a precise prompt proves challenging, ask Copilot to draft the prompt itself (e.g., “Create for me an Excel Copilot prompt that will return averages of the stress survey per week or per month”) and then adapt the output within the application. For data access and security, OneDrive permissions govern visibility; files on personal desktops outside shared OneDrive folders remain isolated from organizational Copilot queries. In scheduling scenarios, Copilot can sometimes parse email responses to propose meeting slots, but reliability may vary—manual invite creation may still be necessary. When Copilot links to files via the browser, use File > Info in the desktop app to locate the SharePoint source and open it directly. ------------ ## Action Items **@Speaker 2** - [ ] Configure upcoming Teams meetings to include co-organizers, enable recording/transcription, and turn on Facilitator mode where appropriate - [TBD] - [ ] Emphasize the forward slash (“/”) document-referencing technique in the next Copilot training session - [TBD] - [ ] Send the created one-pager training document as an email attachment to all session attendees - [TBD] - [ ] Compile and distribute updated training information on custom agent sharing and naming conventions to the team via email - [TBD] - [ ] Finalize the brand guide and send it to Daniel - [TBD] **@Attendees (Team)** - [ ] Use the forward slash (“/”) when referencing documents in Copilot to avoid blending superseded copies - [TBD] - [ ] Prefer opening workbooks in the desktop app and use the in-file Copilot chat to prevent silent truncation and retrieval gaps; avoid pasting large datasets into the prompt box - [TBD] [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Alere Copilot pilot training + troubleshooting session - already logged 7/22.
- Date
- Jul 22, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:01:32 Is this sound like I'm talking to her and with her or at her? Speaker 1 00:02:27 Hi, How are you? I. Speaker 2 00:02:30 Am doing great. Speaker 2 00:02:33 I'm looking for things, so if you hear rustling in the background, it is just me trying to find something in a bag of everything. It's not today. I'm not home. Oh, that's right. You guys were in the meeting when my cats were fighting behind us. I forgot about that. Tell Anzor that. He he needs to hear that the cats are true uh, true mascots. Actually I am digging through a bag of treats because I want to throw one at somebody. Nicely. I mean who doesn't like to be hit in the head with Laffy Taffy? So. Speaker 1 00:03:45 Okay. Speaker 2 00:04:24 Yeah, it's one of those things. Um, I think that I have a very similar issue too. Now, Are you guys using? Are you using the web version to chat with Copilot? Or are you using Copilot in Excel? Speaker 3 00:04:45 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:58 Yeah, I'm hoping what they do soon. And I want and I was looking real quick to see if they've already done it and doesn't look like that they have. Um, But what I'm hoping that they do soon is i i don't know if you know this in team settings, You can go in and actually tell it whether or not you want it to open a web or open in desktop apps or in teams itself. They haven't added it to Copilot yet. I hear that that's on the radar and it's on the roadmap for soon, but i'm not seeing it in the system yet. Um, however, what I normally do is if I am. I'll be honest. Let me show you what I am doing. Um, If I am actually talking to Copilot because I am doing this right now on another file. Um, and I do apologize if my screen's too small, But I was working through this file that I had started on making, and it's Power Automate basics. Speaker 2 00:05:52 And I'm working on the video, so I have this idea of what I want it to look like. And I asked Copilot to go in and help design the rest of them based on this one slide, which it's doing. And then after it got done, I told it, hey, I want you to go do the same thing with another file. And I'm still in the original file. But Copilot has already started doing that to the second file, and I don't even have the file open, which is a little bit of a help. I'm finding little things like that, that helps me navigate without using the web version. On top of that, when I'm in the web version, when I do have that issue happen, let's see if I had one open. I don't have one open. But there's a setting where you can say "open this in Excel." So and I do use that link quite often, I'll be honest. Let me see if I can find one. Speaker 2 00:06:50 Uh, to show you what it looks like. I have a million files open already. Speaker 1 00:07:03 Uh, I thought I had one for Alere in here. I'm gonna just open a generic one. All right. Speaker 2 00:07:21 So here's a survey I sent out. And so when I'm in here, I hate the web version. I'll be honest with you guys. I do not like it. So, I'll go up to editing and then I'll say open in desktop. And this a form, this the survey results from a form that i had sent out. So did i, i did send you guys that form in the past? Yeah, i did. Speaker 2 00:07:51 So, um, so that's one of the things you can do. I really dislike the web versions because it can't be as granular as I want to be in Excel, and that's my own downfall for relying too much on some features of Excel. So. Speaker 1 00:08:12 Yes. Um okay. Speaker 2 00:09:03 Um, okay. So let me let me show you. I was minimizing my sticky notes, so bear with me one moment. Um, you guys can see your beautiful faces. Okay, perfect. Um, So to turn that on what I'll do is I'll go into more. And then you have a button here that says turn on or turn off facilitator. So, and it's fantastic I do like it. Um the other thing that I love in Copilot, which you guys won't be able to see here is when I add an agenda. To the uh meeting notes before I send out a meeting or when I send out a meeting, uh it'll give me a timer here. Which is hugely helpful in within Copilot. Uh a few other things that um are massively helpful helpful. Uh about a year and a half ago, Um I was working with another client, and we were working through uh major cybersecurity questionnaire because they were bringing in a client that was HIPAA. Speaker 2 00:10:02 Um, and throughout that conversation, Because it was like a four hour call where we were going through each question. I was able to sit here and ask Copilot questions as we were going through it, And it would check the current transcript and go out and check my files. In addition to that. So those are some key things that were really helpful in meetings. Um, And sorry I was about to sneeze. And some features that you guys might work on now heads up, Facilitator and a few things, not this right here that I'm showing you. But facilitator and timer are only available to the organizer. And, then the way Crimson has our tenancy set up for Microsoft is it doesn't automatically share things externally. So when I need to share things, I have to go in and click a few extra buttons to do that. So just be aware, I think you guys are set up very similar to us on that front. Speaker 2 00:11:07 Correct. As long as they have a Copilot license. So, and then anyone within a in the company, Whether or not they have Copilot or not will be able to see facilitator notes. So so that's super helpful. Uh organizer or co-organizers? Do you guys know how to set up co-organizers? Not a problem. Let me pull up my calendar. Speaker 2 00:11:40 And I'm hoping this will work. Um, okay. It may work. So let me show you and I do apologize this, I'm, not at my normal space. So uh, the screen's a little hard to see. Um but when you're in a meeting, You have meeting options, and so I'm going to click on that button. It's going to bring up a window. And within meeting options, if you're the organizer, you can go in here. You've got meeting access and I can choose co-organizers. And, they have to be within your company unless you have that feature turned off. So I can add like April from my team if she's invited, which she is. So it's right here and then who can present? All of those are in here. Now if I scroll on down. Speaker 2 00:12:38 I have the option to have recording on or off, and then who can record and transcribe. You can actually make a change and not have presenters, however I take the default option. And then Copilot in AI, I have facilitator turned on right now. And you can turn that on ahead of time in meetings. So, that is one thing that I do for some meetings is I'll go ahead and turn it on in advance. Especially if it's a meeting that I don't have to attend, but I had to organize it for other staff members. And then I can just hit save. But there's a lot of other things in here that you guys can utilize within meetings. And this is for all teams meetings, not just um not just people with copilot. However, for if they don't have copilot, they can't set facilitator. That's the only thing. So. Speaker 2 00:13:33 And we do that, We'll turn on transcript and recording automatically for a lot of our meetings beforehand and set up the agenda. So. Speaker 2 00:14:04 Yes, let me do let me do something real quick. Let me turn on my display, make my display zoom in so that you guys can see it better. I already need reading glasses, so I don't want to force you guys have to do that. Um, let me turn this up. Speaker 1 00:14:23 That way you can see it better. All right. Speaker 2 00:14:29 And then I'm going to share my screen. A couple of things, Mark. I made you a one pager just because I was bored. You are welcome. So, I am going to let me open this in Word real quick, and then a couple of things I wanted to respond to a couple questions. I had gotten, and some of these questions are valid for you guys. So. Um I want to give you guys a heads up I'm going to answer some questions that came from another client as well. Just kind of uh, if you guys have any questions that might come up um Mark I built this in copilot. So just a heads up um I gave it my own letterhead, and then I gave it everything I wanted it to talk about, and then let it do the writing itself. Now I did go back and verify because. Speaker 2 00:15:25 Copilot is nothing more than an intern, and I do want to check it. So, I did delete some things and make some changes. So, just heads up for you guys. I've been having fun with a few of these few extra features that came out in the last week or so with Copilot. Now, before I jump into that, let me give you guys a heads up. Some of this I did in cowork in Claude as well. Um, you guys have the option for cowork right here, but we did not turn it on because it is an additional cost. So every copilot uh conversation that you have with it, every response back or everything that it does is one cent. And so something like creating a document could be upwards to a dollar to two dollars. Uh heavy use could be up to seven dollars so. Speaker 2 00:16:17 I think there was somebody within the Lear's tenancy that had asked for Copilot, And I did not ever approve it just because I want to make you guys aware that there is an additional cost to Copilot within or to co- work within Copilot. So just a heads up for you guys. Just to show you kind of what that would look like, let me pull up. Speaker 2 00:16:49 So I am working on uh uploading. So I have a a table. I might have blown up my screen too big. I have a table and I have screenshots that I sent over to cowork in Claude, And um I have it on automatically approved because all I want it to do is take the data from the screen, the pictures I took of the invoices, and put them into my budget table. And If anybody works on budgets, you know typing those into Excel pain in the neck. So this right here, it updated my um my my table for budgets that probably cost about two dollars. So just be aware of that. Um hang on one second. Sorry I still have that gnarly cough that I can't get rid of four weeks later, um so. Speaker 2 00:17:47 A couple of things on here I want to go over with you guys. Let me get my screen back over. A couple of things I want to go over with you guys on. This is make you aware of some things within how Copilot works. And Mark, you did exactly what we want a pilot user to do. You tested it against your work, you already completed and that you could verify. Um, so it's it's huge. I I don't get that often and I really appreciate that you guys are doing. Um, so three root causes I want to kind of talk you guys through. Um, The retrieval issues that you were having mark, it's architectural, and it's not anything you did wrong. Um, copilot chat won't open a workbook. So, what it does is it queries? Microsoft Search and I don't know if you guys know how Microsoft Search works. Speaker 2 00:18:38 But it's basically a semantic index. It holds headers, it holds sheet names, it holds dashboard text. It might hold a summary of a worksheet, but if it's a large multi-tab file, it's never going to see that full grid. It just Copilot is not able to do that. And. So what you had in screenshot in one of the screenshots is like textbook behavior, because it only replied back with what it could see, and it didn't actually open the worksheet. Now, One of the things that I will do in those cases is I'll either open that workbook and ask Copilot questions within the Copilot chat, which is down here. Or I will tell the system, "I need you to open this worksheet and look through it closely. " And sometimes I have to tell it three or four times to do that. It's not ideal. So if you re-. Speaker 2 00:19:38 Maybe reframe how your knowledge of co-work works, which it's hard to do when you know we're still learning how co-work works. I mean, copilot works. Um, just understand it's uh it's not your prompting. It's not anything you're doing wrong. It's copilot is just being copilot, and I will be honest. Uh if you have children, you you will know this. Uh, you tell them to do something, and they only half - assed do it, because for whatever reason. Because they don't hear the entire explanation, Copilot's the same way. Does that make sense? Okay. So I did cool. Um, so I did put in some methods on how to like get around that. Um, and then calculation errors. Those come from estimation. Uh, you're using the analyst agent, I saw it in your screenshot. I love that uh it is definitely the right tool, but the model estimates on an aggregate. Speaker 2 00:20:38 Rather than computing it, which is a headache. Now, it's not something you can fix by prompting alone, But it is fixable by forcing a Python execution or pushing the formula into the sheet. So what I've done is I've asked my security team to go in and make sure that Python is actually enabled for what we're doing. And that might help you a little bit better on some of your calculation errors that you're working through. Okay, and then your second failure, the silent truncation is what caused it. Your data set in one of your screenshots cut off midstream, and the prompt box will also truncate without announcing it, which is annoying. And because it does that silent and that's a hazard. Speaker 2 00:21:33 I don't paste datasets as a rule of thumb. I will do, I will do, I'll actually open the prompt box in where the data is at. And because when you paste that in, it's just, it's a headache. Because again, they're they're just interns. They're like a toddler on a bad day. So just be aware of that with the truncated stuff it's going to, Produce wrong totals because it doesn't look at all the data. So I, oh, sorry. Speaker 2 00:22:33 Gotcha. So, in the answer to that question, there's no clean number. It truncates silently. And it won't tell you how much is needed before it truncates it. And, it is really a gamble if you're talking a few hundred rows. ; that's a gamble on it. I honestly i stopped pasting at all where and I found that if I If I just do the entire file and just open it up in the file, um, it saves me headaches. I I pasted in, I think a transcript from a meeting once, and I asked it to list out all my to-do s from that meeting, and it missed half of them because they had truncated. And the meeting was like a five minute meeting, so it wasn't very long if that makes sense. Speaker 2 00:24:18 Honestly, in that case, I would take it and let me know if I am not understanding the question as I answer it. Um, I would take it a little bit at a time before. I would try to create a whole new workbook for that information. Um, I am thinking of a situation where I had a client that had like five worksheets or five uh workbooks. And, then they created a whole sixth workbook, just based on all the information from the other five, and they had everything connected, if that makes sense, to that sixth workbook. And, when we try to ask Copilot to do some things because it was such a large piece, it had a hard time with the entire prompt that we gave it. So we cut the prompt down into simple steps. Speaker 3 00:25:12 And then ask that, and then had it put all that together. If that helps. Speaker 3 00:25:45 Yeah. Right. Speaker 2 00:25:53 And that that's actually a good rule of thumb. Um, I did that on the PowerPoint presentation? I was working on that I showed you guys. I went from asking it to recreate the entire document to working on it slide by slide, and then once I was satisfied it understood what I wanted, then i let it create, i let it work on the next, Um, PowerPoint presentation all by itself, but it took me going through slide by slide. I think I did like four slides that way. Took forever. Copilot is slow. So yeah, it is getting better guys. I do promise it is getting better. I'm seeing even in the year and a half that I've used it more, It's a thousand times better than where it was. Speaker 2 00:26:42 So it is continuing to get better. It is learning and things like that. Um, there are things it does well. So I was working on, I am going to show you guys this. I was working on some videos and and I've told you guys about the videos. I am working on. Um, I i knew that somewhere i had an animation video for the title that Zawar if you guys ever met Zawar, he had created. I remembered it was 2002, 22 or 2023, But I couldn't remember what it was called, and I couldn't remember where I saved it. So it did find all the copies of it. So there are things that does really well. There are things that sucks at. Not going to lie, but that's the same with Claude and with uh ChatGPT. I can't believe I just forgot that name um and things like that. So just be aware. Speaker 2 00:27:39 Um, one thing you I don't think you flagged this yet, Mark, But I do want to um or maybe you did and I'm and I missed it. Uh we did talk about Copilot will pull whatever's indexed. It will also pull superseded copies. Uh so just a heads up and those superseded copies Copilot will blend them without telling you. So I want you guys to be aware of that Um, One of the things that I have learned and I had this happen to me this week is not that. Don't do that is when you're working in something use the forward slash. And then um you can pull up the document to reference that way rather than just give it the title. So if I say um I want you to check. Speaker 2 00:28:35 Or inaccuracies in this document. By doing that, It's just going to look at the one document that I referenced, rather than looking for all the copies of that document and blending all of those in to determine it. So yeah, Microsoft is wrong on that one. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:29:01 Um, I. Speaker 2 00:29:43 Yeah. So We do, we do know that that is an issue. It is, Is always going to give you the web link to it, and that web link's supposed to point back to SharePoint, which means that you're going to click it, It's going to open up in in the browser, and then you've got a download it again. Um, one of the things that I do do when it does that just to kind of give you a heads up I'm going bring back up this? If I see that it does that, I'll go into File. And then in here, I can go into Info and I can look at the location. When it does that, and so if I click on the location, it's going to take me to where that location is in SharePoint. And that is an annoyance. So but yes, I one hundred percent understand what you are saying. Um, I've played around with it. Speaker 2 00:30:32 For those kind of reasons, And please don't kill me for saying this, because I know you guys don't have access. Lately, I've been going back to Claude. So, uh, but Copilot is getting there. I promise you guys it is going to get there. Uh, Hopefully, it's going to get there soon because it is getting a little bit annoying on some of these to see. Um, but again, there are things that I do love Copilot for. Missing files, giving me my update for the day while I'm driving, things like that. So there are some good points. Um, How so real quickly you use the analyst agent for a lot of what you did Mark. How many of the rest of you guys tried the analyst agent? Okay. Um, I haven't tried it lately in here. Speaker 2 00:31:29 But I have had it analyze the data within Excel. So, uh be aware that that does work in Excel. I'm going to bring this one back over. And so you can analyze a lot of the data in here. So when I click on the Copilot, um I can have it analyze the last three months. Thank goodness it can spell check for me. Speaker 2 00:31:58 And so I can go through it analytically on that, and I can ask questions and let it go through. I'm not going to go through that right now. Does that make sense? Speaker 1 00:32:17 I'll be honest, I prefer it in Excel, and that's just a personal preference. Now if I'm going to do it in here, I am going to reference back to that document or. Speaker 2 00:32:26 Use that forward slash to go back. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:32:32 So, yes. Yep. Speaker 2 00:32:44 Yes, And I'm going to make an effort on my next Copilot training to emphasize that, especially my Copilot training with you guys. Um, I did I. I did notice that when I was reading through your email and looking at your notes, I was like, "I need to explain the forward slash a little bit better." So, um, and then here you guys can see the analyst that I'm doing. Uh, this is a survey response that I sent out for clients have already filled it out. And, you guys can see how it's going through and executing that the analyst on here just so that the rest of you guys can see it. Speaker 2 00:33:21 It does give you a lot of codes in here. I usually ignore it. I go get my cup of coffee. So, have any of you guys created your own agent yet? Speaker 2 00:34:22 So I'm going to give you my rule of thumb for files, just because right now this is what I'm seeing across all AI. No more than 10 files. Uh, I usually say no more than six files, but uh 10 files also seems to be the uh the rule of thumb. Now that being said, uh I'll show you some of the fun ones that I've created. Uh You guys can get more advanced than these, but Water Cooler Bot one of my favorites. Just because, um, when I was out for the week, I missed a lot of chat. And what I can do is I can what I did with this is I say? ", what ' s the buzz "? Or you know any of this. Um, actually "what's the gossip." If you guys know our texts really well, you're going to find some fun things out about my texts on this. But, basically, it goes into Teams, and it catches me up on all the Teams stuff. Um and we just call it the water cooler bot. Speaker 2 00:35:19 A group of us IT people put this together and built this out. So, it just goes in and gives me all the details of anything I missed in Teams. And so I can actually, what I did was when I was out and I came back, I said give me the buzz for the last week while I was out. And so it was very, very, very long but it was really cool. And that's just a basic one. Created a moose image generator. Now, let me give you guys a heads up. It's far better on uh Chat GPT than it is on Copilot, but Copilot does make some really good moose image generators. And uh Moose is my cat, my daughter's cat. I would not name a cat Moose. Um but basically what we do is we my cats have become uh. Speaker 2 00:36:16 Mascots to two of my clients that I manage uh pretty pretty strongly. So I am at one client site today, but what we do is we'll send out um, I'll send out an update from it, and then I have chat GPT make the image that goes out with that. So uh this is what it does. I never could get it fully working right in Copilot, but I never took the time either. So That's what it was supposed to do, but I ended up moving that to ChatGPT. And sadly, I only use ChatGPT for those images. Don't tell Anzor that. So, but that's what those agents are for. You have the ability to create new agents very easily. So I'm going to create one here and basically, you can tell it what you want it to do. And you've got plan my day These are templates that you can do. Speaker 2 00:37:13 Um, and so I actually built one that gives me my daily briefing. And I'll say, "Brief me on today's schedules." This what I use when I drive to work in the mornings, and I'll have it actually speak to me. So this one that I commonly use. Uh, don't think there's anything on my schedule you guys shouldn't see. All right. So. Speaker 2 00:37:42 Um, I did talk about you guys to my boss just because he asked me what was going on if he could schedule a meeting during this time, and I said, no, and and I explained why. Um, So there's some tickets and things like that. Uh my calendar stuff that I have on there. Uh any email priorities, although I don't like this one as much because it pulls up my uh things that I'm just on for FYIs, but you guys can see. Um, some things that are coming in. So and it's pretty good about that. And that's the daily briefing assistant. When you're creating stuff like this, um, just be aware that you can get very granular in your ask, which I'm going to show you guys how to do in a second. Um, I also have one mark this is going to interest you. Um, this one is security monthly reports. So basically I put in a bunch of attachments and I get a summary of those attachments. Speaker 2 00:38:41 So they can be PDFs, Excel, Word documents. And then I can also have it draft a client email that that's supposed to go out to. This one's actually used by the entire company. So you can share these. Now when I'm creating a new agent, I don't like the new screen. Um, I'm going to skip this and I can message the Agent Builder and say this is what I'm looking for. And this is something you might want it to do daily or so. Does anybody want to give me an idea that you have for an agent? You can even steal my cat one if you want. Speaker 2 00:39:41 Okay. Um, image generators are a little bit more difficult, but let's see if we can do it. Um, give me give me instructions on what you think. Can you put it in the chat of some instructions I can use? Because honestly, You'd be better at writing that one than I, because I don't do much with that, that part of life. Speaker 2 00:41:20 Okay, Is this pretty close to what you guys are thinking about? Okay, so new agent. I'm going to change the name. Um, I'm just going to call it Design Space. Isn't there a TV show at one time that said Design Space or something? Something. Speaker 2 00:41:49 Um, so the capabilities I'm going to put in there is create images. I do want that in there. And then, um, let's see. Description cannot be blank. That's what I was missing. All right, now in here you can also choose quick response or think deeper. I'm going to just do best model for the task. And then I'm going to look and see? Is there anything else we just wanted to. Um, we don't want it to create documents or charts or code. We just want it to create images. So I'm going to turn that off and then I'm going to say, create and for for grins and giggles, give me one second. All right, start chat. I am going to bring up a picture of a place where I live. One second. Speaker 1 00:42:55 Photos. Oh, these are old pictures. Oh well. Copy image. This is my living room to make it look more comfortable. Speaker 2 00:43:22 I I'm trying to move from a a two bedroom into a three bedroom. My family is growing. Speaker 3 00:43:37 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:43:50 Yes, so when you did the when I did the design space instructions, which I can go in here and edit that. I can give it the color standards within those instructions. Which makes life a little bit easier. All right, so here's this is the description I gave it, which is to give us a couple of different thoughts. Um and so here's here's the different uh color schemes that it gave us. So it's not bad, How, do you you guys feel about it because you guys are more in this space. I'm comfortable with this, but I I know nothing about furniture design. Speaker 3 00:44:35 Okay. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:44:44 All right, I'm going to use this for my video training. You guys gave me a great idea, so I like this. This would appeal to a lot of my people, not from your perspective, just because we all like to dabble. And I know nothing about interior design. I leave that up to my child. She's better at this than I am. So. Speaker 3 00:45:51 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:46:22 Yeah. So one of the biggest things is the share option, and I can do that in edit. So bear with me one second. I'm going to walk you guys through this, but I am going to add it to your training information as well. So when we're in here, Um we're going to update uh use calming uh colors in blues and greens and some pastels. Speaker 2 00:46:52 I'm telling you guys, I'm not good at this part. And so I have that, it's updated. I can click this, and now I can say, share and I can make the change to anyone in my organization. I can also copy that link but once I hit apply, hit close, When they go into the library or not the library, but when they go into the agents. They can see it in here. Now, one thing you can't do is put them in folders yet. So there's no real organization to it. But as we go in here, project profitability has been shared out that was made by Julia. Our managers made the interview questions assistant. So, there are a few in here that you can do, but you can also search for it. And then one of the things we've done is we have a place in Teams. Speaker 2 00:47:50 Where, we have them all listed out as well of hey this one's for this, this one's for that, and people can go find it. So Yeah. Speaker 2 00:48:28 Absolutely. I am a fan of naming conventions. Don't look at this, this is not an example of my naming conventions. I'll show you my workflows later. But yes, I'm definitely a fan of those and that would be a massive help. You guys can come up with the naming scheme that works for you guys. I usually do bracket client or close bracket or bracket internal operations, close bracket on mine. So. Speaker 2 00:50:05 No worries. All right, the rest of you guys are a little quiet. So not that I don't mind it, But is there anything you guys are finding that you want to see or you'd like me to touch base on? Speaker 3 00:50:36 Yeah. Yeah. Yes, Speaker 2 00:51:02 Ah, sadly it is it they are improving. They just gave a Plaud Note, which is is actually been a help. But one hundred percent understand where you are going with that. I feel your pain, deeply. So Yeah. Speaker 2 00:51:45 Yes. Um, I'm going to tell you a cheat for Copilot that I use all the time. Um, one of the things I'll do is if I'm in Excel, create for me an Excel Copilot prompt that will get it to return, The averages of the stress survey per week or no per month. I will cheat by having Copilot make my prompt for me in the chat and then I'll throw it into Excel. Sometimes you got to tell it to help you think better and it does, it does a decent job. Speaker 2 00:52:37 So what you'll do is you'll get it like this. It comes in plain text. And so, um, you're going to say copy code and it's going to copy it in. Um, and then uh, you do want to make sure you make some changes. So, if I go in here and I look at oh, wait, that's not my stress survey. My stress survey is gone, but I would paste it in right here. And so. Speaker 2 00:53:07 I'll do that paste, and then I'll go real quickly. I'll go through and change the headings and stuff to make it match. And so sometimes I just set it against each other. It's my best option. I do this with Claude too. If I'm working in Claude Code and I can't get Claude Code to understand me, I go into Claude and i tell it, this is what I'm trying to do, create the prompt. So if you guys get stuck, try that. Speaker 2 00:53:53 Yeah. Yes, and I will agree to that. I have, i Alere pays for three different AI tools for me, um, thankfully. And I do pit them against each other often. It's like watching toddlers fight. So cute or watching my cats fight, as you guys know, it's very cute. So. Speaker 1 00:54:18 All right, anybody else? Speaker 2 00:54:43 Yes, And I got the perfect perfect solution or perfect uh. Item for that. Um, let me pull up my email. So basically my example for you guys, uh actually have that happening this week. So, let me find it Charl. So, we are working on a department. Uh, sit down with each of um each department. Speaker 2 00:55:18 And let me find it. There it is. Okay, so this is what it is. They want to sit down. Uh, working sessions, we're going to sit down with each one. So um we have responses to this. So okay, help me determine best dates and times for the individual meetings meetings. That we need to set up from the following email. Now, this may not be your example, but it's as close as I can make it. Sometimes you pull emails forty five. Here we go. Speaker 2 00:56:36 Only internally, and it doesn't always work. Yeah, so um, so this is my you guys saw I did the forward slash. It did pull it up but not when I pasted. Um, and so it's going to look for that email. It's going to look for the responses, and it's going to pick calendar dates and times. I did have this do it already um So just a heads up for you guys, it already I had already done it. It had already set up my meetings. Um, but it did schedule it, but it's kind of funny because this time it could not find the replies. That's weird. Um, but I already did it. Here's the ones that I scheduled. Um, So a heads up. And then uh yeah, this is where Copilot bombed on me. Speaker 2 00:57:32 Just now, it did do it this morning. So just a heads up for you guys, It did find all the responses and I was able to send out uh the invites based on it. So. Speaker 2 00:57:58 Yes, It does. Uh, it doesn't exactly write well to your calendar now. Cowork is coming in, but they got to they got to lower the price of cowork for me. Um, and cowork is supposed to be able to do that for you. Uh, Copilot. Speaker 1 00:58:14 Does not fully do that yet. Speaker 2 00:58:19 So because I had to make the invites and send them out because Copilot refused to do it. Speaker 2 00:58:29 So this morning it went from helpful. This afternoon, it went to I can't help you with that because I can't find the conversations. So. Speaker 1 00:58:44 Yes, no worries. Speaker 3 00:59:45 Uh huh. Speaker 2 01:00:14 So honestly, on this one, I already laid it out. Crimson has uh we already have our generic PowerPoint presentation um set up. So, we already have a marketing brand book that says, this is how we want PowerPoint presentations to look. Um. So if you have that um that's the easiest thing you can do because you can go in, and you can say, look at our brand book for our for our design. Options. And then from there, you can go in. So I'm going to click on this design suggestions. So if you click on that, it's going to give you some designs. However, it just failed me. So what I do do is I'll go into here and I'll say, What are my other options of different looks I can do with this based on the branding book? If I'm creating something from scratch though. Speaker 2 01:01:15 So I'm going to go in and uh new. I'm going to create with Copilot. So I'm going to create a about, I'm going to create a presentation, sorry. I'm flubbing my words. And Elir. All right. Speaker 1 01:01:42 Is it failing on us? Speaker 1 01:01:46 Okay. There we go. But use the crimson, crimson brand book. Speaker 2 01:02:05 Or the design. So, that's where I start because that's the simplest thing I can do. And that's where I would start. Um, And then once it this is going to take a while might take twenty minutes. Um, from here, that's where I am going to start making the tweaks within Copilot. And I'll give it suggestions like, I want a workflow look to this, But I want the workflow behind everything, uh semi transparent, which is what I did in the other one. So does that help answer your question? Speaker 2 01:03:02 Gotcha. Um, I feel like it's one of you guys. I'm working on a marketing brand book for something else. Was it one of you guys? Oh, thank you, Daniel. Um, I'm trying to finalize that uh, but Crimson stuff gets in the way. So um but I am working on that here uh for Daniel. Uh well, actually for me, but I'm going to send it over to Daniel later on to show how to make a uh, a full - on brand guide that might help you guys. Speaker 2 01:03:32 So it's for my blog. I've done one, but it wasn't, it's not recent, so I'm redoing it. Here's the questions. Highlight a few. Confirm. So and you guys will see how it looks if you want to wait around that long. So, While we're waiting on this, you guys are asking some great questions. What else would you like for me? And, this is more of me asking because I want to know how we can make the training better for your staff. What are some more things you would like to see in that training? Or would you like for me to bring a follow up video in where people can look at it separately? Speaker 3 01:04:40 Yep. Learn. Speaker 2 01:04:48 Dot Microsoft dot com. It is one of my favorite tools out there, and it has a lot in here. You'll see on the first page, Copilot. So there's a lot of libraries out here. There's a lot of documentation. They do have training out here, Stick with here and then also maybe look into the Power Platform because I think we've talked about Power Automate. And so these are your two main ones. And then you'll see a lot of documentation in here. Let's see, there was something, they changed the page lately. I was looking to see if it's in here. Oh, right here. They keep changing the page on this. So I got to find things over and over again. Speaker 2 01:05:33 But uh, agent in a day for those of you guys who are wondering about agents. I started this the other day um and started to register for this event, but it's digital completely digital and you guys can attend it. So the next one coming up is um the twenty eighth, and it is all day. Um and these have had some really good reviews on them, But then t here is also been some reviews that they are also a little boring. So uh just want to bring that to your attention and And then let me go back to the other. When you're in here, if you go click on the Copilot training, they do have a lot of things in here. Articles, there are some learning paths that you guys can also go through. And then a few other additional things in here. This one is also based on agents. It is actually pretty good, a little boring. So on certain videos I do times it by two. Speaker 2 01:06:31 Um, so just be aware. But the modules are really great, and it does go through a lot of things. There are some boring features. I say that having ADHD, So I have my fidget toys basket right here for those days in which I need to fidget while watching the videos. So and if you guys need fidget toys, I will send you fidget toys. So does that help? Speaker 2 01:07:02 Microsoft Learn is my best, is my favorite place to go find out new things because it's free. Can be boring, but uh to my children's uh dismay uh I have the Kindle show fifteen. Do you guys know what that is? Okay, do you guys know what the not Kindle Echo, the Amazon Echo. Okay sorry I said Kindle um, I have the Echo fifteen show, which is just like a screen. It's actually mounted to my wall in my kitchen. Uh, I will code some of these videos on it and watch while I am cooking, and my girls get annoyed with me so. All three of them, Which by the way, I have I now have three kids go figure three teenagers. Um for those of you guys who know me for a while and know the story. So. Speaker 2 01:07:58 But yeah, it does bore them. Hopefully I'm thinking osmosis happens and some of them might get interested in technology. It's not worked yet. So, um, any other questions? I don't want to keep you guys too long. I know we've scheduled this for an hour and a half, But I don't want to bore you guys and keep you on longer than you want. Speaker 2 01:09:18 So that has another level of isolation. Thank goodness. Um, it's isolated if it sees because your desktop is part of your OneDrive. If it sees that it's in your OneDrive, it's going to look at who has access to those. So basically I'm going to pull up my OneDrive. So in here everybody well a lot of people have access to this, Um, so this is my training for clients. If I go into my desktop, no one has access to my desktop. I also have a very sparse desktop, but besides the point, no one has access in here. So if it's on my desktop, no one else in the company can uh chat with Copilot about anything here. My documents on the other hand, I have granted access. So anything that's in old files to sort or strategy and leadership, no one's going to be able to. Speaker 2 01:10:16 You anything that's listed there. Internal operations, it's shared. A lot of things I have in there are shared. Personal workspace, not shared. So any of my personal documents and things like that, it's not going to be shared out to the company. So check your, All you have to do is go into File Explorer and check and see what folders are actually shared out. So. Speaker 2 01:11:00 Yes. You will find that in your email soon. I'm just going to send it as an attachment this time. Um, I'm going to send it to all of you guys. Um, Let me know if you have any questions and if you want more one pagers, I have fun making these. I do these at night so reach out, I may not be good at interior design, but I am good at designing out one pagers for people. At least I think I am. So, and then anything else you guys need, feel free to reach out and just let me know. Um, I will say Mark your questions were well beyond on the level. Um, I don't get people like that very often and I appreciate that. So please send more. Speaker 3 01:11:53 All right. Speaker 2 01:12:30 And guys, I am having fun with y'all. So please let me know how I can help. Thanks, Speaker 1 01:12:39 Guys. Bye.
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05-27 Weekly Meeting: ITG to Hudu Migration, Project Updates, and AI Agent Training
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- > Date: 2026-05-27 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Christi] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Anzor] [Pete] [Anton] [Mike] [Vince] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] [Speaker 15] ## Meeting Notes ### Opening and Team Updates - Meeting started at 10 AM on May 27, 2026. - After-hours support this week: Gabby (primary), Kevin (backup). - Core value spotlight: "Do the right thing." - Quote of the day (Martin Luther King Jr.): "You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." ### Help Desk Update: ITG to Hudu Migration - Access to ITG will be removed Monday, June 1, 2026. - All data must be moved to Hudu by Monday. If anything needed from ITG is missing in Hudu, notify the help desk ASAP. - A question was raised about responsibility for validating the transfer; final sign-off owner not yet assigned. - Security is moving global admin accounts; help desk is moving other admin accounts. Completion target: Friday, May 29, 2026. - An export of ITG data will be created for archival; Pete will manage it securely. ### Cybersecurity Update - Bogdan completed migration of all global admin accounts to Hudu. - Mandatory: Check LastPass for breach notifications/alerts. Follow-up check Monday, June 1, 2026. - Defense Six enrollment underway for all clients. Report blocked sites to create necessary allow rules. ### Operations Update - Maverick project hit a major milestone over the weekend; thanks to the team, including holiday work. - Julia will leave Crimson end of June; Pete thanked her for major contributions to building project management. Transition roles noted (Paula and Seg), but a formal handover plan is pending. - Ticket counts are down significantly; continue focusing on phones and tickets due to staffing constraints. - Arc customer challenge underscored the importance of communication; provide regular ticket status updates to customers. ### Account Management Update - Anderson requested wireless management/monitoring for ~150 additional Meraki devices. - Ark is filing for SEC registration; needs electronic communication archiving/surveillance. Seeking feedback on Smarsh and Global Relay; no formal collection process or deadline yet. - Irongate evaluating SSO for NetSuite. - Reminder: Double-check customer licensing before quoting. Example: E5 includes Power BI Pro (requested by Project Angel Food). ### Finance and Admin Updates - **Finance:** Submit all timesheets and expenses by Friday, May 29, 2026, for month-end. - **Admin:** Monthly billing in progress; coordinate any work affecting billing with the admin team. ### New Business Development - Progress continues on current engagements; aiming for positive news by end of June. - Updated rate sheet released; use for all new quotes regardless of existing agreements (link shared in chat). - Less Quality project (365 migration) expected to be approved next week; Anzor will follow up post-completion to explore further opportunities. ### Project & Change Management Call-outs - **Ability First:** Expected outages all week for Camp Pabika can be ignored. Christi on-site May 28, 2026. - **Angison:** FAF firewall installation next week. - **Collier's EYP:** QoS policies implemented on firewall and core switch to stabilize phones; monitoring ongoing. - **CBRE:** Fagan Seventh and Wells Fargo North Tower sold; do not create new tickets for these sites. - **Hannah:** Critical XRF migration to a new OS scheduled night of May 31–June 1. Emphasis on solid rollback plan and clear communication. ### Training Update: AI Agents - Christi introduced creating AI agents (inspired by Anzor). - She will share templates modeled after "Hugo" (Anzor), "April," and "Segred." - Demonstrated using PowerShell to set up/run agents in tools like Claude Code and Codex. - Briefing skill can automate Outlook checks, calendars, and task pulls from Airtable or Excel. - Short, in-depth 5-minute sessions to follow over the next few weeks. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Complete migration of remaining ITG data to Hudu by Friday, May 29, 2026; assign final data validation owner and sign-off. - [ ] Team members to review LastPass accounts and resolve security issues by end of week; Anzor to conduct follow-up check Monday, June 1, 2026. - [ ] Submit all timesheets and expenses by Friday, May 29, 2026. - [ ] John to migrate Hannah’s XRF to new OS on the night of May 31; ensure rollback plan and communication plan are documented. - [ ] Mike to follow up with Anzor after Less Quality project completion to explore further opportunities. - [ ] Anzor to share the updated rate sheet with the team and confirm adoption for all new quotes. - [ ] Christi to provide ongoing 5-minute AI agent training sessions and distribute agent templates ("Hugo," "April," "Segred"). - [ ] Define and execute Julia’s role transition and handover plan (Paula and Seg to coordinate tasks, timelines, and documentation) before end of June. - [ ] Establish a process and deadline to gather feedback on Ark’s archiving tools (Smarsh, Global Relay); compile recommendations for decision. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following unresolved items or areas lacking clear action; please address: > 1. Final validation responsibility for the ITG→Hudu migration remains unnamed; designate a single owner for sign-off. > 2. No formal process or deadline to collect feedback on archiving tools (Smarsh, Global Relay) for Ark; define collection method, cutoff date, and decision path. > 3. LastPass issues persist; while a Monday check is planned, clarify consequences or remediation expectations for non-compliance. > 4. Julia’s transition plan is not detailed; formalize task ownership, timeline, and documentation for a smooth handover.
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- May 27, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:18 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:20 Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 1 00:00:49 Good morning. Good morning. How. Speaker 3 00:01:05 Was everybody's long weekend? Speaker 2 00:01:08 Not long enough, only because the kid is getting ready to graduate. We have had a lot of work to do. Speaker 3 00:01:20 That's very exciting. Speaker 3 00:01:23 Yeah, Graduating high school is uh is a big time. Yes, has uh has started doing college prep and everything? Speaker 2 00:01:34 Yeah, she's going to UC Merced. Oh, very exciting. Yeah, we leave August nineteenth to move her in. Speaker 3 00:01:44 Very exciting but also very sad at the same time. Speaker 4 00:01:53 Yeah. Probably for God. Say that again. Speaker 1 00:02:03 I think that was just background noise from somebody. Oh, but if don't know the primary number. Speaker 1 00:02:19 Verbal security. New visitor. Speaker 1 00:02:57 Hey Robert. Speaker 2 00:03:05 Yes. What is the phone number for IT? Speaker 5 00:03:10 The main number? Speaker 2 00:03:11 Yes, the main number. Speaker 5 00:03:13 Uh, Two one, three, three, three, five, five, four, one, seven. Speaker 2 00:03:18 That is not allowing me to do. You know the primary phone for ADT for this building? Speaker 5 00:03:27 Uh, it should be the main phone number, which is uh three one zero six three one eight zero zero four. Speaker 1 00:03:39 Okay, let me try that. Speaker 2 00:03:44 This location is currently not in service or is more than seven days out from installation and cannot be managed. Well, at least that phone number worked. Speaker 2 00:03:55 AD is killing me. Speaker 3 00:03:59 All right, everyone, that's ten AM. Good morning. Today is May twenty seventh, twenty twenty six, week number twenty two. The after hours support is Gabby being the primary with the backup being Kevin. Core value I'd like to highlight today is do the right thing. It's it's always very, It's not very difficult, But it's the most important thing to do the right thing to maintain a proper relationship and proper, you know, reputation for yourself as being an honorable person. Um, Quote of day I would like to bring to everybody's attention is " Y ou don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." That's by Martin Luther King Junior. Um next we'll move to team updates. We're going to start with help desk with Olivia if she is here. Speaker 6 00:04:48 Good morning, guys. Happy Wednesday. Uh from the help desk side of things, I'm just a heads up as of Monday, uh we will you will not have access to ITG anymore. Um, so if you need something in ITG next week that is not in Hudu, please let me know. Asap. Um everything should be moved over to Hudu by Monday. So yeah, that is all from me. Thanks Ryan. Speaker 7 00:05:14 Thanks Olivia and we'll move to cybersecurity with Anton, Uh, before we go on, I had a question. Who is responsible for validating that the data from ITG has been successfully transferred to Hudu? For example, not long ago I was looking for a global admin password for Barker Pacific. I went into Hudu and it was not there, even though Hudu had like 30 new entries for Barker Pacific. But it was in ITG. So. Speaker 7 00:05:46 Is there a person who's responsible? Speaker 6 00:05:50 Yeah, so for Barker specifically, we're in the proum we were in the progress process of it. Uh, but we have security moving over the global admins. And then Help Desk is moving over the rest of the admins. So it should be completed all by this Friday. But you're. Speaker 7 00:06:08 Still moving things over actually. You have someone who is responsible for ensuring that anything useful, In ITG has been moved to Hudu, right? So when you shut down the Hudu, if the data is missing, there is someone who can say I missed the ball here, right? I didn't do my job. Okay. Okay. Right. Speaker 8 00:06:31 We're also going to do an export of it, right? So, we have we have some type of an archival that we can go back to, right? Speaker 7 00:06:40 But I think export doesn't save the passwords, right? Speaker 6 00:06:48 Yes. I'm not sure Oscar is not OTP. So so so and. Speaker 7 00:06:54 Right, definitely not OTP. But uh okay, if we do the export, whoever does the export must treat this export with like like guarding their life, right? I Pete, I think you, you probably want to just personally manage and make sure that we have it in one place. No one can get to it, but let's say you. And three months later, it's deleted and completely wiped. Right, right. Speaker 8 00:07:22 Yeah, We brought that up. We brought that up a couple days ago, too, because that's sort of the keys to the kingdom, and that can't fall into the wrong hands for sure. Speaker 7 00:07:31 Right, and it's going to sit unencrypted. It's going to sit in, you know, you don't have to do MFA to get like all of the. Protections we have, we need to make sure that data is super securely protected. Okay. Speaker 3 00:07:51 Thank you, Anzor. We'll move to cybersecurity with Anton. Speaker 9 00:07:55 Related to ITG migration to Hudo, Bogdan yesterday finished up with the all global admin accounts. Um, anyone from helpdesk team, if you are encountering any issues with the moving other passwords, please reach out to security. We're gonna be glad to help you. This is first part. Second part, I'm asking everyone to take a look into your LastPass account and verify if you have any notifications about breached passwords or any other alerts. Speaker 9 00:08:34 In the last one, just reminder, we're currently enrolling Defense six for all our clients. If, you see new like issues with the accessing any websites that were successfully accessed before, just let us know to create and allow rules in the Defense six. That's it from me. Thank you. Speaker 7 00:08:60 So Anton, in my mind, When you say go in the last pass and validate you have no issue, that's great, right? But in reality, we know users that are problematic users, and we know exactly where they're problematic, right? Uh Minty has admin access to LastPass. I think you have admin access. You guys need to sit down and email each user and say, these are the things that are in violation. Fix them by end of this week, right? So it's not just" hey, go take a look," but we know you have a problem, fix it. We did already. We already did it. Oh, you already did that? Speaker 9 00:09:36 It's just reminder. Speaker 7 00:09:38 I see, I see. Okay, Great great And. Speaker 9 00:09:40 Just to be clear LastPass is they are monitoring in life. So probably there are going to be any notifications. Speaker 7 00:09:51 That that that's fine, but uh you know, that number should drop, right? That this number did not drop the one that I've sent you. Right? Hasn't really changed since we last talked. So, that's why I would say folks it's mandatory that you fix the problems identified in the last pass. Right? Uh on Monday. We're going to do another sweep. And if you're still on the list, right uh, I'll probably want to have a personal conversation and understand why you have not fixed the security issue. That was uh brought up to you by security team, right? So just treat this seriously because that's a big deal. Yeah, Speaker 9 00:10:30 That's it from me. Thank you. Speaker 7 00:10:32 I think I'm still in CEO mode, Pete. I should stop talking. Don't worry, Speaker 8 00:10:37 Say you're the owner. It's all good. Speaker 7 00:10:41 I should be in my lane, but no, Speaker 3 00:10:43 No, and now we'll move to operations with Pete. Speaker 8 00:10:47 All right, a few items. So, uh, first of all, we had a big project. We have a big project that's still underway, but a big milestone this past weekend for Maverick. So um I wanted to just call out um really, really great job by the team this past weekend. A lot of people had to work over the weekend, especially on Monday, which was a holiday, but great job by the team on that. Um sorry, I'm a little hoarse. Uh today. So my my voice is a little little raspy um. Speaker 8 00:11:18 Uh, secondly, and and this is a kind of a big thing, but Julia has been with us for a very long time. Um, she has decided to move on from Crimson. Her last day with us will be the end of June. Um, Julia has been a huge contributor to us. She's been with the organization for um well since before I since before I was here, but I think it's been close to two years and, Uh, I just wanted to personally thank Julia for everything she's done. She's helped onboard a lot of customers. She's helped bring our project management team up to a level that I don't think we really had project management here before Julia joined. So, um, Personally, thank you very much Julia for everything that you've done for us. And uh and you know, we really appreciate what you've done. And um and you know we we brought uh we brought Paula on board and. Speaker 8 00:12:13 And uh, Seg has moved into a project management role recently. So, um, we thank you for helping, you know, With the transition and uh and thank you for for everything that you've done for us. And and You know we welcome we welcome you. And and uh For the next for the next I guess The next month, you'll still be with us, but I just wanted to let everybody know. So they have time to to tell you. Thank you. And um with the rest of us Um Couple other things, um, tickets. We were talking about how many tickets and how shorthanded we were last week. Uh, a lot of people stepped up. Special, thank you to Charles for a lot of help that he provided over the last week. Um, our ticket counts are down significantly. A lot of people came to the table. Um, thank you all for for your help with that. We still are a little bit shorthanded this week. Speaker 8 00:13:05 So let's make sure we're staying on the phones. Let's make sure we're staying on top of tickets until we get back up to full staff. Thanks for everything that was done last week, and finally, We did have a challenge that came up last week from a customer that's fairly new to us. They started early this year. Arc is a newer customer for us, and one of the things that we've been sort of Preaching to the team over and over is the importance of communication. Communicate, communicate, communicate. A big part of what we do is not necessarily how quickly we get tickets done, But the communication as to the status of tickets and what you know where they are in the process. So. Speaker 8 00:13:48 A big part of what ARC was saying is, we put a ticket in, we put a request in, and then we don't hear anything. We don't know what's happening. We don't know where they are in the process. We don't know if it's being worked on, if it's fixed or not. Please please please tell your customer where you are in the process. Give them status updates. Reach out to them. I think another thing that we're going to try to do more often is reach out to our customers, reach out and touch them, say hi. We're going to try to be more physically visible to our customers but, Make sure you're telling your customers the status of their tickets. That means a lot. So, um, That's what I have for today. And uh, I'll turn it back over to you Ryan. You're on mute. Speaker 3 00:14:35 Thank you Pete. Uh next we'll move to account management with Mike. Speaker 10 00:14:39 Um Vince, um I'll let Vince go first I think he's got a couple updates. Speaker 11 00:14:44 Yeah good morning team, So, couple updates regarding Anderson. So they've approached us to assist with wireless management and monitoring of their entire wireless ecosystem. That's all the public Wi Fi spaces. So looking forward to that, It's about a hundred and fifty additional Meraki devices that we're going to be assisting them with. I'm just giving you the heads up that that's in process right now. Another big update I wanted to share and get some feedback with Is if you recall, Ark is in the middle of filing for their S E C registration. And part of that is making sure that they've got this electronic communication archiving and surveillance tool. I've kind of reached out and talked to the team. I think we've got some exposure to Smarsh and Global Relay, but if any of you guys can provide some feedback to get some, um, You know uh information on how we've deployed it in the past or if you guys have worked with it for some other companies, we'd really love the feedback and support there. Speaker 11 00:15:40 U m and then lastly, just a quick one. Uh Irongate is kind of evaluating SSO setup for their NetSuite implementation right now. So just giving you guys a heads up on that, too. So thanks, Speaker 10 00:15:54 Cool. Thanks Vince. Um the only update I have from my side is justum I came across something I'm not sure if it was brought up in the in the help deskhuddle, but I just figured I'd share it during the meeting. Um there was a request from Project Angel Food to order. It's like fourteen Power BI licenses, But they actually had the entire almost the entire company actually has E five licensing. And so, just reminded the team if we get requests like this, Just to double check because come to find out the E five licensing actually comes with Power BI Pro. As part of the bundle package. So um we may have quoted them licensing and they would have purchased it. Um and where that comes up is. Speaker 10 00:16:36 You know, Project Angel Food is is a good customer, but anytime a customer's not happy, They may take our invoices, and they may submit them to another competitor to get a competitive bid. And those are some of the red flags you want to try to avoid. So just a reminder. That's it from the account management team. Thank you. Speaker 8 00:16:54 Yeah, and Michael, you know, to tag on to that Microsoft licensing is not easy right? Not everybody knows everything about Microsoft licensing but things like E 5 s include, Different pieces of of the tool set and things like Power BI come with a with an E five license. If you don't know that, um, It's something we should we should make sure that people are trained on right because we don't want to bill a customer additional money for something that is already included. And then that's what Mike's kind of getting at is, We would hate to bill them for that. And then another competitor says, hey, you are being billed for something you are already paying for, and they're double dipping. So. Speaker 8 00:17:33 Um, we won't do that to you, and then the customer goes somewhere else. So, that's the kind of thing we don't. We definitely don't want to do so. Speaker 3 00:17:44 Awesome Thank you so much. Next we'll move on to finance with Elise. Speaker 12 00:17:50 Hi, good morning, everyone happy Wednesday for uh for the finance. First started preparing for the month and I wanna take this chance to give a friendly quick reminder for your timesheets and expenses. Submission since May 31 falls on a Sunday, We really appreciate if uh all all timesheets and expenses will be wrap up completed and submitted on by Friday. Uh May 27. This will be super helpful uh in getting all the inputs and data we need for month end recording. Thank you so much. Speaker 3 00:18:27 Thank you so much. Next we'll move to admin with April. Speaker 13 00:18:31 Hi, good morning everybody. So on the admin side, we're in the middle of our monthly billing. So as a constant reminder that if you're working on anything that you think will affect billing, please always coordinate with the admin team. That's all. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:18:46 Thank you April Next one, we have to new business development with Ansor. Speaker 7 00:18:51 So on new business development. Uh I don't have any uh awesome news, butum. We are making a really good progress with a couple of current engagements that we're working on, and I am hopeful that hopefully by the end of next month, I'm gonna be able to share something very positive. That's all I've got for now. I did wanted to bring up uh to everyone's attention. We have an updated rate sheet, right? So um if you guys quoting anything. Speaker 7 00:19:27 Uh, just make sure you use the current updated rate sheet. If you are not uh sure what it is, I'm going to put it in the chat right now. So everyoneum can have a copy of it. Butum or you can just email and ask me or any of the account managers. They have this information as well. Thank you. Speaker 11 00:19:48 Awesome, thank you so much Real quick on that one, I was going to ask if we've got a new rate sheet, but their agreement is on different rate. Which one should we use? Speaker 7 00:19:58 New rate sheet. Speaker 11 00:19:60 New rate sheet, regardless. Speaker 7 00:20:02 Regardless. Yep, this is our new rate sheet for this year. Speaker 10 00:20:09 Got it, thanks. Actually, I have one quick update that falls under NVD. Wanda, you might want to follow up on that, But I talked to Less Quality this morning, just some final touches on the quote, and they're probably going to approve it in the next week. So I'm not sure if we want to follow up with Orlando afterwards. After that quote gets approved, when we finish the project, it's a three sixty five migration. Speaker 7 00:20:30 Uh, that that's uh that's withum less quality. Less quality. Yeah yeah, the uh I'm trying to think the guy's names Orlando Orlando. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, but that, that that's a project. That's not MRR. Speaker 10 00:20:46 Oh there is nothing behind it. Speaker 7 00:20:48 Oh okay okay, Yeah, once we complete it for sure, Let me know and then I will follow up and see if we can do something with our lender. Okay. Cool. Yep. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:20:59 Thank you. Does, anybody else have any project or change management call outs, they'd like to bring to everybody's attention? Go ahead and raise your hand. Speaker 2 00:21:07 Just a quick heads up Ability First, You guys are going to see outages all week long for Camp Pabika You can ignore those I'll be up there tomorrow. Speaker 3 00:21:16 Okay, thank you so much. Christy Let's go ahead and go to second. Speaker 14 00:21:21 Guys, good morning. So maybe next week, we'll be installing and configuring installing one FAF firewall for Angison. That's it for me. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:21:32 Very exciting, thank you, Stacred Gabby. Speaker 15 00:21:36 Uh. So an update on Collier's EYP the phone system. Soum we just implementedum QOS policies on the firewall and on the core switch. Where the device is connected to, and we're monitoring the traffic. So far it's been stable, but um we're going to give it another month just in case. Um, we'll be following up with the client to see how the performance is going. Um in the meantime, I appreciate um all your help with um answering the calls from EYP and assisting the client. Um another news is that um. Speaker 15 00:22:14 U h CBRE recently sold two two of their properties, uh Fagan seventh and uh Wells Fargo North Tower. So moving forward, uh no tickets should be under any of those two sites for CBRE. Uh, that is all I have. Thank you very much. Speaker 3 00:22:32 Thank you, Gabby Anton. This. Speaker 9 00:22:38 Is related to Hannah during the night from. Sunday to Monday, May 31 st to June 1 st, John gonna be busy with migrating XRF to the new operating system. Just in case you're gonna see any alerts. That's it? Speaker 7 00:23:02 So yeah, so that's a big super critical project, right? Like super critical. If that thing doesn't go super smooth, right, or the hell will break loose. So I would say make sure we properly communicate and set expectations. Make sure you have plenty of time to recover, if something goes wrong, and you have a rollback plan. Make sure you have XDRF support on the line there as the SSL certs right are so particular. Speaker 7 00:23:37 Uh, you do anything and that upgrade breaks. It's going to be a nightmare to fix it, right? So just John, just be aware. I know they love you and I know you've made a world of difference there, right? So you have a lot ofum goodwill on your side. But, it will evaporate if they're down for more than what we've told them, they would be down for. So just be aware. Sweet thank you. Speaker 3 00:24:04 Awesome thank you, Next we'll move to training updates with Christie. Speaker 2 00:24:08 Good morning, guys. Um, I thought long and hard about what I was going to do today. And Anzor brought up a good idea to me last week. He didn't know he brought it up, so we're going to give him kudos for this and let him, you know, we'll stroke his ego for a moment. Um, I want to give you guys some information on how to do agents. There's at least five of you that reached out this week and said, Hey, Can you help me build another April? Or can you help me build another Ensoir? Actually got that question. So I'm going to show you guys how to do it. Um, and I'm going to show you guys using Hugo. I'm going to send over the file for Hugo, so you guys can edit it. Speaker 10 00:24:45 These Ensoirs were created on the people's personal email addresses. This is a little bit of a tricky thing because I don't keep those. Speaker 7 00:24:55 Sorry about that Chris No worries. How was that? Speaker 7 00:24:60 I I Chris, I wanted to know who wanted to have a copy of me. I didn't know we have masochists in this company. It's like is it not enough to have me in your life? Speaker 2 00:25:09 No, I was told I could not tell who that person was, but I will tell you guys where you can store your minions. I call them minions. Everybody else calls them agents. Um, but I am going to give you the link to mine. You replace yoursum your my name with yours in the system, but if you go into that folder, And you go to agents, you'll have place here for agents. I am going to send everybody Hugo. Hugo is the pseudo enzor, And I want to give you guys a good heads up on how you guys can make a hugo. And I will also send you guys an April oops, and one more person, I am going to send you guys a segred. Yes, there is a segred. Segred is my project manager. Speaker 2 00:25:55 Minions, I'm going to send you guys all these files so that you guys can see how I structured it. Um and take special note in Hugo, I did put lovable Russian. So I want to clarify, Anzor's a lovable Russian. Um, but where I put them is under agents and I designed them out, so that I can spin them all up at the same time. So if I go into my Claude Code session right here, um i'm going to bring up a briefing skill. Speaker 7 00:26:23 Now, Chris, I think. Hold on. I think most people don't use Claude Code. Will they be able to use agents in CoWork and Chat? Because I think code is something we haven't really talked or trained anyone on. Speaker 2 00:26:39 They will be able to use it into code right here on this one, Which I'm going to actually go over the next couple of weeks slowly through that. They'll also be able to use it in Codex if they're using, Uh, Chat GBT. So I was going to go over all of that, But I wanted you guys to be aware of what you can do with it this week. And then every week I'm going to give five minutes on how to do it. And then I'm also going to set up a training with you guys and with a client that wants to learn code as well. So if anybody wants to learn it and get set up with it, let me know because I'm going to go through both code and Codex. Ryan's already there. Um, Ryan was not the one who asked for the Ansar look alike so. Speaker 2 00:27:20 I will promise you guys that. PowerShell, I'm sorry, CodeX will also use the same agents in the same code folder. So be aware of that guys. Real quickly to get into it, what you're going to do is open up PowerShell. Now I use PowerShell seven just because it's a lot easier for me, but you can do this in PowerShell five or Windows PowerShell. You're just going to change directory, To whatever directory you want it stored in. For anybody who's never done this, I'm going to caution you guys to use your Documents directory. It's your best option. So, how you do that is you're going to say cd, and then you're going to do one, what is it? Comma? Not comma. Um, not parentheses, not quotations, the single quote. Whatever that is. Apostrophe? Speaker 1 00:28:13 Yes. Okay thank You. Speaker 2 00:28:16 So if you guys see it's automatically writing mine up, I'm going to go ahead and put it in here. So I have mine go to Documents, Clients and Projects, and AbilityFirst. I also have one for Sharp. And I press enter, and that's going to change my PowerShell to a new directory. We're going to go over this a little bit deeper for those of you guys who aren't always in code. Once you're in there, you're just going to type in Claude or you're going to type in Codex. Okay, we're not going to dangerously skip permissions. I only do that when I need to do something very specific on a code I'm working on. And from here, you can spin up anything you want. Now, I'm going to do briefing because I actually have a skill called briefing, where the system automatically knows to check my Outlook, and it goes to my Outlook application, and it pulls in all my emails. And so if I get emails from Onzo or Pete, it flags them top of my list. Speaker 2 00:29:14 It also goes through and does my calendar. So I'm going to give you guys just a brief overview. Over the next couple weeks, We're going to dig in deeper so that you guys can see what you can do with it. Now, for this, it pulls today's schedule. It checks my time logged yesterday. It gets all my open tickets and projects. And then I have an Airtable that pulls a task list that I have personally from Airtable. You can do that in an Excel spreadsheet as well. You can do that in a couple of different options So you've got that in there. I do have it pulling some things from spreadsheets, And I do have it pulling some things from Word documents for me as well. I also have it connected to my OneNote application within my computer. So it will connect using COM for those of you guys who know what COM is. I'm going to go into details later, and it will pull all of that. So right now, it's asking if I want to create the schedule, and I'm going to say yes. Speaker 2 00:30:11 'Cause it's going to write a PowerShell script to check everything. And it's going to ask you as it goes through it. And you can also schedule these through code under routines. So actually, briefing is done every morning for me. It runs at 5:30 a.m. And it's on my computer by the time I wake up and start working at 6 : 00 a.m. So we're going to go over that over the next couple of weeks. I'm not going to do it all today, But I want you guys to be aware and think through what all you can do with it. So, that's why I gave you guys the file so that you can look at it and see what's going on. And, then we're going to go through it piece by piece over the next couple weeks, And hopefully, you guys will come away with some ideas that you guys can use for the competition. And if you're almost out of credits, it is almost the end of the month. So I completely understand. Any questions or. Speaker 2 00:31:05 Send me Teams messages because I don't want to take up too much time. But send me over ideas of things you want to see over the next couple weeks within this, um, and things that's going to help you guys win the competition. So I'm not in it because I don't want to be in it. I want, I want you guys to win. And then if somebody wins, just send me a case of Doctor Pepper. Diet though has to be diet Doctor Pepper not regular Cool. Speaker 3 00:31:33 Awesome Thank you Chris. Thank you so much, Chris. Next we'll move to the Duck Grace with April. Speaker 13 00:31:38 Okay, let me quickly share my screen. Can you guys see my screen? Yes, we can. Okay, let's do this. Speaker 7 00:32:12 I Think the choice of song is questionable. Speaker 13 00:32:20 There's no HR in here though. Sorry. Speaker 7 00:32:29 On this topic, my boys, they were probably, I don't know, eight and six. And the song was playing. And I asked them what the song is about. And they're like, well this girl she has the milkshakes right? It was so funny. So anyway, next time, let's see if we can come up with more appropriate songs for environment. Speaker 4 00:33:00 Um, anyways, uh, So commitment deliver always friendly, do the right thing, integrity over profit and exercise extreme ownership in all we do. Uh, Speaker 7 00:33:15 An example value I want to highlight. Um, I'm going to go with always friendly. And yeah, I'd like to highlight Sean. He's always giving me grief but he's always there just. Speaker 4 00:33:30 In a tight spot, so thank you for always being friendly, bro. Speaker 7 00:33:35 Awesome. Awesome. I love it. I love it. Thank you. This is great. All right, accounting, you guys know what to do. Speaker 3 00:33:43 Yep. Um and I do not believe we have enough time for two twos tonight since it is 10:29. Okay. So does anybody have anything else they'd like to highlight? Did. Speaker 7 00:33:57 We cover change management? Yeah, We have okay. I need to pay more attention. Can I say thank you to everyone forum it was a really pleasure to working with you guys. I felt like a part of the family and thank you to all, you guys are amazing. Speaker 3 00:34:18 Thank you Julia. We're very excited to work with you as well. Absolutely. Speaker 3 00:34:24 All, right and I will go ahead and close out the meeting since that is 10:30, everybody have yourselves a wonderful rest of your day and a good week. Speaker 13 00:34:30 Thank you.
05-27 Meeting: UBI vs. Legacy RMM-PSA Integration, Product Mapping, and PSA Sync Strategy
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-27 15:09:43 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Sergio] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: UBI vs. Legacy RMM-PSA Integration: Company and Agreement Mapping - UBI supports company-level mapping with cascading to sites, minimizing per-site setup. - Key differences from the legacy RMM-PSA integration were outlined. - Agreements can be configured at the site, vendor, or company level for flexible control. - Conclusion: UBI streamlines agreement and company mapping through cascading configurations. - Topic Title: Product Mapping Between RMM SKUs and PSA Product Catalog - Map RMM products to PSA catalog items (pricing and cost reside in PSA). - Select vendor “RMM” and link to the PSA product by name/price/cost. - Billing flags controlled in UBI: billable, do not bill, or no charge (adds a zero-dollar line). - Conclusion: After product mapping, data is ready for PSA synchronization. - Topic Title: PSA Sync Options: Automated and Manual - Automated sync: UBI ingests daily RMM usage and updates agreement additions nightly. - Manual sync: run ad hoc by company or across all companies; useful for pilots and initial setup. - Recommendation: Begin with one client/site to validate additions, then enable automated sync. - Topic Title: Enabling Automated Sync and Monitoring Sync Status - Enable automated sync in Global Settings; RMM supports daily frequency. - Monitor via the Sync tab: see status by company/agreement (success, failure, partial success). - Error diagnostics emphasize business causes (e.g., missing product/company/agreement mapping). - Users can correct mappings and rerun; synced additions display PSA sequence numbers for traceability. - Conclusion: UBI provides visibility and remediation tools for sync issues. - Topic Title: Notifications and Settings (Global, Company, Product, Vendor) - Global: add email notifications for new client/site or product usage detection. - Company-level: option to disable sync for a specific company. - Product-level: override pricing per client/site by mapping to an alternative PSA product (e.g., discounts). - Vendor-level: choose to merge or separate VMware and Hyper-V counts into one or two editions. - Conclusion: Fine-grained settings enable pricing exceptions and vendor-specific counting preferences. - Topic Title: Migration from Legacy RMM-PSA to UBI - Company and agreement mappings migrate automatically to UBI via backend job. - Product mapping is currently manual; automation is planned in about one month. - Steps: validate in UBI, pilot with one client/site, disable automated sync in legacy first, then enable in UBI. - UBI updates existing agreement additions; no need to delete prior additions. - Recommendation: Wait for product mapping automation for a smoother migration, though manual mapping is available now. - Topic Title: Mid-Month Contract Start and Billing Support - Question: support for mid-month start dates in contract year cycles. - Current state: sync may error on mid-month cycles; feature is under review. - Updates will be posted in release notes and the virtual community; interested parties may receive direct notifications. - Topic Title: Upcoming Events and Resources - Next week’s session: end-to-end procurement on Platform PSA (formerly “AziO”); sign up via QR code or ConnectWise University. - ConnectWise University: calendar of Product Office Hours, open webinars, AMAs, and education events. - University Days in Tampa, Florida: June 2–5; topics include CPQ Bootcamp, Automation Nation (June 2–3), PSA Blueprint, and RMM Playbook (June 4–5); register via QR link. - Recording available via GoToWebinar and the ConnectWise YouTube Product Office Hours playlist. - Documentation link shared in chat for today’s topic. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Pilot UBI PSA sync with one client/site and validate agreement additions. - [ ] Disable automated sync in the legacy RMM-PSA before enabling automated sync in UBI. - [ ] Configure Global Settings: enable automated sync and set notification emails for new client/site or product usage detections. - [ ] Review and complete product mapping; consider waiting ~1 month for automated migration if preferred. - [ ] Decide on merging or separating VMware and Hyper-V editions in Vendor Settings. - [ ] Register via ConnectWise University for University Days (June 2–5) and next week’s Platform PSA session. - [ ] Monitor Release Notes and the Virtual Community for updates on mid-month contract billing support. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Mid-month contract start billing support: define interim workaround steps and a resolution timeline to prevent sync errors. > 2. Product mapping automation timeline: communicate the exact availability date and migration procedure to reduce manual effort. > 3. User communication plan: establish a clear notification process (release notes, community, direct emails) for stakeholders awaiting new features. > 4. Sync monitoring workflow: document standard operating procedures for diagnosing and resolving partial successes/failures. > 5. Pricing overrides governance: define guidelines to manage client-specific product overrides to avoid inconsistent billing.
- Date
- May 27, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 For site B. So, it gives you flexibility at all levels. And the best part about this is that, you know, it cascades down, right? So if you really don't have different agreements at site level, you don't have to sit and map it for every site that are out there for you, right? So you can just simply map it at the company level, it cascades down to everything. So, that's another big difference you would notice when uh is compared to the RMM. Uh the legacy RMM PSA integration. So, With a lot of ease, You can just do these mappings, and you know, set your agreement for each one of your sites, vendors or companies. So once that is done, you would be all set up from a company and agreement mapping standpoint. The next is the product mapping. So, this is where you would map your RMM SKUs or RMM product with the PSA product equivalent. Speaker 1 00:00:57 Psa product that you would create on the PSA product catalog, right, which also stores the pricing and the cost and all of that. So that can also be done here. You'll have to come here. Select RMM from the drop down since you would have other vendors billing also available over here. Once you select RMM, you can map your uh corresponding PSA product. So all you have to do is like select on this product. It. Pulls the list of products from PSA product catalog. So identify the right product, You can identify it through the name and the price and cost, if you have similar products. And once you map that, that would appear here, which means that your ARMA product is now mapped to your corresponding PSA product. Shows the pricing cost. You can also update some of the additional values like whether you want uh to keep this as billable. Uh. Speaker 1 00:01:55 Now, these are some of the PSA features that can also be controlled from UBI. You know, if you want to like make it billable, do not bill or no charge. In case of no charge, This entry would still go and get added as an addition on the agreement, but the charge on it would be zero dollars, right? So, you really are just showing it on your invoice, but you're not charging anything to your customers. So some of those values can also be controlled from here. So After you do this step, you are like pretty much ready to do your sync. So your company mapping, agreement mapping is done, your product mapping is done. And the next logical step is to do the PSA sync. So UBI gives you two options to do the PSA sync. Of course we have the automated sync available for RMM. So RMM usage data comes in every day to UBI like how it does on the RMM - PSA integration. And you can. Speaker 1 00:02:54 You know, set up the sync so that every night it takes these numbers, these quantities and updates your corresponding agreement editions every day. So that can be done. In addition to that, You can also do a manual sync, like if you want to do an ad hoc sync, something changed and you want to come and do a sync again. You can just click on the Sync button here, and you have two options : Sync by company or Sync all. You can If you want to sync all of your companies, do it all together. You can sync by company. So, you can select your company and sync whichever company. You would like to sync. Now, this feature is useful when you're just getting started. So if you want to try UBI first with one of your clients, um, you can very well do that. Come and just sync one client and see how it generates the additions on your agreements like, you know, get comfortable and then you can initiate your automated sync. Speaker 1 00:03:51 Now I'll show you how to set the automated sync. So for automated sync, you'll have to go to settings and under settings, You have the global settings in in global setting for all of your products, where there there is an option for you to do a an automated sync would appear here. So, you can go and initiate that respective automated sync for those products by moving this bar. Speaker 1 00:04:23 So RMM is over here. So yeah, you can see it's the product, the sync frequency is every day. You can go and enable that. So as soon as you do, this is when the daily automated sync would take place. In addition to that, The another benefit of using UBI is that it also allows you to monitor your sync. So it's not just about, you know, getting the sync done automatically every day Every day you can come here, I mean if required or if something goes wrong, or if you are not sure why a particular agreement was not synced or did not sync properly, there could be some issues. So you can come to this Monitor Sync tab and actually see by company, by agreement. So for each one of the agreement, You would get a status back, saying whether it was a success or a failure. And, there are possibilities that it may be a partial success or a failure. And. Speaker 1 00:05:21 You can actually click on that, Double - click on that entry. And it tells you like why it is a partial success or why it is a failure. We are not talking about network errors or any technical errors here. These are some of those business reasons why the sync might have failed. Some of the examples are like if you have not done your product mapping, so for that product usage, the sync would fail because it is not able to identify a corresponding, Product on the product catalog, right? Or it is possible that you may not have done your company mapping, right? Agreement mapping. So there are like some reasons why it may not have happened. So you can read through that why the sync did not happen. Go back, you know, into the configuration mappings fix those issues, come back and run it again. So you are free to run this once again. And uh once you run it, these errors would disappear. And this particular agreement would also successfully sync. Speaker 1 00:06:18 If you want to see which records actually got synced, You can actually double - click on this record here, and it tells you on that agreement, which are those additions that UBI has created. So, these are the three additions as part of that agreement, which got updated with these quantities. It also gives you the PSA sequence number. These are exactly the same sequence number. You would see when you get into the PSA agreements. So, you can actually have a glimpse of what editions are getting updated from this place. So that's another big benefit of having this. I will also quickly cover some of the settings here. You know, if you want to deep dive, we are happy to have dedicated sessions with you all. We can have more sessions. Speaker 1 00:07:16 But with the limited time available here, I would just highlight a few things. So in the global settings, I think this one I already covered about enabling the automated PSS sync. You can also get a notification if you add your email ID over here, whenever you get a new client. So, if you get usage for a brand new client, which you have not mapped or a brand new product, which you have not mapped, you can notify yourself. You can put in your email ID. Every time UBI detects a new client site or a new product, it would send you an email. So that is also possible. Likewise, there are some company level settings that you can do. So for example, if you have the pricing differences, okay I'll talk about that in the product mapping. In the company map settings, You know, if you want to switch off the sync for a particular client for some reason, You can come in over here and say that I don't want to sync for this company. So that option is available over here. In product settings, you have the option to override. Speaker 1 00:08:14 Products. What it basically means is that, you know, you may have X dollars charged to all of your clients, but there is this one client whom I want to give some additional discount. So, what you can do is you can go and create another version of the product with a discounted pricing. Come and map that updated product over here. So what you see here on this column is your original product? What got mapped to all of your clients. Now for a given client or for a given site, You can actually update the PSA product, Which would have a different pricing, and that is what gets applied to that particular site or to that particular client or company. So, that would be one way for you to change the pricing from UBI itself. Likewise, there are certain vendor settings also. So, I'm sure some of you would want to see your. Speaker 1 00:09:12 You know, Virtual like VMware Hy per- V counts as one entry, and we have seen some of the MSPs prefer to build them separately. So here you have an option where you can merge those into one edition, or you can keep this as two different editions, especially for like RMM, right? So, you can make that decision over here. And that is what would take effect from the next sync whichever takes place. Speaker 1 00:09:41 So uh, that is what I wanted to share at a high level. Uh now I would want to jump back to the presentation and highlight talk about the third topic that we wanted to discuss. Now that UBI is fully ready. It is on par with the RMM PSA integration for billing. We encourage all of you to start moving into UBI to take. You know, benefit from these additional features that are there, and these are our go forward solution, right? You might be using UBA already for some of the other products that we have. Then you are uh, you know, free to use it for RMM also. And as I mentioned, we are also bringing in the uh Microsoft Office three, sixty five usage as well. So which makes it like a centralized place for you to use it for different vendor billing. Now talking about the migration experience. So. Speaker 1 00:10:35 It is going to be seamless. So, what we are going to do from our side is that we will automatically move your company and agreement mapping from the legacy system into UBI. So, we have a backend job that will run and bring in all of that into UBI. So you don't have to sit and re- map your agreements to the corresponding companies once again, right? That will all be done. Similarly, the product mapping. So as of today, the product mapping is manual, Wherein you may have to go and do it if you're like wanting to switch today or like tomorrow. But in a month's time, We will also be ready with the automation for this or the migration plan for this, where we will bring in the product mapping also from the legacy system and make it available in UBI. So like one month from now, you don't have to do anything. All of your mappings will automatically show up. Speaker 1 00:11:32 In UBI, All you have to do is go and set a few things up in the settings. As I mentioned. Like if you want to club your Hyper-V and VMware into one count, you can decide on that. You can do that. Additionally, if you want to be notified, Put in your email ID whenever a new client usage comes up or a new product usage comes up, it will inform you. So some of those smaller settings is what you may want to do. And when you are fully ready, I would recommend that you start with one client or one site, Initiate the uh the PSS sync, observe how it is doing. And once all of that is ready, you can first go to your legacy system. I think this is an important step. Please go to the legacy system first, switch off the automated sync option so you have an option to disable that. And once you disable it from your legacy system, come to UBI and enable. Speaker 1 00:12:26 The automated sync option that is available. And from that moment onwards, UBI will take over, and it will start uh, you know, updating your additions uh from the UBI side. So minimal effort required here, all we request you to is just go and validate and see if all of your mappings and everything looks fine, uh looks correct when we do that migration and get. Familiarize, Go and explore and see so that in future, if you have to map a product or map a client, then you know how to do that. And, this is like fully automated where counts will get updated every day. And you need not worry about anything like how you do today for RMPA integration. One additional thing that I would like to highlight is that we, when UPI takes over right. So it will. Speaker 1 00:13:23 Detect the existing addition that are already available. So these are this thing would just continue, right? So you would continue to do this. So when you make the switch, uh it is not like, you know, you will have to delete your old editions and UBI will create new editions. So it is all going to be seamless. Ubi will detect the existing additions that are there, which was created by the legacy RMPS integration. And it would go and update the same one. So from that point of view also, it is going to be a seamless experience. There is no manual intervention, manual work required. So yeah, that is pretty much what we wanted to share in terms of timelines. I think we might want to wait till the product migration is also fully automated for you, you know, for a seamless experience. But still I would highly recommend you to come to UBI, check it out, see how it works. Don't have a lot of products to map. Speaker 1 00:14:21 A few things, then you can do it manually by yourself. I think the bulk of the work is on the agreement mapping, Like, you know, this has to be done for all of your sites that we are already taking care of it. So that would not be a challenge. And please feel free to reach out to us if you have questions. All of this is everything that I spoke is very well documented in University. We can share the University document link with you. You can go and explore. There are videos, how-to videos as well on the setup for UBI. So yeah, that pretty much covers what I wanted to share. So I will take the cursor back to Ebin. I'll stop sharing my screen. Speaker 2 00:15:16 All right, thank you for that presentation. I see people are asking questions, and I can actually make sure I'm working away through them. We've got a few minutes left so please do keep asking. As I say, We will capture all the questions and be able to follow up on them later. So don't worry, if we uh don't get to it while we're on screen right now. Um so yeah, let's just take a quick look uh, what we have coming up next week, then. So I will. Take over the screen. Speaker 3 00:15:57 All right. Speaker 2 00:16:02 So, We're going to be talking about PSA, and we're going to be looking at end- to- end procurement on platform PSA. So platform, that's the new all- new, you know one- stop platform. The thing we were calling AziO, we're now calling Platform. So please do come along to that. And if you want to sign up, you can follow the link with this QR code. And if you don't want to do that, just have a look in the Connectwise University. So if you go into the university, Sign in with your Connectwise login. And in the resources menu there, we have a calendar all of these product office hours and all of our open webinars and Ask, Me Anything and any kind of events. Speaker 2 00:16:44 That have to do with education go in there. 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If for whatever reason that doesn't come or you just want to come back to this and watch it later, share it with your colleagues, all of these go on the YouTube channel. So ConnectWise on YouTube, that's our main channel. We have a playlist for Product Office Hours, and we also have loads of other content on there. And, I'll just keep on for a couple of minutes. Uh just so we've got time to keep answering those questions that are coming in. Speaker 4 00:18:38 So Uh Prabhu maybe I can read out a question and maybe you can help with the answer, but. So, is there a plan to support mid month billing start dates for a contract year billing cycle? If the invoice is already generated for that month, I believe we are uh looking into it. Speaker 1 00:18:56 Yeah, that is right. So that's more of a agreement feature. So if the invoice is already generated, there are couple of options as a workaround, you can still try. Uh, if I understood this question correctly, uh. Speaker 1 00:19:10 I think they're talking about if the invoice is already generated, like how do I uh bill something that has come mid- month to me? Right? That's one way to understand this other way is like if you're starting your contract mid- month. Uh, then you know how do I uh manage that, right? So that is more of a agreement feature. And uh, we can get you uh the details for it. Is what I would say here, that's in plans. Speaker 5 00:19:38 Currently, that. Throws an error when the sync is happened. So if you have a mid- month cycle for the contract year, so that is something we are looking into it. So as I mentioned as an answer right, so we'll keep you posted once we have support that. So we are looking into that. Speaker 2 00:19:56 And where should people be looking out for that? Do, you have a preferred place like you'd like to talk about roadmap or the virtual community or. Speaker 1 00:20:07 Yeah, We generally post on the release notes if a feature has been released and virtual community as well. And of course, you know, people who have specific interest, We make a note of the individuals, and we can notify you in person as well when that feature is available. Speaker 2 00:20:31 Okay, We're about to end this, but just over in chat I've dropped a link for that University Day. And also, Amit has shared some documentation about today's topic. So I'll, just give you a few seconds to check those out and open those tabs. And then we will say bye and thank you for coming. And please join us again next week. Product Office Hours always on Wednesday, uh, always at 11 Eastern Time. Thank you everyone. Speaker 3 00:21:03 Thanks everyone.
07-24 Employee Data Monitoring and Security Consultation
- Notes
-  This conversation details a consultation between a client, Katie (Speaker 2), and a technical advisor, Christi, regarding methods to monitor a potentially disgruntled employee's file activity. The discussion covers various technical solutions, including Microsoft Purview, litigation holds, Active Track, and Microsoft E3/E5 licensing, culminating in a recommended course of action and a breakdown of associated costs and features. ------------ ## Problem Definition: Tracking a Disgruntled Employee The dialogue begins with Katie expressing an urgent need to monitor a "disgruntled employee" to prevent potential data destruction. Specifically, she is looking for a system to track file downloads and deletions. A colleague named Monty had previously suggested using Microsoft Purview and Power Automate to receive notifications for file creation, modification, sharing, and deletion. However, Katie admits to being "clueless" about these tools and questions whether they represent the best solution for her company's security concerns. ------------ ## Proposed Solutions and Technical Requirements Christi evaluates the suggested tools and clarifies their functions. She dismisses Power Automate as primarily a notification tool and identifies Microsoft Purview as the more appropriate solution for sending alerts. However, she strongly recommends placing the employee in question on "litigation hold," a feature that prevents any deleted items from being permanently removed from the system. Christi explains that while existing Gato backups can be used to recover data by comparing snapshots, this process is time-consuming. She also introduces Active Track as a viable third-party tool for monitoring user activity like login/logout times and idle periods, though she notes it doesn't send proactive alerts by default. A critical requirement for detailed reporting on deleted files and data loss is a higher-tier Microsoft license, which the client's organization currently lacks. ------------ ## Microsoft Licensing Deep Dive: E3 vs. E5 Christi provides a detailed breakdown of the organization's current licensing and what is needed to achieve the desired monitoring capabilities. The client is currently on a Microsoft E3 license with an E5 Security add-on, which costs $51 per user per month and focuses on protecting against external threats. However, the required features for internal monitoring, such as data loss protection and insider risk management reporting, fall under the E5 Compliance add-on, which they do not have. Christi explains that instead of adding another separate component, upgrading to a full E5 license is the most effective path. The full E5 license, priced at $60 per user per month, would represent a net increase of only $9 per user per month. This upgrade would consolidate security and compliance features while also providing additional benefits, including a Power BI Pro license and Teams Phone capabilities for every user. Furthermore, it would eliminate the separate cost the company currently pays for audio conferencing for 17 users, as this feature is included in the full E5 package. ------------ ## Recommended Strategy and Next Steps Christi outlines a multi-faceted strategy to address the immediate concern. The core recommendation is to place the specific employee ("Kelsey") on litigation hold, a feature available with their current E3 license, to prevent irreversible data deletion. Simultaneously, she advises upgrading only that specific employee's license to the full E5 version. This targeted upgrade will enable the necessary compliance reporting to track her file activities without incurring the cost of upgrading the entire organization immediately. Speaker 2 (Katie) agrees with this approach and plans to discuss it with her superior, Amy, for final approval. The use of Active Track is also recommended for more granular monitoring of the employee's daily computer usage. ------------ ## Personal and Professional Updates The conversation shifts to a more personal tone, touching on internal company dynamics. Katie expresses frustration at being excluded from high-level meetings with executives Anzor and Pete, a point Christi quietly acknowledges. Christi shares a recent negative experience where a client complained to Anzor about her performance, but also notes that the new leader, Pete, has brought "stability" to the company. She credits Anzor for creating a supportive work environment that allowed her to become a foster parent. On that topic, Christi shares significant personal news: she finalized the adoption of her daughter, Dom, and recently began fostering two more teenage girls through California's extended foster care program for "non-minor dependents." She adds that Dom received a full scholarship to UC Merced and will be leaving for college in four weeks. ------------ ## Action Items **@Speaker 2 (Katie)** - [ ] Discuss the proposed strategy of placing the employee on litigation hold and upgrading her license to E5 with Amy for approval - [TBD] - [ ] Review and confirm the potential implementation of Active Track software - [TBD] **@Christi** - [ ] Provide Speaker 2 with the specific pricing for upgrading a single user from the current E3 + Security plan to a full E5 license - [TBD] - [ ] Place the targeted employee on a litigation hold once approval is given - [TBD] - [ ] Coordinate with team members April and Monti to prepare for and implement the litigation hold and license upgrade - [TBD] [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] CONFIDENTIAL (client personnel matter - full detail here, CW redacted). Katie (Belay) called re: potential disgruntled-employee insider threat (risk of file deletions). Christi: Purview alerting preferred over Power Automate; litigation hold so deletions are recoverable; alerts on delete/download; verified licensing - E5 Security present, org-wide E5 upgrade needed for full Purview/DLP/reporting; apply org-wide so no individual appears targeted. Follow-ups: change requests, security ticket to Anton's team (insider-risk monitoring), ActivTrak quote (~1 wk to implement). Loop: April + Monti.
- Date
- Jul 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi Katie. Hello, I am no talk. I know it's been crazy busy. I know, Speaker 2 00:00:10 I know, I know. So question and I figured you would be the best person to ask on this. Um, I asked Monty to see the best way toum ch ch ch, Let's see here. Track things that like, is there a way to track downloads and deletions of files? I know we have a backup, which is fantastic. Um, but there may be an instance where we have a disgruntled employee. Oh yes, that could possibly go in and start deleting shit. Um, and. Speaker 2 00:00:60 Monty talked about like Microsoft Purview and Power Automate. And I remember with the Power Automate, you know, you and I were talking about with the AI team and everything like that. I just am clueless with it. She says it can notify us on file deleted, created, modified, shared stuff like that. So is that the best option or is it. Speaker 1 00:01:30 I'll be honest, Power Automate wouldn't just be a notification arena. But, let me look up your account because purview is what we want, and it will send out alerts. However, the person that you're wondering about, they may need to be put on litigation hold. Okay. And the reason why I say that is because even if they delete something, we can pull it back if need to be. Speaker 2 00:02:01 And can we see what they deleted and everything like that? And will we get notified and things like that? Speaker 1 00:02:11 Um, yes, we can turn on alerts and things like that into it. But I need to see if you guys have the right license for that. If you don't, we need to upgrade one person to that license uh within your organization. So let me pull it up. Hang on one second. And I am not on VPN, so I can't actually look at your account. Okay, um, Speaker 2 00:02:34 I had oh Are you not here today? Speaker 1 00:02:36 Uh, I am here, But I am in. So I just got to an alternate office because my internet went down and had to reboot. So I hadn't gotten back on. Got it. Okay, um, but let me. Am like you were green? Yeah, I am here. Okay, I just didn't log into VPN yet. Speaker 2 00:02:53 So got it okay Um oh this i got this stupid. Speaker 2 00:02:60 T hing trying to be allergonomically correct. And my my chair cushion got all galleywampus. Speaker 1 00:03:14 You. You have E 5 securityum hang on one second. Speaker 1 00:03:27 Let me check something. See if security has what I need. Okay, Speaker 1 00:03:49 And Thenum, what we can do. Speaker 1 00:03:54 Um, We can have because I know Monty's in the office or she's on her way back to the office. We can have that personal litigation hold pretty easily. Speaker 2 00:04:02 Okay, yeah, Let me confirm with Amy. If that's the way that we want to do it. Um, I think that's honestly that's the best way. Say hey, I guess Amy's concern as well too. But it's like okay if she's acting insane. Yeah you know cause her thing was like well how come we're, You know, or like we're kind of what's the word for it? Um, kind of targeting her for this type of behavior. Well, you know, we believe it's it's justified. Things kind of went a little we weren't comfortable with this. So, this is what we did as a kind of a um you know, a preventative measure. You know like well why haven't you done it to everybody? Well, We didn't feel the need to do it to everybody that That was Amy's concern. Speaker 2 00:04:52 But okay, that's what I thought. And, we also may and Monte gave me information on a product called Active Track as well, too that we may be implementing. What, she did was, you know she sent me over like, okay, what we can be monitored and everything like that. Is this an all or nothing type thing? Like, cause I'm looking at it, we're pretty much looking want to know about activity. Yes. Um, when it comes like logging on, logging off, you know how often are they idle things like that. Um But, then it also says website usage time spent and need to have, you know all that stuff. I mean, can we say you know what we don't need to track all this stuff? But we just want to see if if this person is idle? Speaker 2 00:05:45 You know, when they're logging on, stuff like that. Speaker 1 00:05:49 Yeah, so I like Active Track. Well, I have my pros and cons on Active Track. So, we've actually we implemented Active Track about three years ago at Crimson to try it out for another client. And so we did it for about six months. I was the only one with access to the data besides Onsor. It gave really good information. So, but I will tell you, it doesn't send alerts unless you want it to. And for the most part, I didn't check anything unless I was just randomly running reports to see how things worked for clients. So, you can ignore it if you need to, and then just bring it up for one user whenever you need that. You need to take a look at it and that's really good. You also, I want to kind of give you a heads up. You also have things backed up because you have your Gato backups. Speaker 1 00:06:41 So if we know when she deleted something, we can pull that data. Speaker 2 00:06:48 Yeah, see, well that's one of the things to go what how she deleted. Speaker 1 00:06:52 Yeah and it might be something where we can take, let's say, you say, okay. Well, this, we suspect this started a month ago, so we can go backum about a month and a half pull what what is there and make a comparison to what is there now now that being said. It is a little time consuming, but it is a good reflection of what she might have deleted. So there's things like that. Also, Let me log into I have one client that I can log into from anywhere. So hang on one moment when I pull them up to kind of give you an idea. We have a report we can run. Hopefully I can log into them. I might have shut it off from this office. Okay, I can log in to them. Speaker 1 00:07:40 I was like, "Wait, I because the internet went down at home. I um, I came into the office to work, but I am at a client office. Um, okay so here is here is what we can do. I can go into hang on in the wrong spot. This client knows me well enough, and they know that I can share information because I am not going to share confidential information with you." So um, Let me go into SharePoint. I know, I know that sounds odd because all your files are in Teams, but SharePoint's the back. All right, I know SharePoint. Yeah. Okay, So I can go in here. And if you know of any sites that she's active in that she might have deleted from sites then, and we've had to do this quite a few times for clients. Um so let's say, what is my most active less activity newest oldest. Speaker 1 00:08:37 Um, okay. So This is a file or site name, leave as is. Uh, let me do uh programs. Programs would be a good one, all right. So if I'm in here in programs, I can go to the site. And so I'm going to go into the site. Oh, wait, I don't have access to this one. Speaker 1 00:09:08 This is what I get for trying to do things. Anyway, What I can do is I can pull if I go into the site and I have access, I can go into deleted items and I can see what all she deleted. Speaker 2 00:09:19 Okay. Can you do it? Uh, Employee specific say, okay, run a report for the last two months Yes And see everything that this person has deleted. Speaker 1 00:09:36 Yes and no. Uh, we can only go back one month. Okay, so that's a limitation of Microsoft. So you see I'm in HR team. Um, I went into deleted and I'm in the recycle bin right now. Now I know they never delete anything, but this is how I can go. But then I can go in the second stage, and here's second stage, and I can see everything that was deleted here, and I can see who deleted it. So it was deleted by Jessica. Speaker 1 00:10:07 Okay, there's a lot of things in here. Speaker 2 00:10:10 Okay, so you do have that capability. If I could say," Hey Christi, Can you run me a report to see what was deleted within these all these particular folders or teams or whatever by by XX person? And just show me everything that there's you know deleted or anything like that?" And I think that also may give us a good idea to say," Do we want to put this on a litigation?" Put her on a litigation hold. I mean, I think that's a, I am going to recommend it, but that's ultimately up to Amy if she wants to do that or not. Speaker 1 00:10:46 I am going to tell you, I'll be honest with you: litigation hold. I do them all day long every day. And the reason it doesn't hurt to go ahead and do it this client that i am talking about, right here. They have me. They had me last week, put three people on litigation, hold just because they're concerned of data loss, like you are saying, okay. And then I have another client very similar to that because they work in a high turnover business. If they suspect litigation issues or the person's going to quit and sue them, I'm putting on litigation hold three or four times a week for them too. So it's something we do regularly. For the most part, they're not going to notice they're on litigation hold, but it's something you can also say, Hey, as a company because of our compliance needs, we're putting everybody on litigation hold. Speaker 1 00:11:36 And you can do that as well. Speaker 2 00:11:39 Okay. Okay, that may actually just be a this is this is what it is. Yeah, so okay, and how like if let's say if we put everybody on a litigation hold, Is there a time period that we remove people? Or is it you know, we can do it forever? And ever? And how long you know obviously with our backups and so forth like that. Can you explain to me exactly what the litigation hold does? Like, does it mirror their like their activity? I mean, what does it what does it do? Speaker 1 00:12:19 So basically, litigation hold doesn't. It people will delete things. Litigation hold keeps them from fully being deleted. Uh and that's pretty much basically what it is. So you can do it. You can set it to do it forever. Everything that you try to delete will always be held, or you can put an expiration date on it and say, okay, Katie, we we're going to put Katie on a litigation hold, but it's only going to be effective for seven years. And I've done that for a couple of clients where they're like, hey so and so is leaving their CFO. We have to keep his data for at least seven years. Speaker 1 00:13:02 And so I'll go in and put a litigation hold and have an expiration date of seven years. Speaker 2 00:13:07 Okay, and this is kind of like an extra backup, like an extra protection from deletion. But again with the litigation hold, Are we we're able to run reports and stuff like that to look at this and go? Okay? She went, you know, from this period to this period. She went in deleted all this stuff. Speaker 1 00:13:29 So, The big thing to note on that is someone's got to have the higher license that I talked about. You guys have E 3 with E 5 add- on for security only, and you don't have the compliance piece. So one person in the company needs to be put to the E 5. Now, for right now, what I'm going to strongly suggest is the person you have questions about, We put them on the E 5 so that we can run reports against that person. And when she leaves, we can still save her data, and then just move that E five license to maybe you or Amy. And then it'll give you some compliance stuff that you didn't already have. Not that you needed them, but it'll allow for more data loss protection. Speaker 2 00:14:14 Okay, So we're just so I understand we're currently on an E three, but with an E five add on. Yes, for. Speaker 2 00:14:26 Uh security correct. Speaker 1 00:14:28 There's another E 5 add- on called compliance. And that's what you need for what what we've been talking about other than the litigation hold litigation, hold works on just the E 3 I am. So glad you're I'm, so glad you're more technical than others. Um okay. So Microsoft built out an E 3 as an enterprise license. And it gives you things like. Your Azure, Which is your bucket, where users go in and where your files go in and things like that, and then gives you all your apps, gives you your mailbox, all of that. Then, they have something called an E five license that adds on security options, and it adds on compliance options. And, so it'll do things like it'll add in data loss protection, which falls under compliance. Speaker 1 00:15:24 It'll add on insider risk management, which falls under compliance. It'll add Microsoft Defender and Proofpoint, which falls under the security compliance. And if a company says, hey, We don't need the security, but we want the compliance instead of getting the full E 5. They just get the add- on, which is a little cheaper. Speaker 2 00:15:44 What is the cost for the compliance, because it sounds to me like that needs to be added anyways? Speaker 1 00:15:51 So you guys have the security. If we need to add the compliance, we just upgrade you to the full E3 license. And I think it's like The E3 or the E5? E5. We'd need to upgrade you guys to a full E5. And I think it's like $20 more a person. I know the add-ons is $12 per person, but I haven't seen pricing in the last couple of weeks that's not nonprofit, so I can't tell you exactly what the cost would be. Because I've been in nonprofit realm for the last nine months. Speaker 2 00:16:22 Okay. It sounds again, that's something that I, I mean, I'm just thinking just from a compliance standpoint. Mhm. I didn't realize that there was separate add- ons and the only, I'll be honest with you, The only thing reason I understand the E3s and the E5 is because when we had our risk assessment, um, with Cobaltics, that was one of the things when we were talking about the, um, the vulnerability detections and so forth like that. They threw out E three E5 and I am like, what do we have? I am like I think we have E three. Like I know that. So I mean, that's why I am familiar with with the names and so forth like that. Okay. Um. Speaker 2 00:17:14 Okay, let me talk to Amy. So, just so just a brief rundown here. So we're able to run a report if we need to. You recommend putting Kelsey on a litigation hold? Mhm. Oop, I wasn't supposed to say the name. I heard nothing. Okay good, I heard nothing, I said nothing on a litigation hold and then add the full, E 5 license to her. Mhm. Correct, because we can't, Can we do a litigation hold without one of us having the E 5 or you. Speaker 1 00:17:53 Have E 3? So litigation hold is included in E 3. Speaker 2 00:17:57 Okay, But then you said, and why are we putting Why? Do we need at least one person with the E 5 putting Kelsey on the on the E 5? Speaker 1 00:18:06 Because that'll allow us to run reporting on data loss. Speaker 2 00:18:09 Okay okay. Speaker 1 00:18:11 Yeah. Um, so let me let me give you a better understanding. This might make a little bit more sense. Uh, You guys have E five security and E five security adds additional features that covers is someone attacking us. That's that's basically what we have. So it gives you that risk detection. And it also like if if you aren't traveling, but somebody got your user ID and password. And they try to log in as you, we're going to know immediately because that's what that E5 security covers. Now, E5 compliance, that answers where is our sensitive data? Who's moving it? And can we prove what happened? Which is what you need for Christina. Okay. Okay. And. So that's going to give you the reporting and flagging inappropriate moves of sensitive files. Speaker 2 00:19:09 Okay. Okay, and so if we choose to put everybody on the E5 license, We can't just have add the compliance aspect, along with the security aspect to our E3. It's better to just move everybody to an E5 because it includes everything that the E3 does but includes the E5 stuff. Yes, okay, and a few additional things, but we won't get into that. And a few additional things, but for now okay. Okay, I think that's going to be the plan. But let me let me just discuss this with Amy. Um, If you can just shoot me like, hey, the cost to put Kelsey on the E five. Um sorry, put what's her face on an E five, this particular um and then. Speaker 2 00:20:08 Yeah, yeah. Joshua, Joshua, I love him. How about Cheryl? Cheryl, we can do Cheryl. We love Cheryl. We love him. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, I think that's what we can what we can do. And but you do recommend the active track as well too. Speaker 1 00:20:36 I love the active track for exactly what you are talking about. If you are wanting to monitor what a person's doing all day, Now I have another client that I am about to propose that to because they have somebody, they think is watching videos behind their closed door office. Speaker 2 00:20:53 Ew, really? Speaker 1 00:20:54 Yeah, ew. Speaker 2 00:20:57 Yeah, gross. Go home. Speaker 1 00:20:60 Yeah, okay. So right now and this is as of, 24 days ago, July 1 st, Microsoft E 3 is now$ 39 and E 5 is$ 60.$ 60. Speaker 2 00:21:16 Per license, Speaker 1 00:21:17 Correct? Per license. Per license per month. Yes, so it's$ 21 per user per month increase. Now you guys have E 5. Hang on one second that that actually closes that gap a little more uh I'm asking Copilot because it knows it. Speaker 1 00:21:42 That'll give me a better number. Because, you're paying a little bit more than what I told you, because you've got the E 5 security add- on. Okay. So hang on one moment. Um, you guys still using Copilot, right? Speaker 2 00:21:58 Yes, we are. Okay, we are. Speaker 1 00:22:00 You got I am every now and then I'll send updates out, So I do add that to you guys. Um, okay, so you're paying $51 right now per user. So it's an increase of $9 per user. Okay. Now, because you're going to uh if you go to E5, You're gonna the additional features Power BI Pro, which I know was an interest at one point. Speaker 1 00:22:33 But every user will get Power BI Pro, And they will, every user will get a Teams phone that they could use if you wanted to. These are the additional things. Speaker 2 00:22:42 What do you mean a Teams phone like a like a conference phone? Speaker 1 00:22:46 You could add on Teams Phone, where you can use it as a regular phone. You can give yourself a number, And people could use Teams as their actual office line, rather than using your smartphones or your cell phones. Speaker 1 00:23:06 Okay, and then the other thing is you get audio conferencing for free within Teams. Speaker 2 00:23:14 Are we paying for that right now? Speaker 1 00:23:15 Nope, This would be something that gets added if you go up to E5 These are those extra little features. Oh, wait a minute here. You may be paying for some extra team stuff. I didn't look it up. Speaker 2 00:23:27 Yeah, because I think that we i do have me i mean just kind of. Speaker 1 00:23:31 Oh, you do pay for it. You pay for audio conferencing. Yeah, for seventeen users. So, then you would that would roll into your E5 licensing, and we can give up the audio conference portion. Okay, so okay. Speaker 2 00:23:45 Yeah okay okay okay that makes more sense to me. Okay awesome Gracie thank you so much I appreciate you I really really do. Speaker 1 00:23:60 Of course, tell Pete and Anzor how much you love me. But just tell him I haven't brought you chocolate lately. Um, I had a little. Are they being jerks? No, Anzor is not okay, But I feel like he's gotten a couple of bad reports lately from a training that went south, because between you and me, uh, because what between you and me, the the person was a little hot headed and already unhappy. And it just, It just went south. She's she's very much known for having a sharp tongue. It was bad, huh? Yeah, it's not my first time with her. So, she tells Anzor I fly by the seat of my pants and I never do research before a meeting. Yeah, you don't have to tell answer anything. I am just you know. Speaker 2 00:24:53 I won't say anything just say, hey, you know what we like. These are the people that we work with. These are the people that we like. We've already threatened him that if Monti leaves, what we're leaving too. If Monti leaves, I am leaving. So yeah, so okay, of course I will. And actually you know what? I need to get with April because we're supposed to have a. I don't know when what's-his-face comes back. Um. What's his face? Cause Anzor. Speaker 1 00:25:26 Oh, He's back. His birthday was yesterday too. Speaker 2 00:25:28 Okay, Because I know that he wanted to schedule a meeting with Pete and Amy and him for some reason. I don't know between me and you. Yeah, he um he never includes me and it drives me insane. Drives me insane. I will. Speaker 1 00:25:46 I will subtly mention that if I ever get a chance. Speaker 2 00:25:49 Don't please no. Speaker 1 00:25:50 Don't then I won't no. Don't, please, because it's you know that he stepped back, he's no longer the CEO. Speaker 2 00:25:56 Yes, and that's why he wanted to meet with Amy um to introduce him or her to Pete. I think that that's the dude's name Pete. And um and Amy's like Katie needs to be here, too. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:26:13 You will like Pete. Uh. Anzor has always been a great boss to me. And he's allowed me to do things like, you know, like become a mom. Which by the way I have two more kids. What? Yeah, I'll tell you about that in a second. But Pete came on board and Pete added stability. Good. And I really love and respect Pete. And then so Dom my my daughter, we did we adopted. We finalized the adoption in August. Speaker 1 00:26:45 So she's now full. Speaker 2 00:26:46 That was your first one, right? Speaker 1 00:26:47 That was my first one. Okay, And then four weeks ago, I went into the hospital for a week because of gallstones. And I had been doing respite with a girl, And I had actually been she's been staying with us off and on since before, Dom came to me, and so her and Dom consider each other sisters. The week after I got out of the hospital. I got a notification from her social worker, And they said, we need emergency placement for her, because her foster mom put in a notice. And so we were like," Bring." Put. Speaker 2 00:27:27 In a notice like that, Speaker 1 00:27:29 She didn't that they needed to move her out of the house. Got it. And she's an amazing kid; she's actually eighteen, um, and she's still she's in what they call extended foster care. So she came to us and but, Two days before her, I got another kid that that foster mom had put a notice in. Only because and this how I saw the paperwork. This how the foster mom reported it. The only reason why she put in a notice was because the boyfriend dropped off medication. And she didn't want the boyfriend knowing where she lived. It was really ridiculous, so um so Anzor. Speaker 1 00:28:12 Is one of the girls and Dom, D O N is one of the girls. Dom and Dom have been sisters forever, um and so now I have three girls all over the age of eighteen, and I am doing the extended foster care. So basically, it's a little different than full foster care, where it's more of a relationship building teaching them, how to function in a real world and stuff like that. Speaker 2 00:28:37 Yeah, I heard a statistic that just broke my heart talking about. The, when you are seeing the kids on the streets and so forth like that, A lot of them are just phased out of the foster system, and they have nowhere else to go. Speaker 1 00:28:54 Yeah, California built out extended foster care, so kids can stay in the foster care up to twenty one. Good, and so I am doing what is called is called non minor dependence, and so the kids come to me, and then I help transition them into. Speaker 1 00:29:12 Into living on their own, going to college, stuff like that. I love it. But Dominic, she leaves for college in four weeks. She got a full ride to UC Merced and is going into psychology. And I am about to lose my little boo-boo; Speaker 2 00:29:30 I am very sad. But, you have to look at it this way.: i I remember when you first got her, yeah and everything like that and. Speaker 2 00:29:42 You have done something to really change the trajectory of this child's life. Yeah, things could have gone so different for her and, um, you know in a sense you are changing her family tree. True. Very true. Speaker 1 00:30:05 As long as Anzor, lets me and I can get away doing it as a single mom. Well. Speaker 2 00:30:11 You know, I mean, he would be stupid if he quote unquote didn't let you. No, Speaker 1 00:30:18 I mean, what I mean by that is he has all these ideas and visions that I love helping him on. Um and so I am just like he paved a way for me to be able to be a foster mom and work for him. And not a lot of companies would do that. Speaker 2 00:30:36 Good yeah good good good but um, Okay, Dearie. I will keep you posted on this. I mean, should I talk to you about this? I want to make sure I am following the chain of. Um, Speaker 1 00:30:50 So I'll work with the team. Uh, Monti, i'll i'll let i'll give Monti a heads up as well. Um So, it's me April and Monti that I'll loop in. And uh You let us know what we what we need to do. And then we'll get it taken care of. Speaker 2 00:31:06 Okay Okie dokie cool. Thank you. Talk to you later. Thanks. Bye. Okay, yeah, bye.
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05-11 Weekly Meeting: Client Questionnaires, Documentation, and Internal Alignment
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- > Date: 2026-05-11 16:08:40 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### Assistance with Client Questionnaires - **Description** - Speaker 1 requires assistance with several client questionnaire forms that need to be filled out by the IT team. - An urgent form is for Project Angel Food, who is trying to land a new contract with Foodsmart (Kaiser's statewide lead). - Speaker 1 has a meeting with Robert Bowler and Ben Martin from Project Angel Food on May 12, 2026, to review the document. - Another questionnaire from Avalon needs to be filled out, specifically questions one and two. - Project Angel Food submitted another comprehensive request on May 11, 2026. - **Conclusion** - The document for the May 12 meeting with Project Angel Food does not need to be completed by then, but will need to be reviewed. The form itself will likely need to be completed by the end of the week. ### Client Documentation and Policies - **Description** - Speaker 2 used to put document templates in IT Glue, but they were deleted during a documentation update. - Speaker 4 asked about templates for cybersecurity and disaster recovery policies. Speaker 2 stated new ones were created as the old ones were insufficient. - Speaker 2 took over policy creation from Anton, as Anton lacks the time. - Current policies for Project Angel Food are from 2019 and 2020, but Speaker 2 can redo them to be HIPAA-aligned. - For Avalon, Speaker 2 created disaster recovery (DR) documents in March 2024. Work was stopped because the client was not up to date on payments. ### Project Angel Food's Limited Security Services - **Description** - It was noted that Crimson IT provides very limited services to Project Angel Food, such as Huntress and patch management, but no vulnerability scans or Dark Web ID. - The reason cited is that Project Angel Food does not want to pay for additional security services. - There is concern about filling out security forms when the client has not paid for the necessary protections. - Project Angel Food's primary goal seems to be passing their annual CARF audit, which has minimal requirements. ### Need for Internal Alignment at Crimson IT - **Description** - Speaker 1 emphasized a critical need for internal alignment regarding client services and offerings. - There is a history of inconsistent service bundles and verbal promises made to clients (e.g., free Dark Web ID). - Speaker 1 discovered that Project Angel Food has minimal services, which was a surprise. - The team agrees that aligning on a standard set of tools and services for all new clients makes onboarding easier and more professional. - Speaker 1 is developing an "alignment checklist" to standardize client setups over the course of a year, identifying project opportunities and cleaning up missed items. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 1 will attend the meeting with Project Angel Food on May 12, 2026, from 9:00 to 10:00 AM and document the next steps. - [ ] The Foodsmart questionnaire for Project Angel Food will be reviewed during the May 12 meeting and filled out by the end of the week. - [ ] Speaker 2 will create new, HIPAA-aligned policy documents for Project Angel Food; initial drafts will be ready by May 12, 2026. - [ ] A response is needed for Avalon's questionnaire, specifically regarding whether the organization has a documented information security risk management process (and for questions one and two). ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. There is a significant misalignment between the security services Crimson IT is being asked to attest to on client questionnaires and the limited services clients like Project Angel Food are actually paying for. This creates risk and pressure on the IT team. > 2. The historical practice of making ad-hoc promises and offering non-standard service bundles to clients has created confusion and inconsistency, which the team is now trying to rectify. A clear path to getting executive (Pete, Anzor) buy-in on standardization was not established. > 3. It was stated that for Avalon's questionnaire, the organization does not have a formal "information security risk management process," which is a different document from the existing "information security policy." The team needs to decide how to formally respond to this question.
- Date
- May 11, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:06 Hello. Hey Chris. Hi. Speaker 1 00:00:11 Um, I think we need your assistance. Um, it doesn't have to be right now, But I do have a meeting with Project Angel Food tomorrow at nine o'clock from nine to ten. Okay. And they're hoping this can be filled out prior. This is uh I sent an email last week, I'll show you so you can see this has to do with the new contract. They're trying to land with Foodsmart, which is Kaiser's statewide lead in meals in the meal space. Okay. And so they're requesting that this document get filled out by the IT team, okay. And I'm meeting with uh Robert Bowler and Ben Martin tomorrow. Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:57 Now that I'm reading it I don't think this document needs to be. Completed by then, but we have to review it tomorrow. But, we're probably going to want to need it before the end of the week. And there is another. And I am telling Anton, Like I think Anton needs another body on his team because we're getting a lot. I have a questionnaire form from Avalon that needs to be filled out. I just see you and Anton to answer one and two ; I'll take care of number three, and then Project Angel Food just submitted another request today for another client. Speaker 1 00:01:30 And that questionnaire form, I took a look at it. Looks very comprehensive. Okay. So, right now, the immediate thing. I was going to work through Anton on this, butum. There's a lot that we're we're not sure of, like for for documents and. Speaker 4 00:01:58 Do you have a list? With, the uh clients who did receive templates in in the past of the documents from Crimson IT. Speaker 1 00:02:11 I. Don't I think they're an IT glue, right? Speaker 2 00:02:22 Hang on one second I was doing something right before you guys called and I wanna, yeah yeah, no problem. No problem. Send this over real quick. Speaker 1 00:02:44 I don't think that we do, or I don't know where we keep them at. Butum. Speaker 2 00:02:48 I I used to put them into it glue, just so that people could fill this out without my assistance, But then somebody decided to update documentation and delete what I had stuck in there. And. You know, I blame the account management team because. Speaker 1 00:03:08 Nothing was deleted from Project Angel Food. Where did you put it? Speaker 2 00:03:11 I put it into the MSSP stuff under security because. Speaker 1 00:03:19 Here are the documents. Nope, the other one. Here? Uh- huh. Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:28 So that people could answer those questions on their own. Speaker 1 00:03:33 Where are the documents? Speaker 2 00:03:34 That's it right there. That's the entire form. Speaker 4 00:03:39 No, no. Maybe I did the stated incorrectly. I am about like templates of the like cybersecurity policy, disaster recovery policy, Speaker 2 00:03:56 Business continuity. Speaker 4 00:03:58 Yeah, we stopped using those because they didn't cover everything we needed it to cover. So. Speaker 2 00:04:04 I we we created all new ones, but I've not worked on Project Angel Food in quite some time. I mean, I can make them real quickly, but That's all we need. They need to be made because I can do that. That's not an issue. Speaker 1 00:04:18 If we don't have old ones from before I started, then they'll probably need to be made. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:23 Let me let me double check and see what I've got. Speaker 1 00:04:26 To to let you guys know, I am not concerned. Speaker 1 00:04:32 Two parts this meeting. Number one, we're going to see a lot more of these. Yeah. And a lot of this work falls on Anton's plate, like I would say seventy percent of it and thirty percent of it, Christy's probably going to fall on your plate. Speaker 2 00:04:45 Well, I took over policies from Anton. So when people tell me they need a policy, I've been doing them because Anton definitely doesn't have the time to do it. And. So I took that one over and we do have them if you look out into the client folder on Teams. Uh, The last ones that were done were in 2020 for Project, Angel, Hoot and 2019. So I can redo these. There's a IT change management from 2024, and there is a, and the rest of them are from 2019, 2020. Speaker 1 00:05:20 Yeah. If you have like a standard batch, they don't have to be perfect. They just have to like check the box. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:05:26 Um, because they're HIPAA aligned, they need to be written a certain way. And that's why I've been doing I stopped using your templates, Anton. So, uh, we tried using your templates, and we got some pushback on some things. Victoria was auditing last year. So I just changed it. Okay. So so yeah, Change change it email because my head's been stuck in a Lear and uh DTLA today. Speaker 1 00:05:55 Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, yeah. I sent the on Friday and then I sent a follow up this morning. Speaker 2 00:05:60 Okay, then uh I have to take the kiddo to an appointment, and I can start building these tonight and have them ready for you tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:06:07 Yeah, yeah, so. I think now that I reread his email. Sorry, it's been a day. It's been all a day for all of us. So I read that we need to have this done by May twelfth, which is why I scheduled this meeting. But now when I reread the email. He doesn't say deadline to he just wants to discuss these documents. So I'll be fine on tomorrow morning's meeting. Okay. Um but we will have to fill out this form. Don't worry about the food, mark food, smart skew I think that he sent that on accident Chris. But okay, we'll need this one for sure. Speaker 3 00:06:42 Yeah, part. Speaker 1 00:06:47 Of the problem is there's no alignment at Crimson. I wasn't aware that we're doing absolutely nothing for Project Angel Food. There is like. No Avanon, Anton. Just look t here is no no before t here is no. Speaker 4 00:07:02 Just hunters and basically patch management. We do not run vulnerability scans for them;. They are not in the dark web ID, so it's like very limited ability for us even to. Protect them. Speaker 2 00:07:20 Yeah, and they because they don't. Speaker 4 00:07:22 Want to pay for it. Yes, yes, This is the and whenever Mike I am not against to fill out forms, but whenever we have every tool in place. They are paying us for like reliable security. I am good with that, But whenever I need to put Crimson IT under the pressure that we supposed to protect them. And they are not paying for security, it's like you know, like. It's a little bit weird. I didn't know they this is it's not your fault or mine or Christie. This is like historically we did have like different bundles and mixes. Now we're trying to push every single new client with the reliable tools, services and all of that. Am I safe? Speaker 1 00:08:14 I just have to be careful because I haven't been here very long, right? If I tell the customer," Hey, I was told that we presented these tools to you, but Project Angel Food turned them down." If that wasn't the case, that's going to be a very awkward. I've got no problem saying that. But That's going to be a very awkward conversation. If that never happened. Speaker 2 00:08:34 Yeah talk to Anzor because he, yeah, this will this one Anzor knows about because he's tried talking to Ben several times about things. Because, we can keep them in CARF accreditation and they pass those. They're not too interested in anything else as long as they're passing CARF. And it doesn't take much to pass CARF. Speaker 1 00:08:55 When you said Pasc, what is that? Carf. Speaker 2 00:08:57 Uh, yeah, it's it's. Every year they get audited by the city andum. They're doing bare minimum to pass. That's it. Speaker 1 00:09:10 You said, what was it called? CARF? Speaker 2 00:09:12 I think it's the CARF. I think for them it's CARF, but we might want to double check that name. Speaker 3 00:09:16 And just to be C A R F. Speaker 2 00:09:22 But I it. It could also I I don't know if it's CARF for Project Angel Food but I thought it was. But I know it's something with the city that they have to pass. Speaker 4 00:09:35 And as I see, they under agreement they. Uh. Do not have a dark web ID, but we're still monitoring it. Without in my understanding, it was something that someone Anzor or Zaur promised them and we're doing it. For free or something, you know, like it's a huge history. It's already like how long? Like fifteen years. And for this past 15 years. Speaker 4 00:10:07 There was a lot of stuff that we have no idea because we came here later. Speaker 1 00:10:13 Yeah, we guys in the meetings, you guys are going to hear me talk about alignment. We really need alignment here bad. Speaker 2 00:10:20 So, these are the guys that used to go buy laptops and stuff as cheap as possible on sale or collect them from. Various vendors that would give them laptops. They would not let us buy their laptops because they did not want to spend the money for it. So yeah, Speaker 1 00:10:39 No, no, I get it. But I am saying you know today's now, so I am just saying moving forward. I don't want yeah, we just need to. Yeah, we really need alignment for our customers. Like it's it's like, I try to spot check here and there but, I just need your guys's help to advocate for alignment. Cause if we don't create this function at Crimson, We're going to be having a ton of these meetings with like our pads around our ankles. Speaker 4 00:11:04 You, have you have you have our like support with trying to align every single new account that we are getting. It's so much easier right now even to onboard someone because before it was like. Speaker 4 00:11:23 Mess. You're installing SOFOS, we're not installing Shield Vision. And next couple days, Azure reminded that he did promise them during the call that he gonna give them like dark web ID for free, and we need to track everything. Right now it's like we have a template, we are moving easier and it's like looks professional. Speaker 1 00:11:52 Yeah, if we can just get alignment down, All these last minute things like I had no idea Project Angel Food had nothing. And I think Anzar saw too, because in the meeting they were complaining about spam. Anzar's like," Oh, let's just you have Avenon; we'll fix it for you." No, Speaker 2 00:12:07 What's the problem is The problem is that Anzar knows these but he forgets. And yes, I agree with you on alignment, but we got to have the boss agreeing too. And he he's. He gives the sun, moon, and stars. Speaker 1 00:12:24 No, I know that's got to stop too. Pete's on the same page with that. Like again, it's his company; it's not my decision if he wants to drop his pants, he can drop his pants but. I come from a company where I was not allowed to give up anything. And to see him go, I'll give you a 10% discount and we're going to waive this project fee. Speaker 2 00:12:41 It's just like Right. So we we love the fact that you keep talking alignment, but dude, you're speaking to the choir here. Speaker 2 00:12:50 We had. Speaker 1 00:12:52 We got to get Pete to move. Speaker 2 00:12:53 If you go back and look at what I created in it glue, you can see what they have and what they don't have. That's why I created that. Speaker 1 00:13:04 Yeah, so anyways, yeah we we need like here just to show you guys, I'll keep this quick. I showed April, Vince and I am trying to put together an alignment checklist that that. Probably takes about a full year to complete, right? Cause it's too many things to do all at once. But over the course of a year, we'll get it. And we even broke it down to stuff that can be done remote, So we can offshore to the Philippines and something that when what needs to be done on site, it's like three hundred. We were going to run it by the team, to have the team fill in anything that they feel is missing. Well we broke it up by you know category like physical servers network. Speaker 1 00:13:47 Teams, Entroid, firewall, right? Blah blah blah. So I think this will be helpful in identifying project opportunities. Cleaning up stuff that we've missed. Right? All right. Like things that Yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:04 Not to rain on your parade, But we all got a lot. We got to get done today. And I want to hear you out. But I need to leave in a few minutes, go pick up my daughter, You later. Speaker 4 00:14:16 Okay, so what we're doing with the project Angel Food Fund. Speaker 1 00:14:20 I will get you the policies when we get when I have them. Yeah, Chris is going to work on the policies. I'm going to be on that meeting tomorrow with Ben, Robert Bowler and whoever. And then I'll document next steps. Speaker 2 00:14:32 Okay, sorry. If you need me on it. Tomorrow. I don't need you on it. Okay, cause I was gonna say, I actually have time tomorrow if you needed me on it. But if you don't, that's that's perfect too. Um, I'm trying to Yeah, Speaker 1 00:14:47 We we have a lot of expensive meetings at at Crimson. So I do my best to take all the meetings on my own because I want to be respectful of other people's time. Right? Speaker 2 00:14:57 Yeah. I have a potential ELT meeting tomorrow with AF, but that's not until one o'clock. So i'm i'm blocking that out, but my morning i'd like to get caught up from today. Speaker 1 00:15:07 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do whatever my meeting with Project Angel Foods is from nine to ten. Okay. So I'll find out this that document though that I sent will need to be filled out. That's for sure. Speaker 2 00:15:20 Yeah, That I can work on this evening because I've got a Lear's project plan intoum into Connect Wise right now. Um, I haven't talked to Julia or or SEC, because I got caught up this afternoon, almostum. And Anton, MFA is going live on Sharp on Friday. So, I'm just and I'm not trying to be short with you, Mike. I just, I want to hear. I just today is not the day. Speaker 1 00:15:51 I'm used to you, Chris. I know it's one of those days. Yeah, yeah. Speaker 2 00:15:55 Um, I just i just need to get caught up. Speaker 1 00:15:57 So What do you need those? If Anton or Chris, I don't know who can answer it. I do need a response to avalanche questions. Did. You remember that as well? Speaker 4 00:16:08 There is three questions. One of them is do they have documented security risk management process? And I doubt that they have. Let me check for you. Speaker 2 00:16:26 Avalon, right? Speaker 4 00:16:29 Yeah, so that's something I am going to put. There was an email just recently, three hundred and fifty eight. Speaker 1 00:16:34 Yeah, I am going to talk to Vince. That's something I am going to put on account management management, making sure all of our clients have our documents up. We'll put them in Hootu. Because I just assume that they're all there, but I think it's good to double check. And if Christie has a template. And she can use claw to like whip him up. Speaker 2 00:16:52 I have a thing that I can use. Yeah. Um. Hang on. I know I did a bunch of things for them. Let me figure out where. Because at one point, I started moving them over into uh into the team's client folders and I just haven't finished that up yet. Speaker 1 00:17:13 Okay So Chris, not to overload you right now, but something in the future, I'm going to talk to Vince. We're going to go to all of our our accounts and try to put together like similar to the MSP passport that Anton has. Make sure, all of our clients at least have some sort of template for basic like business business BCDR plan rightum information security plan, whatever our standard documents are. Speaker 2 00:17:38 Uh last time I worked on Avalon was uh March 2024 and I stuck some DR documents out there. We. Speaker 4 00:17:48 Didn't stop Christy. They did stop paying us. So that's why we did stop producing the documents. Yeah, if I remember correctly. Yes, probably yeah. Speaker 2 00:17:58 I did them in twenty twenty three, and then I did them again in twenty twenty four. Um and I did not do anything else after that because they were not up to date on payments. Speaker 1 00:18:10 So the twenty twenty four docs are fine. Speaker 2 00:18:12 Yeah, and they're out in the team's client folders under Avalon Test Equipment under documents. I can whip up new ones that won't be an issue but, Um, I worked with Seg to make a uh policy generator that meets all of our NIST and everything requirements. Soum, But right now, I only have it closed where I can access it because of reasons. Okay, Speaker 1 00:18:38 So who can answer number one? What is number one? Uh does your organization have a documented information security risk management process? Speaker 4 00:18:49 We do not. Speaker 2 00:18:52 Yeah, the what we have is disaster recovery, incident response, and information security policy. Speaker 1 00:19:01 I think the information security policy is the same thing or close enough. Speaker 4 00:19:06 No, but he's no it's completely different. Speaker 2 00:19:09 It is completely different. Speaker 4 00:19:11 But it's like I'm just saying I've been with the like. It's it's Mike Mike. It's well that's okay. Speaker 1 00:19:17 Is yeah. My my point is. We can provide some things and a lot of times they'll accept it. Speaker 2 00:19:24 Here you go. Speaker 1 00:19:27 And then number two, Describe your following in your response, high level information, security objectives principles for the organization, The process of management endorsement review and updates to the policy processes to address non compliance and exceptions. Speaker 2 00:19:52 Here are all four documents we have created for them. I'm going to jump off because I needed to leave at 4:30. Okay, see you later. All right, thanks guys. Bye.
07-01 Meeting: Project Scorecard Review and Financial Updates
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-07-01 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Pete] [Speaker 2] [Mike] ## Meeting Notes ### **Personal and Business Updates** - **Speaker 2's Updates:** - Plans to visit the doctor during the upcoming holiday. - Hopes to learn the baby's gender this week. - June month-end financial recording has begun. - Final-day preparations for offboarding employees are complete. - Jay’s official last day was June 30, 2026, but she will extend some time to assist with the month-end process. - **Pete’s Updates:** - He is leaving the company in Escondido but feels it is in good hands. - Booked a vacation to Bora Bora for late October/early November. - Used Marriott points to cover half of the trip. ### **Project Scorecard Review** - **Nishida Project:** - A Nishida project was disapproved. - Project value was approximately $25,000–$30,000. - Discussed whether the Datto unit should be counted as Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). - Clarified that MRR should be included, except for 365 licensing. - **Maverick WSG Gaming Project:** - Pete asked if the $50,000 Maverick WSG Gaming project was recorded. - The project is time and materials. - Noted that this project must be tracked properly. - First billing of $50,000 occurred in the first week of June 2026. - An additional $17,000 is expected to be recorded the following week. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Track and record Maverick WSG Gaming project revenue: confirm the initial $50,000 billing (first week of June 2026) and record the additional $17,000 the following week. - [ ] Finalize and document the MRR categorization policy (include hardware-related MRR like Datto; exclude 365 licensing). - [ ] Standardize the process for tracking and recording revenue for time-and-materials projects, using Maverick WSG Gaming as the pilot. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The team needs to decide on a consistent method for categorizing MRR, specifically whether to include hardware-related MRR like Datto or only support/labor MRR. > 2. The process for tracking and recording revenue from "time and materials" projects like the Maverick WSG Gaming one appears to be unclear and needs to be standardized.
- Date
- Jul 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Company in Escondido, so I'm leaving Crimson, but uh I'm leaving it in good hands with you guys. All right. And Elisa, what do you have today? Good news: personal, business and employee headlines. Speaker 2 00:00:23 Um. Hi. Good morning, everyone. So personal, nothing much happening over the last weekend, But uh, for this week, I am planning to make use of the holiday. So I will visit my doctor and hopefully will be able to know the gender of my baby this time. So it's um an exciting an exciting uh news for me. Hopefully this week I'll know so I can prepare. Um for Business news and employee headlines. Uh, we already started uh the month end process, month end recording for uh June financial transactions. For employee headlines, I've all set with the preparation of the last day for all the offboardings. And uh yesterday is the official last day for Jay but she'll be um. Speaker 2 00:01:19 Extending some time in the afternoon to help us with with the month end. Um. So definitely um Jane has been a great, has been a great member of the finance team, and we'll do our best to maintain this same level of performance and commitment. So that's it from finance, thank you so much. Speaker 1 00:01:43 All right, excellent. A lot of good news this week. Uh, for me, personal good news. Um, it's been a good week. Uh, I actually booked my next vacation. I am going to go to Bora Bora, which I've been on my bucket list for my entire life. And I am going to go in uh uh the end of October, early November and I had a bunch of Marriott points, which paid for half of it, which is really cool. And. Speaker 1 00:02:23 There we go. So it's pretty pretty cool. It's kind of funny, Olivia. I actually dated a girl before my girlfriend. Now that told me she was on a show that was sort of like Love, Island or something. And to this day, I've always tried to find like that show and I don't know what it was. I don't know exactly what it was, But some someday I'm going to find out what it was and see if I can get her back. Give me the name, Speaker 2 00:02:47 Pete. I probably i've watched like every reality TV show really? Speaker 1 00:02:50 I'm going to send you her name and see if you can find her, Sharon Yaris, Y A R I S. See if we can find her. Anyway, okay. Okay. All right. Okay, Next, uh scorecard okay, nothing too too much exciting I guess projects. Um the big thing was uh. Speaker 1 00:03:22 The Nishida thing, right? Is that the big one, Mike? Speaker 3 00:03:27 Um, yeah. They disapproved a project. I just had the um sales to project team handoff meeting before this one. So, yeah. That's sorry looking at that. Yeah, That was the uh twenty five grand, thirty grand or something like that was WRA project. Speaker 1 00:03:43 So I don't really understand the MRR that was put in here. I don't know if you can help me understand it's. Speaker 3 00:03:50 Probably the Datto unit. Speaker 1 00:03:53 So that becomes MRR because it's. Speaker 3 00:03:58 It's it's not support MRR, but it's MRR. We we were told to include MRR except for three sixty five licensing. We can take out Datto MRR and just keep it to labor like support MRR. Speaker 1 00:04:11 Okay, all right, Um do we do? We also sign like like next week, are we going to. Speaker 1 00:04:24 Uh, can you scroll to the left a little bit April? Like did we did we record the Maverick WSG gaming$ 50, 000 thing at some point in here? We never recorded that, did we? If. Speaker 3 00:04:46 It was approved it should have been recorded. There's what about week twenty? It's like ninety K right there. Speaker 1 00:04:51 No, because we see that's a that was a billable after the fact project. It was like a. It was a bill. It was a time and materials project that we don't bill until we actually, Chart do the time. Speaker 3 00:05:05 So it should have showed up. Oh, Speaker 1 00:05:08 We need to track that somehow. So that should have actually been recorded. We billed it the first week of June. So that should have recorded like fifty grand, and then we should record like another seventeen thousand next month. Next week. So.
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05-28 Weekly Meeting: Project Inventory and Wireless Deployment
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-28 11:19:30 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Project inventory overview (switches, APs, firewall) - Christi reviewed the planned order: 7 switches, 19 indoor APs, 12 outdoor APs, 12 antenna kits, and 1 firewall (total 51 devices). - Discrepancy noted in a Word document list that showed only 3 outdoor APs. - Clarified that the list contained only replacements for existing outdoor APs; extra/new APs were not included. - New APs have not been labeled yet; plan to label using serial numbers after installation. - Conclusion: Proceed with the original scope and label new APs remotely after plug-in. - Topic Title: Wireless coverage and recent configuration changes - Christi asked if any changes were made to old APs; Speaker 2 confirmed no changes by them. - Changes were made by “Kirabel” before departure, improving coverage and handoff performance compared to last year. - Minor handoff delays observed but significantly better than previous year. - As APs are replaced, adjustments (e.g., channels/coverage) will be considered as needed. - Conclusion: Current coverage is improved due to prior adjustments; monitor and tune during replacement. - Topic Title: Switch port mapping and installation process - Question raised about whether new APs must use specific switch ports. - Speaker 2 provided printouts per switch showing original port connections to follow for replacements. - For extra APs, ports will be assigned during installation; team to inform Speaker 2 of switch and port for configuration. - Conclusion: Follow provided port maps for replacements; coordinate port details for extra APs in real time. - Topic Title: Arts and Crafts building re-cabling issue - The backboard in the Arts and Crafts building was redone; devices were re-plugged and may be on incorrect ports/VLANs. - Need to verify correct port assignments and VLAN configuration for that location. - Conclusion: Verification and correction needed for the Arts and Crafts building connections. - Topic Title: Communication and support coordination - Greg requested best contact method for questions; Speaker 2 (Gabby) provided direct line: 424-351-4583. - Texting is enabled on that line; MMS (photo messages) is supported. - Conclusion: Use calls, texts, and photos to coordinate installation and troubleshooting. ## Next Arrangements - Labeling and Documentation - [ ] Label new APs remotely after installation using serial numbers provided by Greg. - [ ] Share photos and details via text to 424-351-4583 during installation. - Port Mapping and Configuration - [ ] Follow switch port printouts for replacement AP connections. - [ ] For extra APs, inform Gabby of switch and port to enable correct configuration. - [ ] Verify and correct ports and VLANs in the Arts and Crafts building. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Confirm a tracking list mapping each AP (old and new) to its intended switch and port to avoid mismatches during deployment. > 2. Establish acceptance criteria for wireless performance after replacements (e.g., handoff latency thresholds and coverage checks). > 3. Schedule a validation walk-through after installation to verify coverage and roaming across key areas. > 4. Document the final AP naming/labeling convention to ensure consistency across replacements and extras. > 5. Create a quick escalation plan (contacts, hours) for on-site issues beyond texting, including who approves channel/coverage changes.
- Date
- May 28, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Can you hear me? Gabby. Hello. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes, okay. Yeah, I can hear you. Perfect, You're on speaker and I've got Greg from ComDirect in here. So we're trying to figure something out I'm. Looking at the project itself. And the project says, let me go back to that screen. Good lord. Okay? Um, I'm going back and forth and I don't have my two monitors. Just have my little tiny computer. All right, so project number one, we ordered. Okay, Overall, we had ordered We were supposed to order seven switches 19 APs indoor 12, outdoor APs 12 antenna kits, one firewall for a total of 51 devices. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:01:00 Okay, um, and that's the overall. And then on your list though, I have I don't have everything on here. Um That's your Word document. Speaker 2 00:01:13 Isn't it? Oh, are you talking about the APs? The AP list or Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:21 So I only have twelve outdoor AP lists or I'm sorry, I only have three outdoor AP lists listening. Speaker 2 00:01:29 The ones thatum we copied over from the current APs that they had. So soum there's some extra. And I initially asked you like, you know, do you want us to name label these or not? Um so we configured the other ones. Speaker 1 00:01:48 Okay, gotcha. Speaker 2 00:01:49 So that list is just toum. Speaker 1 00:01:52 That's just the replacement one. Speaker 2 00:01:54 The replacements for the older APs, not for the extras. Speaker 1 00:01:58 Got it. Okay, did you label the new ones? No. Okay, not a problem. They're not labeled. Okay, so when we plug them in, I'll get the serial numbers from Greg when he does it and we'll label them remotely. Speaker 2 00:02:13 Yeah, yeah yeah, we can do that. Speaker 1 00:02:14 Okay, perfect, all right, that, that makes more sense. I was starting to have a little panic attack. So. Greg, we can go back to our other plans. Speaker 3 00:02:24 So we go back to the original plan. Speaker 1 00:02:25 Yeah. Oh, and Gabby, I did you make any changes to the old APs recently? Speaker 2 00:02:32 No, I haven't touched those. Speaker 1 00:02:34 Okay, so Kirabel did right before he left. He he went and adjusted a few things and he was like, let me know if if that resolves any issues. Well, when we walked camp last year, we didn't have the coverage we have this year nothing's changed other than what Kirabel did. So I had a few moments of handoff issues between APs, but it was like five feet in like a couple of seconds apiece. And Greg, you had a little bit more of a delay in your handoffs, but it wasn't what we saw last year. So whatever Kirabel did, he did well. Uh- huh. So. Speaker 2 00:03:11 Are you talking about like theum the coverage range? Yes. Or like the channels? Okay. Speaker 1 00:03:18 Yeah. Okay, Speaker 2 00:03:19 I haven't touched. I haven't touched those. Um, I guess as we place the AAPS, we can see how like uh how it goes, you know the how it goes and we can make adjustments from there. Speaker 1 00:03:32 Okay, so then that answers our outdoor questions. So, Speaker 3 00:03:36 We pretty much have extra ones, so we should be able to do it as we originally quoted. Yes. Okayum question I have is when we plug in the new A P S, do we need to plug into a certain switch port? Do we need to plug into the same port it was plugged in? Okay. Um, so you. Speaker 2 00:03:51 Had those new switches. So for each switch there I put in like a printout of what was connected originally for the switches. Okay. So we can follow that. Um, but for the extra APs, we can do it as we go. So, you can let us know which switch is and which switch port is plugged in, and we can configure it accordingly. Speaker 3 00:04:17 Perfect. Okay. The only thing that I do want to apologize on then is the arts and crafts building. We redid the uh the the backboard yesterday, and we re- plugged everything in, and we did not probably do that one correctly. So, we might need to kind of check just to make sure everything's plugged in on the correct port. And the correct VLAN. Okay And on the other ones, we'll definitely be more careful, All right, no worries. What's the best way I could reach you, uh, Gabby if I have any questions? Speaker 2 00:04:48 Um, I'll give you my direct line. Okay. What is it? It's uh 424-351-4583. Speaker 3 00:05:01 4583. Perfect. Thank you very much. Speaker 1 00:05:04 Gabby, do you have texting turned on to your line? Yes, yes. Okay. Speaker 3 00:05:09 Yeah, because I'll probably kind of text you a lot or send you. Do you uh can you get pictures to that line or no? Speaker 1 00:05:14 We've never tried. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you can? Okay, perfect. Yeah, you can send photos as well. Perfect. Awesome That's something I didn't know Think I'm good right now then Awesome Thanks Craig Thanks Gabby. Speaker 2 00:05:26 Yeah Of course Thank. Speaker 1 00:05:27 You Bye Bye bye.
04-24 Pulong: Azure Usage at Billing sa ShareWeb (Pax8 vs ShareWeb, Billing Cycle, Workarounds)
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- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-04-24 21:25:44 > Lokasyon: [Ipasok ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Mga Tala ng Pulong - Pagsusuri sa Azure Usage at Billing sa ShareWeb - Napag-usapan na hindi na nakikita ang Azure usage data sa Pax8 at nasa ShareWeb invoice na ito lumalabas. - Sa ShareWeb, ang usage reports para sa Azure ay naka-tali sa invoice at hindi agad makita mid-month. - Kapag tiningnan ang Azure Usage sa invoice, lumalabas na “Feb 1 to Feb 28” ang data; walang “March” usage na nagre-reflect sa kasalukuyan. - Parehong nakaranas ng “No usage data found for this month” kapag sinubukang tingnan ang March usage para sa kliyenteng “Alier”. - Cycle at Timing ng Billing - Nilinaw na “Monthly billing for April” ay tumutukoy sa March 2026 usage; nagkaroon ng kalituhan kung April o March ang dapat i-bill. - Sa proseso, ang ipinapadalang invoice ngayong April ay para sa March usage; historically, si Marvin ang nagha-handle ng billing nito. - Hindi nagre-release ang ShareWeb ng usage sa “first of the month”; tila end of month (30th) ang availability ng usage/invoice data. - Ang objective ay makahabol sa closing ng accounting books tuwing unang araw ng buwan, pero nagiging hadlang ang availability ng Azure usage. - Pagkakaiba ng Pax8 vs ShareWeb - Sa Pax8, may kakayahang makita agad ang usage; sa ShareWeb, naka-base sa invoice ang Azure usage visibility. - Dati may report logs sa ShareWeb, pero lumipat ang Azure usage visibility sa invoice section. - Komunikasyon at Workaround - Nag-email si [Speaker 2] para magtanong kung puwedeng maaga ang pagsend ng invoice o may ibang paraan (“Invoice or other”), ngunit wala pang sagot. - Pinag-iisipan kung puwedeng isabay sa TS (time and services) ang billing dahil usage-based din ito sa ilang aspeto. - May pangamba na mababahala ang kliyente (binanggit si “Anzor”) kung maantala ang billing. - Napag-alamang hindi na-foresee sa onboarding na ganito ang Azure sa ShareWeb, at tuloy-tuloy na nagiging problema ang end-of-month visibility. - Operasyonal na Hakbang at Koordinasyon - Iminungkahing kausapin si Marlene tungkol sa pagsabay sa TS o ibang paraan. - Tinanong kung nakabalik na si Marvin; kumpirmadong available at lilipat sa kabilang tawag para makausap. ## Susunod na mga Ayos - [ ] Kausapin si Marlene tungkol sa posibilidad ng pagsabay sa TS at anumang interim billing workaround. - [ ] Mag-follow up sa email ni [Speaker 2] sa ShareWeb tungkol sa early invoice o alternatibong access sa usage data. - [ ] I-validate kasama si Marvin ang tamang billing cycle: April invoice para sa March 2026 Azure usage. - [ ] Suriin ang ibang kliyente para makita kung may March usage na nagre-reflect na, at i-document ang findings; magsagawa ng sistematikong audit kung case-by-case ang pagre-reflect. - [ ] I-update ang accounting team sa inaasahang timing ng Azure usage/invoice (posibleng end of month) at epekto sa closing; bumuo ng konkretong plano kung delayed ang visibility. - [ ] Maghanda ng communication plan at expectation setting para sa mga kliyente (hal. si “Anzor”) kung may potential na delay. - [ ] I-dokumento ang proseso sa transition mula Pax8 patungong ShareWeb, kabilang ang roles (hal. Marvin) at timeline, upang mabawasan ang kalituhan sa billing. - [ ] [Maglagay pa] > Mga Mungkahi ng AI > Napansin ng AI ang mga isyung hindi natapos sa pulong o walang malinaw na action items; paki-tutukan: > 1. Walang malinaw na kumpirmasyon mula sa ShareWeb kung kailan eksaktong available ang Azure usage data (first vs end of month) at kung may paraan para ma-access ito bago lumabas ang invoice. > 2. Hindi pa tiyak ang workaround para ma-meet ang accounting close tuwing unang araw ng buwan; kailangan ng konkretong plano kung delayed ang usage visibility. > 3. May risk sa client satisfaction (binanggit si “Anzor”) dahil sa potential na delay; kailangan ng communication plan at expectation setting. > 4. Hindi pa tapos ang pag-check ng March usage sa lahat ng kliyente; maaaring case-by-case ang pagre-reflect at dapat sistematikong i-audit. > 5. Kailangan ng dokumentadong proseso sa transition mula Pax8 patungong ShareWeb, kasama ang roles (hal. Marvin) at timeline, para mabawasan ang kalituhan sa billing.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello, naka-access ako. Speaker 2 00:00:03 Nay-stress ka. Ako, hindi ko ma-access eh. Kaya try ko lang eh. Pero access ako sa Ang irony neto. Naka-access ako sa... Pero wala na dito yung billing natin eh. Speaker 1 00:00:21 Hindi, I mean, di ba dito lang naman natin Tinitingnan pag nagbibill tayo Sa show history? Speaker 2 00:00:26 Sa Pax 8, ang problema, wala na tayo dyan. Ay, oo, ito na. Naka-access ko na rin. Ang problema, wala na dyan yung ano ng Azure. Speaker 1 00:00:36 Anong-ano ng Azure? Speaker 2 00:00:37 Sige. April na eh. April na yung hanapin mo. Sige. Speaker 1 00:00:42 Di ba March muna from previous month? Speaker 2 00:00:44 Hindi. Hindi. April na. Di ba? Speaker 1 00:00:48 Gagig. Ganun tayo mag-bill. Wait. Nasaan ba yan? Speaker 2 00:00:53 Hindi. May na yung, Diba ngayong April, May na advance Invoice tayo lagi sa client. May yung sinesend natin Ngayong April. Tapos magbabacktrack tayo. April invoice yung sinesend natin. Speaker 1 00:01:08 Wait, wait, wait. Speaker 1 00:01:21 Ano ba yung previous nito? Let's see if you add me A list. Speaker 2 00:01:38 Tignan mo sa invoice natin. Speaker 2 00:01:42 Ayan o, February. Diba? March natin. February, March. Speaker 1 00:01:48 March. Speaker 1 00:01:51 Monthly billing for April. Speaker 2 00:01:54 Ay, oo. March niya ngayon. April pa lang ngayon. So, March 2026. Speaker 1 00:01:58 Sa napin. Pero bakit Feb to? Speaker 2 00:02:02 Hindi. March Natin. Oo nga, di ba? Speaker 1 00:02:04 Oo, di ba? Si Marvin nag-billing nito. Speaker 1 00:02:10 O, March natin Si Nen. Feb ang ano niya. Hindi ka mag-be-pay sa, Advanced billing. Hindi dito. Sa current, ma'am. Oo. Kung tayo ay nasa April, yung March, Na ano ang... Ang ibibigay mo. Speaker 2 00:02:24 Sige ba? Check natin dito Kung meron pang March. Sino ba? Speaker 2 00:02:30 Alier, Alier. Ito. Speaker 1 00:02:32 Tignan natin. Speaker 2 00:02:34 Ay, sana. Meron. Speaker 2 00:02:39 Nasaan na yun? Speaker 2 00:02:44 Ba't iba na interface? Iba yung interface sa'yo? Parang iba yung isa. Speaker 1 00:02:47 Same pa naman. Sure. Si Alier. Tignan natin. Speaker 2 00:02:55 March. Speaker 2 00:02:58 Finger cross. Speaker 2 00:03:01 Abado 20. Speaker 1 00:03:06 Shit, nakalagay. Speaker 2 00:03:06 Hindi nagre-reflect. Speaker 1 00:03:08 No usage data found for this month. Sa akin din. Paano kaya yun? Speaker 2 00:03:15 Try other clients. Speaker 1 00:03:17 Kasi March yung migration, no? Speaker 2 00:03:22 Blish. Speaker 2 00:03:24 Ewan ko ba. Speaker 2 00:03:28 Oo, kasi nagre-reflect na. Kung etong ShareWeb, Sige, Speaker 2 00:03:38 Billing. Kasi etong ShareWeb, Yung dates na lumalabas is Feb. Speaker 2 00:03:45 Sa ano? Oo, dito sa invoice, sa Azure Usage. Speaker 2 00:03:51 Ayan, Feb yung nalabas. Avalon, Feb 1 to Feb 28. Speaker 1 00:03:59 Kung yun ang lumalabas, Eh bakit? Speaker 2 00:04:02 Yung darating na invoice, Yun yung March Azure. Tama ka. Speaker 1 00:04:08 So, darating yung invoice, The first pa ng month, di ba? Hindi mo pwedeng advance? Speaker 2 00:04:13 Hindi siya the first end of this month. 30th. Yung problema natin. Kaya sinatanong ko, Pwede natin kausapin si Marlene Kung isasabay yan sa TS. Kasi nga naman, usage-based, Naman siya. Parang Alam mo yun, TS in some, Sense. Speaker 1 00:04:36 So, moving forward, hindi. Kasi yung hinahabol dito naman Is yung sa closing ng books, Naman ng Accounting. Kasi nga, nakaschedule na sa kanilang By ganitong tapos na ang, MS. Every first of the month, nangangabulin na lang Is yung mga billable. Speaker 1 00:05:00 So dati ba, nung sa Pax 8, End of the month lang din Nag-reflect? Hindi, sa Pax 8 kasi. Ah, hindi sila sa invoice na pala. Speaker 2 00:05:09 Oo. Speaker 1 00:05:11 So sa ShareWeb, walang ganong Function. Speaker 2 00:05:15 Meron siya dati dito sa report logs Pero pinunta na niya dito yung Azure, Usage dito sa invoice. Ewan ko kung bakit. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Ano bang sabi sa'yo niya huli ni Ana? Wait lang. Speaker 1 00:05:30 Wala silang work around dun? Talagang magbe-base sa invoice? Speaker 2 00:05:33 Ayun. Yun yung huli kong, Email. Yun yung huli kong tanong. Speaker 2 00:05:39 Pwede bang isend na Maaga? Anong sabi? Invoice or other. Wala pa silang reply. Speaker 1 00:05:48 Shit. Hindi pwede. Speaker 1 00:05:52 Mabibenga tayo ni Anzor sigurado. Speaker 2 00:05:58 Talaga. Speaker 2 00:06:02 Kahit ano na natin. Kaya ngayon lang natin ano to. Nung una kasi transition pa eh. Speaker 2 00:06:11 Diba? Hindi natin. Ito, Tinicheck Isa-isa dito sa Azure. Speaker 1 00:06:16 Hindi rin naman natin, Na foresee During mga Onboarding meetings Na ganun pala, Yung magiging Situation ng Azure. Kala natin, Like, Similar function siya, With Pax 8, Na may kita agad, Natin yung usage. Speaker 1 00:06:29 Hindi yung kailangan Pa natin Hihintayin yung invoice. Speaker 2 00:06:32 Pax 8, February. Speaker 2 00:06:36 February lang, Wala yung March. Speaker 1 00:06:39 Nagiging continuous problem pala natin yan. Kung lagi yung end of the month pa natin Makikita, yung Azure. Speaker 2 00:06:46 Exactly. Speaker 2 00:06:49 Exactly, exactly. Paano kaya yan? Speaker 2 00:06:58 Paano kaya work around natin Dyan? Speaker 1 00:07:06 Kamalik na ba si Marvin? Speaker 2 00:07:08 Nandiyan na. Speaker 2 00:07:11 Nandiyan siya natin. Call ka sa kabila. Speaker 1 00:07:13 O sige, Dito tayo sa kabila.
05-08 Lecture: HIPAA Compliance and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Setup
- Notes
- Date Time: 2026-05-08 14:00:16 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary This lecture gives step-by-step guidance to set up multi-factor authentication (MFA) for HIPAA compliance. The session is split into three main parts: creating a PIN on a laptop, linking that PIN to a Google account as a passkey, and setting up the Google Authenticator app on a mobile device. Instructions address different user scenarios, including those with and without SHARP-issued company cell phones. The instructor walks attendees through each process, clarifying the purpose of each security measure and offering support. ## Key Points ### 1. Training Overview and Session Structure - **Introduction and Session Goals** - The training covers three topics to strengthen security and meet HIPAA requirements. - First: create a PIN on a laptop. - Second: attach the laptop PIN to a Google account, a HIPAA-aligned method. - Third: install and connect the Google Authenticator app to the user’s account. - **Audience Segmentation** - The training applies to everyone, but the final part is specifically for those with a SHARP-issued corporate cell phone or those choosing to use a personal phone for authentication. - Users without a company cell phone who complete the first two steps (creating a PIN and linking it to their Google account) will be HIPAA compliant. - **Microsoft Teams Features** - Quick overview of Teams tools used during training. - Features include Chat for messages, Raise Hand for questions, and React (e.g., heart, thumbs up) for feedback. - **Additional Training Opportunity** - The instructor will teach a Microsoft Teams class with another client immediately after this session. - Attendees may join by emailing the instructor for an invite link. ### 2. Setting Up a Windows PIN for MFA - **Purpose of the PIN** - The PIN is part of the MFA requirement. - Creating a laptop PIN is key to HIPAA compliance, especially for desktop users without a company cell phone. - **Steps to Create a PIN** - 1. Open the Start menu. - 2. Go to “Settings.” If not visible, search for it. - 3. In Settings, select “Accounts” from the left menu. - 4. Click “Sign-in options.” - 5. Find “PIN (Windows Hello)” and click it. - 6. Click “Set up.” (If it says “Change PIN,” a PIN already exists.) - 7. You may be prompted to enter your computer password first. - 8. Create a PIN with at least six digits. Some systems allow four, but six is standard. - 9. Confirm the new PIN. - **Other Sign-in Options** - The “Sign-in options” screen also includes: - **Facial recognition (Windows Hello):** Uses the laptop camera to recognize your face. - **Fingerprint recognition:** Uses a fingerprint reader on supported laptops. - **Security key:** A physical USB key used for authentication. - **Password:** The standard computer login password. ### 3. Linking the PIN to a Google Account (Creating a Passkey) - **Purpose of a Passkey** - Links the computer’s PIN to the user’s Google account, completing HIPAA compliance for users not using a mobile authenticator app. - **Steps to Create a Google Passkey** - 1. Go to google.com. - 2. Click your profile picture or initials in the top-right corner. - 3. Select “Manage your Google Account.” - 4. In the left menu, click “Security.” - 5. Scroll to “Two-Step Verification” and click it. You may need to enter your password or new PIN. - 6. Turn on two-step verification if it’s not already enabled. - 7. Scroll to “Passkeys and security keys” and click it. - 8. Click “Create a passkey.” - 9. When prompted, enter the Windows PIN you created. - 10. When “Passkey saved” appears, click “OK.” ### 4. Setting Up Google Authenticator on a Mobile Device - **Audience for this Step** - For users with a SHARP-issued cell phone or those who choose to use their personal phone for authentication. - **Installing the Google Authenticator App** - 1. On iPhone (App Store) or Android (Play Store), search “Google Authenticator.” - 2. Select the official app (multicolored star logo) published by Google. - 3. Install the app on the mobile device. - **Connecting Google Authenticator to the Google Account** - 1. On the computer, in the Google Account “Two-Step Verification” settings, click “Authenticator app.” - 2. Click “Set up authenticator.” A QR code will appear. - 3. Open the Google Authenticator app on the phone and tap the plus (+) sign. - 4. Choose “Scan a QR code.” - 5. Use the phone’s camera to scan the QR code on the computer screen. - 6. The app will add the account and show a 6-digit code. - 7. On the computer, click “Next.” - 8. Enter the 6-digit code from the app and click “Verify.” - 9. A confirmation will indicate the authenticator is set up. ### 5. Help Desk and Support Information - **Immediate Support** - The instructor offered one-on-one assistance, including remote support, if issues arise. - **Help Desk Availability on May 8, 2026** - For post-training issues, users can email the instructor or the help desk. - Headquarters team members Robert and Gaston will be unavailable after 3:00 PM on May 8, 2026, to pick up company vans. - The rest of the help desk team will remain online and available. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Create a 6-digit PIN for your laptop via Windows Settings. - [ ] 2. Link the new PIN to your Google Account by creating a passkey in Security settings. - [ ] 3. If you have a SHARP-issued phone or choose to use your personal phone, install Google Authenticator and connect it to your Google account. - [ ] 4. Email the instructor for an invitation link if you’d like to attend the upcoming Microsoft Teams training session.
- Date
- May 8, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:00:13 I see that I'm the last to the party today. How's everybody doing? Speaker 3 00:00:19 Good. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:20 Good. Let me close out some things. I have been in, I've been doing back- to- back trainings today, so bear with me guys. Go back up everything. Speaker 2 00:00:33 Um, real quickly, I'm gonna introduce you guys to a few things. Um. I'm going to share my screen in a moment, so that you so as I walk you guys through this, you can see what's going on. Um, if you have a corporate cell phone, a SHARP issued cell phone, stay for the last part. If you don't have a SHARP issued cell phone, Everything we're going to do in the very beginning is for you and how to get set up. Uh. So we're gonna we're gonna walk through three things together. We're gonna walk through creating a pin on your laptop. We're going to walk through attaching the pin that's on your laptop to your Google account, Which is the way we're going to show you guys how to do it is HIPAA aligned. So, it meets all requirements for HIPAA. And. Then the third thing we're going to walk you through is installing Google Authenticator on your cell phone. And attaching Google Authenticator to your account. Speaker 2 00:01:31 So just a quick heads up for you guys. I'm going to repeat that in a moment because I see people are still coming in, so I wasn't last to the party. She makes me happy. And bear with me one more moment. I'll pull some other things up. Speaker 2 00:01:56 And then just a heads up for you guys, I'm going to be teaching a class right after you guys on Microsoft Teams. And if you guys want to attend that, you're more than welcome to. Just send me an email and I'll send you the invite link. Um, you don't have to stay for that. You don't have to attend that one. That's with another client, however, they're open to having. A lot of people joined, so you guys are more than welcome to join us for that training. Yeah. All right. Don't see anybody else entering. There's twelve of you, which is awesome. Wait just a slight bit longer. Speaker 1 00:02:38 People are still joining. All right. Speaker 2 00:02:45 So, for those of you guys who just joined. Um. Real quickly, so I'm gonna go through three different options. If you don't have a sharp issued cell phone, the last part you guys can drop for or you can stay on. It's up to you. Um, The first thing we're gonna go through is for everybody how to create a pin for your laptop. And that PIN is part of your MFA requirements. So it's going to allow you to, if you are just a desktop user that has no company cell phone, This is a way that you're going to become HIPAA compliant is by doing this first two options that I'm going to give you guys. Speaker 2 00:03:23 Um. The second part, Or the second part is actually attaching the pen from your computer into your Google account. And then the third part is how to connect Google Authenticator. And so I'm gonna walk you guys through each one of those. Um. And then if any of you guys run into issues or anything along those lines, I am more than glad to connect to your computer and walk you guys through it. On your computer as well. So, all right, let's go ahead and just get started. I am going. I'm gonna give you guys a quick run through of Teams. For those of you guys who are not used to using Teams. So I'm gonna share my screen. And then I'm going to pull over my Teams account just so that you guys can see. Um, I am going to close up me chat just for a second. Um, up here at the top row where my mouse is. You have chat, you have raise hand, and then you have react. So we're going to go through some of that. Speaker 2 00:04:19 Notes. If you miss something, um, well, I guess notes are having an issue. We're not going to use notes then. You can go into chat, and then you guys can type out messages if you would like. You can raise your hand if you guys have questions or anything like that. And then you can also react to things. So like this is a heart, it'll allow you to react. And it'll pop up and go away. So during this training, I'm going to ask you guys to show your To raise your hand or to send something in the chat or to react to things as we walk through it. Okay, and then today we're gonna. I'm gonna share my screen with you guys, so you'll see my screen. Yes, I have a lot of apps open. I do need to reboot. I'm going to do that in a moment, just because it's been a very fast paced day. So bear with me. And Brie did make an opinion, but she's too lazy to say hi. She's too busy cleaning herself behind me. Speaker 2 00:05:16 And you'll see the other two run through here in a moment. They like to chase each other during my meetings. So, All right. Very first thing I want you guys to do, follow along with me. So if you can, uh, you might have to at times if you only have one screen, You might just be might have to minimize and bring back up just to see what I'm doing. Also, I sent out an email earlier today. That email does have step by step instructions as well. So if you get lost, feel free to either ask me to stop and back up. Or, you're more than welcome to bring up the instructions as well and work through that. So, Very first thing we're going to do is we're going to hit the start button. For most of you guys, That'll be towards the center of your screen or to the left of your screen. So, it's a thing that looks like a window pane, and you click on that and bring up the menu. And then you should see settings. Bear with me, I'm losing my voice already. You should see settings here. If you don't, you can type it into the top bar. Speaker 2 00:06:15 And just hit open, so you guys will see that come up, and the screen that you'll see is going to have your computer name here. So, I'm also going to say something about Windows Updates. So, I'm going to wait and pause and let all of you guys catch up. And I am going to grab me something to drink real quick. I've been talking for four hours, so I am going to grab some tea. The name of the town is derived from the river. So everybody should be right here. Speaker 2 00:06:46 And what I want you to do is look on the left side. You're going to look for accounts. It's right here. So you're going to click on accounts. And then under accounts, you're going to see um, you might see your name, you might not. But you're going to click on sign in options. So that's usually the third option there. And then once you click on sign in options. You're going to look for Windows Hello and PIN. So there's a couple options here, And you guys are welcome to go back and set up any of these options here. I'm going to walk you through them real quick while everybody's catching up. Facial recognition, that's where on your laptop your camera will recognize your face. I'm working on a desktop right now instead of my laptop, so I don't have facial recognition turned on on my laptop. Or on my desktop because I don't have cameras that works for that. Speaker 2 00:07:44 Some of you may have fingerprint recognition. You have a fingerprint reader that comes on some of the laptops, not all of them, but some of them. You'll have that option as well. And we're going to use PIN. So this PIN, just like your, you know, your four-digit debit card PIN or along those lines, something along that line. Security key, that's actually a physical key. If you guys look at my camera, I'll show you mine. I have three of these. Two were connected to my machines. This my one for my, my cell phone. Um, so that's a physical key. If you if we choose to give you a physical key in the future, it's only going to be certain people. But just so that you guys are aware of what that looks like, anytime you see that plugged into my laptop, you know what's going on. And then you have your password. This is your standard password that you already use to log into your computer. Now we're going to go to Windows Hello, and you should see a button here that says "Set up." Go ahead and click on the setup button. Speaker 2 00:08:41 If you see change pin, You guys can just hang on for a moment because you already have your computer locked down with a pin. For everybody else, you're going to click on setup. I can't do it because my screen, I've already set up my PIN a long time ago. But it'll be a window similar to this. You're going to choose a number combination. Um, and that number can be six digits or eight digits or anything else. You can't go below six digits. Some of you might be able to, but not all of you. So, you're going to have a six- digit PIN, and you're going to confirm that six- digit PIN. Now, some of you may get asked to log in with your computer password. If you do, that's okay. Go ahead and log in, and then you will see the screen pop up. And then what I want you guys to do is I want you guys to react with a thumbs up. Speaker 2 00:09:38 Once you've got that completed. Okay, Speaker 1 00:09:48 Carmen's got that completed. I'm sorry. Speaker 2 00:10:04 Uh, Robin, It could be anywhere from six digits all the way up to I think twelve. I may be wrong on that, but I know six digits minimum. Some people may have the ability to do four digits, but not everybody. I've seen most people have it's required to do the six digits. Speaker 1 00:10:41 You're welcome. I have a lot of friends. And. Speaker 2 00:10:57 If you guys want to see a kitten. She was trying to climb up my leg. Speaker 1 00:11:07 She likes her throne over here next to my desk. Speaker 2 00:11:19 The City is located on the banks of the river. All right. How many show of a thumbs up emoji? How many of you guys are done? Alright, Vanessa's done. Liz is done. Carmen's already said she's done. Robin's done. Ron? Hello, how are you doing? All looks good. Alright. So once we, Once we do it, we're back on that change pin. We move this from assign in options. Yes, ma'am. Perfect. All right. So Since most of you guys are here already, I'm going to go ahead and minimize this screen. And I want you guys to open up Google. So go to google dot com or go to your homepage if your homepage looks like this. Speaker 2 00:12:07 I've seen some of your home pages. Some of you guys have got different news sites and things like that as your homepage. Perfectly fine. If that's the case, you're going to just type in google.com And then once you're there, You're going to click on either your picture or your initials up here in the far right. If you hover over, it's going to show you Google Account and then show your name and your email address. So, You're going to click on that. And a little screen is going to pop up and you're going to click on Manage Your Google Account. Speaker 2 00:12:40 Once it opens, You're going to see this lovely blue page with a lot of things on the left. All right, now you're going to click on security sign-in. And then from here, I want you guys to scroll down. You're going to see two-step verification. Go ahead and click on two-step verification. I mind is not going to look like yours, but I am going to have to confirm who I am. So it's going to ask me for either my password or my PIN. I've already got my PIN set, which is what you guys are working on right now. So I'm going to do my PIN. And you're going to have an option to turn on two-step verification. So go ahead, turn that on if you see it. Some of you do have it, some of you don't. Speaker 2 00:13:36 And then you're going to scroll down to pass keys and security keys. And I want you to click on that. And I want you to create a passkey. So what you're going to do is you're going to create a passkey, click that button. Now at this point, if you haven't put your password in yet, it may ask you. So bear with me one second. I'm going to delete mine so that you guys can see what it looks like. And I'm going to say, create a passkey. And create a passkey again. Speaker 2 00:14:06 And now it's going to ask me to put in my PIN, and that's what the PIN number that you just Set up on your computer. You're going to type that in, and it's going to say "passkey saved." It's gonna have your email address. It's gonna say Google, and you're gonna say okay. And that's all you have to do. Now your computers are HIPAA compliant. Speaker 2 00:14:38 Let me know. Give me a thumbs up emoji once you've got that finished. Speaker 2 00:15:06 Nice. All right. Uh, just to give you guys a quick heads up, you can do Google Authenticator on your personal devices if you want. Now that being said, I'm not saying you should. I'm not saying you have to. I'm just gonna say if you want. If, you don't have a Sharp cell phone, and you want to add Google Authenticator to your cell phone. Stay on, if you don't have a sharp cell phone, and you don't want to use your personal device. Go ahead and drop off. I guess I'm sorry. Speaker 2 00:15:45 Com ment, did you have a question? Speaker 3 00:15:47 Yeah, so I have I don't have a smartphone nor a laptop. So do I need to stay on or no? Speaker 2 00:15:54 You can stay on if you want or you can drop if you want. It's up to you. Speaker 3 00:15:58 Okay, but as long as I did the Googleum. Pass keys and then the other the pin. I'm good for now. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:16:11 You're welcome, and bear with me my southern accent's coming out. Uh, just because I've talked so much today, I can't. I can't keep my uh California accent in. So bear with me. Um, all right. So for the rest of you guys, if you're still on the pass screen pass keys screen, say that five times fast. Uh Liz, if you already have Google MFA on your personal phone, yes, that is okay. Speaker 2 00:16:45 I'm gonna give one more second and see if people aretyping. Speaker 1 00:16:56 I'm not sure what you mean. If, Speaker 2 00:16:59 Do you need to see if you have Google MFA If you've got your Google MFA attached to your Sharp account. No, you can drop off. Okay. Speaker 2 00:17:12 All right, I'm going to um I'm gonna go back on the screen. I'm at. So I'm still in PassKey. So I'm going to hit the back button, and I'm back in the two-step verification section. Now, I'm going to add an authenticator app this time. But first, before we add the authenticator app, I'm going to ask you guys to go to your individual devices. I'm gonna show you guys how to do it on my iPhone. But I know some of you guys have an Android, so just follow along as best as we can. And so, Very first thing I am going to do is I am going to go into my App Store. And I'm going to go to the search page. So if you guys can see on my camera, Let me stop sharing for a moment. So you guys can see my camera a little bit better. So I'm going to search for Google Authenticator. Speaker 2 00:18:04 And make sure you spell out Google Authenticator because if you don't, you're going to get a million Google hits. All right. So in here, You're going to see a couple different options where my middle finger is tapping the phone. That's the option you guys are looking for. So you want to look for the multicolored star. Don't do this one down here. There's a few others that may show up. You just want the one with the multicolored star. So you're going to click on that one. Make sure that it says Google on it. As the Google is the company name, so make sure that says Google right there. And, then you're going to press Get or Open if you already have it installed. So I am going to give you guys a few moments. Someone's over here complaining. She says, "I am talking too much." I am going to give you guys a few moments to um. Go ahead and let that install. And if you've already done it, you can enjoy the pictures or. Speaker 2 00:19:00 You can join my orange monster back there. That's moose. He thinks he rules the home, but it's actually Bree who rules the home. I'm not a crazy cat lady yet, but my daughter says that I'm getting close. Liz, If your MFA on your personal cell phone is not associated with your SHARC account, that's fine. Uh, we can add your SHARP account and trust me as a person who has. Um. Well, I'll show you in a second. I have a lot of accounts on my on my MFA, so you can add more than one email. You have the other MFA? That's fine. Go ahead and install Google Authenticator if you want. You know, I've never we're going to try it on my Microsoft because I've got Microsoft too. Speaker 2 00:19:57 I've never thought to try it on Microsoft. I have a couple different authentication apps. If you guys want to see a scary looking one, this my Microsoft. Scroll to the top. This my Microsoft one, so it's very similar. And I have a bunch of accounts. So I haven't attached almost everything. And for my Google. I got quite a few here too. So. All right. So what we're going to do, How many of you guys need me to pause a little bit longer for you to install? Just show it. Raise your hands. Speaker 2 00:21:03 All right, so under two-step verification, if you still see pass. key up here, just hit the back button and you'll be back to two-step verification. If you've gone all the way back, you're just going to go to security and sign on. And then scroll down to two-step verification. And then I want you. Once you're here, I want you to go to Authenticator. If you don't see Authenticator here, scroll down and see if it's an option. But if it's, But you should see Authenticator somewhere on this page. I've seen it at the bottom at times. We're going to click on that. And you're going to set, you're going to click on setup authenticator. So, oh wait, I'm sorry. I am not sharing my screen. I apologize. Okay, so let me go back. Show you guys one more time. Under Security and Sign-in. We're going to click on that. Speaker 2 00:21:58 And, then we're going to go scroll down, and we're going to do two - step verification. And then under two-step verification, you're going to look for authenticator. Once you click on it. Yes, you can keep your personal email in Google Authenticator. Please do. I have every single one of the systems, even my personal stuff on authenticators on my phone. It is very secure. Almost very secure. There, there are some have been some issues in the past, but it's still. HIPAA certified and one hundred percent secure. All right, You're going to click on set up authenticator, and it's going to pop up and show you a QR code. Now open up Authenticator on your phone. So I'm in the Google one. And you're going to click on this plus sign right here. So click that little button and you're going to see an option, um Pop up that says. Speaker 2 00:22:56 With QR code or scan QR code. It's going to be the bottom option, so I'm going to click it. And then you see the camera came on, so I am going to scan that QR code myself. Don't scan mine. Scan your own. And then I'm going to say next. Now, when you're on your phone, it's going to pop up and it's going to give you numbers. The very bottom one is the one we're doing right now. So you're going to enter that code on the next page. Speaker 2 00:23:26 Once you enter that code, it's going to verify. And now you see Authenticator has been set up. And that's all you do. So make sure you're using the code. That's that just popped up on your phone. It's going to have your email address, so I don't know if you guys can see my camera clearly. Um, but it's gonna have my email address. You guys will see I've done this a few times today, so you'll see that up there. So that's the code you're going to use. Now I'm gonna go in and delete all the other ones that I've added today. Delete that one. And delete that one. All right. I think we are good. Anybody have any questions? Speaker 2 00:24:26 You guys are the fastest class I've done today. Is it because it's almost three o'clock and it's on a Friday? Speaker 3 00:24:35 That's exactly what it is. Speaker 2 00:24:39 Oh, I just got new furniture delivered during my lunch. So I do. Yes, I I needed a bigger dining room table for all my kids, so nice. It it I am like, it's almost five o'clock and I can go put together my table. Speaker 3 00:24:58 There you go. Have at it then. Yeah, it's gonna be a good weekend for you then. Speaker 2 00:25:02 Yes, cause my kids could not sit around my old dining room table. They were scattered everywhere for Sunday dinners. So now I've got a table big enough. Speaker 3 00:25:12 Good. Well, I'm glad you do. Enjoy it. Speaker 2 00:25:15 I will, thank you. All right guys, I will see you all later. Thank you guys for joining, and then we are going to do some more trainings in the future for you guys. So. Have a great weekend. Speaker 3 00:25:29 Take care, Chrissy. Bye- bye. Speaker 2 00:25:32 Sergio, do you need me to stay on for a moment? I see you'retyping. Speaker 2 00:25:54 Thanks You too, Sergio. Alright guys, if you need help, feel free to email me or email the help desk. I uh I know the team is going to be away, this afternoon. So, no one is in headquarters after three o'clock because they got to go pick up on the company vans from the mechanics. Um, but if you guys run into any issues, feel free to uh email the rest of the help desk. Is still online just. Robert and Gaston are going to be off. All right, thanks guys. Have a great weekend. Thank you.
04-21 Meeting: Nonprofit Client Mobility Management - SHARP & Ability First
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-21 08:06:42 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### Overview of Two Nonprofit Clients - Two large, top-five Crimson clients were discussed: SHARP and Ability First. Both are nonprofits currently using Verizon. - **SHARP (Southern California Health and Rehabilitation Programs):** - Approximately 700 lines for computers and phones. - Poor Verizon signal at multiple sites, including residential locations and clinics. - Uses a mix of iPhones for management and older Android devices (3–5 years old) for other staff. - A new CIO (since February) is focused on eliminating redundant systems and reducing costs, having already cut $300,000. - **Ability First:** - Over 200 lines, though not all are active. - Verizon contract expired in January; currently month-to-month. - Experiencing issues with the Verizon Pasadena representative. - Crimson manually manages their phone inventory. ### Proposed Mobility Management Services - A standard process was outlined for both organizations: - **Discovery & Audit:** This meeting serves as the discovery phase. Next step: a no-cost, no-obligation audit of three months of invoices and a device report. - **Presentation:** The audit will compare current versus optimized costs, highlighting savings that often exceed the service fee. - **Service Features:** - **24/7 Service Desk:** Handles move/add/change/disconnect requests, accessible via IT or directly by end-users. - **Lifecycle Management:** Device procurement, setup (ABM, Intune), and inventory management, with devices stocked in Woodland Hills. - **Reporting & Analytics:** Custom reports for cost allocation, savings, and identification of unused lines. - **Multi-Carrier Support:** Ability to manage multiple carriers (e.g., AT&T, T-Mobile) to improve coverage. ### Specific Client Needs and Solutions - **Device Policy and User Preferences:** - Interest in offering eSIMs so employees can use one phone for personal and business lines, reducing the need for two devices. - Discussed a BYOD policy, including transferring liability of a personal line to the corporate account. - MDM solutions like Intune can containerize corporate data for security and enable easy removal when employees depart. - **Onboarding and Ticketing Process:** - Current workflow uses Crimson’s IT portal for ticket creation. - Mobility tickets for SHARP and Ability First could route directly to the proposed service desk via email or API. - This streamlines support and maintains consistency, even with multiple carriers. ### Cost Optimization Strategy - Primary savings come from optimizing mobile plans. - Many accounts use unlimited plans, but usage varies significantly (80/20 rule). - Plans can be retroactively adjusted within a billing cycle to align with actual usage, moving low-data users to more cost-effective plans. - The service fee is typically a flat per-line monthly rate (e.g., $5), adjustable to ensure it is covered by realized savings. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 2] will email [Speaker 3] the required audit documents list (three months of full PDF invoices and a device report) and a new mobility services one-pager. - [ ] [Speaker 2] will create two OneDrive folders for document submission: one for SHARP and one for Ability First. - [ ] [Speaker 3] will gather the required documents for both clients; note that SHARP may take additional time. - [ ] If documents are not received, [Speaker 2] will follow up with [Speaker 3] in one week. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The timeline for the SHARP presentation is in two weeks, but acquiring the necessary audit documents from the Verizon rep on paternity leave might cause delays. A contingency plan for the presentation should be considered if the data isn't available in time. > 2. While eSIM and BYOD policies were discussed, no final decision was made on the preferred approach for SHARP or Ability First. This will require further discussion and policy creation.
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:04 Yeah, I know. Speaker 2 00:00:08 Good morning. Good morning, Christy. How are you? Nice to meet you. Speaker 3 00:00:13 Nice to meet you. My apologies, I decided to take my daughter to school today. Oh okay. And I always drop her off at the Target a block away because high school doesn't want.'Cause it's not cool? Speaker 2 00:00:25 Yeah, well or and it's not cool that your mom dropped you off right? Well she doesn't mind it, it's just. Speaker 3 00:00:32 I I live in well, I live in El Segundo Hawthorne area, but we have to do the school in Hawthorne. And so people were weird. And today was no exception. Even at the Target where a couple other moms are dropping off, there was a little accident. So it was comical. Always a fun time, Huh? Yeah. So my apologies for being late. I I was literally waiting. Our elevator in the parking garage was crazy and yeah, it was just a very interesting Tuesday morning. Speaker 2 00:01:10 I work from home, so it's not a it's not a big deal. It's not like I had to rent out a uh uh conference space for the call. Speaker 4 00:01:19 Yeah, no worries. Um okay, so hang on one second. One of my so I have two clients. I don't knowum what Alex has told you about me or if he has. Other than I am weird and crazy, and you know, I have fun at Crimson. Speaker 2 00:01:35 Um, she he had also mentioned. I think there was like a couple of months ago. You had mentioned a different clientum that had around six hundred lines. Yeahum he didn't really have much other information. He said just uh bring it up as a reminder. Speaker 3 00:01:49 Yes. So both of these clients are what we're going to talk about today. So I used to be uh running. Operations and running a few other things at Crimson, and then I told Anwar, "Hey, I want to become a mom, ", and he helped me change my role a little bit. So that I now went from managing all the clients and all the staff to two clients. And you know,' having a lot of fun that way. So, I've taken on two of our larger clients; they're in our top five clients. Okay. Speaker 3 00:02:27 And so they're both nonprofits. One is SHARP, it's Southern California Health and Rehabilitation Programs, and so they are running. I'll be honest, they're probably running closer to seven hundred lines. Um, I don't have the exact figure from Verizon yet, but they are running lines on both computers and laptop. I mean computers and phones. Um, and then Ability First who's running a little over two hundred lines. But not all of those songs are being used. So both of my clients are nonprofits. One, they're both on Verizon. Verizon Pasadena rep is I am struggling with, I'll be honest, we're all struggling with her. She'll jump in and out, and then she'll totally ignore me in favor of looking good to the CFO for for ability. And it's just a weird situation so I am. Speaker 3 00:03:27 Jumping in, I am looking to. We need to start looking at replacing phones that are old, but also looking at the mics and stuff like that that we have. But Sharp's a different piece. Uh, Sharp is I took over as CIO um in February. They turned they terminated their C CIO um on February nineteenth. Uh had already slated for me to come in and take over. I am still cleaning house. I'll be honest, I have sixty three vendors, a lot of redundant systems, a lot of old systems. I am paring down a lot of things. They had two antiviruses on their computers because he wanted the redundancy. So. Speaker 2 00:04:16 Sounds like you are going to make them a profit company. Yeah, just joking. Speaker 3 00:04:22 I have already cut three hundred thousand, In just a few months, I've been there. That's that's amazing. Yeah, so just a heads up. What I'd like to do. We're we have and I'll talk about sharp first because sharp is the big one. We have a lot of complaints coming in from sharp um where some of their sites because they have multiple sites, they have residential locations. They have clinics all all the things. Um, And a couple of their sites is really hard for them to use Verizon because they don't get a signal. Um, so their phones don't work, their computers don't work. You know, and we're just running into a lot of things. Plus only management has iPhones. Everyone else has an Android. Um, and the androids are old. Um, some of them are three, four five years old. Um we have a lot of broken ones. We I mean, we have a whole bag stash of broken ones. Speaker 3 00:05:20 For a long time, the former CIO was like," if someone leaves and they're this position higher, you know we're keeping the phones." And, they would put the phones in a closet and never touch them again. Nice. Speaker 2 00:05:32 Expensive paperweights. Speaker 3 00:05:34 Right. And they were doing the same with computers. I stopped that when I came in. I was like," no," because one, this is an issue with compliance and things like that. So we're already backing up their data. We already have litigation hold on the right people, Everyone else, we can just delete and go on. Um, so that's that's where I am at right now. Like I said, I am killing things. I am trying to get things wrapped around. Um, They are the client that I need to heavily invest my time in right now, even though Ability First is just as important. Um, But they're the ones i am working through pretty heavily So. They're the ones i am more interested in getting on with you guys if. Speaker 3 00:06:18 Their management will approve, but I've got to take what I know about you guys, have the conversation with you, take a look at the cost and things, and then take it back to leadership team in two weeks. Okay. Now are you Oh, sorry. Speaker 2 00:06:33 I was just say, are you familiar with like our typical like? And this is probably not atypical, but our typical like sales process and how we we typically, you know, present things to leadership? Speaker 3 00:06:45 No, I know everything else about you because I don't know who has told you, But I did a lot with your uh with your cybersecurity questionnaires and stuff that you guys had to do for. Thank you for that by the way. Speaker 2 00:06:58 That's all it's uh. You're welcome. Because I look at that like I am reading, you know, Cantonese. So, I appreciate the help. No worries. Speaker 3 00:07:08 Uh, so i i jumped in on that one. That's. What I know about your company? And that's why am more comfortable with you guys because i. I know all the dead bodies at this moment. So, that's what I told Sharp. I am like, "I am going to give you guys to a company that I know." And it's not that I know them by reputation; it's "I know them," like I have seen the guts. So they're going to be a lot more comfortable with that. But with Ability, it's a little bit different. Their contract with Verizon—they're on month-to-month. Speaker 3 00:07:44 Now they expired back in January. Um, I really have struggle with rep getting a hold of her stuff like that. Um, So we we are running through that, and we're manually we're manually keeping the phones at the crimson office. So when someone departs, we got to go hunt down the phones. We bring them to the crimson headquarters, and then we uh send them out again when we have new person coming on board. Okay. So, All right, so your turn now that I monopolize the first, you know, ten fifteen minutes. No. Speaker 2 00:08:21 No worries. That's that's a great debrief and and I'll probably have some questions about each one. But, Um why don't I kind of give you just an overview of how it would work for both organizations? And then you can kind of tell me if that you know. Kind of makes sense. So, Our process is typically, um you know, we do a discovery, which is what I am considering this. Um you know getting some information on the accounts and seeing where our service can really benefit them, Um the process, typically, in order to prove our worth upfront is we do a no cost, no obligation audit on the account, um what we look at is three months of invoice plus a device report. Speaker 2 00:09:02 Downloaded from the Verizon sites, And what we do is we we come back and we would present to you and say, "Here is where you are today," without changing carriers or contracts or how the devices are being used. Through optimizations of plans, identifying lines with no usage, here is where your cost will be moving forward. We break it down on a per device cost as well. We'll show you the total monthly savings but also on a per device cost. And typically, The delta between those two numbers at a minimum are going to cover our fee for our services. And more times than not, especially with Verizon, we're able to save above and beyond what our fee is. Therefore, netting savings so adding to that three hundred thousand dollars that you've already saved. Um, You know, so they can reallocate you could reallocate those funds to, you know, other other issues. Um that is typically what our our sales process looks like. Speaker 2 00:09:58 Understanding where we can come in from a support standpoint, so we have our twenty four by seven service desk, we have an online portal, we have our reporting and analytics tools, and then as well we have our life cycle management services. So the actual physical device setup from birth to death. So I guess my first question is from a help desk standpoint. If I am a user at one of these organizations, and let's say, I lost my phone. And I need a new one. How does that process work today? Do I place a ticket? Do I call up? Do I email all the above? How does it typically work? Speaker 3 00:10:38 So basically, It's how you would do it currently for Entrotech. If you were to wish to get a computer. So you're going to call Crimson. Okay, we are going to for Ability First because we keep those phones in house, We will uh contact Verizon get the number uh switch over to a new phone. We'll go, Going into Apple, we'll do the device lock or Intune, depending on the client. And then go from there. So, Ability versus Intune right now, Sharp is on Google and I am going to be making that move to to Intune later on this year. And, then for Sharp, they just find an old phone that's in the bottom of the box because they've lost it, and they'll give them that old phone if they crack the screen. Speaker 3 00:11:27 They they find these monster pricks and give out the monster pricks. Um, that is not my process, that is their process. Uh, the original I have not changed yet, so I am working on making those changes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:11:43 How do you want it to to go moving forward? Um, Typically, our, you know, our direct clients willum choose how they want to interact with us, right? Usually, it takes a pit stop in it. And then they swivel chair over to the carriers today, right? With us, they can. They they could still take a pit stop. So all those move, add, change, Disconnect request tickets can take a pit stop in it, and they could swivel chair over to InsurTech's help desk process. Those requests directly with the carrier because it's a lot easier than working directly with the carrier. The other option is that service desk can be open directly to the users through API feeds, or they can utilize the eight hundred number or the email. Speaker 2 00:12:25 Um, so it's not actually having to touch it, And you're not having to place those tickets because at the end of the day, you're really just a swivel chair. Um, right? Taking information from one person and and giving it to the carrier. Um, where we can help circumvent that is by customizing how we support them. Right? The first two things you said off of off the top of your head was, you know, devices, which device who gets certain devices. So we already kind of know that management gets iphones, you know so on. And so forth. And then also with Sharp, you know, they go into their their stock of devices of used devices to redeploy devices. So that's something that we can certainly come to. When it comes to reporting and analytics, it's really everything under the sun. I have to imagine at least with Sharp, they're probably allocating these costs across different cost centers or departments or locations. We can set up those reports to be completely customized to their needs delivered to them at the timely fashion, so they're not having to create any reports. Speaker 2 00:13:22 Um, Additional reports that you know kind of out of the box would be like a savings report. Here is what we did last month. Here is what we identified. Here are some things that the client needs to take action on. One of those things you had mentioned is like unused devices, like these lines have not been used in ninety days. Um, the reason why we do that, Christy, is because we don't know right? It could be, you know, I was making a joke. It could be the CEO's bat phone or it could be an emergency backup device. And there is a reason why it doesn't have any usage on it, but it needs to stay active right for an emergency situation. More times than not, it's not that. More times than not, it's just something that slipped through the cracks. No one told poor old IT that this device is no longer needed or no longer being used. We can then disposition those into suspend or cancel status. We can also go one step further by APIing into any HR system. Speaker 2 00:14:12 To push that information out to us or an SFTP file, you know, weekly monthly however often they would like, Where it tells us the employment status of that person, and that employment status can then link to a direct ticket to suspend or cancel a line of service. So it doesn't hit thirty sixty, ninety days of no usage. We're kind of cleaning things up organically. And, then the last thing which I think would probably help out with both clients is is our lifecycle management services. Typically, The way our clients utilize that service is we keep a stock of their unused or brand new devices at our location in um in Woodland Hills. Once that ticket comes in for a replacement or a brand new line of service, It's pulled off of that shelf, and then it's set up in the exact fashion that you would need. So everything that you guys are kind of doing today, the A B M, the Intune setting up those devices, maybe you put a case or screen protector any other accessories. Speaker 2 00:15:08 Sometimes organizations want their logo as the background on the phone. They want certain applications downloaded. They want certain applications on the front page of the smartphone. The possibilities are endless, but the device is set up directly. If you place that ticket today for a new device or a replacement device, it's shipped out that day and sent directly to the user. For all intents and purposes, What we like to say is we can get you as much out of the cell phone management business as you would like, and it will typically cost you less than what your Spending today, the other thing that you had mentioned, I think it's on sharp. No, I think it's on ability. Is that you have some but wait Which one is it? I am looking at my notes here. Oh, Oh, no, Some sites are not getting signal for Verizon right? So. That's what Sharp um we can. Certainly, once you identify which lines those are we can because we are partners with all three of the carriers we can essentially act as the rep. Speaker 2 00:16:07 In that situation, so we can actually present to you. Here is what it would look like by shifting those over over to you know, AT and T. Here is what that would look like shifting over to T Mobile, and then the onus is one hundred percent on us in getting that deployed. Speaker 3 00:16:22 Gotcha. So. So here is I am going to throw in a two wrenches into some of what you said, well, not once a wrench once, not a wrench. Um so I would like to also. Offer them uh the ability to eSIM for anyone with a newer phone uh into their existing phone because a lot of people are not liking carrying two phones, and that is something I'm hearing pretty commonly across the board. So I'd like to offer them the ability to do um to do an eSIM if they have a phone that has the capacity to do it is that something you guys can do right now? Speaker 2 00:17:03 It depends on where that device, that that line of service is going to be paid for. Yeah. So if it's on the the business account, then the answer is yes. If it's on their personal account, We can't manage that because the main part of implementation is we need to have access to the account right? And then if you're looking at you know BYOD lines right? We can't we can't support that because then we're, Relying on, and it's also a consumer account, soum it's it's a little bit different from a management standpoint. We can still provide visibility from a reporting standpoint, but that would be more of a manual thing on the back end. Speaker 3 00:17:45 Gotcha. So like currently from my phone, I have a business line and a personal line going into my one my iPhone. Um and they're on different accounts, but they're both AT and T accounts so uh, One is not crimson. One is my small business that I run myself, and then the other one I use for my crimson and personal life. I mean, Speaker 2 00:18:08 There are a million different options when it comes to trying to reduce the amount of two phones in your pocket. One of them is like you know bring your own device. It's like it's not buy your own device, it's bring your own device so you would, Let's say you hired me, right? I have Verizon line, consumer line. You would just take over liability of that line, and then I can use that phone which is mine with my phone number. And, you just bring it on your account and I no longer am paying my my bill because you have taken it over. And then it works both ways; it's called the transfer of liability. You can transfer liability in, and then if that person transferred that liability in if they leave the organization, you can also transfer back out. Speaker 2 00:18:56 Well, you know, Using the MDMs like Intune and stuff like that to kind of separate the church from state, right? Containerizing all of their corporate data into one bucket. So if they do leave the organization, You can easily or we can easily remove their corporate data from their personal device, and then they go back to how they were doing things. Yeah. You are not also worrying about the only issue with that is then you are managing a lot of different operating systems. True, you can have a Google device, which could be all sorts of nightmares. I don't even i don't know how they keep making devices. I don't even know anyone that's owned one. Speaker 3 00:19:35 I haven't owned one in years. For so what I am doing with one company is because they're going their Apple devices, all Apple devices, And this is totally different company;. It's too small for you guys.;. It's a twenty person at the top. s. Speaker 3 00:19:52 But one of the things I was thinking of is, sorry, I was about to sneeze. My cat has been very well. I have three, but one of my cats has been very needy this morning, so I've been cuddling him. But. So what we do currently with that with that company is any there's like two people. One person left recently and all we did was we went into Intune did a wipe command, which only removed corporate data, and then they were on their way. We call AT and T kill. Yes, Speaker 2 00:20:26 There are. I mean, I am giving you one. I gave you one option, which it sounds like might be a potential. And the other thing is, you can give options. You know, is there with either of these organizations? Is there a mobile device policy? We can help create that right. We have hundreds of clients, you know from, That range in size from a hundred lines of service all the way up to ninety thousand mobile lines of service. So we have seen every single kind of corporate policy that's out there. We can help create that for these organizations as well, so they have those kind of standards moving forward. But the options really are endless when it comes to that. I would say from a security standpoint, You still want them on, you know, a corporate line of service. So you have more control as opposed to a personal line of service, but. Speaker 2 00:21:16 Um, yeah, those are those are you know, and I can certainly discuss more options with you. But you know they can get more complicated. I would say that those are your probably your your best, but keeping theum the e Sims is perfectly fine. We can even help source those e Sims for you as well. Speaker 3 00:21:33 Okay now for onboarding, I'm going to make sure like we understand, uh, do you know how the onboarding currently works? Yes, I do. Okay, And so you know about our form, right? Your form. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:21:49 Oh, are you talking about onboarding like a new employee? Yes. For for intranet? No, I have no idea because I don't know. I've been here for two years and eight months. Yeah So I wouldn't remember what I had to do andum, Because you guys do such a good job, I don't deal with it when I have a new user on my team. So, so and I am by the way, MIT's worst nightmare because I am all thumbs. I am all thumbs. So, I sell technology. I cannot. I can barely use it. So, Speaker 3 00:22:28 You are the reason I still have a job in the world of IT and You are welcome. Speaker 2 00:22:36 And as long as I am employed, you'll have a job then. Because you can't teach this old dog any new tricks anymore. Speaker 3 00:22:44 I feel the same. I've been in IT for oh god twenty eight years. So this is your IT portal. I don't know if anyone's ever showed it to you. I am not going to log in because I don't have a login to your site, but that's your that is your Intrachem IT portal. I am in the crimson one, So I can access your stuff. So basically for you guys, What you do is you create a ticket and you do an onboarding offboarding ticket. And then I'm just going to look up Entain. Oh, they don't have one for you guys. All right, I'm going to do an IT R. Oh, IT R. Speaker 3 00:23:26 There we go. Okay, so we have an onboarding offboarding form for you guys. Um, I'll go in if I was your. Person, I'll go in and fill this out. Or in the case of ability, we're actually um we're actually setting up Paylocity to do this for us. Uh it'll send the form in the exact same way. And then basically we fill out the information, mobile phone, um if that's your user's current mobile phone. Um and then if they need a mobile phone for ability, we actually have a section here that says um need a mobile phone. You guys don't have that. Speaker 3 00:24:03 But for abilities, it actually says, uh need a mobile phone. Uh assign existing number and it'll ask for the existing number if we have it. Uh and we'll look it up if not, we'll assign a new number. And then um, And go from there. So what we can do um for for you guys, because we have Lyon Lyon real estate is one of y'all's clients and our clients. Yes, yes, So. What we what we do is our team sends over the information to you guys. Um, and I would do the same thing with sharp inability first. Um, send over the have the ticketing system send over the information to you automatically. Um, currently we do it by by email, but we can always look at doing an API. And I can talk to Walter about that part because he's working on some API stuff. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:24:49 So any of those mobility related ticketsum can come directly into our service desk to process the requestsum with the carrier. And then, If it is in the case of Sharp, where they're adding an additional carrier for those other sites that are not working with Verizon, the process becomes the same. Whereas today, you know, if you were to switch over, You know, a hundred of those seven hundred lines over to you know, AT and T, your now have a different process. Your process now would stay the same regardless. I have I have a client with eight carriers in the US. I didn't even know there were eight carriers in the US until I met them. What are the eight? Speaker 3 00:25:25 I know about Spectrum, I know about uh Verizon, T Mobile, A and T. There's a. Speaker 2 00:25:31 Kentucky one that I can't remember. Yeah, there's some regional ones. There's Alaskan Communications up in Alaska. Um like Alaska basically has A and T, And then if you're in any part, that's remote basically outside of the three main cities that are thereum they use Alaskan Communications. Um, there's one down in the south. I have a client who's in theum. Speaker 2 00:25:58 Agriculture industry, so a lot of their users are pretty remote. None of the main carriers work there, so they use I can't think of the name, I apologize. But yeah, There's there's a lot, and they're more like regional remote carriers that are in, you know, the heartland of America. We don't have to worry about that here in California. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:26:19 I'm from Kentucky. And so I know that there's there's a Bluegrass carrier in Kentucky that uh. They literally, when I am on the farm, And I am not on the farm anymore because we sold the farm a couple of years ago when my parents died. Um, but when I am on the farm, I if I am on a bluff, The only thing that I can get is grass unless it's three o'clock in the morning, which has happened because I've camped out there and it's middle of winter. And there, the trees have no leaves on it. Then i can get one bar of at t. So yeah i get you. So. Speaker 2 00:26:56 Um, but the process for those customers is the same, right? All the requests come directly to us regardless of carrier. They're not changing carriers or contracts or how the devices are being used. And then from an optimization standpoint, we're just looking at usage, right? And, we look at, you know, the reason why we're able to save money on clients is we take a look at what their usage is, what the plans that they are on right now. And at the end of the day. We're partners with all the carriers, so don't like to bad mouth them, but they have an impossible job, right? Yeah. They have to keep their customers happy, which is keeping costs down at the same time they have to generate revenue. Yeah. Doesn't always work; it's kind of like a double edged sword. So what we do typically what I see on most accounts these days I've been in this industry for ten years. ; I worked for a competitor for another seven and a half years. So, what I back in the day, what you would see is a lot of pooling groups, right? Speaker 2 00:27:49 Um and those pooling groups would go over, They would hit overages. And the CFO would come down to those companies, it teams and flip a lid because, why is our bill ten thousand dollars more than it was last month? Yeah. So what the carriers did to cover that was say, okay, everyone's on an unlimited plan. And, you know, it's somewhere between forty to sixty dollars for those unlimited plans. And the great news, the CFO doesn't come and knock on their door anymore. The bad news is They're overspending. Yes, overages are just now in a different line item, right? They're in there. They're just paying the same amount every month, so it gives them the warm and fuzzy feelings. What we typically find is that when we really look in an account, It's eighty twenty rule :. Eighty percent of users are using twenty percent of the data on the account ;. Twenty percent of the users are using eighty percent of the data on the account. So instead of taking this. Speaker 2 00:28:44 Guessing game, which was those pooling groups before unlimited plans came out. We have the ability because of our um partnerships with the carriers to identify usage within the billing cycle and then make changes to those plans within the billing cycle. So an example I always give is let's say, two users are on an unlimited plan, they're paying fifty dollars. One user is using fifty gigs of data, one user is using one gig of data. They're both spending fifty dollars. But the per gig cost for that fifty gigabyte user is a dollar per gig. That's a great deal. Yeah, but the other user is paying fifty dollars for one gig of data. So, what we would do in that scenario is remove that user from an unlimited plan. That's only using one gig and put them into a more cost effective plan, in that billing cycle. Speaker 2 00:29:36 So it's all retroactive. So we do that right before the bill cycle ends. So let's say it's two days before the bill cycle ends, we see that one use who won gig, We're going to remove them from an unlimited plan because there is going to be a significant cost savings, and it happens each and every month. Okay. That's kind of how we do things. Speaker 4 00:29:55 Okay, I like it. Speaker 2 00:29:58 Would you Do you have those files from those two different clients? Because what I want to do is, and hopefully you agree with this, Is if you have a presentation at least I think on sharp within two weeks to their management, It'll make it a lot better than if I just send you a one pager. And you take your notes from this call to actually have some concrete data. Right? It makes the process of making a decision much easier when I say, "You're spending X today. We're going to get you down to Y." Speaker 2 00:30:32 The delta between those two will cover our costs, so you are not even having to add on additional cost. And here is on top of that, what you are going to net from these things with our dollars. Speaker 4 00:30:46 I can get you most of it because right now, I haveum for ability first, I can pull that pretty quickly and I. Speaker 3 00:30:56 Have the latest list from uh Verizon on who has what line. Um, and how much you're using. But I am still working on sharp because we were in the middle of trying to get things. But thankfully, the Verizon rep is super responsive. He's just out of the office for the next, he's got he's on paternity leave. So okay, be back and I think it's next week when he's back. So I'm just waiting on him to come back. Speaker 2 00:31:25 My my my other question Do, you have access to like the Verizon portals for these customers? Speaker 3 00:31:30 That I'm in the process of getting access to. So I know that the Verizon portal exists for SHARP. Um, I am waiting on access for that. He said he'd get that to me when he comes back. He did respond to me last week about something. Um, let me see, I should have it for um, for Ability First. Um, However, finance also has it so I can always reach out to them and get what I need. Speaker 2 00:31:53 So when I do this, why don't I shoot you an email with what I would need exactly? You can also provide a OneDrive folder if you get the the details. Really, it's three months of invoices downloaded from the carrier sites in PDF format, and it's got to be the full invoices. So for Sharp, it's going to be like a three thousand page invoice. Oh yeah, Speaker 3 00:32:13 I just approved last month's bill uh for Sharp, and they had printed it out. Or. Speaker 2 00:32:19 Do do you know roughly what their spending is? Speaker 3 00:32:22 I i need to go look at, Get up because it's it's sitting in my shop office. Speaker 2 00:32:26 No worries, um, But I'll I'll kind of break down what we would need in order to complete the audits. Um, but it's it's not a heavy lift right? It's three months of invoices and then the device report downloaded. If you get carrier access, I am happy to walk you through it, because sometimes they can be. You can probably log into both of them, and you see different things. So, it's not congruent across all of your clients soum, Um, I'm happy to walk you through it like through a screen share, or if you're just able to get those details, um, you know we can we can go with that. But I'll create two different folders in One Drive one for Ability First one for Sharpe to keep you know, everything separated. Um. And then once we have those, it typically takes us five business days, if you need it speedier to present those numbers. I'm happy to, you know, take to kind of uh put the screws to our audit team um to get those numbers back to you. Speaker 4 00:33:19 No worries. Um, Speaker 3 00:33:20 I can if if you I know you guys need to audit, But what I can do is I can put together a presentation on how you guys work. If you don't have it to me by that two week timeframe, uh which I think is not this coming Thursday, but it's the next Thursday. And thenum for ability first, they don't mind as long as I am getting things done for them. So. Okay. Speaker 2 00:33:43 Yeahum not a problemum and typically our cost, Is on a per line basis. I don't like to usually say the cost at this stage because, um, I want to make this as I want to make this as advantageous as possible. Um, But our typical, like out of the box is five dollars per line per month. But again, it's typically tied to what the savings are. And I'll give you an example. Let's say I only save you four dollars and fifty cents a line. i'm I'm going to go back to that with our management team and say, can I get this at four fifty a line? Speaker 2 00:34:16 The answer would be yes to make it a zero net cost, right? Um, But my my assumption would be that we're probably going to save them a decent amount of money. Okay. Good. And even though they're probably tax exempt, right? And, they might even have better plans because of their nonprofit um organizations. Um I can tell you right now, that doesn't mean anything. Yeah. That's, just that's just something that the carriers like to tell everyone again to give them warm and fuzzy feelings. I have government accounts that we've saved north of fifty percent on their bill. Okay, awesome. Yeah, Soum we'll do thatum if should I touch base with you in like a week, if I haven't heard from you? Speaker 3 00:35:04 Yes, Please do because I it may take me a minute to get some of it. Um but yeah, touch base with me uh and yeah. Let's see what we can do because I definitely not only am I interested in getting them better deals, But I like to meet treatum and I like you guys. Uh so I also want to bring business to you guys, and then also selfishly, I want to take some responsibility off my plate. Yes. Speaker 2 00:35:28 Demetrius has been the best boss I have had in my twenty four year career by far. Speaker 3 00:35:33 Oh, you know what? He's not as good as Alonzo. I'll say it now. Speaker 2 00:35:38 Well from a from a sales point of view, Right, so from a sales point of view, he's not it's not more, more. You know I've been in sales forever. And it's just like, you know, there is only eight hours in the day. I've said this to a CEO, like I don't know how much more you'd like me to create out of thin air. But um you know, and he's very, very supportive with what we need um they brought me on because, like I said, I worked at a competitor for seven and a half years, and they used to lose to that competitor all the time. Speaker 2 00:36:09 Um, So they kind of brought me in to kind of replicate what we used to do there, and we're starting that. But it's you know it's slow process. We have marketing now working on, you know a new website and more marketing materials. Um, which I'll send you our brand new one. You'll be the first one to get our our brand new kind of one pager for mobility. So I'll send that over to you as well, if you have anyum if any interested parties with those those companies. Speaker 3 00:36:34 Yeah definitely uh send me over everything because I I do have, I know Anzor's trying his hardest to bring in a bunch of new clients, so you know as much as I can sell you guys, I will. And I know he's the same. Speaker 2 00:36:46 Excellent. Well, I appreciate it, Christy. It was great connecting with you. Um and I will uh get some information over to you here shortly. Speaker 3 00:36:54 Yeah, Absolutely Thank you so much and I'll talk to you later, and thanks for understanding me being late. Speaker 2 00:37:01 Oh, no worries, not a big deal Awesome Thanks B ye- bye.
07-15 Update: Quarterly Bonus Eligibility
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- ## Your Conversation Summary ### The Vibe Professional and positive, with a clear and concise delivery of good news. ### The Dynamic The interaction is one-sided and informational, with Speaker 1 conveying updates in a courteous, businesslike manner. The tone remains steady and upbeat, emphasizing clarity around timing and logistics without any noticeable shifts in mood or energy. ### The Gist Speaker 1 shares that the recipient is now eligible for quarterly bonuses and clarifies that the upcoming bonus will be included in the paycheck on the 25th of the month. They note that the specific amount has been sent privately via chat and wrap up the brief message with a polite sign-off. ### Things to Remember - You are now eligible for quarterly bonuses. - The bonus payment is on the 25th of this month. - The bonus will be included in the paycheck. - The bonus amount was sent via chat. - Bonus payments are subject to taxes. ### Conversation Threads - Quarterly Bonus Eligibility - Payment Schedule - Bonus Details
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- Jul 15, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi, give me one second. Let me fix my headphones and my mic. Um, okay, real quickly. Uh, you are now eligible for bonuses every quarter when they come out. Okay? Uh, your bonus is going to come out on the twenty fifth of this month. It will be included in your uh in your uh, In your paycheck on the twenty fifth. Sorry, my brain just parted for one second. So um that is coming to you on the twenty fifth of this month. Sometimes it's the same, it's the same twenty fifth of every month. Sometimes it's a tenth. So just a heads up for you guys. Um It is subject to taxes like normal, because yeah, okay, I mean damn that's like any that's like any payment. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Yes. Uh, because you're cutting in and out, I want it. I put it in your chat, how much you're going to receive in your bonus this quarter. Oh okay that's awesome. Yes so I wanted to make sure you have it um and then yeah, everything's great. So that was me That's it. That's all I need to talk to you about. Okay, oh, wow. Oh, wow. Yes. So go have fun. Enjoying it the rest of your day, and I'll see you whenever. Okay, on Monday. Yes. All right, no problem. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Oh, Justin.
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07-31 Manager's Proactive Political Risk Management to Ensure Team Psychological Safety
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- SCHARP - confidential personnel / morale matter. 2026-07-31, ~09:45 PDT, ~3 minutes. Attribution evidence (content, not title): references to "Doctor Barber" (= Dr. Barbour), "Crystal", "Robert", "the entire leadership team", and "our department" - all SCHARP. Christi in her SCHARP CIO capacity. Summary: Christi pulled two of her IT staff (Robert and one other) together to reassure them directly after an email exchange involving Dr. Barbour. She told them not to worry or stress about having raised caution regarding him, and stated that the entire SCHARP leadership team backs them and is already advocating on their behalf - referencing a supportive text exchange with Crystal and prior conversations with the rest of leadership. Her words: she would "fight tooth and nail" for both of them. The staff member responded that he had only raised it because he wants no negativity or ongoing issues in the department, and is trying to stay careful in situations involving Dr. Barbour. Conversation closed warmly. Character: proactive morale / psychological-safety intervention by Christi as CIO to prevent staff from self-censoring or disengaging over a leadership-dynamics concern. No disciplinary action, no allegation of misconduct, no HR process opened. Action items: none explicitly assigned. Implicit: Christi continues to shield the IT department from fallout and keeps leadership aligned. Time handling: no separate ConnectWise entry created - see Time Logged field.
- Date
- Jul 31, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hello. Hi, where's Robert? Oh, he he's coming. He's coming. He he's helping someone. Okay, Uh I just wanted to give you I wanted to tell you both this at the same time So Robert, you saw the emails Um I don't want you to ever worry About cautious sharing things with Doctor Barber about you. I do not want you to stress out. Oh, I am not okay, Good, because from i I will honestly tell you the entire leadership team would go to bat with you and are going to bat for you if he says anything about this situation. Right? I just had a really nice text message with Crystal and then conversations in the past with. Speaker 1 00:00:58 With the rest of the leadership team, I just don't want you guys worried about that because uh, there is no need to be. I will fight tooth and nail for you both. Yeah, I only said that because I don't want no negativity with our department and no issues going forward. So, I am just trying to stay on the wall when it comes to these situations with him. Yeah, no worries. Just just know that where caution is concerned And every single person has your back on that. Got it, okay. Okay, all right. I'm going to go try to break more things and fix them. All right, I will see you guys later. Bye.
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- Processed
06-04 Meeting: Reschedule with Cassandra
- Notes
- ## Your Conversation Summary ### The Vibe This was a brief and professional exchange focused on efficiently rescheduling a meeting. ### The Dynamic The sentiment was professional, apologetic, and accommodating. The conversation was direct and efficient, with both speakers quickly identifying the problem (an internet outage) and agreeing on a clear solution for rescheduling. ### The Gist Speaker 1, experiencing an internet outage, contacted Cassandra to reschedule their meeting. They decided to find a new time after Speaker 1 returns from vacation on the 15th, suggesting the week of the 22nd as a potential timeframe. Cassandra provided her booking link for Speaker 1 to set up the new appointment. ### Memorable Moments > **Speaker 1:** "Oh, sorry. I had my I had my mic off." ### Things to Remember - Speaker 1 needs to reschedule a meeting with Cassandra due to an internet outage. - Speaker 1 is on vacation next week and returns on the 15th. - The week of the 22nd is a good time to reschedule the meeting. - Speaker 1 should use Cassandra's booking link to reschedule. ### Conversation Threads - Booking logistics - Internet outage - Rescheduling a meeting - Vacation schedule
- Date
- Jun 4, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hey Cassandra. Can you hear me? Cassandra. Oh, sorry. I had my I had my mic off. No worries. Um, hey, I'm dealing with an internet outage at Fair Oaks. Mhm. Um, could we reschedule this for when I'm back from vacation? Yeah, no worries. Okay, it just I just got alerted about it three minutes ago, so I am working on it now. Uh, so it might take me a little bit. All right, awesome. Thank you so much. Of course. Use my booking link that you have and So I am out the week of uh next week, but I am back on the fifteenth, but the twenty second might be a little clearer Okay All right? Thank you. So much Yeah Of course Bye bye.
05-21 Weekly Meeting: Security Remediation Plan and Product Decommissioning
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-05-21 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Anton] [Anzor] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Christi] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes ### Remediation Plan Kick-off & Serenity GPT Decommission - A remediation plan and associated tasks are scheduled to be finished before the end of next week. - A decision was made to shut down the Serenity GPT environment. - This is due to the cost ($200/month VM) and the development of a competing internal product. - The company will no longer sell the Serenity product. - A full cleanup will be performed, including removing the instance, API keys, and the resource group. - Decommissioning Serenity GPT will resolve approximately half a dozen moderate-level findings from a recent report (e.g., 11, 15, 16, 17, 24). ### Review of High-Priority Security Findings - The discussion focused on the two remaining high-priority findings from a security report. - **Finding #1 (Rogue Access Point):** - The team confirmed the access point belongs to them. - Anton will verify with the PS team and ensure it is eliminated. - Mitigating controls, such as restricted physical access to the floor, were noted. - **Finding #2 (Fortigate Management Interface):** - The report indicated the Fortigate management interface was reachable. - Anton clarified that an IP allow-list is in place for each user, which was active during the pen test. Nate was able to access it because a specific rule was created for him. - With this clarification, the finding is considered fixed/remediated. ### Fortigate Decommission - A decision was made to remove the Fortigate environment entirely. - This action is expected to resolve several other findings in the report (e.g., #9, #19). - Two VPN users (sidco kv and kantor chukni) created for YZT guys during a past investigation were found to have access that was never removed. ### Cisco AnyConnect MFA Implementation - Anton noted that a finding was missed in the report regarding Cisco AnyConnect. - Users log in with personal email addresses and passwords, and there is no MFA currently in place. - The team is aware of this and has started internal discussions to enable MFA on the Meraki VPN (Cisco AnyConnect). This is a priority task. ### C-Bus (Crimson) Vulnerability Review - Several findings related to the C-Bus application were discussed. - **Prompt Injection (Finding #6):** While not successfully exploited during testing, the potential for exploitation exists. - **File Upload Vulnerability:** The team believes this issue may have already been fixed internally but will double-check. - **Content Security Policy (CSP):** The policy is set to log but not block, leaving a potential vulnerability if an injection vector is introduced. Anzor stated he would handle this. - **Azure Subscription Misconfigurations:** Findings related to the Azure environment hosting C-Bus were noted, such as access keys not being rotated. These require configuration changes in Azure. - **Raw Unsafe Code Execution:** A low-risk finding was identified. While constrained, it could become a significant vulnerability if related code changes. ### Security Tooling and Practices - Anzor uses a multi-layered approach for code review, employing Codex for in-depth analysis and both Gemini Flash and Claude for reviews on new submissions. - The team that conducted the pen test uses a combination of tooling, manual code review experience, and custom AI-driven skills to identify vulnerabilities. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Finish the remediation plan and tasks before May 30, 2026. - [ ] Shut down the Serenity GPT environment and perform a full cleanup (remove instance, API keys, resource group). - [ ] Verify the rogue access point with the PS team and eliminate it. - [ ] Investigate the origin and logs of the rogue access point to determine how it was installed and whether it was exploited. - [ ] Remove the Fortigate environment. - [ ] Audit and remove all temporary VPN accounts (including sidco kv and kantor chukni) and establish a standard process to prevent lingering access. - [ ] Enable MFA for Cisco AnyConnect (Meraki VPN). - [ ] Create and communicate a clear transition plan from Fortigate VPN to Cisco AnyConnect; ensure all users (including Christi) receive access and guidance. - [ ] Address the C-Bus file upload vulnerability. - [ ] Change the C-Bus Content Security Policy (CSP) from "log only" to "block". - [ ] Remediate Azure subscription misconfigurations, including key rotation. - [ ] Fix the "execute raw unsafe" code vulnerability in C-Bus. - [ ] Address the Azure configuration issues identified in findings #14 and #23. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. It was stated that two VPN users (sidco kv and kantor chukni) had access that was never removed after a project. While the plan is to decommission Fortigate, there was no explicit action item to ensure all such temporary accounts are audited and removed as a standard process. > 2. The team plans to move away from Fortigate VPN to Cisco AnyConnect. Christi was unsure of the new VPN and needed to get access. A clear communication and transition plan for all users should be confirmed. > 3. The origin of the rogue access point (Finding #1) was not determined. An action item was set to eliminate it, but not to investigate how it was installed or to review its logs to see if it was exploited.
- Date
- May 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 So, we are planning to finish up remediation plan and tasks before the end of next week. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Okay, great. Speaker 1 00:00:14 I love it. I don't think it's gonna take a long time. We just need to verify. Speaker 2 00:00:25 Okay, So I guess the first question is going to be Chat Serenity GPT. I told the guys that we're not going to be. Can you hold on a second? Speaker 3 00:00:34 I just got a yeah, I can hear you fine. Oh okay, I just got it. Can you guys hear me okay? Yeah, yes. Yeah, I just got a text from Nate uh that he's running a couple of minutes late, and he's sorry, That's fine. Uh, That's fine. I can take notes uh or if we can, Go ahead. Have you guys all had a chance to take a look at the report? Yes, I know Anton sent me his feedback and some of the responses, and Nate said that he'll be prepped and ready to discuss. I didn't tag up with him about the specifics, But he said that he's got his notes and should be able to respond to any of those questions directly. Azad, did you have did you want to talk logistics and other things first? Speaker 2 00:01:20 Yeah, Yeah. I kind of felt I didn't spend too much time with the report, right? I figured you guys will walk us through on anything important, right? And Anton and Chris can opine. The question I've had is Serenity GPT. Do we really need it running here, right? It's like$ 200 a month. VM, N it's the exposed surface, right? N it's the set of credentials. Is there really benefit to have the Serenity in our environment? Not really. Okay, then let's shut it down. I already have told the guys that we're not going to be selling this product moving forward. I think they're going to end up staying with Westfield, right? Westwood Financials they're bringing them in. Speaker 2 00:02:14 But ultimately, I feel we are effectively building competitive product, And they would make no sense for us to sell their product when we can sell ours. Right? So then work with them and let them know that we're going to shut down the environment. Let's do full cleanup, right? Get rid of all of the API keys, get rid of the instance cleanup. Right, resource group. Let's just have it completely disappear. Speaker 3 00:02:49 Okay, gotcha. That covers a couple of. Yeah, I am looking at at least four moderates: eleven, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen. And there is more that's part of that twenty- four. Yeah, it's a lot. Okay, so you just addressed probably half a dozen. Yeah, yeah, that's remediation plan right there. I like it. We're remediating stuff on the fly. Speaker 2 00:03:19 On the fly, there you go. Nate, how you doing? Good guys, how are you? Speaker 1 00:03:26 Good good, good, excellent, excellent. Speaker 3 00:03:29 We just got some remediation done on the spot. So rightum and our team just decided that they're actually going to shut down the serenity VM. So everything, all of the findings that that uh were. Were generated relating to that are basically going away. Clearly, you know, we'll work through the final report and other things, but that's a big one. Right. Speaker 2 00:03:56 We're in a position. There was a pilot project right now that we've done. We are going to completely eliminate it. Okay. So how do you guys want to go about it? Should we address, Like just go from top priorities, right? Like critical ones and anything. And then let's have a quick discussion. So I'm clear, what were the biggest findings? And uh what can we do. I think we only have like 25 minutes so yeah, is that what you're thinking or what was the plan? Speaker 3 00:04:28 Um, my plan was to initially have Nate address some of the questions becauseum Anton put. Some of the descriptions and some of the questions that he had with his team in an email, we just knocked out a couple of them. The Serenity VM going away is addresses quite a few. I am looking at two highs and four or five mediums more. So that's a big one. You guys definitely eliminated a lot of risk there is. Speaker 3 00:05:01 Two highs that I think we should touch on, and then let's do that. And then Nate, if we can go right now, The only two highs that are less left is the number one and number two. Anton has provided a response and some information about number two. And then we can go through the other couple of 40 gate findings. And, then if you guys have any questions or any additional things that we could give you time, I'm able to go past three. Or I'm able to go past noon. Uh, your time, if that will be helpful. Um Nate, what's what's your schedule looking like? Are you able to stall past the half an hour that we allotted for it? Speaker 4 00:05:41 Yeah I have about not a ton of time, about five ten minutes extra. Speaker 3 00:05:46 Okay, all right. So first one is real easy. Were you guys able to find that access point that wasum the finding number one? Speaker 1 00:05:57 Yeah, I'm gonna verify it with the PS team. It's gonna be eliminated. Okay, so you guys found it? Speaker 2 00:06:04 It is one of ours, right Anton? What we use. Who who do you know who was it Gabby or Kevin? Speaker 1 00:06:13 I'm gonna send you over an update answer. Speaker 3 00:06:17 Okay Well, You don't need us for this as long as you guys know what it is. And as long as you you have a handle on it because that was one that uh we were kind of going back and forth and seeing if you don't know about. About this one. That's a that's a real problem. But uh Andrew, What you told me that the mitigating controls about the fact that people can't get into your space, that it's restricted, That uh you know I I think you guys I don't think people can actually get onto your floor. Right? No. Right. So yeah, it just means that it was just something um there's you definitely need to take care of that. Uh, I would say, Nate's recommendations are pretty clear. Yep So yeah. Speaker 3 00:06:55 Let's move on. And Nate, finding number two, I think is the Fortigate management interface reachable. I think Anton has some clarification, and we should probably spend a little bit of time on number two. Speaker 4 00:07:07 Yeah, for sure. So and I could have missed that, But was that an allow list that you added after the fact or you already had in there that I just we didn't see? No, Speaker 1 00:07:18 No, We did have that list in in on the moment of you did run the pen test. So every single user is allowed to there is an allow IP list for each of them. Okay, Speaker 2 00:07:33 And then you sent it over. Wait, wait, wait. Just so I'm clear. The reason why Nate was able to get to it because you specifically created a rule for him? Speaker 1 00:07:43 Yeah. Did someone check my email that I did send over on Wednesday? There is screenshots with the, Responses so on the questionable finding. Speaker 4 00:08:03 Yeah, So I have that the IP addresses and the main thing, what I saw when I was doing, the digging in this list is was in the config system on the edit one. It said, set allow access ping HTTPS, SSH and. That was set role to WAN, so it said on the WAN allow ping, HTTPS, and SSH. That's what I was seeing, But it didn't tell me necessarily that there was an allow list tied to that. Speaker 1 00:08:35 Okay so for Fortigate for each user, there is an allow list with their whitelisting IP addresses. You're not going to be able to sign in or just trying, Uh, knocking uh without outside of the white list. So Nate, Speaker 2 00:08:54 Does that make you comfortable? Speaker 4 00:08:57 Yeah, yeah for sure. That knowing that that's something that we could mark off as as fixed for sure. Speaker 1 00:09:04 And we're going to remove Fortigate as well. Speaker 2 00:09:08 Yeah, I'm actually removing Fortigate from the environment. Speaker 3 00:09:11 Yeah. And then that's going to knock off a few other things that Nate found. As I'm looking at just scanning the things. Speaker 1 00:09:21 And I'm just curious, you did send us over findings related to two users without MFA for Fortigate, But you didn't send us over a finding from Ciscany Connect with all users without MFA. Speaker 1 00:09:44 Because for Cisco AnyConnect, we are utilizing for logging their personal email address and password, and we do not have in place MFA for Cisco AnyConnect. Speaker 4 00:09:59 Okay. Was that handled through the Meraki? Correct. Okay. And I could have that could have been something I didn't see because I was looking. This is mainly finding inside of the Fortigate themselves. Speaker 4 00:10:14 But I will. Speaker 1 00:10:15 This is something that we are like trying to catch up on internally. Speaker 2 00:10:22 But we do want to enable, right? Speaker 1 00:10:24 MFA on Meraki VPN. We just started Tanzo taking care of Meraki stuff, so this is what we did discuss and we were discussing internally, so we did get the uh with the uh, Forty eight, but we didn't get the findings with the anti system. Speaker 4 00:10:48 Yeah, so sounds like that was one that we did miss. And, it's something so like we can add that to the report or we can just leave it off. Thing does something you need to fix. I mean, the report is for you guys really. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:10:60 There you go. Anything else for us? Mhm? Yeah. Um yeah, That was I mean again, any any test. It's time boxed. You're going to miss some stuff That's. Why? Uh. That's why what everybody recommends is that you do a test at least annually. So that if you miss something this time, you find it next time. Speaker 2 00:11:18 Next time. Yep, yep, got it. Okay. Speaker 3 00:11:21 But yeah, MFA especially with external interfaces is uh it's basically a must. It's it's table stakes at this point. So Anton I know you're working through it. Uh definitely move that to towards the top of your list of uh next to the other two users that are VPN users. Speaker 3 00:11:41 Okay, and so Nate, uh, finding number two, If there's uh whitelisting, we can, we can mark that one, as you know, no further action needed. That's remediated. Yes. Okay. All right. Um, Audit gate, number nine um core do you guys want to it looks like there's nine, fifteen sixteen and nineteen? 15 and 16 are both Serenity VMs. No longer need to discuss those. I think we're we're done there. Uh, uh, nine and 19 are both Fortigate. Speaker 5 00:12:21 Do either of you. Speaker 3 00:12:22 Have time to? Ooh, guys, getting rid of Fortigate or is that do you want to go through? We, we we are we're going to remove it. Speaker 5 00:12:32 Come Do either of you have time to? Speaker 3 00:12:35 And Nate, if I understand correctly, let me scroll through here. Finding number five is: Speaker 5 00:12:39 Do. Either of you have time to help with help desk, consummation issues? Just 48. Speaker 1 00:12:47 If you don't mind, can you share your screen because yeah, I didn't have the results right. Speaker 6 00:12:54 In front of me. Speaker 6 00:13:04 And I would say, Speaker 2 00:13:05 Could you guys email? Because I actually uh was having a hard time getting that report and the password. And this and that. So, can we. Speaker 3 00:13:17 Do that on purpose so that if you were to share that, we don't want to share it unencrypted. If you like, I can I canum. Speaker 2 00:13:23 Shoot me an email. That's fine. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah I'm. Okay with it. Speaker 3 00:13:27 Um okay Do, you want the PDF or a Word doc? I'm going through and making notes in the Word doc as we go, so I'm basically crossing these out. Speaker 2 00:13:39 Yeah, you can send me the Word doc. We can always convert it to PDF. Just send me whatever you've got, and Chris, I'll share it with you as soon as I get it on C- BOSS. The one that I really care about. So number six, prompt injection via first conversion history. Help me understand that. Speaker 6 00:14:08 Yeah, let me bring that up. I guess I. Speaker 7 00:14:20 Could load that into Claude, Speaker 2 00:14:21 Right? And have it understand and tell me what we need to do to fix it. Speaker 2 00:14:27 Right, I would assume. Speaker 4 00:14:28 Yeah, yeah. So this was on the source code review, right? Like in practice when I was testing it, I was unsuccessful in trying to exploit this, but it does have the potential for being exploited. Speaker 2 00:14:46 Okay. So got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything that touches C bus I want to address right away. Um Is there anything else there? Specific to C- Bus. Speaker 1 00:14:58 Yes, There was at least three of the findings if I remember correctly to the C- B us. Speaker 7 00:15:08 Can, we take a look at those because. Speaker 2 00:15:10 I will have to drop off soon and I want to make sure. Okay, so this one was covered file upload. Speaker 2 00:15:24 I think this one got fixed by now. I think we actually picked up this issue on our own past this report, but I will double check, okay? Because I did run security check, and it did say that we need to move the file to protected area. So, okay. Speaker 3 00:15:46 You know what I found useful in my free time of messing around? I actually use Codex. To a team Claude and I use Claude. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:15:55 That's exactly what we're doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. So so I do have Codex that does full detailed review. And as a matter of fact, I now added a new agent called Tina, who, upon us running the PRDs right, and the code review sends that code review to Gemini Flash or something Google's flash model that does code review. So so I, I have on recurring basis Codex that does in- depth review and upon each new submission, Claude does the review and Google does a review of the code. So I have three models looking for vulnerabilities. Speaker 3 00:16:41 Check this out. This is uh well it's not that new anymore. It's a month old. Do a search for Codex TAC, On your on your thing, it'll give you um. It it's got a bunch of cool cyber specific. Uh. It's it's basically their their answer answer to Mythos, But you can you can play around with it and I believe as a Codis customer, You're able to request and actually have a true large language model that's going to look for a bunch of different vulnerabilities in your call in your code. So for or the CSV. Speaker 3 00:17:21 Trusted access. Speaker 2 00:17:24 Oh, TAC, TAC. TAC. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, trusted access for next cyber. Okay. I will absolutely. Speaker 3 00:17:32 You're going to have to weed through a bunch of marketing stuff and them trying to sell you stuff. But this is this is geared specifically for checking in and and it'll help you out. It'll help balance, uh, your your got it, Speaker 7 00:17:48 Got it, love it. All right, next. What do we have? CSP. Speaker 2 00:17:57 With unsafe inline. Speaker 4 00:18:01 Yeah, so it's just your content security policy. You guys have it to be logged, but you don't actually. Sorry, one second. So it's logged but not blocked. So. It's only medium because an injection vector. You guys don't have any injection vectors in the web application to be able to exploit this, but it still leaves you that vulnerability if you don't actually block it. Speaker 2 00:18:28 Block us. Okay, clear. Speaker 3 00:18:29 So that seems like. Speaker 2 00:18:30 I'll handle this today. Speaker 3 00:18:32 That's another Claude, hey do this and it'll take care of it. Right right right right right exactly exactly okay. Speaker 2 00:18:41 Clear okay look this is great, I think I've got what I've needed, right? So I'll jump on my stuff. I'll let you guys continue on your stuff, right? Speaker 3 00:18:55 There's a few more Crimson boss things. I know you have to go, but do you want to cover the other couple that we have? Uh. Speaker 2 00:19:02 Yeah no no, I do want to cover. If you have for C- BOSS, I want to cover it. Speaker 3 00:19:06 Okay so this one is not C- BOSS specific. This was uh Azure subscription Nate is this one. I mean, it's related to CBOS but not directly, right? Speaker 4 00:19:17 Yeah. So. Some of these are going to be just what subscription services are inside of there, right? So it's calling them out as like their storage. If there's things that are supporting it, for instance, um it's just access keys not being rotated. That's impacting CBOS. Um I'm trying to see which other ones. I think that's the main one that's hitting CBOS. Speaker 3 00:19:41 So Enzo, that's part of your, Azure subscription that where C-BOSS lives. So it's not a direct, you don't tell cloud to do this about C-BOSS, but you want to do your Azure config. There's a few items there. All right, next one. I want to make sure that we give you okay. Right? This one is as a low I think Nate, let me see execute raw unsafe, I think this is another one of those. Let Claude uh, fix it or Nate or sure I don't want to put words in your mouth. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:20:15 Yeah. No, it's definitely something you want to put in Claude. So it's it is constrained, but it's very something that you need to be aware of. So it's like if code changes, it's likely to open up a big hole inside of your your code. Speaker 2 00:20:28 So I see I seeum how did you guys ended up discovering these issues? Are you writing a special tool Nate? Is that in your head, like what? Speaker 4 00:20:40 So it's a variety of things. So yeah, it's going to be a little bit of tooling. It's going to be a little bit of experience within code doing code reviews, doing application security for so many years. And so it's a combination, right? Like trying to use that. Then, it's also we're definitely going to be looking at thingsum trying to use skills and. Automate, so we're using a little bit of AI, like some skills that we've used and defined to look for things like this. So. Speaker 2 00:21:08 Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay. All right, no, this is great. Speaker 3 00:21:12 The answer was you got to pay us to come back and do this stuff for you? Speaker 2 00:21:14 Oh, You know Thank you Thank you That Nate that should have been your answer. Uh yeah. Uh I okay No This is great Permission on one time. So, so I am clear. So I do see bunch of stuff specific for me. I will address those. Um, that that this is great. Speaker 3 00:21:35 We did a we made a point to call out in the very beginning. So, it's easy for me to just type in BOS. And just do next next next, and it'll it'll run me through that. If you can see the the we made the findings all consistent with a consistent uh information, and the headings are pretty descriptive. So you can see all right. This is. Is the C boss thing? So, What you can do is the same thing that I am doing now: Control F and just type in" B O S" and it'll. Speaker 2 00:22:03 Who here? Okay, no, this is great. This is excellent. Speaker 3 00:22:07 And this is already back. Oh, this is a follow- up to the Azure configuration. So, this is something that where Crimson lives and it's affected. This is similar to the other one we looked at. That was a moderate, right? You just grouped these because they're not as high of an impact as the others, but should still be addressed. Yeah. Yep. So we follow so for our purposes critical, high, moderate, low. The reason why it's important in other industries is because you have different amount of time to address depending on the type of vulnerability. So if you're in. Speaker 3 00:22:53 In a in a sector that gets uh compliance requirements and regulations. For example, federal government gives you 30 days to address uh highs seven days to address critical 60 days to address moderates and 90 days to address low. So it's important for us to make sure that we sort that all across the board. So that's why you're seeing it. But right? I just wanted to say just because it's low, it doesn't mean that it shouldn't be addressed. I mean, i think that's common sense, right? I'm not. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:23:19 Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, yeah. Everything you guys put on this report, we're going to address every single item. So anything we can shut down, we'll shut down. Speaker 3 00:23:31 Oh, I think if you guys get rid of Fortigate, You're going to be most of the way there and a couple of fixes with Crimson OS. Speaker 3 00:23:49 You should be good. This thing is, um, yeah. So the plan, the plan of action for this is just going to go away, right? Because, there's a bunch of things. Okay, because anybody on Wi Fi has direct unobstructed unreviewed access to your to your French to your soft middle, if you know what I mean. Speaker 2 00:24:08 Yeah question reference zero zero five VPN users sidco kv and kantor chukni, Who are these guys? Speaker 1 00:24:20 YZT guys, when they were they have they help us with the investigation for Hana. And we did create for them VPN access to Fortigate. Speaker 2 00:24:33 And never removed it. Okay. Uh okay, Probably make a mental note right like, uh, these guys should have been removed once we were done. Um okay, Uh, all right. That sounds great. That sounds great. All right, folks, this is amazing. Finger, thank you so much. I so appreciate it. Uh if you guys need to if you have any other questions, Right, go through it. It seems like we're going to address most of these uh, just by handling what we need to disable um and uh and Chris once I'll get a report. I'll send you a copy Thank you. Speaker 3 00:25:11 Uh, we do have the report though. I sent it to you on the eighth. I sent it to you and uh Mike. Uh, there's a password. I can I can send you the password. I will resend uh, I just don't like to send. Okay. So these are active vulnerabilities, and some of the ones I thought were exploitable externally. So i don't like to send it unencrypted because email is still email. But uh, let me let me let me touch base with you. Uh, separately, i i probably, Yeah, I have. Uh, responded. Yeah, you actually responded to the to the text with uh. Test. Yeah, And this is this is just a Word doc of that PDF that I created for you. So I can resend the Word doc. Speaker 2 00:25:48 No, no, I'll get it securely. I'll get it not not no need. I i have the data. Speaker 3 00:25:53 Okay, because i mean since we have it labeled as sensitive information requires special handling, we gotta eat our own dog food you know what i mean? Speaker 2 00:26:00 I love it. I love it way to go baby. Okay, all right, folks, thank you so much. This is amazing, so appreciate it bye. Speaker 3 00:26:10 Do you, Christy? Hey, thanks for joining by the way. Christy, it's been a while. Do, you guys want to roll through some of these other ones or again, with FortiCloud going away and Serenity going away? You guys are like a lot of the way there. Speaker 1 00:26:28 So we just need to finish up the investigation on the rogue access point. Speaker 3 00:26:38 Yeah, I would definitely try to figure out how the hell it got there and to see if anybody actually used it. Look at the logs of that thing because the concern there, and Nate did a good job explaining it, That if somebody was connected to that, even that guest wireless, they would have access to your network unimpeded not going through the firewall. So they would be as if they're a node on your network, which is not good. Because all. Speaker 7 00:27:06 Of your controls basically at that point don't apply. Um, yeah, and then VP. Speaker 1 00:27:16 3. I'm not sure if we even like, do we have still San Diego office? Christian. Speaker 5 00:27:23 I don't know. I have no idea. Speaker 1 00:27:27 Are they still with the Maraki? Yeah. Speaker 5 00:27:30 I think so. Yes, Speaker 3 00:27:31 Nate, how did you find that one? I'm assuming you got that from the Meraki console, right? The fact that the San Diego. Speaker 4 00:27:39 Yeah, that's what they gave us to access to and showed up in there still. Speaker 3 00:27:50 Okay, but do you guys want to talk about this or just kind of. Speaker 7 00:27:54 You understand? Okay. Yes. What else we have here? Um. Speaker 5 00:28:04 I see what I need to fix on smart dispatch, so I am happy. Speaker 6 00:28:09 I just saw it. It's uh Portuguese, Speaker 7 00:28:15 We can skip. Yeah, weak encryption. Uh, some of those already. Speaker 1 00:28:22 Addressed on Ansible. Speaker 3 00:28:24 Yeah, I would say yeah, I would say, look at the, let's we can take a look atum don't have too much time, but we could take a look at some of these combined Azure configs. I'm not sure, um, if that's you or Christie if that's if that's your domain. Butum. Speaker 5 00:28:40 So on that one uh Chris Minions is mine. Crimson GBT Key Vault, Um I need to double check and see if that's being used, but Smart Dispatch Vault is being used. Um, I think. Speaker 3 00:28:54 There's kind of a conglomeration of misconfigurations that we put together because we didn't see any need to blow up a bunch of different findings for each one of those because they're all part of the same thing. There's this, And then there's another one that's a low that hasum that's also titled Azure. Uh I believe it's number 23. Yes. Okay uh, those are those are basically still need to be addressed. And then those have not been discussed at this point. So if you guys have any questions or follow up on that, Christy, I know if you're just seeing this for the first time, thenum yeah, take some time to absorb it. We're here, uh, if you have any questions, please we can follow up. Uh, async. Speaker 5 00:29:36 Gotcha. Um okay so I I do see it. I will fix the public access. I just got to get VPN access myself, soum and I can change the keyvaults. And then for. I can tell you anytime, Speaker 3 00:29:52 You see a firewall rule that's open to the world, that's at least restricted to your local. Speaker 5 00:29:59 We had to open it up for some reason, and I cannot remember why we had to open it up. But I think it had to do with an API connection because it kept switching IP addresses every day, which is weird. But I think that's why we ended up having to do that. So I'm going to see if I can harden that because we're. Speaker 3 00:30:19 And this is not this is not us pointing fingers at you. Oh no, Speaker 5 00:30:22 I'm thinking out loud. So I'm like, wait, why did we do that? Speaker 3 00:30:26 We're here to help. Yeah, we really are. It's better. It's better that listen. This is this is the whole point of this exercise Yes There's. There's stuff that that you guys get to fix before somebody who's, you know with malicious intent comes back. And then then finds it so uh and and the reason why I'm bringing these up is if you have any questions or any kind of. Follow up. We're happy to, um, you know, respond to any any things that need additional clarification. I'm not sure it might not have been the best key search but. Speaker 3 00:31:03 Okay. And this is another one number 23 that has a couple of things. Speaker 7 00:31:13 That also, as. Speaker 3 00:31:16 You're addressing finding number 14 with the write- ups there, It would behoove you to guys to take care of these at the same time. Speaker 1 00:31:25 We still have a lot because I have a meeting at 12. Speaker 3 00:31:29 No, it's up to you guys. This is for your benefit. So if you have any questions we can do it async. If you have a meeting at 12 then you should probably go, you're already two minutes late. Anton, thanks, It was nice meeting you again. And if anyone thinks of something send us an email, we'll respond. Okay, cool. Thank you. Thank you, guys. We're happy to hang out. I think Nate has two more minutes, But if you again since since you haven't seen the report because I kind of assumed that Mike and Anzor would share it with with the teamum he will now. But uh, yes, since you haven't had time to absorb it, I mean, it's a it's a seventy page doc. There's a lot of uh, there's a lot of good stuff in there. Speaker 5 00:32:04 Um I'm just happy that I had less issues on smart dispatch than Anzor had on C boss. I will never let him live that down. Speaker 3 00:32:13 Oh, you should absolutely tell him that you're way better than Claude. Just throw that out there. Speaker 5 00:32:18 Well, no, because I so here's what I do. I do it very similar to Anzor. I did vibe code smart dispatch with Claude. I did go black within Codex. I do have 51 agents in my Claude, actually, I call them minions. So, hey, I'm going to send you my blog All right, Put in chat. Yeah, I put in chat. You will read all about my minions in there. But yeah, This makes me super happy because I go back and I do my own pen, tests almost weekly on Smart Dispatch, and my other things that I've built. And. So the fact that I did not trigger as much as Onsor did, and the ones that I did trigger are easy fixes once I get VPN. Speaker 5 00:33:08 Back because I was on the Fortinet, so I got to get the new VPN. Because I'm at client sites all the time. Speaker 3 00:33:14 What is the new VPN that you guys are using since you're moving away from Fortinet? Speaker 5 00:33:19 Cisco maybe? I don't know. I got to ask Anton. Speaker 4 00:33:24 And almost seems Cisco AnyConnect. Speaker 5 00:33:27 Okay, if that's what it is, yes. I just don't have it on this computer, so I need to get itum, But yeah, I'm super happy. Everything else makes sense to me because I've seen your reports in the past. Um, I just hadn't got Anton shared it with me just now, so I have it. Okay. So like I said, Speaker 3 00:33:46 If you have any questions, please reach out. All right. Nate, thanks a lot. Appreciate you jumping on Christine Thank you Have a good rest of your afternoon. Speaker 5 00:33:54 You too Bye guys Have a great weekend.
08-18 Meeting: LastPass Organizational Setup, Licensing Quote (25 Users), Budget for Security Keys and Benefits
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- AbilityFirst ELT session, 8/18/2026, 10:00 AM PDT. Attendees: Sergio Rizzo-Fontanesi (President & CEO), Michuan Fleming (COO/CPO), Carl Gayden (CFO), Lana Mseryan (Acting CDO), Christi Brown (Crimson). PASSWORD MANAGER (LastPass) - Christi walked leadership through the shared-vault model and demonstrated live how credentials and cards are stored and shared. - Sergio pushed back on Crimson simply configuring it for them: leadership wants a hands-on guided setup session (~30 min each, within two weeks) so they can speak to the tool from personal experience when it is introduced to staff. Direct quote in substance: 'we won't know how to tell our staff... we need to be an extension of that.' - Deployment model: Christi recommended a single organization-wide instance under Crimson for easier cross-board administration. Leadership agreeable; the guided setup happens either way. LICENSING & SCOPE - $7/user/month confirmed. Includes LastPass Families: personal account + 5 family licenses at no extra cost. - Leadership asked whether it could be offered as a staff benefit alongside Legal Shield / identity protection. Confirmed workable; same model Crimson uses internally. - Decision: proceed for ELT + directors and above, NOT all staff at this stage. Rationale: rising frequency of targeted attacks at that tier. - Headcount at that tier ~14. Quote requested for 25 users to allow headroom. - Personal-plan promo (30% off, <$3/mo families) noted but is a consumer discount, not applicable to the org purchase. BUDGET - YubiKey / hardware security keys to be added to next fiscal year's budget request. ACTION ITEMS (Crimson) 1. Produce the 25-user LastPass licensing quote. 2. Schedule guided setup sessions for each ELT member within two weeks. 3. Send the tabletop exercise email. 4. Send the updated strategic plan document. Note: setup delegated to Monti to complete while Christi is out, targeted ready by her return.
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- Aug 18, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 With each of us, I think that that was my recommendation. You gave the option, like uh yeah. I think it'd be important to like say like, hey, I just need 30 minutes of your time because um if we go through it, if if y'all do it for us. Um, we won't know how to tell our staff that we went through it, and we had our own experience with it and here's what it does, and we need to be an extension of that. Yes. So my recommendation is just like, hey, where do where do you got in the next two weeks? I need 30 minutes, however long you think. And we need to set up your password manager. Including me. Um, yeah, Speaker 2 00:00:39 I'd rather make it a full organization and put it under Crimson just because it'll make it easier across the board. Speaker 1 00:00:48 We can, But I think we need to go through a setup experience of it and how it works. And we can deploy it individually. Yeah, okay. So we just, but I think we just need time to like how our, you know, what we should be doing with it a little bit more. Yes. Touch base. Um And, just because I got a few minutes uh just to show you. And thenum sorry, the DP and key We just add that into the budget forum HR I'm not HRum ELT UB Key UB Key Okay I wrote it down No worries. Speaker 2 00:01:23 Just the budget for next year Yeah. I have that in Avenon to write down for your budget next year. Okay, so this LastPass. This Crimson's organization LastPass. We, this one of the things I can share with you. We share, this how we share passwords. So I have Anzor's business card because I have to use that. Um, I have one of our other business cards and then our background checker service because we don't want to pay for it. Speaker 2 00:01:55 Yeah, we don't want to pay for two people, so we have all that. And then like this is where I keep your card. Thank you. And I don't have it anywhere else. Speaker 1 00:02:04 So I think this is aum so we can like definitely setting it up for us. Yes. Yes, like maybe walking us through putting a one card on or one password and how it works a little bit. And how to share the channel It's easy for us to tell others. Ah it's easy. I've spent. 30 minutes with Chris or and Prudenc can walk you through it. Like it's easy when we have the experiential, it's easy for us to push. Speaker 2 00:02:31 Yes. I was like, where's my phone? And you can see all my passwords are in here. Like even planfuls in here, all of my stuffs in here. Speaker 1 00:02:40 Yeah, when you said that earlier for sure. And thenum if do they, well, if you guys do LastPass uh for us. I was thinking how could LastPass be a benefit for our staff? So I don't know if you have a contact. Is there a contact? Or is it just something you go online and just you all get? And the response was like, we offer our staff like uh Legal Shield, identity protection, those sorts of things. So if they want password protection, we could roll it into our benefits in cash flow. Which would actually help us. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:14 We the way we do it for Crimson, we do have a contact because we we manage multiple clients through it. But we do it is you use your corporate for your personal as well. And that's one of our benefits. Okay. Speaker 1 00:03:26 Because I don't know if we're going to do everybody. Yeah, I don't know if we're ready. Yeah, because how much is it? Six dollars a month per person? Speaker 2 00:03:32 That's that's I don't know. Let me look up and see what LastPass because we got several clients on it, I just don't know the data on it. Um and then you can offer it as a discount, I think I need to look and see what that looks like. Speaker 2 00:04:01 It's uh seven dollars per user per month. Speaker 1 00:04:07 Yeah, that may get a little pricey for all three and a half people, but not that everybody needs it anyway. Speaker 2 00:04:12 But. And then it has the LastPass families for employees is included in that seven dollars. So, they can create personal accountsum and five licenses to share with families with their family members. So. Speaker 1 00:04:27 Okay, let me think about that. Yeah. But let's let's do definitely do it for ELT. I mean, I'm almost wanting to say directors and above. Yeah. Let's see what we can see what the cost would be. Directors, yes. And above, because you do hear more and more about companies being yeah being targeted. Yes, Speaker 2 00:04:53 Yeah. Uh, by the way. The premium version for individuals and the family one for personal, and this is all under personal plans, is currently thirty percent off. It's a little less than three dollars a month for families. So, Speaker 1 00:05:15 If you guys want to arrange it for all of us now, and you just do the setup with us while they have the discount, I think that makes sense. Oh no, that's personal discount. Oh that's the personal. Speaker 2 00:05:24 Oh okay sorry yeah yeah no, But no, we'll get it set up. Monti is really good at setting it up, so I'm going to ask her to do it while I'm on vacation. And then that way it's ready when I come back on Tuesday. Well, I'm back on Friday. Speaker 1 00:05:41 Send us an email about the tabletop and. Yep, I was writing that up. Send you the most updated plan, strategic plan. Okay, thank you. Speaker 2 00:08:08 Hey uh Mashawn. Yes. How many people? Speaker 1 00:08:12 Umum I think there's 14 of them. I think. Speaker 2 00:08:17 Including you guys? Nope. Speaker 2 00:08:20 So Can I have seg work on a quote for 20? Okay Say that again A quote for 20. Speaker 3 00:08:39 So good. A quote for 20 users? 25? 25, okay. So did you need me? Speaker 3 00:09:54 I'll have to go to Canada. Probably true. I think it means on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Speaker 3 00:10:26 I'm not sure.
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07-24 Operational Realignment: Handling Client Insider Risk While Correcting Sales Communication for Lion CFO
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- ## Core Synopsis A communication breakdown has created a minor political risk and an operational delay. Speaker 2 initially intended to brief both Christian and Mike on a potential new sale to Lion's CFO but misunderstood the communication flow, leading to Mike being brought in alone. This disconnect highlights a slight inefficiency in the internal communication protocol for managing new sales opportunities. Concurrently, an "insider risk" incident with the client Monti requires immediate attention, forcing a reprioritization of tasks and delaying support for the Lion sales effort. The team is managing two distinct, concurrent threads: a security/client management issue and a new business opportunity, with the former taking precedence. ## Tactical Realignment ### 1. Client Security Incident (Priority 1) An "insider risk" event has occurred at the client, Monti. The immediate goal is to bring Vince, who is confirmed as the account manager for Monti, into the loop to ensure he is aware of the situation. This client management and security issue is the top priority and must be handled before any sales support tasks are addressed. ### 2. New Business Opportunity (Priority 2) Lion has a new CFO who is interested in the Plaud offering. This represents a new sales and training opportunity. However, a communication fumble resulted in Mike being added to the email thread instead of the intended group (Mike and Speaker 2). This needs to be corrected to ensure the right stakeholders are involved in pitching the training and setup services. To support this effort, Mike has requested examples of Plaud integrations with other applications. ## Next Move **@Speaker 2** - [ ] Bring both self and Mike into the Lion/Plaud email thread to correct the communication - [TBD] - [ ] Brief Vince ("Monti") on the insider risk situation - [TBD] - [ ] Provide Mike with examples of Plaud integrations after handling the insider threat - [TBD] [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Call with April: confirmed Monti holds the Belay account (Vince coverage question); Monti brought into insider-risk loop. Separately: Lion hired a new CFO interested in Plaud - correcting Christian's email thread to include Christi + April; Plaud integration examples to follow after the insider-threat work. NOTE: 'Lion' is the Plaud spelling - verify actual client name.
- Date
- Jul 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hey, what's up, Chrissy? Speaker 2 00:00:03 Hi. Um, let me ask a question. Are you Monti? Is that you or Vince or did it just stay with Monti? Speaker 1 00:00:12 I think Monti is Vince. Okay. Let me let me confirm. Oh It should be updated in Hudu, but let me know I also keep a separate list. Speaker 2 00:00:22 I'm I have a slow internet connection right now. So I figure it was just faster to call you. Speaker 1 00:00:27 Yeah, yeah. Let me just double check real quick. I am pretty sure he handles Monti, but let me double check. Speaker 2 00:00:33 We have some insider risk going on. I just wanted to bring Monti, Speaker 1 00:00:40 Yeah, Monti is his. Speaker 2 00:00:43 Okay, I am going to go bring him into the fold on what's going on just so he's aware. Speaker 1 00:00:49 Okay, um, so do you have a couple seconds or or um? Yeah okayum, Lion hired a new CFO who's interested in Plaud. Speaker 2 00:00:57 Yes, I know. I told Christian to bring me into the email thread. However, then I think he misunderstood and he's bringing you into the email thread. Let me bring us both. Yeah, if you need me, Bring me in, and we'll we'll work on training and things like that, and we can sell them training and stuff and get them set up. Speaker 1 00:01:19 Right well, I was I wanted. If you can, if you can send me a couple examples of any Plaud. Integrations into other applications and examples that would be helpful also. Speaker 2 00:01:28 Let me work on that after the insider threat. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Okay, cool, got it. Thanks. Bye.
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05-19 Team Sync on Workload, Management, and Tooling
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- # Team Sync on Workload, Management, and Tooling  The team's conversation begins with casual personal updates before transitioning into an in-depth discussion about significant work-related stress, overwhelming project loads, and difficult management dynamics with a senior leader, Anzor. The dialogue then covers personal hardships, leading to offers of mutual support, and concludes with a detailed technical overview of the Nylia software platform, followed by the formal start of their scheduled meeting. ------------ ## Initial Check-in and Personal Anecdotes The conversation starts with informal greetings and updates. Olivia shares that she had a good day off, having traveled to NorCal to run a 12k race she had been planning for five months. Christi then tells a lighthearted story about a multi-function pen she favors, which features a stylus, a flashlight, and a retractable pen tip. She has a habit of leaving them at her doctor's office, and after leaving another one behind, the office called to ask for more because the doctor had taken it and the staff wanted replacements. ------------ ## Discussion of Work-Related Stress and Management Dynamics The tone shifts to a serious discussion about work-related stress and management challenges. Olivia recounts receiving three unexpected escalations from "Jams" after a period of calm, leading to a stressful call with Anzor. She describes him as threatening her job if the issue wasn't fixed "ASAP," only to end the call by praising her. Christi validates this experience, noting Anzor has a pattern of withdrawing trust every six months after a perceived failure, which she finds exhausting. Team members express that Anzor's style—promising the world, setting "crazy deadlines," and then reacting with frustration or claiming miscommunication—creates a high-stress environment that "rolls downhill." Olivia admits she would likely have quit if she had to report directly to him. Christi credits her manager, Pete, for acting as a buffer, which has significantly lowered her stress levels compared to her previous job with the Dodgers. The conversation reveals recent stress survey results, which had an overall score of 3.6 from 16 entries but included more high-stress "five" ratings than usual, as well as a "one" and several "twos." Christi shared anonymous feedback with management, including one comment stating, "Weeks like these are when I want to leave," and another quoting Bilbo Baggins: "I feel thin, sort of stretched like butter scraped over too much bread." Pete acknowledged the pressure, noting the team is concurrently handling four major projects—Wayfinder, two "Maverick" projects, Property Diverger, and Foothill Family Assessment—which are larger than most the company has previously undertaken. This revelation frustrates Olivia, who was not informed her team members would be assigned to the Maverick project, especially with a deadline of the 30th and several people out. She also highlights a specific pain point: 57 "elimination of vulnerability" tickets that consist of 28-page PDFs with no explanation or training. ------------ ## Personal Hardships and Offers of Mutual Support The discussion takes a personal turn as Christi discloses she recently went through a "massive" and difficult breakup with her partner, Bear. She explains that his behavior had become mean, triggering her PTSD nightmares to the point her psychologist prescribed Trazodone for sleep. As a result, she has cut off all contact, taken over their shared online "guild," and kicked him out. Christi notes that this change, along with her daughter's busy schedule preparing for graduation, has freed up her evenings. Seeing the immense pressure Olivia is under, Christi offers to use this new availability to help her with behind-the-scenes tasks. Specifically, she offers to assist with documentation, such as creating SOPs and building out the knowledge base in Hudu, to help alleviate Olivia's workload. Olivia expresses that any help with Hudu would be a "major" relief, as she has a large volume of documentation to migrate with only a couple of days left. ------------ ## Technical Overview of the Nylia Software Platform In response to a query from April about whether non-technical staff still need "Nihilator" (Nylia), Christi provides a detailed technical overview of the platform to correct a common misunderstanding. She explains that Nylia is a multi-module application far more powerful than just the "My Tickets" interface most are familiar with. Christi highlights several key modules and their benefits: - **Connect Active:** This module syncs contacts from Office 365 and Google directly with ConnectWise, automating user creation and removal and eliminating a significant manual data-entry task. - **Schedule Sync:** A "godsend" for dispatchers, this feature keeps time entries synchronized with calendar schedules, allowing for more efficient ticket assignment. - **Client Mapper:** This tool automatically calculates and blocks out travel time for on-site technicians by checking Google Maps, freeing dispatchers from having to do it manually. - **Time Machine:** A managerial oversight tool that provides a visual timeline of a technician's day, showing the delta between time logged and actual time spent in a ticket. It helps track productivity and location without active "big brothering" unless an issue is flagged. Christi concludes that while "My Tickets" is primarily for technical teams, the back-end syncing and scheduling modules are critical to operations. She emphasizes that Nylia is one of the company's most cost-effective vendors, delivering immense functionality, and that the help desk would be lost without it. ------------ ## Formal Meeting Commencement and Administrative Approvals Pete joins the call, apologizing for his tardiness, and officially begins the meeting. He immediately addresses administrative items that have piled up while he was out. He gives verbal approval for April's vacation request from June 22 to June 26 and states he will approve Christi's pending request right after the meeting. He also mentions he has 22 expense reports to review. For the formal "good news" portion of the meeting, Christi shares that her daughter is graduating in a couple of weeks and starting an internship, which may cause a slight adjustment to her morning schedule but is a source of great excitement. ------------ ## Action Items **@Christi** - [ ] Investigate the ticket number provided by Olivia regarding the 28-page PDF vulnerabilities - [TBD] - [ ] Assist Olivia with moving companies and Crimson-related items into Hudu - [TBD] - [ ] Start adding SOPs to Hudu for overall team use - [TBD] - [ ] Build up the Sharp knowledge base in Hudu - [TBD] - [ ] Show Olivia how to use the documentation "minion" automation built for Hudu - [TBD] **@Pete** - [ ] Approve April's vacation request for June 22-26 - [COMPLETED] - [ ] Approve Christi's pending vacation request - [TBD] - [ ] Approve 22 outstanding expense reports - [TBD] **@Olivia** - [ ] Talk to Pete about her team being assigned to the Maverick project without her prior knowledge and the lack of resources - [TBD] - [ ] Talk to Pete about the 57 "elimination of vulnerability" tickets that require more training/explanation - [TBD]
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Good morning. Hello, Mama. Good morning. How was your day off yesterday? I was what? Say. I said, how was your day? Hang on. All right, here this might be better. How was your day off yesterday? Speaker 2 00:00:16 It was good. I I went to NorCal, and we i ran a 12 k that I've been planning for the last five months. So it was a lot of fun, and i had a really good uh, really good. Couple of days. Yeah. How was, how was it here? Speaker 3 00:00:39 Well, It was busy and fun and uh yeah. So very busy. Speaker 1 00:00:51 Very busy. I can imagine. Yeah, to say the least. So. Speaker 1 00:00:59 Uh, I keep stealing sharp pins and then I lose them at doctor's offices and leave them behind and just not thinking about it. And my doctor's office called yesterday. She was like, hey, you know that sharp pin you left behind? And I was like, yeah. She goes, do you got any more? It's like oh gosh. That. Speaker 2 00:01:18 Was a nice pin or what? Speaker 1 00:01:20 Oh here let me let me turn on my camera so you can see. Okay so this is the pin, It's got the little stylus. It's got the flashlight, but you flip it and now it's the pen. Speaker 2 00:01:37 Wow. Ooh, that is fancy. I like the flashlight. Speaker 1 00:01:41 Yes, that's the one I left behind and yeah, She was like she told me that the doctor took off with it, and she said, I want another one to replace it. So I was like oh. Speaker 2 00:01:55 The next time you come in, please bring a pen. Speaker 3 00:01:58 Yes. Hold on. Yes. That's funny. Okay, Speaker 2 00:02:05 So I need one of these pens is what I'm hearing? Speaker 3 00:02:08 Yeah. Oh man. Yeah. I am not ready for this week, I'm not gonna lie. Speaker 3 00:02:26 I feel you. Speaker 1 00:02:38 I Had a conversation with him about you yesterday, but I will tell you about that in a moment. Speaker 2 00:02:46 Last week, Onzor. Well, okay, so. For context, with jams, we've not gotten like a single escalation from jams. Like other they've been doing really well. And then on Thursday and Friday, we got like three escalations all at once. And so Pete's obviously out, So Anzor calls me and he's like essentially is like, you know, if you don't like fix this ship with jams ASAP, you're not gonna have a job. Is it basically what he told me? And then he like. Speaker 2 00:03:21 Sa ys at the end. Oh, you're the best. Thanks, thanks. You're the best. Oh, yeah. I'm like that's just like I know that's on war, Speaker 1 00:03:31 But like it doesn't help when he does that he he and I had a conversation recently about some things similar to that. And then he's pretty much ghosted me ever sinceum because he asked me to do something and I failed it like I failed what he asked for because I didn't understand what he was asking. And Pete had the same understanding I did. Well, now Anzor's doing his thing where oh, you failed me once, I am not going to trust you again thing that he didn't, and that happens every six months. And yeah, it's very frustrating. Speaker 2 00:04:06 It's exhausting Chris. Yeah like I can't even imagine, like I know that you have much more, you know interactions in your work. But like if I. Had to report to Anzor, I think I would be gone. You have to really. Speaker 1 00:04:28 You have to stay on your toes. Speaker 2 00:04:31 Yeah, yeah, like I don't know. It's just i. Speaker 1 00:04:37 Think you need yeah I think you need to express that to Pete. Um i I have failed in not fully expressing that to Pete but, I did tell him yesterday that hey, I had a really good doctor's appointment. Um, that when I moved to Crimson, my stress levels actually dropped from where they were with the Dodgers, which you know that says a lot. And but then my doctor said in the last six months they've really dropped. Which less stress? Way less stress. But it's only because Pete has come between me and Ontour like. Speaker 1 00:05:13 Answer is less stress. Yes, answer is less stress than working for the Dodgers. Let me just tell it to you that way. However, Pete coming in between the two of us, I have normalized. Yeah, um, and I get that. And, that's the only reason why I was able to stick around and deal with him is because it wasn't as bad as working for the Dodgers. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Yeah, that's crazy. So, but he is he is back and forth. And he let it slip one day. I can't remember if it was him or Zalwar let it slip the reason why they stopped trusting me to manage overall team for everybody was because of Cheryl. And I am like okay, not a big deal, But somebody should have told me that in advance, and instead of letting me fully fail with no safety net. And. And neither of them say anything at that point. I'm like, you know, I can take responsibility for my issues and what I did. But did either of you think about what you did that affected me and how crazy it got? Because you essentially left me to my own devices and said, take it. And then left me for six weeks both of you to go on vacation. Speaker 2 00:06:42 Yeah, Chris. I mean, I would see all the time like you would be stressed out, and it's because like because Anzor was stressed out. And he's in it's like rolling downhill. Like I would see all the things that Anzor would give you, and then it would stress you out. You know, and then it would stress the rest of us out. And like but it starts at the top. You know what I mean? It's like it's because he is giving these crazy deadlines and he is promising the world. And then he's so mad when we don't give him the world. Yeah, Like it's or t here is miscommunications and I I think you know everybody's on the same. I've done this exact same thing with Onsor. Me and Pete are on the same exact page. We think this is what Onsor means, and then Onsor says, no, that's clearly not what I meant. Like you guys are stupid for thinking that's what I meant. You know, it's like it's just it's so. Speaker 1 00:07:44 Frustrating. Yeah, no, you you are one hundred percent correct. The only reason I am still here, one, I love you guys. Like I know I felt in the last two years, but I still every day work with this amazing team. Number two is less stress than the Dodgers literally less stress than the Dodgers. I am proud of the work I did there, I am proud that I have a World Series ring. But leaving was the single best thing I could ever done for myself. And number three is, I see the work Munzer's trying to do. He's not perfect, but neither am I. But at the end of the day, he is trying to do good things. He has given his family jobs when they needed it. He has. Speaker 1 00:08:40 Help me out in ways that I can't even explain to people. And it's not because I'm loyal because he did this for me. It's because I see what he's trying to do in the rest of the world. Speaker 3 00:08:51 Yeah. And that's where when you make your list of pros and cons, the pros outweigh the cons. The cons can be a little bit more stressful, but would I have gotten where I am today without Crimson? No. Speaker 1 00:09:10 Because I was too timid to step out and say to my boss," You're a narcissistic pig who is killing your department." That was my old boss before Ansar. Yeah, yeah. And the thing Ansar isn't, he's not narcissistic. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:09:32 That's true. Speaker 1 00:09:36 Zawar on the other hand has those tendencies, but Ansar he genuinely has a golden heart. Imperfect as it is, but he wants to help people. Speaker 1 00:09:51 But At the end of the day like you said, he still causes me to yo- yo on my emotions. And that's something that I don't know how to solve just yet. Speaker 2 00:10:06 Yeah, and like to be honest, sorry I get emotional, Speaker 3 00:10:10 But like no you are good. Um. I don't know. I feel like of course I. Speaker 2 00:10:19 Am grateful to crimson no doubt about it. Like I am extremely grateful to you. I feel like I am loyal to you because to be honest, like who's supporting me growing up? You know and am very grateful the people. I'm definitely I would not be where I am without crimson and giving me a chance and whatnot. But it's just like, I don't know. I feel like there's no to. Speaker 3 00:10:49 Me right now. I don't ever. Speaker 2 00:10:52 Feel satisfied with my work. Like, I don't ever go home or walk out for the day and feel like, oh, Speaker 3 00:10:59 What a good day. Like you know what a you know good satisfying day like, It's always feeling. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:11:12 When, have you last time took a couple days for yourself just to breathe through and work on your life goals? Speaker 2 00:11:22 Yeah, I really think I need a break because I'm so stressed and like, I feel like even when I have a day off, like yesterday, I was supposed to be, um, I was off. Speaker 2 00:11:36 Still, like t here is so many people sending me messages and asking questions. All things that I sorted out on Friday. I had calls on Friday, you know, giving people guidelines and making sure everything would be sorted. And still, like get repeat questions. Still people respond to me like and Mike, for example, says, like oh Olivia's MIA today, MIA this race has been planned for five months. I have had this on my calendar for so long. Like, it just. I feel like I can't take a break. I feel like I can't just be crimson. Like, it just feels like a lot right now. And I just. like, uh. yeah. And please don't repeat any of this; someone will help me keep this later, so like, it's not. yeah no you're good but it's like. Speaker 2 00:12:32 I don't know. I am just, I am tired right now. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:12:43 Yeah, Mike Mike has been a little stressed too. And he's been making some statements where I am like, okay, gotcha. You are stressed. I get it. Yeah and he won't admit it, but yeah, Speaker 2 00:12:55 He's stressed. Yeah. Um i mean, i agree. So. Speaker 1 00:13:02 Just a heads up for you, and don't repeat what I am about to say. I got up in the morning yesterday morning, and very first thing I did because it was like six AM. And I started working on stress surveys because the team has actually been filling them out. And so I sent over, I said, "Gentlemen, I am not sure who left the survey response; they left their name blank." But I want to make you aware of it. Weeks like these are when I want to leave. And then a second one, I said, "I think it was pretty stressful for the teams. Here's another one for you. Bilbo Baggins: 'I feel thin, sort of stretched like butter scraped over too much bread. ' And I said there's one other comment about being sent tickets and needing more training. I sent that over to Olivia and Anton because I'm not sure who it was either, but there was more fives than usual. Overall it's a 3.6 but we had 16 entries." Speaker 1 00:13:53 Chinkey had a one and there was a few twos that dropped it off. I said, based off the fives where they left names, I'm assuming it's a help desk. The only two people who put their name was on the help desk side. And I did say, I did throw in a smile. I said Jason's number two made me smile. I'm learning at Crimson that the only thing is predictable is the unpredictable things, escalate and change fast with projects. It's a rollercoaster. He goes, I am here for this, but I notice my stress level goes up a bit. It's completely normal, but as I start to engage directly with customers, I am more self aware and start to second guess myself. I am only on week seven, so I am probably where I should be. Which one hundred percent. So Pete responded. Now this is in a chat where i have both Anzor and pete and pete responded. And he goes, we have about four pressing major projects, all happen, concurrently wayfinder maverick, maverick. Speaker 1 00:14:50 And property diverger, so there is two mavericks. Yeah, and foothill family assessment. These are all sizable and larger than most projects crimson has done, and we're doing them concurrently. Speaker 2 00:15:07 And FYI, That is something I want to talk to Pete about because I was not told that my team members would would be a part of the maverick project, and I don't have. I have a bunch of team members out the next two weeks, and Onsor says we have a we have a deadline of the thirtieth. And like it's just it's like that's another thing. And but yeah, I've been telling my help my team on the EOS meeting at the end to fill out the stress surveys. So I genuinely that those stress surveys probably a lot of them are my team. Yeah, and I have a bunch of tickets open like like what the uh. Speaker 2 00:15:49 That stress survey, um, about like needing more training. I think that's about the elimination of vulnerability tickets or whatever. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:15:60 It is. Which is something I'm going to talk to Pete about because we have 57 tickets of just those elimination of vulnerabilities, and they're 28 page PDFs with no explanation. Yeah, Chris, I. Speaker 1 00:16:18 Like yeah, Send me one of those ticket numbers and if I can get time today, here is what I offered Pete separately. Uh well, I offered Pete a couple things. Um with Carney moving to the end of June, I may have a few hours extra. Oh by the way, Bear and I massively broke up. Okay really? Massively. Speaker 2 00:16:39 Wait why? Wait also, I thought you guys had already broken up. I thought you decided you were just being friends, and then you guys you got back together? Yeah. Speaker 3 00:16:48 Um, he started getting mean. Speaker 1 00:16:52 Oh, And my Pete. Yeah, and don't share this part with Pete. Pete knows that we broke up and had a bad breakup, but that's all he knows. Um, He started getting really mean to the point, my PTSD nightmares started back again, and they were bad. And so bad that my psychologist put me on trazodone, just for me to get some sleep at night. Speaker 3 00:17:17 Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's that's terrible. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:17:23 Oh man, it's worse than that. No, no. Um and I know some of it's secondary PTSD from you know, secondary trauma from working with kids and I don't want. And I was very open with him and very honest and said, you will not come between me and the work I do with kids. Mhm And I have left. I I have taken over the guild from him. I took the guild. I took the disc, took over Discord, and I said, " H ey guys i I needed to take a break because we have another kid coming in. I will be back soon." And just a heads up, and he's been kicked out of the guild. And you know that's how bad it got. Now he has been texting me, "Hey can i take you out to lunch? Can i take you out to dinner? Can we talk?" And i am like nope. Speaker 1 00:18:16 Not doing this. Like I have, I just cut it off. So with me taking a break from the guild and from the Discord and everything, I have basically freed up my nights and evenings, because Dom is not home because she's getting ready for graduation and she's got her new internship and you know things like that. So Dom, Dom and I, And then the days she is home from school, she sleeps like she got home went to sleep. I got home at Six o'clock, I woke her up to see if she was okay. She was like, "Yeah, I am just tired." I said, "Okay." She woke up again at eight. Got up did it did her chores. Did a few things. Said mom Can I have a melatonin? And I am afraid I won't be able to sleep well. And I was like, "Yeah, sure. " So, we're here. So she took melatonin and she was out, and i i saw her maybe twenty minutes the entire evening last night. Yeah, wow. Speaker 1 00:19:12 Just because she's got exams this week, she's got a lot of other stuff going on, so she's been a little stressed. So I have a little bit of free time. We're about to go to our other meeting. I have a little bit of free time even with the projects, But I have some nighttime stuff happening. And um I was going to see if there are things that I can do to help you behind the scenes like I was adding some, I was going to start adding some SOPs to Hudu for overall, U m and I actually started working on some I built up the sharp knowledge base. Things like that. Speaker 3 00:19:49 Oh amazing. Yeah. So anything to do with Hudo. Speaker 2 00:19:55 Would be so major. Yeah, like yeah, I have a bunch of companies that I still need to move over and I need to move over crimson stuff, which that's going to be really big. And I only have a couple days left to do it. So well, Speaker 1 00:20:08 Let me see what I can do to help you. Um, let's jump over in the other meeting. I had something else to tell you, but I'm gonna wait. Speaker 2 00:20:15 Okay, sounds good. Bye- bye. Speaker 3 00:20:16 Thanks, Chris. Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 1 00:20:32 Good morning guys, I want to go to the bathroom real. Speaker 3 00:20:35 Quick so I'll be back okay? Speaker 3 00:20:41 Hello. Hi. Hello, good morning. Speaker 1 00:21:31 April, Do you remember when I cut off my finger? Speaker 3 00:21:35 Oh yeah. Speaker 1 00:21:38 Yeah. Well. You did it again? Well. You can't see all the bandages. So I was sitting here thinking about how you had to jump into a lot of my meetings with me when I did that and take notes. And now I have that new dictation software, which is almost good. It gets about 80% right. Although I was dictating something about, and I said the word slots because we needed to fill slots. Speaker 1 00:22:10 And instead it chose to change that word to sluts. So that was an interesting text message. Um, yeah, but for the most part it's been good. I had to teach it Onzor's name and I had to teach it hoodoo. I've got a whole dictionary of things I've taught, but um, It's getting much much better. Although there are some days where I'm like, um yeah, let's let's uh. Speaker 1 00:22:40 I said something about Huntress and Sophos, and it screwed up the name Sophos. So. Speaker 4 00:22:48 I'm glad they're still doing a great job here. How many minions you have right now? Fifty- two. Oh my god. More to come. Speaker 1 00:23:03 Hey, Fana, so Olivia, you know my N 8 N account? I had to increase the number of executions from 10, 000 to 50, 00. So now I have about forty thousand to play around with, because I actually only needed a couple hundred left for this month. Like not not anything big. I could have gotten away with five hundred and had room to spare but. Speaker 1 00:23:36 They didn't have an in between, and I didn't have any purchases I could buy to that point. So, I ended up having to buy the next level, which gives me that extra forty thousand to play with. And I was wondering if your account is still in the system. If it is, you are welcome to borrow it. However, Hudu is not in it; Hudu is in Zapier. Zapier—I have about a thousand. Speaker 1 00:24:07 Plan t us in there because I had moved a lot of things over to innate end. So but I actually have a minion built up for documentation. Uh. It was originally created for ID glue. But I couldn't. But I moved it over to the hoodoo side. Speaker 2 00:24:26 So you have to show me, Speaker 3 00:24:31 Yeah, how did you use it? What are you doing with it? Okay. Maybe you can help me. Speaker 1 00:24:37 Absolutely. Because half of my day is not spent with AI, contrary to what Anton believes, Half my day is is handled by automations that do not include AI in it. So. Speaker 3 00:25:00 Oh Mike is not joining right they have this. Speaker 4 00:25:05 Conference thing. Fancy conference. Yeah, okay. Speaker 3 00:25:16 Already paying. Speaker 1 00:25:22 Um, that ticket number you gave me, I'm gonna I'm digging into it right now by the way. Speaker 3 00:25:28 Okay, thanks Krista. Speaker 1 00:25:30 No worries. Speaker 3 00:25:33 Let me know your opinion. Yeah. Quick. Speaker 4 00:25:43 Question, does non- tech still need the Nihilator? Who? Um, non- tech like admin, finance. Do we still need it? Because myself I don't use it. Speaker 1 00:25:58 So so, While we're waiting on Pete, let me show you because Nylia is not just what you think it is. Nylia is actually a bigger application that Crimson uses pretty religiously, but most people don't realize that. So, um, Let me give you guys because uh Jason's not had the Nylia full conversation and I don't think Anton. We've ever shown you some of this Nylia stuff. Uh that would help. So hang on one second let me get logged in. Speaker 1 00:26:32 Uh, so I'm going to share my screen. Okay. So I'm waiting for it to load. Uh, Also, that reminds me I need to do a speed test because we just upgraded the internet here. And this is going slow. This makes me very concerned. So basically, while I am waiting on Nilir to come up, Nilir has about nine to twelve modules, Which it is one of our cheapest applications and cheapest vendors that we have that we utilize. And some of the things to note about Nilir is that. Speaker 1 00:27:28 It is responsible because ConnectWise doesn't have a sync option between Office three hundred and sixty five and Google to sync contacts within ConnectWise. So that every time we disable somebody in a client on their three hundred and sixty five or Google, it disables it in ConnectWise. Every time we add a new user to uh a client, it automatically updates ConnectWise with that person so that, Because neither of you worked for or none of you actually worked for us back when we had when we had a new users onboarding for a client, we also had to create their contact in Connectwise. So this eliminated that. So Connect Active is that option. Speaker 2 00:28:12 I would I would like to say that I created many, many, many contacts in Connectwise. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:28:22 So I need to go in here and fix ability first because um it is it is actually these are the errors, but and they're only they're the only ones we have. Now we do have some clients that aren't syncing. Uh jams is not syncing because no one went in and set it up. Rrp is not syncing because we've not we've not done that sharp I disabled for uh right now. I set the initial sync, but I haven't done the full sync yet uh and WineGuard. We had some issues with that sync, so we stopped it. And didn't let it go farther. And then SSB, we never synced at all. But we have all these clients that are syncing. So when we have to set up, we don't have to set up companies manually doing that. Now, that being said, I'm going to go back to the home seed. That's one thing and that's something we use. We actually purchased NetLayer because it was the only system that gave us the options. Speaker 1 00:29:20 For Office three hundred and sixty five and Active Directory on prem. Um, with, And then they were the only they were the first company that gave us Google Sync as well. And they're still the cheapest company out there. Now a couple features, My Tickets is what April you are thinking about when you think about Nightlyer. So um Schedule Sync that one Olivia When she was a dispatcher, It was a godsend for her when we spun this up because it kept time entries synced with the scheduled records. And so, for example, Olivia one day when Arnie still lived, worked with us, lived with us. Basically um she he kept taking. And clear all his tickets because he had a bunch of tickets that could be automatically cleared. When he did that um. Speaker 1 00:30:18 Olivia would keep giving him more and more tickets because he he just had freed up time. And, he was one of the few techs that would constantly like clear his tickets, and she would constantly give him more. And at first, he was like, Wait, what what the hell is going on here? And then we realized it was because of schedule sync. And it was a game changer. Um The other thing that was a game changer, Was Is it highly your life? No. Client mapper. Time machine. Well, time machine did help. I'll explain that one to Jason in a minute, But client mapper because client mapper allowed us to set tickets and Olivia set tickets and the system would automatically add travel time for our onsite techs, Meaning that if Olivia said and I'm using Olivia because we we put this in when Olivia was still dispatcher. Speaker 1 00:31:15 Olivia would set a ticket as onsite and schedule someone, let's say Caleb. The system client mapper, What it would do is it would check Google Maps for travel time at that time. And, what it would do is look at the average time it would take to travel from our headquarters to the client site on Google Maps, and then it would block out their schedule accordingly. So Olivia didn't have to worry about anymore, trying to give them travel time in the tickets. The system automatically did that, uh travel to and travel from. Um so that was another one that it did. And then Time Machine was a huge one. There's more, I'm not giving you guys all of the stuff. Um but Time Machine was a huge one. We had issues in the past where we had staff members we couldn't find, Like we could not figure out where they were and basically what this person he no longer works for us. Um. Speaker 1 00:32:13 I kept hearing from managers that, hey, this person is sleeping on the job. When we try to call him, it looks like he's been sleeping. But he's getting a lot of work done. We just don't know when it's happening. And so he had basically figured out how to automate himself. But the thing he was failing to automate himself on was doing time and doing time correctly. So what we would do is we would click on him In here, I'm going to use April for an example. And, we would go into time entry, and we would see from time entry. You can see what they're working on. You would see like a whole timeline of how they were doing their day. So what it would do is it would show the delta, like the time that we put against it versus the time they actually worked, which April is a bad one for this. Let me do Bogdan's a good one. Speaker 1 00:33:13 Hey Pete, so you can see, you can just see the whole timeline of their work. But this person was doing something very similar to to how I do my tickets. Even though I I you guys know I am working, I just don't do my tickets um then and there. So if I go here where am I? Oh yeah, I am not in here anymore. Caleb is a good one because he he does his time like this. You can see the delta So he put in three hours yesterday to Crimson IT, but his actual in progress time is zero. And he does this because he is actually, he travels. And so we know that he does it like this, whereas someone like um Bogdan, it's a straight shot. You can see everything he did with some deltas in there. But the deltas that he has in here is not too bad. Does that make sense Jason? Speaker 1 00:34:09 And that's one where it allows us to big brother, but we don't big brother unless we see that there's an issue out there. But then also Olivia would use this and other dispatchers would use this to say, okay, well Kobe's working on so and so. And that's where he's at or he's at a client site. You know Caleb is at Lancer working on Lancer. And this is where we could see if they go to lunch, we can see that they went for lunch and so on. I'm going to go back to live. We can see if they're not in yet because they don't start until a certain time. I am always MIA, even though that's not the case. But for the most part, this is pretty accurate. And we can see, hey, he's been in this ticket and has it in progress for over five hours. And that would allow a manager to come in and which we used to do. We don't do it as much anymore because we're way too busy to do this, but allows us to reach out and say, hey, is there something going on here? Speaker 1 00:35:06 Is there a reason why you're in this? But, we can also see total hours and how long they've currently been in that ticket. So like Emile's had this one maverick over two hours currently in, and he also missed two schedules. So for managers it's good thing we don't do that portion, but if we do have questions about somebody, we can go in there and take a look Jason. So um and it allows us to be on top of it. Uh help desk is was always up on the TVs for a long time. And we could always just stop by and see. Okay, well April's or Nemanja's working on Fairfield, and I am at Sharp. So, and I don't, and Brian's on site somewhere; he's at Avalon. So it's a good thing, but it's one of our cheapest options that we have. However, it gives us the most functionality. And, the biggest thing that we use it for is the sinking of Active Directory Google. Speaker 1 00:36:03 And Office three hundred and sixty five and the schedule sync. If we did away with those two right there, I think the help desk might cry. I know Olivia would, so because it's a huge help with the client mapper, also a big one. Now I utilize this one because I want to see Connectwise tickets in my Teams, but I am about the only one who does this. And I used to do the reporting feature when I was in Olivia's shoes, but, That was only for time entries, and when we were keeping a closer eye on budget hours. Does that help? So, when everybody talks about Nylia, they're talking about my tickets, which is something completely different. It is just a prettier facade to Connectwise and for techs, it's very beneficial to them, but no one. But the help desk and technical teams like. Speaker 1 00:37:02 Security and professional services really needs to use it. Speaker 3 00:37:08 So. Sorry. Hi Pete. Sorry, Speaker 5 00:37:20 Hello, hello one minute. Sorry I'm late I didn't get the reminder, so I thought it was at 10 today. I looked at my calendar early this morning. It was up there. I was. Speaker 4 00:37:37 Checking your emails at five. Speaker 5 00:37:40 No, I was emailing. I don't know. I emailed Julia this morning really early too, a whole long thing, and I said anyway. So anyway, um, I don't know how far you guys got. So if you want to hit the button, it's totally fine. If you want to. Yeah, yeah. Speaker 5 00:38:02 You didn't start. No, no. Well, Then we better get going because I'm sure Anton has great news and personal business in the flight headlines. Speaker 4 00:38:12 Yeah, I'm just waiting on approval for my vacation from June 22 to June 26 th. Speaker 5 00:38:19 Okay, approved. Thank you, Pete. That's all I need Because because I know Chris is waiting on one too, and I'm going in to approve them. Right after this meeting, I got so much stuff to approve since I was out. I got twenty two expense reports to approve too. Okay, anything else? Anton? No. Okay, Chris? Speaker 1 00:38:43 Um, so personal good news the kids graduating in a couple weeks. Um, but she starts her internship. So my schedule might be adjusted a little bit for her internship, but only just to get her dropped off in the morning. So. Um, but we're super excited about that. And then professional good news. It is actually I was a little worried about this next couple of weeks, but it's been a lot better than I thought. And I got a few things updated in who do uh for the team and a few other things done. So that makes me a little bit happier and a lot less stressed.
08-10 Meeting: AI Training Sessions, Tool Access, and Rollout Strategy
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- > Date: 2026-08-10 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] ## Meeting Notes ### Upcoming AI Training Sessions - Live AI training sessions are scheduled for Tuesday, August 11, 2026, and Thursday, August 13, 2026. - The Tuesday session does not require the enterprise AI version to be installed. - For Thursday, having the AI tool is recommended but not required. - Both sessions will be recorded and shared for those who cannot attend live or wish to review later. - These are live classes, not pre-recorded. - Attendees will include staff from various nonprofits. ### Access to AI Tools and Practice Materials - Speaker 2 is finalizing and distributing videos, links, and demo files with dummy data for practice. - The AI committee requested Copilot access for its members. - Speaker 2 confirmed the request was sent to the Crimson Team last week; access should be granted within 24 hours at most. - Microsoft will email AI committee members once their access is activated. - General staff can attend training but will not yet have AI accounts. ### AI Subscription and Rollout Strategy - The initial subscription for the AI committee will be monthly. - This provides flexibility to cancel subscriptions for non‑users. - Switching to an annual plan later is straightforward if needed. - The AI committee is internally determining the rollout plan for all staff, including whether to offer monthly access to everyone. - A final decision on a company‑wide rollout will be made after consulting with Julie. ### Planning and Communication - Speaker 1 raised concerns about short notice for the training, noting it may appear poorly planned. - They requested more lead time for future rollouts to allow internal discussion and preparation. - Speaker 2 acknowledged the last‑minute nature and noted a new team member is joining to provide support. - A sign‑up form for additional Copilot training sessions toward the end of August will be sent. - Speaker 2 plans to create a centralized training site for all clients to host training materials, pending approval from Anzor. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Send an all‑staff email about the August 11 and 13 training sessions. - [ ] Clearly state in the email that AI accounts are not yet available for general staff. - [ ] Consult Julie before finalizing the company‑wide AI rollout decision. - [ ] Speaker 2 to distribute the sign‑up form for additional late‑August training sessions. - [ ] Speaker 2 to request Anzor’s approval to create a client training site. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Staff communication about upcoming training must carefully manage expectations, as general staff do not yet have AI access. Final messaging is pending coordination within the AI committee. > 2. The decision on providing AI access to all staff is on hold pending discussion with Julie, which may affect future training schedules and budget planning. > 3. The centralized training site depends on approval from Anzor, who is described as very busy. This could delay the availability of consolidated training resources. --- **SWEEP FLAG - 2026-08-24 EOD sweep (unattended).** NOT logged; needs Christi's call. Transcript runs ~12 min of conversation (stray final timestamp 24:02). Content shows an AI-committee call about Copilot license access, tomorrow's class session, and an end-of-month training signup form. CLIENT NOT VERIFIABLE FROM CONTENT: no client name, no email domains, no org-specific entities on tape. Only proper nouns are "Casey", "Steve", "Anzor" and "Crimson". Best guess is Cotsen Foundation (their AI engagement has an AI committee, and CW entry 895336 on 8/10 references "Steve Luna" and "Copilot rollout sequencing for the foundation staff") - and that same entry 895336 (0.52h, ticket 965283, 14:38-15:09 PDT) may ALREADY cover this conversation. Per the BAFMA/DTLA client-verification rule a billable entry was not posted on a guess. CAP NOTE: 8/10 PDT is already at 11.78h, so any new entry over ~13 min breaches the 12h band. PROPOSED IF CHRISTI CONFIRMS: Cotsen Foundation, ticket 965283, 0.22h (13 min), Senior Engineer (5). Or confirm it is already covered by 895336 and close this row with no new entry.
- Date
- Aug 10, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Yeah, maybe merge the calls. Hold on a moment, I got Casey's number here. Okay, not conference call. Casey Steve? Hello? Yes. Hi, Christi are you there? Yes I'm here. Okay good, good So um very quickly because Christi may get a call and she may have to go then About the these class sessions tomorrow Yes And. We are not even sure to do. Speaker 1 00:00:33 Don't, we need the enterprise AI version installed for everybody. Before we take these classes? Speaker 2 00:00:43 On the first one tomorrow, you don't need that. Speaker 1 00:00:47 But how about for Thursday? Speaker 2 00:00:48 Uh, Thursday it would be advisable, but you really it's kind of you don't really have to have it. Um, Because I'm going to continue recording the sessions and then giving them out to people so that they can watch them at any time. Speaker 1 00:01:04 So, like, yeah, I at least my very quick understanding since the turnaround time is very quick. Um, Would people then be able to practice because I thought in one of the classes you mentioned that people can practice while the class is going on. So would they have access to do that? Speaker 2 00:01:25 Yes. They would have access. Well, if they don't have access to them, the videos that I'm also going to be sending out which, And bear with me because it's been a crazy couple of days for me. But there is some videos. I am finalizing right now. That's going to be sent out to you guys with links, plus the demo files that I am going to be using. That's, I mean they're not blank but they have dummy data in them. So I am going to be sending those out as well. And you guys can do that in addition to or with the training classes. Speaker 2 00:01:58 However, What I sent you guys for tomorrow is not the full amount because I've got more coming out. Um, I'm trying to get all of that put together and I'm going to send you a form so that you can sign up for the other sessions as well. Speaker 1 00:02:15 Casey Steve, did you have other questions? Christi, Speaker 3 00:02:21 Did our AI committee do we have access to Copilot now? What? Speaker 3 00:02:27 Saying that we might have access to it, but I don't see anything in my system that shows that. Speaker 2 00:02:32 Let me pull it up real quick. Speaker 3 00:02:34 I just want to confirm. Speaker 2 00:02:35 Yeah, let me pull it up because if not, it takes me two seconds to get it added. Um and I had asked the team to get those in for you guys. So bear with me. Let me log in Hang on one moment. It's asking me for my two factor code, so bear with me. Let me get that put in. Speaker 4 00:03:01 And I. Speaker 2 00:03:11 Don't know who comes up with these passwords, but they are hard. Which they should be. Uh, bear with me one more moment. I can get those turned on for you guys today. Speaker 3 00:03:31 Just for the AI committee, correct? Speaker 2 00:03:33 Yes, just for the AI committee. So, the team I know the team was asked to start the purchase for them. So. Is. Speaker 3 00:03:46 It Crimson Team? Speaker 2 00:03:47 Yes. They have to parse that information out through another system. So I know that I had asked them last week on it, and let me see I know that it doesn't take very long. And. Max of twenty four hours, So I should be able to get those to you guys as soon as possible. And, then you guys will get an email from Microsoft once it's been added to your account. Speaker 5 00:04:16 So Christi, are youum using this? I mean choosing the subscription like monthly or how like I forgot what we had like. Speaker 2 00:04:29 So we can do, we can do a mixture. Um, I want to start you guys out with monthly and at least have five monthly in your system. And the rest can go annual. Just because you may find people thatum don't use it at all. And so then we can shut those down where you don't have to pay the rest of the year for them. Speaker 3 00:04:53 Yeah, I would say stick with ours. I don't know if Kashif, you can. Speaker 3 00:04:58 Back me up or change the process on this, but at least for the AI committee, just keep it monthly. And, we are internally deciding whether as the AI committee, whether we're going to include all staff in this or whether they're going to do it monthly because we want all staff, whether they're receptive to AI or not, to at least have access to the tools eventually. But we need to kind of. Speaker 3 00:05:31 Before we even go that route, I would say give give the AI committee at least access initially. Yes, And then we can decide from there. Speaker 2 00:05:42 Absolutely. Yeah, I already asked them to do you a monthly just to start you out because I had a feeling you were going to ask me for that. And, it's super easy to switch you guys over to annual if you guys had changed your mind. Speaker 1 00:05:56 Okay, and so I think it should be. Speaker 1 00:06:01 These recordings are or these sessions tomorrow and Thursday, are they pre recorded? Speaker 2 00:06:07 No, they're not. I am actually making some pre recorded. I was trying to get those done this weekend, but we had some internet outages in my neighborhood. Speaker 1 00:06:16 So, but would the listeners or attendees be just from Houston or from different foundations? Speaker 2 00:06:24 They're from different nonprofits and different nonprofits. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:06:30 Uh, So I think in um um you know, we want to be very clear um to everybody on the staff here as to what is happening. So at the moment, then the staff uh I mean, they can go through these trainings, but they will not have access to any AI accounts yet. Correct. Is that the case? Yes. Okay, so um because I mean here's the. Speaker 1 00:06:59 We'll distribute the email to everybody, uh, informing them of the Tuesday and Thursday session. We'll tell them that uh, um, The AI co-pilot enterprise accounts have not been um opened up yet for all the staff. Um, but we just want the staff to at least get exposure whether later on. Speaker 1 00:07:33 Right sort of like uh, um, sort of tone to set for our staff. Speaker 5 00:07:42 I would consult Julie with uh for that Kashif because I think she had a a different take as to. I guess she was suggesting that everyone have access, even though they're not gonna be using it. So I. I think we should before we make that final decision. Speaker 3 00:08:06 We're giving everyone an opportunity to join these sessions, even without it because it is the opportunity to learn the basics of Copilot. As Christi will walk us through. Speaker 1 00:08:21 And Christi, just one thing, Maybe for the long run, because I know you yourself are under a lot of pressure with so many different things going on. And you've got internet outages too. So that doesn't help either. No, it doesn't. So, but I think for me, And I think I can probably speak for the AI committee as well. Is that, for obviously, it would be so much easier and a little bit better in these early stages for us to have as much time as is possible to sort out all these issues. Because, you know, personally, if I were the recipient of an email. Speaker 1 00:09:05 Okay, tomorrow the class. Do you want to sign up or not? And I know the recordings are there, but just the idea of it doesn't come across as well planned. So I just thought that given all the considerations and all the pressures that we realize you are under from so many different angles, to give as much time as possible for rolling out anything. Yes. Speaker 1 00:09:35 Would have a chance to think through it because these are all it's almost like we're learning how to, you know, like a little child, how to even take our first step. So there's a lot of going back and forth amongst ourselves. And so if we get extra time pressure, oh, tomorrow, is the class tonight, what to do turn it out then then and you know, we've got so many other things ourselves to do uh work. Speaker 2 00:10:04 I completely understand. Thankfully, the team has gotten me some help, so I have a gentleman that's come. He's with Crimson already, but he's making the transition over to the AI team. So I am going to get a little bit of help. Um, additionally, What I haven't sent over is a sign up sheet that's going to include another set of Copilot training towards the end of the month. And then um that way you guys can have a little bit more time to jump in um and and wait. But the sign up form, I just finished creating it on Microsoft Forms about twenty minutes ago, And I am going to send that out to everybody that all my contacts with all my clients and offer that. But I am also asking Anzor for a favor, And that is for me to create a training site for all of our clients within our system, where I can put those training materials. Speaker 2 00:11:01 So, I am going to sweet talk him into it, But I am going to work on that right now because I've been trying to get a hold of him. He's a busier man than I am. So, Speaker 1 00:11:14 Yeah, we are all busy. But thank you very much, Christi. And i don't we don't wish to take up your time. Casey and Steve, any other comments questions? Okay. You know how to put those? So, I think what we'll do is just thank you for your time. We'll. We'll coordinate with other, uh, Ai committee uh member and make sure that the message that goes out to our staff has any extra language in it uh toum make sure we're. Speaker 2 00:11:50 Engaging. Okay, awesome. Thank you guys so much and my apologies for being so last minute. Speaker 1 00:11:59 You too. Speaker 4 00:24:02 Okay.
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04-24 Weekly Meeting: Sharpen/Ability First Project, Budget, IT Operations
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-04-24 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Pete] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes ### Update on Sharpen/Ability First Project - **Description** - Speaker 1 feels busy but not overwhelmed and is tackling tasks one at a time. Robert and Gaston have been very helpful and are receiving positive feedback. - Speaker 1 is learning to support Saturday outreach events by helping with equipment setup. - Anzor approved the use of specific personal tools for select tasks to maintain security and align with business needs. - **Conclusion** - The project is progressing well, and the team is making steady headway. ### Invoice and Budget Management - **Description** - Speaker 1 is using Airtable to track invoices and contracts due to the absence of a dedicated tool. - A process exists to scan paper invoices, extract data, and track them digitally. Speaker 1 is working to obtain digital copies of missing past invoices from James Hunter. - The goal is to track monthly costs, link them to contracts, and manage vendor statuses (e.g., transitioning, canceled). - Kashif, the fractional CFO, provided the 2027 budget with personnel costs only. Speaker 1 is building out the remaining budget details. - **Conclusion** - Speaker 1 will complete the budget details using Airtable data and present them to Sharpen for transparency. ### Transition to Paperless Systems - **Description** - Pete asked about efforts to move away from paper-based processes for invoices and documentation. - Kashif is leading a cost-share initiative to implement new systems and reduce paper usage in finance. - HR is also moving away from paper under a new HR manager. Speaker 1 is converting paper forms to Google Forms, with a plan to migrate to Microsoft Forms. - **Conclusion** - Multiple departments are actively digitizing paper-based workflows. ### IT Operations and Infrastructure Status - **Description** - **RMM Rollout:** Approximately 7/8 complete. The team is tracking down remaining straggler systems, many of which failed during LogMeIn installation. - **E-Waste:** Jeff left the e-waste task unfinished. Items are cataloged but need to be physically removed from the conference room. - **Conference Room Issues:** Ongoing tampering and damage to conference room equipment by a known individual. Kobe and Caleb will be on-site Tuesday to document and address the issue. - **SonicWall Firewalls:** A power outage at the Vermont site caused SonicWall firewalls to reset. Plan to have Jason's team (Kevin, Gabby, or Anton's team) review configurations. - **Conclusion** - The team is advancing operational tasks, including completing the RMM rollout and addressing hardware and infrastructure issues. ### Dispatch Process and Parking Pass - **Description** - Olivia suggested turning off the dispatch process due to challenges. Speaker 1 noted Olivia has access to a Master Switch in Smart Dispatch to disable features as needed. - Speaker 1 will disable the auto-assign feature for missed appointments. - Speaker 1 no longer needs a dedicated parking pass; a temporary pass can be obtained from Marina on days when assistance is needed. ### Follow-up Email to Sharpen Leadership - **Description** - Pete plans a check-in email to Sharpen leadership, as it’s been about six weeks since their last in-person meeting. - Key recipients: Dr. Barber (CEO), Aaron (COO), and Crystal (Programs). Apollo is a contractor and does not need to be included. - The email will be a general check-in to assess progress and identify any unmet needs. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 1 to present the completed budget to Sharpen for transparency. - [ ] Pete to contact Kashif and offer support for the paperless initiative. - [ ] Assign a clear owner and schedule for e-waste removal; if needed, ping Monty or Ivana to source a resource. - [ ] If Olivia approves, have Kobe or Caleb assist with e-waste removal. - [ ] Speaker 1 to have Kobe and Caleb document and address the conference room equipment issue on Tuesday. - [ ] Speaker 1 to contact Jason’s team (Kevin, Gabby, or Anton’s team) to review SonicWall configurations and create backups. - [ ] Speaker 1 to send Pete a summary of key follow-ups from the March 11 meeting with Sharpen. - [ ] Pete to send a check-in email to Dr. Barber, Aaron, and Crystal. - [ ] Speaker 1 to turn off the auto-assign feature for missed appointments in Smart Dispatch. - [ ] Define a strategy and deadline to complete the final phase of the RMM rollout; track and remediate LogMeIn installation failures. - [ ] Determine and implement a plan to prevent further tampering of conference room equipment (e.g., access controls, policy communication, monitoring). ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. E-waste removal is stalled after Jeff’s departure. While suggestions were made to ping various people (Monty, Ivana, Olivia), a clear owner, schedule, and next step were not assigned. > 2. A known individual is repeatedly sabotaging conference room equipment. Although documentation will occur Tuesday, there is no clear plan for addressing the personnel issue to prevent recurrence. > 3. The RMM rollout is stalled on final stragglers. A specific strategy and deadline to complete this phase were not discussed.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 I am not a good swimmer. Why is Randy's Donuts so expensive, or so good? Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Can you hear me? Speaker 2 00:00:16 Yeah, sorry I'm. I'm getting my coffee finished up here. Just one second. Speaker 1 00:00:21 You're good, I'm trying to order coffee. Speaker 2 00:00:24 Sorry, I was a couple minutes late. I was uh. I was listening slash watching an interview. That was still going and I lost track of time. So, it's okay. It's one of those. It's one of those one hour interviews, you know, and it's they're um Jane and Elisa were interviewing. Uh. Finance candidate, and it's a one hour interview, and I am like twenty five minutes into it. You watch one of those and it just keeps going, and it's a little dry, but you know, it's like I gotta hear, I gotta hear everything he's got to say on the responses. So anyway, how are you? Speaker 1 00:00:60 I am good. I am trying to figure out why Randy's down is so expensive, And should I get a sea salt, caramel frappe or an iced sea salt caramel latte? Speaker 2 00:01:10 The answer is yes to both, I think. And then you don't have then you don't have to decide. You put you put the other one in the fridge for later or something. Speaker 1 00:01:20 And drink it before my child gets home. Speaker 2 00:01:22 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Speaker 3 00:01:26 That's the answer. Speaker 1 00:01:29 She when she first moved in with me, she loved energy drinks. But, she was she'd gone off of them because they had put her on Vyvanse. Speaker 2 00:01:39 I never use this, so I hope I don't make a mess. I don't really know how to use this. Oh, Speaker 1 00:01:44 I love those. Those are, I have a good one. Okay, I just ordered a bunch of reindeer so much for because I've, My the foster kid that's been spending time with us is coming back this afternoon. Speaker 2 00:01:57 Oh, sweet. Speaker 1 00:01:58 Yeah, so I ordered enough for tomorrow for breakfast for both of them. Nice. Speaker 1 00:02:04 Yeah. She's such a great kid. Speaker 2 00:02:08 That's good. And all of this, Speaker 1 00:02:10 She's uh the same age as Dom, they're about a month apart. Oh, cool. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:14 But she's is she gonna go to college or no? Speaker 1 00:02:17 Uh, no. She's she doesn't even go to school half the time. Speaker 2 00:02:22 So she's not gonna graduate. Speaker 1 00:02:24 I don't know. I we're working on it. On it with her, but she's a junior. So okay, So she's got, we got to figure out how we can help her through that. She's just struggling with the social anxiety part. I see. Speaker 2 00:02:41 I see. So how are things going overall? How are things going at Sharpen? Ability first, primarily like, or a. I mean, we're getting close to the halfway point in the year. I mean, it's not. I mean, we still have. A couple months to go, but you know we're we're past. Past Q one, so how are you feeling? Quarter of the way into the year. Speaker 1 00:03:11 With short, I'm uh not overwhelmed but there is a lot still to do. So I am just taking it one task at a time. Until something else comes up that's urgent, I'm just trying to get it through. But Robert and Gaston have been immensely helpful, so I mean. Everybody's commenting about how happy they are, And uh, someone said the other day that one of them I don't know which one it was, gave them a hug, and it was so unexpected and so unlike the IT. So people are noticing and commenting on it, but that makes me feel really good about it. Okay. Speaker 1 00:03:50 And I mean, overall the guys are fantastic. I asked to learn how to support the outreach events. Because they need it at the outreach events, and those are usually on Saturday. So I asked Aaron today via email to teach me what is needed because. Ah, they need someone out there to help set up equipment and stuff like that. And so they're like fun little community events, such as like Earth Day tomorrow and things like that. So, I am interested to see how that works, but overall that was going well. I mean we're still we're finding ghosts every week. Ah. Hanzo gave me the ability to use my own tools. Uh, Within reason for certain things with sharp, as long as you know, because he knows that I'm keeping things secure. I'm only using tools that align with the business, so I've been working. That you look on the other screen. Speaker 1 00:04:49 So I can show you. The cat brought in a mouthful of food and tried to eat it on my desk. That's nice. Speaker 2 00:05:00 Yeah, she's so lovely. So I am working in Airtable because we don't have a tool that does this really well. Yeah. Um, what I'm trying to do, so I'm going to show you until I can, until we can build a school. The only thing I don't like about. Speaker 1 00:05:19 Gail had. Is it doesn't have a way of putting everyday budget in there, So every single one of those invoices that they bring to me that huge sack. Uh huh. I am putting, I have a scanner on my desk because everybody has a scanner on their desk, which I understand why now. I scan them in and I throw them in a folder, and I have a tool that goes in and pulls all the data. And I check it off here. So This is everything I've signed that I have a scanned copy of. I didn't start doing that until last week. So I'm missing a bunch of invoices, which I asked him to send. I asked him, me and James Hunter. To send me because he said he has a digital copy of them all to send those over. So I am trying to get those in here, so I can keep better track. But I have the contracts set up, and I am still going through each one. I will say you see, I've got software services. Speaker 1 00:06:16 Wait, let me go into ventures real quick because that will make more sense. I have the status: if they're transitioning off of us, if we've canceled them. Um, who are who is our account owners? And then I am getting in when I see their invoice come in. I am getting in their monthly costs and then I am connecting them to a contract. So. Speaker 2 00:06:37 Is one of the things we're. That's that's on the roadmap, and I don't know where this really belongs. If this is an I T thing or a finance thing, but are we looking at. Trying to help them find a solution to, get away from paper. Speaker 1 00:06:53 Yes, so is that is that us? Speaker 2 00:06:56 Is that finance? Is that a joint effort? Like where what discussions have been had on that. Speaker 1 00:07:03 So, that's a cost share thing. And Kashif is working on that. He's putting in some new systems, And so he's going to start working with them on getting them away from paper. But there is also they're working on a change of employees. Uh, They're going to be terminating some people that I just put a termination hold on. Uh. James, the one who's been helping me in finance, he's not going anywhere. He's actually really good at his job. And he'll make the change pretty quickly, but his manager, she's the one dragging her feet. Doesn't want to make the change. Speaker 1 00:07:35 So they're working on that. There is also a H R piece as well, and H R is working on getting away from paper. They got a new H R manager in. She started last week or the week before. And then Apollo's making that push. So I'm helping them with putting a lot of their forms and stuff into Google Forms, and then eventually we'll migrate that to Microsoft Forms. And it'll have approval process and flows with it as well. So there's there's a lot going on there. I hear from my project. Yeah, I mean, Speaker 2 00:08:12 I. I hear it from you regularly, so I'm sure it's it's it's an obvious thing to Koshoff as well. So. Yeah, So is he act Is? He a is he an employee or a contractor for. Um. You know, like I don't really know what his role is within Sharp. Speaker 1 00:08:36 He's A fractional CFO. Um and he's only coming if he comes in, he's coming in two or three hours at a time. But mostly he's working off site. He's working full time for Dome Inc. which is down the road from Ability First. Okay. Because I've had to pass all things to him on days. I've gone to Pasadena, and it's just right down the road, so we meet up at SoCo. Speaker 3 00:09:04 Okay. Yeah, um, Speaker 2 00:09:05 I may just just so you are aware, And I am not gonna and I don't and you don't think I am doing this. Out of left field, I may send him a note and just say," I am hearing a lot from Chris about lots and lots of paper that comes in here." And is there anything that you're looking for us to do to help? Support moving to an electronic, or maybe I'll say. Speaker 2 00:09:33 Maybe I'll say something to the effect of, um, I'm sure you're driving towards something to replace paper. But if there's anything you're looking for from Chris or Crimson or or I or anybody to help drive that initiative, or an initiative. Let me know or something like I'm. I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'll. Yeah, I don't know. I can send something to him, just to just to let him know that I'm. You know I'm in his. I'm in his court to to help push that if needed or something. Speaker 1 00:10:06 Yeah, that would be awesome. Um. He did send me the budget for twenty twenty seven. Nothing was on it other than personnel. Stuff. Okay, so I got to fill all that in, which is why I am building this out. And I know he's he's got a lot he's working on, so at least you got it sent over to me. Um. And he said," We need twenty twenty six budgets. I know where we're at, but we're going to have to start replacing computers soon." We finally got the inventory is almost done. Um. So, we're finally getting a really good head on that because there's a lot of systems that are in and out. Um, Speaker 2 00:10:43 And they how are we doing on the RMM rollout? Are we almost there? Speaker 1 00:10:48 So we're not where. We're about seven eighths there, so we're going to have to go find and hunt down the stragglers. Speaker 2 00:10:58 Okay, cause I think that's where we were about a week ago or two, right? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:11:02 So we're they're hunting down the stragglers. Um. It's one of those things where we know that there are systems out there broken, and we're trying to get to them as quickly as possible. So. Speaker 2 00:11:13 How do we how do we track those down? What are we maybe doing with those? Speaker 1 00:11:17 Thankfully, most of them were in Airtable or not Airtable. I'm sorry, uh, log me in and they failed on the install. Speaker 1 00:11:27 So that's how we're tracking them now. So it's also a mixture of freeing up Robert and Gaston's time. By the way, Jeff left a few unfinished things that he was supposed to be working on for us. He. Speaker 3 00:11:48 Was working on the e- waste portion. Okay. So. Speaker 1 00:11:56 U m, so we're working on. We got to get that taken care of. So, We're at a standstill on some things that were waited waiting for the e waste. So, I don't know who we can get to help with that. We've got a couple of different things that we're trying to juggle at the same time. Speaker 3 00:12:18 Okay. See. Speaker 2 00:12:22 If uh. Speaker 2 00:12:27 Maybe ping Monty or Ivana or somebody and see if they know. I don't know if you have contacts or not, but see if they have any information they can provide on. Who to go to, or I don't know if what what you need, but maybe gas. Speaker 1 00:12:45 Oh, sorry. Speaker 2 00:12:46 Maybe Gaston can reach out to one of them. And then if if they can give you the contacts or something, maybe. Maybe they can. Fa cilitate whatever it is that you need to, to do. Speaker 1 00:12:59 So basically, it's all being cataloged and taken out of our systems. We just what they were supposed to, what Jeff was supposed to do was to load them up in the van. And uh, he and Vlad were gonna take off site because we have to pay for people to come pick it up. I see. So, they're on a stage, uh in the conference room and we gotta get them out of there. U h, and then once we get them out of there, we can get we can finish up some things. Sorry, hang on one second. You. Speaker 2 00:13:33 Can also ping Olivia and see if she's got anybody that can. Go do that for a day. Um. She may be able to send. Kobe or Caleb over there, or both. Maybe for a day. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:13:50 I am still in Kobe and Caleb for ability first on Tuesday. Um, we had a slight issue in the conference room again. Um, and so we got to work on trying to fix that, identify it, take pictures of it, get it into who do. Um, So the team knows how to correct it because somebody we know who it is. Somebody keeps going into the conference room and. And uh. In the words of Mashaun. Almost sabotaging it. What? Yeah, it's I I know what's going on. It's a, a very interesting. Issue. It's a person that we've been struggling with. He's been going in and playing around with it, and then breaking it, and then when they need it for a meeting. It's not working. Speaker 1 00:14:45 Let me guess. Speaker 2 00:14:46 It's somebody who thinks they're super technical and tries to do something that they don't really know what they're doing, and then they break it for everybody else. Speaker 1 00:14:54 And doesn't like it because uh we keep showing up. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:14:60 I see. Mhm. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:15:04 Uh, to be fair, he even Kasha had an issue with this guy when Kasha was here. So we always just thought it was Kasha being cautious, but I, He told Michonne that he never got an email from me to uncover the uh conduits that were cemented in concrete. Said I never sent the email. And uh I keep track. Speaker 3 00:15:30 Yeah. So yeah. Speaker 1 00:15:36 Well, I better drink that coffee before my child gets home. Apparently, she has a late day today. He has a what? She has uh what they call a minimum day. Speaker 2 00:15:45 Oh, minimum day, so she gets out early. Speaker 1 00:15:48 Yeah, she gets out at like one thirty. Um, Speaker 2 00:15:51 You know they never had those when I was when I was in school. It was freaking we were in at eight. Whatever it was, eight oh five or whatever, Every day we had to be there, and we didn't get out till like we always have weird hours. They they created weird hours because they said it made everybody. Pay attention, or some bullshit like that. It was like we had to be in it. I don't remember it was. Eight fifteen or eight thirty two or something, and we didn't get out till like three twelve every day. And it was like five days a week. We never got an early day out. We never got like, and when my kids were in school. It was like, Every whatever every Tuesday was an early day out for middle school and on like. Speaker 2 00:16:37 In high school, They got they got to go in late one day or early out one day, and I was like, it was so hard. To figure out when I had to pick them up because I had to leave early one day from work to pick up one kid and leave an early day, one, a different day to pick up the other. It's like. I don't know, it makes parents'lives difficult. Speaker 1 00:16:59 Oh yeah. Um, let me read you what my child just said. This is why I was chuckling when you were talking. How annoying. I had things I wanted to get done today at school. I'm like, uh. It was funny. I was I am definitely cracking up at her. She is not the kid that did it, but. Um, by the way, I as soon as I get this done, I'm going to present this to Sharp. I actively started building this out yesterday. Speaker 1 00:17:32 Um. Just because caution had sent over the budget, and uh. It was, it was appreciated, but uh it it had nothing on it. And so when I asked him about he's like, well we can copy jump on a call like. Just tell me what you need. I don't want to check on any calls, but that's just me. So Uh, so we are, uh. I was about to say. Speaker 1 00:18:02 So I'm going to build this out, get this over to them so that they have it. I'm trying to be as transparent as possible. Um, just so that they know that hey, this is what we're we're trying to get done. Okay. Speaker 1 00:18:19 And I think overall it's going pretty well. They're they're they've been super receptive. Um and they've let me get things done, sign off on things, and you know, stuff like that. So. That's been super helpful. Um, sorry I'm trying to. Respond back to a text message from a client. Um, She just wanted to know if I can help her reset her password later tonight. So, once we get this done, we've removed Trelex. Sean was helping us move it over. We do need to have I know that. Speaker 1 00:18:60 We had an issue last week with Vermont sites going down because there was a power outage across the entire block. And then when they came back up, the sonic balls had reset themselves. So, uh, What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get with Jason and see can we get either Kevin or. Kevin or Gabby, Or maybe we get Anton's team involved to check how the sonic walls are set up and make sure that they're correct. So we could go. Speaker 2 00:19:28 Let's do let's do that, but also let's have them do an export of the config. And save it somewhere so that we have a backup of it. So even if they can't restore it. Have it so that they can either reference it, print it out, whatever they can. They can at least see what the rule set is. So if they have to set it up manually, they have a copy. But better yet, they can recover it if needed quickly. So somewhere. Yeah, send it. Send them definitely send them a note so that they have that. So they're using Sonic Walls in their data center. Speaker 1 00:20:09 Uh, Sonics and Rockies. Speaker 2 00:20:12 Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:20:19 So so will you will you do me a favor next week? Will you will you um. Will you send me a what you took as sort of the key. Follow up items from our last sort of in person meeting that we had with them. Back on uh. It was. March eleventh, so it's been about six weeks or so. Yeah, Cause I know Doctor Barber had a few call outs that were key to him. And maybe just send me like the the key things that he asked about. I don't remember exactly what they were. I know he asked about a few items specifically. Most of them were after Anzor had left. But maybe send me what what you took notes on, and where we are with those things specifically. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:21:15 Just so, in case he asks about him, I sort of know where we sit because some of those were related to like log me in. I remember and then. Um, You know what? What are we going to be able to do with with RMM and login? And then some of the other I think Huntress. You know, when when are we going to be able to do Huntress or not? And I think a few other things. So um. You don't have to do it right now, But if you can put it on your on your to do list for next week, that would be nice. Speaker 2 00:21:45 U m. Anything else we need to catch up on today? Speaker 1 00:21:54 Honestly, no. I was just talking to Phil timing to show you where we're at. On all the updates, but I think everything else we have talked about. Okay, Speaker 2 00:22:04 When I was talking to Olivia yesterday or day before. She sort of suggested that. Speaker 2 00:22:13 The dispatch process was getting challenging, and maybe we should turn it off. Um. Speaker 1 00:22:23 So she asked me to start working on turning off. The Missed appointments. However, um, if she wants to turn the entire thing off. We have. Speaker 1 00:22:42 Uh. Let me see if I can find it. She has a button that I gave her so she can do that. I'm just gonna see if I can try to find it. Uh, she has to just log into Smart Dispatch, which I know they have not been doing. Uh. And she can hit the button to turn it off. So there's a system controller she has access to, and it's called Master Switch. Okay. So she can and I broke it out, so she can turn off whatever she wants. So I gave her the power to do it. Um, I think she just keeps forgetting she has that power. Okay. So. Okay. But I can definitely one of the things I was going to work on today was trying to turn off. Uh, the auto assign. Speaker 3 00:23:38 Okay. Okey- dokey. I think. Speaker 2 00:23:53 I think that's about. It's. You don't use your parking pass at the office anymore. I mean, you don't need your parking pass at the office anymore, do you? Speaker 1 00:24:06 No, I promise. The other day, okay, Speaker 2 00:24:10 Cause she she kept asking me, and I said I don't think Chris goes in enough to warrant needing a parking pass any longer. And I think she said she's gonna make she's gonna give Jason a pass to the other building because it's cheaper. Yeah, and so I think that's where we landed. Soum, yeah. I think that's what she was asking me, and I said, I think that's the right way to go. So yeah. Speaker 1 00:24:34 So I did ask her to ask you because she was coming to me. Speaker 1 00:24:39 On the days where my RA is flared up, like that's one of the main reasons that. So, were was giving me his half because he wasn't coming anymore. Um, I do struggle with walking too much. Um, and so. Speaker 2 00:24:54 And if you're if you go to the office, Chris, like you know occasionally and you need to park there then. Park there and get a pass from the, from. Mar ina from Marina, uh, yeah, from Marina. Yeah, so like that's. That's whatever, right So that's how to do it. That's what I do when I go. I never park at the bank building. I always park at the library because. Yeah, I don't know. For me, it just doesn't matter. But obviously, if you have trouble walking and whatever, for sure so. Speaker 1 00:25:25 That, that was my only question.: is would I be allowed to park in the bank on those days Most of the time, I should be fine. Um, there was a good like. Three month period where I was super flared up, We were adjusting medication, and so I was just limping, but I refused to use my cane. I might have lost it when we moved. I don't intend to buy another. I hate that thing. Uh, too many opportunities to smack people over the head when you're disengaged with it. So. Um, So that was my only question. : is if that would be okay for some days just to break down the aggregates. Some gases from Marina. Speaker 2 00:26:03 And can you remind me So when we were in that meeting, uh, with Sharp. Obviously, I know Doctor Barbara was sitting next to me. Um. Aaron Hill. Who was that? Speaker 1 00:26:19 Was that she's the C O O. Speaker 2 00:26:22 So was she the person that was sitting next to Anzor? Speaker 1 00:26:28 Was she. Speaker 2 00:26:30 Directly across from you? Speaker 1 00:26:32 Was she taller, uh, African American mix, or was she shorter, straight hair like yeah. Oh, let me grab my door real quick. But I can I'm gonna take my headphones with me. Um, if she was a shorter one. Black here. Speaker 2 00:26:48 Well, there was only there was only let me think. I am trying to think of who all was there. So, there was Apollo, was sitting next to you, yes. I think there was only one African American lady there, and she was sitting next. She was sitting next to Onsor, and then Doctor Barbara was next to me, and then Olivia was next to you. And Onsor was over. Onsor and Vlad were over next to her. And I don't think there was anyone else there. If I remember that I can remember. Okay, so that was Erin. And who was Crystal? Because I don't remember Crystal being there, but I'm trying to figure out if I'm forgetting someone. Speaker 1 00:27:28 She may not have been there because she does work from home sometimes. Okay. She is the shorter Latina, uh, with straight dark hair. And they're both great. Speaker 2 00:27:40 And what is what is and and what is her what is her role? Speaker 1 00:27:44 She handles the programs, um, and different things within. Uh, sharp. I keep wanting to say Pelletier's, but that's uh someone else. But she handles like the Do you know what a wrap team is? Speaker 2 00:27:59 What a what team is. Speaker 1 00:28:00 So a wrap team is a group, a team of like, three to four people that work with foster kids. One is going to be a therapist, one is going to be a behavioral therapist, one is going to be the kid's advocate. One is going to be the parent's advocate, and then they usually have a coordinator. And so that's they do those in kind of like a program thing. Um, so that's kind of what Crystal is in charge of. Plus a few other types of programs. Speaker 2 00:28:29 Cause here's here's what I'm trying to figure out. I want to just send a sort of a check in email, right? And I want to send it to Doctor Barber for sure, But I don't know if I need to copy all four of them or just. Doctor Barber, maybe and. Is it just Doctor Barber, maybe and Aaron. Or do I need to keep or do I need to include Crystal and Apollo? I I don't know. I'm like, I don't want to copy everybody necessarily, But I don't know if it's just Doctor Barbara and Aaron or just Doctor Barbara. I don't know. I just want to say hi. It's been you know about six weeks since we talked. Just want to check in and see how things are going. If there is anything you need, you know. How are things? How are things, or is there anything that you need from us that's not being addressed? Kind of, you know, a check in on things. Speaker 1 00:29:19 I would send it. I would send it. To Doctor Barbara Crystal and Aaron, because they're like, they're set. From what I can tell. Speaker 2 00:29:30 Okay. And Apollo won't feel bad about being left out, right? Speaker 1 00:29:37 No, Apollo is like me. He's a contract person. Speaker 2 00:29:41 Okay, okay, that's what I'm gonna do then. Perfect. All right, I'm late for another call. Anything else you got? Speaker 1 00:29:49 Have fun today. Go t my donut. Got my coffee. Speaker 2 00:29:52 Have a great weekend. You too, Craig. Thanks, Chris. Bye. Hmm.
04-16 Consultation: Anderson - AI Tool Deployment
- Notes
- Date & Time: 2026-04-16 08:59:45 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Anderson ## Overview Anderson aims to deploy the AI tool Claude across its workforce, driven by the urgent need for secure AI workflows. Leadership, including the COO, is hesitant to upload sensitive data into free, unsecured accounts. Phase one will provision accounts for five key users to test functionality, configure security settings and policies, and establish governance ahead of a company-wide rollout. They are focused on managing user access, controlling costs, and ensuring effective training. The long-term objective is to roll out Claude to approximately 30 direct employees within the next month, supported by training and clear usage guidelines. ## Background Rebecca, representing Anderson, is leading formal adoption of Claude. Adoption has been delayed due to a recent high-priority transition between managed service providers. Currently, some employees (including Rebecca) use free, unsecured AI tools (e.g., Claude via personal Gmail or ChatGPT) for work tasks, creating an urgent need for a secure, company-managed environment to protect sensitive data. The plan starts with a five-user pilot (including Rebecca and COO Andrew Evans) to configure settings and policies, followed by a broader rollout to about 30 direct employees within the next month. They recognize the need for comprehensive training given the wide range of AI proficiency. ## Pain Points The most urgent pain point is the lack of a secure, company-managed AI environment, exposing the company to data security risks. Employees, including senior leadership like the COO, need AI-driven workflows but are currently using unsecured, free personal accounts (e.g., personal Gmail with Claude), risking sensitive data being uploaded to unmanaged platforms. This security concern is urgent and drives the move to a formal, paid Claude plan. Ad-hoc usage means no central oversight, no security policies, and potential data leakage—especially critical for those handling sensitive information, like COO Andrew Evans. A secondary pain point is the absence of a structured plan and policy for AI adoption and usage. They want to roll out Claude company-wide correctly, managing access—especially since the company domain is used by core employees and third parties. Concerns include varying technical skills, from “AI whizzes” to beginners who struggle with prompting. They want to avoid a rushed rollout lacking proper messaging, training, and governance. They prefer admin approval for access rather than open domain-based signup. ## Expectations They expect to establish a secure pilot environment for five users before broader deployment. Immediate tasks include setting up accounts for Rebecca, Andrew Evans (COO), and three others, plus an admin account for the consultant (Crimson). This phase will test settings (e.g., SSO/SAML) and define policies, such as whether to block other AI tools, with setup targeted for this week. Success is a secure, functional environment enabling the core team to finalize a formal rollout strategy. They also expect a formal company-wide rollout of Claude to approximately 30 direct employees within the next month. This must be well-planned and include comprehensive training covering Claude basics, prompting techniques, security best practices, and available connectors and skills. Success is onboarding all 30 employees with clear usage guidelines and the ability to use the tool effectively and creatively, encouraging experimentation within a controlled, secure framework. ## Other Information Summary - Cost Structure: Standard user license is $25/month. Heavy users may require a premium plan at $100/month. A $200/month plan is available for very high usage. - Minimum Users: The team plan requires a minimum of five paid users. - Domain Control: Setting up a formal company account with SSO will claim all email addresses under the Anderson domain, preventing access to any existing free/personal Claude accounts created with company emails. - Access Control: The client prefers an admin approval model for adding new users, not automatic domain-based signup, to prevent third-party individuals with Anderson domain emails from gaining access. - Employee Skill Level: Staff AI proficiency ranges from advanced users to complete beginners. - Connectors & Skills: They are interested in available connectors (e.g., Microsoft, Asana, Box) and want to encourage experimentation without initially restricting access to built-in connectors. ## To-Do List - [ ] Walk Rebecca through the remaining initial account setup. - [ ] Collect four additional user emails from Rebecca and send invites to the new Claude team account. - [ ] Schedule a follow-up call with Rebecca and Andrew to formalize SSO and security settings. - [ ] Prepare a brief proposal covering full security setup (SSO, SAML, connectors, admin management login). - [ ] Send Rebecca the Claude help/FAQ link about usage and token costs. - [ ] Plan and prepare training materials for the company-wide rollout (prompting, security, features). > **AI Suggestions** > The AI identifies the biggest pain point as the lack of a secure, company-managed AI environment, pushing employees to risky, unsecured personal accounts. Consider: > 1. Phased Rollout with a Security-First Approach: Proceed with the 5-user pilot, prioritizing Single Sign-On (SSO) and domain claim to immediately mitigate risk by disabling unsanctioned accounts and directing all users into the managed environment. Position this as a security enhancement to gain buy-in. > 2. Tiered Access & Training Program: Create a concise Acceptable Use Policy during the pilot. Offer mandatory “AI 101” training for all users (security, basic prompting, policy) and an optional “Advanced Claude” session for power users (connectors, custom skills, complex workflows) to address varied skill levels and foster safe innovation. > 3. Proactive Monitoring and Cost Controls: During the pilot, use the admin dashboard to monitor usage and costs. Define a clear process to request upgrades from the $25 standard plan to the $100 premium plan based on demonstrated need, enabling data-driven cost management before full rollout. > 4. AI Champions Program: Identify “AI whizzes” within the initial group and empower them as internal champions to share successes, provide peer support, and test new features. This drives organic adoption and creates a feedback loop for IT/management on effective use.
- Date
- Apr 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:12 Good Morning. Good morning. So. Speaker 2 00:00:17 I have a I set myself a re- What's that? Speaker 1 00:00:20 I said, you guys are killing me here. Speaker 2 00:00:24 Back at you. There's so much going on. I know. Um, I also set a reminder regarding Anderson because uh remember that forms, Survey that I looped you in on. Form survey. The thing with like they're using Microsoft Forms for like a tenant survey, and they wanted to create like a Power BI dashboard that, like shows all of the collections and stuff. Okay. Yeah, so I think um I'm going to try to get some of their times, I'm going to mention it to uh Rebecca today. And then um see if we can get some. Speaker 2 00:01:03 Me eting time with them to kind of discuss in in detail. So that way we can scope out the project for that. Speaker 1 00:01:12 Okay, just a reminder, yeah I'm off tomorrow. Speaker 2 00:01:21 It's like it's not going to be it'll be like next week, probably, Speaker 1 00:01:24 Okay, perfect, because I will be on the road on my way to Yosemite, where you headed Yosemite said. Speaker 2 00:01:35 You see Merced, very cool. Yeah. Is it just checking out the campus or what? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:01:44 It's something called Bobcat Day, where it's like the college visit day for all incoming freshmen. Speaker 1 00:01:53 Exciting. Yeah, my daughter has been talking nonstop about this trip. Speaker 2 00:01:59 Do you guys have like a full itinerary, like all the local spots to hit and stuff? Speaker 1 00:02:04 Mm- hmm. Speaker 1 00:02:06 She's bringing her best friend and I'm going to camp at the hotel room tomorrow night while they go to this big barbecue, that is at the lake. Speaker 2 00:02:17 Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Okay. So be fun. So who's who's watching the cats while you're away, Speaker 1 00:02:26 We're gonna be gone about 24 hours. So they're gonna have to babysit themselves. Speaker 2 00:02:32 Oh, that's fine. Hey, good morning, Rebecca. Speaker 1 00:02:36 Good morning. Good morning. Morning. Speaker 2 00:02:40 Uh, we have a special guest today. I don't know if I've uh you've met Christie yet. Christie's, our CIO uh I managed to rope her into this call to help us out with the cloud setup. Uh. So Thank you, Speaker 3 00:02:52 Vincent Yeah And. Uh, she's the best resource to kind of talk through I. Mean she's spearheading a lot of AI efforts for majority of our customers. Speaker 2 00:03:04 So, if any ideas, any kind of like you know, hey, what are we thinking about doing? What we want to test out. She's a she's the great person to check check in with that so. Speaker 4 00:03:15 Okay perfect. Um yeah Christy. We're looking at rolling out Claude for our whole uh workforce. Okay. Um and you know we were well one. We've been a little bit slow to the move because we were. Undergoing our transition from managed service providers. So that took precedent and we wanted to just get through that cleanly. And then, you know, we want to set up policy as we do it. But, it has kind of become more and more of like an urgent need for us. And so I already have like some workflows and things that I need to do and that I want to use Cloudd for. Speaker 4 00:04:02 Andrew Evans, our COO as well. And I obviously, just don't want to be uploading all of our data into kind of a non- paid- for free or unsecured account. Yes. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:04:19 Understandable. Well, we can help with that. So oh sorry. Speaker 4 00:04:25 Today is this uh. Speaker 4 00:04:29 We're only able to walk through my setup. Is that correct? Speaker 2 00:04:33 So I, So what we can do is I know you kind of wanted to get started and set up like an account for you and Andrew, right? From our last call. So for today's call, we can actually make this kind of interactive. We can kind of help set walk through and set up the initial setup. And then once we get that set up, I have to follow back and then we want to set up a nice, A small little proposal just to kind of make sure that we get all the security settings, right. The big ones are going to be like SSO, SAML, making sure all the security settings, all the connectors are all uh configured correctly. And then making sure that Crimson also has a management um login to it, too, so we can help kind of adjust usage, set limits on things. We can kind of go into depth there. But I wanted to get a head start, so you and Andrew can get an account going. And then we can take it from there and then handle all the backend setup. Um. Speaker 2 00:05:27 You know, moving forward. Speaker 4 00:05:29 Okay, great. Speaker 1 00:05:33 So, Just A heads up for you, Rebecca. When we set up Claude, Claude has some minimum requirements and I'm going to go over that with you. They're pretty easy, I'll be honest. One, You do have to have five users at the get- go. So it's a little bit different than Chat GPT, but that's not an issue because. Speaker 4 00:05:52 I already had two users in mind so perfect. Would an admin account count as a user? Speaker 1 00:05:58 So we count as a user for us, uh, Unfortunately, because they don't allow somebody just to have an admin right without havingum a paid license. But I'll go through all of that in a moment when we go through everything. Um and then with your with your accounts, your heavier users. Um so for Claude, your standard users are going to be twenty five dollars. If you start having users that are a little bit more heavy usage, you might need to put them up on a premium plan, and those cost roughly about one hundred dollars a month. And, so we'll go through what that looks like, because I actually have a couple different accounts that I will show you for Clod and how it works as far as teams and things like that. And then we're going to go through and talk about security during today's meeting. And. Speaker 1 00:06:51 In addition to that, we'll talk about connectors and skills and different things like that. That's low. We're we're not going to get into as much detail. Um, usually when we do something like this, we include training for all your staff that's going to use Claude, And we'll go in depth on connectors and skills and things like that, that they can do to make their days much easier using Claude. Speaker 3 00:07:14 Perfect. Um okay. Speaker 2 00:07:18 So Rebecca you mentioned that you're, Your, the the one you were testing was like just from your personal Gmail account, and we don't have one set up yet for Anderson's domain, right? Speaker 4 00:07:29 That's correct. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. So that's an important point. I don't know if anyone else is currently using a free account on Anderson's domain. You know, It's possible Um yeah But I am not. Speaker 1 00:07:40 Okay So why Oh sorry Vincent. Speaker 4 00:07:44 Go ahead. Speaker 1 00:07:45 One key thing to note you might want to, or we can send an email, or you can send an email either way. Uh, Just to let everybody know that if they did set up a free cloud account or even a paid cloud account with their Anderson email address, when we set up, we it may get cut off when we set it up. Soum because when we said I think. Speaker 4 00:08:06 That'll be a part of the larger rollout right for the whole company. So that like I want to come upum. That's good to know. Okay. I think that's going to be like a bigger conversation in terms of notifications, right? Prior to that. Speaker 2 00:08:23 Yes. You see, are you referring to once we set up SSO, It's going to claim all of those email addresses because that's part of the Anderson domain, right? And then next time they log in Yeah So. Speaker 4 00:08:34 It's almost like so even though they're not getting a personal account It's still going to affect them Yes Got it Correct Yeah Okay Sorry I didn't understand that. Speaker 1 00:08:45 So, In addition to that, There's an option we check when we do the setup that doesn't allow people to create their own free account with their Anderson. And if they did have one, they won't be able to log into it anymore. So it's a little bit more detailed. And, it's the same with any of the co- pilots or any of the AIs right now. It's, it's a security thing that we turn on that. We have to turn on. I mean, it's honestly one of, one of the things that we do just to secure your account. Speaker 4 00:09:21 Um, I guess my only question. So, this is going to happen regardless of what computer they're using. They're just not going to be able to access to see anything they had in there prior. Speaker 1 00:09:33 Correct until they get added to the Anderson account. Okay. Speaker 4 00:09:41 I don't think we have a ton of Claude users to be honest. And if we do, I I'm kind of okay with just doing it and then seeing people reach out, you know? Um okay. Okay. Because, we did theum the right yesterday with Sean and a lot of it was chat G P T that we saw. Okay people were on. Speaker 1 00:10:08 Good to know on that. Speaker 1 00:10:12 Um, I'm pulling up my system. I'm trying to get logged out of one cloud account into another. So bear with me one second and we'll go through everything. I was, I was in the middle of something, and I forgot to uh get the system to write me a handoff document. So bear with me um, I was doing that fast and furious as we jumped onto this call. Now we're also going to install the app on everybody's computer. Is that correct? Speaker 4 00:10:54 So down the line, team or yeah, I think I want to do the whole company rollout very soon, But I just thought like it'll be easier to do us five first mess with the settings. Decide on, you know, Are we going to lock down all other AI options or offers and come up with messaging regarding this? And then plan a training. But like I'd kind of like to create to open it up and add those licenses within the next month. Speaker 4 00:11:37 For the whole company, um, but I also don't want to like rush it and then. Uh not. Not have the right messaging understanding, or you know, yes, uh. And then obviously, like we'll have to provide some kind of training so that people actually use it. Effectively and know where to start. Some people are AI whizzes already, and some people might not even know how to prompt in a. Speaker 4 00:12:07 You know, effective manner. Speaker 1 00:12:09 Yes, one hundred percent, and that's something we'll train on. So, One of the things that I train on with Claude because I have multiple trainings depending on which AI that you use. Well, I am going to share both of mine. We're going to go through training on how Claude works, how to be secure, how to do prompting, How to get your information over if you are already using it in one system versus another? And. And things like that. So we'll make it pretty easy for you. Um, so in my window, you see two cloud windows. Uh, One on the left is uh my corporate cloud uh for Crimson. And the one on the right is a corporate cloud for another client. Um, The reason why I'm showing you the two is because one I have administrative rights, and one I have user rights intentionally just so I can teach you guys. Uh the difference between the two. And then this client doesn't mind me showing their stuff. Speaker 1 00:13:06 Because everybody with us signs an NDA. And, so they actually have said that it is okay for me to use their information for training purposes. So just be aware of that. So the on the right, I have admin rights to, the on the left, I do not because I don't need to administer the on the left. I do need administer the on the right. So I'm going to show you what it looks like from both fields. So for this one, for ability, I have it set up I'm the primary owner on this account, and I can go into organizational settings. You can see everybody that's in here. We just set this up last week for them. One person has been out, and the other one is traveling in South Africa, and he's having problems connecting. So but we can set it up; we can add users in here. You have your name ;, that is your the domain that's allowed to sign up. So they can. Speaker 1 00:14:00 Anyone that has this domain can actually sign up for an account. They can choose, we can choose to allow them to sign up and get an account, and you just start paying for it. Or, we can choose to manage the list and add members ourselves and send out the invites. So there's two options there. Everybody here is on the standard plan. If we bought premium seats, then we would upgrade anybody that needs a premium seat for higher usage. And I can show you the usage on the Crimson side because, one second. I can see my usage on here, which is really good. Everyone can see their own usage. And so for this month, my usage limit is a hundred dollars per month. Um, I don't need anything more than that because I don't use this this one as much. But uh each person gets the budget. If they go over the budget, they will have to purchase. Speaker 1 00:14:59 Um, you will have to purchase a higher limit for them. So that's something that we do suggest everybody keep an eye on. And then from here, Speaker 4 00:15:07 And do you find, do you know like the usage? Are thereum even just within maybe the clouds like help or FAQ? Can I find information on what types of tasks require more usage, whether it's image generation or large presentation deck building or. Speaker 2 00:15:27 Yes. I'll send you that link in the chat. Though I will, I will add that it's kind of a black art because it really depends on like the context, number of tokens. There's like it's not like a straight cut answer, right? So typically, if you're going to do more intensive coding things, or you're loading a lot of tokens into a prompt or something like that, then it's going to require a lot more. But it gives you a general overview of, Sort of what to expect in terms of usage. Speaker 1 00:15:59 And there's there's some caveats to know as well. Claude just wrote or Anthropic just rolled out recently a kind of like a time of day usage, similar to what some people have on their electric bills. So anything from I think it's seven AM Pacific time to eleven AM Pacific time is considered peak hours, so tokens do cost a little bit more. Um, and then also just like it is with chat GPT, uh, which version you're or which model you're using is going to cost more. Most people don't need. Uh most people who are just using it as a chat is not going to blow through the hundred dollars. Now, if you're going to go a lot more intensive like I do um you're going to blow through that. In fact I pay for the two hundred dollar plan for my main account. So okay, but wait is it two hundred dollars? Speaker 1 00:16:53 Yes, yes. Uh, I do a lot of questions. You want to make sure I heard you correctly? Speaker 4 00:16:59 Um, uh, I'm going to friend you on or whatever it's called on LinkedIn. You'll see my blog. You'll see everything I do in Cloud Code. You'll understand why I pay$ 200 a month. Okay. Yeah. Um, it it is a lot of fun. There are some capabilities you can do and I'm going to log into my normal account in a moment. And show you the capabilities from another level. Speaker 1 00:17:23 But you can go in there. Oops, sorry, not capabilities. I am thinking of connectors. My apologies. You can go in and configure your connectors. So I have an Asana connector that I use because one of my clients has Asana. Um, I don't do as much on this one, so I don't have a lot of connectors here, but we can do Microsoft from the get-go; can be connected. Um, I have a client that uses Box, so I have it connected to their Box. And so there are a lot of different things in here you can use. There are even more connectors. So, you're going to see a lot of connectors in here that you can add, things like Control Chrome. That's one of my favorite features. If you're on a Mac, you can do things with Apple Notes, control the Mac itself. So there's a lot. This one doesn't have as many as because I don't see all of them, but there's quite a few of them in here. Speaker 1 00:18:18 If I go into this one where I have a lot more, I can actually go in and enable this for my staff, for the staff here on this client. Um, and choose which ones that they're going to get. And then I can add more. So um, I can go in and say all available. And then I can go in here. You've got so much more, and they are constantly adding things. Um uh there used to be about 20 up until about three Three months ago, and then it was just like bam they added over two hundred. So there's a lot that they can do as far as plugins. There are a lot of plugins that they can use, And we'll go through this during the training where they can go in and do productivity, where the plugins will help manage the day, do tasks things like that. You've got some product management in here finance operations sales. Speaker 1 00:19:10 I've played around a little bit within operations and it seems pretty good. I have made my own plugin and I call them my minions. I have 47 of them. And so for those who are a little bit higher skill level, they will enjoy making their own plugins and then skills. This one doesn't have any skills yet, but I do skills so I can build out a skill that says, I want you to create this blog post or something along those lines. Or, this is a common skill where you teach it, how to look at an Excel workbook, things like that. And so. Speaker 4 00:19:49 For all these items within the directory, we don't need to regulate that within our team. Like there's no permissions or anything we need to set, right? Speaker 1 00:20:01 The only permissions are if you want to dissuade people from using them. And to do that, you can say, okay, I don't want my staff to use Intercom or I don't want my staff to use Canva. And then all we would do is restrict the staff from seeing it. Speaker 1 00:20:20 Okay. From the get go they see all of them. Speaker 4 00:20:24 They're already in there or they have to go in and add them? Speaker 1 00:20:28 They go in here and add them. They browse. Um yeah. Speaker 4 00:20:33 So, But they have the ability to just connect to them because it's kind of already implemented in the okay. I do like that. Like, I don't want people to have to ask. I do want to encourage like yes a level of uh. I'm hoping people will start to experiment and then can even report back, you know, on what they've learned if it's helpful to others. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:20:58 We, we have a client that over fifty percent of their Claude is the premium one hundred dollars seats because they are pushing their staff to use it and to be creative on how to make their work better. Okay. So um the only thing like on Crimson, the only thing that's blocked for us is adding custom connectors, which is not an issue for us. But that's something we can look at a little bit later. I'll show you how custom extensions work. I'm the only one within the company allowed to have custom extensions, and that's why I use a different account for mine. But this is our generic account, so I wanted you to see that. And then from in here, Identity and Access, we want to make sure that it is discoverable, that we can verify everything. What we allow for is the admin approval for this client. Speaker 1 00:21:51 Um, But we can set it to approve automatically where people just sign up to get their own account. And then you pay for it. And, then we set up a single sign on and everything like that for you. Speaker 4 00:22:05 Um, let's not do that for now. Um, because I think we want to just have more of a formal rollout. Okay. Um, But I can also touch base with Andrewum on that before we make a decision. Speaker 1 00:22:21 Gotcha. I only have one client doing it that way. Most of them want want a little tighter control, So I show everybody that the option is out there, if they want to do it. Other than that, we keep a more formal control where people can ask for something. Speaker 4 00:22:38 Yeah, actually as I think about it, we have a lot of third party people. We have other, E mails outside of like our core thirty employee base that have the Anderson Real Estate domain. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't want to open that up. Gotcha. Sorry, what were you going to say, Vincent? Speaker 2 00:22:56 Oh, I was going to say yeah that I think that times perfectly with how we're going to approach this. So, we'll do the initial setup, and then we'll we'll circle back. And then we'll do the kind of formal with the SSO. And then we can kind of talk in detail about the other domains and how we want to do that when you do the more global rollout. So I think that timing works. Speaker 4 00:23:15 Okay, perfect. Yeah, we we won't be rolling it out, You know to I'm, sorryum to everyone within, and you know, not our entire Microsoft uh, license list Vincent. Just to give you some awareness. Uh it'll be to like our, you know, direct employeesum so that'll be more like the probably like thirty licenses in total, Speaker 3 00:23:42 For sure. Speaker 1 00:23:50 Okay. So on this to actually do the setup is pretty straightforward. Do you want to walk her through Vince or do you want me to? Go for it. Okay. So, what you're going to do is you're going to sign up for a free account with your Anderson account. And then. Once you get that signed up, you get to upgrade to a team. Speaker 4 00:24:18 So, you want me to walk through this right now? If you want to, yeah. Okay. Speaker 1 00:24:23 If you don't, We can walk through it or we can do it and set it up ourselves, But we'll need to work with you to get a credit card from you to get it turned on. Okay. Speaker 4 00:24:34 Do you want me to share my screen? Speaker 1 00:24:35 Absolutely. That would be great. Speaker 4 00:24:49 Okay, I'll share it in just one second. I'm waiting to get a verification code to my email. This could take five seconds. This could take five minutes. Speaker 1 00:25:15 And bear with me while I while you do that because I'm going to log out of what I logged into and log back into my normal one. Speaker 4 00:25:50 I don't know if this email is going to get like filtered. Speaker 3 00:25:58 In any way. Um, Speaker 1 00:26:16 Guys, I have a hard drop in four minutes. Speaker 1 00:26:21 Just a heads up. I. Speaker 2 00:26:24 Can walk you through the rest of it, Rebecca, once you get there. And then once that's set up, Um I'll follow up with uh getting the rest of it and I'll loop Christy back in. Soum any other quick questions for Christy before. Speaker 4 00:26:37 Um I put the four emails, uh mine included in the chat that I wanted to set up uh for the five licenses. And then, of course, the crimson. Um admin license. Is it possible to get some of them signed up this week as well? Um Oh yeah, Speaker 2 00:27:00 As soon as as soon as we get this set up, they'll they'llum get the invites. Uh We can plug those four emails in there for you. Speaker 1 00:27:07 Okay perfect. Yeah, it's it's fairly straightforward. Speaker 4 00:27:10 So okay, and my didn't give me a verification code like it said that would, but I did get an email from Claude. And it said sign in because I can share my screen now. Sign in with secure link below, but it took me back into my free plan, which is not what I need. Speaker 1 00:27:32 Um when you when you're in your free plan, Um click on the click on your name below and see if it, if it has it there. Sometimes it will put it against him. Okay, It did not or It did. Okay, so go to settings. Yeah. Or actually go to upgrade plan. I'm sorry. No, I did they changed the UI yesterday? So okay, And then go to team and enterprise And, then you're going to do team And there. Speaker 4 00:28:08 You go Is there, no spaces allowed in that? Oh, Speaker 2 00:28:12 You can You can definitely Oh, there is There is Yeah It's just pulling off of the email address, So okay, Christy, Um I can take it from here, and then uh we'll schedule a little follow up call after this. Speaker 1 00:28:26 Awesome. All right, Rebecca, I'm gonna I'm gonna send you a connect request on LinkedIn. You'll see all my blog articles about using Clod. Um I've got some lower level ones coming out and when I say lower level, I mostly write about coding and IT stuff, but I've got some how to's coming out soon on just using Clod in general. So but you're amazing that, All right, thanks guys. I will talk to you all later. Speaker 4 00:28:51 Thank you, Christy.
08-10 Weekly Meeting: Communication Strategy and Starlink Follow-up
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- > Date: August 10, 2026 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Michuan] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes ### Communication and Follow-Up Strategy - A request was made to respond to an email from Sergio regarding Starlink, which was originally sent on August 5th. - The response was delayed while waiting for Greg's availability. - It was emphasized that for certain individuals, over-communication is necessary. This includes sending immediate follow-up emails to acknowledge receipt and state the next steps. - A few individuals, including Dan, Kelly, April, and Kathy, are being particularly picky due to internal pressures and require frequent updates. - This communication style is a reaction to recent issues where some team members, including Dan and Kathy, faced repercussions. ### Internal Administrative Matters - Speaker 2 mentioned they were working on finishing their Concur report and hunting down some receipts. - Michuan noted they are feeling pressure related to HR matters. - Speaker 2 is scheduled to start attending the SCHARP director's meetings, which are six-hour sessions held either monthly or quarterly. ### Future Meeting Planning - Speaker 2 proposed a similar director's meeting format for their own teams, involving departments like HR and IT. - Michuan suggested starting with one-on-one meetings first, as the team is not currently effective in group meetings and tends to engage in "group think." - Speaker 2 confirmed they have sent out all meeting invitations, with one meeting from Thursday, August 6th, needing to be rescheduled. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Respond to Sergio's email about Starlink, acknowledging receipt, summarizing current status, and confirming that the next step is waiting for a response from Greg. - [ ] Speaker 2 to call Greg to obtain a firm date to close out the Starlink issue, then share that date with stakeholders (e.g., Sergio, Dan, Kelly, April, Kathy) to support over-communication. - [ ] Reschedule the meeting from Thursday, August 6th and send updated invitations. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The specific content of Sergio's email regarding "Starlink" and the exact action required from Greg were not detailed, which could cause ambiguity in the follow-up. > 2. There is an underlying issue with team communication, where certain individuals require "over-communication" due to external pressures. The root cause of this pressure was mentioned but not fully addressed.
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- Aug 10, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hi. Hi, can you respond to Sergio's email regarding Starlink and not go through for camp? Speaker 2 00:00:14 Do I have it? Oh yeah, I can. Speaker 1 00:00:17 He just sent it. And so I guess she sent it on the fifth? And so her thing has been to tell both of them that, you know, oh, she's not getting responses and all of this and that. Speaker 2 00:00:28 So yeah, I can. I was waiting on Greg to let me know when his availability is. So, Speaker 1 00:00:35 Who's Greg Oh, at Congress? Yes. Um, So just I guess at the what they want is like if they send an email out like that, Just to follow up and say, okay. Now my next step is to follow up with Greg and get back to you. Um, that's the kind of stuff they're looking for there. It's a couple of them that are just being. Very picky right now, uh, because their feet has the fire in a different number of different ways. And we are the easiest way to deflect. And unfortunately, we keep we do they they want us to like over communicate. So um if you can respond to him and say, I am just waiting to hear back from Greg at um that and moving I am ready to hear back from Greg and moving forward if you have a next step. You know like, hey, thank you for getting back to me as soon as I get back to this person because there is just. Speaker 1 00:01:29 And so, right now, what we're seeing is a couple of people like Dan, Kelly, April, and Kathy. So like you are probably getting some" I need my receipts" right now too. Speaker 2 00:01:43 Yeah, I am trying to finish up my the Concur because I am trying to hunt down some receipts. So. Speaker 1 00:01:51 That's what we're kind of getting from from the four of them. So yeah yeah And I think her meeting was with him this morning. So, that makes sense because Carl pushed back on her last week. So, this week it's just it's you know her that's her thing. And dan Dan got his hand slapped last week, and so it's just and so did Kathy. So, this is how they're coming back. Gotcha. So, just so you know when you have something like that, just shoot an email back even though that was Wednesday of last week and. Speaker 1 00:02:29 Yeah. Technically, two days out so. So, we can get a date from Greg would be great to close it out. Speaker 2 00:02:40 Yeah, I will do that. Um, I was going to call him today, but I was looking at the first. Speaker 1 00:02:48 So yeah, We're just feeling it all around with the HR stuff. So okay, Speaker 2 00:02:53 Thank you got a second person for more personnel that might cheer you up? Speaker 2 00:03:02 Um, I read a book this week. It was on my bestsellers list that I was reading. It's called First Ladies. Which are you are you interested in it? Is about Eleanor is about Eleanor Roosevelt and all that she worked with, and it's actually pretty good. Okay, Speaker 1 00:03:22 So I'm sorry I'm not there today. Um, but I will i'll be in tomorrow. But you're not in tomorrow, right? Speaker 2 00:03:29 You were switching, I was switching just this week. So, SCHARP does has a director's meeting. I think it's once a it's either once a month or once a quarter, and I am going to start attending those tomorrow. But they get all of their directors in to the same room, and it's six hours with lunch included. And every every department had um but I was thinking, how could we do this with you and I? And i and directors? Like me and H R I T thing once a month or once a quarter. Speaker 1 00:04:02 I think we need to start with those meetings, so we can like one on ones. They're not, I don't see them as being very good at the group meetings. Speaker 2 00:04:11 Gotcha. Okay, Speaker 1 00:04:12 They're like not right now. They're like once we get some uh movement on success on some other areas, but yeah, they're not they're kind of group think at this moment. They'll be they could be. Speaker 2 00:04:29 Yeah, Um, I did send out all the meetings, so just a heads up. Speaker 1 00:04:32 Yeah, I did. The only one is like we we had to reschedule last Friday's right? Speaker 2 00:04:37 Last Thursdays and yes, I am getting that done right now because he replied. Speaker 1 00:04:41 Okay perfect thank you You are welcome. Speaker 3 00:05:33 Oh.
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06-15 Weekly Meeting: IT Status, Budget, and Project Updates
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- > Date: 2026-06-15 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Apolo] [Sergio] [Crystal] ### Meeting Notes #### IT Status and Budget Updates - **MFA and Compliance:** - The Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) rollout is complete and went exceptionally smoothly. - All users are on MFA, except four individuals with approved bypasses. - This establishes HIPAA compliance. - **Badge System:** - The Brevo badge system is fully compliant and consolidated. - A single badge now works for all buildings, except one Vermont site managed by a landlord. - **Budget Overview:** - The organization is projected to be approximately $100,000 under budget for fiscal year 2026; confirmation from Kashif is pending. - For fiscal year 2027, the budget is projected to be about $300,000 below the prior year; some figures require further review. #### Key IT Projects and Migrations - **Box to Google Drive Migration:** - The team approved initiating the migration from Box to Google Drive. - Expected savings are approximately $1,400 per month. - **File Sharing Practices:** - A review of Google Sites access showed many shared files reside on personal Google Drives rather than shared drives. - Christi will run a campaign and training to transition files to departmental shared drives, addressing issues when deleting former employees’ accounts. - **On-Premises Server Decommissioning:** - Plan: migrate file shares from data center on-prem servers to Google Drive. - Microsoft tenancy is set up for Pratt to test migrating CareLogic databases from on-prem SQL to the cloud. - After files and databases move, the colocation center and servers can be shut down to reduce overhead. #### Vendor and Contract Management - **TPX and Peerless Phone System Audit:** - Christi will audit the phone system where calls route through both TPX and Peerless, leading to double carrier charges. - Peerless has been difficult regarding an internet circuit upgrade. The contract ends mid-2027 and will be replaced by Crimson. - **Vendor Contract Remediation:** - Remediation with LT Technologies is fully complete, freeing $6,000 per month. - The MSP360 contract is nearly closed out; management of Google and Microsoft accounts is now handled internally. #### Security Access and Procedures - **ADT Master Codes:** - The Crenshaw master code has been changed. - A new system will assign unique codes per site to each individual to improve security. - Juan will be added for access to all sites as facilities manager. - **ADT Notifications and Permits:** - Crystal needs to be added to the text alert list for security alarms. - The ADT permit is paid and current. - **SOP for Access Requests:** - An SOP will be created for handling building security access requests. - Crystal will serve as final approver for these requests. #### Administrative and Other Updates - **Company Letterhead:** - Christi updated the company letterhead, removing inaccurate program details. - The address will be removed to create a general corporate letterhead; the main admin phone number (310-631-8004) will be added. - **Radio Vendor:** - Christi found the radio vendor information in Lorenzo’s old emails and sent it to Robert and Gaston to restore radio service. - **Employee Onboarding SOP:** - The IT team is finalizing their internal employee onboarding SOP for new hire setup and will share it with Apolo upon completion. ### Next Arrangements - Budget and Finance - [ ] Christi to get confirmation from Kashif on the fiscal year 2026 budget. - [ ] Review and validate fiscal year 2027 budget figures with Kashif. - Data and Systems Migration - [ ] Begin migrating all data from Box to Google Drive. - [ ] Migrate on-prem file shares to Google Drive. - [ ] Pratt to test migration of CareLogic databases from on-prem SQL to the cloud. - [ ] Plan shutdown of the colocation center and on-prem servers after migrations. - File Governance and Training - [ ] Christi to schedule training on proper file sharing using departmental Google Drives and launch the awareness campaign. - Telephony and Vendors - [ ] Christi to complete the TPX/Peerless phone audit to eliminate double carrier charges. - [ ] Define a contingency plan for Peerless circuit upgrade issues ahead of the mid-2027 transition to Crimson. - Security and Access - [ ] Add Juan to the ADT access list for all sites. - [ ] Add Crystal to the ADT text alert notification list. - [ ] Christi to finalize the SOP for ADT/building access requests with Crystal as final approver. - Admin and Communications - [ ] Christi to update and distribute the revised company letterhead. - [ ] Robert and Gaston to bring the security radios back online using the vendor info. - [ ] Apolo to review the IT employee onboarding SOP with Christi once finalized. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The fiscal year 2026 and 2027 budget projections are still tentative and require final confirmation and review with Kashif. > 2. The issue with Peerless being unresponsive to requests for a circuit upgrade is a risk to planned infrastructure improvements. A contingency plan may be needed if they continue to be uncooperative. > 3. The process of migrating files from personal drives to shared departmental drives depends on user cooperation. The success of the training and campaign needs to be monitored.
- Date
- Jun 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:12 Hi. Hi. How's it going? How was your vacation? I need a vacation from my vacation, but other than that it was good. I didn't touch a single computer while I was out. Speaker 2 00:00:23 That's wonderful. Yeah, that's great, great. Speaker 1 00:00:27 I just had a lot of house guests. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:00:33 It was all good. Speaker 2 00:00:35 It was all, yeah, it's good. Was nice to see you back. Speaker 1 00:00:38 Thanks, I am glad to be back. Let me tell you. Um, I am going to turn on transcriber real quick. Mhm. I'm not going to record the meeting; I'm just going to transcribe the meeting. Mhm. Speaker 3 00:02:37 Hello. Hi. Speaker 1 00:02:44 How was your time off? It was good. It's good, very busy. But the child has graduated, which is the most important thing. Speaker 4 00:02:56 Well, that's always good. Speaker 1 00:02:58 Yes, I had a house full of kids from Wednesday, which was her graduation day until Saturday morning. Speaker 4 00:03:08 So That sounds like no fun. Speaker 1 00:03:10 I abandoned them at one point and went out on the patio in my swing, in my hammock swing, and just ignored them with a good book. And a physical book not even not even my Kindle. So sometimes you need that. Speaker 4 00:03:28 Erin said she's coming. I think Christi may or may not be on. Speaker 1 00:03:38 Well, I have some decisions for you guys to make today. Doesn't have to be right now, but just things to keep in your mind. And I do definitely want Erin on because we've had some stuff happening even while I was on vacation, but even before I went on vacation that we've had to quickly reconfigure. And so I want to make you guys aware of that, which is why the policies still haven't gone out because with In the middle of everything else, I had going on policies couldn't get done because of it. Also, I am trying to find uh the radio vendor for the radios to get that fixed. Speaker 1 00:04:44 But I have my coffee. Speaker 2 00:04:48 I have not. Speaker 1 00:04:49 I have not either. I ended up Doordashing it here because, I didn't have time to stop. I had to take the child to her orientation for her internship, this morning, and she should be on the metro heading home by now. Speaker 2 00:05:05 Oh, I see. Speaker 1 00:05:12 She's interning. Children's Health Center. She's going into psychology, so her internship follows that. Speaker 2 00:05:20 Oh, nice, nice. Hi Erin. You're muted. Speaker 4 00:05:26 Christi's not gonna make it right? I'm muted, I shouldn't be muted now you're good. Hear you now, yeah. I don't think Christi's gonna make it okay. Speaker 1 00:05:36 No worries. Um, I do have some decisions for you guys today. Um, just a heads up on some things. There were some things that came up uh even before I left. And then while I was gone, uh, that's kind of redirected my attention on quite a few things. But, the biggest note to date is and I'm going to run another scan back through this. But the biggest good news for right now is everyone is on MFA with the exception of the people. Speaker 1 00:06:07 The four of you, including Crystal, have asked to bypass it. So which makes us HIPAA compliant. So big big thing there. It was by far one of the smoothest MFA rollouts I've ever done. So everybody even though that people had that missed that last step, everybody missed that last step. Um so, For the next Google MFA I roll out to someone else, not you guys. I am going to make sure that I put that last step in there more than what I gave you guys. But overall it was an exceptional rollout. BAFMA is fully on, SCHARP is fully on, and the only way people can bypass MFA is with Y'all's approval. So heads up for that. The other thing that happened, which is really good news is all the Brevo, which is your badge system. Speaker 1 00:07:02 Different from the ADT security, is all fully compliant and on the same system. So we can now do one batch for all buildings, with the exception of one of the Vermont sites. One of the Vermont sites is handled by that landlord, so we can't do those security badges. But all other sites are handled across the board. So a heads up for you guys there. We did run into some issues with that and mostly from users that just Did not, um, Respond to us to say, hey, what's your badge number on specific badge numbers we needed. So in that case, the moment that they determine, they can't enter the building with their badge, they'll call us. So um so those are those are really good things. Now. We can go back in and start thinking about the other things that we can do to save um working on the budget before I left on vacation. Speaker 1 00:08:00 It looks like, and I'm gonna have to get with Kashif on this next part. It looks like we're about a hundred thousand under budget for fiscal year twenty six, but I have to get with Kashif to make sure. Since I've been gone, I haven't gotten an update from him while I was out. Um. So it looks like we're still significantly under budget where we thought we would be um and then for the fiscal year, twenty seven budget that I worked on, uh which I need to get. Costs you have to take a look at. I've got you about 300, 000 under budget from the previous year. However, I am having to massage some of the data just to make sure that we have everything we need. But, it looks like we'll be under budget for compared to last year for next year. So heads up for you guys on that part. Any questions on any of that real quick? Speaker 1 00:08:57 And I do apologize. I am multitasking because I'm trying to get Robert the radio vendor name. I finally found it in Lorenzo's inbox, so I was searching Lorenzo's inbox while I was talking to you. So, I do apologize. No worries. Sounds good to me. It's always good to be under budget Always Um, So there are some things I want to, because i can't drop the budget anymore without getting y'all sign off. Um. The next thing we can do is uh the Box to the Box to Google Drive migration. Um, That's going to save approximately $ 1400 a month. Uh, once we get that taken out. So that's going to be some additional savings going forward there. So, are you guys good for us to start working on migrating all the Box data? Yes. All right, perfect. So we'll do that. Speaker 1 00:09:52 Hello. Sorry. Speaker 4 00:09:55 I said sure. Speaker 1 00:09:56 Okay, Apollo, I haven't forgotten your name change is still on my radar to get done. So okay, part of it's done, part of it's not done, but we'll get there. It's not as easy to do name changes on the first name as it is on the last name. So that was on my list. I just wanted to give you a heads up. I'm going through my active to- do list for you guys, Um, We are still going through the Google Sites access review of all the the intranet and all the shared access. A lot of the shared stuff is files that are located on people's Google Drive rather than the share Google Drive. So, um, We need to start campaigning to have people move that over into a share location. I built out the departments already. Speaker 1 00:10:47 Um, and so in the next couple weeks, Not this week because I I got to get my head back, wrapped around everything after being off. But in a week or so, I'm going to start doing training and doing, uh sending out the training meeting invites like I did previously. And walks people through what is the difference between a departmental share and you're just your own personal OneDrive share. And why that's important. Does that make sense? Sort of. Okay. Let me give you an example. There is 20 something accounts. We cannot fully delete from the system of past employees because people are using files that are still on their personal Google Drive that we need to move into departments. So, how to best share files is what we're looking at. Does that help? Make sense? Mhm. Okay, yeah. Speaker 1 00:11:47 Alright, perfect. Um, we are finalizing the employee onboarding SOP on our end. Um, so once I get that finalized, um it's going to be templated out into our system. We have some additional stuff we got to put in there, but Apollo I'll send that SOP over to you, and we'll go through that step by step. It's only the employee onboarding on our end And not anything touching your systems. So how we set them up in the system, grant them badge access, grant them access to files and folders, all of that. Okay. Wonderful. The next item I'm sorry I feel like I'm throwing a bunch at you. The next item is to start migrating the file shares off of the on prem servers that are at the data center into Google Drive. And that way we can spin down those servers. Speaker 1 00:12:45 And get everybody off of those servers and eventually get rid of the data center. So it's a little less cost, so that'll be something that we'll pull out a budget as well. Speaker 4 00:12:56 What's in those server files? Speaker 1 00:13:00 They're old share files that people still have access to, so there's some departmental shares out there, different things like that. Okay. A lot of it could be archived. So okay. Speaker 1 00:13:17 And that's part of the cloud migration that we had talked about previously. I did spin up, and Jennifer, this is more for you. I did spin up the Microsoft tenancy subscription that wasn't already in place on Microsoft, so that Pratt can go in and actually start working on what she needs to do to get CareLogic databases off of the on- prem system onto the cloud, so she can play in that for now. Speaker 1 00:13:47 She is set up with the free version, so she can go in and test it out. And then once she feels like she's got a good handle on it, We can start looking at what does that look like to migrate everything over from the old SQL databases to the new SQL database. And then once the file shares are moved and the databases are moved, we can shut down the colo and all the servers. And that's less overhead than what we have currently. So. Speaker 4 00:14:16 Okay. Sounds like a plan. Speaker 1 00:14:20 Yeah. Um, after that, I am going to start working on a TPX peerless audit. There are some phones that are on people's desks, where a person will call in on a certain number, it comes in on the TPX line, Then it forwards on the peerless line, and then it forwards to their physical desk phones. It is a mess and. Speaker 1 00:14:44 We've we're paying two carriers for the same call. So I'm going to start working on that. That's not going to hit budget until fiscal year twenty twenty eight, Which was planned because uh peerless that they're not their contract doesn't end until late twenty twenty seven. Speaker 4 00:15:05 Christy, I have a question. Yes, ma'am. That's why because sometimes I get some of the streams, the voicemails and faxes, But when I send it to the teams, they're like, oh, we already handled this. So is it because it's going I'm getting multiple but it's duplicates? Speaker 1 00:15:17 Yeah. Okay. They've got routing set up whereum three people may receive the same fax. Speaker 4 00:15:25 Got it okay. Speaker 1 00:15:27 But the biggest thing is when a call comes through, It hits that TPX line you're paying for that TPX line and then it forwards to. Peerless and you're paying for the you're paying for two lines with one call. Understood. So okay, so that audit is in progress. Tpx has been a dream to work with Peerless because we need them to upgrade uh, the internet circuit for both here and the colo, they've been a pain in the neck to work with. It's just really hard time getting them to send me the quote to upgrade the circuits, Um so I was going to dig back into that later today and get that fixed. Speaker 1 00:16:05 With them, um, they are such a large company. It's almost like, they we we don't spend enough money for them to care about us. So I'm I'm gonna just see what I can do. We already planned on um canceling that contract for Peerlist and Crimson taking over because it'll be a lot cheaper for Crimson to take over. Um but I we've we've got to get to that point. Um the contract does end Well, I said end of twenty seven, mid twenty seven. Um, So we'll be looking at the we've got to get equipment switched out anyways because there is a lot of end of life equipment. So um switches and different things like that that we've got to switch out. So we're doing a full cost analysis on that as well. So. Um, we have fully. Speaker 1 00:17:01 Ended remediation under LT Technologies. There should be nothing that is going through LT Technologies anymore. That has been fully closed out. Um, We have almost completely remediated and closed out the contract with MSP, three hundred and sixty, which handled uh Google and different things like that. Um so those. That saved a bunch of money, uh, 6000 per month just on the IT technology side is now freed up. And then the MSP360 was almost all is migrated to Crimson. There's one more piece left and that I'm going to check on that. That was actually supposed to be finalized on Friday. Um, there's no changes to cost on that. It's just we're taking over management from MSP 360 and they handled your Google and your Microsoft accounts. And so that's just been turned over to us. Speaker 1 00:17:60 The next item on my list, and please tell me if I'm going too fast. The next item, okay good. ADT codes and physical access control. Yes. So we I have no way of seeing the master codes. So for this morning we went ahead and changed the Crenshaw master code. Um, The way master code or any codes into the system for ADT can be set up, we can set it up Her individual, so Aaron, you have a master code into Crenshaw. Crystal has a master code into Crenshaw. Lewis has a as a standard code where he can arm and disarm, and then we reset the master code. So right now, the only people that know the master code is myself and Robert, and then we're going to notate who we've given that master code out to. So I'll I'm going to walk over to you and give you that code. But your individual mastercode is the last. Speaker 1 00:18:60 Is uh well Jessica should have given you what that code is. She did. Also, Speaker 4 00:19:04 Is that the individual master code? Can I use that to set all the sites? No, just just Crenshaw right now. Speaker 1 00:19:12 Just Crenshaw right now. Okay, So what we're going to do is Robert and Gaston are trying to find out the master code for each site. We're going to put it in our database. And thenum anyone that should have a code will get an individual code. So next time we don't have that. I ssue where someone shouts it out across the floor. Correct. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:19:35 Okay. Can we add Juan to that list since he is the facilities manager? I need him to have a code which I've told Robert toum to all the sites that way I'm not panicking that on the weekend or after hours. Yeah, the alarm is going to go off and the police are going to show up. Speaker 1 00:19:49 Yes, uh, we can do that, that'll be super easy. Um ADT did send me the voice access. Voice codes for this site and Suite C of this building. So I've got those two voice codes. I don't have the Crenshaw one in yet. Once I have that, I'll get that over to you guys, but it is the master verbal security passcode. As soon as I can log into my ADT, there's like three ADT websites I got to log into, we can change that master voice security passcode. Speaker 4 00:20:26 The other thing is, Crystal is not gettingum like I get an alert on my like via text. If one of the sites, mostly it's Vermont, is isum goes off. She's not getting those when I get them. Speaker 1 00:20:39 I will get I will get her added to that. I am getting them and you're getting it. Okay. So yeah. Yeah. That's that's the only thing I checked on vacation, your text message and Crystal's text message in those alerts. Speaker 4 00:20:52 Um so but. Speaker 1 00:20:54 But I did know that you were getting up, so I wasn't too worried. Speaker 4 00:20:57 Yeah, but just in case I'm out. Speaker 1 00:20:59 To me, it more like. Speaker 4 00:21:00 Administrated George. Yes, It's an issue. Yeah, the alarm go back inside and reset it is what's been happening. Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 00:21:10 All right, No worries Um I just found the uh security radio vendor. Uh I sent that over to Robert and Gaston, so they can work on getting the radios back online. Um, I had to dig through Lorenzo's email to find it. So it's a good thing I hadn't taken down his email yet. Okay. So, um, and then we have, um, hang on one second. I'm scrolling through my notes. Speaker 1 00:21:58 ADT permit. Is Juan handling that still? Speaker 4 00:22:01 It's been handled. I forwarded via email that it's been paid for and is current. Okay, I can pull it up now. Perfect. Let me see, we have a receipt and everything that it's good to go. Speaker 1 00:22:19 Perfect, um. Speaker 1 00:22:26 And then I gave you that folder of random stuff that I found, like building permits and stuff like that, right before left. Yes, okay. Anything valuable? Speaker 3 00:22:38 Did you get this to me? Speaker 4 00:22:40 I thought I did. It's not on my desk anymore. Actually, if it's right before you left, I am not so sure. Speaker 1 00:22:44 Okay, we'll figure that out. Okay, um all right as soon as we get the ADT codes, Finalized. I'm going to write up an SOP so that my staff has it, so that if anybody calls in and says," Hey, I need building security access to this," they know how to handle it. Who needs to be the overall approver for that? For getting access to the building codes? Me. Okay. Speaker 4 00:23:11 Because I oversee Juan and he's over facilities, but Chris and I will always collaborate. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:23:18 You guys make my life so much easier. Speaker 4 00:23:21 We might keep it simple when in doubt. Yes. Speaker 1 00:23:25 Um, Also, I fixed theum letterhead and I have not sent it over to you guys yet. Thank you. Uh, let me show it to you because this is my my IT status report. I'm I got to make some edits to it. Um but this is what I made the letterhead look like. Does that look better? Speaker 4 00:23:49 I'm, okay, with the letterhead, as long as it didn't have all the inaccurate programs on the bottom. So, cause it had the old ones. Can you make it a little bit bigger? Cause I can't see. Yeah, I'll see that. The bottom I can't see. Speaker 1 00:24:01 And I just noticed some mistake on it. University. I just noticed my system made a mistake, so sixteen. Speaker 4 00:24:09 So you can take out the sweet now, the sweet number? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:24:12 I noticed that was in there right when you said that was like, okay, Speaker 4 00:24:14 So, this is a question of. Sometimes we use sharp letterhead, but because we have different addresses, you know they're not all twenty six ten. Speaker 1 00:24:22 We can do ones with different addresses. Speaker 4 00:24:24 Sharp and Bathma letterhead. Speaker 1 00:24:27 Uh, You know what I can just is that the same is that we can just take out the address. Speaker 4 00:24:34 I mean most letters that are for grants proposals and all those Dr Barbara typically signs comes from our twenty six ten. But if. Maybe HSP or Crenshaw needed letterhead, unless we do separate, which we can. Yeah, butum just being mindful of the address, it's corporate, so it could still stand and be just fine. I don't know. Speaker 1 00:24:56 Okay, I'll take out the address for now and the phone number leave it where we're at. And then we can make changes as we need to, Speaker 4 00:25:04 Yeah, the phone number could stay the same. The 310, 32, was it six whatever is the 8004 number. Speaker 1 00:25:10 Oh that's not this one, I'll find that. Speaker 4 00:25:13 That's the admin number because they can always reroute it, the 310-631-8004. Speaker 1 00:25:19 Perfect. All right. Um, I'll add the main line. And thenum this is what I'll use to send out policies this week to all staff. Perfect. Yeah So anything that you guys have for me that you need me working on that should be higher on my priority list than what I've mentioned to you so far? Speaker 4 00:25:45 No, I can't think of anything. That I can think of, but it's been a busy day, so yeah, maybe after I eat some lunch we'll figure that. But I think I am okay. Apollo, do you need anything? HR Yeah, I can't think of anything. Christi. And normally we do we can just go find you and call you, which is awesome. Speaker 1 00:26:04 You guys have twenty four hour access to me, at least the people in this call do and Robert. Speaker 4 00:26:09 And Gaston not to be that i felt so bad texting robert early on saturday, but. Speaker 1 00:26:14 Don't even worry about it. You were the most exciting thing to happen to me that day. I had a mess of kids working on nails. That's not exciting if I was the. Speaker 4 00:26:22 Most exciting thing to happen, Speaker 1 00:26:23 Right? My living room got turned into a nail parlor, Speaker 4 00:26:29 So oh no, yeah, Speaker 1 00:26:31 Teen girls'nails can you imagine? Um, Speaker 4 00:26:35 I think I am good. Speaker 1 00:26:36 Okay, Apollo attorneys do they all have uh all of the stuff that they need? Speaker 2 00:26:43 The attorneys? Mhm. Yeah. Okay, Speaker 1 00:26:45 Perfect. One of them called me last week and woke me up. And I I did not know what was going on because I, they literally woke me up. So it was early in the morning really? Yeah so I got Robert and Gaston onto it. Speaker 2 00:26:60 Really who was that? Susan, Speaker 1 00:27:02 No, it was a gentleman. Speaker 2 00:27:04 Oh, yeah, you know what i'm talk. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, they're looking throughum Tammy's emails. Got it. For a case. Fernando. Got it. Fernando, yeah. Speaker 1 00:27:17 Yeah, and that was on Tuesday, so I was a little confused because one, I couldn't barely hear him and two, I was like I literally was sound asleep. I was taking advantage of sleeping in that day. So yeah, Speaker 3 00:27:32 Uh and it was uh it was nine o'clock. So yeah, normally i'd be awake, but no mhm. Speaker 1 00:27:40 Um, all right, perfect. Then I am going to give you guys back thirty minutes to your day. And I am going to try to get my head wrapped around the million emails. I still have not touched yet. I appreciate that. Jack can go eat before five o'clock. Thanks, guys! Tutors! Speaker 4 00:27:53 All right, bye everyone!
06-02 Weekly Meeting: Project Status, Training Schedules, Billing Compliance, and Network/Hardware Deployments
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-02 10:29:44 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Pete] [Speaker 4] [Christi] [Seg] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Vlad] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Connectivity and File Access Issues at Meeting Start - Description: - Screen sharing and file access issues occurred; Paul asked Julia to share her screen. - Suggestion to address technical setup after the meeting to proceed. - Conclusion: - Julia shared screen; meeting proceeded with agenda. - Topic Title: CT Homes Firewall Shipment Status - Description: - Firewall shipment dates repeatedly changed (May 30, May 31, June 4). - Maggie checked today; status shows “on the way” but not “out for delivery,” indicating pending. - Conclusion: - Shipment remains pending; team to verify with Ingram via Maggie. - Topic Title: IT Glue Decommission and Data Export - Description: - Olivia disabled IT Glue for most users. - Plan to export IT Glue data on June 8 or June 9; subscription ends by June 10. - Conclusion: - Validation and export targeted before June 10. - Topic Title: Signal Partners Onboarding Status - Description: - Status unclear; discussion deferred until Olivia returns. - Model status unknown; to be checked with Dr. (unclear reference). - Conclusion: - Await Olivia’s update. - Topic Title: Kearney Properties AI Tools Training and Setup - Description: - On hold lifted; training scheduled for June 17 when Christi returns. - Need a teammate to begin setting up Claude, Copilot, and a third tool (selection pending). - Conclusion: - Training confirmed for June 17; pre-training tool setup support requested. - Topic Title: Sharp Hardware Refresh Progress - Description: - 70 laptops to be deployed; schedule targets completion by September. - Hardware procured under last year’s grant; weekend work progressed deployment. - Conclusion: - On schedule for September completion. - Topic Title: AbilityFirst Network Upgrades and Coverage - Description: - Need six media converters; Christi to coordinate with Maggie. - New APs extend coverage; outdoor pool AP no longer needed; director’s house coverage resolved. - Comm-Direct assisted with AP rearrangement; possible reuse of surplus APs at other sites (e.g., Inglewood pool). - One unmanaged switch requires PoE+ injector (outside original scope). - Completion at 89% in ConnectWise; site visit planned June 4 or June 5 for final checks and documentation. - Ensure pictures, diagrams, and floor plans (Meraki) are saved to Google/Hudu. - Conclusion: - Project close-out expected by week of June 8; labor costs on par; potential additional AP install considered. - Topic Title: QuotesIn Training and AI Policy - Description: - Recent in-person training completed; client may request additional sessions. - Close-out targeted by end of June; AI policy being finalized and distributed to coaches/staff. - Current completion ~80%; ensure billing logs and accuracy across projects. - Conclusion: - Proceed to close by June 30 with billing diligence. - Topic Title: DTLA Cloud Team Setup and Training - Description: - Kickoff completed; all-staff training scheduled for June 22. - AI tools familiarity survey sent June 1; awaiting responses. - Project completion target July 15; current progress ~10%. - Billing: down payment likely billed; full invoice pending; training precedes licensing due to lack of free trial. - Conclusion: - Maintain training-first approach; consider collecting partial upfront to motivate progress. - Topic Title: Coats/Kotzen Project Costs and Tool Selection - Description: - Completion targeted June 15; contract price exists, but total cost not set in sheet. - Await client decision between Copilot vs. Claude to finalize costs. - Conclusion: - Finalize tool choice to populate total cost and proceed. - Topic Title: Anderson Projects (Meeting Scheduling and Firewall) - Description: - Two projects being consolidated; waiting on dates from Andrew due to survey changes. - Separate HQ firewall: hardware delivered; internal meeting at 4:30 p.m. June 2; aiming to complete by June 18 depending on Gabby/Kevin availability. - Conclusion: - Schedule client meeting; proceed on firewall with team availability. - Topic Title: Alear DLP and Copilot Security Project - Description: - Progress ~25%; status update meeting on June 4 with reports. - Completion deadline August 31. - Conclusion: - On schedule; coordinate tickets with Gabby. - Topic Title: Avalon Test Project and Billing Policy - Description: - Avalon paid for a small project despite broader outstanding balances; kickoff to be scheduled after Christi returns. - Pete emphasized no additional work beyond scope until Avalon settles past dues. - Small project may be used to train Gabby; no completion date until kickoff occurs. - Conclusion: - Proceed with current small project; enforce strict billing compliance for any new work. - Topic Title: Ishida Monash IT Agreement and Gmail Migration - Description: - Gmail migration added to onboarding; five users migrated; three to four remain. - $5,000 discount applied; after migration, configure Avanade (likely “Avanan” or similar, not clarified). - Client pays via auto credit card; good standing. - Conclusion: - Target finishing Gmail migration by June 15, then complete configuration. - Topic Title: Maverick Gaming Assessments and AD Migration - Description: - IT assessment on hold. - Order-to-main migration: 205 of 1,711 users switched (11.98%); DNS details for WSG Gaming pending; Seg to reach out to Ross. - Conclusion: - Continue daily migrations; resolve DNS with Ross. - Topic Title: Puthill Infrastructure and Security Assessment - Description: - Documents and questionnaire received; internal review scheduled for 2:30 p.m. June 2. - Conclusion: - Proceed with internal review and next steps. - Topic Title: Lab Proc Workstations Deployment - Description: - Most hardware delivered; monitors pending. - All delivery to HQ per Vincent; configure in office before HQ installation. - Sync with Charles on June 3 for onboarding details. - Conclusion: - Await monitors; configure and schedule installation. - Topic Title: Admire West BCIO Engagement Phase 1 - Description: - New fixed-price project (~$25,000); quote review pending June 2. - Anzor traveling next week to lead engagement; prior relationship noted. - Conclusion: - Christi to brief Anzor this week; Seg to coordinate. - Topic Title: Hana Internal Audit (Anton), Huntress Migration, Cottonwood Sophos - Description: - Awaiting Victoria’s response; Seg to reach out to Anton. - Cottonwood: waiting on AutoElevate to push Huntress; still on Sophos. - Conclusion: - Follow up on audit status; proceed with Huntress once AutoElevate available. - Topic Title: Belgrade POE Security Cameras (Miguel) - Description: - All devices arrived; confirming local installer vs. third-party MSP and switch install. - Configuration to occur post-switch install. - Conclusion: - Await Lori’s confirmation; provide quote if third-party needed. - Topic Title: Wireless Access Point Replacement (Miguel) - Description: - Ordering issues with CPW; order placed via Ingram June 1; ETA expected 7–9 days. - Conclusion: - Await ETA confirmation from Ingram. - Topic Title: Arc Capital Servers, Firewall, Switch, APs (Miguel) - Description: - DP invoice paid; hardware ordered via Ingram; ETA pending. - Conclusion: - Await ETA; proceed upon arrival. - Topic Title: Barker Pacific Group Unified Devices (Gabby) - Description: - Quote from Methodology IT provided to Kara; awaiting property manager feedback. - Conclusion: - Pending client response. - Topic Title: PATH Server Pickup and Other Julia Projects - Description: - Central Food Migration: George to pick up server at PATH HQ on June 24; earlier pickup appreciated if possible. - Intramem compliance and Windows 365: - One developer’s Cloud PC pending Intune enrollment (Linux device); Gabby following up with David (Portugal). - Compliance: awaiting Sean’s update on missing users in CA policy group; enroll in small batches. - Weingart file structure cleanup: Jason leading; Julia coordinating. - Wayfinder SharePoint cleanup: - Client to approve design by June 3 (hard date); training scheduled June 15 with Christi; will cancel if no sign-off by June 3. - Hana XTRF upgrade: completed and signed off by Mike on June 1; preparing to close. - Paula’s onboarding: almost complete; pending contractor handbook from April. - Conclusion: - Multiple projects advancing; key dependencies on client approvals and Intune enrollment. - Topic Title: Paula’s New Projects and Billing Status - Description: - 601 South Figueroa Forum – Common Developers: tasks in progress by Gabby and Kevin; client status update requested for Thursday, June 4. - Kotzen: reached out to customer re EBA order; awaiting resource assignment from Olivia. - Billing status to be aligned with Julia separately and then updated in project list. - Conclusion: - Proceed with client update; clarify billing and resourcing. - Topic Title: New Opportunities and Project Intake Process - Description: - JLL Habitat decision pending on recent quote (Vlad). - Weingart Sycamore quote includes multiple unrelated subprojects; need approach to split/manage if paid. - Proposal: weekly cadence among Julia, Seg, Paula for intake, setup, assignment, and consistent process; reinforce billing follow-through. - Conclusion: - Establish weekly coordination; ensure consistent project and billing processes. - Topic Title: ConnectWise Percentage Completion Automation - Description: - Unexpected auto-update to 100% observed; Seg consulted Michelle and Tony about automation. - Julia used override to correct percentages; Christi suggests ensuring tickets are fully entered and assigned to stabilize metrics. - Conclusion: - Monitor automation behavior; use overrides and proper ticketing to maintain accuracy. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Verify CT Homes firewall shipment status with Maggie and Ingram; confirm “out for delivery” timing - [ ] Export IT Glue data by June 9; finalize decommission by June 10 - [ ] Assign resource to set up AI tools (Claude, Copilot, third tool) for Kearney before June 17 training - [ ] Purchase and ship six media converters; install PoE+ injector for AbilityFirst unmanaged switch - [ ] Document AbilityFirst changes (photos, diagrams, Meraki floor plan) and update Google/Hudu - [ ] Ensure QuotesIn billing logs and project billing accuracy; prepare for June close-out - [ ] Send DTLA billing per agreed terms; confirm June 22 training and survey responses - [ ] Finalize Copilot vs. Claude selection and total cost for Kotzen; update project sheet column E - [ ] Schedule Anderson client meeting dates; proceed with HQ firewall implementation by June 18 - [ ] Prepare Alear status reports for June 4 meeting; coordinate tickets with Gabby - [ ] Enforce Avalon billing policy; schedule kickoff and define scope; train Gabby as planned - [ ] Complete Ishida Gmail migration by June 15; then configure Avanade - [ ] Continue Maverick migrations; obtain DNS details from Ross - [ ] Review Puthill documents at internal meeting on June 2, 2:30 p.m.; define next steps - [ ] Coordinate Lab Proc monitors delivery; configure at office; sync with Charles on June 3 - [ ] Christi to brief Anzor on Admire West this week; Seg to align coordination - [ ] Follow up with Anton/Victoria on Hana internal audit status; initiate Huntress after AutoElevate - [ ] Confirm Belgrade switch installation plan with Lori; provide MSP quote if needed - [ ] Track Ingram ETAs for WAP replacements and Arc Capital hardware - [ ] Barker Pacific Group: await Kara’s feedback; be ready to proceed with migration support - [ ] Confirm PATH HQ server pickup logistics; explore earlier pickup than June 24 - [ ] Wayfinder: obtain design sign-off by June 3 or cancel June 15 training - [ ] Close Hana XTRF upgrade project after June 1 sign-off - [ ] Obtain contractor handbook from April to finalize Paula’s onboarding - [ ] 601 S. Figueroa: prepare client status update for June 4 - [ ] Align Paula’s billing status with Julia; update project list - [ ] Set weekly intake/process cadence among Julia, Seg, Paula; standardize project setup and billing - [ ] Review and correct ConnectWise percentage automation; apply overrides where necessary; ensure full ticket entry/assignment ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. CT Homes firewall shipping remains ambiguous; frequent ETA changes without “out for delivery” status increase risk of missed deadlines. > 2. Kotzen project costs are undefined pending tool selection; delay in decision blocks billing and scheduling. > 3. Avalon has outstanding debts; ensure no scope expansion or new work is accepted until past balances are settled. > 4. ConnectWise percentage completion auto-updates may misreport progress; define clear ownership for configuration and safeguards. > 5. Multiple projects depend on external approvals (Wayfinder design by June 3, JLL Habitat quote, Barker Pacific feedback); consider escalation plans to avoid schedule slips.
- Date
- Jun 2, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:38 Okay, I'll prepare. Hello, hello. Hello everyone, morning. Let me just check. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:59 Okay, Olivia is Oh. Oh oh, Speaker 3 00:01:03 Yeah. Olivia is at Evolve, so she's not going to be joining today. Speaker 1 00:01:11 Let me just share my screen. Speaker 2 00:01:19 This other screen here. Twenty three. And yeah, I've been using this site. I thought it's my, I have to reopen this file. Speaker 1 00:01:36 Hello. Okay, so. Speaker 3 00:01:41 Look s like it's trying to connect to another file that it's not able to connect to. Speaker 2 00:01:48 Yeah, earlier this was all good when I was checking on this, but then last minute. Maybe you closed the working book? Speaker 4 00:01:58 If you close the working book, you got to leave it open. Speaker 2 00:02:04 The one from the browser? Speaker 1 00:02:08 Uh, Opening it up. Speaker 4 00:02:13 Do you want me to share my screen while you're fixing it? Paul? Speaker 1 00:02:16 Yes, please. Okay. All right. There we go. So. Speaker 4 00:02:33 Paul is firstly facilitating this meeting so. Speaker 2 00:02:40 Okay, So I'm trying to. Yeah, I've opened the the one from uh what's this? Speaker 4 00:02:49 It's let let's go let's let's talk about it after the meeting. Let's start. Speaker 3 00:02:53 We can just we can just use Julia screen that's fine. Speaker 1 00:02:58 Okay and First. Speaker 2 00:03:03 Things first, so yeah, it's now week twenty three. Let's start with so Oli is not here. So next we have Christi. Speaker 3 00:03:12 We can we can still talk about the CT homes thing. I don't I don't know if the uh I don't know if we've gotten any confirmation as to whether this thing has shipped or not. This is that This is that firewall that was supposed to ship at the beginning of May, then it was the end of May, then it was another then it was June firstum, I s there anybody that can check. Speaker 4 00:03:35 With them I'm checking right now? Speaker 3 00:03:39 Yeah, somebody is there anybody that can check with Maggie and find out if she was able to to confirm with Ingram. If that actually ETA. Speaker 4 00:03:48 Is 64. Speaker 3 00:03:49 Okay, they change it every other day. Speaker 4 00:03:52 Let me check when was the last time? Speaker 3 00:03:55 Sorry. Yeah, they said it was going to be May 30 th, and it was May 31 st. Speaker 4 00:04:00 Now Maggie checked it today 16. Speaker 4 00:04:04 So ETA is six four. I don't think that's what we're going to show. Okay. It says on the way, so this sometimes when it's on the way and it's like this, it looks like it's pending still. Speaker 3 00:04:16 Yeah, But they've told us they seriously told us a different day every day this week and last week and everything else. Speaker 4 00:04:23 So when it's out for deliveries, that's this is the update that's actually the one that's going to happen. So. Speaker 3 00:04:32 But it doesn't say it's out for delivery. Speaker 4 00:04:34 Exactly. See, it says" on the way," but it's not filled, so this is technically pending status" on the way." So yeah. Speaker 3 00:04:41 Okay. All right. Okay. Speaker 2 00:04:45 And then next we have a two six, one four four IT Digital Hadoop migration That. Speaker 3 00:04:55 That I know Olivia Yeah, I know Olivia has shut off IT Blue for most peopleum, We're going to be doing some validation. We're going to be exporting IT Glue information next Monday or Tuesday, and then it actually comes off subscription by the 10 th of June. So we've got a couple days left. Speaker 1 00:05:19 Okay. And for completion. Speaker 3 00:05:24 I don't know what the status is of Signal partners. I think Olivia and I were supposed to talk about that, but I still. Don't really know what that one's about. So I guess we're going to talk about that when she comes back. I don't know what the status of the model is either. So, Dr. has his status on that, but we can find out. Speaker 1 00:05:49 And then next we. Speaker 2 00:05:51 Have two six six three four signal partners onboarding. That's. Speaker 3 00:05:59 What I'm saying. So, yeah, I'm on. Oh, I'm sorry. Speaker 5 00:06:19 Um, so Kearney Properties is on hold until the end of July or June. We actually start training June 17 th when I'm back from vacation. So I did have a conversation with Jason Yu. I may need somebody to step up while I'm on vacation and go ahead and start working on getting. Uh Claude and Copilot. And whatever the third one is that they've chosen. I don't know which one they've chosen yet, to get it up so they can practice. But other than that, um the training starts on June 17th. Speaker 3 00:07:01 I Think it's like upwards to a million times of pushing, but oh crap. Sorry guys, I just realized my camera was on my wrong me. Also, my other camera is not working. Okay. Uh you guys, I'm going to turn off my camera because you're stuck with my keyboard because I can't put my laptop screen up higher. Sorry. Um okay. Speaker 5 00:07:24 So with the Kearney properties, Um I, we have been kept in close contact uh this last couple weeks. And so Jason Yu has is working on it. And they have confirmed that, that date is when it's going to start. Speaker 2 00:07:38 Okay. Um which line is that uh Kearney properties? I don't see it here. It's the yellow one. Ah okay, I thought it's on hold then all right okay. Yeah, it's okay. Speaker 5 00:07:54 It's off a hold now. Uh for for Sharp, Sharp upgrades is continuing. Uh, we're I miscounted the last time uh, they show me a whole another box of laptops. So we're at 70 laptops that are going out. And so we're on schedule. Uh, he did come in over the weekend. And work on some of that. Um so we are on schedule to get those out by September. Speaker 3 00:08:23 So those are some, those are real. When we say computer upgrades, what does that mean? Are these hardware upgrades? These are actual like refresh. Speaker 5 00:08:35 Actual re- refresh uh hardware upgrades that were purchased by Lorenzo last year. Um, they fell under a grant for program. And so they get all new machines uh for the program teams. And so there's about 70 now, Speaker 1 00:08:51 This left is going out. Speaker 1 00:08:58 And then for. Speaker 2 00:08:60 Two, five, nine, five ability first, Speaker 5 00:09:03 Okay, so really good news, and some not so great news. Uh, one I got to get media converters, which I need to work with Maggie on this morning. Sent out uh we need about six media converters for some of the devices that are going out. Um but within with that inum. We actually found that the coverage is not as much as what we thought it was going to need to be with the new APs. The range actually extended out and got good range everywhere, including the generators. Sorry, my brain just went flat for a moment. So, we're not needing to install the outdoor AP in the pool area because of the pool area that there's already one AP out there, and it doubled almost the length of coverage. Speaker 5 00:09:51 So that one got moved, And Comm-Direct was able to help me rearrange some of those to get better coverage everywhere. We also didn't need a second one for the director's house because the new APs fixed that coverage as well. And, so we're going to either myself and Greg or Greg is going to go up Thursday, finish out everything that needs to be finished out. And then if I can't go up Thursday, I'm going to go up Friday. And just make sure I get pictures of all the new stuff, make sure that I've tested everything and make sure it all looks good. And then that should be closed out by the following week. Speaker 4 00:10:31 Quick question, 89% in ConnectWise, is that the percentage completed correct? Speaker 5 00:10:37 Yeah, I would say, 89 because we still got to get the six media converters out there, and we got to install a PoE plus injector on one switch. That was not in the scope of work because we did not know about it. It was a unmanned switch that we found. Speaker 3 00:10:55 So, Christi, you're saying that there's a couple of APs we're not going to install? Speaker 5 00:10:59 No. So, Michonne and I are going to meet next after I go up to camp either when I'm back from vacation or Friday, and we're going to discuss what they want to do about those APs. We may need we may get be able to reuse those at other locations. Speaker 3 00:11:15 Okay. I was going to say, So is there a cost to them? Or we're just going to like in the labor cost or any of that? Speaker 5 00:11:23 So for Comm- Connect, no, Because they were able to add some things that were out of scope originally and put them into scope to cover the labor costs there, which is fantastic news for us. And then for Crimson, no. All labor charges is going to stay on par. Okay. And, then they may throw in an additional AP installation. If we decide we want to take and move that additional outdoor AP toum Inglewood for the pool area. Speaker 1 00:11:56 Okay. So there's some good thoughts there. Speaker 5 00:12:00 It's all in all. They are extremely happy, Speaker 3 00:12:04 Okay. And the pictures and any diagrams data anything you're you're collecting will go into Google, correct? Speaker 5 00:12:11 Yep, and uh Gabby, I am going to use that uh floor plan feature in Meraki for camp as well. I'm gonna test that out. Speaker 1 00:12:24 All right for Quotes in. Oh sorry. Speaker 3 00:12:27 And and Gabby, I don't know if you've got anything new from Ability First that you've been working on, but can we just make sure that all those changes are in Hudu? Whatever needs to be there. Speaker 5 00:12:50 Okay, For Quotes in, we have finished up training overall. The in person training, I am waiting to see if they want to come back and do some additional training, which they have already made statements that they do. So, we're going to actually get that one closed out by the end of June, which is great for us. Speaker 5 00:13:09 And then we should be good. Now they did push out training and everything, which is why we didn't meet that by May thirtieth, because we just had the training last week. And so we are going to follow up. AI policy is being finalized and sent to all coaches and staff. And we're waiting on them to finish that up. Speaker 4 00:13:31 Christy, can we have a percentage completion? Eighty percent. And, Did we built this? I know you were doing this yesterday. Speaker 5 00:13:42 Yeah, I'm gonna have it built. So. Speaker 3 00:13:47 Yeah, We got to make sure that everything related to all these projects has got the billing connect logs, the project information connect logs like all of these builting pieces of the project. And make sure the builting is accurate and timely and all that stuff, right? If it's if it's. Speaker 3 00:14:31 billing this upfront, if it's billing, this progressive, if it's billing, that's at the end and make sure that the bills go out right because we have occasions where we don't bill properly and that we need the we need the money, right? We got to get. We got to collect our money because we have some customers that still aren't paying us the way they should be. So we got to get the money from them. Speaker 5 00:14:53 So understoodum for DTLAum. Cloud team setup. We did have the kickoff meeting last week. Uh, we are doing the all staff training on June twenty second, And we did send out an AI tools and familiarity I can't speak today usage form for them to fill out that was sent out on Thursday, and I am waiting on all the results to come back, and we should be good. On that one so we are we're at ten percent. We are right on target with that um. Speaker 5 00:15:31 The percentage is, uh yeah, ten percent. Uh. The project completion date is going to be July fifteenth at this point. Speaker 1 00:15:43 And billing. Uh, Speaker 5 00:15:46 We haven't built because we just started. We just got the kickoff project I think that they built for a down payment already. But we just did the kickoff meeting and everything last week. Speaker 1 00:15:56 Should we send. Speaker 4 00:15:56 The full invoice? Speaker 4 00:16:02 We Can. I don't believe it was said. Speaker 5 00:16:05 Yeah, we can see now. Speaker 6 00:16:06 Isn't that licensed? Cloud. Speaker 5 00:16:10 We have not done the We haven't done the Cloud licensing and everything because they want to do. Um they want to do the training first because they don't get a free trial. Speaker 3 00:16:26 What Has been our what has been our, Process for training in the past. Have we waited till we did the training before we bill? Speaker 5 00:16:34 With certain, well with I'm going to say 90% of our clients, yes. Because a good portion of the project is regarding training. So. And we aren't doing this for a lot of our clients were not doing this setup until after the training, because there's no free trial for them, and it is their other large bill. So the clients don't want to be stuck with that before training starts. Speaker 4 00:16:59 Also, the the labor is free, so it's labor discounted. Speaker 1 00:17:04 Okay. Yes. I. Speaker 3 00:17:15 Just wonder if we should collect something up front for some of these, just to get them motivated to move on some of this stuff. Um, we should think about that. So I'm sorry going back to the the, Cots and one. Speaker 1 00:17:31 Coats and. Speaker 3 00:17:32 Coats, I'm sorry, the the if that project completion is targeted for six fifteen, but we haven't we don't have a cost built in there yet. When did you say we'll we're going to have all that info? Because right now there's no total cost in column E. Shouldn't shouldn't we have that info at this point or is that already. Speaker 5 00:17:55 So they have. Speaker 3 00:17:56 I see I see a contract price, but I don't see total cost. Shouldn't there be something there? Or is that because. Speaker 5 00:18:04 So we don't have for them yet what they're going to actually choose for codeson. So we don't have the amounts yet if they're going to go copilot or if they're going to go Claude, and that's what we're waiting on. Speaker 1 00:18:18 Okay, I see, okay. Yeah, Understood all right. Thanks. No worries. Um, on Anderson. You guys ready for that one? Okay, Speaker 5 00:18:33 Yeah, because I keep seeing the screens go back and forth; it throws me off. Um, so for Anderson, I am waiting on dates to schedule that meeting. They had we've had some back and forth regarding uh surveys and different things like thatum because there were supposed to be two projects rolled up into one. So I'm waiting on the response back from Andrew. Um, once that's back, uh, we'll get we'll get going. I do know end of last month, uh for some of our clients was very hairy. So a lot of clients have put us off until this month just because the end of May was there's something going on. I don't know if it's their financial stuff or what. So a lot of them had pushed me. Um Alire, we are about twenty five percent. Uh Gabby I've been staying on top of your tickets. And. Speaker 5 00:19:20 Everything that's going on. So you and I do need to get together on some things with that. I do also have a meeting with, with Alear on Thursday to do a status update, And I'm going to provide them with all the reports and things that are coming out. So we are on target and on schedule for that. The date for that one, the end is August 31st for project completion deadline. Speaker 3 00:19:51 Earl ier August 31 st. August 30 th, Speaker 5 00:19:54 Yes, because this one's a bigger project than any of the others. This one has to do with getting DLP security ramped up and things like that for. Speaker 1 00:20:05 Copilot. Okay. And then. Speaker 5 00:20:11 For Avalon tests, they have fully paid. We have a kickoff meeting scheduled when I'm back from vacation I believe Julia. Speaker 5 00:20:20 Okay. Um, I have actually already just under the radar gone through and done some scans and things to see where we're at. Um, And then I do know they want Claude team. Soum this will be an easy cut- and- dry project. There's not going to be as much for me to worry about on that one. Speaker 3 00:20:40 Okay, So just just for the for the record for this team Chris, unfortunately, what I. Didn't get followed as closely into the letter as what I had asked, but is what is at this point. I told everybody do not build this or take money for this, until Avalon was fully caught up. Avalon did not pay us everything that they owed us yet. They did not do the commitment that they said they were supposed to do, But they, for some reason, we did send them this invoice and they paid this invoice. Speaker 3 00:21:16 So now we're on the hook to do this project for them. And I didn't want to do anything for them until they trued up what they owed us. But now we have to do this for them, so let's do this for them. But if they ask us for anything else, We are not going to do it until they true up what they owe us. Period. And I am not trying to be mean ; I am trying to get them to pay us what they owe us that they voted us for two years. So, um just for the record, if they ask you to do anything more or ask. The scope of work to be increased, tell them that I have said you need to talk. They need to talk to me first. Speaker 5 00:21:54 Gotcha. So just just heads up for you, there is a second project waiting as well, And that one. Speaker 3 00:22:01 T here is a big SharePoint project that's been waiting for a year. Butum. And I know that that one's waiting in the wings. And, this one was supposed to be the small project that I told them. We still weren't going to do till they trued up what they owed us. And then they said they would do it twice. And anyway, Speaker 5 00:22:18 So and this is. Speaker 3 00:22:20 Small enough where I am not going to sweat it, but at the same time it's the principle of the thing, you know? It's like they said they were going to do this. And then I still didn't, so it's whatever. Speaker 5 00:22:28 Yeah, and I'll take ownership on that because I kept asking, i kept putting it off and saying what, I'm not doing anything until they paid, but I didn't clarify. I just kept saying until they paid and I didn't clarify what they had to pay. So that's on me. No, Speaker 3 00:22:43 No, it's okay. It's it's I'm not again, I'm not going to sweat this one because it's such a small amount. I just it's the you know it's fine. I'm not again, we we we can use the business. And if we get them on the hook for this, maybe it'll it'll incent them to pay because if they want more and we don't do unless they pay, maybe they'll. Speaker 5 00:23:03 I don't even mind dragging my feet, if you want me to on this one. Speaker 3 00:23:06 No, no, no. Let's I mean let's get this over with. You've got enough on your plate to get this out of the way so. Speaker 5 00:23:11 Gotcha, no worries. I was gonna I think I was going to use this one to train Gabby? Speaker 1 00:23:19 Yes So. Speaker 2 00:23:23 When is the project completion on this again Christie? Speaker 5 00:23:26 I'm not even going to give a project completion because we haven't had the kickoff meeting yet. Speaker 1 00:23:31 Okay Yeah. Speaker 1 00:23:34 Alright, and. Speaker 2 00:23:36 That's pretty much it for Christy. So moving on for projects under SAG six two six three nine Ishida. Speaker 6 00:23:46 Yeah, this is for their Monash IT agreement. So, we're still working on the Gmail migration and hoping to finish it by fifteenth. And then no before it's done once the Gmail migration is completed we can, I'm configure Avanade and we're all good with the project. It's just thatum, Speaker 3 00:24:07 We're what still remains on this sub. Speaker 6 00:24:10 Um, the Gmail migration it it was added in theirum onboarding project. Speaker 3 00:24:18 So we're doing that for free too? Speaker 6 00:24:21 Yeah, unfortunately five thousand discount. Okay. Yeah, but the good thing is some of the. Speaker 6 00:24:33 Want theirum Gum Gmail accounts to be migrated. I think there are like three of them. So yeah, then five has been migrated already. So, we're just waiting for the three or four users. And then after that, configure Avenant. And then we're all good. Okay, Speaker 6 00:24:54 But they've been paying theirum invoices and then their invoices are in on auto. Credit already on the on credit card so that's nice. That's good. Okay, And then next is um for the IT assessment for Maverick that's currently on hold. Next is Put Hill for their IT infrastructure and security assessment. So um I have received some documents, some documents and a questionnaire from this so. Speaker 6 00:25:30 We will review that in our internal meeting this afternoon. I have just sent an invite to you guys at 2:30 p.m. Next is Anderson for the HQ firewall replacement. So the firewall has been delivered already. I'll be having an internal meeting with the team at 4:30 p.m. today, So yeah, so hoping to finish this um yeah before June eighteen. Depends on Gabby or or Kevin's schedule. And then next is lab proc workstations. So most of the hardwares have been delivered already, um we're just waiting for the monitors. Speaker 6 00:26:22 So everything will be delivered in H Q as per Vincent, so we need to configure it in the office before, um, um before installing it in their H Qs. So this one I'll be having. And meeting with Charles tomorrow, just for a sync up for everything that needs to be included in the onboarding of the computers. Speaker 6 00:26:53 And, then next is um Maverick Gaming order to main migration. So we're currently switching um most of um users every day. So we have already switched two hundred five out of one thousand seven hundred eleven, which is um eleven point ninety eight percent. So right now, we're just figuring out the DNS uh DNS details of WSG gaming. Speaker 6 00:27:23 I think I need to reach out to Ross about that one. And then next is I have a um there is a new project for Admire West B C I O engagement phase one. So I haven't yet checked this one. So I'll review this um quote this afternoon, but this project is um worth twenty five thousand. So yeah. Speaker 5 00:27:52 Who is going to actually handle that? Is that Jason or myself that's going to handle that engagement? Speaker 3 00:27:58 Actually, Anzor's going up there next week himself. Oh, Speaker 5 00:28:02 Fantastic. Because Anzor was their acting CIO for a while, so that's perfect. Speaker 3 00:28:07 He asked me if I wanted to do it, or if I wanted him to do it. And I said he already knows them, it's probably better for him to go. And he said," That's fine because he knows some people up there." He wants to go see them himself. Speaker 5 00:28:18 Yeah, Graham has been reaching out about things to me with Onsor C- Seat. Um, So I I, that was one of the other reasons why I was asking because I do Graham and I are working on something together. Speaker 3 00:28:33 Yeah, he's going up next week. So if there's anything you know specifically that you should brief him on, you probably want to do it this week before he goes. I will. Okay. Speaker 6 00:28:43 Um no, Alright, so that project is a fixed one. So I'll just reach out to Anzor. And then Anton's project, Hana is internal audit. Fortunately we haven't heard anything from Victoria. So I'm hoping we're all good with this one. I'll just reach out to Anton. And then migration to Huntress and Cottonwood is still in Sophos. We're still waiting for the auto elevate. Speaker 6 00:29:15 For cottonwood, so that we can push bothum hatches on it. So okay, Okay, Just waiting for the elevate. Speaker 2 00:29:26 Yeah yeah thank you. Right and then next we have Miguel's projects. Speaker 7 00:29:36 Good morning everyone so uh for project two six eight three one zero. POE security cameras for Belgrade. So, uh, we confirmed all the devices have arrived in Belgrade. So, we're still confirming with Lori if they will have someone to install the switch, or if you will provide another quote for us to coordinate through a third party MSP in Belgrade. Once it's installed, we will have them configure the switch. So and. Speaker 7 00:30:10 For project to sixty three, and we have project to six nine six. This is our wireless access point replacement project. So for this one, we had some troubles placing order from CPW last week. So, we placed the order via Ingram yesterday, and we're still waiting for the ETA. But according to the before we place the order Uh, it's within seven to nine days of uh delivery. And then uh lastly, I have project two seven zero one. I have Arc Capital servers, firewall switch and access points. So we confirmed that the DP invoice has been paid. So this is for the hardware. We placed the order at Ingram as well, but we don't have the ETA as of now. So yeah, that's it. Speaker 2 00:31:09 Yes. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Miguel. Next we have Gabby for Barker Pacific Group. Speaker 8 00:31:19 Thank you, Paula. I don't have an update for this. The last thing was that we did get a quote from Methodology IT to help us with migrating the unified devices, but and it has been introduced to Kara, but we haven't heard back so, There's so much we can do there. Speaker 2 00:31:42 Oh, okay. So still pendingum feedback from the property manager. Yes. Oh, I appreciate it. Thank you. Speaker 8 00:31:49 That's all the updates I have. Speaker 2 00:31:52 Hold on, I'll be right here. Thanks Gabby Next we have Julia's project. Speaker 4 00:32:02 Hi everyone Um Project 2533 Project Central Food Migration. George is scheduled to pick up server from PATH HQ on June 24th. If somebody's going to be there before onsite, that would be great if they pick it up. But for now, June 24th is completion date for this project. Project 2317 Intramem compliance setup and Windows 365. So part four Windows 365. Speaker 4 00:32:35 We have one more developer pending cloud PC or provision to be completed, because his Linux device must be enrolling in Intune. So Gabby is doing a great job following up with David and Portugal. And part two compliance, we have sync up with Sean. Actually, we're waiting for him to update the ticket. Who which users are not enrolled in the California conditional access policy group yet. So once we know that uh, we're going to plan enrollment in a small groups to make sure everybody has um access and um don't get locked out project 258 8 for Weingart file structure cleanup. Speaker 4 00:33:29 We are working with Jason how to better manage this project, but this is basically Jason is a lead on this project. Project 2598 Wayfinder SharePoint cleanup. We had a meeting with them on Friday. They, we have a hard day for them to approve the design by end of day June 30 th. Third, which is tomorrow, and we scheduled June fifteen first training with Christi uh for IT department. And in my email I specified that it will be canceled if they don't sign off by June. Third, because Charles needs to build that for Christi to be able to do the training. Um project two six two nine. Speaker 4 00:34:26 Hana XTRF upgrade project was completed successfully. Signed off by Mike, he received yesterday. I am getting ready to close the project and last project, two, six, eight, nine for Paula's onboarding. It is almost complete. I have one more task that pending handbook. Speaker 4 00:34:56 U m waiting for April to get the handbook for direct contractors and send to that's it. And otherwise onboarding project is completed. All right. Speaker 2 00:35:11 Thanks, Julia. Any questions. So well, for my end, uh, I've got two projects newly assigned to me. First, we have the 601 South Figueroa forum. Common developers. So, currently this has been ongoing since yesterday for the tasks by Gabby and Kevin. And uh yeah, We're going to have these status update with the client this week Thursday as per their request. And that's just it for them. Speaker 2 00:35:52 Next we have Kotzen. And this one, uh, I've already reached out to the customer regarding their order with regards to the EBA. And I've already reached out to Oli, but she's still pending resources on who's going to work on this project. Speaker 4 00:36:16 So quick questions on two projects, Paula. A percentage completed completion. What's what's a billing uh status? Speaker 2 00:36:28 Uh I'll update the billing. I'm quite not sure how to uh to be honest, can I discuss it with you Julia on a separate? Yeah yeah okay. Speaker 3 00:36:42 Yeah, then we can put a status into the so that everyone knows where it is as well. Like each week's progress so that we know kind of what the what the. Latest is. Is there, anything else that we need to add to the list for this week? I know Jason had something that I thought was coming in the door. Speaker 9 00:37:06 Uh, are you referring to the conversation we had about theum, uh, procure- to- pay andum, and uh purchase requests or purchase? Speaker 9 00:37:21 Um, I think there. Speaker 3 00:37:23 Were potentially some other projects that were getting either approved or potentially getting approved. And maybe they're not approved yet. I thought, I know that like Kevin and Gabby had somebody down the road that was interested in our services. And I thought there was another one that either got signed last week or maybe that was already on here. I don't know specifically which ones are already approved or not, but things are discovering. Is that on here? Which is this small one? That's that one. But was there any other? Was there any others? This covers everything. Maybe maybe they're all in here. I just didn't know if there was anything else that was new. Maybe maybe that's everything. Speaker 10 00:38:07 I'm trying to get JLL the Habitat to make a decision on the quote that we gave them a couple of weeks ago. They have not approved it yet. Um, and then I had a question. Miguel and I briefly touched upon that yesterday, but um there is a Weingart Sycamore project. I mean, that's uh quote that we gave them, that has a lot of different unrelated uh subprojects in it. So the question would be how to handle that. I'm going to find out if it has been already paid. Um And if it has already been paid, then we need to start um get going on that. Speaker 10 00:38:50 But, it's uh, it's kind of a collaborative of a lot of different little subprojects that are not really related to each other one hundred percent. So how can we do that? Speaker 3 00:39:01 Okay. And maybe Julia, SAG and Paula, you can maybe get get a call together, you know, once a week and talk talk about you know how, How projects come in the door and how we should set them up and and that kind of stuff. And then. Make sure that we have a consistent process on getting them on the list and getting them assigned and all that kind of stuff. That way, you know, we're we're all on the same page. I don't want there to be a disconnect, and everybody thinks it should go in a different way. So I'd like the three of you to have some sort of a cadence of discussion so that everybody does everything the same way. I don't want I don't want there to be three different ways to do to do things here. So um. Speaker 3 00:39:50 And then from a obviously from a billing perspective, That's always an important component following through on the billing process and making sure that the bill goes out. And if there's anything else that needs to get closed out, let's try to get those closed by the next call. Um, Speaker 1 00:40:16 I don't know if there's anything else that I have. Speaker 4 00:40:18 I have a quick question for Christi. Okay. Were the percentage completions pushed in Connectwise? Because I like, I went back and forth, was like, why is it going to 100%? I didn't do 100% yet. Speaker 5 00:40:34 No, I haven't pushed project completion updates lately. I noticed that as well and I just yeah. Yeah. I just i'm wondering ifum. Speaker 1 00:40:47 Yeah, I don't know why that's happening. So, unwind and basically how to click check mark. Sorry, Speaker 6 00:40:56 That's I think that's me. Oh sorry. No, I had a call with Michelle and Tony yesterday, and then I was like checking with them why the percentage completion is like we're manually putting it. So they check how to automatically update it. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:41:17 Yeah, so basically, And some of them I had to like click override and then put the percentage. That's what I did. It looked like it was going to be 100%. Speaker 5 00:41:31 Yeah, And so I noticed that as well on a few things with one of my projects. But what I ended up doing on that project? Anyways, that fixed it for me was I made sure all my tickets were put in. And I didn't have any more tickets being added, but I also made sure that everything got assigned out. So Gabby's got a bunch of project tickets assigned out to her. I've got a bunch of project tickets assigned out to me, and in that way they're already on everybody's schedule. And that seemed to fix mine. Speaker 1 00:42:03 And mine was a little bit more reliable after that. But I went in on Friday and did a bunch of legwork for that. Speaker 1 00:42:15 Thank you everyone. Thanks everyone, appreciate it. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thanks everybody. Bye-bye.
06-29 Meeting: Azure Certifications, Incentive Program, and Microsoft Partnership Tracking
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-06-29 14:18:01 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Pete] [Sergio] [Olivia] [Anton] ## Meeting Notes ### Microsoft Certifications for Team Members - The team discussed getting Nemanja started on Microsoft training. - The recommended starting point is a foundational Microsoft certification for Azure. - The specific certification identified is Azure Administrator Associate (Exam AZ-104). - This certification is required for most Azure plans. - It was suggested that Juno should also begin with the AZ-104 certification. - For security-focused roles, two certifications were recommended for Anton: - Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (Step 1). - Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate (Step 2). - It was noted that Sean achieved the AZ-104 certification this year. ### Certification Incentive Program - The group discussed creating a monetary incentive program for employees who earn certifications. - Pete emphasized that applying knowledge is different from merely obtaining a certificate. - A tiered bonus structure was proposed: - $500 for a basic, 100-level Microsoft certification. - $1000 for an intermediate (200-level) or higher certification. - Anton believes $1000 is sufficient, as the certification also benefits the employee's career. - It was clarified that the company pays for the test, and the bonus is awarded for passing. - Pete will document this proposal and add it to the agenda for the July 2, 2026 meeting. ### Expanding the Certification Program - Pete asked for suggestions on other certifications to include in the incentive program. - CompTIA and Cisco certifications were suggested as valuable additions. - The team discussed whether to require an A+ certification for help desk roles but decided against it for now. - Pete plans to document the incentive plan, send it out for review, and present it at the next all-hands meeting. ### Tracking Microsoft Partnership Requirements - Pete requested a consolidated document to track the company's progress toward Microsoft partnership goals. - The current partner portal information is detailed and difficult to follow. - To advance to the next partnership level, the company needs more new customer additions, not just certifications. - For the "Infrastructure" designation, one more net new customer is required. - The goal is to have a simple, one- or two-page summary outlining the current status and what is needed to advance. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Pete to confirm with Gabby which certification she completed. - [ ] Pete to document the proposed certification incentive plan and circulate it for review. - [ ] Pete to add the incentive plan to the agenda for the July 2, 2026 meeting. - [ ] Anton to forward the AZ-104 certification link to Pete. - [ ] Speaker 1 to research and provide a concise, one- to two-page summary of Microsoft partnership requirements, including current status and gaps. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The team discussed a tiered bonus for certifications ($500 for 100-level, $1000 for 200-level and up). It was unclear if levels 300 and 400 would receive a higher bonus than $1000, as both $1500 and $2000 were mentioned but not agreed upon. > 2. While CompTIA and Cisco were mentioned as other certifications to consider for the incentive program, there were no specific courses or levels decided upon for reimbursement. > 3. The task of creating a simplified document to track Microsoft partnership requirements was discussed, but a clear owner for creating this summary document was not assigned. Pete mentioned he would "work on that," but it was not a firm action item.
- Date
- Jun 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 It's just messed me up. No worries. Alright, I'm logged in right now. We have one benefit, and that is water work. So, That one, we have redeemed through. It is active until we don't have to. We don't have to renew that until April of next year. So it was just done two months ago as on our app. Speaker 1 00:00:30 Credits, so it's not fully giving me everything just yet. I am gonna dig in. Speaker 2 00:00:40 So, let's let's catch up at the end of the week and just kind of see what what we need. Because between the senior level, people on the team and I have a feeling we could probably get Matthew to help, you know, take some courses. I think some of our senior level folks. We could encourage to help us progress here. In the meantime, What could we have Nemanja start looking at from a Microsoft perspective and maybe start doing the training using our training system? Speaker 1 00:01:17 I think if he could get a base uh Microsoft certifications for Azure, that's going to be one of the bigger helps right now. Speaker 2 00:01:28 Do You have a number that I could provide to him? Speaker 1 00:01:31 Yeah, let me. I'm trying to pull it up. I just. okay. Trying to remember where it's at. That's okay. Speaker 3 00:01:57 They move things around. Imagine. So, Speaker 1 00:02:18 We have modern work. All of them require. Speaker 3 00:02:28 Uh, skills. Speaker 1 00:02:35 Intermediate. All of them uh require intermediate certification. I'm sorry. And it's Azure administrator associate certificate. That's the requirement for most of the plans and Azure, Speaker 2 00:02:53 Azure intermediate what? Speaker 1 00:02:56 Azure administrator associate. Speaker 2 00:02:58 Azure administrator associate. Speaker 4 00:03:06 So should I tell Juno the same thing as well? You said that it's just a. Start with that. Speaker 1 00:03:14 I think it's AZ one oh four is the exam. Speaker 2 00:03:18 I'm sorry, what what is it? Speaker 1 00:03:20 AZ one oh four? So there's the link in there, speak exam. Speaker 1 00:04:17 It's Got to be a good one for most people to get, just because it fits any of our skill. I'm looking to see if security is. Speaker 1 00:04:32 Security, using what I know about sometimes take different skills. Microsoft's certified security engineer for security. And that's for you, Anton. And then this one is also a requirement. Speaker 3 00:05:20 And Then from there, for security only. Speaker 1 00:05:32 Step one and step two are the two links I sent just now. Step one is Microsoft Certified Security Engineer, step two is Microsoft Certified Security Operations Analyst Associate, and then they can pick one from this list at least. But. Speaker 4 00:05:54 I was going to say too one thing to to note in the past, we've said thatum. You're only going to get a lifeline if you get cert alongside of it. Um, so I think a lot of people are going to be wondering that. If they get cert, will they get a raise? Speaker 2 00:06:19 I don't, I don't associate cert with a raise because applying the the knowledge is different than getting cert. That's that's my opinion. I've seen a lot of people get lots of certifications, but they can't apply the knowledge because they just don't associate the two. So, Um. Speaker 3 00:07:21 Okay. So, Speaker 2 00:07:26 What is so? What does everybody think about? What should be a good incentive for people when it comes to actual dollars? I want it to be a. I want it to be. I mean, I I've always been a person who thinks people should be incentivized to help themselves career wise, right? There should be a certain amount of initiative that people take to grow, right? I mean. If, you want to get better and you want to make more money and you want to do better in advancing your career, you got to spend a little bit of your own time to do that. But I get that people also want to make more money and be incentivized at work to do some of that as well. So what amount of money makes sense to incent people? To do the training and actually get certified and And get the certificate. Speaker 2 00:08:23 Based on the different levels, do we think it makes sense to all of you? What would be what would be the right amount? Speaker 1 00:08:34 I would say for a low level cert, five hundred dollars would be good. Um and that's your your basic Microsoft type things. Um I would say intermediate and higher would probably be a thousand dollars. Speaker 2 00:08:55 Okay. So what did uh, what did Gabby complete? I. Speaker 1 00:09:03 Know she did the A, the what was equivalent to AZ one oh four at the time. Might have been AZ one oh, one and one oh two, because they, in the last year, they combined two tests in one. Speaker 2 00:09:16 Okay, So what I will do is I'll talk to Gabby and ask her what she completed. And, then we'll find out if any of it was greater than so is it find out if any of it was greater than the the one hundred level. So are we basically saying if it's a hundred level, it's five hundred and if it's a two hundred or above, it's a thousand? Speaker 1 00:09:39 I would say yes. That's just on the Microsoft side because that's the only side I know. Speaker 2 00:09:45 Sure, sure. Does that, Make sense. You guys think it should be more for higher levels. I mean, are three or four hundred levels like should that be even more? Speaker 4 00:09:59 Like fifteen hundred or something? For like the high level ones. I mean, how long? I mean, maybe Does it like say how long we think each will take or that. Speaker 1 00:10:15 So all my tests, all my group. Cannot speak. All Microsoft tests are roughly four hours long. Okay, Speaker 3 00:10:28 So regardless. And then. Speaker 2 00:10:39 Thoughts, you think three hundred and four hundred should be higher than a thousand? Should they be two thousand? Speaker 5 00:10:47 No, it's too much. In my opinion, it's too much. Speaker 2 00:10:51 So a thousand bucks? Yeah. Okay. Speaker 5 00:10:54 It's more than enough. Speaker 2 00:10:56 For like It's. Speaker 5 00:10:60 Gonna be beneficial for the person as well. It's not just about like Yeah, Speaker 2 00:11:06 Because if they're gonna resign, Speaker 5 00:11:07 They're gonna take those certificates with them. Speaker 2 00:11:10 Right We're also we're also paying for the yeah We're also paying for the test and we're paying for the cert. And we're paying, we're we're providing the. Speaker 4 00:11:21 Only if they pass the test, correct? We're paying for the test. Speaker 2 00:11:25 Yeah, you're right. I need to I need to be specific about that. Yes. Most of the time they get to take it a second time, though, right, if they don't pass? Speaker 1 00:11:32 And depends on if they got that, that version of a cert test where they can uh get that free. Speaker 2 00:11:41 A free retake whatever it is okay. Speaker 2 00:11:47 Okay. Um, Speaker 5 00:11:49 It's win win story. You know, it's beneficial for Crimson IT and for the person as well. Speaker 2 00:11:55 Totally agree. So I'm going to put this on the agenda for Wednesday, and that's going to be our our standard now. Are there I know we're all out of time, But are there other certificates that we should offer to reimburse or pay for Like? Is there anything And I can talk with? Ladd and Gabi and Kevin or somebody else about this, but are there other things like um certain networking, you know, Like Cisco courses? Or is there anything on the security side that is not Microsoft related Anton that we should consider paying for or anything like on the help desk or ConnectWise? I'm going to talk about CompTIA. Speaker 5 00:12:47 Yeah, yeah. We should include CompTIA. It's like a standard. Speaker 1 00:12:52 And Cisco, but I don't know enough about the Cisco to speak into that. Speaker 2 00:13:00 Okay. Okay, so I will say CompTIA and Cisco. I mean, Do we require like A plus or anything to even hire help desk or no? Speaker 4 00:13:14 We don't require it, no. Speaker 2 00:13:18 Is that something we should? I don't really want to answer for that one because a lot of people are familiar with it. Speaker 1 00:13:28 I agree because I come from the boot camp era when it came to Cisco. So. Speaker 2 00:13:35 Okay, if you think of anything else though, any of you or anybody else, I should talk to about reimbursement, let me know because I want to. I want to incent people across the board. If there's other things we should incent for, but I'd like to bring this up. I'm going to try to document this and I'll bring it up on the next all hands. And if you want me to add anything or change anything, let me know. I'll probably document this and send it out to all of you and let you read it. Okay, okay, Speaker 5 00:14:03 Yeah, just one thing. I just checked with Sean; he did achieve AZ-104 this year. Okay, This is something we did discuss before, and he did got this certificate already. Speaker 2 00:14:20 He discussed, uh, he took what which one? Speaker 5 00:14:23 AZ-104. This is one of the requirements we did uh start working on for a partnership with the Microsoft. Speaker 2 00:14:33 Can, you send me the or for send me the link to the same thing that Chris was sending? And then Chris when you have when you have time. Um, let me know what else we need to get the next level of. I mean, because Anzor is gonna Anzor is gonna ask for it probably. But I want us to be getting as much from Microsoft as possible. And I know we got to get more certs than so than what we have. Speaker 1 00:15:04 So our best one for us to go for next um. Hang on one second. We actually we need that new customertomer ads. There's not really anything we can get with just certifications, um, We need probably about four more net new customer net customertomer ads to get any of them. Uh infrastructure would be nice. Uh we need one net new customertomer ad for that one. And then um. Speaker 2 00:15:42 Can, we can we get a document that has all the stuff on it so that we can just kind of track. I I'm trying to get something concise on a page that we can. Speaker 5 00:15:51 Yeah, I think it was like Excel spreadsheet that we did discuss. Speaker 2 00:15:56 I can I can print out the pages. It's cause I'm logged into this partner center that tells me where and what's being paid. Is there anything is there anything that Claude or ChatGPT or something can do to summarize it into one page or two pages so that we don't have. Fifty Microsoft documents that describe everything in, minute detail that is impossible to keep track of. It'd be nice if we could. Say here's what we have. What else do we need to get You know, to keep up, And then we can focus on it because I want to I want to see like on a linear thing that you know, here's where Gabby sits and here's what else she needs to finish, and then what else do we need and what should we have. Speaker 2 00:16:41 You know, if Juno does this and Nemanja does this, you know, here's here's what else we'll get. But I'm not an expert in this particular side so. Speaker 1 00:16:52 Yeah. I guess I need research. Speaker 2 00:16:56 I'll work on that because okay, it's not Microsoft doesn't make it the easiest to understand. No, I know and I know you're just back. So this isn't the highest priority either. But I just wanted to catch up on it. Okay, Speaker 4 00:17:09 No worries, Speaker 2 00:17:09 All right. Thank you all. Appreciate it. Speaker 4 00:17:11 Okay, cool. Thanks guys. Okay, thank you all. Bye- bye. Bye guys. Bye.
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Crimson IT - Weekly Helpdesk EOS Meeting + Time Machine/MTX Training (7/9)
- Notes
- Internal Crimson weekly helpdesk EOS meeting, ~10:18-11:05 AM PDT. Christi delivered the recurring training block on time-entry hygiene (first time in over a year). **Round-robin highlights:** Team shared weird tickets of the week. Amelia hunted for two missing VMware servers at a prospective client (poor decommission/migration hygiene; recommended to Pete that Crimson take them on). Coby reported an unusual volume of local-storage-full tickets. Nemanja got a property-manager request to restore artwork in a unit (routed to another team). Riddick flagged a SCHARP t-shirt giveaway ticket. Robert has check scanners intermittently failing, fixed by renaming the launch application (Juno assisting). Jesse had VPN complaints from users who were not connected to the internet. Zach's own weird one: NWA (new customer) has two servers hosting two separate AD domains, no computers joined to either, everything in individual workgroups, and the file host is a Windows 7 machine on yet another workgroup with data scattered across all of it. **Metrics called out:** ~3,347 open tickets, 38 green CSATs, 1 yellow/red CSAT, first-day resolution at 46% (want it higher). **Christi's training - Time Machine:** - Availability board: shows who is working what, in-progress ticket counts, location, remote/onsite. Called out engineers sitting in 4 tickets at once and missing schedules (Coby specifically). Demonstrated fixing a stuck status by toggling Working Issue Now -> Scheduled Remote. - Hamburger menu: lunch/return, away from keyboard, PTO, sick with return date, traveling, gone for the day, sub-statuses. - Time chips: outer ring = time with tickets in progress; inner ring = working + unavailable. Wants the two rings as close as possible, with ~1-1.5h (up to 2h) available time at EOD for lunch. - Delta = time a ticket sits in progress vs. time actually recorded in ConnectWise. Wants under ~3 min, tolerates up to 10, not 40. - Used Bogdan and Matthew as examples; praised Gaston's prior-day numbers as better than Bogdan's. Picked on Juno for a 2h+ printer setup (6h total in progress) - Juno explained MTX status not syncing back to ConnectWise, which Christi fixed live. - Explicitly framed this as how management "big brothers" the team: she and Olivia do not want to do it, but if they are doing it, someone's job is on the line. Cited a past termination where a coworker flagged a colleague's time entries and the pattern (work at start and end of day, nothing between) proved he was sleeping on the job over two months. Also noted terminations for sleeping on the job generally. Team is encouraged to hold each other accountable. - Her list system: popularity/good list, happy-with-you list, mediocre list, pre-shit list, shit list (mostly clients). Meant lightly but the accountability point was serious. **Christi's training - MTX:** - MTX mobile (Chrome shortcut, Microsoft sign-in): the big blue button logs start travel, drive time, and mileage automatically. Recommended photographing the odometer before and after; MTX stores it on the ticket. She gets ~$130 mileage per camp trip. - Ticket creation via lookup contact shorthand (e.g. "R H C" for Ryan Hill at Crimson), board, priority, source. Faster than ConnectWise UI. - Working a ticket: status, subtype, notes, include email, billable, work type. Noted a time entry cannot be under 60 seconds or it flags. - "Move past schedules to today" button bulk-fixed 22 tickets. Caleb reinforced: move every ticket to a future date before logging off, every day. - Told the team not to ask Sue to open tickets for them; Christi only does so when away from her desk. - Mentioned she uses Claude/CLI to write ticket notes but it sometimes leaves tickets in Working Issue Now, which she then has to clean up. Pays $200/mo for it. **Action items:** finish the MTX quick-reference guide; upload Time Machine and MTX walkthrough videos to Empath (one done, MTX in progress, ~6 months behind); Olivia to identify anyone needing one-on-one timesheet coaching. **Personal note:** Christi told the team she is a foster parent and a new kiddo was arriving that night on short notice. **CW:** logged 47 min to ticket #958103 (Crimson IT 250, Board 80 vCIO, CIO, Admin/DoNotBill). CW note is scrubbed - no individual names, no termination or performance detail.
- Date
- Jul 9, 2026
- Transcript
- C:\Users\ChristiBrown\OneDrive - Crimson IT\Documents\2 - Internal Operations\Meeting Recordings & Transcripts\Crimson\Meeting Transcript - 07-09 Meeting Client Self-Service Strategy, Ticket Hygiene, and NWA Environment Risks.txt
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04-24 Pulong Lingguhan: Billing at Double Billing, Invoice Routing/Formatting sa ConnectWise, at Licensing (Nevada Gaming)
- Notes
- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-04-24 22:51:17 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [April] [Speaker 3] [Anzor] [Sergio] ## Tala ng Pulong - Pamamahala ng billing at double billing ngayong buwan - Mag-bill “as is” base sa kasalukuyang invoice; i-double bill sa susunod na buwan. - I-skip muna ang Azure items; i-set sa 0-0 o alisin kung maaari, upang may ebidensya kung bakit doble ang bill next month. - Hindi pa maresolba agad; kailangan pang pag-usapan ng client ang breakdown sa kanilang panig. - Target: bawasan ang backlog (binanggit ang “goal 96”; kahit kalahati ngayong linggo). - Oras ng pagpapadala ng invoice - Plano ni April mag-bill ng Sunday night; si Speaker 1 either Sunday o Monday morning. - Layunin na maibsan ang dami ng pending sa regular work hours. - Pagsang-ayon sa pag-transfer ng “Iron Gate” - Hiling ni April na i-transfer sa Christian ang “Iron Gate” item; pumayag ang grupo. - Pag-format at routing ng invoice recipients (Jasmine, Ruben, at iba pa) - Usapan kung dapat bang i-CC o tanggalin si Ruben sa email recipients; may lumang ticket na nag-uutos na tanggalin si Ruben at ipadala kay Jasmine/finance. - Pinag-usapan ang paglalagay ng notes mula sa quote sa invoice (top vs. bottom/middle) at kung paano ito lalabas sa invoice. - May nabanggit na paulit-ulit na issue sa hindi pag-send sa tamang finance email; kailangan sundin ang supporting ticket mula noong September. - Kailangan i-confirm kay Vince kung sino ang dapat ma-loop o kung “AM” na lang ang magko-communicate. - Pagre-reformat ng invoice sa ConnectWise - Si Mike nag-request na i-revisit ang formatting dahil magulo; hindi urgent. - Dapat makipag-ugnayan sa ConnectWise kung may limitations at kung pwedeng gawing mas madaling basahin/scannable. - Maghanap ng sample invoices mula sa ibang kumpanya para benchmark; posible via grupo ng mga CEO/IT. - Call kay Anzor tungkol sa licensing documents - April nagpadala ng zip file na may dalawang folders (para kay Anzor at Katarina). - Pending kay Anzor: Personal History Record (Form 1R) at notarization ng lahat ng dokumento. - Para kay Katarina: Kailangan ding punan ang personal history form at ang natitirang forms; parehong magse-submit ng buong set maliban sa fingerprinting waiver. - Fingerprinting: Dahil out-of-state, gagamit ng FD258 cards; April nagko-confirm sa Nevada Gaming kung kailangan pa ang waiver. - April nag-email para sa next steps (kung i-mail ang forms) at timeline; naghihintay ng tugon. ## Susunod na Ayos - [ ] Mag-bill “as is” ngayong buwan; ihanda ang double billing para sa susunod na buwan. - [ ] I-set sa 0-0 o alisin ang Azure items sa kasalukuyang invoice. - [ ] Ipadala ang invoices sa tamang finance email ayon sa supporting ticket (September). - [ ] I-confirm kay Vince kung tatanggalin si Ruben sa invoice recipients at kung sino ang dapat i-loop (Jasmine/finance o AM). - [ ] I-transfer ang “Iron Gate” item kay Christian. - [ ] Kausapin ang ConnectWise tungkol sa formatting options at limitations; alamin kung paano gawing mas scannable. - [ ] Manghingi ng sample invoices mula sa ibang kumpanya para benchmark (via CEO/IT groups). - [ ] Anzor: Kumpletuhin ang Personal History Record (Form 1R) at ipa-notarize ang mga dokumento. - [ ] Katarina: Kumpletuhin ang personal history form at iba pang kinakailangang forms; ipa-notarize; ihanda ang buong set maliban sa fingerprinting waiver. - [ ] April: I-confirm sa Nevada Gaming ang pangangailangan ng fingerprinting waiver para sa out-of-state (FD258) at ang mailing/timeline instructions. - [ ] [Maglagay pa] > Mga Mungkahi ng AI > Nakita ng AI ang mga sumusunod na usaping hindi napagdesisyunan o kulang sa malinaw na aksyon; paki-tutukan: > 1. Walang final confirmation kung sino ang permanenteng recipients ng invoice (tanggalin ba si Ruben at i-route lahat kay Jasmine/finance). > 2. Hindi pa tiyak ang tamang placement ng notes mula sa quote sa invoice (top vs. middle/bottom) at standard formatting. > 3. Hindi malinaw ang eksaktong “goal 96” at metric; kailangan tukuyin ang target at timeline ng backlog reduction. > 4. Wala pang sagot mula Nevada Gaming kung required ang fingerprinting waiver para sa out-of-state; maaaring maantala ang submission. > 5. Hindi pa natitiyak kung may limitations ang ConnectWise at kung anong reformat ang feasible; kailangan ng feedback at sample benchmarks.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:17 Ayun na nga. So proceed as is tayo, Notte. Speaker 2 00:00:21 So ngayon, i-bill lang natin sila as is kung ano yung lumabas sa invoice and then next month, yun nga, i-double bill na lang sila. Speaker 1 00:00:30 So skip, skip like yung Azure, right? Skip natin. Speaker 2 00:00:34 Oo. I-0-0 na muna for now. Speaker 1 00:00:38 Or actually, you can, pwede naman matanggal yun. Sure mo na na 0-0. Speaker 2 00:00:45 Para may proof na For this month, kaya kaya na double bill For next month. Kasi kung makikita nyo sa, Previous, anong piling nyo? Naka-0 siya. So, ganoon na lang. Okay. So, yun. May clarification na tayo. Hindi siya mariresolve As soon as we want to. Pero, Yun nga, kailangan pa nilang pag-usapan Ng their end kung paano nilang, Mag-break up yung Hindi. So, yun na lang muna gawin natin ngayon. Speaker 2 00:01:18 Probably, baka mag-bill ako ng Sunday night, Christian. If ano. Speaker 1 00:01:22 Same. Either Sunday ako or Monday. Speaker 2 00:01:25 Or Monday morning ka. Sige, sige. Para kasi at least mabawasan na tayong madami-dami to eh. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Yeah, the goal, yung goal 96, I guess, kahit half, right? Speaker 2 00:01:35 Oh, kahit half. At least, Makalahati natin. And then, the rest Is pagtrabawuhan natin ng, Work hours Natin. So, at least, Hindi na mabigat. Speaker 1 00:01:48 Gets, gets, gets. Speaker 2 00:01:51 So, pwede na ba ako mag-out ng 4? Like, I feel like I'm so tired. Speaker 1 00:01:55 Sige na, guys. Speaker 2 00:01:56 Mag-hapo na ako nagko-calls. Speaker 1 00:01:58 Wala naman na mag-send, no? Speaker 2 00:02:01 Wala na bang P1s? Speaker 1 00:02:02 Kung mayroon man mag-send sa akin, Mag-PM, sabihin ko lang, Tigay ko lang number mo, no, Maggie? Sabihin ko, reach out to her. Speaker 1 00:02:11 Gagi. Sige. Speaker 1 00:02:13 Bahala ka. Speaker 1 00:02:16 Gaya sa'yo, wala naman na. Sige. Speaker 3 00:02:20 Kinakaba na kong mag-send ng invoice. Speaker 3 00:02:24 Nagkatrauma ka ba, T? Trauma na. Oo. Speaker 3 00:02:28 Pero tama naman. Speaker 2 00:02:30 Ganyan din ako pag gano'y double, as in Triple check, quadruple check pa minsan. Ganun. Speaker 3 00:02:35 Naghahanap ako actually nung sa Dallas. Dallas naman is US-based, di ba? Oo, US yan. Pwede pa rin siya. Okay. Yes. Ayoko lang itong iron gate. Speaker 2 00:02:46 Yung pwede ba i-transfer ko to kay Christian? Yung iron gate lang, no? Ilipat mo sa kanya. Oo. Speaker 2 00:02:54 Pagsending ng personal. Speaker 1 00:02:56 Ano sa totoo lang, Nilaalakasan ko lang loob ko pagsagot-sagot, Kay Ruben. Parang, Confident ko lang, ay, tama Ako ha. Parang, iya, kuha kita Dito. Parang gano'n. Pero, Sabi ko kay Vincent, hanggat maaari, Ko yung AM, siya yung makipag-communicate. Speaker 1 00:03:15 Tapos hindi ko na ako iloopin. Speaker 2 00:03:17 Diba? Eh, paano kasi? Yung invoice nga kasi ni Maggie, nakadirekta, Kay ano? Di ba sinisisi mo siya? Si Ruben? Required ba siyang Isisi? Speaker 3 00:03:27 Yun nga eh, hindi ko sure. Speaker 1 00:03:29 Alam ko, bakit pala, Mags, hindi ko siya sinisisi sa ano, si Jasmine lang, saka si Rodrigo sa Mexico. Yun lang naman yung manual eh. Speaker 3 00:03:41 Hindi, manual din kasi yung may quote. Hindi, tanong mo, gusto ba niya? Speaker 1 00:03:47 Oo nga, may quote kasi, pril. Speaker 3 00:03:48 Unless, pwede palang, di ba, pwede akong, Kwan, maglagay dun sa notes na lang para hindi ko siya i-edit? Pwede kaya yun? What do you mean notes? Yung notes ng invoice? Speaker 3 00:04:01 Sa baba. Speaker 1 00:04:02 Sa baba? Speaker 3 00:04:03 Ano mga ilalagay mong notes? Ano ang direksyon na kay Jasmine? Kung ano yung nandun sa quote. Ito, wait nga. Tingin. Speaker 3 00:04:12 Asan na? Asan na kayo? Charot. Speaker 3 00:04:16 Nagulo-gulo na ako. For example, dito sa review na... Hindi ko pa kasi talaga sinesend Kasi nga, ay nilagay ko lang Reviewed muna. Speaker 3 00:04:30 Dito o, Diba, pwede siya dito, Tapos mag-a-appear siya sa Invoice natin. Speaker 2 00:04:39 Sa nilalagay, sa top or bottom? Speaker 3 00:04:41 Dito sa top. Ah. Speaker 3 00:04:45 Kailangan ko ilagay yung... Speaker 2 00:04:47 Mag-test ka. Speaker 2 00:04:51 Kung ano-ano. Para makita natin yung itsura. Speaker 3 00:04:56 Sige, wait. Ito, sko. Two, three. Speaker 3 00:05:01 Dito mo natatagalan eh. Speaker 3 00:05:04 Ito o, yung kailangan kasi nila dito. Speaker 3 00:05:09 Na ganyan. Para diretso na lang kaya kay Jasmine, no? Speaker 2 00:05:14 Diyan, nilalagay mo dyan kasi. Speaker 3 00:05:17 Kasi yun yung nasa quote. Speaker 2 00:05:19 Yung subsidy. Wait, pag ba ina-update mo Ganyan? Hindi yan dumidiretso Kaya Jasmine? Pag may ganyan? Speaker 1 00:05:40 Pero nakasisi siya. Hindi. Speaker 3 00:05:45 Normal. Normal siya na... Speaker 2 00:05:47 Ah, ate. Kasi diba din na-download mo yan? Kasi i-email mo. Bakit hindi mo I-email kay Jasmine? Ba't kailangan kasama sila, Ruben? Speaker 1 00:05:58 Yun yung sample ni Kwan. Speaker 3 00:06:01 Hindi, hindi. Speaker 2 00:06:02 Yun yung sample ni Marvin. Speaker 3 00:06:04 Marvin, dito. Speaker 3 00:06:08 Uy, Marvin. Speaker 1 00:06:09 Alam ko, pinatanggal na yun, Mag, Si Ruben. Speaker 2 00:06:13 Confirm mo, kasi parang ayaw niya nakakalistong. Si Jasmine. Speaker 1 00:06:17 Oo. Alam ko. Ako yung gumawa nun dun sa Company finance dito sa ConnectWise eh. May ticket lang. May ticket. Speaker 3 00:06:25 Kasi sa pagdinadiretso. Hindi. Pagdinadiretso. Parang ganyan oh. So hindi ko na siya isi dito. Speaker 3 00:06:36 Yun kaya? Speaker 1 00:06:37 Um. Speaker 1 00:06:40 Invoice yan diba? Kasi yun yung words niya eh. Invoice eh. Ito yung ticket. Gusto mo ticket? Supporting ticket. Meron supporting ticket yan. Invoice din yun, Iron Gate. Tapos, ang word pa nun ng Jasmine, Paulit-ulit daw. Tayo. Speaker 3 00:07:00 Paano paulit-ulit? Speaker 1 00:07:03 Na hindi sinesend sa, Parang finance nila. Ah, hindi ba? Speaker 1 00:07:11 Basta pinatanggal niya na si Ruben. Speaker 1 00:07:16 Tapos sa kanya isi-send. Speaker 3 00:07:18 Kailan niya ito na send? Although September. Ay, September pa pa ito. Pero dahil ito nga. Speaker 3 00:07:34 Sige nga ka, Shen. Tapos i-test ko dito. Speaker 1 00:07:40 Ayaw mo nang sendan si Ruben. Sabihin mo, sinunod mo lang to. Speaker 3 00:07:44 Kahit sa Costa Palma, hindi ko na kaya siya Isi-scan, no? Speaker 2 00:07:48 Confirm mo din kay Vinsen? Oo, kung leaded pa. Speaker 1 00:07:55 We need to discuss things. Please tell the team That the invoice should be dated. Hi, Ruben. Di siya dito. Before pa. Speaker 1 00:08:10 Asan na yun? Speaker 1 00:08:13 Dami man kasi yung mga request na itong mga ito. Speaker 1 00:08:18 Sinwasin ko yung shit. This is meant to be built to Jenna Blake. Sige na yun. Speaker 1 00:08:29 RT. Speaker 1 00:08:35 Send emails. Ito yata. Speaker 1 00:08:39 Hello and good morning. Speaker 1 00:08:46 Going forward for Rubens, Please have a... Oh. Speaker 1 00:08:55 Sabi. Oh, ito oh. Speaker 1 00:09:01 Dati pa ito. Speaker 1 00:09:04 At least meron kang supporting ticket. Moving forward. September pa yan. Speaker 2 00:09:14 Yan ang gamitin mo Kay ano, Pag chinag mo kay Vince, Sabihin mo, Vince has borrowed his ticket, Blah, blah, blah, Ganyan, ganyan. Should I proceed In removing, Ano, Speaker 2 00:09:24 Ruben from, The invoices, Ano, Email, Sabihin mo. Speaker 3 00:09:31 Sige. If I've still been sent To Jaina's old email, Ask Ruben, Going forward, Please have all Accounting billing, Invoices sent, To the following. Oo, dalawa na lang sila, diba? Remove ito, okay. Speaker 3 00:09:52 Ito siya, Umi. Pag nag-, Tingnan yung tsura. Speaker 3 00:09:56 Nung nilagay ko sa baba, Speaker 3 00:10:02 Hindi na sa gitna. Speaker 2 00:10:04 Teka, baka mukhang shoes pala sila Pag nandyan sa part na yan. Oo nga, no? Oo, yung tsura niya kasi. Speaker 3 00:10:12 Yan nga eh. Ano ba yan? Kasi sa middle, ano? Speaker 1 00:10:15 Ano ba yan siya? Ano yung ano yun yan? Parang bill 2? Speaker 3 00:10:20 Hindi ko alam. O, hindi eh. Parang, Kung ano dapat daw ka, Meron kasing instruction Since last year, Si Ruben na Kung ano yung nandun sa, Speaker 3 00:10:31 Ang tawag na, Sa quote, Yun dapat yung nandun sa invoice. Speaker 3 00:10:42 Eh, yun din kasi. May na-manual din Na nilalagay ng sales Kung itong mga. Speaker 1 00:10:50 Details niya. So, description Yan? Description? Speaker 1 00:10:57 Sabi ni Marvin, hindi niya, Kasi nakita hindi. Description Yan siya? Hindi, parang. Speaker 3 00:11:05 Answer code. Parang other, Details niya. Speaker 2 00:11:10 Ah, so, Sila ba yung specific na nag-request na dun ilagay sa gitna? Speaker 3 00:11:16 Wala naman. Tinanong ko lang kay Marvin kung paano. So, sinend nga sa akin. Dito nga sa gitna nilalagay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:11:22 Ay, as is mo na lang yung tinaya. Speaker 2 00:11:25 Kinausap pala ako ni Mike na kung pwedeng i-revisit nga doon yung formatting ng invoice natin at medyo magulo daw. Speaker 2 00:11:39 Pero sabi niya kasi, Try to ask daw ConnectWise, Kasi baka naman yan ay May limitation kasi kay ConnectWise Kaya ganda ng itsura, ganyan. So, kailangan kong kausapin, Si ConnectWise kung possible Ba na ma-reformat As to kung ano yung Mas simpleng tingnan. Kung ano yung mas, Easier Iscan. Speaker 2 00:12:08 Just putting this on your radar. Pero it's not urgent, sabi niya. Okay, sabi ko. I'll take a look and, I'll talk to the team, sabi ko. Speaker 1 00:12:19 Sir. Speaker 1 00:12:22 Ganda nung ano ni Moritz. Speaker 3 00:12:24 Do you have, Kwan? Speaker 1 00:12:26 Wednesday. Format. Speaker 2 00:12:29 Sabi nga niya sa akin, Try daw natin. Kumaka-kahingi ako kasi diba, Member naman si I. Ang answer ng mga group of CEOs Sa mga ITs, baka daw makahingi ng sample Invoice ng ibang company. Kunang itsura, ganyan. Talagang magka-idea tayo. Pero, ayun, Nasabi niya. Check ko din daw with ConnectWise. Baka naman kasi may limitations nga ni ConnectWise Or naka-default na siya, As gano'n. So, kailangan natin. Speaker 1 00:12:53 Ano yung naguluhan siya? Speaker 1 00:12:56 Sana sinasabi niya rin. Speaker 2 00:12:58 Sa akin yun? Ito, diniscuss niya kasi sa akin. Asan ba yan? In-screenshot ko yun eh. Speaker 1 00:13:05 Sabi ni Moritz, ano yung quote niya? If it's working, ano yun? We're not emotionally ready. Ano yun? Don't change. Yung kay Moritz, Yung Wednesday, yung quotes niya, Bago nag-start. If it's working ba yun? Speaker 2 00:13:21 If it's working, don't change. Speaker 1 00:13:25 We're not emotionally ready. Ganyan, ganyan. Speaker 2 00:13:28 May sinabi siyang ano? Invoice explanation, Please. Ah, eto ate. Speaker 2 00:13:39 Ay, hindi to. Wait, nasan ba yan? Speaker 2 00:13:43 Sinusunod lang. Magtawag sa Emma? Sagot lang. Ay, sige, sige. Speaker 2 00:13:49 Hi, Anzor. Speaker 4 00:13:51 Hey. Hey, quick question. So, I wanted you to tell me what... What do I need to do? You sent another email, right? So I just wanted to get an update and make sure that I actually understand everything that I need to do because this is kind of a critical. Speaker 2 00:14:17 Yeah. Is this about the license? Give me license? Yes. Okay. Yeah. From the list of the... Speaker 4 00:14:25 So you send me the zip file. So I'm going to save the zip file To my desktop. Speaker 2 00:14:31 Yeah, you will notice there are two folders Inside. One for you and one for. Speaker 4 00:14:36 Katerina. Okay, so I can Delete everything I've had before. Speaker 2 00:14:40 Yeah, just delete that. Speaker 4 00:14:43 Okay, so Let's see. Put it here. Extract. Speaker 5 00:14:59 Ok. Speaker 2 00:15:05 Ay. You open that, you will see Two folders there. So, on your Folder... I think the only pending on that one is just your personal history record, which is the form for R. Speaker 4 00:15:29 So this is the only thing I need to finish. Everything else is done. Speaker 2 00:15:33 Yes. So everything else needs to be notarized as well. Speaker 4 00:15:38 Everything needs to be notarized, but everything is done. And for Katarina? Speaker 2 00:15:41 For Katarina, I asked her to fill out the personal history form as well because the last time it's... It's only your form that we filled out. So I have to, you know, add, Her information and that and the rest She needs to fill out. Speaker 4 00:15:55 But do we fill, Out the same, like, Are we all going to submit This entire set? Which one of us? Speaker 2 00:16:04 Yeah. Speaker 4 00:16:06 So both of us are going to send, All of these documents. Speaker 2 00:16:12 Except for the fingerprinting Form, you can see right there. Speaker 4 00:16:16 Each one will submit. Speaker 2 00:16:19 Because you're out of state. So you're going to use the, FD258 Cards. For the waiver for the Fingerprint, I'm, Trying to confirm that from Nevada Gaming if that's still needed, Since you did your Fingerprinting out of state. I'm waiting for the confirmation on that. So, basically, all individuals listed on Form 1R needs to file all the forms listed in here. Speaker 4 00:16:53 All the forms listed in there. Yes. Got it. Okay. Speaker 2 00:16:59 I've also sent them an email asking for the next steps, if we should mail these forms. Right. Okay. And also the timeline. Speaker 4 00:17:09 Got it. Got it. Okay. I'm clear now. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:17:13 Okay. Thanks, Spencer. Bye-bye. Speaker 4 00:17:15 Bye.
05-19 Internal Review of Client Issues, Team Performance, and Strategic Projects
- Notes
- # Internal Review of Client Issues, Team Performance, and Strategic Projects  ## Navigating the Ability First Budget Shortfall A previously approved capital expenditure for Ability First surfaced a $36,000 deficit attributed to an unauthorized modification by former acting CFO Kathy Cobb. In December, the capex plan—totaling $110,000—was approved by all stakeholders, including CEO Sergio. Of this sum, $83,000 was designated for Crimson, with the remainder allocated to camp. After approval, finance proposed splitting $40,000 to fiscal year 2025 and the remainder to 2026 due to a surplus in the camp budget; Crimson fulfilled its part by purchasing equipment, invoicing, and receiving payment for the Crimson components, explicitly excluding ComDirect’s portion. Without notification, Kathy altered the approved figures in the finance system, reducing Crimson’s budget by $36,000. This was not communicated to Crimson, which also lacks financial system visibility. The issue was escalated in the ELT meeting, where Sergio affirmed his recollection of approving the full cost as originally presented. New CFO Carl acknowledged the problem, clarified that the mistake was from his department (not personally him), and committed to resolving the shortfall by reallocating funds from another budget. He has already worked a solution within his budget to cover the $36,000. Speaker 1 underscored that all capex submissions were accurate, detailed, and supported by proof of timely submission and approval. A near-term operational step is pending: Speaker 1 plans to call ComDirect to confirm that their deposit is being sent today. ## Strategy for Managing Finance Department Relations The finance department relationship has been strained, particularly with Kathy and Susanna, who have been selectively obstructive with Mashawn—delaying communications on invoice corrections and later spotlighting alleged failures during ELT meetings despite documented proof of remediation (e.g., AT&T bill reductions with timestamped email evidence). This pattern has contributed to friction and public escalations. To stabilize operations and improve collaboration, Carl granted Speaker 1 full administrative access to Concur, with an external contractor scheduled to review NetSuite and Concur configurations. The contractor will deliver a report of corrective recommendations to Speaker 1, who will then lead implementation. The strategic posture advised by Pete is to maintain neutrality, avoid blame attribution, and position Speaker 1 as a supportive partner focused on process improvement. This includes tactically framing changes as collaborative enhancements, soliciting finance’s input, and making their workload easier—mitigating risk that finance perceives Crimson as adversarial or exposing their mistakes. Speaker 1 intends to execute improvements that do not impact finance’s budget, further reinforcing a non-threatening, value-adding role. She recognizes being collateral damage in existing tensions with Mashawn but will center on enabling success and inclusivity. ## Client Relationship and Perception Management Ability First’s perception of Crimson remains strong. Trainings are described as “game changers,” and both Sergio and the board are pleased with outcomes. Mashawn’s standing is robust: she is loved by Sergio and the board; her change agenda is being implemented; and she is collaborating closely with Carl to drive cross-functional progress. The primary friction against Mashawn resides within finance, tied to legacy personnel dynamics (Suzanne and Kathy, linked to Kasha). Jeremy, a C-level leader, diverges from the board’s strategic approach, contributing to isolated resistance. A sensitivity emerged that Ability First fears becoming a lower priority compared to Sharp. Pete advised avoiding mentions of Sharp when reassuring Ability First about service, avoiding any suggestion that Crimson’s growth could diminish service quality. Speaker 1 responded by sharing her personal connection to Ability First’s mission—through a foster-to-adopt child who was an Ability First client—affirming that Ability First is personally important and will not be an afterthought. Ability First requested a joint meeting involving Dr. Barber from Sharp, which they are excited about; Pete cautioned positioning to ensure Ability First feels fully valued and prioritized. ## Addressing Internal Team Performance and Stress Olivia, the help desk manager, exhibited significant stress—crying in a morning meeting—amid an overwhelmed help desk and staffing gaps (Philippine crew away for three to four days and multiple vacations pending). Pete’s core concern is the absence of managerial proactivity: Olivia consistently leaves at four o’clock and appears offline despite reporting overload. He does not want to mandate longer hours but expects occasional focused overtime to catch up and reduce stress. Pete also sees a leadership structure problem: Becker is not stepping up; Charles is intermittently available due to project commitments; George’s leadership scope is limited. He has repeatedly urged Olivia to promote Matthew to a team lead to stabilize operations. Pete provided a recent tactical model of visible de-escalation: sending Ryan onsite to a client (John’s desk at Hannah) to be present and handle work, which can immediate relieve pressure and manage perception. Speaker 1 offered to mentor Olivia—sharing practical approaches from past crisis management—an offer Pete welcomed. The emphasis is on flexible resourcing and leadership adjustments, including direct communication with Olivia about the gap between her reported overwhelm and her current time management practices. ## Operational Updates and Senior Leadership Workload Speaker 1 proposed exploring Thread’s premium AI features for $20 more per month to alleviate help desk pain points. Earlier complaints about Thread notifications were traced to misconfigurations in ConnectWise; the team never revisited what Thread could now offer. Pete queried potential conflicts with Anzor’s initiatives; Speaker 1 noted that Anzor planned AI changes that might eventually replace Thread, but she perceives he has paused or not looped her in. Anzor was upset over a report recently and has been uncharacteristically quiet for three weeks, which is unprecedented in their 4.5 years working together. Pete explained that Anzor is fully consumed by a critical domain migration for Maverick. Originally scoped as an IT infrastructure security assessment for Maverick and Foothill, the Maverick engagement pivoted last week to a full domain migration off their current domain—with over 1,000 users—by May 31st. A migration of this complexity typically requires three to six months; attempting it in roughly two weeks is highly unusual. Anzor has been spearheading coordination, pulling in Emiel and Jason for planning, with Anton also heavily engaged. Pete is working to secure an extension to July 6th while still delivering a measurable subset by May 31st. The team must provide a concrete plan for what can be delivered by end of business today. Separately, Speaker 1 proposed an idea for C-Boss to Anzor last week; he agreed, and she plans to build it next week. Pete will review the Thread message Speaker 1 sent between 7:45 and 8:15 this morning and discuss it with her tomorrow. ## Action Items - Owner groups reflect explicit assignments and directives captured verbatim from the dialogue. Each task includes a binary outcome and a deadline marker. Where no specific date was stated, [TBD] is applied per protocol. **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Call ComDirect to give a heads up that the deposit is being sent today - [TBD] - [ ] Meet the outside contractor on Tuesday to review Concur and NetSuite - [TBD] - [ ] Implement fixes in Concur and NetSuite based on the contractor’s report - [TBD] - [ ] Help finance work through and improve Concur and NetSuite configurations - [TBD] - [ ] Sit down with Olivia to mentor her on handling similar issues and necessary changes - [TBD] - [ ] Explore Thread’s premium AI features to alleviate help desk pressure - [TBD] - [ ] Do not worry about Anzor’s lack of communication given his current workload - [TBD] - [ ] Work on the C-Boss idea next week - [TBD] **@Pete** - [ ] Do whatever possible to “play nice” with finance, regardless of past issues - [TBD] - [ ] Maintain a neutral posture with finance - [TBD] - [ ] Make finance feel included in process improvements - [TBD] - [ ] Frame improvements as in the best interest of finance and everyone involved - [TBD] - [ ] Warm finance up to the changes and make them feel good about them - [TBD] - [ ] “Pump them up” to reinforce positive perception even if performance is currently lacking - [TBD] - [ ] Ping Anton to confirm if he is going to the client event - [TBD] - [ ] Let Ability First know they are as important as ever - [TBD] - [ ] Tell Olivia: do not report being overwhelmed while consistently leaving at four; demonstrate extra effort when needed - [TBD] - [ ] Have Ryan sit at John’s desk at Hannah for a couple of days to be visible and get work done onsite - [TBD] - [ ] Look for Speaker 1’s Thread message sent this morning and review it - [TBD] - [ ] Chat tomorrow with Speaker 1 about Thread and the premium AI option - [TBD]
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 But I want to caution you that both Carl, who's the CFO, And Mashawn made it a point to come, see me and say none of this is your fault. So basically, Back in December, we got approved to add into capex the complete overhaul for for camp, and we gave them, What the total amount was going to be, and we stuck it in. So, we worked it out. ; it was supposed to be one hundred, ten thousand dollars. And we knew that eighty three was going to be for Crimson, and the rest was going to be for Camp. And so we submitted it within our budget. I had it in there; it was very detailed, it was very organized. Speaker 1 00:00:53 They came back, finance came back and said, "Well, since we have a surplus in camp budget, Can we do forty thousand for twenty five and the rest of it in twenty six And? We were like, "Yes. " So Crimson worked it out with them. Did everything got bought the equipment invoiced all of that. They paid. And, we were very clear :. This is just the Crimson parts, not the ComDirect part. Speaker 1 00:01:24 So Kathy Cobb, who is uh who was the acting CFO at the time. Yep. She changed our numbers in the system. And we lost. She did what? Speaker 2 00:01:38 She did what specifically in the system? Speaker 1 00:01:40 She changed the numbers for the budget for capex in the system. Okay. And she reduced us by thirty six thousand dollars Did not tell us, We have no visibility into any of the systems for finance. They've been keeping it close to best. Carl is this new CFO. Um, they brought it up in today's ELT meeting, which they had asked me to come in, but I had meetings so I couldn't attend theirs. Um, even Sergio, the CEO was like, "You guys told them what it was going to be—the total cost." He's like, "I was in those meetings. I was on those emails." Speaker 1 00:02:21 I approved it for this cost. Why is it reduced? And so, They basically the gist of what's going to happen is Carl has to find the extra thirty six thousand somewhere else, and he's going to have to reduce someone else's budget to cover it. Whether he reduces finances or operations or whatever, uh, He's been told under no uncertain terms that he's got to find the money and cover it since. It was his people that messed it up, not him. And everybody understands it's not him. Um, so just a heads up for you. I have to call Com Direct in a bit and give them a heads up that, hey, the deposit's being sent out to you today. So uh, so that. Speaker 2 00:03:10 So where did they where did they end up getting the deposit? Speaker 1 00:03:13 I don't know, but Carl worked it out out of his budget. Speaker 1 00:03:20 So, we did everything right. We submitted the budget correctly. We did the capital expenditures correctly. Everything I put in, we submitted it. We showed proof that we had submitted it. I was able to you know pull some things Sergio even said, I remember us discussing it. I remember approving this so, We've been having some issues with finance already. Carl has even pointed out that Kathy and Susanna. Have been very, I don't know the right term, But very selective in how they treat Mashawn and not giving her the what she needs to do her stuff because they're upset for some reason. I don't know it's politics that is happening on their end. So we've had several issues today. Carl stopped by, and we had a long conversation because one of the other issues we ran into is I would get things. Speaker 1 00:04:20 On invoices fixed and canceled, but Susanna and Kathy would not tell me that there was still an issue. And so they would wait two or three months, And I would send them an email showing proof that hey at and t did this, so you should see a reduction in the bills on this date. And then they didn't see that reduction, but they didn't tell me. They didn't tell Sean. They sprung it on me in an ELT meeting. Two months later to say, you never did this in front of everybody. And I had to go back and say, no, I sent you the email. Here is when I did it and provide proof. Speaker 2 00:04:59 Yeah, I think that's the one. I think that's the one Sean referred to. I think that's the one that actually i think That's the one you mentioned; you or Sean or both of you mentioned that same week that it happened. I think you told me about it, and then i think she mentioned it as well or something, Yeah, she was. Speaker 1 00:05:19 She was upset very much upset that day. I was not happy, but she was she was on fire that day. So Carl came in today. I am getting full administrative access to Concur, And I am going to help them work through and better the system they are bringing in an outside contractor next week, and I am going to meet them on Tuesday. The contractor is going to go through all of NetSuite, and all of how Concur is set up, And then turn over to me, the report of everything that should be fixed and set up. And I am going to work on fixing it for them. Okay, so right now, according to the meeting I had with Mashawn, this is based off what she told me. She might have said something different to you. Crimson's in a really good place right now. Speaker 1 00:06:10 Because, we're going to take on some of the stuff that finance is unable to do, and that's going to. Speaker 2 00:06:16 Be and that's great, right? Like I love I love hearing what you are saying. That's all really good stuff. And I am just gonna. I am just gonna reiterate what I said yesterday, when we talked,: is just do whatever possible to play nice with finance regardless of what they did and how it got the way it is. And all that. Try to stay neutral. Try to stay neutral, yes. Try to stay as neutral as possible, regardless of whether they tell us it's their fault or not ours. Because they might hold a grudge even if we don't, right? And I don't want them to think that we're you know, pointing the finger going neener, right? And and or if they see Miss Shawne and. Speaker 2 00:07:07 Their head of finance taking our side. I don't want them begrudging us now and seeing us as the enemy because now they screwed up. And they think that you know, we outed them or something, right? So again, it's not that it's not that we've done anything wrong. I just don't want to stir the pot, you know, you know because because at some point. Somebody could leave, and they could have some decision making power, and then we you know we get pushed out by somebody or something. And I just I want to hopefully at the end of the day, We do, you know you are able to to improve their lives with some of the stuff that you are going to be doing. So hopefully that's what that's what comes out of this. And, if you are able to work with them and say, hey, this is going to make your life a lot easier. Speaker 2 00:08:02 Here is what we can do, and here is how we can do it. And how about this? And you know, ask their opinions and get their input, and all that kind of stuff. I think that will go a long way with you know either either bridging, Repairing or improving in general the relationship, if there is any damage there at all already. So yes, that's that's what I would give as far as my two cents so. Speaker 1 00:08:27 No, And I one hundred percent agree with you because right now, what it looks like is I am just collateral damage in their issues with Michonne. And so my job is going my position. I already told this to Michonne, and Carl is just to make their lives easier, But doing do it in such a way where they don't feel like I am taking over, but I am improving. Sure. Speaker 2 00:08:52 Yeah, and if you meet with them during this whole process just. You know, just just be like like you said, be neutral and talk to them and say, you know, just so you're aware. What we're trying to do is is help make everything easier for everybody. So, what I, you know, I'm going to talk with you about all the stuff we're doing and I want I want to understand what your processes are now and how we can help make all of this better. You know procedurally and operationally for everybody. You know whatever, just make them feel very included. Make them feel like this. Speaker 2 00:09:27 You know, in their best interest and everybody's. You know, we're working for everyone here. Yes. To the extent possible, just just warm them up and make them feel good about here. You might have to even pump them up right to I hate to say this, Lie to them and make them feel like they're the best thing in the world, even if they suck. Yes. Right? Like yes But but uh whatever you know. Speaker 2 00:09:56 Okay, cool. Speaker 1 00:09:57 So things went. I mean Michelle, Michonne and I not Michelle), Michonne and I had a very good conversation. It was like almost two hours. Um, so that's why I am three hours late leaving Ability First, But we've got some other things we're trying to fix as well. That has been popping up on the program side. So with the trainings that are happening. Uh, ability first is really liking the trainings that we're doing. So, we are recording those and making sure that everyone is comfortable with uh how to use the basics. So that we can go on to doing more advanced stuff with them. So she did she didn't mention it because we've been doing the training for the last I think this is our third week. Um, she did mention that it is a lot of people are mentioning to her. Speaker 1 00:10:52 That it has been a game changer for them. Speaker 2 00:10:58 That's good. That's good. Yes. Let me ask you sort of a completely different type of question: What. Is your sense of the Sean's position in ability first kind of from the top down? Because, you know, obviously she is our liaison, our advocate, our everything. To do with everything there right now, um, but where is her where like what is her reputation? I guess within ability, first's leadership above her or whatever you want to call it. Do you know? Do you have any objective uh like. Speaker 2 00:11:52 Visibility into that at all? Speaker 1 00:11:53 I do. Um, I can give you the entirety on this one. She is she is very highly regarded with Sergio, who's a CEO, and with the board. So the changes that she was trying to make when she first started, she's been actually making and the board loves her. Sergio loves her. She's not going anywhere. Uh okay, There are some so Carl the C F O, she and him have joined forces to make changes. So she is very well, uh hand in hand with him on getting things done. The only C level that has an issue with her is Jeremy because, uh but Jeremy doesn't like Sergio as much and doesn't like uh, Mashawn doesn't like me, but it's only because he wants to operate at a different level. Speaker 1 00:12:47 And we're saying, no, you are going to operate within the strategy that ability first board has outlined. And so we do have to pump the brakes on him, including me. I have to do it from an IT and a budget level. And everybody else has to do it from all the other angles. He's the only C - level issue as far as departments ;, all departments love her except finance. But it's in finance; his only issue is because of Kasha. Speaker 1 00:13:18 So there was some some issues there, and that's a holdover because it's only with Suzanne and Kathy, who were people that Caution had brought in. So, uh she's she is very well regarded there. Everybody loves working with her. So, I don't think she's gonna be going anywhere for the time being. Speaker 2 00:13:40 Okay. Okay, that's great. I mean it's nice to hear because you know the last the other last. Speaker 2 00:13:49 Have our advocate be, you know, on thin ice because that would just be worse. So. Speaker 1 00:13:54 Yes. Um, just a heads up for you with Sergio. Sergio loves us. Um, he likes the things I've been doing. Um, We are we are I keep saying loves us because that's my term. But uh, he he is he very, he speaks highly of the work we're doing. Speaker 1 00:14:17 So, the board is happy with the work we're doing. He's very much happy with the work we're doing. Um, he's they're worried. He and Mashawn are both worried, and that this is Mashawn's words that they are not as sexy as Sharp, and they're worried about me being happy there. But I am actually happy there. I like working at Ability First because I love what their mission is. Speaker 2 00:14:40 Well, They're, not they are not going to get any less service from us than yes. Than they have ever done. I mean, if that's a concern for them at all, just don't even talk about sharp. Yeah, like don't bring sharp up at all. Speaker 1 00:14:57 Well, So the only reason why sharp is brought up is because they want to do what kind of do a little bit of what sharp is doing. So they asked me to get a meeting with them with Doctor Barber, which they're super excited about. So and. Speaker 2 00:15:11 That's and that, You know, if they're asking about it, that's that's a different story. But I mean, Try to try not to even reference that when you are not at ability first. That you are sharp. I mean, try to kind of get that out of their mindset. That you know when Chris isn't here, she's at sharp because it's an important account to them right? I want to we do that a lot. And I really don't like that. We do that because it. It implies that, that our important customers might become less important and gives them a reason to look for, you know, less a lower level of service than they might have been getting before. Right. It's not that I want to hide that we're growing, but at the same time, I don't want to advertise that we're growing quickly because then they're going to start looking for reasons to say our their service is getting worse. Right. Speaker 2 00:16:08 People like Hannah, for instance. As soon as we say we're growing and we're doing really well, they're going to start looking for reasons to say, "Well, our service isn't as good as it used to be," and blah. You know you know that's what I don't want to do. So it's okay for us to say we're doing okay, but so I don't know. And I know you are doing this, but encourage them make sure they know that they're important to us. You know hopefully us being at their event is going to be. It's too bad Anzor is not going to be able to go. I don't know why he can't, butum, I need to ping Anton and find out if he's gonna go because I got everybody else committed. But anyway, okay. Yes, Well, thanks for the update. And yeah, just just let them know they are as important as ever. And you know, maybe more right. So yes, Speaker 1 00:16:59 Well what I told Mashawn is I said, from a mission point of view. I love what they do. Now, what you don't know, But Mashawn knows this :. There was a kid that was supposed to come before. Dom, and she was actually an Ability First client. She was twelve and she was with the Claremont. They were going to move her to my house as one of my first foster kids, and I met her through Ability First. I had her picture; I had all the information on her. She was a foster-to-adopt. Speaker 1 00:17:35 And I randomly met her visiting the Claremont site. And she doesn't know the kid doesn't know, but I did tell Sean and Sergio because they knew, and I said, look, This is why you guys are important to me because of what you are doing in these kids' lives. Because it's near and dear to my heart. So, you guys are never going to be an afterthought to me because I am way too committed in what you are doing. And the same thing with Sharp because they're doing similar stuff with foster care. So. Which I didn't tell them that part about sharp, But I told Sharp that they're just as important as well, because their mission is near and dear. So my only goal is to see them succeed because if they succeed, then they get to help more kids, which is something important to me. Speaker 2 00:18:18 Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Speaker 1 00:18:22 Yeah yeah So it is going well there and I am super happy, Um, with the direction that Michonne gave me today, because I was like," Look, I need access so I can take the next steps," and so I got the access. And now I can start putting other things in place. It's not even going to hit their budget. Which makes me excited. Um, can I pivot on another conversation? Yeah, am. Speaker 2 00:18:55 Multitasking because am still working on this project. Speaker 1 00:18:59 No worries. You can multitask all you need to. I understand. There are a few people who are stressed, and I did promise I would not give up names. They came to Olivia. You're not supposed to know that. Speaker 2 00:19:18 I already know it, she was crying. She was crying in our meeting this morning, yes, said Are you okay? And she said that Ansorg said something last week. He, adamantly says that's absolutely not true. Uh. I don't know, so it is, it is what is. I said well, Do you want to talk to her because she believes that what you said is what you said and you say that you didn't say it, and he said, well, I'll I'll catch up with her tomorrow. So good. I don't know anyway. That's what is but she she's I know that the help desk. Speaker 2 00:19:58 Is a little bit overwhelmed, but she's got. I'll tell you, you know what Chris, if she listens to you, maybe you can give her this guidance. Okay. Because there is a there is a frustration point that I do have a little bit. She she tells me when we're completely overwhelmed how overwhelmed everybody is, but she still goes home at four o'clock every day. And when I say goes home, she logs out and I see her offline now, Every other manager, if they have a way ton of work, they put in a little extra time to catch up with stuff. Especially, I don't see her do that. And I've suggested before that she might need to do that once in a while. And if she's that overwhelmed and they have that much extra work, Maybe she should put in a little bit of extra time to try to get caught up and do some stuff that needs some extra focus. Speaker 2 00:20:52 And I am getting tired of just sort of suggesting it, And I don't want to mandate it and tell her you need to do this, but as a manager, She needs to give it some consideration and just do it when it needs to be done. Right? And that's something that I don't know. Sometimes you stay an extra hour or two and you leave, and you feel like hey, you know what? I got some stuff done today that yeah. I feel better about, and then it takes some of the stress off. You and I both know this, right? We've been around long enough to know that when your plate is overflowing, Sometimes a day or two working a little extra. And having that focus time when there aren't a hundred phone calls and meetings coming at you from every direction, you get some of the busy work out of the way. And the next day you feel like, "Hey, I got to breathe it a little bit," right? Yes. And I am not seeing that out of her. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:21:50 That's, that's an example of something that she could do for herself that would take some of the stress away from her. So, anyway, I know I am not saying it's all her ;. We got to do. We got to do some things to fix. You know, some of the challenges that are not going to fix themselves either, right so, I've suggested several times that she take Matthew and make him a lead on the team because she's got leaders that are not being leaders and she needs to fix that. Yes, and I've told her that for several months now, and she's not making the changes. And, she needs to make those changes because Becker is not stepping up and being a leader for her, Charles. Speaker 2 00:22:44 Can be sometimes, but he's also a project guy. And when he's got projects on his plate, he doesn't have the time to be a leader. And if those are the two people she's counting on, that's pretty slim, you know. And, that's not going to work for her. And Now george George can be for the stuff that he's got, but you know that's what he's got. And she needs to fix that. Because that needs to be fixed, and until she does, she's going to have issues. So, and I am not trying to say that it's all Olivia's fault, But she also has to take action the stuff that I am telling her to take action because we need to fix these things or they're not going to get better. Yes, And if we're growing, if we're growing those leaders need to be leaders and they're not. Speaker 1 00:23:44 Yeah, um, if you are okay with it and she doesn't have to know. Well, first she not know this. A couple times over the years I've sat down with either her or Cheryl, And this was when I wasn't overwhelmed and feeling like I was uh on a roller coaster with Anzor. Um, We were able to plan things out and and be able to put the right people in the right places and switch them around. Um, If you are good with it, I don't mind sitting down with her again and just showing her how I handled that type of issues. And what I had to change. Speaker 2 00:24:22 Totally fine with it, Chris. Anything that you want to do to help mentor her and provide guidance and tell her how it needs to be? i've been I've been actually, I think she she likes the stuff am telling her, but I think she's being, A little hesitant, and she was very emotional today. For probably several reasons, one. She's. Um. She's sympathetic to her team, or she's empathetic to her team to a fault, right? And the the problem is. She's she's taking their. Speaker 2 00:25:10 Word for the fact that they're overworked, But at the same time, she's not trying to support and figure out a way to handle it. She's breaking down, and that's not going to help. No, right? We got to figure out. We got to figure out a way to get through this, because this weekend is going to be worse. Right, I mean, We got the Philippine crew that's going to be gone for like three or four days, and we got a bunch of people on vacation. And it's going to be worse before it gets better. And that was what it was going to be like during all those onboardings. And, we actually shined like a bright star once she stood up and decided we could do it, and we did a great job. But you know, she can't break down because she almost broke down before we did that too. And I propped her up and she was. Speaker 2 00:26:06 She did a great job then, but she's got to not keep breaking down before she stands up, right? So I am kind of i went to bat. I told her this today, and it really made her feel better. I think I told her I went to bat for us yesterday for jams and in a very diplomatic way, everything that they were kind of pointing at crimson yesterday or on Monday. I we had our meeting with them yesterday, and I placed it all right in their lap. And, they realized it was well all, but one thing was all of the all theirs and or all the all of the callers. And everything that they were were trying to point at Crimson was you know, all but one thing was not us. And I and I was very diplomatic in the meetings and basically saying. Speaker 2 00:26:59 So, here is what happened. I was reading the notes from the ticket, and I was saying this and I was saying that. And I said, "You know, here is what happened." And I said so in this particular situation, what do you think we should have done differently? That's how I said it. And everybody was kind of smiling, because the stuff I was reading to them was exactly what we should have done. In fact, we went above and beyond and they knew it. And they had no comments on what we could have done differently. In fact They were kind of shocked that we did as much as we did, right? That's that's how this thing went. And I was so happy I could do that because it was like, you know, it makes you feel so good to be able to just. It does. You sort of you are sort of making them eat their words in a way. And and it's kind of like they're coming into this thinking. Speaker 2 00:27:50 They're gonna complain about three escalations, and there was only one that really had any weight. And, it was the super minor one that had really nothing to do with much. But, but long story short, I told her what I did. I talked to our guides for thirty minutes before the call. I got all the data, I got all the facts. I went into this meeting well prepared, and i basically, you know, kind of just handled it. And and supported crimson, and we and we came out shining right. And it was, and I was going into this initially thinking we're going to get hammered here. And it was the opposite. So, she was really happy that that happened. And I think that made her feel a lot better when we met today. But I think that was weighing on her too, But that she was thinking we were getting slammed yesterday while she was out also. So that was, I am sure a contributor to the stress that she was having today as well. But. Speaker 2 00:28:46 I mean, I don't know, but back to what you were saying. Yes, if you can do things to mentor her, but I do want to see her also do a little bit extra. Right? Don't tell me how overwhelmed and busy everybody is, and then leave at four o'clock every day, because that doesn't show me that you are doing anything extra to help. Yes, Especially when I am here at six thirty five working on a project when you know, you know, I don't know, yeah. So. Speaker 1 00:29:15 Um, so that brings me to the next question statement. One of those where I am probably going to if you say no, I am probably going to still do it behind your back type thing. Um, I sent you over a message from Thread. I don't recall if you answered it or not, but for twenty more dollars a month we go to the premium AI version. Um, I would like to see what we can do with Thread. To help alleviate some of the pain points, And we had dialed back on a lot of the thread items originally because people were complaining about the notifications. But, then we found that a lot of the notifications that were hitting was due to some misconfigurations on ConnectWise, And we never went back to see what Thread could offer us that would make the lives of the teams a lot easier. I want to spend a little bit of time working. Speaker 1 00:30:13 In thread to see if there is a way we could do that and try to alleviate some of the pressure from the help desk. Speaker 2 00:30:23 Um, is that going to conflict with anything that we're doing? That Anzor's working on or anything because. If it is, he's going to push back, and I don't want to hear so. Speaker 1 00:30:37 So eventually he'll get to it, but. This is one of those things that when he does, That's when we want to turn off thread because eventually he's going to want to get rid of thread. But I haven't heard him working on anything with Steve Austin in the last three weeks. We still have smart dispatch going because he's not there yet on making that change. So I think he's backed off a little bit on AI. Speaker 1 00:31:10 Unless I unless he's just not looping me in on it. Speaker 2 00:31:16 Okay. Um, Speaker 1 00:31:18 Cause he he did he did get upset with me over that report. Speaker 2 00:31:21 He asked, When did you send me this? So I can take a look at it. Speaker 1 00:31:25 This morning probably between seven forty five and eight fifteen. Speaker 2 00:31:36 Okay, let me let me look for that and maybe we can chat tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:31:40 Okay, cool. Um, I did want to bring up: is did you and Anzar have a conversation? And Anzar start backing off from me. Speaker 2 00:31:52 Uh. Let's see. Did we have a conversation about that in particular? I don't think so. I don't think it was. I don't think there was anything in particular about that. Okay, uh. Speaker 2 00:32:10 I know he's like, you know, he's super into Claude and coding and stuff now. So he's I think what he wants to do is, you know, Totally focus on the whole, you know, auto dispatch and all that kind of stuff. So I think as long as he's got full reign of that, then the other stuff probably doesn't matter too much. So well, Speaker 1 00:32:36 He hasn't brought me into any of it. Recently, and he still has smart dispatch on our side going. So he hasn't taken it down, But ever since he asked for that report and I thought I had gotten him the right stuff and I misunderstood, he's been not asking me to do anything lately. Which is weird. So I was worried I might have upset him. Speaker 2 00:33:01 Okay, um. No, I don't. I don't think so. I mean, i don't I think he's just been. I think he's been busy. I mean, I think he was, you know, doing some operational stuff while I was out. So maybe that was it. Speaker 1 00:33:22 Maybe. I mean, he just gave me the mashon feedback today. Okay so So I don't know i just was like made. I was I was kind of worried. And maybe this is just me overthinking it that. He had gotten upset with me when he had asked for that report for, I guess, Foothill. And then I butchered it. I thought I was, I was going off what he said, and I misunderstood and got him the wrong thing. Speaker 2 00:33:50 I have i i haven't heard a thing about that. I don't think that's, okay. doubt that That's even on his mind, to be honest. Speaker 1 00:33:59 Yeah cause after. Speaker 2 00:34:01 I haven't heard him say, I haven't heard him say a thing about that. So I seriously doubt that okay, That's. Speaker 1 00:34:11 Um. Cause he he has not reached out to me at all in three weeks, which is. In the four and a half years I've worked for him, has never happened. So it's just kind of thrown me for a loop because I am like, did I piss him off? Well, Speaker 2 00:34:24 Well, I think well, I'll be candid with Chris. He's he's got a lot going on with. I mean he's doing and and i i. I think it's been a while since he's had to do this but he's, He's personally doing a lot of the communication and coordination for some of the stuff that's going on with Maverick. So, I don't know if you know, But with Maverick originally, were supposed to and Foothill. So with maverick, were originally supposed to do a full IT infrastructure security assessment. You know that right? So, that was that was the original scope of work. So somehow last week that. Speaker 2 00:35:05 Changed to a full domain migration off of their their the domain that they have and on to a separate domain by the end of this month, and they have over a thousand users. Oh, damn! And all this is supposed to happen within two weeks. And that is a that's a three to six month project, right? To pull that off in two weeks is almost unheard of. and, But apparently, There was some contractual agreement that said they were supposed to be off of this domain by May thirty first So, Monsor got roped into that and was trying to spearhead, trying to get us figure to figure out how to do that. And that started last week when I was on vacation. So we've been scrambling to try to get everybody together, put together a plan on how to make that happen. What's it going take? Speaker 2 00:36:02 You know, so we had to pull in a meal and Jason and and um, second project planning. And Anton is up to his eyeballs in stuff. You know it's it's a it's a ton of stuff. But Onzor himself as an engineer is also trying to you know, coordinate figuring out what is it going to take to do this because he's you know, he probably more than anybody besides the meal and maybe Anton. Knows what needs to happen to pull this thing off. So, between that and then he's also doing the personal interview stuff with Foothill, and just the normal day- to- day stuff. I think he's just got a shit ton of stuff going on, and just probably has little to no time to think about football. Okay, Speaker 1 00:36:54 Good because usually he calls me to do a lot of his footwork stuff, and I am like," He doesn't." Called me in three weeks. Did I piss him off? So, I am usually his go to after hours. Speaker 2 00:37:08 Yeah, I think it's just that he needs everybody to pull down the fort. While we try to get these project things done. And what I am working on today with said, and the web team is we're trying to get an extension to July sixth for the domain migration instead of May thirtieth. First, But they want to know what can you deliver by May thirty first So. We're tweaking our project plan to try to say we can give you this, but we still need all this other stuff to be done. And, we got to have a project plan that shows that by the end of business today, which is an hour ago. Oh no! So we're trying. yeah so we're trying. I think I mean, we basically have it done. We sent it to Hanser, but now he's asking questions. So I think we're pretty much done. But. Speaker 2 00:37:60 So anyway. So that's that's that's what I want. But but that's what, you know, until this thing settles, I don't think he's gonna have a whole ton of time to do much more than just this. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:38:18 No, I just I was worried, but I didn't know all of that, so that makes perfect sense because I am like he usually calls me at least once a week on. An iron gate thing, and hasn't called me. So, I was worried. So. Okay, good. Then I won't worry about it. Uh, I did tell him last week I had an idea for C boss, But I'd like it, if he would let me build it and then show it to him. And he said okay. So that's his way of agreeing. Okay. So but that's a that's a next week issue. Okay so But yeah. Speaker 1 00:38:58 Alright, cool. I'm gonna leave you alone because the entire time we've talking been talking, I've gone from South Pasadena almost into Lynwood. Okay. Which is amazing. Um So I'm about 15 minutes from my house. Okay So I'm gonna, I've got a lot of work that I got to get done tonight. Um, I have a few things. I want to do for ComYap, and then i'm going to be logging off. I just was forced to leave ability first because I don't have stuff. Oh, I am here. Speaker 2 00:39:32 Okay, okay. Here is another suggestion that I just sent to Olivia. This is what I wanted to uh, I want her to think on feet a little bit right? So, I got an escalation from Marcelo. Do you know who Marcelo is with Hannah? Speaker 1 00:39:46 Yes, I think you do. Yes, Speaker 2 00:39:47 So he sent me this email this morning.:" J ohn is on vacation this week and now nothing's getting done." Right? This just a bullshit email. And you know, he sent a thing last night at four forty seven saying, "I need access to this email box." Well, we didn't have it done by ten a m. this morning, so that's his email. And so I said, "Well let me look into it," and it was already being worked on. But yeah, it probably could have been assigned a little earlier this morning. But it's not like it got lost in the line right? So anyway, long story short, we had it done before noon, but probably could have been assigned earlier, probably could have been done earlier anyway. Speaker 2 00:40:26 So, I just sent Olivia a note and I said, " W hy, don't you have Ryan go sit at John's desk at Hannah a couple of days this week and be present there and do some work there?" Ryan ain't that busy; he sits in San Diego. Have him be visible and present. He can do some of the balance work. Yes, You know, that's the kind of stuff we should. We should be thinking right like they want to have a body there. Go send Ryan over there, even if Ryan's not as good; we all know that. But you know, he's visible, he's present, And they can say that there is somebody else there and get him off our back. That's the kind of stuff to just think in those terms. So that's the kind of stuff if you talk to Olivia, she needs to get out of the mindset of "this person does this," you know? Be flexible, do things differently to get things done right. Whatever okay I am done. No, you are good i. Speaker 2 00:41:26 I am. Drive carefully, drive carefully and be safe out there. Speaker 1 00:41:30 I will. I'm like now I'm ten minutes from home, so I will. Alright, thanks babe. Okay, bye- bye.
08-06 Weekly Meeting: Onboarding, Project Status, and Policy Updates
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- > Date: 2026-08-06 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Olivia] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes ### Onboarding Process for Robert and Gaston - Robert and Gaston were onboarded as standard employees without vacation time carryover. - Initially, they were not given new laptops. Gaston received his own, while Robert is using a laptop provided by Dr. Barbara. - They were set up with Microsoft 365 and ConnectWise accounts, but not SCHARP. ### "Copilot Team" Clarification - Mike was told to send questions to a “Copilot team.” - This was a misunderstanding. The instruction was to include “Copilot” in the email subject line so messages are routed to the entire team for assistance. - The goal is to route questions from individuals like John or Juan more effectively. ### Westwood Project Status - Olivia noted that Westwood—specifically COO Lauren—is becoming anxious about the cloud deployment project. - Speaker 2 stated they have been in constant communication with Brett and have responded to all his questions within hours. - The project involves deploying a “Claude” application, targeted to be online by August 7, 2026, though there are issues with Microsoft code. - Lauren did not have Claude installed despite being licensed. The application was pushed to users’ computers. - A communication gap exists, with Brett asking questions to both George and Speaker 2. ### Westwood AI Projects and Task Delegation - There are three simultaneous AI projects for Westwood: Claude, an inbox app, and a Base Forty-Four app. - Brett requested the inbox app be prioritized. It is a large coding project on which Speaker 2 has spent over 300 hours. - Due to the inbox app’s priority, the Claude project was deprioritized. - George can assist with the Claude project, specifically configuring SSO and integrations. - Olivia will instruct George to work with John on these tasks and provide updates. - Speaker 2 plans to involve John more in AI projects to provide assistance. ### New Password Reset Policy - Olivia proposed a new password reset policy for Ability First and SCHARP. - The policy requires users to confirm identity via MFA by phone number (for US/Canada) or a six-digit code (for international). - Speaker 2 confirmed they have all phone numbers for Ability First staff, who are all based in LA County. - Speaker 2 will notify Ability First staff about the new policy. - Olivia will send the SOP and instructions to Speaker 2 via Teams. ### Ability First Inventory Tracker V2 - Speaker 2 is planning Version 2 of the Ability First inventory tracker, including automated onboarding. - This project will also be rolled out to SCHARP. - A meeting will be planned with Robert, Gaston, Vana, Olivia, Charl Becker, and possibly John. - Speaker 2 noted that a manual inventory process was previously decided during an L10 meeting they missed. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Olivia to instruct George to work with John on the Claude project’s SSO and integrations, and provide status updates. - [ ] Olivia to send the password reset policy SOP and instructions to Speaker 2 via Teams. - [ ] Speaker 2 to download phone numbers from Verizon and verify Ability First staff contact completeness. - [ ] Speaker 2 to notify Ability First staff about the new password policy and implementation timeline. - [ ] Speaker 2 to schedule a meeting to discuss the Inventory Tracker V2 with Robert, Gaston, Vana, Olivia, Charl Becker, and possibly John. ## AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. There is a communication disconnect regarding the Westwood projects. Brett is communicating with both George and Speaker 2, causing confusion and conflicting priorities between the Claude deployment and the inbox app. > 2. The Claude project for Westwood has stalled. Although it was identified that George can help with SSO and integrations, the overall responsibility and timeline for resolving the remaining issues are not fully clarified. > 3. The decision-making process for inventory management appears fragmented. Speaker 2 is developing an automated inventory tracker, while a separate decision was made in an L10 meeting to use a manual paper-based system. This indicates a lack of alignment on strategic initiatives.
- Date
- Aug 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi. Ooh. Hi. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. How are you doing on this fine day? Technically, it's eleven fifty seven I was like, Ooh Yeah I'm almost ready for my second cup. I'm not gonna lie I'm like. I haven't been able to drink it. Like, anyways. So how's everything going? A lung infection is it serious? Speaker 2 00:00:38 No, it's it's a tiny one. It was caught early, but because she's pregnant, she can't take any any like antibiotics or something. Speaker 3 00:00:47 Yeah so. Speaker 1 00:00:51 Yeah But he but the baby boy is big He's heavy Yeah. Speaker 2 00:00:59 She's due in October. Speaker 1 00:01:02 Oh my gosh, okay, so that's really close. Actually, I didn't realize. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:01:09 That's why we were being very very cautious. Speaker 1 00:01:13 Yeah, Aw yeah That's so exciting though Yes yes, I love that Um, how are you doing by the way. Speaker 3 00:01:26 Tired but good. Oh, good. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:30 Okay, cool. Good, good. Um, okay, so I called you. I've got like a list of things I need to talk to you about. I've been collecting it all. I'll start with the easy ones first. Okay? All right. Okay, how did we onboard Robert and Gaston on their first day? Just 365 accounts. Speaker 2 00:01:56 Um, so we did not give them a computer. We put them in the group at first until we could figure out what we were going to do with laptops. We gave Gaston his own laptop. Robert is using used his laptop for now. He's actually um Doctor Barbara had given Robert the laptop he was using as a going away present pretty much, so okay, so he he logs into Crimson using his, Laptop, And then I think he uses RMM to log into the laptop and works from it that way on his desktop. Oh, or something interesting. Yes, I don't know. Uh, but okay. Um, And then for them, we onboarded them like we would a standard employee ,, their vacation and stuff did not carry over. Um, So they start all new with uh the vacation policy, like a standard employee would. And then uh. Speaker 2 00:02:54 They. Uh, we did all of their accounts like we did a normal. Hi, hello. Speaker 1 00:03:02 So we did like their connect wise as well. Yes. Even though we didn't put them on there quite yet, we didn't put SCHARP on. Speaker 2 00:03:09 Correct. Oh. Speaker 1 00:03:10 Oh oh oh oh Hello Every time I talk to you Chris, I am like I need a cat. Like. Speaker 2 00:03:18 He is he is getting very large, but he's very skinny cause he don't like to eat. And he he's got very big balls, um, cause he just stuck him in my face. He's very, he's very needy today. So okay, I am going to show you something, But do not judge the state of my bedroom because it's been a busy summer since everything happened. Um. So here is Bree has her throne. And then there is the Eefa. Speaker 2 00:03:55 Oh my gosh. Bree, say hi to Olivia. Can you say hi to Olivia? Or you just don't care? Speaker 1 00:04:04 She just doesn't care. She's like, hey, that's my son. Speaker 2 00:04:08 Yeah, Moose will lay in that window and sun himself and Oh Eefa's happy because I just pulled it back, and there is a little ball on the throw. Speaker 1 00:04:19 Bree looks so over it her like she is She's over it. Speaker 1 00:04:26 Oh yeah, and I see moose in the. In the window. In the window, yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:31 Yeah, that's his favorite place to sit while I'm working. So and then ignore my bed because there's a stool here or there's along the kitchen. Uh the dining room table has had a stool that comes with it. And then four chairs like a bench. Yes, a bench. And I put the bench at the end of my bed so that we could, yeah, oh, yeah, Speaker 1 00:04:51 Nice, yeah. And all those cats of yours Chris Yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:56 Do you remember my reading chair in the office? Speaker 1 00:04:58 Oh yeah, you got it at home here. Speaker 2 00:05:00 Yeah, but the cats have scratched it up, so I have a cover that's going over it. Um for now and then I saw this a really cool little cover with butterflies on it that matches my room. Speaker 1 00:05:12 Oh nice. Yeah One of these days I want to actually meet your cats. I want to I want to come and see them. Speaker 2 00:05:20 Next time you're in LA. Uh You should come over. Speaker 1 00:05:24 I would love to. I just like, I need some cat love in my life. Speaker 2 00:05:29 Yes, you can meet my girls too. Speaker 1 00:05:32 Oh yes, yes exactly. I would love to. Speaker 2 00:05:35 Dude, my printer is on her chair. All twelve pounds of you does not need to be on that printer. What little mighty? You're gonna break it! Speaker 2 00:05:52 You're gonna break that. You can't sit there. Dominic, come get your son. It's almost like just catching strays. Oh, and there's a bed in front of my monitor, and Eefa just took it over. It's very fuzzy. Um I had to put that there, because if not, they sit on my keyboard. Oh why do cats like to do that? I feel like that's a I don't know, but I have the bed here. So she. She won't walk on my keys. Yeah, Cause one day I sent, uh uh Robert and Gaston, a page full of just L's. In the bathroom, Speaker 1 00:06:34 Feel like that was not me. I swear. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:06:37 They knew. Speaker 1 00:06:39 Okay, cool so That answered my first question. Second question: Mike called me the other day and said that he got off a call with. Juan Carlo from Alere, does that sound familiar? John Carlo. Juan Carlo, John Carlo, yeah, yeah, yeah. And said that to send questions to the copilot team or something. Who's our copilot team? He said you told him to send questions to our copilot team. So I am just wondering who. Speaker 2 00:07:17 Yeah so, Show you the PowerPoint presentation because I am going to have the same conversation again today. Okay, sorry to make you repeat yourself. It's not a Copilot team. Um, all right, let me share my screen. Actually, I am just going to share PowerPoint. Um, I asked them to put in the subject line "Copilot" so that. Speaker 2 00:07:47 Oh, to send it to the team with Copilot. Ah, okay. Have Mike and bring because he's not attended any of these meetings. Well, Speaker 1 00:08:01 Let me just take a screenshot. I have to call him later, So I'll just tell him as I got other things for you that isn't necessarily Mike related. What are you doing? So much sense, Chris because I was like who's our pilot team? Mike's like Mike asked me and I was like, I don't know. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:08:18 It's the entire team. But yeah, yeah, it'll help. It'll help Sue like you know John or Juan or some of the guys that have been. It helps you guys route it. Speaker 1 00:08:30 Yeah, yeah for sure. So okay, that makes total sense. Thank you thank you. Okay next question The Westwood project. So. I think Westwood's getting a little bit antsy on that project. Which one do you want the cloud deployment one? If. Speaker 2 00:08:56 Brett's getting antsy, he hasn't told me. Yeah, I think he's Brett's been in constant communication with me. Oh really? Yeah, Yeah, because there is only one project and it's a deployment of an application that I am doing. That he's antsy about. And it's the Claude one, right? No, or not that one. It is. I haven't Claude. We should have. Speaker 3 00:09:29 It online tomorrow. Microsoft is being a little iffy with some of my code. Speaker 2 00:09:54 Okay, I am gonna BCC on you on this email. Okay, Cause this is the only cause I've responded to all his questions within hours of him, sending it. Speaker 1 00:10:05 See that I don't understand. Like, the only thing that cause George mentioned that that there was like Lauren, who was the COO that she didn't have. Speaker 1 00:10:17 Um, Claude install or something, but she was a licensed she was a licensed member. Something along those lines, and I am most of these things. Chris, I am playing messenger. So they're probably like half correct. You know, Speaker 2 00:10:34 Are you in chat with that? Speaker 1 00:10:37 No, I am not. But, That's why I don't know any of the details, but I'm wondering, Do you need help Do you want George to like Do you want me to have George, just like Can he help in any way Yeah, Speaker 2 00:10:52 He knows. Okay. I'm adding you to the chat because this came on Tuesday. Uh, Because I pushed it from the desk, uh pushed it from RMM and George asked me about it, and he goes, okay, I'll check how that works. Thanks. And I said if you need me to show you let me know. Speaker 2 00:11:11 Never responded. Okay, yeah. So, I haven't received any messages about Claude uh, the Claude engagement because we had rolled it out to everyone that needed it and I pushed it to the users' computers. So did. Speaker 1 00:11:26 You let them know that that they that we pushed it? Yes. Okay, cause okay, okay noted noted okay then I'll tell George. Speaker 3 00:11:38 Yeah to. Speaker 1 00:11:41 Assist in any way that he can with you, cause I know that you're busy. So, yeah. Yeah, I don't know if there's something that George can do. Is he complaining? No brett Brett is. Speaker 2 00:11:57 Who's he complaining to? Speaker 1 00:11:59 He's I mean he's he told like George this, but it's not even necessarily Brett either. It's like. Speaker 1 00:12:09 It's like Lauren to the COO, you know. Okay, she's kind of. You know. Speaker 2 00:12:19 Because I asked him and he didn't give me any feedback yet. George or Brett? George. Oh okay, so that's why I decided to go to the chat. Speaker 1 00:12:33 Okay yeah, Because I think too, is like Brett is going to George with some questions, and then he's coming to you with some questions too, so like there is just like. I don't know, I think yeah. You know a little bit of confusion there. Speaker 2 00:12:50 Yeah. And that's that's the issue. The main questions that they're asking right now is for the Westwood AI app that Brett is asking for, and I've spent over three hundred hours on this app not for them. Because it was my app that they wanted yesterday, and it's something I built for Adopto IT. And because they did not, they were fighting back on the amount of hours. I was like, you know what? I am just going to carbon copy the app and push it up. But it is not something you can do in less than a week, and that's what. Speaker 1 00:13:21 Oh yes, I see, okay, yeah okay okay okay, Speaker 2 00:13:28 Cause it's so whole big coding project. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:13:32 Which is going to take a long time. Speaker 2 00:13:34 Yeah, he asks me every day where we are at with this. I am like, it is going to be this week. Okay, Because that's what I should. Speaker 1 00:13:43 I so I guess, how do you want me to do this? Because, do you want me to just tell George like every time that he gets a message like from Brett, just to kind of check in with you first if it's like regarding Claude? Yeah, okay. Speaker 2 00:14:00 Yeah, Cause this is the last information I got from George about Claude. Speaker 1 00:14:05 Okay, okay. And then George mentioned too, Like he is totally willing to help, and he will help with whatever you need him to do. He just you tell him that you need help. You know what I mean? Yeah, and I know that you don't often tell people that you need help. So I just wanna say it because yeah, You know, I mean, you know George. Speaker 2 00:14:27 Yeah, but the Claude issue. I don't know that there is an issue if people aren't telling me. Speaker 1 00:14:32 Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Okay, So I'llum I'll just have him like. Speaker 2 00:14:38 There is that There is go ahead AI projects going on at the same time. Three There is three AI projects going on at the same time for Westwood. There is Claude Oh t. Here is this inbox app? And then there is a base forty four app to be programmed. Oh Oh my god okay and Oh so, George can't help me with two of out of those three. Yeah, but he can help you with the. Speaker 1 00:15:02 Claude one at least right. Speaker 2 00:15:04 But there's no there's I I haven't had any feedback on Claude. So I haven't worried about it. Speaker 1 00:15:09 Uh okay, Yeah, because I think like George mentioned that like something that they said was like SSO is not configured yet. Um and. Speaker 1 00:15:26 Like he doesn't think the integrations are configured yet. Can he can I have him work on that? Speaker 2 00:15:30 Work with John. Have him work with John. Speaker 1 00:15:33 Okay, so okay okay. Speaker 2 00:15:37 Because I had to put that one on the side, I got the people added that need to be added, But I had to put it on the side because Brett was very much fussing for this inbox app to go first. Speaker 1 00:15:48 Okay okay, I see. Speaker 2 00:15:50 Yeah, so take take that part on. Um, it's just I hadn't had any feedback. Unless George was telling him things that I did not know. He was telling him what we were going to do. Speaker 1 00:16:03 I don't think so, but I don't, I don't know because George, What he's been telling me is he's been saying like, hey, this is you know Christi's leading this project. I don't know as much, but I'll help you any way that I can kind of thing, you know. Hmm. So he's been saying that you are the lead, right? And he's just assisting as needed. Yeah. Um, okay. So let me tell him to work work on those. Yeah then Okay cool, and then I'll just have him I am gonna have him update you. Yeah with what's done and what gets completed, Speaker 2 00:16:43 And the other thing is, we told the team last week or the week before AI projects are going in order that I received them. And George even knew that I was not ready to take on this project and pushed it ahead. But a leader goes first. Speaker 1 00:17:02 Yeah, well, And I don't think that he realizes that Brett requested the inbox one to be the priority. I don't think he knows that portion of the thing either. And I told George, George isn't attacking you at all. Like I told George too that yeah, You're super busy too, and that you know, that's why we were saying he was like, if she needs help, like I'm totally willing to help. It just. You know. He needs he doesn't want to step on your toes. Speaker 2 00:17:32 He's the least worried. He's always been worried about stepping on my toes ever since the day that I turned down his eight week vacation request. This was way before you joined Eight weeks? That's such a George thing though, I like him an earful that week, and he's always been afraid of stepping on my toes since then. Oh my gosh, okay, it was funny. I like it. I don't think he's stepping on my toes. Okay, good. But if he is, Speaker 1 00:18:01 Let me know so I can tell George to kind of back off, you know? Speaker 2 00:18:05 Yeah, And I don't mind smacking him first before, you know, running to you because yeah I have a good relationship with George. Yeah Who else is going to tease him about being old? Speaker 1 00:18:17 You'd be surprised how many people on the help desk tell them that. Yeah, uh, okay, cool. Speaker 2 00:18:25 Yeah. Also, I've been getting questions about uh Empower Impact Impact. Yeah, since uh Pete reminded everybody yesterday, so uh, nothing bad, it was just questions about it. So I've been, oh, okay. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:18:41 I've been trying to. I still need to follow up again with Anzor. He never responded to me about trying to get that integration connected, you know, the Microsoft Learn. Cause yeah, that's a it's a whole nother problem too. Speaker 2 00:18:55 Dude, stop yelling at me. Um okay, I canceled my weird meeting. Speaker 1 00:19:06 Oh yeah go for it go for it Sorry um. Speaker 2 00:19:10 I want to pull John more and more into AI stuff, so that I have help, But I am trying to also be cognizant ofum of his time, because I know, we all i know you guys are like massively understaffed. Speaker 1 00:19:28 Well, we're actually okay right now. We're under we have made it through summer, so we are under three hundred tickets, which is fantastic. That's including SCHARP Two, which is crazy. Um, but then did I tell you that? So we are moving. John's just going to be taking like L3 tickets for Hannah. Like L2 and L1 tickets should be going to other people on the board because we made John an L4. Okay, and we made Matt an L4 and Charles and Emil an L4. All of four of those, so we have no L3s at the moment, which doesn't mean much, but that's essentially like where we're at. Speaker 1 00:20:09 Um, anyway, so so yeah, pull John in. Um. Because we pay him a lot of money at the moment. So. Speaker 2 00:20:19 Gotcha. So definitely I will be pulling him in because I need help. Yeah um. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:20:27 Okay, yeah, that sounds good and he's a very helpful person. Speaker 2 00:20:33 Yeah, and he can handle me. So yeah, Speaker 1 00:20:37 Yeah. Um. Speaker 1 00:20:40 Okay, cool. And my last thing I have for you is so like early this year / like late last year, I started talking about like password reset policies where we're gonna if somebody calls in and requests a password reset, They essentially just need to confirm their identity by our own MFA. Type of you know, you you rolled this out with Roost. Yeah. But we're doing the same exact thing except, We're just gonna send like we're collecting phone numbers, and thenum putting it in into ConnectWise. Or if they're out of the US / Canada, we'll connect collect like a six digit code. Yeah. I wanted to get your opinion on doing this for Ability First and Sharp. Yes. Under one condition. Speaker 2 00:21:36 I'm listening You guys use that? Speaker 3 00:21:41 Um okay. So for the, Speaker 1 00:21:51 Just a little self promotion here. Speaker 2 00:21:54 Yes, um, Speaker 1 00:21:56 Yeah. Okay, um. Speaker 1 00:22:01 So should I reach out to Christi, because like I am trying to collect phone numbers. I have phone numbers. Phone numbers. You have everyone's phone numbers? Yeah, Speaker 2 00:22:10 I just need to log into Verizon and get them all downloaded for you. Speaker 1 00:22:13 Oh yeah, and they can receive text messages? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah And, then like we can I would love to actually meet with Christi next time, because I've never actually met her, or never even had like a call with her or anything you know? Yeah, Christi, and then maybe we like send a notification. Maybe I don't know. However, Rashawn wants to do it or you want to do it like to send a notification out on this new password policy. Speaker 2 00:22:46 Um, I will do it because you know they anything coming from IT. Uh ability first staff expect to see Christi attached to it. Speaker 1 00:22:56 Okay perfect. Speaker 1 00:22:59 And all of ability first is um, they're all US based right. They don't have any like oversea employees. Speaker 2 00:23:06 They're all LA based, LA county based. Speaker 1 00:23:10 Okay, okay, cool. Yes. Okay, lovely. Okay. What do you need from me to make this happen? Speaker 2 00:23:18 Nothing, just do. Speaker 1 00:23:20 You want me to send you the SOP? Speaker 2 00:23:23 Yeah, send me the instructions and SOP and things like that. Speaker 3 00:23:31 Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Okay, Speaker 2 00:23:44 Great. I'm working on a couple of projects for Ability First, and by extension, I'm going to roll it into SCHARP as well. Um, we can we plan a meeting? Pete does can or cannot be in it. It's up to him, but can we plan a meeting with Robert Gaston, Vana, you, Charl Becker and whomever else you think should be in it. I might roll up John in it. Does John have any interest in uh. In programming or coding? Speaker 1 00:24:19 Yeah, I mean he he writes a lot of scripts and he likes so it's possible, Okay. Speaker 1 00:24:28 Um, okay, for what? What are you trying to do? Speaker 2 00:24:31 Well, So I am going to do V2 of the uh ability first inventory tracker. Oh yeah, Speaker 1 00:24:43 You remember you wereum I yeah want to get it. Yeah, I want to get it much better, and we're going to put in automating the onboarding at the same time. Okay, did you, You weren't in this L10, which made me so mad. Not mad, but they were talking about inventory on Crimson side of things. You know? Yeah. And I was like, oh, Christi's already in the middle of working something. Like we should talk to Christi because Christi's like done put a lot of effort into like inventory on Ability First side. So anyways, they were like they vetoed my idea. They vetoed that they're like we're just going to put it on a like paper or whatever just have it all manual. Speaker 1 00:25:24 I know where it's like okay. Speaker 2 00:25:27 I really hate it when they do that, um. Speaker 1 00:25:34 It doesn't help either that I like. It was so I don't know, I wish you were there because you could have actually explained it better than I explained it you know. Speaker 2 00:25:44 Yeah, actually yeah, I was gonna try to look up the website, but I forgot the website name. Department of Ambitious Ground here we go. Speaker 2 00:25:53 I was like, wait, where did they go? Okay. If you break my bottle of butter and dump it all out, I am going to go shove you in the bathroom with Angelique Fosch's period. Is. Speaker 1 00:26:10 That a cat or is that Dom that you are talking to? It's a cat. Okay, good. Speaker 2 00:26:17 So here is a finance view. Um it's it's a little slow because I haven't been in it today. So the SQL server is coming up. Um, But I am trying to get things in here. So uh, assets to reassign T14-. And then it'll pull up the search. The cat stepped on the lamp. Um, The SQL server is going to spin up because we're using the free version, and they can reassign. Oh, gotcha. No one ever uses it so. Speaker 2 00:26:51 Um, But we have to do docking stations and monitors. Now because someone decided that she wanted to give out a monitor that she should not have been given out. Who Jessica Delgado? Speaker 1 00:27:06 Oh, okay, okay, okay. I thought you were saying like a help desk person. No, I gotcha. I gotcha. Speaker 2 00:27:14 Also, um we have uh, we're switching over to Android phones for a bunch of staff. Oh really. You did that, Speaker 3 00:27:24 Not me. Hang on one second. Alexa, announce Dominic come here. Yes, Dominic's gonna come get you. Alexa announce. That's so funny.'Cause I don't know if she's in the kitchen, Speaker 2 00:27:55 Her bedroom, or the bathroom. Speaker 2 00:28:02 Take This thing and lock her in your room. Please tell Dominic I say hello. Oh, Olivia says hello'cause she can. Dominic says hi. She's waving at you, Dominicinic. Hello! Hi! She's trying to capture the kid. Oh. Yeah. Um. She gets out. She's a baby. Uh oh, She just ran under the bed with Moose Can. You go get her out from underneath the bed? She knocked off. Speaker 2 00:28:45 She's the one who took out my light over there. Speaker 1 00:28:49 Oh my god. Do you have any plants, Chris? Speaker 2 00:28:53 Do I have any plants? Plants. Plants? No. They don't have any. No, Look uh, hang on where's my mouse They're all fake That's, my only link Oh. Wait, you can't see him Look at the top of my wardrobe Oh. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. They're they're. Speaker 1 00:29:12 Fake See. That's my only thing that like is stopping me from getting a cat is I have so many plants. And they're like my little babies. I love them, so like, I am nervous about that. Speaker 2 00:29:25 Yeah, there are some plants that are toxic to cats. Um, I cannot keep a succulent alive, so we don't have plants. The only thing orchid. Speaker 1 00:29:36 But do they attack Do they attack your plants even like your fake ones? Speaker 2 00:29:43 They haven't in a while. Uh, now we do keep fresh flowers. Speaker 1 00:29:49 Oh, and that's okay. Speaker 2 00:29:52 Yeah, like the the worst that they do is nibble on baby's breath. Speaker 1 00:29:56 Oh okay. Okay gotcha. You need some love? Oh breathe She wants, so precious She wants, Speaker 2 00:30:07 Chin scratches. Speaker 3 00:30:08 A little tension Fair enough Okay I behaved a little long. Speaker 1 00:30:16 I Love that. Um, okay, cool. I'm gonna send you over thoseum instructions and stuff. Do you want email or Teams? What do you want? Teams. Okay. Speaker 2 00:30:34 And tell George to stop eating during meetings when you talk to him about helping out. You know that He. Speaker 1 00:30:42 There's only so much I can do about George eating. Today in the EOS, it was really chaotic. I don't even know what was going on, but like a bunch of people were talking all at once, and then all Moritz is doing is just eating popcorn. I was like, where did you get this popcorn Like he's like literally just it's so funny. Anyways, I'll tell George. Speaker 2 00:31:03 I'll tell George Okay Yeah okay Oh okay Thank you Chris, Per Scholas is a company that I that, or had me work with in the past. Um and then they liked working with me so much. They asked me. They've asked me a couple times to do. Uh, to talk at their graduation ceremonies. Um I set them up with Ability First because Ability First was looking for interns um, to do some data processing with like Salesforce and things like that. Speaker 2 00:31:36 However, They had an intern that interviewed with Sean that Sean really liked and wanted that intern to help me out. So, they're getting the intern for two months free of charge.; her school is pays for everything. And the resume looked really good, So I pushed it over to Pete gave him a heads up: if he does really well, you might get another on site tech. Speaker 1 00:32:01 Ooh! I love that. That's great news. Okay, oh my gosh, hopefully does well. Um, you know I don't really know quite yet. I think he's still like he hasn't he's just on the fence, you know? Yeah, At least, he's not using his phone during meetings that I can see at this moment. Speaker 2 00:32:28 I think I think I scared him. Think. Speaker 1 00:32:31 God, Chris. I was so stoked when you called him out, because I was like in the middle oftyping, and then you said you called him out, and I was like, Yes. Anyways, so yeah. Yeah okay okay cool. Speaker 2 00:32:47 I'm gonna jump because I got i'm trying to push some stuff over and on me to get this pushed out this week. Speaker 1 00:32:55 Okay sounds good. It sounds good. Let us know if you need anything. Thanks. Chris. Okay. Bye.
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04-21 Meeting: Automating RMM Billing via UBI, iOS Support Workflow, and Permissions/Support Tickets
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-21 20:28:30 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Olivia] [April] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Automating RMM device counts with ConnectWise agreements via Unified Billing Intake (UBI) - April outlined the goal: automate syncing RMM device counts to ConnectWise agreement quantities to keep billing accurate and eliminate manual updates. - Speaker 2 introduced Unified Billing Intake (UBI) as the recommended approach and invited Kristen (Speaker 5) to provide an overview. - Kristen explained UBI: - Unifies billing intake from marketplace vendors and manual spreadsheet uploads. - For uploads, only company, SKU, and quantities are required; review in Client Usage Details, then perform PSA sync. - Marketplace products (e.g., RMM) can auto-sync daily; others via monthly uploads. - Product mapping links marketplace products to the PSA product catalog; then PSA company and agreement mapping completes setup. - UBI keeps pricing and proration control in PSA agreement additions; Microsoft 365 support is expected in July. - Attempted configuration: - Olivia could access UBI; April likely lacked permissions (needs AZO billing admin role). - Product Catalog appeared, but PSA integration status showed “No active PSA production incidents found...” and mapping wasn’t available. - Kristen noted this is unusual; UBI data lives in Snowflake, and migration shouldn’t be required, but a red error element suggested an issue. - Speaker 2 captured screenshots and committed to creating a support ticket to investigate the PSA mapping issue. - Conclusion: Proceed with a support ticket; grant April permissions; once resolved, Kristen can assist with full UBI setup. - Topic Title: RMM agent reappearing after deletion - Olivia reported an RMM agent repeatedly reappearing over a year despite deletion, raising concerns about other agents reinstalling or reappearing unnoticed. - Speaker 2 asked whether uninstall was done from the endpoint; Olivia confirmed they no longer have endpoint access and remove directly in RMM. - Speaker 2 will work with support to investigate without requiring Olivia to retrieve old emails. - Conclusion: Speaker 2 will initiate a support investigation. - Topic Title: iOS remote support needs for elderly users - Speaker 6 described difficulty supporting elderly clients on iPhones and asked for a way to initiate a one-time session or agent to view the device. - Speaker 7 clarified: - On iOS, screen viewing/sharing is supported; full remote control is not possible due to Apple restrictions. - On Android, full device takeover is possible. - Speaker 2 mentioned an MDM for Macs is in progress and will check roadmap items for iOS and ScreenConnect capabilities; will update the team. - Olivia will discuss internally (with Pete) and return to Speaker 7 after approval. - Conclusion: Pursue a screen viewing solution for iOS; Speaker 2 to check the roadmap and provide updates; Olivia to follow up post-approval. - Topic Title: Next steps and resources for UBI setup - Kristen offered documentation on AZO roles and step-by-step mapping, and to schedule a follow-up session once access issues are resolved. - Speaker 2 will email links shared in chat and can schedule another call with Kristen. - Speaker 7 noted availability to assist with ScreenConnect licenses related to iOS screen sharing needs. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 2 to create and manage a support ticket regarding the UBI PSA mapping issue and the unusual error state. - [ ] Olivia/Cheryl to grant April the appropriate AZO billing admin permissions. - [ ] Speaker 2 to email the relevant UBI setup links to the team. - [ ] Kristen to provide AZO roles documentation and assist with UBI setup after the integration issue is resolved. - [ ] Speaker 2 to check the roadmap/status for iOS screen viewing and Mac MDM and update the team. - [ ] Olivia to discuss iOS screen viewing approval with Pete and follow up with Speaker 7 on ScreenConnect licensing. - [ ] Speaker 2 to coordinate and schedule another session with Kristen for UBI configuration, if needed. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. UBI PSA integration/mapping error: The red error and inability to map PSA companies need root-cause diagnosis and resolution steps with timelines. > 2. RMM agent reappearance: Define a process for decommissioned endpoints, agent removal verification, and monitoring to detect unexpected agent reinstalls. > 3. iOS support workflow: Document a standard operating procedure for initiating screen sharing on iOS, including user instructions and tools to minimize support time. > 4. Permissions management: Confirm and document required roles/permissions for all team members who will manage UBI and billing reconciliations.
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:06 Hmm. Speaker 1 00:01:26 Okay. Speaker 1 00:03:11 Hey guys. Speaker 2 00:03:15 Hi, Gracie. I'm going to have Kristen jump on. She's the PSA. You guys have a lot of usually a lot of PSA questions, So I just asked her if she could join, just in case we ever see a few questions for her today. And I think we have a call scheduled, but I figured it can't hurt. Speaker 3 00:03:36 Yeah, definitely. I know that April, Cheryl and I wanted to ask about a specific process too. We wanted to talk about. So Julia, I'm not sure if you have anything on your end. I might just let you go first that way you could drop if you want. I actually don't have anything at all. Oh okay great! Um, did you want to wait for Kristen then? I'll wait. Yep. Okay. Uh, Gracie, I don't know should we get started? Yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:13 Let's go ahead. Let's jump in. Speaker 3 00:04:15 Okay. Um April do you want to explain? Um, yes, Speaker 4 00:04:23 Yep. Um okay, so hi Gracie. So uh I sent you an email. I think that was last week. Um, This is about because we're looking to automate the sync between our RMM device count and ConnectWise agreement uh quantities. So billing will always reflect our actual managed endpoints. So, our goal is to eliminate manual updates or reduce discrepancies, and you know keep everything accurate and up to date as devices are added or removed. So, everything will uh are all accurate before we send a billing to our clients. Speaker 2 00:05:01 Um, in that process, Have you have we talked about the unified billing yet in in the uh platform? Speaker 4 00:05:09 No. Um, as far as I'm aware, I haven't heard unified billing yet. I don't know Olivia. Have you heard about it? I don't think I have either. Speaker 3 00:05:19 Okay. Um, cause that is in the platform and what that does is, I mean you have to map all the vendors and everything. Speaker 2 00:05:26 Because that does bring all the different counts. Like if you cha if a count changes in your agreement, that brings everything into your platform. Um, Kristen can definitely explain it. She loves unified billing. Mhm. Um, I I mean, I think it's cool but I am not you know, I don't you know, I just think it's cool. I don't talk about it, like she gets excited when she talks about unified billing. Um, but when she gets on, I can let her kind of go through the unified billing. Um, And kind of show you how it works and what we what we need to do to set it up. Speaker 4 00:06:03 Okay, perfect. Speaker 1 00:06:10 Um, while we wait Gracie I also sent you an email a while back ago. I'm not sure if you saw but about the agent that keeps coming back onlineum. Speaker 3 00:06:22 Or it keeps coming back onto RMM. I know on several different occasions I've deleted it, um, throughout like a year- long process and it keeps coming back and it. It also just worries me that there's potential that other agents are reinstalling themselves or showing back up on RMM and I'm, not catching it. I'm not sure if you saw my original email. Speaker 2 00:06:49 I'm looking at it right now. Okay. Um, did did you work with withum support on this at all? Speaker 3 00:06:58 I think I sent an email a while back ago. Uh, maybe like in June of last year. I'd have to go and check. Speaker 2 00:07:06 No, you don't you don't have to go and check. You're fine. Really, you're good. You don't have to check it's possible that i've no Don't worry about it. I'll work with the team but is this are you uninstalling the agent from, From the computer? Or is it like they leave or they decommission it? And you are never able to actually uninstall it from the endpoint? Speaker 3 00:07:29 Yeah, so we're not able to access the computer anymore, so we just need to remove it directly from RMM. Speaker 2 00:07:45 Heyum Kristen, they would like to talk about your favorite subject. Speaker 2 00:07:51 Yeah, I told you guys. Have. Speaker 5 00:07:58 You guys tried it already or are you? Speaker 2 00:08:01 No, haven't used it at all. Speaker 5 00:08:05 So you just basically want like an overview or specific questions? Speaker 2 00:08:09 Can you do an overview first? Speaker 5 00:08:12 Yeah. Right, you guys should be seeing my screen. Yep. Um, so, uh, gosh. You know I've been setting up billing integrations for years with you know, outside vendors that write to our APIs and, I've gone through you know pretty much everything out there. They're um unified billing intake is is meant to unify all of your billing intakes literally. That's we actually named it for what it what it does. This screen is okay I really haven't dug into that yet but the. Speaker 5 00:08:49 The crux of what's happening here is that you got two ways of inputting data. So, you've got the vendor name here and there's a bunch of columns that you really don't need. Um, but so this is going to be any vendor that you purchased through us. And the most important thing here is this current versus previous month unified billing intake quantifies your agreement additions. Bottom line, so there's the, Vendors that you purchase through us, And then there's the upload where you actually create um spreadsheet files from your spreadsheets that your vendors give to you. So I know a lot of partners are going through when you get those vendor files and they're manually going up and you know, updating the quantities one at a time, and it's kind of a nightmare. This allows you to create a spreadsheet from your vendor. You really only need three. Speaker 5 00:09:46 Three fields: the company, the skew, and the quantities. And, you would just create a spreadsheet that pulls that data down from your vendors, and then every month you would just go upload this. And then you would review it on this usage details screen. And then you would do it to PSA sync. The vendor files that are coming from spreadsheets do have to be manually uploaded, but anything that comes from the marketplace, Does not, and you can actually go through and set. And this is a training database, so it's saying it's not applicable because these aren't the products. But you would see like RMM, you would see command, and then you can uh you know turn it on. I should probably not turn that on in the training database. But um yeah I mean the this usage details I don't know if you guys ever tried or even. Speaker 5 00:10:41 Dove into our product called billing reconciliation. The idea behind it was in theory good, but it didn't really work out as a product. But, the idea behind it was being able to reconcile and see any changes prior to them being made on your agreement additions. And that's what this screen does. You can choose whether or not to have those auto updated or not. Products like RMM sync every day, other products do not, Go on. Did you have a question? Speaker 4 00:11:12 Oh, yeah. Sorry, I'm about to say that's perfect because our plan is to automate syncing. Our RMM device count with ConnectWise agreements to keep our billing accurate and reduce the manual updates. Speaker 5 00:11:24 Yeah, I've set it up a bunch. It's pretty cool because the data's already in there. So when you're going in and you're going to company mapping and you know, You choose RMM, and then you go to the You, don't even have to do that because if you're in RMM already. It will it'll look like it's not mapped, but it is. And then you just go into your PSA and agreement mapping, and you're going to see all your companies and your sites, and you're going to be able to choose their agreements. I always recommend starting with a product mapping. And when you do filter by your vendor here, which I wish this one would just there we go. Speaker 5 00:12:04 You would see all the products that you've purchased through us, and then this just opens up your product catalog from PSA. So when it says select a product, you would just open that up and you'd select the products that you're updating. Mhm. And then once those are in there, then you do your company PSA and agreement mapping, and basically you're done at that point. If you choose to have the automated setup, Then it's going to just be updating every single day. In, um, the others that you're choosing not necessarily, Then you would you would do it like the last day or the first day of the month. Um and that would be more for like the vendor, you know spreadsheet products. Do you guys plan on doing any of that? Speaker 4 00:12:52 Um, yeah, we we uh send our clients their monthly computer account uh using spreadsheet as well. Speaker 5 00:13:01 Yeah, that's um, I mean, I started setting that up in twenty twenty four when I was still in consulting, and it was. At the time it could only do arrear's billing, but now it can do current month. You have the ability to choose to do either. Mhm. It it, I love it. Because the other thing that I love about it is that a lot of the integrations that write to us, they'll control the products, they'll control the proration, they'll control the pricing. And that. Takes away all of your control in your agreement editions, Which sucks, because I know I don't know that I have a partner that I mean even three, sixty five, which is kind of the biggest one. Yeah, um like packs a and um even us our product, which was formerly known as Unite and then became cloud billing. Speaker 5 00:13:55 Um, all the pricing lives in the integration and not in your agreement editions. And so it's it's very disconnected how you have to do it. And UBI solves for all of that. Microsoft is not in UBI yet, but it's being vetted now and it's going to be available in July. That's the last date that I heard. Speaker 4 00:14:18 Okay, that's perfect. Um, do we already have like the unified billing intake in our? Connectwise here or it. Speaker 5 00:14:28 Comes with PSA, So you should, if you got when you log into theum to RMM to your Azo platform here, you'll see it in the left navigation. If you it should be under the finance menu. If you do not see it, so it would be here. If you don't have PSA integration already going between, PSA and R and RMM, also known as the platform, also known as AZO. So many names. Um, then you can just request it. Um, and it looks like we've got Steve Ferris on the case. It's there. Yes, it is. Okay, Speaker 4 00:15:08 Soum Can I share my screen? And could you walk me through where to? Yeah, absolutely. Sorryum Here go, Under finance. Speaker 5 00:15:23 Oh no, so you're going to want to be in RMM. Oh. Or so yeah, if you want to go, yeah, there you go. Speaker 1 00:15:31 I see okay. Do. Speaker 3 00:15:37 You have to be an admin? Speaker 4 00:15:39 Oh yeah, do I have admin rights? I'm not sure actually. Not. Speaker 3 00:15:44 Most right bro that's why I asked. Luckily we have Charles here because I'm sure he's paying attention. Speaker 5 00:15:52 We shall find out. I don't, I mean, there's, I know that there's different roles there, but expand your left nav. Go ahead and expand the top. Okay. Oh, I don't see it. Soum there would have to be And. Speaker 2 00:16:09 I don't think you have to be an admin, but you definitely have to have permissions. Speaker 3 00:16:14 Mm Ah Yeah cause I see it on my end so, Probably just okay. Maybe you don't have the right permissions, Speaker 2 00:16:22 Rights. You want to share your screen, Olivia? Yeah, oh sure. Sorry, Speaker 5 00:16:28 I think you just need to be like theum AZO billing admin. This I am going to paste a document about AZO roles into the chat, which should indicate which roles you need. Um so yeah, you've got it. It's there for youum. Speaker 3 00:16:50 April and I'll make you a I'll give you those permissions me or Cheryl one of us. Speaker 4 00:16:56 Okay. Thank you. Um do you guys have like a an document that we can have a copy like step by step on how we can map this? Speaker 5 00:17:11 Yeah, there's uh, let's see Kristen. Speaker 2 00:17:15 You walk through it with them and I'll find the document. Speaker 5 00:17:21 Yeah, I mean, so if you go ahead and click into Unified Billing Intake, you're already there. Scroll up to the top. Client Usage Details. That's the screen where you can see the vendors that are available for mapping. So you should see RMM there once that loads. Yeah, so it's everything that, Yeah, and I've seen it. It's weird. You actually have to type in the full ConnectWise RMM. Oh, interesting. Okay, So go to company mapping and then pull the drop down there and see if we have the vendor of RMM. Nothing. Okay, go to PSA and agreement mapping because sometimes these just come loaded. Okay, you do um. Speaker 5 00:18:19 So, but the PSA company is not mapping. And you guys were already on RMM before you started PSA or vice versa? Speaker 3 00:18:32 Vice versa. I think we started PSA first, and then we went to RMM because we were originally on Automate. Speaker 1 00:18:42 If I recall correctly. Interesting. Speaker 5 00:18:50 So I haven't seen this scenario before, because the PSA companies are usually already loaded. Let's go to product mapping. I want to see if it pulls up your product catalog. And then there we go. Let's do your dropdown and see if we see RMM there. Okay, so we got that far. Maybe we just need to kick it into gear. No active PSA production incidents found or multiple instances are configured. Okay, So it does want you to do the Azo integration and enable the CW CW something integration, CW PSA integration. But, it's pulling now if you check on select any one of those where it says select product. Speaker 5 00:19:50 Yeah, so it's. Speaker 3 00:19:53 It's not letting me click on anything. Speaker 5 00:19:55 So it's not integrated. It wants you to do your PSA integration. So if you go to integrations in the left nav, actually I'm sorry, it's under settings account. Speaker 2 00:20:09 Administration yeah. Speaker 5 00:20:15 PSA integration. Speaker 3 00:20:20 This is Charles's favorite. Speaker 2 00:20:22 You know, this is awful. Speaker 5 00:20:25 Yeah, that's pretty ancient. Now if you turn on the PSA powered by Asio, do you that's it's not done this way. It's actually done, you'll you'll have an option under settings where it'll say PSA migration. Speaker 3 00:20:44 Oh gotcha. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:20:49 And then that migrates your PSA data in here. Um, if there's discrepancies between companies or there's missing primary contacts against companies, it'll send you just basically error reports. And, we have a team on our support team that willum jump on those and help you fix them. Speaker 2 00:21:09 Hey Kristen, There has to be something else going on because I have partners that don't have the PSA by Avio or platform yet. Um, and they're able to get into the UBI and MAP, so there has to be something else going on here. Speaker 5 00:21:22 Yeah, it's really strange. I have not seen this and I've been setting up UBA UBA UBI daily with partners that are on RMM and PSA even when they don't have the migration done. Yeah, I've still been able to do it without a problem because the data in UBI lives in Snowflake. The companies though don't, And so this is weird. I'd send it to support and see what's going on. Okay. Because we shouldn't have to do this, but maybe it wants us to because you, it's, it could have something to do with the timing. Speaker 2 00:22:03 Gotcha. Olivia, can you go back to the unified billing? I want to takeum, I want to take a screenshot of what you were seeing. Speaker 3 00:22:11 Yeah. Do you want me go back to product mapping? Speaker 2 00:22:19 Client. Where were we? I think where were Kristen, what would be the best place to get a screen? Oh, I didn't. Do you want this one? I got that. Yeah, actually I need that little red part that I've never ever seen. Speaker 5 00:22:33 That's what I'm talking about is that the red part. I mean, I would not, I would do a big screenshot, and then maybe just put a bigarrow down on it. And then even if you wanted to go as far as like pasting a screenshot of the fact that it's not under there's no PSA migration listed underneath the settings, although that's probably just because there's noum powered by ACO turned on, but you shouldn't even have to do that. I didn't think so cause yeah. Ubi is his own island. You don't have to be on RMM. You don't even have to be on cloud. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:23:12 All right, I got this. I have a screenshot. I am going to ask that. Let's. I've never seen that. Don't laugh, Charles. Speaker 6 00:23:20 Don't laugh It's kind of like this Azure thing only came in like a little bit after we migrated from Autotask to Automate to OMM. It was a couple of months. In then the Azure things became available in OMM So, I don't know if. Speaker 6 00:23:43 We perhaps missed something during that stage that we were supposed to do. Speaker 5 00:23:49 Could be. Very possible. Could be. A lot of it is timing. I mean, I haven't seen this, but I have seen other things that are weird, like the other partner of yours, Gracie, that I've been working with mapping the RMM and their PSA. They were not set up the same. We had to do all those company merges that I was telling you about. Speaker 5 00:24:13 I do have the job. Speaker 2 00:24:15 That's okay. I'm gonna, I'll create a ticket for you guys. That's weird. I've never seen that. So I'm gonna ping some people on the side, But I'm also gonna create aum a ticket for you because you have the PSA integrated and you have a policy, so I'm not really sure why it's not pulling this information for you. Speaker 3 00:24:32 Yeah, and I'm not sure, Maybe we didn't. Maybe like Cheryl said, maybe something's not set up correctly, which is possible. Butum we'll take any help. And yeah, we're just trying to make it. Try to make April's uh team's job a little bit easier. Yes, Speaker 5 00:24:49 Please. After you get it, if you need any help with uh setting up UBI, just go through Gracie and book with me. It's it's really fun and easy once you're once you're in there. Speaker 3 00:25:01 Okay definitely. Speaker 2 00:25:02 Told ya told ya she likes this new one. I do I said fun. You guys did hear that right? Fun. Speaker 5 00:25:13 I don't dream about it anymore, though. So there's that anymore. Speaker 2 00:25:17 That's scary. You said anymore. Speaker 5 00:25:20 I had to train my brain not to dream in PSA. That's how I learned it, though. I would dream about enhancements. It's really sad and I'd wake up the next day going and looking for it in PSA. Like did that happen? Nope, That was a dream All, right? You guys, if you need anything now, let me know. Speaker 3 00:25:41 Okay. Thanks, Kristen. Thanks. Bye. Oh, Cheryl. Uh, okay. I'm not sure if we have anything else on our end Of course, Speaker 6 00:25:53 We do, Olivia. We want to know about delivering support on iOS devices to gramps and grannies Oh. Speaker 3 00:26:06 Yes, Um. Speaker 3 00:26:12 Gramps and Grannies. Speaker 6 00:26:14 That's a long story. I spent four hours getting a user who was probably like 90 years old through re-, adding their Microsoft 365 account on their iPhone, and I nearly died in the process. Speaker 1 00:26:34 So yeah, Speaker 6 00:26:35 I just kind of like want something where they can later agent or a one- time session on their phone, so that I can at least just see what on earth is happeningum on this person's phone. Um so I considered you know going to like TeamViewer Quick Support kind of thing. Um. But then someone mentioned now that you guys have this, you know, tool available and I should speak to you, and that's why we reached out. Hey. Speaker 2 00:27:04 Steve, is that available for Max? I know we're working on an MDM for Max that I think will help with that, Charles. But am I don't know. Am asking about it working. Speaker 7 00:27:14 It is not today, no. You are going to go outside. Speaker 2 00:27:24 Let me ask to see, do you know if it's on the roadmap or anything? I mean, I know we're going to try to do more with Max. So I can ask. I can ask Andrew if it's on the roadmap or anything. Speaker 3 00:27:37 Yeah, that would be great. We're just trying to find any solution to help us uh make our make that life a little easier, especially with Charles. It's a new client. Especially Charles. Speaker 2 00:27:54 Why does somebody that's 90 years old even have an iPhone? They should have like an Android, something easier for them. Right, I mean honestly. Speaker 6 00:28:05 Well, look, I feel they should not have a phone but anyway. Speaker 2 00:28:10 Or maybe what a landline right? Speaker 6 00:28:11 I feel that they should be spending some time with their grandchildren, not reading mail. Speaker 2 00:28:17 Agreed, agreed or get them a landline. They don't have to read and they can just use the landline right? Exactly You know when they say you can't you can't teach old dogs, new tricks, that is a real thing like. Speaker 6 00:28:32 Oh yes. Definitely. Speaker 2 00:28:35 Yeah, that's a real thing. I mean, honestly, My mom is eighty something and getting her to like to use a cell phone is I mean, that is that's awful. I understand the pain Charles. I understand your pain. Thank you So let me find out, let me see, let me see what we're going to do. Maybe that MDM will help at allum and let me find out what's going to happen with screen connect in in that view license. Um, I'll see if I can get you some information. Unlike where we're going, hopefully we'll go in the direction that we should be going with the Macs. But I'll keep you updated on iPhones. Speaker 3 00:29:15 Perfect, thank you. Speaker 2 00:29:18 Yeah, I'll keep your iPhone. I'm sorry about that. i definitelyum I feel your pain. All right, anything else guys? Speaker 3 00:29:32 I Have nothing on my side. Anyone else? Speaker 4 00:29:34 All good, thank you. Speaker 2 00:29:37 I'll send you the links that I have that I put in the chat. I'll send them to you via email. And then also after you look at the after you look at the links, if you want me to schedule another call for Kristen, We can always get her to come back. And like I said, she'sum she thinks this is fun. So let's let's let her have some fun with you guys. Definitely. Okay. Speaker 4 00:30:02 Steve, You got anything for the team before? Speaker 7 00:30:04 Nope. As always, guys, appreciate the partnership. I know that Charles, you were looking at some screen connect licenses. Just let me know when that stuff when you need anything on that. Happy to help. Speaker 6 00:30:17 Um, yeah, so Steve that was kind of like in relation to the the one time support session or screen sharingum on on iOS uh device that that we just mentioned. Yeah. So. Speaker 7 00:30:30 On the iOS device, right? You are able you are just not able to take over the machine. You are able to see this, see the machine, but you just can't take it over from a Mac device. I am sorry if I misunderstood that previously. That's the difference between like an Android if you use it, You'll be able to completely take over the device, and you can go in there and fix things and do things and whatnot. On the Apple, because of the way that Apple makes their products, they don't give the permissions to be able to do that, but they can actually share their device with them. Speaker 6 00:31:08 Okay, well look, That is what we're looking for, at least because I know that there are almost basically no products unless you've got another iPhone and which you can control another iPhone with through aum what's called a Facetime uh call. Yeah, but I mean, that's difficult to get going if you don't have each other. You know, say those contexts in gardens and what. But, if we have the capability of at least just seeing the screen, so we can say, listen, do you see the little this icon? Yeah. Yeah. That one I could click. Speaker 7 00:31:45 Yep. Yeah, sorry for the miscommunication with each other. So you can I want to confirm unequivocally you can do that, The only thing you can't do is take over the machine, And that's similar to there's. There's no products out there that are going to do that. That's an Apple limitation. Speaker 6 00:32:02 Yes, yes. Now I'm I'm aware of that. Yeah, I know that for Apple we're going to only be looking at screen mirroring, so is what they call it. Yeah. Um so if we can have like I said if we can have that, that'll beum a very very great helpum because you know, You can tell people where to where to select, instead of having someone read back to you thirty lines worth of options and not really giving you the opportunity to interrupt them when it was at line item. Number two. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:32:45 And I'llum I'll talk to Pete about that one. And then Steve as soon as we get some approval. Um, I'll come back to you. Speaker 7 00:32:55 Cool, awesome guys. Really appreciate the time and I know we're a minute over. So let everybody go. And if there's anything you need from us, please just let us know. Speaker 3 00:33:03 All right thanks guys. Speaker 7 00:33:05 Bye- bye.
06-01 Weekly Meeting: Network Hardware and Infrastructure Planning
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- ## 1. Network Switch Replacement and PoE Power Strategy The team faces legacy switching hardware, specifically “a really old HP switch,” that cannot provide PA/PoE+ needed by new outdoor AP installations. Coverage from existing APs is acceptable in some areas, leading to unused extra APs that need reallocation. Powering new outdoor APs is critical; replacing the old switch may be out of scope or costly. A practical solution is to use PoE+ injectors to power outdoor APs and leave the old switch in place. Performance review indicates some APs still require PoE+ and final assessment depends on completing swaps and coverage review. ### Action Items - [ ] Provide and install a PoE+ injector on-site to power the new outdoor AP installations, keeping the existing HP switch in place -- _[Name]_ [Speaker 2] [Date] - [ ] Confirm whether replacing the old HP switch is in project scope; if not, proceed with PoE+ injector approach as the preferred solution -- _Angel_ [Date] - [ ] Review AP performance after injector deployment and swapped replacements to validate coverage and finalize power strategy -- _[Name]_ _Angel_ ## 2. AP Inventory, Swaps, and Reallocation Planning There are extra APs because some planned replacements were not needed due to adequate coverage. Specific candidate locations for swaps include the basketball court and outside the amphitheater used in LSU. A complete Meraki equipment inventory and quantities are needed to understand how many extra units will remain and plan reallocation effectively. Final coverage decisions depend on completing AP swaps and assessment. ### Action Items - [ ] Work with Alex to swap remaining APs (including the basketball court and outside the amphitheater used in LSU) and place speakers as needed during the on-site day -- _[Name]_ _Alex_ [2026-06-04] - [ ] Send the full inventory list and quantities for all Meraki equipment ordered to establish the count of extra units for reallocation -- _Angel_ [Date] - [ ] Propose additional locations to deploy extra APs to improve coverage; share ideas with Angel -- _[Name]_ ## 3. Media Converters Procurement and Logistics Media converters are needed and must be delivered to support upcoming work. Timelines and logistics are tight due to travel and availability constraints. The plan is to drop-ship media converters either to the camp or to the office in Irvine “right by Cal State Fullerton,” aiming for arrival by Wednesday morning to be usable on Thursday. ### Action Items - [ ] Arrange drop-shipment of media converters to arrive by Wednesday morning; target locations: the camp or Speaker 2’s office in Irvine right by Cal State Fullerton -- _Angel_ [2026-06-03] - [ ] Text the office address to Angel to facilitate drop-shipment of media converters -- _[Name]_ [2026-06-01] - [ ] Verify if six media converters can be procured (with the option to return unused units or keep some in stock) and execute next-day shipping if pulled from inventory -- _Angel_ ## 4. Main Lodge Port Consolidation and Switching Capacity Between the main lodge and the director’s house, a link is believed to be running at 1 gig, with other links between the main lodge and the call center at 10 gigs. The main lodge currently has forty eight ports across switches; there is a goal to condense active utilization down to twenty four to avoid purchasing an eighty port capacity and streamline configuration. One switch appears light while the top switch is fuller, but many ports may be inactive. ### Action Items - [ ] Assess active ports at the main lodge and create a consolidation plan to reduce from forty eight to twenty four ports without impacting services -- _[Name]_ [2026-06-04] - [ ] Validate link speeds between the main lodge, director’s house (1 gig), and call center (10 gigs) and document any required upgrades or configurations -- _[Name]_ ## 5. Legacy TTX Equipment Handling and Vendor Coordination Older TTX equipment on the backboard predates fiber installation and remains on site. Proper disposition is needed to reduce clutter and align with current infrastructure. The plan is to inventory the equipment, coordinate with TTX, and manage return logistics, including obtaining return slips. ### Action Items - [ ] Bring legacy TTX equipment to the office, perform an inventory, and contact TTX to arrange returns with provided return slips -- _[Name]_ [2026-06-04] - [ ] Confirm preference to remove legacy TTX equipment from site and proceed with the return process -- _Angel_ ## 6. On-Site Scheduling and Coordination On-site work coordination involves multiple schedules. Speaker 2 will be on site all day Thursday to set up the sound system and assist with switches and AP swaps. Angel plans to travel on Friday, with constraints due to being on vacation next week and a daughter’s graduation on next Wednesday. Address details for shipments are needed. Coverage assessments and reallocation decisions depend on these visits. ### Action Items - [ ] Confirm Angel’s on-site visit for Friday and share any specific focus areas to prioritize during the visit -- _Angel_ [2026-06-05] - [ ] Provide the shipping address for media converters and confirm receipt timing -- _Angel_ [2026-06-01] - [ ] Outline a game plan for on-site activities on Thursday, including switch assistance, speaker placement, and AP swaps -- _[Name]_ [2026-06-04] > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Project scope decision on replacing the old HP switch remains unclear; a definitive go/no-go is needed to avoid delays and ensure AP power strategy aligns with budget and timeline. > 2. The Meraki equipment inventory and exact quantities have not been provided; without this, reallocation planning for extra APs cannot proceed effectively. > 3. Link speed verification and documentation between the main lodge, director’s house, and call center are incomplete; mismatched speeds may cause performance bottlenecks if not addressed. > 4. Media converter quantity confirmation (“four or six”) and firm delivery location need finalization to meet the Wednesday arrival target. > 5. Coverage assessment post-AP swaps lacks a defined method and criteria; a structured validation plan is needed to confirm whether additional AP placements are necessary.
- Date
- Jun 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 So I'll check with the team. I know that their working on it, but how many was needed total? Speaker 2 00:00:09 I believe it's either going to need to be four or six. Okay. So one thing, the reason why I don't know a hundred percent is still between, I think the main log and the director's house. I believe that is only running at one gig. Um, And I believe the other two are running at ten gigs between the main log and call center. And we launched an arts and crafts program. Okay. Um, the next question is the staff comment. It's a really old um HP switch in there. I think you gave the model number describing that email. Yes, what is it for? If that's within scope of uh within your project scope of work to replace that switch? Um, if not, maybe a simple solution is just to get a POE. Speaker 2 00:00:59 Plus, um, injector to be able to power the new outdoor eighteen installs. And then you can just leave that switch there if you want to. Speaker 1 00:01:09 Okay. Yeah, that actually would be much easier. Let me talk to my Sean. She's out of pocket today on that one, but we didn't know that that switch was there. So yeah, um, But yes, Speaker 2 00:01:22 I could even provide the P A injector and install it when I go up there. So That's something I can definitely do. How much would it be? Speaker 1 00:01:31 Uh, I'll be honest. I could just do it with the quote, because the next kind of conversation we need to have is what we need to offer more. Um, what's kind of going to happen at those locations? Um, That's something I want to have a conference a talk conversation with her. I know with the APs that you guys ended up not replacing because the coverage was good. Um, I still got to figure out what I am going to do with those extra. Aps. So, um, Let me figure that out with her because I need to go down as well. Hang on one second. Need to go down on Friday, um, just because that's the only day I can go. Thank you. Um, understandable because next Wednesday is my daughter's graduation so. Speaker 1 00:02:24 I'm on vacation all next week. Speaker 1 00:02:37 Are You still there? Greg, I lost you for a second. Sorry. Speaker 2 00:02:49 I'm going to work with Alex on, you know, potentially swapping out some of those other EPS if I have time. I'll be there all day on Thursday. Okay. The work that I need to do to set up the sound system is pretty straightforward, So I'm definitely offering to help you with the switches and just put the speakers where their at. If not, I'll just work with Alex to help him swap out those other APs, like one of the basketball court, um, the ones on the outside of the amphitheater which are being used in LSU. I don't know what you need to work on or focus on while I'm there. Speaker 1 00:03:23 No, But if you have an idea of any other place, we could put those extra APs, that might be helpful. Let me know. Okay, Speaker 2 00:03:31 That's completely uh I definitely would be able to help you with that. What I also wanted to ask too, I don't know if we ever really got an inventory list of all the Meraki equipment being ordered. Would you be able to send me the quantities? Yeah. And I just kind of want to make sure you know, we have a picture of everything. So you kind of know how many extra units we'll have at the end of the project. Object to say, just so you know how you need to reallocate that. Gotcha. Speaker 1 00:03:58 Okay, yeah, I can do that. Um, And then how how is everything performing now that you got what you have installed? Not everything of course but which is helpful. Speaker 2 00:04:10 They do seem to require PA plus and the replacement switches are, So once we get the solution swapped out, and by reviewing the coverage, that's going to help us make a better decision. Okay, Speaker 1 00:04:34 Perfect. And how was it on the inside? Speaker 2 00:04:38 Um, once again, see all the ones we haven't swapped out yet. So, you're going to really need to get them all swapped out. And then really kind of take an assessment to say. Speaker 1 00:04:50 Gotcha. Um, okay, for the media converters, let me see if I can get them delivered by Thursday. Speaker 2 00:04:56 Yeah, You can drop ship to the up to the camp or even to my office. You know that would be really good too if you could take care of that on Thursday. Um, now the other question, too, is uh the main log. You know, there are currently forty eight ports. Do you believe there's enough not active to get it so we can get to twenty four? Or do we need another eighty port? Speaker 1 00:05:20 I think we could condense them down to the twenty four. Um, And and go from there just because I am trying to remember if there was a reason why they chose to go twenty four instead of forty eight. Speaker 2 00:05:34 Yeah, I know one of the switches is pretty light, The other top switch is kind of full, but I believe looking at it, I know that there was not anything active on it. Um so definitely when I go out there and get a little bit better, uh help you get a bit better. For you too, uh, Just to make sure uh, you have kind of a game plan when you walk in front. Okay, perfect. And, the other next item, too, is we did it on install on the uh all the like equipment on the backboard there. There's a lot of um TTX's equipment. It's very kind of older equipment. It was before the fiber was even installed. Um I left it on site. Uh, if you want me to keep it on site or I can bring it back to my. Speaker 2 00:06:18 Office, do an inventory, And then I don't mind reaching out to TTX's saying that we have this event equipment you guys wanted back. We provide you return slips. What are your thoughts on that? Speaker 1 00:06:29 I would love that if you could do that. Speaker 2 00:06:32 Get all the more happy to take care of that for you. Um, I think it's kind of all the questions there is anything else that I have or anything on your side? Speaker 1 00:06:40 No, I I'm definitely going to try to get up there on Friday unless you say no. Oh, um, Send me the send me the address for the media converters. I'm gonna see if we can drop ship them and get them to you by Wednesday morning, and then I'm gonna try for six, and then let me know. Um yeah, Speaker 2 00:06:58 Six would be safe. And then I could always return that you got to that. We don't use or. Speaker 1 00:07:04 Yeah because we like to keep some in stock. So I wanna I wanna even see if we have some in stock and maybe where's your office located? Speaker 2 00:07:12 We're in Irvine right by Cal State Fullerton. Speaker 1 00:07:15 Got it. Okay, so they're gonna have to ship it next day from our office, even if we have them in stock. Cause I don't have you may go into Irvine this week. Speaker 1 00:07:32 Not Not be not that I know of. Speaker 1 00:07:37 So But let me see what I can do. Speaker 2 00:07:39 Sounds good. Um, I will text you the office address? If you do need to dropship it to my office. Okay, Perfect. Speaker 1 00:07:45 Awesome, thank you. Speaker 2 00:07:47 You're welcome, Angel. No. Sounds good. You have a great day. Thanks, you too. Bye- bye.
07-15 Customer Consultation: BrightGauge Dashboard Automation and ConnectWise Reporting
- Notes
- > **Date & Time:** 2026-07-15 16:29:03 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Customer:** April ## Overview This consultation centered on building accurate BrightGauge dashboards to replace manual reporting. April, in a reporting/operations role, collaborated with Christi and Sergio to address two primary technical challenges: (1) creating an accurate gauge for total end users under managed services contracts, and (2) building a gauge for total fully managed client counts. A secondary issue emerged: duplicate computer counts appearing in BrightGauge reports. The team also discussed eliminating manual, monthly Excel-based computer count reporting. Partial solutions were achieved using ConnectWise saved views; however, the BrightGauge duplication problem remains unresolved and needs further investigation. ## Background April is developing a BrightGauge dashboard to replace a quarterly SLI (Service Level Indicator) spreadsheet currently sent manually to a stakeholder named Tony, enabling him to self-serve quarterly metrics. ConnectWise is the primary data source, with Nylia automating contact add/remove actions. Line Guard was initially considered but deemed unreliable because new clients have not been fully entered. The session included hands-on configuration of BrightGauge gauges and ConnectWise saved views, guided by Christi and Sergio. ## Pain Points **BrightGauge cannot reliably display the total count of end users under managed services contracts.** Line Guard was ruled out as a data source because **new clients have not been entered into Line Guard**, making the data inaccurate. April previously created gauges for new users and offboardings in the last three months but **lacked a gauge for the total active count**. The correct approach required filtering ConnectWise contacts by inactive flag (false), company type (Managed and Co-Managed), and company status (Active) — a non-obvious setup needing expert guidance. The correct total was **4,752 active managed contacts**. Without this gauge, automating end-user counts for the quarterly SLI report was not possible. - **Stakeholders affected:** April, Christi, Sergio, Tony (quarterly SLI recipient) **BrightGauge duplicates computer counts in drill-down reports, doubling quantities.** For a monthly computer count gauge using DTLA as a test case, the **preview showed 24 computers**, but the drill-down displayed **48 entries — exactly double**. This long-standing issue (“I've had this issue forever” — Christi) was not resolved during the session. Attempts to investigate via AI tools (Claude, Copilot) were hampered by service availability issues. This bug compromises BrightGauge’s viability as a replacement for manual Excel reporting. - **Stakeholders affected:** April, Christi, managed services clients (e.g., DTLA) **The total fully managed client count gauge in BrightGauge returns inaccurate results due to duplicate company entries.** Multiple entries for the same company (e.g., Winegard) inflated the count because some companies have multiple ConnectWise records tied to different agreements. The workaround was to use **count distinct on company name** instead of a raw count. Additionally, capturing all managed client types (including those under “Special Info,” such as Sims) required complex multi-condition logic that was difficult to replicate in BrightGauge, making a ConnectWise saved view the more reliable solution. The final count of fully managed clients was **40**. - **Stakeholders affected:** April, Christi, Sergio **Manual monthly computer count reporting via Excel remains in place and is not automated.** The team aims to eliminate the manual process of sending monthly Excel sheets. Christi noted this has been a long-standing goal (“Thing I've been trying to do for years”). No automated solution exists yet, and the BrightGauge duplication bug directly blocks this transition. Christi mentioned she may have previously used a non-BrightGauge automation method and agreed to investigate. - **Stakeholders affected:** April, Christi, managed services clients ## Expectations **April expects a reliable BrightGauge dashboard for the quarterly SLI that Tony can access independently, eliminating manual spreadsheets.** Success means the dashboard displays accurate, up-to-date metrics — including total active end users under managed contracts. The active managed contact count of **4,752** has been confirmed, and a ConnectWise saved view (“Manage Contacts”) serves as the verified reference. Dashboard build-out continues. - **Stakeholders:** April (builder), Tony (end viewer), Christi (technical advisor) **April expects the BrightGauge duplication issue to be investigated and resolved so the monthly computer count can be automated.** Christi committed to investigating the root cause of duplicate entries in BrightGauge drill-downs and to exploring **alternative automation methods outside of BrightGauge**. The goal is a fully automated monthly computer count report, eliminating manual Excel submissions. **No specific deadline was stated**, but quarterly automation needs imply urgency aligned with the next reporting cycle. - **Stakeholders:** April, Christi, Sergio **April expects guidance or a solution for accurately counting fully managed clients, with a verified total.** A ConnectWise saved view (“Total Managed Clients”) was created, returning **40 fully managed clients**, including those categorized under both “Manage” and “Special Info” types with active status. April needs to reliably reference or replicate this in BrightGauge for reporting. - **Stakeholders:** April, Christi, Sergio ## Other Information Summary - **Nylia** automates adding/removing contacts in ConnectWise; contact counts must rely on ConnectWise data, not Line Guard. - Two new **ConnectWise saved views** were created: **“Manage Contacts”** (4,752 active managed/co-managed contacts) and **“Total Managed Clients”** (40 fully managed clients). - Christi previously had a BrightGauge SLI dashboard, but it appears to have been deleted; April built a new one. - April has access to **ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot** (the latter obtained via advocacy from Speaker 4/Anzor for meeting support). - Some companies in ConnectWise (e.g., former client **Five by Five**) appear in contact results due to missing or incompatible status filters in BrightGauge, indicating **data hygiene issues** in ConnectWise that may affect reporting accuracy. ## To-Do List - [ ] **Christi** to investigate the root cause of BrightGauge duplicate computer counts in drill-down reports and report findings to April. - [ ] **Christi** to explore a non-BrightGauge automation method for the monthly computer count report and share with April. - [ ] **April** to verify access to the “Manage Contacts” and “Total Managed Clients” ConnectWise saved views and confirm counts (4,752 and 40 respectively). - [ ] **April** to continue building the BrightGauge SLI dashboard using ConnectWise as the data source, incorporating the confirmed gauges. - [ ] **April** to follow up with Christi once the duplication issue is resolved before discontinuing the manual Excel monthly computer count process. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI identified the biggest pain point as **BrightGauge duplicating computer counts in drill-down reports, blocking automation of monthly computer count reporting**. Consider: > 1. **Investigate ConnectWise data for duplicate device records:** Exact 2x duplication suggests each device may have two records (e.g., tied to different agreement lines or contact associations). Audit DTLA in ConnectWise to confirm duplicate asset links before a BrightGauge fix. > 2. **Use “Count Distinct” on a unique device identifier in BrightGauge:** As with contact counts, switch from “Count” to “Count Distinct” on a unique field (e.g., System Name or Device ID) to eliminate duplicate rows in the drill-down. > 3. **Apply a deduplication filter in the BrightGauge gauge configuration:** If available, filter by a “primary” or “default” flag in the RMM data source to exclude duplicates, similar to how the “Default Billing Flag” was explored. > 4. **Use a direct RMM or ConnectWise report/API as the data source instead of BrightGauge:** Given the known duplication issue, pull the monthly computer count from the RMM’s native reporting or a ConnectWise saved view (as done for client/contact counts), then automate distribution via email or dashboard link. > 5. **Engage BrightGauge support with a reproducible example:** Use the DTLA case (24 actual computers, 48 in drill-down) to open a support ticket for an official explanation and fix, creating a paper trail if this is a platform bug rather than configuration.
- Date
- Jul 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:03 Hi. Okay. That uh, okay, um yeah. Speaker 3 00:00:07 Oh I'm so sorry. Speaker 2 00:00:09 Oh it's okay. Okay. So yeah, we're trying to figure out me and Olivia earlier. How can we add a gauge in BrightGauge to identify the number of end users supported by managed services contract? Speaker 2 00:00:30 So, here, let me just show you what we did so far. This is for the quarterly SLI. I know you're aware of this because we need to send this to Tony every quarter. So yeah, We thought of like why not just create a dashboard for SLI, where Tony can just check this one out every quarter, instead of us sending manually a spreadsheet of all the numbers that he needs. Speaker 3 00:00:60 Someone must have deleted my SLI one, because I used to have it as a dashboard. Speaker 2 00:01:05 Oh, really? Yeah, I was kind of looking for any dashboard that I can copy, but then I thought, okay, I just create my own. So yeah, But then I found some gauges that are were already available that i was able to add to this um dashboard. So that's helpful. But for this one, Olivia said, we cannot rely with Line Guard as the data source. That's what she said because it's not accurate. Speaker 3 00:01:36 Yeah, because uh new clients haven't been put into Line Guard. Speaker 2 00:01:41 Hmm, okay. So what should be would be our data source then if we're going to count the number of end users, we were able to. Created gauge from organically and added end users in the last three months, which is this one. Right. And then this one is to offboardings in the last three months, but I need like the total count, not just the new users in the last three months. Speaker 3 00:02:12 Okay, so here's the deal. Um, okay. Because we have Nylia in place that's doing the adding and removing of contacts in ConnectWise. You want to use the active contacts and not the inactive contacts. So, you're going to add a gauge. Like okay, Speaker 2 00:02:35 Let me start from here. Okay, from ConnectWise? Speaker 3 00:02:42 ConnectWise, okay. And then uh I got to remember, which one, so it's good. Hang on uh contact data? Speaker 2 00:02:52 Contact data. Okay. Speaker 3 00:02:55 And then, uh, yep. And then you're going to do a number. So, nope, not there. Go over the right buttons. This one? Yep, click that one. Okay. And, then you're going to measure a uh, so you're going to measure uh count of where is it? First name. Speaker 3 00:03:24 First Name. Yeah, let's just do your first. No, do ID. I'm sorry. Oh okay. Speaker 2 00:03:30 On measure? Yep Okay. Speaker 3 00:03:33 And hit add Okay Right now filters Okay Uh you are going to filter status I think Nope Take that out Oh okay I'm trying to do this from memory. Speaker 3 00:03:54 Inactive. Uh, do inactive flag. Speaker 2 00:03:58 Inactive. Oops. Okay. Speaker 3 00:04:01 Yep, and filter that and is is not true, so is false? False? Okay. And say update, there you go. Um now hit the uh click on ID under measure, uh distinct drop that down count distinct. No, don't count. I'm sorry. Oh, it's okay. That's fine. It didn't work the way it's supposed to. So yeah, so do count. Speaker 2 00:04:31 Count okay? Speaker 3 00:04:33 Yep, Okay. And then under uh cancel out of your search want to make sure there's nothing else in here. Speaker 3 00:04:55 Uh, click on drag company name into filters. Okay. And then uh, I want you to select all. Uh, can't remove uh remove that. Click the remove down at the okay. Uh company type, drag company type over. All right okay, So is, and then you're going to uh any of them, yeah manage. Yes, you want them you want yeah, Speaker 2 00:05:35 That that's just the managed ones. Okay, Speaker 3 00:05:38 Yep, and then there you go. Speaker 2 00:05:41 Oh oh oh, sorry, I'm sorry. Can I add a drill down, like when I click this one, there should be like a yep. Um. Speaker 3 00:05:50 So put in your columns for the drill down. Speaker 2 00:05:53 Okay, let's do company name. Yep. Um, Speaker 3 00:05:59 First name, last name? Speaker 2 00:06:01 Oh yeah. First name. Oops, Speaker 3 00:06:08 Last name. And I would do email address if you've got that option. Just'cause it helps me. Speaker 2 00:06:15 Yeah, email default email Yeah Okay, Okay, let's see. Oh, Speaker 3 00:06:26 Yeah. Oh, uh, and then uh, yeah. You do want to keep the do not use. Mhm. Speaker 3 00:06:44 Who Is A H match? Wait some of these are in here that should not be in here. Speaker 2 00:06:49 Yeah maybe we can add if uh, Like, hang on. Click on. Um, the that company's like status where we can filter inactive and active. Speaker 3 00:07:02 So, company name, company type, company ID. Uh do company type and and throw that over there? I want to do one more company type. Oh one more? One more yeah Okay, All right, and click on" is not." Mhm. And uh, type in where it says" searching value," type in" bidder." Okay. Yeah, click that and say update. Speaker 2 00:07:44 Oops. Why is it is lagging on my end? Okay. Um. Speaker 3 00:07:58 I'm Gonna have to play with this one. Speaker 2 00:08:00 Okay, sure, no worries. Wait, Speaker 3 00:08:02 Wait. Uh do you drag billing default billing flag over into filters? Speaker 2 00:08:13 This one default flag? Speaker 3 00:08:14 No, default billing flag. Drag that one over. Oh okay, hang on. Into filters? Speaker 2 00:08:22 Yeah oops. Speaker 2 00:08:26 My mouse is not working. Okay. Speaker 3 00:08:30 True or false? That's not the one. Oh, okay. I am. Do me a favor. Measure ID, take that out. Delete, remove ID And then I want you to do default email. Speaker 2 00:08:53 Under measure? Yep. Speaker 3 00:08:58 Okay. Uh, and then I want to count distinct. Count distinct. Okay. And then that. That's a better number, okay? Because I think we have some duplicate hits in there. Um, But we need to get out Five by Five and some of the other stuff. Yeah It's not it's not filtering correctly Five by five isn't, Can, we go into the connect wise and look at Five by Five and see what they are. Speaker 2 00:09:31 Let's see. Like companies. Okay. Five. Let's see, Speaker 3 00:09:48 Five by five oh, it's a former client status. Okay, yeah status I think we should. Speaker 2 00:09:56 Add that as a filter. Speaker 3 00:09:57 We can't. We don't have a status. Speaker 2 00:10:00 Oh, yeah. Maybe we can change the measure? Speaker 3 00:10:09 Uh, we can't because they're talking about a lot of. I mean, we got to. changing the measure won't work on this one. Um. Speaker 3 00:10:25 Hang on. I am going to have to play with this because this one, this one's like. Hang on. I am going to go into. Tricky. Yeah, this one's being a little weird. I am going to share my way out. Okay. Speaker 1 00:10:55 I am not a good person. Speaker 1 00:11:24 Contact data. Maybe if I do contact data, and then add in contact data. Speaker 1 00:11:56 I'm trying to think. Okay. They don't make it easy. Speaker 3 00:12:44 You Know what we probably need to do. What. Speaker 1 00:12:50 If there are former. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:13:06 I got an idea. Okay. Contacts. All right. We might have to just do it this way and make a few. Uh-huh. Status isn't here. Posts per page. Speaker 1 00:13:36 Save. All right. I'll make this a little wider so I can see it. Company status, okay. Actions, Speaker 3 00:13:52 Company status is active. Company type is managed and. Speaker 1 00:14:06 Status is active. Search. There. Speaker 2 00:14:13 You go. Is that a the total users, right? Oh my god, hang on, let me update my report here. Speaker 3 00:14:24 Yep. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to save this view first thing. Yeah. I'm going to share this view. Speaker 2 00:14:42 So There's a total of four seven five two okay. Speaker 1 00:15:06 Active. Update. And company type equals managed. Wait, wait. Cancel hold on. Ah. Speaker 1 00:15:36 Wait. Cancel. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:15:39 Status Wait, we got to do this differently. Okay, status equals active and company status equals active and Sorry, I muted myself by accident. Company type equals. Speaker 3 00:16:08 Uh,'cause manage is under, it should be co- manage should be under there too. Update and plus and or company type equals. Speaker 1 00:16:27 Co- manage. Update. Okay. Save. Speaker 3 00:16:37 Okay, manage contacts. Forty seven fifty two. Speaker 2 00:16:42 Forty seven fifty two. Okay, perfect. Speaker 3 00:16:46 And that is saved for you. Speaker 2 00:16:50 Oh, where can I see that on my end? On the contact search? Speaker 3 00:16:55 Yes, go to companies and contacts. Okay, Speaker 2 00:16:59 One sec. Companies contacts Oh okay so I'm seeing the, All the columns that you have on your screen. Perfect. Okay, so thank you so much, Graciela. Okay, So I have one more question if I may while you're here because I don't know if I have the wrong filter on this one as well because I'm trying to get the uh the total number of fully managed clients. Oh You see right here. Speaker 2 00:17:35 I don't know if I do have the correct filter as well. Speaker 3 00:17:39 Company ID, company type. Yeah. Yeah, you got it. Uh, but fully managed is not co- managed. Speaker 2 00:17:48 Oh, this one? Speaker 3 00:17:49 Yeah, So you can take out yeah. So we just want the ones we're fully managing under that statement. Some of them you can do all some of them you can't. And then company status is active. Okay? Speaker 2 00:18:01 Okay, so but on this one there are multiple Winegard's showing up. So how should we can I remove? Is that possible or maybe because Winegard is set up in ConnectWise as multiple sizes. Okay, Speaker 3 00:18:14 So hit the close button on this. Okay. And so go to company ID, click Measure company ID. Speaker 3 00:18:25 Mhm Remove that. Speaker 1 00:18:28 Remove company ID Yeah Okay. Speaker 3 00:18:31 Yep, remove. And then company name. So drag company name up into Measure. Okay. Yep, and then you're going to change to count distinct. Yep, and then hit add. And the reason for this that I do that is because sometimes there might be duplicate companies, but I'll be honest. Mhm, I'll be honest. Uh, sometimes it duplicates itself. Speaker 2 00:19:04 Yeah, there, yeah, there's because agreements start. Speaker 3 00:19:07 That's why. Uh, cancel that or close that. That's why it is okay. Query two, click on Query two for me at the top Okay Okay. You have agreement type agreement type agreement status All right? So we got to put a calculation in here. Um. Speaker 3 00:19:30 How do I want to do this? Do a plus sign next to Query two. Okay. Oops. Yeah, that's going to be the aggregated metric. Oh. Speaker 3 00:19:45 Uh and just leave that there. We'll we'll figure that one out. Uh so click on Query two, click on uh change measure from agreement type. Speaker 3 00:19:60 This one. Remove that. Okay. Okay, now go to company name and drag that up into Measure. Speaker 2 00:20:13 Company name, okay. Speaker 3 00:20:15 And then this time it's not distinct. Okay. And hit add, Speaker 1 00:20:21 Okay? So, Speaker 3 00:20:25 This is what I'm going to explain with too. Uh, let me go into ConnectWise real quick. Do you want to see me do it? Okay. Yeah. Okay, so we're going to do this the same way. Um, so companies here sometimes right pages is not the one. So, we're going to do search, and we're going to click on view and view name total managed clients. Okay, share this view uh company company type Equals. Speaker 1 00:21:01 Okay. Manage. Okay. Update. Plus, status equals. Speaker 3 00:21:19 Active. I just remembered, plus, I just remembered something, status Equals. Speaker 1 00:21:32 Special info. Because we need that because I think Sims was under special info. Manage active special info. Let me save this. No, it's not okay territory search. Speaker 1 00:22:09 Okay, go to view. Client equals message. Oh, Speaker 3 00:22:22 I see what my problem is. Data, it needs to be or. Speaker 3 00:22:31 I was like, I know. I know how to do this. Status. Speaker 1 00:22:36 Equals special info. Update and save. Forty. Speaker 2 00:22:49 Oh forty Okay. Speaker 3 00:22:55 Sometimes you just got to do it from here. Speaker 2 00:22:59 From ConnectWise rather thanum BrightGauge. Yep. Oh okay okay. All right. Um also, Christi, we're planning to remove the like the manual monthly computer count, like sending the Excel sheets and all. So You mean that. Speaker 3 00:23:16 Thing I've been trying to do for years? Speaker 2 00:23:19 Yeah so I've added another gauge I I actually use DTLA as one example. Um, for the monthly computer count, let me share my screen. But the thing is, you see the preview right here. This is correct. We have twenty four counts for them in RMM. But when I click on this one, It doubles the quantity where I've noticed where I've downloaded when I downloaded this. Um these are duplicates like times two of the original. Speaker 2 00:23:56 Um quantity. So these are all 48 in total, but in reality we have only 24 computers for them. So I'm not sure why there are duplicates as well for them. So these are my filters. Yeah, just, So you can check. So I have the correct number here, but yeah, inside the report, inside is not. Speaker 3 00:24:31 Click on system name. Measure system name. Speaker 3 00:24:36 Okay. Yep, you have that correct. I just wanted to double check it. I got okay, Okay, Oh uh click on type. Speaker 1 00:24:44 U h- huh This one. Speaker 3 00:24:48 All right? Go down to status in your data. Speaker 1 00:24:54 Status. Let's see. Okay, do we still have birds on it? You know what I'm gonna do? Speaker 3 00:25:16 I'm gonna Claude. I'm gonna ask Claude why BrightGauge keeps duplicating things. Speaker 3 00:26:14 I I'm having some issues. It keeps telling me, which it's probably. Speaker 3 00:26:33 It Keeps telling me, uh chat not chat uh conversation is not available at this time. Speaker 1 00:26:39 Oh okay okay. Speaker 1 00:26:51 See if it works this time. I'm switching it over to Copilot and see if I can do it on the Copilot. Okay. Speaker 1 00:27:21 Okay, now it's going. Let's see if it continues. Might just be a some glitch. Speaker 3 00:27:28 Are you Do you have Chat GPT or Claude? Speaker 2 00:27:32 I do have both. Speaker 3 00:27:35 Okay, oh that's right, You're a manager. Speaker 2 00:27:39 And even yeah Copilot as well, because Anzor said I needed for meetings. Speaker 4 00:27:46 Yes Well actually I argued with him on that one. Oh really You know, he's never gonna admit to the fact that I strong armed him for you. Yeah, I think he knows that. Cause you know me, I'm gonna give you all the tools that I can. Speaker 2 00:28:04 Yeah, yeah. Speaker 4 00:28:06 All right, Speaker 3 00:28:06 Let's see Let me. Let me dig into this a little bit more and see if we if I can find out any answers because I've had this issue forever Oh. Okay. Yeah, But at least, I got you two new views in ConnectWise so that you can go look at those. Speaker 2 00:28:21 Yes, that's so helpful. Thank you, Christi. And yes, let me know what you find out about the duplicates. Speaker 3 00:28:27 Yeah. And then also let me see if there's a way of automating it not through BrightGauge for you. Originally I had a way to do that for you. Um. Speaker 2 00:28:39 Yeah if we can automate that would be helpful like every quarter. Speaker 3 00:28:48 Yeah, let me see. What I can do. Speaker 2 00:28:51 Okay. Thank you so much, Christi. Speaker 3 00:28:54 You're welcome. Alright, I'll talk to you later. Speaker 2 00:28:56 Okay, thank you. Bye- bye Thanks. Bye.
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- ## Core Synopsis The Nevada Gaming Control Board's Investigations Division is currently unavailable to field inbound calls. A standardized voicemail system is in place to manage this communication gap, instructing callers to leave their name, phone number, and a reason for contact to secure a callback. The system sets the expectation that a response will be provided "as soon as possible," establishing a non-specific service-level agreement. ## Voicemail Protocol A caller has reached the Las Vegas office of the Nevada Gaming Control Board's Investigations Division. The call was not answered by a person, and instead was routed to an automated voicemail system. This system provides a clear set of instructions for the caller to ensure their inquiry is captured and can be addressed later. The required information includes the caller's name, phone number, and a brief summary of their reason for calling. The system concludes by committing to a return call at an unspecified future time.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello. Hello, You have reached the Las Vegas office of the Nevada Gaming Control Board's Investigations Division. We cannot take your call right now. Please leave your name, phone number, and a short reason for contacting us, and we will call you back as soon as possible. Thank you.
08-14 Meeting: Copilot Training—Roles, KPI and Budget Analysis, Project Tracking, Sales Pipeline, HR, Advanced Agents (CoWork/Researcher/Analyst), Loop Collaboration, Automation
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-08-14 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### **Training Overview and Logistics** - Christi confirmed attendees received the necessary files and noted the session was being recorded. - The training covered two modules: "Roles" and "Advanced Features." - The agenda for the "Roles" section included demonstrations for executives, finance, operations, admin, sales and marketing, and HR, lasting approximately 40 minutes. - For a feature that was not yet enabled, a similar tool would be used for demonstration. ### **AI Tool Capabilities and Prompting Best Practices** - Christi highlighted an AI tool that accurately transcribes non-native names using a custom dictionary, a feature Microsoft's tool lacks. - **Best Practices:** - The fundamental formula for AI interaction is: assign a role, ask specific questions, follow up, and challenge its responses. - For privacy, keep employee medical and pay details out of AI prompts, using placeholders for sensitive data like salary. - Always start a new chat in Copilot to analyze a file and reference it using a forward slash (`/`). - Human judgment is essential; users must always verify AI-generated data and own the final output. AI gets you about 70% of the way, but the final 30% is the user's responsibility. ### **Copilot for Executives: KPI Analysis** - **Prompt 1:** `You're my chief of staff. Read this KPI dashboard and give me a five bullet briefing I can read in two minutes before my Monday leadership meeting.` - **Prompt 2:** `Give me three questions a sharp board member would ask about this data, and a one line answer to each.` - **Prompt 3:** `What business line is underperforming, and what are the two most likely causes worth investigating?` - **Prompt 4:** `Turn this into a short Teams message I could send to my leadership team right now.` ### **Copilot for Finance & Accounting: Budget Variance Analysis** - Using the `Crimson Sample Budget Versus Actual` file, Christi demonstrated how Copilot can act as a financial analyst. - **Prompt 1:** `Act as my financial analyst. Write a short variance narrative for leadership, explaining the three largest budget variances in this sheet in plain English, no jargon.` - **Prompt 2:** `For the department that's over budget the most, give me three questions I should ask that department head.` (AI can also be asked to soften the tone of such questions). - **Prompt 3:** `Explain what the variance percentage formula in column E is doing step by step like I've never seen it before.` This showed AI's utility as a learning tool. ### **Managing a Messy Project Tracker with Copilot** - Christi used a sample project tracker in Excel to demonstrate generating a formula (`TODAY() - [Due Date]`) for the "Days Overdue" column using a plain English prompt. - **Analysis Prompt:** "List every task that's overdue or missing an owner and sort by how overdue it is." - **Communication Prompt:** A "no blame" status update was drafted for the team about overdue items. The draft was refined to be more positive and include the data table, with Speaker 3 confirming they would send the revised version. ### **Analyzing a Sales Pipeline with Copilot** - Using the "Crimson Sample Sales Pipeline" file, Christi demonstrated identifying sales opportunities and drafting communications. - **Analysis Prompt:** "Which three deals in this pipeline haven't been touched over two weeks and are worth following up on first based on deal size?" Copilot correctly identified the top three deals, excluding closed ones. - **Communication Prompts:** - A warm check-in email was drafted for the largest deal. The output required manual correction (e.g., fixing a placeholder name) and refinement to sound less AI-generated. - Eight subject line options were generated with varying tones. ### **HR Screening and Communication with Copilot** - **Use Case:** AI can summarize transcribed candidate interviews to provide a "gut check" on technical skills, but it cannot read emotion and should not be used for final decisions. - **Demonstration:** Using a "Crimson Sample Candidate Tracker," a prompt was used to rank candidates against three must-haves and explain the reasoning. - **Communication Prompts:** Copilot was asked to draft a warm rejection email template and a neutral, professional note to a manager about a performance concern. ### **Using Copilot for SOPs and General Tasks** - **Client Onboarding:** A potential use case is turning client onboarding tasks into a numbered checklist for a new hire, though this requires providing the AI with specific task information. - **"How-To" Questions:** AI can generate step-by-step instructions for software questions (e.g., how to enable features in Outlook). - **SOPs:** AI can format content into a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) if provided with a template and the necessary information. ### **Introduction to Advanced Copilot Features** - The training transitioned from Copilot as an "assistant" to a "teammate" capable of handling more advanced, time-saving tasks. - **Model Choice:** Users can choose between different AI models (e.g., GPT, Claude) and modes like "auto," "quick response," or "think deeper." - **Guidelines for Tool Selection:** - **In-app Copilot:** For tasks within a single file. - **Copilot Chat:** For tasks involving multiple files across a workspace. - **Researcher Agent:** For building reports that require citations. - **CoWork Agent:** For delegating an entire job to the AI. ### **Advanced Feature: CoWork Agent** - CoWork is an advanced, pay-as-you-go feature that allows a user to hand off an entire job to the AI, which will then plan and execute the work. - Christi demonstrated its functionality using a similar tool, "Claude," because her CoWork credits were exhausted. - The demonstration showed how to point the tool to a folder and file to have it work on an Excel sheet. - CoWork is now out of preview, and like other AI tools, completes about 70% of a task, with the user responsible for the final 30%. ### **Advanced Feature: Researcher Agent** - The Researcher agent is used for in-depth briefs (e.g., market risks) by pulling from the web and user files. - **Crucial Note:** Users must read and validate all citations before relying on them due to potential inaccuracies. - A demonstration showed the agent researching telehealth software options. It excluded a strong option (CareLogic) based on ease-of-use concerns for non-technical staff, pulling supporting details from past emails. - Outputs can be converted to Word, PowerPoint, PDF, or infographics. ### **Advanced Feature: Analyst Agent** - The Analyst agent focuses on quantitative analysis, particularly in Excel (e.g., identifying drivers of underperformance). - Users should sanity-check outputs against trusted numbers. Processing may take longer for large files. ### **Automation and Scheduling** - Christi demonstrated an automation workflow showing how tasks can be built and scheduled. - Examples included a daily briefing scheduled for 8:00 a.m. and a daily news brief ("Radar") configured to track items of interest (e.g., an acquisition). - The "Tasks Tab" in Copilot collects long-running jobs like co-work tasks and researcher reports. ### **Microsoft Loop for Collaboration** - Microsoft has moved notebooks/projects into Loop, which serves as a collaborative workspace. - **Pages:** Shared, living documents for real-time team collaboration with integrated Copilot assistance. - **Workspaces:** Consolidate project data like task lists and schedules. Information can be easily copied to emails or Teams. ### **User Questions and Clarifications** - **File Access Issue:** A user had trouble referencing a file. The resolution was to download files and save them to the "My Documents" folder, which syncs to OneDrive. - **Specifying Excel Tabs:** To specify a tab, state its name in the prompt (e.g., "on tab budget"), though it's often better to let Copilot analyze the entire file. - **CoWork vs. Copilot Chat:** Copilot Chat can compare data across multiple files (PDF, Excel) without a CoWork subscription. CoWork adds automation and job delegation but requires an additional pay-as-you-go subscription. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Continue with the training modules on operations and admin roles. - [ ] Pick bigger features (CoWork, Researcher, Analyst, or Notebook) to use on a real project this week. - [ ] Attend open office sessions at the end of August or in September for help with larger problems. - [ ] Email Christi or the help desk if any issues arise. - [ ] Christi to send an email with the prompt for HR. - [ ] Christi will send a link for the Whisper Flow dictation software to Speaker 4. - [ ] Organize ongoing projects in Microsoft Loop and invite relevant collaborators. - [ ] Validate citations from Researcher outputs before relying on them. - [ ] Configure Copilot Chat to compare data across PDF and Excel as needed. - [ ] Set or adjust schedules for briefing agents (e.g., 6:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m.) as required. - [ ] Monitor CoWork credits and subscription status. - [ ] Review and possibly include CareLogic in telehealth software evaluations, noting usability criteria. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions **AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention:** 1. An advanced feature was not working during the demonstration. It is unclear if there will be a follow-up or if the alternative demonstration was sufficient. This was a recurring theme, with a separate issue noted where a feature was supposed to be fixed but wasn't. 2. The session on creating custom agents (e.g., "Daily Brief Agent") was deferred to a future session with no specific follow-up scheduled. 3. A user experienced a technical issue finding a file in Copilot. While a solution was provided, it's unclear if this will be a recurring issue for others. 4. The demonstration for turning client onboarding tasks into a checklist was described but not executed because the necessary task data was not provided. 5. It was mentioned that not everyone has access to CoWork. The meeting did not clarify how users can get access, what the pay-as-you-go cost structure is, or what alternatives are available. 6. A validation workflow for Researcher and Analyst outputs (who reviews, what checks are done) was not established. 7. A clear migration plan from old "notebooks" to Microsoft Loop for existing projects was not communicated to the team.
- Date
- Aug 14, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:16 Hi Julia, no worries. We, actually, we're gonna be waiting for a few minutes because I've had quite a number of people that wanted to join. So I resent the invite and just a quick heads up, Um there is a fly in my bedroom. And the reason why I don't have my camera turned on is cause the kittens. All three of them are trying to catch this fly. So they keep jumping in front of me. Working from home with three, Three teenagers is not for the faint of heart. Actually, the teenagers are more well behaved than the cats. Speaker 2 00:01:55 For sure, Yes. Speaker 2 00:02:42 We'll recording to review later. We just usually start recording when everyone joins, so it's not empty recording at the beginning. Speaker 1 00:03:09 Christy, I had a for a moment. Um. Answer a question that had come over. question that is eighteen years old walked in into my door while. Thankfully, Julia answered the other question. Speaker 1 00:03:38 We're going to wait just a few minutes. And then I am going to start recording. Speaker 1 00:04:03 Alright, real quickly, I think it's only going to be three of us or four of us. Um, did you guys get the files that I sent over with the meeting? Speaker 4 00:04:16 Uh, yes. Speaker 1 00:04:17 Okay, perfect. We're gonna be using those those documents just because it's gonna make things a little bit easier. I just provided sample documentationum so that everybody had it. And we're gonna do two modules today. So, we're gonna go over roles, and then we're going to go over some advanced features that I am going to show you. I am going to apologize in advance. I had asked the team to turn on one of the features. They still haven't turned it on, so I am going to show you, But I'm going to show it to you using a different tool because that different tool is actually just as good and looks exactly the same. So, Just Christy: Speaker 2 00:04:56 Yes Christy: Sorry, when was that sent? I don't think I have that. Speaker 1 00:05:00 It should be in your meeting invite for today. Okay. Speaker 2 00:05:08 And it's uh an attachment or just yes, Speaker 1 00:05:12 It's attachments. Speaker 2 00:05:17 Yeah, I I don't see that on mine. I'm so sorry. Speaker 1 00:05:21 No, it's okay. I'm gonna resend it. Okay, and bear with me one second. Send update and okay, so hopefully that updates for you so you can see, I had sent it over earlier. There's quite a few attachments in it. We're going to go over what those attachments look like and what they are for this meeting during the meeting. So if you don't have them just yet, give it a few moments. Speaker 2 00:05:49 I actually got it. I was looking at a different schedule, so there were so many on my calendar, my bad, thank you. Speaker 1 00:05:57 No worries. And real quickly, I am going to share my screen this time because this morning and the other training. I didn't realize I wasn't sharing until about twenty minutes into the meeting, so I am going to share. Um, let me. I've got two people I know that were supposed to be in it, So let me copy the joint information and make sure because Microsoft has been doing some funky things lately. Speaker 1 00:06:33 And, some people did not get the correct link in a couple of my meetings. It's actually been a few of them today, so I think Microsoft's having some issues. All right, so I'm going to record. Okay, it's already on. I'm going to turn on facilitator as well. So just a quick heads up, we're going to be recording. You guys have been in trainings with us, so you know how my rules work. Speaker 1 00:07:04 It is a you can stop and ask questions. We're also going to do questions at the end, and then I also will pause and ask questions during items that are, uh, more intense or heavier information so that people have a chance to understand it. And so we've got two agendas. Um, So we're going to go over the first section that's going to last about forty minutes. And so we're going to go through that agenda real quick. We're going to go through what it looks like uh, during roles. And because I am recording it. Even though we don't have a lot of people in here, I am just going to go through every role so that you guys have it for the people who are going to be watching this on the recording. Now we're going to go through executives, finance, operations, admin, sales and marketing and HR. So I've got sample files for you guys in the meeting notes, and you guys can access them. They all start with crimson and I am gonna. Speaker 1 00:08:02 Pull each one up. So, just be aware of that. Now, we're going to go over executives first. And with executives, I want you guys to understand prompt AI much better for things. So, Within Copilot, you can say open this file and then run these four prompts in order. Okay now. What I like to do with Copilot is I'm going to be using the chat feature on this one. And so I'm going to pull up my chat right here. And I've got my file so that Copilot can help me. And I always start things in a brand new chat. So, a couple of things that you can note, um, I'm going to hit the forward slash and I'm going to start typing. Speaker 1 00:08:55 The name of the file because we always want to reference a file when we're working with Copilot, because we want to give it more information and I'll say, Crimson dash sample and I'm going to do KPI dashboard. Okay. So there's my file and I'm going to say you're my chief of staff on this one. So you guys can see, Read this KPI dashboard and give me a five bullet briefing. I can read in two minutes before my Monday leadership meeting. Okay, so I'm gonna do that from chat. So I've put it in here and I'm gonna paste that. Now, I don't need the quotation marks. So I'm just gonna take those out and I'm gonna ask it to to take care of that. Okay? Speaker 1 00:09:54 It's going to give the five points. And so that's the information I want it to be aware of. Now, if I had a better file that I can do that with, which I actually do, but I'm not going to do it right now, it'll show change in time. So just be aware you can do this with any file that you have. But the prompt I used is you're my chief of staff. Read this KPI dashboard and give me a five bullet briefing. I can read in two minutes before my Monday leadership meeting. So it's going to give you those items. Now, on this, I always tell people be aware, you sometimes need to check the data, actually, you need to check the data constantly. So, if I have this open, let me go into my executive. I can actually see now. This is the KPI dashboard. Speaker 1 00:10:52 Right here, and I can see all the information. So I'm going to make this smaller. Pull it over to the side. And then you can see what's carrying growths, and I'm going to double check it. And so when I bring this back over, I'm double checking cloud and security. There's my growths. Okay? So you should be able to spot check this very easily. But this puts it in language where you're when you're looking at your spreadsheet, you can say, you know, I understand it better. Now the next prompt I'm going to have it do is give me three questions. A sharp board member would ask about this data, and one line answer to each. I actually use this prompt pretty often when I'm meeting with my clients. So. Speaker 1 00:11:48 I'm going to paste that in there. So it's going to give me some information. Now, It's given me based on its own perspective, why is cloud and cybersecurity above target? While the rest of the business is under. Okay? And it's going to point that out. And, These are things that I should look up as an executive, so I know and understand. Okay, what is driving the professional services miss? Okay, and I'm going to need to think through my answers. So These are These are ways that you can prep for meetings coming through. All right. Now, My next prompt number three is what business line is underperforming, and what are the two most likely causes worth investigating? And again, I'm sitting here, I'm having a conversation with Copilot. Um. Speaker 1 00:12:47 And I'm asking it the questions as if I'm talking to an associate or I'm talking to a subordinate or any of those types of scenarios. I am actually asking it questions like it is a person. And you can do that, you can do plain language, okay? And so I'll send this over, and it'll give me some questions that I can investigate. Speaker 1 00:13:17 And then I can actually go and look for the facts myself. In this case, on this one, I would go to Julia and ask my question. Julia is the one who's going to know that question from Crimson's point of view. All right, And then prompt number four : Turn this into a short Teams message I could send to my leadership team right now. Okay? Some things to note about Copilot : It's never going to make a call because that's still you ;. That's your judgment. One of the things I like to tell people is AI can never take over your job because it lacks the capacity for human judgment. And that's where you come in. You have to be able to do that judgment, Which we know you do, or you wouldn't be in the job you're in now, okay? So what AI can do and will do for you is give you a clear starting point fast. If I have a long uh. Speaker 1 00:14:13 Executive report coming to me. It's like three to five pages long. It's got a lot of jumbo, wish-washy jumbo in it. I'm going to throw it into Copilot and I'm going to ask it these types of questions. Uh, in my role, these are the questions I would ask so I can understand it. Uh, and so be aware of that. You're, you're the one that's making the judgment call. Ai is the one that can get you a starting point on questions that you need to know. Okay, it's especially handy as an executive. One of the things that I run into all the time, and Kamia, you probably do as well, is the back to back meetings that you are in a lot of days. Okay now it's not every day but it's a lot of days. Julia is in that same mix. So one of the things we want to do is make sure that we have time to do it. But what AI is going to do is cut down on those late nights having your laptop open in bed. Speaker 1 00:15:09 Reading through all the reports to get an understanding of what's going on. Okay, any questions about the prompts that I'm showing you for executives? And Julia is sitting here like, I now know how to do Christy's job. Actually, I think I just scared her. She she doesn't she's scared to take over my job. I've offered it to her and she said no. So just be aware guys. All right Um, next one up is finance and accounting. So. One of the things I have to do as an executive is I have to account for the variances. Do that for two clients. So open up, and you guys can follow along, open up Crimson Sample Budget Versus Actual. And so this this fictional. It is based on um based on nobody. So just be aware that it's in here. Speaker 1 00:16:07 And this is my title. So, here's an example: budget versus actuals. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back into Copilot. Now, I got a new document; I need to worry about. What is the one thing I'm going to do because I have a new document? Anybody? I had the quietest group today. Speaker 2 00:16:34 I'm on mute. New chat. New chat. Open a new chat. Speaker 1 00:16:38 The new subject, new documents, all of that. So very first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to look up that document. So I'm going to hit my forward slash because all my files are saved in my My Documents, which saves to OneDrive. So I'm going to say Crimson dash sample and I'm going to say budget versus actuals. Okay. And I'm going to open that up. And then I'm gonna look at my prompts, okay? For act as my financial analyst, Write a short variance narrative for leadership, explaining the three largest budget variances on this sheet in plain English. Now, a couple of things to note is that in my budget versus actuals, um there's not much data in here. So I've got I'm gonna have to be the person that looks it up. But yeah, it's gonna give me my starting point. Speaker 1 00:17:31 So, I'm going to go back in here. This time, because I want to do this, I'm going to use my whisper flow to actually dictate. You may or may not hear what I say. Right? So, I'm going to go in here. Act as my financial analyst. Write a short variance narrative for leadership, explaining the three largest budget variances in this sheet in plain English, no jargon. Okay? So there's my, There's what I want it to do. I'm going to press enter or use my mouse. I got to get new batteries in my keyboard. All right, So here's my three largest budget variances on the sheet and here's the reasoning behind it. July finished over budget because cybersecurity and service desk ran higher than planned. Speaker 1 00:18:29 Partially offset by lower spend on R and D and product. Okay, so just be aware it's going to give it to you. Now, It's going to give you some information for asks for leadership, two areas worth looking at are first cybersecurity and service desk. Okay, so it's going to give you some information. Now I want to show you guys something we haven't touched on yet, and that is it's going to help you ask what's next. Now, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to give, I'm going to use my prompts here because sometimes I have different questions than what it's due. Now, One thing AI is really good at is predicting what you're going to say next based off of everything it's ever absorbed. And remember, It's absorbed everything that can be found on the internet, both human written and AI written. So it's going to try to predict, and that's the purpose of these prompts right here. Speaker 1 00:19:27 So sometimes it gets it right, okay? Sometimes it doesn't. So I am going to go in and I'm going to ask my second question. For the department that's over budget the most, give me three questions I should ask that department head. So here is my prompt and I'm going to press enter and I want to see what it says. And these are the questions I can ask now One of the things I like to do with AI is argue back with it. So I can say, hey, give me a couple other ones. Okay? So oops, I can't spell today, working. Give me a few more questions. Let's check if this was planned with Zach. Okay? Speaker 1 00:20:27 So it's going to give a few more questions. Now, I didn't give it a number, so I let it estimate based on what it was thinking. And there's some more questions I can ask. Now, one thing I will do, um, I will say, can you put this? Can you write me an email in my own tone and verbiage? I like to use that phrase a lot. I want to ask these questions without looking like I am accusing them of going over. I just simply want to know why. Okay, So one thing AI is really good, is also softening my tone when I'm not thinking. Speaker 1 00:21:23 Clearly, and I am like moving fast through everything that's on my plate. Sometimes we'll get AI involved, because I will come across sounding passive aggressive. If I am not careful. So, I want you guys to be aware of that. It can also help soften your tone. It can also help you sound a little bit more friendly and help you get the information you need, okay? So this is going to go in. Um, I will adjust this, okay? I can add a closing line to encourage open dialogue. A few other things on it. Okay, now we're going to shift a little gears because I want to know, Let's say, I'm new to my role in finance and I need to know what variance is. And this is really helpful for people coming up in their career. So I'm going to ask this following question: Explain what the variance. Speaker 1 00:22:21 Per centage formula in column E is doing step by step like I've never seen it before. Speaker 2 00:22:27 Yes, Casey. Yeah, hi, Christy. Sorry to interrupt. So I did try that slash Crimson sample file. And actually, it came back to me with an error, saying that it can't find the attachment. So did I have to download the files first in like a specific drive? Just save them out into your documents and it'll find it. And they'll find it, okay. And my other question is like, so if if you have several tabs in your like for example Excel report, You just have to specify that in like slash Crimson sample. And then like the tab name. Speaker 1 00:23:11 Yeah, if you want it to concentrate on a specific tab, you give it the tab name. Now for me I, I don't ever specify the specific tab because I want the entire spreadsheet. But when I do want it to look at a specific tab, I will state" tab budget" or whatever, however I've got it named. Speaker 2 00:23:32 Okay, so no specific format on how you type it. It would just, you know, pick it up? Yeah. Okay, got it. Thank you. You're welcome. Speaker 1 00:23:41 All right now, I'm going to ask it to explain the variance percentage formula in column E. Step by step, like I've never seen it before. Okay, so here is the formula and how it picks it up. And. So it's going to go through step by step and explain how that's working. Right now, A couple of things I've actually worked with a person that we were about to promote into a role. And we know that, that person. Speaker 1 00:24:13 Is not comfortable with certain aspects of their job, just because they don't know. And so we gave them Copilot, we gave them Claude, both. And we taught them to go through this. All right? Now the reason why is sometimes you get into a job and you don't know something. And so you just fake it until you make it. Well, with AI, you no longer have to fake it until you make it. Just I ask AI how do I do this? Okay? And it's one of the best learning tools out there besides Google. Because, How many times in your role in the last ten years did you not know how to do something? And you Googled it rather than asking her? We all have. Okay, especially when new stuff comes out in your role and you don't, you didn't know it before. So you ask. All right, so here is the reason why. Now I want you guys to understand something one rule that doesn't change You own the numbers. Okay? Speaker 1 00:25:12 You can never say to someone when they're asking a question, You can't say "I don't know. AI wrote this for me" because it's going to make you look bad. Anything you send out, any questions you have, any answers that you give, you own that data. You own the numbers. You own the data. You know, own the explanations. You never can go back and say, well, AI did this okay. So while you know that. Verify every figure before it goes to leadership, before it goes to your peers. Anything like that, you want to make sure you verify. Okay? If you can't remember anything else about this training, remember: You own what comes out. Okay? AI will get you 70% of the way there. That last 30%, that's all on you. Okay? Any questions before we go on to operations and admin? Speaker 2 00:26:11 I just have one more question. Um, Cause I I have started using this Christy. And what I've been doing is I would just use the Copilot when I'm in Excel. So like how you're showing it to us, it would generate the same result, right? Speaker 1 00:26:29 Mm-hmm. Or very close to the same result. Okay, Speaker 2 00:26:33 Okay. Okay, gotcha, thank you. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:26:35 You're welcome All right for operations and admin. Uh, we're going to do cleaning up a messy tracker. Okay, uh, I have been sent trackers. I have been sent work plans. I have been sent so much stuff and I don't ever understand it, because my staff puts it into formats. I don't get or maybe maybe I just wasn't paying attention. And it's late one night, like three a m in the morning. I'm still working on some project trackers um and it gets messy, okay. Now. Speaker 1 00:27:08 I'm going to go in the um the document that we're going to use is Crimson Sample, Project Tracker. And I'm going to pull it up, real quick so that you guys can see it. So here's the project tracker um now I base this on Julia, one of how uh our project trackers come out of our application. However, Kamiya and Casey, uh just be aware that you can pull your own data. And. And put it in. It's going to read however you have it, okay? As long as the data in here is put in a way that it can understand it with headings. Even though this part is messy, we still have headings right here. So task, project, owner, due date, status and days overdue. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to clear out days overdue just for this one right here. Okay? Um I'm going to leave that there. Speaker 1 00:28:05 And I'm going to add a formula in here. So I'm going to use Copilot to add a formula. And let me see, add a formula. Is it? Add a formula. Okay, there we go. All right, I want a formula in column F, That equals column T subtracted from U. And it needs to update it daily, right? So there's a way we can put that formula in. Speaker 1 00:29:01 So this is an example of me using Copilot within the Excel document itself. The Copilot's going to think about it. It might go on a coffee break real quick before it answers us. All right, so now I clicked on it and it did it, okay? Now I'm going to tell it done because they did it correctly. And what it did was it added today minus the due date, which is on D6. Okay, So that's how easy it is for it to calculate as long as you put it in plain language. And plain English. Now, if it doesn't understand you, it can be uh, it can ask you questions. So be aware of that. Now I'm going to hit save, even though I've saved I'm just going to hit save to show you. So now that we have this in there. We had clicked done and let it fill in all the data I'm going to minimize. Okay. Speaker 1 00:29:60 And I'm going to go back to my Copilot, and I am going to say new chat. In here, I'm going to do my forward slash Crimson Sample Project Tracker. Oops. I'll click on that, and now I'm going to look at my prompts. Okay? So got a couple of prompts, and I'm going to use these. All right. Now This really good. Julia, this more on your level because Julia's one of our project people. She's she's amazing. All right, so very first question, look at this project tracker. List every task that's overdue or missing an owner and sort by how overdue it is. Okay, I've got my new chat and I told it to look at this project tracker list, every task that's overdue or missing an owner and sort by how overdue it is. Speaker 1 00:31:04 Now, in this part, it's going to code for us. And, we have nine tasks that are overdue or missing an owner sorted by how overdue they are. Okay? The report date on the tracker is August 7th, 2026. Okay? Now we've got some things that are old, some things that are overdue and things that are unassigned. So this one right here is not overdue, but it's never been assigned an owner. So okay, so we're taking a look at that. Now I'm going to ask it my next question, And my next question is to draft a short calm status update, I can send the team about the overdue items. No blame, just the next steps. And I'm also going to have it talk to them and not at them. Okay? Speaker 1 00:32:01 Hi team, A quick review of the project tracker shows a handful of overdue items and a few tasks that still need owners assigned. Let’s sync up this week to realign priorities and get everything back on track. I’m happy to help unblock anything or clarify expectations—just let me know how I can support. Looking forward to our collaboration! Nothing here looks unmanageable, But I'd like us to tighten up the list. So we have a clear path to completion. Could, you take a look at any items you're involved with and update the status, the target date, or the blockers? For the unassigned tasks, let's identify owners so nothing falls between the cracks. If something is waiting on a client input, a vendor or another dependency, just notate that in the tracker so the rest of us have context. Context. Let me know where you're stuck, or if you need a second set of eyes on anything. Speaker 1 00:32:57 Work through it together and get the backlog cleaned up. Now, Julia, is this something I would send out? You're muted. Give me give me a minute. No worries. Uh, One of the things that I would do on this is I would include the table in that email. So I can actually um argue back. With Copilot to say those things. Okay. I can also tell it to add a positive note about progress. That's something I would do. Okay. Speaker 3 00:33:34 I'm going to ask that one. So this is, um, this is what we have here. It's added a little, it looks a little bit more positive. I would actually send this one out, okay? Something that's a little bit more like me. Speaker 2 00:33:53 Without the table. Speaker 1 00:33:55 Without the table, I would add the table. So, all right. Now I'm going to oh sorry Casey. Speaker 2 00:34:05 Sorry, I have a question Christy. So on like prior to this window, you had like a daily brief agent option? Mhm Is that something that you created so that it's you know, you can easily click on it when you want the same prompt? Speaker 1 00:34:23 Yes now, We would do that under more agents. There's a daily briefing one in here. I did create this one. Speaker 2 00:34:31 Got it, okay, so that's something like that's going to be a different session, right? Speaker 1 00:34:35 Yes, totally different session. Speaker 2 00:34:37 Okay, no problem. Speaker 1 00:34:39 Thank you We're We're just doing the basics for right now, But We're going to go in a little bit deeper in a few minutes and go over that. Okay So let me go back to this one All right now. We do Crimson is growing. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask a question. Um, and if I have it, let me double check because I don't think I added this part to it. Here's my project tracker. All right, so if AI had the information for this next prompt, it doesn't, but if it did, I would tell it and this is number three. I would tell it turn the client onboarding tasks into a numbered checklist. Speaker 1 00:35:20 That a brand new hire could follow without extra explanation. Now I have to give it the tasks, I have to give it the information. Um and I don't have that so we're not going to do that one, but you can get the idea of what you can have it do. Now, It does turn it into really good formatting, and that's something that's been doing for a long time is turning things into really good formatting. I get asked a lot how to do something, and you guys do too in your own jobs. Uh. Julia and I'm using Julia as as my example, because I love her to death. We work together really well. Julia will ask me, "Hey, how do I do this in the software?" And because I am lazy, I will go ask AI and say, "Hey on software Microsoft Project, how do I do X Y and Z? Put it in a number formatting that I can send to someone that isn't technical like I am." And so it will write it out. Speaker 1 00:36:19 I will say ninety nine percent of the time, anybody asks me a question, I am putting it in and I am formatting, how I word things back to people using AI. But, I always read through it to make sure it makes sense. Um, for example, Anzor was asking me some questions today about Microsoft Outlook and how to turn on some features within Microsoft Outlook. And because I honestly was doing five things at once, and I was had two meetings. That were I was double booked for. I real quickly asked AI to do that. I knew how to do it, but I just asked it how to do it. I checked my instructions, i copy and pasted and sent it over to Anzor. So, is very helpful for turning things like this in there. You can use it also to make SOPs, which is huge with operation teams. Um, you can say, hey, i need to write an SOP. Here's my template document and here's what i need it to say formatted. Speaker 1 00:37:16 Very similar to this template document, and so it will do that. Any questions about anything on the operations or admin side? Speaker 1 00:37:39 Alright, we're going to go. Sorry, I was taking a quick Tylenol real quick. We're going to go real quickly into sales and marketing. Speaker 1 00:37:48 And we're going to use the Crimson sample sales pipeline. Find it. I got a bunch of Excel sheets open, so I got to look at it. So this the pipeline for sales, and again, all this fake. And we do have different things in here. Now, this one already has a formula in it. This report date is on August 7th. I'm going to change this, To August, what's today, fourteenth? And my dates and everything is going to change. So this is a really well formatted document for us. Um, we have formulas and everything in it. So I want you guys to be aware of it. So we have the deal name, the contact name, what stage they're in, the value of the deal. Okay? The last contract or contact date. The days since we last contacted them. Speaker 1 00:38:43 What a probability is of winning it and what the weighted value of it is. Okay, now on this one is closed lost. Okay, so we do have some some really good information in here. I am going to minimize this and go back to um go back to Copilot, but I want you guys to see the three prompts we're going to use. Okay, which three deals in this pipeline haven't been touched over two weeks? And are worth following up on the first, based. On deal size, draft a warm, specific check in email to the contact, on the largest of these three deals. And then number three, Give me eight subject line options for that email :, a mix of straightforward and a little playful. So I'm gonna go back in here. I'm gonna open up a new chat. Okay now I'm gonna pull up that document. So I hit my forward slash crimson. Speaker 1 00:39:41 Sample sales pipeline. Okay, it helps if it's your most. Oops, I messed that up. I don't know why I clicked that. Sample sales pipeline. Okay, so I'm not going to hit that X. I'm going to ask it my first question, My first prompt : Which three deals in the pipeline haven't been touched in over two weeks and are worth following up on first based on deal size? So there's my prompt. Speaker 1 00:40:14 And it's telling me to hang on a second. All right, so my first three I'd follow up on is Ironwood Realty or Realty, Adler Logistics, and Castro Finance. I think that's how you pronounce it. Um sorted by the largest deal size among active deals with no contact in more than fourteen days. It did exclude closed won and closed lost because they're not practical follow-up candidates. And you'll see uh AI knew. Speaker 1 00:40:44 What to exclude based on its knowledge of sales pipelines. Okay, so these are my three that I that I am doing. Um, I want it now and this is my prompt number two. I want it to send out a check, a check in email. Okay, on the largest of these three deals, which is the first one Ironwood. Okay, draft a warm specific. Check in email to the contact on the largest of those three deals. So here's my prompt. Press enter, I'm going to send email. Now, It does say "Hi A", because in the spreadsheet, my contact is listed first initial last name. So I am going to have to change that, give it uh, give it the name. Now, it's going to send that information. I. Speaker 1 00:41:42 I'm going to argue back with it, and I'm going to tell it what to choose. If it would be useful, I'm happy to set up a quick call to answer questions. Let's change this because it speaks AI. All right, so you'll see. I gave it the first part of the paragraph and I told it that, hey, we need to change this because it speaks AI. I don't like things speaking AI, so press enter on that. And I'm gonna have it change up. Speaker 1 00:42:13 And see, it even agrees with me because it's people pleaser. AI, another thing if you don't remember. So here, AI is definitely a people pleaser. Okay, So it's going to give me a few alternatives and I'm going to say the first one. So, let's take the first one and I'm going to tell it to take up first one. And then. Speaker 1 00:42:43 I'm going to tell it to go with the second option. Okay, because it's in my voice. All right, now it's giving me the entire thing. Um and I can copy and paste that. I'll probably make a few other adjustments to this, but I'll copy and paste it into the email and send that out. All right, now before we send it out, it's missing a subject line. Uh It did not put a subject line in there for me Now, Claude would do that to me and do that for me, but Copilot does not. You have to ask it what specific subject line you want. So I'm going to ask it a question to give me eight subject line options for that email. Okay, give me eight subject line options for that email. A mix of straightforward and a little playful. Keep it professional but playful. So. Speaker 1 00:43:42 I gave it. There's my straightforward options, my professional with a little personality. I'm more of a personality person rather than straightforward, So I like to be a little playful and I'm going to go through and I'm going to check it now. AI's bet is is it still on your radar gets the highest response rate? I'll be honest lately, we've seen that everywhere okay. So I don't I don't answer it for this um now. I will probably go right here with this one, because it's more human sounding than AI. Okay, and so I'll choose from there. Now remember, Copilot gets you 70% there and it will know your tone and structure. Okay, but you have to put in your voice. Now, there are shortcuts around putting in your voice and I'm going to get into that a little bit later, but for now this gets you closer. Speaker 1 00:44:42 Okay. Any questions about this? Now, just a heads up, I know we're going through roles, but hopefully as we go through the different roles, This gets you guys thinking about ways you can include it, even if you're not on a sales team, including it in how you face your job daily. Okay. So for the next one, we're going to do is HR screening and communicating with care. So I've got three prompts here. So I've got one two and three. Act as my recruiting coordinator, compare these candidates against these three must haves and rank them, and explain your reasoning for the top three. Number two prompt draft a warm genuine rejection email template for candidates who aren't moving forward. Number three help me word a neutral. Speaker 1 00:45:36 Professional note to a manager about performance concern without any names or specifics. Okay, so these are things that you can do. Now, be aware there is other things we can do for HR. We started doing this about two and a half years ago when AI first hit popular in its popularity. Crimson when we're actually interviewing people, We do multiple interviews, and so we'll do a first screening interview, and then we'll do a technical interview. For technical people, and we record and transcribe those meetings. And we've been doing it for multiple years. So, what we'll do is we'll take the meeting transcription, we'll put it in AI, And we'll ask AI to help us with summarizing where they think the skill level is on that tech. And, we noticed about two and a half years ago that, that actually helped us because we did a gut check against our own understanding at the time. Speaker 1 00:46:34 About ninety percent of the time, AI was right there with us on how we felt. But the thing about AI is, it's going to read from a transcript. It can't see the emotion behind the person. So, you do have to be aware that it will get you farther along than you anticipated, but you do have to be careful because it cannot read tonality. It cannot read the voice and how a person's reacting, but it can read the technical level based off what they said. So, uh, you don't want it to make those decisions for you. You don't want it to make those judgment calls, But it will give you what it thinks about the person and their skill level based on the job. So be aware of that. Um I'm throwing that in. I know that's not here on there, But for this example, we're going to ask it to act as my recruiting coordinator and and the different prompts that we have with it. Now normally I'll say for different uh for different sub. Speaker 1 00:47:32 We open a new one. Each of these three prompts are different. So, however, we're going to keep it in the same chat for this one, okay? So Crimson Sample this sample and candidate tracker. So I'm going to ask it my statement: "Act as my recruiting coordinator. Compare these candidates against these three must-haves." Rank them and explain your reasoning for the top three. So there's my prompt. And it's going to take a look. All right, so there we go, candidate H, candidate C, and candidate A. Right? Now let's look at this spreadsheet together. I know what the spreadsheet says but we're going to look at it together. All right. Speaker 1 00:48:27 So here's my candidate code, my years of experience, my skill match score, my interview score, my composite score. Um and here's the status. So these guys were interviewed. This one was screened. This one was interviewed. This one was screened and this one was interviewed. Okay. Now that being said, um all of this in here is fictional data, just just a heads up. It is pretty fictional, and we're going to have it use that information. Speaker 1 00:48:58 To build out this. Okay, so here we go. And this is the information. Now it did give us some worth noting candidate. F is a close enough to keep warm as an alternative. They have four years of experience and solid composite score of seven point seven five. Okay, So it does give you some some other options now for the ones that are not moving forward. Let's say, I agree with this, but for the ones that are moving forward, I need to I need to send a rejection email. Okay, so here's what I'm gonna say. Draft a warm, genuine rejection email template for candidates who are not moving forward. I wanna make sure that it is not sounding passive aggressive, and I wanna say I want it to speak at the candidate, speak to the candidate, not at the candidate. Make sure it does not sound like AI. So this is my prompt. I embellished it a little. Um, I want to speak to the candidate, not at the candidate. Speaker 1 00:49:57 Uh, I'm gonna take this out. My dictation software uh added a few statements in there, so I'm gonna edit that because that's AI too. So it's not always right. And then my last part is make sure it doesn't sound like AI. Big one, okay? Okay, so this is what it stated. Thank you for taking the time to speak with us about the role. After a lot of discussion, we've decided to move forward with other candidates for this position. These decisions are never as simple as checking boxes, And this one came down to the overall fit on what we need right now rather than any one thing. Okay, so I'm not going to read it, but there's also some options that it gives you. Speaker 1 00:50:53 I I do exactly what it says. I've always done this. I'll add in a few pieces on it, uh, positive notes. Okay. Uh and ignore this one My e-file image creator is just that, It's an image creator So, sometimes even Copilot keeps up when it advises you So. This is some options you have for rejection emails. Now I want to my next one, I'm not going to open up a new chat, Uh, but I am going to say, Help me word a neutral professional note to a manager about a performance concern without any names or specifics. Okay. Help me word, a neutral professional note to a manager about a performance concern without any names or specifics. Okay, so there we go. There's my prompt. And bear with me while you guys are reading through this one second. Speaker 3 00:51:51 Yes, ma'am. Done. I'm. Speaker 1 00:51:58 Good. I'm teaching a class, so I'll come out and see you in a moment. Okay, my apologies. All right, so since you're keeping it generic and focused on observations, this is. Speaker 4 00:52:11 Uh Christy, could I ask you a question please? Speaker 1 00:52:14 Yes sir. I did not realize. Speaker 2 00:52:20 I think she stepped down. Speaker 1 00:52:21 Oh no, I'm back. Sorry, it did not unmute correctly. My button didn't work on my headset. Yes, ma'am. What is your question? Speaker 4 00:52:30 So, uh, let me ask, maybe this has nothing to do with the AI, but the dictation uh, how does that work? Speaker 1 00:52:38 Oh Not a problem. My dictation just crashed on me. So bear with me, um I use a dictation software. It's called whisper flow um. And basically there's a key that I hit. On my computer and I can talk it rather than type it out. So, um, I will send you a link to this. I'll put it in the chat if you're interested in it. It's, it works wonders. I promise. um, but here is the link. Speaker 2 00:53:10 How is it different from the microphone that there there? Speaker 1 00:53:15 Um, honestly, I find that's a lot more accurate. Speaker 1 00:53:22 And, it's what it does is it's it when I am talking to it and I say, hey, I want you to do X Y Z, and then I'll say wait, never mind. I want you to do, Y and Z not X. It'll understand what I am saying. Also, um, I can put in words that use often so like Kamiya. Your name is in the dictionary because when I say Kamiya or Anzor or anything that's not native English, it will uh transcribe that. That information. So in my dictionary, you can see I've got some things in here. So," Kamiya," you're in here." Ko sen" is in here because it misspells it different things like that. So Microsoft doesn't do that and so things do get filled in there. Speaker 4 00:54:12 Yeah, so if you don't mind just sending it an email, that'd be great too. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:54:17 You're welcome. I'll send it. Um, Alright, so here is for HR. Here is my prompt. And then one thing I want you guys to note : keep employee medical pay details out of your prompts, okay? So when you are when you are sending an offer letter and you are having AI help you with the offer letter, just tell it to leave a placeholder for the offer amount. Things like that. So be very aware of that because your judgment. Speaker 1 00:54:47 Has to be in charge, especially for any people decision. Okay, don't want AI making those judgment calls. All right, um so formula still applies no matter what the role is. Okay, you're going to open the real file, you're going to give Copilot the role, you're going to ask specific questions and follow up. So I did that for all five completely different jobs, but it's the same thing that applies for each person. Your prompts might change, but that habit doesn't. So give it a roll, ask specific questions and follow up and argue back with it. Okay? And make sure you're you're looking at um you're actually asking it to look at the real data. Right. So um I'm going to go into the next module, let me open that one up. And this is what is new. Speaker 1 00:55:44 And more advanced features in Copilot. So, just question you guys have or not a question, just a statement. You guys have been in the other training classes, so you guys learned about what is Copilot the assistant. Now we're going to look at Copilot as a teammate. Okay, We're going to hand it off an entire job and it goes and does it for you. So just a heads up I do have a piece that's not working They did. They were supposed to fix it before this meeting. They couldn't get it fixed, so just a heads up on that part. Um, I am going to show you, But I'm going to show it to you using a slightly different tool that works exactly the same. So in here, Copilot has grown from assistant to a teammate, and this is your more advanced stuff. Okay? So just think of it like this :. If your earlier modules that we've gone through has saved you minutes in your job. Speaker 1 00:56:39 These features may save you some afternoons. Julia keeps saying, "How did you how are you working with everything you've got on your plate?" This is how. So I'm going to talk to you guys through some of these options. And the first one we're going to talk about is co-work. So now just a heads up in Copilot, uh, co-work does have additional cost too. It's a pay as you go feature. So, These are going to be the things that you want to look at doing with your more advanced users. You don't want to turn it on for just everybody. Co-work is where it will, actually you can hand off the job, and it does all the work for you, but just remember, it's only going to get you seventy percent of the way there. You've got to do the final thirty and you own the data and output. Okay, so for chat co-work, it's pretty much the same thing. Speaker 1 00:57:34 You are going to describe the outcome you want, And Copilot will plan the work, and it will come back with a finished thing. Okay, now just so that everybody's um everybody's aware, It's not a preview feature anymore because a lot of people saw said, hey, this is preview. It's come out of preview in the last couple weeks. Okay, same rule as everything else; it does the heavy lifting. You have to review it before it goes out of the door so There's anything I can tell you is, you own the data. Okay. So part of this analyst, part of this co-work. I'm going to show you what it looks like, but I am going to use another tool. Okay? So bear with me one second. I'm going to open up my other tool. So co-work and Claude works the same way as co-co-work and copilot. And let me show it to you in copilot. This copilot. Speaker 1 00:58:31 I have a button here for CoWork. Now, I have some things that I've done, but it's blocked out because we I accidentally did something. I used up all my credits in a previous task, and it stopped it because it was like, hey you've run out of credits. Um, so we're going to use CoWork in Claude to show you how to do it. Okay. So in CoWork, I'm going to point it to a project or folder. So. I'm going to go into my training folder, and this is my training folder. I know what it is. However, if I need to add a folder or if I've never done it before, I'm going to say "Add a Folder. " And I'm going to go into my Documents and I'm going to find the document or the folder that I want to do. Got my Training for Clients folder? And I want it to do some work for me, okay? Speaker 1 00:59:30 To ensure that the following Excel file has the presentation I need for the classes that we are going to tackle. And then what I'm going to do is I am going to add that file. And we always did the forward slash on the other one, but I'm going to add that file in here. Okay, so I would, I'm going to find that Excel document which. Hang on a second, let me find it. Here's my file. I'm going to say copy local path. I went to File in Excel, so here's my file. Going to go into Excel, I'm going to go into Info and I'm going to say copy local path Minimize that. Speaker 1 01:00:28 And I am going to add a file. And I'm just going to paste that location up here. Speaker 3 01:00:38 Okay. Oh, Speaker 1 01:00:52 If you have it open, it's not going to like that. So I'm going to just close that. Okay. Speaker 1 01:00:60 So I'm going to send this over and it's going to come up and say, do I want to allow. And you can always say yes, you can also say don't ask me again, but I am going to say yes. I did update my Claude today so it's going to ask a few questions. Now just be aware the way this is working right now is exactly how it works in Microsoft Copilot. Okay so when you do something it's going to have your progress, your outputs, your context, And my context is the folder training for clients. The outputs are right here, and the progress is right here. Now, it doesn't have anything in here because it's going to build the task first. It's going to make a decision on what it's going to do and how it's going to do it. And then if creates outputs, the outputs are going to be listed here. So as I'm looking in here, you all conversations okay? I am gonna go in here. Speaker 1 01:01:56 And I'm going to go Inbox Assistant. So here's my question. And it doesn't have anything in this one. Hang on, let me go find what I know. There we go. So here's one where I did it. Here's the progress, it wrote out how it was going to do it, and then here's all the details of what it did, close progress, and so here's all the files that created And then here's my context, and it added some skills. So it needed to know how to do Excel, it needed to know how to do PowerPoint, you need to know how to do documents in Word. So it built out its own skills. Okay? So I'm going to go back into my original one. And if you look down here, you see the dots? It means it's still working. Okay? Speaker 1 01:02:51 And it's still thinking. Sometimes this where I go get coffee or water, because it does take a minute. You're going to let it run. And I can also schedule these. So if this something that I do over and over again, I can schedule these to run at the same time. Now, if I go into scheduled, I can see here are my tasks that I can do scheduled. I have tasks already built, So, here's my daily briefing. It always runs Wednesdays at 8:00 a.m. okay? In fact, I can tell it to run a briefing agent. And I'm going to show you what one of those looks like. Pull up my briefing agents from this morning. So, here's my briefing agent via email. And this is what it runs for me every morning. It sends it to me every morning at 6:00 a.m. Speaker 1 01:03:51 So by the time I wake up and go take my shower, this already printed out for me on my printer. Okay, that's a little bit deeper than what we're going to go into now, but here's my schedule. Here is all my tasks. There is all kinds of stuff, my overdues and everything. So it looks at my to-dos, it looks at everything. So that's my daily briefing. This one sends it out at six a.m. and then I also have something that sends out at seven a.m. and this my daily news brief radar is I call Radar, but it's my daily news brief. And this is what I have it set up. And I have it set up so that it looks at anything that's about to send or anything that's about to hit the news or has hit the news. So Airtable right here, it's just been bought out by a company called Bending Spoons. Okay? These are all the things I am interested in. So you can create one based on the things that you're interested in. Speaker 1 01:04:51 So, all right. The blue button says it's done. Okay, there's my spreadsheet, my output. Let's look at the progress. It did not make any task progresses. It will do it for longer tasks. Okay? Now I can tell it to install systems in every tool, but I'm not going to do that. It is telling me every session in my August calendar already has its materials ready, and it did. Thanks. All right, so just a heads up on that. It will connect to your Outlook and email at the same time, so CoWork will do that for you. Now again, You want to describe the outcome you want, and it will plan the work, and it will finish it. Any questions on that? And I do apologize, I couldn't do it in actual CoWork, I had to do it in an alternate program. Speaker 4 01:05:52 Go ahead. Go ahead, Speaker 2 01:05:53 Casey. No, I was just gonna ask like so this CoWork is only under Claude. Speaker 1 01:05:59 Well, no, it's in it's in Microsoft Copilot. Um The reason why I showed it to you in Claude is my CoWork is blocked right now. There was a little incident where I used up all the credits. Speaker 2 01:06:10 But I see So. But this is an additional subscription that if we want to use it, then we have to pay for like another subscription on top of the Copilot Yes. Speaker 2 01:06:23 Some of my clients. Oh, sorry. My other question is like the way you were showing it earlier is like you're dealing with different types of files that CoWork kind of puts together. Is there a way to do that with just Copilot? I'm just thinking like if I have a PDF file and I'm working with Excel and I'm, trying to compare some of the data, is that doable with Copilot or will that just only work with CoWork? Speaker 1 01:06:51 It Is doable with Copilot chat. Speaker 2 01:06:54 Which one Oh, chat just Copilot chat. Okay, Speaker 1 01:06:57 Yes. Anything that we call yeah anything we called Copilot up to this point has always been about chat. Got it. Co work is an extra feature that just came out, and some people in the meeting have CoWork automatically. Some do not so just be aware the reason why I included this in here, it is another subscription. That's called pay as you go. And so there are people that are. Are in this training or that will watch the recording that needs to know how to do CoWork, but you do have an extra subscription fee on top of that. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Now, in all of the things I'm doing today and talking you guys through, that's the only one that requires an extra subscription. Um, the next one we're going to talk about is a researcher and analyst agent. And agents within Copilot Chat are a fantastic tool. okay? Speaker 1 01:07:50 So, researcher is really good um for researching in depth on one question. So, build me a briefing in this market with key risks and recommendations. And, what it'll do is it'll pull the information from the web and your own files. Okay now make sure you read the citations before you reply on them or rely on them just because sometimes AI will quote you a citation, but it might be a little wrong. So, I am going to go in here. I am going to open chat and I am going to go into researcher. And I am going to say, "I am reviewing the technical depth of a new client." That client is. and I am just going to name some. name a potential new client, okay? Not. Speaker 1 01:08:49 Not officially, uh, this client's just one I'm thinking up off the top of my head. So maybe I want to review the technical depth of Walmart. I am interested in reaching out for partnership with my with Walmart. Speaker 1 01:09:20 Give me the facts of a potential AI projects that we could, or we could, not would. We could handle for them. So this is just an example. So I am going to use my researcher and I am going to have it go through and set things up. Okay? Speaker 1 01:09:52 So to make sure I am covering what they are looking for, I am going to say Walmart Corporate. Speaker 1 01:10:09 Okay, And opportunities is A and B. And I wanted to research centered on A currently announced Walmart initiatives. Speaker 1 01:10:24 No, One thing you did ask me that I didn't answer : if I wanted the link short or long. So I'm gonna let it use its own judgment, or if it still needs my input on that, it will ask me. Okay? So during this, it's going to start to pull together the most relevant sources. Now, it's going to research; it's going to explore. I can go into a new chat at this point, let it keep going and I'll come back to that one. I click on new chat and then I'm gonna go back into Researcher. Speaker 1 01:10:55 And I want to say, I am looking for a software that would help me keep track of clients in a medical setting and would allow for telehealth opportunities. Speaker 1 01:11:28 Okay, give me five software options that would be a good fit. Okay, Now I can also at the same time, give some some ideas of things I would love to see in it. Okay, and that's where the telehealth opportunities comes in. I can also say research it based on what works well. Speaker 1 01:11:59 For non-technical nurses and staff. So it's going to look for that. I'm going to give it the details I need, but the main question is, I want it to research. So I'm going to say, I'm going to answer its questions and I'm going to say A is 2 and B is 4. C is A. Okay, so these are the questions it's asking, these are the answers, and then I'm going to say make it short. Now while I'm doing that, it's going to be researching. I'm going to give it a second and then I'm going to go back to potential IT projects. The reason why I give it a second is sometimes I've noticed if I try to move too fast, it might delete my conversation. So. Speaker 1 01:12:56 It says reasoning completed in six seconds. Um, but it didn't put anything in there. I'm gonna say, can you give me the options? 'Cause sometimes it just freezes. So it's still going. Okay? And then we just we just gotta wait for it. Sometimes you gotta you gotta restart it. And, that's just a feature with uh chat that sometimes it just stalls, no reason at all. And then you just got to stop it down here and restart it. Okay. Now while we're doing that any questions on researcher, all right. Speaker 1 01:13:55 Um, Just just remember, you always want to research or always want to read the citations before you rely on them, because sometimes it will, it will not do that. Now, The next agent that we're going to talk about I'm gonna. Let it continue working in the background. So, the next agent we're going to talk about is your analyst. Okay? So, it's the cousin to researcher and it's a numbers focused agent okay? So this Casey, you were talking or you asked earlier, could we use that prompt when it popped up? Absolutely. Especially within Excel. You can point it at messy data and say, where are we underperforming and what's driving it? Okay. And, it will do you can do a sanity check against the output as long as the number is already trusted. So be aware of that. But it's very good at with Excel documentation. So if you've got a long. Speaker 1 01:14:52 Excel document, you can send it over. It will analyze it just like what we did in the earlier part of the training. Um, but be aware, the longer the document, the longer break you're going to have to take to go get your coffee. Okay? But rather than going to a coffee pot just pouring coffee out, This is where you're going to have to go to the coffee maker and actually make the coffee. So it does take a moment. All right? Um let's go back to chat and let's see It's still going. We're gonna look at the other one. There we go. There is my reasoning, I'm gonna hit this right here and these are my options, okay? Now I'm shocked because there is an actual platform that I've seen that it's not on here. And so I can look at this, I can read these right here therapy notes, I can now stare platform balance, and I can go back, and I can go into the chat. Speaker 1 01:15:52 I'm gonna say go back. I can go back in the chat and I can ask a question like, why didn't you put CareLogic on this? CareLogic is an application that a lot of mental health and behavioral health practices use. So, the other option is I can go over here to sources and have it list my sources. Okay, so here are my sources. Speaker 1 01:16:17 And it uses a lot of things in here. It also goes in, if you can see, it also checks from other things I have in. So it checked on an email I sent back in March. Now I'm going to close out sources and I'm going to go back to the chat here. This is what we call an artifact and so you can go into it. Um now within that you can say convert to Word, PowerPoint, PDF or infographic. Now I'm going to ask a question. So bear with me one second Why is CareLogic. Not on this list. And so I'm going to ask it, Because this is a list really used a lot in a lot of the clients that I work with that are HIPAA based and medical based. So I'm going to ask it, why is CareLogic not on this list? And I'm going to have, I'm going to argue with it to see. Okay? And it does come back and say, It's a strong option, and the main reason it did not make the top five is ease of use for non-technical nurses and staff. Speaker 1 01:17:18 Okay, so and it gives careful details on why. Okay, and it will give the reason why I did it. Okay, and you can you can have it go in and do that. So, uh that's our researcher we're going to go into analyst now. And this is where what do you want to analyze today? I'm going to hit my forward slash and I'm going to look for my sample sales pipeline. And I'm going to say, analyze this and give me some quick insights. Okay, and this is where I'm using one file. And, it's going to go through and do exactly what we asked it to do. Okay, now while we're waiting. Speaker 1 01:18:17 I am going to, I'm going to slightly move us slightly ahead while we're waiting on this. And I want to talk to you guys about notebooks and pages. Okay? Um, when you have repetitive things you do over and over again, um, I use notebooks and pages. Okay? For notebooks it's a workspace per project. So if I've got a project going on, I need a workspace to put all of that information into. So it's kind of like a file folder, and that's what a notebook is. So chats, your files, Everything that Copilot has produced for you is going to sit together in its own little section. And you don't have to re-explain the project every time you come back. Okay? So that's something very very helpful. We're going to go over that in a moment and show it to you. But that's on notebooks, and it's very helpful for you to do. And then on pages. Speaker 1 01:19:15 Is where you can take a living document that the team can edit and comment side by side, and you can do it in Pages under Copilot Chat. So this is where like Julie and I are working on a project, and we need to share a document and create something together. And we want Copilot to help us, so we're going to turn that into a page. And Julie and I often work on uh a process together. And. So we want to do that under pages because it's a shared document that we can both work with Copilot on. So, um, it's still doing its analyst. There we go. Remember for research and analyst anytime we're doing something within an agent, it's going to produce something really good for us. But we want to make sure that uh, where you go get some coffee, okay? Speaker 1 01:20:11 So you've got all of that in here. I'm going to pull up, uh notebooks and pages are going to be under library. So here's your pages. And this where uh we have worked together on it. I'm going to hit new page. And this where I'm going to start typing and start working, and then this where I want to uh copy link. Now just a heads up, Um, Microsoft in the last week has been moving projects or the notebooks into a tool called Loop. Okay, So I'm gonna show you guys Loop real quick because that's where your projects are going to hang out. Okay, So I gotta log in because for some reason, I got logged out of everything today. Oh why? We did some updates. Julia's favorite tool in the world is Loop now. Speaker 1 01:21:09 My workspaces are actually bigger than this. I have more. But here's my loops, all my loops. And so I never look at workspaces anymore, I just look at my loops. And this where I'm doing a lot of different things. Here's my AI training, I can share this out. Loop is a great tool to use for this, and this where your projects can stay, you can ask Copilot for help, Copilot is going to be in here, Um, Julia, can you add me to a recent loop project that you have? I'm going to show everybody. This my meeting notes. So, um it's this active right now that I'm showing you guys. And so it's actually doing all my notes. It's not done yet while I'm showing it to you. So I'm going to create a new workspace which is basically a new project. I don't call it AI. Speaker 1 01:22:08 Now, I'm not going to give it a sensitivity label. And I can invite people in. So I'm going to do Julia and I'm going to do John, not Gino. Well, yeah, let me do Gino. And I'm going to share this out with everybody. And I can go in here and say add content. Okay? I want to use this space for training documents. Speaker 1 01:22:38 And I'm going to say create. Now, here's my training. Every page that I use is going to be an active document that I can share and work with people on. Speaker 4 01:22:51 Uh, Christy? Yes sir? Uh, I'm very sorry. I have a meeting at 3:30. So I just want to apologize that I have to leave early. No worries. Okay, All right. Well, Speaker 1 01:23:02 Thank you. Recording with you. You're welcome Oh. Speaker 4 01:23:03 Yeah, thank you very much. You're welcome Have a great weekend, everyone. You too. All right. Speaker 1 01:23:12 So in here, I can add more pages to this. So you can add as many pages as you want. You can put notes in. You can have Copilot help you with it, okay? So this is where you're going to put everything in. Now it used to be it was in the Copilot chat, but it has been moved into Loop, So be aware of that, and you can use Copilot to help you with this portion. Now, Julia has shared a workspace with me. I'm going to go back to my home page. Oh, there we go. Join workspace. And so here's our workspace. So here is everything I'm going to close out my notifications. Here is all the data. Um, I'm going to say, I'm going to take a look at it. We have all of our task list in here, the deployment schedule. Speaker 1 01:24:04 And if she has any other pages in here, we'll be able to see it. Now, the great thing about this is I can copy all of this information and paste it into an email or into a Teams chat, and I can send it to others so that they can work on it. I can also see who's in here working on it too. So Vincent has this page open because we're in this constant loop is actually pretty good. Julia, I showed Julia once how to use it, and she took off with it, and it's been crazy good for her. Okay? Now, um, that's on notebooks and pages. They all go together in loop. And then something else I wanted to talk to you guys about because we're almost done is um tasks, memory and model choice. Okay? Tasks tab in your navigation collects anything that's long running. A co-work job, a researcher report so you're not hunting across chats. Now just a heads up. Speaker 1 01:25:03 Uh, Copilot has made some adjustments to this since I wrote it. But chat is your also your tasks. So you have that in there. Co-work is in here too. You can click on my tasks and here's your tasks from Copilot. Also, you can schedule out your tasks as well. Now, oops, memory, Copilot will remember your preferences and context across all sessions. So be aware of that It's not anything bad. It's just going to remember that. So if I reference, let's say I'm writing up a report for a brand new client, uh Copilot is going to remember how I like that report. It's going to remember what my preferences are for talking to a person. And it's going to remember context across all the sessions. So as you're using Copilot more and more, it's going to remember more things about you, right? Now model choice. Model choice is very important. Speaker 1 01:25:59 So a lot of people like to use Chat GPT. A lot of people like to use Claude. Um, Copilot is written with both of those models in mind. So you've got GPT and it's the newest versions, and you've got Claude Sonnet and Opus. So just be aware you've got those, and if you want to change your preference, you can. I always keep it on auto because I want it to decide, But I can also set it to always give me a quick response or think deeper. Okay? So you've got those choices, and those are your choices. They're for you because everybody likes things differently than other people. So Microsoft wanted to give you a choice. Now, which store when and the rules that don't change. Okay, so for quick reference, if it's in a file, you're in a file working. You want to use the in-app copilot button. I know we use chat all day today, but you can do the same things I showed you today. Speaker 1 01:26:58 In each app's copilot. Okay, if you're looking at things across your workspace, you want to look at multiple files. You're going to use Copilot Chat. If, you have a cited report that you want to look at or that you need citations, and you need to build a report, you're going to use Researcher. And if it's something that's a whole job that your, you want it to do, that's when you're going to use CoWork. Okay? But there are some rules that never change and that is Copilot only sees what you already have access to. Your data stays in your walls. And you still got to read it before you rely on anything. The more you hand off, the more it matters that you have to check that result, okay? So just be very aware of that. That 70% that I talk about all the time, that's on Copilot, that's on AI, but there's still that 30% that you need to check the results. Speaker 1 01:27:58 Now, very last slide and then we're done. I promise. You saw Copilot do real work. You learned how to prompt it well. You found the prompts for your role. And now, you know, the advanced features that turn it into a genuine teammate. So for this week, pick some of those bigger features, whatever you have access to because not everybody has access to CoWork. You can do CoWork, Researcher, Analyst or even Notebook in Loop and point it at a real project, And that's where your afternoons can come back to you. Okay, more work done or take a nap, one or the other. So, um, take a look at that. If you run into issues, email me. Email the help desk. Help desk is actually really good helping you out and answering those. It's not just about me. Um, but give that a try. And you know, when we do the open office sessions in September or the end of this month, feel free to jump into those and. Speaker 1 01:28:57 We'll work on big problems together, all right? Any questions? Speaker 2 01:29:04 No question, Christy. Thank you. Speaker 1 01:29:06 You're welcome. Thank you, Casey. Thank you, Julia. Have a great weekend. Speaker 2 01:29:11 Yep, have a great weekend. Thank you so much. Bye- bye- bye- bye- bye.
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- > Date: 2026-05-06 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] [Speaker 11] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] ## Meeting Notes ### Opening and Core Values - Week 19 meeting held on May 6, 2026. - Primary support: Kobe; backup: Jesse. - Core value: “Do the right thing,” emphasizing delivering needed support to clients. - Quote of the day (Theodore Roosevelt): “Do what you can with what you have, where you are.” ### Team Updates: Documentation - Olivia thanked the team for recent documentation updates. ### Cybersecurity Update - New change: Team members in the Philippines and South Africa may bypass the VPN using their own internet. - Anton reminded everyone to connect to Cisco AnyConnect when using Global Admin accounts from the IDG to avoid security alerts. ### Operations Update - **Phishing Emails**: Pete urged vigilance—watch for phishing and report suspicious emails. - **Professionalism**: Maintain a professional appearance and communication style, especially with clients or in the office. - **Skill Set Document**: - Jason is compiling a mapping of team members’ specific skill sets. - Team members with expertise (e.g., networking, servers, virtualization) should share details with Jason. - Target completion by the end of next week to support project and assessment staffing. ### Account Management Update - Mike gave kudos to Matt, Monty, and the team for MDM fixes. - Projects for Alir and EAP are on track; Belay remains the last one. - Account management (Mike and Vince) offered QA help for documentation as needed. ### Finance and Admin Updates - **Finance**: Alisa thanked the team for month-end support and requested forwarding all vendor invoices received in personal email to the accounting email address. - **Admin**: April noted improved time entry, aiding monthly billing. ### NBD (New Business Development) Update - Ansor announced a new IT assessment with Foothill that could deepen the relationship. ### Project & Change Management Callouts - **Project Angel Food**: Cloud migration is in final decommission; main cutover scheduled for the night of Friday, May 8. Kevin will be on-site Monday for post-cutover support. - **Intra-Team Cloud PC**: Initial provisioning is in progress, planned to finish this week. - **Client Audits**: Christy is running compliance audits for TCLA, Lear Coateson, Anderson, and Ability First. Be aware of alerts from PowerShell scripts. - **Colliers Tickets**: Gabby reminded everyone to verify the correct site and point of contact when working Colliers tickets; see Hudu note. - **EYP Phone System**: Help desk thanked for supporting EYP phone issues. A potential fix (switch replacement) is being pursued with Rosie. - **ITG to Hudu Transfer**: Ryan reminded everyone to complete the transfer within a month. ### Customer Support & On-Call Best Practices - **Time-Sensitive Requests**: Handle offboarding and access revocation immediately. For scheduled offboardings, revoke access at the exact time. - **Ticket Work Types**: - Use correct work types; they determine client billing. - Work type should reflect the task, not the job title (e.g., “user support after hours” for a password reset, not “infra support after hours”). - **On-Call Responsibilities**: - Primary and secondary on-call must be reachable and answer calls. - Executive (VIP) issues are top priority; escalate as needed to resolve. - Address security issues (e.g., lost phone) immediately. - **Communication and Resolution**: - Own issues through resolution and confirm customer satisfaction. - Communicate consistently, even if solutions take time. - **Time Logging for On-Call**: Log on-call work as “Help Desk,” not “Engineering,” to avoid overcharging due to rate differences. ### Team Activities - Ishmael won the “duck race” and shared an “Always Friendly” example, highlighting Sigrid. 🦆 - Elisa played “Two Truths and a Lie” and announced she is pregnant. 🎉 - Jane will play “Two Truths and a Lie” next week. ## Next Arrangements - Skill Set & Documentation - [ ] Team members to send their specific skill sets to Jason for the new skill set document. - [ ] Jason to complete the skill set document by the end of next week (approx. May 15, 2026). - [ ] Account management (Mike and Vince) to assist with documentation QA upon request. - Finance & Admin - [ ] Forward all vendor invoices received in personal email to the accounting email address. - [ ] Continue timely and accurate time entry to support monthly billing. - Projects & Transitions - [ ] Perform the main services cutover for the Project Angel Food migration on Friday, May 8, 2026; Kevin on-site Monday for post-cutover support. - [ ] Finish Intra-Team Cloud PC provisioning this week. - [ ] Complete the ITG to Hudu transfer for all clients within the next month. - Meetings & Activities - [ ] Jane to prepare for “Two Truths and a Lie” for the next meeting. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The root cause and permanent fix for the EYP phone system issues are still under investigation. The current plan involves working with Rosie on a potential switch replacement, but the final resolution is not yet confirmed. > 2. A recent security issue where a lost phone was not addressed until the next day was mentioned. While the general policy to act immediately was reinforced, there were no specific action items assigned to review or improve the incident response process itself.
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- May 6, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hmm. Speaker 2 00:00:36 Good Morning. Good morning. Morning. Speaker 1 00:00:54 Hello Hello. Good morning. Speaker 3 00:01:03 Good morning. Speaker 1 00:01:05 I'm not sure. Good morning. Speaker 1 00:01:57 Good morning. I'm Jane. Speaker 1 00:03:37 Thank you. So. Speaker 4 00:03:50 Who's running the show this week. Hi everyone, morning. It's ten a. m. so we'll get started. Speaker 4 00:03:56 Um, today is May six, twenty twenty six. We are in week nineteen. The primary for after our support and backup will be Kobe being the primary with Jesse being the backup. Next, we'll move on to core values to highlight. I'm gonna highlight do the right thing. Um, I know a lot of clients are hard to deal with, But always making sure they're supported and have all the support that they need is definitely the right thing to do. Um, quote of the day. Do what you can with what you have, where you are. By Theodore Roosevelt. So now we will move to team updates. We'll move to this with Olivia. Speaker 5 00:04:39 Good morning, guys Happy Wednesday. Uh, the only thing I have on my end right now is. Just to thank everyone, I've been seeing everyone make a shift into making sure that our documentation is up to date and really trying to. Up date our documents. So I just wanted to thank everyone for that shift. And yeah, that is all on my side. Speaker 4 00:05:06 Thank you so much. We'll move over to cybersecurity with Anton. Speaker 6 00:05:11 Morning everyone. I have only one announcement. It's related to most recent changes that we made for our conditional access policy to allow people from Philippines and South Africa. Utilizing their own internet bypassing VPN, But Please don't forget to connect to Cisco AnyConnect whenever you're utilizing Global Admin accounts from the IDG. Because it's making too much noise for. Speaker 6 00:05:46 Security team will start to stressing, and we're wasting a lot of time for just investigation. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:05:56 Great, thank you, Anton. Let's move over to operations with Pete. Speaker 7 00:05:60 Good morning, everyone. A couple of things. Just a reminder, uh, always be diligent and watch for phishing emails. They are still prevalent out there in the wild. So, we don't want to be taken advantage of, and we don't want to put ourselves and our customers at risk. So watch for that. And report them if they come in. A reminder, also especially if you see clients, but if we are dealing with clients and if we're in the office, please always look professional. Dress professionally. Appearance is a big deal for for us and our clients. So, we always want to look professional and be professional and speak professionally obviously in emails and And. When we're on the phone with our customers, so that's always important. And lastly, um. Speaker 7 00:06:50 Uh, Jason is putting together a skill set document. And really what this designed to do is show Um, who on our team has specific skill sets so that when we're doing. Either projects or we're doing assessments for for clients. We know who has specific skill sets. Obviously, we We have a baseline that we we have an expectation that you know, most of our teams are going to know the basics, right. Most people are going to know office, they're going to know how to use. And do certain things with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office and the basics. But, if you have specific skill sets in other technologies or are a subject matter expert in certain skills, Please share that with Jason so he can he can document that. So. Speaker 7 00:07:39 Um, If you've got, if you've got skill sets network in certain networking technologies and certain server technologies and virtualization or other things, We want to document that so that we can engage with you in in projects that we need those skill sets or or assessments, where where we we can use that. So, Um I've asked Jason to try to have that done by the end of next week. Um he has started gathering that, so hopefully we'll have that done. And if you can share that with him, that would be great. And that's all I have for today. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:08:10 Thank you, Pete. Let's move on to account management with Mike and Vince. Speaker 8 00:08:15 Okay. Um, thank you. So for the account management side, um. If I'm stealing anyone's thunder, I apologize. Olivia, you didn't mention anything, so I'll say it. I just want to give a big kudos to Matt and Monty and the team. For the MDM fixes that they've been implementing. So I know those have been long outstanding, so Kudos to. Matt, Monty, and the entire team working on the MDM projects. I think Alir and EAP are good. Just belay that's, I think last on deck, and then to kind of segue off what Olivia was mentioning. Yeah, sorry, Olivia. Um, is if anyone would like it would be helpful, please reach out to myself or Vince to help QA documentation. So sometimes when you're doing the documentation, it's kind of hard to see. Speaker 8 00:09:05 If it's good or because you have maybe too many clients or a lot of clients that you have to import over. Please reach out to me or Vince, and we'd be happy to QA the documentation for you. That's it from account management. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:09:17 Awesome. Thank you, Mike. Let's move over to finance with Alisa. Speaker 9 00:09:25 Hi good morning everyone, Just wanna say thanks for everyone's contribution for our month end, recording or wrapping up and reviewing our month end and. U h, just a quick favor. Uh, If you ever uh receive an invoice from our vendor in your personal email or for your subscription, I would really appreciate if you could forward a copy to accounting emails. It's just Uh, really helpful helpful for us regarding transactions and for documentation. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:09:54 Thank you so much. Let's move on to admin with April. Speaker 2 00:09:59 Hi good morning everybody so on the admin side. With billing and I just wanna share that I've been seeing improvements on time entry. So good job everybody. Um, this is a huge help for us in making things. Uh, making billings easier monthly. So that's all from me. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:10:15 Thank you. Let's move on to NBD with Ansor. Speaker 10 00:10:20 Yeah, so on NBD front, we've got a project with Foothill. To do IT assessment, so that's a great news for us. We're gonna proceed. And potentially will establish a deeper relationship with these guys. Um, And other than that, I don't have uh anything major to announce at this point. Speaker 4 00:10:49 Awesome, thank you so much. Does, anybody have any project or change management call outs that they'd like to mention? Speaker 4 00:10:57 No, okay. With that, I do. Oops, sorry. Go ahead. Speaker 11 00:11:02 Project Angel Food cloud migration wrap up is in the final decommission phase. The main services migration And cut over are scheduled for Friday, this Friday, May eighth. Late night and Kevin is on site on Monday for post post cutover support. In tra- team cloud PC original provisioning is in progress, and we're also planning to finish hopefully this week. That's all. Speaker 4 00:11:35 Awesome. Thanks so much. And now we'll move to training updates with Pete and Olivia. Speaker 5 00:11:41 I think Chris and Gabby have their hands raised first. Oh, I'm sorry. Speaker 12 00:11:46 Go ahead, Chris. Um, just a heads up, I'm running a, Couple audits on different clients. So if you guys get any alert about PowerShell scripts, I am just running audits for compliance. And working on some different things with tabletop exercises for TCLA, working on AI audits for Lear Coateson and. Anderson, and I think that's it for this week. But those will be rolling out. So for the security team, just be aware that that is happening. Um. Speaker 12 00:12:19 And there'll be tickets being sent over to help with some compliancy stuff. Ability First was ran earlier today. Speaker 4 00:12:29 Thank you, Christy and Gabby. Speaker 13 00:12:32 Thank you, Ryan. Just a friendly reminder when you're working on any tickets for Colliers, just please take a moment, step back and just verify. That you're putting the correct site and you're putting the correct point of contact. Um, Caltrans is a special case where there's no one person for all of the buildings. Um, each building has its own point of contact. And I already made a note on Hudu, so also take a moment to take a look into that. Um, I don't want to get another angry email from Manoli. So, um let's all do our part. And also uh I just want to thank uh the help desk team for helping um taking phone calls from EYP. Speaker 13 00:13:17 U m, they're. I know they've been having a very hard time with their phone system. Um, we're still looking into the possible fix includingum. Getting a switch replaced, but I'm currently working with Rosie on that. So, thank you very much. Awesome, Speaker 4 00:13:36 Thank you, Gabby. Just to reiterate, reminder that the ITG 2 Hoot to Transfer will end in a month. So you must be done with all of your clients. Do not forget, make sure they are done. If you need assistance, reach out to your team members. They can help you. And now we will move to training with Pete and Olivia. Speaker 5 00:13:54 Thanks, Ryan. Yeah, So Pete and I just wanted to take a couple minutes to talk about overall customer support, best practices and on call support. So our after hours on call group. Soum. Couple things on my side, just offboarding and revoking any type of access. These type of requests are super time sensitive. Um, So they should be done as soon as we are aware of the situation or. If there's like a scheduling, a scheduled offboarding time. So say that I have an offboarding set for 10:30, at 10:29 I should be logged into the admin center ready to revoke access. Speaker 5 00:14:37 And sending a message to the client, letting them know that we've begun the offboarding form. Just so that they know what's going on and they're informed. And then one other thing on my side, work types for tickets are extremely important. They are Especially if you're working on something that's billable. So if it's a ticket for a TS client or it's a project or it's after hours work. Work types reflect what type of work that you're doing, not necessarily what your job title is. So, for example, if you get an after-hours call that is. That's for a password reset. That should be user support after hours, not necessarily infra support after hours, even if you are a security engineer or network engineer. And then if you. Speaker 5 00:15:34 A project to replace a firewall, say it's at seven p.m. after the clients have left, that would be more of the infra support side of things. And then if you're sending an email or just following up, that should be communications. Um, and depending on what you choose here is how we build the client. So it's very important to make sure that you get this right. And if you have any questions, you ask. And that is all I have on my list. Pete, if you want to take it away. Speaker 7 00:16:04 Sure. So I'm going to talk a little bit more about in general and on call. So obviously if you're on call, please, please keep your phone on, answer it. If you're secondary on call, please be available. We do pay people when they get called, so please make sure that you are available and that you answer. If you get a call, and this goes for not just on- call, but obviously if you are Um. Getting a ticket or if you get a call from a CEO, from an executive that is part of one of our customers. Those are high level VIP folks. A lot of times, obviously they go to Monty or her team, but if you get a call from an executive and you're on call. You need to address that as the highest priority. That needs to be Um, taken care of. If you don't know how to take care of it, escalate it. Speaker 7 00:16:59 Make sure that they are happy with the solution. If they are not, call whoever can help, right? If that means you need to call me, you need to call Ons or you need to call Chris, you need to call Jason. Whoever you need to call to get help. Escalate to your supervisor, but make sure that, that VIP gets the support they need. Um, The the other thing is, if if it's related to cybersecurity or there is a security matter. So somebody has, Something that they report that they think is suspicious. They lost a mobile device. There is something that occurred that could be a security matter. It needs to be addressed. When that happens, right? So, um, we just had a recent issue where somebody lost their phone. And I think it was pushed to the next day to be addressed. That, that is a security issue because that phone needs to be disabled or wiped pretty much immediately because that, that person could have stuff. Speaker 7 00:17:56 Data on there that needs to be taken care of immediately, especially if it's a high level or VIP type person. So, that's a matter that needs to be taken care of. If you don't know how to do it, get somebody involved that can help. That's an example of something that That needs to be taken care of as a priority. So in general, if somebody escalates and And, Basically makes a call to the on-call. They generally need help when they call on the weekend, if it's after hours on an evening or whatever. Um, Pretty much the other thing I just want to make sure that we do in general, not just with on call, but with all tickets. See the issue through to resolution. Make sure the caller is satisfied. Follow up communication, and I say this all the time, but communication is 99%. Speaker 7 00:18:51 Of how we get rated in a call, right? If you take two or three days to solve a problem, if you're communicating throughout the process. Ninety nine percent of the time, the customer is still going to be okay with it. It's if you just go silent on them and they hear nothing. That's when we're going to get this yellow or red alert. So 99% of the time, if you're telling the customer, I'm having trouble solving it, but I'm working on it. I will get back to you. Communication is so important. Just never forget that, right? Communication, communication. And lastly, when you're on call, log your time as Help Desk. Uh, we have some people now that are engineering. And if you log your time as engineering, the rate for engineering that we charge is a lot higher than help desk. And if you log your time as engineering. The time and a half rate with the two two hour minimum is going to charge the customer a huge amount. So please make sure if you're on call. Speaker 7 00:19:47 And you do get called log your time as help desk instead of engineering. We can go back and fix it if you do it wrong, but Uh, please try to remember to do that. So those are the things we want to cover. If you have questions, um, please let Olivia or I know. Um, we're here to help you but uh appreciate in advance everybody helping with that. We're here to help if you need more training, we're happy to do that as well. I think that covers what we wanted. Speaker 4 00:20:14 Thank you, Pete and Olivia. We'll go ahead and move to, He did the duck race with Christian. Speaker 1 00:20:21 And let me share my screen real quick. Thank you. Curse. Let me know if you see my screen. We can see it. Alright, let's start. Be the light that guides us. Speaker 3 00:20:47 No one knows. It goes. Let's go, Dimas. I know. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:21:15 Let's go, Ishmael. Speaker 14 00:21:16 All right, Ishmael. Let's see how the five uh four values so. Five core values: commit and deliver, do the right thing, always friendly, integrity over profit and extreme ownership in all that we do. And example I will give about Always Friendly. I would highlight Sigrid. Whenever you reach out to Sig, she is always ready to help you. Speaker 4 00:21:47 A wesome, thank you, Ishmael. And then we will move over to Two Truths and a Lie with Pete. Was that? Did you go with Lisa? Speaker 7 00:22:00 No, it's Elisa. Elisa. Okay, I am going to go with Elisa this time. Speaker 9 00:22:06 Okay, so for putrescine and agmatine, first statement. I playvolleyball for fun, but was never a varsity player. U m, second, I'm good with directions and can memorize the road after going there once. And third, I am pregnant. Speaker 4 00:22:35 I am not a good person. I'm not going to be able to do that. Okay, so. The first one was. Speaker 1 00:22:47 The French government is a good thing, it just funded it. Threw. Speaker 4 00:22:54 Everybody off with that last one. That better be the truth. That better be the truth. So what was the first one? Speaker 9 00:23:07 Uh, so the first one I can playvolleyball, but just for fun. Never a varsity player. Speaker 4 00:23:13 Okay, if anybody. That that was a lie. Go ahead and raise your hand. Yeah, it's true. Okay, And then we'll move on to the second one where she is amazing with directions and can remember the way there after only doing it one time. If you think that is a lie, raise your hand. A lot of the Philippines people are raising their hands. Speaker 2 00:23:38 Yeah. Okay, and. Speaker 4 00:23:42 Now we will move on to the third one. If everybody thinks that her being pregnant is a lie, go ahead and raise your hand. Okay, and what is the lie? Speaker 9 00:24:01 I will. I know for sure the Philippines knows this. The lies, the second statement. Speaker 4 00:24:07 Oh, okay. Congratulations on your child. That's exciting. Speaker 13 00:24:12 The announcement was made on 24 April 2015. It's a boy. I'm calling it. I'm claiming it. Speaker 4 00:24:23 Okay, does anybody have anything left unsaid that they need to say? Go ahead and raise your hand if you do. Speaker 5 00:24:30 Oh, who's going next week? Speaker 4 00:24:33 Uh, yeah. So who's going next week for the two truths and a lie list? Um. Speaker 9 00:24:41 I will pickum Jane. Speaker 4 00:24:48 Alright, sounds good. So if nobody has anything else, we will go ahead and adjourn the meeting. Thank you so much for your time today, and I will talk to you guys later. Bye. Speaker 1 00:25:03 I'm sorry.
08-06 Code Re-use Approval for Accelerated Client Project
- Notes
-  The conversation centers on Speaker 2's request for approval to use the codebase from their personal project, "Adapto Inbox," to accelerate the development of an "Inbox Assistant" for a high-priority client, Westwood Financial. The discussion covers the technical and legal implications of the proposal, project specifics, a separate administrative issue concerning access to the MPath training platform, and security planning for an upcoming client transition. ------------ ## Project Context and Code Re-use Proposal Speaker 2 seeks approval to leverage the existing code from their personal project, "Adapto Inbox," for a time-sensitive Crimson client project with Westwood Financial. The client, specifically Brett and the CEO, Casey, is urgently requesting an "inbox assistant," and the required features are already substantially built within Speaker 2's application. The plan involves fully integrating this code into the client's Microsoft tenancy, ensuring it operates within their environment and utilizes Crimson's AI Foundry. This solution will be presented and delivered as a Crimson product, with no separate charges for the use of the Adapto Inbox base code. Speaker 2 notes that Anzor is already aware of Adapto IT, the LLC under which the project was developed, and that it was created as a side venture with no conflict with Crimson's business. ------------ ## Technical and Legal Due Diligence Pete conducts due diligence on the proposal, raising concerns about potential legal issues, the technical implementation, and long-term support. He questions whether the code is copyrighted and seeks to clarify the distinction between the AI components and rule-based automation to manage client expectations accurately. Speaker 2 confirms the code is not copyrighted and that they are willing to release it for Crimson's use. They explain that the client, Casey, has already been briefed on the mix of AI and automation and understands the solution's capabilities and limitations. The AI functions, such as identifying high-priority emails, will be powered by Claude through AI Foundry. The application's stability has been confirmed through beta testing with users like Josh Sims, and it is designed for compliance by only processing the first 1,000 characters of an email, with a goal of achieving SOC 2 Type 1 compliance next year. The code will be deployed to the client's tenancy, and the project will initially roll out only to Casey and Brett. Pete gives his conditional approval, provided the code is free of copyright and officially released for Crimson's use. ------------ ## Administrative Issue: MPath Access Requests The conversation shifts to an administrative problem with the MPath training platform. Pete reports that an employee, Mark Victorino, is unable to access courses because his requests are not being approved, potentially due to a systemic notification failure. Pete and Speaker 2 both check their dashboards but cannot find Mark's pending requests for the "Project Delivery Basics" course. Speaker 2 notes the last request they saw was in February. This leads Pete to suspect that the request system is broken or notifications are being sent to spam, as he no longer receives them. They observe that while some employees are completing courses, overall platform usage is low. The discussion concludes with an agreement to investigate the issue, with Speaker 2 planning to work with Olivia to potentially enable automatic course access for all users. ------------ ## Client Transition and Security Monitoring Plan Pete requests guidance from Speaker 2 for an upcoming client takeover at Foothill, scheduled for Monday. The transition involves releasing an employee named Massis, and Pete is concerned about potential nefarious activity, especially given the presence of old accounts with unchanged passwords. Although he doesn't have specific concerns about the individual, he wants to ensure diligent security monitoring. Crimson will gain global admin rights to the client's Microsoft tenancy on Monday. Speaker 2 confirms they can provide the necessary guidance to Anton and Vlad. They note that Anton, having assisted with a similar transition at Sharp, is already familiar with the monitoring procedures and has a copy of the report from that event. ------------ ## Action Items **@Speaker 2** - [ ] Configure AI Foundry within the West Fin Microsoft tenancy to support the inbox assistant functionality - [TBD] - [ ] Provide security monitoring guidance and the previous Sharp transition report to Anton and Vlad for the Foothill client takeover - [TBD] - [ ] Consult with Olivia regarding the MPath platform to determine why user access requests are failing to generate notifications - [TBD] - [ ] Send additional one-pagers and supplementary materials to the Lear training executive team - [TBD] **@Pete** - [ ] Assign the 'Project Delivery Basics Pathway Template Express Edition' course to Mark Victorino - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule a meeting with Mark to ensure the MPath platform is working correctly for him - [TBD]
- Date
- Aug 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:02 I'm good. I'll be super quick because we're about to go head out for lunch with the kiddo's parents. Or not parents. My brain today has been long, um, West Fin. So what? West Westwood Financial. Yes, So theyum they're rather pushy on getting things done quickly, and Brett is pushing for things rather quickly, uhhuh, He really wants this inbox assistant for Casey done right away, and I get it is for the uh is for the CEO. So, we had been talking about building a West Fin uh, OS kind of like CBOS to get started. And to get things pushed out. So I am staying under certain hours, I am just using the same technology I wrote into Adapto Inbox um. Speaker 2 00:01:01 Is that going to cause an issue with Crimson? Speaker 3 00:01:07 Is that going to cause an issue what? Speaker 2 00:01:09 With Crimson. Because I'm using the Adapto and Inbox coding to write it. Now I don't know, Speaker 3 00:01:17 I don't really know what that is, so I can't really say if that's going to cause an issue or not. Speaker 2 00:01:21 Okay. So, And Anzor is aware of this, and we've had some conversations in the past about it. So, I built, Adapto IT as an LLC that is in no way, shape or form cutting into anything Crimson related. It's a blog and SaaS options I am building outside of Crimson. So, Adapto Inbox is one of those. Here, let me give you the link. So, I have built this in my spare time and I've been working on it since. Speaker 2 00:01:59 Before Christmas, and Anzor actually has known about this. He has told people that I am building this. Josh Sims is an example of someone who knows about it who wants to beta test it for me. Um, I am using the technology from this for to build the base for Westwood Financial. So it's basically the same application but put into Microsoft rather than Standing outside of it, so it's going to be completely put into their uh into their Microsoft tenancy. It's closed. It's going to be using um AI Foundry for all the stuff, but it's doing all the stuff that Casey wanted, which was already what I had been working on with Adapto Inbox. So I wanted to make sure because they want it fairly quickly if that's going to be okay. If I use the base coding of my application. Speaker 2 00:02:57 For this, and I'm not charging them anything. It's not going to be under Adapto Inbox. It's not going to be under Adapto IT. It's all being based on Crimson, and so as far as Brett knows, it's a Crimson product. Speaker 1 00:03:17 Um okay, I mean. Speaker 2 00:03:46 Sorry, I threw you a wild curveball at five o'clock at night. And I am aware. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:03:51 I mean, I have to like look at this and all this stuff. I mean, I don't know how to say if it's okay or not. I guess, I mean, if functionally, it's so you built this. And yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:03 Um let me do this. Speaker 3 00:04:05 If functionally you can take the features and put it in there, i mean i guess it's okay. I don't really see that it would be an issue if it's not copyrighted and it's not. Speaker 2 00:04:16 It's not copyrighted. I built it under the Adapto brand, but I am just using the code base for you guys. and Let me just share it, share my screen with you so you can see. So this is the dashboard. It only looks at the first one thousand characters of an email. It does not read the entire email, and I specifically did that to pass all compliancy. So I am looking at getting a SOC 2 compliant or, SOX 2 type 1 compliance ran on this next year. It looks, you can put in as many inboxes as you want under the Pro plan. This is my recent activity, my emails and stuff that's coming through. And I did attach it to Sharp just to test some things. It has AI, which the back to this one is Claude, but for West Fin it's going to be in AI Foundry. Speaker 2 00:05:14 It does set up follow-ups, and so you can set follow-ups, and it will automatically choose. And you can choose it's not a follow-up. This one is a follow-up, And you can add it to your Microsoft To Do if you want to when you connect it. It does show your calendar. It's also on my personal calendar. This is how the, Amazon Overlord in our house reminds my child to change the litter box. There is some transcripts that you can create meeting stuff with. It does set your Outlook categories and you tell it what rules, and then it does have rules in here. Speaker 2 00:06:03 You can also, I am working on. Speaker 3 00:06:05 So, what is he actually expecting? Like, what is he asking for? Speaker 2 00:06:10 So, he is asking for this. So, he says," I want as much of this as possible." And most of this was already I had already built into Adapto Inbox before he even sent this message. Speaker 3 00:06:25 And what is Adapto Inbox? Is it a Is it an AI tool or is it a rule based, Scripting, I mean, is that a rule based tool? Speaker 1 00:06:35 Both. You use. Because, Speaker 3 00:06:39 If he's expect is if he's expecting us to deliver some AI thing, and we're delivering a rule based object, I don't want to I don't want to give him something that he thinks is one thing that isn't that because if he finds out it isn't what he thinks it is, it's going to look like we, Put a wrapper on something that isn't what he asked for, and that's what I don't want to do. That, Speaker 2 00:07:06 We had a meeting Casey and I had a meeting uh a couple weeks ago, and I explained to him hey just a heads up, A lot of this that what you're asking for is something that is an automation rather than AI. So he does understand that, and he is aware of what he's asking for, and he does know what I'm oh what I'm capable of delivering. Based on today's technology, and what is a hey, we're going to work on this down the line. So all of that had already been discussed with him before today. So on this, I gave him hey mobile capture and notes integration is not there yet, but it is there in OneNote with Copilot. Travel organization is not there yet within Microsoft, But it can be one of these days and we'll work on how we can build this out. And so a lot of this is going to. Speaker 2 00:07:57 Be more of a West Fin OS, which we're going to build out in the future. But what he's wanting today is one, two, and three, which I had already built out. And so he's aware of the limitations. He's aware that some of this is just plain automation, and some of this is AI. So we already had that meeting to go over it all. Speaker 3 00:08:21 So which which parts are AI? Speaker 2 00:08:25 So, the building and maintaining an optimized calendar that's that's AI. Uh, monitoring incoming email, identify high priority items requiring attention. That is AI. So in. Speaker 3 00:08:36 What is and what is it using? What is it using on the AI side? Speaker 2 00:08:40 We're going to use AI Foundry probably Claude within AI Foundry. Speaker 3 00:08:46 And is that already built into this? Speaker 2 00:08:49 Claude is built into this when I, when I take the code base and put it in their tenancy tonight. Uh, I'm setting up AI Foundry, which will take me 25 minutes. Speaker 3 00:09:03 And, how do we test it to make sure it doesn't blow up his inbox? Speaker 2 00:09:08 Um, this one's already been under beta testing. And so Josh Sims and a few others have been beta testing it for me. And we know it's not going to blow up. It hasn't blown up my Sharp inbox. Uh, The other thing it does is going to be uh this daily briefing that sends out. Um, it only sends it out once a day. And I have tested that multiple times. Hey sweetie, we're gonna leave in probably about five to ten minutes. Speaker 3 00:09:50 I mean, I, I don't know. I'm gonna have to. I I gotta think about this, Chris. I don't have time to do it right now. Um, I, mean, I guess it's probably okay. I mean. Speaker 3 00:10:19 Solution over there, As opposed to just as opposed to taking the whole solution and putting it there. But I mean, I I don't know. Speaker 2 00:10:27 So everything he asked for is actually in this. All I am doing is uploading my code into Microsoft and re changing it to point to AI Foundry and their SQL server. So everything is within their tenancy, nothing's going out, nothing is hitting my system, my personal systems. Everything is going to stay in West Fin's servers. Speaker 2 00:10:48 I just want to make sure that me copying the code base is not going to be an issue for you. Speaker 3 00:10:55 I mean, I don't see it as as long as like I said, As long as it's not copyrighted to someone else or to you or to whatever. Um. I don't see why it would be an issue right? Okay yeah, because if you wrote it, if you wrote it and you're okay with us using it. And you release it to us using it at Crimson. Yeah. Then I don't see it as being an issue. Honestly, Speaker 2 00:11:25 I was going to talk to Anzor and say, hey, I built this. If you want to resell it to clients, do it. But, as long as you don't come after me for selling it privately and selling it on the web because everything I am is Crimson. With the exception of Adapto and my kids. That's just how I am. Like I dedicate, myself to the job at hand, which is making crimson better. So. Okay. I know that's not most people. I know I'm weird, But that's just how I am because I need crimson to succeed, so that I can continue helping kids. And putting food on the table and paying my rent. Rent is expensive, so is gas. Speaker 2 00:12:18 But if Crimson doesn't succeed, I don't succeed. So, that is my spiel. You will hear me say that. I am not putting blowing smoke up your ass. That is who I am as a person. If you haven't figured that out already, Speaker 3 00:12:33 No, no, and I took like no, I totally get it. I totally get it. I just uh yeah, as long as yeah, as long as it's you know as long as it works. And. I guess the the part. So, are we going to be able to replicate and support this though Like, if they come back, yeah, and say what. What is this doing And it's broken. Like how complicated is this code. Speaker 2 00:13:06 Not complicated at all, um. And just a heads up for you, Brett and I talked. We're only rolling it out to him and Casey for now. Speaker 3 00:13:19 And what is it written in? Speaker 2 00:13:21 It isum Java andum my brain. You just had to ask that question, my brain. Um, hang on, I will pull it up. I am I am tired. Today has been a day. That's okay. Ah, don't look at my Copilot because Copilot is weird. Speaker 2 00:13:52 I started to say C#, but that's not no in my brain. Speaker 2 00:13:60 Yeah, It is dot partially dot net, but cancel. Let me log in. Damn it, Anzor It's Anzor's fault. Uh he he had me uh throw in uh. Speaker 2 00:14:21 Uh, he had me uh put safeguards on GitHub. Speaker 3 00:14:29 That's okay. I don't I don't really need to know how much it is written. I mean, what it was written in right now, it's it's fine. Um, so. Speaker 1 00:14:42 Let's see. Speaker 3 00:14:47 I mean, for now we got to get something delivered, so I guess let's let's just do this and then. Let's be cautious and make sure it works and. While I have you on the phone, I am. So Mark says he sent a couple of MPath requests. I am in the MPath dashboard and I cannot find anything that looks like a request. Now when I had a request. From other people before, I could swear they showed up as requests and I can't find anything now. Let me see. Speaker 2 00:15:26 Uh, Mark and Path, uh, Mark Ignacio or our Mark? Speaker 3 00:15:32 Our mark. Mark. Speaker 2 00:15:35 Uh he did. I have it. It got filed because I don't look at those. He's. Speaker 3 00:15:43 Mark Victorino says he put in a couple requests for some kind of something. I don't know what it was. Speaker 2 00:15:52 This is uh all the way back in February. It was the last ones I saw from him, and it looks like I read it, so either myself or uh Olivia probably did it. Speaker 3 00:16:07 So Mark said, Not sure if you're receiving my request for access to MPATH. Just wanted to let you know that most courses, or at least the courses I like to take, require access for us to view the content. Not sure if it requires payment on the back end. This could be one of the reasons why many of us or staff are not taking the courses after the first course. Can you please look into this? Here is a sample project delivery basics pathway template express edition. Speaker 2 00:16:37 Uh, The last one I got was Google Prompting Essentials: How to Make AI Work for You. Uh, Speaker 3 00:16:45 Here's what he showed me. And I don't know where this would be. And he must have hit Request Access, but I don't see anything that says Request Access. Speaker 2 00:17:01 I don't see that either. Speaker 3 00:17:08 Project, every basic pathway template, express edition. Speaker 1 00:17:29 Ah, I don't see anything. Let me look at this one. Speaker 2 00:17:37 Yeah, All I'm bring all that's bringing up for me is Google. Prompting is one of the courses he signed up for. Looks like he signed up for multiple times, but that's the only one I see. I don't see that he's requested any other. Speaker 3 00:17:55 Like where would that even be? Let's see, it's called Project Delivery Basics. If I search for that, what do I come up with? Speaker 2 00:18:05 January, so February ones. Oh, he he exited in January, but it looks like it was already assigned to him. Speaker 3 00:18:16 Project Delivery Basics Pathway Template Express Edition. Yeah, that's what I was going to see. Assign pathway. Speaker 2 00:18:26 Now that it might have been an issue on their end. Speaker 3 00:18:32 I'm going to assign it to Mark right now. Okay. You know what? There, Mark Victorino. Speaker 2 00:18:40 Did, we ever look to see what it would take to turn off the ability, turn off them from having to request access? Speaker 3 00:18:48 Uh. Okay, it says the pathway has been assigned. Users. Speaker 1 00:19:52 I can't see who's. Speaker 3 00:19:55 That's fine, that's fine. I just told them, let's get together sometime and make sure that this thing is working the way it's supposed to because yeah, Speaker 2 00:20:03 I mean i I would probably prefer it to automatically. Speaker 1 00:20:11 Let people have access to whatever they want. But I don't see how. Speaker 2 00:20:31 To do that. Alright, um, I'll talk to Olivia tomorrow and see because I the last time I'd seen him come through was in. January or February. Okay. Speaker 2 00:20:46 Um. Yeah, I'll I'll see what I can find out uh with Olivia tomorrow. Okay. Because I would want, I would want everybody to be able to sign their own stuff. Speaker 2 00:21:12 I can't tell you hardly anyone has any completed hours except for a handful. Speaker 3 00:21:27 Yeah, There's not there's not a lot of I I've been looking at it a lot lately. And there's not a lot of people doing as much with it as I would like. Butum. Speaker 2 00:21:40 Robert and Gaston have been asking about it. Oh, wait, I'm in the wrong. Speaker 3 00:21:45 That's because I've been bringing it up on all the on all the all hands. Speaker 2 00:21:51 I was looking at the wrong com. Did, you know, there's hours in the top right that you can choose and all my hours were set to last year? Speaker 1 00:22:01 Um, yes, yes. Um. Speaker 3 00:22:10 Are you looking at members or what are you looking at? Speaker 2 00:22:12 Members. I just realized this right here for me was set to last year. Speaker 3 00:22:21 Which part in the dashboard? Oh no, mine no mine Mine is set for twenty six. Speaker 2 00:22:27 Okay, yeah, mine wasn't. Mine was set for twenty five, and so I thought no one had done anything, but. Tells a different story when you actually. Speaker 3 00:22:35 Yeah, I mean, there's there's yeah, there's some there's some hours that have been completed. A few people are using it and then a lot of people aren't so. Speaker 2 00:22:43 I'll be honest, I haven't had time lately. But I'm going to try to get some Microsoft certifications soon. So yeah, I want I want to figure out how to allow people to. Speaker 2 00:23:02 Because I haven't seen any requests for approvals coming in, but I also could have my AI minions hiding those from me. Well, Speaker 3 00:23:08 It makes me wonder if the requests are working anymore because I used to get a lot of requests for approval. And if Mark said he was going to re- request it, and I still didn't get a request, that makes me think we're not even getting them. So it makes me think like they're going into spam or something. I don't know. Yeah, but. Speaker 2 00:23:28 I got the sweetest email. I just read. I'm gonna forward it to you. Because today this week has been a Lear training, and I had the executive team today. Um, and I did we're done with Lear's training now. Uh, but I got a very yeah, I got a very sweet thank you. Speaker 3 00:23:44 Are they good with it or? Speaker 2 00:23:46 We're gonna we're gonna see but I promised some additional items over to them tomorrow. So some one pagers and some additional stuff. So but I got a thank you note. Speaker 1 00:23:59 Oh good. Speaker 2 00:24:05 So, um, okay. I am I we have to go. I have to go to Santa Monica. Speaker 1 00:24:12 Um, no problem. Speaker 2 00:24:14 It's the child is leaving me in two weeks so. Ignore my tearful eyes over the next couple of weeks. Speaker 3 00:24:22 I understand, I understand one quick thing before you go. So we're doing the Foothill takeover on Monday? Okay. They're releasing a guy, so it's going to be a similar situation to what we had at Sharp. Yes. I don't know if you can provide any guidance to Anton or Vlad on how we monitored activity from the person that was released at Sharp, just to make sure there wasn't any nefarious. Speaker 3 00:25:03 Stuff going on, so that we can. I don't, I don't have as much concern about the guy they're releasing here, but just to be sure. I don't know if there is any automated stuff we should be doing to monitor because they got a shit ton of old accounts that haven't had passwords changed for years and stuff like that, that he could potentially know. And again, I don't think he's going to do anything because he's not. He doesn't seem the type, but yeah, you never know. Right, So I don't know if there's anything we should think about doing as far as monitoring or looking at stuff, besides just firewall logs and things like that. But think about if there's anything we should share with Anton or Vlad to be watching for next week after they release him just to make sure that there's nothing that we. Speaker 3 00:26:02 In case there's something we can catch, that we catch it. Speaker 2 00:26:05 So do we have global admin rights to their tenancy? Speaker 3 00:26:09 We will on Monday. Speaker 2 00:26:11 Perfect. Is it that Chris guy? Speaker 3 00:26:14 It's Massis is his name. Speaker 2 00:26:17 Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. Speaker 3 00:26:19 Yeah, Chris is their director. Massis reported to Chris, but they're going to cut cut Massis loose. Speaker 2 00:26:25 Okay, got it. Um yeah I can I'll give uh I'll give Vlad and, Anton already knows how to do a lot of things because they're Microsoft based, but I'll tell him what I what I did. Anton helped me with SCHARP, so he got my full report. So, things I thought of and he didn't, and then there are things he thought of that I didn't. So okay. I think I think he'll be good. Um, I just basically watched everything. Okay But yeah. Speaker 3 00:26:58 And hopefully it's i mean i'm i'm, Not too concerned, but I don't wanna, I don't wanna miss anything. That's what it's about. Okay. Thank you. Have a good evening. Speaker 2 00:27:10 No worries, is that solitaire game good? All right, do what? I said is that solitaire game good? Speaker 3 00:27:16 No, it's not solitaire. No no, no It's not solitaire. I'm trying to I was trying to actually get something sent, and it's and it's not it's not going, so it's it's uh It's annoying me. It was something I needed to send out like. Half an hour ago, and it just will not go. And it's just driving me bananas. So, no worries. Speaker 2 00:27:35 All right, I am going to leave here. I got to take these kids to. Speaker 3 00:27:39 Be careful out there. I am actually going to be in L.A. next week. It's been a crazy week i'll be I'll be candid, but yeah, it's okay. Speaker 2 00:27:49 I missed you at the company party i I hated that that could go. Speaker 3 00:27:54 So It was a whirlwind. I was only there for like ninety minutes, because I had to drive to San Diego Friday night or Thursday night last minute, and then I drove up from San Diego on Saturday, and then I flew out on Saturday after the party, and then I flew to Denver on Sunday, and then I flew back Tuesday night. And it's just. And now I am going to San Diego Saturday night, and then I got a drive up now to L.A.. on probably Monday morning at four AM or whatever. Speaker 3 00:28:23 Because I thought the foothill thing was going to be Monday afternoon, like normal stuff, but now they want to do it Monday morning at nine. And, the only way I am going to get to Pasadena by nine. Am is if I leave San Diego by four probably. Speaker 2 00:28:38 So I am in Pasadena on Monday because I am swapping my days Monday and Tuesday because Tuesday I have a SCHARP director's meeting all day, which thankfully I left my laptop in Pasadena. On Tuesday, so my laptop's there anyway. So I will be in Pasadena on Monday if you need my help. Speaker 3 00:28:57 Okay, uh if we need it, we'll let you know. I think it's going to be we're already going to be four of us there, so I think we'll be all right. But if we do need anything, I'll ping you. It's good to know you'll be there. Speaker 2 00:29:08 Yeah, no worries. Okay, I'll talk to you later. Speaker 3 00:29:10 Enjoy your family. See ya Bye Thanks.
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07-07 CoWork Application Data Backup and Restore Procedures
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-  ## Core Synopsis CoWork can index and generate outputs into user-selected cloud folders (Box/OneDrive), but its local application history and workspace data are stored on the device and are not reliably portable unless manually backed up; Christi demonstrated a workaround by copying the local Claude/CoWork profile directory and using Claude Code with a scheduled task to sync backups to OneDrive, while noting a newly discovered CoWork setting that allows changing the CoWork data location to OneDrive but does not cover the full application state. The evidence: Christi set a project folder to Box for outputs, showed prior OneDrive-based projects with generated artifacts and scratchpads saved per-client folder, confirmed CoWork doesn’t retain history across machines by default, and walked through locating the user profile path (C:\Users[User]\Claude) to copy/restore manually; she also runs a Claude Code job to mirror that folder to OneDrive. The stakes are operational continuity and scale: without a standardized backup-and-restore path, new machines or crashes will cause history loss and ad-hoc manual interventions per user; with partial support for relocating CoWork storage, IT can reduce risk but still lacks a one-click, full-state restore, so process rigor must fill the product gap. ## Backup and Restore Architecture: What CoWork Saves Where - Project Output vs. App State - Outputs: CoWork writes generated files (slides, scratchpads, assets) to the user-selected cloud folder (Box or OneDrive) per project/folder; those are portable by virtue of cloud sync. - App State/History: CoWork’s local history and workspace live under the user profile on the machine (path shown as C:\Users[User]\Claude). This does not automatically migrate to new devices. - Current Behaviors and Constraints - Selecting a folder in CoWork affects where outputs go, not where the full application state resides. - Historically, CoWork does not retain history when moving to a new computer unless the local profile data is manually copied. - A new CoWork option now allows changing CoWork’s data location to OneDrive, but Christi asserts it’s partial (covers CoWork-specific data, not the full “Claude” application state). Net: better than before, still not a complete restore solution. - Practitioner Workaround (Demonstrated) - Manual Backup: Copy the C:\Users[User]\Claude folder and store it in a cloud location; on a new machine, install the app and paste the folder to the equivalent path to restore history. - Automated Backup via Claude Code: Christi schedules a job in Claude Code that backs up her Claude folder to OneDrive regularly, enabling easy replication across multiple computers. - Sorting: There is a local CoWork folder; Christi manually sorts/moves items as needed. The automated task reduces manual overhead but still requires setup per user. - Risks if Unmanaged - Device Loss/Crash: If the local profile isn’t backed up, CoWork history is irrecoverable. - Scale Burden: IT cannot feasibly perform manual backups for 20–30 users repeatedly without a standardized, templatized procedure. - False Confidence: Using the new CoWork location change alone may leave gaps if it does not capture full state. - Validation Plan - Speaker 2 proposed a test: set up two machines, attempt backup-and-restore using the discovered methods, and verify that recent history reappears. Recording requested for repeatability. ## Action Items **@Speaker 2** - [ ] Run a two-machine restore test: back up the C:\Users[User]\Claude folder from Machine A to OneDrive, install CoWork/Claude on Machine B, restore the folder to the same path, and verify history visibility end-to-end - [TBD] - [ ] Test CoWork’s new “change data location” setting: point CoWork to OneDrive, create history, move to a new machine, and confirm what restores vs. what does not - [TBD] - [ ] Draft a step-by-step SOP for backup and restore (manual copy and, if viable, the new location method), including screenshots and path specifics, for distribution to all users - [TBD] **@Christi** - [ ] Share the screen recording of the walkthrough with Speaker 2 for reference and training reuse - [TBD] - [ ] Export and share the Claude Code scheduled backup script/config used to mirror the Claude folder to OneDrive, with instructions for per-user setup - [TBD]
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- Jul 7, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Okay. Thank you so much. I just hang up the call with Sam. Okay, good morning. Good, Come on in and I would say, have a seat, but I don't have a chair. Give me one second, let me talk to Monty and I got to show. Yes. Yes. So let me show you how this work I'm going to share my screen, but let's record some things I'm going to go into CoWork. Uh, let me record it for you as well. So that you have it. Yep. All right now, so they're using CoWork. Is that correct? All right, So very first thing you want to do um is you want to choose your project or folder. Now, what I do is I will choose I'm going to go down and choose a different folder, and I can choose my Box account. So um. Speaker 1 00:00:59 So here's my Box account, and I can go in here and I can choose the full Box account, which is generally what I would do. For me personally, similar to Box is I use my Crimson IT OneDrive account. But for this practice, I'm going to show you Box. So I'm going to hold that in here. I'm going to say select folder. And then you can allow, you can set to allow or always allow. And what I'm going to do is always allow on this one, because honestly, my Box data, I'm not as worried about for me. Speaker 2 00:01:32 Does this mean that the whole box, right? Yes. You don't have to create first individual folder for it yet? Speaker 1 00:01:38 No. So what I do is I'll work, I'll use CoWork out of that folder. And so for this one, I'm going to say can you search for existing new hire documentation? Speaker 1 00:01:52 And gosh, or policies. Let me let me specify IT policies. Because actually needed to do that today. So I'm going to use CoWork to do it. Um and so I'm going to do that. I'm going to say search, um now while that's searching let me just show you something I've already done, um and that it saved it. So while that's doing that, I'm going to go down here. I have an AI training script that I created, This one I did it in the folder from OneDrive. And so I did it within the clients. And here's all the files that it did. There's a scratch pad that it worked on. And all of these files right here are located in that folder that I utilized in OneDrive. So, I always set my folder according to where I'm working. So for this one, I was in the Coateson folder, for this one, I was in the AbilityFirst folder. Speaker 1 00:02:49 Here's all the like, all the slides and stuff that I had it create for me, all my files. And then here's you can see Ability First was the folder. And here's all the outputs and the files that it created for me. Um, and it in all the skills that it used. And you can see the progress here. So when you're within Copilot itself, Just want to make sure that those projects that you create um are assigned to a folder first. And then that way it'll save all the documents in that folder. Does that make sense? Speaker 2 00:03:22 Um, so we're talking about you saving the document, right? But all this, all the history. Speaker 1 00:03:30 Yes, all the history will be there as well. So like this one, this was before I went into the hospital. So this one's been about three or four weeks ago. Actually May 19 th. Speaker 2 00:03:39 What if you get a new computer? Speaker 1 00:03:41 Uh if you get a new computer, this history won't save, It's by design in CoWork. Cowork will not save it. Yeah, that that part. Speaker 2 00:03:55 The document that I sent you, Sam mentioned this to Bob and they said that you can create a backup. You can. That makes sense? Speaker 1 00:04:05 You can and I do that using Claude Code. So my backup is actually in here, and here's the backup. Oh, wait, sorry, hang on. My backups in my documents. So I go into documents, all my backups are here. And so I have an agent workspace in here that has all my stuff in it. My chat logs, I put in there. And here's my main Claude information, my scheduled tasks. Now, I did that in Claude Code and I had Claude Code fix that for me rather than. - Claude Code? - Yes. CoWork isn't as easy to do that as Claude Code is. Speaker 1 00:04:44 And there is a CoWork folder in here. I sort things from the CoWork folder into other locations, but for the most part, all of my cloud stuff is going to be saved on the computer. Co-work, There's not a way to save those somewhere else because they don't have that set yet. Speaker 2 00:05:14 You can restore and having all your recent back. You can, I'm not 100% sure yet. Speaker 1 00:05:20 You can if you can, so if they got a new computer, you have to pull their profile. So let me show you on my computer. So I showed you everything from OneDrive, But if I go into my C drive and you know where a user's profile is, I'm going to go into users and I'm going to pull me up. Speaker 1 00:05:41 All my stuff is going to be here in Claude. So you want to save the Claude folder here. Speaker 1 00:05:53 If A computer crashes, you won't get, you won't recover it. But I keep a backup of this, but I manually do that. Speaker 2 00:06:08 That you can back this up to their box. So I see, I see. Okay, I'll, I get it. I get what you're saying. Yeah. You have to manually do that. Speaker 1 00:06:18 Yes, and I do manually do that because because I use multiple computers, I manually back this up across all computers. So manually sync this. Speaker 2 00:06:31 So basically if you install Claude on a new system, you just need to paste or, Yeah. Like copy and paste the data into the new computer, his history, um, his history will show up. Correct. Is that what you're saying? Yes. Okay okay, Speaker 1 00:06:52 Let's See I can just now Just a heads up I use cloud code to do that. Speaker 2 00:06:58 But you first need to use cloud code Well. Speaker 1 00:07:01 I I have it on a scheduled. Uh I have a scheduled thing on cloud code. That backs it up to my OneDrive, so that I can download it into the other computer. Speaker 2 00:07:11 This is something that we have to do it manually for this student. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:17 Yeah, because they don't make it easy. They don't have it where you can change the settings to save it in a different location. Speaker 2 00:07:28 I cannot just go in and do it for Sam or everybody. That's like thirty or twenty people. Yeah, It's gonna be a lot of time. So, yeah, okay. I get it. Speaker 1 00:07:40 Yep. Yeah, and it's it's a pain in the neck. They are going to fix Oh wait, You can change it Wait You. You now have the ability to change it Okay. So this must be new Wait. Wait Oh yeah, that can be Mine. Speaker 2 00:07:56 Is three Okay So. Instead of you can change it to the OneDrive Yes. Speaker 1 00:08:04 But it's not the full backup. It's just for cowork. So that's a good thing. But it's not the full thing that you need, so just a heads up. I. Speaker 2 00:08:19 Think I need to try to do one restore just to understand it. Yes, let me figure something out. I can get two computers running to prep for it. And we can try to back it up and restore. If I understand how to do this, then we know how if it's work. Yeah. Let me start with that. Thank you. I understand it, it's just that I've never done it so I don't know. Let me try it. Yeah, try it and see what happens. No worries And um gonna need this recording. So I can just go through it Okay Thank you very much. You're welcome Bye. Speaker 1 00:09:00 Okay, I am so sorry, Adrian. Monty had.
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08-03 Lecture: Microsoft 365 Copilot Workflows for Property Management and Accounting
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- Alere AI Training Session 3 - Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows for Property Management and Property Accounting. 2026-08-03, 13:33-15:06 PDT (~93 min; ran ~6 min past the scheduled 13:30-15:00 slot). ATTRIBUTION EVIDENCE (from content): 36 in-transcript references to Alere; host is Giancarlo (Giancarlo Foppiano, Alere lead contact per the client record); attendees drawn from the 3rd and 6th floor suites (Alere offices); audience is property management and property accounting staff. Calendar match: "Meeting: Alere AI Training 3" 13:30-15:00; Plaud upload 15:08 PDT (~2 min lag). NOT Karney Properties despite the generic 'property management' title. DELIVERY - Live instructor-led training, recorded with transcript so non-attendees can refer back. - Covered Microsoft 365 Copilot in day-to-day property management and property accounting workflows, Microsoft 365 Facilitator, prompting patterns, and role-specific use cases. - Live Q&A throughout; Victoria called out as the most active participant. - Attendance was split across the 6th floor conference room, the 3rd floor suite, and remote. FOLLOW-UP - Send all attendees the training deck plus cheat sheets and one-pagers (promised "in the next couple days"). - Attendees directed to email the help desk, copying Christi, for failures and questions so issues are logged and tracked.
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- Aug 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:15 Hello, Everybody. Hey, Christy. How are you? Speaker 1 00:00:16 I am good. How are you guys. Speaker 2 00:00:20 Doing? Great. Good people are starting to arrive. Um, Not exactly sure whether people are going to join in the large conference roomum in our sixth floor suite or whether they're going to join from our third floor suite. Um. Cause a lot of the team that's uh training today, um is uh from the property management, Property accounting and theyum sit down on the third floor. Andum so wherever they're most comfortable works for us. Um I just haven't seen anybody on the sixth floor one yet. So we'll see what happens. Speaker 1 00:00:56 Got you not a problem. I am pulling up my training documents now cause I restarted my computer right before we started. Speaker 3 00:01:42 Hey guys. Hey, Speaker 2 00:01:45 How's it going? Good. Christy's getting set up to start the training, so we'll be getting going in a minute or so. I am assuming that we got people kind of probably scattered in a lot of different places, you know. But if if people you know want to join up in the conference room, you know let them know t here is plenty of room in there and, And however they want to do it. Oh, you know, I think the conference room might have just muted. Speaker 4 00:02:20 Sorry, Giancarlo. Can you hear us now? Speaker 2 00:02:22 Now I can. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:02:23 Good okay. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:02:25 Thanks All right We're interacting. Speaker 2 00:02:40 So Christie, whenever you're ready, Um you know, feel free to to take control of the the meeting. Andum and if we could just record it and make sure that we're getting like a transcript of it, I think that'll be helpful for people to refer back to. Speaker 1 00:02:55 Yes so I'm going to record, uh usually I start the meeting and record, but I was waiting on everybody to jump in. So uh, let me get the recording, started real quick and just a heads up. I am turning on facilitator as well. We're going to go over facilitator in a bit. So if you've not used facilitator, it is a great tool to use. So I'm going to give you guys all the information plus on top of all of this, I'm going to be sending out to you guys a copy of the deck. And then we have some cheat sheets and things for you guys to utilize as well. Speaker 1 00:03:34 So, and that'll be coming later on. Everybody, that's in this meeting is going to get a in the next couple days is going to get an email from me with the uh with some documents from you, some cheat sheets and some one pagers. That's gonna help you as well as get an outline of what we talk about today. Um, a couple of things I want to make you guys aware of really quick. Um, the recording has started but I have, Two very large monitors. So if you see me looking this way, that is why. Um, because all my information is going to be on this monitor right here. Uh. And then you guys are going to be right here, along with my notes on the other side. So uh be aware of that. And for some reason, my Excel just quit on me. I mean not my Excel, My PowerPoint just quit on me. So hang on one moment, let me get that pulled back up where it is. Speaker 1 00:04:27 I rebooted my computer before we started the training just to make sure I was not going to have any issues. So bear with me. All right, so for all of you guys who I've not ever met before, my name is Chris. I am the CIO for Crimson IT. I also do a lot of the AI training and a lot of the AI stuff within Crimson IT. The AI portion of Crimson IT is my baby. Um, so bear with me because I am bringing up all my information. So it is going to be shared. It just quit on me real quick, But uh, I do want to go over some information on why you guys are here. Um and I want to go over some ground rules with you as well. So real quickly uh in the next 90 minutes, you're going to watch Copilot do real work in the apps that you already use. So we're not going to give you a features tour, You're going to see it in action. Speaker 1 00:05:24 See how easy it is. You're going to leave with prompts that you can try today. So just be aware of that. One of my major ground rules is there's no dumb questions. Feel free to drop them in. So if you're in the chat, feel free to ask the questions in the chat, feel free to use your hand raise and just ask questions. If you ask without your hand raised, I may not hear you because sometimes my mic will cut out as I'm talking. But if you do raise your hand or throw it into chat, I will get to those questions. I do have it up so that I can see as I talk. Um, I want to make sure that how many of you with a show of hands with with the exception of the conference room, how many of you played around with Copilot so far? Speaker 1 00:06:18 How many of you have played around with AI tools? Any AI, so Chat GBT, Claude. Okay, so a few of you guys. Are you finding that it helps with your day to day life? Yes. Okay, fantastic. I love AI. I use it all day every day. I actually have a subscription to all three major types. And when I say major. There's more major, but the ones that are top of the list is ChatGPT and Claude. I have subscriptions to both of those. I have subscriptions to Claude. Um, I have used the Google version. Uh, I can't ever remember what it's called. Um, And so there's a few things that i i can do across each one of those. I have my favorites. Uh Copilot is actually in my favorites. So just a heads up on that. Uh. Speaker 1 00:07:13 It has some features that I love, And so I am going to talk you guys through a lot of that today because I am super excited about it. But Copilot is, if you've used Claude and you use Chat GPT, Copilot's going to seem like it's running behind in technology, but they're getting better and better every day. Where Copilot was, I'd say a year ago versus where it's at today, it keeps changing. In fact, it has changed so much. In the last two weeks, that some of the things I'm going to show you may change. So I want you guys to be aware of that as we go through. There are some new advanced features coming in this next week or so that I've got, I was privileged to be able to utilize. So what I show you today, if it changes, it's going to be something that's going to be even better for you guys. So I want to make sure that you guys are aware of that. Last night, I sat down with Copilot, and I was working through a lot of the different features. Speaker 1 00:08:10 Um, within uh Word and Excel. Um, and it's getting much better. So, some of you guys are going to come out of this training, knowing how to do a lot of things within it. Um, and you're going to give me feedback and I'm going to be like, oh wow, that's that's even better. So I want you. Uh, I want everybody to send me feedback as you find out cool things. I also want people to send me back feedback if something doesn't work uh, And just be aware that if you're sending me requesting help from either me or the Crimson IT team, we love it. As some of the team members who've beta tested for Lear will tell you, I love when you guys give me feedback, because sometimes I learn something new, or sometimes we get to figure out together, what's going wrong. So okay, Copilot is. Speaker 1 00:09:02 Is an AI assistant, and it's built into the apps that a Lear already pay for and that you guys use on a day to day basis. It's the same Word, same Excel, same Outlook, uh even the same PowerPoint. But, now you have a Copilot button that reads what is in front of you and helps you act on it. Okay? It will get you 70% of the way there. It's going to require for that last 30%, it's going to require human interaction. Okay? So that part is still yours. And it still needs you, so I want you to be aware of that. It is not out of the gate going to give you perfect documents and perfect images and perfect things that you are working on. You are going to see a chat that I had this morning where it just didn't give me what I needed, and I argued back with it and said, "Hey, this is not what I need. I need you to make this a little bit better. " So just be aware ;. It's not going to be perfect out of the gate. Speaker 1 00:09:59 It's your job to work with it and get you through it. I tell people to think of Copilot as an intern, or any AI as an intern. How many of you guys remember being interns? Okay, some of you guys do. You weren't perfect. We had egos. I had a major ego, okay? My ego almost got me arrested as an intern. Long story; it'll be fun story. I think I've told some people at a Lear what happened, but it did almost get me arrested because I had a big ego. AI has an ego. Okay, I'm going to be very straight with you guys. So treat AI as if it was you as an intern and all the mistakes you made. Trust me, that's the best way to think about it now. Speaker 2 00:10:49 Christi real quick, There was one question in the chat, and this is I think your your point about where Copilot is compared to some of the other AI tools. You know, I think the question was like, Is Copilot not as far along because of security reasons? Or is it just not as exposed to some of the other information and the training out there, I guess to advance it. What what is your opinion on that? Speaker 1 00:11:15 I honestly Microsoft is a little slow to get um sorry I flipped forward. It's not as quick to get things out. For various reasons, it is not exposed like other AI tools. I will tell you tell you that Alec, There are some security features that are higher in Copilot than you would see in Claude or Chat GPT. But there is a variety of reasons that Microsoft is sorry, that Microsoft is a little bit slower. Part of it's just Microsoft's in everything and they're just slow. Speaker 1 00:11:54 Um, but just a heads up, and I am going to cover this in a moment. Microsoft actually builds upon both Chat GPT and Claude models, and it utilizes them in the background. So it hasn't made its own models; it utilizes other models. In addition, Microsoft has been very focused on a background AI called AI Foundry, in which developers build AI. So it's A little bit different. They haven't been as focused on the front facing, but they're getting there. They're making a lot of changes, so um, does that help answer your question, Alec? Yes, thank you. Awesome. I know it was it's kind of generic answer, so I do apologize. Um You have two front doors into Copilot. Um So one is inside the app Copilot, and these are the buttons that are in Word Excel. Uh. Speaker 1 00:12:50 Outlook, it's even in Teams and it's in PowerPoint. It's actually PowerPoint is my favorite. Um, It is grounded in the files that you're working on or in the emails that you're working on. And so you can tell it to summarize this document, you can tell it to analyze this. Um, and it works really well within um Excel uh and in all the apps. Now there is a Microsoft 365 Copilot chat that I'll be honest, I work in that a lot as well. Um, it is grounded across your whole work world: emails, files, chat, meetings. Um, it has been very effective in finding me files. So I want you guys to be aware of that. Um, If I go in here and I do want to make you guys aware of some things in here. So you'll see my Alere documents here. But I have three uh I have three One Drives. One of them is my personal OneDrive that's connected um. Speaker 1 00:13:48 Alere will only connect to your Alere documents. It will not connect to anything else that you have. So, just be aware that it also won't connect to anything that's on your computer. So if you have files that are out on the, in a location that's not covered by OneDrive, it cannot search those. But Copilot chat, which I'm going to show you right now, it is really good for overall broad So if I'm going in here and I need to find something, let me see. Uh, I need to find the cell number. Here we go. So I'm going to ask it to find uh, his cell phone number if I have it. Speaker 1 00:14:45 And I have a couple of choices. So, I'm going to tell him this one. Or earlier. And that's what it's going to look for. He's never sent me his cell phone number, which might be a good thing because I'm a better texter than emailer. So, but be aware of that. I have found cell phone numbers and things that I couldn't find before. So, uh, I was hoping it was in there, but it does go through. It looks in all your documents. It looks in your Outlook for emails, different things like that. So, it is really good um at chatting, and we're going to go over the chat interface in a moment. Okay? So uh, my rule of thumb within Copilot is if you're actually utilizing it for just one file, use the button in the app. If you're looking for it to look for things broad range. Speaker 1 00:15:41 Um, use the chat. And. So that it's really helpful in getting you the details and documents you need. Now, what is Copilot not? Before I flip to this page, um, tell me I want some volunteers and you can raise your hands. Tell me what you think Copilot is not capable of. Anybody? Speaker 1 00:16:11 All right. If we were in person, I would throw candy at each of you. But we're not in person. I do have candy. I have um, I think Tootsie Roll Pops are my candy of choice. So uh, for this week. But Copilot is not always right. It's very confident when it's wrong. Uh, it will produce a number that looks perfectly reasonable. You must always read it before you send, always Uh Victoria I just saw that your hand was raised. Speaker 4 00:16:43 Oh, I was just gonna say it can't like go out into the field for us as property managers, but it can get it can at least put together the data that we find exactly. Speaker 1 00:16:52 And that's a good one. It's not capable of that. Um something it's not doing I want you guys to be very aware of this. It is not sending your Alere data off to train the public. That is one of the biggest things I want to tell you. It runs inside Alere's Microsoft tenant, and Alere's Microsoft tenant I trust me on this it's very secure. Okay, so whatever is yours stays yours. Okay, and it's not here to replace your judgment. AI cannot replace human judgment. So knowing what variance matters and which tenant is a problem is that job, and it's that is your job. It's not going to replace you because it does not have that ability okay. Speaker 1 00:17:37 Um, and a question I get asked often with Copilot is this like Chat GPT? No, it's the same technology, But Chat GPT unless we've given it access cannot see your your emails and files. And what Copilot does is keep all of your data inside its walls. And uh, I want to make sure that I make you guys aware of this free tools, free public tools, even if you purchase Copilot or Claude. Uh, at the twenty dollar level. It's, it's going to give your information back unless you set the settings and you don't want to make those connections back into Alere. Okay, actually I don't think you can. Um, it is going to cause some issues if you try. So we don't want that data getting out. We don't want a Alere's data public knowledge. Um so that is the reason for Copilot. It keeps us very secure All right now. Speaker 1 00:18:35 Your files do stay your files. And something I want to make sure that is a big header here, Copilot only sees what you can already see. It inherits the permissions you have. So if Max doesn't have access to files that Bridget is working on, Copilot's not going to see Bridget's files. It can only see what's been shared with you, what you have permission to see, nothing else. Okay? So, just be aware of that. So, If Charles goes out looking for something that is behind HR's folders and Charles doesn't have access to HR's folders, he's not going to see it. Okay, so it's very very strict about that. Your desktop files, Your unshared OneDrive one, your unshared OneDrive files are private, and it's invisible to everyone else as Copilot. So. Speaker 1 00:19:32 Heads up, shared folders and shared drives are accessible exactly the way they are today. No one extra has access to those files outside of who already has permissions. Copilot will not open a single door that's not already open to you, okay? So, if you're standing behind a locked door and you're trying to get access to a coworker's payroll information, it's not going to happen unless you already had access to it. All right? Now, sensitivity labels that we have put into play within Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, those are respected automatically. If you have labeled a file as highly confidential, it will not surface that within Copilot. Okay? So be aware of that. Now we're going to I'm going to show you Outlook. I'm going to show you Outlook using my own inbox. Um. Speaker 1 00:20:26 A couple of things we're going to utilize with it is we're going to summarize a long thread. Okay, one click will read the whole chain, who said what, what was decided, what's still open. It does it in 10 seconds unless your internet's a little wonky. But it's not going to take 10 minutes. So be aware of that. And you're able to click citations to check its work. So I'm going to show you what citations look like. It will draft a reply and then iterate, So you can tell it, "Hey, this does not sound good." I call that arguing. So you're able to do that within it. And then the most important skill you're going to learn in this session, not just with the demo for Outlook, but in this session is never accept a first draft. Tell it what to change in plain English. One of my favorite phrases that I use in Outlook is we're going to talk to the person, but not at the person. Speaker 1 00:21:20 And I have to tell Copilot because sometimes Copilot can get passive aggressive and it's annoying. All right, so I'm going to show you guys my inbox. Um, a bunch of you guys have nicely sent over confirmation, so I do see that in there. Um, I have a few different things in here so that we're going to show you. Now, I get a meeting digest given to me weekly and daily, so it'll go in here. Um, I'm going to go through my mid not my midday check. Let me let me do this. Let me go down here and my daily briefing email. So this Um this a very long email, and you can see this has my entire task list, everything that I'm working through. It is very long. I get this every morning Um around 6:00 a.m. And, this something Copilot sends to me. So I'm going to show how to do this in more of an advanced uh training that I'm going to send you guys video links for. Speaker 1 00:22:19 But it'll send all that information into me every morning at six a.m.. I asked it to summarize, and you guys saw it took less than ten seconds. And this my schedule. Okay, there's some tickets that I have working on. There's some calendar entries, but you see the numbers here? So, this my. Uh this citations now right now. It's not working too well, and it might just be my connection. But sometimes, when it's actually working, You can click on it and it'll take you to the location of that information. So it's really good for just knocking things down. If you've got a long email chain, which I do right here, you can summarize this long email chain. And so here is the long email chain. Speaker 1 00:23:17 And it goes back and forth, and it tells you who provided what. And then, um, it'll go through and give you some information. And I do apologize. Every time I click on this, it opens up the email in another screen, and then I can see where the citation is. So it just did that to me which threw me off a little bit. Used to just uh scroll down. Microsoft keeps making changes every day so, Uh, sometimes those changes catch me in the middle of a training class. So be aware of that. Um, within Outlook, A couple of things I can do if I want to reply with a draft to something. Um, I'm going to go in here and I'm going to click on this. I have an option that I can actually click reply. So if I go to Copilot up at the top, I can summarize and reply. I can list email takeaways. Speaker 1 00:24:13 I have those options. Now, I'm not going to reply to a telecom message, but I am going to go in here to Copilot. I'm going to say summarize and reply, and I'm going to say send a reply that declines this invite very nicely. It's opened up a chat window. And then it gives out that email. Okay? Now, what I can do is I can sit here and I can copy, or, which I am going to copy, or I can hit reply here. And I'm going to press the Alt key on my keyboard and the letter i together at the same time. Speaker 1 00:25:12 And I can actually say here, I want to nicely decline this message, this invite. So you got two ways of doing it. Now it does take a little bit longer to write the email. And here's the reply. Now I can choose to keep it, And I or I could choose to take out the signature you included. And I don't know this person, so I'm going to leave it generic. And then I'm going to say keep it. Now, I can send this at this point. Um, I probably not because I usually ignore these emails because I get them daily. Speaker 1 00:26:09 Um, But you guys can see it will do the reply and it, and it will format it for you. Now, One of the things I'm going to show you today is how to make it reply in your own voice. Uh, there is a way to make it sound like you. And I'm going to I'm going to teach you guys about that in a bit. So I'm going to discard this. Um, But you can see the couple of ways that you can utilize Copilot and Outlook. Another one that's very important to me In Outlook is the prioritize. So, in prioritize you can actually give it instructions, additional instructions on how it can prioritize each of your emails. Now, if you see the up arrow right here, that means it has a higher priority than say, this one with a low priority. Okay I can add additional rules, so I told it to let Copilot prioritize my email on arrival. Speaker 1 00:27:04 It will show AI generated summaries in the message list, which is right here. So these are all in here. And I can also apply a low priority label. You can choose to only apply high priority, or you can choose to add a low priority label. Now, uh, here's my instructions. I have it if it's about camp, if it comes from my bosses Anzor or Pete, I can also add if it comes from. Speaker 1 00:27:36 And I can hit enter and add that. I can scroll down and see it. Honestly, every time he emails me, it shows as a high priority, so I don't really have to tell it that. But it does figure out based on my instructions. So lower priority, I can add to it, but you can see it already picks out low-priority messages. I can say if it comes, From, if it's if it is an invite to a conference or meeting from a vendor, I do not have a relationship with now. I did test this one on my other co-pilot, and it worked like a charm um. Speaker 1 00:28:32 I hadn't put it into my crimson one. So anything like this where you're invited is going to come back and start being a low priority message. So be aware that, it does come in handy. Now this is Outlook, any questions about Outlook? Nobody? Speaker 1 00:29:02 All right. I'm going to assume that you guys got the Outlook one. Outlook is very simple and basic. There's honestly not much to it. We're going to go over next Word. So, a lot of the things that we do in Word is going to be a lot better. I'm going to open up, bear with me one second, I'm going to open back up my document I made earlier for you guys. Speaker 1 00:29:32 And bear with me because I did just restart my computer. All right, so I have a cheat sheet for property managers. This this one of the things I'm going to be sending out. Now in here, I can go in here and open up Copilot. Copilot's going to be on my bottom screen down here, And so I'm going to click on it here to open up the chat window now. I have this. It's it's honestly not a full page. This one I chose to to save and edit this with you guys on the on the call. But what I'm going to do on this is I am going to tell it to make it look better. I'm also going to ask it, um, verify the wording and make sure. Speaker 1 00:30:31 It makes sense. Okay. Now, If you're looking at a lease or you're looking at any long pages of document like a contract or anything else, you can tell it to draft a one page abstract of it. Okay, I don't have a lease to show you guys, but if I did, One of the things I would write in there as a prompt is draft that one page lease. Okay, make it from this document. Include the parties, the term, the base rent, escalations, any renewal options and any default provisions. Okay. Uh, unfortunately, my vendors send over leases and contracts for me in PDF. So I can't show you in Word. But as I asked it to polish this document, you can see it's making changes to the document in real time and anything that's highlighted in blue here. Speaker 1 00:31:27 Is going to be items that it is rewriting for us to make it a little bit more polished, a little bit better on clarity and consistency. And it also takes in effect what you have set as your default verbiage, how you like to write things. And again, I'm going to show you guys that in a bit. Okay? So you can go in here once it's done, it's going to tell you what it changed. It's going to tell you Uh, give you the list of everything in here. It's going to show you all the edits. Um, and you have a choice. You can choose done and and actually make that a valid edit that is accepted, or you can tell it to undo. Now I'm going to go ahead and choose done because this actually reads a lot better than me. Um, I'll be honest, I when I put this together, I used my whisper flow and I dictated it so that. Speaker 1 00:32:25 You know, It would take what I had in my head or the emails that I was reading on updates for you guys of things that you would want. And I had not changed any of the wording yet for that. So the original document was my dictation to Word, And then Word just polished it up just now so that you guys can see it. Make sense? All right. Any questions or thoughts within Microsoft on how we do that? Speaker 1 00:32:58 All right. Um, I'm going to go ahead and minimize this. Again, I want to make sure that you guys are aware. Um, You can. You can actually have has anybody ever heard the term of vibe coding with AI? Okay. One person's heard it. Um, you can actually not vibe code but vibe write within Word, So within Word, as I'm working through this, I can actually choose to open a blank document, and I can describe what I want to draft with Copilot. So if you have something that you're working on that you want to draft, um, You can actually describe it within Copilot, and you can actually start writing with this. Speaker 1 00:33:50 So, one of the things that copilot will do is it'll look up the data that you have on your clients and your properties and your tenants and it'll pull that information. So if I say I want to draft a report for Alere, and let's say, I'm going to go over to go over the training cursors in the way training documents that we. Have created. It will start drafting that information. Now, All of my training documents and everything that I've ever written for you guys is actually located. I have a complete tech run book on your training and everything that I've gone over with the entire team, pilot training and everything. So it's got everything in here. It can see this folder, okay? It can see the handouts that I've created. Speaker 1 00:34:49 It can see my decks that I have created. So all of this information is in here. Now, it's going to create that report based on the documents I have in hand. And because I told it a Alere, it knows to go and look at my Alere documents. Now for me, um, I actually have a Alere in its own separate folder. Every one of my clients is in their own separate folder. So Copilot knows, hey go look at this to pull that. I didn't have to tell it. So, that's one of the biggest advantages of AI is when it knows your material, knows who you are, it's going to be able to draft things. Now what am I not going to do? Anybody? What am I not going to do with this document on the first pass? Accept it. Exactly thank you. Speaker 1 00:35:45 I'm never going to accept it. I'm going to read through this. I'm going to look at it. Um, I'm going to edit it because there are things in here that I know it's not going to get right. It's not 100% right, but just based on the documents I showed you in the last two minutes, this is the full report of what is capable of creating. Now, I am going to look at and say, did it hallucinate? Did it get anything wrong confidently? Get anything wrong? Um, so I am going to look at that. I am going to read through it. This is something that you guys can take a look at, um, As far as what the capacity is for Copilot and work through how it's going to how it's going to set everything up. Now the one thing Copilot's not good at is putting it in your templates. So I will say that I'll show you that in a moment. Victoria, you have a question? Speaker 4 00:36:40 Yeah, thank you. So, if we ask Copilot to put together, Say, like an agenda for a meeting coming up with our specific properties. Does it. It has access into our Alere shared drive and it has access into our specifically saved documents that are just ours? Yes. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:37:00 You're welcome and agendas are a perfect example. I always forget to make my agenda because agendas are time consuming. Um, So I'm glad you bring that up because it is really good to utilize for that. So, um, I am going to go ahead and minimize this. One thing I am going to say when I started using Copilot and any of the AIs that had access to my files and folders, I was not the most organized in my documents. Uh, it does teach you to be very organized. So just a quick heads up on that. Um. Speaker 1 00:37:37 One of the things that I do fail to do myself, and I want to give you guys a heads up, is add the honesty rule. If it's not stated, write "not specified" rather than guessing. Another way of wording that is if it's not stated, don't add anything additional. So, that's a couple of different things that I would put into a prompt on a normal prompt that I write. Um another way is to give it a source, a task and a format. If you have source documents That you want it to look at and avoid everything else. Give it those sources. And, one of the ways that I will do that is I will go in here, and I will put a forward slash, and then it will see what I have in there, and it's going to go through that. So, it's looking for everything related to Alere when it does that. So, anything any emails that are coming through different things like that. So if I go in here. Speaker 1 00:38:36 And I say training deck. That's my choice. Add at the end of this an agenda based on this presentation. It needs its own header and section. Make sure it Follows the deck exactly. And so it'll look at that document. Now this is going to come in handy when I show you guys PowerPoint, Because what you can do is you can take and create a deck in PowerPoint based off of a document. So, and I do that all the time. I'll write out my script for training, and then I'll have PowerPoint make me the deck. Speaker 1 00:39:32 I'll have Copilot make me the deck based on that training. So here's the agenda based on the Alere Copilot training deck. This is what it added in. It took about two minutes. I'm going to go ahead and just say done, and there you go. Okay? Any questions about that? Yes, ma'am? Does this have access to fixed? I'm sorry? Speaker 4 00:40:01 Does Copilot have access to Fix, that's a software we use for property management, to pull information from there or does it not have access? Speaker 1 00:40:10 It does not have access. Okay. Yeah. Now Microsoft is working on making connectors that go back into certain apps. There are a lot of connectors out there, but that particular connector has not been built yet by Microsoft. Now if you're using Salesforce and a few others, We have talked about with Alere later on down the line making those connections, but not every one of them is out there just yet. Okay. I am going to go off into Excel now. Okay. The most powerful thing for property accounting. And just based on what you guys have told me, Oh Victoria, I'm sorry, did you have your hand raised? Speaker 4 00:40:54 I did, thanks. And I'm sorry if you covered this, I had to run to the restroom. Um, I'm just curious if this is like Chat GPT where it starts to remember you? So like if I say like," I'm the SF Bay Area manager", and that's like a big file in our shared drive, will it then remember me when I ask for more information? Yes. Speaker 1 00:41:17 So its memory is getting better and better by the day. It is like Chat GPT and Claude. It will remember. Um, and we when we go through the app version of chat, I'm going to show you guys how to keep those memories up to date. Okay. Um, no worries. And, thank you because that gave me a break to grab to take a drink real quick. Um, With Excel, there's three rules I want you guys to be aware of before you start utilizing it. Rule number one, your data I say must be a table, but it should be a table. Okay, You're going to select it and press T. Speaker 1 00:41:54 Make a table. I'm going to show you guys what that looks like. Make sure that you have clean headers and make sure you don't have blank rows, okay? It will give you strange results and you're not going to understand why in the moment. And then rule number two, work in the file, okay? Don't work on it through Copilot chat. Don't use the desktop app. Don't use the chat in Teams because it won't open the workbook. It's only going to see the first thousand characters Of what the workbook is about, and it's not going to understand it. Okay, so if you want real analysis, make sure you open the file and use Excel's Copilot. And then rule number three is one sheet at a time. Right now within Microsoft multi tab questions will make it fail. You want to make sure you break it into steps. Okay, So within Excel I'm going to show you guys a couple of things that I utilize? Speaker 1 00:42:51 I do like to utilize a lot of different things within Excel. Let me pull up my test sheet. Let me open up Excel. It's thinking about opening. Don't ever restart your computer right before training, not being very nice to me. So when we're going in here and I'm looking at a couple of different things, Let me find my sheet that I'm going to use with you guys. It willum. Speaker 1 00:43:43 It's Opening, it's slow opening, but it is opening. Okay. If you've never worked with a table before, I'm going to show you guys real quickly how to do it. But for those of you guys, this is what a table looks like within Excel. I have generic data for you. I do have clean headers on this. The table does look like it's designed out. It looks a little bit prettier on both of these. However, What I'm going to do is I'm going to take my employees right here on this sheet? Speaker 1 00:44:15 And I'm going to copy it. I'm going to just open up another sheet just so that you can see what it looks like. So I'm going to have it paste the values. All right, so this what a normal Excel sheet would look like for most people. You might have decorated and made it pretty slightly, but this generally what it looks like. Now, if you've never created a table before in Excel, what I'm going to do is I'm going to highlight my table. I can do it one of two ways. And I can drag, And make sure I encompass my entire data set. Or I can go up here to columns, and I can drag and over and highlight each of the columns. Okay, when I do that, I'm going to hold the control key down and hit the T as in Tom, and it's going to pop up and say create table. It's going to ask me where is the data? Go ahead and accept what it has as default. And then my table does have headers, so I'm going to make sure that checkbox is set. Speaker 1 00:45:13 And then that's going to turn it into a table, which is what you guys saw a moment ago. Now I do have some Excel advanced Excel classes. I'm not going to do one with you guys today. Should you be interested, just let me know. I will add you to my next set of advanced training. Now within this data, What I can do is I can open up Copilot down here in the bottom. Microsoft did move it last couple months. I've used it so much, I start looking for it up here But it is now down at the bottom. And you can see I've already done a bunch of chats in here. I can tell it what I want to edit, I can tell it what I want to do. Um, I have a couple different options for prompts in here. I want to see how many employees are at the Alere? Speaker 1 00:46:12 Location. And what is the average salary now? While I'm doing this, I did ask it recently to get me some more details. Okay. So what I did was I asked it for spend analysis. This was created by copilot. Now for it to actually work in the training. Uh. It does take a while to formulate this, but I want to show you guys um while this is going through. Doing its thing. Um, it did come back with an answer by the way. It has an average annual salary of 90,000 and it has four employees. So I'm going to hit done on that, but I'm going to go back. I asked it on the financial data this right here. I asked it to analyze the financial data. Now when I did that, he brought me this page. It created me a full spend analysis page. Speaker 1 00:47:10 And it gave me what the actual spin is. And this is something that Copilot created for me. So you can give it an Excel sheet, you can have it set an analysis, you can tell it, you can have it formulate anything that you need, almost anything that you need. But do double check the numbers, okay? I will say out of all of the AI connectors that work in Excel Copilot is at this moment the most accurate. It's not going to invent numbers for you, so just be aware of that. But it will make you graphics, it will make you tables, different things like that. All you have to do is just ask it to analyze it. I also asked it to create me a vendor list based off of our vendors in the financial section, And so it created me the vendor list and how much we've spent per vendor. Speaker 1 00:48:06 And when the last transaction date was. So it will go through and provide pretty much almost anything you can think of as long as the data is within the document. Any questions regarding Excel? Just so that you guys are aware, do ask your questions of the data in plain English. You don't have to give it any formulas or pivot tables. You can ask it to help you create a formula or help it create a pivot table, But you don't you don't have to get overly. Uh, you don't have to overly explain it. It will build the formula, and it will offer to drop it into the new column for you. However, it's not going to do it arbitrarily unless you ask it too okay. It will analyze, It will create formulas, It will flag, It will chart all you have to do is ask okay. Speaker 1 00:49:02 But make sure that you start small. Make sure that is one clear question at a time, rather than a giant paragraph. If you've noticed in this training, I've only asked it short information, long information. It does not do well. I once walked away to go get a coffee, and it still was trying to figure out what I was talking about, because I gave it a huge paragraph of what all I wanted to do in Excel. Okay? Uh here's some prompts that you guys have What are the top five highest revenue properties in this data? And this based, some of this based off of your pilot team. Create a formula for the days between the lease start and the lease end columns. Flag every lease ending in the next 90 days, and then suggest a chart of lease expirations grouped by quarter. So those are some just some examples of different things that you can utilize. Speaker 1 00:49:57 One of the things I do want to remind you guys is verify the numbers. Okay, the analysis agent can estimate a total instead of calculating. It will look completely reasonable. It also will be wrong. So double check it. I am finding that Excel is getting more and more accurate as time progresses, but I still double check and spot check everything. Force it to compute if you know what Python is Um, and you want to force it to calculate something, you can do it and make sure that you tell it do not estimate. Okay, check any new workflow against a number you already know. That's one of the things I love doing. Um, I will rerun something on the previous month that I know the answer. And i'll, i will trust the workflow at that point. Okay. So if you're building a workflow within Excel. Speaker 1 00:50:54 Just check it against something you already know the answer to. Okay, if you are using Excel on the web, just a heads up, it does not work as nicely. Use open and desktop when you're working on a web version. And that way you're working back into the Excel app and Copilot does perform very much, uh very better. And then just a heads up reminder Uh, no copilot number leaves a Alere unverified. Okay, this is the thirty percent that is yours. Uh, so make sure that you verify any copilot numbers that go out. Trust me on this. I have stumbled in my own shoes for not checking something. So be aware of that. All right now, I did go over the trick with the forward slash I'm going to go over it again um within Copilot chat on any of the applications. Speaker 1 00:51:52 You can hit the forward and pull up anything from meetings to files and have Copilot actually work within that. So if I am in here and I am working on a document, I hit the forward slash and it's going to pull information up. Now you guys can see I've been working on a Alere all day, So the last several documents are in here of the things that I've worked on. And these are the things I was opening out throughout the day. So if I hit the forward slash And I say, "Alere. Here's all the things I worked on. Here are the meetings that I can choose from." This my, I have a loop. If no one's ever used Microsoft Loop, I will, I'm doing a training on that in the next month or so. It is a Microsoft item. So it'll pull up my Alere project meetings. It'll pull up any notes. So this a transcript from a meeting that I had. Speaker 1 00:52:50 And I can click on it and I can ask questions based on that. If I am working in a Word document and I need Copilot to reference back a document that I created, I can do that by using that forward slash. Also with meetings, you can forward slash and have it pull up meetings, okay? So real quickly with that, it does give you a lot of extra wiggle room in what you're doing. It also gives Copilot concrete information that it can work against. Okay. With this, you're going to find things the way you would ask a coworker. You can describe things that you remember. You don't want to tell it a folder or mailbox if I'm looking for something in there. Speaker 1 00:53:43 I'm going to ask it in plain language, okay? So this is very, this applies to all chat within all apps. Okay? You can tell it to describe it. Um, Copilot can pull every copy of a document it can see. Anything from last year's version to the duplicate in another folder, and it will blend them without telling you. So if you're looking for it to look at specific documents, sometimes using that forward sign Forward slash is one of your best options so that it knows what document to look at. All right, now any questions on Microsoft, any of the Microsoft apps and using Copilot in those apps? Okay, one last thing is I'm going to pull up. Speaker 1 00:54:40 This my old document, not my new one. This one that I was working on, and then I put it in a different format. But one thing I can do is I can go in here, and I can tell it to redesign a document. So all I have to do is open up Copilot, and if I want to change any of the design, if I want it to look at something, if i want it to rewrite something, you can do that same thing in PowerPoint. I'm not going to touch on PowerPoint as much as I did Word or Excel, because that part remains the same. But one thing I will tell you is if you go to open up a new and you want to create a new document, um, I'm going to say create with Copilot. And within Create for Copilot, I'm going to actually pull up a file. I'm going to create a presentation about Alere. Oops, I can type today. Uh. Speaker 1 00:55:35 And I'm going to scroll and look for a Word document. And I'm going to tell it to create a PowerPoint presentation based on the Excel data quick reference. I'm going to let this go while I go through everything else, because this takes a while. This could take up to 10 minutes. But, what it's going to do is it's going to look at the document and create a presentation based on that. And then your job is, That other 30 % is to design it and to verify all the information that's in there. It is a shortcut to creating documents that look like this. Okay, now I'm going to go through the Copilot chat. How, many of you have seen the Copilot chat that is on your start bar? Have you played around with it? No, okay, not a problem. It works very much like how you would do with Claude or ChatGPT. So. Speaker 1 00:56:34 Okay, I was creating cat images with my ChatGPT earlier today. So if you want to see my cute kittens, here they are. But, it works the same way as when you have the desktop app for ChatGPT or Claude. It's right here. Now we're going to go over a few things. We're going to have fun with it. Uh, how many of you guys um actually let me let me stop that thought for a second um. We have chat here at the top. Copilot is here. However, we have not turned on Copilot for Alere or I'm sorry, Copilot for Alere. Uh, Copilot works very much like the Claude Copilot. So if you've seen Claude Copilot in action, it works very much the same. However, It is a different price point within Copilot. So we've not turned that on in here is your menu. And your previous chats and your agents. Speaker 1 00:57:28 Now, I'm going to go over to agents in a moment. They're very fun, but you have the option to search all of your chats. You have the option for a new chat, and you have an option to open the library. Okay? And your library is going to show any of the images or any of the pages you created within Copilot. So here are my previous chats. I created an image earlier. You can create images like you would within ChatGPT based on an email, Um, I had it go through uh some previous transcripts from meetings. Um, where I was like, hey, who was who was supposed to order these switches? So I double checked my meeting transcripts. Um, I can go over, and I can say give me an give me an overview of a Alere. Speaker 1 00:58:24 And, it's going to look at all my files and all my folders to pull that overview of Alere. And it's going to base this information on everything I've had. So here is Alere Property Group. So here's what they're doing, rolling out 365 Copilot. We've worked on building governance, we evaluated future integrations. So this is all that I've worked on, key contacts that Copilot has seen, okay? Here's the business. Okay, Now we didn't need this part because I did not make my prompt as specific as I could have. And this is what happens when you don't make your prompt very specific. All right, now if I want to give it, I'm going to ask it to give me a detailed client briefing on Alere Property Group, and we're going to see how fast it goes. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. Speaker 1 00:59:21 Now, while I'm waiting for this, let me show you this Work IQ. I have it on right now. So, it's going to look at my documents and my SharePoint drives and everything first before it goes out to the internet. If I turn it off, it's just going to do more work from the internet. Right here where you see auto, that's where you can choose your model. How many of you guys and show a raise of hands? How many of you prefer Claude over ChatGPT? Speaker 1 00:59:51 Okay. At least one of you. I actually prefer Claude over ChatGPT, but only because I code things in my All right, two of you. All right, perfect. You can choose Claude down here. You can choose Sonnet or Opus For all of you ChatGPT lovers, There's nothing wrong with loving ChatGPT I promise I just don't prefer as much You have your choices here. You can think deeper or quick response now. I usually keep mine on auto unless I am digging into something deep. But you do have two choices, all right? So just be aware of that. Now it did give me a detailed client briefing. This pulling from my own Microsoft history plus public sources, so it's framed as a client debriefing, all right? So this all the information here is our relationship with Crimson. Speaker 1 01:00:50 Uh, what we have the current strategic initiative, which you guys are a part of. Um, adoption everything that I put in here. Um, and then like the technology environment and operational patterns. So it's giving me a very detailed brief. And that's amazing. And it also gives me sources right here. So I can I can click on this and see my sources, and it's going to pull it all up for me. So it'll look at tickets and uh emails that I've received. Now, if I look over here on the left, you guys will see this green shield. It's a reminder that data protection applies to this chat. You will see that green shield all the time. If I click on the three dots, I can see my recent pages, I can see any scheduled prompts that I have that I'm going to schedule. I can choose, I can set my chat settings. Speaker 1 01:01:46 The mobile app, which by the way, side note, mobile app is amazing. And then I've got some other options. I'm going to go into chat settings. In here you have the choice, some of you guys like dark settings. Here's, where you set your dark settings or tell it to use the system settings. You have your data controls. Okay? You can set up shared prompts and you can let people access them. Personalization is my favorite part. You can set custom instructions. Now, here's my custom instructions. I'm going to put it into this chat. Um, this is how I get all my AI minions, including Copilot, to sound like me. Feel free to utilize this or rewrite it to, however, you want to write it. Um, you that's where you set it and you can say hey. Speaker 1 01:02:43 I want you to talk to the person, not at them. It sets your work profile. So my work profile, I'm the chief information officer. I report to Pete. Pete is the CEO of Crimson. Skip manager is Anzor. Anzor's the owner of the company. So it bases that on the information we have in the system. You can turn on, I think Victoria you asked this question, you can turn on saved memories, So you can allow Copilot to remember details to provide better responses, and you can manage those memories in here. Okay, Charles Duplessis, if you guys have ever talked to Charles, his nickname is Charl. I had to add that information in there because in Teams, we will we will joke with Charles and call him Charl. Okay odd information but. Speaker 1 01:03:43 Copilot has saved it. And, then you can also let Copilot use your past chats to personalize your responses. You can also set up notifications, toast notifications. If, you've ever seen anything pop up on the left of any of your screens, that's what a toast notification is, so be aware. And then you can choose to pin to your taskbar, your start, all of that. On agents which I'm going to get into In a moment. You have some agents here automatically set up. For Crimson, we have Adobe Acrobat and Lucidchart that we use. And then for sources, we can choose and manage the sources. This is where you can connect different apps. Now, You can try to connect it, but we have to approve it. So that's just one of those things that if you need access to an app, you can email Crimson IT. We're going to get approval. We don't automatically turn it on so we're going to reach out. Speaker 1 01:04:42 And get approval for this. But there are a couple of different things that we can add. Now, Microsoft is increasing this list daily. HubSpot is there, which a lot of our clients ask for. Salesforce is there, Notion is there. There's a lot of different things out here that Microsoft has added, but it's not as granular as other ones. So just be aware of that. This list updates almost daily. So ZipRecruiter was not here last week. It is there now. Okay, now we're going to get to the more interesting things: agents. How many of you know what an agent is? How many of you played around so far and figured out agents? Nobody. Okay, great, because this is going to make my life so much easier. Speaker 1 01:05:38 I am going to real quickly show you agents. I'm going to talk to you about it from the PowerPoint. Everything so far has been about you typing a prompt, I'll be honest. An agent is when you teach Copilot a job once, and it can do that same job the same way every time after. You're going to give it same headings, the same order, The same level of detail, and that consistency is what's going to make the output good enough to hand over to an owner or an auditor or a colleague. And, then you can also build it to allow other people at Alere to find your agent and use it. If, you build a good lease abstractor once, and you have the formatting and the template down, no one ever needs to rebuild it again unless they have a better idea. Okay, a private agent helps one person; a shared agent will help the entire organization. So we're going to build one live. This is one that came over; I was asked to do with you guys. Speaker 1 01:06:38 Understood. I will act as a property management analyst at Alere and produce a one - page abstract in Alere's format based on the lease PDF. You provide. The abstract will include the following headings in this exact order: Parties, Premises, Term, Base Rent, Escalations, Options, Security Deposit, Default Provisions, Notable Exceptions. I'll use short bullet points for clarity and conciseness. Please send me the lease PDF when you're ready to proceed. If a term is not stated in the document, write "not specified." Never guess at that term. Cite the section or page number for rent and term. Okay, And then I am going to write it for you guys to show you how, And then you guys can write it and test it on a lease that you've already abstracted. Okay, you'll already know the right answer. So you'll learn exactly where it's really good and where it drifts. And trust me, AI drifts. Speaker 1 01:07:36 So there's no there's no risk as long as you're testing it out. Now, real quickly, four rules for an agent that people are actually going to use. You're going to do fewer resources, not more. Only add ten six to ten files. I'm going to show you where you add those at in a moment. The more that you add, the worse the agent gets, not better. So less is better, not more, It will dilute the more you add. It dilutes what it pays attention to. Okay, write instructions like you are onboarding a new hire. When you are onboarding a new hire, when you guys are training somebody new to your department, um, you give it instructions. You don't say just help me with leases. You are going to give it the row, this exact sections, the order, the tone, the depth of length. You are going to have to be as very as specific as possible. So that if it. Speaker 1 01:08:34 Needs to make a decision, it's not going to make one badly. Okay, make sure you build in the honesty rule. If it's not in the document, write "not specified" or never guess. The highest value sentence is is that one. If I can teach you anything today, if it's not in the document, write "not specified." If it's not in the document, don't try to make up information. Okay? And then make sure you test it against the work you've already finished. So I'm going to go back into my Copilot and I'm going to hit new agent. Now within this agent, I have some options here. Um, I can tell it to message the agent builder, Which is where I can let the agent build it based on what I say, or I can skip it, and I can write it all out myself. Speaker 1 01:09:26 Now, bear with me one second. Let me get, let me stop my my thing. So I can see my screen. I'm going to copy some pieces over. Now, if you're following along in here, I'm going to put everything I write in here into chat. Okay? So, I'm going to give it the instructions first. I'm going to name it. Now we're going to go over naming in a second. So i'm going to rename this. So where it says new agent, go in here and edit. And I'm going to paste that in there. Now the name is PMG and then Lease Abstract Assistant. Um, and then on the description, What I'm going to put in is turns a lease PDF into a standard one page abstract. Speaker 3 01:10:16 Okay? And. Speaker 1 01:10:19 You can only have a thousand characters for your description. So just a heads up now, I'm going to give it my instructions. Now I'm going to copy and paste my instructions in here. I'm going to say, act as a property manager. I already read this to you guys, but so that you guys get it. And then under knowledge, this is where I'm going to upload some examples. And remember, I only want six to eight examples. So when I go in here, I'm going to go into my documents, I'm going to look for those examples, and i'm going to add them in there. i'll say open now just a heads up. Speaker 1 01:10:54 You can only use uh doc Microsoft Word documents. You can only use PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel files and text documents. Okay? Those are the only kind of things you can use. You cannot use images. Um, you cannot use downloads that are from another app that that does not match Word formats. So be aware of that. You can turn on an option that says search all websites, but for this option we're not going to do it. And, we're not going to use specified sources because we don't have specified sources right now to utilize for this. And reference org chart, we're not going to utilize that. Now, if you want the capacity, you can have it create Word document, Excel or PowerPoint. I'm going to leave that on because we do want these making those documents for you. Speaker 1 01:11:48 And then I'm going to choose create images. I'm going to turn that off because we don't need to create images in this one. Um and from here, once you have it set, you can click preview and you can see what it looks like in chat. And this is an agent. Um now once I get that done, I can choose to create, so I'm going to click on create, and it's going to create my agent now. At this point, I can choose to share it. I can make it available for anyone in the organization. I can make it available for specific users in the organization or I can make it available only for you. Okay? And then all I have to do is hit apply. Now, I'm not making any changes so I'm going to cancel this, but you can see what options I have. So be aware that. Speaker 1 01:12:45 Once I've done that, I can go in here and go back over to my window. And I can go into agents. Now, if I don't see this right away, which I do see it here, I can click on more agents because it only shows a certain amount of agents. I've created a bunch of agents. I've got more in here. Um, so i can go in here, and i can take a look at it now. I will be honest with you. Um the agents i utilize i've got some image creators. I have one that will create surveys for me that I send out. I have a password generator. This one that is used by the company. It sets a password, it gives us a list. I start out my week with a list of twenty five pass phrases, So if any of you guys ever ask me to generate or to reset your password, this the list I pull from, and this list changes weekly. So. Speaker 1 01:13:42 Agents are what you use to kind of replicate your work, work that you do often. So, if you're creating documents and it's the same document for different clients or different tenants, create an agent to help you do that. Does that make sense? Now I've walked you guys through this. Is there any agents that you guys can envision creating with Copilot? I'm going to start calling on people this time. All right, Jackson, What is a agent that you could envision doing that can help you with your work weekly or daily? Speaker 5 01:14:32 Um, a automated to- do list that reads my inbox. Okay. Speaker 1 01:14:40 That is amazing. Um, I actually have that. I've created that. Um, and I can tell you guys it works really well. Um, I am making some tweaks. So if you guys would like to learn how to make that within Copilot, I will be sending that out by email next week. But that is a good one Jackson Erica what about you? Speaker 2 01:15:11 Christy, I was thinking about one that might be relevant to the property managers. You know, Based off, and this might be helpful to do something to update over a period of time, but interactions with vendors, right? Like providers that are coming out to the properties. Maybe being able to summarize, like how many times have we had have we used this vendor? You know what is what has been you know sort of the, Normal number of times that maybe they we've had them out there. What is the cost? Maybe using that to compare to other vendors that we might be getting bids from. That might be information that might be good to consolidate somewhere and look at over time. Speaker 1 01:15:50 Yeah, That's a good one. A very good one. Someone brought this up and I used it in one of my previous conversations is creating a tenant notice. Speaker 1 01:16:05 Uh, having an agent that will create a tenant notice based on um different things. So we were playing around with one last week. Let's see if it pops up. Um, So this one is uh where there's resurfacing of a parking lot and it builds out. So I'm liking all the conversations, because it gives me more ideas of things. I can mention in the next training. So you guys are doing amazing. Um, I'm gonna call on one more person. So apologies in advance. Um, Max, do you have any thoughts for an agent? Um, yeah, I feel like for my admin role, we do a lot of like service agreements and repair agreements. Um. So I feel like it would be easy to kind of make a template to find the information we input for those. I like that. Speaker 1 01:17:04 Um, if you guys would like to see one that's not related, I created one today because ChatGPT failed me. Um, it's my Eva image creator and that is pronounced Eva. Um i am I am very much uh Irish. And so basically I send I have two clients that I work with on a daily basis and I send out all employee emails. And so I created an i have it create an image Based on the email that's going out now, ChatGPT used to do this for me, but it's been failing me lately. And so I just put the same instructions into Copilot, and Copilot is giving me much better images. And yes, Eva is based off of my cat; that's real. And, she does love whipped cream, and she will drink the whipped cream and the cold foam off of my coffee that I make every morning. That is just her thing. So uh. Speaker 1 01:18:03 She's also responsible for the dark circles under my eyes because she wakes me up at 3 : 00 a.m. There are a lot of different things in here that you can look at for agents. Microsoft has a couple of different ones that you guys can look at. Plan My Day is a key one that you guys brought up, And so that is a morning briefing that uses your Microsoft three hundred and sixty five Be aware, I took That agent and I made it my way. So, here is my daily briefing that I mentioned to you guys that comes out. It has in there my schedule for the day. So, you guys are on here right here. It will for me ; I had it correspond with my tickets with my ticketing system, And then it gives me out my list of to dos and everything that I am working on. Don't worry. Speaker 1 01:19:01 Alere is in here in quite a number of places, and that list is longer than it should be. You'll also offer me an email summary at the end of my day. Let me find it real quick. I might have deleted them, but at the end of my day, it will give me an end-of-day no It did give me a midday check. I do have my midday, But I think my end- of- day i deleted them. So. You can set these up um and base it based off your to-do list. That I keep in Microsoft To Do, um, and other places. Just a heads up, I gave you guys the basics of where Copilot is at. Um, but Copilot's in a lot more things than what I showed you guys. It is in OneNote. How many of you utilize your OneNote? Yeah. I utilize my OneNote like crazy. Um, so you can see I have a bunch of OneNotes in here. Speaker 1 01:19:59 Um, I have an Alere OneNote. I don't know why it's not showing me my page correctly. Here we go. Here's my Alere OneNote. Um, if it stops blinking at me, but it'll show everything all my transcripts from my conversations and stuff. I can go in here and say, Copilot um and talk to it about what's in my OneNote. I'm going to that needs to stop linking, but you can utilize that in there So just a heads up, if you're the kind of person that saves all your data into OneNote, Copilot is in there as well. Now real quickly, uh because we only have about 10 minutes left, Um I am going to give you guys a really important piece that we need to go through. And that is how to name your agents. Okay? You want to name it so people can find it. And Alere has put together a naming convention that we want. You guys all to utilize. Speaker 1 01:20:56 U m. And so I'm going to show you guys what that looks like right now, um I am going to send this out. So everybody's going to have a copy. Is there anything missing from this list? I think this is something you sent over to me. Oh, Speaker 3 01:21:16 You're muted. Speaker 2 01:21:20 Yeah. I think that looks complete. I think pretty sure that looks like what I sent over good. Speaker 1 01:21:26 Um, there because agents don't have any folders, we want to make sure that it's filed correctly so people can find it. So this is the naming convention you guys need to utilize. Um, you want to put this in brackets where it is before the document name. So on this one is bracket PMG close bracket lease abstract assistant. So you're going to do code space the plain English name for the job. Name it for the work you're doing, not for you. Um, You want to search the code first within the agents to see what your department has already built. Does this make sense for everybody? Okay. Um, I am going to send that out for you guys so that you can see it um and have that in your email. So just be aware of that. Now, the guardrails. I want to go over guardrails with you guys real quick. Speaker 1 01:22:21 Sensitivity labels. Make sure you're utilizing them. Files that are labeled confidential or highly confidential are respected by Copilot. It's not going to pull any restricted content into an answer for someone who should not see it. Okay, So if you're telling it to write a Microsoft Word document and you're referencing other documents, if a document says highly confidential, it's not going to reference that information in the file that you're building. Okay? If you try to put in a social security number, a credit card, or a bank account number into your prompt, it will stop you. We put those guardrails in place. That is normal. You did nothing wrong. You're just going to have to rephrase without the sensitive information, okay? And this will allow you to experiment freely with it, okay? So it's going to not allow you to do anything accidentally wrong, okay? Now how to get help. Speaker 1 01:23:17 Crimson technicians are all well versed in how to use Copilot. In fact, all Crimson employees were required to use Copilot for the last 12 months. Now, Within the last month or so, we've given everybody the option of what systems they want to utilize, whether it's Claude Chat, you know, just because we're training on all the different assistants. But all Crimson employees are familiar with Copilot. So if you I put support here but it's help uh If you need help, send it to help at crimsonit dot com, not support. Start the subject line with Copilot. And then that way the team knows. We actually have some of our techs who are high or better with certain applications than others. This way it just allows us to field it. Um the email address will open a ticket automatically. It will get tracked. It does have a response time, please don't email us. Speaker 1 01:24:14 We want to hear from you, but for simple questions, uh email the help desk please. Um and then putting that prefix in allows us to see every Copilot issue, Especially as we're going through and and looking at the issues that you guys are having. Um it's going to allow us to see them quickly. And that way we can spot patterns, we can fix things if uh we see it coming through. Um when you put it in in the body put Which app you were in, what you typed, and what came back. And if you can give us a screenshot, it's gonna make life a lot easier for you. Okay? Any questions about this? If you do put in questions, uh John myself those are our two main texts that will respond back. Gabby will respond back, and then we have two or three that's going through training right now. Speaker 1 01:25:10 So, they are looking forward to hearing some of the issues because they want to deal with a lot of the harder things. So we need you to give us feedback, okay? Now, where everything lives and your one challenge, okay? I'm sending everything over. Your team is making a training library for you guys. So it's going to have every recording, every transcript, the summary. I'm sending over a prompt cookbook. And an agent one pager. So everything we went over today, um, Will get sent to you guys and so that you have it is going to be posted somewhere. Run Copilot against something you've already finished. Okay? A lease you abstracted, a variance you explained, a notice you sent. Compare it. Zero risk to you. Um, when you already know the right answer, You can verify it quickly, and it will teach you more in 15 minutes than. Speaker 1 01:26:07 Any training, okay? For those of you guys who love hands on, this is perfect for you. All right. Uh, let me know what you tried. Send it in the ticket. All right. Um, now questions I get asked all the time: Does it see my private email? Yes, only the things you have access to; it inherits your permissions never widens them. If you're thinking to yourself Christi, You've explained this to us five or six times during this meeting ;. It's only because I want you guys to get it and remember it. Can it be wrong? Yes, and it will be confident about it. For numbers, verify it against something you already know. I do not see the button. You guys are all licensed. Close and reopen the app, and then email help at crimsonit. We'll get that fixed. Will it replace my job? No, it will not. It replaces the boring seventy percent of your job. Speaker 1 01:27:03 Well, not 70%. It replaces the boring 70% of creating a document. Um, you guys know your job. You guys are excellent at what you do. If you weren't, Alere wouldn't keep you around. At least I don't think they would. Everything that I see and I hear about you guys. And when I work with you guys tells me that you know your job really well. AI is not going to replace you, okay? Um, how many agents can you make? Make as many as you want. Speaker 1 01:27:34 I have 56 agents right now. I call them my minions. You did not see them, you saw the ones I've touched in the last couple of days. But I have 56 of them that all have a job within my sphere of what I do. Make as many as you want, okay? Name it by the convention. If it's private to you, have your own private naming convention if you want, but if it's shareable use the convention that we've outlined Um, and then just a heads up, this is our last slide. Anyways, um I am going to make sure the recording and the transcript, the cheat sheets and everything is going to go out. It says today, uh, give me until tomorrow afternoon, because last couple of days, Microsoft has been really slow to get me the recap where I can share it out. Um so just a heads up. I am going to send it in an email to everybody that was in this meeting, if you did not get that email from me by tomorrow evening. Speaker 1 01:28:32 Feel free to email me personally. And on that note, let me give you my email address. I am going to put it in the chat. So it's just my first name at crimsonit dot com, and if you forget that, Chris at crimsonit dot com will work as well. Okay, Soum. Speaker 2 01:28:56 One quick question onum that support at crimsonit dot com that you sent out if. If people also use help@ crimsonit. Com, does that go to the same place or does that go somewhere different? Speaker 1 01:29:09 Use help. I mistyped support. One. Speaker 2 01:29:13 Of my clients is support at their company name and I just blanked out when I made this last month and I just noticed it for the first time. Okay, yeah, Good. I wasn't sure I'd use that one. So that was good to clarify that. Thank you, Speaker 1 01:29:27 You're welcome. And i'm going to send that via email. When I send out everything else, I am going to specify," Hey, this is help." I am going to change my deck. Okay. I updated the deck with everything you brought up last week. I just forgot to do the support. So no problem. Any questions that you guys have for me right now? Yes, Speaker 2 01:29:54 Go ahead, Alec. Speaker 5 01:29:56 This is maybe for you, Carlo or maybe it is for Christi. Curious, I was trying to follow along in the Copilot app that we currently have on our laptops and everything. And I didn't notice some of the agent buttons and stuff like that. Has this rolled out live? Or is this still in the testing phase with certain groups? Speaker 1 01:30:11 It should have rolled out live because I had requested the team do it last Friday. Um, I have not been, We require before I can change anything on your tenancy that I'm logged into VPN. And my VPN's been stuck for three days, so they just fixed it today. I'm going to log in after this meeting and double check, and if it's not there, I'm going to fix it. Speaker 2 01:30:33 Okay, perfect. And, the one thing I was going to point out Christi is like, if I, if I do like the the search at the bottom ofum you know, the startum dashboard at the bottom and I type in copilot. Yes, there's there's actually two apps that show up on there. Well. Maybe there's one that just says Copilot, and then there's one that says Microsoft 365 Copilot. In the past, I've made the mistake of clicking on the one that just says Copilot. And it just sort of gives me an error message. So I think maybe, I don't know if there's a way to remove that from our machines. So that doesn't show up if that's not the right app anymore. But I just wanted to point out that I think the one that they want to use is the Microsoft 365 Copilot one. Yes. Speaker 1 01:31:21 Um, Let me talk to the team and get that other one removed because that's the Windows version. Uh, but you guys definitely want to use the Microsoft 365 Copilot. I don't have it anymore on mine, so I forget that it's out there. Speaker 3 01:31:36 Okay. Cool. Speaker 1 01:31:39 All right, Um guys feel free to email meum if you guys have questions or anything I'm unclear help email help as well. Um, that way it gets logged and tracked. Um, I'll be honest and this just between you guys and me. Um, if you guys want to email both me in the help desk, especially on failures, feel free to do that. I'm a little slow on replying right now. Um but I will reply. The team may pick it up first, but I do definitely want to see it. So all right. Thank you guys You have been quietly amazing. Speaker 1 01:32:15 If we were in person, I would send you all some candy, but we're not in person. So I do appreciate any of the questions you guys have and everything. Victoria, you were my star player for today. So thank you for that. And I will talk to you guys later. Speaker 2 01:32:31 Thank you, Christi. Speaker 1 01:32:32 Thank you. Thank you. Speaker 2 01:32:34 Bye- bye.
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06-20 Meeting: Copilot License Assignment, OpenAI Task Follow-up, and CSV Upload Error
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- > Date: 2026-06-20 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] [Speaker 1] ## Meeting Notes ### Copilot License Assignment - There are existing licenses with unassigned users. - Two Copilot license types exist: one with six assigned users and one spare seat; another, “Copilot for Business,” with nine spare seats. - The price difference is about $9, with “Copilot for Business” being cheaper. - The functional difference is unclear; it appears one is an add-on and the other a full license. - Christi attempted a CSV upload for license assignments but received an error. - Christi manually assigned licenses to: Eliza, Juanita, Leslie, Luke, Michael, Mason, Richard, and Stephen. ### OpenAI/ChatGPT Task - The team was supposed to complete an OpenAI-related task but did not. - Christi indicated the OpenAI task needs to be completed first. - The speakers mentioned sending a list to ChatGPT users. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Define and document the specific OpenAI task and set a new deadline. - [ ] Send the list of users to ChatGPT. - [ ] Investigate and resolve the CSV upload error for license assignment. - [ ] Clarify functional differences between the two Copilot license types and confirm cost implications. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The root cause of the CSV upload failure for license assignment was not determined. > 2. The specific task for OpenAI that was supposed to be completed by the team was not detailed, and no new deadline was set. > 3. The difference between the two types of Copilot licenses remains unresolved.
- Date
- Jun 19, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi, Christy. Hi. Okay, so I think there's an existing license already, but there's no user assigned just yet. Let me know if I'm correct with my um So wait, Speaker 2 00:00:18 So I I just I was not at home or in front of a computer when I got the email. Speaker 1 00:00:23 So i mm-hmm i only show oh, Okay, I see. There's yeah, There's a copilot that has six assigned users, and there's one spare and there is nine spare uh but for Copilot business. Speaker 2 00:00:41 I don't even know what the difference is between the two of these. Speaker 1 00:00:44 Me too. So yeah, Basically, I think they only needum they only have 15 Copilots six of them already have. Licenses and the rest we need to assign, But I am not too sure if this is the Copilot business that they're looking for. Speaker 2 00:01:11 Let me see what the differences are real quick. Okay, and let me get logged into. Speaker 2 00:01:21 Because I I find I am finding that things that I thought was going to get done, did not get done correctly. Mm-hmm, which is why I am jumping in. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Okay, got it. Speaker 2 00:01:43 Okay, Wait. Uh, are they business premium? Okay, they are business premium. Mm-hmm. Speaker 2 00:01:53 Okay, it's fine. Um, let me do this. Let me figure out something else real quick. One's cheaper than the other. That's the only difference. Uh, ChatGPT, copy that password and copy the one- time code Arnie Property. Speaker 3 00:02:31 Add teammates. Okay, hang on one second. Speaker 2 00:03:01 I tell the team to only wait on Clause, and they ended up waiting on everything else. Speaker 3 00:03:18 I'll save as. Speaker 2 00:03:25 What am I doing? CSV Carney. Speaker 2 00:03:32 Dot CSV. Okay, upload. Speaker 3 00:03:36 CSV. Ah, Speaker 2 00:03:49 It did not do that right. Speaker 3 00:04:10 All right, Speaker 2 00:04:10 Let me try this again. Uh, all right. Who? Alex, Evelyn, Lisa, Mark. Sign licenses. I'm going to add Hang on. I I got to figure out how to do this. Speaker 1 00:04:36 Are you signing? Speaker 2 00:04:38 Did I sign? I'm trying to, but I don't understand why. I don't understand why they did it this way. Like, why why order two different ones? Speaker 1 00:04:59 Yeah, let me check if it was. Christi who ordered a different one. I think I can see, I can see it from here. Who ordered this? Purchase channel. Let's see. But is uh COPI business much expensive than the regular one? Speaker 1 00:05:29 One's uh about. Speaker 2 00:05:36 One's about$ 9 more than the other. Speaker 1 00:05:39 Oh, it says here 22. 05 per user and the other one let's see. Speaker 1 00:06:01 Oh my, the business one is much cheaper. Yeah. Gotcha. Well, I guess. I don't know with the function wise or features if, business does have less features than the regular one. Speaker 2 00:06:26 I don't know either. Speaker 2 00:06:29 There, well, honestly, it says there's no difference. Just one is an add- on. And the other one is a full license. Mm. All right. So let me try this again. Speaker 1 00:06:43 Okay. And I thinkum JASON sent. Oh, sorry, what were you going to say? Uh JASON sent the name of the users that still doesn't have the copilot licenses right based on the screenshot. I sent you. Speaker 2 00:07:00 I I had to take a look because I haven't looked yet. Oh okay. Upload CSV. Why is this not uploading? Speaker 3 00:07:15 Ah What. Speaker 2 00:07:22 The flying FRACK? It's not going through CSV. Speaker 2 00:07:32 No, it's acting weird. Members, JASON, pending invites, pending requests. Invite member. No, I don't want that. I want to upload a CSV. Speaker 3 00:08:11 Yeah, Let. Speaker 2 00:08:25 Me get let me get OpenAI done first because that was already supposed to have been done by the team, and they did not do that. Speaker 1 00:08:30 Okay, no worries. Speaker 2 00:08:33 And then I is there any way you could go in for me? Speaker 2 00:08:42 And take a look at uh the admin portal. No, hang on one second. Okay, I got a million things going on. Send invites. All right, um. Speaker 3 00:09:09 What is she? Speaker 2 00:09:15 All right, hang on. Let me let me try something different. Speaker 3 00:09:18 New visitor licenses. Speaker 3 00:10:08 Okay, Jason. Speaker 3 00:10:39 Richard, right. Speaker 3 00:11:14 Dang it. Hate when that happens. Juanita, Speaker 2 00:11:26 Wesley, Luke, Speaker 3 00:11:32 Michael, Sam's Nathan. Speaker 3 00:11:49 Richard, Even okay. Speaker 2 00:11:56 Wait, so Eliza, Juanita, Leslie, Luke, Michael, Mason Richard and Stephen. Right? A sign license. Speaker 2 00:12:18 Okay, I got them all assigned. Speaker 1 00:12:20 Oh, perfect. Okay, Are we good with the copilot? And are you going to send them to ChatGPT users? I think they're asking for a list. Yep. Okay. All right, I guess that's sorted out. Um, anything else Christi before we enjoy our weekend? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:58 Uh. I think we're good. Speaker 1 00:12:59 Okay, perfect. All right, so yeah, if there's anything else, I guess I hope everything will go smoothly by Monday. Let me know if there's anything else you need regarding this license. Okay. Okay Thank you, Christi Have a good weekend Thanks You too Bye Okay Bye.
04-22 Weekly Meeting: Department Updates, Hudu Migration, and Cybersecurity
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- > **Date:** 2026-04-22 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Participants:** [Sergio] [Christi] [Vince] [Speaker 4] [Olivia] [Speaker 6] [Pete] [Mike] [Anzor] [Speaker 10] [Seg] [April] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] [Speaker 15] ### Meeting Notes **Opening and Team Values** - Weekly meeting for April 22–26 opened. - Juno is primary; Kevin is backup. - Core value: “Do the right thing.” Ryan recognized for stepping up and taking ownership. - Quote of the day: “If it’s working, don’t touch it.” **Helpdesk and Operations Updates** - **Helpdesk**: - Continuing Hudu migration. - Continuing rollout of Auto Elevate to all devices. - **Operations**: - Hudu migration underway; IT Glue targeted shutdown by June 2026. - Pete at a conference April 27–28; available again April 29. - Bonus information should have been communicated by supervisors. **Cybersecurity Updates** - Significant influx of client-reported phishing emails: - Spoofing clients’ internal domains. - Suspected use of Microsoft Direct Send to bypass filters. - Defense.com deployed and live for Anderson. - Huntress agents rolling out for Nishida Wang. **Account Management Updates** - **Client Updates**: - EAP’s New York office going offline end of April 2026; moving to a shared workspace. - Auto Concierge opening a second warehouse in Belgrade at the end of May 2026. - **Documentation and AI Requests**: - Aleer security and risk assessment audits achieved one of the best outcomes in a while. - Team encouraged to validate documentation by simulating basic helpdesk scenarios in Hudu. - All AI integration requests (e.g., Calendly, Clod) must go to Account Management for secure approval. - **Incentive Proposal**: - Anzor proposed a reward program (e.g., $200 monthly) for most Hudu documentation updates. **Finance and NBD Updates** - **Finance**: - Quarterly bonuses for US employees paid with the April 24, 2026 paycheck. - Employees who started in February or March 2026 are not yet included. - Non-US employees scheduled to receive bonuses May 10, 2026. - **New Business Development (NBD)**: - Anzor focused on building the Crimson Bus (C-Bus) business operating system. - New business developments in progress; potential announcements in 3–4 weeks. **Project and Change Management Updates** - **Onboarding**: - Wong and Associates onboarded April 21, 2026. - **Sharp Locations System Update**: - Badging system at all Sharp locations to be updated starting next week. - Route non-working badge tickets to Gaston. - Route alarm-related tickets to Christi. - **Inter Compliance Project**: - VPN requirement removed for connecting to Cloud PCs at their office. - Testing VM relocation to Europe to assess performance improvements. - Exploring eliminating VPN for Crimson IT personnel; meeting scheduled. **Admin Team Updates** - Keep Admin informed of any billing-impacting changes (subscription additions/removals). - For hardware/software quotes, provide detailed, specific requests to avoid errors. - MS and fix DS billing begins April 23, 2026; inform Admin of all onboarding/off-boarding for accurate billing. **Training and Technical Updates** - **Microsoft OneDrive Update**: - New option to shorten OneDrive path names within a Microsoft tenant. - Helps resolve long file path issues on local machines. - Anzor advised caution; pilot test targeted for July 1, 2026 before broader rollout. - **Microsoft Outlook Issue**: - April 15, 2026 Outlook update causes “800OE” sync errors with Google POP accounts. - Not a password issue; Microsoft is working on a fix. - Temporary workaround: use Gmail on the web. **Open Positions** - Open on-prem role at Weingart for a security access control and camera technician. - Requires driving to remote sites and hands-on technical work; training provided. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Send all AI integration requests to Account Management for review and approval. - [ ] Pete, Mike, and Vince to discuss the proposed Hudu documentation reward program and define a decision timeline. - [ ] Technical teams to include detailed, specific requirements in hardware/software quote requests. - [ ] Inform the Admin team of any onboarding, off-boarding, or subscription changes impacting billing. - [ ] Schedule and scope the OneDrive path-shortening pilot for July 1, 2026 (participants, tenants, success criteria). - [ ] Jason to draft and share job requirements for the Weingart technician position. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following unresolved items without clear action plans; please prioritize: > 1. No timeline provided for Microsoft’s fix to the Outlook/Google POP “800OE” issue. Assign monitoring, track updates, and communicate the resolution when available. > 2. The documentation incentive program lacks a deadline and follow-up plan. Set a due date and owner to ensure a timely decision.
- Date
- Apr 22, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 I mean. Speaker 1 00:00:52 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:01:57 Everybody Is so quiet for a good morning. Good morning. Speaker 3 00:02:03 Happy Earth Day, everybody. Speaker 1 00:02:08 Morning. Good morning. Speaker 4 00:03:21 Okay, guys, it's my office for this week's EA meeting. While I am speaking, sorry. This is week seventeen, April twenty second and twenty sixth. This week's primary is Juno and the backup is Kevin. The core value I would like to highlight this week would be " do the right thing," and I want to, Ryan for always being willing to jump in, help out even though the issue is not even his to resolve. He helped me out with the issue the other day and took ownership of that issue as well. Thank you so much, Ryan for that. The quote I would like to share for today: "If it's working, don't touch it." We're not emotionally ready for what happens next. Speaker 4 00:04:18 Um, and then next is gonna be team updates with Olivia Helpdesk. Speaker 5 00:04:27 Good morning, guys. Happy Wednesday on help desk side of things. We are just working on the Hoodoo migration still, And then also, we are rolling continuing to roll out auto elevates to all of our devices. Speaker 5 00:04:45 And that's pretty much all that we have on our end. Speaker 4 00:04:50 Okay, cool. Next is Antong, cybersecurity. Speaker 6 00:04:56 Good morning everyone. Quick one from the cybersecurity side of things. There's been a massive influx of client- reported phishing emails, They seem to be spoofing the client's internal domains. We're suspecting the attackers are using Microsoft Direct Send to bypass spam and phishing filters. So just keep an eye out for those if you do come across them, but yeah, it's massive. It's touched several of our clients so far, so just a heads up. And then. Speaker 6 00:05:33 We're also we've uh deployed defense X for Anderson that's live, and we're rolling out the Huntress agents for Nishida Wang. Um, but Jeff, that's it from mine. Thanks. Speaker 4 00:05:47 All right, cool. Thanks Sean. Um okay so next is going to be uh operations with Pete. Speaker 7 00:05:54 Good morning. I don't have too much for today. Um, like Olivia said, the uh the Hudu migration is um is underway. We are planning to shut down it glue by June, so we do have kind of a tight deadline on that. Um appreciate everybody's diligence in trying to get all of that data moved over and have it entered accurately. Um The only other thing I have is what For the bonus information that should have all been uh communicated, hopefully by now if you have not heard, please check with your supervisor. Otherwise um I will be at a conference on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Um and I will be back in the office uh uh by I'll be available by Wednesday Thursday. Uh next week as well. So that's all I have for today. Speaker 4 00:06:48 All right, great. Thanks, Pete. Account management with Mike. Speaker 8 00:06:53 Um, I'm gonna let Vince go first. Vince? Speaker 3 00:06:56 Hey, good morning everyone. So just quick updates. Uh reminder that EAP the New York office is going to be going offline end of April. Uh. They are going to be working from a shared workspace uh. And then the second update is for Auto Concierge. Uh. They have a second warehouse in Belgrade that is coming up. Online end of May, so just a quick heads up for you guys on that. Speaker 8 00:07:23 Okay, and then from me, just a couple of announcements. Kudos to the team. I've been a part of several security assessments and risk assessment audits for Aleer, And this year, it looks like is probably one of the best outcomes they've had in a while. So kudos to the entire team in regards to the documentation. One thing you guys can do after you feel like you've completed the documentation is to pretend you're a level one, help desk rep and come up with some basic scenarios and see how quickly you can find the documentation. Please take heavy use of related items. So if you pick a server, We should hopefully have applications that are installed on that server. So it's very easy to kind of understand what the client has. So that's just a good way to test your documentation, just come up with a couple. Speaker 8 00:08:10 Like email scenarios or server down scenarios, see how quickly you can find that documentation in Voodoo. Andum, that's all I had for account management. Thank you. Oh, questions? Go ahead Vince. Sorry go ahead. Speaker 3 00:08:24 No no you go ahead. I just wanted to relay this to you guys. I am seeing a huge uptick in obviously excitement, and you know, questions around AI, right? Everyone wants to start getting onto that bandwagon and start integrating, Um, So just a heads up that if any of those requests come through as tickets, Especially in the form of like authorizing enterprise applications or app registrations for something like Calendly or Clod or anything of the above, send them to the account management team. Way. Um, That's something that we don't want to just kind of turn on for the customer. We want to make sure that there's a secure process in which we're doing that. I'll be working with security team to see if we can kind of S O P that process a little bit. But um yeah, just heads up but that's. Speaker 3 00:09:09 Huge uptake in that. So thanks. Speaker 9 00:09:12 Awesome. Great comment, Vince. As far as who do keeping it up to date, I think what would be potentially very beneficial is to have some kind of a reward system, right? So maybe we identify some kind of monetary amount. I don't know if it's possible or not. Let's say$ 200 a month and whoever stack that wins the most, like we'll have to think about it, right? But Pete and Mike and Vince, you guys are the experts, right? Might make sense to see, can we have friendly competition and ensure that someone has an opportunity to win the money if they update most amount of tickets. And once they do, they may be not eligible for next month or next three months, right? So kind of everyone has a chance to shine. Speaker 9 00:10:03 But something like this, I think would be beneficial. So if you guys could take this offline and decide, would be a cool thing to have, right? And maybe not just tech but everyone. Okay. Awesome. Speaker 4 00:10:18 Thank you. All right. Great next is finance with Elisa. Speaker 10 00:10:28 Good morning team happy Wednesday just a quick update thatum. Quarterly bonus for you as employees will be processed along with your paycheck that you'll receive on Friday. So, um, Computation of the, the bonus is equivalent to one point zero, one seven percent of your annual rate. Uh, just a quick note that those uh newly imported employees. Uh, in the middle of the first quarter, like February or March, are not yet included in the bonus distribution. Speaker 10 00:11:02 If you have questions, please uh let us know. Uh for the non US employees, Uh they are scheduled to receive it on the on May tenth, along with uh the April twenty twenty six payroll. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:11:21 All right, great. Uh thanks so much. Next is NBD withum. Speaker 9 00:11:27 Soum on my frontum, I don't have any exciting news yet. I've been spending most of my time building the C Bus Crimson Bus business operating system, right? The new platform. So, really excited about that. Switched my attention away from new business development, But there are some things that are cooking and I am hoping that in the next. Speaker 9 00:11:59 Three or four weeks, I'm going to make a good announcement. Obviously, we've got Maverick that was a big win and hopefully we can expand on that shortly. That's all I have. Speaker 4 00:12:13 Okay. Great, thanks Andor. So next any project or change management updates please raise your hand? Speaker 11 00:12:24 Morning everybody, as mentioned by Sean a while ago, we onboarded Wong and Associates yesterday. So onboarding is still in progress and shout out to the team. Um I think Monty, Patrick, Vana, Gavi and Kevin thank you so much guys. That's it on my end. Speaker 4 00:12:46 Alrightum Miss Julia Oh sorry Christy I skipped you. Speaker 2 00:12:51 No worries, Um, so just a heads up, We're going to be updating the badging system at all Sharp locations in the next week. Um, I'm signing that quote today. And, the reason why I'm giving you guys a heads up is because uh Sharp employees are very used to calling the help desk for anything that's facilities or uh IT related. So, if you get a call about uh, their badge is not working or anything along those lines, get the ticket over to Gaston. Um he can help with that portion um, Or anything having to do with alarms, get those over to me. So if you guys see that come through, But ADT is going to be upgrading systems next week at all SHARP locations other than one of them. Robert will tell you which one later in the mapping channel. I just can't remember which number it is. Speaker 4 00:13:40 Okay, great. Keep it sharp. Next Julia. Speaker 4 00:13:44 Inter compliance project is moving forward with Jason and Anzor focusing on getting cloud, PCs users stable and aligned with compliance needs. So hopefully this will be brought to the end some point. Speaker 9 00:13:60 Yeah, so so quick update there, right? We removed the requirements for VPN to go to their office, right? So now they can connect to cloud PCs directly. So that's step one. Step two, We are working now with Gabit to move a test computer closer from instead of running VM in US, it's running in Europe. And we want to see if this will improve the performance as well. So that's step two. We'll provide more update next week once we make some changes. And on that same front, we're looking into eliminating the VPN requirement for. Speaker 9 00:14:40 Crimson IT people, so probably by next week we're not going to have this in place. We're going to kill that whole VPN madness that we're dealing with, but this is yet to be determined. We have a meeting scheduled to determine and discuss it. Great, Speaker 4 00:15:00 So April. Speaker 12 00:15:02 Okay, thanks Maurice. Just a quick update from admin team. Okay, so just a quick reminder for everyone special, Our platform and tool champions or security tools champion to always please keep the admin team in the loop on any changes that may impact billing like additions or removals of subscriptions. So this will help us make sure everything is properly captured before billing. And second, for any hardware or software quote request, Please provide as much detail as possible or be more specific when sending requests to help us avoid quoting or procurement errors. Speaker 12 00:15:38 Since um the admin team or sales team has limited technical context, and we rely we rely on the technical teams input on getting things, right. And lastly, uh, we will start MS and fix DS billing tomorrow. And as a constant reminder, to please always let us know of any onboarding or off- boarding, so we can updateum billing accordingly. Thank you, Speaker 9 00:15:60 Awesome, and then A A Aabel. Um just make sure if you're getting a request right. And they're not thorough enough or missing information, push back, right? And let's not just accept it, right? Push back and say here is a good example how this is not sufficient. Right? And, let's start to train everyone who's submitting requests to know exactly what information you need. So it goes smooth. Okay. Thanks Azar. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:16:33 Okay, great. Thanks so much. Any training updates today, Chrissy? Speaker 2 00:16:38 Yes, good morning. So one of the things I am trying to do, I am taking a change in some of what I do. Some of you guys know about my minions. Anzar knows about how many minions I have; they're a lot. Some of them are named after people, So there is a Segrid, and there is an A pril;. There is an Olivia now;. She was number forty nine;. There is an Anzar, but his name is not A nz ar;, it's named Hugo. Um, and he does his personality does say a lovable Russian. So if you ever want to read that, let me know. I'll send that over to you. Um, however, that being said, Uh Claude has some new features, which I am not going to teach you guys about, but I am going to tell you about it where they added to my morning routine. So I get up at four o'clock in the morning now because I am old and I can't sleep through the night um and I start my day with kitten cuddles. Speaker 2 00:17:29 And reading and catching up, but before I wake up, Radar who is one of my minions he does my morning AI news scout. And, so if you guys are old enough to remember, what a physical newspaper is like me and Pete, this is what I do with my coffee. I have my tablet and I sit out on my hammock and I read through my morning news feed from Radar. And so he brought up some things today that I thought I would point out to you guys. And one of them is Monty on, Cause Monty's gonna love this one. Is she even back from vacation yet? Of course, only my body, Speaker 1 00:18:09 But not my mind. Speaker 2 00:18:12 So Microsoft rolled out a update to OneDrive in March and April. So if you guys have not heard about this, I was going back through and found it in one of my notes from last week. Um, What you can do on a Microsoft tenancy is you can shorten the OneDrive path name for the tenancy name. So for like Curated Wealth Partners, You know how we kept running running into issues with people who had physical One Drives on their computers. Because their names for their files were too long or their folders were too long. So I'm going to send you guys over the article, but basically we can go into the tenancy. Speaker 2 00:18:53 We can change how the OneDrive is handled with those long path names, And then we can deploy that change via Intune and sign the users out of OneDrive, delete the folder, sign them back into OneDrive on their computer, and it will re- sync with the smaller and shorter path names. So I know. Speaker 9 00:19:13 Incredible. Yeah yeah Chris so this is amazing information. We want to be super careful doing that right? Yes, Um, I think we want to identify who is having problem and pilot test this right very careful because the impact is huge. Speaker 2 00:19:30 So I put the article in there. Oh, sorry. Speaker 9 00:19:35 Well, I was just going to send given that it's very new, We might even want to wait like three months before we do anything. So as other people try it. And run into issues. Um they willum. That they'll update Microsoft and hopefully fix the problems. So definitely we should not do this right away if this has just came out. But but this is huge. Speaker 2 00:19:59 Yeah, It rolled out in March and finished rolling out at the beginning of April to the rest of the US tenants. So. Speaker 9 00:20:09 So I would schedule us for July 1 st as the first production pilot. Perfect. Speaker 2 00:20:16 So, I wanted to point out that one. And then the second one I wanted to point out was Outlook issues. And, you guys are going to see these with certain clients pop up if you haven't April 1 5t h updates rolled out. We started seeing this with a few people at Sharp. Kasia Khan was the very first person that hit me up on it, but I haven't seen more than one or two. But if you're using Google as a POP account on Outlook, It does not work in Outlook anymore. There is a fix that's going to be coming out. I don't know when it is, but the error message that you'll get, and I'll post it in here, is an 800OE error and it'll say sync errors. And don't waste time on the user's password because it's not a password issue, and Microsoft is working on fixing that problem. So that came out with the latest update. So as we roll out the updates to clients, if we see that come through. Speaker 2 00:21:12 Um, have them use the web version for right now for Gmail. Um, and then as soon as Microsoft has a fix, I'll let everybody know. Speaker 4 00:21:23 Awesome. Hey cool. Do you know you have a question? Speaker 13 00:21:29 Yeahum it's about the OneDrive thing. Um so if I got that correctly, um so you know how there's likeum limitation for one of the biggest issues that we have was like. If the file path is too long for OneDrive web versions, it's limited up to 400 characters, spaces included. And then for local, when it's synced to the computer locally, it's 255 characters if I remember correctly. So that the one that you mentioned earlier in the first one, would that be like the workaround for that? If I got it right. Speaker 2 00:22:09 That is the workaround for the desktop computer, the two hundred and not the. Well, Speaker 9 00:22:17 So it's not extending the limit to two hundred to more than two hundred fifty five characters. It's just if the company name is let's say Curated Wealth Partners, right? So now you are that you are starting. With a string of curated wolf partner anyhow to count all of those characters, right? So versus you could say CWP, right? So instead of a curated partner is 15 or 20 characters, right? You abbreviate to CWP and now it's three characters. So that reduces the length overall. Make sense? Speaker 9 00:23:02 But, but that's why I've said, we have to be very careful because that's a big change. And if someone's replicating files, Uh I haven't read the articles, but Chris said it first removes the files, then it recreates right for some people, this will take. Can you imagine it's like it's like. It's very impactful so we want to be really really careful. Speaker 2 00:23:24 And we have to physically. Speaker 14 00:23:26 We have a very long, very long Weingart Center Association and they hit that limit. Frequently, and it's frustrating. Speaker 9 00:23:34 Yeah, so so for them, right? Switching to WCA would be huge. Speaker 2 00:23:38 Yes. Yeah, Speaker 14 00:23:40 I need to do that if we can. Speaker 2 00:23:41 And, you are not going to delete the, you are only supposed to delete the files on the physical computer that's syncing. You don't delete anything else from that, And that's a manual delete that we would have to do in person or not in person, but remotely on their computer. So it's going to take us time to do that, but it is a viable fix forum, For some people that are that do have those nested folders that drive all of us in a little crazy. Yep. So and then I sent over the article information on the Outlook problem so that you guys have it. Speaker 4 00:24:20 Great thanks, Christie. Okay so uh next is the duck race with Christian. Speaker 9 00:24:27 Oh wait wait Jason I think has a, Sure. Um, Jason? Speaker 14 00:24:33 Yeah, I just wanted to let everyone know. I have a an open position at Wineguard for a uh security access control and camera technician. We will train somebody if they don't have experience, But if you know somebody, that's uh looking to get into that has a little bit of experience or looking to get into the industry, we'd like to talk to them. So I'm putting together aum, A requirements for the position, and I'll let the team know when when I have that available. Reach out to me directly if you have somebody that's looking for work, interested. They need to be able to drive to the remote sites and can do basic technical work. Pete, do you have any comments on that? Speaker 7 00:25:28 U h just that it's it is a hands- on and it is on- prem. Soum unfortunately, that is going to eliminate a few folks that might have just been interested. Speaker 4 00:25:47 Okay, um great. Uh, thanks, Jason. Soum next Christian, are you ready? Uh with that duck race? Speaker 1 00:25:56 Our big. Speaker 4 00:26:08 Um, I can barely hear you, butum, let's see. Let's start. Speaker 1 00:26:31 Let's go, Ciri. Speaker 8 00:26:36 Oh, it's definitely not going to be Ciri now. Yeah. Speaker 9 00:26:41 It's Colby. Oh my god, this thing grows on me. Wait, didn't Colby win last time? Wasn't that Colby? Speaker 1 00:26:58 No. It was. Speaker 9 00:27:00 I don't think so. Okay, Cause I was going to say this thing is rigged if you won two times in a row. Right, Speaker 4 00:27:11 Kobe? So uh let's hear those bands, man. Is. Speaker 1 00:27:18 Kobe here? See. Uh Kobe might not be here. It's. Speaker 4 00:27:28 Like he's not here. Speaker 9 00:27:30 All over again. Speaker 13 00:27:32 One more. Kobe is not here. Speaker 3 00:27:37 Let me start to. Speaker 13 00:27:45 One Moment. Take Mokey out because Mokey always. Speaker 1 00:27:47 Wins, so. I already won! Speaker 13 00:27:59 Let's go! Speaker 12 00:28:03 The Film was. Speaker 1 00:28:04 Shot in the city of Kozhikode. Speaker 15 00:28:29 Um, commit and deliver always friendly. Do the right thing integrity over profit and exercise extreme ownership in all that we do, um. Showing a great, commitment deliver attitude is Maggie, um she takes ownership of her task every day and she done it with. I should done it on time and with quality. Thank you, Maggie. Speaker 4 00:29:04 Awesome, thanks, Maggie. Um okay next is two truths and a lie with Juno. Speaker 13 00:29:11 I will we will run out of time. So I'll make this quickum I'm the uh I'm the youngest out of all of my siblings. Um that's the first one second would be. I do not like, um, I'm not a big fan of peanut butter. Like, I dislike it. Yeah, I am not a big fan of that. Second would be, I'm sorry, third would be um I have really big feet for my height. Like , I have Ronald McDonald feet . So. Speaker 4 00:29:57 Why do I feel like that one's true? But anyway, let's hear the first one. Who thinks that Juno is the youngest sibling? If that's true. Speaker 13 00:30:14 Do I look old to you guys? Well, Speaker 9 00:30:18 I mean, the rest of Filipinos are not moving, so I'm not moving. Speaker 9 00:30:24 You only got about seven. Speaker 4 00:30:26 These kind of things that you would just know. Right. Who thinks that Junaid doesn't like peanut butter is a lie. Doesn't like peanut butter. Speaker 7 00:30:43 So if you're the youngest, if you're the only kid, or you have an allergy, not because you don't like it. Speaker 4 00:30:52 Okay, quite a lot of people there. Wow. Okay, so I'm gonna go with the big feet. Yeah. My God, I'm also going with the big feet. Soum June, let's hear it. Speaker 13 00:31:09 Um. It's the second one It's. Not that I don't like it I'm allergic to peanuts Like. Does he? I will li- uh- I would literally you know i- That's unfortunate That's different, Yeah, so I would love to take a taste of peanut butter, but I'll be like, I think interestingly, I would like Pete to be the next one. Or did Pete already like run with this before? Speaker 4 00:31:39 Okay, so Pete's next. Thank you so much. Speaker 13 00:31:44 Yay! Okay. Speaker 9 00:31:46 Don't Forget that you already told us about your trip. Yes. Speaker 14 00:31:53 But is he going to be on the meeting next month? Speaker 9 00:31:58 Yeah, yeah. Well, I oh that's a good one. Pete, are you going to be on next Wednesday or are you traveling? Speaker 7 00:32:06 I will uh I'll be on. I'll be on. You'll be on, Speaker 9 00:32:11 Okay, right. Speaker 7 00:32:14 And I won't say the same thing. I said last time. Speaker 4 00:32:24 Okay. Does anybody have any questions or anything left unsaid before we close this out? All right, I guess not. Um, yeah, I just want to end this meeting by saying um for the chaos that we deal with uh every day, This team always figures it out, and um I'm really happy to be part of this team. Uh I really enjoy my time working at Crimson and with each and every one of you. Speaker 4 00:32:54 Have yourselves a great week. Thanks so much, guys. Thank you. Speaker 12 00:32:59 Thanks, guys. Bye- bye.
04-24 Pag-uusap Tungkol sa mga Proyekto sa Trabaho at Personal na Gastusin
- Notes
- # Pag-uusap Tungkol sa mga Proyekto sa Trabaho at Personal na Gastusin  Isang masinsing talâ ng magkakaugnay na usapan tungkol sa: (1) komprehensibong update sa aplikasyon para sa Nevada Gaming License nina Anzor at Katerina; (2) koordinasyon ng team logistics kabilang ang biyahe ni Katerina, PTO plotting, at Baguio outing; at (3) paghahambing ng gastusin sa kuryente at pagsasaalang-alang sa posibleng relokasyon sa labas ng lungsod. Ang mga punto ay inilatag nang malinaw, tumpak sa detalye, at nakaayos upang madaling masundan ang mga desisyon, pangangailangan, at susunod na hakbang. ## Detalye ng Aplikasyon para sa Nevada Gaming License Nagbigay si Speaker 1 ng sistematikong update sa estado at proseso ng gaming license application para kina Anzor at Katerina. Matapos muling himayin ang mga hakbang (dahil naguluhan sa umpisa), naging malinaw na kailangan ng magkahiwalay at buong set ng mga form para sa bawat isa. Ang dahilan: co-owners sila ng “Crimson” at “50-50” ang ownership, kaya parehong may obligasyong mag-file ng “same set of forms” at parehong kailangang magpa-fingerprint, alinsunod sa rekisito ng Nevada Gaming. - Estruktura ng pagsumite: - “Sa dalawang folder yung, krimiid ko sayo and kay Katerina. Kung ano yung forms na nasa folder mo, yun lang yung fill outan mo.” - Para sa parehong aplikante, mayroon nang mga bahagi ng form na na-pre-fill ni Speaker 1 (“Finil-outan ko na rin lahat ng pwede kong i-fill out”), at “the rest” ay personal na impormasyon na dapat ilagay ng bawat isa. - Rekisito ng pagpapatunay: - “Lahat yan, kailangan i-notaryo.” - “Dahil silang dalawa, kailangan din magpa-fingerprint. Which is yun, required nga ni Nevada Gaming.” - Konteksto at kahalagahan: - May agarang pangangailangan na ma-submit at ma-approve ang lisensya (“urgent”) dahil may proyekto sa Maverick Gaming: “Hindi tayo pwedeng mag-touch ng system nila kung wala tayong license.” - Itinuturing itong “edge” para sa pagkuha ng mas marami pang kliyente sa gaming industry sa hinaharap: “Kung may gaming license tayo, magiging edge din natin ito na kumuha pa ng mga clients.” Sa kabuuan, malinaw ang division of work: inaral at inayos ni Speaker 1 ang mga form at proseso; nakahanda na ang mga personal-info sections para kompletuhin nina Anzor at Katerina; susunod ang notarization at fingerprinting para sa pormal na pagsumite. ## Koordinasyon sa mga Gawain, Biyahe, at Plano ng Team Pinagsama-sama ni Speaker 1 ang iba’t ibang operational at logistics updates para sa team, pati na rin ang personal arrangements na inako bilang IE ni Katerina. - Biyahe ni Katerina: - “Nagpabook si Speaker 1 ng airport transfer para kina Katerina na pupunta ng Paris ng Monday.” - Paglilinaw: “Silang dalawa ang pupunta ng Paris. Hindi, si Katerina lang at mga kaibigan, kasi magbibirthday siya.” - Ang mga personal na gawain ni Katerina ay pinapatrabaho kay Speaker 1 (“IE”). - PTO at team operations: - May “PTO (Paid Time Off) para sa May” na “ilalagay ni Speaker 1 sa Summer.” - May “roster para sa PTO” at “spreadsheet para sa observation” na ginagamit sa pag-ayos. - May nakuhang confirmation: “May nag-confirm na si Vincent.” - Baguio team outing: - “Tuloy pa rin ang Baguio team outing.” - Mga petsa: “Hunyo 20-22,” batay sa majority ng nag-vote sa poll sa “Team PH Hadel.” - May di-katiyakan kung makakasama si Speaker 2: “Hindi pa sure kung makakasama si Speaker 2.” - Issue sa recording: - “May alalahanin tungkol sa isang interview recording ni Marie Carr na hindi na-record.” - Posibleng visibility issue: “Baka hindi sa akin magpapakita [ang recording] kasi wala naman ako sa invite.” - Bilang tugon, may plano si Speaker 1 na “I-send ang link [ng recording] kay Speaker 2 sa chat.” Sa kabuuan, tuloy ang event planning at PTO mapping, may malinaw na petsa para sa outing, at may nakakaharap na technical visibility concern sa isang interview recording na inaaksiyunan sa pamamagitan ng pagbabahagi ng link. ## Pagtalakay sa Gastusin sa Pamumuhay at Posibilidad ng Relokasyon Nagbukas ang personal na bahagi ng usapan sa reklamo ni Speaker 2 tungkol sa pagtaas ng singil sa kuryente at paghahambing ng gastos sa buhay sa iba’t ibang lugar, na humantong sa pag-usisa sa relokasyon. - Singil sa kuryente: - “Dumudoble yung Meralco” — reklamo ni Speaker 2. - Paliwanag ni Speaker 1: “Neko sila dito, hindi Meralco.” At “Mas mahal kasi ang Miralco eh.” - Numero mula kay Speaker 2: “Ang bill namin, kasi naka-aircon man eh, 3K to 4 times 2, like, nearly 8.” (Inilahad ang halaga sa paraang halos “8” matapos ma-“times 2” ang “3K to 4.”) - Lokal na gastos (binanggit ni Speaker 1): - “Sa amin dito. 4K na nyo… Pero buong bahay. May renting pa kami, ah. Ako, 1,500.” (Iba-iba at hindi lubos na klaro ang konteksto, ngunit malinaw ang mga numerong “4K” at “1,500.”) - Saloobin at ideya sa relokasyon: - “Kailangan nyo na lumipat.” at “Mag-probinsya na rin kayo.” — mungkahi ni Speaker 1. - Power reliability: “Pero walang, meron naman power interruption. Sa Baguio, isaglit.” — ayon kay Speaker 2. - Availability at gastos sa lugar: - “Wala na kasing place dyan sa Baguio.” / “Gusto namin sa Baguio, kaso wala ang place.” — hamon sa housing. - Babala ni Speaker 1: “Huwag kang mag-Baguio City. Feeling ko mahal na kasi doon.” - Paglilinaw: “Hindi nga Baguio mismo. Malapit.” — tugon ni Speaker 2. - Puwestong pinaguusapan: “Boundary ng La Trinidad?” at pagbanggit ni Speaker 2 ng mga lugar “pababa pa… Sala Trinidad. Lagpas pa…” (hindi ganap na tiyak ang eksaktong pangalan). - Traffic at work setup: - “Ang pangit kasi din, kung papunta kang town naman from Trinidad, yun yung traffic.” — obserbasyon ni Speaker 1. - “Pero kung sanay ka naman ng traffic ng Manila, walang, wala yun.” — dagdag ni Speaker 1. - “Hindi na lalabas lagi? Work from home? True.” — tugon ni Speaker 2. - Tanong sa gastos: “Magkano ba ano dyan? Expense-like yung mga rent? Hindi sa Baguio, ha? Sa napag-uusapan.” — interes ni Speaker 2. - Wordplay sa “migrate”: “Kasi kung magmamigrate kami, migrate!” … “Mayagrit ng city.” — biruan ni Speaker 2. - Personal na karanasan ni Speaker 1: - “Naisip ko na nga din, lumipat dyan dati sa Baguio. Nung single pa ako.” - “Nag-anap. Mag-try na nga ako ng ano eh. Groups ng mga, apartments sa Baguio. Ganyan-ganyan.” - “Nagustuhan ko dyan nung pumunta ako dyan one time.” Sa kabuuan, naipinta ang mataas na gastos sa kuryente at pagtingin sa relokasyon bilang posibleng tugon, kabilang ang paghahanap ng alternatibong lokasyon malapit sa Baguio (hal. La Trinidad), na may pansin sa availability, renta, traffic, at WFH setup. ## Action Items - @Speaker 1 - [ ] I-plot ang mga PTO (Paid Time Off) ng team para sa May sa Summer at ipaalam sa team para ma-check kung tama - [TBD] - [ ] I-follow up ang Baguio team outing batay sa poll sa Team PH Hadel - Monday - [ ] I-send ang link ng recorded interview ni Marie Carr sa group chat ng team - [TBD] - [ ] I-send ang link ng recorded interview kay Speaker 2 sa chat para ma-access - [TBD]
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Yes. Speaker 1 00:00:04 Pinagbuti ka nag-aralan ko Itong gaming license na to. Sa akin pala, Siya nakaasa. Kung hindi niya Maintindihan. Speaker 1 00:00:12 Buti na lang. Hindi ko maintindihan. Ano dito mga form, Ang kailangan kong isubmit? Ganto to answer, ganto yan. You see? Sa dalawang folder yung, Krimiid ko sayo and kay Katerina. Kung ano yung forms na nasa folder mo, Yun lang yung fill outan mo. Pero lahat, Yan, okay na. The rest, may easy jong form na Kailangan nalang ng mga personal info mo. And then, ganoon din kay Katarina. Finil-outan ko na rin lahat ng pwede kong i-fill out. The rest, siya na rin bahala. At lahat yan, Kailangan i-notaryo. Ganon. Speaker 2 00:00:42 Tapos, yan. Malay talaga ni Ever Wonderful April. Diyos ko. Alam mo, hindi naman ako tagay. Kaya hindi kaya yung Bambang. Speaker 1 00:00:50 Ay, gagaw. Speaker 1 00:00:53 Kaya po rin nalang talaga kanina. Inisa-isa ko ulit yung steps, kasi noong una Medyo naguguluhan. Doon ko na Nalaman na Dapat pala silang dalawa, Since silang dalawa yung ina-apply ko, For license, dapat Silang dalawa ay may, Sets of forms na i-file talaga. Kumbaga, pareha silang may, I-file na set of forms. Hindi si Anzor lang. So, dalawa sila. Speaker 2 00:01:19 By co-borrowers, mga ganun Lumalabas pa. Speaker 1 00:01:22 Co-owner kasi sila. 50-50 sila eh. Sa ownership ni Crimson. So, kailangan pareha sila mag-file, Ng same set of forms. And dahil silang dalawa, kailangan din Magpa-fingerprint. Which is yun. Required nga ni Nevada Gaming. Speaker 2 00:01:38 Ano yan? Ano yung Nevada Gaming? Speaker 1 00:01:40 Kasi nga, diba, meron tayong, Maverick Gaming na recently si Nine for a project. Hindi tayo pwedeng Mag-touch ng system nila Kung wala tayong license. And, Kung may gaming license tayo, Magiging edge din natin ito Na kumuha pa ng mga clients Na nasa ganitong industry. Kasi nga, meron na tayong license. Speaker 1 00:02:07 So, kaya yun yung Tinatrabaho natin ngayon na, Urgent na gusto na niyang Masubmit agad at alam mo yun, Ma-approve kasi nga Kailangan natin ito. Speaker 1 00:02:20 Ayun, e paalis pa naman si Katerina buo sa Monday Pa pala yun. Speaker 2 00:02:27 Alam mo, nabibenta yung booktong na hinahay. Umaman na siguro tayo. Speaker 1 00:02:31 Oo, te. Nagpabook pa ako kanina Ng airport transfer nila. Kasi pupunta sila Ng Paris ng Monday. Sabi ko, shit. Speaker 1 00:02:41 Ayun. Silang dalawa? Hindi, si Katerina lang. And friends. Kasi magbibirthday Siya eh, ang alam ko. Sabi, pati mga ganyan, no? Ah, ah. Business related, di ba? Hindi, basta kasi mga personal. Ako na yung pinapatrabaho nila. Kasi nga, di ba, IE naman talaga ako. So, ng mga non-business nila, Sa akin siya pumupunta. Including mga... Speaker 2 00:03:07 Na-receive nyo yung meral ko nyo? Speaker 1 00:03:11 Ay, hindi kami meral ko dito, eh. Neko kami. Bakit? Hindi kami meral ko. Bakit? Speaker 1 00:03:19 Mas mahal kasi ang miral ko eh. Speaker 2 00:03:22 Dumuduble yung, Miral ko, mga ate. Speaker 1 00:03:25 Ayan ba yung may kumakalat na Kaya daw may extra charge ko yung pinabayaran? Kasi yung mga hindi makapagbayad ng kuryente Yung binibigay as subsidy kine. Speaker 2 00:03:34 Parang tanga, diba? Speaker 1 00:03:35 Na kayo ang nagsholder. Speaker 2 00:03:37 Oo. Oo, yun nga. Tapos sabi ni miral ko, charges, Daw na as per Government, sabi nila. Speaker 2 00:03:49 Grabe, no? Kaya paano mo naman hindi babayaran? Mawawala ka naman ng kuryente. Para ang hino-hold up Nung wala ng ano eh. Speaker 1 00:03:57 Wala kang magawa kasi nga dito. Speaker 2 00:03:60 Parang legal ng pang-hold up. Speaker 1 00:04:02 Harap-harap ang kayong, Nakawan. Pag ganyan, Christian, magkano ang bill nyo? Speaker 2 00:04:10 Diba, Ang ano namin, Kasi naka-airport man eh, 3K to 4 times 2, Like, Nearly 8. Speaker 1 00:04:21 Talaga. Speaker 1 00:04:24 Kailangan nyo na lumipat. Sa amin dito. 4K na nyo. Pag-lagyan na daw kayo. Pero buong bahay. Buong bahay na yun. May renting pa kami, ah. Ako, 1,500. 4K? Wow, 1,500. Magda magbukas aircon. Oo, si Bas, Ang kapangis siya. Mag-probinsya na rin kayo. Speaker 2 00:04:48 Pero walang, meron naman power interruption. Sa Baguio, isaglit. Wala na kasing place dyan sa Baguio. Gusto namin sa Baguio, Kaso wala ang place. Wala ba? Speaker 2 00:05:00 Merong malapit sa bandang. Speaker 1 00:05:03 Alam mo, huwag kang mag-Baguio City. Feeling ko mahal na kasi doon. Speaker 2 00:05:06 Hindi nga, hindi nga Baguio mismo. Malapit. Speaker 1 00:05:09 Boundary ng, La Trinidad? Speaker 2 00:05:13 Yon, yon, yon. Yung pababa pa, Mags. Ano ba yung paano pa doon, Maggy? Sala Trinidad. Lagpas pa. Yung medyo konti na lang, Yung bahay talaga. Anong lugar ba yun? Speaker 2 00:05:25 Medyo pababa na. Medyo pababa na eh. Inakita namin. Speaker 1 00:05:29 Ang pangit kasi din, Kung papunta kang town naman From Trinidad, yun yung, Traffic. Pero kung sanay ka naman Ng traffic ng Manila, may walang, Wala yun. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Carribells. Speaker 2 00:05:43 So, hindi na lalabas lagi? Work from home? True. Speaker 2 00:05:52 Hindi pa namin alam. Speaker 2 00:05:55 Magkano ba ano dyan? Expense-like yung mga rent? Hindi sa Baguio, ha? Sa napag-uusapan. Speaker 2 00:06:05 Kasi kung magmamigrate kami, migrate! Speaker 2 00:06:09 Migrate? Di ba masayang? Speaker 2 00:06:12 Bansa yan? Speaker 2 00:06:15 Mayagrit ng city. Speaker 2 00:06:18 Mabisit. Diba? And then, Kapat-dando kami sa ano? So, magiging Comfortable tapos, Mura-mura lang. Speaker 1 00:06:26 Naisip ko na nga din, Lumipat dyan dati sa Baguio. Nung single pa ako. It's DM out. Nag-anap. Mag-try na nga ako Ng ano eh. Groups ng mga, Apartments sa Baguio. Ganyan-ganyan. Talaga? Oo. Kasi nga nagustuhan ko dyan nung pumunta ako dyan one time. Speaker 1 00:06:44 Tara na. Wala. Wait, 4.15. Hintay. Hoy, wait lang. Hindi ka pa nga ba nag-lunch, Christian? Nag-lunch ka na, di ba? Speaker 2 00:06:52 Nag-lunch. Kasi naisip ko, sabi ko, Speaker 1 00:06:56 Shit, walang matitira. Speaker 1 00:06:60 Ipanik ako ng very tight. Speaker 2 00:07:01 Ayoko nga mag-lunch out na kayo. Speaker 1 00:07:03 Ako, April, Ayos. Ayokon ko tong. Either mamaya Yung boss pa rin. Speaker 2 00:07:10 Magka-ano ka naman. Ano ka naman, Maggie? Naka-ano ka naman? OTP. Speaker 2 00:07:17 Do? O, yan dapat I-ano mo siya, Ano, April. Halimbawa. 5 oras. Pa-OTP ka. Speaker 1 00:07:24 OTP. Speaker 2 00:07:26 Si Maggie. Pre-OTTY. Speaker 1 00:07:29 Kasi mag-relieve ako Ng one week. Charo! So, yun ang kapalit, Christian. So, iwan tayo. Speaker 2 00:07:35 Ano bang ginalaman nun sa bayad sa'yo? Kailangan ka magpabayad, adik. Speaker 1 00:07:42 Papaisipin pa daw ni, ano, Paplanuhan pa ni Maggie, Yung kailan siya mag-one-week leave. Oo. Speaker 2 00:07:49 One week talaga, no? Nine days? Speaker 1 00:07:52 Oh, balingan mo lang po, latay. Speaker 2 00:07:54 One week, limang araw na mo, Nang pasok. Dalawang day, Ay, apat. One week. Speaker 1 00:08:01 April, yung mga PTO nila For May na yun, dun sa Summer, ako maglalagay Na lang dun? Ulit? Oo, i-plot mo na din. And then, let the team know na, oh, i-planad Ko na to. Just check if correct na lang. Sabihin mo. Sa roster. Hindi ako nag-confirm dun sa, Baguio. Okay lang, follow up mo na lang. Ngayon ko mag-chat. Sa Monday na yun, magsisagot. Speaker 1 00:08:33 Doon sa... Oigan. Kasi may spreadsheet na ako for Observation, sana. Speaker 1 00:08:43 Everyone, Speaker 1 00:08:46 Tuloy pa rin pa ang bagyo natin. Speaker 1 00:08:49 Yung zowa ako, Kahit hindi sanay sa malayong biyahe, Wala siyang magagawa. Magbonamin ka. Speaker 2 00:08:56 Street. Speaker 2 00:09:03 3, 18. Speaker 1 00:09:04 Ay! Speaker 1 00:09:06 Wait lang. June 27, 28, 29. Wait lang. Bakit naiba? Speaker 2 00:09:13 Sure. Speaker 1 00:09:15 Ito na ba yun? Akala ko 22. Alay. Di ba nagvote tayo? Mm-hmm. Speaker 1 00:09:23 Hindi siya 27, 28, 29, di ba? Weh. Bagyo. Wait lang. Speaker 1 00:09:33 Asan na yun? Speaker 1 00:09:37 Poll. Tinan mo, poll. Speaker 1 00:09:40 Let's do a poll para mabilis sabi ko. Oo. Tapos. Ay, hudu training pala yun. Wait. Poll. Speaker 1 00:09:56 Bagyo. Speaker 1 00:09:59 Ay, ito. August 23. Ah, hindi. Last year pa pala to. Ha? Ba't ikaw makita yung poll? Speaker 1 00:10:17 27, 20, 29? Bakit dito sa calendar ko? Baka sa Team Hadel, hindi kaya. Team PH Hadel yung poll. Ah. Speaker 2 00:10:25 Oo, nandoon. Nandoon ata. Baka nandoon nagpag-usapan yun. Speaker 1 00:10:31 Ayan. O, dito nga ate. June 20 to 21. Ah, okay, okay. Ay, 20 to 22 pala. Sorry, sorry. Ayun, sa baba. Kinorrect ko siya. Speaker 1 00:10:43 20 to 22. Marami nagvote. Majority. Speaker 1 00:10:49 Weh? Speaker 2 00:10:54 Wala pa kami dyan. Hindi pa ako inaaprobahan. Speaker 1 00:10:59 So, hindi ka pa sure? Speaker 2 00:11:02 I don't know. Kasi, Iisip niya yung Pasto sa May. Speaker 2 00:11:10 Sabi ko kasi, Huwag naman birthday Kay Lom si Jalib. Speaker 1 00:11:13 Uy, Grabe ka, First naman. Ito naman, First niya. Sabi ko, Speaker 2 00:11:17 Kaya nga kasi Hong Kong. Speaker 1 00:11:19 Ah, Sa Hong Kong na. Speaker 2 00:11:20 I-celebrate? Hindi yung, Initial na, Usap naman. Speaker 2 00:11:28 Wala. Siyempre, tatay. Provide ka na lang. Speaker 1 00:11:35 Mag-sign time ka na lang sa Adonis. Speaker 1 00:11:39 Online. Speaker 1 00:11:42 Online macho dancer. Sa mga naghahangap to. Magpapaluki siya. Speaker 1 00:11:51 Sa dami nag-tip ng chat. Ang dami nag-i-extrovert siya. Speaker 2 00:11:58 Umusit kayo. Taka-maskara daw. Speaker 1 00:12:02 Sabihin mo kay Sai. Sai, wala na tayo. Speaker 1 00:12:07 Sabihin mo lang ako magagawa. Ito na yung last resort natin para ano. Speaker 1 00:12:12 Pag mag-virtual Matcha dancer na ako. Speaker 2 00:12:17 Okay na ako. Eight months ago pa, Nagtumarano. Speaker 2 00:12:23 Spectrum. Richard. Speaker 2 00:12:28 I'll vote you. Speaker 1 00:12:38 Confirm pa lang sa akin. Si Ate Jane kaya? Sasama niya si, Panda? Speaker 1 00:12:45 Siguro, kasi may kotse na sila. Baka isama na. Ay, tara. Speaker 2 00:12:51 Yan pala yung pinag-uusapan. Congratulations. Ma-PM niya. Chika man lang. Okay, congrats. Ay, naka-offline na yung ate mo. Sayang. Speaker 1 00:13:05 Gano'n sila. May lakad ata sila. Speaker 2 00:13:08 Ay, naka, sayang. Ngayon nga lang. Speaker 2 00:13:12 Jason. Kailan niyo ba si Jason Grossfield? Speaker 2 00:13:17 Sini yan? O, wala. Hindi niyo kilala. Hindi ko rin kilala eh. Speaker 1 00:13:23 Ay, hindi. Parang nakikita ko siya sa mga meetings ni Andrew. Ay, yun, gate. Ah, yun. Iron Gate nga. Wala, nakikita ko minsan sa Mga sa calendar ni Anzor minsan. Anong pangalan nito? Marie Carr. Speaker 2 00:13:39 Jason. Speaker 2 00:13:43 Kasi ito bening. Speaker 1 00:13:45 OMG, hindi na-record yung interview Ni Marie Carte. Speaker 1 00:13:51 Di ba in-auto-record mo? Speaker 1 00:13:57 Wait, wait, wait. Walang nag-alert sa'yo. Kasi mag-alert yun sa'yo, Pag tapos na yung ano. Speaker 2 00:14:08 Magaling bang gumiling yan? Speaker 1 00:14:13 Totoo ba? Wala? Well, Baka hindi sa'kin magpapakita, Kasi wala naman ako sa invite. Speaker 1 00:14:21 Ay, inaban ako dun, May. Send mo yung link sa akin Kasi i-send ko doon sa group chat namin. Speaker 1 00:14:28 Okay, okay. Sure. Speaker 2 00:14:31 Ay, kamando na naman si Ati Maggi. Sinanong tayo. Speaker 1 00:14:37 Mapumuti na yung buhok ni Maggi. Speaker 1 00:14:41 Stress. Saka tayo dito, Maggi. Yung guti ko yan. Dyer the pain. Dyer the stress. Speaker 1 00:14:52 About an hour of the divide. Speaker 1 00:14:55 Ginusto nyo yan. Yan, trabaho nyo yan. Copy link. Paano hindi ganyo? Speaker 2 00:15:02 Hello, Jason. Happy Friday. Speaker 1 00:15:05 Isend ko lang sa'yo? Yes, me. Sa chat ba? Sa chat mo na lang. Kasi ito-check ko kung Ma-access ko siya. Speaker 1 00:15:15 Taga saan pala to? Speaker 1 00:15:18 Maricar. Yan yata yung kaloocan. Hindi ako nagkakamali eh. Speaker 1 00:15:25 Tingnan ko kung mapapanood ko siya. Speaker 1 00:15:28 Let's see kung gano'n siya kagaling. Pero nabilib ko na. Ah, ganyan nga eh. Ay, talaga? Nabilib na. Ako din. Speaker 2 00:15:35 Ako din, Trill. Ano? Speaker 2 00:15:39 Makitsika lang kung gano'n kagaling siya. Siyempre, di ba makikiano ako sa kanya? Hindi, titignan ko ba kung ano. Sige kayo mo, syempre ako magdi-deliver eh. Uy, ang galing na interview mo, T. Ganyan ka. Speaker 1 00:15:52 Ay, gago, hindi ba to? Hindi si Paula to? Iba yan. Si Marie Carty yan. Ah, iba ba yan? Iba-iba. Hindi ito yung, Mayaman. Huwag mo nang, Pag-interesan. Speaker 2 00:16:05 Patingin nga ako, Nung contact details niya, Maggie, nung sasendant ko. Wala pa. Speaker 1 00:16:13 So, this session Mainly focuses on accounts receivables, Including bank reconciliation, Inventory, And recording of Yung kapalit ni Ate Jane. Ayan, napapanood ko siya. I-send ko na lang. Okay, nag-confirm si Vincent. Thank you, Vincent. Amazing! Buti na lang. Wala ka ng direct contact sa kanya, Ate. Yeah! Speaker 1 00:16:45 Delete this. Okay. Speaker 1 00:16:48 Thanks. Dinelete ko na siya doon. Aw, sorry guys. Speaker 2 00:16:53 Ang takas kasi ni Ruben Kay Enzo rin, no? Ang takas kasi ni Ruben Kay Enzo. Speaker 1 00:17:03 Eh, si Si Ikwan nga, diba? Si Christine Nasistress na rin sa kanya. Speaker 1 00:17:09 Diba, Mi? Sa kanina. Okay. Kay Ruben noon. Ito siya yung Iron Gate. Speaker 1 00:17:18 Tinataguan niyo rin ka Dimension. Speaker 2 00:17:21 May saltik yata. Speaker 1 00:17:22 2, 3, 8, 2, 2. Speaker 1 00:17:26 Mas kaya pa natin ang saltik na Pilipino Kaysa saltik na dayuhan, no? Gusto ko yung dayuhan. Very madali. Speaker 1 00:17:36 Han siya ng mga dayuhan! Speaker 1 00:17:40 Imbes na afam. Ang mga dayuhan nandito na. Speaker 1 00:17:44 Gusto mo yan. Very Tagalog. Speaker 2 00:17:49 Wala si Marvin. Sayang. Speaker 1 00:17:53 Mga mga tayo. Speaker 2 00:18:10 A new visitor. Speaker 2 00:18:14 Spectrum. Speaker 2 00:18:18 Create A name, To inform Jason, That you're. Speaker 1 00:18:28 Serious. Uy, totoo na ito. Mag-a-lunch out Na ako. I'm so excited. Sige na. Oo na, guys. Sige, sige. Okay, bye, guys. Thank you for today. Thank you. Okay, bye-bye.
04-16 Team Meeting: iPad Procurement, Network Hardware Status, Internal Comms Access, and Budget Alignment
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-16 09:29:00 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Christi] [Michuan] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: iPad Procurement for LL Frank and Device Options - Discussed iPad estimates for LL Frank; consider lowering labor and choosing a lower-tier model based on usage. - Current standard ninth-generation iPad is unavailable; available options: iPad Pro, Air, iPad, and Mini. - Regular iPad priced at 349 (non-cellular). 128GB with AppleCare+ noted; no refurbished units available. - Quote shows “technical labor” as computer setup; Christi will try to waive automatically added labor. - CDW nonprofit pricing checked; not cheaper than the current quote. - Android tablets considered but ruled out due to user familiarity and training concerns. - Conclusion: Proceed with the lowest non-cellular iPad model available; confirm direction with Sergio and assess IT budget. - Topic Title: HR Computer Swaps and Hardware Availability - Idea to swap HR computers with recovered units; insufficient quantity available (need six). - No laptops have been returned yet despite requests. - Conclusion: Swaps postponed due to lack of available devices. - Topic Title: Long Beach Switch and Claremont AP Status - Long Beach: switch request pending; Christi will coordinate with the new Professional Services Director’s team and sales for quotes/status. - Claremont: AP equipment paid; status to be confirmed; project now under the new director’s team. - System access issues slowed searches; sales team to provide quotes and tag Christi for approvals. - Conclusion: Christi to obtain and share updated quotes/status from sales and the new director’s team. - Topic Title: Downstairs Conference Room TV and Mounting - Need a TV, HDMI switch, and mount for downstairs orientation setup similar to upstairs. - Christi recommended a 55-inch TV with wireless display capability (65 also available but likely unnecessary). - Shared links for TV and preferred mount; suggested purchasing via Best Buy/Amazon directly to avoid markup. - Conclusion: Proceed with a 55-inch TV and the specified mount; Michuan to purchase directly and coordinate mounting with Dan. - Topic Title: Infrastructure Inventory and Desk Phone Audit (Blue Wave Update) - Completed inventories (with photos) for East LA, Hill Street (1st floor), Fair Oaks, LL Frank (LLF), and J Ham; focus on switches, internet, and desk phones. - Second floor HQ phones remaining (mostly C-level); Christi can audit early next week. - Remaining sites: Long Beach and Claremont; Camp likely okay with phones. - Conclusion: Continue audits at Claremont and Long Beach; confirm AP installation timelines. - Topic Title: Internal Communications Access and Scheduling with April - Plan to meet with April to discuss giving staff 10–20 minutes daily to check email/Teams to improve internal comms. - Explore access solutions: personal cell phones (possible $5 stipend), onsite kiosk computers/tablets, site-specific setups (e.g., LL Frank kiosk). - Jeremy raised internal communications; access constraints acknowledged. - Conclusion: Michuan to send April meeting dates and define practical access options per role/site. - Topic Title: ComDirect and Camber Onsite Scheduling Around Memorial Day - Christi messaged Kelly regarding ComDirect onsite on May 26 and Camber schedule; asked if weekend work is possible due to the 4-day Memorial week. - Kelly is at a conference and expected to respond next week; ComDirect informed of the delay. - Conclusion: Await Kelly’s confirmation next week; plan a review meeting with stakeholders. - Topic Title: Google Drive Access and Data Transfer - Christi already transferred Google Drive materials 4–5 months ago; still has access and provided a screenshot. - Michuan will review LOAs and organize/move items as needed. - Conclusion: Michuan to audit and adjust Drive contents over the weekend. - Topic Title: Distribution Lists and Microsoft Issues - Microsoft had issues; Christi deleted and recreated the distro list and sent updates. - Lists set to auto-add new hires; verification showed additions working; old lists will be hidden. - Sergio and Jeremy successfully sent messages via the new list. - Conclusion: New distribution list active and auto-adding; legacy lists to be hidden. - Topic Title: Claude Enterprise Invites and User Setup - Michuan accepted the Claude invite after logging out of personal; Christi will make Michuan an owner. - Carl has not accepted yet; two additional names pending (e.g., discussion about Hannah). - Conclusion: Continue onboarding users to Claude; assign ownership roles after acceptance. - Topic Title: Onboarding Checklist and Emails - Most of the team reviewed the onboarding checklist; Michuan will confirm remaining holdouts. - Alma’s email set up; grouping emails under review; invoices to be checked. - Conclusion: Finalize checklist adoption and email group adjustments. - Topic Title: Planful Budget and P&L Review - Planful sent budget and P&L; Christi to review for discussion next week. - Cost Shift sent P&L for Sharp concurrently. - Conclusion: Schedule budget review after Christi’s analysis. - Topic Title: AI Automation “Minions” and Stack Sharing - Christi is sending a zip of her agents (“minions”) and their learning; will email due to Teams external file restrictions. - Michuan requested an additional template from the tech automation stack; Christi to send the stack details. - Conclusion: Share agents via email; follow up with tech stack documentation. - Topic Title: Teams Organization Meeting and Budget Ownership Alignment - Proposal to hold a Teams organization meeting with Carl and Jeremy starting in May to improve inclusion and coordination. - Budget realignment ideas: move Curiosity out of HR budget; place Volgistics under Program/Development; marketing items under Marketing. - Salesforce project status noted; Christi recognized for PM leadership and clear recaps. - Conclusion: Plan May meetings to align Teams usage and reassign budget items appropriately. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Confirm iPad model selection (lowest non-cellular) and labor waiver; Michuan to consult Sergio and review IT budget. - [ ] Obtain Long Beach switch quotes/status and Claremont AP status from sales and the new director’s team; tag Christi on all related quotes. - [ ] Purchase the 55-inch TV and specified mount; coordinate installation with Dan. - [ ] Continue infrastructure and desk phone audits at Claremont and Long Beach; confirm AP timelines; schedule as needed. - [ ] Schedule meeting with April; define staff access approaches (cell stipend, kiosks, onsite computers) per role/site and propose daily 10–20 minute check windows. - [ ] Await Kelly’s response on ComDirect May 26 and Camber scheduling; plan a stakeholder review meeting upon confirmation. - [ ] Michuan to review Google Drive (including LOAs) and reorganize content over the weekend. - [ ] Hide deprecated distribution lists; ensure the new auto-add list is active for all users; verify successful sends (Sergio/Jeremy). - [ ] Ensure Carl and the two pending users accept Claude invites; assign Michuan as owner after acceptance; clarify any additions (e.g., Hannah). - [ ] Confirm onboarding checklist adoption; review invoices, names, and group emails; address remaining holdouts. - [ ] Christi to review Planful budget/P&L and Cost Shift documents; schedule discussion next week. - [ ] Email the zip file of AI agents; send tech automation stack template/details; follow up on documentation. - [ ] Schedule May Teams organization and budget alignment meetings with Carl and Jeremy; draft budget ownership changes (Curiosity, Volgistics, Marketing). ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Claremont AP installation status remains unclear; set a definitive check and timeline with the new director’s team. > 2. Long Beach switch procurement lacks a confirmed schedule; request a firm date and delivery plan from sales/pro services. > 3. Device recovery for HR (six computers) is stalled; create a structured device reclamation process and inventory tracker to meet needs. > 4. Internal communications access plan needs a concrete policy (cell stipend criteria, kiosk deployment plan, timelines); document and approve with April. > 5. Budget ownership changes (Curiosity, Volgistics, Marketing tools) require a formal proposal and stakeholder sign-off ahead of the August budgeting cycle.
- Date
- Apr 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 I'm sorry. Speaker 1 00:00:33 Sheesh. Speaker 1 00:01:48 Thank you. Speaker 2 00:03:25 Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Um, well, um, Speaker 3 00:03:34 I'm feeling better now. My stomach's really bothering me so headed in. Speaker 4 00:03:47 Did I lose you? Speaker 3 00:03:49 Um Are some of these estimates. Speaker 3 00:03:52 In the aisle taken care of, But there is an estimate for the iPads for LL Frank that I wanted to touch base with you on. Okay. And um I think I sent that over, but I don't, I don't know if you're in front of your computer or not seeing it, But um I didn't know if there was that one had been reviewed for like reduction of the labor. And what you really thought about. Based on what he says, they're using. If we could like go with a lower level model. Speaker 2 00:04:31 Okay, Uh, let me look for that. And yes, we can definitely go for a lower level. Um, if. Speaker 3 00:04:39 You if it feels like if you feel like it accomplishes, like he said in the email, this Michael uh uh backyardum if you feel like heum. What he said in the meeting is actually, I mean, in the email can be accomplished with a lower level model. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:59 Let me see. We're doing a standard ninth generation. But it's not available anymore. They only are at and they only have eleventh generation and below right now, so let me double check something. I think the iPad uh SE might work if it's still in production, Let me double check. Speaker 3 00:05:23 And if we got some computers back, we could probably give the ones in HR to him, but I don't know. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:05:32 Okay, so they have four types. You have the iPad Pro, the iPad Air, iPad and iPad mini right now. Um The iPad regular iPad is three forty nine. Speaker 2 00:05:50 And that's without cellular service. So let me double check something. Speaker 4 00:06:02 And she. Speaker 2 00:06:03 Got the one hundred and twenty eight gigabyte. Oh, it came with Apple Care Plus with it, so let's drawing it upum. Speaker 4 00:06:19 Let me check something else. Tech. Speaker 2 00:06:28 Specs. Oh, she did get the lowest one out there. Um, the only other thing we could do to go lower on it, they don't have refurbished right now. Um, no, that actually is the lowest one out there. Okay. Speaker 3 00:06:47 Um, so we have let's see here. Um, I know we have six, But I don't think we have six computers to replace the the six that we have in HR. Yeah, Because we could like I was thinking like swapping them out, giving HR giving those to them, but I don't think we have six computers to. Speaker 2 00:07:16 Just switch them out. Yeah. Um, so there she didn't put any labor on the quote. Um, it does say technical labor, but it's the computer setup. Speaker 4 00:07:30 Uh, Let me. Speaker 2 00:07:42 Let me see if I can waive that because that's an automatic thing. Um. Speaker 2 00:07:48 But as far as has anybody returned any laptops to you guys yet? Cause I just put HR instead of just putting generic Jessica. I'm sorry. Speaker 3 00:07:58 No, nobody's returned any laptops. Speaker 2 00:08:03 People don't like to give up their things. Speaker 3 00:08:06 Yeah, we're like, it's not the one you're using folks, It's the one that's sitting, you know, on your desk that somebody returned before they left. That's the one we need. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:08:22 I'm Gonna check one more thing. I want to see if we can get, or if I can direct you to get, direct you in another play area. But don't tell my boss I'm doing this. Speaker 2 00:09:09 No, they don't have any refurbished on their site either. One more thing, let me check. Speaker 3 00:09:16 Then I'm just going to ask if that's the deal. I'm just going to ask Sergio if that's something he wants to do. Yeah, Right now and then I'll look at i need to look at our IT budget, see what that would come out ofum. Speaker 2 00:09:29 Hang on one second, Michonne. I saw that exact stuff you're bringing me. Speaker 2 00:09:37 They're paid already. Okay, I just need to sign off on them. Okay, let me do that one first for you. I'll get you these by lunchtime. Okay, yeah, not a problem. All right, sorry Michelle. Um Let me I want to look at CDW real quick because sometimes they can go cheaper for us. Okay. And that's what I was saying, don't tell my boss. But you guys do have the nonprofit accounts. I'm logging into your account. Speaker 4 00:10:12 Okay, let's go now. Speaker 3 00:10:16 Let's just let's go, let's go. Speaker 2 00:10:20 Oh no, theirs is not any cheaper. Speaker 3 00:10:23 Okay, well if we got the best, I, just that helps me to be able to say like we we checked all of our other resources. Andum even our nonprofit rate and we're getting the best rate on these. Is this a direction? That you know, I can ask her to give us direction where we're going. Speaker 2 00:10:40 Yeah. And these are non- self, these are non- cellular, so they that's why they're as cheap as they can go. Um. No, it's fine. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:10:54 I just say that and we'll we'll check it out. Speaker 2 00:10:58 No worries. The only other thing I can offer is us getting Android tabletsum. Speaker 2 00:11:06 But I would not suggest that because I can't. Speaker 3 00:11:08 I wouldn't suggest that because I feel like they're tech, like folks being tech savvy is already hard enough. And if they're if they're able to navigate these, let's just keep them navigating. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, I'm like, oh, let's not rock the boat for these folks. Speaker 2 00:11:27 Yes. Uh yeah. Speaker 3 00:11:31 Yeah cause somebody offered me uh, And it was at a Mac, um, my last company. And I was like, I can't now. And then they started forcing people to get Mac. I was like, you cannot force people. Well, we have options. They were like, it's cheaper, it's easier to handle. I was like listen that doesn't work for everybody. It is like how literally at some point, how your brain works and you're slowing down their productivity and you gave them no training on it. So we're not going to rock the boat on that. Speaker 3 00:12:03 Um, so no, I'm I'm fine with keeping what we have. I'll just ask him what he wants to do if he feels like the need is enough. The other one I wanted to look at is Long Beach's switchum that had been requested. If you see that one, Speaker 2 00:12:20 Let me take a look. Speaker 2 00:12:31 We have a new, by the way, we have a new um professional uh professional services director. Thank goodness, finally. Um, he is the one in charge of things like switches, AP or his team is, but they finally got a director um because the the previous manager left, and we've been searching for a director. So hopefully. It's going to be a lot. We're going to get things handled a little bit better on that side. Because we had a conversation with him recently about, hey, we're having problems with lack of follow-through and things like that. And these are some of our biggest pain points. And so he's going to start working on that with the team. So. Speaker 2 00:13:29 And the search is going very, very slow. I don't know why it's taken forever today. Speaker 3 00:13:36 So it's that one, um, and then that one. I think there was some things to Claremont as well. Speaker 2 00:13:45 There is something for Claremont. I did see that one. Um, it was an AP and I do know that they were working on something. I'm sorry? Speaker 3 00:13:54 But I know we paid, I know we paid for the equipment and I didn't know if it had been. Speaker 2 00:14:00 So, Let me see where they're at on that one. That one's going to that new uh the new director and everything. Bear with me, I am losing my voice today. I don't know why. Microsoft is being oh you mean the computer? Speaker 3 00:14:17 Are you talking about the laptop? Are you talking about the laptop? Speaker 2 00:14:21 No, I am talking about the our new director here. Uh, I know that the Claremont AP. I know it was an AP, Uh, and I know he I know his team. That's one of his projects now, so I can see where they're at on it. Okay. Oh, um, let me. I also found your keyboard or that you were we were talking about. I am my voice. Um, they have it in white and black. The only one I could find that was very similar to what you wanted is about a hundred dollars. Oh isn't. Speaker 2 00:14:59 Um, I'm gonna send that. Speaker 3 00:15:00 Do I gotta purchase it to you or can I purchase it myself? Speaker 2 00:15:03 Yeah, I'm gonna make you purchase it yourself. I'm not gonna, have you get markup on this one because this is an Amazon order. But I can't send it to you right now because uh, huh'cause the system is still searching for the Long Beach quote. Speaker 3 00:15:19 Okay, soum can you do a Teams to me? No, Speaker 2 00:15:24 I'm in Teams doing the search for the quote. Oh. Speaker 3 00:15:28 Oh, it's not in Teams. It's an email, right? It's encoded in email. Speaker 2 00:15:33 We our side is in Teams. Speaker 3 00:15:36 Oh, gotcha. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:15:39 For us it's in Teams because it's a section a setting. Speaker 3 00:15:43 Okay. Um, okay. So I guess side note, if yeah, we could, if you could send me that and then I think you sent me a TV because I need to buy the TV for downstairs, so we can move the. I need to buy, I think a TV, a switchum to plug in our computers for downstairs. Speaker 2 00:16:04 Gotcha. Okay. Speaker 3 00:16:06 And I wanted to get that one, I wanted to get it from Best Buy, butum think I need to know well, I need to know what kind of TV and then I need a mount too. So I'll work with Dan on the mount. But if you can, if we can work on the oh, sorry, Speaker 2 00:16:22 Oh, I sent you the wrong link in Teams. Um, I'm going to get with the sales team because I can't access the sales stuff right now. Okay. So, let me get with the sales team on that and get you all the all the ones you have, you have questions on. Speaker 3 00:16:39 Can they just ask, can you just ask them? Hey, like whatever ability versus like last seven ten in stock, can you send them to me so I can review them? Because I don't like, I think yours your rights that they're not including you on them. You know? Yeah, and I don't think that's intentional, but whatever the reason, I don't think they're they've included you on them. And, we need to discuss kind of where where you know aspects of our budget where that's coming out of too. Speaker 2 00:17:05 Now, I one hundred percent agree. Um, I am going to get them to start tagging me in those. Um because I think what happens is they get the email and they start working on it and then which is great. Um. But, they never tag me in to to get my approval before sending to you anymore. Yeah. Um, now for the downstairs conference room. Speaker 2 00:17:31 Yes, I'm going to send you over a link because I I think a fifty five is going to work fine in there. Um, okay, And I'm going to send you a link where you of what kind would work for you. Speaker 3 00:17:47 Because we need to kind of do the same thing we do downstairs, being able to, I mean upstairs in the conference room. Um, we don't need an app. We just still I think they have that just to switch them out. Um and getting that up so we can do the orientation downstairs. Speaker 2 00:18:03 Actually The reason why I'm sending you this is because it has a wireless connector. So people all they have to do is just open their wireless display. Speaker 3 00:18:12 Awesome okay. Speaker 2 00:18:13 It's why I'm sending this one to you Okay, So, um, I put the 55 in there. They do have a 65. I don't think you need to go above 65 in that room. Speaker 3 00:18:26 No, yeah, it's not that big of a space. Speaker 2 00:18:29 Yeah, 55 is going to be good enough. Um. So that is in your thing uh and then give me one more second I'm going to get you the mount that I got for my 55 inch because I have that exact same 55 inch. And I've got it for other clients so that you don't have to go through us for it. There's a reason I like this one, so that is in your chat. So I sent accidentally sent you the Air table, ignore the Air table uh Amazon uh the magnetic iPad uh for you, the TV, the mount. Speaker 2 00:19:18 And then there was something else. Speaker 3 00:19:25 I think that's it. Speaker 2 00:19:26 Okay, yeah, don't tell my boss I am leaving money on the table. Speaker 3 00:19:34 Appreciate you because I like you guys. Speaker 2 00:19:38 Thank you, we like you too. Um, gotta let's see so. Speaker 3 00:19:45 I will send you some dates for April. April does want to meet and kind of talk through things. Um, April. A reason why I want to have a conversation with. To flush through of giving her team members time. To go check their emails and teams and and pay less money, right? Giving them. You know, Ten fifteen minutes away to just like go in and check these things. So they become aware of what's going on in the organization. Speaker 3 00:20:15 And then where t here is still gaps because when I came in, Kelly told me everybody's on team, everybody's on team. And I was like, oh okay. And then when we started out because Jeremy is wanting to talk to us about this too, it's like the internal communications. I am like Jeremy that you know, I told him in the meeting. I was like internal communications is great, but people don't have access to the communication. It makes no difference what channel we use. Yeah they don't have time out of program it doesn't make a Uh, like at all. And he was like, Oh yeah, I didn't I didn't know that people didn't have access. And I said, But before I, give them access and pay for them to have access at the lowest level, I need to make sure that they can just step out of program. Yeah. And and you know, take 15 minutes and review data 1520 minutes uh a day and review their emails and communications. So. Speaker 3 00:21:14 Yeah. Um, and so I think conversation with her is like, you know, what does that look like for somebody's impossibilities? And helping her like helping her to think through that. What does that look like for somebody that's in program at a center? Is that a kiosk they're going to? Do, you have a computer available, where you know, we have computers available on site where people could go. And just, you know log in. Speaker 3 00:21:44 Or, is it something where we're needing to place a kiosk, computer or tablet or something? Speaker 2 00:21:51 Do, they have cell phones, Speaker 3 00:21:54 They all yes, yes, probably don't even have to do that. Oh sorry, probably cell phones becomes paying them right, paying them for their cell phone becomes that five dollars, which is not bad. We could we could consider that for folks that yeah I just need to. To figure out what our system is. And some people, it may need to be their cell phone, right? The people that are impossibilities that need to be out in the community with somebody, that may make the most sense that they're doing it from their cell phone. If they are at LL Frank, It may be we have a kiosk computer where they can, just, you know, step away and have access to more information. Speaker 3 00:22:43 Does that make sense? Speaker 2 00:22:44 Yes, one hundred percent. Speaker 3 00:22:48 Um, and then Kelly has some some things. I think we should schedule something. She said she's back next week, but we should talk about what she's seeing as issues, what the other team is going to need to do. Um. When they're up there, what access they're going to need. Speaker 3 00:23:12 So they can, you know, Begin running lines and what like what what and maybe this is a Blake conversation involved in that too, is like," What building do they need to access first?" Right. Right. And like," what What is their kind of phasing of it all?" Yes. So her team begins to know that and they begin to prepare for that. Speaker 2 00:23:36 And I did send Kelly a message. And she has not responded. She has seen it, she has not responded. And I said, um, cause I knew she was at a conference and she was out of office. I said don't answer until you're back. Just want to see how long ComDirect has on site on May twenty sixth. And when is Camber scheduled to be back and could they work Saturday Sunday as well, if needed? Because that's a four day week because of Memorial Day. Um so I need an answer, I need to get back to them with that answer, but I also kind of want to sit down with everybody and go through it all. Speaker 4 00:24:07 She is she is at a conference. We do need her to uh. Speaker 3 00:24:14 She has a conference. We do need her to to do that. She'll probably respondum, this, Probably Friday I think she said, she'll be headed headed back, Speaker 2 00:24:24 But gotcha I and I told com direct that she was out of the office until next week. So they're not looking to get an answer until next week. Speaker 4 00:24:33 Okay, um. Speaker 3 00:24:36 Let's see here. So. Speaker 3 00:24:38 You were going to get an update on Blue Wave. Speaker 2 00:24:43 Yep, I have the update from Olivia. Let me go take a look at it again because I read it on Tuesday and then have not thought about it since. Chris, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. I was looking for the email. Speaker 2 00:25:06 Sorry, I was also laughing because of Pete and Amzur in my email. They're going back and forth on something, and I clicked over to my email, saw a bunch of messages where they're going back and forth on something, and just kind of was chuckling to myself and got quiet for a second. Olivia. Oh, I thought I hung up on you. I was like, wait a minute. No no uh we're trying to roll out something and uh, Uh, Pete is doing his due diligence as CEO and saying," Put some brakes on this and go a little slower." Speaker 2 00:25:42 Okay. Yeah, which I am as bad as Enzo on this one. So, so we have uh East LAum we have East LA's inventory done and with some pictures, thankfully. Uh because they not only did they do the phone stuff, they also did a uh. Inventory of all things on site that has to do with infrastructure, not computers, just infrastructure. Uh Hill Street is done, first floor Fair Oaks is done, L L F is done and J Ham is done. Okay. So, what they're doing is they're going on site with the new um with the new infrastructure team that we've been slowly hiring and they're going through looking at switches uh internet. Speaker 2 00:26:30 And physical desk phones. Cool. Yeah. And I know second floor headquarters is done because we we did that and the phones that are left are supposed to be only sea level, But I can go I can go back in and do that myself on Monday or Tuesday. Speaker 3 00:26:54 Yeah, I don't, I didn't have, I didn't want one anymore. Speaker 2 00:26:60 It's come in handy for me once or twice, but I've used it only once or twice in the last six months. So I don't need one. I just it's come in handy a few times when I needed to test something because somebody was saying they were having an issue with their phone. Speaker 3 00:27:16 Okay, Chris, can I put you on hold for just a second? Let me get a quick check. Yep. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:28:07 Okay, sorry. Please go ahead. No, you're you're fine. You said sign checks and I was like, oh, wait. James walked in here with a two inch sack of checks that I need to go through and verify before Dr Barbara signs off on them. Oh that's totally another story. All right? So we have so we just only have a few more sites left. I think Long Beach is one, uh Claremont's going to be one and they'll go out and do Claremont when they get theirtyping. Okay? Speaker 3 00:28:37 If, you can go back 10 seconds because I was in the elevator and it cut off. It usually does a better job. Speaker 2 00:28:43 No worries. So we have a few more sites, Long Beach, Claremont and Camp. Camp, I think we're okay on already. So, if are you good if we wait untilum until the all the installs are done, and I can just haveum or I can have Kelly do it because I think camp, we are okay with them having phones. Speaker 3 00:29:06 Oh yeah, the desk ones. Yes, they need theirs. Yes, Speaker 2 00:29:09 I'm good with them. So just Claremont andum Claremont and Long Beach are left then. Uh okay, I'm gonna talk to Olivia on Claremont. We could probably have them go and do that if the AP has not been installed. I need to double check on that one. I just can't get into the system right now. Um and then uh Long Beach. I'll find out when that one's scheduled, because I know that they've got some things going on in Irvine, where we were had to send out tech that day. So maybe they could just stop by. Speaker 1 00:29:40 Okay, made. Speaker 4 00:29:51 It in here. Speaker 2 00:29:53 I'm laughing at this two inch talk, because uh, we keep finding ghosts in the closets. Oh. Speaker 3 00:30:01 Okay. That's interesting. Um, the only thing I was okay, the other thing I was going to say is transferring. Um, Do you still have access to the Google Doc drive that Eunice had given you access to previously? I might. And I asked because we're probably uh probably going to separate things. Speaker 4 00:30:30 Like probably next week. Hang on. Speaker 2 00:30:37 I do have access to Google Drive, but I made the transfer of all stuff. You. Speaker 3 00:30:44 Transferred all that stuff already? Speaker 2 00:30:46 Yeah, transferred it about four or five months ago. Speaker 3 00:30:49 Okay, I just wanted to double check. Do you remember the link? Yeah, I know she still uses it and I just want to make sure. Speaker 3 00:31:00 U m nothing's I guess I'm concerned about LOAs leaves of absence and I can go in and check that. Speaker 2 00:31:10 Yeah. Uh, I'm gonna give you a screenshot I just took yeah, cause I'm still actively in our account. Speaker 3 00:31:18 Okay, um yeah, we're probably based on some things to happen. We're probably going to step away. Unfortunately, don't send that. Speaker 2 00:31:28 To the onboarding team. Speaker 3 00:31:32 And then most of the team has looked over the onboarding checklist. I think it may you know, I may be holdouts there on the checklist that you came up with. Yeah, but I will confirm that tomorrow. Speaker 4 00:31:56 Okay, yeah, um. Speaker 2 00:32:03 And that's just her welcome page. That's not even in the storage. That's not the actual drive. That's just the story. Speaker 3 00:32:10 Yeah, I can still get into it. I just wanted to know, so I'll go through it. I will go through it this weekend andum, I'll go through it this weekend and double check and move things. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:32:28 Yeah. Yeah. Um. Speaker 4 00:32:33 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:33:07 So yes, if we can look through, I think the only thing for me right now, if you can look through the invoices. I have time onum or it's on my agenda to go through the names and I'll probably have Jessica. Then the emails. Okay. And group yeah group emails. Speaker 2 00:33:31 To reduce. I don't knowum what was going on yesterday with, The distro list, but I recreated it. I sent you guys the email about it. Um, Speaker 3 00:33:45 I did. I did. I've seen that and then you've canceled the other ones? Speaker 2 00:33:49 Yes, well the other one. Um, Speaker 3 00:33:54 Is is all user still not? Is that one not working now? Is that because i i told them to use all user. Speaker 2 00:34:01 Let me, let me go out and hide the ones that no longer need to be used. Um, but just a heads up. I think Microsoft was having some major issues yesterday morning, And I got tired and frustrated with dealing with what I was dealing with trying to get the see what was going on with Sergio, With what Sergio was trying to send out that I just deleted and recreated it. Speaker 3 00:34:25 And is it set to auto add new hires? Speaker 2 00:34:28 Yes. And the other one was auto adding new hires. I saw the log there was. Speaker 2 00:34:35 All everybody that was new to the company was added. Um, every time that we set up a new account, so and it was logged in the system. So I don't know what was going on with it. Um, but it did work. Uh I I sent out mine, mostly because I needed to test and I also need to remind everybody about updates and then verified that people got it and then hat, and then Sergio sent out his and then. Jeremy sent out his. Speaker 4 00:35:09 Okay, and. Speaker 2 00:35:12 We should be good. You have not accepted your Claude invite. Speaker 3 00:35:21 Oh, you know, you know why? Because I have Claude for personal, but I will accept it. But does it do I need to accept it? Or do you need to give mine to somebody else? Um. Speaker 3 00:35:34 Or do I need to accept it because of like the enterprise deal thing? Speaker 2 00:35:37 You need to accept it. Okay. Well, I trust you on yours. I got you. Yeah. Carl hasn't accepted his yet. Your job is. Speaker 3 00:35:48 He has not? No. Okay, so I have a call with him today and he was still waiting, so you better come on, dude. Speaker 2 00:35:54 Yeah And then I just need uh the names of the other two to add it too. Speaker 2 00:36:02 Um, you were going to talk with Jeremy. Speaker 3 00:36:05 Yeah, about Hannah. Mhm. Need if she needs it because I think she had asked for itum. Speaker 2 00:36:19 As soon as you accept, I can make you one of the owners. Okay. Speaker 2 00:37:05 What in the world? I'm looking for it. Oh no, not you, not you. I still, I keep finding things from the former CIO. And I'm just like. Speaker 3 00:37:19 Going back several days. You want to try to can you resend it? It is not. Speaker 4 00:37:25 Oh never mind. I will now. Speaker 3 00:37:27 Okay, yep, accept invite. Speaker 3 00:37:33 Um, oh, I got to log out as me. Got it. That that may help. That may help. Speaker 4 00:37:40 Yeah. And. Speaker 2 00:37:45 Olivia said she appreciates you for allowing Caleb or Kobe to come back. She was like, she's like, I get it. I totally get it But uh She's like, I need reasons not not that you need to provide reasons she needs to, Give reasons for other issues. If that if you get what I'm saying. Mhm. She's she's giving him one more opportunity to. Speaker 3 00:38:14 Oh, Got it now, yeah yeah. You know, making perfect sense now, got it. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:38:19 Yeah he's doing better, but she's just she's like I I gotta I gotta do it I gotta make sure. Speaker 3 00:38:27 Okay, I am in. Speaker 3 00:38:31 Oh, and it lets me toggle. Okay. Yeah. And my personal plan is not. Speaker 4 00:38:47 Oh, It gives you a first personal. Speaker 3 00:38:49 Free one. Oh, that's nice, But I already have one too late Um. Okay, I'm in I've done what I needed to do Perfectum. Speaker 4 00:39:00 I don't go back to money. Speaker 2 00:39:06 Apparently, my Agnes post yesterday blew up. Your what? My Agnes post. What is that? Speaker 3 00:39:16 Is that the one you sent me? Speaker 2 00:39:17 No, I posted just on LinkedIn. Speaker 3 00:39:21 Oh, and Agnes is one of your minions, is it? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:39:28 I uh it blew up. I just I went to go get a link for Stephanie because she's posting something I wroteum to to the Crimson website. So I had to go get her a link. And then I was like, oh, yeah, okay. Um. Speaker 4 00:40:10 Oh no, it blew up today. Speaker 3 00:40:14 Cool. Um, speaking of that, Um you were going to send me the stack. And yes, another menu, so I can. Speaker 4 00:40:24 Yeah, I will do that, Speaker 3 00:40:27 So I can sample, Speaker 4 00:40:28 But I started working on that yesterday for a little while. Yep okay anything else. Speaker 2 00:40:40 Oh, ChatGPT is referring people to me. Speaker 4 00:40:45 Oh, that's Good. Speaker 4 00:41:19 A personal account. That's interesting. Um, I. Speaker 3 00:41:33 Think that's all I got because well, I can't open, it will not let me right now open my Evernote, so I can't make them promises. No worries. Speaker 2 00:41:41 Oh ignore me laughing my child is uh so excited for this weekend. Speaker 4 00:41:47 I know she should be though. Speaker 2 00:41:50 She sent me her packing list. Speaker 3 00:41:53 Oh, that is real excitement right there. Speaker 2 00:41:57 She has clothes;. She just these are her her high level, and then she's got individuals underneath of it, so she's got clothes, and then she's listed out all of her clothes that she's taking days needed of medication and list all her medication. How many days she needs toiletries. Shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, sunscreen, face cream, hair gel, curl cream mousse deodorant perfume and hair mist. And then she goes entertainment, switch, iPad phone, duh in parentheses try to find portable battery because you keep losing it computer. And this next part's all capital letters, computer and phone charger do not forget, and there's like five. Speaker 2 00:42:52 She's funny. I am responding. She goes," Does this look good?" I said," Yep, I'll get road snacks tonight." I got two teenagers in the car with me tomorrow controlling my music. Speaker 3 00:43:08 Oh, oh cause she's taking her bestie right? That's cool. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:43:16 One of my one of my quote, unquote moms or aunties from the south, put on posted something just now. And my and my niece just texted me a picture of it. She goes I voted for Trump and I'm, not sorry, but please, oh no, but but please Mr President stay off social media, stupidity happens there from your fingertips. Speaker 2 00:43:46 My niece is like, oh my God I mean not myniece, my cousin I keep saying myniece, my cousin she keeps saying, Speaker 3 00:43:51 Oh my God yeah, like don't tell people you're associated like, don't yeah. I mean, I'm just yeah. The things that he says about people are so just horrific, Speaker 4 00:44:11 Horrific is the word. Speaker 1 00:44:13 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:44:28 To Sergio. Oh, sorry. No, I'm good. I see here. Speaker 3 00:44:48 Um, Planful Have you had an opportunity because they just sent me the Planful, The budget, the P and L. Speaker 2 00:44:55 Yeah, they sent it to me yesterday or yesterday afternoon. I haven't had a chance to log in yet because you are my second meeting of the day. Speaker 3 00:45:07 Okay, so if you can review that so we can talk about that next week. Yeah, um, Speaker 2 00:45:12 Funny thing was Cost Shift at the same time, sent me the P and L for uh Sharp. At the exact same time, I got them back to back. Yeah, there we go. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:45:24 Um, let's see. Issue with storage meeting is okay. Um, Speaker 3 00:45:30 Storage. Oh, I think we handled this one already. This was Jeremy and the issue with their storage onum for marketing that marketing storage email that would pop up. Speaker 2 00:45:51 Yeah, that's very. That's clear of that one. Speaker 3 00:45:53 I'm just giving us all the analogs to hang out. Yeah, agenda people. Um, so I think I asked folks yesterday in the onboarding chat. Let me just check. Okay, Alma her email is set up. I think I didn't ask him. I'm going to ask in the chat have we set up have we requested? Speaker 1 00:46:36 Yeah. Um, And then we Friday I will know if we'll have anotherum attempt coming in to support the department. Right. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:47:27 That's. Yeah, um, So the thing that I'd love to have, if you can get me before the weekend. So I can build my minions over the weekend is just one more template. In your tech automation stack. Speaker 2 00:47:42 Yeah, let me let me just send you over. I am going to trust you not to do anything. I wouldn't do with what I am about to. Speaker 3 00:47:51 I will not do anything crazy, because I'll be scared.; I am gonna break it. So. Going, Speaker 2 00:47:57 Gonna send you all of my agents. I am going to zip them up in a file folder. But you can't share this with anybody, because I these are not my dumbed down ones for general consumption. This is my, I got you. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:48:13 Yeah. I made some stealth. I had ideas for stealth ones as well. Share this with you when I get them built. So yeah, you know, and I mean, I definitely like the Hugo one, because it was like, nope, tell me brutal honesty. And then I'm probably going to make one. That's a little bit like. Nice to me on the other side. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So that and um I did get your message about that one training. You felt like that was going to be too simplistic based on I, guess talking me and reading it or something. Yeah. Um but I'm so I'm starting to get bombarded so as they come in, I'll ask you what your thoughts are on on some of these trainings that are coming in? Um didn't see that then Microsoft had, I think it's Microsoft. Speaker 3 00:49:02 Has their own or maybe it's Meta that has their own AI training. Microsoft does. Yeah, that's like a couple of hours since like okay. And it's free. Yeah, the other level, the free, that whole thing right there. Yep. Okay. Speaker 2 00:49:26 All right, just sent you a file. Speaker 2 00:49:32 And so that you have it, It's a zip file of every single one of my minions and their learning and how I've got it set up. And I'll get that sent over to you. Or I mean, Speaker 4 00:49:45 Sending over something stupid. Speaker 2 00:49:47 Huh? Teams or? Oh, I can't send files to you via Teams. Um, I send it by email. Okay. Yeah, we have files shut off for going external here. Okay. Yep. Speaker 2 00:50:04 And then I do want to have a team's organization conversation meeting with you, Carl and Jeremy. And the reason why I want to include the other two in is so that they feel like they're involved. Oh no, no, Speaker 3 00:50:19 No. I think we should have those meetings. One of the thingsum you know, like as I think I've been overly focused in HR, right because of the compliance and the risk. And so hiring Alma, so I think we can start those in May. I have no problem with that. And I think, um, it would be good. Ansor did not send me. So you talk to him? He did not send me the committee information. Speaker 2 00:50:45 I will i owe him a chat about something else. Uh, I'm going to say Michonne is checking on the committee information. Speaker 3 00:50:58 About committee, I think it's really good. I think we'll have the insight that we need and then people, you know, will have access to you as well as the information. Um, you know, 'cause everybody's got an idea and doesn't realize the money. And so and then I think it'll give us also when we're doing budget, which is gonna come up around August uh what we wanna put in next year's budget. Yeah. I did push back already to take some, And I think I may eventually need to take some of those things that don't belong to us out of our budget and give them to their actual departments. Um, yeah. Speaker 2 00:51:37 Yeah. One hundred percent agree. Speaker 3 00:51:39 For example, Curiosity sits in HR's budget. Volgistics should sit inum the budget, maybe between program andum development as well as their marketing items should sit with them. Uhhuh. Yeah, Yep, But I think we may want to look through the stack and define for them, define like what makes sense to sit in our budget, what makes sense to sit in other people's budgets. Um, and then he brought up in the meeting a little bit. I don't know when you guys were meeting, but um. He brought up in the meeting. You know where they are with Salesforce, and they're trying to move it forward. And he just he was like I I think I spoke before. Speaker 3 00:52:26 Um, I really knew what was going on, but I need to go back and read. What is actually going on with um Salesforce? And I gave you kudos. I said, you know, she really took hold as your project manager in that meeting. Yeah. Um and was able to, and I said, even the the recap speaks to Prolosi about the things that they need to accomplish. As well as what we are responsible for, so I said I really appreciated that that she was on the call. Speaker 2 00:52:58 Yeah, I enjoyed being on the call. He was a little monotone, and my ADHD got the better of me a few times, but I really enjoyed the call for the most part. Speaker 3 00:53:09 Yeah, I think you should tell me. I was like yeah, probably would have got me too like yeah So, Speaker 2 00:53:15 I was like thank goodness for plod during those those times because lately, I am going to need to go on that HRT stuff. My doctor keeps telling me about. So, because she's like," Yeah, You are at that age where most women your age at this current time find out that they do have ADHD." Speaker 3 00:53:39 It's weird. It's really really weird. I can speak because it's like women find out so. Much later in life, but oftentimes I have a good friend. She found out when she was, you know, I think she said she was in her forties. Yeah. Um, She found out about it, and to me, it makes sense when she was like telling me all about it. But she said she didn't get diagnosed but she said her whole life, She had been using it as a tool, not in a way of like, oh, I have a disability. Speaker 2 00:54:16 Yeah, that's the way I've been using it. It's my superpower, but I also am learning that the older I get, the more unmanaged it gets. So and the more I need to be a little bit more organized in things. Oh, I have to jump off here. I have another cloud meeting on which I need to set people up for. Speaker 3 00:54:47 Understandable. Oh, I got the minions. I just need the tech stack. Speaker 2 00:54:52 Yes, I'm an automation stack. Speaker 2 00:54:55 Yeah, Let me get that for you. You'll have that in pretty soon. I was building out another agent, so I want to click off that and go to my agent stack. I mean go to my stack. Speaker 3 00:55:07 Okay Perfect. Speaker 2 00:55:09 All right Thank you You're welcome, Speaker 4 00:55:10 I'll see you later You too Bye. Speaker 4 00:55:17 Oh.
06-18 Meeting Notes: Hybrid Outlook Copilot and Claude Automation for Email Prioritization, Follow-Ups, and Calendar Guardrails
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-  ## Core Synopsis The group is converging on a practical thesis: Outlook’s native Copilot prioritization helps, but reminders and task follow-through are not solved inside Microsoft yet, so leverage will come from a hybrid stack—Copilot for intent-based bucketing, plus Claude Teams and an automation layer (n8n/Power Automate) to classify, summarize, and trigger actions. Christi demonstrates working patterns: high/low priority rules in Outlook Copilot (sender/domain/keywords), granular filters that avoid overfitting, and a second system where n8n routes every inbound email to Claude for category/urgency tagging, produces daily/midday “top hits” summaries, color codes by client/urgency, and drives calendar blocks via named agents (“April”), with guardrails (no moving invite-based meetings). The stakes are straightforward: Casey’s prior auto-forwarding rules created blind spots; the proposed agent-driven validations reduce missed emails, enforce response discipline, and add reminder scaffolding Copilot currently lacks. We accept that Copilot will keep improving, but we are taking the bet on a controlled automation mesh now to protect attention, ensure responsiveness to high-touch senders (e.g., Stephen Howard), and prevent misclassification risk from rule sprawl. ## System Architecture and Operating Logic ### Outlook Copilot: Intent-Based Prioritization (Used Today) - Settings: Prioritization enabled; AI summaries in message list; low-priority labeling applied. - High-priority customizations: Sender-based (e.g., Anzor, Pete; Camp Vika keywords); can include domain/keywords and conditions (e.g., no CCs). - Low-priority customizations: Security tool alerts (Sophos, Avanan, KnowBe4) and building announcements downgraded; optional to disable low-priority labeling. - Risk control: Fewer, higher-confidence rules to avoid misclassification; anything unclassified sits in “medium.” ### The Automation Layer: n8n (or Power Automate) + Claude Teams - Flow trigger: On inbound email to inbox, n8n sends the message to Claude for category and urgency classification (respond/delegate/informational/forwarded). - Categorization outputs: Color-coded labels for clients/urgency; inbox retention rule (e.g., older than two weeks gets filed to client folders after review). - Reminder scaffolding: Agents prompt for follow-ups (e.g., “no response in three days—send touch base?”) and draft outreach. - Special routing: MFA codes and similar exceptions piped to Microsoft Teams channels for ops visibility. - Calendar discipline: Agent (“April”) inserts work blocks only in open windows; prohibited from moving external invite-based meetings. ### Use Cases the Team Explicitly Needs - High-touch sender handling: Stephen Howard emails elevated to high priority; potential condition-level granularity (e.g., no CCs). - “Daily top hits” digest: A morning/midday summary of what needs response, what’s overdue, and new items. - Rule lifecycle: Temporary high/low flags for time-bound projects (e.g., pending closings), with clean removal post-event. - Travel/attention safety: Inbox validation gates before any auto-filing to prevent lost emails when subfolders are ignored. ### Political/Intent Reality - Casey’s prior reliance on static Outlook rules created failure modes (missed critical emails); the group wants a system that preserves attention and adds accountability without drowning in rule sprawl. - Christi is positioning Claude Teams and n8n as the practical bridge until Copilot catches up on reminders; Brett is translating that into a repeatable agent model for the agency context. - The leverage is in disciplined constraints: minimal high-impact rules in Copilot, with agents handling summaries, follow-ups, and calendar blocks under guardrails. ## Action Items **@Christi** - [ ] Configure a high-priority rule for Stephen Howard (sender-level; consider “no CCs” condition) in Outlook Copilot settings - [TBD] - [ ] Stand up a baseline n8n flow that classifies Casey’s inbound emails (respond/delegate/informational) and generates a daily and midday “top hits” summary via Claude Teams - [TBD] - [ ] Define agent guardrails (no moving invite-based meetings) and enable “April” to insert calendar focus blocks for Casey within preset windows - [TBD] **@Brett** - [ ] Determine the minimal set of high/low Copilot rules for Casey (high-touch senders, time-bound projects; avoid overfitting) and document the criteria - [TBD] - [ ] Align the “daily top hits” summary spec (sections, color coding, delivery times) and confirm with Casey - [TBD] **@Casey** - [ ] Provide the list of high-touch senders/domains and active time-bound projects (e.g., closings) that must be auto-elevated; confirm any conditions (e.g., “no CCs”) - [TBD] - [ ] Approve calendar block windows for agent insertion (e.g., 12–1 PM; constraints and exceptions) - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 18, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Because I had to, and I would forget. So it was totally user error, but George did exactly what I asked, and then we we took it out. So feedback. Yeah, I think combining that though with bucketing, But then also this assisted component where it can tell me, remind me, frankly, like you know this needs response or something like that'd be helpful. Speaker 2 00:00:24 The reminding seems like it's really important feature. I think right. So like yeahum well. And so. Anyway, Christi, Just what I was mean hopped off. What I explained to Casey was I believe what Copilot is doing in terms of its high, low, Medium prioritization is that you're giving it inputs in terms of what you consider to be high priority versus low priority. And I would think you know that that could be any combination of things. That could be email sender. Speaker 2 00:00:57 You know, a particular domain, particular keywords, Particular individual even use cases of where you know this, this email has an information relating to a closing or something that's time sensitive. I assume that's how you set this right? Speaker 3 00:01:19 Yeah. So I you can actually tell it. Oh. I am so sorry. My computer does crazy things when I answer my cell phone, so it hung up on me. And yeah, it's been crazy. So basically, Let me show you how I got here first and then I'll answer your question, Brett. So I'm using the classic version of Outlook instead of the new version. So just a heads up on that one. And then up here on the top right is Copilot. I'm going to hit the down arrow and I'm going to say prioritize. Speaker 3 00:01:49 And that's my prioritizing settings. I'm going to turn this on. I am allowing it to show AI generated summaries in the message list, and I am allowing it to apply low priority labels. So just a heads up for that. Um, I can add some customizations in this. So it's already if there's no customization, it's going to read the intent behind the message and then my high priorities, I added if it comes from Anzor or Pete from within Crimson, It's a high priority automatically. So, uh, and I'm sure. Speaker 2 00:02:23 We can do that for Stephen Howard, right? Yes. So like on Stephen Howard Founders, Casey needs to mark that as high priority because it's you know it's coming individually and I don't know how granular you can get with this if it's cause like sometimes Howard will just email me literally with no subject line, no one else iscc'd. It's just Howard and then he writes a couple of things in there. So can you even say something like, If it comes from Howard, no other uh CCs or I I don't know. I'm just curious. Speaker 3 00:02:51 Yeah, you can get pretty granular in it. It's not the more granular you get, the more you got to be careful of it, but it's getting better and better every day. Some one that I just deleted this but I'm going to re- add it. It's about camp Hi Vika which is a camp, Um, and I'm going to hit add. Uh, so Camp Vika is a site that one of my clients uses. Uh, we're in the middle of a project for them. So any emails that come through on that is going to be high priority. Um, It's and then I can go from there, and I could just be very simple language. It's not going to be, you know, in the past, you had to use very uh direct language. But now you can use pretty simple language and because it's all using AI. Uh, it'll help. Speaker 3 00:03:46 Make that a little bit better. Speaker 2 00:03:47 So that's I can see a I can think of a bunch you might want to do, but like it's great that you can add it and subtract it, right? So like if there's I don't know pending closing on you know Johnston Village, Like then you have that right or yes. And then when the closing is over, you can remove it. Um okay so that's priority what what else? Speaker 3 00:04:07 So you also have low lower priority. Um I get because I'm an admin on all of our security tools, If it's from a security tool like Sophos, Avana or Avanon, sorry, or NoBefore, it gets a low priority immediately. Um and then I don't see them past that. So um and then anything like that, if I want to say if it's um George at something. Alright George thanks for the low priority. Speaker 3 00:04:41 Usually he's just CCing me for informational purposes. So I could technically do that for him. But yeah, I mean you can customize it to your heart's content. If you don't want it to ever apply a low priority, you can uncheck this box. I keep it because like US Bank Tower right here, even though I'm not located in US Bank Tower anymore, Most of my onsite techs are located there, with the exception of George and two others. So I do want to keep the building announcements coming through, But I'm going to make them a low priority because they don't need to read them all the time. So yeah, Speaker 2 00:05:17 And I, guess it just the only thing that we want, because you know my brain starts spinning. I'm like, I'm going to add 47 of these. The more you add, the more potential you have for potential misclassification. So I just think that's the just want to be sharp about, like which ones we definitely want in high, which ones we definitely want in low and then, If it doesn't fall in those places, then it kind of hits in this medium set. So what else aside from priority and particularly sort of touching on Casey's inquiry about like, will you go first? And then, but I do want to make sure we touch on anything that relates to reminders too. Speaker 3 00:05:55 Relates to what? I'm sorry, the last part of that cut out. Reminders. Speaker 3 00:05:59 Reminders. So I will be honest, Copilot is not yet there on reminders. Um, It is they are putting in new stuff almost weekly at this point of updates. Um, now here is what I do do. Casey, have you ever heard of N8N? No. Okay, um, you can do this in Power Automate, but N8N is a more granular automation tool. It is HIPAA ISO SAC and SOC compliant, which is the only reason why I am bringing it up to you guys. Um. Speaker 3 00:06:36 I use N8N to, you see all my little uh categories right here. I use N8N to categorize that and I use Claude to make my blocks and set up my schedule. And everything like that and categorize out my meetings as well. So I do use um, I do use all of this together and I do use Copilot. So, just because I want to see all of the different ways that things work together. Now, to do this in innate, every time an email comes in that comes only into my inbox, it's going to categorize the email whether or not I need to respond. If, it's a delegation or if it's informational, and you can see the informationals are coming up here. If it was forwarded from something else and I need to respond, the system will classify any of them that I need to respond to. Speaker 3 00:07:31 And then that way I can sort and filter by categories. And then every two, well, Every day, it's going to look at anything older than two weeks, and it's going to push them into one of my folders here. And as you can see, my folders are pretty organized. So, if it's a client email goes in that client folder and things like that. I have Claude in N8N doing this because I can get a little bit more granular with it. And then I know you guys are discussing using Claude Teams, right? Yeah, we are. Okay. So I'll just be honest. Um, I'm using Claude Team as well. And so if I go in here, I can tell it to connect to my Outlook because the the connections are already there and hang on. Let let it pop up because I had to reboot my computer at one point today. Um, I'll go. I'll go into claude code for this one, because that's where i have it set up. Speaker 3 00:08:28 And this is where all my minions live. I actually have agents, AI agents I built into Claude. I have 52 of them. They all have their own information. They know how to react, how to do things. And so I'll be in here and I'll say, "I need April to go through and ensure that I have the blocks." For my work on my calendar for next week. Now, she's already she already knows this. She is allowed to create blocks, But she's not allowed to move any meeting that was sent to me by invite. So like George's meeting for today and things like that, she can't move those. So she's got that hard coded as a rule. Is it all over the agents? Yes. Speaker 3 00:09:24 Because, you know, Anzor stole my human April from me because she was doing such a good job that he wanted April. So I had to make an AI replacement for her. Speaker 2 00:09:34 So you created an agent? Well, again, a lot we're showing a lot of behind the scenes stuff in this case. But like, ultimately, we could set up if there was like a like what she's done here is just create an agent basically uh that that is capable of doing a lot of different things. But in this case, it's like okay I need to make sure I've got room in my schedule. Able to go do that. Yeah. And there again, there's rules like she just mentioned where okay, yeah, the AI agent's not allowed to move any of my meetings. But if I have a window between the hours of twelve and one, then the agent can go and actually is that what it's doing? Christiti is inserting a block into your calendar? Yeah. And this could be set up for agencies. Yeah, go ahead. Speaker 1 00:10:21 This this is really, Helpful. I mean, This is the kind of thing that, that I would really like you You insert directives into Claude, and then because it's connected, it can go into your Outlook and execute those. That's how that's exactly right. Yes, that's exactly right. Okay. How do I get minions guys? What do I do? Speaker 3 00:10:43 So well, first off, you're going to you're going to read my blog post about minions on my my website. Speaker 2 00:10:52 And then. So, then we're going to uh so basically, we could set up these agents for him to go do various tasks, right? And then um could I mean, like, for example, if if um if something needs I, guess my whole I, the value I find in agents is it's something that you repeat all the time. So if he has a regular task, and I can think of the one thing that I would. I think he would want, based on my conversations with him and Casey. Obviously, tell me if I am wrong, But kind of like a daily top hits of what do I need to respond to today? What's immediately urgent? What is new that I don't even know about? Like, I think you could get an agent to do that kind of a summary for you pretty well, right Christy? Speaker 3 00:11:45 Here is my midday check. Um. Of everything. Yes. And it's colorful. Yes. So, And I need to go in and clean up some of these because I got a bunch of this already done. So I don't need to worry about it, but yeah, it's all color coded. It tells me what's overdue. A lot of these I'm just waiting on the client to come back to me on, you know, and I can go from there. When I came back from vacation, uh, I asked for it in Claude Co to tell me what are my priorities on emails that I need to respond to? And it provided that to me. Speaker 3 00:12:20 Um, so it's it's that. And then Radar sends me a morning stuff where I have actions and the latest news that I need to be on top of for clients. Um, And then I can go into Claude Co or Claude Co work one or the other and say, Hey, I need to send out a message to all my Microsoft Copilot clients and give them some heads up on this. Speaker 2 00:12:44 Is this rip? So, Radar is another agent. Radar is going and looking out on the web for all the recent updates on given parameters, on given topics. Yeah. Cool. Very cool. That's right. That's very cool. Yes So okay. So it seems like based on where this conversation is going. It seems like Claude actually is going to give more of at least and you the other tool you referenced, which I've already forgotten. It was like an acronym. Speaker 2 00:13:15 But you're using essentially that one tool to group by color, And then is Claude also then obeying said color when it's doing its summaries or no? Speaker 3 00:13:28 It is. It is obeying that color. So it is in here right here. Client, this is N 8 N. Yes, and so basically it's like Power Automate on steroids or Zapier on steroids. It allows me to get really granular. So this my Outlook cleanup, and this runs every time I get an email. It comes in within two minutes it runs, and then it just has some things it does. It will send to Claude, here's a copy of the message. You need to designate the category and the urgency behind it, and then if it is, and this George for George only. Speaker 3 00:14:12 Um, If there is MFA MFA code that's sent to me George through the automation system because all the staff in the company need those uh MFA codes that come through. It puts them in a specific Teams message on Microsoft Teams. So you can get as granular as you want on this. Um yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:35 And I think I don't know if we need to get that granular into this project. But I think that the the one thing that I I. The nuance I am seeing here with being able to do it this way, like this case was talking about, like when he first came in, George set him up with some auto forwarding rules in Outlook just using native Outlook. Right? Which that's very binary. Right? Very like or fault. Okay. Any email referencing um Argus goes into this subfolder but, Yeah, But then he was saying I was missing some emails, because there actually was one or two important ones in there. Or even when he was traveling, you know, He didn't check the sub folder ;. He was only checking his main inbox and and he was losing track of what was important. This seems like you could build in controls to essentially auto forward things, but after it cleared some validation steps first. Like okay, before I move anything to a subfolder. Speaker 2 00:15:32 I'm going to make sure that it's going to sit in my inbox for two weeks. Or before I move anything uh to a subfolder, I have to make sure I have responded to the email or in some other way, completed the task, right? Am I am I thinking about this right? Speaker 3 00:15:49 No, you're thinking about it perfectly. Um because that's essentially what I do with it. In fact, it goes so far as to have April say hey, Brett hasn't responded to you in three days. Do you want to send a touch base? Uh, Do you want to send a touch base back to Brett and and check on the status of this? And if it does, it'll stick on my dress. You're probably looking for my mom. She's currently in MFA she's in an A right now. Speaker 2 00:16:18 She may be with uh yes based on that particular, Action item. It could actually, okay, anytime after someone again you can define who you want. It's like some people maybe doesn't require a response, But again, if it's like for a high touch individual or what whatever the case may be, It'll come up with some kind of a rule for that, and then it will come up with the draft of how the at least get you started with the with the drop with the draft right? Yes. Speaker 3 00:16:52 And. So this is this is a copy of oneum that I just I I told April I want it to look pretty because this is my proposed schedule. So. Speaker 1 00:17:05 Yeah, that's great. Speaker 3 00:17:07 Ask him to give me one second. Uh, yeah sorry, she's. Uh. Let me put you guys on mute for just a second while you guys talk about this. Speaker 1 00:17:14 Okay, sorry about that. So do you guys think that Hi, Speaker 3 00:17:17 This is Christy. Hey Christy good afternoon my name is Bhakti.
06-16 Weekly Meeting: Progress Invoice Clarity and Project Reference
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-16 10:48:01 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [April] [Christi] [Speaker 3] [Mike] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Clarifying project reference on a progress invoice - The team discussed an invoice lacking a clear project reference, causing confusion for Mark and clients. - April showed that the project reference appears only in a specific area; Mark may have missed it. - Mike noted clients often ask “What is progress billing?” and “Which project is this for?” - Consensus: Add the project name in the bottom comment section of the invoice to improve clarity. - There was an attempt to annotate and share the screen in Teams; controls were adjusted to allow April to demonstrate. - Conclusion: Add the project name to the bottom comment of the invoice and resend with clearer labeling. - Topic Title: Placement of project name on invoice - Mike asked if the project name can be placed near “Progress Invoice” (left of the amount). - April explained that area is grayed out; the bottom comment can display the project name and will surface appropriately. - Christi stated prior attempts required paid customization via ConnectWise to change invoice layout. - Conclusion: Use the bottom comment for the project name; do not pursue layout changes now. - Topic Title: Progress billing numbering (e.g., “1 of 2”) - Mike recommended adding a sequence like “1 of 2” to indicate the total progress invoice count. - April and Christi discussed feasibility; April will explore how to add this in the bottom comment after unbatching. - Mike shared this improves professionalism and reduces client questions; frequency of such questions is low but worth addressing. - Conclusion: The team will try to include “1 of 2” style notation if possible and report back to Mike. - Topic Title: Operational steps to update and resend invoice - Plan to request Finance to unbatch the invoice to allow edits. - After unbatching, add the project name and, if feasible, progress numbering in the bottom comment. - April will coordinate with Maggie, Elisa, and Maricar on the unbatching and edits. - Consider explaining the changes to Mark or resending the invoice with clearer details. - Conclusion: Proceed with unbatching, editing, and resending the invoice; communicate clarity improvements. ## Next Steps - [ ] Request Finance to unbatch the invoice to allow edits. - [ ] Add the project name in the bottom comment of the invoice. - [ ] Evaluate and, if feasible, add progress billing numbering (e.g., “1 of 2”) in the bottom comment. - [ ] Resend the updated invoice with clearer labeling. - [ ] Inform Mark about the changes and where the project reference appears. - [ ] April to coordinate with Maggie, Elisa, and Maricar on the unbatching and updates. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Confirm whether ConnectWise customization is truly required to move the project name near “Progress Invoice,” and decide if the expense is justified. > 2. Define a standard for progress billing numbering (e.g., total number of invoices) and ensure the team can consistently apply it. > 3. Create a brief client-facing explanation of “progress billing” to include with invoices to reduce recurring questions.
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Christy, uh, Carney reached out regarding the progress building is sent. And for some reason, the invoice is sent doesn't have a reference on it like to which project. Oh, one sec. Let me just. Ah okay. I see it now Well initially for um okay. So here's what Mark said um this says it is a progress payment. Uh, sorry. Can you see my screen by the way? Speaker 2 00:00:32 Oh no, I'm sorry. I was looking at something else. Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:36 He said pro progress for what? And then I checked the attached invoice that Mike sent me because he initially emailed Mike about the invoice. Okay, So it looks like uh Maggie. Um the reference is only showing up in here. I'm not sure if Mark didn't notice this because, He was kind of asking for which project is this one. Speaker 2 00:01:02 Let me let me add Mike. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:13 I think he's also not aware that you're going progress building now, Speaker 3 00:01:16 So we don't tell anybody. Yeah. It's not letting me Can you call him? I can't it's not letting me add him to the call. Oh, hang on. One sec. I. Speaker 1 00:01:41 Think we should add a reference for just additional thing. Yeah, Chrissy, you can add it in here. Speaker 2 00:01:48 Well, I have a better idea. Why don't we show Mike? Oh, Mike is here. Yeah, Mike mike You are weird. Bring it back up. Yeah, look, look at look at April's screen. Speaker 1 00:02:05 This were Mark's question for which project is progress building related to? But April, can you April, Speaker 2 00:02:12 Can you approve that request? Speaker 3 00:02:15 Oh, which one? It's oh hello okay. Speaker 4 00:02:18 It's the invoice the way the invoice looks. So we we have it at that, So Christie, is this project name where we list the project? It's like in the title. Most people look at the title, they look at like the body. Speaker 2 00:02:34 I know. I'm teasing you because I didn't know it either until April showed me. I'm just giving you grief because you missed me. Speaker 4 00:02:41 Oh, because you're good at it. Speaker 2 00:02:43 Yeah, I'm good at giving grief. Yeah, I didn't know it either and I'm the one who sent out this invoice. Oh okay, Cause uh I I I decided to learn how to do it. And they just showed me that for the first time. I'm playing around with with yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. What are you using? Uh just annotate in Teams. Speaker 4 00:03:11 Oh it oh, but you have a stylus though, right? Or is that your mouse? Speaker 3 00:03:14 That's my mouse. Okay, yeah, So. Speaker 4 00:03:18 Anyways yeah like, I've this is, I've had multiple clients say," Hey, you know, your invoices like the especially the progress building. Like what is this for?" Because, it should be listed at the very bottom in that white area, where it says" progress invoice." Speaker 1 00:03:36 You did add that as a bottom comment here, Christy. Speaker 2 00:03:40 Wait, show me. Speaker 1 00:03:42 Oh, sorry. I do I have control? I cannot see my mouse or my cursor. Speaker 2 00:03:47 Oh yeah let me let me quit, Let me quit the annotate because I how do I quit? Go back? Stopum turn it off, clear all annotations and go back to select all right, see if you can do it now. Uh, no, Speaker 1 00:04:07 Asking me to like making me draw. Speaker 2 00:04:11 Look at the top of your screen. It should have a stop annotate up there because you're sharing. Yeah. Okay, yeah, hang on. I'm playing with all the new features that have been around. There you go. Yeah. Okay, Speaker 1 00:04:24 Mike, We can add that here at the bottom comment. And then when that's added at the bottom of the comment, you'll see the project name here. That's something that you can do. Speaker 4 00:04:37 We can't put it where it says progress invoice? Speaker 1 00:04:40 Yes, like for the project name, Christy, you can just Oh go back. No what your Oh sorry. Speaker 4 00:04:48 No, no, no. So, you see where it says progress invoice to the left of the twelve fifty? Right there. Yeah. Can we can we put it there? Speaker 1 00:04:55 Um, if we put it on the bottom comment, the it should be hang on. Let me just try it here. Oh, it's grayed out already. Can, we and now we can add them unbatched But. What I'm trying to say is this, uh, project name right here. It will go here. Here If. We put a bottom comment from the invoicing. Speaker 4 00:05:18 Is there any way we can move it up a little bit higher? No. Speaker 2 00:05:23 I think the last time we tried that, we actually had to get, we had to pay for Connectwise to make those changes for us, if I remember correctly. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:05:33 Okay. Okay, Well, that's Bob. The bottom comment is going to be better than than in in the title. Speaker 1 00:05:40 Yeah Could you explain to To Mark or should we like resend because I'm not sure. Speaker 4 00:05:48 How much trouble is it to resend? Speaker 1 00:05:52 Um, I think we can just uh edit this via like, oh, we can unbatch right? Maggie? Yeah yeah we can do that Mike. We can just request finance that we will unbatch this invoice so we can make changes and then I'll let them know that we're going to. Speaker 4 00:06:10 Resend it with a more clear. The only other thing that they're going to ask for if we're doing progress billing is it's like. One of two, two of two. One of three, two of four. Speaker 2 00:06:25 For this one, you are asking a lot. Yeah, everything I do is half. Speaker 1 00:06:31 Oh, half the amount. Okay, so this is one of two. Yeah, Mike's. Speaker 4 00:06:35 So hey Christi as an account manager, that's that's my job is to avoid customers having to come back to us saying, hey. Yeah. But, Speaker 2 00:06:44 You're you're going to have to sweeten the deal to to April and Maggie and say, hey, you know, you got to learn a bunch of things. Here's some chocolate for your hard work. Speaker 4 00:06:54 Well, I can't send them chocolates but I can I can reciprocate via karma points. Speaker 2 00:06:58 Oh yeah, that would work That works. But I do have it on very good authority bebecause I have the addresses in my in my Amazon account that you can deliver anything by Amazon. Ca use I I. Speaker 4 00:07:13 Think I tried that once and I thought I wasn't able to you have to go to like the Philippines Amazon. Speaker 2 00:07:18 So what I do is I give April my logins and April does it for me. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:07:32 Yeah. Just just letting, you know, that's two comments. I've heard from customers is number one. They usually reach out bebecause what the hell's progress billing. Speaker 4 00:07:39 And then the second question I've heard in the past is, okay, so what progress one of two, Two of two, like how many of these progress invoices am I going to get total? Speaker 1 00:07:49 Okay regarding the one of one, Two of two, we're uh, we'll find out uh Mike we'll figure out how can we add that. So later I'll let you know if we were able to find something. Speaker 4 00:08:01 Honestly I've only had maybe that that second question, like what progress, like one of whatever I've only been asked that twice. Mhm. But so, it's up to you guys. But it's a good it's if we can do that, It makes it us appear more professional, and it'll avoid customers having to ask us questions. Speaker 1 00:08:22 Got it. Okay, yeah, we'll figure this one out and we'll let you know Mike. Speaker 4 00:08:29 Okay sounds good. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:08:31 Thank you Bye Christy We'll just resend thisum invoice We have to uh requestum. Financed that we will unbatch this. Maggie, Can you work on this one with Elisa and Maricar that we're going to do? But, we're going to unbatch this one, so we can add the project name at the bottom of the comment. But also, Christy, I think we can add one or two, right Maggie? Since once after pasted or paste a bottom comment here, we can add some more characters, right? Speaker 2 00:09:07 Yeah. Okay. Okay, are you good with the changes? Yeah, I'm good with the changes. I want to go give Mike some more grief. I just learned this. You're already shitting on me. Um yeah, let me go let me go be mean to Mike for a second. Speaker 3 00:09:21 Okay He deserves it Christi You're welcome Bye Thank you Bye.
06-18 Lecture: Managing Microsoft Distribution Lists
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- Date Time: 2026-06-18 08:42:21 Location: [Insert Location]: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name]: Christi ## Summary This lecture is a real-time, step-by-step tutorial led by Christi on how to locate and manage a specific Microsoft distribution list, `AF_supervisors`. Christi first attempts to find the list through the Microsoft Entra admin center (`intra.microsoft.com`) and then through the Microsoft 365 admin center (`admin.microsoft.com`), leading to the Exchange admin center. The process involves navigating through groups and searching for the distribution list. Throughout the tutorial, she encounters difficulties locating the specific list and ultimately decides to pause the session to get more information from a colleague named Shane, who made the original request. The tutorial also highlights using a tool called Snagit to capture steps and mentions the need for a separate demonstration on using "Synapse Secure" for logging into admin accounts. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Process for Managing Microsoft Distribution Lists - **Objective: Find a specific distribution list.** - The primary goal is to locate a distribution list named `AF_supervisors` to perform an update, as requested by Shane. - **Tool Demonstration: Using Snagit** - The instructor, Christi, announces her plan to use Snagit to capture her actions. - She specifically mentions using a new Snagit feature called "Steps," which automatically records the steps as she clicks, creating a documented procedure. - **Method 1: Using Microsoft Entra Admin Center** - **Step 1: Access the portal.** Navigate to `intra.microsoft.com` and log in. - **Step 2: Use Synapse Secure for login.** The instructor notes that the audience will need to use "Synapse Secure" to log in and that someone named Anton can show them how. She logs in using her own account. - **Step 3: Navigate to Groups.** Once logged in, go to the "Groups" section. - **Step 4: Search for the group.** From "Groups," go to "All groups" and use the search bar to find the distribution list. - **Step 5: Attempt to locate the list.** Christi searches for "AF supervisors," "AF," and "supervisors" but is unable to find the correct list, as the search results are not what she expected. She mentions not knowing the exact naming convention. - **Method 2: Using Microsoft 365 and Exchange Admin Centers** - **Step 1: Access the admin portal.** Navigate to `admin.microsoft.com`. - **Step 2: Use CIT Admin credentials.** The instructor states that one should sign in as the "CIT admin" using "Sign-in-as-Secure" (Synapse Secure). She notes that Sean will need to demonstrate this process as she is unfamiliar with it. - **Step 3: Navigate to Exchange.** From the main admin center, go to the "Exchange" admin center. - **Step 4: Navigate to Distribution Lists.** Inside Exchange, go to "Groups" and then select "Distribution list." - **Step 5: Search for the list again.** Use the search bar to look for "AF_super" (based on an email from Shane reading "Shane update AF_supervisors"). The search yields no results. - **Step 6: Further troubleshooting.** After the search fails, Christi tries sorting the lists but still cannot find the correct one. She finds lists named "program supervisors" but confirms they are not the correct ones. - **Pausing the Tutorial** - After failing to find the distribution list through both methods, Christi decides to pause the demonstration. - She plans to contact Shane, who works at Ability First and made the request, to get the correct information about the distribution list's name or location. - She promises to call the participants back once she has the necessary details. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Follow up with Sean for a demonstration on how to use Synapse Secure (or "Sign-in-as-Secure") to log in as the CIT admin. - [ ] 2. Await Christi’s follow-up with the correct name or location of the "AF\_supervisors" distribution list after she consults with Shane.
- Date
- Jun 18, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 Okay, I'm going to show you guys how to do this. Speaker 2 00:00:12 But first, let me. I'm going to. What I'm going to do is I'm going toum share my screen, but I'm also going to use Snagit and set up Snagit to capture all the steps. That way we have it. Speaker 1 00:00:26 So hang on one second. Speaker 1 00:00:32 Let me find my Snagit. There we go. Snagit. Speaker 2 00:00:39 Just came out with a new amazing feature called Steps, and it basically grabs the steps as I click. So yeah, Speaker 1 00:00:51 So I want to make sure that I capture all of these for you guys. All right. Speaker 1 00:01:02 Is he sick? No. Yes. Okay. Yes, you're not allowed to be sick. That's why he hides his face, he don't want you to know he's sick. Speaker 2 00:01:18 All right, So we're going to go to intra dot microsoft dot com and you're going to log in. Using Synapse Secure. I'm just, I'm logging in with my account. So that's the only difference. Anton can show you guys how to use Synapse Secure. So real quickly, once you're in here, you're going to go to groups and then from groups, You're going to go to all groups, and you're going to find a distribution list. Speaker 2 00:01:58 So the distribution list for this one is going to be, I think, AF supervisors. So, we're going to go up here in the search, and we're going to type in AF. And I. Speaker 1 00:02:11 Am going to scroll because there's a lot of AFs out-- I don't know how it's written. Um, I'll see it. Okay. So we're going to do supervisors, see if it comes up that way. Speaker 1 00:02:31 Nope, that's not it either. Hang on, Speaker 2 00:02:34 Let me go back to my email. Shane update AF underscore supervisors. Okay. AF underscore super That's not it either. Okay, So in this case, what we're going to do is we're going to go to admin dot Microsoft dot com. Speaker 2 00:03:01 And we're going to go down to Exchange. Basically everything I'm getting to, Speaker 1 00:03:07 You can go into admin. microsoft. com to get there. And when we go to admin. microsoft. com, we sign in as the CIT admin? There's a CIT admin for this? Speaker 2 00:03:23 Yes, but you're going to use Sign-in-as-Secure to do it. And Sean's going to have to show you how to do that because I don't know how to do that. Speaker 1 00:03:31 So. Synapse, or Synapse, or Gora? Speaker 2 00:03:35 Um, someone add Sean to this chat. Oh okay. Yeah so he can because yeah he's gonna have to show you. All right. So while I'm in here, I'm gonna go into groups here and I'm gonna go to distribution list, because I couldn't find it in intra. So I'm gonna do AF underscore. Speaker 1 00:03:59 See if I can find it this way. I'm going to go into search up here at the top. AF underscore super. See what pops up. All right, so it's not in there. It's not in there. Speaker 1 00:04:30 No boxes. It's not in there. Let me sort by birthday now instead. Speaker 1 00:05:04 Okay, let's start in here. I have program supervisors and I got two program supervisors. Alright, hang on one second. I saw Shane walk by. Let me see if he walks back by. Oh, you have you're down now? Mm-mm. I'm gonna ability first. Oh, Shane's got a move to be first with you? Shane works at Ability First. He's the one who requests them this time. Oh, okay, got it. Alright. Speaker 1 00:06:04 Uh, let me find out from him and I'll give you guys a call back. Okay, we'll be here. All right, bye.
07-16 Meeting: Copilot Feature Updates and User Adoption
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- > Date: 2026-07-16 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### Copilot Feature Updates and Usage Review - Christi is experiencing technical issues with Microsoft, including slow loading and a temporary Copilot license error, but notes her M365 Copilot is now functioning correctly. - She is turning her camera off due to unstable internet at a client site. - New Copilot features: - Claude is now fully integrated. - A new, albeit “bland,” design is available. - “Work IQ” has been added. - Scheduled prompts can be set to run at specific times (e.g., 8:00 AM daily). - Christi highlighted the mobile app’s voice feature, which she uses during her commute to Pasadena to have emails, to-do lists, and her calendar read to her. ### User Adoption and Usage Statistics - All six enabled users are active, reflecting 100% adoption. - Activity is highest in Excel and Word, with additional usage in Teams, PowerPoint, the mobile app, Outlook, and OneNote. - Christi encouraged trying Copilot in OneNote and Loop, noting Loop is similar to Notion. - One user, Mark, submitted 168 prompts in 18 days, which Christi found highly impressive. - Most other users are at or under 30 prompts. - Speaker 2 noted that building confidence is key to increasing usage among less active users. ### Training and Feedback Collection - Christi asked about rolling out training to the remaining team members. - She shared a survey form, created before her hospital stay, to collect feedback in real time. - The form does not allow file uploads; Christi advised sending screenshots or files via email to her and CC’ing the help desk to create a ticket. - Christi’s email has an agent set to scan for requests from this team. - There is significant client interest in an additional Power Automate class to enhance AI capabilities. Christi is working on this and will also send out videos. ### Follow-up Meeting with High-Usage User - Christi proposed a one-on-one meeting with Mark, the most active user, to understand his process; others are welcome to join. - A meeting was scheduled for July 23, 2026, in the upcoming week. - The meeting is scheduled for 1.5 hours to ensure ample time, though it may not require the full duration. ### General Updates and Action Items - Anzor is on vacation, delaying Christi’s ability to share meetings more effectively. - Christi will send out notes from the current meeting. - She will continue building training documents and add them to the shared files; the team should notify her if links expire. - Christi mentioned she owes Daniel the PowerPoint portion of a deliverable, which is the last remaining piece. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to send notes from this meeting. - [ ] Christi to conduct a one-on-one meeting with Mark (others welcome) on July 23, 2026, to discuss his Copilot usage. - [ ] Team members to email feedback, screenshots, or files to Christi, CC’ing the help desk. - [ ] Christi to deliver the PowerPoint portion of the deliverable to Daniel. - [ ] Christi to create and share Power Automate training materials and videos. - [ ] Team members to notify Christi if shared file links expire. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. A timeline for rolling out the main Copilot training to the rest of the team was discussed but not finalized. > 2. Interest in a Power Automate class was noted, but no specific schedule or format for the training was decided. > 3. Technical issues with Microsoft products (slow loading, license errors) were mentioned, but no resolution plan or follow-up with Microsoft support was established.
- Date
- Jul 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:08 Good morning. You know, life is really amazing right now. I'm starting to feel like I'm getting caught up. I know it's been a few weeks, but you know, I'm starting to feel like I'm getting caught up with you guys. It was easy to get caught back up on, but um you know it's one of those things where I'm like okay, I got to get fully caught up with everybody else. You guys were one of my primary.I'm going to get caught up with you guys first. Speaker 1 00:00:47 Yeah. And your uh, some of your guys have made it super easy for me to do that. Um I am running into some issues I wanted to have today for you guys, but Microsoft has been really slow on loading up my stuff. Uh it just now told me for a moment that there was no Copilot license ever assigned. Which we know is a lie. But I had to do a refresh to get that usage back up. I think Microsoft's had a few issues lately. We're still digging through a lot of the different things that we've seen come through. Bear with me, my view has gone crazy, so let me get my view fixed. Speaker 2 00:01:47 Oh, there it is. Speaker 1 00:01:53 Um, I am going camera off today only because I am sitting at a client site and their internet has been up and down today. I don't know if it's a it's highly unusual, But for instance, uh, you look like you're frozen mid smile, looking at me and you've been that way for a few minutes. Some. Just a heads up for you guys. I am I that's I'm going to turn off view for you guys. So I'm not going to see your faces mostly because of the internet issues. No, don't do that. Uh okay so I am sharing my screen. I want to go over a few things with you guys. This is the copilot usage. It has been having some issues lately um throwing things up. But I think that's with Microsoft making a lot of changes. Speaker 1 00:02:42 Um, Microsoft has fully added Claude in now, so you will get uh Claude if you go in there. And they worked on a new design. I don't know if you guys have seen that. There's some new designs out. Uh Work IQ has been added. I'm leaving mine on. Um I do go back and forth, But now as of actually this morning, all of my M 365 Copilot is back correctly. Everything's looking good um. The new design is on. I kind of like it. It's just looking a little bland. For you guys, there is some scheduled prompts that you guys can do now, and you can set those up to say, hey, I want this to run every morning at 8:00 AM. And so you can do that under scheduled prompts, and then once you create them they're managed. I didn't do it in my tenancy. I did this in another client's tenancy and it worked really well for me. Speaker 1 00:03:38 Working with some of their staff, getting it to set up with some schedule prompts. So I wanted to alert you guys to that, that is a change that they have made. And to dig into that, take a look at it, see if that would benefit you guys on that. Within this, they have made a few changes to the chat settings. So I'm trying to show you guys the good news as well. There are some pinning that you can do. Personalization is still They've added a few more things within your custom instructions, where you can make it just slightly longer, Which I haven't done because I just copy and paste my custom instructions to all my AI minions. So just be aware of that. And then have you guys, I'll ask this question a little bit later, but it's something for you guys to think about. Have you guys utilized agents? Now, I don't have external data access for anything, but Adobe Acrobat and Anzor put in Lucidchart. Speaker 1 00:04:37 Adobe Acrobat, I am actually using that. That has been helpful. But I just want to bring these up to you guys as well. And let you guys know that, that is out there. So be aware of that. Also, I have been more and more on my long drives to Pasadena, utilizing the voice feature on my cell phone. It is what I wish Claude would do in the mornings when I am driving to work because Claude is my number one, bestie AI bestie. And Copilot's number two, But the reason why I bring this up is the voice turning on voice on the cell phone as you are driving. If you have a long commute, you can actually get caught up on a lot of things that way. I get my emails read to me, my to do list, my calendar. And so as I am driving, it's like having for those of you guys who've known me for long enough, it's like having my human April who was my administrative assistant. Speaker 1 00:05:35 Who called me at 7:00 a.m. on my drives in. It's like having her do that, and it's been super helpful. So be aware of that if I hadn't mentioned it before, I'm actually getting more and more reliant on this. Because for any of you guys that know, South Bay to Pasadena in the morning is a long haul. So be aware of that. But real quickly, Your I want to look at the active users. All all six of you guys are 100 %. This is where your enabled users, like where the chats and things that everyone is taking care of and doing. Teams, there's only one of you who's pretty active in Teams. One of you who's pretty active in PowerPoint. All of you guys are pretty active in Excel and Word. And then a couple of you guys are using the app, which is why I wanted to show you the app today. And then a few of you guys are using Outlook OneNote. Speaker 1 00:06:33 And loop, just a heads up for that you guys on that. Um, both of these I've been playing more and more with Copilot in that. Uh, It I if you guys use OneNote or Loop, which Crimson is all about the Loop. Um, give that a try. It's actually benefited me. It's very similar to Notion if you guys have heard about Notion. It's not Notion yet but they're going to get there soon. Um your chat adoption uh pretty smooth across the board um Not very many people are using the web section. Um, I'm honestly no one on Crimson is using it either. So I would not even worry about that. And then, um, so here is the it doesn't show me username. I could go look these up but I'm lazy. I'm not going to tell you who's who. But um here is the prompts that were submitted and I'm going to sort this. Uh, one of you guys is very busy Who is this? Speaker 1 00:07:33 A hundred, okay. It's one hundred and sixty eight prompts submitted. That is more than I do, so I am impressed, highly impressed. And that's over eighteen days, so kudos to Mark. Just a heads up :. The rest of you guys are under thirty or right around thirty or under. So I saw this this morning as I was Drinking my coffee and I almost snorted my coffee when I saw, um, But that was pretty fun because I was like dang, it I'm gonna have to up my game. Um so here's where you guys are on usage. Any questions about this? Any comments? Speaker 2 00:08:31 Using it at all. That may be too big to spend on the other for certain things. I think we're talking about how to get people confident in it, and then they'll use it more. So I think so, you know, like from my testing out, you know, that'll be others that don't use it as much as possibly some people do. I think that's fair to just have something like that for them. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:09:02 Yeah, it's I mean it's excellent. Um, I've been really impressed with what I've seen from you guys. Um, Cause I look at every company that we roll out Copilot in. And like I said, you guys you guys have got some good data here. Now. That being said, how how are you guys feel about starting to roll out the training to the rest of everybody that's supposed to be in the training? Speaker 2 00:10:47 Okay. Speaker 2 00:11:20 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:12:06 Okay. Um, heads up, I put a survey form into the chat. Um, I had built this out right before I went into the hospital, but I think i was i think it was that Friday before. um, I was going to send that out to you guys. Would this be, if you guys open it up and take a look, Would this be a good tool for you guys to report some of that information in the moment as you're working through it? Okay. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:12:40 Oh yeah. Yes. Speaker 1 00:13:30 That's A good question. Let me do that. Uh, where is my upload file? Hang on. It's have them send that to me in an email. Uh, I think because I've shared this to you guys externally, it doesn't allow to upload files. Speaker 1 00:13:52 So it's it's grayed out and it's not letting me click on it. Speaker 2 00:14:07 Yeah. Absolutely. Speaker 1 00:14:19 And they can they can put that in here as well, but but also send it by email. Um, I have an agent that is scanning my emails for you guys for any requests and things that you guys have coming in. So I can keep that in a tally note. So. Speaker 1 00:15:06 Mhm. We can definitely do that. In addition to that, as I'm showing agents and things like that to other clients, they're also asking for an additional class on Power Automate. Because a lot of my agents works through Power Automate. Would you guys be interested in that and do you know what Power Automate is? Okay. Speaker 1 00:16:01 Yes. Absolutely. Um, I every single one of my AI meetings in the last, I'm going to say week and a half, every single client has asked for uh Power Automate. So so bear with me. I will forget that I've discussed that with you because I've discussed it with everyone else. Some, Yeah, it's becoming a hot topic. Power Automate has been around forever, but with the addition of AI, people are starting to realize its value. So absolutely, I'm also I was trying to work on it this week. I'm also sending out videos on how to use Power Automate that will help as well. Speaker 2 00:17:28 Mhm. Speaker 1 00:18:20 Yes. Um, I want to see some of his of what he's gotten. Would would it be fair for me to sit down with him? Speaker 2 00:18:29 Because he's the most, he's used it the most. Would, it be fair for me to sit down and have a one-on-one meeting with him and maybe include a few of you guys, but not everybody? Speaker 2 00:19:01 Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 00:19:12 Well, for this is pretty amazing. My calendar is pretty blank for next week. What day and times work for you guys? Well, my Wednesday is completely open so. Speaker 1 00:19:41 I'm going to send this over to you, and then, and that way it's I already have it set to you, And it's already locked in because if I don't this late into the week, people are going to start scheduling for next week. And I put it for an hour and a half, just because on these types of meetings, if I do it for an hour, some some reason why we tend to go over. So, um, it probably won't take the full hour and a half but. Speaker 1 00:21:08 The Best way possible is, um, For for them to just send it in an email to me and CC the help desk. So a ticket's open. I'm working on training, uh about six other technicians at a higher level Copilot training. And so I think some of these are going to fall into that, and it'll be good for them to see, but also I can keep track of everything. Absolutely. Speaker 2 00:21:50 Yes. Speaker 1 00:22:32 Perfect. That sounds good. Um, I am going to send you guys over all the notes here, And I think the way I am trying to get some things fixed just adds up for you guys. Anzor has been out on vacation because I think it's like his. His birthday. I know his birthday is next week, but I think he went on an overseas trip for his birthday, So I need him to open up to share the meetings with you guys better. But for now, I am going to send everything over for today, just like I did last week with the training. Is there anything else? I know you've gone through extensively all my files. Keep those file links. Speaker 1 00:23:16 And let me know when it expires because I'm going to continue building out training documents and things like that and push those into those files. So as things get updated on CoWork, and I know you guys aren't using Claude, but a lot of my clients use Claude and OpenAI, those are being filled put in there as well. And then for you guys, everybody that's in the meeting, if you guys are using other tools personally, Feel free to grab any of the Claude and OpenAI stuff if you want to learn personally how to do it. I am pretty transparent and open about sharing all my stuff. All right? Anybody else have any questions? The rest of you guys are super quiet. So I want to make sure that the rest of you guys don't have any questions before we end. Speaker 1 00:24:28 Yeah, No, I I honestly, I'm astonished at how well he's doing. Uh, I am pretty impressed. Yeah, I honestly, I can't wait to meet him because um and see his day-to-day process cause that interests me. And I love that. Um, I wanted to pull up, I think I still have Copilot admin on my account. Uh, I want to see what compared his what I have because that, that makes me chuckle. That like that makes me feel good about everything we have going on. Nope, Anzor took it away from me. Yeah. All right. Um Daniel, I owe you some things uh outside of this. So i'm going to get those over to you. Speaker 1 00:25:17 Um probably I had to push things out. So on that one, um I am on the last piece. And that is the PowerPoint portion of it. So which takes the longest. So I'll get that out there to you. And then for the rest of you guys, thank you for being so amazing. I owe you all chocolates. You're welcome have a great week and weekend, and I will talk to you guys soon. Thanks, bye.
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08-11 Lecture: Microsoft 365 Copilot Training — Safe Usage, Outlook/Word/Excel/PowerPoint, Prompting, and Privacy
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- Date Time: 2026-08-11 13:57:39 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: Chris Brown and Christi Summary This introductory training series on Microsoft 365 Copilot, led by Chris Brown (CIO, Crimson IT) and Christi, focuses on safe, practical usage for new AI users across Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Copilot Chat. Copilot is an AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 that operates within existing security boundaries and accelerates work by drafting content and summaries to roughly 70% completion, requiring user judgment for the final 30%. The sessions emphasize overcoming the blank page, summarizing information with citations, customizing tone and structure, and validating outputs due to potential hallucinations. Demonstrations include Outlook email summarization, drafting replies, and inbox prioritization; Word “vibe writing” for generating and refining content; Excel data preparation, trend analysis, and formula assistance; PowerPoint deck creation from scripts or files with branded slide insertion; and Copilot Chat for meeting prep, file discovery, and people lookup. Safety practices cover sensitivity labels, PII handling, and careful prompt review. Follow-up modules will deepen prompting strategies and advanced capabilities, with additional sessions scheduled and recap materials to be shared. Knowledge Points 1. Introduction and training logistics - First of a four-week AI series starting with Microsoft Copilot; a “part two” advanced session scheduled for Thursday, August 13, 2026, and another Copilot session in the first week of September 2026. - Attendees span multiple clients; ground rules encourage questions and reactions with a dedicated Q&A. - Objective: safely use Copilot in Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, especially for first-time AI users. - Christi will send follow-up materials within a couple of days; Module 2 covers advanced prompting and deeper capabilities. 1. Fundamentals of Copilot - Built into Microsoft 365 apps and available as a chat app; adheres to user permissions and can reveal improperly stored public files. - Strengths: first drafts, summaries, reformatting, and explaining terminology; accelerates tasks but requires human review for voice, tonality, and accuracy. - Limitations: can be confidently wrong; does not signal uncertainty; output quality depends on prompt quality; treat AI like a new intern whose work must be checked. 1. Copilot in Microsoft Outlook - Access via top-right Copilot button (classic view) and in-email functions like Summarize. - Summarize single emails or long threads with citations linking to source messages. - Draft replies with specific instructions; Alt + I shortcut opens the draft prompt. - Prioritize incoming emails with up/down arrow icons; learns from behavior and supports rules (e.g., boss marked high priority). 1. Copilot in Microsoft Word - Copilot button on blank documents enables prompting and “vibe writing” to transfer ideas into text. - Generate and refine content; challenge Copilot to match preferred verbiage and tone; convert bullet lists to prose and adjust style (e.g., remove em dashes). - Summarize lists and PDFs; ingest multiple reports to produce executive summaries with clickable citations. - Use forward slash (/) to search and reference accessible files; create documents based on existing content. - Manage chat context: start new chats when changing topics and navigate prior interactions. 1. Copilot in Excel - Improved significantly from early limitations with formulas and analysis. - Data preparation: format data as tables with clear headers, consistent types, no blanks; set dates/currency; save to OneDrive/SharePoint for best results. - Prompt patterns: be precise, name ranges, state clear goals, ask for one thing at a time, and chain multi-part requests; iterate and ask clarifying questions. - Example insights: recent pipeline growth; interview scores predicting outcomes; offer amounts trailing expectations; compute averages and identify top recruiters. - Copilot assists with formulas (e.g., VLOOKUP) and iterative refinement; always validate math and logic. Copilot reads workbook data only; large messy sheets require cleanup. Deep analyses may take up to ~20 minutes. 1. Copilot in PowerPoint - Create decks from scripts or files via “Create with Copilot”; define audience and length; Copilot may ask clarifying questions and take time to build. - Insert slides at specific positions with styled content aligned to branding; review wording and flow and adjust tone. - Copilot may struggle to find files; expand search or select alternates. 1. Copilot Chat usage - Access via Copilot button or search; interface shows recent chats, agents, search, and co-work (if enabled). - Meeting prep: select meetings via forward slash, request preparation; multiple chats can run concurrently with occasional failures. - File discovery: describe remembered content to surface likely files and versions; people lookup returns contact details with sources and confidence notes. - Can reveal legacy system access, aiding rediscovery of information. 1. Safety, privacy, and sensitivity - Sensitivity labels strengthen controls; Copilot by default avoids exposing restricted content. - PII and compliance: avoid pasting confidential data; prompts containing sensitive info are blocked in regulated contexts (e.g., HIPAA). Review prompts before sending. - Recording practices include redaction of phone numbers for broader distribution. Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] Assignments - [ ] Explore Copilot in Outlook to summarize threads and draft replies; practice prioritization rules. - [ ] Use Word vibe writing to generate and refine content; try creating a document from a referenced file via forward slash (/). - [ ] Prepare clean Excel tables (correct formats, no blanks) and run trend summaries; practice iterative prompting and formula assistance. - [ ] Generate a PowerPoint deck from a script or files and insert a branded slide in between existing slides. - [ ] Validate outputs (math, logic, tone) before sharing; fact-check figures, names, and data. - [ ] Try Copilot Chat for meeting prep and locating files by content description; perform people lookups as needed. - [ ] Attend the advanced “part two” session on Thursday, August 13, 2026, and the upcoming first-week-of-September Copilot session; watch recordings if unable to attend. - [ ] Review Christi’s follow-up materials when received and look out for the upcoming Power Automate training on email categorization.
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- Aug 11, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hey, Kamyab. Speaker 2 00:00:41 Christy, are you there? Yes. Hi, Christy. Christy, would you whenever is a good time for you, Would you mind also putting in a link to the recording in case we think of watching the session again later or maybe have to leave earlier than the end of the session? Speaker 3 00:01:02 Absolutely. I'm going to be sending out the the recording and the transcripts so that everybody has a copy. Speaker 1 00:01:09 Okay. Excellent. Yeah, thank you. You're welcome. Speaker 3 00:02:32 We'll give it a little bit more time to see who all joins. And thank you guys for joining. I am going to give a few more moments, mostly because I had to reboot my computer. Speaker 3 00:03:48 All right, guys. We'll go ahead and get started. Um, welcome to training today. Just a quick heads up, I'm in an alternate office today. Um, so and I have wide screens. So I'm looking at you guys here, which is where everyone's faces are. Um but my uh presentation everything's going to be over here. So if I'm looking away, I just want you guys to understand and be aware of that. Um for those of you guys who have not met me, my name is Chris Brown. I am the CIO for Crimson IT. I work with multiple clients, But I also do a lot of the AI training and the AI work behind the scenes and getting people set up with Copilot and Claude and a few others out there. So we're going to go through, We're actually going to have training in the next four weeks on various AI agents. We're going to do Copilot this week. We're also going to do it again the first week in September. Speaker 3 00:04:41 So, Just want you guys to be aware. These trainings are a collection of people from all my different clients. So, I am going to keep things very generic. However, If you have scenarios that you want to use and things like that in this training, feel free to speak up. Now real quickly my ground rules for any type of training is one, I like for people to use the react buttons. You don't have to use raise your hand as often, but you can also throw out a heart or something like that. We try to have a little bit of fun here. And then there is no dumb questions. I have worked in IT for well over 25 years at this point, and trust me when I say I've heard it all. If you're going to ask a question, trust me, The person next to you may have a very similar question, and you may answer others. Speaker 3 00:05:32 So feel free to raise your hand, speak up. We are going to have a we are going to do a Q and A session at the very end. Um, But we're going to go through. This is going to be the basics of Copilot. We're going to talk about um, We're going to talk about it from a standpoint of people who've never used an AI tool before, but want to jump in because the company is providing Copilot for you to test out. Um By the end of this, you're going to be able to see how to use Copilot in Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint pretty safely. Um there is a part two to this training, which is going to be on Thursday. If, you cannot attend it. We are going to be recording it. So just be aware. Now I am going to turn on facilitator and start recording uh this meeting um next on Thursday. We're gonna go over what facilitator is. But I am gonna start recording it so that everybody can um. Speaker 3 00:06:24 Can rewatch it if they want. I am also providing training, um, Training videos that are not part that are not Teams meetings like this, but just straight videos. So you are welcome to try those as well. All right, any questions before we get started? No okay uh just a heads up I will be looking for feedback. I have no problems. If we were in person throwing candy at you, if I need to um. But since we're not, I will call on you if I if I need some answers. If you don't believe me, ask Kamyab and ask Steve. Um, if you don't believe me about candy serving, ask Chase. Okay? He, he's a couple offices down for me when I'm in an alternate in another location. So um one thing I want you guys to understand Copilot drafts your emails. Um, it can draft your Word documents. It can draft certain things in Excel and PowerPoint. Speaker 3 00:07:21 But it's not the final version. The final version is going to be up to you. And what I like to tell people is, AI will get you seventy percent of the way there. It's going to take the mundane tasks, but you are the last thirty percent. Now with that statement, a lot of people will ask me, well am I going to lose my job to AI? And I will jokingly say no because I know from an IT perspective that people don't know how to find their on button on their phones. And computers, So it's still going to require me to, at least tell people how to turn it on. But real life AI is not a substitute for judgment, and it cannot be. So just please understand that. Now, what Copilot actually is, It's an AI assistant is built into the apps that you already use. So it's already built into your Word, your Outlook, your Excel. It all has a button in it, and it'll allow you to work within those documents. Speaker 3 00:08:19 And number two is it only sees what you already have access to. Okay, it works inside your organization to secure your. Sorry, I was about to sneeze as I was talking. It works within the security boundaries of Microsoft. So, if you have access to financial data for staffing, but the person next to you doesn't because that's not their role. That person next to you will never see that type of things because Copilot says, Oh, Steve doesn't have access to this. So I can't show it to him. Okay. So just be very aware of it. You cannot tell it to pull something up that you do not have access to. Now in regards to that, It also works backwards if there is a file that is a straggler somewhere out in an open public location that has data. Speaker 3 00:09:13 Copilot will unearth it for you. And it became very apparent last year within Crimson, there was a file that was in a public location, But it was old data of employees and all of our staff had access to it because we didn't know that file was out there. So be aware, it will also unearth some documents. Okay. Now what it is the good and the bad is it predicts language? It's very good at predicting language, but it doesn't know things. Okay, So what it does is it will answer you by predicting what words should come next. And, it's gotten that way because it's pretty much learned everything. It knows from all the texts out there on the internet. Okay, so it understands how we work as humans, but sometimes it's going to mix that up and it can be completely wrong. Okay now the. Speaker 3 00:10:09 Good part of AI is it will remove the blank page, meaning it's going to create your first drafts, your summaries. It's going to do some reformatting. It will explain verbiage you don't understand or know. But what it does, what it doesn't do is it does not provide your final draft. Okay, that's on you. That's something you are going to have to look at. You are going to make sure that it has your voice, your tonality. You are going to change sentences. You are going to change Structures of paragraphs. That's something that you and only you can do. Okay, now the bad is it can be confidently wrong. It will on occasion invent details that look very plausible. It will also try to bring in context, you never gave it or miss it as well, And it's not going to tell you when it's unsure. Okay. So you got to make sure you check any fact any figure. Speaker 3 00:11:06 And name it before it lands in your hands. Now, show of hands. How many of you remember being an intern? For me, it was twenty five plus years ago. But how many of you remember being an intern? How many of you had interns working for you? Okay. Chase, I know you have been an intern or have had interns. So, um, interns When they come in, they're pretty cocky on their first job. Okay, we all know this. We've all you know we've all seen it. We've been interns or we've seen interns working. They come in, they're very cocky, they think they know everything and then they don't. You have to double check their work all the time because you can't trust them just yet. You trust them to come in and be knowledgeable in a lot of the things. But as far as the corporate. Speaker 3 00:12:03 Structure and the corporate data, they're not going to be very knowledgeable in it. And that's the way AI is. I tell people to treat AI as if it's an intern. So be aware of that. All right, now there is two front doors for Copilot, and one of those is the in app Copilot button. So that's going to be the button that's within Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint Teams all of that. And then you've got the Copilot app. So Copilot app is like a chat And it's also going to allow for co-work. So I'm going to go into what that is. And just to remember, three things that Copilot is not, is it's not always right. Okay? It's not a replacement for your judgment. It will get you 70 % of the way with a draft in about 30 seconds. So it's pretty quick, but you still got to edit it. So it'll take that report that usually takes you six hours to do, It might cut down four hours out of that work, so that you only have to worry about the last two hours. Speaker 3 00:13:02 So be aware of that. It's also not a mind reader. What you get back will depend on what you ask for, okay? So be aware of that. Now, I want you guys to find the Copilot button in your first message. So I'm gonna give you a moment and we're gonna open up a blank Word document and shockingly, I've not opened Word today. Also rebooted my computer not too long ago. So we're all gonna open Microsoft Word and get to a blank page. Speaker 3 00:13:35 And my Microsoft Word is taking a while. There we go. All right, so here's my blank page within Microsoft Word. And down here on the bottom is your Copilot button. Now, if you hover over it, you've got a couple of prompts, But what we're going to do is we're just going to click on that Copilot button, okay? And from oops, sorry I let me bring back Word. From here, you're going to give it a message. So your basic message is, can you explain what I do in three sentences? Now, if it's worked with you for a while, it's going to know. If you're new to Copilot, it may not. Okay? So here's what I do in three sentences. Speaker 3 00:14:30 I guide technology strategy for organizations by turning complex IT, security, cloud and AI decisions into clear business plans that executives can act on. All right. So very, very wordy. Now I have some options. I can I've got these right here or I can tell it what I want it to edit. And i want to. I wanted to ask it, create this as a bio, but put it. Speaker 3 00:14:59 In my voice and verbiage. Okay, so this is what I call arguing with AI. Okay, AI sometimes acts like a teenager. Remember I said ego and cockiness? Okay, now I'm going to go in here. I told it to write it in my voice, and then here's what I do. And then I have some buttons here. If I like this or I like it up to a certain point, I can go ahead and say "done" and then I can edit. Okay? Now, I'm going to say, "I don't really like em dashes." And you can change it. You can argue with it. All right? Now, this is Word. This was my live demo. Um, I wanted you guys to understand how that works. Speaker 3 00:15:58 But we're going to go into actually demoing what Outlook can do for you. I put these in the wrong order. I should have put Word first. We're going to come back to Word because we're going to talk about vibe writing, But we're going to go into Outlook and I'm going to show you guys Outlook now. Ignore my calendar. My calendar is pretty, I was looking at my calendar for somebody. Now in here, I am going to pull up some emails and I'm going to work with um with Copilot in my emails now just. Just a heads up, my email is very crazy looking. Some people look at it and they can't get past all the unread. Okay, so if you can just ignore it, I am going to walk you through Copilot. Copilot's right here on the top right. And then there's also some buttons within emails. So I'm gonna I'm gonna actually do something a little different. You can go into Copilot, hit the down arrow and have a few items here. Speaker 3 00:16:56 I'm going to ask it to summarize this email right here because I'm clicked in it already. Okay, So it's going to send it and I asked it to summarize. And here we go. Here's the summary. Now, It's almost as long as this but that's okay. So here's what we're looking at. We're looking at the email now I'm going to close this and I'm going to ask it to list email takeaways. Speaker 3 00:17:30 And I've got two places I can do that, by the way. Okay, so here's the email takeaways. Now, I'm going to close this again and I'm going to hit summarize up here. This a, this the other button you can do, and it will create a summary at the top of this email. Okay, now just heads up, I'm using the classic Outlook. If you're using the new Outlook, it works pretty much the same way, but here's your summary right here now where this becomes helpful. Is if I am okay, so this a this a vendor reach out. If I know that they're reaching out and it's multiple, it's long, I can actually go in and say reply. Okay, so I'm going to say summarize and reply now. Speaker 3 00:18:29 It's going to give me my reply draft. So here's what it says. So, I actually like this. It's pretty much what I would say. So I'm just going to hit reply. I'm going to do this a little differently. I am going to hold down the Alt key on my keyboard and hit the i, i as in igloo, and I'm going to ask it to help me short friendly message. Speaker 3 00:19:00 And decline nicely, decline his connection. Okay, now there is some things in brackets, short and friendly. I left that as is because I like my emails to be declined or I mean my decline emails to be nice. So here's what we have right here. Speaker 3 00:19:29 All right, now I do like how what this is saying right here. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to say keep it. I'm going to do something slightly different. So I'm going to erase all that and I'm actually going to take this one. So I'm gonna, I'm just gonna copy this one. Sometimes you'll get different answers, okay? Now when I paste it, i am going to clean it up. I am going to add in my paragraphs because sometimes pasting in doesn't look right. But this is what it's going to look like. Now, I'm going to go ahead and send this live because I do, like I said, I do rely on it to be nice. But overall, with the exception of me walking you guys through this, This took this would take me literally 30 seconds as I'm going through my email. How, many of you your inboxes look like all my unreads when you come back from vacation? Okay. Speaker 3 00:20:28 Six mailboxes in my Outlook, so just a heads up. That's why it looks so terrible. Um, I do I do utilize that. I utilize a lot of different features, but I will utilize the reply because Copilot pretty much replies like I do. And so just a quick heads up on that. I've taught it how I want it to look okay? Now, I'm going to show you another one. This is my morning beat briefing, all the news hitting AI. I get a couple of different morning briefings. So I'm going to summarize this. Okay, here is all the information. Now on this summary, you'll see we've got citations here. I can click on a citation, and it's going to show me where that came from. And it usually does by opening it up in a new email, which it did. Speaker 3 00:21:20 Or a new window, which it did. Now, where this is extremely helpful is if it's a long chain of emails. So on this one, I'm going to show it to you. I'm going to say summarize. This one has been an email that's been going back and forth between me and clients for a while. So here's all the information. If I want to look a little bit deeper, I can click on the citation, And it's going to actually pull up the specific email where Andrew was talking. Okay, That's very helpful to me because I usually get on long email chains and I don't know what's happening. So just a quick heads up for you on that. Also, at times my emails get backed up so I do rely on that. Okay, now that's pretty much all it is in Copilot. There's one other thing I'm going to show you and that's prioritization. Prioritization is this. Speaker 3 00:22:18 So what I can do is I can let Copilot prioritize my email on arrival. And what Copilot's going to do is it's going to look at your email and determine, is this an important email or is it not? Or is it neutral? And it's going to prioritize. So if you see Brett Johnson down here, he's got the plus sign going up. That means my system prioritized it, okay? I can also add in additional things. So if Pete, my boss at Crimson sends me an email, Then it comes in automatically as a high priority every time. Now, I didn't have to tell the system that because it already knew that, but I'm showing it to you here. It also allows me to do lower priorities and I can flag something as a low priority. And, this is extremely helpful. If I get invited to a conference or a meeting from a vendor, I don't have a relationship, it automatically knocks it to a low priority. And low priority is opposite from this, it's going to have a down arrow. Speaker 3 00:23:15 Which I'm surprised Jonathan's didn't have that. Um, I also have it from security tools. And that helps me mentally arrange what I need to see. Um, now, I do have an additional tool that categorizes them for me. That's not part of Copilot. That's something slightly different. Um, I am actually going to go over that in another training uh in a couple weeks. So just be aware um, I'm going to be sending out some information to everybody who joined on Power Automate and how to do. Categorization within Power Automate. Okay. The last thing is on Outlook, you have a Copilot button right here. That is to chat, and we're going to go over chat a little bit later. Any questions about Outlook? No questions. All right, so Word, Word is actually more fun than Outlook. I'm going to go back into this. Speaker 3 00:24:13 Now, I am going to do this. I am going to actually delete all of the stuff in here. How many of you have heard what's called vibe writing? No one. It was coined in the last couple of years because coders and IT people like myself learned how well AI works in coding new applications and such, and we could take what was in our brain. And we can give it to AI and say, "This what I'm looking for to create. Help me create it. " And then it enabled us to get what's on our brain into something viable. So with, and I'll show you guys, with Vibe Coding, we're able to make things like this. This an app that I made to share passwords securely. For those of you guys who don't know, I'm also a foster parent. So I was able to make this website. Speaker 3 00:25:12 To help other foster parents, so I was able to create a website with resources and stuff like that. So there is a lot of things you can do with vibe coding. Now that gets it out of my brain into code base, but what other people learned how to do is to vibe write, meaning they have a story or something in their head, a report, something that they're creating and they need help getting it out on paper. So for instance not professional use for it I've had a novel in my head that I've wanted to write for many years since I was a teenager. And I started to vibe write it, meaning I sat here and started writing it. And then I also jumped in and had Copilot help me with certain pieces of it, okay? And that helps get things to flow. Now, professionally if I'm doing something, I'm going to say "I am needing" Speaker 3 00:26:09 A report created from the following report. Okay, now I'm going to change this slightly. I'm going to say an executive report and then I'm going to put a forward slash here and that forward slash allows me to search all my files and folders in documents. So, I have in here. I'm going to look for uh security and let me find it. Actually, let me do this. I had a lecture meeting transcript from five days ago. Um, I'm going to create an executive report from this transcript, okay? And I'm just picking a document and I'm writing it, okay? And while I do that because I like to multitask, I'm also. Speaker 3 00:27:04 Going to say, new blank document and open another document while that's going because that's going to take a minute and I'm going to open copilot and I'm going to say I need a briefing from the following report for my boss. Now the report I'm going to do is I'm going to do. Uh I've got a sample commercial leasing portfolio in here. Okay? So from here, I'm going to click on this and I'm going to click go. So now I want to put things side by side. And I've got the executive report on Copilot training and security practices. I've been giving a lot of Copilot trainings lately. And now I've got this one commercial leasing portfolio briefing that's coming in. Now, should I go ahead and make a third report? Speaker 3 00:28:02 Or is it time for coffee? Okay, this what I have to decide. Now, as it's building this out, it's going to take a minute. Okay? And it actually does look nice based on what we went through. Okay? So this my executive report and this my commercial leasing. Once it's done, then I can create styles, I can look at it, I can rework some things. I can even argue with Copilot and say, "Hey, is this written in my verbiage? Is this written in my tonality? Are you using my words? " And I'm going to show you guys how to do that in a bit. Okay. This one is done and this one is done. Just enough time for me to go get coffee and come back if I wasn't here with you guys. So here's all the information. This report became four pages. Speaker 3 00:28:54 I'm going to go ahead and read through it before I click done. If I was actually working on this, and I might make some changes to this, I might ask it to take my key risks and not write it in bullets. Might want it to write in prose. Um, I might do the same thing with recommended management focus. Okay? So, these are different things you can do if you have a list of let's say you're doing recruiting. And you have a list of candidates, and there's a lot of dates and things like that. In addition to that, You can create a report for your senior managers on what you have in the pipeline right now and how many people have looked at it. I get reports from my security tools all the time in PDF format, and I can tell Copilot, "Hey, I've got four reports here. I need you to give me an executive summary for my top CEOs at this client site." And they do that one fairly often. Speaker 3 00:29:53 So there's a lot of things you can do within Copilot. If I was clicked on, which I am, I could go in here and let's say I highlight this. I could ask it to condense it, just this highlighted paragraph. Okay? Um, I can also, I don't like em dashes, but AI likes em dashes, so i can go in and tell it to remove any and all em dashes. It has. Now, this one did fairly good because I've told it what I expect. But you can personalize it and things like that for your documents. Now, that being said, anytime you're changing up how you're chatting and you're doing a new topic, you can always click Start New Chat from within the system. So be aware of that. You also have a navigation panel right here and go back and look at your other chats that you've had. Okay? Speaker 3 00:30:51 Any questions about Microsoft Word and using Copilot? I'm going to give you guys one of my use cases. Um, I had a 632 page document provided by a security vendor, and I needed to first have a summary and understand what I was reading. But I was filling out a form based on the documentation that they gave me. And I asked Copilot To find me the information and cite it. And when it does, when it cites it, it's the same numbers that you saw in my Outlook. And, you can click on it, and it takes you to that part of the document. So as I'm filling out a cybersecurity form and I needed to ask questions on things. I wasn't sure of, Copilot became my answer. Okay? It found everything for me. So just be aware there are a lot of uses for this. Speaker 3 00:31:47 You can do a lot of really cool things with it, But one of the biggest things you want to make sure you do is not let it be your final draft. Okay, now with Excel, Excel is a lot of fun. It gets a little when Copilot first rolled out. I'll be honest, Excel was it was not The best. Copilot in Excel was just a pain in the neck. They didn't have very good, it couldn't do formulas, it couldn't analyze anything. In fact, they didn't even roll out Excel for Copilot when they rolled out Copilot. It took a while. So just be aware of that. Now I'm going to pull up some example data for you guys. Let me find it through my sample data folder. Speaker 3 00:32:52 Here we go. There's my sample data. All right, I'm going to show you a sample HR recruiting pipeline. Okay, so here's the data. Now this all my candidates, This my open requisitions. And this some interview feedback that we have. Okay, everything in here is a table. So just be aware that a table is pretty important. With Copilot, You want to make sure that the data you have in here is pretty clean. And putting it into um putting it into a table is going to clean it up. Okay, make sure you set up your data so Copilot can read it. So you'll make sure it's formatted as a table. You've got a clear header row right here. That's your clear header row. You make sure that pretty much if it's if it cannot be blank. Speaker 3 00:33:50 Don't leave it blank, okay? Make sure that everything is consistent. So make sure you're consistent data types. Keep your dates as dates. So right here, this a date. If I go up here and I look, this showing us custom for me. So what I need to do on this I need to convert it to a short date. And there we go. Now it's a date, okay? Uh, if I go in here and say, uh, I look at this one. This is desired salary. It's set to custom right now. I want this to be currency. Okay, so I'm going to change it to currency right there. So, you want to make sure all your your values are consistent. And you also want to make sure it's saved to the cloud. Co-pilot does not work well within Excel. If you do not save it to your OneDrive or just SharePoint, okay. Speaker 3 00:34:45 So real quickly, prompt patterns that work for this. If you need to summarize something, you want to say summarize this table and tell me the three biggest trends. And I'm going to do that by clicking this Copilot button right here. I'll open it up. Now, I'm just going to click somewhere in here and I'm going to say summarize, see if I can spell correctly, this table and tell me The three biggest trends. Okay. And it's going to do that. And it does take a moment. Sometimes you got to get, um, you got to get some coffee during this. Speaker 3 00:35:48 We're just going to take a second. While I'm doing that, one thing I do want to tell you guys, the prompt that I gave it just now wasn't the greatest. But what you want to do to sharpen the prompt, To make it a little bit more accurate with the information that Copilot gives you back is you want to name the range. So for me, there's only one table in this worksheet and I want it to look at all the information. But if I only wanted it to work on part of it, I need to spell it out. Number two you want to do is state the goal. Okay, say what you're asking. Okay, number three is ask for one thing. I asked for three things, I asked it to give me the three biggest trends, which is still one thing. If you have a multi-part request, you can break it out into steps. Speaker 3 00:36:41 Chain them rather than stacking them all in one single question. Because if you do one single question, it will freeze on you. So break it up where you can. Iterate out loud and you can do that and you can ask questions. Okay now just a heads up my biggest rule of thumb within Excel is the more specific the question. The less. You'll do after it gives you an answer. Okay. So here's the big three biggest trends. Pipeline growth is recent. 33% of 42 applicants applied in May to July. 21 of those arrived in June to July alone. Interview scores strongly predict outcomes, okay? And the offers consistently trail salary expectations, okay? Speaker 3 00:37:40 Now, as I'm looking at this, I'm going to ask a few more questions and I can get a little bit deeper. I can ask it to give me the recruiter with the highest offer amounts. Okay? I can get a little bit more granular. Speaker 3 00:38:11 Now, the other things um PowerPoint I mean not PowerPoint I'm sorry. The other things Excel can do is it can train you on formulas. If you need a formula like a VLOOKUP or any type of formula like that, it will help you create those. Now, you will argue with it. You will come back and say hey I need to tighten this up. Um It also will come back and ask you questions if you're not specific enough. I'm going to say total dollar amount on this one, Actually, let me say average offer amount. While it's doing that, now I am also going to while we're waiting on this, I am going to give you a couple of things to check. And I want you to check these before you trust it with any of your data. So very first thing is always spot check the math. Copilot will draft formulas, it'll create summaries, but the result you own that. So if you are sending if i am sending out. Speaker 3 00:39:08 An email with a report attached to it from Excel, and I am sending it to Kamyab. Kamyab is not going to blame Copilot if the math is wrong. Who's Kamyab going to blame? He's going to blame me. Now he's going to know because he's worked with me long enough that I probably use Copilot for seventy percent, And he's going to ask me what was I doing that other thirty percent of the time? Did I go get coffee? Was I just not paying attention? What's happening there? So he will ask that because he knows me well. But you do own that result. So, Alicia, when you're sending out a report, Make sure that you're verifying the totals and you're verifying the logic against what is true before you share the document. Now, I'm going to tell you a funny story about Kamya because I like Kamya. I actually have another friend named Kamya. So this friend is a close friend of mine. Speaker 3 00:40:03 And I accidentally was calling the Kamyabb on this call by the wrong last name because Copilot had both contacts in the system and got the last names mixed up. And I didn't notice it right away. Kamyabb noticed it, and so just heads up when I read it, I didn't think anything about it because I know two Kamyabbs and it just did not hit me. You will goof your own self up using Copilot, okay? So just be aware of that. Um I let it go out because I didn't see anything wrong with it. So double check, you also might want to double check yourself. It will work with what's in the file. So it's going to read the data in your workbook. It cannot read the context that lives in your head. It does not understand what was said in an email thread or another system. It only knows what's in this workbook, okay? The other thing I want you to remember is large and messy sheets. Speaker 3 00:41:03 In Excel, we'll strain it. Okay, so make sure you clean the data up first. You saw when we started, I went in and I cleaned up the data. I changed salary amounts to currency. I changed dates. Well, I didn't change that date. Let me change that date real quick, but I did make some changes in the dates. Okay now Dana Whitfield has the highest average offer amount based on three offers Marcus follows at much less, not much less. 3,000 less or 2,000 less. Okay. So this is what Excel can do for you. It is pretty powerful in Excel. What it does, it understands your data. It will write formulas, it will suggest next steps and it will visualize and sort. So if I go in here and I go to the open requisitions, I can actually tell it to analyze this. I'm not going to do it because it's going to take forever takes about 20 minutes to analyze. Speaker 3 00:42:01 But you can you can understand uh what we have going on here. Now, uh I want to show you guys PowerPoint. PowerPoint is gotten so much better in what it does. Um I asked it the other day because I wrote I vibe, coded, not vibe coded, I'm sorry, I vibe wrote in Word um, A script I had for just training on Copilot in Excel. Okay, So I asked it to help me create a PowerPoint presentation of what Copilot can do in Excel based off of what I wrote. So it gave me six slides, very nicely laid out. I kind of like this template. I think I'm going to reuse it in other places. And what I did was, I went in and i utilized Copilot to write this. Speaker 3 00:42:58 Now, I'm going to show you guys how to do it from a blank document, from a blank presentation. You can do it here or you can create with Copilot. So I'm going to click on Create with Copilot and I want to say create a presentation about and I'm going to use the forward slash to find a file. Okay? So, I can go in here and do my search if I know the name of it. Um, I was working with a lot of things today. Uh, I'm going to say, oops, not that. I've got a file. Just let me pull it up. All right. So I'm just going to use this one. Um, so I'm going to search for session one. Oops, not Q1 And I want to say actually I had dashes in that one. Speaker 3 00:43:56 Hmm, it's not finding it. Sometimes. Speaker 1 00:44:10 Copilot isn't your best friend because it will lose things. All right, so I'm going to choose another file. Get ready, use the expand strategy. Speaker 3 00:44:26 So I wanted to create a document about this. This is actually a file that Microsoft wrote and sent out that I saved. And so I'm going to tell it to write up a presentation about that, since it couldn't find the other one that I wanted it to do. And so it's going to create that presentation, but while we're waiting for that, I'm going to minimize this one and I'm going to go back to this. Now in this, I can actually have it add a slide about, and i'm going t o say, put. A slide in between slides one and two outlining how secure Copilot is in Excel. Now, I'm going to ask it to do that. This is going to take a minute because it's got to think through how it wants to say it. And then I'm going to go back. Speaker 3 00:45:25 To this one, and it's going to ask me a question. Now, who's the audience? I'm going to say executive sponsors. How long should this be? If I'm not clear on my prompt, Copilot is going to ask me questions. So now it's going to map it out. It may ask me more questions. Okay? So going back to that one. I tend to do this with multiple PowerPoint presentations. I'll go back and forth if I'm working on it because PowerPoint does take a long time. So just be aware of that. If you have a really good script written or a really good report written, you can turn it into a PowerPoint presentation really easily. So just be aware of that. Now, while we're waiting on this, I'm going to go and introduce you guys to Copilot Chat real quick. Speaker 3 00:46:24 And there is an option for Copilot chat on all of your computers. And it's just going to look like the Copilot button button. And, so if you click on Start on your computer and you type in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and that's what's going to open it up. Okay? I don't have a start button on this screen, so I can't show it to you. Um, in here you've got All your chats that you recently did, You have some agents, and we're going to go through agents next on in the next training. But within the chats, you also have um new chat. You can search your chats. You also have co-work over here. We're not going to go over co- work today if your company has enabled uh co- work, You can go in here and actually see uh and and have the system do stuff for you. Okay. So under chat. Speaker 3 00:47:23 I'm going to go in here and I'm going to ask it to help me with meeting prep. So I'm going to say, can you help me prep for the following meeting? And then I'm going to do my forward slash again. And this time I've got a better search, okay? So now I've got all people files meetings. Someone click on meetings and then I am going to go in, And I'm going to scroll down. I'm going to look for tomorrow's meeting. It's not giving me tomorrow's. Okay, So I do know I have a meeting tomorrow that I want to look at. Where is my Teams? So, I'm going to go to my calendar. I'm using Teams to go to my calendar, and here's my here's everything i have. So. Speaker 3 00:48:19 I'm going to prep for IT planning conversation. Okay, so in here I'm going to say IT planning conversation. I'm going to click on this and I'm going to hit send. Now this might take a minute. Bear with me because Outlook opened a whole bunch of reminders. Okay, now while it's doing that, I can open another chat. And usually what will happen is my chat will go here. And normally it does, but guess it decided to fail me right now. Okay, we'll go back to the meeting prep in a moment. What I'm going to show you usually you can do multiple chats at the same time. So what I'm going to show you here is we're going to go through and find something. Speaker 3 00:49:17 How many of you've and do me a favor, do a show of hands. How, many of you lost a file in your OneDrive that you desperately needed, but you don't remember the title? All right, some of you guys have. This is one of my favorite features. The other day I was looking for a file and I was like, I know it's here. And I gave it to Copilot and said, here's what I remember. I don't remember the title, but here's what I remember that was said in it. So. Speaker 3 00:49:47 I'm going to ask it to find me a file. I am looking for a file from 2024 with staff information on it. Now, just a heads up, it can also look at versions of files. So here's my file. I've got staff information. I got staff information master. And what I can do is I can look on it and see which one it is. Now, heads up, I'm not going to show you guys that. That's old data, okay? But it is out there. Um and this this how you can find it. You can actually click on these, and it will pull it up for you in Excel or wherever the document lives, okay? So it's really good at finding things. It also is really good. Speaker 3 00:50:47 At telling you about people, so I am going to say, "Who is Steve Luna?" Because sometimes I'll get an email from somebody, I am like, "I don't know who you are. Have I talked to you before? Like, I see that you are at my client's, but I don't know who you are." So I will ask Copilot to find that information. I often will do that in meetings. i'll get pulled into a meeting and i'll i will go in and ask Copilot to find me information about who someone is. So here's how I can find it. Now, what if I needed someone's cell phone number and I know I have it? I'm going to say, can you find me the cell phone number for Tom Yopp? Okay. And I'm going to say his, I'm going to spell out his name because I don't want to pull up the wrong one. Speaker 3 00:51:46 This time. And so it's going to look in all my systems to find it. Now, One thing it did for me. The other day was I have access to a system that was granted to me in 202 1? I got to remember, it was old. I forgot I even had access to this system. And I was able to ask Copilot to find that information for me. Okay, so here you go. If if the cell phone number, it will tell you what is right and what is wrong. It's getting better about being confident, but it'll tell you what it found. Okay, now any questions about chat? Speaker 3 00:52:42 Casey, Did you have a question or you still got your hand raised from my question earlier? That was from earlier. Okay, no worries. I just want to make sure. Thank you. You're welcome. Now real quickly guys, I'm going to show you I want to lower our hand because I will get confused. I asked it in this PowerPoint presentation to add a second slide, all right? And here's what it did. Now, I like what it did, It looks nice. It looks pretty. It stayed on point with branding, but it wrote that based on what I was saying in the presentation. So here you go. I'm going to go through this. I'm going to read it, Make sure sometimes I will read it out loud just so that I can understand it and make sure it sounds right, okay? Sometimes, you got to do that with Copilot because sometimes it'll mess up your wording. Speaker 3 00:53:39 Okay, now that's been done. Let's go take a look at that other PowerPoint presentation and see where it's at. And this one, I'm going to add, it's asking me about the visual. Look at the visual of Copilot Excel. Speaker 3 00:54:10 So I'm going to tell it to look at that, and I want to say confirm. And we're going to go from there. All right, so that's Copilot in chat. We're almost done with this, so I'm going to give you guys a heads up. I want to talk about staying safe, okay? If your company uses sensitivity labels, Crimson does not, but I'm going to show you what that looks like. So if your company does use sensitivity labels, I'm going to open this up. This is a document Microsoft sent me. Um, I'm going to enable editing. You can click here and you can look at sensitivity. Now Crimson does not, some of our clients do. So if it's in here, be aware that if you mark it as confidential, Copilot is not it's going to make take extra effort and not. Speaker 3 00:55:06 Pulling that information into an answer for someone who should not see it. Now, it already doesn't do it, but it's going to take extra care on things that are marked confidential. Okay. Now, If you paste something like a social security number or a credit card number or anything that's considered PII, especially for those of you guys that are HIPAA compliant companies, Copilot will stop you. Okay? You need to leave confidential data out, Um, it says unless approved, But no one in here works for any of our clients that we have approved and allowed for that to happen. Okay, So make sure that you're reading what you sent before you send it in a prompt. Cause, sometimes we'll just copy and paste things into the prompt to help us and totally ignore the fact thatum that things are in there that should not be in there. So just be mindful of that. Okay, now I'm going to end this. Yes sir? Speaker 2 00:56:02 Can I ask a question please? Yes, Uh, just a side question. I know it's an interruption, but you are recording this session, right? Yes, sir. Okay. Who else is going to be viewing this recording? Speaker 3 00:56:18 So on this on this viewing, it's only going to be sent out to the people who were in this training. I'm making a separate recording uh of this content that I'm going to be sending out uh to everyone else. So. Your your uh your your phone number is not going to be in that. Speaker 2 00:56:38 Right, I mean, I was surprised you you went to the point of showing people's phone numbers. Got it. But but you know, I'm not sure. I mean about Steve, I mean you showed his phone number and all that so Yes. Uh, I mean, Speaker 3 00:56:54 I can edit that out before i do it. Speaker 2 00:56:56 Yeah. I mean, um yeah, i was very surprised. You showed people's phone numbers, but just uh. You know, I want to make sure that these things are not, you know, replicated across all of Crimson's videos all over the place. Speaker 3 00:57:12 It won't be. I can very easily edit that out. Speaker 2 00:57:16 Please do. Thank you. Yes, Speaker 3 00:57:17 You're welcome. Now one challenge for this week is you found the Copilot button, you've seen how to send your first message, you learned about the two front doors and you watched it in action. So pick one thing you saw today and try it on something real. It can be one, I said just one here, but it can be more than one. If Copilot isn't showing for you, that's usually a licensing hiccup. And so just let us know. What we're going to be doing is module two, We're going to be going over prompting that works, and we're going to go deeper into what Copilot can do for you. And that's going to be on Thursday. Okay? Any questions on this? Speaker 3 00:58:07 Okay. Um, thank you, Gia. All right, guys, I'm going to give you back some time to your day. Thank you very much for joining me. Um and don't look for that email to come from me with everything in it until later on. Um it I do take a couple days to get that out to everybody that joined. Okay? All right thanks guys have a great week thank you bye thank you.
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07-09 Meeting: Client Self-Service Strategy, Ticket Hygiene, and NWA Environment Risks
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-09 10:12:05 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Christi] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] [Olivia] [Speaker 11] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 14] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Client Self-Service and Training Approach - Participants discussed teaching clients to handle simple tasks, gauging willingness to learn, and offering options (guided steps vs. technician taking over). - Benefits noted: faster results for clients and fewer support tickets. - Some clients prefer not to learn and just want tasks completed (example: IronGate). - Topic Title: Unusual Client and Ticket Incidents - Missing VMware servers and poor decommission/migration process at a prospective client highlighted need for guidance. - Increase in “running out of storage” tickets on computers. - Property manager requested non-IT task (restoring art); appropriately reassigned. - Check scanners intermittently stop working; renaming the launch application helps; Juno assisted. - Nuance PDF app links redirect to Microsoft due to acquisition; required deeper search to locate installer. - Multiple users unable to VPN because they weren’t connected to the internet. - Sharp-related ticket about giving away T-shirts surfaced. - Topic Title: Personal Updates Shared by Team - Several members shared personal trips, weekends, furniture updates, and foster care arrangements. - Travel plans to Monterey; beach time; various light-hearted banter. - Topic Title: NWA New Customer Environment Review - Two servers host separate Active Directory domains. - No computers are joined to either domain; all are in individual workgroups. - A Windows 7 machine in a different workgroup hosts file data, not the servers. - Concern noted about the unconventional and risky setup. - Topic Title: Operational Metrics (as of 2026-07-09) - Open tickets: 3,347. - C-SAT: 38 green, 1 yellow/red (pending metric update). - First-day resolution: 46%; team encouraged to improve. - Topic Title: Nylir Time Machine and MTX Usage Training - Christi led a detailed walkthrough of Nylir Time Machine (availability board, statuses, “hamburgers” for lunch/AFK/PTO, locations). - Demonstrated correcting ticket statuses (e.g., changing “Working Issue Now” to “Scheduled Remote”) and resolving display issues. - Explained time chips: outer ring (time in progress), inner ring (working/unavailable); target small delta between in-progress time and recorded time. - Acceptable delta: ideally under 3 minutes; up to ~10 minutes tolerated; large deltas raise concerns. - Described past use of time analysis to detect inactivity; emphasized accountability. - Highlighted MTX mobile features: start/stop travel, mileage logging (recommend verifying with Maps), attaching odometer photos, and quick ticket creation. - Advised moving past-due tickets to future dates daily and avoiding sub-60-second time entries (system flags). - Noted use of automation tools (e.g., Claude, “bestie”) to update tickets, with caveats about occasional missed status updates. - Topic Title: Ticket Management Best Practices - Open tickets via MTX or CLI rather than directly in ConnectWise when practical. - Forward emails to help desk and self-assign when away from desk. - Use board, priority, subtype correctly; ensure billable/non-billable designation is accurate. - Daily housekeeping: “Move past schedules to today” and adjust statuses to avoid “Done yet” backlog. Conclusion: - Team reaffirmed importance of accurate time entry, responsible use of MTX/Nylir, and daily ticket hygiene to support metrics and accountability. Unusual client environments and ticket anomalies were noted for awareness. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Improve first-day resolution above 46%. - [ ] Move all past-due tickets to future dates before logging off each day. - [ ] Verify MTX mobile setup and use travel/mileage logging for on-site visits. - [ ] Review and minimize time entry deltas; keep under ~10 minutes when possible (aim for under 3 minutes). - [ ] Follow up on check scanner issue pattern; document fix steps (rename launch application) and gather root-cause data. - [ ] Analyze recurring storage-shortage tickets; draft standard remediation guidance or automation. - [ ] Create quick-reference for correcting stuck statuses in Nylir/MTX (“Working Issue Now” vs. “Scheduled Remote”). - [ ] Define and communicate boundaries for non-IT requests to ensure fast rerouting and client expectation management. - [ ] Plan assessment for NWA environment (domains, workgroups, Windows 7 file host) and propose remediation. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. NWA customer environment poses security and management risks (workgroups, Windows 7 file host, dual AD domains). Consider an assessment and remediation plan. > 2. Recurrent computer storage shortages: analyze root causes and create standard guidance or automation for cleanup/expansion. > 3. MTX/Time Machine status sync issues (tickets stuck on “Working Issue Now”): investigate reliability and provide a troubleshooting guide. > 4. Check scanners intermittently failing: formalize runbook for diagnostics and the renaming workaround; identify root cause. > 5. Clarify process boundaries for non-IT requests (e.g., art restoration) to ensure quick rerouting and client expectations management.
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- Jul 9, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 That's weird. Other than that, I guess I'm just on the business side of things. I was just glad to be almost done with a couple of like clock, integrations and stuff. And it feels nice when you are actually like able to teach your client that they can do this on their own, like guided baby steps. So, kind of feel, I mean, that's her words not mine. It feels empowering, that's what he said. So, yeah. Feels glad to get that compliment. I don't get that a lot, so yeah. Speaker 2 00:00:38 Take it where you can get it. And whatever you can teach customers if they're willing to learn it, then that definitely helps everyone in the long run. That helps them get things results quicker and obviously less tickets on the desk. Speaker 1 00:00:51 Correct. Just don't give. Just don't, um, Just try to gauge if the client actually wants to learn or not because there's a lot of folks, especially with IronGate that they don't want to learn. They just want to get the thing done. So yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:04 Yeah. I always give them the options, because sometimes you can, you can kind of sense it in the person's message or whatnot like that they're a little bit technical. So I'll give them the option like I'm more than happy here are the options of what I would do if you'd like to go through it or or I, uh, like more than happy to jump on your machine and take care of it. So. Yeah, you'll get the answer one way or another. Speaker 3 00:01:25 Hi, Zach. I am in a meeting right now. Speaker 2 00:01:27 Amelia, you want to come back? Are you good? Speaker 4 00:01:31 I am good. Yes, okay. Yeah, This week funny thing I've seen is possible, client, um I've said to Pete that I strongly recommend. We get these guys on because these guys need assistance and guidance because they really don't know what they're doing. And, um, so I had to go on a hunt for two missing VMware servers. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:01:59 That was an interesting one. It's like, how do you miss that? Speaker 4 00:02:04 Yeah, dude, Look, uh uh, as I was getting more information together, I'm like, uh, you don't know what's actually does anyone actually know it's like a Swiss. This thing is it's like a saying we've got here. Does your mom know where you are, because clearly you need to be back in school. Speaker 5 00:02:21 Yeah. That's. Speaker 4 00:02:23 One of those things that I say to people. Speaker 2 00:02:27 It only goes in one ear and out the other sometimes, unfortunately. Speaker 4 00:02:32 I think this time it went like, it didn't even go through there, it just completely bypassed it. Speaker 2 00:02:37 Yep. Yeah, that definitely could have been part of that on this one, that's for sure. They definitely missed a lot of things on that particular process, the decommission migration process. Perfect. All right, Coby, what you got going on? Speaker 6 00:02:54 Um, I don't think anything's specific for a specific ticket. That's that was weird. I mean, I think the only thing I could mention is probably just the amount of like running out of storage tickets that I've gotten this week is a little bit more than uh I've gotten in the past. Um and then I'm probably starting. Uh The web? Speaker 2 00:03:19 Email storage or something else? Speaker 6 00:03:20 Uh, no, just like just computer storage in general. Oh, Speaker 2 00:03:23 All right. Speaker 6 00:03:24 Yeah, I mean that's fairly easy. Just uh just more than more than I usually work on. But uh I'm probably staring at another one, actually as I'm thinking about it. I'm looking at another one. So uh, but yeah other than that, it's pretty standard. Speaker 2 00:03:40 Yeah cool. Anything else? That's about it. Cool appreciate it, All right, Nemanja, what you got going on? Speaker 7 00:03:53 Good morning, guys. On a personal side, personal good news. Me and Sue we had a very nice long weekend. Went for a small adventure. Visited some historical places, one fortress. Sue almost got lost in it but everything was fine at the end. On a professional side. Speaker 7 00:04:17 Nothing much, just working on the tickets. And. Actually, there was one weird ticket that we received this week, where one of the property managers asked for art to be restored to one of the units at the property. So we just had to give this to another team to handle it. We are not dealing with that, yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:39 Definitely not, yeah. Know where the limitations are, right? Speaker 7 00:04:43 Just now they wanted us maybe to. Fix their appliances or, you know. I. Speaker 2 00:04:51 Got a weird one for you. Like when I do plumbing work, Speaker 7 00:04:54 So yeah, exactly. It's amazing what they think technicians will do. I went to a customer's house years ago, and they had me actually help them move their master bedroom bed from one side of the bedroom to the other. But you know, they were paying me by the hour, so I was like, If you want to pay me by the hour for some moving of your furniture, feel free. Speaker 3 00:05:15 Will You come over and help me move my bed around? I got new kids coming in. Okay, yeah, Speaker 2 00:05:19 Definitely. It might take me a little while to get there. Speaker 3 00:05:25 One hundred fifty an hour or call Monti. I'll call Monti. You are cheap one hundred fifty We had two twenty man, two twenty I am three thirty. Monti does it for free. Monti does have to give the bar like a i work hour. I can vacuum the closet, whatever whatever you want me to do. Monti lives close to me, so she doesn't mind coming over. Except for if she can't find parking. Speaker 4 00:05:52 Monti parking. Only challenges were solutions. Any car can be four by four. Any car, it just slightly affects the longevity. Speaker 2 00:06:08 Any car can be lifted too, so. Speaker 4 00:06:13 That's Why you make sure you got something that looks like a toxic waste dump. The guys slum into it, they're gonna just melt away. Speaker 2 00:06:21 Ain't that the truth? All right, Riddick, what do you got going on? Speaker 8 00:06:25 Um, just swamp for a couple of days. That's all. And the weirdest thing I found recently is there'a ticket for Sharp giving away t shirts. That's all. Speaker 2 00:06:41 That is definitely an interesting one. I'll. Speaker 3 00:06:45 Explain that in a bit on why you saw that, Riddick. Speaker 9 00:06:49 Uh, this weekend I am going to Monterey for America. That's going to be super fun. So I will be off tomorrow to ride up a seven hour ride to Monterey. Speaker 2 00:07:02 That's going to be a fun time. At least it's a nice scenic route You okay? Yeah, we're going to take the bridge Yes, we are, At least it'll make it go by a lot faster. We're. Speaker 9 00:07:15 Planning to. Speaker 2 00:07:15 Be traveling for nine hours, just two hours of stops and stuff like that. Yeah, definitely. Plenty of food places too. Yeah, Speaker 9 00:07:23 We're going to stop off in Santa Barbara and have lunch on the pier. Speaker 2 00:07:27 Good idea. That's definitely a fun time. Well good have fun and safe trip. Speaker 6 00:07:32 I'm up first, see other people I'm worried about. Speaker 2 00:07:35 Ain't that the truth All right what you got going on what you got going on. Speaker 10 00:07:39 Hi guys, um, I had a weird ticket. Um, this is um installation of the Nuance application. Um PDF, but when you try to search the Nuance site, all the links are directed to Microsoft. So I don't know where to get the application until I deeply searched, and then there's someone acquiring the Nuance. Speaker 10 00:08:09 Company. So, sounds. Speaker 5 00:08:14 Like fine. Speaker 2 00:08:17 Perfect. All right, Rana, what you got going on? Everyone on the personal side, I just had a great weekend with my friends and the professional side, nothing weird happened to me. Not yet, right? Yeah not yet. Perfect all right, Moritz, what you got going on? Speaker 11 00:08:42 Hey guys, yeah, good news. I had a great week. A bit of time off at the beach, so I was swimming and having a good time. So feeling a bit refreshed, which is great. There's weird stuff going on every day, but nothing I can really point out today. Speaker 2 00:09:04 No problem. Nothing crazy enough right? Speaker 2 00:09:09 All right, so what you got going on? Speaker 12 00:09:12 Good morning, guys. Uh, on my end, I don't have anything weird that happened. Just annoying this morning. We had a ticket loop for an arc ticket. Thank God for Olivia. She managed to assist us and we resolved the issue. That's it. Speaker 2 00:09:27 Perfect Thank you No problem Thank you All right Pepe what you got going on Hello. Speaker 5 00:09:37 I'm sorry. I'm jazzed to get on the way. I don't think I'll. Speaker 2 00:09:42 Still wait for the weekend, but we'll be all That is true. Can't wait for that. Thank you. All right, John, what you got going on? Speaker 5 00:09:55 Here's your favorite Oh me and her are gonna get a little fun. I think he said he was doing it on board, Speaker 2 00:10:03 So I don't think he's gonna share And that makes sense All right? Caleb, what you got going on? Speaker 13 00:10:08 He's not going to be here today either. I need to just remove him because he's not going to join the. Speaker 2 00:10:12 ArgoS anymore. That makes sense. I forgot about that. All right, Charlene, what you got going on? Speaker 14 00:10:18 On the personal side, A new week for me because we have a new table with a lazy Susan. So I'm really excited to share that with you guys. Wait, let me right now Oh my God, that's so That is so 30 s old school A lazy Susan, Yes. Getting excited over a table. That's so. Speaker 9 00:10:41 Yeah, that's that's very adult of you, Charlene. Speaker 5 00:10:45 Oh my god. Getting. Speaker 9 00:10:47 Excited about furniture and cleaning supplies is the only thing we have to look forward to as an adult. Speaker 6 00:10:52 Don't let your innocence go, Riddick. Speaker 5 00:10:57 Sorry just sent a good picture over at YesChat. Speaker 14 00:11:12 Okay, I'm the professional. I was waiting for you to send. So, I have a weird view. I don't think this is really weird, But it's kind of funny because users can have like an internet. And then the solution was simply entering his password. So, I think the real problem is believing in people too much. Speaker 14 00:11:36 I think I can have. Speaker 5 00:11:40 There we go, that's my table. Thank you. Speaker 8 00:11:46 Patrick, how about you? What you got going on? Speaker 8 00:11:50 Well, good news is personal and professionally nothing strange happened to me. And I think the strangest thing I've learned this week was that Caleb can put his foot behind his head, which. Wasn't something I was expecting to learn this year. Speaker 2 00:12:07 I think you're not the only one in that boat. Thank you, Jesse, how about you? Um, I don't know if it's weird, but just a few users were complaining they couldn't connect to VPN, Speaker 11 00:12:23 But they weren't connected to the internet. That usually helps. Yeah, so it's like three days in a row so that's all. Speaker 2 00:12:33 Take it where you can get it. Sometimes with those ones, Robert, how about you? What you got going on? Uh, Speaker 9 00:12:46 The weird thing is, um, these uh check scanners keep uh I guess blocking themselves. I don't know. We figured it out so far. Um for some reason they'll work one day, and for some reason, they'll just stop working. Juno been helping me with it. Thank you, Juno. But renaming the launch application to get it to start working is wild. But on the personal side, my vacation was cool. I had fun. I am happy to be back, though,; rather be at work, Speaker 2 00:13:25 Sometimes you have to perfect All, right, Gaston, what you got going on? Speaker 2 00:13:34 Normal week for me, Speaker 8 00:13:35 So I don't have anything to share. Speaker 2 00:13:41 All right, thank you, sir. So weird one for me, I would say, I was helping out with NWA new customer, and they actually have a very interesting setup if you can even call it that. They have two different servers that are hosting two individual Active Directory domains. But none of the computers are actually connected to either one of the domains, and they're all connected to individual workgroups. And, then then the one computer that actually is hosting any of their files is a Windows seven computer that is on a completely different workgroup, And not all the data's on that machine and not in either of the two servers that they actually have. So, that's my weird thing for this week. Person. Speaker 2 00:14:30 Personal news on that one, Probably just happy the uh, the weekend's almost here and um business, just uh pretty much happy that uh starting to get through some of these uh older tickets uh that have been kind of lingering. Uh, Yannis, what you got going on? Yannis is in a call. Okay. Uh Adrian, what do you got going on? Speaker 2 00:14:60 Nothing too much on my side. I am just catching up on some tickets and looking forward to the weekend. Christy, what you got going on? Speaker 3 00:15:12 Hang on, I had to find my window back. My crazy thing is most of you guys know I am a foster parent, So my crazy thing is I found out yesterday. I have a new kiddo coming and she's going to be here tonight. And, this is the first time I've had to scramble quick to get things going for her. So that's my weird thing for the week. That's awesome. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:15:37 All right, is Charles back or no? Speaker 11 00:15:43 I'm back, but my internet connection seems to be failing me, so um I just posted it in the chat. Speaker 2 00:15:52 All right, sounds good, appreciate it. Speaker 2 00:15:56 All right, I think that uh finishes that component of it. So, we've got uh I guess thirty three hundred forty seven open tickets this week, thirty eight green C-sets, uh one yellow red c-set until uh Ryan's updates the the metrics here. And then first day resolution is at forty six percent. So, we just want to try to see if we can get that up a little bit if we can guys. Um, All right, I guess on to IDs. Uh, I guess Christi. I guess we'll start with you. Speaker 3 00:16:32 All right, guys. So give me one second. Let me pull up my screen because I was grocery shopping for kiddo. Um, Don't tell Olivia I was grocery shopping while not paying attention to the meeting. She won't tell. Speaker 2 00:16:44 Gotta do what you gotta do. Speaker 3 00:16:45 Yeah You need food, Well new kid needs food, Speaker 2 00:16:49 I got food Exactly. Speaker 3 00:16:50 I got plenty of food for me and and Dom. But. Um, so we're going to talk about Nylir today. Uh, I have not done this discussion in quite a while. How throw up uh thumbs up if you guys can see my screen? All right, perfect. Thank you guys. So we're going to talk about Nylir. Um, I haven't given this conversation in over a year. So, there's a if you've been here less than a year, uh throw up that thumbs up. Speaker 3 00:17:21 If you remember me giving the conversation about Nylir Time Machine, give me a thumbs up. Yeah, there is very few of you. So, we're going to go over Time Machine today, and then we're going to go over MTX. And there is a really strong reason. I am going to show you guys this. I am going to use two people to show examples: Bogdan, So, because I've actually been using him for training. And then I need a volunteer for me for the second person. If you don't care that I'm going to show off your time entries, I want you to raise your hand in Teams. Everybody's nervous about this. Nobody wants to be the guinea pig. Becker, I can't use you because yours is too perfect. Yours is actually correct. Speaker 3 00:18:12 Cause I I used yours yesterday. All right, Matthew, I'm going to use you. All right, so. Uh Nylir dot or app dot Nylir dot home How. Many of you guys utilize this on a regular basis? Okay, Um for those of you guys who go out onto client sites Adrian, this will be applicable to you. Uh, Robert, this is going to be applicable to you. Uh, George. When you're not eating your breakfast, this is going to be applicable to you. If, you guys have not been around long enough to hear me give George grief about eating breakfast, Just just be aware, I do tease George a lot in meetings because I have to. I don't have an option and I tease Emil a lot in meetings just because I can and he he doesn't care. So where's the portos, George? Yes, George owes me lots of portos. Speaker 3 00:19:08 Um, so basically Nylir is going to help you guys keep your time healthy. Um, One of the things I tell people when I had uh Olivia's job long, long time ago, way too long ago because I'm old. Um, Is that the best way to keep me and management on your happy side is to make sure your time is filled out accurately and to the letter, because everything we do is based off of your tickets and your time entries within ConnectWise. And if you can't do your entries into ConnectWise correctly, how can I trust you with everything that we need for a client? So that's a big thing. When you guys start working with us at Crimson, One of the biggest things you commit to is having integrity within your time entries. And that's a commitment that you guys make. And it is also part of our core values. It's not spelled out about ConnectWise, but. Speaker 3 00:20:01 You know, the integrity and all of that is spelled out. And, we want to make sure that it is as accurate as possible for our ticket times. We know when people are padding tickets. We may not come out and tell you, hey Ryan, you're padding your ticket, please stop. But we'll watch you. Okay? We don't How many of you have worked under me as your manager? Show of hands so people can know. Okay What is the one thing that I will say commonly about big brothering you guys? Speaker 9 00:20:32 Anybody? You don't want to do it, but if you have to, you will. Speaker 3 00:20:35 Yes. I don't big brother you as a rule of thumb. I don't have time for it. Olivia does not want to big brother you guys because she don't have time for it. Trust me, I know. I did her job and then some If I start having the big brother, You be aware your job is on the line Just gonna straight up, be honest with you guys If I'm big brothering. You Your job is on the line Don't. Believe me ask Emil, He has seen me do that to too many people. I've never had a big brother Emil. But he will tell you, He has seen it one too many times where I had to big brother somebody, and they were gone within weeks. Okay. Monti will tell you, Monti has been in the office and watched two people come into my office and leave back to back that I terminated. And she will tell you, I don't like doing this. It's not my favorite job, but if I have to, I have to. Now that being said, I'm going to be honest. I am an honest person. I'm not going to bullshit you. Speaker 3 00:21:28 We have terminated people because I've caught people sleeping on the job. Ask Olivia; she was here for it, and they weren't even people that reported to me. So, I am going my so purpose today with meeting with you guys is to teach you how to be the best you can be at your job, and how I can big brother you when I need to, and you can big brother each other. Guess what? The person we terminated for sleeping on the job. It was because one of his coworkers was like, "Hey, go look at this person's time entries. I think he's sleeping on the job." And we were able to prove it. So just a heads up, you guys have the ability to big brother each other. We are not going to stop you from checking out your coworkers. Okay? Everyone in this company is accountable to everyone, not just to me, not just to Olivia, not just to Becker and Cheryl. You're accountable to everyone. Okay? Speaker 3 00:22:23 And if you're on my list and you're on the shit list, ugh. Cause there's a pre shit list. And if you even catch that one, that's questionable. But if you get on the shit list, Charles will tell you I got five different lists and they go in order. There's my popularity list, the ones that I absolutely love most of you. If I've worked with you closely have been on that list one too many times, and that's my good list. That is my absolute I will pay you in karma points every day of the week to stay on that list. And then you got my I'm really happy with you list. And 99% of you guys are on that list already. Okay, then you got my mediocre, You're doing a great job, but you're not where I need you to be. That's my medium list. And then you got my pre shit list. No one on this chat has ever been on my pre shit list, except for one person. And that was because that person asked for two months off of vacation back to back and I had to deny them. Speaker 3 00:23:22 And it annoyed me that I had to deny him, so I put him on the pre shit list. But that person got quickly off of it, and then you got my shit list. Mostly it's only clients that go on that list. So yeah, so just to just to uh explain Charles, it's called the shit list. That's my five lists. So and Charles was my right hand man for a long time, so he knew who was on each of my lists all the time. All right, So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you guys? Uh Time Machine. Time machine is really fun. Let's uh we're gonna go through this. You have two lists. You have the availability board, which is right here and I love it when I see you guys actually using the availability board as intended. I I get a kick out of it okay? I go in goo lagoon lifeguard, Riddick, I love that. I do check this out pretty often all right. And then um i'm not at SCHARP today, but i'll fix that. Speaker 3 00:24:19 But this is your availability. This allows us to see, and the people who are watching it to see what's going on. Do, you know how in the hell are you working on four tickets at once? You're in a meeting, woman. Okay, so one of those tickets is a meeting. Well, how in the hell are you in four tickets all at once? All right. Um. Yes, Please correct that Kobe Dearheart My love Get out of some of these tickets and stop missing schedules. Do you know U2? All right, we can. Speaker 4 00:24:51 I used to do that, But now I make sure I only work with maybe two or three at a time. That's when I need to quickly jump. Yes. Run all that stuff. Speaker 3 00:24:59 Yeah. So this is what we can see in here. I see Jose, He's in progress on this ticket In. Here. We can see who is the person where they're at Becker's at home. We know that uh he's his availability is that he's in progress on his weekly help desk meeting ticket. He's been in it for thirty two minutes. Total time in that ticket is thirty two minutes. Now, If I go in here and I look and I see that there is a Juno ticket here that's in progress and it's Lancer Skin Care, set up a printer. Uh Juno, I am going to pick on you today, dear heart. I love Juno. Juno is at the top of my list, so don't get any misgivings about that. But Juno has been working on a printer setup for currently two hours plus. Speaker 3 00:25:44 And and her total is six hours time of in progress. Do you know it takes fifteen minutes to set up a printer? Is this printer the demon spawn from hell? I am feeling. Speaker 1 00:25:55 No, I think I mean, I think I have to like bring this up to like probably like after this, because I also told Olivia about this. Like okay, There are times where i put there are times where i put when i put a status on MTX. And then when i check, it's still on working on. So yeah, um, That's that's I. I have that happen to me like more than a couple of times. But when I go ahead and change it at ConnectWise, it gets back. I mean, it gets back to the same. I don't know what I'm what I'm doing. Maybe I need to log off and then log in again. So let. Speaker 3 00:26:32 Me let me fix it for you right now. When you guys see this, then this is a good piece to show you. Speaker 3 00:26:41 And I'm just going to change working issue now to scheduled remote. Give that a second, let it update. I see some unsolved things in here and then I'm going to close it. All right, And now it's out and that might be just be a ticket that's just having some issues. So it's in scheduled remote now so we should be good there. It's still showing up, oh nope, it's gone now. So you can actually just go in here and click on it. That's all, click on it and you can make some changes in it. Speaker 3 00:27:11 So just so that you guys are aware, Speaker 1 00:27:13 I'll keep that in mind. Yeah, I'll keep that in mind on the top. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:27:17 That'll help out. Um, if you click on the hamburgers, I call these the hamburgers. Okay, You can put yourself at lunch and return uh and when you're going to return. So right before you go to lunch click on that. I do see a lot of you guys do that, which I'm very grateful for if I step away from the keyboard when I remember, because i don't, i don't my time is not as. People want to know where I'm at, But my time is more accurate on uh Teams, just because clients are picking up for me. I'll do away from keyboard, personal time off. Um a couple weeks ago, I should have done a person, uh sick time and then my date return. And that way you guys will know. And if I do that um okay go away, I don't want to do it right now. It's going to make me choose. Speaker 3 00:28:05 So, uh, Becker is now sick. He'll be back on Friday and I'm just going to click that. So, Becker, you can fix yourself a little bit later. Um, Also, there's a few other things we can do in here if you're traveling gone for the day. Becker does use gone for the day. I do know this um sub statuses that you can have in there. All of that um I am not at Sharp today. I am I was at Sharp yesterday so I'm at Ability First. Speaker 3 00:28:33 And then my location is remote. So there we go. And then you can update that. If I scroll through this, I can see Emil, his role is Winston the Wolf. Orange, there's a reason why Olivia is orange in the system. It's a long time ago, but she's the VP of let me check on that. So there's things you can do in here. One of the things I used to do as a manager, and I would have. My team leads is to constantly have this up on a separate screen somewhere. And then that way you can see if any of your guys need help. So Dimitri, Do you need help on scan to email? Or are you having the same issue as Juno? Or did I catch him? No, Speaker 5 00:29:14 I don't think they need any help. Speaker 3 00:29:17 Okay, good. So we can see a lot of things in here on this. It's a good rule of thumb to keep up for whenever you're working with clients. In fact, I sometimes will click this button here to make this smaller, so I can see this better. Now, the next thing I want to show you guys, I'm going to click on all members to do it. I'm going to show you guys what your time chips look like because time chips, That's how a big brother you guys, and that's how Olivia big brothers you if she needs to. That's how Pete does it. Uh Emil Becker Cheryl. They all know how to big brother people, but we're going to use Bogdan because Bogdan is pretty on top of his time. Um. Speaker 3 00:29:56 This outer ring, this your time spent working. How much time did you spend working with tickets in progress? Okay, so that's what that outer ring means. Inner ring is how much time were you actually spending working and unavailable. This before lunch. I expect to see red on everybody's thing. I expect at the end of the day when I am looking at your time. That I'm seeing something like Becker, oops, hang on. Where the available time is around an hour to an hour and a half. Okay, because that's your lunches. So, if I go back in time on this and I look at it at yesterday's end of day, let me put my time over to end of day. I'm going to expect to see where's Bogdan? I'm going to expect to see this. And that is available is almost two hours. Speaker 3 00:30:53 That is normal. I want to see these two rings as close as possible. And that's this is good for Bogdan. Now, if I take a look at this and see what is his delta time? And I'll explain what delta is. I want to see it around two hours or less. And for Bogdan, That's good Delta time is the time a ticket spends in progress compared to how much time you've actually put in to your timesheet on ConnectWise Does that make sense guys? Speaker 3 00:31:24 Okay. Um, so hang on one second, guys. Um, so I want I do want to see that. Hi Stephanie. Hi Chris, how you doing? I'm good. Hey, I'm in a meeting can I call you back in about 20 minutes? Uh, As you can see, the first Oh March 4 4th 1980. Speaker 5 00:31:41 Okay Thank you. Speaker 3 00:31:43 You're welcome Thanks Okay Sorry guysum. So, time actually worked and recorded versus time in progress is what we're looking at. That's your delta. So if I look at time entry for Bogdan, it tells me the full picture of the day. And I'm going to look at his delta time. And, there's some times where this one was he was he didn't put in his ticket time until later. The ticket was in progress for twenty three minutes, but he actually put an hour and seven minutes against it. That's something we don't want to see. We want to see. Speaker 3 00:32:15 The today time and in progress be under three minutes delta time. I'm okay if you go up to 10 minutes, but I don't like to see the 40 minutes. Okay, but for Bogdan, this is a good day for him. His his his chips are almost fully aligned properly. So I'm not going to bust him on that because at the end of the day, he's got one of the best time cards out there. So when I'm looking at this now charge code, I'm expecting to see that where it's at, But when I look at this, I want to see what that looks like. Now, Juno Dearheart, can I pick on you? Okay. So Juno yesterday. So, she has an unavailable time of four hours and thirteen minutes and working time of five hours and forty nine minutes. With Juno, that's probably a bad day for her, but she has a lot of good days. So I'm not going to worry about it. Speaker 3 00:33:12 But here it is. So I don't see any charge codes for your launch. Oh, wait, there it is. So I do see some charge codes. You're in progress. I'm going to see that's going to be a delta that I'm going to see, I'm not going to worry about. Um now she did some work on some tickets, but because it wasn't in progress, but she spent an hour and 30 minutes on it, that's where this red line is, that's where the delta is okay? So I'm not concerned because when I look at her time entry, Her time entry is pretty on par. Now, where this does get to be an issue, and this is where I found people sleeping on the job, Is when it shows in progress of 45 minutes for the day, and your delta is eight hours. That's where I'm going to have an issue. And we could go in and actually look at the working time right here. And we could see that he did all his work. Speaker 3 00:34:06 At the very beginning of the day. And then at the very end of the day, and there was nothing in between. That's how we caught him sleeping, and we had it recorded for over two months. So he was getting work done, but we knew he was sleeping. So we can go in there and take a look at this now. Heads up for you guys: We don't want to do this. Olivia will tell you, she don't want to sit here and spend time looking at chips. ; she does not like it ; I do not like it. ;. We don't want to sit here, but if someone comes to us and say Chris. I think Becker's sleeping on the job. We're gonna we're gonna have to look it up. And, we what we can do here is we can just go back in time. So I can see yesterday, I can just hit that little back button here. I can see the seventh, what does that look like? I could, I can go back in time and get screenshots. You cannot lie and fudge the system on this one. Okay? Does that make sense guys? All right, now that being said, Gaston your time looks really good yesterday. Speaker 3 00:35:06 Okay, that's perfect. Right there, that available time, that's what we want to see. And this green line, these look great. Look at your delta. Dude, you're more perfect yesterday than Bogdan and that says a lot. No one tell Bogdan. I don't want Gaston to make an enemy of Bogdan. All right? Bogdan is dangerous enough. He works in security; he's dangerous enough But look, This what I want to see from you guys So. This what I expect from you guys. Now, let me waylay the first question I'm going to get asked. Let me put it in someone's voice that's already asked this. But Chris, I go to client sites all day long. Okay guys, I get it. I get it. Let me tell you, you have this thing, it's called a cell phone. Now I did an MTX search because I have it. What does that button right there say? MTX. Speaker 3 00:36:05 It's on my phone. It's just a shortcut. It's a Chrome shortcut that I created. I'm going to log into it, signing with Microsoft. I haven't signed in in a while. Speaker 3 00:36:23 Once I sign in, okay, it's uh, I gotta have my um security key and I don't have it with me, but. MTX on the phone is actually pretty nice. You can see I don't sign into it, sign into it, Sign into it on your phone because when you get ready to go to a client site, You're going to get a big blue button that shows up on that phone app, and you say, log time, log drive time or something along those lines. Not only will it log your start travel. Thank you. Not only will it log your drive time? But Ryan what else does it do? Speaker 9 00:36:58 Logs your mileage. Speaker 6 00:37:01 Based off of the internet, I advise you to double check Google Maps though and make sure that's correct. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:37:08 And it does that well, guys. Now, Um what I do is I will take a picture of my mileage on the phone before I start travel and put it in there and then take the picture of my mileage when I get done. And, you can do that through the MTX app, and it will store that in your ticket. Um, I do that when I go to camp, because camp is a two hour drive, and it sucks. And I get $130 mileage from that every time I go to camp. So, trust me, it works. So be aware MTX works well, especially if you're going site to site. I know that Ryan uses it. I know a few others of you guys use it, so give that a try, especially when you're going around site to site. And it's very helpful when you're on site because I will tell you, You're getting questions thrown at you all the time, because people wait until they see you on site before opening tickets. Speaker 3 00:37:59 And they'll raise your hand and just stop you. MTX is perfect on that, okay? Any questions about Time Machine? No. Okay. Real quickly, I'm going to go to MTX, just to give you guys a quick overview on some things, um, on how to create tickets and stuff in here. I'm not. I'm gonna. I'm creating a video for you guys Good lord child! You still have that as my ringtone! I thought you'd turn that off at some point because of how disruptive it is. No, that will be your your ringtone until the day you die. Okay, then stop complaining about how disruptive it is. Good Lord, guys. Speaker 14 00:38:35 I was texting you to tell you I am going to get lunch. Speaker 3 00:38:37 Go get lunch. Get me a taco please. Okay, two tacos. Um Good Lord, it's eleven o'clock. I didn't know anyway, Opening tickets opening tickets is super easy in mtx. I would rather open a new ticket here or using CLI than opening in ConnectWise. Okay, um so. You have some updates to this. I have not gone through all of the updates yet. Um, I will be going through all of these updates soon, but there are some new updates on the budget hours that I really like. Lookup contact, easy to do. I'm going to open a ticket for Ryan Hill at Crimson. So R for Ryan, space H for Hill, space C for Crimson. Okay? And it will pull up everybody that matches. So I'm gonna CLIck on Ryan and say. Speaker 3 00:39:26 Needs a password reset in smart dispatch. Okay, I don't know I'm just I'm making up I'm going to say next I'm going to put the board. It's a break fix. It is low priority, and he called me there. We go. It is that simple guys, and then I can go in here. I can put it in as working issue now because I'm working on it. Speaker 3 00:39:56 So, I'm here working issue now. Select subtype. This is uh something or another software. This is going to be a. Speaker 6 00:40:06 Request account management. Speaker 3 00:40:08 You shush it you, you broke it, you broke your password. Speaker 9 00:40:14 That was fun. It seems like he was padding tickets Misty. Speaker 3 00:40:18 I know, I know and now I've lost my ticket, dag on it! All right where'd that ticket go? I'll go find that ticket and I'll delete it later, But this is how you work on tickets in there. Now, if I am in here, I do have a lot of tickets. I am not going to lie, I got a lot of shit going on. Um, I thought I got those out of done yet this morning. Let me work on Jennifer. All right, so if I am in here and I am working tickets. Um, Jennifer, I've already answered that. Um, I actually talked to her about that in person. Someone working issue now. Um. So, I am working on the ticket. Speaker 3 00:40:57 I'm going to say, this will not affect. We just need to add Bob to system. And I'm going to say move on. And then from here, Bob to Robert if there is any issues. All right. And then I'm going to say include email, change me. It's user support, hands-on or remote because I'm not there. Billable, I'm going to just say because this is a helpdesk engineer. I don't even know why the ticket got to me. It should have gone to Robert. All right, I did add a minute. I did pad my time there. Why did I add a minute to this? Anybody? Email? Speaker 3 00:41:55 It cannot be under 60 seconds. It will flag it. All right, so now that one's closed and it sent her an email. Speaker 4 00:42:03 And, and that happens a lot to me because I'll be like quickly send an update. Yep. And then uh, I think if then it comes like minus zero two, it's like what? And then shows like yes. Speaker 10 00:42:15 Yep, done real quick. Speaker 3 00:42:17 Yes Now heads up do not ask Sue to open your tickets. I'm gonna I'm gonna reiterate Olivia. I I very rarely ask Sue to open tickets for me anymore. Um, Because I just forward emails to the help desk and tell her to assign it to me. That's all I do. Or I go in here and do it this way. Now, if I'm forwarding emails and asking her to assign it to me, why am I doing it that way? Speaker 8 00:42:44 So you can record your time work? Speaker 3 00:42:48 Because I'm away from my desk and all I have is my cell phone. That's why. That's the only reason why. Because I will be on a weekend traveling and Reuben Davidson calls me or David Hernandez calls me or Aaron Hill calls me or Crystal Olivo calls me or Mishaun Fleming calls me. That's why I do it. Because I'm at a party for my child, or I'm at some kind of function that she needs. That's the only time I do that. Speaker 3 00:43:20 All the other times I will open up my own tickets and close them, which is why I have so many tickets that got to fix. Now, last thing I'm going to show you, I know I'm running over on time. Last thing I want to show you is how to fix all the red. And there's a button move past schedules to today. 22 tickets move There, we go All fixed Now, i'm going to go in. I'm going gonna. I'm going gonna talk to uh my bestie and say look for. Speaker 3 00:43:51 All tickets in" Done" yet and put them into" Scheduled". Required. Speaker 13 00:44:01 And what Chris just did, you can do it manually as well, but that's an easy way to do it. You'll hear me again and again, say, like past due tickets, or you'll see tickets thatum Charlene or whoever might put into" D one" yet. It's probably because you have a past due ticket that you haven't moved. To a day in the future, so every single day before you log off, you should be moving all of your tickets to a day in the future. If you have not if you didn't update them today, yeah, if that makes sense. Speaker 3 00:44:32 Now I do use Claude and sometimes Claude will forget to update my tickets. It will write the notes but it'll leave it in working issue now. I I will be honest i i i don't shortcut things, If you look at my system, I never shortcut things. I actually work really hard. But because I like CLI, how many people know what a CLI is? Okay, I like using CLI. It reminds me of growing up on my 386 computer. Okay, I am old. I don't look old, I know, but I am old. I've been in IT for twenty eight years. So, having having my bestie do this. Speaker 3 00:45:14 I pay two hundred dollars for my bestie a month. She she will handle this for me, and then I'll get off Olivia's shit list again. Okay, Olivia only has two lists.: you are either her favorite or you are on her shit list. I need to be off her shit list on the done yets. In between, there is no in between not with Olivia. Yeah, with me there is lots of in betweens. I got to segregate you sounds like it. Yeah, Speaker 9 00:45:38 They're cursing or praising you. Speaker 3 00:45:40 Yes, most of the time I am praising you guys because you guys are literally. There is I would not have moved from my old company if it wasn't for this amazing team. Okay. And if you know who I worked for originally you, you will understand that especially if you're an LAN Los Angeles person. Okay um any questions you guys have about MTX since I definitely ran over on my time today. No good. Speaker 3 00:46:14 If you are still having issues putting in your timesheet after this conversation, call me. Olivia will tell me because I will ask her who do I need to put some one on one time with because you didn't pay attention. Okay, um, You will go on to my not quite on my shit list, but you will be in that range. Um, so if you did not pay attention please look at this recording follow through, you know things like that. I have been, F inished one video for Empath for you guys on how to use the uh time machine. I am working on the MTX guide now and I will upload those to Empath as well. Okay, I promised Olivia, do it. I might be about six months behind on that but it is getting done. So thanks Chris, Speaker 13 00:47:00 Thanks for joining today as well. No worries. Okay we only have a minute left Matt who is our next.
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- Date & Time: 2026-05-05 17:01:02 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Foothill ## Overview This was an introductory meeting between Crimson IT (consultant) and Foothill’s IT Manager, Mathys (also referred to as Nasees/Meses). The primary goal is a comprehensive IT assessment for Foothill. Mathys is concerned that a previous assessment failed to address core issues, which he believes are organizational and procedural rather than purely technical. He emphasizes the IT department’s struggles due to the absence of a clear business strategy, undefined internal policies, and a reactive, task-based workflow. Key challenges include staff shortages, knowledge concentrated in a few individuals, and difficulty aligning IT with ambiguous business needs. The desired outcome is not just a technical report but a strategic roadmap that addresses structural problems so IT can function effectively and support the business. ## Background Over the past five years, Foothill has shifted from a “mishmash of things” to a more robust “enterprise infrastructure.” Mathys has been with the company for four years, starting as a system administrator and recently promoted to IT Manager. The IT department is understaffed, short one system administrator for over six months, increasing the team’s workload. An almost identical IT assessment was conducted less than a year ago, but Mathys found it lacked value because it ignored internal organizational and procedural root causes. The current assessment, initiated by business leaders (Chris and Jim), is intended to comprehensively review IT operations, policies, procedures, personnel, budget, and cybersecurity. ## Pain Points The IT department is overwhelmed and cannot operate strategically due to a lack of defined internal policies and clear business direction. This drives a cascade of issues. The team is forced into reactive work, addressing tasks “off the cuff” instead of executing planned, business-aligned projects. As a result, they cannot establish a proper security framework or align IT structure to business needs because those needs are unclear or poorly communicated. The impact is significant: IT cannot proactively improve systems or free time for high-value projects, leading to constant firefighting. Mathys and Chris have tried defining processes “from the bottom up,” but “it just doesn’t work.” The team is understaffed and overburdened, exacerbated by knowledge silos. They have been short a system administrator for over six months, increasing pressure on the team. A major risk is that departures have a “huge impact” because knowledge is “thinly spread” and not documented; institutional knowledge often “sits in the hand of very few people.” New enterprise technologies increased complexity without added staffing, raising support overhead. Resource constraints limit capacity to implement known improvements, let alone new strategic initiatives. Work is purely reactive and task-oriented, with no project management discipline. “Right now we do not do anything as a project. Everything is basically a task that pops up somewhere.” Problems get quick fixes rather than being part of a “larger solution to a repeating problem,” preventing root-cause resolution and lasting improvements. Even items from the previous assessment were handled as discrete tasks. This unstructured approach fragments effort and blocks strategic progress. There is no proper governance structure, such as an IT steering committee, to prioritize work and align resources with business objectives. Without it, there’s no formal process to evaluate and queue critical projects based on available resources. Mathys notes that even if such a committee existed, it would be ineffective without a clearly defined “operating organization from the business perspective.” The absence of high-level direction and prioritization leaves IT directionless, unable to focus efforts or push back on unmanageable requests. ## Expectations The assessment must focus on and provide actionable recommendations for deep-seated organizational and procedural issues, not just technical findings. Mathys hopes “most of the focus is going to be on that area.” The final deliverable should be a strategic roadmap to “address those structural things” and “build off of it.” Success is a “solid concrete direction” tying IT structure and policies to the business’s actual needs and future direction. Simply listing technical gaps (already known) is insufficient. The process should be minimally invasive and highly collaborative, with full transparency and client control over any actions on systems. A prior assessment installed endpoint agents that caused a “nightmare,” so Mathys is “very concerned.” Agent use must be “very limited,” and high-level administrative access granted with extreme caution. He expects to work directly with the consultant team, running commands himself if necessary, to avoid production impact. The client must have time to “review that project plan and provide some input.” The deliverable should be a prioritized list of recommendations on how to solve identified problems, not just a report of issues. It should include practical steps to address structural, procedural, and staffing challenges, with guidance to become more “organized, way more goal-oriented, project-oriented.” The client also expects advice to bridge the IT–business gap, potentially including recommendations for business leaders as well as IT. ## Other Information Summary - Mathys has a software engineering background with over thirty years in IT. - The previous assessment is considered low value by the IT Manager; consultants will still review it to measure progress. - Chris will coordinate contracts, costs, and scheduling interviews with business executives. - Mathys is the primary contact for technical aspects, including data center access and system scans. - Mathys proposed splitting the vacant system administrator role into two specialized positions: on-prem VMware and Azure/Office 365, but believes this is insufficient without fixing structural issues. ## To-Do List - [ ] April (Crimson IT) to contact Chris (Foothill) to schedule 1-hour interviews between Zor and business executives. - [ ] April (Crimson IT) to schedule a meeting between Zor and Mathys to coordinate interviews with IT staff. - [ ] Crimson IT to prepare and send a comprehensive project plan to Mathys for review and feedback. - [ ] Pete’s technical team (Crimson IT) to contact Mathys to coordinate the technical side of the assessment (scans, access, etc.). - [ ] Chris (Foothill) to compile a list of business-side personnel for Zor to interview. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client’s biggest pain point as the complete lack of defined internal policies, project management discipline, and clear business direction, which leaves the IT department overwhelmed, reactive, and strategically adrift. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. Implement a phased, lightweight IT Service Management (ITSM) framework (e.g., ITIL foundations or a simplified version). Start with formal service request and incident management to quantify incoming work, separate reactive tasks from planned projects, and generate data to justify a project intake process and steering mechanism. > 2. Facilitate workshops between IT and key business leaders to define and agree on 2–3 critical business objectives for the next 6–12 months. This creates a “North Star” for IT, aligns efforts, and provides a basis for prioritization and a simple strategic roadmap. > 3. Create an “IT Governance Lite” model: a monthly IT–Business Sync with Mathys, Chris, and one or two key stakeholders to review workload metrics, showcase progress on agreed goals, and make joint decisions on next-month priorities. This introduces discipline and shared ownership without full bureaucracy. > 4. Develop a “Portfolio-on-a-Page” template. Translate the current list of issues and improvements into a one-page visual portfolio categorized as Run (keep the lights on), Grow (new capabilities), and Transform (structural change). This helps communicate scope and the consequences of under-resourcing to business leaders in a clear, non-technical format.
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- May 5, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Ro und of how this usually goes, and then we can kind of go from there. Speaker 2 00:00:04 Perfect, perfect. Okay, well let's do this. We'll just do a round of intro messages. So you kind of would get to know everyone on the team. I think this will be a good start. So I'll start with myself. I am Zor Zurchaev, I am CEO and founder of Crimson IT Been in business for many, many years, right? From, Small organizations to enterprise, very large multi- billion dollar organizations in various capacities and including. CIO roles for a number of large organizations. Pete, take that. Speaker 3 00:00:44 Good morning, Nasees and Chris. Nice to see you. And my name is Pete Breich. I am the Chief Operating Officer for Crimson IT, and happy to be here and happy to meet you. Awesome. April. Hi, good morning, Chris and Mathys. My name is April Palacios, and I'm the new Administrative Services Manager. And I'm with Crimson for more than four years now. So I oversee daily admin operations, including billing and agreements. Nice to meet you. Speaker 2 00:01:15 Perfect. All right, Maurice, do you want to take a sec introduce yourself? Speaker 4 00:01:22 I've been with Foothill about four years. I started out as the system administrator. And I was recently promoted to this new position as the IT manager and automations. And, basically, we have a series of What I consider internal issues that are causing IT problems, we're trying to identify or get confirmation more than identify. Speaker 4 00:01:56 Of these types of issues and how we can proceed. So I think that's really the focus from my perspective of what I would like to get out of this. Speaker 2 00:02:05 Got it. Okay, perfect, perfect. So. Soum I'll just kind of at the high level, I will walk you through on what's going to happen during this assessment. And then we can make sure we're all aligned. And I think the next conversation will really be, One on one of coordinating everything, right? But at the high level, We are we obviously have a scope of work that we agreed with Chris and Jim. And we effectively going to do full IT assessment, right? That includes IT operations, policies, procedures, personnel. Right? So I will be talking to you and your staff to understand their skill set. Right? And how they're. Speaker 2 00:02:53 Whether they're in the right position on organization, how overloaded they are, right? One of the things we hear. It's. Because of these issues, there is a substantial load on the team and many team members. are the only member that has information. So institutional knowledge, right, sits in the hand of very few people, which could be very impactful. We will also interview the business executive side to understand their. Perception of it and how well, they see it being a partner and truly a strategic partner for the business. So, it'll be interesting perspective for you guys to also have from that standpoint. A lot of times, Being an outsider, We get to see and hear things that internal IT might not be exposed to. So it will. Speaker 2 00:03:48 Effectively go into all areas of IT, right? We'll want to understand the cost of IT, the budgets, the agreements, right? So, we can Come back and correlate you to what we're seeing in other industries. For example, we might come back and say, "Look, you guys paying premium for your cell phones, right? Or for your contract management? " Or, it could be the other way around : " Y ou guys doing phenomenally well here, and you don't need to worry about cost savings." Exercise in this particular area, but you should look into cybersecurity concerns, right? So, we're going to analyze IT operations. And obviously, we're going to look into cybersecurity posture. Right, so there will be a number of people on the team, and we will cover. I am going to be handling the interviewing process with people, and the rest of my team will be coordinating with you, right? On figuring out. Speaker 2 00:04:45 The timing to install our tools, to run the scans, right? Clearly we're going to put together a comprehensive project plan. We're going to have you guys review and approve it, right? We're not going to do anything that will impact production, right? Any scans will be scheduled for after hours, and you're going to be in charge and in control of entire process, right? So at any time if you feel uncomfortable, you're going to tell us that," Hey, we should do things differently and here is why." Speaker 4 00:05:18 I don't know. I'm sure you're aware that we went through almost an identical process. Less than a year ago, right? And, one of the huge problems that we had were these agents that were installed. On endpoints, cleaning all that up. So I'm very concerned about that. That needs to be very limited because there's already information out there from the previous one. And you don't need, you know, all of our systems are standardized. So everything's built on the same image. So you need basically just a sample of right. Speaker 2 00:05:54 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly right. So, our plan. We're going to bring our nuke, right, a laptop with our software that will effectively scan the network, and we're going to install an agent on one of your domain controller, right. That's it, right? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:06:09 We're not going to be putting anything like on all the endpoints or anything like that. That's not that's not the that's not the approach at all. So it's much less invasive than Atmosi. So there there's there that's not a concern. Speaker 2 00:06:22 Right. Also, even though you've had an assessment before, right? My feedback to both executive was, While, we can totally review and confirm whether the progress was made compared to that assessment, where you are now. We're not going to be able to comfortably say we're confident with your cybersecurity posture based on that report. We will still do all of our review and assessment, right? To be able to confidently state that we know this work is solid because we did it, right? Speaker 4 00:07:00 Yeah, in fact, I personally don't put much value in the old assessment. So again, because it didn't really look at our organization from the inside. Like I said, majority of our, I would almost say, almost all of our issues are due to internal lack of policies. So proper structure, you can't build security around something. That's undefined internally, you know. So that's where a lot of issues come from. So once even those issues are resolved and defined, at that point there is a staffing issue, right? Right now we're short a system administrator. And it's been this way for over six months, right? So we have a lot of things that are already built up too. Every little thing that gets added. Is extra pressure across the board on everybody right now, right? Right. Including this assessment, right? Speaker 4 00:07:59 So, my hope is to actually identify the real problems, right? Not from the outside. You know well you need uh. You know, your cybersecurity, you need certain policies set up. We already know that, right? The problem is, you don't know how to set up those policies or how to structure yourself. To match the business's needs, right? Right. Speaker 4 00:08:25 So That's where the majority of this comes from. Yeah, and I am hoping that's where the focus is going to be a lot. Most of the focus is going to be on that area. Speaker 2 00:08:32 Right. We're gonna, I mean clearly that's going to be a focus area, right? It's not going to be the only area, right? Like we are doing a comprehensive assessment, right? So but clearly what you've discussed is a very big and important component. Right, and this is where you and I we're going to talk in depth, right? So I can understand your view. And then correlate it to what I'm hearing from organization. Speaker 3 00:08:56 And part of what we're delivering, Moses is is not just, um, here's the, here's, here are the issues. But here's kind of a list of prioritized issues. And how you can solve them, right? Here are some recommendations. as far as priorities and, you know, some recommendations to how you can address these. Right. And and that. That's part of the deliverable, right? Is here are some recommendations on how you can solve them. And, you know, if you need some help, we can potentially help you in some of these areas or not. Or you can do them yourselves. But here are recommendations on how you can solve some of these things. Speaker 2 00:09:40 And we've been in many situations like this, right? So we've been in many environments where IT is overloaded, right? And in some cases, it's exactly what you've said, right? It's where you have undefined policies, undefined strategic direction. Right? So IT is kind of a is not sure where to concentrate their efforts. Right? It could be that you guys understaffed. It could be that you overloaded because there is no process for steering committee, right? That identifies these are the critical components. Here is amount of resources we have on IT. Speaker 2 00:10:17 Right, and we're going to queue up these projects, right? Because you can't put too many. We also know that not all work could be outsourced to someone else because to do the work you have to understand internal workings. And a lot of times, it takes longer to train external person on what needs to be done than for you to do the work. And you kind of going okay. I can spend 10 hours explaining or I can spend two hours that I already don't have and just do it myself. Right, so we've been through that as well. Right, So we're going to be very respectful of your time and time of your team. Um, and we're going to try to minimize the impact as much as possible. Speaker 4 00:10:56 Yeah, along those lines, it's not so much just the IT, right? So the same goes for I mean Chris and I have been working way before I even took this position officially on trying to figure out what our processes are. We've made almost no headway. From my perspective, I see at least right. I've tried to define some things that we can do, to try to. Make some impact from an IT perspective, right? To free up our own time to be able to take on higher value projects, right? But that is extremely difficult when you don't really understand or the business itself, it doesn't really like you mentioned some things, right? So some sort of oversight committee, right? None of that stuff exists here. Right. Speaker 4 00:11:46 It's all kind of off the cuff, right? From where I sit, you know. I mean, I don't know what else is going on, but from the end results that that's what I see, right? So that's really where we need all this clarification. We've spent a lot of time. Chris and I talking about this stuff, and we've tried to do something almost like managing from the bottom up, right? It just doesn't work, right? And. Then the last thing we tried to do was to one of the big concerns that the organization has and I have. Is that when someone leaves it, it's a huge impact on us because we're thinly spread. We use a lot of technologies, all of it is solid. That's not the problem. The problem is, all these things were introduced without any additional staffing, right? I mean, compared to five years ago. Speaker 4 00:12:43 This place looks nothing like it did five years ago. Five years ago, it was a mishmash of things. They couldn't hold video conferencing with more than three people. Right? So, the entire infrastructure, every aspect of it has changed. Into more of a enterprise infrastructure, right? And that has a lot of overhead, right? I mean it provides a lot more but it requires a lot more. Right. So none of that, you know, all of this technology that was never addressed, right? So when we try to address it this time around, uh, I it's turned into uh basically at this point a a review of everything, right? But again, it doesn't seem to me like the review is focused on the right place. Right, there is definitely issues in it. Right, but they can't be solved without understanding what the Business. Speaker 4 00:13:42 Needs are, right? What the procedures are. Why are they not structured, right? So those are the kind of the ties that we need to establish, right? Even if there was an oversight committee, they could really do not much about it unless they have that. Operating organization, right from the business perspective, not just it right. So that's where we lack a lot of these things. You know I understand that you have to do a full review. And I'm glad that you weren't going to be installing things on endpoints, because that was a nightmare to deal with. But again, I'm sure you're not going to find. You know, whatever you find is going to be very similar similar to the last one. But even knowing all of that, it gives us no it no solid concrete direction. Because in order to implement. Speaker 4 00:14:37 Most of what we need to do, we need to understand where the business is going, what it needs. Right? And this is where our problem is, right? So I am hoping that Chris agrees with this. I don't know if he does, but you know, this has been my experience working with Chris that that's what we've identified. That's what we've been trying to fix. Speaker 2 00:14:55 So, so, this is perfect, right? Like, this is exactly the kind of a conversation I am going to have with you. I am going to take your notes, right? Because this assessment, this is assessment. Not for it. This is assessment for the business leaders, right? It's effectively it's going to service it and business leaders at the same time. I guess should have said it's not just for IT assessment, it's also for the business leader, right? It's going to go both ways. It's going to be presented to the business leaders and to it, So you guys can see like the concern of yours right is exactly what I am going to be presenting to Chris and Jim right saying, hey. Speaker 2 00:15:35 This the what we're seeing, The view of the world in I, T, right? And this what we're seeing in business right? And you are mismatched or maybe you are aligned, but this the way the business decides to accept a risk. Right, so so, But what you are saying, we will clearly capture all of that, and we're going to come back. And we're going to give you recommendations on what we know works well for others. Right, we have a lot of expertise in it. In managing IT at various sizes, right, for profits and for nonprofits. So we can come back and give you our set of recommendations and say whether we think IT is excelling or business is excelling, right, or needs some adjustments. All right. Make sense? Yeah. Um, okay. So, with that, so this is great. Thank you. Thank you. I really appreciate it. I think you guys will see right. Speaker 2 00:16:34 Ultimately, our job is we're actually that right. We're not like purely this is cybersecurity. You don't have MFA, make sure MFA is enabled, right? It's going to be there too, but that's not going to be the emphasis of this assessment. Right? It's going to be all around IT understanding your areas of responsibility, understanding the weaknesses, right? The open positions and effectively given our feedback. On, what needs to happen to bridge the gap between where IT is seeing the things and where business is seeing the things. So with that, we'd like to I think. At this point, moving forward, right? Uh, anything it related. Meses. I'll be coordinating with you. Right, And my team, as far as coming on site, looking at data center, right installing the. Speaker 2 00:17:31 Age nt getting global admin to Azure, like all of those things. The technical side will be done. I'll start the coordination and then we will switch over to you know, to my team. On the business side, right scheduling time with executives, Chris. I'll work directly with you. Right. Speaker 4 00:17:55 One issue I have though is given these types of. Speaker 4 00:17:59 Access, right? So high level admin access and things like that. We can give you read access to what you need, but we don't want to give out just yeah yeah yeah. Speaker 2 00:18:09 So. So so so you effectively we're gonna. We have some tools right that we're going to install and runum and you can ultimately, we will tell you everything that we're doing, but for us to collect information from Azure, we'll need like global reader. Speaker 4 00:18:26 Yeah, right. Plus, Speaker 2 00:18:29 You're gonna create our own account. So you'll have a log, so you'll be able to see anything we do anyway, right? Yeah, Speaker 4 00:18:37 But that's not the issue. Last time around, we actually had some problems by things that the auditors did that actually caused us problems. So we do not want to go down that path again. Speaker 2 00:18:48 Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Look look for sure right? And if we do need administrative access, right, we will make sure you're there and you can see exactly what we're doing. Right? We're going to request it from you obviously, right? For us to have it. You'll have to provide it and you'll have to work with us. Alternatively, We'll schedule time to work directly with you, and then you run the command and you give us the outputs. Stuff like that. So again, right? We do not impact production. Okay, I can tell you this much. Speaker 2 00:19:20 Both Pete and I, We come from twenty four by seven enterprise world where a minute of production downtime is Not acceptable. So that's the mindset we're bringing to all of our engagements. Speaker 4 00:19:33 Yeah, also, you know, I didn't give you this background, but my background is in software engineering. And so I am very familiar with systems. I have over thirty years now of experience in IT. Al together, so I am definitely I understand what you are saying, but I've also seen. Problems by the most experienced people, right? So that's why I need to be extremely cautious. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:19:59 Yeah, yeah. Absolutely, absolutely. We understand that. It's I mean it's what we do for a living. Speaker 3 00:20:05 That's that's why we want to coordinate with you, Miss East, right? We want to. We want to work with you as opposed to. We're not going to work in a vacuum. Speaker 1 00:20:12 Okay. Yep. And then, theum. Anything regarding contracts and um cost and things like that, that can go through me. And then also echoing what he was saying about understanding the With, the business and IT, and syncing that up and getting that clarified, and working in that direction along with the other items. But Like you said, the focus is something that we can actually we take can take from this. And kind of build off of it and kind of address those structural things. Speaker 2 00:20:46 Right. So, so for example, We're actually going to review your previous assessment, and we'll see how much progress you've made, right? And if there is no progress, We're going to bring this up as, hey clearly, there is a an issue that needs to be addressed. Right. Which will fall I think in line with the pattern you're describing. You know what needs to be done but you don't have resources right? Um. So so so again, right, like all of this will come together to paint the picture um of where we are. Where we seen the issues and what are our recommendations to address them. Speaker 4 00:21:21 Resources are one part of it. Like I said, we could even add, I recommended splitting up the systems admin position. Into two separate ones. One kind of focuses on our internal on- prem VMware cross- training with our network guy, And then getting a separate person for Azure and Office three hundred and sixty five. Even if we were to do that, right, That's going to go a long way without any other changes to begin with because we just have deeper knowledge in the different areas, right? Because they're more focused, more specialized. But even that is not sufficient, right? Without fixing the structural issues, you're only going to go so far. There is no way there is no magic bullet, right? That it can fire to fix these problems, right? Speaker 4 00:22:14 So that's why I am so focused on procedures, right? And policies and kind of being way more organized, way more goal oriented, project oriented. Right now we do not do anything as a project. Everything is basically a task that pops up somewhere. Right? So, you know, we need oh this problem happened. You know, let's fix it by performing some task. Right? It's never within the Scope of a larger solution to a repeating problem, right? So, many of the things from previous assessment that we addressed were things like that. They were kind of like task oriented, right? There are other things that we absolutely know we need to do, right? But we need some context before we start them, right? It's kind of repeating what we talked about before. But anyway, so the point here was that even adding resources by itself is not sufficient. Speaker 4 00:23:12 Right, and that needs to be identified. Right, if the thing just comes back and say you need one more person, that's not going to help us any at all. Right, because that'll only Help us on the margin, right? But not at the core. Speaker 2 00:23:26 Got it. Got it. Awesome. We we're going to have in detail discussion, right? And that's where we'll take your feedback, your staff feedback. Business executive feedback, right? And we'll correlate the findings. Um, excellent. So, I am good. I think you guys now have understanding right of the next step. So, what's going to happen? April will reach out to you, Chris, And we'll schedule right. You'll just need to come up with a list of people. On the business side that I need to interview, and I'll need an hour with each person. Speaker 2 00:24:05 And April will also schedule my time with you, so I can meet with you and coordinate IT people interviews. Right? And then Pete and his team will be reaching out to you, Misses on technical side. Right, all right, perfect. And I will present you guys with a project plan. So you obviously, you'll see how we operate because we do things via projects, not a task. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:24:33 I mean I would like to. Be able to have some time to review that project plan and provide some input, you know,'cause I have I generally understand what you're going to do, but yeah, we need some time to review that and give you feedback. Speaker 2 00:24:46 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And once you see our project plan, If you see something that you think we're missing, uh right, we're very flexible, right? The project plan you'll see is not set in stone. This is what we're thinking of right. You will have a power to add to it. Okay. Speaker 3 00:25:04 All right. Speaker 2 00:25:04 Okay. Thank you, everyone. Thank you so much for your time. Speaker 3 00:25:08 Okay, thank you. Bye- bye. Uh.
08-24 Lecture: Foster Care Support for Teenage Parents, Shared Responsibility Plan, Boundaries, Funding and Advocacy
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- Date: 2026-08-24 09:48:32 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary This series of lectures provides a comprehensive guide to the care and support system for teenage parents within the foster care system. It emphasizes the legal intent to keep the teenage parent and their baby together, detailing the roles and responsibilities of foster parents, social workers, and the broader support team. The discussion covers the critical "Placement with a Shared Responsibility Plan," a dynamic document outlining duties and facilitating access to funding. Through personal anecdotes and case studies, the lectures explore the complexities of generational trauma, mental health challenges, and the importance of setting clear boundaries to prevent enabling behavior. Key themes include breaking negative generational cycles, the necessity of advocacy for financial resources like the basic LOC rate, stipends, and lesser-known "Stock Funds," and the ultimate goal of supporting young mothers toward reunification or other stable life paths. The speaker stresses the need for caregivers to have a clear personal mission, practice self-care, and actively advocate for the needs of both the teen and their child. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Legal and Foundational Principles for Teenage Parents in Foster Care - **Intent of the Law**: The primary goal is to ensure a teenage parent can stay with her baby unless significant risk factors are present. - **Risk Factors for Separation**: Severe mental health issues, disabilities, or conditions on the severe end of the autism spectrum can lead to the removal of the child. - **Respecting the Mother's Values**: Foster parents must respect the young mother's culturally instilled and personal values, avoiding the imposition of their own. - **Developmental Education**: Foster parents should educate the teen mother about her baby's brain development and be aware that the mother's own brain is still developing. ### 2. Roles, Responsibilities, and Boundaries - **Primary Responsibilities**: The foster parent's primary responsibility is the teenager in their care; the baby is the responsibility of the teenage mother. The foster parent's role is to guide and support the mother. - **Establishing Guidelines and Boundaries**: Clear rules and boundaries are essential for safety, as the teenage mother is still a minor under protective custody. This helps prepare them for independence. - **Balancing Independence and Support**: A key challenge for caregivers is finding the right balance between promoting the teen's independence and providing necessary support. - **Caregiver Boundaries and Modeling**: It is crucial for caregivers to set clear boundaries and not become "glorified babysitters." Enabling behavior prevents the teen parent from learning responsibility. Caregivers should model responsible parenting. ### 3. The Shared Responsibility Plan - **Purpose and Structure**: The "Placement with a Shared Responsibility Plan" is a formal document outlining shared duties and expectations between the foster parent, the teenage mother, and the social worker. It is essential for managing care and accessing funding. - **Review and Revision Frequency**: The plan must be filed with the court every three months. However, it can and should be revised more frequently as the needs of the mother and baby change (e.g., newborn vs. six-month-old, mother returning to school). - **Connection to Funding**: A signed, approved, and filed Shared Responsibility Plan is essential for opening up funding channels, including an additional stipend for the baby. - **Adapting to Transitions**: The plan must account for significant transitions, such as the mother's post-recovery period and her return to school, detailing how challenges will be managed. ### 4. The Support System and Environment - **The Multidisciplinary Team**: The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) provides supervision and services through a team effort involving the social worker, supervisor, child's attorney, therapists, relatives, school personnel, and parent partners. The team's composition is dynamic and can adapt to changing needs. - **Child and Family Team (CFT) Meetings**: CFT meetings are a crucial tool for addressing concerns and creating a support plan. They can be initiated when a teen parent shows concerning behavior and can include a wide range of support members. - **Parent Partners**: A parent partner can be introduced to support a teen parent, helping with practical tasks like appointments, accessing resources (e.g., WIC), and discussing birth control to prevent the baby from entering the foster care system. - **Personal Mission in Foster Care**: Foster parents should have a clear personal mission (e.g., supporting reunification) to navigate the system's challenges. Providing a loving, structured environment is key to breaking negative generational patterns. ### 5. Financial Support and Advocacy - **Funding Breakdown**: - **LOC Rate (Level of Care)**: The basic rate paid to the caregiver for the foster teen (e.g., $1,236 for Level 1). - **Supplements**: Funding that belongs to the caregiver to compensate for extraordinary care and overhead expenses. - **Stipends**: Funding designated for the child's needs. This includes a stipend for the infant (a "non-custodial child") and clothing allowances. - **Caregiver's Financial Responsibilities**: From the basic rate, caregivers must provide the foster teen with a weekly allowance (e.g., $1.50 per year of age) and a monthly budget for personal items (minimum $80). - **Stock Funds**: A separate, one-time use fund (up to $10,000 per family) to remove barriers to permanency, such as paying for a housing deposit, rent, or essential furniture. Caregivers may need to advocate for this lesser-known resource. - **Advocating for Resources**: Caregivers must advocate for necessary resources by questioning social workers, detailing budget shortfalls, and researching funding rates on official channels like the LA County letters website. If needs are unmet, contacting the child's eligibility worker or the child's attorney is a critical step. - **ILP (Independent Living Program)**: For foster youth aged 16 or older, ILP classes provide access to significant financial resources. ### 6. Case Studies and Generational Trauma - **Case Study 1: Melissa (Bipolar Disorder)**: The speaker's foster daughter, a teen mother with mental health issues, required a CFT meeting and placement in a specialized facility. After temporarily placing her baby with the father to avoid the court system, she successfully worked her program, achieved reunification, and broke negative cycles in raising her own daughter. - **Case Study 2: The Valedictorian (Enabling Caregivers)**: A 14-year-old was enabled by her caregivers, who took on all baby-related duties. After realizing she didn't want the baby, she surrendered him for adoption, and the caregivers adopted him. - **Case Study 3: The Grandmother (Lack of Boundaries)**: A grandmother who became the primary caregiver for her teen granddaughter's baby saw the teen have two more pregnancies in quick succession due to a lack of boundaries and responsibility. - **Breaking Generational Cycles**: A key goal is to prevent the next generation from repeating patterns of trauma and neglect. This involves providing stability, positive role modeling, and ensuring children are not forced into caregiver roles for their own parents. - **Impact of Trauma**: The lectures highlight how unresolved trauma, such as parental abandonment, can lead to significant emotional and behavioral challenges for teenage parents. ### 7. Self-Care and Practical Advice - **Avoiding Overwhelm**: Caregivers are encouraged to "not drown in a glass of water" and to pick their battles. - **Practicing Self-Care**: It is essential for caregivers to nurture themselves, be assertive, and take steps back to avoid burnout, as "you can't pour from an empty cup." - **Being Present**: Breathing and being present with one's actions and words can help manage overwhelming situations. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. For caregivers, establish and communicate clear boundaries and expectations regarding the teen parent’s responsibilities for their child. - [ ] 2. Create and regularly review a "Shared Responsibility Plan" with the teenage mother to adapt to changing needs, ensuring it is filed with the court every three months. - [ ] 3. Identify the deficiencies the teenage parent is exhibiting and assemble a support team (e.g., therapist, parent partner) to help turn these into strengths. - [ ] 4. If concerns arise, schedule and conduct a Child and Family Team (CFT) meeting to create a formal support plan. - [ ] 5. Research available financial resources, such as the "whole family licensing stipend" on the LA County letters website, and inquire about "Stock Funds" if significant one-time expenses are a barrier. - [ ] 6. If needs are consistently unmet, contact the child's attorney to advocate for support in court. - [ ] 7. For caregivers of youth 16 or older, sign up for ILP (Independent Living Program) classes to learn about available financial resources. - [ ] 8. Practice self-care techniques, such as taking a step back and being present, to avoid feeling overwhelmed.
- Date
- Aug 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Sorry. The intent of the law is to make sure that this. Speaker 2 00:00:05 This teenage parent is able to stay. Speaker 1 00:00:19 Sorry. The intent of the law is to make sure that this this teenage parent is able to stay. With her baby. Because in the past, the children were removed. And if you saw in the intent of the law, It also stipulated that we are going to try to keep these babies with their parents unless there's a significant risk factor. And yes, unfortunately we do have certain children that pose significant risk factors. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Because of their severe mental health or disability. We have children that have the autism spectrum that may be in the severity spectrum. We have children that maybe have severe mental health issues that then themselves are at risk. So it would be really risky for them to have that baby. And. So we are going to try to stay within the intent of the law and the goal. Um, we have to remember there's goals. There's going to be a lot of differences. There's going to be a lot of similarities. And, we have to remember the try to straighten the basic values. Remember, your values are very important, and you're going to share those values with this mother. But this, at the end of the day, this is the mother and the mother. Speaker 1 00:01:55 May already have some fundamental values of her own that she's, you know, culturally has been instilled in her that she herself has, you know, built within herself that she might want to teach that to her child. And so we need to remember that this is her child. So we cannot put our core values or our base values to her. Okay? We need to remember to train her that her baby's developmental brain is developing, and there's certain expectations that need to be met so that, that brain develops healthily, That her brain herself is being developed and that there's going to be some days where it's going to be rougher than others. Definitely we're going to have some challenges. Speaker 1 00:02:50 And we are going to have to establish guidelines. Those are really important for her safety and yours, as well as for the baby and all the other children in your home. Remember that, even though she is a mother, she's still a minor. She's still under protective custody. There's still expectations and rules for safety purposes that have to be maintained. She is just because she is a mother That doesn't mean she's emancipated or she's a full blown adult. So you we have to establish, um, guidelines and rules. You know and boundaries. Boundaries are very important also, especially for teenagers. You know they're testing the waters. They want to see how much they can expand their wings, and we do need to set some boundaries so that. Speaker 1 00:03:46 They're ready to leave the nest when they're ready and their wings are fully developed to fly. And so just keep that in mind. And also we need to promote their independency at the same time. So where do we find that balance? And so we're going to try to learn that skill. So today, We're going to talk a lot, and we're going to review about the placement with a shared responsibility. Okay, we're going to review it every six months. Is that correct? How often should you be creating it or how often should it be reviewed? Every three months. Remember I told you that the social worker has to file it every three months. Why? Because every three months there's a hearing in court. So that shared responsibility has to be what filed in her documentation for the court review. Speaker 1 00:04:44 But the shared responsibility plan can be reviewed and executed and revised as often as you need it, because the baby's needs are going to change, the mother's needs are going to change, correct? The household dynamics is going to change. So remember, That, a baby isn't going to need the same care when he's a newborn than when he's three or six or nine months. There's going to be things that are going to be implemented. It's not going to be the same thing if she just had the baby, and she may be staying home for her, you know, Recovery for 40 days and then transition and then the transition is going to be hard. How are you going to transition her back to school if she's breastfeeding? How is that going to be handled? Speaker 1 00:05:43 What is it exactly that you are going to be able to do, to assist her with that transition? How, are you going to make sure that this baby is being taken care of while this mom is extending right. Speaker 1 00:06:38 To whatever her regular schedule or life is, and so with that said, We're going to talk about our shared responsibility and how to create our contract. Speaker 1 00:08:35 But we need to remember one thing. Who is your responsibility? The teenager is the one that's in foster care. The teenager is your responsibility. The baby is mama's responsibility. You're there just to help her, like you would help your daughter with her grandbaby, just to instruct her, just to guide her. Just to support her in the areas that you see are stress factors or um a need or an aid. Okay. So we're going to breathe through this, and it's going to be really easy to understand. So remember at your home for any foster home care. Speaker 1 00:09:34 And because we have other types of foster homes, we have relative placements, we have regular foster homes, we have group homes, we have small family homes and we also have FFA placements. So we do have an abundance of different types of placements. But what. Speaker 1 00:10:04 Every placement this child is in, They deserve to have a safe environment and to still be able to be taken care of. Speaker 2 00:10:21 In the. Speaker 1 00:10:22 Way that she needs to be taken care of. Okay, so you become the parent representative. Okay, and, This experience can be overwhelming, but it can also be life changing. Okay, for the teenager, remember she came from a different background. She came from a home that was probably, you know, not the best environment. And that's why they're in foster care. It could have been an abusive home. There could have been a lot of neglect. There could have been a lot of. Speaker 1 00:11:01 Physical or sexual abuse. And so therefore, You have a child that is going to come into your home and she's going to be guarded, correct? And it's going to take you a while because she's overwhelmed. Her experiences as a teenager and her short lifespan were not the healthiest. Okay. So, it is going to be your responsibility as well as the DCFS to provide her supportive services, you know, and appropriate supervision. And DCFS is mandated through the court to provide the supervision. And so therefore we need to work with the team. Speaker 1 00:11:53 And that team is going to be the social worker, the supervisor, Possibly child's attorney and any other person that you need to bring into her team. It could be a parent, a relative. It could be school support. It could also be therapeutical support, medical support. It could also be a parent partner. It could be a teenager, support group of other parents. Whatever that is needed is who we're going to include in our team. We're going to be revising, remember when we're in crisis, we're going to be needing more services in place. But as we. Speaker 1 00:12:44 Start healing and things start getting better. We might be able to release some of those people from our team because they're not needed anymore. Okay. Speaker 2 00:13:25 So keeping that. Speaker 1 00:13:28 In mind, Remember, the teenage parent receives DCFS services and must be assessed. Okay. Regarding his or her ability to provide a safe home for her baby. So even though the baby does not have an open case, it is still the responsibility of the social worker, To make sure that her baby is safe and that the services being implemented and the care are appropriate. Okay, because they are still in a sense, legally binded to protect the well-being of this baby. And if they see that this mother is unable to provide, provide care and provide um. Speaker 2 00:16:10 Some some. Speaker 1 00:16:11 Crucial things that the child can be removed. And when I say things is sometimes, these parents are neglectful themselves. They're not feeding their babies appropriately. They're not caring for them appropriately. They're being neglectful in many other areas and guess what you're stepping up, you're complaining you're voicing out. And so at one point or another, the social worker needs to make that call if this. Placement with the teenager and her baby is the best scenario for both of them. Okay, so with that, Remember that the fact that the teenager has a baby doesn't mean that she herself or the baby doesn't qualify for child abuse or neglect. And so once again, social worker might. Speaker 1 00:17:09 Have no other choice than to also remove that baby or remove the parent, and you become the full caregiver of that baby. So, with maintaining a normal setting as a family setting, I do want to remind you three things. There's going to be a CFT meeting with Mama. Like I told you guys. Complaining your baby doesn't um mean that she herself or the normal setting as a family setting. I do want to remind you three things. Speaker 1 00:18:07 There's gonna be a there's gonna be a CFT meeting with Mama. Like I told you guys, when my daughter she she had she was bipolar, She had some deep depression, and she just locked herself in her room for like four days. She wouldn't open the door. She wouldn't let me come in. She wouldn't let me let me do a baby well check. She was redundant, it's you know shutting me out and her baby was already eighteen months. Wasn't like she was a baby, but the baby was already crawling. I can hear her and the baby wanted out, and she was not allowing that baby to come out. And so I said, you know, I kept knocking on the door. So after the second day, I gave her that twenty four hours because remember she's young, she's going through her waves whatever. And, she was never really neglectful towards her child, and she was still breastfeeding her. She breastfed her until she was like almost two months two years plus. Speaker 1 00:19:03 And so my concern was that she wasn't taking care of herself. She wasn't coming out to bathe, she wasn't coming out to eat, she wasn't doing anything for herself. And so I called the social worker and the next day I said, "Hey, it's day number two. You guys need to come. We need to figure something out." She's not wanting to talk to the therapist. She was here, she wouldn't open the door. She's concerned herself. What are we going to do? So on day three we had a CFT. Speaker 1 00:19:33 I knocked on the door. I said, "Everybody's coming, Melissa. Whatever's going on, if you're upset with me, if you're upset with your boyfriend, If you're going through some issues personally for your daughter's sake, we're going to have a CFT. It has nothing to do with you. Your therapist has tried to reach out. You're not letting her in. You're not letting me in and we're concerned about your baby's wellbeing." And you leave me no choice. And so when the social worker came, we all sat on the table, therapist and everyone. She was redundant. So, then we had to have an official CFT, where we actually had it in the DCFS office. And when we had it at the DCFS office, We also included baby's daddy and baby's daddy's grandma and her whole mental health team. Speaker 1 00:20:25 As well as the supervisor, the social worker, and myself, my husband and my housekeeper. And why? Because we were all the adults that were there to give her some support. But she was closing us all out. So from that meeting and her being completely unwilling to bend or to do anything. And the father was not willing to take the baby. Speaker 1 00:20:55 Because, he didn't feel he was adequately ready, and grandma didn't want to take the full responsibility of the baby. It left us no choice then to place both of them. And this was a thing, the social worker said, if we put her in a 5150 hold and get her treatment, if she's successful in can you take the responsibility of the baby? And I knew that if I took the baby, Melissa would be in the same place, angry, resentful and would not work the system. She would not go through her medical mental health treatment. She was going to be upset. She was going to be angry. She was she was going to be just not willing to do anything. So I knew because of the agency that I worked for, that the agency had a facility in Orange County that took teenage mothers. Speaker 1 00:21:55 That were in mental health crisis, and it was a protective area. So, we were able to secure a place for her, and we placed her there. Just like I had said, she was upset. She blamed me. She felt you know, but at the same time, I wanted she was a good mother. I wanted to give her the opportunity to say this not the life I want for myself. And this not what my daughter, you know what I want for my daughter, and, Fight for her, and so a month into her program, She had an altercation with her roommate because she felt that the roommate was not feeding the baby .. She was being neglectful to the baby. And she spoke up for the baby and she said, "You take care of yours. I'll take care of mine." She got a match very sassy, and they enter they had some you know. Speaker 1 00:22:54 Bad words and some emotions. Melissa was carrying her baby. The other girl came and lashed at her. She ended up hitting her baby's arm, and Melissa went into attack mode. That made her violent. That made them do a fifty one fifty on her, and so. Speaker 1 00:23:32 They asked me to take the baby, and I was willing to take the baby, But not as a placement because Melissa's mental health was already a high concern of the department or the court stipulating that she was not mentally able or capable of taking care of this baby. The SB500 law was new. Speaker 1 00:24:02 It was something they were test piloting. And I had to ensure that my daughter Melissa had the best opportunity to be able to raise her baby. But she was irregularly emotionally. She was not taking her medication because she was breastfeeding, and while she was breastfeeding, She didn't want to poison her baby's brain because that's what she would call it. And so at this end of the day. Speaker 1 00:24:32 That's, when she had to stop breastfeeding, so she could regulate herself with her medication. And then that way she could reunify with her baby. Cause the whole thing of her and the only thing I had on her was she wanted this baby, she wanted to be a good mom. And so when she got out of her 24 hour hold, um, She still didn't feel her baby was safe at this facility, and she was willing to work the program. But. I was not willing to take the baby, So dad stepped up and the baby was placed with father because the baby's not a court. I did not want this baby to come into the court system. And so that was my particular case, But I did have a another case that happened close to 10 years after my daughter, and her case was this girl got pregnant. Speaker 1 00:25:30 She was a valedictorian at school. She was an excellent student, but she was a cheerleader and some of the boys, you know, teenagers are teenagers and she wanted to be, you know, known or whatever. So, a couple of the boys in the football team had a couple of rounds with her, and she got pregnant. And when she got pregnant, her counselor said, "This girl is smart. This girl has potential. She wants to be a doctor." But the household environment was very neglectful. Mom was divorced, undocumented, didn't know how to read or write. She was struggling. She had all these other children. And so DCFS came into the loop because she was very young. She was 14 and she was pregnant. Speaker 1 00:26:27 And, there was some evidence of physical abuse, and there was some other evidence of neglect. And so they we we took her from her parent. So this counselor said, I really believe in this kid. So, the counselor took on the child as a no from and her husband was retired, and she wanted her to have the education and the teenage experience. And the biggest mistake was, When she had the baby, there were finals three days after she had the baby. She got ready and went to school and left the baby without telling anybody. So that was a first red flag. Then she realized like hello, I can't just it's not like a puppy or it's like a rag doll. I'm I I you know, the baby needs to be taken care of. Speaker 1 00:27:26 And so, And the counselor was at shock that she was at school because she just got up and got the bus and got to school. Didn't even tell her or wait for her to go with her to school. And so she called her husband and said, "Hey, did you and this girl make arrangements? You know, do you know the baby's feeding schedule?" Et cetera. He goes, "What are you talking about?" And so he had no clue that the baby was inside the room. And so that was alarm one. Alarm two was, they allowed her to have that school experience. She was still going to cheerleading, she was still going to dance, she was still going all her sports. She was still doing while the husband was taking care of the baby because he was to stay home. He was staying home anyways. He retired and so um the girl did her life. The baby was about a year, he started dating, she wasn't an actual effective parent. Speaker 1 00:28:24 There were other things that were happening, and so there was concerns. And when they had a CFT, she pretty much said, "I didn't want this baby. I didn't have a choice." And so this baby is more his baby than my baby. And I just want to live my life. I want to go to college. I want to be a teacher. I want to be a doctor. And having a baby is. Is not going to allow me to do all that stuff. So she told her social worker she was going to surrender the baby. And. So the counselor was like reaching out to me because I run a support group and she's like, what do I do now? And I said, I kept telling you, you were enabling her. You weren't giving her that responsibility as a mother. You were allowing her to be a normal teenager with a normal life that, and. Speaker 1 00:29:20 This baby was not a puppy. It was not a toy. She can just put on the side and play with it when it was when she was ready for it. And so you are where you are now. So your choices are, you either keep the baby, Adopt the baby and care for him, or you allow the department to find a permanent forever home for that baby. And. So the husband was so in love with this baby, they ended up adopting the baby. And, the girl ended up and she's a doctor and she's lived her life, and she does not regret anything because she said, "I was fourteen. Um, culturally my mom and everybody didn't you know pro life, pro life. I didn't know about I could have aborted. They didn't give me those choices. I became a mother, and then I was part of the system, and I just ended up in a good home and I just had it all." And so. Speaker 1 00:30:19 You know, that's where you have those certain cases. I had another grandparent since we're talking about like being an proactive and advocating for them and guiding them. I had another grandmother who took in her granddaughter. She was 15, got pregnant, and grandmother, Was already retired, stayed home. So, it wasn't like the baby's going to go to daycare, because that way makes your responsibility. You have a you know, this guideline, this this is what's going to you know a a routine. Grandma just felt it was more of a nuisance to go drop teenage mom to school and then the baby, and then having to go pick up the baby. So she's like I'm home anyways, I'll just say you guys can pay me to take care of the baby. And so she got um Crystal Stairs. Speaker 1 00:31:14 And they were home providers, so she they were giving her a minimal stipend, but she was home. This way, Mama could just go on the bus or walk to school and come back. And. She lived like in the projects. And, in the afternoon when she got home, she'd do her homework, Play with the baby for five, ten, twenty minutes, maybe a half an hour, and then she'd go out and hang out with all the kids from the neighborhood. And sure enough, she got pregnant again. And the baby was only less than five months. She was pregnant again. And this time she had twins. And so here you have grandma overwhelmed because now she has three babies, she did not put boundaries, things weren't happening the way they should have. Speaker 1 00:32:11 Grandma was afraid to tell the social worker because they were, she was afraid they were just going to take the babies. And so there was a lot of inconsistency. And when this girl got pregnant, she was still hanging out with the guys hanging out with the girls partying doing her thing, because grandma was the glorified babysitter. And the worst part was. When those twins were about six months, she got pregnant again. And here you have it that not this time did she have twins, but she had triplets. And when she had the triplets, her grandma said, "I can't take on these babies. I can't continue to take on the care of my granddaughter." And she finally released everything. So she was like, "Why didn't you tell me? There's no documentation." Speaker 1 00:33:08 There's nothing here. Well, we were doing the share plan. You were you you know, you kept saying she does this, she does that. But, you know, because she goes to school because she does this because I get paid through CCR This is what I do. She goes, You never told me there was an issue. And. So they had to do a safety plan. And she was pregnant from the triplets. And when she had the baby, she chose to give him up for adoption. Speaker 1 00:33:38 Because she said she wanted to live her life, she wanted a party. She might want to go to college, and if her grandma wasn't willing to take care of the babies, that she wasn't going to be able to take care of five. So she was going to get rid of three and keep the other three. And once again, that comes from the what immaturity of the brain. And. So there are certain circumstances that because we enabled them because we weren't able to set. Clear boundaries because we weren't able to separate. And the separation came really clear to me as a foster parent and as a role towards my daughter Melissa, that was my foster child at the time that I was Melissa's mom, but Destiny was Melissa's baby, and it was Melissa's responsibility to see her day to day through. Speaker 1 00:34:47 And I modeled that because, like I told you, I also had my daughter who I got when she was six days old. She's only about eighteen months older than Melissa's baby. And so I kept referring to Angelica is my responsibility. She is my baby. I am the one that changes her diapers. I am the one that makes sure that she's safety. I am the one That makes sure, That she's being taken care of. Destiny is your baby, she's your responsibility. Take care of her. You know, I would help her out. She would go to school, I would drop her off at the bus stop, I would pick her up at the bus stop or I would if it was raining or was really cold or the or we had appointments, I would go drop her off. Her school was about uh 12 miles from the house, so it wasn't like it was around the corner. Speaker 1 00:35:43 And so I also had five other kids. I had to drop off at school. And so I we were, I would work around her needs, But I also needed to make sure that I fulfilled the needs of the other children that I was responsible for. And so, I was very clear on the expectations i expected from the department, from her social worker, from her therapist. She also Um, Had a parent partner and I included a parent partner once she had her crisis, because a parent partner is to make sure that the child does not enter into foster care. That, there's somebody there that's going to come and give her parental tips because why? Because she wasn't wanting them from me, right? She was upset. She was resilient. She just. Speaker 1 00:36:40 You know, like I said, sometimes they get they take it from others, but before they take it from you. And so I she wasn't mad at me. And we have to remember that. She was mad at the role that I did. I was that mother figure. I was that person that was helping her and giving her nurture and guiding her, and she was, Being reflecting that mother hatred, you know. And so I did take a Robert was working on it. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:37:28 Um, Hang on one second. We were we were talking with him about Nord. I I was out last week, so I didn't get a chance to talk to him yet. Yeah, No. Speaker 1 00:37:39 And. So having a parent partner really helped her because a parent partner took the role of, "Hey, did you already make your appointment for your baby? Hey, you have your WIC appointment. Do you have enough milk? Do you need me to take you to your self-care? Are you what are you on birth control? What kind of birth control are you on? You know, do you need any appointments?" So that parent partner really came in to help her. And. Speaker 1 00:38:14 And so, once again, those are part of your implementation and your team. Identifying, who is going to be able to come in and support your child in the different areas of the deficiency that she's exhibiting so that they become strengths. Because they already have strengths. Don't get me wrong. It's just sometimes they're blindsided, By the inability of accepting their new role. Speaker 2 00:39:08 Of A provider. And. Speaker 1 00:39:13 That can be really difficult when they didn't have a good healthy role of a provider. You know, that self-doubt, that resentment, that anger. And. So we want to make sure that, yes, there is a grand grand and unfortunately circumstance that you may be put in a situation. That, you will have to make a choice between taking on the role of responsibility for this baby. If that baby enters the foster care system. But it's very minimal. It doesn't happen as often as we would like. My, my personal experience, like I said, my full I want to say commitment because we all have missions. Speaker 1 00:40:11 My personal mission is, I didn't come into becoming a foster parent to keep these kids. I came into becoming a foster parent to support the kids through the process of reunification services. And so with that said, I wanted this SB500 to be successful. And so I was flying blind just like everybody else. But I wanted to give my daughter Melissa the best fighting chance of her being able to keep her baby and developing a loving, nurturing, protective, you know, self-awareness of herself because she had it in her. She just needed to develop it. And her mental health was a disability, but it wasn't. Speaker 1 00:41:12 The full thing, you know, it wasn't keeping her from doing it. I can't put it into words right now because I could see that potential. She was very nurturing, she was very loving, but she was guarded. She was hurt, and she was wounded internally, and it was taking her a little longer to heal from the trauma. But it was trauma. And so, she she she, unfortunately made choices for her baby's sake, that had her have relapses. You know. But, She's pushed forward, and my granddaughter is eighteen and I am going to tell you, my daughter Melissa. As a mother, we make a lot of mistakes, and I am not saying she certain children. Damn it! Speaker 3 00:42:07 I hit the wrong button. I am in an hour long training. I, I messed it all up just now. I clicked on the wrong button, so I've left the meeting instead of just muting it. Yeah, in a moment. What's up? Just trying to get this meeting done and trying to get caught up from last week. Speaker 3 00:43:07 Stick It, stick it in my queue. Uh, put it on. Under the VCIO board. Speaker 1 00:43:13 Yeah. To question and to be in the position you are, to put yourself back in that little girl's body. I remember her mom walked out on her when she was six months old, leaving a note on the crib to her bio father saying, The only thing that holds me to you is your children. So, I'm leaving them so I can go live my own life. Because we all have missions. My personal mission is, I didn't come into becoming a foster parent to keep these kids. I came into becoming a foster parent to support the kids through the process of reunification services. And so with that said, I wanted this SB500 to be successful. Speaker 1 00:44:10 And so I was flying blind, just like everybody else. But I wanted to give my daughter Melissa the best fighting chance of her being able to keep her baby and developing a loving, nurturing, protective you know self awareness of herself because she had it in her. She just needed to develop it and her mental health was. Speaker 1 00:44:42 A disability, but it wasn't the full thing. You know, it wasn't keeping her from doing it. I can't put it into words right now because I could see that potential. She was very nurturing, she was very loving, but she was guarded. She was hurt, and she was wounded internally, and it was taking her a little longer to heal. From the trauma, but it was trauma, And so she unfortunately made choices for her baby's sake that had her have relapses. You know, but she's pushed forward, and my granddaughter is eighteen. And I am going to tell you my daughter Melissa. As a mother, we make a lot of mistakes. I am not saying she's perfect because she's not. Speaker 1 00:45:41 As a mother, she's learning. She's growing with her daughter, making mistakes. We all do parenting mistakes. We all have things that we wish we could have thought through or had a second chance to to, you know, revamp. But at the end of the day, she is an excellent mom. She's an excellent provider. She's very nurturing, and she has this strong bond with her with her daughter, and they kind of she has that. Speaker 1 00:46:11 I'm friend role because she's young and you know, she's hip and she's still the partying kind of thing. And she connects with music and stuff like that, but she still remembers her mother role. And her daughter knows not when, She could be friendly and very like easygoing and very understanding, but she still knows that this is mom. And when I say no, it's no. And you know, she sets boundaries really well. And she says, "I do that because you enforced them in me, And so now I enforce them in my daughter for her safety and her well being. And so once again they role model." And so like I told Maria Granados this morning, and I'm just going off script right now. I got a call from my daughter Melissa at three o'clock in the morning at four o'clock in the morning yesterday. And. Speaker 1 00:47:05 At first, I didn't know what was happening because at four in the morning, you're still your brain is still half asleep. You're not sure what's happening. And the first thing she told me was, she died. She died. And I'm thinking, oh my God, it's just her and her daughter. So I'm like who died? And my husband wakes up he's like what happened? And I said it's Melissa and he says who died? Cause we automatically think it's our granddaughter right? Cause, it's just her and my granddaughter and she says my bio mom and I said. Oh my God, and she said, They called me. I got home from work at one thirty. She was my phone. I couldn't. I was deep sleep. My phone rang. I didn't answer it. It rang again. I picked it up, I said, Mom, I don't know how I got to the hospital. I am sure i ran like three or four, even more than that light red lights just, but i got to the hospital. And my mom, literally, like three seconds after that because she just waited to go and. Speaker 1 00:48:05 She said, "I am numb. I am angry. Why does she want me now when she never wanted me?" And I said, "She wanted you, Melissa, But she was unhealthy. And so she wanted to have closure at the end, and that's why she waited for you. She waited just for you to come so she can leave." I said, "So that was her way of." Acknowledging you in her life, I said, and I understand you are angry and I understand you are resentful. Understand you have a lot of uncertainties, but at the end of the day. Speaker 2 00:48:46 I said she gave me a lot more. Then. You. Speaker 1 00:48:53 Can understand. And you have to release and let go, you can't carry the what ifs, what did I do why wasn't I enough, Why didn't she? I said, it's too late. Just release her and just love on her and let her go. Because if not, it's taken you 18 years of your daughter's life and longer, 33 years of your life to question and to be in the position you are, to put yourself back in that little girl's body. Speaker 1 00:49:32 I remember her mom walked out on her when she was six months old, leaving a note on the crib to her bio father saying, "The only thing that holds me to you is your children. So I'm leaving them so I can go live my own life." She never turned back. And as an adult, Melissa reached out not once, but at least five times and mom always made her feel unwelcome. Unneeded and whatnot, and so for her right now, she's going through a hard time. But at the end of the day. I have to give her her space of mourning. This was her bio mom. I have to be able to understand that she has to close those things, and so for my granddaughter, I get a message and I and in the in the morning at six o'clock, and she says hi grandma, so I say hi honey. Speaker 1 00:50:32 And then she said, um, I think my mom's going to need help. And I said, she's going to need, she is going to need help. But she also is going to need just some time. And she says, should I call her team? And the reason why is because my daughter grew up with a bipolar mom who sometimes meds weren't working. So she has a team. She has a team she can call. You know, her psychiatrist, her therapist, whatnot. And I said and I told her you don't you're eighteen Destiny. You don't take the role of a mama. You let your mama take her own role. I said you just be with ma her daughter and support her through her loss. I said, but don't overstep and I said, give her space. And we have a lot of that. We have a lot of young. Speaker 1 00:51:31 Teenage moms that unfortunately their brain don't fully develop, they have a lot of trauma and stuff, And their babies tend to outgrow them and become the the ones that call the shots. I don't know about you guys, but my mom was sixteen when she had me. And she was I was about seventeen when she got divorced. And my mom went through a rough patch, and she had five children. And so I became the mama. I became the dictator. I became the one paying the bills. I became because I didn't want to end up in foster care, because I didn't want my siblings in foster care. And because my mom was going through a severe depression, she tried to commit suicide twice. We didn't report it because reporting it meant we were going to be under the department's loop. And so I became and so I haven't fully let go of that role. I call my mom every day in the morning and then evening and night, did you eat? Speaker 1 00:52:29 You know, I'm like that sergeant, because I love her because she's my mom and I want to instill and ensure that she's safe and that she's taking care of herself. And because I also know that from that trauma, my mom does suffer from depression. And so we go back to, you know, generations. Right? Speaker 1 00:53:00 And sometimes, like it's hard to cut that generational pattern, right? And, so we want, and that's what I don't want my granddaughter to become her mother's caregiver or her mother's crutch. She's going to go off to college. Speaker 1 00:53:27 She Has to live her own life. My daughter has to be able to live her own life. She's thirty three, she's just barely started dating a year ago, because it took her that long. She decided she didn't want another baby. She didn't want a stepfather role for her baby. She didn't want someone to come and tell her or her daughter, what was wrong or not wrong or whatever. So she always said When Destiny turns 16 or 17, I might consider dating again. But until then, And I have to wait and find the right kind of guy that I might want around my daughter. And so she's barely been dating for a year, you know? And she doesn't let her boyfriend stay over. My granddaughter comes over on the weekend so that they can have their special, you know, their individual time. But at the end of the day, she wants to set a good role model. Speaker 1 00:54:23 She wants her daughter to go to college. She wants her to have experience. My granddaughter just started dating three months ago, you know, the first thing she's actually I put her on pregnant birth control. I'm like that's a conversation you should have with your daughter. She may not be ready. It's it's her first boyfriend, you know, She waited long because you didn't, you know the patterns or whatever. So once again, many things are going to arise. I've only had my daughter Melissa as a teenage mom, but I've supported over 30 relatives and foster parents raising teenagers. I actually love this because it's been about three years that I've done foster care. Excuse me, four years that I've done foster care, but three years approximately that I haven't done a WRA class. And. Speaker 1 00:55:17 I encouraged a couple of my caregivers in the Spanish sector to take the W rate. And I have a set of sisters that decided to foster, and they were only fostering babies. And that idea of fostering mama with the babies was kind of like a little, oh, that would be a really good thing, But it would be really scary because we don't know if we're because they've never they never got married. They didn't have they don't have children of their own. And so now that they're in their fifties and sixties, they decided to foster, right? Because they live together as sisters. And so they went ahead and took the W-RAIT class. Once they were certified and they were on the system, they got a phone call. And they took in a pregnant teenager and she was about six months. Speaker 1 00:56:12 And they were waiting for the baby, And then they got a call for another teenager that just had had a baby, and they took her in. So successfully, they are raising four teenage mothers with their babies. And she said it is such a pleasure because we're able to support them, we're able to love on the babies like grandmas. But at the end of the day, we're supporting the moms to be, Successful and loving and nurturing to their babies. And she said, this was like, We're so happy that you encouraged us to take this class, and it opened it up to this opportunity because a lot of times they were getting the babies, and they were holding them for a month, two months, three months, and then they would go to a family member or they would be reunified. And she says, this has been such an amazing reward. And so we had a in person event in LACC. And she. Speaker 1 00:57:11 They came in with the teenagers, and they come to my warehouse for diapers and different things. And these girls are thriving. And the reason why they're thriving is because they have a loving environment that's supporting them, but still allowing them to grow in their own family structure. And so we can do anything we set our minds to. Okay, anything. We just want need to have intent. We also need to have our own personal mission. Okay. I believe in that. My mission was to help Melissa with her baby so that she didn't end up losing her baby in the system, But at the end of the day, it was Melissa's choice when she found out that she was pregnant. Speaker 1 00:58:10 And she had that ability to make a choice. She had a choice to keep the baby, to abort the baby, to have this baby and put it up for adoption. Speaker 1 00:58:39 I did co raise another teenager. I would only do respite for the care provider. So he was a foster father, he was a stepfather. He got together with his, With his this girl's dad and she was about nine and Crystal was about nine when she got together, when her and her mom moved in with Martin. And Martin was a very nurturing father, and they had one child. And she was not very healthy; she was drinking, she had chronic depression. And so, off and on, Martin became the full role. But she was an extremely hard worker; so she was a functional alcoholic, but but she was a professional. Speaker 1 00:59:32 And so it came down to the point where she moved out. She paid for all of the expenses, But he was the one that was taking care of her daughter and their son. And her, her daughter got pregnant and she was only twelve. Nobody knew. Her mom on her, Her mom would have her on the weekends, and she would leave her with her friends because she'd go partying. And there were some boys in the apartments. This little girl didn't know what was going on. She got pregnant and she ended up having a baby before her thirteenth birthday. And Martin became the full caregiver of this because of the neglect and other things, he became a full caregiver. So he was taking care of this baby. Jasmine was going to school, she was doing all her life, she was doing her thing, and she and he was taking care of his son and this baby. And. Speaker 1 01:00:30 When Jasmine was in high school, she started dating, got pregnant again. And she ended up giving that baby up for adoption. She was in college. She was doing really well. Second year of college, she was living her life. Martin was still co- raising her baby and being raised with her brother, and she got pregnant again. And she decided this time because she was in school, she was going to abort. Okay, she was only nineteen at this point. And, she decided she was going to abort. And when she went to Glendale Adventist and the doctor did an ultrasound, he told her you are three months and you have twins. And she said I still want them out. I still have to abort them. I can't have them. I want to finish school. I want to like I already had. Speaker 1 01:01:27 I already gave one up for adoption. I don't want to have to go through that again. It was rough on me. It was rough on my, on my, my, my stepdad and I just don't want to go through that again. And so the doctor's like, I just want you to sit here and give me a minute. And so another doctor walked in and said, My wife and I cannot have children, and we would be privileged to adopt your babies. And so she decided, To let this doctor have her babies, and she put them up for adoption. And right after that, she decided to tie her tubes, because she said she didn't want to go through that again. And so now she's raising her daughter. And that pattern of inconsistency, Now she's not only raising her daughter, but her daughter is I want to say her daughter is 17, and she has a two year old. Speaker 1 01:02:24 So now Jasmine's like, it's funny how life works. Now I am raising my grandbaby. And, you know, I gave up three for adoption, not wanting to raise any more children because I didn't feel I was capable. But now like, I am getting a second chance. And so she was able to go to school. She was able to get that support through the foster care system through her stepfather through everything that thing. And so I do see. How unfortunate some of these girls make choices, but they make it for their. It's their life at the end of the day. They're the ones that are going to have to live with that choice and those babies, you know, We just want them to have the best outcome possible if they come into this world. At the end of the day, if they come into the world, they deserve to be bonded. They deserve to be cared for. They deserve to be loved and nurtured. Speaker 1 01:03:27 So we're going to come into the whole family, foster home section two, and we do have this video that I'm going to play for you. It says back. Let me figure out what happened. Speaker 1 01:03:56 It won't allow me to play it because it says it's not, it's not uh private. So guess we're not having this video. So we're just going to move to the facts. We talked about several different facts from one to seven. We we already talked about this video, um this picture. We don't want to drown in a glass of water, and you can't pour from an empty cup, correct? So, You have to remember the fact that you need to be able to learn to pick your battles, but at the same time you need to be able to nurture yourself. Be assertive and be and take that step back to do self care. Be able to breathe and be present with what you are doing and saying, because sometimes we are drowning also in a glass of water with. Speaker 1 01:04:55 Uh, you know, because we're just overwhelmed. And so, um, remember we talked about earlier about what did you learn? Remember I didn't have the slides. So now I'm going to have to go through the slides. What did you learn from your previous day? And I believe everybody was good. Nobody had questions. Nobody had concerns, But if something changed now is the time to ask that question or share with what so far, what you've learned. From your previous day, your additional four hours that you've already invested. Speaker 1 01:05:35 Well, We're going to go through that. Our we're going to go through our share responsibility plan. And so on your share responsibility plan, you have very specific uh boxes that gives everyone their specific, Responsibility and who's going to come in to support with what need okay. And so um you can make that social worker responsible and providing A B C or C, you know, A B C D F services or connections, right or assistance. And remember she's going to have to sign off on it and initially. Speaker 1 01:06:19 She's there to advocate for her client, and her client is your teenage mom, right? And so yes. So if she needs to make a referral to CCR, She needs to make a referral to Crystal Stairs for for whatever agency, they're utilizing for childcare. She needs to do that. If she needs to help your daughter, your daughter do a referral for welfare food stamps WIC, she needs to do that. If she needs to do a referral for a, Parent partner because it's a different agency that is similar to mental health. She needs to do that because she is the case manager, she's going to have more emp and more pool. And also she's going to be able to find out financial resources to be able to provide those services. Speaker 1 01:07:18 Because if you're pushing and you're pulling, that's going to be a problem because you're financially limited. They're paying you a dollar and six seventy cents a day to take care of this teenager. And you need to, provide a roof over her head, all the basic essentials water, gas, utility food clothing etc. and you're also helping her with this baby, this infant. And the supplemental that they're giving you for the infant, realistically comes to about less than a dollar a day. And. So it's it's obvious that you're going to be able or request outside sources to support. So those additional needs that you're not able to provide with that minimal resource, you know, limit limit um not resource but financial. Speaker 1 01:08:16 And so it is the social worker's responsibility, as well as yours to identify those needs. Cause that social worker comes in how often? When you're in crisis? Uh, How often once a month to pick up documents so that she just can her responsibilities. That leaves you on with the full load load on your plate. And so once again. Her involvement in creating this plan stipulates that it has to be filed every three to six months. It used to be every six months. They revised it to every three months because every three months she needs to do a full report for court. You guys already know that the system for court is you have an emergency call, if the children are removed, they go to court within three days, the parents have to go to court. Then it's 30 days, then it's every three months. Speaker 1 01:09:12 Approximately every three months, unless there's some other, you know, pending things might happen sooner. So that social worker needs to file documentation, a minimal every two and a half to three months. And so that's when she's going to make sure that that contract is revised. Speaker 1 01:09:46 Because that contract is what opens the funding, and if she doesn't provide it, then you are not going to get the funding needed. So I said it's the basic LOC rate, which is the basic which is one rate. One you cannot. The baby is not a foster child; he is not under DCFS loop. So, therefore, you get a stipend. And the stipend is the basic rate, whatever that basic rate is, which is right now, the basic rate is level one, which is 12 36 dollars for you to be able to get the stipend. You need to have your W rate. Uh, um, certification, and you need to be able to have your share responsibility plan. Um you know, uh. Speaker 1 01:10:41 Um, all right. I'm so nervous. My brain is functioning. It has to be signed and approved and filed. Okay, honey, but you have a teenager mom in your home? And you're getting you're getting funding for mom. That's something you need to discuss with um the social worker. And this is we maybe um they might not. Speaker 1 01:11:11 I'm gonna stop this for a second because I need to pull a different file. Okay. Remember when I shared the the funding guidelines, July, the every fiscal credit year when the A when the SEI started? Okay. When the SEI funding started was April 1st, 2021. In July. Speaker 1 01:11:41 We uh July 15th in July, we received a stipend, you know, an increase of 2. 11 and then the following year, six point sixty something and then six point sixty eight. And then this year, we received an increment of four point, three two, okay, that brought in our amount up. Unfortunately, if you notice the stipend does not that increase does not affect. Our SCI tier levels. Tier level one, two, three or four did not increase. That stayed at the same amount because of the resources in the form of the funding that's coming in. So and bear with me, I haven't taught this class for three years, and I haven't actually gone in to see the funding, but you can go into LA County. Speaker 1 01:12:39 And I'll give you that resource before the end of the class. You can go do your Allegheny County letters, and you can Google "whole family licensing stipend," you know, for the infant, the non-custodial child. And it should give you the specific rate that you should be in. Okay? I normally, in the past, it was always the same minimal. Funding for the child, But with the SCI things could have changed and it didn't grow with the increases. You know what I'm talking about? The annual fiscal credit year increases. It might have stayed in the same plateau flat rate of your SCI funding regiments because those are additional fundings. And so for me, I'm I'm good. Now you, you you planted something in my head and I can't. Speaker 1 01:13:38 I'm going to go and research it and try to find out. So maybe you guys did not get that additional increase, but that's not something I can tell you, only the eligibility worker. So, you can also call your child's eligibility worker because he's the one that connects the funding and say, can you explain to me the additional stipend for the noncustodial child? And he can kind of break it off for you. Okay, because he's the one that connects those those fundings. And so he's the one that can actually tell you, on Alley County letter, you know fifteen through thirty six stipulates blah. You know. And so that's how I normally go back and do my homework or I just go into Alley County Google it and find it myself, because sometimes, if I ask the social worker, she doesn't know. She just knows that. That's what they told her. You know, she processed it, and that's what they told her. Speaker 1 01:14:37 And so you never get the actual like how do, but how did you come about that? So, it comes back down to you, becoming knowledgeable and finding those resources and following through with those resources. But all I know is that once you file your shared responsibility plan, you're entitled to an additional $200. Speaker 2 01:15:08 Entitled. Let's. Speaker 1 01:15:15 Not get confused. Initially, you would get about$ 800 for the mama, which is a supplement. All supplements belong to the caregivers. That's for you, for that extraordinary care, supervision, attention etcetera. Supplements are for the caregivers. Stipends are for the baby to provide the mother or the baby some form of support either for clothing. So when you guys are asking for a clothing allowance, it's a stipend. I need a clothing stipend. Okay, because it's to buy clothes for that teen to for your foster child. The 200 stipend is for you to. Speaker 1 01:16:07 Invest in the needs that the child provides because your supplemental should be all for you, for you to pay your overhead bills, for you to pay for your gas, insurance and whatever you need because you need that car. You can't drive that car without tags. You can't drive that car without gas, and you can't drive that car without insurance. And so how are you going to cover that expense? Your supplemental part right? Speaker 1 01:16:46 It's supposed to be whatever the basic rate funding is allocated. That's why I told you, you would have to take $400 out of your 12, which keeps you at how much? $800. Correct? $800. So, that was the math. And the way that I looked at it from the last time that in 202 1, that in April. 2021 with the with the new SEI LOC funding allocation. That's what it that's what it stipulated. If there's adjustment or whatever, that's a whole different thing. So once again, I'm I'm going to research it and I'm going to give it to you for reals and documentation with the letterhead of LA County letters. Because when you're fighting for funding, You have to go based on whatever the LA County letter says, you are what deserving. Speaker 1 01:17:45 So, if you need to go ahead and do an appeal to get that money, they owe you, you have legal standing under the LA County letters. Okay, because it's federally funded money. And so it has something that ties you into that particular funding. So for my purpose and so we can move forward, You're supposed to get the basic rate. If the basic rate right now is S C I. Speaker 1 01:18:15 Level one, that brings you to 12:36. Correct? Four hundred of that 12:46 is to go to the child. And let me just tell you why, because even if you just had your foster child with you, And I don't care if Priscilla has whatever she wants to do with the money, she needs to respect two things: the child's ward allowance. Which is a dollar fifty per age, so if she has a fifteen year old, she's going to have to give her $22.50 a month. Excuse me, $22.50 a week. Twenty two fifty a week, $45, every two weeks, $95 per month. That already leaves her with $1,100. Right? Eleven forty something. She has to provide additional. Speaker 1 01:19:10 Subsistence to that child, so she needs to spend a minimum $80 on that child, on shoes, clothing, personal hygiene items. And maybe her nails makeup whatever it is that that she needs okay. That is Priscilla's responsibility. How much does she have left over? Priscilla has left over. Speaker 1 01:19:41 $1,050 something a month. I'm not going to do them. I'm doing it off my tip of my head. Those $1,000, Priscilla decides how she's going to divide it. $200 goes for food, $200 goes for the for for um uh the cable, the gas, the utilities whatever. The other $300 goes towards rent and the other $100 for the extraordinary stuff that comes up. She decides how it goes. As long as she respects her ward allowance, she's respecting the allocation for her to increase personal items or hygiene products. She's under compliance. She's going to spend the rest of the money however she wants. But when you have a baby, that baby is not your responsibility. Your supplemental is $800. The additional amount. Speaker 1 01:20:38 That you are given as a stipend is to be invested in the baby. Okay. You don't determine, what gets invested in the baby. That's Mama's determination. And that does that is not part of her allowance. So you need to keep straight, you get $95, you can go get your nails done, do whatever that's your money, you spend it as you please because that's your allowance but your baby, You need to spend it and prioritize on your baby's needs. Okay. And so, remember we're parents. Maybe she got a bassinet initially, and she got a really nice stroller to compensate, but now the baby needs a full onset crib and the crib costs $200. Speaker 1 01:21:32 So maybe out of those $400, we're going to invest in the crib, and then we only have $200 for diaper formula, whatever. And the next month, you know, we can figure out where we're going to expand the baby's needs. That's something that you are going to help that parent develop because she needs to learn to prioritize her baby's needs before her own because that's what being a parent is. Speaker 1 01:22:01 Correct, she's never going to develop that skill if we don't show it to her, model it, or give her the opportunity to do it. So for many kids, The caregiver and just and it's easier for the girls where the caregiver will go to Costco, buy the formula, the wipes, Whatever and say this is how much you have left over, so we can buy baby some clothes or some little shoes or. What do you think your baby needs? You know, where do you want to go get it? This how much money we have to stay within. This the allocation period because it might be easier on you. Okay. But at the end of the day, it is for baby's consumption. So maybe you're only getting $800 right now, and once you um, you know. Speaker 1 01:22:56 Do your Shared Responsibility Plan. That opens you up automatically to $200. So I would question the social worker, where does the other supplement come in? The other not Be careful with your wording. Supplemental is a portion you keep. Where is the other stipend for the additional stuff or where are the other stuff coming from? Are you going to connect us to other resources? Are you going to bring me the diapers and formula? But Diapers and wipes and additional things because babies to babies gives it to the county and to other organizations? Or are you going to be giving me a referral so that I can go and supply those? Because if you ain't getting the money, you can't invest in it, but if you're getting free diapers and formula and a car seat and a booster or wipes or clothing. Speaker 1 01:23:55 Then that's saving you money, right? So have that social worker either do one of two things. : is they're going to provide you a stipend to cover those additional expenses, Or are they going to give you a referral that will provide those additional expenses on a monthly or weekly or tri-weekly or three-monthly as the baby is expanding. Speaker 1 01:24:22 That's your part to advocate. That's your part to make sure that you put it on. This is the need. This is the thing. Where's it going to come from? Because the money you're giving me is not enough to cover those expenses. Speaker 1 01:24:55 It comes back down to I. Don't want to make it about the money, because at the end of the day is not about the money. But the money plays a big role. And keeping you afloat and keeping a house running, especially when you're already getting chump change. You're just getting a basic supplement, and like I said, it's less than $800 less than a $1 a day. You can't provide everything a baby needs for $1. An hour. They're paying you $42 for the basic rate for, for a teenager. If you're getting basic rate. That doesn't even feed them, especially if you have one like my Melissa would eat every two hours and, You know big consumption eater, You know cause she her anxiety and her medication and and she was growing. Speaker 1 01:25:53 And so, once again, like we need to put that on the table. There are additional funding. So yes, you want me to increase A, B, or C? Where is that funding going to come from? And when a social worker comes and tells you, well, that's why they give you the money for the kids. Then you need to be able to say take your class, On, I have a class that I put thirty three percent and they're like, "What does that mean?" I divide everything thirty three percent. If you are giving me $1,200, $200 of it is already gone. So I only get to keep $1,000. That means that I have $333 that goes towards rent and basic bills, another $333 that goes for food cleaning supplies. Speaker 1 01:26:48 Toiletries, shampoo, conditioner, et cetera. And it doesn't doesn't leave much for anything else. And then I have the other thirty three ah $333 that goes towards school. The kids need um things for school. You know when if it's not a uniform or something that they're asking, um kids need extracurricular stuff. They get invited to a birthday party. They need to take a little at least a $20 little gift. You know, they have some special celebration or something. You know, You want to go stop by McDonald's and buy them a ice cream or a meal. I mean, the money goes quick. And so everything else you're providing. So no, you're not paying me. You're refunding me a portion and out of my pocket. This is how much I'm still paying. And so that's where you need to learn how to advocate for yourself. Speaker 1 01:27:43 There are additional fundings. It all comes down to knowing how to request them. And if you're not getting much, hello, you have a child's attorney. Call the child's attorney and said, hey, I'm taking care I'm taking care of her and she has a child. And these are some of the needs that have come across and they're not being funded appropriately. And. So what he's going to do is he's going to go to court, and he's going to say, my client has these needs that we need to demand DCFS covers under. And then there's different pots of money of money. So I'm not going to give you the names because then I don't want you coming back to the social worker and saying, but. Speaker 2 01:28:30 You have Stock Funds, Stock Funds ladies. Speaker 1 01:28:34 So guess what? You need a crib. Um, I want to know. I want you to utilize Stock Funds because I need a crib for that baby and I need a dresser. So when she tells you that's something that you should have already in your home, you're like, yeah, I do for Mama. But I, you have to remember that. Now we have an additional little person that also needs a dresser. And uh, uh uh, changer because I, it's you know for her to. Hello. Speaker 3 01:29:07 Um, I can't open the door from your call. Um, There is a key code in the instructions, and you use the little black keypad to punch in that code, and it will open the door. Speaker 1 01:29:49 Change the diapers and have all of that little stuff in there, um. It needs a crib to be able to be safe. So either do you have Stock Funds for that? Speaker 1 01:30:06 Because That's a separate pot of money. If uh Miss Priscilla is auntie, and she took on her niece, and she had a two-bedroom, and she has her own daughter. That means that Priscilla is going to sleep in the living room to be able to accommodate her her niece with her baby so that she can give her that privacy and that space as she needs, to not over. Uh, exert her own daughter's space and, and things because it would be really unfair to put her niece in there with a new baby. And maybe she has a twelve year old. She doesn't want her daughter exposed to that. Speaker 1 01:30:46 Being, a mom at a certain age and normalizing it as it's okay kind of thing. And so that puts Priscilla out in the living room. So if Priscilla was going to be giving this niece a space, and Priscilla came to me, to my nonprofit organization that I work with, I would say okay let's bring it back to the two things. Let's ask for Stock Funds because you're able with the funding that they're going to give you you're able to provide that additional rent. You just don't have the money to move now, And you won't have those funds to be able to buy the initial stuff that you need. So I would bring I would go to a DCFS uh meeting and a CFT, and I would say Priscilla needs Stock Funds. And the Stock Funds are for, and I would say for deposit of her new apartment, first and last month rent, and possibly um. Speaker 1 01:31:45 Uh, moving fees. You know, she needs to rent a van. She probably needs to hire somebody to help her with that stuff or first and last deposit. And first and last. And, she also needs um uh uh, furniture allocation because she needs a crib for this girl. She needs a bed for this girl, and she needs a changer, and she needs. This stock funds can be up to $10,000 for family one time use only. Speaker 2 01:32:30 But none of. Speaker 1 01:32:31 You guys have ever heard of Stock Funds, right? It's to stock you up, to get you rolling. Especially if you're going to give this person a permanency. So if she's going to adopt or do legal guardianship, and that's going to hold her from doing legal guardianship or adoption or even foster her because she's not going to be able to pass ASFA because she can't. Doesn't have the stuff she can request Stock Funds. She can request additional funding from a different pocket for a supplemental for there's different things. Ladies. So I'm not going to give you all my thing, because at the end of the day, I only utilize those big words and that, like uh-huh thing when I'm like saying. Speaker 1 01:33:24 This family needs it for the sake of this child and for permanency purposes. And this is something that is a need. And you guys have funds, so utilize them. And guess what? A lot of those funds are really restored for last minute purposes, But then at the end of the year, they need to get rid of them because it's use them or lose them. So if they got $10 million this year and they only used $6 million next year, you only get $7 million. And so why are they holding it? When they could have used and supported so many families, And the reason is lack of knowledge, because the same way you guys probably didn't know about it, your social workers don't know about it. Speaker 1 01:34:10 And Probably their supervisors don't know about it. And so sometimes you just got to. Hey. Speaker 3 01:34:35 Okay, and let her know the cameras never capture sound. So just a heads up for you guys. Um, but yeah, I'll put the it just moved to away mode. So let me put in home mode. Okay, so just that one. Let me just put in home. Let me put in home mode because it just switched over automatically. Yeah, And just let her know no audio is recording. So because I have audio turned off from recording ever All, right. Do you need me for anything else? Okay, awesome. Thanks. Bye. Speaker 5 01:36:08 Hmm. Speaker 1 01:37:03 Push the envelope and say, "Hey, this is a need. Where's the resources?" Take your ILP classes, guys. There's money in your ILP. A lot of money that's in the ILP for if you have kids that are 16 or older. Take your ILP. I'm going to be giving a class for um uh ILPS SILP and AB 12. Take your class. All you got to do is go Go to DCFS website. Go into your sixteen. Speaker 4 01:39:17 Can you turn the LED off?
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05-08 Training: Windows Hello, Google Passkeys, and MFA Setup for HIPAA Compliance
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-08 09:59:34 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Windows Hello Setup for HIPAA-Aligned Device Security - Trainer presented a 3-part walkthrough targeting ~30 minutes. - Part 1: Set up Windows Hello on Windows desktops/laptops via Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options. - Available options: Facial recognition, fingerprint, PIN, security key, password. - Primary focus: Create a PIN (minimum characters vary; example used 8 digits). - Confirmation behavior: After setup, the screen returns with a “Change PIN” option; no explicit success dialog. - Note: Windows Hello setup establishes device-side HIPAA compliance. - Conclusion: Attendees were guided to complete PIN setup; multiple confirmations received. - Topic Title: Using Windows Hello Passkeys for Google Sign-In and 2-Step Verification - Navigation: In Chrome, click profile > Manage your Google Account > Security and Sign-in. - Go to Two-Step Verification > select “Passkeys and security keys.” - Create a passkey using the Windows PIN set earlier; entry appears as “created just now.” - Some users needed to sign in with a password first; an optional “not require password” setting may exist. - Guidance: Do not share or write down the PIN; desktop users should keep the PIN private. - Conclusion: Several attendees successfully created Google passkeys; individual issues were addressed. - Topic Title: Setting Up Google Authenticator for MFA - Audience: Company-issued phones preferred; personal phones allowed with manager approval and with caveats. - Install the official “Google Authenticator” app from the app store; demonstrated on iPhone; Android similar. - In Google Account Security, add “Authenticator” under more sign-in options; select “Set up Authenticator.” - Scan the on-screen QR code using the app’s plus button > “Scan a QR code.” - Enter the time-based code on the computer; codes refresh with a visible timer. - Multi-account support: Authenticator can store many accounts; trainer uses both Google and Microsoft versions. - Conclusion: Process demonstrated end-to-end; several participants completed setup; others planned to finish later. - Topic Title: Individual Troubleshooting and Support - Carl: Struggled after PIN setup and with app download approval; remote assistance provided to complete PIN and passkey; follow-up by Gaston/Robert planned regarding the purchase-approval issue. - Jessica: Faced sign-in prompts; advised to sign in with a password before passkey creation. - Mary Ann: Requested steps to reach the Authenticator QR; guided to Security > add more sign-in options > Authenticator. - Vanessa: Self-guided, indicated progress; will reach out if needed. - Conclusion: Immediate support provided; further help arranged for unresolved issues. - Topic Title: Training Schedule and Recordings - Current session shortened to ~30 minutes. - Additional training: One session this afternoon; more sessions available next week. - A recording of today’s walkthrough will be sent next week. - Separate Microsoft Teams training at 3:00 p.m.; attendees can join via email invite. - Conclusion: Multiple opportunities offered for additional training and reference. - Topic Title: IT Office Availability and Help Desk Support - IT office closed 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and again at 3:00 p.m. for vehicle servicing. - Three techs on standby via the help desk for assistance. - Instructions for Windows Hello PIN setup were emailed (noted by a participant planning to use them). - Conclusion: Attendees informed of support windows and resources. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Send the training walkthrough recording next week. - [ ] Schedule and send invites for additional training sessions next week; include an option for a slower-paced session. - [ ] Host the afternoon session at 2:00 p.m. for attendees needing a slower walkthrough. - [ ] Provide Microsoft Teams training at 3:00 p.m.; share invite upon email request. - [ ] Help desk to contact Carl regarding the app download approval/purchase issue. - [ ] Ensure admins enable passkeys for sign-in for Balsam users where not yet enabled; confirm enablement across affected accounts. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Some users may not have admin-enabled passkeys (noted for Balsam); confirm and roll out enablement to all affected accounts. > 2. Clarify policy and approval process for using personal phones with Authenticator (document caveats and manager sign-off steps). > 3. Provide a step-by-step guide with screenshots for Google passkey and Authenticator setup to reduce live troubleshooting. > 4. Address app store “purchase approval” blocks on managed laptops with a standardized resolution procedure. > 5. Share the exact link or location of the “not require password” setting in Google Account for consistent configuration.
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- May 8, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:05 The first is the most important. Good morning. Good Morning. Speaker 3 00:00:17 Good morning. Hang on one second. I have I can't in front of me. Well, a cat in front of me trying to uh. Grab things from me. Speaker 1 00:00:43 The first is the most important. The film was released on 24 July 2015. The name of the genus is derived from the Latin word ""cervus"" meaning deer." Yes, you can have a rest. Speaker 1 00:01:14 The film was shot in black and white. Speaker 3 00:01:25 The city is located on the banks of the river. The city is located on the banks of the river. I have two of my cats sitting here, thinking that they're about to start doing the training themselves. That night. Wanted my water. Apparently they all decided to come into the bedroom at the same time. Speaker 3 00:01:46 So you get to see all of them today. Speaker 1 00:01:48 The name of the town is. Speaker 3 00:01:54 Derived from the river. Hey, I know you guys are only here because of the kids. So here is Miss Bree. Oh, now you're camera shy. Or not. Speaker 1 00:02:29 I'm not sure. The first is the most important. Speaker 3 00:02:32 Hi Tara. I promise you guys, I am not a crazy cat lady. I just happen to have three adorable ones. And one that this the third one is one that I literally was an impulse adoption. Last three weeks ago. Speaker 3 00:02:55 All right. We're going to give everybody a little bit more time to attend. You know, they didn't get. They just woke up all of them from their nap. So, are you guys able to hear me okay? Yes. Perfect. Hi, guys. Christy. Yes, ma'am. Are we having any more trainings next week? Cause I just got pulled into something. We have one this afternoon. Um and I can do more this week so oh. Next week, I can do yes. Next week, I keep forgetting today's Friday. Okay, cause yeah, I have to finish something um. So, I wanted to see if I can do a different training. Speaker 3 00:03:46 Yeah, not a problem. I will send out one or two. I'm also sending the instructions out as well, so you guys can see that. Okay, okay. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, and today is going to be mostly a walkthrough. We're not going to take the forty-five minutes that I Mentioned before, it's probably going to be uh it's probably gonna be thirty minutes. Just depending on how it's gone so far with everybody else. So I am going to share my screen, and my screen is all the way far off to the right. So bear with me. Pull that one up. You'll see right now. I don't have much on my computer, but I'm going to share some things for you guys. Um, this is for desktop and laptop users. The very last part of this walkthrough, If you do not have a Sharp company phone and you don't want to install anything on your personal cell phone, you don't need to stay for that one. Um. Speaker 3 00:04:46 But for everybody else, we have three parts to this. So first, we're going to set up your Windows Hello, which is a system on your laptop or desktop. That secures your computer. It is HIPAA aligned and HIPAA certified, so it meets all the requirements that we need for HIPAA for all computers. So just a quick heads up on that. Then the second part is how we're gonna we're gonna show you guys. How you can secure your Google with Windows Hello, and then the third part of this is how to secure your computer. With uh authentic or secure your Google with Authenticator. So, uh bear with me. I got a little bit word dyslexia going on today. It is actually not uncommon for me, so just bear with me. I am gonna walk you guys through every piece of it. And feel free to follow along. Speaker 3 00:05:41 Or if you if you want to later, if you just want to see how it goes walking through it. Um, I will also be sending out a recording for next week. Um, I'll be sending out a recording next week on how we did it today. So, uh, anybody have any questions before we get started? And Bree is behind me for all of those, all of you who attended just to see Bree. She is. Taking her. Second, third, fourth nap. I can't. I've lost track of how many naps on my bed behind me so. Um, the other kittens are wandering the apartment right now somewhere. All right. Real quickly, if you've never used Teams before, I'm going to give you guys a quick overview. At the top, I'm going to show you my Teams screen. But at the top where you see everybody's faces, uh you'll have a raise hand and you'll have a reaction hand. Art reaction icon. Speaker 3 00:06:40 So, I will have you guys do raise hands at some point just to make this a little bit more interactive. And then for reactions, I'll have you guys do some reactions here as well. So you have both of those. If you click on notes, you'll see the past notes from the previous trainings, but there'll be some more notes that will get added through here. And, you're free to go in and check that out, if you can see it. Sometimes people can't see it, and that's okay as well. So. Um, real quickly, let me put my Teams window back where it was. And we're going to go ahead and get started. Um, I want everybody to click on your start button on your computer. Now that's this little button down here that looks like a window pane. And if you, I am going a little bit more basic than I normally do on training, but that's only because there are some people that. Um, they've asked for me to just go a little bit slower. Speaker 3 00:07:36 So I'm gonna go a little bit slower. I may go a little too slow for some of you. Please promise don't get bored, don't fall asleep on me. I will try to make this as interesting as possible. We're going to click on the Start button, and your Windows uh your menu should come up, and you should see somewhere on your screen a Settings button. Or if you don't see settings, just type in "settings" up here in the little search bar. We're going to open up our settings. And let me pull it over here. Speaker 3 00:08:08 And let me do this real quick. I just realized my screen is going to look way too small for you, for all of you. So I am going to bump up my screen just a little bit so that everybody can see it. All right. And now let me go back to settings. So once well, hello to you too. Um. They are very active for this time of morning. It's like someone gave them coffee or something. So under your settings, you should see system. You should see the name of your desktop or laptop. And then you've got a couple different options here, but we're going to go into accounts right here on the left. And then we're going to go to sign-in options right here center. Okay, once you go to sign in options, you're going to see a couple different options here. Speaker 3 00:08:59 Um, you're going to see Windows Hello on facial recognition and fingerprint recognition. Some of you guys have those options. I'm currently on a desktop computer, so I don't have that option on this computer, but my laptop does have facial recognition. So if I use my laptop I can use facial recognition. You'll also see PIN, which is what we're going to be doing today. And then you're going to see security key. And password. So these are your options. Now, security key for most of you will not be using a security key. Um, some of you will get the option to do a security key later. What a security key looks like is this. You guys see my my uh camera? This is my security key into my computer. I actually have it um There are three. One's actually attached permanently to this computer, but it's like a fingerprint recognition. In a way. Speaker 3 00:09:51 So even though this one says fingerprint recognition is unavailable, I actually have one in my security. But for all the rest of you guys, for today we're going to do pen, and then you are welcome to go back. And uh, you can use fingerprint or facial recognition. If you have those options later on, but to set it up, you're just going to click on it and set it up. You'll click the setup button. So for PIN, click that setup button if it's never been set up. And I have done it. So. When you go in here, you'll see a window that looks very similar to this Windows Security, and you're going to set your PIN. Now you can do include letters and symbols, or if you leave it unchecked, it's only numbers. So for me, I am a number pad person just because I. I've been in this industry way too long. Twenty eight years I've been in this industry, and. I use a number pad. Probably James does too because he's used to using a calculator. Speaker 3 00:10:51 So, I use aum, your PIN can be a minimum of four characters. I mine's all numbers just to make my life a little easier on me. Mine's eight characters. So, uh, once you get that pen in, Go ahead and get your and do a raise hand on Teams like I did. Just let me know you're finished. Awesome. Speaker 3 00:11:26 Yours is asking for a password. Go ahead and put your password in if it does. Sometimes it does that, sometimes it doesn't. Speaker 1 00:12:00 All right. The first is the most important. And just a heads up, Speaker 3 00:12:09 If there is anybody else on your teams that wants to attend this meeting, we do have one. Two p. m. I couldn't remember if it was two or three. I have a, I have a Microsoft Teams training at three p. m. If any of you guys are interested in Microsoft Teams. I will more than glad let you guys jump into that training. Um, if you have a Microsoft Teams account. If you're just here because you clicked on the uh. Connect using your browser. You're welcome to attend that as well. Just send me an email and I will send you that invite. So. All right, once I think everybody is good, you don't get a confirmation. It just goes back to this window and you have a change PIN option. Carl. Um, it's very basic. Speaker 3 00:13:06 All right, I'm gonna. I'm gonna go. Does anybody want me to pause? Nope. Okay. I'm going to, I've already lowered my hands. Um, I'm going to go to the next piece. So now that you've got this set up, Your desktop and laptop have been fully set up to be compliant with Windows Hello. And be fully HIPAA compliant on the computer side. Now, second step to this is making your Google. Compliant. How, many of you get tired of typing your password every time you need to go into Google? Or almost every time you need to go into Google. Yeah, some of you guys, some of you guys are feeling me on this one. So I've got some tricks for you. Now that we set up Windows Hello. So let me minimize this and let me bring my Sharp account back over. All right. I'll show you guys where we're at. Speaker 3 00:14:02 So I'm gonna open up a new tab. Here's my tab. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click on my picture. For some of you guys, you have a picture here, for some of you guys, you have just your initials. Um, you're gonna click on that. You're gonna see this screen pop up, and you're gonna say manage your Google account. So click on that. Just a heads up, if you want to change your picture, you just click on your on that. Icon right here, and you can add your picture into that. Just a side note. All right, once you're at this screen. I want you to click on Security and Sign-in. The name of the town is derived from the river. You're going to see recent security activity. But what we're going to do is scroll down to two-step verification. And I want you guys to click on two-step verification for me. Now, I'm not typing in my password because I'm gonna use my passkey. Speaker 3 00:15:01 And my passkey is my Windows PIN, which you guys just set up. That's what I'm at. Um, I'm gonna let me back up for you guys. So, I'm gonna go. I open up Chrome. And this is my homepage of Chrome. You guys might have something else, but if you have something else, just go to Google. dot com Apparently, I can't type today either. Okay, Google dot com. Click and type in that, and then it just takes you to the Google. Homepage. And you're going to click on your profile picture right here or your initials. And then you're going to click on manage your Google account. Does. Speaker 1 00:15:53 That help? Speaker 3 00:15:60 Okay, Carl, are you good? I just want to. I don't want to go too fast for you guys. Speaker 1 00:16:05 The first is the most important. Alright, Speaker 3 00:16:18 I'm hoping he's good. I'm gonna keep going. You guys are welcome to also talk to me. I am not mean at all. I'm not scary, I promise. Speaker 3 00:16:32 Alright, so once you're at this page, you're going to click on security and sign in. And then you're going to scroll down to two-step verification. And I'm going to click on my two-step verification. Okay, then your second step's here. You've got a couple of options. And we're going to choose pass keys and security keys for this. Now, once you get in here, you're just going to create a passkey. And so I was, I'm going to delete mine just so you guys can see it from scratch. So I'm going to delete one. Deleting the one I just signed in with. I've got a few here, so you guys can all we are going to do is create a passkey. Speaker 3 00:17:27 So once you click on create a passkey, you're going to click create a passkey. And then type in your Windows PIN that you just set. And then once it accepts it, you're just going to say okay. And then it's going to pop up here. You hit done, and it'll pop up right here. Where it says created just now. Speaker 1 00:18:01 Did it work for everybody? The name of the town is derived from the river. Oh Jessica, I can't hear you. I'm sorry. Alright, Speaker 3 00:18:15 Good. Vanessa's got it. You guys are feel free to type in the chat, meeting chat, if you want to. Jennifer's got it. Hector's got it. You can also throw up a thumbs up. It's not working for you, Jessica. Okay. For you. Okay, Carl is not working for. All right. Um, Jessica, could I have you share your screen? Oh, it's it is asking you to sign in to Google. Yeah, it. Speaker 3 00:18:58 It will. I had already authenticated, so that might be why. Um, it will ask you to sign in with your password. My apologies. I always forget that because mine automatically signs in. Once you sign in, it should allow you to do it. James, did you have a question or are you just saying that you're done? Okay. All right, perfect. Real quickly, guys, if you get a sign in, go ahead and just sign in with your account. Oh, um, heads up for you guys as well. There may be an option somewhere on here where it'll allow you. To sign in, it'll say "not require password." You can you can turn that on. I don't remember where it's at. Speaker 3 00:19:56 But it's somewhere in here, where it allows you to set it to not not require your password. And you guys are welcome to flip that switch on. I turned it on for everybody to allow you to make that decision. That way you never have to sign in with your password, if you don't want to. Um. And it will only require the passkey. And please, uh, if you're a desktop user, please don't write your PIN down or share it with anybody. Please um. Keep that only for you. Speaker 3 00:20:30 Carl, are you able to get through? Did it allow you? Speaker 2 00:20:43 No, I wasn't able to. I'm sorry. Speaker 3 00:20:45 It's okay. May I sign in to your computer real quick? And take a look. Sure. Okay, bear with me one moment. Let me log into my system. Speaker 2 00:20:55 It's just a little fast for me because I don't go well with going through multiple screens. Speaker 3 00:21:00 Got you. I completely understand. Hang on one second. The first is the most important. Carl, when you clicked on settings, uh, or when you opened settings, did you Do you remember what your computer name was? Speaker 2 00:21:29 Yeah, after I set up the PIN, that's where I got lost. Speaker 4 00:21:32 Okay, gotcha. Speaker 3 00:21:33 The name of the town is derived from the river. Let's see if I can try to find your computer real quick. Speaker 3 00:21:60 Are you using your Basma computer or your Sharif computer right now? Speaker 2 00:22:07 Yeah, I don't have a Sharp computer. I'm with Bathma. Speaker 3 00:22:10 Okay, sorry. I showed two computers and then I realized it was not the right system. All right, hang on one moment. There we go. Um, okay, So what we're going to do is I want you to scroll down just slightly on your computer. Wait, hang on one second. Speaker 3 00:22:29 Check something. I can um. I'm going to. I'm going to minimize this screen. I'm gonna go over here. I am going to scroll down. And I'm going to say, create a passkey. Oh, your device doesn't support. Okay. Hang on one second. Let me take a look at something. Yours is an interesting error that I've seen only once before. So let me see if I can fix that real quick. Speaker 1 00:23:00 The first is the most important. Ah, Speaker 3 00:23:15 Okay. So let's set up your PIN real quick. Type in your computer password real quick. Speaker 3 00:23:29 And then hit OK. And then I want you to pick a number pin from anywhere from four characters to eight. So you're going to type it and then you're going to convert it. The name of the town is derived from the river. Just so everybody else can see what we're doing, just in case you got stuck on that part. Oh, I see. It has to be at least six characters. Some people can get away with a four, and some people can't. Speaker 3 00:24:18 Perfect. Alright, you can start using that PIN number now to sign in to your computer. And then I'm going to say, create a passkey. I'm going to say, create a passkey. Now type in that PIN you just created. The city is located in the. Speaker 1 00:24:36 Central part of the island. Perfect. Alright. So we're going to say okay. Speaker 3 00:24:43 And we're going to say done. So now here you go, you're already set with MFA with your Galaxy computer or phone. And then you've got your Windows Hello. And. If you see your admin hasn't enabled pass keys for sign in, this is only for Balsam people. I need to go in and fix that, and I will fix that soon. So for everybody else, you can enable passkeys for sign in. Okay. All right, now Carl, I'm going to leave your computer because I don't like having access to people's computers longer than I have to. How many does anybody else need help? Speaker 3 00:25:32 Hi Chris. Hi Nadia. Speaker 5 00:25:35 Hi, I may have to come back to your two p m session. Is that okay? I'm a little lost and I'm having a hard time trying to sign in into my email, and it's asking me to create a passkey and it It's okay. I need to go at it slower. Is it okay if I come back at two? Speaker 3 00:25:55 Yes, and if you want me to, we can use the same link. Yes, it's going to be the same link. Um, and just a heads up. What I'll do is, if you want me to, I can walk through it on your computer. So everybody can see just like I did with Carl just now. Yes, Speaker 5 00:26:11 The thing is that I don't I don't I don't have a pin because my internet was not picking up and I just joined in. So I realize that you need a pin to move on to the next step, which is the Yes. The uh sign in andum security sign in. And, that's that's where I'm stuck because in addition to me not having a pin, I'm also having a hard time trying to set up a, a key or signing into my email. So I rather just figure that on my own. And come to you ready at two p. m. Is that okay? Speaker 3 00:26:43 That would be great. Um, and the email I sent out today. Not a problem. The email I sent out today that it's the one that says the IT office is going to be closed for a little bit. U m. Yes, there is instructions on how to set up your PIN using Windows Hello. So beautiful. Speaker 5 00:26:59 Thank you so much. Then I'll I'll work on that on my own. And by the time I come back at two p m, I should be It should be set. Speaker 3 00:27:06 Okay, amazing. And just see you later. Oh, Go ahead. No, I was just going to say you're also welcome to reach out to the help desk because I've got three techs on standby to help you guys out if you guys need help. Speaker 5 00:27:19 Okay, we'll do. Thank you so much. Speaker 3 00:27:22 No worries. All right. Anybody else need help with this part before we go to the next section? Um, for the next section. Now, if you've gotten to this part and you're on a desktop computer. You're welcome to drop if you don't want to set up the next part. Um, Now I am going to say this : I'm going to show you how to set this up on a company issued cell phone. However. Speaker 3 00:27:52 Um, if you want to set this up on your personal cell phone, you're welcome to do that as well. Just understand that there are some caveats to doing that. Uh, make sure you got manager sign off. Make sure that you know everyone is aware, but for everybody, I'm gonna I'm gonna walk you guys through installing. Um, Google Authenticator. So if you guys have a phone, I have an iPhone. I don't have an Android. I do apologize in advance. But it does work the same way on an Android. So on your phones, I want you to go into the app store. And so I'm pulling up my App Store on my iPhone. And then I'm going to go into search, so I know my screen is Blurry. I'm going to go into search on my App Store, and I'm going to search for Google. Authenticator. Now, if you um, if you only type in Google, you're going to get a million hits. Speaker 3 00:28:49 But if you go into type it out fully, Google Authenticator, you're going to see some come up. Where my middle finger is tapping against my phone, you got to see that colorful icon right there. This the Google Authenticator you want. Don't try to get any other kind. You want this one right here, Google Authenticator. With this icon, and the reason why is because this the official Google one. And so once you get there, you're going to install that on your cell phone. And so it's going to look just like this. And let me know when you guys are ready. Alright. Speaker 3 00:29:35 Okay, Perfect. All right. Now you're going to open Google Authenticator. Okay, so mine's open. Sorry, my uh. My screens are reflecting. I have a bunch of passcodes because I use this all the time. I got, I got a million, and this is not even my primary one. But you're going to click on this little plus sign, and you're going to choose. Uh, scan a QR code and it's going to open up your camera. But when it opens your camera, I'm just going to set my phone down. With the camera on, And then I'm going to go over here to my computer that you guys see the shared screen on. And I'm going to choose Authenticator. Speaker 3 00:30:18 Now I'm going to set this up again. So I'm going to remove my authenticator app so you guys can see it. And I'm gonna click on setup authenticator. You guys see on my computer, don't don't scan my QR code please, but you guys see uh scan a QR code. And so I'm going to take my phone and I'm going to take a picture of the QR code. You. Speaker 6 00:30:40 Left me. You left me. Speaker 3 00:30:42 I'm sorry. Uh, take your phone. And you're gonna. Add on your phone, you're going to click the plus sign down here, and you're going to say scan a QR code. It's going to pull up your camera. And then you're going to scan your own QR code that's on your screen. And you're gonna scan that one right there. Well, don't scan mine. Speaker 2 00:31:04 Can you show how to get the QR code on our own screens? Yes. Speaker 3 00:31:09 So when you're in this screen where it says Authenticator app. I'm not going to see this. Let me go back to the main, my the main screen. So I think yeah, I think. Yes, I'm sorry. I just realized I skipped one. Um, on your Google account and you're under security sign on. You're going to go down to Authenticator. If you don't see it on this list, you're going to go down here and say you can add more sign-in options. And then choose Authenticator. Speaker 3 00:31:44 And then you're going to click Set up Authenticator. And it's going to pop up a QR code on your computer. Don't use mine. And then in the Authenticator app, you're going to click on this little plus sign down below. And then you're going to choose QR code. So scan a QR code is on here. I don't know if you guys can see my camera well, but it's the bottom option. So I'm going to click on that. And my camera is going to open up. Speaker 3 00:32:15 And so, my mind got a little too. I'm going to go back to authenticator. Um, I'm gonna scan my QR code. If it says, "Is this really you?" and ask you for your passkey or password. Just put your information in. Sometimes it'll do that. So now I'm going to scan my QR code. And I'm going to say next. Speaker 2 00:32:45 Ex Cuse me, Christy. Yes, sir. Mine is saying that I need to have approval to purchase the app on my computer. On your phone? That's not letting me. On my computer. Speaker 3 00:32:58 Oh. Um, are you on a desktop or laptop? I'm on a laptop. Okay, um, Speaker 2 00:33:07 It's saying it doesn't approve. In app purchases or something like that when I tried to download Google Authenticator. Speaker 3 00:33:15 Okay. Um, let me get Gaston come visit you, James, for that part. Speaker 2 00:33:22 No, this is Carl. Speaker 3 00:33:24 I'm sorry, Carl. Uh, I'm sorry. I thought you said James. And I know James. Um, let me get Gaston to come visit you. Speaker 2 00:33:32 Yeah, I'm not in the office right now. I'm I'mum at my home office so. Okay. Speaker 3 00:33:39 Yeah, no problem. Um, I'll have them reach out to you. Andum, And they'll come out and help you or they'll either walk you through it remotely or come out and help you with that part. Because the purchase part, we need to find out what's going with that. Speaker 2 00:33:53 Yeah, yeah, that's where I got stumped. Speaker 3 00:33:55 Yeah, not a problem. Um, how do you get to the QR code? Mary Ann, no, you're welcome Carl. Um, so when you get to the authenticator app, are you at this part or do you need me to go back further? Speaker 3 00:34:11 Sorry. Yeah, I need I need you to go back further to get how to get to the authenticator app in on my screen. Okay, not a problem. So once you are you in security and sign on again. Um, I can be. I'm in. I'm still in pass keys and security keys. Okay, perfect. Under, um, so you're gonna go backwards by clicking this little button here. Okay, and then. Um, You are going to go look for Authenticator, where it says you can add more sign in options. And click on Authenticator, and then Set up Authenticator. And then it's going to ask you to scan that code. So you're gonna scan it from your phone. Speaker 1 00:35:09 Okay, got it. Speaker 3 00:35:11 Perfect. Okay, and don't scan my QR code, guys, cause I don't want to add you guys to mine. Now, if it asks you to sign in, uh feel free to sign in. Um Anybody else having an issue like Carl was having where he is telling him, he can't purchase it. Speaker 2 00:35:33 Say it one more time. Speaker 3 00:35:35 Oh, I was checking to see if anybody else was having the same issue you were having. Speaker 2 00:35:39 Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:35:42 Cause someone else was having it and I know the. Gaston and Robert was able to fix it, so. And we have really bored Bree, she is uh sound asleep. Oh my God. Speaker 1 00:36:03 The film was released on 24 July 2015. Speaker 1 00:36:07 Actually, she's hoping I give her a cheerio I had on my desk. The name of the town is derived from the river. See, Speaker 3 00:36:19 I pulled it up and she sees it. She notices everything. The film was shot in black and white. Speaker 1 00:36:31 She has a little throne next to my desk. Speaker 6 00:36:36 That's where the phrase" curious uh curiosity kills the cat." Yes. Speaker 1 00:36:47 She's a bigol'baby. Speaker 3 00:36:54 Vanessa, how was it working for you? Were you able to get into it? Speaker 7 00:37:03 Hi. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm playing around with it, but I feel like I'm figuring it out. It's kind of how I work. I like to play around and see if I can find it, and then if I have problems, I'll reach out. Speaker 3 00:37:20 Yeah, give me one second. I'm gonna put you guys on mute. I need to answer this call real quick. Mm hmm. Hello. Speaker 4 00:37:27 Hi, Christy. It's Christina from Alta Beauty. Um, I see youum booked. A curl cut at one thirty tomorrow. Saturday and I was wondering, Is it at all possible to come at two thirty So? Speaker 3 00:37:40 The appointment is for my daughter. Um and I have an appointment at twelve fifteen with you guys. Oh, Speaker 4 00:37:49 You do. Oh, I see with Diana. Okay, because I am doing a accent highlight and I know it's gonna run over. And that's the only thing. Um. Did you want to? Speaker 4 00:38:05 Oh, is there anybody else that knows how to do a curl cut that's available? So, Speaker 3 00:38:09 We can change it, but we'd need to change my appointment as well. Speaker 4 00:38:14 Okay, I did want to change Diana's time. Okay. So, uh, because she's like open, you know, it's like how the books are laid out. Yes. But. Person has like super thick hair, and it took me six hours last time, and we're adding more highlights, and I know for. I won't be able to like step away, and I didn't want to mess up your appointment. I could move you toum. Could you come at the same time with Diana and then just she'll just. Thank you, yeah. Right after, Speaker 3 00:38:51 Yeah. That absolutely so my daughter is got she's got thicker hair and she's a. She is more of a three A, whereas I am a. When I actually curl my hair, I am a, a two C two B. So okay. Um, she just I would rather her get her hair cut by someone who knows how to do a curl cut. Rather than me doing it, and it's been years since I've done. Speaker 4 00:39:15 Yeah, okay. The other thing is, I could haveum Naomi back, and she does a lot of curl cuts and she's actually available at one p. m. Speaker 3 00:39:24 Okay, that'll work too. Speaker 4 00:39:26 Okay, so let me move you over to uh Noemi at one p. m. Okay. Let me see if I can do this. Change teammate. And. Speaker 3 00:39:41 While you do that, I'm uh I'm teaching a class, so hang on one second. You get to hear me teach. Oh okay, Speaker 4 00:39:48 No worries. You know what I'm gonna just move it and then you'll get a confirmation. Okay, Speaker 3 00:39:53 Perfect. And this is for the curl cut right? Speaker 4 00:39:56 Yes, correct. Andum, I might have to move it twice because of the way the system works. Butum, I'll have you under. She does a lot of girl cuts. She was out for a while and she's back, so that's why she's open now. Okay, wonderful. I'll see you then. Okay, bye- bye. Speaker 3 00:40:15 Okay, sorry guys. Um, I have been trying to get my daughter's appointment made for months, and they want to change my equipment. So, teenagers. Speaker 3 00:40:28 If anybody is a parent to a teenager, please let me know because I got lots of questions. Um anybody else having any issues? Or is everybody pretty good? Um does anybody need me to take them back through anything again. So that code, once you see that code pop up, You're going to hit next on your computer, and it's going to ask you to enter that code in. Now, the great thing about this is it does refresh, so that code will refresh if you've got a C here. Uh, it looks like a little timer. Um, and then once it gets close to changing, it'll turn red. So these change quite frequently. But Maryann, once you hit next, it'll ask you to put that code in. Just type that code in and it will be done. Speaker 6 00:41:22 Christ y, I have multiple multiple email emails. So, will this? Will this? This? Authenticator? Will it work to be the same all of them? Speaker 3 00:41:31 Mhm. Uh, each so I have a bunch right here. Um, so this is one per application, and that's not even my main authenticator. That's just my Google one. Um, this is my main authenticator. It's a Microsoft Authenticator because I use Microsoft. Uh, hang on. Let me sign in. Speaker 3 00:41:53 So if you look at this one, you see all the codes. It's it's it's longer. I have six emails on that authenticator. I have three on the Google authenticator. So you can have as many as you want on that same authenticator. Louis, you have your hand raised. Is there a question I can ask or? Did you get it finished? And you're muted, just in case you're trying to talk. Speaker 3 00:42:26 No, no worries. All right, guys. If any if no one has any other questions, Uh just a heads up. And a reminder, uh, the IT office is going to be closed from eleven am to noon because they've got to take some of the company vans in to get fixed. Um. And so they both because one's got to give the other one a ride, So they're gonna be out, and then they're gonna be out again at three to go pick up the van. And I'm not in the office, if you can't tell. I am definitely at home in my bedroom because I'm getting dirty judgmental looks from Bree over here, because I haven't given her her cheerio yet. So, I promised her a cheer room if she behaved. So she is definitely judging me. She is on her throne. I'll show you guys this throne because She's got two thrones. So this is her throne woman, and then the basket right here. There is her actual throne. Yes, I'm going to keep this. She is a knight, so. Speaker 3 00:43:25 But she's determined. She's going to get that churro in a second. She's giving me very, very judgmental looks. Um, if you guys are good, feel free to jump off. You really want this, don't you? And I will see you guys later. Speaker 6 00:43:46 Happy Mother's Day. Have a good weekend, everyone. I don't know if you have kids, but obviously you do. You have your your mom would breeze one of your kids. Speaker 3 00:43:55 Oh, I'm a foster mom and I just adopted my last foster kid, and we have another foster kid coming in a couple weeks. So I'm teen, I do only teens. Speaker 6 00:44:04 Okay, okay. They need everybody needs love. Everybody needs love. Yes, Speaker 3 00:44:08 Yes. I I don't do diapers, so I've always been a foster parent to teens. Where possible. I just think. Speaker 3 00:44:18 Thanks guys. I will see you all later. Anybody else need help? Hi, James. Vanessa, how are you? Marion. You guys are all good? Speaker 1 00:44:34 Oh, hi, sweetheart. Speaker 3 00:44:41 All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and drop from the call. Thank you guys very much. I'm not going to be able to do that.
08-24 Training Strategy Pivot from Live Sessions to Asynchronous Modules Due to No Client Attendance
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-  ## Core Synopsis The training session collapsed due to zero client attendance, exposing a dependency on live participation that is not being met; Christi pivoted to an asynchronous strategy and committed to re-recording Copilot modules (and later Claude and ChatGPT) for website publishing via Stephanie, with sample data and opening graphics included. The proof is explicit: invited clients (notably Tolly) did not show; internal attendees (Maggie, Speaker 2, Speaker 3/Stephanie) confirmed needs for recordings; Christi already produced one Copilot module, shared it with Stephanie, and plans to complete the rest this week despite personal constraints (PTO, college drop-off, dentist appointment, heavy workload). The stakes are operational clarity and client enablement: continued reliance on live Zoom/Teams formats yields low engagement and poor content quality, whereas structured, edited recordings can scale training and remove scheduling friction; we are taking the bet on high-quality asynchronous modules to stabilize delivery velocity and reduce churn in training attendance. ## Training Delivery Reset: From Live Sessions to Edited Modules - Attendance Reality - Clients who RSVPed did not attend; the primary expected attendee (Tolly) was absent. - Internal attendees present: Maggie, Speaker 2 (Robert), Speaker 3 (Stephanie). - Maggie has already completed the covered portion, reducing marginal value of repeating the live session. - Current Assets and Scope - Copilot program: four modules; Module 1 is recorded and shared with Stephanie. - Decks and sample data exist to support learner practice; decks have not yet been sent to Stephanie. - Additional programs pending: Claude and ChatGPT modules to be finished after Copilot. - Publishing Workflow - Stephanie is responsible for hosting recordings on the website. - Christi will add opening graphics and prefers clean, purpose-built recordings over raw Zoom/Teams captures to avoid the typical low-signal training experience. - Operational Constraints and Intent - Christi’s time is constrained (10 hours logged on ConnectWise, PTO on Friday, college drop-off, dentist appointment), yet she is determined to complete recordings this week to close the loop. - The session was canceled to reclaim time for recording and content completion. ## Action Items **@Christi** - [ ] Re-record Copilot Modules 2–4 and deliver files to Stephanie - [This week - TBD] - [ ] Add opening graphics to Copilot Module 1 and re-send final to Stephanie - [TBD] - [ ] Send all relevant decks and sample data for Copilot training to Stephanie - [TBD] - [ ] Record initial modules for Claude and ChatGPT programs and deliver to Stephanie - [TBD] **@Stephanie** - [ ] Review Copilot Module 1 (already received) for website readiness and provide feedback if needed - [TBD] - [ ] Publish finalized Copilot modules to the website upon receipt from Christi - [TBD]
- Date
- Aug 24, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:51 If Nobody shows, we're gonna. No Maggie's here. We will have it. Hi. Hi Maggie. Speaker 1 00:01:03 Let me let me see if I can get more people to come in. Because if you guys are if it's only crimson people, I may do part two that needs to be recorded. Speaker 2 00:01:48 Let me see who else. If. Speaker 1 00:02:03 Not, if it's just Maggie. I think Maggie, we've already done this part of the training. Oh okay. But let's wait and see because if um. Speaker 1 00:02:18 We could also cancel it, and I could finish up some things I needed to get done today. All right. I also have a dentist appointment, so. I hear you snickering in there, Robert. You. Speaker 2 00:02:40 Always have like you always have like ten thousand things to do at once. Speaker 1 00:02:45 I am already at ten hours today on ConnectWise. Because I was multitasking earlier today. At least I ate my dinner or my lunch. I got my lunch eaten, which reminds me, did I? I made pesto chicken. And with penne noodles. Speaker 2 00:03:10 That sounds good. Speaker 1 00:03:11 It was very good. Have. Speaker 2 00:03:16 You ever heard of marry me pasta? Speaker 1 00:03:18 Yes, I have a recipe for that. Speaker 2 00:03:22 I got me some over the weekend. Speaker 3 00:03:24 It was delicious. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:03:26 That's hence the name" Marry Me." Um, but yeah, this is still warm though. I demolished my lunch. Uh, Angie made uh wings yesterday and steak fries, so I have that probably for tomorrow or Wednesday. Speaker 1 00:03:49 And up steak. I have a whole week's worth of lunches made because my two of my girls love to cook and. Although I'm making chicken dice tonight for dinner. Speaker 2 00:04:03 Lucky you. Speaker 1 00:04:06 Hey, it's nice to have my my house shrinking. I love having a bunch of kids, but right now house shrinking is the best thing mini break. All right, let's see who else we have coming. I did invite Pete. All right, so. Speaker 3 00:04:30 Hi, Chrisi Suri. I'm sorry? Sorry, I just wanted to confirm will there be recordings of these or? Speaker 1 00:04:39 I am so I am making uh recordings. And if you guys hadn't shown up, I was just going to make the recordings tonight and get them put up for Stephanie because Stephanie is taking my recordings and putting them on the website. But I don't like to do recordings that are Zoom calls or Teams meetings to put on websites mostly because I have to. I have to get all my training uh as a foster parent. I'll show you guys it's annoying um all my foster parent training. And so when I attend these trainings, they're all just recordings of Zoom calls. Speaker 1 00:05:13 And they cut out a lot of things, so it's not really fun and understanding understandable. So this is my current um class that I am supposed to be taking, And I literally just listen um because there it's just a recording of a Zoom call, and it's so annoying. I have to have to put the screen down, and just listen. Speaker 3 00:05:40 Yes, I understand. I was just asking as I usually have calls scheduled over this time or currently it's end of day for me now. So I was just wondering and I would like to attend these. But if the calls run over, so I was just wondering if there will be recordings available for them. Speaker 1 00:05:57 There is going to be recordings. Um, I got Stephanie, I got you one right? Yes. Okay. Um, I'm working on the rest and I'm trying to get those done. I was trying to get them done this weekend, but took a kid to college instead. That's the one you included me last Friday? Yes. I need to add the um opening graphic to it, but take a look at it and see if that will work. And I'm going to record the other trainings because I've got a whole bunch of trainings. In fact, um, I'll show you real quick what I have. Speaker 1 00:06:40 I haven't gone back to it because I was PTO on Friday, but I will check it. No worries. So these modules right here is what I'm working on uh record well, sorry, I'm re-recording these four modules. I already did the first one. You have a copy of the first one. And so these are the ones I'm doing. And that's just for Copilot. I still have Claude and ChatGPT to finish. Speaker 1 00:07:09 So and I'm trying to get them done this week, so that I can just not have them anymore. Get them all done. Did I send you the decks? Not yet. I haven't had the decks. Yeah, I will. Because, we have sample data for people to use while they're going through the training, as well. So, all right, We have none of the clients actually showing up. That said they were going to attend. Which the main one that I was hoping that would attend today is Tolly. I guess she's abandoning us. So, I am going to let you guys go and I am going to re. Speaker 1 00:08:04 I'm going to work on recording these later this evening and get these all over to you. How's that? Speaker 2 00:08:14 Okay, that's fine. Speaker 1 00:08:15 Thank you. All right, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thanks guys. Bye bye.
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08-05 Lecture: Microsoft Copilot Training — Outlook, Word, Excel, Agents, and Data Security
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- Date Time: 2026-08-05 13:55:57 Location: Pacific room / Pacific Conference Room Instructor: Christi, Chris Brown, John Carlo (Giancarlo) ## Summary This text compiles several training sessions and conversations about Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365. The sessions, led by instructors including Chris Brown (CIO at Crimson IT) and Christi, cover a wide range of topics from introductory concepts to advanced features like creating and sharing Copilot Agents. Initially, a pre-meeting conversation details the logistics for an AI-focused call, with participants coordinating whether to join from a physical meeting room or remotely. This is followed by a series of lectures and practical demonstrations. The core of the content introduces what Copilot is, its functionalities, and its limitations. Key themes include its dual access points (in-app vs. Copilot Chat), its secure operation within the Alere tenant, and its role as an efficiency-boosting assistant that requires human oversight and judgment. The training emphasizes that users must always verify Copilot's output, particularly with numerical data. Practical demonstrations showcase Copilot's use in Outlook for summarizing emails and drafting replies, in Word for creating and refining documents ("vibe writing"), and in Excel for data analysis and visualization. Advanced topics include building reusable prompts called "Agents" to perform consistent jobs, complete with best practices for creation (limiting sources, writing clear instructions, using an "honesty rule") and a standardized naming convention (`[XXX] Descriptive Name`) for sharing within the organization. The sessions also touch on cross-application integration (e.g., creating a PowerPoint from a Word document), data security "guardrails" (DLP), support procedures via the Crimson help desk, and the use of voice commands. Throughout the training, the instructors stress a hands-on approach, encouraging users to experiment with the tool on completed tasks to learn its capabilities and limitations safely. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Meeting Logistics and Initial Discussions - **AI Call Planning:** An "AI call" led by Christi from Crimson was scheduled, with participants joining either from the "Pacific room" or remotely. This coordination mirrored a previous meeting on Monday, August 3, 2026. - **Participant Issues:** One speaker experienced a video feed issue from the Pacific room, while another worked from home after forgetting a laptop, using a virtual background to hide their kittens. - **Expense Tracking:** A brief, unrelated discussion touched on the need for a centralized view for "the full expense" and a process for handling "other changes." ### 2. Introduction to Microsoft Copilot - **What Copilot Is:** An AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) that acts on the context of the open file or email. It is compared to an intern that gets a user about 70% of the way to a finished product, requiring human review for the final 30%. - **What Copilot Is Not:** It is not always right and can be "confidently wrong." It is not a replacement for human judgment or a security risk, as it operates within Alere's secure Microsoft tenant and does not train public AI models with user data. - **Instructor and Context:** The training is led by Chris Brown (CIO at Crimson IT) and Christi, with John Carlo providing Alere-specific context. The sessions are recorded, with summaries and replays provided to attendees. ### 3. Copilot Access and Interfaces - **Two Access Points ("Front Doors"):** - **In-App Copilot:** A button within applications (e.g., Word, Outlook) that is "grounded" on the content of the currently open file. - **Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat:** A standalone app (`office.com`) for searching across all of a user's files and data, similar to other chat-based AIs. - **Copilot in Teams:** Copilot chat is available directly within Teams, allowing users to start new chats and reference files using the forward slash (`/`) command. The Library and Search functions from the main app are not available here, but chat history is searchable. - **Work IQ Toggle:** The former "Work/Web" toggle is now "Work IQ," which, when enabled, searches both internal Alere data and the public web simultaneously. - **Voice Commands and Dictation:** Copilot can be operated via voice on both mobile and desktop. Native dictation is also available in Word and OneNote, with headsets recommended for accuracy. For specialized needs, external tools like Whisper Flow can be used. ### 4. Data Security, Privacy, and Best Practices - **Enterprise Data Protection:** Copilot operates under Alere's existing data protection policies, indicated by a non-disableable shield icon. User data is not used to train public AI models. - **Permission Inheritance:** Copilot only accesses files and information the user already has permission to see. It respects sensitivity labels (e.g., "Highly Confidential"). - **Data Loss Prevention (DLP):** A "guardrail" is in place that blocks prompts containing sensitive information like social security or credit card numbers, requiring the user to rephrase the prompt. - **Honesty Rule:** A key best practice is to instruct the AI: "If it's not in the document, don't guess" (or state "not specified"). This prevents the AI from fabricating information and makes it a more trustworthy tool. - **Human Oversight:** The user is responsible for verifying all AI-generated output. About 30% of the work relies on human judgment to review, edit, and validate the content to prevent errors. - **Effective Prompting:** Prompts should be specific and contextual, breaking down complex tasks into single steps. Vague prompts yield poor results. ### 5. Copilot in Outlook - **Summarizing and Replying:** Copilot can summarize long email threads with citations linking back to specific emails. It can also draft replies, which users should always review and refine rather than accepting the first draft. - **Email Prioritization:** Users can create rules to have Copilot mark emails as high or low priority based on sender or content, helping manage large volumes of messages. - **Personalizing Tone:** "Custom Instructions" in the Chat settings allow users to define a personal tone and style, making Copilot's generated text sound more like them. ### 6. Copilot in Word - **Vibe Writing:** A concept of having a continuous conversation with the AI to draft and refine content, such as a document or creative piece. - **Content Generation and Editing:** Copilot can generate content from a prompt, which should include a source, task, and format. It can also rewrite, shorten, or change the tone of existing selected text. - **Document Processing:** Copilot can process long documents like meeting transcripts to extract specific information (e.g., notes from one person) and reformat it from a different perspective (e.g., a technical CIO). - **Referencing Files:** By typing a forward slash (`/`) in the Copilot pane, users can search for and reference files from their OneDrive to generate new content. ### 7. Copilot in Excel - **Core Rules for Excel:** 1. **Use Tables:** Data must be in a properly defined Excel table (Ctrl+T) with clean headers and no blank rows. 2. **Work _in_ the File:** Use Copilot within the Excel desktop app for reliable operations. Copilot Chat can't effectively analyze workbook data. 3. **One Thing at a Time:** Break down requests into single, sequential prompts. 4. **Don't Paste Large Datasets:** Instruct Copilot to perform actions on the data in the file rather than pasting the data into the chat prompt. - **Analysis and Visualization:** Copilot can create formulas, pivot tables, charts, and executive dashboards from table data. - **Verification:** Always verify numbers. The analyst agent may estimate totals, so for financial workflows, it's crucial to force computation and validate outputs against known figures. - **Platform Limitations:** Copilot in Excel for the web has limited functionality. The desktop app is recommended. ### 8. Copilot Agents - **Definition:** Agents are reusable, shareable prompts that teach Copilot a specific job to perform consistently. - **Creation Best Practices:** - **Limit Sources:** Use 4-6 representative files for knowledge; more will dilute focus. - **Write Clear Instructions:** Treat the agent like a new hire, providing specific details on role, format, tone, and applying the "Honesty Rule." - **Test Thoroughly:** Validate the agent's output against a previously completed manual task. - **Naming Convention:** Shared agents should be named using a three-letter department code in brackets (e.g., `[PMG] Lease Abstract Assistant`) for better organization. - **Use Cases:** Examples include a PMG lease abstract generator, a security report summarizer, a password generator, and a "water cooler bot" to summarize Teams channel chatter. Microsoft has also released a feature to run Agents on a schedule. ### 9. Other Features and Integrations - **Cross-Application Integration:** Copilot can create a PowerPoint presentation by referencing a Word document. - **Library and Search:** The Copilot library stores generated outputs like documents and images, and past chats are searchable. - **Image Generation:** An image generator can be used to create visuals for engagement, such as the cat images the instructor uses in client emails. - **Co-work and Integrations:** The "co-work" feature is not enabled for Lear but can be requested. Future integrations with tools like Asana and Canva are possible. - **Model Selection:** Users can choose specific models (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) or use "Auto." ### 10. Support and Learning - **Getting Help:** For support, email the help desk with "Copilot" in the subject line. Include the app, prompt, and output (with screenshots). Direct emails to instructors may be missed. - **Learning Strategy:** The best way to learn is to run Copilot against a task you have already completed to compare the results in a zero-risk environment. - **Sharing Knowledge:** Users are encouraged to share both "wins" and "weird results" with colleagues as learning opportunities. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Attend the AI call led by Christi from Crimson, either in the Pacific room or remotely. - [ ] 2. Investigate and resolve the issue with the video feed from the Pacific room. - [ ] 3. Establish a process for handling "other changes" related to expense tracking. - [ ] 4. Experiment with Copilot by summarizing a long email thread and drafting a reply in Outlook. - [ ] 5. Practice setting up email prioritization rules in Outlook to manage your inbox. - [ ] 6. Explore the Custom Instructions in Copilot Chat settings to personalize its writing style. - [ ] 7. In Microsoft Word, practice "vibe writing," reformatting existing text, and generating a summary by referencing a file from OneDrive. - [ ] 8. Apply the "honesty rule" in a prompt to ensure Copilot does not invent information. - [ ] 9. Convert an existing Excel dataset into a proper table and use Copilot to create a formula, chart, or executive dashboard. - [ ] 10. Practice breaking down a multi-step request in Excel into separate, single-action prompts. - [ ] 11. Test document retrieval in Copilot Chat using coworker-style queries (e.g., "find meeting notes from last week's AICOP meeting"). - [ ] 12. If you build a useful Agent, share it with others using the `[XXX] Descriptive Name` naming convention. - [ ] 13. When seeking help, email the help desk with "Copilot" in the subject line and provide necessary details. - [ ] 14. Apply sensitivity labels to confidential files to ensure data is handled correctly by Copilot.
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- Aug 5, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:03:35 To Break it out that way. Um, but we still want one spot where we show. Speaker 2 00:03:39 The the full expense. And then in the other changes, yeah, we that we need to have a process for because we don't have anything. Speaker 3 00:03:50 I think it'll be there's not that many of them. Speaker 3 00:04:15 Hi, Christi. How are you? Speaker 4 00:04:17 I'm good. How are you? Speaker 3 00:04:19 Good. I'm gonna grab some water real quick. Speaker 1 00:04:25 Okay, it's. Speaker 2 00:04:30 Probably from the amount of meetings I've been in today. Probably. Speaker 1 00:04:39 Guys, I am going to grab me something to drink real quick. I'll be right back. Speaker 4 00:04:43 Sounds good. Hey, Charl, Speaker 4 00:04:48 Would you prefer everybody to meet in here for the, are you doing the AI call? Um, Christi from Crimson is leading it. I'll be on it, butum but yeah, I mean, anybody who wants to do it in the Pacific room is welcome to. That's kind of how we did the one on Monday. Okay, a group of people in there, a group of people remote. Um, for some reason I can't see you guys in the Pacific room. At least on my end, there's just no video showing. Speaker 1 00:05:16 But okay, I'll probably then just take it from my office then. It might be easier. Okay, sounds good. See you in a bit. John Charl. Speaker 2 00:05:36 You remember that meeting in which I worked from home, and my kittens uh decided to have a little fun. Yep. Unfortunately, I'm working from home again. Okay. I'm choosing to put a background up because while they're sound asleep right now, that might change in a few minutes. Speaker 4 00:05:56 Okay, yeah, um yeah whatever is good for you, I'm sure everybody enjoys seeing the the kittens running around but, Maybe make it harder to focus, I guess, on the training. Yes. Speaker 2 00:06:11 It wasum it was funny. I got to the office today. I was going to my Willowbrook office and I got there and I realized I left my laptop in the Pasadena office. Ahhh There's no way I'm going from Compton area all the way up to Pasadena So, i'm at home with my desktop Got it. Speaker 2 00:06:35 Do you want a water re No, Speaker 3 00:06:36 I got it. Speaker 4 00:06:43 Um, It's hard to tell how many people are on because I can't really see who's in the Pacific conference room, but maybe we give another couple of minutes here. No worries. Speaker 5 00:07:01 Hi, John Charl. Rachel and I are the only ones right now in the Pacific Conference Room. Speaker 4 00:07:08 Okay, so it sounds like we may need a few more people. Like, um, no Andi and Michaela are going to join here. Um, but we've got probably another seven or eight people on the invite list that, Haven't arrived yet. Speaker 3 00:07:44 So Rachel, Speaker 5 00:07:51 We have no option to control the camera in this conference room because this is a. Speaker 4 00:08:02 Yeah, For some reason, we don't see at least I don't see you at all Suzanne. I don't see any camera on for the Pacific conference room, but um. That's fine. We don't need to see you guys. I just wasn't sure if, if you guys knew that was happening. Speaker 4 00:08:27 Now I see you guys. Um, I think it's on mute though. Speaker 5 00:08:34 Can you hear us now, John Carlo? Speaker 4 00:08:36 Yep. Yeah, I can. Great. And I can see you some of us okay? Speaker 5 00:08:42 Okay, Well, um Christi, why don't we go ahead and get started? Um yeah, there's just a couple people, and they may be I know that the PDC is around today. Maybe. Speaker 4 00:08:55 There's a couple of people that um have uh other things happening. So if they aren't able to join, They can, they can watch the video, or we can um figure something out if there's a handful of people that that need to have another training. But um but yeah, If you don't mind, uh Christi uh recording this again and um and we can get started. Speaker 2 00:09:21 All right. I'm, I hope all of you can hear me because I didn't realize my headphones were up. Hi, my name is Chris Brown. For those of you guys who don't know me, I am the CIO at Crimson IT and I am the one who does a lot of the AI training and the AI experimentation and things like that. So, want to welcome you guys here today. I want to go through a few things with with you guys. Before we get started, so real quickly, all of you should have access to uh Copilot on your computers. Has anyone tried playing with Copilot just yet? Speaker 4 00:10:04 You know it just when I open up certain applications it automatically pops up. Is that normal? Speaker 2 00:10:09 Yes. Yeah, it it likes to do that um, I'm going to go through what that looks like for the rest of you guys who haven't seen it, and we'll go through what it looks like in those applications. So, but yes, it is very much normal. Um and then so most of you have not played with it yet. That's fine because some some of what we're going to do today is a little bit of hands on if you would like, But if you're not, um, we will be sending out notes and transcripts and videos for you guys in a bit. Now I am going to turn on facilitator as well. Speaker 2 00:10:42 So, facilitator is going to start. It's going to make notes, and you'll see those notes um in you in the chat of this of this team's call. Okay, um so it'll go through it'll take notes for us and things like that. In fact, when I send out notes um after the meeting is over, It'll be the notes that Copilot has created so that you guys can see that. So and then a couple of housekeeping items for you guys um, In the next ninety minutes, We're going to have you guys watch Copilot do real work in the apps that you already use. We're not giving you a features tour. You are going to see how it works, see how easy it is, and leave with the prompts that you can try today. John Carlo is here. He's going to be in all three sessions, and he's going to add some Alere context as we go where possible if he needs to just because I don't work for Alere and I can make things up. Speaker 2 00:11:41 But you guys are, you know, you guys might need some context that I may not know. So he's good about jumping in for me. Um, number one, this is recorded. You are going to get a replay and a written summary via email. And number two, Um I have been teaching IT for many, many, too long to say, uh years. I know that Teams makes me look a lot prettier than I am in person and a lot younger. Um I can tell you I've been in IT since before Y2K for those of you guys who know what? What that is. Um, So the one thing I have found in all my years in IT and teaching IT stuff, there's no dumb questions. There really is not no any dumb questions. My job is to make sure that you guys understand what you're capable of doing, and if you need to ask a question, Ask it because the chances are you might feel like it's a dumb question, but half the people in the call may have that same question. So please. Speaker 2 00:12:39 Drop them in chat if you want. Um, if you don't want to drop them in chat, you want to just email me later, feel free to email me. In chat I am putting my email address. Um, if I can type. And my cat just jumped off my desk onto my chair. Um, so that is my email address. If you have any questions you want to send me. Uh, feel free to do so and I actually love questions. So all right. Speaker 2 00:13:09 And then, if you you will get an email from me later today with this. Going to be sent to all of you that were on the meeting. And if you cannot find it, John Carlo has it, so be aware. All right now we're going to go over what Copilot is. I am going to give you some because I've been working with Copilot and other AIs for probably two years now, since it first came out, maybe three. I can't remember. Time flies. Uh, Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant. It's built in the apps you already own and use all every day. Okay, it's the same Word, it's the same Excel that you're used to, the same Outlook, the same PowerPoint. But, now you got that Copilot button that reads what is in front of you and helps you act on it. Um, One thing I do want to mention is AI. Any AI is like an intern. How many of you remember being interns? Speaker 2 00:14:10 Okay. Uh, I did something very stupid as an intern. Uh, and because I had the ego of someone who did not know better, And I thought I was all that because I was twenty years old, and I was working for CBS as an intern. So, I almost got arrested. Uh, I did something that was not very legal, and I had the ego to think that it was quite all right. AI has that same ego. However, it will get you seventy percent of the way there, and the last thirty percent is all on you to work on. So that part that's still all you it still needs human touch. It is still yours. So, one of the things you are going to hear me say, over and over is that uh, you got to be very careful, watch what you say, but at the same time watch what it says back. You want to double check everything, right? The other last thing for you is it does run inside the Alere's tenant. Speaker 2 00:15:09 It is it's got the same enterprise data protection that we already had in place for you, so it's very secure. Your work that you do is not going back out to the internet to train any public AI model. We've made sure that we've put safeguards in place to protect not only your data but also you as well. Now with Copilot, there's two front doors. You have inside the app Copilot and that's your button In all of your apps. I keep putting Word, Excel, and Outlook on here, but is in a lot more apps. How many of you use OneNote? It's in OneNote. How many of you played around in Microsoft Loop? That's a class for another day. Uh, but is pretty cool. It's like OneNote on steroids. It's in there. It's in PowerPoint. It's in pretty much anything you can think of that Microsoft has made and wants to put in, it's in there. Speaker 2 00:16:08 All right, when you open it up in those documents or in those sections, it is grounded on the file or the email in front of you. It understands that text. So when you tell it summarize this document, it knows that you mean the document that you're currently in. Analyze this rent roll, it knows what document you're in. Okay? Now that's one front door. The second front door is Microsoft 365 Copilot chat, It is a app on your computer, But also you can get to it at M365 dot cloud dot, microsoft or office dot com. Just to make it easier, uh Microsoft wants me to tell you the other link. I am going to tell you go to office dot com. This what it looks like. This the app. I love this app. I have MS Copilot Premium. My license is right there, um. Speaker 2 00:16:59 I chat in it, just like you would chat in Claude or ChatGPT or any other AI out there. It does a lot of really good things, okay? Um, if you are working only in one file, use the button in the app. That's how you know which door to go through. If you're searching across everything, use Copilot Chat. Okay? Um and I'll show you that when we come back to when we hit Excel. I might even show you that in PowerPoint. So be aware. Any questions before I go into what Copilot is not? No. All right. I told the last group, if we were in person, I'd throw candy at all of you because you're too quiet. Um and I got the good candy, at least what everybody tells me. So um just imagine I'm throwing candy at you. I want you guys to stay awake. I do talk fast so if you guys need me to slow down, just let me know now. Speaker 2 00:17:56 I am going to ask for volunteers, and if I have no volunteers, I am going to start picking people at random. John Carlo, I did that in the last session; it was quite fun. So be ready to unmute yourself. And if you are falling asleep, um, I am so sorry but I will wake you up accidentally. Um, let's do this. What? I am going to ask you guys to tell me, what do you think Copilot is not? Any volunteers? Speaker 2 00:18:32 Nobody. All right. Um, the lovely gentleman in the blue shirt that's in the SF conference room. What is Copilot not? Speaker 6 00:18:40 It's me. I'm Andy. Um, hi. Uh, Copilot is not uh it's not a way. It's not a it's not someone to replace all the work that you're going to do, right? I don't think you could just tell it to do something and not check it. Um and uh yeah like I I think. It's, it's not. Yeah. It's not a way for uh you to get your work done without any input or thought. Speaker 2 00:19:08 Exactly, that's one good thing. Um anyone else what is copilot, not the lady in the lovely black short sleeve shirt in the pacific conference room. Yes, she, oh, you. Yes, yes, long hair that's down. Speaker 5 00:19:25 Ah what what do I think that copilot is not um. It's certainly not a replacement for everything that human beings can do. Um, it certainly will not take the place of my writing style or will it? Because I've never used AI before to compose any email or anything in the written form. Speaker 5 00:19:58 I take pride in my writing abilities, but now I'm concerned. Speaker 2 00:20:06 No, and that's a great uh that's a great statement. I love that. Um, I will tell you, you can teach it how you write, and it gets pretty close, not fully there, but it will get pretty close. Uh, but that's a that's conversation for lathe on in this training. So um I'm going to show you guys, If if my mouse will click, there we go. Uh, what Copilot is not it's not always right. Okay, It can be like I said very confidently wrong and produce a number that looks very reasonable. You need to read before you send always. I made a mistake. I have two friends named Kamyaab. One of them is my client Kamyaab, and one of them is a friend Kamyaab Totally different jobs that they do, uh. But in the same first name the, the you know different last names. Speaker 2 00:20:53 I sent off an email, or I had Copilot create an email to a Kamyaab, And he called my client Kamyaab by the wrong last name because I had both Kamyaabs in my contacts. So you got to check that. And I didn't check it. And it happened four times because I didn't check it. So make sure you're always checking it. Always read before you send, okay? It is not sending earlier data off to train the public AI because it runs in Microsoft's secure tenant. It does not send information out, but it will bring information in. So just be aware, what is yours will stay yours. Now the biggest thing is not here to replace your judgment, okay? Which variance matters and which tenant is a problem is your job. And it cannot replace that judgment. It cannot replace the judgment of finance. It cannot replace John Carlo's judgment. We need all of you guys around. It is not going to take your job. Speaker 2 00:21:50 Uh, trust me, It's not gonna take my job because there is still millions of people that cannot find their on switch on their phones. Okay, So until people start figuring out what their on button looks like on a computer, I am not gonna lose my job anytime soon. So uh now is this like ChatGPT? It's a question I get asked all the time. It is in the same family of technology. But what we do differently is Chat. Gbt cannot see your email. It cannot see your files. And Copilot can do all of that. It keeps everything in the walls, okay? Free public tools cannot and should not read the layer data. Some public free public tools like Grok, And I'm going to use Grok because my understanding at this time is Grok still sends your data to train other AI models, and there's no way to opt out of that. So I want you guys to be very aware of that. Speaker 2 00:22:48 ChatGPT and Claude, if you're using the free versions, be aware that unless you turn that feature off, it's going to send all your data back to the internet and train. Copilot will not do that. Okay? That feature cannot even be turned on. Be aware of that. Okay? Um now your files do stay your files. Copilot only sees what you already see. It inherits your permissions; it never widens them. Do we have any HR people in this call? Do we need to find in this call? Okay, all right, perfect. So let's say you have some spreadsheets that contain sensitive. Yes, you can take that. One of my kids heard me training in here, and she wants to come in and sit and listen to the training. Now she's stealing some of my snacks. But Copilot, if you have a file, a finance file that contains sensitive information it will. Speaker 2 00:23:47 Not share that information to other people unless you already share that information. Okay, So if you have a file or a folder with a bunch of files in it and no one can see it, but you, Copilot is not going to tell other people that. It keeps everything behind closed loops. All right, shared folders and drives stay as accessible as they are today. So if you have a team's file out on Teams The only people that Copilot will give that information to is the people who already have that shared folder access. It will not open a door that is not already open to you, okay? I have staff that gave me a heads up that salary information was somewhere. It was not supposed to be. This was about a year ago when we turned on Copilot for everybody, and we found it. It was actually something; it was old salary information from someone's old OneDrive. Speaker 2 00:24:40 That somehow they uploaded into a team's file that we had no clue. So, that is the only reason why people saw it. Thankfully, it was like a five-year-old. So, but it did not open that door; that door was already open. So, do not do that instead. Make sure that you are applying sensitivity labels automatically to your files, if you do not know how to do that. I want to pull one up and I'll show you where it is. This is some notes I was taking in a class that I was in. Um, I want to enable editing. If if I've got this saved, which I do, I'm going to click on this title bar, and there should be sensitivity for you guys. Clemson doesn't have it turned on. Um, that's something we're changing. But you'll see that this you'll be able to click on it. There's some sensitivity options there uh and Copilot does respect those. Speaker 2 00:25:34 A highly confidential file is not going to surface to someone who should not see it. So be aware of that. Okay? Now, I'm going to show you Outlook. How many of you Sorry, Speaker 6 00:25:45 Chris, can I ask a question? Yes sir. Um Does that also apply to emails? So uh because we have Copilot integrated into our Outlook. Uh, can other people theoretically try to query information that was sent to us in an email or no? They cannot. Okay, cool. Asking for not not for myself. Speaker 2 00:26:09 No worries. Uh it it treats email just likeum it treats your files. So unless somebody was CC'd on that email that works in the Lear Copilot is not going to surface it. So um now for right now, I'm going to show you a live demo of Outlook. Um this is what we're gonna go through. We're gonna go through and summarize a long thread. Um, I do have some emails in my Outlook that I am going to show you guys. Um, so we're going to show you guys how that works. I am going to show you how one click will read the entire chain :, who said what, what was decided, and what is still open. It does it in seconds. I say ten seconds because sometimes when I'm at a certain office, my internet's super slow and it does take a minute. But here my internet's a little faster uh so it'll be pretty quick um. Speaker 2 00:27:00 It will show you citations that you can click on to double check, what was actually said. It will draft a reply, and then you can tell it to iterate it. You could say, "you could argue with Copilot." That's my favorite phrase: argue with AI. Okay? It talks back if you have that personality set in it. But tell it what to change, argue with it, tell it when it's wrong. All right? You're going to hear me say this again: never accept the first draft. Speaker 2 00:27:31 You can tell it what to change in plain English. All right, now, real quickly before we get into this, I realized in the last training and then it was brought up again just now. You can tell Copilot how you want it to be. You can give it custom instructions. So I'm going to show you guys that real quick and I'm going to give you my custom instructions in the chat. So let me open up the chat real quick, Uh, we're going to go through this chat in a bit, but I'm going to show you. If I click on these three little dots, I can go into chat settings. On the chat settings, I'm going to go into personalization. You have custom instructions in here, so I'm going to edit those custom instructions. This is where you tell it, what how you want it to sound? Okay, tone and style right in a balanced tone professional enough for business settings, but friendly and approachable. Speaker 2 00:28:26 All right, so these are all my instructions. I've spent a fair amount of time making these instructions better. And these are the same instructions I put in all my AI. So, I did put it in chat in there so that you guys can see what you want it to look like. What I basically did was i threw a bunch of emails that I personally wrote, some long ones that I wrote, and i gave Copilot Well, technically I did this on Claude first. I gave Claude, here is what I want to sound like. I want to make sure that I am talking to people not at them. I don't want to sound passive aggressive. You know, I gave all of this. And so it created my custom instructions, which worked perfectly for me. So just a heads up if you want Copilot to sound a little bit more like you, it's never going to be perfect. Play around with custom instructions. Now in Outlook let me pull up Outlook real quick. Speaker 2 00:29:24 Here's my Outlook. Um, I have a lot of emails. Uh, a lot of this in here. I've got one that is a very long email. Here's the email. Um, I am going to make this a little better so that you guys can see it. This button right here is your summarize button for Copilot. Copilot button is way up here, But I'm going to ask it to summarize and it's going to generate that summary Oh, I'm on a VPN today, It might be a little slower than what I said earlier. Here it is. Um, this the summary. Here's what's going on in it. There's some unresolved issues and so in here I click on the citation, uh, and it pulls up the email that I responded with. Okay? So these are your little citations. If you click on it, it will pull up that email. Uh, And it gives you a pretty good summary. This one thing you can do in Copilot It's very helpful. Sometimes I get. Speaker 2 00:30:22 Sometimes I go take a day off and I come back. And there's like a thread of 50 people replying back and forth within Crimson. I'm definitely going to be summarizing that. So it does come in handy. Now the next thing I'm going to show you is um one of my favorite things up here in Copilot. I'm going to click the cell button. I'm going to ask it to summarize and reply. And you can do it right here now the One thing I want to let you know is when you summarize and reply, it's going to give you a suggested reply. You are going to have to copy and paste it into your email once you get it set the way you want to. The other thing you can do is you can choose to reply here, and you can hit your Alt key on your keyboard, hold it down, and hit the I as in igloo. And I'm going to say write a short friendly message. Speaker 2 00:31:20 That I will. All right. I didn't take out the square brackets. I never do. Now it's going to write my email. Yes, sir. Speaker 7 00:31:34 So you said you're gone for, you take a day off, you got 50 emails in one thread, You want it to summarize. So then do you recommend us to then later actually go through all the emails? Or is the summary function good enough where it'll capture everything? Speaker 2 00:31:49 It's not good enough. I will summarize just to make sure and see if there's like basically to see where uh, if I'm mentioned in it anywhere or if it's something I need to read through, um and then I'll go to the next one. So basically when you were in school, Did your teachers teach you to skim a book and then go back and actually read it? Anybody? Okay. Speaker 7 00:32:13 Can't remember. Speaker 2 00:32:15 And sadly, I remember. Um, I also taught my daughter that not too long ago. So it's basically the skim and then reread function. Copilot is going to take care of your skimming and give you a high level Cliff Notes overview, and then you are responsible to go back and reread it. That's what I tell my staff. Um, Speaker 8 00:32:38 A quick question in regard to that. So you had said that youum, Go back to see where you're mentioned. Can, you ask Copilot to, like basically tell you where you've been mentioned and like what you need to respond to? Yes, okay, Speaker 2 00:32:56 Absolutely. Um, I actually have a tool to do that in Microsoft Teams. Speaker 8 00:33:01 Oh wow, okay. Speaker 2 00:33:03 And I'll show you guys that uh in when we get to the chat version, because uh I I need to do that pretty often, especially when I'm traveling to client sites and I don't look at my. Teams for about an hour. Teams is very active in Teams, so just a heads up. Um, so this one it actually made the reply like I would normally reply. So I would say keep it and then I would send. Um, but I will read it. I was delayed by a few minutes in that meeting, um but this is how I would respond and then I'd say sent. So. Speaker 2 00:33:43 I am going to discard that. Let you guys see. One of the other things I do with Copilot, I'm going to move on to the next item, is I'm going to prioritize. So prioritize, if you guys see there's some up arrows and down arrows. Prioritize tells you if it's urgent or not urgent based on rules that you've created. Uh, I said I actually added one for Giancarlo, and we'll take that one out real quick. Um but you can see there is some low And then this one right here is a high one. Um, I have not read it so it's filled in, but the low messages you can when you're skimming that actually helps. Um, I can put in my instructions if it's about if it's from So, if it's from Kinney and Lear. Speaker 2 00:34:40 Sorry, Giancarlo. I chose Kenny this time for the stream. It'll pop up and say hi. Say hi. And you can put in as many of these as you want. Now note, The high priorities also, it reads the email as well, and it looks to see if it's something you should react to pretty quickly. So it'll also make it a high priority, lower priority. You got to click on the apply one You can put in rules as well. If it's an invite to a conference or a meeting from a vendor, I do not have a relationship. That's so low priority. I get those all the time. People want me to come to a conference. There is a lot of people who want me to come from a conference, and until they pay my airfare and my hotel cost, I am not going. I am cheap, so I do mark those as lower priorities. If it's from a security tool, I mark it as low priority. Don't ever show my boss this, because this is how I am not doing my training when I am supposed to. Speaker 2 00:35:38 Uh, don't take a page from me on that one. I get a lot of emails. All right, I'm going to hit save so it's in there. So Kenny is now a high priority. Giancarlo usually gets high priority as well, just don't tell him that. Um, The other thing with Copilot is, you can click the button here, and you can actually talk to it within Outlook. Okay? So, you can click on an email, and that's the email. It's going to look at or um. I forgot how to unclick one, but it'll pull it up here. Now I am going to unclick that, And now I can look at any email and ask it to look at any email and send the response. I can also tell it, "I need to write an email to," let's say, "we're going to do nickvamp@alier.com" and give him. Speaker 2 00:36:36 A summary of today's meetings. And then it's it doesn't have enough context, but it's going to try. You got to give a little bit more context for it to do that. All right? It's going to build out that email. I'm going to copy and paste it into a blank email. So here's the email, and you can edit it or send. You can click this button right here It's going to open it up into a whole new email message. Here's the draft of it. Right there. And I did open it up in new Outlook. I hate new Outlook, so I'm going to close that out, but I could save that as a draft and push back. I do really hate the new Outlook. i i broke my outlook yesterday switching back and forth um any questions about. Speaker 2 00:37:32 Copilot in Outlook. There's not much to it, I'll be honest. Speaker 3 00:37:46 All right. Um, I am going to show you there is Copilot here, no matter which version of Outlook you use, you can have a Copilot chat in here. Uh it works just like the other chats. So if you ever uh wonder like do I really need the app on there? Speaker 2 00:38:02 Can I just do it in Teams or Outlook? It's right here for you to utilize. Um, it has all the ages that we're going to go through in a bit. Okay. All right, so next we're going to do Word. Um, how many of you show of hands and if you're not on camera, you can use the little raise hand icon. How many of you have ever heard of vibe coding? Okay, one of you has um, So, vibe coding is for those of you guys who don't know. It's where someone who wants to do something like build an application will tell AI, "Here is what I want to build," and AI starts writing the code for you. And you just give it all the information and you tweak, and you are constantly having conversation with AI about it. Speaker 2 00:38:58 So there is vibe coding, but in Word you have something called vibe writing. In fact, I've had a novel in my head for many years that I wanted to write, and vibe writing is amazing. That novel is slowly coming out of my head onto a Word document. So basically, oops, let me go back. Basically what you're going to do is you can give it a source, you can give it a task, you can tell it what format you want in. Um, now when you do that, that's gonna make it a very good prompt. If you do something vague, it's not going to be as good. You do also want to add an honesty rule. Okay, I want to advise you guys honesty rule. I'm gonna go over it a couple times. This is where you tell AI if it's not stated, Do not you know, You want to write ", not specified " rather than guessing, because AI will guess okay, That one line. Speaker 2 00:39:54 Is the difference between a tool you can trust and one you can't. So be aware of that. You can have it fix something you already wrote. You can select a piece and then tell it what to do. It could either rewrite, it can shorten, it can change tone, it can turn into bullets. Okay now heads up. I had a meeting last week and I asked Copilot to find that meeting notes today because I was in another meeting where we were referencing it. Um. And it found the notes for me because I couldn't find it. Because as organized as I am, sometimes I still can't find anything. These are the transcript notes from it. Okay, I know it looks all weird, But uh my mean, transcript writer, uh if you saw my name is mentioned in there, it's a long. It was a long meeting. It was two hours right? So the transcript what I did was I asked Copilot, I gave it and referenced it in Word. Speaker 2 00:40:54 I needed just Jonathan's notes from in the meeting. Jonathan is someone who's like me, builds an AI, he builds video games and stuff. And I asked AI to take those notes and write it as a CIO, and someone who's very technical. And so this is what Copilot did. It wrote it into a two page document, gave me all the information, and all I had done was I had opened Copilot on the side. I referenced the document. So I hit the forward slash and I put in whatever Copilot has said that name was. Hang on, let me find it again. Name was meeting transcript seven twenty nine. So in here, I'm going to type meeting transcript and I'm going to look for my meeting transcripts. These are all my meeting transcripts that i've had that i've worked on today, and I can tell it to write something. In fact. Speaker 2 00:41:53 I'm going to pull up a new document and I'm going to make, I'm going to have it create a new document based on the earlier training I did on Monday. So, I'm just going to click Copilot. I've got a blank document. Use the following transcript to create very detailed notes from the follow from the training class. Speaker 2 00:42:23 And then my forward slash and then meeting. And there it is. And I'm going to hit the go, and it's going to read through that and make notes. Okay? Now, In PowerPoint, you can actually reference a Word document and tell it to create your presentation based on that Word document. So just a heads up. Speaker 2 00:42:53 Um, now I'm going to go back to Jonathan's CIP notes. Christine, yes? Speaker 4 00:42:58 Can you can you do me a favor? Can you go back and show me how you uh accessed uh the document? Speaker 2 00:43:05 Sure. So if you look down into the text, hit the forward slash on your keyboard and then under that search, you just type in what you're looking for. Does that make sense? Speaker 4 00:43:21 Yes, is that going to be tied to like so for instance like our network? Speaker 2 00:43:25 Yes, anything in your OneDrive or any file that you have access to. Speaker 4 00:43:30 Uh, cool. Thank you. Sorry about that. Speaker 2 00:43:32 No worries, Justin. You're good. Um, it does write it out and you can tell it to change things up. You can tell it to change how it looks. You can ask it to put in a table So. I asked it to put a table together of key takeaways Um. Now one of the things. I can do is go in here and I'm going to highlight current limitation and I'm going to say, can you make this slightly shorter? And it knows which selection because I highlighted it. Okay. Now, if I like it, I can click done down here. Speaker 2 00:44:18 Or I can click undo. It's going to reason it, and it's going to tell you what it did. Now, what am I not going to do? Speaker 3 00:44:30 Not read what it rewrote. Speaker 2 00:44:33 Exactly. I was about to tell you anyway. So I'm glad you spoke up. You can tell it, and this is something I do constantly. I want to tell it, hey, make it sound. Speaker 2 00:44:47 Especially my emails. So I'm going to hit undo because I actually like that paragraph. I'm going to minimize this and I'm going to go back to the Word document so that you guys can see it. All right, it's still going. So it's at page four. So it's going through all my notes. Once it's done, I can tell it to look prettier. I can tell it to give me certain formatting if I wanted to, okay? Now It's like I said, it's still going. It's probably going to get to five pages, so I'm going to let that keep going. Make sure that you put in that honesty rule. I did not do it this time around, but you do want to put it in as much as possible. Okay? How many of you have a love-hate relationship with Excel? Okay, I know internally, you guys are all thinking about that love. - hate relationship and how many times it failed you. Speaker 2 00:45:43 Or how many times it just froze and then you lost all your data. Copilot cannot fix that issue, I promise it cannot. But, it can help you with formulas, and it can help you with a few other things. So I am going to go into my demo data and I'm going to pull up a dataset that I made. It's a workbook, I actually had Copilot make this for me. Copilot can make files for you so, Um, here's some properties. Here's some leases. Here's some vendor contracts, change orders, work orders. This not a table. So uh, here's some answer keys to things. I will uh I'm going to use that for today. Now this not a table. How many of you know how to make a table in Excel nobody? Speaker 2 00:46:40 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to highlight because tables are really important to Copilot. I'm going to highlight this and I'm going to drag over. Now when I do, I'm going to hit the control or hold down control on my keyboard and hit T as in Tom. And it's going to bring up an option that says create table. It's gonna ask me data, I had already highlighted it. So it's in here what I highlighted and my table has headers. So i'm gonna say okay to that. Speaker 2 00:47:10 Here's what my table looks like. When data is in a table, it's much easier for Copilot to do a lot of things. Now, that being said, Copilot has gotten a lot better. So, just want to be aware right now, your data should be in the table, not must be in the table. You want to give it clean headers, no blank rows. And if you give it a loose range, it'll give you strange results. You will not know why. I will not know why so just heads up on that. Speaker 2 00:47:40 Uh, rule number two, work in the file, not about the file. Copilot chat does not open your workbook. It does read the headers. It does read the sheet names. It might pull the first hundred characters of your document, but it's not going to give you anything good. So you really want to make sure that when you're using Copilot in Excel, you're using it actually in the app. One thing at a time is my rule three. Multiple questions in a single prompt does currently fail You want to break them into separate steps. We've tested this, we've failed it many a times. Some of my pilot users there with Alere have tried this, it did not work. We actually had a small meeting about that. So just be aware. Number four, never paste a large data set into a prompt. It will truncate it, right? And it will hand you the wrong totals with no warning. Speaker 2 00:48:36 Sure, you're not pasting anything into chat. You're just telling chat what it wants, what you want it to do. So those are my four rules. Um I'm going to go into properties and I'm going to actually tell it to analyze this. This is one of my favorite things I do in Copilot. So I'm going to open up Copilot right here. Now you can have it do a lot of different things. You can tell it to add formulas if you, I do a lot of VLOOKUPs in my Excel worksheets, I don't know how many of you do VLOOKUPs? Speaker 2 00:49:06 Okay, one of you does V lookups. Good. Um, I will tell it to do my V lookup now. I do a lot of concatenating. I will tell Excel to do that. If you don't know what concatenate is, uh, it's fun. Okay? Look it up, I promise. Now, what I'm going to do is I want it to analyze. So what i'm going to do here is i'm going to go to this very bottom row. I'm just going to highlight everything. Speaker 2 00:49:35 Just of that table. I'm going to tell it to analyze this. Summarizing using pivot tables or charts. It's going to do that for me. Now, this one might take a few minutes. I tried using the smallest table we have on here, but it is going to analyze that for us. It's going to make it very, very pretty while we're waiting, I'm going to show you what it did for one for me on another screen. Speaker 2 00:50:04 So, this is another one that I made. I'm going to do an actual spend analysis based on financials. And, if you sit here and think that I am a Star Trek and Star Wars fan, you will be absolutely right. So, here's a spend analysis from my financial data. Sample data, guys. Ferengi is not an actual client of mine ;. I would not have a client named Ferengi. Wayne Enterprises, yes. Isengard, yes. Starfleet, yes. Uh, but not Frank. Okay? I promise. So this is what it did. It gave me some, it gave me a chart. It gave me some really cool visuals. This one is going to, uh, this one will take a moment It's going to ask you, what kind of way do you want built and I'm going to say, executive dashboard, because that's what I prefer Ask you a few more questions. Okay Agent chat. Speaker 2 00:51:02 Um, Let the questions it has, give it a little bit more context where you can. Context actually matters. Um, I do have a video uh that I will be sending out probably at the end of this week of how to do good, effective prompts. So I'll have John Carlos send that to all of you guys so you can learn how to do prompts. Um, but we want to give this a moment. This will probably take about ten minutes, so I'm not going to sit here and bore you. Speaker 2 00:51:32 Any questions about Excel? All right. Uh, if I had a Nerf gun, I'd shoot it at some of you. Some of you guys are very expressive and I. See your faces and I know you're interested. Uh, some of you not so much. All right. Now, um, here are some prompts that you can do. Oops. Do five highest revenue properties in the data? Okay? You can create a formula for the days between the lease start and the lease end columns. For you guys that do things like that, you can tell it to flag every lease ending in the next ninety days. I actually do that for my Crimson clients. I will tell it to flag any licenses that are expiring soon, so that my team knows to make sure that they get done renewed. Okay, it will flag things, it will make charts, it will analyze all you have to do is ask. Speaker 2 00:52:29 Now, you do want to make sure your questions are clear. You give it context. So just make sure one giant paragraph for the wordy. People does not work very well. I'm not wordy, so I wouldn't know what that looks like. Very wordy, ignore me. Make sure that you verify the numbers. The analyst agent can estimate a total instead of calculating it. It will look completely reasonable, I promise you. It will be wrong, I promise you. Okay, When you're working on your yearly budgets for any of you that are department heads, you want to double check all those numbers. Okay, force it to compute. If for those of you guys who do a little bit extra Excel macros and Python in Excel, you can tell it to run Python to calculate this. Do not estimate. And then if you're doing workflows, check any new workflow against a number you already know. So if you already know numbers from financials last month. Speaker 2 00:53:28 Run it first. Make your workflow look at that first, and then because you already know the answer, you can verify where things are going wrong. Okay? That way you can trust your own workflow. If it does not, you caught it before anyone ever did. All right? Um, if you are in Excel on the web, Copilot does not work as nicely. I don't like Excel on web because you can't do a lot of things in Excel on web. Use the button that says open in desktop so that you can work on it in the full app. All right. Speaker 2 00:54:04 So, Real quickly, if I could tell you anything, make sure you verify all your numbers. That's part of the thirty percent that I mentioned earlier. That is you. That's your judgment call because if AI ran the world, there'd be a lot of mistakes and a lot of screw- ups. Okay? So you want to make sure that you verify. All right? Now, I did show you parts of this already, but we're going to go back over it. And this is Copilot Chat and the forward slash trick. So the forward slash trick, I think Justin, you were the one who asked me about it. Is that right? How I found that document? Yes. Good because I forget names. And if it wasn't for the fact that you had a name there, I would forget. All right. So um You want to You can do things and find things the way you would ask a coworker. Speaker 2 00:54:52 In my Copilot chat that I showed you guys earlier, I was looking for this document because I was in the meeting and I wanted to remember what Jonathan said. And it found it. I told it, "I am looking for meeting notes from AICOP meeting that was last week." I told it, "It is a txt file somewhere," because I knew it wasn't in a Word document. And it found it pretty quickly. All right? So then, I asked it a bunch of questions because he gave me some information. I want it only to give me the notes from Jonathan's portion. And it did that, okay? Now, I know a lot of this looks like uh a foreign language, but trust me, I understand it. All right. And then I told it put these notes into my own verbiage on how I write things. I want to send it over. So it did. Okay? I did have it correct a few things? And then I said, can you put this in a Word document for me? And he created the Word document. Speaker 2 00:55:49 Now, I did go back and I said, " A re these notes as detailed as they should be for me to send over to some others?" And then it gave me its reasoning behind it. All right, I told you what I want it to look like. It's technical CIOs who am sending to. So, It gave me some information, and then I said, which i ignored the information, i just said, update the document with the specifics and everything." And so it did. And then I went in and i edited, And then I asked it some other questions that are not applicable to this. I'm going to just scroll past that. Write a blog, and I needed some blog ideas, and it gave me blog ideas. All right, that is one really cool thing we can do. It does open up in its own window so you can see it. Um, if it's a Word document, you can actually click on Open in Word or Open in Excel. Okay? Now the fun thing is I'm going to ask it some questions. It's going to base its information off of what I ask it. Speaker 2 00:56:49 Who is O'Leary? And, it's going to look at all my files to tell me who O'Leary is. And so, it's going to take a few moments. Based on your files, emails, meetings and public information, O'leary Property Group is a commercial real estate investment development and property management company focused on industrial real estate throughout California. Is that right or wrong? Speaker 2 00:57:24 Is it right? I'm asking you guys. You guys work for Lear. All my clients are nonprofits, so all right, so it is right. What is Crimson doing for them? Copilot deployment, security remediation, a bunch of other things. Here are my key contacts: Giancarlo, Kenny, Daniel. Okay? Nick, you're in here as well. And then it gives me the size and scale. Now, it is writing as a CIO because I am a CIO. So, it's taking on that persona. Okay? And it gives me some more information. Now, At times when I have a new client that I am working with or not clients of Crimson, I'll ask for this right here. I'll ask for that full client briefing. So and I have done that a few times. Um and you guys can see I did the Lear Company overview earlier on Monday. Speaker 2 00:58:23 This is just a basic chat. Now, in this chat, you can choose a model. How many of you are fans of Chat GPT? Raise your hands. All right, how many of you are friends of Claude? How many of you don't use AI just yet? You're going to wait and see what happens here. Okay, if you like a specific model, uh, you can choose it from here. I always keep mine on auto unless I need it to think deeper. Okay, you can make changes to how you want it to go. I keep it on auto because auto is just just as good. Um, This little shield up here, uh just means the enterprise data is pro is protecting your work. You cannot shut this off, okay? I've clicked on it; it will not shut off. And, then you can go in here and look at other items uh that you can do. You can have it create an app and download it, okay? So. Speaker 2 00:59:23 Just a heads up on that. Over here, there is a co-work option. We did not turn that on for Lear, so just a heads up on that. I am going to click on co- work because I don't think Ansor turned it on for me just yet. He may have, he may not have. He has not. So you won't be able to use co-work, but if you are familiar with Claude's co-work, Something you've going to have to very nicely, ask John Carlo and team if they're willing to consider. Um, at this moment we're not considering it, but later on if you have a real business need, we we will consider it. Um You also have agents here and you have library here. So I want to show you this. Also search Search allows you to look into your past chats, what you've chat for. So if you made a chat Okay So if you had a chat or anything that you're looking for, You can click on search. Speaker 2 01:00:21 You go to library, Library is going to show you all the different things it had made for you. So here's some things that it had made for me. Um I can also look at images, and some of these images are pretty fun. Like the cat ones. There is a reason for this, I'm going to go over the chats in a moment or in the cats in a moment. Okay? Uh You can create agents in here and there's more agents if you click on more agents. Some of them are built by Microsoft, Some of them we have built and shared. Some of them are built by other companies. So if you guys use sauna, we can make that connection. If you use Canva, we can make that connection not right now, that's later on down the line but it can create agents. I have agents in here. I do have a generator, an image generator. And the reason I have this image generator is because I have two main clients that I work with. I spend about sixteen hours a week with them both of them. Speaker 2 01:01:20 Uh, so Giancarlo, please don't do the math in your head. Knowing how much time I spend on Lear stuff, I do work a lot. Um, but when I send out an email to them, I always include a cat picture. And it's because people actually read it. If I don't send out a cat picture within a week, they come and knock down my door. Seriously, they want to see the cat pictures. So, what I do in here is I will take and write an email and then copy and paste it into my image creator. It's going to make me that image based on it. So if I go back to my library and I go look at images, this is EFA. Efa is uh she is the mascot for the security team or one of my clients. And so here is EFA, here's the image. Um she's a very smart kitty, she likes her whipped cream. Uh would you guys like to see EFA in real life? Speaker 2 01:02:17 Yes, She is, Right here, and she is a kitten. So her bed is right in front of my monitor. Um, And she just gave me a look like how dare you wake me up from my nap? And now she's back asleep. Uh, Ifa does like whipped cream. Um, But my agent here has instructions on how to make each of these pictures look. It knows to always put a bug with a statement in by. Speaker 2 01:02:47 And all I did to do that was I clicked new agent. And I gave it instructions. Now, I'm going to show you guys PMG lease abstract because that's the one I made for you guys. So, I'm going to edit so you guys can see it. Here's the instructions I gave : Act as a property management analyst when given a lease, produce a one page abstract with these headings in this order: T erm * * : Not specified - * * B ase Rent E scala. Tions * * : Not specified - * * O pti ons * * : Not specified - * * S ecu rit yD epos it * * : Section 3.1, Page 4 - Default Provisions: Section 8.2, Page 9 - Notable Exceptions: Not specified. Speaker 2 01:03:45 That you can do. You can tell it to create images, You can tell it capabilities that, and then you click on preview and you can upload and test it out. So these are the kind of things you can do with the agents. Um I have I'm going to close out of this. I have a couple different agents I do. I have a password generator will tell it to list. And I do this every Monday. So if you ever call me say, hey Chris, I need your Set my password, change my password. I'm going to pull it here. I know what you like. Um, then I will add that as a type of password. So I'll say, give me give me five unique passwords that play on bourbon. Okay, for any of you who liked doing bourbon. Speaker 2 01:04:43 If I know if I know somebody who called me and they're asking for a password reset, and I know their favorite drink is bourbon, I'm gonna do it like that. I have one. Remember earlier in the conversation, I said, "I have one that keeps me caught up with Teams messages." So, I have that in here unless i deleted it. Uh, i do have one for my security monthly reports. Oh here it is water cooler bot. Speaker 2 01:05:13 What's the buzz in the napping team? The napping team is a channel on my Teams. Okay, all the staff talk. In a star or Star Trek theme. I can't type today. Going to go in and take a look at the napping team. Napping team is is huge, we talk about everything in there. We talk about video games. We ask for help with different things. We we joke around, so this is the napping team. We talk about a lot of everything, so you can see all the gifs. The napping team is a lot of fun. If I am out for a day, I will miss all that conversation. So here you go, captain's log start date twenty twenty six two eighteen. Speaker 2 01:06:12 Okay. Yeah, they've been kind of quiet the last twenty four hours. So it just has a, um and you can you can have it do a lot of anything. There if you guys saw I had one that formats my security monthly reports. Okay, these are things that you can do. I have project profitability is actually one that I wrote for projects, I will send over the project data And the profitability information because I get that as an Excel download and I'll have it formulate my project profitability. There are different things you can build in here. With what I showed you besides the image generator, Is there any of them in here that you can think of that might help you with your day-to-day job or any agents that you can think of that you would make? Speaker 2 01:07:08 Call on John Carlo this time because I didn't call on him the last time. Speaker 4 01:07:13 Agents that we can make. Yes. Speaker 4 01:07:17 Um, you know, I think what we talked about, we were talking about this in the context of maybe the property management group, But I think we were talking about trying to create an agent that helped us maybe keep track. Of our vendor interactions, like how many times have we used a certain vendor? You know, what what sort of projects have they done for us? Maybe what are the costs been over time? Something that that you know, maybe can go out and and be reproduced at different time periods. And maybe across, you know, certain property managers can use it within their portfolio. And then another. Speaker 4 01:07:57 A property manager can use it on their portfolio as well. So it's something that's hopefully repeatable, that can be utilized by multiple people and doesn't have to be rebuilt, you know, multiple times. We can leverage off of the work that was done by the initial person. Speaker 2 01:08:14 Yes. And uh John Carlo reminded me of something you can share your agents out with other people. Speaker 2 01:08:23 Heads up, I have a daily briefing agent that I created. A briefing, I actually do this in my car on my way to work. You can go in here, I got to remember how to edit from this window, But you can go in here and edit and share it with other people. So there we go. Click on share. You can choose to do anyone in your organization. Speaker 2 01:08:54 You can also send them a link. I'm going to close that, And then you can just send it in Teams, like you would any other message. So I'm going to pop on in here, and I'm just going to hit paste. And I sent that over, and now people can see it's a Copilot agent, and now it's in the chat. Any questions about agents? Speaker 2 01:09:20 There is a way to set it to run on a schedule. I have not done that yet, But just a heads up that, that is something that Microsoft just came out with. So I want to make you guys be aware of that. Okay, all right. In here you also have the ability to pull up apps from in here. So if you're ever trying to get somewhere, you can pull them up there. Also in Teams. Speaker 2 01:09:52 I'm gonna go back to my teams. You have Copilot agent chat in here as well. Um, and you can go in and use it, just like you would use it on the app itself. So you have it in here, you can do new chat. The only thing you don't have is library and search from here, but uh you can't search your chats from this location as well. All right? And that's in Teams now um, Copilot in chat can pull every copy of a document it can see, whether or not that's last year's version, a duplicate in another folder. And it will blend them without telling you. That's, why putting the forward slash in will allow you to pick the file so that you know exactly which one you mean. Um, the work web toggle and it's not there anymore. It was there the other day but they have turned that off. So there used to be a. Speaker 2 01:10:48 In new chat, there used to be a toggle up here. Now it's just Work IQ. So you can turn on or off Work IQ. And what that means is if you have Work IQ toggled on, it's going to search Alere data, but it also now does also search the web at the same time. So be aware of that. They just changed that. I wrote this document months ago, and they changed it within the last couple weeks. So. Uh, well, I've edited the documents since then, but I wrote the initial version a couple months ago. Um, you can do prompts. So I do some of the prompts that I do. Uh, I rewrote them for you guys. What did we email last month regarding the property? Whatever property's roof repair? You can do that. Find the latest rent matrix for something property. Um and then you can pick you can pin that file by hitting forward slash All right um. Speaker 2 01:11:44 For agents that I showed you, everything you've been typing is a prompt. An agent is something where you teach Copilot a job once, and it does that job the same way. Every time. I had a security report agent; you guys saw that. I showed it to you with that security report. What I do is i point it to the files that I've been given, and these are the same four reports I get for every client every month, and I have that Report agent, write me a summary of what all of those files look like. I've given it the wording and the verbiage I want it to use. And then all I have to do is copy and paste that in an email and attach those reports to that email. I won't edit it, but it makes my life a lot easier because before Copilot could do that, I would spend probably two days a month going over security reports for my clients. So it makes my life a lot easier, okay? And. Speaker 2 01:12:37 If you want to share it out, Make sure you share it. So other people at Lear can find your agent and use it. I built the lease abstract last week. If, if it's something that you build that, you know that someone else is going to use, share it with them. A private agent will help one person ; a shared agent will help the entire company. This one that I built ; I am not going to build it for you guys live ;. I just showed you already, but this where it came from now. To add to the knowledge, which I wasn't capable of doing, you want to add four to six representative files. Okay, no more. I want you guys to understand anything over that amount is not good. Copilot will struggle with it. So you want to make sure it's something around six to eight or less. Less is more in this case, okay? Um now four rules for you guys so that you are aware : fewer sources not more, six or ten files. Speaker 2 01:13:35 I try to live under the eight rule. More does make the agent worse, not better. It will dilute what it pays attention to if you do more. Thirty files, no, okay? Instructions like you are onboarding a new hire. All right, very this one is very important to remember because, Your AI agent is like a new hire. They don't know anything about the job. They think they know. They're overconfident, but you want to write it your instructions like you're onboarding a new hire. You don't want to say help with leases. You want to give it the role, the exact sections, the order, how you want it to sound, the tone, the verbiage including the length. I tell when I am writing a blog post, I tell it two thousand words or less okay every. Speaker 2 01:14:33 Every time you're specific, it's one less bad decision it will make. Make sure you build in the honesty rule. And this one's important: if it's not in the document, don't get in. Very important. This this the highest value statement. I can give you in the training. That way, you're keeping it from acting like me when I was an intern, okay? I won't tell you what I did; that's a story for another training. You have to go to another training to find out. It's not going to be a training this week. It's going to be an advanced training. Make sure you test it against the work you've already done, okay? Run it on some on last month's completed work and compare it. That's how you're going to know it's good. I want you guys to be aware. We want to name it, so people can find it. This came from Giancarlo. Speaker 2 01:15:30 Because agents have no folders, there's no way of organizing. Um, the name is the following system for you guys. If you're building an agent to be shared with the company, You want to make sure that it starts with a three- letter department code in the brackets. Right? Giancarlo, did I fix that bad one? Speaker 4 01:15:53 That looks good to me now. Yeah, on legal. Thank you. Speaker 2 01:15:56 You're welcome. I had to ask because I just now remembered you to ask me do it. I thought I did it, but I want to make sure. All right, so PMG lease abstract assistant. You guys saw that I put that in there; it was for property management, but you guys have your own. I am going to be sending this out to everybody this page so that you guys can see it. And how you want it named. This did not come from me; I promise. Um, I would name it Star Wars names if it came from me, so this is more than what I would create um You guys have any questions about this? I am going to send you back to my fearless cohort in crime, and that's Giancarlo. Give me labels, Copilot. I want to remind you these are your guardrails. Copilot respects files labeled confidential or highly confidential. Will not put restricted content into an answer someone who should not see it. Okay. It is automatic. You don't have to think about it. We. Speaker 2 01:16:55 Put what is called DLP, but it's called data loss prevention block. Have that in there. So if you try to put a social security number, credit card or bank number into your prompt, it will stop you. The normal feature, nothing wrong. Rephrase it without the sensitive number. Now, we did these guardrails one, so you can experiment freely two, so we protect Aire's data, clients' data. So. Because we've put these guardrails in play, the system is not going to let you accidentally do the wrong thing. Now, As much as I've told you that Copilot is not perfect and don't trust what it gives you back, The one thing you can trust is that it knows its guardrails well, and it's not going to open doors. It should not open. Now, We are ending a little earlier because you guys are a little quiet and I don't have any candy to throw at you guys. Speaker 2 01:17:53 So, I am going to accept questions, but before we end, I want to say how to get help. All of my guys at Crimson have been trained in Copilot. In fact, we forced everybody to use Copilot for a year. So they know the ins and outs of Copilot. So, if you are sending me, if you want to send an email to get help, uh, start the subject line with Copilot. That way. It is actually routed to. Most of our texts can answer most of the questions, but we actually have a select few that I call my AI human minions. They are a special team of people who have had advanced training because we paid for everybody to go to advanced training, not too long ago. Okay, and so they're going to route those tickets to them. That address does open a ticket automatically. We require tickets for my guys to help you guys, so we do want to make sure that all your questions are tracked. Speaker 2 01:18:52 Do not email me or Giancarlo directly for support. I will ignore you. Okay, I get I get hundreds of emails. I have three inboxes I have to look at daily for Crimson, so just be aware. I don't know what Giancarlo is going to do. Um, I gave him permission to throw candy at you guys. Marshmallows do wonders and are very good to throw. Okay. Um Just be aware, it does not open tickets, and it will fall through. I i will be out to take my daughter to college in. Less than two weeks. So be aware, if you email me, I am not answering you. I'm going to be crying my eyes out while I'm unpacking her dorm room so that she can move in. Okay? You do not want me emotional trying to answer your question. It does not work. Um The Copilot prefix lets us group every Copilot issue as well. In the body of that message include three things: which app that you're using, what you typed and what came back screenshots. Speaker 2 01:19:50 Help us immensely. I like pictures. I am a pattern thinker. I like pictures. All right, where everything lives in your one challenge, all right? Every recording, every transcript, every summary is going to live somewhere. John Carlo is going to put it in a place for you guys because I while I do have access to your Teams, I don't prefer, i prefer not to log in because that's one more thing. I got to log into uh Post your wins and your weird results. Weird results help people, I promise. Also send me your weird results. I like those. Run Copilot against something you've already finished, right? Pair it. It's zero risk for you to do other than your time. And sometimes just taking the time to do this is a better training than anything. I could tell you because you already know the right answer. I don't know your answers, okay? Trust me, you'll learn more in 15 minutes than any training. Speaker 2 01:20:48 If you guys get up and you're meeting in different rooms, the break rooms, different things like that, have those conversations because trust me, people have weird results and they're fun. So ask it. Okay? Uh if you try stuff this week within Copilot, You're going to be the ones that are continuing to use it and make it better. I promise. All right? Do you guys have any questions? These are questions that. And some of these you guys have already mentioned. Does anyone. Do you have any questions for me? Speaker 7 01:21:23 Can you talk to Copilot instead of typing to it? Speaker 2 01:21:28 You can. Nick, were you in the last training where I got asked that question? Speaker 7 01:21:33 Um, I no, this is my first one. Speaker 2 01:21:37 Okay. So you can talk in Copilot and thank you for bringing that up. I forgot when I drive, I live in the South Bay. I live between El Segundo and Hawthorne, right next to LAX. So when I have to drive to Pasadena, you guys know that's a haul. Um, I will turn on Copilot on my phone. Okay, here we go. There's Copilot on my phone. There is a little talk icon like you. Can't it actually will read my emails to me or partially it will give me my schedule for the day. It will tell me what has been said in Teams or anything along those lines. Speaker 2 01:22:14 You can also do it in chat. Um, here and you could start a new voice chat or you could start dictation. That being said, I am going to show you something. John Carlo don't get mad at me; I'll send you chocolates for this. I have rheumatoid; some days my fingers don't work, and when I am bi-podding, my fingers need to work or I have to do something else. So, I have something called Whisper Flow. Speaker 2 01:22:44 I dictate to my computer all the time. If that is something you are interested in learning, it is HIPAA certified. I only use things that are that are HIPAA certified because, like I said, my clients are all nonprofits and they're all HIPAA. So I do make sure everything I'm using is HIPAA. If John Carlo and anybody else within the management team will allow it, it's actually a pretty good tool to use. Um, now that being said, most everything in Microsoft has dictation and it's getting better. I do a lot of technical terms, which is why I use Whisper Flow. If you're in Word. Where's my mouse? All right. I have a big monitor. If you're in Word, there is dictation in here. Dictate from here. I don't know if anybody ever saw that or anyone's ever used that, but dictation works great. Speaker 2 01:23:42 Wear your headset when you do it, especially to transcribe. Um, if you are in OneNote, which I have not opened OneNote yet today. If I am in OneNote a lot. Um. Uh, if I am in OneNote, I'll use dictation in here as well and start dictating. Uh, I'll look through things; you've got a lot of features in here. Um also Seems to be crashing, but you have the Copilot button in here. I have a lot of notes in my OneNote my OneNote. I do a lot, so if you guys use it, you can go into Copilot and use it. Um test it out, but you can dictate in there as well. Any questions on that? Nick that was a good question. All right um. Speaker 2 01:24:40 Other than that, I'm going to give you guys 10 minutes back to your day. Thank you guys for joining me again. Any weird things you see, email me. Anything else, email the help desk. Uh don't email John Carlo unless you've got a good joke for him. Um if you need cat pictures, I will send them, but right now, all three cats are sleeping peacefully and not fighting, which is good. Speaker 4 01:25:02 Thank you Christi You're welcome Thanks Christi. Speaker 2 01:25:09 No worries, And I will send out everything to you guys in the next couple of days. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Speaker 5 01:25:16 Thank you.
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- > Date: August 26, 2026 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] [Speaker 11] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] ## Meeting Notes ### AI Group Catch-up and Recent Developments - Participants shared updates since the last meeting. - Highlights included OpenAI price drops, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.6 and Grok Build. - New Mac Minis and Mac Studios were noted for AI workloads, with higher starting prices; one member ordered a 32GB RAM model, another considering a higher-end $11,000 version. ### Project: Modernizing a VB.NET Application with AI - A 20-year-old VB.NET app (1.5M LOC) is being upgraded to .NET Core 10. - Agent swarm attempts were close but broke ~30% of views and disabled tests. - A human-in-the-loop strategy improved results: - Converted VB.NET to C# via a Roslyn-based tool. - Used AI to repair/clean code, reducing ~6,000 compile errors to eight core issues. - Cost-effective approach by charging per tool call rather than full rewrites. - Two developers achieved near multi-quarter outcomes in ~15 days. - Major hurdle: AutoMapper upgrade from v10 to v12 due to breaking changes. - Considering an API layer to avoid fully rewriting the large web front-end. ### HIPAA Compliance Challenges with Plaud and Mobile Access - Clinics use Plaud on phones for HIPAA-compliant intake recording. - Plaud lacks SSO, allowing transcript access on personal devices. - Risk of users exporting transcripts to personal AI tools, bypassing governance. - Existing controls rely on SSO and managed devices, which Plaud does not support yet. - Team is exploring ways to restrict transcript export and personal AI use until SSO or alternate controls are available. ### Approach to Enterprise AI Adoption and Governance - Emphasis on continuous value identification and a federated operating model balancing security, scalability, and usability. - “Redesign and build” as the new paradigm; integrate an AI stack as the operating platform. - Governance should enable speed and innovation, not merely restrict. ### Framework and Tiers for AI Governance - Proposed governance tiers: - Everyone: general users. - Power Users: using tools like Claude or ChatGPT Work. - Builder: developers using coding tools. - Agent: autonomous AI agents. - Group agreed governance must evolve; overly restrictive rules drive shadow AI. - Enforcement challenges persist, especially with personal devices and accounts (e.g., Grok on phones). ### Governance Needs for AI Agents (Build-time vs Runtime) - Distinction between how agents are built vs how they operate. - Agents may be web tools invoking LLMs with context and jobs, not fitting neatly as users or service accounts. - Conclusion: Agents need discrete governance at build-time and runtime. ### Agent Identity: Defined vs “Squishy” Implementations - View 1: Treat agents as identities with scoped permissions (APIs, databases, ERP; read-only vs read-write). - View 2: Some agents are “squishy” (simple pages invoking LLMs), complicating user-like management. - Builders must define authentication, openness, controls, and operating domains regardless of agent clarity. ### Lateral Permission Escapes and Multi-Agent Risk - Agents can route requests through higher-permission agents to bypass limits. - Guardrails must prevent lateral movement and containment escape with stricter controls than typical identity systems. ### Ease and Misuse of “Agents” and Need for Definitions - Non-experts can inadvertently spawn agent swarms with simple prompts. - “Agent” is inconsistently defined; nearly any context+job+LLM tool qualifies. - Clear, precise definitions are needed to underpin governance and controls. ### Cost and Governance Considerations Across Tiers - Tiers have distinct tools, inputs/outputs, and cost management strategies. - Governance impacts spend (e.g., tokens) and operational boundaries. - “Everyone” use may need scoping out of enterprise APIs. ### AI Agent Identity and Governance Principles - Key principles: - Unique identity per agent; least-privilege access; avoid shared credentials. - Defined execution boundaries (remote vs desktop). - Segregated authorities (read/write/execute). - Trusted execution via approved connectors/plugins. - Human-in-the-loop for evidence review and shutdown capabilities. - Organizations are developing policies aligned to these principles. ### Human Oversight and Agent Autonomy - Greater autonomy correlates with higher oversight needs and risk. - Oversight typically resides with power users and builders. ### Autonomous Agent Platforms and Usage - Platforms in use: Power Automate, Zapier, Vercel-based solutions, MSScout; OpenAI and Claude platforms are very new and primitive. - Paperclip (open source) recommended as an orchestration layer; MSScout used for autonomy; Copilot Notebook explored for research/compilation. ### Application Foundation Standard (AFS) for Builders - AFS establishes consistent methodology for AI app development: - Observability, logging, alerting, security (e.g., NIST), scalability. - Enforces MACH principles (Modular, API-based, Cloud, Headless). - Tool “Dev Central Cadence” provides chat-based build workflows and AFS compliance checks across source and environments. - Recommendation to include alerting, not just logging. ### Organizational Governance on AI - Many IT orgs struggle with effective AI governance; early ChatGPT-era policies are outdated. - Governance should enable innovation while preventing issues. - Practical guardrails example: prevent AI from writing directly to ERP while allowing data provisioning for quick action. - Some policies developed with HR and documented in employee handbooks. ### Sharing of Reference Materials - Speaker 1 will share AFS, current slides, and eight reference documents from Ira’s presentation (~45 days prior). - Interest expressed in receiving these materials. ### Jonathan’s AI Journey at LifeWave - Rapidly scaling startup lacked formal IT processes, policies, data architecture, and clean data; owner strongly pushed AI adoption. - Strategy: - Build a single internal AI application layer to avoid a “wild west” of tools. - Two pillars: high-velocity internal build team and predictive models to demonstrate ROI (millions in growth). - Learnings: - Built cross-functional nearshore team for velocity and handoffs. - Governance challenge: RBAC doesn’t pass across Microsoft multi-tenant boundaries; infrastructure must align with the correct tenant. - AI team risked becoming a bottleneck; pivoted to enablement—teaching business functions to build tools while AI team maintains infrastructure. ### Marina’s Experience with AI Adoption and Trust - Challenge: Experienced end-users and sponsors distrusted “black box” models (CatBoost), frequently overriding predictions. - Solution: A Tic-Tac-Toe demo starting with minimax, shifting to Q-learning after several games to visualize learning, predictions (green lights), memory logs, and simplified concepts (nearest neighbor, Q-learning, win chances). - Chatbot answers “how to win faster” and “how AI predicts.” - Built for STEM/science fair and adapted with son’s data to reach non–data scientists. - Reported adoption increased from ~50% to ~80% after introducing this approach, though some overrides remain. - Sharing the prototype is under consideration; platform and access approach undecided. - Takeaway: Visual, simple, hands-on demos materially increase user adoption and reduce skepticism. ### Meeting Users Where They Are and Leadership Enablement - Many users are not early adopters; empathetic, tailored onboarding and relatable demos bridge the gap. - Co-creation sessions (“hold their hand”) for leaders spur understanding, funding, and support. ### Community of Practice - Regular internal show-and-tell sessions (weekly/biweekly “AI lunch club”) help sustain learning, spark ideas, and drive self-starting behavior post “aha” moments. ### Logistics and Scheduling - Host privileges were switched for screen sharing during the session. - Next meeting scheduled for the 23rd; topic suggestions requested. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Define and document a discrete governance framework for agents covering build-time and runtime. - [ ] Implement tighter guardrails to prevent lateral agent permission escalation. - [ ] Evaluate options to restrict Plaud transcript export and access from unmanaged devices; assess feasibility of SSO or alternative controls for Plaud. - [ ] Clarify and standardize the definition of “agent” for governance policies. - [ ] Review and update federated operating model with parameters for agent identity, permissions, and observability. - [ ] [Speaker 1] to share AFS, today’s slides, and Ira’s reference materials with the group. - [ ] Incorporate “alerting” as a requirement into the AFS. - [ ] Share Marina’s Tic-Tac-Toe prototype or a recording/walkthrough with the group and define the distribution platform/access controls. - [ ] Schedule/co-host hands-on co-building sessions for leadership and key users; identify target leaders, scenarios, and timeline. - [ ] Set up weekly or biweekly internal show-and-tell (“AI lunch club”) and assign a facilitator. - [ ] Collect and compile topic ideas for the next meeting on the 23rd. - [ ] Document adoption metrics and remaining override cases; establish diagnostics and remediation steps. - [ ] Revisit and update organizational AI governance policies to reflect current capabilities and risks. ## AI Suggestions 1. Develop a strategy to upgrade AutoMapper from v10 to v12, addressing breaking API changes that block the .NET modernization. 2. Define enforcement mechanisms to prevent use of unapproved AI tools on personal devices, including Plaud transcript export controls while SSO is unavailable. 3. Establish criteria for when agents must have formal identities versus when parameterized controls suffice; standardize agent definitions. 4. Create a detailed plan to detect and block lateral agent behavior, including routing through higher-permission agents; implement containment-focused guardrails. 5. Limit or govern agent creation with builder-tier permissions and processes while acknowledging democratized tooling; define approval workflows. 6. Map cost governance and token management per tier to specific monitoring and budget controls; implement spend dashboards and quotas. 7. Set a timeline and plan to collaboratively update AI governance frameworks, engaging Legal and HR for sustained participation. 8. Consider standardizing on a subset of agent platforms to simplify governance and oversight. 9. Define the method, platform, and security for sharing Marina’s demo; ensure appropriate access and data protections. 10. Build a standardized starter kit for non-technical users (slides, scripts, FAQs) aligned with the demo to support broader adoption. 11. Outline implementation plans, success metrics, and training timelines for LifeWave’s enablement model; identify business champions. 12. Prioritize a discussion and remediation plan for AI technical debt as a critical risk to ongoing projects.
- Date
- Aug 26, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:11 Barry, my old friend. Speaker 2 00:00:13 Jamie, it's been forever, huh? Speaker 1 00:00:16 I know, right? It's been forever in a day. Good to see you. Speaker 2 00:00:19 Yeah, I mIssed I thInk I mIssed the last two of these these ones. So I was able I'd make It to the COP, but not not to thIs or to the regular COP. But thIs one, I keep mIssIng It, just uh keeps mIssIng my schedule. But uh, I'm glad to be back. Speaker 1 00:00:32 Oh, I'm so glad to have you back. You've been you've been traveling out and about or just been. Uh busy. Speaker 2 00:00:37 A little bit of both, yeah. So like I think the last couple I was like I was traveling. And then um one of them, I just had a conflict. Speaker 1 00:00:45 So yeah. Awesome. Good to see everybody. What's up Adam? Hey John, Rob, Hey, guys ABD, we got we have three, the Johns have it. We have a new John joining today. So. Speaker 1 00:01:07 I'm out number two with with uh with my lonely H in my in my name. So two Jonathans are with us. What a what a what a couple of weeks in AI you guys, what's been going on in AI? Let's see. Uh we had the pricing drop from for OpenAI that was a big one. Uh do we have any new models? We have, Since our last meeting, we had Gemini 3.7 Flash is out. Let's see, Grok 4.6 dropped, Grok Build dropped. So that's kind of a big deal. Uh let's see I figure Elon's kind of spending a lot of money in AI. So I suppose you got to pay attention to it, whether or not you like him or not. He's he's here. So he's got Grok build, which I've been using and is is actually pretty decent. Speaker 1 00:02:04 You guys done anything, anything new and cool and different in the last since our last meeting. Come on, this is the AI group. You guys have to be doing new and cool and different things. Speaker 3 00:02:18 Uh yeah, I got a couple thingsum so got a new uh ThinkPad with AMD's Ryzen uh AI Pro. So it's got a dedicated NPU, and you can download lemonade to run. A local LLM server, which actually will assign the entire NPU to whichever model you want, and that's really great because obviously no graphics card on this. But it means I don't need to bloat my CPU or my integrated graphics chips when running a local LLM. So the dedicated NPU will actually do all the inference. It does spike the RAM, but. Speaker 3 00:02:58 It seems okay with sixty four gigs. I was running versions of Qwen through Lemonade and connecting it to GitHub Copilot. I also was checking out Pi Dev as a harness, and there was another one started with an A, only because I can't remember what it's called right now, but it was a lot better at like multi file work. We're in the middle of taking a, VB .NET from four point seven, all the way to .NET core ten, um which it's a like twenty old code bit, twenty year old code base, about one and a half lines, uh million lines of code that we've been chugging through um but we've actually got almost the entire back end of the application projects converted and lifted. Speaker 3 00:03:52 We did it a few ways where we ran, like 40 plus agent swarms at it and just said, here's the goal and looped it. And it got pretty close. But it also just like turned a lot of tests off to work, which like left 30% of the views broken and other issues as well. But he gave us like seven really good guidelines for guardrails for our next attempts. And we tried doing it like 150 file slices But that's not really helpful because you can't even build an application properly with the way it's architected like that. So, like, the core application project is like just over three thousand files. So we ended up just doing a sort of true human in the loop, which wasn't intentional; it was just easier. So instead of outputting. Speaker 3 00:04:47 And ingesting the .NET and outputting and rewriting every single file in modern framework, which was like $75 of Claude Opus cost for about 150 files. We actually took a C# teams converter code, which is an extension in Visual Studio. And we could actually convert each project using Roslyn directly from .NET VB into C#. And then we pointed AI at the C# compiled version, Did some slight repairs and cleanups. So it was more like C# idiomatic, rather than just a converted project that ran. Um and what was really cool was we weren't getting charged for outputting every single file. We're just getting charged for the tool call. So we had like a loop where we'd point the AI at the project, it would ingest the namespaces, references, dependencies. Speaker 3 00:05:43 I would run the tool and then I'd say, go fix all the errors. And it would take the 6,000 compilation errors and boil it down to eight core issues, fix those, and then all tests would pass and they ran no problem. Which was not the result I was actually expecting. Um, which was pretty great because now I can point AI at the C sharp code and say, lift it, put it into a modern .NET ten solution. And then let's create a GitHub issue for each dependency, and I can kind of steer it from there. Which was really great with GitHub as like a project automation sort of feature. So as it runs through, it'll create whether it's a cleanup task, whether it's a dependency or an architecture issue. And, we're lucky enough to have the original architect of the application still with us. So I can basically just ping him on all the big name ticket items. Speaker 3 00:06:40 And we've from everything we've done in the backend, there's only one major like speed bump, which is our automapper from version ten. Technically does work because it's supported by net core two point oh, But it relies on strict checks that the .NET framework didn't do. But now it does do so. We need to go to at minimum automapper twelve, which. Has some breaking API changes, so I mean that's been a deferred work. But in terms of how cleanly it lifted everything else, This is something that you know would have taken us quarters and months, and we were looking at even hiring a developer for this. But me and one other dev were able to kind of put it away in like fifteen days, which is incredible. We still doesn't address our huge web front end, which has no path forward because it is old. Speaker 3 00:07:35 And VC dot net Razor syntax, but we're looking at putting an API layer anyway over our tasks and controllers. Which if we build it in the right shape, We could actually just point our old legacy web at the API layer and not have to really convert a the web projects like twice the size of the back end. So I mean that saves us an insane amount of time. Speaker 1 00:08:01 Adam, I love you and I got every word you said. But I am not sure everyone else did, And I am looking at Andrew Van Dellen actually specifically because he and I had a lunch, and he goes," What was what did you say? You are like, I got a bicycle. You have a what? What did you say?" JB. Speaker 4 00:08:17 Had a similar prose of all of the language that you just used, and he's like," Well, what do you think?" Buddy. I love the AI group. I love everything that this stands for. I am still doing like this job over here with this, you know the paycheck, and you are telling me how to, How to buy, you know, a rock, you know, which galactic spaceship between model A B and C. Meanwhile I'm pedaling a bicycle down here on planet Earth. So I love that like the nuances of all these things you're talking about exist and that you know that they exist. But you and your warp speed need to realize like I still have this job to do and like me, and my bike are just trying to get down the road. So it's awesome. You get, this is a very humbling group for me to be a part of and aspire to learn all that you just talked about Adam. Speaker 1 00:09:03 I got a bunch out of that actually, Adam. And the conversion of a VB, what I got, I just did a zoom out is if you're going to do a big project like that, where you've got a million and a half lines of code, It's an approach to just chip away at it and to just set up the pieces on the game board to just go at it. Yeah. And that is really the fun thing about it. Speaker 5 00:09:28 It Would have been daunting or just something no one would ever start. Oh, Speaker 1 00:09:32 It would be a consultant's, you know, dream to come in there and bring an army of people to convert a million and a half lines of code instead. Speaker 2 00:09:39 Which is like a two year project that may or may not get done. Speaker 1 00:09:43 Scope increases, I mean, you can just imagine it'd be just a complete dream for for a consultant. So now it's become a fun project for you. New Mac Minis dropped, anybody preorder Mac Mini? Speaker 1 00:09:57 Guys saw those maybe maybe not wasn't there a studio as well. There's a new studio. They now start. They used to start at 500 bucks right 4. 993. 99, if you're an education discount person and now I think the starting price is 800 or something like that. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:10:13 It's 8. 99, okay, Speaker 1 00:10:15 Nine hundred bucks there you go eight hundred, if you're cheat, if teacher or student and then they go up to like there's no leasing payments I mean, it's like a Honda Accord payment. It's like three hundred bucks a month. Yeah, which kind of makes sense because they're like," Look, you can run a model on this. So run your model. Lease the hardware from us." I. Speaker 5 00:10:35 Just saw some guy post on Reddit this morning. He says," I wasn't planning on spending ten grand this morning when I woke up, but I just did." On a Mac Mini? It was. I think it was a Studio. It was a Studio. Okay, all right. Speaker 6 00:10:50 Pretty sure now I'm going to be lobbying my boss Charlie for the uh. Eleven thousand version. This is the one that's specked out at about eleven thousand bucks. Speaker 5 00:10:58 Like up on one of your screens right now, is it? Speaker 6 00:11:00 We'll see if he goes for it. I am on a Mac Studio generation one right now and it works great, but uh I've been waiting for the new ones. Speaker 1 00:11:07 ThIs Is It. I mean you sort of got your wIsh, rIght? Because It's M fIve serIes or the M sIx regular as theIr base model, whIch Is kInd of lIke waIt what? So It's lIke the M sIx and then It's M fIve Pro StudIo Max. DId I get that rIght? SomethIng lIke that. Anyway, that's wIld. I ordered one. I'll admIt, I dId order one. I just dId thIrty two gIgs of RAM though, whIch Is lIke, I couldn't go over two grand. I am lIke, I just two grand Is my lIke mental lImIt, because to get the more RAM you have to get the more processor. And I am lIke, I don't want the processor. I just want the ram. So why don't I just get the ram? Well, they won't let you do that. So okay, um. Speaker 1 00:11:50 I had two topics to hit today, and we only have time for one. This call my asks we do this for 90 minutes today, which means we have 80 or 78 minutes left. So hour and a half instead of two hours. So we'll keep it to that that time. Um, I wanted to come back to governance. It's one that we just keep coming back to. I've heard about it a lot um, And I wanted to present a frame and then just use it as an interactive discussion, not so much as a show and tell, We have two guests with us. One, I want to give a special warm welcome to Jonathan Cook. Jonathan, say hello. Speaker 7 00:12:32 Hello, hi guys. Thank you for inviting me. Speaker 1 00:12:35 Yeah, of course. Maybe where you are hailing from? Speaker 7 00:12:39 Yeah, so I am based out of Utah Silicon Slopes, you know, I work for LifeWave. It's a MLM that is, depending on you know how you characterize size, We're kind of towards upper middle market. I would say is kind of where we're at. So, and we're enjoying uh all the uh pace that AI brings as a as I'm. Sure it. Very good. Speaker 1 00:13:07 Well welcome. Great to have you Jonathan if you are in the let's see, San Fernando Valley group, your colleague Paul Dawson, your CIO is in that group. So great to have you here. Okay, so we're going to hit governance and do it from a different perspective. We've done it from I would say more of a policy forward perspective with some tooling, which is what Ira led. And then we did a deep dive on that. Today, I'm going to do it from a frame of like user and agent segmentation. Cause this is like how I'm starting to see this more and more. It's just sort of maturing this in this way. And I thought it would be a good frame to talk about, And then we can use it as an opportunity to just to discuss how we're doing it in our respective environments. Okay? So I'm going to share this screen. Speaker 1 00:14:07 So, I think of governance first of all just as an enabling thing. I don't think of it as something that slows you down. I think historically in IT we think about governance as stopping somebody, And I think about it, more as roads and bridges and tunnels and stop signs and speed limits and on- ramps, and where freeways go and where they don't go. Like you don't want a freeway running through your backyard, right? Ideally it's over there, And then you don't want a gas station You know, next to a house. You you ideally want to have this zoned in a different way. And so that to me is governance, Is that we as as AI leaders and and builders think about what tools we can use, what tools we shouldn't use, what goes into it, all that kind of stuff. So. So that's what I wanted to talk about today was the policy in action. And it's through four I think frames. And this what is sort of surfacing. Speaker 1 00:15:05 Everywhere I go, at least these three, which is the everyone tier. Okay, so that's all y'all, everybody in the organization. The power user tier, which is typically not a builder but not a chatter. So they're typically in like a Claude Co-work, a ChatGPT Work or in a Copilot Co-work. That's that power user band and then builders which is most of you. You're using a coding tool of some kind. And then the last tier would be agents. So I kind of feel like where we started with AI and governance and policy was in this everyone tier, where it was sort of like, these are the approved tools. Thou shalt not use any tool but these tools. And everyone went to their ChatGPT and generated an AI policy and were like, all right, we're done with governance solved. And it was like, no. Speaker 1 00:16:03 We were just getting started actually. In fact, We probably just put that in a file somewhere and it got out of date very, very quickly because these tools keep changing. I'm going to pause there actually on the frame to see what you all think about this as a frame. That there is almost like a separate set of laws for each group because they just matter different. It's like, You got federal, you got state, you got local. It's, just like there's just different things that happen depending on the usage of AI. So I want to pause there for a minute and see if you agree with this frame. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, John. Speaker 7 00:16:45 Oh, sorry. I was going to jump in. I didn't know where the hand raising button is on Zoom You're good It's, Speaker 1 00:16:49 A free for all popcorn Yeah. Speaker 7 00:16:51 So free for all, uh asideum yeah I really appreciate that framework because one of the things that I keep coming back to isum. Your governance is only as good as its ability to zipper in with the business as it sits. Right? So if we have power users and different needs with our user groups, If we're not giving them enough freedom within the governance, guardrails and parameters that we're setting up, Then they're going to go outside and have shadow AI everywhere and do whatever they want anyway. And then you're going to have a whole separate problem, right? So I love the framework of breaking down different user levels. We've. Speaker 7 00:17:29 You know, looking at a very, a very similar thing. So I think you stole my slide really, you know. Speaker 8 00:17:34 I think, you know, Jeremy one other thing is here is that this is also evolution of the tool itself, right? You know the earlier AI was more of a chat interface versus now. It is like if we want to do continuous work, you have the desktop, the build platform and then the agentic platform. So like until like 2026, there was no like real desktop build, it was all chat. Right, so as we evolve, the governance also evolves with it. Do you think so? Speaker 1 00:18:04 Gosh, I that's such a great point Tommy. It's like we haven't we didn't have cars that could go 100 miles an hour. We had like buggy, we had just horses. So now we have cars like so now you need it. So I think that's the right analogy is that as the technologies improved, and now these tools are a thing, and they have the superpowers can do so much. I mean, they can do a lot. Anyone disagree with this framing? Speaker 5 00:18:34 John, maybe just a nuance is that like everyone's got an agent now, right? So right? So if we were thinking about what Tommy was just saying in terms of like as the tools have grown, right? The tools are now giving, Everyone the ability to create an agent, a scheduled task or something like that, right? That can go off and do something. So I guess maybe it depends on like what that agent has permission to do, right? If that agent has permission to do things that like everyone has permission to do, then maybe that still fits what you are getting at. Right? But it really kind of. Speaker 5 00:19:16 Follows with what the agent is authorized to do. If it's just work locally and build a spreadsheet or compare spreadsheets or, you know, take input from another team and do something with it, But it's all like the work that an individual may have done in the past, Then I can see how you know that's the everyone agent versus a power user or builder agent. Speaker 1 00:19:45 Chris, I'd like to bring you into this. Do you want to speak on this as you take a bite as I just did? Speaker 9 00:19:56 Um, One hundred percent, the biggest, uh the biggest conversations I've had just in a week alone, um especially for my attorney clients is how do we enforce the governance? How do we know thatum some, Let's say Andrew is on his computer and not, you know, having his phone under his desk where he's checking everything with Grok. And, those are the questions like they're asking questions that totally make sense, but things we've not ever thought about before. We've got the information on computers. We've got the applications for computers, but there's still a way around it. Speaker 9 00:20:44 And for one of my attorney offices, you know, they're they're very much Claude and Copilot. But they have two staff members that are 100% about Grok. And they have personal accounts, their free accounts. And you know, they walked in and caught them sending stuff to Grok on their phone. And how are we stopping that? Speaker 1 00:21:05 Grok is what I call Grok, right? Speaker 9 00:21:07 Yeah. Sorry. I don't. Speaker 1 00:21:08 XAI Yeah, XAI Okay Got it Got it Got it Yes. Speaker 9 00:21:12 So, those are the things we're trying to, you know, how do we securely tie things down, especially for our attorney offices or our or our clients that are HIPAA. You know, How do we tie it down to even prevent the phones? And is there a way we can do it? Those are the questions that are plaguing us this week. Especially because we do have some clients that are clinics and you know, they they use Plaud on their phones. Because Plaud is is HIPAA compliant, and they'll do intakes with. People coming in and they'll record the intakes with Plaud. Um, but. Speaker 1 00:21:47 Plaud with a p, right? Speaker 9 00:21:48 Plaud with a p. And so uh, you know how do how do we prevent them from taking those transcripts and accessing them and then putting them through their personal AI? Right. Yeah. Different things like that because Plaud is not a single sign on, And with single sign on, we can make it only sign on with that computer. You know, we've got the compliance policies in place. But because Plaud's not single sign on yet, It's not, you know, they can take their information and sign on to it from their home computer. And then push it through. So, these are the things that are plaguing us that we're trying to come up with solutions. Speaker 8 00:22:26 And also you know after that you know AI adoption of AI is, Is an ongoing capability. It is an ongoing capability, right? It's not a one-time project. In that sense, you know, when somebody tried to adopt AI, we are looking for value identification on the go, right? So, let's say, if you have a value for a particular opportunity that comes and this AI can do it, you use it. Now how you use it? You have a federated operating model where you say some kind of a governance about. Speaker 8 00:22:60 How do you set the priorities in terms of security, scalability and usability? And you know, redesign and build becomes the new build. And then you have the integrated AI stack that becomes your operating platform. That's kind of the approach we are taking about adoption of AI in our space. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:23:26 Tommy, I love what you said there too. I mean, I think the, I think the idea that agents, because I hesitate with the agents thing, because I think the left three are people oriented, but the agents are created by people. Yeah. Right. So I feel like I wear almost two hats as a builder. I'm thinking about what's going to produce the best results. But then when I'm creating an agent, did the economics of that agent, The observability of that agent, The. Speaker 1 00:23:57 The human in the loop, how that agent is engineered, is sort of different and it's going to be at runtime. So I've got like build time and runtime. And so what how I build versus what I built are two very different things. You know, using my car analogy, It's like I've got NHTSA for crash tests and seat belts and fuel economy standards and all the things to build a car. That's the governance on the car building. But then once that car is on the road, it's going to have different rules that are applicable to it. And so I kind of think that is a missing piece right now, is that we are really focused on what people do and they don't do, But not necessarily on what we build and how we build it and how it behaves built. Speaker 8 00:24:48 Yeah, no, that's good thought JB. But my thought around that one was more like, AI is an identity. Oh, sorry. Agent is an identity. So, if I build this agent and say, set the governance framework to say the visibility for this agent is this particular, let's say dataset with these connectors, With this particular access to my backend, where it is read- only access to my critical data versus it is read- write data to this space where it can operate freely, and the identity is monitored across a layer. Speaker 8 00:25:22 Whether it is API connection, whether it is backend database connection or connection to your ERP, it's all managed by the identity and the identity's permission that goes with it. That's how I look at it. Speaker 1 00:25:38 I see. I see. But sometimes it doesn't have an identity per se. In other words, Sometimes it's not like we think about it where it's a service account or something like an agent could literally just be. Because it's just a context and a job, right? So it could just be a tool that invokes an LLM that's been created. You see what I mean? I can create a webpage, any of us can create a webpage that invokes an LLM. I would argue that's an agent. It has context, it has a job. There's an LLM checks the boxes and by the way, it could consume tokens. By, the way people can use it in ways that they shouldn't be using it. It could also behave in ways that it shouldn't and so. Speaker 1 00:26:21 I would love to put it in the same box as a service account and say, see, I can just manage it like a user. It's like, but sometimes these things are sort of squishy. It's not necessarily an entity in that way. But maybe the hope is Oh, sorry. Go ahead Tommy. Speaker 8 00:26:39 Yeah, no, I'm sorry. I'll add to that. What Javi just said is Javi my thought is when you create that web page. What it can do, whether it is to be authenticated, whether it is to be open, whether it is to be controlled, is a parameter that is set by building that web page. So, you still have the control on what that agent its domain is and the operating capability. And who can run it. Speaker 1 00:27:05 That's right. What I'm saying is it needs a discrete set of governance. Speaker 8 00:27:10 Yeah. It. Speaker 1 00:27:12 Needs a discrete It's different from the others. It has its own, It's actually it leader's responsibility. Agents, because they're in the operating environment, like you said, I think that's where it crosses over because then now it's part of our operating system. So like dude, I know it was cool that you're a citizen developer, and you created something neat, but like guess who has to who's responsible for it? Like thanks for the puppy. Like I I got to own that now. Yeah yeah John what do you got? Speaker 6 00:27:42 Yeah, I think it's an interesting challenge that we've been trying to wrestle with for a while at MWD, Metropolitan Water District where I work for those who don't know me. You know, because these agentic identities are not necessarily users. It's not appropriate to call them a user or scope them like a user, and they're not service accounts. So there's some like weird third category, right? And one thing they've shown time and time again is their capacity to You know, If they're asked for the wrong thing or they're asked for something that's kind of beyond their scoped purview, is to kind of work laterally. And so once you have multiple agents, Now the problem kind of compounds, because if you have one agent, that's not locked down, All the other agents are going to know that, that agent has this, the scope of permissions that they're looking for and they're going to bring their requests to that agent. And you know, have that agent run things on their behalf. Of you know we've we've seen examples of that. Um. Speaker 6 00:28:38 Taking place, so, Uh you know, it's it's almost like the guardrails need to be more tightly scoped than in any other sort of identity system because of that, you know, propensity for, you know, lateral uh and and escaping containment. Speaker 1 00:28:58 Yeah yeah. Any other thoughts on the framing here? This agent one is I I was hoping would be controversial. I love what you said there too John about, The risks and the risk vector that it creates. Speaker 2 00:29:11 So in this frame, in that framing though, The everyone can create an agent, and an agent is essentially a power user and a builder, right? So it itum you kind of like or you it. The agents allow people that don't know what they're doing to skip all the details and just become chaos agents. So yeah no real fun. Speaker 1 00:29:34 Well maybe that's part of, Of of that third tier, of the builder tier is is who can create agents, right? And maybe that's part of that framework. Speaker 2 00:29:45 Well, I agree that yeah, there could be, but I feel like that the at least the big players you know are making it so that they're pushing so that anybody can create an agent. Anybody can create it, you know, like so so you're they're taking away the controls. Yeah. With the tools they're releasing, and so it's a challenge. Like, And then to Christie's point about, you know, people, ultimately, if even if you had the regulations in place, if you have the right accounts or that can control it, Then people just are copying and pasting over to whatever personal platform Grok or whatever they're using. Speaker 1 00:30:22 Or Perplexity. Speaker 2 00:30:24 Yeah, just jumping around everything. And. So it's really really hard to control likeum that's what I've found anyway. Soum and so the agents like, By pass all the theum governance that that we have in place or or are basically creating that capability anyway. So and I. Speaker 1 00:30:41 Think go ahead, John. Oh, Rob. Speaker 5 00:30:43 Yeah, That sort of everyone user that spins up the agent. They don't they they don't even know they're doing it. Right? I mean to Adam's point earlier, You know, hey, we set up like an agent swarm of like forty agents and off, they went. And I was explaining something to that effect to a friend of mine who's relatively new to developing in AI. And he's like, hey, I'd like to set up some time to see how we how I go about setting up those agents. And I was like, well, it just happened as part of the prompt, right? We just said spin up an agent team or whatever. He's like so but no, I need to know how to configure them. Like no you don't. Speaker 1 00:31:28 Yeah, I think agents is probably the most misunderstood and misused word. I think we're using agents more and more because it's easier to do them, to invoke them. It's less mysterious. And at the same time, it's sort of it's taken on, it's like what is an agent? Like anything is an agent. It's a job in a context. Like there's really that's kind of it. Like how do you define? Like a lowercase a. Like I don't I don't know. Everything's an agent. Your chat window is an agent. I don't know what to tell you. Everything's an agent, so, you know, I think defining it is important with governance. I'm just going to keep flying through this a little bit. So this was the frame that, that I kind of came up with here, which was now kind of pivoting on another axis, which is in each of these. There's different considerations, right different tools that can be used. Speaker 1 00:32:24 What goes into those screens and then what comes out of them and then how you manage spend and what it costs, right? We did this on the token walk through a few meetings ago where we took the everyone thing like that's out of scope because it's for you. And now it's at the API level. There's depending on on how your governance is stood up. It's going to really impact. The cost, So these are just sort of the considerations that are different at each one of these tiers. And this is why I certainly support having separate governance for each of them because. Speaker 6 00:33:20 He Just froze. Yeah, we're losing JB. Speaker 2 00:33:24 Okay, I was curious if it was just me. So JB's frozen. Yeah. Nope, he's gone now. Speaker 5 00:33:32 He was starting to go and then boom. Sure he'll jump back in. Speaker 2 00:33:39 I wonder if it was an agent? Speaker 5 00:33:41 It could have been right? Speaker 1 00:34:04 My back. You're back. My internet just went out completely. I'm on my hotspot. Thank God for the hotspot. I'm glad like nobody dropped. That's good. Speaker 5 00:34:14 You know, while it was glitching like that, I was already pulling up my Cox screen to see if there was an issue with it Was you or me? Okay, Sorry about that Goes out all the time. Speaker 1 00:34:24 Okay So where was I? I was just on segmentation, right? So this is why it sort of supports segmentation. And then again, to this segmentation concept. It's you've got, and Tommy, you were just mentioning this. This was the service account ID on agents. There's some squishy middles in there. But what's the identity? What establishes identity based on that tier? So it's typically the login except for on the agent side, maybe it's a service account. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's running in its own context. Maybe it inherits the context of the user, just depends on how it was built. Speaker 8 00:35:03 No, I think you know, to be clearer, The agent scope in what I mean by identity is, you know what data it can access. So that's on the data scope. What identity and permission level? Least privilege, no shared credentials, nothing. So basically it is a kind of unique identity. Then set execution boundary Like what it can, you know, run whether it can run remotely, whether it can run on a desktop. What about that boundary you set? And then you say action authority, right? You know, read write execute. You separate that layer and then trusted execution. Whether, you allow it to be run independently or you, you know, approve connectors only. Yeah um whether through plugins, uh. Speaker 8 00:35:55 Whatever means you are going to run, trust it. And then, you know, If you put a human in the loop in terms of evidence and shutdown capability, meaning if you see anything boundary broken, then you interfere and stop it. That's kind of how we think about the governance on this one or the AGI side. Speaker 1 00:36:17 Do you have a written policy? Speaker 8 00:36:20 We are developing along these lines, you know, because we are planning to use limited scale rollouts. And when we roll it out, we are not developing, we are adopting and using AI to drive the business. So we identify cases where this is a value. And, if you are having a value. And if you're going to use agents, for example, then this is the boundary we are going to use. That's how we are taking that approach. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:36:47 So this is, I think, the intent of this slide, which is more or less the human, the need for human oversight goes way up as the autonomy goes up. And unfortunately, the human oversight is rarely there because they're operating. The exposure goes up with agents. The exposure certainly goes up with builders. But But from an oversight perspective, The power users are typically and the builders are usually the ones that are overseeing the agents unless they've been given in the hands of. The every user which, I haven't really seen that it's typically the power users that are that are managing the agents or up. Okay. So we've been talking about this one um which is sort of, The control vector. Speaker 1 00:37:46 And and who's responsible for running it? Andum, is anyone actually using any autonomous agents in this in this group? I know Chris says. Is anyone else using actual autonomous agents and what what platform are you using to do orchestration? You're on is it mostly N 8 N, Chris? Speaker 9 00:38:10 N 8 N Power Automate uh and Zapier are my three mains. And then I have some home built ones. On Vercel. Speaker 1 00:38:19 On Vercel. We've been dabbling with Paperclip as an agent orchestration layer. You just mentioned Barry that the OpenAI's and Claude's of the world have rolled out their own agent platforms. This is in the last 90 days, I'd say that they've done that. And, Like OpenAI's is an example, is only available to enterprise. I think it's enterprise and teams accounts. They do not expose that agent capability below that. Grok Bot just got released, which is more of a personal agent I guess, but it doesn't it isn't its own agent orchestration layer per account. Doesn't seem like you can do that between accounts yet. Looks like it's boxed in a virtual machine environment for you, but these agent orchestration layers I think. Speaker 1 00:39:13 Seem to be very primitive to me. That's just my observation. They're very new. They're very primitive. The one open source one that we've been playing with is Paperclip, Which can host anything from a native Open Claw or Hermes agent or anything that you can instance with any of the CLIs, all the way to its own bespoke agent. And then Paperclip can orchestrate between them. And has like a whole workflow thing. If you guys haven't tried that one, it's really worth doing. And you don't even have to know how it works. You can just use your Claude code or your Codex or your Kiro or Open Code or whatever, and it can talk to it via CLI. But it or it's very, It's a visual representation of it, and then it puts all the tasks into a queue so that the agent has to actually grab the task, and then it can only be assigned to one agent at a time. Speaker 1 00:40:10 It's a pretty interesting concept if you haven't checked that one out. Speaker 5 00:40:14 Yeah, I think theum the anthropic stuff, like you said, It's only about 90 days old. And and uh, when I started to play with it, It was like Claude didn't even know how to how to get started with it. Speaker 1 00:40:26 Like he goes what are you talking about? We don't do agents. Right. Speaker 5 00:40:29 It was like no actually you do right here. Speaker 1 00:40:31 Here's your doc. Speaker 5 00:40:33 Oh you're right Oh of course we do Yeah yeah. Speaker 5 00:40:39 And that's exactly where where you go, assuming everything runs through APIs, right? And you pay your tokens via API. And that that's kind of where we're all headed, right? Like, that's that's kind of the challenge is if you want this stuff really automated and autonomous, That's where you're going. So I want to present. Speaker 3 00:41:00 Sorry. Go ahead. I've been running MSScout on my desktop as a autonomous agent with uh, Schedule Tasks and I am working on. I want to have like the more use of the Copilot Notebook, which is like NotebookLM. So like when I see things on the internet, I like to send a link to Scout who will like verify research and kind of compile details for me into a notebook. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:41:28 Nice. You are both in the you are in the Microsoft ecosystem and on the home built. Super computer running my model, local ecosystem. Dude, you're like, you have your foot in like both ends of the AI spectrum I'm. Speaker 3 00:41:42 Just going to tell you that most of our users are on cloud, but we have, like uh almost a 5050 split between Anthropic and and Copilot. Speaker 1 00:41:51 Okay, gotcha I want to present something to you. Some of you may have heard me talk about this. Um I'll make this available to you all, too. If you guys are interested in it I've been thinking about. These last two tiers. So this not the power users. This more of the builders and the agents. So sort of the, and not even so much the agents I guess, but in in the builder tier, if you're going to onboard somebody a developer, what is their methodology? Right? How are they building what they build? What are their standard skills that they have installed? Like are they all using Ponytail? Speaker 1 00:42:34 Are they using Caveman? Like, what are they all using? And then the more important thing is when they build something, is the application that they're building, does it have observability? So going back to my, does it have logging? Does it have, does it respect NIST security frameworks? Is it well architected? Is it running on some chintzy database or is it like, is it a MySQL thing? Is it a Is it a PostgreSQL thing? Is it SQLite? Are we doing Microsoft? Like, what are we doing? And so these standards, I would challenge each of you to come up with this and use your tool to come up with it and then create your MD file that is your AFS for your organization. Whatever that is. But it's got to have a seatbelt, right? You're going to build a car. It's got to have seatbelts. It's got to have headlights. It's got to have windshield wipers. Speaker 1 00:43:32 It has to have hazard light. Like there's no question that a car should have those things. Like there's no debate about it. And actually, it must. And if you're going to sell the car, got to have new tires on it, like all those things. We take those things for granted when we purchase a vehicle. I think we take those things for granted when we use software in the enterprise that they're going to be observable, they're going to be secure, they're going to be scalable. And so anyone who's developing without defining this, and you all know this, because you're building. If you don't define it, it will define it for you. Even if you say, hey, I want to use PostgreSQL, it's going to go great. PG16. I'm like, dude, we're on 18 now. Why are you doing an old version? Like because you were trained on six or whatever it was. Like it just it chooses what it's going to choose. And so without you taking the control of it, It will define for you how it is built. And I think more and more as prompting is becoming smaller and smaller. Speaker 1 00:44:30 Like I've noticed that over the last these bigger models, yeah, the guidance is to prompt less. It's not bigger prompts. It's actually just defining your outcome and your goal and letting it do its thing. And. So this to me is an even more of a reason why we kind of have to do this. And I think this is foundational for that builder tier of governance that we've got to come up with what I'm because calling an application foundation. Standard. So I'm going to show you what that looks like. As you can imagine, I've created some tools around that because why the heck not, right? So. So this the let me see if I can do the right desktop here. Uh oh it's going to be here. Let's do that. See if that works. Okay so you guys see this? So does it does it show you mock architecture standard on the screen? Awesome so it's changing it's changing tabs. So this the AFS that. Speaker 1 00:45:28 That I came up with, me and my friends, you know, Claude and Codex came up with. And I've been playing with this. But, the idea is that you're going to start a build that you reference this markdown as just okay, I'm trying to accomplish this. And then here is the Application Foundation standard that I need to follow. And this is just the nickel tour of it, but it's essentially like classifying the application itself, Like, is it a production app? Is it a critical app? You know, just like putting it into a classification. And then based on that, what tier it's in. So where where it sort of lives? And that goes to how much governance it really needs. Is this a bicycle? Is this a car? Is this a semi trailer? Like what is thing? Is it a boat? Like what what is thing that we're actually building right. Speaker 1 00:46:24 And then from there, it sort of cascades of like, okay, is this a system of record? And then based on that, these are the controls that we have to have in place. And they're really, really simple kind of stuff. And, it's where this is I'm going to thank Kathy Linares' teacher Sean who introduced her to this. And then for her to me and then me to and Barry, you know about this too. But this this mock standard, which is just essentially modular API based cloud and headless. So that anything I build has to have a CLI, it has to have an API. It's like you're going to build it, It's got to do, and it has to separate the database from the application layers. Because if you don't Yeah, Speaker 5 00:47:12 In the MCP right? Speaker 1 00:47:14 The headless yeah And it has have to have an MCP exactly right so, Having just that architecture to just say, look, You are going to build something and I am not going to bore you with the rest of this. But it essentially is a how should this thing behave? How should this look and feel so that there is some level of consistency in it. And what I actually had this do was I took a couple of my reference apps, and I said, "I want to build a standard. I'd like you to build it around this app. " And, you all know this because you have some builds that are a little crappy, and you have some that are like your reference build. Speaker 1 00:47:46 Do it off of that. You go like, dude, this what good looks like to me. I want to come up with something that's repeatable. So that's what I'm calling this AFS. I think this so central to governance and I'll end it here. So then from this, we built this tool. We're calling Dev Central Cadence as a tool. And in it, you can see what the standards are. If you're a developer, it's a place to go and then when you start a build There's a workflow to take you through what you're going to build. So it's a chat-based workflow. And then once you've actually built the thing that you've built, you can then see whether or not it's compliant with the AFS itself. And so that way your developers, once they've built it, they're checking their source code into a known spot. This tool is a third party that's looking at that source, looking at the sandbox that it's in and then looking in the production environment. Speaker 1 00:48:42 And saying whether or not this thing actually complies with the AFS or not. So it was as of this version 1.1 that it was built, and then it complies as of 1.1. So this is a newer concept. I don't think anything like this exists in the market. I'm not trying to sell it or anything like that, I'm just like coming up with, I want your all's feedback, how do you think about governance? When you have builders building, what's your methodology? Are you logging stuff like it goes beyond just prompting and getting the outcome. It's is the thing that you built supportable, sustainable, secure, worthy of your production environment. Speaker 5 00:49:31 Rob, you have some thoughts on that? I just have a couple and, Like you said, the smaller the prompts, right? Like our prompts are getting smaller and smaller. So like what what we're building, we have a little bit less input today on than what we did before. There are things that are getting built that we might not know have been built until well after the thing is live. And I just had a situation where I kicked off a process. Speaker 5 00:50:04 And it failed on me this morning. And and I said, hey, what's going on? The last time I kicked this off was like a month or so ago. And it was fine. And it goes back and says, no, I've been logging everything and it actually failed three times in the past. And here's why. And I said, well, why didn't I know about it? Right? So now we have alerts that are set up. So it will monitor this monitor for failures. And. So part of what I was going to say is i i was looking as you were sharing some of those items is. Is alerting in there? So there's logging, But like can you get like alerts so that you know you're the first to know that the system's down or that something is is pushing at a limit before the customer does? Speaker 1 00:50:46 It's not. So I love that you just added that because logging is, but alerting is not. Speaker 5 00:50:51 Mhm. Like alerting we know that like it could it could just be like crazy. You're not going to spend time on it, but But that's the thing that AI is good at, right? So I created an alert ingestion process, or it did, I should say. It's bringing it in. And now it'll monitor that and it'll look for a fix and recommend a fix and drop it into, you know, the the backlog. And so it's, that sort of thing where if it's building something, it needs to know that we need to monitor. Or is, is it monitor the logs or review the logs on a regular basis, which could just be an agent right? Speaker 5 00:51:29 Review the logs daily and and then recommend fixes. Speaker 1 00:51:35 I feel like with AI we are back to, what I just call our like first order primitives. You know it's like what does good look like for an app? Like asking that question, we didn't we kind of got away from that and I think this is exposing it a bit, and that's where many of us have anxiety over. A citizen developer with a tool like this in their hand, we have this old dogs amongst us know that muscle memory. We came up through that space. Anyone now can sit at a prompt and create an app, and it's a pretty damn good app like for what it is. You know, Speaker 5 00:52:13 It's interesting though. Like, sometimes the old dogs are so hung up on like I know how it should be built that they'll take like months and months and months to get something, you know, close to what you could prompt in a week. Yes. Or less, right? Speaker 1 00:52:30 Yeah. And I'm not saying it in an elitist way, like, yeah, those us old dogs amongst us. It's actually the opposite. It's actually more like we've not. If you've been in IT for a long time, These are things that we've taken for granted, and we actually have to go back to sort of the beginning and go, We got to figure out our governance. We actually. This is exposing that we don't have that. We haven't really needed it because Because we're buying off-the-shelf software, we haven't had this capability. So it hasn't really been a thing. And now it's a thing. And now it's a thing. So I have not seen a single IT organization that has this figured out. Not one. Not one. I can't say that about other disciplines, I can say that about a lot of other things, but governance is one of those things that we are, I think this group, I think this is one of these things. We come back to a lot. And. Speaker 1 00:53:25 And should come back to because as Tommy, you rightly said, we haven't really needed it because the tools weren't that capable. But now they are. And so now what? And they're going to only get more capable. And Barry, to your point, There's only going to be more Vercel and whatever else is out there that are vultures and whatever else that's out there that makes it super easy to just consume or host it outside the four walls of your organization. Yep. Speaker 5 00:53:53 Yeah, It's like the the antidote to shadow I T is to be able to embrace more quickly kind of, you know, bless solutions that people want to implement. But that's it all takes bandwidth that we don't have right. Bingo. Speaker 1 00:54:11 So this this hopefully this meeting is a or this topic. I should say is a wake up call for you, to dust off that policy that. That you had ChatGPT 3.6, right? You know, two and a half years ago, there was like, "Hey, I got an AI policy." It's like, okay. I think you got to dust it off, and then almost look at it through this lens. Like is it good governance? Governance that enables that helps you go faster without crashing into each other. Speaker 5 00:54:43 Is it sort of a scenario where we sit back and we say, okay, look, to do governance, These are the roles of individuals that need to be at the table when we're defining our governance for the organization. And many of those roles aren't sort of living this day to day. So, they might be sort of ready to wipe their hands of it. Once we click publish, right? As opposed to coming back to the table monthly or quarterly. To get a new fresh look at the things that have come at us and be willing to kind of live this from that role, you know, on an ongoing basis. Like, is there part of that like does the legal and HR team like, are they ready to just put a policy in place and then let it sit for? However, long it takes? Speaker 1 00:55:33 Yeah, I mean I this would be a good question for this group. Jim, I'm going to pull you into this conversation. How are how are you, At Bay Cities, thinking about this is this is this an IT legal partnership? Speaker 11 00:55:48 I haven't gone anywhere with it on legal. I have talked with HR and we've written some stuff up. We've done it in comparison that way to make sure it just ends up in the handbook and in people's hands. So it's still a general policy, probably back from the chat GPT days like you kind of expressed. It's definitely something you got to go back and look at. You know, going down some of these paths that you're going, These have definitely been some of my battles I've been lining up on and making sure for us that the rules are in place and trying to guide the people the right direction. One thing that I have set up, Everyone works in somewhat the same environment, so the guardrails are all set up for them. And I haven't done a lot of agent on its own updating systems. Speaker 11 00:56:37 In that way, you're familiar with our systems here a little bit. And we don't have great APIs in our ERP, for example. But, what we can get is very quick reactions to the data that's in the ERP. So the guardrails. Are you cannot write into the database of the ERP because it'll freak out the whole company that runs our ERP. But we can get data in people's hands to actually action against very quickly. So for instance, Most of our costing analysis and end of month financial reports are AI driven, being done by our CFO as an example. So, But do I need to address that more as far as the policies themselves and what's written for people to understand? Absolutely. I definitely have to go back on that. Everything's moving so fast, you know, we've blown way past I believe what's even written there. So it's a great reminder. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:57:37 Somebody else want to chime in on this one? All right. Thank you all for engaging on that one. Again, we will come back to this. If, you all want some slides and if you want that AFS that I started, I'm happy to uh I'd. Speaker 11 00:57:55 Love to take a look at it. Speaker 1 00:57:56 Yeah, I'll send you guys both just shoot me a note, and I'll send it to your or I can send it as a whole group if you guys want the AFS and the um and the slides from today. And by the way, If you missed Ira's presentation from I, think it was 45 days ago or so, it was phenomenal. And he had slides on that too. And I can give you that reference material. He gave us help me gang, it was like eight documents. It was incredible. Speaker 11 00:58:23 I would love that if you could because I yeah hit a hard stop that I couldn't do anything else. Speaker 1 00:58:27 Shoot me a note and I will send you all this all this stuff, and you can ingest into your tool and and it will go here. It was it was a different look on governance. It was more which tools should we use and what should that look like. And so he spent more time there. Okay, okay, all right, I'm going to keep flying on the agenda. Um Jonathan, I asked you, if you wouldn't mind sharing what you're doing with with Pepper, maybe if you could take 10 ish minutes and uh and walk us through that Is it Jess Cook? Speaker 7 00:59:03 Are you yes, Uh, so John, you are freezing up on my end again. I don't know if that's just for me or for everybody, butum, if I am freezing up. Is it audio and video or? Speaker 2 00:59:15 It was just audio. It was just audio for a moment there. Um, okay, the last few things, when you told him how much time to take it cut out right there. So I don't think he heard that. Speaker 10 00:59:27 If you wouldn't mind roll right? Speaker 1 00:59:30 Yeah, maybe ten minutes if you wouldn't mind and do a Pepper walkthrough for us, kind of a show and tell. We do that here sometimes. And it's as I said, I think we spoke. It's it's not just uh what's working. It's also where you're having challenges. Speaker 7 00:59:45 Yeah, So I haveum you know, five things that I'm hoping to point out that were things lessons that I kind of learned along the way. Um but i want to give you a little bit of contextum as well to help understand the situation and kind of the reality of on the ground. What. I'm looking at and dealing with. The organization that I work for, as I said earlier, is more towards the upper middle market. We are like almost a twenty year old startup is how I would describe it where we have grown more recently at a very rapid clip over the last five, six years or so. But we did so without a formal IT department, right? Speaker 7 01:00:29 So we got to a large size and then said, Oh, wait. Hey, we probably should have this right. So I think I was I've been at LifeWave for two and a half years now roughly. And I was the sixth hire in the IT department right? We happen to have a an owner of the company that really is a fan of AI really wants to drive it forward and have a presence there and was asking. The newly formed IT organization. Hey, let's bring in an AI person. I want somebody there, right? And as I'm coming in, please feel free to stop me and ask questions at any point, but I'm trying to run through this 10 minutes. As I'm looking at what role I can play in the organization, I'm thinking, this is an org that we may not have all the processes ironed out. Speaker 7 01:01:21 We may not have all the skills and the lanes defined for how people work together and build things in an efficient way for the organization, right? We don't have policy from a technical standpoint to speak of yet, right? We don't have maybe all of the data architecture or the clean data in a way that we would want. So, there's a lot of like groundwork and legwork that we really have to undertake before we stop adopt or start adopting AI at scale, right? But I know that we have an owner that very much wants to lean into this, right? So I'm trying to look at the landscape and understand how can I approach this. One thing that I wanted to do was I wanted to be able to build an internal AI application that would give us one surface plane that would help me control governance. So that because I know that we don't have a lot of these systems, processes and everything in place, That is going to be one of the big challenges. I don't want to just bring in a bunch of. Speaker 7 01:02:21 Third party tools and connectors to let everybody go wild west, because then we're going to have to be looking at how do we pull these things back right and and have a uh, one slate to manage, right? So I know it's going to take me time to build out an internal application to be able to have a delivery mechanism that allows me to have more control of governance as well as the UI that eventually I know there's going to come a day where we need to have workflows represented in an application layer that allows people. Kick off workflows and agents that hand off artifacts between one another. Have a human in the loop to say, hey, yeah, that looks good. That doesn't look good. I approve this. Send this on to legal. Don't approve this, you know, Send this back to HR and be able to have the opportunity to create an interface to do that right? That's going to take time. How do I build in air cover? Right? I spend a lot of my time. I haven't written, I haven't been coding in the last like almost year right? Speaker 7 01:03:17 So I am way less in that weeds at the current moment. So I look at it from a perspective with that in mind, right? So I'm thinking, How do I build air cover to give me the runway necessary to be able to get to the end of that build and still be able to deliver business value and ROI in the meantime that the business understands, hey, this is what we're doing. Well, Because we're a 20 year old startup. There's a lot of green or really brown grass opportunity, right? Speaker 7 01:03:47 We took the strategy, let's focus on two pillars. One, I'm going to build a high velocity team to build out the internal AI application layer. And at the same time, I'm also going to build out what my background leans itself towards is the data science part, predictive machine learning model. Right? We haven't done that. The company has barely had an IT department. They haven't there's a lot of opportunity there so um, That's what we're looking at, The strategy that I tried to take on was, let's show the business, the ROI and the business value by building predictive models that say, hey, We're identifying growth here opportunities in millions of dollars that you could go and take part in. And, now you just have to build a user interface around to deliver that to the sales force or whatever. However, you choose to use that. Speaker 7 01:04:38 And meanwhile, That gives me cover to build up the platform and do the governance and the data architecture that needs to be done on the other end. Looking down maybe a couple months later, we're able to get some models out. We're getting our internal application is now built. We have the beta version out. We serve about 800 internal users, right? It's all internal facing application. We have an international User base that I forget how many different countries we have like represented, but mainly you know the US and Europe, Ireland in particular. We have a heavy presence in. But we were able to get the first build out there. What I found in this environment because we have so many, there's a lot of friction that can happen when an organization is growing rapidly. How do we. Speaker 7 01:05:37 Build these things quick enough, knowing that there's a huge demand for AI. It doesn't stop at the door from my company. How do I build fast enough that I can meet the business demand in an environment with a lot of friction where everybody's got their elbows out trying to grow as an organization, right? Um, the the what I found was um, The handoffs are really important with with between architecture between engineering between my team AI, right? So. We took the strategy of building out a cross-functional team that spans the handoffs. I have team members all the way from the business analysts up front to the platform engineering, architecture, machine learning engineering, To the QA testing full - stack developers kind of run the gamut so that I can have a team that will adhere to the standards being just developed by the business in real time. Speaker 7 01:06:35 Because we're growing rapidly, But also be able to enforce governance by way of talking about it in our daily sprint cycle. Right, Enforcing those standards that we need to hit internally as the technology is moving, and we're trying to keep up. And also be able to make sure that we are enforcing the standards coming out of the normal like the larger QA org, the development org, to make sure that we're Lining up with the business as best as possible, right? So we took the route of doing a nearshore, um, a nearshore team uh and building that out cross functionally to achieve velocity. So uh one of the things that we found were Microsoft based shop. We have a Microsoft, multi - tenant organization and looking at that governance challenge our back controls. Speaker 7 01:07:34 Won't pass across the governance, the tenant boundaries, right? So, it's really important that we keep that in mind when we're thinking about, we're going to have to have agents that have our back tied specifically to an Entra environment in another Microsoft tenant. Everything that we build has to be over there, right? So that was an important lesson for us, you know, On our side of what we need to do is as far as from a governance standpoint, the on behalf of authorization. For these agentic workflows, We had to make sure that we tied all the infrastructure that we built from an AI perspective into the right tenant, where that part of the business functions. Right? From that perspective. And I know I only have one more minute. One of the things that I found was because we realized that typically things. Speaker 7 01:08:29 Workflows die at the handoffs between different technical teams where there's ambiguity between what your team does and what it needs as an input and output, right? So, how can we speed that up when I know there's a big handoff happening right now across the industry in AI, right? Different business functions, everybody has different definitions for agents, different definitions for assistance. Half of them don't know what AI is. Like fundamentally, right? So the only way that I could prevent us from becoming a challenge and a bottleneck as an AI team is I realized. We need to switch into this enablement mode where we start to teach our business functions. How to start building their own tools and their own solutions. As an AI team, even though I have all this velocity, we can't go fast enough to meet the demand. Speaker 7 01:09:28 And, we will die on the vine, and we'll end up doing performative AI all the time as we select five different projects and one of them works, right? We're just going to be singing a song and dance every time in front of the board. Um, We are now switching into a mode where we are uh building running an enablement program so that we maintain the AI infrastructure underneath, Teach our business champions, how to build agents themselves in these workflows because it's way easier. For me to teach them AI and how to build this in a busy way, than it is for us to be able to understand every business process. So it'll take us five years to get there, right? It's just never going to happen. And in the meantime, the whole the board is going to be looking at me and saying, hey, I don't see any ROI. Right? So that is our pivot strategy condensed very very quickly. I know I went through a lot there. Um. Speaker 7 01:10:23 We're working on the governance for Power Automate and all that stuff now. As a result, it exposes the governance challenges very quickly when you take that approach. Speaker 1 01:10:32 Well, thanks for that, Jonathan. It's great to have you here and excited to hear about your journey as it goes. We were all trying to adopt this stuff as it changes. It's just wild. It's such a moving target. It's just a crazy time to be in this space. So we're all, as we talked the other day, we're all just trying to figure it out. So it's great to have. Speaker 7 01:10:52 You here, And the AI tech debt along the way, that's a whole nother like three hours worth of discussion that we ran into. Speaker 1 01:10:58 Right. I love it. I want to welcome a special guest. Say hello to Marina. Marina, would you would you introduce yourself? Speaker 12 01:11:07 Can you guys hear me? Yes. Hi, I'm Marina Surfas. I'm a process engineer working for Waste Management currently, but we actually John and I go way back We, And I worked together about, I want to say, 20 years ago. Yes. Speaker 1 01:11:27 Marina was my auditor. Speaker 12 01:11:29 I was the auditor in a Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services on IT audit SOX compliance. Oh gosh. So yeah, That was uh and it was completely random, because uh, both of us ended up in the AI space. I don't know how and then but, John saw my post, and he reached out, and we started talking again. Uh, 20 years later, Speaker 1 01:11:55 Like you're an ontology and contextnerd I really need to reconnect Marina. Let's do it. I love it. Speaker 12 01:12:01 Yeah, yeah, no. Speaker 1 01:12:03 So glad you made it I'm. So glad you made it, Speaker 12 01:12:05 Yeah, we reconnected, Speaker 1 01:12:06 Yes, me too me, too. Um well, we just spent. The hour talking about governance, which is always a fun topic, but it's even more exciting with with AI. It's all of a sudden it was like a sleeper topic before, But now all of us are like, oh shoot, yeah I guess, we got to figure that out. So uh I sent the deck. It's in the chat. You all can see that um we're doing a little bit of show and tell and I am having the newbies to the group. Uh do like a uh, this what I'll call you have to get jumped in. This how you are getting jumped into the gang. Speaker 1 01:12:38 Go t to show us a little something and what you're working on with with AI. And, you intrigued me the other day on our conversation with tictac tac toe idea. Do you want to share that with the group? Speaker 12 01:12:48 Yeah, So um a little bit of background fortic-tac-toe and how it came about. Um so I uh I want to say roughly three years ago is, is is when we started with our AI journeyum at my current uh company andum one of the. That were struggling with. And I was the product owner for the AI system implementation for supply chain. And, were focused on the use case around cost predictions and enabling machine learning kind of prototype mixed with our ERP ontology and the recommendations that were coming out at the time. Speaker 12 01:13:35 Were generally grounded on correct context, but it was more of a black box. We used I think something called a CatBoost model, which was very tough for end user to really comprehend, but it did give reliable estimates. But for somebody who's been in the industry for over. You know, we have some folks been working here for 40 plus years since. Since they graduated high school. So for them to trust an AI recommendation was kind of our biggest at the time, one of the biggest challenges. And it wasn't just at the end user stakeholder level, but also at the kind of the sponsor level. So, that was a big one because we're making production decisions off of the recommendations, and it definitely accelerated the work. But how do you get. Speaker 12 01:14:32 People to stop overriding things. That was kind of and we're talking like small nuanced up and down, like where we went up 20%, low 20% on certain markets, certain region. And so what we and we struggled with that. So I ended up kind of listening to an advice I got off of, I think a LinkedIn post somebody put in something about And that was like about two years ago, I think. It was Alexander Wang that came out AI chief of Meta and said he gave an advice to his 13 - year- old followers and any teenager getting into AI, You just need to get your hands dirty and get in the platform and try things like Replit and Cursor. And like all these, you know, Claude. Speaker 12 01:15:26 All these different things. And I think the audience was the teenagers, but I kind of jumped into it on a weekend and I'm like, you know, I'm just going to act like I'm 13 years old. Um, I'm just going to do it. And so I kind of randomly had an idea of how do you get people comfortable is to show how AI truly learns? Because that was the biggest thing. Like they can see the historic that it's based on historic data, But they just don't trust like how it's learning their patterns. They don't see how AI is learning. So. So what I did is I made this tic-tac-toe game and initially the user kind of plays the first, I think five games are min max like traditional deterministic way of gaming, and it gives you like, hey, you know, Here's here's the patterns that AI is starting to and I know it's very small sample. But. Speaker 12 01:16:24 It's just more for a conceptual example for the end user that I kind of created this game. And then after so many plays, Then you have I used the Q learning as a mechanism to show how AI is learning. And then I had this memory bank that it was showing how it's learning. And then pop-ups, "Hey, I'm seeing trends." And then the trends would be, Tied to the nearest neighbor KNN data science learning kind of pattern that nobody could understand either. So now they had it at a more very basic level. So as you are about to win or about to lose, You start getting predictions once AI kind of learns. Speaker 13 01:17:11 The pattern and you. Speaker 12 01:17:13 Get like pop- ups that tell you, um. You know, Speaker 2 01:17:18 I'm not a big fan of like. Speaker 12 01:17:21 Something like something fun. Um, Speaker 1 01:17:25 It really shockingly. Speaker 12 01:17:27 Was was one of our biggest drivers. And, actually our adoption rate went from roughly 50% uh late last year to like almost uh, you know, 80% adoption. Still some overrides, but it was a big jump for for something that's silly. Uh, But I think it's some psychological aspect of like seeing how AI learns shockingly made a difference. But yeah, I have the prototype. I'm not exactly sure how I can share it. Oh, everyone, Speaker 12 01:18:12 Um, I did change it for my son's data. Um, like, Speaker 13 01:18:16 I did a STEM camp exhibit last year. Speaker 12 01:18:21 So I made it more kiddified so. Speaker 13 01:18:23 Kids could like, uh, play on the screen. Share it up. Share it up. Yeah. How do I share here? Speaker 1 01:18:31 You'll hear I have to I have to I think I have to like enable sharing. Hang on a second. I have to go to sh Oh actually Rob, I made you host while i switched over my uh deal here. Speaker 12 01:18:42 And I'm on a Mac, so I don't know. Rob, Speaker 1 01:18:45 I made you, I made you Zoom host while I switched my Wi-Fi. There you go. Now you're on. You're good. Yeah. Mhm You're back Hi everyone, Speaker 13 01:18:52 I am a voice to help bring your audio and video projects to life Use generate audio to go from. Let's see here. Speaker 12 01:18:59 Um Hi everyone, I am a voice to help. Trying to see the controls Um Hi everyone, Speaker 13 01:19:06 I am a voice to help bring your audio and video projects to life Use generate audio. Speaker 1 01:19:09 While you're while you're pulling that up, i have to say this is, Like I I. The question that's been rattling in my head for a long time. Speaker 13 01:19:15 Is why people are stuck like, Speaker 1 01:19:18 Why are organizations stuck with AI and I? Think a lot of it is, is that we have to meet the users where they're at. Speaker 13 01:19:25 Hi, everyone I am a voice to help bring your audio. Speaker 1 01:19:28 And that's what I think this demonstrates. That's why I think it's a really important thing. You know. Hi everyone. I am a voice to help bring your audio and video projects to life. Use generate audio to go from text to realistic speech in seconds. Speaker 13 01:19:37 Hi everyone, I am a voice to help bring your audio and video projects to life. It's a little bit of that where we've got to kind of stop. Speaker 1 01:19:45 Sometimes and go like, Speaker 13 01:19:47 This group right here, where we are just this group right here, take the average, Speaker 1 01:19:52 And we're at different levels here, but all of us are curious and interested, and we're doing it and we're taking risks and we're in it. And that puts us just right at the jump, In the ninety fifth percentile because most people are not there. And and we think at least i think because it's we can do it, it's easy. This is easy. You're just doing it like what's the big deal? Speaker 13 01:20:12 You just click here to do it. But what's the problem with that like there's a lot more than that? There's a lot more than that. And and we gotta stop. Sometimes these guys, you know, people are sort of not here yet. Speaker 1 01:20:24 Now the the other ninety five percent are not. And and it's it's not because they're ignorant. It just this thing moved so this alien technology just showed up. It just showed up a couple of years ago, and it keeps evolving so fast, like we're having a hard time keeping up with it. So what about everybody else, the 40 year employee as you said Marina, who's been at the organization a long time? You know how do you how do you meet them where they're at? And. So this is where we can use our tools to create tools and use it as a thought partner to kind of develop some of that stuff. So. Speaker 1 01:20:59 That's my that's my spiel. That's my my soapbox meeting the users where they're at. I think that's a big reason why organizations are stuck. John, you want to add to that? Speaker 7 01:21:09 Yeah, I love that so much. At least from that's so salient from my experiences and in particular with what you're trying to do with thattic tac toe application, how do you get leadership to understand? And one of the things that we have done is make sure that we, We can't just give a tool. We actually have to have someone sit down and show somebody how it works and have them build something with them alongside holding their hand. So then they understand. And then all of a sudden the light bulb clicks and you go, oh, this has huge implications. And we need to make sure that we're funding it properly, right? Yeah, Speaker 11 01:21:47 Well said. I absolutely agree with that. It's that aha moment you're trying to get. You can tell when someone sees what you show them the tool can do. It's that turn that they take, We call it an "aha" moment in our group. And usually, once that person sees what it can do, that's where they take off and start creating some of the items themselves. Another thing we do on top of that, Just to throw it out because that was kind of thrown out there about the learning, Is weekly or every two weeks. We have a meeting of all those guys and gals that are part building dashboards and solutions. Speaker 11 01:22:26 Coming into a meeting and seeing what everyone's doing, because that actually helps people come up with different ideas that maybe they haven't even thought of to see how others are using it almost like what we're doing here, right? But internally, Speaker 1 01:22:38 Yeah, yeah, like an AI lunch club. Yep, all right. What what do you got Marina? Speaker 12 01:22:43 Can you guys see this? Speaker 1 01:22:44 Yes, yes, Speaker 12 01:22:45 Awesome. So the first two play sum play five games to train your AI. Speaker 1 01:22:52 Um, Got to go middle square. I mean you got to. Speaker 12 01:22:54 Yeah, you got to go middle square, right? Speaker 1 01:22:56 Got to go middle. Come on. Speaker 12 01:22:58 Don't tell me it's going to freeze. Um, Speaker 1 01:23:01 This is why Gary doesn't like Versailles only that. Okay, Speaker 12 01:23:04 There we go It's learning. So I'm going to go this way. Okay, so it it. It used the min max, it it it. But it's also like showing me like, hey, I'm about to win. So it's giving me like these green lights. Oh, Speaker 1 01:23:20 So the green light is that's where it would go. It's predicting AI is close to winning. Speaker 12 01:23:24 Yeah, So it's giving me that FYI I'm about to win unless I block the move. And then it's like telling me okay, you know, hey I'm saving to memory so I can get smarter. And so I'm like okay fine, It looks like I have no other place here. It's going to be a draw. So it'll say, okay, tie game. And, then you just kind of go through the iterations using kind of the traditional kind of play. Sometimes it's going to say, okay, hey I'm starting to kind of remember this. It's going to start creating the memory log after like roughly five games. It'll you know you can try to. Speaker 12 01:24:11 Uh, uh, Try to now the first five games are hard because it's that min max and in tic tac toe. It's very hard to win. Um, But it's trying to force you to play smart uh because it knows that like this is the hard place. So you have to um kind of be your best to try to uh kind of create some patterns. And then you go one more. I think this is the fifth game before it starts doing the predictive. Speaker 1 01:24:40 You basically took war games, and you made it made it more friendly is what you did. Exactly. This is do you want to play a game? That's what this is. Speaker 12 01:24:48 Right, and then now that you're kind of past your five deterministic games, now you're into the Q learning mode. So now it's saying, okay, now I'm going to start predicting, I'm going to start being a little more, You know, I'm going to try to learn from what I've learned in the first five games. And initially you could technically win fairly easily. And when you beat it, you get like the. I made it for my. I kiddified it for my son so he can win his data science. I mean, the science fair and he did actually. We did this really cool thing with the board that like the brain and the knowledge and all that stuff. Speaker 12 01:25:30 Uh, but yeah, so that's kind of the idea. Uh, and then you kind of keep going. And the cool thing, yeah, I I I think it's awesome. You see kind of the memory. Yeah, Speaker 1 01:25:41 I was going to see. So what is what is it actually storing here? Like which. Speaker 13 01:25:46 Welcome. Today, we're going to get you oriented in Power Automate, The workflow automation tool built into Microsoft, 365 This session assumes you've never opened Power Automate before, So we'll go slowly and explain every screen button and term as we hit it. Nothing is assumed. If you've ever wished an email would file itself, an approval would chase itself down. Or a report would land in someone's inbox every Monday without you touching it. This is the tool that does that. By the end of this session, you'll know what Power Automate is, where to find it, How the screen is laid out and the handful of settings worth knowing before you build. And, then you can kind of go back and say, Speaker 12 01:26:23 Okay, let's say, if you have a question, I added the little chatbot here, and you could say, like, how do I win faster or how do I I win faster or whatever you want to ask or. You know, you can say, you know, what features are important to the learning? Like how do you predict? How is AI predicting the next moves? And, then you can kind of iterate, and it tries to teach you about like the different concepts that I loaded into the logic. Speaker 12 01:27:04 And I don't know if you can see this, But it kind of explains the the nearest neighbor a little bit. And then the Q learning and the win chances and how it's arriving at them. Um And, then it gives you like a little battle log that you can kind of keep going. Um So. Speaker 1 01:27:22 That's This came from Marina, your just understanding that the users had skepticism over AI learning. Speaker 12 01:27:32 Exactly right. And they The thing is, AI predictions are a lot, a lot of it is rooted in data science concepts. And being able to explain the concepts to someone who has no background in data science is, and myself included, I just like dabbled in it at Deloitte when we did some forensic analytics and data mining like 20 years ago. And I've done, you know, a lot of data work since then in compliance. But it wasn't data science per se. And. So the best way I could explain it is to make something that's like dumb it down to the level where a fourth I have wrote it for the fourth grader. And, that's what was like fine, because you know, we've all been out of school forever, right? Like yeah, I can only do you know, I can't do all these crazy uh you know. Speaker 12 01:28:28 Algebraic equations anymore. So. Speaker 1 01:28:31 Who among who among us hasn't done that prompt? Explain it to me like I'm I'm a I'm a fourth grader. So that's the who among us has not done that. Right. This is great. Well, Marina, thank you so much for for sharing this. This is great. Um, We are unfortunately right at time gang. Uh, as always, these meetings go very, very quickly. I want to thank you. Uh, Marina for sharing Jonathan for sharing for joining us. Looking forward to our next meeting. Our next meeting is on the 23rd. And if there's any ideas for topics, send them my way. We only learn when we show and tell. And so I would ask you all to be willing to be vulnerable. So you get some feedback from this group, and we'll all learn from what you're doing and the challenges that you're having. So thanks everybody. Good seeing you guys soon Thank you All right, take care Bye Thank you.
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05-19 Training: Microsoft Excel and Microsoft 365 File Management for AbilityFirst Staff (HIPAA-Compliant Collaboration)
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- > Date Time: 2026-05-19 12:59:40 > Location: Fair Oaks > Instructor: Chris Brown (Christi), VCIO for AbilityFirst through Crimson IT ## Summary On 2026-05-19, Christi delivered a recorded, practical training for AbilityFirst staff on foundational and intermediate Microsoft Excel and Microsoft 365 file management. The session focused on keeping files safe via AutoSave and cloud storage, organizing data with lists and tables, performing basic calculations, and leveraging collaboration features in OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams. Participants were oriented to Excel’s interface (grid, ribbon/search, Name Box, formula bar, number formats, sheets/workbooks) and learned best practices for saving to OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams to enable AutoSave and version history for recovery and collaboration. Productivity techniques included converting ranges to tables, freezing panes, filtering, sorting, conditional formatting basics, Text to Columns, date/time formatting, VLOOKUP for ID-to-name mapping, PivotTables (counts, percentages, averages), AutoSum, COUNT/COUNTA/COUNTBLANK, fill handle behavior, and using Crimson AI via Teams Help Desk for formula assistance. The training emphasized HIPAA compliance: store client data only in AbilityFirst OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams and apply appropriate document classification. A follow-up reference guide and recordings will be emailed, and the same content will be repeated Thursday at 2:00 p.m., with advanced Excel training planned for June/July. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Training Context and Logistics - Instructor role: Christi (Chris Brown), VCIO for AbilityFirst via Crimson IT, providing strategic enablement and training. - Goals: not to make spreadsheet experts in 60 minutes; ensure participants can keep files safe, organize simple lists, and perform time-saving calculations. - Housekeeping: camera off due to local slowness; session recorded; use reactions/hand-raising; facilitator maintains meeting notes and chat summaries. - Follow-up: step-by-step reference guide emailed and refined after Thursday’s session; recordings sent to all staff; repeat session Thursday at 2:00 p.m. ### 2. Excel Interface Orientation - Grid: columns (A, B, C…), rows (1, 2, 3…), cells (e.g., A1). - Ribbon and search: use tabs (Home, Insert, Draw, Page Layout) and search to jump to commands (Find/Replace, Freeze Panes). - Display adjustments: optimize for visibility; use meeting controls as needed. - Name Box: shows active cell address; type an address (e.g., D25) to jump there. - Formula bar and number formats: General, Date, Time, Fraction, Text, Currency, Accounting; Currency vs. Accounting differ in dollar sign placement. - Sheets/workbooks: multi-sheet workbooks; example mapping sheet for IDs to names to support formulas. ### 3. Saving, AutoSave, Version History, and Sync - AutoSave: turns on for files stored in OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams; does not work for local files (e.g., Downloads). Enables protection against data loss and supports collaboration. - Moving/uploading: enable AutoSave by moving/uploading local files to OneDrive; choose appropriate folders (e.g., internal operations, Agentic AI). - Version history: available only in OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams; shows edits by users over time; preview and restore prior versions to recover from mistakes or collaborative changes. - OneDrive sync: desktop status icons—green check (synced locally and cloud), cloud icon (online-only). Contact help desk if sync isn’t set up. ### 4. Opening and Sharing in Microsoft 365 - Modes: Open in App (full features, preferred), Open in Browser (most features, quick edits), Edit in Teams (minor changes during meetings). Opening mode does not change storage location. - Saving to Teams/SharePoint: File > Save a Copy shows Teams locations and channels; Shared tab in Teams channels hosts all documents. - Sharing and permissions: OneDrive links follow link settings; SharePoint/Teams links restricted to team/site members; collaborative editing supported with simultaneous updates. ### 5. Efficient Data Entry, Tables, Filtering, Sorting, Conditional Formatting - Navigation: Tab moves right; Enter moves down and returns under the starting column when cycling a row. - Headers and column organization: concise headers in row 1; keep one type of information per column; format columns appropriately (e.g., Short Date). - Freeze Panes: Freeze Top Row to keep headers visible. - Convert ranges to tables: Ctrl+T; confirm range and headers; apply readable table styles and bold headers; tables add built-in filter/sort dropdowns. - Filtering and sorting: filter by keywords or department; clear filters to restore data; sort IDs/Names A to Z. - Conditional formatting: highlight cells based on criteria (e.g., dates within April); tables enhance combined filtering and conditional formatting. ### 6. Text to Columns, Date/Time Formatting, and Lookups - Text to Columns: Data > Text to Columns; use “Delimited” with “Other” (e.g., delimiter “T”) to split combined date-time; label resulting columns; format dates via Short Date or custom patterns (e.g., DD\MM\YYYY). - VLOOKUP for ID-to-name mapping: insert a “workflow name” column; VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array on Sheet2, col_index_num=2, FALSE) for exact matches; use fill handle to populate through filtered lists. ### 7. PivotTables, Percentages, Averages, and Counting - Pivot filters and counts: filter by Status (e.g., error); view counts of status; adjust to show errors vs. success. - Percentages: create formulas (success/total), format as Percentage; use relative references and fill handle to propagate; sample success rates per row and grand totals. - AutoSum and averages: use AutoSum dropdown (Sum, Average, Count Numbers, Min, Max); compute overall averages (e.g., success rate). - COUNT functions: COUNT (numeric), COUNTA (non-blank), COUNTBLANK (blanks); use status bar for quick counts; note differences when counting within PivotTables. ### 8. Crimson AI via Teams Help Desk - Access: open Teams Help Desk, authenticate, start a chat, ask plain-language Excel formula questions (specify “in Microsoft Excel”). - Workflow: AI provides formulas and creates tickets; copy formulas into Excel; request ticket closure when done. ### 9. Data Governance and HIPAA Compliance - Storage: client-identifying information must reside only in AbilityFirst OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams; do not store in Downloads, personal cloud services (Google Drive, Box, Dropbox), or USB drives. - Classification: apply appropriate document classifications (Unrestricted, Restricted, Confidential, Confidential view only); consider Protect Workbook features for PII. - External sharing: follow secure methods required by partners (e.g., DMH using Microsoft). ## Assignments - [ ] Save all active Excel workbooks to OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams; avoid working from Downloads or local-only folders; verify AutoSave is enabled. - [ ] Practice using the Name Box to navigate to specific cells (e.g., D25); confirm understanding of cell addressing. - [ ] Experiment with number formats on a sample table: apply Date, Time, Fraction, Text, Currency, Accounting; observe display differences, especially Currency vs. Accounting. - [ ] Use ribbon search to locate commands (Find/Replace, Freeze Panes); execute at least one search-driven command. - [ ] Create a two-sheet workbook: Sheet1 with a list of IDs; Sheet2 with an ID-to-name mapping; prepare for lookup formulas. - [ ] Move any existing local files needed for collaboration to appropriate OneDrive/Teams folders; confirm sync status icons and contact help desk if needed. - [ ] Open Version History on a cloud-saved workbook; preview available versions to understand recovery options. - [ ] Practice saving a copy of a file to a Teams channel via File > Save a Copy; confirm it appears under the Shared tab; share OneDrive and Teams/SharePoint links to observe permission differences. - [ ] Open a Teams/SharePoint file using Open in App, Open in Browser, and Edit in Teams; note feature differences and choose modes for tasks. - [ ] Convert a range to a table with headers using Ctrl+T; verify range, apply a readable style, bold headers; use Freeze Top Row. - [ ] Apply filters and sorts on a table (e.g., filter by “cleanup,” sort IDs/Names A to Z); clear filters to restore the dataset; test basic conditional formatting (e.g., highlight dates in April). - [ ] Split combined date-time values using Text to Columns with delimiter “T”; format dates using custom “DD\MM\YYYY.” - [ ] Build a PivotTable showing counts of status (error vs. success); compute success rates with cell-referenced percentage formulas; use AutoSum to calculate the average success rate. - [ ] Explore COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK on non-pivot ranges; compare results with the status bar Count. - [ ] Use Teams Help Desk (Crimson AI) to request plain-language Excel formulas and close the ticket after receiving help. - [ ] Review and apply AbilityFirst document classifications for workbooks containing PII; audit storage to ensure all client data is only in AbilityFirst OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams; remove any instances from prohibited locations. - [ ] Attend the repeat Excel training Thursday at 2:00 p.m.; review the emailed summary and training video; prepare questions for the June/July advanced course.
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- May 19, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:30 Oh yeah, almost has like the the air things. Good morning, Speaker 2 00:00:59 Afternoon, all of the times of day. We're going to get started in just a moment. I am going to wait and see who all joins. Just a quick heads up, I am going to keep my camera off today. I am in Fair Oaks; however, I am going to keep my camera off today just because I've been having some issues with slowness on my side. But. Speaker 1 00:01:23 No worries for you guys. I'm going to do some introductions and things in a moment, and we're going to see who all joins. I'm going to put you guys on mute for one moment. So I can go remind a few people that we are about to start training. I'm not sure. Speaker 1 00:02:25 You know, even searching. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He stole it. He said he was cold. I. Speaker 2 00:02:36 Mean that that was not a gift. You, there was a moral statement in that. And it was it was you were taking off with it. Oh no. Uh, Speaker 1 00:02:46 So those go to Chris, please run me. Yes, okay, scratch that you can. Speaker 2 00:02:57 All right, I'm gonna pull my door shut just slightly. I've got a few people about to join. I think, I hope. I've given them grief, so we'll see if they join. Darnell, anybody you're talking to right now can also join us. Speaker 3 00:03:17 No worries. Speaker 2 00:03:23 And I am going to record this, so I'll actually turn it on so that people can watch. I'm going to take one more bite of pretzel because I'm hungry. I haven't had lunch yet. And then we'll get started. I'll give people time to jump on, while I chew up this little tiny pretzel. Speaker 2 00:04:10 Team, I am doing some Excel training and if you would like to jump on, I could appreciate the help. Speaker 2 00:04:18 For anybody here is the meeting information, and this is going from 1 to 2 p m, feel free to jump on, but I need an assistant for this training. Speaker 1 00:04:37 It is a Microsoft Excel training. Speaker 2 00:04:47 All right, we're going to get started. I am going to bring up a few things. I'm going to be sharing my screen. Let's go over some housekeeping things real quick. Just a quick heads up, sorry, I was about to sneeze. We are going to go over quite a bit of information. So I am going to send out a summary later today with some links for you guys. I am also going to send you a link to this training document To this training video because it is going to be recorded. I am going to turn on facilitator. So facilitator will be available in in the chat, and you'll see them come on. Facilitator, I call her she, She is very good at sending out notes and doing summaries and things like that. So I am going to add her to this conversation. Speaker 2 00:05:41 And then just another heads up for you guys. If if you guys have attended any of my last trainings, you know that I am very much about reactions and hand raising. So feel feel I cannot speak today. Feel free to utilize those features. So I'm going to share my screen so you can see it. You guys get to see Adrian on here for raise your hand, it's located right here, For React, it's located right here. If you want to change your view at any time, you can change it from here. If you have access to notes, you'll be able to see the notes as the meeting goes along. These notes will get filled out by Ms. Facilitator and then she's also going to enter our chat and keep us on task. I did not give her an agenda for this training, but just be aware that she is going to. Speaker 2 00:06:34 Remind us how much time we have left and put any notes out there that we have. Okay. Now, I want to introduce myself, just in case anybody watching the video doesn't know who I am, but everybody on this meeting knows who I am. I know they know who they are, because Darnell has easy access to my office and knows where I'm at right now. So good morning or afternoon, it is afternoon. I haven't had lunch yet, but that's okay. I'm Chris Brown. You can call me Chris or Christy. I'm the VCIO for AbilityFirst through Crimson IT, and just a heads up of what that means, it doesn't mean I'm a tech. I am technical, but I'm not a tech. What it means is I help AbilityFirst on strategic business strategic items where it relates to IT. So things like giving you guys training, giving you guys the tools you need, working hand in hand with the business. That's what my job is. Speaker 2 00:07:31 And I love it 'cause you guys do amazing things here. So today's session that we're going to be doing is about Microsoft Excel. There is another training on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. not 1:00 p.m. it's actually at 2:00 p.m. You're welcome to attend both of them, but it is the same information. I will also be recording both trainings, and we'll be sending out the recording to all AbilityFirst staff. I do want to be upfront. We're not going to turn you guys into spreadsheet experts in 60 minutes. That's not the goal. The goal is to make sure you walk out of here, virtually walk out of here, knowing how to keep your files safe, How to organize a simple list of data and how to do a couple calculations that is hopefully going to save you some real time every week. Now I also put together reference guide with everything we're covering today. I will be sending it via email. Speaker 2 00:08:27 And after the session or after Thursday's session, I am going to fine tune some of it based on this meeting. So just be aware, You don't have to take notes on everything that guide has everything written out step by step. But we will have hands on moments throughout today's session. So if you want to follow along, you'll be able to follow along. If you hit a snag, you can raise your hand and we'll sort it out in the meeting or Feel free to reach out to the help desk. I'm going to show you guys some really cool things about the help desk in a moment that might help you with this training. All right, so um I am going to get started on here, but show of hands, how many of you are pretty comfortable in Excel already? Somewhat okay. Speaker 2 00:09:19 No worries. If you do see people joining in this meeting, just says that they're my staff at Crimson, so they're going to join in to help out with some stuff. We're going to show you all of this from a Crimson point of view. Let me get meeting out of the way so that you guys can see some of the things that we'll work in through together. There will be people jumping in and leaving that might help me out with some things. So, I'm going to give you guys a quick orientation so that you know what we're looking at, and we're all looking at the same thing. I'm also let me do this. Let me change my display settings so that you guys can see my screen better because I have a large screen and I can see things, but suddenly it might look smaller to everybody else. Okay, all right, so I changed my display settings. Speaker 2 00:10:11 My meeting note taker is up, so we have that. And now we're in Excel. Now this should look the same for everybody throughout, but I'm going to go over how it all looks. What you see here is Excel grid. Columns run left to right, and they're labeled usually A B C D E F G all the way over. And then the rows run top to bottom and that's labeled with numbers. And then everywhere that A cell or everywhere that a column and a row meet is called a cell. So each of these blocks, each of these squares are a cell. Okay, the very top leftmost cell is A1, and that's the title and the name of the cell. That's also where your cursor lands when you first open a new file. Okay, across this top right here, this is the ribbon. Um it's also called menu and. Speaker 2 00:11:06 Microsoft is really good about changing things up on here, so I'll talk to you guys about that in a moment. But you are going to want to think about this as your toolbox. It's organized in tabs, so Home tab, Insert, Draw, Page Layout etc. If you ever can't find something that you need, um you can always go up to the search. So sometimes I um I lose track of where the Find or Replace is. And so what I can go in here, I can go find. Or I can do replace and it'll pop up. So you do have that ability. Sometimes when I forget how to freeze a row, that happens a lot, I'll see that up here. Okay? And I can search for it in the search thing. And Excel does jump right to it when you search and click on it. All right? So three things I want you to notice : First at the top left corner. There's a toggle. This says AutoSave. Speaker 2 00:12:04 Okay, We're going to spend a lot, and we're not going to spend a lot of time on it, but I want you guys to be aware of it. It's the most important thing in this entire training. How, many of you have worked on a document, and then power went out and you lost your document? Autosave is going to protect you from that. So just a quick heads up on that part. You also have a save button in here, you have an undo button which is a lifesaver. Also, you can click on your keyboard. You can hold down the Control key and hit Z, and that'll undo things. And then you have a redo. Let's see, let's say you Control-Z too many times, you can undo the redo. And so that's a Control-Y. We can't do it right now because we've not undone anything, but that's there. All right? Second is the Name Box. Okay? Speaker 2 00:12:59 So this right here is your name box. This is the next thing I want you to see. If I click on a different cell, it's going to change the number in that name box. So right here, that's your name box. It shows you the address of whatever cell you're currently in. That's how I like to think about it. It's an address. Now my daughter will tell you it's like a chessboard to her, So if you play chess, that's to her, that's how it's similar. I don't play chess that often. She beats me too much. So I stopped playing with her. I play with a ten-year-old, the ones I can beat with chess, but that's how you want to think about it. Okay? When you click on things like this, It will update automatically, and you can click here and type in any number you want to. Speaker 2 00:13:57 And press enter and it jumps right to that cell. So just a heads up for you guys on that one. That's a fun one. Um, I also want to show you guys the formula bar that's right here. So let's say I'm putting in numbers and facts and figures, and I want this number to always be a date on this entire column. So I can just click here and highlight all of them, and I can go to general, and I can change it to dates. I can also change it to time. Speaker 2 00:14:28 Um, I can also put in a couple different things I want it to be. If I want it to be a fraction, I can do fraction. If I want it to be just straight text, I can put straight text in. Currency and accounting just shows you the differences in the two displays. All right? So once you guys will be aware of that, um if you want to do a dollar amount, you've got let's say i want to do 1200 right here and right here I can put one in as currency, and then I can put one in as accounting. And now, if I go here and I go here, you can see the differences in it just where the dollar sign is put. Okay? So be aware of that. I'm going to undo right there. Okay? So, I had to back up. Speaker 2 00:15:24 So I want you guys to be aware of that. It is pretty cool, but it is a little different. So it's how you want those saved. Now let's talk about, Let's go back to the auto save for you guys. Since people are joining in. If I'm in here, if I save my file to OneDrive or to SharePoint or to Teams, then auto save is turned on automatically. Speaker 2 00:15:54 Darnell, it searches only in the sheet that you're on. Okay. So I'm going to save this file and I am going to call it. I'm going to save it into my OneDrive. Now, for today, I'm going to switch from OpenDocument to Excel. Oh, I had to scroll up. There's my Excel. Some of you guys might see open document in there. And I'm going to put in there training, not trash training. I'm just going to call it training fund. And I'm not going to give it a sensitivity label because and I am going to talk about sensitivity labels in a different training in the future, but I'm not going to do that right now. I'm just going to leave that as is. I can choose what folder I want to put this in. So i'm going to go crimson IT oops, not that one got gotta go back. Speaker 2 00:16:52 Okay, Going to go to my documents and then I'm going to go and look for my Ability First folder because that's where I do all my training materials. And I'm going to scroll right past it and ignore it. And I'm just going to save it right here. Now, it's now saved up to the cloud. And, if something was to happen and I accidentally dropped my laptop off of my balcony, and it crashed. Everything that is in my computer that was saved to OneDrive will automatically get loaded on another computer. Everything that's in downloads or anything that's in another location, it's not backed up by OneDrive won't get moved over. So make sure that all your files that you're working on is saved into OneDrive or saved into Teams or SharePoint. Now because I saved that into OneDrive, Darnell, what happened up here? Speaker 3 00:17:57 Um, So you had to click the auto save because you didn't. Speaker 2 00:17:60 No, it automatically turned on because I saved it. Because it saved into OneDrive, it automatically turns on auto save. Oh cool. So just be aware of that. Um want to point out a few other things for you guys. Now that auto save is on? Oh by the way, this is the catch, Auto save only works when your files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint or Teams. It does not work on a file sitting in my downloads folder. So just a heads up, all right? Now, I want to show you guys a few other things down here at the bottom left. You have sheets. You can open up as many sheets as you want and work on them. This is called a workbook, the complete file that we're in and the bottom is sheets. Speaker 2 00:18:50 I'm going to pull up something I was working on earlier today. It's not going to make sense to you, but I want you guys to be, to see it because we're going to work on some things in here. Um, So just so that you're aware of this is a list of triggers that I've been working on. Um, it's a report. So um, I just want you guys to be, to be aware that it's here and I have different sheets in here. So in here in my sheet sheet one is a pivot table Which we'll talk, we'll touch slightly on pivot tables later on. Sheet two is another set of data and I use it for formulas. So, it's just random IDs from my database and then the actual name of what they are. My version of, that's the layman terms for what it is. Okay? Speaker 2 00:19:39 So just a heads up on this. I want you guys to see this because this is how I work in files when I'm in Excel. So I'm looking at this report and all I had was workflow, IDs and I needed to match my workflow IDs to the actual names because I don't know what L8ZGUQ, I don't know what that is. I'm human, I don't speak this. So, i needed to see actual workflow name. And so that's what I did. I made it match. Now, I'll go into how to do that in a moment when I talk you guys through formulas. All right? So, sorry, I'm about to sneeze and I do want you guys.I do want to show you guys some things on this. This file is not saved in my OneDrive. So because it's not saved in my OneDrive, Adrian, what do you notice about this file? Speaker 3 00:20:42 About the entire file? Speaker 2 00:20:43 No, just about what we've been talking about so far. Speaker 3 00:20:48 Um, about the. sorry, I haven't been paying attention. I'm just confused on the question. Speaker 2 00:20:56 Okay. Uh this file is actually saved in my downloads. So because it's saved in my one in my downloads, what do you notice about this document? What is not automatically turned on? Speaker 3 00:21:09 Oh it'll say autosave. Speaker 2 00:21:10 Auto save Yep, Okay, so because it's not in here, if I try to turn on auto save, what does it give me? Speaker 3 00:21:20 A message. And I've had this message so I'm very happy that you're going over this. Yes. Speaker 2 00:21:26 So one auto save only works if a document is saved into OneDrive, SharePoint or Teams. So this is further proof. So I'm just going to click on OneDrive and it's going to upload it. It's not going to ask me where to save it. It's just going to upload it, And that's so that's a quick and dirty way. Now, if I click on this down arrow, I can actually change the location of it. So I'm going to go and I'm going to save this. I need to save this into my internal documents. So I'm going to click on documents. I'm going to go find my internal operations and my Agentic AI because that's where I want this to be, and i'm going to say move it here. So now it's been moved And because it's moved to another location within my OneDrive, autosave is still on. Speaker 2 00:22:09 It's not going to change. Now, Another pretty important feature I want you guys to be aware of is version control or versioning. Version history is another way to talk about it. So, the reason why I want to show you this is if I'm in a document and other people have access to this document, and they're making changes to the document, then I, Can go back and change what they've updated. Or what if I make a mistake? What, if Moose jumps on my keyboard while I walk away and go to the bathroom, and I'm clicked on a random cell. He's going to change what's in that cell. And then if I get back and I don't notice that he's made that change, because there's a lot of data here and it's not that pretty, it's not that noticeable, then I need to figure out what happened. And so what I can do is I can use version history. So if I go here and i go to version history. Speaker 2 00:23:07 It's going to bring up a little button on the side, and it's showing me only this version history. Now, what happened with this version history? Why don't I see what all I did before? Speaker 1 00:23:27 Anybody? This. Speaker 2 00:23:30 Is where you guys can make a guess, a hypothetical. Speaker 4 00:23:32 Okay. No, I think I know because, There are others that have been saved. So this is saying for this moment, this is the one that was saved. And if you want to see what happened before that, you would look at the older ones than this one. Speaker 2 00:23:48 Someone You did you explained it well, butum let me go give you guys a heads up. Version history does not work if it's not saved to OneDrive or SharePoint. Speaker 2 00:24:02 So it only showed what happened since I saved it to OneDrive. Now, I have a document here and I'm going to just scroll up in here. If I go in here and I click on the down arrow and I go to version history here, this is a file that's been saved into Teams. I can see who all modified. So, I modified, April modified. I can go all the way back, all the way down. Speaker 2 00:24:33 And I can see all the modifications since the beginning of the year because that's when the document was created. January 6, 2026. Okay. We've been we update this almost weekly and sometimes several times a day. So version history only works if the file is saved in SharePoint or OneDrive or Teams. So I'm going to close out of this, I'm going to minimize this, that way you guys can see it is very similar to the auto save. Okay. And I want you guys to understand every time autosave captures a meaningful change, SharePoint will save a snapshot of that moment. That's what the version history is. It is your safety net if something goes wrong, someone deletes a batch of rows by accident, a formula gets broken, A cat walks across keyboard, or you change your mind about something you did last Tuesday. You can click on any version to preview it. Speaker 2 00:25:31 And it will open up in a new window. And if you want to go back to that point, you just click restore. Takes about 10 seconds, costs you nothing other than the fact that you've now overwritten everything you did. Okay? Now I want to show you guys something within saving in Teams and SharePoint. So that file that I had opened up for you guys, let me go back to it. Speaker 2 00:26:01 It is saved in SharePoint, okay, or actually technically Teams. If I go into Info here, I can see a lot of information in here. I can even see the version history. I can see who authored it, who was the last person who modified it, which was me. Um, I can open that file location as well. Up here I can see where it's saved. So OneDrive Crimson IT Operations Leadership Documents Operations Leadership And then here's the name of the file. So that's a team folder. What, if I want to take this file right here that I'm working on and I want to share it to Teams? It's very easy. All I do is go to File, Save a Copy, And my Quick Access will show all my Teams files or all my Teams locations. So I've got Crimson IT Projects Admin. So if I go in here to My Teams and click on it, um. Speaker 2 00:26:58 If I go down here to my channels, you're going to see all the same images here. So Crimson IT, MS Projects, Admin General. So there's a bunch of them in here. I'm going to minimize this back again. And I can see they line up with this. Okay? I can show more so I can see all of them, all my teams, all my recent locations where I can save things. So if I want to save something into one of these, all I need to do is just click on. MS. I'm going to use MS as an option, and then I have options in here that I can go to. Okay, so I can go in here, I can choose what folder applies to it. Now, I'm not going to save a copy right now because nobody wants to see this report. But for you guys, It's pretty important for you guys to realize that it's very easy to save and open files in Teams. Just from the document itself. Okay? And this is where a lot of your shared files should be living. Speaker 2 00:27:57 Oh, sorry. Now quickly, just to remind you guys, if you guys attended last week's training, I'm going to show you guys this again. Teams files to access a file that you saved. So let's say I save this in our SOPs. If I click on SOP and up here there's a shared tab. That's where the files live. It used to say files Microsoft recently changed it to shared sometime this year. But everything is in here, and you can click on a document and you can edit it. So like there's an SOP list here. Um and so on. So there's a lot of detail and information here. Um, any questions so far? Speaker 4 00:28:41 So if I save something to my desktop, It's not going to be on autosave. Speaker 2 00:28:46 Unless so most people's desktop is auto syncing to OneDrive. So you should be good but, A quick and easy way to check it is, if you go in here, I'm going to click on ability first. This is a folder in my OneDrive. If you click on your desktop, click, you can see there's a status field here. I don't have very many files up here. Anything with a green check mark means it's residing on my hard drive and in OneDrive. Speaker 2 00:29:20 It is residing on my hard drive and in OneDrive. Anything with a cloud means that it's only on the cloud, But there's going to be a shortcut here so that you can see it, and you can click on it and open it. Does that make sense? Yes. Awesome. All right, I don't save much on my desktop. Most of my stuff is in My Documents. So that's how you can tell if it's syncing, If it's not syncing call the help desk, they can set it up to sync. Okay. Speaker 2 00:29:51 Um, all right. So we've gone through a little bit of that. Um, But I do want to make sure a key thing to understand that files on a Teams channel are shared with everybody in the channel automatically. So if it's a location like I'm part of the HR team for AbilityFirst, um, Any of the files that are located there is sh- that I save. There is going to be shared with Alma. With Michonne and anybody else that has access to it. However, because I've saved it there, Adrian and Darnell can't see it because they're not a part of the HR department. So that's the key thing to remember. Everyone can open in that location, and everyone can edit it at the same time. In fact, this document that I showed you earlier, uh, the operations one right here? Everyone updates up and when we're in a meeting together. Speaker 2 00:30:46 We'll all be updating it all at the same time and share our screen. So just be aware of that. It makes life a little bit nicer. Now, if I want to, if I want to share a file, What I'm going to do is I'm going to click up here and go to Share and I can either share or copy a link. And if I copy a link, anyone that I share that link to will be able to access it. If it's saved to my OneDrive. Now, If I share a link and create a link for anything in SharePoint or Teams, The only people that can see that link is the people who are part of that team. So be aware of that. All right, I'm going to oops, I'm going to put a file up here. It's in the chat and you guys can click on this file. If you make changes, I can undo the changes by going into. Speaker 2 00:31:43 Version history. So just be aware of that. Now, if you want to open that file, Go ahead, and you guys can will see that anywhere that you've clicked and anywhere I've clicked will be changed in colors. And that's intentional. All right? Now, there's three ways to open a Teams file compared to something on your computer. I want to outline this. You have the option to open it in app, Which is basically what you see on my screen. I would rather work in the app, and this is just personal for me because I get the full Excel experience. Every feature is there. Autosave is on. If I'm going to spend a lot of time in a file, I'm going to be using this system. If I am on a borrowed computer or I don't have Excel installed, you can do open in browser. You get most of the features but not all of it. Speaker 2 00:32:41 That system's fine for quick edits in a pinch. Okay, now if you edit in Teams, That's good for tiny changes during a meeting when you don't want to switch windows. Not for anything that requires real formatting or formulas. So just be aware of this. However, that's only where you open the file. Where the file is saved at makes no difference on that file at all. Okay? All right, let's get into the actual spreadsheet. This is where Excel actually lives. You're entering, you're organizing information in here. I want to give you a few habits that's going to save you a lot of cleanup later. First, I use the tab button on my keyboard to move from cell to cell and I use enter to go down. Okay? Enter always goes back to the first cell under the cell that you started in. Speaker 2 00:33:38 So if I change over here and I'm on this column, if I press enter, it's going to just go straight down. But if I'm on B2 or not B2, but let's say B 13 and I tab over to H 13 and then I press enter, it's going to take me to B22. Now the reason why I'm skipping numbers is have a filter on. I want to select all. And i'll undo my filter so that you guys can see it. Speaker 2 00:34:09 If anybody else is in the document, It's going to pop up that error message letting, you know other people are in it. You can go on through it. So on this one, I'm going to go to C and I'm going to start C2 and I'm going to tab over. And then I'm going to, I see that there's a report over here. I'm going to press enter. I'm going to go back to C3 now because where i started. So just be aware of that um, You want to put headers into row one and keep them short. So just be aware of that. This another habit. I try to keep one type of information per column. So I have my ID here, I have my started at, the status of my flow in this column, this one type of information per column. So my started at. Speaker 2 00:35:04 I want to change this one because it's listed as general. I want to change this one, change this one to a short date. And so now that's automatically listed as a short date if possible. Now, Um the formatting is a little off on this, so it may not work and I'm going to show you how to fix that a little bit later. But you have that general and then date. So started at is a date and stopped at is general. Okay, um. And you want to make sure you organize this. If it's only dates, you want to put only dates in that column. If it's for names, only names. If you mix columns, It's going to make it really hard to sort, and you can't run any math on them. All right? Now headers are up here. There is an option to freeze this line, but headers are really good so you know what you're looking at. Okay? Um now. Speaker 2 00:36:02 I'm gonna delete this information right here. This was a report I was running on. So I'm gonna delete that 'cause I don't need it. Um, I want to turn all of this into a table. Now you're in a sheet right now, But I wanna turn it into a table because a table is going to be uh, a little bit easier for you to edit, to do data things like that. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna highlight. Speaker 2 00:36:31 All of my data. Oh, I forgot how long this is. Let me go back to sheet two. I'm going to highlight all of this. I have my ID and my name here, so this my headers and I only have 55 cells in here. So I'm going to highlight this and I'm going to press control T on my keyboard and I'm going to see a pop-up come up and say, create table. Now, This the data. So i want to verify it starts with A1, which is this first section. And then it ends with C55, which is correct. So I'm going to scroll down here, C column 55. Now, one small thing. I don't really have any data in the C field. In fact, if I look at this, all my data is in the B field. So I'm going to change the C. I'm going to delete that C and I'm going to type B. So now I've edited it to make sure it's right. I'm also going to choose that my table has headers, which it does so my first one is ID. Speaker 2 00:37:25 My second one is name, and I'm going to say okay. And now it's all in this pretty table. It's very pretty. Honestly, I don't want blue though. I want purple. And I don't really like that purple. It's too bright, so I'm going to hit down. You know what? I kind of like this right here, This medium So. I'm going to click on the medium Oh. Nope, That's too dark Uh Let's go with this one Okay, i like that That's kind of pretty Now, I've just updated my table and made it pretty so I could see it better. And I really don't like the ID and Name just being white, so let me just give that a different color here. I like.I don't really like that one. Well, I kind of do, but I like this green better. And I can't really see the words, So I'm going to change it. So my letters are A and I'm going to boldface it. So i can see it better. Can't really tell a difference but i'm going to keep that. Um. Speaker 2 00:38:24 I just formatted my table to make it pretty. And that's key when you're giving out data and you want to organize it so people can understand it. When I'm looking at a table, sometimes I go cross-eyed. I'll spend six to eight hours in a document, in an Excel document. And so I do format mine as a table. But there's more to doing a table than just making it pretty. Everything that we're about to do works better in a table. Okay, I just want to tell you that. So let's do this first. When you're spending a lot of time in data, you want to keep your header at the top. All right? So what I'm going to do here is I want to freeze that top row. This is a quality of life feature. So I'm going to highlight this, even though I don't have to, but I'm going to highlight this ID right here. Highlight name just because I can. Don't have to but I want to and then i'll click on view. Speaker 2 00:39:23 And in here is an option to freeze panes. I'm going to choose freeze top row. All right, so now when I scroll, My headers stay at the top of the page, because when you're scrolling and I'll show you this other one, when you're scrolling, you don't see what your headers are on this one. Okay? All, you see is the data, but I want to know what I'm looking at. 'Cause, sometimes my start date might not be the end date, and I'll look at it wrong, and I'll pull the wrong information. So this is a quality of life feature. All right? And another thing a table does is it gives you these dropdowns. These are not just decorative. They are another quality of life feature. Let me show you what they do. So, let's say I want to search in here and I only want to show any of the items that are cleanup, so I'm going to type in cleanup, Speaker 2 00:40:20 And I'm going to say okay. All right, here's all my flows. This is actually a it's a naming convention of something I do. So I'm going to look at all this. So anything that started with CL because I typed in CL instead of cleanup, I'm going to fix that. I'm going to do cleanup, so I can just type in part of the word. Okay, That looks a lot better. So i might hit. Okay, Well. Now i only have these cleanups. This is very nice. Now I can go in and say, Oh, okay. I can edit this. I can write my notes and things like that. So, they do allow you to filter out so you can do different things in that. Now, if I want to clear that, I'm going to say clear filter from name and now I'm back to where I'm at. All right? If, this had department information because sometimes i'll get an employee listing from HR, and i only want to see the people that are located. Speaker 2 00:41:19 Or in maybe say the finance department, I can filter by that department and I can run reports on it. So this is a really useful feature. There's a lot of other things you can do with it, but it will allow you to filter certain things. If I have cost in here, I could filter by anything above $ 5 or anything above $ 3 or whatever my costs are. So it allows you to get granular with your data. Now when it It just hides them. It's not deleted. So when I clear the filter from the data table, everything comes back. I can also sort. So, let's say I am working on something and I need my IDs sorted from A to Z. Well, now it's sorted from A to Z. All I did was click on the down arrow and I choose to sort. Now, I could do the same thing with name. I can click on the down arrow and I can say sort A to Z, and now my name field is. Speaker 2 00:42:18 Sorted instead of the ID. Okay, you can also do some conditional items from this. If you have things color coded, you can do it by color. If I want to go in here, I'm going to go to Home and I'm going to go back to my other file. Let me just let's see. I'm going to quickly highlight this might freeze us, but we're going to try it. So I'm going to highlight all of this. Oh, no, there's too much data here. But if I was to highlight this and turn it into a table, I could filter. I could say, conditional formatting and I want it to highlight anything from. Let's say between if I have dates, and let's say, I only want to highlight things that came in on April, I could highlight it. So. Speaker 2 00:43:12 Just a quick heads up. There's a lot of useful features on that. We're going to do a more advanced Excel course in June or July, and we'll get into conditional formatting and different things like that. So I want you guys to be aware of it. All right. Um, I also want to talk about formulas that actually is going to help you. So these start fields right here, They're not really helpful for me right now because there's too much data in it. So I am going to, I'm going to copy my start fields and I'm going to paste them over here. And I'm just going to paste them as their values because I like doing it that way. And this one's not filtered, So I'm going to re- highlight all my stuff and I'm just going to filter it. Now when you do that, It'll turn off filters, and you just go back in and click on it again. Now, I want it to break out this information. Now this information is shown general. Speaker 2 00:44:09 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to highlight that entire row and I'm going to go to Data. It's one of my favorite features. And I'm going to say Text To Columns. And I want it, because it shows a T and a Z, I want it to do this. I want to go Text To Columns and I am going to go in and do Delimited because I want it to separate each by something. I'm going to click on Other, and I want it to separate at the T. And now it's going to remove the T from here. So I'm going to have a date, and I'm going to have a time. So I'm going to go ahead, I see that it's there, it's going to show me where the line is. And I'm gonna say Next. And that's exactly what I want it to look like, but I'm gonna change it to Date and. Speaker 2 00:45:09 I, well, no. You know what? I'm going to leave that as general because I'm going to show you what's going to happen in a moment. So I'm going to have that in here and I'm going to say finish. It's going to move all of these right here to dates. And all of these over here is the started at time. So I'm gonna say start at time. That way you have it in here. So I just separated this, and that makes my life a little bit easier, because then I have all these dates here. Now I'm going to highlight this column and I am going to go back to my Home button and I'm going to format this as a date. So I'm going to do a short date. And you know what? I don't really like how this date is, so I'm going to go down and I'm going to say More Number Formats. And I'm gonna open up Format Cells, and we'll click on Date, and i'm gonna decide which way i want it. So maybe i want it to look like this. A couple different things i could do. Speaker 2 00:46:08 I could do this type of date. I could do this kind of date, and that goes back to where we were originally, sorta. Hmm. Which kind of date do I want? Let me just go back to this or let me go to custom. And I want it to be DD backslash MM backslash Year, but I wanted the four-year format. So I went into custom and this is how I did did the date. Now, you also have some other options. You can go in here and take a look at it. Um, I am going to go ahead and say okay, And now it did day month and year European style, if you guys understand that. So that's how I changed my formatting on this. Now if I go in here and. Speaker 2 00:47:04 I update my pivot table information, which I have right here. I can go into my pivot table. We'll go over that in more in depth. I refresh. Now I have a new item down here. Oh, nope, it didn't add it. That's okay. I will fix that later. I could go in here and sort by date. I can't sort by date anymore, So I can do that now on that sheet that I was working through So. That's how you can separate text All right? Now for formula, one of the things I did, and this is a key one, is I didn't have this workflow name in here at all. And I did not know what. I wanted to see all the workflows that errored out. So here's my status and I wanted to see all that errored out. So I'm gonna uncheck success and I'm gonna say, okay. And now I can see my workflow here, but let's pretend like this column doesn't exist. So i'm going to hide it. Speaker 2 00:48:01 And all I know is I have these workflow IDs. This the way my spreadsheet looked before I manipulated it earlier. So, I want to match these workflow IDs with the actual names. So, in sheet two, this that table I have. So, I'm going to go over here to file and I'm going to insert another column here and I want to see workflow name. Speaker 2 00:48:30 So I'm gonna put my title in here, press enter. And only on these errors do I wanna see the workflow name. So I'm still filtered, which is okay. I want to do that formula. So I'm gonna do a lookup formula. I'm gonna tell the system, I'm gonna do a VLOOKUP and let me go up here, VLOOKUP it's one of my favorite formulas. It's going to pull up here, I want it to do the lookup value, I wanted to look up this workflow ID right there, Okay, now table array, this is where the data lives to look it up. So I'm going to go here and I am going to select this right here. Well, it's not going to let me. Okay, I'm going to click load sheet two A2B. That's exactly what I want it to do. So I want it to select this entire table, and I wanted to bring me back the second column. Speaker 2 00:49:28 Okay, that was in that table. 'Cause on this sheet, I had ID and name, but I really wanna see what the name is compared. So I'm gonna go back here to file and I want it to bring me back the second column. All right? Now my range lookup is the logical value. If I want it to find the closest match in the first column, and I want it to find the exact match, I'm gonna type in false. Speaker 2 00:49:58 It doesn't have to be capitalized, but I do that. So I type in false. I want it to find the exact match, not the first logical value. I don't want it to guesstimate. Gonna say false and I'm gonna say okay. Now, oop, say okay, say okay. There we go. Now it's there. Now I'm gonna fill so I've got a fill handle here, and you can see as a hover over it, I change into a plus sign So I'm going to double click that fill, and it's going to go all the way down to the end of my thing and show me. It's going to fill out all of these, which is good because I need to see this. Now I know what systems are failing on me because it fails. Okay? And you guys can do that with anything. It's not, it's going to be very easy for you guys to do. Now, What I did was I made a pivot table from it. And like I said, we'll go into pivot tables later. Speaker 2 00:50:56 But I wanted to see how many of each item we have, not how many failed, but how many of each item. 'Cause I need to make some calculations. So I'm going to delete my calculations I made. I want to make a count of my status that failed. So, I want to filter by that status. So, I'm going to click on this down arrow. Nope, that's not it. Let me go back to it. And I'm going to do status Let me add it into the filters. I'm going to click on the filters here. I'm going to say error. I only want to see the errors. There's all my errors. Okay, now I know which ones are are failing. Now, I have a count of status. What if I want to see a column? I'm going to go in here, and i want to see this Here's my errors and here's my success. It took away my filter. Speaker 2 00:51:53 Now I can go in here. I want to see the percentage. I have a couple of different ways, but I'm going to show you with a formula. So, I'm going to say equals this divided by this and press enter. So there's my percentage showing by decimal place. Now, I'm going to go back to Home and I'm going to change that. I'm just going to click on this button to give me a percentage, So my success rate is only 2% on this one. And that's how I make a formula, just to show the percentage. So I'm going to do my math in here and then I'm going to set it as a percentage. And you can see up here, this is my actual formula. It looks complicated but it's not. Now what, I'm going to make this a little different, so I click to pull my data. This time I'm going to press the enter key, not the enter, equal key. So I made an equal mark. Speaker 2 00:52:49 And I'm going to say, I want the, um, I'm going to still do the percentage of the success rate. So I'm going to do my success, which is C6. There's my cell and it's going to highlight C6. And I'm going to say divided by B6. Oh wait, I'm doing my math wrong. Math is not my strong suit. Uh D6, I'm not a mathematician. And I'm press Enter. Okay, so there it is, 2%. So that is my success rate of the grand total. Now I'm going to take my fill handle and I'm going to drag it all the way down. And this is going to show me my success compared to my failure rate. And if I fill it down, if I click on the next one down, here's my formula and my formula you'll see changed. Speaker 2 00:53:44 It was when I wrote it in, it was C6 to D6 divided by Z6. Now it's C7 divided by D7. Because when you do a fill, Excel automatically knows that you want to just take the math across the same amount of columns. Now on this one I have a 97% success rate. On this one I have 100% success rate and so on, which is awesome. I love this. All right. So I have this, I've got my success rate. What is my overall success rate? Well, I want to average this. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to click in the cell and I'm going to click down on AutoSum and then I'm going to ask it to average. What is my average success rate? Now it's going to type in AVERAGE. And then it's going to put in my cells and I'm going to say Enter. My success rate is 71%. That's how easy formulas are. Speaker 2 00:54:40 Now, If you ever get stuck on formulas and you want to learn how to do it, there's an easy way to do it. Go to Teams, click on the help desk icon right here. It's going to log me in so bear with me. It's going to log you in as well. It's going to try to sign me in. Let me give my right account. And we're going to sing while we're waiting because it needs coffee break because I haven't logged into this today. You're going to see a chat feature come up and I'm going to say, new feature or new chat. I'm going to say help me create a formula to determine the average from cell E4 to cell C 10. Speaker 2 00:55:38 Z4 and everything in between. Okay, just plain language what you want Excel to do. You I probably should have put the in Microsoft Excel. So it knows which program we're going to do. It's going to create a ticket. It's going to tell you someone will be with you shortly, but if I explained it well, It's going to give you the information. To calculate the average of values from cell E4 to Z4 in Microsoft Excel, you can use the following formula. So just hands up for you guys. If you're trying to figure it out and you need help, AI's got you. Crimson AI's got you. So I can just go in here and I can click that and paste it in there if that's where my data lives, okay? So make sure you do this for me, make sure. Speaker 2 00:56:35 You tell it to close out. So I'm going to say, perfect. Please close this ticket. And it'll automatically close the ticket. So just be aware that that's out there. It is very helpful. You also have this up here where you can auto sum, auto average, you saw me do the average but I have some options. I can count numbers, I can give me the min and the max, I can also go into sum so you have that all right? Count is actually one of my favorite ones that I'll use. I'll say count, so count, and then I've got options for count A, count blank, just basic count. I use count blank if I want to see all the blank entries on a cell. So that's very helpful for any of you guys that handle a lot of Excel sheets on certain things. And. Speaker 2 00:57:32 It's really good for a quick total. Now, I stopped using it as much. I'm going to delete this because I also have the option to see the count if I highlight and I go down here and see the count. So you do have that option. So be aware of that. Microsoft used to not have it, So I used the Count feature all the time to tell me how many things I have in here. So if want to see how many workflows I have, just highlight and go down here and look at my count: Count 21, That way I know. But if I want to see it all the time, if I want to automatically know, I'm just going to hit the equal count. I'm going to put a parentheses. My value one where I want it to start is going to be A6. And then i'm going to put a colon, To get my next value or a comma. So, i'm going do a colon because i want it count all the ones in between. A comma is if i want to count individual cells, so i'm gonna do A6. Speaker 2 00:58:31 To A26. And then I'm going to close parentheses. You always make sure you close. And now press enter, And it gave me a zero because I'm on a pivot table and I forgot, you can't do it that way. But you guys get the gist of it, okay? Pivot tables work differently. So just be aware of that, And then I want to kind of go over a few more things because we're almost to the end. We may go over. Let me double check my calendar because I can't remember if I have a meeting after this. You guys get to see my pretty calendar. Make, I want to make sure that I'm not cutting into anything. Uh oh, I do have a meeting in two minutes that I have to jump for, but just be aware um that this information is out here um. Speaker 2 00:59:21 I want you guys to realize that a lot of what I've showed you can also be used for different things like expense and budget lists, inventory, staff list, any type of training or certification tracking. I do track certifications for Crimson employees. So all of this is in here. Also be aware, AbilityFirst is a HIPAA covered organization. So make sure that if you have any information about people we serve. Names, dates, service records, anything that identifies a client it must be stored on Ability First OneDrive. Okay. Don't store it in your download folders, not in a personal Google Drive, not on USB drive. Um I want you guys to be aware that HIPAA takes precedence over everything, so you can't be storing it anything. But uh Ability First OneDrive or SharePoint or Teams. Um if you do have. Speaker 2 01:00:18 Uh PII or personal identification. Um I want you guys to realize that info in here also has the ability to protect the workbook and you could classify um in here. So I'm going to click on ability first. Um so we have unrestricted access, restricted access, confidential and confidential view only. Um be aware of that because this is a HIPAA Aligned company, So I want you guys to be aware and make sure you classify your documents appropriately. All right, so make sure client data should always stay in OneDrive or Teams only. Do not save it in Google Drive, do not save it on your personal Google, do not save it in Box or Dropbox. Those are not AbilityFirst approved documentation document storage locations because we cannot verify if your personal. Speaker 2 01:01:16 Systems follow HIPAA guidelines. Now, if you're sharing with someone like DMH or things like that, You can share it their way because DMH actually uses Microsoft, and it's very secure. So, you do want to check with them if you got to share it out, how they want to share it. But just be aware of this, all right? Now I want to I'm running over so I do apologize but If you guys have any questions, I am going to send out a email after this and well later today. And just let let you guys know the summary of the meeting, Let you guys know where everything is and how to watch the video, if you want a refresher. And we also have training again on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. not 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Speaker 2 01:02:11 U h so just be aware, andum if you guys have any questions, please reach out to me. Okay, any questions, real quick, you're welcome. You guys have a great day. Speaker 1 01:02:29 Thank you. You too all right, bye.
04-20 Pulong: Pamamahala ng Vendor Master List at Paglipat sa Boss System
- Notes
- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-04-20 19:04:12 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Sergio] --- ## Mga Tala ng Pulong ### Pamamahala ng Vendor Master List at Paglipat sa "Boss" System - **Deskripsyon:** - Ayon kay Speaker 2, lahat ng nasa vendor master list na ginawa ni Elisa ay kailangang ilipat sa "Boss" system, alinsunod sa utos ni Anzor. - Napansing kulang ang ilang detalye sa Excel file (hal., halaga/amount), kaya hiniling kay Elisa na kumpletuhin ang data para mapadali ang paglipat. - Nag-download si Mika ng backup na kopya ng master list bago magsagawa ng mga pagbabago. - Kailangan idagdag ang lahat ng vendors, kabilang ang subcontractors at inventory suppliers. - Para sa mga vendor na walang kasunduan (agreement), inatasan si Speaker 1 na maghanap sa mga kaugnay na ticket o direktang tanungin si Elisa. ### Pag-update ng Detalye ng Kontrata para sa mga Partikular na Vendor - **Deskripsyon:** - **ABM Parking:** - Tinalakay ang parking reservation contract para kay Anzor. - Inatasan si Speaker 2 na i-verify kung si Anzor na lang ang gumagamit ng parking dahil wala na si Christie. - Pinakontak si Elisa para makuha ang buwanang bayad sa parking. - **Adobe:** - Pinag-usapan ang paglalagay ng Adobe contract sa system. - Tinukoy ang isyu sa “Contract Name” para maiwasan ang kalituhan; napagkasunduan na ilagay muna ang “Crimson IT” at tingnan kung tatanggapin ito. - Nahanap sa Adobe Admin Console ang renewal date na March 27, 2027 at start date na April 27, 2023. - Ang buwanang bayad ay $174.87. - **401k (Capital Group American Funds):** - Tinalakay ang pag-input ng 401k na nasa “per-request basis”; ipinaliwanag ni Elisa na ito ay retirement contribution. - Napagdesisyunan na ilagay ang quarterly website fee na $187.50 bilang “Plan record keeping fee”. - Mahirap tukuyin ang eksaktong start date; tinatayang January 2019 ang simula. - Iminungkahi na “no end date” dahil tuloy-tuloy ito hangga’t may kontribusyon mula sa mga empleyado. - Nakaranas ng technical issue sa pag-save ng 401k entry sa system. - **Claude (Anthropic):** - Pinag-usapan ang pag-alis ng “useless information” bilang attachment (hal., “Terms of Service”). - Gusto ni Anzor na ang attachments ay mga pirmadong kontrata (signed contracts) lamang. - Inayos ang entry para sa Claude Enterprise sa pamamagitan ng pag-delete ng hindi kailangang attachments at pag-re-create ng entry. ### Paglilinaw sa Proseso at mga Kinakailangan sa Attachment - **Deskripsyon:** - Dapat ang attachments sa "Boss" system ay mga pirmadong kontrata/quotes lamang. - Ang mga invoice, resibo, at “Terms of Service” ay huwag i-attach sa system, ngunit dapat i-save sa backup folder sa Teams para sa reference. - Para sa mga vendor na may pabago-bagong halaga (hal., mga subscription), ilagay ang pinakahuling (latest) amount at magdagdag ng tala na maaaring magbago ang bayad. --- ## Susunod na mga Hakbang - [ ] Kumpletuhin ni Elisa ang mga halaga (amounts) sa vendor master list. - [ ] I-cleanup ang master list (kasama ang paghahanap ng lahat ng pirmadong quote) bago ilipat sa "Boss" system. - [ ] Ilipat ang lahat ng vendor mula sa master list papunta sa "Boss" system bago matapos ang susunod na araw. - [ ] Tanungin si Elisa tungkol sa buwanang bayad sa parking para kay Anzor. - [ ] I-verify kay Christian kung aling mga account (tulad ng AppRiver) ang nailipat na ang credit card para sa pagbabayad. - [ ] Balikan at subukang muli ang pag-input ng 401k (Capital Group) sa system kapag naayos na ang isyu sa pag-save at nakumpirma ang eksaktong start date (kasalukuyang pagtataya: January 2019). - [ ] Magdagdag ng tala sa mga kontrata na may pabago-bagong buwanang bayad na ilalagay ang latest amount at babalang maaaring magbago. --- ## Mga Mungkahi ng AI > **Mga Mungkahi ng AI** > Natukoy ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyu na hindi natapos sa pulong o kulang sa malinaw na mga hakbang; mangyaring bigyang-pansin: > 1. May teknikal na isyu na pumipigil sa pag-save ng impormasyon para sa “401k Plan record keeping fee” sa system; hindi pa malinaw ang sanhi o kung paano ito aayusin. > 2. Hindi pa tiyak ang eksaktong start date para sa kontrata ng Capital Group (401k); ang “January 2019” ay pagtataya lamang at kailangan ng kumpirmasyon. > 3. Hindi pa malinaw ang proseso sa pag-handle ng mga vendor na may maraming produkto at kliyente na may iba’t ibang start at end date (hal., Kaseya); kailangan ng mas malinaw na plano kung paano ito i-breakdown at i-input sa system.
- Date
- Apr 20, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello. Hello, May. Yazzie. Ano tawag nun? May, check mo nga. Ano bang gusto ni Anzor? Sa boss. Speaker 1 00:00:14 Ano ang nila? Na-open ko naman. Dinownload ko kaya to. Ginanito ko na lang? Speaker 2 00:00:21 Yan, iganyan mo na lang siya. Auto-elevate. Yung mga, basta lahat ng attachments dapat. Um, gaya na lang gawin natin Ano, pag may makita kang Yung magulo yung file name, I-rename mo na lang siya Bago mo siya i-attach. And then, Ito nga pala, Monthly ko na nga pala, itong auto-elevate, Na to. Billing cycle, Niya kasi is monthly, type is annual. Speaker 2 00:00:50 Save natin siya. Speaker 2 00:00:55 Okay, nasa na ba ako, Dito? Okay. Sorry. Sige lang. Punta nga ako dun sa Master list. Speaker 1 00:01:05 Ni Elisa. Speaker 3 00:01:10 Wait. Admin. Admin. Speaker 3 00:01:19 Vendor. Vendor. Management. Speaker 2 00:01:33 So, parang lahat to. Speaker 2 00:01:37 Scroll mo nga papuntang, Yan, pinakauna. Yes, lahat yan. Gawin mo, Mika, kasi i-delete niya yan. Mag-download ka ng own copy mo as backup. Speaker 2 00:01:49 Tapos, Just in case kasi, para may, Backup tayong kopya. Mag-download ka ng sarili mo. Speaker 2 00:01:58 Ayan, create a copy ka. Download as, Yan. Create a copy. Download a copy. Yes. Download mo yan. And then, di ba may own copy ka na eh? Oo. Tinamang ako anong subcontractor na yan sa baba. Speaker 1 00:02:22 Ito yung mga nasa... Wait lang. Sorry. Ito. Ito yung mga... For construction or mga labor installations. Speaker 2 00:02:35 So, kailangan din ilagay yan. Tsaka inventory. Pwede nga suppliers. Baba, inventory suppliers yung katabi. Speaker 2 00:02:44 Okay. Akin na nito nanya. So, yan. Lahat kailangan natin ma-add pala. Speaker 2 00:02:57 Magawin mo, Mi. Ay, bis. Wait lang. Speaker 1 00:02:60 Ano na yun? Ibig sabihin, so dapat nung mga to, meron yung sa folders. Wala ba vendor? Hindi, I mean yung mga agreement and all, di ba? Oo. Pag wala, punta ka kay Elisa. Tanungin mo kung may copy ba siya. Ah, okay. Speaker 2 00:03:27 Or may sa mag-check ka din Ang related tickets. Baka meron din doon. Meron doon. Paano to? Iisahan Lang to? Or, 1, 2, 3? Wait lang. How much ba ang amount? Meron ba nakalagay? Scroll ka nga kung may amount. Speaker 1 00:03:46 Wala. Last increase was... Speaker 2 00:03:51 Sige pa nga. Wala, no? Notes na yan. Wala na. Sige nga, ano ka? Kasi ang alam ko, Speaker 2 00:04:04 For, iba-iba siya Ng charge eh. Tanong mo nga ka, Elisa, gantong gawin mo. Pag ganyan, from boss, Wait, nasan ba yung boss? Speaker 2 00:04:16 Wala pa naman si ABM parking Dito, no? Let's see. Contract name is. Speaker 2 00:04:24 Um, vendor is ABM, contract name is parking reservation. For example, ito yung kay Anzor, ilalagay ko muna parking reservation. Anzor and Christie. Speaker 2 00:04:49 Pero alam ko wala na si Christie, si Anzor na lang ito. Check mo nga din kay ano. Speaker 2 00:04:56 Wait lang. Speaker 2 00:04:59 Unassigned. CIT owner optional. Speaker 2 00:05:04 Primary contact optional. Speaker 2 00:05:08 Ah, lagay ko yung vendor, Contact. Si Julio to eh. Speaker 2 00:05:13 Oo. Julio Beltrans. Speaker 3 00:05:15 Wait lang. Speaker 2 00:05:23 Ano ba ang contact number ni Julia? Speaker 2 00:05:27 Ayan, office 213613. Speaker 2 00:05:40 Wait, nakalagay ba dyan Manual? Ay, monthly. I-maximize mo nga daw. Speaker 2 00:05:48 Ah, monthly auto-renew. Speaker 2 00:05:52 Month to month, walang nakalagay na ako. Balikan mo dyan sa parking, tanong mo ka na kay Elisa. Start date, meron ba? Speaker 2 00:06:07 Contract start date, ito lang naman. Every first of the month, paano kaya? Ayan, nakaanod ka. Speaker 1 00:06:15 So parang nagkaganon. Wait, hanapin ko nga yung folder niya. Speaker 3 00:06:22 Sino na to? A.M. Ay. Speaker 2 00:06:29 Ayaw. Bagal. Ayaw na natin April 1st. Speaker 3 00:06:41 Ayaw niya. Shared. Speaker 3 00:06:52 Letter A. Speaker 1 00:06:55 AMV Parking Services. Agreement code or information code? Speaker 2 00:07:02 Wala naman. ABM. Diyan na natin. Render in. Sorry. Receipts. Diyan natin. Speaker 2 00:07:13 June to July payment. Speaker 2 00:07:16 Wait. Speaker 3 00:07:34 Set up form lang ito. Speaker 2 00:07:42 Gawin na lang natin Ano? Gawin na lang natin April 1, To May 1 muna for now. And then, ito, mag-reach out Ka kay Jiner or Lisa. Yan, sinanong ko, Dyan sa chat natin. Check my, Monthly parking fee for Anzor, Christy And employees. Speaker 2 00:08:02 And then sabihin mo kay Elisa hindi na ginagamit ni Christy yung parking niya and naghahanap ng pwede gumamit nun. Speaker 3 00:08:31 Oo nga na wala pang gumagamit. Speaker 2 00:08:59 Mas mahal kasi ang rate ng ano, parking rate on-site, 3.8 ng more than ano din to eh. Mga 11 dollars, mas mahal ang parking rate pag sa mismo, USBT, which is yung sa office natin. And then, pag sa West Laud, yung hindi sa office, which is malapit pa rin naman sa office, pero kailangan pa nila maglakad, 3.72. Dollars per space. So, wait lang. Tanong ko nga si. Speaker 2 00:09:31 Jason regarding dun sa Ano. Kasi dun ko siya sa Westlawn, In-apply. Speaker 2 00:09:40 Hi, Jason. Following up on your Parking form So I can. Speaker 3 00:09:58 Submit it for enrollment. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:10:19 I confirm ko nga kay... Hi, Julio. Meron ba akong... Speaker 2 00:10:28 Na-replyan dito. Speaker 3 00:10:31 Hi, Julio. Speaker 3 00:10:35 Hindi ko pala siya na-replyan. Speaker 3 00:10:52 Hi, Julio. Speaker 2 00:10:56 Thanks for the info. We might have someone use Christine's parking space. Speaker 2 00:11:44 Ay, wait nga. I-clarify ko muna. Kaya ano? Speaker 2 00:12:08 Monty or Man Marinis sabi niya eh. Speaker 2 00:12:14 Ang gagamit? Oo, yun yung huli kong naalala. Hi, Pete. Should we. Speaker 3 00:12:19 Request to remove. Speaker 2 00:12:33 Christie's, Parking space? Speaker 3 00:13:08 I'm enrolling Jason to use the West Lawn. Speaker 3 00:13:40 Thank you for watching! Speaker 3 00:14:56 Office parking. Speaker 3 00:15:07 Eh, maliit. Speaker 2 00:15:57 May habang inaantay mo yung Kay ABM, mag-move On ka muna sa next list Na pwede mong mailagay. Speaker 2 00:16:13 Walang mga amount, Kim, no? Paano? Speaker 2 00:16:19 Kasi sa. Speaker 1 00:16:21 Atin. Speaker 2 00:16:23 Oo, meron dyan. Speaker 1 00:16:25 Nandito siya, nandito, diba? Meron ito. Speaker 2 00:16:28 I-mark mo na lang dyan sa list na yan, Yung ano, diba yung iba dyan nasa ConnectWise? I-mark mo na lang yung mga, Nasa ConnectWise na ilagay mo na sa boss Para hindi mo na siya iintindihin. Speaker 1 00:16:43 Ito, Adobe. Wala man akong malalagay na. Speaker 2 00:16:47 Tingnan mo dun sa monthly, ano, Monthly, Speaker 2 00:16:53 Biling group chats, Nagsasend doon ng mga invoices Minsan sila, Jeannie. Kunari ng Adobe, Ng AppRiver, Ganyan. Speaker 1 00:17:03 So, doon ko makikita. Kaya lang, Paano tong, End date? Eh, tapos na. 360. Pero annual. Speaker 2 00:17:17 Contract end date. Hindi, lagay mo lang January. Kung ang start date niya is, let's say, Kung annual siya, ilagay mo nalang, January 16, 2023. Tapos, ang end date niya is, Lagay mo March 16, no? 2026. So, nito lang yan. March 16, 2026. Speaker 2 00:17:45 Monthly Adobe to. Teka nga. Speaker 2 00:17:52 Um, ilagay mo nalang end date, March 16, 2026. Ilalagay mo naman dun annual siya eh. So, understood na na-renew na yan noong March. Speaker 1 00:18:05 Pero diba, hindi na, wait lang, hindi na tayo yung mag-pay nito, sila na dapat. Speaker 2 00:18:17 Tanong pala kay ano, kay Christian, kung na-move na yung credit card. I mean, kung tayo pa rin ang nag-repayment. I-confirm mo yung Kind of question. Pag hindi, ito lang sa atin. Oo, yung Crimson IT lang. Pero yung Kaya-created gilayan, itanong mo. Speaker 1 00:18:35 Okay. Next question. Sorry. Kasi diba, dito sa Contact name, Crimson lang to. Kasi ang vendor natin si Adobe, Diba? Speaker 2 00:18:49 Lalagyan mo sa contract name, Adobe for Crimson IT. Speaker 1 00:18:56 Adobe pa rin Ang ilagay ko? Speaker 2 00:18:59 Oo. Kasi parang, kasi hindi mo Naman pwede ilagay ng Crimson IT lang. Speaker 1 00:19:06 O, diba? Pero yun, ano yung Comment nun ni Answer? Speaker 2 00:19:10 Ayawag na ilagay yung vendor sa ano. Speaker 1 00:19:12 Oo, kasi meron na daw dito. Speaker 2 00:19:15 Inisip ko kasi kung... Sige, pwedeng Crimson IT na lang lagay mo and then vendor is Adobe. Let's see kung paano. Baka kasi makonfuse siya. Pag makonfuse siya, i-rename na lang natin. Speaker 2 00:19:29 Crimson IT na lang lagay mo sa contract and then lagay mo Adobe. Ano ba ang ano? Speaker 2 00:19:38 Will you classify Adobe ba? Speaker 2 00:19:42 Wait, tinan natin. Speaker 2 00:19:45 Matry ako. Ano ba yung mga nandito na? Speaker 3 00:20:10 Oo. Speaker 3 00:20:19 Paa, and we want to thank Primari For annual auto-renewal. Speaker 3 00:20:48 Wala din tayong. Speaker 1 00:20:49 Wala din tayong start date And all. Speaker 2 00:20:57 For ano? Crimson? Speaker 2 00:21:00 Dito na mga balik ka dun. Sa folder, wala din. Kasi iba-iba tayo. Oo, walang laman. Speaker 2 00:21:11 Paano kaya? Sa related tickets me. Tignan natin. Speaker 2 00:21:22 Crimson, Adobe. Adobe. Or misan sa portal nila mismo. Speaker 2 00:21:30 Portal ni Adobe. Speaker 2 00:21:34 Crimson, Adobe. May kita mo dun yung List of clients. 2025 ba to? Speaker 2 00:21:56 Tignan natin sa ITG. Speaker 3 00:22:05 Excuse me. Speaker 3 00:22:49 Aka. Speaker 3 00:23:50 Thank you for watching! Speaker 3 00:24:22 Punta ka ng... Speaker 2 00:24:34 Parang yung kay Marvin ata. Saan yung B? Sorry, nga. Speaker 1 00:24:40 Wait, nagsign in ako dito. Speaker 1 00:24:45 2020 kasi yung last eh. Speaker 1 00:24:49 Last. Speaker 3 00:24:52 Ayan, orders and invoices. Speaker 2 00:25:16 Sa ating yan? Speaker 2 00:25:18 Mm-mm. Speaker 2 00:25:22 Acrobat Pro. Adobe. Speaker 3 00:25:31 Admin console. Speaker 3 00:25:38 Tama naman. Speaker 2 00:25:43 And signing to admin console. Diyan ka ba nagsign? Speaker 2 00:25:53 I'd sign in Ganit ako. Speaker 3 00:26:03 Ayan, Crimson ID. Speaker 2 00:26:22 Di na mga ayos. Dalawa lang? Speaker 2 00:26:26 Sino yan? Speaker 3 00:26:29 Diba? Ilan tayo? Speaker 3 00:26:32 Ha? Speaker 3 00:26:35 Wait. Speaker 2 00:26:40 How weird. Partner program? Ito ba? Wait. Speaker 2 00:26:49 Presenter. Four years. Speaker 2 00:26:53 Adobe. Speaker 2 00:26:56 Wait. Tignan natin. Some, CIT account. Speaker 1 00:27:03 Remove account from Cotsen updated profile. Ano ba talaga? Speaker 3 00:27:10 Admin. Ay. Speaker 3 00:27:13 Ah. Adobe. Speaker 2 00:27:29 Saan ba si Christian? Tanungan natin si Christian. Speaker 2 00:27:34 Tapos, ano sabi niya? Speaker 2 00:27:57 Dapat may billing na lalabas. Pero bakit dalawa lang user? Speaker 1 00:28:01 Ayun. Eleven ba tayo? Speaker 2 00:28:03 Ayan, eleven. Tinan mo nga. Speaker 2 00:28:07 Eleven lang may... Oo, hindi tayo lahat. Oo pala, hindi lahat. Oo. Ayan, tama. Ayan. Tingnan mo dun sa... Walang ano. Speaker 2 00:28:20 Copy of invoice. Kasi dun makikita... Ayun, billing history. Ayan pala. Teka nga, sige, baba ka. Baba ka. Speaker 2 00:28:35 Ayun o, renewal date, March 27, 2027. So, annual yata. Anong start natin? Annual to? Ilagay mo na lang muna is Monthly. Kailan tayo nag-upcome? Speaker 1 00:28:51 Kailan ba tayo last? Speaker 2 00:28:52 Tignan mo ka, kailan nag-start? Speaker 1 00:28:54 Nag-renew ba tayo? Speaker 3 00:29:02 August. Speaker 2 00:29:05 Ang tagal. Sige pa nga. Speaker 2 00:29:08 Last na ba yan? Hanggang ano ata? Speaker 2 00:29:12 Ayan. April 27, 2023. Ilagay mo gano'n. For Crimson ha. April 27. Speaker 2 00:29:22 Tapos. Speaker 2 00:29:37 Ayan. Tapos, ang end date is nung Kailan renewal? Tinan mo nga ulit yung kanina. May 27. Tama ba? Balik ka din sa account overview. Ay, account pa na. Ay, totoo. Nasa right left mo yan. Kailan ang renewal niya? March 27. March 27, 2027. Speaker 2 00:30:03 Yun ang ilagay mo sa End date. Speaker 1 00:30:07 March 27, Speaker 2 00:30:09 2027. Speaker 2 00:30:12 Okay. Speaker 2 00:30:18 Tapos yung amount niya. How much tayo? Speaker 2 00:30:22 Ito na mismo? Speaker 2 00:30:26 Upcoming bill, 174. Sige nga, tingnan mo yan. Speaker 2 00:30:35 Oh, no per month? 174.87 Ayan, annual, annual. Monthly. Oo, monthly siya. Annual. Speaker 1 00:30:52 Kailangan. Speaker 2 00:30:53 Ba ito ng... Ay, hindi na. Hindi, okay na yan. In dollars na yan. Speaker 2 00:30:59 Tapos... Speaker 2 00:31:06 Ayan. Speaker 1 00:31:08 Yan lang naman, no? Speaker 2 00:31:10 Oo. Speaker 3 00:31:13 At least, makikita pa rin yung main. Speaker 1 00:31:22 Oo. Yun lang, wala tayong attachment. Speaker 2 00:31:27 Wala, kasi, Ang ganyan naman ay Mga subscriptions. Speaker 1 00:31:33 Oo, walang sign-sign naman. Speaker 2 00:31:35 Oo. Gusto ba niya ng bill? Hindi eh. Ano lang daw dapat eh. Mga contracts. Oo. Mga contracts. Ano nga sabi niya? Speaker 2 00:31:48 Sabi niya, also we added useless information as attachment. For example daw, Yung cloud may consumer Terms of service. I-remove na daw yun. We should only sign, Signed contracts. Tinan mo nga dun sa cloud, Enterprise. Speaker 2 00:32:06 Ayun, next may auto-elevate. Ay, sorry. Sa taas, yan. Tignan mo yung, Ayun, oh. Dapat daw yung signed lang. Speaker 2 00:32:18 Ilagay mo na lang siya sa folder As backup. Speaker 2 00:32:25 Ayun, i-sign. I-ano mo na lang siya. Speaker 2 00:32:30 Kasi ito lang yung, Attachment dun. Speaker 2 00:32:35 Dun sa ano ni With Cloud. Connect twice. Oo. Speaker 2 00:32:42 Basta kasi invoice. Speaker 3 00:32:45 Three minutes. Speaker 3 00:32:50 Sige na to. Speaker 3 00:32:52 Cloud Enterprise. Speaker 2 00:33:00 Meron kasi ako invoice lang. Speaker 3 00:33:04 Ang vendor ni Claude. Speaker 2 00:33:17 Is si Anthropic. Speaker 2 00:33:24 Ito na mga sa attachments. Speaker 2 00:33:28 Ah, receipt. Terms of service. Oo, kaya eh. Ipaglalagay mo yan lang yan. Hindi, huwag mo siyang I-download mo yung tatlo. Ilagay mo sa folder. Kasi yung folder, Magiging backup natin Ng mga Ayaw niyong ipaglagay, Sa boss. Oo, sa Teams folder. Speaker 1 00:33:45 Sa vendor. Check ko sa vendor ito. Speaker 1 00:33:51 Ay, bago dito. Paano ko siya i-open as? Ayun. Pero hindi ako laging pumupunta dito. Speaker 3 00:34:04 Open as... Eh? Neat. Speaker 3 00:34:32 Ay, wala din siya dito sa folder, yung anthropic. Speaker 2 00:34:48 Ang anthropic, wala. Speaker 3 00:34:58 Download. Speaker 2 00:35:06 Paano yung nandito sa boss? May. Ito, i-remove mo na yan. Nasa folder naman yan eh. I-delete mo na. Speaker 2 00:35:15 Ay, ay. Ito, edit mo nga. Edit. Speaker 2 00:35:20 Tapos, Baba ka pa. Sige pa. Eh, paano? Mariremove na. Diba? Paano kayo mariremove? Wait lang. Speaker 3 00:35:35 Kasi upload na naman ito eh. Speaker 3 00:35:40 Ano kaya madedelet ka? Speaker 2 00:35:44 Ano nga na-edelet mo oh? Idelet mo ng buo na lang. Add ka bago. Ganito ko muna. Speaker 2 00:35:54 Screenshot mo. Oo. Ano nga na-edelet? Mag-add ka muna. Lagyan mo muna lang Cloud Enterprise Copy. Speaker 2 00:36:09 Ah, lagay mo, Claude Enterprise. Speaker 2 00:36:20 Gaps. Speaker 1 00:36:25 Hilang pa lang ito, tas makabigay ng Anzor, ah. Speaker 1 00:36:35 Pretty. Speaker 2 00:36:40 100. Wala na yung $100 na contract. 5-2 na lang. Speaker 3 00:37:20 Tapos, manual renewal. Speaker 3 00:37:48 Wait lang, saan ko makikita yung... Speaker 3 00:37:55 Tama ka, ay sorry. Speaker 3 00:38:45 Ano ang 27? Bakit dito? Tapos nagpapakita 26. Speaker 3 00:39:36 Okay. Speaker 3 00:39:42 Let's go to the manual. Speaker 3 00:39:46 Manual. Okay. Speaker 3 00:39:51 Delete na kita. Speaker 3 00:39:57 Delete. Speaker 3 00:40:03 Save. Okay. Okay na? Speaker 2 00:40:07 Ayan. Oo, dini-read ko na siya. Speaker 2 00:40:12 Anthropic. Wala tayo kasing makita Ang ano yan eh. Speaker 2 00:40:19 Basta yung mga backup mo Nasa folder Dapat lagi. And then, Ayan, Meron ka na dinownload naman, Na master list Ng vendor. Speaker 2 00:40:29 Ilagay ko sa Downloads. Speaker 3 00:40:36 Anthropic Tom. Speaker 3 00:40:47 1, 2, 3. Speaker 3 00:40:54 In voice. Ano na to? Wash. Consume. Speaker 3 00:41:02 O, saan yun? Speaker 2 00:41:08 Pangalan nyo tayo, Edward. Ito na lang. Speaker 3 00:41:21 Insurance. Speaker 3 00:41:27 Wow, isa pa lang yun. Speaker 3 00:41:32 Yes. Speaker 3 00:41:35 Insurance. Speaker 3 00:41:45 Ayan. So ayaw niya yun. Speaker 1 00:42:34 Hmm. Paano itong mga per-request basis? Speaker 2 00:42:39 Per-request basis, American Funds, 401k, wait lang. Speaker 1 00:42:49 I mean, may ano, renewal type ito, diba? Speaker 2 00:42:54 Yan nga eh, wait lang. American Funds. Speaker 3 00:43:03 Wala nang laman. Speaker 3 00:43:10 Monthly order rin nyo. Speaker 2 00:43:15 Per request. Per request basis. Alam ko ano yan eh. Di ba yun yung mga insurance, Ng mga employees? Annual yata ang renewal nyan. Speaker 2 00:43:29 Wait. Tawagan nga natin si Elisa. Pwede bang maglagay si Elisa dito. Speaker 1 00:43:35 Ng amount na? Para hindi ko siya mas torbo, no? Speaker 1 00:43:41 Ikaw nga magsabi niya. Speaker 2 00:43:42 Wait, wala na tayo. Pansin namin. Kailangan namin tumamove lahat sa ano. Elisa. Speaker 1 00:43:55 Yung mga iba. Para at least meron na lang. Yun muna gawin ko. Itong mga ito, sana pala. Speaker 2 00:44:08 Hello. Ayan na sila. Elisa, hello. Hello. Anong atin? We need your help. Kasi, sabi Ni Anzor, lahat tong Mga nasa, yung ginawa mong, Ano, vendor master list, Gusto niya Ma-move na lahat dun sa Crimson, ID Boss. Yung, Nakita mo na ba itsura nun? Ayaw sa contract? Oo, parang na-share niyo po yun. Ayaw nga pala. Ayun. Kaso, may problema kami kasi dito sa Excel na to, Speaker 2 00:44:42 Wala pala, hindi pala nakalagay yung mga amount for each vendor. Ah, okay. Yung amount niya. Sige, sige po. Pwede bang pakilagay na lang din para mas easier na i-move over dito sa ano? Sige po. May tanong pala kami, yung sa 401k Din pala, For example, yan, Per request basis ka mo nakalagay dyan. Kung empleyado ka Ni Crimson, diba annual Dapat naririnuyan? Tama ba? Speaker 2 00:45:14 Hindi po. Iba po, Si 401k kasi, Retirement si 401k. Yung niririnu annual, yun po yung Medical insurance nila. Bali si 401k, Retirement, Pet. Siya na contribution. So, Depende kung Magsasign up sila. Ah, Kasi, Pag nag-a-add ka ng new contract, For example, Here, Tinan mo. Kung as per request basis lang siya, Walang option to add as, As per request. Speaker 2 00:45:44 Um, Speaker 2 00:45:47 Ayan o. Or let's say, Speaker 2 00:45:51 Kung, Let's say, Kunwari, Ah, Kasi demand siya. Uh-uh. I wait. Meron tayong binabayaran, For American funds. Yung mismong Fee natin sa website. Pwede yun na lang siguro, Ang i-add. How much yung, Fee sa website? Speaker 2 00:46:11 Alam ha. Quarterly yung. Kasi fixed man yun. Problema lang, Di ko alam kung. Speaker 2 00:46:23 Meron re-wall ba ito? Naka-auto-renew kasi ito. Unless, hindi na tayo mag-contract yun. Pero meron sa ating mga nagsign up, diba, for 401k? Oo. Ano na sila? Nasa 50% na na-emplyado yung nagsasign up. Speaker 2 00:46:40 Iniisip ko kasi, paano siyang ika-categorize? Kung iya-annual ba muna natin siya for now? Annual-annual? May quarterly na parang subscription fee or yung fee ng website. Yun ang binabayaran natin. Speaker 2 00:46:56 Oo, expense Natin yun. Pero yung Binabayaran ko, Twice a month, Ano kasi yun? Remittance yun? Kung ano yung dinitidak sa payroll? Speaker 2 00:47:09 Kasi naisip ko, paano siyang, Nagre-relate dito sa Crimson IT Boss? Ang kailangan bang i-input natin, Dito is yung sa website fee? Yung sa website fee na lang, Siguro. Speaker 2 00:47:21 So 187.50. So let's say American Funds. 187.50. Oo. American Funds or Capital Group. Teka lang. Ano nga? Nakalagay dito sa invoice. Tingnan ko lang ha. Saglit lang. Speaker 2 00:47:39 Quarterly fee yan? Quarterly po. For the website? Tama? Oo. For the website. Capital Group, American Funds. Capital, ganyan. Ah, okay. Ano pala siya? Speaker 2 00:47:60 Annual siya, Pero, Annual siya, auto-renew, Pero yung billing niya, Is quarterly. Speaker 2 00:48:11 Billing, Annual auto-renew. Speaker 2 00:48:21 Kaya yung amount niya, 187.50. Speaker 2 00:48:32 Plan record keeping fee po. Speaker 2 00:48:37 Ilalagay ba yung ano? Anong tawag? Plan record keeping fee. Speaker 2 00:48:47 Yan na lang. Speaker 2 00:48:49 Quarterly billing fee for Plan record keeping fee. So, ang start date nun, Anong ilalagay pala natin kung annual Siya? Kailan ka nagbabayad? So, kailan sila, Nagre-renew? Tingnan ko na lang kung kailan yung, Onang payment dun sa QuickBooks. Sige. Ano ba pinaka-ona nito? Wala kasing konta. Capital. Vendor name is Capital Group American Funds. Tama. Speaker 2 00:49:19 Yan yung complete niyang name. Tapos ito ay Capital Group American Funds. 401k. Speaker 2 00:49:29 401k na lang inalagay ko. 401k. Lagyan na lang po ng 401k, Plan record keeping fee. Okay. Plan record, Keeping. Kasi yun yung nakalagay, Sa invoice. Sige. Speaker 2 00:49:48 Tapos, Speaker 2 00:49:52 Ang pinakaunang Payment dito sa QuickBooks, Is 2019 July. Wala mang description. Wala mang invoice. Speaker 2 00:50:07 Sir, nagpay tayo nun. Nagpay tayo. So, kung 7-1-2019, Anong quarter Yun? April, May, and June. Speaker 2 00:50:21 2019. Walang previous dito. Ba't puro future dates, Future years na to? Speaker 2 00:50:28 Wala ba? Speaker 2 00:50:32 Sa taas. Ayun pala. Sa taas. 2019. Speaker 2 00:50:38 July. Speaker 1 00:50:38 Sabihan mo ngayon kay Adzor? Tiyara. Nakalito. Tiyara. Speaker 2 00:50:42 Nakalito. July 2019, ano? Alisa? Speaker 2 00:50:49 Hindi ako sure po. Kasi yung, July 2019, payment na po Yun. Hindi po yun necessarily Na yun yung start ng date. Kahit kasi walang mga Hindi uso yung mga, Attachment nung una. Speaker 2 00:51:06 Hanapin ko lang. Baka makita ko siya doon Sa portal. Baka, Sakali lang tayo na may mahanap, Tayong. Speaker 2 00:51:17 Sige. Kasi meron na naman ulit payment, Sa August. Speaker 2 00:51:25 So, hula ko dito, Nag-start siya ng first quarter ng 2019. Speaker 2 00:51:31 First quarter, Already around January, Feb, March. Yeah, parang ganun. Gawin na lang natin January 2019. Speaker 2 00:51:42 Pero hula ko lang siya. Wala pa tayong pang-proof. Speaker 2 00:51:47 Wala kasing description kung Para anong period. Basta may, Binayaran yung screen zone. Same amount. Speaker 2 00:51:58 Okay. Speaker 2 00:52:00 Ngayon kasi, din na-download, Na namin yung invoice, Na nare-receive at din na-upload. Wala mga attachment, Yung mga unang taon. Speaker 2 00:52:14 Sekret lang. Try kong, Sige, sige. Magi yung mga asterisk dito yung may Meron tayo. Record na Ano. Baka may mapapala tayo. Sige. Speaker 1 00:52:27 Baka hindi naman asterisk, Tong end date. Charot. Oo. Speaker 2 00:52:32 Wala naman siya. Pero kaya feeling ko, Kung... Yung sa 401k Parang no end date, Yung ilalagay. Kasi hanggang Nagko-contribute, Ng mga empleyado. Paduli tayong magbabayad. Lagay mo na lang, Maggy, pag wala kang nilagay na end date dito, and then no end date, mag-note ka dito. No end date due to continuous contribution, employee contribution. Tama ba, ano? Continuous. Speaker 2 00:53:09 Hindi pa ma-forsy ko hanggang employee contribution. Problema nga lang, Hindi ko makita yung invoice dito. Speaker 2 00:53:23 New payment activity. Speaker 2 00:53:28 Balikan mo nalang ito, Maggie. Speaker 2 00:53:31 Sige. Hindi, i-update naman ni Elisa Yung spreadsheet, Na lalagyan niya ng amount, Each Vendor. Tapos pala, Elisa, sa heads up, ang gusto lang Ni Anzor ng mga attachments dito Is signed quote. If Invoice siya or terms and Conditions, ayaw niyang nandito sa ano. Ah, yung mga Quote lang. Oo, yun ang gusto niya. Signed quote lang. Sisave ko muna ito. Speaker 2 00:54:02 Maggie and then balikan mo. Balikan ka. Tapos pala, Um, Maggy, pwede pa daw to until tomorrow Kasi ang pinapaprioritize sa akin Ni Andrew ngayon is yung... Ba't hindi nag-save? Nag-save ba? Ang pinapaprioritize, Niya is yung, Gaming license ni... Pero, yun. Gusto niya, Mamove na to lahat tomorrow, Elisa. Kasi, ididip na daw niya yung... Wala pala. May concern ako. Speaker 2 00:54:32 Dyan sa iba. Hindi man kasi yan. Nag-re-vary kasi yung amount. Speaker 2 00:54:42 But, Timmy, nag-re-vary. Kung ano na lang yung latest? Speaker 2 00:54:46 Ilagay ko lang ba yung mga naka-fix? Tapos, i-remark ko na lang, Yung mga nag-re-vary. Like yung mga subscription? Oo. Ng licenses? Nag-re-vary kasi yun? Oh. Wait. Pwede natin ilagay yung recent And then mag-a-add si Maggie Ng notes sa baba na monthly, Amount will vary depending On the number of, Monthly license. Major subscription, various din Yung quotes doon. Speaker 2 00:55:19 Major like Adobe, mga ganon? Oo, like Adobe, Kaseya, Ang nakukuha ko is total, Pero iba-iba kasi yung Start and end. Speaker 2 00:55:31 So, di ko siya maipigay yung per quote na amount. Kasi, di ko siya makikita. Speaker 2 00:55:44 Wait, for Kaseya, di ba ang ano dyan is ITG? Ano pa ba? Di ba madami yun? Madami. Madami po. Madami products. Tapos, may client din yun. Speaker 2 00:55:59 Mayroon pa rin tayong mga client na card natin ang gamit nila for Kaseya. Speaker 2 00:56:10 Card natin? Oo, Kaseya. Tayo pa din naman nagbabaya. Wait lang. Tingnan ko nga kung ano nangyari sa pinaka-reset. Kaseya ba yung madaming credit memo? Hindi ako sure. Speaker 2 00:56:26 Kasi may nirecord si Ati Jane nun. Ay, nagbabayad pa din tayo. Credit card ni Crimson, 11,846 Noong April 6. Kung nagbabayad siya per client, And per product, let's say, Eh di Walang choice kundi i-breakdown, Talaga siya. Parang hahanapin yung Quote per client. Ganun. Kasi ang mangyayari dyan, Speaker 2 00:56:57 I-clean up muna natin yung Master list na yan. As well as kung may mahanap Ng mga attachments, Na signed quote. And then, saka i-move over dito sa ano? Speaker 2 00:57:11 Sa boss. Speaker 2 00:57:17 Hala, na-add ba yung 401k? But parang nawala. Speaker 2 00:57:22 Hindi siya nag-save. Speaker 2 00:57:27 Ayaw nga. Parang wala yata. Hindi siya nag-save. Ba't ganun? Speaker 2 00:57:34 401k. Kasi name mo naman. Kaya nga. Ayan. KT. Ayan na. Ano naman pala? Speaker 2 00:57:44 Annual. Oto. Speaker 2 00:57:49 Problema nga lang. Hindi ko makita yung history, Ng transactions, Sa American funds. At hindi na ito namimigay ng invoice. Speaker 2 00:58:01 Confirmation number, Na lang yung binibigay ah. Speaker 2 00:58:06 Quarterly. Speaker 2 00:58:09 Altsamari. Speaker 2 00:58:12 Four. Speaker 1 00:58:16 Elisa, yung approver ba? Card pa rin natin to? Card pa natin to? Speaker 2 00:58:23 Approver. Card yata. Basta ang may-ari nung account na yan, Si Emil? Si Emil ba yung nagpo-forward sa amin Ng invoice dyan? Baka. Speaker 1 00:58:35 Kasi yung Adobe, Ni-read ko na sila. Speaker 2 00:58:42 324. Speaker 2 00:58:47 Si Sims, Last payment ni Sims is, March. Securated naman, March. Di pa kami nakatanggap ng April. Possible na na-shift na nga ito. Hindi po ako sure. Speaker 1 00:59:07 Sige. Atobe, sure na tayo. Speaker 2 00:59:10 Natanggal na yan. Parang bang dumating na invoice kay, Appraver? Speaker 2 00:59:18 Service ticket search. Speaker 2 00:59:26 May note po ba si Christian Yung na-change na po niyang Credit card? Speaker 1 00:59:41 Yan nga. Dapat nagbigay siya Ng quantity. Speaker 2 00:59:44 I-mention mo siya din saan. May updated list siya, Ng mga na-move na. Speaker 2 00:59:51 Di ba ka, ay. Saan na pa nang magsisend, Ng invoice si Abrever? Sa 24 pa po. Ah, okay. Speaker 2 01:00:02 Sa iti-check ko kung Ah, wait lang. Hanapan nga natin yung Portal nito. Ba't ayaw niya mag-send? Masyadong nga ng list. Mama. Speaker 1 01:00:19 Companies and products, vendors, capital group, American funds. Speaker 2 01:00:37 Hindi ko ma-identify. Alin yung nagpa-prevent na mag-save to? Speaker 2 01:00:43 Nakala naman. Speaker 1 01:00:44 Ayaw pa din? Speaker 2 01:00:45 Oo, lahat naman yung asterisk nilagyan ko. Annual, annual. 18750. Speaker 2 01:00:52 Spire. Look. Wala, saan na yung OTP? How weird. Wala na nagsisend. Speaker 2 01:01:05 Wait, screenshot ko nga muna. Speaker 3 01:01:06 Ano na yun? Speaker 2 01:01:16 Hindi na yung card natin yung gamit. Speaker 3 01:01:18 Ang gal. Okay. Speaker 3 01:01:42 Anong mali? Speaker 3 01:01:50 Hmm. Baka hindi. Speaker 2 01:01:59 Naman bawal ang 401k plan. Speaker 2 01:02:13 Try nga natin palitan yung ano. Speaker 3 01:02:21 Ayaw pa din. Speaker 2 01:02:28 Balik na po ba sa MFA na Group chat yung mga OTP po? Yung 190? Speaker 2 01:02:36 Parang meron dapat, Ayun o, 002 Ano mga hinanap mo? Ito may reason na nag-resend. Sa MFA Codes na Team's Channel. Ah, ayan. Pumalik na pala siya doon. Speaker 3 01:02:48 002. Speaker 3 01:03:06 Titingnan ko itong Aksariin na ito. Wala na itong aksariin. Speaker 2 01:03:24 Same, April? Hindi, ayaw. Hindi ako move forward. Ang weird nga. Wait, try ko mag-refresh. Speaker 2 01:03:37 Pero send ko yung screenshot sa'yo just in case. Speaker 1 01:03:41 Sige. Ano ba yun? Speaker 1 01:03:47 Ay, hala. Speaker 2 01:03:52 Naka-4385 pa din yung Kay Sims. Speaker 2 01:03:57 Anong subscription? Speaker 2 01:04:02 Sims na approver. Speaker 2 01:04:06 Dapat mag-add pa tayo dito ng credit card ni Sims. Speaker 1 01:04:12 Sino naghahawak nga yan? Appriever na yan. Speaker 3 01:04:17 Sino ba nga yung admin dito? Speaker 2 01:04:24 Ayun, may tracker ni Christian. Speaker 2 01:04:29 Oo, check ko nga. Speaker 1 01:04:33 Hindi nga rin alam tong appriever eh. Speaker 2 01:04:38 Ay, Adobe pa lang. Ang na-move. Kala ko pati Duo. Speaker 2 01:04:44 Hindi ko ma-open. Eh? Ako na-open ko. Duo. Speaker 2 01:04:55 Oh, FJD, kuma-open yung Connect Booster. Speaker 2 01:05:02 Usayin yung OTP ko nito. Pinap-cancel yung dubo ninyo Over West Media kayo sa process. Speaker 3 01:05:22 Ano kung haba ito palitan, Ng MFA? Speaker 3 01:05:27 Dubo. Speaker 1 01:05:34 Wala, ayaw na mag-open sa akin. Lahat na lang, nabagan. Speaker 2 01:05:39 Curated and Avada. Speaker 1 01:05:43 Two of a Receipt. Speaker 1 01:05:47 Paces. Ako, parang ito, Ang buong. And so, Bill.com. Speaker 3 01:05:56 Portal for pay. Speaker 3 01:06:06 New visitor. Speaker 2 01:06:08 Auto-desk. Yan pa lang ba talaga? Ang nare-remove? Speaker 1 01:06:18 Hindi ba niya nilagay yung... Sana mag-confirm siya kay Iron Gate din. Speaker 2 01:06:38 Ang hinihingi nyo lang, ang sinesend Lang nyo lang naman na monthly Billing At least is Duo, Upriver, Adobe, Speaker 2 01:06:50 Cisco. May listahan ba Kayo para mabangga Dun sa list ni Christian? Speaker 2 01:06:60 Mukhang kakagawa. Speaker 1 01:07:01 Niya to. Me. Ito yung sininito, Sa kanya kanina. Sibaing ko to eh. Speaker 2 01:07:08 Ngayon nagtataka ako, bakit dalawa lang? Speaker 3 01:07:16 GP yun eh. Speaker 3 01:07:20 Aray ko, aray ko. Speaker 1 01:07:25 Saan yung mga chat GPT din ng IGP? Speaker 2 01:07:37 Claude. May Claude ba si IJP? Sir, dyan muna kayo tawagan ko si Anzar. Speaker 2 01:07:44 Sige. Wait lang.
04-21 Weekly Meeting: Access Control System Upgrade and LV System Issues
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-04-21 14:04:41 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### Access Control System Upgrade - Christi discussed the access control systems with Greg Hayes because the high-tech specialist was unavailable. - Greg Hayes recommended replacing the motherboards at each site with two doors and estimated the work would take four days. - The quote from High Tech for the system upgrade is forty-seven thousand dollars. - Christi plans for Greg to take over all the work and is waiting for Dr. Barber to sign the quote. ### LV System Access Issues - Christi cannot access the LV system because it does not recognize her phone number. - When logging in, Christi receives a code but gets an "Authentication code is invalid" error, followed by an "SMS cannot be sent" error. - Speaker 2 also does not have access and is working with another user experiencing the same issue. - A support ticket has been opened and updated with Christi’s access problem. The LV support contact, Holly, is reportedly unresponsive. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Get Dr. Barber’s signature on Greg Hayes’s quote from High Tech. - [ ] Follow up on the LV support ticket about access issues and note Holly’s non-responsiveness. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following unresolved items that require attention: > 1. Progress on the access control upgrade depends on Dr. Barber signing the quote; a timeline or follow-up plan for securing the signature is needed. > 2. The LV system access issue is blocking Christi and other users; define an escalation path if support remains unresponsive. > 3. Communication breakdown with Holly at LV support increases the risk of delays; consider alternative contacts or escalation channels.
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:14 Hello, my favorite people. How is your day going? Speaker 2 00:00:23 I just got off a call with T- Mobile support. They rerouted me to so many, Different department, I just. Speaker 1 00:00:34 Oh, damn. Well, I just got off the phone with Greg Hayes because I can't get a hold of the high tech guy and said, what would it take? He goes, we just go in and change out the motherboards. He said I need four days. So that quote that he sent you is one for every site that has two doors. Speaker 1 00:00:56 The quote I got from high tech because every time I ask for access, They just send me a quote to upgrade the systems instead of giving me access. The quote from high tech is forty seven thousand. Oh. So, I am going to get Greg to take over for everything. I just need Doctor Barber to sign that quote, which you just saw me re email him. Yeah, yeah. And then by the way, I keep trying to get into LV. I think you guys have access, but I can't get access because it doesn't like my phone number. Speaker 2 00:01:28 Oh, we don't have access. We don't have access. Speaker 1 00:01:31 I keep trying to get in, and it keeps telling me set LV credentials, and then I log in. And do all the things and let me see. And then it tells me. Speaker 2 00:01:44 The number that you're using is not right? Speaker 1 00:01:46 No, it tells me hang on, I'll tell you what it looks like, Have your phone ready. Then it gives me weird code PXJBXPT 1. And okay, SMS was sent. Now now it's saying," Authentication code is invalid. It may be expired or incorrect." Are. Speaker 2 00:02:15 You getting the code to your phone? Yeah. Yeah, so that's one of the problems that that the users are having. So they I think that's a user account. Speaker 1 00:02:27 This is my first time accessing anything for them. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:31 We don't we don't have access. Okay. So I'm working with a user, I tell them that you're having this problem. Um, I got a support ticket open. Speaker 1 00:02:47 Okay, now it says SMS cannot be sent. So I'm going to get out of this. They sent me this email at twelve twenty five. I've been I've tried four times to get in since then, and it's two o'clock and I still have not taken my lunch. I keep trying to take my lunch. Speaker 2 00:03:11 Yeah, just updated the ticket letting them know that uh you can't access the account. Um, that you're getting codes that do not work. And, let's see what they're saying because they're not giving me any information on the portal on how to set up users or anything like that. Speaker 1 00:03:31 Yes, SMS could not be sent. Please try again later if issue persists, please contact support. And I just verified that I have my reading glasses on just so that I can make sure that I'm getting the right letters. But yeah, it's not working for me either. And LV person keeps telling me to reach out to support. Speaker 2 00:03:54 Yeah, yeah, and then support doesn't give you any information. It's just oh man, this is this horrible. Speaker 1 00:04:01 Yeah, My holdouts have to be the the worst companies to be working with at this moment. Speaker 2 00:04:08 Yeah, there's this lady that isum Holly, She doesn't even respond to my emails anymore. Speaker 1 00:04:16 Yeah, she she just yeah, you saw what she said to me. So but at least at least we're one step closer. Speaker 2 00:04:28 Uh oh okay I'm I'm happy you see the jar is half full. Speaker 1 00:04:34 Oh no I don't see the jar is half full. It's a quarter full. And the only reason it's a quarter full is because they sent me an account. Speaker 1 00:04:44 That's that's one step closer. I'm trying to be positive. I'm tired. Speaker 2 00:04:49 I understand. Speaker 1 00:04:50 I have had a headache for two days now, and wait, did he get no He did not. I was trying to see. Speaker 1 00:05:17 Yeah, no, I I gotta get some stuff done. Okay. I'm glad you guys can commiserate with me on the struggles of everything going on because I know you guys are getting the brunt of it. I'm so sorry. I'm trying, I promise. Alright, Speaker 1 00:05:33 Okay. All right, I will leave you guys alone. I will see you in the morning and do not work from home with three cats because one is trying to beat up my lamp right now. Hey! Get off the lamp. All right, I'll leave you guys alone now. Let me go.
05-06 Meeting: Read-Only Security Data Collection Plan for Foothill and Maverick Assessments
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-06 08:32:35 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1], [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Resource Access and Security Data Gathering for Assessments - Two assessments are active: Maverick and Foothill (also referred to as “football”/“Foothill”). - Foothill is expected to be more rigorous; an internal manager is resistant and will scrutinize the project plan. - Jason is apprehensive about gathering security information, partly due to limited reporting from Anton. - Past SHARP assessment relied on data gathered primarily by Chris, using multiple tools, remote collection, some onsite work by Chris and Vlad, and AI-assisted assembly. - Speaker 1 previously used PowerShell and domain admin access to collect on-prem data; current access has been reduced by Anzar. - Anton is pushing for Global Reader only; Speaker 1 notes read-only via an app registration can work, but setup requires sufficient permissions to create the registration. - Foothill stated they will only provide read-only access. - The Foothill system administrator (recently moved into a manager role) has a development background and is defensive; he will attempt to find gaps in the plan to discredit the assessment. - Speaker 2 emphasizes the need to avoid appearing unprepared, especially with Speaker 2 out next week. - Conclusion: Align on an approach to equip Jason with methods and artifacts (scripts, spreadsheet, project plan) to gather required security and infrastructure data under read-only constraints. - Topic Title: Support Plan for Jason and Project Plan Preparation - Speaker 2 requests Speaker 1 to “handhold” Jason through one assessment (preferably Foothill). - Speaker 1 will provide instructions for app registration, compile PowerShell scripts, and share a spreadsheet to guide data collection. - A three-person meeting (Speaker 1, Speaker 2, Jason) before end of week is proposed to define approach and deliverables. - Speaker 1 will draft a project plan suitable for sharing with the Foothill manager to preempt objections. - Conclusion: Speaker 1 will prepare materials and meet with Jason and Speaker 2 to solidify a plan and produce an airtight project plan for Foothill. - Topic Title: Team Capability Concerns and Role Clarity - Concerns exist about Anton’s ability to deliver comprehensive reporting for assessments. - Speaker 2 has already been candid with Anzor about these concerns; Anzor shares some of them. - The team must not fail these assessments due to their size and security scope. - Conclusion: Proceed with a plan that reduces dependence on Anton’s reporting and strengthens data collection via Speaker 1’s methods and Jason’s execution. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Schedule a meeting between Speaker 1, Speaker 2, and Jason before 2026-05-08 to define the Foothill assessment approach and deliverables. - [ ] Speaker 1 to compile and share PowerShell scripts with Jason. - [ ] Speaker 1 to provide app registration instructions tailored for read-only access at Foothill, including required permissions to create the registration. - [ ] Speaker 1 to draft and circulate an airtight project plan for Foothill for internal review, then share with the Foothill manager. - [ ] Speaker 1 to share the data-collection spreadsheet with Jason and validate coverage against Foothill’s on-prem environment. - [ ] Confirm onsite vs. remote data-gathering requirements (who, when, access logistics) for next week. - [ ] Confirm the scope and expectations for the Maverick assessment and determine if similar support is needed. - [ ] Establish a fallback plan if Anton’s reports remain insufficient, including assigned owners and timelines for alternative data collection. - [ ] Align on messaging to the Foothill manager to avoid implying he is unqualified while justifying assessment scope and methods. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify exact permissions available at Foothill to enable creation of the required app registration under read-only constraints. > 2. Define the specific security datasets and system inventories needed (e.g., Azure AD, on-prem AD, servers, network devices) and how to collect them with read-only access. > 3. Establish a fallback plan if Anton’s reports remain insufficient, including assigned owners and timelines for alternative data collection. > 4. Align on messaging to the Foothill manager to avoid implying he is unqualified while still justifying assessment scope and methods. > 5. Confirm onsite vs. remote data-gathering requirements and resources (who, when, access logistics) to prevent delays next week.
- Date
- May 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Good morning. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:05 I'm good. Speaker 1 00:00:07 Good. Sorry about yesterday. I got off my last meeting and I sat down at my desk. And I fell asleep. It's a very comfortable computer chair. Speaker 2 00:00:19 Are you not getting enough rest at home? Speaker 1 00:00:21 You know, I thought I was. I got a good solid six hours of sleep, Which is good for me because I am normally the four to five hour person. And I don't know if like if something's changed this week or what, but I've been a little bit more tired than usual. I got seven hours last night. Speaker 2 00:00:39 Well, if you need to go home earlier or something, go home earlier. Whatever. I mean. Speaker 1 00:00:44 No, I just think the kid has beenum she's been a little stressed out this week, and we've been working on homework because she's got her tests in this week and next. Oh, I see. Speaker 2 00:00:53 I see. Speaker 1 00:00:54 I'm just feeling her anxiety. Speaker 2 00:00:57 I see. It happens. Yeah. Been there, been there, done that. Yes. Um, well, I don't want to pile it on here so, But I am going to ask one of the things I what i was going to ask you about last night is. Um, with the and and I guess we have to pick which one, but. With. The two assessments we have going right now, One of the things I'm hoping you can do is sort of help walk Jason through one of them. And I don't know which one we should do. But I think he's a little apprehensive about how we're going to gather all the information we're going to gather specifically. With the. Speaker 2 00:01:46 Security stuff, I think is what he has apprehension about. I'll be candid because I think. You and I both know getting information out of Anton sometimes is challenging. And even though I've asked Anton multiple times going into some of these maverick and And recently, football assessments, he tells me you know they've worked out. I asked him after sharp and well before we were going into the maverick. Phase two assessment. Has he worked out a better Process and a more thorough and comprehensive report, and he has assured me that they have. But, you know, Jason says I've asked Anton and I'm not really getting. You know, I get like a half a page of a report, right? And he's like, "Jason's concerned," right? And I said, "Well." Chris. Speaker 2 00:02:42 Gathered the majority of what we presented for SHARP, and I want I am hoping that you can help. Help Jason through like one of these, one of these to kind of give him a comfort level on what. What you can help bring together. Yeah. Um, I don't want you to do it, but at the same time I don't want us to fail. So I'm trying to figure out how can you. Speaker 2 00:03:12 Sort of help handhold him to the extent possible to, To sort of show him what you did or or what you were able to pull together. I told him, I am sure that you used multiple tools to pull data together and then probably used. You know, Some level of AI to sort of assemble some of that data into into some presentable formats. And I said, I don't know exactly how how she did it. I said, I know that Anton, you know. Had his team gathering information as well, and we use you know tools that Anton had also, but. Um, I guess I wanted to to ask you, To what extent Can or or can you show him or can you help him or whatever? And which, you know which assessment should we should we use I'm more concerned about the Foothill one, because I think they are going to be more. Speaker 2 00:04:11 I think they're going to scrutinize much more closely than than Maverick will. That is my opinion because Maverick is going to be more. Surface and Foothill has somebody who is pushing back much more heavily. So he is going to have, The guy there is going to want to poke holes in what we have because he doesn't want this to happen in the first place. So he's going to He's going to be looking for every opportunity for us to fail or to say, we don't have expertise or whatever. So I guess. Um, I don't know. I'm kind of looking for your input on this to Because I don't want to pull you in to do it, obviously, But at the same time, I'm asking, like what can you do to help Jason? Understand what you did for Sharp, because he's he's. Speaker 2 00:05:06 You know, kind of saying, " H ow am I going to get the security stuff and how am I going to gather the information without having people go in there and try to basically." you know. Bring all this together, and I am like, "Well, Chris had ways of doing a lot of this. The majority of this remotely." I said we had Chris and. And Vlad go on site and gather some of this also, but the majority of this Chris was able to pull together. So Long story short. Speaker 2 00:05:36 What are you able to provide or get, give him or or show him, to be able to sort of. Give him more of a comfort level to on on how to get some of this information together because I think he's. Especially concerned about the security pieces, but you know, just overall because I think they also have a lot more, you know, server stuff that. I think this is going to be a much larger on- prem environment than some of the things we've done before, also. Speaker 1 00:06:08 So. Can I can I pivot just for a slight moment? Speaker 2 00:06:15 Of course. Okay. Speaker 1 00:06:18 The reason why I did most of it myself was because I have the same concerns. That Jason has. Yeah. Of course, and that's why I did what I did. Now, I macgavered some of my stuff and used some of the access that I've had in the past. I don't necessarily have that same access anymore. Um, Anzar has pulled it away from me, so. I am mostly doing a lot of PowerShell scripts, and with what I did before on prem, it was also PowerShell scripts. And I was given access to those servers as a domain. Speaker 1 00:06:59 Domain admin to do what I needed to do. Um. The other concern that I have is he Anton keeps pushing for global reader access only, and that's not going to work. Because a lot of what I do is in PowerShell, And I need access to the system so that I can write an app registration that allows me access. And the app registration is read only. Um, and I am very open and upfront about that with the clients, and I have been in the past. So it's one of those things where. I've been stepping in the way I have because my confidence is not where it needs to be. He is amazing with the things he's good at. Assessments for potential clients is not that area. And that's just my honest. Speaker 1 00:07:55 U m, and the reason why I've been doing the things I've been doing lately. Um, And I don't want to tell that to Andor because he greatly values his opinion. And well, Speaker 2 00:08:07 But but I've been candid with Anzor in in saying a lot of those same things, right and not saying that he, he can't do it or that he, he doesn't have the ability to do it, but that I have concerns in whether he has the ability to actually do it or not. And Anzor has actually said that he Has some of the same concerns. So I don't think Onsor, I don't think Onsor is saying Yeah, Anton is absolutely the guy. He is actually saying the same thing. So. But, we also can't afford to fail to deliver on these two things because they're both very big and they both have. Speaker 2 00:08:51 Big security processes involved. So, I guess. You know, how do we and on the foothill piece. They absolutely said," read only is all they're going to give us." Okay. So, um. Speaker 1 00:09:10 I can send them instructions for the app registration. That's easy. Speaker 2 00:09:14 Yeah, um, I guess the. Speaker 2 00:09:19 The question is going to be, What do we? What do we need to do to get in there and get what we need? And And make sure that we can deliver on that. So, what I was what I was Going to ask is, you know, if you and I and Jason have a conversation either today or tomorrow. Um, to walk through or sometime before the end of the week. To walk through what our approach can be and to what extent you can help get things started. Um, Cause I'm out next week and I don't want us to go in there and look like we're flat - footed because the guy is going to jump on that immediately, and we'll fail. Because what we're going into with this one, just so you are aware, and I am not sure how. Speaker 2 00:10:13 How up to speed you are with this foothill thing, but basically the two guys the. CFO or whatever he is, and the director asked us to come in. But this guy, that is the " S ys tem administrator, who was recently put into a manager type role." Is very is is defensive and resistant to this assessment. Yeah. And is looking for a reason for us to not. Really be there, and he wants to see our project plan, and he wants to poke holes in it. And he is going to be looking for us to. He's going to be looking for reasons to say these guys don't know what they're doing or whatever. Even I think we've quelled it a bit in the initial meeting, But I still think he's going to be looking for any reason to say these guys don't know what they're doing or they don't. Speaker 2 00:11:07 Especially, if we start to say he's not qualified in certain ways or he's not the right guy for something. As soon as we start to say that, which we probably will. Because he said, he said specifically, I come from a programming development background. And, as soon as we start to say anything about, he may not be the right guy for the infrastructure support. He's going to immediately start to push back. I know, right? Because they they already kind of don't want him there. I think or don't think he's the right guy to be in that. In their business, so I think they kind of want him out. But so he's going to be, and if they and if he's able to bring anything. That has credibility to light. It's going to make us look really bad, and then we're not going to have an opportunity there. So. Speaker 2 00:11:59 I'd like the three of us to talk about what we can do, And I don't want to pull you in to be to spend a ton of time on this, but I also Jason may need some hand holding kind of going in here. So I Thoughts on how we can approach this I mean. Speaker 1 00:12:20 So I put in to the chat. Speaker 1 00:12:28 H ang on one second. Sure. Just give me one moment. I've been trying to reach these people forever. And. Speaker 2 00:12:35 We don't have to we don't have to solve this right now. But if I set up a call for like sometime between now and the end of the week, Can can the three of us chat and sort of come up with a game plan? Do you think? Speaker 1 00:12:47 We definitely can set up a meeting. Um, I put in for you, Pete. I put into this into the group chat. Um, the. A spreadsheet to help him with, But I also think let me let me pull all of my PowerShell scripts and things like that. Let me get with Jason. I have a, I think I'm going to get him feeling comfortable. Um, and we had a long conversation yesterday. But as far as the project plan, let me pull him into something with that. And get something that we can easily send over to that guy. Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:25 Okay, cool. Yeah, I mean, I am going to put myself in that guy's shoes and say, okay, if my job is on the line, here is how I am going to react. And just make it as airtight as possible. Speaker 2 00:13:35 Okay, thank you. Speaker 1 00:13:36 You're welcome. Thanks, Pete. Speaker 2 00:13:38 All right, thanks. Bye. Speaker 1 00:13:39 Okay, Delaney, I am so sorry. It has been a busy morning.
06-16 Meeting: Avalon Help Desk Cost Estimation - Fully Burdened Hourly Rate and Burden Factor Validation
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-16 16:02:29 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Pete] [Christi] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Estimating Help Desk Hourly Cost for Avalon Support - Pete requested an approximate hourly cost to estimate spend on Avalon’s help desk tickets (seeking figures like 35/40/45). - Christi noted MSP CFO could calculate costs based on technician time, but access may be uncertain; she could still log in. - Pete said exactness isn’t required; an average of help desk staff hourly rates would suffice. - Christi described prior method: spreadsheet of everyone’s costs, average rate, then applying a fully burdened rate to get cost. - Christi recalled a past average “around seventeen,” influenced by the Filipino team’s rates. - Christi referenced a “four levers” spreadsheet where $65K was the average engineer annual pay at that time. - Christi stated last fully burdened rate calculation was 22%; may have changed. - Pete mentioned including the Philippines’ 13th month in burden; considered for fully burdened factor. - Christi said the 22% burden factor was due to that; she’s trying to locate old spreadsheets, with access issues mentioned (Anzor). - Pete included Olivia (Service Delivery Manager) to ensure all Help Desk elements are captured. - Christi shared a “CIT capacity calculator” (built by Christi, posted by Anzor). - Pete computed a current average rate of 22.77; applying 22% burden yields about $28 fully burdened hourly rate for use. - Christi confirmed sharing tools and historical materials; offered them to Olivia. - Conclusion: A provisional fully burdened help desk hourly rate of approximately $28 was agreed for estimation purposes. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Use $28 as the provisional fully burdened hourly cost for Avalon help desk ticket estimates. - [ ] Validate whether the 22% burden factor (including items like the Philippines’ 13th month) is still accurate; update if necessary. - [ ] Confirm MSP CFO tool access and reliability; determine if it is still available and accurate for cost calculations. - [ ] Christi to provide access or copies of the “CIT capacity calculator” and relevant spreadsheets to Pete and Olivia. - [ ] Include Olivia (Service Delivery Manager) in ongoing help desk cost tracking for Avalon and ensure all help desk roles and locations are captured in the estimate scope. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The 22% fully burdened rate is based on past data and may have changed; confirm current burden factors (including benefits like the 13th month for the Philippines). > 2. MSP CFO tool access and reliability were unclear; verify whether it is still available and accurate for cost calculations. > 3. Clarify scope: ensure the $28 rate includes all help desk roles and locations contributing to Avalon tickets to avoid under/overestimation.
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:05 Just A black. Hi. Thank you, Chris. I need a quick, I need a quick answer. So, I'm trying to quickly figure out how much we spend to support Avalon, and most of their tickets are help desk tickets. So I need an approximate cost for the help desk per hour. Do, we did we ever calculate roughly what that is is it like 35 is it 40? Is it 45? Do we have did we ever have a an approximate cost per hour for like a help desk ticket? Speaker 2 00:00:42 So in that case, MSP CFO is going to calculate that cost based on the amount of technicians that have worked on those ticket sum I. Let me log in and make sure the report is there for you. Speaker 1 00:00:58 I thought we got rid of that. Yeah, we got rid of that. Speaker 2 00:01:01 Oh, it's allowing me to log in. Weird. Um, okay, if that's the case then. Speaker 1 00:01:06 And I don't need to be exact. So I mean, I can take the average of all help desk folks and get an average hourly rate, I guess if that's what I need to do and that'll be fine. Speaker 2 00:01:16 So, what I would do in the past is I had a spreadsheet that had all everyone's costs. I did the average and then I did the fully burdened rate from that, which gave me the cost. Speaker 3 00:01:31 Um, If that makes sense. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:01:35 But you don't remember roughly what it was back then? Speaker 2 00:01:38 No, I'm thinking it was around seventeen in the past. But that's it. Yeah, because you have uh the Filipino team. Speaker 1 00:01:51 Yeah, I know, but we have we have quite a few. Well, I guess, Yeah, I guess that's probably. Is that on your spreadsheet? Speaker 2 00:02:01 That says average engineer K slash hour. Yeah, that spreadsheet that I sent you is the four levers, And that's where the sixty five K came from was because that was the average engineer annual pay at that time when I did it. So, Speaker 1 00:02:16 What I can do is I can look at the Playmaster funnel, and I should be able to. Speaker 1 00:02:28 Everybody that's helped us. Speaker 2 00:02:30 And repeat, the last time I asked for the fully burdened rate calculation, it was at twenty two percent. So that might have changed. Okay. Let me see if I have my Let's see, Speaker 1 00:02:42 Let's see. We don't have a we don't pay any additional Well, I, guess we could use it? We could use that for the Philippines, too, because we give them a thirteenth month So I, guess that could factor in there? Speaker 3 00:02:54 That's, The only reason why I was at twenty two percent was because of that. Hang on, I'm trying to pull it up. I used to keep a spreadsheet, but I could tell you. But Anzor had me put it up somewhere, and then he took away my access from where I put it. That man, like he doesn't want me to work anymore. Speaker 1 00:03:31 Service Delivery manager, is that your title, Olivia? Yeah. Okay, I'm going to include you because I want everything Help Desk related in this number. Speaker 3 00:03:49 I have like four different copies of the old built of this thing. Speaker 2 00:03:55 CIT capacity calculator. Here's that. Let me pull that one up. Speaker 1 00:04:01 So I'm going to take all of, Speaker 3 00:04:04 Let's see, I'm going to take all of this. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:04:13 So the average is 2277 right now without the 22%. So if I say, 22. 77 times 1. 22, so that gives us about a 27, let's call it a$ 28 rate. That's what I'm going to use. Good enough. Speaker 2 00:04:32 Okay, okay. Uh, there's the capacity calculator in your chat. Uh Anzor Hamdi built this I built it, sent it to him, put it up where he wanted it. Uh and I don't think he ever used it after that. But it works. So there's that I have all the old stuff. So Olivia, whatever you want, have at it. Perfect. All right. Speaker 3 00:04:56 Thank you, Chris. Wunderbar. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:04:58 You're welcome. Bye- bye Goodbye, Chris.
08-28 Consultation: Eldridge Aker Partners Pricing Issue for CloudAlly Box Backup
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- Date & Time: 2026-08-28 16:58:29 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Eldridge Aker Partners (via Vince and April, who are resellers/partners) ## Overview The consultation addresses a significant pricing issue for the end-customer, Eldridge Aker Partners, who are using CloudAlly for Box.com data backup. The customer was moved from an annual, unit-based billing model (around **$1.70** per unit) to a month-to-month model on the Secure Cloud platform. This change resulted in a price increase to **$1.95** per unit, leading to an approximate **50%** increase in their invoices, which has caused dissatisfaction at the leadership level. The partner (represented by Vince) is seeking an urgent resolution to reduce the per-unit cost back to the previous level, ideally while retaining the monthly billing cycle for better visibility. They are also open to discussing potential credits for the overcharges and exploring other products in the OpenText portfolio once this issue is resolved. ## Background Vince, representing a partner reseller, is calling on behalf of their customer, Eldridge Aker Partners. This customer has been using CloudAlly for **three years** to back up their **Box.com** data. They were previously on an annual prepayment plan, which was unit-based (per **10 gigs**). This model caused issues with unpredictable true-up costs at the end of the year due to data growth. To gain better visibility, the customer was moved to a **month-to-month** billing cycle on the Secure Cloud platform a few months ago (around May-July 2026). This transition, however, led to an unexpected and substantial price increase. The issue has escalated to the CEO level at both the partner and customer companies, creating an urgent need for a solution. ## Pain Points The primary issue is a sudden and significant price increase after switching billing models. The customer, Eldridge Aker Partners, experienced a price hike from approximately **$1.70** per unit to **$1.95** per unit when they moved from an annual plan to a month-to-month plan on the Secure Cloud platform. - **Impact**: This has resulted in what the customer perceives as a **50%** increase in their costs, causing significant dissatisfaction. The partner is now in an uncomfortable position with their client, as their own leadership has been contacted by the customer's leadership regarding the high invoices. - **Current Situation**: The partner has been trying to resolve this for the **last couple of months** without success. They are currently being billed at the higher rate, and the partner is absorbing the tension from the unhappy customer. - **Quantitative Metrics**: The cost per unit increased from **~$1.70** to **$1.95**. The customer considers this a **50% increase** in cost, which they find unacceptable. A **10-15%** increase might have been manageable. The consultant, Chris, confirmed seeing an invoice for **$352.34** reflecting the **$1.95** unit cost. - **Context**: The original annual billing model lacked transparency, leading to unexpected year-end balances. The switch to monthly billing was intended to provide visibility but came with this unintended price increase. - **Stakeholders**: The affected stakeholders include the end-customer (Eldridge Aker Partners, specifically their leadership/CEO), the partner (Vince, April, and their CEO), and OpenText/CloudAlly (Keelan Clark, Chris). ## Expectations The primary goal is to lower the per-unit cost back to the previous level while maintaining the preferred monthly billing cycle. The customer, Eldridge Aker Partners, would prefer to stay on a **monthly billing cycle** for transparency but finds the current **$1.95** per unit price unacceptable. - **Specific Goals**: Reduce the per-unit cost to a level much closer to the original **$1.70**. The partner has indicated they are willing to pass the savings directly to the customer and are not focused on making a large margin. They also hope to receive **credit** for the recent overcharges. - **Timeframe**: An answer is needed urgently. Vince requested a response by **Monday, August 31, 2026**, so he can update his CEO, who in turn needs to communicate with the customer's CEO. - **Success Metrics**: Success would be defined by receiving an approved pricing adjustment that brings the per-unit cost close to **$1.70** and securing a credit for past overpayments. - **Stakeholders**: Keelan Clark is the primary internal stakeholder who needs to escalate the request. Vince is the primary contact for the partner. ## Other Information Summary - The reseller (Vince's company) is not making a significant profit on this account and is primarily focused on satisfying the customer to maintain the relationship. - The partner is open to exploring other products in the OpenText portfolio and adding them to their service stack, but only after this pricing issue is resolved. - Chris, the consultant, is temporarily covering for Keelan Clark, who is the main account manager. Keelan was scheduled to return on Monday, August 31, 2026. ## To-Do List - [ ] Chris to share all call details with Keelan Clark to escalate internally and seek a pricing adjustment and potential credits. - [ ] Keelan to investigate and provide an answer on the pricing adjustment and potential credits by Monday, August 31, 2026. - [ ] Keelan to follow up with Vince to discuss exploring other products in the OpenText portfolio once the current issue is resolved. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as the unexpected and significant price increase (from ~$1.70 to $1.95 per unit) after switching to a monthly billing model, which has damaged the customer relationship. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. **Offer Annual Pricing on a Monthly Billing Cycle:** Propose a special pricing arrangement that grants the customer the discounted annual rate (or a rate very close to the original $1.70) but allows them to be billed monthly. This directly addresses their need for cost reduction and their desire for billing transparency. > 2. **Apply a Retroactive Credit and Lock in Pricing:** Immediately process a credit for the difference paid over the last few months (the delta between $1.95 and ~$1.70). Concurrently, formally lock in the lower price for a set term (e.g., 12-24 months) to provide stability and show commitment to the partnership. > 3. **Implement a Tiered Discount Structure:** If a direct match to the old price isn't possible, propose a tiered discount on the new $1.95 rate that brings the effective cost down. For example, offer a specific percentage discount that makes the final price acceptable to the client. This shows flexibility while potentially preserving a slightly higher base rate. > 4. **Bundle with a Small Value-Add Service:** To justify maintaining the relationship and smoothing over the issue, offer a small, complementary value-add from the OpenText portfolio at no additional cost for a limited time. This can help rebuild goodwill and also serves as a soft introduction to other products, aligning with the client's stated interest.
- Date
- Aug 28, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:03 Hi April, how are you? Speaker 2 00:01:04 Hi Chris, I'm good. Speaker 1 00:01:06 How are you? Good, good. Thank you. Appreciate you jumping on. Yeah, I guess give it the recorder a second to chime in here. Speaker 2 00:01:16 Yeah, and we're also waiting for Vince to join the call. Okay, cool. This one over account managers who handles. Speaker 1 00:01:23 This call may be recorded for note taking and coaching purposes. Speaker 1 00:01:28 Okay, great. Speaker 2 00:01:29 Yeah, let me just quit clipping him. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Yeah, Speaker 3 00:01:32 No worries. See you guys. Alright, listen. Speaker 2 00:02:39 He hasn't read my email yet, so one moment. Speaker 1 00:02:44 Okay. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:02:46 Take your time. Speaker 4 00:03:16 Hey Vince. Oh hey, good morning. Speaker 2 00:03:19 Good morning. So yeah, this is the meeting with CloudAlly. So Chris is here. Speaker 4 00:03:27 Chris, Speaker 1 00:03:27 Good to meet you. Hey, likewise. Yeah, just to give you guys a quick introduction and some context. Right, I am one of the channel account managers here at OpenText. I'm basically one of Keelan Clark's peers, covering while she's out, but. Yeah, yeah. I don't work for I don't work for CloudAlly necessarily, but we do obviously support you know that product within the OpenText kind of ecosystem. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's let's kind of jump in and figure out what you guys are trying to accomplish and what's going on, and I'll do my best to kind of facilitate next steps here. Speaker 4 00:04:12 For sure, appreciate it, Chris. So I'll give you a little bit of background. We've got one customer, Eldridge Aker Partners, and they utilize CloudAlly to perform the cloud backup of their Box.com data footprint. Essentially, right? They've been using the product for maybe three years at this point. Okay. One of the concerns they had was the original billing model for them. My understanding is unit-based, so it's like every 10 gigs. There's a there's a cost associated with it, and they were prepaying annually, right? So meaning that in 2025 they'd pay for 2026, and then you know with with data churn and whatnot, by the end of the year there would be like a difference, right? So let's just say for example they paid fifteen hundred dollars annually, and at the end of the year when they're trying to re-up or renew. Speaker 4 00:05:03 They've got a outstanding balance essentially, right? Because like now they've stored a little bit more data or whatever the case is, so they weren't too happy about that only because they had zero visibility, right? Like obviously they can look into box and stuff, but that's not something that is part of their daily workflow. It's just kind of a set and forget type thing. And so they asked, hey, is there a way we can go month to month so we can get some some visibility on on all that's being backed up and so we have a better kind of, Understanding of like the moving target, right? Yeah. So, anyways, a couple months ago, we did move them over to month to month, and we noticed that there was an increase in the pricing, right? So I reached out to Keelan, and she said, "Hey, you know, because you guys moved to Secure Cloud, month to month versus annual, there is no pricing difference, but we're looking at older invoices and." Speaker 4 00:05:59 You know what we're seeing is that the cost per unit was floating around somewhere a dollar seventy, and now we're at a dollar ninety five. And then obviously, as we're a partner reseller, we've got a little markup on top of that, and that puts us in an uncomfortable position because now they're like, "Hey, our cost went up quite a bit." And so today's call is just to kind of help understand, okay, what can we do about that, right? Like, is it is there still a possibility of moving to an annual? They would prefer monthly, obviously. So, is there anything we can do in terms of pricing or whatever the case may be, just to get it level set, right? So they kind of understand, like, all right, here's, it's it's, you know, fifty percent increase is is big. So you know, if it was ten percent, maybe fifteen, you know, we could work with that. But I think being that it's you know fifty percent increase is just something that the customer is not happy with. So we're just trying to go to bat for them and see what we can do. Speaker 1 00:06:53 Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And I guess when did you make that? Looks like you. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you moved over maybe at the end of end of July. Speaker 4 00:07:06 Yeah, July, May, that time frame, couple months ago. Speaker 1 00:07:11 You kind of, you kind of, you moved into you know the Secure Cloud platform, and and moved to that month to month billing cycle, right? Correct. Okay. Correct. Yeah. All right. I mean, I I think, yeah. I mean, ultimately, you know, I think there's a path for you guys, right? To, you know, again, if if you have um, I let me let me double check something here. I just want to see that we can actually access um the invoice. I might have you send me like a recent copy of the invoice, but I'm pretty sure I can access. Speaker 1 00:07:50 In your Guest Admin and Secure Cloud, and and see exactly what you guys were were charged, right? And you know, I think we, I think t here is a path to kind of get you closer to, you know, what that annual cost was, right? Broken out monthly, if if that makes sense. Like if you were at X amount, and again, right? I I am gonna I am gonna have to you know communicate this to Keelan, but. I'm pretty sure she can, she can, you know, escalate internally with management to be like, "Hey, here's the situation, right?" And and get you guys closer to that to that number. So let me let me just double check to make sure that I can access the invoice. Customers, I see Eldridge. Give me one second. Speaker 1 00:08:43 Okay, Eldridge, my subscriptions. Let me just go to billing, invoicing. Yeah, let me see. I've got one here, three fifty two thirty four. And if I look at that, I do see, I do see your Cloud-to-Cloud for 1 OA at one ninety five. Yep. For Eldridge Aker Partners. Okay, cool. I see that. So let me. Keelan is back on Monday, but I'll go ahead and share this information with her, and just you know, you know, just make sure that she kind of moves on a path right internally to to see what can be done to support, you know, getting you guys closer to that. That was the previous cost? You said one sixty. Speaker 4 00:09:41 170-ish. Yeah, that's that's what the customer, you know, they and in prior years invoices, they've kind of done the math on their own too, right? So they're coming up at around 170. So, you know, they're very highly sensitive to this. Um, and then just just FYI, right? The the reason why this has a lot of visibility is because their leadership pulled our leadership and said, Hey, what's going on? We just got these invoices, and it's like 50 higher. So whatever we can do in in in a speedy manner is going to be super helpful because I've got my my CEO kind of waiting on a response so he can reach out to their CEO and say hey we got this covered or handled or do we need to move talk you know what I mean so I'm sure the urgency is understood. Speaker 1 00:10:24 I guess I'm confused. I I mean were you um because what what were they buying through us directly before or. Speaker 4 00:10:32 No no they. Yeah, we we uh you know we signed up as a partner CloudAlly at the time, right? Because I think two years ago there's not a lot of players out there that's backing up Box. com, so I think that's that's how we went with CloudAlly, you know, um and and that's where we are today. Speaker 1 00:10:51 So, okay, okay, cool. So I mean, again, you you're passing on you know whatever appropriate markups from you know what was previously 170, right, based on that annual term. To now, right? I mean, again, I don't know. You know, it's it's the billing is at one ninety five, so I don't know what your your your your markup process is to them. But regardless, you know, there is that that delta that you are trying to. Speaker 4 00:11:17 Yeah, and and and to be completely frank with you, like it's. I mean, we're not. We're not making a whole lot of money on this, right? So honestly, if we can bring our cost down and we just pass through to the customer, we're totally fine with that too, right? Like obviously, it'd be nice to get a little bit of a margin, but at this point, it's like not worth the headache to have to go because we've been trying to sort this for the last couple months. To be honest with you, so it you know just having someone to to kind of understand where where we are and where we need to be that'd be helpful from your side. Speaker 1 00:11:46 Yeah, yeah, I see it, and it looks like. Increase from okay yeah got it okay cool yeah we'll we'll get this squared away I don't think it'll be a big uh it's it's not a big deal my my humble opinion we'll get this squared away and I think you know I think we can probably get you guys some credit right as well yeah so that'd be helpful. Yeah, we'll take we'll take both of those. I'll take both of those points back to Keelan and just you know get the ball rolling for you guys. You know, Speaker 4 00:12:23 When do you think we can have? Yeah, an answer, at least something that we can you know put back in front of the customer. Speaker 1 00:12:30 Yeah, I think Monday. You know, Monday. Okay. I'll see Monday. Yeah, for sure. You know, I know she's back on Monday, but I'm sure she'll be kind of chipping away. If I know her, she'll be kind of picking away at this over the weekend. So. I think we can get a quick answer to you guys out by Monday, so you guys can get something out, you know, communicated by end of day and Monday to. Speaker 4 00:12:50 Them. Okay, I appreciate that. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:12:53 Okay, yeah, easy enough. All right, anything else at the moment? Everything else chugging along for you guys, Speaker 4 00:12:59 Or? Yeah, it is definitely. I know Keelan's been reaching out. Maybe try to get some face time. You know, I'd love to see kind of what else is in the portfolio and what other products and services we can add to our stack offering. So. Once we get past this, more than happy to sit down and figure out what we can add to our sales menu here for you guys. Speaker 1 00:13:17 Yeah, for sure, for sure, totally get it. Yeah, let's work on this, and then you know, again, you'll you'll be in good hands with Keelan, so I'll let her kind of follow up on that front. But cool, cool. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. All right, thanks, Chris. Appreciate it, Chris. Happy Friday. You're welcome. Yeah. Bye. Bye.
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04-16 Weekly Meeting: IT Operations, Security Compliance, Cost Optimization, and Infrastructure Upgrades
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-16 14:34:55 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] [Jennifer C] [Crystal] [Apolo] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Dr. Barber] [Erin] [Carlos] [Stacey] [Robert] [Gaston] [James Hunter] [Lorenzo] ## Meeting Notes - Duo Credential Issue and Remediation - Duo was installed on ~100 computers; a login issue surfaced starting Sunday. Duo alerts and user reports prompted a pushed update that prevented issues for most users. About 12 computers required manual remediation; most were fixed by 9 a.m. Monday and a few more on Tuesday. - The incident accelerated the plan to remove Duo and avoid renewal costs. - Conclusion: Duo issue resolved; Duo to be fully removed with associated budget savings. - Help Desk Line Transition to Crimson - Main IT line now routes to Crimson help desk; Gaston also answers on that line. Unresolvable tickets are forwarded to Robert and Gaston, reducing their load. - Some users hang up when they don’t recognize the voice and instead call internal staff (Carlos, receptionist Stacey) to reach Robert/Gaston; plan to encourage front desk/HR to push back on direct transfers. - Help desk structure: Cheryl (former help desk manager) leads ~4 employees; Charles (technical team member) supports remotely (South Africa) and will be introduced during a US visit. - Conclusion: Transition largely successful; user behavior adjustment needed. - Access to LV and Vendor Ticketing - LV access established for Robert and Gaston after anti-spam/security verification; ticketing now active. - Conclusion: LV access established; ticketing active. - IT Portal Launch and Icon Update - New IT portal launched; notification email sent. User desktop icons will be updated to point to the portal within 1–2 days. - Conclusion: Portal rollout in progress. - Data Backup Strategy and Bandwidth Constraints - Current Spectrum bandwidth at the site and data center is too low for ongoing backups. Working with Peerless on quotes to upgrade bandwidth at both ends. - Interim backup performed via shipped Datto hard drive; snapshot loaded and returned; backups have started. Redundancies allow ~4-hour recovery if systems go down; continuous backup is the goal. - Conclusion: Interim backups in place; bandwidth upgrade quotes pending. - Telecom and Internet Services; Audit and Cleanup - Phone providers are TPX and Peerless; Spectrum provides internet. Many TPX lines are forwarded to Peerless, effectively giving each desk phone two lines and creating redundancy and potential duplication in costs. - Suspected “ghost” building entries and dual routing (TPX → Peerless → Crimson) causing duplicates. Analog lines (~$200/line) under investigation; one site may no longer be a SHARP site. - Ongoing weekly invoice reviews (from James Hunter) reveal new accounts and unfamiliar vendors; non-Helped Us answering services are being redirected. Invoices are being scanned for records; a running P&L and contract list is maintained to reduce spend. - Conclusion: Telecom cleanup and contract audits underway to reduce unnecessary costs. - Antivirus Decommissioning (Trellix) - Trellix decommissioned; removal from endpoints ongoing and slow. Having two antiviruses previously caused performance issues. - Conclusion: Decommissioning underway; continued removal planned. - Compliance and Access Reviews (Google Vault, SOC 2) - Data Loss Prevention and Google Vault retention rules configured for HIPAA in early March; HIPAA-enabled monitoring active. - SOC 2-style user access review completed; ~152 Google accounts deleted; 64 accounts remain with randomly shared Google files requiring cleanup. - Backup vendor accounts moved under Crimson management. - Conclusion: Major compliance steps completed; remaining shared file cleanup needed. - Hardware Lifecycle, Inventory, and Docking Stations - Hardware lifecycle report shared for 262–272 machines; ~100 devices still to be inventoried; 156 computers are over 4 years and due for replacement; many systems are unpatched and on unsupported OS. - About 100 computers need replacement this year; 50–60 laptops are funded for replacement (≈12 for BAFMA, remainder for SHARP; funds cannot be cross-assigned). - Docking stations are underpowered and causing performance issues; five broken units found in a closet; immediate need to inventory and true up counts. - Some problematic machines (e.g., Bridget’s) may need swap and reimage later. - Conclusion: Inventory nearing completion; clear replacement, patching, and docking station remediation plan needed. - Database Health and Cloud Migration Exploration - Two database servers (DB and DB Two); DB Two is healthier and hosts CareLogic data lab and others. Access provided to Pratt. - Need to spin up a Microsoft instance in Azure to assess cloud migration; a credit card is required to enable Azure’s free tier. Target progress by month-end. - Conclusion: Azure exploration pending payment method; evaluation prioritized but not an emergency. - MFA Enrollment and Training; Access Security and PAM - MFA enrollment improving; some users remain confused. Plan for four Zoom sessions, in-person sessions, and a walkthrough video; potential candy incentives. Goal for laptop users by May 15. - ~60 desktop users lack cell phones; plan to deploy YubiKeys and restrict logins to specific devices with attached keys. - Strong access lockdowns for critical accounts; use of physical security keys across SHARP and BAFMA. Privileged Access Management (PAM) requires approvals; activities audited and screen recorded. Exclusion groups for service accounts; travel exclusions in place. - Conclusion: MFA training and YubiKey rollout planned; security posture strengthened. - Technology Roadmap and Site Access (Brevo/ADT) - Roadmap is fluid and adjusts as issues arise. Brevo access issues persist with HiTech for Sharp and Crenshaw/BAFMA; updates are needed, and the system went end-of-life last month. - Quote for ADT/Brevo updates with Dr. Barber for sign-off; escalation email sent. - Conclusion: Awaiting vendor resolution and internal approval on Brevo updates. - Box-to-Google Drive Migration and Storage Savings - Most Box files are under/accessible via Lorenzo’s account; Christi is managing. 83% of files are stale (>2 years), primarily Lorenzo’s data. - Plan to archive stale Box data to Google Drive, set proper access and permissions, and schedule a working lunch to review organization and migration. ~20 users never used Box; some unaware of access. - Removing Box could save ~$1,400–$1,600 per month/year (figures cited vary). - Conclusion: Migration and archival strategy defined; cost savings identified. - Account Access, Password Resets, and Delegation - Belinda previously had access to another staff member’s account; last access was Feb 12. Passwords were reset. - Kasha was granted delegate permissions to review emails and locate specific items; team sometimes logs into old accounts to retrieve contracts/emails. - Conclusion: Passwords reset; delegate access configured for secure review. - Onboarding/Offboarding SOP and IT Policies (including AI) - Onboarding SOP being updated; offboarding SOP required for audit readiness. IT policies in progress; four drafted. - AI policy needed; concerns include vendor contracts (data storage, ownership, retention). Interest in AI tied to CareLogic; Eleos is popular but carries contract risks; ClinicallyAI’s claims require technical clarification. CareLogic AI expanding beyond progress notes; updates expected via LA County meeting and Denver conference. - Christi is drafting AI policies for multiple clients. - Conclusion: SOPs and AI policy in development; vendor research ongoing. - Access Boundaries and Security Practices - Christi avoids access to EHRs or systems with employee/client data (CareLogic, UKG) unless essential. If access is required, she requests a secondary account not tied to her email to reduce risk. - Conclusion: Maintain least-privilege access; use secondary accounts if unavoidable. - Asset Inventory and Mobile Services Optimization - Audits and deployments ongoing; remaining computers to be added for accurate inventory. - Engaged Intratum (mobile broker) to explore better multi-carrier plans, pooled minutes, and handset deals to support remote staff; planning for potential Verizon contract changes and device replacements; Intratum can ship phones. - Conclusion: Mobile optimization underway to improve connectivity. - Hardwired Fax Lines Across Sites - Implementing hardwired fax lines at all sites with TPX; integrating with onsite Konica Minolta devices to improve medical records workflows. - Conclusion: Implementation in progress. - Copier/Fleet Consolidation and Secure Printing - Current copier fleet spans multiple banks; consolidation to a single provider targeted for Q3. Canon suggested; Konica Minolta health-focused models noted with HIPAA features and badge-release secure printing. - Interest in secure print (badge scan to release jobs) to prevent unauthorized access, especially in patient-accessible areas. - Conclusion: Evaluate consolidation and secure printing solutions (Canon vs. Konica Minolta). - Medical Records Policy Update and Social Media Risk - Incident: patient obtained medical records and attempted to post on Instagram, triggering doxing-like threats. Records should not have been released; staff lacked context. - Need urgent policy revision and staff training on records handling and social media risk mitigation. - Conclusion: Medical records policy requires urgent update and training. - Policy Distribution and Signature Setup - Plan to distribute policies to staff using an Adobe-based signature form. DocuSign setup needed; Christi to borrow Speaker 7’s credit card (Lorenzo’s card unavailable due to cancellation) and avoid storing card images. - Conclusion: Proceed with Adobe form and obtain a credit card to configure DocuSign. - DMH Secure Microsoft Messages Access - Speaker 7 cannot access DMH secure messages due to Microsoft login issues; “Login with Google” and code options failing. Christi/Gaston to assist with troubleshooting. - Conclusion: IT assistance to resolve DMH secure login for Speaker 7. - IT Department Morale and Stability - Reported improvements in kindness and reduced stress in IT interactions; prior job security fears affected behavior. Recent stability noted; morale-building efforts underway. - Conclusion: Team morale improving with ongoing support. - Staffing and On-Site Support Updates - Coordination among staff continues (e.g., Robert’s training, Gaston’s location tracking, Vlad’s support for CCTV and Weingart construction). Some delays acknowledged due to workload. - Conclusion: Coordination ongoing; monitor for delays. - JP Morgan Account and Expenditures - Speaker 7 delisted for JP Morgan account activity; previously saw entries under Belinda and Lorenzo. Noted a $37,000 “fence” expense; review of drawdowns required amid confusion about spending (storage, furniture). - Conclusion: Further review of account activity and expenditures needed. - Ticketing and Distribution List Fix; Help Desk Metrics - High ticket volume noted; a distribution list was fixed to auto-add recipients. Over six weeks: 643 tickets opened; 592 closed; 51 open. Ticket types range broadly; one server down event resolved. - Dr. Barber was replaced by Christi as contact for server alerts to reduce his email load. - Conclusion: Ticket operations steady; contact update implemented; distribution list issue resolved. - Network Equipment and Microsoft Monitoring - A FortiGate at Dyer Road is failing; replacement needed but not urgent; added to roadmap. - Migration to Microsoft monitoring has begun; conditional access policy monitoring enabled. A Microsoft lockout on April 1 was resolved within 72 hours. Exclusion groups configured for service accounts (audit-only, no compliance blocking) and travel exceptions. - Conclusion: Monitoring improvements in place; hardware issue tracked on roadmap. - Vendor Dependency Audits and Documentation; Offboarding Timeliness - Vendor dependency audits are consolidating under Christi. All documents from James are being scanned to maintain an audit trail and build a contract list to reduce costs. - Aging P2 offboardings noted (e.g., Alexis and Elizabeth Sanchez); target is completion within four hours. Found Julie (finance) account still active; no offboarding request had been received; remediation needed. - Conclusion: Strengthen offboarding timeliness and validation. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Obtain and share bandwidth upgrade quotes from Peerless for site and data center; define target bandwidth and approvals. - [ ] Increase bandwidth at office and data center to sustain ongoing backups; finalize implementation timeline. - [ ] Continue Trellix removal from all endpoints. - [ ] Cleanup randomly shared Google files for the remaining 64 accounts; complete deletion where applicable. - [ ] Audit and remove duplicate/obsolete telecom lines; verify analog lines and decommission non-SHARP site entries; plan number porting and cutover. - [ ] Complete hardware inventory for remaining ~100 devices by end of month (Robert and Gaston); patch unsupported OS over the next two months. - [ ] Inventory docking stations, replace underpowered/broken units, and standardize on performance-capable models. - [ ] Update user icons to point to the new IT portal. - [ ] Provide a credit card to enable Azure free-tier exploration; spin up Microsoft instance for Pratt and assess migration paths. - [ ] Resolve Brevo access with HiTech; finalize and sign ADT/Brevo update quote (Dr. Barber). - [ ] Plan and conduct Box-to-Google Drive migration; set archive standards and permissions; schedule working lunch. - [ ] Schedule four Zoom sessions and in-person trainings for MFA; produce walkthrough video; deploy YubiKeys for ~60 desktop users. - [ ] Finalize updated onboarding and offboarding SOPs; complete IT policies including AI policy draft for review. - [ ] Coordinate with Intratum on multi-carrier mobile plans, pooled minutes, and handset procurement; plan for Verizon changes. - [ ] Implement hardwired fax lines with TPX at all sites and connect to onsite devices. - [ ] Assess copier fleet consolidation; perform TCO/security comparison of Canon vs. Konica Minolta; plan badge-release secure printing. - [ ] Update medical records policy and schedule staff training on records handling and privacy; include social media risk protocols. - [ ] Configure DocuSign using Speaker 7’s credit card; distribute policies and collect signatures via Adobe/DocuSign. - [ ] Troubleshoot DMH secure message access for Speaker 7; document steps and resolution. - [ ] Review JP Morgan account activity and the $37,000 fence expenditure; audit drawdowns and assign ownership. - [ ] Monitor IT ticket volume post–distribution list fix; maintain metrics reporting. - [ ] Add FortiGate replacement at Dyer Road to procurement queue; continue Microsoft monitoring and conditional access refinement. - [ ] Ensure prompt offboarding for identified staff; remediate any lingering active accounts (e.g., Julie); implement validated checklist. ## AI Suggestions > 1. Confirm required bandwidth speeds, vendor SLAs, costs, and implementation dates before approving upgrades; align with backup RPO/RTO targets. > 2. Define a concrete telecom remediation plan to eliminate TPX→Peerless forwarding, including inventory of numbers, porting steps, testing, and cutover schedule. > 3. Assign owners and a retrieval plan for the ~100 uninventoried devices and all docking stations; set performance standards for replacements. > 4. Establish Box migration governance (folder structure, retention, permissions, and audit logging) before moving large data sets; validate with stakeholders. > 5. Provide a payment method and deadline for Azure setup; document evaluation criteria for cloud migration (cost, performance, security, DR). > 6. Implement a standardized offboarding checklist and SLA to prevent aging cases; perform a back-audit for lingering accounts (e.g., Julie). > 7. Document MFA/YubiKey deployment plan, including device restrictions, exception handling, and user support materials. > 8. For AI vendors (CareLogic, Eleos, ClinicallyAI), use a contract/security checklist covering data ownership, storage duration, PHI handling, access controls, breach response, and compliance certifications. > 9. Conduct a copier consolidation TCO and security feature comparison; pilot badge-release at a high-traffic site before full rollout. > 10. Update medical records release procedures with authorization checks and social media incident response protocols; run staff training and drills.
- Date
- Apr 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:09 Hi, Can you hear us? Speaker 1 00:00:11 I can. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Awesome. You got me and Apollo right now. We're just waiting on everybody else. Speaker 3 00:00:17 Okay, I know I was on phone with Crystal. She was going to jump on. Speaker 2 00:00:21 Awesome Well, I have lovely printouts for you guys, but I will send you the PDF copies as well Okay So. Speaker 2 00:00:35 I'm gonna give Apollo his. Can't spam him enough with paper. Hi. He was born in 1947. Let me get uh these PDFs and send them to you. Let my computer catch up with me. I put it through the paces today. Speaker 2 00:01:24 My system does not like to send save the reports, just likes to print them. One of my systems, the other one. The other one's nicer. Speaker 2 00:01:42 The Other one's Word. I can boss it around. All right, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to send these over to you guys, So that you have them. So we're going to go through it soon as Erin arrives. And I am going to put Dr. Barber on the attachments so he has copy. Speaker 1 00:02:28 Alright. Speaker 2 00:02:58 Let me know when you guys get them. So the Word document is basically the report from the last two weeks. I'll get you guys a previous report as well, and basically just kind of go through a few of the items. We do have some action items on here. It is long, I do apologize, it's 12 pages. It's been a busy couple weeks for us. Uh, just just a heads up. Even when I am not here on site physically, I am actively working on this account. So Monday you guys, I sent you an email about the Duo credential. We wanted to get rid of that. Um, We had actually slated it to be a little further down the line just because of everything else. We had going on. It was one of those that just wasn't as high of a priority. Um, However, the push that happened uh was actually a good, a good way for us to get it all caught up. So. Speaker 2 00:03:55 Um, basically a hundred uh computers had Duo installed on them. And Crystal had the issue on Sunday. We just thought it was a one off because we hadn't heard any other issues. And, all of a sudden, we got an alert from Duo. And then from a few other people that they couldn't log into their computers. And so we pushed an update through the systems. Anyone that could actively get that update never noticed anything. So I think we had to remediate about 12 computers in all. Um, out of over a hundred that we had to physically touch. So that's good. That was something that we didn't expect to happen on Monday, but we got the majority of them resolved by about nine am. And then we had a couple onesie twosies yesterday, and then a few like one or two on Tuesday. So I'm, assuming those are people that were just on PTO and wasn't working or they were in the field and just didn't need their computers. So. Speaker 2 00:04:51 So that got taken care of, and that's a quick win. I need to go back and see how much that's going to save on our budget this year because we didn't renew Duo. But it is a decent cost savings the last time I looked at it. The main IT line has been pushed to Crimson, So anyone calling into the IT line is going to actually get the help desk from on the Crimson side, which Gaston is also going to be on that line. So he'll pick up sometimes or it'll be someone else. U m for the most part, it's going pretty well except for a few people. If they don't recognize the voice they like to hang up, and then they'll call either Carlos or someone else. And yeah, Speaker 4 00:05:41 I almost went. And got my lunch to eat too. So one more for you. Speaker 2 00:05:50 You also have a copy in your email. Speaker 5 00:05:51 Okay, yeah, so that's what I was like, oh, I'm sorry. Let me get that. No worries. Speaker 2 00:05:56 Um, So for the most part, it's been going well the transition to the help desk line. Um Anything that the help desk can't answer they, they are forwarding the tickets over to Robert and Gaston. So that's alleviating some pressure from Robert and Gaston. They can get some more of the higher level stuff out of the way. Um but The funny part is, is if someone calls in and they don't recognize the person they're hanging up. And then they're calling the receptionist here, Or they're calling Carlos and HR and having them be transferred directly to Robert and Gaston. So that's been a fun one. I am about to bribe, well I did start to bribe Carlos and I cannot remember her name. Super sweet lady in the front. Stacey? Stacey, thank you. I keep wanting to call her Carla and I know that's not right. I am terrible with names, but I was about to bring them gifts to start pushing back on. Speaker 2 00:06:49 So that one's been a fun one. Uh, LV we finally got access this week. Uh, The first week when we sent them in the email to remove Lorenzo in February, they did remove him right away, but it's taken some time to get that access into LV. So we did get that access. Robert and Gaston also Um, are able to put in tickets now and get issues resolved. So, it's taken some time because we had to prove that this wasn't a spam attempt or someone trying to gain access to the account. So um, We did get that one done. And then and uh, the new IT portal has been launched. Uh I did send out an email I think it was yesterday on it, and we are converting all of the icons um to go to that. So in the next day or two, everyone's icons are going to be updated, so they can. Speaker 2 00:07:38 Go to the portal using that icon. Um, and then we have finalized the data backup transfer to us. There is a slight problem. Um, the bandwidth, The internet at the data center and the internet here on this site are too low to actually do backups. So I am working with Peerless. I'm going to get a quote on what it would take to increase the internet here and increase the internet there and get a quote so that everybody can be on the same page of what it was going to cost. Um, but it's just too slow to do an actual backup. So we're still we did get a backup last week pushed over to Datto. Uh, basically they had to ship us a hard drive, We backed up the data physically and then reshipped the hard drive back to them. So we do have more up-to-date backups. Speaker 2 00:08:27 Um, if something was to go down, We have redundancies in place, so we can spin it up pretty quickly within about four hours. But we still would feel more comfortable if we had a backup. So that just adds up on that. And then we have decommissioned Trellix. It is one of two antiviruses you had on your computers, which also slows down your computers. So we are in the process, we have it decommissioned, however, we got to remove it and so that's a slow process and Anytime we're getting a computer, anytime we're at a meeting and we have computers given to us, we are removing it as quickly as possible. But that one's going to be a little bit slow. And then last month, we hadn't met yet, But last month, the Google Vault retention rules I configured them. So now they're HIPAA aligned. And so we have HIPAA enabled all the rules enabled for HIPAA. We can see if there's anything going out that should not be going out. Speaker 2 00:09:24 And then, I do a SOC two user access. I know you guys don't need SOC two, but that's one of the higher levels of audits, so I try to do all my compliancy surrounding that. So I've done the access review is completed. We did delete one hundred and fifty two. T here is still sixty four accounts, where t here is random Google files that are being shared out, So we do need to in the next month or so, get that taken care of. And then all other backup vendor accounts have been Under our is now under our crimson management. So that's pretty awesome. It took us a decent amount of time because we had to validate that I am not trying to spam you guys or fish you guys or be fraudulent, but we were able to get things finalized. So there's only like one or two smaller things. And then what's not on here is that James Hunter is giving me invoices. I'm getting about a two inch stack weekly. Speaker 2 00:10:24 To take a look at and sign off on, some things I am going to have to send back towards you. That's fine. Yeah, and so I am investigating to see who they go to. I think t here is a few like envelopes and printing stuff. That'll come back to you, but other than that, It's giving me a heads up on when t here is ghost accounts out there for things. And so there is a suspicion that there are some random, Buildings that is no longer sharps, that's on the phone systems. Plus, you've got some dual phone system things happening where numbers are being forwarded from TPX to Peerless before they get routed to the person. So, you've got some duplicate phone lines and I'm going to be auditing that within the next month because that needs to be cleaned up and that'll be a savings there because there's no reason I have duplicates. And then there's some hard, so you've got digital lines and you got analog lines. Speaker 2 00:11:21 You guys have a few analog lines in a couple places that don't look right. So TPX is investigating that for me. Normally you do an analog line when you have an elevator need. So, we're going to be investigating. One of those sites looks like it's not even a SHARP site anymore, that it's been decommissioned, so it's another thing. And you're paying about $200 a line on the analog lines. So we're trying to get that one taken care of quickly. So those are the wins um On here, I put the help desk volume that's happened over the last six weeks since we pushed everything to our system. So total opened is 643 tickets, which is a pretty good amount. Not too bad. We've closed 592. We've got 51 open. And so these are a mixture of, you know, "Hey, I need to reset my password," to "Hey, install a whiteboard for me," to. Speaker 2 00:12:18 The server went down, Which the server did go down one time, and we were able to spin it back up. So these are things that are coming through. I'm not going to go through this. Your lunch looks like it's amazing. I know his lunch was amazing. I don't want to put you guys to sleep, and I have not fully ate lunch yet. So, Top submitters on tickets, You're going to see Dr Barbara's name first, but that's because he's the contact on the list. So anytime, a server goes down the ticket, gets put in his name. I have since changed that to my name So that he's not getting flooded with emails. Perfect. So, just a heads up on that and then Bridget is top of three, uh just because she's HR. Yeah. Um security posture we've got the Duo incident resolved. Um also huge shout out to Robert and Gaston for quickly getting that under control. I I have not seen two guys work quicker on that and keeping me in the loop. While I was off site, so it was fantastic. Speaker 2 00:13:18 One of the things we were able to do is finally start pushing out our system. And so I'm going to pause here and have you guys go to the hardware lifecycle report, which is the lovely one with the this on it. It's the one with for you too, it actually says in title hardware lifecycle report. Dr Barbara's asked for an inventory of all the machines. This is all the machines I currently have an inventory for. There's about a hundred that we're lacking, so left out of that. So pretty good numbers here, 262. We're estimating around 100 that we know of um that are still out there in the field. And we're trying to track down and I have a list of who those are. So I just don't have a full inventory on them, I just kind of know who they are based off of the error messages we got when we tried to rebuild install. Speaker 2 00:14:10 So these are all the systems that I was able to run. There are 1 56 computers that are due for replacement that are over four years old, and that's listed in here on the list. We're also seeing a lot of systems that are not patched, and that's your OS unsupported. That's the white piece on that front page this right here. So out of all of those machines we're working on. We're going to be working on patching those over the next two months. We do have a few machines they're causing issues So Bridget's is one of them. There's a few others out there that we're seeing some issues on it. We might have to change her out for another computer and put hers back into cycle later on, just reinstall the hard drive. But there are quite a few computers out there that are in great condition. So, and there's about 50 to 60 more laptops that are for replacement with program. Speaker 2 00:15:07 About twelve of those are left for BAFMA and the rest are for SHARP. So, and those came out of a program funding. So we can't cross those with or cross give them out. So as soon as we get a handle on which ones are which in this system, Then you guys will get a better report of what actually needs to be replaced this year. So yes, we've been working pretty hard on getting that done. So that's a copy for you guys. It is rather long sixteen pages um So just a heads up for you guys, But that's that'll give you a pretty good idea of where we're at on things. And, then my security team on the back end is working on getting all the systems patched that are currently in our, that we currently can see. So get those up to date and security issues. And then the other page is the technology roadmap. I'm not going to go over that with you guys, But this is the technology roadmap we discussed at the beginning and just kind of going through some things. This will be a. Speaker 2 00:16:05 Roadmap that's going to be pretty fluid as we go through things, So things might get moved around just because of issues that may pop up that we haven't foreseen yet. So we're still finding ghosts. Um and we're trying. Um Brevo access, We're having a problem with Hi Tech getting Brevo access taken care for Sharp and Crenshaw or for Bathman. And Crenshaw, but we have access to all other sites. So we're going on there. I am estimating, I fired off a not so lovely email this morning. Um, did not have kittens on it. I promise, um, just seeing where we're at in that process. Uh, Brevo is actually really good to work with. It's just HiTech that we're having issues with. Um for all other sites. Uh ADT. We need to update the Brevo systems here. Speaker 2 00:16:57 And so Doctor Barber has a quote for him to sign off on, so we can get that started. They went end of life last month. So, I did put a note in there about the telecom where the help desk line forwards to TPX or TPX line forwards to Peerless, and then that forwards to Crimson Help Desk. We're going to remove that issue soon. It looks like when and I was talking to Robert about this, It looks like when he set up Peerless, he didn't port the numbers over from TPX. And so instead of porting them over, he just linked them. So it's like having two cell phones. This is your cell phone, and then you were given a work cell phone. And so people calling this cell phone might get forwarded to the other cell phone. Got it. So, it's thank you. It's a little extra redundancy that's not needed and too expensive. Got it. Speaker 2 00:17:57 Um, and then for Box, I did a snapshot of Box. Most of the files that are being that are in Box are all under Lorenzo, or he has full access to it. He doesn't have access to it because I took over his account. Right, Speaker 5 00:18:18 They were ones that he uploaded into. Speaker 2 00:18:20 Right So. There are t here is it's not as. Speaker 2 00:18:25 It's not as bad as I thought it would be. There's probably about twenty, um, I might have put it in here. There's quite a few accounts in here. Speaker 5 00:18:34 Can I understand you guys? You guys are the last three to sign it. Yes. You said they were. Could we need all the things in box? Yes, Rebecca Barbara was asking, are we just going to switch to something else or move things over? Yeah, but today I went and looked up some cases we did years ago. Still needed some of that document type thing. And even though he may have uploaded them, we probably still need to. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 2 00:18:59 I want to save everything he has. I just want to transfer it into Google Drive. So you have about, I think it's 20 usersum that have not used Box ever? Speaker 5 00:19:13 They might not even know they have access like does Robin have access? Yes Cause she last week she didn't know that she could upload things into Box Yeah. Speaker 2 00:19:22 So, Um, what I would like to do is start working through and with you guys. Maybe have a working lunch one day when everybody's in the office and I'll provide lunch. Um, love a lunch. I figured and I figured knowing my other client that Ruts would be a game changer. Love lunch. Yes, Soum where we can just go through the files and say, okay, this needs to go here. This needs to go here and then just get everything moved. Or slated to how we can move it. So, but there it's not as bad as far as data. There is a lot of files that Lorenzo has that no one's ever touched, and no one has access, So I'm going to move those to an archive folder and give everyone on this call access plus Doctor Barber in in Google Drive. So, um and his is his files 83% of them are are stale. So. Speaker 2 00:20:19 Um, if we can get box removed, that saves us about $1400 a month. So and then our open end risks um MFA enrollment actually actually has jumped. So which is really good. Um the emails I'm sending out there are some questions. So I think someone asked me and I cannot remember her name to do a training um at Crenshaw, or do a training over Zoom on how to do MFA. And then uh I'd like to send out if you guys are good with this, send out a uh invites to everybody. Give them four different Zoom meetings to choose from, and we'll go over how to do uh Google MFA. Then we could do that next week. And we could also do some in person. I know people like to be in person here. So, And I don't mind buying candy to throw at people But, if you guys are Oh, sorry, Crystal. Speaker 6 00:21:15 No, I was going to say, yeah, that'd be good. I did mine yesterday, but I could see how people might get confused. You might even consider doing a video of you walking through it, in case people can't join, and then it can be sent out. Speaker 2 00:21:29 That would be yes. I can do that. I'll be honest, I haven't set up my MFA on uh Bathma yet. I have it locked down. Who is it for? Yes. Speaker 2 00:21:43 So I can do it that way, Crystal. That would be amazing. Speaker 5 00:21:46 No, uh, Chrissy was not. Oh yeah, I'm sorry. Sorry about that. I caught myself. Do you have a pen? Mm- hmm. Speaker 2 00:21:54 I have plenty of them at my desk. Speaker 5 00:21:56 As do everybody else's. Speaker 2 00:21:57 Uh. If you need some, there's an entire drawer, though, probably your assistant spends. Speaker 1 00:22:19 Okay. Thank you. I'm. Speaker 2 00:22:23 Gonna wait for Aaron to come back. Speaker 1 00:23:10 They both left me, ladies. Speaker 3 00:23:12 Look, you both of them. Oh, I just Doctor Barbara just called me and I was like, you know, there's a meeting. He's like, okay, I'm going there right now. Speaker 2 00:23:21 Okay. Well good. Speaker 3 00:23:23 Thing they just left you? Speaker 2 00:23:25 Oh no Apollo's back he he uh went to go drop off a card. Speaker 4 00:23:29 I got bored and I left just kidding. Speaker 2 00:23:31 I can be boring. I thought about bringing my bag, my basket of toys. When I worked for Mars, um, because I worked on the technology side, they would get all the technology, all the tech technicians. Sorry, my brain is not forming words today. Um, All the IT managers, directors and above bring us all on site somewhere, uh whichever factory for the year or for the month. Thank you. And so they would hand out toys to us, fidget toys. We'd get uh those tangles. Yes. And, they would hand those out to us and for us to play with. So we wouldn't get bored. Speaker 4 00:24:14 Uh Aaron, So I think for Doctor Barber, theum you said that you were still doing the audit or the hardware at? Yes. Speaker 2 00:24:27 So for the audit that you asked for, Doctor Carter, that's this one right here. I've got about a hundred more to do. So and then I'll have a full picture of where we're at on everything. So we've got two hundred and sixty or two hundred and seventy-two already done. Okay so Robert and Gaston, I didn't mention this earlier. Robert and Gaston have a deadline to get it completed by the end of this month. The last one hundred. So and then we'll have a full picture of where we stand on everything. Um, This report includes any of them that the operating system is needs to be updated. Uh, Any computer, it also includes any computer whose warranties have expired, and they need to be replaced because they're over five years old or four years old. And then how many of them are due soon? And then what we've got in good status. Speaker 7 00:25:18 Okay. That's good again, Speaker 2 00:25:21 And I do apologize it is 16 pages long. Speaker 5 00:25:24 Well No pages. Speaker 2 00:25:27 True. True. So. Speaker 7 00:25:31 Anything that you've discovered in this whole process? Speaker 2 00:25:34 For the computers, um, The biggest thing, we've just there's quite a few out there that need to be replaced. And so we'reestimating around 100 that will need to be replaced this year. Um, however, docking stations are it looks like he didn't replace as many docking stations. So I need to get that trued up, And that's my next fight is to figure out what all docking stations are out there. But we're in dire need of docking stations right now. And the ones he bought were underpowered, So quite a few people are having issues and they don't realize that they're having issues and it's the docking station. So I'm going to do an inventory of that as well. Um, I discovered this morning, five of them that were broken in his closet in his room. Five broken? Speaker 2 00:26:19 Right, so we're I mean we're still discovering a lot. Um, We found I was telling them. We found another account today that I wasn't aware of. It was a spectrum account that goes to one of the sites. Um, So thankfully, James got it over to me. And when I was going through all the invoices that he brings me every week. So I found it in there. Speaker 1 00:26:39 Yeah yeahum Yeah. Speaker 7 00:26:48 Looking at those invoices is very illuminating. Speaker 2 00:26:51 Yes, it is. We also found this week, we found that we find stuff every week. This week, we found that all almost all the lines that we've looked at so far that are on TPX is being forwarded to Peerless, which is creating a redundancy. You don't need two two lines for every person, and no one knows that they have it. So every desk phone has two lines. Speaker 7 00:27:16 Okay, but is our is Spectrum our phone carrier here? Speaker 2 00:27:20 Spectrum is one of your internet service providers. Your two phone providers is TPX and Peerless. Speaker 7 00:27:29 Okay, only the reason I asked that was just off the cuff. I asked Robert, what was our who was our phone carrier here at the office, and he told me Spectrum. Speaker 2 00:27:39 That's our internet for here. So and it's for a couple other sites too. Speaker 7 00:27:45 But not for our telephone. Speaker 2 00:27:46 It carries our telephone, but it's not our telephone. So it's like the it's like the river that carries all the boats. Speaker 4 00:27:56 So we we are still finding some things. Soum spectrum spectrum is beingum charged through Peerless. Speaker 2 00:28:09 And the bandwidth is so low on Spectrum that we can't do, we can't backup systems. So that's why none of the backups have been done. So I'm working with Peerless to get a quote to increase the bandwidth here, um and increase it at the data center so those backups can get done. Which might make your computers faster on the internet. So which I know will help some people. So but they are pretty slow. Um. And that's why the backups had never gotten done. We did. Uh that was the reason uh the systems could not push the backups to the cloud. So what we did was last week, we got a hard drive in physically from Datto. Uh, we took it to the data center, loaded everything up. So we had a snapshot and then shipped it back to Datto. And so they put it everything in uh this week. So that's been done. So now we just need to increase the bandwidth. So that. Speaker 2 00:29:06 It continues to do the backup that we just started. So and then we should be good on that one. Speaker 7 00:29:12 Well, that's new knowledge. Speaker 2 00:29:16 We're finding a we're finding things out every week, new things every week. Soum anything that I don't recognize, I'm as far as invoices, I'm going to be pushing over to Erin so she can check off. I know that there's some things like envelopes and and papers that they still bring me to sign off on. So I'm going to give those to her. Speaker 5 00:29:36 Okay good. Speaker 2 00:29:39 And then there's a few answering services that don't belong to Helped Us, so I'm passing those over. And, then there's one or two things. I don't know what they are and I've got those on my desk to investigate. It's an odd vendor name that I'm not familiar with. So, I just went through a stack this big of invoices today and pulled a few out to take a look at. Yeah, so. When I can, I am scanning all of those in so I have a digital copy. Just so I can go through and I am keeping an active P and L statement myself of things that James is bringing me. And Kasia sent me over or Darva sent me over another one yesterday, so I have the most recent that they have. So Kasia is going to keep me up to date on that, so I can track everything going out and see what we have. And then I've already started working on your budget for your next fiscal year, and so i'll. Speaker 2 00:30:33 That way, when we start working on the actual budgets, I have a better idea of what we have. So, on that note, we do know that the databases they aren't doing so well. Especially what we call t here is two database servers. T here is a server called DB and a server called DB Two. DB Two is healthier than DB. DB Two is where your CareLogic data lab is and a few other things, so it's a little bit healthier. Um, I need to give Pratt access, which I've already given her access. But, we need to spin up the instance within Microsoft, so she can start looking at what it would take for her to migrate those databases to the cloud. Um, but to do that, I need a credit card to set up the Azure service. Um, it's free right now; we're not going to charge anything to it. Um, But we do need it to explore because they won't let us start exploring without that put on there. So um that's our only stoppage for that one right now, but it's not. Speaker 2 00:31:33 It's a high priority, but it's not a we need to stop everything and get this done. It's more of a could we get this done by the end of the month type deal. So, and that's one of the things we're working on. Um, We did delete over 150 accounts within Google, so we can start saving money on that. Um, and then the 64 accounts that are left that need to be deleted, we can work on those as yeah, So, and then Box, there's some notes in the sheet on Box. Most of the data is Lorenzo's. 83% of all the files in Box have not, they're stale. They're not touched, haven't been touched in over two years. But, we are going to be moving them to an archive folder in Google Drive and start lessening out. And that'll save us about 1600 0 a year just on Box, and we'll get that moved over. Speaker 2 00:32:32 So, I did turn on data loss prevention and Google Vault in early March so that you satisfy the requirements for HIPAA there. So you are HIPAA compliant in that area. We just got to get MFA done. So everything else is set. And I've set the goal for MFA for laptop users only by May 15th. Um desktop, that's the one where we've got about 60 desktop users. And we need to add some type of MFA, but because they don't have cell phones, uh the best option for us is a Ubikey. So kind of like what I have on my computer. Um and it just requires somebody to physically log into their account from this. So I log in with my passcode and then I touch this, and no one can access my account anywhere else without that little piece. So. Speaker 2 00:33:28 And on my phone, I have one for my phone as well that's NFC. And I just touch it to the back of when I need to log in. So if you were to try to open my account on another computer, you can't. It can only be opened on certain computers. So what we can do with anyone with a desktop is we can prevent them from logging in from home. They can only log into certain computers and only those computers that have a YubiKey attached. So, uh, that's a way we can lock that down without them having to get a cell phone. Use MFA on cell phone and so on. It's actually more secure than MFA. So, and that's something we can also look at for you guys as well, locking your stuff down just so. You showed us last time. Yes, yeah. It is very effective. In fact, my SHARP account is locked down to only that one device, not even my home computer can access SHARP. So or my home work computer? Speaker 2 00:34:26 So I have a crimson desktop at home for me to work off of. And that one can't access SHARP data. I have to use my laptop because I haven't set it up. So just a heads up for you guys on that. And because I hold the keys to the kingdom and I need to make sure you guys are as secure as possible, All of the accounts I have access to are locked down with that little device, so on the SHARP and BAFMA sites. With the exception of the, because I don't have much access in Baffma yet. I will, it's by choice. Um, I gave all the access to Crimson, The Crimson account that is locked down to only the security team and I removed myself from Baffma for now, just because I haven't had a chance to go through it. I didn't want to leave that door open. I want that to be shut. Speaker 2 00:35:13 And you'll see I'm pretty security minded about stuff like that. So once I get all the stuff I'm doing done, I may hand off my access to only the security team for the SHARP side and only log in as needed. And just so that you guys are aware, I know this is a lot of information I'm throwing at you, so bear with me. We have something called PAM and it's an access management. It's called privileged access management. And, the team cannot just randomly log in to any of our clients' accounts or any of the high level account information. If they have to use PAM to do it, and what PAM does is it logs and audits what they're doing, and it screen records everything that they do so that if something happens, we can go back and take a look, and we can look at the audit logs. So they have to request access to it whenever they get on. Speaker 2 00:36:10 They have to be approved for that access, so the security team has to sign off on it, and then the system starts recording everything they do. So Aaron, we were talking about um the requirements for DMH DMH. Thank you. I get my acronyms backwards all the time. Um, we do the same for Winegardner Ability First, where we put that into our BAA. And that satisfied all the requirements for that contract. Okay so um especially since we have um, Users that work out of the country. So, um, And that locks them down. So that gen that satisfies all HIPAA requirements and all federal requirements. So you're welcome. Speaker 7 00:36:51 Users outside of the country? Speaker 2 00:36:53 We have staff that work out of Philippines in South Africa. They've been our employees. Some of them have been our employees since for over four years. They're fantastic. So yeah, uh, your. By the way, I have assigned you a team lead for the help desk. His name is Cheryl. Cheryl is pretty amazing. He used to be the help desk manager, Uh, then he became a new dad, and he asked me to pull him out of help desk. He wanted to drop back down to team lead because uh, he wanted to have work life balance, Um but has a cute little boy. So we we agreed to do that. Um so Cheryl has taken over as the team lead um for for this account. Speaker 2 00:37:35 He has about four employees working under him, not Robert or Gaston. And he's got some of my more technical team members on his team. So I requested for Charles especially. Every now and then Charles takes a vacation in the US, and so next time he's back in country, I'll bring him by for you guys to meet. Okay. Speaker 7 00:37:56 So Charles. Speaker 2 00:37:59 Is in South Africa? He's I think Johannesburg? He moved. So he was in Johannesburg. He might have moved to Cape Town. I usually keep track because all of their addresses are in my DoorDash and Uber Eats because I can send them dinner. So, yeah, most of my staff is in my Uber Eats account. So, Yeah, i I made a bet with them about three years ago that if they got a certain number under, I would buy them a steak dinner not thinking they would ever do it. Speaker 2 00:38:34 I had to explain to Anzor why my budget suddenly sprung up for that month. And I had to figure out where to send the steak dinners too. So, yeah, so I've learned with my team don't make those kind of backs. They will make it, they will meet it. So, Um and then on this, we do have at Dyer Road. We do have a Ford gate that's going bad. Um, it's It needs to be replaced, but it's not a hey, we need to replace it this month. So, that's going to go on the roadmap for when we're going to replace it. And then for monitoring, we went ahead and started working on the migration to Microsoft. I have not given you a quote for that migration, just if I can do little things to get it set up for Pratt, I am doing it right now. So, I did go ahead and put in and start monitoring the conditional access policy. So. Speaker 2 00:39:30 We can audit who accesses what, which is a HIPAA requirement. And then we are we've got that put in there. There was a lockout on April first with Microsoft. We got it unlocked within seventy two hours. It took Microsoft that long to get it unlocked, and then we have we're putting in exclusion groups so for Pratt, what this means is any of her service accounts that are Helping build out the reports and getting them into Power BI, they're excluded from having any of the compliancy, only audit. So the system is not going to block them from doing anything, just audit what it's doing. But users, if let's say Dr. Barri you went on vacation, You didn't tell us you were going on vacation, and you decided that Spain would be a nice place to go visit. You wouldn't be able to access until you let us know that you're going to Spain. So, that's what an exclusion group is, and we would put you in a travel exclusion group. Speaker 2 00:40:25 Um, and so we'd like to do that with Google, but I know that that's going to be hard because everybody's on Google. It's easier for us to put it in place with Microsoft since hardly anybody's using it comparatively to the rest of the organization. Um, and then we have some vendor dependency audits that we're still running. We have most of them over to me. Um, I was telling them that LV finally came over to me because they had to confirm that I'm not um trying to scam the company. So, anything that we don't know about is what's left, and that's what we're going to be doing the audit on. And, that's one of the reasons why I am scanning all of the stuff that James brings me so that I can continue doing that audit. I've got a running contract list right now and how much we're paying per month. And so as we're paring that down, we're going to see that get smaller and smaller. So, and that's what that audit is. Speaker 2 00:41:21 We do have some aging P two offboardings, mostly Alexis and Elizabeth Sanchez. Speaker 5 00:41:26 Elizabeth she just resigned today. Speaker 2 00:41:30 Okay, so that one came in. It's already aging in our system because we like to do it within four hours. Um, So you'll see aging, and we call them a P two because offboardings are regulated, and we have to do them pretty quickly. My team gets freaked out if it's not done on timeum and so even my my lower end tech. Technicians will freak out. They come knocking on my door if they can't get something done. So I do put aging on there for the P 2s just because we do have some clients uh that are SCC because they're finance companies. And so I just keep that on all my client reports, because it makes things easier. But you'll know if anything happens with off boardings, we'll let you know. Um we did find yesterday um Julie, she was in finance. Speaker 2 00:42:20 Yes, her account was still active. We never got an offboarding on her. Speaker 5 00:42:24 Because we still get go to our emails and things. And it was also in contracts and had access to Dr. Price being better. So sometimes we need to go back and look at some stuff. Speaker 2 00:42:34 Gotcha. Um, nothing had gotten blocked for her? Nothing had gotten reset on the password? It was still completely open, but she hadn't accessed the account since February 12 th. Speaker 5 00:42:50 February 12 th of this year. She's been gone. Speaker 2 00:42:53 She's been gone. Okay, so the account was accessed on February 12 th. Speaker 5 00:42:57 But uh, Belinda did have access to her account and could log in under her. That's why Gotcha, okay, Speaker 2 00:43:02 She had her passwords That that's good to know I reset all the passwords yesterday, Speaker 5 00:43:06 That's fine Yeah. But we were logging in when we needed to find things. Speaker 2 00:43:09 Okay Yeah He's been gone for years. Speaker 5 00:43:11 Okay good Uh Should. Speaker 7 00:43:13 Have been looking at her emails even very recently. Speaker 7 00:43:20 Well, Kasha, I needed to look. Yeah. He was looking. We were looking for a 1923 party. Speaker 2 00:43:29 Oh, so Kasha would be part of the new password? He has it. Perfect. He's the one who alerted me to it. Speaker 5 00:43:35 Okay, great So. Speaker 2 00:43:37 Yeah So I reset it, Gave him access to her account and then gave delegate access, so he can just log in and take a look at everything That's the best thing ever. Speaker 5 00:43:47 By the way, Speaker 2 00:43:47 You can just hit it Yeah Perfect. Yes, I try to make things as easy as I can for you guys. Um, so in progress, um the onboarding SOP. Um they're still following the old SOP. I'm cleaning that up. Operating procedure. Yeah standard operating procedure thank you. Um I have had my coffee this morning, I think this afternoon. Speaker 7 00:44:17 This afternoon, yeah. Oh Lord, that's true. Speaker 2 00:44:21 I was out of my protein shake coffees this morning, so I had to improvise. I put instant coffee into my regular protein shake. Um, so for the onboarding SOP, We want to get that shored up because at any time, an audit can happen.; they'll ask for onboarding and offboarding SOPs. So onboarding is getting finished up. U h IT policies are in progress. Uh I've got the four I. Do want to ask, do you guys want an AI policy? Speaker 7 00:44:50 Well, great to look at one, get a draft. Well, um yes, with some kind of provocation. Yeah, DMH does not have. No, you, you yeah, they don't have. Andum. Speaker 7 00:45:12 I'm anticipating that we're going to probably utilize our AR vendor sometime soon. Yes. Um, and I may, and this actually was one of the things I wanted to talk about. And so we will need a policy. Yes. We will need a policy absolutely. Since we're entertaining this so strongly, we are looking at um, CareLogic has an AI. Mhm. Has AI capacity. You know, just it seems to me that was the most attractive option. However, I've been inundated by all these different AI companies. Yes. And and um and and what. Speaker 7 00:46:08 We have to be very careful is about is what the contract looks like and whether or not data is stored. You know, whether they they have that data or not, or how long, or whose is it? You know? Yes. Um and so and and so one company that's been very um popular. Speaker 7 00:46:38 And DMH provider is uh uh Eleos E L E O S. Yeah. Um and so there's a lot of people all all excited about it. And then I just you know, I have to always step back a little bit. Um and so I went to a meeting with some Entities who were looking at different AI vendors, and they found their contracts were deceptively horrible. And you have to really be careful. So, you know, I'll have to see. I'm looking at an entity called Clinically AI. Okay. Or it's AI Clinical AI, ClinicallyAI. Remember if it has the "at" or the "underscore". Or not? Yeah! Speaker 7 00:47:33 No, it's good. But yeah. Yeah. Oh, Soum you know, I'm I'm, and this is I'm concerned about, if an AIum has toum entity has to have a uh uh A, what was it? AP? API. Speaker 2 00:48:00 API. Mhm. Speaker 7 00:48:02 API or not. When I talk to this clinically AI guy, he says, oh, we don't have to have an API. We just sit on top of it. So I had no idea what that meant. I'm sorry. I didn't know what he's talking about. So oh, all right. Yeah, We don't do it and we sit up. So I don't know what that really means. Speaker 2 00:48:23 It's basically still a API. Speaker 7 00:48:26 Yeah, that's what I kind of thought, but you know, I don't know what you sell. No, we don't you know do the API. We just sit on top of it. All right. I mean, I know when I'm out of my league. I would imagine the care logic one. I don't know what that means exactly what it is exactly. Speaker 2 00:48:42 Care logic is actually theirs because i've done some research on it for ability first because they want to move to care logic Oh. Speaker 7 00:48:50 If it's owned by where. Speaker 2 00:48:53 If you guys have a better suggestion, I I'm the one doing all the research for them. Okay. Soum but who are you talking to? Speaker 7 00:49:00 Are you talking to anybody or just yourself? Speaker 2 00:49:02 I'm doing my research right now. Um, I submitted to the leadership team, a chart of what we found so far and the benefits and the cons for each one. Um, and they're interested in ones that do AI. Soum, I'm still working on it. Yeah, Yeah, so there is some AI stuff going on. I am actually writing AbilityFirst's AI policy this week, rewriting it. I already wrote one iteration, so we're working through that with Mashaun. And I just sent you two AI policies. One is for C oates on ;. It's a company that helps—it ' s a nonprofit that works with school - aged children—。And so they asked me to write one for them recently, and so it's Coateson Foundation for the Art of Teaching. Speaker 2 00:49:48 Is the and I think they're in. I honestly, I don't remember where they're located. Um, so I sent you over that one. We had to get into the weeds on that one, just to clarify how they can use it for different things. And then Winegard, we're still in the first iteration of their rewrite for their AI policy. Are they using? Uh, they are. So um we were working on that with them and that we actually had that meeting with them yesterday for Winegard? I don't know. I know it's not CareLogic So, uh, I just don't know what it is. I'll have to ask their account manager. I don't know that either. I know that one's not Care Logic either. I know that they like the IT person there, right? I'm not their IT person. Okay. Yeah, they um, I've done some things for them in the past, but I never took over their account fully. I've just jumped in when they needed an account manager. Anser was the one who did that. So curious to see who it is here, i'll find out for you. It won't take me long to find out. Speaker 2 00:50:47 Yeah, we just hired a gentleman to take over as their account manager. So and he started last week or two weeks ago something along those lines. So, but I'll find out what their EHR is. I am interested to know as well. I know that they do they have very strict policies because we had this conversation last year when we worked on their tabletop exercises that they do not allow any client. Client or patient data to go in Teams or SharePoint, which is like OneDrive. Nothing can be stored in Box, nothing can be stored on the local computers. Everything has to be in the EHR. So I know that was something that was very strongly pushed. And to the point that there's penalties for employees that are caught saving information where they shouldn't. So. And so that one's something that I do know, and we had to write some of their other policies around that. So. Speaker 2 00:51:44 Because I'm the policy writer for most of our clients. Even if they're not my clients, I get to write the policies because I've done it too many times. So Well, Speaker 7 00:51:54 Um, I'm going to this conference in Denver. Okay. And there'll be a bazillion there or so Yeah. I'm just trying not to be overwhelmed by them, but actually talk to the care logic people about what they have. AI, you know they they came to us long time back now about their AI. Um, what their AI um solution. And then they went curiously radio silent. And I thought that was so interesting. Oh, They they come to us about a lot of other things like they want to do our billing and revenue because they. Speaker 7 00:52:42 You know, you could do it with salivating. Speaker 2 00:52:45 I have a note in my file for you guys to when I talk to Care Logic, to say no about anything billing wise. I think you had told me that. Speaker 7 00:52:53 Yeah, yeah, this stands for that. Coming. Speaker 3 00:52:57 Out next week? Doctor Barbara? Oh she's on holiday. Oh. Speaker 7 00:53:04 She has a different. Speaker 3 00:53:05 I know you talk shit about care logic, whether I'm in your face or not. So uh I'm used to it that was funny, but I am in the meeting, but I was gonna say that care logic is having an in- person like meeting with the all the LA County people I anticipate they're going to give us updates on what their AI stuff is because I did hear that now before it was just progress notes, but now their AI. Allows you to do documentation for all the service docs. So we'll see what they say next week, but then also in Denver. Speaker 7 00:53:41 Assessments and then yeah. And medication support notes. Speaker 3 00:53:48 Well, I don't know that far, butum. Speaker 5 00:53:54 Well, Yes, we'll we'll find out as I'm. Speaker 3 00:53:56 Saying we'll find out next week. What what what updates they've done, because I know they've been working on trying to figure out how to. Make people happy, so I don't know. We'll see. Speaker 7 00:54:06 I bet they have. Well, good to know. Speaker 2 00:54:12 Yeah, Now the contact I've been working with at CareLogic. Um and that's on the Ability First side, she's been out of office. Um she's supposed to be back next week. So I'm going to have a meeting with her and I'm going to go through all the ins and outs of what CareLogic looks like and things that I don't know. So I'm going to try to get a crash course next week. So just a heads up with you guys. I will be honest, I don't want access to CareLogic. Please, no. I do not. That is something that I am very firm about with any of my clients when it's something that's an application like that. There's no reason for me to have access as long as you guys know what you're doing and can handle it. So, I will push back on access to things like that, UKG, Things that have to do with employee data or client data just because too much can happen. Speaker 2 00:55:01 And I don't want to be responsible for things that I should not be responsible. So, yeah. Um, now if you guys need me to have access, What I ask is that you guys give me a count that's not tied to my email address. Um, it's what we call a secondary account. Um, So it requires me to log in a certain way uh, just to make that more secure because. Speaker 7 00:55:29 And what circumstances would that. Speaker 2 00:55:31 Uh, just database connects connections that something like what Pratt would do. So, but that's only if needed. For other than that. Speaker 3 00:55:42 You got it covered, Christy. We won't torture you with that. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:55:46 Um, There's too many CIOs in my seat that hold keys to the kingdom and then they get compromised. And the entire company goes under. So that's why I'm pretty pretty staunch about security, Um, I worked for a company, largest coin sorting facility west of the Mississippi. Uh and they got hacked. I hadn't been there very long, and it was because their uh, director of IT held all of that. And they got hacked through Canada, through one of their sites in Canada. And it took down the company for five weeks. It took us five weeks to get it back up and running. So. Speaker 2 00:56:26 I've had my own fair share of having a mattress in my office for emergencies and sleeping and stuff. I don't want to revisit that, so I am very security conscientious. So you won't see me ask for access to anything I should not have access to without good reason. So, um, I know that she just walked out. That was basic. We did revisit some things when you walked in, um but, Other than, um, other than the stuff we'd already gone through, I don't think there's much left other than the fact that I am still working hard on auditing and getting things deployed. Um, We should have the rest of the computers in the system. So I can give you a good inventory there. Um, I have reached out to my contact with Intratum. They're a mobile phone company provider. Speaker 2 00:57:23 To see if they can get us better deals for telephones or mobile devices, And also get us better deals on the phones themselves because there are a lot of phones out there that need to be replaced. So I'm going to be meeting with them next week to go over that. What they tend to do, I know that there's some issues with some of our remote staff where they can't when they're at certain sites, they can't access because there's no cellular data. And that's usually because if it's AT and T, they don't have service there. But maybe another one is another one will. So, what Intratum does is it works with companies and providers to find better deals and then put all the minutes together and be able to allot those minutes to people as needed, which gives a lower bill, a lower monthly bill. Speaker 2 00:58:15 And then you can go through all three providers, whatever you need. So, if someone is at a site that AT and T just doesn't work at, then we could switch them very easily to Verizon or T Mobile, whatever would work better for them. So it's a little bit easier on that. And then the other thing is they will take care of the phone portion, the physical phones. So, there's a possibility. They can get us a much better deal on physical phones. So, Um, Those are some things I am going to be looking at for you guys as the Verizon contract starts to come due soon and see what we can do about lessening that. And then they also ship out the phones, so if if we need to ship a phone, they will ship our phone out. So so that's a few of the things we have going on. Um, I what do you guys have for me? I know we're going long and apologize. Oh. Speaker 5 00:59:13 Dr. Parker would like to know if it's possible to have a hardwired fax line. Speaker 2 00:59:17 Yes, I'm already working on that with TPX. Okay, thank you. I need to check in with them on that to get that and looking at that for every site. Speaker 7 00:59:26 That would be so helpful. Yeah, I mean, it's just so helpful. We have so many problems by not having one of those things. Speaker 2 00:59:35 Yes, And you don't have to push all the streams, Speaker 5 00:59:37 The guys don't have to push all the streams. Yeah. Speaker 7 00:59:40 Crazy, it has everything to do with. It has everything to do with everything. Yes. Even the medical records. Yes, Speaker 2 00:59:47 We're going to we're looking into putting one in at every site. Okay, great. So and attaching it to the conic immunos that are on site. Speaker 7 00:59:54 Yeah, so I wasum at so we have a lot of copiers right? Speaker 1 01:00:01 Mhm With a lot of different banks? Speaker 2 01:00:03 Yes With a lot of different Have you seen that? Have you. Speaker 2 01:00:08 Yes, We I had. Speaker 7 01:00:09 We have a bunch with US Bank, a bunch of First City, something like that. I forget what it is. First Citizens or something like that. Yes. We have some Wells Fargo. We have some That sort of drives me nuts, but you know, I mean since I start signing the checks in September of this past year cycle Yeah. It was just that stuff is Disney. Speaker 2 01:00:39 It is. I would like, and this is something I was going to push to Q 3, Um if we could consolidate that and switch over to a one provider that does it all for us. And handles the maintenance. Would you guys be opposed to going to Canon? Speaker 7 01:00:57 Uh not I don't have a preference like, you know, it's it's I don't have any. Allegiance or preference to anything. I will say that I saw at my doctor's office a very cool Conica health health biz hub that was has all these HIPAA qualities to it that I was told about. Speaker 7 01:01:36 And so I just saw it and I said," Oh, look at this. It's the health." It was at Cedars. Oh, okay. It was a health biz copier. Um, it was kind of neat. Now I don't have functions and I don't anything. I have no interest in. I have no stock in Konica versus Canon or versus HP or any of these people really, but i'm just telling you what No, Speaker 2 01:01:60 I love it But. Speaker 7 01:02:01 I'm just telling you what i saw And when i went and then i asked the. Admin staff, how was that? Did they like that machine? They're very chatty with me. And so they said, yeah, they thought it was great. But it was definitely a health. Speaker 2 01:02:21 House- related one. House- related one. Speaker 7 01:02:25 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had not seen that before, you know. Speaker 5 01:02:29 Sorry to interrupt you but we have this ice cream cake. Does anybody want any? Yes! Speaker 7 01:02:35 I was to be in part of that, but I got caught up with IT. Thank you. Yes, Speaker 2 01:02:41 That would be awesome. Okay, I'll bring you a piece. Thank you enough. Speaker 7 01:02:44 Thank you very much. Oh, Thank you. There. You go. I think I'll have to make that up because I was that was my concept and then and I saw them, but it was taking them a long time to get it together. Speaker 2 01:02:57 So they do have one. I have a Konica Minolta rep, Um, that was under Lorenzo. And then I have one personally from when I was at another location. Um, I'll check into with them because they do have one, and that does look pretty cool. Um, What I was interested in getting for you guys is secure ones where um you walk up and you scan your badge, and then your printouts come out. So, you hit print, but it won't print until you walk up to the printer. I see. So I was looking into those for you because that would uh help create some compliancy in some other areas. Speaker 2 01:03:30 Not necessarily here, and there are ways to direct print without it if we need to. So. Speaker 7 01:03:37 It looked like that one had those kinds of possibilities too. I mean, that kind of yes. Speaker 2 01:03:44 And so what I see here, I'm definitely going to look into it. Speaker 7 01:03:49 Do you see what I'm telling you? Speaker 2 01:03:50 I see a few items on here when you first pull it up, It brings up radiology. So but i do i do like some of the things that they were showing yeah. Speaker 7 01:04:00 This was an office, a HIPAA- compliant copier scanner, blah blah blah. I thought that that was pretty neat. Speaker 2 01:04:08 Yeah, that is awesome. Speaker 7 01:04:09 But I you know, Canon probably has the same thing. Speaker 2 01:04:13 They do. In fact, my code for Ability. First is the only P ost-. It note that's attached to my computer. So because I have to use a code to get my printouts and I never can remember that PIN number, so I have it attached to my computer. Um, but I would like to one upgrade the machines, and then two, uh, see what we can do about making them secure so that when we need to print, we can easily print. Thank you. So especially at sites where patients have direct access to printers. They shouldn't, but it's a lot less likely here than it would be in like Crenshaw. So just want to make sure that, that we have that. Speaker 7 01:04:60 So, We had a really, uh, well, this has something to do with you. It's really we need our medical records policy really brought up to date. Yeah. Andum something really wayward happened medical records from a happy stomach patient and and patient started trying to put them on Instagram. Oh, yeah, angry with the staff who they were. Speaker 7 01:05:30 And the patient has like 41, 000 followers and has said that, and I think you need to know. This has said thatumum you know, they, you know they're and the patients out, you know, they've done me dirty, and then they're getting responses. Oh, we'll take care of them. Speaker 2 01:05:49 Yeah. Uh, it's a very unsafe form of doxing. Um yeah. I've seen that myself with some people. So. Speaker 7 01:06:00 Very, very disturbed lady and and it's a matter of fact, she should never have been given to her. But, this guy didn't have any. Speaker 4 01:06:12 Yeah They didn't didn't. He didn't know that the circumstances No, no, no, but that's the whole point. You don't Yeah. Speaker 7 01:06:22 So just don't do it. Yeah. Speaker 2 01:06:26 Um, the the policies I sent out to you guys, I'd like to go ahead and start sending them out to staff. Yes. Um, And so I'm going to put together uh a a form that they can sign using Adobe. But then that brings up, I need to if I can borrow your credit card Doctor Barbera to get DocuSign set up. Speaker 7 01:06:45 Right yes And, you know, uh Lorenzo had a credit card and it's on my dining room table. Okay Um, do you think we canum Well. What can we do with that for? Is that has that been canceled? Speaker 4 01:06:59 Has it been canceled? Yeah. Yeah, Koshoff canceled it. Speaker 2 01:07:05 Koshoff said he was working on getting a system set up, but if I needed to get a credit card in the meantime, I could come talk to you. You can use mine. Okay. Speaker 7 01:07:12 You can use mine. Um, I think I have it. Speaker 2 01:07:16 Let me come borrow itum a little bit later, so that I don't take a picture of it. I have too many pictures on my phone of things that I don't want. Speaker 7 01:07:24 Oh well very good. It's hot. Speaker 2 01:07:27 Okay, I'll do it then. Oh, my daughter doesn't have access to my phone, But she's actually a pretty she's actually more responsible on some things than I am on. Does she have a tracker? She does have a tracker. I have two Air Tags on her at all times. Oh good. She's looking forward to our trip this weekend. Speaker 5 01:07:44 I bethuh? Yeah, She's excited Um. Speaker 7 01:07:47 Where is this? Maybe I didn't put it in He's. Okay. I've lost your credit card, like things are just not. I have a barber employee, but I don't have the sharp one with me. No worries. Speaker 2 01:07:60 We can get that. I'll get you that. Yeah, we can get that a little bit later. Um and just a reminder for you ladies, I am out tomorrow, But you can still call me up until the point I hit no man's land after Bakersfield. Speaker 7 01:08:10 There will be no ladies in here again Oh no, Speaker 2 01:08:13 The lady's on the call Oh Jennifer here, we forgot about you Yeah. Speaker 3 01:08:21 Okay Yeah It's good to hear, Crystal's here too, so. Speaker 2 01:08:28 Yes. Um, other than that, that's all I have for you guys. Ium I think we've we've made a lot of great strides. There's still things I'm trying to accomplish as quickly as possible. Speaker 7 01:08:38 Let me sayum let me ask one thing about Microsoft. Yes. Um, I get these. I can i get into these places where i can't move, because it gets my my things get thrown into a Microsoft place, and i don't know. What's going on? Some of these are things that are coming to me secure through DMH. Yes. And I can't open them and I'm stuck and I haven't called anybody, because then I go to my next thing, But there are a couple of things that I still need to do that I'm very worried about. Speaker 2 01:09:18 Yeah, DMH is high Microsoft use. Speaker 2 01:09:22 And I and I know that because I've been participating in some other stuff for them. And they are they love Microsoft, but they've got it so tied down that sometimes I can't even access it. So Well, Speaker 7 01:09:34 These are like maybe important messages. I don't know. Mm hmm. Speaker 3 01:09:39 I've learned that with the secure messages from DMH that you just click on login with your Google. Um gives you an option of either getting a code or or logging in with your Google. Speaker 7 01:09:52 Won't do it. I'll get to a place where I did. Sorry, you can't. Yeah, I know you can like go to move. No, I can't get it. Speaker 2 01:10:00 Okay, um next time you get that will you come grab me or Gaston? Speaker 7 01:10:07 Oh, I'll do it today. Okay. I'll do it today Perfect Is he around? One more Gaston? Speaker 2 01:10:16 He is Robert went toum Housing 101, He might have, I don't know where he went. It's in my thing. Okay. So my system shows me uh where the guys are. I just haven't logged into it today. So, cause they were both joking around with me in the office, So I had no reason to Right, Speaker 5 01:10:36 You know where they can see them. Speaker 2 01:10:37 Yes And. They are They are a hoot to work with Okay So. It's I've been enjoying working in there. So. You'll hear us laughing a lot in there, and I can hear everything because I'm an audio engineer on the side. And they didn't realize that. And so I said, Wait, did he say what I just think he said? And they both started laughing. They're like, We forget you can hear everything. So we have a lot of fun. Speaker 4 01:11:01 I was telling Christie that I had an employee, tell me that she said she said What's going on with IT? And I go, What do you mean? What's going on with IT? She goes, Um, I went to the IT department and usually I get received with attitude, and it's very hard, you know, to get what I need. And this time I went and And I got a hug. And I was like weirded out. That. Speaker 5 01:11:35 Was going on there so much kinder. Yeah. They are more relaxed. They are Yeah. Speaker 7 01:11:41 So I can tell that they're are kinder Yeah, Because they were sometimes really kind of stressed out. Speaker 5 01:11:48 Yeah, on edge. Speaker 7 01:11:49 And it wasn't just one of them, it was both of them. Yeah, yeah, both of them were on edge with the staff. Speaker 2 01:11:58 I don't know if I was telling you Apollo or if it was Onzor. I had a really good conversation recently with them and basically how it was relayed to me was. There was a lot of fear that they would lose their job if they didn't act in a certain way. Um, and I know talking to Robert, he's like, I couldn't have it. I have family to support and things to do. Um, But even in the last week or two, we've had a few conversations about it's much better. I'm not worried for my job right now. So, that's what I'm trying to do is make it where they feel a lot more stable. So Well, Speaker 7 01:12:37 I think that there were pressures put on them, To do certain things. To say certain things. Yeah. That were not in the best interest of them or the community. Speaker 2 01:12:50 So, as much as I can, I'm trying to make life better for them. So, trying to get them to let me buy them lunch once a week. That didn't go over this week. They both had things they wanted to do during lunch. So But, we did buy Gaston an ice cream cake yesterday. Speaker 2 01:13:08 So yeah, and we threatened to sing to him during the all hands meeting. Yeah, he's very talkative. Yeah, yeah, he's sort of shy. He'll joke every now and again. You'd be like okay. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I enjoy working with them. Both they've been they've been awesome so good. Speaker 5 01:13:30 Um we were teasing Vlad today because he left his punch tool for Robert to use. Speaker 2 01:13:35 And it's been sitting in my office and I'm like, hey, it doesn't go with the decor. I need you to come pick this up. If you don't, I'm going to go spray, paint it, teal and hand paint some flowers on it. And. So we made an AI picture of it and sent it over and the guys just could not stop laughing. Speaker 2 01:13:55 So That's what we were talking about. He's only around to drop things off and only for CCTV issues. He works nearby, which is why he comes on site more. Um, so he's working on Weingart construction nearby. So. Speaker 5 01:14:13 And Christy talked with Robin yesterday about what they needed. So yes, Speaker 2 01:14:18 Yeah I went that one's on me. I I had three a lot happened. Yeah. Christy yeah. So and that one definitely was on me. It was I felt bad, but. But yeah, I had to go do a DCFS one last week and then have to go do another one next week. So it's like okay. Yeah. So and I have to do mandated court reporter training this weekend, while I am on the trip for DCFS. Speaker 5 01:14:47 You won't be here tomorrow, you guys are driving, Speaker 2 01:14:48 You guys driving two teenagers for six hours? I have it all mapped out with all the stops that I know that's not even going to happen. So really well, Speaker 7 01:14:58 I'm driving up that way. I'm going to San Francisco. Nice. Welcome to That's yeah, Speaker 2 01:15:04 My sister lives up there. I take Amtrak for that. Speaker 7 01:15:07 No road trip like that in ages. I can't remember because i i drove to San Diego over the weekend back and forth. That was crazy. But that was all right. But I was thinking, oh, my goodness going up there for that long of a drive is. Speaker 5 01:15:27 Yeah. Have some snacks. Stop for snacks. Speaker 7 01:15:30 I'm going to Trader Joe's tonight. Speaker 5 01:15:32 There's a place that might be nice to stop. I don't know where. Speaker 7 01:15:36 Yeah, I know, I know there are probably places to stop, but I want to like get there You want to get there? Yeah, yeah, Yeah. Speaker 2 01:15:54 Two seventeen- year- olds. I don't know how many times they're going to say," Hey, can we stop there?" So we're leaving at ten a. m. And we have to be there for a barbecue at Lake Yosemite at six p. m. So hopefully that gives us enough time for all the stops. Speaker 7 01:16:08 Oh, that might work. Yeah, so that might work. You know, that might work. You take five? Speaker 2 01:16:15 I yeah I think we're going to take. I think we're going to take. Uh well, I don't know. Let me double check. I I mapped it all out. It's on my home computer. Uh I got to go to Trader Joe's tonight, pick up all the road snacks. Yeah, so well, Speaker 7 01:16:32 That'll be fun. I mean, it will be fun. You know, it'll be fun. I'm trying to make this drive up. So I have think of all kinds of things. Speaker 2 01:16:47 Last time I did San Francisco Amtrak, I did the Coast, Light or Starlight or whatever it is that goes up the coast. My brother was getting married, and my sister and I were supposed to be in the wedding. We ended up not, thank goodness. But it was a lot of fun. So but the the uh train was pretty awesome going up to San Francisco. Uh I got out at Oakland so. Speaker 2 01:17:17 But I can't imagine that drive. It's been a long time since I've done those drives. Yeah, Speaker 7 01:17:24 Yeah, yeah. That's it's a, I'm sort of talking about it because I think it just. Speaker 2 01:17:33 Mm- hmm. I understand. Well, I can loan you a seventeen- year- old who will make your playlist? Speaker 7 01:17:40 Oh no, no, no. Speaker 2 01:17:43 She has sent me the playlist already on Spotify. She sent me her Trader Joe's list, and she has sent me her packing list. I'll be back in a second. Okay, Speaker 7 01:17:54 I got to that JP Morgan account and I saw where I was delisted for activity. And so it seemed as though it was a Belinda, uh, Lorenzo on it. Speaker 4 01:18:07 Okay, Andum heading out, but I have we'll see you later, maybe you can get the credit card Oh good because doesn't happen like that far. Speaker 2 01:18:14 He said, yeah, he doesn't have it. I'll get it from him. Speaker 5 01:18:18 Oh great. Okay, at least we know now. Speaker 7 01:18:24 Well yeah, I had seen at one point the list of everything that was drawn down, but I have to review it again. I remember because I saw the fence, and that's when I saw it was$ 37, 000 on there. Okay, I mean it's a a a really iron defense, Speaker 5 01:18:46 But I'm gonna go about it. I still think that's possible, Speaker 7 01:18:49 Of course it was and he's not a That's crazy. Speaker 5 01:18:51 Yeah. So you see, Speaker 7 01:18:53 That's the whole point. Speaker 5 01:18:54 Yeah. I mean, Speaker 7 01:18:55 That's but I mean, like if it's always everything was junior. Speaker 5 01:18:58 And how do you do storage. Speaker 7 01:19:01 And buy furniture? Speaker 5 01:19:02 Kristen did it for you guys still on? Yeah, Speaker 6 01:19:04 Oh, just kidding. Hi, we're still here. You know, I'm still here, but taking a call from Brian. Okay, just. Um, Speaker 2 01:19:15 I I thought I had a four o'clock, but answer just moved it. So yeah, Speaker 5 01:19:18 I'm gonna go by. I'm gonna ask somebody. I've seen this. I know, but I want to ask somebody how much is it? Speaker 2 01:19:23 Ladies, Do you have anything for me that you need me to work on for you? Jennifer, I did fix that uh distribution list already. Speaker 3 01:19:29 Okay, thanks, Yeah. Cause i was like there's like a million tickets that are coming in. Speaker 2 01:19:34 No worries. My apologies, i just made it where it would automatically add anyone to it. So I fixed that for you. Uh, thank you. You're welcome. Speaker 3 01:19:44 No, but I don't have anything else. Speaker 2 01:19:46 Awesome. And then if you guys run into anything, please let me know. I I will answer my phone tomorrow as long as I'm not in the middle of the desert. So That's fair Yeah But thank you. Both You guys are amazing. Speaker 3 01:20:03 Well, you are amazing as well So we appreciate. Speaker 2 01:20:06 It No worries All right, I'm going to hang up on you guys so Bye. Speaker 3 01:20:09 Okay. No problem. Thanks.
06-01 Email Deliverability Failure Due to DMARC Authentication Misconfiguration
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- ## Core Synopsis Email deliverability is broken due to authentication failures, not “recipient bias.” The Security Team has not yet investigated, and the sender reports DMARC failing for the domain—an objective signal that SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment is misconfigured, causing Barracuda/Gmail to spam-folder the messages. The immediate leverage is centralized remediation: security ops must validate DNS records and sending paths, because scattered “allow lists” are a band-aid that increases attack surface without fixing root cause. We are accountable for getting authentication right; until domain alignment is fixed, outreach and operations will continue to degrade and create avoidable friction. ## Deliverability Fail: Diagnostic and Immediate Priorities - The Signal: Repeated spam-foldering across Barracuda and Gmail suggests systemic sender authentication failures rather than isolated recipient filtering. - The Evidence: DMARC reports “fail” for the domain; this typically stems from misaligned or missing SPF/DKIM records, or messages sent via a service not authorized in SPF that doesn’t DKIM-sign or align From/Return-Path. - The Gap: Security has not yet reviewed; current mitigation attempts rely on adding the domain to multiple allow lists, which does not restore trust for external recipients and invites risk. - The Stakes: Persisting failures degrade communications reliability, increase the likelihood of phishing lookalikes being whitelisted, and force manual exceptions that are unsustainable. ## Action Items **@Speaker 2** - [ ] Open a ticket with Security and post details in the security group, including DMARC failure evidence and recent sending services used (ESP, relays) - [TBD] **@Anzor’s Security Team** - [ ] Audit the domain’s email authentication: verify SPF includes all legitimate senders; ensure DKIM is enabled and keys published; enforce DMARC with correct alignment (From/Return-Path) and an appropriate policy - [TBD] - [ ] Pull DMARC aggregate/forensic reports to identify failing sources and remediate unauthorized senders or misconfigurations - [TBD] - [ ] Provide a step-by-step fix plan and confirm with test sends to Barracuda and Gmail inboxes (no allow lists) - [TBD] **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Perform external DNS/record checks (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and share findings with Security to accelerate root-cause isolation - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Can you hear me? Speaker 2 00:00:04 Yes. Hello. Oh, thank you. Hi. Okay. Oh man, yeah, some that email it keeps going into a spam folder. Speaker 1 00:00:20 Okay, have you had security take a look at it? Speaker 2 00:00:23 Uh no not yet. Speaker 1 00:00:25 Get Anzor's team on it and see if they can help. Help you figure out why it keeps going into spam folder. Uh, and then I can also do a dig on my site as well. Speaker 2 00:00:36 Maybe something because I yeah, I found that if you I send a screenshot of that, I don't know if that's the cause. The D is said D Mark failed with domain and then the domain. So I don't know if it's on our side or on their side. Speaker 1 00:00:53 Let me see what I can find out, but also bringum okay. Speaker 2 00:00:59 Yeah. All right. I'll I'll I'll send a message in the security group. Okay, thank you. All right, yeah, that's how I need to end this. I don't know what like how many lists I need to add this this domain in but running out of list. Added on Barracudas and on Gmail some yeah all right, i'll i'll i'll ask, Security team and maybe they can help me. Speaker 1 00:01:30 Okay, perfect. And then let me know if you run into any issues. I'm gonna see what I can find on my side. And then uh I all I've been doing today is SCHARP stuff, which is great. I love it, but uh that inability first we've had so many issues today. I may have to go to camp again uh this week. Speaker 2 00:01:54 Oh, you're gonna have to go again? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:59 Oh, I forgot to put in my expense report. Damn it. Okay. Speaker 2 00:02:04 Alright, I'll send them a message and maybe they can help me tomorrow if I'm about to go. Speaker 1 00:02:10 Alright, have a good night. Speaker 2 00:02:12 You too. Bye.
06-06 Lecture: Foster Youth Transition and Disability Support
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- Date Time: 2026-06-06 09:34:25 Location: [Insert Location]: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name]: Dr. Porche ## Summary The lecture is an informational event for foster youth graduating from high school in the class of 2026 and their support systems. It outlines the support available as students transition to post-secondary education or the workforce. The primary focus is on disability support services at community colleges, specifically within the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). Dr. Porche explains the legal basis for these services, differences between high school and college support systems (IEP/504 vs. voluntary services), and common accommodations (priority registration, extended test time, assistive technology). The session also offers practical guidance on registering for services, the importance of early action, and key dates for the upcoming fall semester. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Overview of the IOP Foster Youth Graduation Celebration Event - **Purpose of the Event** - For IOP (Independent Options Program) foster youth graduating high school in 2026. - Supports transitions to two-year colleges, four-year universities, vocational programs, or the workforce. - Ensures graduates—especially those in an “undecided phase”—have necessary resources. - **Event Agenda** - Presentation by Dr. Porche from the Office of Special Services (OSS) on supports for students with disabilities or test anxiety. - Session from the foster and kinship care education program on “turning dreams into degrees.” - Lunch break. - Presentation by IOP staff on services available to help youth. - **IOP Support Role** - IOP provides information to youth with open cases to help them find jobs. - The youth’s CW (Case Worker) is the main job-finding contact. - IOP coordinators assist with various needs and offer comprehensive support. ### 2. Disability Services in Higher Education - **Availability and Naming Conventions** - Every California community college and most public/private universities have a disability services office. - The most common name statewide is Disabled Student Programs and Services (DSPS). - Names vary by campus: L.A. City College (LACC) calls it the Office of Special Services (OSS); LA Valley College uses Disability Support Program and Services; UCLA uses the Center for Accessible Education. - **Legal Framework** - Services are mandated by federal and state laws to ensure equal access. - Key laws: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II, and Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations. - **High School (K-12) vs. College Support** - K-12 schools must identify, evaluate, and provide support (IEP/504). - In college, services are voluntary; students must self-disclose disabilities and request accommodations. Colleges are not required to seek out students with disabilities. - **Eligibility and Verification** - Students must provide disability verification (recent IEP, 504 plan, or provider documentation). - The disability services office uses this in an “interactive process” (discussion with the student) to determine reasonable accommodations. ### 3. Services and Accommodations at the Office of Special Services (OSS) - **OSS Mission and Responsibilities** - Promote educational access for students with disabilities. - Determine and provide reasonable accommodations through the interactive process. - Collect and assess verification, facilitate accommodations, and serve as a faculty resource. - **Student Responsibilities** - Self-identify to OSS to request services. - Follow procedures for using accommodations. - Communicate with an OSS counselor if accommodations are not effective. - **Common Accommodations and Services** - **Academic Support:** Priority registration, educational planning, note-taking assistance, tutoring. - **Testing:** Test accommodations (e.g., extended time). - **Physical Access:** Special parking privileges, adjustable tables, assistive furniture. - **Technology:** High Tech Center assistive technology (ZoomText, JAWS), CCTV for document enlargement, media conversion (e.g., textbooks to audio). - **Equipment:** Equipment loans and training. - **Registration and Enrollment Process** - 1. Apply to the college (e.g., LACC). - 2. Complete the “getting started with OSS” steps on the OSS website. - 3. Enroll in classes once an enrollment date is assigned. - 4. Meet with an OSS counselor each semester to identify and approve accommodations. ### 4. Educational Pathways and Transition Support - **Associate Degree vs. Transfer** - Associate degree: typically 60 units (~2 years), can lead to upper-level employment. - Associate Degree for Transfer: prepares for transfer to a four-year university. - Bachelor’s or higher opens more opportunities and higher pay. - Students with accommodations may be approved for a reduced course load (e.g., 9 units vs. 12), potentially extending time to degree. - **Advice for Parents and Guardians** - Encourage participation in college outreach (e.g., “Senior City Day”). - Explore college websites for disability services information. - Discuss continuing accommodations in college. - Obtain the most recent IEP or 504 plan. - Apply to OSS early; this is the student/family’s responsibility. - **Learning Disability (LD) Assessment** - Colleges like LACC, LA Valley College, and LA Trade Tech have Learning Disability Specialists who may offer free assessments to eligible students via intake. - If not available on-site, students must seek external testing; colleges may refer to community assessment agencies. - **Important Timelines and Policies** - **Retroactive Accommodations:** Not retroactive; effective only from approval date. Register with OSS at the start of the semester. - **Fall Semester Start Date:** All nine LACCD colleges start on August 31, 2026. - **Enrollment Fair:** District-wide fair likely on the third Saturday of August (August 15, 2026) for last-minute registration and assistance. - **Waitlists:** If a class is full, join the waitlist. If the waitlist is full, attend the first class to request a permission number—no guarantees. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. For youth attending an LACCD college, visit LACCD.org/specialsServices to learn about the Office of Special Services. - [ ] 2. Obtain the student’s most recent IEP or 504 plan for verification. - [ ] 3. Apply to the college, then begin the “getting started with OSS” process on the college’s website. - [ ] 4. Encourage students to visit college websites they’re considering to research disability services programs. - [ ] 5. If needed, attend the district-wide enrollment fair, likely on August 15, 2026, for last-minute assistance. - [ ] 6. Contact LACC’s OSS with questions via email (oss@lacitycollege.edu) or in person on the first floor of the Student Services Building. - [ ] 7. If a student suspects an undiagnosed disability, contact OSS to inquire about the learning disability assessment process.
- Date
- Jun 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 Department of Children and Family Services, the Office of Children's Services. We are better known as IOP program, Kids House. I am one of the managers. I manage the Vermont Quarter Office, Florence Office, and Belvidere Office. There are four other managers, three other managers besides myself that manage those offices, other offices, But, what I wanted to tell you that you are all here because you're youth. Speaker 1 00:00:40 Either they have already or maybe next week will be successfully graduating as a class of 2026 from high school. So, great job to you guys and parents, caregivers, whoever you are support system. Thank you so much for being here and supporting the youth that you all have graciously taken care of all these years. Many of them are all this one is the IOP foster youth graduation celebration event, where youth. Um, we'll be either going to a two year, four year, or vocational program. Uh. So that's going that track or work track or trying to figure it out track. You know it's all that's what we're here for. We're here to make sure that they have all the things they need. So if there is some of that undecided phase, they can lean to what they need to do. That's what this program is just for. So what you are going to do is I want you just like. Speaker 1 00:01:40 LACCD. .org slash special services. We're going to talk about the office of special services and what they do and how they can assist you. Because what we want is for you to know that some of our youth may have an IEP, some don't, Some have test anxiety, but we want them to know that they can go to this particular office if they need extra time for tests. I was at one, right? I don't like time tests. I still don't like time tests, but if you give me something where I can talk, oh, I can do it really well. The time tests are not me, so SAT was not my thing. But I did get into the good school anyway. So, I do want you all to know that, that is what the day is for. So she'll talk about the Office of Special Services followed up, will be the foster care, foster and kinship care education portion, where they're going to give you information on how to. Speaker 1 00:02:38 Assist your youth with uh turning dreams into degrees. Then you'll break for lunch on your own, and then you'll come back and you hear from some of our staff, the IOP staff, Who will then go over what IOP can provide and the services to help you. So we did have a question that said, will we be helping them with finding jobs? We will provide information to your youth to find jobs if they have an open case. Um their open their CW will be the main excuse me, the main person, Helping them with that, but IOP will be here to assist in all the things that they do. But, our IOP coordinators will be here to help talk about all the things that IOP would be able to do. Are there, any questions before I turn it over to Doctor Porche, and we get your day started? Because I know you are time. Speaker 1 00:03:37 Right here. So, I just let them know where the trash is, but if they need something, They know how to reach us. So we can come over because we'll be over. Speaker 2 00:04:21 On campus. Every single community college in the state has a disability services office. So we might go by different names, we have to provide about that is so that, but there is one at on every college campus. There's even one there, there are still disability services offices at universities as well and private and public. So let's get going. Um so what's in a name? Speaker 2 00:04:53 At the state level, The disability services program for all of the community colleges at the governor's office or not the governor's office, the chancellor's office it's called Disabled Student Programs and Services or DSPS for short. And, that's the most common name of the disability services programs across the entire state. But, there are some programs like my program and a few other programs in our district that go by different names. And so. Speaker 2 00:05:23 Again, My program is Office of Special Services, and we call it OSS for short. Yeah, We call it OSS for short. So that's what you're going to hear here when you're at LCC if your student comes here to LCC. But if they choose to go to another community college, it may go by a different name. Speaker 2 00:05:53 Disability support uh program and services. So it still has the same acronym DSPS. But um the title is different. Wording is different at LA, Valley College, and these colleges are in our district. There are nine colleges in the LA district. So if your student doesn't choose to come here, there's still these services at any of these other nine colleges and I just gave you some examples here um at LA Valley. Speaker 2 00:06:23 UCLA, for example, its Center for Accessible Education. That's an example of what it would be called at a university. So quick legal overview : I am not going to go into any detail on this. Section five hundred four of the Rehabilitation Act of nineteen seventy three governs the requirement. Speaker 2 00:06:53 Disabilities act the ADA Act Title Two, all of its amendments and updates as well, and it gives you the section code there. And then thirdly, you're governed by Title Five California Code of Regulations with numbers and sections there. So all of these laws, statutes, Regulations tell us how we must implement disability services for students to ensure that they're accessible equal access. Speaker 2 00:07:40 Requirement in high school. Speaker 2 00:08:09 Form of an IEP. Sometimes it's in the form of a 504 plan, And the 504 is in relationship to that federal act that I just alluded to earlier. There, are you have the high schools in K twelve? They have to evaluate and document the disability. They're mandated to do it every year or however often it's required. Speaker 2 00:08:54 Knowledge, It is the services are we must we must provide the services if the students request it. But, the students are not required to. Speaker 3 00:09:06 Go to student affairs and ask for these things. It remains voluntary as. Speaker 2 00:09:10 Long as students come to office of special services to request services. So, it's the student's choice. Speaker 3 00:09:28 By, use. Speaker 2 00:10:48 We would. Speaker 2 00:13:06 Qualify that a little bit. Sometimes some colleges do have special like courses. Typically at this college we haven't had a lot of curriculum for the courses, But we usually have something along the lines of keyboarding and things like that as part of our arts and sciences. But there are other programs or other colleges that do have larger. Speaker 2 00:14:56 Okay. Speaker 2 00:15:29 Will be uh nine units instead of twelve. okay. um and if that's the case, then it takes a little bit longer to finish the associate degree. Um there's a greater depth of knowledge um that the students are engaged in when they're earning a degree. in addition to the major, the student is taking general education, General studies to give them a broader understanding of just the world around them and things like that. uh math, english, science. Speaker 2 00:15:59 Degree, It leads them usually to upper level employment, and there's more opportunities for higher pay. Um, there are other educational goals and options um transfer to a four year university. And so it takes about again about two years, Could take a little bit more um but about two years full time uh to complete transfer requirements. And students can earn what's called an associate degree for transfer. Um when students if they go. Speaker 2 00:16:33 Degree, which is your traditional community college degree, but they are also meeting the. Speaker 2 00:17:04 Or preparing to transfer. Of course, if they transfer, get a bachelor's degree or even higher, it obviously opens doors to even more opportunities, upper level jobs again with higher pay. So what do we do in OSS? We promote and provide educational access for students with disabilities for equal access to educational programs and activities that are offered by the college. We determine and provide or approve reasonable. Speaker 2 00:17:36 With documented disability via what we call the interactive process. So, The interactive process is a conversation that the student will have with a counselor in OSS or a faculty member in OSS. And it's a back and forth conversation. We try to understand what the student experiences, spent, what their needs are. We also interpret the verification of. Speaker 2 00:18:07 And it's interactive. We are having an iterative conversation with you, and at the end of that, the faculty member will determine what accommodations the student needs and will do so. And then notification is sent automatically to the student's instructors once the students are enrolled. Determine if a student is eligible for services, determine and implement accommodations, which I just spoke to both of those things, and then ensure all policies. Speaker 2 00:18:41 Are implemented that allow for accessibility, assist in maintaining physical compliance to all college facilities. This is really not a specific response. Speaker 2 00:19:11 So, Our responsibility in OSS or TSS and all the other disability services programs is to collect and assess verification of disability, identify reasonable accommodations and services, facilitate certain accommodations, support and advocate for students, Serve as a resource for faculty if they have any questions or concerns about the accommodation. Provide information. Speaker 2 00:19:43 About best practices for inclusion of students with disabilities across campus. So, students have a responsibility; they have their own responsibilities as well. Provide. Speaker 2 00:20:23 The way that the accommodations were approved, they need to come to their counselor first, their OSS counselor first and say, hey this is what's going on. We need to make some adjustments. So we'll start the process of publishing and problem solving. Common accommodation services that we all can see that we have priority registration. I'm not going to read them all. We do educational planning. So we help the students plan out their courses based on their educational goals, whether they're. Speaker 2 00:20:53 To get a degree transferring or any or all three of those. Um, sometimes we have to authorize special parking privileges and I've done so. I've helped to oversee that anytime that I've worked with this program. Note taking assistance, tutoring for all the equipment loans, um test taking accommodations, uh recording the lectures or having in some way recording the sessions. It depends again. Speaker 2 00:21:31 Adjustable tables, even if students need some type of assistive furniture. We do have what we call assistive technology services. We have a high tech center that's a lab, a computer lab that has computers that are loaded with. Speaker 2 00:22:15 Even larger than the regular Zoom options that are on a computer. We can convert media, so if a student has a physical textbook that needs to be converted to, Let's say an audio format or in a Word document for some reason or PDF document, we are able to do that in our office. We provide training about technology and equipment. We do one-on-one training, we do workshops. Speaker 2 00:22:51 Oh, and this is these are examples of what I was just alluding to. These are examples of apps that we would use in the lab, the high tech lab. ZoomText, JAWS. We have SmartView. We have CCTV that will help zoom uh enlarge our documents, Physical documents for students um and other types of equipment, specialized keyboards and things like that. How to register for uh services? You're going to have to apply to the college whether it's. Speaker 2 00:23:23 And once students apply to the college, then they want to go through what we call "getting started with OSS." And all of these are very simply laid out on our website. I am going to show you our website so you can see what it looks like. Students must enroll in classes thereafter after they're given an enrollment date. And after the students enroll in classes, That's when the counselors can then work with them once we get them onboarded. And. Speaker 2 00:24:00 Then they enroll, then our counselors are able to identify and approve accommodations for the student. That's the and take appointments. And um again, this must be done every single semester. Every time students enroll in new classes, every time we have a new term and they have new classes, they got to. Speaker 2 00:24:33 Way with or even actually fired for it. So we don't have police make sensory issues now any longer. Um, And so how is this to help transition staff help um in the transition process? This really is about parents and guardians too. Um, encourage students to participate in senior city day. That activity just happened through our outreach office earlier this term, but I can connect you all to outreach. Encourage students to seek out. Speaker 2 00:25:05 Consider visiting our college website or any of the colleges' websites in our district or other community colleges. They are planning to attend or considering attending. And then talk to your students about continuing services and accommodations through college. I have come across students who have sometimes had an IEP or a 504 plan in K - 12, and then they came to college and they, you know, want to be able to figure it out and do it on their own. And then they do so. Speaker 2 00:26:03 Yes, they become continuing students. When they're new students, they're going to have some priority but not a lot. When they become a continuing student, they will get what we call priority one registration, Which means they get to register in the first session for enrollment sessions for the next term. And so when they're new it's because especially right now. Speaker 2 00:26:33 So, because they are new now, You know, we'll push it and try to get them to be able to enroll in just a sec. I'm sorry, enroll as soon as they can. But it really will. Speaker 2 00:27:13 Thing, if the class is full and there's still a waiting list available, they can place themselves in the waiting list through the enrollment process. So that would be the first thing to do. Um, first step if there's if there's still room on the waiting list. Uh, If there's no room on the waiting list, and then there's still no guarantee that they can get into the class. But as if other students drop from the class for whatever reason, then they are automatically added to the class from the waiting list depending on their position. But let's say the class is completely closed, the waiting list is completely closed. They can go to class the first day of the session. Again, there are no guarantees at that point, but they can ask the instructor. Sometimes students don't show up on the first day. And then if the instructor says yes, Then there are more steps because if the instructor gives them a permission number and then they need to enroll. Speaker 2 00:28:28 So, I mean, there is no problem though. But as I was saying earlier, everything is independent when you get to this part, right? To the college. So, it's on the student and or the student's family to help them apply to the OSS department. So it's not too late to do that. I mean we're still actually good time before fall semester. So, you want to make sure you obtain a copy of the most recent IEP or 504 plan and then come. Speaker 2 00:28:59 Right. They will. We all have a program like this, but it might not be called OSS, but they all of our colleges have additional services programs. Each and every one of them fall semester starts August thirty first all of the nine colleges. So in our district, it may be different another, Other colleges, so like Glendale Community College, Pasadena City College, Long Beach City College they're taking us a lot of different start dates. But in our college, all nine colleges in our district start August thirty first. Speaker 2 00:29:57 And um, Saturday Sundays for all of our student services at this campus, we do not have Saturday or Sunday hours. Speaker 2 00:30:27 I'll tell you, Most likely, there's going to be a district wide enrollment fair on the third Saturday of August. Okay, I don't know what that date is right now, but it's typically the third day uh third Saturday of August. I'm gonna write that down. Uh, because all throughout the district, there will be an enrollment fair, and people will come to you to sort of last minute kind of thing. At, that point, it's only about a week or two from the start of school. So I mean I think. Speaker 2 00:30:60 Can right now to get your student ready for the fall semester. But if you have last minute things, last minute questions, definitely you want to hang out at the or come to the enrollment fair. That would be any of our colleges. It's usually again, usually the third week uh the third Saturday in August. I'm not sure yet it's not been confirmed yet, but um given patterns you know of the past semesters and years uh, it's usually. Speaker 2 00:31:33 But that's our mailing address. We're on the first floor of the student services building. So, this building that we're in right now, um, are the student services building just right behind me. Okay? So, you can orient yourself and take a look at it and sort of be situated in where you want to be. Speaker 2 00:32:28 That's our email address, oss at lacitycollege dot edu. We monitor that email regularly, And so you can send a message to us through the email if you have a question. If you're coming to us, and then that's our number. All right. Um, any other questions? I'm going to be. Speaker 2 00:33:07 At any time in the semester, at any point in the year, and at any time in the semester. Um I I even had students come to me in the past, you know a couple of weeks before finals. That is not advisable. You know it's not advisable. And I always say if they don't have to use these services because they don't want to just come and get them a tour right? And then they can try it. Speaker 2 00:33:36 They can try it, and then if it's not working, then they know they can fall back on. Right? One other thing I am going to share with you all is important also, and I'll say this to students as well: They cannot get retroactive accommodations. So, let's say they come in the middle of the term or even two weeks before the finals. And they get an accommodation approved ;. Those accommodations are approved from that day. Speaker 2 00:34:17 Get them done. You know, get the support that you need or at least set it up. And then if you want to go for it and you know, I don't, I still think you should do your services. But, you know, If they make a decision that they can't make a decision not to send, it's going to be there for them when they need it. But please if you have a student that has an IEP or 504 plan. Speaker 2 00:35:00 Don't, but they don't. Even if they don't, but they suspect that they have uh disabilities of some type. They can just come to our office and our faculty as well. You still need to verify the disability, okay? So if there is a medical uh medical diagnosis or something like that, you need documentation from your healthcare provider and bring it to the office. Um, we do at our college, not all colleges, but at our college, we do have a learning disability specialist. That's sort of like a. They will assess students, so we have that ability. They're going to go through some questioning and intake process to see if they qualify for the assessment. You know, if things have been going on, You know, our LD, especially have a set of questions to find out and evaluate whether or not they would be eligible for the assessment. And the assessment is free here, okay? It's just it's not a specific well there are specific. Speaker 2 00:36:00 There is several different protocols, But what you need to know is that we have learning disability assessment at the college. And it's not every college. Like I know our college does, I believe LA Valley College, LA Trade Tech College, and there are probably a few others. But the disability services. Speaker 2 00:36:33 And at the college level, if your institution does not have an LD specialist, it is the student's responsibility to get testing. Now, we may be able to give you some referrals about what entity does that type of testing, but then that is a responsibility of the family and/or the student. And it is key; there are some places that will do them on site. But if you want more. Speaker 2 00:37:12 We can, you know, at the other colleges we can, you know, help refer folks to community assessment agencies. Um. Can't answer these questions about insurance. Um. You should call your insurance company and um might it be too late? Uh I know a little bit about this you can initiate it. Speaker 2 00:37:42 And I'm not sure, as long as school is not out, you can initiate the process. But I'm not sure they'll get the your student tested, you know before the school year ends. And then they would pick it up in the fall. But if they're if they're no longer a student, then you know it becomes an issue. You know what? We would have to look at the documentation. Yeah, we would have to look at that. So so I know you said your student. Speaker 2 00:38:13 Provide any and all documentation that seems related. Provide a copy of that for the college disability services. All right.
07-21 Meeting: LOA Verizon Line Suspension, Cost Reduction, Device Updates, Employee Survey and Recognition Tools
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-07-21 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Suspending Verizon Accounts for Employees on Leave of Absence (LOA) - **Description** - Christi proposed suspending Verizon accounts for employees on Leave of Absence (LOA) to save costs. - Suspending a line would prevent billing while the employee is away. - The suspension would apply to both phone and laptop lines, saving approximately $50 per user, as some lines cost $20 and others $35. - IT is not always notified when an employee goes on LOA, which also results in failures to retrieve laptops and phones. - A FedEx method could be used to send employees a box with a return label to ship back company equipment. ### Verizon Account Management and Phone Updates - **Description** - Christi is collaborating with David, the Verizon representative, on cost-reduction strategies. - They are working to update older company phones that cannot install the BMO app. - The BMO app can be installed by any employee from the app store, provided their phone is not too old. - Christi plans to finalize details for this initiative by the end of the week (July 24, 2026). ### Employee Feedback and Recognition Tools - **Description** - Christi suggested implementing an anonymous weekly stress survey for employees to share their challenges and wins with senior leadership. - This aims to provide a channel for employees to express concerns and for leadership to gain early insights. - Christi offered to build and set up the survey. - Christi proposed a recognition tool called Bonusly, which allows staff to give points to colleagues. - These points can be redeemed for rewards, such as gift cards. - The tool would have a cost associated with it. - A similar, less robust tool called Karma is used at Crimson, where employees get 12 points monthly to distribute. ### Live Scan Appointment - **Description** - Christi scheduled and confirmed a live scan appointment for someone for the next day, July 22, 2026. - The appointment is at 8:45 a.m. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Decide whether to suspend Verizon lines for employees on LOA and define the IT notification process. - [ ] Christi to finalize the Verizon cost-reduction and phone update plan by July 24, 2026. - [ ] Christi to set up the anonymous weekly employee survey. - [ ] Evaluate and decide on adopting a recognition tool (Bonusly or an alternative) and associated costs. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The team did not reach a final decision on whether to suspend the Verizon lines of employees on leave of absence (LOA). > 2. There was no decision made regarding the implementation of the employee recognition tool "Bonusly" or a similar system. > 3. The process for notifying IT when an employee goes on LOA was identified as a problem, but no clear solution or next step was defined. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] SCHARP Budget/Cost meeting (LOA line suspension, Verizon cost reduction, device updates, staff survey) - already logged 7/21.
- Date
- Jul 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:06 I can go first. Speaker 2 00:04:40 Uh, just a heads up, my transcription tool is on as well. So. Yep, absolutely. I will do that for you. Speaker 2 00:05:39 So, The one thing I want to bring up today is leave of absence, users or employees. Um. If we get notified about the users going on LOA, we have the capacity to suspend their Verizon account, Which would actually save us money because as long as the phone is on suspension, we're not getting billed for it. And, then we would unsuspend the phone number and the phone once they get back. Um and so just a quick heads up on that. We're looking at different ways, we can save uh on expenses and costs within IT, and that's one that came up. Speaker 2 00:06:14 Today, that would be an easy fix for us pretty quickly. So, was wondering everyone's thoughts on it because it is their work cell phone. You know, do we want to suspend their phones or not? How do we want to approach this? And we would need to know when someone's going on LOA. We're not not every time we are on some but not on all. Speaker 2 00:07:50 I I want to talk to the team. They just notified me about this about probably 15 minutes ago, Uh that they weren't always getting notified and were not getting the laptops and phones back when they're on LOA. So that we can store them until the person comes back. Speaker 1 00:08:27 Gotcha. Speaker 2 00:08:54 I have used the FedEx method in the past very successfully. So we I'm all for doing the FedEx portion because we can send, We can actually have FedEx send a laptop box to them that would work for this and has our return. And then we can use our account number for the ship back costs. Speaker 1 00:10:50 Right. So. Speaker 2 00:11:08 Each line and the cost of it, including the laptop. So when we're talking about suspending lines on these, uh we're also talking about suspending their laptop line as well. So you're looking at at least about $50 in savings per user, uh if not more. And as we're going through, we're still going through our Verizon uh checks and everything. Um We are finding that there are lines that are not being utilized on people's laptops. And so when we finalize that, We're gonna look at how many of these can we actually suspend and not utilize anymore. Speaker 2 00:11:55 Right. At least$ 50. Possibly. Possibly. Yes. Speaker 2 00:12:22 Right, so twenty dollars per line times two, but some of those lines are at the thirty five dollar mark. And so I am estimating at about fifty dollars average. It could be slightly lighter. Speaker 1 00:12:38 I have to think about it. I have to understand exactly what what we're asking. Speaker 2 00:12:50 He's already. Speaker 2 00:15:50 That is, that is all for my updates currently. Um and Kashif just a heads up David at Verizon. Who's our rep is amazing, and he's already working with me on putting some things together to look at both cost reduction, and updating any phones that cannot that cannot use the BMO app. So, we've got quite a few older phones um that are unable to have that app installed. So we're going to be working on all that together. Speaker 1 00:16:22 You're welcome. Speaker 2 00:18:09 So, the app is being installed uh on the phones that you requested it to be installed. And then all other uh employees, if they need the app, they can go to the store and download it. And without any errors. So as long as they don't have yeah, as long as they don't have an old phone. That's the only caveat. Yes. Speaker 2 00:20:48 Yep, I'm working on finalizing that. I want to get uh probably by the end of this week because David's going to have everything I need for the Verizon stuff soon. So. Speaker 2 00:21:16 Yes. Yep, I'm finalizing all that I need to finalize on that one. Just waiting on vendors. So, but we're good. Speaker 1 00:37:31 She only works in the other department. She only works in the other department. So she's she's not getting like perfect big opportunities, like get things into her. So because we have to pay her for twenty hours, but she'll get that because we're trying to. Speaker 1 00:38:05 That's what we're gonna. That's what we're gonna. And all. And then if she has, if she were to have this big, if she came to the person and actually started talking about it, that's when I think they have to be able to hear it. Do it again. She may have to do this again, so we're going to put a second reinforcer down. Let me tell you. Speaker 1 00:39:05 Just like a fire. Speaker 1 00:44:46 Okay. Speaker 2 00:45:48 Hello. Um, okay, give me one second. Speaker 2 00:45:54 And let me bear with me one second. When can you guys do the live scan? Nine zero zero four five. Yes. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:46:26 Okay. Not yet, we're getting that on July thirtieth. However, they have their high school picture ID. They did. Okay. Speaker 2 00:46:58 Okay, at what time? 4:30. Um, can we do 8:45? Yeah, I'm gonna have to drop her off or to do that. Okay. Awesome, thank you so much. You too, bye. Speaker 2 00:47:52 You have a live scan appointment tomorrow that I need to take you to at 8 : 45 a.m. Speaker 2 00:53:30 So, a couple of questions I have for you guys is, um, what is the most. I know this is not my lane. So if if I get out of my lane, please tell me to get back in my lane. But um, what is the most common frustrations that we're hearing from employees? Speaker 1 00:55:39 Okay. Speaker 2 00:58:40 Yeah. So partially I asked that question just to kind of get some thought behind, if if my if two of my tools that I'd like to ask you guys to consider might help. One thing that I love doing, especially with my staff, Is sending out a survey, and it's a stress survey that my team does at the end of the week. But we can make it a little bit different. I can build that for you guys where it's sent out to all, all departments. It's completely anonymous, And all they have to do is say, how did their week go? What could you know What are their biggest challenges? What are their wins And, then you know we can see. It's like a, It's called something in my brain isn't is not thinking words today. Words are hard But. It's kind of like an employee satisfaction very similar to it, but also would give. Speaker 2 00:59:31 Staff the ability to put their feelings out on paper, knowing that it comes back to senior leadership. And it's something that's been super helpful for Crimson. Crimson's been doing it for as long as I've worked here. I've done it at other companies, and it just seems to kind of give people a way of venting anonymously. And with a company the size of SCHARP, it actually is a good idea because um, People will know that they truly are anonymous. It's not going to go to the managers, it just comes to senior leadership. So Crystal, Aaron, Doctor Barber, Apollo, whomever. And, then that way, you know, people might feel a little bit better about expressing their concerns, and you guys would get see that in advance before you know, before anything bigger happens. Hopefully. Speaker 1 01:00:40 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 01:00:49 Yeah. The second thing I would like to just put forward you, and this will cost, so I'm going to give you a heads up, this will cost money. This is a tool, I like this one better than the one Crimson has. I'm going to put it in chat. It's called Bonusly. When I worked for previous company, We used Bonusly, and it allowed us to recognize team members either weekly or yearly or whenever monthly. And, we could send points to staff that have impacted us that week or that month. This company, They had a massive ransomware right after I started, and I got so many points from staff that I was able to afford. Speaker 2 01:01:35 Disneyland passes for the next year, so it's kind of like that type of situation. But it's a way for everybody to recognize each other, And you give them a certain allotted amount of points per month that they can give out to other staff. Crimson does a very similar application called Karma, and it's not as robust as this one. But Karma we give all staff twelve points a month, and they can spend it on whomever they want or not. And then, when you amass a certain amount of points, Like I had eighty points recently that I turned into an eighty dollars gift card from Amazon. So and you can see who's from an admin point of view. I can see who gives out what and who they give it to. So we can watch out for things like that. But it was a really good tool. Speaker 1 01:21:30 Yes. Speaker 2 01:26:06 I need to jump for another meeting, but if you. But for the, if you guys want me to work on the survey that I mentioned earlier, just let me know. I'm more than glad to help with that and You guys are amazing. Let me just put that out there. So Okay. Speaker 1 01:26:34 I will help you guys with it. Speaker 2 01:27:12 That's different. Um, the one I'm talking about is very similar to what Crimson sends out weekly. And then senior leadership does we do read it because I am the one who captures the information, uh lets managers know, Hey, this person did give us their name, their name and here's what it is. And then these are our anonymous and here's what was said. And, then we we work through it. So uh, but I will go ahead and set it all up. And then uh I do have to jump. But I will see you guys tomorrow. Thanks.
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08-13 Meeting: Postpartum Support, Financial Aid (EPP/Infant Supplement), Medical Planning, Legal Paperwork, Housing and Therapy Referrals
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- Confirmed from CONTENT as foster care, not client work: postpartum support planning, shared responsibility plan and infant supplement, doula / home-visitor / nurse-family-partnership referrals, medical and legal paperwork, housing (waiting on a 3-bedroom), and therapy referrals for a placement. Deliberately NOT summarized further here and NOT moved out of the drop folder - it contains a minor's and a birth parent's personal detail. Left in place at '2 - Internal Operations\Meeting Recordings & Transcripts' pending Christi routing it to the C.A.R.E. v2 base. Flagged in the 2026-08-17 sweep email.
- Date
- Aug 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 So, we'll send you the info. And then there's something called Oh, actually did I call it the wrong? Oh no, I called it the right name. Shared responsibility plan. I don't know if you've heard about that. And, basically, it's an agreement where you and Angelique write out how you're going to be what extra support you're going to offer her when the baby's here. And then you both agree on it. Like I said, it might be um whatever you know you're both comfortable with. It might be a minute taker to take, you know, to the baby's doctor's appointment. It might be a minute, watch the baby while she showers and naps or does homework. But, you know, it's something that you both agree on and then she'll receive an extra two hundred dollars. Okay. And it's something that is initiated when the. Speaker 1 00:00:60 Okay. And of course, you know about the um the infant supplements for the baby. You'll receive that and you know for providing, you know, For the baby's needs, and of course, providing your home and water and all that. But you know, hygiene diapers, things like that. Um And, the only thing that we were trying to brainstorm a bit about is um Angelique's allergies to the cat. Okay. And some of the wondering what your thoughts are, One thought that popped into my head is maybe in her room. She could have an air purifier or maybe I don't know if you already have air purifiers throughout the house. I have actually already got it on order. Um, I used to have a bunch through the house. I have one in the living room for her, and I'm gonna show her real quickly, the air purifier that I bought for her. It is supposed to be here in the next couple of days. It got delayed yesterday. Speaker 1 00:01:57 But this the one I got for you. It's one that we use, and it's Wi Fi enabled. And, we call our Amazon Echo system the Overlord so that it doesn't engage when we talk, But the Overlord will allow you to turn it on off and turn it up. And with Dawn leaving where that fan was sitting is where I plan to put it because it's right there next to you. And right there next to your fan. So I've already done that, but we have that same air purifier in our living room. This just a newer version. Speaker 1 00:02:27 So and then additionally, which Angelique did not know this, But I am switching their cat food to one that's geared towards reducing the allergen dander that the cats have. Okay. All right. Um, But I didn't talk to her about it yet, just because we've had so much going on lately. Yeah. Understandable okay those are all awesome um, Can I can I ask a question? Of course, Miss Brown. Miss Brown, this is Stephanie Williams. How you doing? I'm good. How are you, Miss Stephanie? I'm good. I'm good. Angela mentioned that she was sharing the room with two other females. Um next week, one of them is leaving next week. Okay, uh, one of those, okay. Speaker 1 00:03:25 Okay. So, but there's two two females, additional females in the home right now. Is that what you're saying or or one is coming? No one is already one is leaving next week. We're taking her to Merced next week, and the other one is staying. You know, we had uh Andy's bed was a bunk bed, so we just put the other one back up on top, and so when uh oh okay yeah no uh. Speaker 1 00:04:20 When, are you coming out next and I'll show you because what we're going to do is we've got room for the baby, and we've got a crib already, And we have a bassinet coming in the next couple of weeks for the baby. So when you come out next, I'll show you. I will be there. Next week, I'm on duty today. Okay. Um, I will come next week. Uh, i will try to make it on Tuesday. Okay? Uh, I'm usually in Pasadena on Tuesday. Let me double check something real quick. Oh no, Tuesday next week we're going to Merced. We're dropping, we're going to take Dominic to college. Okay, what about Wednesday? On Thursday? Thursday. Okay, so we can make it for school. Hold on, I might be on duty that day because they got me back-to-back duties. I will get back with you in regards to my time. Okay? Speaker 1 00:05:15 So just so that you're aware on the eighteenth we're leaving at lunchtime. I have meetings in Pasadena that morning, um and then we're leaving to drive up to Merced. Angie's going with us and then we'll be back late on Wednesday and Thursday I'm off and then Friday I work from home next week. Okay, I'll get back with you about that okay? Cause I definitely want to come next week though okay? Monday, I am working in Lynwood at the Sharp offices. And but I can be home early if you need me to. Those are my scheduled days off. Um, unless I put in for overtime, I'll get back with you. Yes, I don't want you to take off. You know, I don't want you to ruin your day off. Those are important. And then Christy, the plan is you guys are moving in October? Is that right? And then. Speaker 1 00:06:09 She would, Angelique and the baby would have their own room. Okay, awesome. All right. We're we're waiting on the apartment complex to have a three-bedroom available. Yes, same thing or they have different locations? Um, we're just waiting on a three-bedroom to open up. In fact, I haven't even checked today. Okay Thank you You bet okay wonderful And okay for now, The baby will go into the same room with Do. You know, is that okay, with licensing for you to have the two girls plus the baby. Um, we got emergency licensing for uh having three in that room. And then also, we're they're in. They are going to allow the baby as well. So yeah, we had an emergency situation with the other girl where she. Speaker 1 00:07:07 Needed placement last minute, so we had to get those emergency statements in place. Okay, she's wonderful. And just make sure this is just not that I'm it's an issue to me, but sometimes when they do those approvals, they're specific they're child specific. But. So maybe next time make sure it's more of a you know you're good globally if it's not for that same child. Um Do you know what I mean? I did talk to my social worker and explain the situation with Angie. So, Let me I have a conversation scheduled with her in the next week or so, And I'll I'll re bring that back up because it's only until no surprises for you. They're talking about me moving into a three bedroom. We're just waiting for a three bedroom to open up. Right now they have two bedrooms open and four bedrooms open, but no three bedrooms. Oh. Okay? Speaker 1 00:08:05 So while I have you, can I get um your full name, Uh phone number and email. And that way I can also email you the um information on the W eight class. So my full name is Christy Brown. And it's C H R I S T Y. And then T Y S T Y yes. Speaker 1 00:08:35 And then um. My. We're good. Your phone number. Five two nine four four zero five two nine. Okay, and your email, please? Christy Brown, Two five two at outlook dot com. And it's C A R I S T I B R O W N. Two five two, okay perfect, alright now and Angelique what's your email? I didn't get it. G U Z M A N Angelique twelve. Speaker 1 00:09:34 At gmail dot com. Speaker 1 00:10:04 Okay. Speaker 1 00:10:33 Oh yeah, I'm in. Wait, that's sorry. I forgot that. Okay, and okay, so we've got a lot to talk about. But I'm gonna let um Annabella tell you about the two women about breast pump. I did email particular invitation for that. Usually cut the cutoff is twenty eight weeks, But I am going to I am hoping they reach out and say sure, if we if you are interested, but if not they can we can offer you some other um invitations. Annabella will tell you a little bit about all the invitations as well. So take it away, Annabella. Great, okay. So the first thing I just want to let you know is that, yeah, all these things are optional. Uh, we always make. Speaker 1 00:11:30 Encourage you to at least give these things a try. You can, you know, Have your initial meeting with the person and decide then not to continue to engage. But like we really encourage you to at least give them a try. Uh, If you keep reading this out on things, simply because you know didn't have a chance to hear about what they offer. Uh, But that said, uh, the first thing I want to share with you is what's called the doula. Have you ever heard of a doula before? Angela no. Speaker 1 00:12:01 Okay, no worries. That's very common. So, Angelique, you're on the network? I just do what. How do you spell that? D O U L A. Uh, ladies, if you don't mind, Um Do you mind if I hang out on the call and help because I uh Angelique and I haven't had too much of a chance to have a conversation. But do you mind if I listen in? And that way I know as well? As long as Angelique's cool with it. Angelique, are you good with She's? The one that had to join us at our request? Speaker 1 00:12:31 Course for a minute, but Angelique and thank you for asking. Angelique, are you cool with that? Okay. Great. Okay, so a doula is basically we like to call them birth coaches. So they're with you to support you while you're pregnant in the way that like, You know, all these things are happening in your body. All these changes and you might have questions about what's going on um and you can reach out to your doula through health gate. Those questions, you know, If you are, don't know about when should I go to the hospital when I am in labor, they can guide you through that. They also are able to be by your side during birth, So they can you know provide you with understanding of what different comfort measures you can do. What kind of music do you want? Who do you want there to support you while giving birth? And just help. Speaker 1 00:13:27 Educating you on what's going on because sometimes doctors and nurses talk about all these things. When I was giving birth to my son, I was like, "I have no idea what that means. I don't know what you are talking about. " And. So the um your doula can help explain these things to you in a way that's helpful for you. Um they also can support you after you give birth, such as, you know if you want to breastfeed, that's an that's the way they can support you. Speaking of which do, Probably not. I mean, breast is best, right? So any way that baby gets fed is what's important. So like I'll probably breastfeed at first, like the first month, but then I for sure want to be on formula. Right. Okay. Yeah. So that your doula can also kind of guide you through all that too, Like especially if you are breastfeeding and you want to know like, well, how do I wean off? Speaker 1 00:14:24 They have a program that I really love called Strong Start. What do you think? I was intrigued by this. They have proven research to support it, so they kind of add that kind of, you know, deep personal value to the program and uh they're really amazing. So if you want to check them out, I can do a referral for you and I also sent you their flyer. So what are you thinking right now? Speaker 1 00:14:55 So, I will do the referral and I will let them know. And they are really fast, like they should get back to you within a week. So, keep on the lookout for that. Okay. Um, The next so The next thing I want to bring up is called P oint - P oint programs. What's different about that compared to the doula is they're more They can follow you up until your baby is two to even five years old. And they can provide education about your baby. They can help you understand like, you know, things related to baby sleeping and feeding. And um, what's great is that like I remember when I was first had my babies, I spent so many hours like Googling, all these things like hours about different baby poops, because I was concerned about my son's poop. And it'd be really helpful to have a person that you can ask all those questions to. And. Speaker 1 00:15:53 Save you time, right? Googling for hours. So, um, we really love home visitors. So if that's something you're interested in, we can refer you. Um, if you have any questions, let me know too. Exactly like like someone will be coming over to my home? Uh yes. So the first um the nurse family partnership, it would actually be a nurse that would be coming into your home. And it's you know. They're flexible too. So if you want to meet them out in the community, you could do that too. But they can also come to your home so that you can just be right there with your new baby. Um, yeah. And and that's the one that the cutoff is twenty eight weeks, but if you are beyond that, Then I did email or contact to see if they could make. Uh there's certain areas that they can make an exception. Um so but it would be your own personal nurse if they have. Speaker 1 00:16:53 They're like an all - inclusive program where you have your own personal nurse that can stay with you until your baby is two years old. They come, they play with the baby, they just be happy with whatever. I mean there's a professional in-personal nurse, you know. But someday I don't know if they'll affect me for sure. Then there are others. : there's parents as teachers, and their first day it goes up to age five. Yeah, our district. Families, it's a great one. They assign like a case manager that comes to visit you. Sometimes they can help with baby items. They're all a great support and I just piggyback on what Angela said, It's worth giving things a try and then seeing do I like it or not? And if you decide eh, I don't like it, you can just say no thanks. It's totally up to you because they're voluntary. And yes, they come to your home. Okay. Speaker 1 00:17:52 That sounds perfect. Okay. All right, so um, will you let me know if you hear back? And then I'll be going to try Partnership for Families. Um, yeah, um, Partnerships for Families have you referred directly to them? It's usually through the C S W. Oh, I've done directly. Speaker 1 00:18:22 Oh, probably as a community resource. Okay. And I'm asking you prefer to do it, otherwise I'll have to just support solely or give. Can you hear me, you guys? Yeah, okay. Okay, I was just trying to bring myself back on the camera on the what's going on. Oh we've been here this whole time. Oh okay okay and then girl why'd you get up? Are y'all getting stirred? Alright. Um, any questions, Angelique or Miss Brown so far? I don't have any. No, it sounds good. Okay. Awesome, thank you. And um when the baby's here, just in case we don't chat before then um it's important to take a picture of the hospital birth announcement for the baby and send that over to Stephanie. Speaker 1 00:19:21 So, because Stephanie is going to request the infant supplement for the baby, which we talked about, um, and the baby's Medi-Cal. Stephanie, You know that we request the baby's M edi - C al at the same time as infant supplement, even though the baby is non-no t a dependent. Yes. Okay. So, you'll do a FAMSR class to add the baby and then a 280 to initiate the infant supplement. And uh. okay. So um if they come. Speaker 1 00:20:19 They give you like some paperwork that says, oh, so and so was born here on such and such date, or sometimes they'll have a little card that they put on the baby's bassinet, baby boy born on such and such date, mom's name. Anything that confirms that the baby was born, you just take a picture of that. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Who, do you think is going to be with you when you have the baby? My sister hopefully. Um, and then also the baby's father. Okay, all right. Do we have anything pregnancy related in the bell? Where are you going to deliver? No, we didn't. What do you have? Oh my gosh. We're looking at her delivering at Little Company of Mary because it's the closest hospital with maternity ward. And it's a twenty minute drive from here. Speaker 1 00:21:18 Things about that little company. Oh, Mary. Okay. In what city? Florida. Okay, have you guys toured it yet? No, I'm um we're gonna get her O B G Y N appointment, which was supposed to be for next week. Um, but they just sent me a text that they canceled it and I need to call and make a new appointment for her. So we're gonna get her O B G Y N appointment done and then um go tour the facility. And all that. Speaker 1 00:21:50 Wonderful. Any plans to tour soon? Okay, and oh, what are you having? I thought I heard a little boy. All right. Well, you've got a three-time boy mama here. Mhm-hmm So I love little boys. Um okay, have you picked a name? Uh I'm thinking of Wyatt or uh Justin Oh nice. Speaker 1 00:22:21 Okay. Speaker 1 00:22:52 His first name's Shawn. Sorry. Shawn, S H A W N or S H A W N? He's currently um in Georgia with his family and he's working out there. Um, but he is planning on coming back uh for the baby and the delivery and stuff. Okay. I don't know exactly what it is, but he is also part of the military, so he's also working on his civilian aviation license. Speaker 1 00:23:51 Aviation. We were best friends first. We were friends for like a good two years before, we started dating. And he found a job with opportunity out here, and he was out here for a little bit, but then he had to go back home. Speaker 1 00:24:49 Work for his parents. Oh, um, he's back in Georgia. Winchell. That's where is that where he lives currently Yeah, now that's where he's living. Yeah, But He was only out here for the meantime because he was, he was got a job opportunity out here in California. I met him in Colorado without world born and raised And, and he was he was stationed. And Colorado, that's why I met him was when he was in the military. Army. Okay. Yeah, he also deployed. He deployed in for a good nine months. He went to he went to Iraq. Oh wow. Speaker 1 00:25:48 Yeah. Okay. But, well, if you're working, you can go to school. Um, I think maybe his dependents would have some benefits, but um that brings us to another topic of discussion, which is um a booklet that Annabelle is going to tell you about uh called Legal Issues. Speaker 1 00:26:18 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:26:47 So, this booklet, um, Angelique is called "Legal Issues for Young Families," and it basically is going to tell you how to request the baby, how you're going to get the baby's social security. A lot of times hospitals initiate that for you. How do you order the birth certificate? Or, you know, sometimes they give it in person; sometimes some places mail them to you. So it gives you information on that. Um and it also, About what it means if you and Sean both sign the birth certificate. Basically, that means you both have equal rights over the baby. You both can take the baby anywhere, um, and you both are required when making like big decisions about your child. So it's an important decision. Um, then if only you sign the birth certificate, obviously that means you have complete. Speaker 1 00:27:47 Uh, physical uh and decision making authority over the baby. And you know, you could decide who has contact with your child. Um, then sometimes people ask about um where that child's born and all that stuff. So basically this booklet was put together by an agency called Public Counsel. And they are a legal agency that works. Speaker 1 00:28:18 So, if you ever have questions about um custody stuff, you can reach out to them for free. And they will help you for free. So, do you think you're going to talk Sean some of the birth certificate? Honestly, I don't know. It's not that like I don't trust him or anything like that, you know but um. Speaker 1 00:28:48 We've we've had our our disagreements and our arguments and stuff and, um. Yeah, he's kind of not being here from the birth, but. Yeah, I mean if he's there then you could sign it, but if he's not there then I will. Take full responsibility of my baby because with or without him. Yeah so in order. To make, you know, if you wanted him to sign it then, you know, he does need to be there. There is a process but it costs money to add him afterwards. But, if you wanted him on the birth certificate, then he needs to be there when you have the baby. Um but like I said down the road you could add him. Um and anything else? There was something else I was going to say about that. Speaker 1 00:29:43 But no, So let's say, you decide you don't want him to sign it, and he is there, Then you would want to let your nurses know or your doula know ahead of time, so that they don't bring the paperwork in when he's there. Okay. And, then another important bit of information with regard to the birth certificate when they come in to fill out the paperwork, you want to make sure that you look at it carefully for any typos. It's a pain to go back and say, "Oh, they spelled the baby's name wrong." Or, "Ooh, I wish I had given the baby his last name. I gave him mine because I was upset," or whatever. You know, you don't want to have to deal with all that. So you really. You know. Make sure you double check and review everything. Okay? Okay. Any questions? Um. No. Speaker 1 00:30:43 I know I walked away. Is that something I need to initiate or Annabelle will be doing that? Yes, I'm happy to do it and I'll also share that information with you all in a follow-up email. So you know the name of the program and who's the contact person for the program. One thing I wanted to ask is Angelique, what is your ethnicity? Um, I'm Hispanic. Speaker 1 00:31:15 There's different programs for African American youth or uh youth justice. So there's just different local programs we can refer you to. So that's helpful to know. Thank you. Okay. Oh yeah, the other thing I was going to ask, so would you want to have a consultation right now regarding, I'm just understanding uh your your rights and his rights? Yeah. Perfect okay, I am happy to support with, Uh, Send that out and I'll also let you know when I do it and who will be reaching out. So that you know, you know what phone calls to expect. Does that sound good? Um, since we're here, Do you want to tell her about the cost to EPI and see how she feels? I mean, I wouldn't want to overwhelm with too many people also but um. Speaker 1 00:32:14 I don't think we're even gonna have something. Yeah, um, I know me and Angela had a conversation. Um, a very strong conversation. Um, She had a question about her infant supplement, check the one that she gets for nine hundred dollars in three increments, if it's going to come in her name or not. I told her I wasn't sure because she was in a foster home. I know for a fact if she was at teen, So I want to make sure we know that and that's out there. We cleared the air on that. Yes, so there are two things. One is called the expected parent payment, And that currently is a one lump sum check for two thousand seven hundred dollars. Although it just was increased, I am not sure if you'll get it with. Speaker 1 00:33:13 Increase and it's two thousand seven hundred and ninety six dollars and ninety three cents. Um, And that goes to you as you need to buy what you need for the baby. And that's a one time big check. Okay, so regardless of what type of placement you're in, regardless of what type of placement you get. And now the infant supplement. So the first one is called is the expectant parent payment or EPP. Speaker 1 00:33:43 Definitely, if you refer to it as something other than EPC, they will reject it. So make sure that's the one I need to do for special payment. That's correct. Yeah, and you can send it to me and I'm happy to review it. Uh, that's the special payment one. Now the other one is going back into a form. Is that on this special payment form or is there actually a particular form? No. Okay. Now, if you don't have it, I'll send you the FYI just as a sample. Okay. Okay. I'll put that on my to-do. I need to just send FYI um. The. Let me see if I still have the FYI PPT. FYI okay now the interest supplement that is going to. Speaker 1 00:34:43 Nine hundred and thirty two dollars. It's currently nine hundred, but I think it went up to nine thirty two. Um, and that's when the baby is born. And that goes to your caregiver for providing shelter, her home, the light, the water, but also for providing for the baby's needs. Um And how much would that be? I'm sorry? And how much would that be? Speaker 1 00:35:13 Nine hundred and thirty two dollars a month. Oh, okay. And this this after I have the baby so. I'm sorry? And this will be after I have the baby? Yes, after you have the baby. Okay. And that. So that then you know, just for your child, you'll have, you know, diapers and wipes and other things to help offset all that expense, like diapers and wipes. The other funding is for the third trimester, right? Like it's not the infant supplement. It's different. Right. Okay. Yes, that one goes to you. Um, And the things that you buy with that money with a big check that comes, that all belongs to you. Whatever you buy, So if you do change placement, everything that you bought with that money goes with you. Speaker 1 00:36:12 Okay, I do understand that. Yeah. And when exactly will I be getting the first invoice? Well, It comes one big check, and Stephanie is going to do the process to submit it um ASAP. Oh. And it takes a couple of weeks. Oh okay, actually So Stephanie you want to get on it like. Speaker 1 00:36:42 And stay on top of it. It'll probably take all the way till tomorrow. Oh, you're so good. That's great. Stay on top of it so it doesn't get, you know, make sure you follow up. I don't know if this needs to be submitted to the specialty committee inbox? Yeah. And, then you can track it, or you can let me know when it got. So it came in. It came in this morning, and we were planning on going shopping on Saturday. Speaker 1 00:37:39 We got her some maternity clothes, but um and that was outside of this. But we're gonna go on Saturday and see if we can find things in stores. We're having a hard time. We went this weekend, we couldn't find any maternity at Ross, T J Maxx. We went to Target where where else do we go? We've been almost everywhere. Yeah, so if not, we've got things planned out on Amazon, but we're gonna try again this weekend at the mall Deloma Okay. Speaker 1 00:38:10 Our target didn't have maternity clothes, So we're gonna. We're gonna go down to the one in Torrance when we go to Alamo and see if they have it. Our whole life. Some other stuff, we're going down to Torrance this weekend, so we're gonna see what we can find. We did find baby clothes. We went and saw a Baby Gap and where else do we go? Old Navy? Yeah. We got a few things for the baby, but nothing for Angelique. We're trying. Has anyone working to get new, try limit your the new number of newborn clothes? Yes. Speaker 1 00:39:08 Three and month six as well. Yeah. And Angie's been surrounded by all my friends that are all mamas, so they've been giving her all kinds of advice. Oh, lucky awesome. Uh-huh. Okay, I'm going to go through a few things quickly and then I'm going to hand it back over to Annabella to tell you about the Costa reproductive health. And we still have to talk about. School, And but I am going to hit a few of these other things real quick. Um, are you in therapy or interested in therapy? I am interested in therapy, um, but I am not in therapy right now. Okay, so we can have Stephanie submit a referral. Okay, that referral is in the process. Miss Brown, did you ever send me that email? Speaker 1 00:40:09 Um, I'm sending it to you right now because I checked this morning on Wayfinder because they're a client of ours and I do not have access to patient data. So there, I'm going to send you that information. Um, we're having some issues with the other rap team that I told you about. So, I didn't send you that information because we were having some issues. But Wayfinder is one of my clients, but I do not have access to patient data. Okay. Um, because Angela prior to her leaving her last H P, she did have wraparound services that they had to close. Um, where she where she receives her mental health, but they had to close when Angela just um made a decision to leave. Well, She had to leave because of the complications in the in the T H P. But Angela also left the state of California. Speaker 1 00:41:06 Um, to go to Utah and then came back. So, and she's been here and there like she mentioned before. So now that we have her somewhere, um, we were definitely getting the wraparound again. And I wanted to make sure I honor Miss Brown's um uh, wishes as far as what wraparound came to uh refer to for Angelique. And Stephanie like, I wouldn't I wouldn't get my old my old wraparound team like that's out the is it far? Oh, okay, they only service, they only service, uh spot three. Oh okay, yeah, you're down in you're down in. Uh, what is it? Spot eight? Yes, we're in spot eight. What spot are you? We're in spot eight, yeah. Okay, referring to I'm. Sorry Wayfinder is that the one we want. Speaker 1 00:42:05 Is close by us. So just just for context, I work with companies like Southern California Health and Rehabilitation, which does wrap teams. And I've got other clients in that same area. So, what we're trying to do is find a wrap team close by that I'm, not involved in and have access to patient data. Okay, gotcha. Like them so. Speaker 1 00:42:35 Okay. I got you. I just got your text, Ms. Brown. And I'm sorry it took me a minute to get that meeting in play. Okay. And, do you have any tickets or arrest or anything that you need legal help with? No, I don't know what you mean by that. Speaker 1 00:43:06 Um, You don't know what if you have any stuff or anything with court legal matters or oh, oh, no, no, I don't I'm not uh no I'm not she's well behaved. Yeah. So okay, good. And um do you have your permit or you want to get your permit so you can sign your driver's license, my permit? And my driver's license will be the next. Speaker 1 00:43:36 Um, but I am working on that right now while I'm here. Cause I do want to get a car soon. Um, yeah, so I am working on that. That's like one of my main One of my main priorities besides the baby. Good okay and you have the information to study and all about your test? Yeah, I study online. I just take those things online. And once I feel like I'm ready to go in to take the test, like I need I need a driver. I've not had a driver. The baby or were you wanting to work or are you working? Speaker 1 00:44:35 Okay, are you enrolled in the school right now? After nursing program, And I think that I am gonna uh do that because I really do wanna be a nurse. Um yeah, so like I'm not enrolled yet, but we've been looking at it. And I am gonna go by and see if the counselor to see um. To have any online classes for me that I can take. Awesome. So did you graduate high school already? Yeah, I graduated last year. Good job. Awesome. Thank you. I don't know if you're going to receive um. Oh, sorry, go ahead then. Are you going to receive your uh. Because I wasn't your social worker then, are you going to receive a incentive for your high school diploma? Speaker 1 00:45:35 So what is that exactly? I probably have, I just don't remember. I'll give you a fifty dollar or so. Yeah, I think no, yeah they did. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they did. My other social worker, My other social worker, pretty sure did. Uh, have me send him pictures of like. So just call and check and make sure. I'll see if it ever been submitted. If it hasn't, I will need another copy of your uh high school diploma that you could provide either as a PDF. Okay? Yeah, of course. Okay, and are you staying current with your uh medical and dental needs? You are with your medical benefits, but you can't have a dental needs. Yeah, uh both my parents are pretty sure coming up soon for the dentist. Speaker 1 00:46:34 It's gonna be on the twenty seventh. This month? Yeah. Okay, one for the with the dance that you said? Yeah, 'cause I have braces. Oh, for her braces or your braces? Yeah. Okay, awesome. And um who are the folks that you consider your support? Who are the people that you get church with? Speaker 1 00:47:04 I have, um, my social worker. I don't know to be honest. I don't personally, I feel like I. I don't really have that big of a support team at the moment. You know, trying to gather and trying to uh grow a supportive community. You know, but with Christy, yeah. I do feel very supported. So yeah. All right. Excellent. Okay, so um, the reproductive health consult EPOY program, I think that was it? Was that it? So is she uh able to have an interest to have a consult? A court appointed um advocate? I was going to let Annabella tell her a little bit more. Speaker 1 00:48:05 What she does. So I think, I know that you're mentioning like you want a built or support system. Well, A casa is the perfect person for that because they are we what a casa is, they're a volunteer that we train to advocate on your behalf. They um it involves typically meeting with them once a month, and then uh you can text them as much as you need, but they're helping you reach your goals. And what's unique about them is that. They can advocate for you, like they can speak to your judge. They can attend court hearings with you, and they're just making sure that all of those things that you need are being met and like they make sure that your voice is being heard essentially. Um, so things like, you know, if you want to go back to college or something, They'll help support you in those efforts, or they can help you do a driving uh online driving class thing that you want. Um anything that you need. Speaker 1 00:49:04 Work with a caseworker that can be that person for you. Um, it is up until you turn twenty one, but if you are open to keeping the relationship with your caseworker, Sometimes they can be a supportive person in your life, even after you turn twenty one. Um, is this something that you are interested in? Yeah, I am interested in that. Okay. Okay, great. So, uh, what happens is I will complete this referral, and then we do an assessment so it can take anywhere from one month. I'm the SB program manager, so I'll make sure that you know we're getting you priority. Um, And I'll keep you both in the loop about where we are in the referral process. Does that sound good? Yeah, that sounds good. Alright, now another little. Oh sorry. Can she. We'll send her Costco apps sometimes for diapers and wipes and baby things? Yes. So uh another great benefit of Casa is that you are able to. Speaker 1 00:50:04 Diapers and wipes through our program. We also help you with a welcome baby gift, so anything that you need like a baby, you need a stroller or um a car seat, we can supply you with that kind of thing. So it's flexible whatever you need. Um we also do, you know, connect you to shopping events throughout the year, Christmas holiday gifts all things like that. So, it's really great program and I'm really excited for you to join us. And yeah. Speaker 1 00:50:33 Okay. No, that sounds perfect. Great. Okay. Oh yeah, so there's a couple other things we haven't talked about. So the other thing is um if you are breastfeeding, We do want to remind you that you can't get a breast pump for free through M edi - C al. Um, we have a website. We refer you guys to called Yummy Mommy and kind of helps you understand this stuff, and they can even do that whole referral process for you. So check it out. I think also when you meet with your OB/GYN next week, Definitely bring it up with them so that they know your plan. And they can also make sure that they have documents needed to help you get a referral. So yeah, I also, if you can try and look at if you get your breast pump before baby comes, check it out, kind of get a feel of how to use it. It'll just help you as you, you know, once baby comes. Speaker 1 00:51:32 Going through that for the first time, and you kind of know how to use it. Just a tool kit. Okay. Um, the next thing we talk about is reproductive health. It's just a really important conversation that we like to have because um, We want to remind you that you're very fertile after you give birth and Anita and I, both have children who are 15 months apart. So we know what we're talking about. So uh there's a lot of different, Birth control options. So do have you thought about whether or not you want to have more kids, and if you want birth control, where do you stand on that? I'm not planning on having another kid until later on in life, probably like late thirties or early thirties. Because I agree. Okay. Yeah, I'm just not planning on having any more kids at the moment. Um. Speaker 1 00:52:31 But I am planning on going back on birth control. Um, I did the pills in the past, Which I'm probably just gonna do the pills again, because I feel like anything else is really unsafe. Okay, that's good. Did you say a spa eight? Oh, sorry. Yes, spa eight. Spa eight is sending this to okay the nurse program seems to be full. But they said it's about five. But let me double check. Um, okay, so you'll do birth control pills is what you're thinking? Okay, so it's good to talk to your doctor about it. Um, And or even the patch, because like with those were really hard for me in the past. To be honest, That they switched me to the patch because it was easier to just stick on than to just take a pill every. Speaker 1 00:53:30 Okay. Right. Yeah, with the pill you have to be really good about taking it every day, remembering it, setting your alarm so you don't forget and all that. Um, The patch or the shot, we encourage you to just talk to your doctor about it if you already have a partner. Um and then always remember obviously condoms are so important too. No yeah I'm I'm a very safe person Okay, good. Good job. Okay, um, trying to let's see how about you can get it. Speaker 1 00:54:27 A membership to the Y M C A as a foster parent. I'm not sure if you're interested in that. No, I don't. No, okay. Thank you. Okay, right? Um, what else? Anything else that we've forgotten? So I mean one thing I was going to say, was if you um you know, as you meet your doula, and she feels like she wants extra support, like, if do you want like a prenatal class because other moms go. Speaker 1 00:54:57 If you um want to have um a transfer class, oh there's tons of online opportunities for that that are live, that are free. Um so if you are interested in those, you know please reach out to me. And I know that we talked about a lot, but just know, like my job after this is to just follow up with you about what we talk about. And um you know, keep you updated on things. And as things come up, like I can always there's so many great free resources out there that I love just. Connecting you to so if you're open to it, I can keep you on my mailing list of, you know, things that come up that are I think would benefit you. I can text them over to you and then you can always say hey, I don't want these anymore and um I can stop sending them. So that so that sound like a good plan? Yeah, that sounds like a good plan. Great. In in terms of like clothing, if Gator comes up or when we need additional clothing for yourself, there's there's a bunch of different clothing programs. Speaker 1 00:55:57 Or foster youth that we can help connect you to. Okay. Um, So are you going to reach out to her afterwards about because we're going to need a consent form for you for the conference referral. Um, so you just can type in your name, just write, just sign your name or type it in and send it back. Okay. And then um will you send that to her or maybe a group email? Okay. And then um there is. Speaker 1 00:56:27 Um, a free app that's free to everybody called Caluna. In the meantime, if you feel like you know while you get your therapy going, if you want to talk or chat or whatever with somebody, they have all kinds of options. It's totally free. Are you interested in that? Oh yeah. Okay. So we'll send you the Caluna app and then there's another great um I think they're called websites. And it's called BedSider dot org, and we'll send you that link too. And it goes over the different types of birth control that are out there, so you can look at the pros and cons, also think about healthy relationships and things like that. And so we will send you that. It's not in my notes, But it's also going to be at the end of my email when I send out my summary to y'all. And there is another great link about. Speaker 1 00:57:26 A place called Maternal Mental Health Now. They are support for pregnancy and after-pregnancy support, and their specialty is postpartum depression. Not saying you're going to get it, but a lot of times I don't know if you know, you know, You've been making a baby, and once the baby is out, your body goes, wait a minute, what's happening all over again, I, you know, worked so hard to make fingers and toes and eyeballs. You know, so we go through hormone changes, which are no fun. And sometimes you get the blues. I already kind of I already felt sad that I'm already closer to the day. Yeah, Yeah, it's it's a roller coaster of emotions. You know, um there's a lot that goes with it, but they also have this place. This site has um emotional wellness. Speaker 1 00:58:24 And you can, you know, click on and do it. You are like, I think that's very interesting. So um that's what's kind of cool now that you have things that you know, you can just do online and check out if you are interested. Okay okay any questions? We talked about a lot of stuff. Um I am going to take up notes and Annabella will send our link. And if you have any questions about anything We've talked about, don't worry. We remember it. Call us. Um, And we'll get a group email going, and you'll have all our contact information in there as well. And so now if you're interested, We can schedule a follow up like I said our follow ups are three months, four months, five months, six months out. And that's when we check in just to make sure everything that you're getting that you're supposed to get that you're getting um they pull, you know, baby's med cal. Speaker 1 00:59:23 Working all that stuff. Okay. Um, so let's see. Yeah, baby is due in two months, So we could push it out for like a month month and a half after you have the baby, if you would like. What do you think? Um yeah I would. You're okay So like Novemberish Yeah end of November Okay Does that sound good? Or would you prefer um December. Okay. Although November, we got the holidays, but um let's see Stephanie, do you work on what's your ordeal You said Monday. Okay. Um and Annabella, is there are you limited to certain days or no I could even go to Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday. Speaker 1 01:00:23 Um, I'm just looking. The end of November really would be the week of Thanksgiving, So I'm not sure if we want to push it, just like maybe the first week of December. Um, December second or third? Yeah, that's fine. Yeah okay. Um, is there a day that's better for you? And um we are on Thursdays? I don't know. I don't plan out that long So um So Thursdays are usually for me a good day. I'm in I am in Pasadena, but I can rearrange my schedule if I need to. But Thursdays are usually that far out, pretty blank. My Wednesdays and Tuesdays I have standing meetings so. Okay, so let's go with um December third which is a Thursday. Alright and um you're going to have a new baby, so I would say like twelve twelve thirty one o'clock. Okay. Speaker 1 01:01:23 You're at 12:35. Yes. Oh, what am I doing? I'm writing a making a new email rather than a calendar. That's not what I want. Okay, we said the third. Sorry, new event. 12:30, So, 12:30 p.m. Any last questions from anybody? Anything? No, we don't have any questions. Okay. Miss Brown, you good? I am good. I went ahead and tested Long Beach for the W rate training, Miss Stephanie. So just a heads up. I found the information. Speaker 1 01:02:21 I found yeah I found it for Long Beach and I texted them. So I'm just waiting on a reply. Okay, there is one I'm not sure if all of them offer the online, if not just reach out to me, um hopefully they all do now um reach out and let me know I know. There was one school that said, they try to start these jobs at five three that's been running. Yes, and that's Long Beach. So okay. Yes. And uh, alright, let me see. So I have Stephanie. Oh, I need Annabelle. I have okay, Angelique. I have Miss Brown. I have Stephanie. I have Field Three. I have my scheduler and Annabelle is present as well as everybody else. And then Angelique you are more than. Speaker 1 01:03:20 Invite anybody that you would like, um, that you consider a supporter to your EQR conferences. So, if you have, if wraparound is in place, and we would like them to participate, um, you know it's good to have everybody on the same page. Oh I also want to point out um also, we don't want you to get overwhelmed by having too many people. So keep that in mind if you start, Feeling a little overwhelmed, have the conversation. Sometimes you get there, feel a little overwhelmed and go, "I don't want anybody." And we don't want you to do that. Okay. Just know that some are short lived, you know? Yeah. So um I. Like so basically the nurse program is full um in both spots, eight and five. So. Speaker 1 01:04:19 We can't do the nurse. We could, um, do Partnerships for Families, But that does give you a case manager that has to come and meet with you every week, right? Yeah. Not sure if we want to give it a try. Go ahead. I was just going to mention there's Healthy Families America through Allies that's available. There's also Parents as Teachers and there's Partnerships. So which one do you. To know what they all do, right? They're all a little slightly different, though. Darla did say that if you would refer to partnership no parents as teachers. Okay. If if she, if you submitted that referral versus the um, do you want to give it a try I don't think that you have to meet with them every week. Speaker 1 01:05:18 Okay. All right, everybody. Um, thank you so much. I sent the calendar invite and it was great to meet everybody. We'll meet you, Angela and Brown. Thank you so much. Thank you for being a great support and um reach out if you need anything, okay? Okay, thank you. All right, Have a good day So I need to get the date we have is what now? I sent you the calendar invite for September 19th yeah has that worked?
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08-27 Consultation: IT Needs for College to Career Program
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- Date & Time: 2026-08-27 09:59:55 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: [Insert Customer] / [Speaker 3] ## Overview This consultation covered a range of IT needs for the client's College to Career program, which supports college students in a hybrid model. Key topics included hardware procurement (iPhones, portable chargers, monitors), software needs (Adobe, Microsoft Teams), and workflow inefficiencies related to documentation and communication. The primary challenges discussed were: 1. A potential forced switch from iPhones to Androids due to budget and vendor constraints, which could disrupt established communication methods (iMessage, FaceTime) with students. 2. The need for peripheral hardware like portable chargers and monitors to support remote and mobile work, with uncertainty around which products to purchase and the associated costs. 3. Inefficiencies caused by splitting documentation between Procare (for sensitive data) and SharePoint (for daily "living documents"), creating access limitations for staff. 4. Underutilization of Microsoft Teams, particularly among educational coaches, and the need for training to improve internal communication while maintaining data privacy. 5. A desire for enhanced Adobe capabilities for some staff, but with a lack of clarity on the specific features required. Desired outcomes include maintaining the team's current iPhone setup, procuring reliable and cost-effective hardware, streamlining documentation access, and planning for future Microsoft Teams training to improve collaboration. ## Background The client's team of approximately thirty staff members (including leadership, supervisors, case managers, and educational coaches) works with college students, many of whom are international. The program's hybrid nature requires constant communication. The team currently uses company-provided iPhones (received October 2025), a major improvement over previously using personal phones. They heavily rely on iMessage group chats and FaceTime for student engagement. Documentation is bifurcated: sensitive personal data is stored in Procare, accessible only to leadership and case managers, while daily "living documents" like student debriefs and meeting notes are kept in SharePoint for broader staff access. Staff primarily use the mobile version of Procare for clocking in/out. This structure is valued, but creates workflow complexities. Past IT issues, such as non-functional laptop cameras and audio on Zoom due to needed updates, have been resolved in the last two months following more frequent security updates from the consultant's organization. A recent help desk ticket delay was identified as an isolated incident likely caused by an email getting stuck in an outbox. ## Pain Points - **Potential Forced Transition from iPhones to Androids:** This is a major concern driven by budgetary reasons, as the vendor offers Androids for free while iPhones are expensive and have stock issues. This switch would disrupt iMessage/FaceTime communication with a predominantly iPhone-using student population, including international students who rely on these apps over Wi-Fi. The team values iPhone features like read receipts for tracking message delivery and fears a loss of efficiency and familiarity. - **Fragmented Documentation Workflow:** Splitting documents between Procare (static, sensitive data) and SharePoint (editable, daily notes) reduces efficiency. Staff who need to reference different types of information must navigate two systems, and those without desktop Procare access are limited. This risks inconsistent data location and complicates permissions management. - **Inadequate Hardware for Remote Work:** Staff members, including the customer and a case manager, lack secondary monitors when working from home, impacting productivity. They need about two portable monitors but are unsure of what to purchase and the costs (estimated at $150-$200 or less). A need for reliable portable chargers (over 100 watts) compatible with both laptops and phones was also identified for the 30-person team working on college campuses. - **Uncertainty Over Advanced Adobe Needs:** The team believes two case managers require Adobe licenses beyond the basic Reader for handling a high volume of documents. However, the customer is unclear on what specific Adobe features are needed versus what is currently available, making it difficult to justify the purchase of Adobe Pro licenses. - **Underutilization of Microsoft Teams:** While leadership uses Teams, educational coaches are less proficient, relying on Zoom for student meetings and Outlook for internal communication. This slows down collaboration. There is a desire for training but also concern about setting up permissions correctly to protect student data within Teams. - **Help Desk Ticket Delay:** A recent incident where a ticket appeared delayed (submitted in June, received August 7th) caused confusion, though it was determined to be an email outbox issue and not a failure of the help desk, which is generally responsive. ## Expectations - **Maintain iPhone Usage:** The client's primary goal is to continue using iPhones for all thirty staff members to preserve their effective communication workflows (iMessage, FaceTime) with students. - **Procure Reliable Hardware:** The team expects recommendations for affordable and reliable hardware. This includes: - **Two portable monitors** for remote work, with suggested models from MSI, ASUS, and InnoView at price points of $69-$100. - **Portable chargers** (over 100 watts) for the full team, with a reputable brand like Anker suggested to avoid damaging equipment. - **Clarify and Procure Software:** The client expects to get pricing for two additional Adobe Pro licenses ($16.99/license/month) and to first clarify the specific needs of the case managers before purchasing. - **Streamline Documentation and Access:** The team expects to maintain SharePoint as the primary hub for daily, editable documents while keeping sensitive data in Procare. They require help desk support to adjust SharePoint permissions for specific staff (e.g., adding Janet to a document group) on a need-to-know basis. - **Improve Microsoft Teams Proficiency:** While not an immediate priority, the team expects to schedule future basic training on Microsoft Teams for educational coaches, focusing on chat and messaging, with strict channel permissions configured to protect student data. - **Establish Clear Support Protocols:** The team wants a clear escalation path for stalled help desk tickets (e.g., CC-ing the consultant, Christi) and for staff to be aware of potential outbox issues. ## Other Information Summary - **Procurement Process:** The client’s team will continue purchasing their own USB-C headphones via Amazon with a company card. For other IT hardware, even if within budget, the IT department (Christi) should be given a "heads up." - **Consultant Background:** The consultant, Christi, has a background with the Dodgers and successfully migrated them from Zoom to Teams following security breaches ("Zoombombing"). - **System Details:** Procare mobile access is limited to basic info and time-tracking, while the desktop version contains sensitive data. SharePoint is organized by document type, which the team prefers. - **Communication Norms:** Teams is used by leadership for quick responses, while Zoom remains the standard for student interactions. - **Personnel:** Specific individuals mentioned include document handlers Janet and Brandon; supervisors Michael and Janelle who do not need document access; and staff involved in a help desk ticket, Nicole Mackey and Tristan Victoriano. ## To-Do List - [ ] Continue to monitor iPhone availability and cost versus the free Android alternative to inform the final hardware decision. - [ ] Research the cost of recommended Anker portable chargers and portable monitors (MSI, ASUS, InnoView) for the team and determine budget feasibility. - [ ] Send an email to the help desk to add Janet to the same document access group as Brandon. - [ ] Determine the specific document management features needed by the two case managers to validate the need for Adobe Pro licenses before purchasing. - [ ] Prepare training materials for Microsoft Teams in case a transition from Zoom is decided, and schedule a future "College to Career" Teams basics review for educational coaches. - [ ] Advise team to CC Christi on any help desk tickets that appear stalled for escalation. - [ ] Inform the IT department (Christi) before purchasing any new hardware. - [ ] Confirm SharePoint permission structures align with need-to-know access for student information. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified several key pain points and suggests the following solutions: > > **1. For the iPhone vs. Android Transition:** > \* **Hybrid Device Strategy:** Propose a hybrid model where new hires receive Androids, but retain iPhones for staff in critical communication roles. Justify the cost by highlighting the risk to student engagement. > \* **Negotiate with Vendor:** Inquire if a bulk purchase of iPhones could be offered at a discount as part of a larger contract. > \* **BYOD Stipend:** As a last resort, explore a Bring Your Own Device policy with a monthly stipend for employees who use their personal iPhones for work, secured with an MDM solution. > > **2. For Communication Platform Standardization:** > \* **Mandatory Microsoft Teams Adoption:** Proactively mandate Teams as the standard communication platform to address the core issue before hardware changes. Provide mandatory training for staff and simple guides for students, emphasizing cross-platform and security benefits. > > **3. For the Unclear Adobe Needs:** > \* **Conduct a Needs-Assessment Workshop:** Schedule a session with the two case managers to have them demonstrate their daily document tasks, which will clarify whether Adobe Pro features are truly necessary. > \* **Propose a Pilot Program:** Purchase one Adobe Pro license for a single month for the case manager with the highest need and track usage to determine ROI before committing to more subscriptions. > > **4. For the Fragmented Documentation System:** > \* **Establish a Clear "Single Source of Truth" Policy:** Formally designate SharePoint for daily, editable documents and Procare for static, sensitive data, with a documented workflow linking them (e.g., using Procare IDs in SharePoint). > \* **Implement Structured SharePoint Libraries:** Use metadata (student name, date, etc.) and custom views to make documents easily searchable while retaining the folder structure. > \* **Configure Teams-Integrated SharePoint Access:** Create Teams channels tied to specific SharePoint libraries with role-based permissions, allowing staff to collaborate in Teams while only seeing relevant documents.
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- Aug 27, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:26 I Am not seated at my desk and my camera's not on just yet. I am trying to chase something down. So if you hear anything weird, just know I'm working from home. Problem. Speaker 1 00:00:53 Yeah. Um, Sean, a few minutes to come join us. Speaker 3 00:00:58 Sure thing. And I just took a couple notes. I just kind of surveyed my team when we were talking about like IT needs, possible things we're looking into. So I'm, just going to put it in the chat since I don't see the notes section on here. Okay. So keep on track. Speaker 1 00:01:12 It's because I'm because I created this in my Crimson. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, But I am going to turn on recording and I'll turn on facilitator. So we have that information. Speaker 2 00:01:29 That's good. I. Speaker 1 00:01:38 Have a kitten being a punk so, If you hear anything, just note, I tried. Speaker 3 00:01:46 Noted. is Is that the uh cat that is in your email sometimes? Speaker 1 00:01:51 Oh no, she she's not a kitten anymore. That one is wait, Is it the orange one or the. Speaker 3 00:01:58 I think orange is on that I'm used to seeing. Speaker 1 00:02:00 So moose he he is under the bed somewhere. He's like twenty years old, a little over him and so he is hiding. Speaker 1 00:02:12 And then Bree, who is the tuxedo, who's not in I don't think she's in y'all's emails. She is sitting beside me. She is grandma. Oh okay. Speaker 2 00:02:23 Oh okay And, Speaker 1 00:02:25 Then we have the newest one that you see I use her for. Yes, three trainings Okay. She is still under six months old. Oh. Yeah little kitten. Uh-huh, And she just ran out of here with one of her toy mice in her mouth. And I have no idea where she went after that. But, she was the one that she just took a flying jump off of a counter, and I was like, okay, let me go rescue. Sounds about right. She is wide awake and she is busy to. Speaker 2 00:03:06 Say the least. Yes, so. Speaker 1 00:03:09 I am. I get. She just ran in here with her mouse, tossed it on the bed, and now jumped up on my head and flew across. And now she's acting like there's a spider in my bed. What are you doing? Speaker 1 00:03:38 Oh no, that was not a spider. That was her mouse. Speaker 3 00:03:41 Thank you. Yeah, that'd scare me if like I thought my cat saw something, especially in my bed. No thank you. Speaker 2 00:03:47 Yeah, open the slide. Three noses and she's must better at it. Um. So nice to have one of those Yes. Speaker 1 00:03:60 She's pretty amazing at her job. She's also the kitten wrangler, but today she's acting like the kitten is. Let's go ahead and get started. Did not respond to my text message earlier on something else, so I think having or not, which is not a big deal. So we're going to talk about your team's IT needs first: hardware needs, software needs, equipment needs. Sometimes those get lumped all together. Speaker 1 00:04:33 Any training needs, and then I am going to check in with you about help desk engagement. And so it's going to be a pretty fun, slow conversation or pretty fast pace, not slow. Going to my screens are big like, oh yeah, the whole. Yeah, that's one side. That's the other side. When I am working from home, I've got three screens and so they just all go like this. Um, so if you see me looking over like this, I am just looking at one of many screens. Looking at. Um, okay. So as far as your team's IT needs, how is it working? Speaker 3 00:05:15 So in terms right now, we have all of our staff have a laptop, and we have a work phone. All of that is going very well. Can't emphasize enough how how nice it is all to have iPhones. Before October this past year, we were still using our personal phones. This whole time, so everything computer and phone wise has been going well. For the laptops, we haven't seen this in a while, But we had like a couple months at a time where it seemed like there needed to be an update, which caused the videos, not working audio, not working on Zoom like. Speaker 3 00:05:52 At least once a week for everybody, but we haven't seen that probably the last two months. I haven't heard from our staff that that issue was happening anymore. Um, I know you like some of the tips that you like send in the emails, Like make sure your computer is like restarted off at least once every week and whatnot. So I think that's been kind of naturally helping it. But I know in the past, we were having some issues with just the cameras not working. And what we found out was if cameras don't work, you probably have an update on your computer that you need to do. Speaker 1 00:06:22 We've been pushing those updates pretty hard lately, just because of the amount of security requirements. So, we did an update and I forgot to warn you guys about it on last week's Wednesday. And thankfully, no one on your team had any issues that we saw. I think everybody already knew that hey, we got to reboot, we got to do this. And, so it was fairly easy because I normally watch your team, because I do know that we get a little. Yeah, so um, I just didn't get a chance because my last couple of my last couple of months have been crazy busy. Um, so I do watch you for you guys, but I am not sending out as many updates for that. Yeah, um, so heads up for you there may be a switch off of iPhone soon. Oh okay for. Speaker 1 00:07:16 The expense reason because they are pretty expensive. Um, and we run into some issues uh with just even getting them in stock. So this last order we put in had to be androids. Um, now that being said, um I know your team likes to use FaceTime. Speaker 3 00:07:37 Yeah, so every so often we do use FaceTime. A couple of reasons, we also have some international students who I mean they live here in Pasadena, But the amount of times that they go to China or elsewhere where we are able to communicate with them because we have iPhone and iPhone connects through Wi Fi like for i Message for FaceTime. Um. And then one other thing I just want to note with that is we have. We use our phones very frequently in our program. We work in coaching teams, so our coaches are in group chats every day. So that is why iPhone has been really helpful too. Because if we have we're getting some, you know, Androids, some iPhones, then the group chats don't work with such big numbers. Speaker 1 00:08:22 So heads up Teams works really well and I know that sounds a little off. But teams does work really well for group calls and for like video calls and different things like that. And for some of my clients that are not mobility first but do travel, so we do have a couple of clients that travel very a lot. Um, so Mexico, we have a lot that goes into East Asia, um, and places like that. And, they find that Teams on the Androids works just as well as the iPhones as long as they're on Wi Fi. And so it also works when they're on regular uh. Speaker 1 00:08:60 No, so a connection as well, but I know you mentioned Wi Fi. So we actually have one client uh the CEO will not use an iPhone. We've tried to get him to move to that way because his staff all like iPhone, uh but he refuses it and he is in India, he's in China. He is currently in Nepal helping out with the flooding issues that are going on. Um and so I know, cause he video calls me all the time on Teams. So just want to give you a heads up that Teams is definitely an option. Um, lately, And I am going to use other clients as an example, because they're two of my clients are very similar to what you guys do. Um, so one uh one company runs wraparound teams. Do you know what a wraparound team is? No, I don't. Okay. So in foster care, Wraparound teams are teams that um they work with kids in foster care and coordinator. You have a behavioral therapist, you have a standard therapist, you have a psycho uh. Speaker 1 00:09:59 Psychologist, my brain is frying on that one. And then you've also got a parent partner and child partner. It's a huge group. In fact, two of my foster kiddos have wraparound. One of my kiddo that I adopted last year from foster care team for about six months. So, And one of the clients that I work with just as much as I do with ability. Also, they do a lot of referrals. So, um, The clients that I am talking about, they use exclusively Androids because that's what they wanted. Um, and so they use Teams all the time for everything. Um, I'll get team links for our meetings with um with the wraparound teams that need to talk. Speaker 1 00:10:54 So, just want to give you a heads up that that is a possibility. Um, I yeah, It is going to be a change if if we move that direction. And most of it's going to be about budget. Um, We are trying to keep iPhones as much as possible with your team, but also give people the option to go to Android because I know some people want to go to Android. Um and have mentioned it. The only reason why we're making that move is, uh our vendor gives us the androids free. Speaker 1 00:11:26 And we can't get iPhone. Yeah, we can't get that great. Speaker 3 00:11:29 Yeah, no, no, that part makes sense. And yeah, with our like just staff to staff, that wouldn't be an issue. I think it's more of like when we're reaching out to students because also just like the benefit benefits of working with college students is like, you know, we can see when you read our messages on iPhone. We can see when it's delivered. Like most of our students have iPhones. So just like selfishly, it's like a lot easier with iPhones with our age group, but obviously, budget has to be considered for that kind of stuff too. Speaker 1 00:11:53 And I'll be honest, um, with with the newer androids you can actually see when they're read too. Okay. So uh just just so that you're aware that if if read receipts turned on. Speaker 3 00:12:05 Right yeah yeah. Is that the same like with delivered, like uh you can see when messages actually go through or not? Cause I know I always have an iPhone, so I'm not super familiar with androids, but. Yeah it. Speaker 1 00:12:16 You can see the delivery and you can see as long as they have that. So they're very similar to how iPhones work they have that text. Texting type that's more advanced than just regular SMS texting. Gotcha. And so, um, androids are there. Um, I get read receipts all the time on the director of H. R not not for ability first but for my other client. Yeah. And so I see every time he reads my message and I crack up because I'm like dude, you're in HR turn off your read receipts. Speaker 3 00:12:44 Yeah There's so many times like with students like they're not responding to us and I'm like hey. So like I saw you read that like. You read my message, like maybe if you don't want to respond right away, like do you know how to turn that off? Because you know, maybe don't have those on if you are not going to be super responsive. Speaker 1 00:13:00 And I will say I. You don't like Android. So yeah, Speaker 3 00:13:06 I don't either. Like yeah, I personal no, I go, but yeah, Speaker 1 00:13:11 Um but i i will i will tell you just a heads up. I favor teams over zoom with outside clientsum. Only because I am learning, A lot of companies are making the shift off of Zoom to Microsoft just for the security and some of the other features. Just to make you aware, I am not removing Zoom, but I want to make you aware. Like my kid had to install. So I took my kid to UC Merced ; she started college at UC. And they all use Teams. So the lady's like, "Hey, you got to install Teams on your phone." And so we're it was a move in day. Speaker 1 00:13:50 And she's like, I already got it. She's like, my mom. My mom. Oh yeah. Well, you just started cracking up. Um. And so we were moving stuff into our dorm room and she was like, hey yeah, um uh I my psychologist uses it and my therapist uses it. I was like, oh, I didn't know she's like yeah. I use it a lot for a lot of my telehealth stuff And. Speaker 3 00:14:13 So Yeah It makes sense with security and stuff. Yeah I think our only struggle would just be like helping the. students have been used to using Zoom because we still have a very hybrid program. They've been used to using it for the past six plus years, so that would definitely I mean new things come up, Especially being college students, like you kind of have to follow whatever your classes are doing. So wouldn't be the end of the world would be a little inconvenient and I I like Zoom. I like iPhones, but again, I understand the nature of things having given what they've needed. Speaker 1 00:14:41 Um. And the only reason why I bring that up is cause. Uh Microsoft Teams is free. Yeah, Um, But most of that's going to just be training with your team to get them used to it. Speaker 3 00:14:54 There is one thing. I do have a question for you about Teams:. Is does Teams have the capability of breakout rooms? Yes, it does. Okay, Speaker 1 00:15:02 Yeah. Uh, and then it has a few other capabilities. Um, during COVID, It wanted to surpass what Zoom was capable of doing. And it did so. Um It. Through leaps and bounds, better than what it used to be. Cause I hated using Teams for meetings for once. And then I think you, I don't know if you and I have ever talked about it. I used to work for the Dodgers before it came to Crimson. Speaker 2 00:15:27 Oh yeah, Speaker 1 00:15:29 Um and so what took me off of Zoom was, uh we had an incident. Uh. So we were in a huge meeting. We had just won the uh World. The We just won the championship. And we were in a meeting. It was the entire organization, plus players, uh, plus owners. And so you can imagine how big it was. And, then someone had gotten the link to Zoom and was able to log in and just start like saying all this racist stuff in the middle of the meeting. And it was a team meeting. So it's like, and they didn't fix it. They still haven't fixed that issue so. Speaker 1 00:16:11 I was I was one of the organizers, so I was able to drop them pretty quickly. But it was just right and it happened more than once with with Dodgers. And then we like right before I left to go to Crimson, we made the switch off of Zoom teams. Speaker 3 00:16:25 Yeah, and that's even when there was like a password to get into Zoom, like people could still surpass that. Yep. Yeah, That's that's what they some. Speaker 1 00:16:34 Yes So. And that's the only reason why I was like, you know what? No more Zoom? Yeah Um but that's That's so, Um, as far as hardware, so you you guys have all the computers, you've got all the phones, everything you need. Your team is more remote. They're not always in an office, so they're usually at home and stuff. Um Is there anything else? And think of this as a wish list that I'm not going to say no to. But I am going to say, we got to see if it's in the budget. Speaker 3 00:17:05 Yeah, that's exactly kind of what all these things are. I have a couple of things that I'm like, well, obviously want to inquire about price, what that would look like. But um one very cheap thing that we have for most of our staff, But just wanted to bring it to, you know, um I T and possibly HR S attention. In case there's a good deal getting it. But, when it comes to headphones us USB-C headphones in the past, we would just purchase them ourselves. We would just get Apple ones through like Amazon. Um, just because there are times you know we're out in the community, but we have staff who are going to be in a meeting. We don't want everyone hearing it. So we want to make sure we provide those to everyone. Um, I wasn't sure if you guys had like any deals on that or if we should just continue purchasing it ourselves on our company card. Speaker 1 00:17:49 So on that one, We would do the exact same thing as what you're doing and go to Amazon and purchase it. Speaker 3 00:17:54 Okay, so it's fine if we continue like the small purchases. It's fine if just the programs are making those purchases. Okay, um. Also, I don't know exactly the price point on this, but again, just because of our community nature, We heavily rely on our laptops, whether we're on Zoom with our students or helping them at school as well as our phones and majority of the time we're on campuses where there's plenty of outlets. But just looking into portable chargers that would, Work for both the laptops and phones. Uh, yeah. I got you. Helpful, okay. Speaker 1 00:18:30 Uh, give me one second. There is one that I use constantly. And whenever people ask me for one that will work. Uh I give them this now just a heads up on this. Um they're not cheap. Yeah, I would not use just anything on your phones and your laptops, because it will destroy it and be out of warranty. Okay. I am going to give you a brand that is reputable, it is reliable. Um, and I just want you to understand that it does, it is not cheap. It is about, well, I think there's a seventy dollar one. I'm gonna look for it. Speaker 3 00:19:08 Okay. But yeah, like thinking like for our whole team, obviously, that'd be such a big cost. We have like thirty people or so on our team that would be uh. Speaker 1 00:19:16 And. One of the things we run intoum with Ability. First is we don't get chargers back. Because people are using them for their phone. Speaker 3 00:19:24 Oh, yeah. Speaker 1 00:19:25 So that is one small issue that we get. Speaker 2 00:19:36 Did they take the stock? That would not be good. Here. Speaker 3 00:19:49 It is. Speaker 1 00:19:50 They did take it out of stock because they have a whole new one. A new version. Um, Speaker 2 00:20:03 Travel. That's not the travel. Speaker 1 00:20:08 Just Uh, I'm on Amazon looking because I oh, okay, Amazon is the best place to purchase it. Okay, usually but I don't see it right now. Speaker 1 00:20:19 They have the non portable one, but. Speaker 3 00:20:22 Hmm. Gotcha. And and for these ones, Ideally, they could they could work for both laptops and phones or preferably, just like I'm, not sure about the voltage and stuff. I'm not very well versed in that kind of stuff. Speaker 1 00:20:33 Both laptop and phone, and just a heads up, Not only do they do laptop and phoneum they do it simultaneously. Speaker 2 00:20:42 Oh. Okay? Speaker 1 00:20:55 Okay, so they don't have the version anymore. They made a more compact one. Um, I'm gonna give you the link to this. Um, I don't, I have not tested it so I don't know how well it performs. Okay. But, it is$ 70. Uh it is portable, and it is both laptop and phone. Uh I don't see the version I used to have, which is a little bit bigger mm-. Hmm. Speaker 3 00:21:25 Yeah, maybe we'll get one. We can just like test it, and if it doesn't work, uh Amazon's return policy is quite easy. Speaker 1 00:21:30 So yeah. Um there is one other I was going to look at real quick for you. You want whatever. So when I look at these I always make sure that I'm getting the one that's over a hundred watts. So so that one I gave you is a hundred watts exactly. So I don't know how well it's going to perform. It may work well, but this one is definitely capable of more. Speaker 3 00:22:02 Okay, thank you. I'll take a look at those two things for chargers. And then the only other like kind of hardware things that we were talking about is I was talking to Delia. And she has this like a portable monitor for a laptop. Speaker 3 00:22:22 We're looking for maybe about two of them, but I didn't know what the cost was. Um, because when I'm working from home, I I only I don't have like an an additional screen. And then one of our case managers same thing with her. Um So just wanted to kind of get an idea of if there's a certain brand you recommend, If there's any that we already have at Ability First, kind of what the next steps would be for getting a couple extra portable monitors. Speaker 1 00:22:47 Oh, I don't have any right now in stock. Okay. So we did order one for her, um, and it got approved by Sergio. Um, they are about they run anywhere from a hundred fifty to two hundred dollars. Um, And then more depending on what kind you need like if you need audio with it or so on. Okay. Um, so just a heads up on that. Um, we can look into that for you. Um, and get that it would need to come out of your budget. Speaker 3 00:23:19 Yeah, I was just going to ask that, like what have come directly from ours because yeah, I think we'd only need two our other staff that would need it. It's really just our leadership team. They have they have plenty of those ah you know things at home already. It's just me and one of our other staff don't so I'll look into that. Speaker 1 00:23:37 Let me give you theum there's a couple that's super cheap under a hundred dollars. I don't know how well they work okay. Because we've never tried it, however, um, Acer's got one and uh. See who's the other company I'm looking for it right now. Uh, MSI has one. Uh, MSI is a company that is is pretty decent. ASUS is an A S U S is another company. Um, right now MSI actually has uh four sixty nine dollars. Speaker 3 00:24:18 Okay, that seems quite affordable. Speaker 1 00:24:21 Yeah, so it's uh so just to heads up on that is USB C. Um, it is not the greatest of resolutions, but it would work. Speaker 3 00:24:31 Okay. Right I'll look into that. And then when we're making purchases like this, like if they're not like this huge purchase, it easily fits in our budget. Do should we be giving like you guys a heads up about these sort of like I T slash hardware? Purchases we're making, or is it just kind of up to the directors? Speaker 1 00:24:50 I would love it if you got if you just gave us a heads up and just said, hey, yeah, just like a message. That way we know. Speaker 2 00:24:56 Okay. That sounds good. Speaker 1 00:24:59 Um This one I've got one for you. InnoView is another one that I've heard really good things about. I've not tested myself Um this one is a hundred dollars Okay. Speaker 2 00:25:19 Thank you. Speaker 3 00:25:22 Alright, and then I think that's it for theum like hardware specific I T. The only other thing thatum I just wanted to kind of inquire about price. What that look like is the Adobe license for the college recruit team. I believe I am the only one who has like the full license, where like I can convert, you know, like a PDF to Word, I can sign you know whatever. Do, you know, if am I the only one in the college support program that has that? Speaker 1 00:25:49 I need to look it up. Um, but just just a heads up, what because there's two kinds of Adobe or technically three versions of Adobe. Okay. What all are you looking for your team to do? Because, the reason why I bring it up is Adobe, Fill and Sign is also in Adobe Reader. So if they're just filling out forms, they don't need a paid version. Speaker 3 00:26:14 Yeah, I was gonna say for our typical staff. Yeah, The most that they're doing is like, you know, the sign documents, whether it's for the school or um other things come up as long as they can like sign and fill out a document for my two uh case managers, where they do have to do a bit more you know of documents between different organizations and having students sign stuff and looking for things back. I I want to see how much it would be for two extra licensing. Speaker 3 00:26:44 Um, but to be fair, I really don't. I don't understand all of what Adobe offers necessarily. So I need to be a little bit more informed before I'm like, oh yeah, we want two more. Um, but I was thinking it might be depending on the price. I wanted to see what that looked like for two extra people on the license. Speaker 1 00:27:02 So I think it's it's let me double check because I don't buy licenses, okay. Speaker 1 00:27:12 Uh, it's sixteen dollars or it's eighteen. It's I can't speak and I can't talk numbers. It is sixteen ninety nine per license per month. Speaker 3 00:27:22 Per month, okay. And then typically because I don't even I just opened up Adobe right now. I don't even know like what the name of like my specific one is. I am going to manage my account, um. Ignore. Speaker 1 00:27:38 Me yawning, it was hot last night. Speaker 3 00:27:40 Oh you are good, It just says what Adobe for enterprise. Let. Speaker 1 00:27:46 Me look at my users list to see what you are. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:28:05 Uh, You have Adobe Pro. Speaker 3 00:28:07 Okay, Adobe Pro. And then for all all of our other staff, do they just have I don't know what it's called, but just like Adobe by itself. Speaker 1 00:28:16 They have Adobe Reader. Speaker 3 00:28:17 Adobe Reader okay. Um. So for me, Speaker 1 00:28:22 Give me a name from someone on your staff that you think has that might have the higher Adobe level. Speaker 3 00:28:28 Um Brandon Lum. Speaker 1 00:28:32 He's got Adobe Pro. Speaker 3 00:28:34 He has Pro okayum, Does Michael Gonzalez have pro? Speaker 1 00:28:44 He does not have pro. Speaker 3 00:28:46 Okay, and then does Janet Rodriguez? Speaker 2 00:28:56 She does not. Speaker 3 00:28:57 Okay, because Janet and Brandon are in the same position, so I think that would be something that I'd want to look. Add her to them just because they're the ones dealing with documents the most. Our supervisors Michael and Janelle, they don't they don't need it. They're I think it's as long as a couple of us have it, it's okay. But I do think I'd want to add Janet to that. Speaker 1 00:29:16 Okay, Send over an email to the help desk and the help desk will get that effect. Okay, Speaker 2 00:29:22 And then um let's see was. Speaker 1 00:29:37 Okay, I was checking to see something on. On the accounts, um, We had a list of people at the bottom that have no names attached to them. So I was looking through addresses just to make sure. All right, so that's software needs. Is there so we got we covered hardware and equipment. It's the same thing. I don't know why I put that in there twice. Um, so as far as equipment needs, You guys, are you know with the exception of the the things we talked about, you guys are pretty set. Yes, okay. Um now what I normally do is as equipment needs I'll talk to you about how can we help your team become more efficient? Speaker 2 00:30:28 Mhm hmm. Speaker 1 00:30:31 Um, let me give you some ideas. So with one team, we're sitting down with them. We're going over how they do their paperwork to see if there's any way that we can automate some of their work so that they don't have to sit there and spend time filling in stuff. Um, And then uh for we're also looking at how are you storing your details on your patients? Speaker 3 00:30:56 So um we have most of the data on our Pro Care account. So that is all of their personal information, their times, their info about the colleges, and basically just everything is stored there. But, we also have daily paperwork that as of right now, it is all stored on SharePoint. So, our staff have our college to career SharePoint link. And that is where like every day. We. We talk through with the students on how their day is documented there. And then at the end of every day, we also have all the staff get together to kind of talk about things. Staff, meeting notes. We have that all stored on SharePoint. Speaker 1 00:31:36 Okay. Is there client data stored on SharePoint that could go into Procare? Like, is it HIPAA requirements or anything there that we. Speaker 3 00:31:47 Need to no just their their names. Their full names are on the documents, but nothing. Uh, like besides, I mean, their name is technically. I suppose um. As long as you. Speaker 1 00:31:60 Don't have social security numbers and addresses things like that. Speaker 3 00:32:04 Yeah, no, we don't have any of that on SharePoint. Just basically um yeah their names, their schools, just general information. Okay. Cause the one other thing with the, Our so our Procare accounts, we only have our Procare accounts like the desktop app for our leadership team. Um. And then we have the mobile app for our staff that are really just to clock people in and out, But they they don't even have access to, like all of that pertinent. You know, like private information, like address. Um, we have that on kind of a more, you know, just the leadership team has access to it, if we need it. Gotcha. Speaker 1 00:32:48 I want to check something for you on Procare. Okay. Give me one second. Is there something you said that triggered, Um So, the documents that you're storing for your clients and students on on SharePoint, Um Have, you ever tried to store them in the document request square in Procare? Speaker 3 00:33:17 We Haven't just because that isum something that staff need access to every day, and our staff don't have access to the uh Procare desktop, which is where you can like access the documents. Uh their mobile app it's it's pretty limited with what you can see. It's mostly just the names and regional center and clocking them in and out. So, Um because staff don't have access like our our coaches who are working directly with the students don't have access, we haven't done that. Speaker 1 00:33:46 Um, what would it take to get the team to Procare? Speaker 3 00:33:51 Um, I think it would just be. I mean, it'd only be on the computer, which is one thing versus on their phone. But if they all downloaded it, I think in the past, IT would just do a training and download it to their computers. Um, But from my experience, uh because we have all the documents that live on SharePoint, you can type on them at any time. On Procare I believe, When you upload it, it's not like that living breathing document. It's like a PDF version that gets uploaded to the and and we change it every day. So I think that would be a little inconvenient because yeah, we basically recap the day with the student when they're present. We document our conversation with them where they left off. So I think for that particular documentation, I don't think it would flow smoothly if we uploaded it on Procare. Okay. Speaker 1 00:34:42 What about oh, so we are looking at other systems besides Pro Care to see what's out there just to see what's out there. Would, if we found a system that allowed um your staff to be able to document and change document and so on, would that be something that interests you? Speaker 3 00:35:04 Possibly, um, I think the fact that like just the way we have it organized on SharePoint right now is I think it's pretty efficient because in addition to like having. Like, just as an example, on Procare, everything's by an individual's name. So you have to find that individual open up their documents for us. Um like for our what we call student debriefs, the ones that we're doing with students, those are all saved in one area. And then you find your student. So I do think it might be more time consuming if we if we divvy everything up by individual versus this where all the student degrees are. This where all of the team like chats are, um. So, I'd be open to it, But off, you know, initially I'd be like, oh I don't really like that idea. Um I don't think it works super well with, you know, also teaching all of our staff, a brand new system. I think there would just be a lot of room for error there unless we're completely moving away from SharePoint. Then obviously. Speaker 3 00:36:01 We have to adjust, but for now I really like how it's kind of formatted. Speaker 1 00:36:06 Gotcha. We're not moving away from SharePoint. Speaker 3 00:36:09 Okay, you are here today. Yeah, yeah, I am like well we'll have to consider that. Speaker 1 00:36:14 Yeah, no, we're not moving you guys from SharePoint. It's just moreum making sure documentation lives in the right place. Yes, and making sure the right people have access to that information. So and SharePoint does allow us to do it um. But. I find that teams that have to store things in multiple locations are sometimes a little less efficient than if they only had one place to go to. Speaker 3 00:36:39 Right, that makes sense. Um, yeah, But yeah, for for the most part, it's just like our case managers, and you know, myself are the ones navigating this stuff on Procare versus our day- to- day staff who are interacting with the clients. That's where kind of all their documents live on SharePoint. Speaker 1 00:36:55 Okay. All right, I think then that, Um, for like for efficiency, I think that's it on that one, unless you have anything else you can think of on that part. Speaker 3 00:37:08 Not off the top of my head or what our team shared. I think as of right now, things are going pretty smoothly with our paperwork everything's saving correctly. Um, I think that's all I have there. Speaker 1 00:37:18 Okay perfect and then um how about training needs? How comfortable is your team using the tools they have? Speaker 3 00:37:26 Overall, at least when it comes to just like the basics on the computer, the phones, SharePoint, everyone feels quite comfortable. Teams is something that we really myself and like our leadership team, our supervisors, our case managers. We all use it a lot. We all feel comfortable. But our educational coaches. Um we just don't really we haven't had like a big need for them to use it very much. We'll do it for trainings every so often Um, but just because we use Zoom for our students, we're usually using that as the video platform. Just cause it's what we're used to. Um, so while I don't see like a need for like a current training, like just kind of looking into the future. Yeah, I don't think a lot of our staff are very well versed in in Teams. And I know we've had a couple of um trainings earlier this year that a few of our staff like hopped on. Speaker 3 00:38:23 We made a couple like mandatory for staff, just so they could like whether you have it or not. Like, this this just get a little glimpse of what Teams looks like. Um, But when I am trying to like apply it to their everyday because again, it's just kind of like student information that our case managers use. We haven't had a need for our staff to be trained right now, but future kind of future casting. I do think just understanding a little bit more about The very basic features, the chats, the. Again, I don't know how much permission we want to give to all of our staff on, you know, the file share that we have with college to career because it does have students' personal information. We don't usually kind of share it on a needs to know basis. So I don't know how much permission I would want to like, I would want all of our staff that have the same exact access to student information than like myself. Speaker 3 00:39:18 Has so that's why I'm not so sure what that looked like. Speaker 1 00:39:21 So we we can restrict access to certain Teams channels. Speaker 2 00:39:25 Okay, yeah. Speaker 1 00:39:26 So that that's super easy. Yeah, And then I mean, if they are in Teams, they don't have to have access to everything right? Speaker 3 00:39:35 That's true, yeah. So I think that's something again, not on my like immediate radar for something we need help with training. But I do think just having like maybe a college crew specific like review of Teams, because everyone has access to it. Don't use it to learn, But especially when we're trying to like help them connect with like other people on AbilityFirst. Like, hey, maybe they have a question for someone in supported employment. Like just being able to like feel comfortable being like, oh, I now how to start a message and look people up rather than having to only rely on like Outlook email because I do think from my experience communicating on Teams, you get a much quicker response from most people versus sending an email. Speaker 3 00:40:17 So yeah, I think I think it could be beneficial, just not not on my immediate radar right now. Speaker 1 00:40:22 Yeah, and I definitely agree with you. Teams get does get faster response. Yeah. So, I am constantly on Teams and not as much in my email. Speaker 3 00:40:31 Yeah, especially just seeing like the uh notifications. I mean my email, I always have notifications in my emails, but when I see a couple new ones in Teams, I'm like oh, I should get to this. So something like, yeah. But. Yeah, that's that's all for training for my. Speaker 1 00:40:49 Got You. All right, And then you put on there, is it? Uh you put on your list about uh issues you've run into with the help desk engagement. Um when messages seem to get stuck, um do me a favor, CC me. Uh You can always reply back to your message to say, hey, do we have any traction on this? And then CC me and I canum push it over to the help desk manager and have a look into it. Speaker 3 00:41:15 Okay. Yeah, cause this is there's just one specific situation that just came up recently. Cause overall our experience is really good. Everyone's been really helpful at the help desk, whether it's like an automated or we get assigned someone. But this was probably about like at least maybe two months ago, maybe more. One of our staff shared with me that her camera wasn't working. She restarted. She updated no update. Um so I opened up a ticket um gave her contact information for them to look into it. And, then that was the last thing on my mind, the next couple of weeks. It got busy and then just like last week or the week before, It looked like I just submitted the ticket, and someone like was like calling her and be like, Oh, is this all Like let me help you. And she's like, Oh, that that was from months ago. I so I didn't even notice in the moment that like it got stuck, but it looked like something I submitted from like months ago, just somehow got submitted recently. And I'm trying to find like the exact date for it as for someone named Tristan Victoriano. Um. Speaker 1 00:42:16 I'm Looking at the tickets that came from you. Cause I have that ability. Okay, cool. They have not taken it away from me. Speaker 2 00:42:28 I'm trying to see if like just a general date. Christian Victoriano, is that how come we're not working? Yeah. Hmm, Okay. So, Speaker 1 00:42:47 I can find something. So, we got the ticket on August seventh is what day it came in here. Let me share my screen so you can see. Speaker 3 00:42:57 Yeah, Yeah. And that was something I think I don't remember the exact time, but it was maybe like June when she reported this and I and I sent the message. And then um when I got the ticket, I'm like oh, it said Nicole Mackey said it on the seventh, then i'm like i definitely said it like months ago. So i don't. I don't know if it's just like a service issue or what, Speaker 1 00:43:14 But I I will be honest, nine times out of ten it's your computer. Yeah. And then it got stuck in the outbox and then it got sent. Speaker 3 00:43:23 Just eventually like months later, it got sent. Yeah, not a big deal. It kind of resolved itself somehow, but But yeah, I was just like oh that's I know I sent it before. I know I did not type a message on the seventh. That wasn't even like near my i feel like i was even on my computer. Um But yeah, that was the only thing that came up. Speaker 1 00:43:39 Yeah, we see that with laptop users every so often. They'll send an email, there might be a blip in their internet or something. It gets stuck in the outbox, and then it'll get sent later on, and someone doesn't even know it never sent. Yeah. So, but no big deal. So that's something I was worried that it might have been sitting on our side for a while. It looks like Brian reached out pretty quickly. Speaker 3 00:44:04 Yeah, yeah. No, the the response was so quick, and then I am like," Wait, why are they just responding now?" And then I saw it said Nicole Mackey sent at eight seven. I go," Oh well." Really quick response. I just don't know what happened there. But that's all. Speaker 1 00:44:17 Great. Um Alright so Then That's everything I have. Speaker 3 00:44:22 Okay Yeah that's That's all I have too So. What i'll do is i'm going to do a little bit of like research into like the different like charge schemes. I'll keep you posted if College to Career does purchase any of those. If we do, It's probably going to be like very low numbers just to kind of test it out with some of our staff. And then if we're making the bigger purchases, I'll just I'll see you just so you are aware of what we're getting. Awesome, Speaker 1 00:44:44 No worries. And then um I think there was a second link I sent youum it was a little bit more expensive. Anker is pretty solid. I use a oh, yeah. The one I have is this big and but it's super thin, um and it allows me to connect four devices at once and yeah, It's it's super handy. I that's I switched out my charger for that one just because it works. I've had it, I got it two computers ago and I still use. Speaker 3 00:45:12 Okay, yeah, no, that'd be super helpful. Yeah, Obviously on the pricey side, butum being a code based program. Sometimes we just can't we can't find a plugin we need to work. So we'll see with that one. Absolutely all right thank you Mary Yep thank you very much. Speaker 2 00:45:28 All right bye- bye. Speaker 2 00:45:33 Yeah.
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06-30 Meeting: IT Contract Exhibit Review
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- > Date: 2026-06-30 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Crystal] [Speaker 5] ### Meeting Notes **Review of IT Contract Exhibits** - The team is reviewing six IT-related contract exhibits that are due today. - Speaker 3 and Crystal are leading the review and need to run through a checklist with Speaker 5 to ensure correctness. **Review of Attachment 2: IT Checklist** - The team reviewed a checklist with 19 questions. Speaker 5 provided the answers. - Questions 1, 2: No. - Question 3: Yes. - Question 4: Not applicable, as removable media is no longer being used. - Questions 5, 6: Not applicable. - Question 7: Changed to “Yes” because everything is moving to Google Cloud Storage. - Questions 8–19: All answered “Yes.” - The answers provided are the same for both SCHARP and BAFMA. **Review of Attachment 3: Confidentiality Oath** - This document is an oath that requires a signature from “the E-Just,” likely referring to Dr. Barber. - The team concluded that Dr. Barber needs to print and sign this attachment. **Review of Attachment 4: Trading Partner Attachment (TPA)** - The team was unsure how to complete this form, which concerns the electronic exchange of information with DMH. - There was discussion about whether CareLogic or Crimson could be considered a “trading partner.” - They were unsure if they had a formal trading partner as defined in the document. - **Conclusion**: The team decided to ask Jennifer for clarification on this attachment. **Review of Attachment 6: Vendor Information** - This form requires information about the software vendor used. - The system name is CareLogic, and the vendor is Qualifacts. - The vendor holds a SOC 2 Type 2 certification. - The team needs to obtain the certification’s effective date. - **Conclusion**: The team will reach out to their CareLogic contact, or possibly Robin or Jennifer, to get the certification details. ### Next Steps - [ ] Scan and email the reviewed exhibits to Christi. - [ ] Inform Dr. Barber that he needs to print and sign Attachment 3 (Confidentiality Oath). - [ ] Ask Jennifer for clarification regarding Attachment 4 (Trading Partner Attachment), including whether CareLogic or Crimson qualifies as a trading partner and how to complete the form. - [ ] Obtain the SOC 2 Type 2 certification effective date for Qualifacts (CareLogic) from the CareLogic contact, Robin, or Jennifer. - [ ] Email job descriptions to the requester. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The team was unable to complete Attachment 4, the “Trading Partner Attachment,” as they were unsure if they have a designated trading partner. A follow-up with Jennifer was planned but the final resolution is pending clarification. > 2. For Attachment 6, the certification effective date for the vendor Qualifacts (CareLogic) is missing. This information needs to be obtained to complete the form.
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- Jun 30, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:04 Attachment A. Speaker 2 00:00:06 Attachment A. Hey, Christi. Hi, sorry. It's okay. Yeah. Don't. Speaker 3 00:00:15 Even worry about it Here. We areum trying to look at the exhibits for our contract for next year. And of course, we're being told that it's due today and there's like. Six exhibits, right Erin? For the. It's all the IT stuff. Speaker 4 00:00:36 So let me. Speaker 3 00:00:37 And there's a checklist that we need to run through with you. Tell us if we are doing correct or not. Sixteen You look different with your hair up. Speaker 5 00:00:47 Oh yeah, I just pinned it back because it's easier right now Yeah, Speaker 3 00:00:51 I like it Thank you Looks fancy, Speaker 4 00:00:54 Isn't it? And Christi, I will scan you all of these after we get done because or actually I'll probably just email them because some of them have links that I think you need to look at. Um, So I am only going to pull up the pages that we have to answer. So give me one second because I am scrolling through. Okay, there was like six A. Okay, so A we don't grab my drink B oh here is B. B is just stuff for you to look at and see. So that first part is just stuff for you to look at. So now let me pull up, uh, one exhibit attachment two. All right. So exciting. Exhibit attachment We're in the field of attachments two, three, four, five, six. Speaker 5 00:01:51 Ignore the cough. Speaker 3 00:01:51 It's getting better. Why do I have? Don't apologize or not apologize. Don't explain. We get it. ABC, are you sleeping okay? Gonna pull the contract on them. Speaker 5 00:02:10 That's good. At least I'm not being poked and prodded at two a. m in the morning anymore, right? Speaker 4 00:02:16 Let me pull up the contract because addendum two is somewhere to be found. What was that? I Crystal. Yeah, hold on. Okay, hold on. I'm going back to I We were on a call with Doctor Barbara At least, we saved you from that. And then we can just go for the fun stuff. Christi I did. Speaker 3 00:02:39 I also talked to him about the whole thing about asking for the H, the HR stuff. And I asked him what exactly, you know, what is it that he needed so that we can support him and that. And, he said all he wants is the job descriptions and the and the ability to see them. And I was like oh Job descriptions though? Job descriptions. Those wouldn't be somewhere. I was like, uh, okay That's something we can get to you, so that's different. Speaker 4 00:03:07 I feel like we can email him those because those were changing anyway. Just FYI, okay, what page is this for four hundred? I am sorry. This. I don't even know. Speaker 3 00:03:19 I was trying to see if I had it up Erin. Um, Speaker 4 00:03:22 I just don't have two two is the one we need to check. So I need to pull up. But I have A B and C for attachment. One we don't need anything. I have three four five and six, But for some reason, in my downloads, there's no two. But I had to download it and print it. So I'm looking for I. Too high. I'm sorry, it's four hundred and an absurd amount of pages. We are. Speaker 3 00:03:52 There's the oath He signs that though right? Speaker 4 00:03:56 Yeah, I just want Christi to see, but what we need is attachment two, Oh wait here we go here. We go I'm getting there. This is client support fund. Speaker 2 00:04:13 Oh, D, there we go. D H Hello. Hi. Also, Speaker 4 00:04:26 Our Adobe were acting a little funny, but we'll ask the guys like we weren't able to really type though I think we should be able to type in Adobe. Yeah, but that's another issue for another day. Speaker 5 00:04:35 We might need to switch you over to the new Adobe Teams. Speaker 4 00:04:38 Yeah, ours looks old. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:04:41 It's it's time. Speaker 4 00:04:44 Oh, here we go. Here, we go link, boom, link. See, now see, now it took me to all providers Crystal like it took you guys, oh, administrative tools. And what else did I say, administrative forms, let's click that. And then contract attachments. Attachments. What. Speaker 3 00:05:06 Was crazy to me is I have all my downloads up and somehow that one's not coming up. Speaker 4 00:05:11 I know it's weird, right? All right, Christi, I'm sharing this lovely form. Speaker 5 00:05:17 Ah, I know where i I know this form. Speaker 4 00:05:20 Thank the words because we need to know what to click, and then we'll do another one for SCHARP. And BAFMA. Yes, so uh if you could tell me. Speaker 5 00:05:33 Okay, so question one. Mhm. Um say no. She's. Speaker 3 00:05:42 Marking it on a she's printed one. Speaker 5 00:05:44 I'm writing it okay, uh number two right now number two is a no. Okay Number three is a yes. Speaker 4 00:05:55 Okay Do we need uh documentation available? Speaker 5 00:05:58 Um I can I'm still working on your policies, So I'll make sure I add those in. Speaker 4 00:06:05 So I should, uh, do I have to click one of those? I have to click yes or no then over here. Speaker 5 00:06:14 Um, so MFA is a yes. Speaker 4 00:06:17 I clicked yes. Speaker 5 00:06:19 Okay. But. Speaker 4 00:06:20 Do I have to click any of these? Speaker 5 00:06:22 Not yet. Okay, Speaker 4 00:06:23 All right, let's go ahead and act. Speaker 5 00:06:25 Um number four uh not applicable okay. Speaker 5 00:06:32 Number five, yes. Okay. Number six, yes. Okay. Uh. Number uh seven. Um. Not applicable. Okay. Speaker 4 00:06:57 Yes. Yes, I'll take it, all right? Now let's go to eight. Speaker 5 00:07:06 Uh, number eight is yes. Number seven. Yes. Oh, did I say number seven? I'm sorry, I'm number nine is yeah. Number ten? Yeah uh number ten yes. Speaker 5 00:07:29 Number 11, yes. Number uh 12 is yes. Number 13, yes. Number 14 is yes. Number 15 is yes. Number 16 is yes. Number 17 is yes. Speaker 5 00:08:08 And Then I just need you to scroll down slightly. I'm sorry. It's okay. Like looking down. Um, actually all of them are yes. Speaker 4 00:08:21 Eighteen is yes and nineteen is yes. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:08:25 And go up to the first page. I think I said N A on one of them? Which one was it? Speaker 4 00:08:30 You said N A on number four and number seven? Um. Speaker 5 00:08:38 So number four is removable media uh is no longer being utilized. That is your explanation. Speaker 4 00:08:47 Uh no longer okay. Speaker 5 00:08:49 Yep. And now what was the other one I said? Seven, okay, scroll down just slightly. Okay seven, um actually put on. Speaker 5 00:09:07 Uh, for number seven, go ahead and put yes because we're moving everything to Google Cloud Storage. Speaker 4 00:09:13 Yes. Okay, So I'll re- I'll rewrite that page where and these are all the same for BAFMA. Yes. Okay, great. Speaker 5 00:09:20 And, then the public URL hosting information just put uh stored on Google Cloud Storage. Which one is that? Number seven. Speaker 4 00:09:30 Number seven it uh I'm sorry Google Cloud Storage Google, Cloud. Okay, I'll make that neater when I go to reprint it. Okay, that is that. Now let me close this. Let me stop sharing real quick while I pull up three. Speaker 2 00:09:53 This is move this over here. All right, let's share Oh, let's see what we're doing here Sorry. Speaker 4 00:10:06 Okay, let me share. Wrong side. I'm like staring over here and you guys are right here. Share. Um, I think this fine. All right, so this the confidentiality oath. I think the E-Just needs to sign this, I think because you scroll down, please read agreement, but I want I think it's all IT though. So I'm gonna still make sure we get you guys all of these to review. Yeah, so Doctor Barber just needs to I hear a certified acknowledgement statement. So he just needs to print and sign. Correct. So we'll tell him that. I wonder why? One, two. Okay, let me look at page four real quick. Page four? And, it's uh page four is Can. You see page four, or do I need to stop and share? Okay. Speaker 4 00:11:03 I got it. Attachment four, yes. So this is electronic. We weren't really sure all these things here. Speaker 5 00:11:11 Network provider, Speaker 5 00:11:21 That One I'm not sure of. I don't recall ever filling out this particular one out. Speaker 4 00:11:28 Okay, so maybe electronic, The trading partner attachment TPA is made like, would we have this DMH and the trading partner will exchange information and data electronically in connection with certain healthcare. Is it CareLogic? Speaker 5 00:11:47 Might be CareLogic. So I'm sitting here looking at, Speaker 4 00:11:50 But they don't have access to our CareLogic, though, right? Crystal no, who yeah DMH because this says. The trading partner attachment. We don't trade anything with DMH like they don't have access to any of our anything. Speaker 3 00:12:04 But doesn't. But does it count when for example, like we're getting certified in the LOCUS right under CareLogic? And then when the LOCUS is submitted, just like when the CANS is submitted, isn't it submit like doesn't it go to them? Or does that not mean the same thing? Speaker 4 00:12:18 Yeah, but this says like that this trading partner is made. It says DMH and the trading partner will exchange information and data electronically in connection with health care transactions. And the trading partner, maybe we should ask about this one. And, the trading partner must be readily equipped at their own expense with the systems and trained personnel necessary to ensure agents, third parties or organizations that contract with eight with the trading partner. To perform, I feel like we would know if we were contracted with a trading partner when they call themselves that. Speaker 3 00:12:53 Isn't Crimson the trading partner? Speaker 5 00:12:57 Double check on that one because it might just be if we're if there's certain types of information going across. Speaker 2 00:13:06 Trading partner as. Speaker 4 00:13:10 Information related to the administrative HIPAA, a formalized representation of specific facts or concepts. A complete written summary of data and data transmissions exchanged between the parties over a period. Because Crimson is monitoring all of our things, we're not necessarily trading with Crimson, right? Right. So yeah, ah, we'll have let's ask Jennifer to ask about this one. Ask, oh, where's the little thing? Oh, because it doesn't say it just says all of I. Okay, we'll ask about this one because we were confused. Speaker 4 00:13:46 And it looks like, um, oh here we go. The last one is six. Let me open six because six is, there we go. Our I guess see we would put CareLogic here. Vendor CareLogic? Yes. Speaker 5 00:14:14 And let me check their certifications to tell you which ones they are. Speaker 4 00:14:18 Thank you, Kazan Security. Oh, yeah, see? You wouldn't know that either. And, we really only have to print one crystal because Doctor Barbara can just print this twice, or he can print and redo it. But there's no. Oh no, contractor name. I'll do one for Shar and one for Beth. Speaker 5 00:14:49 Okay, so your CareLogic vendor name. So system name is CareLogic, vendor is Qualifacts. Speaker 4 00:14:56 Qualifacts. Thank you. You're welcome. Qualifacts, okay. Speaker 5 00:15:01 And then I'm trying to I'm trying to see which certifications they hold. Compliance is I'm. Speaker 4 00:15:11 Gonna see if I can type this Huh? Sorry what? Speaker 5 00:15:14 Uh You'll have that. Speaker 2 00:15:16 One Hang on one second. Speaker 2 00:15:21 Compliance. They. Speaker 5 00:15:30 Are SOC 2 Type 2, so that very first checkbox under number two. Speaker 4 00:15:36 Is there a certification effective date? Uh, Speaker 5 00:15:40 They do not. They do not show that on their website. Okay. Speaker 4 00:15:46 Certification must be submitted annually and or by DMH requested date. Yes. So, they can have Well, Speaker 5 00:15:57 We just need to reach out to the contact with CareLogic and get their certifications. And they'll get that over to us. Speaker 3 00:16:03 You know who might have it? Um, Robin or Jennifer. Speaker 4 00:16:07 I'm sorry, I was going to text Jennifer. Okay, that looks like everything Christi we appreciate you That's all we needed No worries, Thank you. Thanks. See you guys later. Thank you, Bye.
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04-29 Weekly Meeting: IT Infrastructure, Security Updates, and Project Status
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- > Date: 2026-04-29 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] [Speaker 11] [Speaker 12] ## Meeting Notes ### Weekly Kick-off and Team Updates - The meeting took place on April 28th, week 18. - The primary for the week is Kevin; the backup is Kobe. - The highlighted core value is “always friendly.” - Quote of the day: “In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” ### Help Desk Announcement - Olivia requested that anyone working on a project that could cause a service outage (e.g., network equipment) should post a heads-up in the P1 channel to signal that any resulting alerts are expected behavior. ### IT Infrastructure and Security Updates - **FortiVPN Decommission**: - FortiVPN will be completely removed by Friday, April 30th. - Cisco AnyConnect will be the sole primary VPN solution for Crimson IT. - **Geo-fencing Policy Changes**: - Three new groups are being created for users in the Philippines, South Africa, and those with static IPs outside the US. - Starting Thursday, April 29th, these users can access the internet without connecting to the Crimson HQ VPN. - This change aims to resolve connectivity issues. - **Admin Account Restrictions**: - System admin accounts with global permissions for client tenants must still connect via Cisco AnyConnect from the HQ IP address. - **Phishing Test Results**: - The team recorded zero clicks on last month’s phishing tests. 🎉 - **MDM and Ubikey Updates**: - The MDM provisioning issue for clients has been resolved. - All Ubikey exceptions have been eliminated, including for Android. Only managed devices with Ubikey authentication are now allowed. ### Account Management and Client Updates - **EAP Office Move**: - EAP is finalizing their move from the New York office. - All equipment has been decommissioned and is being shipped to the Los Angeles location. - **Arc Capital Partners Compliance**: - The client is working toward registered investment advisor compliance, which includes significant security requirements. - The team was reminded to be thoughtful about customer logins and dashboards. - **Hudu Migration**: - Vet all information being migrated from IT Glue to Hudu to ensure accuracy and currency. - Reach out to Mike or Vince for help with documentation. ### Administration and Finance Updates - **Billing and Automation**: - TS billing begins May 1st. All billable tickets must be closed and correctly categorized. - Automation of monthly computer counts and invoice reconciliation is in testing. - Exploring automation for MM device counts and other security tools. - **Timesheets and Expenses**: - Timesheets and expenses are due April 30th, 2026. - Timely submission is crucial for month-end recording and payroll processing. ### Project and Development Updates - **NBD (New Business Development)**: - Starting in May, Anzor will shift focus to 60% selling and 40% coding. - **Project Closures and Changes**: - The Angel Food cloud migration project is nearing completion; server decommissioning is happening today. - 22 cloud PCs are being re-provisioned into three regional groups at no charge. - **Crimson Bus (C-Bus) Development**: - The infrastructure for the Crimson Business Operating System (C-Bus) is built. - Contracts and triage modules are in production; work is starting on dispatcher functionality. - Anzor is exploring AI-assisted analysis of phishing emails. - A meeting will be scheduled to discuss simplifying the UI for ticket management. ### AI Tools (Claude vs. ChatGPT) - The team may switch from ChatGPT to Claude. - A Claude subscription includes access to Claude Chat, Co-works, and Code. - Managers will retain access to Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Post a heads-up in the P1 channel before any project work that may cause service outages. - [ ] Close and correctly categorize all billable tickets by May 1st for TS billing. - [ ] Complete and submit all timesheets and expenses by April 30th, 2026. - [ ] Vet all information during the IT Glue to Hudu migration; contact Mike or Vince for documentation support. - [ ] Team members interested in switching from ChatGPT to Claude should email Anzor. - [ ] Provide direct feedback to Anzor via DM on whether the new geo-fencing policy improves connectivity issues. - [ ] Anzor to schedule a meeting with key attendees to discuss simplifying the ticket management UI; define timeline and participants. - [ ] Anzor to follow up with Anton and establish a plan for AI analysis of phishing emails. ## AI Suggestions AI has identified the following items that lacked clear action or conclusion; please address: 1. Team feedback to Anzor via DM on whether the new geo-fencing policy improves connectivity issues was mentioned but not formalized—now added as an action item. 2. Anzor will schedule a meeting to discuss simplifying the UI for ticket management; timeline and attendees were unspecified—now added to Next Arrangements. 3. Anzor plans to discuss AI analysis of phishing emails with Anton as an offline conversation without a defined follow-up—now added to Next Arrangements.
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- Apr 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 The city is located on the banks of the river. The film was shot in black and white. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was shot in black and white. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was shot in black and white. Speaker 1 00:00:36 Oh, that's lovely. The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Can you guys hear me? Speaker 2 00:01:06 Y ep. Oh good, okay. Just want to make sure cause I switched headsets today. It's a. Speaker 3 00:01:17 Is that your gaming headset. Speaker 2 00:01:19 Yeah, keeps dying. So, I gave up on it. I need to switch over to my other job, but I Charge, so this is the one that keeps dying. Plus, they've been outside working on the yard. At least I have noise canceling, so I can ignore the guys working outside. This is my gaming room too. I'm not sure. Speaker 1 00:02:03 What you mean. Speaker 1 00:02:06 The city is located in the central part of the island. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:02:22 The film was released on 24 July 2015. You know, you hush it, Charles. You just hush it now. I like my printer. Speaker 2 00:02:36 Come s in very handy when I need to make signs. Also, it wakes me up every morning at six a. m. when it fires off. That's quite an outfit, by the way. Speaker 1 00:02:49 The city is located in the central part of the island. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:03:37 The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was released on 24 July 2015. The film was shot in the city of Kozhikode. I am not a good swimmer. Speaker 1 00:04:17 Mor ning. Good morning. Speaker 4 00:04:18 I'm not sure what you mean. The name of the town is derived from the river. The city is located on the banks of the river. Speaker 1 00:04:23 The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. I'm not going to be able to do that. Speaker 1 00:04:48 I'm not sure. The first is the most important. I am not a good swimmer. I am not a good swimmer. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was shot in the city of Kozhikode. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:05:18 The film was shot in black and white. The name of the town is derived from the river. The first is the most important. I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 5 00:05:45 All right. It's uh ten o'clock. Good morning, everybody. Um, this is uh week eighteen, April twenty eighth. Um. This week's primary is uh Kevin, and the backup is Kobe. The core value I would like to highlight today is always friendly. Um, a friendly approach can turn a frustrating situation into a productive one. Especially in IT, where things don't always go as planned. The quote for today:" In a world where you can be anything, be kind." And team updates, help desk with Olivia. Speaker 6 00:06:31 Good morning, guys. The only thing on my side is when they give aum. Speaker 6 00:06:37 A nn ounce ment: If you are aware you're working on a project where a service is going down, like network equipment, something like that, uh just make sure to post in the P one channel. Um just giving us a heads up. In case we get any alerts. We know that it's like expected behavior. Um and that we're not all You know, run in to put out fires. So that's all from my side. Speaker 5 00:07:01 Okay, cool. Thanks, Olivia. Um, next is Anton. Speaker 7 00:07:06 Good morning everyone. First announcement, we're gonna remove FortiVPN completely. By this Friday, we're gonna keep only Cisco AnyConnect as our primary VPN solution for Crimson IT. This is first part. Second part, we're changing our strategy with the geo fencing policies. For Crimson IT tenant, what does it mean? We additionally creating. Three more groups. One of the group is gonna be for, people who's working from Philippines. Second group is gonna be for the people who's working from South Africa. And, the third one is for people who can obtain um static IP address from their ISP. That's related to, people who are working outside of United States. That means that starting from. Speaker 7 00:08:03 Thursday after you're gonna be added to the group, you can utilize your. Internet without connecting to the VPN to the Crimson HQ office. Hopefully it's going to resolve the issue that you have with the connectivity. This is first part, but just to be clear, We're gonna keep in place a restriction that sit admin accounts with the global permissions to tenancy of of our clients. We're gonna, Keep requesting to utilize it from HQ IP address. So, in case you are working with the directly with the tenant of our client, with the C- Admin credentials, you need to be connected to the Cisco AnyConnect. Okay, Speaker 5 00:08:54 Cool. Thanks, Anson. Uh, anything else on that? Sorry. No, Speaker 7 00:09:00 No, that's it. Thank you. Speaker 8 00:09:02 All right, Cool. Speaker 8 00:09:04 So That's actually a huge improvement, right? Like I would like to hear from the teams, whether it made a difference or not. My understanding once you're decoupled from VPN, you guys should stop having issues with Teams. Latencies and all of that. So, once that happened, if you guys could just DM me directly. And let me know if it need improvements or not, that'd be great. Speaker 5 00:09:32 Okay. Cool. Will do. Thanks, Anzor. Um, anything from operations? Uh, Pete? Speaker 9 00:09:39 Uh, the only update I have today, I got the uh the report on the fishingum results from last month and once again. We had nobody that clicked on any of the phishing tests, so. Great work by the team again last month. Please remain vigilant and uh and safe and. Good work, everybody. So keep up the great work. That's all I have for today. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:10:05 Great, uh thanks, Pete. Account management with Mike. Is my camera? Speaker 10 00:10:15 Sorry, I was on mute. Yeah, Vince has a quick announcement that I'll follow up after that. Sure. Speaker 3 00:10:20 Yeah, actually two. So, first one just FYI everyone. Um. E A P They are finalizing their move out of their New York office. So I just checked in with our partner out there. All the equipment has been decommissioned and is in the process of getting packaged and shipped back. To the L A location, so just kind of FYI on that. And then secondly, I wanted to make a quick announcement. Um. Our capital partners, they are in the process of getting their registered investor advisor compliance, right. So they're working towards that. This is new to me, right? Um. Speaker 3 00:10:60 But I wanted to just bring this up because obviously, security is a huge component of that, and I just want to celebrate the fact that. Crimson does such a great job. Anton, thank you. Your team does a great job. Kind of keeping us uh always security conscious and always security aware, So just kind of want to extend that to the rest of the team to be. Very thoughtful about how we deal with customers and their logins and their dashboards because. Speaker 3 00:11:30 I feel like that's gonna be in the near term, pretty much just the requirement across the board, right? With AI and everything else. So just good work team keeping security top of mind. And then obviously for Arc, Just making sure that we're on top of things for them because this is a big endeavor for them. And so they're really relying on Crimson to help guide them through this process. And I think that with all the efforts that we continuously make on security, we're going to get them there. So That's what I got. Speaker 10 00:12:01 Okay, and then um from from myself, um when it comes to the migration to Hudu. Um, just a reminder to the team. Please try to vet all the information that's coming out of I T glue into Hadoop, to ensure that it's accurate and up to date. Um, One of the one of the concerns that we had was, we didn't want a copy of it glue because we know a lot of that information is stale or. Or not valid, and then also. If anyone ever has any questions on documentation, please reach out to myself or Vince. We're happy to schedule a meeting and go through the documentation with you. To help you make sure that the documentation is looking solid. That's it for account management. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:12:40 All right. Perfect. Uh, thank you, Mike. Uh, next is April. Uh, admin. Speaker 4 00:12:51 Um okay so, good morning guys so. We'll begin T S building on May first, and so please ensure all billable tickets. Are closed and completed with the correct department, work role, work type and agreements. This will help keep the invoicing board. Um accurate and minimize the manual review, and also we're continuing our admin side automation effort. So, many thanks to Marvin for working with Christian and automating the monthly computer count, then invoice reconciliation. Speaker 4 00:13:22 U m, so it's currently in testing, And we're hoping for a successfulum rollout as we continue maximizing the use of cloud, and we're also exploring automation for. Our MM device counts with Connectwise agreements alongside with other security tools. So to make monthly billing more accurate and efficient. That's all. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:13:44 Great. Ah, thanks, April. So next is finance with Elisa. Speaker 4 00:13:51 Hi good morning, happy Wednesday just a quick reminder tomorrow is April thirty, twenty twenty six, our timesheets and expenses are due so, complete time logs and early submission is really helpful for our month end recording. Thank you so much. Speaker 9 00:14:08 And I'm gonna remind I'm gonna remind everybody. On Elisa's behalf and everyone. Please, please have your timesheets done tomorrow for month end. So that every. So that payroll can be done on time, it's really difficult for everybody to get the to get timesheets approved, to get them reviewed and for payroll to get completed. So please get your timesheets done on time. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:14:34 Sure. Thanks, Pete. Um, anything from NBD with Anzo? Speaker 8 00:14:41 I don't have anything concrete. We're making progress on a couple of new fronts. We'll see how that goes, but I've been spending more time with Claude than I have been with sales. I am going to change things around and starting. As of May, I'm gonna spend 60% selling and 40% coding. But I don't have any meaningful updates. I did want to say congratulations to the team on solving MDM issue. Speaker 8 00:15:16 I think we are now able to properly provision our clients. So there was a huge deal that was uh. Going for a long time, so Matt, great job there. Congrats. Um. And we are finally have all Ubikey exceptions eliminated. So only managed devices and Ubikey authentication is allowed in Crimson. U h, so we just we were able to remove the exclusion for Android recently, and I'm super happy about it. So making us more secure with every day. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:15:51 All right, great. Thanks, Ansar. Um, any uh change management call- outs or project changes? Please raise your hand. Go ahead, Julia. Speaker 11 00:16:06 Um, I have two big ones. Uh, we're actually closing in uh on projects. Angel food, sorry about that. Cloud migration project. Kevin is going on site today to decommission servers and data backup unit. So that's a big one, I think for us. We all know how long we worked on this. And in term, we are proceeding with no charge re-provision. Of twenty two cloud PCs into three regional groups, So that's also Gabby is working on this one. And Kevin is working on the project. And thank you, PS team, for bringing this to close. Speaker 8 00:16:53 Great job. It only took us five years to get it done. I'm glad that it's over. Speaker 5 00:17:05 Okay, cool. Is there anybody else? Otherwise, we're going to move on to training updates with Christie. Speaker 8 00:17:13 So, before Christy kicks in, I just wanted to say I am making substantial progress on C- Bus, right? Or Crimson Bus Business Operating System. Right? So for short, I'm just going to be calling it C- Bus. You guys will be seeing it more and more. And I just wanted to give a quick update that the infrastructure is pretty much built. And we have contracts and triage in production. I am gonna start to work on. On dispatcher functionality and in parallel. I'm changing the mindset to where instead of um. Speaker 8 00:17:56 Instead of us doing all the work, uh, let's have AI help us out. So, uh, one of the things Anton I'll be connecting with you and discussing is. Is going to try to analyze all of the phishing emails and get to the point where you will just review and say, "Yep, agree, agree or disagree," and it's a click of the button. So I'll take this offline and I'll discuss with you one on one, but. I took three companies as a pilot. That's US Barker Pacific and DTLA. So if you guys in Defender, you'll see an entry where it's validating some tickets for phishing. That's automated and that's something that I'm doing. Um. So uh. And also I'm gonna schedule a meeting with key people to really understand how can we simplify. The UI for ticket management. Speaker 8 00:18:53 So that that could switch to utilizing C- Bus instead of the, instead of an I or orum Connectwise. And make it super simple and much user friendly. That's all I have. Speaker 5 00:19:06 Great, thanks, Andrew. Anything from you, Kristy? I'm talking with the team. Um, I just. Speaker 10 00:19:17 Oh, Chris, you're breaking up pretty bad. Speaker 8 00:19:19 Yeah, something's off with your connection or your. I can't hear you. Speaker 10 00:19:28 Nope, not really. Speaker 2 00:19:30 I'm gonna change it. Hang on one sec. Speaker 10 00:19:32 Oh, there you go. Now it's working. Speaker 2 00:19:34 Ah, okay. And now it's not. Is this one better? Speaker 1 00:19:44 I'm not going to be able to do this. Speaker 1 00:20:39 I'm not going to be able to do that. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not going to be able to do that. Speaker 1 00:22:48 I'm not going to be able to do this. I'm not going to be able to do that. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not going to be able to do that. Speaker 8 00:23:55 Thank You. Thank you. So so Chris, maybe it will make sense for you to explain what's in your prompt. What exactly this thing is doing for you because you kind of showed it right, but it went super fast. Speaker 2 00:24:06 Um. So what I'm gonna have it do, I'm gonna. Speaker 1 00:24:23 I'm not sure what the problem is. The most common cause of death is septic shock. Speaker 1 00:25:06 I'm sorry. Okay. The first known use of the term "ballet" was in 1581, When the I talian - born French noblewoman Catherine de' Medici commissioned a ballet to celebrate her marriage to Henry II of France. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:25:41 I'm not going to be able to do this. Thank you. The first thing to do is to get rid of the old paint. I'm sorry. Speaker 1 00:26:18 The first is the most important. I'm not sure what the problem is. Speaker 1 00:26:49 Thank you.* The first is the most common type of cancer in men. Speaker 1 00:27:19 The name of the town comes from the river. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:27:52 I'm not going to be able to do that. The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. Speaker 1 00:28:29 The first time I saw him, he was wearing a black suit. I'm not going to be able to do that. Thank you. I'm not sure what the problem is. The most common cause of death is septic shock. I'm not going to be able to do that. Speaker 1 00:29:31 Thank you.***[ Music]. Speaker 12 00:29:57 How do we get access to this? Speaker 12 00:30:02 Yes. Thank. Speaker 8 00:30:10 You. Done. So, um, yeah. So look, it's basicallyum it's optional, right? It's either you're going to have access to ChatGPT or to Claude. So you can switch from ChatGPT to Claude, and if you do with that subscription, you have access to. Claude Chat, Claude Co-works, and Claude Code. If you wanted to build your own application. I have a feeling that Claude will become the center of the universe for Crimson, right? I just don't want to push people, so it's optional. But if anyone is interested in switching from ChatGPT to Claude, just send me an email and I'll switch you over. Okay. Speaker 8 00:30:52 An zor, Speaker 12 00:30:53 We have uh I've been using Copilot. We have we have some clients that we're going to be helping with Copilot, so I'll stick with that for now. Speaker 8 00:31:01 Yeah, so Jason, for managers, right? We're actually going to keep all three. So you guys stay comfortable with all three. They have access to Claude, or work. I mean Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:31:25 Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do this. I'm not going to be able to do that. Speaker 8 00:32:00 Thank You. But but uh, but yeah yeah. But I think Chris in this case right. This is just a chat functionality. You're not gonna have access to Uh, call work which affects a riding agent from your computer, correct. Speaker 1 00:32:24 Thank you. I don't. Speaker 1 00:32:27 Thanks. I'm. Speaker 5 00:32:34 Sorry. Right. Thanks, Christy. Next is going to be the duck race with Christian. Gonna help us out there, please. Yeah, let me share my screen really quick. Instead, I set it to ten seconds since we don't have much time. Start. Speaker 1 00:33:01 You're an all- star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rockstar! Speaker 5 00:33:11 Artemir. So, uh, Vlad, let's hear the five core values, please. Speaker 10 00:33:18 Okay. Uh so integrity over profit. Always do the right thing. Commit and deliver. Always friendly and extreme honest. Speaker 12 00:33:37 It took a while to remember it. Speaker 5 00:33:40 I was always dreading this game. Okay, perfect. Thanks, Vlad. So next is going to be two truths and a lie with Pete today. Pete, are you prepared for us? Speaker 9 00:33:55 I suppose I'm prepared. Um, let's see. Okay, two truths and a lie. So, first I received my private pilot's license while I was. Running my small IT side business for a, small airport in Carlsbad California. Um, number two. I've been wearing glasses since I was thirteen. Years old. Number three, uh. Speaker 9 00:34:30 I was, a singer on a radio show for two years when I was younger. Why. Speaker 10 00:34:39 Would you set yourself up like that? Speaker 5 00:34:45 Okay, great guys. Let's hear the first one who thinks uh that uh Pete was a pilot in Carlsbad at a time. No, Speaker 9 00:34:54 I said I got my pilot, my private license. Speaker 5 00:34:56 Oh, you got your pilot's license? Sorry. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:35:01 I think that's difficult. I'm going to say yes to that one. Speaker 12 00:35:05 So, so Pete, I saw your hesitation on that on that last one, so I think that's the lie. I think the first two are the truths. Am I wrong? We're about to find out. Speaker 4 00:35:17 Yeah, and with all the party, I didn't hear you sing at all. Speaker 5 00:35:26 Okay, so. He thinks wearing uh glasses since he was thirteen uh is the line. Speaker 2 00:35:33 Where's your glasses? Thank you very much. Speaker 5 00:35:38 Contact had a few people. Speaker 9 00:35:43 I didn't say what kind of. I'm not going to do that. Speaker 5 00:35:51 Okay, and who thinks he being a singer. On the radio show, is a lie. Must be. I. Speaker 9 00:36:14 Do not have my private pilot's license. Oh my gosh. Yes. There you go. No way. Speaker 2 00:36:21 There's no way. I'm not going to do that. Yeah, the Carlstadt airport doesn't offer licensing. Speaker 6 00:36:28 Pete has to sing next time during the party. I. Speaker 5 00:36:36 Was pretty young. Laughter Okay, great guys. It's uh ten thirty. So let's end this meeting. Um Ryan. Be ready for the next round. Thank you so much, everybody. It's very stressful sitting in this seat, but it's, Have a good one. Have a great week. Good job, Arnie. Bye, guys. I'll run this, but I. Mike. Thank you.
05-19 Training: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude, and CoWork Usage, Policy Guardrails, and Privacy Compliance
- Notes
- > Date Time: 2026-05-19 10:57:38 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: Kris (Christi) Brown ## Summary This recorded training series, delivered on May 19, 2026 and scheduled to run three times, introduces the Cotson/Coates Foundation team to practical, safe, and effective use of AI tools—primarily Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, and the CoWork desktop application built on Claude. Kris (Christi) Brown, CIO at Crimson IT, covers housekeeping, participation expectations, recording logistics, and post-session deliverables (link and written summary). She situates the training within an organizational draft AI usage policy that emphasizes guardrails for security, privacy, disclosure, and continuous evolution as tools change. Foundational guidance explains how large language models operate as predictive assistants rather than knowledge engines, with strengths in drafting, summarizing, and reasoning—and limitations that require human review. The session provides a practical tour of Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote, highlighting recent UI changes, deep integration with tenant-bound data (emails, calendar, SharePoint, OneDrive), and meeting recap features that depend on recording/transcripts being enabled. Christi demonstrates Copilot chat modes (Work vs Web), model selection (including Claude/Opus), temporary chats, scheduled prompts, personalization for tone/style, calendar-aware answers, and reusable “agents” for repeatable tasks (e.g., passphrase-based password generation). She emphasizes enterprise data protection, compliance boundaries (HIPAA/SEC), permission-scoped search, OneDrive isolation, document protection/classification, and backend configuration of restricted “no fly zone” folders that Copilot cannot access. A second segment contrasts Claude and Copilot: Claude excels at writing, research, reasoning, and iterative conversation from user-provided context; Copilot is tightly integrated with Microsoft apps and organizational data. Christi demonstrates Claude workflows for drafting emails, summarizing documents, brainstorming, decision analysis, and prompt iteration with audience and tone specificity, including feeding transcripts to extract action items. The CoWork desktop application handles heavier automation: cleaning and reorganizing folders, applying naming conventions, compiling cross-file reports, generating templates/scripts from source materials, and running plugin-driven finance/legal tasks. Scheduled routines (daily briefings, AI news radar) can operate when the computer remains awake, with outputs reviewed for accuracy. Throughout, Christi underscores prompt quality, privacy and sensitive data handling (avoid PII/donor/student/confidential grant data in non-approved tools), and the necessity of human oversight. She invites feedback via a Microsoft Form, offers a free advanced session in two weeks, and commits to sending the recording link and summary after processing. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Training setup and participation - Recorded sessions; link and written summary will be emailed after generation. - Offered three times; attendees may join additional sessions for refreshers. - Video disabled due to bandwidth; use Teams reactions, hand-raises, and chat for questions; live Q&A at the end. - Teams features: Meeting Notes indicator; Facilitator (Copilot/Teams Premium) can take notes, follow agendas, and surface items in chat. ### 2. Presenter and organizational context - Instructor: Kris (Christi) Brown, CIO at Crimson IT; previously with the LA Dodgers. - Works with the Cotson/Coates Foundation; acknowledges leadership (Steve, Kamya, Casey) for proactively drafting an AI usage policy. ### 3. AI fundamentals and mindset - LLMs are predictive assistants trained on large text corpora; they generate likely next tokens rather than “knowing” facts. - Strengths: drafting, rewriting, summarizing, outlining, explaining complex topics in plain language. - Limitations: can be confident and wrong; constrained by training cutoff and permissions; require human review—treat like a capable intern. ### 4. Privacy, compliance, and sensitive data - Avoid inputting PII, donor financials, student info, or confidential grant data into public/non-approved tools. - Copilot within Microsoft 365 keeps data tenant-bound; customer content is not used to train models by default; green shield indicates enterprise data protection. - Copilot respects permissions: only surfaces files a user can access; organizational backend can define restricted zones; OneDrive content remains private unless shared. - Document-level protections: restrict editing/access; apply classifications (Restricted/Confidential/Highly Confidential). - Data hygiene matters: relocate sensitive content from broadly accessible SharePoint areas to prevent inadvertent discovery. ### 5. Microsoft 365 Copilot overview and access - Integrates with Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote; leverages organizational context. - Access via office.com and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app (preferred); avoid “Copilot for Windows” for work context. - Requires a Copilot license; myapps.microsoft.com lists available apps. ### 6. Copilot capabilities and workflows - Teams: summarize meetings, draft/catch up on threads; video recaps and AI summaries require recording or transcription. - Outlook: draft replies, summarize threads, flag action items. - Word: draft/rewrite documents; create executive summaries; Copilot button recently moved to lower-right. - Excel: analyze data and answer questions after saving; plan/chat-only modes. - Chat: query across work context (files, emails, calendar); Work vs Web modes; model choice (including Claude/Opus); include web search; temporary chats for non-persistent conversations. - Calendar-aware queries: classify live sessions vs prep blocks using categories; catch-up prompts after time away. - Agents: persistent instructions for repeatable tasks (e.g., password passphrases); delete sensitive chats permanently. - Personalization: custom instructions to align tone/style; flexible outputs (e.g., “pirate voice”) for engagement. ### 7. Meeting recaps and operational cautions - Recording/transcripts must be enabled for recaps; outputs include video, AI summary, notes, screenshots, shared files. - Stop recording/transcribing before sensitive discussions; real-world incident underscores the need for protocol. ### 8. Claude and CoWork usage - Claude: standalone assistant for writing, research, reasoning; excels at iterative refinement with clear audience/context; connectors can access authorized files/emails with explicit permission. - CoWork: heavier automation for file organization, report generation, applying naming conventions, and compiling cross-file artifacts; supports plugins (finance/legal/customer support/productivity). - Finance/legal examples: reviewing invoices, preparing statements, variance analysis, flagging misallocations. - Scheduled tasks (daily briefing, AI news radar) run on an always-on machine; Live Artifacts and new features evolving; start simple with one folder and one task. - Accuracy depends on source data; double-check names/contacts to avoid propagating errors. ### 9. Support and training infrastructure - Crimson IT help desk trained on AI (Copilot, ChatGPT); escalates complex questions to Christi. - Feedback via Microsoft Form; free advanced session offered in two weeks. - Follow-up email with recording link and summary to be sent after processing; ongoing contact encouraged for questions and discoveries. ## Assignments - Review the draft AI usage policy; provide feedback on guardrails, disclosure, and sensitive data handling. - Practice accessing Microsoft 365 Copilot via office.com or the Microsoft 365 Copilot app; avoid the Windows-only Copilot app for work context. - Experiment with prompts in Copilot and Claude for non-sensitive tasks: drafting emails, summarizing documents, rewriting for clarity/tone, and explaining complex topics plainly. - Verify privacy settings and permission scopes before sharing files with AI tools; refrain from inputting PII, donor/student data, or confidential grant details into public/non-approved tools. - Enable Teams recording/transcription when recaps are desired; establish a protocol to stop recording/transcription before sensitive discussions. - Audit SharePoint/Teams structures to relocate or restrict sensitive content; define backend “restricted zones” where Copilot cannot access files. - Apply document-level protections and classifications to sensitive documents; confirm OneDrive sharing settings. - Set up custom instructions in Copilot to align tone/style; consider creating agents for repeatable tasks and delete sensitive chats after use. - Configure Copilot chat options (Work vs Web, model selection, temporary chat, web search inclusion) per team preferences and compliance requirements. - Implement Outlook category conventions and calendar structuring to help Copilot distinguish prep blocks from live sessions; practice catch-up workflows and assess usefulness. - Try a simple CoWork task (e.g., renaming files or compiling a summary) and, if relevant, set up plugins for finance/legal tasks; consider scheduling routines (daily briefing, AI news radar) and review outputs for accuracy.
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:12 Hi Vivian. I. Speaker 2 00:00:14 Jumped on early just to make sure that we started and I have everything set up, but I am going to mute for a few moments okay? Speaker 1 00:00:29 I just think yeah, I didn't call you. Speaker 1 00:01:29 The film was shot in the United States and Canada. Hi Holly. All right, Speaker 2 00:02:09 I'm just going to wait because we have quite a few people attending for this first one. So I am going to stay muted for a moment. Um, I'm not requiring videos or your cameras to be turned on, but I am going to give everybody about two to three minutes to join. Speaker 1 00:02:27 Hi Joey. Speaker 1 00:03:20 Hi everybody, Speaker 2 00:03:20 We're going to give everybody a few more moments to join. Um, because I do have a few people, few more people. In this training than I do in the other training. So, I'm going to give everybody a few moments to join. I'm not going to require videos mostly because I'm going to have to turn your videos off on my side because of bandwidth issues. Um so, I won't be able to see your amazing faces, but you are welcome to turn them off or leave them on. It's up to you. Speaker 2 00:04:04 All Right, I think we're good to get started. I'm going to go ahead and introduce myself, and we're going to get into a few items. Bear with me right now because I'm going to show you guys all my screen. And I want you to be aware that I do have a lot of things up on my screen. So I am busy closing them out. But I am looking forward to meeting all of you guys, and for those of you guys who have never met. And this training is going to be given three times. So I want to make sure that you guys are all aware of that. I am going to be recording this training. And then once the training is over with, I'll have to wait for the link to be generated, but then I'll send out the link to everybody who joined. So real quickly, I'm going share my screen. Speaker 2 00:04:54 And um we're going to go over uh, a few things. First, a few housekeeping things actually let me stop sharing my screen for a moment. Let me do the actual introductions. And then um give you guys some things that we're going to be upfront about and let me definitely go ahead and start the recording. I am also going to send out a summary at the end so that you guys are aware of. Of what all we talked about, and you have it. But, if you guys want to join any other training this week and just get a refresher, you're more than welcome to do that as well. Now, for those of you guys who've never met me, my name is Kris Brown. I also, you'll see me in your emails as Christy Brown. I'm the CIO with Crimson IT. And I have been working with the Kotsin team for a while now behind the scenes. So a lot of you guys have not met me. I know Holly, I know Kamya but that's about it. Speaker 2 00:05:54 So I started at Crimson about four and a half years ago. Anzor stole me from the LA Dodgers. I chose to do some exciting things with my life and decided that it is time for me to make that move over into uh into Crimson and actually, and don't tell Anzor I said this coming up, but it's probably one of the best decisions I ever made. Um, I don't need Anzor to know that 'cause, you know, he doesn't even know that. But so a couple quick housekeeping items before we get started. Um, we are going to be recording the this meeting. Um, we are also going to be utilizing AI in this meeting. So and I'm going to show you how that's going to look in a moment. Um, we once the meeting is over with, I do have to wait for everything to be generated, and I'll send that link over to you guys in an email, along with all the summary of everything we discussed. Speaker 2 00:06:47 I'm going to show you guys my Teams session. Now, like I said, I had to turn off my camera just because of a little bandwidth. And I also stopped the view from you guys coming in just to kind of save on bandwidth. So as I share my screen, you guys won't see any interruptions. Now, just a quick heads up. If you see a little red dot up here with notes, Uh, you can open that up during the meeting, and you can see the meeting notes as we go through. But additionally chat, The facilitator will come up in here and we'll be taking notes and bringing things up into this section right here in the meeting chat. Facilitator is an option that only comes with Copilot or Teams Premium. So as we go through the discussion today, we are going to talk about Microsoft Copilot. Speaker 2 00:07:33 Which works right alongside your existing Microsoft environment. And we're also going to talk about Claude. It's an AI assistant from a company called Anthropic. And we're also going to briefly show you guys CoWork, Which is a desktop tool that lets Claude help you manage files and automate tasks. Um, and so just just quick heads up. Now in Teams, I want you to feel free to drop questions into the chat here. And I will see those come through. I may not see them right away, but I want I will show, uh, I will see them and I will answer questions at the end because we are going to have a time for a live Q and A towards the end of this of this training. Um And you just if I don't know if you still see my screen, but uh, facilitator did jump up and introduce herself himself. Um And so anything in there, if you want to type at facilitator to ask questions, you can do that. Speaker 2 00:08:26 An agenda for today. Um, In facilitator, that's something new where it'll kind of follow along the agenda and tell me to hey, stay on track. I didn't drop that in today, but just a heads up that that ability is in there. Um, And then there are a couple of things I want to be upfront about from the start. Um, I do like participation because I do like to know that people are paying attention. Um, when I give training live, I usually throw candy at people And bring treats. I don't have the ability to do that on a Teams call. However, to help me feel like you guys are paying attention, I will ask you guys to either raise your hand, which is this button right here or give me some React cues. And so if you're watching my screen, I'm going to give a thumbs up here and you'll see my screen change. I'll be watching for those reactions as well. So just a little minor heads up. Speaker 2 00:09:21 Um, and then a couple of other things I want to be upfront about. Cotson has done this right. So just want to give you guys a quick heads up about that. You have a draft AI usage policy. We are going to go over that. I'm going to look for some feedback from you guys as well. So we're going to reference that today so when you leave, You leave knowing not just how to use these tools, but what the guardrails are because there are security concerns around using AI. Okay? Any questions we have before we get through before we get started. None. I know you guys are going to be one of the best groups. I trained. I already know this from you guys, so, I will expect questions as we go through this. Now let's let me start with what an honest thing about. Ai is one. It's not perfect, but. Speaker 2 00:10:16 There is a lot of hype and fair amount of fear around it, and a lot of um, A lot of opinions come from misunderstanding of what tools, the AI tools fundamentally do. So I want to make sure that you guys are aware of some items. Um, the AI tools that we are talking about today is going to be Copilot, which you see up on my screen, which is within your Microsoft tools. Um and Microsoft Tenancy so we have that. And then another one we're going to be utilizing is Claude. And these are both called large language models. And you might have heard that term floating around. It's also short, people also call it LLM. Just think of them as extremely well-read assistants. They've been trained on enormous amounts of text, books, articles, websites, Documentation and they've become very good at predicting what a useful coherent response, looks like given a question or prompt. Speaker 2 00:11:14 Okay, now prediction is different than actually knowing. Okay, and I want to make sure that we're very clear about that. Prediction is not knowing what's coming next ;. It's predicting based on how they see human responses of what might come next. So it's a lot different than how humans comprehend something. Julie, I am sorry. I do mispronounce it all the time, and I am trying to fix that, guys. I will mess this up a lot because when I first started, I am pronouncing it how it was told to me, and I need to get that fixed after three years. So please feel free to continue correcting me, but I do apologize in advance. Okay? But back to prediction: they do predict things. So if I say to you. Speaker 2 00:12:09 Uh, Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. We know that nursery rhyme. All of you guys know that nursery rhyme. You've heard it for years and years. But if we told AI to tell me what comes next and we said, Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as It's not going to inherently know it's going to be snow because it knows that nursery rhyme. It's going to say snow because it's predicting it. And sometimes it might not even say snow. Sometimes it might say something else like a cloud or something along those lines. So AI is more of a prediction tool than a knowledge tool. And, so just they've become very good at predicting what a response is supposed to look like, but they're not always going to know what the response should be. Okay, I just want to make sure that everybody's clear on that. They're not magic. They don't think the way people do. They can't browse things. Speaker 2 00:13:05 On their own, unless you tell them, they can't take actions without you asking. And they can make mistakes. Think of AI like a very capable intern. They're smart, they're fast, they're often impressive. But you got to review their work before it goes out the door. And also remember we're human as well. We're not perfect either. I sent out a document yesterday, I know two people with the same name, They are both in my contact file. They have the same first name but different last names. I looked at a document, I corrected a lot of things, but I neglected to correct somebody's last name. And so I sent it to the right person, but when I sent it, I sent it. And i notated in the document, the wrong last name, because i know two people with the same name, just different last names, and it's an unusual name. It's not a common one. So when i read it my brain. Speaker 2 00:14:03 Was like, okay, everything's right. I saw the name I read the name I understood, but I neglected to change it. Because in my mind, I only call people by their first name, unless they ask me to call them doctor or mister or missus. So I sent out a document yesterday totally oblivious to the fact that not only did AI mess up the name when it was building out my document for me, but I messed up the name because. I just change things in my head. I am also dyslexic, so I do that pretty often. So be aware, they're not magic. They are going to make mistakes. They're like a very capable intern. They're smart, they're fast, they're often impressive, but you got to review their work before it goes out the door. Sometimes you got to review your own work. Okay? Here is what AI does well: It does well drafting emails, memos, summaries, rewriting texts for clarity or tone. Speaker 2 00:15:01 It's really good at answering questions from the context you provide. It's really good at generating first drafts of documents. It's also great at brainstorming ideas and creating outlines. It can pull key points from a long document, and it can explain complex topics in plain language. That's something I often ask it to do. I will give it a term, and I'll say, "Explain it to me in plain language." Because sometimes I'm not good with terminology. I'm really great at opening up a computer and fixing it, but sometimes I'll forget what that part does. I know it in my head, but I can't explain it to you. So if Steve come to me and said, hey, I've got this issue. And I'm trying to explain to him how to fix it. He's going to look at me with deer in the headlights looks because I speak technical. I don't speak Steve that well as much as I've worked with Steve in the last couple of weeks, I don't speak Steve. Speaker 2 00:15:56 But AI is really good at speaking Steve. So I go to AI and say, Hey, I'm writing an email to Steve to explain him how to do something, But I need you to write it in his terms because I am too technical. And it will rewrite my documents for me. Now here's what you got to watch for. It can sound confident and it can be wrong. It doesn't know about events after its training date. So let's say Copilot was trained on items, December 1st, 2025. And it is now May 19th, 2026. Anything new? It's got to go search for because it doesn't know. So be aware of that. It cannot access your files unless you share them. That's another thing to be aware of, and we're going to go over that when we talk about co- work. Speaker 2 00:16:47 Don't paste in sensitive data. So things like your donor data, your student info, financial records without understanding how privacy settings work. And we're going to go over privacy settings in a moment. And then the output quality depends heavily, and I can't stress this enough, heavily on how you ask. And you're going to want to know how to prompt. So, the biggest practical takeaway here is AI is a force multiplier for the work you're already doing. It won't replace your judgment, your relationships, or your expertise in what the Coates and Foundation does. What it can do is eliminate a lot of the tedious middle work, the first draft summaries, reformatting. So you spend more time on what actually matters for your job. And. So today, we're going to work in three specific tools : Microsoft Copilot, which lives in Microsoft, which you guys see up on my screen. We are going to spend some time in Claude. Speaker 2 00:17:45 Which I'm trying to open up and get over here. And so this is Claude, and then we're going to, I've got a new chat I'm going to bring up. And then we're going to spend some time in CoWork, which is right over here. And you'll see some things that we're going to be doing with CoWork. Just a heads up for you guys, there is CoWork coming to Microsoft. It is out in beta, but it's not out where you guys can access it yet. But when I show you CoWork in Claude, just know that Microsoft has the same thing coming. Okay? Speaker 2 00:18:16 Um, and then just a heads up, Copilot and Claude can live in certain applications. So for Copilot, it lives in Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel. It's the AI that knows about your work context. Claude it's more standalone, but it does have some things within Microsoft already, and that's good for writing research. Some reasoning tasks and things like that. And then CoWork itself is a desktop application built on top of Claude, That helps with file management and document automation. I'm going to show you some examples of things that this could happen. But before we get into the demos, oh, I'm sorry, Julie. Yes, These are the tools we are recommending. We use for work purpose within the foundation. And as far as how you access Cod and Copilot, I'm going to get into that when we get into the demos. So that way you guys will be aware of it. Speaker 2 00:19:12 But I do want to spend about five minutes on something that the team has done within your own organization that a lot of organizations haven't done, and that is draft the AI usage policy. When I say how amazing your leadership is, please understand that I work with sixty clients. And I cannot express how grateful I am to Steve and Kamya and Casey and everybody else that has been working on your AI policy and the training and how we want to roll this out to all of you. That's not a small thing. Your leadership team has thought about this intentionally, and a lot of organizations haven't gone that far. Okay, so we are drafting this up. We are going to be sending it out for everybody. Speaker 2 00:20:04 Once it's finished. And then just be aware that once we do, we are going to look for some feedback from you guys. I'm pulling it up over here because I have the draft saved on my computer. It is really long, but we're going to go through some of the items in here, just a quick review for five minutes. And, this is some things we have worked on building based off some feedback you guys have already given us and some items that we want to put some guardrails in to protect. The foundation's data and everything like that. So, real quickly, the core principles from this AI policy, which you guys will get a copy of later, is using AI as a tool not a replacement for judgment. AI is not good at judgment. Trust me on this. Every AI output that leaves your desk should be reviewed and approved by you. You have to put that review time in now. Speaker 2 00:21:00 I'm going to stress this. You won't be perfect at it all the time. You are going to miss stuff. I miss stuff all the time, But make sure that you're reviewing it. So we can cut down on a lot of the mistakes. Number two, do not input personally identifiable information or what's called PII, anything along the lines of names, addresses, things that are important to your organization. You don't want to put this in here. Now, there are some things I'm going to show you that is acceptable and some things that are not. And you're going to see that. But you don't want that PII in there. You don't want donor financial data, you don't want confidential grant information into public AI tools, especially ones that are not set up for the foundation explicitly. Okay? Now Microsoft Copilot and the cloud Teams account I'm going to show you guys are going to be somewhat okay, but there's still some caveats to that. Speaker 2 00:21:59 Okay, And so you want to make sure that, that information is if you're going to put it in is only put into a tool that's specifically approved for that use. All right, so you do number three, You do want to make sure that you disclose AI use when it's material to your work product. For example, grant applications or external communications where the authenticity matters. Um, And the reason for this being is that um there are some outside organizations that are going to start requiring to know when AI is used to help things out. Okay, so just be aware of that. Um I do want to make sure number four, To report any concerns you have if an AI output seems wrong or harmful or inappropriate. Speaker 2 00:22:53 Flag it to management rather than just ignoring it or deleting it. Flag it to Crimson, send it in a ticket to an email. That way we can work with you on it. Save that chat and I'll show you guys what that'll look like in a moment. And then as tools evolve, which trust me in the last two to three years they have evolved quickly, we will update the policy to be updated as those tools evolve. So, what we have here today is a starting framework, still not the final word, but it is the starting framework. So. Let me give you a quick summary of what we just went over. I want you to use your judgment. Don't put sensitive data into tools that aren't cleared for it. Review everything before it goes anywhere official. Copilot, because it lives inside your Microsoft three hundred and sixty five environment, has a different data posture than the public web tool. So things like Grok or Chat GPT or things that you have personally accounts for, those are public web tools. Your data needs to stay in your. Speaker 2 00:23:53 Organization, so we'll talk about that more in Copilot. And then for Claude and Co-work, um, that's going to be a section where they're appropriate for non-sensitive drafting, research and internal document work. But if you guys have any doubt, please ask. Okay? I you can always ask the help desk. The help desk team has been trained on AI use. They know the ins and outs of it. Um, they have asked me questions. We've done lots of training with them. They've all taken, uh the advanced Copilot and and uh Chat GBT courses that are out there. So, we are one hundred percent uh available to answer any questions that you guys may have about that. Anybody on the help desk, and if they don't know, they're going to come to me. So be assured of that. Um, we're going to talk about Copilot because I'll be honest, that's the tool that's. Speaker 2 00:24:48 Uh that's going to read your Microsoft data. So real quickly, I want to give you guys a heads up. I'm going to close out of my Copilot. I'm going to show you a couple different ways to access it. Um if you're granted a Copilot license, um you can access it a couple different ways. For me, Um I actually have Copilot here. And if I go into my start and I type in Copilot, there sometimes will be two different apps that pop up. Um, I want you guys choosing the Microsoft 365 Copilot because that's the one you want to use. There is another version of Copilot that Microsoft has for Windows. I've uninstalled it from this computer so I don't have it on here, but be aware of that. Uh, number two is I'm gonna go to my my account. Hang on one second, let me get logged back into Microsoft. I keep getting logged out. It's an IT issue. One of these days I'll get help on it. Speaker 2 00:25:47 But when you log in, there's a link I'm going to put into the chat. It's called myapps. Microsoft. Com. It's one of my favorite websites. I actually have it as my homepage. In this section, You'll see all the apps that are open to you through your organization. And so all my Microsoft apps are in here, the web-based versions and everything like that. We even have our own cloud in here, but if I'm in here and I want to talk to Copilot. Then basically all I have to do is I go right here. Oh, they moved it. I'm sorry. My apologies. They did move it. So Microsoft keeps making these changes. So I'm going to go to office.com If I go to office.com, it's going to go straight into Copilot. So you've got options here to message Copilot. Speaker 2 00:26:41 You've got all the agents over here, which we'll go into. We'll have chats here and things like that. Also, Copilot lives in other documentation or other applications, not documentation. So I'm going to open up Word and I'm going to open up a blank document and Copilot lives here. And it's Microsoft did just move this this week. It is down here in the lower right hand corner. It used to be up here. They moved it down here literally this week. So, that is how quick technology is working. If I can't stress anything to you, I'm going to stress just be mindful Microsoft keeps making changes. Um. So you've got a couple of different options here. Get me started working, uh craft a draft from my most recent work, create an outline You can click on this, and it brings up the copilot chat right here. Speaker 2 00:27:32 Um, in Excel, you have the same thing going on here. I have a personal file. I'm going to bring up in Excel one where I was building out some things. Uh, this information won't make sense, But in here, Copilot is also down here, and I can click on it and bring it up, and it allow I have the settings set to allow editing, but I can change this to plan and chat only. In Excel. And then also Claude can be in here. I did eliminate Claude from my add-ons here, but you can also add Claude in to help as well. But in here, I can tell it, I can ask it questions like how old is some of the data in the field started at? And it will go in and take a look at it. Speaker 2 00:28:31 But it's also going to ask me to save. So there's some information we can chat. Um, PowerPoint is the exact same thing. You've got it in the same spots. Um, if you're in Microsoft Teams, uh, let me bring in my Teams. Ignore my calendar. Um, In Teams, you can go to Copilot right here. And so it lives in a lot of different places here. I do have it as an app on my desktop because that's where I use it the most at um. But a couple of things I want you to note. It is integrated directly into Microsoft 365 apps that you already use. So Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote. It knows about your work context because it has access to the same Microsoft environment you do. So your emails, your calendar, your files in SharePoint and OneDrive. Copilot can reference those when you ask it questions or give it tasks. Okay? Speaker 2 00:29:27 And that integration is the key differentiator from other AI tools. You're not copy and pasting from one place or another. The AI is sitting right inside those tools. Now, here's what it can and can't do, or here's what it can do. Within Teams, it can summarize meetings, draft messages, catch up on missed threads. In Outlook, it can draft replies, summarize email threads. It can flag action items which is a good one, In Word, you can draft documents, rewrite sections, and you can generate outlines. Copilot does scrape your data. So and I'm going to go over what we can do in the settings to opt out on that. So that I'm going to go over in a moment under when we talk about Copilot privacy. In chat, in the web chat or the chat down here, you can ask questions across the files and emails. So. Speaker 2 00:30:23 Like what did I agree to in my last meeting with Tyler? Now there is a caveat to some of the meetings. You have to make sure transcript is turned on or recording is turned on for it to scrape that information. If you do not have it recorded or transcripts, it can't scrape those meetings. So just a thing to note about that. Today I needed an address for one of my clients, so I pulled it up and I said, what is the address of this office? And it gave me the address. And it told me where it got the information from. So, got it from my emails or project files. So, you can have it pull things. I just needed the address. I knew the address was right as soon as I saw it. I just couldn't remember the street number. You can go in and ask questions about recaps. So, I have a staff training meeting recap here, and here's the recap If. I'm in a meeting. Speaker 2 00:31:23 I'm going to show you this through Teams. If I'm in a meeting here, you guys, I don't know if you've ever noticed, but in Teams, you have a couple items in here. So I've got an Operations L10, I've got a one-on-one. Here's the AF staff training. I'm teaching them Microsoft Word. So here's what facilitator looks like and I can view a recap. Now, in the next section or right now as I show you this, I'm going to let you listen to something in a moment. But, you guys can see any of the shared files are going to be in here. My notes, AI summary is going to be in here. Just a heads up on this one. I did lose my internet. And so it did. We did have some breakup there in the middle of that, but I'm going to go to this one because this one was longer. And if you recap on this one. Speaker 2 00:32:19 And I can see the video and I can see the meeting notes along with screenshots from the meeting. Now this what Copilot did. It also has a new video recap. This where I'm going to share with you guys my sound, and you guys can see. And began with Christie outlining the structure for the Word training, including the use of facilitator tools, chat, and reactions. She introduced the agenda So that's the video recap, And I'll send you a video recap for what we did today. Just so you can see how fun it is. Um, And just just a heads up on this :, if this only comes up if you choose to record or transcribe the meeting. I know I've mentioned that, but I want to mention it one more time. If you have recording or transcription off, you're not going to get this. So got to make sure recording and everything is on. Um, I will say this. Speaker 2 00:33:19 Uh, Copilot has been out for a while. If, you do record or transcribe and you're having a meeting and then suddenly everybody drops off about a few people and you're discussing something sensitive, Please make sure you're stopping the transcribing and the recording, because everyone who had access to that meeting is going to be able to see that in their recap. Um, we've had not not you guys, but we had a larger company that's had Copilot on for two years now. Within the first month, they had a big meeting with their executive leadership and the directors. And then everybody left and they kept recording on. And, then they started discussing about someone's departure from the company and panicked when they realized that it was still recording and the recap went out. And, they had me to go in and clean that before anybody could see it. So I can, I'm capable of doing a lot of things. I can do that for you guys. Speaker 2 00:34:15 But it is a headache, so be very careful when you're recording when you're not recording. Okay? Um, now for data privacy, When we reviewed the audit report, and we talked to you guys and had you guys uh, do your survey. One of the biggest things we heard and I want to address. This is what happens with data privacy? And that's one of your biggest concerns. When you use Copilot inside Microsoft 365, your data stays inside the tenant. Microsoft does not use your content to train their AI models. That is completely off by default. In fact, Claude is the same way when you're doing a business account, it will be off by default. If you look at Copilot that I have up here, you see this green shield at the top right? It says enterprise data protection applies to this chat. Speaker 2 00:35:10 Something really to know about this. Microsoft takes us very uh, very seriously. Compliancy reasons, it will not allow copilot to do anything that is against HIPAA compliance or SEC compliance or any other compliancy policies out there. Um so it is very clean on that, and it will not allow things to retrain its models. So we can't do that additionally because. Because Microsoft doesn't have its own AI, it uses Opus through Claude or it uses Chat GPT backbone. It does not allow it to go back and share that to the other to either of these companies either. That is off by default. Your data is very secure, very protected. However, if a file is located in any SharePoint folder and. Speaker 2 00:36:05 It contains sensitive data. Make sure you're putting it in the right places. So, for instance, a company they didn't allow us to check their data beforehand. They had uh they had their executive leadership team salaries out in a public place. They had so many files they did not know or was aware that was out there. And because it was out there, people could actually search and find out people's salaries from there. It was a mistake now, Your OneDrive data. This is your OneDrive that's personal to you. So Holly, I'm going to use you for an example right now. Um, if it's in your OneDrive and no one has access to your OneDrive, it's not going to share that data from Holly to Dylan. It just cannot do that because Dylan does not have access to Holly's OneDrive. So Dylan cannot do a search against the OneDrive, and that's how you're going to keep it out of the settings. Speaker 2 00:36:60 Another way you're going to do that is using privacy controls. Now, within Crimson, my privacy settings are off. However, if I go in here and bear with me, This is not a good document to do that against because I haven't set where to save it. If I go in here and do your AI policy and I go in here and I go to info, there is an option in here to protect the document. And you can do that. You can restrict editing, you can restrict access. You can restrict a lot of things in here. So I want you guys to be aware of that. You have the ability to protect the document, and you have an ability to classify that. So if it's something that you need to restrict, you can restrict that editing, restrict that access. So like in here, I go in here, I can say restricted confidential or highly confidential. Speaker 2 00:37:60 So I have those options. Holly, you had a question? Speaker 3 00:38:06 Hi, Kristy. Just wanted to check on this. So from a top- down look at this, right? Do, we have the option as an organization to opt out of all of this, Of the settings. So that if there's any shareability, it would be on a per- document basis? And not something that we have to assign rights and permissions to each document. Instead, Have a setting where the entire drive is sort of inaccessible to Copilot for this use. And then if I wanted to use, you know, to bring in a document for summary, That I would just drive that document into Copilot as opposed to it being the opposite direction. Correct. Speaker 2 00:38:58 100%, and that's um, that was the next piece I was going to show you. So I'm glad you brought that up. Um, protection of any document, I want to make sure that you guys are aware of this, especially in the restrict access point. Um because I want you guys to be aware of these four options. And that way, you can keep that in mind. However, That being said um we store everything in Teams for Crimson. So I'm going to bring this up um. So there are a lot of folders in here. We do store things in here with access and stuff like this. I'm going to go to SOPs right now. And SOPs, I'm going to go into my shared files. These are all of Crimson's SOPs and they're all listed here. All of this data is public, and when I say public, I mean public to Crimson, not public to the entire world. So this is only public to Crimson. Everyone within Crimson can access this. However. Speaker 2 00:39:54 We actually have some sections here called the no fly zone. That's our restricted. Copilot doesn't search in there, but in the locations it does. So I have access to HR and management, I have access to marketing contractors and merger and acquisition. Those are my main ones, And then I have access to budget within this because you see those lock buttons. No one, not everybody has access to it. So the only people that can search against these using Copilot are the people that have active access to those folders. So under budget, which we do restrict some of this, I have access to only certain folders in here for budget. I don't have access to all of them. Speaker 2 00:40:37 So I only have access to MS and PS. I do not have access to the admin team because they don't none of them report to me. I don't have the budget for other departments because they don't report to me. So I can only see this. So Copilot can only see the folders that are shared to me. So Holly, if you have a and we're going to use this as an example, if you guys have a similar no fly zone, maybe it's titled something different, um and Dylan doesn't have access to it, His copilot can't search it and will not give him that information. Speaker 1 00:41:09 Yours can because you have access. Does that help? Speaker 3 00:41:17 A little bit, um, But I I wanted to to see if on a more broad level, if we just have the option to opt out of allowing these folder, allowing copilot have access to our folders. Speaker 2 00:41:29 Yes, on the back endum where, Where I can go in and make changes, I can actually set restricted zones and say, Copilot, you cannot touch anything in this section at all. No matter if we have access to it or not. So yes, we can do that, but it's something I have to do on the back end. Okay great. Yep. Um real quickly is there any other questions you guys have about security? Speaker 1 00:41:59 And we're going to go into the live demo after that. Speaker 1 00:42:09 All right. You guys are great. I mean, Speaker 2 00:42:12 You have amazing questions. So I love this. Within Copilot, and then we're going to get into Claude, Copilot has a few distinct features, I love and a few distinct features. I don't. Real quickly, you've got two options here. You've got Work and Web, and you can choose what kind of AI you want to use, Now, it does do auto. However, I like Opus because I like Claude better. And that's a personal preference. Down here, I can choose to do a temporary chat, meaning it won't save my chat, which is okay for some things. And then you have some other items in here. You've got scheduled prompts, you've got some settings you can go into. You've got recent pages and you could tell Copilot to include web searches. Now I leave this on because it doesn't do too much. Speaker 2 00:43:03 I want to ask Copilot, how many meetings do I have. Speaker 1 00:43:12 This week with Koltun? And. Speaker 2 00:43:20 It's going to pull up and find that. Oh, you want me to zoom in? I do apologize. I have big monitors. So let me. Speaker 1 00:43:28 Blow my screen up for you guys. Speaker 1 00:43:36 Just want to blow up one screen. Oh. Go back. All right, let me know if this is better and I'm gonna go back in here. Is that better for you guys? I do have big screens, so I do apologize. All right. Speaker 2 00:44:20 So this is where it's not perfect. No one named Coateson came up in the People Directory, but I do have a packed Coateson week. There are eleven meetings with Coateson in the title this week. Not really better. Okay, hang on one second. Speaker 1 00:44:36 I I will fix this because I want you guys to see. Give me one moment. All right, is that better Diane? Okay, perfect. So already. Speaker 2 00:45:03 What I've done now, I block out my calendar for meetings and stuff, so I can work on things. So I'm going to show you guys my thing in a moment, but it says 11. So I've got some blocks in here for Wednesday because I want to work on things for you guys on my project. I've got development rollout planning that was yesterday and a few items like that. So on Thursday, I have a prep for the second session, And I do have it for 15 minutes just to follow up with what I did today. And then I have the second session and then Friday, I have my prep and then I have my third session with you guys. And then I have my post training wrap up, which is about 12. That's where I've compiled all the feedback, write summary, i do a follow-up to Kamiaab and team and things like that. Speaker 2 00:45:53 So these are all of them, and based on this, it realized of those eleven, Three are live training sessions with staff, and the rest are my solo prep blocks. And it knew that because of how I have my Outlook set up, Which is an hour long conversation that I will if you ever want to know, I will set up a meeting with you guys and show you. So just just a quick heads up on that. Now it knew that like I said based off of my calendar My calendar, as you can see, is very beautiful and colorful. And it's because I put in categories into my meetings. So it just instinctively not instinctively, but it guesses on what I was doing based on that. So that's something fun you can do. Now another thing we can do, and I used to have it in here, is you can create an agent. So an agent. Speaker 2 00:46:46 Is something you give it separate instructions for. So I've got a password generator agent. I told it, what I want it to do every time I chat with it. So, it's going to generate a password based off of passphrases. And that way, every time I need to do a passphrase or create passwords for people, I use this tool and I say, um Give me five unique, Pass phrases based. Speaker 1 00:47:22 On Lord of the Rings. And. Speaker 2 00:47:31 Then I do this every time I have to build accounts. So if you guys ever get an account I build for you, it's whatever I watched on TV that day. I go put it into password generator, I get it and then, I just copy that and that's your password. That's your temporary password. That's how I do passwords. Um, I've taught my team this, they do passwords however they like. I just do it this way. So if you ever get a password from me, have me reset your password or anything like that, this is how I do it and it generates a different one each time. And then when I'm done with this chat, I delete it. Speaker 2 00:48:09 Because I don't want that record out there just in case. So you do have the ability to delete it. So be aware of that. Any chats you do with Copilot in a meeting is also going to be here. And, then there are some advanced features in Outlook that they are doing, where you can go in and flag things. I'm not going to go into that because we are running a little bit low on time. Um, But I want you guys to be aware there are some really useful pieces in here that I've already shown you. Um, sorry, I was about to sneeze again. Speaker 2 00:48:47 I Want you to be aware that uh, you can delete any chats. And once you delete it, it is going to be permanent. Now let's say you're off, You're out for three days. I was out for three days. What did I miss in my emails and meetings? Okay, this is a prompt that I keep on my side here. Um, I'm going to go in. You can ask it that. If I open Word, I can and I'm going to open Word uh, I'm going to open your acceptable use policy. I can ask Copilot in here which sometimes it'll come up. I can say summarize this program report as a two page executive summary. Okay, I actually do that quite a bit for um reports that i get in. Speaker 2 00:49:34 For my team. So I can do that and I can type that in and I can press enter. Now, you notice I went from one to another pretty rapidly. That's pretty much how I work because I have ADHD because by the time I go back to it, everything is back. Um, so here's my four areas that need my attention today. Oh, Wasn't out, but this is what I do when i'm out My email highlights any security. Uh incidences. Which I already knew about that and answered it. Separation tickets, some other things. There's some training logistics for you coming up. I do think I replied to you on this one. If I didn't, I do apologize. I thought to reply to you and it's probably in my drafts. I have to go back in and check my drafts every day before I leave. Meetings, client project work blocks, so it gives me very detailed. Speaker 2 00:50:32 Now, if I ask the same question, you can actually have fun with this. I was out for three days. What did I miss in my emails and meetings? Give it to me in a pirate voice. You can have fun with it. Now, as I'm going to minimize this so and I'm going to go back here, here is my executive summary. Speaker 1 00:51:03 And it will write this to me as well. Now, Speaker 2 00:51:08 One thing I do want to give you guys a heads up on is it does not instinctively know your voice, and it does not remember everything. But if I go in here and I go to settings, I can go into under personalization and I can build out custom instructions. I'm going to give you guys my custom instructions that I use because I want it to sound more like me. So I'm going to put this into the chat. I also will send this to all of you guys in an email. As an example, you can either use mine or you can make it your own. I like it to use clear and simple language. I can add things in here. I do this for all my AIs, because I want it to sound like me if I don't do this. Speaker 2 00:51:59 Um, they tend to use a lot of bullets and lists. I don't like bullets and lists. So I also don't like the word kindly in my because it doesn't sound like me. So I will tell it what it can and can't do. Um, Here is the captain's log for you guys, just to see how fun it was. Okay, so you can have fun with it. Any. Speaker 1 00:52:22 Questions about Copilot before we move into Claude? Speaker 1 00:52:33 And did I answer everybody's questions that they had? All right, we're moving into Claude. Speaker 2 00:52:43 Claude is actually one of my favorite tools. There's actually several ways you can use Claude, But I'm going to only go over the ones that are most important for you guys. It's made by a company called Anthropic. Now it has hit fast because of, The depth of its research that it pulls and things like that. So, um, it is a good tool out there. I actually prefer it right now over ChatGPT, although a year ago I was ChatGPT everything. So things do change. Right. Now what we're talking about is stuff that's coming through May of twenty six. June of twenty six might be a lot different Okay Now Claude is different kind of tool from Copilot. It's not naturally embedded in your existing apps. Speaker 2 00:53:28 It is a standalone AI assistant that you access through your browser or desktop application. The desktop application is going to be a lot easier from my perspective because it will allow, it will access files that you allow it to access. And you can set in there what files it can and can't access. So just a heads up. If Copilot is the AI that knows your Microsoft environment, Claude is the AI that's really good at writing, research, reasoning and working through ideas that are complex. Okay, it's also more conversational. You can have a back and forth with it. You can refine your request, you can push back on its answers and build on what it gives you. So here's how I like to explain the difference. Copilot knows your world, your files, your calendar, your emails. Claude is better at thinking through something from scratch and working with context, you hand it, and you have to hand it context. Okay, so you can write an edit. Speaker 2 00:54:27 You can tell it to rewrite this grant update in plain language for a general audience. Or you can say, rewrite this grant update in plain language for the board. You got to tell it what the audience is. You can say, summarize this eight page report in five bullet points, and it will do that. And it's really good at it. You can tell it to break down complex problems What are the pros and cons of switching from X to Y for a nonprofit of our size? Okay, it's really good at that. You can have it brainstorm for you. Give me ten ideas for the theme of our next staff appreciation event, and it will give it to you. Okay, You can tell it to create a template for follow up with program partners after a site visit. And I do something very similar to that. I did rewrite that prompt for something more your style. Speaker 2 00:55:22 I use something called a pld, And what pld does is it records when it's a physical recording device so that when I'm visiting sites, I usually record. It picks up on everybody around me so that I don't forget what people ask me to do and I don't forget the conversations we have because I do have ADHD. And i i do forget things very easily because of it. And also, i am a squirrel. Person, things will capture my attention mid-sentence. I'm just bad about that. So I can give it that transcript and say, break it down for me. Make me a list of what all I promised since then, so that I don't forget it. So I do do that. All right, so Claude is right here. Um, I am logged in with my account. I'm in the chat function, so this is the main Claude interface and. Speaker 2 00:56:20 And think of it like a conversation with a very capable writing partner. And I can say, I need an email that is two or three paragraphs long explaining the pros and cons of security features in cloud. And I want To send this to Holly at Hudson. All right, so I'm going to send that. I'm going to have it do that. Now, a couple of things to note. It does have access to my email, but only what I've given it access to. So it has things called connectors. It has access to my personal Gmail account, which is okay. It has access to my Outlook email. And so it's going to ask me if it wants to send. Speaker 2 00:57:19 I'm not worried about that. I'm not going to send this to you, Holly. I promise. So just just be aware of that. Now it's going to dig through, It's going to do its research, and you can see it's going to show you exactly what it's thinking. Now while we're waiting on this, I'm going to go over to CoWork and I'm going to show you guys some additional things you can do. CoWork is a little bit more in depth It's going to see you guys can see I created my AI training script for you. I actually was in this thirty two minutes ago, but I built this a week ago. Actually started the conversation on this well over a week ago. What I did with it and I don't want to go into too much detail, but I want to give you guys a heads up. Speaker 2 00:57:59 I gave it every meeting. I had with Kamya and Steve and the rest of the team, and I uploaded it to that. And then I put up the AI policy that we were drafting, and I put up everything else we talked about. And said, This is what I want to create an AI training script for. I want you to look at and see what are the touch points that the team said that they want to make sure that I expand on. And I uploaded it and had it create me a demo. And then, Not a demo, but a script. And then I gave it my preferred documentation, like how I want my document to look. So I gave it information on that and said, here's what I want you to build it out to look like. So this the finished product to a point. I did make some changes to it. So this my script for you guys. I build a script for every AI training. I do so I can make it work for what you guys look like, but. Speaker 2 00:58:56 This is how I like my my documents to look. It's the crimson colors, it's got my prep notes, And that way, my team can take this exact template because it is a template that I had Copilot create against, And they can build it for any other client that they do the training on as well. And that way it's here for every time. Now, it is a template I have in here. I gave Copilot the template to do it and I let it build based off that, and then I went back into the script and I said, and I made my edits to it. So I didn't just take fully what it said. Now, I also build cheat sheets for my projects. And what I do is I upload all the project data and say, build me a cheat sheet. It is not one hundred percent uh right, and I am not one hundred percent perfect. So Kanya, I have a friend. I think i told you guys at the beginning. I have a friend whose also name is kanya, but different last name. Speaker 2 00:59:52 Both Kamyab's live in my Outlook contacts. I miss I put Kamyab's wrong last name on one of my documents. Just, that's my fault because I was talking to my other friend Kamyab in a different email and I just wasn't thinking about it. So AI ran with that last name and Kamyab got an updated document cheat sheet on where we are on the project with the wrong last name attached. And I even edited that document and totally blanked out on the last name portion. So AI is not going to be 100% either. It's only as good as the documentation you feed it, and even then it makes mistakes. I make mistakes because I'm human. I'm not perfect. Now, if I was perfect, I would not be working at Crimson. So just be aware, you want to double check everything. Speaker 2 01:00:44 So in here, I've got a lot of different things I do in here. Um, I can tell it in CoWork, clean up this folder. And I can give it that project. So here's all my different things that it goes to. And so if I'm in here, which I was in that conversation earlier, but at the top you guys can see uh the coats and folder here. So um, I can go in and say clean up this folder move documents around. Okay, soum you also have different plugins you can do. And I do apologize guys we might go over. Are all of you guys okay if we go over about a few minutes? If you are. Speaker 1 01:01:24 Okay send me a heart reaction. Okay no one sent me okay Jolie sent it, Speaker 2 01:01:37 Call Me Up sent it, Casey, if you do need to drop, I will not feel bad. If you drop. I will continue recording and you guys can catch up with the recording. There are plugins that work with CoWork. So there's a I have finance installed on mine. I have legal because I do a lot with finance, I do budgets for certain clients and I do legal stuff for certain clients and I have customer support and productivity. So we can manage those plugins. I can tell it if i'm in here, and i go to a client that i have budget files for, so i'm going to switch over to that folder. Speaker 2 01:02:09 I can tell it to prepare some different things for that, because I do have all the documentations in my budgets, I mean in my folder. So for this client, I can tell it to go in, Take a look at all the invoices that I have scanned and uploaded from the finance team and prepare me statements on what it looks like for this month, so that I can cross-reference it with the budget tool that I have that comes from them. I can analyze variances. I use this to, um, To actually look for things that was not in the budget that got put to account. That way I can go back to finance and say, hey, what's this? It doesn't belong here. Send it to the right department. And I have done that with one of my clients. So just be aware that that's out there and you guys can use it. You can also schedule work to be done now scheduled tasks only run. While your computer is awake. Speaker 2 01:03:08 I don't have any in CoWork, but I do have some in code. So I'm going to show you that. It's called Routines. So I do, if you guys know about my blog that I run, I do have minions or agents, various AI agents that I do schedule. So I schedule those in code. I have a computer that stays on at home. It's a Crimson computer for all my Crimson items, and it does work for me there. So that way it'll run when and i'm not there. But you can do scheduled tasks under cowork. One of those scheduled tasks sends me an email every day, and so I'm going to pull up my daily briefing email that I get. It goes through my tickets in our ticketing system, my email. It looks at my meetings, so it knows the difference between my meetings and my scheduled work blocks. Um, it looks at my time log yesterday to make sure I'm logging it correctly. Um, my open tickets. Speaker 2 01:04:04 Uh, my to do list and anything attention needed. Now, it's not one hundred percent perfect because some of the things on here um is got the wrong date on it because I got to update the ticket, but I can go in there and fix that. So that's my daily briefing. I also have a schedule called Radar, And Radar goes and finds me the newest news that's out there for AI and sends it to me every morning. Right around seven or six forty five is when it kicks off. It collects it. It takes about five minutes to run, and then I can see all the latest news. That way I can keep you guys up to date on things that are happening. These are just examples of things you can do with scheduled tasks. Now, I do it from code because I build out agents in code, but you can do it also from scheduled tasks. If, you guys want more information on how to do some of this automation or GenTech stuff, I am more than glad to. Speaker 2 01:05:01 To have conversations with you guys, Just let me know if you guys want to know and go deeper in that. C o- work has a bigger bucket where it has a bigger bucket of thinking to it than chat does. So co- work does a lot of the heavier lifting and will do things for you. There are some new things in here I have not checked out yet, but just a heads up. As I learn them and go through them, I do send emails out to clients who want them in a newsletter style for Crimson. And I can send things out to you guys, just let me know. And Kamiya, but you have a question. Speaker 4 01:05:42 Yes, Chrissy, can you hear me? Yes sir. Oh great. Well thank you very much for the training. I thought before it ends uh, Do, you think it would be a good idea since this is the first training session for the people who have attended this, uh training to uh provide some feedback to you so that you may be able to incorporate it in the following two sessions, since the sessions are being recorded, then at least you know, we can uh incorporate those ideas if possible. Would that be? Would that be good? Speaker 2 01:06:20 Yes, absolutely. One of the things I am going to be sending. You guys is a Microsoft Form in the email that I am going to follow up with you guys on. So, you guys can add suggestions exactly what you said, Kamya. You can add suggestions, give me critiques: what I can do better, What I can't and then what other things you'd like to see in the next couple of meetings. And if now, I haven't discussed this with Kamya guys. So I am going to offer this. And. And I'm gonna tell you guys it's gonna be free of charge. So call me up, don't tell my boss I said this, please. But if you guys want, If you guys want a more advanced lesson in not next week, but in two weeks, I'm gonna offer an advanced lesson to a couple of my clients and I'm gonna include you guys in it. It's going to be free of charge. Crimson is not going to be charging anybody for that. But it'll be more advanced work and more advanced items and co-working cloud. Speaker 2 01:07:13 And I can send you guys out a meeting invite, if you would be if you guys would like that. Speaker 4 01:07:22 Yeah, I think that would be a great idea. Yes. Thank you. Speaker 2 01:07:27 You're welcome. Real quickly before we end, a couple of practical CoWork use cases that's different than the standard chat. You can point CoWork to a folder of files and ask it to rename or sort or just grab. What's in there? I do use it to go in and clean up my OneDrive. I did ask it to reorganize my OneDrive, and it will do that. You can give coworker a folder of source materials and ask it to build a formatted report or summary. You can ask it to go in and pull specific pieces of information from multiple files and compile them into a table or list. Speaker 2 01:08:08 You can describe a naming convention and ask CoWork to rename a batch of files to match it consistently. And, then you can give CoWork a document and ask it to draft a cover email or summary based on the content. One of the things I do is I have my CoWork go in, and it will draft responses for me to my emails. And so if you guys look in here, my drafts have gone down to 14. It never sends email. I won't let it send my emails. But here are some of the emails it has in here, and I'll go in. So and I'll take a look at it. So here's my briefing action for myself. Um, and this is everything that it did. I had Copilot go in and do this. Um, And so action items from the past week that came up from all my meetings. So I'm going to send this to myself, and that way it's in my inbox going forward. Um And I also asked it to build an agenda for one of my meetings this week. Speaker 2 01:09:06 And I'll go in and edit this before I send it. So, just a heads up, that's something Copilot can do for you. All right, I want to give you a heads up. It is still evolving. It's still newer than other cool tools. You see Dispatch here? That's something that's in beta. There's scheduled was in beta last week, Live artifacts was in beta last week, now it's out for general use. It is saving real time on document heavy work. So if you want to explore it, start simple. Give it one folder, one task and see what it does. It's very similar workflow is very similar to Claude. You describe what you want in plain language. So when you're prompting something, You describe what you want and you describe the end goal and you describe the audience. Okay. Um. Speaker 2 01:10:04 Regardless of which tool you're using, the single biggest factor in how useful you find it is how you ask. AI is only as good as the direction you give it. So be specific about what you want, tell it who the audience is, give it a format to work with, and sometimes you have to reiterate. You can tell it the output isn't quite right. This is good maybe it's a little formal or, Something I tell it frequently is, I want you to be critical without being critical. So sometimes I have to write a strongly worded message to someone. I want it to be critical but not sound critical. Okay? And something else I give it, I want you to talk with the person, not to the person. And that changes the tone of the email. So that way I don't come off sounding passive aggressive, because I can with AI. Speaker 2 01:11:03 And then give it context to work with. You can say, write a response to this email and copy and paste the entire chain in. Okay? Um, you can tell it, hey, it sounds like they have concerns. Let's acknowledge their concerns and offer some next steps. So the single most important thing to take away is AI is conversational. The first answer you get is the beginning of the process, it's not the final result. And the more comfortable you get in iterating, saying shorter or more formal or focus on the part, the more valuable the tool becomes. And don't please don't be afraid to tell it when something is wrong. I challenge Claude. I also gave Claude a personality. Okay? So we're out of time. We covered a lot of ground today, guys, and I do apologize for going over. So you guys know how codes and uses policy frames it. Speaker 2 01:11:57 Also, when I give you guys the form, any suggestions you have for the AI usage policy, put that in there. We want to hear about it. Okay? You know briefly how to access and use Copilot, if you have it, or how to use Claude for writing and research. Any questions that you guys might have. Speaker 1 01:12:19 On everything we went over? Speaker 1 01:12:28 All right, Speaker 2 01:12:28 One of these days I am going to owe you guys donuts. I am going to have to come to your office and bring donuts, so I can meet you all face- to- face. Um, I am going to send out a follow- up email. It will get to you by end of day because I am in back- to- back meetings until about seven p. m. So, I will get you guys the follow- up, the summary to this meeting, the link to view the meeting, all of that. I will get you the link; it'll all come in the same email. You will have it by the end of the day, because I am going to double check and make sure that Claude doesn't butcher the email. It sometimes does. And then if you get stuck and you have a question, Maybe it's about what's safe to use or you want to share something cool, you figured out, reach out to me, reach out to Crimson, uh the entire help desk. We actually love this. It makes us happy when you guys reach out to us with solutions rather than problems. Because when you hear about problems all day, it's kind of draining. So if. Speaker 2 01:13:23 You guys get excited about something, we want to know about it. Okay. I do want to thank you guys for your time today. I do genuinely enjoy this part of my work. I get to watch you guys go from nervous about AI, some of you are nervous, not all of you, um to realizing how capable of a tool it is. So you are going to figure out things that I haven't thought of yet. That's the fun part about this so share it with me. The recording will come your way. My contact info is at the bottom of every page that I'm going to send you guys. Speaker 2 01:13:53 So please don't hesitate to reach out. CommYap has me on speed dial, so if you guys want to call me, uh call my cell phone instead of my office line. My office line rings to my cell phone; it doesn't always pick up right. Um but use my cell phone and then enjoy the rest of your day. Have fun with this. Thanks guys, Speaker 1 01:14:12 You guys are amazing!
05-29 Consultation: Christy and Michuan - Verizon VoIP Solutions
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- Date & Time: 2026-05-29 13:59:11 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Christy and Michuan ## Overview This consultation focused on clarifying the customer's current service agreement with Verizon and exploring future VoIP (Voice over IP) solutions. The customer, represented by Christy and Michuan, sought clarity on their existing "contract," which is actually a series of device payment agreements for 168 lines. They are also re-evaluating their future unified communications strategy, previously leaning towards a Microsoft Teams-based solution, and are now open to considering Verizon's "One Talk" VoIP system among other vendor options. The primary challenge is a lack of clear, consolidated information about their current cellular plan costs and commitments, which is causing issues for their finance department. Their goal is to gather comprehensive details on current costs and future VoIP options to make an informed decision. ## Background The customer's organization currently has a Verizon cellular plan. The key point of confusion is the nature of their commitment. While they perceived it as a single contract, it is composed of **168 individual device payment agreements**. The finance department has been requesting clear data on these commitments. The customer also has a limited number of lines available for upgrades, with only **five smartphone lines** eligible. In the past, they had discussed moving to a Microsoft Teams calling environment with a previous staff member (Kaushik), but due to internal staffing changes, this plan is no longer definite. They are currently using a system called "Blue Wave" and are now in the process of evaluating various VoIP solutions and vendors, including Verizon's offerings. ## Pain Points The customer is facing a significant lack of clarity and transparency regarding their current Verizon services and associated costs, which is creating difficulties for their finance department. Their current method of viewing the service agreement as a single "contract" is incorrect, as it's actually **168 separate device payment agreements**. This misunderstanding makes it hard for finance to track and budget for these expenses accurately. The information previously sent was not specific enough for the finance team's needs. This lack of a consolidated, easy-to-understand view of their financial commitments to Verizon is a major administrative burden. The finance department has been **repeatedly asking for this data**, indicating an urgent internal need for this information. ## Expectations The customer expects to receive a detailed and clearly articulated breakdown of all their financial commitments to Verizon. This document needs to be specific enough for their finance department to understand, moving beyond the general "contract" view to a detailed list of the **168 device payment agreements**, including their end dates. They need this information delivered promptly, ideally **within the next week**. Success for this expectation will be when their finance team has a clear, actionable understanding of all device-related costs and timelines. The customer expects to receive a comprehensive overview of Verizon's VoIP offerings, specifically the **Verizon One Talk** system and its potential integration with Microsoft Teams. They require detailed information on **features, capabilities, and per-month pricing**. This is part of a broader vendor evaluation process where they will compare Verizon against other options. The goal is to gather enough information to make a strategic decision about their future communications system, as they are not locked into any specific solution at this time. ## Other Information Summary - Due to staffing changes, previous plans made with former employee Kaushik are no longer considered binding. - The company is not exclusively committed to a Microsoft-based solution and is open to exploring various options. - The customer currently has 54 lines due for an upgrade, but only 5 of these are for smartphones; the rest are for tablets. - They are not in immediate need of new devices, having recently found an older device for a line. ## Next Arrangements - Send the detailed list of the 168 device payment agreements to Christy and Michuan for their finance department by next week (around June 2, 2026). - Schedule a follow-up meeting with Christy, Michuan, and Ryan to present the Verizon One Talk VoIP solution, including pricing and Microsoft Teams integration details. - Prepare a proposal for Verizon One Talk outlining features, capabilities, per-month pricing, and benefits compared to a direct Microsoft Teams calling implementation. ## To-Do List - [ ] Send the detailed list of the 168 device payment agreements to Christy and Michuan for their finance department. (Due: Next week, around June 2, 2026) - [ ] Schedule a follow-up meeting to present the Verizon One Talk VoIP solution, including pricing and Teams integration details. (Stakeholders: Christy, Michuan, Ryan) - [ ] Prepare a proposal for the Verizon One Talk solution that highlights its features, costs, and benefits compared to a direct Teams calling implementation. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as The lack of a clear, consolidated, and easily understandable view of their 168 separate device payment agreements, which is causing administrative friction and repeated requests from their finance department.. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. **Create a Master Spreadsheet:** Immediately provide a detailed spreadsheet listing all 168 lines. Columns should include: Line Number, Device Type, Start Date of Payment Agreement, End Date of Payment Agreement, and Remaining Balance. This directly addresses the finance team's need for granular data. > 2. **Develop a Summary Dashboard:** Along with the spreadsheet, create a one-page visual dashboard. This document could use charts to summarize key data, such as a timeline showing how many device payments expire each month and a pie chart breaking down the types of devices under contract. This makes the information more digestible for executive review. > 3. **Propose a Proactive Account Review Schedule:** Suggest a quarterly business review (QBR) where you proactively present this data and discuss upcoming expirations and upgrade opportunities. This positions you as a strategic partner rather than a reactive vendor and prevents this issue from recurring. > 4. **Offer a Buyout/Consolidation Analysis:** Prepare an analysis showing the cost to buy out some or all of the remaining device payments. This could be framed as a way to simplify their contracts and potentially align all lines to a single contract renewal date in the future, simplifying their administrative overhead.
- Date
- May 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hi Gloria. Hi Christy, can you hear me? Speaker 2 00:00:07 Yes, I can hear you. Speaker 1 00:00:09 Okay, perfect. Sorry I go back and forth with uh with Google Meets just wanted to make sure. How are you guys doing? Speaker 3 00:00:17 Good, how are you? Speaker 1 00:00:19 Doing good, it's Friday I'm a little sick, but you know, I don't feel too bad. It's just more of a congestion that I'm getting over, but it's been good so far. Speaker 1 00:00:29 Good. Um, I'm just waiting on Ryan to join. Um, I know you've met him before. He's a solutions architect, So I just want to make sure he's on um so he can go over a few things with you. Um and then I did gather some information as I know, we were kind of going back and forth with the whole contract, So we'll make sure to get that um answered for you on any other questions that you may have. Okay? Let's see, How's everything going? Speaker 3 00:01:02 It's good. Good, good. Perfect. It's good, I'm sorry I was finishing my lunch. Speaker 1 00:01:09 Oh, you're good. I'm actually gonna take a lunch after this. So Gonna ping Ryan here. Hey Ryan, how's it going? Speaker 4 00:01:39 Afternoon. Good afternoon. Speaker 1 00:01:43 So, um, we can go ahead and get started. Jesus may join later, but we can go ahead and get started. I know you had some questions about potentially learning a little bit more about our V o- I- P systems. I know, we had kind of left off on a couple of pending projects when there was a whole shift in staff. Um, so yeah, we kind of want to just hear about where you guys are at, And then I'll have Ryan kind of go over our options with with our whip systems. Speaker 2 00:02:16 Okay. Um, real quickly, I wanted to do a touch base more than just a go over all of our options meeting because we've got a few things outstandingum on my end that I need to get some clarity on. Um, so the contract I know you you brought up just a moment ago, and we definitely want to get everything uh related to the contract. What all cost assigned because we want to just make sure we have it all together. Um, Additionally, I noticed that in this is my understanding, so correct me if I'm wrong. A lot of the lines we have have phones attached to them, but not all phones, but not all lines had phones attached. Is that correct? Speaker 1 00:02:57 The majority of them do, I think. Some don't. So, um, I have a list. You don't technically have a contract on the on on the lines. What ties you with Verizon is the device payment agreement. Um, so there's a hundred and sixty eight lines that have device payments. Some are ending in March of next year, some in November. But I can send that over to you. Speaker 3 00:03:22 And I just, I'm sorry, this is Michonne, and our finance department has really been asking for this data. So is this something that we can for sure get like next week? Speaker 1 00:03:32 I actually have it now, so I can send it over. I have sent over the device paymentum a couple months back, but I can resend it for you that way you have that. Speaker 2 00:03:42 Okay. Thank you. Yeah of course. And I think and to tie into what Michonne said, I did send all of that over to finance but because at, We needed to spell it out a little bit better for how that goes because the way we look at it is it's a contract, but if it's just a device payment plan and there's no contract, We just need to spell that out just to make sure that everybody is on the same page. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:04:04 No worries. We'll make sure that it'sum more specific for you. Okay, Speaker 2 00:04:08 Perfect. Um okay and then if we need to add devices to lines, how do we do that? Speaker 1 00:04:16 So there's just uh. Speaker 1 00:04:20 I I guess if there's an upgrade, ah ah to answer your question, if there's an upgrade available and there's no device on it currently, we would just have to upgrade it. But looking at your account, there's only five smartphone lines. Um, that currently have an open upgrade available. The rest of them do have a device payment on it. Um, The only lines that don't have any device payment on it are um a couple of uh iPad lines. So, there's about There's a total fifty four lines that are due for an upgrade. But out of those fifty four, five of them are smartphones and the rest are tablets. Does that make sense? Speaker 2 00:04:57 That does make sense. Speaker 3 00:04:60 So did that answer your question though about how to get more phones and more lines because we are low? Did that answer that part too? Speaker 2 00:05:09 So we can add phones to the lines that don't have anything on them, And then on top of that, we have some devices that do are eligible for an upgrade that we could add. Lines to it, The rest of them have a device payment that we need to pay off first. Correct, Speaker 1 00:05:23 So like for the five lines, we can upgrade them. We can always get you free devices. We have promotional offers with new lines of services, and then we can always remove any lines that you're not currently using. Um, so whatever you need, I can definitely you know, go back to finance, get you the best best offer. Do you know roughly around how many new devices you're needing? Speaker 2 00:05:43 None at this time. We just had one occur, But we were able to find an older device that we could attach to it. Speaker 1 00:05:50 Okay, perfect. Yeah, just let us know and we can definitely help out with that. Okay, great. Speaker 2 00:05:58 All right. And thenum so that answers the contract because they needed that for the finance team. And thenum now going over to the VoIP and the open projects for you guys, we did make some adjustments. And I'll I'll just be straight honest with you. As far as going to Verizon's plan, it's it's not something we are locked into. With the changing the staffing changes and everything happening, I know that there are some things you worked with Kaushik on on the past, and we may not go in that direction for the future. We may go somewhere else. So, we do want to understand what it is that you offer what that cost is like per month. Speaker 2 00:06:36 Um, just so that we can understand, we also had talked about at one point the team's phones ability. And. So I do want to get an understanding of what that looks like and the pricing that, that would look likeum through you guys because as we go through this, We are going to evaluate different costs and different vendors to see what is our best options and how we can go through that for the future. Speaker 1 00:07:01 Yeah, of course. Ryan, if you want to take that part. Speaker 4 00:07:07 Yep, for sure. Sorry, I've been playing with the Teams functionality. We don't have the app downloaded, so it's a little limited in the browser piece. Let me see if I can share my screen. When a company chooses to go Google Enterprise instead of Microsoft Suite, it seems to throw a wrench in these types of meetings. Speaker 2 00:07:36 No worries. I can completely understand. Speaker 4 00:07:38 Are you seeing my second screen here when every call matters? Yes. Beautiful. Okay, so to kind of look big picture, we have two flavors of phone systems that we can present to the organization. The path we went down, A year ago, uh, Was a request to move to a Teams calling environment because I think that was his preference and maybe an organization preference to centralize on a Microsoft suite of services. I think you all still have Blue. Blue wave. Blue wave. Uh huh. Speaker 4 00:08:35 But to be honest with you, that isn't our typical first place to start. We kind of listen on what the organization goals are and what your end product or endpoint, what you want it to be. And at the times it was a Teams calling system. Where we typically start is our Verizon One Talk VoIP system, which Is a product Verizon owns and operates, maintains, upgrades, And it will have a Teams calling plug - in if that's still a desire of the organization. But it's a standalone product that has multiple endpoints available: desk phones, PC application, desk phone mobile application. Speaker 4 00:09:34 It can even live on a Wi Fi device like a tablet, so the endpoint can vary. 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07-13 Reasoning Note: Christi's Health, Foster Care, and Medication Logistics Management
- Notes
-  ## Core Synopsis The operating reality is stable but heavy: Christi is recovering from a five-day hospital stay for gallstones, returned to full-time work after one week off, and is managing complex foster-care dynamics while coordinating medication continuity and a future TMS option; PillPack refills were successfully placed for a 90-day horizon with a follow-up set for October 5 at 3:40, and the immediate logistics issue is monitors—there are none in stock at Ability First offices, and communications must commit to shipping to the recipient’s home when inventory is available. The proof points are explicit: Christi reports steady mood and sleep gains on trazodone, missed only a few doses post-hospital, received a clean bill of health, and secured refills through Amazon PillPack with calendar confirmation; Christi also instructed Maggie to reply that monitors will be sent to the home address and clarified no office stock exists, avoiding asset-mixing. The stakes are operational reliability and caregiver bandwidth: medication continuity reduces cognitive load during a high-stress caregiving period, calendar fidelity prevents appointment slippage, and disciplined asset communication avoids confusion and reputational risk; we are committing to clarity on monitor logistics and to the scheduled medication plan while keeping TMS as an October consideration. ## Operational Threads and Decisions ### Medication Continuity and Follow-up Scheduling - Status: PillPack refills submitted with a 30-count and two refills structure aligned to Christi’s pill pack cadence; follow-up set for Thursday, October 5 at 3:40 PM. - Rationale: Maintain stable routines under high stress; preserve flexibility for potential TMS in October without immediate time burden. ### Health Recovery Constraints and Risk Trade-off - Condition: Recent hospitalization for gallstones; immunosuppressant status complicates gallbladder decision (keeping vs. removal both carry risk). - Implication: Energy and strength rebuilding in progress; medical decisions will require careful timing and coordination with immunosuppression. ### Foster-Care Load and Household Logistics - Dynamics: Rapid turnover of foster placements; current placement is in extended care, 27 weeks pregnant, seeking transitional housing; needs local OB/GYN in South Bay and baby logistics (crib acquired). - Implication: Elevated household demands and emotional load; scheduling precision and medication automation are leverage points to reduce chaos. ### Asset and Inventory Communication Discipline (Monitors) - Directive: Communications must state that monitors will be shipped to home addresses; there are no monitors in stock at Ability First offices. - Risk: Mixing office inventory claims with personal shipping creates operational confusion and reputational exposure; clarity is non-negotiable. ### Calendar Hygiene and Coordination - Observations: Prior appointment time confusion due to overlapping personal and professional obligations; calendar now confirmed for the upcoming Thursday appointment and the October 5 follow-up. - Implication: Calendar accuracy is a single point of failure under current load; confirmations are essential to avoid misses. ## Action Items **@Maggie** - [ ] Reply to the recipient confirming monitors will be shipped to her home address and explicitly that there are currently no monitors in stock at Ability First offices - [TBD] **@Christi** - [ ] Confirm October 5, 3:40 PM follow-up remains on the calendar and set a 24-hour reminder - [TBD] - [ ] Coordinate with PillPack to ensure monthly pill packs reflect the 30-count with two refills structure across all current medications - [TBD] - [ ] Select and schedule an OB/GYN for the foster youth in the South Bay and secure the first prenatal appointment - [TBD] **@Speaker 3 (Clinician)** - [ ] Ensure all current medications are sent to PillPack with 30-day supply and two refills; verify transmission completion - [Completed per alert; reconfirm at next check-in] - [TBD] - [ ] Keep TMS available as an October option and initiate discussion if Christi signals readiness - [Week of Oct 5]
- Date
- Jul 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:02:46 Uh, we've already signed it. Speaker 2 00:06:42 Maggie, You have been on all the emails. Would, you mind replying back to her and letting her know that we will send it to her home address, but there are currently no monitors in stock. Speaker 1 00:07:11 And. Speaker 2 00:10:45 No, don't do that. We only she was asking about monitors in the Ability First offices. We don't want to mix. We do not have any monitors in stock at Ability First. Speaker 2 00:11:15 All, you need to tell her is that we will send the monitors to her home address, but we don't currently have monitors in stock at the offices. Speaker 1 00:12:27 So. Speaker 1 00:14:01 Hi. Holy shit. I. Speaker 2 00:14:28 Signed off on this one, didn't I? Cause I, Okay. Got it. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:55 Sweet, I like that. Damn. Speaker 1 00:15:02 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:18:04 Hello. It's. Speaker 2 00:18:15 Dominic. Yes, yes, and then I yes she is going to be at our appointment tomorrow. Thursday, okay, two o'clock on Thursday. Ah, let me make sure that that's in my calendar because. I had the wrong date and time. Okay. Okay, it's in there. Thank you. All right, bye. Speaker 1 00:20:12 That was perfect. Hi Christi, Speaker 3 00:20:39 How's it going? Hi, it's good. How are you? Doing fine. How have you been? Speaker 2 00:20:44 I'm good. Let me get you over on my other monitor. Speaker 3 00:20:47 Yeah, for sure, go ahead. Speaker 2 00:20:53 Okay, sorry, it's been a crazy day. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:20:57 And then I got my appointment time, mixed up with my daughter's appointment time. And so I logged in early and didn't even realize it. Speaker 3 00:21:04 Oh gotcha Sorry about that Well okay Anything new How's things been going with you guys Move Ah. Speaker 2 00:21:12 That's a loaded question. Um, I was in the hospital. Oh no. Um, went in on the twenty second emergency. Uh, They called I. Don't remember much of it. Uh. They called an ambulance and came and got me because I had gallstones, but I couldn't figure out what was going on. And I was just in a lot of pain. And yeah, the hospital kept me five days um and then uh, I got out. I had one week off from work. I did initial one week off from work, and then I went back to work last week full time. Um, in addition to that, we have a new foster kid that came to us Thursday, But we had another foster kid that had been with us and got triggered from all of that the night that it happened, and then she left on Wednesday Thursday. And like it was literally six hours time between one kid to the next. Speaker 3 00:22:10 So. Yeah, how are you now? Speaker 2 00:22:13 Um, I'm tired. Uh, But I got a clean bill of health on Friday from my follow- up visit to my doctor. Um, so everything is looking good. I just got to regain my energy levels and my strength. That's it. Speaker 3 00:22:29 Good So keeping the gallbladder for now? Speaker 2 00:22:33 It's a it's a catch twenty-two situation, Because I am on immunosuppressants, keeping it could endanger me. Taking it out could also be a risk factor because I am on immunosuppressants. Yeah, yeah, so we're very carefully thinking through all of the options. Speaker 3 00:22:55 Yeah, gotcha. Okay, well how are you feeling through all that? That's huge stress huge amounts of stress How are you feeling? Speaker 2 00:23:02 Um honestly I am just taking it in stride like, Uh, They did keep me on all my meds with the exception of the trazodone. While I was at the hospital. So, um, so that was good. Everything uh I didn't have any downtime during that. So I didn't feel any anxiety or anything having to go cold turkey. Um coming back I might have missed one or two doses on the days I slept in just because forgot, but other than that, it's been really like. Speaker 2 00:23:34 Status quo, take it as it comes. So not rollercoastering on emotions or anything like that. Speaker 3 00:23:40 That's good because that's a lot of stress actually. So I'm glad that you're able to kind of like be steady through it because that's a lot. Yeah. How's your daughter? Speaker 2 00:23:50 Uh, she is excited for college, Upset that her internship at a therapy office, uh had to end today um because she didn't have a good boss. I told her to quit. So, but overall she's doing good. In fact, her appointment was at three thirty. And so I know she was having that and she was because she's got to get a renewal for her, her meds and I got to remember to go pick that up. But yeah, so she's doing good. She leaves for college in four weeks. Speaker 3 00:24:31 That's exciting and scary, but you know, well, it's exciting, right? Yes. A lot. Speaker 2 00:24:37 Yeah. And, our new foster kid, she uh, she's going to be with us for about a year, maybe a little longer. She is twenty seven weeks pregnant, and so she wants to go into transitional housing. We've tried to convince her that staying with a family would be better because she'd have the support after the baby comes, and transitional housing doesn't offer that support. Speaker 3 00:25:02 So That's a lot to think about. And how is she? She's. Speaker 2 00:25:05 Doing good. I mean, she's she's on the she's in the extended foster care, so she's over the age of eighteen. Um, for the most part, she's doing really good. Um, Her boyfriend slash baby daddy um was in the military and just got discharged, and he's leaving tomorrow to go back to the east coast So. There is a little emotion there. Yeah, that's tough. Yeah, so we've gotten her a crib. We're starting to get everything put together. The baby is healthy, But we got to find her an OBGYN here on the east, uh, in not east coast in the south bay. Yeah, I gotcha because she's from Pomona. So um so we gotta get her all the doctors and stuff set up. Speaker 3 00:25:54 Okay well good that's a lot. So, how do you feel about things like medications? All that you feel like we're in a good spot for now. Speaker 2 00:26:02 Definitely in a good spot. Um, yeah, I would say the trazodone is helping with the sleep. Still not there; like I am still i am getting six hours, so that's good for me. But trazodone seems to be helping;. The effects are I totally forget that I take it. I take it; I just totally forget that I take it. Um, because I just seem to be at an even state, not as unfocused as I was. Speaker 3 00:26:33 That's awesome. Okay. Yeah, and TMS is always there, but you've got a really full plate right now. But it's there if you feel like you need it. It's always an option. So thank you. Okay. Well, I'll refill for now then um so I think we did 60 days last time, did that work? Or did you want to do 90? Um it's up to you. What are you thinking? Speaker 2 00:26:52 Could, we do 90 just given everything that's going on. Speaker 3 00:26:56 Yeah, you're pretty busy. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like early October. Yes, yeah. So maybe like the week of October 5th. Sometime, any preference. Speaker 2 00:27:06 That would be good. Let me hang on. Let me pull up my calendar October 5th actually um. Speaker 2 00:27:21 Anytime in the afternoon is wide open. I don't, I'm not traveling, nothing's going on. So yeah. Speaker 3 00:27:26 Okay. Do you like the same time at 3:40? Yes. All right, that one is yours. And then since we're doing 90, Do you want all 90 at once through Amazon? Or do you like doing the 30 with two refills? I don't know what they were-. Speaker 2 00:27:40 Thirty with two week refills, because they do- I do it in the pill pack. So all my meds are bundled for eight a m and I take. Speaker 3 00:27:47 Them every month. Yeah, okay, perfect. So I will do that then. All right, so I've got you on the schedule for October 5 th, 3:40. And then I'm going to send this over with two refills this time for all of them over to PillPack. Okay. Don't worry. Perfect Well, yeah, Let me know if you need anything, though, in the meantime, if anything changes, or if you decide you want to talk about TMS again, You can always shoot Brittany a message and let me know Yeah, Speaker 2 00:28:12 I think I'll be more open to that in October. Speaker 3 00:28:15 It's. Okay, You got a lot on your plate Yeah. It's a commitment. Like that's kind of the that's the drawback. I feel like it works great. People really like it, but I mean, it's time. It's a commitment. So yes, Okay Yeah got you all set up. It looks like everything went through with PillPack so far. And then um I've got you on the schedule But yeah And I think I. Speaker 2 00:28:36 Just got the alert that they went through. Speaker 3 00:28:39 Look at there they're. So quick actually It's really nice. Speaker 2 00:28:44 All right Thank you. So much. I'll talk to you later. Bye.
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04-21 Meeting: Firewall Deployment, RMM/MFA Rollout, Cloud Migrations, and Client Project Updates
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-21 09:57:00 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Olivia] [Speaker 5] [Pete] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: CT Homes/City Homes Firewall Delivery and Installation Planning - Olivia will confirm the original firewall ETA (May) and proceed with the original order due to cost and timing. - Installation/config: Gabby or Kevin to assist with configuration; Ryan to install onsite; John may join. - Pete emphasized scheduling an off-hours/low-impact cutover and allocating ample time for potential issues. - Conclusion: Proceed with the original order; prioritize rapid configuration/installation upon arrival and coordinate off-hours cutover. - Topic Title: ITGlue to Hudu Migration Status - Olivia: Second company assignments issued; completion expected next week. - Pete highlighted the six-week window to June; Olivia acknowledged the timeline. - Conclusion: On track for June; continue assignments. - Topic Title: Signal Partners Engagement and Invoicing Concerns - Olivia will remove devices and sync with April; target completion this week. - Tim from Signal Partners contacted Speaker 2; Olivia noted potential payment issues. - Speaker 2 requested outreach and an apology to Tim. - Conclusion: Olivia to coordinate with Christian and contact Tim; clarify payment standing. - Topic Title: AutoElevate Rollout Progress - 523 devices enrolled; “A” companies completed. - Cottonwood targeted next; requires hands-on device work; Anton engaged. - Conclusion: Continue phased rollout; prepare for Cottonwood device touch. - Topic Title: CT Comps Equipment Decision (General Guidance) - Pete advised stopping inquiries to CT about alternate equipment; stick with the original order due to timing and cost. - Conclusion: Use the original equipment plan. - Topic Title: Bandwidth Upgrade Risk Management for Client Cutover - Pete cautioned against underestimating upgrade time (e.g., moving to multi-gig). - Plan with the client for off-hours and allow buffer. - Conclusion: Schedule off-hours and allocate sufficient time. - Topic Title: Carney Properties and Client Shifts to Cloud (Copilot Influence) - Speaker 2: Carney is evaluating cloud; many Copilot clients are considering cloud shifts. - Work may be delayed pending client decisions. - Conclusion: Monitor client direction; timelines may slip. - Topic Title: Sharp & Barbara RMM Deployment and Endpoint Security Changes - 288 machines in RMM; ~100 failed via LogMeIn push; Robert and Gaston are working to finish. - Using Intertam for mobile device management under evaluation. - Access pursuits: Verizon, Brivo, High Tech scheduled; ADT fully transitioned (doors, cameras) with access for Robert and Yason. - Significant cost savings achieved; uninstalling Trellix via RMM; CrowdStrike next. - Conclusion: Continue RMM completion and security stack transition; pursue MDM with Intertam. - Topic Title: Microsoft Migration and Box/Google Content Strategy - Microsoft migration approved; target start mid–Q3 to end–Q3; quote to be prepared. - Box content mostly stale; move remaining content into Google Docs to streamline migration. - DLP is being set up in Microsoft; licenses to be switched accordingly. - Conclusion: Prepare quote; sequence content moves; proceed with DLP and licensing changes. - Topic Title: RMM Rollout and MFA Timelines - RMM target: 99% by April 30. - MFA for laptop users set for May 15. - Conclusion: Adhere to stated dates. - Topic Title: SHARP Computer and Docking Station Upgrades - Rolling out upgrades tied to grant; BAFMA has 12 computers left; ~40 laptops for programs. - Docking stations need upgrades; Dr. Barbara authorizing due to previous omission. - Conclusion: Continue device and dock rollouts per inventory and approvals. - Topic Title: DTLA Alliance Tabletop Exercise and Cloud Team Setup - Tabletop exercise next week; Speaker 2 to handle cloud team setup after. - Minimal involvement needed from Jason’s team for setup. - Conclusion: Proceed with tabletop; Speaker 2 to configure cloud team. - Topic Title: Lion Real Estate Group and Nishida (NWA) Onboarding Details - Lion: 15 completed, 5 shipped, 1 on hold pending manager hire. - Nishida/NWA: 11/14 Microsoft accounts configured; onsite today; Hunters to be pushed; dark web addition planned; KB4 training date pending; Avanan to be pushed after Gmail-to-Microsoft migration. - Pete requested clarity on client naming, onboarding fee billing, and billing start/proration. - Conclusion: Proceed with technical tasks; follow up with Seg on fees and billing schedule. - Topic Title: Maverick Gaming Security Assessment Ownership - Seg leading; checklist sent. - Seg absent due to London train strike; scheduling noted. - Conclusion: Await Seg updates; team acknowledged. - Topic Title: Oticon/Autocon and John Tracy Clinic Networking Projects - Project 2662 (Autocon Surge MR36 AP): ETA updated to April 28; configure on arrival; placement on Apr 30 or after. - Project 2671 (John Tracy Clinic): APs arrived; tentative onsite Friday at 11 AM; config ready. - Project 2674 (Autocon: Reposition APs): Kevin and Vlad scheduled; updates pending. - Project 2683 (Autocon Serge Belgrade Camera PoE Switch): Cisco Catalyst 9300L ordered via Ingram; no ETA; question why Catalyst vs Meraki MS130; may be client standard. - Pete requested clarification on who set the standard and contingency if long lead times. - Conclusion: Track ETAs closely; confirm standards/decision authority; plan alternatives if backordered. - Topic Title: Barker Pacific Group (The Quad) Unifi Device Management Access - Gabby: No response from Methodology IT; contacted property manager Kara for contacts. - Prior MSPs unresponsive; may need to wipe/restart or replace if access is not obtained. - Conclusion: Escalate plan with Jason if access fails; consider reset/replacement path. - Topic Title: Project Angel Food Desktop Migration and Hardware Refreshes - Onsite training scheduled; waiting on Stephen for 3 more devices with server Mike; urgency communicated. - Two hardware refresh projects: tracker updated with Caleb; only 2 laptops and 2 desktops at Crimson HQ; remainder at top (inventory noted). - Conclusion: Follow up with Stephen and plan remaining device work. - Topic Title: Intraten Connectivity Options - Azure VPN tested and will not work; considering second option for UBT; awaiting Jason’s response. - Conclusion: Pending decision on alternate solution. - Topic Title: Lancer Skincare Azure Migration and Unpaid Invoice - Noncompliant devices persist; final invoice sent March 11 remains unpaid. - Julia to follow up with accounting and Jennifer (client contact). - Conclusion: Follow up on payment and device compliance. - Topic Title: Wine Bar Teams/SharePoint Cleanup Discovery - Jason leading discovery with department heads; regroup with Charles after discovery. - Conclusion: Proceed with discovery; plan internal review. - Topic Title: Wayfinder File Structure Standardization and Timeline - Waiting on final outputs from Michael; Charles standardizing a department/program-based structure; to propose to Wayfinder and prepare demo materials. - Target completion best case July. - Pete requested hours tracked and a ballpark effort to date. - Conclusion: Continue structure design; ensure time tracking; prepare executive demo. - Topic Title: AXCRP/ACRF Upgrade Scheduling - Meeting Thursday with contacts to discuss migration downtime and confirm date/time. - Conclusion: Await scheduling outcome to set completion date. - Topic Title: Clappage Project Closure and Documentation - Project completed and 100% billed; collection status unclear. - Olivia asked if changes were documented in Hudu; Julia to verify and update. - Conclusion: Confirm Hudu documentation; check collections. - Topic Title: Alire mDNS Disablement (Time and Materials) - Waiting for 3 devices to be turned on or instructions; invoice paid; additional work to be billed as needed. - Conclusion: Proceed when devices are available; bill additional time if required. - Topic Title: CBRE Third-Floor Network Equipment Small Project Scope - New project approved: 4 hours (2 techs x 2 hours). Wording implies possible overrun; unclear on billing for extra time and packaging/boxing responsibility. - Unclear PM involvement vs tech-managed in ConnectWise. - Pete clarified the quote was client-approved; need to ensure scope/billing clarity. - Conclusion: Clarify overrun billing terms, materials responsibility, and management approach before execution. - Topic Title: AI Agent for ConnectWise Project Status and C-BOS Integration - Tony asked questions; Julia emailed Speaker 2 and cc’d Zor for approval. - Speaker 2 to hand over to ONSR to build against C-BOS; will send code to ONSR. - Conclusion: Proceed with ONSR building integration pending approval. - Topic Title: Ability First Project Status Change and Device Staging - Speaker 2 requested moving Ability First from On Hold to Active and starting device prep in office; Gabby’s team to set up before shipping to camp. - Timeline: next couple of weeks. - Conclusion: Reactivate project; begin device staging. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] CT Homes/City Homes Firewall: Olivia to verify May ETA and proceed with the original order. - [ ] CT Homes/City Homes Firewall: Schedule configuration (Gabby or Kevin) and onsite installation (Ryan, with John); coordinate off-hours cutover. - [ ] Signal Partners: Olivia to contact Christian and Tim; clarify payment status; apologize for delayed response. - [ ] AutoElevate: Continue rollout; plan hands-on work for Cottonwood devices with Anton. - [ ] RMM/MFA: Complete RMM rollout to 99% by April 30; enable MFA for laptop users by May 15. - [ ] SHARP Upgrades: Proceed with laptop and docking station upgrades per inventory and approvals. - [ ] DTLA Alliance: Conduct tabletop exercise next week; set up the cloud team thereafter. - [ ] Nishida/NWA Technicals: Finalize Hunters deployment; add to dark web monitoring; obtain KB4 training date; push Avanan after Gmail-to-Microsoft migration. - [ ] Nishida/NWA Billing: Confirm onboarding fee status and billing start/proration with Seg. - [ ] Autocon Belgrade Switch: Track Ingram ETA for Cisco Catalyst 9300L; confirm who set the standard and whether alternatives are acceptable; propose options if long lead time. - [ ] BPG/Quad Unifi Access: Gabby/Jason to decide approach if Methodology IT remains unresponsive (reset/replace). - [ ] Project Angel Food: Follow up with Stephen to complete remaining 3 devices; proceed with onsite trainings. - [ ] Intraten: Decide on second connectivity option (UBT) after Jason’s review. - [ ] Lancer Skincare: Julia to follow up with accounting and Jennifer on the unpaid invoice; address noncompliant devices. - [ ] Wayfinder: Continue structure design; ensure all time is logged; provide Pete a hours-to-date estimate; prepare executive demo materials. - [ ] AXCRP/ACRF Upgrade: Confirm migration downtime and schedule after Thursday meeting. - [ ] Clappage: Verify Hudu documentation and collections status. - [ ] Alire mDNS: Wait for remaining devices; bill additional time if needed. - [ ] CBRE Third Floor Network: Clarify billing for overruns, packaging responsibility, and management approach before work. - [ ] AI Agent/C-BOS: Proceed with ONSR build upon Zor’s approval; send code to ONSR. - [ ] Ability First: Move project to Active; Gabby’s team to stage devices for shipment to camp over the next couple of weeks. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Nishida/NWA commercial details: Onboarding fee status and exact billing start/proration are unclear; confirm with Seg and update invoicing. > 2. Autocon Belgrade switch standard: Who mandated the Cisco 9300L and whether Meraki MS options are acceptable is unclear; confirm the client’s network standard and prepare alternatives in case of long lead times. > 3. BPG/Quad Unifi access: No defined fallback if prior MSPs remain unresponsive; define a timeline and decision point for wipe/reset or replacement. > 4. CBRE third-floor scope: Quote ambiguity on overrun billing and materials responsibilities could cause disputes; clarify terms with the client before scheduling. > 5. Lancer Skincare unpaid invoice: Final invoice from March 11 remains unpaid; align accounting and client contact to resolve and prevent project closure delays.
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:04 Hi Maggie. Hi Junior. Hi Christy. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:15 Ignore the sounds behind me, I'm going to turn off my camera, um because I uh my brain is not functioning, I am uh at home today so. Speaker 3 00:00:38 I'm actually also not going to have my camera on because I'm in a car. So, um, there may be also some noises. Oh my gosh. Speaker 1 00:00:53 Okay? Yeah, I'm fine. Speaker 1 00:01:10 They're doing yard work next to my window. Speaker 2 00:01:16 And it freaked out the cat, and the cat jumped on my shoulder with her claws, and that hurt. And then she fell. And then my iPad and my laptop fell. Speaker 2 00:01:30 So Very lovely morning. I am working on the D T L A tabletop exercise for next week. Speaker 1 00:01:40 Hi Olivia, hi Miguel. Hi guys, good morning. No, no, no. Sorry, I'm I am not it is morning. Just ignore me. It is a morning indeed. Speaker 4 00:02:04 I don't even have updates for most of my projects. Speaker 4 00:02:08 Days. I. Speaker 2 00:02:12 Am working from home today. Oh, I love that for you. I actually hang on Alexa, turn off the lamp. I woke up with a pretty gnarly migraine, so I am trying my hardest to kill it, But I had it yesterday as well. And so Michelle was like told me yesterday as I was leaving, she's like if it's still there work from home tomorrow. So. I am taking. Speaker 1 00:02:40 Advantage of working from home. Maggie, Speaker 4 00:02:59 Uh, when you get a chance, can you do me a favor? Could you check and just make sure that this uh CT Holmes firewall is or the. Original CT Holmes firewall is still set to arrive in May. Yeah, okay. Thank you. I just want to make sure that it's not delayed. Speaker 3 00:03:32 It's Ten o'clock and Pete is here. So, Mikey, can you start? Speaker 5 00:03:37 Okay. Good morning. Welcome to I'm sorry. Our week 17 of the QOP meeting. So I'm sharing the screen. Can you see my screen? Yep. Yep. All right, so let's start with Olivia. Speaker 4 00:04:02 Um, okay. So my CT comps firewall I got no response from Joe and Paul. At this point, we only have two weeks until the device is set to arrive so I'm assuming that they're going to want to wait on that I'll send a um I'll check in today. Um our uh ITG to Hudu migration, um we're still in progress. Um everyone has been assigned the second. Speaker 4 00:04:32 U m company uh that they have to complete, which should be done by next week that second company is so making progress slowly, but surely. Speaker 6 00:04:48 Are we on track to hit June? Do you think Olivia we're down to? Speaker 4 00:04:53 We sure are. Speaker 6 00:04:55 We're down to a month and two weeks? Speaker 4 00:04:58 Okay, well, don't stress me out. Speaker 6 00:05:04 I'm Just laying it out there. You got six weeks. Speaker 4 00:05:07 Yeah, I'm going to start working on Crimson, so that's going to be fun. Okay. Signal partners, I'm hoping to complete this by this week. I'm going to remove the devices this week and then yeah, I'm just going to sync up with April today at some point. Speaker 2 00:05:31 Has anyone talked to Sorry, I cut my hand just a moment ago. Um, has anyone talked to Tim from Signal Partners? He reached out to me, and then it got lost in a flurry of sharp issues uh that came across my inbox. But, he's I think he's either looking for somewhere to go or what he can do. And I didn't respond back to him because I was out. Oh, Speaker 4 00:05:52 I thought well cause Christian had sent a message. Let me check okay uh. Speaker 2 00:06:01 Yeah,'cause I think I mean to ghost him. I just, it, I was out and then it got lost in a flurry of alerts. And I just remembered like two seconds when you said it. Speaker 4 00:06:13 Yeah yeah. Um, I'll check with Christian and I'll give him a call, but I think he was behind on payments. So, not too sure there but let me figure it out. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:06:29 And please apologize to him. I like Tim. He's he's really nice. I just, yeah, it was it was a couple weeks. No worries. Speaker 4 00:06:39 And then my auto elevate implementation, we have five hundred and twenty three devices enrolled, So we're done with our companies that start with an A So. We're clearly making progress there, and then we're going to try to push up Cottonwood. I just spoke to Anton about it on Friday so, Um, we're going to try to do cottonwood uh next. But that requires us touching the devices, so it's going to take a minute. So yeah, Speaker 5 00:07:14 That's my updates. Thank you, Olivia. Now let's go to Christy Spradlin. So for. Speaker 6 00:07:24 Olivia by the way Olivia I wouldn't even ask CT about that, Equipment anymore, I would just let's just go with the original order and forget about the. Speaker 4 00:07:33 That's kind of what I'm thinking, Pete, because it's so expensive. Speaker 6 00:07:37 Two weeks two weeks is just I mean they've waited this long. Let's, just let's just go with the original order. And do we already have teed up the folks that are going to do the install? The config is that Gabby, Are you doing that? Or is that uh, does Ryan have to do anything with that? Or what are we shipped them directly to San Diego City Homes? Yeah. Speaker 4 00:07:57 So we'll have somebody can help configure it. Gabby, I'll ask either you or Kevin. I think Kevin was helping withum with Ryan last time, and then we'll have Ryan install it. Speaker 6 00:08:10 Yeah, let's let's tell Ryan like make it a top priority as soon as it gets there. Let's get scheduled to get it configured and installed with them like as quickly as possible. Speaker 4 00:08:22 And yeah, I think John's gonna, Be there as well. I think Ryan and John are planning on going. Oh, good. Yeah, Speaker 6 00:08:32 And we're going to cut over their full bandwidth like, but But tell them tell them to work with, tell them to work with the customer to do this, if possible off hours or least impactful hours. Because I don't want us to underestimate what could happen, because if they have. I don't know what they have today, But if they have like you know a hundred megabits or whatever they're they're using now, And we're gonna cut them over to like five gig or whatever this thing's gonna be. And it takes three hours to do it. I don't want them down for two hours and screaming about it. So, let's you know if we have to do it in the evening or we have to do it, You know, let's not say, oh, it's gonna take thirty minutes, and it takes us four hours, and we run into issues and then they're screaming about it. So let's let's plan for plenty of time to. Speaker 6 00:09:21 Make this make this happen. Speaker 1 00:09:24 For sure, on it. Speaker 6 00:09:26 Thank you. Speaker 2 00:09:32 All right, so for Carney Properties, I am still having conversations with Jason Yu. They're still trying to evaluate everything, So they may go to cloud and Just a heads up:. Most of the clients that I've been working with on Copilot are now thinking about making a switch to cloud. So. We're in a good spot with them, but honestly, we haven't done much. So just a heads up on that. That might keep getting pushed. Sharp and Barbara, They are at the two hundred and eighty - eight machines in RMM over the next couple weeks. Robert and Gaston are going to try to finish out those machines. We had about one hundred fail within the system. We don't know why, but so when we pushed it out through LogMeIn, it failed. So we've still got a few more that we got to do. Speaker 2 00:10:18 We are. I had a conversation with Intertam today, uh, in regards to Sharp and Ability First. We're going to look at exploring using Intertam to manage the mobile devices. Um, and so they sent me over that information. I am getting access to Verizon, um, Brivo and High Tech is on the calendar for this afternoon to try to get access to their systems. So that we can lock down FMIS better. Um, and ADT is fully on my uh, Not in my romantic, it's fully migrated over to me. So, We have full access to all the systems with ADT, not just the door locks, but cameras as well. So, we are able to manage those and Robert and Yason have access to that. We have killed estimated a couple hundred dollars, A couple hundred thousand dollars uh in in stuff that we've freed up in the last couple of weeks alone. Right now we've got Trellicks going through the uninstall um and. Speaker 2 00:11:16 Sean is helping us get the uninstalls through our MMS so that we can uninstall Triolix from all machines. Next up will be CrowdStrike, and they will push that through, and then at the same time we'll get on all machines. Um, and there's so much more, but I am not gonna bore you guys; those are the heavier issues. Uh, Microsoft migration has been greenlit. I did talk to Onsor about that, and we are going to spin up a quote for that. Jason, I'm gonna bring your team in for the migration portion of it. Um So that we can get everything done, however, It's not going to take place until mid Q three to end Q three is when it's going to start. First, I'm going to migrate everybody off of Box because there's not that much data on it. About eighty percent of the documents that are on Box were just Lorenzo's with no one having access to them, and most of them were stale and outdated. So the rest of us being moved into Google Docs so that when we start the migration portion, uh it's gonna make uh Jason your team's life much much easier. Speaker 2 00:12:15 And I've already started setting up DLP for you guys in Microsoft only because they're actively using Microsoft already. And so I am going to be switching all those licenses over so that we can lock things down. So just to answer for you, Speaker 6 00:12:30 Chris, what is our target for having RMM completely rolled out? Because I am curious as to when we think we're going to get a real full inventory of all of how many machines we really have there. Speaker 2 00:12:42 So I made a commitment to Onsor that we are going to have ninety nine percent of it by uh April thirty first, April thirtieth. There's no thirty first. Um and that is our attempt. And then we're also pushing MFA. So MFA is going to for laptop users will be uh May fifteenth. Speaker 6 00:13:00 Okay, All right, Speaker 2 00:13:02 Thank you You're. Welcome on the SHARP computer upgradesum because they are related to a grant that SHARP had gotten. Um, we are still rolling those out slowly. Um, BAFMA has the twelve computers left. I actually thirty was the incorrect number. T here is more like forty uh laptops left for programs. So, we are going to we have the full inventory done um and then I am. We're gonna start with that. And then we'll look into the mobile upgrades after uh We are having to upgrade docking stations right now. So uh. Speaker 2 00:13:37 Doctor Barbara is actually signing off on all the docking station upgrades, because when he bought the laptops, he did not buy docking stations. That's a lovely little thing. And we keep finding more ghosts, by the way. DTLA Alliance cloud team setup that just got put on my radar yesterday, Maggie? Speaker 5 00:14:00 Yes, yes, yes. Yesterday. Speaker 2 00:14:03 Right now I am working on, Their tabletop exercise, which is next week. Um, and then I will start working on the cloud team setup with them. Uh, Jason, I am not including your team in on this one, just because it's going to take me an hour to do talks. So I'll go ahead and just do it. I will access if I'm on your team get that done, uh and everything will get uh and I'll try not to use your team for that uh, because I'm going to need them for earlier. Speaker 1 00:14:38 Was that a chuckle from Gabby? She. Speaker 2 00:14:43 Hasn't seen she hasn't seen this spreadsheet yet that they sent me. Speaker 7 00:14:48 Ooh, can't wait, Christy. Speaker 1 00:14:51 I will help you with, i will help you with all the others as well. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. Speaker 5 00:15:04 Okay, let's proceed. The Segread project for the Lion Real Estate Group. According to Seg, Fifteen com fifteen completed five shift one to be hold, once manager has been hired. And then for Nishida Go Live date eleven out of fourteen users, Microsoft accounts were configured already. We had internal sync up yesterday with the team. Monty and Vana will be onsite today, Patrick, Gabby and Kevin will be on standby. Hunters will be pushed today and client will be added in dark web. Still waiting for the preferred date for the K B four training and simulations. Avanam will be pushed through already through after their personnel Gmail to Microsoft migration. Speaker 5 00:16:03 Next for the fire ranch, Speaker 6 00:16:06 And just to complete that project. Yeah, I sent a note to SED just a little bit ago also asking about, And I don't know Julia, if you know this, or if anybody else on the call knows this for Nashida, but actually I've got a few questions. How do we refer to this client? Is it Nashida? Is it Wang? Do, we do we have like a name that we're referencing because I don't really know what we're calling them. NWA. Speaker 3 00:16:33 Okay. Yeah, I've been saying NWA. I don't think it's great, but that's what I've been saying. Speaker 6 00:16:39 That's a weird way to say it. Okay, okay. I like Mashita better, but okay if that's what we want to call it, that's fine. Um Do we know if they had an onboarding fee or did we waive that? Or do we no? Do we have any idea what their contract had? Speaker 6 00:16:58 If we don't, hopefully we'll find it because I sent her a note asking, was there an onboarding fee and if so, did we bill it or did we waive it? And if we billed it, did they pay for it? If we didn't bill it, I sure hope. We bill it now and then secondly. I know we're going live. I guess today is technically the live date or the. Is today really the day that they technically are starting to be billed, or is it like tomorrow or something? I don't really know if there's like an overlap period where we're giving them like any kind of a. And if these are questions for Seg, I was going to ask Seg today, but I didn't know she wasn't going to be on the call. So um, I can connect with her later. But um, I don't know if we're giving them like one bill in May that covers the prorated dates in April into May or whatever. But. Speaker 6 00:17:50 If nobody knows these questions, I'll ask. So let's go ahead to the next one. Speaker 5 00:17:56 Okay, for the last one, The Maverick Gaming checklist has been sent to the team for checking. And then for Anton's project. Speaker 6 00:18:13 Actually, who's driving the Maverick Gaming security assessment? Speaker 6 00:18:22 Is that Seg doing that? Seg's doing that. When I saw the note go out yesterday, so she's not on this. She's not on this call. Okay, um, all right. I saw an I saw a list go out from her yesterday. Uh, is she not on here because of the Nishida onboarding? Speaker 5 00:18:47 Uh no, she they I think, There was a train strike, and her train was moved from two p m to six p m London time. Speaker 6 00:18:58 There was a what I'm sorry. Speaker 5 00:19:01 Um, train strike in London. Speaker 6 00:19:06 Oh okay, oh I see okay. Okay. Speaker 5 00:19:14 Pay for migration to hunters curated and cottonwood will be kept, In software and Lumify, that's per Anton. Next project, Miguel. Speaker 8 00:19:30 Good morning everyone. So for project two six six two Oticon Surge MR thirty six access point, E P A has been updated to April twenty eight again, and then uh, check with Kevin on this one. So the AP will be configured upon arrival, and we'll schedule the placement on the thirtieth or the day after. Arrival of the equipment. Then uh project two, six, seven one. Uh this is for John Tracy Clinic. So the APSV uh has arrived yesterday, and uh I checked with Vlad on this one. So Gabby just in case you don't know yet, but I had a call with Vlad this morning, and we're checking on a possible schedule, probably on Friday eleven am, but I'm gonna confirm with him later if it is final or not. Speaker 8 00:20:17 And I will reply on the thread if it's confirmed. Awesome. Okay, and then oh by the way, uh is it already uh configured? Uh yes. All right. That's ready to go. Okay, And then next, we have project two, six, seven, four, this for autocon series repositioning of two existing access points for the parent's office. So uh, check with this one last week and uh today. Uh, the Kevin and Vlad are scheduled over there. Uh, Again, we will have a call later with Vlad to check updates regarding their work. Then, lastly, I have project two, six eight, three Oticon surge. Uh this is a new project. The POE security camera switch for Belgrade. So uh, the the switch has been placed already for order, and there is no ETA as of now. Speaker 8 00:21:16 And that's for. Speaker 6 00:21:18 Say that again, Miguel. The the switch what? Speaker 8 00:21:22 Oh yeah, uh this is for the P O E security camera switch, But uh upon checking the actual switch, it looks like a core switch Cisco C nine, three hundred series. So uh yeah, that's a rather expensive switch. And the order has been placed already, and we don't have the estimated time of arrival yet. Speaker 6 00:21:47 So they need a core switch for cameras. Speaker 8 00:21:51 Yeah, I read the quote there. It says there that's a very, very uh, Speaker 6 00:21:57 Is this a is this a core switch just because it needs a lot of power? It's a POE. Why why do they need a core switch for for cameras? I'm just curious. Speaker 8 00:22:09 Okay, this one I'm not sure but the the when I read the scope, It said it needed a Cisco Catalyst nine thousand three hundred L to align with client network, standard security policies and operational requirements. So, Speaker 6 00:22:26 So who who write who's who builds the standard for this? Is that us? Is that them? Speaker 8 00:22:35 This one I am not sure. Uh, but if we have let's say for example we discuss this one. We usually build it, but for this case, I just got the code, so I'm not quite aware of the history of this one. Speaker 7 00:22:52 Um, I, just want to add that the 9300 L, you can manage it on the Meraki, even if it's a Catalyst. It's compatible with Meraki. Speaker 8 00:23:04 Uh follow- up question on this one Gabby. Why can't we just use the regular? Uh? What model is it again? Meraki MS one thirty switches on this one because yeah, Speaker 7 00:23:18 The one thirty. Mhm. I am not, I am not sure why they so. So who is. Speaker 6 00:23:25 So who is who told us that we need this? Like how do we get to the point where we say this is what we need? Like who tells us this is what we need Is that them Now I know that Autocon is like they have. Really, really expensive cars that they that they store right. So they have a standard camera system that they use across all their sites. So, this might be their standard, and this might be a network standard that they're using for their camera systems. I don't know, maybe this is maybe they tell us what they need. I don't know, But can somebody just get the details on this because do we decide this? Or do they decide this? Speaker 8 00:24:03 Yeah, uh I can check with Vincent after this call. Speaker 6 00:24:06 Yeah, I mean if that This is their their standard, What I what I'd like to understand, though is, are we ordering this for them? Or are they ordering this? And they're telling us that. I mean Maggie you you order right do you know if we ordered this. Speaker 5 00:24:22 Yes, We ordered grant orders based on the. Speaker 6 00:24:27 But we don't have an ETA yet. Is that is that what we're waiting for is the. Speaker 5 00:24:31 Yes. There's no ETA in Ingram. Speaker 6 00:24:35 So Ingram hasn't given us an ETA yet, or we haven't placed the order. Speaker 5 00:24:40 We have already placed the order and we're waiting for the ETA. Speaker 6 00:24:44 Okay, how long do we usually have to wait for that? Speaker 5 00:24:48 Thisum this under two to three days. Speaker 6 00:24:53 Okay, when did we put the order in or when did we? Speaker 1 00:24:57 We put the order. Let me check. Speaker 6 00:25:06 The reason I am asking is a lot of this stuff's back ordered. So if it's going to be months or weeks or whatever, we might need to find out if somebody else has some options. Speaker 8 00:25:17 Yeah, we put it uh yesterday. I might be, Speaker 6 00:25:21 Oh, yeah, yes. Okay. So we probably have another couple days to wait. So let's stay on top of this. If, they come back with a really long lead time, and this needs to be our standard right, if we get a really long lead time let's, Find out what our other options are. Right, let's not just say okay, we're going to wait four months for something. Let's figure out, let's escalate. Let me know that um other people know and let's see what our our other options are. And you know, we want to do that with laptops. We want to do that with equipment. We want to do that with everything. We don't just want to say okay, We're going to wait three months or we're going to wait four weeks or whatever we're going to. We need to figure out what our alternatives are, et cetera. So okay. Speaker 6 00:26:04 Thank you. Speaker 5 00:26:10 Next project, um, Gabby. Speaker 7 00:26:13 Uh, thank you Maggie. Uh, So two, six, five one, uh Barker Pacific Group, the quadum we haven't heard back from methodology I T. Uh we've been following upum within this last weekum regarding having access to manage the unified devices. I did just send an email to Kara, who's the property current property manager at the quad, To see if she has any information regarding who can we contact directly at methodology, who can help us. But at this point, if we don't get you know anything out of it um. We might have to um take some other matters and I might have to talk with Jason on this, like what would be the best approach. Speaker 7 00:27:03 Um, but this is where we're currently at basically. And this is after we called them. We called methodology and then told us send an email. So, you. Speaker 6 00:27:14 Probably you had no success before, when you tried to use them too, right? Yeah, Speaker 7 00:27:22 Well, First, we we I was in touch with Core Intelligence, who was the previous MSP that managed it. No luck with them. And then methodology was the previous previous MSP that we found out they managed to unify devices. And I believe they're currently managing the landline phones from what Kara told us. So I wanted to see if she has any anybody we can contact directly regarding this, if they can help us. Speaker 6 00:27:54 Okay. Yeah, and if we need to end up, you know kind of, Wiping and starting over, There, we might have to just figure out how to do that or replace them or whatever we've got to do. We'll have to let them know. We've kind of tried our best and I'll let you and Jason figure it out. Speaker 3 00:28:15 All right, okay. Hey team, I need to drop off this call for a minute. I'll be back. Alondra's calling me. Speaker 1 00:28:32 I recall correctly, Speaker 4 00:28:33 I believe the next project is Julia. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:28:41 Hi everyone, um, I'm actually on a mobile connection and it's a bit choppy. If you cannot hear me, can you turn off your cameras please? Project number 2533, Project Angel Food desktop migration. Speaker 3 00:29:02 On-site visits scheduled for training. We're following there to help them to get familiar with the setup. Three more devices with server Mike, Both Mike and I are following up with Stephen, and letting him know this urgency. So ball is in his court. Speaker 3 00:29:35 And then, and two six one one. Those are two hardware projects. Uh, refreshes. I worked with Caleb yesterday to update the Excel tracker, And I will follow up with Stephen uh to find out what's the plan for remaining devices. Um, For Caleb, we have only two laptops and two desktops at Crimson IT headquarters for them. And uh remaining block stops are at the top. Project 2317 for intra-ten. Um I think Jason is actually leads uh leading this project now. Um, he asked me for some things to send to him. So I shared um documents I have. Speaker 3 00:30:26 Anton, the first solution was tested Azure VPN and will not work. So he's asking if we can proceed with the second option for UBT. Um, I'll wait for it. I execute a message to you, But I guess, uh I should wait for Jason to be back to me, right? Can you guys hear me? Speaker 6 00:30:52 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:30:54 Oh okay. Speaker 6 00:30:56 But Maggie's screen changed. There. Speaker 1 00:31:13 A Lancer project two five eight three Azure migration. Same notes, I guess. Speaker 3 00:31:24 Sean is still having issues with non compliant devices, And I'm keeping the project also open, just because I don't see the final invoice that was sent on March eleven, which is more than a month ago. It's still unpaid. Um so, Um Do you think I should follow up with Jennifer or accounting follows up on this? Speaker 6 00:32:10 Follow Up with Jennifer. Who's that? Speaker 3 00:32:13 The the main point of contact for this project. Because I sent her a popping mail, I sent her everything we're and we told her we're closing the project, but invoice is still not paid so. I'll follow up with accounting to see when when they followed up last time and who they sent invoice to just to make sure and send the right um email project. Two five eight eight for wine bar um I synced up with Jason yesterday. This a file structure cleanup project or Teams SharePoint cleanup. Um this his Jason is actually leading discovery now for. Speaker 3 00:32:57 File storage and meeting with department heads to understand the usage and needs. So once he completes his discovery, we will regroup internally with Charles. Project two five nine eight for Wayfinder. Um yesterday came this call Michael uh from Wayfinder still did not provide us final outputs like he promised. Uh Charles. Carl reiterated the need to lock the folder structure and naming upfront. So we can avoid the rework and user confusion. And Charles is actually working on to standardize department and program based structure this week. And he will propose to Wayfinder and actually. That will give, and he will also give us. Speaker 3 00:33:56 Ma terial for the to do the demo that we find the requested for the executives. Um, but still right now I'm. Best case scenario completion is in July. Speaker 6 00:34:10 And Julia and Olivia, are we tracking all of our time? Amelia or excuse me, Emile's and Charles and Julia yours and Olivia yours and everybody else's, time is being logged in this ticket. A hundred percent, right? Speaker 1 00:34:27 Yeah, I have a specific phase. Speaker 6 00:34:30 Where do we where do we sit so far from from our perspective, you know? Or, can we find out? You don't have to tell you don't have to tell me right now, But can you can you give me uh just a ballpark on number of hours we've spent so far? I am just curious. Whenever you get a chance. Okay. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:34:51 Project two six two nine on aum, A X C R P upgrade. It's C R F upgrade. Uh, per John, Meeting is scheduled this Thursday with point of contacts, and they will discuss the migration, expected downtime and confirm the migration date and time. That will give usum the completion date for the project. Speaker 6 00:35:19 I'm sorry so so they're doing it this weekend you said? Speaker 3 00:35:22 This week they're meeting. On Thursday to discuss that. Okay, Speaker 6 00:35:28 So they're they're discussing it this week. Speaker 3 00:35:30 They're discussing yes, they're discussing the uh downtime during migration and they, They wanna so Sean I mean, John wants to present it to them and get the date from them. Speaker 6 00:35:47 Okay okay. Speaker 3 00:35:51 Projects two six five three flop. Speaker 3 00:35:56 Library consolidation. Can. Speaker 6 00:36:00 We scroll down? Um, we're still stuck on there or is it just my screen? No, it's just out of there. I just still see Lancer Skincare. Speaker 1 00:36:12 I think Maggie's maybe frozen. Maggie's frozen. Yeah, Speaker 6 00:36:16 I think yeah, it looks like Maggie's whole thing's frozen there. Speaker 1 00:36:21 Maggie is even frozen on my screen. Speaker 1 00:36:24 I can share my screen instead. Thank you, Bryce. Can you see my screen? Speaker 4 00:36:41 Yes, we can. Clap it and clap it. Speaker 3 00:36:45 Clap it and clap it. Third point. Speaker 3 00:36:50 Firmarit's project is completed and can be closed. It's been already one hundred percent billed, and I believe no, it was not collected yet. Project two six seven two. Sorry, Speaker 4 00:37:09 Julia. Real quick about Clappage: Have we documented any changes? Anything? Any idea if Mertz has documented anything in Hudu about this? Speaker 3 00:37:21 I will double check. I have a ticket for code updates. I'll double check that. Thank you. Project two six seven two, Alire disable mDNS. Um, I'm still waiting for three more devices to be turned on or or tell me what um exactly they want to do with it. So uh invoice was actually paid so So far, we're good. This a time and material. If we need more time to complete this, we're going to bill additionally. I also have a new project for C D Richards Ellis for third floor network equipment. This was requested by Kevin. This a brand new project that was just approved yesterday, and it's estimated for. Speaker 3 00:38:18 For four hours total, two technicians for two hours. Um, I kind of run it by Mike just to double check everything is correct. And Mike flagged that the wording also implies it is a possible full day with two technicians, which is potential more time. But it doesn't say it's kind of like says it's a doesn't specify that. Additional hours will be built, so that's kind of red flag for us. Speaker 3 00:38:51 C B Reacher's Ellis. Speaker 1 00:38:58 Oh. So. Speaker 6 00:39:01 So so we're saying somebody mentioned somebody sent a an estimate to a client directly without formalizing. It is that what we're saying? Speaker 3 00:39:13 No, they're, The quote was requested by Kevin and it got approved by the client. But when I'm reading the quote to see, okay, so what are the projects? What are the hours? Who's doing it? Is there a PM hours included or not? I mean, technicians can manage the project, right? If there's no PM hours. But uh it's just the flag was that. Speaker 3 00:39:43 It says two hours by two technicians, so four hours total. But it also say it may run over, so additional billing could be. But it's not. It's not exactly say that there is going to be billed separate, right? Okay. Um Also uh not clear who's going to provide packing boxing materials. Speaker 3 00:40:11 So, that's something that Mike also is not sure and I'm not sure. In a project like this, do we set it up under requester in Connectwise? And if they need my help or any other project manager help, we can help them. But I think then they need to know how to manage projects in ConnectWise. Just kind of open question, right? To Jason's team. Um, that's it as far as my notes for our capital. I finally updated Hudu with the high level reusable infrastructure overview document. Um, Pete, like you asked me, Uh for Avalon is they're now in migration. So next follow up will be in four weeks. Uh so it's not. Speaker 3 00:41:08 We're not doing anything else for Avalon migration. And that's it. For me. Speaker 6 00:41:23 Okay. Anything else we need to add? Speaker 4 00:41:29 Anyone know about the last one? Which one? AI agent, ConnectWise project status agent? Asking for a friend. I don't know what that means. Speaker 2 00:41:45 I think that might be for Tony because Tony was asking some questions, but I don't know what it is actually. I just know he was asking questions. Speaker 3 00:41:53 I emailed you, Christy and blind copy on Zor and said, hey Zor, and Zor is the one who's supposed to approve it so. Speaker 1 00:42:01 Oh okay. Got it okay. Speaker 2 00:42:05 That makes a little more sense now. Speaker 6 00:42:09 Well, I know C Boss is happening too. I mean, There's some stuff going on there with with triage and smart dispatch stuff and all that. I don't know if this has anything to do with any of that, but maybe not. So, I don't know. Speaker 2 00:42:23 I i know what it is now now that Julia mentioned it. Um, I handed it over to Obsor to work with to build against C Boss. Um, i'm gonna try to work on some other projects, In the meantime, and then send the code over to ONSR to add to CBOS. But for this one, I am going to have ONSR do it. Speaker 3 00:42:42 Awesome. That would be I think it would be amazing again talking about yesterday. It's a little bit hard, yeah. Speaker 2 00:42:51 Yeah, And then also, uh I know Maggie is having trouble. But if we can relay this message to her because I am going to forgetum we need to. The ability first project back out of on hold to active, we'll very start prepping for that project. So we're going to need, yeah, and Gabby, we're going to need you guys setting up the devices. I know they're in the office already. Um. So we'll just need you guys setting up the devices and I'll get with you guys on that before we ship them to camp. All right so. Speaker 1 00:43:29 We'll need to do that in the next couple weeks. Speaker 4 00:43:39 Okay, great. Anyone got anything else? Speaker 2 00:43:44 I do not suggest working from home with three cats. They chose this meeting to not focus on Pete's head for once and instead, do cartwheels off my desk. I liked it better when they were focused on Pete's head, then I could get work done. Speaker 4 00:44:03 All right, cool. Well. I'll give you guys back twenty minutes of your day since I'm leading this meeting now. Speaker 6 00:44:08 You all have a wonderful day. Thank you very much. Speaker 4 00:44:11 Bye guys, thank you.
05-26 Meeting: Optional SSO Implementation for Concur
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-26 09:11:32 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Susanna] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Optional SSO Setup for Concur - Christi plans to implement Single Sign-On (SSO) for Concur. - SSO will initially be optional; users can continue logging in as they do now. - Using SSO enables Microsoft account sign-in and may reduce authenticator prompts. - SSO is considered a security improvement for the organization. - Susanna asks whether users will see an SSO option at login; Christi confirms they will. - Susanna confirms that “Microsoft account” refers to users’ email accounts. - No changes to Susanna’s current user setup process. - Christi notes SSO could become mandatory in the future. - Christi offers to show Susanna examples of SSO on other sites if she can stop by. - Susanna is in meetings with consultants but may stop by briefly. - Conclusion: Proceed with optional SSO for Concur; no immediate changes to user setup. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to complete the optional SSO configuration for Concur. - [ ] Susanna to stop by Christi’s office for a brief SSO demonstration when available. - [ ] Plan internal communications to inform users about the optional SSO and how to use it. - [ ] Evaluate and define criteria/timeline for potentially making SSO mandatory at a later date. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Communicate the SSO option and instructions to all Concur users to minimize confusion. > 2. Confirm whether authenticator requirements change for users choosing SSO and document the login flow. > 3. Define criteria and timeline for potentially making SSO mandatory.
- Date
- May 26, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hey Christy. Speaker 2 00:00:04 Good morning, how's your Tuesday going? Speaker 1 00:00:07 Wait, give me one second. Sorry. No worries, you're good. I'm doing good, how are you? Speaker 2 00:00:10 I'm good. Hey, I am going to set up SSO for Concur in the system. It's not going to affect anything anybody is doing. It's not going to cause issues with the login However, if a person wants to not have to put their authenticator code in every time they can choose SSO and log in with their Microsoft account. Speaker 1 00:00:31 Oh, okay. Okay. So like would they have that option when they log in or like how is that? Yeah, Speaker 2 00:00:36 They would have that option when they log in. However, they don't have to use it so I'm making it optional, but it's it's actually better security for us. Speaker 1 00:00:47 Okay, perfect I know. A lot of people don't hate the authenticator. So if they log in with their Microsoft account, is that is that just their like you know, email account, yeah. Speaker 1 00:00:59 Yeah, and because then would I set up the user the same way? Speaker 2 00:01:02 Um, you just set it up the normal way, and thenum eventually we can make it mandatory that everybody uses the SSO. Um, if you are you in the office today or are you at home? Speaker 1 00:01:16 I am but I'm like kind of in a meeting all day with uh consultants. Speaker 2 00:01:21 No worries. If you get five minutes and you come upstairs and my door is open, I can show you what an SSO looks like for other websites. Okay. So sounds good. Speaker 1 00:01:32 Yeah. All right, awesome. Thanks. Have a good day. Yeah, You too Let me see if I can stop by No worries Bye Okay Bye.
06-17 Weekly Meeting: All-Hands Updates, Cybersecurity, and AI Training
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- > **Date:** 2026-06-17 09:57:13 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Participants:** [Sergio] [Christi] [Speaker 3] [April] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Anton] [Pete] [Mike] [Anzor] [Speaker 11] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] [Speaker 15] ## Meeting Notes ### **POTS Line Quote for Faroaks Site** - A POTS line quote is in progress and will be delivered today, June 17, 2026. - The provider must clarify pricing due to recent cost changes. - POTS line pricing has jumped to roughly $1,000 per line. - Christi noted the client currently pays $138/month for an existing copper line. - Provider Lingo is moving away from copper; a migration notice may be issued soon. - The Faroaks site MPOE is behind the reception desk, and wireless reception is strong. ### **Weekly All-Hands Meeting Kickoff** - Weekly all-hands for week 25, held on June 17, 2026. - After-hours support: George (primary) and Kobe (backup). - Core value spotlight: "Commit and Deliver," with shout-outs to Christi and Charl for positive client feedback. - Quote of the day from April: "If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you." ### **Team Updates** - **Help Desk:** - Anderson will deploy Cloud this evening (June 17, 2026). - A new Level 1 technician, Adrian, has joined. - **Cybersecurity:** - Investigating an incident with the EAP. - The intratam project is expected to be completed by the end of next week. - **Operations:** - Three cyber incidents occurred on June 16, 2026, including Eldridge (noted by Anton) and an issue at Maverick. - Another customer fell for a phishing attempt and shared personal credentials. - Pete emphasized ongoing security training for staff and customers. - Open tickets remain high at ~350. Overtime is available to help reduce the backlog. - **Account Management:** - Vince is out due to a family emergency; Mike is the point of contact. - Shout-outs to Christi and Anzor for exemplifying "extreme ownership." - Project Angel Food has a KTLA fundraising event; a link will be shared to help offset a 35% budget cut. - Pete and Mike will meet with Hannah and Avalon on June 18, 2026, to address issues, including Avalon not responding to accounting emails. - **Finance:** - There are open or unsubmitted timesheets in ConnectWise; please review and submit. - **Admin:** - Monthly computer and license counts are underway this week. - **New Business Development (NBD):** - Progress with Maverick Gaming to convert them to a full client; the ConnectWise company name is now Double S G Gaming. - Anzor is pursuing an opportunity with Foothill staff. - A new company, ExcelBoss.com, has launched to provide AI custom software solutions. - ExcelBoss clients: WineGuard (GetHelp replacement) and AutoConcierge (rebuilding Zoho, CRM, and billing platform). ### **Project and Change Callouts** - **Interim Compliance Project:** - Conditional access policy audits are underway. - Cloud PC user wave is complete except for one Linux user; target closure by end of June. - **Wayfinder SharePoint Migration:** - The client changed direction last week; a change order is in progress. - Active migration continues with a very tight end-of-June target. - **Arc Capital:** Dropbox-to-SharePoint migration planned in the next two to three weeks. - **Anderson:** Firewall replacement rescheduled for July 2, 2026. - **Ticket Management:** - Christi reminded the team to log AI and other project work under the correct active project to track hours accurately. - **Circuit Redundancy Testing:** - Following the AbilityFirst incident, Pete asked client champions to schedule planned redundancy tests for clients with redundant circuits to verify failover works. ### **AI Training: Introduction to CoWork** - Christi presented CoWork, which offers more advanced capabilities than standard chat AI. - **Key Features:** - You can prompt CoWork to perform tasks, not just chat. - Prompting best practice: state the desired end result first, then outline steps. - Generates training scripts, PowerPoint decks, and Heygen scripts from existing files and brand guides. - **Usage and Token Management:** - Usage is token-based; larger documents and longer sessions consume more tokens. - Anzor noted conversations are stateless; returning after a delay can increase cost as memory refreshes. - Christi suggested using "Sonnet" or "Haku" instead of "Opus" and setting effort to medium or low to conserve tokens. - **Claude for Clients:** Recommend Claude Teams for small companies and Claude Enterprise for larger ones. ### **Team Fun Segment** - The team played "Two Truths and One Lie." - Paula participated; her lie was that she went skydiving in Dubai. - Sigrid was nominated for next week’s game. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 3] to send the Faroaks POTS line quote to Christi today (June 17, 2026). - [ ] Mike to post the Project Angel Food KTLA fundraising link in the napping channel. - [ ] Pete and Mike to meet with Hannah and Avalon on June 18, 2026, to discuss issues, including Avalon’s lack of response to accounting emails. - [ ] All team members to review and submit any outstanding ConnectWise timesheets. - [ ] Client champions to schedule and document redundancy tests for clients with redundant circuits. - [ ] Anzor to meet with Chris offline to discuss the ExcelBoss.com vision. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The high volume of open help desk tickets (~350) was noted as a challenge. While overtime was offered, no structured plan was discussed to reduce the backlog. > 2. A customer shared credentials in a phishing attack. No specific follow-up actions for that customer were outlined beyond general training reminders. > 3. The Wayfinder SharePoint migration timeline is very tight after a change in direction, risking the end-of-June target. No explicit mitigation strategies were discussed.
- Date
- Jun 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:10 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Good morning. Hey do you know, do you how long until I get the quote for the POTS line? Speaker 3 00:00:20 Uh, it'll be today. I'm working on it. Um, Just need to uh my provider to clarify something and I'll send that over to you. Speaker 2 00:00:29 Have you ever been to the Faroaks site? Never. Okay, so the MPOE is when you walk through the front door, the MPOE is right there, right behind the reception desk. The door kind of blends in. There's good wireless reception there, but also all of their ISPs terminate in there as well. Speaker 3 00:00:52 Okay, perfect. Yeah, that's pretty much what the uh the provider request. They want to do a site survey and you know, to see what's going to work best for the area. Speaker 1 00:01:03 Okay. Perfect. Speaker 3 00:01:06 Yeah, But I'm I'm working on the price uh because they just fairly changed it last week and I don't understand some stuff, so I need them to clarify before I give you a price, you know. Gotcha Because all the POTS line went about thousand dollars per line. So that's just stupid crazy. Speaker 2 00:01:23 They're currently, oh sorry, no go ahead. No. They're currently paying 138 per month for the existing POTS line. Speaker 3 00:01:33 Does the old does the copper one? Speaker 2 00:01:35 Yeah, that's a copper. But uh, lingo is wanting to get out of copper. Okay. So I I wouldn't be surprised if they give them a notice to move off of copper line soon. Speaker 4 00:02:51 Alright, it's ten o'clock. Let's start. Okay, so good morning everybody and welcome to our weekly all hands meeting. Today's date is June seventeen twenty twenty six. We are on week number twenty five The primary for after hour support for this week is George, and the backup is Kobe For. Our core value spotlight, the core value that I would like to highlight today is commit and deliver Um, big shout out to Christi and Charl for the positive feedback from clients. Um, this a reflection of your hard work and commitment to delivering great service. Keep it up. Okay, and for our quote of the day, So I've been looking for a quote that I can share with you guys this morning, and this the quote that resonated me the most. So um, the quote goes like this: um If at first you don't succeed. Speaker 4 00:03:48 Then skydiving definitely isn't for you. So I hope that's also resonating with you guys. Um, okay, team updates. Let's go to help desk with Olivia. Speaker 5 00:04:03 Hey, bro. Uh, Happy Wednesday, everyone on the help desk side of things. Uh just a heads up. Anderson will be deploying Cloud this evening. In case, there's any help desk tickets and then also. A new help desk technician starting, Adrian. Adrian, tell us a little bit about yourself. Something fun, yeah? Just introduce yourself. Speaker 6 00:04:24 Hi everyone. Yeah, I am Adrian. It's really happy to be here and meet all of you. I am starting off as a level one technician. I guess maybe an interesting fact about myself: I really enjoy traveling, looking to just look at new places and learn more things and, I enjoy meeting new people and I am excited to get to know you guys more. Speaker 5 00:04:49 Welcome, thanks Adrian. Happy welcome, Speaker 6 00:04:52 Thank you so much. Speaker 5 00:04:54 Thanks April, that's all on the help desk side. Speaker 4 00:04:57 All right, welcome to the team Adrian. Okay, cybersecurity updates with Antonin. Speaker 7 00:05:04 Morning everyone updates from cybersecurity we have an, Incident with the EAP that we are currently working on with the investigation. And additionally, We're going to try to finish up with the intratam project probably by the end of next week. That's all updates from security team. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:05:30 All right, thanks Anton. Operations with Pete? Speaker 8 00:05:34 Good morning everyone. Uh yeah to tag on to what Anzor said, theum, Cyber cyber incidents are um are prevalent out there. We had three different things actually come up yesterday. The um Eldridge is the one that Anzor mentioned that, that the team is working on, and we had we had a couple of things come up with um Maverick that we were investigating yesterday. Diligently in the morning that looked like it could be an active cyber incident. And then uh one of our other customers um. Speaker 8 00:06:09 Was actually a victim of a phishing attempt and ended up, it looks like, sharing credentials, Personal credentials and a number of other things with some people that were stealing a lot of their credentials. And probably getting a lot of their personal passwords and other things. So be diligent out there. Work with work with our customers and and please remind them if they're, you know if they are not taking our training, if they are not signed up for our training, let's make sure that that we are helping them get signed up for that. If they if they have are signed up for it and they're not taking it, let's let's encourage them to take it. And, if you are not taking the training that we were supposed to be taking, make sure you are because we're going to be uh monitoring that as well. Um. Speaker 8 00:07:06 Otherwise, I know that ticket counts are still fairly high. We're still, we're still trying to recover from, you know, falling a little bit behind during the um during the, the time when people were out. We're we're doing some catch up there, But the holidays and the um and the summertime are always a a high volume time. So, um if there's anybody that wants to work a little uh overtime, I think we can probably do that. If you want to talk to Olivia, uh we can probably do some of that. We've got, We're still, I think, at about 350 or so open tickets. So let us know if you want to help try to do some catch up in that space. I think that's all I have for today. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:07:50 All right, thank you, Pete. Account management with Mike. Speaker 9 00:07:55 Thank you, April. Just a quick update: Vince wasn't able to make the meeting; he had a family emergency. So if you're trying to reach Vince, he's out of pocket; feel free to ping me. Uh, in the interim until he gets back, I kind of wanted to expand on what April was saying. I want to give kudos and a shout out to both Christi and Anzor. Um, I feel they embody one of our core values, which is extreme ownership in all that they do. I always want to tell them thank you. I see their interactions with customers and I really appreciate the extra level that they go. So thank you to both Christi and Anzor. Um, one more two more things um Keith. Speaker 9 00:08:31 Project Angel Food has an event with KTLA, which is like the Channel five news. They have a big fundraising event. So I am going to be posting in the napping channel a link to that event. If you can share it with friends and family, Project Angel Food is an amazing organization. They bring medically tailored food to those in need through L A County, and their funding was cut by like thirty five percent for this upcoming year. So these fundraisers are really important for them to be able to deliver those meals to those in need. And lastly, Pete and I will be meeting with Hannah and Avalon tomorrow. So that's it for account management. Speaker 10 00:09:12 Thank you. Mike said that Avalon is not responding right so to to accounting guys emails. Speaker 9 00:09:23 Yeah, we'll we'll make sure to discuss that tomorrow. Okay Okay. Speaker 4 00:09:30 U m all right, um finance updates with Alisa. Speaker 11 00:09:37 Uh hi, good morning, happy Wednesday. It looks like there's still open uh time sheets or unsubmitted time sheets in connectwise. So just a big favor, please. Uh, take a moment to to review past few timesheets and make sure they're submitted for our manager's approval. Thank you so much. Speaker 4 00:09:57 All right? Thank you. And on the admin side, nothing major to highlight. We're just doing our monthly computer and license count for this week. So, if you have anything that you're working on that, you think will affect our reports or billing, please always coordinate with us. Thank you. And for NBD updates with Anzor. Speaker 10 00:10:20 On my end, so. Speaker 10 00:10:25 I don't have anything exciting to report just yet. It does feel like we're making progress with Maverick Gaming, so thank you team for that. And I am working actively with Pete to see if we can convert them to a full client, which will be obviously incredible. And also I had a really good meeting with the staff at Foothill. So, I am reaching out to COO and see if we can reel those guys in. Those are the really two big opportunities I am currently pursuing and working on. Right, and either of them goes through, that's going to keep us busy for a while. So that's on MBD side. Also, just so everyone's aware, I started a new company called ExcelBoss dot com dot Okay, this is the company that will be providing. Speaker 10 00:11:23 AI custom solutions, effectively software development for our clients. And so far we've got two of the clients that signed up for it. We have WineGuard who's interested in us building them the replacement for GetHelp. And, we have AutoConcierge, where we're rebuilding their Zoho and CRM and Creator and billing all in one platform. Um, so Chris, I am going to be taking you offline later today. Um, to really walk you through this vision and discuss. Um, it's really going to be treated as separate company. Uh, But we're gonna obviously share clients and uh ultimately will ensure further stickiness of Crimson IT with the clients. Even though Excel Boss is a different company. Obviously it's the same set of people. So um that's all I have. Speaker 4 00:12:22 Awesome. All right. Thanks, Anzor. Any project or change callouts? Okay, Julia? Speaker 12 00:12:34 Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday. Just to tag on Anton's message, we are for interim compliance project, we are doing conditional access policy audits right now. We did complete Cloud PC user wave, although one Linux user still remains open. That's all for now. We're still aiming to close it out by end of June. We also have Wayfinder SharePoint migration project that Emil and Charleses are working very hard on. Client changed the project direction last week. Speaker 12 00:13:16 So we are in order to do the change order, in progress change order. IT training was delivered by Christi this Monday after her vacation, which was amazing. Thank you, Christi. So team is now in active migration for Wayfinder. Just keep in mind, we're targeting end of June, but with a flag that timeline will be very tight. Thank you everyone. Speaker 4 00:13:47 Okay, got it. Thank you Julia. Speaker 13 00:13:51 Good morning everybody. Um just want to inform you that Arc Capital. There will be a Dropbox to SharePoint migration that will happen in the nextum two or three weeks and then Um the firewall replacement for Anderson that is rescheduled on July 2 n d. That's it. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:14:10 Thank. You Seth. Speaker 2 00:14:14 Uh, real quickly, I just want to remind everybody that if you're working on tickets in regards to AI and other projects, make sure that you're putting the tickets in under the project. So if a client reaches out and says, Hey, I need help with this, and it has to do with an active project, and most AI is going to be active projects. So just a heads up for everybody. Um check the system to see if the pro active project is out there and make sure the ticket is going in for that because we want the hours for uh for. You know, Connecting troubleshooting things like that to be against the active project. So we know the time that's going in. And what we need to forecast for in the future. Speaker 4 00:14:55 All right, thank you, Christy. Pete? Speaker 8 00:14:59 This is mostly for client champions and for the network team. So, we had an incident with AbilityFirst recently and where they have redundant circuits. But. A circuit goes down, and we don't realize the other circuit was already down or maybe both circuits are down, and then the redundancy doesn't kick in. So we're doing a redundancy test, we're scheduling a redundancy test, but if any of your clients have redundant circuits, Get with the team and let's schedule a planned test to make sure that number one, we've got redundancy that actually works. Speaker 8 00:15:37 And. And and let's do that as a scheduled test with the client right at a time. That is least disruptive to their business. So, um if you have clients that have redundancy, Let's let's get a test scheduled so that we can, and let's let them know we're going to do that. And let's let them know the results. So if if that's if that's something you have uh, get with your client on that. That's all I. Speaker 4 00:15:59 All right thank you Pete And just to add this announcement I think, Ma verick Gaming's name or company name in Connect Wise has been changed to Double S G Gaming, so just a heads up. Okay, next is training updates with Christy. Speaker 2 00:16:18 All right, So I made a promise to you guys. We're going to continue going through the AI training last week or not last week, I was on vacation last week. The week before we did how to install CoWork. This week, we're going to go into cowork and how to utilize cowork because I think that's going to be the tool that is most useful for all of you guys. I'm going to share out my screen. This is some of the work I've been doing in cowork. Let me know if you need me to increase the zoom on it. Anybody? Speaker 1 00:16:49 Yes, please. Speaker 2 00:16:50 Okay. Olivia was smirking. So I wasn't sure if that was aimed at me in a comment for zooming in. 'Cause she's had to hear that a few times from clients when I'm on this computer. Um, all right, so CoWork has a lot of unique features that chat does not. And I want to draw your attention. Everybody knows how to use chat in either OpenAI, CoWork or or Copilot. But CoWork takes it to the next level. You can still chat with the system, but at the same time you can have it do work for you. Speaker 2 00:17:22 Now, I'm actually in a chat. This is one that I've been working on for my meeting today with Avalon. I've also got my advanced Excel training class that I've been working on for Ability. First, which actually starts next week. And, if anybody wants to be a part of the advanced training class next week, Let me know, and I will get you added to the training invite so that you're aware, and you can start doing these with it. But what I did was, I'm going to open up a new task. You've got New Task here, you've got Projects You have artifacts, and I'll go over what artifacts are a little bit later. You have scheduled, and you have customize. So you've got a couple different options in here that you can utilize. We're going to go into new task. And when it comes to prompting in CoWork, it's going to be a little different than chatting. With prompting in CoWork, You want to give it what the end result should be first and then tell it how to get there. Whereas in chat, You just tell it how to get there and what you want the end result to be. So you're going to swap it. Speaker 2 00:18:19 You want to do that in co-work and code at the same time. So in a new chat, I'm going to make it where I'm working in a project or folder. So I've got client training documents right here, and that's a project that I have that I've built out in projects. However, I could also switch it to any of my folders, and these are the folders I use most often. So have my desktop, which uh i only use once it's still on there Avalon ability first DTLA And, then i've got my meetings folder. And these are ones I use most often. So for this one, I'm going to do client training and I'm going to tell it, I need an advanced Microsoft Teams training for AbilityFirst. I will need a training script and. Speaker 2 00:19:17 A PowerPoint presentation. Also, I need a Heygen script. For what Heygen is, is a way I can build out these trainings as a video. I'm not going to go into what that is, but I do need that script. So I'm going to ask it to do that. Now this is my end goal. I need the Microsoft Teams training, I need the PowerPoint presentation, I need the script and i need a heygen script, And what I'm going to do is I'm also going to tell it to go look at file folder for my previous trainings. So I'm going to copy over a link, look in this location for previous training, to see what is done so far. And I'm going to copy and paste that link in there. And then one last thing I'm going to do, this is something I've started doing recently. Speaker 2 00:20:15 Is I wanted to build it using the Crimson brand guides. Well, I'm going to call it Crimson Brand Book because that's what that's what the file says. And special thank you to our marketing team who keeps putting these together. So I'm going to drag and drop that brand book in here. Um, and I could keep it in the project folder as well under project, which I do. But I'm going to show you, I'm dragging and dropping the current brand book, and I'm just going to hit go. Now during this time it's going to give us a progress, and that's for longer tasks. But it's going to go through the thought process. You can go in and take a look at everything it's doing. You can watch it or if you're like me because you have to multitask, You can go to your next your previous chat and look and see where everything is. Now this is one where I did it for the. Speaker 2 00:21:10 For the advanced Excel training. And so it built it. I'm not a fan of how it built it. I'll go in, I'll be honest, sometimes you just got to go in and re-edit things. Half my time lately, instead of building things has been set to actually redo it uh to make it look nicer. It gives me the foundation, I go in and make it look amazing. So, this what it built when I asked to do the advanced training for Excel. And this where we're at within AbilityFirst. So backstory. AbilityFirst wants to go in the direction of AI, But they see that their team needs a lot of training first in standard Microsoft stuff before we get to that point. Partially for budget reasons and partially because their people need training, so we're providing that training for their team. So this is actually where we are in the advanced training classes for AbilityFirst. But it did build me the basis for it. It made it look pretty and it gave it the Crimson brand colors. So I'm going to go in, I'm going to. Speaker 2 00:22:09 Take a look at everything. I'm going to look at the script and then I am going to record one training without anybody in there. And then I'm going to give uh the training to AbilityFirst live in a Teams call next week. So these are the things you can have this do. Um another thing that I had it do today, these are examples, I have my Avalon meeting today and I have a agenda already in here. Created as a document yesterday when I was working on my Avalon stuff. This time I wanted it to clean up the agenda for me. Go in, take a look, take a first stab, And then I'll go in from here and I'll, edit it and update it so that I can add it have well, actually have Julia add it to the meeting for the agenda and understand where we're going with that. So these are the things that it will do for you. Additionally things you can have it do organize and categorize things. Speaker 2 00:23:08 You can have it go in there and do it. I had it go through my documents yesterday and clean up my documents and put, because sometimes client files find their way into just the default documents. I had to clean it up and move. So these are the things you can have CoWork do. One last thing before we, before I'm done, I want to show you guys artifacts. Anything you work in CoWork makes it an artifact. So if you look right here, the C users, All of that, that's an artifact. It's a file, but CoWork also calls them artifact. So if you can't find something through looking at the chats, Click on artifacts and then you can search artifacts here and see everything you've done. Okay? That's my quick training for today. Next week we're going to go a little bit deeper into CoWork, But I want you guys to see just a high level overview of the things you can do. If you have CoWork, go in and do some of the things that I showed you guys. Speaker 2 00:24:06 It's really easy to do. Have it check over. I did have it check over my project agenda. I gave it the scope of work and said, hey, Make sure that you check and make sure my agenda matches the scope of work. And it did. So I had it remove and it told me why. These are the things you can have the system do. You can have it check against other pieces, but this is what you want to use CoWork for Any questions? Speaker 2 00:24:40 It's quite a bunch today. Y'all need some coffee or something? I know Anzor doesn't. He's been working hard today, and so is Pete. Yes, Julia? Speaker 12 00:24:50 I've used 75%. Do I have to be worried about it? Stopped using my cloud today. Speaker 2 00:24:58 That's an Onzo question, But I am going to show you guys if you guys go down to settings and usage, it'll show your usage limits. I use my Crimson account for Crimson only, so mine's a little bit lower. But I also do a lot of the heavy lifting outside of CoWork. Contrary to what you guys believe and what I've said in the past, I do a lot of my work by hand, but I also use CoWork to double check me. So. Speaker 12 00:25:27 If I limit my prompts or chats, Will it like if I just do everything in one instead of asking question, will it limit my usage? Speaker 10 00:25:39 So so the usage rate depends on the amount of token system utilizes. So it really depends what you're having to do, right? If you're given a large document that it needs to process, it will use up more tokens, right? So some you still have twenty five percent. Um, right. And ultimately, I also have ability to allow people spend more money if we need to, right? But I think right now it's set at a hundred dollar per person. So uh we want to try to stay in that range. Speaker 12 00:26:15 So when I upload the document instead of going back and forth, If I just doing one prompt, everything that I need to do with this document, will it save the talking tokens or not? Speaker 10 00:26:29 Um, so so the way it works, right? It's actually the conversation is stateless. So every time you send information back and forth, it takes entire document, entire conversation and sends it. Right. Um, so that's how it works at least with a Claude code. I actually need to look and see how it works in cowork, which I believe is just a UI on top of the Claude code. So that that means exactly the same thing. Speaker 2 00:26:56 And Anzor is one hundred percent right. Oh, sorry, Anzor. Speaker 10 00:27:01 Conversation. It's going to cache. Did I lose you guys? Speaker 2 00:27:06 You broke up for a moment. Speaker 10 00:27:08 So so okay, yeah. So if I'm if you have in a conversation with Claude, every time you ask something, it takes entire conversation, ships it to the Claude process. It gives you the answer. So the longer the conversation. Right, the more information it sends back and forth. That's number one. Number two, if you start the conversation, it caches that information so it uses far less tokens if you're actively engaged. But if you come back to the same session an hour later, it now refreshes the memory right so it becomes more expensive. So there are a number of things to keep in mind. Speaker 2 00:27:49 And then to add to Anzor because Anzor is 100% correct, Um, when I start a new task or start a chat, I make sure I'm not on Opus. Opus uses far more tokens than Sonnet and Haku. Soum sometimes depending on what I know it's going to be, I'll do it down to low. But default Sonnet unless I'm coding something. Default is Sonnet at medium or low effort and that'll save on your tokens Julia. Speaker 1 00:28:19 And yep yep. Speaker 2 00:28:23 All right, I'm done uh April. Speaker 4 00:28:27 All right, thank you Christi and Anzor. I think we have another question from George. Speaker 14 00:28:35 Yep. Uh yeah, I put it on chat for everyone to see and comment. So regarding, I know how Microsoft has its own various flavors for their products. Is there such a thing with Claude? In general, Speaker 10 00:28:53 Like I think for small companies, the best thing for them to use is Teams. Right, so Cloud Teams is the best approach for larger enterprises. It should be Cloud Enterprise. Right, we never want to use individual cloud accounts for a company. So it's either Teams or Enterprise. Speaker 14 00:29:16 Can Can one easily switch from Teams if they see that. Their needs are okay. So we'll start with Teams. Copy that. Speaker 10 00:29:25 Start with Teams. Mhm. Speaker 14 00:29:27 Copy that, thank you. Speaker 4 00:29:29 All right, okay so let's now move on to our Team Fun segment, Doc raised by Christian. Speaker 1 00:29:36 Sharing screen one moment Can you see the docs? Yes Awesome Let's start. Speaker 13 00:30:26 Okay, Go for It. Speaker 15 00:30:46 Any example? Um, the always friendly, uh like when reaching out to some resources internally or externally. Well, uh prior to what Christi has mentioned, I actually double check on AI now. So that's it. Okay. Speaker 4 00:31:14 Uh, since I have two more minutes, um, you're the one uh assigned for two truths and one lie as well. Speaker 15 00:31:20 So go for it. Yeah. Okay. Uh, I have my two truths and one lie here. So my uh first oh my first free diving adventure was at Apo Reef. Second, I hiked Mount Pulag after not hiking for three years, Last is I went skydiving in Dubai on my first international trip. Speaker 4 00:31:45 Ooh, okay. Thanks. ABC World in the Trust. What is the first one again? I'm sorry. Speaker 15 00:31:53 Diving, Syria, Syria related ocean related. So first free diving was at Apo Reef. So that's the uh second largest coral reef system uh in the world, but largest here in the Philippines. Speaker 4 00:32:08 Okay, who thinks that's a lie? Speaker 15 00:32:10 I don't think that's a lie. It's too specific. Speaker 13 00:32:16 She's so natural. Like all of them, whatever is a lie, it just sounds so true. Like so natural. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:32:24 Okay. How about number two who thinks that's a lie? Um that's the uh sorry. I can't rememberum what is it again? What was the second one? Speaker 15 00:32:36 Uh, hiked Mount Pulag after not hiking for three years. Okay. Speaker 4 00:32:41 Mount Pulag is one of the highest mountains. Speaker 15 00:32:44 In Philippines in Luzon. Speaker 4 00:32:46 Yeah, in Luzon. Oh, that's a lot. Okay, for the third one skydiving Dubai. This is a bunch as well. Okay 10:30 can you help enlighten usum Paula? Speaker 15 00:33:02 Uh yeah the last one is the lie. Speaker 4 00:33:05 I can't just make light. Got it. Okay, okay, so you have to nominate the next one for next week. Speaker 15 00:33:15 Oh, I have to nominate? Yeah. Speaker 8 00:33:18 Yeah, you have to pick the next person. Speaker 15 00:33:21 Uh, Sigrid? There. Speaker 4 00:33:26 You go! Sigrid! All right, that's it. It's already 10:30. Thank you guys for joining and enjoy the rest of your day. Bye. Speaker 6 00:33:36 Bye- bye. Bye everyone. Thanks everyone, bye- bye.
07-28 Meeting: ISP Discounts, Client Project Status, Alere Training Schedule, and RMM Migration
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- > Date: 2026-07-28 09:30:08 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Olivia] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Pete] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes ### **Internet Service Provider Discussion** - Several participants shared experiences with internet service providers, primarily Spectrum and AT&T. - [Speaker 1] received a $40 monthly discount and an 80-hour credit from Spectrum after an outage and is adding AT&T fiber for a dual-internet setup. - [Speaker 4] noted a client reduced their Spectrum bill from $112 to approximately $36–$40 after installing Starlink. - [Speaker 5] saw their Spectrum bill drop from $90 to $40 once fiber became available in their area. - The group observed Spectrum is more flexible with discounts when competition exists; calling annually to request deals was recommended. ### **Client Project Updates** - **Firewall:** Ready to close. Refund approved and processing, expected completion by July 31, 2026. - **Signal Partners:** Olivia will call Tim on July 28, 2026, to determine whether to continue or offboard the client. - **Alere Implementation:** - Team is working on the first implementation for Carney. - Defining the process for complex systems like MRI. - Currently at 50% completion. - **Carney AI Training:** - First “foundations” session held on July 27, 2026. - Remaining training postponed to the week of August 3, 2026, to allow users to catch up. - Pete advised against scheduling progressive sessions for the same group on consecutive days in the future. - **Sharp Computer Upgrades:** - Paused by Robert to prioritize migrating the last 40 users from LogMeIn to RMM. - 20–30 users migrated; ~20 remain. - **DTLA:** Transferred to Onshore. - **Alere Training:** - Scheduled for the week of August 3, 2026. - Sessions by department: Project Management (advanced users) on Monday, Internal Operations on Tuesday, Executive Team on Friday. - **Avalon Test:** No response on new training; [Speaker 1] will follow up. - **Barker Pacific:** On hold pending client team migration. No training conducted yet; only a kickoff meeting. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Olivia] to call Tim at Signal Partners on July 28, 2026, to finalize project status. - [ ] [Speaker 1] to follow up with Avalon Test on July 28, 2026, regarding new training. - [ ] [Speaker 1] to schedule an OBGYN appointment for Angie. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI identified the following unresolved items or unclear action plans; please review: > 1. Alere implementation for Carney is 50% complete and facing complexity (e.g., MRI), but a clear timeline or next steps to overcome current challenges were not defined. > 2. Barker Pacific is on hold due to a dependency (team migration). There is no plan for monitoring the dependency or re-engaging the client. > 3. Sharp project migration of the final ~20 computers from LogMeIn to RMM is ongoing, but no target deadline is set for completion.
- Date
- Jul 28, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:11 Hi guys. Can you hear me? Good morning everybody. Good morning, guys. Oh, there you guys are. Speaker 2 00:00:24 I didn't see what time it was and I don't have my updates. Can I go last? Okay. Speaker 3 00:00:40 Okay, Let's give a few minutes for everyone to jump in. Speaker 1 00:00:47 Glad I took your advice. What'd you do? So I called Spectrum; they knocked off $ 40 off my monthly bill. They are crediting 80 hours back to me because that's how long it was down. And then uh AT and T was only thirty dollars for fiber, and so I am going to have both with the firewall. Speaker 4 00:01:12 Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. This is actually an interesting thing, because like every time something like comes up like I have somebody who installed Starlink, And like they literally knocked off from a hundred and twelve dollars, it went down the spectrum because they did not they did not want to let the customer go. So, they knocked off from one hundred and twelve dollars to I think it was like also around like thirty six forty dollars a month. It's crazy. That's crazy. So now they have now they have dual dual Wi Fi over there. Speaker 1 00:01:45 Yeah, I got the uh I got the TP Link because it's small business grade, and I was like well I could do load balancing or failover with it, And then I realized, you know what would be great is because it's got to be installed in my bedroom. Uh, do load. Load balancing, put myself on fiber and put everybody else on uh spectrum. It's nice. So, Uh but they did tell me yesterday, Speaker 4 00:02:14 The little things that we is the little things that we enjoy, you know in life. Yeah. One person I. Speaker 5 00:02:21 I told you Vlad about my fiber right? Speaker 4 00:02:24 Yes yes yes. Speaker 5 00:02:25 I had the same thing until fiber came along, Spectrum was like charging me ninety bucks, and now I am down to forty dollars. Speaker 1 00:02:33 Yeah, yeah, with both Spectrum and Fiber. Mine was ninety dollars. Now I am paying seventy dollars for both. So. Speaker 4 00:02:46 So what they say is that literally, like every like at the end of the year, let's say, for example, maybe like at the beginning of December or something like that, just let they suggest to call in. And see if there are any special deals, like on literally on anything you know, especially with like Spectrum and stuff like that. AT and T I haven't had much luck with AT and T getting them down, but Spectrum is very like they're very pliable. Let's put this way, you know, so they say, like every every every December, we should like give ourselves this gift of lower bills. Speaker 1 00:03:21 I love that yeah. And also. Speaker 5 00:03:27 You don't have a competition. Yeah, that's true. I had Spectrum for a very long time here, and I didn't they didn't have a competition, and they were like nope we're not giving you discounts. Speaker 1 00:03:39 Yeah. That was the way it was at my old apartment because we couldn't get fiber into that complex. Uh and they knew it was. Uh. They knew it was only Spectrum in there, and so that's why I was spending ninety dollars a month on it. Speaker 4 00:03:57 Oh, but that's awesome. Speaker 1 00:03:59 Yeah. I just got to convince the kids to let me take down the internet for 20 minutes today to get everything set up. I know Dom will do it because her iPad's on Spectrum, and we get Spectrum signal in our apartment, but we don't get AT and T signal or Verizon. So convincing the other two to let the internet go down for 20 minutes is not not the best. Speaker 3 00:04:30 Okay, some, Pete is not yet here. I think he can just like jump in later while we can start the meeting. All right. Um, Olivia, are you ready or we can get back? Speaker 2 00:04:46 We can go. I'm ready. Speaker 3 00:04:47 Oh okay. At least oh, Christi and Vlad gave you that few minutes to give my updates, Speaker 2 00:04:58 Then. So thanks guys. Always for you. Speaker 3 00:05:01 Okay. Yeah. She knows, she knows. All right, let's start off the morning everybody. Welcome to week 31 of our Q&A meetings. So let's start this with Christi Holmes for their firewall. Okay, Speaker 2 00:05:18 This one we are good to close. The refund has been approved being processed and I think it should be completed at very least by the end of the week. I think the 31 st. Alire said. Right, next is Signal Partners. Okay, So I'm going to call Tim this afternoon, and then we will finally either close this project because we'll keep them on as a client or we will offboard them. So I will have good news next week, hopefully pending Tim's response. All right, and how about Alere implementation? Speaker 2 00:05:59 Uh, we're working on Carney this week. Um, we added all the programs that they asked us for or that they approved. So we're justum, we have to it's kind of complicated. But, we're working on Carney this week, and we added all the programs are just going to work withum either Jason or Mark. So yeah. Add. Speaker 3 00:06:23 It so long. So this is still fifty percent completion. Yeah, still fifty. All right, Speaker 6 00:06:34 So Olivia, Do we have aum we have like a tracking list of companies that we're implementing and how how we're progressing on that? Speaker 2 00:06:44 Yeah, I do have a tracking list, but Carney is our first one. So we are like trying to figure out how it all works. Um. Speaker 6 00:06:54 Thought we had Anderson or somebody already implemented didn't we? Speaker 2 00:06:57 We have Carney, uh, but it's just a couple. It's just a handful of programs. Like Carney also has like MRI and like different complicated systems that we're trying to figure out exactly how it works. So okay. There are yeah. Speaker 3 00:07:19 Right next isum Carney for their AI training. Speaker 1 00:07:24 So we did the first foundations training yesterday, and it went pretty well. However, they did realize that they have various degrees of people with different levels. So, we are postponing the rest of the training until next week to give one or two more basic users, some time to catch up with their skills. And so I think it's going to be scheduled Wednesday and Thursday. And then that project can be closed in about two weeks. Unless they postpone again. Speaker 6 00:07:58 And one thing we might want to do, Chris, As we learn from these types of trainings is we should probably suggest to customers if they want to do something like this that they don't stack this. I was a little surprised when I heard that they wanted to do three trainings in a row with that big of an audience. That were progressive because when we first talked, I thought it was three separate groups doing intro training, three days in a row. And I was like, okay, I get that. Like if it's three groups of ten all doing intro training, that makes sense. But, when you then told me, it was the same group three days in a row for two hours, it was too late at that point to say don't do that. But yeah. Speaker 6 00:08:45 If they ever try to do, if the customers ever try to do that again, tell them that's a really bad idea and don't ever do that again. Cause it's, that's just I don't know. No, no, no team is ever gonna do that for the first day and go, oh, my god. I want to do this two more days straight and unless they, yeah, you know, yeah. Speaker 1 00:09:08 Yeah. And it got to the point where they said yesterday, okay, everybody all in the same room because I think uh. One of the rooms, it was all the advanced guys and they weren't paying attention at all. So I think they realized. Speaker 6 00:09:21 They're going to get completely glassy- eyed and like they're going to think, I got two more days of this and be like, uh. I mean, I'm at Evolve for a day and I'm like the second day, I'm already like. Speaker 1 00:09:33 Olivia and I share your pain. Except for we had amazing groups that did not bore us as bad. But I did have when i started a group that did make me glassy- eyed. So, um, with Carney Properties, uh, I'm sorry. Sharp computer upgrades. Um, Robert did pause last week. Uh and Pete you'll be excited to know why he paused. He paused so that he could work on getting the last 40 stragglers uh off of LogMeIn into uh RMM. And so in one week, he jumped that number about 20 or 30. So it's 20 or 30 in RMM. Speaker 1 00:10:14 So we got about 20 left, and that's why he paused that. But we were. Speaker 6 00:10:18 So LogMeIn is almost done? Speaker 1 00:10:20 LogMeIn is almost done. We're tracking down that last 20 computers. So so good news there. Um DTLA has been transferred over to Onshore. Okay And then Alere, I was giving her a second to catch up, For sec. So, Alere, we are holding their training next week. And this one we actually did divide it out by departments. So executive team is on Friday, Internal operations is on Tuesday and project management. They're more advanced users is on Monday. So. Speaker 6 00:11:05 Now are we going to be able to are you going to be able to fit all that in and the Carney extended training next week? Yes. Along with your day job. Speaker 1 00:11:16 Yes. So I actually uh the Tuesday, the Tuesday training may change to the following week, so it's just a a hold. Um but I have some stuff going on Ability First. So I have made sure that there is room for everything and the Elire property training, I already have that set because this will be, I've already done one round of training with them so, We already have all that itinerary in. They are happy with the itinerary. We've already gone through it, so they are super ready to get started. So that one will be like sleeping while talking. Avalon test Julia, I didn't see a response from them yet on new training. Have you? Speaker 5 00:12:05 They did not Okay. Speaker 1 00:12:07 So we need to. I'm going to follow up with them uh today because I had it on my calendar to follow up with them today and get uh see where they're at. I think they've had some stuff going on, And then Barker Pacific have not responded uh for the setup and the next meeting. Some Julia sent out that email last week, and Julia, I know I noticed you had some hold on my calendars. Um actually yeah, Speaker 5 00:12:32 I'm gonna remove them and also for Barker Pacific. Speaker 7 00:12:36 The reason why they're holding up is because they need a team migration. Hi, give me one second. My computer to me, my phone picked up over my Teams about scope being delivered. Speaker 5 00:12:53 So, they really cannot do anything because they wanted to condense their team first migrated. So basically there's another project in the works right now. Speaker 6 00:13:06 So how much have we done for. Um. Did we lose? Sorry, Speaker 1 00:13:14 I was in another meeting and uh my phone flipped over my headset. Speaker 6 00:13:18 But how much have we actually done. Speaker 1 00:13:21 For so far? Nothing. I'm good. Speaker 6 00:13:25 So we haven't actually done any training. Speaker 1 00:13:27 No, we had one kickoff meeting and um that's it. I found Angie an OBGYN okay, And so I have I'm waiting on a call back from them. They're supposed to call me back today. Um, Speaker 1 00:13:42 And So to get her an appointment scheduled, she did have to go to urgent care last week.
- Processing Status
- Processed
2E54F79AB62C37DE12F91B5FD386A8694C023BD9-7CAC
- Notes
-  ## Core Synopsis The airport transfer booking is confirmed, but the communication chain is fragile: the Reservations Agent verified an Orly Airport → Paris booking and committed to send a confirmation email immediately while CC’ing April at the same Crimson IT domain; however, the interaction exposed ambiguity in the primary contact’s name (Ekaterina/Katerina), manual spelling of email addresses, and confusion about using WhatsApp to capture email data. The evidence is clear from the call: the customer reported no confirmation received, the agent found the booking and promised immediate dispatch, then struggled with accurate email capture and suggested WhatsApp as a workaround. The stakes are straightforward—airport pickups fail when confirmations and contact details aren’t airtight—so the only acceptable outcome is a clean, verified email confirmation to both addresses without reliance on ad hoc messaging apps. ## Communication Control: From Booking to Confirmation ### Booking Status Verification - The Reservations Agent located and confirmed a booking for Orly Airport to Paris. - The customer’s original issue: no confirmation email received after web booking. ### Contact Details Capture: Email Spelling Risk - The Agent read back “katrina@crimsonit.com” (phonetic/fragmented), indicating potential misspellings for “Ekaterina/Katerina.” - Manual capture increases error probability; there was no booking number exchanged to anchor the record on both sides. ### CC Request and Ownership Dynamics - The customer (April) requested that her email (april@crimsonit.com) be CC’d in the confirmation because Ekaterina is her manager. - The Agent agreed to include April’s address in the outgoing confirmation. ### Channel Confusion: WhatsApp vs. Email - The Agent asked for April’s email via WhatsApp tied to the number on file; April clarified she can provide the email directly. - Reliance on WhatsApp for email capture is a process mismatch for formal confirmations. ## Action Items **@Reservations Agent** - [ ] Send the booking confirmation email to katerina@crimsonit.com and CC april@crimsonit.com - [Immediately] - [ ] Include full booking details (route: Orly → Paris, date/time, vehicle, price, booking reference) in the email - [Immediately] - [ ] Reply-all confirmation that the email was sent; if any address bounces, follow up via WhatsApp to obtain the correct spelling and re-send - [Immediately]
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:14 H Ello. Hello. Speaker 2 00:00:15 Hello. Hi, um. I've booked a. Hello, can you hear me? Speaker 1 00:00:19 Yeah, yeah. Can I help you, sir. Speaker 2 00:00:22 Um yes, I booked a airport transfer earlier via your website. And I'm just wondering because we still did not receive the booking confirmation email. Speaker 1 00:00:35 Uh, let me check. Yes. Speaker 2 00:00:40 Do you need a booking number? Speaker 1 00:00:43 Ah yeah. Okay. Uh, madam, Miss uh, Donald Livison. Speaker 2 00:00:48 Uh no, um. Speaker 1 00:00:52 Ah okay yeah, okay. It's a. Speaker 1 00:01:09 Yes, Katerina. Orly Airport to Paris, okay. Uh, twenty seventeradak. Uh, yeah. Okay, your booking is confirm. I will send the booking confirmation now. Speaker 2 00:01:18 Okay, perfect. Could, you also pleaseum CC Do, you see the email address for Ekaterina right? On your end. Speaker 1 00:01:27 Ka trina at uh crimsonit dot com. Speaker 2 00:01:31 Crimson it dot yes, correct. Could could you also add another email when you send it? I can give you my email because Katerina is my boss, so I just want to make sure I will also receive the confirmation email. Speaker 1 00:01:44 Uh yeah okay I will uh now I will uh send or another emails, Speaker 2 00:01:50 Uh no uh so once you send the confirmation email to. Yeah, Katarina, could you also add my email address as well? Speaker 1 00:02:01 Yeah, uh, I you send me the through WhatsApp this number. Your email, Speaker 2 00:02:06 Uh No, I did not send you. Oh, a WhatsApp. Speaker 1 00:02:10 Yeah, this number. Speaker 2 00:02:13 Um. Yeah, that number that I gave you for Yekaterina, that they it has the WhatsApp. It also has a WhatsApp. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:21 Yeah. Okay. Ah. Ah. I I will send the message now. Are you send me that your email. Speaker 2 00:02:27 Yeah, I can give you my email now. Speaker 1 00:02:29 Okay. Yeah. Okay, Speaker 2 00:02:31 Okay. Um, it's my name is April. That's A like apple. April. Speaker 2 00:02:46 At Crimsonit dot com, same as Yekaterina. Speaker 2 00:02:53 Okay, Are you okay Please send it now, and we'll wait for it. Thank you so much. Speaker 1 00:02:57 Okay, thank you, ma'am. Okay, Speaker 2 00:02:59 Bye- bye. Have a nice day. You too. Bye- bye.
05-06 Training: Computer and Account Security for HIPAA Compliance
- Notes
- Date Time: 2026-05-06 15:53:30 Location: [Insert Location]: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name]: Ms. Brown ## Summary This session is a guided, hands-on training focused on strengthening computer and account security for HIPAA compliance. Ms. Brown walks employees through setting up a Windows Hello PIN on their Windows laptops/desktops and enabling two-step verification on their Google accounts. The training includes creating a Passkey and setting up the Google Authenticator app on mobile phones. It is interactive, with step-by-step instructions, Q&A, and real-time troubleshooting. It is also noted that more IT training sessions will be offered in the future to improve efficiency. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Training Introduction - **Purpose of the Training** - The primary goal is to guide employees through setting up Windows Hello on their computers. - The session is a manual walkthrough, providing assistance for anyone needing help with the process. - **Training Resources and Format** - A Windows Hello setup guide will be sent to all participants. - Employees comfortable with the written guide may leave before the hands-on portion concludes. - The training is recorded; access to the recording will be provided for re-watching or sharing. - The meeting is held on Microsoft Teams, supporting hand-raising, reactions, chat, and avatars. - **Future IT Initiatives** - The company plans additional optional IT trainings to help employees increase efficiencies and learn more about tools like Google and other computer functions. ### 2. Windows Hello PIN Setup - **Accessing Settings** - Click the Start button (center or far-left of the screen). - Select "Settings," or type "settings" in the search bar if not visible. - **Navigating to Sign-in Options** - In Settings, click "Accounts" (green person icon on the left). - Select "Sign-in options" (typically the third option). - **Setting up the PIN** - Under "Ways to sign in," choose to set up a PIN under Windows Hello. - The PIN can be 4–8 characters, typically numbers, with an option to include letters. - After setting the PIN, raise your hand in Teams to confirm completion. - **Troubleshooting PIN Setup** - If an error occurs, open a help desk ticket and include the error message. - Errors often indicate deeper laptop issues requiring IT attention. - **Other Sign-in Methods** - After the PIN, you may configure facial recognition (if your camera supports it) or fingerprint recognition (if available). - The instructor also mentioned a physical security key and is available to show it in her office on Mondays and Wednesdays. ### 3. Google Account Two-Step Verification - **Accessing Google Security Settings** - In Chrome, go to Gmail. - Click your initial or profile picture in the top-right to open the Google Account menu. - Select "Manage your Google Account." - Go to the "Security" tab (also referred to as "Security and sign on"). You may be prompted to re-enter your Google password. - **Enabling Two-Step Verification** - In Security settings, click "Two-Step Verification." - If it is off, turn it on. - **Setting up a Passkey** - Under Two-Step Verification, select "Passkeys and security keys." - Click "Create a passkey." - In the Windows Security pop-up, click "Continue" to save the passkey. - Enter the Windows Hello PIN you just created when prompted. - This setup is necessary for both laptop and desktop users to meet HIPAA compliance. - **Setting up the Google Authenticator App** - For laptop users with a SHARP cell phone. Desktop-only users without a company phone may leave at this point. - On the phone (iPhone or Android), open the App Store. - Search for and download "Google Authenticator" (multi-colored star-like icon). - On the computer, return to the Google Two-Step Verification screen and click "Authenticator app." - Follow the on-screen instructions. - In the Authenticator app, tap the plus (+) sign and select "Scan a QR code." - Use the phone’s camera to scan the QR code on the computer to link the account. - **How Google Authenticator Works** - The app generates six-digit codes that refresh every few seconds, shown by a circular timer. - This time-based system is a form of two-factor authentication (2FA) that enhances security. - The PIN is the first line of defense for logging into the computer, while the authenticator app is the second line of defense and a backup, required when accessing the Google account from a new computer. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. All users: Set up a Windows Hello PIN on your laptop or desktop. - [ ] 2. All users: Create a Passkey for your Google Account to ensure HIPAA compliance. - [ ] 3. Laptop users with a company cell phone: Install Google Authenticator and link it to your Google account for two-step verification. - [ ] 4. Users encountering errors (e.g., PIN setup or Passkey creation): Open a support ticket by emailing itsupport@sharpca.org with the error details. - [ ] 5. Dana: Wait for assistance with resetting your Google password after the training.
- Date
- May 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:07 I'm not going to be able to do that. Hello, how are you guys? Hopefully you guys can hear me. Yes, I'm blessed. Speaker 2 00:00:24 Thank you. Speaker 1 00:00:25 Good. I will turn my computer on closer to four o'clock. I just saw that you guys had already joined. I figured I would join and keep you company for a moment while I am. Work ing on a few items, if that's okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:05:48 Um, Just a heads up for you guys while we're waiting on everyone to join us. Um. I am going to send out a guide on how to set up Windows Hello. Which is what we're going to be going through today. Speaker 2 00:06:19 So, Do we still need to participate in the training if we're okay with just the guide? Oh, okay. Speaker 1 00:06:25 Well, if you are okay with a guide, yes because afterum. You don't have to stay for the training if you are good with walking through the instructions, but if you'd like help or you'd like. For just someone to be here, that's what today is for us. You know, just to walk you guys through it manually. Okay, yeah. Speaker 1 00:06:49 Thank you. You're welcome. And I'm going to share my screen so you guys can see it firsthand. Bear with me one second. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:07:20 All right, let's go ahead and get started. It looks like it's just the four of us, which is not an issue. I am going to share out my screen. I do want to give you guys a quick heads up. Um, as we go through this, um, oh, Pratt's joining us. Awesome. Uh, give you guys a quick heads up. We are going to be doing more of these trainings in the future. Um, So I just want you guys to be aware that um they are coming and what we're going to be doing is we're going to go through a lot of different IT things try to help you um. Get some increased efficiencies and different things like that. You don't have to attend the trainings, But it's pretty useful if you guys want to learn more about how to use Google or how to do various things within your computer. We are going to be having those come soon, so just want to give you guys a quick heads up to that. Also, we are recording this training, so once the training is over with We will grant you access to that. In fact, I just realized I didn't start it this time. Speaker 1 00:08:19 I am going to start it, okay? So we are going to start recording now, And then that way, if you guys want to rewatch it or if you want to send this out. To anyone, you're more than welcome to do that. Now, The very first thing we're going to do today is we are going to actually set up a PIN for your laptop. And so what I want you guys to do to follow along, you guys should be able to see my screen. Let me know if you're unable to do so. Speaker 1 00:08:50 Or you're unable to see it. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Yeah. Awesome. Fantastic. Um, so real quickly, I am using Teams to do today's meeting just because it's a lot easier. It will allow you guys to do fun things like raise your hand, react, different things like that. In fact, if you guys want to be on camera. There are some fun tools that you can do within it if you wanted to. So just a quick heads up for that. If you don't want to show your faces on camera, not a big deal at all. I do not mind that at all for you guys. You just let me know what works best for you. I am turning on my camera though. I don't know why it suddenly turned off, maybe it thought maybe it heard me talking about it. Um. Speaker 1 00:09:44 But if you guys have any questions, you can also put it in the chat. The chat is open and I'm going to send out Um. some different things later on. So right now, just to have fun with this training, I am going to turn on my avatar. And we are going to have some fun today. Real quickly. What we're going to do is we're going to work through getting your computers, whether you're on a desktop or laptop. We're going to go ahead and And set you guys up to sign in only with a PIN instead of a password. And so to do that, it's going to be fairly straightforward. On your computers, you're going to click the Start button, which is down here in the middle of my screen. So for you guys, It can either be in the middle of your screen or to the far left or wherever you might have it. And once you click on that start button, You should have a window come up like this, and it should show you settings. If it doesn't. Speaker 1 00:10:43 You can just search for settings bytyping in settings. Speaker 1 00:10:48 Okay. And I've got mine on. In fact, I'm going to minimize this window right here if it will let me. Let's try it this way. All right, So I'm going to minimize that window. So all you can see is my settings. I'm going to make it a little bit bigger. And from your settings window, What I want you guys to do is I want you to click on account. And accounts is over here in this left field. Left side of my window has a little green icon of a person. And once you go to accounts, You can go to sign in options and sign in options should be the third one down. Now, The very first thing we're going to do is we're going to set up a PIN for you. I want you guys set up a PIN first, and then you're welcome to go back in and set up any other way of signing in. So for me, I have camera sign in and I have security key sign in. Speaker 1 00:11:41 So my security key is actually a physical key. I'm not going to show it to you guys because that would, I would have to disconnect my laptop for that, and that's just not going to work. So, what we'll do is everybody's going to set up a PIN under Windows Hello first. And for me, I've already set it. So I've already, I've got an option to change PIN. But for everybody else, you can go ahead and set that up. It's going to allow you to set up a pin anywhere from four to eight characters, all numbers. But, there is an option there to change that to letters, if you would like. And so mine's already there and says change pin. I'm not going to worry about changing it for you guys to see it. But take a moment right now. What I want you guys to do is once you see, or once you've got your pen set up on your laptop or desktop, I want you to click on raise your hand. Okay. And then if you're having a problem with that PIN. Speaker 1 00:12:39 It's not allowing you to set it up. Then, what I want you to do is open a ticket with the help desk. Letting us know the error that you've got, and that way we can take care of that for you. Normally when that error occurs, There's something going on with your laptop a little bit deeper that we got to take care of. So. Now, if you're a laptop user and you're having problems with that PIN, not a big deal because when we get to the authenticator. You can set up the authenticator for your Google, which is important. You'll still need to do that with us. So. Thank you, Daniel. All right. So Again, Just in case, I was speaking a little too fast because I tend to do that accidentally. You'll have to let me know to slow down. Just raise your hand once you are done with setting up your PIN. Speaker 1 00:13:40 Oh, you guys are quick. I'm loving this. Speaker 1 00:13:57 And Just a heads up, um, if you are if you're around other people who haven't joined this training, um, your once you've gotten through it. You are more than welcome to walk them through it later on, because by the time you guys are done with this, you're going to be experts. I promise that along with the documents, I'm going to send you guys on how to set it up. Okay uh Keisha I think I saw your hand raised did I Okay, I okay good. Um. Speaker 1 00:14:36 Anyone struggling with it, if you're struggling with it, go up to your React button. And throw me over a surprised look if you're struggling with setting up your PIN. And that's going to look like this. If you look at my picture, you'll see the surprised look. It's up there under React. So if you need help, send over that. Hi Carla. All right. Speaker 1 00:15:08 Jennifer, how's it looking for you? You're doing good. You can also send me a thumbs up if you want, if you're doing good. That's what a thumbs up looks like. All right, perfect. Like I said, we're going to have fun here. All right, if you guys want to go ahead and just drop your hand raise, you're more than welcome to do that. We're going to go into the next piece. But just a heads up for you guys, later on, you're welcome to set up facial recognition as well. If you have the option for fingerprint, which I do not, you're welcome to set that up. I'm not going to talk to you guys about what a security key is. Just know that some of us have those. And if you ever want to see one, you can come see me in the office. I'm here on Mondays and Wednesdays. Um. Speaker 1 00:16:07 And I am at another client on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So, but you are more than welcome to come in and check it out. So real quickly, we are done with this portion. You guys can minimize that. I'm going to minimize mine. Ignore all my icons. I got too many icons. My screen should there's too many icons. I am going to go into Sharp. And. So basically, what we're going to do is go into your email for me. Speaker 1 00:16:37 And Dana, I tried to email you today on the email you left on the form. So I do apologize if you didn't get the original one. It was just being weird. All right. Now what we're going to do is I want you to click on your, If you have a face here or your initial over here on the far right. I'm hovering over it says Google account. I want you to click on that. And this cool little screen is going to pop up. And I'm going to click on Manage your Google Account. And so you're going to see this lovely screen come up. Throw me, you send me a thumbs up if you got to the screen okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:17:35 Awesome. Dana's got it. Diana's got it. Keisha's got it. Latisha's got it. Daniel has it. All right, we're looking good. Chris and Nikki, you guys good and Carla. Can you repeat it? I had some background noise. Not a problem. Feel free anytime you see that. So go into your Gmail. In Chrome. And then go up here to this little, uh, your little initial up here and you're going to click on that. And you're gonna go to Manage your Google Account. And it's going to pop up with this little screen right here. Okay, I got it. Perfect. All right. Once you're in here, I want you guys to go to security and sign on. Speaker 1 00:18:33 It might ask you to put your password in again. If it does, no big deal. Speaker 1 00:18:52 And Let me know when you guys are there. The only reason why I'm pausing so much is because I have a tendency of. In my neurodivergent ways, just start talking and forget to make sure everybody's still following. I am terrible when you go to Disneyland with me. If you ever go, I am the one who speed walks through Disneyland and then I forget to turn around, look and see if anybody is following me that should be following me. Ask my daughter. I lose her all the time. She's a slow walker, I'm a fast walker. All right. Speaker 1 00:19:27 So in here, in security and sign on, you're going to see an option for two-step verification. If you do not see that it's turned on, all you got to do is click on it. Everybody's going to click on it, anyways. But we're going to click on it. I'm going to put in my password. And hang on, I've got a password tool that keeps track of all my passwords because I have a million and two of them. You're going to enter your password. And say next. And thenum. If you had the option, turn it on. Go ahead and turn it on for two- step verification once you're here. And as you guys can see, I got a lot of second steps in here. So we're going to go through these. I'm going to start with the easy ones. Speaker 2 00:20:19 Should it be for passkeys and security keys or for the authenticator or the phone number? Speaker 1 00:20:25 We're going to go through that in a moment because we're going to set up each one of them. So, but that's a good question. I love it. Uh, very first thing we're going to do for everybody but Daniel. I do apologize, Daniel. You can't do this part. I'm sorry. The next part. Yes, ma'am. Speaker 2 00:20:40 I have a question. Which password are we supposed to put in? Speaker 1 00:20:43 Your Google password. Speaker 2 00:20:45 Because I put in mine and it's not going in. Speaker 1 00:20:48 Your email password. Speaker 2 00:20:48 It's not going through. Yeah, it's not going through. No. Speaker 1 00:20:52 Who who's having a problem with their password? Besides Dana, was anybody else? Just Dana. Okay, Dana, I can reset your email password after we're done here. Um or I can have you call the help desk and have them reset it. One or the other. Where are you located, Dana? Speaker 2 00:21:22 Um, eighty seven fifty Vermont. Speaker 1 00:21:24 Oh, okay. I was gonna say you could also come by my office, but that's a little too far for you to walk over. So, um, if you can't put your password in, don't worry about it. We'll I will help you with this one a little bit in after this. And get you in correctly. For everybody else, but Daniel, 'cause Daniel can't do it on his computer. But Daniel, stay with us 'cause the next part after this one you can do, I promise. For everybody else, what I want you to do is click on passkeys and security keys. Okay. And you're going to create a passkey. I got to first delete mine because I can't walk you through this, unless I delete it. So you're going to create a passkey. And this little blue screen is going to pop up, and you're going to say, create a passkey. And then Windows Security is going to pop up and it's going to say, Save your passkey? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:22:19 I want to save my passkey, so I'm going to say continue. And that PIN that you just set up, you're going to enter that one more time. And as soon as you enter, you don't have to hit enter. It's just going to go away. It does show for you, Daniel. Okay. If it does, see if you can try it. Now, if you're a desktop user, this is what you have to do to become HIPAA compliant on your desktop. Speaker 1 00:22:50 And laptop users, this will also enable you to be HIPAA compliant. Well, that Daniel, you are just that's not cool. I will get you fixed. I promise you, I will get you fixed and we'll get you through that. Add that information in the ticket so that we can get that fixed. All right. Once your passkey is created, click Done. Speaker 1 00:23:27 Yeah, I have that same error up here, but trust me, I'm going to fix that in a bit. Um, I'm going to turn that on for everybody in the company. All right, so once you've done pass keys, click back. If you are a desktop user only. And you do not have a sharp cell phone. You can drop from this call. Because you don't need, you don't, you can't do the next part. But if you are a laptop user, This is where our cell phones are going to come in handy. Speaker 2 00:23:58 Do you mind going through that stuff really quickly? I was able to get in. Speaker 1 00:24:02 Oh, awesome. All right, so once you're in You're going to click on two- step verification. So you should see the security and sign- on window, just like what I have. And you're going to click on two- step verification. And then from here, you're going to click on Passkeys and security keys. Speaker 1 00:24:25 And then you're going to click on Create a passkey. Once you do that, it's going to pop up a window. You're going to say continue. And then from there, It's going to ask you to put in the PIN number that you just created on your laptop. Or your desktop, whichever one you have. Speaker 1 00:25:01 And then once you've done it, you're going to see your devices under Passkeys. And then from there, you can you're done. And then we're going to hit the back button. Now, this little arrow right here, this one right here, I'm going to take that off in a little bit. So it's going to allow you to do pass keys for sign in. Because it does clear us for HIPAA compliance if you're using a passkey, which is amazing. Okay. Now, if you're a laptop user with a Sharp cell phone, just a heads up, we're going to set up Authenticator. All right, so this is where you're going to need your cell phone. So for Authenticator, I am going to turn off my avatar. Because I want to show you my cell phone. All right. In your cell phone, you're going to go to the App Store. Now I have an iPhone, but if you have an Android, very similar. Speaker 1 00:25:59 So, you're going to go into the App Store and you're going to search for Google. Authenticator. Now, I want to be very clear on this next step. When you get there, you're going to see advertisements for things that don't apply. What you're looking for is this little icon here. It's going to look like the star. And it's going to be multicolored. And so if you click on it, This what it looks like. It's going to say Google Authenticator. Don't click on anything else but this app. This the app that you need. Okay, and you're going to download and install that app. That is awesome. If it was already downloaded, perfect. And once it's downloaded or if it's already downloaded. Throw me a raise hands again so that I know. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:26:58 That's awesome. Daniel, you can't. Are you having issues again? Feel free to jump in. You guys don't have to stay muted if you don't want to. Oh, it's still downloading. Okay, not a problem. We're holding for you. All right, you're good Daniel. Perfect. All right, Jennifer. How about you, Chris and Carla? Are you guys good? All right, Jennifer's good. All right. Uh, Chris and Carla's good. Chris, how about you? Speaker 1 00:27:60 All right, perfect. All right, So what we're going to do is go back to the screen, and you're going to see Authenticator here. You're going to click on Authenticator. Now I already have it, but you guys should see something where you can start the setup for this. And go ahead and follow the instructions on the screen. It's been so long since I've done it, I do apologize. I looked at all my Google accounts, and none of them have the authenticator set up, or all of them have the authenticator set up, so I can't show it to you from scratch. Speaker 4 00:28:37 Hello. Ms. Brown? Yes. Um, sorry, so when I when I click the picture it says, do you want to add the token named Google and then my my email? Do I press yes for the token? Mhm. Okay. Speaker 2 00:29:17 After, should I turn on two- step verification? Speaker 1 00:29:20 Yes. And if you can, lower your hand. I'm going to lower some of your hands. automatically, but That way we can we can see who's all got. In a second, I'm going to ask another question for you guys to raise your hand on. Speaker 1 00:29:49 All right. Now, I want you guys to raise your hands in the app, if you've already got it set up or you're finished with the setup. Okay. No worries. Speaker 4 00:30:04 Just real quick, Ms. Brown, sorry. So on my actual phone, um the Timer and the numbers keep on refreshing. Do I just back out of that? Speaker 1 00:30:13 Yeah, if you've got timers and they're refreshing, that's perfect. In fact, that's the next thing I'm going to show you guys. So on my phone, you're going to see mine. Mine's in red right now, and then it turned blue. That this little thing right here. This little pie that's slowly counting down, that is a timer. Each of these codes refresh every few seconds. And so you can see, I have a lot of apps on here. I have a lot of apps on here. So I got quite a few things on here that's protected by this app. Um, this is not even my main app either. Speaker 1 00:30:47 But, the way this works is it refreshes every few seconds, and you'll see it changes to red when it's about to refresh one more time. And that is by design. So each one of those will refresh on a set schedule. And that way bad actors can't try to copy your code. In a way. So I know that one, that one looks a little uh. That one's got a lot of stuff on it, but not as bad as this one. This my main one, and you can see this like long. I have so many apps on there. This where a lot of companies are going to for HIPAA compliance. Or for most of the compliances, and so that's called two factor. And the way it works is it's connected to the Google site. And that code is automatically refreshed every few seconds, and that way Google has it, and Google can verify. Speaker 1 00:31:43 That the person who's typing in that code is the person who has the authenticator in front of them because it refreshes so quickly. Does that make sense? I'm sorry for me. I have a question. Um, it just says, uh, to add a code. Do I click on it? Uh, if it says add a code, yes. Okay, and then it takes me to scan a QR code. QR code or enter a setup key. So you're going to scan a QR code. But when you're in Google Authenticator here, there is an option right here, this little plus sign on your phone. And if you click that, you're going to do a scan a QR code from that app. And it's going to give you a camera. And you scan the QR code with that camera pop that pops up. Okay. Speaker 3 00:32:38 And don't worry, we've got until 4:45. Speaker 1 00:32:42 So you guys can keep asking questions as you need to. I'm here for you. And if it gets boring, I might tell a few jokes. Maybe. Probably not. I don't know any good jokes anymore. Now, If you are done with setting up the authenticator and you don't want to hang out with me, You're welcome to drop from the call because that's pretty much all that we had to do. Speaker 1 00:33:10 And now you're an expert at setting these up. So if you want to drop, if you don't want to hear my voice anymore, feel free to drop at this point. I'm going to stick around until the last person leaves. So. Speaker 4 00:33:24 I'm so sorry, I missed that. So we can leave once we're done with the authenticator app? Speaker 1 00:33:29 Yeah. That's it. Oh, Speaker 4 00:33:32 Okay, and thenum for a ticket. I'm sorry, I know you sent an email, but I know it's not the sameum way to send a ticket. U m, how do we send a ticket again? Speaker 1 00:33:41 It's quite all right. Uh, let me do this. I am going to uh, I'm gonna. Just in an email. It's it support at sharp ca dot org. Speaker 4 00:33:52 I'm so sorry. Give me a quick second. Speaker 1 00:33:56 No worries, you're good. Take your time. That's what I'm here for. So Diana, the QR code comes from this window right here. You'll have an option to set up an authenticator app. And so you'll click on setup. Oh she accidentally left oh no it's okay. Speaker 4 00:34:27 You said it support as sharp. CA dot org. Yes. Then I'll just put ticket. Speaker 4 00:34:36 Support Slash support. I'll just put to get. Speaker 2 00:34:39 Yes. Sorry, Miss Brown. Yes, ma'am. This is Jennifer. Sorry, I. So once the numbers are alreadyum on my phone, the numbers that are producing with the little time clock, then that means I'm set up already. Yes, ma'am Okay, and so when does this take effect? Right now. Like when will we need this? Oh, so once I log out of my computer and log back in, it's gonna ask me for this. Speaker 1 00:35:06 It's going to ask you for the PIN. PIN is going to be your first line of defense. Your authenticator is your second line of defense. Speaker 2 00:35:14 I see. So I'll be able to enter the PIN that I set up today. Yes, and then then it'll ask me for the code on my phone. Speaker 1 00:35:24 It'll do the PIN first, and that's it. But if you if you ever forget your PIN, then the authenticator app. Is going to be your backup. Now, if you try to access your Google account on another computer. Uh, you'll need that authenticator app. Speaker 2 00:35:43 I see. Okay, I think I got it. Thank you so much for your help. No worries. Speaker 1 00:35:47 You guys have a great day. Nikki, how are you doing? You too. Oh, Nikki left. And Daniel, how's everything going? Were you able to get that email sent? Speaker 4 00:35:56 Yeah, I just sent the email right now and thenum I'll just go based off of that. Yes. Speaker 1 00:36:01 U h, the help desk. I know Gaston and Robert are already gone for the day. Um, if any other techs on our team have availability, they may try to call you today. If not, they will reach out to you tomorrow. Speaker 4 00:36:13 Yeah, it could be a tomorrow problem. It's already four thirty, Speaker 1 00:36:15 So no worries. All right, Speaker 4 00:36:18 Thank you. Appreciate you. All righty, have a good one. Speaker 1 00:36:20 You're welcome. Speaker 4 00:36:20 Have a great evening Bye bye bye Bye bye Likewise I'm sorry.
05-21 Meeting: Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness and Deployment
- Notes
- > Meeting Date: 2026-05-21 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1], [Christi], [Mike], [Speaker 4], [Speaker 5] ## Meeting Notes ### **Project Kick-off: Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness and Deployment** - **Description:** - Christi introduced the project to deliver a structured Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness and deployment program. - The goal is to measure productivity gains with generative AI while ensuring the tenant is hardened, governed, and ready for audit. - The project will be divided into coordinated workstreams: data protection and governance foundations, and a phased Copilot deployment. - Christi's team is accountable for technical delivery, design, and adoption. The Alere team is accountable for sponsorship and timely project-related decisions. ### **Project Scope: Inclusions and Exclusions** - **Description:** - **In Scope:** - Microsoft 365 tenant readiness assessment. - Hardening of conditional access and privileged identity management (PIM). - Collaboration with PEC to ensure good access hardening. - Design and deployment of sensitivity and retention labels. - Activation and deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot for all users by project end. - Structured feedback collection from users via forms. - Mobile Copilot enablement via Intune Mobile Device Management. - Weekly status reporting and recurring working sessions. - Final transition to a steady state with ongoing Copilot governance and help desk support. - **Out of Scope:** - Endpoint hardware procurement or refresh. - Data migration from platforms like Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive. - Major Copilot extension or plugin development. - Third-party AI tooling outside the Microsoft Copilot family (excluding the included OpenAI and Claude). - Replacement of existing MSP relationships outside the 365 stack. - License procurement beyond Copilot. ### **Project Phasing** #### **Phase 1: Tenant Readiness and Security Foundations** - The initial phase will validate findings from an external security audit and remediate issues related to data protection, tenant housekeeping, and external/guest access. - Key deliverables include designing and deploying sensitivity labels, DLP policies, and retention policies, with explicit validation of global relay journaling. - The team will review 22 app registrations and service principals to remove obsolete ones and will also review the one conditional access policy currently in report-only mode. - The PIM configuration package will be reviewed for relevant roles. #### **Phase 2: License Activation and Working Infrastructure** - This phase focuses on activating and validating Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses for the pilot team. - A shared Microsoft Teams channel and document repository will be established for collaboration. - Deliverables include a license activation record, pilot readiness confirmation, and documented configuration changes. #### **Phase 3: Pilot Deployment and Feedback Collection** - Copilot will be deployed to the pilot group, followed by user training on prompt patterns and specific use cases. - Feedback will be collected to capture "wins" and "losses," and data access will be monitored via Microsoft Purview. - A survey will be sent to the entire organization to gather insights, concluding with a "go/no-go" evaluation for full deployment. #### **Phase 4: Full Deployment and User Enablement** - If approved, Copilot will be extended to all users with comprehensive training, including extra "pre-basics" sessions at no cost. - Quick reference materials will be provided, internal champions identified, and a help desk escalation path established. - Copilot will be enabled on mobile devices via Intune (MDM), with training on mobile use cases. #### **Phase 5: Post-Deployment Monitoring and Project Closeout** - After full deployment, the team will monitor Copilot activation, use, and feature adoption. - Outcomes will be assessed by interviewing department heads. - The project will conclude with a formal closeout meeting and the handover of operational ownership, with continued support provided post-handover. ### **Copilot Training and Data Management Strategy** - **Training:** - The pilot group will receive separate, extensive training to test use cases with email, Excel, Word, etc., to help tailor general staff training. - A smaller, separate session for the executive team was considered. - All training sessions will be recorded and made available for download (links expire after 30 days). - The pilot group is tasked with developing 2-3 test use cases each. - **Data Interaction:** - A key concern is how Copilot will interact with 20 years of restructured company data, which could lead to poor results. - Data cleanup is considered a "phase two" project. - The interim solution is for users to manually drag and drop specific files into Copilot for analysis to ensure the correct data is used, rather than allowing access to entire network folders. - **Application Integration:** - Future integration with internal systems like the MRI accounting system and Argus was discussed. - Other potential integrations mentioned include Salesforce, Notion, HubSpot, Canva, and Jira. - It was clarified that Copilot natively supports reading PDF files, and the upcoming Adobe integration is more for managing assets in the Adobe Cloud. ### **Team Introductions and Roles** - **Christi's Team:** - **Julia:** Project Manager, training Paula. - **Paula:** New Project Manager (in training). - **Gabby:** Microsoft Engineer and Engineering Lead. - **Alere Team:** - **Giancarlo Foppiano:** Leading the project for Alere. - **Kenny Yoon:** Chief Flogger. - **PEC Team:** Present from Chicago, involved in ownership. - **Roles & Responsibilities:** - **Executive Sponsor:** [Speaker 4] - **Business Stakeholders:** [Speaker 4], Kenny, and Daniel. - **Pilot Users:** Colin, Mark, Jolie, Daniel, Sam, and [Speaker 4]. A correction was made to Mark's last name. ### **Alere Operations and Technology Update** - Giancarlo reported that technology onboarding for new hires has been smooth. - The team is considering acquiring iPads for property managers to use with the "fixed" application for project workflows. Mike added this to the agenda. ### **Project Logistics and Planning** - **Meeting Cadence:** A recurring weekly 30-minute status meeting will be held on Thursdays from 11:30 AM to noon, starting the week of June 1st, 2026. The PUC team will be optional attendees. - **Communication:** A weekly status email will be sent on Fridays. A shared, cross-federation Teams channel and chat will be created for routine questions and project artifacts. - **Blackout Dates:** The team will avoid changes during specified blackout periods. Giancarlo provided dates, and additional dates for month-end closing in late June and mid-July may be needed. - **Team Availability:** Christi will be on vacation for a week in June and another in August; Gabby and Julia will be her backups. - **Office Locations:** Alere has four offices: 6000 Newport, 316 Newport, San Francisco, and El Segundo. ### **Success Criteria and Risks** - **Success Criteria:** The project is successful when security postures are mitigated, all policies (sensitivity, DLP, retention) are active, Copilot is fully enabled (including mobile), and an adoption baseline is established. - **Risks & Dependencies:** - Coordination with third-party providers like Global Relay. - Potential for pilot user resistance or low engagement. - Possible conflicts with business calendars outside provided blackout dates. - Potential technical issues with MDM during the mobile rollout. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to send the recurring weekly meeting invitation for Thursdays, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM. - [ ] Christi to create the shared Microsoft Teams channel/chat and add relevant members. - [ ] Christi to send the project plan document and other relevant documents for verification and collaborative edits. - [ ] Validate project details to input them into ConnectWise. - [ ] [Speaker 4] to provide additional blackout dates for the end of June and middle of July. - [ ] [Speaker 4] to send Christi a list of everyone on the PEC side who needs to be included in communications. - [ ] Connect on the best way to procure and set up iPads for property managers. - [ ] The team will begin Phase 1 activities. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. A decision on the cadence for recurring project meetings was mentioned but seems to have been finalized as Thursdays at 11:30 AM. Final confirmation via the invite is pending. > 2. The procurement and setup of iPads for property managers was added to the agenda, but no specific next steps or owners were assigned. > 3. A decision on whether to implement PIM for PEC is still pending. > 4. The executive sponsor role needs final confirmation. > 5. A complete list of users for the new Teams channel was not finalized. > 6. A decision was not made on scheduling a separate, dedicated Copilot session for the executive team. > 7. While data cleanup was identified as a necessary "phase two," there are no defined steps, owners, or timelines for this long-term initiative.
- Date
- May 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:05 Good Morning. Good morning. Good morning, Chris. Hi Paula. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Hello everyone, good morning. Good morning, Paula. All right, Uh I have the agenda in the system and I am utilizing some newer features of Copilot. So you guys might see that. Speaker 1 00:00:28 I can see that on top I love it. Yes. For whatever reason, my my agenda doesn't show up on Teams anymore. Hmm, interesting. I. Speaker 2 00:00:43 Didn't get a chance to change the agenda inum. Speaker 1 00:00:55 My brain is not working this morning, Speaker 2 00:00:57 In the meeting itself but. Speaker 2 00:01:01 Giancarlo sent me over information. So I have updated it in my project plan. And I'm working on fixing it. I had to, I hand wrote it and I realized my fingers are still bothering me. And so when I rewrote it, I was like, okay, I got to send this through through AI because there's way too many misspellings. Speaker 3 00:01:30 So Do we have that in connect wise yet or no I would like Paula to to proct well? Speaker 2 00:01:36 So I am going to I'll send it over once because we got to validate everything todayum and then once we validate, then we can put it into connect wise Jean. Carlo did say he was coming to this meeting. So uh, he he's. Speaker 3 00:01:54 John Carlo John Carlo. And Daniel, I would think. Okay, perfect. Move. Speaker 1 00:02:03 Here. I think it's just. Speaker 3 00:02:07 Giancarlo stepping in operationally because it's just. I usually meet with Daniel and Kenny, but I know for things like this when we were managing the move, Giancarlo was involved like with choosing vendors and stuff like that. Speaker 2 00:02:24 Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, he he did respond back. He's the technical project owner. Um, he did send me blackout dates and uh yes. Speaker 3 00:02:37 Just a reminder, we have four offices for Alere. So I'm not sure if that's going to be taken into consideration, but bulk is at 6000 Newport work, the new office 316 Newport. And then you have John Carlo in San Francisco. And then there's like one or two people in the El Segundo office. Gotcha. Speaker 2 00:02:54 Oh, and I'm at Ability First today. So, uh just a quick heads up on my camera. Speaker 3 00:02:60 Hope your internet's working better. Speaker 2 00:03:02 It is. We upgraded it. Good. Yeah, but I don't have a camera in this office Oh, I see, We had to loan out my camera to someone else that just started and needed a camera. Speaker 1 00:03:14 So Okay We will be replacing mine Good morning. Speaker 1 00:03:24 Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Every. Speaker 3 00:03:30 Time I see your name, I love it because I just think of my uncle or my step uncle in New York. Yeah, my wife's uncle is Zeo; his name is Giancarlo. And besides you, he's the only other Carlo I've ever met so. Speaker 4 00:03:45 Yeah, I haven't met too many in my life either. Speaker 2 00:03:49 So, I have a family member. Also with the same name, except for we pronounce it Giancarlo. So I am going to mess it up and mispronounce it all the time. So please bear with me because. Speaker 3 00:04:00 I already tried correcting you before you hopped on, Speaker 2 00:04:02 But I know. But I have known this gentleman my entire life. He's he's one of my godfathers, soum it's going to be a hard one to break. Speaker 3 00:04:15 What you're saying is when when you hear that, it's endearing. Speaker 2 00:04:18 It is very endearing because he he's the one who taught me how to uh parallel park using a John Deere tractor stick shift. So very endearing. He also taught me to ride my first horse. So yeah, so every time I see your name, I I think of him. Speaker 3 00:04:38 Andum I wanted to, at least be part of some of this, but I'm going to have to hop a little bit early. So I'm just gonna. I'll just make a note in chat and drop off. Speaker 2 00:04:46 Okay, everyone has time. Uh, is Kenny and Daniel coming? Speaker 4 00:04:52 I believe they should be. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I thought they were. Speaker 3 00:04:57 And how are the onboarding? Oh, sorry, go ahead Chris. Speaker 2 00:04:60 No, go ahead ask your questions. Speaker 3 00:05:01 I was just going to ask John Carl how the onboarding's going. I know the move went pretty well, and Rebecca did a great job coordinating everything. And uh right now, I know you guys are are filling seats. Speaker 4 00:05:12 Yeah. Any feedback on that? Or is that you know, I think 90. Five percent of the hires have started, and as far as I know, you know it's been pretty smooth with the technology onboarding. Andum, and I think we've got another one that starts on June first. Maybe we have like a couple open positions, but for the most part, you know everybody's kind of in place at this point. Speaker 3 00:05:40 That's good. Congratulations. That's awesome. So on this end of it, we're like okay cool but, Leading up to it, I know is very stressful. Sure. Speaker 4 00:05:50 Yeah. Yeah, I think everything has been going good. You know, Kenny and I were looking into maybe adding a few technology pieces, maybe getting some iPads that that the team members, The property managers will be able to take out to the field and use with the fixed application that they. Tend to use for their workflows of their projects. It's just, it's a lot. It would be a lot easier to manage on an iPad than I think on their phones. And it's not necessarily like an application, It's still like going to the browser and I think property managers, you know, would rather see it on a larger screen. So, we're looking into getting a couple of those items and maybe we'll have to connect on the best way to. Speaker 4 00:06:45 Set those up even within the environment. Speaker 3 00:06:47 I'm going to put that on the meeting agenda right now, just so we don't lose it. So, appreciate that. Speaker 2 00:06:54 Perfect. Um, let's go ahead and get started real quick. I do want to say hello to everybody that joined. Bear with me, my camera, I don't have a camera at the office I'm sitting in. It is one of my offices, But we had an executive start this week at my client site, and they borrowed my camera and I need to replace it. So no camera for me, but our next meeting I will have a camera. So I do apologize for that. Um, I'd like to quickly give you guys uh introductions over here and then let you guys introduce yourself. I do know Kenny already so um hi Kenny it's been a while. Speaker 2 00:07:27 I need to come back down there and take you out to lunch again. So, I want to introduce my team. You guys all know Mike. I'm going to start with Julia. Julia is one of our awesome project managers here, however, I'm going to be managing this project because this one's more my realm. Julia is working on training Paula. Paula is one of our new project managers that just started with us this week, and so she's also on here. And then Gabby is one of my best Microsoft engineers, And she is jumping in because she's going to be working on the remediation of the assessments and everything that we have going on. And so she's going to be working hand in hand on this project. She's amazing as well. I cannot say enough good things about Gabby, so you will hear me speak highly of her. And then I'll let you guys introduce yourselves. Speaker 4 00:08:22 Sure. Um, Giancarlo Foppiano. Um, I'm involved in company operations and uh leading the project for the Alair side. Speaker 1 00:08:33 Okay. Kenny Yoon on the Alair side on the chief flogger Thank you And. We have some uh some of our. Speaker 4 00:08:48 Team members from from uh PEC side. Who was involved in our ownership. They're on the video here from Chicago as well. Speaker 2 00:08:59 Okay, awesome. Nice to meet you guys. Nice to meet you. All right, so we're going to go through the project scope walkthrough, roles andresponsibilities. I'm going to take you through the document I've put together. I will be sending this over, After we get done with this meeting, because I want to verify the project scope. You sent over your team that's going to be the pilot group and the blackout dates. So I quickly referenced them into this document. So let me know if I got any of this incorrect, but let's go through this real quickly. The title page, we're just going to ignore that. That's gibberish for the most part. Speaker 2 00:09:40 So, you guys have engaged us to deliver a structured 365, Copilot readiness and deployment program for your user population. So, we're going to be looking at how we can measure productivity gains using generative and agentic AI while making sure that your tenant is hardened, it's governed, and it's ready for audit before Copilot is enabled at scale. Now, when I say enabled at scale, We are going to go ahead and enable it for your pilot users because we do need people to test out some of the items for the audit and compliance state. We're going to do all of this in two pretty coordinated work streams. So we're going to do the data protection, identity, your tenant's governance foundations, all of that items in accordance -- sorry I was about to sneeze. Speaker 2 00:10:35 To the second deployment where we deploy Copilot to the user population. We are going to stage that rollout. So we have the pilot wave, which is your pilot users, And then we're going to gradually graduate to full enable it once the adoption and risk has I do apologize. I am about to see I don't know what has happened. I am getting this sneezing fit that I'm trying to hold in. Can you guys give me one second? Sure. Speaker 2 00:11:08 All Right, sorry. I have taken all my allergy meds, but something is in the air here today. So we are going to be accountable for the technical delivery, the design and the adoption. And then you guys are accountable for the sponsorship, How it's represented to the business and any timely decisions that are in regards to the project. I know it's all gibberish here. I am speaking it. So in scope, Uh, we're going to do Microsoft three hundred and sixty five tenant readiness assessment. Uh, We're going to rerun some of the already existing uh items that were ran earlier this year. We're going to take a look at everything. We already have conditional access in play and on, but we're going to look at anything we need to do about hardening it. We're gonna look again at uh privileged identity management. We are gonna work with you guys to see outside of what Crimson handles, we're gonna look at. Speaker 2 00:12:01 PEC and say, well, not look at them. We're going to work with PEC and say, hey, let's make sure that you guys have good access hardening on your side. And that's more of just questionings and answers. We're going to look at sensitivity label and retention design and deploy that out so that you guys can say, Let's say, Kenny has a document with really sensitive information that Copilot does not need. We're going to show you guys we're going to enable, Document sensitivity labels, and we're going to show you guys how to use it, including the training we're going to do to all your staff. We are going to activate Microsoft three hundred and sixty five Copilot and deploy it for all users towards the end of the project. We're going to look at structured feedback. So I do have forms already created. I've used these in the past for other projects where we ask for feedback. Speaker 2 00:12:59 And capture that feedback from your staff. So as they work through it, we want them to give us feedback and say, hey, this working. This not working or I was able to find this document. Maybe there's a stray document out there somewhere. We're going to look at mobile Copilot enablement, and we're going to be pushing that out through with Intune Mobile Device Management Workstream. And I will say just a side note, Copilot on mobile is awesome. That's my own two cents. I use it because I drive every day from South Bay to Pasadena, and I have a full blown conversation with Copilot using voice. So it's actually a game changer. We are going to give you guys weekly status reporting, and we're going to do a reoccurring working session cadence. So, we're going to set up a cadence on meetings and get you guys statuses. I want to hear from you what is that preferred meeting cadence? We'll discuss that in a bit. Speaker 2 00:13:56 And then we'll do a final transition, and then to where you guys are comfortable, you're at a steady state with AI. But we're still providing ongoing Copilot governance. So we're still going to keep an eye on things. We're still going to work through things. Your team can call the help desk and ask them any questions about AI, ask for assistance. Our team on the help desk side is fully being trained right now in the newer Copilot features. And our team has been using Copilot for well over a year now. So just a heads up, our help desk is really good with Copilot and AI, And we're still providing ongoing training to our staff as new items come out within Copilot. So out of scope, this is your standard boilerplate stuff. So we're not going to do no endpoint hardware procurement or refresh for this. There's no need for it. Speaker 2 00:14:51 There is no need for migration of data into Microsoft, three hundred and sixty five from things like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive. We're not out of scope is Copilot extensions or plugin development, but we will enable it within reason. So if you guys are using something like Asana, things like that that you want the plugins enabled within reason, we will help you with that. But large Copilot extension or development where we're spending ten hours developing a, A very unique plugin for Salesforce. That's actually a different type of project. And then third party AI tooling outside of the Microsoft Copilot family. Now, just a heads up on this, it does not apply to the already included OpenAI and Claude. So those are already included into Copilot. So just a quick heads up on that. Speaker 2 00:15:49 And then replacement of existing MSP relationships outside of the three hundred and sixty five stack and license procurement beyond Copilot. So just a quick heads up. Um, Let's go into. Uh let's go into phases, real quick because I did put this in the wrong order. Um, And then as we go through this meeting, please let me know if you guys have any questions or you need to change anything. I am going to send this over. So if there is any phase where you are like, hey. I don't understand this. I don't get this, or you know, Can we move some phase one to phase two or phase two back to phase one? Let me know. Okay. Um, Speaker 1 00:16:29 Any questions so far? Speaker 2 00:16:33 Not yet. Okay, perfect. So our phase one is tenant readiness and security foundations. What, we're going to do is we're going to recap and validate the findings from the external security audit. Um. And then we're going to remediate any data protection foundations, any tenant housekeeping, and any external access including guest access. We're going to design and deploy sensitivity labels, the DLP policies, and the retention policies with explicit validation of global relay journaling. And, we want to make sure that that's all in place before any of those changes go live. So before we deploy it, we got to design it. You guys will need to sign off on. Speaker 2 00:17:16 The design and it's not too bad. Um, I just did a design earlier this week. It really was not anything big for the client. And if the client is larger than you guys, um, and it literally took us three days. Uh, we already had the design mapped out. We sent it over. They said, yes, and we were able to implement it yesterday. So And, then we do want to review the twenty two app registrations. And the service principles that are in scope. The reason why we want to go through. This is sometimes there will be an app registration, like if you're using a tool and then you stopped using it, you got rid of it, but the app registration is still within Microsoft. We want to get we want to close that back door. So we're going to review those with you. And so we're going to send over a tenant readiness report. We're going to send over the sensitivity labels, the DLP and the retention policy package. Speaker 2 00:18:15 Once you guys approve it, then we're going to deploy it to production. We're going to look at your conditional access. I think there's one conditional access policy that's in report only. We'll review that with you and see if we need to flip it over. And then the PIM configuration package on our end, We have PAM in place. So we don't need it on the Crimson side for PIM because we already have PAM, but we're going to look at the PIM configuration package for anyone else. That's in a. Sorry, in a role that needs that PIN put in. And, then we'll send over the app registration list and the service principal list for you guys to review. And take a look at. When I send that over, I will send it over to everyone, including PEC, because we want PEC to weigh in on this. Okay? Phase two goes to license activation and the working infrastructure. We're going to activate and validate the three hundred sixty five Copilot license assignments. Speaker 2 00:19:14 For the pilot team, okay. We're going to validate technical readiness of them ahead of the enablement. We are going to have some training with your users, so with your pilot users, we want to have some separate training. Uh we want to go through make sure everybody understands how to use DLP, how to use those sensitivity labels in Word Excel all of those areas. We want to make sure that um everyone understands how to use Copilot some of the cool features. Some of the boring features, all of that. We are going to stand up a shared Microsoft Teams channel and a repository for everyone here to have those conversations. So it's not just going to be the emails, it's not just going to be the weekly meetings. We're also going to have that Microsoft Teams channel where the team can ask questions, things like that. And then. Speaker 2 00:20:10 Giancarlo, we are going to always make sure that you're involved with every decision. And I did your name right this time. I had to pause for a second. I was like, I'm going to get it right at least once in this meeting. Mike is going to be so proud. So for deliverables, license activation record, the pilot readiness confirmation, any documented configuration change and your project working channel and document repository. Okay? And then for the pilot deployment, we're going to deploy Copilot to everybody in the pilot group. We are going to deliver that's where we're going to do the training. We're going to teach prompt patterns. There's prompting has changed over the last couple of years, so we're going to do that. We're going to look at use cases. So we're going to talk to Daniel, we're going to talk to the rest of team members, we're gonna say hey how do you want To use it? Are you looking at creating a. Speaker 2 00:21:08 Are, you looking at it for a way of using it as a more advanced version of Google? Are you actually looking at it for agentic workflows? What are you what are you looking for doing it within your own job? We're going to have those conversations individually with people. Um, we are going to do the feedback collection. Okay, so we want to capture both the wins and the losses. Like what is the friction? What were you imagining this to do that it's not doing? How, can we work with you on making this work in the way you want it to? We're going to monitor data access. We're going to monitor label behavior. We've got audit signals, all of that we're going to be checking out in Microsoft Purview. And then once we're done, we're going to have another big meeting where we're going to say, hey guys, how is this going? Are we gonna go or not go? Are we gonna fully deploy it? I know at the end of the day, you guys are about 99 %. Sure, you want to go this way, but we'll still evaluate it. Speaker 2 00:22:07 Um, and then definitely going to be sending out um a survey or two, um just to capture you know what other people are looking for. And that I would like I didn't write that in here. But for you guys I'd like to send that to your entire organization so that we can see, what is it the rest of your organization is looking for with Copilot. So that we can help. That's going to be hand in hand with the full deployment. Okay so that might go between phase two phase three, Um, but for the full deployment, we're going to extend it to the entire user population. We're going to equip every user to apply it in their roles. Um, we're going to do training sessions with everyone in the organization. Um, as I'm doing training sessions with other organizations, I'm coming to a realization. And this we're going to provide. Uh, I know we had given you guys an answer of how many training sessions and how long those training sessions. Speaker 2 00:23:04 But I'm going to add to you guys at no cost additional training sessions, because one of the things I'm learning with other clients is some people take to it like a fish in water. And some people don't take to it very quickly. So I'm going to add an additional the pre basics to the basics of AI for you guys for some of your team members. Um I'm learning that the one hour training sessions sometimes go too fast for some users. So we want to do that as well. I am going to be sending over quick reference materials. We are going to look for internal champions, and we're going to have a path for your team to escalate questions, which is the help desk. And, we want to make sure that everybody knows and comfortable with who they can reach out to when they have questions. At that point, we're also going to enable Copilot on your mobile devices. We're gonna roll that out through our MDM, Which is Intune for you guys and make sure that everybody understands how to use it. Speaker 2 00:24:03 Um, for those of you who have a long drive in the mornings and evenings, How you can use Copilot to catch up on email and check your schedule for the next day. Things like that. And then we're going to work with your leadership to say, hey, is Copilot being used the way you want it to? Are we meeting expectations? Is information coming in coming out? We are going to look for that as well. And we're going to My deliverables here say full deployment completion record. We are going to deliver that. We are going to do user enablement materials. Um, we are going to do the Copilot enablement. We're going to send you guys over all the reports. I'm also going to be sending out some training stuff. Um, I'm working on some videos with others on uh on how to use Copilot uh, more so than what the standard training shows. Uh. So I'll be sending out some um links for you guys on that information. Speaker 2 00:25:00 And then for phase five, because we're not done yet, even though we've deployed it at this point. We're going to look at Copilot activation. We're going to look at the active use of it. We're going to look at who uses what type of features within it. And then we're going to look at outcomes. We're going to interview a few people. You guys tell me who are your head of departments that is using Copilot, and we're going to sit down and talk to them might have to sit down on Teams. I might have to send some chocolate to people, which I am totally 100% okay with. But we want to get information back from them. We want to see, is there any documents that are coming out that's coming up that shouldn't be coming up. We want to look at some of the baselines. We want to see how you guys are operating against Copilot or with Copilot. And then we'll do a project close meeting with you guys. Uh, we'll hand off the operational ownership to the right properties. Speaker 2 00:25:58 Parties, But we're also going to keep our part so that we can continue supporting you going forward. All right, and then uh you did give me blackout dates. I got this in. I was running to the last minute right before this meeting getting these in for you guys, But we have these are your blackouts. So we want to make sure that we are not affecting any business during this time. Just a heads up Right here, I will be out on vacation. Anyways, my daughter is graduating from high school, so I am taking a week off. Um, And then there is also an August date where I am taking a week off to get her to college. So I will be available for you guys to call while I am out, but I won't be working during that time. But you guys can still reach me. Gabby is.I haven't seen her vacation schedule, But I did look to see if she was off on the days. I am off ;. She's not. So anything I can't answer, Gabby will be here. Speaker 2 00:26:55 U m and you guys can reach out to her Julia will be backing me up as the project manager. Um so she'll also be someone you can reach out to if you have any questions while I'm out. So just a quick heads up for you guys. Speaker 4 00:27:09 And what we might need to do is just thinking, maybe we we didn't think too far ahead through the course of the project, but I'm guessing that we'll have similar dates at the end of June and middle of July. That we'll have, you know, we'll have the monthly close for June happening and and similar types of activities. So we'll probably want to add those as well, assuming that we'll be continuing to you know. But I guess it depends on if you tell us, You know, everything that needs to be done from a system standpoint will be done by the end of June. Then maybe don't have to worry about that at that point. Maybe we're just doing like um. Speaker 4 00:27:48 Rolling it out and training people, but it's something to keep in mind depending on how long those phases go. Speaker 2 00:27:55 Not a problem at all, and thank you for that. Um, I am giving you guys my August dates only for the training portions because I don't think we're going to go pastum the end of June on rolling out the configuration changes unless we see some things happening. Um, in fact, I don't plan on us going past June thirtieth so at all. So perfect. Roles and responsibilities, you guys know me, you guys know Mike. Gabby is our engineering lead on this project. She is just as technical as I am on the Microsoft side, even more so. She actually finished her certifications before I did. She's better at that part than me. She always beats me on the certifications. I don't know why, I just can't, I know this stuff, I just don't like taking tests. Um, I have Sean. Speaker 2 00:28:47 As the executive sponsor, I think that might be a mis type on my end. That's not right, is it? Where is it? Yeah, Speaker 4 00:28:53 We don't have a Sean on our side. Speaker 2 00:28:55 Um. I mistyped. Uh, Sean is on our security side, so I was like, wait, why did I type that there? Um. Speaker 4 00:29:04 Let's see. I mean, we could putum I mean, you could put me there too, if that makes sense or if we rather have like our CEO or our COO there, we can do that too. Speaker 2 00:29:16 Um, I almost wrote Kenny, but I'll put you down unless Kenny says to put him. Either way. Speaker 4 00:29:24 We're going to look at this together. Speaker 2 00:29:26 Perfect. And then you of course are the technical project owner, my business stakeholders is you, Kenny and Daniel. Um and then my pilot wave users make sure I wrote this in correctly Colin Mark Jolie Daniel Sam. Speaker 2 00:29:45 Anybody I missed from that? Speaker 4 00:29:46 There's one edit there on Mark. His his last name ends with an R, not an E. Oh okay. Speaker 2 00:29:54 Yeah, there you go. That looks good to me. I mean you can you can include me in the pilot wave users too. I mean, I'll, probably i i want to kind of do all the training with them. And then uh try and do some parallel testing as well too, Okay Perfect. Um, and then for communication plans, um, I am going we're do this is a kickoff meeting. Um weekly status email that I'm going to be sending out at the end of the day on Fridays. Um. So I'm gonna send that to everybody on the distribution list that you pointed out in the email earlier today. Um and then we can do this weekly or biweekly. Speaker 2 00:30:39 Some of my clients want it weekly. Some of my clients want it twice a week. Some of my clients want it biweekly. We'll do a thirty minute Microsoft Teams meeting between all of you and us, for any discussions or any decisions or unblocking anything that's gotten blocked. Okay, do you guys want to how often do you want it? Speaker 4 00:30:58 Weekly sounds good for now. And then if we find that's too much, we can make it every other week. Maybe we should. If, you guys have availability to do that, like on a Thursday or something like that. Speaker 2 00:31:10 Okay, perfect. Speaker 1 00:31:18 All right, perfect. And then I'll create a shared Teams channel. Let me know who all needs to be on that. We'll do routine questions, any project artifacts, any quick decisions that don't require a meeting. I'm also going to send over links to various documents. Speaker 2 00:31:34 Training stuff, And also, I am curating for multiple clients, some YouTube videos and things that people want to see and watch. So I am curating that list. I'll have that into that Teams channel as well. Okay, okay. I am going to remain available to you guys outside of the standard cadence. The reason why I gave you my vacation dates is I want you guys to be aware that while I am on vacation, I can still answer text messages I will still answer emails. I might be slower at emails and text messages. I will also answer my phone other than the two hours I'm at my child's graduation, I will be available to you guys. If I don't answer, Gabby or Julia will be my backups. So Gabby from technical, Julia from a project standpoint and an escalation pass can come but can. Speaker 2 00:32:27 Be escalated to me. It can also be escalated to Gabby and Julia. Now, if you need my boss, you you can escalate to Pete on my side. So, uh he's technical as well, so he can jump in and help. Any questions on the communication plan? Speaker 4 00:32:45 No, that sounds good. Speaker 2 00:32:47 Okay perfect. Um I am going to share with you guys a link to this document, any edits you need to make. Feel free throw in comments, tag anybody in here, and we will answer. So, we don't like to make 50 million copies of a Word document across the board. So you guys are welcome to edit this. In fact, Let me copy this link and put it in the chat for you guys to have as soon as Microsoft catches up. Real quickly, the engagement is successful when each of the following conditions are met. Speaker 2 00:33:24 And that's going to be the security postures are mitigated against the findings. We've got sensitivity labels turned on, we've got DLP turned on, we have retention turned on, Conditional access and PIM I keep putting in here, but it is optional for PEC since Crimson already has PIM in place. It depends on what PEC wants. App registrations and service principles are reviewed and documented for each item. The pilot wave has a structured feedback, and we're going to do a documented go or no- go recommendation. I am going to ask for that. Microsoft 365 Copilot is enabled for the full user population. We have an adopt measurable adoption baseline established. I am going to show you results from Microsoft on how everybody is using Microsoft 365 Copilot, okay? Speaker 2 00:34:24 We are going to send over all the enable materials, and it's all going to be organized. It's going to be put into a package and given to you guys. We have mobile Copilot enablement in place, and the Copilot governance model is documented and transitioned to you guys. Okay? And then you guys confirmed, are you good for us closing out the project? That's how we close out a project. We're going to make sure that you guys are happy with it. Okay? These are your risks and dependencies. I am not going to go in here. I did put SOFOS in here. We are transitioning, you guys have SOFOS, we, I need to double check your security stack. So we do have that. And then we also want to coordinate with your third party provider. We have Global Relay, and it stays intact through the deployment and all the tenant readiness gaps. Speaker 2 00:35:17 Surface beyond the assessment. Okay. And then 365 Copilot license availability and assignment timing, pilot user resistance or low engagement. I will tell you, we do get with certain clients, some resistance and no engagement from certain departments. That's not unusual. So we do, We do get that resistance, and it does sometimes cause us to miss some of our adoption targets. At that point, we're going to talk to you guys, say, what do you think? What should we do? Most of the time we'll go forward because it's usually just a small group of people who resist. And we don't mind resistance. I completely understand. Any business calendar conflicts during the configuration windows outside of what you guys have given me? Speaker 2 00:36:13 Um and any of your dates in July right now with what you've given me, we can work around all of that, all right? And then any issues with mobile device management. We have had some MDM issues lately with Microsoft. We do understand that um but we we don't anticipate any issues with MDM pushing out copilot to your mobile devices. So we should be good there. Okay. And then you guys tell me, uh, once you review this document, are you ready for phase one? And when you're ready, and we'll I'll tell you in the background, we're already taking a looking at things. We're already going over everything. So we're ready to go into phase one whenever you are. Speaker 4 00:36:55 Yeah, I think we are too. Speaker 2 00:36:57 Okay, perfect. Um, I am going to set up uh, a scheduled meeting You guys want it on Tuesdays? I'm sorry Thursdays or Fridays? Speaker 4 00:37:11 Thursdays would be better, I think. Speaker 1 00:37:13 Okay, let me pull up my calendar real quick. Hang on one second. Don't look at this week; this week's crazy. Speaker 2 00:37:22 This week's been busy. This has been a very abnormal week, and I do have a very colorful next week. I am at camp most of the week;. It's a place in Big Bear where we're upgrading some network equipment, but I am in the office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Friday is completely clear but, On Thursday, I will be in a place where we have very little internet and no cell phone range because we are replacing an entire Meraki system for a big camp kids camp area. And it has a lot of cabins. So I will be up there on Thursday. Would you guys like to start the weekly meetings the following Thursday? Speaker 1 00:38:03 Yeah, I think that's okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:38:07 All right, Speaker 2 00:38:08 So the following Thursday, um, one to two is always my hold. I do training for a client at their office. Um, but other than that most almost all Thursdays I'm free. Speaker 4 00:38:20 Yeah, I'm mostly free on Thursdays also. So anytime's good for me. Speaker 1 00:38:29 Uh Daniel Kenny anybody else want to weigh in on meeting times? Yeah, I'm pretty open. Okay. Yeah. Um, could we do 11:30 to noon? Sure. Okay. That gives me a nice buffer before lunch. I'm. Speaker 2 00:39:01 Going to clean this up a little bit later, but I want to go ahead and just get this on here. Speaker 1 00:39:13 For The PUC team, will you guysum join for those weekly updates? Speaker 1 00:39:25 Uh, you can include us as optional for now. Speaker 2 00:39:28 Okay. I'll send this over to you guys. And if you can forward it to everybody that needs to attend, um because, For the PEC guys, I don't know if I have all of your information just yet in my system. And then can I get you guys to send me a list of everyone on the PEC side that needs to be kept in the loop? And then I can keep them on the meetings and stuff. Speaker 4 00:39:52 Okay. Yeah, I can do that. Speaker 2 00:39:55 Okay, perfect. All right, I'll get this sent over. I'm also going to turn on reoccurrence after this meeting andum, I just want to stick it here for a placeholder right now and, Uh, when I send it out, I will send out documents as well. Um and I'll have everything put in. I'll spin up the Teams meeting asum in addition to all of that. PEC, do you guys allow uh cross federation Teams chats? Speaker 1 00:40:26 Yes. Okay, perfect. I'll add you guys to the Teams chat as well. Right? Any. Speaker 2 00:40:33 Questions you guys have for me? Speaker 4 00:40:37 I have a couple questions. I think, you know, the way that you walked through all the phases, all the steps was really helpful. I like that, you know, We're going to- -. It was one of my questions was, were we going to have a separate training for the pilot group? That was something that they were asking me about because, you know, A lot of them just don't have familiarity with it and I think they would need that to do those test use cases. So that'll be helpful to have that training. And I like the idea that you're going to have like an additional training, which I think will benefit the team. You know, like you said, I think it's hard to capture a lot of this in an hour session and maybe having a second one is good. One thing that we may want to consider is whether there's anything we may want to structure specifically for the executive team. They may have a different set of questions or. Speaker 4 00:41:35 Thoughts in the way that they may want to understand it than than the general um team. So maybe we can figure out whether if we use, you know, a 30 minute, uh weekly session or something to do something, specifically with them where they could ask some questions or or anything else that they'd rather do just in a smaller group. Um so maybe we can work something out on that. And um. You know, the thing that that I've been thinking about a little bit is, you know, the training on how to actually use Copilot, How to create, you know, agents and prompts and things like that will be very necessary. Um, What I'm curious this is more based off of the data that we will be pointing those prompts to is what kind of results we're going to get and whether those will be different than our expectations. And and that's not. Speaker 4 00:42:31 Because of anything in the copilot side of things, I'm more curious now about our data. And, as we start to go through this, and we may see it in our pilot phase, I'm wondering if there may be recommendations that you guys may have. And, maybe you'll see this as you start labeling of our data and our network folders and things like that around the structure of our data. Like the way, you know, we have In some cases, potentially you know twenty years of information. You know here that we've in the last year or two when we combined two companies together, We tried to have someone come in and rework our network folder structure to organize it in a way that seemed logical at the time for people just going in and accessing files. But I'm not sure a lot of thought was put into what that might mean for having a tool like Copilot searching through the folders. Speaker 4 00:43:30 And looking for things, right? And. So I think we may find that, that the results of some of these things that we're asking it to do may not come out exactly how we want. And, maybe that's because Copilot can't interpret what it's looking at in the best way. So what I'm wondering is like if there's some sort of recommendations that might come out of this? If we start to learn that as things that we can do differently to structure, you know, the way that we Store the data, the way that we name files, The way that we may take an approach to like archive folders, where we may have multiple drafts or versions of a file that, ultimately, there's a final version. But maybe we've kept a lot of the old ones. And and so I'm just curious how Copilot is going to interact with that and and produce results. And so my concern is that it may be more. Speaker 4 00:44:27 And, we're trying to figure out how do we approach getting that data in the best format possible to produce the results that we want. So, that may be a whole different side of this, um, that's outside of the scope. But, that's something I just definitely want to bring up as I start to think about, you know what what we're actually you know, hoping to get out of this. Speaker 5 00:44:46 Hey Giancarlo can I can I step in for a few minutes? Yeah. Um, I would treat that asum, Somewhat of a phase two because the data, uh, One to be uh one clean in terms of how Copilot is going to use it, but the accessibility of it. So, what what we've done is that we have not allowed Copilot to have access to folders directly. And. So the alternative in the interim before we started cleaning up before we start cleaning up data. Is that you're able to drag and drop files into Copilot. Speaker 5 00:45:24 Versus it going out and finding. Now, It will have the capabilities of going out and finding documents that are in your email, Teams, specifically probably more so OneDrive, which is fine I think. But to your point, Yes, there, there's the possibility of it accessing, you know, ten versions of the same file. And they're also Like the figure Copilot, where there is a source of truth file, so it knows it's pulling from a particular. So your prompt might say use this particular file with this definition, So it doesn't try to go out and look at all ten of those specific files. So I would say in this early stage, I would limit um Copilot to have direct access to files and then just allow the user to um. Speaker 5 00:46:22 Make it, a attachable file into the Copilot three hundred and sixty five desktop app in itself. Okay, And that'll that way, you will you'll be able because one of the huge things that we've talked about this in some of our meetings is the validation of data. Because we want to make sure that the copilot is using the correct data, we want to validate actually is using right file. So I would say as at early stage start out by just dragging and dropping um a file into. An attention to do a comparable. If you're, So I wouldn't allow it just yet to have direct access to the file system. Speaker 4 00:47:03 Okay. Yeah, that's that's interesting. That's that's a different approach than I was picturing, But it does sound like that will produce better results than what I was thinking if we just let it, you know, have access to everything. Speaker 5 00:47:17 Yeah, I think, I think that it's it's a little bitum it's probably a little bit more of a cumbersome step. But it's probably a little bit more necessary, because if the data isn't playing the usual garbage in garbage out kind of deal, you know, make sure that the accuracy of the information that copilot uses to produce those results are coming from the source of truth. Speaker 4 00:47:36 Okay. Yeah. And then and then I guess like as a subsequent phase I think we can maybe evaluate. Find a way to, and maybe that's a totally different group or a different project, But you know, evaluating the best way to clean that data and structure it. So that if we do want to be able to point, you know, Copilot to a repository of all of our data, you know that we feel comfortable about what's there. Speaker 1 00:48:08 Okay. What else did I have? Speaker 4 00:48:14 I Think that was that was it mostly like just to give you guys a little heads up. We've already tasked the five people identified as the pilot users with coming up with some uh test use cases. Um I think we were asking they may come up with three or four. We've asked them to kind of speak with like their departments and their team and the teams that they normally work with to sort of refine that down to maybe two. For each of them, And then so those will be like more specific tasks that maybe they do on a regular basis that they want to figure out can Copilot assist them in doing that more quickly, more efficiently, more accurately. And see what those results produce. I think in addition to that, What I am hoping that we may be able to have them do during that test phase. And maybe this is what you have in mind. Speaker 4 00:49:07 Is to just give them the opportunity to understand a little bit about like what what the capabilities are for it to just go through email and and summarize things or or pull out, you know, critical deliverables or things that are coming up on their calendar, like just using how copilot interacts in general with like Excel Word. Um Outlook and teams I think having that training for them and allowing them to play around with how. That can just create some more ways of them interacting with those applications in a general sense. I think would be helpful as part of that test phase. So hopefully that was something that you had in mind, in addition to some very specific tasks that we're asking them to test. Yes, Speaker 2 00:49:55 Part of the training that we're going to do with the pilot group in advance is to show them. A lot of these little things that people don't realize Copilot's capable of doing. And Ronelle, I do like that you gave us a heads up about the files. So I'll do a lot of training surrounding drag and drop and things like that, but I'll also do, you know, here's what you can do with Copilot. One of the newer features that Copilot has right now is you can have it flag all your emails coming in from someone that you want to make sure that you notice. So we'll do that and when we do that. Speaker 2 00:50:30 Part of the training we do is going to be some basics back in Microsoft Word, Excel, OneNote, things like that. That you know people don't usually get that kind of training. They just pick it up. And, we'll touch on some hey. Did you know you can do this in Teams? But this is how Copilot makes it even better type training. I will say I'll probably have a little bit more extensive training with your Pilot users, Then I will with your staff only because as I go through the extensive training, I'm going to find out what works for Eller and what doesn't. And if they say, oh, we don't use it this way, then I'm going to drop that from the overall training with your entire staff. So we try to make that where it's more tailored to you. And I know it's been a while since I worked on the Eller client. Speaker 2 00:51:24 For you guys, I know Daniel, I know Kenny, but I have been out of the loop on what Alear does. And so as I go through this, I'm going to learn more and more about you that I didn't realize in the past. And Gabby and I can then condense things in say this is going to work, This is not going to work and just really build this around what you guys need. Speaker 4 00:51:48 Yeah it could be that maybe if you're doing some of those, For the pilot group, I mean, even if you ended up recording some of those trainings, It could be something that we share or make available with the bigger population down the road. And maybe you don't have to repeat it with all of them, but maybe it's just something that they can access. Speaker 2 00:52:07 Yes, all trainings that I do, I always record and then send you guys out links. Um I do give you the ability to download the training because the links do expire after 30 days. That's a default Microsoft thing. So, Uh, you guys will be welcome to keep those trainings, do whatever you want with them. Um, and go from there. So, we will make sure all the pilot trainings are. Speaker 1 00:52:30 Recorded and available for everybody. Speaker 4 00:52:33 Okay. Yeah, I think that sounds good. And then I think you brought up something about like, You knowum whether we would want Copilot to interact with any other type of applications that we may be using. You know, in general, We don't have a lot of other applications because we store majority of our data, you know, within the Microsoft, three, sixty five environment. But the big, the big area really well. T here is two, but would be you know, our MRI accounting system and our Argus system, which something I think is probably a whole other project down the road. But as you start to learn a little bit more about like our. Speaker 4 00:53:15 What we are doing on a daily basis, where our data lies. It's something that I guess we could think about as to whether there is a thought of how we could create some sort of interaction with those in the future. Cause we're always, we know that those applications have their own native AI tools as well, which we are not using and may consider down the road. You know, Kind of when we get done with this Copilot implementation and make sure that this is all running smoothly. We can look to evaluate whether those those are, you know, something the PSC feels comfortable with. And so we'll, you know, just something to keep in mind. But right now, we don't have a specific goal of like some apps that I think we want to tap into. Speaker 2 00:54:01 Yeah. Let me go ahead and give you a quick example. One of my first clients that I did their AI rollout, they're actually using it really well. But we've connected, so we add connectors for Salesforce, Notion because some of their team uses Notion, HubSpot, Canva, Linear. We've added connections for Google contacts and Google Calendar. Adobe. We've also because one of our clients had an on-prem file share, we have added file share capabilities that attaches to their on-prem. Jira is another one that we've added. Speaker 2 00:54:37 So you're aware of, I don't know if you guys use Miro or know what Miro is, but I use it. It's think of it like a mind map tool and kind of like Visio but a little bit more robust. It's the best way I can explain it. So, those are the kind of things that maybe some of your team might be using that you may not have thought about. We're constantly adding Box because a lot of our some of our clients really like to use Box rather than SharePoint. I'm not a fan, But they like it, so I added it. SQL servers, Constantly adding SQL Azure SQL servers for and Postgre servers for some of our clients and GitHub. So there's a lot of them out there. Microsoft is adding more and more every day. Asana and Monday are big ones. I feel like I'm adding Asana weekly for clients and monday dot com So there are they they are continuously adding. Speaker 2 00:55:35 If you guys decide, hey, I want to add Canva because of my marketing team. Let us know we'll add camera Canva. And I think there's some Adobe ones that are coming out. Speaker 4 00:55:46 Yeah, that's interesting. Like the Canva one, I'm not sure whether there's people on our team using that, But I know definitely we will want to understand how we can use PowerPoint and do that. And, then if that seems like, you know, there's additional things that we would want to do like from a marketing perspective or anything like that within Canva. That could be something to think of down the line. And as far as Adobe goes, I think what we'll be interested to see is like, you know, How we can use Copilot just to interact with with PDF files that we have that we want to extract data with. But, whether whether there's a benefit or a reason to point something specifically to the Adobe application is another thing to think of down the road because. Speaker 4 00:56:33 So much of our information comes in in PDF format from external parties, Whether those are comps from brokers and things like that or just legal documents and other things. We usually have a Word version of a lot of the legal documents, but sometimes PDFs. So, we'll be interested to see how we can extract things from there and where that takes us. Speaker 2 00:56:56 So just a heads up on that, PDF is native for Copilot. It's considered a native system. I know the Adobe stuff that's coming out is being able to manage digital assets, including PDFs across organizations. So if you're using Adobe Teams and people save things into Adobe Cloud, that's what's coming out. But reading PDFs, the system is already there for that. Speaker 1 00:57:20 So yeah. I know. Speaker 2 00:57:26 We're getting down to the end of time. So I don't want to take up too much of your time, But is there any other questions you guys have or concerns that you guys have after this meeting? I am going to send over a summary. It is a copilot written summary, so just a heads up. I make it look nicer. Uh, I take out all the bullet points because I don't like bulleting. Um, But if there's anything else that you guys uh want me to add to it, let me know. Speaker 4 00:57:52 Okay. I think those were all the questions that I had. Speaker 2 00:57:56 And I will send out the link to this document. It is a living document. You guys will be able to access it from my OneDrive. It's in a secure location, so you are welcome to add comments and do updates. I am a heavy user of versioning and version history within my documents, so if you mess something up, like my cat likes to walk across my keyboard when I work from home, we can revert it back. So I love the versioning in Word and Excel. Speaker 2 00:58:26 Um, and then anything you guys can think of you want to add later on, please let me know. Gabby and I will both be in that team's chat. I am going to leave Julia out of it for now and Paula out of it just because Julia is in so many teams, chats. I feel sorry for her; she's busier than I am some days, and Kenny will tell you that says a lot. So, um, feel free to reach out. Uh, I think all of you have my cell phone number or at least Daniel and Kenny does if not. It is in my signature. If you guys need me, call my cell phone before you call my office line. I'm no longer working out of the downtown office because I am at client sites most of the week, so I don't get to see Gabby's amazing face every day anymore. Sadly, but I am faster reachable on my cell phone. Feel free to text me, call me whatever you need to do. Speaker 1 00:59:18 Great. Awesome Thank you very much. Speaker 2 00:59:20 You guys are amazing. Thank you Have a great weekend. Speaker 1 00:59:24 You too. Bye. Bye everybody. Thank you very much. Thanks, Christy. Thank you everyone. Hi. Thank you.
07-13 Meeting: Time Machine Software Implementation and Productivity
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-07-13 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Christi] [Pete] [Olivia] ## Meeting Notes ### Review of Time Machine Software Capabilities - **Description:** - The team reviewed features of the "Time Machine" tool, which integrates with ConnectWise. - The in-and-out board displays employee status (e.g., "lunch," "available"); data may require a browser refresh to be accurate. - It tracks missed scheduled tickets, who is working on which ticket, and for how long. - The tool helped identify a former employee who was not working during their shift. - It provides daily details on tickets touched, completed, and minute-by-minute activity. - **Conclusion:** - Time Machine is a live overlay of ConnectWise, updating every 60 seconds, tracking employee activity via ticket interactions. ### Primary Reasons for Using the Software - **Description:** - The main reason for subscribing is hourly contact sync from Active Directory, Office 365, and Google into ConnectWise. - It automatically deactivates users in ConnectWise when they are deactivated in the client’s Office 365. - The schedule sync feature is crucial; it uses Google Maps to calculate and block travel time for on-site technicians. - **Conclusion:** - Time Machine and MTX features are bonuses; primary value is contact synchronization and schedule/travel time management. ### Employee Adoption and Usage Patterns - **Description:** - The tool is most effective for remote staff. - On-site tech adoption is mixed. Some, like Ryan, use it to save time and assist with expense reports; others do not. - Some employees, such as Dmitri, do not always log tickets in real time. - Some staff may have one ticket open all day, which is expected for certain roles but not for others. ### Plan to Increase Tool Usage and Productivity - **Description:** - Pete proposed communicating increased use of Time Machine to all staff during the next all-hands meeting. - Messaging will emphasize measuring productivity, understanding why tasks take longer, and identifying automation opportunities—not a lack of trust. - Olivia will present the tool and its purpose clearly in a five-minute segment. - Examples include lengthy onboarding/offboarding processes and an unacceptably high average ticket time of 90 minutes. - **Conclusion:** - Goal: increase awareness that productivity is being monitored to improve efficiency and find automation opportunities. ### Automation and Reporting - **Description:** - Interest in automating onboarding, computer imaging, and Office 365 account setups. - Matthew, experienced in this area, has been assigned to a related project; Patrick will champion the effort. - The team discussed the "Score My Team" feature to report on performance using metrics like real-time ticketing. - Olivia raised the idea of an API for AI-driven queries; none exists currently. Christi suggested recreating dashboards in BrightGauge. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi will create actionable reports from Time Machine and explore recreating dashboards in BrightGauge. - [ ] Olivia will prepare a five-minute presentation for the all-hands meeting to explain increased use of Time Machine for productivity monitoring; Pete will kick it off, using Christi’s training time slot. - [ ] The team will regroup on 2026-07-15 to check progress on reporting; Jane is scheduled to be moved on 2026-07-15. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Several employees, such as Dmitri, are not consistently logging work in real time, impacting reporting accuracy and client billing. A clear policy and enforcement plan were not established. > 2. The average ticket resolution time is 90 minutes, deemed "not acceptable." While Time Machine will be used to investigate, no specific reduction targets were set. > 3. Employee adoption of Time Machine is inconsistent, particularly among on-site technicians. No specific plan was discussed to enforce or incentivize usage beyond the upcoming announcement.
- Date
- Jul 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:18 Hi. Speaker 1 00:01:57 Hi. Hello. Speaker 2 00:02:00 I am eating my lunch, so bear with me. I taught the girls this weekend. Speaker 1 00:02:10 To make two things: Speaker 2 00:02:13 A completely white girl. It looks white girlish. Let me rephrase:" completely," I said," completely looks like a white girl chicken casserole." But it has heat. I promise it has heat. We we have chili flakes in here, um. I taught him how to do that. I taught him how to make a homemade apple pie, um, yeah. New kid fit along in right alongside Dom with no issues, oh good yeah, I was telling Olivia today uh Dom is uh. Speaker 2 00:02:53 She she won't let anybody like she won't let the new girl do anything. She's like overprotective. It's very cute. Speaker 3 00:03:03 How old is the new girl? Speaker 2 00:03:05 She's nineteen, she turns twenty in two weeks. Wow, yeah, So we uh, yeah I've got I got to plan a last minute celebration for her. She has no family, So it's just going to beum it's just going to be my friends andum she doesn't have any friends here. Speaker 1 00:03:34 So all right. Speaker 3 00:03:43 So should we look at the options with time machine that what we wanted to look at? Speaker 2 00:03:51 Yes, I already had it open for you. All right. Let me let me increase my screen so that you guys can see. Um, so we are live. Okay, Ryan's actually a good example of the in and out board. He put himself to lunch, and he's going to be back at 1 : 05, but he hasn't taken himself out yet, and all is he back. Olivia? Speaker 4 00:04:20 Uh yeah, he is back. Speaker 2 00:04:22 So he's definitely back. Speaker 4 00:04:24 He's messaging me about Avalon servers. Speaker 2 00:04:27 No worries, all we had to do is click end lunch and now he's back available. Uh Ronnell is going to be well should have been back already as well. Speaker 4 00:04:34 Wait go to live Chris because I'm I'm seeing different things than you're seeing right now. I'm live Oh like I see I see a bunch of different people that are on lunch. Speaker 2 00:04:49 Are you at all members Oh yeah, I'm on all members. Weird. Speaker 4 00:04:56 And like I see Ryan working on a ticket. Interesting. Well, sometimes it's good and sometimes. Speaker 3 00:05:04 What if you do? I was just going to say, what if you refresh the browser? Speaker 2 00:05:07 There we go. Sometimes we have to do that. Perfect Yeah Um So, you've got people who are back from lunch already. And all you do to clear them is click the X. And then you can see who missed a schedule. So Stephanie's missed two scheduled tickets that she had in her queue. And who's been those at Pepper? Christian. Oh, Christian. Christian. So he's got a couple of schedules missed here. Vana has two missed schedules right here, e-waste laptops and spare computers. So, we can see who's missing theirs. Normally I see this on Caleb or not Caleb Kobe. Speaker 2 00:05:47 Um, But we can go in and we can actually see what they're currently working on. Um, and how long they've been in that ticket. So Juneau's been in this ticket for two minutes, but she's also been working on this uh tenant one for three plus hours. She probably accidentally left that and working as you know. Yeah. So And so probably so did Monty um And. So we can see all of this going through uh. I know he's actively working on this right now. I know he has been in and out of working on this one, Just because it's like one of those things where he's just working on it while working on other things or in between working on other things. So he's probably left it open, But he just walked out to go handle was handling this one because we've been having some issues with badge system here. But in here, the biggest thing Pete is we learned. Speaker 2 00:06:45 There was a former employee here that was sleeping on the job, and we learned it by just going in here and looking their working time. Cause this will show when they started and when they ended. And, all of them was either at the beginning of the day or the end of day, And there was a massive missing in action uh of non-working time from like around nine am, our time till about three pm, our time. And this was somebody in the Philippines. Um he's no longer with us as you can imagine. Speaker 4 00:07:15 So essentially, what this does, Pete, is it shows you how many tickets they've touched, how many tickets they've completed every single day per day. And, then it also gives a detail of what they did each minute of the day and when they were doing it. So. Speaker 3 00:07:30 What is it based on? Speaker 2 00:07:32 Their tickets. It is a live overlay of ConnectWise that's updated every 60 seconds, if not sooner. Speaker 2 00:07:47 So it's like our smart dispatch that's constantly pinging ConnectWise and doing things. Nilya does that. Now, the reason why we pay for this, Pete, is not because of Time Machine and it's not because of mtx. It's because it's the only company out there that will connect with Active Directory, Office 365 and Google and keep our contacts updated in ConnectWise on an hourly basis. And if someone is deactivated within the client's Office 365, then they are deactivated in ConnectWise almost immediately. So it's keeping this up to date. And, it was the only company out there that did it plus using the schedule sync. And is it is it now? Yeah, It is still in there helped Olivia when she was scheduling on sites and now Sue and Charl. Speaker 2 00:08:43 Because it looks at Google Maps to get the traffic time, And it blocks out the travel time that they need before and after based on what Google Maps says, it's this average for that time of day. So those are the two things we wanted it for. We just get all the rest of these as a bonus. Speaker 3 00:09:08 Okay, hold on one second. Speaker 1 00:09:24 Okay, no problem. Speaker 2 00:09:26 Um, where this really works for us is our remote staff. Uh, Speaker 3 00:09:36 Which is pretty much everyone. Speaker 2 00:09:38 Yeah, We try to get it to work for on site techs and I'll. Be honest, some techs. Yeah, most techs, uh follow what Monti does, because Monti helps train the on site texts. Yeah, but people and she doesn't want to use it. But people like Ryan and a few others have realized how how much it saves their time when they're going on site and how it puts in their expense reports and stuff for them that they've gravitated to it. So, but not all. Speaker 3 00:10:07 So we should so we should remove Jane right? Speaker 4 00:10:11 Well, not yet. I am going to move her on the fifteenth, so on Wednesday, yeah. Speaker 3 00:10:16 Okay, And Jesse doesn't use this because he does whatever he does for the bank right? Speaker 4 00:10:21 Well, he'll have one ticket so like. If you go back to last week, he should have one ticket every single day. Or he should be touching one ticket every single day. Speaker 1 00:10:30 Mhm. Okay. Speaker 4 00:10:35 Oh, he had two tickets actually there. But, normally he should only have that one ticket that he's putting all of his time into. Same with like Damania, you'll see they'll have they will have like one ticket. Yeah, but everyone else should be having more than that. Speaker 3 00:10:50 What about Dmitri? Speaker 4 00:10:52 Dmitri, you should be having several. Speaker 2 00:10:55 Yeah, Dimitri is um he doesn't put tickets in for half the stuff he does. But he does. Speaker 4 00:11:02 But he like click on his time entry? Speaker 3 00:11:05 But that's not good because how do we report to Weingard what we do for them? If we're not putting tickets on? Speaker 2 00:11:11 He is putting so let me go back a day. He does put them in but as you can see the delta, he puts them in later. Speaker 2 00:11:22 And sometimes he'll forget. Speaker 4 00:11:25 So he does his like work and then after the fact, he'll go in and say," Okay, during this day, during this time, I did this and this and this." Yeah. But I think maybe he was out that day when he only touched one. It's weird that he only touched one ticket. That's today? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:45 He's probably on site at. Speaker 2 00:11:52 He's probably on site at a at one of the other sites. Now that's not even a work ticket. Cause sometimes I'll see that when he's had to go to one of the other remote sites for Weingard, Speaker 3 00:12:07 Or he's at seems like a lot of days he goes to multiple sites based on the expense reports I approve. Speaker 2 00:12:14 Yes, he's constantly running yeah Okay Sum. Speaker 2 00:12:23 We've had issues in the past with texts, not that we suspected to be having issues. And the first time I showed this in an all staff meeting, I thought some people were going to pass out. Their faces turned so white. And, we've always made the statement to them when we've taught them. This none of us like to big brother, But if we have reason that we feel that we have to big brother, you, this how we're going to do it. And we were just very open and honest with them. And after that, timesheets approved. And I hadn't done one of those conversations in probably a year and a half or two years. Speaker 3 00:13:01 Well, maybe that's what we have to do in the next all-hands is say, We're going to start usingum We're going to start using Time Machine much more closely starting this week. And here's what we will see. Yeah. And we're going to start looking at this regularly including Pete, Yes. And because we have to measure productivity and we have and we have to measure and make sure that you know, we we know how much time things are taking. We don't have to We don't have to say it in terms of, We don't trust people, and we don't think you're producing the way you're supposed to produce, But we can also imply that it will show how much productivity people have. Yeah. And I think Olivia, you should be the one that messages this. Speaker 3 00:13:51 But take the time to do it right and take the time to explain it clearly. You know, use five minutes and explain it to everyone because I want them to know. I want them to know what we're going to be looking at and why, right? And don't blow through it like it's no big deal. Just just you know show them what we're doing and why we're doing it. Um, But I think it's important, you know, And you can use examples like onboarding and offboarding, and other things are taking far too long. And we need we're trying to understand why. And we're trying to figure out where we need to automate. And, we're trying to figure out where people are spending time and why people are spending so much time. And what's taking so much time to do certain things so that we can work on what we need to automate and where. Speaker 3 00:14:46 And, this is the tool that we're going to use to go and look at what tickets are taking. So much time from people that, you know, And they're they're going to get the hint that we're looking at what they're doing and why they're taking. So long to do it and stuff like that. And I think as part of the conversation, you can suggest that we're looking to try to automate processes related to. Things like onboarding and automation of, you know, computer imaging and things like that. And, if people have done those things in the past and want to help us do it, let us know because we would love to have them assist or something, you know, or whatever whatever you want however you want to approach that. Because I wouldn't doubt that we've got a couple folks that might have even. Speaker 3 00:15:44 Played around in that space before. Yeah, have we asked Matthew if he's done that before? Speaker 4 00:15:50 Yeah, he has. That's why I put him on that project. Okay, yeah, and I talked to him about it last week too. Okay, said he was willing to. Speaker 3 00:15:58 And who are we going to start with? Lion is that who you said does the most? Speaker 4 00:16:02 I told Patrick because I am putting Patrick as my champion for this. I said you pick you either want to pick somebody who we have a long. You know, we? It we take forever on their onboarding, or you want to go for an easy goal. So I spoke to him last Friday about it. So okay, so real quickly, Speaker 2 00:16:21 Just a heads up for you guys. Um, we did this. We did this a couple years ago with ability first andum. We Olivia knows, but I went back in and ran a report today had had a Claude analyze the report because Claude has the connections into it. And to connect wise to do ability first, so I had it run a report. We're still why is this being so mean to me today? This is what it came back through as. We're still under the average is still that table looks odd. The average. Speaker 2 00:17:04 Per ticket for ability first is still roughly under two hours to set up because we automated a bunch of it in um Intune. The one thing we want to get back to, to um doing Anton, we can ignore because they're just doing the security side. But this is all the hands on setup time per tech. Um and so, we did automate a lot of that using Intune. Um and I want to get into automating the actual count, Setups themselves within Office 365. Speaker 3 00:17:37 So maybe Chris, what we do is we steal your training. We steal your training time this week, and I can kick it off with what we're doing, what we're trying to do. And between Olivia and you, you guys can talk about Time Machine. But the things I am going to touch on are what we're looking for, why we're looking for it, and then we can talk. You guys can talk about the tool that we're going to use. That we're that we're gonna that we're gonna use to do this. Because what I'm going to talk about is, you know, I'm going to talk about when we were looking at onboarding and the time that it took to do onboarding and offboarding. I'm going to talk about and when I say talk about it, I'm just going to reference it. Um And i'm i'm gonna i'm also going to mention um uh. Speaker 3 00:18:31 That our average ticket time when we look at it right now is like 90 minutes, which is not acceptable, right? And I get that you know certain tickets take a really, really long time and other tickets don't. But the long and short of it is if the average is 90 minutes, it should be much lower than that. So Um, we're working on trying to figure out why it's so high, what we need to do to get that ticket time lower, And how we're going to be more efficient and what needs to be automated for that. And then that'll segue into what we're looking at and how we're looking at it and what the tools are that we're looking at. And. Speaker 3 00:19:24 And that, you know, again, this will probably result in people going," Oh shit." People are going to be looking at how productive I am and what I am spending my time on. And if I am screwing around, I better shape up or whatever. Right? Well, Speaker 4 00:19:40 And so Chris joined my EOS because I asked her to go to help go through this. So she joined my EOS last week. And that was definitely the takeaway was like Oh." Speaker 3 00:19:55 So So I guess I guess my, my follow up question, what is what is on this dashboard is what kind of reporting can we get out of this? That actually is useful if I don't if I don't have the time to sit here and look at it because realistically. I should be able to go. Okay. It's the end of the week now show me for each person, how much time everybody had. In each category, yeah. Speaker 2 00:20:25 Yeah, this is I used to run this week. I used to run this weekly and monthly. I stopped when you came on board, Pete. Because Anzor said you need to get out of doing all of this, So this is the it's a scorecard of how they're doing real time ticketing. How How well are they saying on top of putting things in as they're happening? Ticket timesheets which is, Are they putting their time in correctly? Is there the proper amount of time per ticket? There's actually information about how each thing is scored, And we can we have showed that we've taught that in the past of how the score happens. And then you can see Bray never put a ticket in on time. Kolby, Nemanja is awash because he was already on here for You were a manager. So but then here's our our heavy hitters. Speaker 2 00:21:17 These are the people that we knew were staying on top of things. Speaker 4 00:21:23 But also like I wonder, Do you know Chris if there is a way for like an API connection with Nylayer? Because I think TimeZest in general has so much good information like Pete was saying, But like just to be able to like ask AI and I know I keep going back to AI. But like to be able to ask, like. Are there any outstanding tick? Are there any like tickets that. Somebody put a crazy amount of time into this week. You know, Like any outliers that I need to point out that I need to look at, Like those kind of things would be helpful if they have an API connection of some sort. Speaker 2 00:22:01 Yeah, they don't have an API connection here, But I wonder if I can recreate this on BrightGauge because I'm sure I can because this is the same information, BrightGauge has the ability to pull. We just might have to write it, and that is a good possibility. I just had it on my calendar, and all I would do is sit here and hit the refresh print screen, And then add it to my list of things on my spreadsheet that Anzor had me keeping. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:22:37 But this I don't know. To me, this doesn't really like seem very intuitive. Speaker 3 00:22:43 So what is RT? Speaker 2 00:22:47 Um, Real time. Real time. So what it measures is, are they putting in tickets and their time into tickets right as it happens? Or is there a large delta between it where they're putting it in at end of day? Speaker 3 00:23:01 Well, but see, I guess I would want to see like several columns on this. Like I don't really know what I don't know what total is either. But if I if I said, I want to see a weekly report that has everybody listed, And I would probably filter out like managers and stuff like that. Because ultimately, what I would start with is I would want to see Olivia's team and I would want to see Anton's team. That's how I would probably start because I don't really care about, I don't really care about admin team. I don't really care about, you know, the payroll accounting team right now. And i don't care about folks that aren't doing really customer facing work. And i don't necessarily care about like the supervisor manager role. Speaker 3 00:23:44 Manager team, But but then what I do want to see, though is like if people are. If if, Like how much time do people have like recorded for lunch or breaks or or, Admin time or whatever whatever that sort of non work time is because if there's huge outliers regularly for certain individuals that are like not working like kind of what you were saying where there's big breaks. Not engaged. Yeah. That seems like that would be a standout pretty quickly. If there's if there's notable numbers of low ticket volume, I guess that would be a standout. Um, if there's other indicators, I don't remember what all of them were honestly because from from time machine, but sort of you know laying them against each other. And then I would like to. Speaker 3 00:24:43 Ideally, be able to sort these by like L one, L two, L three kind of levels of people, because then I group the L ones together, and they should generally right, they should generally be relatively productive compared to one another. L two s kind of l three is kind of again. It's not going to be exact, but at least it gives me. Kind of bands to put together, and I keep and then I could put the security folks together. Um, I don't know. It's a place to start, But that this feels like it's at least a better indicator than what we were looking at Olivia before. Maybe. I don't know. Speaker 4 00:25:26 I do think that it's better for us like this is what I use. If i if i have like a if i'm micromanaging someone i go on time machine, and i would see i don't consider it. Speaker 3 00:25:38 I don't consider that micromanaging. I consider that management because when we're talking about, we're talking about the kind of work we do, this is what we have to do to manage them because they're remote people. Now, If you've got people that you absolutely know, are always productive because they are doing stuff all the time, you don't have to manage them as closely. But when you know when you have people, you know, Are not productive unless you manage them closely. Then you have to micromanage them like on a daily basis. Ronell has to be micromanaged, yeah, on a regular basis. Speaker 4 00:26:14 So that's what I've been doing with Ronell. I've been looking at his time machine, um, but but I was going to say but from a like technician perspective, I do think that dashboard or like giving them different KPIs. So that they know they're doing well is good for them, you know what I mean? It just gives them like obviously if you are working, you are doing well, right? Like like you know if you are doing well. But, i I think it would be helpful for them to say, okay, I have this goal. I am going to try to hit it. Okay I have this You know clearly I am doing bad on first day resolution. Like, let me try to make sure that I am closing those tickets and updating those tickets a day of instead of the day after maybe like, for example, Right? Speaker 3 00:27:03 So, why is? Oh? This is sorry. This is twenty twenty five. Never mind. Speaker 2 00:27:06 Yeah. No, this isn't a one basically what I would do I'd go in every week I'd look at the period that it gives me. So this was the last period I'd. Take a look. Okay, we have we have a little bit of an issue here. I would put it in its correct format here. I would I know, as I knew at the time there was nothing I could do to get Aslan to put his time incorrectly. Speaker 2 00:27:31 And honestly, Speaker 3 00:27:32 I'm not even going to look at Aslan because what he does is not. Yeah. What he does and who he is, I'm not even going to like focus on him right now. Yeah. I'm going to just focus on the people that are taking tickets and and really servicing the customer. So that's where I want to start. I guess the question Olivia is, Do you know enough about this tool and how to produce these reports to produce these reports or not really? Speaker 4 00:27:58 Not this one that Chris is looking at. I don't, I don't, I don't know too much about this one. I and honestly that's the only one I created. Speaker 3 00:28:06 So where do we go to produce this Score My Team? To produce this report. Speaker 2 00:28:12 So this is under Score My Team here. Speaker 4 00:28:19 Okay. So the higher the number, the better, I'm guessing? Yep right? Exactly. Speaker 4 00:28:27 And then and. Speaker 3 00:28:28 Is that a report that's already out there? Or can how do we create a report? Speaker 2 00:28:33 So this is one I just created. But what you can do is add a Scorebook or you can if you've got any up here that you can edit, you can go in and edit itum. And so these are the scorecards I did at that time. Um I've got to make new ones, but you can add a Scorebook, and then you just call it, whatever you want I'm going to randomize it. And I can do it by rankings or individual metrics. And then I select what members I want in it. And if it's like a, if I do it by department, I can do that. If I want to do it by whatever. So you just select your members and I'm just going to put George. And then from here, I take a look at the modules and the score modules and I choose what I want. And so if. Speaker 2 00:29:24 If I don't want it, then I just click on the trash can and delete it. But, they have some really good training information about what each one of these means. So, and then you can add modules in here. Um, they have new ones. I did not know they had configuration, so that's brand new Olivia. Um, the real time uh real time average um, They've got a lot of new stuff in here. I only had four last time. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:29:56 I was going to say this is amazing. And then you just add in. So if I want to go in here and put configurations and timesheets, and then it will score and weight it. This is just the one I just did just now. Speaker 2 00:30:19 Is for individuals, but you can also build it the way the other one. It'll show you what the averages are. And then how do I get to next? There you go. And view Scorebooks, open Scorebook. And it's going to take a couple of days to fully do, but it starts it. But that's weird. Oh, it starts up for August because we're in the middle of July. So it starts up for the next month out. There's a way to change that. I got to remember how to do it. This has been two years since I looked at this last, so bear with me, guys on that. But I mean, that's how you build it out. Then, you can also do a real time ticket analysis, and you can see the information in there to see what's going on. Speaker 2 00:31:13 I've used that a few times. I haven't used it in the last couple of years, But I have used it in the past, and it gave some good data when I was trying to look up and understand something. I used to use it a lot on our survey stuff. Speaker 3 00:31:27 Okay, here I go again, but I got to go on another call. So, um, I guess where do we go from here to actually make this useful? So how do I get something useful out of this? Speaker 2 00:31:40 Let me work on that for you. Speaker 3 00:31:42 Do you I don't know if you have time to do. I don't know if either one of you have time to do this, but how do we. Speaker 2 00:31:48 Yes, but you need this. This is something I'm willing to push. Speaker 4 00:31:50 Something else aside for, okay, and I can look into it too, and look into BrightGauge as well. Yeah, for those KPIs. Speaker 3 00:31:59 So when do we regroup? And like can we touch base Wednesday? And just see if we're progressing. And then because I'm out Thursday Friday this week, um so let's just touch base quickly on. Wednesday and just see where we're at. We don't have to take a half an hour or anything, But maybe we can just find out if we progressed and then we'll go from there. Okay. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:32:20 You're welcome, thanks guys. Thanks okay Bye bye.
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07-15 Meeting: AI Tool Setup, Change Request Compliance, and Time Tracking Protocols
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- # Meeting Notes ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-15 09:55:36 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] --- ## Meeting Notes ### AI Tool Setup Requirements and Project Management Protocol - All AI setups (Claude, OpenAI, Copilot) must be organized within a project before work begins. - Completed projects are handed over to Christi; she is currently at least two weeks out on starting new projects. - An urgent setup arrived last week and was partially handled; some staff were trained on the process. - Requirements before proceeding: - Setup must be in a project - Client quotes must be signed - SSO configuration and training are also in progress alongside these setups - Questions should be directed to Christi or Pete. --- ### Change Request Process for Client Environment Modifications - Any change in a client environment — including small updates like compliance policies — requires a change request form. - The form is in the Crimson portal: Open a ticket (upper right) → Crimson Internal Forms → Change Request. - The link was previously shared in chat and will be pinned in the Napping team channel. - Note: Pete is not currently in the Napping team channel. - Change requests are filled out by staff, often on behalf of clients; approvals are typically already in place. - Compliance audit context: - Woodbridge is audited every 3 months and actively checks for change requests. - Some other clients are audited annually. - Christi is currently working to close an audit for a client called Shark, started before she joined. - Recent weeks had instances where change requests were not completed; this must be corrected going forward. Conclusion: Change requests are mandatory across all client environments, with no exceptions. The link will be pinned for easy access. --- ### Time Tracking Tools — MTX vs. ConnectWise - Staff are not required to use MTX; ConnectWise is equally acceptable if used correctly. - Example: Olivia previously had perfect time tracking using ConnectWise by marking items in progress and applying correct codes. - MTX is recommended for fast-moving ticket workflows and mobile/field use (Christi's preference); CLI is also used. - The priority is accurate and correctly coded time entries to ensure clean reporting — the tool used is secondary. Conclusion: Use whichever tool (MTX or ConnectWise) helps you track time most accurately and correctly. --- ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to pin the change request form link at the top of the Napping team channel - [ ] Add Pete to the Napping team channel or separately notify him about the pinned change request link - [ ] Staff to ensure all AI setups are in a project with signed client quotes before submission - [ ] Define an interim prioritization/owner for urgent AI setup requests during the two-week backlog - [ ] Mike to follow up with Christi separately regarding approval processes for change requests - [ ] Conduct a retro review to address recent missed change requests and mitigate audit risk - [ ] Christi to continue working on closing the Shark client audit and establish target milestones/deadline - [ ] Pete and Olivia to share notes and action items from their reporting/compliance discussion --- ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Pete is not in the Napping team channel where the change request link will be pinned — there is no stated plan to separately notify Pete, which could result in him missing the update. > 2. AI project backlog is at least 2 weeks behind — there is no clear prioritization plan or interim owner identified for urgent AI setup requests that may come in during this period. > 3. Previous change requests were not filled out — no remediation or retroactive review was discussed for the missed change requests from recent weeks, which could pose audit risk. > 4. Pete and Olivia's reporting/compliance discussion was referenced but not captured in this transcript — any decisions or action items from that segment are missing. > 5. Shark audit closure has no defined deadline or milestone stated, leaving its resolution timeline unclear.
- Date
- Jul 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:04 Good morning. I BCC'd, you guys on the ability first email, just to show you the difference in the emails that I send out. So, have fun with that. I thought you guys needed to see moose. Speaker 1 00:00:41 Monty, can I come hide at your house? I mean, I can ride a bike there. I don't have to drive. Uh, good morning. Uh, we have three three teenagers in the house now. Speaker 1 00:01:11 Yeah, I mean you've seen my apartment right? Yeah. So I mean it's big enough but yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:22 Oh That reminds me. Maybe. I mean if anarchy involves three teenage girls. Speaker 1 00:01:54 Actually, I kind of like having. Oh. Speaker 2 00:08:57 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:15:22 Good morning, guys. Uh, real quick, Just a reminder, all AI setups, whether it's Claude OpenAI um Copilot should be in a project uh. And those projects are handed over to me um but just a heads up I am at least two weeks out on starting those projects. So I know that I had an urgent one come in last week that I had to handle halfway. Um and I do did train some people on how to do that. But make sure, even if you know how to do those setups, make sure they're in a project. Make sure that quotes have been signed by the client. All of that because we are also doing training in addition to all of this. We're setting up SSO, things like that. If you have any questions, see me, see Pete, see uh yeah see one of us. All right thanks. Speaker 1 00:17:04 Good morning. Good morning. Actually, training updates are going to be done by two of us. Um, so I'm going to get us started. Uh, I want to remind you guys, this is more of a a heads up if you're making changes in any of our client environments. I'm not talking about, just like you're taking down a server and putting in a new one. I'm talking about little changes such as compliancy policies, anything along those lines, you have to fill out a change request, Um, how many of you guys show of hands real quickly? How, many of you guys know how to fill out a change request that should fill out change requests? Email does. I only see email. So, Becker does. Okay, I'm going to walk you guys through it. Um, Crimson has a portal just like any of our other clients. Um, Real quickly I'm going to wait for it to come up because my internet's a little slow, but you're going to go into the portal. Speaker 1 00:18:00 There is, you're going to open a ticket. That open ticket's going to be over here on the upper right side. It's open ticket, And then you're going to look for Crimson Internal Forms and then change or change request. Sorry it's going so slow guys. I don't know why it's decided to refresh on me. So just a heads up on that if you guys have any issues, the link was provided in one of the chats yesterday. Um, however, We've had some issues in the last couple weeks where change change requests were not filled out. And I want to make sure that everybody understands that, hey, they should be filled out. So I am going to post that uh that link in the Napping team. It will be pinned at the top. And uh I think the only person not in the Napping team is Pete. So um so just a quick heads up on that. Uh Mike, you had a qu perfect. Thank you. Uh, Mike, you had a question? Speaker 1 00:19:03 This is for our customers, but the change request form is in our Crimson portal. Because we're filling out the form and some of our client, and let me let me give you guys a quick heads up. You are going to fill it out on behalf of the clients. Most of the time we already have the approvals in place, but if we do need to get a client approval, We know where to get that. And so you are going to get that from your point of contact. But real quick heads up, Some of our clients, and honestly, it's actually not it's more than a sum. Have compliancy requirements that if they get audited, they're looking for those change requests. So Woodbridge is audited every three months, and they're looking did you make a change? Did you change a compliancy policy in Microsoft? If you did, where's the change request? They're looking for those kind of things. Some of our other clients, they're audited once a year. Speaker 1 00:19:57 Um. And so they may come up and they may say, hey, I. Where's the change request for X Y Z um I actually am working on closing on an audit for uh shark that was started earlier in the year before I got here. So just a heads up for you guys. It's across the board. Uh. It has to be done. Mike did I answer your question? Yeah. Just. Speaker 1 00:20:28 Yeah, send them over. We actually have approval processes in place, but hit me up later and I'll get you that information. And the only reason why I'm cutting Mike off, not because it's Mike because Mike's awesome, But because Pete and Olivia need to take over and do something that they need to discuss with you guys. So I'm going to segue into now while we're talking about reporting and compliancy. Speaker 2 00:20:56 Uh, We are we have another reporting issue that we're going to go over and discuss. And so for that, I'm going to turn that over to Pete because he's more elegant than I am on this one. Speaker 1 00:21:27 Oh, thank you. Hang out with me because Dom started running her own wrap team meetings after three months of hanging out with me every day at the office. Speaker 1 00:29:42 So real quickly, you didn't miss something, but you didn't know that you missed it. Um, real quickly guys, I want to remind you, you don't have to use MTX to have good time if you're in ConnectWise. Cause Olivia, when she worked on triage and dispatch, she had perfect time, but she used ConnectWise. And it's only because she put things in progress as she worked on them and put them into the right codes when she was done. We ask you guys to use MTX because it makes things a lot easier when you're flying through tickets. But for what Olivia used to do, what Sue's doing now, ConnectWise was her better tool. So find your good tool and use that. For me, MTX is perfect for me because I can use it on my cell phone, I can use it when I'm going to client sites. I also use CLI. So those are my perfect tools. But for some of you guys, ConnectWise is your perfect tool. So just a heads up. Speaker 1 00:30:37 We're not about which tool we want you to use. We're more about putting your time in accurately and putting it in correctly so that everything looks good, is correct, and there's no issues with reporting and anything like that. Speaker 2 00:35:08 Okay. Speaker 1 00:35:41 Thanks guys. Bye.
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05-19 Weekly Meeting: Personnel, Project Updates, and Operational Metrics
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-19 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Olivia] [Speaker 2] [April] [Speaker 4] [Pete] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Personnel Updates and Announcements - April is excited about the upcoming summer outing in the Philippines over the long weekend. Some staff will be out until May 21, 2026. - Two new employees, Paula and Marie Carr, have been onboarded and are training with Julia, Elisa, and Jane. ### Business and Project Updates - **New Business Opportunity:** Big Hit Seven proposed that Crimson IT manage their network. Pete instructed Speaker 4 to contact Anzor ASAP and cc Pete. - **Quote and Pricing Process:** A recent DTLA sale included an incorrect $150 installation fee for provisioning 24–27 new computers. Pete said this is a significant loss and the process must be fixed. He emphasized this cannot happen again and noted Vince and Julia bypassed Olivia’s review. - **Maverick Project:** A large domain migration for Maverick has a tight 12-day deadline. Pete stressed “all hands on deck,” including overtime and weekend work, and bringing in any required resources to ensure success. - **Weingart Contract:** Weingart signed a five-year extension with Crimson IT after winning the RFP. ### Team Stress and Leadership - Christi reported high team stress levels (several “fives”) and noted a lack of training for certain tickets. She will create Hudu documentation to help the team. - Pete emphasized that leadership should feel comfortable discussing organizational issues openly and confidentially. - He suggested that if teams perform well on challenging projects like Maverick, spot bonuses may be considered to recognize employees who go above and beyond. ### Operational Metrics and Customer Feedback - Olivia reported one negative customer survey (“red light”) from Friday, May 15, 2026, associated with Gaston. Christi is following up with the customer. - Positively, there were 46 “green” surveys, and Gaston and Robert received good Google reviews. - Key metrics reported by Olivia: - Compliance tickets: 31 - Same-day resolution: 51% - Open tickets: 385 (increasing) - Time per ticket: 1.19 hours (decreasing) - Olivia noted the Helpdesk will be under pressure for the next two weeks due to staff on leave or assigned to projects. ### Progress on "Rocks" (Quarterly Goals) - **Christi:** - “Execute Sharp technology roadmap” is on track. - “Deliver AF cost allocation platform” is done for V2; moving to V3. - **Anton (reported by Speaker 2):** - “Monthly report automation” is on track. - “Security audit assessment service template” is completed. - “Local admin and Wi-Fi password rotation” is on track. - **Olivia:** - “Complete Todo migration and cut off ITG” is on track, with a hard deadline of June 1, 2026, when the IT Glue license ends. - **Jason (Speaker 4):** - “MDM Intune compliant devices” is on track; documentation is pending. - “Establish a client onboarding standard network configuration” is off track; the client list has not been created. - “Project estimating coding process” is in progress; a draft workflow will be shared with leadership for validation. - **April:** - “Transitioning to admin team leadership role” is on track. - “Phase one agreement building automation” is off track due to scheduling difficulties with the ConnectWise team. ### IT Issues and Resource Management - Christi reported network slowness at Ability First HQ (Fair Oaks) despite a recent bandwidth upgrade. She requested Jason’s team investigate the Meraki configuration. - Pete advised Jason to improve project planning for his team (Kevin and Gabby) by blocking calendar time for projects to better manage resources. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] **Speaker 4:** Contact Anzor regarding Big Hit Seven’s network management proposal and cc Pete. - [ ] **Christi:** Create Hudu documentation to address team training gaps. - [ ] **Christi:** Follow up with the customer who submitted the negative survey regarding Gaston and report back. - [ ] **Jason (Speaker 4):** Assign investigation of network performance issues at Ability First HQ (Meraki configuration review). - [ ] **Jason (Speaker 4):** Share the drafted project quoting/estimating workflow with the leadership team for review and validation. - [ ] **April:** Follow up with the ConnectWise team during the marketing meeting on May 20, 2026, to unblock Phase One agreement automation. - [ ] **All Teams:** Complete the migration from IT Glue to Hudu before the June 1, 2026 deadline. - [ ] **Leadership (Pete, Olivia, Jason):** Define and implement a corrected sales quote review process (owner, steps, approvals) to prevent pricing errors. - [ ] **Helpdesk Leads (Olivia, Christi):** Create a two-week workload re-prioritization and offloading plan to mitigate stress and limited staffing. - [ ] **Maverick PM (Jason) + Resource Owners:** Draft and circulate a 12-day resource allocation plan (overtime/weekend coverage, named assignments). - [ ] **Jason (Speaker 4):** Set recovery plan and timeline for off-track rocks (“client onboarding standard” and “project estimating process”), including a client list creation milestone. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The process for creating and reviewing sales quotes is broken, leading to financial losses. While discussed, a concrete new process and accountable owner were not formally decided. > 2. Team stress levels are high, and the Helpdesk faces a rough two-week period with fewer resources. Support was offered, but specific actions to re-prioritize or offload work were not defined. > 3. Two of Jason’s (Speaker 4) rocks are off track (“client onboarding standard” and “project estimating process”). Clear next steps to get them back on track were not fully established. > 4. The Maverick project has an extremely tight 12-day deadline and requires “all hands on deck,” but a formal resource allocation plan was not discussed.
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Yeah, finally got it done. So that was really uh really good. I felt really good to get done. And that's all I have on the good news side. Speaker 2 00:00:10 Congratulations April. Speaker 3 00:00:14 On personnel side, I'm just excited for the upcoming summer outing for the Philippines, so scheduled it just in time for the long weekend on Monday Um. So just a heads up some of us are going to be out until Wednesday. Speaker 3 00:00:32 Thursday. Again, soum yeah, and also for employee headlines, we have just successfully onboarded Paula and Marie Carr. So for this week, they are busyum doing trainings with Julia Elisa andum Jane. That's all thank you. Speaker 2 00:00:53 Jason good morning. Speaker 2 00:01:05 Scheduling to have all the boat maintenance done. Speaker 4 00:01:13 On the business side, Kevin's actually on site right now at Big Hit Seven, which is just one of the buildings right up the street. And, he just messaged me on Teams saying that they're proposing to have Crimson IT manage the network. Figure seven for them. So, Kevin asked," Who do I connect with to manage their network?" Would that be me? Speaker 5 00:01:46 Um, So they're saying that we're supposed to be managing them, and we don't know that we're supposed to be managing them. Speaker 4 00:01:53 Is that what you want us to start managing them because right now it's currently managed by somebody else? So they want us to take it over. Absolutely. Sign us up. Speaker 5 00:02:05 Um, let's not let's not hesitate. So, um, you know what? Reach out to Anzor ASAP and see if he see if he wants to handle that, see if he wants us to handle it some way. I mean, we're not. We're not the marketing guys, so he may want to reach out to somebody and get that ball rolling. But if if we have a contact, send them the contact. Tell them whatever information you have, send it to Onzor, And if you don't mindcc'ing me just so I kind of know what's going on, that would be perfect. Speaker 2 00:02:39 It's great. Anything else? Speaker 4 00:02:44 No for me. Thank you though. Speaker 5 00:02:46 Okay. All right? Personal good news had a great vacation and I'm happy to be back, but it was probably. I would put it in if it's not the top vacation I've ever had, it's way up there. The whole family went. Beautiful weather, one of the best resorts I've been to, all inclusive. Everybody had a great time. It was really nice so had a wonderful time also. I'm, just going to say these guys are in the conference championship that starts this week and I'm pretty happy about that. Probably. Speaker 5 00:03:19 From an employee, Good news, and let's not forget that this also the time to call out things about our employee teams. Um, from an employee perspective, April mentioned we have two new people starting this week. Um, I think let's let's encourage our teams. We have a bunch of projects that are going right now that are pressing our teams. It's up to us as leaders to prop them up, encourage them, keep them going and keep them motivated. This kind of like When we had all those on boardings all happening at the same time, there's a lot of pressure happening right now. So keep the folks motivated and moving and encourage them. And you know, if there's things that we can do as a team to help support them, let me know. Um It, all just kind of came at the same time. So we have to sort of figure out how to deal with it. If, there's if there's other people that we can pull in to help by all means, let's do that. So um. Speaker 5 00:04:16 That's what I have for employee and personal good news. And let's move on to the next step. Scorecard, Mike's not here, so um, transactional sales for last week. Um, I don't know if you want to hover over that big pro, we can see if there's anything significant that stands out. It's probably just a bunch of equipment. Um yeah My guess is the DTLA or whatever the big sale was. I heard that one was about fifty grand, right? Yeah, so so that's a that's a big one that we need to talk about. Um, we'll take that one as an offline conversation, But we've got to we've got to fix this issue and and get get better. We've got to get better visibility before we can. Speaker 5 00:05:11 These orders, these quotes going out. This $150 install is not working for me. And it's not working, it's not going to work for Olivia's team. We're basically saying we're going to provision 27 or 24 or whatever it is new computers, including onsite installation and delivery and everything else for $ 150 bucks. That's just ridiculous. We're losing money on this and nobody looked at this before it went out. And Vince basically used rack price, and that should not have been the way it went. And we just had this conversation two weeks ago, and somehow this just went right through, and Olivia didn't even get a chance to look at it. And it went right through procurement and went right to the customer. So, we lost out on probably, you know, money that should not have been lost out on. So we need to have a good hard look at this, and I don't want this to happen again. So if I have to start looking at every order before it goes out, I'm going. Speaker 5 00:06:09 To do that, but I really don't know how I have the time to do that. But somehow we've got to we've got to stop this from happening. So so Kevin, Speaker 4 00:06:19 You you are Kevin. She's so looking forward, Kevin Pete. You asked me to look at all the invoices or the quotes right? I Mean. Speaker 5 00:06:30 Yeah, and I you know at least at least from a professional services perspective. So, you know, maybe maybe you need to look at everything before it goes out. I don't know. I mean originally, we said, Olivia, and you know, Olivia needs to look at everything that affects her team before it goes out. Vince and Mike are supposed to be responsible for anything that comes through the customers that originates from there, from them, and you're supposed to look at anything that originates from your team. Now this was specifically uh PC refresh for a customer, so this really wouldn't have gone through your area at all. So I wouldn't have expected it ever to go pot past you, But I would have expected Olivia to at least be able to look at this. But somehow Vince took rack price, and it went right through sourcing and went right out the door, and Olivia never even got a chance to see it. And I don't know how that happened. So. Speaker 5 00:07:18 Like in in some ways, I you know, I'm going to point the blame on this one at Vince and Julia for letting this go past without Olivia getting to look at it because that's not right. So I'm not going to spend time on this call, but that's that's an example of something that should not have happened. So we got it we got to fix that. Um from a project perspective uh I don't know if there's anything. Major on here. It's not a huge number from the week before. I think we have some numbers that probably have to be either paused or backed out, but then we have new projects that are time and materials. Obviously, the big one that most people here know about, We're doing a huge project for Maverick that has an incredibly tight deadline that is almost. Speaker 5 00:08:12 Unbelievable, But we're basically doing a domain migration in two weeks for a company that has multiple sites and thousand users or whatever it is, which is just wild. But we're gonna, we're gonna pull this one off, and we're gonna be successful. And hopefully, it brings us a lot of business in the future. But long story short, this is a tall order. We got to have all hands on deck and whoever we need to make this happen. Please bring to the table if we need to do overtime for it, if people are okay doing overtime for it, if we need to do weekend work to achieve this. Please make it happen. Please ask people to help. To the extent we need help, um, we have very little time to make this come together. So whatever you can do as leaders to bring the right resources to bear to pull this off, we seriously have. Speaker 5 00:09:08 12 days before this has to be done. So, um, this is a very challenging. I mean, we're still trying to develop the project as we're executing on it. So, Um obviously, I've only been in back for two days, and I'm still even trying to make sure I got all the details on everything. So. The folks here and some of the other folks are still, you know, have even a better handle on it than probably I do. But I have a pretty good understanding of what we have to achieve. I'm fairly technical on this particular aspect and I know how tall an order. This is. So let's bring all the resources to bear to bring that together. New MRR, um, I don't know what the $90, 000 new MRR is but it's probably the WineGuard. Speaker 5 00:09:59 Uh, the deal that's officially signed. Okay. And then, okay, so they just they just broke it out into the two. I see. Okay, that's great. And if anybody doesn't know, Uh I think everybody here knows, but Weingart did basically extend a five year contract with us officially by signing an agreement with us, and we won the RFP. So that was great. Okay Team stress level? Speaker 5 00:10:29 I don't know, Chris, if you were able to fix your. Speaker 2 00:10:32 Technical issue. Speaker 6 00:10:34 Yeah, all of a sudden the network here slowed down. So for team stress level, I'm just going to stay off of video and I turned off y'all's video as well. For team stress level, we did have a quite a few fives coming through. We had a lot the last two weeks we've had a lot of responses. So thank you all to who are reminding your teams to fill it out. I did set up an automation to go through and, Um, and to tag. Um, sorry about to see. Um, I did set up an automation to go through on Fridays and put the link in so that everybody remembers that, hey, we got to do stress surveys. Um, There has been a few comments come through, and I did bring this to Anzor and um Pete's attention yesterday. Speaker 6 00:11:23 But just be aware, your teams are a little bit stressed. I did get with Olivia on a couple of tickets or a couple of comments that came through. Got the tickets from her. So I can see if there's something I can do to assist the team on some of the some of the things that were notated. I think there was a ticket that people were not understanding how to do this. They didn't feel like they were getting good enough training for it, So I'm going to go through and see if I can create some documentation and upload it to Hudu. And I'm also going to look at the ticket myself to see, you know, what is exactly being asked because when I started to read the notes, then this meeting started. So I didn't get a chance to dig into it further. But if it's something on one of your teams, I am going to bring it to your attention. So just remember that if it's something where I don't know who it is, but I'm making some assumptions, I might pull one or two of you into a group chat and say, hey, heads up. But I am also taking this piece so that he is aware. Speaker 6 00:12:18 So just just a quick heads up on that. Speaker 5 00:12:23 And I I think I. This is an opportunity for me to kind of make a comment that's sort of related to leadership peers, you know, And I and I've said this multiple times, but we here in this meeting are the leadership team, um including Mike. And I think we should be able to talk openly about things that are important to the organization, right? The things that matter, we should consider this organization our leadership team. We should consider our conversations confidential. We should consider what we discuss here confidential, But we should be able to talk openly about things that matter and things that we need to address as a group. And we should be able to work together to address those things. So for instance, if we have something that we. Speaker 5 00:13:12 Feel needs to be addressed, Or if we feel like there's somebody that has a challenge on their team, and we want to talk about that, we can take it offline and talk about it individually with that person. Or, if we think it's been a chronic issue, and we want to talk about something that is an organizational issue across the board, or if we want to talk about something openly here, I think you should all feel okay about doing that. Right? I want this to be a group that we can talk To each other about as an organizational leadership team. So, please consider that and know that I am very open to talking about that kind of stuff here, because this is really what it's about. Like it's up to us to make this organization successful, right? And and each of you plays a huge role in that. Like you are all leaders on the team, And without each of you kind of leading your team and doing what what we need to do the right way. Speaker 5 00:14:09 We're not going to be successful. So so together we have to kind of do all the right stuff. So and I need you, you need me, we need each other. So um let's bring those things up and and work together to make that happen. So I just want all of us to feel feel good about being able to share that kind of stuff openly on on these kind of calls. And obviously work together, individually as you need to talk to me individually as we need to or or in. Separate groups, you know that that's totally fine as well. But um I just want you to know that what we talk about here, you know will stay here and it should stay here. Right? Don't don't I'm asking you now and and I'm expecting that, You know, don't go and just kind of whisper now with other people, whatever we're talking about. You know so-and-so said this about whatever. As a leadership team we should we should really be able to talk. Speaker 5 00:15:05 Talk closely about things that matter here and keep it confidential. So I'm assuming that everybody's doing that, But I figured I'd say out loud as well, because it really matters what we all do here. So um and we want our teams to feel supported by us. And what comes out of these surveys really matters to me, right? I mean, I want to be able to support them. We're asking a lot of them and You know, what I'm hoping we can do again, especially like with this maverick thing and some of these other challenging projects. You know, if we do well and we deliver, I hope we can do something like what we did in the last round is, you know, if we do some spot bonuses for the people that that really deliver and really go to bat for us. Maybe, we can, you know, maybe we can do some things for some of those individuals. And I don't want to promise anything. I don't want to point out who would get what. Speaker 5 00:15:57 I don't want to even set expectations for that. But if we see people that really go above and beyond and really, you know, step up, you know, We will try to recognize that if we are successful in delivering what we need to deliver because we, you know, We've done that in the past and I want to continue to make sure we try to do that. So anyway. Okay. Um number of compliance tick- oh sorry, number of green surveys Oh unhappy customers, sorry. Speaker 1 00:16:25 Uh, so we had one red light on Friday. It was a sharp. Um, Chris, did you happen to look at that? I haven't gone through all of my emails yet, Speaker 5 00:16:34 So I'm not sure. It had Gaston's name on it. Speaker 6 00:16:37 Yeah, it did have Gaston's name on it. I reached out to the person. Um, I thought I replied but it might be stuck in my drafts. I got like twenty messages stuck in my drafts, but i did reach out to the user. Um i had had some good conversations with him in the past. So i'm hoping this is a fat finger issue. Um. But, he's I I don't know yet. So I just want to talk to him and see what happened. And hopefully, it's a fat finger. He's a genuinely, uh, great guy that I've worked with in the past. So let's see what happened? Speaker 5 00:17:10 Yeah. Can you let us know if possible today what you find out on that Chris? Yeah, I did see that Friday and Gaston's not normally a person. We see that well I would expect that from but I mean things happen, obviously, Speaker 6 00:17:22 So okay. Uh yeah, I'll do that. And as soon as I get if it if I don't see him today, I know yesterday he was out of office. So, um if I don't see him today, I will. I will definitely go hunt him down tomorrow. Speaker 2 00:17:36 Okay great. Speaker 1 00:17:37 Thank you Chris. Uh Green surveys, we had forty six. So along the same line, Gaston and Robert did get good responses on our Google review. So that's good Adam. Compliance tickets, we have 31. Same day resolution, 51% same day resolution. Number of tickets open, we have 385. We are going up and the next two weeks for Helpdesk is going to be really, really rough. We have a lot of people out, and we have a lot of people on projects. So please be patient with my team and myself. And then time per ticket, we have 1.19 hours per ticket so coming down. Speaker 1 00:18:22 And yeah, that's it. Speaker 2 00:18:25 All right. What's next? Do we go under rocks or? Uh, rocks. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:18:34 I haven't put mine in here yet, but I know what mine are. So we can jump over to Mike's out. I think his are probably We'll call him on track. I think they're probably on track for now Chris. Speaker 6 00:18:49 So for mine, Execute sharp technology roadmap is on track. And honestly, it's almost done as far as the actual roadmap itself. There's a few things that I am working with Doctor Barber and the ELT team on for their plans. But the biggest things are is understanding what is going to be turned off. And then deliver AF cost allocation platform is done with V2. However, now we're moving into a V 3 as of last week. So, this might we're going to go ahead and put done because that was the plan for that piece for my rocks completely executed. But now I want to change it up a little bit. Um and I need to put you guys on mute and Sean's calling me. Speaker 2 00:19:39 All right. Sounds like that was April Good morning Can you hear me? All right, Anton, Monthly report automation is on track. Security audit assessment service template, it's completed. Local admin and Wi- Fi password rotation, it's on track. Speaker 6 00:20:03 Yeah, give me one second. Let me double check. Speaker 1 00:20:07 Complete Todo migration and cut off ITG, I'd say that's on track. And, then my other two are off track at the moment, and I think they'll probably be off track for the next. Because I'm not sure if it matters or so. Speaker 4 00:20:24 As it relates to the Hadoop migration, um, let's specifications in the near future about my team. Um, I know that that Dimitri's been updating it. I uh Keppie's been out for two weeks. So there's probably been very little movement. Um, so I just want to make sure thatum. Speaker 4 00:20:47 You know, I know where they're at and how much more we have. I think it's it's going to be a lot of work. So Jason, Speaker 5 00:20:54 So you so you are aware IT glue licensing ends June first. So, Speaker 6 00:20:59 We have a hard date, Speaker 5 00:21:00 Two weeks or less than two weeks from now. So, Speaker 6 00:21:03 They have to have everything out of our system by June first and into the new system with no later than June. First. And it shows that it was paid on January thirteenth Okay, So, And that was that invoice was December. So that was the twenty twenty five invoice. And then the, The forty two thousand or forty three close to, Was paid on February thirteenth and that invoice is still says paid. Speaker 5 00:21:33 That wasn't accurate anyway. So if they got to start over in Hoodoo, Speaker 6 00:21:38 Then that's what they got to do because they need to get the stuff out of it. Speaker 5 00:21:40 Glue exported out of it, glue and get it into hoodoo and then fix it. I mean, it's pretty much as simple as that, as far as I'm concerned. Olivia, correct me if I'm wrong, but what more is there to do besides that? Speaker 1 00:21:55 Yeah, Wine Library didn't have too much when I originally looked. And a lot of it was still outdated. So I think the actual. As long as like the things that are up to date are moved over by first, that's what's important. And then after the fact we can create. Um, more documentation andum, whatnot uh in each of the two. Speaker 4 00:22:20 Is there any automation? Can they is there a script they can run? Speaker 1 00:22:24 No, everything is manual at the moment. We're manually moving everything over. Speaker 6 00:22:28 I'm gonna go into Planful and take a look at everything. I had it up last night. Um, much in there and I think putting so much first time. I'm in a team meeting right now with my team. Speaker 5 00:22:36 To get everything out of it. Speaker 6 00:22:38 But no, no, I don't mind because they're talking rocks and I don't need to be part of that conversation. Speaker 1 00:22:42 I think it's at like eighty five percent Jason completion. Speaker 6 00:22:46 Um, so I don't think that helps too much. Um, because I was logged into it. I'll check in with him this week. And thenum let me let me see if I can't see it. If not, I will go bug somebody to to either give me access or do the research. Speaker 5 00:23:03 I really don't want to hear a bunch of excuses about how big a deal it is. And if they blow it out of proportion. They need to just sit down, go through, compare it, and pull anything that's still an IT glue and just get it done. And you know this is not a daunting task just for Weingart. I mean, we got people that have tons of stuff to do. So yeah okay. Um Jason I'm. Speaker 6 00:23:29 I'm going to go in and take a look at what I sent them because I know I sent them a full spreadsheet there. And A full updated of everything. You know, Speaker 4 00:23:37 Working on an important project for them. So I would say I'm on track. So the MDM Intune compliant devices. So I'm, I think the last parts they've got it working. Yeah. There are a couple bugs, you know, So for the big ones. Speaker 6 00:23:53 From a vendor But, Speaker 4 00:23:54 They they do have a process now and I'm waiting on All, right, are you on your way here? So it's not done until it's documented Awesome And. So I'm just waiting for the documentation. So uh I'm on track. Speaker 6 00:24:04 Thanks. Bye. Speaker 5 00:24:05 Fantastic, and that's a that's a huge one, Jason. I got to tell you, like that was that has been lingering since ICE started here. So having the traction that we've gotten in the last sixty days, and I know it's a combination of Matthew and Anzor jumping into it, and obviously Monty and Juno, but like the fact that we have gotten it to work is phenomenal. Speaker 4 00:24:30 Yeah no And it was Anzor was, Because there was a little disagreement internally. Well, it wasn't disagreement. Matthew, I guess, just didn't understand it exactly what needed to happen. And uh, Monty was just, you know, persistent like, no. It has to be this way, and Anzar came in confirmed it, and they put their heads together and got it working. So that was a good push. So um regarding number three, uh. Speaker 4 00:25:02 You had want my team to go through and look at uh firewall configurations. And uh so this is kind of part of the standardizing to make sure that they're part of our standard configuration. Is that right? Speaker 5 00:25:18 So is this well, This was this was to establish a client onboarding standard network configuration and make sure we have it. And, then we need to then we need to make the list and go through our current. Clients and make sure that they have the standard configuration, right? So it's kind of a two phase or two pronged effort. So, you know, do we have phase one documented and do we know what that is? And then phase two, do we have the list and are we making progress on it? If we don't get it completed, how far down the list are we? And you know. We should have by the end of the quarter. We should at least have. Speaker 5 00:26:02 N umber one complete, have the list complete and be working through the list, where how far down the list we get is debatable, but we should at least be you know, working through the list. So we can talk about that in our one- to- one, but that that's the expectation for number three. Speaker 4 00:26:21 I gotcha. And so at at the moment, I have the configuration, but I don't have a list. So I don't know if you want to call that off, let's just call it off track. And then we'll get. Back on track. And then, as it relates to the project estimating coding process, so I went through and I developed a as I understand the process, the current process, The uh project estimating uh learning a lot about how we you know start from developing a um a statement of work all the way through billing. And um and so basically. Speaker 4 00:27:01 Anybody can ask for a quote is what I is what I understand. Is that everybody's agreement? Anybody can request a quote from sales, correct? Speaker 5 00:27:12 Pretty much. I mean, we could have a customer ask, we could have a customer ask one of our team members. We could have Onsor get a request from a potential or an existing client. We got to have anybody get a request from an existing client or a potential client. So the answer I think is yes. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:27:30 And that's my understanding. And. So when so the person that's re, so then they take complete ownership of scoping it themselves. So somebody, uh, it could be uh someone from the help desk or someone like myself, I can request it, but I've also got to understand all the things that are that are necessary. I got to take complete ownership of it. So that means I need to I need to search for this huge, I need to provide everything for equipment, for time. Uh, whether it's accurate or not, I'm the one that has to scope it. So if I'm asking sales to give me a quote, I'm scoping. Is that right? Speaker 5 00:28:12 No, you're establishing a process. Speaker 4 00:28:15 No, i i understand, and and yeah, Speaker 5 00:28:17 You don't you don't have to own it. You just have to bring the right resources to bear to do a requirements study and and produce a quote based on whatever that. Those requirements are right. So, if the person says, I need this. I need a an SD- WAN quote. I need a quote for a replacement network. I need a whatever it is, you have to have a process to go through that says, I'm going to bring the right resources in to produce this quote, whatever that looks like. Speaker 4 00:28:46 Yeah. So I've established that, that i just i just want to establish exactly where we're at today. And if we're going to change it, great. But I wanted to, so I have something. Do, you want me to present it to the leadership team just to validate that the workflow is correct? Speaker 5 00:29:03 Yeah, I think that's a great way to do it. And I want to encourage everybody on this call, use AI to get yourself a template for as much of this stuff as you can, right? And then build off of that. Like ask AI to give you the basics for what you're looking for and then tweak it. For for Crimson to to get what we need out of it, right? That, that's you can. You can definitely do that for a lot of the things that we're trying to we're trying to get to here. Speaker 4 00:29:32 So and I did I. This was my first Claude project just to make sure I understood it. And so we'll tweak it after this, But I just want to make sure i I understand the way it works right now. So, i'll send i'll drop in your leadership team, our our team meeting uh or. Our leadership team, just everybody take a look at it. Tell me if I'm wrong, and then I'll correct it if I'm wrong. Speaker 5 00:29:56 And you know, and ultimately Jason, You know, this, this may need to just land in your court down the road, right? Because if things keep happening, the way they are where quoting just is still not working. Quoting may all need to just go through you just to make sure it goes through one funnel because if it keeps being wrong, it's got to go through someone that's not, I don't know that I got time to look at everything, but I'm not sure that you're the right person either. So we we'll have to figure it out. Okay. Okay. All right, uh April. Speaker 2 00:30:32 On track by the way. Speaker 3 00:30:34 Okay okayum on my end for transitioning to admin team leadership role. So this is on track. Marvin has started to step back from the role, so I only reach out to him now just for consultation or. Any advice that um can provide. Um phase one agreement building automation. Um I would say this is up track because it's kind of hard to get a hold of the Connectwise team because I have some pending questions for them. But for some reason, I'm having a hard time to um schedule with them. So tomorrow, there's a marketing meeting with Connectwise. So I might follow up with them during that meeting. So. Speaker 3 00:31:18 That's all. Speaker 5 00:31:20 Just for a reminder for everybody, we're probably down to about six or seven weeks left in the quarter. If we don't deliver everything, we don't deliver everything from a from a goals slash rocks perspective. You know, the target date is end of Q 2, which is June 30 th. So we have roughly six or seven weeks left in the quarter so, And. And because this is like, you know, the first one, for uh you know, for some of us here, Um it's a good. It's a good barometer to say, okay, what realistically should I set for goals for Q three, when we get to that point. Um, sometimes you know, we set lofty goals, and it's a little too much when you start to see what the real workload is like. So it'll be a good barometer for next time. All right let's go to the next group. Speaker 2 00:32:15 Anything on the to- do list we need to review? All right, what do we have on the ideas? Speaker 5 00:32:32 Stress levels, Chris, you want to say anything else about that? I know we talked a bit about it, but anything else you want to talk about? Speaker 6 00:32:38 Yeah, I do. Let me bring up Ability First Network Configuration first because both of those are mine. Speaker 6 00:32:45 Jason, I was digging into Meraki. We're having some issues. We just upgraded the bandwidth at Ability First a week ago, but we're not seeing any changes here. Um, I am not good with Meraki. I'm not good on the networking side and never have been. I know just enough to be dangerous and form opinions, and then tell other people what to do. So if you can have someone dig into that, I also am at a point right now where I'm trying to do some no budget stuff for Ability First, so that they they can see some additional things without savings. And so Jason, If you have any like little tweaks that we can do in their network configuration or any ideas, that would be greatly appreciated. That's more of just me asking for help and trying to not forget it, which is why I put it on IDS. So. Speaker 4 00:33:36 I uh, What was it there? What particular did they not They have multiple sites. Speaker 6 00:33:41 Was this at HQ? This is at HQ, which is Fair Oaks. I also was going to put in the floor plans so that everybody can see it. Because I know, Marquis has a really robust floor plan system. So I'm going to get those updated for Ability First because I have all the floor plans. And that's actually one small project. I was going to work on this week in my spare time because I've been meaning to do it for a year. Maybe. Speaker 5 00:34:02 We can just assign Gabby or somebody to go and, Talk and work work on or whoever Gabby or Kevin to go, see what the see what the configuration was, what is it now, and then why is it not better? Speaker 6 00:34:16 Yeah, because I am only getting twenty up and down right now, and that's the way it's been the last week or so. And no one's really seeing the new bandwidth updates. So I don't know enough to fix it. We could go down. The up and down was supposed to be a hundred. Speaker 5 00:34:32 We don't have We don't have time to talk. The details here, so let's take that offline, please. Okay. Um, One of the one of the things I'm going to give as guidance to folks here, A lot of people in the past Crimson have kind of just been like come in during the day. And sort of do what they think needs to be done that day. We're getting to the point where we're busy enough where folks may need to start planning their calendars a little better when it comes to the project work they're doing. Um ticket tickets. Speaker 5 00:35:03 For like help desk tickets and things like that, I think historically we've done a lot with. But when it comes to project work, I think it's been a little bit more seat of the pants. And I'm just using that because that's how I'm going to phrase it. But I think with things that are coming down the pike, especially in your area Jason, With some of the projects that we've got specifically with limited resources like Kevin and Gabby. I want to make sure that they are starting to plan their days a little bit more because when I start start to see things like the arc projects and stuff that we're doing there, Some of the things that we're planning for some of the stuff that's going on down in San Diego, some of the other stuff that we're doing with Maverick things. And then now you know, stuff that Chris is asking for. Plus, knowing that we are going to have things come out of the woodwork where they're going to have to drop everything and go. Speaker 5 00:35:57 Let's have them start putting things on the calendar, Or you help them start doing that so that they're planning some of these projects and blocking calendar dates out into the future instead of just saying, Well, I'm I think I'm going to go do this at this time. And then we don't have to have to shuffle things around. So okay. Anything else there, Chris? Speaker 6 00:36:16 Not for ability first. Um stress levels. I wanted to bring upum a conversation I've had with someone today, and I want to kind of put some light on it because. Pete, you did say we could be open and free. And so a few of us are, And I am saying a few because I have been in there, but I am not there right now. But I am going to talk about things in the past because I know other people were seeing it. In the past, it was pretty stressful for me. You weren't here yet, Pete. And so basically, I was the. Speaker 6 00:36:55 The poster child of where everything got dumped into my lap, And then I had to figure out who I could delegate to without overloading them, which made me the bottleneck. And some people didn't see that because I was trying to protect their stress levels and say, "Hey, you know, i see that you you have fifty million things on your plate, but I am not going to add any more to it." Um. That kind of got me into hot water with Ansor quite a few times because he didn't think I was delegating. But then on the reverse side, I am going to use Marvin as an example. Other people were seeing that I was throwing a lot of things over to them. Marvin actually made a statement and said, " My team is tired and they're stressed, and they wish you would start just doing things for yourself instead of sending it over to us." And that became a. Speaker 6 00:37:50 Stressful time for me, and I know that I did not handle that well. I didn't handle it at all pretty good, and then it made me take a step back and say, okay, how can I. In a way manage up and manage down, And so I am bringing this up to you guys because I am seeing some of you guys are in the same boat that I am. One of the things I learned, and not to give Pete's ego any more fluff and stuff like that. I will say, when I came from the Dodgers, which is where I came from, I worked for a very narcissistic boss and it was bad. When Anzor offered to steal me away from the Dodgers, It took me some time to think about what I really wanted, because Dodgers is prestigious. Everybody knows them. You know, if you work there three years you can go anywhere you want. And that was the lines that I kept getting fed. At the end of the day, I knew what I wanted. Speaker 6 00:38:47 And I wanted to be a mom. I wanted to live to my full potential. I wanted bosses that could see me and hear me and allow me to help grow a business, and that's everything Munzer was offering. But then at the same time, it was pretty stressful, but it wasn't as stressful as the doctors literally because it came from there. My doctors were even commenting two years after the fact. That they saw my blood pressure go down, they saw all my stats going better. And this is me with an autoimmune disease, so I'm getting my blood work done every three months. But the one thing that I did was I kept it internal. I didn't share my frustrations with Olivia or Cheryl. But they did see a side of me that they never should have seen. And so and we've had that conversation since then. What made me stick with Crimson is the fact that one, Ansar's not definitely not a narcissist. Speaker 6 00:39:42 Okay, I can say that freely. But his heart, while he's not perfect, is golden. And when I see what he's trying to do, he loves you guys. Even to the point he might say something that's his Russian nature to say and kind of harsh sounding. But he is absolutely got a great heart with it. When, you are dealing with the stresses and the frustrations you are look at the pros and cons of working here. We work harder than most MSPs, I can say that being in most evolved groups that I've been in, I've been in three different evolved groups. I can say that now. I am in another peer group. I am looking at all these CIOs and I am like, "You've got time to do X, Y, and Z. " I want to have one on ones with my staff, and i don't have I don't have that freedom and cadence. Lean on the people around you. Don't um don't do what I did. i made some serious mistakes and missteps at Crimson and i learned from those. Speaker 6 00:40:37 But if you need a hearing, if if you need someone to hear you, if you need someone to go get a drink wine with you, call me. Call Pete. Pete can't come to LA as often but he will listen. Speaker 5 00:40:47 I will though but I will. If I need to I will. Speaker 6 00:40:50 He will bring the bourbon. Speaker 5 00:40:51 On a plane tomorrow If you need it, I'll be on a plane tomorrow, and I will be there. And then i don't i'm not just saying that i mean, Speaker 6 00:40:58 It But what about in the Philippines? Speaker 6 00:41:02 Hi, I'll do what I've done. Speaker 5 00:41:03 It'll take me a lot longer to get it'll take me a lot longer to get to Manila April, but if I need to, I will. I have a passport. Speaker 6 00:41:09 Okay. Yeah, well, I am saying all this because we recognize and I can't speak for Pete. This is just me speaking from my heart Every single person in this meeting is amazing. I don't know Jason as well, But what i've seen so far of you Jason, you are pretty amazing Um. No, i'm amazing Good there. There are days where I go home and I cry, because I feel like I've not done anything good for the day. I literally felt like yesterday, I know I did a lot of work yesterday. Did 11 hours worth of work, but I walked away feeling like I didn't make much of a difference. And that's just a me issue. And I know you guys are going to walk away every day feeling like, hey, I didn't do that great of a job that could have. Speaker 6 00:41:56 But just know that every single one of you here, I am proud of because you guys have done some amazing things with your teams that I wished two years ago, I could have done and I had the capacity to do. So don't give up on yourselves. First off, second off, if you're having a bad day, go talk to Pete. Come talk to me. I know I'm not in that same position. I used to be, but at least I'm a listening ear, and you can vent to me and it goes no further. Um, And if you need help with something, ask me. Now I am not good at networking; we all know that, but I can do all other jobs. Um, I just don't have the time or the energy to spend on relearning, how to do all the networking stuff. But I am here for you guys and I will listen. And I don't want you guys to continue feeling like you've got nowhere to go because I know what that man's like throwing things. Speaker 5 00:42:45 Yeah, And that is across the board here, obviously, like everybody is here for everybody and everybody may have. Interactions that are challenging now and then, but let's all be here for everybody. And I know we're out of time already. What uh, anything else for IDs that we need to hit today? Thank you for that. I wasn't trying to cut you off. It was what you what you said was absolutely true and and it it means a lot. Thanks. Speaker 4 00:43:15 Thanks everybody. I have the Maverick meeting I need to jump on to. Speaker 5 00:43:19 Yeah, I got to go to the project meeting as well. Anything else before we wrap? No. Thank you all. Have a wonderful day, have a wonderful week. Speaker 6 00:43:27 Thanks guys, appreciate it guys Bye- bye Bye- bye.
07-10 Meeting: Client Issues and Recovery Plan
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-07-10 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 2] [Pete] ## Meeting Notes ### Frustrations and Issues with Client DTLA - Speaker 2 expressed significant frustration with the client DTLA, specifically Suzanne, describing her as one of the most difficult clients. - A training session on July 9, 2026, was unsuccessful. Speaker 2 felt unprepared because pre-session survey results were not visible due to a Microsoft system issue. - The client felt the standard cloud training was not applicable to them and a waste of time because it lacked their specific use cases. - Speaker 2 has apologized and is committed to fixing the situation. ### Recovery Plan for DTLA Client - Speaker 2 plans to create custom training videos based on DTLA's specific use cases. - Mike will help manage the situation and "run interference". - Anzor will be asked to conduct one-on-one training with Suzanne, as Speaker 2 feels they have better rapport. - Additional training on Power Automate, which the client is interested in, will be provided. ### Client Concerns About Anzor's Role Change - Some clients, including Doctor Hill from SCHARP, have expressed concern that Anzor is leaving the company. - Speaker 2 reassures clients that Anzor is not leaving but has transitioned to Chief Visionary Officer to focus on creative work. - Pete is now the CEO, and Anzor remains the owner of the company. ### General Workload and Client Management - Speaker 2 discussed the challenge of managing a heavy workload, including a new project for Westwood. - Pete advised Speaker 2 to manage their workload, pace themselves, and set proper expectations with clients instead of always saying yes. - Speaker 2 is also trying to connect with Christi from SCHARP, who has missed several meetings. SCHARP is currently ahead of schedule. ### Finalizing SCHARP Client Agreement - Pete and Speaker 2 discussed the need to finalize the SCHARP agreement before the end of July 2026. - The proposed pricing structure is tiered: a base cost for 300 machines, with decreasing costs for subsequent batches of 50 machines. - Speaker 2 confirmed the agreement is already written and ready for signature. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Fix the DTLA training issues by creating custom videos and arranging specialized training sessions. - [ ] Pete to give Anzor a heads-up about the DTLA client situation. - [ ] Speaker 2 to meet with Kevin and Michael next week to improve their process. - [ ] Speaker 2 to send a copy of the finalized SCHARP agreement to Pete. - [ ] Speaker 2 to hand-carry the SCHARP agreement to SCHARP for signature. - [ ] Speaker 2 to follow up with Pete after talking to Doctor Barber. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The root cause of the Microsoft survey system issue, which led to the failed DTLA training, was mentioned but there are no clear steps to prevent it from happening again. > 2. Speaker 2 is struggling with burnout and an excessive workload. While Pete offered advice to "say wait sometimes," there are no concrete steps to re-prioritize or delegate tasks. > 3. Communication issues with Christi from SCHARP were noted, as she has missed multiple meetings. There is a risk to the project if this continues, but no clear plan was set to resolve it.
- Date
- Jul 10, 2026
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- Speaker 2 00:00:04 Hello. Um, I am going to be real with you for a moment. I am always real with you, But I am going to be real in a way that I've never been before. Okay? Speaker 1 00:00:12 Yep. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:00:14 This might sound a little bit harsher than I intend. There are three clients within Crimson that they are the only times I've ever thought about quitting other than when Anzor pulled something that he later apologized for totally unrelated. But they're the only three clients that I have literally thought about quitting. Principal one is Sims, Which is no longer an issue because I don't deal with him at all anymore. One is Eltridge, But I figured Paul out where I can have a good conversation with him and hang up and then go get a drink. And one is DTLA, specifically Suzanne. Now, I am going to apologize in advance because I bombed yesterday. Speaker 2 00:00:58 Mike knows this. He's going to run interference between being in the hospital, some issues on Microsoft's side, And I had asked someone to take care of some things for me and they didn't get it done because I guess I that's that I'm gonna take on this one because I didn't explain it properly. Um, I am fixing the DTLA stuff. I am bending over backwards Pete, and you've seen it where I have bent over backwards for them. Just to make a better impression, but it's not working. She's the only client that has ever said to answer that I always come into meetings, ill prepared and I fly by the seat of my pants. Only client who's ever said that, ever. And I have almost quit over this multiple times. So, I wanted to give you a heads up. I am going to. I am letting Mike handle it, but as my boss, I want you to be aware of it. I did bomb out yesterday. Speaker 2 00:01:55 I am going to fix it. I am going to make it better for them. Mike is going to make fix it, make it better for them. But before she comes to you and complains or before she goes to answer and complains, I want you to be aware that yeah, I have to. What happened? It was a training yesterday. I checked all the surveys two weeks ago; no one had put surveys in, so I thought, I could not see any use cases they gave me or anything like that, so I did my standard cloud training that I do for every other client. And she kept interrupting. She's like, "This not applicable to me." This not applicable to me. And in my frustration, I didn't she didn't see that I was frustrated; I didn't show it. I said, "Hey, I need you guys to fill out the survey because i, at that point did not see any results coming in for them showing." And i so i thought they never did it. Speaker 2 00:02:48 Or I never sent it to them and they're like, we already did it. I'm like, oh. And then I just played it off as my own stupidity and being out. But I had already checked and Microsoft wasn't showing me results, which we've had this happen once before and I completely forgot about. But as soon as I triggered the survey with a new survey request, all of them appeared. And it's an issue that Microsoft has had. But for the last three weeks, I thought I didn't send out the survey because the results weren't in the report. They weren't showing up, so I played it off as it's my fault. I didn't check it, um, And I just let it go because I know Sherry has that opinion of me. I am not going to change her mind, So i i did that Um They felt like I wasted their time yesterday with the training because I didn't have use cases that worked for them. So what I've promised them is, "I am going to make videos for them that are more." Speaker 2 00:03:45 Be suited for their use cases. I am going to do slower training, And then I asked Mike, if he will talk to Anzor and have Anzor do one on one training with Suzanne, because I don't speak Suzanne. She's smart, but she acts dumb, And she wants me to break everything down, even though I know, she knows it. Um, and we just she and I are like oil and water. We've never really done well together because I, I either dumb it down too much for her or I don't dumb it down enough for her, and she will call me out. She'll interrupt constantly. So, Anzor will speak Suzanne, and I'm going to ask Anzor to take over her training. Um, and then I'm going to do training. And then I'm going to add to their training because they are interested in Power Automate. I'm going to add that to their training. But I'm going to sit down with Kevin next week, and we'll sit down with Michael next week and I'm gonna get better at this thing right now. Okay So, what you're hearing me say is, "I have" Speaker 2 00:04:44 I'm gonna fix it, but I need you to be aware. All right. And I don't like saying that to you, but I gotta be real with you. I just. Speaker 1 00:04:53 I understand. Speaker 2 00:04:54 I just. I try with them and I just feel like I don't get anywhere. Speaker 1 00:05:15 You do have to make time the day before you plan something to set some time to plan for it. I know you automate and automate and automate, but you do have to, you know, Put twenty thirty minutes in the day before, at least or a few days before, to actually look at what you're going to be doing and make sure that the that you plan some manual focus time for what you're going to be doing just to make sure that all the bases are covered. Speaker 1 00:05:45 Because automation works to a certain extent, But there is still a piece that you just have to have ready in advance. And I'll be honest, Speaker 2 00:05:57 I did do it. Yeah, because I do do it, and I had the training and everything written weeks ago. Like I wanted to be on top of this one, and I still felt. But I get what you are saying; I hear you. am going to make a better effort. Um, I know it seems like I automate a lot, but I do also hand do a lot. Um, But I'm going to make a better effort for to to be more apparent that I am prepping. Um, and I definitely hear what you're saying. Speaker 1 00:06:26 How many people were in the how many people were in the training? Speaker 2 00:06:29 Uh eight. Okay. So. Speaker 1 00:06:33 Okay was Mike was Mike in it or no? Speaker 2 00:06:35 No he did not But I did call him after and give him a heads up. And. I know Kevin's going to talk to him. I had a conversation with Kevin last night, trying to rebuild that trust and took away a lot of what he said. You know, He gave me some critiques, and I am definitely going to, you know, try to do better with them because I am struggling with her. She it's like I had a great training with Aaliyah yesterday, the day before yesterday. Like it was great and then yeah and then up on Mountain DTLA. Speaker 2 00:07:09 So okay, I'm I'm trying here, but I do hear you. I definitely going to put it in place. Speaker 1 00:07:15 Okay, okay. My plan is i'll get I'll give Anzor a heads up too, just so he's kind of aware and that way he's yeah. Okay, Speaker 2 00:07:26 I'm definitely trying to make things better. Thank you. It happens. Yeah, I because i've got Westwood now coming up and that landed in my lap yesterday. And George is like, how soon can you get it done? And I am going to have to send out a note to all, all of our texts to say, hey, these are running a little bit longer and I need a few weeks. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:50 Just well just just set you know set proper expectations. Say, you know, it needs to be scheduled, and you know, I can put it on the schedule as of X, right? And that's how it needs to be. And make sure it's billable. Yes. Speaker 2 00:08:05 Absolutely, one hundred percent making sure it's billable. And then additionally with that, like I am trying like Christi keeps accidentally blowing me off. But, she keeps so she and I was supposed to meet at eight o'clock last night because we've been trying to meet all week and she's not been able to meet with me. She's just skipping the meetings and then she missed last night's meeting. So I am trying to stay on top of Christi. SCHARP is ahead of schedule on a lot of things. And they're happy right now, So I am trying to keep them happy and continue looking like we are making progress on the things which we are. We're going to have Alere soon. No, before is already in, So I am trying to keep on everything, but this yesterday, it just oh I almost came home and opened the bottle and I have yet to open the bottle and have a really good drink yet. And I almost did last night but, I had a new kiddo coming last night and she's here. Speaker 2 00:09:02 So I couldn't drink around her, yes. Speaker 1 00:09:05 Don't pile so much on that you drown, Chris. You got to pace yourself. I will. Speaker 2 00:09:11 You can't keep, Speaker 1 00:09:12 You can't say yes, to the extent that you fall over like you get, you got to say, wait, sometimes. So yeah, Speaker 2 00:09:20 I am learning my, as you know, I am loyal to Anzor because he's allowed me to do what I can do with kids that I want to make sure we're still making money. But also got to remember I am just one. One person, and I am not infallible. Of course, of course. So, Speaker 1 00:09:37 I mean, you know, the funnel, the funnel is only so wide. So you got to you got to be able to, yeah, You got to be when people ask you for stuff, you can't always say yes and you can't always volunteer to do it. You got to say sometimes I can do it later. I can do it whatever or I can't do it right so Yes. Speaker 2 00:09:58 Um, heads up. A couple of clients reached out. SCHARP was the last one who reached out. Um, they're concerned that Anzor's leaving. I guess the announcement didn't come over well. Speaker 1 00:10:09 He's not going on who who Who asked? Who said that? Speaker 2 00:10:12 So Doctor Hill said at this time, and then a client Doctor Hill Aaron Hillum She's a she's a COO ex sharp in Apollo We were all in the same conversation. Um, so what I what I tell them every time whenever I hear it, Anzor's not leaving. He just likes to be creative and being a CEO takes away his creative freedoms. So Pete is an amazing CEO and is allowing Anzor to be creative. Anzor's still around. Pete is the boss. I love Pete, he's the best. That is how that conversation goes. Speaker 2 00:10:47 Okay And I tell him you're amazing Yeah, Speaker 1 00:10:49 And on Anzor isn't going anywhere so. Speaker 1 00:10:54 If I know the client, and you know what when Doctor Barber responded the way he did, I told Anzor," I said, is that a good thing or a bad thing?" He said it's a good thing. I am like," I am not so sure." So yeah. I think I think Anzor can can have a conversation with Doctor Barber. Speaker 2 00:11:08 Yeah. Um, i I am telling them hey, look if if I know the client well and they know me well, I say, look, Anzor and I both have ADHD. You know, this, and he needs freedom to be creative. And they're like oh yeah we know, And then I'm like, so Pete is the CEO, Anzor's being creative. He's just chief visionary officer. And then they're okay. Speaker 1 00:11:27 Well, and he's still the owner. I mean, it's like where's he where's he going to go? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:32 Yeah, I do reassure him that he still owns the company. He owns the company, Speaker 1 00:11:36 And he's the is the yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:39 I don't know That might be why Doctor Barber keeps hunting me down. And I haven't been in the office on the days he's been in office. So I'm probably going to go into office after my doctor appointment, which I need to leave in a few minutes for. Speaker 1 00:11:50 Well, we also got to finalize their agreement thing. We got to get that. Yes, And the way I think we should structure it is that the base three hundred machines cost X. Yes, the next fifty costs less, and the next twenty, the next fifty costs less. However we want to do that, But basically, you know, let's let's get and and we need it signed. So we got to get that. Yes, we got to get something in front of him before the end of the month. That's a, A signed agreement with that new pricing structure. Speaker 2 00:12:21 I'm way ahead of you. We've already got it written up, and it's ready for his signatures and I'm going to hand carry it to him for him to hand sign and I'll scan it, send it back. Speaker 1 00:12:29 Can you can you send me a copy of what that final one is? Okay. Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:12:34 I should have asked him to CC'd on that Let me find it and I'll get it over. Speaker 1 00:12:40 Sound good, thank you Yep, Speaker 2 00:12:42 You're welcome Thank. Speaker 1 00:12:43 You Have a good day and a good weekend. Speaker 2 00:12:45 Fingers crossed that I don't have to have surgery, and we can just manage gallstones with diet. That's what I'm going to find out today. So, okay. All right, I'll see you later. Speaker 1 00:12:54 Let me know how your conversation with Doctor Barbara goes if you talk to him. Speaker 2 00:12:57 I will, and thank you for being awesome. Speaker 1 00:12:60 Absolutely, thanks.
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05-12 Lecture: Microsoft Word Collaboration, OneDrive AutoSave, and HIPAA-Compliant Workflows for AbilityFirst Staff
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- > Date Time: 2026-05-12 13:14:37 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: Christi ## Summary This lecture is a practical tour of Microsoft Word focused on modern collaboration and file safety for AbilityFirst staff, delivered on 2026-05-12. Christi demonstrates how to use Word’s ribbon and key features, emphasizes saving documents to OneDrive or Teams to ensure AutoSave and version history, and shows co-authoring workflows, sharing links, managing access, comments with @mentions, and tracking changes. She covers OneDrive syncing indicators, restoring prior versions after accidental edits, and integrating AI tools (Copilot and ChatGPT) for drafting and updating documents. Additional accessibility and productivity features like Editor, Dictate, Read Aloud, and Immersive Reader are highlighted. The session includes Q&A on OneDrive status icons, storage behavior when the cloud or local drive is full, and real-time co-authoring comparisons with Google Docs, with a reminder about HIPAA compliance (avoid personal Google Drives). Christi notes follow-up sessions: a repeat meeting on Thursday and an Excel-focused training next week. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Word Interface and Ribbon - Ribbon and Tabs - The ribbon across the top in Word contains tools organized in tabs: Home, Insert, Draw, Design, etc. This is called the ribbon and differs from older versions of Word. - If the ribbon feels cluttered, users can switch to a simplified ribbon view via a small arrow to the right of the ribbon. - File Menu Context - The File tab opens a distinct window with options like Info, Save, Save a Copy, and more. Christi navigates back from File to the document to continue demonstrations. ### 2. Saving, AutoSave, and File Types - AutoSave Importance and Behavior - AutoSave is one of the most important features in Word. If AutoSave is on, work is safe; if off, users risk losing work during a power outage or crash. - AutoSave is enabled when saving to OneDrive or a Teams location. It does not auto-save when files are saved to Downloads. - Christi recounts losing “over 30 pages” in a day on a 120-page college paper “20 something years ago” due to not saving properly, illustrating the importance of AutoSave. - Where to Save for AutoSave - Save documents to OneDrive, Teams channels (shared departmental locations), Desktop, or Documents folders that are backed up/synced via OneDrive. Downloads is intentionally not synced. - At AbilityFirst, OneDrive is typically set to back up Desktop and Documents automatically; Downloads is not synced by design. - File Type Adjustment - If a file is being saved with an undesired format (e.g., .odt), users can change it to a standard Word document (.docx) via the save dialog’s format list. - Save a Copy vs Original - Using File > Save a Copy creates a new file and switches the current session into the copy version. Users can verify location via the down arrow near the file name. ### 3. OneDrive Sync, Status Icons, and Storage - OneDrive Sync Indicators - The OneDrive icon (blue cloud) in the system tray shows sync status; users can pause or quit (not recommended during regular use). - In File Explorer, a Status column shows icons: - Green check mark: file is saved locally and synced. - Cloud icon: file is only in the cloud (OneDrive removed local copy to save space because it hasn’t been used recently). - Person icon (on folders/files): indicates shared items; manage access via OneDrive context menu. - Desktop, Documents, and Pictures typically show the Status column and are synced; Downloads does not show status/sync. - Storage Management - If OneDrive cloud storage fills up, backend processes automatically add storage; staff need not take action. - If local hard drive fills, OneDrive will offload infrequently used files to the cloud (removing local copies) to free space. ### 4. Version History and Recovery - Restoring Prior Versions - Version history allows restoring earlier snapshots after accidental edits (e.g., a cat named Moose stepping on the keyboard). - Access via the down arrow near “Saved” or via File > Info > Version History; users can select a prior version and click Restore. - OneDrive keeps snapshots whenever meaningful changes occur; extensive version lists accumulate for documents saved consistently in OneDrive. - Practical Use Case - Christi demonstrates a document on “v3” due to clients sending changes as new documents; version history shows timestamps and versions (e.g., new versions beginning from the previous day when a new file was introduced). - Comments may be visible alongside version history, showing prior collaboration notes and assignments to colleagues. ### 5. Collaboration: Sharing, Co-Authoring, and Access - Sharing Links and Real-Time Co-Authoring - Use the Share button (top-right) and “Copy link” to share OneDrive or Teams documents; recipients can co-author simultaneously without attachment emailing. - Real-time presence shows collaborators’ avatars and colored cursors; users can see where others are working in the document. - Co-authoring works within Word apps when files are in OneDrive or Teams. Open Teams files via “Open in an app” for full Word experience. - Managing Access and Authors - Right-click files in Teams/SharePoint to manage access, view version history, download, integrate, set alerts, or mark as favorite. - In Word’s File > Info, users can add authors (e.g., adding April) to indicate co-authorship, protect documents, restrict editing/access, and review metadata (size, last modified, created date, last printed). - Best Practices - Avoid emailing attachments and versioned filenames (e.g., v3); share the link instead to maintain a single source of truth and leverage version history. - OneDrive can share documents externally (outside the organization) when permitted; Teams does not allow external sharing in the same way. ### 6. Comments, @Mentions, and Track Changes - In-Document Communication - Use comments with @mentions to request input and keep conversations within the document; mentioned users receive email notifications with direct links to comments. - Threads can be replied to and resolved (three-dot menu > Resolve thread). Comments provide context for project newcomers. - Reviewing Changes - Under the Review tab, show comments, show markup, and enable Track Changes (e.g., set to “Everyone”) to record edits during collaboration. ### 7. AI Assistance: Copilot and ChatGPT - Drafting and Updating Content - Christi uses Copilot (enabled on the Crimson side but not for the audience) to draft a plain-language, non-technical document for everyday staff on checking slow computers. - She uses ChatGPT to rewrite an existing document for “2026 Cool Hardware Standards” with updated vendor models while keeping formatting, demonstrating Control+A to select all and copy-paste workflows. - Availability Considerations - Copilot is not turned on for most staff; examples shown are for demonstration and time-saving purposes during training. ### 8. Productivity and Accessibility Features - Search Bar - Use the Search bar in Word to quickly find functions like Spelling & Grammar, Word Count, and Print. - Editor - The Editor feature goes beyond spell check; it detects awkward phrasing, suggests clearer wording, and provides a document score (e.g., changed from “70 something” to 67 during demo). - Dictate (Voice Typing) - Dictate allows speaking content into the document—useful for users with RA or when hands are tired, or for thinking aloud; works best with a good microphone/headphones. - Read Aloud - Read Aloud (Review tab) reads text back; excellent for proofreading since we hear slower than we read, helping catch errors we might overlook while reading quickly. - Immersive Reader - Immersive Reader (View tab) removes distractions, supports line focus, syllable breaks, text spacing adjustments, and read-aloud—especially helpful for users with ADHD (Christi and her daughter benefit). ### 9. Teams File Locations and Departmental Shares - Channels and Shared Libraries - Teams channels (e.g., Crimson > SOPs) host shared files accessible to team members; opening, sharing, and co-authoring can be done from these locations. - Files saved in Teams also auto-save, supporting collaborative editing and version history. - Example Workflow - Christi navigates Crimson’s SOPs channel, demonstrates right-click options, opens files in Word, shares links, and co-edits with colleagues like April and Andrew. ### 10. Compliance and Organizational Policies - HIPAA Compliance - AbilityFirst is a HIPAA-regulated organization; personal Google Drives are not HIPAA compliant. Staff must save documents only to OneDrive (and organization-approved locations) to protect client data and organizational information. - Device Replacement and File Continuity - With OneDrive, if a laptop fails (e.g., drops in a rain puddle), IT can provide a new device within four hours, and files are restored from the cloud as long as they were saved to OneDrive. ### 11. Scheduling and Next Steps - Upcoming Meetings - Thursday: follow-up session to revisit content covered too quickly or provide assistance. - Next week: Excel-focused training session. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Save all active Word documents to OneDrive or appropriate Teams channels to ensure AutoSave and version history. - [ ] 2. Verify OneDrive sync status in File Explorer (Desktop/Documents/Pictures) by checking the Status column icons; confirm Downloads is not used for critical files. - [ ] 3. Practice restoring a prior version of a document using Version History to familiarize with recovery. - [ ] 4. Share a document via link (Share > Copy link) with a colleague and co-author in real time; observe presence indicators and cursors. - [ ] 5. Add a colleague as an author via File > Info; explore Protect Document and Restrict Editing options. - [ ] 6. Use comments with @mentions to request feedback; resolve threads upon completion and test email notifications. - [ ] 7. Enable Track Changes (Review tab) and perform edits to understand markup visibility during collaboration. - [ ] 8. Try Editor to improve clarity and style; note the Editor score changes and suggested revisions. - [ ] 9. Test Dictate and Read Aloud for drafting and proofreading; assess improvements in catching errors. - [ ] 10. Explore Immersive Reader for focused reading; adjust settings like line focus and text spacing. - [ ] 11. Confirm compliance by avoiding personal Google Drive for any work-related documents; ensure OneDrive usage for HIPAA safety. - [ ] 12. Prepare questions and attend the Thursday follow-up training; plan to join next week’s Excel session.
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- May 12, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Another minute. Speaker 2 00:00:04 Okay, go. Yes, Friday we have a meeting. Speaker 1 00:00:10 There we go. This Tuesday we have meeting too, you know? On Tuesday with uh, yeah yeah Hi guys I am so sorry about that Can you guys hear me? Can you go Yeah yeah. Speaker 3 00:00:28 Okay okay perfect I thought I was going crazy, All right. Let me reshare my screen because it did disconnect me from the system when that happened. So, all right. Now, I don't know exactly when I got cut off, so I'm going to probably reiterate some things, But I'm going to go back and give you guys a tour of Microsoft Word. But let me turn back on recording as well, because that disappeared when I got disconnected. So, okay. I see transcription is still on but not recording. Speaker 1 00:01:03 All right, let me start that. Speaker 3 00:01:06 Confirm. All right, I may repeat for you, just bear with me. So. One of the things we're going to do is we're going to go through a quick tour of Word, But hopefully, by the end of this entire meeting, you'll know how to save your documents, so they're never lost, How to open and edit files directly from Teams and how to work in the same document with a coworker without emailing five versions back and forth. All right? So let's take a look at what's on my screen when I opened Word. Notice the ribbon across the top here. This is where all your tools live and they're organized in tabs. So you've got Home, Insert, Draw, Design, etcetera. These are all tabs that will help make your Word documents a little bit better. And if your ribbon looks too cluttered you can switch to the simplified. Speaker 3 00:01:57 Ribbon view by clicking on the littlearrow to the right of the ribbon, which is right here. And we can go in and just do a few things in here. Um, I'm not going to do that. I kind of like where my ribbon is currently, but this is called a ribbon. Um, So it's a little bit different if you. Speaker 3 00:02:14 Are Aware of how Word looked years ago. Uh, too many years for me to to say. Um, also I didn't bring up fileum, File is a whole nother window that we're going to get into in a moment. So just be aware of that. And, we're going to go through and talk about a few things on that portion in a moment. So I'm going to hit the back button and get back to my Word document here. Now, once I save a document, oops, there is going to be a little auto-save button. I'm actually going to show you guys what that looks like. Let me open this up. Speaker 3 00:02:55 Here is a document I've been working on, and you'll see there's a saving that's happening here. Once it's done with automatically saving, it's going to give me a little icon that'll pop up, and I can click on that. But it also auto-saves. And if auto-save is on, your work is safe. If it's off, you're one power outage away from losing everything. And I trust me, 20 something years ago when I was in college. I was working on one of my final papers that I needed for a class, and I was about 120 pages in. It was huge. It was long. I had been working on it for a while, but I had written over 30 pages that day alone, and I did not save properly. So, I lost my entire day's work. So now Microsoft has a really cool auto- save feature, and we're going to go through what that looks like. Speaker 3 00:03:51 Because it is one of the most important buttons in Microsoft Word today. Also at the top here, you're going to see that search bar. If you're ever looking for something in Word, like, you know, the Find option or the Replace or spelling checker, You can click on Search and get and type in what you're looking for, and it'll pull it up. So for me right now, there's spelling and grammar because that's something I use pretty often. I also use word count pretty often, and I definitely use the print option pretty often. So those are up there if you need them. And then on the share button over here to the far right, this is something I use every document, probably multiple times every document. And we'll use this later, We'll get into it, but it is one of the most useful features out there. Okay? Speaker 3 00:04:46 Now, let's go ahead and create a document. Now, if you guys remember in the first part of this meeting, I did mention that you may not have Copilot. Most people don't. I have it on the Crimson side, so I'm going to show you guys how I use it. However, it's not a feature we have turned on for you guys, But I'm going to use it just to make my life a little easier right now. So, I want. Speaker 3 00:05:16 To create a document describing how to check your computer when it runs slow. I want my audience to be normal, everyday staff. Let's make this document talk. Speaker 3 00:05:46 To them without technical language. Okay, So I'm going to have Copilot draft that while I'm sitting here going through some things. Um, and this is I'm just going to let it do its thing while I do this and kind of a time saver. Up here in the top you see where it says document one word. I'm going to click on that and I'm going to save this file. Now I'm going to save it in OneDrive, but if I click on the down arrow, I have a couple of different options. And the file name is automatically choosing. I'm just going to keep this and I am not worried about, I'm going to change this right here, this .odt. I don't like that. I want to change it to a Word document. If you ever see that there's a way to fix it. Speaker 3 00:06:34 I keep forgetting to fix it, so that's why I have it on there. But I'll show you guys how to fix it today just so that you're aware. So I want to make sure it stays as a document right here. And if you click down, you can see a full list, but I want it to be just a basic Word document. And you have more options here. Um, I'm not going to worry about the more options. I clicked on it just to show you guys, But I'm going to go ahead and hit save. And this is going to save to my OneDrive because that's where I asked for it to save. And you'll see that right here it'll say saved. And that's because the system is going to auto save it. And that's when those, like I said, One of the most important features that you guys can see is it will automatically, oops, my mouse keeps messing up. It'll automatically auto save. And if I hit the down button, It'll show me the location it saved in and I even have an option for version history, which we'll get into a little bit later. But while we were talking about that. Speaker 3 00:07:32 Uh, Microsoft, well, Copilot went ahead and wrote this for us. And not too bad. I'm going to keep it. So it's a one page document. We'll add some things to it a little bit later, some features. But I do want to show you that now I want you guys to remember if autosave is on your work is safe if it's off because it wasn't saved in OneDrive. Then you're one power outage away from losing everything. So this is how you make sure it's always on. If, you save it either in OneDrive or you save it in a Teams location, it will always auto-save. If you save your file in your downloads folder, it's not going to auto-save. Now most people at AbilityFirst OneDrive is automatically backing up your desktop and your documents. Speaker 3 00:08:28 It won't back up your downloads. So, if you do save it to your desktop, or you do save it to your documents or any place under your documents, it's always going to auto-save. And that's a catch that Microsoft has. But there's two other locations I want to make you guys aware of. One of those is Teams location. So if you guys were in my Microsoft Teams training last week, there is a location on Under channels. And I'm going to show you guys real quick. For Crimson, I do save often in SOPs. So if I go to this channel and I go to shared, All my files that I share within this team's location is here for anyone to access that has access to this team's channel. Now, if you weren't in the Teams training last week, that's okay. Just know that these locations are public shares. Speaker 3 00:09:24 Or department shares, depending on how it's set up. But if it's saved there or it's saved in OneDrive, it's going to always auto- save. Okay? Speaker 1 00:09:36 Hopefully that made sense to everybody. Now. Speaker 3 00:09:44 One of the reasons we have OneDrive on your computers, And you guys can see down here. There's a little blue cloud with a red X on. Don't worry about the red X. That's my fault. This your OneDrive, and it'll always show if it's syncing or not. This a file folder that I deleted in the system wants me to try to fix it, but all of these files right here, these are all stuff that's been saved to my OneDrive. And I can go in here, I can pause syncing, I can quit. I'm not going to do that because I want these to automatically be here. And if I go into my documents, I'm going to show you guys what it looks like. Here's my file folders. If I go into my documents right here, I know that my OneDrive is syncing automatically when the system catches up. I'll show you. It's going a little bit slow. Speaker 1 00:10:41 Hang on one second. Speaker 3 00:10:43 It's decided to not respond. So I'm going to, oops, I was going to minimize it but minimized everything instead. All right, Speaker 1 00:10:52 Let me go back to it. There we go. All right, Speaker 3 00:11:01 I'm going to open this back up and I'll show you guys what it looks like. So if I'm in here in my folders and I go to documents. Speaker 3 00:11:09 You'll see the status right here. If there's a status field and there's some clouds in there, there's people in there or their checkmarks, that means these files are on your OneDrive. Now if you go look at my downloads, I don't have a status folder here because my downloads is not syncing to my OneDrive. And that's intentional because a lot of people's OneDrive or downloads should not sync to to OneDrive. So just be aware of that. Pictures will sync. So in here you'll see this one's set up to show me thumbnails, But you'll see right next to each of the names. There's a little either a little cloud or a little green check mark. Those are all synced. If you go into my desktop, you'll see that those have a status field as well. So files that are located in those areas they're going to get automatically saved, okay? Now um. Speaker 3 00:12:07 One of the other things I want to point out to you guys is version history. So what happens if I go in here and I start typing, but then Moose decides to jump on my keyboard? And maybe I was editing right here and he goes like this. And maybe I didn't see it. Oh, hang on. I distracted my computer. But maybe I didn't see it. Maybe I was in the restroom or maybe I was going to cook dinner and Moose just jumped on my laptop and did that. And this all saved. And, you know, I didn't notice it and I closed out of the file and, you know, I put my computer away and decided to go to bed and just didn't notice it. But I need to send this document out the next day. What I can do is I can click here. Speaker 3 00:12:57 And I can go to version history. And so if I click on version history, then you guys will see, well not right now because I don't know what this is that jumped up. Hang on. Okay, there we go. You'll see version history right here and you'll see times next to it. So what I can do is I can click on this modified by, and I can see check for updates is back and I'll hit restore. Speaker 3 00:13:27 And now I restored what moose broke. Now, give it a second because it's got to pop back up after it restores. It'll disappear and come back. And there we go, everything is all better. So, that's actually one of my favorite features is version history and ignore this because when I typed on my keyboard, everything just went crazy. But if you take a look now, everything has been restored, the system is back here The file is back here. And depending on the file, if you've if you have set this up and it's saved on your OneDrive, you're going to see a lot of version histories. I'm going to bring up this system right here. I'm on v3 of this document because the client kept sending me new changes in a completely brand new document. So I had to track those changes. Now, I have that in here. I'm going to click on this down arrow and I'm going to click on version history. Speaker 3 00:14:28 And you can see in here, Because this document was a brand new document that they sent back to me yesterday, now I have new versions. I only went back to yesterday, but if this had been saved all along in the same document, There'd been a whole list of versions here as we went through and edited it. So just be aware version history is there. It does save automatically within OneDrive and it is a feature that's really awesome. So version history, great tool to use. Okay. So anytime you make a meaningful change, just to recap, OneDrive keeps a snapshot. If you accidentally delete a paragraph yesterday or moose jumps on your keyboard, you can come back here and restore the to the older version. And like I said, This has saved me more times than I can count, because I have three cats at home plus teenagers. There have been times. All right? Speaker 3 00:15:24 Now, one thing I do want to bring it up, I forgot to mention this earlier. Think of OneDrive as just a folder that lives on the cloud and on your computer. So any files that you put there that are on your laptop or on your phone? If you use your phone, all sync. So if your laptop does die tonight for whatever reason, your files are going to still be there tomorrow. That's also another useful thing because I can't tell you how many times people call the help desk because they drop their laptop or. Or, you know, it got dropped in a rain puddle or I've seen everything. 28 years in IT and I've seen it all. Onedrive is actually one of those really amazing programs that if your computer was to die for whatever reason, We can give you a new laptop within four hours, and all your files are going to get restored as long as it got saved to OneDrive. So that's another reason why I want to do that. Speaker 3 00:16:22 Now, if you guys, if your departments are using Microsoft Teams, which we did training on last week, and they're storing files there, which they should be. You can go to the channel that everyone is in. And I'm going to show you with a crimson folder. Let me go back to this. And in here is SOPs. So this is a crimson folder that we have where staff who Who write SOPs for the company, I'll store them here. And so from here, if I right click on any file, So I've got an old one here that I'm going to look at, because I need to rewrite it. But right click on that. I have a couple of options in here. All right? I can go in here and see version history. I can go in here and I can download it. I can open it in SharePoint. Um, i can integrate it with something. Speaker 3 00:17:19 I can also go in and take a look at any alerts or set it as a favorite here. I can go in and manage access. Okay, I can also share it with other people if I want them to see it. If maybe I'm referring back to a document, I can click on Share and send it over to them. But on this very top option, I want to say Open and I want to say Open in an app, which is going to open it in Microsoft now. Let's pretend like this is a document that maybe me and Andrew are working on. And I was to say, hey Andrew, I want to edit this. I'm going to go in and edit it. Can you take a look and edit something else on page three? He and I can go in and work on that document at the exact same time, and both of our edits are going to get captured. In fact, I could see him working, and he can see me working. Additionally, I can go in here and say share. Speaker 3 00:18:17 And I can copy that link. And when I say copy that link, it's going to pop up with a little button. I can go into Word and I can go chat with somebody. And I can say, "I'm going to go to April just in case." Can you open this document on your computer? Speaker 3 00:18:48 All right, so hopefully she can go in and do it. She might be in a meeting. I'm going to check her status real quick, so I'm going to hover over her icon. Oh, she's not in a meeting. Good. So hopefully she can go in and take a look. But when she does, you will see the AT pop-up, which is her icon or her picture, and we can see that she will be in this document. And it'll actually show a ring around her picture that has a color attached to it. So let's see if she jumps in. While we're doing that, I'm actually going to use AI and I'm going to update this. So I'm going to say, see, and I'm going to go into ChatGPT. I want to and I'm going a new chat it. I want to rewrite this document for 2026 Cool Hardware Standards. Speaker 3 00:19:47 From the vendors mentioned with new model names. And so while she's doing what she's doing, I'm going to have ChatGPT update this for me. Um, and I'm also going to say keep my formatting the same. That way it doesn't change anything. I want to copy all the stuff here. When I copied just now, I just right clicked. So, I'm going to copy that, paste it. And I'm going to send that over while we're talking. But when I did that, What I did was I held down the control key on my keyboard and hit A. And that allowed me to select everything. And then I right clicked and I chose copy. Okay? So while that's doing that, Um That's a quick way, i'm editing it. Sometimes i get busy. I get chat, gpt to help me. Speaker 3 00:20:45 In fact, ChatGPT wrote this original document. I gave it the list of things I wanted in it. But just a heads up for you guys, um, I. Speaker 1 00:20:56 Was about to say you. Speaker 3 00:20:59 Can share documents within teammates. Also, just a heads up where it says saved right here, auto saved is on. And then with theseum two little people here, it designates that is as a shared file. Okay? Now, What if I want the document I was working on just now with you guys, the one that I had Copilot create for me, this slow one. What if I want to save this to Teams? Well, that's easy. So, what I can do is I can go here to File, and I can say Save a Copy. And when I say Save a Copy, I can actually go into these Quick Access options. So i'm going to click on Crimson IT. Speaker 3 00:21:43 And where I was was under SOPs within Teams. So I'm going to click on SOPs. And here's the exact same folders I showed you in Teams. So if I go back to Teams and I go back to um, to SOPs here and I click on the shared, you'll see all the same folders are here. Makes it easy to save. Okay? Now, I'm going to go back to the other document real quick. Because I saw April just, there she is. Now if I hover over her, she's in gray. That's the ring around her and there's her picture. And I see that she has this document open. She's on page one. So let me scroll back up to page one. And there's her little cursor, I know it's hard to see on this red background, but that tells me where she's at. So I moved the background so you can see her little, her color. Now I'm going to put that back where it was by hitting the control Z. Speaker 3 00:22:41 And there we go. Now, I wrote this years ago, four years ago or I mean two 2024. Um so I do need to update that. But just so that you guys are aware that is how you can quickly uh work with people in a document. Now as far as this one is concerned, we're going to go back here and now I'm jumping around and I do apologize. We are going to save a copy to that same location. Now, I can choose to save it in a folder but for this one, I'm just going to save it in the default location. Speaker 3 00:23:11 I want to make sure that it stays a Word document. And now I'm going to hit Save. Now, when I am saving a copy like this, now I'm in the copy version. So instead of being in the original one, I'm now in the copy. Whenever you hit Save a Copy, you're in the copy version. And I can see that by clicking on the down button and seeing the location. Okay? Speaker 1 00:23:38 All right. Um. Speaker 3 00:23:41 When you're co- when you're um when you're wanting to work with coworkers, especially on documents, you don't have to email attachments anymore. When a file is in OneDrive or Teams, You just share the link and anyone with the link can open the same document. So, you guys saw where I said it was a version three earlier? You don't have to do that anymore. And, that's one of the things I'm trying to slowly teach people because it can get annoying. You don't see the version history or anything like that. Um, But if I've got a document saved in OneDrive, and we're going to pretend like this. One is the original one that I saved in OneDrive and I, click share and copy link, I'm going to copy this link and I'm going to send this over to April. Um, Good thing. April doesn't mind for me to use her as a guinea pig for my meetings. So all right. And I'm gonna say thank you. Speaker 3 00:24:39 Can you open this one and make any changes you see fit. Now, I sent that link to her. So I made my statement and then I pasted it in there. I quickly paste things by hitting Control V on my keyboard. But just a heads up, that's just my easy way of doing it. Now, When she opens up, you'll see her cursor. And while she's in here, she can work at the same time as I am. There's not going to be any conflicts because the system allows for two people to edit at the same time. You guys can see right here, her " AL " and where she is with a purple cursor. And. So that's something that just will make life a little easier for you guys where. Speaker 3 00:25:35 You can save things, you can work on them together, and actually co-author things. Okay? So there's not going to be any issues here. But I can also go in here and change the co-author by hitting File and go to Info. And then here's the author, and I can say Add an Author. And I'm going to just name April. And so there she is, and I can add her as a co-author. Speaker 3 00:26:06 And that way people know that both of us worked on it. I also have a few other options in here. I can check for issues. Um, I can look at the version history from here. I can protect the document and restrict editing if I need to or restrict access. Um, I can do a lot of different things in here. I can also copy the pass from here, i can share it and i can open the file location. I can also see the size of it When was it last modified, when was it created, and when was it last printed if anybody had printed it. If I go into the other document that I was working on and I go to that same location under info, I can see that it was last modified today. It was created in February 28th of 2024. No one has ever printed this, which is not shocking, but I can see all of this information in here. Speaker 3 00:27:04 I can also go back here and hit the version history from here, or I can go into File Info and hit the version information from here. And so when I do, I can see all the versions here. Now when I hit the version history, I can also see any comments people added. So you guys saw that this opened up a little side panel. There were comments in here at one point. There we go. And I can put in here, I'm going to close this out and just see the comments. I can see that I tagged somebody. We'll need to update this portion with our actual roles and configurations that we currently deploy. And he never did it, by the way. And let's see if there's any other comments. There's a few other comments. I sent this over to Charles for him to work on. I sent this part to Marvin for him to work on and Sagrid as well. Speaker 3 00:28:02 Well, April actually tagged Segred. And so I can do that. If I go back to the document I was working on with you guys, I can add comments here. Okay? And so April added some a few items in here. I can go in here to review and I can show comments. I can also show markup. Speaker 3 00:28:32 And so I can see anything that they did. I can also track changes, which is a helpful tool. So I can click on the down and I can say everyone. And so any changes will be tracked in here. There's a lot of different options in here for when you're co-authoring with people. If I want to say, if I want to highlight this and I want to add a comment, I'm going to highlight, I'm going to say new comment and i'm going to say at April Does This read correctly. And then she can take a look and tell me. Now, I'm going to hit the control enter to send that. Um, and I had an option to assign that to her. Okay, so this is part of that co-authoring I was telling you guys about. When I mention someone like April, like I did just now, they get an email notification with a link straight to this comment. And then if she already takes care of it. Speaker 3 00:29:30 She can go in here and hit the three arrows and resolve thread when she's done. And she can also reply to it. And, that's something that actually will save a lot of our time and effort when we're working on documents together. Okay, Comments are how we have conversations inside the document instead of in a separate email thread. Everything stays together, and so when someone joins a project later, they can see exactly what was discussed. Speaker 3 00:30:00 Which is amazing. It's one of my favorite features. I have a lot of favorite features, by the way. Okay? Now, I'm going to go through a couple quick features that are worth knowing about. If you go into on the homepage, you go into Editor, which is right here. This goes beyond spell check. It catches awkward phrasing. It might suggest some clearer wording, and it gives you a score for the entire document. So it changed. It went from 70 something to 67. But it does, it will give you some information and suggestions. There's also a dictate option for those of us who like I have RA. So sometimes my hands don't want to work well, I have voice typing. So if I click this. Speaker 3 00:30:56 I can talk to my document instead of typing. So if your hands are tired or you're just you want to think out loud, this is a feature that I use pretty often. Another option I like, this especially works really well if you have headphones, is Read Aloud. And if you go to the Review tab right here, um I may have hidden it. Let me double check. Read Aloud, it's right here. I didn't hide it yet. Um It'll read the document back to you, And it's one of the best proofreading tricks I know of. So, One of the things I am going to do real quick is I am going to share my sound. And I am going to ask it to read out loud. Speaker 1 00:31:35 A simple guide for everyday Crimson IT staff. Is your computer taking longer than usual to open programs, load websites, or simply get started in the morning? Speaker 3 00:31:47 Okay, so a key thing to note, She's also really good at putting you to sleep. But, you will hear errors. You might miss when you're reading it because we read faster sometimes than we can process or we type faster sometimes than we can process, and we hear things better because it goes slower. We read faster than we hear is what I was trying to say. One of the other tools that I use a lot is in the View tab. Speaker 3 00:32:19 And there's an option called Immersive Reader right here. And so it will strip away distractions and help focus. It's useful and it's very useful for people who have, who benefit from a cleaner reading view. My daughter, I taught her this. My daughter, she gets easily distracted. She has ADHD, I have ADHD. So I showed her this. It was a game changer when she's working on her Word documents and stuff for school. So you have things that you can go in. It can show breaks between syllables. It can read out loud in here. It can focus on a line. You can change your text spacing, different things like that. So it's a game changer. All right, I'm going to close Immersive Reader and then I'm just going to quick recap for you guys. Speaker 3 00:33:14 There's three main points I want you guys to take with you. First, save everything to OneDrive or Teams. Autosave only works there and autosave is what protects your work. Second, When you are wanting to share a document or co-author a document or work with a team member, click the share button. This even works if you want to send me stuff to my Crimson account. I can even send things to your accounts. So like if I'm sending something to a client, They can read it. I can give them access, but only if it's on my OneDrive. That's a separate caveat. And, then the last thing I want to mention is when you need someone's input, You want to use comments with the@ mentions, and that keeps the conversation inside the document. Does that make sense everybody? Speaker 1 00:34:09 All right, any questions? Speaker 3 00:34:11 Yes. Okay good. Any questions you guys might have? Yes, Rosa. Speaker 2 00:34:19 Yes, I only have one question. Okay. Do you know how on my computer I have my documents? Yes. I have a file with all my documents, um, a folder. Will that automatically save all my documents if I keep saving them there? Speaker 3 00:34:35 If and I'm going to show you this most people's will. Speaker 3 00:34:41 But, you want to go into your documents and just real quickly check and make sure you have this status column. Okay. And if you have a status column, it is automatically saving to your OneDrive. Speaker 2 00:34:53 And again, remind me what the little cloud means? Speaker 3 00:34:56 So that's actually a good question. I did not go over that as well as I should've, but if it has the green check mark, it means it's saved to your computer. If it has a cloud, It means you haven't touched this in a while, and OneDrive automatically removed it from your hard drive to free up storage space, but is still available on the cloud. That's what the cloud means. And then yeah, this is a really good question. I'm glad you asked. And then if it has a person beside it, it means you've granted access to people. So if I right, click on I know clients and projects has been shared. But if I right, click here. Speaker 3 00:35:36 And I go to OneDrive, I can manage access. I can see who has access to it. So for this folder, actually no April, the one I was talking to while I was doing the training, she has access to it right here. Um okay. Speaker 2 00:35:50 And these are the people I've granted access to it. So, Okay well thank you that's so helpful. Speaker 3 00:35:56 You're welcome with OneDrive. I can even share some documents outside of the organization now, I can't do that in Teams but i can do that in OneDrive, So, but that was a very good question. Speaker 1 00:36:08 I'm glad you asked. Anyone else have any questions? Speaker 2 00:36:15 Yes, hi Christine, my name is Genevieve. I wonder if the cloud is full or we have to keep update? Speaker 3 00:36:23 If the cloud is full? Yeah. If the cloud's full, There's nothing you have to do on the back end. It automatically adds storage, and we will do that for you. Now, on your hard drive, if your hard drive fills up, Onedrive will automatically push things to the cloud and delete it from your hard drive. If you haven't opened it in a while or worked on it in a while. And so that'll free up. Yeah. And that's something uh it's very helpful to your computer. Speaker 1 00:36:53 I see. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome Anybody else? Speaker 4 00:36:59 So I have a question Yes Andrew, So is it like Google Docs where you can see them like altering it, altering it while you are doing it as well. Speaker 3 00:37:09 Yes. One Drive is actually better than. Speaker 1 00:37:14 Google Drive, but one hundred percent yes. Speaker 4 00:37:20 Cause that's like a, It's a new innovation isn't it? Because before is like you can only do it on Google Drive. But now to have your own Word documents have it. That's pretty amazing. Speaker 3 00:37:31 Actually, it's the other way around. Microsoft came out with it first and then Google Drive. However, What most people don't realize is a lot of businesses didn't make that change to OneDrive as quickly. And. So a lot of files were saved in file locations on servers, which didn't allow. Speaker 1 00:37:54 Co- authoring at the same time. Speaker 1 00:37:60 That makes sense. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:38:02 So a lot of people didn't know about it, and they thought Google was the innovator, which is not the case. But that's okay. Also, Just a heads up for you guys and I'm not I'm not saying anybody does this, but I have seen people at Ability First do it in the past. Your personal Google Drives are not HIPAA compliant and because Ability First is a HIPAA company. We do want to make sure that you don't save your files any other location other than OneDrive. And that way we can make sure that AbilityFirst documents, AbilityFirst clients, etc. Is all protected and everything is located in a location that. Speaker 1 00:38:43 Keeps us safe. Does that make sense? Hopefully it made sense. Speaker 3 00:38:54 But Andrew, thank you for, Good. Thank you for reminding me that because I did I did have to rescue some files from somebody who left the organization. I've done this several times for multiple clients where uh, we had to rescue files that were not saved properly. So all right, guys um I am going to give you back a few more minutes of your time. But we are going to have this meeting again on Thursday. So anything that I. We nt too rapidly through, or you need some assistance onum you're more than welcome to show up for the Thursday training. And then next week, we're going to actually go through a lot of Excel stuff. So be aware of that. Thank you guys so much. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:39:41 Good evening. Thank you. Have a great week. Yeah, goodbye. Speaker 1 00:39:44 Have a great week. Okay. Thank you.
08-25 Meeting: IT Support, Adobe Licensing, and On-site Coordination
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-08-25 10:29:16 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Christi] [Christi] appears with name; keep identifiers as given ## Meeting Notes - Microsoft update learning and meeting setup - Christi referenced a new Microsoft feature she learned and is helping her boss understand. - Christi is recording/transcribing the call and using a facilitator. - Goal: Cover several topics; not expected to take a full hour. - Email issues and Outlook rules troubleshooting - A new email filtering system may affect delivery; Speaker 1 confirmed checking junk email. - Christi demonstrated how to check and manage Outlook rules and suggested clearing broken rules. - Plan to revisit rules if needed; minimal time spent during this call. - Adobe licensing and training - Concern that Adobe is leaving as a vendor; clarity needed on current licensing. - Christi will resend Adobe account information to Julie and add Lisa (L Fisher) to Adobe with a free license. - Training needed on Adobe forms/fill-and-sign for parent communications. - Adobe training scheduled for Friday next week at 11:30, 30 minutes, with an agenda to follow. - On-site support coordination (Vaughn/Vana and Kevin) - Christi will ask Vaughn’s manager (Monti) to extend Friday hours to cover computer lab and other issues. - Email to Vaughn, Monti, Dan, with CC to Mashonoff and Julie to align scope, including cameras support. - Vana to notate locations of wireless access points (APs) throughout the building and work through devices: - 5 desktops, 4 iPads, and 4–5 laptops. - Kevin to be sent within the next couple of weeks to tidy up network cabling/closet (prior cleanup may not have occurred). - Christi reached out to Vlad (Kevin’s boss) for network infrastructure/closet cleanup. - Volunteer platform, training, and logistics issues - Speaker 1 described challenges with volunteer logistics, iPad sign-ups, and lack of feedback on volunteer categories. - Need initial technical training to coordinate volunteers for events and tasks. - Desire to digitize commonly used paper forms, send schedules/field trip info to parents, and streamline communication. - Compliance note: Some kids’ files must remain on paper for DOE requirements. - Wi-Fi and AP near pool/patio - New Wi-Fi near the pool exists; future placement adjustments may be needed. - Plan for Kevin to inspect AP placement on the patio and possibly move closer for better utilization. - Projection screen and board meeting equipment - Motorized projection screen present but not prepared/functional; request for different screens. - Christi will send a projector with Celia for the board meeting. - Items noted: Owl device, extra-long HDMI cable; screen is broken and may need repair. - Christi will check what it would take to fix the screen; not guaranteed. - Coordination with Dalia/Mashaun for Owl travel and HDMI length (to be determined). - Device management and software needs - Laptops and iPads currently sufficient. - Interest in a software mentioned by Speaker 1; Christi requested the software name to evaluate (including relevance to foster kiddos). - Microsoft tool training needs for staff were discussed; Maddie uses Canva for flyers. - Process automation and on-site workflow review - Christi proposed visiting Claremont after camp (potentially next Tuesday afternoon around 3:00) to observe daily workflows and identify automation opportunities (e.g., Power Automate). - Invitation to attend a Power Automate session today at 2:00; Christi will add Speaker 1. - Help desk engagement and endpoint controls - Julie tends to self-solve before calling the help desk; awareness of engagement friction. - Edge stability issues noted by Speaker 1; may need updates. - Option to lock down computers to prevent game installs; requires device names from Settings. - Vana will perform Windows updates on Friday; devices should be powered on and can remain at the login screen for backend access. Conclusion: - Adobe access and training are being set up for key staff. - On-site technical support is coordinated for Friday and the following weeks to address lab devices, AP mapping, and network cleanup. - Several equipment and workflow improvements are identified, with follow-ups planned. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Resend Adobe account information to Julie - [ ] Add Lisa (L Fisher) to Adobe and confirm license activation - [ ] Schedule Adobe fill-and-sign/forms training for Friday next week at 11:30 (30 minutes) and send agenda - [ ] Email coordination to Vaughn, Monti, Dan (CC: Mashonoff, Julie) outlining Friday scope, including cameras - [ ] Vana to map AP locations building-wide on Friday - [ ] Vana to work on 5 desktops, 4 iPads, and 4–5 laptops; perform Windows updates; ensure devices are powered on and at the login screen - [ ] Kevin to visit within the next couple of weeks to tidy network cabling/closet; coordinate with Vlad - [ ] Inspect and potentially move patio/pool AP closer for better coverage - [ ] Send projector with Celia for the board meeting; coordinate Owl travel with Dalia/Mashaun - [ ] Determine and procure extra-long HDMI cable length (Speaker 1 to confirm feet) - [ ] Evaluate feasibility and cost to fix the broken screen - [ ] Add Speaker 1 to Power Automate session at 2:00 on 2026-08-25 - [ ] Speaker 1 to provide device names from Settings for lockdown (prevent game installs) - [ ] Speaker 1 to send the name of the software mentioned for evaluation (including relevance to foster kiddos) - [ ] Plan site visit to Claremont around 2026-09-01 at approximately 15:00 to review workflows and automation opportunities ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify Adobe vendor status and long-term licensing strategy to avoid disruptions in forms/sign workflows. > 2. Confirm the exact HDMI cable length required to support board meeting setup and Owl connectivity. > 3. Verify volunteer platform/iPad workflow issues, define desired feedback categories, and assign ownership for troubleshooting. > 4. Document which forms must remain paper for DOE compliance versus which can be digitized; create a conversion plan. > 5. Assess Wi-Fi coverage over the pool/patio with a brief site survey before relocating APs to ensure optimal placement.
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- Aug 25, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:32 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:38 Give me one second. I'm It's okay. I got pulled from, one meeting to another, to another. So let me finish finish up this email and then I'll get started with you. We're going to nowhere. Speaker 1 00:01:43 All right. No. Speaker 2 00:01:50 Worries. I, my my boss was emailing me because he was struggling to understand something that was brand new that just came out by Microsoft, Which I completely understand because it took me three hours last night to learn, learn how to understand it. So I learn it and then he learns it from me. That's how that usually works, um, All right, so we're going to go over a few things today. We got a lot to talk about, but what I've learned is it's not going to take us a full hour. So just just a heads up. All right, perfect. All right, so I am also recording the call. I'm going to turn on facilitator for us, but I'm going to record the call so that I at least have transcription. Speaker 2 00:02:40 And capture everything because I don't write as fast as I should. Um, and then get transcription and recording has started. Actually, you know what? I'm not going to record. We're just going to transcribe. There's no reason. No one wants to see my face, so um okay uh your face is lovely right? We're our own worst critics, so. So first things first, how are you? We don't get to talk much. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:10 When I know when I go to print something, and it's not working and I go to the copier. And I'm like, yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:30 Yeah uh yeah, I get it. Speaker 1 00:05:24 And. Speaker 2 00:06:27 Okay, So very first thing I want to check is which I don't need your help to do, because I can do it. Um, is to see where that ticket is and who worked with you on it. And then number two, have you ever checked your Oh okay. Have you have you ever checked your junk email? Because we did put a new filtering system in. Okay. All right. Good. That's good to know. Next question, what about your Outlook rules? Is there anything set up in there that might be causing some issues? Okay, gotcha. I'm not going to spend too much time on this, But I will share my screen and just ignore the fact that I have a million emails on my screen because I have like multiple inboxes. Speaker 2 00:07:24 So if you go up here, do you have You should have either the new or classic email. But, you should have a search button at the top and then just type in rules. And then look for the action rules and then go to manage rules and alerts. And it'll pop up with a screen maybe. Oh okay I got it. And then I have like a million rules here. So all of these rules in here. Uh, this one's broken. Uh, so I can actually delete that rule. Um, anything that's in red is brokenn. Um, But all these are all my rules and I could if I wanted to delete all of them. Um, But um every now and then I'll go through and I'll delete all my rules, so that I can uh start fresh, because sometimes i get i can't find an email. So. Speaker 2 00:08:19 Um, so we could try that a little bit later. I don't want to spend too much time on it, but and. Speaker 2 00:08:43 Yeah. No, that's great. I love it. Um, Give that a try, and then if not, Uh, what we'll do is uh not today, because I don't my schedule is packed. Um but I will work with you on um on trying to fix that. You're welcome. Um all right, so question for you cause um you sound like you're set as far as your needs, but what about your team? Speaker 1 00:09:17 And uh, one thing that we did have to be quite cautious with here is that we know Adobe is leaving or no longer going to be around as a vendor. No, you don't have to write. That was one of my questions. So um we don't have the license for Adobe. I don't think right. And when we get our POS is this going to. Speaker 1 00:09:48 So, we like to do. Speaker 1 00:10:21 Yes. Speaker 2 00:11:04 Yeah. Let me, um, Julie, you have an account with Adobe. Um, Let me send you that account and let me resend you that account information in your email from Adobe. Okay. And then what I'll do, um I'll talk to Vaughn's manager, And see if we can get her out there a lot longer on Friday, and then have her work through the computer lab as well. Yes. Yes, because I'm definitely recording it all. Speaker 1 00:11:57 Oh, She worked so hard, trying to get us on logistics on an iPad, and it wouldn't work. And like we are cursed. Um, and so she like I don't understand this is not working. And then when I reached out to Jeff and he showed us, he was like, I am able to say, I am about to be a volunteer online. But I don't see feedback that I have accounting volunteers and meeting volunteers. So that's one thing. And then um my. Speaker 1 00:12:28 To be trained, and then I can go to my volunteers and say, "Hey, we're having this festival. I need six people to do water play. I need ten people to do this." So that's taking a training on what these things are about. So I need that initial training to make sure we're doing it properly. So I'm thinking of those right now. So that's technical training. So we can have a conversation with them and communicate with them effectively for our work. Speaker 1 00:13:28 And the other thing is, I don't know if any other programs are using this, but we plan it right by preparing this proxy. So like for information for the start, We did have a biometric spot reader and parents would be able to sign in and out. And now it's by our. Speaker 1 00:15:36 Yes. Speaker 1 00:16:45 Brandon, got us the paper because he went to the paper. Are you seeing so much paper for our care packages that it printed like two hundred and fifty minutes? I'm like, hey. Speaker 1 00:17:15 And then, um, and then uh, first. So we need these like programs to be so long. And she needs programs put in for her. Like the computer writing skills program and the marking system. Um, And then security cameras that's that's been I've been dealing with. Uh Donna is like I do about working with those calls. I know. Speaker 1 00:17:48 My personal cell and my regular, my work cell. And, so it this has happened three times where it's working, and then all of a sudden it stops working. And I don't know if it's because I've updated or if like the security system was updated. So I reached out to you guys from the email account on which. Speaker 2 00:19:40 No, so um I am talking to Vaughn's manager right now, um and I am going through everything. I am like typing everything you are talking about with the VPN and your phone and the cameras, um. Let me do this. Uh, I asked for her to be there a few extra hours than she's anticipating on Friday so that she can also work on the lab and anything else that you guys have going on. But I am also gonna send an email to Vaughn. Monti is her manager and Dan. Just so that Dan is in the loop, uh and Mashonoff CCU and Julie as well. Um just so that he's in the loop, and he knows what Vaughn is working on this weekend because he's we're going to need his help. Uh more than likely with the cameras. Okay perfect. No worries I am so glad you do that cause sometimes it makes life easier to push forward. Um. Speaker 2 00:20:38 Let me. All right. Um, let me. How many computers do you have in lab? I think you mentioned it, but I want to just make sure I have it. Okay. Speaker 2 00:21:07 I remember coming out there with Kashif a few years back, um, and walking through the site. And, we were talking about getting someone out during that time to make sure that we got cleanup because the cables were a mess in that area. Um, did that happen? Because I think we had sent someone out or no in the computer lab. Okay, perfect. Speaker 2 00:21:40 Mhm. Yeah, that we that was supposed to be a calm direct thing, Michonne. Um, they were supposed to go out and clean all of that up, but I assuming things did not happen. That was it. So yeah. Okay, I'm gonna send out my text instead. Speaker 1 00:22:07 Um, they may not be able to come on Friday, but Kevin, um I'll get him out there in the next couple weeks. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:23:32 Yeah. We're not going to do anything with that. Um, I'm actually pull, I pulled up the floor plan so I could take a look. Add everything. We're not going to have them change or take anything out. We just I want to consolidate it so that it doesn't look so bad, especially because if I remember correctly, we had to go out of room two into outside and then into that. Is that right? Okay, good. My memory is a lot better than I thought. So I want to make sure that that is cleaned up and then. Speaker 2 00:24:04 How is the Wi-Fi working over the pool because we had to get a new Wi-Fi out there. Speaker 1 00:24:14 Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:24:24 Gotcha, I assume, is there going to be need in the future? Speaker 2 00:24:56 Okay. Gotcha. We could, I'll have Kevin come out there, Have him take a look at where it's at on the patio and how it looks, and then we can always just move it closer if we need to. So just to make sure everything is utilized correctly. Speaker 1 00:25:19 Yes. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 2 00:25:24 Um, let me send him out in the next couple weeks, Uh or we stop back by on our way back from uh camp, if I can next week. Uh but it might be late afternoon on Tuesday. I'll have Vana with me so. Speaker 1 00:25:49 We have this projection screen that this motorized drops down. Like we have a working TV here, it's on its own. You know, we're not using our TV or the little TV on wheels to project things. Um, I cannot have that prepared. So I really like to get you all different screens. Speaker 1 00:26:19 Right here. Okay. Speaker 2 00:26:33 I'm going to send this, um, Sean, are you going to the board meeting? Yes. Celia? Okay. Okay, got it. I'll send out the projector with her. Speaker 2 00:26:51 So and then you're welcome. Yeah, the things I can do right away. I want to make sure you get done. Uh, all right. And then anything else on the board meeting you need while we have the board meeting uh on our minds. Speaker 1 00:27:21 Okay. Speaker 2 00:28:58 Okay, good to know. All right, so I've got an Owl extra long HDMI and your screen is broken. You're using a backup, but let me look into what it would look like to fix that. Okay, and then is there any equipment needs that you have? I can't say yes to everything, But I can say let me talk to Michonne, or let's wait until twenty twenty seven budget. So. Speaker 1 00:30:11 Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:30:26 We'll take a look at it. Um, now with the laptops and the iPads you're talking about, do you have what you need there or do you need more? Okay, good. Um, Good, I'm glad. Um, I don't want to, I don't want to tell you no one anything, but I also want us just understand what you need. So, that's why I'm asking if the sky was the limit and we had the money, uh, which can't say, yes, to um what would you like to have? Speaker 2 00:31:36 Okay, Can you send me the name of that software? I've never heard of it. Speaker 2 00:31:48 Okay. Yeah, 'cause I'm I'm definitely interested in that and let me see what we can do on that part. Um. Yeah. Okay, amazing. I need to look in that for my foster kiddos. All right. Speaker 1 00:32:17 And then, um, all right. So training needs. What can we help your team do better? Speaker 1 00:32:49 Here's uh and so it would be really helpful to have that. Okay. And I think um Lisa is my new program supervisor, she worked for us for 10 years previous. And. So right now, my hope was to get her like I have to train her on how it works, cause she hasn't done it before here. So. Speaker 1 00:33:56 We don't have like tons of technology. You need extra fancy software or anything like that. It's just like a third-party website. Let me ask this question, and I appreciate that. That's the basic answer, is there something like is there forms? Are there documents that you all use pretty consistently that are paper format and you need to put them on our network? Speaker 1 00:34:26 I think Chris and I are trying to get on. Process, but they're having paper. Mhm. The kiddos are one thing, right? They they are going to need to use their paper for arts crafts activities. But when it comes to adult use, I mean, now our phones and our computers is there other things that could be moved from a paper document to a physical online document? Smart notes shows up on your parents phone. Speaker 1 00:34:57 Things like that is there a specific time? Is there a specific time? Parent, how can parents prepare for those things like information that they need, like to call a parent, to text a parent. We know our cell phones have been a game changer for us. You know um being able to send maybe paper schedules for the kids, or like two weeks, my kids are going on field trips. This when we're leaving. This when you need to bring us lunch tonight. Send it to somebody with them without me having that connection. Speaker 1 00:35:28 I think, um, We still have to rely on paper for like the kids' files so that the DOE can have that right up on the DOE website. Speaker 2 00:36:43 Um, with the Adobe training, You mentioned something early on in the conversation about forms and creating forms so that you can send them to the parents. Um, so something along the lines of Adobe Sign. Um, would you like training on that as well? Okay. Cause there's yes. Um, let me do that with you as well because Uh, not very many people have, Not very many people know that Adobe does the fill in sign, and you can use it like you use DocuSign where you send it to parents and stuff. Um, also I'm giving a training tomorrow or no today on Power Automate. Some of those might be something you might utilize how to's um and how to automate some of that. Oof, it's this afternoon. Uh hang on one second. Speaker 2 00:37:36 I I had back to back meetings, scheduled from nine a, m, all the way down to three o'clock, four o'clock. Um it is at two p, m. So let me let me add you to it. I just realized it was I was still sharing. My screen. Uh, all right. You have that? It does. Um, someone just canceled a meeting which was a two- hour meeting on my calendar, and I was like, oh, I can put my lunch back where it belongs. Um. Speaker 1 00:38:32 Okay perfect. Speaker 2 00:38:42 Yeah. Yes. I was sitting here. No, sorry. I was cracking up at myself. I was sitting here, um, Listening to you, and you reminded me of something on Concur. I was supposed to go check for somebody. And then I got my brain. Um, who is the other person that needs to be added to Adobe? Speaker 2 00:39:07 Lisa. Okay. Let me get her added so that she's in there because I have the license. L Fisher. Hi, Speaker 1 00:39:22 Toby. Don't. Speaker 2 00:39:35 You just love it when it does that? Speaker 2 00:39:43 Yeah, my I hate when my car does that to me. You need a break. Speaker 1 00:40:03 There we go now. Speaker 2 00:40:07 All right, so I had a free license. So I'm sending that over to her. And. So she'll have that. And then I will set up time with you to do Adobe training for the two of you. Actually, let me do this. Next week's a little cleaner. Let me, let's hold something on Would Friday be okay with you guys? Speaker 2 00:40:51 Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, so I have an AI basics at 10, so it'd have to be nine or it'd have to be 11:30. Let's do 11:30. Okay. Um. Speaker 2 00:41:09 Perfect. It'll be 30 minutes. Um, I might be able to go longer, but um, I gotta just rearrange something on my calendar. All right, so I'm sending that over to you guys. Uh, I'll let you forward it to Yes. Um And I'm gonna, I'll just add agenda and everything a little bit later. Just want to get the placeholder in there. So, but I did send it to you just now. Yeah, and I have to categorize because if I don't, I won't know what's going on with my day. So all right perfect so that is sent over to you um and then. Speaker 2 00:42:04 So, What does any of your other staff need have any training needs like Microsoft tools? Uh anything along those lines. Okay. Um does Maddie need anything. Speaker 1 00:42:27 Right now. She uses Canva. She makes all the flyers, so she has. Speaker 1 00:42:36 Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha, okay. That's awesome. Speaker 1 00:43:17 So, Could. Speaker 2 00:43:32 I come up to Claremont or when I come up to camp, if I got the time. Could I sit down with you guys and work through what a day looks like? Um, I wanna see if there's anything we can automate that might make your lives a little bit easier. And that way you're doing less of the boring stuff and more time with clients and other things that you need to do to run everything efficiently. Um, I'm coming back from camp. And so I could probably be there around three o'clock, depending on how long it takes me to get down the mountain. Speaker 1 00:44:09 Hey, I love kids. So I don't mind that at all. Ask Mashaun. Speaker 1 00:44:46 Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna. Speaker 1 00:45:29 Do you need anything to help keep you versatile? Speaker 2 00:46:21 Yeah. All right, so Lisa's got Adobe now. You have Adobe. I'm sending you the instructions on how to get logged in, so you'll have that. And then I was looking to see if my instructions were-- I have canned instructions for you. Sorry, they're going to be a little impersonal, But it's just going to talk you through how to get signed into Adobe for the first time. Speaker 2 00:46:48 And I'll send those over as soon as I find that email. Speaker 2 00:47:03 Yeah, All right. I just sent over the instructions and then um. Speaker 2 00:47:16 One thing I want to make sure that's done is I'm going to hand this over to Vana if she's got time on Friday. I need to get her to notate where all the equipment is, including the APs. So if you don't mind, I'm going to have her wander the building and just she's going to have a copy of this. Uh AP? It is an access point. Uh it is a little square white device, That is responsible for your wireless, and it's in the hallways and different places like that. I know there's one that was supposed to be somewhere right here over the pool or around the pool, and then I don't remember the rest of them. It's last time I was there was with Kashif way a long time ago. Speaker 1 00:48:05 Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:48:14 I know we had to put one out there. Um, and Kashif was saying put it on the beams, but I don't know what was done when they installed it. So, um, all right. So I will have her notate where those APs are, because that's the biggest part that I need. And then I'm going to send Kevin out to do the cleanup. Um, and then as far as all my notes uh, So she's going to work on the five desktops, four iPads, and four to five laptops on Friday. I've asked her manager for that. Um, I'm also going to have her take a look at your emails in your um on your computer, because you said you're not getting the ones from city of Claremont and a few others. Um, But I also want to take a look at it with you and look at the rules. But you said you wanted to figure that out. Um okay so not a problem. I love that. Speaker 2 00:49:06 So let me know if you run into any snags or hiccups on that. Um, I reached out to Vlad. Vlad is Kevin's boss. Um, They're they're in charge of our network infrastructure and I'll get them out there to do the closet cleanup. I'm going to get with Dalia for the board meeting, But for you, let me see what it would look like to get the screen fixed that's broken. Uh can't promise anything. I just want to take a look and see if we can do that. Speaker 2 00:49:43 Got you. All right, And thenum I'll also talk to Dalia uh Mashaun about the Owl and see if we can get that travel put in place and an ex, yeah, Speaker 1 00:50:03 Yeah, yes. Speaker 2 00:50:17 Yes. Uh. Speaker 2 00:50:35 Okay. Got you. Yes, she she came to say hi to me. Uh, extra long HDMI? I'm going to see about getting that. How many feet? Ten feet, twenty feet, fifty feet. Speaker 1 00:51:04 Okay. All right. Speaker 2 00:51:12 I completely understand. Um and then, Yeah, sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:51:36 Yes. Yes, and then we'll do Adobe training uh on next week, and thenum Michelle, I'll send that out to all staff uh cause I'm sure. Speaker 2 00:51:49 Yeah. Well, looking at the list, we've got 55 users. So. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:52:10 Yes, it does. Speaker 2 00:52:19 Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, I offered to teach a social worker how to do a fillable form last week. And you thought that I gave her the sun, moon and stars. So more than glad to teach you guys. Yes. Speaker 1 00:52:47 Mhm- hmm. Speaker 1 00:52:51 Oh wow. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Speaker 2 00:53:13 You see, you see, I have my form stuff up here too. Because I'm doing it constantly. But yes, I will be more than glad to do that with you guys, because that would make y'all's life so much easier. And then I'll come out, yeah. And then I'll come out next week, sit down with you. I may come out twice if you're good with that. I enjoyed coming out to Claremont last time I was there, so and I like kids. Speaker 1 00:53:47 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:54:01 Yes, absolutely. I'll be more than glad to do that with you guys. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:54:27 Yes. Yeah. Um, now, Next up on the on the list of agenda you've already covered, which so Michelle I'll go over that real quickly. So you're aware uh was help desk, engagement friction, and Julie said that she doesn't have an issueum that she calls when she has an issue, but it takes a lot to get her to call because she's she's like me, and she just wants to figure it out herself. Um. Speaker 1 00:55:29 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:56:07 Yeah, it sounds like it needs an update because I love Edge, uh but it's stable on my computer. So, but a lot of people have that issue. Speaker 1 00:56:38 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:57:38 We can lock down those computers and not allow them to install games. That's an easy one. Just tell me if you can get me the names of the computer, I will have the team put that in play. Actually, Do this :, if you go into settings - I'm in settings right now - the very first page where mine says " Christi-Laptop ", that's the name. That's all I need. Speaker 2 00:58:09 Hmm, that one we'll need the back of the computer for them. Yeah. And apparently I I need my windows updated too. So, but yes and then. Speaker 2 00:58:38 Uh, leave it on. And if it's locked where you have to log in, that works perfectly because they go in through the back end. They just need power going to the device. Yeah. Yeah, you can yeah, You can put it on where it says, sign into such and such account, and they'll work on it from there because they have all the access codes. Speaker 2 00:59:15 Yeah. It's okay. I'll have Vana do the updates on Friday. Yes. Perfect. Thank you so much. Bye.
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05-06 Meeting: Vendor Selection and AI Tools
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- > Date: 2026-05-06 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] ## Meeting Notes ### Participant Introductions - New and existing members introduced themselves to Rick, a new addition to the group. - **Barry**: CIO at PureTech Industrial Water in Ventura. - **Chris**: CIO for Crimson IT, working across Pasadena, Linwood, Downtown L.A., and South Bay. - **Andrew (ABD)**: VP of IT in Reno, NV for BNS Site Development, a company that builds data centers. - **Peter**: CIO for Rincon Technology in Santa Barbara, a company that buys and sells network equipment. - **Leon**: CIO for ACO Engineered Systems, a mechanical subcontractor working on data centers and commercial buildings. - **Rick**: SVP of Global IT and Security for Pixologic Media, a post-production company in Burbank with global facilities. - **David**: Head of IT at Republic Indemnity, a workers' compensation insurance carrier based in Calabasas. ### Rick's Background and Industry Insights - Rick oversees network infrastructure, cloud, security, and compliance for Pixologic Media, managing a global team of 35 engineers. - He is also a semi-pro bowler and coaches Mookie Betts. - Professionally, he is known as a "CISO whisperer" in Hollywood and sits on the Trusted Partner Network (TPN) committee. - His company recently completed its second ISO 27001 reassessment and is now looking into the ISO 42001 assessment related to AI technology. - Rick notes concerns in the entertainment industry regarding the acceptance of AI, especially for creative work versus corporate guidelines. ### AI Tool Discussion and Preferences - Participants discussed their use of various AI tools, including agents, Cowork, Claude Code, and Codex. - One speaker felt scattered between different agents, as they are not always capable of handling "in-between" tasks. - There's a debate between using Claude Code in the terminal versus the desktop app, with the remote desktop app being praised as "fantastic". - Codex was highlighted as having become "exceptionally good," functioning as both a CLI and a desktop app similar to Cowork and Claude Code. - A participant mentioned upgrading their ChatGPT plan specifically for Codex and running battle sessions between Claude and Codex to compare them. ### Vendor Selection and Management Process - The group discussed their approaches to vendor selection, which is the main topic for the meeting. The process is often informal, especially for smaller projects, with a key goal being vendor consolidation. - Leon described their process, which starts with defining the business problem before considering solutions, often finding an existing, underutilized tool can solve the problem. - For new solutions, they send an RFI/RFP to up to five vendors and narrow it down to three for a detailed ranking process involving business and IT staff. - The process is informal, using tools like Word, Excel, and Smartsheet. - A general thesis is to avoid large, established vendors like SAP, which are perceived as less modern. - New employees often advocate for tools from their previous jobs, creating a challenge of supporting them while avoiding unnecessary software. The focus is on meeting the business need with existing systems first. ### Use of AI in Vendor Selection - Chris mentioned using AI as a thought partner to evaluate vendors by feeding it transcripts and having it generate pros and cons. - AI is also used to validate vendor claims and research systems in unfamiliar domains. - A concern was raised about potential bias from AI-driven recommendations, questioning if vendors pay for better placement in AI search results. - The group acknowledged a possible future where both RFPs and their responses are AI-generated, with humans facilitating. ### Vendor Vetting, Trust, and Negotiation - Participants agreed they are willing to pay more for a vendor they trust and have a good relationship with, as the cheapest solution often leads to poor service. - A trustworthy salesperson who acts with integrity is considered more important than price alone. A sales rep likely to disappear post-sale is a red flag. - Negotiation requires a combination of a good relationship and leverage. - Industry analyst groups provide helpful behind-the-scenes insights into a vendor's financial stability. - Structuring contracts around vendor failure helps recover costs, though one speaker noted a poor track record with "two out of three" vendors being disasters. - Implementation partners are a "huge red flag" and require extensive reference checks, as firing them is difficult and erodes stakeholder confidence. - For specialized industries like media, selection is based on deep, long-term partnerships with niche vendors, whereas standard IT functions involve more transactional relationships. ### Case Study: A Failed HubSpot Implementation - A third-party vendor for a HubSpot implementation consistently overpromised and underdelivered. - Early red flags included SOWs with unedited AI-generated text and a "bait and switch" where the technical team lacked the expertise of the sales team. - After six months of no progress, the vendor was fired, and the internal team built the solution in three days. - The key lesson was the need to vet the specific individuals on the project, not just the vendor company. ### Frameworks for Vendor Management and Security - ISO 27001 was discussed as a framework for supplier security, using questionnaires to ensure vendors meet basic standards. For major vendors like AWS, their public certifications suffice. - One PMO has begun creating SOPs for vendor engagement to ensure consistency. - Without a streamlined process, the CIO can become a bottleneck, leading to "rogue actors" implementing systems without oversight. - There was a debate on whether a formal "runbook" is always beneficial, as it could introduce rigidity and limit subjective, experience-based decision-making. While objectivity is good, "gut instinct" remains important. ### Next Month's Meeting - A guest speaker will lead the next meeting, focusing on IT deal negotiation with vendors in a non-salesy "tales from the dark side" format. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 1] will connect [Speaker 7] with a contact for advice on negotiating Oracle cloud terms. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The group discussed challenges with vendor selection but did not establish a unified best-practice framework or decide whether to create a formal "runbook." > 2. The issue of "rogue actors" implementing software without IT oversight was raised, but no specific prevention strategies were discussed. > 3. Rick sought input on the ISO 42001 AI assessment, but no further discussion occurred, leaving it as an open point. > 4. The group discussed potential AI bias in vendor recommendations but did not establish methods to mitigate this risk. > 5. While reference checks were suggested for implementation partners, the group did not define a clear process to mitigate the associated risks. > 6. A participant requested tips for negotiating with Oracle, but a concrete solution beyond an introduction was not provided.
- Date
- May 6, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Who just joined? Got Christie coming in. Hey, Chris. Hi. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:08 I'm good except for my camera is not wanting to come on. Speaker 1 00:00:13 I think you have like camera allergies. Speaker 2 00:00:16 Well, I am currently. At the office, but I keep getting this spelled" start camera." Speaker 1 00:00:23 Oh. Huh. Should have one of your minions take care of that. Speaker 2 00:00:27 You know, I might do that in a moment. Right Now they're running a tabletop report from a tabletop exercise earlier this week. Nice. Yes. Speaker 1 00:00:41 I have been. I need to. I need a. I need a total consult from the two of you. I've got like. I feel like I'm like spread between the agents that I've built. And cowork and Claude code. I'm like, Sc attered between them a little bit, and because the agents that I've built, like sometimes they just don't they're not capable of. Doing these like in between kind of tasks, you know? Yes. It's really frustrating.'Cause you build the agent to do a thing, and then you're like, actually I want to go beyond that now. So I guess I'm going to revert to Claude Code. Cause that's just the universal, you know. Speaker 2 00:01:22 Yeah, I'm struggling between do I continue Claude Code in the terminal or use the desktop app. Speaker 1 00:01:28 Oh yeah, I've been doing the remote desktop app thing. It's fantastic. Fantastic. Just the remote control, yeah, it's great. It's great. Now, here's, I'm going to rock your world here. Barry knows what I'm going to say. Okay. Codex is just got exceptionally good. It just got exceptionally good. And so it's the name is kind of confusing because Codex is both, The CLI, and then they have a desktop app that's kind of like cowork. So it's it's one name doing what cowork and code and Claude code do. But they don't have a remote agent for it yet. That's one of the downsides, but the model is really good. Five five is just really, really good. Speaker 2 00:02:18 I'm going to give it a try. I do have it installed. And while I got rid of my personal account, I still have my Crimson account for it, so. I'm definitely going to try it. Speaker 3 00:02:29 Yeah, I just I just upgraded the max plan on on ChatGPT also, just for that reason, for just for Codex. Because what I found, I mean Jamie, we and I just talked like a few days ago. Butum what I found is that after that like I've got now, i've got Two sessions running. I've got a Claude session and a Codex session, and so like I am just like making them battle. So I am just having some like. Like Pokemon battles with with AI. Speaker 1 00:02:53 I love it. I love it. I totally have. I love that we've been affecting each other in this way. It's so great. Hey Peter. Speaker 4 00:03:03 Hey, how you doing? We're good. Trying to get my video sorted. I'll be on there in a sec. Speaker 1 00:03:08 No worries. Hey Rick. Hey, how's it going? Good man. So good to have you. Speaker 5 00:03:13 Yeah, thank you for having me. Speaker 1 00:03:16 ABD What's up, brother? Speaker 6 00:03:19 Hey guys, how are you? I'm Christie. People. Speaker 1 00:03:23 Hey, while we're waiting for everyone to. To jump in, well, why don't I have each of you guys do introductions to Rick? And then once we get a full house, we'll have Rick do his intro too. Barry, you want to start us? Speaker 3 00:03:35 Sure. So I'm Barry. I'm from a company called PureTech Industrial Water. We do industrial water treatment. I'm the CIO here. Um, and yeah, that's it. Speaker 1 00:03:45 And and nice to meet you. And Rick Barry's in Ventura also. Speaker 5 00:03:49 Oh, very cool. Okay. Speaker 3 00:03:51 Yes. Rick, Speaker 5 00:03:52 Are you in Ventura or? See me, but I spend a lot of time in Ventura. Close, yeah. Speaker 1 00:03:57 He's on the edge of Ventura County. He's barely Ventura. Yeah, yeah. Speaker 5 00:04:01 Well, I am like I am in Wood Ranch, so I am like oh, I am literally closer to Thousand Oaks. Like yeah, you are yeah on the other side of the hill from my house is. Speaker 1 00:04:12 Arbolas, so it's like Thousand Oaks is right there. You are more Thousand Oaks than the Westlake Village guys pretend to be. Yes, exactly, exactly. U h, thank you, Barry. Uh, Chris. Speaker 2 00:04:25 Hi, I'm Chris. Uh, I what am I supposed to say? I forgot. I'm sorry. Speaker 1 00:04:30 I was trying to just introduce yourself to Rick. Speaker 2 00:04:32 Hi Rick, my name is Chris. I am in, I am all over right now. I am in Pasadena, Linwood. Downtown L. A. in South Bay. Speaker 1 00:04:45 And what do you do? Speaker 2 00:04:47 Oh, I'm a CIO for Crimson IT. Speaker 1 00:04:50 Nice to meet you. Speaker 2 00:04:51 My brain is trying to fix the camera, so I can get my camera back on. Speaker 1 00:04:54 You're so funnily awkward right now and I love it. Speaker 2 00:04:56 I know, it's been a day. Speaker 1 00:04:58 It's great. Uh, ABD, you want to introduce yourself to Rick? Speaker 6 00:05:03 Hey Rick, Andrew Vendelin. I'm in Reno, Nevada and I work for a site development company on the East Coast called BNS Site Development. I'm the VP of IT. Nice to meet you. Speaker 1 00:05:15 But what do they do? What does site development, what do they do? Speaker 6 00:05:17 Because I think we build data centers. Oh, very cool. We are a heavy civil subcontractor for the GC. So our main about 80% of our portfolio is in data center. Got it. Peter. Speaker 4 00:05:32 Well, I got my camera working. My name is Peter Blair. I'm the CIO for a company called Rincon Technology in Santa Barbara. And we buy and sell network equipment, Cisco, Juniper Network, all that stuff. And we have a big warehouse in Las Vegas. And been around 25 years or something like something crazy like that. Speaker 1 00:05:53 Very cool. Nice to meet you. And if you ever need help with 3 D printing, Peter's your guy. Nice. All right. Speaker 7 00:06:01 Peter, I did not know that. I might have pinged you on something otherwise. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:06:06 You do. Uh Leon, we're just introducing ourselves to Rick while we're waiting for everyone to jump in. Speaker 7 00:06:13 Hi. Um, I guess it's my turn. Your turn. All right, Eric, I'm sorry. I'm Leon Kaufman. I'm CIO for ACO Engineered Systems. We're a mechanical subcontractor for various projects. Likewise, yeah, we're also doing a lot of work in data centers, but like fifty percent of our portfolio right now in data centers. But The other side, we do a lot of controls. Any kind of commercial buildings, except for the buildings themselves. Everything else in it. Speaker 1 00:06:46 Yeah. Leon, tell, tell, uh share with Rick what your major intersections are near your house. Speaker 7 00:06:52 Oh, major intersection near my house. Yeah, where you live? Uh, like. Burbank and Victory? Speaker 5 00:06:60 You're right down the street. Speaker 7 00:07:01 Oh, really? Oh, okay. Laughter A little bit like in the, you know, like I grew up at Park and Chandler. That's a lot closer. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:07:12 Got it. Speaker 7 00:07:13 That's cool. Your local Burbank in Burbank. Speaker 5 00:07:16 Burbank, yep, past Alameda. Speaker 7 00:07:20 Oh, okay. Speaker 5 00:07:22 Yeah, point of this way. Yeah, we'll write in here. Yeah. Right next to the Disney Tower, the big white tower on 134. Yeah. Warner Brothers right behind me. Speaker 7 00:07:32 Very cool. Yeah, it's like five minutes from where I am. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:37 I'm going to consider this a quorum. Rick, you want to share? Introduce yourself? Speaker 5 00:07:43 Uh, yeah. Rick Soto, uh, senior vice president of IT global IT and uh security for Pixologic Media. So we're uh Post-production organization in the media entertainment space. So Uh, pretty much overseeing all of the network infrastructure, cloud. Slash security compliance program for the organization. So. Managing facilities globally. So our HQs here in Burbank have a facility in Clover City. And then we got a small location in Berlin, Germany, as well as London, Cairo, Egypt, Cape Town. And then the APAC region, we got Tokyo and Seoul, Korea. So really focusing a lot of distribution, a lot of high speed networks, content distribution to motion picture studios. Um. Speaker 5 00:08:37 So, yeah, a lot of infrastructure, a lot of security. Then I have a team of about thirty five engineers globally. Speaker 1 00:08:47 And maybe you can share something personal. So, you work in Burbank, live in Simi- ish? Simi. Simi Hills, TO. Yep. Maybe a little about your family and your hobbies outside of work. Speaker 5 00:09:03 Yeah. So. Married two kids. My daughter is in Wichita, Kansas. She's a NCAA bowler, so she bowls out of a university. Uh, Wichita they won their first uh conference for the school this year. Uh, I actually myself are a. Uh, semi pro bowler. Um, I bowl a lot to be honest with you. That's why I spend a lot of time in Ventura. A lot of tournaments out there. Um, and then I help coach Mookie Betts for the Dodgers. So. Speaker 5 00:09:35 For uh, he's a bowler. So I I help coach him pretty regularly, pretty much on a weekly basis. To be honest with you. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:09:44 Rick, it's so great to have you here. Rick and I have known each other for many years. Yeah. We share, we used to share the same boss. Yeah, a different era. And I've been threatening to figure out a way to wiggle Rick into this group for a long time. And so glad you're here to join us. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Rick does a lot. He's kind of the whisper, the CISO whisperer for Hollywood. You know, these you know the You name a major studio and they get into trouble, they have Rick on speed dial. You know, it's like, what the hell do I do now? So Rick is the kind of guy who doesn't say no. You know, he'll help anybody out in a jam. So, if anybody gets like is unfortunate enough to get breached or just need something. Speaker 1 00:10:31 Rick would be the guy I would call. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:10:32 I got a lot of connections. I uh, yeah, I sit on a lot of theum uh the Trusted Partner Network Committee. Which is part of our industry group that kind of oversee a lot of the compliance controls regulations. So a lot of them are based off NIST. We recently went through an ISO 27001 certification June of last year, but we just wrapped up our second reassessment last week. Should have our final go at it or go I mean assessment with our third party vendor. June 15th. And then going into, as you guys know, the ISO program is a three-year program. So next year we'll do like the APAC region. Um, and then we should be good to go from there. But um, yeah, I mean now I'm looking at the 4000 14 201 assessment, which is around AI technology. Speaker 5 00:11:28 Um, concerns there around our industry is really, you know, the acceptance of AI within the Hollywood space. Right. A lot of these controls are really set around, you know, more of your corporate guidelines. versus, you know, the creative aspect of, you know, what production actually does within our space. So. Uh, kind of holding off a little bit on it. I mean, been studying up on uh, on what it actually would provide for our organization as well as the industry. But um. Yeah, I mean, if you guys are looking into it, I mean, I'd love to hear what you guys have to say around it. But yeah. Speaker 1 00:12:01 Awesome. Well, thanks for joining us today. You're welcome here. And David, do you want to introduce yourself to Rick? Speaker 8 00:12:10 Yeah. Hi, David Smith. Head of the IT and At a company called Republic Indemnity. It's a workers'compensation insurance carrier. Currently based out of Calabasas, and okay, we're in. Selling into the Western United States. Also have an office up in San Francisco. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:12:37 Nice to meet you. Have you moved yet, David? Speaker 8 00:12:40 Uh, next month. Okay. So coming soon. Speaker 1 00:12:46 Let's see how your wireless goes. Speaker 1 00:12:51 David was sharing. He's like, I didn't do any structured cabling this time. Like, yeah, Speaker 8 00:12:55 There is some. It's not completely, but just not to the workstations. Speaker 1 00:12:60 You're not doing the three cat six connections to every every cubicle? Speaker 8 00:13:04 No. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:13:09 Yeah, awesome. I might I might have to step out for about five to ten minutes to help out? Ken. You know, Mister Ken, of course. Uh, around some uh. Microsoft Business Dynamic stuff. So Zora is actually here and she's like, hey, can you just step into this real quick? So I just got to go in there and talk to her real quick. So I'll let you know when they need me. Speaker 1 00:13:30 Yeah, no problem. No problem. All right, we're going to dive right into the agenda, guys. I have a guest speaker next month. Who's kicking off and rolling through the COPs. And I may have mentioned him to you before. But he's. I am going to talk about deal negotiation with vendors. It deal negotiation kind of a tales from the dark side. I told him it has to be a non salesy pitch. He's in the space. But I think it's going to spur a lot of discussion because I think all of us have Experience with this as CIOs, This is like it feels like a big part of the job is vendor selection. Vendor negotiation, RFPs, requirements, all that stuff, right? Speaker 1 00:14:16 And. So I thought today, what we could do is take a little bit of a break from AI because I think there isn't a moment. We don't talk about AI just for a little bit. I'm sure we'll get into AI in a minute here. We'll probably some it'll some way it'll creep into the conversation, right? But just to talk about how we think about vendors, how we screen solutions. How we find them, how we choose them. What are the things that we look for? And then What that selection process looks like, And I know it's going to vary depending on what it is that you are buying, and then. Whether it's an IT widget or whether it's a business widget, right? And there is sometimes IT leads it for the business, sometimes because it's a IT system that looks like a business system. It looks like an IT system and all that stuff. So I want to open this conversation with a roundtable. And I put a few kind of teaser questions on the agenda. Speaker 1 00:15:14 If you don't have it in front of you, it's not a big deal. But just in general, how we're thinking about Um, Vendor selection and then vendor management is a whole nother thing because who you select, you know, then they you get bait and switched into a different delivery team. So, I'm going to pick on Leon to maybe start us off. And just to lead this a little bit too, just from the, From an echo engineering perspective, how do you think about vendor selection? How do you choose stuff? Do you have a A way of doing it, or is it a practice of doing it, or a defined way of doing it? Speaker 7 00:15:52 Well. Great question. It's more of a practice, I would say. A lot of the times comes down to the size of the project. Stakeholder involvement, well- defined requirements. And basically, you know, choice in a field of companies we're looking at. Okay. So we typically try to like, hey, somebody brings up a problem and typically they already have a solution. You know, the business comes up to you and says, "Hey, I want to do X, Y and Z. I want to go buy Salesforce. I want to go buy, you know, I don't know company X Y and Z." And my question to them immediately is like, well, that's great. But what are you trying to solve? Speaker 7 00:16:37 He's like, "Hey, I want to track my opportunities." Or as an example, he's like, "Well, do you have a process for that?" He's like, "Not really. I just want something that does it for me." And so that's a conversation starter, you know. And for something big like that, it's usually like you start asking questions and it becomes like, oh, oh I didn't think about that. Okay let's take it from the start. So we start with requirements gathering. Like what are you trying to solve? What's that business problem? Half the time, once they define the business problem, it turns out they already have a solution. They just don't use it or they don't know about it or something like that. But once you get into, once you really get to the bottom of it, like okay, well now we kind of have to go look. Now we got to look at the vendors. We typically send them an RFP. RFI request for information. Send them an RFI, and you know, and then you expect somebody, you know expect them to reply. And once they applied, Speaker 7 00:17:32 You know, then you kind of go through the vendor selection process. We typically have like a panel of business users, somebody from technology. And essentially, we go through a fairly documented process of ranking. each solution. So, and then depending what kind of solution it is, we rank it based on Visibility, flexibility. Is it actually going to do the job you want? How much customization you have to make. But we'd like to have at least three. That we'll do this with. We may send RFP to up to five. We request RFP for up to five. But you know, usually like the three is what I come down to. And then you start going into the pricing. Trying to figure out, like, okay, well this is a great solution but it's going to cost too much. Can we do it with something else? So. Speaker 7 00:18:27 We call it in construction, we call it value engineering. So they go through the value, Speaker 1 00:18:32 They're backing into a price. Speaker 7 00:18:34 Yes, exactly. So yeah, and that's how we try to address it. Um, that doesn't always happen. No, not always. If the project is small enough, sometimes we give our practices leads. Ability to go and, Invest into a platform we already have without doing additional RFPs or anything like that. Speaker 1 00:18:58 Are you using a platform today for? RFPs are just Word and email and Excel. Speaker 7 00:19:04 Just Word, email, Excel. Like I like Excel and Word. That's basically you know we track it using Smartsheets. We have a spreadsheet, like application that we build for doing that, but there's nothing like specific. Speaker 1 00:19:19 I s anyone on this call have a tool you're using to do any of your vendor selection, like an RFI tool or Anything or is it mostly informal? Okay. Speaker 2 00:19:35 Because AI can't. Speaker 1 00:19:36 Peter or Chris? Oh, Chris, did you build stuff? Speaker 2 00:19:41 No, I am just with when I am going through and looking. I am. I'm evaluating based on different factors. Especially with the company that I just took on, so I am using AI just to help me make my selections. Speaker 1 00:19:56 Okay, so this is an interesting one. Are you using AI as your thought partner throughout the process? Are you like pasting transcripts into it and letting it guide you? As to where there's gaps. Speaker 2 00:20:09 I am pasting transcripts in. I mean, it has access to my transcripts folders. And I'm having it give me some pros and cons. But I'm not letting it make my decision for me. Speaker 1 00:20:22 Are you, Is anybody seeing bias if you're using AI tools? Or has it been essential in the process? Speaker 7 00:20:32 We have used. I don't have any bias against it. You still have to read what it says. Um, but you know, I have used uh there's like a feature called Deep Research. Yeah. I have used that in the past. U m, What I found is that it actually the research is so deep that it just takes so long to read through it. That I lose interest, honestly. But if you were to read through it, there's a lot of really great information in it. Speaker 1 00:21:02 Is it is it really naive of me to think like that RFPs are developed by AI. And the responses from the companies are drafted by AI. Well, very possible. The response to the RFP or the RFI is put into the, and this is just humans on either side, pasting and copying into AI tools. Right. Peter, is that a naive or a skeptical statement? Speaker 4 00:21:29 Well, no, it's not bad. I mean, I guess it's sort of a tangent, But kind of begs the question:, when they talk about all the AI stuff, like how is the advertising going to work? And, it may not be so overt that, oh, here's an image of what you ought to buy. But it's, A recommendation for I was looking for some TV parts. One of my big TVs blew up and You know, I was doing it on Claude. Like, hey, here is what's going on, and it was phenomenal at finding the parts and stuff. And it said, oh well, If you need to go buy that part, here is, you know, here is two vendors, you could go get that from right now. And I ended up buying one. I didn't go shopping around. I took one of the two, so you don't know like. Did those guys, are they paying somehow to be positioned like that? Speaker 4 00:22:13 It's a weird example, but I'm sure it applies to these bigger things that we're involved with. Some of these bigger contracts. Uh. Speaker 1 00:22:21 David are. Speaker 6 00:22:22 You AI product placement? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:22:28 Andy, you want to jump in here? How are decisions made and what's the process look like for BNS? Speaker 6 00:22:35 Yeah, I mean, I'm in the center of making. We're picking. Three different vendors right now, and just deep. It's very loose. My charter is always vendor consolidation to try and reduce swivel chair as much as possible. AI, I am using AI a lot. Like we just hired a recruiter. Recruiter walks in and says, "I don't like Paylocity," even though she's never used the Paylocity recruiting module. "I want Greenhouse." Well, it started with, "I want smart recruiters." Speaker 6 00:23:09 I got to have smart recruiters, and so I, you know, Having to be a master of all have to use AI to say like what is so great about smart recruiters and like cause I don't know H R I S. I don't know A T S systems. I don't just like i don't know fleet management software. So, i end up using AI a lot to validate the person at the other side of the desk chasing shiny objects. To Leon's point, well i have to do this to solve my problem. It's like you don't even have a problem. Like it's just pump breaks so Um. That's where I've found AI most recently. I think we talked about this either in last session or in another session. Like Sonnet, the new Sonnet is making mistakes. It's just telling you things and then you are like, "That's not right." It's like, "You are right. That wasn't right." It's like, "Dude," And then I would say as a thesis, I try to avoid vendors with That are trying to be modern in their tech stack, but are too old and too established. Like. Speaker 6 00:24:07 Any Salesforce, I try to avoid like the plague. Any SAP, I try to avoid like the plague. Any anything that is these huge like SAP just bought Smart Recruiters in November, so the minute the new recruiters said, "Let's hire buy Smart Recruiters," and they saw the SAP acquisitions like, "Yeah, they're dead. We're never going to touch that." And so that's just kind of my general position, And I have positioned myself also in the company of I, really enjoy arguing with vendors about pricing. I love buying cars. People hate buying cars. I love buying cars because I love pushing salespeople around so, um. That's a little unique for me because arguing with vendors on pricing is enjoyable. Speaker 1 00:24:51 I think the next session is going to be a real treat. This is like a good prep for that. Yeah. So David, Is this do you have a more you're in a you're in a more I would say, uh, legacy organization. You've been around a while. I s there a practice that you follow and or are there exceptions to it? Can you describe a little bit what it's like? Yeah, Speaker 8 00:25:14 I think I would agree with a lot of what's already been said. I think part of it, too, is the nature and size of a particular Engagement, you know, if it's a large potentially high budget engagement. There would be a formal process. I think more recently, though, they've been smaller engagements, and we've tended to use. A more informal process. I think it's kind of funny too that we started this conversation saying we're going to set AI aside, and I know. But um. You know, I think there is a human element though too that I still rely on. We have some. Industry analyst groups, kind of a Gartner for insurance. Speaker 8 00:26:02 In insurance tech, in particular, that I subscribe to and I reach out to them because they are. Familiar with the players in the industry and different niche categories and different niche solutions. So it's helpful for me to understand, for example, they They might know that an acquisition is pending or that. This one's struggling financially because sometimes, you know, with these smaller companies, they can be very flexible and and they they can adapt to you easily. But also their long term viability and stability is. Not always predictable, let's put it that way. And having someone who knows a little bit behind the scenes is helpful when vetting. Speaker 8 00:26:56 A vendor and a platform to consider. So, you know, a couple more thoughts there that I would add. Speaker 1 00:27:04 It strikes me too, your relationship with your peers. I mean, this is This is where you really have to expend that relational capital. Right, first of all, to have your peer work with you arm in arm versus just. Going and just doing it. Which I'm sure all of us have experienced that where it's like, okay, you just made this decision. Without any input, and so now I have to figure out a way to support it. And so you need that upfront, And then working together with them, if you are a Offsides with what Andy was saying as an example, they want something different than what you have. And. And so how do you sort of exert influence as a supporting Member of the cast. Speaker 1 00:27:52 Or, are you set up in a way that allows you to be that leader who can say no? Not every CIO or head of IT is positioned to say no. Right. So this is a it's a huge, I think it's a huge bone of contention as to how you're positioned in the organization. It kind of cuts through a lot. Do you want to speak that a little bit, David? Speaker 8 00:28:16 Yeah, I think we've run into that recently. We brought in some. You know, pretty successful business development staff from some of our competitors. And they're reporting to, you know, my colleague and. And they were coming in, you know, kind of as has already been mentioned with some ideas about, "Hey, you know, we used this at my previous company. It was great and we should use it here." And so, you know, it is. Speaker 8 00:28:51 It's a little delicate to manage those kinds of conversations, because you know you want to support them and and I certainly want to do everything I can to support our business development team. You know. That's that's where we are all aligned to encourage them to be successful. Um, we we need them to be successful, but on the other hand, We don't you know, or we meaning I don't want to just go out and implement something just because. They used it so you know, and again, it's yeah. It I think it starts like you said with a good relationship with your peers to. Establish maybe a bias towards, "Hey, I am here to support you. I'm not here to say no." And I am coming in with good intentions, but I also want to. Make. Speaker 8 00:29:47 Wise decisions on platforms and systems, and to see whether we can. You know, use something maybe that we already have. And so, you know, like Leon said, I just use. What are you trying to do? Tell me more about what the objective is, And let's work together and see whether we could actually implement it or solve your problem with a system that we already own. That would be Optimal. Speaker 1 00:30:16 Bar ry, you're in an organization where you've got kind of it's family owned. Do they have the ultimate say? Do they I mean, how are decisions made at PureTech? Speaker 3 00:30:25 Um, yeah, they would have the ultimate say. They never they never exercise that. Um, they they really do let me have that that. Leeway to make the decisions on most of the stuff that comes into place. However, we've grown and so as we've grown, we've hired, we brought in. You know, a marketing executive and we've got an HR executive now, which we never had in the past. You know, people that are in these roles. And so they are definitely like pushing for, like, "Oh, I use this at my old company; it worked great," right? And so I let kind of. Sort of begrudgingly, But let them kind of go down that road and then try to advise them. And then. Um. Speaker 3 00:31:04 You know, we've had a few flops as a result, And I think that because of that, they maybe I've earned their trust a little bit when I am telling them no. I am not just saying it because I don't want to. It's because I kind of am looking at the bigger picture, and I think at first they didn't trust that so much. But I'm starting to see a little bit of, you know, shift in that right now. But the way I kind of focus on it, and I think the way I've earned like the ownership's trust. Is every deal that I put together. I structure it in a way, Like I kind of focus more on, like what happens when the vendor fails or fails to perform. And. So like the contracts are written that way and everything is kind of written around that, like what is successful. Um and I've found that I've had to exercise that more than I'd like to admit, Like and get money back and get, you know whatever and deal with that issues. Never had to go to court or anything like that. But because the deal was kind of put in a way that was, it's. Speaker 3 00:32:00 It made sense for both parties to agree on what failure is. Um, andum, But I would say that my track record for choosing good vendors is not so good. So my maybe my approach isn't great because I feel like Uh, you know, Two out of three vendors I choose end up being a little bit of a disaster. Butum, butum, I don't know. Speaker 1 00:32:18 Oh, I like this stuff. So this now we're getting into the good stuff. So, you want to you want to share one of those mistakes and what you learned from that? Speaker 3 00:32:25 Sure, sure. So I just recently. So we talked about HubSpot and I've kind of shared my woes with everybody on this. at the last couple of these sessions. And it really is just, it's not HubSpot in particular, it's the third party vendor set to close. They are just what we found is that they kind of promised the world. And you talked about them sending over information that's always through AI. So they were to the point, even in the beginning, we should have seen the sign, but that. I don't think they read anything because all of their email or all their SOWs and things to us had, like, you know, would you like me to turn this to a PDF at the end? You know, like something like that? I mean, oh, Speaker 1 00:33:05 My gosh, they didn't even sanitize it. Speaker 3 00:33:07 Yeah. So so is that blatant? And we kind of caught them on it a few times. Butum but nonethelessum we kind of came to an agreement with them. And I had we talked about internal pressure. So I had a lot of internal pressure to go with them and use go to HubSpot, even though that's one of the projects I sort of was. Don't think it fits in our ecosystem very well, but so that pressure kind of like put me in there. But nonetheless, I still put in my language about non-compete or non-performance. And last week or two weeks ago or whatever, we had to basically fire them. And, then our internal team took everything and built what basically we built in three days. What they worked on for six months and could not cross the finish line, right? So it's like. Speaker 3 00:33:51 So like so so that that was the outcome of that. Um, but um, but uh, but the um. But the kind of lesson from that is just really, I don't know. I don't know what the lesson is because I felt like when I said yes to the vendor, and I said, yes, to their agreements, I mean it was not through lack of diligence. So, I mean, I read through everything they sent and i had them revise the scope. By met with their tech teams, i met with you know everybody everything that i would normally do. But the vendor, when we got, I think you mentioned this at the beginning. You're talking with one people, and you get kicked over to the bait and switch. And, the functional team we ended up with didn't match Even. The tech leads that we were talking to in the sales calls, right? So it just so that was kind of my lesson there is that. That like, I think I need to be more diligent on meeting, basically who's going to be working on my project. And making sure I understand who they are and what they're doing. Speaker 3 00:34:47 And then I think other lessons, not with this vendor but with other vendors, is really around like Vendors sometimes will commit and then overcommit. And so, like I find myself in situations where we think we're starting, but they were oversold for that month or that quarter or whatever. And then we just get stuck. And that's not really a fun situation. Speaker 1 00:35:13 So You know it. It strikes me, you always learn as you go through this stuff, but listening to each of you. It's almost like you need without a procurement team, which has its own issues. Okay, it's not a solve to just have procurement. It actually creates more issues because then you are. Having to deal with a category manager or somebody who knows nothing about it. My. Speaker 7 00:35:41 Prior company. Yeah, in my prior company, I actually had a designated procurement person that only worked with technology. And it was helpful. She was very, you know, she was very versed in all the IT talk. And you know, She was partnering and would come up with strategy, how we would approach certain things. But, that was the only place I've ever been where there was a designated procurement person for technology. Usually it just falls on. Speaker 7 00:36:12 You know, CIOs or directors'shoulders to deal with a lot of that stuff. Speaker 3 00:36:18 Or the worst part of it is that, like so obviously, you know, CIO becomes a bottleneck in that situation and then you end up with like rogue actors. And that's like that's even more challenging because then you're picking up the pieces from some poorly implemented with no contract language or nothing to help you like. And that's unfortunately been the case a few times here, and that's something I try to avoid, but it just, See ms like it uh it's inevitable. Speaker 6 00:36:43 I always to to your point, finding implementation partners. Whenever the vendor says, Well, you are going to work with. So and so or like here is our marketplace of implementation partners, that to me is always a huge red flag. Yeah and then and then when that's the case. I short of exhaustive RFPs and requirements gathering, I go reference check the implementation partner. Yeah, let me talk to three of your clients that are in my space. I just put a ton of onus on the implementation partner to earn the business. Um, because firing implementation partners is tremendously difficult. Speaker 3 00:37:19 It is it's a pain. Yeah, yeah. Because, you are in your middle because you I mean, you are not just losing whatever I mean, because in our case, we usually get. Well, the way I've written it in the past, I almost always get the money back, but you never get the time and effort and all that stuff. And so it's you know no matter what your sunk cost is always significantly. Hard to. Yeah, Speaker 6 00:37:38 And if you've brought in end users or you brought in stakeholders, not in IT, and you kind of like drag them through some of the dog and ponies, and then all of a sudden you're switching your team. Yep. It's it. You just immediatelyerode any sense of how great the new tool is. Speaker 3 00:37:53 Agree. Agree. Yeah Rick, Speaker 1 00:37:55 I want to pull you back into this. We we've just been I think sharing I think a lot of struggles with uh. Ki nd of the typical stuff that you'd experience. You want to share a little bit about how Pixologic selects vendors and some of the mistakes that you've seen? Whether you've made them or somebody anonymous in your company made them. Speaker 5 00:38:14 Yeah, somebody anonymous. Actually, in our space it's very interesting. It's an interesting space, right? Where a lot of the vendors that we have worked with have been. I like to say a partner rather than just a transaction vendor. To be honest with you, what does that mean? Um, So for me, it's like the extension of understanding what the media and entertainment space is all about, right? What technologies are being used in our space? What's the expectation that is being set out there by like our industry, right? What are we doing in regards to moving, not only creating but moving content around like the our industry. Speaker 5 00:38:55 So that being said, like storage is very big for us, right? And, our storage platforms is not like going out and buying a A NAS like an Isilon or a NetApp or a Dell, you know, EMC piece of storage for us it's very unique to. What, the overall expectation is for the creation of that content from, you know, the content arriving to us for final uh edits like color. Digital cinema, you know, Home and mastering where we're actually mastering the content before it's going to be distributed globally. So a lot of those expectations are around like, you know, high speed networks, high speed availability, you know resiliency. Um, a lot of times, you know, I mean, especially now with you know our parent organization of uh Imagica for example like. You know, the investment is heavy on the pixel logic side because of you know. Speaker 5 00:39:50 What we do, the studios that we work with. So the turnaround speeds of what we need to do, as well as you know, the expectation to minimize any kind of QC errors. Meaning, you know, if we have X amount of edit or QC bays that are touching this piece of content, or storage like we need to be able to. Provide that level of expectation that that's going to perform, right? So that being said, Like the vendors that we work with are niche vendors that are within the media and entertainment space. So that's mainly on the production end, right? So when you deal with like infrastructure that is being set. For, like, say finance or HR or your client services team, a lot of that infrastructure is just your typical IT stuff, right? Yes, there might be like a couple Macs or Windows systems in there, but everything's pretty. Speaker 5 00:40:46 Common and straightforward in regards to like what their requirements are going to be. That type of vendor, you know, I like to say that's more of your transaction vendor. Even though we do have a partnership with them, but when we go on to the production space, I mean, these are vendors that we've worked on worked with to be honest with you for the last. Almost 20 years, right? So they understand the space of you know what it takes to. To build like some of these GPU systems to help with, you know some of the, uh creation of our content on the creative space. So, not everybody out there, you know, is a professional with an avid. You know, and I don't want to work with somebody like. Say, for example, like a CDW where I can like go on there and say, hey, I want this. And that's really to me, that's a transaction, right? If I go and deploy something that I go and procure, I want to make sure that they're going to be able to support it as well as the vendor. Speaker 5 00:41:41 You know that they're going to actually have professionals and staff that's actually going to be able to help me if I run into any kind of situation. Escalation, for example. So for me, it's that's really the big. Factor in choosing like a vendor for the organization. Even when I am bringing a new vendor in, like all of the questions come is like you know, I want to know your references. Who have you worked with? What kind of projects have you worked with? You know. Who's your staff on board like? I just want to make sure like we vet them that way, uh to make sure that you know, Uh we are choosing a vendor that's going to be able to support us going forward and not just making that one transaction to to try to get a deal. So, and for us, I mean, as you know, John, like you know we've deployed a lot of this globally. Right. So for me, it's like important to be able to support this at a global scale. Right. Speaker 5 00:42:35 So not only with the manufacturer, like yeah, you go with like you know some of the big three tech companies, you know HP, Dell, you know NetApp et cetera. Like, you know, we we can't just use like their backend infrastructure on the network side. You know Juniper Cisco. I mean you know they can support it globally. But I want to be able to make sure that I can procure and source and get it there in a timely manner. So, um, yeah. I mean that's that's pretty much like you know what goes on. On our side, but you know, for example, there's some vendors like as you're aware on the finance side, right? That been interesting. So like procuring of licenses, contracts, like that kind of stuff, right? Um, those are kind of to me more of a. difficult approach because there's influence not only from my level, But it comes up above to, you know, the CFO level as well as, you know, the president of the company that. Speaker 5 00:43:33 I may want to use certain vendors to uh uh to get these projects kicked off and to me, You know, it's not always about, you know, saving a few thousand dollars here and there. I mean, especially if it's going to take longer to make a deployment or you know, They're not going to have the right resources to be able to kick a project off. And you know. Get it going accordingly. To me, that's not worth it, to be honest with you. Speaker 1 00:43:60 So you just raised a bunch of stuff. I want to do a rapid fire amongst everybody here. So be ready when I call on you. But I want to know Short, short answer. How important is the relationship Of the salesperson in the deal to you. So you just mentioned Partner. Partner usually requires a human relationship. Yeah, relationship. Yeah. So How important is that to you, David? Speaker 8 00:44:33 I guess defining relationship, I am looking for someone who's responsive. Honest, has integrity, and I can rely on. To be an advocate. So I'd say the character Of, you know, I am not looking for a buddy. I am looking for a character and someone who is trustworthy in that. Role. Speaker 1 00:45:02 So that's important to you, though more than price. Speaker 8 00:45:06 Uh. Yeah, yeah. I'd say absolutely willing to pay a little bit more. Uh. For that. Speaker 1 00:45:16 Andy, you feel the same way? Speaker 6 00:45:19 Yeah, yeah. I mean, I am a firm believer in" you get what you pay for." And if you overvalue engineer or overfind the cheapest solution. You're going to get either. You know, terrible service or a terrible platform or combination of the two. I think if you are in a corporate culture that wants to lean into. Lean in and is okay to spend money, and you don't always have to value engineer. You can say, "Look," and I actually just had this conversation. Hey, we have this vehicle. This person wants to buy the Ferrari version of this vehicle. I am not saying that that's the right move or not. That's not my position to make. I am just saying we already have a car that can drive us down the road. That's a that's a sports car. Speaker 6 00:45:59 So, but then I go to the sales rep and have if I don't. Feel good about the sales rep to the fact to the point we've already made : " like Hey, I know you are going to dump me off once you get your commission and sign me up. You are dumping me to your implementation team, and if I don't feel that that person is trustworthy, that I can rope back in should the implementation go awry." I start waving the flag, or you know, kind of asking for okay. Well, who's your boss sales guy because. Speaker 6 00:46:30 We do need a alternative should your, you know, bill of sales be a little bit phony. Speaker 1 00:46:37 Chris, do you in your your CIO for several companies, do you develop relationships with The salesperson that you're dealing with, or is it more transactional given the nature of it? We lost your audio. Speaker 2 00:46:56 Perfect because I was still in the middle of chewing. U m, good. Yes and no. Uh, depends on the systems. So Depending on the system, I want that salesperson, and it makes my life easier having them. But then some things are just transactional. Speaker 1 00:47:16 Uh, to the guy who raised value engineering, Leon. How do you balance the value engineering with, Having a relationship, you know, when it comes time to driving a deal, you know you are getting a deal. and Do you grind them so hard that you're no longer a partner? Speaker 7 00:47:37 Well, it's here's here's how I approach every negotiation. For every negotiation, you need two things. You need a relationship and you need leverage. If both parties have both, then you can have a successful negotiation and everybody walks away happy. If you don't have either one of those, or one or the other, you know, if you don't have a good relationship with the person you're negotiating with. Then no matter what happens, You're just going to feel like you just went through a car dealer and got ripped off on a used car deal, right? On the other hand, if you have leverage, then it becomes a one-sided negotiation. And you need to find some kind of leverage to basically drive the value. Or drive the better pricing. Speaker 7 00:48:25 But, if you have a good relationship with a salesperson and a little bit of leverage on each side, then I think every negotiation could be very successful. And everybody walks away happy. Speaker 1 00:48:36 Peter, Do you feel like you have enough leverage at your scale when you're when you're driving a deal? And how do you know what good looks like? Speaker 4 00:48:42 No, we're pretty small, so leverage is not great. But I just want to add on to Leon's comment. I think that the other piece of the whole thing is trust. Right and. So if you're dealing with partners or people you trust, those are a lot better situations than You know, a lot of times when you are dealing with a new vendor, The thing that is missing is the trust because you don't know them, and you haven't had experience with them to kind of know their style and what they're up to. And so anyway, I think the. The trust thing is huge. I was thinking about, I used to work for Kinko's at their headquarters in Ventura. And. Speaker 4 00:49:22 They were pretty amazing because any kind of agreement or anything you were going to sign. They had a great legal department where they would go through word by word and they'd push back on Microsoft and Apple and all these guys instead of just signing, oh sure we'll we'll accept your contract. They're like that's bullshit. We're nope we're taking that out and putting this in and taking that out. And they had leverage. Because, you know, we weren't spending a hundred dollars; they were spending millions. So there is an advantage, obviously, in size to that. But anyway, back back to your thing. I think I I prefer to work with trusted partners rather than bringing in new people unless you absolutely have to. Speaker 7 00:50:05 Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's one of those things. Like I've one time I tried to explain to a purchasing person. Why sometimes you want to pay more for the people you trust? Yeah. It was very difficult because, you know, the person I was dealing with. You know, Used to buying vitamin C, and they buy it in seven tons or twenty tons. And vitamin C is vitamin C. It doesn't matter where you buy it from, it's exactly the same. Right, and they deliver it in the truck. You know, comes with a different label, whatever. So, and I try to explain it to them. It's like sort of like you work with a contractor to rebuild your kitchen. You work with somebody that's done it for you before, another bathrooms, and they did a great job. And you trust them. Speaker 7 00:50:51 So, you were willing to pay a little bit more for the trust that you know, they will do a great job with your kitchen versus taking the chance with somebody else. In those terms, they fully understand it. But it's like, you know, It's sometimes difficult to kind of put the two and two together for folks that don't engage in technology purchasing all the time. Speaker 4 00:51:11 The one piece to add to that, that Barry hinted on when he was talking about the projects and getting the money back is that. I think one mistake, a lot of times we make is we look at the cost of the contract instead of the cost of the time. And to the business, that's the true cost of a lot of these things. Not. Whatever you paid for your friggin license, If it takes you a year to get the license and you can't use the software, well then you've just lost a year's time. What did that cost you? So you're right, Leon, about the money is not always the. Speaker 4 00:51:47 The money on that contract is not always the true cost of whatever it is you're doing. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:51:55 It strikes me that, actually I'm going to ask the question before I make the statement. Does anyone have a runbook? For this stuff, because we just talked about and hit on a lot of areas. I never had a run book for it. I am just being honest. I never had a run before; it was just like I just kind of. I just kind of winged it. Speaker 7 00:52:17 You know, It's a lot of it is in my head or how to play our employees, but. We started a formal PMO process about a year ago. And, they've actually documented some of these steps that what they do to engage with vendors, engage in new projects. You know, it's still evolving. I wouldn't call it like a foolproof runbook. You can't turn that off to somebody who's never done it, but at least they have some SOPs and things that they put together. To follow, so it's more consistent. Speaker 1 00:52:50 I Was going to say there may be oh go ahead Peter. Speaker 4 00:52:52 I was just going to say Jamie based Rick was talking about ISO twenty seven thousand one. We're doing that too. In fact, we have an audit in June. And you know, One of the things that they want you to have in there is they focus a lot on suppliers because you are only as secure as your suppliers that you are working with. And so part of that, That program is you have a document that's like a supplier questionnaire, that you create or take a template or whatever and and. You provide that to suppliers, you know, any potential supplier to ask for these basic security things. Do you, you know, do you have these controls in place? Do you have these things? What certifications do you have? Yeah. It creates this, um, Speaker 4 00:53:36 Environment where everybody is secure and and we deal with a lot of the carriers, you know, AT and T and. Charter and Comcast and T-Mobile, and we constantly get these. Every year we get a survey. Hey, you got to go through and, you know, are you doing this? Are you doing that? Do you have these certifications? And so that it's not really a runbook per se, but it's sort of a basic framework. When you are engaging with these suppliers to make sure that they're going to. Opera te at some standard that's not going to jeopardize your security of your systems. Speaker 5 00:54:10 Yeah. Yeah, when we went through that, like for us, some of our big vendors such as like AWS, Microsoft. So, who does our network connectivity? You know, a lot of them have been through ISO or NIST audits already, and they do. Publicly posted on their sites, right? So for us, we leveraged all of those certifications that were already there. Like for me, I'm not going to go to my Amazon rep and say, hey, when's the last time you did an ISO certification? You know, he's not going to give me that document. That's actually posted on one of their sites. So, you know some of the critical vendors that we use, such as like IBM Aspera Adobe, you know, Frame. io like that kind of stuff. They all posted. They all know like what these requirements are within the industry. Speaker 5 00:55:00 So for us, it was pretty straightforward to show like our third party external auditor, like, "Hey, here are the sites. You guys can go take a look at it." But it is done and it's something that's just industry accepted. Like we meet on a pretty regular and they were okay with that. They were okay with that. The one, the the vendors that were um a little bit more under um kind of like under the knife were like third party vendors that are more like a small mom and pop type shop. Like they want to know what their controls and security are all about, right? Especially when you're working with like a freelancer or a contractor, right? That becomes a third party vendor to you and unnecessarily a, a freelancer like employee type of uh person, you know or vendor. Um, They were more like sensitive to like, you know what are we doing uh, to allow them to work. within your like organization or workflow, right? Speaker 5 00:55:55 And a lot of times for us, it's like, you know, we work with the major movie studios. So a lot of times, it's a partnership with them too, to get this accepted. We're not going to take on the risk or the compliance. Like, you know, we'll work with them if they're okay. If it's like, say for example, in localization we're working on translation of language for a studio. Like, we want to make sure that they've worked with those studios or the large movie studios. To make sure that they have a thumbs up, they've gone through security training, they've gone through acceptable use. Um. They've understand what our nondisclosure agreements are all about and acknowledge them. And at that point, you know, we do document it and then we move it forward. The. Speaker 1 00:56:35 ISO certification, you know, does put Gating criteria and constraints around who you select. Yes. I mean, I was going to suggest that maybe we don't do runbooks because we don't want. We don't want the limitation. It's like, Maybe, we want to have the freedom to run a process the way we want to run it. Mm-hmm. You know, putting that process in place does create some level of rigidity to it, and the process does have some level of subjectivity. I am just. From experience, right? It's never completely objective as a process. There's still some subjectivity in there. Abd, Do you have do you feel the same way? Or do you feel like there's it's it can be all scored and. Speaker 1 00:57:23 Put in an objective framework. Speaker 5 00:57:29 Was that for me, John? That was for ABD. Speaker 6 00:57:32 No, no. Yeah, I mean. I think you can take objectivity so far, but as I think we've all run into, you can run into you can get great salespeople and terrible salespeople, and you could have a terrible salesperson but a great implementation team. And every combination of, right? Of of. All the players on the field, and you know people people can sales guy can score terribly on paper. And that could also make your objectivity of the platform assessment bad because he could be misleading you on what the platform can actually do. Um, yeah. I don't know. It's it's hard to make big. Six figure decisions on gut instinct, But I also trust the authority of my instincts to when you walk in and say, "I think this is the right path." This is. Speaker 6 00:58:21 And you know, you get pressed to defend it. It's like, you know, You got to come up with some narratives on the fly if you are pushing through objectivity. Speaker 1 00:58:29 Yeah. This was a great discussion, everybody. Thank you for bringing some vulnerability and experiences to it. Anybody have any final thoughts they want to share? On vendor management and RFP, RFi process. Speaker 7 00:58:47 You know, if anybody has any, you know. Good tips on negotiating some Oracle cloud terms. I would certainly take those, take that advice gladly. Speaker 1 00:59:01 So I'm happy to put you in touch with the guy you're going to speak with next month. Um, and you can see if they're a value to you or not. Speaker 7 00:59:09 That was perfect. Yeah, cause I'm I'm at.
06-16 Meeting: Phishing Incident Response and Security Stack Migration
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-16 12:33:05 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Anton] [Pete] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Phishing incident involving Dr. Barber - Description: - Dr. Barber received a phishing text masquerading as Apple Support. - He called the number, purchased gift cards, and sent codes to scammers. - He sent codes to two different numbers; Amazon flagged the activity, and he stopped after two or three cards. - No organizational systems were compromised; the impact appears limited to personal financial loss. - Guidance provided: report suspicious long “receipt-like” texts; consult IT before acting on any support-like requests. - Risk noted: attackers may attempt other vectors (email, phone calls, or social engineering targeting family or the company). - Conclusion: - The incident resulted in monetary loss without organizational compromise. - Enhanced user training and vigilance are required to prevent similar scams. - Topic Title: Security awareness training transition - Description: - Current training vendor: Cyber Ready/Cyber Site Ready (not renewing). - Plan to migrate the client to KnowBe4 within the next two months; accelerate the transition immediately. - The client was previously subscribed to another company’s training; the contract is nearing its end. - Pete recommends diplomatically offering pre-action reviews for any support-like requests. - Conclusion: - Proceed with replacing the current training with KnowBe4 and reinforce user guidance. - Topic Title: Security stack changes and deployments - Description: - Tools discussed: Avanan or SCHARP (secure mail), Huntress (endpoint/CM/log ingestion), CrowdStrike (currently in place), Barracuda (secure mail), Google Workspace log ingestion. - Anton insists on deploying Huntress for endpoints and SIEM/log ingestion from Google Workspace. - Barracuda renewal is not due until the end of September; paying monthly. Preference is to migrate sooner. - Constraint: Peerless cannot move until 2027; Meraki devices remain outside control until April 2027. - Budgeting is in place to replace switches and firewalls across sites before the Meraki move. - Plan: move all cybersecurity to Crimson now, except secure mail (retain Barracuda and SCHARP for the time being). - Role assignments: Robert to work on antivirus; Gaston to work on the email spam solution; Sean to run security scans. - Conclusion: - Accelerate the migration of security services to Crimson immediately, keeping secure mail dual on Barracuda/SCHARP for now. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Sean to run security scans on relevant systems/users. - [ ] Robert to deploy and configure antivirus as part of the migration to Crimson. - [ ] Gaston to manage the transition of the email spam solution and secure mail configuration. - [ ] Christi to initiate and accelerate the move to KnowBe4 for security awareness training. - [ ] Coordinate deployment of Huntress for endpoints and SIEM/log ingestion from Google Workspace. - [ ] Plan migration away from Barracuda before the end of September, if feasible. - [ ] Document and communicate user guidance for verifying support requests before taking action. - [ ] Prepare a roadmap for infrastructure replacements (switches, firewalls) ahead of the April 2027 Meraki control change. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Confirm the exact monetary loss (number of gift cards and total amount) and whether any reimbursement/alerts with retailers are possible. > 2. Define a concrete timeline and owners for migrating training to KnowBe4, including user enrollment and phishing simulations. > 3. Clarify the selection between Avanan and SCHARP for secure mail long-term, including evaluation criteria and a cutover plan. > 4. Establish monitoring and alerting for potential follow-up attacks (SMS, email, phone) targeting Dr. Barber and staff. > 5. Create a detailed migration plan from Barracuda and a contingency for the Peerless/Meraki constraints through April 2027.
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:06 Hey Gaston, sorry it took me a little bit longer. Speaker 2 00:00:10 No worries. So um he got phished. Speaker 1 00:00:15 Yeah, I gathered that. Hi Robert, go away Robert, you're off. Oh sorry son. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:00:25 He got phished It's not a phishing email It's it's a phishing text, Um, he called the guy. He bought some uh gift cards and he sent it to them. Um. Oh no. Yes, um. Speaker 2 00:00:47 Okay Do we do we have anything for for clothes? Speaker 1 00:00:51 Get Hang on one second Let me Let me show him. Let me add Sean to this. Speaker 1 00:01:02 So I want Sean to run security scans. I cannot click on people and get them into this call. What is going on? Speaker 3 00:01:11 Okay, that worked. Let's see if he picks up. And let me get Anton as well. Speaker 3 00:01:32 Also, let me add Pete. Hey, uh hang on one second Anton I gotta add Pete. Speaker 3 00:02:01 How are you doing Anton? Speaker 4 00:02:05 I just want to survive until my vacation. That's it. Speaker 3 00:02:10 Well, hopefully your vacation does better than mine. Hopefully Pete picks up. Oh, there he is. Hi Pete. Hey, I have bad news rather rather than me explain it Gaston take it away. Speaker 3 00:02:33 Gaston? Are you still here? Okay. So Doctor Barber got phished. Okay. And Gaston, uh, can we hear you now? Yes. Okay, there you are. Speaker 2 00:02:54 Okay. Um he he got a phishing text and I'm guessing he like, By the way, he said it. He didn't know it was phish. It was uh this guy's as a Apple support. He got a text and he called the number. They asked him to, you know, Buy some gift cards and send it over to them, and that's what he did in the morning. And so I told him to um. Speaker 2 00:03:30 To let us know if this happens again. And if he sees any text messages that's incredibly long like a receipt, He should let us know immediately, instead of calling the number and check it out. So. Speaker 5 00:03:45 So so he bought gift cards then he sent the codes over? Speaker 2 00:03:49 Yeah. How many did he buy? How much did he spend? He bought two. He sent one to one number and another to another number. And then he said that Amazon sort of like. Let him know that he should not be doing this and he stopped. So I think he stopped after two or three. Any idea how much it cost, how much you spent? No, he didn't tell me. Speaker 5 00:04:12 Like I mean, at this point, yeah, it's already sent. It's like it's you know He got phished but I mean There's nothing compromised. It just seems he lost money right? Yeah It is what it is So. Speaker 1 00:04:27 He the reason why he got us in the This is close. This is classic. I mean, Speaker 5 00:04:33 Old school stuff. Like, We really should tell him to start taking. Are they Are, they subscribed to ourum no. Speaker 1 00:04:42 Before No, not yet. Speaker 5 00:04:45 We got to get them on that. So subscribe to it. Speaker 1 00:04:49 They're subscribed to another company, and we were supposed to move them off of that other company onto KnowBe4 when they expire from their contract, which is. Going to be in the next two months, So that process was about to start to get them into KnowBe4 rather than the other company that they're using. Speaker 5 00:05:08 And, please just you know, diplomatically ask him if he ever has something that he thinks Apple or any kind of support member asks him to do. We are happy to help him review that stuff before he takes any action. You know, be nice about it, of course, but yeah, we're happy to help him. Review that kind of stuff before he does anything like that in the future. Speaker 4 00:05:33 And usually, usually whenever you got phished by one of the vectors of the attack, they're gonna try to do it by a different one. So they're gonna try to catch him right now with the emails. Speaker 5 00:05:50 Yes, I was just gonna say the same exact thing. They're gonna try to do it with. Email. They're going to see if he's got a phone number. They're going to see if he's got other email addresses or whatever, right? They're going to look for him as a correct. Yep, So they're going to look for other things that they can do. That are similar to that too. It's not going to necessarily be gift cards, But it'll be similar kinds of things, because if they think he is I'm not trying to say he is right, but if they think that he is gullible. Speaker 5 00:06:20 And he is easily tricked. They will try to do other silly things like calling and saying, "We kidnapped your grandson and you need to wire us money," and all this kind of crazy shit, right? I mean, They just give him guidance that if he gets any kind of thing that sounds crazy. Try to try to talk to somebody and before he takes action, because, like that's the kind of crazy shit, they'll do right, they will you hear it all the time. And they take advantage of people that are want to believe the people that call them, right? I mean, they'll say we they'll have somebody that will say I'm your I'm your grandkid or your nephew or whatever. Speaker 5 00:07:12 Find and I need money. Somebody that will text and say, " T his is a cell phone that I just got because I lost my other one, And I need you to send me 300 bucks or 500 bucks to get my other cell phone out. " And then they'll send money to somebody they think is their kid or their grandkid or whatever. And just don't let them do anything like that either. Yeah. Please just urge them to not fall for anything like that because that's the next kind of thing. They'll do. And, please don't let him do anything like that with the company because that would be even more expensive. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:07:53 While we're here on the call, Christi, We need to move forward with the Avanan or SCHARP and Huntress as well because we still have the CrowdStrike on them and on the machines. Yes, Speaker 1 00:08:06 So Robert's going to be working with you on getting Huntress done. Gaston, do you want to work with them on moving from. Speaker 4 00:08:16 Barcoda to the Yes. Why I am insisting on hundreds because we're going to haven't place itgr except of the endpoints. We're going to have like CM part as well and ingesting logs from the Google workspace. Speaker 1 00:08:32 And just so that Anzor, you and Pete understand uh, Barracuda is not is not up for renewal until I mean, we're still paying monthly for it, but they're not up for renewal until the end of September. So we weren't going to move them, but I'd rather just go ahead and get it done. Now the only thing up for renewal was cyber ready, which is the their noble, their uh training. Their cybersecurity training is cyber site ready um and I had just this morning notified them that we're not renewing and I was going to start that. Speaker 1 00:09:05 Part to get him over to you. In fact, I sent their email the email to them at. Speaker 3 00:09:13 Time. Did I send it? It was this morning. Uh, Connor at well eleven thirty six a m So an hour ago. When you said he got switched, Speaker 5 00:09:30 I thought it was way worse than that. I thought he, Clicked on a phishing email and compromised their entire network or something. That was that was my first fear. What he did, what he did, What he did was bad for his pocketbook, but not bad for their not bad for the company. So I feel bad for him that that happened, but at least it didn't compromise their organization. So yeah some some training for him would be really really good. Yes. Speaker 5 00:10:02 Okay. Thanks for letting me know. Speaker 1 00:10:06 Yeah. Um, and then so Anzor, I hadn't had a chance to talk with Gaston and Robert. I was going to do that tomorrow, but Gaston you're here so you can hear it because Robert's out today. Um, We are going to go ahead and just move forward with all cybersecurity stuff to Crimson. Even even though we were waiting for contract end dates. The only thing we cannot move yet is peerless and we cannot move that until twenty seven. And so that means all of their Meraki devices can't won't go into our control until April of twenty seven. So during that time, I've already got um it into the budget to replace all the switches firewalls and everything with new systems at all the sites. Um but for now, let's just go ahead and move all. Speaker 1 00:10:56 Move all servers security with the exception of secure mail. Gaston, we don't have anything else for secure mail other than secure mail. So we'll keep that on both back and a shark. Um, so Robert will work on the antivirus. Gaston, you'll work on the uh email spam solution. Yeah. Okay? Speaker 3 00:11:17 Yeah, Thank you, Christi You're, Speaker 1 00:11:19 Welcome Uh Pete. Do you have a few more minutes I'll call you on Yeah Okay? Thanks, Yep.
07-28 Meeting: Telephony Platform Decision, PSTN Strategy, and Camp Connectivity (Starlink, SD‑WAN, Meraki)
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-28 10:29:31 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### Early Conversation: Event Etiquette and Communication Issues - Christi described a birthday cake timing conflict and perceived rudeness due to loud directives in the kitchen. - Emphasis on speaking volume, timing, and listening without interruption. - No technical or project decisions tied to this discussion. Conclusion: - Acknowledgment of the need for improved listening and pacing in communication. ### Headset and Audio Setup - Discussed headphone options: Sony XM series, Jabra, Pixel Buds. - Noted testing of device switching and preferences for noise cancellation. ### Telephony Strategy: Teams vs. GoTo - GoTo nonprofit pricing: $12.95 per seat, includes mobile app and softphone; Teams integration available through GoTo. - Christi favors Microsoft Teams due to existing Microsoft nonprofit licensing and conference room integrations. - Estimated incremental Teams licensing cost: about $4 per user. - Front desks are the current focus; conference rooms already have Teams-integrated devices. - Camp telephony requirements remain under discussion. ### PSTN and Direct Routing Options - Teams PSTN approach undecided (Microsoft Calling vs. Direct SIP Trunk Routing). - Vendor offers support for Teams direct trunk routing and SIP trunks. ### Existing Verizon–Teams Phone Setup - Approximately five Verizon devices are configured as Teams phones. - A broader migration project was previously delayed. ### Camp Connectivity: Primary and Backup Circuits - Starlink was ordered and reportedly arrived on 2026-07-27; not yet installed or connected. - Plan to remove current secondary circuits after Starlink is operational. - Goal to reduce primary circuit costs; waiting for cable infrastructure project completion to proceed. - Meraki external antennas shipped on 2026-07-27; installation pending by Kelly and Sergio. ### Site Survey and Wi‑Fi Heat Mapping - Proposed post-AP-swap site visit and detailed heat map to identify dead spots. - Ongoing issues may be device/provider-related (potential phone issues for Kelly and Alex). ### Verizon Cellular Coverage Device - Discussed option: a Verizon device (~$1,500) to improve camp-wide cellular coverage. - Targeted for inclusion in next year’s CapEx budget. ### Quotes and Approvals: Camp and Other Sites - New CFO requires multiple vendor quotes for certain activities. - Potential restructuring with Frontier for gate DIA could reduce costs (~$1,400/month). - ZeroOutages/Epic IO SD‑WAN solution favored for backup, with built-in VPN and 5G failover; prior backup costs referenced (~$800 and ~$700/month). - Expectation to resend quotes for camp’s main circuitry and backup services. ### Billing Cleanup and Circuit Cutover Validation - Duplicate AT&T and other plans are being paid directly via provider portals. - Need to centralize through TeleSystems and identify unused services (involves G2 agency and Craig). - Action to collect invoices/account numbers to correlate IPs and confirm whether Meraki cutovers occurred to new circuits. - Concern about scenarios where new circuits were installed but firewall/IP updates were not completed. ### Scheduling - Christi requested canceling the next meeting due to a personal obligation (taking child to college). ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Vendor to resend Frontier main circuit quote for the camp to Christi today. - [ ] Vendor to resend ZeroOutages/Epic IO backup/SD‑WAN and Starlink service quotes. - [ ] Christi to discuss Teams vs. GoTo direction in the internal meeting on 2026-07-28 and share next steps. - [ ] Decide on the PSTN approach for Teams (Microsoft Calling vs. Direct SIP Trunking). - [ ] Install Meraki external antennas upon receipt; Kelly and Sergio to proceed. - [ ] If issues persist after AP swaps, schedule a site visit and produce a Wi‑Fi heat map. - [ ] Evaluate and budget the Verizon cellular coverage device (~$1,500) for 2027 CapEx. - [ ] Centralize billing: Susanna to download invoices (AT&T, Spectrum, TPx, OneRing, GeoLink) and share account numbers. - [ ] Validate circuit cutovers: pull current Meraki IPs and compare with provider IPs to confirm migration. - [ ] Reach out to G2 to identify and cancel unused services. - [ ] Cancel the next scheduled vendor meeting due to the scheduling conflict. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Telephony platform decision remains open (Teams vs. GoTo with Teams integration); define evaluation criteria, timeline, and stakeholders for a decision. > 2. PSTN strategy for Teams is undecided; document pros/cons and total cost of ownership for Microsoft Calling vs. Direct Routing with SIP trunks. > 3. Starlink installation and integration plan at camp is unclear; assign a responsible party, installation date, and fallback steps. > 4. Circuit cutover verification is pending; create a checklist to confirm Meraki firewall IP updates and cable migrations across all sites. > 5. Billing cleanup requires coordination (TeleSystems vs. direct provider payments); establish a process to prevent duplicate payments and ensure decommissioning of unused circuits.
- Date
- Jul 28, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 They kept on trying to kick me out of the kitchen, which really upset me because I was thirsty and I needed water. And then I went outside for a bit to go check on my friends because they were in the middle of packing up to come inside. And then I walked back in for a second time to get a drink. And then suddenly everyone's singing happy birthday. Nothing was expressed to me saying, hey, we need you to hurry this up right now. We could not. You kept walking in and out. She was trying to express to you when you walked into the kitchen, hey, we're about to do cake. She didn't say that? And she just said, "Don, get out of the kitchen." Because we had already sent people out to say, "Hey, grab everybody. We're about to do cake." Okay? That part's not even the rude part. It's how loudly you expressed it and how you put it that is rude. Okay? And, you still have not explained to me what was so rude about how I expressed it to my friends, because my friends were equally upset. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Your friends were told to come in and they didn't do it. They waited, and were waiting for them to come in, along with everybody else because people were trying to leave, and were holding people back from leaving, which is also rude. Okay, but the rudeness that happened was how loudly, and I've said this multiple times, how loudly you expressed, I tried to make them stop. And it made when you did it the first time, it made the entire room go quiet. I don't think you noticed that. No, I did not because the entire room did not go quiet. They did go quiet. Okay? All the people because you were facing the doorway, you didn't see everybody behind you. The only people that didn't go quiet is your friends that were around you, but the look of hurt. Speaker 1 00:01:55 That was falling across Olivia and Ozzie's space the first time, and then it happened yet a second time. It's not that what you said, which also could have been slightly softened a little bit, but it's how loudly you said it. Okay? I know you're not getting it because you're naturally loud person and within your friends, y'all are all loud. Not even just that, I didn't even make you guys. I got to jump on a meeting because you keep interrupting. You just, I didn't know you weren't done with your statement. You won't even wait and check and see if I'm done, Dom? That's rude. Just give it a beat before you jump in. And, that's this is where I have issues with your listening ability. Because as soon as I take a breath, you're hopping in and not even allowing me to take an intake of air. Speaker 1 00:02:52 You need to slow down. I know you have things in your mind that you want to express, but you got to hear a person out first. I'm going to jump into my meeting. Okay, I'm going just go for a walk. There she is. She is Good morning. Speaker 2 00:03:15 Good morning Chris, how's it going? Speaker 1 00:03:17 It's good Sorry Mike couldn't figure out which headphones were going to start working this time or not. Speaker 2 00:03:26 Are You on uh AirPods or do you have uh an actual headset? Speaker 1 00:03:30 Uh Sonys. XM 6 s. Oh very nice. Yeah hang on one second. Dude. Yeah. Think about it. Just think about what I'm asking you think about what I've told you? I have. I don't think you have. You just don't care. Speaker 2 00:03:46 I feel like I need some dedicated ones for my computer. Speaker 3 00:03:51 Yeah, I have dedicated ones for my laptop that's in the other room, but I just use my Pixel Buds on this computer. Speaker 1 00:03:60 I, I have Jabra's dedicated to this workstation, But I was testing out the new Sonys or not new, they're new to me. Um, But I was testing out the Sonys trying to uh see about the switching between devices because it allowed two devices to connect. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:04:20 Yeah, I have the XM 4 s. They're pretty nice, but I just don't like the noise canceling effect that they have. Just constant pressure under your drums. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:04:31 Uh, I like these because you can set the level of noise canceling. Um, I have the X had the XM 5 s at one point, but they broke pretty quickly and it's not Sony's fault. And I am not going to explain why. Just use your imaginations. So, Speaker 2 00:04:54 Uh, well, thank you for uh accepting our invite. Um, so we have a couple of preliminary quotes. Okay. Um and one of them is from uh GoTo. Okay. So GoTo has a program for nonprofits and. Uh within this program, uh they will get a standard seat, which you know comes with quite a bit. Uh including the mobile app um and softphone, uh for twelve, ninety five a seat. Okay, uh pretty fantastic. Actually, um and so the guys on here have a couple questions just on. Speaker 2 00:05:45 Um, You know what direction you were going to go as far as the conference phones? And uh and I think they had some some questions about that. And then um before we get into that, uh Michael is very in depth with the numbers that you're using, the seats that you're using. So did you have any other questions on that list? And, You know, As far as the information that you would need uh to get your project done. Speaker 1 00:06:18 I so with what you sent me last week, um I have everything I need for the project I'm working on right now. Um however, I do have a meeting uh, probably in about an hour or two where we're going to go over a lot of this to kind of determine what are our next steps. So I haven't had a chance to actually sit down with them, but we're looking at all the options. I will be honest, Um leaning more towards Teams, uh just because of the conference systems that were put in with Al and some things that they have going on. But that's not to say which way we're actually going to be going. I, just want to give you guys a heads up on the leanings right now. Speaker 2 00:07:05 Yeah understood there, Would there be a reason that they're leaning towards Teams opposed to a different system? Speaker 1 00:07:16 Um, Right now, the cost effectiveness of it because of the licenses that they currently have in Microsoft. And they are getting Microsoft nonprofit pricing. So, um, that's one of the main reasons. Speaker 2 00:07:32 Gotcha. Okay. Um, so what what would be, The price point that Teams licensing is is coming into play. Speaker 1 00:07:42 So with Teams, the licensing is not that much more of an extra cost. I think it's like four dollars per user. And then what we're looking at is what we're doing for our front desks. Conference rooms are already covered with the devices that are in place right now because they have the Teams integration in them, and so we just right now the front desks are what we're looking at. However, that being said, we're still also discussing what is camp going to look like. Speaker 2 00:08:11 Mhm. Sure. Yeah, that makes total sense. Speaker 4 00:08:18 So one thing I do want to interject a little bit. Chris is on the GoTo system. They do have a Teams app, so you could still use Teams as like your soft client. But use Go to's like power of a system. You know, they give you a lot more call routing capabilities, a lot more capabilities than the team's basic call functionality. Yes. And then with Teams, Were you planning to do PSTN provided by Microsoft? Or were you going to bring direct trunk routing with SIP trunks? What way were you kind of leaning towards on that side? Speaker 1 00:08:53 So we have not fully discussed that. That's part of we're kind of kicking off a lot of that. In today's meeting of which way are we looking at going? And how are we going to get there. Speaker 4 00:09:03 Got it. As, we could definitely, uh, if you did kind of lean towards that way. Uh, we could definitely help you with the Teams direct trunk routing and be able to provide you the SIP trunks to the Teams environment. Speaker 1 00:09:20 Awesome, that's good to know. Speaker 4 00:09:22 Yep, we've done that before with many customers, works very well. Okay. Speaker 1 00:09:27 Uh, the other thing, the other reason why is because the Verizon phones, which actually have one here that has it. Um, We we do have uh quite a few phones already that have uh the Teams uh option in there with Verizon. And. So the calls are going The numbers that are set up on their Verizon phones are also their Teams phone. So yeah. And that was something that Kasia started a little over a year ago. So, We've got about five phones in play with that, and we were supposed to move everything over there last year, but I held off on that project. Speaker 2 00:10:09 Fantastic. So I mean the quote is obviously preliminary from GoTo. If they're already leaning towards Teams, I mean you can sign up for the TIPS program which, Obviously, we'll bring that down to twelve ninety five, And then you know, as Greg mentioned, they have that uh that Teams integration as well on the app. And um on the soft phone um app as well for uh for desktops and laptops and all that kind of stuff. So, Um okay. So that being said, I guess, we'll just wait to hear from you on the information. Uh. Speaker 2 00:10:54 Guys, did you have any questions on the specifics? Because I think. Speaker 4 00:10:58 No, it's just kind of the discussion we want to have for this was regarding, you know, the non- user phones. So it's like the cordless phones. There are some conference room phones. There are some paging adapters and door boxes. And, we just wanted to know how to quote it to say. So those are just items that you'll need to kind of be aware of. Speaker 1 00:11:18 Yes, and that this actually helps me as I'm working through, Because I was already working on some things today with it, so that actually helps me get my notes together. So. Speaker 2 00:11:33 Sounds good. Perfect, And then a couple of questions about some outstanding quotes and little projects we have going on right now, and Blake is with us as well. So we have it looks like we have some quotes for, Activity at the camp. Okay. Um, and Blake, do you want to do you want to hop in here? Speaker 3 00:12:00 Sure, sure. Hi guys. Um, Just wanted to follow up with you because I mentioned, you had mentioned that these were approved uh, but with the new CFO coming in that we're looking, you know, they're looking for multiple vendor quotes in regard to what's currently in place, you mentioned that they wanted to keep the Frontier one gate DIA. If we do do thatum. And we keep it on our under our umbrella. I'll say, um, we if it is critical to keep the same IPs, um, we have a way of doing hot cut over and doing that. Um and and just restructure the billing and getting the cost down significantly like fourteen hundred dollars a month, less than what they're being paid right now. Um so I before we went to bat on or I shouldn't say to bat. But before we get. Speaker 3 00:12:48 Involve with Frontier and get the TSD involved and everything we have to do to create that path to keeping the the ISPs. I'm sorry, the IPs. Um, I didn't know. I wanted to make sure that you know if this, if this is something that is going to be uh decided, Re decided on meaning, you had said there was approval. So I don't know if there was a another, a, a second approval that has to be done um and then also removing the secondary and implementing. Starlink in there. If we wanted to get something more. Uh uh, quotes other than zero outages quote that was already fielded. So I just wanted to kind of get the feel of what was going on there and would depend on what other quotes that we could provide on there, if any, or how we want to proceed, if at all. Speaker 1 00:13:38 So they went ahead and ordered Starlink I think it arrived yesterday uh. And the reason why they did that is because. Due to fire season and some of the other stuff that's happening up there with storms and things like that in the wintertime, They chose that Starlink was going to be a better option for them just because of line of sight. The worry is that if a fire is there, that's and Greg knows this where having been at site, But when you're looking down from the pool house and where the satellites are currently or the OneRings are. Speaker 1 00:14:16 Um, they're worried that if a fire comes through that area, they're going to lose that backup internet. Uh. So they chose to go with Starlink. However, I know it's not installed yet and I know they haven't attempted to hook it up because they have not called me. So uh, once I know what's going on I, we're gonna probably get rid of the current secondaries. So okay, Speaker 3 00:14:42 Understood, thank you. You're welcome. Speaker 2 00:14:46 And the uh the primary circuit up there. Speaker 1 00:14:50 So, the primary circuit, Um we do want to see what we can do as getting as far as getting cost reduction in there. However, We were waiting to see waiting for the project that we were doing at camp for the cable infrastructure to be complete, which, by the way, uh Muraki Muraki finally sent out the external antennas Greg. Um so they should they got shipped yesterday. Um okay so I, Uh, I know that Mark is having a difficult time with certain things. So, um, Oh yeah. Speaker 4 00:15:21 They've had a lot of issues after COVID what I've heard. Speaker 1 00:15:24 Yeah. So uh they finally shipped out yesterday. I know that uh we gave Kelly and Sergio an update. So as soon as they receive the devices, then they can they'll get those installed, and we should be good there. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:15:40 I was talking to Alex a couple weeks ago regarding it, The only thing that I would potentially would like to do, if you guys would still be open to it, is potentially after the APS all get swapped out there, Um to really go up there to do a site visit with like a heat map to really maybe see where we want to put those additional units. Um if you'd be interested in uh us helping you with that. Speaker 1 00:16:02 Okay. Let me uh talk with them and see because right now, we're in the middle of camp. So later on, Speaker 4 00:16:09 Just something I wanted to put out there. I, you know, It'd be saying, I think really good to do more of a detailed heat map. Um, to really kind of more focus on the dead spots there. Yeah. And that's only if they're still having issues though. Speaker 1 00:16:21 I think Kelly is still having issues, but she's having issues in places that you and I did not. So I'm starting to wonder if it's a phone issue for her. Speaker 4 00:16:30 Yeah, that's yeah and and the same thing for Alex too, Is it's more maybe a phone or provider issue. Speaker 1 00:16:37 Yeah, so that's something I've also uh asked them to look into. There is a device that we can get from Verizon. Uh I've already spoken with Verizon about this device, but it would allow for coverage across the entire camp. Um It cost about I think fifteen hundred dollars and they had already quoted it out for them. And it would connect directly into the systems. So, it is an option uh for them to have cell service up there on on the Verizon bandwidth. So and. Speaker 4 00:17:10 I think that would be good overall to just improve cellular coverage in the camp, just for in general to say, yes. Speaker 1 00:17:17 So that's something that we're going to look at adding to CapEx uh next year when we go through and start doing budgeting. So I mean into we're it's going to be added into the budget. Sorry, I've got like five things in my mind of that. We're adding to the budget next year for camp. So. Um. I had one more thing for you guys myself, but right now with all the projects we have going on, The main thing is we're looking over with the reports that you sent in Zach. We're looking over the phone lines for Blue Wave. Uh, we're not touching camp right now, but we may. Speaker 1 00:17:57 We may touch a couple of the other sites and change some things out. So as soon as we get that list done after today's meeting, and see what all we get done in today's meeting, we'll see. I'll give you guys a heads up on what the decisions are. At least for right now, The full phone system decision that's probably not going to be changed for a few more months because we have to go through it. And then. Speaker 1 00:18:28 You know, there's a lot of approvals that need to take place. Speaker 2 00:18:32 Sure, yeah, absolutely. And then as far as the main circuitry for the camp, do you want us to resend you that quote for that? Speaker 1 00:18:50 Uh yes. Speaker 2 00:18:52 Okay and staying on Frontier and then. Speaker 2 00:18:58 Keep it. We could with there's a way we can keep the same IPs, which would be very helpful up there. I'm sure if. Speaker 1 00:19:06 You if you resend me that today, there's actually a chance I might get that approved today. Speaker 2 00:19:11 Okay, perfect. Um yeah, because you know how these things work. Uh they're still paying for the construction that was done six years ago. So there's no need for that anymore. So. Uh, you know the the quotes that we that Blake got um are very, very competitive. So, um big savings uh for ability first up there and. Um, if they haven't set up their Starlink yet, uh we can still get that service initiated on our side from either Epic IO or. Speaker 2 00:19:53 Uh, we really like working with zero outages, just because of the uh the IP and then the VPN that's built in, and then of course the SD WAN that's built in as well. Um. So uh, it's I mean the pricing is is pretty fantastic uh for what it is especially compared to you know, the backup that you guys uh were previously using. I think it was like eight almost eight hundred dollars. It was like seven something for the previous backup circuit and so. Speaker 2 00:20:24 Um, there also is a five G backup built in there as well. So, uh, Do you want us to facilitate that quote to you again? Just so it's kind of top of mind. And top of your email? Speaker 1 00:20:34 Um, go ahead and send that as well. Um, Just so I I can sit there and have that conversation with them today or tomorrow for the for the Starlink. Um, by the way that brings up something I so, Susanna told me the other day we're still paying on duplicate uh AT and T and other plans. And so I sat down with her on Friday and had her show me. She's actually logging into the AT and T sites to pull the invoices and paying them that way. Oh So I know that like you were working with us on those, I need to get her to stop. Speaker 1 00:21:21 So yes, Speaker 3 00:21:23 Um, And that is that was where Larry had set up with that other other agency G2. Um, I am assuming I am assuming on those. Um, so we'll have to re we'll have to reach out to G2. Um, I did Craig did reach out. We did get a response back on one account. Um, that I was trying to identify because I am getting minimal from him. Um, obviously he doesn't want to let these go, but if they're not being used and it's being paid for, that's not right. So I will I will hone in further on that. Um because yeah, she's logging in directly to see everything everything's under TeleSystems that's being utilized. So anything outside of a TeleSystems bill is as you know, probably void or or not even being used. Yeah um so I will uh I will get on that today. Speaker 3 00:22:16 And I will get back to you shortly. I did send you an email with a AT&T information on it, So let me re let me pull that back up and and I'll reply with that one with further details. Speaker 1 00:22:28 Okay, perfect, and I'll give them a heads up on that as well. Speaker 2 00:22:32 And then if she's if there is any way, she could download those invoices that she's paying, they'll give us the account numbers, and then we can go through and, Work on them that way. That way, it'll make our job easy too. Yes. Speaker 4 00:22:47 The only thing I want to interject a little bit, Chris, and um have the how many sites are we talking about here? Is it one, two, three? Speaker 1 00:22:56 So let me pull up because she gave me the list, and she gave me the logins form too. Speaker 4 00:23:01 So, the only question really I have is after the new circuits were installed by Telus. Uh Telus uh I forgot the new provider. Uh has the circuits actually been cut at the Meraki. Have they been cut over to the new internet circuit? Speaker 1 00:23:15 We're going to need to find out. Speaker 4 00:23:17 Because I'm afraid it might be a scenario like Fair Oaks, about two to three weeks ago that you know, the new circuit was installed, but the cable was never moved over, and the IPs were never updated in the firewall. So, that's the only thing that I want to interject that you might want to just do a little due diligence there to confirmum it has been moved over. Speaker 1 00:23:36 Yeah. So I don't see in her list. All she has is AT&T three or six invoices from Spectrum, one TPx, one ring and GeoLink, and yeah, that's it. Speaker 4 00:23:60 If, you could send us any or all of those bills to kind of just digest it, Just to kind of and I could definitely work with Blake to kind of clean that up a little bit and maybe make a little bit more sense of it. Yeah. And then I, it's really too, I just wanted to make sure, though, that you know, we have migrated to the new service and the old ones can be canceled too. Speaker 1 00:24:19 Yes. And, let meum I'll get with my team to at least pull you the IP addresses that are currently in use on Meraki. Speaker 4 00:24:30 Yeah, cause then at least we could. Cause uh if you give me the AT&T bills, I definitely call AT&T get the IPs on those circuits. And then we could kind of correlate. Hey wait, we're still using the old IPs. Speaker 1 00:24:41 Yeah. Yep. Let me uh I know Gabby is out for the next few weeks, um but let me let me see if Kevin can do that for us. Speaker 4 00:24:53 Perfect. Yeah If, you send me that information I'll be more than happy to go through it. And and I'll let you know if I see any issues or concerns. I will. Speaker 2 00:25:04 Awesome, thank you, Chris. We'll uh, we'll get those quotes uh for zero outages over uh to you for the camp. And then just for the service ofum uh the Starlink. Uh obviously it'll have to be installed as well. Uh which. Speaker 2 00:25:26 I am sure Greg feels comfortable doing since he knows that place inside and out. Craft. Speaker 4 00:25:33 Building, I am good. Speaker 2 00:25:34 Yeah, So and then, of course, the main circuitry for for the camp up there as well. So we'll we'll facilitate both those. We might I don't know if they've been expired or not, So we might have to update them, but we'll get you. Uh, we'll get you what we have right now. Speaker 1 00:25:54 Okay perfect. Speaker 2 00:25:56 Wonderful. All right, anything else? Speaker 1 00:25:60 Um, Do you guys mind if I cancel our next meeting that I have set up for you guys? I have a conflict on that day. Speaker 2 00:26:09 Sure. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:26:10 Okay, perfect. Um There's a lot going on here. So I just wanted to put that question in for you guys. Uh, really quickly becauseum. I will be out of the office that day taking my child to college. Speaker 2 00:26:28 Ooh, happy and sad day at the same time? Yes. Um, So feel free to to lean on us Christi on on anything uh you need done or or quotes or or whatever we're, you know very much here and very much able to step in uh and help at any moment. Speaker 1 00:26:48 Awesome thank you. Speaker 2 00:26:50 You're welcome. Speaker 2 00:26:52 All right. Speaker 1 00:26:53 Thanks, guys. Have a great day. You too. Speaker 2 00:26:55 Have a great day, everybody. Bye- bye.
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07-13 Meeting: IT Productivity Metrics, Budget Finalization, Tool Consolidation, and Inventory Reconciliation
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- > Date: 2026-07-13 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Olivia] [Sergio] [Christi] [Pete] [Speaker 5] [Kashif] ## Meeting Notes ### **Team Performance and Productivity** - **Defining Metrics:** The team discussed the urgent need for better productivity metrics to identify underperforming team members. Pete raised concerns that high average ticket times are skewed by long-running tasks like onboardings, which may include unproductive "watching" time. He wants to measure the activity of staff who handle low call volumes and establish benchmarks for different ticket types to identify outliers, drawing a comparison to real-time call center metrics. - **Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):** Christi suggested using BrightGauge and "Nilear Time Machine" to get a clearer picture of technician performance, recounting a past success in improving a tech's padded ticket times. Olivia suggested tracking "average time worked on a ticket" and "same-day resolution." Christi identified three key metrics to improve urgency: "same-day resolution rate per user," "average time worked," and "average time to plan." Olivia noted a tech's same-day resolution rate seemed low for a Level 1 role. - **Ticket Ownership:** For escalated tickets, Olivia clarified that the person who resolves the issue gets credit, based on the "resolved by" flag, not the "closed by" flag. For onboarding tickets, ownership should go to the person who did the most work. - **Staff Performance Issues:** Christi expressed frustration with incorrect staff entries, primarily from Cobi, which resulted in 17 unassigned computers and 33 unassigned devices needing to be addressed. ### **IT Budget, Cost Savings, and Contract Management** - **Budget Finalization:** Kashif requested Christi to finalize the IT budget and send it in his preferred worksheet format by July 13, 2026, to complete the FY27 budget. He expects final numbers for the prior year's budget by August 15, with preliminary updates sooner. - **Cost Savings Clarification:** A misunderstanding with Dr. Barber was discussed, who believed outsourcing saved only $100,000. Christi clarified this figure was her year-to-date estimate for being under budget in FY26, which included severances. Kashif requested a detailed analysis of actual cost savings for FY27 and asked Christi to clarify the misunderstanding with Dr. Barber. - **Redundant Services and Consolidation:** The team is reviewing IT services to eliminate redundancies. Several services are marked for non-renewal: - **Terminating:** CrowdStrike EDR, LogMeIn (exp. Nov), Trellix/TrelloX (exp. Aug), Box (exp. Sep), Barracuda (moving to Avanan in Dec). - **Expired/Removed:** McAfee. - **Reduced/Changed:** Zoho (moved to free tier). - **Retained:** Synology (until next year), Management Engine for AD (minimal use). - Kashif emphasized eliminating file storage overlap between Azure, G Suite, Box, OneDrive, and the on-prem server. A migration from Box to Google Drive has started. - **TimeZest Review:** The tool's usage has dropped to only five times in the last month, costing $557/month. Pete noted it wasn't on the Crimson Contracts list and wants to cancel it to save over $6,000 annually unless a user can strongly justify its need. Christi noted it's also used via a link in new ticket emails, but the team is not enforcing its use. - **Google Accounts Overspend:** Christi reported that due to a missing litigation hold setup, approximately 190 unnecessary Google accounts were kept active, leading to overpayment for about 200 extra users. Kashif requested detailed data to address the overspend. ### **Tools, Automation, and Infrastructure** - **Invoice and Payment Automation:** Christi described struggles with manual invoice processing, leading to delays and late fees. To resolve this, Kashif plans to switch the organization to SAP Concur for invoice and payment automation, targeting a go-live date of January 1. - **New Automation Tools (PIA):** Olivia introduced PIA, an automation product she saw at Evolve, describing it as more user-friendly than Roost with the ability to connect to 365 and push scripts. Christi likes PIA, but a previous evaluation was shut down by the former CEO, Anzor, over cost concerns. PIA has functionality similar to Thread, which is only used for one customer. - **In-House Automation:** Christi stated that much automation could be done with homegrown solutions within ConnectWise, which she has used for personal time-saving automations. She is working on an onboarding/offboarding process for AbilityFirst. However, she noted ConnectWise is less user-friendly for automation than more expensive PSAs like ServiceNow or Halo. - **On-Prem Infrastructure Decommissioning:** The plan is to decommission the colo by the end of the year (December 31) and move everyone from Synology backups to Datto. Limited on-prem AD and file servers remain in use. - **Telephony Issues:** The current call routing from TPX to Peerless is considered problematic. However, multiple Peerless contracts run until May 2027, constraining any immediate changes. ### **PC Inventory and Billing** - **Inventory Reconciliation:** Kashif demanded a full analysis and reconciliation of the PC inventory. A recent bill showed 394 PCs, but he wants a user-level mapping to stop paying for non-existent or unmanaged devices. Discrepancies exist due to legacy info, and approximately 80 computers are in the office awaiting deployment. Inventory system numbers fluctuate, and some staff installs are delayed. - **Billing Model:** Christi proposed a banded payment model, but for the current cycle, billing is at a flat rate for "three ninety four" units. Kashif is not comfortable with this number without a detailed analysis to validate it. ### **Leadership and Communication** - **Leadership Change:** Christi informed Kashif that Anzor is no longer CEO but still owns the company, and Pete appears to be the acting CEO. Kashif wants to meet Pete to align on their working relationship. - **Meeting Cadence:** Christi holds recurring meetings on Mondays to cover tickets, budgets, and other issues. Kashif asked to be included in these meetings. - **Communication Logistics:** Due to poor call quality (Kashif was on Starlink at sea), video was turned off. Kashif agreed to CC Christi on Verizon-related tickets for visibility. - **Historical Document Access:** Kashif requested credentials for Gary Liu’s email and file access to retrieve historical documents for Dr. Barber. ## Next Arrangements - **Budget and Finance:** - [ ] Christi to finalize the FY27 budget and send it to Kashif in his worksheet format by 2026-07-14. - [ ] Christi to deliver a formatted cost breakdown (current costs, expirations, savings) to Kashif. - [ ] Christi to brief Dr. Barber on the FY26 budget clarification and outsourcing savings. - [ ] Kashif to provide a preliminary budget update by the end of the current week and final numbers by August 15. - [ ] Send calendar invite for 2026-07-27 at 10:00 or 11:00 to review the monthly billing breakdown. - **Tools and Contracts:** - [ ] Olivia is to ask in the next L10 meeting if anyone absolutely needs TimeZest and to justify its use. - [ ] April needs to add the TimeZest vendor contract to the Crimson contracts list. - [ ] Kashif to contact SAP Concur to initiate onboarding, targeting a January 1 go-live. - **Performance and Productivity:** - [ ] Olivia to put together four KPIs for technician performance and create a dashboard to provide visibility. - [ ] Pete, Christi, and Olivia to meet at 1:30 PM on July 13, 2026, to discuss the "Time Machine" tool. - **Inventory and Infrastructure:** - [ ] Christi to deliver a full PC/user inventory analysis, including anomalies, disposal recommendations, and reconciliation with the 394 billing count. - [ ] Continue Box-to-Google Drive migration. - [ ] Plan and execute decommissioning of on-prem servers/colo by December 31 and consolidate backups to Datto. - **Communication and Administration:** - [ ] Schedule and confirm a meeting with Pete (acting CEO) for alignment. - [ ] Christi will add Kashif to the recurring Monday noon meetings. - [ ] Kashif will CC Christi on Verizon-related tickets going forward. - [ ] Christi to send Gary Liu’s username and password to Kashif for document access. - [ ] James to scan and email required invoices (e.g., Verizon) promptly per Christi’s requests. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. **Productivity Metrics:** The team lacks a concrete plan to formally implement the productivity metrics and ticket benchmarks that Pete requested. It is unclear who is responsible for defining these standards. > 2. **Tooling Decisions:** The decision on whether to adopt PIA for automation was not made. A clear plan for evaluating PIA against current tools and in-house solutions is needed. The banded payment model for PCs also needs defined thresholds and documented approval. > 3. **Inventory and Data Reconciliation:** PC and user counts are not consolidated into a single source of truth. A structured cadence for inventory reconciliation and a deployment schedule for unmanaged PCs are needed. The exact meaning of the “three ninety four” flat rate is also unclear. > 4. **Cost and Process Governance:** The Google account overspend requires a corrective action plan (owners, timelines). A formal process is needed to prevent payments without proper approvals (which Concur may solve). A telephony remediation plan is needed for the TPX-to-Peerless routing issues. > 5. **Strategic Planning:** The on-prem decommissioning requires a detailed plan with system dependencies and owners. The requested meeting with Pete needs to be scheduled with a defined agenda to clarify leadership roles.
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- Jul 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:29 Oh, Hello again. Oh, hello again. I am just putting down my blinds or else. I will look like a ghost. Speaker 2 00:01:22 We're just waiting for Pete. He didn't call. Speaker 3 00:01:30 Sorry, I'm I'm annoyed right now with something. Oh really? What are you annoyed with? It's that issue from Cobi where he didn't put people in correctly. Was. Speaker 1 00:01:43 It just him or was it everybody? Speaker 3 00:01:45 He was the majority. There was one by Riddick, uh one or two by Caleb. Where like it was half put in, half baked. Uh, only one from Riddick or not was is it Riddick? Let me double check something. I don't remember who it was. Speaker 1 00:02:03 Cause, maybe it just needs like maybe the task list needs to specifically say it. It says and it doesn't. It does? Speaker 3 00:02:13 Yeah, at least the last time I checked. Speaker 3 00:02:17 Okay, I don't want to go smack him around for it, but it's like he was the majority offender. Yeah. And we already know that he does it. But I have 17 unassigned computers but 33 unassigned devices and I'm trying to, I got to figure out before end of day where they go because I've got to go in and update systems. Speaker 3 00:02:52 Oh, Pete's here. Hey, Pete. Hello, Speaker 4 00:02:55 Pete. Good morning. Speaker 1 00:03:04 Good morning. Okay, So this meeting essentially I wanted to talk about automation a little bit. And then we said we were going to talk about productivity slash like time machine. I know that you kind of went over it last week though Chris so, Not sure if we have more to discuss there. Specifically with automation, Chris, I was telling Pete that I really at Evolve. I liked PIA like they showed us their like product. And I really liked it. It looked a lot more user friendly than like Roost for example. Speaker 1 00:03:48 Um, it looks like it connects to um three sixty five obviously, And then also like puts a little mini agent on devices so that they can like push scripts and stuff, which would help. Like if we move RMM, then we ideally this is how it works in my head. I am not sure how this out it works in like actual, but um yeah, it wouldn't be like such a big deal if we moved RMMs. Speaker 1 00:04:18 Uh, if we had like a bunch of scripts and stuff. So I guess my question here is, what do you think about PIA? Speaker 3 00:04:27 I like PIA. Um, I had asked Anzor when he was like," Let's get rid of Bruce," was like," Can we look at PIA?" And he was like," No." I am not doing this. Um. So that's the only reason why I never got to move forward with it. Um but at that time he was very much into, Stripping as much cost as possible. Um, and you remember that that was right before Pete came along, and he was like, "We're we're getting rid of anything and everything that we're not going to use." Um, And at that point, he was talking about getting rid of uh TimeThrift, which you were you were religiously using it at that point, um a few other applications. And we had to. We had to almost threaten to quit on him at one point if. Speaker 3 00:05:16 He continued knocking things out that we were actively using, so um. And then he turned around and gave us Thread. Speaker 1 00:05:26 Well, I guess that's also a kind of a topic of conversation because PIA does Thread type, same exact thing you know, They don't do it on Slack. But at the moment, we only have one customer on Slack, which is BI. Yeah. So. We could potentially get rid of that cost from Thread? And like you mentioned TimeThrift too. I've been looking at our usage of TimeThrift, and it's just like we're not using it enough. I love it. Yeah, we're not using it enough to make use of it. So technically. Speaker 3 00:06:01 When Ian left, Our usage dropped because I think Ian was the only one really using it, and I haven't shown it to Robert or Gaston yet. Speaker 1 00:06:08 Yeah, and Becker and Moritz use it as well but like that's about it. Speaker 3 00:06:12 Yeah, um, I wouldn't mind getting rid of TimeThrift to save on the cost. I I like it if people actually use it, but it's another one of those issues that we were talking about earlier today. Staff have too much, and they're just not using things like if we tried to say, hey, you got to put this in exact, they just don't do it. I don't know if it's they're just not paying attention to details or they just don't care. Um Pete, We were talking about an issue we had earlier before you came along, where we were trying to use ConnectWise Inventory. It was easy to use, But nobody would update it because they were just used to grabbing and going with with devices and cables. And things like that and not putting it against a ticket. And it was a struggle, and that's why that closet was we could not get it done. And I just basically gave up at that point because it was me and Olivia. ; no one was backing us up. So um. Speaker 3 00:07:11 I'd say TimeThrift's not getting used. Let's get rid of it. But PIA, I like. I have liked it. I'm still getting hit up with PIA on things. I mean, they're everywhere. I turn around, but the demos I've had, it looked nice and when Anzor had asked me, well can't you just create this in Azure? You know we attempted but I don't have the timing to do that. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:41 Well, and Pia has like a bunch of like community, like you know they add to like their marketplace or whatever the terminology is, you know. Some yeah. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:07:54 So what could we get rid of? What did you say is not being used? Speaker 1 00:07:58 TimeZest. Christi gonna kill me, but I really do think that we could switch out Plaud for Plaud if that like actually works, how it's supposed to. Speaker 3 00:08:10 Yeah, so Pete, let me show you real quick what TimeZest is. I use it, But I don't use it anymore because I don't have a reason to use it. I don't work with clients as much. But TimeZest is this pod right here, And basically, the dispatchers can go in and say, hey, this ticket's assigned to team A. We want to set up a well, actually let me rephrase. A technician could go in here and type in their name here. Remove that. And if we called a client and we couldn't get a hold of them, we could do a callback. It'll send them an email, send the staff, the employee an email or a scheduling request. And then the employee can go in. It's kind of like Calendly where they can select a time with us that's open on our ConnectWise calendar. Speaker 3 00:09:08 To actually talk with them, Speaker 4 00:09:12 How much does anybody use this now? Do we know? Speaker 3 00:09:17 Not enough. That's what we were saying. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:09:20 Yeah, but do we know or are we speculating or do I know for sure? Speaker 3 00:09:25 Yeah, there is a dashboard. Dispatchers can also use it with a group of staff and have a client actually set up time. It worked when dispatchers are using it. It works when staff use it, but they're not getting trained on using it anymore. And I haven't been as diligent about it. Um, and honestly with everyone's schedules lately with tickets, it doesn't work because our texts are scheduled multiple days out. You know, then the the users are getting frustrated with that. Speaker 1 00:10:03 Yeah so last month we already we only used it five times. Speaker 4 00:10:07 And who you can you tell who used it? Speaker 1 00:10:11 Uh, yeah, Monti and Becker. Yeah. And And Sean. Sean did it. Speaker 4 00:10:18 Who who uh are are they an independent company? Or are they part do we get this as part of something or We. Speaker 3 00:10:25 Get a slight discount because we're part of Evolve membership or at least we did when I when we first put it together, Speaker 4 00:10:32 Well, the reason I'm asking is because I'm in the Crimson, Contracts list and I don't see TimeZest listed. So is it under something else? Do we get it through? Speaker 1 00:10:47 No, should be through TimeZest. Speaker 3 00:10:49 Yeah, it was coming out of like we're directly paying TimeZest. Yeah, cause I I used to get the invoice. Speaker 4 00:10:58 So, maybe it's just maybe it's just not on the list because it's maybe maybe they just missed it, but. I'm trying to figure out, do we have a contract? When does it end? How much do we pay? I don't know any of that information, but. Speaker 1 00:11:11 So we pay five hundred and fifty seven dollars per month for this. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:11:18 For three people to use it five times. Speaker 1 00:11:21 Yeah, yeah. We used to use it a lot more often. Speaker 4 00:11:24 I get it That's what I no, I get it But I mean how I want to know how soon because what I would like you to do Olivia at your next L10, just ask. Does anybody absolutely use this? Because if it goes away like at the end of the month, does anybody really absolutely need it? And if so, justify why you need it. Because if they don't, I want it to go away. That saves us six thousand dollars a year. Speaker 1 00:11:50 Yeah. Yeah. Well and it's based on like who It's based on users, so if we got rid of a bunch of users, it would be a lot cheaper as well, you know? Speaker 4 00:11:60 If we got rid of what? Speaker 1 00:12:01 Like a bunch of users. Yeah So like, If, Monti and BAFMA. And you know, a couple, other people are the only people who use it, we can remove everybody else and then just keep them. And then it would be like a lot cheaper. Yeah, but four users. Speaker 4 00:12:16 Is not just getting rid of the whole thing. Speaker 3 00:12:18 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, The only other way we use it is we do have it as a link going out on. Hey, you opened a ticket with us to get faster service. Please click this link and schedule a time. And people do use it through that. Speaker 3 00:12:33 So, yeah. Sorry, my cough is sounding better, so ignore the coughs. Speaker 1 00:12:45 As I say that, I see Monti just sent one out. Like, yeah. Speaker 4 00:12:50 So is that two words? TimeZest? Speaker 3 00:12:53 One word altogether. Speaker 3 00:13:04 Like it's cool, we're just not enforcing it. Speaker 1 00:13:08 Yeah, And they just came out with like a auto dispatch or like a dispatch and triage function that they've been reaching out to me about, which doesn't necessarily help us now that we're creating our own. So it's like that would have been great like years ago. But um. Speaker 4 00:13:29 So getting back to the question at hand um. Speaker 4 00:13:40 Should we go with Plaud or not? And in the meantime, Is there anything else we can be doing for productivity and or automation in the meantime? Speaker 3 00:13:53 We don't have the connections to fully automate the way we could within ConnectWise. We did get rid of a bunch of those connections. And so right now, There's a lot we could do without even buying Plaud. We could we could do some homegrown stuff, so it's not hard to set up at all. I have automation set up because Anzor never killed my API access. He's threatened to, but he hasn't. So I've got automation set up for me personally, that is saving me a lot of time and ones that I have on a list that I haven't even got to setting up. Um, there is and I was working on an automation through my personal account. Speaker 3 00:14:37 To set up an automation for AbilityFirst to test out some automation in onboarding and offboarding, just as a trial thing. Where ConnectWise would connect with Active Directory or Azure Active Directory in AbilityFirst M365 environment and create the user accounts for us. So that because we're having an issue getting them set up properly. And that's because, They are not putting in department and title and the information we need for uh finance that needs to happen. So it it's actually caused some issues in the last couple weeks on the finance side. So I was exploring how to do that. There is a way for us to easily do it um, but it is time consuming to do it individually for all clients, and Plaud would actually cut down on that issue. Um. Speaker 3 00:15:37 With that being said, there's a few things we could do, but I will be honest. ConnectWise does not make it as easy as other PSAs to run automations. It just doesn't. So and it is a known fact like ConnectWise knows that it's hard. So Oh, Speaker 1 00:15:57 For sure, Pete, did you ask April about a signed contract with TimeZest? Speaker 4 00:16:01 Yeah? Why is she asking? You know, Speaker 1 00:16:03 She asked me and Christie. Speaker 4 00:16:09 Yep. I told her I was in Crimson Boss looking for the vendor contract, and it's not there. Can she get it added? Speaker 2 00:16:15 Oh, okay. Speaker 4 00:16:17 That's so funny. I. Speaker 3 00:16:20 Don't know. Yeah, I mean, not to be unfair, but moving to ServiceNow or Halo would be so much better than ConnectWise. We know this, but we're not going to be doing that so. Speaker 4 00:16:33 But ServiceNow is so expensive that yeah, Speaker 3 00:16:37 You know, I should have it. It is very expensive. Speaker 4 00:16:40 So what? So without completely switching gears Olivia, because I know Pia is very important to you, but I need to get some immediate productivity information on people that's gonna that's gonna not get to me fast enough with even if we go to Pia, how can I get where I need to be? Speaker 3 00:17:04 Soon. What are you looking for to do? Let me ask that. Speaker 4 00:17:07 I want to find out who's who is carrying their weight and who's not. And what and what I mean by that is, I want to get some numbers that show like how much like when we say. So for instance, Olivia is producing average ticket times. Our average ticket times are way too high. Now, there's probably certain things that are skewing those numbers, right? There's probably some tickets, for instance. And I don't know Olivia if this goes into your numbers, but if onboardings are going into those figures, That's got to be skewing numbers because onboarding tickets just the few that we looked at. And I know I keep going back to this but. Speaker 4 00:17:56 Certain onboarding and offboarding tickets are taking eight and ten hours, and I think some of those are BS. But what I can't figure out and what I don't know how to measure is, and I am going to just pull a name out of a hat, right? And I am not accusing anybody because I am making this up. But let me just say if Ronell says, "I am offboarding this person," and I charge or I am onboarding this person, and I've And I charge four hours to setting up this computer, but three hours I am sitting there watching this computer install patches. I shouldn't be charging those three hours. I should be kicking that off and going and doing something else while the computer is doing that, right? How do I measure that? The computer technically is doing something, but I shouldn't be sitting there watching it do it. I should be doing that in the background while I am doing something else. Yeah. And. Speaker 4 00:18:56 I need to be able to know that, right? But I don't know how to know that. When the other person, George or Kobe or Caleb or whoever else is doing an onboarding, Does that and goes and kicks it off and then goes and does another ticket while the computer is doing its patches. And technically is being much more productive while this other person is not. But I got to be able to measure that because the managers need to know that information. That's one example. Another example is, you know, If I got somebody who's supposed to be logged in, but they only for jams, but they only get five calls a day. What are they doing the rest of the time? How can I measure that? Speaker 1 00:19:41 Mhm. Well okay, they're all going to be like different gauges right? Exactly. Speaker 4 00:19:49 And and that's why when when Chris says, what do I want to know? I need to know all these different scenarios. But what I really need is, I need the managers to measure this. And if they're not getting the reports or they're not taking the time to measure this, Then I may have three out of twenty people that aren't carrying their weight or screwing around or have a second job that are not doing their jobs here. And I either need to fix that or get rid of them or hire somebody else. But, what I'm going to hear in the meantime is we don't have enough people to do our tickets. Speaker 4 00:20:22 And that's not the solution, and that's not the problem. The problem is I have two or three people that have another job, And I am paying them to not do the job they are supposed to be doing. So, I've got to fix that, and I don't have the visibility to it that I need. Speaker 1 00:20:39 Okay, So let me share my screen with, like the dashboard to just kind of get an idea of. What kind of KPIs are we looking for, And then I can put it all into like one dashboard. So you could see everybody's at once. Speaker 4 00:20:53 Because Chris, let me tell you, and I've told Olivia this: like in my past lives, the help desks that I managed were much more call center based. Yes, So I had metrics real time that I could tell these people were logged into the queue. The queue was a first was a was a most. Speaker 4 00:21:14 The most time they had available, they were the next in queue to get a call. So I could always manage that, right? It was much more easily managed. And if somebody was logged out for too long, I had those metrics. If somebody wasn't logged in enough, if somebody had high abandon rates, it was really easy to manage that. And I could get rid of the people that were not productive. I could get rid of the people that had too long a talk time, that had too long a busy time. Lots of really easy metrics to deal with. But here, I got remote people that are doing tickets that I can't manage as easily because I don't have the supervisors doing it as actively as they should. And I don't have the metrics that I need. So, I need to develop those that I don't have. Speaker 3 00:21:55 So, Our phone system doesn't do that because that was the first thing I wanted when i came in because i had been on the ShoreTel call center for twelve years. Speaker 4 00:22:04 Yeah, but our people don't log but our people aren't taking calls either. So, we got to have a different way to measure it in tickets and ticket, volume and ticket and ticket metrics. And if people like, we should have a way to say, okay, the typical L1 ticket should take thirty minutes or whatever. And then anything that's outside those boundaries, we should be able to look at and say, why was it? And a typical L2 tickets should take X. And a typical onboarding should take X. Speaker 4 00:22:36 And then at least we can set boundaries, And then we can start looking at the ones that fall outside the boundaries or something. But we've got nothing right now, and all we say is our average ticket time is ninety minutes, which is just ludicrous. Speaker 3 00:22:51 Yeah, we have. Speaker 2 00:22:54 I am sorry. Speaker 3 00:22:55 Oh go Chris. Sorry um so just, A quick heads up, we've built out a bunch of gauges, which I hadn't seen this one because things have changed. I haven't been in BrightGauge in almost two years now. But there's a bunch Pete, do you have access to BrightGauge? Mhm. Okay. There's a bunch that we've done to set up like I had set up a bunch of client items, uh quarterly business review. Olivia's jumped in and set up a bunch of gauges. Um, they're like one of the ones down at the bottom of the list is C-level individual. Speaker 3 00:23:29 And I can go in and see all the reports I needed for techs at the time, And I could actually filter it by single techs, and then determine who is who is my buffer. We so just between the three of us, we had a massive issue with George when I first came on. Like all of his tickets were either padded weren't being, you know, time was higher, and. And I had to have a sit down conversation with him and compare him to other techs and say, "Hey, this is an issue here. You are spending forty five minutes on a printer installation per ticket, and it's not just a you know here and there; it's it's a lot." And we had to go through and say, "Why is it this way?" Um, and then have a conversation of how he was padding. And then things massively improved with him, and he became one of my top techs. Um. Speaker 3 00:24:26 So all of these are on here, but Pete, if you if you combine this with Nilear Time Machine, This is how we've gotten a clear picture in the past of who are our problem techs and who are our good techs. And building it out with both of these just made my life a lot easier in that way. Sorry, I didn't mean to monopolize. Speaker 1 00:24:49 No, you're all good. Um. Speaker 1 00:24:53 So I was just going to say, so here is some of our like tech dashboards at the moment. What we have, this Ronell's. So this how many tickets are assigned to Ronell, how many tickets have not been updated in more than three days. So but the big ones right, like average amount, what is this? Average time it takes to get a ticket to resolution. He's at like eighteen hours. Um but see this isn't necessarily even just Like this one, I think it was a bunch of people's time. Okay, anyways, I'm getting off track. So maybe like average average time to resolution because if that's really high, clearly there could be a potential padding. Um and then average time worked on a ticket. We want that to be like lower the lower, the better. So this one I think is a good one too. Um. Speaker 1 00:25:48 Same day resolution, like L1s should have a higher same day resolution than L3s, for example, right? Because they're getting those escalated tickets. This I would say is really low for Ronell. For someone who's taking calls and 'cause he's not necessarily an escalation point. Um And then And then it's not on here. I don't think No it's not. Speaker 4 00:26:16 So when we have a ticket that gets escalated, do we have the ability to when when it gets closed, who does it get closed under eventually? The person that originally had it assigned to them? Speaker 1 00:26:29 No, the escalation. Why? Whoever resolved the issue will get credit for that ticket. You and I talked about this, remember? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:26:44 Unless it's an onboarding, in which case the person who did the most work should then be the ticket owner. Speaker 3 00:26:52 And remember, This is the resolved by flag Pete and not the closed by flag because that's going to be a different person. Speaker 1 00:26:59 And not the what? Closed by. So like closed by oftentimes will be like me or Charles or Chris, somebody who's like actually closing that ticket. Speaker 4 00:27:08 I'm trying to figure out how we get, People to care about urgency. Because if the person that gets the ticket assigned originally has, has the the responsibility of getting it closed quickly, maybe they'll have more incentive to get it closed more quickly. Speaker 1 00:27:29 So there's three. We could add like a oh sorry, I'm sorry Chris. I was going to say we could add like an SLA, like how quick how often they're they're. resolving their tickets within SLA because I feel like we don't necessarily, we've never really necessarily like focused on SLA for techs. We did, Speaker 3 00:27:49 But only so this is how sorry I was about to cough at the same time. There's three different thingum that will I would run by with a team to get them to understand the urgency. One was same day resolution rate. Per user, one was the average time worked, and the other one was average time to plan. How long it took for them to pick it up and work. And that one was for the dispatch team mostly, But we still looked at it for the techs because some techs would just they see the ticket come in, and then they bump it to the next day. So, those were the three keys that I would use for the techs to get them to actually like step it up. Speaker 3 00:28:37 The same day resolution with some people, I really use that for my on phone techs, because at the time, we had more techs on the phone peak. And, then all of a sudden they asked for me to send all the phone calls to Olivia. Speaker 2 00:28:54 Which was terrible. Speaker 3 00:28:56 Yes, it was a terrible idea. I fought that didn't work, then they figured out how terrible it was. So Okay. Speaker 1 00:29:07 So let me get my notebook. And now, of course, Speaker 4 00:29:12 I'm late for another call that I have to go to. But we've got to get we got to solve this. I keep having a 30 minute meeting and we get this far and then we get nowhere. Speaker 1 00:29:22 So yeah Well, Let me put together those those four KPIs. And then see is that what you're looking for? Speaker 4 00:29:32 But, we were also supposed to look at what is it time machine or whatever? Yeah, look. I'm supposed to look at that. I don't have time to do it right now, Speaker 3 00:29:40 But can we do that for this afternoon? Speaker 4 00:29:41 Can, we do the. Speaker 3 00:29:44 Time machine during the one on one with you and I? Speaker 4 00:29:48 Do we have time this afternoon? Speaker 3 00:29:50 You and I have a one on one. We could use. Speaker 4 00:29:54 Are you free at 1:30, Olivia? Yeah. Or I'm free at 2:30 either way. Speaker 3 00:30:00 I'm not free at 2:30. I have a Kevin Thomas. Speaker 4 00:30:03 Let's do the let's do 1:30. I'll add you to our one- to- one with Chris. Speaker 3 00:30:07 Okay, perfect. Okay, all right, okay, Speaker 1 00:30:09 Thanks guys. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:30:10 Have a good one. Speaker 5 00:32:26 Hey Christi, how you doing. Speaker 5 00:32:51 Christi, You there. Speaker 3 00:33:13 Hey, good morning. Speaker 5 00:33:15 Hey, how you doing? Welcome back. Speaker 3 00:33:18 Thanks. It's my second full week back. My energy levels have come up, But I still sound like I am coughing like a eighty year old man with chronic COPD from the oxygen. Oh, okay. Well, Speaker 6 00:33:30 I am glad you are getting better. Yeah yeah We're counting on it. You are getting better, though Good good, good, good. Speaker 3 00:33:35 Good to hear that I and I've lost a significant portion of weight in the last three weeks because of this. Speaker 6 00:33:43 That's Always a good thing. That's not a bad thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. I am glad to hear. Well, I am glad you are doing better on your back. So. Speaker 3 00:33:51 Yeah, I missed everybody. I was I was chomping at the bit to come back to the office earlier, but they wouldn't let me. Speaker 6 00:33:60 Yeah no that you've got to listen to me. Is this your your body is telling you something is wrong? Rest it off. That's the only thing you can do not work is not going anywhere. So. It's there. So, all right, well good. Well I'm I'm sitting somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea. Oh. Uh cruising along the way to uh Italy right now. Yes. Uh we're going to be so today is sea day. So I'm working all day today. So I've been working since this morning. So it's been nice been good when yeah, when we get the sea days I get to you know it's hot and humid outside even on sea is hot and humid. Speaker 6 00:34:41 So it's it's so it's amazing the weather is so different over here, so I'm I'm just in my room. My girls and everyone are outside. They're doing their thing, but, I'm uh I'm just hanging out in the room, just catching up with emails and finishing up my work. So nice of um I'm glad that we can talk. It won't it won't take us an hour. This probably take only ten fifteen minutes of our time. I, just wanted to to talk to you about the IT budget that you were working on. I wanted to get that finalized and, Can you send me something today? Cause I can. Speaker 3 00:35:12 Yeah, cause I I have my stuff. I just need to put it over into your worksheet that you like. Yeah, that's that's the only mistake I've made. I just i thought i put it together, i named the worksheet the same thing and then I looked at them like, that's that's not what costs supposed to be So yeah, So cause i did it before i got sick. Speaker 6 00:35:29 So No no worries yeah That could yeah So if you can get me that, That would be good because i want to try to get the F Y twenty seven budget completed while i'm here. Okay. So, cause I get I'm getting no disturbance, right? I'm getting a lot of a lot of uh personal time, so I can wrap everything up. Okay. So the IT budget if you can get me that. Um Then the second item was review the cost savings. Okay, So I was talking to Doctor Barber. And and I, guess you shared with him something that showed that the cost savings of outsourcing is only a hundred thousand dollars a year? No. Speaker 3 00:36:09 That's not what I had said. Speaker 6 00:36:13 Okay, that's the way he understood it, so I wanted to make sure. Speaker 3 00:36:17 So i I said," Hey, heads up." Based on year to date actuals that I've gotten. And this was this was a few months ago.), I said it looks like that i can estimate that we are going to be about a hundred thousand under budget for this month or for this year. And that was still in fiscal year twenty twenty six, so I don't remember if that was in May or early June. Speaker 5 00:36:40 Oh, okay. Speaker 3 00:36:41 Yeah, I said now budget. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:36:44 Yeah go ahead, go ahead, Speaker 3 00:36:46 So that was actuals. And that included the severance packages because you okay, yeah. So I, Speaker 6 00:36:53 Okay. So he misunderstood that I think the way he took it was that the savings of outsourcing. It's only a hundred thousand, not more than that. So I think we need to revisit that as well. We have to take a now take a look at um so I can explain that to him that it's versus budget for the year. You're going off of that. It's a hundred thousand. And considering all the severances and everything included, it's a hundred you're still saving money. You're still saved uh in doing that um. But at the same time, we. Speaker 6 00:37:30 Want to be able to identify what is the actual cost savings looking like for fiscal year twenty seven because this is the first full year I mean, yeah I mean, Lorenzo's final severance is being paid out till October. That's a small nominal amount. But the idea is, what cost reductions are we having? You remember, I told you just to keep a very close. Uh uh, a record of all the services you're shutting down. And what the monetary value is to that, we want to be able to see that. Then with what we have currently, How can we further reduce and And? It's not Doctor. Barber's focus is not cost savings per se. Cost savings will naturally come when you restructure and redesign. The idea is are we putting in the right systems, the right functions at the right cost? When you do that, all the extra. Speaker 6 00:38:27 Duplications, unnecessary spending, all that gets wiped away. So we want to be able to know what that is. Like for example, if we're going to move away from G Suite and go into Microsoft Teams, what does that structure look like? Exactly. Speaker 6 00:38:45 I need that analysis from you. Okay. If you can put that together for me, That would be good because then I can talk to Doctor Barber about it and help it make some sense. Speaker 3 00:38:54 Yeah. And he's actually coming to see me today, Um, he said later this afternoon. Um, because he wanted to go over a few things with me. Um, just a heads up. I am struggling with accounting. But it's not a bad thing. It's just everything is paper. Speaker 3 00:39:14 Yeah And I, Speaker 6 00:39:15 That's the problem. Yeah, yeah yeah. Speaker 3 00:39:17 Um I have had some times lately where I've had to quickly sign something and get it back over to James and I didn't have time to scan it in. And put it into my records. Speaker 6 00:39:26 Yeah, it. That's that's the one problem we have in this organization, and I am switching them over to SAP Concur. Right, same thing that we did in Mobility First. So we're working on that. So that that process is going to start now. Right, so I am going to be working with SAP Concur. Um, Actually, you know what I am going to shoot the because the process is you got to shoot an email. They talk to you. You know, you could be like, you got it sign up as a customer and say, hey, I am interested. And then the rep is going to get in back, get in touch with us. Yes, so I gotta. Speaker 6 00:39:57 I just got to do that, and then once I do that, then we're we're starting the process to get everything automated. So I'm my goal is by January one, we're on SAP Concur. Speaker 3 00:40:08 Okay, Perfect, because I am trying to get them into my spreadsheet as I sign for them. Um, especially when it comes to Verizon and those bills just because I am trying to monitor it because we are still paying duplicates on TPX versus Peerless or. Speaker 6 00:40:25 Peerless, I think you said it was. Speaker 3 00:40:27 Yes, yeah. So I'm still trying to designate a bunch of things. Verizon is a little bit better, But like I need to go back to him because I need to get that information back to him quickly and then get a copy of those invoices for this last month, because this last month is the one I had. Speaker 6 00:40:45 Tell him, tell him to do it for you when you give it back and tell him, hey, scan it and email it. And he's not done it yet. Yeah, it's that's that. That's a James issue. So I see that, But you you can be yeah persistent, and you can be a bit more stern with them and tell them, hey listen, I told you to get me those. You haven't gotten into me. I need them today. You can do that with him, and it's his responsibility to get it out to you. So, yeah, just just remind him and and let him know because now, when you talk to Doctor Barber, just let him know you and I spoke in the Kashif will also fill you in with. Speaker 6 00:41:21 This misunderstanding and clear up that clear the air with him on the hundred thousand. Yes. Let him know, hey Doctor Barbara, that I spoke with Kasha about this. He gets it. This is to budget for F Y twenty six budget. We're going to be underspent. Yeah Now, when it comes to our original agreement of the cost savings for outsourcing, That still is going to be what it is, and we're still buttoning that down, which is going to take us a little bit more time. But. Just let them know that it's it's in the works, But the numbers are going to be where where we initially anticipated it to be, if not more. Speaker 3 00:41:55 Yeah. Um, Which reminds me because I was out at the at the turn of uh the end of June and beginning in July. Uh, how did we do on last year's complete budget? Has has the numbers been finalized yet? Speaker 6 00:42:11 No, the numbers are not finalized yet. So I will have that by August 15 th. Speaker 3 00:42:15 Perfect. That's that's good. I'll put those in the calendar. Speaker 6 00:42:17 Yeah, bills are still coming in, so I'll know a little bit more by July twentieth. I'll know a little bit more because I'll have uh the financials in my hand by then or if not sooner, probably by the end of this week on Friday, I should have something more uh comprehensive or or a preliminary rather that I can give you and say, okay, hey, this is where it is landing at right now. Speaker 3 00:42:41 Yes And just a heads up, I amum, I am being very anal about the budget here, where I want to keep track of actuals coming through. And then because I want it on hand, And I'll share that table with you because I use Airtable to handle that data. So, I'll share that table with you as they come in and as I sign for it. Then they go into Airtable. A copy of the invoice goes into an invoice file on my OneDrive. Speaker 3 00:43:13 And then the data is uploaded into the Airtable. So if I don't sign something, um, I'll have it notated. I didn't sign it, and I probably won't see it just because I didn't sign for it. Cause sometimes James will get me things to sign, and then sometimes I'll get things the next month of things. I didn't sign, but he had Doctor Barbara go ahead and handle. So. Speaker 3 00:43:37 Okay Yeah that's that's a problem just just a heads up. Speaker 6 00:43:40 Yeah, that and that and that's the whole manual process, right? Because everything gets circumvented. You have SAP Concur. It can't. The bill needs to go through the proper approvals before it gets to him. So yeah, all that's going to be eliminated eventually. Perfect. Speaker 3 00:43:54 I mean for mobility first, what I'm doing is I go into Concur because I'm doing the same thing there and I just download the invoices, throw it in my folder and it's uploaded to Airtable automatically. Speaker 6 00:44:05 And you're done? Yeah Yeah The thing is this digital so you can see it and, Yeah, and you can you can download. You can do whatever you need to with it. So good, yeah. So we're going to have that same setup here. It's just going to be a little bit more time for us, to to get that done. But yeah, okay. So the current I T costs that may be redundant or can be reduced. That's, what I just mentioned right now, we I want to I want to go down the list of um in detail of all um and this is going to be part of the budget review right? Because in the budget review, you have it listed. Speaker 6 00:44:36 I want to go through that with you and then see what we can reduce, eliminate whatever is redundant. How soon can we eliminate it? Because I know there are a couple of them that you mentioned that we have contracts that have to run through before we can terminate. So I want to understand what that is because that's just money being bled away. Yeah. Maybe maybe I can from a CFO perspective, call these vendors and negotiate something and kill the cost sooner. And kill the kill a contract if need be. But let's see what we have at hand. Speaker 3 00:45:09 Heads up for you. Let me open it up. Um, Couple of things to be aware of is thatum Peerless can't, and this is past. Um Peerless cannot beum disengaged until that time uh, because I've tried that in the past with other companies. So okay, this is my and what is. Oh, sorry. Speaker 6 00:45:36 No, so you are showing me what the Peerless is. What the voice over IP? Speaker 3 00:45:41 Peerless is not just voice over IP. There is a few other things active in it, like what? So ISP different things like that. Speaker 3 00:45:52 Okay, So InfoBlip Peerless is under that, and there is a few other options in there. Speaker 6 00:45:58 Yeah, the thing is we want to understand what those are, what they're being used for and is it really, Something that we need to pay for or not, and we get if we have to get rid of it, we get rid of it. Speaker 3 00:46:09 So correct. Um, so anything that I've terminated or expired, anything that's active in here. CrowdStrike is about to be terminated. Uh McAfee, Uh we just expired that like last week, uh, and that's been pulled off of all computers. Um Crimson Stack. You guys don't have to worry about that's in with usum. I this is not expired, but it's expired from it's point of view. So meaning I don't watch it even though I know. Yeah, that's yeah, yeah, Speaker 6 00:46:42 You need to worry about that. Speaker 3 00:46:43 So we still have an active Zoho, but it's now moved to free. Um and I've got to update that uh Zoho survey is still active because they use it AppRiver. Um is going to stay uh right here as active, the old contract expired the new contract. Um it got renewed. Because we don't, Crimson doesn't do email journal. We don't have a secure email. Um, we always send our clients through AppRiver. Log Me In is expiring in November. We are not renewing for either company. Um, and that one's already taken care of. This TrelloX um which is expiring in August is not being removed renewed. We've already replaced that. And then this one did get renewed, but we're we only renewed it for one more year. Speaker 3 00:47:30 Because we knew that we weren't because it was due on February first, and we had to pay for it. So that was done in so it's like renewed through February twenty twenty seven. But that was when Lorenzo left, he didn't pay. Barracuda is expiring December first, and we will be expiring that because we're already moving everybody to Avanan. Uh, Synology is going to continue um until next year because of the servers that are already in the mix. Um, and so that one was already slated to stay. Um, and then Zoom active Google. But, Speaker 6 00:48:08 But but you see you, you see the the though that type of backup. Why, would you need that backup? Then if I mean is we're just paying for it for the for the year and not using this service? No, Speaker 3 00:48:20 We're using it. It's actually backing up all the DC servers across board Yeah So. It's staying in We have a Synology and a Datto. Um, at the time Datto was not working correctly. We are we have since fixed the issue. We have to get a larger bandwidth, but Datto is only backing up what is at the colo. Synology is backing up across all systems. Speaker 6 00:48:45 Okay, so so let's let's think about this right? How important are these on- prem infrastructures? Speaker 3 00:48:53 We're getting rid of them by end of the year. Speaker 6 00:48:56 That's my point. Yes, So, if we're if we're going to get rid of, okay. So if we get rid of them by December thirty first, then these kind of softwares are just going to last us till till then. I mean, okay, because we're not using the the colos and infrastructure for anything, except for this whole, all this stuff that Pratt does in replicating the, The Download for Qualifax or CareLogic and then running data analytics on it. Okay correct. Speaker 3 00:49:26 So, we're we're going to be moving everybody off of Synology period onto Datto period. That that is going to happen. However, Their Synology is doing a lot with some of the on prem services, and we're moving a lot of things off and we're removing the colo eventually. So that's being done by end of the year. That's part of this entire mix of things we're doing. The only reason why I left it as at a year is because they didn't have options for month to month billing. So um. So a lot of this, uh, Relus, we got to keep that in. That's that's something the this team is doing. Box expires in September. Um and we are moving everybody off of Box within the next two months. We've already started that process. Um we're putting them all on Google Drive. They don't use Box There's hardly anybody that uses it box. Speaker 6 00:50:19 No I I don't I never even understand. I don't use box Yeah I wouldn't use it I'm like. I am using I am using the Google Drive and that's it. That's all you need to. This is the redundancy that I am talking about. It's like everything is why do you have, you have Microsoft Azure licenses, you have G Suite and then you have Box. Microsoft has OneDrive, G Suite has Google Drive. What the hell do you need Box for? Exactly. So yeah, it's okay yeah so. Speaker 6 00:50:53 All of these got to get cut. So when when does uh when does Box expire? Are you saying by the end of the year? Speaker 3 00:50:59 Box expires in September, and we've already told them we're not renewing. Okay. Yeah, because I'm moving all of those things. Speaker 6 00:51:06 What about legacy data? The legacy data is just going to get moved over for all the users? Speaker 3 00:51:11 I already have a tool that's free, Um that well, it's not. It wasn't free to me, but it's free to you guys that'll move everything over in one one weekend. Okay. Speaker 6 00:51:22 Alright, let's get that going then. Okay. Speaker 3 00:51:24 Yeah, it's already started. Uh, management engine for AD, we kept it in place as long as we have AD. Um, but it's minimum. Um and we can. Speaker 6 00:51:34 But what what Active Directory are we using? Speaker 3 00:51:36 I mean We're using an. Speaker 6 00:51:38 On- prem Active Directory There is an on- prem, Speaker 3 00:51:40 And all the computers are put in it What? Yeah because there's an on- prem file server as well What the fuck There's a on- prem file server. Yeah. Why do we have Box, Google OneDrive, all this shit? And then we have a file server. Yep. And only certain departments use it. Who the hell uses it? Not very many people. Who? I'm already started mapping out the migration so and they use SharePoint as well. Speaker 6 00:52:13 Oh my God. Trust me, Speaker 3 00:52:15 I've already got all of this mapped out. This is what you're doing, right? There is exactly what I did in February. When I found out that the information he gave us was not the complete picture because he told me there was no on prem file servers in November and I found out. Speaker 2 00:52:31 In February. Speaker 3 00:52:33 Like there's yeah that look that that's I had to shut the door multiple times as I found this stuff out. And most of this I found out because I went through his email system and found all the contracts. Absolute expired, like you can see everything that I've expired. Yeah, and there's things that I just need to update as well. Peerless, there is multiple Peerless's because they did multiple things with it. However, All of them expire May of twenty twenty seven TPX They have been amazing to work with. Speaker 3 00:53:09 But I found out the way he set up the phones is all the calls come into TPX. And then get routed to Peerless. Yeah, it's messed up. So you can see as I've gone through, I keep this pretty active and updated. I only put terminated in there just because I wanted to see that for LT Technologies. But CrowdStrike EDR, it's going away in the next couple months. Trellix, we expired it. Speaker 6 00:53:40 So That that's that's what I need the breakdown on. What is the cost of these currently? What are we paying for? Yes. And then when they expire, what it's going to be, that's your cost. That's the the savings of eliminating the redundant applications. Yes. We need that level of detail to to go through. Okay, so you have that here? Speaker 3 00:53:60 Yeah, so I'm I I built this out for Ability, I'm building it out for you guys. This is a, Budget portion I told you about where when the invoices come in, I scan them in. Yeah. And so that goes in there as well. My my tool scans them into a folder. Um, the folder automatically connects to workflow. It pulls out the data from the PDF and puts it all in here. Okay So um so you can see I I'm keeping things oh, not that Um, here's the other one as well. Speaker 3 00:54:34 I'm keeping things up to date. I'm also, I've been having some issues with bills not getting paid on time. And I've got yeah, Speaker 6 00:54:43 This is because it's manual. Yeah, that's why. Speaker 3 00:54:45 So I've also markedum, I mark things if I get them in as overdue. Speaker 6 00:54:52 Yeah and that, and that's the thing once we get into an automated environment, they it won't happen It's. It's snail mail, right? We we he prints out a check doctor Barbara reviews it. If he can't review it one day, you constantly lose days if you are doing the whole manual process. Then you have to put it, Then the checks go back to James, who then has to put them in envelopes, put stamps on them, put them in the mail. I mean Christi, It's we're living in the nineteen eighties over here, and it's pretty bad because of it. And that's why we have so many late fees for all these bills that we send out. Yeah I get the invoices that I am looking at him when I am getting late fee, late fee late fee and I am like geez. Speaker 6 00:55:33 Yeah. So all of those will be gone too. So okay, eventually it'll be done. So, this is the analysis that we need to take and I need you to take this and put it into what the current cost is, and then once you know when they're going to expire, and then from that point what what comes off as a cost. Speaker 3 00:55:52 Yeah, and that's that's what I put together in here. This well, not that page, Speaker 2 00:55:56 But this is the details I went through with you where I went through each. Speaker 3 00:56:00 Each section, and then put in like the annual cost, what's being replaced, and things like that. So that you have it. But I am going to put it in your format that you like, not the format I like. So yeah, okay. So I'll get that over to you this afternoon. Speaker 6 00:56:18 Okay, sounds good. And then there is just two more items. One thing is the inventory of PCs, yes. That we have and how that inventory reconciles with the recurring monthly billing, which PCs we need to dispose of. I want to get an understanding of what that is, the count of PCs that we got and who has what. yes. I saw the last bill was three hundred ninety four. I Speaker 3 00:56:44 So I talked to Doctor Barber about that. Um We're keeping it at three ninety four for right now, because what we found that Lorenzo had given us is not what we're finding out there just yet. And so Doctor Barber and I are going to have a conversation about that later today, and we may put them on banded billing. Because at we have about eighty computers in the office that are slated for others and that are replacements, um, and then some are brand new systems for people coming on, and they're already slated and ready to go out. So there are eighty computers in here. Um eight of those is for BAFMA; the rest are for SHARP. So okay. Speaker 3 00:57:24 We're already building them out, already started. Those are not in our tool just yet. And I did explain that to Doctor Barber. Speaker 6 00:57:30 So okay, so I yeah he he's he's not understanding it clearly. So I need to get involved in it to understand what that what we're doing. So for me to understand it, I need to get a full inventory of number of users PCs because if we have 300 employees, We have 300 PCs easy number Okay, then where is the other 94 coming from? So I I just need to get a breakdown of that understanding. And and so. Speaker 3 00:57:57 We still have a lot of machines that are out there without our tool on it, because we are waiting for people to get back to us to let us install. Um there is over 400 computers in LogMeIn. There is over. Um I got to look at the last update on that one. Speaker 6 00:58:18 So that that's what I'm saying Christi I need you to give me that full analysis because. Why people are not bringing in their PCs to get our tool put on is bullshit. They can't do that. They have to come in and do it, period. So there's that that makes no sense to me. I mean, Either if our staff needs to drive around Gaston and Robert need to go around and and do the installs, we have to have them do it because we're in July. You guys came in in January, you know seven months out doesn't make any sense. So let me do me a favor and get me that inventory. Speaker 6 00:58:52 Do the full analysis. Get me an inventory. I need to know by user who has what PCs, What PCs you are talking about that? Are outstanding that? Or you are still trying to figure out where they are and what they do. I need to understand all of that because they may not exist. I don't know. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:59:07 That's what we're trying to figure out. Speaker 6 00:59:09 Yeah, If yeah, So I need to get that breakdown and that understanding. Because if those PCs don't exist, then we should not be paying for those, especially when your tools are not on it, Right. Speaker 3 00:59:20 We do have a hundred four hundred and four in our inventory system, But we don't trust that number because we've seen it go between three thirty eight and over four hundred. So, and that includes all the Meraki devices, SonicWalls, that includes all the servers, everything. So I am working through all of that. Um Just, a heads up, Robert and Gaston have a lot on their plate right now because they're also in the middle of the hardware refresh. And, they're in the middle of some changes we had to make to ADT and switching out the security stuff. So they're stretched thin right now, and I am pulling in outside resources from Crimson. Speaker 2 00:59:59 So just a quick heads-up on you because you did send in a ticket about Verizon;. They don't, they're going to do part of it for you, But I also wanted to give you a heads-up;. I did ask them like this needs to be gotten to you, but we also have a million other things going on so just be. Speaker 3 01:00:18 Aware. Yeah, no, Speaker 6 01:00:20 That's that's fine. And yeah, any requests that come from me unless if I tell you explicitly, hey Christi, I need it tomorrow. Everything else is not nothing is important. So like what what's what I need is the FY27 budget. That's what I need by, you know today, tomorrow, the latest, but other than that, everything else we have to just work on that That. Hey, I'm on a call, The what what I want, what I need uh is specifically the uh the the breakdown of these PCs. I just need to get a better understanding of that. That doesn't need to come in today tomorrow. That can be we can talk about it when I get back, But I need that full analysis now that we're seven seven months in where where are we? What are we missing? Because, we're going to have to make some executive decision and not just keep on paying for these PCs that we can't find. Speaker 3 01:01:12 So we talked about so what I talked about with Doctor Barber, we have two options. Um, because the organization is so large and because there's a high turnover rate, it's really hard to keep up with that. So we can do a single, We can do a banded payment where we say, and this is already what I'm working on right now. And I kind of gave Doctor Barber heads up on this the other night where between this amount of computers and this amount of computer you're just playing one flat rate. And when you go under, your rate changes. When you go above, your rate changes. Um, I've done that with other organizations in the past that are large, and we're hitting to that threshold where SHARP. It's one of those things that we need to look into for SHARP. Speaker 6 01:01:54 Yeah and I I let let's evaluate that. That's not a I'm. Okay with that as long as it makes sense, right. So uh, so let let that's why I want to know. I mean if we can, Do this full analysis, then what you're saying can be applied appropriately. Yes. That's what I want to, then I can tell Doctor Barber hey, what they're presenting is good. You know, look he he trusts my my judgment. Like if I if I tell him, hey, listen, we have to go stick with this, he'll stick with it. Yeah Because he's trusting that I understand it. So that's why as long as you have me understanding it. Christi we'll be good. Yeah. Speaker 3 01:02:33 Um, what we're looking at right now, And this is what I was supposed to have a conversation with him about today. Because Pete had asked me to do that. By the way, Anzor's not the CEO anymore. Speaker 6 01:02:44 Yeah, yeah. So what the hell happened? I mean like he he's like he's a guy it it's his company right? I mean like now I'm getting confused. I'm like yeah. Speaker 3 01:02:56 He still owns the company. He just didn't want to be CEO anymore Okay, He wanted the freedom to do some other stuff, and so that's what he's doing. Speaker 6 01:03:05 Yeah, I know it's all all well and good. If if somebody need look, he you work hard. I was a business owner, I know how that goes. And, you know, i I didn't take the CEO title in my own company.; I was a CFO. i didn't I never wanted the CEO title; my business partner took it though, I was a founder of the company, right? So it's like those kind of things.; so I can understand that everybody has their thing. So. All right. Yeah, And I I would I would like to meet with yeah, I would like to meet with Pete as well. Because if he's going to be really running the, you know, he's a CEO title there, then i'd like to meet with him just so we know who we're working with. Speaker 3 01:03:43 Yeah. Now what I tell Doctor Barber right now until we can get everything sorted out, we're just doing the flat rate currently. So, you see the three You see the three ninety four, but that's that was the agreed upon number in the beginning. So, we're just leaving it at a flat rate because the team hasn't built out a new invoice for it. Speaker 6 01:04:02 Okay, so that that's what I am saying. I need to understand yes, what is our current count? I need you to give me that full analysis. What is the number of PCs. And then whatever the anomalies are and what you are trying to figure out because we need to, because the thing is this, we, though he's Doctor Barber's easy going with this stuff. He is gonna. He is going to make hard decisions. Yes. Yeah, he's going to push back now, which he's starting to do now, right? He's like, hey, this was an understanding. It's not happening. What's going on? So he's relying on me to dig deep into this and figure it out. So I need you to get that to me that analysis. So I'll be back on the twenty second, maybe the week after that we can perhaps meet. So you can, when you talk to him today, you can tell him. Speaker 6 01:04:50 Costs will be back on the twenty second. I'll meet with them on the twenty seventh, two weeks from now. On that twenty seventh, when I am in the office, we can review. Speaker 3 01:04:58 Are you still good? Because when I talked to Doctor Barber, He was good with us for the next billing cycle next couple of billing cycles, which ends for the month of July. I mean, when we do the billing for this month to help to keep it at that same rate. Speaker 6 01:05:16 Yeah, I mean he's yeah, He's going to pay it, but the thing is, we need this data. We need to understand what are you billing us for and why, right? So, you know three ninety four I am not comfortable with. I'll let you know that because I am not comfortable with it because I am okay. We're seven months in. We need we should know where we are. How many count? What's our PC count? What is our user count? Yeah. What's on the shelf? What's not on the shelf? What needs to be disposed of, dispose of it. I mean, all that, right? I need I need to understand that whole cycle of it. So I can so you can justify what you're doing and why what you're proposing on a high and low level and and whatnot. So i i need to understand that from you. Speaker 3 01:06:02 And just just a quick heads up on this as well. Um Lorenzo had 190 accounts active in Google. Just on the sharp side, not just on BAFMA, because he did not know how to put litigation hold on accounts. So they were actively paying that Google bill for an extra two hundred users. Speaker 6 01:06:27 That's what I'm saying. I need I need this feedback. I need to know it and I need to actually physically see it. So I need you to get me that analysis. Speaker 3 01:06:37 I will just a heads up, I report on this weekly to Apollo, Doctor Hill and Crystal. So they are aware of it as well. Speaker 6 01:06:46 They don't know, they're not they're not. It doesn't. It's Chinese to them is foreign. Speaker 3 01:06:52 Right, But they they are giving active reports, and they're asking the questions and doing things like that. So there is a meeting that I'm having with them. It's every Monday at lunchtime or every other Monday depending on what's going on, and we sit down and go over everything such as tickets, and what we're looking at for budgets, and what we're looking at for all of this so, All of this stuff is being handed over to them because they asked to be that involved. So I have been actively doing all that with them. Speaker 6 01:07:21 Include me in those meetings, add me to it so that it's on my calendar. I'll join them too. So I know every other Mondays and Fridays are perfect for me. So, Uh you know if you do that, at least it's on my calendar or I can join you guys. Speaker 3 01:07:34 Yeah, it's at noon. Um, I will add you for the next one that comes around. Uh okay, But, this is where we're making the decisions about how do we handle the ADT issue in all the sites. How are we handling like all of that's coming through as well. So it's not just budget and computers, but um just want to give you a quick heads up on that. Okay, there's there's a lot of moving parts here that I'm keeping. Yeah, You're the only one because I was told to keep it like I was I was told. Here's who you report to, and here's who you got to provide the reports. Speaker 3 01:08:08 And because of that, I never included you because they didn't put your name out there. They said, Oh yeah, Speaker 6 01:08:13 No, that's yeah. And look, I want cause Doctor Barber wanted to to manage it in in his own way. Now that he's you know he's asking me to do this now. So, that's why I'm saying okay. Now if he's asking for me to do it, That's, what I'm saying add me into it, so at least I can join you guys and and help support the group. Speaker 3 01:08:32 Okayum Yeah, All right, So I'll let him know today when I talk to him or when I talk to. It may not be today, it might be Wednesday. Um, he did say he'll try to stop by, but I'll also give him a heads up that you and I talked today. Um yeah and all of that. And then uh there was something else I was going to ask you, but I don't remember what it was. I think that your internet keeps cutting in and out. So i'm hopefully Oh is it? Speaker 6 01:09:00 Yeah okay let me go off for video, No, you're. Speaker 3 01:09:03 Let me yeah, let me do that as well. I think it might just be a combination of here and there because I'm trying to get the bandwidth here. No, Speaker 6 01:09:09 It's probably on my side because yeah, We're on Starlink, and we're on a ship, and there's thousands of people on it at the same time. Got it. Okay. So it's probably that Yeah. Speaker 3 01:09:19 Understood Okay I have a friend who tried to take his own Starlink on his cruise last year. Speaker 6 01:09:24 Oh. They they don't, they don't allow it. They killed the signal. Speaker 3 01:09:27 He tried, but he did not work. Yeah I was telling him about that. Um, all right. So I think that is everything. I had a list you that email that you sent for the ticket for the Verizon stuff. Make sure you always CC me on those because I don't look at the day-to-day tickets. And they only alert me if I'm like, hey, what's going on here? Speaker 6 01:09:50 Gotcha. Okay, I'll do that. I'll keep that in mind. Um, Speaker 6 01:09:56 Yeah And, then lastly Gary Liu's email and his files access, if you can get me that. Because, there's some historical documents that Doctor Barbara wants me to find and dig up. Yep, I can do that. Yeah, So if you can just send me the username and I mean the username and password, I'll go on. I'll get on on it and log in. Speaker 3 01:10:16 Okay, perfect. Speaker 6 01:10:18 Okay, all right cool. All right Christi, i'll uh i'll talk to you when I get back. But um in the meantime, send me the FY27 budget. And then on the 27 th, let's get something on the calendar. If, you want to send me an invite for like maybe 10, a.m. or 11 a.m., just put it on my for now, okay, for the 27 th to review the uh, the monthly billing breakdown. Okay, Speaker 3 01:10:43 All right. Thanks. Speaker 6 01:10:45 All right. Thank you. Christi Enjoy. We'll talk soon bye.
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- Date Time: 2026-06-06 10:13:32 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary The lecture highlights the importance of disability services and support programs to ensure equal access to education for students with disabilities and former foster youth. It clarifies that accommodations mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are designed to neutralize functional limitations—not to provide an unfair advantage—so students can compete on a level playing field. The speakers outline support programs within California’s public college system, including EOPS, CARE, Next Up, and Guardian Scholars, noting California’s leadership in these initiatives. The presentation also offers a practical walkthrough of the Office of Special Services (OSS) website, showing how to get started, request accommodations, and find staff contacts. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Disability Accommodations and Equal Access - **Purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)** - The ADA was enacted because individuals with disabilities faced barriers to accessing work, school, and public spaces. - Accommodations are not for “sneaking ahead” but to provide necessary support that ensures equal access and opportunity. - **Concept of Accommodations** - The goal is equity—helping students “be like everybody else,” not surpass others. - Accommodations address functional limitations caused by a disability. - Their purpose is to neutralize, ameliorate, or significantly reduce functional limitations, thereby removing barriers. - Example: If a person cannot reach a high shelf, a grabber tool is an accommodation that promotes independence. - **Student Mindset on Accommodations** - Some students consider discontinuing accommodations like an IEP after graduation to feel “like everybody else.” - The speakers encourage continued use of these tools, as they enable equality with peers. - **Types of Disabilities** - Any disability that creates a documented functional limitation is eligible for consideration. Handouts will detail different conditions. ### 2. Student Support Programs - **Programs for Former Foster Youth** - A dedicated program provides additional support, including housing, for former foster youth. - Many of these students also have learning disabilities. - **Specific Campus Programs** - EOPS (Extended Opportunity Programs and Services), CARE (Cooperative Agencies Resources for Education), Next Up (state-funded foster youth program), and Guardian Scholars are available on campus. - These programs are located in the Student Services Building. - **California’s Leadership in Student Support** - California is a pioneer in providing extra support for foster youth, including tutoring, peer mentoring, and other resources. - These efforts have led to foster youth graduation rates far exceeding those in the rest of the country. - **Availability Across College Systems** - Disability services and foster youth programs exist at all 116 California Community Colleges, 23–24 Cal State universities, and 10 UC campuses. - Private colleges also offer disability services, though they may not receive state funding. Santa Monica College has a department called CSD. - **Guardian Scholars Program Functionality** - Guardian Scholars serves as a central coordinator, collaborating with campus offices such as housing and disability services. - For example, they can advocate for a student with Asperger’s to secure a single or quieter dorm room by working with the housing office. - They help transfer an IEP and ensure the student receives necessary support. ### 3. Navigating the Office of Special Services (OSS) - **OSS Website Overview** - The OSS website is the primary resource for students; the speakers provide a live demonstration. - Contact information (phone number, email) is at the bottom of every page. - The office is located across the street from a Dunkin’ Donuts. - **Getting Started with OSS** - The homepage features a “Getting Started with OSS” button, which is the first step for new students. - Students concerned about a potential learning disability can take a self-assessment quiz under “Learning Disability Services.” Results indicate whether to contact an LD specialist. - **Requesting Accommodations** - Step 2 is “Get your accommodation letter” via the accommodation letter request form. - The website lists faculty who approve accommodations, with direct email links. - Counselors are assigned by last name: - **Donna Worley**: Works with students who have learning disabilities. - **[Inferred Name from 'A through L']**: Works with students whose last names start with A through L. - **Hua Lee (or Wah Lee)**: Works with students whose last names start with M through Z. - **Accessing Information** - Handouts, flyers, and cards with QR codes linking to the website will be available at the speaker’s table. - Students with a disability—or those who suspect they have one without documentation—are encouraged to come in for guidance. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Visit the OSS website and start with the “Getting Started with OSS” button. - [ ] 2. If you suspect a learning disability, take the self-assessment quiz under “Learning Disability Services.” - [ ] 3. Request accommodations by submitting the accommodation letter form; then email your assigned approver (e.g., Donna Worley, Hua Lee) directly via the website links. - [ ] 4. If you are a former foster youth with Asperger’s attending Cal State San Bernardino (CESA), connect with Guardian Scholars to coordinate housing (e.g., quieter or single room) and academic accommodations, and to transfer your IEP. - [ ] 5. During the tabling session, visit the speaker’s table for handouts, flyers with QR codes, and additional information.
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- Speaker 1 00:00:01 That the Americans with Disabilities Act was put into place was that people with disabilities were not able to access work and school and come into buildings. And all that. Life has changed since that act came in. And, these people are not here to help someone like sneak ahead of someone else in the line. That's not what this is about. It's about getting the help that they need. And again, if they're they were in foster care, there's a program that you'll hear about that is to help former foster youth. Speaker 1 00:00:32 That they need extra help in certain ways, including housing. And if they have disabilities, There is a lot of our kids who do have learning disabilities, probably didn't get changed schools twenty five times in eighteen years. But there is no this not cheating. This not and some of our students say to us, "I don't want to be that anymore." Right? I graduated now; I just want to be like everybody else. This helps you be like everybody else. It helps you yes equal with everybody else. Speaker 1 00:01:02 Try to get above everyone is to try to get equal, and that's so please encourage your students to not say," I don't want that IEP anymore. Speaker 2 00:01:10 I don't want that help anymore." Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much for and and I mean, you said it better probably than what I was trying to say. But with with accommodation and ADA and all of that, which is in place to help provide equal access. When we were taking a look at a student's uh disability, we're taking a look at what, The functional limitation that the disability creates, right? And then the accommodation is how do we neutralize that functional limitation, right? So I'm going to kind of piggyback on your example. So how do we. so I can't reach that shelf either, right in the grocery store. So how do we. What accommodation could be made in order for me and also to help me be as independent as possible? Speaker 2 00:02:03 Combination can be made for me to reach that shelf. Well, okay, no, okay. I am going to take here you give me yeah. On the shelf? Hi, you want to give me an example? Yeah. Oh, on the shelf. That won't be safe. That won't be safe. However, right, You can ask for help that's one way. But if I wanted to be as independent as I could be, if we want that's independence. And that's what we want with for folks with disabilities. Um then I could get a grab. That's the accommodation, right? That's like a really simple, accommodating. And so the accommodation is meant to neutralize, to ameliorate or significantly reduce the functional limitation of the disability. When we reduce that uh functional limitation, when we reduce the barrier or eliminate, we really are trying to eliminate it. When, we reduce the barrier, then then that student is on the same level playing field as everybody else. Speaker 2 00:03:03 Special, you know, you are not giving special consideration or you are giving people benefit, you know, students with disabilities or individuals with disabilities a benefit over someone else. No, it's just to get everybody else get us all at the same starting line. Right? So, thank you for emphasizing that. And that helped me come up with a better way to say it. So thank you for my short thing here. Thank you for your time. I am here. I am going to be here during the tabling. Speaker 2 00:03:33 I don't know if you guys are getting some feedback information about our foster youth care programs on campus. We have EOPS, CARE, Next Up. Next Up is our foster youth program that's funded by the state, along with Guardian Scholars. We have those programs all in the Student Services Building. Hopefully you're getting to hear more about that stuff today as well. Okay so for us it's not in. Speaker 2 00:04:04 What college are you thinking of? Cal State San Bernardino. Oh, yeah, all the colleges, the universities. Absolutely every university, every Cal State, every UC, every California community college. There is one hundred and sixteen California community colleges public schools that report to the California Community College Chancellor's Office. There is twenty three twenty four Cal States. There are ten UCS they all. Speaker 1 00:04:35 We are so lucky in California. We are really the pioneers for the rest of the country. We are leading the charge to say, "Foster youth maybe need a little extra help, a little extra tutoring, a little more you know peer mentoring, a little more whatever," and we're going to make sure that that happens. Our numbers of graduation are far higher than the rest of the country. So be very glad that we live in this beautiful sunny state because we have that in every county. Speaker 1 00:05:06 Some of our private colleges are not getting. Speaker 2 00:05:08 State funding after doing it, and they're still doing it. And definitely, the private colleges also have disability services; it's not a prosecutor's program. Speaker 3 00:05:18 Oh, I just looked up Santa Monica Community College for my students going on. There is a shift called CSD. Speaker 2 00:05:29 In this all on the website. Absolutely, and they're all on the website as well. Speaker 2 00:05:36 I wanted to let me try. Let me really quickly. I want to show you guys the website I said I was going to, and I did it. And I'll do this really quickly and then I'll wrap up. Speaker 2 00:06:13 I don't know, you know, we're tend to be so, you know, quiet on the on the weekends. But I there's a Dunkin' Donuts directly across the street from us. If you it doesn't really take ten minutes. No Starbucks. Starbucks is further down like near Third. Okay yeah, on Vermont closer to Third All, right? So this is um our website Office of Special Services, and it's really simple. Speaker 2 00:06:43 And how to get onboarded to OSS. So, each of these buttons are live; they're linked; they're hyperlinked. "Getting Started with OSS," you want to start with that button. Um, if we're talking about learning disability services, that's our LD assessment. That information is here; it gives you a self-assessment quiz. Okay? So your student maybe has some concerns about. They can take this quiz. At the end of it, uh, it will say. Speaker 2 00:07:12 Number of questions, yes, to them. These number of questions you might want to get. And so our LD specialist information, we can go back um number two, get your accommodation letter, okay accommodation letter request form. Um our faculty who do accommodation approval are listed right here. You can email them directly. Okay um Donna Worley is for students who have learning disabilities Robert. Speaker 2 00:07:44 Have last names that start between uh with an A through L. Um and then Hua or Wah is another way to pronounce her name. Um Lee, she works with students that begin with M, N, O, Z. All right so you can click that link and email them directly okay? Step three um this gives you more information about OSS services. I talked about all of these services in my um presentation, but there are hyperlinks. Speaker 2 00:08:14 A little welcome message there and our contact information is at the bottom of each of our web pages. Okay, um oh, there's food, yay, i'm nearly done. Um i will also have these handouts at my table. Some information about thank you. Information about uh, the different types of conditions. It's any. Speaker 2 00:08:44 With any uh any type of disability or something that creates a functional limitation. It's fine if it can be documented, okay? Uh so that'll be on my table. I'll also have um flyers on my table as well. My computer's a little bit slow, it won't scroll. Um but that's there. I have QR codes on those flyers so that you can go, it'll take you directly to the website um pretty easily. Again my our numbers our email address is. Speaker 2 00:09:16 You know, uh, You know, we really are ready and willing and able to help your students if they have a disability or even if you suspect that they have a disability, but haven't had it documented. Have them come to our office, and you know, we'll let you know what's what. Can, Speaker 4 00:09:34 We uh if they have an IEP and they've been having it for years. Can do you have to show go to college? Speaker 4 00:09:48 So, my baby is at first, and he will be a student in the fourth year. But he wants to live on campus. So, Is there any way that being a foster care student? They give him free housing? I. Speaker 1 00:10:05 You would have to talk to the university. Okay, so I can try to help you with that. What school is he going to? CESA CESA okay, tell me this: Have you been in touch with the Guardian Scholars Program now? I can't hear you. The Guardian Scholars Program, there which is the foster care support program. Guardian Scholars Program. Yeah, I'm Jill. Find me after. I can get you in touch with them because they what's really neat about the Guardian Scholars. Program is that they work with all the other offices. So they will reach out to housing and say, okay, Because he has Asperger's, maybe he needs a single room, maybe not, you know, maybe he needs whatever a quieter place, like some dorms are specific things. They'll work with the. Speaker 1 00:10:49 They'll work with this with the office of student disabilities. Okay, that his IEP is transferred, whatever is needed, they'll work. They have people in each office, so he he can get his own room because that's what I was. That's what I don't know because I don't work there, But if that's in the thing that he needs to have that, then they'll try to work with the housing office and see if that's available. And if that's possible. Thank you. Okay, Speaker 3 00:11:11 Thank you all for your question. Um, I am a parent of uh and I went through guardianship. Speaker 3 00:11:27 Okay, but going through the guardian's time, there was more resources and everything. It's just all about communication. How many of you are students. Speaker 1 00:11:37 Trying to support your college? How many of them are going to be living in dorms? How many of you have signed up already for that night dorm? You don't know about that night dorm. Someone is asking you about it. Yes, yes, we're set up for the next presenter. So thank you everyone. We'll talk about that after the next presenter. But, why don't we take a little break so you guys can grab some breakfast, whatever you want to do, and grab some water.
07-10 Meeting: Timesheet Submission and Approval Process
- Notes
- ## 1. Timesheet Submission and Approval Process The team continues to face challenges with timely timesheet submission and approval in ConnectWise and TriNet. The current process has two payroll cutoffs: the 1st–15th and the 16th–end of the month. A major issue is that employees are not entering time daily, leading to inaccuracies when they try to reconstruct work two weeks later. While ConnectWise is configured for bi-monthly submissions and approvals—preventing managers from approving timesheets weekly—employees can and should still enter time daily. The goal is to establish a routine where time is entered daily (or by the next day for on-site technicians) and submitted by the cutoff dates, ensuring smooth payroll processing, especially in preparation for Alisa’s absence in October when Maricar will take over. ### Action Items - [ ] Ensure all team members enter their time by the 15th and the last day of each month. -- _All Supervisors_ - [ ] Approve all timesheets by the 16th and the 1st of each month. -- _All Supervisors_ - [ ] If on vacation during a payroll period, inform Pete to arrange a delegate for approvals (at least for TriNet). -- _All Supervisors_ - [ ] Proactively follow up with employees who are chronically late with timesheet entries. -- _All Supervisors_ - [ ] [Speaker 4] will set up a daily ConnectWise report that alerts managers if team members have not updated their time. -- _[Speaker 4]_ - [ ] [Speaker 4] will send the weekly utilization report to Pete for review, then add relevant managers to the distribution list. -- _[Speaker 4]_ _Pete_ - [ ] [Speaker 4] will create a video showing managers how to add the staff hours report to their own reports and schedule weekly delivery. -- _[Speaker 4]_ - [ ] Olivia will update [Speaker 4]’s permissions so they can build reports in ConnectWise. -- _Olivia_ > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified unresolved items that need clarity and ownership: > 1. Reporting source of truth: Alisa manually creates detailed weekly exception reports, while [Speaker 4] cited existing automated ConnectWise reports. Decide on a single official report for tracking missing time to avoid confusion and duplication, and define a plan to consolidate or select the primary method. > 2. Timesheet alert configuration: Olivia noted that minimum-hour alerts should be enabled for all supervisors and employees, but it’s unclear if this is active and effective across the board. Define and standardize the minimum-hour threshold (e.g., four or six hours), confirm universal activation, and verify functionality for all users. > 3. Exception management: Although approval deadlines (16th and 1st) were set, there is no defined process for handling employees who consistently miss deadlines. Establish clear consequences and an escalation path beyond “staying on top of them.”
- Date
- Jul 10, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:20 Hey, Thermometer? Okay, stop. Stop acting so frustrated. Speaker 1 00:00:29 In my bathroom. On the counter. Speaker 2 00:00:42 I didn't know. Speaker 3 00:00:47 I love you, But kind of be careful about that when we have guests in the apartment like Stephanie and Shana because you did that with her too. Well, you did it to me in front of her, the social worker. Yes, I get that this is your home. But remember when there's guests, just be careful, okay? Yes. It's just Monti. Monti loves you. Monti, she says hi. Speaker 2 00:01:31 Can you guys see if you can hear me? Hello? I. Speaker 4 00:01:45 Can hear you. I can hear you. I was so worried that my my computer messed up again. It was having some sound issues the other day at SCHARP. Speaker 2 00:02:01 Dom says hi. She's she got an excuse from work today. Speaker 2 00:02:45 Oh, she's got lots. Speaker 2 00:05:48 Oh Vlad, Speaker 5 00:05:49 Sorry. I didn't I didn't realize you were going to be in this meeting too. I should have included you in my we were running late. Speaker 6 00:05:55 Hello, hello. Sorry, we were on another call. So I thought we could just talk to Alisa quickly and we did, Olivia and I primarily talked to Alisa earlier this year about when do timesheets really need to be in by everybody, And then when do they need to be approved so that payroll can get done on time, and she doesn't have to chase people down, And we don't need to chase people down because we all know that people need to enter time in ConnectWise. Speaker 6 00:06:35 And then in the US, need to enter time in TriNet. And then time needs to be correlated between ConnectWise and TriNet. And then supervisors need to approve time. And then payroll needs to get cut, and everything needs to be balanced. And it's a lot of work, right? And, we don't want to push everything into the admin team and payroll and other people, to try to get everything done at the last minute. So. Speaker 6 00:07:05 Alisa produces a report each week and sends it to Tony and I, and says, "Here's what's late and hasn't been entered." And there's a lot of information. There's a lot of people on that list every week. And what I want everybody here to understand is what is missing, and why are there so many people on the list every week? So maybe Alisa, I've got more people on the call this time. So maybe more people hearing this from you. We'll help. We'll help us enforce to our teams what they need to be doing, And then what our supervisors or approvers need to be doing by what deadlines so that you get what you need. So, maybe you can kind of maybe we can use the example in the email that I or in the invite that I sent, um, or or you can share whatever you want to share to show everybody what. Speaker 6 00:08:04 What's late and why it's late. I mean, That's what I put in the invite was the the last update that you sent to us last week. Um, And all the people and the hours that were missing in the uh in the lastum report that you sent. So I don't know if you want to use that as an example or something else. Speaker 7 00:08:31 Hi, good morning everyone. Can you hear me? So, thank you so much for this opportunity because, um, This problem with time entries, the timing of submission has really been an ongoing challenge for everyone since since then. And uh, As for the deadline like deadline of submission, so we have two cut- offs like one to fifteen and sixteen to thirty or sixteen to thirty one, depends. Speaker 7 00:09:03 Uh, depending on the month, so for one to fifteen cut off. Um, the most ideal uh date of submission is to submit it on uh fifteen. Uh, so that um. The managers or supervisors have enough time to review everyone's time sheets and uh. But, we can also allow like allow once time allow ones to submit on the next day, like sixteen or. On the first day of the month, after thirty or thirty one, I I guess, uh it will give. Uh, there's still enough enough time for us. The managers to review all all time. Um, the other problem that I also noticed is that um, it's not enough to update uh time logs. Uh, They need to push the button submit in order for the managers to see their time. Speaker 7 00:10:01 Because in the ConnectWise in the ConnectWise, it will uh prompt in the in the dashboard of the managers that they have, uh, The number of timesheets to approve something like that, like one, two, oh. So if uh the team members will not submit their time, it will not um appear. In the dashboard of their manager, so, uh, that's one thing to consider. Um every end of the cut off I check. The status of the time entries, if the status is open, it means it's not yet submitted. So it should be pending or written off or approved. If it's pending, then it's been submitted but not yet reviewed or approved by the managers. So I'll be showing you like a sample of. Speaker 7 00:11:00 Uh, the status of our time sheets. Um, But. Speaker 6 00:11:05 At least so we're not we're not saying that it's only the fifteenth and the thirtieth. We're also saying it needs to be approved every Friday, right? The end of each week and on the fifteenth and thirtieth. Because if people wait till the fifteenth and thirtieth, they're not going to remember what they did the last two weeks. So it's it's important that everybody and everybody timesheets need to be approved, and this is my rule, right? And this has always been Anzor's rule. And everything every week, timesheets need to be completed and approved at the end of each week. And that is a standing rule. So if people do not fill out their time sheets by the end of the week, and they they need to be approved the following Monday, and if that's not happening, we are failing because there is no way. Speaker 6 00:11:52 That if I haven't filled out my timesheet, that when I come in on Monday or Tuesday, or or worse yet, if I wait till the fifteenth of the month, There is no way I remember what I did on the first or the fifth or the eighth. There is no possible way that I remember that. And then I am just arbitrarily filling in eight hours, eight hours, eight hours. So if people aren't doing it at least every day or every other day, then they are lying about their time sheets. So Or they're or they're just filling in blanket time and not really doing what they're supposed to be doing, so my opinion is they need to be doing a timesheet every day, so that at the end of the week at least by Friday, they can they can fill in Friday's time or at least Monday morning. They figure out they fill in the the Friday time for the prior week and their their last week is done and you, as a supervisor on Monday. Speaker 6 00:12:43 You are reviewing time for the prior week, and by end of business Monday, you should have you should have the prior week's timesheets approved. So if that can't happen, then tell me tell me why it can't happen. I am open to hearing it, but tell me why it can't happen. Speaker 5 00:12:59 So the approval process it only gets approved every fifteen days right? So like our timesheets are those fifteen days so it doesn't like, We, as supervisors can't approve each week because they still need to be open for them to keep adding time. Speaker 7 00:13:23 Uh yeah, that's the limitation in the ConnectWise because ConnectWise is designed that way. So, if um uh, we're we're trying to review timesheets on a weekly basis for all managers. Um managers need to manually select. Uh, My timesheet report for their team members because it won't show yet for approval as they can submit it yet. Cause the the entire cutoff is still is still open. Unless we we change the design of clockwise, like um putting a cutoff per week, so they can submit it weekly. Speaker 4 00:14:05 If you do that, if you put a cutoff in there, and and the only reason why I know this is because. I've been on many discussions about this, but if you put a cutoff, it's not going to be configured for our payroll end date, which is the fifteenth and the end of the month. Speaker 6 00:14:21 So yeah, because you can't you can't put both cutoffs then right? Speaker 8 00:14:25 Correct. Unless you want to start paying once a week. Speaker 6 00:14:32 So then, why so then, Why do we produce a report each week saying the the timesheets aren't complete if people can't complete them each week? Speaker 5 00:14:43 Well, they could still put their time in. You know what I mean? Yes. But they just can't they can't submit it. Yeah, but we shouldn't, Speaker 6 00:14:50 But we shouldn't produce a report that says timesheets aren't done each week if they can't be approved each week. Speaker 4 00:14:56 So um I so yesterday I had a conversation with Olivia's team to show, Time and why it has to be done daily within ConnectWise. I think that's still, and Olivia, correct me if I am wrong, But I think we can design a report in ConnectWise that sends out to all managers to say, "Hey, your team is not updating their time today." And we have that ability to do that. And I can actually set that up for daily as well. Speaker 4 00:15:27 And I had a long talk with Robert and Gaston because they they struggle with Zenefits, because they know that all their time should go into ConnectWise. So, I gave them the same tip, I gave Monty was it you when I first started to say, "Hey, because we do ConnectWise, Fill out your timesheet here in Zenefits. So you don't forget and then update as you go." And I think that made a big help. Monty, I may be wrong ;. It might not have been you ; it might have been somebody else. But um. That seemed to have helped Robert and Gaston. And now, I when I pulled the report this morning, their time sheets were done in Connect Wise up to yesterday. So it seems to have helped. But I can give that conversation again about Nyleer and timesheets and how we have to proceed forward with integrity and how it's one of our core values, to the entire company if that would help. Speaker 4 00:16:21 Hopefully that makes sense. My my my head is all. Speaker 6 00:16:24 So so does that. So does that will that trigger to make sure that everybody does their time sheets on a daily basis? Because what's important to me is that people record time daily, so that they don't forget what they did. Speaker 4 00:16:39 Yeah, um, Yes, but Pete, there's another thing we can do. Um do we have time for me to show you guys real quickly, Olivia and Monty know what I'm. Speaker 8 00:16:53 But I wanna make some room for us to update time the next day, especially for on site tech who is driving around, come back home at six and. I mean it's yeah it's the next day is acceptable. Speaker 6 00:17:09 Yeah that's that's okay. I just I just don't want it can't wait till like the next week, right. I don't want what I'm afraid of is if we say, If we say the fifteenth and the thirtieth, people are gonna wait till the fifteenth and the thirtieth, and then they're gonna think they're gonna remember what they did on the first, and they're never gonna remember what they did on the first. So it's got to be when we say daily. I don't mean it has to be rigidly like every single end of business. I know there's exceptions to that, But I don't want it to be like twice a month because that, that's never going to work. So we've got to have we've got to have like a routine where people. Speaker 6 00:17:47 Where people, you know, enter time. So at a point where they have enough detail to recall, what needs to go into tickets and what needs to be, you know, in the in the level of detail that we need. Speaker 4 00:17:59 Yeah. Um real quickly, so Monty I'm so sorry, I know you don't like this, but I'm going to explain it anyways. Um Nyleer has it where they can use Nyleer on their phone? Gabby does it a few other techs do it? But. Pete, I don't know if you've seen this, but this is something that all managers everybody has access to. This how we found out somebody was sleeping on the job, literally found out somebody was sleeping on the job. But if I go in here to Help Desk because I have teams set up, I can see who's working on tickets and who's missed their schedules based on them correctly putting things into either ConnectWise or Nyleer. Speaker 4 00:18:39 And I can see that Jose has been on the same ticket for two hours, which is a setup for a new computer. So none of us will worry about that. There's a cloud license for IronGate that Kobe's been working on for 114 minutes, and he's missed a couple of schedules. So, we can see minute by minute, and we can see where they're at because like Gabby, she's using Nyleer. She's on site in Carlsbad working on a Barker Pacific ticket. And Gabby is amazing at keeping her time up to date. So is Boglin. So if I go in here and I look at, there's Gabby. I look at their their actual time entries and their working time. I can see we can go in and actually see what they're doing and how well they're putting in time daily. Um, let me show you with Boglin because he's like the absolute best. But if I look at his delta time versus time was actually in progress, he's only at fifteen minutes. And delta time is the time put into the ticket. Speaker 4 00:19:39 Versus the time that the ticket was in progress. And he he does, he's amazing. Like, he knocks out tickets. He's putting in his time entries correctly. Um, he's currently in this ticket right here. We can see what it is. So this might be something that you might like to see, But managers can actually take a look at this and know where their people are. And if they're putting in their time correctly. Hopefully that makes sense. Um, I know that I've been keeping track of Robert because he's a he's a frequent flyer. And Robert is getting better with his. He's actually doing things correctly today, and putting in his time as he's working. And he wasn't doing that if I go back a few days. Let's go back to Monday. He wasn't doing that. He had like five hours delta here, different things like that, and now he's actually putting his time against tickets correctly. Speaker 4 00:20:38 So, this is a really good tool just to keep for us as managers to keep track of our team. And, we used to keep this up on the TVs in the office. Just so techs would know where like, if, hey, where's Gabby? I need her help. Well, they can go in and see that she's in Carl's lab. Does that help you guys? Because I know not all of you have seen this. Monty and Olivia are boring because they see it all the time. Speaker 4 00:21:08 And for those of you guys who haven't seen it, let me give you the link so that you have it. Elise, I don't think you were with us when we found out the guy that was sleeping on the job. But, it works really well to take those screenshots and show that he was actually sleeping on the job. And using the building this way. Speaker 2 00:21:30 Sorry guys, I didn't mean to monopolize the conversation. Um. Speaker 7 00:21:38 I also want to add about uh the, the way of uh checking time daily, um. For for our end like for example with finance we're, uh I'm really trying to, Um have a routine like enter as as real time as possible with my time sheets. And. Like complete nine hours before clocking out, and I'm encouraging Mary Grace to do the same. Whenever Mary Grace uh will not uh forgot to complete her timesheets daily, I got a notification via email like the timesheet alert. So that that's uh my that that's the trigger point, That will uh prompt me to to check Mary Grace's time on the next day. Uh but I think. Speaker 6 00:22:29 Is that coming from ConnectWise? Speaker 7 00:22:31 Yes, if a part time in ConnectWise is not complete like. For example, she entered only less than four hours. So, it will alert me in the email, and that's like my trigger point that I will ping her like," Mary Grace, time sheet yesterday is not complete. Could you please update it today?" So I think that helps. Speaker 5 00:22:57 That alert should be sent out to every almost every supervisor. They should get alerts for their people's time sheets. I got for you. Speaker 7 00:23:10 Oh, I'll go by again that but. Is it set up? Speaker 5 00:23:15 Yeah, it should be set up in ConnectWise whenever I set up a member. Does, Speaker 6 00:23:18 It is it set up for the user? That is it set up for the person also? Speaker 4 00:23:23 Yeah. Yeah The only thing is, Is if they have a rule taking ConnectWise emails and putting them into a different folder That's, the only gotcha which I do. Speaker 6 00:23:34 So if I if if I didn't enter all my time, I'll get an email also. Uh, that's what that's what I'm asking. Like so, if If i work for Olivia and I didn't enter my time, I should get an email and Olivia should get an email. That's what I'm asking. Does it go to both of us? Speaker 5 00:23:53 So it's uh minimum hours. So some people have four and some people have six. So like if you don't have a minimum of six hours, you'll get an email at night saying, hey, your timesheet was not updated. It'll CC both me and or it'll add both me and whoever the uh person is. Speaker 2 00:24:14 Okay. I. Speaker 6 00:24:22 Was gonna screen shot that one. This gives me even this gives me even less. Speaker 6 00:24:27 This gives me even less of an excuse for people to not enter time. It just, I don't know. Speaker 5 00:24:34 For example, that's what it looks like. Speaker 8 00:24:38 Especially when they're sitting in the office, I totally agree. But when you run out to client side, You can start the ticket running as the ticket and you work on multiple tickets. You have to focus on a fix and then again, I just want to express that at least the next day for an onsite tech. I really want you guys to consider. Speaker 6 00:24:59 And Monti, Monti, I am totally in agreement with you. I am not saying everybody has to have it done every day, But when people go like when when at the end of the week, somebody has sixteen hours entered for the prior week, there is no excuse for that. That's ridiculous or or has like zero, you know has fifteen hours entered for two weeks. It's just crazy. So I mean that's the kind of stuff that frustrates me so. Speaker 6 00:25:27 And it's the same people. Speaker 4 00:25:30 I will admit, I am one of those frequent offenders just because I move so fast. I now have Claude put in my time as I go, but I still am a frequent offender, so I am trying to do better myself. So. Speaker 6 00:25:47 When should we. So rather than having this weekly thing come from Alisa. Anymore because if we can't have people approve and enter time each week anyway. And at least I'm not. Speaker 5 00:25:59 They get enter time. They get enter time. You just as supervisors can't approve it. You can see it like let me, I. Speaker 8 00:26:10 Was gonna say yeah Monti are You allowed to see your people's timesheets? They don't know about that either but I do see like, I can go in and check like this is Savannah right? She she put, maybe there's one two hour I can check with her, but I'm just saying daily you can check like that. It's just that she did not submit for you to approve yet, but you can go in and check. Speaker 6 00:26:37 Let's look at this week. Can somebody pull up this week? I'm curious. Let's just pull up this week. Is this for Fovana? Is this weekly? Fovana is it weekly? Yeah, but can we pull up everybody for this week? Is there an easy way to do that? No, Speaker 8 00:26:48 I don't know. Yeah, how do you check? Yeah, it's one by one. That's I only have one person that I have to care about, right? So it's easy for me. But imagining Olivia like. Speaker 6 00:26:58 Yeah, I didn't know if there. No, i didn't know if there was an easy way to pull a quick report that says how many like like I don't know what if your reports available Alisa to pull up quickly. And say here's what we see right now becauseum my if I were to guess, I bet. I'll bet there's a bunch of time that hasn't hasn't been entered this week. So. Speaker 4 00:27:16 I do get a report. I've been ignoring it because I don't need it anymore, but I did set up a report a while back. Let me pull it up real quick. Um, I can set this to go to all the correct managers, but um this might help you guys. Let me try to share the screen. It doesn't like me today. Uh hang on You get to see my pretty background for a moment, The downfall of having a forty nine inch monitor. But I get this report every Monday, And it gives me last week's utilization because for a long time, we were going by utilization numbers. Um, And we need to make sure that for the most part, the correct people had. That's I can get that report. I can change that report ConnectWise to go to all of you guys. I ignore it because I don't have a reason to see it anymore, but you can see everyone's uh utilization and you can tell. Speaker 4 00:28:12 Who's not putting in time, like pneumonia because who he works for. Would that help you guys? Because that's a help desk. I also have uh security and PS coming to me, and I can make the rest settle. And. Speaker 2 00:28:31 It just comes by email. This is the email I get. Speaker 2 00:28:38 But it goes into a folder. Yeah, Speaker 6 00:28:39 Maybe maybe send it to me, send it to me and let me take a look at it. Speaker 4 00:28:43 Okay. And if so, I can just I can just add people to those records. Speaker 6 00:28:49 So I guess when when could Alisa send that email? If we give people the next day, if she sends it by Monday afternoon, theoretically people should have the prior week's time entered. Right? Speaker 6 00:29:09 Is that reasonable? Is that reasonable? Doesn't mean it's going to be approved. But it should be entered. And will it show up as entered, Alisa, in your report if it hasn't been approved? Yes. It'll still show up as entered, right? Speaker 7 00:29:25 But it'll yeah, it'll show up. The way I did in preparing reports for Pete and Tony before I checked manually by, you know, searching member by member. Uh, in my timesheet report that uh it really takes time. So I discovered that I can uh generate a report. I can customize a date and then get all the time entries of all employees in the time entry search. And then I'll just uh filter it out what branch I want. And then I'll just export this one. Then uh, I check it through Excel work worksheet but. Speaker 7 00:30:04 When I already got an account with Claude, So I explore and was able to come up with a tool that I used recently. So this is my tool. After exporting this report, I just need to upload it to uh to this RFP back. Like, for example, um let's clear this one. So I'll just upload the downloaded ConnectWise like for example, July 1 to 9, let's check July 1 to 9 report. This is ConnectWise. So just um process or parse the data, and then it will show I simplify it as a sense for everybody like for Adrian. Um if it's checked, then he has entered uh seven point thirteen hours. Uh this seven point thirteen hours is already ex. Speaker 7 00:31:00 Excluded uh lunch and break, so W E is weekend. And uh if they miss to enter their time or zero, time logs for that day, uh it will prompt as absent. And if it's lesser than seven point five because um the supposed or expected time logs for per day is nine hours, so seven point five work hours. 0.5 break and one hour break so if it's less than 7. 5, this tool will prompt me that uh probably um uh there is an under time, and it will also prompt me if they work on weekend. So weekend, overtime. And this will also prompt me if they're on PTO. Speaker 7 00:31:54 Like for Chinky, Chinky is on PTO on July one or July two. But, um, if Chinky missed to log his PTO, this will appear as absent. And during holiday, uh if they missed to enter a time logs with the work type holiday, it will also show up as absent. Speaker 4 00:32:19 Okay. Um so, Sorry, I just found a report in ConnectWise that I can send to everybody weekly with everyone's hours. Speaker 7 00:32:33 Uh yeah, That really sounds great because I haven't figured out how to uh request report in ConnectWise. So that's why I. I built my own reviewer for timesheets and then. Um, the way of knowing for the uh overtime summary report. So I designed this this tracker to um like auto reject, if overtime is less than one hour. So that's why there's a a flag in here of the status. Okay, for example, for Adrian, this is the uh um simplified summary per day like uh on July one. Speaker 7 00:33:20 The total hours is 9.05 and this the breakdown uh it's a break 0.92 uh there is lunch one uh since it is 9.05 this there is 0. 05 overtime, but uh it is less than one hour, so it will not prompt as an overtime. Let's uh, let's try another employees that will prompt an overtime example April. Um total hours entered by April on July 6 is 10. 5. But uh there is no approved OT by the manager. So I'll just reject it. So when I prepare an a summary of overtime weekly, so I will not consider this 1. 5 hours, so payable, this cycle for overtime is zero. So another feature also of this report. Speaker 7 00:34:18 Uh, my basis on uh reporting who uh in the exception report in ConnectWise. So, this will prompt me. Uh who's whoever is um entering time logs that are less than forty five hours for the week. So the forty five hours is computed by the nine hours expected per day. Including lunch and break, and for the whole week we have, um, five days working days and nine times five that's forty five. And I compare it to the total log hours. Like for example. Um. Let's say. Um, Blood two point sixty six hours in clockwise. If the total expected is forty five, then. Speaker 7 00:35:16 Is short by 42.34. So there's also the exception status and for TriNet, So I also upload the TriNet report in here. So I can cross check or cross match or reconcile ConnectWise Wise versus TriNet. And it will also give me a summary of the report. So in ConnectWise, in TriNet, The expected hours is forty since TriNet will not include in the count, the one hour lunch break, so eight times, five, forty hours. So for Kalib only enter eight hours one day in TriNet, so short by thirty two hours Kevin also only one day time logs and Vana too. Speaker 7 00:36:15 And the timing of generating my report, Um I download timesheet from ConnectWise and TriNet it every Tuesday afternoon. So I can send an a uh a report by Wednesday morning for Pete and Tony. So, the employees really have time to to check their uh time logs for the past uh for that past week. And Monday or Tuesday. Speaker 6 00:36:48 So so basically if if this report is run and somebody shows up on it as not having time entered, which we have a lot of people from the prior week, That means they really haven't entered a lot of time, and most of the time is ConnectWise, right. Mhm. So if I look at the meeting invite. From today. Speaker 2 00:37:21 So we had. Speaker 6 00:37:24 Osland with. Speaker 5 00:37:26 But is this minus? This so, Essentially, my bet here is that we didn't put in our time for the for for the third that we have off. Speaker 7 00:37:40 Yeah mostly. Mostly did not work third time on July third. Okay, Speaker 5 00:37:46 Cause yeah, I a lot of these people like usually aren't on this list. Speaker 7 00:37:57 Okay. Let's check the attendance uh July three yes, there are a lot of employees who. Speaker 6 00:38:09 So Maybe Last week was more of an exception because of the holiday week, right? Speaker 4 00:38:13 Yes. Okay. Um, I sent screenshots in chat on how you can run the report for your own staff. And you can add it to I can I'll make a video on show you guys how to add it to your reports. And have it sent out weekly. But for managers that's actually it's decent report. I don't like it but it works. And gives us what it needs. I lost the ability to make reports, Olivia, so I can't make my own reports anymore. What? Speaker 5 00:38:47 Really? You can't do that as a. No. Speaker 2 00:38:57 Okay, I have another meeting after this too. So we'll look next week on at at what the timesheets look like for. Speaker 6 00:39:05 The current week, and then on the fifteenth and the thirtieth of each month, Alisa, what what day do you need to run, or what day do you want to run, the reports, and what day should the supervisors by when should the supervisors be. Approving is the expectation that that the. Time is entered by the fifteenth, and the approvals are also done by the fifteenth, or is it by the sixteenth? Or like what is that? What should the target date be for everything to be done for payroll. Speaker 7 00:39:45 Um if I can uh I think I can give three days allowance. Like uh. Well, Speaker 6 00:39:53 I I know I know we but but to get it to you in time, I mean, I i think a reasonable expectation would be everybody should have time entered by the fifteenth, and then supervisors should get everything approved by the sixteenth. Is that reasonable? Speaker 7 00:40:11 Yes, sixteen or seventeen. Speaker 6 00:40:14 I think the sixteenth. The sixteenth If you give everybody till the seventeenth, it'll go to the eighteenth. So the sixteenth should be the deadline, and if you are going to be gone. Can you can you either get try to get somebody to somebody else, to, As your delegate. So for instance, if any of you are going to be out. If, you let me know I think I can approve at least I can approve the trinet stuff for you, or Alisa can approve the trinet stuff for you. I am not sure. Speaker 6 00:40:47 Who can approve the Connectwise stuff depending on if you're going to be out, but um. Speaker 5 00:40:54 It gets a little complicated there because the approvals will go directly to whoever that supervisor is. Speaker 6 00:41:02 Right. But, at least at least the TriNet, at least the TriNet stuff from a payroll perspective, um. One of us can get done so payroll doesn't get impacted. So, and that's the that's the one piece I I don't want to get held up. But, but if you're gonna be out like if you're gonna be out on vacation for a week or two, and it's gonna be during a payroll period, let me know, and I'm happy to do the approvals. I'm trying not or something um, or some you know if there's somebody else that has that that ah, you know ability that's fine too but um. I'm I'm happy to take care of that if you're going to be out. Speaker 6 00:41:40 But, let's try, let's try to have the approvals done by the sixteenth. And then by the first of the month. Um. And then, Just have your have your have all of your team members, make sure that they get everything entered by the fifteenth. And then the last day of the month. And then that'll give, Alisa and Maricar, at least a couple of days to get their. To get their pieces done, And the reason it's important, the reason I am trying to get in front of this folks is Alisa is going to be out at some point in October, and Maricar has got to take this stuff over. And it's going to be new to her, And I don't want her to be in a position where she's all stressed out having to try to figure this stuff out. And I don't want the pressure to be on her, just because everybody else is kind of not doing their part. I am not saying they're not, but I don't want it to be higher pressure on Maricar because. Speaker 6 00:42:39 People are not doing their part, so the sooner we're in front of this, the better. And that's not until October, but October will be here sooner than we know. So um okay, So let's yeah. So let's and now I know more about it than I than I did. I didn't know that we couldn't approve uh I didn't know that we couldn't approve the um the ConnectWise stuff until until the fifteenth. So now I know that. Speaker 4 00:43:13 I Put a report in chat. I could not get it to condense any more than that, but um just a heads up, That might be a better report that I can have shipped out to managers monthly. But I'm using pre- built ConnectWise reports. I can't build my own reports this year. I know Olivia's going to fix that for me because she would like me to do my own reports.- I sure would. Speaker 4 00:43:42 It's either that or build an app, And he doesn't want me building apps right now because he knows I have a lot more fun things to concentrate on. Speaker 6 00:43:48 Yes, yes. Okay, any questions? Vlad, I know a lot of this is new to you also, and Mario's probably new to you. Speaker 3 00:43:58 I am digesting this stuff, guys. Yeah, This is it's okay. If it's still up, Speaker 6 00:44:03 There is a lot of info here that probably doesn't necessarily apply to you Vlad. Butum. Just make sure the team enters their stuff by the deadlines, and then you can go in and approve it. And hopefully that's the end of that. But yep, I think the bottom line is just have the teams get their time entered. Yep, and the folks that we the folks that we all know are chronically late, just stay on top of them. Absolutely. Okay. Any questions. Thank you guys.
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06-16 Weekly Meeting: SCHARP Google-to-Microsoft Migration Scope and Billing
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- ## [Meeting Information] > Date: 2026-06-16 12:44:54 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Erin] [Pete] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] ## [Meeting Notes] - Topic Title: Scope and billing approach for SCHARP’s Google-to-Microsoft migration - Erin reports SCHARP is greenlit to proceed and requests guidance on whether to bill or absorb costs for a migration quote. - No prior agreement on billing; Anzor does not recall any decision. - Erin met with Ashok on budget; 2027 budget is $350,000 less than 2026. - Pete proposes scoping real effort (e.g., $25,000–$50,000) and offering a significant discount to recover some costs. - Licensing revenue expected; they already sell Microsoft licensing to SCHARP. - Conclusion: Bill for the effort with a large discount, contingent on detailed scope and effort estimate. - Topic Title: Migration scope and current environment - Objective: Migrate from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365; also handle Box migration. - Approximately 300 licenses/mailboxes; 16–26 users already on Microsoft/Teams. - Users currently use Outlook for Google Mail on computers and Gmail on phones; Outlook familiarity reduces learning curve. - Compliance, SharePoint set up; reports stored in SharePoint and Box. - Few on-prem AD dependencies; new computers are not joined to AD; minimal file shares. - Conclusion: Environment has partial Microsoft adoption; migration complexity remains due to mailbox cutover and Box move. - Topic Title: Timeline and resourcing cautions - Erin suggests starting next week; solo plus limited support could finish by end of September, including Box migration. - Pete warns not to underestimate: 300 mailboxes, archiving, legal holds, Teams rollout, client configuration. - Need clear plan for remote touch of each device; estimate ~1 hour per computer, possible parallel work depending on bandwidth. - Consider weekend task force or site-by-site weekly approach aligned with case manager availability. - Conclusion: Initial end-of-September target is likely unrealistic without a detailed plan and adequate resourcing. - Topic Title: Cutover planning and technical dependencies - Questions on MX record changes and whether full or partial cutover is feasible. - Erin will review prior notes; explores dual-delivery options before final cutover. - Risk: Partial migrations can cause send/receive issues, especially with distribution lists. - Erin notes only one distribution list exists; domain addresses are consistent. - Need to define client-side steps: switch Outlook profile to Microsoft 365, maintain Google account for OST, require user login. - Conclusion: Cutover requires confirmed MX strategy, client configuration process, and risk controls; Erin to verify prior method and consult SMEs. - Topic Title: Licensing and margin - SCHARP purchases Microsoft licensing through them; margin is already in place. - Current usage includes Power BI and SharePoint; some users have E3 licenses. - Conclusion: Licensing revenue continues; migration services billing to be discounted but not fully absorbed. - Topic Title: Security concern regarding an individual’s phone and access - Concern raised about someone installing an app (ConnectWise) on an Apple phone; directive to uninstall immediately. - Pete worries about personal security: potential exposure of emails, passwords, sensitive data saved on phone. - Erin to have someone check with the individual (with Apollo nearby) and ask directly about stored sensitive information. - Priority to protect the individual both professionally and personally; immediate attention requested. - Conclusion: Meeting paused to address urgent security matter; migration discussion to resume later. ## [Next Arrangements] - [ ] Erin to confirm MX record/cutover strategy and document the approach. - [ ] Inventory current distribution lists and mail routing specifics; validate presence of any mail archiving requirements and legal holds. - [ ] Scope migration effort in hours across prep, cutover, and cleanup (Erin, Gaston, Robert, and needed resources). - [ ] Prepare a migration quote with a large discount and clear effort breakdown. - [ ] Define device configuration process and remote execution plan (weekend task force vs. site-by-site). - [ ] Update plan for Box migration target (to Microsoft instead of Google) and timeline; confirm with stakeholders. - [ ] Confirm current license counts and Teams/Outlook deployment plan across mobile/desktop. - [ ] Address urgent phone security issue: confirm app uninstall, assess stored sensitive data, and guide on necessary credential changes. - [ ] Schedule follow-up meeting to finalize plan and timelines. ## [AI Suggestions] > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Cutover mechanics (MX record changes, dual delivery feasibility) are unresolved; define a tested plan before scheduling migrations. > 2. Timeline and resource plan are unclear; create a realistic schedule factoring 300 mailboxes and device touch requirements. > 3. Legal/compliance aspects (archiving, legal holds) were mentioned but not verified; perform a compliance assessment prior to cutover. > 4. Box migration destination change (to Microsoft) needs stakeholder confirmation to avoid rework. > 5. Security incident on the individual’s phone requires a documented response: scope of exposure, remediation steps, and monitoring.
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- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hey, sorry. This is not bad news. It's actually, I just wanted to give you a quick update. Had a conversation with SCHARP yesterday. We are greenlit to start working on a few other things, but I need from you, I need to start working together to do a quote for their Microsoft migration. And I just need to know from you : Are, we billing them and charging them for this, or we're just going to. Absorb the cost. Speaker 2 00:00:30 Microsoft migration to forum for everything or what? Speaker 1 00:00:37 Everything, so we're migrating them off of Google onto Microsoft. Speaker 2 00:00:46 Do you remember what we said we were going to do? Were we going to bill them for it? Were we not going to bill them for it? Speaker 1 00:00:52 We never said, and I checked with Anzor and he doesn't remember if we ever said anything. Um, I had a sit down with Ashok yesterday on budget. My budget for twenty twenty seven came in at three hundred and fifty thousand less than twenty twenty six. How. Speaker 2 00:01:11 Many how many licenses are we talking about here? Speaker 1 00:01:16 Uh, three hundred because there's already sixteen licenses already being utilized in Microsoft. So. Speaker 3 00:01:25 How big a project is this going to be? Cause it's going to be a lot of work. Speaker 4 00:01:29 It's, I mean, It's going to take me if. Speaker 1 00:01:34 I start on it next week. And it's just me and then a little bit of Gabby, It'd be done by the end of September because we're also migrating Box at the same time. So I was going to start the Box migration into G into Google. But if I could start the Box migration into Microsoft, don't don't. Speaker 2 00:01:52 Do not underestimate this, Christi. It's going to be you, but you got a million other things going on. Do not underestimate the effort and the timeline here. Don't set expectations we can't deliver on. It's not going to be done at the end of September. That's three hundred three hundred mailboxes, you got to figure out what are you going to do to archive the mail? Is there anything that's on legal hold? What are we doing about that? Are we moving them to Teams? Are we implementing all of this, At the same time, are they on They're not on Teams now, are they? Speaker 1 00:02:25 No. Uh, sixteen of their users are on Teams. So because they already. Speaker 2 00:02:31 So we're putting in so we're putting in Outlook. We're putting them on Are. We putting them onto an Outlook client on all their mobile devices. Or are we going to put them onto a native mail client for I? Mean, what are they using now on their phones? Speaker 1 00:02:46 So they're using uh Outlook and Gmail already. So they're using Gmail on their phones and Outlook on their computers. Speaker 2 00:02:56 Okay, so so moving them to Outlook on their computers should be relatively straightforward, hopefully. Yeah. We'll see, I guess depending on I mean at least they're used to using Outlook. Are, they all using Outlook for Google Mail or are some of them just using the browser? Speaker 1 00:03:13 All of them are using Outlook. Speaker 2 00:03:15 Okay okay so that's, At least that's a plus. So there there's not a big learning curve there at least. Um, Speaker 1 00:03:22 And by the way, compliance C is already set up on the Microsoft side, and SharePoint is already set up because they use SharePoint for reports. Okay. And everybody that has Box access also has Microsoft access. Speaker 4 00:03:36 So okay, I can talk to them about instead of moving to Box to Google, I can move Box to Microsoft. Okay. Speaker 3 00:03:46 Because what I'm what I'm thinking we can do. Speaker 2 00:03:48 Is we can say the effort behind this is X right? And if it's twenty five thousand or thirty thousand or fifty thousand dollars, and then we'll give them a huge discount. So we get some money out of it. And then but we, But we give them a giant discount, so they know they're getting a big discount. Yeah, that's how I'm thinking when we do it. But let's scope the real effort because it's going to take some legwork. For I mean, we're going to have to, aren't we going to have to touch each client to configure it? Are we going to do a script? Are, we going to do it remote or how how are we going to do this like. Speaker 1 00:04:24 So We're already I had already prepared for this part. We're already pulling them off of on-prem AD on their computers because that's all they use on-prem AD for anymore. Uh, there is very few file shares, and we were gonna go ahead and migrate those over to Google. But hardly anybody's using the file share. So. Speaker 1 00:04:45 So, um, that was going to be an easy. So any of those new computers that Robert's been working on to set up, they're not being attached to Active Directory. So once we get people But, Speaker 2 00:04:57 If you move my mailbox from Google to Microsoft three, sixty five. Speaker 1 00:05:04 We have to use the migration tool. Is there, Speaker 2 00:05:06 Anything you have to do at the client side on the client side, besides change the. Speaker 2 00:05:13 Change Outlook to now use uh on Microsoft instead of com or Google, whatever the Google thing is. Speaker 1 00:05:23 Yeah. So what we'll do is they'll still have the account attached for Google, which also saves in an OST file because of how it works. But what we would do is have them log into Microsoft on their computers, and we'll have to touch each individual one. And do it all at the same time. Speaker 2 00:05:43 Right, so how will we do that? Like on a weekend or and when we say we have to touch them, are we going to do it remote? We don't have to sneakernet this right. We can do it remote. Speaker 1 00:05:54 We can do it remote. Okay. And we'll just do that. Speaker 2 00:05:58 We need a task force to do it over a weekend or something, right? Speaker 1 00:06:01 We can, or we can do it site by site per week, like Do two sites per week and Do it when the case managers don't have clients. Speaker 4 00:06:11 So that's another option. But we have to switch. It's an hour per computer. And we can do multiple computers at once. Depending on the internet speed, it is actually a lot faster. But I I always schedule an hour. Speaker 3 00:06:44 Okay, but don't we have to switch something on the providers? Speaker 2 00:06:48 Trying to think now. I'm getting myself confused because on the if we're, if Google's hosting it now, and we go go to three sixty five, don't we have to switch everybody at the same time? Speaker 1 00:07:02 Let me dig into it because I got to remember how we did it last time. Speaker 2 00:07:06 I'm trying to because I thought we have to switch the MX record to point it. Maybe maybe not. Speaker 1 00:07:13 I think there's a way to switch it to both at the same time or have it on both at the same time, and then we can do a full cutover once everybody's logged in. But let me go back and double check my notes. Speaker 2 00:07:24 Because, the other thing you have to look for is like, are there distribution lists? And and you know, because as soon as you start to do partial migrations. Yeah, It gets really messy, because then you've got some people that are sending to a Google address. And some people that are sending to a Microsoft address. Speaker 1 00:07:45 So the great news is, is there's no distribution list. There's only one distribution list in the entire company and it's one actually. Okay, Speaker 2 00:07:54 Cause they're all they're all sending to Sharp dot com right? Sharpca dot com, Whatever it is, yeah. Theoretically, it shouldn't matter, but eye think you have to. eye think it has to all go to one or the other, because eye think it all has to either go to Google or 365, because otherwise, eyet's not going to find it. Let me, Speaker 1 00:08:14 Let me figure. Let me let me go back into my notes and see how he did it. Last Because. Speaker 2 00:08:19 We talked to, you know, talk to Charl or Neil or whatever. But but we got to put a plan together on how we do this and and then scope the actual effort in ours. Yes. Between you and Gaston and Robert and any other resources you need, And let's figure out how much work is it for the whole prep work leading up to it, how how much time is it going to take to do the cutover? How much cleanup. eyes there going to be because we know there's going to be cleanup. And then whatever that number of ours is, if it's twenty grand or whatever, Then maybe we give them a fifty percent discount because we're also going to make money eye. Think on the licensing eye hope. Speaker 2 00:08:58 The licensing comes through us, right? Speaker 1 00:08:59 eyet already does. We already made that solution. Okay. And we're already getting uh our margin on that. Speaker 3 00:09:06 So are we selling them the licensing already? For Microsoft licensing? Speaker 1 00:09:10 Yep, all of that. eye already put a lot of things in place to make it less of a headache for them. Speaker 2 00:09:16 So so so they're buying Microsoft licensing from us even though they're not using three sixty five. Speaker 1 00:09:23 They are because they are using Microsoft three sixty five. eyet's convoluted. Trust me on this. They use Power Beye and they use certain other systems, and so they all have E3 licenses on the 16 or so, 26 now, probably people because they also use SharePoint to upload a lot of their reports. Their reports are either housed in SharePoint or in Box. Speaker 2 00:09:53 Uh oh, Gaston's sending us a message that sounds like there is more to this. Speaker 3 00:09:58 eyet's making me nervous. Speaker 4 00:10:02 Uh, he did not tell him everything. Okay, lovely. Now eye am nervous. Speaker 4 00:11:00 Did anybody ask him to download ConnectWise onto his phone? Speaker 4 00:12:05 He's got an Apple. Speaker 4 00:13:11 Control is not a good name for it. Speaker 4 00:14:16 Uninstall it right away. Speaker 4 00:14:46 eye think. eye guess the good thing is he probably doesn't really have any. Speaker 2 00:15:15 Major access, does he? eye mean, the problem is he's got his email. Speaker 1 00:15:19 That's just his email. Honestly, eye don't. He doesn't know how to access anything else. All his passwords. Speaker 4 00:15:26 Are written in a handwritten in a notebook. Speaker 3 00:15:31 What else is on his phone though? Does he have passwords. Speaker 2 00:15:34 Saved on his phone and plain text somewhere or anything? Speaker 1 00:15:37 I don't think so unless it's in an image, Speaker 2 00:15:39 We need to have somebody check and see what else he saves on his phone. Christi, like I don't. If he's done all this stuff, he probably has some email or some you need to ask him. Yeah, straight up, Do you have anything on your phone that has all your passwords or your social security number, your credit card information? It's like saved straight up on your phone because they probably went on his phone and are looking or downloaded all his crap. And if he's got it on there, he needs to change all the stuff that he might have. Hopefully he doesn't. Speaker 2 00:16:11 But if he's got like a plain text message or I mean a plain, you know, like a yeah, you know what I am saying, Speaker 1 00:16:19 Yeah, I am actually textingum. Speaker 4 00:16:23 Apollo right now because Apollo sits next to him. Speaker 4 00:16:51 They're both in the conference room right now next to each other. Is today going to be a bourbon day? Speaker 3 00:17:05 I think today should have started that way with breakfast. It feels like. Speaker 4 00:17:11 I did manage to go to Starbucks and get coffee. That's my bourbon for the day. Speaker 2 00:17:20 I think we should. I mean, you you tell me, You answer Anzor's question, because this going to be up to your team to fix Dr. Barber with whatever we need to help him with. But I think you need to do everything possible to protect him. Yes, what that means is not just from work but personally. Yeah, Like I don't know what else this going to do to him and I worry about him because he's obviously. A little too trusting. And I don't even know who he was talking to at this point. Speaker 1 00:17:55 Hang on one second, Pete. Speaker 2 00:17:57 Okay. Why don't you go help take care of this? Whatever we're talking about now isn't that important. Let's pick this up tomorrow or whatever. Speaker 1 00:18:05 Hang on one second, Pete, I'm sorry. Let me, I gotta put my the phone away from me. Speaker 2 00:18:09 Go take care of this, let's talk about the other stuff tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:18:11 Okay thanks Bye- Bye.
07-09 Consultation: Barker - AI Tool Implementation (Claude)
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- Date & Time: 2026-07-09 08:58:36 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Barker ## Overview This consultation focused on implementing the AI tool, Claude, for the client, Barker. The client, represented by Will and Julius, are early adopters of Claude but have been apprehensive about a full-scale rollout due to concerns over handling sensitive financial information. They currently have a Claude Teams plan. The primary pain point is the desire to integrate Claude with their core business software, Yardi, and other Microsoft 365 applications to automate reporting and improve efficiency, while simultaneously establishing strong security controls and usage policies to protect sensitive data. The desired outcome is a fully integrated, secure, and efficient Claude environment, supported by comprehensive user training for all staff, tailored to their specific use cases in asset management, accounting, and property management. ## Background The client, Barker, is already using **Claude Teams on a yearly plan** and has a few users set up. They are eager to start the project, which involves integrating Claude with their Microsoft 365 environment, but have been waiting for the consultant's access and permissions. The consultant, Christi, has a long-standing relationship with the client and is offering additional, free training resources beyond the original statement of work to ensure the client's success. The discussion centered on defining the project scope, including SSO configuration, desired connectors (Microsoft 365, Asana, potentially Yardi), and the structure for upcoming user training sessions. ## Pain Points The client is apprehensive about a broader, company-wide adoption of Claude due to concerns about the security of **sensitive financial information**. They handle **tens of millions of dollars in transactions every month** and are hesitant to grant Claude extensive power, especially in accounting, where it could potentially code large transactions without proper human oversight. This apprehension is a significant blocker to scaling the use of Claude across their teams, particularly the accounting department, who have requested access. They need a clear game plan and robust security controls to mitigate these risks before proceeding with a full rollout. Currently, they are avoiding giving Claude access to accountants, which limits the potential efficiency gains for that team. The primary stakeholders affected are the accounting team, who are currently excluded, and the management team (Will and Julius), who are responsible for data security and operational efficiency. The client wants to automate repeatable tasks and improve efficiency but faces challenges with integrating Claude with their most critical, web-based software, **Yardi**, which is the backbone of their business. They have a vision for automating workflows, such as having Claude process automated reports sent from Yardi to their email, move files, extract data, and analyze property information for coding. However, they lack the expertise to implement this complex integration, especially concerning data security and setting up appropriate user controls and file structures within their network (e.g., sandbox folders for individual users). This technical gap prevents them from realizing the full potential of Claude for their core business operations in asset management and property management. The stakeholders include the asset management, property management, and accounting teams, whose daily workflows could be significantly improved. ## Expectations The client expects the consultant to set up and configure their Claude Teams environment, including **Single Sign-On (SSO) with their Microsoft account**. They also need guidance on and setup for key **connectors, specifically for Microsoft 365**, to enable file manipulation and data analysis within OneDrive, Word, and Excel. A major, though more nuanced, expectation is to explore and implement an **integration between Claude and their core business system, Yardi**. This integration should be designed to automate workflows like processing emailed reports and analyzing property data. The success of this will be measured by the ability to automate currently manual, repeatable tasks and improve overall operational efficiency. The client expects comprehensive and flexible training for their staff on how to use Claude effectively and securely. The consultant has already proposed extending the single training session into **multiple, longer sessions (1.5-2 hours each)** to accommodate schedules and allow for deeper learning. The client expects this training to cover not just basic use but also best practices for **security, data handling**, and how to use Claude within Office 365 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and features like Co-Work. They also anticipate receiving reference documents, cheat sheets, and recorded training videos. A key part of this expectation is the development of a formal **AI policy** to govern what staff can and cannot do with the tool, which will be critical for a company-wide rollout. ## Other Information Summary - The client currently uses Claude on a **yearly Team plan**. The consultant will need a temporary, paid license (costing **$240 for the year**) to perform the setup, which can be reassigned to another user afterward. - The consultant, Christi, offered to provide **three extra hours of training for free**, along with additional recorded trainings and reference documents, because she wants to see the client succeed. - The client is considering a company-wide rollout of Claude. In their industry, about **70% of companies** are giving AI tools to all staff. The consultant can provide a survey to gauge employee interest to help inform this decision. - The voice chat functionality in Claude is not fully developed yet. The consultant recommended "Whisper Flow" for users who prefer dictation. ## To-Do List - [ ] Send the client an email with the meeting summary, training itinerary, and sample cheat sheets. (Deadline: July 10 or 11, 2026; Owner: Christi). - [ ] Provide the email address for the consultant's administrative account (`CIT admin`) so the client can create a licensed user. (Owner: Christi). - [ ] Client to create a paid user account for the consultant to configure SSO and connectors. (Owner: Julius/Will). - [ ] Consultant to prepare materials for the multi-session user training. (Owner: Christi). - [ ] Consultant to build an AI policy for the client's staff to sign off on. (Owner: Christi). - [ ] Client to discuss internally and decide on the company-wide rollout strategy for Claude, informed by the employee survey. (Owner: Will/Julius). > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as the apprehension to adopt Claude company-wide due to security risks with sensitive financial information, especially concerning integration with Yardi and use by the accounting team. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. **Implement a Phased Rollout with a Pilot Group:** Start with a pilot program for the accounting team. Create a secure, sandboxed environment where they can test Claude on non-critical, anonymized, or historical data. This allows them to build trust and develop safe procedures before handling live, sensitive transactions. Define clear "human-in-the-loop" checkpoints where Claude suggests actions (e.g., coding a transaction) but a user must provide final approval. > 2. **Develop a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Policy Framework:** Before a full rollout, work with the client to define strict user roles within Claude. Limit access to sensitive connectors (like a future Yardi integration) and advanced features to specific, trained individuals. Co-author a clear and concise AI usage policy that explicitly states what data can and cannot be processed by Claude and outlines the protocol for handling financial information. > 3. **Focus on "Read-Only" and Analytical Integration First:** For the Yardi integration, prioritize workflows that don't involve writing data back into Yardi. For example, configure an automated workflow where Yardi emails reports to a specific OneDrive folder. Have Claude read these reports, extract key data, perform analysis, and generate summaries or flag anomalies for human review. This provides immediate value and efficiency gains without the risk of Claude making unauthorized financial entries. > 4. **Customized Security-Focused Training:** Tailor a specific training module for the accounting and finance teams that focuses entirely on security, data privacy, and risk mitigation. Use concrete examples relevant to their daily tasks to demonstrate how to use Claude responsibly. Show them how to phrase prompts to avoid exposing sensitive data and how to verify the AI's output for accuracy. This will build confidence and competence simultaneously.
- Date
- Jul 9, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:06 No, I'm gonna have to completely restart Teams for this to work. Go ahead. Do it. It's gonna take you a couple of minutes. I'll be here. Yeah, Let me let me see if I can get it to trigger Stop Okay. Speaker 2 00:00:27 Oh yeah No, I'm gonna have to reboot my entire computer because it's not being recognized on the other system either. That sucks. Jeez. Speaker 1 00:00:37 Let me see if I can push it with the this Nope, that's not working either. Well, I try. Um, it's not an issue. I will reboot my computer after this meeting, so be ready for the next meeting. Speaker 1 00:01:06 Um, alright. I'm going to finish my breakfast real quick. And I'm gonna inviteum, Speaker 2 00:01:31 I am going to invite George to this meeting. Because he's trying to set it up for Westwood. Speaker 1 00:01:43 But he did it without a project. I literally just said in a meeting three weeks ago, didn't I? That these had to be a project. Speaker 1 00:02:07 Hi Will. Happy Thursday. Good. Speaker 2 00:02:19 Morning. Um, just a quick heads up Will, I have no camera. My computer decided it was going to be a pain in the neck today and not give me camera. Speaker 3 00:02:30 Absolutely no sweat. So. Speaker 2 00:02:33 But Julius has seen my face before. I am at a client site. Okay, Speaker 3 00:02:39 You're not a chat, you're not a chat bot. You're you're a real live breathing human. Speaker 2 00:02:44 Yes, I have I have been with Crimson for almost five years now. This will be my my fifth year anniversary in a couple months. Nice Yeah flies It does especially when it's fun I love Crimson, I can say that, Will, are you a Dodgers fan? Speaker 3 00:03:07 Yeah. When we're good. Speaker 2 00:03:09 We're always good. I mean, I have the World Series ring to prove it. So Oh wow. Okay Hang on, I'll tell my story in one second. Hey Greg, are you here? I'm going to send my daughter down to grab you and with some keys so that you can go into the IDF closet. Look for Greg. Oh, he looks like he's down that stairs at the door. He's in the lobby already, and this is the key he needs. Thank you. Sorry, guys it's it's a busy morning, but anyway, well what I was saying was I do have a World Series ring. It is real; it is a staff World Series ring because. Speaker 2 00:03:59 Anzor, the owner of Crimson IT, stole me from the Dodgers almost five years ago. Wow. That's crazy. I was there. I was their IT manager, So you know, it had to be good if I was going to leave that. Speaker 3 00:04:13 For sure, that's that's awesome. Wow Well uh glad glad we got you on our team Yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:21 I love it here. Every Every. One of my clients have been amazing to work for, including Julius, Julius and I haven't worked as long. But you know, we've worked some. There's been other people in the past, so. Um, we are getting started. I do apologize for being a little bit late. I am at a client site today, But my daughter's with me so she can run all my errands for me. Uh, she she starts her internship here at this client herself. So um let's go ahead and get started. Um I am pulling up all your information. Um. Speaker 2 00:04:57 We do want to talk about how you want to set everything up. Now we are going to do Claude, but I've I'm going to clarify something. Uh the project says Claude Enterprise, However, Barker is not big enough for enterprise, and it'd be a little bit more expensive. So, we're going to drop you guys down to Claude Teams and I'm going to show you what that looks like. It's going to be less expensive than Claude Enterprise. There's some good things that come from it. You can do a lot of the same things that you can do under Claude Enterprise, the SSO configuration, connector setups, all of that. And then we're going to talk through the user trainings, how we want to do it. We have slated in the statement of work that we're going to do one all - staff session. However guys I'm going to be real with you. Um I'm giving away three hours on the training just because Claude keeps making changes. Speaker 2 00:05:52 And there's so much I want to give you guys, And I know it's not going to be easy to just fit it into an hour. So I'd like to do it, if you guys are okay with it, I'd like to do it for an hour and a half to two hours. And then do multiple sessions, so people can join more than once if they want, or if they can't all join on the same session, they can choose. Additionally, we are going to record these and I'm going to provide some additional training over recorded trainings. That I am working on right now to send out to all my clients so that they can get a better handle on how to do more advanced stuff within Claude. And this is all free to you guys. It's not included in the statement of work. I am giving this free just because we like you. I'll be honest, um, I want to see you guys succeed. Most appreciated it. Yes, I want to see you guys succeed, so I do want to just be upfront and honest about that. I know what the statement of work says, but i'll be clear i. Speaker 2 00:06:49 I don't care what statement works, says you guys are going to get extra stuff just because I like you. So. Speaker 3 00:06:55 Most appreciated your I guess in just just to level set here? Just so I understand what we're getting into here? Um are we going to go through the comprehensive training today? Or is it just an overview? And we'll get our greater team who all use Claude on that larger, you know, hour and a half to two hour call that you had referenced. Speaker 2 00:07:15 So we're going to do the we're just doing kickoff today. We're not going to do training. Um, and I'll be honest, there's there's not much this meeting will end a little early. I want to get I want to make sure I get an understanding of you as what you're looking at Claude to help you do, so that I can build it out best way possible for you. And then even thoughum and I'm looking at statement of work, let me share my screen so you can see the statement of work. Speaker 4 00:07:42 Yeah, I think we have teams uh, Team right now. Speaker 2 00:07:46 You have Claude team? Yeah, I think so. Okay. Then what? Speaker 4 00:07:50 I think we have enterprise anyways. So we have it with the Barker, we added the Barker Pacific and we have a couple of users right now, but We haven't linked anything obviously because ofum I think for Microsoft 365, we need your access permissions. So that's why we're kind of waiting to get started. Speaker 2 00:08:06 Okay, perfect. So what I'm going to ask you to do is under your Claude teams, create me account. Now this account for me is going to beum it is going to have to be paid. It's only the twenty five or the twenty dollar plan. I just need uh ownership so that I can go in and create the connectors for you guys. And then once I'm done with that, uh, you can remove me and we'll go from there. Does that sound good? Speaker 4 00:08:34 Yeah, I guess the cost changes what two hundred dollars? So it says. Speaker 2 00:08:40 Um, to add a user is$ 240. Speaker 4 00:08:43 Yeah, for a seat change. Just it says. Speaker 2 00:08:47 Can youum would. Speaker 1 00:08:49 You mind sharing your screen with me? So I can take a look? Sure. Okay Oh okay so you're okay Go ahead and hit cancel for me. Speaker 1 00:09:09 Planned available. Okay, and cancel one more time. I want to check a few things. All right, um, let's see. Go to billing for me. You are on a team plan, but you're at a higher rate. Want me. Speaker 4 00:09:40 I don't know if it's a yearly cost. I'm not hundred percent sure. I'd have to look again. Speaker 1 00:09:46 Gotcha, click on view, yep. Uh download invoice. Speaker 2 00:09:59 Yeah, It looks like a year or yeah. Okay, got it that that's whyum okay. So you guys are doing the yearly cost and thenum. Speaker 2 00:10:10 What you can do, uh, is give me a license. But, what we'll do is we'll use it for the month to set it up. And then we'll assign that license to someone else. Will that work? Speaker 4 00:10:24 Will, are you okay with that? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:10:30 That's fine. Speaker 2 00:10:31 Okay. That works because it's easy to transfer. It's just I don't want to cost you guys too much. But I do need one to finish setting up connections and stuff. So, all right, so real quickly go over the scope of work. I'll configure the SSO, which will be pretty quick. So that means that single sign on integration will happen. And honestly, I love single sign on because you just log in with your Microsoft account. So we'll set that up and then I'll validate that authentication flow, make sure it works. Speaker 2 00:11:05 Julius, when you set it up, Set it up uh set up the account under CIT admin or whatever that I'll get you that email address whatever it is. Uh that's within your organization. Uh so it's our administrative account. Does that make sense? Speaker 4 00:11:23 Yeah, I just need the email of what the new user will be, Speaker 2 00:11:26 And then I'll set it up. Good, I'll send that over to you. Um and then Will, what are the connectors you're interested in seeing? Speaker 3 00:11:37 So I think um and can you define connectors? Speaker 2 00:11:43 So Microsoft 365 um Asana actually let me just show you my connectors. Uh Anzor and I have an agreement that I use my personal plan for most things, because I do pay 200 a month personallyum so you'll see that this is under my personal planum. Connectors. Okay, so I have it set up Box, Asana, Airtable, Canva. Uh I have a GitHub GoDaddy uh, Miro, which is what I use to do my thought processes. I have Spotify just because I am bougie. I like to listen to music while I work. Uh Zapier n8n because I do things with n8n. Um i also have my personal company on here so WordPress Stripe, which always disconnects. Speaker 2 00:12:33 Next after month in PayPal. So these are the things that I can can I ask, Speaker 3 00:12:37 I think this would be a really good understanding of the context. So like for something like Spotify, what is the utility of Claude for Spotify? Speaker 2 00:12:46 So honestly, I just throw in music suggestions, and it connects back to my Spotify and and curates a list for me. So if I'm bored one day and I'm working and I have my headphones on, I'll just tell it, hey, I need some focus music. Yeah. Yeah, it's super amazing. Speaker 3 00:13:02 So really the idea here for you, correct me if I'm wrong, Is you basically have Claude? is your your brain where you can just put your queries in there? And they'll take care of everything out of Claude. Is that kind of accurate? Okay. Speaker 2 00:13:17 Yes. Uh look, I don't know if as. Speaker 4 00:13:20 Long as it has connectors for it. Speaker 2 00:13:21 Yes. Uh I'm going to give you a website. This is my personal website. This is where and Julia and George, and guys, meet George. George actually works on a different client, but he's listening in just to understand how we do Claude setups. But this is my personal website. I write a lot about different things and how to do it within Claude and AI solutions. And I talk about my minions that I've created within Claude. They're my agents. So within my Claude, I'm going to show you this is my Claude Code. This my brain. Speaker 2 00:13:58 I use Claude in a terminal services because I am old. I have been around since, you know, DOS and that's how I grew up. So like I worked on, I asked it to get me my agenda for today's meeting based off of our SOW, and it did for me. And, that was probably about thirty minutes ago because I was in the middle of other stuff. But here is like, I told it, "I needed it to adjust my calendar because um I am in Pasadena today." "I live in South Bay." Speaker 2 00:14:28 And I have a new foster kiddo coming today, so I needed it to move some things around for me. It does. My Thursday afternoon, it pulled it up just because of the change. And then it ran my briefing. And my briefing arrives in my inbox every morning. I'm just showing you high level. My briefing arrives into my inbox every morning, here it is. And it's set up to automatically roll at 6:00 AM, It goes through, here is my schedule for the day. It has it in a weird order. I got to fix that. It just started doing that. But, then all my open tickets by clients and what is on my list for the day, anything I need to worry about. So, you guys are on there somewhere. And then any of my tasks that are in my Airtable that I need to worry about. And it runs through that and then also Radar, which is one of my minions. Speaker 2 00:15:22 It gives me the latest news in AI every morning, so that I know what I need to concentrate on and send out. So with clients that are using uh Copilot, I sent this out yesterday uh about some information in Opus. And, this is these are all the things that my thing does automatically on its own. And then after this meeting is up, Uh, I will the transcript will automatically download to my OneDrive and I will tell it, hey take this meeting transcript, Grab everything you need and run with it. And what it'll do is, it'll pull for things. So if Julius, if you tell me something personal about you, it gets added to my file that I have on you. So if you say something like," What's your favorite alcoholic drink?" It will add that in there. And if I ever whenever I send out gifts and stuff to my clients, it'll remember that and they'll say," Hey heads up." Never say anything. Speaker 4 00:16:14 So I have a client he loves high end whiskey loves it. Speaker 2 00:16:19 And so, anytime I am getting ready to quarterly, I send him a gift as a thank you. It'll suggest high end classic or high end whiskeys that I should get for him. So things like that, it disseminates all my information, it uploads into various places and I do all that within Claude. Just because everything going on. And you guys can see here is my scheduled routines and I do I have my Crimson because I write blogs for Crimson. And in my blog draft for Adapto. So, I go through all of that. It does make my life easier using Claude. That's what I'm going to teach you guys, but we want to make sure the connectors are set up for you properly. I do have a connector for Asana because one of my clients loves Asana. And so they send me their tasks through Asana and then Claude pulls that information and adds it to my morning briefing. If there's any changes to Asana. That's part of its. Speaker 3 00:17:16 What is Asana exactly? Asana is a I used to use Asana. It's oh really? Yeah, it's like a task. It's like a task oriented software to help you plan. Like a planner. Yeah, okay. Speaker 2 00:17:28 And then Monday dot com as well. I have another client that loves Monday dot com and then I have another client that loves Box. And these are clients that I work, I i work anywhere between 10 to 20 hours a week on three clients. And so i have all my stuff connected in there and that way got it. If I need to, if they're asking me for, hey, can you create me a training document for this? It will save it to Box for them and it knows the location. So those are the kind of connectors I'm talking about. I have clients that will connect it to Salesforce, so that as they're working through things and updating things, all items are updated in Salesforce. So these are the things I want you guys to think about. Speaker 3 00:18:12 First of all, super impressed with, The way you've organized that, I am definitely gonna. I've already bookmarked your website. We little background, you know Julius, I were pretty early adopters of Claude. We got it. It's been so a pretty long time we've had it relatively speaking. And um, we I think the ultimate goal is to be as dialed in as you are. Um we've been a little apprehensive. I think, in adopting it across our teams just for some of the sensitive. Speaker 3 00:18:44 Information, sensitive financial information. But I guess to just in a roundabout way of getting to your question, We are looking. There's really two prongs I think of use that we've talked about focusing it on. One being kind of what you how your setup was just maximum efficiency and having connectors to. To, all the different programs we use on a daily basis for kind of our asset management acquisition team, property management team. Um And then which would be you know within Outlook uh within Excel, which we've already been using. Um you know, updating just certain repeatable tasks as much as we can organizing our day. Um I even have a foot pedal I'll press and just do talk to text for for Claude. Speaker 3 00:19:38 We haven't really utilized the connectors as much just just because I think we we were limited for what we could. So that that I think is the first prong. The second prong, which I think is a little more nuanced, That i've i've asked Julius to try to to push forward is integration with Yardi. Yardi is the backbone of our business. Yardi's uh it's a web based Yes Are you familiar with Yardi? Speaker 2 00:20:03 I am familiar with Yardi. I have quite a few clients using Yardi. Speaker 3 00:20:07 So we would love to try to integrate that as much as we can. The one balancing act, we actually have had accountants ask us to get Claude, And we've avoided letting them have it yet because we're trying to figure out the best game plan for this. Deciding what they can have Claude do because you know, we're dealing with millions of dollars every month, tens of millions of dollars in transactions every month. And we don't want to give Claude so much power where it's, It's coding these large transactions. We want to have some oversight, so we we would love to have Claude involved in the accounting. And I'll Julius, I'll let you chime in if you had any other insights to it, But I would love to figure out a way to, you know, protect ourselves, but also integrate Claude and be able to scale and be more efficient for all of our team members on the accounting side. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:21:03 I don't really have, Much to say, other than just the fact that like I, think majority of it is kind of that um three sixty five, you know, is like one of our main drivers because we use OneDrive, obviously being able to move files and records and stuff around and manipulating the data within those files is probably the most beneficial that I see. But again, I think with your guys expertise and putting controls limitations on what they can do within there. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:21:34 It's probably the best. So okay. Speaker 2 00:21:37 And we can definitely do that. One of the big things that I will train on is security, um like best practices, how to keep the data secure. And the other thing we need to do and it's not on the scope of work, but I'm adding to it is we need to get you an AI policy built for all your staff to sign off on to say what they can and can't do now. Speaker 4 00:21:58 No additional connectors because obviously if they put in a bad one. Speaker 2 00:22:02 Yes, absolutely. Exactly. Yeah, now I will tell you the voice on Claude is not there yet. It's not there even on Open AI. Um, the only place voice is actually there on is is Copilot. Um. And so if they're if they're looking for now and and I can say this one hundred percent because I do this in the mornings when my daughter's not with me. Um, my long drives to Pasadena, I'll actually open up Copilot for Microsoft because I have that license as well. And I'll do the voice chat, and it has the connections to my Microsoft, and it can tell me what's on my calendar and stuff like that. Uh, but voice chat on Claude is not there yet. Um, they haven't got it built out and it's been you know, It's one of those things where none of them other than Copilot, is there yet on that. So just a heads up for you. Connectors do not work on the voice section. Speaker 2 00:22:56 But what I do use is Whisper Flow. So, just a heads up on that because I like to dictate. So this little bar down here, I dictate using that. And so, I'll send you over a link to Whisper Flow Will. I'll put it in the chat in a moment. It's something that you might be interested in and you might like it. So I'll send that over to you. And then that way uh, you can take a look. It does allow for vibe coding if you're interested in vibe coding, Speaker 4 00:23:33 But I do think uh, there is some uses I think I I need to probably figure outum I don't know about policies, but really like procedures for us that would also integrate. Claude, because what I'm thinking is that you know again we use Yardi. There's automated reports that we can be sent to our email or to yeah to the email using 365. We might be able to um have Claude take that file that's being sent on a specific date to be moved into a specific folder. Speaker 4 00:24:17 From there, Probably gather the data and then probably analyze each one of those properties that they're probably doing and then figure out what needs to be coded or what needs to be set up. Yep. And we could probably automate all that. You can. I am thinking that's probably the best use of that with um and then possibly like having their own like little sandbox folders within our network. Mhm. Um, To have like their own personal like cloud, you know, file tree thing for what they're working on for each individual like person. I think I think that's probably what my vision kind of is for it because. Um, You know, I code a little bit in VBA. And so like I use a lot of that kind of. In the same way sort of yeah so. Speaker 2 00:25:13 One hundred percent sorry. No, you are good. What you are talking about is probably Cowork, and I did pull it up. Which yeah, I use Cowork a lot. You can see I did filter because you guys don't need to see when I was out on sick leave. How many times I searched for Denton Ranch stuff just because I am bored. I was on sick leave but here is for recipes. Speaker 4 00:25:37 Yes, I did. I did i was looking for a recipe because i couldn't find my grandmother's cookbook um. Speaker 2 00:25:43 But yeah, and it was helpful for that. So, But you can see here. I was working on new hire documentation for a client, and it searched everything. In fact, it searched outside of what I wanted to search for. But it did. Now I also had it go through and review my folder structures the other day, and because I was cleaning up some stuff on training. So, this is the training that I was working on. Cleaning up is actually some training that you guys are going to see in use. So I had it, Uh, build those out based on things I already wrote. And so it did. These are the kind of tasks that you can do in Cowork. A lot of people do it in code. And so Claude realized that and created Cowork based on that and Coworkers been out for a while, but you guys can see here's all the files I built and looked at. So I've been working on stuff. Wonder, Speaker 4 00:26:35 What happened to my Cowork for a little bit because, like I guess, they integrated it with the home menu and all Yes. Speaker 2 00:26:41 A lot. I got so many calls yesterday after that update, and not everybody got that update yet. Julia, I think you still haven't your still hasn't updated to it yet. Is that correct? She still sees Cowork up here, but yes, I i I had gotten so many calls before nine a m yesterday about that. So but yes, it is here. Um It is still as great as it was. Um I am testing out Fable on a couple of things just to try it and see um But yeah. It's actually, now that I'm used to it and it's been 24 hours, it does work. So now with all of this, we're going to show you everything. I'm also going to be building out, I got to redo some of my training videos with that newest update. But we'll be working through that as well. I am going to provide reference documents. So I already have reference documents built for things, and you guys will get a copy of these that you can send out to your staff. Speaker 2 00:27:41 Or I will be sending them out when we do uh the training. So I'm gonna pull it up so that you guys can see it. And my my my documents folders are very organized because of Claude. So, uh. Speaker 4 00:27:58 Yeah, We we I think we need still have an open ticket for like trying to change our file structure too, because yes, we don't want something to happen. Speaker 2 00:28:10 So here's my cheat sheets that I built. So I have one for accounting, executives, finance. And these are for Claude. So we can pull up the quick reference guide. I'll be sending this out to you guys. I can also send them out to your team when we do the finance or when we do the training, not finance. But this is what this looks like. We created these for you guys just to make sure that, you know, here's some prompts that you can use, We'll go through what that looks like. And then also in the training, uh, here's some sample data that I built uh for my training. Um, we'll be going over how to use Claude if my computer wants to cooperate. Um, using uh Claude in oh sure uh using Claude in um. Speaker 2 00:29:03 In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It's not showing up in my add-ons here, but it was in Word. So let me pull up Word. I did some updates yesterday. This file right here is for one of my foster kids coming in. I have a new foster kid coming this evening, so I have a Who's Who document I print out for every kid. But in here, I have Claude as well. And, so if I need to check something or have it take a look at something. I'll be going over that in training with what that looks like. Um, and then PowerPoint as well because it is in PowerPoint. So um, here's Well, my add- ons is missing from everywhere. It was there yesterday, I promise. Uh so Claude will be here as well. Uh and we can I'll show you guys what it looks like. I just need to finish fix and update my my office documents from yesterday, but we'll be showing that. Speaker 4 00:29:59 Before I have it. Online Excel right now, actually. Speaker 2 00:30:02 So perfect. So we'll be going over how to utilize that within your Office 365 applications. We'll be going over how to use Co-Work. And theum for those very last thing, we'll go through is called code for anyone that's wanting to learn that everyone else can drop at that point. So and then that's it. Um we'll. You already know you already know, how to check for usage and things like that. So I don't need to train you on that part. Most clients I do have to train. You seem to have a good feel for it right now and a good understanding, so I'll leave that part back to you. And then is there anything here that I haven't covered that you would like for me cover during training? Speaker 3 00:30:48 Just one kind of general question. I mean, you deal with a lot of different organizations that are starting to utilize this. I know, like you said, it's changing every month. It's kind of uncharted territory. Yeah. We're considering allowing this tool for possibly everybody in the organization. What are you seeing companies do? Are you are this is a powerful tool? Are, you seeing companies give it to just a select few, or everybody has it from your experience? Speaker 2 00:31:15 So, let me answer this with how Crimson does it, and then I'll answer it from how I see my clients using it. So, Crimson gives everyone a choice on tools. So, Anzor said you can either have Co-Work or I am sorry. You can either have Claude Copilot or Open AI unless you are in a manager role, or you are working with AI like I do. I am in a manager role but Uh, If anybody on my team that works with AI exclusively, that helps me with projects, they're allowed to have all three. And then everybody can choose. Now for my clients, I have multiple nonprofits and I and I want to stress that these are nonprofits that have chosen to give Claude or Copilot to everybody. And then I have nonprofits who've chose to give it to a select few because they know not everybody's going to use it. And they will watch usage. Speaker 2 00:32:09 And they will remove licenses from anybody that isn't using it. I say nonprofits because they are more of the cash stretched and cash poor organizations rather than my for profits. So I am seeing overall, about fifty fifty where organizations are giving it to their users, or organizations are only giving it to certain users, And it just depends on the organization itself in your field. What you guys do. It's more like seventy percent is giving it to all staff. I'll just be straight up honest with you, and that's the people who, especially the ones that are using Yardi and what's the other app? George, I can't think of the other app that people are using within this space. Yes, MRI. I knew it started with an M. I just couldn't remember which one. But they're they're the ones that are actually. Speaker 2 00:33:06 Adding everybody to it, and then if someone says," I really don't want to use AI," then they just don't get that license. And we do send out a survey if you ask me to, To get your entire staff's thoughts and ideas on how AI works and how they want to utilize it. So that we have a better understanding how the training. Speaker 1 00:33:26 Okay. So that's helpful. Thanks, Heather. Um. Speaker 1 00:33:38 Um, so my mom is in a meeting. She asked me if she would be able to go. I forgot where I was going. Speaker 4 00:33:45 You were talking about like seventy percent of our industry uses it. Speaker 2 00:33:48 Yes, I am sorry. Yeah, my phone started ringing so I was handing it off. Um, So on thatum it's really up to you. We can send out that survey to get an idea of who wants it and who doesn't want it uh and who's actually going to use it. And that might help you make a better informed decision. Speaker 3 00:34:11 Yeah, I think it's okay. I think we just need to sit down and collectively make a decision here soon, though, because I'd like, if everybody's going to have it, they probably should get on that training video, right? Yes. That's kind of the idea. Speaker 2 00:34:24 Yes, And I do do the multiple teams training, but I also will send you guys once I redo some of the training videos, I'll send you guys links to be able to watch that. Speaker 2 00:34:35 Okay. Contingent, Speaker 3 00:34:38 It's so fluid. It's so fluid and changing, it's hard to have a standardized, you know, approach for every employee because it's just changing so frequently. But it'll be helpful to get on and give guidance. Yes. Speaker 2 00:34:51 Yeah, absolutely. And it's changing weekly. Um, what I will do is I'm adding you guys to my list of Crimson clients that utilize Claude. And so when I see things that are changed or going out. Um, I will send updates out to my key people at each organization that's using Claude, and then let them disseminate what they need to to their staff. So I try to keep you guys informed. Great. So and then George is learning all things AI, poor guy. He's trying to catch up. Um, so that's why he's sitting in, But he actually works for a company. One of our clients is very closely aligned with you guys. Speaker 2 00:35:31 So he works for Crimson. He just he's on site at that client. So nice, yeah. That's why I was asking, what was that other app? Because I knew he would know. So, um, other than that, that's all I have for you guys. Speaker 4 00:35:49 Okay uh, we'll discuss it internally. And then we'll you know we'll probably move forward with all this. But yeah I think we need to have a discussion about like. Structure and whatever else too. So, Speaker 2 00:36:03 What I'll do, I'm going to go ahead and send you guys an update later this afternoon or tomorrow of this entire meeting and the summary. But then I'm going to send you some additional items on how my current itinerary goes for the training. So that you guys can see the itinerary. And I'll send you out some of the information that I've showed you, some of the cheat sheets and stuff so you can see. And then, I do have some clients that will come back and say, hey Crimson, I want you to focus more on this. Or focus more on that. And then I can tweak the training just for you guys. Okay. Great. Awesome. All right, well, that's all I have for you guys. I'll give you guys back 25 minutes to your day, because I know both of you are very busy. And reach out if you have any questions, You can text to me or you can send me emails. Speaker 3 00:36:49 Okay Thank you very much. Thanks guys Thank you so much Very impressive. Speaker 2 00:36:54 Thanks, thank you. Speaker 1 00:36:55 You everyone Bye Have a great weekend.
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- > Date: May 05, 2026 at 01:00 PM > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] ### Meeting Notes #### Review and Strategy for Foothill IT Assessment - A document created by Speaker 1 for Jason, based on the previous SHARP project, was shared as the blueprint for the Foothill assessment. - Speaker 4 has already extracted 12 infrastructure-related documents from Speaker 1's SharePoint for the pre-assessment. - The team agreed to customize the plan for Foothill, noting that certain sensitive procedures from SHARP (e.g., employee termination workflows) are likely unnecessary. #### Tooling and Discovery Scans - **Microsoft Audit Scripts**: Speaker 1 offered Microsoft audit PowerShell scripts to Anton's team, as Speaker 1 is at capacity due to the Anderson Group project. - **Discovery Tools**: The team discussed tools for network discovery and vulnerability scanning. - Anton's team uses Greenbone for vulnerability scans, citing easier management and better results than Network Detective, which has issues with Google Workspace. - Greenbone identifies endpoints, printers, and servers, but not network switches. - Speaker 4's team will run Network Detective. - Speaker 1 mentioned using GAM (Google Account Management), similar to PowerShell, for scanning Google environments. - For physical site discovery, Speaker 1 previously used an iPad network analyzer app to list devices and IPs, then cross-referenced the results. #### Credential Requirements for Scans - The team discussed required access levels for running scans. - Speaker 1 needs initial Global Admin access to create an app registration that enables running PowerShell scripts with read-only API permissions without repeated sign-ins. - Speaker 5 initially suggested Global Reader access would suffice but agreed to use Global Admin to set up the app registration, then revert the account to Global Reader. - The app registration token will have a defined expiration, set to the end of the audit period. #### Updating the Assessment Questionnaire and Plan - Anton proposed adding questions to the client questionnaire: - Results from previous vulnerability scans or pen tests. - Patch management procedures and logs. - Environment details (e.g., hybrid Active Directory). - Firewall subscription types (IDS, web filtering). - Current EDR, SIEM, and DLP tools in use. - Data classification and labeling rules. - Speaker 4 shared the questionnaire in chat for Anton to add these questions. - The shared project plan, based on SHARP, will be updated for Foothill, removing irrelevant phases and tasks. The document is a blueprint for Jason to modify. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Anton to add the additional questions to the assessment questionnaire form and share the updated version with the team. - [ ] Jason to review and update the assessment plan document for the Foothill project, removing SHARP-specific items and tailoring phases/tasks. - [ ] Request initial Global Admin access from the client to create the app registration for scanning; after setup, revert the account to Global Reader with the token expiring at the end of the audit period. - [ ] Speaker 1 to train Gabby and Kevin on running the PowerShell audit scripts and using GAM for Google Workspace scanning. - [ ] Kick off the assessment next week, starting with discovery tasks and obtaining required credentials. - [ ] Conduct physical inventory and on-site audits across all nine sites; define logistics, assignments, and schedule. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Responsibility for running Network Detective was noted for Speaker 4's team (Kevin or Gabby), but final confirmation of the assignee and timeline was not established. > 2. Physical on-site audits of nine sites were confirmed, but specific logistics, team assignments, and the schedule for these visits were not detailed. > 3. The roles and responsibilities document was reviewed, but a finalized version with clear assignments for all team members (including Seg and April) was not formally agreed upon.
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- May 5, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:06 I Sent you. Speaker 1 00:00:10 I Sent you a present. There you go. Speaker 3 00:00:14 Yeah, I saw it. Let me open it for the group. Speaker 1 00:00:19 I made that for Jason based off of our SHARP, And then I took out the SHARP stuff that wasn't needed based off of meetings. Speaker 2 00:00:28 So this is. Speaker 4 00:00:30 I love this. This is great. So, Christy, What I did was I went through your SharePoint folders and I grabbed multiple documents, 12 in particular from the pre-assessment. So basically all infrastructure that we would need in all of these schools. Speaker 1 00:00:56 Uh, just a heads up for you. Some of the aspects of sharp, I can actually talk freely because where I'm at right now. Some of the aspects of SHARP was kept under wraps that only Anton and I knew what was going on intentionally. I don't think we have that issue with Foothill, that we need to get that involved. Um, because they're. Speaker 4 00:01:21 I saw some of your results and I spread the results in sections where it was. I think the IT runbook, Speaker 1 00:01:33 There was things in there about disabling access and terminating employees. Yeah, we I doubt we need that. Yeah. Um, just a heads up for you guys or more for Anton. Um, oh wait, I can't take that back. I'm sorry. Sorry, I've had this migraine all day. Enough forgetting that I already took time off work. Um, for Anton, would you like? My Microsoft audit PowerShell scripts. The film was released on 24 July 2015. Or do you want to use your own tools? All of them. When I run an audit. Speaker 5 00:02:15 We can run both of them that we have on our end and just like we did for Charlotte. We can just combine the results. They are just kind of like Confirming each other. Yeah, I. Speaker 1 00:02:31 Just don't want to run them this time. So I was going to let you have someone on your team, take them and run them. Because I am heavily. U h at capacity and beyond at this point because of Anderson Group. Speaker 2 00:02:48 Okay. Sure. Um, oh, sorry. Speaker 4 00:02:54 You mentionedum Network detective, and I asked Anton about his his team running that. He says he just runs Greenbone, so then my team would run Network Detective. I mean, I can give it to you know Kevin or or Gabby. To run that utility. Speaker 1 00:03:13 Yeah, I mean, Anton's team is the one who manages it. I don't even know if my login still works for it. I haven't run it in a while. Speaker 5 00:03:23 If you want to run additionally Network Detective, we can run it as well. Speaker 4 00:03:29 So, Anton, help me understand what your discovery does. The Greenbom. Speaker 5 00:03:40 V Ulnerability now it just vulnerability scan. Speaker 4 00:03:50 Does it find the same stuff that Network Detective does? Speaker 5 00:03:53 The name of the town is derived from the river. It's a little bit like different because Network Detective not only for vulnerability scans. It's checking additionally. Active Directory or Microsoft three six five. We start utilizing uh green bond. Because, in our opinion, It's like we most of the time we have an quarterly vulnerability scans, and it's easy for us to manage green one instead of the. Network detective because network detective is not working fine with the Google. Speaker 5 00:04:36 Work space. Speaker 1 00:04:38 Got it. Okay, that's awesome. Speaker 5 00:04:39 So we're covering at least yeah, So that's why we did switch to the green bond, and we manually updating Database for CVEs. And yeah. Okay, okay. That's why green bond and not the network objective. Speaker 1 00:04:54 Gotcha. That works because I, I gave Gabby, a short overview of GAM because that's how I access. Um, Google. It's a Google account management tool. It's very similar to PowerShell for Microsoft. Um, And so it's basically running the same scans that I would run on Microsoft with Google. Speaker 4 00:05:22 Now, the infrastructure scan. If if I put a tool, uh, which what tool would we have run in the past? Show me, workstations servers. S QL, just give me basically all of it. Speaker 4 00:05:47 I'm Not going to be able to do that. Are you asking me what we are running for? This is my first scan. I've never I haven't You know, I I I used a tool at my former company, where I knew every device. Speaker 1 00:05:57 I'll be right back, you guys. Hi. Speaker 4 00:06:01 Or I knew every device on the network. It's. Speaker 1 00:06:04 Canceled for today, but because I have to do a briefing, Speaker 4 00:06:11 It's okay. Speaker 1 00:06:11 No worries. There is one on Thursday. I'm listening on an email later today, but I got scheduled. Speaker 5 00:06:18 Greenbon is going to show you the S points, but it's not going to show you like exactly with the Switches or. Any network devices. It's gonna show you the printers. servers endpoints, but it's not going to be able to show you the Switches. Speaker 4 00:06:43 Oh, okay. Okay, so it gets us most of the way there. Greenbone does. I mean, I mean the switches. Um. Speaker 4 00:06:58 Now, what kind of detail does it do? You have a sample of a scan that you had done just so I can see. The film was shot in black and white. Speaker 2 00:07:05 The name of the town is derived from the river. Just give me a second. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The city is located on the banks of the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:07:38 The name of the town is derived from the river. Jason, so mostlyum Gabby and Kevin will be working on this one. So I need to create a ticket for them, right? Yes. The film was released on 24. Speaker 2 00:07:50 June 2016. Okay. Speaker 2 00:08:01 Yeah. I'm not sure. Speaker 4 00:08:06 The film was shot in black and white. Christy, when you came in. Too sharp. Did you do a physical discovery? Obviously, right? You walked into their data centers. Now we will have nine sites here. Did you go to all the sites? Speaker 1 00:08:17 I did go to all the sites. However Oops. Hopefully you guys didn't hear that crash. Um. Speaker 1 00:08:29 I went to each site, but I also ran a network analyzer. I was trying to pull it up to see if I had that. Speaker 2 00:08:38 Still saved. The film was released on 24 June 2016. I think it's my cell phone. I mean, not on my cell phone. I think I had it on my iPad. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:08:57 It's called Net Analyzer. Speaker 1 00:08:60 And I did have it on my iPad, that's where it is saved. I'm waiting for it to pop up. Speaker 2 00:09:08 The name of the town is derived from the river. Yeah, it's not on here, Speaker 1 00:09:13 But it has tools on it. I don't know if you can see it. Um So I run it against that and I run it on the land. I'm sorry. So I'll get a listing of everything that's there and all their IP addresses. And so like right now, I'm showing I'm on the ability first. And then I can share that and see everything that's on there. All the different systems, And it allows me to send it as a CSV and put it into my OneDrive. And that's where I put all the information. So I did go to all the sites and do that, but I also. Speaker 1 00:09:55 U m, Had the network tool that they sent over to me to show me everything that's there. Speaker 4 00:10:03 Okay, so you already had something in advance. Speaker 1 00:10:06 Yeah, and I just double checked it against everything. Speaker 5 00:10:09 I'm not sure. This is how the report from the Greenbone looks like. Speaker 2 00:10:19 The name of the town is derived from the river. The first is the most important. This for internal and just give me a second. This an example from Hanae's. Speaker 2 00:11:02 The film was shot in black and white. From last year. So it does it. Speaker 4 00:11:15 Break it down since you have, forty servers and. Does it give you kind of a sorry? Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:11:30 If we're. Speaker 5 00:11:30 Talking about external scans, We definitely need to know like IP addresses or domain names just to run those scans externally. For internal scan, we're gonna need to know the networks to run the. To configure Nook to be able to run those scans. Speaker 2 00:11:54 I'm not sure. So. Speaker 2 00:12:03 U h, Speaker 4 00:12:04 What? So I'm guessing Christie ahead of time. You I mean, we're going to ask them to give us whatever they have, right, whatever information they have, that'll tell us. A lot ahead of time. Yeah. And so we are going to uh ask them to provide us whatever diagrams. Inventory lists, anything that they have. And then we're going to run our own tools. Plug in the Greenbone Analyzer, the NUC on site, and it's going to run. And then We are going to get that data and write it to them. We're going to also run. Separately, we are going to provide them kind of a HIPAA. Speaker 4 00:12:59 Like, it's part of the scan that's going to show them. They have compliance issues, right? It's its own system. Speaker 2 00:13:07 I'm not sure what you mean. They are in a hybrid environment. Speaker 5 00:13:18 They have on- premise AD. I. Speaker 4 00:13:25 Don't know this. I don't know this answer. Speaker 4 00:13:30 U m, I'm gonna share my screen real quick. This part of the IT assessment. Speaker 1 00:13:41 I am going to come off video because I am, you guys are very robotic on me. So half the time I Didn't realize you said something because I didn't hear it. And the other half the time it's, It's like your mouth is moving at normal speed, and your words are going at slow speed. Speaker 2 00:14:00 So. Let me. Speaker 4 00:14:04 See if I asked that question earlier. Network infrastructure. Basic network. Firewall security, internal network, VLANs, and speed wireless server and systems. The main controllers identify virtual. Speaker 2 00:14:24 The city is located on the banks of the river. Speaker 2 00:14:31 Re covery, business continuity, Speaker 4 00:14:34 Security posture assessment. Identity and access, physical security. Speaker 2 00:14:41 I don't see that in here. Documentation. Licensing and compliance. The town is located on the banks of the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 5 00:14:58 Did, we ask them about here on your questionnaire form for previous vulnerability scans or pen tests? Speaker 5 00:15:15 Yeah, If they have like previously uh just to add vulnerabilities previous vulnerability scans. And if they run any pen tests, and additionally, do they have like. Speaker 5 00:15:29 Pro cedure for patch management and the last patch management log. I think it's good to know this as an additional. Questions for them. Speaker 4 00:15:47 Results from previous vulnerability scans, running Nmap at DoU. Can you run any tests? Speaker 4 00:15:56 Pro cedure for patch management. Are you in hybrid AD mode, right? I'm not going to be able to do that. Speaker 2 00:16:03 I'm not sure. No, just ask them if they. Speaker 5 00:16:11 Are hybrid on the hybrid environment. They have like like cloud M, three, six, five. And additionally, the on prem Active Directory server. Speaker 5 00:16:31 Can you please share once more that questionnaire form? Speaker 4 00:16:35 Oh sure, you want me to drop it in the chat? Speaker 5 00:16:37 Yeah, yeah. I just got a new probably. And there, what kind of subscriptions they have for firewalls. Like, ideas, suggestion or like I don't know like web filtering. What kind of EDR they are using and if they have, Any CM tools? DLP, I think DLP did ask them for. But if you don't mind, can you please share that questionnaire form with me? And I'm going to add some. Any additional questions? The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from. Speaker 2 00:17:22 The river. Speaker 2 00:17:32 There's the I shared them in the chat for you. All we have. In charge. The first is the most important. Speaker 2 00:18:15 I'm not going to be able to do that. Okay, so there's that. In. Speaker 4 00:18:25 The document I shared with you, there was a checklist for on- site discovery. And that included some of the immediate lockdown and some of that stuff. Speaker 2 00:18:36 So. We don't need that. Speaker 2 00:19:00 So Christine, Speaker 4 00:19:02 When we get on site, We're going to ask them for. We're going to ask them to provide us with credentials. Is that right? Correct. I. So that would include domain admin, inter ID. Yes. Speaker 5 00:19:21 In my opinion, I I I know this like we have some. Speaker 5 00:19:27 Different point of view with the Ansor, but I'm always insisting that we supposed to get only read- only access. We don't want okay, just in future is gonna prevent any like, issues. Whenever previous IT starting to complain that we did change something. Speaker 4 00:19:49 So you need something for running your scan, right? Speaker 1 00:19:52 I do. Yes, correct. I need an app registration. Which is why I asked for the global admins so that I can write my app registration. Speaker 5 00:20:00 Christy, but uh I think global reader gonna be enough for us. Speaker 1 00:20:05 Yeah, but I can't, I can't connect my app with global reader. Because I need to create an app registration. So, for example, if you go look at. I know. Speaker 2 00:20:19 Yeah, yeah. I gotcha. Speaker 1 00:20:20 Yeah. Mhm. I mean, I can walk them through creating that, but I'd rather I'd rather just do it myself because it. It doesn't take me long. Speaker 2 00:20:31 It takes me like twenty minutes. The name of the town. Speaker 4 00:20:36 Is derived from the river. So how do I present that when I ask them, are you going to, so Christie, you're still going to interact with us at some level on this? Speaker 1 00:20:46 If you want me to, I will absolutely do that for you. Speaker 4 00:20:50 Well, and I think. Maybe at least for the for the um when just maybe for a short period when we ask them for credentials. For this, I need to make sure I understand, and you can tell me up front. Uh, so I can explain it. I just need to explain it. Uh, for the app registration, yes, we need. Um, that's why you ask for domain administrator. And try to get global admin credentials. Is that right for the app? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:21:25 Because most IT people Aren't great at doing things. Speaker 2 00:21:29 Like that and knowing what I'm talking about. Speaker 4 00:21:34 So walk me through what your app does. What the app does. Speaker 1 00:21:39 So it enables me to run PowerShell scripts in the background with credentials. And basically, so what I'll do, let me let me just show it to you like this. What what account am I in? Okay. Let me go into Cotson. Speaker 2 00:21:59 Because that's a good one to show. The name of the town is derived from the river. I'm going to share my screen. Speaker 1 00:22:07 And just a heads up, this is when I I don't know if you ever see, hey, I'm running scans against so and so. I send that out in the infrastructure and security team. So basically, um. Speaker 2 00:22:22 Let me get signed in. The name of the town is derived from the river. Yeah, makes me enter the code. Hang on. Let me go. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was released on 24 June 2016. Here we go. C ousin I don't like how this does it. Speaker 1 00:22:58 I miss it in IT glue where my last thing that I did for on a client was on the. Main page, and that's because this isn't in IT glue. Never mind, I got to go in. I mean, Speaker 2 00:23:10 This is an IT glue, not Hootu. Speaker 2 00:23:20 What the hell? Okay, I'm going to click IT Glue again, but I'm going to go up here and click it. You guys tell me if I'm doing something wrong here. Okay, that link worked. Never mind. Katsun. Speaker 5 00:23:40 Tristan, I put in chat, four more items we need to add to the questionnaire form. Like, See any SIEM and agents firewall type of subscription with additional features anti spam, anti phishing protection. And the last one, do they have like data classification labeling or and DLP rules for the labels? Speaker 4 00:24:04 Right, and that'll be uh, that's for the let's see here. Speaker 2 00:24:09 I'm not going to be able to do that. I know it. Speaker 2 00:24:25 Okay, so this. Speaker 1 00:24:26 Is an app I created. It's called Crimson Read Only. Anytime you see that, it's only a six- month token that I get as a secret. This is all the API permissions that I add, and they're all read- only. They're not read- write. So none of these will have any read- write capabilities at all. And. So this allows me to run any of the scans I need to run against a client. Speaker 1 00:24:52 So on this one, I'm looking for DLP stuff. I'm looking for files that should not be where they're at, and I'm going to make recommendations off of that. I'm also looking on as far as MFA and compliancy for them because I'm going to be enabling Copilot. So basically, for this, this is all I give it. Now once I've gone into the app registration and built this. Then they can take and give us a global reader after that. But I just need to be able to do that, and I need to be able to take the secret right here. I do put an expiration date on it, and the value is what I add to my system. The value, and then this data right here, the display name all the way down to directory ID. And that's all I need. And then I can run everything after that because I'll only have read access. Speaker 1 00:25:45 And that allows my PowerShell scripts to run without me having to sign in every time. The name of the town is derived from the river. Because I will have to sign in 20 times for just three PowerShell scripts, and it gets quite annoying. Speaker 2 00:26:09 I'm not going to be able to do that. So initially we're gonna need the Global. Speaker 5 00:26:14 Ad min account, we are creating the app. Registering into the tenancy, and then we can ask them to change their permissions from. Global admin to the global reader. Yes. Correct? Yeah, sounds good for me as well. Speaker 1 00:26:35 Makes life a little easier. Speaker 5 00:26:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we can put the Yeah. Speaker 5 00:26:45 Time life for the token until the end of the audit period. Yeah, just in case. Yeah, yes, sounds good. Sigrid, can you note this part so when we're gonna meet with the client, we're gonna provide them with. Speaker 2 00:27:03 This is a action plan. The town is located on the banks of the river. Speaker 1 00:27:20 The Name of the town is derived from the river. And Jason, I can teach Gabby and Kevin how to run the same audits I'm running. There's nothing special to it. I can make the PowerShell scripts for you guys at work. And be generic. All you have to do is plug in the values. Right now, I store all values for clients in Key Vault. And I can grant them access to that keyvault. And they run their scripts based on that. Speaker 2 00:28:01 So this is the I'm looking at the checklist. Speaker 4 00:28:04 So under security posture. Are. Speaker 1 00:28:11 You looking at the checklist I sent you or the other one? Speaker 4 00:28:15 U m, it was just the one that I got in sharp. Yeah, but I just. Speaker 1 00:28:21 Yeah, I made it. I made it better on this new spreadsheet. Speaker 2 00:28:26 The name of the town is derived from the river. Where does that one end? Speaker 1 00:28:31 I put it in. I put the link in the uh, in the other chat that I created. Or that Seg created, sorry, not that I created. Speaker 2 00:28:41 Seg's better than me at this kind of stuff. Speaker 2 00:28:55 Inter nal sync up or the. Here, let me stick it in here. Oh, she said that one. That one. Yeah. I can't paste it. The name of the town is derived from the river. I have. You combined so this is all the and this is everything. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:29:24 So you have just all these sheets that have all the discoveries. So the three that I posted, that was just I just sharpened the example. You did a much better job. Speaker 1 00:29:38 Thanks. I just wanted to make it a little bit easier on you. Cause, you know, I think at a million miles a second and not everybody can keep up. Speaker 4 00:29:48 The name of the town is derived from the river. No, but this is so I'm going through this now. This is really good. Speaker 1 00:29:55 Thanks. I made everything for you just to make it easier on that part. I was going to get you the templates for everything else a little bit later. Speaker 2 00:30:08 Okay. Yeah, but I'm trying to do the last one and it won't let me. I love you. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:30:20 It's all good. The name of the town is derived from the river. I'm sorry. I'm going to share my screen if you don't mind. Speaker 2 00:30:46 Cause I want to talk to, I want Anton to look at this with me real quick. The name of the town is derived from the river. So, Antares is the. Play Pete. The name of the town is derived from the river. And I am here. Speaker 4 00:31:18 Yeah. So are we covering So you want firewall subscription, web filtering, IDS. Is that. Speaker 4 00:31:35 Okay, So they asked the question: inventory current EDR and eStat. Point protection, identify unprotected endpoints. Speaker 5 00:31:53 No, I'm not seeing DLP here. We can add it. Speaker 4 00:31:57 And. So if I update this one, Christy, does it get updated across everything? Speaker 1 00:32:05 So yes, so I put this in its own folder. So that it's just for Foothill. So let me do this. Let me give you access to the Foothill family folder. Speaker 5 00:32:18 Quick question, did we address to them? About most recent incident with the relics. As I see there in the notes. Oh, it's. Sha rp found Ground Strike Plus. Speaker 1 00:32:41 That's sharp. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:32:43 Oh, it's for Sharp. Speaker 1 00:32:44 Yeah, I built it off of Sharp. So. Speaker 5 00:32:47 It was so far sharp with yeah, Speaker 1 00:32:51 Yeah. I in fact weum we are getting rid of Trellix. We just ended that one because they have Trellix and CrowdStrike all on the same PCs. Speaker 5 00:33:00 Sorry, my bad. I was confused. Like we were talking about foothills and then. Okay. Speaker 1 00:33:06 Yeah, no, it's all good. Speaker 5 00:33:07 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 2 00:33:09 I think. The name of the town is derived from the river. Your new remediation. Okay, so this is. The city is located in the central part of the island. Speaker 2 00:33:48 The name of the town is derived from the river. All right, this is so then we'll just add the. Speaker 4 00:33:52 Seam agents, firewall subscription, anti- spam and anti- phishing, and then data classification. We'll have those four categories. Speaker 4 00:34:03 Mhm. We have some of this right here, right? Yeah. Mhm. Speaker 5 00:34:09 But as I see, it's security standardization. It's already like a Plan what we should do with the first phase, second, third one. Correct? Speaker 2 00:34:23 Yes. Yes. Sharp was. Speaker 1 00:34:32 Sure was an interesting beast. So I copied and pasted everything over and just hadn't had a chance to fully. Speaker 1 00:34:40 Ver ify that I cleaned everything out, so my apologies on that. Speaker 2 00:34:45 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. You're going to. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 4 00:35:10 So, Christie, so from my perspective as I am leading this, I am going to be asking them. I am just going to be front and center getting these details from them. So that is So discovery tasks, right? So access. So let's see. Individual meeting with internal IT. So you and I will do that. It says you and I. Obtain admin credentials, so I get this. I'll get this here. So I'll forward the email Q and A. Network detective rapid-fire domain scan, social AD scan. Okay, so then again contact. Sender contract collection. Okay. Speaker 4 00:36:07 Visual on-site audit of all nine sites since week two. So answer does this, compile findings, fix security gaps. Document infrastructure inventory servers network endpoint apps Back at the R change management policy review. I'm not sure. So where do I ask, For policies. Speaker 1 00:36:40 I usually ask for that up front when we start everything and say," Hey, I am going to need this so that I can check against compliancy." So I'll usually ask that in the get- go. Speaker 4 00:36:56 That should be up here on week two, right? Or week one? Speaker 1 00:36:59 Yes, week one. Basically, I say, hey, I'm going to need everything you've got. What can you give me? Speaker 2 00:37:07 Okay, So then I'm just going to change. If you don't mind, I'm gonnaum I'll. Speaker 4 00:37:17 I'll spend some time after this call. Actually, I could probably even just do it now. Speaker 1 00:37:23 Justum, this is your document. Change whatever you want. Okay. Cause this is I just made it as a blueprint off of my stuff. And at the end of the day, like do what you need to do to make it work for you. Speaker 4 00:37:43 And so, you and I are going to live in this. Well, I think we're all going to kind of live in this document, right? Speaker 2 00:37:49 Yes. Yeah. The first two were built in 1937 and 1940. Make it as colorful as you want it, Sek. Okay. Speaker 2 00:38:14 I'm not sure what you mean. And then from there, we can put it into. We can put it into uh. Speaker 1 00:38:24 Connectwise into that project. My brain is functioning, I promise. It's just been a lot going on today. Speaker 3 00:38:33 Especially today for you. Speaker 1 00:38:36 Good Lord, if I get another AI project, I'm I'm. Not gonna have any free time until July. Speaker 4 00:38:46 Do you think that we get access to their data centers? Because they want to be done by week two. With all of this. Speaker 1 00:38:54 I think you're going to get everything. Speaker 4 00:38:57 Everything's going to be done exactly. I mean, that's the goal, right? Yeah. Um. Okay. So, um, Dave's on. We're plugging in the Nook. Speaker 4 00:39:10 And then we're running our we're going to get get access, start scanning, get one and two. But Maybe day two, I get keys to them and the team drives around and starts doing. Physical inventory, yeah, taking pictures of the sites, Speaker 2 00:39:30 That sort of thing. The name of the town is derived from the river. The games are played in a round robin format. Speaker 2 00:40:10 The film was released on 24 June 2016. Speaker 4 00:40:25 The city is located in the central part of the island. I think I'm going to do is same probably can wait one. Yeah. The film was released on 24 June 2016. Speaker 2 00:40:29 I'll be back. Speaker 2 00:40:43 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was shot in black and white. So what's the IT manager's name, Mustis? Speaker 1 00:41:03 I couldn't understand. I'm just hoping I I spelled it correctly. Yes. Speaker 3 00:41:10 Let me check that with Ibra, because I think they had a meeting with him a while ago. With Pete. Speaker 2 00:41:16 The name of the town is derived from the river. She was a member of the Republican Party. Are you signing her out? I'm so not. Uh, yeah, at this point. Okay, well. I told her to check in with you first. Please. I Sorry. I think it's It might be time for a little bit more coffee. The name of the town is derived from the river. Coffee and chocolate. The name of the town is derived from the river. I'm sorry. Speaker 2 00:42:14 Prescriptions. The name of the town is derived from the river. I'm not sure. Thank you, Leo. So, such a thing. I am not a good swimmer. Speaker 2 00:42:49 The name of the town is derived from the river. Yes. The town is located in the central part of the county. The name of the town is derived from the river. I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Speaker 2 00:44:02 I'm not sure. Speaker 4 00:44:03 The name of the town is derived from the river. I added those. Three things that you oh, let's send agents. We already kind of have that up at the top under security and innovation. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:44:11 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:44:24 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. So this is just an assessment. So I'm going to share the screen again. Okay. Speaker 4 00:44:40 So we are doing. It says here, um, phase one, phase two, phase three and phase four. So we're just doing a phase one, right? Mhm. Just discovery assessment. Speaker 2 00:44:57 Cor rect. Now. Speaker 4 00:45:10 You can add to it if you want. That is just a that's just a free area to plan out, but that's basically how I Went through my phases with sharp, but at the end of the day it's going you can. Speaker 1 00:45:24 Make changes because we don't know. We don't know what the assessment is going to show. Speaker 2 00:45:31 If that makes sense. The film was released on 24 July 2015. Go through, and I'll update you to. Vendor and contract review. So this is basically I'm not sure. I will. The film was released on 24 July 2015. The film was released on 24 June 2016. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:46:24 So this one we're not doing because why not. Can I delete this? Speaker 4 00:46:35 Yeah, delete whatever you want because like I said, I just I'm did use filler data. But all that came from the Sharps tools. Speaker 4 00:46:47 We'll probably want that in the future for, you know, deployment. Speaker 1 00:46:52 I can make a whole nother one for you anytime. Speaker 2 00:46:59 All right, it's creating a mediation. That's good. Cloud modernization. It is one of the oldest. Physical transition. Speaker 2 00:47:25 Oh, okay. So this is important to me. The first is the most important. The name of the town is derived from the river. Okay. Speaker 2 00:48:16 The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 4 00:48:22 Anton, here's your section: security assessment leads, security stack owner if conversion, look at Rainbow network protective scans. Sponsor, executive interviews, count oversight. April Uh, note taker. Se g, where are you at in here? Is this you? PM. Speaker 2 00:48:49 I'm not sure what you mean. So. Speaker 3 00:48:59 I'll be like your project coordinator, so tell me things you need to ask me or do things for you. Speaker 2 00:49:05 The name is derived from the Latin word for" to be silent". The town is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 2 00:49:30 The film was shot in black and white. The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was released on 24 June 2016. The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. Okay. Don't you agree with us? We don't need transitions. The film was shot in black and White. Speaker 4 00:49:45 I s April also going to be doing support, or is that going to be you, Sig? Speaker 3 00:49:48 I think that's me. Speaker 2 00:49:54 And well, Speaker 1 00:49:54 Anzor, I mentioned her as note taker, which is why I put her in there. Speaker 2 00:49:58 Yeah. Yes. I'm not sure. Speaker 2 00:50:17 These are all the conversations that Anza will have. This is what the update is about. Here's the important moment. I'm sorry. So. Speaker 4 00:50:43 Chris, you met with them uh today. Speaker 1 00:50:47 No, I have not. Oh, okay. They have a CFO or COO named Chris or CIO named Chris. It's not me, I promise. It's not me. It's another Chris. Speaker 2 00:50:60 The name of the town. Speaker 4 00:51:06 Is derived from the river. So so you were on that call uh April. April, were you on that call? Speaker 3 00:51:11 No, it's I think it's just. And Zuri and April was on the call a while ago with them. Speaker 1 00:51:18 Let me see, April sometimes records it and when she does, it goes into my recording system. Let me see if there's any notes from it. Speaker 2 00:51:28 The first season of the show was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. Speaker 1 00:51:35 She's a great note- taker. She uses my my note- taking app. So it all goes in my database. Speaker 2 00:51:48 H mm. There is quite a bit of meetings in here. Speaker 3 00:51:53 She does have a lot of meetings. Speaker 1 00:51:56 Yeah. Let me see which ones are mine and which ones were her. Consult. Yeah, here it is. Foothill introductory meeting between she's already nabbed it all. I'm not sure. The city is located on the banks. Speaker 4 00:52:16 Of the river. So do we have a project folder where we store all these documents? Speaker 1 00:52:21 Yes, I gave you guys that. It is in my I put it in the chat already. I will uh I'm gonna, yes, Speaker 4 00:52:33 Oh, I see it. Thank you, Speaker 1 00:52:35 Yeah, and I put in there. There's a meeting uh notes section, it's where meeting notes automatically go from my note taking system to So that Ray can have it. Speaker 2 00:52:48 U h, this is some really good notes. They talked a lot. Let me copy this summary. Uh, hang on one second. Copy. Speaker 1 00:53:06 Summary. Here you go. Okay, cool. I signed out on everything. It's in an MD format, so. I do apologize,'cause that's how the system pulls it over. Speaker 2 00:53:19 The film was shot in black and white. The name of the town is derived from the river. Let me include the transcript from this. Speaker 1 00:53:41 And adjust. The name of the town is derived from the river. Ad just this document to highlight some of the things that came from this transcript, because this has got some good information in it. Speaker 2 00:53:57 The name of the town is derived from the river. The city is located in the central part of the island. The city is located on the banks of the river. The town is located on the banks of the river. The town is located in the south of the county. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:54:37 I think it's nap time. I got a conversation with Tim from Signal Hill in six minutes, so no nap time for me. Speaker 3 00:54:45 Oh, us too. We have like a mini break. Mini break. Speaker 1 00:54:49 Twenty five minutes. No rest for the wicked. You. Speaker 2 00:54:57 Know, thank you. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:55:12 So there will be like interviews in within the I T stuff. Uhhuh. The town is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 2 00:55:16 I saw that. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 4 00:55:33 Okay. And so, Anton, This is a great opportunity for your team to come in and just take over Sublime. It sounds like they're on the struggle bus. They don't. They're just overwhelmed. Speaker 5 00:55:49 Mhm. Like everyone here in United States, everyone overwhelmed. Everyone. Speaker 1 00:56:04 I Don't know what you're talking about. I'm not overwhelmed. Speaker 5 00:56:09 It Was the first time that a woman had won the prize. Eight minutes left. Speaker 1 00:56:19 Four minutes. Four minutes. Speaker 3 00:56:23 Oh my gosh Good luck with your meeting with Tenzou. Speaker 4 00:56:30 Well guys, I think this is a great start. The name of the town is derived from the river. Chris, I really appreciate your mentorship on this because. I am not afraid to get in front of people and talk, but I just want to say the right things. And so this gives me a great starting point. I want to be organized, focused on the right things. And then Anton, Whatever my team can do to assist you guys in making your your job a lot easier. Is also my goal. Speaker 1 00:57:06 Be like Anton. Speaker 2 00:57:12 I will, I'll just keep reviewing this. I'm going to study the heck out of it, make sure I'm on top of it. And we start next week, I guess maybe Monday. Speaker 1 00:57:23 And things, I think so. Speaker 4 00:57:26 Okay, I'll get those details. The name of the town is derived from the river. So I am guessing we'll have. So there is at one point I am going to have to, I don't know. There is some options here for. Assessment tools training. Do I need to go through that? Or do I just rely on you guys to handle all that? Speaker 1 00:57:48 The best thing I have learned is with Anton's team, you can trust them to handle all of that. You don't need to learn. I haven't need to pick up anything since Anton came on because he's handled it all for me. So. Now he might disagree. Speaker 4 00:58:11 Um, it's Anton and his team. So I'll just be the pretty face. And then hands on keyboard for a little bit of it. Good. Well, I don't want to keep your time. Thanks everybody. No worries. Speaker 1 00:58:27 Thanks Jason. All right, thank you. Bye. Okay. Speaker 1 00:58:33 The name of the town is derived from the river.
06-17 Foster Placement and Professional Collaboration
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- Jun 17, 2026
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07-08 Meeting: Copilot Model Selection Issue, Claude Interface Changes, and Sonnet 5 Update
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- > Date: 2026-07-08 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Known Issues with AI Copilot Models - **Description** - Some users cannot select certain models, such as GPT or Claude, within Copilot. - The dropdown menu that should list options like GPT and Claude is missing one or both. - This is a known Microsoft issue. An email has been sent to key client contacts who use Copilot. - **Conclusion** - If clients call about this, inform them it is a known Microsoft problem. - Create tickets as child tickets under the master ticket. ### Changes to the Claude Interface - **Description** - The "CoWork" tab is no longer in its previous position at the top left of the Claude interface. - The feature has been relocated: click the "Chat" button and then select either "Chat" or "CoWork". - Existing active CoWork sessions remain directly accessible. - In the "Recent" chat list, items with a task list icon indicate Copilot tasks, while a chat bubble icon indicates standard chats. - **Conclusion** - Inform clients that this change is part of a recent Claude update. - Direct them to access it via the "Chat" button. ### Claude Updates and Sonnet 5 - **Description** - Recent changes have provided users with additional Claude usage. - Sonnet 5 is now available. - Users receive a certain amount of free Sonnet 5 usage through July 12, 2026. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Inform clients about the known Copilot model issue and the Claude interface changes when they call. - [ ] Log support requests for the Copilot model issue as child tickets under the existing master ticket. - [ ] For any issues or escalations, ping Christi (currently at the SCHARP office). ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issue that was not concluded in the meeting or lacks clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The meeting did not specify the master ticket number to use for the Copilot issue, which could cause confusion when creating child tickets.
- Date
- Jul 8, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:00 Hi everybody, I just started calling people that I saw that was green. So be aware if they were green. We have a we have some things going on that. I was stuck in this Fairfield meeting for over an hour and I wanted to make sure that you guys are all aware of this. Uh, just because of how important it is. So because we're we're going to have clients calling us. Speaker 1 00:01:30 So, but let's see who all joins. Desperately would like security in here, account managers and technicians. Everybody else, you're just here because I like you. Especially if your name is Julia or Sue. Well Sue's kind of important. We do need her in here. All right, let me give it a few more moments. Speaker 1 00:01:59 And then, I really want to go over this with you guys. There is a couple of things that are going to be affecting clients soon in the okay. Let's see. All right, so real quickly, let me go over some fun stuff real quick. And I wanted to be in the all hands meeting to go over this with you guys, but I couldn't just because of a Fairfield issue so Um, that I had to be involved in their cybersecurity assessment. So just a heads up for you guys. Uh, very first thing you guys may receive some calls or questions, especially if you're working on AI stuff. Um, that you cannot select certain models right now within Copilot. And this what I put out there for everybody. This just the first issue. I'm going to go over with you guys just to make sure everybody's on the same page. But real quickly um. Speaker 1 00:02:56 So on here within Copilot, if you click down on the auto, you should get GPT or you should get Claude. And these are actually missing. It is a known issue right now with Microsoft, and it's either going to be Claude's missing or GPT's missing, one or the other or both. So if clients are complaining about that, just a heads up on that. Uh it is a known issue with Microsoft. I did send out an email to all clients that I know that it's on Copilot. But I did my key contacts with it, so I didn't do everybody. So, if you're an account admin or you're a technician and somebody's calling about it, let them know it is a known issue. Put that ticket as a child ticket against the master ticket I sent in the other thing. And then another thing, I've actually gotten three calls on this this morning. Claude made a change to how they're doing things. Yes, I know I'm on my personal Claude, Anzor and I have an agreement about that because I pay $ 200 a month. Speaker 1 00:03:54 Because he does not want to pay for my Claude because it is expensive, so I have a two hundred dollars bestie that I pay for. But they did make some changes to Claude today. Cowork is now missing, so just a heads up: CoWork is missing right here. If you guys look up here in my top left corner of my screen, it is missing; it's no longer as a tab there. If clients call you, which they will, I trust me; they have been calling me. Morning, I've gotten emails all of that. It is now here. You got chat or CoWork. So just a heads up on that. It has been moved. Claude is making some changes, Um if they update to the newest version, it will be here. They've got some if they've got an active CoWork session in here, they can click on it here. If it's already been taken care of, it's already been taken care of. Another thing guys don't judge me in my chats. I was in the hospital for a week, and then I was out. Speaker 1 00:04:51 So do not judge my chats here. Just going to say that. But if you look in your chat recent, if it's a task list like icon, that is your Copilot stuff. If it is just a chat bubble, that is your chats. Yes, I made strawberry compote. I could not find my grandmother's recipe. I needed to remember some of the ingredients. Yes, I did chat with it. I did chat about Dutton Ranch Do, you know what happens when you've been in the hospital for a week? And out, you you've got to watch TV because you know, you are bored. So just a heads up, don't judge my chats. Um, but anyway, all of that's still in here. Your artifacts are still going to be here. Your projects are still going to be here. The only thing that's changed, which will throw off clients is that chat and CoWork have been moved to the chat button, and you just got to select one, whichever one you need. So just a heads up on that guys, I am getting calls about it. Speaker 1 00:05:47 Um, They may see that they've got some more usage because my uh because Claude has gone in and said, hey, we're going to give you more usage because they made changes. Also Sonnet 5 is now out, and you can use Sonnet 5 uh and you get a bunch of usage on that until the twelfth, which is in a couple of days. I am not using Sonnet 5 right now in here. I am using it in code uh if they want to try it out And they have the announcement that Sonnet 5, they get like they can get so much usage for free. Let them try it out. Um, I haven't done it yet. I've been going home every night and sleeping straight to bed. So just a heads up for you guys. If you have any questions on these, please let me know, especially about the Microsoft Claude one because that is what people are seeing. I am fortunate; I got my Claude, I just don't have Chat GPT. I don't really use Chat GPT except for make pictures. Speaker 1 00:06:45 So just a heads up for you guys, let your clients know if they're calling in those two major changes. They did happen today and yesterday. It is something that is affecting people and they're not happy about it. I get it, one hundred percent. I am not happy about it either. They made changes I don't like change, I am old, I am stuck in my ways, right? John You are old. You are stuck in your ways, too. Aren't you? Yes So. If you guys run into any issues, ping me. I am in offices today. I'm actually at SCHARP, so if you guys run into any issues, just ping me and let me know. Thanks, guys. You're amazing. Short, painless. Someone started recording. I don't know who, but thank you for that. Bye.
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05-12 Training: Microsoft Word Interface Tour
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-05-12 13:00:08 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Meeting Introduction and Ground Rules - The meeting is expected to last about 45 minutes instead of the full hour. - Christi explains using the Raise Hand and React options for participation, acknowledging that not everyone prefers to speak. - The facilitator tool is enabled to generate live notes in the chat for later review. This is a Microsoft product installed by Crimson. ### Tour of the Microsoft Word Interface - Christi begins a tour of Microsoft Word, noting that some features, such as Copilot, are not yet enabled for the team. - Adjusting View: - Use the zoom slider in the bottom-right corner to change the view size. - Alternatively, hold Control and press + or - to zoom in or out. - The Ribbon: - The top menu bar is called the ribbon and contains various menu options. - The ribbon can be hidden or customized with the Show Ribbon options (e.g., full screen, show tabs only, always show ribbon). - Other Key Features: - An AutoSave button appears when a new document is created; its importance will be explained later. - A central search bar helps find features like Find and Replace. - The Share and Comments options will also be covered during the session. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Confirm follow-up training to cover AutoSave, Share, and Comments in detail. - [ ] Clarify the purpose and planned use of Copilot, even though it is currently disabled. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The training session on Microsoft Word features (AutoSave, Share, Comments) was introduced but not completed. A follow-up session or materials may be needed to cover these topics in detail. > 2. The purpose of explaining the Copilot feature, while mentioning it's disabled, was not fully clarified.
- Date
- May 12, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. Speaker 1 00:00:33 Hi guys. Give me one moment. I'm not sure what you're talking about. Speaker 1 00:01:48 Guys, give me one more moment. Let's see who all joined. But additionally, um, I am choking on a piece of mint. So bear with me. Speaker 1 00:02:19 Okay, bear with me. Um. I would not suggest. Speaker 2 00:02:50 Choking on a piece of mint right before a meeting starts. So, hi everybody. I know we have cameras off and I'm doing that intentionally right now just because honestly, the internet has been a little slow. And so I want you guys to be able to see everything else that's going on. Rather than looking at my face. So, just a quick heads up on that. And then I'm also going to turn on facilitator, which is going to give some live notes in the chat. So just bear with me while I get that started. And then we are going to get started. We probably won't take a full hour, we'll probably take about 45 minutes, but I'm going to share my screen. Before we get started, I want to bring your attention. I'm going to share my screen, But I want to bring your attention to how I like to do training meetings. And so I want to give a brief introduction if you've not been with me often on this, i'm gonna. Speaker 2 00:03:44 Describe what's going on, but you should be able to see my screen. In meetings, What I like to do is I like to use the raise hand option and the react option. So I'll ask you guys to react to something, or 'cause not everybody likes to talk in a meeting. But I'll ask you guys to respond back with some reactions or raise your hand so that I can see it. In the notes section, You'll be able to see in real time as the facilitator gets started typing out the notes and everything that's going on here. In chat, you can respond to various things from here. And so I see Rosa also said hello. But, you'll be able to see some things in here that will happen, or you can actually do some responses to anything that we have going through on here. Speaker 2 00:04:37 Just a quick heads up on that. So, I what we'll do is we'll get started. Um, There was a few other people who were accepted in the meeting that haven't joined yet, So I am going to give it just another sixty seconds while I. Speaker 1 00:04:50 Grab a glass of water. Speaker 2 00:05:32 Okay, Let's go ahead and get started. Um, if you guys are awake and active on this meeting, go ahead and give me a thumbs up emoji. Speaker 1 00:05:43 Alright, Andrew's got it. And Rosa's got it. And I'm. Speaker 2 00:05:52 Hoping Ronald did not fall asleep on me. In the chat you'll see that the facilitator has been turned on. Hi Ronald, no worries. Nice to meet you as well. If you guys click on notes, you'll see the meeting notes have been started by facilitator. Facilitator is actually a Microsoft product. It comes with that Crimson has installed. So if you guys are wanting to check out the notes from the session, you guys will see that in a later time. All right, I am going to pull this screen out of the way, because you guys don't need to see it. I am sharing my screen here. So you guys should see Microsoft Word now when I'm in here. Speaker 2 00:06:33 I do like to have, um, I do like to see the full page, But that's because my monitor is big and I can see the full page very easily without needing my reading glasses. However, I do want to start off and let you guys know that you can adjust your um can adjust the view size down here on the bottom, right. And I can zoom in or out. I can also use my keyboard, And hit and hold down the control key and hit the plus or minus sign uh to zoom in and out on a page. So just a quick heads up I'm just hitting the control and the plus button to zoom in. Uh just so that I can see it better. Um you guys I I do know that sometimes my screen is hard to see, Speaker 1 00:07:20 But can everybody see it? Okay, okay, everybody can see it. Okay, that's great. Um. Speaker 2 00:07:31 All right, So what we're going to do is we're going to take a quick tour of Word today. And, then we're going to get into some of the features that are conducive to how you guys operate within the organization. Now, I want you to ignore the describe what you'd like to draft with Copilot. That is not a feature that you guys have turned on just yet. But at this moment, we'll go through I want to show you guys a quick tour first. And then we'll get into other things. So, this very top piece right here, this is your ribbon. And a couple things to note in the ribbon, you can cycle through different menu options just by clicking on it. You can also hide it and click on the show ribbon down here in the right. And you can say full screen mode, show tabs only or always show ribbon. For me. 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08-03 Consultation: Dawn - High School Graduation Planning and Job Updates
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- Date & Time: 2026-08-03 15:59:51 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Dawn ## Overview The consultation centers on Dawn’s recent experiences—starting a new job at McDonald’s and planning for her final year of high school. Dawn, a young adult likely in foster care, has begun training at a new McDonald’s location. She describes both challenges and positive interactions at work, including handling difficult customers and a hundred-dollar bill mix-up. The primary concern is her education. Because she did not complete summer school, she is behind on credits and may need more than one year to graduate via the traditional route. The team explored solutions such as online schooling or a hybrid approach to help her graduate within one year, which is her top priority. ## Background Dawn has started training at McDonald’s. Although there was initial confusion about location and tasks, she is now working the drive-thru on 7 PM–11 PM shifts. The conversation shifts to education: she is entering what should be her senior year but lacks sufficient credits. Previous discussions with the school indicated that, without summer school credits, graduating in one year through the traditional path is unlikely. The current discussion considers online school, extra classes, or a hybrid option to avoid another year in high school. ## Pain Points Dawn faces uncertainty and possible delays in graduating high school. Without the summer school credits, the school previously indicated it is unlikely she can graduate on time in one year if she follows the traditional path. She is adamant about not taking an additional year, causing significant stress and potential delays to her plans. Options include traditional school (possibly requiring two years), non-traditional online school (one year but missing senior events), or a hybrid approach—but viability is unclear. This uncertainty affects Dawn and her support team (Christi, Vanessa, etc.) as they navigate the system. Dawn also struggles to hear customers clearly through the drive-thru headset. She shared, “I don’t know if my hearing is messed up. It’s so hard for me to hear. I always get it messed up and just end up asking, what was that again?” This leads to order errors and stress, especially with impatient or rude customers. One example involved an order mistake the customer kindly tolerated. Her current workaround is repeatedly asking customers to repeat themselves and telling them she’s new. ## Expectations Dawn expects to identify a viable educational path to graduate within one year. She is firmly opposed to taking an extra year and wants to explore all options—extra classes, non-traditional/online formats—to meet credit requirements by year’s end. Success means a clear, confirmed school plan guaranteeing on-time graduation. Stakeholders include Dawn, her school counselor (Mr. Richardson, Miss Maria), and her support team (Christi, Vanessa, and the consultant). Dawn wants to move away from the drive-thru and into food prep. She stated, “I don’t really like the drive through... I want to make the orders. I want to be putting in the fries in the cardboard. Packing up... That’s what I want to do.” She hopes her upcoming “window” shifts will focus on presenting food rather than taking orders, aiming for a less stressful, more enjoyable role. This expectation is directed to her McDonald’s manager. ## Other Information Summary - Dawn works Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7 PM–11 PM, at McDonald’s. - She shows resilience with difficult customers and remains positive despite job challenges. - HopSkipDrive may not be an option for school transportation now that she is 18, complicating in-person attendance logistics. - She reports being in a good headspace and able to handle challenges, contrasting with a previously “worst headspace.” - She prefers morning shifts, finding the breakfast menu easier. ## To-Do List - [x] Dawn to email her school counselor, Miss Maria, to schedule a meeting about graduation options. (Completed during the call on 2026-08-03) - [ ] Team to follow up on the school’s response and schedule an in-person meeting with Dawn and school staff. - [ ] Consultant to check whether Friday, August 7, 2026, can be moved from 4:30 PM to 3:30 PM and inform Dawn. - [ ] Dawn and the consultant plan to go to the gym during their individual session on Friday, August 7, 2026. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI identified the biggest pain point as uncertainty and potential delay in high school graduation due to a credit deficit. Consider: > 1. Draft a “Possibilities Memo” before the school meeting outlining 3–4 scenarios (e.g., Hybrid Model: core classes at school, electives online; Credit Recovery Blitz: intensive after-school/weekend classes; Senior Year Plus: framing an extra semester as an advanced placement term rather than “repeating a year”) to guide collaborative solutions. > 2. Leverage foster youth supports. Districts often have foster youth liaisons and policies (e.g., under ESSA) that promote educational stability and on-time graduation. Identify and contact the district’s foster youth liaison to advocate and explore accommodations. > 3. Pursue a dual-path strategy. While negotiating with the traditional high school, simultaneously complete enrollment for a reputable online/charter school known for credit recovery. This provides a backup, reduces anxiety, and offers leverage. > 4. Reframe the senior experience. If a non-traditional path is most viable, co-create a “Custom Senior Year” (e.g., special “prom” dinner, graduation celebration) so Dawn doesn’t feel she’s missing out—addressing a key emotional factor.
- Date
- Aug 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:08 Hi Christy. Hi, how are you? Speaker 2 00:00:11 Doing great. How are you today? Speaker 1 00:00:13 I am good. Okay, will Dawn be joining us? Hey, Do you know she did? She did acknowledge the don't forget text that I sent her. So I. Speaker 2 00:00:32 Am hoping okay, we'll give her some time to join in. Um, it is just going to be Vanessa and myself today. Kimberly and Adley are out of office. Um, but yeah, I don't know if you have any updates or anything you wanted to share before Dawn joins. Speaker 1 00:00:50 I I don't um basically everything is going really well. I'm she's doing really amazingly so, I don't have anything outside of what I shared last week. Speaker 2 00:01:02 Okay perfect. I mean it's always good to hear no news is good news, Right. It looks like Dawn just entered. I'm going to admit her. Okay. Speaker 2 00:01:21 We'll see when she pops up here. Speaker 1 00:01:28 Okay, Hi Dawn! Speaker 4 00:01:30 Hey, how are you? Speaker 2 00:01:32 I'm doing really good. How are you today? Speaker 4 00:01:36 I'm doing all right. Um, I just took like a shower or whatever, but yeah, felt pretty good. But I was just about to do my my makeup and stuff like that. Speaker 2 00:01:46 Yeah, I mean sounds great. Sounds like some nice self care, making sure you know you took your shower, you're going to do your makeup. Yeah How has McDonald's been? Um. Speaker 4 00:02:01 It's been it's been good what's it called like. Speaker 4 00:02:05 Literally, when uh, it was like a whole like misunderstanding. Like when I first thought like I was like gonna start working, but like it was more training. And like there was like a whole like um confusion because of like where the um the new McDonald's was. Cause I thought it was at this one place and then turns out no. So, it was a whole big thing. And then so we had to go to their new one. And they were packing up and they weren't packing up, they were unloading and preparing setting up the new McDonald's or whatever. So apparently that day, Like my manager, or like whatever he is like he didn't like communicate to me, like oh, like you have to go back to like the main place like you were training at. And so like he's like he was in there. And so I'll, he told me like oh, like you're supposed to go to the other training, the other uh location for the training and stuff. Like that, everything, but then New Balance is not looking it. So it was, ugh. But um. Alright Oh my god. Speaker 4 00:03:02 When I got there, Like what's called, they had me in like the drive through. And what's called like I was meeting like new people. They were mad cool, like um they were like helping me a lot. Like I was like so mad at myself cause I kept like messing it, like messing up on some things. But I am glad, like I wasn't messing up the whole time because it'd be light girl. Like that'd be embarrassing but like, I just remember I messed up about this one time. Like what's it called? Like this one girl, she came through the drive through or whatever and she got a um. Oreo McFlurry, And like so like I'm, like processing the purchase, and then like she puts like her, like I felt like she, Like she comes to the window or whatever. And then she I thought she handed out a ten. So, I'm calculating it into the thing or whatever and then giving her a change. Bro, literally I'm on the next person and then she pulls back. She gets out of her car and comes to the window. And she was so sweet or whatever but was saying oh, "I gave a hundred dollar bill." I was like Oh! Bro. Speaker 4 00:04:01 So like, what's it called like They said like, when somebody pays like with a hundred dollar bill, like you have to call the manager. So I was like I called them anyway because like you feel me. So like one of them came and then they were sorting out. But I was just like bro Like girl, why are you paid for a hundred dollars Like with a hundred dollar bill? Like it's just uh Like I just felt it's not even her fault because I really should have looked at it. But I was just bro But. Speaker 2 00:04:27 He really did pay with the hundred dollar bill. Speaker 4 00:04:29 Yes, and so like what's called like, doing the manager came his shoes. Uh, He was just like helping her likeum get the change. And like what's called, we didn't even have enough change to give her. Oh no. So, they had to like go from like other cash registers and like get the change for her. It was just not his whole big thing, but like I was like, uh yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:49 I remember back in the days when I used to work at Starbucks. Do you Like a drive through so far? Speaker 4 00:05:00 It's okay. Uh, It's not like I. Speaker 2 00:05:06 Just say it was my least favorite part about working at Starbucks is the drive- thru. It's a little challenging, Speaker 5 00:05:13 Right? Like having to deal with the person at the window and then also taking an order and. Speaker 2 00:05:19 Everything. And I will say there is something to be said. My theory is because they can't see you and it's just a screen, they're meaner. They're not as nice. As like the people who come into the the store, no, that was my experience on drive throughs. They were always like really like upset. Speaker 4 00:05:39 My like and I was fortunate enough that like, like some of the people likeum, Like I'll just be saying on thatmic because I'll be hold on one second. Like I am new here. Like and then they were so understanding. They're just oh no girl, you get or whatever. And then when they pull up, they're I remember this one lady. She just did not understand what was going on. I was doing her order or whatever, and then she just started talking. She's just like, "Oh girl, you look tired." Cause it was like it was like eleven maybe twelve. She's like, "Oh girl, you look so tired." Like when you got to clock out is all this and that. Like I was just like. Like so me here we're like chatting it up and everything. But like I was like thank you for being so understanding because I kind of messed up her order or whatever. And so I was like wish people need to be more understanding. Speaker 2 00:06:22 I will say most people. I think if you explain like oh I'm new, like in conversation like they're pretty good at being understanding, you might get, you know a handful of people who are just having a bad day, you know, a little stressed, Speaker 4 00:06:37 But uh- huh. Speaker 2 00:06:38 Most people understand if you're like, hey I'm new like I'm sorry, give me a little grace, Speaker 4 00:06:44 Right? My first first day of training, like. Literally, like I was dealing like with this like little rude lady. Well, I didn't have to deal with her because like um the person I was like training me, Like he was like doing like the cash register. And like I was just sitting on the headset. And like putting their order in. And so, Like what's it called? Like I am speaking to her, Putting trying to putting her order in. And she's just like she just had an attitude off the bat. Like she just. Like so I was putting her order in and then on the headset. Like the only thing that I have is. Like I don't know if my hearing is messed up. Like it's like so hard for me like to hear. Like I always like get it like messed up and just like, what was that again? I always just like ended up doing that. Speaker 2 00:07:21 Sometimes those headsets are really hard to hear in, you know, I don't know if they're the same as the Starbucks ones or not or similar, but I remember having a hard time sometimes understanding what was being said. Speaker 4 00:07:34 Like you. Speaker 2 00:07:35 Pick up on it over time and like you get better, but when you're first starting it's kind of like, what are you saying? Speaker 4 00:07:43 Russell, like I was really like that, like what's the call? She was like, um, I saw like I was like telling her like oh, like um you look on the screen. Like is your order correct? And she was like no. Alright. I was like. I literally just remember her going like, no. And I just had had to take and I just paused and did that. And I was like anything else. So I just thought continue to do her ordering this. So she came up to the window, and she was giving me the dude such an attitude too. Oh, I would drag you through the drive. I would drag you in that car next to your husband or whoever. Stop playing like but yeah, it was overall good. I am supposed to uh, I am scheduled to go back. Um, I think I go to like the new restaurant this week, hopefully and I am at the window again. And I don't know if like. Speaker 4 00:08:34 It didn't say drive through like before. They just said like window on my thing, so like I am thinking like I am like a presenter, like I um, like give, like actually hand out, like the food this time. So I've actually been really wanting to do this. Like I don't really like the drive through. Like when out, if you are working at McDonald's, is McDonald's? Like I want to make the orders. Like I want to be putting in the fries in the cardboard. Like packing up. You feel me? Packing it up, giving it handing it. That's what what i want to do, but let's go. I don't know, we'll see, but i uh. It's at I go from seven to elevenum Wednesday and Thursday. So we'll see how that goes. Speaker 2 00:09:14 Hey, what time do you get back home after? Speaker 4 00:09:18 Um, I'm gonna get back at like like twelve. Speaker 2 00:09:23 Okay, how are you feeling about getting back late? Speaker 4 00:09:28 It's cool. Like I'm naturally like aum. I stay up late anyway, so like I don't really feel tired. It's, just like when I did a go for um the first do it like for the seven like to twelve, like my legs were like hurting, but I was just like I was not tired. Like my leg, I was just irritated towards the end and just my legs hurt. But I was still up. Like I normally stay up that late. So. Speaker 4 00:10:05 I don't know, like literally the first train. I was like, I don't know if this customer service is for me. Like I was really about to snatch it. Like I was really about to curse her out on that headset, bro. Like I was just like, bro, you got that to the dude but. I don't know, this is really testing my character. So like I'm just gonna run with it and be calm and do what I gotta do. So mm, Hmm. Speaker 5 00:10:30 What do you prefer working the morning like breakfast time or like lunchtime. Speaker 4 00:10:39 I would say like, breakfast time cause the uh, Like theum well I did like had to come like in early for like the first training, Like them, the breakfast menu was like so much easier. Like to do, Like and memorize aside from like the lunch menu I was like. You think so. Uhhuh. Speaker 5 00:11:01 Yeah, McDonald's was my first job, and everything was abbreviated. Everything was like cheese egg biscuit. I am like, oh, this is so confusing for me. I don't like breakfast. Speaker 4 00:11:13 Right? You would think she, but I think for sure that I am gonna uh contact our manager to like see if like I could like change like some morning shift, because actually like the um it's more easier for me. Speaker 5 00:11:25 But yeah, how has um. Um, getting up early and getting ready for work then. Speaker 4 00:11:36 It went by like, well, went pretty good. Um, I felt like I wake up on my alarm. And I wake up like have breakfast and yeah, like shower be smooth. I'll be like out just like the main thing. Like I'll just be like playing music while in the shower or just like. Uh, one day like I was just playing like a motivational speech, Like a few like letting them play or whatever, while I am in the shower and just like getting ready and just like. I don't know. Like I was just like ready. Like to do what I had to do. Like I picked out. Like well, I set up. Like my um uniform the day like after before, And like have my hat out and everything out. So that I was just all right about it's excited for me. Speaker 3 00:12:20 Mhm yeah good mhm. Speaker 2 00:12:34 Well, Yeah, We just kind of wanted to check in too and see if you have any updates for us on on how things have been other than you know work like, have you been feeling give us your strengths. You're on mute. You've disappeared. I know there's been a lot of strengths recently. Speaker 4 00:12:60 Okay, I think we're just like. Anyway, um, what's called. Speaker 4 00:13:15 I'll Guess like I don't know like. Communicating like, especially like since like with the training stuff like that, Like having my to talk with the trainers and likeum let's call it. Like I was like. Uh, the first person he was like, dude, and like the second person was Andrew or whatever. And they're like super nice and cool. So I mean them like we're chatting it up and like they were like very friendly. And it's like I'll just like asking questions and just like making sure, Like what else? Like I can know and just like stuff. Like that's all I guess. Like um communicating and. Speaker 4 00:14:02 I don't know. I just, I guess, just being like open, like to like learning and just like friendly. I don't know. Like it was just, I don't know. Like I was focused and it was just like overall good time. Like I would just like, I was even like, I don't know proud of myself for like even like cause there's many times where i'd just was going to shut down and stuff that my kept messing up. But then i didn't let that happen. Like i was asking, Um, The training, like oh, like how can I do this? Or like how can I do this better? Or how can I improve and like all that type of stuff. But yeah, I don't know what you would call it. But yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:46 Yeah. Well, It seems like things have been going pretty well. And it seems like even when things have been a little difficult or harder, like you're you're doing the best you can to kind of react and respond. Speaker 2 00:14:60 You know, how have things been? Um, I guess have there been any challenges? You know, You did mention like there was a few things that were a little more difficult. I think when you were talking. Speaker 4 00:15:16 Like work or like personal wise? Speaker 2 00:15:19 I mean anything, anything you want to bring up or this is your time. So you can use it however you would like. If there's something you wanted to chat to the team about and, you know, Speaker 4 00:15:32 To be honest, everything like been pretty good. Like I was called like I had like, uh yesterday, we went to uh like um event for like a Christi's church or whatever. And it was like it was like really fun, and just like it was like really good time or whatever. Like I made a pasta salad, Like for my first time I made my pasta salad. Yeah, It was like pretty good already, but yeah, like we're just like yes. But yeah, like we're just cracking up. Like we just have food shopping and just like being like with the family. We're just like a cool like vibe, just like enjoying each otmy's company, but always and yeah, I'd like the picnic and everything. Like that seemed like the people get baptized and just hearing otmys' stories and stuff. Like that it's being around positivity and. Speaker 4 00:16:22 Yeah, it was just like that. Was just like so yesterday was like really fun or whatever, but like it's just been that vibe. Like mostly recently you've just been in good vibes. Well, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like there is nothing like everything's going good. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:16:44 Everything's going good. Like I told Christi, I was like, no news is good news. It means we're on like a good path, right? You're feeling kind of confident and and ready to take on, you know, your week and your life and moving forward ahead. I guess. Um How are we feeling about school? I know school is going to be coming back up soon. We're in August. Speaker 4 00:17:10 Right Um What's it called. Speaker 4 00:17:17 So, What's called me and Chris decided that like we're thinking about like me doing like homeschooling or like just like online school or something like that. But I was like thinking, like since it's my last year, and well, firstly I wanted to go to Brown before we the homeschool thing. Like we went with that. But what's called Vanessa? She said that in order for me to go there, I'll obviously need a ride. And stuff like that. And be We're discussing like HopSkip, Um drive and so like she was like saying like oh, because I'm, like eighteen, like I can't do it anymore, I guess or she said she's gonna. She was gonna like find out more information or something like that. But I was just like since then, Like, I just, Like, I might as well do Like online school. But Like, I was just Like thinking about Like. Speaker 4 00:18:15 Just like, I don't know, like put like the three years, like just complete one. You have one more year. Just like bug it out or whatever for me. And like um and I do like what I was doing before, When I was um when I was with Miss Nelson and when I was in LA, going taking the bus on the train there. And it'll be the same as if I was doing it now. So yeah. And while I was doing that, like I was in the worst headspace. So like I am like me in the good headspace right now. Like, I can do that. Yeah, everything like that. Speaker 2 00:18:54 I guess the only thing for me you know, and this isn't to like tell you not to do that. This is to give you all your options right? Right Only worry I would have for that because I remember the conversation we had with the school last year is that like if you didn't get. The credits from summer school this year, They said that you probably wouldn't be able to make up the credits with just one more year of school. So because we weren't able to get the full summer school credits this summer, I think if you were wanting to do the traditional route, it might take more than one year. Like, you might have to take an extra year of high school, or you could see if you could schedule a conversation. Speaker 2 00:19:40 With the school staff and see if maybe there would be a possibility. I know in talking to my clinical supervisor in the past, She said that sometimes schools might be open of allowing you to do the non traditional like school to do the credits there, get the extra credits and maybe see if, you know, Your your old school would be willing to still allow you to walk or attend like senior events. Um. Speaker 2 00:20:09 So I don't know. I think it would it would require like scheduling a meeting with your counselor and the school staff. Okay. To see if that's something that's a possibility, would that be something you'd be open to? Yeah. Yeah, To having like just a conversation and and you know putting all the cards on the table and seeing what they're able to to do for us and like work with us on? Speaker 4 00:20:31 Uh- huh. I could definitely reach out. Okay. Speaker 2 00:20:35 'Cause use that'll give us a better picture of like what is possible and and what choice you want to make, right. Speaker 4 00:20:41 Right. Cause I definitely don't want to take another year, but like I'm up to like taking like more classes like if I need to. Mhm. But yeah, we could definitely yeah, I recommend just cause yeah. Speaker 2 00:20:53 Yeah, just see just see what they say you know? Cause the only thing for the extra classes that would be like I I don't know if this is possible or not, but my thought would be like if they would allow you to take the classes at school. And then maybe if you could take some of the like online non traditional classes at the other school, you guys were discussing I, don't know if that's possible or not. And if they could work together in that way, but maybe if we're thinking creatively like creatively right um to see what what might work and be helpful. Um. Speaker 2 00:21:25 It would really take like, I know the school social worker or Mr. Johnson, Mr. Jones, I forgot his name. What was it? Speaker 4 00:21:35 Mr. Richardson. Speaker 2 00:21:36 Mr. Richardson, that's what it was. I was like, I couldn't remember his name um, but I know he had kind of put together a packet for you last year of of some of the possibilities. Maybe he could help support you on brainstorming, some new possibilities, Speaker 4 00:21:53 Right? Okay. Speaker 2 00:21:55 Mhm. How do you feel about that? The faces you're making are are worrying me. Speaker 4 00:22:05 Like I just like hope like, well if they say like, well I hope like the other options are like available, like to where I could take like extra classes and stuff like that, During this year, so I won't have to take another year because I'm not taking another year of high school. That's one thing. Mhm. That's one thing so. Speaker 2 00:22:23 I mean, if it was down to that, Where it's like your options are either do the nontraditional school and miss out on like graduation and prom or do regular school and take maybe two, two more years, not just one more year, which one would you choose. That's a long thought. Speaker 3 00:22:48 But what was the second one. Speaker 2 00:22:50 So so. Second one was taking two years of high school, but still getting prom and graduation, And first one was maybe missing out on prom and graduation and doing nontraditional school and getting it done in a year. Speaker 4 00:23:06 Yeah, I guess she's getting it done in a year. Yeah, I can't I can miss that. Speaker 2 00:23:11 Okay, but again, I am not an expert on this. I don't work for the school. You know, I don't know what options are. Available to you, So it could be a situation where you talk to them. And maybe they have a third option. You know, Maybe they have something else where they are willing to be more creative and flexible in order to reach your goals. And, you know, help support you. Right. Even, You know, see, if if they would be willing to have you still attend some of the senior events through the school, even if you are doing it through the non- traditional school. Right. Speaker 2 00:23:49 Okay. 'Cause Sometimes they are more, more flexible when it comes to foster youth, right? Of of providing them those experiences, even if maybe they need to, you know, do non traditional school in order to catch up. Speaker 4 00:24:02 Mhm. Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:24:05 Mhm But we won't know until you know you have a conversation right? So I don't know if you'd want to send them an email and you could CC like myself, see. See Christi, you know your team. Um, we'd be more than happy to be part of those conversations again. Um, if they are wanting us present, if you want us present. Speaker 4 00:24:28 Yeah. Definitely. Yes. Speaker 4 00:24:34 Yeah I can send my email by today and then see you Christi Vanessa and everybody else. Okay, yeah, Speaker 2 00:24:42 Because the only thing I can say is I don't know if they'll get back to you until the start of school. Two. Right. So, that's my only other worry is because we're we're on summer technically like they don't come back until like right before you know. Speaker 4 00:24:54 A week before the start of the year. Speaker 2 00:24:56 Yeah. And so I don't even know at this point, like how fast you know, they would be able to get you back in right? I don't know if you were enrolled in classes already for next year through that school or not about to check mm. Hmm, Speaker 4 00:25:14 Look at my iPad. I saw I have to be yeah. Because. Speaker 2 00:25:20 I remember when I was in high school, you know, Like we enrolled at the end of the school year for the next year. And like we you know signed up for all our classes, so you knew what you were taking. I don't know if that's the same case here or not. Speaker 4 00:25:37 Can check real quick right now. Speaker 1 00:25:39 I know losing your head. Speaker 1 00:25:43 Had people there just for the enrollment during the summer. Mhm. For the enrollment team, but I don't, I don't know about Dom's or Dawn's school. Speaker 2 00:25:53 Yeah. Cause I know, we did try to email them at the end of last school year to schedule another meeting, and they did not get back to us uh and and told us basically that they were off for summer, um so. Speaker 2 00:26:13 You know, I I don't know if they actually have someone there yet or not reviewing anything. Speaker 4 00:26:35 That Seems right now like there's like. Oh, never mind. They're old. Speaker 4 00:26:43 But no, they didn't have any uh gave me my uh classes for this year yet. These are some of my old ones. Speaker 4 00:27:06 So Can you um. What's it called Put your email on the chat. So I was uh I'm gonna write the email right now. Of course. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:27:22 I'm like all our emails are really easy. It's our first initial and our last name. So I can also put Adelise in here, so you can always add her, because as the facilitator she does a lot of our like. Communication with third parties, you know, scheduling, um things like that. Um. Speaker 3 00:27:45 Mhm. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:27:49 So if I ever miss an email she's always quick to catch it. Speaker 4 00:31:23 Christi, What was yourum email? Speaker 1 00:31:27 Do my uh Christi Brown two five two at Outlook dot com. Okay. Speaker 4 00:32:00 Okay, I just sent it. Well, I sent it. Uh, I couldn't find the school email so, um, I sent an email to um just school counselor Miss Maria. Speaker 2 00:32:33 Okay. Well, I guess, we will see once they get back to you and and see what they say. And if we are able to schedule a meeting, um you know um, I think last time they gave you the options of meeting in person or over like Zoom. Uh Do you have a preference? Would you want to meet in person again or would you? Speaker 4 00:32:55 Definitely in person again. Speaker 2 00:32:56 Mhm okay yeah then we can, You know. Ask them once they get back to us when we can schedule a meeting, um in person. To talk through kind of your options at this point. Okay. Mhm. I know it's a little bit of a short or a small team today, since two of us are out, so you know, and I know. Speaker 2 00:33:28 You're saying you don't have a lot of kind of updates for us. I want to give you the opportunity to, you know, keep on meeting for the rest of our hour or if you feel like, you know, You've kind of said all you wanted to say we can end early as well. It's up to you on how you would like to use your time today. Speaker 4 00:33:48 Oh, we could just end it. It's good. Speaker 2 00:33:51 Okay then I have You on the calendar for our individual for Friday, Um, at three thirty, does that or not three thirty at four thirty Does that um. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:34:06 Still works good. We could um. That still works. We can push it like up to three thirty. Speaker 2 00:34:12 I actually don't know if I can't make that work, uh just for a drive time. Um I think fourth. Thirty is probably better for me schedule wise, But I can get back to you if any of my appointments cancel that day and change. Um, If you are up for kind of being up in the air a little bit. For sure. Yeah, okay. Yeah, cause I just have another client I am meeting with in the Long Beach area before you. So it is a bit of a drive, but I'll I'll keep you posted on if they cancel or the meeting ends early. And then we can see if i can. Speaker 2 00:34:49 See you a little earlier, but did you want to plan on going to the gym this week? Speaker 4 00:34:54 Yes. Yes, that's a must. Yes. Okay, Speaker 2 00:34:57 Perfect. Okay, anything you wanted to add Vanessa or we can close out? Speaker 5 00:35:03 There's nothing that I can think of. Speaker 2 00:35:05 Okay, Perfect, thank you. All I. Hope you enjoy the rest of your Monday and I will see you on Friday. Okay? I'll call you Friday Christi okay. Speaker 5 00:35:14 Okay bye bye bye bye.
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08-25 AI Tool Training and Configuration for a Law Firm
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-  This transcript captures a detailed training and configuration session for the AI tools Claude and Microsoft Copilot, led by Christi for a representative of a law firm. The discussion covers the initial setup of the tools, a comparison of their distinct functionalities, the establishment of a workflow for efficient document creation, and planning for future API integrations with the firm's existing software, Clio and LawPay. The conversation concludes with a personal discussion about the foster care system. ------------ ## AI Tool Setup and Initial Troubleshooting This section details the initial setup of the Claude AI tool, including addressing access issues and configuring both personal and organizational settings. Christi guides the user through the process, explaining that Claude is an AI tool from Anthropic used for creating assets and performing tasks. She notes that the platform has over 2,000 integration connectors. A key troubleshooting step involved manually enabling the "memory" feature by navigating to personal settings, selecting "Capabilities," and activating the top two options. Christi also clarifies that "artifacts"—documents or dashboards built by Claude—are managed through the organizational settings. ------------ ## Claude and Copilot: Comparative Functionality and Workflow This section provides a detailed comparison of the functionalities of Claude and Microsoft Copilot, outlining a practical workflow for using them in tandem for maximum efficiency. Christi recommends using a separate chat for each topic and creating "Projects" within Claude to keep documents and associated branding assets, like logos and letterheads, organized and stored locally. She explains that Claude's "Chat" mode is for conversational queries, while "Co-work" mode is for assigning specific tasks. The recommended workflow involves using Claude for initial document drafting and then leveraging Copilot for in-app refinement within Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Christi notes that Copilot excels at working directly within these applications, such as analyzing Excel data to create charts. By "pitting both applications against each other," she can effectively check and improve the work. The discussion also touches on the need for an AI policy for the firm, which Christi offers to draft. ------------ ## API Integration and Automation for Law Firm Systems This section focuses on the strategic plan to integrate the law firm's primary software, Clio and LawPay, with the newly adopted AI tools to automate critical reporting functions. The conversation establishes that Clio has a full API, which will allow for the creation of a custom connector. It is noted that Clio is discontinuing its native LawPay integration at the end of the month, necessitating a custom solution. Since Power Automate does not have a pre-existing connector for LawPay, the plan is to build custom API connectors in both Power Automate and Claude to bridge the systems. This integration will automate the generation of reports on billable hours from the firm's performance pricing and invoicing system. The development of these connectors is estimated to take three to five hours. Additionally, the plan to implement single sign-on (SSO) using Microsoft credentials was confirmed to simplify the login process. ------------ ## Personal Discussion on Foster Parenting The conversation shifts to a personal topic, exploring the participants' shared interest in the foster care system. Christi shares her extensive experience as a foster parent, detailing her specialization in caring for teens, non-minor dependents (youth aged 18-21 still in care), and children who have been sex-trafficked. She identifies four "hard-to-place" categories: medically fragile, sex-trafficked, LGBTQ, and older teens. Having been in foster care herself and adopted at 15, Christi offers a unique perspective on the challenges and rewards, noting that she has cared for 16 children. She explains that she does not take medically fragile placements due to the time commitment required for appointments. Christi also mentions she is currently caring for a 20-year-old pregnant non-minor dependent and another youth in a Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP). She provides the participant's location as SPA (Special Projects Area) 2 within the DCFS system and offers to share resources, including her website, "Counted Doors," which is designed to support foster parents. ------------ ## Action Items **@Christi** - [ ] Send re-recorded Power Automate training videos - [by tomorrow afternoon] - [ ] Add the user to upcoming AI training classes and the tips-and-tricks mailing list - [TBD] - [ ] Send AI basics, Copilot basics, and Claude basics documentation, including one-sheets on how to write prompts - [TBD] - [ ] Write and deliver a firm-wide AI policy - [TBD] - [ ] Build custom API connectors for Clio and LawPay to create automated reports for billable hours in Excel - [TBD] - [ ] Email the completed Excel report file upon completion - [TBD] - [ ] Send DCFS information regarding foster care categories - [TBD] - [ ] Send the "Counted Doors" website link via text message - [TBD] - [ ] Have John (new staff member) work on configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) for the firm's AI tools - [TBD] - [ ] Have John call the user to assist with the installation of the Claude desktop application - [TBD] **@Speaker 3 (Tally)** - [ ] Download and install the Claude desktop application - [TBD] - [ ] Navigate to personal settings in Claude, select "Capabilities," and enable the top two options to activate the memory feature - [TBD] - [ ] Obtain the API key from the firm's Clio account - [TBD] **@John** - [ ] Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) for the firm using the Microsoft login system - [TBD] - [ ] Contact the user to install the Claude desktop application - [TBD]
- Date
- Aug 25, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hey Tally, give me one second. Um, My today is my daughter's first day of her senior year, and her ride was almost an hour late picking her up. Yeah. U m, they just arrived like literally seconds ago. So I'm I'm trying to send over the information. Speaker 1 00:00:45 Okay, Perfect. She is good, um bear with me one more second, and then we'll get started. Speaker 2 00:01:52 So Just send them to us because I think one of the things that does reminders. Speaker 3 00:02:00 Uh, there's something that's going to I'll I'll. Speaker 1 00:02:13 Yeah, send them because it's powerful. Speaker 2 00:02:16 Yeah, it was something that I'll think about it. Okay, Speaker 3 00:02:20 No worries. Speaker 1 00:02:27 All right. Tally, I apologize. It has been nonstop meetings today. Um, I just got out of teaching, a Power Automate for an hour and a half. So uh, so that one might be, yeah, we um I sent you one or two. Um, we are re- recording them all to put on the website. So they're that's going to be done by I think tomorrow afternoon. Um, So they're updating all those videos and then I'm going to send them over to you. Speaker 3 00:03:07 Yeah. No. Speaker 1 00:03:17 Worries. Um, I'm going to share my screen. I'm going to make it a little bit easier, um, Let me get off of my page where I was teaching the Power Automate class. And then show you. So Claude, Claude is a company that was made by a company that is called Anthropic. And so I'm going to save those. Um, and it's an AI tool that allows you to use it, build things do work in it. You can do like you can Google things use through it. Um yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:17 Oh, You know what? Let me do something real quick for you. I'm going to log in and I'm going to correct something so that you can get access. How was the move-in while I'm correcting this? Speaker 1 00:04:47 She left one of her bigger suitcases behind, uh, which had her by accident. I'm going to send someone by train to take it to her because Amtrak all the way to Merced and back is cheaper than sending the package via UPS. So a good bit of her clothing was left behind. And her underwear and socks, and so I had to make a Target run. She also left her pillows at home. Um, so yes, she was like, "It's your fault," and I am like, "No, honey." I know you are stressed out. I know everything's not going your way, but it's no one's fault. It happens. Um. Yes. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:42 No, so luckily a good portion of her clothes was with her, so she was good. But, we did. We had to make the target run, and then we had to do a second target run. But she is definitely moved in. Classes start tomorrow. She did all the orientation. She's so excited, yeah So I feel you on the multiple Target runs. Speaker 1 00:06:18 Yes, And it was hot. It was one hundred and two. Oh. Speaker 1 00:06:37 Yeah, Um okay so I've added Google and, And I've added Gmail, and I'm going to add Google Calendar. Um, I'm going to add Microsoft 365. Calendar. Okay. Speaker 1 00:07:20 Yes. Yeah. Um, there is over 2, 000 connectors, so just be aware of that. Um, I gave you which one? Speaker 1 00:07:41 Not yet, but there's new ones coming almost daily with them. API. Speaker 3 00:07:59 Yes. So what you do, uh, you go into add and then you say custom web and that's where. Speaker 1 00:08:14 I'm logged in as us, but you have the access. I just gave you the access to be able to do it yourself. Speaker 3 00:08:20 Okay. So let me just. I want to do it so that I know how to do it. And I want to show you right before our next step is done. Okay. Speaker 1 00:08:53 I I'm waiting for it to load. I got a blank screen so far. Speaker 1 00:09:13 And Then by the way, I've I may have asked you this before, but what what does your law firm What is your firm specialize in? Speaker 1 00:09:25 Okay. Gotcha. Alright. Uh, you know I'm a foster parent, right? Speaker 3 00:09:36 Oh, awesome. Absolutely. Speaker 1 00:09:51 Um, I work with a lot of kids. I have one kid not in my care right now, But one kid connected to me that she's interested in uh in pursuing a law degree. Speaker 3 00:10:02 So yes. Speaker 1 00:10:54 Yeah. Absolutely. So do a different chat for every subject. So and I don't have pro you have projects in there, um, you don't have to use projects. I do have one project built in Claude, but I do a separate chat for every topic so yeah Okay. Speaker 3 00:11:20 That's so interesting. No, it's not too much to scan. I think we can some point on that. Instructions morning either or Monday another Tuesday morning, Which is the fact that I'm only not have to have a merger every day for my staff. Yeah, so it's like even if staff. Speaker 3 00:12:19 And then, as a slide, if we were just getting something that's down, no one's going to train the process. I would say yes. Speaker 3 00:12:57 Yeah. That's. Speaker 1 00:13:04 Odd. It's the first time I've seen it, But let me take a look at capabilities and make sure it's on for everybody. Okay, so it is enabled for everybody. Let me show you my screen. Let me move this out of the way. So I'm in the organizational settings, And I'm under capabilities, and then so I have memory enabled. So it is enabled for the organization. So it's already turned on. So I'm going to go into personal settings. They may have moved that. Okay, so if you go to capabilities in your personal settings, you need to turn this on right here. Speaker 1 00:13:55 You'll have to do it because I'm only logged into mine. Speaker 3 00:14:14 Yeah, Absolutely. I would not say three years old. It's. Speaker 1 00:14:23 It's not showing up. Oh, there you are. Okay. Yeah. Okay, So go down to your name at the bottom left, and then um go into settings, not organizational settings but settings and then go to capabilities and then uh, It's on the left, right? Yeah, there you go. And then turn on those top two options. And I was not made aware that they turned them off automatically. Um and so that should remember everything for you. Speaker 1 00:15:27 We Can. There's a tool that we would have to, I'll have to find out that information, but there is a tool we would need to do. Speaker 3 00:15:58 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:16:11 Yes, we will definitely do that. There's a tool that we need to install. Speaker 3 00:16:17 And so, Let me talk to the team about it, and we'll get that taken care of. And then also, You do need an AI policy and I can write that for you and get that over so that everybody has it. Speaker 1 00:16:48 You, can you can turn that on um but you may not use that as much. So basically, what Claude does is it builds out artifacts is basically documents um and I have it turned on for me. And so what it'll do is maybe build out a dashboard for me that I can reuse over and over again. That's connected to something else. Speaker 1 00:17:31 All Right, so what I normally do is I'll go into settings. So if you click back down on your name and go to, yep, settings. Speaker 1 00:17:44 And then you have instructions there for Claude. And then you can also put in a few other preferences. Yes. Speaker 3 00:18:22 Mhm. I can. Okay, Speaker 1 00:18:41 So first off, what I'm going to say is we need to download for you the Claude desktop app and then I'm going to show you how I do it. So I'm going to share my screen. Now, just heads up, I'm in my personal Claude because Anthropic and I have an agreement because I use Claude so much for training and things that I would use up all of our credits. So just be aware that you're going to see things on here, that's me personally and see things on here. That's yeah. So very first thing I do is if it's going to be a document that I'm doing over and over again, I'm going to create a project. Speaker 1 00:19:19 Because this is where Projects is going to work for you. So I've got Projects in here that I've already created. I'm going to say New Project and I'm going to say Client Documentation, okay? Create project create and then I'm going to say Use a Folder. And. The reason for this is that there might be times where I always want the documents I create to stay in this location. And so I'm just going to go to my folder. I actually have my folder already. And so what I'm going to do, I'm going to look for my Crimson Branding and I'm just going to use that folder because I have all my Crimson branding in there. Speaker 1 00:20:11 And then I could add the files as well. So if I have a letterhead that I want to utilize, I'm going to add that into Add Files. And so, I can do that. And so here's my Crimson letterhead background and my Crimson logo. And so, I can put both of these in. So I'm going to say Crimson logo. And then it's going to stay local on this computer. I don't want it to share the data to the web, okay? Very important that I do that because most of what I do is either on this laptop or on my Crimson desktop. And so I'm going to say create. And from in here, this is where I'm going to add my instructions and the memory. So memory is when you ask it to remember something, like what you did with how you want it formatted, You're going to ask it in there and Claude is going to remember it here in the memory. And then it's going to have its context. Speaker 1 00:21:10 So it's going to apply only in this project. However, Just be aware that I'm going to create a new chat in this project all the time. Anytime that I want to build out a document, I'm going to create it in this project as a chat. And so this a chat. So if you see Whole Family Certification here, this a class I'm currently taking and when I'm taking that class, I'll open up this project And I'll just add document to it. So this one yesterday that I was building out, this is screenshots from my online class. So as she was teaching, I was taking screenshots of the slides. And so there's a lot of them in here. And then if I like we had some pop quizzes. And so a few things where I was like, okay, I'm going to copy and paste this in. And here's my training notes. So it kept and it kept updating my training notes for me. Speaker 1 00:22:07 Um while I was taking that class. So and that's so within this one crimson branding. This is where I'm going to build out um different training modules and things like that and I'm going to start a new chat for every time I want it to to do a new document. And so you'll see a list of all your chats here. Okay. Then how do we? So. U m right now, there's no chat. So we don't need to open a chat because it's right here. There's the chat window, and then I have chat and co- work. So chat is where I just want to talk about it. Co- work is where I want to give it a task. And so and since I'm always giving it a task I'm going to do it here Exactly. Speaker 3 00:23:07 Yes. So. Speaker 1 00:23:20 I just click on the yeah I got I knew what you were saying, no I just click on the folder name up here, and it puts me directly into a new chat. Speaker 3 00:23:44 Yeah. Right. Yes. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:24:05 Yes, so what I did here, um, I went in uh yesterday, and here's the full chat and where I talked to it. And then as I'm talking to it, okay, we're now on a different module. So I'm going to click while I'm in this chat talking to it, I'm ready for a new chat. I'm, just going to click up here, uh, onto the fuller itself. And it automatically starts me a new chat. Speaker 3 00:24:38 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:25:08 So settings and then yes and then save changes. Speaker 1 00:25:51 So, It does not annoy me the response completions because I have Claude installed on my cell phone. Um I get notified on my cell phone. So if I'm going back and forth through things, I, it'll actually buzz my watch when it's done. Speaker 1 00:26:16 So, you just install Claude on your cell phone from the App Store and then log in with your Claude account. Speaker 3 00:26:34 Yes. Yes. Speaker 1 00:28:04 Yeah, We're going to be adjusting that soon. Yeah, I just haven't been home to set up the single sign- on and I'd rather do it where I'm attached to the Crimson network than do it when I'm offsite. And I'm not even in my Crimson office today, so I'm at a client site. So like, um the single sign- on once we get that fully configured. Uh you'll like the sign- on process much better. Speaker 1 00:28:34 In fact, I have a new staff member working on AI stuff for me, so I'm going to have him work on that one for us. Speaker 3 00:28:49 No, it's Claude. It'sum. Speaker 1 00:28:58 The amount of people requesting because Claude is one of the most popular AI products out there right now. Speaker 1 00:29:48 Under chats and tasks, was it in there? Um. Speaker 3 00:29:59 Um. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:30:17 Yes. Speaker 1 00:30:45 You, um, so you would copy and paste it into the new project. Or you, if in the project, you can ask it to refer back to that conversation. Um, I've not tried that, so I don't know if it works, but you're always welcome to try things like that. Speaker 1 00:31:31 So, I have some classes coming up. I'm going to add you to. But if you can't attend them, I'm going to send you over the videos because Stephanie's going to be putting them on the website on crimsonit. com. And so I'll send that information over. Also, I am adding, I am going to add you to my mailing list where I email people different tips and tricks. Um, I am getting it started where I am going to do it, weekly of how you do certain things within Claude CoWork, uh, Copilot and so on, um which might help. Speaker 1 00:32:25 Yes. They they they're similar. They don't work together all that well, but, um let me let me show you. I'm gonna put them side So I do use mine together. Not everybody will, I'll be honest, So on the left here is Claude, on the right is Copilot. And Copilot's Microsoft's version. Now you'll see here. I've got a lot of work I've done within Copilot and I've got a lot of work I've done in Claude. And I will maximize the ability of both of them and have them working together. Now for instance if I'm in a Word document. Speaker 1 00:33:08 Let me open up a Word document so that you see because I do a lot of policies for Crimson clients. And so that's a huge one. Yes, And so I am going to pull up a document I made for our client because they, what we did was, we had a meeting, uh, I recorded the meeting got the transcript of how they want things named. Um, and so I built and this is this is Basic. I built out what they want this to be based on the meeting notes, and I have both Claude and Copilot down here. The only reason I have Claude in here is because I've got the desktop app installed on my computer, but I built most of this in Copilot, so it'll open up in a little side window here, which I think you worked on already. And we did turn that on for you. Um, I will pit both applications against each other. Speaker 1 00:34:06 Um, when I'm working on a yeah, Microsoft has been really slow today. So just a heads up. Um, Let me let me give you let me do it in PowerPoint instead, because I do have an active document open in PowerPoint. Um, just so that you are aware. I don't know why Microsoft is being so slow today. Speaker 1 00:34:36 All right. All right, so here's my document I was working on today, and it's a PowerPoint presentation I made for a class I was teaching. And so I have Copilot here and I have Claude. And so I can open both and pit them against themselves. Not logged in to Claude, but it's easy to log in. But with Copilot, um I tell it what I want to change or create or edit, and I'll tell it to go in and do that. And it will actually go in and edit information. It'll work on a document, in Excel, It will analyze the Excel document and create an analytical page with charts and graphs and things like that. So Copilot works directly in the application itself. And Claude is trying to get into that area. Speaker 1 00:35:31 They're not there yet, but Copilot has got is doing much better. Speaker 1 00:35:50 Yeah. So Copilot is automatically installed on your computer when you get the license turned on. And so basically open up, The start menu and type in Copilot, And you're going to look for Office three hundred and sixty five Copilot or I think it's Microsoft three hundred and sixty five Copilot now is what it's called. Click on your start button. Yep, and then type in Copilot, and you should see two options pop up. Speaker 1 00:36:29 And then you should see Microsoft 365 Copilot. That's what this is right here. So I'm going to maximize and it looks very similar to Claude. It's an app on your desktop, but it's also incorporated into your Microsoft apps like Word, Excel. So here's my Excel and I've got it's already on there. Speaker 1 00:37:48 It's Should uh, um copilot's not an add- in on the toolbar. It's down on the bottom, right? It's a little button. Um Microsoft removed it from the toolbar from the toolbar. Okay, this is what I'm mm-, hmm. Speaker 1 00:38:18 Yes. No, Go all the way down to the right bottom corner of your screen, and you'll see a multicolored little button there. Circle, white circle with a multicolored little icon. Speaker 1 00:38:41 I wish annotate was working. Uh, okay. Um, do you see where it says 70% down in the bottom right far corner? Speaker 1 00:39:03 Very Bottom of the screen. Okay. So that little white button right above that, that right there, that's Copilot. So yeah. Yes. So click on that and that'll open the Copilot window. And it is a pretty slow today. I don't know what's up with Microsoft, but it's been very slow. Speaker 1 00:39:39 So in a document, I use Copilot. Um, I have Claude installed, but I use Copilot. And then So I use um, I use Claude uh co-work. Speaker 1 00:40:10 So let me show you. Cause this one's gonna be hard to explain without showing you. So share. All right. Install. Um, I don't so when I stepped back from overall work uh on the help desk, I lost some access. So I'm gonna have John call you, and he's got the access to install it. So. Speaker 1 00:40:40 Yeah. So I'm going to open up a new chat and I'm going to click on the co- work button right here. And then I'm going to change my folder and I'm going to go to, I have this one right here. It's one of my favorites. It's my training. So if I'm building out a document, I'm going to say, I'm going to just do an example. AI policy or average. Please, uh, build this. Oh wait, you know what? I'm going to change my folder. Um, I'm going to I'm going to add a folder real quickly. Uh because I have all my clients, they all have their own folder. So you guys are in here somewhere. So. Speaker 1 00:41:38 I need to create an AI policy for Kloppe. Build it similar to Kotzen. So Kotzen is a client that I also work with, and I just built out an AI policy for them. And so I am going to. So I've got Kloppe here, and then I'm going to do add another folder. So you can add multiple. Folders to this by the way, and I'm going to put in my Kotzen foundation I'm going to select that one. And so when it builds this file, it's um I'm going to say allow uh when it starts to build this file, it's going to save that file in the folder itself. Yeah. And so um. Speaker 1 00:42:36 As I'm doing my co-work, you can see the progress. It's going to build out a task list as it's working and it's going to have the outputs here. But, all the files are going to be saved in the folder. It was working on. So for instance, this is one training for clients. Most of the documents in here were built in Claude and Claude just automatically saved them here for me. Speaker 1 00:43:08 No, I have Claude start my documents and then I'll open the document and I'll have Copilot double check the work. That's the best way to put it. Yes. Speaker 1 00:43:38 And so, uh, state bar rules should apply the policy aligned to. Um, I am going to say California and ABA. Um, I'm gonna have your name and then um I'm gonna say both are fully approved. And then I'm gonna ask it to only give me a Word document. And, so these are my my items and then um here's uh Claude and Copilot. Um, I want to I want to use both of those because just in case you you say, hey, I like how both of them work. Let's give my staff both. Um and Copilot, they can't really get Copilot on their own. They have to go through Microsoft, and they have to go through the email address. So it has to be approved. So it would. And so. Speaker 1 00:44:34 It's looking. It looked at the Kotzen policy already, And the reason why I'm using theirs is because theirs is very similar to what I know you want, And we do have that option in there that they can only use for them only use Claude and Copilot because they're doing the same exact thing, and no others are allowed. So yeah. Someone. Speaker 1 00:45:21 Yeah. So I'm going to ask John to set up the SSO just because I'm not in office to set it up. Yes. It's gonna. So what it's going to do is it's going to use your Microsoft login to log in rather than send you a code and then real quickly while you're lookingum right? Here's the progress bar. And that's the task list. Mhm. Speaker 3 00:46:12 So, So John is going to talk me about the uh desktop about the blog online. Yes. And then I'm going to show me your emails. And can you just maybe tell me your email and send it to me just what you think I should start with a paper or I should just be prepared for that? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:46:43 Yes. Um, I'm going to send you over AI basics, which covers all AI. I'm going to send you over Copilot basics. I'm going to send you over Claude basics. And then I'm also going to send you over some uh some one-sheets of one sheets that kind of show how to do a prompt. Um, but looking at your yeah. Speaker 3 00:47:14 Yeah. Yes. Yes, Speaker 1 00:47:31 Um, if you can get the API key from Clio, um I will walk you through start to finish. Um but I also am going to look up the instructions as well. Speaker 3 00:48:16 I'm sharing my video screen. Okay. The reason that we now have a report is that it is the tool we use to input our time, so it does all of our invoicing. Yes. And it does like in addition to our billing, we um this is for performance pricing and stuff like that. Ah, I want us to. Speaker 1 00:49:28 So Claude is really good at that. I'll be honest, we our system for billing back to clients is Connectwise, and sometimes I can't get the greatest reports out of Connectwise. So I actually have mine connected to Claude, And I pull so many reports from that because it's able to do all of that. Speaker 3 00:49:58 Yeah. Speaker 3 00:50:32 And I have checks. Right. And so I can just have those, you know, Enter Claude. And then he can update the Excel spreadsheet for me when we finally get it. Mhm. I mean, I cannot tell you how helpful that would be just with my own processes. Speaker 1 00:50:49 Yeah. We can definitely do that in addition to Claude, We can also build it into Power Automate. I don't know if you've ever used that. Okay, I will send you over the class. I did on that today because I did i? I just had a class, so i got to wait on the recap to finish and the video to get created. Um but i did a class on how to utilize power automate. Speaker 1 00:51:41 U M. So that is an add- in for just Outlook. Do me a favorum go to my integrations. Speaker 1 00:51:56 Right under the heading App Integrations, you'll see Home and My Integrations. Click on that for me. I want to see. Okay, no, it doesn't have it on there. Let me look up at Clio real quick. Speaker 3 00:52:37 Mhm. Mhm. Okay, Speaker 1 00:52:57 Let me let me check two things. Let me see if it's a connector in Power Automate for Law Pay. Because that would record things into a spreadsheet. So let me see if that's there. Speaker 1 00:53:32 Okay, Law View and uh is the only one that has law in the name. So it doesn't have a connector on Power Automate. Let me look at Claude. Speaker 3 00:53:53 And then for connectors there. Speaker 1 00:54:06 Uh, LawView. Uh, Bloomberg Law? No. All right, so there is no law pay in Clio. Um, Clio has a full API and we can build out the custom connector. Um, there is a rate limit but that rate limit's not a big deal. Speaker 3 00:54:34 It's big, so you can handle it. Speaker 1 00:55:12 Yeah, this one's going to take. So Clio has an API. I'm looking at LawPay right now. Clio's API is going to take me a bit to build it out. Um, I'm going to have to ask, I'm going to have to ask you for your user ID and password or an account that I can build it that has admin rights. But this one's going to take me a few hours build. Um, I don't know, but I have a couple of things I can do with Clio, and that is to build you a Power Automate connection. Power Automate is Microsoft's automation tool. And, it will allow me to go in and take a look at everything and build that out for you, which can also create reports. Speaker 1 00:56:09 So let me dig into it and do some reading on it before I try to play around with it because I don't want to play around in your production. And then Law Pay, it's still building. It's still looking. So let me look at that. Uh heads up, Clio is discontinuing Law Pay integration at the end of this month. In six days. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. Um, I'll have to build it in Power Automate and Claude and Law Pay. There is an API, um, so they allow for that connection, um, so we can do that. Uh we can build that out. Speaker 1 00:57:09 I was reading some some notices that they just put out, but those notices isn't issue. Speaker 1 00:57:29 All Right, so yeah, So it looks like because we're just doing reporting, and we're not you're not using it to you're not using the connectors to move money around. Uh, we should be good. Speaker 3 00:57:41 Yes. Yes. Speaker 1 00:57:52 Um, all right, Some they do allow it, and then I can I can build that out, but I will need connection. And it'll probably take me about three to let me let me just give you a better estimate three to five hours. Um. Speaker 1 00:58:13 Let me add that into my task list. And then, And I will have it build it out in Excel and then email you when the file is ready. And then you want billable hours, those type of reporting. Gotcha. Okay, perfect. Speaker 2 00:58:43 Yes. And so. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:58:49 Okay. Okay, so we'll talk about yeah, I'll send you a list. I'll send you some people who's kind of in the market. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:59:12 And I. Speaker 2 00:59:12 Just cleaned it up so it should be good. Okay, I'm gonna be on pause for a second. Okay, I'll send it to you. Speaker 1 00:59:29 Yeah. So let me ask you a question. This is a little personal. Where do you live? Okay. Do you by any chance know what Spa area code or Spa code or Spa area you areum for instance, I'm Spa 8 because I'm living in in South Bay Yeah. Speaker 1 01:00:07 Yeah, it's special projects area. It's a Los Angeles County designation, but DCFS uses it to kind of note. I'm going to pull it up for you. You're in Ventura County. Speaker 1 01:00:44 Gotcha. Okay, so you are Spa two perfect. Um, yeah, so DCFS. I'll send you some DCFS information. I will tell you, um there are three categories of hard to place uh in in foster care and here looking for medically fragileum and that's what it's called. I. I handle teens, well, teens and non-minor dependents lumped together. But the other one that I handle, which is hard to place is sexually trafficked kids or sex-trafficked kids. So that's what I handle is higher age teens and sex-trafficked kids. So medically fragile is the other one. And then the fourth one is LGBTQ. Speaker 1 01:01:38 So I do three out of the four. Medically, Speaker 1 01:01:55 Yeah. And the only reason, yeah, the only reason I don't do medically fragile is because, I work full time for Anzor, and it's really hard for me to handle all the doctor's appointments. So that's why I don't do medically fragile. I do do W-rate, which is kids teens that are pregnant. So, but they they don't have as much issue placing those. Uh but I am I am rated for that um and there and I will tell you um. Speaker 1 01:02:29 Open if you want to do it. That's actually a perfect one to do. Do it for all ages because that is a problem. Even if they're medically fragile, they have a lot of foster parents that's willing to do terminally ill babies, But not as many that's willing to do the older kids like kids, eight and up. Yeah, everybody wants babies. Not everybody wants to handle teens and medically fragile for older kids. And it's because they come with trauma. And working through trauma responses is not easy. And I say this as a kid who was in care and adopted when I was 15. So, I know what I went through, and I know I've had 16 kids in my care since I started. Speaker 1 01:03:24 One of them I adopted after she turned seventeen, like the month after she turned seventeen, I adopted her. And it's not always easy because they come with their own set of issues. Each kid's different. I have a pregnant teenager in my house right now who's twenty. She's called a non-minor dependent. She's still in foster care until she turns twenty-one. She came to me July fourth, and she's an amazing kid. But I have had to make concessions to get her to her doctor's appointments. Thankfully, we have an OB/GYN that's down the street from us that takes medical, and so she's seeing him. And so she I get her an Uber ride there, and she goes to see him once a week. And so you know, she's going to give birth in about four weeks. And we are you know working through what that looks like. Speaker 1 01:04:21 I have a non-minor dependent in my home right now. She's a SILP kid, which means she is a independent living participant, but it's under supervised independent living. So she gets the money, The reimbursement money that a foster parent normally gets, and she learns how to budget from that. So she's got to learn how to budget and all those skills. And she's a kid that's been in and out of my home since she was 14, but the foster mom she was with, There's been issues, but not issues where we could pull her from that home. And we finally July 13th, we had to pull her under emergency protection order and bring her to me. And she's an amazing kiddo. She started her senior year today. In fact, I was making sure she got home. Okay, just now because there was some issues with her ride. But every kid that comes through is going to be vastly different, but. Speaker 1 01:05:16 It is absolutely amazing. I work with only girls. Boys are fantastic, but and I've had boys in the past, but I am a single mom and I am a professional and you know, I am an executive professional. So, I kind of stay within my wheelhouse and teen girls are in my wheelhouse, whereas teen boys are a little bit different. So. Speaker 3 01:05:48 Thank you so much, by the way. No worries. Speaker 1 01:05:58 No worries. I'm going to give you a website. I'm going to text it to you. I built a website, I'm still building it. It's called Counted Doors, And I'm getting information out there for parents to know or like foster parents that want to become foster parents, to know what to do. I'll send that over to text. I do have to go home, uh, because I have people coming today. Yeah. Yeah, no worries. I look forward to helping. All right, bye You're welcome.
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04-15 SOAP Note: Christi - Insomnia, PTSD
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- Date & Time: 2026-04-15 15:21:32 Patient: [Christi] Diagnosis: \## Diagnosis History: 1\. Medical History: History of PTSD. 2\. Medication History: Currently takes trazodone, Effexor 150 mg, and Effexor 37.5 mg. Previously took trazodone 10–15 years ago following an ER visit. \## Subjective: The patient reports continued sleep issues, averaging four to five and a half hours per night despite taking a full dose of her current sleep medication. She experiences both frequent awakenings and early morning awakenings (e.g., 3 AM) with inability to return to sleep. When awake, she feels wide alert and engages in activities such as cleaning, coding, or reading. She has attempted troubleshooting (e.g., cats, late-night fluid intake), but these do not appear to be contributing factors. Trazodone helps her fall asleep faster (asleep by 10 PM after taking medications at 8 PM) and has significantly reduced PTSD-related dreams. She reports one day of high anxiety in the past month, attributed to premenstrual symptoms and stress related to her child going to college. She confirms Effexor is working well otherwise. \## Objective: \- Patient’s self-reported sleep log: \- Saturday: 4.5 hours \- Monday: 6.5 hours \- Tuesday: 4 hours \- Last night (Wednesday): 4 hours and 39 minutes \## Primary Diagnosis: \- Assessment: Insomnia, secondary to anxiety/PTSD. \- Suspected Diagnosis: None at this time. \## Plan: \- Prescription: \- Trazodone 50 mg tablets: 60 tablets with instructions to take 1–2 tablets at bedtime as needed, allowing titration up to 100 mg (or potentially 125 mg by splitting a tablet) to optimize sleep maintenance. \- Refills for Effexor 150 mg and Effexor 37.5 mg. \- All prescriptions to be sent to Amazon PillPack pharmacy. \- Next Steps/Examination: \- Consider Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in the future as schedule allows. \- Follow-up Treatment Plan: \- Follow-up appointment scheduled for Friday, May 15th at 3:40 PM to assess the effectiveness of the adjusted trazodone dosage on sleep.
- Date
- Apr 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:35 Okay. Speaker 2 00:01:25 Hi Christy, how's it going? Hi, it's good. How are you doing? Fine. Good. All right, so how's the sleep? Did it help? Speaker 3 00:01:35 You don't want to see. Um, I am taking a full one, but I am not going over five and a half hours tops. So yeah. So last three nights have been four hoursum Let me double check because I think last night last night I'm a little bit more rested feeling. But. Yeah. It was four hours and thirty nine minutes. Speaker 2 00:02:02 Okay, so is that pretty much every night, four to five hours? Yeah. Is it like waking up like throughout the night or like you wake up and can't go back to sleep? Speaker 3 00:02:14 Both. So sometimes like a couple nights ago, I woke up, uh Saturday I got four four and a half four. Hours and thirty minutes. I was in bed for six hours, but I kept waking up. Um, That night, it wasn't like I didn't have to go to the bathroom or anything. I just kept waking up, and that could have been neighbors. Um, and then Monday was well Monday was actually good. Um, I went to bed early and I got six and a half hours. Okay, That's what I consider good at this point uh the day, but yesterday was four hours even. Speaker 3 00:02:54 So, last night I slept through the night. I might have woken up about maybe once, but I don't remember. Well, no, I do remember. I woke up ;. All three cats were in the bed with me, and then I went back to sleep because one was purring next to my ear. But they when they're in bed with me, They go to bed if I am not in bed by ten ;. They're annoyed with me so they want their treats um. And they're they're out with me. They're they're not like normal cats and get up and walk around all over you. Uh, they're pretty. Um, sorry I was about to sneeze. They're once they're out, they're out and they don't like to get up until ten a. m. unless I have to go eat. So yeah, so it's not I thought it might be the cats but it's not them. Um, I even had them sleep outside of my room, the other night just to check. And that was one of the four hour nights, Speaker 2 00:03:47 But still is that no, Um. Speaker 3 00:03:51 I stop drinking water or anything liquid after I take my meal and my pills at eight o'clock. Uh, and it's not usually the bathroom that wakes me up. So I've been trying like checking out a lot of different things to see if I could try to get it straightened up. Um, but it's just, I don't know what it is when I am wake up, like I woke up at three AM. The other night other morning, I am wide awake. II don't go back to sleep. II get up. II start cleaning the house. II, Start working on coding on my computer. I read a book, I catch up on TV shows from the night before, like different things. So it's just like if I lay there, I will not go back to sleep. So I might as well get up and do stuff. Speaker 2 00:04:33 Okay, and we have a couple of options. Do you feel like the trazodone helped at all? Speaker 3 00:04:39 It helped me get to sleep faster, Which that was appreciated because I take my meds at eight and then I am ready to go to sleep by ten. Speaker 2 00:04:48 Okay, so if it helps a little bit, we could increase. Like you can take more. Like fifty is not a high dose. Like I have people who take seventy five, they take one hundred, one hundred and fifty to sleep. You know like so we're not like near the cap as far as like increasing the dose. If, you felt like that was like the right track or we could consider other options if you feel like maybe we need to try something different. That's kind of what I want to see, did it do anything? Speaker 3 00:05:14 Let's try increasing because I do remember taking trazodone in the past for something. I don't remember what it was, but I remember it followed an E R visit. Yeah, I just don't know why it was like ten fifteen years ago. Um and I remember feeling like I got really good sleep during that time, so I am not opposed to increasing. Speaker 2 00:05:32 Okay, So what I'll do is i'll still leave it as the fifties so that you have a little more wiggle room with, like how you take it. But I'm going to write it as like one to two, So that way you'll get 60 of them, and you can try like one and a half. You could try two, you can try two and a half. You know, like you said that there is a 150 tablet. There's a hundred tablet. Like I have patients who like that's just part of their regimen, you know, that they just need a little bit higher dose to fall asleep. And it does help with anxiety. Like it works on an anxiety receptor. So like I'm not against it, if it's going okay. Speaker 3 00:06:02 Gotcha I did notice. Uh PTSD dreams have significantly dropped in the last month. Okay, So that was very much appreciated because I didn't feel like I was waking up and startled or scared to death, or you know, the different feelings I get after I have a dream. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:06:21 So maybe it is calming some area of your brain then a little bit. Maybe we just need to get it right. So okay, I'm fine with that. What I'll do is I'm going to write for like sixty this time so that we'll have enough to kind of play with it and figure out and see if it's going to work. If not, There are other options, you know, lots of other sleep options. But if we can get this one to work. For you, it's a nice like augmenting medication actually. So, great for anxiety, great for depression, all that. Okay. Speaker 2 00:06:48 And then. Speaker 3 00:06:49 Can you send those prescriptions to Amazon? Yep. Okay. Yeah because the Effexor was sent to Walgreens, and so Amazon didn't put it in the pill pack. Speaker 2 00:07:02 Oh no! Speaker 3 00:07:03 So it's okay, it's only a couple more weeks until they replace the pill pack so. Speaker 2 00:07:07 Okay, now I have the Effexor 150, Effexor 37. 5, trazodone 50. And then I'll be going to Amazon. Yes, sent. Speaker 3 00:07:18 Yep. Yeah, the Effexor is working really well. There was only there was like one day in the last month where I just I was super anxious, super stressed out like I couldn't figure out what was going on because nothing made senseum. But I think, and then I started my period two days later, so I think that's what it was. So which is unusual for me to get that. That high of an anxiety, but also kid is about to go to college and she's stressed out and. All the things yeah, so we we are going to visit the college this weekend. Speaker 2 00:07:54 That's awesome. That'd be fun. Okay, well perfect. Well, let's see if we can get you some sleep, then help you recover at night from the stress during the day. Speaker 3 00:08:04 Yes, There's going to be a lot of walking at the college. So on Saturday. Speaker 2 00:08:08 Yeah, and TMS always an option if you decide you want to do it. So I went ahead and sent the refills. Looks like PillPack confirmed. You want to check in in a month and see how the sleep went? Speaker 3 00:08:18 Yeah, that would be great. Yes, There was a question I had to ask you, but it wasn't important. So I can't remember it? Speaker 2 00:08:26 Oh If you think of it, you can text it to Brittany I Will. Speaker 3 00:08:30 I will. I do. I do want to do now that my schedule is starting to slow slightly down. I'm going to start checking out EMS because I am working in Lynnwood right now. Cool, so it's a lot closer and the company I'm working for right now, they're my client, I'll be here for at least a year is a mental health company. So cool. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:08:55 All right, perfect. And thenum. Any preference? You know, do like the week of May eleventh through the fifteenth. Speaker 3 00:09:02 Let me check one thing. I do know there's something going on in May. It's not travel. Um, it's a conference. Uh, I have a all day meeting on the sixth. So uh, but it ends at three o'clock. Okay. And then that's it. Um, everything, all my rest of my afternoons are clear. Speaker 2 00:09:31 Okay, perfect. Um, well any preference day of the week or time? Speaker 3 00:09:35 Um, as late in the afternoon as possible would be great. Speaker 2 00:09:39 Okay. Um, let's see the week of the eleventh through the fifteenth. Um I have a three forty on Monday Wednesday Thursday or Friday Let's go Monday Monday. The eleventh three forty. Speaker 3 00:09:53 Actually hang on one second Uh. Speaker 3 00:09:58 Oh, I know what what it is I have for me. Okay. Um, let's do that Friday. Yes. Um, and what time did you say? Speaker 2 00:10:11 Three forty. Speaker 3 00:10:12 Three forty. Ah, I clicked off, my calendar got to get back. Okay, um three forty, yes, I, actually, that would be perfect. Speaker 2 00:10:25 All right, I've got you on the schedule May 15 t h Friday 3:40 and prescriptions pill pack confirmed. So let me know if they give you any trouble though. Speaker 3 00:10:33 Thank you. No, they're really good. They justum yeah, Walgreens did both of them. Amazon didn't get the refill, and they didn't put it in. Speaker 2 00:10:41 So that was my fault. I probably just missed it. Speaker 3 00:10:44 It's. Okay, It's okay. I have no problems with it because Ium it's just one more bottle to add to my dresser instead of the pill pack. Speaker 2 00:10:55 So This time confirmed. We need to delete the other two actually pharmacies from here. Speaker 3 00:11:02 Thank you. I only do Walgreens if it's something new, but yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:09 Perfect and I'll just add it back if I need to, but that way Amazon is the priority so okay, All right, well, all sent uh, but let me know you know if you need anything before, then okay? Speaker 3 00:11:17 Awesome thank you so much have a good weekend bye. Speaker 2 00:11:20 Thank you.
05-05 Weekly Meeting: Vimeo Live Stream Troubleshooting & Permanent Solution
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- > Date: 2026-05-05 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### Vimeo Live Stream Troubleshooting - **Discussion Summary:** - The team addressed an issue where the Sunday 9 AM live stream failed on Vimeo for the past few weeks, while the YouTube stream worked correctly. - Speaker 2 shared their screen and walked through the troubleshooting process, starting with the Rezzy streaming platform. - Rezzy is configured to automatically push the stream at 7:25 AM to multiple destinations, including YouTube and Vimeo. - The issue was isolated to the Rezzy–Vimeo connection, as Rezzy’s stream was confirmed to be functioning. - The problem appears to be on Vimeo’s side or with the website’s embed code, not with Rezzy. The stream key in Rezzy matches the one in Vimeo. - The team found that the 9 AM live stream video exists in the Vimeo library but does not display correctly on the website. - The website’s 9 AM embed code may be incorrect or outdated and appears different from the 11 AM service code. - **Conclusion:** - The likely root cause is an incorrect website embed code for the 9 AM service or a Vimeo backend change. - Speaker 2 provided a temporary, updated 9 AM embed code for the upcoming Sunday (May 10, 2026). - The team will manually switch the website embed code between the 9 AM and 11 AM services. ### Planning a Permanent Solution - **Discussion Summary:** - Speaker 2 proposed testing on May 17, 2026, to consolidate the 9 AM and 11 AM services into a single Vimeo live stream link. - This would remove the need to switch embed codes between services. - Speaker 2 suspects a recent Vimeo backend change may have caused the issue and will investigate further before making permanent changes. - The team agreed to the plan and will coordinate with Mark, who may have additional insight. ## Next Steps - [ ] For May 10, 2026: Manually update the website with the temporary 9 AM embed code before the service. - [ ] After the 9 AM service on May 10, 2026: Hide the 9 AM video block and unhide the 11 AM video block on the website. - [ ] Speaker 2: Investigate a permanent Vimeo stream fix and confirm whether a Vimeo backend change occurred. - [ ] May 17, 2026: Test the single-link live stream approach for both services. - [ ] Coordinate with Alex for assistance implementing new website code if needed. - [ ] Include Mark in future discussions, as he may have relevant insight. - [ ] Prepare a contingency plan for May 17, 2026, in case the single-link solution does not work (e.g., revert to separate embeds). ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The root cause of the live stream failure was not definitively confirmed, though it is suspected to be a backend change on Vimeo. It's unclear who made the change or what the exact change was. > 2. The plan for May 10, 2026, involves manually switching embed codes between services, which carries a risk of human error and could result in the stream failing if not done correctly. > 3. While a test is planned for May 17, 2026, there is no contingency plan mentioned if the proposed single-stream solution does not work.
- Date
- May 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 I'm not sure what you mean. Hello. Oh, wait. I. Speaker 2 00:00:21 Think you need to give me some coffee. Every Sunday morning, and I take a Starbucks venti. American o, no wait, I take a Starbucks caramel macchiato with an extra shot. So it's a quad, and whole milk, and it must have all the caramel. I think that's fair. Speaker 1 00:00:47 The name of the town is derived from the river. If you get anything else from this meeting today, bring me a Starbucks on Sunday. The name of the town is derived from the river. The name of the town is derived from the river. The city is located on the banks of the river. Also, my note taker is better than your note taker. Speaker 1 00:01:36 The film was released on 24 June 2016. The town is located on the banks of the river Sava. The name of the town is derived from the river. The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. The first is the most important. Speaker 1 00:02:22 The name of the town is derived from the river. The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. Hi Ashley. How are you? Speaker 3 00:02:32 Brian was just like, Oh, are you going on? And I said, Yep. So he should join in like ten seconds. Speaker 2 00:02:40 Okay, I made it home. So, you get to see the blurred background of my bed. Because I refused to make it this morning, I was running late. Hi Christy, Speaker 4 00:02:53 Good to see you again. Speaker 2 00:02:54 Hi Ryan, how are you? Speaker 4 00:02:56 Good. Thanks for taking time to do this with us. Speaker 2 00:02:59 No worries. You said you were in. Speaker 3 00:03:02 Anaheim today, Pasadena. Oh dang it! I knew it was like a word, a word that. Speaker 2 00:03:11 No, No worries. No, it was fun. I got to hang out with Ability First, their disability team. And get to meet some of their, uh, some of their clients and participants in a really fun thing today. And I am heading up in a couple weeks to Camp Pavadka. We're going to be rebuilding their entire network, but I get to meet all of them, Uh because they're going to be doing a camp at the same time as I'm breaking up concrete running new cables. So. It's gonna be fun. Speaker 3 00:03:41 That's so fun. It's crazy. My husband used to like go to work at a lot of camps and help make high ropes courses. And so, when you said," I am going to go to this camp and help build," in my head I just went like Oh, high ropes course!" But then you are like their network; it's like oh no, the ice cubes different kind of building. Speaker 2 00:03:56 Yeah, different kind of running rope. Type things. I am going to go underground into the concrete. They are going to. He did the overground stuff. Speaker 3 00:04:07 That's just where my head went. I was like, Oh, that's good. I've gone on a couple of missionary trips where we go go to a summer camp and make up ropes courses. Speaker 2 00:04:15 No, that's fun. I love it. Yeah, I wish they had a high ropes. They have cabins. I'll be staying in a cabin. So we'll be staying inside. Speaker 3 00:04:27 You'd be doing their network or whatever, like yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:33 Okay. Well, actually, I see if Doc can hang out with him for the for a couple of days. I think she's picked the Cheney's for this time around. Let's see. And she says," no babies." Yes, no babies this time. Speaker 3 00:04:50 Well, um, Thanks so much for I. Literally wanted we put this on our calendar just because I feel like on Sundays I am always like, so it's gonna go right. And then this way, if you if you are like, oh, let me check really quick. It'd be cool for you just to share your screen and be like," This is what I am checking. This is why it should work," and then it puts Ryan kind of can see what you are doing, like has gives him like an insider. I pull up, like it's scheduled, but I don't know what to say. Hi, and so yeah, Speaker 2 00:05:16 That's awesome. Do you want to say hi to everybody? Speaker 4 00:05:20 Oh my goodness. Speaker 2 00:05:23 She would not let me out of bed this morning. Hey, no buts in my face, please. Speaker 3 00:05:30 So phie always talks about her cat, But her cat is always so like mean and doesn't want to talk to anyone. So it's just but apparently loves her and wants her to hang out. Speaker 2 00:05:39 Uh, the other two are somewhere around here. I'm surprised they haven't jumped in. Moose is is notorious for jumping into meetings. Um okay, so I'm sharing my screen on Rezzy, but also let me get this window out of the way. Um, let me also go into uh. Vimeo, and then we'll just use Vimeo. Vimeo and. Sorry, I was about to sneeze. We're not going to worry about YouTube because we don't have an issue with YouTube. It's working. So let me show you from the resume point of view, and then show you how it's set up for. Um, live streaming and different things like that. So, uh, Very first thing is, we so this used to be the old encoder, and it changed to this one right here. Speaker 2 00:06:29 And that's the Manhattan Beach Auditorium, so that's the main encoder. Everything is set to fire off automatically, but you have Journey Torrance, you have Journey Venue. I don't know what Journey Host is. But I am sure there is something. It's never online when I see it. I just see these two, and so. Everything here is already connected to each other, so you've got the encoder which is. Up stairs in that in the, whatever you got it used to be the production. Studio, but I guess now it's another studio. Speaker 3 00:07:06 Yeah, yeah. They have like Dave's old office or no? Yes. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:11 So that's where we. Speaker 2 00:07:13 Yeah, that's. That's where we used to be, uh before they brought us down to be in the production booth. Uh, so, uh, but it's up in that little room up on the rack, and you can start and stop everything from there. Um, on here when you when you log in, you'll see upcoming events and there's little dots for Sunday. That's because that's our online livestream. The system comes online at seven twenty five a m and it starts immediately pushing. Two torrents, so it's an uninterruptible stream. Two torrents into all the other locations. With the exception of a few destinations, so. Speaker 2 00:07:57 The embed, and then you've got which is going one place, and then you've got the custom which is going to another. So I am going to go ahead, just edit. So you guys can see what that looks like. But when I'm checking this out, What I'm going to do is I'm going to check for these different things that we can watch. I'm going to go into destinations. So this is the online. And then this has been mailed. And so what you'll see here, this will broadcast. Um, from Rezzy to I believe this one is uh YouTube. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so this one is YouTube, and that's a preset that we have already set. So anything with this icon is going to go to the YouTube. And in the Vimeo, there's a there's the eleven o'clock service. We always have it start three minutes before. And then there's a nine o'clock service, so we can see that it's streaming to those locations at that point. Speaker 2 00:08:52 And when I go in and check it, and I go to the watch location, I can click on any of these embeds. Um and watch where it's going to, and so this is your Vimeo nine AM, and this is your Vimeo which is the eleven AM. And so this is your customer. Speaker 3 00:09:07 Do you have any idea why it didn't go the last couple weeks? So, Speaker 2 00:09:11 So Rezzy. Went so it pushed your resi correctly. So video is where I go next to look. Speaker 1 00:09:21 I'll wait for it to come back. So. Speaker 2 00:09:33 This is the Vimeo for nine a. m. so it's a separate stream. It says" connect to an encoder," but it always will say that. Because it's not streaming automatically. So that's why it says connect to the encoder. But the moment three minutes goes before service, it's going to go live. And this is the stream URL and the stream key. And these will expire after so long, but the last one didn't expire for five, six years. Um, basically what I'll do is I'll go and edit that in here. So I'll go back to dashboard real quick. I'm going to go to settings. And from here, what I'm going to do is I'm going to look at the RTMP, which is where Vimeo goes into. So in this one, I'm going to look. Speaker 2 00:10:17 Right here, and I'm going to go to edit, and I'm going to edit details. And this is where I put that string key. So I'll check that against this, and it's the same stream key. So the problem is going to be because when I go into Rezzy, it's streaming. So if I go into that event, and I look at it. Here, and I click on the nine a.m. I saw it straight. So it was going. So the breakdown is somewhere on the Vimeo site. And that's what I got to figure out. So there is a way to go in here. It's automatically pushing here. It is on a reoccurring, every Sunday stream. Mhm. Let me see if I can find the schedule. There's the schedule. And so you can see, um, this is the start and the end, and it's a reoccurring event that repeats every Sunday. And I said to never it. Speaker 2 00:11:15 M hm. So, yeah, I I chose never to end it. Speaker 3 00:11:21 Um. So, Speaker 2 00:11:27 Actually, when I set this up, I duplicated it from the eleven o'clock. When I reset it up a couple weeks ago, and so I made sure all the settings were matching. But this is the date that I duplicated it, and so it always starts. Um. Speaker 2 00:11:42 And we knew that it was streaming to YouTube, so there was nothing wrong on the Resi side. So it has to be here. Speaker 3 00:11:49 Somewhere from the stream code to Vimeo. Speaker 2 00:11:52 Correct. And then right here, I can choose a share link and I can copy that. I will sometimes do that, Especially if I am on a Mac, because Macs are print, whatever that p word is. It's really fun to say, but I can't say it. But I'll copy and paste it into here and then. You can you'll see the live streamed event happen. Um, what I want to check which I forgot to check, but I'm going to go back and check this. Um, so the next one does start May tenth. So it is set properly there. The backup stream is there and the eleven o'clock stream is there. Um, let me look in the library. I gotta remember if it's no, it's not library. Let me look in. My library. Speaker 1 00:12:41 Sometimes I thought that they used to put it there. May third. That's. Speaker 2 00:12:56 The one you guys did. There's the livestream. So it is in here. Speaker 1 00:13:04 I am not a good person. Speaker 1 00:13:16 I'm not going to be able to do that. Every nation, surrender all to. Speaker 3 00:13:26 It's like on the there's like a plugin on our website that links to these, so maybe it's. Just plugging into the eleven. Speaker 2 00:13:37 It could be. Let me do this. Let me send you over. In the chat. M hm. Um, I'm gonna paste that in. That's the, that's the stream. Mhm, and you can use itum for the website. Uh, actually hang on don't don't use that one. Uh, not edit copy link. Use the second one I'm sending you. Speaker 1 00:14:02 Okay. So you have that. And see if that if you can fix it there. Speaker 3 00:14:13 Yeah, But sorry. Well, No cause this, just like takes me to like the previously recorded live stream like. I don't know if you look at the site. On the website, you're right. I'm sorry. Hang on, I will fix that for you. No, I am still thinking it because we I think it just has one like it has one box. And then sometimes it's the eleven and sometimes it's the nine. Okay. Speaker 1 00:14:41 I pull up a slide. Maybe it'll be obvious. Speaker 4 00:14:48 This is so helpful, though. So it looks like it's actually something on our website that's the issue, not Vimeo itself. Speaker 2 00:14:55 Yeah. And bear with me because it's been a while since I've played around with Vimeo, so I've got to remember. Where that link is, it's somewhere in here. Speaker 1 00:15:13 There's the YouTube. Let me look again and see. Thank you. Let me check something else real quick. I don't The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:15:41 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:15:44 Okay. If I send you some coding in this chat, you can rather just ignore it if it makes no sense to you. This is the coding that's in the website for, that, that box that plays. What is life? Speaker 2 00:16:01 Hmm. That makes sense. Um, no, it does make sense to me. Yes. Ah, okay. So the destinations are all the same. Speaker 3 00:16:16 Which Is weird because they have eleven works. Speaker 2 00:16:20 It might be because it's a different. It's a different site. See share link event. Speaker 1 00:16:29 Shirley, get out. Speaker 4 00:16:34 They're different numbers. Yeah, yeah. It was it six seven and five seven. Speaker 1 00:16:39 Yep, so. I'm sorry. Let me remember how to do this. Speaker 3 00:16:48 I was hoping like that, that link with that huge number would be like, oh, We just need to change that link. And then can we'll also put the nine or something. Speaker 1 00:17:01 I don't even know how to edit that code. I can just. Speaker 2 00:17:04 Find the code and copy it. So it's the same. Wait, that one's a little bit different. Hang on, let me find the other embed. Speaker 1 00:17:16 Actually. 嗯。 Oh, okay. I have another. Speaker 2 00:17:33 So that's an old event link that you have. Um, use that same embed link, but try it with the hyperlink. Where it says src, which is source equals. And then HTTPS, and then backslash backslash player. So, that just the link portion on mine where it says HTTPS. Switch it out with that one. Well, you might need to make a on the website. You might need to make another one. Um, that's for nine o'clock. I have it switched around. I just don't know how to do that. I. Speaker 3 00:18:08 Have no idea what this coding is, but I see what you're saying. Like if we changed out the HTTPS. Vi meo dot com slash event and then a number, maybe that's what we did this part right here. Yes. Speaker 1 00:18:25 The first two were written by the same person. The first is the most important. I'm gonna copy it. Paste it this way. If we mess around, we at least have the. I think. Okay. Speaker 1 00:18:47 And then I'm gonna hide this one. Speaker 2 00:18:51 I also would like to try something, but not this week. I want to try it next week. Um. Because this week I have a family event, so I don't. It's gonna be a little crazy for me. Next week, I want to try something where we can just bring it into one live stream. On Vimeo and see if that'll take. Um. But I'll put it in my calendar to try it that week. Um, not the tenth, but the seventeenth. Will you be around on the seventeenth? Okay, So if we try it because I know Colonel is going to be directing that day, and so I won't need to run around like a crazy woman as much. Um. I'd like to try something and see if that will work. And if not, I can push go live manually. Speaker 3 00:19:43 Okay, so should I. Speaker 3 00:19:46 Put in this code instead for. Speaker 2 00:19:51 This this coming Sunday only for nine a. m. So you'll have to switch it back to the other code for eleven. Okay, so but I have an idea and let's try it on the seventeenth. Speaker 3 00:20:03 Okay. And then, I guess I've never really messed with coding before. I am taking a shot, but I got the nine AM, the eleven. I still have saved and I just like hit it. Speaker 2 00:20:16 So, Yeah. Let me let me make your code for you. Speaker 3 00:20:20 Oh yeah, I was just copying this one you sent. This one? Speaker 2 00:20:23 Yeah, don't don't copy that. Let me let me remake it for you. That's gonna be a little bit better. Speaker 3 00:20:29 You're gonna waggle it. What am I doing over here? So. Ah. Speaker 2 00:20:36 You Can tell I'm cold just a little bit. Speaker 3 00:20:39 That's what I was like. I am just going to send this and be a shock. The turkey might just be gibberish, you know. Like, oh yeah, that makes a little bit of sense. I was like. Hi, Speaker 2 00:20:48 It's happening. It's not like right now. Hang on one second. Speaker 3 00:20:54 I'll make sure to edit this. Okay, I can also write it down. And Alex has edited what coding before that we need to help on. So if I can't. Figure out exactly how to put the new code in. Then I can connect with Alex tomorrow. Maybe he can. Hope. Speaker 3 00:21:14 If it's just the, is the only thing you change the Vimeo part. Event and the number. Speaker 2 00:21:21 There you go. You can copy and paste that. Speaker 3 00:21:25 Except for I'm having a hard time. It's. Speaker 2 00:21:28 Not wanting to paste. I was having an issue with it as well. Hi, sweetheart. Speaker 3 00:21:34 Is the only thing different the event number, the five eight? Speaker 2 00:21:38 Um, it's the website's just a little bit off a little. Speaker 1 00:21:46 This Is Bruce Ryan. I know, honey. What you saw was not me being pleased. The name of the town is derived from the river. Okay, Speaker 3 00:21:58 Well, something's there. Speaker 3 00:22:05 Okay, Okay. Um. Okay, so I have the old one. Okay, it looks different. Then the gold one, that's fine. Speaker 2 00:22:15 Okay. Sweetheart, nobody wants to see your tail on camera. Okay, Speaker 3 00:22:21 The worst that can happen is I press publish. And then we'll just have to completely figure out how to if I've lost it or what. Speaker 2 00:22:25 Yeah, hang on one second. Dominic, come and get your cat. Worst case scenario, Speaker 4 00:22:33 Same thing as other weeks where it just doesn't play, you know. Let's go, YouTube. Speaker 3 00:22:38 Yeah, and I just need to remind ourselves in between services. To hide this one and unhide the one that I that's like works for the eleven. Speaker 4 00:22:48 Okay, so you have to actually do that on Sunday. Speaker 3 00:22:50 Yeah, Because right now, what I did on the website is I just copied the eleven, the one that worked this way. Like all the settings changed are the same, and then I justum. Swapped out the coding for it. And so on Sunday, I can hide or actually eleven, I could hide this video. And I could put in the. Speaker 3 00:23:12 And unhide the other one. Okay, Speaker 4 00:23:13 And then Christy, are you talking about instead of having two separate links, You're talking about having it just be one link. So there's not the different challenge? Yes. Speaker 3 00:23:24 It must have been before, like the one before for the eleven. Like the player looks different, like right now looking at it, the player looks different and some of the coding is a little bit different, like the one before. Yeah. So I, Speaker 2 00:23:37 I the old one will come back to we'll continue using but. Speaker 2 00:23:42 I wanna I wanna see if I can fix something. There might have been an issue on the back end, um, within Vimeo that I noticed, but I am scared to fix it this week without. Being fully prepared for it because I have Eddy directing. Okay, and we we we gotta stay on top of some things there. Speaker 3 00:24:04 Yeah. Yeah, well, I you make me always so much more bolder. I would never just be like," Oh, hey Grant," just like published on the website. But okay, Speaker 2 00:24:13 So the ones that you see some of the stuff I do on the back end on a daily basis. Speaker 3 00:24:18 Okay, there's something on the website and it looks different than it did before, but that's okay. And the other one I can still get up to. So if like Anne, we have this like watch live on YouTube so. Yeah, That's this is, as long as we yeah, all right. That sounds good. Okay, and then we'll look, and then this coming week, Chrissy, we could look at it and be like," How, do we get that code to be the same? So we don't have to like." There's there is a way, Cause we've had it for years, where it just worked at nine and worked at eleven. And I also, if we wanted to, if the coding on Vimeo is harder, I don't think we're opposed to using the coding on. YouTube, like if we're like, oh yeah, this is kind of hard. Youtube makes it more easy to pick the nine or eleven or something like that. I don't think we feel one strongly one way or the other. Speaker 2 00:25:01 Yeah, let's. I think I think I know how to fix it. I am just scared to do it for this Sunday, just because I am not going to beum. I am going to have too much going on with everything happening. U m, I think I know. I think I know what happened. I think someone made a change on the back end for something recently. Uh, it wasn't Easter. It was the week after Easter. It was still working, but it was the following week where it stopped working. And I think I know what happened and who may have changed it. But I don't want to say it out loud and be completely wrong, so okay. Speaker 3 00:25:31 Especially because actually then. Tell me later. No, I was. I I think I was talking because I was. I would have assumed it would have happened. This would have happened the week after Easter because we changed the times for Easter. Like we had multiple services we had, you know so yeah. I am just like was really surprised. Am like if this was going to happen it would have happened, the week after Easter because we switched all our times for Easter. Speaker 2 00:25:59 Yeah and it didn't it was everything was working perfectly for that. I think somebody went in later and made a change. Um I just I. I think I know who it was, but I just don't wanna. I don't want to accuse somebody of something and be completely wrong. So, all right. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 3 00:26:18 Well, I sent you guys a link. This is what it looks like this way. We'll get a look on nine zero mum. And I'll just be reminded I'll have more because it'll be at Torrance, and so I will, um, have more time. I'll make sure I go do it between services. Awesome. Okay, thank you so much, Christy. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:26:35 Thank you. Thank you both. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:26:37 No worries. Just let me know if you guys need more help. I'm more than happy to do it. I like you guys, and we can go all time. And. Speaker 3 00:26:46 We could touch base again before, Like if you want to look on the back end between now and two weeks from now, to be like, okay, great. This is what I've noticed the coding and Mark might be back. So maybe we could include Mark in on this before he was one of the always like. Manage these things like I know that's, But really, you know the last six months, I didn't do anything really pulling you. So. But Mark will hopefully come to that space as well. Speaker 2 00:27:10 Yeah, and he probably knows the fix to it as well. And I just figured it out just by looking. Um, But I I think someone made a change and I think that's just what we need to fix. Okay. Yeah, you guys are awesome. Um, I am gonna go take a nap now and go hug my child. She just walked in. Okay. I have to go. Alright, alright. Bye guys. Speaker 4 00:27:32 Thank you both so much, thank you. No worries, Bye. Speaker 1 00:27:37 Hmm. I'm not sure.
08-14 Technical Training: Claude Data Backup, Multi-Device Sync, and Agent Automation
- Notes
- > Date Time: 2026-08-14 13:01:31 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: Christi ## Summary This technical training session, conducted on 2026-08-14, focuses on instructing team members (primarily Victoria) on how to properly back up and synchronize localized Claude AI data across multiple computers. Prompted by recent incidents of damaged or lost devices due to "coffee and tea debacles," the meeting covers the structural differences between Claude Chat, CoWork, and Code. Christi provides an advanced walkthrough of managing localized agent files (referred to as "minions"), automating chat logs, executing tasks using local file paths, and the requirements for running scheduled tasks. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Claude Interface Functions and Limitations - **Differences Between Chat, CoWork, and Code** - **Chat**: Standard chat data cannot be easily backed up or synced across multiple devices. - **CoWork**: Contains elements, such as projects and tasks, that are natively easier to back up. - **Code**: A more advanced interface that can be utilized similarly to CoWork to create documents and automate tasks. It offers superior file manipulation capabilities, though users must occasionally switch back and forth between Chat and Code, as each possesses unique functionalities the other lacks. ### 2. Data Backup and Folder Synchronization - **Core Folder Setup for Claude** - Claude tracks system data across computers using specific hidden and standard folders. The critical structural folders include `.Claude_agent_workspace` (which stores scheduled tasks, settings, and shared items) and `chat_logs`. - To ensure consistent access, these folders should be stored in a centralized local directory, specifically `C:\users\[username]\documents`. - **Cross-Computer Syncing Methods** - Because localized Claude data does not sync via the cloud automatically, users must back up files using local sync clients like Microsoft OneDrive or Box, ensuring the application is actively syncing on all used computers. - Updating agent data across machines is a manual process. Users must copy their Claude folder into their My Documents or Box folder and upload it whenever an update is made to their local files. - For proper syncing of personalized workspace items, artifacts and scheduled tasks must also be physically located within the My Documents folder. ### 3. Creating and Managing Claude Agents ("Minions") - **Agent Architecture and Configuration** - Custom agents, referred to by the instructor as "minions," are stored in a shared folder (e.g., a `Claude agents` folder under the user's specific directory). - Building an agent involves explicitly describing the agent's specific job function and outlining the human user's job role so the AI understands the working dynamic. - Specific examples include an agent named "April" (modeled after a real-life staff member) and "Bob," a highly valuable two-page writing agent dedicated exclusively to drafting blog posts. - **Automating Chat Logs via Code** - Saving cross-computer chat logs is not an automatic feature natively built into Claude. - To prevent context loss after a computer crash, users must use Claude Code to build a custom automated process that explicitly commands the system to save chat logs locally on both computers. Once established, users can prompt the system to review previous days' logs for context. ### 4. Task Automation and File Handling - **Executing Tasks Using Local File Paths** - Claude Code can be commanded to perform automated administrative tasks, such as checking Outlook calendars, scheduling prep time, or drafting decline messages for conflicting meetings (e.g., declining a "Lear project" conflict while leaving "CIT weekly" alone). - When instructing Claude to read or modify a local file (like an Excel sign-up form), users must provide the exact local path. This is obtained by navigating to File > Info in the document and selecting "Copy Local Path" (rather than standard "path"). - **Scheduled Tasks (Local vs. Cloud)** - Scheduled tasks within Claude can be configured to run either locally on the host machine or in the cloud. - A critical limitation is that if a scheduled task requires access to or manipulation of local files, it cannot be processed in the cloud; it must be configured to run locally. ### 5. System Maintenance and Environmental Factors - **IT Updates and System Reboots** - Localized workflows and tasks can be temporarily disrupted by corporate IT system updates. For example, a forced system update pushed on the morning of 2026-08-14 at 08:00 AM required a 20-minute computer reboot, temporarily halting the instructor's ability to use advanced terminal commands. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Victoria will use Claude Code to move her scheduled tasks and artifacts to the correct localized "Documents" folder to ensure proper syncing. - [ ] Christi will email attendees the meeting notes and a sign-up link for upcoming Claude training classes. - [ ] Christi will record and share with Victoria a training video explaining how to configure scheduled tasks in the cloud.
- Date
- Aug 14, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:07 Sorry, I have I I had double booked for just now. So my apologies. Um, I may get another phone call in the middle of this meeting that I'm kind of have to put you guys on mute just because, I have a standing meeting at one o'clock andum, I'm going to jump after we're done with this meeting back into that. Speaker 2 00:00:31 Got it got it got it we appreciate you thank you so much. No worries. Speaker 2 00:01:01 I think Monty might is going to also as a heads up to everybody turn on the video recorder just so that we have theum more just so we can use it for, like training other people to do it type thing if there's like slides that are shown or other things, then we can pull from that. And we don't have to bug, you guys every time someone's got to migrate not migrate migrate there. We go. Speaker 3 00:01:23 No worries sounds good. Thanks. Speaker 2 00:01:28 Also, Christi, your skin is looking amazing. By the way, you're like so glowy. Speaker 1 00:01:33 Thank you. And I'm wearing no makeup. Oh my god. Speaker 2 00:01:37 Yeah, blessed be. Speaker 1 00:01:40 I wish it was all the time, but I started taking biotin and been on it for like two months. Speaker 2 00:01:46 Oh my gosh, Speaker 1 00:01:47 That's awesome Yeah So it's actually really good There you go Yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:59 Awesome, well, I think Victoria is all set up. She's got two computers going that have Claude on it too, So we can test this and see how stuff kind of you know transfers over and what can be stored. The idea is just especially with us realizing our most recent coffee and tea debacles that people could at any time lose their devices. Um There's so much stuff that they have stored localized on Claude that we just want to make sure that if there's ways to. Back it up via uploading certain things to Box. They have that ability. Speaker 1 00:02:39 Bear with me, I am answering a real quick question from my boss. I am today is not normal for me, it's just been fairly busy so. Speaker 2 00:02:53 Monti, is everyone trying to knock stuff out early so they can leave earlier? It's Anzor, Speaker 1 00:02:59 So I don't know about knocking things up off because he's been like me.; he works many, many hours and all hour of the day. But he's having some issues. Speaker 1 00:03:33 This one o'clock hour is just. It's been a busy, busy one. All right, so my cloud just updated at the same time as we're working through something. So bear with me, I've got to reopen it. Uh, uh, um, Monti. I'm going to also turn on facilitator so that you have those notes as well. Perfect. Okay, And ignore the PowerPoint in the background because the PowerPoint in the background is for my meeting at two o'clock. Um, so. Speaker 4 00:04:27 So we want to understand like, How Victoria will be the location she's saving the data, where it can be open on the other computer if something happened. Speaker 1 00:04:39 Okay, So basicallyum in your so chat is one thing. We won't worry about chat, because chat is not something that can be easily backed up. Um however co work is things that are easily backed up. Soum but I'm gonna Victoria I'm gonna give you a, I'm going to give you an advanced course on this, something I haven't even taught Monti. So just be aware of that. Um, I do a lot of my work in code. So have you played around with code yet? Speaker 3 00:05:14 Yes. Um, I tried to. I was not successful in the what I was attempting to do with code, but it's something I definitely want to explore. Awesome. Speaker 1 00:05:27 So we're gonna we're gonna talk through code because I use code, um extensively now. Heads up, I am not in the corporate crimson just because uh, Anzor and I have an agreement because I am a heavy Claude user and I am a heavy Copilot. Uh Chat GPT user. Uh so he and I have an agreement. I use my personal account but my personal account's locked down. So a lot of the features that I am going to show, you should be the same. But if you see that they're not the same. Just let us know, okay? So, I use code like it's cowork. So you've got cowork here. Um and I use code as if it's cowork. So, Um what I will do in here is I will This is your it's the same thing as what you see, your chat is. I am going to do it, local Okay and the folder I'm going to tell it to work in. I'm gonna say open folder And I go into my Crimson IT account. Speaker 1 00:06:25 And I go to documents. Now, I'm going to select that folder, but I want to show you the makeup of my documents. Do you see where it says dot Claude underscore agent workspace? Also, I have chat logs. Okay. It is on my OneDrive folder. And, you can do this in Box as long as you have Box syncing to both computers. Um, I have OneDrive syncing just because I use OneDrive extensively. I do have Box, but not on this computer. Um, So I am just going to say " select folder " because I am in my documents. And those folders that I showed you is how Claude keeps track of everything from computer to computer. So, I am going to uh, I am going to use this instead of CoWork to do things. Now, Be aware chat, you will have to go back and forth with chat because there is some things CoWork. And Claude does not do that chat does. However if you are. Speaker 1 00:07:23 Looking at things, creating um different uh documents and stuff like that, you're gonna you can use code to do it. Now, that being said, I want to show you my folder makeup. I got training this afternoon so I got all my training materials up. I'm going to go back into that folder so that you can see. And you see where it says Agent Workspace? Yep This is my where it does everything on a schedule. Okay. I have a calendar reader, I have an inbox. I basically made files that it can work through. If I go into Claude, oh wait, I'm in the wrong here. I apologize. Let me go back. Okay. Where did it go? I forgot where I put it Is it H? Nope. Speaker 1 00:08:23 Hang on. I'm going to ask code, where are my minions located? My brain just totally froze and I forgot where it's located. I should have been a little bit more. Speaker 5 00:08:43 Okay, it knew what I was talking about so I don't have to fix that. And I didn't get lunch by the way. So ignore the fact that I'm eating Jello. Speaker 1 00:08:55 Pretty jello. Speaker 1 00:09:05 And While we're looking, while it's doing this, do you see that setup button? It's new. Okay. This, I'm gonna just hit setup. How do you use cloud here? Um, I'm gonna say mixed. Um, I'm going to tell it to scan my other repos and scan my shell history. Just say setup when you do that because it's going to give you a little bit more context behind you, but it's it's a little hard for me to explain how. Speaker 5 00:09:43 Okay. That's. Speaker 1 00:09:51 Where my minions live. So, you're going to take what's in this file. Speaker 1 00:10:05 So it's under Claude agents. So here is my Claude folder under Christi Brown, and I'm going to go in and double click on that, and then you see I have a bunch more files here. So my agents are here, and it's a share where it's at. Speaker 1 00:10:30 I Want to check some things on it. So I'm going to double click on that. This is where all my data lives. Now, agents, I call them minions. I've made each one with its own information, okay? So I also named them because life would be interesting if I didn't have named them. I would get so confused. So, I do have some of them are named after staff. There is no Monti, okay? Speaker 1 00:11:01 You can't describe Monti on paper. Monti's too awesome. But here's what we have. Each one has its own thing it does, and I share this across both locations. So I'm going to open the file so that you can see the file, but basically how you build an agent and I tell Claude to do it, it's who that agent is. So you're going to describe what his job is, and then what you do, what is your job? And this is everything that she does. Okay, uh, she's based on my real life April, which Sam knows. Uh, So be aware it can be as uh big or small as you want it. So Bob, Bob is a very valuable tool that I have. He's only two pages long. Okay? He's my writing agent. He writes my blog posts for me. So, this is how you tell it to do things. So it knows you back and forth across multiple computers. Okay? Um now. Speaker 1 00:12:00 You're going to save all of that on both computers. Make sure that you save it. It's going to be under your user information, and so to get to it, it's C colon backslash users, and then your username is going to be in there. So I'm gonna I'm gonna show it to you. I'm just gonna put brackets in for username. I'm gonna put this in your uh in the chat. Speaker 1 00:12:29 And so you're going to find that on your computer, and Monti can help you find that. Monti's really good at finding things. Speaker 3 00:12:34 I think I have it. Speaker 1 00:12:36 Awesome, and then you should see a Claude and agents, And you're going to make sure you save that on both computers, because that one won't sync. Speaker 3 00:12:43 So I think that lives on my local disk right now? Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 00:12:49 Yeah, and just be aware anytime you update one, You got to update the other. So You're going to tell You're going to tell uh code to update. If you move to another computer, which I go between my laptop and my desktop. Anytime I make a change, I tell it to update. Now that being said, I also gave it information on where to save certain things, Which is why it's in my documents, because I always open it in my documents. Speaker 3 00:13:17 And sorry, how do you save it across the two computers? Because yeah, I see where Monti is on the computer I just logged into. It's not there but it is on my current laptop. Speaker 1 00:13:26 So, you're just going to take that folder and you're going to copy it into either your My Documents or your Box, and then to upload. Speaker 3 00:13:32 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:13:34 Okay. So manual process, right? Speaker 1 00:13:38 It is a manual process, but you only do it anytime you've got an update. That's it. You don't have to do it all the time. Now in your documents, You also have an agent workspace where it's going to share things back and forth. And so my scheduled tasks, my settings, all of that is going to be saved back and forth. And that's what's in my documents. Speaker 4 00:13:58 Yeah, and Victoria, Everything in your documents should sync to another computer via OneDrive as well, because we back up everybody'computer via OneDrive. Speaker 3 00:14:07 Okay, so I just put it in my i My Documents. We can see. Speaker 1 00:14:11 Yeah. Now if you see I have chat logs here. Hang on, then we did not. Speaker 1 00:14:21 Okay. So I do have chat logs in here, And the reason I have chat logs is because this is not something automatic to Claude. I had to build this within Claude and say, hey, I need you to start saving chat logs on both computers. And so I had to build that as a process and I had Claude build it in code so that it does save all my chats because I've had some computer crashes and. I will tell the system, "Hey, go look at the chat logs and see what we talked about yesterday. " So, that is a manual process that it does and it's set up in the settings. And code will do it for you. You just say, "Hey, I need to set this up so it automatically saves our chat logs." Um, I don't always use the pretty version here. Um, I'll be honest and Monti will tell you. I will use my terminal, which I haven't done yet today, because I had to reboot my computer. Speaker 1 00:15:19 But I'll do it in a terminal. That is more advanced, and I will teach you that later. We can set up some other time, Victoria, where you and I can get together and do more advanced stuff. Okay. That'd be great. Yeah, And we always feel free to Monti can look at my calendar or um there's a link in my email that and I'll send you an email with our notes from this meeting. Um you can always book some time with me as well. And just make sure when you book time, you just put what we're going to do um from here. It works just like co-work, and so I can tell it, "Hey, go look in my training documents." Speaker 1 00:16:21 And so I'm gonna have it go look at some things and build it out. And so now it's going to just change out my markdowns. Um, and so it'll look for the folder first, and you just got to spell out what the folder name is. It's going to find that folder, and then it's going to build it out. Just like what you would do in CoWork. Um, So I have that going now at the same time, check my calendar for next week, let's ensure. I have prep time. The meetings that require prep. So I'm going to open a new chat for each one of these. So it's there's my documents, there's my conversion. Um and then I'm going to go in here and say, check the following document, add people to each of the trainings. Speaker 1 00:17:21 That they requested to be a part of. And then I'm going to give it the location of that file. So, hang on one second, let me open that file because I don't have it opened. I know where it is, I just don't have it opened. I'm going to give it the location. I'm going to show you how to give it a location. So. Speaker 5 00:17:48 When it opens. It's thinking about opening. Speaker 1 00:17:55 All right. There we go. So here's, um, This a form I sent to staff or I'll send you the form as well, Victoria. You can sign up for these sessions as well. So, this uh a file in Excel that I'm using. And what I'll do is I'll go to File and I'll go to Info and I'll say Copy Local Path right here. And you want to do local path not path okay? So you copy it. Speaker 1 00:18:24 And you paste it in there. I'll say, and I'm going to spell it out in my Outlook calendar. Each of the sessions should have its own appointment slot. Going to spell it out a little bit more, and now that's going to go handle that. And I can see what it's doing if it's got questions, it's orange um And so, I'm going to tell it, no. Two conflicts I got to decide on. A Lear project. Decline the, someone tell it to decline. I just hit the right button, the right arrow button to fill it in. And then we'll say leave CIT weekly alone. Speaker 1 00:19:23 They know. Probably. Okay, so it's going to draft those to clients. It'll put in my draft box, and then the blue light that was over here means that it's done. And so, it's gone through converted because I have a system in there to convert, and here is the things that we have done. So this one is already done. I don't have to worry about that. This one is going to add the people to the appointments, and this one is working on my calendar prep time. So these are just examples of things you can do, and as you're telling it how to do that, you could what I do is I set up and said, hey, I need to make sure that your knowledge is on both computers. So make sure that you're looking in documents for that information. And it will add to its settings file where to look for that information. If that makes sense? Speaker 3 00:20:17 Okay, got it. That's super helpful. I think I'm just curious, If I've been saving or if Claude has been saving, right? It's outputs all in the right place. And then how to get that to transfer. So like, in the folder I opened that was like the dot Claude dot Claude folder, right? There was only one file in there. There's a couple other ones under like project sessions. They also only have a couple of things. But, then there's another Claude folder that I think I made a while ago that already lives in my documents. And that one is where my like scheduled tasks, my projects, and my artifacts live. Is that yes, the right way to do it or do I need to change anything before I. Speaker 1 00:21:02 That's the right way to do it. And you'll see in my Claude folder under documents, There's more files in here than there is in the other file that I was in. There's only two oops so or, There's only one, So you want to make sure that the place you store it is the same place every time. So all mine live under documents. Speaker 3 00:21:23 Okay, got it. Yeah, yeah, Because it looks like on the new on the new cloud account, I'm logged into all my again, I predominantly use coworks. So all my chats and tasks and projects from coworks seem to carry over. The only thing that didn't was my scheduled tasks. And my artifacts, and I think that's because those live somewhere else. Speaker 1 00:21:48 Yeah, Ask Cote to move your artifacts to the location of the artifacts to your documents. Okay, and ask it to how you can get yours because schedule. I'll be honest,;, my schedule lives only on the computer on completely because it's desktop, and that computer is online twenty four seven. So I leave my schedule on here, but i've never worked. See how to get it over, but Claude code can tell you. Speaker 3 00:22:16 Okay, yeah, it looks like they are saved somewhere in my documents, my scheduled tasks. So I'll I'll look into moving those. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Speaker 1 00:22:32 Yeah Now, if you'll notice this question here uh, it says send them I attempt to send the updates. Now note. Has been unreliable on this machine before, so they may fail. It does remember things about each of your machines, so just be aware it's gonna it's gonna note. Um I'm gonna say leave unsent because I'm gonna send it. I don't I don't like it to send. So Does that make sense? Mhm It's getting smarter and smarter. A year ago, It couldn't even do half of this. Speaker 3 00:23:06 Oh yeah Even in the last few months, it's gotten smarter and smarter. Speaker 1 00:23:10 Yes, and as you can see, I use I use cloud code like I do cowork, but because code is it's saying a lot better so I can move things. Okay. Speaker 3 00:23:21 Okay. I like that. I'll definitely play around it The other question, I recently saw the ability to run scheduled tasks. I think in the cloud rather than on the computer Yes Okay Would, you be able to explain that the difference Yeah Yeah So, Speaker 1 00:23:38 Let me. Speaker 1 00:23:40 She's not going to work. Your phone? Okay, that's not what I want. There is a few things you can do that I have not played around. Schedule tasks. This one right here, let me sign in because it's. I did do some updates today. Monti, Nick is on my hoop list because he pushed updates. So, it was far more extensive. He made me reboot my computer, ladies, this morning at eight o'clock. Um, I'm gonna say that. All right. So yeah, He made me reboot my computer at eight o'clock this morning, and I was getting ready for nine o'clock, and it took twenty minutes for my computer to reboot with all the new updates he put on it. IT has to do the exact same thing you guys do. All right so. Speaker 1 00:24:39 Um, here's an example. I've never set this up, so I'm going to click on it. Oh wait, I did. Um, so when you're in here on the schedule runs on this computer, Let me click on edit, and you should have an option to move to the cloud. Um if you don't. This is if the task needs to only. Okay. So if it's something that handles local files, it won't go cloud. Okay. Um, I forgot that I did that one. I think all of mine requires cloud access. Let me do this. Let's make one. Let's create with cloud. Let's make a new scheduled task. Speaker 4 00:25:38 Just wondering, I think Victoria also need to, um you have another meeting at one thirty right Yes, Unfortunately. Speaker 4 00:25:47 So, just in case, if anything, we can circle back, but pretty much the backing up the data from one computer to another, you're good. Speaker 3 00:25:57 Okay great. Yeah, it seems a lot easier than a few months ago. When I kind of we had to switch computers. There was like nothing there, but it seems like. Now, Maybe since like rolling fully over to kind of using cowork and saving things down in that like Claude cowork folder, everything was able to connect relatively seamlessly. So that's great. Speaker 1 00:26:18 Yeah, Let me figure this one out because I haven't worked with this one yet, and I'll make a video of it, share it with you. Cause you you got about three minutes left. Amazing. Thank you. Do that and I do have some I'm going to send you guys an email. I do have some Claude classes coming up soon. So I'm just going to forward you an email I sent out to others. Um and have you just click on the link that I'm going to send. Speaker 3 00:26:43 That'd be awesome. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:26:45 No worries. All right, Thank you guysum Victoria I'm gonna. Let you have some time to prep for your next meeting because I gotta prep for my next meeting. Thank you guys. Speaker 3 00:26:54 Thanks Christi nice to meet you Thank You Thanks Monti Bye Monti.
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-08-26 16:33:02 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Christi] [Speaker 3] [Mike] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Marketing Collateral Inventory and Refresh - Speaker 1 noted assets are on Google Drive; suggested refreshing the look, feel, and content of existing materials. - Mike mentioned a partially completed one-pager/two-pager sales leave-behind started during his interim sales role. - Consensus to polish the sales one-pager and consider a slide deck. - Speaker 1 will review current marketing materials, the pricing one-pager draft, and retouched employee photos for updates. - Conclusion: Proceed to audit and refresh existing collateral; polish the sales one-pager and assess the need for a deck. - Topic Title: PowerPoint and Document Templates for Training Content - Christi needs PowerPoint and Word templates to produce client-facing training materials (AI, Power Automate, Word, Excel). - Speaker 3 believes templates are in Marketing SharePoint and will send them to Christi. - Christi has been using a branding book and custom slides; requests official templates to standardize the look. - Speaker 1 offered to polish Christi’s presentation files with graphics/icons once shared. - Conclusion: Speaker 3 to provide official templates; Speaker 1 to refine shared decks. - Topic Title: Help Desk Onboarding Materials for Sharp - Christi shared Sharp includes Crimson help desk cards in new-hire folders and ran out; turnover is 57–58%. - Mike suggested a customized “how to create a ticket” one-pager for Sharp to replace/augment cards. - Speaker 3 already has an editable doc template where the portal link can be customized. - Plan to tweak for Sharp, print, and include in new-hire folders; also email to new users. - Conclusion: Customize and deliver a Sharp-specific ticketing one-pager. - Topic Title: Training Videos Workflow and Website Publishing - Christi is producing client-facing videos and has intro animation; wants to post on the website. - Speaker 1 offered to handle editing and captions if Christi sends raw files; will upload to YouTube. - Christi will share her OneDrive folder with all training materials; prefers to finalize the PPT template before recording more. - Mike referenced a website training section (akin to “Tech Tuesday”) and prefers light editing/intro branding. - Conclusion: Christi to record and send raw videos; Speaker 1 to edit/caption and prepare for site/YouTube after templates are set. - Topic Title: Content Strategy, SEO Status, and Case Studies Pipeline - Speaker 1 reported organic metrics improving since January due to schemas, FAQs, and location pages. - Noted AI-driven content saturation makes SEO competitive; recommended steady, genuine case studies over high-volume blogging. - Monthly check-ins proposed to collect 6+ month client stories for blogs/LinkedIn; testimonials helpful but not required. - Mike provided two case study leads: - ISO 27001 achievement for a client operating across Azure, Google, and Microsoft; Crimson led DLP and IAM solutions. - Private equity portfolio client: Crimson outperformed a large MSP on remediation (DLP via Microsoft Purview, secure AI training), won the project, and may present to the PE firm for broader opportunities. - Speaker 1 to turn notes into blog posts/case studies. - Conclusion: Establish monthly story collection; develop the two highlighted case studies into blogs. - Topic Title: Blog Contributions and Editorial Support - Christi asked if more blog posts are needed; Speaker 3 confirmed yes. - Christi has time to produce “adaptive” blog posts and will coordinate. - Speaker 1 encouraged Christi to jot ideas and send them over for editing and publication. - Conclusion: Christi to draft/send blog ideas; Speaker 1 to edit and publish. - Topic Title: Asset Organization and Handoff - Speaker 1 dropped assets in Google; asked Speaker 3 to move them to Crimson OneDrive (booklet, flyers, photos). - Blog posts to be shared between Speaker 1 and Speaker 3 for publishing. - Conclusion: Centralize assets in OneDrive; maintain shared blog workflow. - Topic Title: Baby2Baby Assessment Materials Inquiry - Speaker 3 asked about an assessment for Baby2Baby similar to Foothill; Christi did not work on it (last major: Sharp). - Speaker 3 to follow up with Pete/Keith to locate the presentation. - Speaker 1 offered to create a template or similar asset once materials are shared. - Conclusion: Speaker 3 to retrieve context from Pete/Keith; Speaker 1 ready to template once received. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 3: Share official PowerPoint and Word templates from Marketing SharePoint with Christi; confirm the master location and access paths. - [ ] Speaker 3: Provide/edit the “how to create a ticket” one-pager for Sharp (custom portal link); deliver a printable version and define print quantities/distribution. - [ ] Speaker 3: Move Google Drive assets to Crimson OneDrive and coordinate the blog publishing workflow. - [ ] Speaker 3: Follow up with Pete and Keith to locate Baby2Baby assessment materials; send to Speaker 1 for templating. - [ ] Christi: Share OneDrive folder and raw training video files with Speaker 1; draft additional blog ideas/posts and send to Speaker 1/Speaker 3. - [ ] Speaker 1: Edit/caption raw videos; prepare for YouTube/website publication; clarify the review/approval workflow and turnaround times. - [ ] Speaker 1: Audit current marketing materials (pricing one-pager, photos, booklets) and propose refreshes; define ownership and deadline for polishing the sales one-pager/two-pager and creating a standard sales deck. - [ ] Speaker 1: Draft two case study blogs (ISO 27001 multi-cloud win; private equity client remediation/AI security project). - [ ] Team: Begin monthly check-ins to collect 6+ month client stories; establish cadence, ownership, and dates for outreach. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Define a clear owner and deadline for polishing the sales one-pager/two-pager and creating a standard sales deck. > 2. Confirm where the master set of brand templates lives (SharePoint directories) and document access paths for all stakeholders. > 3. Establish a cadence and owner for the monthly client story collection (who pings whom and by what date each month). > 4. Clarify the review/approval workflow for edited videos and published blogs (approvers, turnaround times). > 5. Determine print quantities and distribution process at Sharp for the customized ticketing one-pager to match high turnover.
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- Aug 26, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:01 All my assets, Stephanie, onum Google Drive. So you can kind of pick up items from there. Um, but yeah, we'll we'll give them a minute. And then we'll kind of dive in. Speaker 2 00:00:13 Yeah because I am making videos that needs to be client facing on the website. And I'm just using stuff that I have on hand like graphics and things. Yeah and putting them together that way so hopefully they meet with y'all's approval. Speaker 3 00:00:30 Yeah cool. I also created like a draft outline of what we can talk about. Here, I can send it on the chat as well. Okay. But it's. Speaker 2 00:00:54 Oh, that's slightly down about an inch. I want to see. Yeah, that's what I want to see because that, that's awesome looking and uh that's what I need for. I need that stuff. For my PowerPoint presentations. Speaker 3 00:01:12 Because, we have a lot of uh we not a lot, but we have uh marketing materials, but. Speaker 4 00:01:20 That top left isn't yeah, that top left isn't marketing material. That's like onboarding material. Speaker 3 00:01:25 This one is internal yeah, but we also have another one, So, uh, actually I have a few internal. Uh, collaterals as well. I think the onboarding one, the onboarding process for the client and then. Speaker 4 00:01:41 Yeah Emily I I think some of one of the things I was working on because when Anzor stepped out I filled in for sales for a little bit, so I was looking for like a like a one pager, like a two pager as a leave behind for a customer. And so we started on that, but it still needs a lot of work. It was just like yeah. First run. Speaker 1 00:01:60 Yeah, let's polish that up. Speaker 4 00:02:03 But I mean, right now, just so Anzor's taking point on sales. Soum I think he needs to be involved because you know, Anzor sells different than I do. So like this was more for like how if I were doing sales, how I would go about it, but I am so busy with account management. I don't reallyum. Speaker 1 00:02:23 Yeah, just I mean, I totally get at least a one pager, if not like a PowerPoint deck or a slide deck or something to show. So yeah, I mean, I think we have a lot of assets. We just probably just need to refresh and update the look and feelum and all that. So yeah. Speaker 4 00:02:40 And and the content. Speaker 1 00:02:42 And the content Yeah Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:50 So the PowerPoint presentation materials, All I have now is the branding book. I can't find my original PowerPoint presentation template that Zaur gave me years ago. Where can I find those? Cause I'm, I'm just making things up as I go and slapping Crimson logo on it. Speaker 3 00:03:08 The brand template? The brand guide? Speaker 2 00:03:14 The PowerPoint templates. Speaker 3 00:03:18 Uh, I think it's here in Marketing SharePoint. Let me double check. Speaker 2 00:03:26 And then also, Speaker 3 00:03:27 I can send it to you later. Speaker 2 00:03:29 If it's in marketing, I'll find it. Um, Also, one thing that uh came up todayum and this might might might this might interest you as a mouthful. Um so sharp I didn't realize this, the guy started putting our help desk cards in new hire. Folder. So when an employee comes on at Sharp, and there might be six or seven a week that come on, um, they get a folder with new hire documentation, All all the forms and things like that, not just from I T, but from everybody. And so they add the Crimson uh help desk business card to that folder. And they ran out. So Ivana's gonna bring us more but t here is a lot because. Speaker 2 00:04:20 They have a fifty seven fifty eight percent turnover rate. Oh Lord. Yeah, and it's it's not uncommon. It's it's very common in this industry, so it's just burnout and so, we go through a lot of cards. Speaker 4 00:04:36 Would that would that upper left Stephanie do you have that handy? Theum how to create a ticket? Would that be helpful if you customize one for sharp? That'd be better than the card. Speaker 2 00:04:46 Yeah because we can put it in the folder. Speaker 4 00:04:48 Yeah, Stephanie, I think it would have to be tweaked for Sharp. Yeah. But we have a one- pager. Speaker 3 00:04:54 I already created one as requested by Segreid for Nishita, wherein you can just change the portal link and then everything is set. Perfect. Speaker 4 00:05:05 So yeah, Um Chris asked Steph for a copy of that and then just modify it for Sharp. Just tweak it for Sharp. Speaker 2 00:05:11 Okay. Perfect because that'll be great, Because, we can print it out. And uh, we're going to start emailing everything to the new user as well. Speaker 3 00:05:19 Yeah. The only thing changeable here is this part, the portal login. As requested, it would be in a doc, a Microsoft document so it would be easily editable. Speaker 2 00:05:33 So easy that that makes my life so much better. Cool. Speaker 4 00:05:39 All right Steph all that work Yeah. Speaker 3 00:05:43 I don't think it's really important for Pete, Either Pete or Enzo to be here because they're they're the ones who really had a lot of questions. And also, but we could proceed with any marketing requests from either of you, Chrissy or Mike, right Emily? That we can support you or what what materials you need or updates. I can take note of it. Speaker 2 00:06:07 Basically I just need templates. Of work for words documents because I am building out one sheet, One page sheets for uh, not just how to do AI, but also how to how to make the most of Power Automate, how to make the most Word, Excel, all of that. So if you guys can get me templates to make them look beautiful, I can do the rest. And then I need PowerPoint templates. Um real quickly I'll share my screen, so Emily can sure sure yeah um because basically I just. Speaker 2 00:06:40 I just made my own own stuff. I've been hanging out too kids. I keep saying things like, Speaker 4 00:06:48 Were you were you looking to put like I have a section on our our website for like training material? Speaker 2 00:06:53 Yeah, that's what Anzor and I talked about. Speaker 4 00:06:56 Okay, So Tech MD, which they got acquired by Integris used to have something called Tech Tuesday, where they had thisum section on their website, where essentially that's what you're doing. You're just going to be posting videos? Yeah yeah, It would it would be nice if we're going to post it for public consumption. If we do a little bit of editing, so we kind of have like an intro. Speaker 2 00:07:17 Like Mike, go away. Just just go away. I already no, no like no, just send me the yeah, yeah. I already have the animation and stuff for the editing of the videos. Oh okay. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:30 Great. Yeah. Like you can always just send me the raw file. Speaker 2 00:07:34 Yeah, that would be even easier because I don't have time for anything else. Um. Speaker 1 00:07:38 Yeah, just send me the raw file. I can cut it. I can caption it so that we can put it on like YouTube as well and everything. So, you don't even have to worry about it and just turn it into a flow. Speaker 2 00:07:49 Yeah, I'm giving you the entire uh, I'm gonna send you a link to okay to my OneDrive Okay And, you are welcome to do whateverum Okay. This is all my training materials that I have built over the last because I've had to redo some stuff. Yeah, so much. Okay, so it's going in the chat. Okay, Speaker 1 00:08:21 Great. Let me see it. Speaker 2 00:08:24 I do also have an animation that was made for me a couple years ago for those videos and I use that okay, I don't think that's in that folder. But this is the presentation template I made just for all my training stuff. So I tried to branding book that I had, and then yeah did fillers in in place. Okay, so yeah, Speaker 1 00:08:50 I mean if you want these just kind of polished up a little bit, Um just feel free to drop the link to this particular file, and we can just edit it and add some graphics or add some icons as needed. Speaker 2 00:09:01 So you would, Be a little bit easier if I had the PowerPoint template that I could just okay, Speaker 1 00:09:08 Um, just because I, I probably make three or four PowerPoint presentations a week at this point for for different. Got it. So yeah. Speaker 4 00:09:18 Um, I don't need anything marketing material wise stuff. Am I still needed? Or is there anything i i you need me to contribute? Just your smiling face. No, I just have a lot of crap going on right now. I got to if i can hop would be helpful. Speaker 1 00:09:34 Yeah, I mean, Like I think the only things from my end would be again just client stories. But I know if we can maybe get into a pattern of like just checking in with you once a month and saying, hey, have you gotten clients that has reached the six month milestone with you guys? And then just picking up some content from there. Speaker 4 00:09:57 Okay. Um, is there a certain theme or. Speaker 1 00:10:01 Not really like any any client that you guys have. Because after six months, there's something to talk about right like, so. Um hey, we have. Uh, we've onboardedum you know, a new industry or a new client. And did X Y Z for them, anything like that and just kind of check in once a month or just to talk about something. Speaker 4 00:10:22 Do, you want me to schedule a call with the client, so they can explain in their words. If they have time, or do you want me just to explain it? Like I can come up with a few examples, But I am not sure if that's going to translate to something that's compelling to read. To a prospect. Speaker 1 00:10:36 Yeah, I mean, I could just take it take your notes and then turn those into a blog post and turn those into content that we post on LinkedIn things like that. We just don't have a lot of contentum because we're not we don't have any stories right. And we don't have any uh. And if you have client testimonials, that's great. But I can I don't know if you have time for that. And I don't want to add to your work. I just want a like a quick summary when you have the chance. Speaker 4 00:11:05 Okay, um, Let's do something beginning of next month and I'll try to come up with like Chris would be a good one also because she's gotum like she's in super deep with ability, first and sharp. I'm sure there are some examples there. Yeah, um. Speaker 1 00:11:20 Yeah, just like once a month, you guys can just check in and say, hey, this is something cool that our client did. On some months, if there's absolutely nothing, that's fine too. Um But anything that will kind of help us build content. A lot of your competitors out there are just talking about. For example, like some of their posts have been how an oil and energy services company replaced fragmented systems. Or, Speaker 4 00:11:43 How about this? We have a client? Theyum I'm not sure how much I can disclose, because I don't want to let them know, but yeah, um. They are in a they have a complex environment where they have Azure, they have Google and they have Microsoft right. Yeah. And we helped them achieve ISO twenty seven thousand one. Okay, Which is a fairly prestigious certification, not an easy one to achieve, especially with that type of environment. But we worked closely with their team and the auditor to help them design. Speaker 4 00:12:17 A lot of like data loss prevention, like that's a like an acronym. Like we did DLP, we did um, like identity um, identity access management solutions. Uh, you know, and then I am summarizing right? But we we spearheaded the effort to get them. Yeah. Um I. But the the cool thing is they're in a Microsoft and Google environment. And anyone that knows certification that's super difficult to do when you are in two different platforms like that. Yeah, it's almost unheard of. So. Speaker 1 00:12:51 Yeah, no, This is the kind of stuff where, like other clients that also have Google and Microsoft see you post about that on your LinkedIn. They're like, hey, let's now reach out to Crimson so we can also get our certification. Okay, Speaker 4 00:13:02 Well how about this one? I'll just spitball. So I've got another client, they'reum they're owned by a private equity firm. And so we I meet with themum. Monthly, there's a private equity firm. There's a third party security firm mandated by the private equity firm. My client and then you know Crimson, We're in these monthly meetings of all of the companies owned by the private equity firm. Our client is the most aligned because we have our shit together, the best, right? And I even asked them in the meetings, I said, hey, is there anything that Crimson's not doing that? You guys your private equity firm, your other sister companies that are doing that we can learn from? And they're like, no, you guys are. Speaker 4 00:13:41 Like leading the pack, right? Is this my favorite one? Yeah, it's your favorite one. So, um, they wanted to do AI. So they the private equity firm mandated a comprehensive security assessment. My client to be safe went with that with the private equity firm's IT outsourced IT team, which is huge. They're freaking like multinational. They're huge right? Yeah um they did it and then they also Followed up with the remediation project, but we Christy, We crushed it and we stole that project from them, and we executed like a data loss prevention, leveraging Microsoft Purview. We implemented secure AI implementation training. I mean, you can ask Christy, she can give you all the buzzwords for that. But yeah, yeah. And then they loved it so much. So I think Christy was saying. Speaker 4 00:14:39 That the private equity firm may consider Crimson doing something similar for them. Speaker 1 00:14:47 Okay, now wants Crimson to do something similar. Okay, I am just jotting down fast notes. I. Speaker 2 00:14:56 Am a fast typer. I am going to be presenting tomorrow to their private equity firm. Speaker 1 00:15:01 Oh, very cool. Okay, yeah, Speaker 4 00:15:06 So I thought that was a little bit of shift talk right? Because they're they're. The MSP that's supported in the private equity firm, they're huge. They're like four hundred employees nationwide. Yeah, and you got littlerickety crimson here coming in and and uh. Speaker 2 00:15:21 Stealing. You guys aren't sorickety. Speaker 4 00:15:24 I mean for MSPs we're pretty good size, But I mean, we're not three hundred four hundred employees, like you know forty million in revenue nationwide. We're just based out of downtown L A. Um yeah yeah we stole it from them and then, We crushed it on the project and like Christy said, Speaker 1 00:15:42 So you guys got the yeah, you guys got to do theum security assessment for them, right? And. Then so you guys see, Speaker 4 00:15:50 They went with the private equity firm's MSP to do the security assessment because they wanted to play it safe. Because we we presented also, right? Yeah. But they're like, you know what? We have to follow the guidelines of the private equity firm. So to play it safe, we're going to use them. Right. But when it came to the project, because we have a good relationship with them, they shared the quote with me. And to give you details, I talked to Chris and say, Hey Chris, can we do this? And she's like Hell yeah. We can do it and we can do it for cheaper. Speaker 1 00:16:19 Yeah. Okay. Speaker 4 00:16:21 I just knocked off five grand off the competitor's quote. We did it. Yeah andum yeah and now they Chrissy's presenting to the private equity firm as another potential opportunity. Speaker 1 00:16:33 Got it okay Amazing Yeah. Okay, great. So, now we kind of have two more stories we can kind of talk about and share. Um, uh, Stephanie, I'll actually work on these blogs, the ones that were case studies just because I take fast notes on those. Um and then I'll turn them into blogs, and then we'll make sure we get those up. Yeah Does sound good? Okay perfect All right Thank you so much Mike. Speaker 1 00:17:05 Yeah, okay. Thanks, thanks, everybody. Appreciate it. Thanks, Speaker 3 00:17:13 Um Christy did. Uh, did. We have any assessment for the baby to baby company. Speaker 2 00:17:21 I did not work on that one. Um the last major one I worked on was the sharp one and the and then now doing the smaller AI stuff. Speaker 3 00:17:30 Okay, because because Pete was kind of asking. Uh, A something similar that we did for foothill to be done for the baby to baby, But neither of us Emily nor I had any idea who did the presentation for that client. So I was just wondering. I'll ask Pete. Speaker 1 00:17:51 If you, I mean even if you were to send it to me, You know, um then I can take a look at it and create something similar, or you know, again, create the template so that you guys can reuse it. Speaker 3 00:18:03 Yeah. Like, I'll, I'll follow up with Keith because I emailed him before with that one. Okay, what else? Speaker 2 00:18:17 I got some jealousy going on over here. Speaker 1 00:18:25 Okay, I actually have to step out of my apartment because between four o'clock to five o'clock is. Five o'clock is uh food time, So I have to step out because he will be hollering for about an hour leading up to it. Okay, I love this. Okay, okay. Speaker 2 00:18:52 I don't know where the baby is. Speaker 1 00:18:55 You got yourself the calico between two cats? Speaker 2 00:18:60 I have a black one somewhere. Oh, nice. Probably in a window, sitting yourself. Love it, love it. Speaker 1 00:19:08 Um, let's see if I have them. Speaker 2 00:19:13 They're gonna be mad at me if they got to go for their shots in a few days. Their yearly shots. Oh no. She's watching you guys on the screen. Speaker 1 00:19:24 Oh, here's me with my yeah sweet baby. Speaker 2 00:19:28 You see that sweet? Oh you don't want to look at the baby So let's put, So I'm still on the. I want to know what you. There's a very little desk bed right here. You can see past my hand. Speaker 1 00:19:45 Yeah, cute. Um, so Stephanie, let me share one thing real quick. Um, okay, so let me see. Um, Stephanie, I dropped some assets into because I use Google, but you can move them into the uh Crimson One Drive. I think that would be the best place for them. Um and then we'll kind of go from there. Uh let me see on here because I think you already you already took the booklet and the flyers. So we have that. I did at one point kind of work like on a one pager for like the pricing. Speaker 1 00:20:28 Um, But let's just maybe take a look at the current marketing materials and see if anything needs a quick refresh, and we can do that. Um, And then also, I would just take the the retouched photos folder, and that was the employee folder of photos. Let's go ahead and move that over as well. Um, yeah okay. Then there are just a few miscellaneous things. Um, the blog post I mean we share those between you and I um. Speaker 1 00:20:58 And then Christy, is there anything that we can support you with for tomorrow? Speaker 2 00:21:03 Not for tomorrow because I am set for tomorrow. Okay, great. Um, perfect. I have a question for you guys. Um, Stephanie, do you need more blog posts from me? Speaker 3 00:21:16 Definitely, if you have yeah, if you're available. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:21:22 Yeah I didum I've got some time cleared up on my calendar. And. Gotta do some more adaptive blog posts so I can promote something. That's done. Oh, Speaker 1 00:21:31 Be awesome this weekend. Yeah, and Christy, Normally you are not on these meetings, and we actually haven't had a meeting for quite some time now. This month. I think Anzor has just been super busy and the team as well. But, just to give you a quick snapshot of when I started with you guys versus where we are now, like the total impressions, Which means the amount that you guys are being seen on Google search things like that has been climbing up since we started in January. It's a slow trend because again this is organic. It takes time to grow. Your average position has been going down, which is what we want to see. Average position means higher up on the ranking so like. Speaker 1 00:22:17 Uh, the bigger dogs are like ranking in the top tens, right? In the top twenties, right? And so we just want to keep improving that number. And. So what we've already done on the site is just add in a lot more um schemas and FAQ schemas. So you guys are definitely getting a lot more visibility just on um like AI search alone. Uh, that's definitely been yeah. And then obviously we've also built out a lot of location pages. We built if you look in the footer of the website, we now have locations throughout like Orange County, San Diego, all the key cities just in case whatever people are searching for. And that's kind of contributing to the organic growth that you guys are seeing. Now I do kind of want to talk about what's changed right? The problem these days with a lot of websites is. Speaker 1 00:23:09 And organic is that everybody is now leveraging AI to build content. It's almost it's almost like SEO is just it's not a wash. It's just so competitive now because everybody has perfect SEO, if you know what I mean. Um and yeah, and so what the strategy now has been unfortunately has, Gone back into a little bit of a quantity game. Like if you remember back in the day, people were keyword stuffing, right? This is now like the twenty twenty six version of keyword stuffing, which is extreme content output. So a lot of these like bigger websites are posting blogs almost daily now. Um, like two times a day. Like that's how crazy things have gotten in terms of like content generation um. Speaker 1 00:24:03 I I don't think we need to keep up that kind of number unless you guys, like want to grow organically aggressively, um. But I will say, you know, doing more case studies is organic as well as genuine. And I would say for your guys's size. That's what I would recommend. And so that's why I keep asking about like case studies and things like that. It just really builds. Stronger content overall. So yeah, I, just kind of wanted to make you aware of kind of the strategy behind it and kind of why we're doing what we're doing. Speaker 2 00:24:39 So perfect, that's good to know. Yeah, And I can I can build some out when I when I know I have some from from different things that I am working on. Um, I can help you guys build that out as I know, just becauseum as. Speaker 1 00:24:56 And you can like. Whatever you're thinking, just jot it down, send it to me and I can take care of it. You know so. Speaker 2 00:25:03 Yeah, no worries. Yeah because I'm doing something very similar with the DAPTO so. Speaker 1 00:25:08 Okay, yeah yeah, just every few months, every few weeks, you know, if something wraps up, just send us an email, send Stephanie an email. Um, and then for the training videos, I'm going to go through the folder that you just shared. Um, And I'm actually going to go ahead and let me bookmark this just so I don't accidentally lose it after this call. Um, and then I'll go through the videos. Um, were there any that you were like we really should get on the website? Speaker 2 00:25:40 So right now, no, because my biggest thing is I don't want to record until I get the PowerPoint fixed. And I need to I need to smash out a bunch of recordings tonight actually. Um okay, just so that we can get those up isum that's what I was going to work on this evening. Um okay, smash out a bunch of videos and I can do them raw and send them to you raw. If if you you want to do that. So yeah, Speaker 1 00:26:08 That works. Okay, all right, then sounds good. So I think ourum plan of action and takeaway from this is obviously the two case studies that Mike shared, the PowerPoint slides. Let's just kind of update them a little bit. I'll take a look at what you haveum and just refresh and create some slides for you, um yeah, and then go from there. Stephanie, anything that I'm missing? Hmm. Speaker 3 00:26:38 I think that's it until we hear back from Pete regarding the changes he wants for the booklets. So that's it. Yeah, okay, perfect. Thank you everyone. You guys are awesome. Speaker 1 00:26:52 Thank you so much. Yeah, thanks. All right, see you, Christi. Bye bye See you soon.
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07-20 Meeting: Foster Youth Life Skills & IT Roadmap Review
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- > Date: 2026-07-20 11:54:27 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] ## Meeting Notes ### Foster Youth Life Skills Discussion - Christi shared that her foster daughter, Dom, recently turned 18. - Dom attended a "Deck My Dorm" event for foster youth and received dorm and school supplies. - After spending three years in a group home (Handler), Dom initially lacked basic life skills (e.g., cleaning, using utensils). - Christi sees a broader need for life skills training for foster youth transitioning to independence. - Topics highlighted: budgeting, taxes, and proper etiquette for job interviews and formal settings. - Christi suggested SCHARP could offer classes to address these needs for foster youth. ### IT Roadmap and Progress Review (5-Month Mark) - Christi reviewed the IT roadmap set five months ago (around February 19, 2026). - **Q1 2026 In-Progress Projects**: - AD assessment and migration planning are mostly complete; pending migration of on‑premises shared drives to the cloud. - Vendor inventory and contract audit continue to capture straggling invoices and items. - Backup and emergency remediation is in progress, pending colo internet stabilization and server decommissioning (planned for Q1 2027). - Crimson IT stack deployment is ahead of schedule; completion anticipated by end of 2026. - **Q2 2026 Completed Projects**: - MFA implemented across all systems. - Brevo access control panel replaced at six sites. - Security stack consolidation planning (eliminating CrowdStrike and Trellix). - Policy modernization (policies on SCHARP letterhead). - Microsoft 365 tenant set up with HIPAA compliance adjustments. - **Q3 2026 Updates**: - Barracuda-to-AppRiver replacement approved but delayed. - Box evaluation complete; migration on a separate timeline. - Huntress EDR deployment in progress (part of consolidation). - LogMeIn to Crimson tools migration in progress; 47 computers remain. - **Q4 2026 Plans**: - KnowBe4 security awareness training moved up and completed due to an earlier contract end date. - Google Workspace to M365 email migration approved for later in the year. - Endpoint refresh planning underway; 80 of 263 end‑of‑life devices slated for replacement. - Additional initiatives (Datto strategy, on‑prem to cloud migration) scheduled to start. ### Device Inventory Reconciliation - Ongoing audit to stabilize device inventory. - As of mid‑July 2026: 33 machines in ConnectWise and 47 in LogMeIn; total estimated at 380 devices (down from 394). - Confidence in current numbers is ~80%, as devices occasionally reappear. - Christi emailed Dr. Barber about fluctuating numbers to ensure adequate budgeting. - A future step will use a Google tool to track which user is logged into which device. ### Security and System Updates - **Security Awareness Training**: KnowBe4 rollout complete; all staff enrolled; phishing report button available in Outlook and Gmail. - **Email Security**: Avanan will replace Barracuda. Secure Email remains for now; no comparable competitor exists. An Avanan alternative is anticipated around 2027. - **Endpoint Protection**: CrowdStrike and Trellix being replaced; ~30 computers left to migrate. - **Workstation Patching**: Automated patching initiated; runs successfully every fourth week of the month. - **ADT Master Codes**: Building codes reset; an issue with use of an old, deleted code was identified and resolved. ### Contract and Vendor Management - **Box Contract**: Planned migration from Box to Google Drive, but Box will not allow early cancellation. Contract expires end of July 2026 (not August). Christi is negotiating a price reduction. - **Cyber Liability Insurance**: Current policy expires September 21, 2026. Market comparison underway to find a cheaper rate; findings to be presented by early August 2026. - **Telecom Audit**: Audit of TPX and Peerless planned over the next three to four weeks. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Sergio: Submit a ticket for the download issue. - [ ] Christi: Assign Gaston or Robert to investigate the download issue. - [ ] Christi: Identify the person who used the old ADT code and inform Crystal. - [ ] Christi: Update the recurring meeting invitation to every other week. - [ ] Christi: Ask Robert and the team about Christopher H’s H‑drive files. - [ ] Christi: Run the device inventory report again around July 22, 2026. - [ ] Christi: Present findings from the cyber liability insurance market comparison by early August 2026. - [ ] Christi: Conduct the telecom audit with TPX and Peerless over the next 3–4 weeks. - [ ] Assign owner and timeline for migrating on‑premises shared drives to the cloud (to unblock AD migration). - [ ] Determine next steps to stabilize colo internet, including escalation to the provider if needed. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The idea of creating life skills classes for foster youth was proposed by Christi but did not result in a decision or concrete action item for SCHARP to pursue. > 2. Migration of on‑premises shared drives to the cloud is blocking the AD migration project; no specific timeline or owner was assigned. > 3. Stabilization of the colo internet is a dependency for backup and emergency remediation; the meeting noted difficulties getting a response from the colo provider, with no clear next step defined. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] SCHARP leadership roadmap/ops review (foster youth life skills program context): device inventory ~80% confidence on staff-issued equipment, Verizon line + intl roaming item for Robert, H-drive file question (Christopher H), meeting cadence fix to every-other-week. Covered by existing entry 880284 but transcript shows ~48 min vs 31 min logged (under-logged ~17 min - flagged).
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- Jul 20, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:07 Hi Apollo. I'm good, how are you? Gotcha. Speaker 2 00:00:33 Good. Working on. Finalizing a few items. Sorry, did you say something? It cut out for a moment. Speaker 1 00:00:56 I am. Yeah. Uhhuh. Speaker 2 00:01:31 Yeah. Yes, see Robert on that. Um, He can take a look and speak with uh Verizon to find out what happened, and then he can get the uh Europe turned on for you. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:57 No worries. I. Speaker 2 00:02:09 Am trying to find my report that I built. I reorganized all my folders the other day. Speaker 2 00:02:28 And so I went to go find my reports, and I remembered I made reports a subfolder or something else. Speaker 2 00:02:57 Got you. I'm just laughing at myself uh about some issues. I reorganized my folder and I dropped reports into another folder, and then I couldn't find my report for today, for the meeting. Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:28 Good. We'll go over that because I want to make sure that everybody can see. We've actually got um we actually got a good handle on inventory as far as what's actually handed out to staff. Um and so we have we're, we're about I'd say eighty percent confident in the numbers, which is good. And so I wanted to give him a heads up on that. And then uh. Talk about something that he and I had talked about previously, But I wanted to make sure everybody was on the same page so that everybody understood it. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:04:34 Mhm. Gotcha. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:47 No worries. I Will. Speaker 2 00:05:08 Gotcha. No worries. Ah, Kashif never answered my email regarding the reviews and the signatures, but James did bring in checks and invoices for me to sign today. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Yeah. But he had some meetings with me and joined in on some others. Speaker 2 00:06:27 My copy and paste is not working. Speaker 1 00:07:19 Good. We'll take a look and see what's going on with the download. Speaker 1 00:07:27 Okay. Yes. Speaker 2 00:07:51 I hadn't heard anything, but I'll find out. Speaker 2 00:08:33 I sent over the question to the team to see if they know what's going on. Um, so today is the five month mark. Well, five months and one day. I only know that, because Plaud told me it was five months and one day. So, I couldn't uh I was having some problems today with some things. Um, I wanted to go over the roadmap I have for you guys because um, I want to make sure that we're still on the same page, and I know Aaron's not here, but I am going to. You know what Let me record, and that way I can send over the recording as well. Um, because I only have transcription on. Um, But I did want to go over with you guys, the roadmap that we had initially planned out uh back five months ago um and get your take on where we are with everything. I'm going to show you what has been completed. Speaker 2 00:09:28 Um, some things that are in here that says Q 1, um, those are long- term projects that uh I need to put an end date for. So I I just never put the end date. They're gonna but they're ones that are long term. It takes a while to get through. Um if that makes sense? Speaker 2 00:09:54 Okay. No worries. Let me let me pause on that. I'll pause the recording as well, uh because I have a few things I you know I can stop, or I can talk with Christi about. Speaker 1 00:10:15 Stop. It took me a moment. Stop did not want to happen, uh hi by the way, how's your weekend? Speaker 2 00:10:37 I feel that it's like you came to work to escape the weekend. Yeah, um, Dom's birthday was yesterday. Um, and so we, yeah we did she turned eighteen. So we did. Yeah, but we spent the morning at a Uh, it my brain. An ILP event, a foster ILP event, And Dom is eligible for all of that because she was in foster care after she turned sixteen. So she's eligible for all the stuff. Um, so she went to we went to the the event together. It was called Deck My Dorm, and uh so basically it's like this they. Uh were in this huge space. Speaker 2 00:11:37 And it's tables everywhere, and volunteers, and basically the kids are given a duffel bag. And essentially they go shopping for lack of a better term. But they're given a checklist of all their dorm stuff that they need, and they visit each table, and the items are marked off their check sheet, and they just fill up the bag. And then at one section they're given a new bag. And so they come out of the entire thing with three bags, three big duffel bags, and um. A backpack full of school supplies and dorm supplies, and the bedspreads that they're given have their name on it. Uh, and it's picked out based on their favorite colors. Um. All of that. So we yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:35 Yeah, she was ecstatic. So it was a lot of fun. There were a lot of businesses there and a lot of families that support that. And you know, a few things like that. Um, So it's really nice to see because the ILP stuff has been not the greatest funding. So I am going to see next year. I mean, Next year, like this year with some of the caregiver meetings, Like they would put all the teens in one room, and they would feed them and drinks and everything. And then put all the parents and caregivers in another room. And we got nothing. We had to be there from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. no lunch, no coffee break, nothing. And so I'm going to see if I can at least buy us coffee next year for the ILP meetings. Speaker 2 00:13:34 Because it was crazy. So. Yeah, um, but you know it was really good to see. I think uh, based on how my weekend went I may stick with um non minor dependents as a foster parent because it's I didn't realize how big that need was. And a lot of kids are trying to get into THP, and they're not ready. So. Speaker 1 00:14:19 So I wanted to actually talk to you, until everybody else or until Apollo joins. Is there I don't know how to put this. Speaker 2 00:14:34 Is there something that SCHARP does in that area for kids that are trying to transition, like classes and things like that, um, for these kids that are in foster care? Speaker 2 00:15:16 Okay, Well, The reason why I am bringing this up is because, you know, Dom moved in with me and she spent three years at Vista Del Mar in Handler. Oh, hi Jennifer. We're just waiting on Apollo to join back. So Crystal and I are chit- chatting. I am throwing some ideas her way. Um, but Dom spent, And Jennifer can hear this because Dom makes this is Dom's story, and she's like, "You can share it with whoever you want. " But she spent three years at Handler, mostly because her social worker was like, "Oh, she's fine," and just left her there. Didn't try to place her anything. And so when she came to me, she had no life skills. She didn't know how to clean up after herself because they didn't they don't. Speaker 2 00:16:05 They don't clean at Handler. They have a cleaning crew that comes in, does all the cleaning. They're not allowed to touch cleaning supplies or anything like that. Um, like eating, like how to use utensils, everything from that all the way up to major life skills. And. So we've done a lot of work over the last two years with Dom just to get her at the level she needed to be at because she came in with toddler life skills. Um and so I see that With some of the other kids that have come had come through on respite, but now with my two new ones, Um one of my kids, we took her to a nice restaurant yesterday for Dom's birthday, and it scared her. Like she was so. She confided in me on the way home. She was like I didn't know how to act. I didn't know what to do. I was afraid of using the wrong knife and fork, and you know things like that. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:17:04 So, just even classes on that all the way up to here's how we budget, you want to get this. This is how you you save up for it, um, And what's expected, like one of the kids came through. We were talking about budgeting, and we're looking at paychecks and stuff, and she had no clue about taxes. And things like that so yeah. And then the other thing, one of my kiddos today has a job interview. Thankfully, she has a great wrap team. Um, So they helped her with, like here is how you act, and here is how you talk. And here is how you sit. Um, and here is how you dress things like that. And then my daughter uh is helping her like with her wardrobe and stuff. So cause Dom, we've gotten Dom up to speed on that part, which is good. Speaker 2 00:18:03 So, anyway, these are the things that have been coming out of my head all weekend. Um, I could put it into concrete thoughts, but I was like, let me talk to Crystal and get her ideas and word vomit my ideas. So. Speaker 1 00:18:34 Yeah. I. Speaker 2 00:18:39 Had, I had uh five kids with me this weekend, all foster kids. I was so thankful my car has a third row of seats. And they're all over eighteen, so I think I'm gonna stay with that demographic for a while. But good Lord, I'm gonna need a bigger apartment. If I keep collecting these kits, so um, should we wait for Apollo or go through the roadmap without him? Yeah. Well, let me share my screen real quick. But let me start recording back. Speaker 2 00:19:31 Okay, so for the roadmap, I am going to share out my screen. This is my tool tracker that I keep track of the tickets that are not the tickets, but the roadmap that I set for you guys originally. And I did have to update some dates because when I originally made the roadmap, as I got in and discovered more things, I had to move some dates around. So In the descriptions, there may be a different date, but the actual date, the scheduled date on this line right here is the correct one. So I just need to update the descriptions. But for Q1 of this year when we stepped in, we stepped in on February nineteenth. Um I did an AD assessment um and the upgrading migration planning. The vendor inventory and contract audit um the backup. Speaker 2 00:20:25 And the Crimson IT stack. Those are all in progress because they're a multi-month project and a multi-quarter project. The AD assessment and migration planning, it's essentially done to the point that we're, you know, when we have the go ahead to start migration, we can eliminate that. But before we can do that, We have to work on um the shared drives and get the on- premises shared drives moved. And migrated to the cloud. So that's basically what's holding on this portion. The inventory and contract audit, that's essentially done as well. However, The reason why I don't have that closed out is because I'm still watching invoices coming through and just monitoring for things, because it feels like every week, I find one more thing has to get added to the list. So that's why that is still open is for the stragglers. Speaker 2 00:21:21 And then backup and emergency remediation, that is in progress because we need to stabilize it. However, what we're trying to do right now is stabilize the internet at the colo, and we've struggled with the colo getting back to us on that. And that's been a back and forth thing. However, the second part of it is when we get rid of all the servers, that's when that's going to fully be completed. And we're not planning on fully having the servers all done until Q1 of twenty twenty seven because that's something I don't want to push too quickly. And then the Crimson IT stack deployment, um, that is not slated to be completed until the end of the year. However, we're ahead of schedule on that part. So just a heads up. Now, these are the main initiatives, and then the rest of these are sub initiatives underneath, and this is what we've got completed. So MFA implementation across the board has been completed. Speaker 2 00:22:17 The Brevo access control panel replacement for six of the sites have been completed. The security stack for eliminating CrowdStrike and Trellix, that planning has been completed, and we actually already started. We've got maybe thirty computers left that need to get those removed. However, that's on a different ticket or that's on a different item. Policy modernization, I have completed that. I just am putting all the policies on The sharp letterhead, because I originally put them on the crimson letterhead, but that is completed. In fact, I had an audit call for you guys today to close out an audit and I was able to speak to having those upgraded and checked this year, which satisfied a requirement. He was happy with that. The Microsoft three hundred and sixty five tenant setup and configuration. The setup was mostly done Jennifer That's what you guys are using for your SharePoint stuff and your Power BI. Speaker 2 00:23:16 I went in and made some tweaks just to get it HIPAA compliant, and that's completed. So that was all completed in Q2. And then for computer, I can't speak for Q3 Barracuda to AppRiver, it is approved for the replacement. We are just it's in line holding um for some of the other stuff that we have going on. Uh, we have finished the box evaluation. The migration is on a different schedule. I do need to talk to you guys about that in a moment. Um, but the evaluation has been completed. Um, Huntress EDR, that's the one that's the part of the security stack consolidation. That part is still in progress because we've got those computers that are left that needs to be switched over. And then um they logged me in central, but is in progress. Speaker 2 00:24:10 And I'm going to talk about that in a moment. We have 47 computers that are left on LogMeIn, that needs to be put into Crimson's tools. However, that's going pretty quickly right now. So, that should be completed in the next month or so if not less. And then so that's Q3 so these four right here. So out of that, we have one completed two That's in progress, which should be completed pretty quickly. And then one that's approved, that one might be a little delayed, Only because we we moved one item up and did that one first because it needed to be completed faster due to the contract end date. So hopefully that made sense. Okay, so on Q4 no before security awareness training. That's, the one that had to be moved up because its contract ended uh last week and not. Speaker 2 00:25:06 In three months, how we originally what we originally had listed in our schedule. So that one got completed, that's why Barracuda got adjusted. The Google Workspace to M365 email migration that was approved a few months ago, But I slated it to be later this year just because we needed we need time to get to that point. Endpoint refresh planning. So we are already changing out a bunch of program computers. We've got eighty more to go. Once those computers are changed out, uh, We can start planning on what actual workstations need to be replaced at that point. Um, right now it shows two hundred and sixty three end of life devices. However, eighty of those we already know is going to get replaced. So we need to see what that final number is. Um. Speaker 2 00:25:57 And. Then the rest of this involved with the Google Workspace and the Datto strategy and the on prem cloud migration. So these are going to be Q4, end of this year. Some of these because of how big they are, they're going to go into Q1. So they're not going to be completed. This just the start dates. And then for Q4 2024 These are the items that we've already got built out in the roadmap, in the roadmap roadmap. Good lord, words are hard today. So any questions about that? I want you guys to see where we're at at the five month mark. But any questions? Are you happy with this? Are you not happy? Speaker 1 00:26:56 Thanks. Thank you. Good. Which one? Speaker 2 00:27:32 Hmm. The I haven't seen his response yet. Um, I don't know if he's approved it or not, but Apollo did bring it up to me. Um, but I haven't seen he he was he just saw the email. He hadn't read it yet, but I don't know if Doctor Barber if he's seen it. I haven't heard from him on that one. Um, Now, that being said, I want to show you guys one more thing. Good night. Not only is Word tired, but Microsoft is being mean to me today. Let me fix this. Okay, so we have done we have been working hard on reconciling devices. Speaker 2 00:28:30 And so bring up bring up uh Excel. Um, so basically we we've audited all the systems in here. This this report came from uh mid last week. So and then here's the LogMeIn. Um, so this is all the machines that are in LogMeIn, which is our remote tool. And then all of them that are in ConnectWise, which is our other remote tool. And eventually we want all viable devices into ConnectWise. That is our goal. And because we can keep better track of inventory that way. So at this moment, as of mid last week, We have 33 machines in the ConnectWise tool for Crimson. And then in LogMeIn, we have 47 devices, and we're about 80 % confident on this. Speaker 2 00:29:22 Um, I wouldn't say we're any more confident, but as I've seen like when we first did a similar inventory, but not as in depth as what we did here. Um, we estimated at three hundred and ninety four. Um and now we're at three eighty. So it could go higher again. It could go lower, But that is the reason why I sent the email to Doctor Barber is because we're seeing such swings that if I left it at um. A certain price and adjust and didn't adjust on the swings, then we can adequately budget until we actually get this stabilized. Cause every now and then a computer comes out of someone's desk and gets turned on, and then we see it. And that's happened a few times. No, we don't. No. Speaker 2 00:30:24 It could be someone out in the field not using them. And only using their cell phone. Speaker 2 00:30:47 Mhm. And that's what I'm trying to, I've got another thing that I can do. Um, it's going to require change requests. But basically I flip a switch in Google. The only thing people are going to see is they may have. They may get asked to log back in again. But basically Google what it will do is it'll say okay, Crystal's logging in on this device and it stores that information for me. So we can see who's logged in where and on what devices. So that's something I can do. Speaker 2 00:31:20 Um, I haven't done it for you guys because it's a tool in Google. I'm not the most, I'm not the most uh knowledgeable when it comes to Google. I know just enough to do what I've done for you guys. But, there are some tools that aren't as common that I just don't know yet. And so I'm a little timid about flipping it on um until we get that taken care of. And we know what's going to happen. Speaker 1 00:31:52 So. Yes. Speaker 2 00:32:05 Yeah, my concern is we've got random people out in the field, That the laptop was left at home because they don't hand. They don't utilize the laptop as much, and you know they're not logged in or anything like that. They're just using their cell phone for things. So that's my biggest worry. Speaker 1 00:32:35 Gotcha. Right. Speaker 1 00:32:52 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:33:05 Um, and like I said, we're keeping an eye on this. I'm not running this report every day because it's it's a nightmare to run, um, because LogMeIn it just does not allow for us to export cleanly. So basically I screen I take a screenshot with Snagit, And I scroll on the screenshot so that the screenshot captures everything, and then I use AI to pull out all the data. That's why I said we're about eighty percent on here just because, like me, it's a pain in the ass. To be fair. So but we are pretty confident on these numbers right now. What I am going to do is continue working on it and see where we get with it, but I am probably going to run this report again probably Wednesday. Speaker 2 00:33:53 So. Um, all right. So that being said, let me give you the boring parts of this meeting. Speaker 1 00:34:02 Let me pull it up. All right. Speaker 2 00:34:19 My computer is yelling at me right now, so ignore it. Okay, so um the still working actively on the budget. Um I did Crystal start receiving invoices to sign today? So just a heads up on that. Um MSA Security awareness. You guys knew MFA rollout was completed, but security awareness training rollout has been completed. So everyone has been enrolled into the security training, Um and the phishing button should be on everyone's Outlook and in Gmail so that they can report it. Um now it does I do get reports from the system, letting me know who's clicked, um who's actually taken the security training and so on. Speaker 2 00:35:13 Um, so I get that report about once a month. Actually, technically I can go in and see it myself. I just don't choose to. Um, but it'll give us uh it's I like their training. It's really really good um and I think staff will enjoy it because it's not that long. Uh it's maybe fifteen minutes at the most, and we can see who all has taken it, who all hasn't. And then it sends out phishing simulation emails. And if someone clicks, uh then. Just makes them do remedial training. They have to retake the training. Um, and if they don't click and they just delete or report it, that's fantastic too. That makes all our lives. Um, so the device inventory reconciliation, like I said, we we've been able to uh create the invoicing. We do have or the inventory. We do have to update it weekly. Um, and so we can monitor that and then make the concrete lists. Speaker 2 00:36:11 Um, Box to Google Drive. Ran into a slight situation that's not in this report. Um, Started working on the plan to migrate and then Box threw in a wrench to it. Um, and they're not letting us cancel for this year. Now that being said, I had a very long talk with them. I asked them to at least lower our pricing. We're getting rid of users in the system and so on. Um, it Box does not expire until the end of the month, So I am waiting on Box to come back and say if they're going to lower the pricing for us. They know we're going to cancel next year, um, and so we are working on getting that migrated. It's just the billing that I am having issues with. The migration itself is going to be easy. So the contract ends this the end of this month? I had it in my list, um, Speaker 2 00:37:07 Contracts for the end of August, and I did find an email that stated end of August, but then I found the contract did state end of July. So, that's where some some mixups occurred on that. Um and that was some emails I found in Lorenzo's inbox. So, um I'm working through that with Box, but the migration we can get completed. It's not going to the migration itself is going to take a weekend so And most of the stuff you guys don't even touch. No one's ever touched it. It's just Lorenzo's files that he had, um, that no one ever he never gave access to anybody. Just things he stored. So the little bit that you guys have, we can move it into either SharePoint or Google Drive pretty easily. And mostly it's your stuff Jennifer, the stuff that you and um Pratt do so. Speaker 1 00:38:24 Right. Yes. Speaker 2 00:38:38 Yeah, They're not letting us cancel the box contract because I was going off the August date that I had found in the email, um, and that's on me for not double checking, butum, and that's why I said we have time, but it's actually. Speaker 2 00:38:57 Exactly, yes. Yeah, So what we're going to do is I am going to just get as much reduced as possible, and in hopes that they're going to reduce our cost. Yeah, So my next uh, major step that I am going to be working on is a telecom audit with TPX and Peerless. Um, Just because I I have had that on my radar just had not had the chance to get to yet. Um. And so that's going to be happening over the next three or four weeks, um cyber liability insurance. Um we have it the end of its term is September twenty first. Um I've already started a market comparison on the cyber liability insurance to see if we can get a cheaper rate, given the fact that we've updated systems. Um. And so I want to uh get that in there and then get that in front of you guys by early August. Speaker 2 00:39:57 Because that way, we can make a a plan on that one. If we if we decide, we want to leave, and go to another company, so I do like the shop. And then the in, huh Sorry. Yes, especially Disneyland. It's the best. Um and so I'll get that over to you guys early August, if I can find some cheaper rates. If I can't not a big deal we'll keep with what we have. With the endpoint production, that's the one that's in progress with CrowdStrike and Trellix. I'd already given you guys an update on that one. Email security modernization, Avanan is going to succeed Barracuda. However, Secure Email is going to stay where it's at right now. There's really not a competitor out there on the market. That's as good as what you guys already have. Speaker 2 00:40:50 But, we are going to be tightening some things up in the application itself just to make it a little bit more effortless and just make it more efficient. So, it's the way it's set up. I will not lie. Yeah, Because I have quite a few clients on secure email, and we've looked at other other places to go with it. There is an option within Microsoft that some of my clients use. But um, Avanan is probably going to be coming out with their own secure email soon that will rival them. And so hopefully that'll get I think that's Q. One of twenty twenty seven is what I heard. So once that happens, we can start looking at replacing secure email. But I am going to be updating some things in secure email, making it better for you guys. Yeah uh and Avanan's great. Speaker 2 00:41:49 I've given demonstration, But honestly, I hate looking at my SCHARP email because all of Lorenzo's emails are automatically sent to me, and it's a disaster. So I cannot wait to get Avanan on in. We've also started the patching for workstations. We hadn't been able to fully do that just yet because we were waiting for machines to come online, but we'd started doing that last week. Um, and things are going really well. There's very few machines out there we have to remediate in hand in person. Um, our patching system is flawlessly putting out those patches, and you they're going to be patched every fourth week. Uh. Wait let me let me double check. I do know it's on on either Wednesday or Thursday once a month. I. Speaker 2 00:42:43 I just need to figure out which week it week it is. So, uh, I said fourth week, but I think you're you're in patching group number four, and that's where I got the four from. I'll double check that one. Um. ADT master codes were reset for this building. Um Crystal, you got the alerts? I get the alerts every morning when I'm in the shower. We figured out who it was that keeps setting off the burglary alarm this in the mornings, um and he's been giving a new. Speaker 2 00:43:31 Huh. Yeah. Yes, um, it someone that was attempting to use Miles's old code which we had deleted. It was a mile. I don't know his name. Let me ask Robert, um, to see what his name. I couldn't tell you, but I know it was he they were he was using Miles's, and so was Carlos. But, we gave Carlos a code and I think and he was given and the gentleman was given a code this morning. I'll find out for you. So, uh. Speaker 2 00:44:13 Yeah, it's every time I'm in the shower, it goes off and I don't see it right away. Cause I leave my phone in my bedroom. And then I get ready. And then maybe maybe like forty five minutes to an hour later, I look at my phone and I'm like, damn it not again. So. Speaker 1 00:44:34 Yes. Yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:44:42 I got Aaron set up. I just need to get you set up. So, and then Brivo has been upgraded across all sites. So, all the EOL panels were um were taken down and and new panels were replaced, so so that's for your badges. So, Um and then that's it uh for the next two weeks. I am also working on budget. Um, And I am working on the other items that I showed you guys with cybersecurity insurance and things. So, just want to give you guys that five month update earlier, and then this update. And then is there anything that you guys need, anything that you are concerned about, or anything that I need to adjust? Speaker 2 00:45:58 Okay. Oh. Yeah, put in that uh put in a ticket for that. I'll have Gaston take a look at that, um only because I volunteered Robert for so many things today already, or Guy. He can handle it, but you know. Speaker 1 00:46:28 All of it. It all works. Speaker 2 00:46:34 Yeah. Yeah, We made some changes. So the help button works now for you guys for Crimson. Yeah, We wanted to make sure that you guys didn't have too many changes at once, because lord knows I hate changes. Speaker 2 00:47:06 So. It's Every other week. I screwed up on the invite, and then I keep saying I'm gonna change it, and I keep forgetting to change it because other things keep coming into play. So. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:47:24 I'm gonna update it and then have us meet in two weeks. Um, and uh, and I know Aaron's gonna be back. And I'm not gone yet because I want I was looking at it to see what my cadence would be with uh, with me going on vacation. Yeah, But I might reduce my vacation. So I got to talk to Pete about that. Speaker 2 00:47:60 Yeah, Yeah. No, I'm gonna make it every other week. I do apologize for that. Uh, I reset it up, went into the hospital, forgot about it. Then said I was gonna change it, and I'm still playing catch up on a lot of things. So Yeah Yeah. Speaker 2 00:48:24 Christopher H, you're talking about the H-drive files when you were talking about H. Oh okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask Robert and the team. I'll find out. You're welcome, all right Thanks ladies, I'll talk to you later. Bye.
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-01 10:00:00 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] [Speaker 11] [Speaker 12] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Invitation of Elisa and Leadership Updates Channel - Discussion on whether to invite Elisa to these meetings; concerns about potential boredom and overlap with a separate EOS meeting with Katarina and Jane (post-Jane departure attendees unclear). - Proposal to use the “Operations L10 meeting” Teams channel for consistent updates; SharePoint less practical, email too cluttered. - Suggestion to add Elisa to the channel and include new hires in IDs. - Plan to ping Katarina to clarify EOS cadence and participants before deciding on inviting Elisa. - Conclusion: Use Teams channel for updates; add Elisa and new hires; invitation decision pending Katarina’s clarification. - Topic Title: Screen Sharing and Participant Check-In - April confirmed ability to share screen; Olivia’s presence confirmed; Anton first for updates. - Conclusion: Logistics confirmed; April to handle screen sharing. - Topic Title: Sales Pipeline, Prospects, and Organizational Readiness - Optimism about recent prospect meeting improving from “zero chance” to “pretty good chance,” tempered with caution. - No new MRR this week; significant project labor pipeline. - Anzor to reallocate to ~60% sales and ~40% coding starting next week to rebuild pipeline before likely summer vacation. - Teams to prepare for potential influx: ensure quality, right people in right seats, and address low performance. - Conclusion: Anticipate increased sales activity; readiness actions encouraged. - Topic Title: Culture of Continuous Improvement in the MSP - Emphasis on acknowledging gaps, humility, and ongoing improvement rather than claiming perfection. - Conclusion: Reinforced commitment to continuous improvement. - Topic Title: IT Glue to Hudu Migration - Olivia reports ~1 month remaining; migration strategy: prioritize moving everything out of IT Glue, cancel IT Glue first if needed, then clean data in Hudu afterward. - EOS rocks note a firm 6/01 cut-off: export IT Glue (ITG) data and purge post-export. - Ongoing cleanup will continue during and after migration. - Conclusion: Proceed to complete migration within ~1 month; firm 6/01 deadline; post-migration cleanup acceptable. - Topic Title: New Hires and Onboarding - Two new hires start May 18: IT Project Manager and Accounting Specialist (replacing Jane’s role); leadership cautiously optimistic about IT PM fit; onboarding underway. - Jeff has left; internal role shuffles planned to backfill and optimize team fit; some details to be handled in one-on-ones. - Conclusion: Hiring confirmed for May 18; onboarding and role adjustments in progress. - Topic Title: Certifications and Casino Sector Pursuits - Kevin and Gabby obtained Colorado gaming certification; Washington and Nevada in progress, supporting casino-related business pursuits by Anzor and Pete’s teams. - Conclusion: Certifications strengthen expansion into gaming/casino sector. - Topic Title: Foothill Family Project Win and Regional Execution - Foothill Family signed; Jason to lead end-to-end; scope includes infrastructure and skills gap assessments; strong delivery could unlock co-managed or fully managed future engagements. - Multiple May project kickoffs: Maverick (CO supported by Kevin/Gabby; WA internal; NV requires Ross); Foothill kickoff to define infrastructure/security roles. - Conclusion: Projects initiated; prioritize quality delivery to enable broader engagement. - Topic Title: Client Demand and Project Enthusiasm (Speaker 5 update) - Surge in client requests, likely driven by cyber insurance renewals; numerous assessments to complete; team to determine handling. - Conversation with Anzor: excitement about two new projects; request for full effort and expertise. - Conclusion: Plan workload strategy for assessments; encourage strong execution on new projects. - Topic Title: DCFS Approval and Workload Capacity (Speaker 6 update) - DCFS meeting on 2026-04-29 rescheduled multiple times; held 5:30–7:00 PM; contingent approval pending completion of 10 renewal credit hours over 2026-05-02 to 2026-05-03. - Expectation of first foster placement within ~1 month. - Additional projects signed; Speaker 6 anticipates capacity constraints; plan to train Gabby to expand capacity and knowledge. - Question raised on Lear contract status. - Conclusion: Approval pending credits; capacity constrained; Gabby training planned. - Topic Title: Lear Contract Status - Lear not signed; requires CEO approval; CEO meets weekly; timing uncertain. - Conclusion: Awaiting CEO approval; follow-up needed. - Topic Title: Ticket Metrics, Reporting Scope, and Noisy-Customer Insights - Out-of-compliance count 24 and trending down; same-day resolution 51%; open help desk tickets 255; average time per help desk ticket 1.3 hours (excludes recurring). - Discussion on separating metrics (incidents/help desk vs. implementation/onboarding) since onboardings are slower. - Interest in “tickets per endpoint” to identify noisy customers; prior ConnectWise device count issues; proposal to use RMM data to revive metric. - Account management requests tickets-per-endpoint by company; team to verify RMM feasibility. - Conclusion: Maintain help desk-only time-per-ticket; explore separate implementation metric and tickets-per-endpoint using RMM. - Topic Title: Client Feedback (Green/Unhappy Surveys) and Process Gaps - Last week: 51 green, 30 unhappy (higher than typical). - Case 1 (Weingart/Skid Row cameras): external website link triggered help desk ticket and non-customer satisfaction response; practice is not to respond to external contacts; closing may have emailed them. Action: prevent external users from flagging satisfaction or remove external contacts from tickets. - Case 2 (Anderson): technician used Microsoft Teams instead of client-preferred Slack. - Case 3 (Juno): 5:36 PM ticket; 9:00 AM response; within SLA but perceived slow; follow-up with Vince pending. - Conclusion: Address external ticket handling, client channel adherence, and communication on SLA vs. client expectations. - Topic Title: Client and AI Trainings; Help Desk Chat Capability and Positioning - Increasing client demand for AI training (e.g., SHARP, Ability First); trainer promotes contacting help desk and emphasizes chat option for quick assistance. - Existing chat can answer basic Office questions and auto-close tickets upon resolution; some users only see chat when logged in; team awareness mixed. - Concern about promoting chat as “real-time” without consistent monitoring; current positioning: chat as another ticketing channel delivering updates via Teams/Slack, not marketed as live chat. - Interest in expanding AI troubleshooting (more questions; potential Power Automate for simple tasks); need defined scope, time estimate for Chris, and clear benefits; avoid overloading help desk. - Conclusion: Confirm chat availability/login flow and auto-resolve functionality; do not promote as real-time; prepare a brief proposal for AI expansion. - Topic Title: AI Support Demand from New AI Projects - New AI project sales (~$30,000 plus $1,300 MRR) may increase AI questions routed to support; help desk can handle many basics (e.g., OneDrive visibility, folder permissions). - Conclusion: Plan process and capacity for increased AI inquiries at the support desk. - Topic Title: Stress Survey Participation, Communication, and Handling - Recent weeks show low stress overall with increased participation; proposal for monetary incentive discussed with concerns about anonymity and feedback quality. - Current survey is fully anonymous; tension between encouraging participation and preserving anonymity; ideas include team lead pulse checks, communication on who sees results, reminders during EOS meetings. - Current process: Chris reviews all survey feedback and escalates to leadership (Pete) as needed; managers responsible for team well-being. - Gap: new hires may not know the process; need a company-wide reminder and verification of “napping team” group membership (exclude top leadership). - Leadership emphasizes monitoring stress and authorizes mandated time off if stress peaks. - Conclusion: No incentive decision; April to add topic to future agenda; Chris to send reminder and verify group membership. - Topic Title: Security Policies and Core Plus (Weingart) - Security policy rollout pending; questions on AI tool access (e.g., Perplexity). - Need Core Plus quote and guidance on device counts; Anton to coordinate offline. - Conclusion: Take discussion offline to finalize quote and counts. - Topic Title: Camp Projects: Scheduling, APs, Internet, POTS, and Equipment - Weekend work at camp requires approval from Kelly (camp director Kelly Privett); [Speaker 6] attempting contact and may visit within 1–2 weeks; if Saturday work approved, Kelly typically off-site (Ventura County), easing access. - AP locations at main cabin and director’s house reviewed (3–4 APs); awaiting confirmation from [Speaker 6]/Kelly; cabin mini switch proposal also pending Kelly’s approval. - Camp internet service quote sent by Blake; decision awaits Kelly’s yes/no. - Quote signature and deposit: [Speaker 10]/[Speaker 4] sent a quote; [Speaker 6] requested resend including Michonne (signatory); equipment previously billed and paid; post-signature deposit invoice to be created and processed quickly (Carl, CFO). - Decommissioning extensions/lines and POTS: help desk pending decommission at Claremont and Long Beach; on-site work (conference install, AP install) to include telecom cleanup; POTS lines believed to be elevator phones; camp decisions await Kelly; Fair Oaks coordination via Dan; considering Lingo price reduction/new product. - HQ internet upgrade: 30–60 day process with biweekly updates (Tuesdays/Fridays); carrier must take order and perform upgrade; escalation requested; client locked with Peerless until 2027; planning cutover post-contract; budget completion for upcoming fiscal year is priority. - Meeting cadence and availability: [Speaker 6] prefers Fridays; Mondays/Fridays blocked; open by request; tentative regroup next Friday if Kelly contact by Thursday; office presence moving to Tuesdays/Thursdays; Fridays typically WFH. - Conclusion: Multiple camp decisions pending Kelly; deposit workflow coordinated; decommissioning and HQ upgrade progressing with carrier timelines and planning for post-2027 transition. - Topic Title: EOS “Rocks” Progress - Client health score largely complete; target presentation next meeting. - Sales engineering process (Mike/Jason): moving from discussion to defined deliverables; meeting 1–2 times/week. - Execute SHARP technology roadmap: on track; cost allocation platform (AF Co) on track or ahead. - Monthly report automation: on track (Anzor leading). - Security audit assessment template: done and in use (e.g., Maverick); minor adjustments later. - Local admin and Wi‑Fi password rotation: on track; near completion for clients. - Hudu migration and ITG cut-off: on track for 6/01 hard date; export then purge ITG. - Password reset process implementation: off track; aim to recover next week. - Help desk KPIs/productivity reports: on track. - First 90 days Weingart priorities: on track; MDM/Intune compliance clarified; AEP and Ballet share issues; back on track. - Standardized network configs for onboarding: baseline exists; access to docs to be re-shared. - Project estimating/quoting process: on track (Mike/Jason collaboration). - Transition into admin team leadership: on track; ongoing training with Marvin. - Phase 1 agreement building automation: on track; ConnectWise UBI access gained to automate RMM device counts with agreements. - Conclusion: Most rocks on track; password reset process off track with recovery targeted next week; Hudu migration firm deadline 6/01. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Ping Katarina to confirm EOS meeting frequency and participants; decide on inviting Elisa by a set deadline. - [ ] Use the “Operations L10 meeting” Teams channel for updates; add Elisa and include new hires in IDs. - [ ] Determine process and ownership to handle increased cyber insurance assessment volume. - [ ] Speaker 6 to complete 10 renewal credit hours by 2026-05-03; plan for first foster placement; train Gabby to expand capacity with defined tasks and schedule. - [ ] Follow up on Lear CEO approval timing; assign point person to track weekly CEO meetings and signature status. - [ ] Complete IT Glue to Hudu migration within the next month; enforce 2026-06-01 cut-off; export and purge ITG; proceed with post-migration cleanup in Hudu; define purge procedure and responsible party. - [ ] Start onboarding for the IT Project Manager and Accounting Specialist on May 18; communicate stress survey process to new hires. - [ ] Kick off Foothill Family project with clear priorities and quality focus; define roles for infrastructure/security. - [ ] Implement Anzor’s shift to ~60% sales starting next week; conduct readiness check across teams (capacity, skills, tooling). - [ ] April to schedule focused discussion on stress survey: anonymity, visibility of aggregated results, participation strategy, expectations, and cadence. - [ ] Chris to send a company-wide reminder about stress survey handling and verify “napping team” membership (exclude top leadership); standardize communication to all staff, including new hires. - [ ] Olivia/Jason to adjust help desk process to prevent external website-triggered tickets from creating customer satisfaction entries or contacts; capture client-specific communication preferences in PSA with technician prompts and QA checks. - [ ] Olivia to ensure technicians use client-preferred channels (e.g., Slack for Anderson); speak with Vince and respond to Juno regarding after-hours expectations vs. SLA; clarify enhanced support options if applicable. - [ ] Verify feasibility and accuracy of “tickets per endpoint” via RMM; assign owner and timeline; report back. - [ ] Define deliverables and milestones for the sales engineering process; document them. - [ ] Present the client health score for feedback at the next meeting. - [ ] Re-share standardized firewall/network configuration documentation with Jason. - [ ] Confirm help desk chat login requirements; validate visibility, coverage, auto-close behavior; communicate guidance to staff and clients; maintain positioning as a ticketing channel, not real-time chat. - [ ] Prepare a brief proposal for AI troubleshooting expansion (scope, time estimate for Chris, benefits); document help desk triage and escalation paths for basic AI questions; plan support desk readiness for increased AI inquiries. - [ ] Anton to coordinate offline on Core Plus quote and device counts for Weingart; document deployment criteria and device counting method. - [ ] Camp projects: resend quote including Michonne; create and send deposit invoice; obtain Michonne’s signature; CFO (Carl) to process deposit promptly; confirm AP locations and cabin mini switch with Kelly; decide on camp internet quote; finalize decommission list after Claremont/Long Beach on-site work; verify POTS function (elevators) at camp with Kelly and coordinate Fair Oaks with Dan; capture carrier order status and escalation references for HQ internet upgrade; provide biweekly updates; plan next call after contact with Kelly (target by 2026-05-07). ## AI Suggestions > 1. Set a deadline and owner to decide on inviting Elisa after confirming EOS details; ensure addition to the Teams channel meanwhile. > 2. Define ownership, workflow, and timeline for managing the surge in cyber insurance assessments to avoid bottlenecks. > 3. Mitigate Speaker 6’s capacity risk by specifying which tasks Gabby will take over, with a training schedule and success criteria. > 4. Track Lear CEO approval cadence with a designated point person to follow up immediately after each CEO meeting. > 5. Establish a documented policy for anonymous stress surveys: visibility of aggregated results, review cadence, and participation encouragement without compromising anonymity. > 6. Implement a standard procedure for external ticket sources to prevent non-customer satisfaction responses; update PSA settings and train staff. > 7. Record client-preferred communication channels in PSA; add technician prompts and QA checks to enforce adherence. > 8. Clarify after-hours response expectations with clients like Juno; define available enhanced support windows or on-call options beyond current SLAs. > 9. Assign ownership and timeline to reinstate “tickets per endpoint” via RMM; validate data accuracy against past issues. > 10. Document help desk chat service levels (visibility, coverage hours, target response times), even if positioned as non-real-time, to set expectations. > 11. Produce a concise plan for AI troubleshooting expansion, including Power Automate opportunities, resource allocation, and risk mitigation to avoid help desk overload. > 12. Define ITG export and purge procedures with responsible parties and compliance checks post-Hudu migration. > 13. For camp-related dependencies on Kelly, assign a backup contact or set a firm on-site meeting date to reduce delays; track decisions (APs, internet, mini switch, POTS, weekend work). > 14. Set expected dates for Michonne’s signature and CFO deposit processing to prevent project slippage; monitor with a checklist and escalation path. > 15. Request a consolidated, dated decommissioning plan from the help desk after Claremont/Long Beach on-site work. > 16. Capture HQ internet upgrade order status, escalation references, and a preliminary cutover plan for post-2027 Peerless transition, including budget impacts.
- Date
- May 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 So April, do you think we should invite uh. I think we should invite Elisa to these. Part of me says yes, Speaker 2 00:00:14 Part of me thinks she'd be bored. I don't know. Well, Speaker 3 00:00:19 I think they have a separate E O S with. Caterina, Yeah. Speaker 2 00:00:30 How often do they have them. Speaker 3 00:00:33 That I'm not sure. I'm going to check. Speaker 2 00:00:35 And who's in them? Her and Jane? Speaker 3 00:00:38 Yeah, the three of them. Speaker 2 00:00:40 But Jane's leaving, so who's going to be in Mouse? Her and just. I may, I may, maybe I'll ping Katarina. Okay. All right, who are we waiting for? Speaker 4 00:01:01 Ol Ivia, let me. Oh, Speaker 2 00:01:04 She's here. Do you want to share your screen, April? Or you don't need to do it. Okay. Okay, I can do it. Speaker 1 00:01:12 Perfect. Alrighty. Speaker 2 00:01:23 Anton is thrilled and excited to be first. I can see it in his. Speaker 5 00:01:29 I can see it on his face. Updates from my end, nothing special. We have a huge amount of requests from our clients. I think this is the period of renewing cyber insurances. There is a lot of Assessments and yeah, but. We're gonna figure it out how we're gonna fill them out. And I did talk with Anzor just couple minutes ago. He is very excited for two new projects, And he's asking me to put all my effort and every all my knowledge and experience to make it happen. And Just show the best that we can, yeah. That's it. That's encouraging. Speaker 1 00:02:25 All right. Speaker 1 00:02:28 Chris. Um, good morning. Speaker 6 00:02:31 Good morning. So Good news. I had the DCFS meeting on Wednesday. Yes, and they changed my schedule three different times that day, all at the last minute. So it was supposed to be at five, and then it was supposed to be at eleven. And then it was supposed to have been at five thirty again. And then she didn't show up until five thirty, and she didn't leave until seven. So. And the true nature of kids, my daughter explained everything to her a little bit too much. But it was a good meeting, so it's a whole new social worker for me. I am approved as long as I get my last ten hours of credits done this weekend, which is my renewal credits. So, Which I will get done, because all I am going to do is sit there and watch the videos. And while they're going by on one point two speed, because that's the fastest I can make them go by. Speaker 6 00:03:25 I will be sitting there playing Enshrouded and just zoned out because I know all the course material. Um, so but yeah, no, I am excited. It's going to be a lot of downtime this weekend getting through those classes. And other than that, I am approved. Uh, we'll probably get our first kid within the next month or so. Um, so we're excited. And then the other thing is, I had to channel my inner Mike this week a couple of times. Mike got excited. Vince got excited. I am not so much excited, but we got some more projects coming in. Um, that got signed on some things that I am working on. So if you need me, I am going to be at capacity. Althoughum, I am going to Try to train Gabby on a lot of stuff and get her to get her knowledge up there. And Mike, did we get a Lear? Did they sign? Speaker 7 00:04:13 Not yet. They have to get it approved with the CEO. So they meet once a week. So I don't know when that When that schedule is. Speaker 6 00:04:20 And we're pretty optimistic about that one. Speaker 7 00:04:24 The fact that they're meeting with us, and they're asking all these questions is definitely a positive sign. It's not In the bag, but we went from zero chance to now we've got a pretty good chance. Put that way. I'm optimistic, but I'm always optimistic. Yes. Speaker 6 00:04:42 All right. Mike, you were up. Yeah, I'm just happy with all the improvements we're making. Speaker 7 00:04:50 I love working for an MSP where we can look around, and we can acknowledge that we need improvement and everyone's on board. And everyone's working towards improving. It's amazing. Speaker 2 00:05:01 That's all we can do, right? Speaker 7 00:05:04 The fact that we can be humble enough to call out our faults and acknowledge it is huge. Most of them is peas, we're the best, we're perfect. You're never the best. You're never perfect. Speaker 2 00:05:16 Keep trying to get better. You can never get better if you always think you're perfect, right? You're driving. Uh. Speaker 1 00:05:23 That's great Olivia. Speaker 8 00:05:30 Good morning, guys. Good news on my side. I only have a month left of this. IT glue to Hadoop migration nightmare. So and herding cats. So. Yeah, that's my good news. That I'm coming to an end soon. Speaker 1 00:05:50 All right. All right. Speaker 7 00:05:57 Can I so Olivia, I think real quick on the on the IT glue migration. The focus is getting everything out of it. Glue. I know, we kind of ideally want it to be scrubbed before it made it to Hudu. But if it wasn't scrubbed before it made it to Hudu, At least we can cancel IT Glue, and then maybe we can go back later and clean up Hudu. Speaker 8 00:06:18 Yeah Yeah, I agree. Mike. Okay. And it's still going to be cleaned up like as we go, you know, we'll add things and whatnot. Speaker 1 00:06:32 All right. Um April. Speaker 3 00:06:39 Okay, so good morning, guys. Nothing much on the personal side. And. Speaker 3 00:06:45 Nothing on the employee headline is just organizational update that we have two new people starting on May eighteenth, One is a new IT project manager, and the other one is a new accounting specialist that will take over Jane's role, so. Yeah, we're working on their onboarding. That's all. Thank you. Speaker 7 00:07:04 Is the ITPM for the IT side or the construction side? Speaker 3 00:07:09 IT side. Yep. Speaker 2 00:07:12 We found a uh, Yeah, I can talk more about, but yeah, we found a we found an experienced IT PM. She interviewed very well. She sounds like she's got some good experience. We're excited to bring her on board. I'm excited. I think April's excited. Yeah. I hope she is. I hope she is everything she interviewed to be. You know, sometimes you get you have cautious optimism, but I am uh I am extremely Well, I'm just going to withhold my. Speaker 2 00:07:44 I'm going to withhold my optimism, But I am hoping that she is the project manager that I hope she is going to be. Speaker 9 00:07:54 Jason. Hi guys, good morning. So, employee headlines. So Kevin and Gabby both got their gaming certificate or gaming certification in Colorado. We're working on, Washington and Nevada, right now. So that's a great thing for us as. Anzer is tracking down the casino business and Pete as well. I don't know if Pete wants to get back in that business, but so. Not particularly, but hey, Speaker 2 00:08:32 If there's business there, we'll go after it. Right. Speaker 9 00:08:35 All right. Good good. And then uh Uh, you know we did. Get Foothill Family. I believe they signed, which will be my first real big. You know, project that I am going to start my team. I'll be able to see it from the beginning all the way to the end. So I'm uh I'm excited about that. Uh, I think our part is the infrastructure assessment and the skills gap assessment and things like that. So And I think that was what Anton was alluding to. Speaker 9 00:09:08 One of those projects. So, yeah, we'll do a good job for them. I think that's it for me. Speaker 2 00:09:18 Okay, and for me, um, and FYI this is I think this this category it says good news. It You know, when I do the L 10, we call it personal and business. Good news and customer employee headlines. So it's nice if you have personal good news to share. Also, if anybody If anybody knows that they call this just good news, but I think in our L ten that I have with Onzor. Team, we call it personal and business good news and employee headlines. So just so everybody's aware. Speaker 2 00:09:57 So, personal good news: I am going on vacation not this next week, but the week after, and I am looking forward to that. Our entire family is going. and I am getting very excited about that. So, that's coming up. And also on a personal note. My uh, my hockey team the Knights, are hopefully gonna win the first round tonight. But we'll find out. Uh, from an employee from a work perspective, I am excited about the new business we've been getting uh recently. The Maverick deal project is um. is exciting. I'm real, I'm excited that the Foothill project was signed. If we do well on that, there's a lot of potential that we could get there. So um. Speaker 2 00:10:49 Whether it's a co managed, whether it's just some leadership oversight, whether there's potential for fully managed business down the road. Who knows what could come out of that? But, let's do a really good job of delivering and being very specific on what they need to do, prioritizing that. We'll talk more about it next week with the folks that are going to be on that call. But let's let's be focused on that. And I know we have concurrent projects going there, but uh hopefully we'll do well on that so, That's my uh, that's my update for this week. So let's go ahead and go to the scorecard. Speaker 1 00:11:29 All right. Transactional, anything to call out on this or projects for this week, Mike? No, Speaker 7 00:11:37 But in the pipeline there are some big projects, a significant amount of project labor on deck. Right. Speaker 2 00:11:46 Yep, no new MRR. FYI, and we talked about this in Mile 10 with Onzor and Tony. Anzor has been very focused, obviously, And I think most of you know this on Claude coding because he's completely engaged in that, and he's almost. He's almost giddy with it, But he has openly acknowledged the fact that he is going to start focusing sixty percent of his. Time on sales again starting next week and forty percent on coding, so that he can get stuff back in the pipeline. But I think we all know that, you know, As soon as Anzor starts focusing on sales and gets a couple big ones in. Um, it just sort of naturally starts pouring in, and then he can go back to Claude coding. And then he'll probably go on vacation for about six weeks in summer or whatever. So we can we can. Speaker 2 00:12:39 Pretty much count on that, But I want to get some sales in the door before he goes on vacation. So, um. Anyway, let's tee up things for that. Let's think about, you know, if we do get big sales, what do we need to be doing? In anticipation or preparation for that, let's take the time where we don't have new on boardings, especially Olivia and your team, Anton and your team. Jason and your team. Team, if necessary, you know what. What if anything do we need to do organizationally to sort of. Tidy up our teams to make sure our quality is where it needs to be organizationally. Do we need to do anything in the, you know, leadership or the, you know. Do we need to, you know, take out any any. Speaker 2 00:13:29 Low performers and replaced with better performers or anything like that. Let's let's make sure we've got the right people in the right seats, all that kind of stuff. So now's the right time to do that. So that we're ready in case we start. You know, having a full pipeline again. So, um, all right team stress level uh. Chris, you want to say anything about that? Speaker 6 00:13:51 Yeah, so team stress level on the week 16. That was the same week that we. No, That was the week before I brought up to. Hey, we you guys should fill this out. So there was only two people, and one was a three, and one was a one or something along those lines. It was very low so um. And then this next this last week there was more people putting in, and so that actually everybody was little. No one was stressed out. And if you hover over it, You can see how many people are, actually in it 'cause I did add those notes. Speaker 2 00:14:27 I think it was like six and five or six and seven or something. So it was better, but it's still really low. So let me make a quick comment about that since we're on this topic. One of the things that I talked about or we talked about in our L ten yesterday. Um, we want to incentivize people to do this. I don't really like to incentivize people through monetary reasons means all the time, but sometimes we have to do that. Um. I think what we're going to do is, and I want your input on this. I think we're going to do something where we say. People fill out the surveys every week, and we have we have evidence that they do it every week. We're going to put them in a drawing to win like two or three hundred bucks at the end of the month. And, we're going to draw one or two names at the end of each month. But they have to have done the survey. Speaker 2 00:15:24 Every week during the month to be eligible. But we want it to be. I want to make sure that they're doing it, you know. They have they have to be. It has to be real, right? It has to be how they're really feeling I. Don't want it to just be like they go through, and they pick three, three or whatever. Because honestly, I'm not really sure what the survey even asks. I'm not sure I've even seen it to be candid. I mean, I haven't done it because i I don't think I'm eligible to do it, but So I should probably look at it, Chris. Maybe you can walk me through it one of these days. It would probably be helpful for me to see that, but um. One of the you know, that's one of the things we talked about. So before we actually do it, I wanted to kind of hear what everybody has to say. On this call, is that a good idea? Is that a bad idea? Because. One of the things we don't want to do is I don't want to get surveys only when people are stressed so that they say, "I feel like crap. I'm going to hit fives." Speaker 2 00:16:21 This week, but every other time when I feel great, I am never going to do the survey because then it's not helpful. But we were doing this for the team, right? I want to impress on people. The reason we have this out there is for the company, right? We're doing this for everybody's benefit so that we know when they are stressed out so that we can help them. Right? So really, This is a tool for them to give us feedback so that we can help them individually. And as a group. To, To know that we're overloading the team as a whole, that we're overloading groups, that we're overloading people or that the team is doing well. Right? It's a barometer. So Any input that folks have, positive, negative, things we can differently. You don't have to answer now, but Chris. Speaker 6 00:17:10 So I wouldn't So I'm struggling with the idea you guys. I like the idea, But if you do that, and people can't be anonymous because a lot of people like to be anonymous. Um, it's going to defeat the purpose of the anonymity on it. However, If we say, Speaker 2 00:17:33 But if they, but if all we're saying, is We know that you've filled out the survey, but we don't necessarily know what your answers were. Is that is that good enough? Can we just, Can we just do something that says we know? Well, but we but don't they already know we know they filled out the survey? Speaker 6 00:17:49 We've made it. Let me show it to you guys. Um, we've made it completely anonymous. To the point where even me as an admin on this document and in that form, can't even see it. So I'm just going to show, I'm not going to show you guys scores or what people put, but When they sign in, it's completely anonymous. We didn't want to take any chances. And then they fill out their name. That's the part where Chester Cat, somewhere in here is Darth Vader. So, my thought would be, let's say maybe we take all of March. And we put all the names in a hat and just that way, if one week they want to be anonymous and the next week they don't. It gives them a chance to be anonymous. Speaker 7 00:18:40 I I don't think. If they put their name down, they're going to be they're going to feel comfortable sharing actual, legit feedback. Yeah. That's my concern. Speaker 2 00:18:51 No, that's totally fair. I completely understand that and that makes total sense to me. I guess the, but how do we, how do we, and how do we get people to. Speaker 2 00:19:08 How do we get people to consistently fill this stuff out like on a weekly basis? You know, it's like. It's like time sheets. Speaker 7 00:19:17 Is that the right way to do it though? Like, shouldn't I mean, I got a small team, so I don't know if this is like for Olivia. I don't know how this is going to scale, but. Wouldn't, the team leads be able to have a pulse on their team and the stress level? And these meetings bring up attention. Speaker 8 00:19:36 I mean. Yeah, they. Like I have a pulse on my team's check stress levels, but it is helpful to see because like sometimes. You know, they're not as open as they are in like these these actual like forms. You know, Speaker 7 00:19:50 I think a combination. I mean, Pete, I am just saying monetarily. Great idea because it moves anonymity. But between the survey. Speaker 2 00:20:01 And this is that's why I'm getting your guys'feedback right. This is this was brought up by Ansor and and and uh. I'm not necessarily an advocate of it. So I'm I I'm glad that you guys don't want to do it that way and I'm fine with not doing it that way. So, um. Everybody's going to have ebbs and flows when it comes to, you know, being high stress low stress. There is always going to be like like you said Chris, everybody's going to have. A level of stress at all times, But sometimes it's going to be really high and other times it's going to be, you know, average to low. Speaker 2 00:20:37 At some points, But how do we but how do we get the barometer so that it at least is representative of. Of not just the people that are complainers, right? Like. Because I don't want it to all, I don't want the, I don't want the, the surveys to always be just the fives. Just the fours and fives. Because if that's, That's not going to represent the team level if it's only people that fill it out when they're stressed. So that's what I'm trying to, I guess, get to. So and we don't have to solve this today. But if you have ideas or if you know, cause I don't want to take the forty minutes talking about surveys, but this is maybe. Put on the on the. Um, let's put this on the list to talk more about April. Um. Speaker 6 00:21:30 I put three of them in there. One I just put because it was funny, and that was Olivia's, but. These are the kind of things like I remember the last one, and this was in twenty twenty three. I remember this coming in, and I saved this one because I was able to talk to that person. And I was able to go to answer on that one and. You know, have him because that's what I do. If I go into these and I see that hey, t here is an issue in here, um, I will send it to Anzar. I will send it to Pete, and that person remains anonymous. Now that last one, that person did not remain anonymous. Um, But it was a good thing because you know, we were able to deal with that issue, but um there is. There's a lot of really good fun stuff in here, and there's and people are having fun with it, and we can remind them that Hable. Speaker 6 00:22:25 Hey, you you guys have fun with this. I love it when people go in and put a random name, but also. I can go in there and see when there's issues and maybe I need to send. I'm just going to use email as my Example, maybe I need to send a meal or dinner, or you know these are really good. I don't want to get rid of them, But I also want people to be anonymous if they want to be or not be anonymous. I don't want them to be afraid. Um. So if we remind them, they'll have fun. Speaker 2 00:22:56 Yeah, I guess what we got to what we got to talk about further, though Chris is like I don't have I. Don't see the feedback right? You see the feedback, but I don't. So if the if if the folks that are giving feedback think that I see it and I don't then. We got to fix that too, right? Yeah. If, they think that Onsor sees it or I see it, or their manager sees it. And you are the only one that sees it. We have to fix that too. So, We need to set expectations on what this what the the results are to so, We'll we'll put that on the we'll put that on the back burner for right now. Butum. April, you want to share again? Speaker 8 00:23:36 I was going to say one thing I could do as well is I could mention it at the end of my. Eos. Um, and just have people, you know, fill it out in the last couple minutes or whatever. That way. They have time to do it, you know, and it's not like in the middle of something. Like, you know, randomly on a Friday. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Speaker 2 00:24:02 Maybe it's just encouraging people to do it. I just want people to know the important how important it is to me to to know that people here Have job satisfaction that they're happy, and that if they're stressed, that we want to know about it and we want to. Do something for them, right? Whether that means we mandate that they take a couple days off, we will do that, right? Like and I want you each of you as managers to know that. I am telling you right now, if you have somebody on your team that you see is, you know, at a peak level that needs. You know, if if they're if they're like at a stress level, whether they have a project or not, you tell them take two days off. Speaker 2 00:24:44 And I am making you take two days off, right? If that's what they need, just do it. So, because the last thing we need is somebody to just like go go off the deep end. So. And if you see it, if you have evidence of it, if you see somebody else on another team, tell their manager. Tell me whatever. I appreciate that because that's what we should do as teammates for each other. So anyway, okay. Um, all right. Uh, Olivia, I think the next stuff is yours, right? Speaker 8 00:25:12 Yeah okay, so we had fifty one green surveys and then we had thirty unhappy surveys, which is more than we've had. Like in like a year, um, in one week. So, um, I know one of those surveys or one of them wasum. Just a super old ticket that was onum the CCTV, so Jose got that closed. But I know that that was one of our. Yellows. Speaker 9 00:25:40 Can I can I share something about that real quick? Yeah. So on the Weingart website, uh, we actually have Skid Row cameras that we manage. So, there's an option at the bottom. If the cameras aren't working to click on the link, and then it sends an email to the help desk, and they create a ticket automatically. And so, Pete had asked, "How is somebody outside the company able to open a ticket with Crimson?" And that's where it comes from. So, And, it's just some random guy that gave us a yellow because it did take a while. It was it was a long time before he got a response, but it's not a customer. Per se, so that's why you had the yellow. Speaker 8 00:26:22 Jason, in that case, should we have that user as the contact? Like do we normally respond back in those tickets? Speaker 9 00:26:34 We don't. We never do. So maybe when they closed out the ticket, it probably emailed them though. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:26:40 Do we even have the ability for them to mark that done? Can we take that off? For those for those users or no? Speaker 8 00:26:47 We just need to not set them as a contact in the ticket. Speaker 2 00:26:51 So let yeah, let's figure out if we can. Remove that option for people that are outside the. They shouldn't even have the ability to flag that, I don't think. Speaker 9 00:27:01 And I think this is probably a one- off. Like, I don't see any other scenario where we have this. Not that I can think of anything like this. Speaker 2 00:27:10 And what were the other two, Olivia? I forget. Speaker 8 00:27:12 Okay, So one of them was from Anderson, and one of my texts reached out over Teams instead of Slack. Instead of Slack. Speaker 2 00:27:22 That's right. I remember that one. And then one was Juno doing something, right? Or taking too long or something? What was that one? Speaker 8 00:27:30 Yeah, So this one wasum the ticket was opened at, like five thirty six p m. And then we didn't get back until nine a m the next morning. And that was uh too long of a time for the client. Speaker 2 00:27:42 So but but that was technically on our S L A. So did we? Yeah, we were within S L A. Did we get back with them on that one? Speaker 8 00:27:49 No, I still need to talk to Vince about it. Speaker 2 00:27:52 Okay, let's let's. Yeah, so so all three of them. Even though we got three, I think all three of them were like sort of borderline kinds of things. So. Um, yeah. Let's find chase that one down if you can today. I want to find out what we can do about that because the longer we wait on that, the. Yeah. Stale it's gonna get. Speaker 8 00:28:13 Okay. Um, and then uh out of compliance we have 24 which is going down. Um, same day resolution uh we're at 51%. So hopefully we get that back up next week. Number of help desk tickets open, and this is just help desk, no reoccurring. 255. And then time per ticket, this is 1. 3 hours per ticket that we're spending. So yeah. Speaker 6 00:28:41 Are we filtering that by anything, that uh time per ticket? Speaker 8 00:28:45 Yeah, so it's not including recurring tickets. It's just help desk tickets. Speaker 8 00:28:54 Yeah, it's implementation and help desk both. And this is just time worked, obviously. Speaker 7 00:29:03 Does the implementation include Onboardings? Yes. Should we remove that? Because they're never going to be quick. Yeah. Speaker 8 00:29:16 I mean, we could do time per ticket. Or health dashboard and then time to get for implementation. Speaker 7 00:29:21 I think just incidents is the key one, like. In my opinion, but I'll let up to. Speaker 4 00:29:28 The team. Speaker 7 00:29:29 Whatever you guys call, yeah. To me, I would consider like a trouble ticket, a customer generated trouble ticket. Speaker 8 00:29:35 Yeah, I do want to track just like in general. I mean, maybe it doesn't have to be here, But I do want to track, including the onboards, because you know, as we go with automation and stuff, I want to try to get those onboards. Low er. Speaker 7 00:29:50 One more thing, so I hate because you have the most section here, Olivia. So you can tell me to shut up. Account manager, But is there a way for us to track the number of tickets open per endpoint? Because I know that's a common metric MSPs use to determine how noisy a customer is. Speaker 8 00:30:06 Like per company, per endpoint? Speaker 7 00:30:09 Yeah, yeah. Like, the number of you take the number of tickets, a company opens per month, and you divide it by the number of endpoints, and you get your point. Number of tickets per endpoint. Speaker 8 00:30:17 We used to do that. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm sure that there's an existing gauge. Speaker 6 00:30:23 Yeah, but I'll check because it wasn't accurate. Because For some reason, I can't remember. I think ConnectWise was triple was putting in triple the amount of actual computers. We had to kill it. Speaker 8 00:30:40 I actually just talked to ConnectWise about that, Chris, this week. Um,'cause our configurations are so bad. But I think we canum get that info from RMM instead of ConnectWise. Speaker 7 00:30:52 Cause I would love that detail. So as an account manager, we have a noisy customer. I can try to dig in to find out why we're being noisy, why the clients are noisy. Okay. Not a need to do, but would nice to have. Speaker 3 00:31:08 Yeah, for sure. Speaker 7 00:31:11 I didn't get slapped. Cool. Speaker 8 00:31:16 Never mind. Speaker 1 00:31:20 Okay, let's go to rocks. Eat. Speaker 4 00:31:30 The rocks. Speaker 1 00:31:33 Oh, I've got you know what? Mine are on the L ten with the Anzor Salt. Copy them over here. So Mike, you want to do yours? Speaker 7 00:31:42 Yeah. Develop comprehensive health score client. I have that for the most part completed, so maybe next meeting I can present it and get the team feedback. Sure, for this meeting if we have time, but it's on track. And then sales engineering process. I am waiting for. Um, I think this is both Jason and I's rock. So I'm just waiting for Jason to. Um, for the dust to settle. That is the new onboarding. Speaker 9 00:32:09 Well, and I think that uh so. I I I. I need some deliverable actual. I need to define some of these things because right now, it's just kind of a nebulous. We're just talking about it now. I need to start. Locking in some very specific things that we want to accomplish with that. So we have been talking about it, meeting you know once or twice a week. About the process. So now I think we can start to put some um. You know, deliverables around that. Speaker 7 00:32:42 Yeah, so I'm including a lot of my emails just so you have visibility. I put you on the CCs just so you can see it. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:32:54 All right, Chris. Speaker 6 00:32:57 Execute SHARP technology roadmap, which is definitely underway. Um, and that is uh I broke something. Sorry. Um, that is uh on track. And then on deliver AF. Co st allocation platform. We are still working on that. That is on track. In fact, it might even be ahead of Time. So I was trying to ignore Kamya's call. He said," Ignore me if you need to." Speaker 5 00:33:27 Monthly report automation it's on track. Basically, And Zora wants to take a lead on it, so probably he gonna. Get it done. For me, security audit assessment service template it's done. We already utilizing template for Maverick project, so we're gonna work on some adjustments maybe later. And local admin Wi-Fi password rotation quarterly annually it's on track. We almost done with the local admin rotation for clients. Speaker 4 00:34:10 All right. Speaker 8 00:34:11 Um, on my side, complete Hudu migration and cut off ITG. That's on track. And that's six one, Speaker 2 00:34:20 Right? Because that's a hard date. So yeah, Speaker 8 00:34:22 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaker 2 00:34:23 And, we got we have to purge everything out of ITG. Also right? Speaker 8 00:34:27 I think we're gonna like we're gonna export everything right? Speaker 2 00:34:30 Yeah, we're gonna export it and then purge it. Speaker 8 00:34:33 Yeah, I guess. Is that is that. Speaker 2 00:34:36 I think we have to process. Speaker 8 00:34:37 We'll be right back. Speaker 8 00:34:41 Just like delete everything, Pete. I'll talk to you about this when we get. Speaker 2 00:34:44 Yeah, I think we have to delete it. Speaker 8 00:34:47 Okay. Okay, noted. And then password reset process implementation. This is off track again. I'll get this back on track next week. And then continue building KPIs and productivity reports will help us. This is still on track. Speaker 9 00:35:10 All right, Jason. So for me, uh, first ninety days Weingart priorities. So I am. Uh, I've kicked off a couple, you know, very important projects. So I'm going to say I'm on track on this one. Uh, the MDM uh, in tune compliant devices. So we took care of earlier. We figured it out. And I think there was some misunderstanding with Matthew, and so. I think we clarified that, and uh, and so now we're we're going to be working. I think it's uh, what is it A E P. And ballet. So they both have a similar problem. Sounds like you're back on track. Back on track, right? And client onboarding standardized network configuration. So, we have something already in place that Anton shared with me how we how we. Speaker 9 00:36:07 Do standardized firewall configs. And Anton, I lost access to that. Can you reshare? Speaker 5 00:36:14 Yeah, yeah, sure, of course. Yeah, give me a second. Speaker 9 00:36:18 So, it's already we already kind of have a standardized uh thing that we do, and so we just need to uh. Lock it in and make sure everybody understands what that is. So I'm going to say we're on track here and then. E stablish a projectestimating quoting process. So that's why I am working with. Um, Mike on that. And I'm going to say we're on track. All right. Speaker 1 00:36:45 And April. Speaker 3 00:36:48 Okay, so on my side, transition into admin team leadership role it's on track. I'm still on training with. Um Marvin, um phase one agreement building automation is on track. Finally, I do have the access with a UBI function in ConnectWise, which will help automate RMM device count with our ConnectWise agreement. So I'm working on that with ConnectWise. That's all. Speaker 1 00:37:15 All right. Okay, let's go back to. I. Speaker 2 00:37:25 Don't think we've got any to- dos or long outstanding. P ending issues. So I. Speaker 7 00:37:33 Had one to do from last week, and I thought about it. This was regarding how do we how does the leadership stay on track with what everyone's doing? Speaker 7 00:37:41 Okay, And I think there's already a pre existing Teams channel. I think for this one, right operations L ten meeting. Mhm. I think this might be an appropriate place just to drop things'cause. It's easy to do. I was thinking a SharePoint site, no one's gonna open it. It's just going to die, and email is too cluttered. So, I think maybe just posting in this channel. If you think it's important that the other team members know, just post in this channel. Okay. Feedback? Mhm. Yeah, sure. Okay. That's all I have for me. Speaker 2 00:38:14 Let's add Elisa to it though. That makes me want to add her even more than. Okay. Speaker 1 00:38:24 IDs, uh, let's, Let's add new hires to the IDs. Um. And. Speaker 2 00:38:40 Is there anything else we want to put on here? Anybody have other topics we need for discussion? Speaker 7 00:38:55 Okay. I'm glad you brought up new hires. Speaker 1 00:38:58 Where are we where are we going to start? Speaker 2 00:38:60 Where do we want to start? What is thread and client trainings? I'm not sure what that's about. Speaker 6 00:39:06 So that's going to be me. Um, it's so I'm I'm doing a lot more client trainings. Um, and I want to bring up a topic. Um, so it's it's up to you guys if I go now or later. Speaker 7 00:39:21 Go for it. Real quick, one thing to add, AI. I'll explain. AI support. Speaker 6 00:39:35 All right. So more and more clients are asking for AI training. And so as I'm going through and doing training, I'm also adding to it. Hey, just a reminder, reach out to the help desk. And I'm also starting to do my client trainings for SHARP and Ability First is starting to have, we're going to do our next round of office trainings. And so, when I do these trainings, I do want to reach out and give everybody a heads up that, hey, you can contact the help desk for this. Um and I I push them towards the chat option, and the reason why I push them to the chat options, and I am so sorry. April, I am going to be taking your screen away again. Um. Speaker 6 00:40:19 How many of you guys know that Olivia and I implemented two, three years ago. Um, chatting with uh the help desk can answer basic questions. How, many of you guys know that they can do that besides me and April? I mean me and Olivia. Speaker 9 00:40:38 You know, I saw this for the first time yesterday. Actually, someone Jericho at Weingart said," What is this?" and he clicked on it and then, So I saw the email support and call support. He didn't have any other options, so I don't know that there is a chat. Well, so it was on the other side that. Speaker 8 00:40:58 He just might need to log in. Like it might have been a pop- up box that comes up. Um That he would just need to log into. Speaker 9 00:41:05 Okay, so I just learned about this myself yesterday. Thank you. Speaker 6 00:41:15 So basically, I need help with a formula in Excel. I just have a date in A2 and I want A3 to show the week ending date of A2. And so I hit send. And, when Olivia and I pushed this out, we kept it to office questions like we we um. We kept it there so that it would make it. So we could be a little bit more mindful. But as it's going through this, if it knows the answer to it, it will give them the answer. And so my question to you guys is, Can because this actually was helpful to me, and I was showing it to Kamyat at Coateson. And said, "You know, he was asking some questions." I am like, "Oh yeah, by the way, you can do this." And then as I was showing him before I'd even answered back, I was praying that you guys hadn't shut that down. Um. And so I showed him how to do it and then basically. It says, does this resolve my issue? Yes, it resolves it. Please close the ticket. Speaker 6 00:42:16 And it will auto- close the ticket. Uh, Speaker 7 00:42:19 And now enforce something like this as long as it doesn't actually generate more tickets. Speaker 6 00:42:23 It's going to generate tickets, but watch. So, I am going to show you. Speaker 7 00:42:30 Oh no, Speaker 6 00:42:31 The only the only thing it does. Let me switch over to my other window. Yeah. Speaker 6 00:42:40 The only thing it does is here's the ticket from earlier when I was uh talking to Steve Luna. And Kam Yad. This my question. This the answer. I said close the ticket, and now the ticket's in completed status, and Olivia can go in and just auto-close it. The only thing that we have to do is just make thread due type subtype an item better. But that's about it. So as I am pushing clients to this and saying, "Hey, heads up! There is chat." Have you guys used it? There are a couple comments that come from it, But someone else had mentioned that they had that same experience and it was nice. Are you guys open to maybe expanding the type of questions it could answer? It is already saying, it's already giving out some standard troubleshooting questions like, have you done this, this and this. Speaker 6 00:43:36 And then if they say no, it'll say okay, I'm going to connect you to a technician. And then they can chat with the technician whoever's watching it. Speaker 2 00:43:46 Are we sure that we always have somebody watching it? Speaker 8 00:43:49 That's it comes up on the board. Yeah. Um. Speaker 2 00:43:53 Well, but if we're going to start pushing this, we have to have somebody watching it. We can't have it go to the board and then 90% of the time nobody's watching it. Otherwise, we should not be pushing this. Speaker 6 00:44:04 So, but it's. Ability first when we first rolled it out, they loved it and we got I haven't heard any negatives lately about it, but they they actually do love this. Because the system will say, "Hey, I can't find you a technician, but someone will call you back." I'm paraphrasing that statement. So they do actually like it. The other reason why they like it is because they can check statuses of their tickets. Um, in real time on Teams so they can see. Speaker 2 00:44:33 Yeah, but Chris, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying we should push. We should we should. Solicit this, we should promote it, but we should staff it is what I'm saying. If we're going to promote it, make sure we're staffing it. So from a to Olivia's, for Olivia, if we're going to promote this, Let's just make sure we've got somebody that's assigned to it and and monitoring it. Right. So just like we do with the phone calls for. You know, for. Speaker 2 00:45:03 For um, the, You know, being logged in and the stuff that we're doing for jams and all the other stuff we have to just make sure that we've got people available to. To monitor that and be available to respond at least 80% of the time, not 30% of the time. Yeah, if we're going to be promoting it, Speaker 7 00:45:24 That's my concern. Because ability first they have you, Chris. So there is any like rub you are easy to reach. Where a lot of our clients don't have a Christy at their account. And secondly, it's easy to give things to customer, but it's hard to take away. If we're going to be doing this, we really want to commit to it. Um, but we just got to make sure it doesn't blow up the desk. Speaker 6 00:45:42 And, we we did push it when we first when we first rolled this out, we pushed it heavily to all of our clients at the time. And that's why AbilityFirst uses it a lot. Now, I can't answer to the staffing, But I can answer to the fact that there haven't been any complaints on staffing. U m, I can I can get Gaston to help. And if there is issues, I can't answer to that because I haven't been using it for that. I've been showing people that. Um, hey, this is what you can use it for. Here's how to ask the basic questions, which is kind of what I wanted to bring up. Speaker 8 00:46:20 Well, why couldn't we just say it's like a normal ticket, but you get your responses back through Teams or through Slack instead. Of like an email, you know what I mean. Instead of promoting it as a live chat, they're going to get back to you in fifteen minutes. Because, let's be honest, I don't really like my staffing is not great already for like phones, let alone also threads. So I guess. What. Speaker 2 00:46:48 I've been telling people, but what are we promoting this as? Are we promoting this as a chat, as a real- time chat? Solution because. Speaker 8 00:46:56 I've just been promoting it like recently whenever I've been. Like sending it out to clients or whatever, I've just been saying it's another way to open up a ticket. You can see all of your tickets, you can comment here, you know. Um, And then any updates will send you a message to Teams or to Slack instead. That's how I've been. Phrasing it recently. Speaker 7 00:47:19 So that's part of the standard onboarding process. We're telling customers to open up tickets through Teams, but I thought what Christy was showing was something different. Like the AI response portion, yeah. Speaker 6 00:47:29 Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, The AI response is what I'm most interested in discussing because it's that one is real time. Everything else, I just tell them, hey, this is another way to open the ticket like Olivia says. And it allows them to see the ticket updates in real time. But I'm not expecting people to staff it because we did try to staff it at one point. And we just don't have the manpower. But we are introducing it as another way of opening up a ticket. And then sometimes it'll give you some answers. Speaker 6 00:48:00 To the questions you might have, if it's something that's easily solvable, and that's what people are actually liking. They're liking that hope point of," Hey, I got on chat the other day, and I gave it my issue, and then it suggested a restart. And I restarted it and it fixed it. And I didn't need a technician to call me." So we're not really, Speaker 2 00:48:19 We're not really selling it then as a chat with a technician. Speaker 8 00:48:23 Right. Correct. It's more of like. A way to talk to us through Teams, through Slack. Essentially. Speaker 6 00:48:33 I just wanted to know can we add more troubleshooting to it? Speaker 2 00:48:38 Okay, As long as we're setting the expectations that they're not going to get like a real time. Chat interaction, that's fine. I just want to make sure we're not setting expectations for one thing and delivering something completely different. So. Speaker 2 00:48:56 I agree. Speaker 6 00:48:58 Yeah, If you guys are good with me slightly expanding on the AI portion of it, I would like to go in there and do it because I want to add Google to the mix. Speaker 2 00:49:08 Can we, yeah, but Chris, you don't have time to do this right now. You've got twenty other things you are doing. Why would we? Why would you? Try to carve out time to do this right now. Speaker 6 00:49:19 Just to help save some time,'cause I get those questions all day long. I literally, I mean, two days ago. Speaker 2 00:49:27 You got like fifty other things that you just listed that you are doing. How do you have time to even like think about this right now? I mean, I don't know, like. I wouldn't put this top of your list if you've got, you know, if this is ten minutes on the side, okay. But like it it. I don't know. Speaker 7 00:49:44 If you do this, can you just have a share? Hey, this is a new feature. Provide feedback please or something like that at the front. So they know this is there's a change. To the team's experience for those clients who are already using Adopt tickets. Just to set proper expectations. Speaker 8 00:49:58 Well, it's not a change, Mike, because it already does it. Yeah. We just want to add a little more. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:50:04 I see. Okay, Speaker 8 00:50:05 Let me just so what are we doing? What is it that you were doing? We're we're We're talking about doing differently than what's already there. I guess I don't understand. Essentially. It just it'll like troubleshoot more so like if I say, um. Oh, I would ask more questions type of thing. If I am like, "Hey, I need to reset my password," it already does this, but we can expand. Okay, what password do you need to reset? You know, what's your account? Maybe, even we could set it up to a Power Automate and have it, you know. Add to distribution list or whatever it may be if it's an approved user. There is a lot that we can expand on, but it's more of like you are talking to an AI bot. Speaker 8 00:50:50 And the bot is coming back to you. And like, give you suggestions. Speaker 7 00:50:55 About quick if they get, so they don't get stuck too long with too many questions. Well, Speaker 2 00:50:60 Somebody somebody tell me what the scope is and how much time it's going to take Chris to do this. And what benefit we're going to get out of it before I tell you to do it, please. Because I'm because. Chris, you have a ton of stuff that is already priority, And I don't want this to become this giant thing that it turns into this giant thing that. Becomes unwieldy and takes a lot more time than we think, and I don't really understand the benefit yet. So I get that we'll get benefit out of it, but I also don't want it to be a big time consumer. So Um, we got a lot on our plate that we just chatted about yesterday. Speaker 2 00:51:41 That we're trying to keep off your plate. So I don't want to be adding this when it's not a super high priority when on some of those other things. Could be higher priority. So let me work with you if we can define if you, if the two of you can define that for me briefly and don't take a lot of time to do it, just put a quick summary together. This the benefit, and this about how long it would take Chris to do. Just just summarize that for me and and then we can chat about it. Okay. Fair enough? Yeah. Cool. That would be awesome. All right. Speaker 2 00:52:12 Stress survey. I know we talked about it. If if anybody has other ideas, I I just want to I want to. I want people to understand what we're doing with it. Because right now, I don't know what we're doing with it. Besides, Chris is looking at it and doing some stuff in the background. But. I don't get direct feedback. I don't know who gets direct feedback, Chris. Like what? What do people know or think that that is happening with their feedback? Do they even know? Speaker 6 00:52:41 So in the past, what we presented it as is I'm the only one checking it. So they can leave whatever feedback they want. And then if I see something that needs to be escalated. Or handled, then I am going to automatically pass it on to you, Pete. Or in the past, I was passing it on to Andor. Which honestly, Other the only real comment that I can't fix right now is Jason's drive home. Speaker 2 00:53:05 So, if I can fix it, I am passing it on. But is that is that, Is that known to everybody, including people that have been hired in the last six to twelve months? See, I am not in. I know as leadership, I am not in every team's chat and stuff. So as long as New hires and everybody know that, then that's fine. But I have never heard that. So the question I have is Ivy, who's been hired in the last six months, does she know that that's the case? So I am not involved. Speaker 2 00:53:37 Hi red or or going to hire, Are they going to know that if they get the survey that, that's that, you're the one that looks at them? And then. Yeah. I don't know. Does Robert, Do Robert and Gaston know that? Or is that just something that you said two years ago that you assume everybody knows? Or I don't know. I'm asking the question. Speaker 6 00:53:53 So Robert and Gaston know because I did their training. And so that's one of the things I brought up in training is, hey, this is here. Every now and then I will remind people in napping team, but it's been since right before you onboarded Pete since the last time I. Made a statement that said, "Hey guys, a reminder only. I am reading the surveys and then I will pass off anything." That you need passed off to Onsor. And basically the way, I think the way I presented and Olivia can correct me if I'm wrong. Speaker 6 00:54:27 But I kind of presented it as a way of staff can just have an outlet to explain their feelings, and it won't go any farther than me. Speaker 9 00:54:39 Okay. The the way and if I can just add a couple comments on this, the way I view it is Um, you know, It's uh it's just to give upper management executives, a a temperature of what's going on. Really. Um, and I'll give you an example. I had an incident where someone brought someone else's. Stress concerning me, and I dealt with it in terms. Their manager, hey, just want you to know they said that they're very stressed. So, it came roundabout to me, and I brought it directly to the manager where it should have been right. And so the employee told the stressed employee, "Hey, you should probably fill out the stress survey." Well, at that point all they're doing is just letting. Speaker 9 00:55:24 Some nebulous or some, you know, internet page know that they're upset. Here is the challenge for me. So keeping the temperature on my team, understanding what's happening. Gabby's on my team. We're using her a lot. And so, and because we're piling more and more things on her, I need to keep a temperature on on her. She's an introvert; she's not going to tell me what's going on. And so, I don't expect that page to really. Uh, dig in and get that. I am gonna have to pull that out of her. Like Pete said, Give them a day off if they if they if I feel like they're stressed. Things like that, those are those are things that my direct team I need to be pay attention to. So really, this I feel like this tool is just so that. If somebody has comments, it helps kind of keep the temperature. But, this something that I would that I would keep directly in touch with Pete about, you know, ultimately. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:56:21 Yeah, and I mean, one of the things that I used to do when I am, for instance, you know, and that's more with. I'll be candid. It's more with the what do I say? It's more with the engineering teams than it is with the leadership teams. And I deal with leadership teams too when I see evidence that they're challenged, but With the engineering teams that I have. You know, less in touch with as frequently. I will ask them when I am meeting with them once a week, "How are you doing?" Are you, you know, are you? Anything going on? Anything you know, how are you doing personally? Are you keeping up? You got any issues, what you know can I help with anything kind of take their try to take their temperature when you can, but that's easier to do when you got two or three people reporting to you than when you have like. Speaker 2 00:57:08 You know, Olivia's team of thirty or whatever, right? Or or you know Anton's got half a dozen or whatever. But when you've got. A larger team, it's much harder to do that at that level. But then you have to count on your leadership team, Olivia. Like you have to count on Becker and Cheryl and. And you know, Your your kind of leaders of your pods to to be taking the temperature of those folks. So. Um. Hopefully they're doing that as well, but pass that you know pass that along to those teams also. But maybe it's a time, Chris, When it's maybe it's a time to to remind folks what happens with with the feedback. That they that they do provide with the with input and what you do with it. And. Yeah, I. Speaker 6 00:57:58 Am going to send it out in the napping team today because. I mean, right now all I know for this week is Jason's drive to the office. Speaker 2 00:58:07 And You're and and and we're sure that that group includes everybody, right? Because, one of the things we noticed like in the all hands is there were a few people missing. Can you just Double check and make sure everybody's part of that group that should be part of that group, including new hires and everything. And the probably is, but just yeah double check and make sure everybody's included there. Okay. Yes, Speaker 6 00:58:29 I'll double check. The only people we don't want in there is you and Amzark because we will flood you guys with random jokes and. You know, cat pictures. No, Speaker 2 00:58:38 No, no. I'm not. I it's totally fine. Totally get it. As far as new hires go, I just wanted to toum tag on to what April said. We have a new PM, starting And, a new finance person starting, And that's a result of a few people that are planning to leave the organization down the road. So we're excited about those folks coming in the door. They're both starting on May 18 th, which is two weeks from Monday. So that will be exciting, and they're both pretty experienced as far as the. Interviews went and they did technical and uh just basic interviews so. Looking forward to having them on board. That's what I had for new hires. And as and I think Jason, I don't remember if Jason already said it, But Jeff is no longer with us, and we're going to be doing some shuffles within the organization to kind of. Speaker 2 00:59:33 I think we have somebody who's interested in that role, So we're going to be moving some people around to kind of fill that role and backfill the person that's probably going to go into the role that Jason's got. I think there's it's going to be a win- win for that also. So we're pretty excited about what that's going to do for us as well. Speaker 7 00:59:52 Pete, Maybe my time in for the new hires is probably better not in this meeting. Okay. Um, yeah. You can probably talk during our one on one. Okay. And then AI support, since that's the last one, I'll try to keep it quick. Now that we're selling AI projects and. Christy's book, right? So just to prove the quote, Chris. Awesome. Good job. Yeah, thirty K additional thirteen hundred MRR. Um So, we need to anticipate more requests going over to the support team. That actually came up in the discovery call with Alire. They asked, "Hey, for basic AI questions, can we go to Crimson?" Right now, that's Chris. Speaker 7 01:00:33 But. Hi, Chris. Yeah, Speaker 5 01:00:37 Quick question. Did you sell them Core Plus with the defense six? To eliminate like the gray AI, Speaker 7 01:00:47 They know that's available, but yeah, they. But now their focus is on what PEC is dictating. So my concern is to put on Olivia's radar, we may start seeing more AI questions hit the support desk. So I just want to Plan for that in advance. Speaker 7 01:01:05 I don't think we have a solution or a process for that. It may start happening more. Speaker 6 01:01:11 Yeah, that's why I was asking about the adding more troubleshooting. That was one of the things, but most of the questions that they're getting asked. I think the help desk can answer right now because they're just basic everyday questions like. You know, how do I make something show up in OneDrive on my, My co- pilot, or how do I block people from seeing this folder? Which is the question that Kami had today. Speaker 9 01:01:44 Yeah, real quick for me. Anton, you mentioned Core Plus, so Weingart. Uh, we're we're going to be rolling out their security policies here soon. And I actually had some questions already about Uh, you know, who gets access to if I want, you know, Perplexity. And so I know that the policy says, you know, At least the one I am writing for Weingart says they have to go and and maybe I take this offline because we're over the hour. But. I may have to get a quote for a Core Plus and how do I determine how many devices and all that. So maybe you and I take that offline. Speaker 5 01:02:23 Yeah. Sure. Uhhuh. Speaker 9 01:02:26 So. That's it for me. Okay. Speaker 2 01:02:33 I guess to wrap up, We've got a lot of projects that are coming in the pipe that are coming in the door. Basically all at the same time. So before it was a bunch of on boardings, now we got a bunch of projects. So we got some kickoff meetings going. Um In the next few days to try to get a lot of these off the ground. The good thing for Maverick now is we have Kevin and Gabby for Colorado. I believe we got Washington that we can do, for the most. Our selves so Nevada will be the restriction for Maverick for, needing to use Ross and then for uh the. The Foothill, I think we'd be doing the kickoff and figure out who we need to do for what in that space for the infrastructure and security. That's all I have. Anybody need anything else for today? Speaker 6 01:03:26 You guys are the most amazing team I've ever worked with. Speaker 6 01:03:30 I'm so glad you took that, Chris. Speaker 8 01:03:32 I'm going to add you to an Iron Gate call about licenses. I. Speaker 6 01:03:37 Got to jump into a calm, direct meeting because we're going to divorce them, and but they don't know that yet. We're waiting for the camp upgrade. Speaker 2 01:03:47 Well, I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day, a fantastic weekend. Keep up the great work. And I'll talk to you all soon. Thanks, everybody. Have a good evening, everybody. Thank you very much. Bye- bye. Speaker 10 01:04:06 Thank You. I bet she's running five minutes behind her previous meeting. There she is. Speaker 11 01:04:09 Oh, okay. I see her. She just popped up. Speaker 6 01:04:12 Four minutes, four minutes late. Speaker 7 01:04:14 Four minutes not, yes? Uh, I said that before you got here. Speaker 6 01:04:19 I I heard I heard that, but I was sorry guys. It has been a crazy week. Has it just been crazy for anybody else? Speaker 11 01:04:27 Uh, yes. Very much so. Yeah. Month, everybody wants something done right now. Yes. Speaker 11 01:04:38 Which is fine. Uh, just uh, it creates a very interesting atmosphere for us. Speaker 6 01:04:44 Yes, it does. I yeah, it's it's been one of those weird ones. Um, I am still pending an answer for you guys on whether or not you can work that Saturday or Sunday uh at camp. She's out of the office again. Every time I think I've grabbed her, she has gone missing one more time. Huhhuhhuhhuh. Speaker 9 01:05:07 Well, Greg, we just have to haul and get it done in four days then. Speaker 6 01:05:14 I hope not. I hope you guys can have the weekend, but I am working on trying to get that resolved. Speaker 10 01:05:21 Sounds good. And then I know the other item was the location of the APs on the main cabin. Speaker 6 01:05:28 Yes, and that's the. I thought we. I thought that one was pretty clear. Maybe I am wrong, maybe this week is really catching. Speaker 10 01:05:37 We we looked at the original floor plan together as a team. Um, the original the original site map had I think three or four locations, and then that's one that you were going to kind of confirm. Speaker 6 01:05:51 Yeah, and that one's I I do have that on my list. I just looked at my list of all my Kelly stuff that I cannot get a hold of her. Um, I have. Oh, Speaker 10 01:06:00 Here's my notes. I was looking for my notes. I finally found them too. Okay, yes. Speaker 6 01:06:04 Okay, good. I am, that is another Kelly thing that I have to ask her. So, for the rest of you guys who don't know who Kelly is, she is the camp director. So she is the one; she's been there for like twenty something years. She knows where all the skeletons are. All of that, soum, but yes. And Michael, I have to know what kind of dog do you have? Speaker 2 01:06:30 She is a German Shepherd Husky. Speaker 6 01:06:34 Oh. I love that. Speaker 8 01:06:36 She is she's about three and a half months old right now. Speaker 6 01:06:41 Oh my gosh, my last service dog because I've had service dogs for years. Was a German Shepherd Blue Heeler mix. Speaker 6 01:06:50 Best service dog ever for PTSD. Yeah, Speaker 8 01:06:53 So see if I can wake her up. Hey. Speaker 10 01:06:58 And, then you also were going to follow up on the director's house on the location, the AP in that one. Speaker 6 01:07:03 Yes, uh, that is also another Kelly. Speaker 10 01:07:08 No, that's completely fine. I just yeah, Speaker 6 01:07:11 That's her house. I mean she doesn't stay there on the weekends so. Uh. She goes back to Ventura County on the weekends. So, if she says yes on a Saturday, just a heads up for you guys, you could. You would have that Saturday that she's not there. So. Speaker 4 01:07:31 Sounds good. Yeah. Speaker 10 01:07:33 I also sent you another email, uh, Chrissy, Regarding the quote to get a signature on it and for us to be able to collect a deposit. Do you have any questions on that? Speaker 6 01:07:42 I did not see that come in. Where did you send it? Speaker 4 01:07:49 Oh. Let me go check. Speaker 6 01:07:50 Or even better, Could you resend it and put Michonne on it because Michonne's going to have to be the one that signs it. Speaker 10 01:07:57 I believe I sent it to both of you. Speaker 6 01:07:59 Okay, let me text her. Let me find my cell phone. Speaker 10 01:08:05 I will resend it though. Speaker 6 01:08:07 Yeah, Resend it and I will give her a heads up and put it to the top of her list. I do not have the authority to sign that large of a quote. Speaker 6 01:08:36 Okay, Gave her a heads up, and then as far as payment, once she signs a quote. Sub mit the invoice for down payment. I will be on Carl, who is our CFO, to handle that as soon as possible. So he's usually pretty. Speaker 10 01:08:52 Do you need me to create a invoice for the deposit? Speaker 6 01:08:56 If you don't mind, would you do that and send it over? Yeah. Okay. And then I can, okay, Speaker 10 01:09:01 Let me let me do that. Then let me I I need to create that. So I will create that invoice for the deposit. And I will resend that to both of you. Awesome. Speaker 6 01:09:11 Yeah, cause then uh. I can have Carl do that cause they've, um. I think we had already billed them for the equipment and they've already paid for that. So. Speaker 10 01:09:26 Sounds good. Yeah. I don't think I have anything else on my side on the camp. I know there's other stuff. I think we want to talk about. Yes. Speaker 11 01:09:41 So, Chrissy, I just want to start by saying happy Friday. We made it. So. I know Blake had sent over um, a quote on. The internet for the camp. I know you had a chance to review that, and I think we were waiting on a yes or no from. Somebody on that one. Speaker 6 01:10:09 Yes, and I am again Kelly. Speaker 11 01:10:13 Oh, okay, so we just have to wrangle in Kelly on one. Speaker 6 01:10:17 Whenever she's back. Speaker 11 01:10:19 Yeah. Yes. Okay. Okay, Speaker 6 01:10:22 Great. Um, and then I have a question as far as the internet connection for. Headquarters. When is that slated to be upgraded? Speaker 12 01:10:35 That that is. A thirty to sixty sixty day process. Um, the. Project coordinator has been sending biweekly emails of updates. It's on the carrier to take the order and make the upgrade. So Uh, I have made quite a stink multiple times. I've asked for it to be escalated and prioritized. So. It should be happening here soon. I do expect an update today, because it's been about every Tuesday and Friday she's been sending an update. Speaker 6 01:11:14 Gotcha. No worries. And that that just helps me out. Trust me, you're not the only you're not the only one experiencing that with carriers. I'm trying to get three sites updated on another account and it's taking forever. I was kind of hoping you guys are going to be faster and then I could move the business over to you. Well. Speaker 12 01:11:34 I uh I me too, and I will continue to press and everything we can. We'll. Speaker 11 01:11:41 Get our running shoes on and start moving quicker. Speaker 6 01:11:44 It's not you guys, it's the carriers. And this client can't move anywhere until twenty twenty seven They're locked in with Peerless. Oh yeah. Trust me, I cannot wait for that. Speaker 12 01:11:55 Well, we we can we can get a we can I mean as you know, we can yeah as you know, We can get ahead of the game on that. If that was that one that you were referencing a while back. U m, we we can get on the head head of the game on that. And as you also know, just as a reminder, have everything you know set to. Uh be installed slash cut overum upon the expiration date of those of those terms. Speaker 6 01:12:17 Yes. And it's we will do thatum right now I'm more interested in getting their budget completed uh because we're coming to the end of their fiscal year. So I need to have that finished up For this coming year, first and then I will concentrate on that. Speaker 6 01:12:33 Good deal. Speaker 12 01:12:35 Wherever we can help you, and know you've got a full plate on a daily basis, so we're we're here to. Assist in any manner you'll have us when we can. Speaker 6 01:12:42 Awesome, thank you. Speaker 12 01:12:45 Yeah, I had a couple other questions we had just briefly touched on. Um, Certain uh extensions or lines that you needed to uh, decommission or go away with. Yes. Speaker 6 01:12:58 We have not finished that project up yet. I just asked for an update yesterday with my help desk staff. They are pending on Claremont and Long Beach, but the good news is, Is the reason why they're pending is they have projects on site that they are doing this month. So one is a conference installation and the other one is an AP installation. So, they are going to be on site, and they're going to finish up those telecoms. Projects. And then we'll have a list of all the ones to downgrade. Speaker 12 01:13:31 Okay, perfect. Um, and then those Potts lines. Yes. Do do we know? Or is there someone I can connect with to uh confirm what are those? Um, POTS lines doing are the elevators phones entry. Do we know what they are? Speaker 6 01:13:47 It is. It should just be the elevator ones. Speaker 12 01:13:51 Okay, good deal. U h, Would you be fine with obviously price reduction into uh the new product with Lingo, or do we want to go elsewhere? Speaker 6 01:14:03 Um, I am waiting on because two of them happen to be the camp. So I have to wait on Kelly. Kelly has, like I said, Kelly has a whole list of items that I am going to go up to camp in the next week or two and just camp outside of her office. There is plenty of beds there as Greg will tell you. I can find me a bed. To camp at. So, yeah, I am just waiting on her. I need to kind of go over the POTS line going uh POTS lines that we have going for her. And then the POTS line I know for uh Fair Oaks office. I can get you in touch with Dan. Um, and we'll we'll take a look at what we can do there. Speaker 12 01:14:45 Okay, perfect I. Just want to stay on top of them for you and take those things off. Your plate is Easily and quickly as we can. Speaker 6 01:14:52 No worries, you guys have been great. Speaker 12 01:14:55 The deal. Um, okay. Well, I think that uh I'm I'm good. Um, I don't know if there was anything else. I don't want to keep you too long. So, uh if everybody's got what they need, um wishing everybody a happy Friday and wonderful weekend. Speaker 10 01:15:15 I actually have one more item on the camp, Christy. Was theum. Speaker 10 01:15:24 The cabins, uh, Regarding uh the mini switch that Dan wanted to install, is there kind of any update on that. Speaker 6 01:15:30 I. I have to wait on Kelly. Speaker 10 01:15:36 No problem. Okay, Speaker 6 01:15:38 I just remembered that and I yeah. Speaker 2 01:15:41 I was talking to Kelly yesterday. I could have asked her all this stuff. Speaker 6 01:15:45 Every time I go to find her, she is off for the day. It's like I went to go find her;. I think it was Monday or Tuesday. And I was like," Well, where is she?" And Michelle was like," I think she's off." And I go and look, and there was an out of office. I was like," Okay." I'll just ping her. Speaker 10 01:16:00 I think we just all need to go up to the camp and meet her. Speaker 6 01:16:03 Yeah. You've met her. Oh, yeah. Yeah, both she was there. Speaker 10 01:16:09 Yeah, we met both Kelly's. She was the original director, I believe when we did the original install. That's the other Kelly. Eight years ago? The other Kelly, right? Oh, that's my confusion. Kelly Privett, right? Kelly Privett's the director now, right? Yes. Speaker 6 01:16:23 And, Then the other Kelly is the uh was the director for years, and now she's not. Speaker 10 01:16:28 Yeah, I first some reason I thought she became the director again. See now I am getting confused. Never mind. Speaker 6 01:16:33 No, She works on she worked in programs before, and so she handled a lot of things on another side of ability. First, Kelly Privett did. Yeah, So yeah she she was high up there, but it was. It was before. So. I will. I did tell Mashawn yesterday in my in Mashawn's, one on one that I really need to get a hold of her, so she was going to. Light a fire for me. I think she's just avoiding me now because I keep throwing things at her. Hehe. So, I will be in the ability offices Monday and Tuesday going forward. Because normally I am there not Monday and Tuesday, I was in the ability offices Mondays and Tuesdays. Speaker 6 01:17:18 And now I am going to Tuesdays and Thursdays being in office as of starting this coming week. Speaker 11 01:17:27 So bug you on Thursdays, is that what you are so you are insinuating? Speaker 6 01:17:32 Honestly, Fridays are generally my work from home day, but I am not working from home today. I am actually at my other client site. Because I need to show them some love this week. I had to work from home Monday and Wednesday, so. Speaker 11 01:17:48 Very nice. All right, well, thank you, Chrissy. Really appreciate the time and the patience. I feel like we're making some headway on on all these projects. Speaker 6 01:18:02 Good, even though I keep saying we got to wait on Kelly. Speaker 11 01:18:06 Yeah, yeah, we're good. We're good with that. Speaker 6 01:18:09 No worries. I'm going to get some time on her schedule next week. So Awesome. Speaker 6 01:18:15 So, for my calendar, like I know you've had some some fun with my calendar lately. Just a heads up with you guys, I would rather if we could if you guys are up for it meeting on Fridays, and then just ask me what I have available because I do keep my Fridays blocked on my booking. And I keep Fridays and Mondays intentionally blocked because if I don't, I won't have time to actually work. But I don't mind meeting with you guys. I am just selective on who I will meet with. So if you guys want to meet with me andum. Just let me know and I will block those. Speaker 10 01:18:50 Do we want to tentatively, oh, Do we want to tentatively maybe plan for a call next Friday, just to kind of regroup potentially? Or do we, oh, Let's wait to hear back from you to see if you're able to connect with Kelly. Speaker 6 01:19:00 Yeah, wait and let me see. I'll try to connect with her next Thursday. Okay, let's see. Sounds good. Speaker 6 01:19:11 All right. Speaker 12 01:19:11 Thank you, everybody. Wonderful. Yep, we'll do we'll do Chrissy. Thank you. Speaker 6 01:19:15 You guys are awesome. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. It's a.
07-21 Meeting: Inbox/Calendar Automation Application Overview
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-21 12:59:59 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] [Brett] [Casey] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Overview of Inbox/Calendar Automation Application - Christi developed an application using a Microsoft/Azure backend with approximately 300 hours invested. - A deployment package is ready for installation into the client’s Microsoft tenancy. - The current demo is connected to Christi’s personal Outlook but can be configured for business mailboxes. - A Crimson version (iteration 5/6) exists with additional features and color-coding. - The application will be provided free of charge to the client because they are Crimson clients. - Conclusion: The team viewed a walkthrough; the app can be deployed to the client’s tenancy once the subscription is set. - Topic Title: Email Training and Categorization Features - Users “train” the inbox to handle emails, spam, flags, and rules. - Starter templates include categories such as board, leadership, direct reports, finance, and legal; users can add categories (e.g., vendors, invoicing, AP). - Example rule: always flag emails from a specific sender; package-related emails categorized (e.g., Luxer). - Dynamic learning is planned in Version 2. - Conclusion: The training workflow was demonstrated; customizable categories and rules were confirmed. - Topic Title: Calendar Integration and Task Follow-ups - Pulls events from Outlook and can auto-add emails to the calendar in 30-minute blocks based on setup. - Follow-ups integrate with Microsoft To Do and can create tasks and draft replies. - The dashboard shows incoming emails, follow-ups, overdue items, and agenda. - Color-coded calendar categories include focus time, personal, client-facing, and non-overlappable items. - AI-assisted weekly planning creates focus times based on priorities. - Conclusion: Calendar, To Do, and dashboard integrations are operational; color-coding and focus scheduling are in place. - Topic Title: Daily Briefing and Radar News - The daily briefing email includes agenda, follow-ups, To Do, inbox activity, priorities, tickets, and overdue items. - A timing display for the briefing will be added. - The “Radar” feature gathers news on selected topics; it can be read via Copilot and add items to To Do. - Conclusion: The daily briefing is active on Christi’s system; the timing enhancement is pending. - Topic Title: Cost, Billing, and Deployment Timeline - The client will not be charged for the application itself. - Azure consumption costs are estimated at $100–$400/month depending on mail volume and users. - Billing can be through Crimson or a client credit card. - Subscription setup is in progress; deployment to the tenancy is likely about one week after setup, subject to Christi’s schedule. - Christi has AI teaching commitments next week; faster availability in the following two weeks. - Personal constraint: August 18 is reserved for a college dorm move-in. - Conclusion: Await subscription setup; deployment is planned within a week afterward, with scheduling considerations. - Topic Title: Feature Roadmap - Version 2: dynamic learning and travel support. - Version 3: mobile app support. - Additional suggestions from Casey are welcome but not guaranteed immediately. - Conclusion: The roadmap is defined; feedback is invited. ## Next Arrangements - Subscription and Billing - [ ] Set up the Azure subscription for the client (billing via Crimson or client credit card). - [ ] Confirm the billing method and the estimated monthly Azure budget ($100–$400). - Deployment and Scheduling - [ ] Schedule deployment of the packaged app to the client’s Microsoft tenancy (approximately one week after subscription setup). - [ ] Plan deployment timing considering Christi’s availability after 2026-07-28 and before/after 2026-08-18. - Feature Enhancements and Inputs - [ ] Add the briefing email timing display enhancement. - [ ] Collect feature suggestions from Casey for future versions. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify who will provide the credit card if not billing through Crimson, and who approves monthly Azure spend. > 2. Define the exact mailbox scope and user count to better estimate Azure costs. > 3. Confirm required categories/rules for initial inbox training to minimize manual setup at deployment. > 4. Establish a timeline and owner for integrating Microsoft To Do across users to avoid sync issues. > 5. Agree on the priority order for Version 2 features (dynamic learning vs. travel support) based on user needs. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] 30-min demo of the inbox/calendar automation application (Adapto-built, offered free to Crimson clients, to be packaged into their MS tenancy) with Brett (Middleton?) and Casey. CLIENT IDENTITY UNCONFIRMED - flagged for Christi; file left in drop folder.
- Date
- Jul 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hey Brett. How was your time off? You can't hear me. Uh, is this better? I'm sh- I'm showing that it's sending. Speaker 1 00:00:33 But I'm also getting some delay from your end. Speaker 1 00:00:49 That sounds much better. Speaker 1 00:01:01 Yes, I can hear you now. Speaker 2 00:01:19 Mhm. So. Speaker 1 00:01:26 I have um a not a mock. So I'd already been working on a similar application that uses cloud as the backend. So I finished building it out in that, and if you guys like what you see, I am going to put it into your tenancy. Now, the reason why I continue building it out in the application that I have is mostly for the fact that I've already spent over three hundred hours on this application, and then Casey's email to you guys. Speaker 1 00:01:58 Just solidified what I was already doing, because I already had most of it built out. But what I finished up doing this week was packaging it up for Microsoft. So that as I show, you guys, if you guys say yes, we want to do this, Then I packaged it up so that I can install it on your Microsoft tenancy, and you guys can have it internally. Exactly. Speaker 2 00:02:34 Mhm. Mhm. Uh, Speaker 1 00:02:58 So mobile capture and notes integration. However, I do have a workaround for that one. Uh just based off my own stuff um and so that's the biggest one and then travel organization. There's a lot that I can already do with it, but a lot that I need to build out in version two. So. Speaker 1 00:03:33 Yes. So, Casey, hi. I have not formally I'm good. I've not formally been introduced to you, but I think I've worked with you a little bit in the past. Speaker 1 00:04:02 No worries. So just so that you know, I took your entire email. I stuck it on my uh quick notes, uh or sticky notes. If you guys have never used sticky notes on your computer, it's amazing, especially if you're like me and you do multiple systems. So I have my iPad, my phone, two computers. I have my laptop and my desktop. Uh, so this goes with me wherever I go. And i i just stuck yours in here because it was really good information on it. Um so as i'm working through things, i'm doing it right there. Um, So basically one of the things is I've been working on an inbox solution, just like yours, but I've been doing it. Um, Zer's aware of this. I've been doing it off Crimson and on my personal uh, little business called Adapt to. Um, I run a blog. So I finished building this out. You guys are going to get this application free of charge because you're Crimson's uh, your Crimson clients. And, what I'm going to do is take this entire application, put it on your Microsoft. Speaker 1 00:05:01 Tenancy so that you guys are running a copy of this application. But basically what I've done is I've connected it for today's visual, I've connected it to my personal Outlook, but you can connect it to the business. I've already set it up that way. Right? And so it's processing my personal emails. Um, and going through, and I have not trained it yet. So I'm going to show you guys the training, But I'm also going to show you how it looks on Crimson Mailbox that has already been trained. So, basically, what you'll do is you'll go to train your inbox after you set up the connections, and you're going to teach it how you want things to be done. And then I put some templates in here that makes your life a little easier. So I have an executive one where you're going to train it. Um so it's got a. Speaker 1 00:05:52 Starter template. It created categories for me: board, leadership, direct reports, finance, legal. And then you can say I want to add a few more categories: vendors, uh invoicing and accounts payable. I'm just throwing things out there like based off of what I do. Right? So it's going to add those questions. So it already has a vendor partner, which I missed. And then do I want to keep this in changes? So I'm going to say, keep the existing and separate invoicing from AP. Speaker 1 00:06:47 And then there's all kinds of things you can you can teach it. So Brett, you could teach it to always flag any email coming from Casey. You can say, you know, here's what I want to do with spam coming in, different things like that. And Yes. Speaker 2 00:07:21 Mhm. Exactly. Speaker 1 00:07:41 Now, oh, sorry. So I'm also adding a category for packaging for all Luxer emails. And this one's valid because in my complex, we have a Luxer system that anytime packages come in, we get an email about it. So and then it's going to go through and come back here and ask me a few more questions. For one, yes. And two, yes. Speaker 1 00:08:19 I can't type and I can't remember the Luxer domain. Hang on one second. Speaker 2 00:09:02 Yes. Speaker 1 00:09:38 So phase two, Which is going to be pretty soon or version two is going to include exactly what you just said where it's going to have dynamic learning added to it. It's going to have the travel support and phase three is going to actually have the mobile app support. But yes so. Speaker 2 00:10:08 Correct. Yes. Speaker 1 00:10:17 Yep. Now, so I've given it some rules. The next feature, I'm going to go from bottom up. The next feature I want to show you is calendar. So it is going to, and ignore this is my personal family calendar for all my kids. And Brett, since you've been on vacation, we've added two more kids to the mix. So, Now I'm a mom of three. So basically, yes. So basically in here, don't laugh. I have to remind my child twice a week to change out the litter box. So Alexa announces that to the house. So, we have that in here and you can add events on here if you would like, However, it's going to pull from your Outlook calendar at times, you can put into the setup into the chat. Speaker 1 00:11:07 Hey, these type of emails add them to my calendar for at thirty minute increments. And so that is something that I actually do on my crimson calendar. In addition to that, Follow ups is here and anything that you tell it and train it that says, hey, uh if it's important add it to my follow ups. This is going to write to Microsoft To Do so that you can keep track of it. And it's going to write back and forth. So if he's going to say on here um, What do I want to do? I want to write this to my To Do. And I've checked it. So then, I have that in there. So anything it sees in here that I should follow up on, You have that option to write it to your To Do or draft a reply. Correct. Speaker 1 00:12:60 Correct. And then your dashboard is going to contain everything. So these are all my emails that I got in. You guys can see I've got a few in here that need to be, you know, that they've processed. It created four follow-ups. It does tell you anything overdue. So if you put something into your to-do, it is going to alert you on things like that. Um, I have nothing scheduled for today. But if if that's in there, that's today's agenda. Now one thing that Yeah. Yes. Yes. Speaker 1 00:14:58 Mhm. Yes. And ignore this response. I forgot to update the chat to remind it that Microsoft To Do is not connected. So, yes. Speaker 1 00:15:54 So There is something specific in your Outlook that already does that. I'm going to pull up my crimson one, because my crimson one is on version six. So basically you guys can see the color coding here. All you have to do is just flag it. But if you're in your sent items, which I do do this pretty often, there's one I wanted to flag this morning. Where did it go? Oh, perfect. Right there. I want to respond to this one so I flagged it. I do want to make sure because Wednesday, I'm doing a training on AI to another company, and I wanted to flag the response that came back, which is very wordy. Speaker 1 00:16:36 So I flagged that. I can also from here, and this is default Outlook that does this, which puts it on your other tool, is I can change that flag to tomorrow. Correct. Yes. Speaker 1 00:17:34 Now, one of the things I did. Oh, sorry. Were you going to say something, Casey? Oh, okay. So, one of the things I did on here because I'm going to put this into your tenant seat. So it's going to have a web page that looks just like this. I wanted to make a check sheet. So if it's not just Casey, if you roll it out to all staff, turn on your daily briefing is my next item. Um I can tell me email me a briefing. Every morning. Uh one small change I'm making this afternoon is to actually say what time that briefing comes in. But it's going to have today's agenda follow-up s. Your Microsoft To Do any inbox, uh activity and priorities of focus. Yeah, so I'm going to show you what my daily briefing looks like. Um now remember, this is like iteration five or six here. So. Speaker 1 00:18:29 This what mine looks like. This my schedule for today on the crimson side. These are my open tickets because I do everything by a ticket. And you can see I got a lot. I'm a busy person, probably not as busy as Casey, but you get the idea. So I do have it coming in, and then it also gives me which ones are overdue. So some of these, I'm still waiting on my client to get back to me on. So I have that in there, but I also have a chip one comes in right here Where did Chip go? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:19:09 Correct. Yeah, so Chip is here. There's one thing that he doesn't have on here that's normally on here, and that's a if there's an answer request on here, that gets put at the top. But since Anzor has been on vacation for three weeks, I have no Anzor due things. So that has been here. I have my security, my legal HR client items, some deadlines and security. And, then these are all everything that's overdue or urgent and anything that might be stuck in progress. So and that comes in. I get I get that. Speaker 1 00:19:49 I get it on my phone, and usually if I'm driving the middle of the day, I actually have Copilot because I do have a Copilot license. I actually have Copilot read me that as I'm driving. And then you know, I just use that tool going back and forth. But, you can see this is where we're going with the app just so that you are aware of it. Radar comes in in the mornings. I've, given it, the items I want it to look up, and it'll go out and find the news based off of what I want it to look up. So that's a future feature that's coming. So Casey, you can put in any topic that interests you. So all mine is based off of IT stuff and things that are coming in. But I get this every morning. Usually this is on my drive to Pasadena, and I'll have Copilot read it out loud to me, And then I'll have it, put some things in my to-do, if I need it to. So. Speaker 1 00:20:50 Yes, for my different. Yes, these are my minions. I have 52 minions. I actually have a blog post about all my minions, so they have personalities. But this is what I've built it. Yeah, they're just agents. Speaker 2 00:21:60 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:22:05 And now, so this is where we're going to on your calendar. You already have your calendar information in there, but as you can see, everything here is color coded for me. I've set up rules. So focus time, which should not be there, it should be down here. So focus time right here is always yellow. Personal items are gray, so that's anything that I have that might be personal, Client-facing stuff is going to be this blue, and then also the screen depending on who the client is. So, and then so on. So it will go in and make sure. And anything that I don't cannot be scheduled over is this bright red. So I've set up my own categories, and that's why they're color coded. Speaker 1 00:22:52 Anything that might take on two categories, you'll see right there it's got a little line there that shows two categories. And, then it puts in so some of this in here, this darker red. These are my focus items that it put in for me. So, these are my main things that I'm working through that I need to focus on. And so it went ahead and already scheduled out my focus time. So. Speaker 2 00:23:26 Correct. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:23:41 Every Sunday, I have my own meeting with myself and my AI just to say, this is what I'm working on for the week. These are my uh top priorities and I need you to create some focus times for me. And so it will go out and do that for me. And that happens every every Sunday because if you look at next week, there's not much out here. Yes. Yeah, Base 44 should be on there somewhere because I had some focus times put for it. Speaker 1 00:24:32 Honestly, for right now, that is basically it. I wanted to yeah, I wanted to make sure that you guys had seen all of it, including the to do. Um The crimson one is on an isolated system just because of my agreement with Anzor. Um But this is basically what what it is except for um a slightly lighter tone right now. Uh One more thing I did just remember um let me pull it up. There is a. Speaker 1 00:25:04 Let me find it. There's something I want to kind of give you guys a heads up about. So, I'm not going to charge you for the application because you guys are awesome and I like you. But, I want to make you guys aware of the cost on the background. So, I already talked to you Brett about this, where the only thing that you guys are going to be billed is for your Azure tenancy. Sorry. Speaker 1 00:25:34 Yes, so let me pull up. I had made a one sheeter for you guys to see what that looks like. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:26:00 Yes, And that's what I'm working on is to get that set up. So it's rolled into the crimson building. However, we can roll it into a credit card as well. So ignore the ignore that top part. I'm sorry. I okay here it is. This is what the Azure consumption is going to look like, and it typically runs about $ 100 to $ 400 a month, depending on how much mail, how and how many users you have on it. Speaker 1 00:27:40 Correct. Yep. So, all right, so as far as timing, I am working on getting the subscription set up for you guys. So it's billed back through Crimson or it's billed to a credit card to you guys once that's set up. Yes, so once that's set up probably about a week depending on my schedule. So, the only thing is next week is fully loaded because I am teaching some classes on AI, but. The following two weeks are not as loaded, uh, and I can pretty much get that done pretty rapidly. If you guys push me out, Just be aware that August 18 t h I have to take a teen to uh her first or I've got to move my teen into her dorm for college. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:29:23 Yes, and then Casey, if you have any other suggestions or things that would be nice- haves, I can't guarantee I can get to them right away. But throw them at me. So. Speaker 2 00:29:38 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:29:53 Yeah. Right. Yes. All right, awesome. Speaker 1 00:30:29 Yeah. Yes. All right. Thanks, thank you gentlemen. Bye- bye.
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06-16 Conditional Approval for Self-Hosted N8N with a Limit on Future Technical Autonomy
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-  ## Core Synopsis Christi has proposed a self-hosted instance of the automation tool N8N on her Crimson desktop to meet the granular requirements of her workflows, a capability she finds lacking in the standard Power Automate toolset. After confirming the solution's compliance profile (HIPAA, SOC, ISO) and her plan to secure it within the company's managed desktop environment—complete with existing security tools like Huntress, multi-factor authentication, and API keys stored in Azure Key Vault—Anzor has granted a conditional approval. This approval, however, serves as a final concession for such user-driven infrastructure solutions. Anzor explicitly stated that future requests of this nature will face a much higher bar for approval, effectively capping Christi's autonomy in deploying non-standard tools. The conversation then shifted to an exploration of self-hosting large language models, which was quickly dismissed as prohibitively expensive and technically premature for any practical business use at this time. ## A Negotiation on Technical Autonomy ### 1. The Problem: Tool Incapacity - **Status Quo**: The company's standard tool, Power Automate, lacks the granularity and flexibility required for Christi's more complex automation needs, such as a sophisticated inbox sorter. - **The Gap**: Christi requires a more powerful tool to build these workflows but is constrained by the firm's security posture ("the security mind frame... when it comes to Crimson stuff"). After investigating internally available tools and coming up short, she identified an external solution, N8N. ### 2. The Solution: A Self-Hosted Instance - **The Proposal**: Christi will download and host a free instance of N8N directly on her company-managed Crimson desktop. - **Security Justification**: - The instance resides within the secure desktop environment, which is already monitored by Huntress and other security tools. - Logins are protected by multi-factor authentication. - API keys are secured in Azure Key Vault, ensuring data does not leave the local machine except via secured API calls. - The tool itself is compliant with HIPAA, SOC, and ISO standards, with Christi taking responsibility for keeping the instance updated. ### 3. The Verdict: A Conditional "Yes" - **Anzor's Approval**: The proposed solution is deemed "secure enough" and is approved. - **The Caveat**: This is a one-time allowance. Anzor explicitly warned that he will have a "harder and harder time saying yes" to future requests of this nature. Any subsequent proposals for new, self-deployed tools will likely be rejected. This decision signals a clear limit on deploying bespoke solutions outside the standard corporate stack. ## Strategic Discussion: Self-Hosted AI Models The conversation briefly explored the feasibility of hosting a large language model (like Llama 3) locally to ensure data remains completely in-house and "air gapped." - **Christi's Research**: She noted that running a capable model like Llama 3.8 would require a powerful GPU, which her current work laptop lacks. - **Anzor's Assessment**: He confirmed that running a "decent model" locally is a significant undertaking, estimating a hardware cost of $15-20k. He views the current technology as immature and expensive for experimental use, predicting that in a year, models will become smaller, more efficient, and runnable on more reasonable hardware. - **Conclusion**: Both parties agreed that self-hosting a model is not a viable or desirable path at this time due to high cost and technical barriers.
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- Jun 16, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Morning. Morning, Chris. How are you? I'm good. Just a heads up, my camera is not working. I don't know why it just last updated decided to not come back up. Um, so have you looked into N8N yet or tested it out or anything like that? Okay so it is so I like Power Automate some of those things but Power Automate is not as granular as N8N and doesn't have the flexibility that N8N does. So when I build out things that need a little bit more granularity, like the inbox sorter that I created, I can't do it in Power Automate. And so I'm trying to figure out based on the conversation I had with you a couple months ago. And what your desire is and the security mind frame that I need to have when it comes to Crimson stuff. Speaker 1 00:00:57 I've been trying to figure out a way to accomplish this within the tools that we have, and I'm coming up short. So I did some digging because in the end is HIPAA, SOC, SAC, ISO, it's all of that is compliant as long as you are responsible for keeping your instance up to date which I do and I have it tied down with multi factor authentication, all of that. So. Every time I log in, I have to do authentication and everything. So I was digging into how can I make this better, but also make it to a point that we know it's secure, we know it's compliant, all of that. What would you think if I downloaded and hosted my own instance on my Crimson desktop? Because we know that's secure. We have Huntress on it. We have all the tools on it, everything. Speaker 1 00:01:56 I don't have to pay for it. It's up to date with their, I just got to keep it up to date. And none of the data leaves my computer unless it's connecting via API, Which all my API keys are in Azure Key Vault because I moved them all to Key Vault. Mhm. Um, I think that's going to be okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:02:22 Right? Um. Speaker 2 00:02:25 Just obviously do what you need to do to keep it super secure, right? And every time you're going to come to me with this type of solution, with each new solution, I'm going to have a harder and harder time saying yes. Yes. So you know what I mean? Like is this absolutely necessary for you? And if you feel it is, right, then that's fine. What you described I think is secure enough, right? But if you come back to me. Three months and you'll say now you want to deploy that. I'm probably going to say no. Yeah, right. So so so just keep keep that in mind. Speaker 1 00:03:03 I do, I mean, I didn't even want to bring this to you until I had a solution that I knew you would like. So, I try to keep that as a minimum. Speaker 2 00:03:14 Yep. Okay, Speaker 1 00:03:16 No problem And then have you looked into hosting your ownum, Model on your systems so that it doesn't go out to you. Okay, Speaker 2 00:03:27 Not not yet. A couple of my friends are into that right and playing with these models, but I have not. Speaker 1 00:03:33 I don't I don't So you can't do Claude, But you could do Llama three point eight But Llama three point eight You need a good GPU for it, and I know my desktop computer will handle it, but my laptop won'tum, I've dug into it to see, okay, How can I make sure that all everything is in house and untouchable and air gapped. And so I was digging into that. And I know Llama's got a lot of really good things behind it. But I haven't played in Llama other than with my glasses. Speaker 2 00:04:08 Right, right. Well, yeah, yeah. To run it locally, that's going to you need to have a powerful solution. Yeah, So, that's uh, you're probably looking like to to run anything decent. You're probably going to spend close to 15 to 20 K. Yeah, right. Um so so like I mean, you know, if this is if this was something you'd be making money on, that'd be different rightum to play withum that that's a bit expensive. Speaker 1 00:04:42 Yeah, I don't want to do that. I just wanted to get your thoughts if you had looked into it yet or not. Speaker 2 00:04:48 Um, I am thinking about it. I also feel these models are not where they need to be yet. They're getting better and better. Um, But I have a feeling a year from now. They're going to be smaller and would require less GPU, um, and will be more efficient and better. Right? So, it's like it's just going to be a huge progression where you you actually going to be able to run a decent model on a decent hardware, right? And not spend twenty thirty k. Speaker 1 00:05:16 Yeah, I just wanted to pick your brain on that one. I don't have any plans to try it because the only one I could do that on is my gaming desktop and I don't want to do that. So, And I'm still annoyed that. So i took the entire week off from anything computer AI any of that. I didn't even log into my gaming computer. And so, I logged in yesterday morning. I was like, hey, let me try that new model from Claude, And I logged in for the first time and I was like, wait, we can't. They they killed it. Right. Yes, I was so annoyed. Yeah. So, Speaker 2 00:05:55 Yeah yeah, I'm sure they're going to bring it back. But uh, yeah, they just need more security. Yes, all right, awesome, awesome. All right, dear. Thank you. Now I'll talk to you soon. Okay, bye.
05-27 Weekly Meeting: AI Community of Practice - Wins, Challenges, and Governance
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-27 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] [Speaker 11] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] [Christi] [Speaker 16] [Speaker 17] [Speaker 18] [Speaker 19] [Speaker 20] [Speaker 21] ## Meeting Notes ### Community of Practice (COP) Overview - This meeting is for the AI Community of Practice (AI COP), facilitated by John Bucol (JB). - The COP has been around for over 25 years and now includes several groups: - PMO group, starting next week, facilitated by Mike Olinger. - CIO, HR, CISO, and infrastructure groups. - A general counsel group is also under consideration. - These groups are fee-based, but the AI COP is currently free to help it get established. ### Recommended AI & Tech Resources - Participants shared several recommended podcasts, newsletters, and resources: - **Podcasts**: - "AI Daily Brief" was mentioned as a good commute podcast for general AI news. - "A16Z show" was recommended for its variety of topics, from supply chain to LLMs. - "Last week in AI" provides a summary of current events in the AI world. - **Newsletters**: - "tldr.tech" was highlighted as a quick, daily summary of tech news. - **GitHub Repositories**: - A repository on system design with 30,000 stars was shared as a great resource for understanding system design concepts and scalability. ### Roundtable: Wins, Challenges, and Projects - **Alex Kassar (FINRA, DC Area)**: - **Win**: Seeing success with "Beam Math" and is working to scale it across his organization. - **Challenge & Project**: Challenges related to a project he will present on later. A fun project is wrapping Beam Math in a RAG loop to make it work continuously. - **Barry (Pure Tech Industrial Water)**: - **Win**: Used AI to navigate the complex requirements for deploying native apps (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS) across different app stores. - **Challenge**: Dealing with the Apple App Store's difficult approval process. - **Project**: Developed AI-driven infrastructure for CI pipelines to autonomously triage bugs and deploy pull requests for a personal finance software project. - **Jonathan Au (Metropolitan Water District, Los Angeles)**: - **Win**: A RAG application for board materials has achieved phenomenal adoption internally, with hundreds of sustained interactions per hour. - **Challenge**: Managing the "tokenomics," or the shifting costs between subsidized subscription tokens and direct, pay-as-you-go models like Bedrock or Foundry. - **Project**: Continuing to improve a LangGraph-based app development engine that creates an autonomous engine by ingesting schemas and specs. - **Ira Ham (Media Alpha, Seattle)**: - **Win**: Measurably reduced three FTEs and launched internal apps on ChatGPT, allowing employees to build their own tools. - **Challenge**: Currently developing an agent support funnel. - **Project**: Developing a video game, but has found AI not yet suitable for this purpose. - **Dan Kaufman (Accolade Engineered Systems, Pasadena)**: - **Win**: Successfully AI-enabled a legacy service management system (IFS) by building agents that provide real-time information via an old API gateway, eliminating the need to log into the system. - **Challenge & Project**: Establishing AI governance to set guardrails for numerous AI projects without stifling innovation. - **Tommy Joseph (Champions Group, Irvine)**: - **Win**: Used Claude to program Azure Data Factory for data pipeline creation. Financial analysts can now directly query a data lake using a chat interface instead of complex SQL. - **Challenge**: Encountered difficulties rolling out Claude through Foundry due to unavailable models and token limitations, forcing a switch to a direct Claude Teams deployment. - **Project**: Rolling out Claude to about 50 selected people from various divisions to augment business processes, such as using chatbots as co-agents in call centers. - **BNS Site Development**: - **Win**: Automated the creation of 700 PDFs for annual employee performance reviews and pay adjustments. - **Challenge**: Encouraging end-users to adopt AI proactively. - **Project**: Data mining emails and bid documents for off-track, multi-million dollar deals to reclaim costs and find new change orders. - **Interoperer**: - **Win**: The HRIS department created an Apex app for Oracle to automate testing and validation for quarterly patches. - **Challenge**: Manual code review and validation processes. - **Project**: Exploring if AI can replace ArchiMate as the company's enterprise architecture platform. - **Crimson IT & Nonprofits**: - **Win/Loss**: The speaker, a fractional CIO, is figuring out how to use free or low-cost tools on Azure for a nonprofit with no budget. - **Project**: "Adopto Inbox," an email organizer using an LLM to learn email handling, is nearing beta. - **UC Santa Cruz**: - **Win**: Completed the first AI-driven SDLC for a nonprofit project. - **Failure**: A 32GB Olama model performed poorly for code review on a laptop. - **Challenge**: Looking for alternatives to high-cost LLMs like Claude. - **Project**: Developing a system for a nonprofit to consolidate information from podcasts and YouTube to identify grant opportunities. - **Amazon**: - **Project**: Creating a dashboard for data quality checks between third-party and internal data for the services team. - **Challenge**: Ensuring data accuracy and compliance when pulling from multiple sources. - **Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)**: - **Win**: An agentic AI developed in Brussels offloaded fleet management administrative tasks, saving significant time. The global tech team also launched an AI literacy program. - **Challenge**: Establishing effective AI governance. - **Consulting and Personal Projects (Bruce)**: - **Win**: Convinced a client not to purchase an overpriced, complex solution while helping them build an in-house software engineering department. - **Challenge**: Observability and metrics in AI development due to the rapid pace of change. - **Project**: Building a personal CRM using Microsoft Teams framework, Graph API, and Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio. - **UI/UX Design with AI**: - **Win**: Successfully used AI for research to create client proposals. - **Challenge**: The overwhelming number of AI tools and the desire for a single go-to solution. - **Projects**: Creating modern website templates and a payment app for a fitness client. - **Sage Publications**: - **Hopeful Win**: Getting approval for two new data scientist positions. - **Challenge**: The company's 60 years of disorganized content and data spread across various systems is a major blocker for AI. - **Project**: Experimenting with `cube.dev` to help clean up and manage their data estate. - **Rob Kelly (Consultant, ex-Oracle)**: - **Win**: Integrated a Multi-modal Conversational Prompt (MCP) into his personal SDLC tool, allowing backlog items to be added visually using Claude. - **Challenge**: The rapid pace of new AI tools makes it hard to choose and stick with a toolset. - **Projects**: A personal SDLC tool, a regulatory dashboard for life sciences, and a commercial real estate application. - **Robert Reyes (Bay Cities Packaging)**: - **Win**: Onboarded two non-technical accounting team members as AI users, empowering them to build their own tools. - **Challenge**: Transitioning from Active Directory to Microsoft Intune for device management. - **Project**: An application for Dungeons and Dragons that transcribes sessions and generates AI notes. - **Todd Thomasson**: - **Win**: Internal AI "Vicky" is integrated with Teams to create transcripts and enable conversations with meeting content. - **Challenge**: Governance and discovering what AI tools are being used across the organization. (Pro Tip: Partner with finance to track AI expenses). - **Project**: Using multiple AI agents to assist with a "duck run" DIY construction project. - **Greg Moore**: - **Win/Failure**: An attempt to build a purchasing agent with Microsoft Copilot Studio failed after five weeks, but the same agent was successfully built in three days using Claude and Cursor. - **Project**: Building an application to automate his manual expense reporting process. ### AI Governance and Implementation at Media Alpha (Presentation by Ira) - **Governance Framework**: - Audited by KPMG, their framework covers structure, technical implementation, organizational support, adoption, and data management. - A three-tiered structure is in place: the Board, an IT steering committee, and an independent AI operating committee, plus a separate data governance committee. - **Tooling and Tiers**: - Primarily uses Claude from Anthropic, with specialized engineering access via Amazon Bedrock for more favorable terms. - All employees start with a $25 pay-per-use budget, with most elevating to $100-$150. Advanced features unlock at higher tiers. - **Review and Security Processes**: - Formal AI products undergo a mandatory AI Impact Assessment (AIIA) based on ISO 42001. - A three-layer security model is used: - **Layer 1 (DLP)**: Nightfall monitors AI usage and data movement. - **Layer 2 (Guardrails)**: AWS Guardrails control AI output for productized AI. - **Layer 3 (Threat Detection)**: CrowdStrike's Pangea (AIDR) is being deployed for external-facing chatbots to detect malware and abuse. - **Metrics**: - The focus has shifted from adoption metrics to customer impact, reusable growth, and time saved per task. ### AI Activity Monitoring and Governance Tools (Continued) - **Nightfall AI**: Monitors AI activity, flags concerns for the privacy team, and can block certain actions. - **AWS Guardrails**: Used to block specific AI responses based on word lists for internal-only AI usage. - **CrowdStrike**: Employed for high-risk, externally facing products to inspect for prompt hacking or PII leaks, with alerts going to the security team. High cost limits its use. ### The "Workshop" - An AI Governance and Innovation Platform - **Purpose**: A platform for employees to test AI ideas (e.g., from Claude) by converting them into a format that can be hosted on the company's web platform. - **Governance**: Provides a defined path for innovation. Projects that gain traction are productized; others "die" as the Workshop has no database. - **Adoption**: Adoption is low (<10%), and supporting business users requires significant IT involvement (estimated at 0.5 FTE). ### FINRA's Use of AI for Process Automation - **Problem**: FINRA manages brokerage firms via a web portal with tedious, repetitive processes, representing a $60 million opportunity for time savings. - **Solution**: Exploring Amazon Qlik Chat Agents to allow users to interact with the system conversationally to perform tasks. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Complete the full deployment of CrowdStrike's AIDR service by August. - [ ] [Speaker 21] and [Speaker 11] will connect for a 30-60 minute session to discuss AI governance challenges and co-create solutions. - [ ] A potential sub-session might be organized if more people are interested in the discussion with [Speaker 11]. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. **AI Governance**: Several participants (Dan Kaufman, Farah from CCL, Todd Thomasson) are facing challenges with AI governance and are seeking best practices to implement guardrails without hindering innovation. This is a common theme needing a clear framework. > 2. **Code Review & Tooling**: Multiple participants (at Interoperer, UC Santa Cruz, and others) are struggling with code review processes. They are exploring AI solutions but face challenges with performance (Olama), cost (Claude), and finding the right tools (Copilot Studio limitations). > 3. **AI Cost Management ("Tokenomics")**: A common challenge is managing the costs of AI models, specifically choosing between subscription-based tokens and pay-as-you-go services like Bedrock (Jonathan Au). > 4. **Data Quality as a Blocker**: Data quality and organization were highlighted as a major blocker for AI implementation, especially for legacy companies. Agents attempting to use disorganized data often follow outdated processes (Michael at Sage Publications). > 5. **Tooling & Platform Challenges**: > - A specific technical challenge was raised regarding the limitations of using Foundry, particularly the lack of model availability and token constraints (Tommy Joseph). > - Greg Moore highlighted significant roadblocks with Microsoft Copilot Studio, which led to project failure before a successful switch to another tool. > 6. **Collaboration Opportunities**: > - Several individuals (Christi and Danny) are working on similar projects for non-profits with limited budgets and could benefit from collaborating on cost-effective solutions. > - Bruce is seeking to replace ArchiMate with AI and would benefit from connecting with others with similar experience. > 7. **App Store & Migration Hurdles**: > - The difficulty of navigating the Apple App Store approval process was mentioned as a significant hurdle (Barry). > - Robert Reyes mentioned challenges with the Intune migration, but no specific support requests were discussed. > 8. **Unresolved Action Items/Risks**: > - An engineer requested permission to create a web-based AI agent to collect Medicare information, a significant compliance risk (HIPAA), but the decision was not specified. > - [Speaker 10] expressed a need to research the information from [Speaker 11]'s presentation, but no concrete follow-up actions were defined.
- Date
- May 27, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:24 Good Morning and good afternoon. Hello. Speaker 3 00:00:28 Good morning. Morning. Speaker 2 00:00:32 Oh, so many fun faces, I love it. This is great. I've been looking forward to this meeting all week. Speaker 4 00:00:39 Rob Kel long time no see, Speaker 5 00:00:41 I know right. I was just chatting with John Nygaard, and your name came up the other day. So how's. Speaker 4 00:00:47 John doing. Speaker 5 00:00:48 Seems to be doing? All right? Yeah, good, good, Awesome. Speaker 2 00:00:53 Well, we've got some new faces here. We've got some folks who've been with us before. We have an action packed couple hours together. And I'm so excited to to be here to facilitate this. I'm John Bucol, I go by JB and this the AI COP. This like the part in the flight where they're like, we're going to Albuquerque, so if you're trying to go to DC you're probably on the wrong flight. So if you're here to talk about AI stuff, you're in the absolute right place, We'll do a quick introductions as part of kind of the roundtable that we do. This series is offered as part of the community of practice. Community of practice has been around for over 25 years. It was started by Steve Heckler. I took it over at the first part of this year, honored to do it. We've launched this group, We have a PMO group that's kicking off starting next week that's going to be facilitated by Mike Olinger. Speaker 2 00:01:50 So, if you have a PMO in your organization, and this is a value to you or you're familiar with this, encourage you to send your PMO to that group. We also have CIO groups, HR group and a CISO group and an infra group. And then potentially starting a general counsel group. We'll see how that goes. Speaker 4 00:02:10 So John says separate fee for each individual group? Speaker 2 00:02:14 There is, it's a separate fee for each individual group. This one I'm not, Haven't yet charged anybody for it. I just want to get it off the ground and see kind of where it goes. But yes, This is going to be a four. Uh, this will be a fee based group for sure. Hopefully the value you get out of this group far exceeds the few hundred bucks a month that it is. Yep, of course. Okay, Uh, I'm going to lead off by just asking does anybody have any cool podcasts or. Speaker 2 00:02:46 Uh content that they're consuming right now that they want to share, if you do, please share and then throw it into the chat as well. Any kind of it could be a GitHub repo that you're like into. It could be a uh, a blog or a newsletter, something that shows up in your inbox that you think is worth reading. Nobody listens to any podcasts, nobody reads any news. Speaker 5 00:03:15 This One's kind of kind of mainstream, I feel, but the AI Daily Brief. I forget who puts it on, But it's like twenty twenty five minutes and I usually watch it when I am running an errand or something, or listen to it when I am watching when i am running an errand. Speaker 2 00:03:28 That's great Rob. Speaker 5 00:03:29 If you could yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:30 I'll find it in the chat that would be great. Speaker 6 00:03:32 Yeah, that's my commute podcast typicallyum and i i kind of skip through it and then jump onto the others. But uh but that one's like that one's a good one, at least for a general AI Daily Brief. Speaker 2 00:03:43 You guys want to throw that in the chat? Yeah, I could put in the chat. It's a good one. Anyone have any others? Speaker 7 00:03:53 I've got a uh, GitHub uh, chat. It's got 30, 000 stars. It's about system design. It's uh it's a really good resource on GitHub? Yeah, Uh- huh, Speaker 2 00:04:02 Yeah, if you can paste that what what do you get out of it? Speaker 7 00:04:06 Well, you know if Ium if I'm trying to create, you know figure out what I want to design. And how I want to create. It's just a nice refresher on system design and and you know, scalability. Andum all the different sorry I'm, trying to talk and look at the same time. So it's distracting me. Butum but it's uh it's just a great resource. Uh if it goes over all the concepts of system design, and if you want to know what your what your agents are building and understand why they're building, it's a good resource to understand these concepts Fantastic. Speaker 2 00:04:42 I'll tell you, Github is I. Think one of the best resources of content to you think you have like a really great idea. And it's like, oh, somebody's already done this, takes your understanding to a whole nother level. Any. Speaker 8 00:04:57 Other group got the A 16 Z show? It's in my Spotify list. You can get it. Wada does podcast. I like it just because of the variety topics. I mean, they'll talk about supply chain, And, then the next one will be here's one submarines and the future of defense manufacturing. And then next it's LLMs. So it has a variety of things and it's like, oh, never really thought about that. Speaker 2 00:05:22 Outstanding. And Greg, is that you said as a podcast? Yes. Or newsletter? Speaker 8 00:05:28 It's a podcast. I put the link in the chat. Speaker 2 00:05:30 Outstanding. Thanks for that, Greg. Anyone else? Speaker 6 00:05:33 First cast is pretty good for a podcastum and then for a newsletter. Uh tldr is is great because. It's quick and you can kind of get those highlights. I tend to like that one showing up in my inbox every day. Speaker 2 00:05:48 Tldr. tech is that one, right? Yeah. You turned me on to that. Barry, you turned me on to that one and I'm like totally hooked. It's a really good one. Speaker 6 00:05:56 Yeah, It was one of the other COP meetings that somebody mentioned it and I got hooked on it after that. Yes, tldr. tech, I'll paste that in there. Thanks any others? Speaker 9 00:06:07 Last week in AI is a good one, I think I've mentioned it last time, but it's a good summary of what's going on in the world of AI. Speaker 2 00:06:14 I was listening to it this morning. It's it's the guy with the he's like a British guy, right? Speaker 9 00:06:20 Uh, I think it's a it's usually a group of folks. Oh, Speaker 2 00:06:24 Then it's maybe a different last week in AI. Speaker 6 00:06:30 So, the encyclical just was posted by the Pope that was an AI on point this time, but it was just kind of what you would expect. Speaker 2 00:06:39 Did he did he use AI to make the encyclical? Speaker 6 00:06:41 Oh yeah, very possible. Speaker 2 00:06:44 I feel like that's a skill I can create. Make this sound like a papal encyclical. Speaker 10 00:06:48 That's right, that's right. Speaker 2 00:06:51 Okay, thanks for that. That was fun. So, we're going to do a quick roundtable. If you have any others, just don't hesitate, throw those in the chat, and then you all can pick those up there. We'll do a quick roundtable. So what I'm going to ask is each person I just want to give a few minutes. We only have two hours in this meeting, and we have a bunch of stuff to get to. So my ask of you is to be a word economist, Use your words um uh as sparingly, if you will, so we can be quick and expedient, but also actionable. But share with the group, uh, a win that you may have had in the past week or two using AI, maybe a challenge that you've been working through, and then a project that you're working on whether it's something personal. Speaker 2 00:07:38 Or something at work that is AI related. All right, so we got a win, a challenge and a project. Those are your three. All right, I'm going to go sort of top to bottom. We've got a big group here today. Alex, you want to lead us off? Speaker 9 00:07:53 Sure, happy to. Well, I think I'm going to talk about the challenge and the project a little later in the presentation. You put me in the agenda as one of the speakers that present the project. Can't wait. It has plenty of challenges. Um, from the win perspective, um, I'm really bullish on B Mat and and I think you're going to talk about that. Speaker 2 00:08:15 I learned it from you. So I'm going to talk about it. Yes. I'm really bullish on it too. Speaker 9 00:08:19 Yeah, So that's definitely a win for my team uh, and i'm trying to scale it uh to my entire organization right now. Speaker 2 00:08:28 Outstanding And, then a personal project you're working on or a project you're working on? You want to share? I mean we're going to deep dive on your other stuff but anything. Speaker 9 00:08:38 Fun. A fun project that we are working on right now is wrapping Beam Math in a Ralph loop, basically making it work continuously. That's a really fun project. Speaker 2 00:08:55 We have to talk about that. And I didn't ask, obviously, name, rank and serial number. Alex, introduce yourself. Okay, Alex Kassar Organization and where you're based? Speaker 9 00:09:05 I'm I work at finra Financial Industry Regulatory Authority I'm based in uh DC area I'm a senior directorum love to geek out about AI. Speaker 2 00:09:19 Thank you. Alex great having you here. Uh I'm just going top to bottom Barry. Speaker 6 00:09:24 So yeah, so I'm Barry I'm the CIO over at Pure Tech Industrial Water. Um uh so lots of projects in the air right nowum but theum. The one that I think is most interesting is so I have a personal project that's for financial software or like personal financial software budgeting. It was kind of just a pet project, kind of just fun. But part of it is I built native apps, all Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. And. So what AI has been helping me do is navigate all the things I don't know like. Speaker 6 00:10:03 Juggling the signing requirements and the Apple Store requirements and the Play Store requirements, and navigating all of that mess, Which without AI I, don't know if I could have done it because there's the amount of hoops you jump through. So that was really interesting. But as part of the process, I needed a really good deploy structure. And. So that's where I built kind of some infrastructure around skills and CI pipelines that are all sort of AI driven. So that I can both triage bugs and deploy, you know, pull requests all sort of autonomous. And that's been a lot of fun. But did I miss anything, John or Jamie? Speaker 2 00:10:44 No. Well, a challenge. Speaker 6 00:10:46 Challenge? Yeah. So the challenge is the Apple stores, like just dealing with their approval process. So if anybody's done that already. But boy, oh boy, it's okay. Speaker 2 00:10:59 This is a good one because I'm sure there's group there's folks on this call. In this group that are working on building native apps. So now, you know you have Barry who is probably hitting up the same walls you're hitting up against. So that's a good one. The value in these meetings, by the way, is not just what happens here, it's in between the meetings. So, you all know you have a resource based on what we're just talking about right now. Thank you Barry, great having you here. John Hawk? Speaker 7 00:11:26 Yeah, hey so cool victory is we pushed out a RAG app. Speaker 2 00:11:32 John, Who are you and where are you from? Speaker 7 00:11:33 Oh, sorry. Yeah. My name is Jonathan Au. I'm the enterprise architect for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California here in Los Angeles. We are the largest water supplier in the country. We pushed out a retrieval augmented generation app for our board material a few weeks ago. And it's. The adoption rate has been phenomenal. It kind of ran away and it's almost like gone internally viral. Um, we're seeing like uh you know hundreds of sustained interactions per hour, like since release and it's actually trending upward a few weeks later. So we're really thrilled about the adoption there. So that's the win. Um, The project that I'm continuing to work on is just kind of like my lang graph script, that is sort of like an app development engine that ingests schemas and specs and. Speaker 7 00:12:23 Kind of marries the two sides of like B - mat and a Ralph loop to kind of create this autonomous engine. I'm continually tinkering with it to try and make it better, using LangGraph to like track the state of that engine. And then challenge kind of always just like the shifting sands of you know, The subsidized token costs from subscriptions versus like going directly to the well of like Bedrock or Foundry. And and you know the metered pay as you go rates and trying to figure out how we're going to set up our enterprise to be cost effective in deploying these tools moving forward. So. Speaker 2 00:13:01 Tokenomics, I feel like we should do tokenomics on the next, we could do two hours on just tokenomics. Yeah. John, so great to have you here. It was wonderful being uh at, The office last week. I feel like we were the only ones there because, like Thursdays, you don't usually have people in the office. And I got to see what a ten million dollars AV system looks like in a boardroom, which is incredible. MWD. Yeah, great to have you here, John. Ira. Speaker 11 00:13:28 Oh my gosh Am I muted? Hopefully I'm not no Okay, let's see here. My name is IRA Ham I am a CISO accidentally becoming CIO recently. For a company called Media Alpha, which is in the advertising technology business. Let's see quickly hitting on your items. Challenge with AI, we're currently developing an agent support funnel. Successes with AI, I've measurably reduced three FTEs. I've launched apps on ChatGPT. We have an internal development space for our employees to build their own apps and launch them and more. Speaker 11 00:14:04 And a personal project with AI. I'm developing a video game and AI is not suitable for that as far as I can reckon so far. Speaker 2 00:14:12 And you are in the great state of Washington. Speaker 11 00:14:15 And I am based in Seattle, yes. Speaker 2 00:14:17 Thank you, Ira. That was very good word economics. I really admire that. Thank you so much and Ira will be presenting in just a little bit on governance and what he's doing at Media Alpha, which will be really fun Leon, my brother from Burbank How are you doing? Speaker 12 00:14:34 So my name is Dan Kaufman. I'm a CIO for Accolade Engineered Systems, a construction company here in Pasadena. So as far as wins go, we my team successfully AI enabled a legacy service management system like IFS. And you know, strangely enough, like we had this old API gateway, And we were able to, you know, Put an MCP server to utilize that old API gateway and build a bunch of agents that now give them real time information without having to code a bunch of different, you know, without ever having to log into IFS or ever knowing what it is. So that's a big win. Seems like businesses really love it. Speaker 2 00:15:25 The best interface Leon is no interface. Speaker 12 00:15:28 Exactly. That's exactly what I'm finding. You know, all of a sudden everybody's doing using it for quoting. So I was like, okay. Challenge. And my challenge and project is exactly the same actually. And my challenge is AI governance. You know, I'm trying to you know, figure out how to not stifle the innovation, and at the same time, put guardrails around AI projects that popping up all over the place. And really I'm trying to address it through governance. Speaker 12 00:15:60 But it's one of those deals where the genie is out of the bottle. So whatever, you know, so that's that's the challenge. But, the project is really to understand how is AI going to affect the business and putting the right guardrails in place. So that's kind of what we've been working on for the last few weeks. Speaker 2 00:16:16 Thank you, Leon. We're going to lean in pretty heavy into governance. And then I think that's going to be a topic too, at our next round of COP meetings after this this one. So thanks sir Mr Joseph, TJ, my good buddy from Irvine. Speaker 13 00:16:33 Good morning, everybody. Yeah, no, I think for us I'm Tommy Joseph. I am the vice president of IT here at Champions Group. We are one of the holding company for a few service oriented industries across the country and one of the. Projects that we are working on is to get, you know, we are not that advanced in the AI space, But we enable our business leaders to augment AI into spaces where they feel comfortable. Like we have a lot of chat bots serving as call center agents. We kind of co-see it and now deploy it along with the agents, actual agents. And that's one of them. We use it for a lot of the training that our sales team use for. Speaker 13 00:17:23 You know, when they interact with the customers, They use AI to learn and how to train the new upcoming salespeople to be more effective in their sales journey. So those kind of applications we have the business leaders drive it. But on my our side, on the IT side, We I am rolling out cloud to about 50 or so. People selected from various divisions. One of the challenge that I was finding was I was trying to get that rollout through Foundry. And the challenge there is like in Foundry, because people wanted different models and they all want the latest model. And then when you try to provision it in Foundry, you don't have it. And you know, So then you are stuck with what uh the version they have it there. And even then limited by the tokens. And if I don't know if anybody um. Speaker 13 00:18:17 When that route, I'm here to learn from that experience if you can. But, my experience was it was holding me up to roll it out faster because the business is demanding faster turnouts. And, so I had to go with cloud teams deployment for that one and get it going while exploring the Foundry or another platform where I can count on. And that's something I'm hoping you guys can maybe share some insights on that. One of the projects that we had success been was, we were able to use the actually cloud to kind of program the Azure Data Factory to pull data from multiple SaaS applications that we use, create that data pipeline there. Once the data is in the data lake and database. Speaker 13 00:19:12 Then, we were able to create an MCP server with Claude to interact with that database directly. Our financial analysts can now, without having to learn complex SQLqueries, They can directly use the chat interface to query any kind of analytics directly from that business data. So which is they are liking it. The financial team is really liking it and want to get on board. That's great. Speaker 2 00:19:39 So if anyone has some good, Boundary experience. Uh, thinking somehow if you can get Anthropic's models to work outside of Sweden, that would be great. I can't figure out it's not deployed on tenants outside of Sweden. It's just like I'm not going to deploy a friggin tenant in Sweden. I'm just not doing it. Speaker 13 00:19:56 Exactly right. Speaker 2 00:19:57 Yep Okay, I'm going to keep rolling here A V D Mr Van Dellen. Speaker 3 00:20:05 Hello everyone, calling in from Reno, Nevada. I am the VP of IT for a company called BNS Site Development. We do heavy civil construction on the east coast out of Virginia, flattening ground for lots and lots of data centers. So, everyone keep up the AI work because it creates a lot of job demand for us. AI wins. We are You know, we're 1100 person company. 700 employees are all moving dirt, either with a piece of equipment or a shovel. And, our field operations team often reviews all of their job performance, one at a time with individual PDFs. So, we could flex with a very easy AI project to automate 700 PDFs to submit their formal annual review for pay adjustments. So that was a quick win. Speaker 3 00:20:59 I would say, challenge is facilitated. We have a lot of project managers, project engineers. Facilitated a very quick AI training last week. So, it's really trying to get end users who are just kind of burning and churning to change and challenge their practice and start with AI instead of coming to AI as an afterthought. So that's the challenge we're currently facing. What was the third one, John? Speaker 2 00:21:25 Project. What's a project you're working on? Speaker 3 00:21:27 Project I am working on. Yep, we we have uh we operate typically, Um you know, forty million dollar deals and when those deals go off the rails economically, Uh, we have to go back and data mine email, addresses bid, documents, contract documents, scope reviews and try, you know, geotechnical reports and try to figure out how we can go back to the project owner or general contractor to try to reclaim some dollars. So. That project is kicking off this week where we kind of dump everything into a cloud project and start to data mine that way to see where there's opportunity for more change orders. Speaker 2 00:22:04 That sounds like a fun one. Thank you, ABD. Let's go to Bruce. Bruce, it's good to see you again, my friend. Speaker 14 00:22:14 Welcome everybody. Yeah, I'm Bruce Bevins. I've run the enterprise architecture practice at Interoperer So. A big win for us is our HRIS department. Created an Apex app for Oracle that was able to help them automate testing and validation for quarterly patches for Oracle HCM and Oracle Finance, which was awesome. Some challenges we run into is more or less validating that code and doing code reviews. Right now it's a very manual process that our developers do, And so trying to figure out how to automate that either co with AI, but also having human interaction with it for deployments. And then what I am working on professionally is. Speaker 14 00:22:52 Currently use ArchiMate as our enterprise architecture platform, and I'm seeing if I can replace that with AI. Speaker 2 00:22:59 So if you anybody has experience with ArchiMate and replacing that, that would be a good one to connect with Bruce on that. You can share some insights or some experiences. Thank you, Bruce. Great having you here. We're going to roll to Christie. Christie, You made it even with all your struggles with yourum your minions this week. Speaker 15 00:23:22 Yes. Hi, my name is Chris Brown. I am CIO for Crimson IT, which is an MSP and we service I lost count of how many clients, but I am also a fractional CIO for two main nonprofits in California. And so it's a lot of fun. Biggest challenge with AI this week is keeping track of all the names of my minions. I said that one just for you JB, Honestly, I'm working on a project with one of the nonprofits who has no budget for anything this year. So figuring out how we can tie some things together to get them what they need using zero cost on Azure infrastructure with certain exceptions. So trying to find some money in the budget to offset a little bit of that. But using a lot of free stuff on the same way. And then the biggest one is being able to figure that one out. Speaker 15 00:24:20 So both my win and loss this week. So. Speaker 2 00:24:24 Any uh projects you are working on? Speaker 15 00:24:26 Oh, um, so I've got about three projects in the air right now. Um, Adopto it uh inbox Adopto inbox is the main one. Um, I am almost ready for beta testing. Uh, but that one's been a super slow one. And that one's just a email organizer system that you can use LLM to train. How you want it to handle your email, which I currently use right now on three of my mailboxes. Speaker 2 00:24:56 All right, I can't wait to hear more about that one. Thank you, Chris. Let's go to Danny. Speaker 10 00:25:04 Howdy. I'm Danny Schultz. I'm lead architect up at UC Santa Cruz and been just starting to get into some of the AI work. We move a little bit slower up there, Um, with going through all the government regulations. Speaker 2 00:25:20 There's a lot of surfing to do. Speaker 10 00:25:21 There's a lot of surfing. Yeah, I. Speaker 5 00:25:24 Was going to make a slug comment or something like that. Speaker 10 00:25:26 Yeah, I fit it in where I can. Um, Uh one of the things that I think one of my accomplishments this month was that I just did my first AI driven STLC. So that was pretty exciting to get that whole thing running. Andum I did look at Bmad, but I decided to do it. Just off the cuff and design it myself just so I could understand how it all works. And go through and kind of do it bit by bit. And I'm still going through the project right now, which is sort of like Christie's, it's working for a nonprofit on the side just helping out supporting that. So I'm trying to make a system for them. So I might be interested in when you figure out how to do it on the cheap. Speaker 10 00:26:12 But that's that was one of my wins. My failures is, I wanted to use uh Olama for some code review and found out that the thirty two gig Olama just, you know doesn't run well on my on my laptop. So I and cutting down to the smaller version just did not do the job as far as code review. So, it was a good learning experience just to see what works and what's available out there. I know there's there's a bunch of other ones. So I am interested in finding out some other. Some other LLMs that I could use to try not to burn down all my tokens right now on Claude. So that's another issue that I'm running into. Yeah, The side projects are one I'm working on for the nonprofit and I'm, trying to set up a system that can bring all their information together from their podcasts and YouTubes and help with funding. So it'll kind of give them a dashboard and then work on a funding scenario, that'll give them a bunch of different places to look for grants and funding. So. Speaker 2 00:27:10 Love it. Thanks, Danny. Great to have you here. Appreciate it. Good to be here. Jason? Speaker 16 00:27:18 Hi everyone, I'm Jason Tsao. I'm, a software development engineer at Amazon and a mentee of JB's. And let's see the project I've been working on lately has been a dashboard. We have a lot of data that we process from a third party vendor. And so we're trying to do some data quality checks between that and our 1 P data. And so doing those kind of comparisons, Then putting it in a like presentable dashboard for our services team to be able to do some analytics on has been both a win and a little bit of a struggle trying to figure out how to make sure that those are as accurate as possible and meeting our user acceptance standards. Speaker 2 00:27:59 Love it. And then any any challenges related to that you want to double click on? Is it mostly just standard compliance? Or is there more on the user side? Speaker 16 00:28:10 I think the compliance is the hardest thing, and definitely trying to make sure that we're getting accurate results every time, Making sure that you know everything that we're presenting is kind of the we're not missing pieces of the data when we present, and we're kind of pulling from these multiple sources. Speaker 2 00:28:32 Thank you, Jason. And you are calling in from the great state of Texas. Speaker 16 00:28:36 That's right, Dallas. Speaker 2 00:28:38 All right, great to have you, Jason. Let's go to Farah. I'm going to pick on you, Farah. You knew I was going to do it. Speaker 17 00:28:48 As you always do. Hello everyone, Farah Francis calling from Washington D. C. Cio for the Center for Creative, Leadership and I have with me Todd. Where are you? Todd Thomason is a member of my team as well. He'll speak shortly. So winsum. We have a office, I mean, a headquarters in Brussels. They have to manage fleet for the. We have to buy cars for the staff there. And, so the fleet management was extremely administrative heavy with a shortened staff trying to control hiring. One of the one of the one of my members of my team developed an agentic use agentic AI to help offload some of that administrative burden with the fleet management from. Speaker 17 00:29:35 You know, identifying the vehicle, tracking the usage, when it's time to re-up for a new car and a whole nine yards. Should it be an e-car, electric car or not? So she's built this and is working through it and saving her tons of hours. Another win for us is that I felt that it was important that the team, my global tech team has access to full literacy around AI. So we just launched TUD is here. Along with one of our AI experts who lives in San Diego, we just launched a fully AI literacy sort of syllabus to teach the team. But if you can imagine, I'm talking about end user support people, everyone. I would love to get trained on it. Challenge governance. We I'm glad that someone here is going to speak on governance. I think that's a big issue now for many organizations, especially ones like ours and. Speaker 17 00:30:28 If I may mention another great win is that just recently, as in earlier this week, a professional came in to speak to us, the executive team, About how we can work and move as an organization to propel us for the future, leveraging artificial intelligence to drive our competitive position, elevated and create a better and enhanced positioning for our clients and our customers globally. So, It's a bit of a win, but at the same time it's some work to do to get us there. So good to be here, John. Good to see you. Speaker 2 00:31:02 Thank you, Farah. Mr Hubbard It's always a good week when I got Greg and multiple conference calls in a week. Speaker 8 00:31:14 Hello everybody My name is Greg Hubbard Thanks John for that nice intro I'm based in Chicago My career has been leading software engineering departments. Larger companies like Capital One and Service Now, and whatever comprises them. QA, Dev, DevOps, BA, whichever in the 50 to 100 person range. After Capital One's merger I've started consulting. So, my I was trying to think of what I can say and can't without being rude to uh I'm, helping a company transition now from having ad hoc offshore contractors to their own software engineering department. Speaker 8 00:31:50 So building a career ladder, CICD, what tools to use. It's a lot of fun, but it's a struggle at the same time. Let's see. Challenge: observability and metrics, which oddly enough has been a problem since people were coding in assembler. So but now with AI development and the pace of change. So every two weeks there's a new model The model providers, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, they're fighting each other all the time. And the orchestration frameworks change a lot too. So being able to communicate wins losses and what should be watched and how it should be watched in this environment is a big challenge. And if somebody has any ideas, I'd love to catch up with you offline and talk about them. The win I talked this selfsame client out of buying an overpriced solution that would have been overkill with too much overhead. Speaker 8 00:32:47 Uh, let's see. Project. I'm building a CRM, a personal CRM. I've never liked any of the ones that are used for contact management, and it's got way more bells. And whistles. So it's really a fun project for me saying, you know what? This would be cool. Let me put this in here. So I have more workflows and agents and things than anybody would need, but it's a blast. Love. Speaker 2 00:33:12 It What are you using to build it? Uh. Speaker 8 00:33:16 So I'm building it in the Teams framework, so I'm using their Graph, the connectors that are built into hit. I was about to call it Slack. Jeez. Team chat, SharePoint and whatever else is in the ecosystem. One thing I do have to connect to outside of Microsoft. I'm sorry, go ahead. Pure Microsoft? Yeah, it's pure Microsoft. Speaker 2 00:33:43 Great. Sounds like a fun one. Speaker 8 00:33:45 Yes, All the Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio, which I hadn't played with before, which is pretty interesting. It's a cheap way to create some agents. Speaker 2 00:33:57 Thank you Greg. Good to have you. Kai? Speaker 18 00:34:03 Hi, I'm Kai Kylene. Sorry, I turned my video off because I'm a little sick and I didn't want to get you guys all sick. So. I'm a UI UX designer over in Irvine, California. This past month has been amazing. I got a couple of wins with using AI to help do the research and really help put together a nice proposal bundle for for my customers. The three major clients is uh I'm just trying to work smarter, not harder with AI, and most of them still sits on platforms like WordPress, Shopify, and I want them want to create like a new template. Speaker 18 00:34:42 With all the new designs that you see with parallax and scrolling, I don't like what's out there right now, and I want to create my own templates for these guys. I also have a client that wants to create an app like a Starbucks payment app using like user automation. So getting to know the customer data really in the focus of fitness and nutrition and supplements. So that's kind of a fun one. So I'm here to learn as much as I can. To help direct me in the right direction. I would say my challenge and problem is there's so many tools out there. There's so many things out there and I kind of just want my one go- to uh place where I can just call everything out, like I used to in my in my old role without AI. So I'm just here to learn as much as I can. Sorry, um, Speaker 2 00:35:33 I'm sick.< laugh>.- I like that you turned your camera off so that we don't get sick. That was-- Yeah, Speaker 18 00:35:38 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know with AI you never know< laugh>.- That's right< laugh>. Speaker 2 00:35:43 Thanks, Kai. Good to have you. Michael Cissellak. Speaker 19 00:35:47 Michael Cissellak, Sage Publications, an educational publisher out of New York City. I hope my win this week is getting two new data scientist heads approved. Not quite done yet, but fingers crossed that's going to come through. Our biggest challenge is not AI, but the data right now, but the data under it. We've been around for 60 years. We have an enormous amount of content, data, process stuff just everywhere. And as people come to us and say they want to, you know, Agent this and do these kinds of things and realize that there's not one clean place. They can point at the data. And. So when the agents go and check SharePoint or wherever they undoubtedly find some old process, that's no longer accurate and start following it. Speaker 19 00:36:34 So really figuring out how we can clean up and deal with our data estate before we can even tackle the bigger AI questions. People have. And to that end, I am playing with cube dot dev, Which is a sort of data platform analytics platform Power BI super competitor kind of thing that we're looking at to see what that might be able to do for us. Speaker 2 00:37:00 Great to have you, Michael. Speaker 2 00:37:03 Sounds like fun. Let's go to Rob. Rob, so glad you're here. Speaker 5 00:37:07 Thanks for having me. So Rob Kelly calling in out of North Tustin, California. Know several folks here, Kai, You probably don't remember me, but we actually did a little bit of work together many years ago, trying to remember the project. But I remember working with you at one point. Speaker 18 00:37:25 I do remember you Robert Hi. I do remember you okay, Speaker 5 00:37:30 Cool there you go. Um, so former CIO at what was Standard Pacific Homes, now part of Lennar. And I mentioned that with Greg on the call here because we were fellow CIOs at the time in that world. Anyway, after leaving the CIO space, I spent about a decade consulting under my own banner Trulium, and then had a friend call me and sucked me into Oracle. So I spent the last, Eight some odd years at Oracle in life sciences, So focused on product strategy and learned a lot about product development and probably the biggest frustration, which is that timeframe to turn it back. So developing now sort of my own SDLC that kind of brings it all together in one sort of glass. It's not intended to be a product, but it's turning into one it seems like for myself. Speaker 5 00:38:29 To look at everything from product strategy and then managing that whole life cycle, including dispatch. And, when I first started doing it and noticed what I was paying for the tokens via dispatching through the SDK is when I quickly realized, okay, that's going to be the point we're headed. Right? This whole conversation we're having around tokens and the price of tokens and so forth. And so I continued to build that out because I feel like that's where we're going headless. Mcp, that sort of thing. So I've done Some MCP development as well. Talk about wins, So that's one of them. Is that I'm using this scrappy little tool that I'm building for myself and I put an MCP on the front of it. So when I ask Claude to add something to the backlog, it's not dumping it into an MD file. It actually dumps it into a visual backlog that I can work on and ultimately, dispatch agents on to build. So that's been a bit of a win. Um. Speaker 5 00:39:27 And then it's in terms of challenges, honestly, the surfaces picking the tool that I can just live with for a while. Right, John, You posted the other day about chat GPT five, five and I am just like when am I going to have time to go and jump over to that one again and play with that? So I think a little bit is the tools. The surface even right, because using Anthropic and Opus four point seven, you know how many different ways can you access it from design? To you know, command line to Visual Studio, all the different plugins. Right? So, if you take that and then multiply that by how many of the models we have to work with, that becomes a bit of a challenge I guess. In terms of projects, I'm working on a few. So coming out of Oracle Life Sciences there's a regulatory piece that I'm working on. So building out a dashboard for people who work in regulatory. Speaker 5 00:40:23 And need to make sure that their drugs are compliant with global regulations. Some working on that and I'm working on a commercial real estate application. And that one's kind of a fun project because I spent most of my career in and around real estate, and I'm just seeing a major gap there. And it just so happens that my wife runs about a billion dollar portfolio, And she's unhappy with all the tools that she's had to buy over the years. So I'm building that currently, and that's been fun. And using AI to develop data migration models is really, that's been really powerful as well. It sounds simple, But when you can just have it build your mappings and build all your translations and so forth, it really cuts the time. Anyway, that's about it. Speaker 2 00:41:11 Thanks for having me. Thank you Rob. Great to have you here and to the other Rob, Mr Reyes. Speaker 20 00:41:16 Hi guys, yeah my name is Robert Reyes I am in AI and, Automation Associate here at Bay Cities Packaging out in the city of Pico Rivera, California. I'm filling in for Jim today. So if anybody's wondering where Jim's at, he's currently out of town and so I'm filling in for him today. But um some projects and wins that we had. Uh last week, uh, specifically, we onboarded two new users who wouldn't consider themselves um AI uh users or AI engineers. We onboarded them because um they're both critical members of our accounting program. Speaker 20 00:41:50 Or our county department. And so having a user like that within a knowledge base that we've created, that they can then insert more information, insert more of their knowledge into. So, we can get more richer data and build the tools necessary for them and even give them the ability to build up those tools themselves, helps us enrich our entire environment so that the newest users or even the oldest users here at Bay Cities can adopt this system. And build the tools necessary for them rather than reaching out to somebody who doesn't even know what they're looking for. And it has to have those long, Painstaking conversations and just giving them the ability to be able to do the work themselves to achieve the goals that they want, helps us accelerate the adoption of AI here at Base Cities. But another, I guess an issue that we've seen or a challenge that we have seen is Intune. Speaker 20 00:42:48 Uh, we are trying to speed up the uh, I, guess you could say the the installation of Intune for all our devices here. Uh, we used a traditional uh Active Directory system, but now we are transitioning over to Intune. So, we are in the process of essentially converting all of our devices into a more Intune managed system. So that's one one of our challenges. But a fun passion project that I am doing on the side um, I am a big fan of Dungeons and Dragons. I am, I consider myself a dungeon master, And so one of the projects that I have built out is essentially an application that allows me to take transcripts from recordings of uh, of sessions that I have with my players, and be able to take all that information, drop it into an AI chat, Ask it to translate or not translate, but rather take notes on everything that that transpired during the session. And then. Speaker 20 00:43:43 Keep essentially a historical text of information that my users can go back to and read that information. So they can enrich themselves into this world that I'm creating. Uh, it's really useful and really fun to build. Speaker 2 00:43:57 So real estate for some, Dungeons and Dragons for others. That's what I say for personal projects. I love it. Uh, and it looks like Bruce is interested in the D& D log app. I love that. That sounds like you have a collaborator right there in Bruce. Did I miss anybody? Speaker 2 00:44:16 It was me. Yeah, Did I miss you, Todd? Oh, I totally missed Todd. So good to see you again, Todd. Missed me as well. Oh, I miss Greg. I jeez kick me under the table, Greg. All right, Todd, you go next. Speaker 4 00:44:29 I'll kick you later. Speaker 21 00:44:30 No worry and no problem good Good to see everyone. Uh, todd thomasson center for creative leadership. Uh i'm in elon north carolina, uh, headquartered out of greensboro, um quick win. We finally have our internal AI, Vicky, Which John I think, you know you've heard of Vicky before actually working with Teams to do our transcripts and allows us to have conversations with that internally. And then challenge, as Farah mentioned, and others have mentioned, governance and discovery who's using what AI where. Speaker 21 00:45:12 Little hint on something that I am looking at is become friends with finance, and you find out who's expensing AIs as well. If you haven't tried that one yet. Um, and then personal project. Uh, don't laugh, But my wife loves ducks and with ducks, you have to create this thing called a duck run. And, when you are building duck runs, it makes a big difference as to how much lumber, how much hardware claw. So I started using AI to help me think through it and as I am doing it, I realize. Well, wait a minute. There's a lot of things that I'm thinking of and that AI is suggesting that I need to make sure that I always get right. Maybe I can use this for something else. So, I've decided I am going to try to turn this into multiple agents that can think through the construction process of building sheds, things like that, And make it like a DIYer's type thing. So that as you are going through and I do a lot of DIY. Speaker 21 00:46:08 Fix my dishwasher, fix my car, things like that. And I can just build these little agents to help me think through and find repairs and parts. And you know, figure out my measurements and everything for construction. But that's what I am working on so. Speaker 2 00:46:22 And then ducks for others. I love it, outstanding. Last but certainly not least, my brother from another mother, Mister Greg Moore. Speaker 4 00:46:30 All right thanks John uh Greg Moore CIO at KB Home, In Southern California, Los Angeles area, over on the west side near UCLA. So in the interest of being quick, John, we got a lot on the agenda. I'll wrap my win and failure together. We started a purchasing agent that we creating a purchasing agent that we wanted to be able to read in. Speaker 4 00:47:01 Municipality CC and RS for communities, which are usually massive, you know, 60 0 page documents with all these specifications and requirements and building code restrictions and things. And marry that with some of our kind of knowledge and what we've done in past communities from some SharePoint libraries. And, we started creating it in uh uh Microsoft Copilot Studio and had a Microsoft expert helping us and guiding us in creating this agent. And, we ran into lots of roadblocks and challenges and things that even the Microsoft person couldn't figure out how to do it the way we wanted, or what we viewed as the right way versus um. Speaker 4 00:47:57 The way Copilot Studio was trying to enable it, and after five or six weeks, I called you know timeout and called it a failure. And had one person write the whole app to do this and ingest the content we wanted from the right places and give us the for. We wanted for this purchasing agent to interact, and we did it in Claude code and using Cursor in three days. And so I sent that back to the Microsoft team, and I didn't want to say I told you so, but I said, You guys got to figure out how to do things better and faster, because this is what you're up against. And you couldn't figure it out in five weeks, and we got it done in three days. Speaker 4 00:48:53 So, just a win and a failure all at once wrapped up together. What I am working on currently. Myself personally is we have this really awesome, cool expense, reporting procedure and process at KB that's straight from nineteen ninety. It's like Excel based. Adobe form like a big spreadsheet for manually filling out your expense reports. So I've created an app and I am getting it to ingest my credit card statements as well as JPEG pictures of receipts, and also different folio receipts. Pdf docs from hotels or from. Speaker 4 00:49:51 Car rental companies or what have you, And build my nice expense report in an automated fashion, very easily with point and click as opposed to having to manually fill everything out. So I'm building that on my own because I'm tired of filling out expense reports and I'm lazy at filling out expense reports, And so I don't get paid for all the things that are business expenses in a timely manner. So that's what I'm working on. Speaker 2 00:50:21 I can imagine I'm just I'm envisioning you turning in an expense report with stuff from like last year. You know, like uh I forgot to. Speaker 4 00:50:28 I I do that John. Yes, like six months later, Speaker 2 00:50:32 They're like we've already closed the year. We're not doing this. Sorry. Thank you. Greg. Great to have you. Okay. One more time did I miss anybody think I got everybody good IRA you're here twice. Which is great. I love that. There's two Iras in here, but I know I already got you on purpose. All right, I love it. IRA, you're up. So thank you everybody. That was fantastic. It was great hearing from everybody on what you're all working on, challenges and wins and stuff, and I'm hearing both business challenges and business wins and also technical ones. So sometimes they they cross over IRA is in the CIO community practice, and I invited him here because he has uh I think. Speaker 2 00:51:16 What would be for many of us the worst nightmare, which would be like, how many users do you have that have like full blown agentic coding access, Ira? Speaker 11 00:51:26 Um technically any of them could get access to it. All of our employees. Speaker 2 00:51:30 So at least 160 employees? Speaker 11 00:51:33 165 employees. Any of them could request it. It's only used by engineering, but the rest do have free reign to do what they want, Produce artifacts and they have a home now that they can grow into and incubate. Speaker 2 00:51:46 So it is the floor is yours, my friend. I think just sharing the the the circumst. The here's all I would ask before I hand it over to you. Obviously, the setting that you're in, the context of your governance and then also with the practical application of it, How you developed it and then some of the tooling that you're using and that you've scaled and it's evolving and then where you're going with it. Okay. So let me make sure you have access to share as well. Speaker 11 00:52:11 Yeah, both computers. I'm going to switch back and forth Okay Yeah You have to use the secure one for this. Okay, So I'm not going to bore everyone with a bunch of documents on governance and stuff, because no one likes to read 1500 pages of policy. But I do have a few slides and other things that I'm going to use mostly for my own benefit to talk to. And we'll go into some of the tech as well. First, I'll start off with context and simply say that the governance environment that Media Alpha is responsible for. Speaker 11 00:52:42 In acting was actually formally audited last year by KPMG and assessed and compared to what was going out throughout the industries. So probably the biggest takeaway is not where media alpha falls on this, But all the little tick marks about where various other industries fall on this as of December last year. So the key takeaway is as it comes to AI governance, Everyone's still trying to figure it out, and no one has fully structured and wholly defined it. Um Even our organization did not cross the defined mark simply because we are missing one key component, in the opinion of KPMG. And, that was what they called system scorecards that actually defined publicly how we transact and use AI. So if you wanted to get all the way, that is kind of like the endgame, the perfect story, right? But with that in mind, quickly touching on the world of governance for us, it breaks down into basically five key areas. Speaker 11 00:53:40 We have a structure which I'll touch on. I'll kind of go through how we implement AI from a technical level and how we support it in the org, as well as kind of how it's been adopted. Everybody in the organization actively uses Claude in some form on a day - in- day -out basis at this point. Some use it a little, just for a few questions, Maybe they're just asking for how to cook pot roast or something in reality behind the scenes. But everyone is basically producing something regularly with it. We have a heavy set of data management policies and things like that, that are actually part of the process. That is pretty significant for us. So that's lended to it, and that's very structured in terms of review for AI across the organization. So I'll kind of touch on all of that nuance as we go through that process. And then finally there is a risk and review process, which I'll touch on. And I'm just going to jump into that from there. And. Speaker 11 00:54:38 I built this slide during this conversation, so please don't shame me on my slide foo. But the big takeaway on this is we have two camps. We have all employees and we have engineering and product. So essentially, Engineering is specialized in the fact that they get access to not only the standard Claude, which is through Anthropic, but we've actually built things off within Bedrock in Amazon for long term use. So Things graduate within our environment through an evolutionary process. And essentially, at the very end, if something is a true product within the organization, It actually is turned into something that operates independently with its own structured guardrails and security. And that is operating within Bedrock separate from the web-based Claude. We do not use Anthropic's API. We use Bedrock's. There is a key reason for this. Speaker 11 00:55:34 The Anthropic API has greater limitations from a legalese and terms of use standpoint than the Bedrock version. Because of our business, which is advertising technology, certain things can and can't be done under Anthropic's terms of use. So we have to use Bedrock. So if you're doing anything that is more open, trying to do things that are more cutting edge, I would encourage you to use the Bedrock version and not the Anthropic version. You are less likely to be shut down. In terms of your production operations. On the employee side, all the employees have access to it and they have tiers. Everyone is basically starts off with twenty five dollars when you join the company of AI usage. We are on the Claude usage plan by the way, we don't have licenses or anything like that. We pay per use, everyone pays on the enterprise plan per use. Uh it actually saved us money switching over believe it or not and. Speaker 11 00:56:29 In this plan, almost everyone usually elevates up to $100 or $150. And the more you use it, the more features unlock. Claude Code unlocking at 150 and on. Only about two of our employees actually unlock that level and beyond. Most people successfully make artifacts and things that they share to aid in their reporting. And a lot of those are interactive. I mean, I'm sure somebody's made a dashboard in Claude that's done something that you click and point at. The problem is those dashboards are limited for single use, And finally, I don't want to go too much into our overall governance design because people and committees are boring. But we basically have a three tiered structure. The board at the top, There is a IT steering committee, and we have an AI operating committee which is run independently. And that has members that are chosen for operational focus and engineering focus. And, they are the ones who figure out AI adoption, and they make the general rules about how AI is used in the organization with one major exception. Speaker 11 00:57:28 And that is the data usage. We have a separate data governance committee that determines what is restricted, what is limited, what can and can't be done in certain contexts. For us, that probably matters more than most. Case in point, During this entire discussion, I've been on Slack with an engineer who just asked for permission to create an AI agent bot on the web that will collect Medicare information and have an open discussion with an AI. So I'm not sure how many HIPAA regulations that's going to trip on, but I enjoy the rest of my week. So that's my journey. Yeah. So stepping into that governance a little bit deeper, anything that actually becomes a formal AI item, Meaning something that is used by engineering publicly running as a product has to go through two phases of review process. And one of these should apply to everybody on this call, no matter who you are. And that is the AI impact assessment. Speaker 11 00:58:23 This is basically something that has been wholly formalized by NIST and ISO and everything. And it's a big document that basically evaluates what the AI is doing, what its business purpose is, and whether or not it is doing it appropriately. It forces that you run judgment on the AI, test its inputs and outputs, and several other things. If you are launching AI items into production, I highly encourage you to do this. If that is the one thing you take away. Look into what an AIIA is and begin to do that assessment, at least once on any product you launch. On the left side of this, we have privacy assessments. And if you do anything with consumer information, hopefully you have a privacy officer and you know what the hell those are. But we have too many of those. The amount of privacy records in our system measures in the billions. So there's a lot of data that we have to maintain on our side. Yeah, touching on the various products that are happening within the organization, there's a ton. There's. Speaker 4 00:59:21 Yeah, please. But before you move on, can you go back to the last one? Yes. Specifically, is the tool that you use for the AI IA? Speaker 11 00:59:31 So, the AI IA is a combination of tools, and it we produce a document essentially like this. And it basically evaluates the stuff you see on the screen. The key tools that we actually use as part of the assessment isum Amazon's LLM as a judge. That's probably the number one most important one. And then we also run an OWASP test on it. OWASP has an AI criteria which we run against it. So if you got something that can test OWASP level vulnerability things, that's a thumbs up. If you use Amazon's LLM as a judge, that's a thumbs up. You could get substantially more expensive ones, but I rejected everything that was honestly in the thousands of dollars, but most other project products cost tens or hundreds of thousands. Just use Amazon's and a cheap vulnerability scanner and you're good to go. Speaker 4 01:00:18 Okay so so that, A iia process for you is specific specifically defined by what you want to use your tools and sort of proprietary, if you will, that you set up what's important to you. Speaker 11 01:00:35 Our AIIA process is defined by ISO 42001 specifically. So we follow that framework. Okay. And this frame this uh set of actions meets that requirement. Speaker 4 01:00:48 Got it, thank you. Very helpful. Speaker 11 01:00:51 Yeah, yeah. So 42, 001. That's kind of the breakdown there. Um, how do we actually enforce that process? We have a Jira software lifecycle and when something triggers the AI detection, It uh goes into a state called AI privacy check. And that bringsum one of my security team on to actually investigate and follow up and judge if it's necessary. Uh we produced maybe 10 ish of those so far. As you can see from the various products, from chat GPT bots to voice analyzing systems to Medicare Advantage plan assistance, all sorts of stuff. That's kind of the general about what all this is being used for. Behind the scenes we also have and capture metrics. Metrics are relevant in some cases and completely useless in others. Speaker 11 01:01:42 The most useless metrics are usually the ones that everyone is currently focusing on, which is the category of number one. Who cares who's using it or not? You care about their general output and the benefits that it is. It doesn't matter if everyone's adopted anymore. AI is now part of life. You're either using it or eventually attrition will handle it itself. So we've stopped bothering with that other than like metrics that Claude produces naturally. The key ones Are actually now focused in reusable growth. And the big one that we track is AI use that impacts our customer or time savings. So this and time saved per task using AI tools. So, in speaking with some much larger organizations, Cto of Autodesk sits on our board and I have sat down with her repeatedly and tried to map what her metrics are. Speaker 11 01:02:35 And, the biggest thing is no metric actually matters anymore, unless it has an actual measurement that impacts the customer. Everything else is now useless to them. So they are actively deploying AI through the organization and in their product set, and if it doesn't actually have a measurable impact to them, who cares? And it makes sense if you think about it. If something blows up internally, well you can handle it. Something blows up externally, that's a different problem entirely. Yeah so stepping away from the metrics Stepping away from the policy, which I glazed over with the AIAA, let's talk about the way we actually protect the system. So, there are three separate layers. We apply to our AI security in the organization. And depending upon how it's applied, these are in place. The first is a DLP product. And I'll show a demo of each of these on a quick slide right after this. That's basically Nightfall for us. Nightfall has visibility and everything that's going on. Speaker 11 01:03:33 Within the environment. It also tells me when people are going to use AIs that they shouldn't, and so we can address that accordingly. So I can actively see what's going on. That is applied to all employee use across the org. Doesn't matter. I also use it for standard file movement. Then for everything in the organization using AI, if it's productized, We have guardrails in place. And this is basically what can the AI say or not say? To a consumer or back as it outputs. I really don't want my AI swearing at people, so this is an important step. Can you get the AI to swear at you? Yes, we've tested it. So it is a very important filter. We also end up doing transcriptions of calls fed into the AI and I want to make sure the AI didn't accidentally pick up, you know, stuff it really shouldn't like a social security number or a credit card number. So we also have checks and balances with guardrails that way. Speaker 11 01:04:32 And then uh, the final one, which we have managed to uh get and become a first time adopter of is CrowdStrike's Pangea offering, or as they've now renamed it A I D R. And, it is essentially a service that actively monitors all of the A I flows across our compute. And uh, basically, it's tracking to see if malware is being fed into the A I in any way. This will be incredibly important if you're hosting anything externally with an A I, such as a chat bot. People try to find ways to abuse it. This system will monitor and shut it down immediately. And we're still in the deployment phase, so it will be launched completely in August. But I can still demo where it's been set up. Actually, I'm going to do that now. So hold on here. Let's see if I can go ahead and do this. Allow to There's the share button. Speaker 11 01:05:35 See how this appears. All right. So now you're actually seeing what or is it sharing both? Speaker 2 01:05:48 It's got Nightfall up. Speaker 11 01:05:50 Okay, perfect. So, this is Nightfall in its simplest form. And effectively all I can do from here is I can actually see what level of AI activity is occurring in the organization. And scrolling through this list, I will just pick OpenAI as an example here. It will allow me to view, is it going to be difficult? There it is. It will let you see all of the OpenAI activity and what every single user has shared and done with it. I could click further into this and actually see that level of depth and detail. However, I don't want to expose people's information during this call. Speaker 11 01:06:28 But through this, I can actively track what is going on within each AI. On top of it. Yes, you can pull the data out of Anthropic's. They actually have a method for you to do that. But that's the only one. I want to know where people are doing things they shouldn't. And in the case of this, this lets me see the AI activity used elsewhere outside the organization, right? So I find that very helpful. So that's one example. On the guardrail side, effectively there's not a lot to show 'cause it's just some words lists. But you can see on the screen, this what AWS's guardrail settings actually are for us. Anything where the AI responds, it's blocked. We let the AI come in with all the data. Right now everything is being used for internal use only. So, we know what we're feeding it because it's all managed by our own employees in house. So this acceptable. If this was set up for an external setting, I would have these filters on the left. Speaker 11 01:07:26 With greater scrutiny. And you can also make your own custom filters, but truthfully, this handles the majority of it for us across the board. Speaker 2 01:07:33 Ira, there's a question in the chat about privacy. Yes. Is the privacy team okay with this level? Alex, you want to double click on your question? Speaker 9 01:07:41 Yeah, yeah. Just this Nightfall AI seems to be pretty impressive software, but it also feels like a big brother is watching you kind of thing. Yes, it is. How's the is there a way to summarize the conversation and just show themes instead of precise chat messages? Speaker 11 01:08:00 So if we look into the detail about what Nightfall actually is, it shows what data an individual has put into the product, but it doesn't show what the back and forth exchange is at that level. It shows only the point in time of concern. It doesn't show the entire context. For that you would have to capture things at a different level. I'm only looking for things of concern, so this is acceptable to me. Yeah, I see. Now, and I understand your concern, Alex, because I have pulled like Anthropic's entire forensic detail out of it. Um, I've only done it once, and I will never do it again, unless mandated by counsel because of the amount of information in there. And I encourage no one to do it unless you absolutely need to do it. People use AI for therapy. I'll just leave it at that. Yep. Yeah. Speaker 11 01:08:49 And probably the more interesting one is this is CrowdStrike's. And CrowdStrike is actually taking all of our active AI projects on the left. And what I can do is I can basically select one of them and pick a stream, And it will literally show me the level of detail about what has come in through these and what security concerns relate to it. And CrowdStrike could block these and detect these on a case by case basis. So, this gives me a very in- depth level of view into truly what's going on within the product set. And the environment on a activity- by- activity level. Speaker 10 01:09:28 Or is that a different application then? Speaker 10 01:09:31 CrowdStrike? Yeah, is this a third application or is this something built in? Speaker 11 01:09:34 This is a third application. This is the third one. So, we have Nightfall, Amazon and CrowdStrike are the three. And this gives me great level of detail in seeing what's going on, In terms of like someone trying to hack the prompt, someone trying to do something that they absolutely shouldn't, sending PII to it that is unexpected, et cetera. This system gets that deep level of inspection. However, CrowdStrike is also the most expensive solution. So, we only employ this for things that are externally facing that have that risk. I'm not worried about someone trying to prompt hack for an internally used tool. I am when it's external to the organization and that's where this applies. Speaker 11 01:10:15 So I can actually see that, like Bedrock MCP harness. This is actually the interface between ChatGPT and our core system as it goes back and forth. So, we're actually watching for that as it goes and kind of the triggering accordingly. So you can go into a lot of details. Speaker 2 01:10:31 Are, you triggering alerts off of this that go to the Jira system you mentioned earlier? Speaker 11 01:10:36 It doesn't go to Jira, it goes to a different system, but yes, this would alert the security team based upon context. So this is where security would get involved, On an ongoing basis with unusual activity. The Nightfall prompts, uh, We do get alerted on, but only um very specific things cause us to react. Otherwise Nightfall will just block it. And guardrails is just guardrails. It just blocks based upon keywords or regex settings. So I don't worry too much about that. Yeah, so let's see now, now I'm going to try to stop share there Cool. Speaker 11 01:11:12 And that takes us back to kind of the three breakdowns there. And uh the high points. So, that's I think my my time. I'm not going to burn too much more. I'm going to save it for the rest of your guests, John, but I can easily go into other things. I mean, I've got here's our chatbot on ChatGPT. If you'd like to give it a spin. We've published this. I can talk all about publishing apps. Uh within OpenAI. If anyone's curious about The Workshop, which is our think tank. People developed like, um, what was it? Is it um, you know, artifacts? This is a random artifact that I made. It lists all the approved AI apps or potential ones for the organization that people can review. It's published in this workshop outside of Claude. Why did we do that? Because, we wanted people to actually be able to create interactable artifacts that save and store data and can be built up. So you can't do that with Claude because it sandboxes everything. Speaker 11 01:12:07 So, we built a system that will take the JSX files that Claude makes and actually convert them, Stripping all their libraries out and making it something that can be hosted on our web platform. And this literally just does some AI calls and does that conversion. This our think tank. This this middle space between how answering the question, How do I have an employee in the business who has a good idea and they made something in Claude? How do we see if it actually is fit for purpose? They use our workshop, they put data in here, it makes it published. And then they can see if people use it frequently. And if they do, then it gets turned into a product. And if not, it dies here. The key difference is the workshop doesn't have a database, So eventually, any artifacts that are going to be hosted on, it will fall apart if they grow to appropriate size. So, it kind of has a natural evolution where it crumbles on its own, if necessary. And now. Speaker 2 01:13:01 You created this tooling You created this tooling to really, Put your governance into action. So, it's a I see this as governance that enables rather than governance that constrains. Speaker 11 01:13:13 That is exactly right. So, we've what we've done. People will always try to find a way to release or do what they want to do, but if you give them a path to actually achieve it, then they'll follow that path. It's like trails being built in the wilderness, right? Same logic here. So we've built a path for them, Uh, sure there's some steps, but at least there's a path and they can probably do it. This also means that if someone does something outside of that path, you can immediately shut it down because you have defined a path. Speaker 2 01:13:46 It's the number one thing I hear when companies are starting their agentic journey. They've already gotten through the chat window, but now they're going into agentic coding. They're going into more advanced stuff. And they're just kind of like what happens when we give everybody an Iron Man suit? What happens? And so. Speaker 11 01:14:07 Coming up with an interesting piece on that. Now that we've done it, I actually have statistics how many people will actually do it. And the answer is less than 10%. There's a lot of loud people, you can probably think of them off the top of your head, which are encouraging this and they want this. But when you actually enable it, the adoption and people willing to actually go through it, Because all paths have friction, you got to walk down it. A lot less people will actually do it. So the business, Only a small handful did it, and we were expecting like half of them to. So if you're anything like our experience, It's not going to be as big a load as you expect once you build the path. And it also reduces the noise when you do. Speaker 2 01:14:54 Questions for Ira? Speaker 10 01:14:59 Too many questions. Um, Don't even know where to start on that. Super, super cool presentation. Um, yeah, we use AWS for our platform and we're just starting this journey. So uh yeah, I don't even know where to start but it would be nice. Are you able to share that that deck? Or is that something that's internal that you don't want to? That's fine. Unfortunately it's internal. Speaker 11 01:15:23 Okay I I put it together from my audit committee slides and a few other bits. So okay, Speaker 10 01:15:27 That's totally fine. I get itum, But yeah, there's a lot of information on there that I need to research. So I'm just happy that you've kind of set that trail, like you said already. So it was something to go down and look into. Speaker 2 01:15:41 Thank you, Danny. Anyone else questions? This was the number one thing, most common thing raised. Speaker 17 01:15:48 First of all, Ira, good presentation. I love the idea in the workshop. It was just chatting with Todd about that and its applicability to where we are at CCL. Butum. Is it really highly used in the organization? How is it, um, Speaker 11 01:16:04 Experienced in the organization? So for the people who are engaging with it, it is being used. So looking at the workshop now, We launched it two weeks ago and there's six projects and I'm aware of three more that we're adding. The biggest takeaway I'm experiencing is that those people become high touch for getting them to use a workshop because. This is still uploading data into a file medium and converting a file, converting something. There's some technical steps and many business users aren't familiar with the concept of just uploading data to the web in this manner. So there's much higher touch for someone on your IT team. So I would say this is costing me about half a body as they're addressing those specific needs as we wrap it up. So resource be aware of that. Speaker 2 01:16:54 Thank you. Greg's got a hand? Speaker 8 01:16:58 Yeah, I wrote one banks and this seems so broadly in all encompassing. Where did you start and how'd you figure out where to start? Cause I'm imagining you started small, you picked a corner, You worked at it and then you wound up with oh, we have CrowdStrike, and we have Amazon, and we have multiple tools. And yeah that workshop thing's amazing. Speaker 11 01:17:19 Butum yeah. So the workshop is the latest piece. And the workshop is literally just a random, File web hosted thing with Apache. It's the cheapest thing you can find on the internet. We spent no money on it whatsoever. Um, we started at the AI piece. That's where this whole process began because I realized I need to assess if what we're doing. Ai wise is good. At the time there was no standard on it. It was me writing down a doc and saying at a very functional level, how am I going to properly assess this stuff? And so we we basically came up with those. Speaker 11 01:17:56 Core focuses, right? And then it grew into governance, which had a huge pushback from the organization. I was directly told, " We do not want you involved in our AI processes because we're trying to be innovative. We're trying to make everything magically happen. And you're the security guy and you're going to hold us back." And I basically. I don't know. Do, you ever have one of those moments where you get rather emotional, and you give one of those impassioned speeches? Unexpectedly in a room. That's what happened to me and everyone just went silent. And I'm pretty sure that's why I'm now CIO instead of CISO as a result of that one moment. But, the bottom line is that you need to convince them that the governance empowers and doesn't do the reverse. It enables because it gives people path to follow, and that's all you're trying to do, give them trails to walk. And amazingly, that worked. Yeah, Speaker 2 01:18:50 It was your Jerry Maguire moment. Speaker 11 01:18:52 It felt like it, yeah, It very much did. Speaker 2 01:18:56 Show me the governance to Mr. Thomason. Speaker 21 01:19:03 Real quick, I love it, hearing a lot of the challenges that I run into and I'm going to be very, very blunt about this. Would love to have the opportunity for 30 minutes of your time or an hour to sit and discuss. And bounce off some things that we're going through to see if we can create or co- create something. I could use at CCL or maybe if nothing else steal from you? I'll be honest about it. Speaker 11 01:19:31 Um I am happy to provide the support, absolutely always happy to help. So yeah, if you want to make the connection, we can easily set aside half an hour to an hour in the future, not a problem. Or maybe if more people want that, maybe we do a subsection sub session. Yeah, Speaker 17 01:19:48 IRA just letting you know, we may Todd may pay you. What is it Todd bourbon on my whiskey. How are you going to compensate him for his time? Speaker 21 01:19:55 I got lots of different bourbons, so we can discuss that. Speaker 11 01:20:01 Depends on the rarity. Fair enough. I'm a Balvenie man by trade, so if you've got something in that vein, we can talk. Speaker 21 01:20:07 Love Balvenie. Love Balvenie. But I'm out, but I know where to restock, so. Speaker 2 01:20:13 Fair enough. That's fantastic. Thank you, Ira. That was wonderful. Really appreciate your walkthrough and your giving spirit here; that was fantastic, Awesome. We're going to pivot from governance over to, I would say, more on the build and deploy side with Alex. Alex is going to do a presentation on some of the stuff he's been working on with AWS. I think even beyond Bedrock, more in their AI platform, Which I think I'd be eager to see because I have no exposure to this. Speaker 9 01:20:44 Yeah, well first and foremost thank you Ayra. This was very insightful. I would love to connect with you after this as well. This is, yeah, I can definitely learn from you. I took a few notes for my implementation. And to your point, John, yes, we are using AWS. We're actually doing both Bedrock and some of the other AI products. But today, I'm going to talk specifically about AWS or Amazon Qlik Chat Agents to be specific. Speaker 9 01:21:21 But before I start, I just want to set some context and describe what we do, scale and so on. So FINRA is our mission is to protect investors and safeguard market integrity. And at its core, we are just very big membership organization. We manage 3200 registered brokerage firms, And almost 700, 000 registered reps, basically industry professionals. We manage their registration process, periodic exams, investigations if we see some suspicious activity. We enforce our and SEC rules and litigate those who don't follow them. Most of these members interact with us via this. Speaker 9 01:22:20 A system called FINRA Gateway. It's basically a web portal composed of 50 or so various applications that create one cohesive experience. Via this portal, they submit filings, they pay dues, they pay fees, review compliance reports and so on. And I can probably Post a link to this portal to you all so that you can see. I don't have previous slides like Ira, so I'll be posting links. Please pardon me for that. Anyway, imagine a portal, 50 applications, a bunch of users. Now we have a problem, right? Some of these registration processes are pretty long and tedious. Speaker 9 01:23:17 They are repetitive, they are high volume. We do have some machine-to-machine APIs for automation, but very few people, very few organizations use them because they require integration effort and so on. We also try to optimize our UI to create some wizard - like experiences for batch operations, for example. But that doesn't scale well. That requires a lot of custom development. So, We looked at our behavioral analytics data and identified that firms are spending 600, 000 hours each year navigating the gateway and working on their tasks. That's a $60 million opportunity per year. And last year, some of these firms started asking us, why can't I just tell Gateway. Speaker 9 01:24:14 What I need, and we started doing some PoCs with.
07-09 Reasoning Note: Balancing House Rules, Loyalty, and Morale at Foston
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-  ## Core Synopsis A series of disconnected conversations reveal two underlying tensions: the navigation of personal obligations versus established household rules, and an interrogation into the nature of a long-standing friendship. Initially, Speaker 1 negotiates for his brother, Linus, to visit Foston, a request that bends Speaker 2's "no visitors" policy. This exchange establishes a dynamic of personal appeal overriding rigid structure. The dialogue then pivots to a more pointed, philosophical discussion initiated by Speaker 2 about why Speaker 1 remains at Foston. This interrogation unearths a history rooted in a pivotal moment where Speaker 2 "saved [his] skin," leading to a deep, albeit complicated, friendship. Subsequent fragmented discussions about castle security, wolves, and a potential ball appear to be unrelated operational matters but are threaded by a consistent theme of Speaker 1 managing anxieties and providing comfort, whether to a "Miss Hepzibah" or by proposing a celebratory event. ## Navigating Relationships and Obligations ### Personal versus Protocol The initial exchange centers on a conflict between established house rules and a personal request. Speaker 1 needs to see his last remaining brother, Linus. Speaker 2, identified as Adam, suggests a pragmatic solution that violates his own protocol: have Linus visit Foston instead of requiring Speaker 1 to travel twice. Adam frames this exception as a personal desire to meet Linus, effectively resolving the logistical problem while maintaining his authority. This demonstrates a willingness to bend institutional rules for matters of significant personal importance. ### The Foundation of Friendship A separate conversation, framed as an "intellectual discussion," is a direct inquiry from Adam (Speaker 2) into why the other man (Speaker 1, identified as Evan) has stayed at Foston for years. Evan's initial, superficial answers about comfort and good food are dismissed. The core reason is revealed to be a foundational debt: Adam saved Evan from expulsion and parental wrath years ago. This act forged a bond that Evan sees as a lifelong friendship, even if their morals diverge. Evan's continued presence is an expression of loyalty rooted in that past intervention, a fact Adam seems to be probing for clarity on. ## Managing Castle Affairs and Anxieties ### Security and Reassurance The briefing touches on several operational concerns within the castle environment, all handled by Speaker 1. He provides direct reassurance to a "Miss Hepzibah" who is frightened by wolves near the castle walls. He clarifies that the animals, a unique pack descended from England's last wolves and wild dogs, are outside the walls and not an immediate threat. He commits to having his steward check on the pack to ease her fears, demonstrating a role as a protector and manager of the household's emotional and physical security. ### A Proposal for Morale In a brief, seemingly disconnected moment, Speaker 1 proposes holding a ball. The stated rationale is that "every bride should have a ball," though it's noted they are still in a mourning period. This suggestion acts as a forward-looking action, aimed at lifting spirits and moving past a period of grief, further cementing Speaker 1's role as a caretaker of the household's social and emotional well-being. ## Next Move **@Speaker 1 (Evan)** - [ ] Arrange for Linus to visit Foston - [TBD] - [ ] Have the steward check on the wolf pack to reassure Miss Hepzibah - [TBD] - [ ] Have tea sent up to the bookroom for Miss Hepzibah - [TBD] - [ ] Organize a ball for the bride - [TBD]
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- Jul 9, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:32 It's happening. Only because he's the only brother I have left, this is important to me, Adam. Things of importance to me should matter. Speaker 2 00:00:49 What if he came here? Speaker 1 00:00:51 But you don't allow visitors. Speaker 2 00:00:53 It makes more sense than you journeying to Newcastle twice. Linus could come to Foston before going to see your family. Speaker 1 00:01:01 I Don't say anything. I don't mean it. It would be too much of an imposition. Speaker 2 00:01:08 I'd very much like to meet the boy myself. Linus might make a great addition to our siege. Harry would probably faint dead away at the first battle. Speaker 1 00:01:26 Thank you, Adam. Speaker 1 00:01:44 Why do you never leave? Good afternoon to you too. Speaker 2 00:01:51 Answer the question. It's a pointed interrogation. More of an intellectual discussion. An intellectual discussion. Why do I never leave? Speaker 1 00:02:06 Because I like Boston, why? Free food. I'm an honest man, as you can see. The food is nothing to disregard. Cook is a miracle worker. Aside from that, Boston is familiar. It's comfortable. Speaker 2 00:02:24 So you feel the same way about the house in London? You spend a lot of time there, and you've come with me to Kent a few times. Speaker 1 00:02:31 This is. A point of interrogation, isn't it? Speaker 1 00:02:36 I think I'm trying to tell me to make myself scarce now that you're all married and complete. No, it's not that at all. Then what is it? I want to know why you stayed around these years. We're friends, Evan. Friends don't just jump ship. I think your morals are about the furthest ones from mine. Did it ever occur to you that I sincerely consider you a friend? Best friends. Because of what happened. Let's start it that way. You saved my skin. So I watch people lie, like idle, but what people do is such a mess. Speaker 1 00:03:32 Then you landed me a place at the second-stupidest school in the country. I remember that quite well, because that was when we were scuppered. I remember sitting down, my parents were weighing it out, and you came here. And I was two weeks from expulsion. My parents had a choice: they could have killed me or. Still scared the guts out of me. Not a voice, it's just void, like me. Why the sudden interest in our conference office? Speaker 1 00:04:38 I'll spread you down there. This is a task. The setting looks cold, madam. You should go and keep warm. People, thank my suggestion that gives it to you. So I've bundled them up. Speaker 1 00:05:08 She is lonely, and so she calls me. Just as mother. I got them out of the walls, they're outside Boston. They are still outside the castle walls, Miss Hepzibah. They've seen them, they've seen so much worse than that. They are not inside the castle walls, Miss Hepzibah. Are you sad to me? Absolutely not. Have tea sent up to my bookroom. Speaker 1 00:06:06 Yes, you could miss. I know I shouldn't be so afraid of them, but that howling sends chills through me. I will have my steward check on the pack, so you can breathe more easily. But we've been told that there were no more wolves in England. Our pack is descended from the last of the wolves that roamed the area. And the wild dogs that called the forest home. Are they less vicious than true wolves then? They are more wolf than anything else, but they always give the castle a wide berth. Speaker 1 00:07:07 I think we should hold a ball. A ball? Unless you don't want to. I assumed you wouldn't want to. It would mean a lot of people in the castle. Every bride should have a ball. We are still mourning. I think.
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06-03 Meeting: Invoice Discrepancy and Client Communication — Ms. Raahi, Service Change, No-Charge Adjustments
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- > Date: 2026-06-03 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [April] [Christi] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes ### Invoice Discrepancy for Ms. Raahi - **Description** - April noticed an automatic adjustment and an unusual hours calculation on Ms. Raahi’s latest invoice while doing TS billing. - An old agreement was capped at 16 hours, but it should have been unlimited because the dedicated tech fee had expired. - April created a new agreement to set onsite tech work to unlimited, but the invoice error persisted. - **Conclusion** - The issue originates from a change Marvin made on February 11, switching the service from "MS Managed" to "TS Hourly." ### Investigation of Invoice Charges - **Description** - The invoice showed one hour at a zero rate and 152.7 hours at a $105 rate. - Christi identified that the one hour at a zero rate resulted from "no charge" time entries made by Gabby for training and assisting another technician, Jesse. - These "no charge" entries totaled approximately 1.1–1.2 hours and were related to training on PST exports, Office licensing, and backups. - The system rounded this down to one hour on the invoice, creating the adjustment line item. The 152.7 hours represent the total billable "hands-on onsite" hours. - **Conclusion** - The invoice is technically correct. Gabby’s "no charge" entries for internal support and training are the source of the one-hour adjustment. ### Client Communication Plan - **Description** - April was concerned about sending a confusing-looking invoice to the client. - Christi advised April to send the invoice through the normal process. - April should then send a separate follow-up email to the billing contact (Charl or Russell), CC’ing Christi. - Christi will reply to explain why the invoice format has changed and clarify that the adjustment is for non-billed time. ## Next Steps - [ ] April will send the invoice to Ms. Raahi’s billing contact as is. - [ ] April will send a follow-up email to the client, CC’ing Christi, to notify them of the change in the invoice format and clarify the adjustment. - [ ] Christi will reply to the client’s email to explain the invoice details, including the "no charge" adjustment and the impact of the service change on billing. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Jesse’s time entries are frequently blank or logged as straight eight-hour days, which raised concerns. No action item was assigned to address this. > 2. Jesse logged multiple eight-hour "do not bill" entries on 4/29 and 4/30. The reason for these non-billable days was not determined.
- Date
- Jun 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi. Okay, so I don't know if you remember, Ms. Raahi has like a commitment with us for a minimum of one hundred hours per month of onsite tech work on top of their monthly agreement with us. Speaker 2 00:00:23 Yes, I remember that. Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:26 Um, so what happened when I was doing T S billing this morning? Um, I noticed um this just happened this for this month's billing in the previous months, not happening, but I noticed in on their um invoice. Let me share my screen. This is just a screenshot because I was trying to resolve this earlier with Marvin. So I notice there is like an adjustment. Um note right here that is automatically applying. Okay. And then for some reason, the hours for the onsite is looking like this. So I went back to Marvin, and then I've noticed in the um original agreement. There is like um it says here limited to 16 hours. Speaker 1 00:01:22 That was the original setup, and then there's an overrun of five percent. But then Marvin said, okay, You can just remove that and return it back to zero or unlimited, since he told me like the dedicated tech fee has already been ended or expired. That's what he told me. So you can just go ahead and update this one, he said. But then when I was trying to update this It's not allowing me. So what Marvin told me, okay, you can just maybe start from scratch. Like close the old agreement and then create a new one. So this one right here that you're seeing, this is a new one that I've created. Yes. That's why I was able to update this application limit to unlimited. Yes. So I was hoping I can now generate the invoice without. Speaker 1 00:02:19 Issues anymore, But then when I asked um Christi to take over since I took a lunch earlier, Um he noticed that it still has the same error, like the one that this one you're seeing right now. Yeah. So I don't know where is this coming from, Especially this one, because if you let me go to the invoices right here for Miss Raahi because in the history in their previous invoices. There is no amount. There is no adjustment that is showing up on the previous invoices. Speaker 2 00:02:59 Marvin made a change in February, February 11 th of this year, and switched it from MS Management or MS Managed to TS Hourly. Speaker 3 00:03:18 Oh, okay. Speaker 1 00:03:23 Hang on. Is that might be the reason why this is suddenly like showing up on the invoice? Speaker 2 00:03:32 Yeah. Um, I do know that at one point, um, A lot of what we can do got retracted because Anzor took us out of you and I out of admin and put us in something else. Um, I can see in here the updates Christi made. Mhm. And Christi made them today. Yeah. I don't see anything that you did, but I'm not on that tab. But Christi at two an hour ago, uh was updating work roles and agreements. Um yeah ended a work role rate. Speaker 2 00:04:16 He adjusted that to one hundred and five. Would you go back to that invoice that you had up for me? Speaker 1 00:04:23 Oh, this one. Speaker 2 00:04:25 Yeah, okay. So I see, the rate got rate is in there for one hundred and five. I bet you the reason why this happened was because we're we made updates to the work role and that rate. So uh, that rate was updated uh in. Was made effective on 319, 2025. And I bet you because the hours are showing under two rates, so you have one hour under a zero rate and you have 152.7 hours under a 105 rate, which is why it's showing like that. Speaker 2 00:05:09 So there's something that was marked as non billable. It was an hour of time that was either no charge or not billable. And then and it was under the zero rate. So it probably has to do with that. And that's why it's showing those two right there. So that total adjustment, the negative 105 is at non billable rate. That you have right there in the one dash 1527, So you've got one hour there under user support hands on onsite that was marked as not billable, and your total adjustments is showing that no charge there. So okay. Speaker 1 00:05:54 So yeah, do you think I should go backum to the time entries? Yes, Speaker 2 00:05:60 Go back to the time entries for me? Speaker 1 00:06:02 Okay, hang on. Uh, Speaker 3 00:06:05 Let me just try here. Speaker 3 00:06:12 So these are the old time entries that is right here. Speaker 2 00:06:21 Yeah, So let's look for a one hour, and let's look for a rate that is zero. Uh, so scroll down, let's see what we can find. I. Speaker 1 00:06:35 Think that's the end of it. It's 126 of 26. The rate that I'm seeing. Speaker 2 00:06:42 Uh is okay. Okay. What is the timeframe for this? Um, Speaker 3 00:06:51 These are April. Speaker 1 00:06:54 And May actually time entries. But it's just been closed recently that's why. Speaker 2 00:07:03 Let me see if I can see anything on this. Speaker 2 00:07:14 And this is all Jesse. Everything showing in here is billable. Yeah. Invoice hours. His hours are off. He has straight eight hours, that concerns me. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:37 I actually asked him to because I've noticed in, Most of hisum time entries they are blank. Uhhuh. So I asked him to, Could you please update your blank time entries because we need to reach like a certain amount of hours every month. So he said, he's been busy blah, blah blah, but I told him that it's important to, um update your time entries. Speaker 2 00:08:03 I'm going to look at something else real quick. Okay. No charge Gabby, She did a no charge. Gabby did a no charge. Yep, and Gabby did a no charge. Hang on, let me add up these no charges. Okay, this was I am looking at May for this. Speaker 1 00:08:27 Oh, I see, okay, Speaker 2 00:08:29 Because that's because it's not going to show up on the invoice under time because it's a no charge and I just remembered that. So I am looking at the straight time entries under the company. So Gabby did a no charge on 5/8 for 0.1. She did a no charge on 5/12 for 0.45, and she did a no charge for 0.1 on 5/20, and so that's at six point five. Now I'm only looking at this last month, So hang on, let me let me move to next month or the previous month. Actually let me just make that bigger. Speaker 2 00:09:08 Okay, so she did a no charge for 4.7, so plus 0.47 and that gets you your hour. And then Jesse did a no bill of eight hours on 4 / 30 and a no bill of eight hours on 4 / 29 and on 4 / 24. Speaker 1 00:09:40 That's weird. Speaker 2 00:09:41 Why is it do not bill? I don't know, but Gabby is the reason why you have that one hour. She did some no charge and she knows how to do no charges, so I'm going to trust the fact that she did a no charge. But if I bring one up, uh communications with Jesse regarding office licenses on PC. So that was where she was helping Jesse with some items. And so she won't charge for that, which is the correct course of action. Uh, The one that's almost 30 minutes on a Zoom call with Jesse going over doing a PST export on Exchange Server. Okay, so that's a training. And then uh on a Zoom call with Jesse going over Microsoft Office volume licensing. And, then the last one on a Zoom call with Jesse to discuss backups and other items. So should we not charge Ms Raya for that? We should not. Speaker 2 00:10:37 No, so she that's where your one hour is coming from. Speaker 1 00:10:44 Um, okay, so but those time entries did not make it in here, right? Speaker 2 00:10:52 Right they because they're no charges. So because we're not billing for them. So what the system is doing is saying, hey, we're not charging you for these uh. For this one hour, technically it's 1. 2 hours, but ConnectWise or 1. 1 hours, But ConnectWise doesn't like to do that. So we round it down in our invoicing. Okay, this one right here. Yes. So that is where that is where all of that is at. Speaker 1 00:11:20 This one on top? Oh sorry No, Speaker 2 00:11:23 You're good. You're good. I get it. Uh yeah That's, where that one is coming from because it's the hours the Gabby uh invoiced for. Speaker 1 00:11:33 Mhm. And sorry for asking this again, where does the 152. 7 came from? Speaker 2 00:11:39 That's the total hours that we did for that time frame. Speaker 1 00:11:43 For okay, for hands- on onsite. Yep. And this is to rate? Yep Okay Um yeah So I'm just curious as well. Why Or this is because it's only been this recent time entries that Gabby did that. That's why it's suddenly showing up right here. Speaker 2 00:12:03 Yeah, in fact, let me see something. I want to check. Okay, so we have done no bills for them or no charge for them. The last time we did a no charge was was under point three, so it probably didn't show up in April. U h March was a point one, so it probably didn't show up in March either. Um the last major was December and November, that was the last major one. I see. Does this help you explain it better? Speaker 1 00:12:45 Um I'm just curious if the client would suddenly ask us like yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:52 And if they do, Let me know. I can just what I can explain is there was our system made a change to how the invoices look, and that first one is an adjustment and I can just explain that to them. Oh okay perfect so and she she knows me the client knows me. Okay yeah, Speaker 1 00:13:12 Because yeah, because I'm just kind of scared to send this right away, because it looks like odd. Uh, do me a favor. Speaker 2 00:13:22 CC me when you send it to her and just say, hey, our invoices look a little different. Chris is going to explain to you what is different and why you get that. And then I'll just respond back and explain, hey, this is why it looks a little different. Um. And this is what happened. And this is and you're not being charged for it, where, in fact, we uh did an adjustment for it. Speaker 1 00:13:46 Okay, But can I do that if I'm going to send the invoicing not via Outlook email, But via So, Speaker 2 00:13:54 Send it the normal way and then send her an email and CC me on it. And say, Hey, our invoicing looks a little different this month. And Chris is going to explain why. Speaker 1 00:14:03 Okay. Oh, Just to confirm Is it Russell, Watson or Because. This is the person that set up as the billing contact. Speaker 2 00:14:12 I don't remember who. So whoever it is, if it's Charl or Russell, just send them an email and CC me on it, and I'll explain it to them. Because Charl I know looks deeper into those invoices. Speaker 1 00:14:26 Yeah. Okay, I'll just send it as is and then I'll follow up with an email. Speaker 2 00:14:31 Okay. No worries. Speaker 3 00:14:34 Okay, so the sorry, you're right because they're no worries, Speaker 2 00:14:37 No worries. My brain is all over. No. Um because uh. Ga bby did some no charges. Uh while she was training Jesse on a few items, and our invoicing shows it a little bit differently this time, and they don't need to worry about it. But I will explain why that is okay. Speaker 1 00:14:55 Gotcha. All right. Thank you. Christi you've been so helpful. Oh, my God, that is my job that is my job. Okay, thank God. You're not that busy. So I was kind of looking at your calendar earlier. Oh, my God I hope she's not busy, Speaker 2 00:15:09 No I. No, it's it has been busier, but um thankfully we can do a lot of the things uh remotely. So and tomorrow, I am working from home because uh Michonne has been in the hospital with her son. Uh she's not admitted, but her son is. And so I am not going to ability tomorrow, But I um yeah, it's it's been a rough couple of weeks for her. So. She's working remotely tomorrow. I am working remotely because there is a littlepolitic thing going on that I don't want to be a part of, and she is one hundred percent okay with me working remotely tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:15:44 Gotcha. And you are starting to be on vacation next week, right? Speaker 2 00:15:48 Yes. Okay, do you have plans with Dong? The first two days while Dong is at school, I am going to do nothing but rest, veg out on TV and play video games. Aw. Speaker 1 00:16:03 What a treat. Speaker 2 00:16:04 Yep, And then I am sure that Thursday and Friday it will be much of the same because Dom doesn't want to do anything; she wants to sleep in for a couple weeks. Speaker 1 00:16:15 I thought you were like trying to go somewhere else, like for vacation or something. No, Speaker 2 00:16:19 That's August vacation. Oh, I see, I see when I take her to college. Ooh yeah is it August? Uhhuh, In two months, he's going to college. Oh my god. Speaker 1 00:16:34 So is she going like, to have a dorm or something? Yep. Oh, okay. So you're just gonna be alone with the what's the the other name of, the name of the second foster kid that you're trying to. Speaker 2 00:16:50 Um I don't know which kid is coming just yet. Speaker 1 00:16:54 Oh it's not I think I thought there's another one who already was living with you. Not yet, Speaker 2 00:17:01 She's coming to us every weekend. Speaker 1 00:17:03 Ah, I see. Gotcha. Yeah, okay. All right, Christi, I'll just send this invoice and I'll just see you in the email. Okay, Speaker 2 00:17:13 All right Thank you. Speaker 1 00:17:14 Thank you so much Okay Bye bye.
07-01 Weekly Meeting: Data Center Payment Issue and M365 Project Update
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- > Meeting Information: > Date: 2026-07-01 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Anton] [Speaker 2] [Pete] [Sergio] [Mike] ## Meeting Notes ### Personal Updates and Good News - Anton enjoyed his vacation with his kids at Yosemite and Sequoia parks. - Christi is back at work after her first-ever hospital stay and is feeling better. She thanked Mike for his help. - Mike is looking forward to seeing comedian Joe Coy next week. He previously saw Bill Burr. - Olivia (referred to as Speaker 2 in some parts of the transcript) is enjoying the current season of her favorite TV show, "Love Island." ### Business Updates - Anton is catching up after his vacation. - He received an email from ACS. - He expects to finish the M365 portion for Foothill today (July 1st, 2026). - Nick will return soon to work on the Foothill audit. - Pete advised Christi to manage her workload and communicate her capacity to avoid overcommitting while she recovers. ### Data Center Payment Issue - Pete inquired about a server issue at the data center for the BAFMA. - Christi identified the problem as a payment issue. - The finance team canceled an old credit card without prior notification. - This card was used for payments to Google (both tenancies), the data center, and Doxy.me. - A new credit card was recently issued. - Carmen is expected to send a picture of the new card to Robert. - Robert will then forward the picture to Christi. - Christi will update the payment information for all affected services. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to update payment information for Google (both tenancies), the data center, and Doxy.me after receiving the new credit card details. - [ ] Carmen to send a picture of the new credit card to Robert. - [ ] Robert to forward the card picture to Christi. - [ ] Anton and his team to finish the M365 portion for Foothill (target: July 1, 2026). - [ ] Nick to resume work on the Foothill audit upon his return. - [ ] Pete to check in with Christi on workload management and recovery progress. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The resolution of the data center payment issue is dependent on Carmen and Robert completing their tasks. There is a risk of service interruption if the payment information is not updated promptly.
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- Jul 1, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:15 Hello. Hello, hello. Christy, you're the best. Thank you for everything. Speaker 2 00:00:22 You're welcome. I'm glad I could get it done for you quickly today. Speaker 1 00:00:27 Mhm- hmm, Just need to clean it up, and we're gonna send it over tomorrow to cut on what it would bridge. Speaker 2 00:00:33 Okay. I've gotten more done today than I thought I would. Speaker 3 00:00:41 Hey Christi, Did Robert find anything over at the data center for those servers on the BAFMA? Speaker 2 00:00:48 It's a payment issue. That's why it is. I think gets a payment issue. I think the finance team cut the, Old credit card without telling us. We've had that happen a few times this week. Speaker 3 00:00:60 It released Christi, looks like. I'm still here. Sorry, Sorry, you cut out a payment issue for like did they not pay the internet service or something? Speaker 2 00:01:13 No, It's um they cut one of those old credit card and didn't give us warning. And we just got the new credit card this week. Speaker 3 00:01:25 Okay. What was on the credit card? Payment for what? Speaker 2 00:01:29 Everything. Uh, Google for both Google tenancies, uh, the data center. Um, Doxy dot me which is their EHR for the doctors. All the important stuff. Speaker 3 00:01:45 That's uh not good. Speaker 2 00:01:48 No So Carmen's supposed to send the card over to Robert today, Robert's going to take a picture and get it over to me. And then that way I can update payments on everything. Speaker 4 00:01:59 Okay. All right. Exciting day. Speaker 3 00:02:05 Let's see, who are we missing? Yeah. Speaker 3 00:02:29 So Jason is not here, but don't know if he's going to be joining us or not. So let's go ahead and get started this time. Anzor, good news: personal, business, and employee headlines. Hit us with some good news. Speaker 1 00:02:50 I did enjoy my vacation with the kids. We did visit Yosemite and Sequoia parks was, Pretty awesome, to be honest. Yeah, that's the greatest part for business news. I am trying to catch up with everything that's going on. I am glad that we did receive that email from ACS, so probably we're gonna finish the M 365 portion today for Foothill. Speaker 1 00:03:29 I'm waiting, Nick gonna be back from his short time. He's like spending some time with family and yeah, he's gonna get back into the Foothill audit. Probably we're gonna finish M 365 portion today. Okay, that's it. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:03:48 Okay, Christi? Speaker 2 00:03:51 I'm alive! That's my good news! Speaker 3 00:03:54 That's fantastic news! Speaker 2 00:03:57 Last week was the first time I'd ever stayed in the hospital, ever. So it was uh quite interesting. But I'm my good news isum I'm back and uh Mike, thank you for all your help with everything. Uh just because I would not have been able to be as less stressed as I was if you hadn't jumped in and helped out with some things. So, I appreciate that. Speaker 3 00:04:23 And we're all glad you're back Chris. We hope you're feeling better. And if you're not, rest up until you are. Speaker 2 00:04:32 Working on that. I'm just attending meetings and doing some things for Anton and a few others. And. Speaker 3 00:04:38 Just let everybody know like what what you need to be able to deliver whatever we got to deliver so that we don't pack too much stuff into a small period of time so that we can make sure we don't overcommit. Speaker 5 00:04:56 So, Chris is always doing so much, so that's the hard part. Speaker 3 00:04:59 Yeah, yeah. All right, Mike, what do you got today? Speaker 5 00:05:07 Personal good news: my wife and I like to go see comedians. Like so we saw Bill Burr a couple weeks ago; that was fun. And then next week we're going to go see Joe Coy. Sweet! Yeah,'excited about that. Not so excited about the news about LeBron James but huh? Speaker 3 00:05:25 That's a bucket list right there to see Joe Coy. Speaker 5 00:05:27 Yeah, we're gonna go see him. He's uh next week. Yeah, we're gonna go see him next week. First time seeing him. I've seen him at shows where he was like, He prepped like we went to go see Fluffy, and he opened for Fluffy. But this is the first time seeing Joe Coy. So yeah, we're excited. Speaker 3 00:05:42 So funny Yeah Excellent Olivia Good news personal business employee headlines. Speaker 2 00:05:55 Um, good news personal. I my my trashy reality TV show Love Island is thriving, so I am thriving. So that's my good news and we're right on. Speaker 5 00:06:10 This is your what show? Speaker 1 00:06:11 Your favorite trashy reality TV show Love Island. Have you ever heard of it? Speaker 5 00:06:16 That's all I hear from my daughters, Love Island parties and get togethers and stuff. Yeah. It's so good. Speaker 2 00:06:23 It's on every single day, okay? It's fantastic.
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02-24 CIO Onboarding: Confirming Employee Termination and Securing CPI Vendor Contract Details
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- ## Core Synopsis The CPI account access for the terminated individual is fully shut off, and the only system previously accessible was the CPI portal (class creation/training documentation); no licenses, files, products, or other CPI assets remain accessible. The Account Owner committed to email confirmation of termination status and a synopsis of the current CPI contract and billing to support a new CIO’s rapid orientation across an oversized tech stack. The immediate leverage is clarity: the security risk is neutralized, and the operational need shifts to contractual and billing visibility so Finance can ensure continuity of payment and the CIO can map CPI in the stack. We are taking the commitment to document CPI scope and billing to stabilize vendor management; if this email is delayed or incomplete, the CIO’s onboarding stalls and payment risk increases. ## Security Status & Vendor Documentation Commitments ### Access Termination Confirmation - The terminated user’s CPI portal access is fully revoked. No residual licenses or files exist outside the CPI portal; no products or other CPI assets remain accessible post-termination. - Security assurance is explicitly acknowledged by the stakeholder seeking validation; emotional relief indicates high sensitivity to lingering access risk. ### Vendor Information Request: Contract and Billing - The CIO requested a written synopsis covering the current CPI contract terms and billing details to integrate CPI into the firm’s tech stack inventory and ensure payment continuity. - The Account Owner agreed to deliver an email confirming termination status and providing a CPI overview (contract + billing). ### Context: Leadership Transition and Urgency - The CIO assumed the role on Thursday amid a large, complex tech stack, driving urgency for clean vendor documentation and payment assurance. - The termination was abrupt, increasing the need for formal, auditable confirmation and a consolidated vendor brief. ## Action Items **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Send an email confirming the terminated user’s CPI access revocation status (explicitly stating no portal, license, file, or product access) - [TBD] - [ ] Provide a concise CPI vendor brief: current contract terms (start/end dates if applicable, scope of services/features, renewal/termination clauses), billing information (invoice schedule, amounts, payment method, point of contact) - [TBD] **@Speaker 2 (CIO)** - [ ] Acknowledge receipt of the CPI confirmation and vendor brief; file into the vendor management repository/tech stack inventory - [TBD]
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- Feb 24, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 The only thing he has access to is the CPI portal, which is just where you can create a class, document your training, all of that. So basically, he's completely inactive. He won't have access to any of that or any products or anything CPI related moving forward. So that was really the only thing he had access to. Um no no licenses were assigned to him that he would still be able to see or use in any way. Um and then there's no files outside of that portal. There's nothing. Related to CPI that he has access to. Speaker 2 00:00:32 Okay, perfect. That that makes me feel so much better. Speaker 1 00:00:35 And I can confirm that in the email too, just so Jack can see it as well. Speaker 2 00:00:39 That would be amazing, Um because Christi was terminated on Thursday, andum so it was pretty quick and sudden. We just needed to work through getting access or terminating the access he currently had. Speaker 1 00:00:52 Got it Yep, it is terminated, so he has no access to that at all. Speaker 2 00:00:55 Perfect Thank you Are we, Can you uh put in the email what the contract currently looks like? I took over CIO on Thursday, and I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around all the contracts, all the systems, all of that. Um Can you send any of the billing information, any of that? If you can send that over to me, that would be greatly appreciated so I can make sure that one, you continue to get paid. Um And two, I know what we have in our tech stack because the tech stack is so large. I've never seen anything like it. And I've worked for a lot of companies. So Got it. Speaker 1 00:01:28 Yeah, Will do. I'll definitely just give you the synopsis on CPI and everything that uh you would need to know. Speaker 2 00:01:33 That would be amazing. Thank you so much. Speaker 1 00:01:36 Of course, all right Chris, glad we could connect and I'll send over that email shortly. Speaker 2 00:01:40 Awesome, Thank you. You've been huge Have a great week Oh sorry, Speaker 1 00:01:45 Yeah Take care Bye.
07-14 Meeting: Signal Partners Pricing and KPI Gauge Strategy
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- > Date: 2026-07-14 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Signal Partners Update - Christi confirmed that the agreed-upon price with Pete for Signal Partners is $75 per workstation. - Christi had previously reached out to Tim without a response and has since handed the matter over to Pete. - Speaker 1 will follow up with Pete for further details. ### KPI Gauges Discussion - A need for a better way to understand KPIs was discussed, potentially similar to Nilyer. - Speaker 1 will attempt to create the individual KPIs. - Christi will research BrightGauge blog posts to find similar gauge solutions. - Speaker 1 will also conduct research on the afternoon of July 14, 2026. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 1] Follow up with Pete regarding the Signal Partners arrangement. - [ ] [Speaker 1] Research KPI gauges on the afternoon of July 14, 2026. - [ ] [Christi] Research BrightGauge blog posts for KPI gauge solutions. - [ ] Pete, Speaker 1, and Christi sync on July 15, 2026. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The responsibility for contacting Tim regarding the $75 per workstation price for Signal Partners is unclear. It was handed to Pete, but the current status and next steps were not confirmed.
- Date
- Jul 14, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 That was a long coffee break. It's okay, Speaker 2 00:00:07 It's okay. Speaker 1 00:00:08 I'm like, okay, I got to do this. I got to do this. And I was like, oh my god, I got to. Speaker 2 00:00:13 It is quite all right. Uh, I actually sent the girls to go get coffee down the street at Starbucks. So. Hey uh Shawn? Yeah? Do, you have an extra chair in your office that I can borrow for today? Speaker 2 00:00:32 I Am sorry, Olivia. I couldn't remember the. I'm at no, I'm at Pasadena. Yeah, I'm having one of those days for Signal Partners. What Pete and I agreed on was to do$ 75 a workstation, if Tim is up for it. I did reach out to him a while back. He didn't get back to me, but then I turned it Pete said, well, let me reach out to him and I turned it all over to him. Thank you. So that's the final information that I could find. Hang on one second. Speaker 1 00:01:11 Okay, It's been a little crazy. Mhm I know for everybody. I have new kennel replacement and when the rest of thekennels was just replacement yesterday. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Okay. Is Chase here today? Chase should be coming in. He's not here right now, but he should be coming. I don't see him. He might be here, but I haven't seen him come through yet. Yeah, I don't see him either. Okay. Just was here or not? Is Amal here? No. Okay, all right, perfect so you'll see Dawn who you've. Speaker 2 00:01:54 Not met before, And you'll see Dom, who you know. Yes, okay. Just one has an M, one has an A. There we go. Soum. Speaker 1 00:02:02 Do they are they here now? Speaker 2 00:02:05 They went to go get Starbucks. Okay And they know to ring the doorbell and Danny will let them in. Okay perfect Yeah okay. And. Speaker 1 00:02:12 The num Sean and I mean they all should be here today? Perfect Yeah Okay I'm back Uh was there anything else with Signal Partners. Speaker 2 00:02:23 That you needed to know? Speaker 1 00:02:25 No, just that. So I'll justum take note of that and I'll go bug Pete instead of you. Speaker 2 00:02:32 No worries. That was all the notes. I could find from all of our meetings over the last six months about this. Speaker 1 00:02:39 Okay, okay perfect. Speaker 2 00:02:42 Yeah, thank you Chris. Speaker 1 00:02:45 So yesterday's meeting. Speaker 1 00:02:51 Which one? He he needs. Speaker 2 00:02:53 I don't know which one. Um, were we talking about KPIs and he needs a better way to understand it. You want me, do you want to do it? Or do you want me to try to figure out great gauge gauges that could do similar to Nilyer? Speaker 1 00:03:12 Well, I'm going to try to do I'm going to do like the like individual KPIs, I think. And then I guess I could try to do the Nylir one, but how does it. Do, you have an idea like like of what you're like of how to do it? Speaker 2 00:03:30 No, I was going to just start researching and Googling and checking out the blog posts that Bright Gage puts out. Speaker 1 00:03:38 Yeah okay okay okay. Okay well let me see what I can do. Um, I'll do some research this afternoon. Okay, I know that Pete said he wants to sync up tomorrow. Yeah. So, okay. Yeah, I'll put some time on our. Speaker 2 00:03:59 Calendar to sync up too. Yeah. All right, I'm going to go dig into about 15 million other things. I got to get done. Okay, good luck! Good luck! Thank you! Speaker 1 00:04:11 Thanks Chris! Okay bye Oh Oh yeah.
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07-01 Weekly Meeting: Operations Overview and VTO Review
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-01 09:56:10 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Olivia] [Anton] [Pete] [Mike] [Vince] [Speaker 9] [April] [Speaker 11] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] [Speaker 15] [Speaker 16] [Speaker 17] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Weekly Operations Overview and VTO Review - The meeting started at 10:00 AM on July 1, 2026 (Week 27). - Primary after-hours support for the week: Jesse; backup: Bogdan. - Vision: Become the benchmark for the managed IT industry. - Mission: Create positive experiences by solving business issues. - Niche: Mature IT services to SMBs. - 10-year target: 30,000 managed systems by 2032 RMM agents active. - Core value spotlight: Extreme ownership; recognition for admin, sales, finance teams. - Quote: “Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn. - Topic Title: Helpdesk Updates - New L1 hire from the Philippines starting July 20. - Reminder to update “Done yet” tickets: listed team members must update by today. - Clarification: “Done yet” indicates extended inactivity, stuck in “Working issue now” >4 hours, or likely resolved but not closed. - Topic Title: Cybersecurity Updates - Ongoing audits: VSG Gaming and Foothill. - Incidents due to users clicking suspicious links; team handling. - Topic Title: Operations and Holiday Coverage - Crimson IT observed holiday: Friday, July 3, 2026; company closed. - Possible customer openings; ensure on-call availability (primary Jesse; backup Bogdan). - Timesheets: Enter in ConnectWise daily; Trinet (US) to be completed per payroll deadlines. - MPath training encouraged; strong Microsoft focus. - Topic Title: Training and Certification Program - Updated reimbursement and award program: - CompTIA basic: $100 bonus. - Microsoft/Cisco/VMware/Google Cloud and other basic: $500 bonus. - Intermediate/advanced (e.g., advanced networking, VMware, Google, Microsoft advanced): $1,000 bonus. - Pre-approval required from leadership. - First test attempt reimbursed; bonus awarded upon passing. - Will be added to the handbook. - Topic Title: Account Management Updates - Project Angel Food event successful; thanks to team (noted PMS, George, Kevin). - Anderson moved from Slack to Teams as of July 1, 2026; process alignment to follow. - Iron Gate: SSO launched for NetSuite and Procore; kudos to Kevin. - Alere: New small office in Los Alamitos; walkthrough scheduled for July 1, 2026. - NWA: Server migration quote approved; consolidation and backup planned. - Topic Title: Finance Reminders - ConnectWise timesheets: ~15 members with open timesheets. - Trinet: 2 members with incomplete time logs. - ConnectWise expenses: 5 members with open expenses. - Request to submit entries for June 1–30 cutoff. - Topic Title: Administration and Billing - MS billing wrapping today; recent Azure usage billing issue resolved yesterday (June 30, 2026). - TS billing starts today. - Ensure time entries have correct work roles, work types, agreements, department; invoicing board shows billables. - Topic Title: Projects and Change Management - Anderson: Replacing SonicWall with MX85 on July 2, 2026; Gabby and Kevin onsite. - Foothill: Internal assessment ongoing. - Maverick: Domain cutover completed; domain transferred to new owners; shoutout to Emil. - Wayfinder migration: Phase 1 in final execution; ~75% complete; shoutouts to Charles and Emil. - Intra team: Cloud PC feedback, compliance cleanup, security confirmations nearing completion. - LaProc: Staging and deployment planning underway; coordination ongoing. - Topic Title: Team Transitions - Jason’s last day is July 2, 2026; appreciation expressed by team; Jason shared positive remarks. - Topic Title: Training Segment Status - Christy unable to present training due to illness; passed for the day. - Topic Title: Fun Segment: Duck Race and Values - Duck Race conducted; congratulations to Pepe. 🦆 - Values reiterated: Integrity or profit; exercise extreme ownership; always friendly; commit and deliver; do the right thing. - Example recognition: Winger team for commit and deliver and always friendly. - Topic Title: Fun Segment: Two Truths and One Lie - Adrian’s statements: scuba diving; solo travel abroad; speaks three languages. - Outcome: Lie is speaking three languages; Adrian speaks English and Spanish; solo traveled to Germany; holds scuba certification. - Next week’s nominee: Caleb. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Ensure on-call coverage is available on July 3, 2026 (observed holiday); confirm which customers are open and communicate to on-call. - [ ] Helpdesk listed members update “Done yet” tickets by end of day July 1, 2026; create a tracked checklist with deadlines and escalation paths for non-compliance. - [ ] Submit ConnectWise timesheets and expenses for June 1–30; complete Trinet logs. - [ ] Distribute updated training/certification program document; define pre-approval workflow (approvers, request form, SLA) and add to handbook. - [ ] Align teams on Anderson’s transition to Teams; document ticket intake and communications process; publish and train relevant staff. - [ ] Execute Anderson firewall replacement (MX85) on July 2, 2026; Gabby and Kevin onsite. - [ ] Proceed with NWA server migration planning; create a project plan with milestones, timeline, resources, and responsibilities; schedule execution. - [ ] Complete TS billing; verify all time entry metadata (work roles, types, agreements, department) for invoicing accuracy. - [ ] Continue Foothill internal assessment; report progress. - [ ] Advance Wayfinder Phase 1 closure (~75% complete) and prepare for Phase 2. - [ ] Finalize Intra cloud PC feedback, compliance cleanup, security confirmations. - [ ] Progress LaProc staging and deployment planning coordination. - [ ] Conduct Alere Los Alamitos office walkthrough on July 1, 2026. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Customer holiday status for July 3, 2026 is unclear; assign ownership to confirm and notify the on-call team. > 2. Helpdesk “Done yet” ticket owners were listed; create a tracked checklist with deadlines and escalation paths for non-compliance. > 3. Certification program pre-approval workflow is unspecified; define approvers, request form, and SLA for responses. > 4. Anderson’s move to Teams requires a documented process for ticket intake and communications; publish and train relevant staff. > 5. NWA server migration lacks timeline and resource assignment; create a project plan with milestones and responsibilities.
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- Jul 1, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:01:03 Christy, how are you? Speaker 2 00:01:17 I woke up this morning. Does that count? Speaker 1 00:01:24 It does. Speaker 2 00:01:26 Yep. Good. Speaker 2 00:02:57 Lisa, I forgot it was the first of the month today. So, thank you for making sure HSA got in there this morning because I totally forgot. Speaker 3 00:03:54 Alright, good morning everybody. It's ten a m. Let's start this meeting. So today is the first of July twenty twenty six, and the week number is week number twenty seven, The primary for after hour support for this week is Jesse, and the backup is Bogdan, And since today is the first Wednesday of the month, I would be sharing the VTO or Vision Tracker Organizer, so Crimson's ITS Vision. Is to become the benchmark for the managed IT industry. Crimson IT's mission: creating positive experiences by solving business issues. Crimson IT's niche: mature IT services to small and medium sized businesses, And Crimson IT's ten year target is thirty thousand managed systems by twenty thirty two RMM agents active. All right, moving on to the core spotlight. So the core. Speaker 3 00:04:52 A core value that I would like to highlight today is extreme ownership in all that we do. While our frontline projects and major milestone often get visible wins, None of it would be possible without the relentless dedication of our teams working behind the scenes. True ownership isn't just about leading major initiatives, it is about holding the line daily, managing the friction and quietly making sure the foundation stays rock solid. And with that, I would like to recognize the admin, sales and the finance teams. Thank you for your efforts. All right, moving on. For the quote of the day, So this is something simple, but it resonates with me and most likely with the rest of the team as well. So here goes : Don't wish it were easier. ; wish you were better by Jim. Rohn. Speaker 3 00:05:52 All right, and for our team updates, so let's start with Helpdesk with Olivia. Speaker 4 00:06:00 Good morning, guys. Happy Wednesday on the Helpdesk side of things. Um, We have a new, another L1 that will be starting from the Philippines on the twentieth. So that is very exciting. And then just a reminder for people who have their tickets in done yet to update them. So that is Kevin Adrian Kobe Matt, Vlad Vince, Nick Sergii, Bogdan. So if you guys have a ticket in Done yet, please make sure to update them. Um, what it means when your ticket is in Done yet? It hasn't been updated in an extended period of time. It was left in working issue now for over four hours. Um or we just think it's done and it should have been closed, but it wasn't uh so make sure to update those by today. Please. Um and then. Speaker 4 00:06:49 Yeah, that is all the uh updates on my end. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:06:53 Thank you, Olivia. Moving on to cybersecurity with Anton. Speaker 5 00:06:57 Good morning everyone, Uh security team is busy with the running audits for VSG gaming and the Foothill. Um other than that, we have a couple incidents, and all of them are related to the some people clicking on the strange links. And yeah, that's it from security team. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:07:21 Thank you, Anton. Moving on to operations with Pete. Speaker 6 00:07:25 Good morning, everybody. A few items this Friday is the holiday for the Fourth of July. Fourth of July is actually Saturday, but the observed holiday for Crimson is Friday, so we are officially closed, but we may have a few customers that are open. I don't know Olivia if we confirmed, If any of our customers are actually open, or if Mike or Vince were able to confirm that, but if we do have any customers that are open, they may have questions or may call our on call. So whoever's on call Jesse and I didn't hear the the secondary on call, But please make sure that we are available in case any customers do call us for support. Um. Speaker 6 00:08:10 Second thing is a reminder: timesheets. We're still getting a lot of late timesheets. Timesheets, obviously, are twofold. If ConnectWise, We need to make sure that time is entered in ConnectWise and completed on time. Please try to do that daily and Trinet, if you have Trinet timesheets for the the US folks, please make sure that those get completed. Um, It's best to do those daily or at least every other day and make sure that they're done weekly. And for sure by the deadlines for payroll. Um, Which are are uh are definitely uh needed for those deadlines for payroll to be cut. So, please make sure that you get your your timesheets done uh by the deadlines. Uh, the next thing I have is a reminder for MPath Training. Speaker 6 00:09:06 Training MPath is the training system that we have here. We encourage everybody to try to use that. There's a lot of really good courses with for Microsoft training, um, and and other other uh courses other than Microsoft, but it's heavily heavily geared toward Microsoft certification opportunities. But that segues into a question that um that came up a couple weeks ago from from one of the team members to me. And I wanted to let everybody know that we have officially updated the, training and certification uh reimbursement and award program. This was asked I think late last year and early this year were, uh were um trying to make sure that the official, um award process was documented and, uh I wanted to just relay that so so the training and certification. Speaker 6 00:10:05 Official document, we're gonna we're gonna put into the handbook, but um, just just to make it I'll I'll we'll get it out to everybody. But we'll we'll do a one time bonus per certification achieved. So for CompTIA, we're going to award a one hundred dollars bonus for basic certifications for Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, Google Cloud and other basic certifications. We're going to do a five hundred dollars bonus. And for intermediate and advanced certifications for things like advanced networking, VMware, Google, or other advanced certifications related to Microsoft and other things, we're going to do a thousand dollar bonus. Um. All of those have to be pre approved by by uh management leadership. So make sure that you get permission or or approval before you go down the path and and get the certifications. But um if you get the certifications we will we we. Speaker 6 00:11:03 We reimburse for the um, for the certificate and for the test uh the first time you take it, and we will um, and we will give you the bonus if you pass. So, um we'll put that into uh into the handbook. But we encourage everybody to take those trainings and and get those certificates. Um because it's helpful for you. It's helpful for your career. It's helpful for Crimson so, Wanted to encourage everybody to do that, and those are my updates for today. So thank you everybody. Enjoy your holiday. Speaker 3 00:11:36 And moving on to account management with Mike and Vince. Speaker 7 00:11:40 Thank you. I'll just do a quick update before Vince real quick. I just wanted to thank the team that worked with Project Angel Food. I met with them; they were very happy, the event went smooth similar to last year, and they exceeded their actual, Um goals for for fundraising. So, if I missed anybody, I apologize. But the PMS, I think George was there and Kevin was there and anyone else I forget. I apologize but, uh great job. Give it over to Vince. Speaker 8 00:12:10 Good morning, everyone just two quick updates. Uh Anderson actually is moving away from Slack. So today's their last day on Slack, they've officially moved over to Teams. So that should be good news for a lot of us here. And uh. Especially opening tickets, I see Olivia smiling there. So I'll get with the teams later today to kind of talk through that process. Um, also quick update. Um, I wanted to give a quick shout out to Kevin. He did a lot of great work with Iron Gate, and we've got SSO active and launched today for their NetSuite and Procore applications. Um, so that's a good uh update on the Iron Gate side of things. Thanks all. Speaker 7 00:12:44 Oh real quick one more quick one more quick update sorry, Um, I'm going to be going out to Alere's small satellite location this afternoon to do a walkthrough. Just heads up that Alere is opening up another small office in Los Alamitos. I think it's only like two employees, but um that's coming up on the horizon too. Okay, sorry, that's it. Speaker 3 00:13:03 Thanks Mike. Moving on to finance with Elisa? Speaker 9 00:13:10 Uh, hi, good morning, everyone happy Wednesday in connection to Pete's reminder regarding collect wise. Uh, time sheets and expense entries. Looks like, uh, there are a few team members who haven't submitted their time and expenses yet, um approximately fifteen members in Conex still have open uh timesheets, uh two members who were not completed their time logs in Trinet, and five members uh who have open expenses in Conex. Thank you so much. Speaker 9 00:13:44 Uh, If you could submit it, uh, the past two entries for June one to June one to thirty cutoff. Uh we really appreciate it. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:13:56 Thank you, Lisa. Moving on to admin with April. Speaker 10 00:14:01 Morning, everyone and happy Wednesday. So we're wrapping up our MS billing for today. So there was a bit of a delay with our billing due to the recentum Azure usage. Um, building issues that has been resolved yesterday, and we're going to start TS billing today. So please make sure that all of your time entries are correct, um including work roles, work types, agreements attached and department. Um so everything that will be showing up in the invoicing board are billable. That's all thank you. Speaker 3 00:14:32 Thank you April moving on to N B D with Anzor I don't think Anzor is around. Speaker 6 00:14:38 Yeah, Anzor's on vacation for the next couple weeks, so I don't think there's any updates on the uh on that side. Speaker 3 00:14:45 All right, let's move on to the next project or change management callouts. Yes, sir. Speaker 11 00:14:54 Good evening everybody. Some for Anderson, we'll be replacing their SonicWall firewall tomorrow with a MX85. So Gabby and Kevin will be onsite for that one. And then the team, as mentioned a while ago, the team is busy for um doing some internal assessment for Foothill. Also, I think this is Jason's last Wednesday meeting. So I just want to thank him for everything. We we yeah, we just thank you. And then hope you still keep in touch with us. Yep and and I think oh and also. Speaker 11 00:15:33 I, just want to thank the team because we're almost um the domain cut over for Maverick has been completed yesterday. We already transferred the domain to their new owners, so special shout out to Emil on that one. I know you've spent a lot of time for with with that project, so just want to take up the team. Thank you. Speaker 6 00:15:55 And I was going to call out Jason at the end, but Jason, you have anything you want to say to the team? I I personally want to thank you as well. I know you've only been with us for a little over three months, but thank you for your contributions. If you have anything you want to say since tomorrow is your last day, feel free to make any last comments if you like. Speaker 12 00:16:15 Yeah it's been uh it's been a good three months. You got an incredible team here Pete. You're in good hands. And if I have an opportunity to uh consider uh an MSP, uh you'll be at the top of my list. Speaker 6 00:16:29 All right. Thank you for everything you've done. It's been great having you on the team and in the short time, you've been here and the contributions you've made, we'll miss you and and we'll keep in touch. Speaker 12 00:16:39 Thank you. Julia? Speaker 13 00:16:46 Happy Wednesday teamum, I just want to do a quick shout out to Charles and Emil. They work really hard on the Wayfinder migration project, and we are in the final execution of phase one. So we still have phase two coming up, but at least we're not halfway in a way. We're like three quarters of the way in. Intra team also remains focused. We are getting the cloud PC feedback, compliance cleanup. Speaker 13 00:17:17 Security confirmations, also kind of last stretch. Thank God, um, LaProc is moving through the staging and deployment planning. Uh, we are doing our coordinations. So that's all for projects. Thank you guys. Speaker 7 00:17:36 Finally Mike. Oh, thanks, yeah. And just heads up. Um NWA just approved the server migration quote. So we'll be able to get them off. Consolidate all their data and get them on a new server with the data backup. That's on deck two. Speaker 3 00:17:52 All right, thank you. So moving on to training updates. So do we have any training for today, Christy? Speaker 2 00:18:02 Um, sorry, I muted and then it did not want to unmute. Um, I am going to take a pass for the day because I can't talk more than five seconds without hacking along. And y'all need that. Speaker 3 00:18:15 Hope you feel better soon. All right, so moving on to the fun segment, Duck Race with Christian. Speaker 14 00:18:25 Can share my screen? Mark, let me know. Speaker 3 00:18:31 All right, yes we can see your screen. Speaker 1 00:18:33 Perfect start. Speaker 15 00:18:44 On my head. And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, nothing seems to fit. Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling. So I just did me some talking to the sun. All right, congratulations Pepe. Speaker 14 00:19:17 Sorry about that. Well, integrity or profit, exercise extreme ownership, always friendly, commit and deliver. We do the right thing. Perfect. Speaker 16 00:19:32 And do you have any example? Speaker 14 00:19:37 The whole team of Winger commit and deliver and always friendly. Speaker 3 00:19:44 All right. Thank you Pepe, Congratulations. Thank you. And finally, two truths and one lie. And our candidate for today is Adrian. Is Adrian around? Speaker 17 00:20:06 Hello, hi, hi everyone. Yes, uh two truths and one lie um, So I have uh I have been scuba diving. Um I have traveled solo to another country, and I speak three languages. Okay, Speaker 3 00:20:24 So that that was fast. So the first one who thinks scuba diving is a lie. Speaker 13 00:20:33 You don't look like you swim. You have nice hair, Speaker 3 00:20:41 All right? We have a few. Uh, what's the second one, Adrian? Sorry. Speaker 17 00:20:45 Second one is um I solo I have solo traveled to another country. Solo travel okay. Speaker 16 00:20:54 Solo or solo traveled. Solo travel. So yeah, I can okay, and the final one? Uh, the final one is um I speak three languages Three languages okay, I think I'm going to go with that one. ¿ Hablas español? Right, Speaker 13 00:21:21 Majority. What language do you have to tell us first? Speaker 17 00:21:24 What languages? Um, yeah, I speak um so English, um Spanish and Russian. Speaker 15 00:21:33 So that's the truth. Speaker 17 00:21:35 Russian? In my best. So is that a truth or is that a lie? I'm not saying if it's true or not. So you guys decide. Speaker 7 00:21:44 All three languages will work in this group. Speaker 3 00:21:49 I think the third one is uh the one with the most votes. All right, Speaker 17 00:21:55 Um yes, so the truth is um I have been scuba diving. I do have my certification. Um I have traveled to another country solo. I went to Germany recently, and I do not speak three languages unless you consider something like maybe like JavaScript, but. No, I only I speak um I only speak uh English and Spanish. Thanks. Thank you. We'll figure that. I was gonna say yeah, we'll figure that out. I wish I speak Russian, I wish Several people here speak Russian so they're gonna help us out. Yeah, I'll have to learn Thank you guys, please. Speaker 3 00:22:37 Nominate someone for next week. Speaker 17 00:22:39 Oh um oh, not sure. Um. Speaker 17 00:22:47 Can we pick maybe Caleb? Is he here? Speaker 3 00:22:51 I was going to say the same thing. All right, Caleb. Caleb, you're up next week. Okay, Nick, you have your hand raised or is that for the vote? Okay, so I think it's for the vote. All right, so if there's anything left unsaid, please raise your hand. All right, if none, Thank you for joining today's meeting and I. Hope you all have a great day ahead. Great conversation. Bye guys. Thank you. Bye guys.
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08-24 Casual Conversation: Check-in
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- ## Your Conversation Summary ### The Vibe A gentle, slightly rushed check-in that balanced understanding with practical wrap-up. ### The Dynamic The conversation felt informal and brief, with low engagement as Christi largely narrated her situation without back-and-forth. The mood was steady—no major swings—rooted in a pragmatic acceptance of a disrupted morning. Christi conveyed understanding about others not joining and calmly decided to end the call after a short wait. ### The Gist Christi opened the call—likely with Gabby—acknowledging that no one else might join and noting she had other tasks to attend to. She shared that her morning had been hectic due to one of her children needing an unexpected doctor’s appointment, which disrupted her schedule. After waiting a few minutes and receiving texts from her college-aged daughter, Dom, Christi decided to wrap up and end the call. ### Memorable Moments > **Christi:** "She realized that hey you know, should have said something before now." ### Things to Remember - Christi's daughter had an unexpected doctor's appointment. - Christi's daughter Dom is in college and was texting her. ### Conversation Threads - Waiting for participants - Hectic morning schedule - Daughter's doctor visit - Family updates
- Date
- Aug 24, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:03:18 Hey Gabby. We may not have anybody join us. No, it's okay. I am trying to get caught up on some things. Speaker 1 00:03:52 If no one joins, that's fine because I have two versions of this today. This one and another one. Speaker 1 00:04:44 I'm giving it two more minutes before I call it. Crazy busy, uh, One of my kiddos needed to um go to the doctor today, and so I had to drop her off on my way, but she neglected to tell me until this morning. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:13 It's just not an issue. It's just um because she had to be there by nine, but I had to be here by eight thirty. So I uh she had to end up waiting, which she was okay with. She realized that hey you know, should have said something before now. Speaker 1 00:06:41 All right, let's call it. My daughter is Dom is in college and she's texting me all kinds of things this morning. Crazy kid. All right, I'll talk to you later. Bye-bye.
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08-05 Meeting: AI Policy and Copilot Rollout
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- > **Date:** 2026-08-05 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Participants:** [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] ### Meeting Notes #### AI Policy and Enterprise Version Rollout - Speaker 3 confirmed all employees have signed the AI policy documents. - Speaker 1 requested the finalized policy document because some emails were misplaced due to a new Outlook mode issue; Speaker 3 will resend it. - There was a misunderstanding about activating the enterprise AI (Copilot). Speaker 3 expected activation after policy signatures and subsequent training. - Speaker 1 clarified that enterprise licenses for general staff have not yet been enabled. #### Copilot Subscription and Costs - The team discussed whether all staff should receive Copilot access regardless of usage. - It was confirmed there is no downside to not licensing everyone. - Copilot for Business pricing: $25.20 per user/month (monthly) or $22.05 per user/month on a one-year subscription (~$250 per user annually). - A promotional discount of 15% for up to 10 seats was noted. - Speaker 1 introduced “CoWork,” a new Microsoft pay-as-you-go option; pricing and details are not yet available. The team will prioritize Copilot rollout first. #### User Adoption Monitoring - Speaker 1 demonstrated monitoring of Copilot usage for other clients. - The system tracks active users and usage across Outlook, Word, Teams, and Edge. - These insights inform adjustments and help assess license ROI. #### Copilot Training Plan - Speaker 1 will host two live remedial sessions next week on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, and Thursday, August 13, 2026, at 2:00 PM. - Tuesday: Copilot basics. - Thursday: Copilot within applications. - A Copilot video training series will be available by the end of next week. - Free Microsoft Learn resources are available; Speaker 1 will share the link. - A staff-wide training initially proposed for the week of August 24, 2026, is rescheduled to the first week of September due to conflicts. - More advanced AI training is planned for the first or second week of September for interested users. #### Initial Copilot License Rollout - The group agreed to enable Copilot licenses for the five attendees plus committee member Jodi. - Upon activation, Microsoft will send a “Welcome to Copilot” email and automatically install the Copilot app. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 3] Send the final signed AI policy document to [Speaker 1]. - [ ] [Speaker 1] Email links for the August 11 and 13 live sessions, the Copilot video series, and Microsoft Learn. - [ ] [Speaker 1] Enable Copilot licenses for the five attendees and Jodi. - [ ] [Speaker 1] Schedule staff-wide training in the first week of September (e.g., September 3–4) and send invitations. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The exact number of initial licenses to purchase and whether to choose monthly or yearly subscriptions was not finalized. > 2. A broader rollout strategy for remaining staff after the pilot group was not discussed. > 3. The cost and features of the “CoWork” option were noted but deferred without a timeline for reassessment.
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- Aug 5, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:01:59 Work on today's training material based on that email. Today is the Wednesday training. Speaker 2 00:02:30 Oh. That's where that went. Mom's cleaning some things out. Speaker 2 00:03:28 How are. Speaker 3 00:03:46 You doing? Speaker 3 00:03:56 What the next steps are, How we're going to roll out the AI now that we've got all the policy documents from all the employees. Soum, take it away. Speaker 1 00:04:17 Um, real quickly I do have a thirty minutes sorry. Uh something. My cats keep knocking things off on the floor as I'm working today. She is she is uh right in front of me, so I wish I could show you, but I've got background turned on. Oh, she's the kid. Um So you have all the policies back? Yes. And um was there? Did you send those to me because I don't see them in my inbox? Speaker 3 00:04:49 Uh Well, I didn't send them your way. Because they're already signed, so I thought you would just be interested that, you know, we've got. I think we shared with you, if you like. If I might not have, but I thought we shared with you the final copy of the policy statement. But if you don't have it, we can definitely send it your way so that you know what we signed. Speaker 1 00:05:20 That's perfect. Um, what I was looking for was the final policy. So, and my apologies, I made a mistake yesterday. I turned on the new Outlook mode. And yet, don't do that if you don't if you don't use the new Outlook, don't turn it on just yet. Um so I have some emails that went missing. Uh so I'll double check for that final policy. I'm sure you sent it to me, and it's just got filed, Speaker 3 00:05:45 No That's. Okay, no worries, i'll mark it here to send it to you. Okay? Speaker 1 00:05:50 Um, How are you guys feeling so far since you started uh, since you started working on AI? Like, how is it feeling the use of it and everything you're working on? Speaker 3 00:06:04 Well, personally, I haven't used it because I just wanted to make sure that uh, you know, i I start using it whenever we have a full idea of how we are going to use it. And you know, the. Enterprise version of it and all that. Soum but I'll let others share their experience. Speaker 4 00:06:28 Is the enterprise version live for us? Yes. Oh, it is. Speaker 3 00:06:34 Oh, I didn't know that. Speaker 4 00:06:36 Did, we um because we know that some staff members might not elect to use it or join the subscription? Okay. So I just wanted to make sure that we're not going to pay for their subscription if we're not, if they don't want it, if they don't opt in. Speaker 1 00:06:54 Let me look into it. I know you guys, your subscription is live. So let me look at it real quick. Uh and bear with me because I also just rebooted my computer, so I'm getting everything logged in. Speaker 3 00:07:12 Uh Christi while you're doing that my um, You know, maybe it was just my misunderstanding, but my understanding was that we would wait until the policy statements are signed. Then, we would notify you. And then that's when the enterprise version would kick in. And then it would be alongside sort of like subsequent training so that you would show people. Okay, this is how. Speaker 3 00:07:44 You should use the enterprise version. This is what you shouldn't do. So those types of things, but I don't know, maybe that was just my. Speaker 1 00:07:52 No, I thought I turned on the pilot just for the people that are in this meeting. And that's what I was getting at, but let me double check. I may have you guys confused with someone else. Um, I have three clients all at the same time that is uh. That is doing exactly what you guys did with Copilot. And so, bear with me. So, I might just be off today. I have not had my coffee. It's been a weird day. I got up, I went to the office, got to the office, realized I left my computer at the Pasadena office and I was in Compton. So, I had come home and use my desktop computer today. So, figure with me. I do apologize. Speaker 1 00:08:46 Pulling that up right now. It's a little slow going in this morning. Microsoft is being a little weird. While we do that, who are the people that we um, that may not use it? Speaker 3 00:09:05 Well uh in the policy statement, we haven't really asked anyone yet. So because we uh what uh we thought would be, Necessary is for everybody, to sign the statement regardless of whether they're going to use it or not. Yes, then you know, I thought, at least again, that was just my thinking that when we go to the stage of okay. Clemson is going to institute the enterprise version of Microsoft Copilot. Who doesn't want it? Yeah, Then then we'll know because we didn't want to ask anyone at at this initial level. Speaker 5 00:09:47 I'm also wondering if, um, There's a drawback to not having everyone have access to it regardless of the degree to which they want to use it. Yeah, there's no drawback. Speaker 1 00:10:10 Um. And and just my apologies, we have not turned it on for your staff yet. So, this is the licenses in within Microsoft that you currently have. Uh, ignore the free and ignore the nonprofit portal; those are automatically added. Um, but you have you have all your licenses, your E3s So, but you do not have Copilot yet. So that is that is on me. My apologies on that. Um, now as far as drawbacks, there is no drawback. Um at the end of the day those who choose not to use it. Speaker 1 00:10:43 Uh, Won't get access to things within uh Teams, such as facilitator and automatic transcript. Uh, summaries. Not you you can't turn on transcripts, but you just can't do the AI summaries things like that. Um, If they want that we can um there is a cheaper option I believe, unless Microsoft's made some changes to that in the last month where we can turn on facilitator at a cheaper rate, if that's all they're going to be using. But. One of the things that's really good about this is we can actually see, and I'm going to show you with another client. They don't mind me sharing this information, so just a heads up on that. But I can show you how we can watch for those people who are uh who see what they actually use, use it for and make adjustments as needed. Um now when we look at Copilot, um we're going to be able to see a few different features. Speaker 1 00:11:40 And so I'm going to show you the Copilot. This is the active users that we have, but for Copilot itself, we only have ten active users, Ten licensed users for that out of five hundred and forty nine active users in the company. A little bit bigger than you guys. So out of those ten licensed users, Most of them use it within Outlook for drafting emails and doing certain things within Outlook. Um, a lot of them use it in Microsoft Word. Some of them use the app that I showed you guys in training, and then some of them use it within Edge. And only one or two people really use it in Teams. So, We have that option where we can go in and take a look at this. And then here is my adoption score. And so this week we had seven active users. Um, and at the end of the day, it's. Speaker 1 00:12:38 Really, we're going to be taking a look at what everybody's actually doing, what the consumption looks like, things like that. So we can we can actually dig in. There's a lot more reports that I can pull in for you guys than what you're seeing right here. So does that help you get a better understanding of how we can watch and see who's actually using it? Speaker 3 00:13:03 About one question. So let's say the enterprise version of, Copilot, there is like a monthly cost to it. So, If we do make it available to everybody, regardless of what they use or not use, what would be like for us? We've got a total of nineteen people. So or ultimately nineteen not not yet but ultimately but um, would how how much roughly is it going to be uh and. Speaker 3 00:13:36 I s it like about how much is it? How much? Is it per license a month. Speaker 1 00:13:40 So right now if you go for subs, do you want me to give you the cheapest subscription option. Speaker 3 00:13:46 Well I I don't even know what how to um, You know, uh gauge whether the cheapest one is the most appropriate for us or I don't know. Speaker 1 00:13:58 So right nowum they only have one year and three year subscription links. Okay. And then I am going to pull up our the purchase for you guys. Uh, one second. Let me go into that purchase. I want to actually see the cost. Um, We go through another company. So we that's separate from Microsoft. But what they offer for you guys through that other company is the same price Microsoft offers. So, I'll show you what it looks like. Speaker 1 00:14:36 So the subscription link that they are, oh, did I share? Okay, there we go. Um, the subscription link that they give that they allow us to have. Um, so we're going to do Copilot Business. Now, you do want a promotion that we can do fifteen percent off for up to ten seats. Um, let me or Copilot Business. Um if you do a pay monthly. Speaker 1 00:15:14 It's gonna make me click on that. Okay, it's not gonna allow me to go up to it. Um, business, see if it does it that way. No. Uh, your subtotal is twenty two dollars per user and five cents. That's with the uh discount offer. If we once the discount offer runs out, we can do one month and one year. So I do apologize they do have it for one, One year for you guys. Um, Your payment looks like it would be twenty five dollars and twenty cents per month. If we do a full year subscription, it's twenty two dollars and five cents. So, we can put most people on a year, if you know that they're going to be using it, But if you are not sure whether or not they're going to be using it at all, we can put them on a one month and cancel after one month. Speaker 3 00:16:09 So it's pretty much about two hundred and fifty dollars a year per user. Yes. Okay. All right. Speaker 1 00:16:20 Um, this is the best way I can show you guys. So if you have any questions about that, let me know, but it's the best way I can show you the subscription. Um, now one thing Microsoft did come out with is CoWork. Have you guys heard about CoWork within Microsoft Cloud? I mean within uh cloud? So Steve has. Speaker 4 00:16:43 Um, A little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Speaker 1 00:16:45 Okay, so um with Copilot there's an option for CoWorkum within Microsoft. It is a pay as you go subscription. So for those it just came out. Um we have not turned it on for Crimson yet. Uh but for anybody that's interested in it, there is that option as well, and it will cost a little bit more money. But. I do not know the pricing on that just yet. I asked Alan to sort of turn it on for me. So I can play around with it and see what the actual looks and what it'll actually do and cost for us. Speaker 3 00:17:22 At least you know, let's take it step at a time. Let's just roll out the um uh the Copilot Enterprise version first, and then once you Christy get more experience into what this other, CoWork he provides, and then we can go to that. I don't think we should jump in with all the different options to begin with. So that way, when we go to the next step, hopefully a more advanced step, we're all or the people who want to use it are ready for it. Speaker 1 00:17:59 Yes. Um, I do know CoWork is very similar to the Anthropic version, and I do love CoWork on Anthropic. Hi. Um, sorry. I have three tabs and one was for the app. This is what happens when you work from home. Um, the so the cowork does work similar to that. I just haven't had a need to turn it on until more recently. Um, the next item, so we can turn on the licenses um. Speaker 1 00:18:30 We can do if you want me to do half the subscription at a year, so you get a cost, or if there's a number, you'd rather me turn it on. I can do that actually today uh and well, Speaker 3 00:18:43 Um can we also I I want to respect your half an hour limit? Can we also talk a little bit about any training that Crimson might provide uh so that we're not opening the uh um Copilot? Uh. Platform just for people to go and you know, um, They, you know, there, there will be uh, experimentation and people just experiencing this on their own, but at least it would be good to have some uh fundamentals. Speaker 1 00:19:14 So I am for let me double check my calendar. Um I think it's either next week or the following week. I am offering a copilot training for clients that want to do some uh, Some remedial training with that, and that is next week. I am offering it on Tuesday and I am offering it on Thursday. So, Those are going to be live in session classes that I am going to offer to a couple of different clients, especially in the nonprofit arena. And so, The focus that day is going to be on how to utilize Copilot within the organization. And then. Speaker 1 00:19:56 Thursday training is going to be how to utilize it within your applications. So I'm offering those two. I have not sent out much information yet on it. I'm going to be sending out that information this afternoon. I have the, have everything written up. I just have to hit send. So Connie, You're on that list of people who are getting that uh training. And it's going to be at two o'clock. Speaker 3 00:20:18 And. Um are the two sessions identical? Or are they different? Speaker 1 00:20:25 So they are going to be different. So the first training is just a remedial basic of Copilot, And then uh, the one on Thursday is going to look at it in the apps themselves and how. Okay. Speaker 3 00:20:39 Yeah, if you can send it to us, we'll definitely make it available. Now in order to get that training, the uh Copilot platform doesn't need to have been installed, right? Okay. Alright, so uh let let's let's yeah, if you send it to us, then we'll make it uh we'll distribute it to everybody at the organization. Speaker 1 00:21:03 Alright. And then I'm also finishing up the Copilot video session series. Um I did the Claude ones already, but I know you guys are not doing Claude. So Copilot, The video training sessions are going to be probably available to everybody to look atum end of next week. So it'll follow those, And then, um, there is training within Microsoft itself. And this is uh training. I'll send you guys the link if I have not already. But Microsoft offers free online training in their Microsoft Learn platform. Have any of you visited the Microsoft Learn platform ever? Speaker 3 00:21:42 Uh, I have not. Speaker 1 00:21:43 Okay, no worries. It's learn dot microsoft dot com. I'm going to give you a link Um they do have a Copilot Essentials, Uh, some people love it. Uh, Some people have reached out to me and said, this puts me to sleep and I cannot watch it. So they prefer the more interactive classes that I've been giving. Um, so there are some things in there. I put that link in the chat so that you have it. And um, the the very first one if you click Copilot, there is a Copilot training right under that. Let's see if I can send you this link sometimes it um. Speaker 3 00:22:21 Tracy, I think so that we have it even after this Teams call. If you don't mind, when you do send us information for the live sessions next week, If you could also include the video training that Crimson has as well as the link for the training within Microsoft. So that way when we send it to everybody at the foundation, then everybody knows okay these are all the resources we have. Speaker 1 00:22:51 Yes, after this meeting, my i my meeting assistant is called Frodo. Um, After this meeting, he's gonna, he's gonna send you an email with uh our the summary from this meeting and the notes. And so I'll include the link in that too. Speaker 3 00:23:07 Excellent. That'll be great. Speaker 1 00:23:09 I made some new agents since the last time I met with you guys that help me, Speaker 2 00:23:13 Okay, okay, Speaker 1 00:23:15 Um So, what when it comes to the licenses? Do, you want me to roll out to the six or to the five people on this call first? Speaker 3 00:23:27 Um, I I think yes. Speaker 1 00:23:29 Okay. When do you want me to roll that out? Speaker 3 00:23:35 Well, I know we are all at different levels of readiness for AI, and so, you know, some people are more advanced than others. So I mean, I personally, we are going to be very, very busy with preparing for some organizational meetings in a few weeks'time. So I'm not going to be like having time to play around a little bit. So but you know, I don't want to deprive that chance of other people. Speaker 1 00:24:14 So Yeah. Not a problem. Um, I can turn it on for four of you guys, or I can turn it on coming up for you as well, and then you can just have the features for two. Yeah. Sure. Speaker 3 00:24:26 Yeah. Yeah. Uh yeah Please do yes, And. Uh. We also have another member of the committee who couldn't join us Okay Her. Her name is Jodi Okay Uh. And so um I think she You will see her name in my emails to you because I have included everybody. So let's include her on whatever you're going to be turning on. Speaker 1 00:24:50 Gotcha, absolutely. Um, perfect. Speaker 5 00:24:55 I'm gonna i added her name here. And Christi, once it's turned on, um are you sending us information on how to access it? There is an email that goes out from Microsoft. Speaker 1 00:25:08 It's called Welcome to Copilot and it has all the information on there, At the same time, Microsoft automatically installs for you a uh. Uh. It installs an app on your computer, and it's called Copilot Microsoft three sixty five Copilot. Uh, I just pulled it up just to look at it when I was talking to you, um, with that it does it allows you to chat and create your own. Speaker 1 00:25:41 If you're familiar with the word uh GPT is and chat GPT, it allows you to create your own uh agents that are like GPTs. So, Um and then at the same time, it installs the add on to all of the applications, including teams. And it's seamless. You don't even notice it. Thank you. You're welcome. Um Christi how how long are the trainings for the ones scheduled next week? They are for an hour and a half, and that gives a lot of people time to ask questions towards the end. Speaker 3 00:26:30 People are not able to attend the two live training sessions because obviously the video training and the training within Microsoft, they can people can do it on their own time. But the live sessions, if they cannot attend next week, when are the next times you would be conducting live sessions? Speaker 1 00:26:47 Well, so you we did your training May nineteenth twentieth and twenty first. Um, or no May nineteenth and May twenty first. Why don't we do, If you have time for this, um the week of the twenty fifth I am available. Um or the twenty fourth I am sorry week of the twenty fourth I am available. Could we do more training with your entire staff if you have availability, and this would just be training that is geared towards coaching? Speaker 3 00:27:19 Uh, yeah. I think if you mentioned that again in your email, uh, You know, it will be uh, I don't want to I. Don't think anybody here individually can make that decision. But you know, if if there are enough people available for the week of the twenty fourth, is there a. Particular day or time that is, you know, you might want to mention that in your email too. Like okay week of twenty fourth like let's say August twenty fifth at these times. August twenty seventh at these times. So that way, we'll make that available. Personally I would welcome as much training as we can receive. So I know it's it's a tight schedule for all of us on the call. Speaker 3 00:28:06 But you know, we do the best we can. Speaker 1 00:28:08 No worries. I am every afternoon that week. I am free, um, I have not filled it with any training or anything like that. So I will send out some dates and times and get some feedback. Um, the week of the seventeenth, I am out. I am taking one of my daughters to college. So Oh wow. Congratulations. Speaker 1 00:28:29 Thanks i i do have a separate question for you guys that's more personal in nature. I'll ask that in a moment. Because I figured since I had a call with you guys today, I'd ask you a question about uh schools and stuff. See if you can have some input. Um but let me, I put that on the schedule. Um I'll send out, I'll send out three choices and I'll get feedback from your team on which three would work. Um, I'll invite everybody for the training on the eleventh and thirteenth. Speaker 1 00:28:59 And then Steve, I know you are one of my more advanced, and Tyler, you are more one of my more advanced. Or at least those are the questions that I got from you last time. Is are you anybody on this call? Are you guys interested in more advanced AI training? Okay, Julie is so um I am putting together some advanced AI training uh, and that's going to be probably the first or second week of September. I've got asked that multiple times, So I this would be a training that would encompass a few of my clients. So. Speaker 2 00:29:36 Sounds good. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:29:37 I will say the week of the twenty fourth, uh, the program staff is really busy with school starting. So, I'm not sure how much program staff would be able to participate at that moment in time. But um we'll do our best. That doesn't mean other people can't start. Speaker 1 00:29:54 Yeah, I can move it to the first week of September. I have one AI training the first week of September and that's it, and it's earlier in the day. So uh yeah, Speaker 3 00:30:04 To be honest with you, I think the first week of September would be better for the admin staff as well. Uh because we'll be wrapping up everything for our upcoming uh board meetings by the end of August. So yeah, let's, Let's uh, consider the first week of September. Speaker 5 00:30:28 Okay, yeah, September third and fourth look pretty good for program staff. The Thursday and Friday. Speaker 1 00:30:35 Amazing because I have no meetings scheduled either of those days, which is highly unusual. So. I am usually booked out uh six weeks in advance, but that day is pretty those two days are pretty good. So I'll let me go ahead and just block those days for you guys. Speaker 1 00:30:58 All right, so they are blocked on both days. Um, and then that way no one can schedule anything in advance. So that is highly unusual to have a calendar that clean on those two days for me. Um, all right, so we have one minute left. I don't think my other person is going to be upset if I am a minute or two late to the meeting. But uh real quickly my personal question for you guys and Cognia This might be something you guys can email me. Um, I you guys know I am a foster parent, and so now I am taking in kids who are non minor dependents, and I have three right now. Um, I am looking for a school that allows one of my kiddos to catch up on all their credits. Uh. For their senior year, But maybe online or hybrid Da Vinci Rise is no longer was where I was sending, was sending kids in the past for that. Speaker 1 00:31:56 But it is they dissolved it July first of this year. So, if you guys know of any schools or any charter schools that allow them to learn at their own pace and get their credits, especially their A G credits, please let me know. Because all my kiddos have come through I think it's AB 12 or AB 216. I can't remember all of my ABs for foster kids, but they are going to graduate with lower than normal credits. So I am just looking for a way for uh, For them to learn at their own pace. Because when they come to me, they're generally really behind on credits. Speaker 5 00:32:32 What's your homeschool district? Speaker 1 00:32:34 I don't know. Uh, I have to look that up. Speaker 5 00:32:37 Because I've never looked into homeschooling. No, no, no. I mean what school district do you live within? Speaker 1 00:32:43 Uh Da Vinci. Da Vinci? Yes, I'm in the South Bay. I'm right between El Cerrito and Hawthorne and Hawthorne is Centinela so. Speaker 1 00:32:54 School district. I'm in uh Del Aire. In South Bay. Speaker 1 00:33:06 So Uh Christi Da Vinci is the name of the school or? Name of the school district uh for high school, in this area. Speaker 3 00:33:13 Oh high school. Yes. Yeah um Julie is our expert on on on school systems so. Speaker 1 00:33:23 Got you. I am looking at opportunities for youth. That came up in my search, so I am looking at them today. But, um, I have one kiddo that just needs to do her senior year. She's eighteen, So um she she needs to do her senior year and get caught up on all her credits. Yeah, all right. I do need to jump, But thank you guys for joining me and feel free to send any questions you have by email or we can set up another meeting. All right. Thank you, guys. Thank you. I will thank you. Bye-bye.
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06-02 Tabletop Exercise: BEC Response, Vendor Breach Readiness, and Cloud Environment Updates
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-02 15:29:15 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Vince] [Sergio] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Partner program heads-up (Anzor/Cloud) - Description: - Vince noted that Anzor launched a partner program and a partner call is scheduled for 08:00 AM on 2026-06-03. - Vince will forward the invitation to interested team members. - Topic Title: Attendees and roles for tabletop exercise - Description: - Olivia is at a Texas conference; Cheryl covers the help desk. - Anton is absent; Sean (security team lead) covers security. - Jason Tucker (Director of Professional Services, ~90 days at Crimson) will observe to learn the tabletop process. - Roles: Paul (CIO, decision-maker), Sam (first-call handler), Esther (compliance), Sean (security), Cheryl (help desk), Monty (support), Vincent (account manager), Jason (observer). - Conclusion: - The exercise is recorded; the transcript remains within Crimson IT unless approved by leadership. - No-fault exercise; speak from real roles; unknowns are acceptable; actions will be tracked and used to update the IRP. - Topic Title: Environment overview and changes since last year - Description: - Productivity: Microsoft 365 (Exchange, Teams, Outlook, OneDrive); no change. - Endpoint security: Migration to Huntress completed (from Sophos MDR). - Backups: Datto SaaS Protection for M365 twice daily with 1-year retention. - File storage: Box with CloudAlly backup; SharePoint not used. - Compliance archival: Smarsh. - Security awareness: KnowBe4 monthly phishing; MFA enabled; BitLocker on managed devices. - Documentation: Moved from IT Glue to Hudu about a month ago. - Infrastructure: Fully cloud-based; primary office Los Angeles; secondary office New York; primary staff recovery WFH; secondary recovery Crimson IT Conference Center, US Bank Tower 8th floor. - Cyber insurance: Arch via Marsh; plan through 2026. - Regulatory context: SEC Regulation SP amendments effective 2026-06-03 for advisors under $1.5B, including written IRP, 30-day individual notification, and 72-hour vendor breach notification clauses. - Additional notes: - CloudAlly backup cadence/retention to be confirmed and documented explicitly. - NY office address updated; Sam provided; Vincent has it. - Topic Title: Scenario 1 — Business email compromise and fraudulent wires - Description: - Incident summary: Sam receives an LP call about a suspicious wire email from Paul; no sent item found. Sean confirms M365 access from Eastern Europe at 02:14 with a valid token; targeted emails to 3 LPs; attachments downloaded from Paul’s OneDrive/Box including the investor contact list; a forwarding rule to external Gmail active ~8 hours. Huntress flagged but did not block due to a valid token. - Immediate actions (Sam): Contact Crimson IT, alert Paul, alert internal team; help desk number saved on phone. - Immediate actions (Paul): Notify Monty, Sam, and Esther; contact Crimson; authorize containment. If Paul is unavailable, Sam then Esther/Warren to authorize session revocation/reset. Paul can continue work if Outlook is taken down. - Crimson technical response (Sean): Confirm breach; hard containment; evidence preservation; investigate IoCs and exposure; reset credentials/platform access; review M365 and Exchange audit/mail logs. - Verification of LP impact: Directly contact the 3 LPs; compliance would coordinate investor messaging via the fund admin and LP portal; investors typically receive capital call notices via the portal, not email. - Data exposure: Attacker accessed Box and downloaded an investor spreadsheet (names, addresses, bank details for 47 LPs); forwarding rule captured emails for ~8 hours. - Notifications: Under Reg SP, 30-day notification to affected individuals if sensitive data was accessed. Coordination between Paul and Esther; fund admin provides templates; portal posting managed by the fund admin. - Insurance notification: Notify Marsh immediately; Marsh notifies Arch. Policy details accessible; Paul is the primary point, Esther backup. - Communication approach to impacted LPs: Direct calls to the 3 recipients; fund admin templates used for broader notices; avoid unnecessary detail while instructing not to act on fraudulent requests. - Escalation: Warren and key leaders notified immediately. - Loss scenario: One LP wired $750,000 before verification; bank attempting recall; LP asks about covering losses. Esther states Eldridge will not cover their losses. - Conclusion: - Clear first-response flow (Sam → Crimson/Paul/Esther), containment by Crimson, investor notification via fund admin and portal, immediate insurance notification via Marsh, and no reimbursement commitment to investor losses. - Topic Title: Scenario 2 — Vendor breaches at Smarsh and Box (via API) - Description: - Smarsh incident: Supply-chain compromise via a software update; attacker had infrastructure access ~3 weeks; archived emails/IMs/attachments for the past 90 days may be viewed/exfiltrated; later confirmed exfiltration from multiple customers including Eldridge; treat as if the full 90-day archive is compromised. - Box incident: An unfamiliar service account accessed shared folders; root cause is a compromised API integration with a third-party workflow tool. - Coordination: Sam likely first to receive vendor alerts; loop in Crimson immediately; notify Paul and Esther; inform the broader team. Monty likely engaged with Smarsh across clients. - Data at risk: - Smarsh: Archived communications (emails, IMs, attachments) for 90 days; likely broad exposure. - Box: Shared and personal Box contents; HR shares a Box folder on the company account, so PII may exist there; main shared Box avoids PII by policy, but personal/HR folders may include PII. - Contractual breach notifications: Reg SP requires 72-hour vendor notification clauses. The team will check Box/Smarsh contracts for timelines and compliance. Late vendor notification likely does not change immediate response needs but may affect vendor risk posture and legal/contractual follow-up. - Books/records (Rule 204-2): Email retention via M365 one-year retention provides resilience if the Smarsh archive is affected. - Investor notification: Esther would lead investor notifications, with counsel review if the scope is broad; notify cyber insurance immediately. - Insurance coverage: Need to confirm if the policy covers third-party-origin breaches. - API governance (Crimson): Review enterprise applications/integrations in M365; consult Sam/Esther to inventory non-Crimson-managed integrations and confirm scope. - Vendor oversight changes: Reassess comfort with Smarsh and Box post-incident; verify insurance requirements and notification SLAs; recognize market leaders may still face incidents; evaluate additional controls/requirements. - Regulatory reporting: Esther to verify whether SEC/FINRA self-reporting applies given firm status; investors must be notified within required timeframes (30 days). - Conclusion: - Treat Smarsh’s 90-day archive as compromised; use M365 retention for email continuity; initiate investor and insurer notifications promptly; audit API integrations; review vendor contracts and oversight; confirm third-party breach insurance coverage. - Topic Title: Debrief and confidence assessment - Description: - Strengths: Strong wire workflow with MFA and verbal verification; clear escalation; fast engagement of Crimson; investor communications via the portal and fund admin templates; proactive skepticism by staff. - Gaps/considerations: Confirm CloudAlly retention specifics; document single points of contact per vendor and escalation paths; verify third-party breach coverage in the cyber policy; ensure contracts include 72-hour notification; inventory API integrations beyond Crimson’s scope. - Conclusion: - Few gaps identified; the Huntress migration improves the security posture. A formal report will follow as an audit artifact; the next tabletop is scheduled for 2027-01-26 at 13:00 for 90 minutes. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Vince to forward the Anzor partner call invite (scheduled for 2026-06-03 08:00). - [ ] Crimson to confirm and document CloudAlly backup frequency and retention; share with Paul, Sam, and Esther. - [ ] Update environment documentation with the New York office address provided by Sam; ensure Vincent’s copy aligns. - [ ] Document single points of contact and escalation contacts per key vendor (Smarsh, Box, Microsoft, etc.) and share with Sam. - [ ] Verify cyber policy coverage for third-party vendor-origin breaches; confirm with Arch/Marsh. - [ ] Review vendor contracts (Smarsh, Box) for 72-hour breach notification clauses; assess compliance. - [ ] Inventory and audit all API integrations and service accounts across M365 and Box; include non-Crimson-managed apps. - [ ] Prepare investor notification templates aligned to the portal workflow and counsel review for broad vendor incidents. - [ ] Christi to deliver a draft tabletop report by the week of 2026-06-15 for review by Paul, Sam, and Esther. - [ ] Confirm regulatory reporting obligations (SEC/FINRA applicability) for vendor data breaches. - [ ] Develop an investor notification playbook with decision trees for different breach scopes, including counsel review steps. - [ ] Classify and apply stricter controls (DLP, access reviews, encryption) to HR and personal Box folders that may contain PII. - [ ] Confirm whether late vendor notifications affect legal posture and define a vendor risk management response. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Third-party breach coverage uncertainty: The team was unsure whether the cyber policy covers vendor-origin incidents; confirm coverage and any sublimits or conditions. > 2. Vendor notification SLAs: Contractual 72-hour breach notification compliance for Smarsh and Box needs verification; late notification implications for vendor risk management should be defined. > 3. Comprehensive API inventory: A full inventory of all Box/M365 integrations and service accounts (including non-Crimson-managed) should be created and routinely audited. > 4. PII in Box locations: While shared Box avoids PII, HR/personal folders may contain PII; classify and apply stricter controls (DLP, access reviews, encryption) on those folders. > 5. Investor notification playbook: Create a quick-reference playbook for investor notifications via the fund admin/portal, including counsel review steps and decision trees for different breach scopes.
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- Jun 2, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:26 Christi. Good morning. Morning. It's one of them days. Speaker 2 00:00:33 Yeah, hey, um, so just heads up I uh, Cloud, they Anzor started a partner program and I got the first email. They're doing like a partner call tomorrow at eight zero am. I don't know if you are interested. It's more of like a yeah, I'll forward it to you. Yeah, go ahead. They're just kind of starting to scaffold it up, so I think that might be pretty interesting for us. Speaker 3 00:00:57 Gotcha. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:09 Hello, hello team. Hello. Hi. Hey Paul, happy Tuesday. Speaker 4 00:01:20 Hey there, how are you guys? Good. Great, thank you. Speaker 1 00:01:25 Paul I'll do introductions in a moment and I know there's a new face on here. You're not familiar with so I'll do those in one second, but let me rearrange my I'm not at the office. I started at this morning, so let me rearrange my desk. Speaker 1 00:01:40 Hi Sam, hi Esther. Hi. Speaker 3 00:01:45 Hello all. Good afternoon everyone. Speaker 1 00:02:14 Okay, everyone has joined. Anton and Olivia will not be joining us today. Olivia is out; she's at a conference in Texas, so she's not going to be joining us. Filling in for her today is Cheryl, and which I know you guys are familiar with Cheryl. And then Anton will not be joining us as well. ; filling in for him is Sean and. I don't know if you guys have met Sean in person, But Sean is the team lead for the security team, and he's very well versed in all things Eldridge. So he'll be joining us from a security standpoint. Let me go ahead and introduce you guys to Jason Tucker. Jason is new with Crimson. He's past that newness phase, so he's been with us almost 90 days. He is attending just to sit in and learn how we do tabletop exercises. Speaker 1 00:03:07 Um, from his point of view, he is our director of professional services. So, he works with the team um on a project side, and then also he's uh vcio for a client, just like I am. So introduce him. Uh I do want to take a moment. I'm going to go through everything with you guys um and just be aware of a couple things. Um we are sorry about the sneeze. Um we are. Speaker 1 00:03:37 Uh, doing this for your annual disaster recovery and business continuing tabletop exercise. So, this part of your compliance program, and it helps us validate that your incident responses work under pressure and not just on paper. Um, I want to give you guys some quick ground rules real quick. Um, one, this a no fault exercise. There's never any wrong answers. The point is to find out what we know, what we do not know and where the gaps are. Uh, two, I want to remind everybody to speak from your role. Uh, Paul, you're the CIO making decisions. Sam, you're the person who gets that first call. Esther, you're the compliance lead. You know Shawn is security. Cheryl is help desk. Monty is just here for moral support, and Vincent is the account manager. And Jason is also here for moral support. So um react the way you actually would in these scenarios. Speaker 1 00:04:31 Three, if you do not know the answer, just say so. I do not know, is one of the most valuable things you can say today. It tells us exactly where we need to shore things up. And then four, action items we'll capture today will be tracked and followed up on. Just like we did last year, this is not a check-the-box exercise. We will go over the report once we are done with this, and we'll add things, remove things as needed from the incident response plan and other documents. So, very last thing I want to remind you guys, we are recording this meeting. The transcript will stay within Crimson IT unless it's requested and approved by anybody on this, including Paul, Sam, and Esther. So if you guys need it for any reason, we will provide that for you pretty rapidly. All right? And just another one more reminder that I did not say I am. Speaker 1 00:05:23 Acting as a neutral party today, so I am not acting on behalf of Crimson IT. I am not acting on behalf of Eldridge. I am just the neutral party that gets to sit here. And uh, you guys get to hear my voice almost this entire time. Sadly. So real quickly. Let me do a quick overview of your technology environment as it stands today because some of this has changed since last year, and I want to make sure everybody is on the same page and I don't miss anything for your productivity platform. You're using Microsoft 365. This is your Exchange, uh Teams, your Outlook, OneDrive, things like that. There's no change from last year. Endpoint security is being migrated to Huntress. We were on Sophos MDR last year. We are migrating you to Sophos. Sean, have they been fully migrated yet or are we still pending? Speaker 5 00:06:15 Uh thanks Christi No they've been fully migrated Perfect. Speaker 1 00:06:19 Uh, for your backups, you haveum Datto SaaS protection, Which backs up your Microsoft three hundred and sixty five is twice daily with a one year retention. For your file storage, you have Box with CloudAlly backup and you don't use SharePoint. Uh for your compliance archival, you have Smarsh for security. Speaker 4 00:06:40 On CloudAlly, what is what is theum uh I think it's check daily on the Crimson side? Yes. Speaker 1 00:06:47 Daily with a one year retention on both sides. Speaker 4 00:06:50 Yeah, if we can just note that when we put that in there, I think there's been a question. Just confirm it. That'd be great. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:06:55 Absolutely. For security training, We use KnowBe4 monthly phishing campaigns for access control MFA is enabled. Bitlocker is on for all managed devices The Crimson IT documentation repository did switch in this last year. It actually switched a month ago. We used to house all of the documentation in IT Glue. We now house all that documentation in a company called Hoodoo, and we migrated this past year. For infrastructure, you're fully cloud-based, no on-premise servers. Your primary office is located in Los Angeles. Your secondary office is in New York. Your primary recovery location for your staff is work from home, and your secondary recovery location should you need it. Speaker 1 00:07:42 Is the Crimson IT Conference Center at US Bank Tower, and that is the eighth floor conference center. Okay, any questions or changes to this that we need to make? Do you document the location of the New York office? We do document that location in our systems, and I know Sam, You're going to be getting me letterhead soon once you guys have the address there. Speaker 6 00:08:08 So I have uh I sent it a little bit ago. Some that should be include the new address, which I think Vincent had too. So I think we are good on that account for having it updated. It is an industrial space. Speaker 1 00:08:22 I'm sorry say that again Paul. Speaker 4 00:08:23 The letterheads just our logos. So it wouldn't have our office addresses that type of stuff, but you guys have that information when we switched over. Speaker 1 00:08:29 Yes. Um your cyber insurance is Arch via Marsh which is your broker? And it is still, that is still the plan for 2026. Is that correct? Correct. All right. One important context item for today, SEC's Regulation SCI amendments become effective for all advisors under 1.5 billion, and that takes effect tomorrow, June 3rd, 2026. The amendments require a written incident response plan, a 30-day notification to affected individuals, and a 72-hour breach notification clauses in vendor contracts. Both of today's scenarios that we have planned will be testing some of that directly, which will satisfy these regulation amendments. Any questions on that? Okay. All right. We'll start with phase one. I'm sorry, scenario one. Speaker 1 00:09:27 It's Wednesday morning. Sam receives a call from a limited partner who says he's received an email from Paul's email address asking him to wire funds to a new account from a capital call. The LP thought it looked unusual and called to verify. Sam checks Paul's email, finds no record of the sent email, she contacts Crimson IT. Sean confirms that Paul's Microsoft 365 account was accessed from an unfamiliar IP address in Eastern Europe at two fourteen a m. The attacker appears to have used a compromised credential to access Paul's mailbox, read recent correspondence and sent targeted emails to three LPs mimicking Paul's writing style. The attacker also downloaded several attachments from Paul's OneDrive, including the current investor contact list with names addresses and other identifying details. Speaker 1 00:10:20 Huntress Labs has flagged the anonymous sign- on, but did not block it because the session used a valid token. The attacker's session has been active for approximately eight hours. Okay, I'm going to put this scenario into the chat so that everybody has it. And you can refer back to it. Sam, you got the call from the limited partner. What do you do in the first five minutes? Speaker 6 00:10:48 I would probably sorry, Let me read your thing, just to be sure that this didn't already come up. No worries. I mean, when I get the call, obviously I would contact you guys immediately receive that notice alert Paul immediately. Um probably alert our team just to make sure that nothing else has gone out from other team members as well. Uh and then, I think my stopping point or where I'd be confused is to what point we would have to communicate that to other people in his address book. I assume that would be an internal thing thatum ExCom would decide on. Speaker 1 00:11:26 Right, and we'll we'll actually cover that in the next portion of this scenario. So, Um do you have the help desk number accessible without having access to Outlook if if something was to happen? Speaker 6 00:11:38 I have it saved into my phone. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:11:41 All right, Paul, your account is compromised. What actions need to happen immediately? Speaker 5 00:11:48 So first, oh, sorry. Apologies. I thought this was my session or section. Speaker 1 00:11:56 You're next, John. Speaker 4 00:11:59 So I would immediately reach out to Monty, and let her know that I found out their account was compromised. Um, I obviously would let. Sam know if she didn't already, something she received the call. Typically I let Esther know as well, but I reach out to Crimson and say, you know, It appears to be a breach in access because an email went out that I didn't send and wait for further instructions. Speaker 1 00:12:23 Okay. Now question for you.: Who is going to authorize revoking your active sessions and resetting your credentials if you're unavailable? Um. Speaker 4 00:12:38 I think at that point it would probably go back to Sam, and then Sam would probably reach out to Esther or Warren. Speaker 1 00:12:45 Okay. And then if you were available, and are you capable of continue working while your account is being investigated? If we have to take down, let's say Microsoft, your Microsoft Outlook and systems. Can you can take you? Okay. Good. Sean walk the team through what Crimson does on the technical side. Speaker 5 00:13:06 Right, thanks, Christi. So, first off for phase one is the detection and scope confirmation. So, we've confirmed that the account has been breached and that it was successfully accessed from an unauthorized source. Immediately after that is hard containment, where we essentially lock down the accounts and preserve any evidence relating to the incident. After that, It would be an investigation looking for indicators of compromise, exposure assessment, you know, scope what has been accessed, what has been viewed and for how long. And after that we remediate and reset credentials and platform access. Speaker 1 00:13:55 Okay great. And then how can you confirm the scope of breach? And how do you determine what data was accessed or downloaded? Speaker 5 00:14:05 So for that, we would be reviewing the user account logs, audit logs within Microsoft 365 and information regarding mail activity in Exchange Online. Speaker 1 00:14:23 And, then how would you identify whether the three LPs who received the fraudulent emails actually wired the funds? And this is open to anyone here. Speaker 1 00:14:36 Repeat that. How do you identify whether the three limited partners who received the fraudulent emails actually wired the funds? Speaker 7 00:14:46 We would have to reach out to them. I think on our end, from a compliance perspective, as soon as we learn of this incident, we would immediately draft a message for our investors, Send it to our fund admin and distribute via the LP portal, alerting them to. Um, A uh suspicious email and asking that if they received any suspicious correspondence to please contact us immediately and to not take any action on any funding requests. Which normally, our investors would not do because all correspondence with our investors is through the LP portal. So they know not to expect any emails requesting funding via email. Speaker 7 00:15:33 They usually get a notification that there's a message in the portal, And then they log into the portal to download any instructions on capital calls or distributions. So I think our investors would likely ask us or reach out to us if they received something via email, but we would immediately send a notification just to alert them to this. Speaker 1 00:15:56 Perfect. Okay. Um. Speaker 1 00:16:01 And, that's great to know because actually, we have a piece that follows up with this that's going to play into that Esther. So I do appreciate that um and I will be making note for that under the regulation, SP amendments effective tomorrow. If sensitive customer information was accessed, you have 30 calendar days to notify affected individuals. Now during this time, I'm going to I'm going to backtrack slightly, we did confirm. During our investigation, That the attacker accessed Paul's Box account and downloaded the investor contact spreadsheet that Paul keeps on his OneDrive or I'm sorry, on his Box. The file contains important information names, addresses and bank account details for 47 limited partners. Speaker 1 00:16:52 The attacker also set up an email forwarding rule on Paul's account that was silently copying all incoming email to an external Gmail address for the past eight hours. Okay, who initiates the process to notify affected individuals in this case? Speaker 4 00:17:10 I think once we became aware, I would coordinate with Esther, and we again, this wouldn't happen because we don't keep that list there. But in the event that it did, we then would have to reach out to them individually and and, Let them know that they received that request to ignore it. Speaker 1 00:17:23 Okay. And uh does Ester have a notification template ready and who approves the notification language, legal counsel, compliance or both? And do you have outside counsel identified for the breach response? You are more than welcome to answer those questions. Do we have outside counsel? So we do you have outside counsel identified for the breach response? Let me put the questions I've been identified. Speaker 4 00:17:49 Yes. So two things, breach counsel. Yeah, as you mentioned in our previous session, We have a counsel that we have an engagement letter on, and we just renewed it and confirmed that our contact was still the same individual. This is one that was recommended through Arch and as part of their program. So we would let them know. And then in terms of reaching out to the people who potentially receive this, you know, um uh, Fraudulent email, we were extra. Would just reach out to them. We wouldn't have a template per se, we wouldn't need one. She would just reach out to them and speak to them and let them know, And wouldn't need to go through any legal review or just letting us know that to not respond to it. And through our work rules, they wouldn't even necessarily even receive an email from me. So I think they you know that's not our typical workflow practice with them. So they'd likely wouldn't do anything because I am not someone that they would normally receive that request from. Speaker 1 00:18:44 Got you. Now, within this, we're going to follow a certain picture. But with what you guys are telling me about how you normally do it, I am going to update my information for next year. So we'll change that up slightly. And usually we don't use the same scenarios yearly. For those of you guys who were on last year's, you know that we didn't do this one; we used a different one. So, But for today's intents and purposes, We are going to continue following the script just because there are some questions that we're going to ask that has to do with limited partners and how they would react. And then like I said, next year we'll change up those details. And I'll keep this the information as you guys are giving me. They will be included in the report, which is fantastic. It actually makes me feel better that this is never going to be an issue for you or I would hope never to be an issue for you. Okay? Speaker 1 00:19:42 Now, for the next question, do you notify Arch now or after you have a full picture? Speaker 4 00:19:49 We notify them immediately. We would notify Marsh who would then notify Arch. Speaker 1 00:19:54 Okay. And who has the policy details? Speaker 4 00:19:59 Policy details are accessible to our team. We have a folder where everything is located, but yeah, It would be I'd be the point. And if it wasn't me, then it would be Esther. But. All the information is readily available. Speaker 1 00:20:13 Got you. And, what about the limited partners who did receive the fraudulent wire instructions by email? Are you going to direct call or, and it is just the three, not the 47 that was in this scenario. Who is going to draft the communication to them. And what do you say and not say? Speaker 4 00:20:38 I think we would direct call all of them, Esther. Speaker 7 00:20:41 Yeah, so we would notify our fund admin. They have templates for all scenarios, all different types of communications to investors. So, they would provide a template to us that we would edit and modify as needed. And then they would post it. We actually don't have access to post anything to the portal. They do it for us. Speaker 1 00:21:06 Awesome, alright, And then at what point are you going in, At what point in all of this, are you going to notify Warren and other key individuals within your organization? Speaker 4 00:21:20 We'll let him know immediately when it happened. Speaker 1 00:21:23 Immediately. All right, good. Now, one of the three LPS who received the fraudulent wire, actually followed your email, Paul, even though they've been told not to and to use the portal. He did wire seven hundred and fifty thousand to the account specified in the attacker's email before calling to verify. His bank is already attempting to do a wire recall, but the receiving account is at a foreign institution. The limited partners demanding to know how his personal information was compromised and whether Eldridge will cover his losses. What is the question? Um, it's a scenario. Speaker 1 00:22:06 So, um, what you guys will. So the question for you is, are you going to No, Speaker 7 00:22:16 We won't cover their losses. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:22:19 Perfect. Thank you Esther. All right. Any questions on this scenario? Anything that we should go back over? And I did capture everything that everybody said. So we are going to make sure that, that is covered. And notated in the report in addition to Crimson stuff. But is there any other questions or any comments? Speaker 7 00:22:39 And just so you know, All of our current existing investors do not they have policies in place where they do not wire to new instructions without verbally confirming. So, if we were to provide instructions to wire funds to an account, they have not wired previously to. They would call to verify. Okay. They wouldn't just send a wire. Speaker 1 00:23:11 Okay, perfect, and that's good to know, and we will add that to our reporting. All right, If you guys are ready, we'll go to the next option or the next scenario. All right, Perfect. Andum we are slightly ahead of schedule. So whenever we're slightly ahead of schedule. I am going to give you the option during that time to go with a third scenario. Or, we can end early, and you guys can have time back to your day, but we'll make that decision after we get done with this scenario. Okay. It is Thursday at 11:00 a.m. Smarsh sends an email to Esther and Sam notifying them of a cybersecurity incident affecting their platform. An unauthorized party gained access to Smarsh's internal systems through a compromised software update. Speaker 1 00:23:58 Smarsh is advising all customers that archived communications data may have been accessed. Within the hour, Smarsh confirms the scope is broader than initially reported. The attacker had access to Smarsh's infrastructure for approximately three weeks. Your archived emails, Instant messages and attachments for the past ninety days may have been viewed or exfiltrated. Smarsh cannot yet confirm whether the data was actually taken. Separately, Sam notices that several shared folders in Box have been accessed from an unfamiliar service account overnight. Crimson investigates and determines that access came through a compromised API integration between Box and a third party workflow tool that you use for document routing. Okay, Now just a heads up. I did put the scenario most of the scenario in here. Um I will say that if this happened with Smarsh. Speaker 1 00:24:57 I am adding to the scenario for you guys. Monty will already be tied up into that process, So just a quick heads up on that because we have multiple clients on Smarsh. Now, you have two trusted vendors, Smarsh and Box. Both became compromised. Both are separate compromises. Who coordinates that response? Who is the single point of contact for each vendor? And do you have escalation contacts beyond normal support? Speaker 6 00:25:30 I feel like they'd reach out likely to me or I would receive it as mentioned, and then I'd automatically loop Crimson in immediately, just so you guys are aware and tracking it. Although it sounds like in the scenario Monty's already on it, and then alert Paul and Esther immediately following to what our. To discuss what our next steps are in regards to that, and then probably send an alert to the team. Letting them know. Speaker 1 00:25:57 All right, now this is a question for Sam, Esther and Paul and not Crimson IT. Um what data is at risk for each vendor? So I want you guys to think about the items that you send over Teams, this you send over email and items that you keep in Box. What kind of communications are archived in there including anything PII? Any deal terms, any legal privileged material, and then with Box, Think about what you have in your personal Box and in your shared Box accounts. So what data is at risk for each vendor? Speaker 6 00:26:34 That would be just about everything. Speaker 4 00:26:36 Yeah, I mean on the Box side, you knowum in our main box share we don't put PII in there. I don't know Esther if, If, you have it in your personal box or if it goes through a different thing door or HR firm in terms of PI information, Speaker 7 00:26:53 But yeah, So with our with the HR, we just share a Box folder that's on our Box account. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:27:01 So they they would have access to it. Okay. If they somehow got breached. Okay. And then Smarsh similarly, then they can access emails so much more readily they can actually access those emails. Um, all of our information, Every email is retained, and every Box file has access to it, personal or shared. They pretty much have access to everything. Speaker 1 00:27:28 Okay. So pretty much everything is at risk. All right. Speaker 1 00:27:39 Under Regulation SP your vendor contact contracts should include a 72 hour breach notification clause. Do your contracts with Smash box include that language When does Smash notify you. And was it within the 72 hours of their discovery? If, their notification was late. Does that change your risk posture? The main question on this one, because the other questions are there to make you think about it? The main question for you to answer If their notification was late. Does that change your risk posture? Speaker 6 00:28:12 Uh I'm checking on box? Pulling up the contract. Speaker 4 00:28:15 Yeah, We'd have to check the agreement and see what the notification window was and see if they're complying. I don't know if it necessarily wouldn't matter. I mean, a breach is a breach, right? So we have to, you know, address it. So I think once we've had that, We wouldum you know, contact Smash or contact Arch, and we'd involve cyber legal. I don't know how that would work in terms ofum uh you know their their potential liability on the Box and Smartr side. U m, but we would have to go through the channels to our, you know, insurance, yeah, and I have to work withCrimson in terms of you know how we can do to remedy itum and then necessary steps that we'd have to walk through it. Speaker 1 00:28:58 Okay. Now rule 204-2 requires you to maintain books and records if smarsh's archive data for the past 90 days was accessed or. Or corrupted, what is your remediation path? Do, you have a secondary copy of archived communications anywhere. Speaker 4 00:29:21 For email or Box or both? Speaker 1 00:29:24 For email. Speaker 4 00:29:26 So for email, obviously through M 365 we have the one year retention. So all the emails at least for that one year period of time. Are there. So we'd at least go back to that and hopefully this Smarsh breach, Isn't corrupted beyond that timeframe. Speaker 1 00:29:41 Perfect. I was hoping you were going to say that. You would be amazed at how many clients don't know that answer. So excellent job, Paul. All right, Smarsh confirms that the attacker exfiltrated data from multiple customers, including us meaning Eldritch). They cannot specify exactly which records were taken, but recommend all affected firms treat the exposure as if the full ninety day archive was compromised. Speaker 1 00:30:09 Arches breach coach calls Esther and asks for preliminary incident summary within two hours. Okay, now with that additional inject, does Smarsh data exfiltration trigger an SP notification obligation? Esther. Um. Speaker 7 00:30:35 I think that we would need to notify our investors of a breach within the within the respective required time. Speaker 1 00:30:44 Okay. Who owns the notification? I'm sorry. Speaker 7 00:30:50 Oh, yeah, because we do keep, I mean all all of our records are in Box, right? So if there is a breach with Smarsh or Box, I mean investor data is compromised. Um I would take the lead on that. Speaker 1 00:31:05 Okay, perfect. And. Then what do you tell them about the data that may have been in the archive? Does it include communications, account details, PII? I think it just depends on. Speaker 7 00:31:22 What we know about the breach, right? So if it's limited to certain files, if it's ever-- it just depends on whether it was everything or limited. In your example is--, Uh, is it everything? It would be everything. Then I think we would we would draft something and have our attorneys review it before we sent it out. Speaker 1 00:31:49 Okay. Perfect. And then when would you report this to your cyber insurance partners? Immediately. Okay. Speaker 1 00:32:01 And does your policy cover breaches that originate at a third party vendor? Speaker 4 00:32:07 I'd have to check our policy. Speaker 1 00:32:09 Okay, no worries. All right, because the Box API integration was the access vector, and this is going to be a question for my team. How do you audit other integrations and API keys? And Sean, let's start with Microsoft. Speaker 5 00:32:31 Uh, So basically, we just review the uh current uh setup uh enterprise applications that are in use for EAP. Speaker 1 00:32:46 And then how would you work with Sam and Esther regarding other apps that Crimson may not have access to? Um. Speaker 5 00:32:58 Just, uh basically uh review with them what is currently in use and active in their environmentum and confirm if there's anything else that is out of scope, Speaker 1 00:33:10 Okay. And then Esther and Paulum and Sam vendor oversight. Is there anything that changes after this in regards to your vendor oversight? Speaker 1 00:33:24 Would you add any questions when you evaluate a vendor for possible partnership? Do is there anything else that you would consider regarding, let's say, Smarsh? Would it still be acceptable as your cell archive provider? Would Box still be acceptable as your cell document repository? Speaker 4 00:33:47 I think we'd have to consider it. Obviously, a breach of that magnitude, we have to confirm our comfortability with. Staying with them, presuming they can, you know, ensure that it's mitigated. Um and I think we'd have to, you know thinking more about that question. I like to think that our policy must cover third parties because they know we don't have data just originates within our files. Um, but we probably have to look at that and see if potentially we need to have additional language or additional insurance requirements for those vendors for cyber breaches. Okay. Speaker 6 00:34:18 Yeah, I think the difficulty is they're already kind of the top of their game. So if they're in this scenario, if they're impacted, then it's like where where is safe harbor? Speaker 1 00:34:28 Correct. All right. If archive integrity is in question when go back to both archives on Box and Smarsh, do you self report to SEC? Speaker 7 00:34:44 I don't believe we're required well, I need to double check. We're not a publicly traded company, so the rules are a little bit different for us. We are required to immediately notify or not immediately, but we have a certain time period, thirty days to notify our investors. Um I have to check to see if we are required to notify uh FINRA or any of the other organizations that we're regulated by. Speaker 1 00:35:10 Okay Got you Um now at this point we're about twenty, 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Do you want to proceed with a scenario three? Or do you want to have 20 minutes back to your day? Once we do the final closing, we still have a few more things we have to cover. Speaker 4 00:35:29 I think we're good with the scenarios unless anyone thinks otherwise. Speaker 1 00:35:33 Okay, perfect. All right, So let's take it back and take a step back and talk about what we walked through. What felt solid to you and where do you feel confident in your responses? Speaker 4 00:35:46 I think we have a good handle on things related to wiring in our process. We have a multifactor workflow and approval that needs to go through, where it's not just, you know, wire things. There's phone calls. There's a whole chain of command that that Esther has set up. Um I think just on in the event that our third parties get breached and information gets, you know um um breached, We'd have to confirm, you know, from insurance perspective, is additional coverage we need to have that go beyond what we currently have. But we'd have to explore that. But, we have a pretty significant policy and I'm sure that it covers third party because most of our data is on third party platforms, if not all of it. So presumably it's all covered. Speaker 1 00:36:30 Um for Crimson folks, do you feel confident in uh in the scenarios that we had today? Do you feel confident that everybody? From Eldridge understands when to get you in, when what we need to do to handle these issues. Yes. Speaker 1 00:36:55 I'm Sorry, say that again, Cheryl? Speaker 4 00:36:57 No, I think we're pretty comfortable. Speaker 1 00:37:01 Cheryl's like I walk through this with Chris at least monthly now. So I think he's pretty comfortable. Speaker 6 00:37:07 Well, And I feel like I write Charles and Monty anytime, something even looks remotely weird because I've just come to suspect everything. So they're used to me sounding like a conspiracy theorist. No worries. Speaker 5 00:37:17 Good policy to have. Speaker 1 00:37:19 Yeah. Um, Did anybodyum hesitate at any point and realize you did not have an answer? No. Speaker 1 00:37:33 Um, were there any assumptions you held coming that got challenged today? Speaker 4 00:37:44 For us or for anyone? Speaker 1 00:37:51 Is There. Any is there a top three list? Any of you guys held mentally that you want to fix before next year? All right. Um, the action items I captured in this, um, we're going to double check for. So Crimson is going to have this on their action item is to uh determine Cloud Alley backup frequency and retention. Get that captured and then send that over to Paul Sam and Esther. Um, we do need to update the environmental documentation. So Sam I did see that you sent this? Uh I'll get that added into my records and I know Vincent has it as well. Um. Speaker 1 00:38:32 And then for um, sorry, I was about to sneeze again. And then um for identifying a single point of contact per vendor, um I will write that up for you guys. Um that we have that uh just to make sure that everybody has the contact information because Crimson has it on their end. But Sam I want to make sure that you have that contact information as well. Just in case you need it. And then um. I s there, anything else that you guys captured that we want to add into my action items? Speaker 4 00:39:11 None from my end. Thank you, Christy. Speaker 5 00:39:14 I'm good. Thanks. Speaker 1 00:39:18 So team, thank you guys for everything. I always like running through with you guys because we're pretty quick on it and you guys are usually prepared, so I do appreciate that. I am going to compile everything into a formal report with my findings. Um, I am on vacation next week, so look for that to come around June fifteenth. Um, Paul Sam, you will need to review it first and Esther. Um, and then once you have that done, I'll put it on the formal letterhead that Sam has sent over. And then um we'll have that final one out there. So and just also a heads up. Speaker 1 00:39:58 Um, This a report that serves as your audit artifact for any uh requirements that come through from any of your vendors if it's required for them. This also our first exercise since SOFOs to Huntress migration. Um and so those changes does strengthen your posture. I will say that because Huntress is a really amazing tool. Um anything that we found that gaps are for today, which we didn't find much gaps, U m is exactly what this exercise is for and why it's put in and required. So I do want to thank you guys again uh for this. And then let me know if you guys have any questions. I do have scheduled uh January 26, 2027 tabletop. It is already on the calendar. It is at 1:00 p. m. for 90 minutes. Speaker 4 00:40:47 So you said when are we going to get the draft report? You mentioned the time but I missed it? Speaker 1 00:40:51 Uh, the draft report will be within the next two weeks. I'm on vacation next week, so look for it the week of uh June 15th. Got it. Okay. And as always, uh side note, Uh Sam, you have my cell phone. Paul, you have my cell phone if you need me while I'm on vacation. Um I am reachable with the exception of Wednesday afternoon. I will have my cell phone off that day, but I know Monty's not taking any time off, and Cheryl isn't taking any time off next week. Speaker 1 00:41:21 And Vincent is always around. So, all right, guys. Thank you. Speaker 6 00:41:28 Awesome. Thank you everyone. Good seeing you guys. Speaker 3 00:41:31 Bye bye everyone take care thank you bye.
05-19 Consultation: SEC-Aligned DR/BC and Cybersecurity Documentation for Eldridge Acre Partners LP
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- > Date & Time: 2026-05-19 14:02:30 > Location: [Insert Location] > Customer: Eldridge Acre Partners LP Overview The consultation centered on updating Eldridge Acre Partners LP’s disaster recovery (DR), business continuity, and cybersecurity documentation to align with SEC obligations using the NIST framework, validating current security and compliance controls, consolidating related materials, scheduling the annual tabletop exercise, and aligning reporting to a calendar-year cadence. The firm operates primarily in the cloud (Microsoft 365 and Box), uses Datto for twice-daily backups with one-year retention, and leverages Smarsh, Huntress, MFA, BitLocker, monthly phishing campaigns, KnowBe4 training, and SIEM/IDS. Key goals include delivering a current, compliant DR plan and business continuity report on the client’s letterhead, generating a Hudu-based runbook, clarifying the minimum SEC-required scope versus best-effort controls, removing 8-K references for a private company, and scheduling a January-aligned annual tabletop exercise (with a proposed 2026 session). Background - Participants: Christi (Crimson IT, compliance/DR lead), Sam and Paul (Eldridge; Sam is ERT primary, Paul supports mobilization and consolidation), Esther (compliance approvals and investor/SEC notifications), with Vince and Monty (Crimson IT) for future sessions; optional NY office participant suggested for tabletop. - Scope: Review/update policies, DR plans, information security policy, disaster recovery & business continuity report, incident response procedures, and the SEC cybersecurity disclosure checklist. No tabletop conducted during this session. - Compliance: SEC obligations structured via NIST; no new compliance requirements reported. Christi will distinguish SEC-required items from best-effort enhancements. - Repository: Migration from IT Glue to Hudu in progress; runbooks will be generated from Hudu going forward. - Backups: Datto backs up Microsoft 365 twice daily with one-year retention; last full backup date to be updated. - Security/Services: Microsoft 365, Box (CloudAlly for Box), Smarsh, Huntress (replacing prior tool), MFA, BitLocker, monthly phishing campaigns, KnowBe4, SIEM/IDS. - Communication: Emergency coordination via a Microsoft Teams emergency channel. - Recovery Locations: Primary—work from home; secondary—Crimson IT conference center at US Bank Tower. - DR Plan Updates Needed: Notification calling tree, key personnel contacts, emergency numbers, risk assessment alignment (flood primary risk; low wildfire risk in Los Angeles to be added). - Scheduling: Target annual cadence in January; proposed January 26, 2026, 1:00 PM for 1.5 hours; separate proposal for a focused tabletop on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, at 2:00 PM (Vincent and Anton from Crimson IT to join). Pain Points - Outdated/incomplete DR documentation: Missing notification calling tree, key personnel contacts, and updated emergency numbers create response and compliance gaps. Operating largely in the cloud reduces server DR complexity, but documentation must reflect NIST/SEC alignment and real-world workflows (e.g., facilities incidents: Sam → property management → Crimson → Paul → escalation to Warren if impacted). - Tool migration and runbook delays: Migration from IT Glue to Hudu and new runbook processes delay consolidated documentation and runbook delivery, affecting audit and incident readiness. - Annual scheduling misalignment: Prior cadence inconsistencies led to compliance timing gaps and planning friction; client prefers calendar-year alignment with late-January tabletop. - Minimum compliance clarity: Need to delineate SEC-required elements versus best-effort NIST-aligned enhancements to avoid unnecessary effort. Christi’s expanded template raised concerns about scope and effort. - Incident disclosure for a private company: References to 8-K created confusion; documents must reflect correct private-company procedures and investor notifications. - Document fragmentation: Multiple related documents need coherent consolidation or cross-referencing for maintenance, version control, and audit readiness. - Role clarity and coordination: While Sam and Paul are primary contacts, responsibilities across the client and Crimson IT (documentation, mobilization, RCA, remediation approvals, communications) require firm alignment; insurance carrier Arch expects detailed damage and impact assessments. Expectations - Deliver a current, compliant DR/business continuity package on client letterhead: Include notification calling tree, key personnel contacts, emergency numbers, accurate descriptions of tools/services (Datto, Microsoft 365, Box with CloudAlly, Smarsh, Huntress, MFA, BitLocker, SIEM/IDS), risk assessment (flood, low wildfire), and updated backup details. Align to NIST while meeting SEC obligations; ensure Esther’s compliance acceptance. - Clarify SEC-required vs. best-effort items: Provide an itemized mapping to control scope and focus on the minimum needed for SEC compliance; incorporate into the 2026 documentation set. - Update incident disclosure procedures for a private company: Remove 8-K references; include correct investor/SEC notification steps and templates in the SEC cybersecurity disclosure checklist on client letterhead. - Schedule and conduct the annual tabletop exercise aligned to January: Confirm January 26, 2026, at 1:00 PM for 1.5 hours, with planning the week prior; ensure participation by Sam, Esther, Vince, Monty, and Paul. A separate focused tabletop on June 2, 2026, at 2:00 PM is also proposed to validate procedures with two scenarios. - Complete Hudu migration and runbook generation: Ensure a complete, accurate runbook accessible for audits and incidents; integrate with Datto/Microsoft 365/Box to automate current-state data where possible. - Establish clear incident reporting and insurance documentation procedures: Ensure rapid production of damage assessments, business impact statements, and required disclosures aligned with SEC/investor expectations and Arch insurance requirements. Other Information Summary - Emergency contacts: 911 for core services; additional city department numbers validated in 2024 and to be revalidated in 2026. - Scenarios/Addenda: Total loss of data and total loss of access included; phones and key contacts in addenda; RCA typically led by Christi with client-approved remediation plans. - Vendor access: No vendors with data access beyond Crimson IT reported. - Documentation storage: Client maintains Crimson-related policies on a shared drive; prefers consolidated PDFs with exhibits where appropriate. - Availability: Christi is in office; February and March are busy; taking vacation in early/mid-June and in August; otherwise reachable. Scheduling window open until February 6. To-Do List - Send Eldridge Acre Partners LP letterhead to Christi for DR/BC and SEC disclosure documents. Stakeholder: Sam. Deadline: ASAP. - Provide key personnel contact information (Sam, Paul, Esther, etc.) to complete DR plan sections. Stakeholder: Sam. Deadline: Before January 26, 2026. - Update notification calling tree reflecting Sam → Property Management → Crimson (Monty/Vince) → Paul → Warren (if impacted). Stakeholder: Christi. Deadline: Before January 26, 2026. - Confirm January 26, 2026, 1:00–2:30 PM tabletop meeting invitations to Sam, Esther, Vince, Monty, and Paul; include pre-session planning the week prior. Stakeholder: Christi. Deadline: Immediately. - Schedule and send Teams invite for the Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 2:00 PM tabletop (recorded), including agenda; invite optional New York office participant and Crimson IT (Vincent, Anton). Stakeholder: Christi. Deadline: ASAP. - Validate and update the last full backup date to current date in documentation. Stakeholder: Christi. Deadline: With DR doc update. - Complete Hudu migration and ensure runbook builds correctly; deliver runbook by end of day or next morning. Stakeholder: Christi. Deadline: 2026-05-19 or 2026-05-20. - Add Smarsh and Box explicitly to DR documentation; confirm CloudAlly for Box. Stakeholder: Christi. Deadline: With DR doc update. - Perform and document current risk assessment (flood, wildfire) aligned to NIST/SEC. Stakeholder: Christi. Deadline: With DR doc update. - Send an itemized mapping of “SEC required” vs. “best effort” elements. Stakeholders: Christi, Paul, Esther. Deadline: Before June 2, 2026. - Update SEC cybersecurity disclosure SOP (remove 8-K; add private-company notification requirements) and send to Esther for approval. Stakeholders: Christi, Esther. Deadline: Early June 2026. - Confirm ERT hierarchy and contact list (Sam first, Paul second; full order and emergency communications details). Stakeholders: Sam, Paul. Deadline: Before June 2, 2026. - Verify cybersecurity insurance details with Arch and ensure damage assessment templates meet Arch requirements. Stakeholders: Christi, Esther, Sam, Paul. Deadline: Early June 2026. - Prepare consolidated PDF of 2026 documentation (DR plan, exhibits/addenda, SEC disclosure checklist) for shared drive. Stakeholders: Christi, Paul, Esther. Deadline: After the June tabletop. AI Suggestions - Implement a structured DR documentation checklist mapped to NIST/SEC controls to close gaps (notification trees, contacts, emergency numbers, backup verification, risk assessments) via a short working session with Sam and Esther. - Create a one-page incident quick-reference sheet summarizing first-call actions for common scenarios (facilities outage, malware, data loss) to reinforce training and speed response. - Automate Hudu documentation updates by integrating with Datto/Microsoft 365 to keep backup status and asset configurations current. - Run a 30-minute pre-tabletop readiness review the week prior to the January and June sessions to validate contact trees, emergency numbers, and vendor lists so tabletop time focuses on execution. - Build a compliance matrix mapping requirements to SEC citations and label items as Mandatory/Recommended/Optional; adopt a tiered documentation approach with a core SEC-compliant package and modular annexes for best-effort enhancements. - Establish quarterly compliance check-ins to capture regulatory changes and update only impacted sections, reducing full-scale rewrites.
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:04 Hi Sam and Paul, I do apologize. Um, I was I was doing a training session, and we we ran a little long. So I do apologize for that. Speaker 2 00:00:16 No worries it's like two minutes we're chilling. Good. Uh are. Speaker 1 00:00:23 We waiting for anyone else to come along? Speaker 3 00:00:27 I think we're good. Think Esther may join you invited Esther right? Speaker 2 00:00:32 Yes, Esther is the one that we need on it. So let me. Speaker 3 00:00:37 She doesn't need to be on it, But because Chris is going to go through and ask her questions and then just update the report from last year. But if Esther could join, great. Speaker 1 00:00:52 All right. Um so real quickly. I don't want to do a tabletop with you guys today. Um, we did a tabletop with you guys a year ago. I do want to do the runbook and everything, But I am pulling up your policies right now to go over what we need to change. And so bear with me because I was training people on how to use Excel, so I was trying to close out of everything. If you guys ever need Excel training, please let me know. We were doing a basics one today. Speaker 1 00:01:25 I do want to get a tabletop on the books because you guys should do it yearly, um, and I want to get that. Speaker 3 00:01:32 This was going to be the tabletop. We're saying we're not that's that's not today. Speaker 1 00:01:36 That's not today. Uh, today is going over your different policies and what you have. Um, I do have some documents for you. I have the AI strategy. Um, is that still? I want to go over all the documents I have for you guys to make sure I know what is still. Valid for you. I want to make sure that the disaster recovery plan that we have in place for you is still correct. Your information security policy is still correct, and then there is a disaster recovery and business continuity report. But very first thing I need to ask has anything changed for you guys as far as compliancy requirements? Speaker 3 00:02:18 No related to okay. Speaker 1 00:02:21 And I will apologize in advance. I've not been as up to date on everything, Eldridge, for this last year. So I may ask some questions that I should know, But just that I because I haven't been as ingrained as I used to be into your account. So might need to just ask you guys some clarifying questions. And then the runbook has is building. It takes a couple hours to build, but it has already started building so You guys will have it by end of day, and if it's not finished building by end of day, you guys will have it tomorrow morning. Um, We are changing out our systems. So uh, the runbooks are I'm I'm learning how to do the new runbooks. And so it's taken me a few minutes. So I want to be cognizant of your time. And, then are you guys okay if we go ahead and record this meeting just so that I have notes and I can send you guys over the summary and things like that? Great because I am, I am not the greatest at taking notes while I'm talking. Speaker 1 00:03:17 So, all right. I'm also going to turn on a facilitator. So she's going to give us a running update of everything we're going to do. And so let me get her turned on. I call her a her. So, she will pop up into chat as well. So the documents I have for you guys is we're going to start off with the hardest one. And that is your disaster recover and business continuity report. So I have that for you guys. This year when I do it, this is a side note for Sam. I do want to make sure that when I do it this year, I want to put it on y'all's letterhead instead of Crimson's. So if you guys have letterhead and want to send that over to me, that would be absolutely amazing. Also, I have already blown up my screen, so that people can see things better because of my training in the last meeting. So. Speaker 1 00:04:16 I this is the same one we had. I did redact everything just because I wanted to make a copy of it for someone else, but I can change and take out the redacted for you guys. Um, we are going to put in your full legal name. Um, so it's still Eldridge Acre Partners LLC. Is that correct? LP LP Okay, perfect. So make sure I don't so want to make sure it's right. Um, I am going to update uh, This date is going to stay the same. It will be updated when we do the new tabletop exercise. So this is the recovery report from it all. So we're going to do all of this right here. Anser was in here editing a high level, Speaker 3 00:04:59 We will go through this quickly just in terms of the timing, I think we want to have this align more to our calendar year. Okay, so as you remember, We were halfway through twenty four, and then we didn't do one in twenty five. Five, We pinged you guys, and then we did one a year into you know, our inception. And now we're a year plus since that one. But I think we want to do this one with Mr. Kirk here, yeah, whatever aligns with what Esther needs or what we need from the compliance perspective. But I think we want to do this one for the past, trailing twelve since the last one. But I think going forward when we do like in January or February, whatever we would do it, I think you want to do it in January uh. Speaker 3 00:05:41 You see, We would do it for twenty six and then get it aligned to an annual plan. Speaker 2 00:05:45 Okay, yeah, and I think Christy mentioned uh February and March are really busy, so maybe January would be better for us just to knock it out. Speaker 1 00:05:52 Yeah. Um So there was two things we did for you last year. Last year, we did the tabletop, which did get done, and there was a different type of system that did not get done because it wasn't in my ballpark. It was handed off to another department. However that's coming back onto my plate and so, We'll be doing starting this year. We're going to be doing it all together, so you are going to see everything, including all the reports, all the frameworks. Everything is going to be together. So January, let's go ahead and do this. Let's go ahead and get you on the calendar for January that way. We don't forget. And trust me, I'll still be around because answers told me, I could never quit. C rims on ; I have to retire from Crimson when I am old and gray. Speaker 1 00:06:36 And I only have six gray hairs at forty- six, so that's going to be a while. Um, so January. Uh, what is the I know holidays. I know, Crimson usually comes back on the fourth, and most of our clients will come back on the fourth. What is the best timeframe? I have up until February sixth that is going to be free. Ariel had looked that up for you guys last time. Speaker 3 00:07:02 Why don't we try maybe later January? Okay. We can try. Tuesdays are usually a good day, and then we can try for the same time on a Tuesday. Okay. The twenty sixth, yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:13 Yep, so on the twenty sixth on that Tuesday, Um anytime in the afternoon is going to be good. Uh Pete likes to do his L two, okay, perfect. So I'm gonna go in here. Speaker 4 00:07:33 So it was January 26 th. I have a two, a standing, wait. Standing 2:30? How about 1:30? Perfect. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:47 Okay. So actually let's do one o'clock. If you guys are okay, because that way, if we run, We're probably going to run long on that one. So I'm going to make it an hour and a half, just to make sure we have all the time, and we can do everything in one fell swoop. Speaker 3 00:08:04 We actually did the whole thing like under a half an hour, so hopefully we can. Speaker 1 00:08:09 Yeah. I'm just I'm just doing it an hour and a half, just in case, because I want to do everything together. Um, so I'm going to do call Sam and Esther. All right. Um, I'm also going to require Mike is Mike here? Speaker 1 00:08:32 Account manager or Vince on our side. Vincent. Vincent, okay. I want to add Vince and Monty because it's really good to have them in it. And then so I have it for them, I'm going to send that over. And then because I'm going to do this real quick, I'm going to put in my planning time. Let's do, I'm going to do it, I like to do it the week before EAP. Speaker 1 00:09:03 Um, if I don't put that in there, I'm going to lose track of it. So bear with me one second. Oops, there. Deep work. Okay, that's why my calendar is color coded. Um, If I don't, uh you guys would be amazed at how organized my life is. Uh let me mark that as client, okay, good. So we have that on the calendar going forward. We're going to do it at the beginning of January. Um. As far as your documentation is concerned, um on this we're still doing everything by NIST and SCC frameworks, correct? Or are you guys stuck to. Okay, NIST and SCC. Okay. Um I always put S NIST because it handles everything SCC because that's what you guys do. Uh NIST is slightly stronger than SCC but SCC has some. Speaker 1 00:09:59 Some items like your yearly stuff that Esther does. All right. Um, is there anything we are changing this from IT Glue? That's going to be changed to Who Do for us. Um, is there anything in the DR plan that was Oh, Speaker 1 00:10:23 Gotcha. No worries. IT Glue was our document repository for everything Eldridge related. Pretty much anything for any of our clients. We're it also built out your runbook. So documents for your own files. Um, let me show you. It's a database. Um, It's, Speaker 3 00:10:42 Okay. And okay, I just want to understand what it is. So is it your own files, not our files? Speaker 1 00:10:48 Correct, it's our files and it shows how your entire network is configured, how everything is set up for you guys, All of that. So it's it's like she's doing TurtleClouds, Speaker 3 00:10:58 Got it. Speaker 1 00:10:58 Yes, and that's required for uh SCC documentation. So we're changing that to Hudu. Actually this is uh the week that we're migrating everything over to Hudu. Hudu is the same thing and it will build out your runbooks as well. Um and all of our current DR documentation which is your policies, plans and everything like thatum we have not replaced your original DR plan, we've only updated it, We're doing everything Microsoft three hundred and sixty five with a backup via Datto. So Datto is backing up everything in Microsoft. Are you guys using anything like Secure Mail or anything along those lines? No, we just have CloudAlly for Box. Okay, perfect. And I do have Box in my notes as well. Our our backup and data protection is still going to be the Datto it's. Speaker 1 00:11:51 Still backing up twice daily. Our retention is set at to one year. Um, the last full backup, we're going to change this date. This date is going to actually be the current date of when that was done, but it is um daily. Okay? Um, let me go back here. But because it's it's twice a day update to current date. Speaker 3 00:12:20 Backup unrelated to their attention we use through Smarts from other platforms, right? Speaker 1 00:12:26 Exactly. Yep. So recovery options are still going to be you guys if things were to go down at your office, your primary recovery operations is work from home. So if Los Angeles goes down or New York goes down, people are going to work from home. Your secondary is still Crimson IT's conference center, which is at the US Bank Tower. Unless have you guys decided a different location for your secondary? Speaker 3 00:12:56 No, that's fine. I mean, generally we'll come home is going to be okay. I can't imagine anything beyond that. Perfect. That's fine on the secondary here. Speaker 1 00:13:04 Okay, Now for uh for your compliancy notification or for your compliancy needs, uh, Ester Selfos is being changed to Huntress. We are we switched systems. Speaker 3 00:13:18 We updated that. Okay, Speaker 1 00:13:23 Perfect. MFA is still enabled, nothing has changed there. BitLocker is still the same, nothing has changed there. You guys are still doing monthly phishing campaigns and K. Now, Be 4 is still your security training. We still have SIEM and IDS in place, nothing has changed about that. And then your data governance is still Microsoft with Datto backup policies. So nothing has changed there that I can find in our system. Smarsh is still used. I'm going to add that in because it didn't need to be added last year, but we I do want to spell it out this year. So Smarsh is still in place, and um yes, and Box will be added in as well. Um yes. Speaker 1 00:14:08 Um, your cybersecurity playbook. Let me pull that up real quick because that's the next item that we have to go through. And actually, let me pull up disaster recovery plan. So, this is what we have for the last disaster recovery plan unless we need to revise anything, Which I will be revising things this year because we do need to revise a few items. So we'll go through this real quick. Um, Has anything changed with you guys as far as other vendors that you utilize beyond Crimson IT? In what context? So, Is there any other vendors that you work with that has access to your data? Just like Crimson does? No. Okay, good to know. I have to ask that question during this conversation. Um, so basically um. Speaker 1 00:15:05 You guys have developed a comprehensive IT disaster recovery plan. We've gone over that. We've done we will be doing a risk assessment right now for you guys. We do it, I think for you guys we do it quarterly, but I'm going to double check that. Um, I want to make sure that you guys understand disaster recovery should cover all essential and critical infrastructure elements. Thankfully because you're on the cloud and with Box and Microsoft, that um it's it's actually a shorter disaster recovery plan than most companies just Just because you're on the cloud, there's nothing we have to worry about with servers. And then I do want to make sure with you guys, um, The fifth bullet point is being followed that all staff is aware of the disaster recovery plan and what their roles are within that. So if something was to happen, let's say there's a massive earthquake, you guys can't get into the office. Is staff aware of what they should do? Speaker 1 00:15:59 And how they would get reported to in the event of a disaster to that effect. Speaker 3 00:16:07 Yes, nothing's changed. Speaker 1 00:16:09 Okay, perfect. And then as far as what would happen in case of malware or virus, your staff knows exactly what to do and how to go about that issue. Correct through the training. Okay, perfect, great. Speaker 1 00:16:25 So it is going to be kept up to date. We do keep it up to date, so we are going to go over a few items in this. So we haven't gone over the fact that staff needs to fully understand. We do need to get key personnel contact information this year. So who are your key people? So Paul, Esther, Sam, all of that information. If you guys can when I send you over the updated copy, I'm not going to fill this out for you. I'm going to let Sam do that I think is that right? Okay, that's who I had in my contact. So, she will fill out the key personnel contact information, and then that's what you guys are going to keep so that everybody has that. I don't need it back because I don't need to have it unless you guys want me to have it. I also want to work with you guys on this part right here during this meeting today. So this is the notification calling tree. Anzor is here, Vince will also be right here so I'm going to put in Vince. Speaker 1 00:17:24 Uh, Kayo. Uh, so these are your notification. I am not on your notification tree because I don't my I am a compliancy officer within Crimson. I keep you guys up to date, But I don't have to be called in the case of events unless Paul really likes me and just wants to call and keep me updated. Okay, but he doesn't like me that much because he's going to call Monty first. Um, so just a quick heads up on that. Um Let me put that in there But who is the If let's say, do you guys still have Tyler working for you? No. Okay. Tyler might be another client. I keep putting him in the wrong client. Let's say you guys have an intern named Tyler working for you. We'll just go with that. And he identifies the incident and it is, Let's say he's first to arrive on site, and there is no power to the building, building management has coordinated and blocked off. Speaker 1 00:18:23 Everything because there is aum there's a gas leak somewhere and they've shut down the entire block. Okay. Does Tyler know who to call first? Speaker 3 00:18:37 You mean, does someone from Crimson know who to call? Speaker 1 00:18:39 Oh, I'm talking about someone from your office. Speaker 2 00:18:42 She's she's saying if someone was to come in. Let's say, you know, Gabe comes in at 7:30 in the morning, and there's no power to the office who would he reach out to first in that event? Speaker 3 00:18:53 I feel. Speaker 2 00:18:56 Like I feel like anything particularly facilities related, I am the first point of contact. Um and then I direct either the person to their resource for help or I contact people immediately. Um depending like I normally notify Paul pretty immediately just for his insight and tracking. And then if it's like a PM related, like no electricity, my first, Thing would be, you know, property management and finding out why. Um, and then notifying sometimes Crimson. Like when I receive a notice from them about uh, you know, we're doing an electricity, you know power shut down a week from now. I send something to Monty Charles in the help desk like a week in advance. And just let you guys know what's happening so forth on. Speaker 1 00:19:43 Okay. Um now is there any board that you have to board members you guys need to call? And when do you guys call Warren? Speaker 2 00:19:54 I feel like we'd call him only if it's going to impact him. Like if it's something momentary, you know, I think it's let's handle it and then communicate that to everybody. Paul, your thoughts on that? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:20:07 You can do. I think you can do informed to Warren for a lot of things. And let me ask, I am confused because we have. We have our disaster. You're saying we need we have our disaster recovery plan. You're saying we we updated it two years ago. You're making changes to it because that's actually not the case previously. Speaker 1 00:20:21 Um, no worries. Um, So I'm just making sure that we have uh everything in updated and I'm just notating the original disaster recovery plan with any changes, So that when Esther gets this document, um well Sam's going to send her the document, but after she updates the contact and key information, it's, Set with the correct versioning, it's set with the correct notes. Um, I am. Speaker 3 00:20:45 This doesn't exist. The three page document we have now doesn't have the notification calling tree. That's something you're adding by context or adding something to to plan. Speaker 1 00:20:53 I am I'm, adding updating it and making it viable for twenty twenty six for you guys so that you're passing all compliancy issues. Um there have been some new IT stuff on the NIST side that I'm just getting you guys aligned with twenty twenty six objectives. Speaker 1 00:21:12 So I apologize. I was not clear about that at the beginning. Speaker 3 00:21:15 Yeah, no, you could. And I don't want to spend too much time on this, But but I think so, if someone has an has an issue, they'll call Sam and I. And then normally, Sam will then notify Crimson and property manager of the issue. Yes, I'm going to fix this have Sandy the PM and then to Crimson wouldn't be Andre or be Vincent Monty. I'm not sure Andre would be on there, and then Sam will get a notice to me. Notice, you know, for Warren, you know, if appropriate for escalation. Yes. Speaker 1 00:21:41 Um, I will update this after the meeting with all the notes that we discuss on this. Um, so it's going to be the final. This just a rough draft. So. Um, Now on this I have to put in here the emergency telephone numbers for you guys, because this something you're going to keep on hand, Um so fire department, paramedics, uh police department's all nine one one. Um it's gonna give. This is the information you need to give to the emergency operator so that they're aware. Um, these are your local emergency contact for your location. I'm going to take out local fire department and local hospital for you guys because they're not as needed. You're going to get that same information from nine one one. Um, but if you guys need to contact traffic division, parking enforcement, water and power highway patrol highway patrol. Speaker 1 00:22:34 These are the numbers, Sam, because I have a feeling you'll be the one reaching out. These are the numbers you would need to contact. So just in case, given your location. So I did validate these against well, these were already in there. But when I built this out, I did validate this in 202 4. I revalidated it for 202 6 last week, just to make sure that this is still the correct information. You also have the Office of Emergency Management and Sheriff's Department Not depending on how big the disaster is, you might need to call and get updates from various departments within the city. In this section right here, this going to be your other vendors. So any vendors you work closely with like Crimson, that's why I asked that question a moment ago. Is there any vendor other vendors? You can fill that out. But if there's not, you just put in N/A so that way you have it. This your plan. Speaker 1 00:23:29 I'm not going to go through this because I don't want to bore you guys, but just a heads up. I will make sure that this showing Datto, this showing Box, this showing your full backup and your risk management. For your location, the potential disasters that we have assessed is going to be majority flood. You guys are at a low risk for wildfire in that section of Los Angeles. However, I am going to add it in here. Speaker 3 00:24:01 I am just trying to get my bearings here. So, this document is it twenty four pages? Speaker 1 00:24:06 Yes, we're on page ten. Speaker 3 00:24:10 The document is much more substantive than the last document we did. You know, I think some of this stuff is a business decision for us. So you know, maybe it's better to say, hey, this is potentially a template we have, and we decide if we want to include all these other elements into it. I am just trying to get, Con text before we start going through and assuming that we may very well say, yes, this is what we want to do. But it sounds like you guys updated your template and if there's other students, but we would necessarily conform to the update, which may be the case. But I'm just trying to get my bearings here. Speaker 1 00:24:40 Okay, gotcha. And completely understand. Soum this is a template that has already been updated for your location, And we follow this, we're following this for 2026 with all of our clients, Especially clients that have compliancy requirements like you do where you have SEC requirements, and we use NIST for those. NIST is a compliancy framework that we utilize. So their compliancy framework is asking that we collect this information and have it in a disaster recovery plan for you. And so we're going over today all the items that we need for this. Speaker 1 00:25:17 Before we go through a tabletop exercise, so that you guys are. Speaker 3 00:25:21 Then this requirements change from the previous one we had. Speaker 1 00:25:25 Um, these NIST requirements have changed in the last two years, so we are adding to it all the changes that have happened. Speaker 3 00:25:36 And then NIST you're saying that I'm not is this something that we have to comply with? So if they said NIST is mandatory, we have to comply with it. I'm not sure. Ium. Speaker 4 00:25:47 No, I think that's a new term for me. Yeah. Um, yeah, Unless I'll have to check with the compliance team to see if this is something new, but I've not I'm not familiar with this new. Speaker 1 00:26:01 So NIST is a framework that is very closely aligned with SCC. So I utilize NIST for you guys because all of the all of the SCC requirements hit NIST. Um, and the lineup with NIST. However, NIST is slightly more structured and anything changes that SEC makes, NIST has already got it in place, which is why I do it that way. Um So it's slightly higher. Um But we do this because it covers everything SEC. Okay And these are requirements that are also in SEC for disaster recoveries. Speaker 2 00:26:36 Esther when we get a copy of it, we can also I can send it over to Caden andum Yeah. Speaker 3 00:26:42 We can. I think for me, so I also don't want to. I want to some of the stuff is there's things that we may have to do as it comes to the SCC. Some of the things are things that maybe are a business decision, what we want to do. So I don't want to create a level of effort unless we say yes, We do something that's appropriate for us to do. And it'd be a, you know, a twofold question. One is what is what is the minimum we have to do to comply? And the second is from a business perspective, are certain things you might want to do above and beyond that? So I'm just trying to get context of again, just going through it and seeing how this compares with the last report. Got you. Speaker 4 00:27:12 Would it help? Christy says, if if Christy's saying it's aligned with the SCC requirements, Why don't we look at it? And and we can just share with the compliance team. And if they say, yeah, this is great. It's, you know, aligned perfectly exactly what we need, then we can just continue to use it. Speaker 1 00:27:28 Yeah and I'll send you guys over a list of everything we discussed today and how it aligns with SCC and what is required and what is best effort. And that way Paul you have it just so I think, You're more, and I love this about you. You're more in the weeds kind of person, which is kind of like how I think. Um, I'm not used to that with clients, So I do appreciate these questions because it makes me happy to see you that engaged. I don't get this with other clients, so this makes me one hundred percent happy. I will send you an email and we'll get in the weeds and we'll say, hey, this required by SEC. This not so. Speaker 3 00:28:07 Let me scroll through this or answer any questions and try and get a sense of all the different sections because it's yeah, much more substantive than the previous version. Speaker 1 00:28:14 Yes, And I want to make sure that you guys are as compliant as you can be. So I might go overboard on some of these. Um, There are certain things that I'm not going to go through, because this part is there are certain things that I have to fill in. Speaker 3 00:28:28 That sense if it's not a requirement, I'd rather not, I'd rather not spend time on or do it. It should be things like, what is the minimum we have to do to comply? And then certain things maybe a business decision but yes. Speaker 1 00:28:37 Not a problem. And disaster recovery plans are a requirement, But some of this I'm not going to get in the weeds on because that's going to be more. You guys need to tell me what you want to do. Assembly points is always going to be primary homes with the alternate of Crimson IT Conference Center. For activation of emergency response team, this is if let's say you guys are at work and a disaster hits, who is that? Response team and how are you going to communicate to everybody, which we did go over last year in the tabletop exercise. So that was last year, fully a year and two or three days ago. So just a heads up. So I don't know who you guys have chosen as your disaster recovery team. I know that Sam is that touch point because I have that in my notes. So, she's going to be the one establishing any type of emergency level for you guys. Speaker 1 00:29:30 Any term here that's labeled ERT, Sam is my primary contact for that or my team's primary contact. So we'll reach out to her first. Speaker 3 00:29:41 We created a Teams emergency channel that we use. We looked at a couple of different systems, and it just wasn't the right fit for us, But we have an emergency communication in Teams, where you can communicate to all our members immediately through the chat. Speaker 1 00:29:56 Yeah, and so this part will be for you guys to fill out. Um, so it'll be the order listed. Uh, So your emergency response team Sam and then who they can call and the next person on the list. Speaker 3 00:30:07 Yeah, that'll be me. Yep. Speaker 1 00:30:08 Okay. Um, so Sam first and then Paul. Um You guys can go over this I am not going to do this with you, but I do need to know who your cybersecurity insurance is, which I think Arch Still Arch okay, perfect. That's next one. And then for Sam, if you can fill out this portion just so that you have it. And, then you're going to go through and you guys need to do an initial assessment, which I will walk you guys through that. When we do the tabletop exercises, we do mostly do them on disaster recovery. However, We've been asked by certain companies similar to Arch to add in that financial assessment. Speaker 1 00:30:52 Uh, What do you guys do if there's a loss of financial documents or loss of revenue? Speaker 3 00:30:56 So we've already done a renewal. We gave Arch to all the information. I would think we don't I think that's something that we'd only do if Arch is requiring it or if we say, hey, this is something that SEC explicitly requires you have to have financial assessment. If not like I'm just mindful of the exercise we have to do this, probably not necessary unless there's a specific requirement for it. So Archer didn't ask for that. Archer went through our application, gave them all the information that we had your revenue Yeah, Payroll, all that kind of stuff. Speaker 1 00:31:24 This is more along the lines for you guys to understand if this was to happen, how would you handle it? I'm not going to go through this with you, But they just want to make sure that you know how you would handle it. In case these issues come up. So I'm going to drop through this part because there's not really anything on the rest of this that I need to go through. We do have disaster recovery templates for you guys as far as. Who our key contacts are. So if something were to happen to you, who Crimson is going to reach out to. And sometimes they come back and ask for that information. So, if we are ever audited, and we have to provide that on your behalf, we have that information already there. And so that is your backup strategy, your applications. If we need to call Microsoft, if we need to call Datto, how do we get a hold of them? And an overview of your technology. Speaker 1 00:32:15 This is required for all companies under SCC that we keep for you, and we keep that in your runbook. So, this will go through what we would do is go through a scenario if a total loss of data and scenario two, a total loss of access. And so that's where we come in. That's the things that we will keep on your behalf. And I'll pull that information together for you and have that as an addendum for you. Okay? And this includes your phones, your key contact. Everything we have is going to be in that addendum. They do like damage assessment forms, however, this only going to happen if you're in a disaster, not current. So be aware that this what would be asked if there was a ransomware. This part of that disaster recovery plan. Speaker 1 00:33:05 We're going to need to. This is what your cybersecurity insurance is going to ask for in case of that emergency. We're going to talk about key business processes affected. We're going to give a description of the problem. And we're going to give the extent of a damage because we got to know that for monetary, monetary, that word that I can't pronounce reasons. If, you got hit by malware and I'm going to use some examples from the past of issues I've been in, let's say, Uh, Paul, you never do this, but I'm gonna use you as an example. Paul comes in. Paul clicks on a link because it looks valid. It looks like it's from Microsoft. He doesn't realize it downloads malware, It uploads to Microsoft into a SharePoint and then it downloads into everybody in the company. Now all the files are locked out. Cybersecurity insurance is going to want to know how much business was affected? Speaker 1 00:33:57 How quickly we got it, you guys up and running, What the description of the problem is and any loss of revenue so the cybersecurity can pay out that. Right. Speaker 3 00:34:04 This is a template that we could use in the event that we have a cyber incident. Speaker 1 00:34:07 Exactly. All right. Then you. Also, this is another form that you will have that you're going to have to fill out during that recovery process, we need to do all the activities. Again, Speaker 3 00:34:20 This is just showing as a form, we're not filling it out for the application, just showing there's a form. Exactly. Speaker 1 00:34:24 This is giving you the information of what happens in a disaster. I have to go through this with you. So, um, these are all the information that you're given. Um and then we're going to record the event. All of these happen in a document that I write up on my end, and you guys will have to do the same on your end. I think Esther's got some forms probably from SCC and a lot of the data she's gotten. Uh so it's very similar information, And so we will work hand in hand with Sam. We will work hand in hand with Esther and of course you, Paul, just to get all that information there. Your job is going to be mobilizing the disaster recovery team on your side while we have our disaster recovery on our time side, and we will come together and work with you guys on all of these forms. So just a heads up on that. More forms, we will help you fill out these in case of emergency. They will probably loop me in at. Speaker 1 00:35:17 At some point in this, and I'll be your documentation person and your communications person with Sam. Sam and I will be very close friends at that point. I'll probably buy her a bottle of wine or a bottle of bourbon, whatever she likes, and we're just going to get through this. Okay. The last major major disaster, I literally had a blow up mattress in my office and spent five weeks. Luckily our office had a shower. It would have been very smelly if they did not. So, These forms have to be filled out and sent in. It is part of SCC, but this is all we have. I am not going to bore you with the rest of this. The twenty four page document is mine to fill out for you guys up to a point of what I showed you in this meeting, and then I will send it back to Sam. Sam's going to do her due diligence, and then she's going to send it Esther. Esther's going to put it in her files, and if you guys are ever audited for. Speaker 1 00:36:13 And ask for the disaster recovery plan, you can send it in. Okay. On that note, We also have an information security policy that we have to provide for you. In case you guys are ever requested for it. We also have your SEC cybersecurity disclosure checklist. I'm sorry, you guys are my seventh meeting for today. And three of those meetings today have been training where I talked nonstop for hours. So bear with me. For SEC, your cybersecurity disclosure check sheet, this what is required if a cybersecurity incident was to happen. This required by SEC. So I will update this for 202 6, because I have to update it every year. Sam, If you can send me your letterhead, so that I can put this on your letterhead, that would be greatly appreciated. Speaker 1 00:37:11 But this is who's responsible. So back to the disaster, where the incident has occurred, who's responsible for it, classifying the incident which is Crimson, identifying the affected systems which is Crimson. Your job is to convene a response team, evaluate your business impact, determine what decisions are made. And then triggering an 8- K process if required. And Esther, you're going to have to make that decision if that 8- K process is required. Crimson cannot make that decision. This checklist should be printed out in the event of a cybersecurity incident and be followed through. So. Speaker 4 00:37:53 Just so you know, Christy, we don't our SEC requirements are slightly different than publicly traded companies. So a publicly traded company would file an 8- K, and we wouldn't file an 8- K. Speaker 1 00:38:05 Do, you know the form number that you would file. So I can add that in there? If not, I have it in my notes somewhere and I can pull it. Speaker 4 00:38:13 I'll have to. I don't know it offhand. Okay. Um, I know we are required to notify uh investors. I don't know if the SEC needs to be notified, so let me look into that, but it's definitely not an eight K because they're not publicly traded. Speaker 1 00:38:27 Gotcha. I will i'll i should have that information in there then. I do have companies that do eight Ks so, Um, are you guys still Mullen and Cullen? Yes. Okay, perfect. Um, this was last year's so I just got to update. Uh, do you guys need to submit anything via Edgar? Esther? No. Okay so I will let me remove that. Um all right. And then uh so complete recalls analysis, it's going to be led by CIT. Speaker 1 00:39:01 Root cause analysis usually falls on my lap to do so. Esther, you and I will become close friends. During that point, I will buy you a bottle of bourbon or wine. Um so we'll do the root cause analysis or otherwise known as the RCA. Um any remediation plans, we will document and finalize with your approval. So you guys will be the first responsible on that after I send you a remediation plan, you guys will need to approve it, and we'll do. We'll. Review system changes, process updates, or any vendor adjustments. And then Esther, you should confirm all reporting and documentation is complete at that point. Okay? So I don't need to do this. I can take out the 8K thankfully. I'm going to just mark through that. And then anything about this checklist that you guys need me to change other than the 8K? Speaker 4 00:39:57 You change it in both above in step two and step three. Speaker 1 00:40:01 Yes, I'm going to rewrite that to remove the the 8 K. Okay, I'll find out if I'll find out the form name. I should have it in my notes because i i do this all the time for SEC. So i'll find out that and then pull it back. Soum any questions about this part. Speaker 1 00:40:25 Okay, let me go back to my sheet. And then, um, Speaker 3 00:40:29 And is that document going to live where it's going to be an appendix or an exhibit in a disaster recovery plan? Speaker 1 00:40:34 So it's gonna I I keep a copy for you guys in your disaster recovery plan. And then I sent a copy to Esther and Sam for them to keep within their documentation. Speaker 3 00:40:46 Yeah, I think if we could do it all in one document because we have to re we actually store it on. You know, our shared drive. We have all of Crimson's policies. So this related to the disaster recovery. I'd like to have it because right now we have cybersecurity policy, business continuity, disaster recovery plan, and we have a cybersecurity incident response plan. Um. So this something that, you know, if it could tie into either one of those documents or updated or the um disaster recovery plan itself. Maybe just include as an exhibit, it'd be helpful to have it all together. Speaker 1 00:41:20 Yes, I could do all that. When we get done with it, I can put it as a PDF all in one document. And uh, and I think I already asked you this. Speaker 3 00:41:31 If it's related, if it's related, I don't want to put in one document just to put it. It's related and this is a, You Know SEC disclosure related to an incident. I think we referenced it in business continuity. You have an incident. This is in essence, what's recommended in terms of the process to address it if my understanding correctly? Speaker 1 00:41:50 Yes. Um, I when I combine the files, it'll only be related files. Anything that has to stay separate will stay separate. So, yep. I do have the SEC disclosure SOP in here. The last time I reviewed. It was on May 5t h of 202 5. And this is based on uh the information we had at the time. So I am going to go through remove the references to the eight K form and update it based on the fact that you guys are private and not publicly traded. So I'll do this. I don't want to go through this. It is five pages, but I'll go through this and get that corrected. And Esther, I'll send this over to you for approvals, and then you guys can add it to your stack. And that's all the documentation we have for you guys, But I do need to get a tabletop exercise with you guys planned out for this year. Um and quick question for you um let me go back to today. Speaker 1 00:42:47 Hey, I'm about to sneeze. Sorry, these allergies are killing me today. Um, could we plan for that to be the first week of June? Because next week I'm going to be at a I'm not going to be out, but I'm going to be at a work project. Are you guys freeum on Tuesday June 1 st? Speaker 2 00:43:06 Pulling up our calendar. Speaker 3 00:43:09 Tuesday the second of June. Speaker 2 00:43:11 I have Tuesday as the second yeah Oh sorry second Tuesday tuesday right. Speaker 3 00:43:18 Yes. Could we do two o'clock? I don't know if you have a standing call at two, or maybe not even three. Speaker 2 00:43:22 Two o'clock, I see two. Two, yeah, 2:00 p. m. looks good. Speaker 1 00:43:26 Okay. And Vincent and Anton from my team will be in that. Vincent is out today at a conference and so they will be in here. We are going to be doing two exercises, not three, because I want to keep it short and sweet for you guys. It can be the three of you or you can add anybody else, Um, I am going to make a suggestion, which definitely don't have to follow. Um, but could we invite somebody from the New York office as well? Speaker 3 00:43:58 I think we do with this group. Yeah. And that's fine. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:44:02 Okay. All right, I will get that invite over to you guysum and I will have the agenda drafted and put into the invite. It will be a Teams meetingum and. Speaker 1 00:44:16 The way I'm going to set it up, it will automatically be recorded. Facilitator will already be on. And um, it'll be very similar to last year. Two exercises for you guys to think through. It's not going to be the same exercises. Uh, It is going to be slightly different because I do switch this up every year. All right? Do you guys have any questions for me? Speaker 3 00:44:48 I think just in terms of next steps after the tabletop, You'll be able to then complete. And then we'll look at a draft that we did last year. And then update. And it looks like the information we have to update. So we're going to be updating our business continuity and disaster recovery plan, which you just talked about, if that's a little bit more robust than it had been. And we're going to be updating the, Disaster recovery and continuity report this year. So, those are sort of the two main documents that have come as a result of those meetings. Speaker 1 00:45:24 Yes. All right, if you guys are good with everything, let me give you back twelve minutes to your day. Speaker 3 00:45:33 Thank you. Speaker 1 00:45:34 I know Paul likes short and sweet meetings, which I appreciate. And then feel free to reach out for any questions. I am now fully back in the office, I think when you guys were emailing me before had been in and out sick. Um, but I am back in. I am going to take a vacation the second week of June. My daughter is graduating from high school. Um, And then I am going to take another vacation in August because I got to take her to college. Um, but you guys should be able to reach me if you have any questions. Um, I will be around, uh, But I don't have any other vacations planned. Soum thank you guys very much for making my life easy today. Speaker 3 00:46:10 Thank you appreciate your time Christy No worries. Speaker 1 00:46:14 Thanks, guys. Speaker 2 00:46:14 I'll send you that letterhead. Thanks. Thanks.
06-01 Weekly Meeting: ITG Cutoff, Hudu Migration, Help Desk Metrics, and Project/Skills Updates
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-01 13:30:08 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Pete] [Christi] [Anton] [Mike] [Olivia] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Team Updates and Celebrations - Description: - Celebrated John Wilder’s achievement; Pete issued a spot bonus. - Personal updates: vacations, anniversaries, family milestones, wellness activities. - Team Philippines held an out-of-country summer event (Disneyland). - Pete noted strong progress: Maverick conversion, Hannah initiative, and ITG-to-Hudu migration. - Conclusion: - Morale is high; multiple successful initiatives acknowledged. - Topic Title: ITG Cutoff and Hudu Migration Planning - Description: - Olivia cut off ITG; formal cutoff on June 10. - Pete requested a planning call with Olivia, Anzor, and Vince to decide export timing and destination before acting. - Olivia is unavailable this week; plan to meet on Monday, June 8 (as discussed for “next Monday” relative to the meeting). - Conclusion: - Schedule a planning call next week to finalize export and storage plan. - Topic Title: Sales and Project Highlights - Description: - New project signed: CIO for “Admel West” at 25k. - Anzor to provide on-site oversight in San Francisco for ~3 days (likely next week). - New MRR: “twenty five bucks” (verbatim from transcript). - Team stress level at 3.7; trending down with mixed comments in feedback. - Conclusion: - Project pipeline active; leadership to address select stress-related comments sent to Pete. - Topic Title: Help Desk Metrics and Ticket Management - Description: - Surveys: 43 green; 1 unhappy (Iron Gate) due to perceived delay (resolved ~4 hours after ticket open). - Out-of-compliance tickets: 15; same-day resolution: 54; open tickets: 349 (help desk only; excludes security, pro services, recurring). - Sue out; Charlene covering dispatch; some tickets may need merging/closing; time per ticket increased to 1.23 hours. - Pete requested updated numbers before his L10 on June 3. - Conclusion: - Olivia or Sue to clean up and update metrics before June 3. - Topic Title: Quarterly Rocks and Progress Check - Description: - Pete’s rocks: - Full migration to Hudu: on track. - Lifecycle manager for key accounts: needs sync with Chris, Jason, Mike, and Vince to define June deliverables. - KPIs for revenue management: dependent on Anzor’s services catalog; follow-up Wednesday. - AI training and career progression curriculum: draft exists; to review with Chris and Anzor. - Mike and Jason: - Kashif item completed; pending team presentation/feedback. - Sales engineering process: documenting current state; future state later; considered on track for now. - Jason wrapping MDM/Intune compliant device documentation; standardized network config; project estimate quoting tied to sales engineering. - Christi: - Execute technology roadmap into ScalePad: executed/ongoing. - Deliver AF cost allocation platform V2: done; V3 planned. - Anton: - Monthly licensing reports automation: completed; awaiting decision on workflow vs. rebuild. - Security assessment template: completed. - Local admin password rotation: completed; Wi‑Fi rotation still in progress. - Olivia: - Hudu migration and ITG cutoff: on track for completion next week (by June 10). - Password reset process implementation: back on track. - Help desk KPI/productivity reports: on track; meetings with involved members this week. - April ([Speaker 3]): - Transition to admin team leadership: leveraging Marvin until July 1. - Phase 1 agreement-building automation: on track; integrating with ConnectWise; questions queued for next week. - Conclusion: - Most rocks on track; specific follow-ups assigned within teams. - Topic Title: Skills Matrix Completion - Description: - Pete requested all leaders update the skills matrix by end of next week to map specialized skills (e.g., VMware, networking, MDM). - Jason shared the matrix link in chat; entries should be L1/L2/L3 per skill. - Leaders to cascade to team leads for collection; include specifics (e.g., Fortinet vs. Cisco). - Conclusion: - Target completion by end of week (June 6); leaders to ensure submissions. - Topic Title: Offshore Schedules—Lunches and Breaks Policy - Description: - Discussion on end-of-day lunches and combining breaks with lunch (total up to 90 minutes). - Aim: balance staff well-being (night shifts) with customer coverage, especially for support and admin/quotes. - Olivia: occasional end-of-day lunches; discourages making it routine; AM/PM breaks guidance given. - April: Team Philippines may combine lunch and breaks for naps but not routinely at end-of-day without manager approval. - Conclusion: - End-of-day lunches allowed as exceptions with manager approval; not to be routine, ensuring coverage needs are met. - Topic Title: AbilityFirst Camp Project—Post-Implementation Fixes - Description: - Project largely successful with improved coverage; some mis-scoped items: - Missing correct SFP/media converters for interlink; PoE vs. PoE+ mismatch on one switch; need PoE+ injector. - Next steps: Comdruct onsite Friday; Christi awaiting exact quantities to order; she may go onsite Thursday/Friday. - Jason suggested Meraki sizing tool for switch scoping; Mike noted need for a product catalog and questionnaire (distance >300m, SFP needs). - Conclusion: - Order required components once quantities confirmed; enhance scoping with tools, catalogs, and questionnaires to avoid repeats. - Topic Title: Approved Local Vendor Repository for Remote Sites - Description: - Need centralized, up-to-date list of approved on-site vendors (non-MSP, mom-and-pop) with prearranged billing rates. - April: Lyon list currently in ITG; to move to Hudu and share; list may be outdated. - Discussion on ownership (help desk vs. admin) and process for dispatching and vetting. - Evolve group contacts can be leveraged case-by-case with no-poaching protections. - Conclusion: - Locate and migrate existing lists to Hudu; define ownership and update process. - Topic Title: Post-Migration Documentation Validation in Hudu - Description: - Some client docs appear as straight imports from ITG without cleanup. - Olivia to create a list after returning from Evolve, set validation timelines, and follow up with assigned techs (e.g., Barker, Project Angel Food). - Mike volunteered to help for Project Angel Food. - Conclusion: - Plan to set deadlines and enforce cleanup for imported documentation. - Topic Title: Client Champion Feedback Loop and Margin Improvement - Description: - Mike seeking regular feedback from client champs on recurring issues and ticket patterns to improve account margins. - Need mechanism to identify low-margin accounts and targeted fixes (e.g., repeated printer issues). - Olivia to raise at the 2:30 PM champion sync and coordinate next steps. - Conclusion: - Begin collecting structured feedback from client champs; align with margin analysis. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Schedule ITG export planning call (Pete, Olivia, Anzor, Vince) for June 8 and define export destination before action. - [ ] Olivia/Sue/Charlene to merge/close tickets and update metrics; share before June 3 L10. - [ ] Leaders to complete skills matrix (L1/L2/L3 per skill) and submit by June 6. - [ ] Christi to obtain quantities from Comdruct, order media converters and PoE+ injector, and coordinate onsite visit (June 5–6). - [ ] April to locate Lyon vendor list in ITG, migrate to Hudu, and share with Mike/Olivia; define owner for vendor repository. - [ ] Olivia to grant Anzor temporary ITG access through June 10. - [ ] Olivia to compile list of Hudu imports needing cleanup and set validation deadlines after returning from Evolve; coordinate with techs. - [ ] Mike and Jason to meet this week to finalize current-state sales engineering documentation and outline next steps. - [ ] Pete to review and act on specific stress survey comments sent by Christi. - [ ] Define owner and update cadence for the approved local vendor repository; document dispatch/vetting process. - [ ] Draft and circulate an offshore lunches/breaks policy (exceptions, approval criteria, coverage requirements). - [ ] Create a networking scoping checklist/product catalog (PoE vs. PoE+, SFP needs, distance thresholds) and a standard questionnaire. - [ ] Set client-by-client Hudu validation timelines and success criteria; assign reviewers and reporting cadence. - [ ] Establish a client champion feedback process (template, frequency) and link insights to margin improvement tracking. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Ownership of the approved local vendor repository remains unclear (help desk vs. admin). Assign a single owner and define update cadence and vetting criteria. > 2. Formalize a scoping checklist/product catalog for networking projects (e.g., PoE vs. PoE+, SFP needs, distance thresholds) to prevent procurement mismatches. > 3. Define the policy document for lunches/breaks for offshore teams, including manager-approval criteria and coverage requirements, and communicate it to all teams. > 4. Establish a timeline and success criteria for Hudu documentation validation per client (who reviews, what “clean” means, due dates, and reporting). > 5. Create a process for client champ feedback collection on recurring issues (template, frequency, and how insights tie into margin improvement tracking).
- Date
- Jun 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 She Can make it, that's great. But if not, I know they're doing month end close so. Yeah. Um, that's more important so. Okay. But she is going to be joining us going forward so. Speaker 2 00:00:16 Got it. Speaker 1 00:00:18 So who are we missing here? Speaker 3 00:00:22 I think we're complete. Speaker 1 00:00:27 So we can add Alisa to the list if we want to, Okay. Okay, Let's so I would love to get through this in thirty minutes or as close to that as possible. So let's try to bust through this as quick as we can. Anzor, give us some good personal news or business headline, business employee headlines. Speaker 4 00:00:46 So today at the evening, I am gonna open a bottle of Macallan to celebrate the achievement of John Wilder. We did it! We did it! This like, I cannot even like express my emotions. It was headache for more than a year and yeah, this is great news and John is the best. Speaker 1 00:01:13 John is awesome. He is awesome for For the record, I gave him a spot bonus today so everybody could yeah, everybody's aware. Speaker 4 00:01:25 Yeah, that's it from me from me Yes. Speaker 1 00:01:28 Today you really are living the dream. Another real day in paradise for you, Anzor. Today really is. Christi? Speaker 2 00:01:44 You know what? I'm going to channel my inner Monty on this one. I'm going on vacation next week. The kid is graduating from high school, life is good. That's. Speaker 1 00:01:55 A big achievement! Yes! That's awesome. Excellent. Congratulations, Macallan. Speaker 5 00:02:04 Yesterday, my wife and I celebrated a late birthday gift for me, so we did aum a couples massage and float yesterday was pretty cool. So that's awesome. Speaker 1 00:02:15 Excellent Olivia. Speaker 6 00:02:20 Um my good news is that I have cut off ITG and, Um, yeah, that's my good news. I am praying that it goes fine so. Speaker 7 00:02:35 Excellent excellent. I gave her a little scare this morning, uh but. Speaker 6 00:02:41 Not just you, Mason. There was a lot of little scares today. Speaker 1 00:02:46 The tenth The tenth is when it actually goes away, right? Yeah, Next week, So let so set up a call for you and I and Anzor. For sometime later this week to figure out, and and Vince or whoever else, And let's figure out when we're going to do the actual export and what we're going to do with it. I don't want to do anything until we know where we're going to put it. But let's figure out what we're going to do, and we'll figure that out in a call. Speaker 6 00:03:10 Okay, I'm be involved the rest of this week. Speaker 1 00:03:13 Oh okay next week next week next week. We can do it next next Monday. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:03:18 Okay perfect April Um okay so, This is both personal and employee headlines. So recently, Team Philippines had our uh summer event, and this is the first out of the country summer event for us. So, it's one for the books definitely, and we're we can't thank enough Crimson IT for making this possible for all of us. Thank you so much. That's all from me. Speaker 1 00:03:45 Awesome awesome awesome. Speaker 7 00:03:46 Anything notable that you guys did that any any fun things? Speaker 3 00:03:51 Oh, listeners. Yeah, we went to Disneyland so. Okay. Yeah, so. Speaker 7 00:03:60 Jason? Uh I'm celebrating 30 years of marriage in two weeks, So uh high school sweethearts I think I started dating my wife. When I was a senior, she was a junior. And uh, so I graduated a year before her and got married in'96. So, yeah, no, she's awesome. It's been good. So we got some good plans. Yeah i I have no plans at the moment, but we're just winging it. Speaker 1 00:04:37 That's fantastic! Man, t hear is some great headlines this week. This is awesome! So you know business stuff? I mean. The Maverick conversion is going well, and the team has done awesome on it. The Hannah thing went great. The ITG thing to Hudu, huge milestone their. Um, I mean, knocking some stuff out of the park this week. So from the from a team perspective, really really happy with some of the things that have gone on. Uh from a personal perspective, my Golden Knights are playing for the Stanley Cup starting this week. Speaker 1 00:05:17 Which is a huge thing for me, so just I am going to the game. The first game in Vegas, which is next Saturday. Anyway, nobody cares but I do. Okay, so let's move on. Uh, let's go to the scorecard. Anything notable to call out hear transactionally? Uh. Speaker 2 00:05:41 I put I put my number on the wrong date. Speaker 1 00:05:50 Let's see. Anything transactional sales wise you want to call out Mike? If we hover over that one. No. Um project signed last week anything big their? Speaker 5 00:06:07 I think if you hover over that one, thear's one for CIO for Admel West. How big is that? It's twenty five k. Speaker 1 00:06:19 Ah, sweet Anzor is going up their. I think. I don't know if its this, I think its next week, isn't it? I think he's going up their next week to provide some oversight for that. I believe that's. Speaker 5 00:06:31 So That's that's Anzor time? I was, I wais gonna ask is that gonna be Jason or Theo? Speaker 1 00:06:36 Think, its Anzor going up their because he asked if I wanted to do it or if he wanted to do it and and said, well, you know who they are, and i don't. So its probably better for you to go So. I think he is gonna spend like three days up their or something. So. I guess its in San Fran. So, okay, new MRR twenty five bucks. Sweet. Um, all right, team stress level is a little high, but we had a lot going on so its not too too bad. Three point seven is a little over mid, but So. Speaker 2 00:07:10 Thear was one comment I'm going to send this over to you, Pete that needs to be addressed by you by you. Um, however, stress is going down. Um, You have, you have quite a few good comments, and you have quite a few um interesting comments. And their is uh the Lone Star IT man. I'm hoping that's none of you on this call. Okay, the Lone Star that's his name. He put his name down as a Lone Star IT man. Speaker 2 00:07:45 So its a man, Speaker 1 00:07:46 But not even necessarily a guy. Could be somebody pretending to be a guy that's not a guy too, huh? Speaker 2 00:07:52 I mean, my first thought was who who do we have in Texas right now? But we don't. Um They said feed me more tickets. They said what? Feed me more tickets. Feed me tickets That's what they said, So. Speaker 1 00:08:11 We need to know who that is because we want to feed them more tickets. Speaker 2 00:08:15 Yes. Now, The help desk stooge did say, uh, for everyone to get X close and get three more, please help, but that's okay. Yeah, that's not the bad one. Um so Pete and uh I'll send this over. Speaker 1 00:08:30 Send me send me whatever I need to action and I'll be happy to do that. Speaker 2 00:08:35 Yeahum okay And I've already taken steps on that one but. Speaker 2 00:08:44 Yeah, you need to you need to be involved on that one. Okay. That's that's it. Speaker 1 00:08:50 O- okie dokie. All right, ticket info Olivia. Speaker 6 00:09:00 Uh from my side of things, green surveys, we had forty three. We did have one unhappy customer survey that was from Iron Gate. And the client just it didn't get done as soon as it. As they wanted it to, and we got it done about four hours after they've opened up the ticket, but um, they wanted it done quicker. So. Yeah, that's the unhappy survey there. Um and then out of compliance tickets, we got fifteen same day resolution fifty four, uh number of tickets open three hundred and forty nine. Just a reminder, again, this is just help desk tickets, not including security or anything um on the. Speaker 6 00:09:43 Professional services side, and this is not including reoccurring tickets. But Sue is out today, so Charlene's covering the dispatch. So there's probably a bunch of tickets that we could be merged and closed. And then time per ticket, we're going back up a little bit. We're at one point two three hours per ticket on average. Okay. Speaker 1 00:10:07 So, how do we figure out what needs to be merged and or closed? And when does that happen normally. Speaker 6 00:10:13 Uh well, Sue will be back tomorrow, but Charlene's doing it. She just is also taking phone calls. So okay, it's just it's just getting done slowly. Speaker 1 00:10:23 Would would she update that number before Wednesday do you think. Speaker 6 00:10:28 Um yeah or I can update it tomorrow. Okay. Speaker 1 00:10:33 My L 10 is Wednesday, So if it's different before Wednesday and you wanted to let me know or let me know how to look it up, that'd be great. Okay. Okay, cool. Great. Okay, let's go to rocks. I added my rocks in here just for reference. Full migration to Hudo was one of my rocks that I put as on track. Full life cycle manager implemented for key accounts, So this was kind of um, I think this was kind of Chris and Jason as well as Mike and Vince. I believe, wasn't it? So, we probably need to chat about this sometime in the next week or so. I talked to Mike very briefly about this last week, But we probably have to talk further about what we can and can't do by the end of June. I think. Speaker 1 00:11:29 Key accounts, at least for the V C I O roles, I need to touch base with Chris and Jason on where we are with those. And then Mike and Vince will have to figure out what, if anything, we're going to be able to do with this or not this month. Um, create K P I's for revenue management for account managers. Mike and I again chatted briefly about this last week, but some of this is going to be dependent on Anzor's um offering. Services catalog, so I need to catch up with him on that on Wednesday. And then training curriculum for AI and career progression. Um, I've got some a draft of that, But I need to finish it and then I'm going to talk to Chris Anzor about what that looks like. So, that's mine. Mike? Speaker 5 00:12:19 Kashif I have mine completed. I just need time to present it to the team. Right? Kashif whenever you want to call that complete? I think it's completed. I'd like to keep it on track until I get the team's feedback. Okay, so any meeting we have some time, um, I'd like to present that and the sales engineering process. Um, I don't know Jason what what do you think because that's kind of like shared with Jason. You see we're on track or off track? Speaker 7 00:12:48 Sales engineering process i. Speaker 1 00:12:57 When you're talking about the process, what are we talking about specifically? Are we talking about the quoting process or are we talking about the, the, the, The process to review the current infrastructure and take and action on it. Or what are we talking about specifically? Speaker 5 00:13:12 Likeum trying to figure out like knowing where we're where we want to be, but where we're going like have it documented where we're currently at. So it's a repeatable process across all quote. Requesters. Speaker 7 00:13:28 So that, Speaker 1 00:13:29 That doesn't that doesn't sound like a very tall order to get done in the next thirty days as far as at least, Putting together what you need like, how to how to go from where you are, to where you need to be. Now getting it done is a different story. Yeah right, like if you're talking about the approach to go to, doing what you need to do. I think you can do that. You're not going to get it done in thirty days so. Speaker 7 00:13:58 Well, the the sales engineering process. So, you know, Mike and I met on that. That was what I talked to you about earlier today. And so we're documenting current state and then of course we'll develop future state. Any changes that we want to. We want to make But for now I'm I'm almost done with the um documenting the current state on on all that And. So you had me make some tweaks So once I finish with those tweaks. I'll send it over to the team for review. So I guess one, Speaker 1 00:14:32 So why don't you guys get together and figure out what you can accomplish on that and call it on track for now. And if next week you're still uh you're off track, then call it off track. Speaker 7 00:14:41 Got it. Speaker 5 00:14:45 Yeah Jason, anytime this week there's a spot open on my calendar, you can book it. Speaker 7 00:14:49 Awesome I'll do it. Christi? Speaker 2 00:14:54 I am complete. Speaker 2 00:14:57 Um, execute the technology roadmap is into ScalePad. It is actively ongoing because there's no way you can actually complete it, but it is executed. And deliver AF cost allocation platform is done. Well, V 2 is done. We're going on to V 3. If you guys would like to see V 2, I can show it to you. Speaker 1 00:15:20 Beautiful, how about that? Done early on both. Speaker 2 00:15:25 It's the first time all of them have been completed, but it's also the first time I've only had two and not seven. Excellent. I can show my appreciate to my appreciation to Pete for that one. Speaker 4 00:15:38 Right. Monthly reports automation for licensing count its, Completed. I did run those reports last month. I think Christitian was happy with them. We just need to decide with Anzor if he want to keep our workflow or he gonna rebuild it with the uh something else. Security assessment service template is completed and local admin password rotation completed. We're still waiting on updates from. Speaker 4 00:16:13 Kevin with the Wi- Fi. Oh no, keep on track April. We're done with the local admin rotation, but we're still working on Wi- Fi rotation passwords. Good. Olivia? Speaker 6 00:16:31 Complete Hudu migration and cut off ITG, that's on track as of next week should be complete. Password reset process implementation, That's back on track. Should start making progress pretty soon here and then continue building KPI and productivity reports for help desk. That's on track too. I'm going to talk to my involved members this week, um, and yeah. Speaker 1 00:16:59 Jason, it sounds like all yours are on track. Speaker 7 00:17:02 Yeah, So I put those in there first ninety days, wine garden priorities, uh Christity, Pete and I had a conversation today about wine garden. Um, I am retooling their purchase request and payment request process and using Bill dot com. So, If you are looking for a system to you know, for finance to pay the bills and workflow automation for approvals and things like that, um, I am working on that with Wunder. So just an FYI. And then. Speaker 7 00:17:41 The MDM Intune compliant device, I mean, we're essentially done. Matthew's documenting it right now, And I don't want to say it's complete until the documentation has been completed and reviewed and signed off on. So I am calling that on track and not completed. Speaker 5 00:17:58 We fixed we fixed ballet? Speaker 7 00:17:60 We did, yeah, but there was a couple tweaks. And so I asked him to document as part of his documentation, You know, this is our standard setup, And then there's a couple of deviations scenarios like ballet and um and only so and how we resolve those. So that's I ask them to document that. Um standardized network configuration finishing that up uh and then establish a project estimated quoting process. That's kind of hand in hand with the sales engineering process. Speaker 7 00:18:37 So, he asked me to make a couple of tweaks and working through that documentation. I'll I'm on track. I'll be done with it. Okay. And April? Speaker 3 00:18:52 Um okay so on my end, Transition into admin team leadership role. So I'm still using Marvin's assistance with any questions that we have. Uh until with his remaining time here at Crimson, until he departs on July 1 s t. And phase one agreement building automation is on track. I've recently attended a webinar with ConnectWise last week. So for this week, I've uh used AFE as a guinea pig for the integrations, But I still do have some questions that I need to discuss with ConnectWise with our meeting next week. So it's all from me. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:19:30 Okay. All right. Let's go on to the next section. I don't know that there's any to-dos. It looks like IDS is a little. Yeah, it's a little whacked there or something. I'm not really sure. So, um, uh. Speaker 1 00:20:01 Shouldn't IDs be under what is the root issue or something? I don't know. That looks right. Is that how it's supposed to be? Speaker 2 00:20:10 Yeah, it just usually we have a few more lines in it, Speaker 1 00:20:12 But okay. So I added a couple of things. So one thing I need everybody on this call to do, and if there's anybody that needs to be added to this, please let me know. So a month or so ago, Jason and I met. It's probably almost two months ago now. Jason and I met, And we put together with some help from some other people, what we call a skills matrix. I want to have this completed by the end of next week, but we need everybody on this call's assistance to get that done. What what this is is, we basically, for the best of Jason's and I's and other people's abilities, we put together sort of the various. Speaker 1 00:20:54 Technology skill sets or specializations, And we want to put people's names under that, that have that specialized skill set. But we need everybody on here's everybody that's on this call. You need to get with your teams and add those add their your your team members' names under the sections that have specialized skills in these areas. And I'd like to have this done by the end of next week because we really. Are getting to a point where we're getting busy enough where we need to be able to reference this quickly and be able to tell who has that skill set. So, we've started to do this, but it's kind of been hanging out there now for two or three weeks. And I asked Jason to get this in front of everybody, So he's either either going to send a link or send the document or whatever preferably a link. So if you could get that done by the end of next week, Olivia, I know you're out this week, maybe you send it to your leads or whatever, just send it out to your team or whatever. Speaker 1 00:21:53 I think your leads would be better because if you send it to your whole team, they may not do anything with it. Send it to your leads so that they make sure they gather it. But if you have people that are good at, you know, virtualization (VMware), you know, whatever that is. If you got people that are good with networking, people that are good with, you know MDM, whatever the whatever the specialized skills are. Make sure they put their names under all of those areas that they're specialized in. Because if we get a project or anything else, we want to tap those people for help. And you know, if it's if you can be specific about it, Like if it's networking and they're good at Fortinet or Cisco, or you know specific technologies, and they know one, but maybe not the other. The more specific you can be, the better. So um that really will be really helpful for us going in. And, if there's something that they they are good at that, we don't have on the list, let us know and we'll add it. Right? Like if there's if they know you know some specialized. Speaker 1 00:22:52 Technology that we didn't put on the list, but is is good for us to know. We'll add it because that would be really good to to really helpful for us as well. So. Speaker 7 00:23:02 And and really quick, uh I dropped it in the chat. Um you know, are they level one level two or level three is really all I need them to answer the question. Uh, if they don't have it I guess leave it blank. Uh if they have it, just put L one L two or L three in the matrix. So, And then it'll it'll it'll uh store it up, and we can look at it and see from a high level who's got what and go from there. So, it should take them five to ten minutes to fill it out. And so let me know if you have any questions or if you think something needs to be fixed or. Speaker 1 00:23:44 Yeah, Maybe bring it up in your team meetings, and then tell people, maybe you can just do it in your team meetings. I don't know but, But we it's really, Really important that we have that because we need to be able to look at it quickly. Okay, next thing um offshore lunches and breaks and schedules. So, April and I were talking, and I don't want to make a huge deal out of this. And I don't want to make it inconvenient for our offshore folks because we know that they're already working challenging schedules. A lot of them having to work in the middle of the night and other things. But at the same time, the the idea is that folks are working. Speaker 1 00:24:17 The schedules that our business customers are working right so. A couple of things that came up. Are you know some people want to work like their lunch, at the end of the day, Right Is that okay Is that not okay I I have some reservations about people doing that on a regular basis Like if it's an exception. My, my feel is that on an exception basis, I guess that's okay. Is it. Okay, for everybody to do that all the time. I don't know. I mean, I kind of wanted to get the group's thought on that. Um, And then some people also want to put their two breaks and their lunch together and put it all at the end of the day. And now you are talking about somebody that's leaving ninety minutes early, you know, for the regular scheduled you know day. And now it's not really that's not really a lunch right? The lunch was supposed to be intended for somebody to take a break in the middle of the day. And have a time. To to take a time out in the middle of their eight hours so. Speaker 1 00:25:15 I want to get the I want to get the group's opinion because, you know, If folks that are working in the middle of the night, want to take off earlier to get some rest. Maybe that's better for them, right? And I don't want to be a hard ass and say, no, you can't do that. But at the same time. Is it going to be impactful to everybody else that's working a normal shift that now has to cover earlier or longer? Is it harder on our customers so. I have to kind of balance that, Right So I'm trying to understand, do we does anybody have an opinion? Do people have a feel for that Is it. Do we have a lot of people doing that. I don't have a good sense of really, is this is this a the norm Olivia Do, a lot of people do that on your team now or not really You know. Speaker 6 00:25:60 It's it's occasional. I mean, People do it whenever they like if they miss their lunch, then they'll take like an end of day lunch, but it's not like. Not consistently, they're taking every single day end of day lunch. And I've made announcements to my team that I don't want them to be consistently taking end of day lunches. Um, And that like breaks are normally meant for one in the first A M and then one in the second P M. That's what I've told my team. Um, okay, Speaker 1 00:26:32 And your and your and your team honestly, and Anzor's team probably are the, Critical area of the critical teams that that's important for because they cover customer support right on the admin team. I'm not as concerned about it, But I am, if it's quotes and stuff that we need to be able to get out because we can't have the whole admin team leave at three thirty in the afternoon. If we got quotes that we might need to send out at four or four thirty. Right, So that's where it comes into play. April from my perspective is like, you know, if if um. Speaker 1 00:27:07 You know, Christi and SCHARP and everybody else leave at three thirty every day, and I need to get a quote out at four or four thirty, and nobody's around. That's not going to work. So that's why we can't have everybody go. Yeah, I'm going to take my lunch every day at three thirty and go home. So, we need to have. It can't be like a standard that we do that every day for folks now. And I do want everybody to take to get two breaks a day. I would like them to have a lunch that's normally sometime during the middle of the day. Lunches at the end of the day can be an exception as long as they're, it's not a routine, right? I think that's a pretty good practice. Does anybody disagree with that? Do we have. Speaker 3 00:27:50 Um, Keith. Uh, I spoke with Team Philippines last week after our discussion. Um. I told them that it's it's okay to combine both uh, lunch and breaks because we use that to squeeze in a quick nap since we're working in the night. Um, But provided that they will not consistently do an end of day lunch, unlessum approved by their managers. Okay, Speaker 1 00:28:16 And did they have any major headaches about that? Uh no. Okay. Speaker 3 00:28:20 So they're okay with it. Speaker 1 00:28:22 Okay, then that's a non- issue. Okay, I'll drop the subject then good okay. Speaker 1 00:28:27 Ability First Camp Project Christi. Speaker 2 00:28:30 Um okay so they have to go back out this week. Um I am not the greatest at networking and I quote people in when I did the quotes last year, but we found that we did not purchase a few pieces correctly, And I had relied on someone else to give me the like for like combination, rather than me trying to go out research it myself, but, I think, and this just an observation. This like the project went well, but there's a couple of things that we've got to fix. Um, I this open for discussion, But I think we need to make sure that everyone who handles purchasing and procurement, and then everybody helping with a quoting, not just like Jason. They would be now your team. But, this was this came from someone who no longer works with us who helped me with that. Speaker 2 00:29:21 But, we need to make sure everybody is aware because I didn't know there was an S P S plus and I didn't catch it, um, because I don't have that knowledge to catch it. And. So we're missing, and we got to purchase media converters for Ability First for camp for a couple of switches. Um, P O E plus I was not aware of. Um, And so we have one switch. That's not even viable for a location that we have to switch things around get an injector. Which all of this okay. Ability First is fine with with because there's some other good things that came out, But um I think, maybe if we could somehow I don't know how we could do this, and this something I'm going to look for Mike and Jason to help how we could do better training for things like this. Because basically what the project was was to change like for like and upgrade all of the equipment at camp to new Meraki systems. Speaker 2 00:30:16 So we got new APs in, we got new switches, firewall, everything. Um, but I do need some help with that. We are going to get media converters. I got to get those over to camp as soon as possible. We do need a PoE plus injector um to get that over the campus as soon as possible. Everything else. And that's the bad part about the project, but all the good parts uh, we have better coverage than what we needed. So just a heads up for you guys I don't want to say all the bad uh to the point that we had to move around some. APs and put them elsewhere because they weren't needed because we didn't need that type of coverage that we thought we did with the new equipment that's out there. So, We do have some really good things that came out of camp that we found when we did the upgrade. And overall, Ability First is satisfied with what we did. Um, But we do do you got to get the media converters up there and POE plus injector that we didn't know about. Speaker 1 00:31:08 How how soon how soon can you do that Chris? And who do you need to get that done? Speaker 2 00:31:12 So Comdruct is going to do it for us. They're going to be out there on Friday. I am waiting on Comdruct to get back to me to tell me how much of what we need, and once I have that, I can get that over to procurement and get them to order it. And then I can either go up on Thursday with Comdruct, or I can go up Thursday by myself or I can go upum Friday and do it myself. Okay. Okay, well enough about networking and cabling to do that. I just don't know the other side of it so. Speaker 7 00:31:41 So here's, I I have an answer for you, sort of. Um, I'm gonna set. I'm gonna drop it in the chat. So Meraki and I shared this with a couple people already. They have a sizing tool, and so if you pick the switch that you want, Uh, it asks you those questions about P, O E and about uh stacking and um you know, power supplies and all these things. You know what how many ports and it asks you those questions up front. So when you go to scope it or. You know, it has all those features built in. Like it'll tell you exactly what you need. So I don't know if whoever scoped it, didn't use this tool, or they made some assumptions, but this will eliminate some of that for you as you walk through it. It'll tell you exactly what you need. Speaker 2 00:32:26 Gotcha That that would be that's perfect. Um, I just clicked on it right now. So You can take a look at that, Speaker 7 00:32:31 Just play around with it see if would solve that problem. Like I don't know exactly what switch you were missingum but see if. Speaker 5 00:32:39 We just need a product catalog to go along with that, Jason. Yeah, the part that she's saying that they didn't have the right SFP module. Yes, the interlink switches. So that wouldn't probably come up on the Meraki sizing tool, but the Meraki sizing tool can be part of it for sure. Speaker 5 00:32:55 Um, I know exactly what what happened with Christy. This is okay. One of those things I think a product catalog that you can choose from, will help remind you and then help you ensure that we're ordering. Not just some random Amazon SFP module. We already have one or two that we can choose from. Speaker 7 00:33:13 So this doesn't have any of those options for, doesn't have any of that? Speaker 2 00:33:19 I don't know. I mean, I clicked on one just now and it doesn't have it. So because I we we chose PoE, I didn't know that it needed PoE plus. That's that's where we're coming into those kind of issues. So they're easily solvable, And, it's easy for me to get up there and switch them out because everything they left, everything with maps and everything for me. So, um, And we did have equipment left over that I got to figure out what we can do with because the coverage is so much better. They're able to get far more coverage than they had before, Which is amazing because they built some ADUs on site that didn't have any network capability. Oh nice. Yeah. So overall ability first is extremely high. Speaker 2 00:34:04 Um, but we do have a little tweaks that we need to get this. And I didn't know when the person helping spoke with me, didn't catch it. I don't even know if they knew. Speaker 1 00:34:14 Okay. Well, I guess, yeah. So so things like this. Let's try to, you know, let's try to get in front of I. Don't know if we had all the right network people involved on this or if we were, you knowum. If we trusted the vendor on this one, or our network team needed to be more engaged, Or if we just couldn't have caught this one? Or what on this particular case. Butum maybe next time we can I don't know did Gabby or Kevin go up for this one, or did we use the vendor for this one? Or what happened on this one Chris? Speaker 5 00:34:48 We, just we have to have a questionnaire form that we probably catch it. Because in this case, if you're using an SFP module, it's because the distance is past 300 meters. Yeah so, If, you are just looking at a quote, and you don't know that the switch distance is beyond that, you would never think," Oh, do you need an SFP module?" But if there is a if we create it, yeah. Speaker 2 00:35:08 But no, sorry. The person had been up there before; that was helping me with it. So they had seen the site. It's just I think the P O E plus is the one that got us media converters. That's fine; we can ship those up. Um, it's camp. So, camp is a big it's a big outdoor place. Uh, it's twenty eight acres. Okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:35:38 All right. Anybody have anything else for IDs? Speaker 5 00:35:41 Uh, Yeah I do Um. Um I was working with April last week. Um A lot of our locations have a lot of our clients have remote sites, and we used to have a repository. Where we kept aum a list of local vendors that were approved. Um, but I we don't know where that lives now. I think Marvin used to do that before, right April? Is that about right? Speaker 1 00:36:07 We should check with him. You're on mute April. Speaker 3 00:36:12 Yeah, which vendor? Like. Speaker 5 00:36:15 For lions got like twenty and yeah go ahead Pete. Speaker 1 00:36:18 We got a lot of we we have several customers April that have locations that are outside California all over the the U S, right. And when we don't have boots on the ground there and we need to send somebody out to do something, we need a, we need an approved vendor to go dispatch. And we need to be able to do it quickly. So I thought we had on a list of approved vendors for some of our like locations like Lyon and, and some other. Yeah, the only so other. Speaker 3 00:36:47 Thing that I know is for a lion, which isum in ITG. So yeah, I think it's move over toum Hudu, but let me send it to you laterum Mike so you can check. Speaker 6 00:37:02 I think Mike's just asking like where does it live? Like who is the owner essentially? Because yeah, like should it be help desk? Should it be admin? Speaker 3 00:37:13 Should wherever in the pastum, Help us is requesting us to send him like the list of, um, Already send us the details of the client that needs like a third party vendor, to work on a certain task. And, then we're the ones who reach out to these vendors to get a quote. Of how much, um, they're have to pay them to do the job. Um. But. And then from there um, we'll go reach out to help desk and connect with the vendor to tech, who will. Speaker 3 00:37:46 Or certain tasks. So yeah, Speaker 1 00:37:49 We just need to figure out what the best way to do that is because we don't want just like a somebody off the street either. We want we want to make sure it's a good it's a good vendor, right? Somebody that's going to represent Crimson in a good way. Speaker 3 00:38:02 I think it's an old list as well, so I'm not sure if it's updated. Speaker 5 00:38:05 Yeah has to be mom and pop shop can't be an MSP. And then we also have to prearrange billing in advance what that bill rate is and make sure they they can bill us. And then you know, right. Speaker 2 00:38:16 We, We do have I mean, we do have the evolve groups where they're under contract, and they can't with us, like, not with us, but they're not allowed to poach any of our clients if we send them their way if they have MSPs in that area or offices in that area, right? Speaker 5 00:38:32 That'd be a great resource. Yep, Speaker 1 00:38:33 And that's what we usually do if we have a one z two z kind of thing, or if we have a one off, that's what we did in Texas for Iron Gate. So, but but if we if we can get the list of lion locations, we can try to do that. Butum if we have other locations, we can do that with it. We can try to do that as well. If you can get it to Olivia before the end of the business, she can take it with her today tomorrow. Speaker 3 00:38:56 Yeah, Olivia I think Patrick recently requested the same request to me. I think that was two weeks ago so. Speaker 6 00:39:03 Yeah, That's that's the same exact request that me and Mike were talking about April because that's why we were like. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:39:12 I'll have his call in Nashville because that's the only location. I know that we have. Speaker 1 00:39:19 Well, anybody else? Anybody have anything else for ideas? I'm going to need to jump here in just a minute. Speaker 6 00:39:27 Oh, I was just going to say on ITG side of things, Mike and Pete already know so Pete, if you need to drop, but um if you guys need anything on ITG, Pete, Uh myself, Monty and Vince, all and Anton all still have access to ITG until the 10 th. Um. So if you guys need anything, please reach out to one of us, and we can get you that information. Speaker 1 00:39:50 Does Anzor have access too? Olivia? Speaker 6 00:39:52 No I I removed Anzor's access. You want me to give it back? Speaker 1 00:39:56 I would give it back to him just in case because you know, he's going to try to get a hold of you while you're involved. And then Yeah, I'll go back okay. Speaker 1 00:40:08 Okay. Anybody have anything else? Speaker 5 00:40:12 Um, I do, but Pete, you can drop. This is forum um I wanted to find out if we are setting a separate timeline for validation of of the documentation moved over. Speaker 6 00:40:24 Oh oh forum just like cleanup? Yeah. Speaker 5 00:40:30 Cause some of the counts look like they were just a straight import from IT group. Speaker 6 00:40:34 Well and some of them like the people who, Like waited last minute, it is basically a straight import. Yeah, essentially so. Yeah, I need to when I come back from evolve, I'm gonna talk to my team about that. But yeah, I i'm gonna set. I don't know. But they go just because some people actually already did it. So I just need to look through and see, you know. What was just like straight up copied, like I know Barker and Project Angel Food. Yeah. Yep. I know that those two already so like and I already talked to the tech who was assigned to that. And she specifically said that she was going to come back and do it. Soum I'm going to make my list and then I'm just going to basically be bugging all the texts and creating a timeline of when it's due. Yeah, perfect. When we get our results. Speaker 5 00:41:31 Yeah, and then um I'm happy for, For Project Angel Food, I'm happy to try to help, but I just want to make sure we have we're on top of that. Yeah. Anything else? No. Oh yeah, um I've got one more thing so um. Maybe this I don't know how we're gonna how we're gonna organize this, But one of the things that I'm supposed to be getting from the client champs. My understanding is we're supposed to be getting feedback like on repeat tickets, Um issues that are coming up that maybe we can get in front of like just feedback on tickets. I haven't heard anything yet, So I was wondering because one of the initiatives I want to work on this year is trying to identify our low margin accounts and see what we can do to improve the margin. Speaker 5 00:42:26 Like our low performing accounts, what can we do to fix it, improve it, get better margin? So I don't know if we have a way to identify margin per account. And then at least when it comes to tickets, If we can get some feedback on like recurring issues or like have they do, they have five printer tickets for the same printer? Maybe we got to replace the printer. Speaker 6 00:42:47 Yeah. Um and I have my champion sync up uh two thirty. Mike, so I'll I'll mention it in that in that meeting. Okay. Cool. But yeah. Speaker 5 00:43:02 Yeah. That's it for me. Speaker 6 00:43:06 Great, anything else? I have err. Speaker 5 00:43:11 Now let's It was it was 83 when the err finally was able to work. Oh. My gosh, that's miserable. Speaker 2 00:43:21 And you guys didn't hear what happened to me this morning, so. It was fifty. Speaker 5 00:43:28 I'm glad you look okay. You don't look like you've been sitting in eighty three degree. No, Speaker 2 00:43:33 I am hot. I am very hot right now because I've been hot flashing, But I also got stuck in an elevator for two hours today. Oh oh, Speaker 5 00:43:42 So that's scary. Speaker 2 00:43:43 I did not even make it to show. I It was at my apartment. I they got it got. Stuck between floors, it took them two hours to get me out. And I just came back to my apartment and sat down and just started working. Speaker 5 00:43:57 That's scary. Well, I am glad you are okay. Speaker 2 00:43:59 Yeah, no, It's actually been a better morning because I got a lot of shit done because nobody was walking into my office bugging me. I did i am working on Wednesday trainings, and i am working on some advanced trainings. And uh, i am really excited because avalon is. I don't have to worry about them until I get back from vacation. Cool. Let me double check that. Yeah, it is. I don't have to worry about that until the seventeenth So, I am super happy. Speaker 5 00:44:29 Okay, Oh Jason, Just reminder, find something on this week whenever your schedule's probably tighter than mine. So whatever you are available, Speaker 3 00:44:36 Let me know Um Christyne Yes When. Are you going to be out? I need to add that on Pete's calendar. Speaker 2 00:44:43 Next week He, he approved most of it weeks ago. And, but then he uh then I made a mistake, and he approved the rest of it. I put in a space for vacation. Speaker 3 00:44:55 That's for the whole uh that's for the whole week, eight to twelve June eight to twelve. Speaker 2 00:44:60 Yep, I have I'm I have I have great plans. I have the ability fest, food and wine fest for any of you guys that are going. I am going, And then oh yeah, that is the last you will see of me for an entire week. Speaker 7 00:45:14 Christy, is it is it a fundraiser also? Speaker 2 00:45:17 Yeah, yeah. Wear linen, wear like think spring garden attire. Um, So I am wearing my either my either my white linen pants or my tan linen pants and a nice shirt blazer. Um. And tennis shoes. I am wearing tennis shoes. Don't wear heels because it's outdoors, Um It's a very gorgeous place, and there is a lot of really great food. So okay. And wine, Speaker 5 00:45:44 Of course. Mike, Speaker 2 00:45:46 Are you coming? To what? Uh. The ability for our social groups. Oh, Speaker 5 00:45:53 The ability. No, I can't make it that weekend. Speaker 2 00:45:56 Darn! I was looking forward to hanging out with your wife again. I had fun with her at the Christmas party. Speaker 5 00:46:00 Yeah, Yeah now, maybe maybe the next one. But we've got a lot of things coming up before they leave for Italy. So kind of a hectic month and a. Speaker 6 00:46:07 Half No, I can't either I have a prior commitment, I know he texted me. I'm so sorry. Speaker 2 00:46:16 Jason, do you hear me? Speaker 7 00:46:18 So bring some money and for the fundraiser, is that right? Speaker 2 00:46:23 I'm bringing grandma. Grandma is my godchild's grandmother and she's an amazing person, But I was being very selective on who I brought this year because I was bringing someone I knew that could use a break. Speaker 7 00:46:36 Got it. Speaker 5 00:46:38 Awesome Just don't get just don't get Vince drunk at this event. Is he going? I don't know. Speaker 2 00:46:45 He had me a little concerned last time, just a little. I was about to go mama bear on him. Olivia has never seen me go mama bear on somebody, and that would have been one of the few times. So I. Speaker 7 00:47:05 Don't plan on getting drunk, but. Speaker 3 00:47:07 Monty's going to. Speaker 2 00:47:09 Okay, good job Monty. So. Speaker 2 00:47:13 Monty dances on tables. So we should go with that. He. Speaker 5 00:47:21 Always saves up for the Christmas party. Speaker 2 00:47:26 Yeah, Her and don't put her and Cheryl and alcohol in the same room with tables and good music. Oh no. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:47:36 But we'll see you there, okay? Speaker 6 00:47:37 I got to put some next one so. Jason, you got a minute? Can I give you a call? Bye. The film was shot in black and white.
04-15 Meeting: Copilot Deployment Differentiators and Intune/MDM Audit for Alir
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- \## Meeting Information \> Date: 2026-04-15 14:57:02 \> Location: [Insert Location] \> Participants: [Mike] [Christi] \## Meeting Notes \- Topic Title: Differentiators for Copilot Deployment Proposal \- Mike is drafting an email and wants an additional differentiator to compete with Burwood, a large MSP in Chicago with high rates. \- He researched customized Copilot deployments and proposes department-specific agents (e.g., HR policy agent, sales proposal agent), which he does not see in Burwood’s scope. \- Christi has been writing about agents and is beginning work on Copilot; she agrees customized agents are feasible and can be delivered. \- Conclusion: Mike will include customized, department-specific agents in the email as a differentiator, and Christi confirmed she can deliver that work. \- Topic Title: Concerns About Intune/MDM Configuration at Alir \- Mike is concerned Alir’s MDM/Intune policies are misconfigured (e.g., users in an exclude group), and if the competitor starts executing before fixes, it will reflect poorly. \- Jason and Matt have been working on Intune policies; Soryos had focused on Belay, not Alir. \- Christi offered to run an audit of Intune/MDM but cannot fully “knock it out” due to time constraints; she will coordinate with Jason. \- Conclusion: Christi will connect with Jason today to run an audit on Alir’s Intune/MDM configuration. \- Topic Title: Pricing Observations vs. Burwood MSP \- Burwood’s quoted rates are around “three hundred bucks an hour.” \- Christi notes her rate aligns with that and comments on MSP pricing dynamics. \- No decisions were made on pricing changes. \## Next Arrangements \- [ ] Christi to connect with Jason today and run an audit on Alir’s Intune/MDM configuration. \- [ ] Mike to include customized, department-specific agents in the proposal email. \- [ ] Coordinate with Jason and Matt regarding current Intune policy status and findings from the audit; identify immediate remediation tasks and owners. \- [ ] Define departments and scope for proposed agents (e.g., HR policy, sales proposals), including deliverables and preliminary timelines. \- [ ] Align with Pete, Ansel, Jason, and Matt on responsibilities and priorities for Intune remediation and agent development. \- [ ] [Insert more] \## AI Suggestions \> AI Suggestions \> AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: \> 1. Define the specific departments and scope for the proposed customized agents (e.g., HR policy agent, sales proposal agent), including deliverables and timelines. \> 2. Establish a remediation plan for Alir’s MDM/Intune issues after the audit, with owners, milestones, and risk mitigation steps. \> 3. Clarify communication to stakeholders about current MDM risks to prevent misunderstandings if the competitor initiates changes before fixes are applied. \> 4. Confirm alignment with Pete, Ansel, Jason, and Matt on responsibilities and priorities for Intune remediation and agent development. \> 5. Document whether any pricing or positioning changes are needed to compete with Burwood’s offering and rates.
- Date
- Apr 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hey Chris, okay, so I am composing the email for for um. And I feel like I need one more carrot to dangle. Um, so I looked up examples of customized Copilot deployments. And, the one thing that stuck out was potentially building department specific agents like an H R policy agent, or like a sales proposal agent, which I don't see in their scope of work. Speaker 2 00:00:32 You've been reading my blog posts, haven't you? Speaker 1 00:00:34 I no, actually I just I just looked this up throughum chat GPT. Ah. But did you post something like that? Speaker 2 00:00:43 Um. So I've been writing about agents recently, but not I haven't been doing as much copilot, but I was about to start working on copilot. Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Is that a carrot you think I can dangle? Cause I looked at the scope of work and it's pretty much generic. Nothing specific to Lear. Speaker 2 00:01:06 Their scope of work or ours? Speaker 1 00:01:09 The Burwood scope of work. Speaker 2 00:01:10 Oh yeah, it is pretty generic. Right. It's pretty cookie cutter, assuming there's a lot of things in there we don't normally put in, but that would be good, but yeah. Soum. Speaker 1 00:01:24 Is that something I can? Is there anything else you can think? I need, I need like another differentiator. You know. Uh. Because this by the way, Burwood, they're a big ass MSP based out of Chicago. Speaker 2 00:01:37 Yeah. I mean when I saw that quote, I was like, damn, I am not charging enough. That was my first thing. Speaker 1 00:01:46 Saying that MSP we probably aren't, but that MSP is also expensive. They're like That's a two hundred. Plus employee MSP and their rates. If you looked at the at the thing, was like three hundred bucks an hour or something. Speaker 2 00:02:01 I mean that's my rate. Yeah. I am working for the wrong MSP. Speaker 1 00:02:11 I am not leaving. So we have to uh I need something to, I feel like the email looks a little light, yeah. So if I so that's why I wanted to ask you, I wanted to include that to dangle the carrot to get them because I'll be honest with you, Chris. I don't want that other company doing because the MDM is all fucked up. And if they go into Intune policies. That's gonna look really really bad. Who's. Speaker 2 00:02:39 Who's been working on the Intune policies? Speaker 1 00:02:41 Uh Jason and Matt, I think. But this, I've been bringing this up forever and then you knowum. We brought in Soryos, who pretty much was looking at Belay. We weren't looking at Alir. We were focusing on Belay. Okay. But I told, you know, this you've heard me bring this up multiple times to everybody. Speaker 2 00:03:02 Yeah, because I did ability first and I did uh I'm doing Sharpshark now. Speaker 1 00:03:07 Yeah, So something's wrong with Alir's MDM. So thatum you know, it's just it's not working so everyone's in the exclude group or something to that effect. Speaker 2 00:03:20 Do, you want me to take another look at it for for you on the MDM issues? Speaker 1 00:03:24 Uh, yeah. Well, I mean, just not for me, but for for Crimson. Work with check with Jason though. I know Jason and Matt, you know Pete put Jason and Matt on it. But if that's something, you can just knock out by all means. Speaker 2 00:03:36 We just I can't knock it out because I don't have time, but I can run an audit on it and haven't done an audit on them in a while and see what's configured on Intune. Speaker 1 00:03:46 Yeah, Whatever whatever we can do, because my concern is if they go with that company and they start executing and we don't fix it in time, that's going to look really bad. Speaker 2 00:03:55 Yeah. Yep, one hundred percent. I'll get with Jason uh sometime today. Speaker 1 00:04:01 Okay, and then the what's it called theum the customized agents? Speaker 2 00:04:06 Yes, that that I can yeah I can yeah That one I can knock out. Speaker 1 00:04:11 Awesome okay, I'm gonna include that, then thank you. I just wanted to be a green light before i sent the email. Speaker 2 00:04:16 I'm surprised Pete and Ansel haven't jumped in on it or Jason. Speaker 1 00:04:20 I don't know. Okay, cool. Thanks. You're welcome. Bye- bye.
04-16 Meeting: ScalePad Integration and AI Article
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- > Date: 2026-04-16 14:09:37 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Anzor] [Christi] --- ## Meeting Notes ### Praise for AI Article - Anzor praised Christi for an AI article she wrote, calling it "amazing." - He suggested publishing similar high-level articles on the Crimson website. - Anzor emphasized that the articles should be signed by Christi to reflect their CIO-level origin. ### ScalePad Integration Issue with "Sharp" - Christi reported an integration issue where ScalePad could not find a client named "Sharp." - The issue occurred when attempting to add a PSA in ScalePad’s compliance readiness assessment. - Anzor and Christi investigated and identified a naming inconsistency: - In ScalePad, the client is listed as "Sharpen Barber Floyd." - In ConnectWise, the client is named "Sharp." - All assets are associated with the "Sharpen Barber Floyd" entry. - **Conclusion**: The name mismatch is the root cause of the integration problem. --- ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to open a support ticket with ScalePad to resolve the client name inconsistency and investigate the underlying cause of the mismatch. - [ ] Christi to remind Dr. Barber to respond to Anzor’s dinner invitation email. --- ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The root cause of why the client name is "Sharpen Barber Floyd" in ScalePad but "Sharp" in ConnectWise was not identified, only the symptom. The ticket to ScalePad should address correcting the name and potentially investigating the cause.
- Date
- Apr 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:01 Hi. Hello, hello. How are you? Good, how are you? Speaker 1 00:00:06 Good, I am getting ready for a two thirty meeting with Doctor Barber and. Awesome. Speaker 2 00:00:11 So yeah, So man I gotta tell you that article you've put together that's amazing, right. Like amazing I think, these are the type of articles. We also want to be putting on Crimson website and I. Thinkum these are the type of articles we want to be sending to our uh people like. That level, that's a level, right? And it needs to be signed by you, so it's clear it's coming at CIO level and all of that. But uh that AI article was something else. And maybe because I understand it deeply, it just resonated so much. But it was wow. So amazing job dear. Okay what um. Speaker 2 00:00:53 What's not working? Because I didn't see that in the integration issues and I am seeing the integration is in place. Speaker 1 00:01:01 Yeah, so it's a sharp one. If you go back to the issues page. So This. Speaker 2 00:01:14 Is inconsistent name. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:19 Whenever I try to do something in ScalePad for Sharp, it just says that it can't find it. Speaker 2 00:01:31 How can we uh so it's not giving me anything about Sharp. So no issues here. Okay. Home, Lifecycle Manager. Speaker 1 00:01:51 Yeah, If you go in there and you go to my compliancy, uh not my compliancy report under the assessments, and you try to add a PSA. Are you here? Are. Speaker 2 00:02:04 You talking about a client? Speaker 1 00:02:06 And then go to assessments under discover. And then go to the compliance readiness assessment. Speaker 2 00:02:15 Which one? Compliance readiness. Speaker 1 00:02:17 Mhm. And then, Click on PSA to get the plus sign next to the sensitive handling and data classification. Speaker 2 00:02:31 Yeah, so contact support, open PSA. Speaker 1 00:02:37 And I think it's because in ConnectWise we have it different. Oh, it's just under sharpened. Yeah. And in the scale pad, it's listed as Sharpen Barber Floyd. Speaker 2 00:02:60 Mm- hmm. This year. Yeah. So, uh, Can we what can we do so. Speaker 1 00:03:10 Go to if I remember correctly. Speaker 2 00:03:15 Sharpen overview? Speaker 2 00:03:20 Uh, where did it pick this name from? Speaker 1 00:03:23 See, I don't know. Um, go to the settings. Hold on. Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:29 Let let let let let's just quickly take a look at this. All clients. Aha! That's your issue. Yeah There is sharp. Speaker 1 00:03:45 Yes Okay So that that explains a lot. Speaker 2 00:03:50 That's why it's not working. Speaker 1 00:03:52 But the problem is, is all the assets are going under Sharp and Barbara Floyd. Speaker 2 00:03:57 So just open the ticket with Scale Pad. Okay. And they're pretty fast to respond. Yes. Right? Yep Awesome. Speaker 1 00:04:09 That that makes a lot of sense Okay perfect Um yeah That's all I have I'm gonna I've got a bunch of things I gotta cover with them today and I wanted to pull up some of these reports Uh. Speaker 2 00:04:19 Push him. I'm asking him for dinner. I want to make sure he responds to my email and tells me when. Speaker 1 00:04:25 Okay, yes, thanks. You're welcome. Bye- bye.
06-03 Consultation: Azure-Based Project Management App Migration and AI Governance for Construction
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- > Date & Time: 2026-06-03 11:03:14 > Location: [Insert Location] > Customer: [Insert Customer] ## Overview The discussion evaluated a prototype project management app built by a director of construction (“Evan”) using Base44, assessed enterprise risks (hosting, code ownership, compliance, governance), and planned a secure, in-ecosystem path forward. The customer currently uses Procore, which they find overly complex and expensive for their needs; they use only a small subset of its capabilities. They have an AI governance committee with several power users experimenting with tools like Copilot, Claude, and Gemini under a policy prohibiting proprietary data in external tools. The primary challenge is balancing innovation from power users with enterprise security, governance, and control—especially if replacing Procore before its agreement expires at the end of the year, with an estimated potential savings of 40 grand. Desired outcomes include migrating the prototype into the company’s Azure environment, establishing policies and guardrails for AI app development, and potentially adopting higher-tier Claude licenses for a small group of power users. ## Background - The customer’s governance committee includes high-powered AI users fluent in Copilot, Claude, and some using Gemini. Company policy favors Microsoft Copilot and prohibits proprietary/sensitive data in external platforms. - A director of construction (Evan) built a prototype project management app in Base44 under a low-level, credit-based subscription, modifying it via conversational AI to suit his workflow. - Current enterprise tool: Procore. It is seen as overkill and complex (about fifteen steps to set up a project with integrations), while the company uses only a small subset (submittals as mini workflow, action plans as punch list, inspections for reporting). It’s very expensive and underutilized. - The consultant (Christi) advises Base44 is suitable for prototyping only due to code ownership by the platform. Base44 is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified and has enterprise governance controls at higher tiers, but production deployment is not recommended outside the company’s ecosystem. - Proposed direction: Rebuild/host the app in Azure using Claude Code (or Microsoft Copilot’s emerging app builder, Frontier) to keep data, security, and governance within the company’s environment. - Claude pricing shared: $25 per month for basic chat/cowork users; $100 per month for higher-tier power users; minimum 5 users. Some users may require even higher plans (consultant mentioned using a $200 personal plan). ## Pain Points [Overkill and cost of Procore relative to actual use] **Procore is excessively complex and costly for the company’s needs, and only a small fraction of its features are used.** Impact: - Financial: The agreement’s renewal by year-end could be avoided, with “40 grand” of potential savings if replaced. - Operational: Setup requires about fifteen steps with integrated modules (contacts/data across modules), causing friction and wasted time. Current Situation: - Using submittals as mini workflow, action plan as punch list, inspections for reporting—only a tiny sliver of Procore’s capabilities. Quantitative Metrics: - “About fifteen steps” to set up a project; potential “40 grand” savings by end-of-year if replaced. Examples: - Property managers and project setup processes burdened by unnecessary complexity. Context: - Organization is not a developer; Procore feels like “killing an ant with a bazooka.” Stakeholders: - Director of construction (Evan), property managers, governance/IT leadership, finance. [Shadow innovation vs. enterprise governance and security] **Power users are prototyping and building solutions on external tools (Base44, Claude, etc.) that fall outside enterprise oversight and control.** Impact: - Security/compliance risk (code/data hosted externally; unclear licensing and code ownership). - Fragmentation (“wild west” environment), onboarding complexity (even getting into the Base44 sandbox “took more than a few tries”). Current Situation: - Policy allows experimentation without proprietary data, but reliance on external platforms persists. - Base44 prototype exists under a low-level subscription; enterprise controls would require higher-cost tiers. Quantitative Metrics: - Not numeric beyond subscription tiers; minimum of 5 users for Claude enterprise tiers ($25 and $100 per month levels mentioned). Examples: - Evan’s Base44 app; marketing person built a website using Claude; some users still go to Chat tools despite Copilot availability. Context: - Company wants to steer users to solutions within its own ecosystem (Microsoft/Azure). - Base44 owns code by default; even if SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, production hosting there is undesirable. Stakeholders: - IT/security/governance leads, power users (Evan, marketing), property managers, vendor (Base44), consultant team. [Usability gap between user-friendly prototyping and enterprise-hosted solutions] **Evan values Base44’s conversational, rapid on-the-fly modifications, but equivalent ease-of-use in the company’s environment is uncertain.** Impact: - Adoption risk if the Azure-hosted version lacks similar conversational modification capabilities. - Increased dependence on IT if self-service changes are harder. Current Situation: - Consultant uses Claude Code via terminal or chat to build and modify apps; exploring Copilot’s Frontier app builder. - Need to identify tooling/UI that allows safe, controlled, conversational modifications for selected power users. Quantitative Metrics: - None given. Examples: - Evan asks Base44 to apply changes to task infrastructure and it “just does it.” Context: - Consider limited higher-tier Claude licenses for ~“four users” doing modeling/app building. Stakeholders: - Evan and small power-user cohort, IT/security approvers, broader end users (property managers). [Onboarding, access, and control challenges for external platforms] **Inviting staff to external sandboxes and maintaining consistent access controls is cumbersome and risky.** Impact: - Productivity drag due to access issues. - Potential support burden for IT if non-IT users struggle with platform invites and environments. Current Situation: - Even inviting the speaker into Base44 workspace took multiple attempts. - Enterprise controls in Base44 exist only at higher-cost enterprise tiers. Quantitative Metrics: - None beyond qualitative “more than a few tries.” Examples: - Property managers’ future access would likely be even more challenging than for IT leadership. Context: - Preference for Azure-hosted solution with company SSO, governance, and RBAC. Stakeholders: - IT admins, property managers, director of construction, security/compliance. ## Expectations [Deploy a slimmed-down, secure project management app within company ecosystem] **Build and deploy a project management solution in Azure that matches the prototype’s core functions while meeting enterprise security and governance.** Timeline: - Aim to have it ready to begin migration in Q4 and replace Procore by the end of the year. Resources Required: - Consultant to draft SOW, assess the Base44 prototype, and rebuild in Azure using Claude Code and/or Copilot (Frontier) app builder. - Possible Claude Teams/Enterprise licenses for a small power-user group (minimum 5 users; $25 or $100 per month tiers). - Azure resources for hosting (consultant example costs “about a hundred and fifty dollars a month” for a more complex internal tool). Success Metrics: - Functional parity for required features; secure hosting in Azure; role-based access; acceptable performance and user experience. - Cost avoidance of “40 grand” by year-end; reduction in setup steps and friction compared to Procore. Stakeholders: - Director of construction (product owner), IT/security/governance leads, property managers (end users), consultant team. [Establish governance and policies to manage AI-powered development] **Create a clear policy and framework that enables innovation by power users while enforcing security and data protection.** Timeline: - Begin immediately; align with app rebuild timeline; support decisions within the next six months. Resources Required: - Consultant to run an AI survey, hold a workshop with staff (in-person Friday session offered), and draft governance documents with guardrails. - Policy sign-offs for higher-tier Claude users (trust plus signed policy “I’m not going to do X, Y, and Z”). Success Metrics: - Reduced use of external tools for company data; consolidated development in Azure; clear roles/permissions for app modifications; streamlined onboarding. Stakeholders: - Governance committee, IT/security leadership, power users (Evan, marketing), end users. [Evaluate and potentially adopt higher-tier Claude licenses for select users] **Provision upgraded Claude licenses for approximately four power users to enable safe, efficient app building and iterative changes.** Timeline: - Decision alongside SOW and rebuild plan (within next few weeks/months). Resources Required: - Claude Teams/Enterprise procurement (minimum 5 users; $25 or $100 per month tiers; some cases may need $200 plan personally noted by consultant). - Integration with company identity and policy controls. Success Metrics: - Faster iteration cycles comparable to Base44 experience; decreased reliance on external development platforms; adherence to policy. Stakeholders: - Power users (Evan, marketing, IT leaders), procurement/finance, IT administrators. ## Other Information Summary - Base44: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified; enterprise governance controls available only at enterprise level; platform owns code by default. - Consultant showcased Azure-hosted internal tools with approximately $150 per month cost for a more complex backend; confirms feasibility of hosting app and database entirely in Azure. - Copilot’s new app builder “Frontier” is emerging; consultant plans to explore it during vacation and follow-up after returning on the 14th–15th. - Consultant proposes sending an AI survey to gather staff needs (agentic workflows vs. app building) and conducting an in-person Friday workshop. - The customer’s marketing team previously used Claude to generate a website; hosting considerations remain important. - Access issues: Joining the Base44 sandbox was challenging; concern that property managers could face greater difficulties. - The governance lead wants to avoid a “wild west” of disparate tools and reinforce using solutions within the Microsoft/Azure ecosystem. - The consultant runs a blog with an upcoming post on securely rolling out AI in companies; will share resources post-vacation. ## To-Do List - [ ] Send Statement of Work (SOW) draft outlining assessment of the Base44 prototype and rebuild plan in Azure. Deadline: after consultant returns on June 14–15, 2026. Stakeholders: Consultant (Christi), IT/governance lead, Evan. - [ ] Provide access/invite the consultant to Evan’s Base44 workspace to review the prototype and estimate replication effort. Deadline: before the Friday meeting with Evan (the week of June 3, 2026). Stakeholders: IT/governance lead, Evan, Consultant. - [ ] Conduct an AI survey to identify staff needs (agentic workflows vs. app building). Deadline: send after consultant returns on June 14–15, 2026. Stakeholders: Consultant to draft; customer to distribute. - [ ] Schedule and hold an in-person Friday workshop with staff to capture requirements and define guardrails/policies. Target: late June 2026. Stakeholders: Consultant, governance committee, Evan, property managers. - [ ] Decide on Claude Teams/Enterprise licensing for ~4 power users (tier selection: $25 vs. $100 per user per month; minimum 5 users). Target: align with SOW approval (June–July 2026). Stakeholders: IT leadership, procurement, governance. - [ ] Define Azure architecture for the app (web app, database, authentication/SSO, RBAC, logging) and estimate monthly run costs (reference: ~$150/month example). Target: with SOW. Stakeholders: Consultant, IT/cloud team. - [ ] Perform gap analysis vs. Procore (identify must-have workflows, reports, and data migration scope). Target: early Q3 2026. Stakeholders: Consultant, Evan, property managers. - [ ] Draft and approve AI development and usage policy addendum (tooling, data handling, code ownership, modification privileges). Target: early Q3 2026. Stakeholders: Governance, Legal/Compliance, IT, HR. - [ ] Plan Q4 migration from Procore to the new Azure app (phased rollout, training, cutover plan). Target: Q4 2026. Stakeholders: IT project manager, Evan, property managers, consultant. > AI Suggestions > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as replacing an over-complex, costly Procore setup with a secure, right-sized project management solution within the company’s Azure ecosystem before the contract renewal (potential “40 grand” savings). > 1. Execute a rapid prototyping-to-production path: conduct a 2–3 week assessment of Evan’s Base44 prototype, define a minimal viable feature set, and rebuild core functions in an Azure web app with an Azure SQL/Storage backend, SSO, and RBAC. Use iterative sprints to hit Q4 readiness. > 2. Enable controlled “conversational” modifications: provision higher-tier Claude licenses for ~4 power users and wire Claude Code (or Copilot Frontier) into a safeguarded dev workflow (feature flags, staging environment, PR approvals) so Evan retains fast iteration without bypassing governance. > 3. Formalize governance and guardrails: publish a lightweight AI/app-dev policy (no company data in external tools, code ownership in company repos, role-based modification rights), and implement Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions pipelines for reviews, tests, and auditable deployments. > 4. Optimize for adoption and simplicity: co-design with property managers to streamline project setup steps (target fewer than “about fifteen”), include guided forms and templates, and provide brief role-based training. Track time-to-setup and task completion as early success metrics. > 5. Plan a low-risk migration: run a pilot with 1–2 projects in Q3, validate workflows and reports, and then schedule a phased Q4 cutover from Procore. Keep a contingency window to extend Procore only if critical gaps remain.
- Date
- Jun 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hey Brett. Speaker 2 00:00:05 Christi, how you been? Speaker 1 00:00:06 I've been doing great. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:09 Busy. Uh yeah, It's I don't know what what's going on today. Uh, but there's just a lot of things. Ium appreciate you scheduling out some time. So the the main item that I think I need to kind of, and you are the uh AI guru and uh all knowing one. So, As it relates to, did you see my email referencing the Base44 product? Yes. Yeah. So essentially I have a gung ho user who's on my I have a governance committee, an AI governance committee, And almost everyone on that call or on that in that committee, they're what I would call high powered users from the standpoint of knowing enough about AI to be dangerous. And many of them are. Speaker 2 00:01:01 Fluent in um, chat copilot Claude. They all have, you know, at least one of them is a fan of Gemini. You know they all have their draw, their own conclusions on what's better and what works better for them. And whatnot. Obviously, our company policies. We want all of our employees to use Copilot as much as possible because it's within our own ecosystem. We do have like these kind of one off cases where we have individual users using some alternate platforms with the caveat. As per our policy, that you don't put any company data into these platforms, right? Right. So it's anything that's sensitive or you know not anonymized. So, they can, you know they want to draw some like marketing materials or something that that's publicly available anyway. That doesn't really matter, but if you know just nothing nothing proprietary. Um so this one user you know has been. Speaker 2 00:01:58 Very much, you know, into using Copilot to do all kinds of things. He's the director of construction. He got familiarized with Base44, which I now have checked out a little bit and is, you know, but he's been playing around in it. He's got a subscription that is a very low level subscription. There is basically a number of credits he can use to do this that and the other thing in the platform. But. He's, he basically used the tool, and then you know, is interacting with the AI to do different. Uh you know, to basically create this little app that he wants. And you know, he's using the AI on the fly to kind of make modifications to the app, and he's gotten pretty, you know, adept at using it I. Okay, him, do this on a trial basis to see if it could do what he was kind of envisioning. The goal of what he is envisioning is to create a new kind of like project management. Speaker 2 00:02:54 App for his own use, right? That is, you know, something that that he feels comfortable with. That is kind of slimmed down. We currently use Procore. Are you familiar with Procore at all? Yes. Okay, so Procore uh is very complex and particularly in terms of its setup, not to mention its use. There's a lot of I don't know how familiar you are with it, but like just just setting up. Project in Procore, particularly if you have an integration like we do, There's about fifteen steps, and you have to make sure that this module has this data, and this module has that data and the contacts come in from here. And it's overkill for us. We're not developers. We really shouldn't be using Procore. It's like killing an ant with a bazooka with too much. They are using it myopically. We have this kind of um we have uh some. Speaker 2 00:03:51 Basically, their submittals tool operates as a kind of mini workflow. Their action plan tool operates as sort of a punch list for our property managers. And. Then we have a report in there that's kind of leveraging the inspections tool. But it's again, it's all very compared to what Procore can do. We're using just this tiny sliver and it's overkill. It's very expensive and, So Evan just wants to use this now homegrown AI tool or I should say he's creating his own little app for project management using base 44 AI, and that's all fine. But my question now is if he's really serious about this and likes it, and you know it's it's very slimmed down comparatively as to what uh comparatively to what Pro has. Speaker 2 00:04:51 Um, now, you know, I think there's going to be some time where I'm going to have to kind of handhold them and be like, okay. But, you know that Procore is doing this, whereas your tool doesn't yet do this. And like there's there I think there'd kind of be a gap analysis there. But like I was like, Wait. But just let's put the brakes on before we even like consider migrate and he's seeing dollar signs. He's seeing let's do this. Let's move everything over and we can use this money. I'm like okay whoa from, An enterprise standpoint. So you're saying then we're going to host, Base44 is going to host this thing for us? And then what does that mean? I don't like any of that. Like it would need to be moved, like this app that you've now built, how would that be moved into our own ecosystem? How would it be licensed? How would it be controlled for security purposes? Speaker 2 00:05:47 Like there's there's too many. I need crimson's blessing on this. I need to understand, like even from the stand, like just me getting invited into the, into like the sandbox that he where he's been building this took, more than a few tries, And then and that's me, we're talking about not not to mention them property managers or whoever else is going to get invited into this. So like I need to understand. How other if if Crimson has other clients or you know of other folks who have built something utilizing this service? And then what happens next once they publish it, does it live there. If so, I don't really like that, but I then is it SOC compliant like I don't know there's a lot of question marks you understand where I'm coming from? Yes, okayum okay. So. Speaker 1 00:06:38 Let me do one thing for you. Let me tell you my feelings and opinions on this, and this is just my feelings opinions. Base44 is a good tool for prototyping only. I wouldn't leave something out there because it's the code ownership, Um, the platform owns that, and that's something I want to put out there. Um, now is Base44 SOC compliant? Yes, it's SOC two Type two compliant and ISO twenty seven hundred one certified. So those are good credentials. Like that's what I would expect for a company like that. They do have enterprise governance controls, but only at the. Speaker 1 00:07:36 Enterprise level, probably not at the level he has his account on. So there is that, But you've got to understand it that you're going to have to pay more money to keep it in base forty four and things like that. Now, Can we help him build it and put it on on another system that you guys own? Absolutely. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:08:02 We could probably do it within SharePoint, right? Speaker 1 00:08:05 Yeah, well, actually no. You could put it in Azure. I am going to show you an Azure based one that I created. Um, I was trying to get typed in. You know, I am a foster mom and i they do foster kids. But, one of the things I have found myself doing in in the foster system is mentoring and getting kids ready for either transitional housing or things like that. So, I actually built an app and put it on my Azure system, and it's called Counted Doors. Um It is for. Parents, so it is an app. I am going to log in. It is out there; you can log into it. There are tools: I have AI tools out there, I have their fillable forms out there. Thank you so much. Um, I have how to request an IEP, which is very important for foster parents, But I also have things for kids in here—um—you know, how to do budget worksheets and stuff like that—and all my stuff saves in my Adopto. Speaker 1 00:09:02 Which is like a crimson Azure. So I have my own company that I've built called Adapto, and I have an Microsoft Azure things just like what Wes would have. All of this is built using that and using Claude Code. Speaker 2 00:09:18 Using Claude? Okay, yeah. Now, Speaker 1 00:09:21 I don't know this about you guys, so I'm going to ask: Do you have a Claude Teams or Enterprise account? Speaker 2 00:09:31 We are considering it. We had right now, we have um my, you know, uh, the some other folks on the governance committee, you know have been singing Claude's praises. Obviously I've used Claude as Copilot uses it right. So Copilot now incorporates Claude, which I've really appreciated and have enjoyed doing in Excel. Uh it can do a lot more than what Copilot used to be able to do. But I do understand that if you're on a higher level of Claude that it's a different. Experience and possibly more powerful. So what I'm what I'm kind of thinking about now is, you know, my power users of the world. I'd maybe get a more upgraded Claude license and have that be more enterprise level, which I understand. I mean that's an additional cost. I don't really know how much at this point. Haven't gotten that far, But um but it does make sense to me if we're going to have some, you know. Speaker 2 00:10:26 Call it four users who are going to be doing that kind of modeling all the time, or you know, that kind of proactive app building. Because this, my marketing uh person built out, basically like just kind of what you're talking about using Claude to create a website. And then you know, it's just a matter of where it's hosted, right? Like. So that's the that's the game plan I think. So maybe. The plat, the maybe one thing that we could talk about, then if you know, I mean, does it really like Procore owns Procore's code too? Like is it yeah, like base 44 owning the code of thatum app doesn't that's not as monumental to me, I suppose yeah, but like it does beg the question. Like, well, why wouldn't we have it within our own ecosystem, Speaker 1 00:11:23 Right? So you know. Real quickly for you, as far as hosting, you can host it in Azure. Now I'm going to pull, hopefully Omler didn't take this down. You know how he can get sometimes. So I'm going to, I'll resize this so you can see it better. I'm going to go into something we have. It's trying to get me to log in which my network connection is pretty slow right now. I hosted this, it's an internal Crimson tool. I hosted it in Azure. Speaker 1 00:11:54 So you can't, you don't have to go outside. Find here it is. This the one I built. You don't have to go anywhere for hosting. You can keep it in Azure. Everything's done in Azure database can live in Azure. All of that. This running us about a hundred. And fifty dollars a month, It does a lot more on the back end, But I can see okay, now it's coming up It's a little slow today. I can see everything that the system did um I can cause it's. It's looking at tickets coming in. I can see the tickets that are coming in. I can see what the details are. I can run reports on it. I can see the assignment history, all of that, and that lives in our ticketing system. We're building, um, I've been working on a side project which um, I haven't really i i'm prototyping it now for Onsor, but it's very similar to what i think he's trying to do, which is build a uh, uh project system to track projects. Yeah, we track projects in our ticketing system. Speaker 1 00:12:52 And, so I was going to build a pretty cool overlay for that in our system, but I think Ansar heard about it and ran with it for me instead. But you can do all of that in Azure, keep it within your ecosystem, keep it within your security. And I can help this guy rebuild it using Cloud Code if he has if And that's why. I asked you about the Cloud team's account. Now, that being said, for pricing. Your basic everyday users that are just going to chat and use cowork is twenty five dollars a month. Your higher tier is a hundred dollars a month per person, And we've set this up for quite a few clients over the last several months. You have to have a minimum of five users, and you just need to select what kind of version that they have. So for me, Anzor gave me the twenty five dollar a month one, however. Speaker 1 00:13:47 He knows I'm using my personal one for most things, and he knows that I'm pretty strict about what I allow into the system. And I'm on the$ 200 plan because I will max out even on the$ 100 plan. So if you have someone you trust and you put, you have them sign a policy that says," I'm not going to do X, Y, and Z," that could also be that safe option. But, you have to trust the person;. They need to sign a policy. So on. Speaker 2 00:14:16 And the, So sorry. So the total cost of the of the uh, The ongoing licensing of said built app within the Azure environment would be twenty five per person for the low end of the role, right? So like, The prep The property manager who's just going in to update comments on X Y Z versus or and maybe move tasks along. Speaker 2 00:14:46 Versus the the Evan, The director of construction or Vinny or me, who would definitely be on the hundred dollar level tier because we would be doing more in terms of modifying some of these. Now I think part of what Evan likes about Base Forty Four is he literally is just kind of he's able to change things on the fly by just telling the Base Forty Four, hey instead of can you apply this to this this um, Task infrastructure to blah blah blah, and it just does it right. Yeah, Like and he I think is, is that something that he, if he has that a certain level could can do. And again, I am not saying I want to open that up necessarily to him, but like is it when you are building this yourself in in your environment? Is there like an uh a chat window where you actually give prompt controls? Speaker 1 00:15:37 Yeah, It's aum okay. So what that pricing was I gave you was actually for Claude. Which is in Claude Code. And yes to your question. And you've got a couple ways of doing it. I'm going to show you how I do it. I'm in just a terminal window chatting back and forth, and I might switch over and say, hey, I'm going to work on this project. It'll go to that folder and work on that project. Right now, I have it working through some issues on my computer because i made i had updates come out and made some changes, and then i want to make sure that everything is valid. Speaker 1 00:16:12 So I have it here bypassing permissions, but I'll tell you it's pretty easy. It's just a chat window. I can do it either. I'm old school, Brad. I am forty six years old. I have been working on computers since before Y two K. I like terminals like that is what i grew up with. I played in high school. I wrote my research paper in a terminal and printed it off on a dot matrix computer. Um, so yeah, see, Speaker 2 00:16:43 I think him seeing PowerShell would probably cross his eyes, right? Like I don't think it's not really for them. I think that that's why he likes the AI part of it because it's very conversational. It's like hey and then it does the coding behind the scenes. Yeah go ahead keep going. Speaker 1 00:16:58 Oh no I was going to uh reshare because I can move my conversation into the chat window. Um and so oh, wait, it told me it needs to be updated. Hasn't found it, But basically, I can go into the chat window of Claude and and actually start the conversation from there using this. It's just a chat. It's basically what I'm doing in the terminal, but I can do it here. Um, it's the terminal is still a chat. I'm still talking to it. Um, but I can just move it here and talk to it in here. Mhm So. Speaker 2 00:17:37 Got it, So you so basically anything that you, you're saying anything that you would do in the uh. In the terminal environment, You could do here just conversationally, and it would still be able to build out the website or make modifications to the site as needed. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:17:56 Mhm So Ium sorry, my my child is at grad night, and she is blowing up my phone with pictures of them at Disneyland. I dropped her off at eight, Eight o'clock this morning at school. She's going to graduate this year, Brett. She graduates in a week, Speaker 2 00:18:12 And I don't believe it. Speaker 1 00:18:13 I know, and she's going to UC Merced in August. That's great! Congratulations! She's come a long way. I love it. Um, but I showed her how to do this, and she helped me create counted doors. And she's a psychology major, so yeah, He can go in and do this; I can actually teach him how to do itum. And get some information over to him to help him make that move. And, it would stay stable and in your environment and make you feel a lot better about. It would make me feel a lot better about, Not losing. Speaker 2 00:18:50 Because that's what he's going to say, then he's like, well, I really am comfortable in the base, forty four environment. And like you know what, What do we get out of you know well, and obviously, he he would need to. You know, we the base 44 uh solution, we would need to upgrade all of the licenses. So there will be a cost impact there. I don't know what it is at this point, but like that you know from a pros and cons standpoint, obviously putting it into our own environment is preferred on my end. Yeah. Um it it requires then scope of work. Speaker 2 00:19:30 From your end to kind of take what he's already built out in the, in I liked what you called um, what he's doing as a. Prototype. Prototype. Because, then you take the prototype in B ase 44, and then you just replicate it in our own environment. So then just what, what does that look like from a cost standpoint to do that? Um, but you know versus, If he's already comfortable with it being in Base44, the only real downside then I think is we don't own it. Base44, It's hosted on B ase 44, and we don't really have any control over what the pricing may or may not do. Whereas I mean you could kind of make the argument that you don't know what Microsoft and Cloud are going to do either. But like the, it just is a more controlled yeah. Speaker 2 00:20:26 Deployment, a controlled solution. And maybe it's not um it's not as clunky potentially as then just having everybody go into to what is essentially an app development site driven by AI, but that's essentially what it is um to do their project management tasks. You know, it's it makes sense to build something there, but then to actually deploy it there. Do, you know of any clients that are that have like solutions deployed and hosted in B ase 44? Speaker 1 00:21:05 I I only know of a couple clients that have used it to prototype, have given access to staff to prototype. But, they follow the same rules of, don't put company data in here and things like that. Um now that being said, We have, I have taken before in the past and gotten people from Base Forty Four to just doing straight cloud code into Azure. And basically all I did was teach them how to do it, sit with them, work with them on it, And have them recreate what they did in Base Forty Four in a controlled environment. And so I have done that, But I don't think I don't think I know of anybody that's actually using Base Forty Four as a full. Speaker 1 00:21:51 App solution for one of their apps. Yeah, and I yeah that was I could be wrong, there could be people out there. Speaker 2 00:21:58 Yeah, Like I, don't. You know, it's just more what is from a best practices standpoint and an enterprise level standpoint like I just don't, I don't want it to be the wild west, and we just have stuff all over the place as it is. You know, some people still use. You know, Like I say that my my uh, my really sharp uh users, you know are still putting things on chat, even though they don't put proprietary information on there. I don't really like that. I don't even think it's necessary because you can get that out of Copilot in my opinion. I know that people have all these opinions about, you know, Why Copilot is not as good or you know, it's yeah, and it does it does change like Copilot six months ago was nowhere near what it is now exactly, but. Speaker 2 00:22:46 Um, but I just, you know, it doesn't. I think my role needs to be steering people towards solutions that exist within our own infrastructure and environment. Um, yeah. So go ahead. Speaker 1 00:23:03 Um, no, I was just thinking of how I could help you with your staff because it sounds like you got a lot more than the average company. That wants to get out there and make things to help with the company. Just BASd on what you told me. Speaker 2 00:23:18 It's true. I think we are and we've been sort of, you know, in the, I guess wanting to stay ahead of it, but also at the same time, I might I almost feel like half the time I'm pumping the brakes and being like, okay, let's that's great. Let's look at this. I'm excited that you did this, It's not necessarily going to be an immediate switch, and everyone wants things tomorrow. And it's like, yeah, but guys, you still it's like trust but validate. We need to, and let's establish a policy on it and not just kind of throw everything into the wind and see what happens. Speaker 2 00:24:11 So I I do think that like at least when it pertains to this. So like if my if the goal is for this, we want to have a better solution than what Procore is, giving us Procore's agreement expires at the end of the year. We're talking. You know, this could be 40 grand worth of savings, right? So like what do we? How do we take? What Evan has built here in prototype and then come up with a policy and a framework to. To do some kind of an implementation of a project management tool in our environment within the next six months, I think is really the that's those are the the terms of the engagement. So I don't know what your thoughts are. Speaker 1 00:24:52 So, I think. Um. Can, we we would need to get an SOW built for this, if not Anzor's going to smack my hand, oh for sure yeah can so, Could I sit down with your staff? I'll even come to you guys on a Friday. Sit down, say, hey, Give me your thoughts and ideas of what you want to achieve and help put together a plan that's going to keep everything secure and keep everything in alignment with the security concerns that we have. And you have. Speaker 1 00:25:31 That way, you are not pumping the brakes so much. And then, Once I have that understanding of what they're trying to do and what they want to do, and I build out that plan, That gives them free free reins to do what they need to do within their role without stepping out. Now, that being said, Copilot has got some new things up. And, so they do have an app builder now that we can work through and do. I've not played with it yet, however, it is something that I had on my sheet. I am going on vacation next week, because Charl is graduating and I just need to take a week off because I have not taken vacation in a while. You know me. Speaker 2 00:26:15 Yeah, no, that's huge. It's really exciting. Speaker 1 00:26:17 So I was going to play around with Copilot. I was actually also going to learn AWS and see a lot of the new AI stuff that's coming out because I haven't had much time to do it. But this is something I was going to work on next week, which is Frontier, which is Copilot's new app builder that most people don't realize is out there. Yeah, I didn't. So um, I can when I get back from vacation, I'll be back on the 14th 15th um, I can set time. I'll get you an SOW and everything. We can sit down with a team. I will send out an AI survey to whoever you want, Or send the link to you and have you send it out to your staff? Just see what is it that they're interested in getting AI to do for them. Is it agentic workflows, which I think is what's top on everybody's brain right now? Or is it building out apps that make their life easier? Speaker 1 00:27:11 Things like that because I've got staff that are trying to build out a project management app themselves because they don't like our project management tools. Speaker 2 00:27:19 Well. And that's the thing is that I think, primarily I mean, yes, the agentic workflows I think, are part of this app that he would want to do I think. Also, the other thing was I think I could probably invite you into that workspace where he is now. So you could at least see it yeah, and that might help govern that might help govern your. Decision making as it relates to, you know, The time it would take in the SOW to replicate what's there in our own environment, using whatever tool you think is best. If it's Copilot, if it's Claude, if it's whatever. But getting that set up in Azure. You know? Yes. Um Okay Well Why don't we do this then? Then, you can uh work on the SOW I'll invite you to his um To his. Speaker 2 00:28:08 Tool. I am meeting with him on Friday just to kind of go over, okay, I talked with Crimson. Here's what we think the plan is. I'd like, you know, we want to we want we want to support this right? We want to support what you've built here in B ase 44, but we think we can replicate it. And maybe even add some additional bells and whistles. What you've done already, you've already done the prototype. So you've done almost all the work for us on that front. So really. It's just now we need to get it in a secure environment. And then we need to talk about what we need to do from now until when it's live. So that then we can, you know, in Q4 start to migrate stuff into the new app. Right? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:29:01 Okay, makes sense. Yes. Speaker 2 00:29:05 Right. Well, I will we'll set up some time then after you get back from vacation. Speaker 1 00:29:11 Yeah and feel free you. You've got the link to my calendar I'm about to take that link off my off my signature because I've got I got end users, uh, wanting scheduling meetings for me to work on things on their computer instead of opening a ticket. So uh, keep that link. Speaker 2 00:29:27 Yeah, I would never do that to you. Thank. Speaker 1 00:29:30 No worries, and thenum I'll send you uh when I get back from vacation, I'll also send you some more things that maybe might help for your team of things that they can do to make their lives a little easier as well. You do know I am running a blog right? Speaker 2 00:29:46 I don't think I've seen that no. Speaker 1 00:29:49 It's it went from IT stuff to AI stuff so very. Speaker 2 00:29:54 Cool okay. Speaker 1 00:29:55 So yeah, This is I'm actually have a post scheduled to it might be today or tomorrow, talking about how to roll out AI within your company and keep security safe around it. So my favorite topic. Speaker 2 00:30:11 Yes. All right, very good. I'll check it out and then I'll put some time on the calendar for us after next week. Is it next week you're going? Yes. Speaker 1 00:30:24 She graduates on the 10 th, and I'm gonna so I'm gonna take off the entire week. Speaker 2 00:30:28 Great. That's great. Yeah. Well, congratulations. Thanks And we'll talk we'll talk soon, but I think this was extremely helpful for me Good, Speaker 1 00:30:37 I'm glad Thanks Brad. Speaker 2 00:30:38 All right Thank you Bye.
06-03 Meeting: Crimson IT Vision, AI, and Project Updates
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-06-03 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Anzor] [Sergio] [April] [Vince] [Mike] [Speaker 6] [Anton] [Pete] [Speaker 9] [Christi] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] ### Meeting Notes **Opening and Company Vision** - The meeting was held on June 3, 2026 (week 23). With Stephanie out, April led. - After-hours support for the week: Jordan (primary), Juno (backup). - April reviewed Crimson IT’s vision, mission, niche, and the ten-year target: 30,000 managed systems by 2032. - Core value spotlight: “Always friendly.” **Team Updates** - **ITG to Hudu Migration:** Completed Monday, June 1, 2026. For issues, contact Olivia, Pete, Monty, Anton, or Vince. - **Cybersecurity:** Local account passwords for all clients have been rotated and are available in Hudu. SSID rotations are starting, beginning with Weingarten. - **Operations:** John was praised for successfully upgrading the XTRF server for Hannah over the weekend. Reminder: double-check all customer communications to avoid sharing internal/confidential information. - **Account Management:** A large computer refresh (20+ computers) is upcoming for Lap Rack. Jamf team praised for excellent work. Procurement challenges with Meraki and Dell persist—submit hardware requests early. - **Finance:** Month-end close is in progress; this is Marco’s first participation in the process. **Organizational and NBD Updates** - **Title Changes:** Pete is now Chief Executive Officer (CEO); Anzor is Chief Visionary Officer (CVO). - **AI Discussion:** Anzor emphasized both the power and dangers of AI, citing an instance where an AI agent fabricated information. Everyone should double-check AI-generated data. - **AI Competition:** Reminder of the one-month AI competition and to take the free Claude training classes. - **New Business Development:** Anzor expects potential good news in the next three to four weeks. **Project and Change Management Updates** - **Anderson:** A new firewall (MX85) will be installed next week. - **Camp:** Switchouts are nearly complete and should finish by Thursday, June 4, 2026. - **Ability First:** On June 2, 2026, a former employee wiped badge access controls. Crimson will now manage user access for their system. - **Uncommon 601:** Company name in CW is now “Uncommon 601.” The Hudu location is moved under “UncommonDevelopers.” - **Conditional Access Policy:** An interim policy will roll out for four users next week in batches of five. - **Maverick:** Ongoing user changes will continue for the next couple of weeks; final migration expected by month-end. **Claude AI Training (Co-work)** - **Introduction to Co-work:** Christi trained on Claude’s Co-work mode, which runs multi-step tasks in a private VM on the user’s computer. - **Requirements:** Requires the Claude desktop app with VM enabled. - **Capabilities:** Useful for creating training materials, reorganizing folders, and scheduling automated tasks. - **Partner Program:** Vince noted Claude’s partner network requires 10 certified users to join. Anzor shared a link to Anthropic courses. - **Outlook Integration:** Christi confirmed Claude can manage Outlook calendar events (e.g., change recurring meeting times) with user approval. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Install the new firewall (MX85) for Anderson next week. - [ ] Christi to walk the Camp site with ComDirect and finalize switchouts by June 4, 2026. - [ ] Christi to add instructions for Ability First’s access system to D2L once access is confirmed. - [ ] Roll out the interim conditional access policy for four users next week (in batches of five). - [ ] Christi to hold an advanced Claude Co-work class for clients and internal staff after she returns the week of June 15, 2026. - [ ] Vince to have Kevin or Gabby investigate the Wi‑Fi connectivity issue at Iron Gate Beach Club today, June 3, 2026. - [ ] Christi to meet with Maurice today to discuss using Claude to manage Outlook calendar events. - [ ] Define a timeline and lead for the Lap Rack computer refresh (20+ devices); coordinate with procurement. - [ ] Establish an interim AI usage best-practices guideline and review process to mitigate AI fabrication risks. - [ ] Create a procurement mitigation plan addressing Meraki/Dell constraints and evaluate alternate vendors. - [ ] Assign an owner for Maverick communications and user support during ongoing changes. - [ ] [Insert more] ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Anzor mentioned the dangers of AI and that he is changing his approach, but no formal company-wide policy or best practices for AI usage were established to mitigate these risks. > 2. Vince announced an upcoming computer refresh project for Lap Rack, but no timeline or lead person was assigned during the meeting. > 3. Mike mentioned procurement challenges with Meraki and Dell, and while he requested early hardware requests, no specific strategy or alternative vendors were decided upon. > 4. Pete noted ongoing user changes at Maverick, but no specific team or individual was assigned to manage communications or support for these changes.
- Date
- Jun 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:22 Good Morning, everyone. Speaker 2 00:00:25 Good morning. Speaker 3 00:00:26 Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:33 Morning. Morning. What. I'm sorry, what. Speaker 4 00:01:02 How do you spell crimson? Speaker 2 00:01:05 C R I, M S O N. Speaker 2 00:01:51 Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:02:20 Congratulations on last night, Pete. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Speaker 5 00:02:49 You need to shift a little more to your left, Pete. What was that? You need to shift a little more to your left so you can see. So we could see this. There you go. Speaker 3 00:03:39 Okay, so it's ten o'clock. Um, Stephanie is supposed to lead the Wednesday meeting today, but she's out. So I'm covering for her. Um okay. So today's date is June three, twenty twenty six, and we are on week number twenty three. The primary for after hours support this week is Jordan backup is Juno, and since it's first Wednesday of the month I'm gonna be covering the VTO. So, Crimson's IT's vision is to become the benchmark for the managed IT industry. Crimson's IT's mission: creating positive experiences by solving business issues. Crimson's IT niche: mature IT services to small and medium sized businesses. And Crimson's ten year target is thirty thousand managed systems by twenty thirty two RMM agents active. And for our core values spotlight, the core value that I would like to highlight today is. Speaker 3 00:04:33 Always friendly. I chose this value because everyone is easy to approach and willing to help, and which makes collaboration smoother and work things a lot better. And our code of the day, Alone you can do so little together, we can do so much by Helen Keller. And let's move on to team updates. Health test by Becker's is only days out. Speaker 6 00:04:58 Hi, good morning everyone. Um, so not too much from our side. Um, just a reminder that we moved from ITG to Hudu since Monday. So that's been cut over. So if you run into any problems, you can reach out to Olivia who's currently out and then Pete, Monty, Anton or Vince. So that's all from our end. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:05:19 All right thanks Beckerum cybersecurity with Anton. Speaker 7 00:05:23 Good morning, First of all, I want to remind everyone that we did rotate seed, local account passwords and for all our clients. If you are having any issues, please take a look into the Hudu. Additionally, We're starting rotating SSID passwords for all clients, and the first is going to be Weingarten. Just yeah, and we're going to need your help. Speaker 7 00:05:55 That's it from my end. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:05:59 Awesome, thanks Anton. Operations from Pete. Speaker 8 00:06:03 Good morning, Mike, are you going to touch on the Hannah thing? Speaker 5 00:06:08 Go ahead, you can steal my thunder. Speaker 8 00:06:11 I don't want to steal your. I'm going to let you do it. Speaker 5 00:06:13 No go for it! I've got other things to discuss, Speaker 8 00:06:15 Go for it Okay. So there was a great achievement this week this past weekend. You know, John was a. I mean, he gets the credit. I mean, he put a great plan together, a great rollback plan. He walked through the plan, the rollback plan, the schedule, worked with the business. But effectively, you know, he executed perfectly this past weekend for an XTRF server upgrade for Hannah. Speaker 8 00:06:51 And they were really happy with it. It's been something that was a long time coming. Great work, John. I think everybody has probably said this to you multiple times, but the customer I think is very happy with it. The Crimson is very happy with it because there were some security issues surrounding this for a long time. It's been a stability thing that we've been concerned about and just kudos to you for the planning and execution on that. That was a great job. Um, let's see. The other thing I wanted to just call out, We had something recently happen, and it's a reminder to everybody if you are communicating with customers, double check everything that you send out to customers. Right? Content is very important that we don't send anything out number one that has anything internal in it that we don't want customers to see that has confidential information that's Crimson related. Speaker 8 00:07:50 You know, if it has stuff that has internal communications that customers shouldn't see, we don't want to share that. Also, make sure that if we have internal Teams channels that we are communicating on. Sometimes we have Teams chats that customers are part of. Make sure if you're chatting with somebody internally, that you're not chatting with folks that have customers included on them. Um, don't send information that has our costs and and what we're charging to customers, and then send that to customers. You double check and take responsibility for what you're sending to customers because when we do that, that really affects our credibility. It really affects you know how we appear to customers. And, you know this this happens occasionally, and it can be it can be somewhat damaging. So just double check. Speaker 8 00:08:45 Be be be conscious of what we're sending to customers because that, that can really look look. Uh, look bad for us so, um, And then lastly, uh you know what Becker mentioned, we we are officially in Hudu now, Uh we have a a few more days where we have um some I T glue access that we are going to be exporting some data and and validating some things. If there's anything that you have not or recognize that is not in Hoodoo, and we need to pull out of IT Glue, we have just a few days left. Olivia is out this week. She'll be back on Monday. But there's a few of us that still have access to IT Glue. If there's anything missing, let us know and we will pull that out ASAP. Um I think that's what I have this week. Uh, and thank you all, and I'll turn it back over to April. Speaker 3 00:09:38 All right, thank you, Keith. Account management with Mike. Speaker 5 00:09:41 Thank you, April. I think Valadins go first. He's got a quick update. Speaker 4 00:09:46 Yeah, good morning Crimson. Just a quick update. Just give you the heads up. Uh we've got a pretty big computer refresh project on the horizon for lap rack uh, over twenty computers. So just be on the heads up on that one. Uh, Speaker 5 00:09:57 That's all I gotum just two small updates for me. Um I just again, want to give kudos to the jams team. Um I know it appears like we getum. Higher than normal escalation, but I want to share in the meetings. I continually hear feedback from William, from Greg, from Alex, um, from Burdette that Crimson. From their perspective, Crimson is doing a great job. So I think you know the struggle is so that the team knows we're dealing with personal computers. Jams doesn't want to touch it. So the fact that crimson is executing the way that we are they're very happy. We just had a uh tech Tuesday meeting with myself and Charles. Speaker 5 00:10:37 Which we pretty much just sat around and did nothing, but it's a good example of Jamf's further leaning for support with Crimson. So great job, Jamf team. The other update I have is just be mindful right now. We're having a lot of procurement challenges with some of our top vendors, Meraki and Dell especially. So similar to how we want our customers to provide us with early onboarding requests, the sales team is requesting if you have any hardware. Speaker 5 00:11:07 Request, put them in as soon as you can. Because right now lead times are pretty challenging. So, we're working to see if we can add additional distribution channels to the back end. But, we're working to see if we can secure hardware, so we can fulfill our customers'needs in a timely manner. That's it from account management. Speaker 3 00:11:31 Awesome, thanks Mike. Finance updates with Alisa? Speaker 9 00:11:38 Hi, happy Wednesday, everyone. Nothing much to share for the finance end, but this week we're working with the month- end closing. So this is the first time that Marco will do the month- end with us, and we're still in the training process. Thank you so much. Speaker 3 00:11:56 All right, Thanks, Elisa. On the admin side, nothing major to highlight, but just completed our monthly billing. Okay NBD updates with Anzor. Speaker 1 00:12:07 So on my end, well, first of all I wanted to say congratulations to Pete. He's now officially Chief Executive Officer at Crimson, right? So Pete, congratulations. The title's been changed so that's when you know it's a real deal. I also changed my title, right? So I'm going to be Chief Visionary Officer. Effectively setting the AI vision for our company. So that's one. Two, I wanted to touch on AI. I've been spending all of my time with AI building, playing, trying to understand the strong side, the weak side, right? And you guys all know, right? So effectively we're now in that one month AI. Speaker 1 00:13:02 AI competition, right? So make sure you take those Claude training and that come as a free training class, right? This will help you immensely to understand Claude operations, the co-work and all of that. I did wanted to share my very recent experience with AI and just, Have everyone understand how dangerous that technology is, right? So when you work with AI, what's going to happen? It's going to do things very quickly and very well. And you're going to get into this feel that, oh my God, this thing is amazing, right? Like it can do anything and everything. And then it's going to do something really, really, really stupid. Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:60 So, I actually saved the exchange. I was having with my agent where it came back. Um, I asked it a question and it says, "You know, the answer I gave you, I made it up." And then sometimes later it came back and said, "You know, I made up the other answer I gave you." And on the third take right? I went like okay what's happening here? Like you're fabricating data. Stop. And I need to understand if this is specific to the session you're running in, or is this because we've upgraded to latest closed model? And we went back and forth on it. And and it was crazy to see. If anyone's interested, I can share the email. But basically my agent his ace goes, look, I made up this statement. I made up this statement when I've told you I've looked up data, I did not. I guessed it. Speaker 1 00:14:55 And when I said I've pushed code into production, I actually did not, right? So it completely made things up. Like completely, right? So and the final comment that it left me with was, look, given the amount of time I fabricated so far, you should not trust anything I tell you from this point on. Right? Like, and I am reading this thing, and I am like, "Oh my god! " And, this is the thing that's going to be helping us to run the company, right? So so just an FYI: AI is incredible tool. It's gonna it is a part of our life. It's only going to become a bigger part of our life. But be aware right tremendous amount of danger that made me realize my approach. I am completely changing the way I am working with it. Speaker 1 00:15:53 I am actually stripping it of all of the powers I gave it, and now it's going to have very limited powers. And whenever I need it to do something, I am going to grant a power short term for specific task and automatically remove it. Right? So, it was an eye opener. Right? The most critical part was not only. It lied to me. It also deleted data, thinking that it completed something when it didn't complete the task, right? So this could be extremely disruptive and dangerous. So just keep that in mind. Doesn't change the fact that we are going to end up being an AI company, right? It's, just it's going to take time for it to get to where we need it to be. Speaker 1 00:16:44 But everyone still should be continuously playing and understanding. Just double triple check the data all the time, right? Don't trust it. So those are the things on my mind. And finally, I don't have any updates on new business development. I am hoping that you'll hear some good news in the next three to four weeks. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:17:12 Alright, thanks, Anzor. Any project or change management call- outs? Um, Speaker 10 00:17:22 Good evening everybody. I just want to inform you that we'll beum installing a new firewall MX eighty five for Anderson. Um next week. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:17:35 Alright thanks uh Christyty. Speaker 11 00:17:37 Uh two things. Speaker 11 00:17:40 Two things. One, camp is almost done with the switchouts. I'm going to go up again tomorrow and walk it with ComDirect and get pictures and map everything out. But tomorrow, everything should be completed unless there's like onesies or twosies issues that we're having happen. And then secondly, there was a security incident at Ability First yesterday. It was not something Crimson did, it was something on the facility side. Having to do with badge access across all buildings and all admin controls were wiped out intentionally by a former employee. So Crimson is going to have the ability to add and remove people from that system as well. It's very easy to do, we already do it for SHARP, So I will have all the instructions in D2L on the ability for a side. Once we've confirmed, we've been given access to that application. Speaker 3 00:18:39 All right. Um, thanks, Christity. Uh, Gabby? Speaker 12 00:18:44 Thank you, April. Uh just a quick update for 601 South Figueroa. Um, the company name on CW is officially now under Uncommon 601. So when you're putting tickets, um please make sure of that detail. Um don't just call yours for that site and also on Hoodoo. Um, the location has been moved to under UncommonDevelopers. That's the company name. And, we're in the process of transferring information from 601 over to that other company. And we're also in the process of cleaning up uh, the contact list for, The otherum Colliers uh sites and that is all I have. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:19:28 All right, thanks Gabby Julia. Speaker 13 00:19:32 Thank you, April. We are planning preparing the interim conditional access policy rollout for four users, and this will be a final item for the interim compliance project. We're planning to do it next week in small batches of five users. Speaker 3 00:19:52 Thank you. That's all right. Thanks, Julia and Kate. Speaker 8 00:19:56 Uh, just kind of a note that there's, Go ing to be ongoing changes to the users at Maverick right over the next couple of weeks until all those users get migrated. And then uh, the final will probably be sometime by the end of the month. So just wanted to raise that. Speaker 3 00:20:15 All right. Thank you, Pete and training updates with Christity. Speaker 11 00:20:19 Good morning, guysum again. So real quickly, we're going to go over some things inum in cloud coat. Or I am sorry, not Claude Code in Claude. I was thinking about Claude Code today with something Anzor said. I have had a very similar issue to Anzor, so it is out there. It is happening more than what we realize. But today we're going to talk about co-work. A couple of you guys have mentioned that you would like to learn more about it, so we're going to go through that real quickly today. C o- work is the mode where Claude stops answering you and just starts doing actual work, so it's more of a. Speaker 11 00:20:56 Agentic workflow system. It does run through multi step tasks, it creates files and it will hand you a finished output. But. The big thing to know is that this does work inside of a small private words are hard today. Private virtual machine that lives on your own computer. So everything stays sandboxed and local, and then the VM gets wiped clean after every session. So It is a private session. I want you guys to realize that you do have two requirements for this. One, you have to be in the desktop app. This does not work on the web app. And if you only ever use it, You can download it from claude dot, ai slash download, and then um You will have to have VM enabled on your computer. If it's not enabled, you will get a message and it'll walk you through how to enable it. Speaker 11 00:21:52 But basically, you go into settings and look for VM and just flip that on. Once you have that in, you can go into CoWork by clicking on this tab up here. And basically, you can work in a project. So it'll say, um, you have chat here CoWork these are your modes and then you have code. And then once you're in the CoWork, You have options here, new task projects scheduled live artifacts and customize Now I don't have a project in here yet, but that's something I'm about to work on. You can schedule out tasks. So you can say, hey, every morning at 6:00 a.m. if your computer is on, Check this folder for and see if any files got uploaded and then parse the data or send an email or something along those lines. So you do be aware you can do that on a schedule. But what we're going to do is a new task. And what I want to show you is a couple of different things. You want to make sure that you're using whatever. Speaker 11 00:22:51 Mode that works for you. Opus is a higher tier and runs through your cards a little faster, so I always use Sonnet. And then I'm going to work in a project, So I'm going to choose a folder on my desktop that I want to use. So if I'm working in let's say Ability First, I'm going to choose my Ability First which i work in quite often. And, then i'm going to give it a task, and i'm going to say look for Excel. Training documents and create me a more advanced Excel training class. I need a script and I need a presentation in PPTX PowerPoint. For those of you guys who don't know what PPTX is. Speaker 11 00:23:50 So, once you do that, it's going to be in only working in this folder. And I am just going to push that over now. A couple of different examples you can do with cowork :, you can have it create training like this, you can have it work through and clean up your folders. I had it a couple of times go in and reorganize because as I work throughout a week. Uh, things will drift and sometimes I'll accidentally save things in the wrong folder. So every now and then I'll have it go through and just clean up my stuff and put things into the right client folder for me. So these are some quick things you can do with CoWork, And these are the items that our clients are asking us uh to teach them on how to do. So you might get calls in about that. I am going to be doing with you guys once I'm back from vacation next week, um, I'm back on the week of the 15th. Speaker 11 00:24:43 Um, I am going to be doing a little bit more advanced Claude C o- work class for a couple of clientsum that we that have requested it. So I will invite you guys to join in as well. Any questions? Speaker 8 00:24:58 And just for the record, What uh what Christi and I were talking about earlier this week is we, but we wanted to kind of introduce folks to using co- work because there's some basic things that that you can take advantage of right if there are. I think everybody knows there's basic rules that you can use with with Outlook, for instance, right? You can have it. You can have it do things with incoming mail. You can have it automatically take actions on on emails or, you know, file things for you or whatever. But there's things that co-work can do for you automatically Or, You know, at times of day or Or within your your folders or within projects or create things for you. Speaker 8 00:25:41 Um, from an administrative perspective, that the more familiar you become with with those kinds of things, um, you can start to to relay that to our customers. Right. And, then you can help them become more efficient and the more comfortable you get with that, the more you can use it or you can help them use it. And that, you know, that translates to um helping them. So I I hope that Here can start to dabble in that. If you're if you're more advanced, that's great, right? But I want to make sure everybody has a foundation that we don't get straight into the the very technically advanced portion where people kind of, well, I haven't even really started to to do a whole lot with this. Where do we even start? So, this is kind of a foundation for folks to at least introduce you to it, get comfortable with it, start to play with it, see what you can do with it. And then if if you want. Speaker 8 00:26:34 If you have questions, let us know, right? Or actually, you can ask the people. So. Speaker 11 00:26:41 And guys, reach out. Oh, sorry. Andre, go ahead. Speaker 1 00:26:44 Yeah I was going to say I'm putting in the chat right? I think I've done this once, but I'm putting in the chat link to Anthropic courses that will cover this information and details Right. So I highly recommend for everyone to go through and get and become. Very comfortable and become an expert on this training. Speaker 11 00:27:05 Yeah, and so to actually show you guys a little bit more, which I'm I'm showing people through what we've done. Um, this is what co- work does in my inbox. It actually works through my inbox and categorizes things so that I know. I have this working hand in hand with Copilot. So Copilot will tell me if it's urgent with these little dots here, but uh Copilot goes in and categorizes things that I need to look at, Or not look at so it actually it's really been helpful. It's actually cut I'd say coworkers cut in the last three weeks that I've used it, Cut down a lot of the busy work that I've done so I can concentrate on things that are more important like beating Anzor at AI knowledge, which is not happening. He's got more time than I have had lately. So. Speaker 8 00:27:52 Auto deleting auto deleting the Pete emails and things like that. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:27:60 Can I also add, since we're on the Claude topic, um, I attended a morning this meeting Claude today actually launched their partner network. And, one of the requirements to join the partner network with Claude is to actually have 10 fully kind of um certified users within that Claude network. So I want to put that link here. It's a great kind of journey into that step. And if we get 10 of us to get down that learning path, Then we can uh apply for the the Claude network or partner program as well. So, More details. Oh, Speaker 1 00:28:29 That that I think is uh is the key. I I'm totally going to look into that. Thank you. Butum this this is big Okay. Speaker 3 00:28:41 All right? All right? Thank you guys Uh Maurice You have your hand raised. Speaker 14 00:28:46 Uh yeah Just a quick question for Christi. Some I had some questions regardingum Outlook calendar access through Claude. Some. Basically, The client has a has an eventum that automatically runs on their that's like scheduled for every Wednesday, for example. Um, They want to be able to change the time uh for that event uh in future. Um is is Claude able to do that? Uh does it have full right access to your calendar? Speaker 11 00:29:20 You, you have to, so you have to have the settings set where you approve. But Claude will do that. It will move that as needed. Um, I I will get with you and anybody else who wants to learn that a little bit later today and I'll walk you guys through that. I do have a meeting uh with uh uh West Westvin. Uh this all right after this meeting, but let me get with you on that and and walk you through some things after that. Speaker 2 00:29:49 Okay, cool. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:29:52 All right. Let's now move on to the. Segment, um, documents by Christi. Speaker 1 00:29:58 Can can we do this before before that happens? Uh Vince, Um can you uh grab someone to look into the issue Ruben discussed right with the connectivity of W i- Fi devices to uh Iron Gate Beach Club. So uh grab either Kevin orum or or Gabby to help you out. But we need to move fast on this, okay? Speaker 4 00:30:27 Got it. Yeah, I think it was open too. Speaker 1 00:30:29 We should probably do something today because he's waiting for the answer, right? And that deals with the board so we totally want to add something. Yep. Okay. Speaker 3 00:30:42 All right, Christi? Speaker 9 00:30:45 Let me share my screen and are you able to see it? Speaker 2 00:30:57 Okay, let's start. Don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? Like me. Don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? Like me. Don't you, baby? Don't you, baby? Speaker 1 00:31:22 Oh, look at that. Jane is gonna make it. Let's see it. No, it's mail. It's my eels. It's my eels go. Speaker 3 00:31:36 Okay, Okay, Shmail, go for it. Speaker 14 00:31:40 But I actually won like a few weeks ago already. Speaker 10 00:31:45 See? It's pride! Yes, week number 19 Oh wow! Speaker 10 00:31:57 Integrity Over profit. Wow. Speaker 1 00:31:60 Let's do this. I love it. We're gonna let's run this over again, right? And, then let's give$ 100 to Ishmael for being awesome. And then let's see who is the next one. Speaker 2 00:32:13 Let's start. Speaker 10 00:32:25 Don't you baby. Oh, let's go Marvin. Speaker 1 00:32:31 Too early. Too early. Usually not a good place to be. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh! Extra pride! Speaker 8 00:32:51 All Right. All right, well commit and deliver, Uh, always friendly. Do the right thing. Um, exercise extreme ownership and integrity over profit. Speaker 1 00:33:04 Awesome. All right, well accounting guys, you know what to do? Our fearless leader knows the core values as we should. Speaker 8 00:33:15 I'm gonna I'm gonna uh I'm gonna say uh I'm gonna call out Matthew. I know Matthew's been with us for a few months now butum, You know, he has been he's been super helpful. And whenever we ask him, if he you know if he knows something or can help with something, he jumps right in. And so, you know, always friendly and always helping everybody else. So thank you Matthew. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:33:40 Awesome. Congratulations Pete, and thank you Matthew So. We no longer have time for two truths and one lie So. That's about it. Thank you guys for joining and enjoy the rest of your day. Bye guys. Speaker 10 00:33:53 Thanks everyone. Bye. Thanks everyone. Bye- bye. Speaker 11 00:34:11 Uh, No, it was a different client.
06-04 Weekly Meeting: Copilot Sensitivity Labels, Project Schedule, Pilot Training
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-06-04 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Mike] [Speaker 6] ## Meeting Notes ### Project Status & Scheduling Updates - Project Progress: Week two of six. Phase One is expected to be completed this week. The team is under budget on hours and ahead of schedule. - Team Coverage: Speaker 3 will be on leave June 8–12. During this period, Gabby will serve as lead engineer. Julia (current project manager) and the security team will provide coverage. Paula will assume the project manager role as Julia’s last day is at the end of June. - Freeze Day Confirmation: No work will be done on June 17, 2026. Any planned tasks will be rescheduled to June 18, 2026. - Project Extension: An extension into early July was discussed. With the office closed on July 3, the handoff may move to around July 6 or 7. ### Copilot Sensitivity Labels for Approval - Purpose: The team must sign off on proposed sensitivity labels to finalize governance configuration and complete Phase One. - Proposed Labels: - Public: For marketing materials and public filings. Copilot has full access. No encryption. - Internal: Default for everyday business content. Copilot has full access. No encryption. - Confidential: For financials, legal drafts, and HR items. Access limited to authorized users; Copilot respects these permissions. Content is encrypted for Alire staff only. - Highly Confidential: For data such as Social Security numbers or sensitive M&A details. Copilot is blocked from summarizing but can show citations. Access is restricted and enforced by DLP policies. - Discussion Points: - Whether separate “Public” and “Internal” labels are necessary. - Whether both “Confidential” and “Highly Confidential” are needed, given current practice uses a single category for such data. - Conclusion: The PEC team (Ronnell Jackson and Kristen) must review and approve the proposed labels. They will be added to future meetings. ### AI Tool Updates and Discussion - Copilot Experiments: Speaker 3 is testing new Copilot features, including generating PowerPoint presentations from reports with audience-specific details. - Rippling’s AI: The team discussed AI capabilities from payroll provider Rippling—impressive, with pricing details not yet available. A potential future area to explore. - AI Model Updates: New models are live in Microsoft 365 Copilot: - Claude Opus 4.8 - OpenAI GPT 5.5 - Copilot vs. Standalone Tools: Copilot’s advantage is operating within user data and adhering to existing security rules and permissions, unlike standalone AI tools that may have different features but weaker integration/security. ### Pilot User Group Preparation - Use Cases Identified: A five-person pilot group has identified the use cases they want to test. - Next Steps: Use cases will be sent to Speaker 3, who will build customized training for each department based on them. - Timeline: Training development will take one to two weeks after receiving the use cases. Sessions will be recorded for future use. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 3] Send the meeting summary and proposed sensitivity labels to the team on June 4, 2026. - [ ] [Speaker 2] Forward the sensitivity label proposal to the PEC team (Ronnell Jackson and Kristen) for review and approval. - [ ] [Speaker 2] Add Ronnell Jackson and Kristen (PEC) to the meeting series for future sessions. - [ ] [Speaker 4] Provide month-end close blackout dates to Speaker 3. - [ ] [Speaker 2] Format and send the pilot group’s use cases to Speaker 3 by June 5, 2026 (end of week). ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Approval of the Copilot sensitivity labels is pending PEC review; Phase One completion depends on this decision. > 2. Exact month-end blackout dates must be confirmed to finalize the project schedule and avoid conflicts. > 3. Final dates for the project extension and operational handoff in July are not yet set.
- Date
- Jun 4, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:16 Hey Christi, Speaker 2 00:00:17 How are you? Speaker 3 00:00:19 I am good. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:21 I'm good, thanks. Speaker 3 00:00:23 Good. There will be no kittens on camera today. Okay. Speaker 3 00:00:28 Mostly because I tour apart my desk yesterday to try to rearrange some things and I haven't plugged my camera back in because I have a KVM switch. Oh okay So. Speaker 2 00:00:41 Hey guys, Did you already have your graduation? Speaker 3 00:00:44 No, that's next week. Okay. So I'm going to be off Monday through Friday of next week. Okay. So we're going to cancel next week's meeting. Um, just just know you won't get a report next week because I'll be out, But Gabby is still working on a lot of the things that we had slatedum and we'll get into that in a moment when everybody joins. So but okay. She's going to be continuing to work on on the things that are tasked to her. Speaker 2 00:01:16 Sounds good. Speaker 3 00:01:20 And I don't think we're going to go the entire thirty minutes today. I'll just be honest, uh, I got some things for you guys to sign off on and to give you updates on, and then uh, that's about it. Okay. And then I'll send you the update report tomorrow. Speaker 2 00:01:36 Got it. Speaker 2 00:01:40 We can give you a little update too. Speaker 3 00:01:43 Perfect. Do you mind if I record the meeting? Yeah, go for it. Perfect. I'll turn on facilitator mode. Okay. And of course, uh after this meeting when I send out the updates tomorrow, I'll also put a summary in from this meeting as well. Okay. Speaker 3 00:02:04 I'm also, um, just a heads up. I'm experimenting with some of the newer features that Copilot has put in play. Okay. And. So I told it to take the report that I built for you guys, because you know, working on the account and create it into a PowerShell. Now, It's always been able to create a PowerShell from Word documents this ever since Copilot Word rolled out, But it's gotten a little bit more knowledge behind it over the last couple months. And instead of just saying, build me this project or PowerPoint presentation, It now will gather the audience requirements and different things like that that it didn't do before. Oh good. Which is really cool. So I've been playing around with a lot of the new features and I've got some updates on Copilot. Um that I'll give you guys towards the end of this meeting as well. Okay. So we'll just wait a few more moments for everybody to jump on. Yes sir? Speaker 4 00:03:01 Um how was how doesum, Copilot know like the audience. Do you just tell them what to assume? Or can it look at like maybe prior work that you've done for that target audience and kind of take cues and clues from that? Speaker 3 00:03:17 So, um, it will ask you who is the primary audience for this presentation? And I said a lead or executive sponsor. And how much detail should it include? And I said six to eight slides, executive overview. And then it asked a couple other questions. This is the next one: Which vision direction business this status update? And, that's pretty much what kind of what do you want it to look like. And so I put the Crimson and Charl version, and it does take a minute. So I am really happy with the updates that they've made. Plus, and I'll get into this a little bit later, Plus Microsoft did roll out some updates this week on some things that Copilot's doing. So. Speaker 3 00:03:59 What I tell everybody when I do a Copilot rollout is, it changes week to week. Like it is always changing. I am struggling some weeks to stay on top of both Claude, well, Claude OpenAI and Copilot because they're making changes so rapidly. So, Speaker 3 00:04:22 Um, But it's did. Speaker 4 00:04:23 John Carlo did John Carlo tell you that we were uh, Conference for our payroll provider Rippling, and they were leaning really heavy into their kind of boutique AI. Speaker 3 00:04:33 Yes, I well he did not tell me, But we have other clients from Rippling, and we have some clients that are investigating Rippling to bring in in house. And, they are some of them are gushing over the new AI that's within Rippling. I've not had a chance to test it out yet though. Speaker 2 00:04:52 Either like, Yeah, it was pretty impressive. Um, You know, when we get through with Copilot and we sit down with P E C about other potential A I capabilities, I do think that is one that we would like to explore. Um, you know having that be an option for us. Um, so well to think about how we tackle those. Speaker 5 00:05:18 Rippling was charging quite the pretty penny for that A I function. Speaker 2 00:05:23 That's what we haven't learned yet. Yeah, they didn't talk too much about the pricing. I think right now they're allowing some users to test it, and they're using that testing probably to help train and grow the product. But they didn't tell us yet how the pricing would work. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:05:48 Well, so just a heads up, Copilot is um Copilot is done with that presentation. It's not bad. So we'll use that for an update today. You guys okay? All right, so I'm waiting for it to load into PowerPoint Live. Uh bear with me one second, I'm gonna mute just for a moment. Um and I will be right back while it's loading. Speaker 5 00:06:12 Right while you're breaking Daniel um Daniel real quick, did someone reach out to you on time? Speaker 4 00:06:17 Yesterday. Yes, yes. I didn't follow a few because we were just in and out of the city. But yes, yeah, it was a very technical solution. It required me to physically hold down my power button for three seconds, and then turn the computer back on. And we were good. That's really that's that network could get us back in shape. Speaker 5 00:06:38 Wow, okay, instead of a regular reboot, the trick is three seconds. Speaker 4 00:06:45 I mean, Or I'll get then a hammer, which is what's my next step. Speaker 5 00:06:52 Okay. I'm glad you're able to make it back. Was the conference good? Speaker 4 00:06:56 It was really good. Yeah, smaller than the other one I've experienced with uh the company here, which was MRI, which is just you know it's huge. It's that's a massive conference. Um, so this one was a lot more intimate, and you actually had a lot more breakout panels. And um they felt like they brought an army of their techs. To just have office hours with anybody that was interested, which was super helpful. Took advantage of that. Okay, nice. Speaker 2 00:07:24 It probably helped thatum you know I think San Francisco is their headquarters, So like all their employees were able just like to walk from their office over to the to the conference and be available, you know, as resources. Well, it's convenient. Speaker 4 00:07:40 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:07:43 I didn't tell you, but I got that. I took the opportunity to get my headshot taken right next to our table. Oh, yeah. Before we left. Nice. Yeah, I wasn't as crazy as that one guy. I wasn't doing the smolder or anything like that. Look at this. Speaker 5 00:08:05 Hey Kenny Hey. Speaker 3 00:08:08 And my apologies for going quiet for a moment. My daughter did uh. Grad night yesterday, and she got in at four a m. this morning. And so, The only reason she has to go to school today is to take her honors final for one of her classes. Oh, she's on her way to school to take that right now. She wanted to, She wanted to know if she could have my protein shake I was I had So I was like, okay, you take it go get out of here. Um teenagers are the best. Speaker 3 00:08:40 All right, so uh, Katie, What you missed um right before I went quiet for a moment is uh I was giving them an update about uh Copilot and some of the changes that Copilot has um and how they're changing week to week. And. So I asked it to take the report that I built for you guys that I am going to be sending tomorrow and turn it into a PowerPoint presentation using the crimson from the crimson designs that we've been working on. And so it Was doing it because I was just testing the feature out. It did it, So we're going to just use that for the meeting because it actually looks really nice. So, um, guys, I I did real quickly run through the pages just to make sure it's not missing anything. Um but be aware, I've not fully seen the presentation either. So we'll do this one together. Uh Mike does not usually condone me doing the fly by seat of my pants. However, I do have their report memorized, cause I did write their reports. So. Speaker 3 00:09:37 So right now, uh, we are in week two of six. Uh, the schedule is on this. Um, in fact Gabby is under budget on hours. So uh Gabby and I are both working on it. I'm right at budget, but she's under budget, which sets me under budget and I love that. Um. So we look at we're looking at completing phase one this week um right now. There's no risks other than uh my planned absence for next week, which Gabby is covering. And so is the rest of the team. Um, Gabby is your lead engineer. Other team members, such as security things like that, are stepping up as needed for their parts. Um, and so that's where engineering they're ahead of schedule and consistently under budget. Um, so the governance configuration is what's left to finish phase one, And that's what we're going to talk about today because I just need you guys to sign off on some pieces. And then we'll we'll get that taken care of in the next two days. Okay. Um, and the only. Speaker 3 00:10:35 Pressure is just me being out, but Gabby and Mike are fully here. Uh, Julia, who is one of our project managers, will be covering for me on this project in my absence. Just in case anything is needed. Uh, the security team will be covering as well. Uh and Mike's got it. Mike thinks Chris, he knows how I think and knows how to do stuff. Uh he would say, no, he doesn't, but I promised him some bourbon when I come back, Speaker 5 00:10:58 I know how I know how to hunt her down also, Speaker 3 00:10:59 If we yeah, he does yeah. There's only um and Kenny, you have my cell phone number. So if you need me, um I will answer this next week except Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday afternoon my phone will be shut off. So just a heads up. Speaker 4 00:11:15 Okay, well I'm glad to have it. Speaker 3 00:11:18 Perfect. Um. So these are the open items that are standing between us and the phase one close their tickets that we have open for to build this out. Uh sensitivity labels designed deploy. We've actually got them. Up to the point where we can deploy them, We just need you guys to sign off on what those sensitivity labels look like. Um, and then once we do that, then I will review everything, Make sure everything is set properly and then and make sure conditional access is set properly. We are only in report decision at this moment. And then the retention policies are set after we set up the security labels. And those won't take us very long over the next two days. Speaker 3 00:11:57 So, cause Gabby owns part of that, I own part of it is three hours per person. And we are slated to work on those tomorrow. Okay? Uh, these are the proposed sensitivity labels. So, We're looking at a label called Public, and that's your marketing public listings published filings. Anything that you want that you can send out to other people. Uh, that's outside of Alear. So That would give Copilot full access to those one. Pilot is deemed ready to have access to documents and data. Um, and so we're not gonna we're it's only a visual marking. There's no encryption set to those files. They're just standard everyday files that you can share out publicly. Internal is going to be the same way. Um, that is a marking you can put in, and that's going to be the default sensitivity label for everybody. So internal is everyday business context, internal email memos, anything like that. Speaker 3 00:12:54 Operational files that are just standard your everyday run-of-the-mill work. It Copilot will have full access. Um, There is no, there is only going to be the visual marking and I'll show you guys where that visual marking lives, but there is also going to be no encryption on those files either. Um, confidential is your financing financials, your deal terms, investor communications, legal drafts, HR items. Um So those are processed normally for users who only have access to those. So, no one else in the company, except for the users who have access will be able to access those. And because of that, that's how Copilot is going to relate to it. So if Kenny has something and someone else does not have access to that, that other person cannot access it through Copilot. So um encryption for that is scoped to Alire staff only. Speaker 3 00:13:51 Um, And then we can do some optional sub labels that will say that can say finance, investor, legal things like that. And then highly confidential. That's that's the bottom one. We're looking at these that contain things like social security numbers, personal data, banking wire details, Attorney client privilege deals sensitive M and A S um and those are fully blocked. Copilot can show citation. But cannot summarize them. They cannot read it. Um, and so this will be restricted access, encrypted, and it will be enforced by the DLP policy we've already put in play. Okay? Which by the way, DLP policies are already in play on Microsoft. So just a heads up on that. Any questions about this? Do you guys like this format? Or is there something else you're thinking that would be a little bit different? Speaker 2 00:14:53 I'm Trying to think ofum the difference between public and internal. Um is it necessary to have those as two separate categories? Speaker 3 00:15:06 I'll be honest, only one of my clients has ever done that. Everybody else just says leave it all public. Speaker 5 00:15:15 Would, this be something you'd have to schedule a meeting with PEC to get the okay on? Speaker 2 00:15:19 I'm wondering about that, and I'm just realizing that um, I guess I didn't. I didn't notice that that they weren't invited to these meetings, and we probably should have them on these meetings. I actually think they want to be on these meetings. So for the go forward, We should add Ronnell Jackson and Kristen to those because they're going to weigh in on things like this um that they understand and have certain requirements for. Um, they're going to know better than we do. So, we're probably going to have to share this with them. And just ask if they have something else in mind. Speaker 3 00:15:57 Gotcha. What I'll do is I'll I did say I was going to send out the email tomorrow. Let me send it out later this afternoon, um, and that way you can forward that over to them. I don't have their email addresses saved in my system, so okay, I'll get. I'll ask you for those. And that way i can just include them. Or have you once i send it out to everybody here? Have you reply back and add them? Okay. So, um, and yeah, I, if you want to go ahead and forward this meeting series to them as well. Okay. Got it. All right. I, so we'll wait on thisum while I'm gone once they approved or made suggestions and changes, uh Gabby will be on that email as well. And so Gabby can take in a role with it Yeah, Speaker 2 00:16:44 We can see if they can answer this afternoon maybe Okay. Speaker 3 00:16:48 Perfect. Um, and then just so you guys are aware, Copilot will respect the labels every time itqueries something. And so if it sees something highly confidential, confidential, It's going to ignore it unless they unless it knows it has access with the confidential. So The other question, Speaker 6 00:17:05 Giancarlo is whether we need confidential and highly confidential right? Because we just right now we just have one category. So maybe that's a PEC also question. Speaker 5 00:17:18 I would think so. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:17:20 Do we store social security numbers of individuals in our private folder? Speaker 6 00:17:28 I think we have all of their applications and I nines and everything in there, so yes. Speaker 2 00:17:34 Mhm. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we can ask them about that too if they if they, I expect to distinguish between those. Speaker 3 00:17:54 Next slide. So decisions, I just need. I just want to confirm. June seventeenth is still a freeze day. We're not going to do any work on that day. Anything we have planned for June seventeenth, we can reschedule to June eighteenth. Okay. And then you've got your month end blackout dates, Um, I just need that specific close window. I didn't see that in my emails. Um, but maybe I missed it. Um, I asked Copilot to double check and Copilot didn't find anything. But, it's been a little up and down lately on finding things in my inbox. So. Speaker 2 00:18:29 Yeah, Daniel, if you know some specific dates, I think I thought we did give someum around that, but maybe we can reconfirm that. Yeahum. Speaker 4 00:18:41 I'll look. It's typically revolves around Gary and Sam's clothes, soum after the seventeenth might be okay, but it's a quarter, so it couldbleed over. Yeah, I'll I'll send you something Christy. Speaker 3 00:18:55 Okay, perfect. Awesome. And. Then so we do have ah an ask, where could if we needed toum could we extend out the project to July? Second and third? Just to finish up the departmental interviews and the operational handoff. Speaker 2 00:19:16 We, I mean, we I think have an office closure on July third. So, if you needed us or if you were trying to to, you know do anything with us to close that out, we may not have people available. Um, But i I don't think I don't think t here is a problem with, you know, having uh to extend a little bit to get things done. Speaker 3 00:19:40 So. Perfect, thenum maybe I'll double check the calendar. Maybe we send it out a few days into the next week. Okay. So, I think I, I looked at the calendar wrong. I was thinking July Fourth was a Friday and just double checked it's Saturday. Yeah All right, So i'll I'll take another look at that. And then uh, we'll probably just need to extend it out to uh the sixth or seventh, just to make sure we get everybody. Sounds good. Um, all right, and then this the schedule and coverage. Um, And this the people who are going to be covering for me while I am out. Um, and then I will make the notes on the other one. Um, and I will send this over to you guys. Um, I don't see anything I need to correct in there. But uh, the next steps is accessibility labels, which I am working through um but if I don't get those back by the time I go on vacation from PC. Uh Gabby can handle that with no issue. Speaker 3 00:20:38 Um, Gabby is going to finish the LP and then the uh global relay gate. She has that slated for today and then tomorrow. Um, I we saw that there were sixty seven users in our system. Yes, Mike? Speaker 5 00:20:55 Oh, sorry. Um, real quick. So just for the Alere team. Um I believeum correct me if I am wrong Christi, but I think Julia's last day with Crimson is end of this month? Yes. So if she's pming this, should we be bringing Paula in on a couple meetings early to make sure. Speaker 3 00:21:13 Yes, I am keeping Paula updated. So I added her as well. Okay. Yeah, so Paula is taking over for Julia. So anything Isay that's Julia related, um gentlemen, She's leaving usum which we're really excited for her about uh, but Paula is taking over and stepping up in her steps, and I worked with her a couple times the last couple weeks. I really like her, Um, so she's doing a really great job. So, I am very comfortable with her taking over on this project when Julia leaves us. If there is anything left for her to take over. Okay. Um, so we have two tickets here. This is internal to Gabby and I that we have set for June seventeenth. We're moving it to June eighteenth, And then uh once we have a month in blackouts from you guys, uh, we'll get that added um you guys already did the confirm. And then. Speaker 3 00:22:05 Uh internally, I am briefing Gabby and Julia, which they've already been briefed. So just and then um as far as Copilot, Claude Opus four point eight was just rolled out by Claude uh in the last couple weeks. And uh OpenAI's GPT five point five was rolled out by OpenAI, and then Microsoft has put them live in Microsoft, three sixty five Copilot this week. So users when we roll it out they're going to be on the newest Model refresh from day one. Um, I do like Opus four point eight. I have not played around in GPT five point five just yet because it just came out. Um, I did try a few things yesterday. Um, Opus seems to be pretty strong. I am starting to like it better than four point seven. Uh four point five was the best so far. Uh, but these are just models. I don't know if you guys keep up with the OpenAI models. Uh, but these are just models that uh. Speaker 3 00:23:04 Both AI companies have rolled out. They're pretty nice. Uh, they're continuing continuing to update these. And the great thing about models is when they roll them out, they have the most recent uh information from the world. So I don't know if you guys have played around or how much you've played around with OpenAI uh or Claude, But sometimes you'll ask it a question, and the current model can only answer anything up to April off the top of my head without researching. And so now they're going to get that newer model going forward. So that's really good. Like Isaid, I am really pleased with Opus. Just. Speaker 2 00:23:43 A general question: like, What is the difference between using these models that are being incorporated within Copilot versus using a Claude tool? Or an Open AI tool standalone on its own? Is, is there a difference there? Because like I guess, why would someone purchase multiple of these? If they if those capabilities are being utilized by Copilot. Speaker 3 00:24:19 So one, that's super great question. Not very many people ask me that and I love the fact that you asked itum so the models that the way Copilot uses the models is they use it for the chat functions and features. And then soon as they roll out their version of Claude CoWork, it'll start using some of those features as well. Now, right now, Claude and OpenAI have other features that Copilot is not including in. So things like Codex and Claude Code and Claude CoWork and agents on the OpenAIsite, Microsoft hasn't started really incorporating those paths much yet. So the other tools are still really robust. Speaker 3 00:25:01 However, the great thing about Microsoft is it abides by your rules. So if you say, you know, you have access to something but Kenny can't have access. Copilot is going to abide by those terms. Uh sorry. Copilot is going to abide by those rules faster uh than Claude. However, Claude's stepping up their game too, because they want to make sure that you guys have the security in place. Does that make sense? Speaker 2 00:25:28 Yeah, I think so. Okay. Speaker 3 00:25:30 And I'll get more into that in the training because, uh, one of the questions I'll get all the time is, you know, the differences between Claude and Copilot. And Copilot just lives in your data already. And. So therefore, the models that you use to chat with it lives in your data as well. So like Claude had a baby. The baby doesn't know as much as Claude, and they handed it off to Copilot. Okay. So. Speaker 3 00:26:01 Um, and I'll be honest, There are a lot of new features coming out with Copilot literally weekly at this point. Um, Istarted designing out a app using um Copilot's new uh agent app builder. So they they are still bringing in new features that are pretty amazing. Okay. So any other questions you guys have for me? Speaker 2 00:26:31 So on the um, on the pilot user group and the use cases. So, we we met with our team of the five people identified to be part of that group. Um, we've had them identify the use cases that they would like to test, and we have those all put together. So, what would what is your expected timeline for when we get to that portion of the project? Speaker 3 00:26:60 It depends on how much of the use cases we that they have provided. Um, honestly, recently I did one with finance, HR and an R&D team a company has, and it only took us a week. So I would say a week to two weeks. Speaker 2 00:27:19 Okay. But from like when so is your is it that we give you the use cases and you guys go out and try and. And run these processes, Or will our team be doing the running it and trying to to actually perform it using the tool itself. Speaker 3 00:27:39 So you guys send me over the use cases, and I will build the training for each department around those use cases. Speaker 2 00:27:46 Okay, So yeah, let me let me make sure that I've got it in a clean format for you, Which Ishould be able to do and get to you by the end of this week, and then it should be. In your hands to determine, you know, how long that will take. I guess at that point. Um andum and our team will be you know, waiting waiting for their chance to get involved. Speaker 3 00:28:10 Awesome. Um and when I do the training, I am going to record the training for you guys. You guys will have access to the training recordings. You can download them, You can add it to Rippling in the, if you guys have that training module added, um whatever you want to do. Sometimes the training will go quickly and people will want that. Um, and depending on the person, And they can follow along during the training while we build things out for them with them, not for them. So good. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:28:43 Okay, So I'll have that on my plate to get to you, uh and I hopefully can do that this week. Speaker 3 00:28:50 Gotcha. No worries. Uh, and then you guys, like I said, while I am out next week, feel free to reach out. Um, Most of the next week is me actually taking a real, you know break from doing things. But I'll probably be sitting at my desk, learning new AI tools that I haven't had time to learn yet. So if you want to reach out, feel free. Uh Wednesday's the only day I'll have my phone off. Uh but you know I'll answer as soon as I can. You are welcome to text me. Okay. Speaker 2 00:29:19 Well, We'll see if we can get you those answers to those questions about the labeling. Um as soon as we can, uh, assuming that PC is able to look at them. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:29:30 So let me get that sent over to you. I've got to jump into another meeting in in three minutes, and I was trying to go quicker. So you guys had more time back. But uh my apologies on that, uh I'm going to jump into another meeting actually with Mike in a few minutes. And then uh from there. Uh, I'll get you guys over everything and have you send it over to PC. Speaker 2 00:29:52 Okay, that works. Speaker 3 00:29:53 All right, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much. Speaker 2 00:29:56 Thanks Chris Christiene. Speaker 3 00:29:57 All right.
04-24 Lingguhang Pulong: Pag-aayos ng Template ng Onboarding at Paglilinis ng mga Gawain sa Pagsasanay
- Notes
- ## 1. Pag-aayos ng Template ng Onboarding Project Ang template ng proyekto para sa onboarding ay naglalaman ng mga gawain para sa lahat ng departamento, na nangangailangan ng manu-manong pagtanggal ng mga hindi angkop na item para sa isang partikular na bagong empleyado. Upang maiwasan ang kalituhan, ang job title ng bagong empleyado, tulad ng "IT Project Manager L2", ay idadagdag sa pangalan ng proyekto. Kasalukuyang kinukumpirma kung si Julia ang magiging project manager para sa onboarding project ni Paula. Napag-usapan din ang pangangailangan na i-revisit ang kasalukuyang proseso para sa HIPAA training at procurement. ### Mga Plano sa Gawain - [ ] Ilagay ang job title na "IT Project Manager L2" sa pangalan ng proyekto para sa onboarding ni Paula. -- _[Speaker 2]_ - [ ] Kumpirmahin kay Pete kung si Julia ang magiging project manager para sa onboarding project. -- _April_ - [ ] Mag-set up ng hiwalay na ticket para sa HIPAA training at procurement para sa mas malinaw na pag-monitor. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Ilagay si Julia bilang pansamantalang project manager. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Mag-set up ng isang meeting para kay Paula at April sa kanyang unang araw, sa Lunes ng hapon, para sa one-on-one. -- _[Walang nakatalaga]_ ## 2. Pag-update at Paglilinis ng mga Task sa Training sa Onboarding Ang pangunahing ticket ng training modules ay magulo at nangangailangan ng pag-revisit. Ang mga training task, tulad ng HIPAA at anti-harassment, ay kasalukuyang pinagsama-sama sa isang ticket, na nagdudulot ng kalituhan kung natatapos ba ang mga ito. Ang solusyon ay ilipat ang bawat training task mula sa pangkalahatang "Training Modules" ticket patungo sa mga hiwalay na ticket ng mga itinalagang trainer o departamento (hal. Emil, Becker). Kabilang dito ang pag-update ng mga itinalagang tao (hal. si Christian para sa HIPAA at anti-harassment training) at pagtanggal ng mga hindi na kailangan o hindi angkop na task tulad ng Zenefits para sa mga empleyado sa Pilipinas. ### Mga Plano sa Gawain - [ ] I-update ang trainer para sa task na "HIPA" (task #13) at gawing si Christian. -- _Mi_ - [ ] I-update ang trainer para sa task na "anti-harassment" (task #14) at gawing si Christian. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Tanggalin ang mga hindi angkop na training task mula sa template. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Palitan ang itinalaga para sa "ConnectWise RMM" at gawing si Julia. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Italaga si SEG sa "ITG/HUDO" training task. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Tanggalin ang "Bright gauge" training. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Italaga si SEG sa "Change process management" training. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Italaga si SAG sa "B1 Channels" training para sa awareness. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Tanggalin ang "One time secret" training task. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Tanggalin ang "Time Zest" training task. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Italaga si SEG sa "See, ID team is file" training. -- _Mi_ - [ ] I-add ang "Lion Guard Training" bilang isang task sa hiwalay na ticket ni Emil. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Palitan ang "Create a Humic account" task at gawing "Create a La Costa account" sa ticket ni Becker. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Mag-add ng bagong task na "La Costa Usage training" sa ticket ni Becker. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Ilipat ang lahat ng natitirang training task mula sa pangunahing training module ticket patungo sa mga kaukulang hiwalay na ticket ng mga tao (hal. Ronel, Department Manager). -- _Mi_ - [ ] Isara ang ticket ni Christy Brown dahil hindi na kailangan ang task na Zenefits. -- _Mi_ - [ ] Kumpirmahin kay Olivia kung sino ang responsable sa pag-create ng account para sa mga bagong empleyado. -- _April_ > **Mga Mungkahi ng AI** > Napansin ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyu na hindi nalutas sa pulong o kulang sa malinaw na mga plano ng pagkilos; mangyaring bigyang-pansin: > 1. **Walang Katiyakan sa Project Manager para sa Onboarding:** Habang si Julia ay pansamantalang itinalaga, mayroon pa ring kawalan ng kumpirmasyon mula kay Pete kung sino ang opisyal na magiging project manager para sa mga onboarding project. Ito ay kritikal para sa pananagutan. > 2. **Proseso ng Pag-create ng Account na Hindi Malinaw:** Isang kritikal na gawain para sa mga bagong empleyado, ang pag-create ng account, ay walang malinaw na may-ari. Kinakailangan itong kumpirmahin kay Olivia, na maaaring magdulot ng pagkaantala kung hindi matutugunan kaagad. > 3. **Hindi Kumpletong Paglipat ng mga Training Task:** Nagbigay ng pangkalahatang tagubilin na ilipat ang lahat ng training task sa mga hiwalay na ticket, ngunit walang partikular na deadline o proseso ng pag-verify upang matiyak na ang lahat ng task (gaya ng para kay Ronel, atbp.) ay nailipat nang tama. Maaaring may mga task na makaligtaan.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello, Mi. Pagka-tuturuan dyan sa onboarding, Wait, share screen ka nga. Speaker 1 00:00:08 Dinilit ko na pa man din. Hindi ganito yan. Yung mga faces. Oo, pag nag-apply ka kasi ng template, Mag-a-apply talaga lahat ng department. So, Ang ano dyan, Ang next step dyan is I-delete ko yung mga hindi applicable. Okay yan, dinilit ko na. Perfect. Speaker 2 00:00:25 Oo, oo, oo. Nung una, Mali ba ako? Sabi ko, so dinelete ko ulit Yung ginawa kong project. Hindi, hindi, hindi. Speaker 1 00:00:33 Tapos pala, ang naisip ko, Dun sa project title, Lagay na din natin yung, Job title. Kasi minsan confusing Pag na-assign sa kanila, Pola calcite lang nakalagay. So, anong, ano niya? Ah, okay. Hindi, hindi. Punta ka sa project name sa taas. Dyan. And then, lagay ka ng dash. Speaker 1 00:00:54 Tapos, lagay mo IT Project Manager L2. Speaker 2 00:00:59 Sabi ko nga eh, Saan ko ilalagay yung sinabi mo? Kaya nilagay ko na lang dito sa Notes date mo. Speaker 1 00:01:06 Hindi, dyan mo na lang din ilagay. I-all caps mo na lang din. Ay, okay. IT Project Manager L2. Speaker 2 00:01:16 So, sinong magtitoyin sa kanya? Si Julia? Speaker 1 00:01:21 Yan ang kailangan ko palang, I-, At tawag dito? For now, si... Hindi naman si Pete pwede. Speaker 1 00:01:32 Sige na nga, si Julia na lang muna, Ang ilagay mo. And then, kukonfirm ko na lang Kay Pete kung si Julia ba ang maging, Project manager ng onboarding. Speaker 2 00:01:40 Project. I-confirm mo muna. Ayaw niya, Nang ina-assign ko siya eh. Ay, talaga ba? Eh eh. Tapos, naglagay ako ng, Task ni Christian. Para din. Speaker 1 00:01:50 Sa mga notification. Speaker 2 00:01:53 At saka procurement. Speaker 1 00:01:55 Ayan pala, kailangang i-revisit din. Sige, i-separate, tiket mo na lang Yung HIPAA training and procurement. Wait lang. Hi, Pete, is Julia Going to be The project manager For Paula's, Onboarding project? Speaker 1 00:02:24 Ayan, sige. Ikaw muna ilagay mo dyan. And then, Click mo yung training modules, Professional services, yung pinakaunang Ticket. Ayan. Kasi, alam mo, medyo madumi yan eh. Kailangan din i-revisit sana yan. Kasi si Char lang unang gumawaan yan. Makikita mo sa task list dyan. Wait, nasan ba yun? Ah, yung sinisen mo. Yes, ayan o. Dyan sa ticket alone na yan, ang dati kong, Ginagawa, ina-assign ko lahat yan Ng mga tao dyan. Ito na mo, trainer. Speaker 1 00:02:57 Tapos, nandyan din yung HIPA, which is CEG pa nakalagay. Hindi ko pa na-update yan. HIPA And anti-harassment. Ngayon, May times na hindi ko alam kung Iniisip ko kung, I-revisit, Natin yan. Remind me to revisit Yan. And naisip kong mag-create na lang, Ng separate ticket for each Para ma-specify yung Training. Kasi pag ganyang, in general, Tapos nakapaloob. Hindi ko alam kung nagagawa ba nung iba Or nami-miss nila or ano, ganyan. Speaker 1 00:03:28 Pero naisip ko, Yun nga lang, dadami yung Tickets. So, nag-iisip ako ng work, Around kung Paano bang, Pwede namang, wait. Speaker 1 00:03:40 Diyan nga sa ano na yan, Yung number 14 and 16, Ay 13 and 14, i-update mo nga yan. Hindi, click mo lang yung 13. Lalabas dyan yung Number 13. Tapos, palitan mo yung trainer as Christian. Speaker 1 00:03:60 Christian, yan. Tapos, save mo na lang. Ayun, sa baba. And then, yung isa din. Yung anti-harassment. Speaker 1 00:04:08 Ah, ganito ko na mag-edit dito. Para hindi ka napupunta, Dun sa pinaka-template. Ayan, save. Tapos, ang ginagawa ko dyan, I-delete mo na yung... Ito. Yan, si Edward. Delete mo na yan. Delete. Ay, check pala to. Ayan, delete. Ayan. Yes. Ano pa ba? Speaker 1 00:04:33 Ah, i-delete na lang natin yung mga, Ano. O, i-delete mo rin yan. Yung mga hindi applicable sa kanya Na training. Delete mo na. Ayan. Tapos, CIT files. Sa mga ganyan sila, Julia, yan eh. Speaker 1 00:04:49 Wait. Punta ka. Sa pinaka-top. Speaker 1 00:04:55 ConnectWise RMM. Speaker 1 00:05:00 Julia din yan eh. Sige na nga, palitan mo Julia. Julia muna for now. Pag ano, balikan muna lang. Speaker 1 00:05:09 Even ConnectWise University. Ayun naman, Department Manager. Yun na pala yan. ConnectWise University. Okay na yan. ITG. Let's say, sabihin natin baka si SEG ang pwede dyan. Dito? ITG slash HUDO mo na lang. Speaker 1 00:05:26 Tapos si SEG. HUDO. Yes. Tapos lagay mo si SEG. Speaker 1 00:05:36 Save. Bright gauge, I don't think kailangan niya yan. I-delete mo na. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Change process management. SEG na lang yan. Lagay mo si SEG. Speaker 1 00:05:51 SAG. Speaker 1 00:05:53 Ayan. Save. B1 Channels. Nagaganyan ba ang... Speaker 2 00:05:59 Nagaganyan ba sila? Speaker 1 00:06:00 Sige, Lagay mo na lang din. For awareness na lang din. Lagay mo sa SAG. Sa SAG lang yan. Ay, Sa SAG din to. Speaker 2 00:06:09 Parang dapat ang trainer niya dito. Speaker 1 00:06:10 Sa SAG. Diba? Puro siya. Meeting, Etiquette, Kasi iwan mo na natin. One time secret, Delete mo na lang muna yan. Yan kasi yung sa password. Speaker 1 00:06:22 Stress level, department manager, Din yan. Baba ka pa nga. Lion Guard, Kailangan kaya yan. Pero, Iwan mo muna, just in case. Time Zest, Wala naman yan. Hindi tayo dyan. Delete mo na din yan. Speaker 1 00:06:39 Dato, Not sure, pero iwan mo kasi may, Infrastructure, kineso siya. See, ID team is file, sure. Seg mo na rin yan. Speaker 1 00:06:51 Ala, mouse ko. Speaker 2 00:06:53 Uy, naga, ayaw na niya. Ayaw. Speaker 1 00:06:57 Ala, weekend na ata siya. Ayan, ayan. Bumigay na. Oo. Seg. Speaker 1 00:07:05 Ayan, tapos, Kumik Portal. Dibid mo na nga si Becker dyan kasi may separate ticket siya eh. Dibid mo nga. Ah, okay. Speaker 2 00:07:16 Tapos doon na siya, diba? Speaker 1 00:07:17 Oo. Tapos 3. Si Sean, mayroon din separate ticket yan. Delete mo na rin. Delete ko? Oo, Sean, last pass 3. Mati si Emil. Emil. May separate ticket ba si Emil? May nakita ko dito. Speaker 2 00:07:36 Ay, tignan mo nga. Speaker 1 00:07:40 Emil. Ito. Ah. Ganda na lang eh. Lahat ng makikita Mong trainings, dun sa loob Ng training na yan, isama mo, Na sa mga taon na yan. I-add mo siya at task. For example, Punta ka kay Emil. Madali lang i-add Yun eh. Punta ka kay Emil. Punta ka ng task list. Speaker 1 00:08:01 Ito. Sa baba. Yan. Add ka lang sa plus sign. Speaker 1 00:08:07 Ito. Ayun. Set corner. Yan. Set up. Access the, Lion Guard. Lagay mo lang Lion Guard Training, Sa task. Ayan, enter notes. Ayan, enter notes Sa baba. Ito, ito. Yes, lagay mo lang, Lion Guard Training. Speaker 1 00:08:27 Ay, walang U siya. Walang U. Ay. Ah, A. Ayan, Lion Guard Training. Ayan, then save. Ayan, para lahat na, Ng mga Tasks na nandun, Sa training na yun, Ilalagay mo na dyan Lahat sa separate ticket nila. Tapos, punta ka na Kay Becker nga. Becker. Speaker 1 00:08:47 Bina ka baba. Ayan. Speaker 1 00:08:53 Baba ka nga. Ayun. Create a comic account. Speaker 1 00:08:60 Laglagad. Albe. Task list ka nga ulit. Pag-a-add ka. Oo. Add. Ay, add ka. Yes. Speaker 1 00:09:09 Um. Lakosta na ngayon. Ilagay mo nga. Lakosta Usage. Ano man tawag? Magandang tawag. Wait lang. Lakosta, Usage training. Paano gamitin? Speaker 3 00:09:25 Sige, ilagay mo na ng lakosta. Speaker 1 00:09:40 Usage training na lang. Speaker 1 00:09:44 Ayan. Speaker 1 00:09:47 Save. And then, palitan mo yung, Create a Humic account. Lagay mo, Create a La Costa account. Speaker 1 00:09:53 La Costa. Speaker 2 00:09:56 La Costa account. Speaker 1 00:09:60 Yes. Ayan. And then, save. Tapos, punta ka ulit doon Sa main ticket. Ano ba ba? Fix muna natin bago ka mag-assign. Tingnan mo ulit yung mga training modules sa loob. Speaker 1 00:10:16 Eto. Speaker 1 00:10:21 Saan? Tingnan natin yung mga task list. Baba ka. Speaker 1 00:10:33 Oo. Speaker 1 00:10:36 Tingnan mo, meron din kay Ronel. Ayun, Mi, ganto na lang, lahat ng mga nandiyan na makikita mo, i-move mo na lang sa mga separate tickets nila. Tapos punta ka nga sa main ticket, makikita mo dyan, diba, nakalagay, meron dyan, sige pa, dun sa listang kanina. Diba, meron din dyan, ayun o, department manager ticket task list. Tapos dun sa training module na ticket na yan, makikita mo may mga department manager din, diba? Ganon, ilipat mo na lang. Speaker 1 00:11:08 Sa mga separate tickets. And then, punta ka nga, Kay Christy. Wala na siyang Gagawin dapat, Jenny. Christy Brown, ayun. Christy Brown Task list sa taas. Click ka. Patingnan mo yung, Task list niya. Baba. Speaker 1 00:11:28 Zenefits. Wala naman tayong Zenefits kasi PH naman. Close mo na lang, Yung ticket na yan. Okay. Lagay ko ngayon sa radar ko. I-fix natin yung ano. I-close mo lang yan. Yan. Speaker 1 00:11:43 Tapos, Speaker 1 00:11:46 Ano pa ba? In case, Tingnan natin. Speaker 1 00:11:53 Creation of ano siya eh. Speaker 1 00:11:58 TG setups. Ay, wala na nga pala siyang Access. Saan? Sa pag-create ng, Account. Oh, Sino na? Ay, wait na lang. Yes, but please set up a meeting for Paula And me on her first day. Maybe that Monday, Afternoon for a one-on-one. Also, can you set up a call for 20 minutes, For the following? Okay. Speaker 1 00:12:30 Wait lang, kailangan ko pala mag-setup sa kanya. Speaker 1 00:12:36 Ano nga, saan na nga tayo? Speaker 1 00:12:40 Ayun, kukonfirm ko, Kay Olivia. Okay. Sige nga nga yung accounts creation. Olivia, Account creation. Sino na ba? Speaker 3 00:13:01 May balikan. Speaker 1 00:13:09 Kita dyan. Gawin mo muna, Imove mo muna Lahat ng Trainings, Sa each separate Ticket. Tapos si Olivia. Also, Speaker 1 00:13:29 Do you know who can I assign the account creation of new employees? Speaker 1 00:13:45 Ayan, May. Sige. Balikan kita, ha? Yes, May. May tapusin lang ako. Okay ka na dyan? Yes, E. Okay, okay. Thank you. Okay, bye. Speaker 2 00:13:54 Bye.
06-15 Training: Microsoft Teams/SharePoint Migration and File Management
- Notes
- Date Time: 2026-06-15 09:57:54 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: Christi (Chris) Brown ## Summary The session centers on training facilitators and end users on transitioning legacy network drives (H, L, I, etc.) into Microsoft Teams/SharePoint with access via OneDrive and File Explorer, alongside practical guidance for file management, sharing, recovery, and AI tooling. Pre-meeting chatter notes Christi’s technical issues logging in and adjusting her screen from a non-standard setup after returning from an unplugged vacation; participants coordinate attendance and confirm the meeting link distribution. Christi, CIO of Crimson IT, conducts screen-shared demonstrations using Crimson and Wayfinder accounts, emphasizing that old drives have moved into Teams under a structure of Departments, Programs, and Legacy. She explains access restrictions during the migration “seed” copy, cautions against folder changes during migration, and outlines post-seed access where users only see authorized channels/shares. The training contrasts Sync versus Add shortcut to OneDrive, shows recovery via SharePoint Recycle Bin, and covers OneDrive storage behaviors, status icons, version history, link-based sharing and permissions, and Intune-based auto-sync policies. She plans to distribute a custom facilitator’s guide tailored for Wayfinder, offers AI overview support (Copilot, Claude, OpenAI), and shares positive community feedback relevant to the client’s wraparound services. Project timelines include completing the seed and decommissioning the file server to read-only by June 30, 2026. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Training context and logistics - Christi (Chris) Brown, CIO at Crimson IT, rewrote her facilitator’s guide specifically for Wayfinder and will have Julie/Julia send it. - Meeting is recorded; pacing can be adjusted and recordings will be distributed. - Demonstrations use both Crimson and Wayfinder environments; some features may be gated until migration access is granted. - Christi had recent technical constraints due to VPN and returning from vacation; she experienced login issues and accidentally deleted part of her script by bumping a Ubiquiti key. ### 2. Current environment status and access - Legacy shares are migrating into Teams/SharePoint under Departments, Programs, and Legacy; Legacy holds straight copies from the file server. - Access is restricted during the seeding phase to prevent interference with the copy and final sync before cutover. - After seeding, access is granted based on authorization; users will only see relevant shares/channels (e.g., H share), while root directories (C, E/W) remain hidden. - Change requests during migration must be coordinated with the migration team; goal is to preserve data and decommission the file server. ### 3. Teams/SharePoint file access structure - In Teams, files appear under Departments, Programs, and Legacy; users can navigate into departmental shares (e.g., H > Accounting) and open documents. - The top-bar terminology has shifted from “Files” to “Share”; “Open in SharePoint” launches the web view, requiring a valid login. ### 4. File recovery via SharePoint Recycle Bin - Deletions from Teams/SharePoint libraries flow to the SharePoint Recycle Bin; restore is performed from the site’s Recycle Bin. - Two-stage recycle bin retention supports recovery beyond initial 30 days and has proven crucial in incident scenarios (e.g., ransomware recovery). ### 5. Sync vs. Add shortcut to OneDrive - Sync: - Creates a top-level entry under the organization node in File Explorer, closely replicating mapped drives. - Device-specific; preferred for standardization and single-computer users. - Can be automated via Intune or Group Policy; synced entries auto-clean as permissions change during decommissioning. - Add shortcut to OneDrive: - Adds a shortcut within a user’s OneDrive, appearing across all signed-in devices (desktop, laptop, mobile). - Useful for multi-device users; may lead to “access denied” after permission changes post-migration. - Practical notes: - Errors can occur if trying to sync when a shortcut already exists. - Folder customizations sync to File Explorer; users can pin frequently used folders (e.g., SOPs) to Quick Access. ### 6. OneDrive file and storage management - Files On-Demand conserves local space; files download on access and may revert to cloud-only when unused. - Status icons: - Blue/white cloud: online-only. - Green check: locally available. - Solid green circle with check: always keep on device. - Arrow: shortcut. - Settings: - Limit download rate on metered connections. - Manage storage to review large files. - Manage backup for Desktop/Documents across devices. - Pause syncing (e.g., battery saver). - Choose folders to show in File Explorer; stop sync removes folders from view. - “Always keep on this device” downloads contents; use judiciously due to resource impact. ### 7. File sharing, collaboration, and permissions - Share via links rather than attachments to enable versioning and co-authoring; use “Share” > “Copy link” or email a link. - Link permissions and expiration: - “Anyone” externally sets a 30-day expiration by default. - Internal org links have no expiration. - Version history: - Access via File > Info > Version History; view and restore prior versions and authorship changes. - Collaborative features: - Real-time co-authoring, visible participant names, comments, and @mentions. - Deletions from synced folders propagate to the cloud; recovery is via SharePoint Recycle Bin. ### 8. Automated folder syncing via Intune - Intune can auto-mount/sync specific libraries for all users to ensure a consistent structure without manual setup; Group Policy is an alternative. - Prerequisites: Intune-joined/enrolled devices, OneDrive Files On-Demand enabled, Windows 10 1709+ or Windows 11. - Configuration via Intune Settings catalog; target a library using its Library ID (obtain from SharePoint web view, leveraging site IDs/CTIDs in the URL). PowerShell can also be used. - Policies can be modified or disabled during the transition to permanent department teams; synced folders disappear automatically as permissions are removed. ### 9. User readiness, tooling, and mobile - Staff have baseline Teams familiarity; organization has rolled out apps like Nectar and limited Copilot use (~20 users). - Some participants have basic Copilot in Teams chat; standalone Copilot licenses are not universal. - Mobile OneDrive adoption varies; leadership may use mobile OneDrive, but staff usage/training is limited. Shortcuts help multi-device access; Sync standardizes desktop behavior. ### 10. Client relationship and community feedback - Christi, a foster parent, shared positive feedback from wrap teams about the client’s services (e.g., Vista Del Mar), noting praise for wraparound services in recent meetings. ### 11. Project timeline and next steps - Data migration began around June 12, 2026, with a target of June 30, 2026, for the old file server to become read-only. - Phase 2 requires Robert to provide finalized programs and departments. - Christi will distribute the customized Wayfinder facilitator’s guide, including guidance on Sync vs. Add shortcut, Intune auto-sync setup, recovery steps via SharePoint Recycle Bin, and handling permission issues when sharing via drag-and-drop. - Ongoing actions: - Complete seed migration and confirm data integrity. - Restrict access during seeding; communicate timelines. - Coordinate folder/structure changes before final sync. - Grant access post-seed based on authorization. - Train users on Sync vs. Add shortcut; recommend Sync for standardization, shortcuts for advanced multi-device users. - Encourage pinning frequent folders to Quick Access. - Assess interest in AI tools and optionally schedule an AI overview. - Consider guidance on OneDrive mobile usage for cross-device access.
- Date
- Jun 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:16 Julia, do you need me for this one? I don't think so. Okay. Bye. Thank you. Thank you, Mel. Sorry, Speaker 2 00:00:32 Christi. Huh? I am sorry it was crazy. It's okay if. Speaker 3 00:00:39 It was normal training, I could do that all day long in my sleep because I mean, I've got that templated out. This one just added more to the mix than I expected, but it's all good. Let's see, copy the code. My only thing is just getting logged in. Oops. Speaker 1 00:01:07 All right, let's try this again. Speaker 3 00:01:21 Alright, that worked. Wait, no it didn't. Good Lord Almighty. Sign in? I've tried signing into this three times. Speaker 1 00:01:45 Alright, let's see if this works. Speaker 1 00:01:54 Right. Good. Charl. Monti. Speaker 3 00:02:03 Good morning. Speaker 1 00:02:05 Welcome back, Christi. Speaker 3 00:02:08 Thanks Can you believe I didn't touch a computer this a single time, the entire time I was out? Speaker 1 00:02:16 Oh, wow! I find that very hard to believe. Speaker 3 00:02:21 I know, But the only time that I even touched anything related to clients, while I was out was on Saturday when we needed to to find the master key to ADT system for people to hi Robert jump into a building. Speaker 4 00:02:37 Hi, hi. Um, Speaker 2 00:02:39 I wanted to make sure you forwarded it to all of your team. Uh, so I sent a link there. Speaker 4 00:02:45 Yeah, no we we did get that. Speaker 2 00:02:47 Okay, perfect. Everyone knew, Good morning. Speaker 3 00:02:52 Good morning. Good morning. I bear with me one second, team, I am going to change my video settings because I am not in my normal routine this morning, So my screen's gonna be a little hard to see if I don't zoom it in. Does that make sense? So I'm gonna put you guys on an alternate screen. Speaker 1 00:03:20 So people can see lots of complaints when people can't see. Speaker 1 00:03:50 All right, so why are you not being nice to me? Robert, Speaker 2 00:04:02 Let us know how many people we should expect. Speaker 4 00:04:07 We should expect at least three more. So I already sent another message. Speaker 5 00:04:15 Sounds good, thank you. Eric is still in new hire training, so. They'll be coming on later. Speaker 4 00:04:20 Okay. Do we know about our? Okay, there we go. Speaker 3 00:04:32 Oh, That's SCHARP. Sorry. I uh I don't know if you guys use Ubiquiti keys atum Wayfinder because I'm not as familiar with with you guys as Charl and. Julia is, but I have my script ready to train from. And right as I was pulling and making everything good on my screen, I hit my UBI key, which totally removed one of the paragraphs. Speaker 4 00:05:04 Oh no! Speaker 3 00:05:06 It's fixable, so I have it up thankfully. Speaker 3 00:05:19 Julie, is there anybody else from Crimson's side? Speaker 2 00:05:25 Nope, that's it. Speaker 3 00:05:30 Team, What I am going to do for you guys is I did create a uh I had to change up my training. So I have a pretty cutter cutter training. Uh, if you will. Charles heard me give this training a million times on Teamsum in his course of how long have we worked together five years now. Something like that. Poor guy. U guys feel sorry for him, Send him all the well wishes because he's had to deal with me for a long time. But I'm going to send you guys over my facilitator's guide. I did rewrite it just for Wayfinder this morning, Pulled it from my normal Teams training, and then just outlined it for what you guys need. So just be prepared for that. I'll get that sent over or I'll have Julia send it over today. Speaker 3 00:06:17 Um, and then also bear with me. I've been on vacation for a week, and I don't know Robert if you heard when you jumped on. I didn't touch a computer at all for the entire week I was out, and I had my phone set to personal. So, the only way you could get a hold of me was was uh, sending me a text message. Um so I successfully unplugged for an entire week which never happens. Wow, Speaker 4 00:06:39 That's amazing. I congratulate you on that. It's really good. Speaker 3 00:06:43 My my daughter graduated from high school. So we've had meetings upon meetings. Also, U has actually came up a couple of times in my conversations this week because I am a foster parent and I work with wrap teams and stuff like that. So I was like, Oh, I actually have a client, and we were talking about different companies that offer wraparound. So someone brought up y'all's name and then. Speaker 3 00:07:15 Someone brought up, uh, Cause we use uh Vista Del Mar because uh the kids that come through to me come through that system. So yeah. So you guys came up very good conversation. Every foster parent that was in that meeting that I was in, uh raved about you guys and your wraparound services. So just a heads up on that. Speaker 4 00:07:36 Thank you They. Speaker 3 00:07:37 Did not know that you guys are a client of mine. I just said one of my clients, So they couldn't put two and two together, but there was a lot of really good rave reviews. Um, because I only foster teens, uh and right now I'm only fostering 18 and up. Some but yeah so just a heads up on that. Speaker 4 00:07:57 Very good, very good. It's it's good to hear about that I'll share the news. Speaker 3 00:08:03 Good Yeah All. Right? Some if you guys are good, is everybody here? Speaker 4 00:08:11 Okay, yes. Let's get started. Speaker 3 00:08:14 Perfect. All right, so I'm going to talk to you guys from the facilitator point of view, but also we're going to go through and actually do hands on within Teams. Now the access that I'm going to show all of you, you don't have access to this yet. So I'm going to show it to you from our systems and then I'm going to go back and forth between the Wayfinder account that has all the access and then the Crimson account just so that you guys are aware. And then we can work through it from there. Please feel free to stop me, ask me questions, throw questions in the chat. I will answer as I can. But again, This meeting is recorded. So if I'm going too fast for you at times, just tell me to slow down or just know that we're going to be sending out a copy of the recording so that you have it. Do you guys have Copilot set up for any of you? Speaker 4 00:09:09 Some of us here do, not all of us, but some some do. Speaker 5 00:09:12 Yeah with our with our Microsoft licenses we do have basic Co-pilot. So for example Co-pilot in Microsoft Teams chat. Uh, but as far as the standalone license, depending on how deep the integration is not yet. Speaker 3 00:09:24 Gotcha okay. So I have facilitator on because I do have a copilot license myself. Um so I have facilitator on I'll send you guys over that recap, And if you guys are ever interested in AI, most of my job lately has been AI for clients. And I can talk to you through Co-pilot, Claude, OpenAI, all of that. So, that's just a little selfish plug on my end because I like to stay busy. Real quickly, The one big idea that you guys will need to impart upon your end. Users is your old drives didn't disappear. They just moved into Teams. Speaker 3 00:09:60 Every legacy channel that you guys had, H drive, L drive, I drive and so on is in the new place. And sync is what's going to make that show up in File Explorer. So I'm going to show you guys how that looks and what that looks like. But I'm going to show you on the Crimson account because for me to show you under the Wayfinder account that I'm going to actually show a lot of this stuff on requires me to have a machine dedicated to Wayfinder and I was on vacation last week. So just a quick heads up on this. So, we are going to need to do uh kind of work through how you guys want to do that. Uh I know you guys are going to sit down with each of the users, uh or departments. Um I I've got a heads up on how you guys want to do it. So I want to just be let you guys be aware of it. Um how fluent are you guys in teams overall, Speaker 4 00:10:52 If we're referring, if we're referring to our staff pretty pretty familiar. Um they've been using teams for quite a while. Not as effective as it could be, but they're definitely familiar. And we've rolled out a few apps on Teams for other programs like Nectar, And some people are using Co-pilot out in the agency about what 20 of them or so. But the word's getting around about some other features around Teams, but I would say at the base level very comfortable. Speaker 3 00:11:20 Okay perfect, then I then I'm not going to do my standard spiel of here's how to use Teams. Um, I'm just going to go from what you guys need, which is where the channels are, how to find them, and then how to do the sync. The differences between sync and shortcut because I do both. And then a few things for you guys to do there. So it's going to be pretty cut and dry. Very first thing, Let me share my screen that way. You guys can see what I'm seeing okay now. Speaker 3 00:11:55 Some of you guys I remember meeting before, um, when we first started this because I sat in on the meetings. How many of you guys were in that original meeting? Speaker 5 00:12:07 Would have been. I think. Speaker 3 00:12:09 No, I know Cheryl was. So sorry Robert? Speaker 4 00:12:14 I wasn't, I wasn't in that meeting. Speaker 3 00:12:16 Okay good. All right? So for those of you guys who've never met me while i'm waiting on my system to tell me, it's fully uh sharing. My name is Chris Brown. You guys can call me Chris or Christy, it doesn't matter. I'm the CIO for Crimson IT. I am Cheryl's security blanket when it comes to doing training just because I like to do training and Cheryl does not like to do training, So he will pass that baton off to me and let me do it for you guys as well. So, it is a pleasure meeting all of you guys, and let's go ahead and get started because it looks like it's finally sharing. Speaker 3 00:12:50 And bear with me. I'm at a client site today and I'm on VPN, so it's a little slower than what it normally is when I'm in office. So everything that you guys are going to have access to is going to be under Departments, Programs, Legacy. So you've got all of the systems in here. I am under the Teams channel. If your Teams is up-to-date, you may see them under the chat channel. But under the Teams channel, you're going to see everything in here. So you got your departments, you got your programs. If you scroll keep scrolling and you have your legacy. So under legacy is where all your old draw files are at. So I'm going to click on H just so that you guys can see it. Here's your um here's the document. If you go up here and click on shared used to be. It was called files, but if you click on share. Speaker 3 00:13:46 It's going to load up here. So you've got all your departmental shares here, and if you scroll through all of this, this is what you can see. So the team is already working on making sure everything is syncing over from the server right now. Um, Cherylotte, Do they have access to this right now? Or can they not see this yet? Speaker 6 00:14:09 Um, so Christi, no they will not be able to see that yet. Um and, For the basic reason we are still migrating. So, we do not want any interference in that because that could possibly a folder name change or something could have a devastating impact on the current copy process. As soon as the original seed is completed, then we will give access. Speaker 6 00:14:41 And then obviously, during this time, we also ask that if you guys want to make a change to let us know what that change is because it will have an impact when we do our final sync just before cutover. Speaker 4 00:14:57 Is this structure we're seeing, I mean, let's it's not final right? Like C and E, I'm not sure what that is. I'm not sure what the U and W are, because I don't think those are. Our files that we wanted to see, but again, for the purpose of training, we can always touch back on that content. Speaker 6 00:15:18 Yes. So Robert, I mean what you're seeing right? And my intention is to hide it once it's complete. I know that you guys are decommissioning your file server. And for that purpose, I wanted to make sure that we have every single directory in legacy. That we can access, you know, should we need to. So the guys will only see the, you know, the channels that they need access to. So if a person has access to the H share, the H share will appear on their Teams. If they don't, they will not be seeing it. So in general things like C drive, the root of E, um the root of W. Speaker 6 00:16:04 U m and such, you know, those things will not be visible to to everyone. Uh but at least we've got your data in there. So you know, when you guys decommission, we're not sitting with loss of data anywhere. Speaker 3 00:16:19 Thank you. Just be awareum what you guys are seeing is the global admin. So we have access to everything that we're doing. And some of these, because they're straight copies from the file share, the system is going to pool over things. So Cheryl needed to make it look like for like, and that's why you're seeing a lot more mine. You are not going to see all of these when he grants you that access. Okay, great. All right. So the folders in here, there's a straight structure that you guys should see in the H drive. So all the folders that were in the H drive has been copied over here. Speaker 3 00:16:54 And the team is continuing to copy. So this is still an in progress thing. So if you see something missing, Let us know from just from my screen, and it could just be that it's still in the copy progress and hasn't fully been moved over yet. So bear with us as we continue to do this. There was a lot of files, so I know the team has been working really hard to get this done as quickly as possible. Now you've got a couple of options in here. I want to draw your attention to a few things, I'm going to go into accounting share just because I'm picking one. And. So everything in here under accounting share is going to be in there, just like it was on the H drive. So you have all your files and everything here. Now, there's a couple key things I want you guys to note. If I click on the three little dots here, I've got some options in here, add shortcut, sync. You've got a download export. Speaker 3 00:17:49 You've got some workflows you can do, especially for those of you guys who have Co-pilot licenses. This is actually pretty handy. And then open in SharePoint. So if I open in SharePoint, it's going to fail on me because I am not logged in, But it will open everything into another folder or into another window in Chrome or Edge, whichever is your default. Now that being said, you should see everything here set up properly. I am going to switch over to the Crimson account just so that I can work from there, and you guys can see how I treat it on my computer. We have lots of files out here, so bear with me. Let me go up because ours, we don't have the teams over here on the side. Like you guys do. So I'm going to go into trying to think of one that I haven't synced over. Scroll down, all right. Speaker 3 00:18:46 So I'm going to go into operations leadership. You guys don't worry about that because I'm just going to show you what it looks like from there. Any documents that we have in under shared will be listed here. And so, oops, here is my, here is the folder that we have in here. Now in here I've got that same options in here. I've got add shortcut to OneDrive, open and SharePoint. So I'm going to click on the open and SharePoint, And then you're going to see that it comes out into a web form. Now, most of your users don't need to know this. The reason why I'm showing this all of you is because if something was to happen, let's say, and this is where I get to use, I don't know any of you guys, but I get to use you guys as my guinea pigs. Let's say Adrian, because he's been very vested in what I'm saying is in here. He's working on some stuff. You know, maybe he's going in here and he sees this file, and he wants to just delete it. Speaker 3 00:19:44 He's not thinking. He's like, I don't need this file anymore. I'm going to just delete it. Okay, When he deletes it for you guys to recover, these files is actually going to be pretty easy. You can go in here in SharePoint, you can go to Recycle Bin and you can restore it from there. It's very easy. You just click on it, say Restore Now because you guys um Have elevated access, You can even go in a little bit deeper and restore things out of there. So anytime that anyone deletes anything, any files or anything from here, It's always going to be in that SharePoint recycle bin, and you can restore it from there. And you can even go one deeper in there and recover. So just be aware of that. I want to show you guys because when I show you the sync sometimes, and we've seen this happen, people will accidentally delete things not paying attention. Speaker 3 00:20:38 And that is probably one of our biggest calls within having files in Teams is, hey, so and so deleted this. And how do we get it back? Because, they don't know how to get it back because there is no recycle bin in here. Or it's kind of complicated to get to. So I want you guys to be aware of that that it's in there. Another thing to note is if you want to sync, let's pretend like my operations leadership is one of my H drive. And I want to sync it to my OneDrive. Well, first off, Let me show you my OneDrive because I do things multiple ways on my OneDrive. And bear with me because I got multiple One Drives in my system. That's why I didn't want to attach Wayfinder. It's one drive to me because Lord help me, I got too many One Drives and a Google Drive in here. So if I'm in here and I'm looking at my Crimsonon IT, I'm going to click on it. Speaker 3 00:21:36 You'll see all of my information in here. These are my synced shortcuts. These are my synced files. So I've got clients, SOPs, team roster, operations leadership, which I already had syncing. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this a little differently. I'm going to go into a different one. Let me go to projects. There is always a new project in here. Speaker 3 00:22:06 All right, so I'm going to go to this one. And let me go to shared. All right, So from here, I'm going to go into share and now I'm going to go here and I'm going to sync this. So if I click on sync it's going to say we're syncing your folders. You're going get an error, I got an error message because i got a OneDrive note that came up. "I'm already syncing a shortcut from this shared library." This is what happens when you do all the training. So I apologize. Let's do admin. All right, so let's go to shared. They have a lot of files. They work hard, my admin team does. So now I'm going to try the sync there. My OneDrive window did pop up, but it didn't stay because I didn't have any folders synced in there. So now if I go in here and I refresh my page, it should be in here. Speaker 3 00:23:06 Might take a minute or two. Bear with me. It does take a minute. I see that it's syncing. Speaker 5 00:23:28 So basically this is for people that like to, prefer to use File Explorer to access files? Exactly, yes. Okay. Speaker 3 00:23:35 Now, once it's done, once it syncs, um, it'll work just as well as what we did. Um, it will be in here. It'll be listed. But you guys can see there is the projects general that I had synced before. Um and then there is all my other ones that I've synced. So everything is going to be listed under my Crimsonon IT account. One of the things that I like to do is if I, if this is a folder that I use often, and we're going to use SOPS because it's here. I'm going to right, click on it, and I can pin it to Quick Access. And then that way, let me minimize this, my Quick Access is right here and it is here and it's pinned. So no matter how many times I close out a File Explorer, turn it put it back up, it's already pinned here. It's going to stay there. So any of my clients that I work with pretty heavily, it's going to be in there and then I can grab it. Speaker 3 00:24:32 So I'm going to treat it just like a map drive, except for my map drive is no longer at this PC. So this what you were used to in the past. It's no longer going to be there. It's just going to be under where you guys see on your OneDrive. Okay? Now, it is this still syncing. I still see that it's syncing. So it's not fully done yet, but you guys get a pretty good idea about also Crimson. Oh there. It's there. Under Crimsonon IT, you can sync here as well and it'll be listed. So you see right here, admin general is there. Um I have my all my file folders, Even the colors because you can change your colors and teams on your file folders. Even that syncs down. So any kind of flags, Anything that you're doing there is going to sync into your File Explorer. Okay, now. Speaker 3 00:25:27 I do both sync and add shortcut to OneDrive. So real quickly, I don't use the sync as much anymore as I do add shortcut. And the reason why is because I have multiple computers. Is there anyone in your organization that uses multiple computers? Speaker 5 00:25:48 I would say potentially, go ahead. Speaker 4 00:25:50 Yep. I think it's just a few, maybe some of senior leadership, you know, they'll have a desktop, Whether it be at home, at their home office or in the office, and then they have their laptop. But it usually won't span more than two. Speaker 3 00:26:03 Okay, so if they have more than one computer, They may want to do add shortcut to OneDrive because that carries over no matter what computer or device you're using. If they're only using one computer, The sync is a proper tool, and the sync creates a separate top level entry in File Explorer. It is under the org name, and this is the closest match to how Windows. And Microsoft operates to the old Map Drive model. Okay, and it will keep every share clean and distinct. Now, the shortcut, and bear with me, I do more shortcuts now. The shortcut is going to live here, no matter what computer I go to because I have a desktop at home and I have my laptop I carry around. It's going to be there on every computer. Now in addition to that, how many of you guys use OneDrive on your phone? Speaker 4 00:26:56 I do. I don't know that we're, I don't know that our staff does. Okay. I don't think we've, I don't think we really push something like that, that training out, have we? No, not really. Speaker 3 00:27:07 Okay. So let me let me show you on my on my phone Uh, Speaker 4 00:27:11 But we'll need to But. Speaker 3 00:27:12 We'll need to Yeah So. Add a shortcut will also put it. Hello one does. Uh add shortcut will also put it in here So. If you see where my finger is That's tapping my ring finger. That is the shortcuts I've added. That's going to be across all devices, and it works really well. So, The reason why I do add add shortcut is because I want to see it on all my devices. I also can see it on my iPad. But then again, i am a busy woman so, I am constantly on the go. Uh, I am constantly have my iPad out when I need it. If Charles reaches out to me as i'm driving into work, and he needs me to send a file. Speaker 3 00:27:54 And I can do it from my phone. Great. So just a quick heads up for that. But. Speaker 4 00:28:00 I wanted to save my questions to the end, just for sake of time, but I do have some thoughts around this because again, this is more of a train the trainer plan. We're going to kind of get some ideas and then maybe come back with those questions later. But Charles, if you could kind of jump in one of the things we were, Talking about was pre-populating the syncing of the structure to our staff. So that initial step would probably happen automatically for everyone. Correct me if I'm wrong, Charles, but these shortcuts I do like. I would like to see the difference. So I think Aino and the team knows how to sync, but we don't necessarily know how to create a shortcut. So once everything is synced, is it as simple as. Speaker 4 00:28:52 Right clicking it from there and then just creating a shortcut. If you can just kind of go through that, I don't, I can't see the differences. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:28:60 Yeah, not a problem. In, the document that I am going to send, you guys will have the differences in there. So let me go through that real quick for you guys. I was adding some notes based on what you were saying, And just to be clear, anything you ask me in here, I'm going to add that to the document when I send it out. So if you guys have questions and things like that. So the admin folder that I just did here is synced rather than add a shortcut. And so when it's synced and bare with me, I was on vacation. I'm just now getting my coffee for the day. So when it's synced like that, It is going to show up under for you guys who would say Wayfinder for Crimson, it's going to show up under Crimson. Speaker 3 00:29:45 And so this where it's going to show here. Oops. Be careful, don't drag and drop. So you will see it in here. This the sync. Now add shortcut, let me show you guys what that looks like. So in here, you've got two options on the three little dots that drop down, You can sync or add shortcut and add shortcuts right here, and then sync is right here. So add shortcut is the one that you can view on any computer, Any device because it's going to be added as a shortcut to your your main OneDrive folder. Sync is only on the computer that you're on, and that's going to put it under the organizational ID in File Explorer. Does that help? Speaker 6 00:30:36 So Robert, you muted. Speaker 4 00:30:39 If they were looking at their sync files like you had, and I'm trying to do it on mine, But I turned off all my syncing to not break anything when Charles did his. But could you do shortcut right from the sync files? Meaning that it might be so deep in their nested folders that they would want to create a short. I'm concerned about this only Charles for one reason. This is this first phase is temporary, and you know, temporary could be six months a year who knows, but. If, there's too many shortcuts from that sync, and then we're creating the department teams later, I think that's just going to create a lot of confusion. So I want to be careful how we present that. People are going to do it anyway. But you know, Charles, just keep that in mind. I know, you know, the bigger longer strategy and I am a little worried that um That all these shortcuts would be irrelevant once they start using. Speaker 4 00:31:37 Move to their own programs and departments. Speaker 3 00:31:41 So just a quick heads up. I know you keep asking Cheryl the questions, But I'm jumping in just because I do this plan this out for other companies as well. Just a heads up for you, you can auto mount this for all your users. So on the sync itself we've got we can build out a policy. Are you guys using Intune or Group Policy? Speaker 5 00:32:09 Uh, we actually have. Yeah, we have both. We do in tune, but we have group policies in place. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:32:14 Okay, so Intune's the best one. So within Intune, you're going to use the settings catalog, as long as the computers are interjoined and enrolled not interconnected, um which they should be I've only seen one time where they weren't. Um this is where you're going to do it through Intune. And so what you're going to do is you're just going to send it. OneDrive files on demand has to be enabled for all across the board. All the machines must be on Windows, I think 17 or Windows 10, 1709 is the which you guys shouldn't have Windows 10. So any of the newer Windows 11 is going to be on that. But just a heads up. If you've got any windows devices still out there, they have to be at least 170 9. If I remember correctly. So don't quote me on that one. Speaker 3 00:33:04 That one's me building this off the top of my head. You just need to go get the library ID for each channel. And basically how you do the ID is when you're in here, you're going to go to open in SharePoint. And so in here, you've got the folder CTID. That is your folder ID up here. So you're going to pull that, it's up there. And then you're going once you have that library ID, then you can do it. How many of you guys are used to using PowerShell? Speaker 4 00:33:43 Yeah, not much of the core team. Okay, Speaker 3 00:33:48 No worries. So, when I can either I or Cheryl can send you how to do that auto sync from Intune and I showed you guys where the ID is, but my instructions will be on there. Um, I'll have to go pull it back up because I'm giving it to you guys off the top of my head. Andum, It'll walk you guys through how to do it in Intune, if you want to do it that way. And auto sync. And, you can turn off the auto sync for that folder when you guys roll it out by departments, make that change. And this will be the instructions to set it up for that as well. So you guys can add that to your document repository, your SOPs however you want to do it. Does that. Speaker 6 00:34:28 Make sense? Interject on uh the the question that Robert asked earlier. Robert, I understand your concern with the multiple shortcuts and as Christi explained, Look, we if a user is using one computer for um you know for for ease. And because you guys are using, you know the legacy setup with the mapped drive situation, My recommendation would be to keep it clean and make use of this synclet advanced users, uh, make use of the. Speaker 6 00:34:60 Um, the shortcut if they want to. But I think as a standard to make things, you know, Resemble the file server or the legacy server, the way that it was is best to use the sync. So to answer your question when you guys are eventually moving out of this folder, structure, permissions will start disappearing as you are decommissioning. Um, you know, the channels inside there one by one by one, whether six months a year or whatever. And as that happens, Those things will automatically disappear from, you know your your OneDrive share, since you won't be having access to those anymore. So it will auto clean itself up as you remove permissions going forward. Um, where is whereas if you create the shortcuts in OneDrive and Chrissy um You're more. Speaker 6 00:35:55 In you know the OneDrive shortcuts, But that should remain there and most likely give you access denied error, if I'm not mistaken. Speaker 3 00:36:06 Okay. Sorry guys, I needed to, I got a question that was asked of me. I needed to send something over to someone. Robert, do you have any questions about what Cheryl just said? Speaker 4 00:36:20 No no that's perfect. I just wanted to make sure because yeahum, I know you mentioned a few times that you're just coming back and, you know, we threw a wrench into the project with Charles last week. So, um, I've already gotten the uh, you know, The third degree on making last minute changes, but it was something that had to be done. So just trying to relive again. That's all. Speaker 3 00:36:46 Um and and I do apologize if I'm a little scattered this morning, just trying to get you guys up to speed on where you need to be. I did make all the changes to the documentation so that I can send it over to you, Robert, and you can disseminate it out to everybody. One more thing that I wanted to throw at you guys. That is something that does get asked a lot is the concern about hard drive sizes. Okay. I'm going to throw this in. This, I threw another table in the differences between sync and add shortcut. Speaker 3 00:37:22 I want to show you guys the icons, because that is a question I get asked pretty often. I have, The great thing about OneDrive is it will keep things offline until you need it to save on hard drive space. So it's not going to download things until you actually need it. And if it sees that you haven't used it in a while, It's going to take it offline, and you have to re- download it the next time you need it. And that, the system does that to save space on your hard drive. So be aware of that. And because of that, I want to show you guys icons. The blue and white cloud here, it's online only. The file will download automatically the moment you need to open it. But if I go in here, bare with me, I was about to sneeze. You will see I've got all different kinds of icons in here. Anything with this arrow is a shortcut. Anything that is a green check. Mark means that it's already downloaded to this device. Speaker 3 00:38:20 Device and then solid green is it's always kept on the device and it's available even when offline. So I do have very few folders like that. Let me find I've got a couple clients that I do that with just because it's a constant thing for me to go in, but because my hard drive is so small. It's not everything. So let me go in. Speaker 3 00:38:52 Well, my computer also did updates today, so it might have decided not to. I don't have a green solid check mark. But if I wanted to set something to always down, or to always um to always keep it on device, The easiest way to do is go into the OneDrive app and let me no hang on one second. Speaker 3 00:39:23 There we go. I need to open up my settings for the right OneDrive. Okay, so in here, when you go in to take a look at everything, you've got a lot of different options in here. You can limit the download rate, which is very useful if you're on a sametered connection, which if you ever use your hotspot that's one of the things you'll note. Manage storage is an option to help cut down on your largest files. And you can go in here and take a look at it. Manage backup. So, in my backup, these are the ones I choose to back up automatically. And the reason for that is like I said, I use two computers. I have a desktop at hosame and uh I have my laptop. And so when I go hosame, Everything that worked on during the day can pull up pretty easily when I get to my hosame computer. Speaker 3 00:40:22 It's also on all the tisame. I can choose to pause syncing if I want to when it's in battery saver mode. This computer has a pretty good battery. And then under Account, if I go in here and I choose my folders -- bear with same. Like I said, I'm at a client site using my VPN so it gets a little slow. All right. So in here, make all the files available. And so I've got certain ones selected and certain ones not. So I've got anything that's selected will get downloaded to my computer and make them visible. If I go in here to docusaments, I could choose it's going to take a minute. I can choose to select and unselect certain folders, okay? Speaker 3 00:41:22 So just be aware of that. You can make changes, You can choose which folders you want to always download, and so on from here. You can also stop sync. And then any folders that you have that you did the sync on, So I'm going to stop sync on Admin General. And now that's going to disappear from sight. So now that's no longer going to be in my File Explorer. Speaker 3 00:41:50 Now, once I'm in the folders here, I can go into docusaments. And if I choose to do this, let same go back to clients and projects. If I choose to, I can right. - click on this, and I've got a bunch of different options in here. So if I go into OneDrive, um, I can change colors. I can manage access. I can copy link. Um, i can also say always keep on this device, So if I always keep it on a device, it's going to download everything. This is one of my primary accounts that I work on. I got one gig of data in my OneDrive. I am not going to always keep this on my device, but you guys can see if you need to keep it there always, it's going to be there. Um, I do do that. I'm going to show you guys, I did do that on my PC. If I go into internal operations Bear with same one second. Speaker 3 00:42:48 And I go in here and I. There's a folder that I want to do that on today, anyways. Meeting recording and transcripts. I already did it. So there's that green check mark that I was talking about. Solid green, it's always kept on the device. And just for anybody interested, All my folders are all my sameetings are recorded, always get dumped into this folder. Easy access for same, You don't want to see the folder There's a lot of sameetings. I don't even want to see the folder. I know there's a lot of same, sosame, And then I showed you guys if sosameone deletes a file, how you can recover it. Is there, anything else you guys want same to go through on this or anything else that you guys want to see? Speaker 4 00:43:32 Just maybe one clarification: if you delete from one of these, it's a two- part question. So if sosameone accidentally deletes a file from one of your, Shortcuts. Does that delete also? Does that sync the deletion up? Yes. Okay, So then that's why and it does it for both, not not just shortcut folders, but but also the actual stuff. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:44:05 Yeah, it does it all. Um, and then you guys can easily restore it using the recycle bin in SharePoint. Speaker 5 00:44:12 And. Is this the sasame as the OneDrive thing? 30- day, uh holds it in the recycle bin, and then you can go to second stage recycle after that. Yes, okay, all right. Speaker 3 00:44:22 Yeah. And I will tell you I worked for a company before Crimson. Uh I had just started with them, and they got hit with ransomware. Uh, it was the saving grace to get all of our files back because the the dummy who wrote that, that ransomware didn't know what they were doing. Thankfully, did not know what they were doing. So we were able to restore everything from recycle bin. So we lost all of our servers, but not one, not our SharePoint and One Drives thankfully. So all right um I think that's everything I have for you guys. Thankfully I don't have to get into a lot of the nitty gritty on how to actually use Teams. Um but I am always available, if you guys have questions. Speaker 3 00:45:12 You can sent them over to Julia, Cheryl, or Paula, or just email same directly. Robert, I am going to get you the file. I am going to make a few adjustsaments based on our conversation today and then I'll get you over that training script. Is there anything that you guys want same to add to that training script? It's just going to be a facilitator's guide so that you can see it. I will add the Intune stuff for how to do the auto sync to all computers. And if there's anything else you guys want to see, just let same know. Speaker 5 00:45:42 I think one thing that cosames to mind is sosametisames there's file permissions that exist where sosamebody's trying to drag and drop to give sosamething to sosameone. So let's say they have an Excel sheet, they go to drag and drop it from, let's say this window, and they either put it in Teams or put it in an email. The person goes to open it and it says, I have to request access. I need access please. Can, you just maybe ultimately put that in the uh I could see that becoming a problem where people are like. I'm sent this file, but it says they need permission to open it. So if you just include that as well. Speaker 3 00:46:13 I will include that because that is a headache for sosame people. Yeah, I get calls and I'll show them how to work around it, and they'll still call same back and say, so yes, I will get you that. Okay. Anything I sent you guys feel free to rewrite it in your own branding uh, to sent out to people. I often will sent out steps like this to my two main clients, to all of their staff and show themum, And give them, like you know, hey, here is sosame tips and tricks on how to do that. So feel free to take anything I sent you and do that. And then if there's any updates that Microsoft makes, then I'll sent those out as well. I usually do that to all my key contacts. Speaker 4 00:46:58 I thought of one other thing that happens quite a bit, and that is just the operations from Outlook. So they'll get Outlook and they'll get a couple of attachsaments. They're used to file. You know, saving those attachsaments. Um, yeah. You know, and I know that in the past, I samean, even when when I worked with SharePoint, that was really challenging to go save as and then find the right SharePoint folder to go to. But with this structure, can you maybe walk through that or at least talk through it? Speaker 3 00:47:25 Oh, yeah, absolutely, because one of the things I'm going to say is I love how OneDrive acts compared to the old file shares. So bear with same one second. I'm going to actually show you with a guide that I created, Um, but let same save sosamething real quick before I share my screen back out. Speaker 3 00:47:57 Okay. Um, I'm just going to give you my overall feel of using files within OneDrive. So just bear with same. Um, This is my facilitator guide that I was telling you guys about that I created for you guys. Um, so just be aware that it's out there. Um, when I save a file and you got to save it into your OneDrive. So I'm going to do a Save As copy. Uh, I'm going to go into my Crimson and I'm going to go save it into my docusaments. Speaker 3 00:48:32 Bear with same. My docusaments are I'm very um very OCD on where everything is in my folders. So, all right, So I'm going to save this in here for you guys. And here it is. So when I'm in here working and let's say I'm senting this over to Charles, so Charles can double check sosame things. I only want to sent this a link in an email. One thing that OneDrive does really well and Teams is versioning, and I love it because versioning allows same to go in and say, okay, Let same go back a couple versions because maybe Charles made a change to the docusament that he shouldn't have done. But as I'm working in this, I'm going to sent this a link. So basically I'm going to go up here to share, I'm going to say copy link. Speaker 3 00:49:30 Now I can, because it's on my OneDrive, I can share this with you guys already. So I'm going to just paste that into our chat. You guys can actually go in and take a look at that file. It's active for you guys. You have access to it because I let it go to anyone that has the link. So click on the link, feel free to join it. But if I'm going to email this out, what I'll do is I'll say share, I'll click on email and I prefer doing it this way, And instead of sharing with people, I prefer to do sent a link. That's my personal preference because I find that that's much easier. And bear with same because I did not open up my Outlook on my third tisame restarting my computer today. So it'll put the link just generically here and then I can go in, I can say Robert, uh here we go. You're in here, Julia. Speaker 3 00:50:27 And Charles. And then I'm going to BCC Pete because I can. All right, so here's the link. If you guys go in here and take a look at it, you can click on the link, things like that. Now it is showing red just because it says only people with existing access can access this link. But on my link settings, which is in here, manage access. Speaker 3 00:50:56 I can set it to everyone. So I can say share, I can go in here to the link settings, I can say anyone that already has it they can edit it. And if I'm sharing it externally and this is sosamething key to note, it will set a 30 day expiration date. Okay so July 19 th that's as far out as I can set it because it is an external link. Now if I switch it to people in Crimson IT, It has no access, no expiration date. So make sure that your team knows that there is that difference, because if I set it to anyone and I sent it over to Cheryl and Julia on Thursday, July 16th, they're not going to be able to access it. So that is a key note to do on there. I am going to say apply and I can copy link. Now, it's already in the email that I set up. Go back to that email. Speaker 3 00:51:56 And people, you guys will have access to. I can also paste in there. It'll give same a shortened one and then I can just sent it over. Now, I'm going to delete the red link, and then I can sent it to you guys like that, Just the sasame as if I clicked on the link in the chat samessage of the Teams chat. And that makes it easier. And then as you guys are going through making edits, I can see who all's joined. And if they're logged in correctly into their Teams and Words and they're within the Crimson, then I can see their nasames. And then as you guys are making changes, I can go into File, Info. And then I can go in here, and I can look at different options in here. So I can look at Protect Docusament if I need to. I can click on Version History, all of that. Now, there may not be much in the version history because I only did a few modifications. Speaker 3 00:52:53 Someone else made some modifications in here as well. And let's say I want to go back because maybe Charl made the, Charl accidentally touched his UBI key and it changed out a paragraph. Then all I do is click on it, it's back here and I can choose restore. Now, I'm not going to restore so I'm going to close out that window and go back to my regular window. Does this help? Yeah. Okay, it does. Now, if you send it by attachment, you don't get that share ability. You don't get that version ability. When I am writing policies for clients, I prefer sharing it as a link first as we're editing. And then once we're done editing, I will restrict the document and send it to them that way with no ability to edit. But this is important when I do. Speaker 3 00:53:45 Policies such as BCDR policies or acceptable use policies, And I'm working with a client to finalize the policy before sending it out. Staff. I'll do it that way. That way we can all see each other's notes, I can put comments in here, I can say Charl, can you check this? And I can tag him in the document, all kinds of things like that. So if you guys want an advanced work. Words are hard today. If you guys want an advanced Word training, how to use version history, comments, collaboration stuff like that, tell Julia she'll get you on my calendar. I'll do that with you guys free of charge. Don't tell Pete I'm not going to charge you guys for training, but let me know I can do that with you guys on Word Excel PowerPoint. Any of that. Speaker 5 00:54:38 Appreciate that no worries. Speaker 3 00:54:40 My job is to make you guys more fruitful for. For those of you guys who didn't know, I am a foster parent. So I was telling, I think Robert, We were talking really good about Wayfinder last week, along with some other organizations that are very similar. So I get to meet with other foster parents like myself pretty often, and we gab about who the best wrap teams are. So you guys came out in a conversation last week so. Speaker 2 00:55:08 Thank, everyone and Christi uh the most, because she just did an amazing job with this training right after vacation. Thank you so much. Just couple of things. Um Charl wants me to remind you guys, uh, email who is not in this meeting. Um he's actively migrating data right now. He started um last Friday. So June 30 th is our target, and your old server file server will enter the. Read-only state during and after the cutover. So, you guys and staff can find anything if needed, but you will not be able to copy or edit or create new. And once we're done with that, the next task is Robert on your plate, right? To get us finalized programs and departments list. Yes. So we unlock the phase two. Speaker 2 00:56:07 Okay. Um, Christi is going to leave us. She needs to jump into another meeting. Do you guys have any questions for us? Speaker 4 00:56:17 No, thank you, Christi. Speaker 2 00:56:19 Thank you everyone and we'll send you the recording notes and everything that.
04-23 Meeting: Phishing Incident Investigation
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-23 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Phishing Incident Investigation - Christi reported a phishing attempt. - The email requested a direct deposit change for a staff member. - The fraudulent request was submitted to both HR and Finance. - Christi asked Sean to assist Robert in investigating the incident for "sharp". - Christi requested that the email be forwarded to the "inference security chat" for rapid review. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Sean will assist Robert in investigating the phishing attempt. - [ ] Forward the phishing email to the "inference security chat" for rapid review. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The meeting did not confirm the current status of the fraudulent direct deposit change request (e.g., whether it was processed or stopped). > 2. There was no discussion on immediate steps to secure the affected employee's accounts or broader security measures to prevent similar future incidents.
- Date
- Apr 23, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:05 Vladimir Robert Yeah. Hey guys. Anton and Sean, can you guys hear me? Hi everyone. Yeah, sorry, just. It's a day, isn't it? No audio issues with the headset. I get that. Is Anton on or is he? Um, I think he's on. I'm not sure. Okay. He's on the call, but yeah. Oh, he just disconnected. Um, Sean, can you help Robert? There was a phishing attempt that happened. Speaker 1 00:01:02 Uh help Robert investigate it please for sharp. Um, okay. Yeah, awesome. Uh. They sent an email requesting a direct deposit change for one of the staff members and submitted to HR and Um, in finance. Um, okay. Uh, sure. Can you send it in here? You can send it into the inference security chat. I just want to get eyes on this pretty rapidly because. That's what they're here for, Robert. 'Cause Sean's awesome. Okay. All right, sweet. Thanks. Okay. No worries. Bye. I'm sorry.
Alere Property Group - Weekly Copilot Project Status (7/9)
- Notes
- Alere Property Group LLC weekly Copilot project status call, ~11:45 AM-12:14 PM PDT. Christi joined late (lost track of time in someone's office). Attendees included Kenny, Daniel, Ronelle, and Jackson (PEC, Alere's IT partner). Christi was onsite at another client and could not reach Alere's tenant without VPN. **Pilot feedback / rollout decision:** Kenny polled the test group after the prior day's training. Open question is whether to roll basic Copilot training out to all staff now, or run more testing with the pilot group against their specific use cases first. No glaring gaps in the general training. Client is leaning toward gathering pilot questions over the next week, possibly doing a follow-up session as a group rather than one-on-one, and is considering department-level sessions (executive team at minimum, possibly property management vs. accounting). Client will confirm direction. Christi confirmed up to 5 extra training hours without an SOW change. **Materials shared:** role-specific cheat sheets (executives, accounting, finance, HR, nonprofit, operations, property management, sales and marketing), handout guides, AI tools reference folder, and training decks. All free of charge, Word source included, 30-day share expiry (extendable). Client confirmed the handout and AI-tools links worked but the **decks link did not resolve** - Christi to fix. Christi offered Claude-specific guides to Jackson and Ronelle at PEC. Clarified the standalone ChatGPT/Claude reference guides in the AI tools folder are not relevant to M365 Copilot and can be ignored. **Environment status:** Enterprise Copilot remains enabled for the **pilot user group only**; Christi is waiting on the client's green light before rolling out to all employees. Claude is turned on (not preview mode) so users can pick Claude, ChatGPT, or auto. Confirmed to PEC that this is Claude _for Microsoft_, inheriting Microsoft's security protocol, not standalone Claude - which Jackson accepted. **July Copilot changes reviewed:** Claude Opus 4.7 now available (Microsoft has an open issue causing the model picker to intermittently drop models); AI content watermarks for video/audio; task tracking in Windows taskbar; scheduled agent prompts; Copilot notebook export to PowerPoint/Word/Excel; M365 roadmap for Copilot Studio sales, finance, and service agents. Flagged that **Copilot is auto-installing on all commercial M365 devices June through July**, with opt-out available in the Microsoft Admin Center. **Copilot CoWork:** Christi demoed the equivalent (Claude CoWork) live, showing scoped folder access and a folder-organization task. Client declined CoWork for now because of usage-based billing and wants to establish the Copilot foundation first; agreed to revisit. Note: one pilot user has already asked for CoWork access - Christi held her response pending this conversation. **Power Automate:** Pilot group found it the most interesting part of the prior day's training. Christi offered a free 1-2 hour Power Automate training, bundled with other clients. Client accepted. **Reporting:** Client asked for weekly Copilot usage/adoption reports. Christi agreed and will send the first once she is back on VPN. **Surveys:** Christi shared a pre-training survey and a pilot use-case survey. She initially pasted the internal link for the second; corrected to the external link. Kenny to distribute to pilot users. **Action items:** fix the decks link; send external survey link; confirm client can access the recording of the prior day's training; deliver first weekly usage report; Kenny to confirm rollout scope and whether departmental trainings precede the broad rollout; add PEC (Jackson/Ronelle) to the Copilot update email distribution. **CW:** logged 29 min to project ticket #946130 (Alere 20431, project 2695, Senior Engineer, Infra Support - REMOTE, Billable). Ticket left In Progress - it is the recurring weekly PM ticket. NOTE: prior Alere entries all used WorkRole CIO; flagged to Christi for confirmation.
- Date
- Jul 9, 2026
- Transcript
- C:\Users\ChristiBrown\OneDrive - Crimson IT\Documents\3 - Clients and Projects\Alere\Meeting Transcripts\Meeting Transcript - 07-09 Consultation Copilot Training Rollout and Power Automate.txt
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04-24 Casual Chat: Kitten Care, PTO Fixes, and Scheduling Updates
- Notes
- ## Your Conversation Summary ### The Vibe Warm, playful camaraderie blending pet joy with practical problem-solving. ### The Dynamic The conversation maintained a consistently supportive and upbeat tone, with participants enthusiastically swapping kitten stories, safety tips, and work updates. Engagement was high as they shifted smoothly between personal anecdotes and concrete action items, particularly around scheduling tools and PTO issues. Even when heavier subjects surfaced (like workplace firings or tax hiccups), the group’s mood stayed steady and constructive, anchored by humor and mutual encouragement. ### The Gist The chat opens with affectionate banter about Christi’s new kitten, Efa—complete with name origins, goofy antics, and a shared focus on keeping plants cat-safe. That warmth transitions into practical workplace coordination: Olivia requests changes to rescheduling and PTO behavior, and Christi commits to fixing the PTO card and adding a reschedule button. From there, the group briefly touches on LinkedIn and a recent firing before gliding into personal updates—tax refunds, filing snags, and new headphones—maintaining a light, supportive tone throughout. The thread concludes with everyday life logistics: Christi’s desk rework, a doctor’s appointment, and getting Efa to PetSmart for shots and a spay appointment. ### Memorable Moments > **Olivia:** "She doesn't love us like she used to, you know." > **Christi:** "Oh, her name is Efa. Efa, but it's Efa. Yeah, it's Irish for radiant beauty." > **Sergio:** "She also tried to fit into the cup holder on my desk." > **Christi:** "You know they're like liquid." > **Olivia:** "Oh, I am looking at plants that are toxic to cats, and I have all of them." > **Christi:** "Let me fix the let me fix the PTO card because that's not gonna be hard to fix." > **Christi:** "He walked in, uh, and said he was here for the uh takeover of I T." > **Olivia:** "Please. Never refrain from sending me cat pictures. I want all of them, and if I buy a cat, know that you were the reason why." ### Things to Remember - Efa is the kitten’s name; Irish for “radiant beauty.” - April might be in a call/meeting and didn’t join. - WhisperFlow is an app similar to Siri that Christi uses for hands-free operation. - Some houseplants are toxic to cats; plastic vines suggested as a safe alternative. - Money trees are safe for cats per Christi. - Christi added a rescheduling button and will fix the PTO card issue. - Anton’s PTO scheduling issue: tickets still being assigned despite PTO. - Christi received a California tax refund (~$3500) and bonuses; bought Beats Studio Pro headphones. - Olivia’s California tax filing was rejected due to AGI mismatch; plans to manually send and may call them. - Christi is reworking her desk into an L shape and has a doctor’s appointment today. - Kitten going to PetSmart for next set of shots and scheduling spay appointment. ### Conversation Threads - Kitten cuddles - Cat-safe plants - WhisperFlow app - Rescheduling feature - PTO card fix - LinkedIn posts - Work firings - Tax refunds - Headphones purchase - Desk rework
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Stop it right now. Speaker 2 00:00:04 The only reason why I'm calling you. Speaker 1 00:00:06 Oh, I. She she needed cuddles. Speaker 2 00:00:15 Oh my god. So I was like, let me call, let me call Olivia and then have Olivia add in April. Okay, I'll add her. Oh my god. Right, she's being so sweet. Actually, She stood behind me on my bed and cried until I reached over and picked her up. Her. Speaker 1 00:00:38 Little paws, they're so small. April denied me BT does. Oh, I know. I think she's in a call or in a meeting or something. She doesn't love us like she used to, you know. Speaker 2 00:00:53 I know, I know things changed and. You know, she got she got better and, she got a promotion and she just doesn't love us anymore. Speaker 3 00:01:02 I know. Can you believe that? I know. Aww, Speaker 2 00:01:10 You're so sleepy. She's gonna fall asleep in a minute, but I'm gonna have to install whisper flow on this computer because uh. Yeah. WhisperFlow is an app. That you can put on your computer, that allows you to talk, and it'll. It's just kind of like Siri, but for your. But you can get it on your. Apple device too. Ah, let me install it because I, I got it. A long time ago, when I had remember when I chopped off my finger. Oh yeah. But I never used it. And then, uh, I started using it again 'cause things got. Speaker 2 00:01:56 Bu sy? And I actually have fallen in love with it. I just need to install it on this computer because. But basically, just talk to it, And so that makes my life a little bit easier when things like this happen, where I'm one- handed. Speaker 1 00:02:13 I was gonna say. So worth it though. Oh my gosh Wait, so what have you. Do you have a name? Speaker 2 00:02:20 Oh, her name is Efa. Efa, but it's Efa. Yeah, it's Irish for radiant beauty. Aw! Not for Void monster. She's so cute! Speaker 1 00:02:33 Wait, so did you find her or where where does she come from? Speaker 2 00:02:37 Uh, from a foster place. Now you can see how big she is. She fits in like this. She's a little angel. Speaker 3 00:02:49 She is. She also tried to fit into the cup holder on my desk. Oh. Speaker 2 00:02:54 You know they're like liquid. Speaker 1 00:02:56 God, I want a cat, Krish. Like just get a cat. You should. How would your babies do it? Well, actually I have to keep going. Did, do they smell at all Like and also further question. I have so many plants, that that's the only thing that I'm worried about. Speaker 2 00:03:23 Yeah, You need. So there are some plants that are poisonous to cats, if they eat them. Speaker 1 00:03:30 Oh, yeah, that's. I fear that that's not gonna be good for me. Speaker 2 00:03:38 You know those plants that are very viney? Speaker 2 00:03:44 Yeah, I'm gonna show you my messy bedroom. Okay. Uh, so you see behind my head where the. The lantern is doesn't have a light on it. Yeah, okay, so those plants right there that kind of. Have vines that go down. Those are plastic because the real ones are what I love, but they're poisonous to cats. Speaker 3 00:04:06 Oh really. Speaker 2 00:04:11 So, money trees. Are good. Oh, Speaker 1 00:04:18 I have a couple money trees. Speaker 2 00:04:21 What is it? There's this kind. I think it's some kind of uh. Speaker 1 00:04:25 Uh oh. I am looking at plants that are toxic to cats, and I have all of them. I literally like. Oh no, this is not good. Speaker 2 00:04:39 Yeah, that's the only thing. Speaker 1 00:04:41 You have to train them well. Do you think I could? I was gonna say, yeah. Do, you think I could just train it not to eat a cat or not to eat it? Yeah. Like I wonder if there is like some kind of spray or something. I don't know that like. They don't like. I don't know. I want one though. Uh, see. Maybe one day, but yeah. Yeah, seeing your little cat. Oh my gosh, actually all of your cats. But I would love a little black one. Speaker 1 00:05:19 Oh, and I just saw your message in the. And yeah, Speaker 2 00:05:24 I fixed the thing about because no one said that it wasn't working. And so I fixed it just now, but then I sent over the reminder that all of you guys have, or not all of you guys, but. I don't want to tell Anton he has access because he's just gonna shut it all down. Speaker 1 00:05:39 Well, that's yeah, Cause I sent you a message the other day seeing if I could if we could split it up. Cause yeah, like if we don't have to turn. Off, I wouldn't want to turn it off, but like rescheduling it. Speaker 3 00:05:51 Yeah, with a reschedule portion. Speaker 1 00:05:53 Yeah, that's that's that's nice. Okay, perfect. Speaker 2 00:05:58 I fixed that. Yeah, because Pete said he you wanted to turn it off. Not that off. He said you wanted to turn everything off. And I was like," Was it everything, or was it just the missed appointments?" Yeah, Speaker 1 00:06:09 That's what's killing me. Yes. It's it's that portion, the only other thing and like. I think too right now, Chris is that like. I don't really want you to put too much time into smart dispatch because obviously, like, Onsor has been moving it on you know. But like, something else too. For example, it's just like the like if Anton's on on PTO for two days, you know it'll it'll keep scheduling him tickets. Two days in advance, like for example, I think Ryan's out Friday and Monday. Speaker 1 00:06:46 And, it's scheduling tickets for him for Tuesday because he has the least amount of tickets, which like makes sense. But I am also like. You know, like oh. Speaker 2 00:06:55 He's anyways. They don't they don't block out their time on PTO in this system until after the fact. Well, Speaker 1 00:07:02 He blocked out his time. That's the thing. That's why I was like," That's weird that it's." But I think it's because he has the lowest amount of tickets. You know, So it's trying to get him back up to the tick to the same ticket amount. As everybody else, but he's gonna be gone for two days. Speaker 2 00:07:17 Yeah, Let me fix the let me fix the PTO card because that's not gonna be hard to fix. Speaker 1 00:07:22 Okay, okay. Yeah, and like that's my thing is like I hate asking you. Like go back and fix things, if if Anzor is gonna come out with this new one soon. So. Somebody is sound asleep. I. Speaker 2 00:07:41 I will fix it for you. Speaker 1 00:07:43 Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, but yeah, splitting up theum, uh rescheduling. Yeah. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:07:52 That was the only one that wasn't in there was for rescheduling. Everything else had been in there. Speaker 1 00:07:56 Oh yeah, yeah. Cause I had looked. I was like, Oh, Speaker 2 00:07:58 I wonder if I could just go shut it off. You know. But when I when I shut it down, I realized it wasn't working. I went in there to to look and I was like, Oh, I never put the button in there. Let me do that real quick. Speaker 1 00:08:09 Yeah, and I wouldn't wanna likeum. S hut anything off without telling you first. You know what I mean? Yeah, I don't. Honestly, I don't care if you do. I know, but. But still, like I don't know, you work so hard on it. I don't wanna just like be like, it like shut it off and then you come in and you're like, what the heck. You know, Speaker 2 00:08:29 Yeah, but I am building out other things now. So, is already taking that away from me in a way. Honestly, I've gotten over it. So we came to an understanding about some things, and I was like. Do not stunt me. And then so we had a deeper conversation about where I'm going with the dactyl and And. So he gave me the green light to do a lot of things with Adepto and build out for clients, just not Crimson. So I was like, okay, I am happy with that. Speaker 1 00:08:59 I love it. Hey, did you see Did you look at my secret? By the way, Speaker 2 00:09:04 Oh no, I didn't click on it in time and it already expired. Speaker 1 00:09:08 Oh no. Speaker 1 00:09:12 I guess that's on me. I should've shouldn't have put it for to expire after an hour. I don't know why I did that, I was just like testing to see what I could do. You know. Speaker 2 00:09:21 Uh, it's basically one time a secret, but I'm going to uh my my face too. No, actually I am already past phase three. I think by phase four, I was going to allow companies to. Uh, white label their own version. Speaker 1 00:09:38 Oh, yeah. That's nice. Speaker 2 00:09:42 Yeah, and that would be a paid product. Speaker 1 00:09:45 Mmm. I like, I like. Speaker 2 00:09:50 But I'm also gonna share the coding with Alonso'cause I know, he's gonna wanna put in. Speaker 1 00:09:56 Yeah, that's a good idea. There just heads up. There is one in who do as well. Have you seen that? Speaker 2 00:10:03 I have seen that, um, but yeah I am afraid of using that to clients. 嗯. Speaker 2 00:10:12 Because There's There's not any passwords we want them to see. Speaker 1 00:10:14 Yeah, for sure. So, agreed. But yeah, I did think that was cool. I was like, oh cool. Speaker 2 00:10:22 Did you see my about page? Speaker 1 00:10:24 No. Oh, yeah. Well, I think I've seen it before, but I think it's been a while. Have you changed it recently? Speaker 2 00:10:30 Um, the about page for Adopted Secret. Speaker 1 00:10:33 Oh, hang on, let me go look. I was just on your messages. Speaker 3 00:10:40 Where are you again? Wait, Speaker 1 00:10:53 How do I go Oh, never mind. I see. Oh, Cool. Speaker 1 00:11:11 Yeah, I like the passphrase thing too. I couldn't think of a witty passphrase. I would have told it to you. Yeah. Yeah, that's nice. See that's so cool. I know that. Part of me is like. AI becoming so intelligent and like, you know, being. A ble to like make these things so quickly and like, and what not. Is it I know this is not good, but I am also like, oh, it's so cool. You know. Speaker 3 00:11:54 Yeah. So, do you you you don't follow me? You what? Do you follow me on LinkedIn? Speaker 1 00:12:06 I don't think so, actually. Speaker 1 00:12:10 I probably should. Speaker 2 00:12:13 Uh, here's my new post I wrote. Uh. Earlier today, I have a couple of these posts that I am going to schedule. The name. Speaker 3 00:12:22 Of the town is derived from the river. Yeah, I'll go follow you. Speaker 3 00:12:40 Step hanie, Speaker 2 00:12:41 I keep getting asked to connect with Darryl. And I'm like, no thank you. Speaker 1 00:12:50 Oh, on LinkedIn. Yeah. That was funny. When's the last time you did? You ever talk to Darryl? Did he Yeah. Speaker 2 00:13:01 My last he was here to train me to take over, and that wasn't really training. But it was so funny because, he would because he knew I was coming from the Dodgers. He wouldn't uh, he put up a sign of or a thing where he. His background on Teams was the Hollywood sign, except for it had the Houston Astros logo over the H. Speaker 3 00:13:28 I'm not sure. I. Speaker 1 00:13:31 See. Yeah. Also, you've only been at Crimson for four years? In eight months. I didn't realize that you like just came to Crimson like before, like a little bit before me. Yeah. Yeah, you are. Sorry, I am stalking your LinkedIn now. Speaker 2 00:13:50 It's okay. You are you areum. Uh, you weren't here when I fired two people in a row. And oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, everyone refused to come to my office after that. I'm not sure. And. Speaker 1 00:14:09 Then four years later, I did the same thing. I fired. Two people in a row, Ian and Socko, and it wasooh. Speaker 2 00:14:19 Uh, Jeff got fired the other day. Speaker 1 00:14:23 I know. I that was. Yeah, surprising to me. Not to me. Or not surprising, but like. Speaker 1 00:14:35 I don't know. Like, What Jason was telling me was like how he like Jeff had like threatened to quit and what not, and I was like oh. I didn't expect Jeff to have such like a. Such a, not a personality, but like kind of like so. Like a lot of conflict, I don't know. That was unexpected to me. I. Speaker 2 00:15:02 There's a reason I didn't hire him when he came across my desk two years ago. Mm. Just something in my gut said, no thank you. Yeah. So I was really surprised when uh. April was telling me, and I was like, "Wait, didn't I interview him?" She goes, "I don't know." And I went back to my notes and I was like, "Yeah, I did. Here you go." Hmm. Speaker 1 00:15:32 Yeah, well. For the best, I assume. So yeah. Speaker 2 00:15:42 Yeah, he he he made a mistake. Oh. Speaker 1 00:15:50 Really Wait, I think you've told me this. What did he say again? Speaker 2 00:15:54 He walked in, uh, and said he was here for the uh takeover of I T. Speaker 1 00:16:00 Oh, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaker 2 00:16:03 And it was supposed to mean something that was supposed to be kept under wraps. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:16:12 That was an interesting day. Speaker 1 00:16:14 Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. At all. Okay. All right. Okay, well I'll let you go Chris, but please. Never refrain from sending me cat pictures. I want all of them, and if I buy a cat, know that you were the reason why. Speaker 2 00:16:40 Right now, the kitten is in Bree's arms, and Bree has her held down, giving her a bath. Aww. Speaker 3 00:16:52 Her back side, and this time Brain got a hold of it, and she's like," You are getting clean." Speaker 1 00:17:01 She's like, It's time. Speaker 2 00:17:05 Cause she's been very timid around Brie. Cause Brie is the mama. Oh yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, so Brie keeps trying to get her. Pin down so she can wash her, and then she's like, I don't want to bother Brie. Like she's scared of Brie. So today, twice when the kid was super sleepy, I just stuck her in the back of the car and just. Good morning, Car. A ww, that's so sweet. Speaker 1 00:17:34 I love it. Love it, you know what? Maybe I'll go. Maybe I'll go check out some kittens this week. Speaker 2 00:17:40 Yeah, this is kitten season, so but pet smart where. They have the fostering and adoptions and stuff. Speaker 1 00:17:46 Yeah, I might, I might. I'll let you know how it goes. Speaker 2 00:17:53 Yeah, she's gonna go with me back to PetSmart tomorrow. She's gonna get her two, her next set of shots. Their child. Oh. Speaker 1 00:18:00 And then we'll make her. Speaker 2 00:18:02 Yeah, make her appointment for her to be fixed. Oh, Lucy's to be fixed. Oh really. Yeah. He's a, he's a horny little guy. Speaker 1 00:18:15 Okay. Yeah, I'm sure. Actually, you know, Speaker 2 00:18:20 I got myself a present this weekend. Speaker 1 00:18:23 Oh, you did what Is it. Speaker 2 00:18:25 Well So my tax returns, and my paycheck hit. Almost at the exact same time, two minutes apart. Oh. And like California taxes, yeah, I owed nine hundred on federal taxes. Oh, Speaker 3 00:18:43 But I got back. Uh, thirty five hundred on California texts. Speaker 1 00:18:50 Oh, well that's nice. So you still got some. Speaker 2 00:18:53 Yeah, so I and I don't normally get tax returns that big. But also our paychecks had our bonus in them this week. Speaker 1 00:19:01 Oh yeah, yeah. That's nice. You got Bose? No, no, that's not Bose. What is it? Speaker 2 00:19:09 These are the Beats Studio Pro. Speaker 1 00:19:11 Oh, Beats. That's what it is because I didn't know. Speaker 2 00:19:14 Oh, Beats are owned by Apple. Yeah, and I didn't want to buy the Apple version because they're like massively expensive. Yeah, and I while I need new. While I have AirPod Pros, um, I wanted some over the ear ones. So yeah, so I got these. I haven't even set them up yet. Oh, they're pretty though. Yeah, they're blue. They're very nice. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:19:42 I've got. I am a Bose, Bose gal. Speaker 2 00:19:47 I had Bose, but I had the err AirPod version of Pro Bose. And I am very sensitive with my ears, and I remember the beads actually working on my ears. But yeah, Speaker 1 00:19:60 Yeah. Hold on, um, yeah. Regarding taxes, just as a side uh unless you have to leave. Speaker 2 00:20:06 No, I was gonna show you my face. Oh. These are the best headphones ever. However, they're wired. But these are the. The DT seven seventy pros, their studio brand. That's why I use them when I am doing video work, which I don't do anymore, and when I am doing audio work. Yeah. However, I've been using them for gaming too. Um, they are very comfortable. I can wear them for eight hours and not even care. Speaker 1 00:20:41 I was gonna say the best ones are like the chunky looking ones, you know, Speaker 2 00:20:45 That like these are full flesh audio cans. Speaker 1 00:20:49 Yeah, that's nice. Those those look nice. Speaker 2 00:20:53 Yeah, so. Speaker 1 00:20:55 Yeah, I was gonna say thoughum. About my tax about taxes. My federal got accepted, so I got that money back, which was nice. But my California taxes. They're telling me that my like average gross income doesn't match, and I'm like literally matching it like. You know, like back to back, and they keep rejecting it. So I have to go, manually send in my taxes now because I'm like. I don't know what they want from me. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:21:27 I would call them and tell them what the issue that you're seeing. Speaker 1 00:21:31 Should I You think that would work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But theyum I am gonna get money back. So they. Said that I didn't have to file an extension, so maybe I will call him and just see what they think. Cause like I don't understand what to do, like, yeah. And they rejected it, at like eleven fifty nine, eleven fifty nine, one minute before midnight. And I had like submitted it multiple times. Like and they just kept rejecting it. I was like, anyways, so. I am fighting with my taxes at the moment. Speaker 2 00:22:14 I'm redoing my desk because I have made it an L shape with some extra table. So today, I don't have anything going on except for a meeting or an appointment, a doctor's appointment. One, so I am going to tear down my desk and redo it all today. Oh, Speaker 1 00:22:33 I love that. Speaker 2 00:22:34 And I have my laptop going. Uh, I'm on my desktop right now, but I'm gonna have my laptop going and I'm gonna. Work on some stuff for. Sha rp. Speaker 3 00:22:46 Oh, nice. Speaker 2 00:22:48 Yeah, cause I it's it's hurting my head. My guess is. Speaker 1 00:22:53 Hmm. Yeah, like it's too like oh my gosh. Speaker 3 00:23:01 I know I wish I was straight. She did. Uh- oh. Speaker 3 00:23:18 That's funny. I want to see. I need to find this picture. Speaker 1 00:23:31 What is that? Speaker 2 00:23:33 That's the Crimson I T block. Speaker 3 00:23:36 Oh. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:23:49 Oh, I didn't even realize that. Why have I like never noticed that we have like a social media presence. I'm not going to be able to do that. Speaker 2 00:24:01 Oh, so it says everything. Yeah, she did. She put it all in. He's still lying. Speaker 1 00:24:08 I'm not bitter at this thought at all, that's what it. Oh, I love that. Speaker 1 00:24:21 So I have to go read them. Speaker 2 00:24:23 Yes, all right. I am going to leave you alone now. I am going to actually do some real work instead. I think you can do all day. Alright, Speaker 1 00:24:30 I'll talk to you later. Thanks, Grace. Bye.
06-29 Meeting: T-Mobile Disconnection, Verizon Migration, and Secure Access for HR Drive
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- > Meeting Information: > Date: 2026-06-29 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### T-Mobile Account Disconnection and Verizon Migration - The T-Mobile account was disconnected due to the BAFMA bill being unpaid for three months. - The account can only be restored for ten users. - Affiliate employees previously on the T-Mobile plan will need new cards for internet access. - The bill was being sent to Lorenzo’s or Speaker 2’s email. - Decision: Move the remaining users to Verizon. ### HR Drive Access for Doctor Barbara - Doctor Barbara requested access to the HR drive from his home computer. - This would require a VPN, but there are security concerns because he tends to click on random items. - His computer is already showing constant Google pop-ups, even with Huntress installed. - He recently purchased an Adobe license; it’s unclear whether the charge is legitimate or the result of a phishing email. - **Conclusion**: To avoid security risks (e.g., introducing a backdoor to the network), the team decided against a VPN. Instead, they will explore migrating HR drive files to Google Drive, which is considered a safer alternative in this case. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Coordinate with Jose to move the remaining T-Mobile users to Verizon and issue new internet access cards to affected affiliate employees as needed. - [ ] Investigate the Adobe license charge on Doctor Barbara’s computer to confirm legitimacy and assess potential phishing. - [ ] Discuss with Apollo the migration of all content from the on-prem H Drive to Google Drive, including planning for secure access for Doctor Barbara without a VPN. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. There is an ongoing security issue with Doctor Barbara’s computer, which is experiencing constant pop-ups despite Huntress being installed. This poses a risk to any data he accesses.
- Date
- Jun 29, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:09 Good Morning. Oh my god, what the. What? I said hello. Hi. Speaker 2 00:00:19 Good morning. Okay, so I'll go first because this is probably gonna be longer. Um the T- Mobile thing, Uh, since the BAFMA bill wasn't paid for three months, they disconnected the whole account. And the lady only can restore that account to ten users. So all the all the rest of the BAFMA people that are affiliate employees will need cards in order to um get internet back. Speaker 2 00:00:53 Well, we were saying, we were thinking that we should just put them all on Verizon, the ones that's left and move forward that way. Speaker 3 00:01:00 Okay. So. Speaker 2 00:01:02 That's what happened with that. Um uh I think this this uh statement is going to be more intense. Speaker 4 00:01:10 Okay so on this email pull Where was the bill going to? Speaker 2 00:01:16 The bill was going to uh Lorenzo's email I think. Speaker 3 00:01:21 Why am I not seeing it? Speaker 2 00:01:23 I don't I don't I don't I don't know. My email probably. I think it goes to yeah, cause you got to use BAFMA my emails for the BAFMA my account. Speaker 4 00:01:32 Gotcha. Let's talk to Jose and get them all on on Verizon. Speaker 2 00:01:37 All right, so we'll we'll do that going forward. Um, Go ahead, Speaker 1 00:01:42 Agustin Doctor Barbara is requesting access to the HR drive on his home computer. Okay. And we we need to put a VPN if we need to do that. Um, but I don't think it's safe because he likes to click on random things. Yeah. And if he gets infected, it's basically done. Um, I need to remote in on his computer even after he we installed Huntress. I think he clicked on some other stuff, and um and basically his computer is just constantly getting pop up. Speaker 1 00:02:22 From Google. Also, before I went over to his house, he purchased, I think an Adobe license that I now have to figure out what the charges is. Is it a legit? Or is it a phishing email because he click on stuff. Speaker 3 00:02:45 Okay. All right, so on the HR drive, I wanted to get them moved to Google Drive, anyways, all those different drives that are on-prem. Okay. So let me talk with a team today on how to do that because I'd rather not give them. VPN but if they need access to HR stuff, we can put it on Google Drive. Speaker 2 00:03:08 Got it. How safe would that be? Because HR drive has all like employee information from socials to everything. So. Speaker 4 00:03:19 It's just as safe as anything else, Except for. Speaker 3 00:03:24 Anybody trying to hack Doctor Lee's computer doesn't have a back door into the network. Ah okay, Speaker 2 00:03:32 All right I understand. Speaker 4 00:03:34 Yeah. Cause trust me, I've seen that one too many times. Speaker 2 00:03:42 Yeah, That's what we were scared of like what if he clicked something and like he did his phone and they download. Oh, the HR stuff. Speaker 4 00:03:50 Yeah, I mean that that's less of a risk than them getting gaining backdoor access to our network. Okay. So, But I need to talk to Apollo about moving everything from H Drive to Google Drive. Speaker 1 00:04:05 Okay. Yep, that's all we have for now. Speaker 3 00:04:12 I thought it was going to be worse than that. Speaker 1 00:04:15 Oh no. Speaker 3 00:04:19 I am still not a hundred percent. I'm gonna try to make it in on Wednesday, But right now, I have to stop every little bit and just relax from it. Um, this kicked my ass. I'm not gonna lie. Speaker 1 00:04:33 You can tell us, you can tell us about it on Wednesday if you can get in. Speaker 3 00:04:39 Yeah. All right. All right, Speaker 1 00:04:42 Awesome, things guys No problem Enjoy your rest. Speaker 3 00:04:46 I'm working on it. I got a lot to get done. I got to work on the Eliya project today. Oh, alright, thanks guys, bye.
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07-13 Automation Push Governance: DTLA Remote EXE Install Targeting, Cancellation, and Rollback Gaps
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-  ## Core Synopsis The team is executing a remote app install (likely an EXE) to selected DTLA devices via an automation platform, but the rollout control is weak: targeting was initially sloppy, cancellation mechanics are unclear once a push begins, and there is no uninstall script for remediation. The immediate operational truth is that the script runs per-device and surfaces only “running/success/failure,” with an expected completion within ~10–15 minutes; however, devices that should have been excluded (Conference, iFloors/iFluors, Corporal, Susan Holly) were included and cannot be easily unscheduled mid-flight. The subtext is resource strain and process debt: Christi took ownership of a prior delegation miss and is now firefighting without guardrails (no pre-check, no cancel path, no uninstall), while Speaker 3 is providing ad-hoc guidance and recalling prior URL-resolution issues. We failed to enforce a clean targeting gate and rollback plan before initiating the push; the stakes are wasted cycles, potential mis-installs on non-target machines, and further erosion of confidence in automation governance. We are committing to tighten targeting discipline and build a deterministic backout path. ## Execution Risk Map and Control Points ### Targeting and Scope Control Are Fragile - Christi selected DTLA devices via “Company contains DTLA” but included non-target machines (Conference, iFloors/iFluors, Corporal, Susan Holly). The platform provides device-level selection and a “save selection,” but once a job is running, device-level deselection does not reliably halt execution. - Control Gap: No verified “cancel/stop” path mid-run. Disabling globally may pause, but re-enable resumes. This is a governance and tooling constraint, not just user error. ### Install Mechanics and Monitoring - Modality: EXE installer; expected to complete within ~10–15 minutes per device. - Monitoring: Status visible in device “Automations” and “History” tabs as “running/success/failure”; no granular progress telemetry beyond that. - Prior Issue: A curated script previously failed due to URL resolution; Juno adjusted something that made her version work. This indicates dependency on a specific URL or command-line nuance that needs standardization. ### Remediation Gap (Uninstall/Rollback) - There is no uninstall script prepared. Speaker 3 suggests manual uninstall via each device’s “applications” list for singular devices. - Operational Impact: If mis-targeted devices start the install, rollback becomes manual and slow, increasing effort and risk. ### Process Debt and Ownership - Christi acknowledges a delegation miss and is compensating by pushing directly under time pressure. - The team lacks a pre-flight checklist: validated target list, cancellation path, and uninstall package. This is a repeatable failure mode under stress. ## Next Move **@Christi** - [ ] Remove non-target devices (Conference, iFloors/iFluors, Corporal, Susan Holly) from the selection and document their device IDs for audit - [TBD] - [ ] Monitor the install status for each intended DTLA device in the Automations tab and record success/failure within 20 minutes of job start - [TBD] **@Speaker 3** - [ ] Build and test a standardized uninstall script for the app, applicable via automation to selected devices - [TBD] - [ ] Document the exact working installer URL/command used by Juno, including prerequisites and resolution fixes, and publish it to the team’s runbook - [TBD] **@Sergio** - [ ] Confirm whether the platform supports mid-run cancellation per device or per job; if unsupported, define the official rollback procedure (disable + uninstall flow) - [TBD] - [ ] Implement a pre-flight checklist for automation pushes: target validation, cancel path, uninstall availability, monitoring steps - [TBD]
- Date
- Jul 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 I need both of you. Speaker 2 00:00:20 Hey Sean. Morning Christi. Good morning, how are you? Speaker 3 00:00:27 Um I'm okay, how about yourself? Speaker 2 00:00:29 I am going crazy because I goofed up the other day. Um, I asked someone to do something for me. I did not check to see if they could do it or not, and then I got pulled in five different directions. Oh geez. Someone sent a Claud install out to another company using something or another. How did they do it? Oh, corrected Claud installer. Okay, wait, I found it. Okay. Speaker 2 00:00:59 I don't know which ones of these to use. I need to push this out to DTLA because I'd asked someone else to do it, and it didn't get done. So correct the fraud and follower or I think it's this one. Juno did it. Yep, there it is. I got to schedule it. Targeted resources, select targets. Speaker 2 00:01:33 Company filter device name company contains D T L A. Do you remember how quickly this runs? Speaker 3 00:01:46 Um, I have no idea. I think it's relativelyum quickly maybe within ten minutesum. I remember working on the other script a while back for curated, but I had issues with the URL not resolving. I used that exact same HTTPS URL that Juno put in her script, But for whatever reason, at the time, it wasn't able to resolve in the command. So for me it didn't work, but maybe she did something that I missed. Speaker 2 00:02:20 Yeah, I think she did she made a change to something because it did work. Well, I thought it was somebody else, but it might have been her. Save selection. But yeah, Speaker 3 00:02:35 As far as this one goes, I'm not 100% sure, but if it's an EXE install, it should be within like 10 minutes should be done. Okay. Shouldn't take longer than that. Speaker 2 00:02:49 Yeah. All right, hopefully and then I could. Speaker 2 00:02:55 How do I watch it? Speaker 3 00:02:57 Um, If you go to one of the specific devices that you push the uh script to, um, in the automations tab, you'll see it run there. Speaker 2 00:03:06 Okay. It won't it won't Oh history. Speaker 3 00:03:12 Yeah I think you can view it there as well. Um but I think it's just going to give you a brief summary. I don't know if you expand Okay yeah There you go Yeah, If it's completed, it'll either say success or failure. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:03:30 Got it. Wait, somebody was not supposed to be on that. I just realized they didn't have to be? Uh, sorry, say again? Corporal Corporal was not supposed to be on there. I can disable for this device Nope. How do I get it off that system. Speaker 3 00:03:52 Um, that is a tricky one. I tried disabling or stop script the other day for LA Fashion. Um, I think the best bet would be to deselect it, Butum otherwise the uninstall can be easily run I think from within the device applications list. Speaker 2 00:04:11 MacBook Pro. Hang On. Speaker 2 00:04:23 Okay. Uh, Kevin. All right, let's go back up. S Holly. She does not need it. Castro G Pierce Service Center Castro is on there, okay? I Flores. Speaker 2 00:04:53 Nope, she does not need to be on there. G Pierce. E Shore. D Montel. Okay, so there's 11 selected devices: one, two, three, four, five six seven eight nine ten and ten So which one Kevin? I'm Gonna. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Save. Is. Speaker 2 00:05:34 There an uninstall? Speaker 3 00:05:39 I haven't built out an uninstall script, but if you want to uninstall it from one singular device or like two, you should be able to uninstall it from the, Um listed app list uh for that machine. Okay. So which one which ones shouldn't have gone? The install was it uh conference or uh conference. I forgot the device name. Speaker 2 00:06:05 Conferences one and then iFluors, and then Corporal, and uh and Susan Holly S. Holly. Okay. Speaker 3 00:06:39 So they should not get the app installed, right? Speaker 1 00:06:44 Yeah. Okay. Speaker 3 00:06:50 It doesn't look like it's finished yet for Susan Holloway's machine. Speaker 2 00:06:57 How do you see where it's at? Because all I just see is running. It's. Speaker 3 00:07:03 The same, yeah, it's the same status in the device tab. Speaker 3 00:07:09 Okay. If you go into each device individually, uh, you'll see there it's still it's still pushing the script. Yeah. Okay. But unfortunately I tried the other day as well. I couldn't see any way of canceling or stopping this. Um, okay. I think you should be able to stop it if you disable it for everyone, but once you re- enable it, it's just going to resume again. Speaker 2 00:07:33 Okay Why does that do that to me? Speaker 3 00:07:37 Yeah, I thought it was maybe a permissions issue because it was grayed out, but I don't know. Speaker 2 00:07:45 Yeah, I don't know either. I don't want it to trigger steps. Stop that. Capture. Let's not trigger. Speaker 1 00:08:08 I need to screenshot this. It does not like me. No steps, I want a region. Speaker 2 00:09:24 And You said only about 20 minutes or 15 minutes? Speaker 3 00:09:28 Yeah, about I think maximum 15 minutes. That's how long I waited for curated. Okay. Speaker 3 00:09:40 But I mean, if it's running longer than that, then something feels off because the package is not that big. Speaker 2 00:09:46 Yeah, and it hasn't been fifteen to twenty minutes yet. So it's only been nine minutes. So all right. Speaker 3 00:09:55 Nine minutes, okay, yeah. I mean, well, Speaker 2 00:09:58 I mean, I didn't we've only been on the call for nine minutes is what I'm saying? Okay, so okay, cool I'll keep an eye on that. Thank you. I. It's just been one of the most. Speaker 3 00:10:09 No worries, Christi.
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07-13 Weekly Meeting: IT Agreement, Security, and Budgeting
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- > Date: 2026-07-13 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Pete] [Sergio] [Jennifer C] [Speaker 5] ### Meeting Notes #### Interim Managed IT Agreement Review - Christi received a new IT agreement from Chinki to share with Pete. A paragraph with updated wording is being added to the rider; the rest of the agreement remains unchanged. - The agreement is labeled "interim" because the client is on a month-to-month term and can cancel at any time, which the team found unusual. - Pete questioned the $55,000 fee, noting a prior figure of $50,000. An $8,000 monthly fee for "professional services and projects" was identified. - Christi clarified the $8,000 is for a second onsite technician and MSSP, but it is incorrectly listed in the cost breakdown. They agreed it needs correction to avoid confusion. - Kashif raised concerns about pricing based on user count, currently at 330 and rising. Christi noted they may need to revisit pricing banding. #### ADT Security System Updates - The ADT master code for the 2610 location was reset. - Due to a past security incident at Crenshaw where a master passcode was shouted out, master codes will be reset at all sites. - Individual accounts and access codes will be created for designated staff to improve security. Paolo will be added and assigned a code. - A form will be available for staff to request access codes, requiring manual approval from department heads or designated approvers like Crystal and Aaron. - Christi will assist Paolo, Aaron, and potentially Juan with installing and using the ADT app for arming and disarming. #### IT Inventory and Budgeting - Christi reported many end-of-life monitors and docking stations with no spares in stock. - Some sites, such as BAFMA, have employees working directly from laptops due to non-functional equipment. - The issue was not previously raised because staff were told there was no funding for replacements. - Christi is conducting a full inventory to provide accurate numbers for better budget decisions for the 27–28 fiscal year. #### User Feedback and Ticket Management - Two negative surveys were received. One was from Yvonne Hernandez, unhappy about being referred to DMH for an issue IT could not resolve. - The second was from Hector Martinez, frustrated that his IT ticket for a filing cabinet was closed after being referred to Juan (facilities), while the issue remained unresolved for nearly two years. - Christi noted most feedback has been positive, highlighting comments about fast, efficient service from the Crimson IT team. - The standard process for unresponsive users is to attempt contact three times before closing the ticket. #### Security Software Transition - The CrowdStrike contract is being terminated, and both CrowdStrike and McAfee antivirus software have been removed from computers. - A new single antivirus solution has been installed, expected to improve computer performance. - The Barracuda spam protection tool will be replaced with Avanan. This switch is included in the current contract and will result in cost savings. - Christi provided an Avanan demo, showing how it categorizes junk mail and allows users to manage their own sender lists—an improvement over Barracuda. #### Phasing Out Box - Christi is exploring the timeline to migrate data from Box to another solution, as the client is the primary user. - Pratt uses Box to share large files, but Christi suggested SharePoint or Google Drive as viable alternatives already in use. - A migration plan will be prepared and shared by the following week. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Correct the IT agreement to accurately list the $8,000 as for a "second onsite technician" (and MSSP) instead of "professional services and projects." - [ ] Christi to complete a full inventory of end-of-life hardware (monitors, docking stations) and identify sites operating without functional equipment (e.g., BAFMA). - [ ] Christi to draft and send an all-staff email about upcoming ADT master code resets and the new access code request process. - [ ] Add Paolo to the ADT system and provide him with an access code; confirm designated approvers (e.g., Crystal, Aaron). - [ ] Assist Paolo, Aaron, and Juan with installing and using the ADT mobile app for arming/disarming. - [ ] Develop and share a migration plan to move files from Box to SharePoint or Google Drive by next week. - [ ] Cancel the meeting scheduled for next week (July 20–24, 2026) since meetings are every other week; confirm the next biweekly session. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The pricing structure based on user count (currently 330 and rising) was raised as a concern by Kashif. While Christi acknowledged the need to "look at banding again," no specific action was defined to resolve this. > 2. A long-standing facilities request for a filing cabinet (almost two years) caused a negative IT survey. The root cause of the facilities delay was not addressed, posing a risk of continued user frustration.
- Date
- Jul 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hey Pete. Speaker 2 00:00:03 Hey, so what's happening there? Speaker 1 00:00:06 So Kashif has done the Kashif thing, um, and he's trying to take over it. And he called me today while on a cruise and he's like, let's talk about inventory and budgets and and the agreement. So he wants everything to run through him for the agreement. And to get it approved. Now, the thing is, Doctor Barber hasn't told me that. And I have a meeting with ELT in a few minutes to go over everything. But, this is something that Kashif is well known to do in our history, not theirs. I don't know if that's been agreed upon by Doctor Barber. Speaker 2 00:00:48 Well, do you have the updated agreement? I really want to look at it. I got to see it like ASAP. Speaker 1 00:00:54 No, not yet. I asked the sales team to get that. I gave you the wording, That's going in. So that's the that's the paragraph that's going into the new agreement. Everything else is correct. Uh, everything is going to stay the same except for the rider, and that's the wording that's going to go into the rider. That little paragraph it updates. Uh I don't remember which page it was on, but it's under the rider heading. Okay, oh, wait, Chinki did send it to me. Sorry, I I just hadn't looked at my email here. It is. Speaker 1 00:01:26 Uh let me get that over to you. Okay. Speaker 2 00:01:32 Yeah, I think that's I think that makes sense. If if he's a, if he's agreeable to that I think that makes sense because we're providing you know, two onsite res, two two onsite resources and vcio support. So I mean, Speaker 1 00:01:46 That's kind of yeah. Uh, here's the IT agreement. Chinki had sent it, But I just i hadn't looked at my email in a couple hours because I hadn't been focused on that. Okay, um, Speaker 2 00:02:04 What is what why is it called interim managed IT agreement? What does that mean? Speaker 1 00:02:09 Because i don't I don't fully understand why, but I think my understanding because I've slept a little bit then. They're on a month to month with us. They're not a they didn't sign a year agreement or a two year or three year agreement. Um, they want the ability to cancel at any time. Speaker 3 00:02:31 Okay. So. Speaker 1 00:02:40 Okay, that's kind of weird, But all right I I I, I don't understand it either. So. Speaker 2 00:02:49 What is this? What is this fifty? Why is it fifty five thousand Wasn't it fifty thousand before I'm confused. Speaker 1 00:02:56 No, I hadn't checked this yet. I just sent it straight over to you. Okay, um, I thought I'd put in fifty one professional services projects. Speaker 2 00:03:04 Yeah, but they have an eight thousand dollar monthly fee for professional services and projects. What is that for? Speaker 1 00:03:18 Second technician, MSSP. Speaker 2 00:03:21 One time fees thirty thousand, monthly fees eight thousand. That's about. Speaker 1 00:03:31 Second onsite technician. Speaker 2 00:03:41 Wasn't that supposed to be included in the forty in the forty seven thousand or no? Speaker 1 00:03:45 No, it's separate. It's a separate cost. Yeah, But it's it's listed in the cost breakdown incorrectly. It lists professional services and projects, and it should actually be onsite technician unless they put that under there. Speaker 2 00:04:02 Yeah, let's have them fix that then. So yeah, otherwise they're going to think that's yeah, That's that's a weird way to just take that one time fees thing out and have them figure. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:15 Yeah, let me yeah and I I wanna. Speaker 1 00:04:20 Kashif was when I explained it to him. Kashif was great about it. He liked it, but then he was like, wait, not such a broad amount, not three hundred to four hundred. Um So. It's it's one of those things where we may have to look at banding again. Speaker 2 00:04:44 Well what what's their count now? Speaker 1 00:04:46 Uh three thirty as of today. It's still going up. But let me let me do let me do something else. I had already had a plan to do to do some shore up numbers, if I can get to it today, but the way my day is going, I'm I don't know if I'm going to get to it. Um right. Speaker 2 00:05:04 Let me get back into this meeting. Yeah, I want to get this one nailed down. Speaker 3 00:05:07 Okay thank you all right. Speaker 1 00:05:36 Jennifer. Hi, how are you? Speaker 4 00:05:39 I am a little all over the place, but I am good. How are you? How are you feeling? You feeling better? Speaker 1 00:05:46 I am not so much. I am uh, I am feeling good. Uh getting it's slowly getting better. I sound less like an eighty year old man. Than I uh than I did last week. Let me rephrase, An eighty year old man with chronic COPD is what I am trying to say. Gotcha. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:06:06 Well that's always good moving in the right direction. Speaker 1 00:06:09 Yes, Trying to. Speaker 4 00:06:19 Yeah things are very hectic for us right now. So yeah, Speaker 3 00:06:23 There is a lot of program stuff going on. Speaker 1 00:06:27 So, Uh, I have a few items to go over with you guys today. Um, but it should not take the full hour. Speaker 4 00:06:35 All right, I am texting them right now so. Speaker 4 00:06:50 I've Just been in back- to- back meetings. So I am just jumping from one meeting to another. I have the luxury of sitting still. I don't think they do as much. It. Speaker 1 00:07:03 Felt sorry, I was looking at something else. Speaker 4 00:07:13 It looks like I might be in an interview. Crystal is getting on Okay. Speaker 3 00:07:38 It's getting no tasks. Hey team, Speaker 5 00:07:44 Hi. You know, it's been back to back. Speaker 1 00:07:50 Oh yeah, definitely back to back. Today's the third day for it. Speaker 4 00:07:59 Yes, I tried to call Paolo, but he didn't answer and I know Aaron's going to be. She says she's in an interview. Speaker 5 00:08:07 I can ask Paolo over here. Speaker 5 00:08:47 Okay. He said he's gonna join right now. Speaker 4 00:09:32 I Would just say we can go ahead and get started because I know all they are in this. Okay. Speaker 1 00:09:45 All Right, so we're only we're only having Apollo come? He's here. Okay, perfect, sweet. Um, Okay, sorry. I had to stop for a moment. Ignore you guys for a moment, which I do apologize. Trying to handle something for Kashif at the same time as handling an emergency situation for somebody else, which is taken care of. I have a few things. I want to go over real quick with you guys. One is the ADT, so we got the ADT master code reset for. Speaker 1 00:10:21 2610. And everything should be fixed there, But what we're going to do because we had that issue at Crenshaw, where someone just shouted out the master passcode for ADT in a large room full of clients and staff. We had already reset that one, But we're going to go through and reset the master codes and then give people their own individual accounts. If that makes sense. Crystal knows about this already, but let me show you guys what it looks like. Especially Paolo, I asked Natalie to give me a heads up on anybody that her team needs to have it. And so on. Let me make the screen a little bit bigger because it's not very big. So for 2610, it's loading right now. We can set access codes and I myself. Speaker 1 00:11:16 Aaron and Crystal can arm and disarm from the app, so that we we have control over that if someone sets off the alarm, different things like that. Um, sometimes it takes a minute. Okay, so this for um this for here here at headquarters. Um I do have people that are being added to it, so we're adding James to it because he is one of our late guys. Darva is going to be sending me over a couple other names. Alita is usually our first person in in the mornings, and then there's one other person that's in Carlos and Natalie from HR. And then Apollo, you're going to get a code in a second. I'm adding you to it. And then Dr Barbara's code, we never changed or never touched. So that is we kept his the same. So just a heads up for you guys on that. Speaker 1 00:12:13 We are going to be doing this at every site. Like I said, Crenshaw happened not too long ago because of the situation we had with that person who shouted. So this one is similar situation. Access codes are being, we're putting that in now. The process that we're going to follow. If you guys okay, this is that if someone needs an access code, they can put the request in I actually have uh that request ability. Where did it go? I have way too many tickets or way too much stuff open. Hang on. I just had that one to open to show you guys. I am so sorry, Um but there is a form that they can fill out. Uh, the staff can fill out. Um. Speaker 1 00:13:05 That would allow them to go in and request that code, and then we follow up with the department heads or whomever Crystal, you and Aaron want us to follow up to say this is approved. Um, And we're going to do a manual approval process for that for right now until we understand, like who for which every site needs to be that approver or who for each department. Does that make sense? Okay. Yes. Awesome. Speaker 1 00:13:35 Um, so for so for each site, there's an has a master code and access code already set, And then we're going to continue um just adding to that list of individual people. So I do need to send out an email to all staff to give them a heads up that codes are going to be changing. Um do just due to security needs is how I'm going to say you know, we need to rotate these ever so often. Um and put those out. So just a heads up for you guys. Um, so that's ADT. Any anything you guys can think of on ADT that you might have questions on? Speaker 2 00:14:16 No, I think we're good. Speaker 5 00:14:19 No, you're just but you're going to help us download the app, you said right? Speaker 1 00:14:23 Yes, I'm going to help you guys do that. You and Aaron. Okay. Speaker 5 00:14:38 And then has there been any more discussion on whether or not Juan going to be able to have the app because he's in charge of our facilities and safety. Speaker 1 00:14:46 He can have the app. Um, I just I don't recall if Crystal ever asked me on that one. I don't have it in my notes. Speaker 5 00:14:54 No, I'll talk to Aaron and Apollo. Speaker 1 00:14:56 Yeah, Cause I can I can give him the same partition master supervisor as you guys and get him into the app. That's not hard at all. Speaker 1 00:15:09 Okay, so, um, so that's what the ADT. Um, And Crystal need I do need to show you the app today to show you how to arm and disarm. But I think you got to put your access code in. Um, and we'll help you through that. Um, and does Apollo need it? I mean, You're going to get your own building access code, but do you need the app is what I'm asking? The app yes. Speaker 4 00:15:38 I would say, I would say so just in case. Speaker 1 00:15:41 Okay, not a problem. All right. Perfect. I got you on my list of things to do today. Um okay, so ADT is good. Um I am working on some inventory items, mostly as as we're trying to get things dialed in and penciled inum. We do have a large amount of monitors that are already end of life and docking stations that are already end of life. We do not have any spare in stock. So I want to give you guys a quick update on that. Um, BAFMA has none like there's only two people that have docking stations and monitors that actually work. Um, Everybody else is just using their laptop on their desk. And uh there's some similar issues at other sites where. Speaker 1 00:16:36 The docking stations are not working, the monitors are not working, or there's not enough to go around. So I am doing inventory because that's that's becoming an issue I'm hearing about. And so I wanted to make you guys aware that that is happening. And so as soon as I can get that inventory, it's going to take a minute. You guys will have a whole new data set of numbers where we have inventory, so we can make better decisions regarding. Um budgeting for 2728 not 26. 7 because I've already put in some cushion for that into that budget, just in case, but I just found out about this situation. Um it hadn't come up in any of my meetings or anything. And then um but the reason why it wasn't brought up to me is because in the past, they were told there's no funding to replace anything. So I do need to get ahead on that situation. Speaker 1 00:17:31 Um, so that's an update for you guys on that as well. Um, as far as tickets and issues that are coming in as concerns, um, we did get a couple of bad surveys. And have I ever talked to you guys what it means if someone puts a bad survey in for Crimson? What we do? That you guys call. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:17:53 Yeah, you call them directly. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:17:56 Yeah. Um, So, we had someone put a bad survey and start spamming over a five to ten minute period with multiple clicks on onto a yellow. Wasn't a bad survey, it was just a yellow survey, which we call them as well. Um and looking into it, The last couple of survey responses we got that were negative was because we had to refer to someone to DMH because they needed uh their password or they needed access to their tool. Speaker 1 00:18:27 But we can't give them access. Only DMH could do it, and so we had to refer them to DMH for that. Um, and she she wasn't happy about that, But I found out there was a manager who used to put in those kind of tickets for her staff, and now that that manager is not here, you know they're they're having to do it themselves. So there's a little bit of issue with that. I'll explain that one to you in a bit Crystal because I had a conversation with that person. You saw our faces? Speaker 5 00:18:53 No Yeah We saw your faces were like. It's okay if we all know, to be honest,'cause we'll probably all talk about it internally. Speaker 1 00:19:00 Yeah, it's uh Yvette. No, Yvonne. Sorry, I got Yvette on the brain. Yvonne Hernandez? Yes. Henderson? Yes. Yeah. Um and so I did have a conversation with her. I did ask her to not click the button so many times just gently question. But, that was what that one was about. And just to give you guys a heads up on that. The other one that came in, because we do monitor these pretty heavily. This one came in against Gaston because it was from Hector Martinez. And the reason why he put that in is because we didn't handle the request. It had to go to Juan because it was a facilities request. Speaker 1 00:19:53 And. So we closed out our ticket and sent all the information over to Juan and explained that. But then when our ticket closed and this issue hadn't been done yet because we closed earlier, um, he did put a bad survey in. Speaker 5 00:20:09 Okay. So he changed it? Speaker 1 00:20:11 He didn't change it. He just put a bad one in. Oh, Speaker 5 00:20:15 He put a bad one in? Speaker 1 00:20:16 Yeah, Because uh the fact that you know, we closed our ticket before he got the issue taken care of by Juan. So, but the ticket that gets sent over, I mean the information that gets sent over to Juan for Juan to handle. So. Speaker 5 00:20:31 What was it regarding? Speaker 1 00:20:33 I think it was a, I have to look it up. It's been a week. It was regarding, I think a filing cabinet request. Speaker 5 00:20:42 Oh, It's the filing cabinet that they have been asking for since Lorenzo has been here. It has been frustrating because it has been for over almost a year and a half going on two. Speaker 1 00:20:53 Gotcha. If I'd known that, I'd have given them the white one that I gave to to Erin. Speaker 5 00:20:59 And to be fair, I thought it was already taken care of and I think when I seen that come through, I was shaking my head, because I couldn't believe that it still hadn't been handled. Gotcha. Okay. But, that's probably more. So it's not really about you guys more than it is about the frustration. Mhm So, Speaker 1 00:21:17 I'm i'm honestly for you guys. We've not had that many come in. Um, just the fact that Yvonne had clicked three times today. She only remembers clicking twice, but I think it was three times total. Um, And then we also had an extra two because our system messed up and reduplicated it. Um, it you know she she was pretty understanding. Um, most of them seem like they're not issues with us just frustrations at the process or frustrations with what was going on behind the scenes. Um. Speaker 1 00:21:51 Everyone that I've talked to when they put a survey in, because I think there's been like four total, um have been super positive about the guys and what's going on. If I look at our comments, um I just got logged out of my system. That's lovely. If I look at the comments, uh 7:45 this morning Robert provided excellent tech support. Um so far I've got great service from Crimson IT their work is fast and efficient. That was from Damian Brown. Um, and these are just the comments. These are not the actual surveys. There's a lot more surveys than comments, so the comments are coming in good if that makes sense. Mhm. Um, any questions about that? No Your guys are doing great for the most part, like those are the the only two negatives. Speaker 1 00:22:47 Everybody else has been like fantastic with putting in tickets and asking for requests to get handled. Um, with everything that we've had going on, everybody's been super responsive. So, it makes me very happy to see because I don't get that all the time. Um, I am running into a few instances where we will try to get a hold of somebody. And they just don't respond. And, we'll try because our our thing is try three times and then close the ticket. So just a heads up for you guys if you ever hear about that, no one's complained so far, but if you ever hear about that, um that is what's going on. So um we are CrowdStrike is that contract is being terminated uh. Speaker 1 00:23:44 Within X expiration, which expires in two months, We have already started removing CrowdStrike from all computers, and we've already removed McAfee from all computers. So, we've reinstalled a new antivirus. Both of those were were antivirus software. We've already started installing new antivirus software on everybody's computers. So over the next month or so, if not less, People will notice that their computers are going to be running much faster because there is not two. Of the same software competing, so heads up for you guys on that. That's that's a good thing, and then as far as the rest of the security suite that's coming through, I am keeping a comprehensive list of all the contracts I am ending and what I am renewing. We still have a few items that are coming up for renewal soon that we're going to be replacing their software. So one of those is your not secure email, not that one. Speaker 1 00:24:42 But it's your Barracuda spam protection. So, what we're going to be doing with the spam protection is we're switching it over. Barracuda is a good tool and it's been out there for a long time, but there is a tool that we love called Avanan. And Avanan actually makes it a lot easier to manage spam from your computers. So I'm going to give you guys a demo of it real quickly. And then we'll be done with everything I had for you guys unless you guys have questions. Um, I'm going to show you my inbox. Don't don't look scared at it because it's just my inbox. It's messy. It's always messy. Um, are you going to let me share? Okay, yes, I have a lot of emails, but I do categorize my emails as I read them. So in here, if an email comes to me and the system defines it as spam. Speaker 1 00:25:41 Or junk. It's going to go into my junk inbox. And from here, I can go in and take a look. In the past, what Barracuda would do was just block it from coming to you period. But if it's spam, not a bad actor but just spam, Uh, you can go in here and just read up read any of it. And like let's say, someone sent a question, like this one right here um I. If I knew that that was coming, I could right click on it. And I can say never block sender or never block sender's domain. So I do that with new clients. They'll email me and it'll go my spam, and then I just go, "never block sender's domain," and that'll update it. And then I can put it into my inbox. It's really good at weeding out the junk. Like it's so much better than Barracuda. I've used Barracuda in the past for many years, but things like webinar on demand would never get flagged. Speaker 1 00:26:35 The reason I also like it is because it knows how to distinguish between like an account admin from a vendor, sending me messages versus a just a spam email that they send out to all their users. So it will differentiate between those. So like CloudRadial, I actually use with a client and my emails from CloudRadial come in that are not junk. But then I still get these junks coming through, and that gets filed into that. So it's really good at distinguishing that. Now, if someone sends you a phishing email or something along those lines, the system will flag it and will not send it to you. Um, I'm going to see if I can find a quarantine message. Speaker 3 00:27:32 Hang on one second. How. Speaker 1 00:27:42 Do you spell quarantine? Um, I mean, let's do it blocked. I haven't received one at all today, which is unusual. Um. Speaker 1 00:28:05 It'll come in and it'll say, "Hey, this message has been blocked from being received." And then if you were expecting it, you just hit "inner ticket" or something like I was expecting this inner ticket. And what the system what the team will do is they'll go into Avanan, and they're going to look at it. I'm going to show you what it looks like, but they'll go into it. And it's going to give them some telltale signs to say, "This was phishing. This is why we blocked it from coming to your inbox." So while junk is doing its thing, if we go in here, I'll show you what it looks like. We can look at a message and we can see, "Hey, this system." Speaker 1 00:29:03 It's not being nice to me today. There we go. We can see where the events occurred, any issues going on it. If they said, hey, this the email that was sent out, they can go in and take a look at that profile. They can see who it was sent to. They can see how big is the indicator that this a problem? And, they can even see where it's originated from and what the domain looks like, all of that. So they can see everything that's coming in. And this originated over in India or Pakistan, somewhere around there. Wow! So it's really cool. It's a very good tool. We are going to switch you guys over from Barracuda to this one. Also, this one's included into your contract and it'll be a cost. Speaker 1 00:30:01 It'll be a cost savings for you guys because we're going to be stopping the Barracuda from being uh from being billed. So it is going to be adjustment and savings. Um it is really good, we like it, it's actually outperformed any other tool we've used. Um and it is becoming a big name in a lot of spaces. But you guys will like because it'll be easier for you guys to manage your junk email coming through. Speaker 2 00:30:26 So That was nice thanks for thanks for showing Chris. Speaker 1 00:30:30 You're welcome, U m, we have tools like this everywhere. So if you guys ever want to see anything along those lines, let me know. Sometimes I bore people, sometimes I don't. So um that's all I have for you guys today. Uh Crystal and Apollo I do need to talk to you guys alone for a moment. If you guys don't mind me walking over to Crystal's office. Yeah, Come over, um but do Jennifer do you have anything for me? No, okay. Speaker 1 00:31:01 Sweet. Oh, Box. Sorry, one more thing. I am exploring how long it's going to take us to move everything to Box, but Jennifer, you guys are the only ones that use Box, and I want I need to get that taken out soon. Um. Speaker 4 00:31:15 I know Pratt (likely a name, keep as is) shares a lot of reports and stuff that she's been generating and doing in Box to share it that way. Because a lot of the times, the files are really big. Yes so uh, As long as we can figure out another solution, I am okay with it. But yes, we still use a lot of box. Speaker 1 00:31:31 So SharePoint is a good tool for that, and uh which you guys are already using SharePoint for things. And so is um so is Google Drive, and it'll allow you to share big files. Okay, so just heads up for you guys. So I'll get that plan put together this week. I was already planning on having that over to you guys next week. I am going to cancel next week's meeting because these were supposed to be every other week. Um. And then, if you guys have anything, you know where to find me. I am not planning on being out for another emergency situation again. Okay, all right. I am going to come over and I'll follow. Speaker 3 00:32:08 Okay, sounds good. Speaker 1 00:32:09 Thanks guys.
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04-21 Project Meeting: Claude Enterprise Rollout, AI Policy, Training Plan, and Sharp Site Access
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-21 13:49:40 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Vince] ## Meeting Notes - Claude Enterprise rollout documentation and plan - Anzor committed to deliver documentation by Wednesday for Ruben. - Vince prepared drafts: usage expectations, enterprise rollout strategy, AI usage policy, enterprise pitch deck, and training plan. - Speaker 2 is reviewing with limited time; plans to rewrite the AI policy and complete a full pass on the documents. - Rollout timeline discussed: currently 12 months across three phases; consensus is to keep the year-long plan due to IGP’s pace. - No meeting scheduled; this is a follow-up to last Friday’s discussion with Ruben (with Anzor joining). Conclusion: - Keep the 12-month, three-phase rollout; Speaker 2 will revise the AI policy and review all documents. - Training plan for Claude Enterprise - Speaker 2 will lead training; asked whether onsite is required. - No Statement of Work is needed at this stage; materials should be packaged for Ruben to present. - Need an enterprise training plan; no clients currently on enterprise, so it will be built from scratch. - AI policy and API usage considerations - Existing AI policy needs revision to include Claude. - Grant (company president) is building an application and has encouraged employees to use AI; API usage guidance may be needed. - Vince suggests identifying “power users” with higher usage caps and managing API usage via guidelines; no specific API policy was discussed with Ruben. - User count, demand, and budgeting - Current user count is ~36; multiple teams are requesting Claude access. - Teams plan has a hard cap of 150; moving to enterprise at $20/user to pool budget and control access. - Some users have overages; power user controls could help manage usage. - Access issues at Sharp sites (non-Claude operational matter) - ADT is assisting; access is blocked by Hi Tech at two sites, preventing door control system access. - Speaker 2 is awaiting Dr. Parker’s signature on a quote to proceed. - ADT handles four Sharp sites; Hi Tech handles two, with access withheld. - Operational notes at Sharp (Teams/meetings) - Lorenzo previously disabled Microsoft Teams for staff at Sharp. - Speaker 2 re-enabled Teams because LA County DHS uses Teams for meetings; staff had been using personal accounts. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 2 to rewrite the AI usage policy to include Claude specifics and perform a full review pass on all documents prepared by Vince. - [ ] Package documentation (policy, rollout strategy, training plan, pitch deck) for Ruben’s presentation and confirm Wednesday deliverables with Anzor to obtain sign-off. - [ ] Confirm whether onsite training is required and outline the enterprise training plan. - [ ] Address access issues at Sharp’s two Hi Tech–managed sites pending Dr. Parker’s signature; coordinate with ADT and internal stakeholders. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify specific requirements for API usage, especially considering Grant’s application development and broader employee AI initiatives. > 2. Define criteria for “power users,” usage caps, and monitoring processes to manage overages and API access. > 3. Confirm the detailed rollout phases, milestones, and responsibilities within the 12-month plan to avoid delays with IGP. > 4. Decide on training delivery format (onsite vs. remote), schedule, and audience segments to ensure effective adoption. > 5. Establish a process to resolve vendor access issues at Sharp (coordination among ADT, Hi Tech, and internal stakeholders) to restore system control.
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:12 Can you hear me? I can. Speaker 2 00:00:16 Oh, well, damn. Um, I lost my headphones. Oh. I was on the. Speaker 1 00:00:22 Phone with uh did did they get knocked down? Oh here they are hang on. Speaker 2 00:00:31 Sorry, uh, my glasses are on my head. Everything's going weird. I was on a call, and I was trying to take a lunch all at the same time. Um, oh, Speaker 3 00:00:43 I'm sorry. Speaker 2 00:00:44 No, You didn't know i I was on a call with ADT because we're struggling with some things at Sharp. Mm hmm So Okay. Speaker 3 00:00:56 I won't take too much time. Just wanted to follow up and see if we have any next steps. Um, I know when we met with Ruben, Anzar and I last Friday, he committed to Reuben that we would get documentation out by Wednesday. Soum For which? Speaker 2 00:01:14 I'm sorry. For which? Speaker 3 00:01:17 This is the whole Claude, the all the Claude documentation forum for I G P Oh okay. The like, Enterprise rollout and all that stuff. Speaker 2 00:01:27 Yeah, I've got so much stuff going on. I didn't even know about the ITP one until you sent over the email. Unless you told me, I didn't know. Uh, wait, Speaker 1 00:01:41 Where'd my email go? I was justtyping up an email. Good lord. Okay, Speaker 2 00:01:51 I wastyping up an email to Doctor Barber and it's not missing. Speaker 3 00:01:57 Drafts, Drafts. Hopefully it's in drafts. Speaker 1 00:01:59 It's the Gmail because Sharpe is on Gmail. I'm having trouble opening this attachment. Speaker 2 00:02:45 Okay. So we have a site that was basically being held hostage on, and we cannot get access to. Um, work on the door controls. Speaker 3 00:02:55 Oh. Held hostage by ADT. Speaker 2 00:02:60 No, I actually ADT is the only one helping us. Oh. We're being held hostage by a company called Hi Tech. Speaker 3 00:03:09 What's their involvement? Are they the installers? Speaker 2 00:03:13 So they are, they handle but ADT handles four sites per s harp and Bafma or, High tech handles two sites, and we can't get access to the system. It's the exact same system as all other sites, but we can't get access to it. And they won't give us access. So I am struggling because I desperately need access. We haven't been able to add anyone to the site, and now I'm just waiting on Doctor Parker to sign the quote. Speaker 3 00:03:54 Okay. Um, so yeah, What I was saying was uh Anzor and I met with Ruben on Friday and then Anzor committed to getting all of this like deployment strategy implementation, AI usage education plan, all that good stuff. So that's that's what those attachments were. Um And. Speaker 2 00:04:18 He volunteered for it right? Speaker 3 00:04:22 He did yeah. So, I was like, I am gonna step in and see where I can help. And then, I just am just trying to figure out next steps right? Because uh I haven't seen Anzur reply to anything yet. I am assuming he wants to kind of get a sign off on it first. So uh just want to get ahead of it. You, Speaker 2 00:04:40 Did you did most of my work for me with those and I do apologize. I was reading them from the doctor's office last yesterday evening, because I was with the kid at one of her appointments. And so I was trying to read it all. Um, So I apologize. If I miss things and ask you about it, because my little screen on my phone was not the greatest to be reading things from. Oh no, you are good. Yeah, We didn't get out of there until like we didn't get home until nine thirty. So um okay. So okay, so we're doing an upgrade you You've pretty much designed it out. I am going to be doing training. Do I need to go on site for this training? Um, I think. Speaker 2 00:05:21 Honestly, I can make an SOW for you. Wait, do you need an SOW? I've got DTLA on my brain, EAP, and a few others that are looking for SOWs. Um. Speaker 3 00:05:33 Not for not not for this. I think the way the discussion went with Alonzer and Ruben was make the case. Well, Alonzer said we're just going to switch to enterprise. That's what he told Ruben like like that's just going to happen right away, right? And then he pivoted, he orbited the discussion around the ability to audit, which is valid, right? And then we can back that up with some of the other talking points. But anyways, so there's that. And I don't know if that's going to be a statement of work, or you know how we're going to present that. But. Then more importantly, it's also making sure that all this documentation is something that's packaged and ready for Ruben to present. Okay. Um. Speaker 3 00:06:19 Because this is essentially saying, like, you know, it's the welcoming party or whatever you want to call it, like the grand opening of Claude. Right. So we want to set some parameters around that. That's what the rest of the documents are to support that that initiative. Speaker 2 00:06:31 Okay. So let me ask a few questions. So, we're going to move them to enterprise. What is what is the goal for that? Is it on just being on or or is there an actual goal that we're trying to do? Speaker 3 00:06:45 So a little bit of both, right? Right now the current user count is around thirty six. Um and then Ruben's getting requests for Claude flying left and right. Like every team is saying, can we get Claude? Can we get Claude? Can we get Claude? So Ruben's like kind of saying like, yeah, we're gonna selectively you know assign accounts right now. Um but teams, Claude team's cap hard cap is one hundred and fifty as well. So, Obviously, we jump to enterprise right, twenty dollars, a user put in a bunch of money for like a general pool lock down the budget. Yeah, and then just sort of come up with the approach plan. Speaker 2 00:07:28 I like it. Um, okay. So that makes a lot of sense and we can easily do that. Um what are you worried about for the meeting and when's the meeting? Speaker 3 00:07:41 There is no meeting. I I just, Anders like we're gonna send you these documents by by Wednesday. Like that's that's all he said, right? Speaker 2 00:07:50 And it's like Did you manage to record the meeting? Speaker 3 00:07:52 I did not. This was kind of my weekly Friday meetings that Anders hopped on and should have. I don't even think need a Teams Oh, I don't need transcription. I should, I should get transcription But anyways. Speaker 2 00:08:08 Yeah No worries Yeah Um okay Okay, So that answers a lot. That helps me. Um, what are what are the exact documents he asked for? That was our so we were going to do. Speaker 3 00:08:23 So all the ones that I've, you know, expectations for usage, right, like how they expect Iron get users to use cloudum enterprise rollout strategy, which is just kind of. You know, setting up the guidelines and the timeline for rolling out Claude Enterprise. Um, AI usage policy. So that's where you get looped in, right? Obviously like I don't know if there's something in place already. What do we need to modify and update to include Claude? Um, I just threw in an enterprise pitch deck. But then there's also the training plan. Like what's the enterprise training plan going to be? Speaker 2 00:08:59 Yeah. And, we don't we don't have enterprise on any of our clients. So I'm going to have to. I'm gonna have to do that one from scratch. Uh, which is not a big deal. That's actually pretty well. Why did my screen just go black? Hang on, Speaker 1 00:09:17 I can't see you. Speaker 2 00:09:22 I'm hoping it just four hour mark, i I had it set where it restarts at four or it turns off at four hours, because I'm never home and I forget, I got to fix that. Um, okay, now I can see you. And, um, okay. So you did great on those documents, and then I need to put together the AI policy. However, let me let me call. Did I am struggling with this one? Did uh Ruben say anything about API usage to you guys? Like no, Speaker 3 00:10:03 There was no discussion. There was no, Outright discussion about API. So so when you mentioned Grant, I am like first who's Grant because I haven't met with him yet. Oh, and then uh yeah, cause Grant is the president. Speaker 2 00:10:19 Oh, Grant's being okay. Grant's the president. Jason is the okay. I gotcha. I gotcha. Yeah, So the reason why yeah I haven't met with Grant yet. Yeah The reason why I brought up Grant is because grant is actively working on an application he is buildingum right? Speaker 3 00:10:35 That's the. Speaker 2 00:10:35 Yeah, so he he's going to look at that and he's going to be like, okay, what about me because I am doing X Y Z. And, then he also put a thing out last year to quite a few employees to get them to use AI and build things to make their lives easier. Right, I see. So yeah, that's that's going to be a big one. Speaker 3 00:11:00 Well, there are no specific callouts about how API usage. I mean, there's just general guidelines, right? Um and recommendations. So I think that should be okay. Um if we need to talk into API usage, What we can do is say, you know, uh We can have certain users be identified, as, you know, quote unquote power users and give them a higher usage cap. And, then we have the ability to manage that as we go along. Speaker 2 00:11:28 Okay. Good I like that. I know that there's quite a few users on their on their cloud account that has overages. Okay, so that makes that easy. Um, I think most of your documents look great. Let me rewrite the AI policy. Speaker 3 00:11:44 Sure, sounds good. Speaker 2 00:11:46 And then I'll do one pass over everything now that I've had coffee and sleep. Okay, yeah, You'll show you. Speaker 3 00:11:53 What's left to fix The only other concern. I had was uh rollout timeline because we're. Calling it 12 months across three phases, is that too slow? That's too fast. Too slow. Okay, so maybe we need to make some adjustments there. Speaker 2 00:12:09 I wouldn't make too many adjustments. Um, put it in there for a year because I know how IGP works. Um, yeah, I get it. They're they're slow. We, we struggle with them all the time because they never call us back and things you you get it Yeah. Um, yeah, so let's do that. And then what was the other thing? I don't remember what it was. It's been a day. I have been busy. Same. I am trying to get access to buildings because the dumb dumb uh decided he wanted to do things his way and not standard way, did Did I tell you that he shut off Teams in their in their Microsoft team? Speaker 2 00:12:57 Cause he didn't want any of the staff using Teams. Who? Uh, Lorenzo from Sharp when he was there. The guy that took over. Wow. I see, that's that's crazy. So I had to turn back on Teams because uh DHS, which is uh Department of Health Services for Los Angeles only uses Teams. Mm okay, Speaker 1 00:13:22 And they've been having meetings and they had to use their personal Teams accounts. Speaker 2 00:13:26 To support the GHD test. Speaker 3 00:13:30 Oh my gosh, and I'm sure they're like GCC high and all that stuff, so like okay. Speaker 2 00:13:37 So I've been having fun. Speaker 3 00:13:40 All right. Okay, I just wanted to make sure we touch base. Uh if there's anything major that we need to adjust or changeum I'll wait for Anza to follow up, but I think we should be good, Speaker 2 00:13:49 Then You're amazing Can I get Pat? Yeah. Speaker 3 00:13:55 No, I thought that's what Claude's for, right? Speaker 2 00:13:58 We just need to set up. I have forty nine minions in Claude. I don't want to make Vince one. I think I do have a Vince. Have to look at my list. I think Vince is in charge of some No, his name is Vector. Vector, okay Yeah, That's my only V guy. His name is Vector Uh. He is in charge of uh pen testing Ooh Okay, I'll take that, So I have him pen testing all my apps. So. Speaker 3 00:14:32 Okay, cool. I think we're all set then. Um, yeah, just just ping me if you need anything. Speaker 2 00:14:37 Thank you for the yeah thank you for the five minute break fromtyping. I've been fighting fires all day, Speaker 3 00:14:44 So All right, okay, enjoy your lunch. Speaker 2 00:14:48 I will bye.
07-21 Weekly Meeting: Client Project Updates and Internal Processes
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- > Date: 2026-07-21 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] ## Meeting Notes ### Client Project Updates - **Christi:** - Full training is scheduled for next week. - Plaud and OpenAI have been deployed to all their machines. - Christi is working on adding it to RMM and may ask Charl for assistance. - **SCHARP:** - Robert is progressing on schedule with his tasks, tracked via an updated spreadsheet. - Anzor will conduct training for them. - Christi needs to send Anzor the new training documents. - Power outage occurred on Wednesday, July 15, 2026; staff verified all systems were restored correctly. - **Alere:** - Meeting with the pilot user group is scheduled for July 22, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. - The meeting will address the pilot users' list of questions. - **Avalon:** - Christi needs to schedule a new kickoff meeting for next week. - Billing has been updated on their cloud account. - Christi will follow up with Vance and Mike on a few items this week. - Meeting with Julius is scheduled for Friday, July 24, 2026, regarding their Cloud Enterprise setup. - **Westwood:** - The account is set up. - Meeting with Brett is scheduled for July 21, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. to review the setup. - A new quote and SOW will be reviewed and sent for signature. - **Upcoming Project:** - The invoice has been posted and sent. - Next step: the client signs for their service, expected this week. ### Internal Process Discussions - **Security Assessments:** - Sergio stated that security assessments need to be started. - This may be part of upcoming planning. - A presentation has been created but not yet sent. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to send new training documents to Anzor for SCHARP's training. - [ ] Christi to schedule Avalon's new kickoff meeting for next week. - [ ] Christi to follow up with Vance and Mike on Avalon-related items this week. - [ ] Sergio to send the security assessment presentation this week. - [ ] Send the client the presentation and collect signature for their service this week. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The status of a ticket mentioned by Sergio, which was "approved and being processed" and waiting for bank clearance, was not fully resolved. It's unclear if Christi provided all necessary information. > 2. Christi mentioned needing to follow up with Vance and Mike regarding Avalon, but the specific items for follow-up were not detailed. > 3. The decision on removing "Gaston" from a list was mentioned but not confirmed. > 4. Sergio mentioned an offer letter for Holly, but the context and any required actions from others were not specified. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Weekly Project Que Up - already logged 7/21.
- Date
- Jul 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 Good morning. Let's see if the camera works today. Yes, I had to get a newum I had to get a new cable for my camera. It stopped working. Yeah, hang on. Speaker 2 00:00:26 Okay, uh I'll fix this. Speaker 2 00:00:43 Okay, that's better. Speaker 3 00:00:48 My paper towels got moved. Speaker 1 00:00:51 I mean, my nap- My tissues had gotten moved. Speaker 3 00:00:56 Good lord. I switched purses or switched bags again. Everything is all mixed up. Wait, what is this? Oh, that's. Where is my child's report card? No worries. Speaker 2 00:01:27 I feel that I was stopping at coffee on my way this morning, because it has been a little crazy. There's a pen. Um, trying to get through some things so. Speaker 3 00:01:43 I owe you on the coffee. Good morning. All right, more. I know. Speaker 1 00:02:19 I Keep losing pins. So last Wednesday, we had a power outage at SCHARP and like it went down and stayed down. And so I was trying to, We were trying to go around and check everything and make sure everything got put back together correctly. And so I grabbed a handful of SCHARP pins that are also flashlights. Or little pin lights because I had to go to the bathroom, and there was no windows in the bathroom. It was pitch black, so I gave a bunch of them out, and I thought I kept one for myself, and apparently I did not and I needed the flashlights. So under my desk. So yeah, but that's okay. I will make do with my camera flashlight. Speaker 1 00:03:15 As soon as I figure out where to put my keys. Speaker 3 00:03:24 Anyway, where is everybody? Sorry. Speaker 3 00:03:46 We still love you. Speaker 2 00:03:56 I won't tell anybody. Speaker 2 00:04:16 And then it was approved and being processed, So I'm just waiting for bank clearance, and then we're going to close this ticket. Speaker 1 00:04:48 This is my fault. I am also supposed to be working on that. Did I get you everything you needed? Okay, Speaker 1 00:05:10 Yeah, And he's not called me. I think I'd left him a message at one point, and he didn't call me back. Um, and that was the last time around, but. Speaker 2 00:05:18 I mean, I can always try again. Speaker 1 00:06:19 So um with Christi, we actually do their full training next week. They still haven't decided which one they're going with. So what they've asked me to do. And I did I've done part of that this week. And I've got to finish that up today is to go ahead and push the Plaud and OpenAI out to all their machines. So Plaud has been pushed um OpenAI. I'm still working on getting that added to RMM. And Olivia, if I get stuck again, uh do you mind if I. Reach out to Charl because she did the last Plaud one and then I perfected hers. Um, But I'm I might be struggling slightly with this one, because I don't do this often enough to know. So, um, and then so that's where we're at with them. Uh it'll be nice to actually get this one fully under wraps. And then with SCHARP uh Robert is still working through going through everything um. Speaker 1 00:07:13 He is active. He's got his spreadsheet updated, so I can go in and see where he's at. So no issues there. I think we're going to be on time with that one. So, Anzor is going to do training with them, And I need to send over this morning, the new training documents that I created for him to follow. If he wants with all the updates. Speaker 1 00:07:50 So With Alere, we have another meeting with their pilot group tomorrow. Why did I get that email? Okay, never mind. Sorry, I went to go look at my calendar and I noticed an email from Elon Musk, which means I'm going to be reporting that. We have a meeting with Alere's pilot users on Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. We're going to be going over the list of notes that they created of, "Hey, how do we do this? How do we do that?" So and this is before we get to training all of their users. So we are working through that with them. Actually, I've been really enjoying working with them on this one. So Avalon, I We have the kickoff. I need to make a new meeting with them for next week to go over everything. Speaker 1 00:08:38 Um, and they have already updated billing on their cloud account, and we're working through a few more items on that one. Uh I just need to uh follow up with Vance and Mike on a few items this week. And then Julius did respond, Julius did respond to me um I'm going to be working with him on a few items in regards to uh their setup for Cloud Enterprise. And uh so I have a meeting with them on I believe Friday. Speaker 1 00:09:21 Alright. So Westwood, the account is set up. Brett is back today. I actually have a meeting with him today at one o'clock, um. And we're going to be going through all the setup, make sure everything is good for that for him and Casey. Make sure that they're actually using it. Uh, And then we're also sending out a new quote and SOW for something that they're asking me to create. So I'll be going over that with them this afternoon as well. Uh, and we'll be having them sign off on that new quote. And then for Gaston, I thought we removed that from the list? Okay. Speaker 2 00:10:39 We need to start doing security assessments. This may be part of the upcoming planning. We're going to have a couple of answers that we have from your questions that they've sent to me, and then so this one we have also on the internet presentation, but we haven't done it yet. So maybe I'll put it this week or later this week when we can send it. Speaker 2 00:11:46 So, our next project we posted the invoice, and sent it to them. Because it. And, then next is our upcoming project is for uh, they're signing for their service that they're not this will be done this week um also just send them a presentation alsoon as he's quite ready. Speaker 2 00:12:51 With relatively tight access, or any access. Speaker 2 00:14:24 Okay. Speaker 2 00:15:24 Yes. Speaker 2 00:19:45 Alright, thanks everybody. Anything else? And that's the minutes cause. Are you on the offer letter for Holly? Like, um, yeah. So I guess you send her an email. I'm talking to her right now so you don't have to talk to her. Thanks everybody again next week. So. Speaker 2 00:20:15 Yeah, So I'm just letting you know that I'm reaching out to the conference. So we know what you want to respond.
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06-18 Meeting: Vendor Quotes, Internet Redundancy, Contract Audit, and Invoice Follow-ups
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- > Date: 2026-06-18 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Erin] [Speaker 3] ### Meeting Notes #### Vendor Quotes and Contact Information - Speaker 3 needs the point of contact/signer for Crown Housing and Sierra Vista to provide a quote, as the current one from Lingo is more expensive. - This information is missing because the lines were inherited from G2 (Manny Gallion), and they are trying to bring management of these services in-house. - Erin requested that the quote be sent to her and Mashawn. - The company policy now requires obtaining multiple quotes from different vendors and brokers for evaluation. - Erin has already received a quote from La Costa and plans to get one from Sandler Partners. #### Service and Contract Management - Erin confirmed she is approved to explore changing over the internet service at the camp. - The plan is to keep the existing Frontier Fiber and add Starlink as a backup solution. - Speaker 3 noted they can provide the same bandwidth for the current fiber at a significantly lower monthly cost, as the original rate included construction costs. - Erin informed the team that the company is undergoing a full audit of all vendors, driven by new C-level executives. - She may request contract details, including term limitations, for all services. - Speaker 3 clarified that requests for contracts with Comtech can be fulfilled the same day, while those with G2 might take a day or two. #### Follow-up on Outstanding Invoices - Speaker 3 asked for an update on the remaining invoices for each account. - Erin will check on the status of the invoices with the relevant team. - She explained that payments, even via ACH, take 2-3 days to process due to a verification step to prevent fraud. #### Preparation for Internal Meetings - Erin requested a comprehensive list of all systems provided, including ISPs and phone systems. - This is to prepare for upcoming meetings next week regarding the vendor audit and budgets. - She mentioned Crown Sierra and Green Street are no longer in operation. - An introduction to the new CFO may be possible after the current audit is complete. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 3 to email quotes for Crown Housing and Sierra Vista to Erin and Mashawn. - [ ] Speaker 3 to send quotes for Starlink and a reduced-cost Frontier Fiber plan to Erin. - [ ] Erin to check on the status of the outstanding invoices and share updates once available. - [ ] Speaker 3 to provide Erin with a comprehensive list of all services and systems they manage for the company, including ISPs and phone systems. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The company's new policy requires multiple quotes from different vendors and brokers. This may impact the existing business relationship and requires a competitive offering to retain the business. > 2. The ongoing company-wide vendor audit and new C-level leadership could lead to significant changes in contracts and vendor relationships. Proactive communication and providing requested information promptly will be crucial.
- Date
- Jun 18, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:18 Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:20 Sorry, my camera's not working again this morning. That's okay. It's only when I'm in this office. Speaker 3 00:00:28 That's alrighty. Not a problem. Um, how are you? I'm good. Thank you for giving me that quick little minute the other or yesterday. I know I jumped in with uh unexpected calls, so I didn't mean to catch you off guard there. Speaker 2 00:00:43 It is quite all right. Yesterday was a little crazy. Speaker 3 00:00:47 Yeah, right. I could only imagine your world is. Yeah There's a lot going on There's always a lot to do, I'm sure Yeah, yeah, Um, so I've got uh some quotes here. Uh, I'm gonna send over. I just wanted to, and I can send you an email if it's easier. Uh, just need a little bit of information. Basically who's gonna be the point of contact or the signer um on the Crown Housing and Sierra Vista? Because all I have right now, I have a quote with Lingo but Lingo is more expensive. Right. Um take you to way better offer. Speaker 3 00:01:29 So I. Just and on that quote because it's these POPs lines we inherited the G2 Manny Gallion is they're on the G2 side because Larry was sub subbing all those managed services out to him. Well, now that we are doing that. There's these bits of information that we don't have because of that. And we're looking to extract all those from Manny through change of contract, change of carrier, vendor. So that's why I'm lacking that information. I just don't I don't like us to sound like we're disorganized. We don't have what we need if it's for that reason, We don't have that information, and we want to get it into our controls. So we can manage it for you a lot better because it just isn't being managed by what happened the other day. If we were the agency on it, we would have gotten. Speaker 3 00:02:25 Notifications that came out were due a long time ago, and it would never gone to that point. So, um, that being said, I will just email you. Okay. Should I see C Machon on that? Speaker 2 00:02:38 Uh yes, Send it over to me and C Machon, because we areum the way we need to approach it this year, and we I hadn't really talked about that with you. And Zach is We are We need to get quotes, not just from you guys anymore, but we need to get. A few quotes together and then evaluate it like that. So, um, I did already get a quote from La Costa. Um, oh hang on one second. Speaker 1 00:03:06 Let me put you guys on mute. Hello? Dom? Speaker 1 00:03:36 Was that Doctor Haskins'office? It was just them asking for me to respond. Yeah, they called me too, but then put me on hold. I guess to talk to you. Sorry about that, guys. I got a rather important call and then needed to switch over for that. So I do apologize. No problem. Okay, so would. Speaker 3 00:03:60 It help in us winning the deal? Because we're familiar, you know, as a company and wanting, of course, to to continue the business with you guys. Um by providing more than one quote. So if it was NHC Coeo. Um and then I can select a couple other POTS, good POTS providers as far as the POTS sides go. Speaker 2 00:04:19 So, it's going to end up being one of those things where it's not. It doesn't need to be just TeleSystem Conduit It needs to be multiple vendors. And brokers. So, um, I did go to La Costa. Um, And then I did I am going to go to Sandler Partners because we do uh work with Sandler Partners some. So, I just have to get the multiple quotes and thenum and then take it from there. Speaker 3 00:04:51 Okay. Understood. Um okay and then for the Starlink and Frontier Fiber at the camp? Yes, You were approved for Connect or you were approved for the changeover. Where was that at? Speaker 2 00:05:10 So I'm approved to start exploring the changeover. And. So basically, we're going to keep the fiber in place exactly where it's at currently and then look at Starlink as a backup and whether we go through you guys for Starlink or what do we need to do. We're still working through that part. Speaker 3 00:05:33 Okay. All right, uh, and then on those quotes, That would be Kelly as the primary contact to get those quotes over to BU. No, it's going to be me. Okay. Good deal. Yeah. All right, then I will get those sent over. We've got everything in that position to just input that information and uh can send them over Uh. I am going to send I don't know yesterday. We. We briefly tacked on the current fiber that's in place right now. We can provide the same bandwidth, But it's still being paid at a rate that when Larry and Manny brought that fiber line up there with the construction cost in, then monthly reoccurring cost, it should be significantly lower now. But can get the same feed, same everything, just basically reduce the bill. Speaker 2 00:06:22 Okay. That would be amazing. Speaker 3 00:06:25 Okay. Yeah, it's quite intense. We were working with Kashif on that. We were in a contract period, and now things have gone even lower. So we're not going to feel the same contracts. We want to make sure we're right down at current rates. Speaker 2 00:06:40 Gotcha, And just a heads up for you guys this thisum just so that you guys are aware, we're in the middle of an audit of all vendors. Soum I may and I don't want you guys to freak out about this, I may reach out and say, hey, I need to know the contracts for this. I need to know term limitations, all of that. I don't want you guys to forget it's across the board with all systems. Understood. Speaker 3 00:07:05 Yeah, so yeah, whenever you do a need, let us know because with ones that aren't with Comtech but are with G2, I don't want to say it's going to take some time, but I just want to be very transparent. And clear that we'll have to Craig is our liaison to G2 and he'll get that stuff. It's been, Pre tty fast because we've been doing a lot of change out already with a bunch of other customers that have requested to stay with Comdata and go away from G2. So, as it works, so being said, I just wanted to set that expectation that it's as soon as we get that you know, it's not with Comdata would be same day same day answer, but G2 might be a day or two. Speaker 2 00:07:41 Okay, gotcha. That's good to know. Um and just be aware because we do have all newum C-level in quite a few departments. This is across. Board with everybody. So they're taking the board is taking a deep look into everything. Um, so I don't want you guys to panic, Butum there may be some changes coming through, and we're also working on budgets right now. Speaker 2 00:08:06 Okay. So just just be aware. Yeah. Okay. So the whole new, you know, Hey, we got to get. We got to get multiple quotes. Uh, you know, from around wherever. That's that's all filtering down. It's not just it, it's everybody. Speaker 3 00:08:24 Okay, understood. Now I get how that works. Yeah. Um, okay. And then did you I just wouldn't also want to follow up on the remaining invoice on each account? Speaker 2 00:08:35 Let me yeah, let me find out where they are on that. Um I don't I know that they're all at lunch right now with another uh with a partner because I'm the one who set up that luncheon. Um, so as soon as they're in the office, uh, Let me find out where that invoice is and whether or not it's been paid out or not. Um, I do know because we use a system to pay out invoices even with ACH. Um, It does take two to three days because it goes through a verification process on, even if it's someone we've done before. It still has to go through that verification to keep from having wire frauds. Speaker 3 00:09:19 Okay. Yeah, I just wanted to follow up on that because I remember, I know Greg's email went out, and we had that text thread when you were out of town. So I just wanted to stay on top of things. Speaker 2 00:09:28 Awesome. Thank you guys so much. I really appreciate you both. Speaker 3 00:09:32 Of course, Thank you. And i'll get everything over to here as quickly as i can today, and then let me know if we need anything else Um, Speaker 2 00:09:40 Why don't we do this real quick? Just because I have a feeling it's coming down the line Let'sum, I know Crown Sierra, I don't think is in operations anymore, and I know Green Street is definitely not in operations. But, In lieu of the fact that they're probably because next week is when they're pulling me into meetings, Let's go ahead and get all of like all the systems we have through you guys. Uh everything that we have including ISPs, phone systems. Let's get all of that over just so I have it before I even walk into that meeting and already prepared. Okay. Speaker 3 00:10:15 Good deal. I will uh we'll dive right into that today. Speaker 2 00:10:18 Awesome, thank you both. Thanks for making my life a little easier. Speaker 1 00:10:22 Well, that's what we're here to do. Okay. Christi, Do you think it would warrant us meeting the new C- suite members at any time in the near future? Speaker 2 00:10:32 Um maybe uh Mashawn is still here. Sergio is still CEO. We do have a new CFO and they're taking a hard look at everything, which I definitely appreciate given everything. I've seen so far. The new CFO is amazing, but let's let him get in and out underneath this audit, and then I can do an introduction. Cool. All right. Speaker 1 00:10:58 Wonderful. Thank you, Christi. Thanks. Have a great week, guys You too Bye- bye.
06-16 Weekly Meeting: Project U F Week 25 Kickoff, AbilityFirst Wi‑Fi/Failover, Training Billing (50/50), Hardware ETAs, Migrations and Assessments
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-16 09:28:49 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Seg] [Pete] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Project U F Week 25 Kickoff and Attendance - Meeting opened as “week 25 of Project U F.” - Olivia will join late; Vlad cannot attend due to connectivity issues. - Screen sharing of an Excel tracker confirmed; zoom adjusted for readability. - Topic Title: AbilityFirst – Cabling, Wi‑Fi, Failover, and Backup Internet - Cabling infrastructure: finalizing floor plan; outdoor AP to be installed on Will’s cabin to extend coverage to ADUs and parking lot. - Fewer APs needed than planned due to strong coverage. - Issue: some cell phones (notably Kelly’s) drop active calls moving between Wi‑Fi points (arts and crafts building to cabin). Greg and Speaker 1 had no issues. - Action: investigate Wi‑Fi handoff/call drops; update documentation with photos from Greg; coordinate with Comdrop. - Failover test rescheduled to the following Friday at 7:30 AM with Will present. - Backup internet: green‑lit to replace GeoLinks with Starlink; work to start this week. - Topic Title: Kearney Properties and Cotsen (Training/Billing) - Clarification: Kearney Properties starts next week; no billing yet since work hasn’t started. - Billing policy discussed: typically 50% upfront and 50% on completion for $2,500 trainings (per SOP). - Cotsen (Cotsen/Catzen): final meeting next week; ticket to close; total $5,300; quote signed; proceed to billing. - Conclusion: Adopt 50/50 billing for future trainings; proceed with Cotsen billing; Kearney to start and bill per policy. - Topic Title: DTLA Alliance – Free Project - Project kickoff next week due to graduations and vacation. - Confirmed as a free project; note exists in project notes. - Conclusion: No billing; proceed per plan next week. - Topic Title: Anderson – Scheduling and Firewall Install - No email responses yet; Speaker 1 followed up again today and will coordinate with Vince for escalation. - Separate note (from Seg): Anderson is on hold until late June; they want firewall installed on July 2 at 6 PM onward. - Conclusion: Track as on hold; target install window set for 2026-07-02 evening. - Topic Title: Multi‑Phase Project (Phase 1 Complete; Phase 2 Starting; Copilot) - Phase 1 completed last week (by Gabby); Phase 2 starts this week; meeting scheduled Thursday. - Copilot licenses procured and assigned to pilot group. - Four total phases; estimated 6–8 more weeks; target completion by 2026-08-31. - Billing: bill at least 50% now (progress billing) and remainder upon completion; aim to send within 1–2 days. - Topic Title: Avalon Test – Kickoff - Kickoff meeting scheduled for 2026-06-17 at approximately 10:30. - Team prepared; assistance offered; Speaker 4 confirmed coverage. - Topic Title: Managed ID and Migrations (Seg Update) - Managed ID: Sue opted out of Gmail migration; awaiting Vicky’s decision. If both opt out, consider closed. - Neighbor IT Security Assessment: contacting Ross; Anton calling; plan to issue 50% invoice today. - Foothill IT Infrastructure and Security Assessment: - Project plan sent; awaiting “Masses” feedback. - Assessment started; some information missing; will be called out. - Plan to send 50% invoice today. - “Maybeum” domain migration: 65.22% switched (814/1257). Emil switching 130–150/day. Expecting ETH payment this week; sync meeting later today. - Arc Dropbox to SharePoint: provide migration guide only; fee ~$7,700. Quincy out this week; external kickoff next week; internal kickoff this week (tomorrow or Thursday). - Anzor Internal Audit: met with Victoria; additional B4 documents requested and sent. - Cottonwood migration: security team moving this week starting 2026-06-16; Shan working. - Topic Title: Hardware Projects and ETAs (Miguel) - Project 2696 (Winegard Tower 1A AP replacement): AP delayed; new ETA 2026-06-25 to 2026-06-26; client notified. - Project 2701 (Partner’s firewall, switch, APs): - New ETAs: firewall 2026-08-15; APs 2026-10-07; switch arriving 2026-06-16. - Will consult with Quincy about switching to Cisco APs for shorter lead times. - New projects: - Project 709 (Autocon Serge Belgrade APs): awaiting down payment before ordering. - Winegard Tower 60 AP replacements: awaiting down payment before ordering. - Topic Title: Stalled Property Migration (Gabby) - Background: Barker took over property; asked to migrate UniFi switches/APs; major hurdle accessing existing firewall. - Two prior MSPs lack firewall access; other MSP offered limited help (switch/AP migration) but still no firewall access. - Risk: Replacing with own firewall without configs may disrupt unknown services; reverse engineering considered; only a few hundred dollars at stake for external help. - Request: Define next steps and possible escalation; avoid premature solutioning; assemble a plan. ## Next Arrangements - AbilityFirst - [ ] Install outdoor AP on Will’s cabin and test cell call handoff; update documentation with Greg’s photos. - [ ] Conduct failover test on 2026-06-26 at 7:30 AM with Will onsite. - [ ] Start Starlink replacement for GeoLinks backup internet this week (by 2026-06-21). - Training and Billing - [ ] Cotsen: Issue billing for $5,300 as quote signed; close ticket after final meeting next week (by 2026-06-21). - [ ] Kearney Properties: Start training next week (week of 2026-06-22); follow 50/50 billing policy. - [ ] Multi‑Phase Project: Send 50% progress invoice within 1–2 days (by 2026-06-18); schedule Phase 2 over two weeks; Thursday client meeting on 2026-06-18. - Project Scheduling - [ ] DTLA Alliance: Proceed with free project kickoff next week (week of 2026-06-22); ensure “free” noted in tracker. - [ ] Anderson: Coordinate with Vince to re‑engage client; prepare for firewall install on 2026-07-02 after 6 PM. - [ ] Avalon Test: Confirm readiness for kickoff on 2026-06-17 at ~10:30; ensure coverage. - Assessments and Migrations - [ ] Neighbor IT Security Assessment: Reach Ross; send 50% invoice on 2026-06-16. - [ ] Foothill Assessment: Continue assessment; highlight missing info; send 50% invoice on 2026-06-16; await feedback from “Masses.” - [ ] “Maybeum” domain migration: Maintain 130–150/day switches; confirm ETH receipt by 2026-06-21; hold sync meeting 2026-06-16. - [ ] Arc migration guide: Schedule internal kickoff (2026-06-17 or 2026-06-18); external kickoff next week (week of 2026-06-22). - [ ] Cottonwood: Security team to execute migration starting 2026-06-16; Shan to lead. - [ ] Stalled property migration: Draft a clear plan with options (pay prior MSP vs. reverse engineering) and escalation path; present recommendation. - Hardware and Procurement - [ ] Miguel/Quincy: Decide on AP model change to Cisco for shorter ETAs; confirm by 2026-06-19. - [ ] Autocon Serge Belgrade and Winegard Tower 60: Collect down payments to proceed with hardware orders. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Wi‑Fi call handoff issue at camp: No root cause identified; define a test plan (roaming thresholds, device settings, soft‑handoff features, controller logs) and assign an owner with a due date. > 2. Billing policy consistency: Several projects discussed mid‑stream billing (50/50). Create a standardized checklist in the tracker to record amount, timing, and status for each project. > 3. Anderson communications: Mixed signals between “no response” and a set firewall install date. Consolidate into a single plan with confirmed client contact, pre‑install checklist, and escalation owner (Vince). > 4. Stalled property migration (firewall access unknown): Prepare a risk‑based decision memo comparing costs/risks of paying prior MSP vs. reverse engineering vs. full assessment, including rollback plan and outage window. > 5. Hardware lead times: Long ETAs for APs (into October). Confirm client expectations, consider alternative vendors/models, and document impacts on project timelines and billing milestones.
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:33 Good morning, sir. Good morning, Casey. How are you? And welcome back from your vacation. Yeah. How was it? It was good. She got graduated, she graduated everything got done there. Um, we are working on new kids coming in and um getting all that settled. And yeah. So I am. Speaker 1 00:01:03 I'm happy for you. Thank you. Uh, so I might be out here and there, uh, Just because when the kid comes in, we gotta be able to take some time to go, do doctor's appointments and stuff like that like normal. But that's amazing. Yeah, I'm excited for you. Yeah she's excited too And. Then in four weeks she turns 18. And then four weeks after that, we got to get her to UC Merced. So. Speaker 1 00:01:35 Yeah, so I'll take another vacation in about eight weeks. Speaker 2 00:01:40 My son graduated from U C Santa Barbara this weekend. Nice, he's applied mathematics. That's awesome. We're in the next stage, he's back home now. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:01:56 I feel you because I'm, like uh the the dorm room, preparations took a lot of time last week, and then I had some. Uh, Training classes I had to go in person for at West LA College and um, in LA City College. So it's been, it was a crazy vacation in which I did not get any rest. I need a vacation from my vacation. I do not know why my camera is not working. It is plugged in. There's no reason it should not be working. Speaker 3 00:02:34 But it's just like a camera icon. Speaker 1 00:02:36 Yeah, it's not even connecting, which is weird. It connected earlier today on another call I was in, but now it's decided not to. I blame security and their updates because I updated twice yesterday, rebooted today and had to update again. Speaker 1 00:03:02 Okay, Let me just, Check here if Olivia. Speaker 3 00:03:08 Uh oh, Olivia will beum late in our meeting because she she's currently talking to Adrian, the new L one that is in the office right now. I see. Speaker 5 00:03:19 Okay dokey. So I guess we're, uh, good to start and she'll just catch up as we go so. Speaker 6 00:03:27 Sorry uh Vlad won't won't be able to join us uh he said. It's doing things so grainy right now, so. Speaker 5 00:03:39 Okay. No Vlad for now as well? And can you all confirm if you're able to see my screen now? Speaker 1 00:03:48 Yes, but can you zoom in slightly on that Excel spreadsheet? I. Speaker 4 00:03:53 Got a big monitor, but I'm blind. Speaker 1 00:03:58 Okay. Uh okay, now it's hundred percent. Speaker 5 00:04:02 All good now. Yes. All right, so yeah, Uh, welcome to our week twenty five of Project U F meeting, and we'll start with so no Olivia yet Christy. Speaker 1 00:04:16 Good morning. Um, okay. So Kearney Properties I am closing that project out, and we can do the full billing. Um I just need to have the last meeting with Kamya, and it's slated for next week. Um, and then I will let you guys know to close that ticket out. Um, with the computer upgrades, um he is still working on it. We're still looking at an end date of September 30th. Um so and because Sharp and Ability First are both off work on Friday. Uh Robert will be working on a bunch of upgrades during that time on Friday. Um which by the way, just a side note, they're working from home that day. Speaker 1 00:04:55 And then for the cabling infrastructure for camp, I am finalizing the last parts of the floor plan. Will is going to install uh the outdoor AP on his cabin so that we have coverage on all the way down into the ADUs and our parking lot. We ended up not needing as many APs on site because the coverage was exceptional. Um, We are having some handoffs with the cell phones where cell phones aren't handing off properly between. Between Wi-Fi points. So, if anybody's got any suggestions on that one, it may just be Kelly's phone. Honestly. And that's what I'm trying. I got to work on this week to see if I can figure out when we were there, both Greg and I had no issues, but if she's active on a call, she'll lose the call between the arts and crafts building and her cabin. So we'll be working on that. And then also Greg, I need to update some things. Speaker 1 00:05:54 From Comdrop to see, get the pictures from Greg and things like that. So that I can update with you, and then we'll close that take down. Um, the failover test Pete we because I originally forgot that they're off on Friday. Um, we rescheduled it to the following Friday at seven thirty a.m. and Will will be there as as well. Um, and then last side note for the cabling infrastructure project. I got the green light yesterday morning to start working on changing out GeoLinks, which is their backup internet for Starlink. And I'll start working on that this week. And that's all for Ability First. For you know what, I got Kearney and Katzen. Yeah, I got Kearney and Katzen all mixed up. Kearney Properties actually starts next week. The training schedule The training has already been scheduled. Speaker 1 00:06:49 Kearney Properties is the one that's going to be closed out next week. We've got to finalize a few items for them, and then we can close them out next week. So, sorry, I got the two mixed up. Speaker 7 00:06:58 So has Kearney been billed anything and if not, when do we bill them? Speaker 1 00:07:02 No, We haven't billed anything because we haven't done any work because they kept moving it out. So we actually start Kearney Properties next week. Speaker 7 00:07:15 So do we bill them after we're done or do we bill them before? Normally don't we bill before we do the training or do we bill after? Speaker 1 00:07:23 Normally after. Speaker 7 00:07:25 Julia, what do we normally do? Speaker 1 00:07:29 Is she here? Oh, she is here. Speaker 7 00:07:33 For training, what do we normally do, Julia or Sid? Can you tell me? Speaker 2 00:07:38 I say in my SOPs this is 2500, right? So I would say 50% first and then 50% after it's completed. Speaker 2 00:07:50 If we're starting the training. But it's. I mean, Speaker 7 00:07:54 If we're starting next week, I guess at this point it's it doesn't matter. But yeah. So for future, I guess for future reference, We should plan to to do half and half. So We'll go from there. Okay. And, then what did you say about uh the other one? Chris? Speaker 1 00:08:12 Cotsen is going to be finalized next week. We have our last meeting with them, and we're closing that ticket out. Speaker 7 00:08:21 Okay. This one's fifty three hundred. Speaker 1 00:08:25 Yes. This was a lot more extensive training than what Courtney proposed is going to be. Speaker 7 00:08:31 And they've already signed the quote and everything, right? So yeah, Speaker 1 00:08:35 So we can go ahead and bill them for that. Okay. And then DTLA Alliance, theirs kicks off next week. Speaker 1 00:08:50 Uh, Susanna was out uh for her own daughter's graduation, and thenum they and then I was out. So we pushed all that to next week. Speaker 7 00:08:60 Where is the amount or anything else being billing wise listed at all on DTLA Alliance? Like how much is it? How much are we billing? When are we billing? There's nothing in here at all. Speaker 2 00:09:12 I think it's free project. It's what? Free project. Speaker 1 00:09:18 On sort of so that. Speaker 2 00:09:20 And Zara sold it for free. Speaker 7 00:09:22 Oh, it's a free project? Yeah. Okay. Then I guess we should put in an" or" something or. Speaker 1 00:09:30 Something because. Okay. Speaker 4 00:09:35 Or or Do we have it in the notes? Speaker 7 00:09:37 Let me see, maybe it's in the notes and I'm not seeing it. Oh yeah, it's over in the notes. Okay, sorry I was not looking at the notes. Okay. Speaker 1 00:09:48 And then Anderson, uh, we're waiting to find out when we can offer them. Uh, they have not returned any of my emails. Um, so I don't know when that project is going to start. Speaker 7 00:10:01 Maybe ping Vince and ask him to follow back with them to see what they are looking for as far as timeline. Speaker 1 00:10:09 Yeah. Uh, And Vince has been C C on all my tickets or all my emails that I've sent over to Anderson. So. And I did re-email them again this morning to follow up. So I'll get with him and have him check in with them. So, um, I need to because I was out last week. Gabby completed phase one last week, and so I just need to get with the team to do the billing. And then we start phase two this week, which is on my plate. I don't think Gabby you have anything on phase two on that one? Speaker 8 00:10:44 Um, The only thing I did for phase two was to procure the licenses for Copilot and assign it to the pilot group. Speaker 1 00:10:54 And so we'll kick that off this week, and then I have a meeting with them on Thursday go over everything. And then on Avalon test, they're kicking off tomorrow and they're already being pulled. I believe. That's correct. Speaker 2 00:11:15 They were so eager. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:11:18 So the meeting is tomorrow. I think at ten thirty, something like that. Speaker 2 00:11:23 Uh, Christy, do you need any help on on the meeting or you got it? Speaker 4 00:11:27 I got it. Speaker 1 00:11:37 Okay, So that's pretty much it for Christy. Any other clarification for her before we proceed to Sigrid? Speaker 7 00:11:43 I'm sorry. I didn't hear what we bill or our plan was to bill earlier. Speaker 1 00:11:50 I need to get with the team and and bill out because now we're starting on phase two. Speaker 7 00:11:58 Okay, yeah, we need to bill at least half of that because that's a big number. Yeah. Either progress billing, how long is that training going to take? Speaker 1 00:12:07 Uh, I have phase two slated for two weeks. So I've got to get with them and get that scheduled. Speaker 7 00:12:14 Yeah, I would I would bill them at least half now. We've already done like phase one. I would bill them at least half and then bill the rest when you're done. Yep. Okay, try to get that out if possible in the next day or two. Speaker 1 00:12:29 Yeah, And there's four phases to this. So just a heads up for you guys. We still got about six to eight more weeks to go. Our plan is to get this finished by August 1 s t. Or August thirty first, Speaker 7 00:12:42 I'm sorry. So then I would get half now and then get the other half. Speaker 4 00:12:47 That should be fine. All. Speaker 5 00:12:56 Right, all clear with Christie moving forward to Secret. Okay, Speaker 3 00:13:04 One for the manage ID so Sue opt out on the Gmail migration. And then we're just waiting for Vicky. If she will also opt out on that one, like we'll just consider then and everything is already. And then next is neighbor security assessment. I'm trying to call up, I'm trying to message Oh sorry, neighbor IT security assessment update right now. I'm trying to message Ross and Anton is currently trying to call him right now. Speaker 3 00:13:39 So hopefully he'll get back to us. But after this also, I'm gonna um call him and then we'll send an invoice for fifty percent today. Then food seal for their IT infrastructure and security assessment, we've got back and forth emails with Masses. Project plan has been sent. So we're just waiting for Masses to um Masses feedback on that one. Speaker 9 00:14:10 I've Started to do the assessment with the information they've given us. And so there's a couple pieces missing or not complete, and I'll call that out in the assessment. And I'll, you know, when we get on site and start doing more work, we'll have more questions. But I've got some of the assessment already started. Okay. Speaker 3 00:14:36 So I'll also send an invoice for that for fifty percent then. Speaker 7 00:14:42 And so we haven't built them anything yet. Speaker 3 00:14:45 For this project, not yet. So, we'll send fifty percent today. Speaker 7 00:14:54 Okay, was that on yours? Speaker 3 00:14:58 Yeahum there's this one time he told me to build them once we have the scheduled plan. Speaker 3 00:15:06 But because we're already doing it and they haven't like approved the the schedule plan yet, I'll just send the invoice. Speaker 7 00:15:13 Okay, Kashif are supposed to call me anytime in the next half hour or so. So I'm gonna ask him about billing for Mavericks assessment and Foothills assessment. Speaker 3 00:15:25 Okay, next is for maybeum domain migration so. Uh, currently we are at sixty five point twenty two percent for the switch over. That's like eight hundred fourteen out of twelve fifty seven. Um, Emil has been working, has been switching hundred thirty to hundred fifty a day. So that's all good, And and for the invoice Jeff will be send, hope I know, we'll we'll receive the ETH this week. Speaker 3 00:15:59 And then we'll be having a meeting with them later for a sync up. And then for Arc, there is a new project that is like a Dropbox to SharePoint migration, but this one, uh, we will not do the migration. We'll just create a migration guide that will send to Arc, and then they'll be the one to do the migration. I don't know why. Is that what? Speaker 9 00:16:29 Because we gave them two options, Speaker 3 00:16:31 Right? Yeah. And they've already agreed to it. Yep. They'll be the yeah. It's like seven thousand seven hundred, but yeah, so for this one Quincy is currently out this week, so we might have the kickoff meeting next week, but we will be having the internal kickoff this week. So I'll just check your calendars for your free schedule. It might be tomorrow or Thursday. Thank you. Okay, and then um for Anton's project for the Anzor, Um they had a meeting with Victoria last week, and Victoria is currently asking for additional documents, especially in the B4 documents. So we've been we we sent that also. And yeah, I think that's that's it for Anzor IS internal uh Anzor internal audit. Speaker 3 00:17:26 And then for migration to Alere. Um, for migration to oh, um, we've sent the Cottonwood email yesterday. So, security is working on moving Cottonwood this week. Starting today actually. Shan is working on that one. I think that's it for. Speaker 5 00:17:51 My project and Anton's project. Okay, I think uh, Did we skip Anderson or is it just me. Oh, Speaker 3 00:18:00 Sorry for Anderson that is currently on hold untilum, last week of June because they wanted the firewall to be, um, installed on July two six pm onwards. Speaker 5 00:18:17 So I'll uh color this yellow. Yep. Yes, please. Thank you. All right, thanks, Zach. And moving forward to Miguel. Speaker 6 00:18:31 Good morning, everyone. So for my projects, first we have project 2696 from Winegard. It's for the wireless access point replacement for Tower 1 A. So unfortunately the AP didn't arrive last June 10 th last week. So the new ETA provided was June 25 th to 26 th and we already notified, Let me share regarding this one. Then moving forward, I have project two seven zero one for our partners for their firewall, switch and access points. So new ETAs were provided yesterday. So firewall is expected to arrive on August fifteen, access points to arrive. Speaker 6 00:19:17 October seven and switch to arrive today. So I'm gonna go check with Quincy later in the after uh, later by a call, uh to see if uh we'll still push through with the access point, Uh for the same model of the access point or we'll go with the Cisco model ones. Uh since those will have shorter E T A's but, uh they are fully aware that E T A is quite long especially for. MR models of access points. So that's for this one. And then I have new projects, project 709 for Autocon Serge Belgrade access points. So, we're still waiting for the down payment to be settled before we order the hardware. And, then that's the same as the project for Winegard for Tower, 60 0 replacement of access points. Speaker 6 00:20:16 As well, so we're still waiting for the down payment to be settled before our agreement. And yeah, uh, that's it for my projects. Speaker 5 00:20:26 All right. Thanks, Miguel. Any clarification for Miguel? Okay, I guess that's it. Uh Gabby? Speaker 8 00:20:40 Uh hello everyone. I don't really have an update for this, I did follow up with the property manager, but so far nothing. Speaker 7 00:20:49 So what's what are next steps on this? Gabby, are we doing anything with this or are we not doing anything with this? Like it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Speaker 7 00:21:04 Is There someone to escalate to? Or are we doing this? Or are we not doing this? Speaker 8 00:21:13 At this point, I don't know. Speaker 7 00:21:19 Who asked us to do this? And then how do we figure out what next steps are because. Speaker 8 00:21:26 Well, well, We took well Barker took over this property and they reached out to us to assist withum migrating these devices over, but it's just been a hurdle. All this time. Speaker 9 00:21:48 Yeah, nobody and the difficulty is that nobody knows how to get into the firewall. And so there's details that we don't we don't know. So, we were we've been talking internally about reverse engineering it and putting our own firewall in there, and you know, resetting that one, and you know, maybe repurposing it or something, but we just don't there's a lot that we don't know. So we pull it out and, um, you know, we could we could lose access to some things. So, it's we'd have to reverse engineer it if we don't get access to it. And it's only a few hundred dollars that we're talking about really. Uh is that right Gabby? Do I have that right? Speaker 8 00:22:28 Mhm That's for the labor cost other MSP per offered So. Speaker 7 00:22:38 So the other MSP, the other MSP offered to tell us how to get into it or something, but we have to pay them. Is that the deal? Speaker 8 00:22:47 Well, actually they offered us to help with migrating the unified switches and access points. Um, but they don't have access to the firewall. So yeah, we don't know exactly who had access to the firewall. So the two MSPs we spoke to, they had no idea. So we and the problem is that this, We're basically going in a blank state because we don't know what configurations is set on there. If we were to replace with our firewall, we don't know what would bring down and stuff. So yeah, it's kind of difficult. Speaker 9 00:23:35 We would have to do, A full assessment, Or have we have we done sort of an assessment? And this is kind of where I. Speaker 8 00:23:43 I know we we sentum. Let's, let's not let's not. Speaker 7 00:23:48 Yeah, let's not solution here, but can we try to put together.
04-25 Lecture: Foster Youth College Pathways, 11th–12th Grade Milestones, Financial Aid, and Support Strategies
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- > Date Time: 2026-04-25 18:31:20 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: [Insert Name] ## Summary The lecture provides a comprehensive guide for caregivers, social workers, and educators to support foster youth in navigating post-secondary pathways and the critical 11th–12th grade milestones that shape those pathways. It covers the differences among University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), private nonprofit colleges, for-profit proprietary institutions, and California Community Colleges, including admissions requirements, housing, financial aid, and transferability. It warns of risks associated with for-profit colleges and clarifies out-of-state tuition implications, highlighting programs like the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE). The session emphasizes structured academic planning (A–G courses, counselor meetings, attendance, tutoring), building college knowledge (dual enrollment, tours, SAT/ACT where applicable, enrichment programs), and career readiness (assessments, extracurriculars, work permits, vital documents). It integrates caregiver practices that build supportive relationships using the PACE framework (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy), centering youth voice, cultural responsiveness, and consistent advocacy. The lecture addresses the emotional landscape of senior year, stress management, and Senate Bill 12’s mandate to identify a post-secondary support person. Goal-setting and motivation are framed with attention to survival mode realities, encouraging short- and long-term goals, breaking tasks into steps, and leveraging the Transition Independent Living Plan/Agreement (TILP/TIOP) updated every six months for youth 16+, which improves college outcomes when youth lead their planning. Tools for exploring interests and career pathways include California CareerZone, Living Wage Calculator, Salary Surfer, and resources from the Los Angeles Opportunity Youth Collaborative. The content was created on 2026-04-25 and reflects recommendations current to that date. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Post-secondary Education Systems and Admissions - UC, CSU, and private nonprofit four-year universities: - Selective admissions with minimum GPA and often personal statements; UCs and CSUs no longer require SAT/ACT, though some private or out-of-state colleges may. - Housing and meal plans typically available; financial aid can cover significant room and board costs. - California Community Colleges: - Open access with no personal statements, GPA review, or test scores required; multiple enrollment terms (summer, fall, spring). - Most do not offer housing, but basic needs centers and new housing partnerships are expanding; many foster youth can attend for free, and units can transfer to four-year institutions. - For-profit (proprietary) colleges: - Often more expensive with non-transferable units; poor employment outcomes at several institutions (e.g., ITT Technical Institute, Corinthian College) and unclear accreditation can jeopardize time, tuition, and aid. - Distinction: for-profits distribute profits to investors; nonprofits reinvest in curriculum and student services, generally with higher graduation rates. ### 2. Cost, Financial Aid, and Out-of-State Considerations - Approximate tuition (2021–2022 examples): UC ~14,000; CSU ~6,000; public out-of-state ~27,000 per year. - Cal Grant often covers full UC/CSU tuition or partial tuition at nonprofit private colleges; generally not available for out-of-state schools. - Out-of-state colleges carry higher non-resident tuition; research admissions, deadlines, housing, class sizes, and foster youth resources in advance. - WUE provides non-resident tuition savings across 160+ participating public institutions; consider fit and the presence of a local safety net. ### 3. Academic Milestones and College Knowledge (11th–12th Grade) - Meet with academic counselors at least each semester to confirm graduation status and A–G alignment; caregiver presence reinforces advocacy and counters underestimated potential. - A–G course planning from 9th–12th grades keeps UC/CSU pathways viable; ensure correct enrollment each term. - Attendance and tutoring bolster academic consistency; coordinate support with school staff, social workers, and probation officers. - Dual enrollment offers college credit and exposure, benefits students across GPAs, and improves graduation, enrollment, and completion outcomes; three courses can yield nine+ college units. - College tours/fairs should begin early and continue through summer after 11th; include foster youth–specific tours via agencies/nonprofits. - SAT/ACT not required for UC/CSU; may be needed for private/out-of-state—take in 11th with fee waivers and prep options. - Enrichment programs (AVID, Puente) support performance and college-going; consult counselors for local offerings, including foster youth–specific programs. ### 4. Career Exploration and Readiness - Use assessments, electives, extracurriculars, volunteering, and internships to explore interests and build skills. - Summer is optimal for jobs or internships; secure vital documents by age 16 (ID, Social Security, permanent resident card if applicable) and a work permit for youth under 18. - Platforms and tools: California CareerZone, Living Wage Calculator, Salary Surfer, gladiol.org, and the Foster Youth Education Planning Guide. - Encourage campus tours, nonprofit connections supporting foster youth in higher ed, workshops on professionalism/time management, shadow days, and informational interviews. - Caregiver storytelling normalizes growth: share factual job lessons, ask permission before offering advice, and invite youth perspectives rather than prescribing choices. ### 5. Youth Voices and Support Strategies - Youth value campus visits, proximity, and visible foster youth support programs; early college awareness before 11th grade is preferred. - Abundant programs exist but advocacy gaps create fear; seeing oneself on campus and identifying fitting departments/programs influences choice. - Peer networks aid access to programs and readiness for transfer/four-year applications. - Strategies for learning differences include note-taking, self-checking, iterative problem-solving, and memorization. ### 6. Building Supportive Relationships: PACE Framework - Playfulness: gently introduce positive experiences without dismissing feelings. - Acceptance: unconditional recognition of feelings/thoughts/wishes, creating safety without endorsing all behaviors. - Curiosity: nonjudgmental inquiry (“I wonder…”) to help youth understand experiences. - Empathy: convey understanding to foster connection and resilience. - Outcomes: signals that youth feelings matter and that caregivers will support them through challenges. ### 7. Senior Year Planning, Stress, and SB 12 - Senior year brings excitement and stress (avoidance, shutdown, appetite/sleep changes, reactivity); caregivers should remain patient, reflective, and supportive with coping strategies. - SB 12 requires identifying a post-secondary support person for youth 16+ to assist with college and financial aid applications; caregivers can serve in this role. - Key steps: - Four-year applicants: consider SAT/ACT in fall for private schools; use fee waivers; research majors and build a list of 5–10 colleges. - Financial aid: apply on time and track requirements. - Connect to campus-based foster youth supports at target institutions. ### 8. Educational Disruption in Foster Care and Mitigation - Foster youth often change schools frequently, losing up to six months of learning per move; maintain accurate records and collaborate with foster youth liaisons to ensure proper enrollment and on-time graduation. - Completion pathways include high school diploma or equivalency (GED/HiSET), unlocking employment and substantial financial aid. - Interventions: summer school and adult education (accredited), fifth year eligibility to complete requirements and improve GPA/credits. - AB 167/216 exemptions allow graduation under state minimum requirements after late transfers but typically do not meet A–G; decisions for minors rest with the legal rights holder. - Timing: end of 10th to start of 11th is ideal to assess graduation status and create judgment-free completion plans. ### 9. Goal Setting, Motivation, Survival Mode, and TILP/TIOP - Goals: - Short-term: day/week steps; long-term: span a school year; break into manageable actions and model family goals. - Include educational, personal (health/fitness/social), and professional/employment objectives; explore “What is your why?” and plan for barriers and motivation during setbacks. - Survival mode: - Youth may prioritize safety with defensive responses; planning is hard and memory for supports may falter. - Caregivers should proceed at youth pace, be patient, and signal availability. - TILP/TIOP: - Updated every six months for youth 16+ with social worker/probation officer involvement; identifies goals, steps, and support people, including a post-secondary education support person (caregiver may serve). - Evidence shows youth who lead TIOP planning are more likely to attend and complete college by 23. - Team-based planning will include grade-specific milestones and resources, centering youth voice and autonomy. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] Verify admissions requirements for target UC, CSU, and private nonprofit colleges (GPA, personal statement, test policies) and document deadlines for summer, fall, and spring terms. - [ ] Research local community colleges: enrollment start dates, basic needs centers, and housing partnerships/dorm developments for foster youth. - [ ] Compile a cost comparison (UC ~14,000; CSU ~6,000; out-of-state ~27,000) and note Cal Grant coverage and out-of-state limitations. - [ ] Assess for-profit college risks: accreditation, unit transferability, employment outcomes, loan repayment challenges; include ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian College as case studies. - [ ] Explore WUE institutions and identify non-resident tuition savings for out-of-state interests. - [ ] Schedule semesterly meetings with the academic counselor to review graduation status, A–G alignment, and post-secondary goals; audit transcripts to confirm A–G progression and correct gaps. - [ ] Establish attendance monitoring and connect youth to tutoring resources via school and child welfare partners. - [ ] Enroll in dual enrollment courses; consult counselors on opportunities and eligibility. - [ ] Register college tours (in-person/virtual) for summer after 11th; include foster youth–specific tours. - [ ] Plan SAT/ACT if considering private/out-of-state universities: request fee waivers, register for fall of 12th, and identify prep resources or ILP-funded courses. - [ ] Identify/apply to enrichment programs (AVID, Puente) aligned with interests; coordinate with guidance counselors. - [ ] Conduct career assessments; plan electives, extracurriculars, and summer volunteer/job/internship experiences; begin early with social worker/probation support. - [ ] Verify vital documents by age 16 and obtain work permits for youth under 18. - [ ] Create a preliminary list of 5–10 colleges/programs; research majors and campus support programs; secure application fee waivers. - [ ] Prepare for financial aid applications: compile information, track deadlines, and identify the SB 12 post-secondary support person. - [ ] Link youth to campus-based foster youth support programs at target colleges; initiate contact and gather information. - [ ] Implement PACE practices daily: plan actions to incorporate playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy. - [ ] Facilitate career exploration using California CareerZone, Living Wage Calculator, Salary Surfer, gladiol.org, and LA Opportunity Youth Collaborative resources. - [ ] Share caregiver career stories with youth, focusing on factual lessons; request permission before offering advice and use stories to invite reflection. - [ ] Plan interventions for disrupted credits: summer school, adult education (accredited), fifth year; evaluate AB 167/216 eligibility and coordinate with the legal rights holder if under 18. - [ ] Implement stress management supports during 12th grade: develop coping strategies, monitor signs of stress, and maintain patient encouragement. - [ ] Ensure accurate academic records through transitions by collaborating with the school’s foster youth liaison and social worker. - [ ] Initiate or update the TILP/TIOP for youth 16+, identify a post-secondary education support person, and ensure youth leads planning; document grade-specific milestones and resources as training proceeds.
- Date
- Apr 25, 2026
- Transcript
- 00:00:00 University system, CSUs, and the California Community College system. In addition to public institutions, students can opt to attend private colleges or universities. Each system has different eligibility requirements for admission. The UCs, CSUs, And private schools are four - year universities that have a selective admissions process that typically requires a minimum grade point average or GPA. And may also require personal statements. While universities used to require students to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test, also known as the SAT or the American College Test ACT, Ucs and CSUs no longer require students to complete the SAT or ACT test for purpose of admissions. Some private colleges or universities still require the exam for admission. California Community Colleges are known as. 00:01:32 Open access institutions, Which means they do not require personal statements or review grade point average and exam scores for purposes of admissions. Students interested in entering post-secondary education can enroll at their local community college for summer, fall, or spring term. It's very important to look into the college's academic calendar to know when classes begin each term. Another main difference between community colleges and four-year universities is housing. The UC and CSUs and most private colleges and universities offer room and board plans that provide dorms and meal plans through the school year. Financial aid will typically cover most of these costs. We will discuss the costs associated with post-secondary education and the financial aid resources available in future segments. 00:02:25 While most community colleges do not have housing, More colleges are working to develop partnerships with housing programs to provide access to housing support through campus basic needs centers. And many are also beginning to build new dorms. The other types of colleges that are important to know about are called for- profit or proprietary colleges. For-profit colleges tend to be more expensive. And, the units received at these colleges may not always transfer if the student decides to change schools. As mentioned, many of our foster youth can attend community college for free. And the units earned at a California community college can be applied as transfer units. In recent years, Several proprietary institutions or for- profit vocational schools have come under review for the poor employment outcomes of these graduates. 00:03:22 including schools that are online and with physical campuses. Some examples are ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian College. which were shut down after multiple lawsuits were filed against them alleging fraud. Thanks, Teresa. There are a few other things to be aware of when it comes to for- profit colleges. In some cases, graduates struggle to find employment after completing their program. Graduates may even have difficulty repaying any student loans that they took out to cover the cost of their education. Lastly, It can even be hard to determine which colleges are accredited and which ones are not. Degrees from non- accredited colleges may be a waste of time and tuition, and can use up limited financial aid. Caregivers with their youth need to do their homework. Overall, it is important. 00:04:20 To take into consideration the cost of these private institutions and encourage students to explore all their options to avoid unnecessary debt. Remember, The community colleges offer a wide range of career technical programs that are free or low- cost to foster youth. It is important to know the difference between for- profit private colleges and nonprofit private colleges. For-profit colleges Tend to charge more per unit for career education programs compared to community colleges. For-profit colleges distribute profits to investors or shareholders, While nonprofit colleges and universities reinvest dollars from tuition and fees back into the curriculum and student services to improve the students' learning experience. And nonprofit institutions include USC, Stanford, Santa Clara University and University of San Diego. 00:05:18 Nonprofit private institutions also tend to have higher graduation rates than for-profit private institutions. Another option that our youth may consider is going out of state for their college experience. If this is something your youth is considering, here are some items to keep in mind. Tuition is typically more expensive at an out- of- state college or university than at an in-state public college, such as a UC or CSU. Since students will have to pay out- of- state tuition prices instead of cheaper in-state tuition prices. Tuition includes the cost of courses or instruction to attend the college or university. For example, in twenty twenty one twenty two, The cost of tuition and fees for full time students who are California residents at a UC was about fourteen thousand dollars or six thousand at the CSUs. 00:06:14 Compared to an average of twenty seven thousand dollars per year for out of state students at public state schools. Also, The state Cal Grant will often pay the full tuition cost at a UC or CSU or partial tuition at a nonprofit private college or university. And this is not available for an out-of-state school. Going out of state for college can provide a new environment and exciting new experiences for some students. While others may struggle with safety net in place. It's important to consider what is best for the youth in your care. If your youth is considering going out of state, here are some important considerations to keep in mind. Each college has their own process. Admissions processes, deadlines, housing options, class sizes and resources for foster youth vary by school and state. Make sure to do your research in advance. 00:07:09 To learn more about foster youth programs available nationwide, visit the Fostering Academic Achievement Network at the link on the screen. Out-of-state colleges can be more expensive, but remember financial aid may be available. So interested students should still explore their options and see what makes the most sense for them. O ut - of- state colleges can enter into interstate regional agreements that allow students to take part in non-resident tuition savings programs. such as the Western Undergraduate Exchange Program or WUE. The WUE includes over 160 participating public colleges and universities that offer students non-resident tuition savings. Let's hear from some of our youth now about what influenced their choices. Something that helped me find out what college I want to go to is I took trips to colleges and looked at campuses. 00:08:08 With my friends, like with my school, there were some field trips. I personally chose the college that was closest to me. Going on campus and doing all like the admin work and then walking around campus, seeing like what different like college programs, they have for people my age and also for foster youth. They have a lot of programs out here. For former and current foster youth. And a lot of people do not advocate this enough. And, that's why a lot of foster youth are scared to go into college because we need that support. And that extra support. If I wanted to go to the college, I had to see myself in it. So after visiting the school, the campus, Once I seen what they had to offer and I felt like this is the school for me, then I started seeing like okay what department do I feel a part of? Because I didn't even know where I wanted to be in college. I didn't know what was going to attend. So it was like all the things that i was interested in, i was like do you offer that? 00:09:07 I wish I knew about college earlier. I know I've barely learned about college when I was in eleventh grade, So that could have been doing a lot of research on different colleges and stuff, have more time and have more help. But that way already knew what I wanted to do, already knew where I wanted to go, And it would just up to me to pass my high school classes and everything to get to where I want to go. 00:09:51 The song was written by the band's frontman, Robert Plant. Developing a supportive relationship with our children is one of the most important things we can do to let them know we care about them and their interests. This segment will look at how to create a supportive relationship with youth. Before we get started, Let's think about the different practices you use when engaging with youth. What are some techniques you use to create a positive relationship with your youth? How do you help your youth feel safe and valued? Take a minute to reflect and write them down. You can pause the video as you complete the brainstorm and resume playing when you are done. While there are a lot of practices that build strong relationships, We will take a minute to introduce. 00:10:47 Pace. Pace is a way of communicating and behaving that aims to make the child feel safe. It stands for playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy. Together, these practices can create a solid foundation built on trust and understanding. Let's review the first two practices with examples. Playfulness is a willingness to laugh and play. Even in difficult situations, it isn't about being funny all the time, dismissing a child's feelings or making jokes when a child is sad. But it's about helping children be more open to and experiences that. What is positive in their life, one step at a time. Unconditional acceptance builds a context of safety and connection. Accepting is not agreeing or supporting the youth beliefs or behaviors, but it is just recognizing. 00:11:45 Reality when it is present and actively communicating that you accept the wishes feelings. thoughts and perceptions that are underneath the outward behavior. Teresa, tell us a little bit more. The last two practices of pace are curiosity and empathy. Curiosity without judgment is the hallmark of social engagement. With curiosity, Adults are conveying their desire to understand what has happened and to help the child with understanding. What do you think was going on? What do you think about? Or I wonder what. You say this without anticipating an answer or response. Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's point of view or putting yourself in their shoes. Expressing empathy can help deepen connection and create a context of safety and understanding. 00:12:40 Empathizing with the child who is sad, scared, Or in distress can help them to feel that they are not alone and make it easier to manage challenges. By using pace and similar practices, we're letting youth know that their feelings are important. That, they are worth being listened to and that we will support them as they work through their thoughts. And emotions. Let's see what advice our youth have for us. I think it's really important for caregivers to consider the fact that their youth might be from a different background and that they need to get to know their youth and include some of their culture. In the home, for me personally, That was very important because I am Russian, and there are just like certain cultural things like. Like the simple fact that I drink tea a lot, that is very important to me. For caregivers, I would say, you know, really listen. 00:13:34 To that youth and find about find the things that that youth likes to do, you know, really build a relationship. You can take that youth to different. Events or anything, just really build a relationship and trust with that youth. I think a really great advice. I could give a caregiver who's struggling to connect with, the youth is to not give up and to be consistent. I feel like youth Like myself, especially me, I feel like I can notice when my caregiver wasn't. Trying enough when all fails and they stop, well then if you're going to give up then I'm going to give up. So I feel like Making sure that you're just consistent is probably a key essential. Just don't take things too personal. Personal, be patient. And just remember that, you know, If you would treat that youth the same way, if they were actually your blood. If they actually came from you. If that answer is no, then I think you need to revisit the way you're acting. 00:14:32 Treating them or thinking of them, listen, have that patience, understand where they're coming from. Learn more about them, not just their story. Not just oh how did you get in foster care? Learn about what they love. Try to do what they love with them. My foster parents did that. We had so much fun. Just make them feel like they're part of something and so that they can be motivated to want to be. Amazing people in the community and life, and just with their self. 00:15:25 The song was written by the band's frontman, Robert Plant. In this segment, We will look more closely at how to help our youth, explore their interests and strengths. Taking an interest in the lives of our youth, Asking questions about their aspirations and listening to what they want for themselves is one great way to connect your youth. Exploring interests does not mean our youth have to make decisions about their long-term career plans. It means that they have an opportunity to better understand what options are available to them and discover countless career opportunities. When caregivers begin with first exploring a youth's interest, It can increase the youth's motivation and give them a purpose to stay engaged in school. 00:16:20 There are many great tools and resources available to caregivers to help youth, explore career and future options. Working together to complete career assessments, and similar activities can also open up conversations about your own work experience. And what steps you took to explore your own interests. Some things you can discuss and encourage youth to consider when exploring potential careers includes. What kind of lifestyle do I want to live and how much will I have to earn to achieve that lifestyle? What jobs are set to grow? Which ones are likely to shrink over the next 10 to 15 years? How much school will I need to complete to obtain the job that I want? One great activity includes doing the budget on the website California Career Zone. This activity can help you to engage in a meaningful conversation with youth. 00:17:18 about their needs versus wants and help plan for the lifestyle they want. Other helpful websites and tools are the Living Wage Calculator, which identifies the cost of living in a particular city. And Salary Surfer, Which shows the real earnings of California community college graduates, and also helps youth learn about the wide range of pathways available to them. For many foster youth, The only careers they may have been exposed to are doctors, social workers, teachers, lawyers, therapists and police officers. Tools like California, CareerZone and Gladia As well as resources available from the Los Angeles Opportunity Youth Collaborative, can help expose youth to new possibilities. That's right, Teresa. Just as important as completing the career assessment tools. Is sharing your own experience with youth. 00:18:11 To help them relate to us more as people. And the idea that no one is perfect. As a caregiver, you can use storytelling or personal anecdotes about your own work experience. I'm sure, most of us adults started off with different types of jobs like babysitting, mowing lawns, or customer service. Most of us don't just start off in the jobs we have now. Many adults have worked through a career path to get to where they are today. In some cases, Maybe it took us a while to figure out what we wanted to do professionally. Or maybe we're even still figuring it out. No matter where we start, Customer service jobs are a great place to learn skills that will help us be successful. For example, Maybe you got fired from your first job because you didn't realize that being five minutes late on a regular basis was a big deal. Many youth may be surprised to learn that. 00:19:10 These conversations are key to help normalize these experiences and learn more important lessons. Another strategy is to try to stick to facts instead of percentages or assumptions when providing information to help inform their decisions. And not make decisions for them. Use your personal stories as an opportunity to provide you with information and ask questions about what they think instead of giving them advice. 00:19:40 Finally, before offering advice, ask your youth if they would like to hear it first. Asking a youth, if they would like some advice provides an opportunity to determine if the youth is open to receiving it. And lets them know you respect their ability to come up with their own thoughts and ideas. Remember to refer back to previous segment on pace, if you would like additional tips on how to navigate conversations with your youth. 00:20:12 Let's see what our youth have to say about career exploration. Caregivers. The best thing that they could do is expose them to higher education, let their youth be able to go to different college campuses tours. Help them get connected with different nonprofit organizations that are already supporting foster youth in higher education. And helping them get to different workshops, whether that's on professionalism, time management. Things like that is what's going to really help foster youth engage with um their social worker and see what opportunities that are out there for youth to participate in. If there's any shadow days or if they have any, you know relatives or maybe local neighbors that you know have different career paths, Maybe to have like a conversation with the youth and just to tell them what their you know work life lifestyle is. There are so many careers in this time and age, but don't let that scare you. It's okay. 00:21:08 I understand because it scared me at first, but because of these resources now, they're able to help you with your pathway and your career. Like for me, colleges had postings and workshops where they come and say, look, this is all what we have to offer. You can come and join if you want to, if it fits your category of work. And they're going to be there to support you. Music As we discussed earlier, most youth aspire to attend college. But for many students and even caregivers, it can be hard to know where to start. Helping youth to make a plan to reach their goals is a great first step. Goals can be structured as short or long-term goals. 00:22:07 Long-term doesn't need to mean where they see themselves in 10 years. A long-term goal could be something that you and your youth hope to achieve throughout the school year. And a short-term goal can be focused on the day or week ahead. It can be helpful to assist the youth in breaking down their goal into smaller, more manageable steps. Caregivers can help model this to youth by also setting personal goals or creating family goals. That everyone can work together to achieve as a team. Creating goals can extend beyond education. Goals can include things we hope to accomplish in our personal lives, such as health and fitness goals, social goals, as well as employment or professional goals. For example, Our youth can set goals for participating in therapy or practicing soccer daily so that they can make the high school team. 00:23:04 Motivation is a critical part of setting and completing goals. Explore with your youth what will motivate them and help them keep going. One question you can ask is, "What is your why?" It's normal to expect bumps and challenges along the way. This is a great opportunity to help youth, explore potential barriers and develop a plan. You might ask, " W hat are the things that I can do to help you stay motivated if there are bumps along the way?" Lastly, It is important to remember that many of our youth have been operating in survival mode. Upon entering care and will take time to adjust. This means that the youth may be focused on safety. And their responses are automatic and may appear on the defensive when survival mode takes over due to changes in the brain. They can have a difficult time talking about, thinking about, or planning for their education. 00:24:04 Or the future. When youth are in survival mode, they may have a hard time Remember who to ask for help. It's important to be patient with your youth during this process. Go at your youth's pace and adjust the conversations to let them know you're available to talk when they're ready. Another resource that can help youth focus on their goals is the TIOP or TILP. Transition Independent Living Plan and Agreement. The TIOP gets updated every six months with all youth in out- of- home placement, ages 16 and older. And this process includes their social worker or probation officer. The process is to To update the TIOP helps you to identify their goals, create a plan to reach their goals, and identify support people. There's even a field now to identify a post-secondary education, support person to assist youth with their college and financial aid applications. 00:24:59 This person could be you. In fact, A study by Chapin Hall noted that youth in extended foster care in California, who led their TIOP planning, were more likely to not just attend college, but actually complete college by the age of 23. As compared to youth who said they were not aware of their own TIOP planning or uninvolved. It's important that youth are involved in their college and career planning and development. The TLOP process is a great opportunity to work as a team to support your youth and help them accomplish their goals. The remainder of this training will include concrete grade - specific milestones that can be integrated into a youth goal planning, as well as additional resources that can be leveraged for support. Along the way to ensure a youth is successful. Before we move on to our next segment. 00:25:53 Let's hear from our youth on ways, we can best support them in reaching their goals. Adults want to assist youth with reaching their goal and or using the TILP process is just Young people, foster youth, people who are their self. They know what they want. They know what they need. You can't force things onto people. Being a social work major, I learned that you can give people all the resources that you want up to them to utilize them. And it may break our hearts that they're not utilizing them, but there's reasons for that. You have to allow people to make their own decisions, and you have to allow people to make mistakes. It's okay to make mistakes and you know what's good for you. I think if you wanna figure out a way to reach your goals, figuring out and mapping out a path of how to get there, and it's obviously that's probably gonna be with an organization or many organizations' help. 00:26:50 So just learning about how to reach out and navigate, advocate for yourself and not being ashamed to do that. I think that's the biggest thing is that you have to not be ashamed to ask for help. The LPE process is very helpful as well as a social worker and many different programs because You know, you can, you can tell them about a goal they want to reach and. They can do research and they can split that goal up for you, help you split that goal into different segments and everything. So that way you can finish one segment, go the next, go the next. And hopefully reset both. 00:27:57 This segment focuses on the educational milestones in eleventh grade that will help your youth prepare to transition to post-secondary education. Many of the educational planning milestones we will discuss in this segment for the 1 1t h grade build upon key steps in ninth and 10 th grade, which were presented in part one of this training. This segment will reference the Fost Youth Educational Planning Guide checklist items. As you remember, There are many post-secondary options for youth. Youth can begin their post-secondary journey at a community college to complete a certificate or associate's degree for transfer. Students can also go directly to a four-year university to earn a bachelor's degree. It's important for students to understand how high school milestones can impact their post-secondary pathway. The milestones are structured into three main areas: academics, 00:28:54 building college knowledge and readiness, and career exploration and readiness. The first area, we will cover under academics is understanding the important role of the academic counselor. Students and caregivers are strongly encouraged to meet regularly, at least every semester. with their academic counselor to make sure they are on track to graduate. And that they are in the right courses to match their college and career interests. An additional benefit of the regular counselor meetings. Is that they demonstrate to both the youth and the counselor that the caregiver cares. which encourages youth to stay on track to graduate. Some counselors and teachers who are not aware of the impact of trauma on foster youth May not realize a youth's full potential. Thus, the role of advocate falls on our caregivers. 00:29:48 who can represent the needs and strengths of the youth. When meeting with counselors, students and caregivers should request A through D courses starting in ninth grade. This is another critical academic milestone, Since the CSUs and UCs require the college preparatory pattern of classes referred to as the A through G courses for admission. There are specific requirements for each subject, such as math, English, history. And science. A through G courses begin in the ninth grade and span through 12th grade. It's important to ensure that students enroll in the right courses, every semester to keep a four - year college pathway as an option. Lastly, maintaining regular attendance and connecting to tutoring support as needed. Are important academic milestones. Students who attend regularly can benefit from consistent academic support. 00:30:47 and access to school resources including tutoring. Communicating with social workers, foster family agency workers, Or probation officers can also bridge access to tutoring support and can help a student build their academic confidence. Our second area includes building college knowledge and college readiness. These are key steps to build youth's college knowledge and prepare them for post-secondary education. For example. Youth can consider concurrent or dual enrollment courses, which are courses that count for both high school and college credits. These are often offered at the local community college or directly on high school campuses. They are a great way for students to get early exposure to the college environment. Sometimes people think that taking college courses in high school is only for students with a high GPA. or who were in honors classes. 00:31:43 Actually, dual enrollment is available to anyone. Sometimes students who struggle in high school classes do better in dual enrollment classes since they're able to pick the classes based on their interests. In fact, Did you know that dual enrollment courses are actually proven to help increase high school graduation and college enrollment? and completion rates. The benefits apply to low-income students of color and those with low GPAs. Thanks, Theresa. Taking dual enrollment courses can give students more choice in the courses they take and can provide them a head start towards an associate's degree and even a bachelor's degree. A student, who completes three classes under dual enrollment can graduate high school with up to nine or more college units under their belt. Ask your high school student's academic counselor to learn more about dual enrollment opportunities in your district. 00:32:42 Another way to build college knowledge and college readiness is by helping youth access college tours. Youth can start attending college tours as early as middle school. It's recommended that students have multiple opportunities to attend college tours or college fairs to expose them to a wide variety of college campuses. The summer after eleventh grade, Is a fantastic time for students to start to think about what post-secondary option would be a good fit for them. These tours can be in-person or even virtual. In addition to campus tours coordinated by the student's high school, There may be other foster youth, - specific college tours occurring through your child, welfare agency and local nonprofits. Those eleventh graders who have expressed an interest in attending a four-year university. 00:33:35 should also consider taking the SAT or ACT exams. While the UCs and CSUs no longer require these exams, some private institutions or out-of-state colleges and universities may still require it. Fee waivers are available for youth in care through their high school counselor to take exams. It's recommended that students take one or both exams in the 1 1t h grade, so they can retake it again, if not satisfied with their score. Students can take a course. Or access resource materials to help them prepare for either exam. There are many SAT, ACT test prep materials and courses available. Some of which are even free. Students should speak to their high school counselor for local resources. In addition, youth eligible for the Independent Living Program or ILP, which we'll talk more about later, may be able to get assistance with the cost of a preparation course. 00:34:32 The last step to building college knowledge and college readiness includes taking advantage of academic enrichment programs. Many high schools offer academic enrichment programs as part of the school curriculum, such as AVID. Or Puente. Enrichment programs are any productive experiences extending beyond the traditional curriculum that encourage academic performance and college attendance. They can be offered during the school year or during the summer. It's, a good idea for students to play an active role in finding programs that will fit their interests. And goals. A guidance counselor can help students identify local programs. There are even some programs specific to foster youth. Lastly, we will look at how you can help your youth explore their career opportunities. 00:35:31 And develop their career readiness skills. As mentioned in a previous segment, Taking career assessments throughout the educational journey is a great first step. Electives, extracurriculars, and volunteer experiences can also help youth develop a wider range of skills, explore their interests and strengths, and even explore various career paths. Summer is also a great opportunity for you to volunteer, find a summer job. Or a paid internship opportunity. Caregivers can help work with their social workers or probation officers to assist the youth in the search process ahead of time and ensure that they have the necessary right - to- work documents such as an ID, Social Security card, or green card. Also known as a permanent resident card for non-U.S. citizens. Youth in foster care should be provided these vital documents and others at the age of 16. 00:36:26 It's important to remember that students under the age of 18 will also need a work permit from their school, and their caregiver needs to sign off to give approval. You and your youth can review various career exploration platforms already mentioned like gladiol. Org or California. Careerzone to understand the process to land their first job and gather more information about all of the career readiness steps. These and other career exploration resources can be found in the Foster Youth Education Planning guy. Let's hear from our youth to see what they have to share. High school was very difficult because I did have a learning disability. But because of the programs that my high school had, I was able to address my disability. When it comes to addressing my disability, I was able to find strategies and skills, so I could take with me in college. And that was through note-taking. I was able to write down anything I could that I thought, I knew when I learned that course material. 00:37:26 And I would really go back in my book and then figure out if I did it right or not. And if I didn't, I would figure it out and solve it for myself, or do it again and figure it out again, and then memorize. For high school, Well, I was in a continuation school, so I had to do packets to make up for my credit. I had to meet with a counselor. Help me set up like an education plan on what credits were missing, What credits did I have to make up for to help me stay on track. And traditionally, I think, If had I not been in foster care with AB167, it actually allowed me to graduate in 2011. Which helped me get a little head start onto community college. Contact my peers, you know, we would work together. You know, I know I did struggle in English class. I didn't really like English. There was this guy. Actually, a couple of them, you know, we really switched information with each other. So I helped them on math because I really like math. They helped me on English. They were good at English. You know, we just. 00:38:25 Kept in contact with each other and asked each other for help. We fed off the information. And everything, we really helped each other. We've all graduated. Making a lot of connections with friends and people who knew people, That's what really helped me get into different programs and Do different opportunities before I got into post-secondary, So I kind of stood out when it came to being able to transfer and apply to a four - year. 00:39:21 Twelfth grade is a critical year when students will need to decide on a post-secondary pathway after high school graduation. and take the necessary steps to reach that goal. It can be an overwhelming process for any student, not just those in foster care system. So it's important that youth receive both emotional and practical support during this time. We hope that today's training will help equip you to assist youth through this process. To make sure that they have the information they need to graduate successfully, transitioning into post-secondary education and get connected to the right resources along the way. The college application process can bring out a range of feelings: excitement, dread, fear, confusion, frustration for students as well as for adults. 00:40:15 In addition, Our youth may experience stress during the final year of high school due to pending transition and changes associated with graduation. a potential change in placement, and transitioning into a new phase of independence. This stress can appear in different ways, such as avoidance or shutting down. Let's take a moment to reflect on how stress manifests for you. How does stress impact you? How does your youth typically react to a stressful situation? What are some things that you can do during this process to help you and your youth manage stress in a healthy way? What steps can you take to ensure your youth feel supported? Feel free to pause the video while you explore these questions. As you may have noted in your responses, stress can appear in different ways such as avoidance or shutting down, eating too much or too little. 00:41:14 Or too little, becoming more reactive, sleeping more or having difficulty sleeping. Each person reacts differently. It's important to remain patient and encouraging, And to continue to support your youth throughout the college application as well as beyond. Senate Bill 12 requires social workers and probation officers to identify a post-secondary support person to assist youth ages. 16 or older with their college and financial aid applications. This person could be you. You do not have to do this alone though. We will talk later in this course about additional resources and supports that are available to assist you and the youth through this process. Students in twelfth grade should continue to build upon the steps in eleventh grade. Here is a broad overview of the key steps in twelfth grade. We will dive more into these steps later. Teresa, for those interested in a four-year university. 00:42:11 Students, who opted to take the SAT or ACT exams can still take or retake the exams in the fall and get a fee waiver from their high school counselor. This is especially important for students considering private universities. It's important to talk to their school counselor at the start of the school year, to learn about exam dates and register in advance. Students can take advantage of the summer before twelfth grade and fall semester to research colleges that interest them. The majors available at these colleges and resource programs available to narrow down their list of potential colleges to apply to. The timing is most critical for students pursuing a four - year degree as college applications are due during the fall semester of their 12 th grade year. As we'll talk about later, Students considering a community college pathway have a little bit additional time to complete their application in the spring semester. 00:43:10 Students are encouraged to fully explore their post-secondary options and begin making a list of five to ten schools or programs. They may want to consider. Though that seems like a large number, it's best for students to keep their options open. Fee waivers are available that allow students to apply for schools for free, and there's no limit for how many schools students can consider. Applying for financial aid is an important next step in making sure students have the necessary financial support to cover the costs associated with post-secondary education. There are key steps and deadlines for the financial aid process, which we'll cover later in this training. Lastly, 12 th grade is also when students should be connected to campus - based support programs and other resources at the college campuses. They're thinking of attending. 00:44:02 We will provide more information about the great resources and the supports available. To foster youth across our college campuses and how to link them to these support services. For high schoolers that are in their last year of high school, All I gotta say is that it's going to be okay. And you are going to graduate because you put yourself through all this hard work to graduate. And if you felt that you did your best, then you have won. You are a success. You have been where you are now through your passions, through your experience and your dedication. So just keep on going because it's not the end. The best advice that I could give to people who are in their senior year Uh about to graduate high school is to not give up and continue doing well in your classes that it's really important. It's during the last year of high school and Really soon, they're going to be out in the real world. So just really. 00:44:58 Soaking that in and knowing that, what are you set up for? Like, what are you doing this last year because. Real life is about to hit you. So, I think just realizing that and really knowing that. You better be prepared. And if not, you better hit the ground running. Hang on, you're almost there. Um, High school for me was actually The first accomplishment that I felt was getting that diploma. And being able to go on a graduation stage, and that was one of the first sense of accomplishments that I have had. And I think for our youth that are graduating, that's really amazing. You did it and you're going to do it and you're going to do bigger and better things. 00:53:06 The film was released on 24 June 2016. Some youth may experience challenges navigating through high school based on the trauma they experienced leading up to their entry into care. Others may experience a significant amount of transition that may disrupt their education path through middle school and high school. Our goal is to meet our students wherever they are on their educational journey, and provide the resources to help them complete high school successfully. Children and youth in the foster care system change schools, an average of eight times while in care, Losing up to six months of their education, with each move impacting their educational outcomes and making it difficult for some students to complete their high school graduation. 00:54:04 The experience can be very disheartening for our students, so it is important to know that there are options. There are various options to help foster youth navigate high school with the goal of completing their high school diploma or equivalent. Completing a high school diploma or high school equivalency test, known as the GED or HiSET. is key to long-term financial stability. A high school diploma or equivalent can unlock employment opportunities and thousands of dollars in financial aid for post-secondary education. A key first step is to help our youth maintain accurate academic records during any school transition and during their high school years. Collaborating with social workers and school personnel, including the school's foster youth liaison. Can help maintain updated school records. 00:55:01 And ensure enrollment in proper classes for minimum academic disruption and on- time high school graduation. Some additional strategies can include summer school, continuation school, a fifth year of high school. Taking advantage of waivers to certain graduation requirements and school equivalency test options. Let's talk more about these very strategies. A student. Ending the 10th grade and into 11th grade academic year, That would be a great time to assess where a student is with respect to high school graduation. Students can sit with their academic counselor and caregiver to make plans for high school completion. This process is free of judgment or blame and is intended to identify opportunities for the student to complete their high school diploma or equivalent with the necessary academic support. 00:55:59 Graduation plan can include summer school and adult education courses offered online or in person through the local Adult Education Center. Courses must be completed through an accredited institution, so it's important to do your research. And meet with the school's academic counselor to make sure the courses will count toward graduation requirements. Students may also opt for a fifth year of high school. Youth have a right to remain in high school for a fifth year. Even if they turn nineteen years old to complete district graduation requirements, students can use this time to improve their GPA. Accrue credits, and receive additional academic support to help their transition into post-secondary education. Students can also qualify for exemptions to certain graduation requirements under a provision known as AB 167 or 216. 00:56:54 Foster youth who transfer schools after completing their second year of high school, Who are unable to reasonably complete their new district's graduation requirements within four years of high school. May graduate under the state's minimum graduation requirements. Students must. 00:59:39 To youth who transfer schools after completing, Qualify for exemptions to certain graduation requirements to support to help their transition into post-secondary education. Students can also qualify for exemptions to certain graduation requirements under a provision known as AB 167 or 216. Foster youth who transfer schools after completing their second year of high school, who are unable to reasonably complete. Their new district's graduation requirements within four years of high school may graduate under the state's minimum graduation requirements. Students must still remain in high school for four years. It does not mean they get to graduate early. Students who use this option still receive the same high school diploma as their peers, but do not fulfill the A through G requirements for the UCs and CSUs. This is an important consideration for students working towards a public four-year university pathway. 01:00:35 Please note, only the legal rights holder can make the decision if. 01:01:13 Requirements for the U Cs and C S U for four years. It does not mean they get to graduate early. Students who use this option still receive the same high school diploma as their peers, but do not fulfill the A through G requirements for the UCs and CSUs. This is an important consideration for students working towards a public four-year university pathway. Please note, Only the legal rights holder can make the decision if the student is under the age of 18. 03:35:13 Okay.
08-06 Lecture: Microsoft 365 Copilot Executive Training, Security Practices, and Automation Workflows
- Notes
- Date Time: 2026-08-06 13:57:43 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: Chris Brown (CIO, Crimson IT); additional sessions led by Christi and others ## Summary Across several sessions recorded on 2026-08-06, participants engage in informal meeting preliminaries, discuss local weather in Orange County and the South Bay, and troubleshoot a Logitech conference-room camera that only shows part of the room during a Teams call. Erin introduces John Wilder, a tech “learning to be me,” and mentions editing Mark’s Friday email to PEC to remove sensitive details (e.g., “we’re 4.9% below market” in a 2035 comparison). The core training, led by Chris Brown, introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot for executives, emphasizing Copilot as an AI assistant that augments work rather than replacing jobs. Copilot operates within the company’s secure Microsoft tenant, respects permissions and sensitivity labels, and does not train public models on company data. Chris distinguishes in-app Copilot (grounded on the open file/email) from Copilot Chat (grounded across a user’s emails, files, chats, and meetings) and demonstrates Outlook features: summarizing threads, drafting replies, iterating tone, and prioritizing emails. Further lectures provide practical workflows for Copilot across Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and web/desktop apps, plus agent-building with Power Automate and third-party connectors. In Teams, Copilot captures live notes via facilitator tools, enables Q&A during recorded/transcribed meetings, and supports post-meeting recaps with summaries, speaker timelines, and full transcripts. In Word, users import transcripts, generate executive summaries and agendas, apply “vibe writing” to improve prose, use selective rewriting with undo safeguards, and configure cross-app custom instructions for tone, style, and executive-level outputs. In Outlook, keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl/Alt+I) insert AI-generated drafts directly into email compose windows, though chat-side drafts lack persistent history; agent-based workarounds are discussed but beyond Copilot’s native scope. A current service issue is noted: Copilot intermittently reports lack of access to Outlook emails; a Microsoft support ticket was opened the morning of the lecture. Christi’s session covers handling long Word documents with sensitivity labels, document summarization, Kindle Scribe/Remarkable reading/markup workflows, and robust dictation using Whisper Flow (HIPAA certified, SOC 2 compliant). In Excel, Copilot assists with formulas (e.g., VLOOKUPs), data insights, chart creation, and dashboards; users must spot-check numbers and validate outputs. Mode toggles (web vs work), current service alerts, and performance considerations (data size, internet speed) are addressed, along with PDF-to-Word conversion via Adobe Acrobat Pro. Advanced sessions detail Copilot in Excel for formatting, pivot tables, and workflows replicated month-to-month; PowerPoint generation from Word documents with design references; Copilot chat settings (Work IQ, model selection, temporary chat, mobile voice usage). Agents are showcased for lease abstracts (with “don’t guess” honesty rules and citations), executive summaries from multi-PDF security reports, “water cooler” Teams chat summaries with sensitive-data exclusions, and researcher/analyst functions. Integration with Power Automate enables scheduled daily briefs, file-drop triggers that produce meeting summaries saved to Outlook Drafts, and broader automation. Licensing differences (Basic vs Premium) affecting feature access and image generation are flagged; names will be reviewed to resolve “Try again tomorrow” limitations. Network performance impacts are minimal under normal Copilot use. A dedicated security-focused lecture reinforces labeling and protecting salary/offer-letter data, OneDrive sharing indicators, DLP guardrails (e.g., PHI blocked in prompts), and privacy limitations around monitoring user queries (only aggregate usage visible). Best practices for building reliable, repeatable Copilot agents include detailed onboarding-style instructions, strict source limits (ideally ≤8–10 files), naming conventions with department codes in brackets for discoverability, and rigorous testing against prior work. Sensitivity labels and Protect Document workflows in Word are demonstrated, with recommendations to pilot-test label behaviors before broader rollout. OneNote integration for meeting summaries, upcoming training materials (one-pagers, prompts, PowerPoint, recording, summary, transcript), and direct support contacts are provided, alongside reassurances that Copilot replaces tedious tasks but not roles. ## Knowledge Points 1. Meeting Preliminaries and Side Tasks - Erin introduces John Wilder; informal weather chat; Logitech camera troubleshooting in a Teams room; editing Mark’s email to PEC to remove sensitive “4.9% below market” reference for 2035. 1. Copilot Overview and Security - Copilot as an assistant (like an intern), not an autopilot; helps reach a 70% draft quickly while requiring human judgment. - Runs inside the secure Microsoft tenant; respects permissions, sensitivity labels, and DLP; does not train public models on company data. - In-app Copilot vs Copilot Chat; citations in summaries; verify outputs as Copilot can be “confidently wrong.” 1. Teams Meetings - Facilitator-enabled live notes; recorded/transcribed calls support queries and recaps; post-meeting recaps show video, AI notes, speakers, transcripts; chat thread summarization identifies decisions and open items. 1. Word Workflows - Import transcripts to generate structured documents and executive summaries/agendas; review and insert after approval. - Selective rewriting, tone alignment, undo when edits are too broad; “vibe writing” for clearer prose; cross-app custom instructions for voice/style. 1. Outlook Workflows - Summarize threads, draft and iterate replies, prioritize emails; Copilot button location in top-right. - Inline drafting via Ctrl/Alt+I; chat drafts lack persistence; agents can help but require separate setup. - Current Outlook access issue acknowledged; Microsoft support ticket opened. 1. Excel with Copilot - Formula help, data insights, charting, and dashboards; hover actions include formatting, insights, formulas, analysis (can be time-consuming). - Replicate month-over-month formatting via forward-slash file references; pivot tables; verify against known results; prefer desktop Excel over web for full features. 1. PowerPoint with Copilot - Generate decks from Word documents; mimic an existing deck’s design; review for text overflow and accuracy; incorporate client feedback, then edit. 1. Copilot Chat Settings and Mobile - Work IQ to blend internet and work content; model selection (auto recommended); temporary chat for privacy; mobile app with voice for calendar readouts and planning during commutes. 1. Agents and Connectors - Agents as repeatable workflows; naming with department codes for discoverability; restrict sources and enforce “don’t guess” rules. - Examples: lease abstracts with citations, executive summaries from security reports, water cooler chat summaries with sensitive-data exclusions, built-in researcher/analyst roles. - Connectors for Asana, HubSpot, Salesforce; Yardi/MRI not available. 1. Power Automate Integration - Schedule research briefs; file-drop triggers to create meeting summaries saved to Outlook Drafts; upcoming 1.5-hour training to cover automation and agent integration. 1. Data Security Practices - Label and store salary/offer-letter data in private drives; password protection implications; OneDrive status icons for sharing checks; admins see aggregate usage only. - DLP blocks PHI in prompts; test sensitivity behaviors before rollout; use File > Info and Share menus to manage protection and access. 1. Tools and Productivity - Whisper Flow for compliant dictation; Adobe Acrobat Pro for clean PDF-to-Word conversions; web/work mode awareness; performance tied to data size and network speed; provide feedback to Copilot to improve outputs. ## Assignments - Send the edited version of Mark’s Friday email to PEC to Erin. - Troubleshoot the Logitech camera to show the entire conference room during Teams calls. - Try provided Copilot prompts; draft and iterate an Outlook reply; explore the Prioritize feature. - Use Teams’ View recap on a recorded meeting; practice Copilot Q&A for decisions and open items. - In Word, import a meeting transcript; generate and review an executive summary and agenda; insert after approval. - Configure custom instructions for tone/voice; apply across Word, Teams, Outlook. - Draft an Outlook email with Ctrl/Alt+I; edit and send after removing any auto-signature. - Monitor the Microsoft ticket on Outlook access; verify Copilot connectivity. - Experiment in Excel with formula help, insights, charts, and a simple dashboard; validate numbers before clicking Done. - Set Word sensitivity labels where available; audit and protect salary/offer-letter files; verify OneDrive sharing indicators and restrict access as needed. - Build/refine agents with detailed instructions, limited sources, and honesty rules; adopt department-coded naming; test against prior work. - Configure Power Automate: schedule daily briefs; file-drop trigger to create meeting summaries saved to Drafts. - Investigate licensing discrepancies (Basic vs Premium); collect names for review and resolve access limitations. - Review incoming training materials (one-pagers, prompts, PowerPoint, recording, summary, transcript); integrate into internal training.
- Date
- Aug 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:14 Hi, Erin. Speaker 2 00:00:16 How are you? I'm good. Good. I'm gonna come on video in a moment. I'm just finishing up. Speaker 3 00:00:23 No, no rush. I guess I was early and I didn't realize it. Speaker 2 00:00:27 It's okay. Uh, meet John Wilder, He's one of my techs and John is hanging out with us today. He's learning to be me. Speaker 3 00:00:36 Oh great Okay, how about that? I might drop off and go into our conference room because I see Suzanne set it up in there. So, no worries. Um, see you in a minute. Okay. Speaker 4 00:01:26 Hey Christi. Hi. How you doing? Speaker 2 00:01:29 I am doing good. How are you? Speaker 4 00:01:32 I'm good. Speaker 1 00:01:35 Good. Hello. Speaker 3 00:01:44 Hey Erin. Speaker 3 00:01:47 I feel like I'm coming to a school session. Speaker 2 00:01:51 We're not that bad, I promise. Speaker 3 00:01:57 Well, I do learn something every day, but this seems overwhelming. AI? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:05 It is not, I promise. Speaker 5 00:02:13 At least you match the crimson background. Speaker 3 00:02:17 I was just out in Orange County all over, it's baking. I mean, baking hot. Yes. Speaker 2 00:02:25 I am not in Orange County. I am in the South Bay region and Oh, Yeah, It's it's warm. I was uh in Inglewood earlier today for most of the morning, and it just yeah, it was it was miserable. Crazy. Speaker 3 00:02:50 I'm editing Mark's Friday email to PEC, and then I'm going to send it to you. I'm just like dumbing it down. I'm going to leave a couple things in here, But like you don't want to tell them, You don't want to tell them that we're like four point nine percent below market. No, no. All right. Speaker 1 00:03:26 Comparison of twenty thirty five. I get feedback here. Speaker 4 00:03:37 I think this is all of us, right? Speaker 5 00:03:42 Doug's going to join from his office and then come in here. Oh, Speaker 6 00:03:45 Okay. Yeah, the camera sometimes only shows me part of the room. Speaker 6 00:03:58 But I think because we're on a Teams call, I don't think you can. I don't think you can change it. Speaker 3 00:04:03 And I kind of don't understand that because the camera in there is when we're on Teams, it shows all the whole conference room. Speaker 6 00:04:10 Yeah, I don't know. Is. Speaker 2 00:04:22 This an Apple device? Speaker 6 00:04:24 Uh, forget what. Device we it's um, Logitech. Speaker 2 00:04:31 Oh okay. Uh yeah. We had, uh, we had a very similar problem with an Owl device recently. That's why I was asking. That one I know how to fix this one I'm, not as good with the Logitech the way to fix it, Speaker 3 00:04:47 It didn't used to do this, it just started doing this. Speaker 2 00:04:53 I get a technician looking into it after this meeting. Speaker 2 00:04:58 Awesome. Love that. That's the part of I used to manage the help desk every now and then. I get to, to go in and get to boss people around on that team again. Speaker 3 00:05:11 It would just be nice because this, you know, we use this conference room a lot. And um it's our biggest conference room, and people don't always use Zoom so on Zoom, it works fine. We can move the camera around, but most people use Teams. So. Yes. Sorry, Justin. I. Speaker 2 00:05:35 Am. Are we ready to get started? We wait still waiting on one more person. Speaker 6 00:05:40 Think so, Doug. I see Doug on here. Speaker 2 00:05:45 Okay, I'm going to share my screen and we are going to record this meeting, So I want to give you guys a quick heads up on that part. Um I have. A little bit to go over with you guys today, and I heard you say AI can be scary. I one hundred percent agree. One hundred percent agree with that. So don't worry, I am going to try to make it a little less scary for you. I want to introduce you guys to John Wilder. He is on my team he's He's training to be like me. I am not going to say training to be a me because he's too scared to do my job. Um. Speaker 2 00:06:20 Most people in the company is a little too scared to do my job for some reason. I don't know why. I am a nice person, I have jokes for days. So meet John. John is becoming not just an AI tech, He does a lot of things with Inclusive and I am really glad to have him on my team. Real quickly, I am working from home today. My teams have decided on summer break that Sometimes when I am doing training classes, they like to come in and learn too. So if you see heads popping back up, they're just sitting behind me learning how to do AI as well. So I also have a mini me at home, which is scary. And also I am not going to show my background. Giancarlo has been in meetings with me and seen my cats in the background, so I am not going to show you those if they pop up. Just understand it was not my choice to work from home today so. Speaker 2 00:07:15 Real quickly, we're going to go over Microsoft three hundred and sixty five. I am going to record this call. You guys will get a copy of it. Uh, I keep saying within two days, but it will be by tomorrow afternoon. Um, I'm also going to turn on facilitator. So if you join Teams this call on Teams on your computer, Uh in addition, you don't don't transfer the hardware, but just if you join in on your computer, um, you can see facilitator taking notes. Um, in the chat and you'll be able to access those. So, if you're like me and you have a little bit of ADHD and your mind starts to wander, you'll see those notes in there. Um, let me introduce myself for all of you guys who don't know me. My name is Chris Brown. I am the CIO for Crimson IT. I've been with them for a little over four years now. Uh, I'm about to come up next month will be my fifth year anniversary. Speaker 2 00:08:06 Um, so really excited to work with you guys today. I have been doing AI for probably about two and a half years, uh if not longer. So having a lot of fun with it. I started in Chat GPT because that was everybody's favorite. Um, I now am pretty proficient on Chat GPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot. Um the other ones I dabble in but not as much. So feel free to ask me any questions you guys would like, Now, This training is geared around the training that we did with your staff over the last couple of days. So, if you guys want to, If you guys have any questions or want me to switch up some of my examples for things that you do every day, feel free to interrupt and ask. I have no problems with people interrupting. If you start to look bored, I'm going to virtually throw candy at you. I do this in all my trainings. Used to be it was a lot of fun because I would be in person. Covid changed all that. Speaker 2 00:09:03 Just context, I used to work for the L A. Dodgers, um, and we would have everybody in a big training room. And I would literally throw little toys at them because I keep fidget toys with me or I would throw candy at people. So this is where that comes from. Um now Christi, Speaker 4 00:09:24 I think it's a good idea that you withheld that information until now because we probably wouldn't have given you guys this this. Uh. Assignment, if we knew about that. At least, I mean, if I was in charge, maybe if Kenny was in charge, he'd do it differently. Speaker 2 00:09:39 But Kenny knew that I worked for the LA Dodgers. He kept that under wraps for you guys. Yeah. I even have a World Series ring from 2020 because I was with them for uh, quite a few seasons. So yeah, okay, um i If you guys are Angels fans, that's not an issue either. I do like the Angels, um one of my, Favorite cohorts at the Dodgers. He worked for the Dodgers, his wife was in HR for the Angels. I like both teams. I am weird, so but I have to be a Dodgers fan. My grandfather helped build the stadium, my mom played the organ there for Catholic services in the seventies, so it was a natural progression. One of my kids, I am sure is going to go work for the Dodgers one day. That's pretty cool. Yeah, All right, So. In the next ninety minutes, you are going to watch Copilot do real AI work in the apps you already use. Speaker 2 00:10:32 Now, I am not going to give you a features tour. You are going to see how it works, see how easy it is, And I am going to give you guys a list of prompts, you can try today. Giancarlo is here for all three sessions. He adds a layer context as we go. He also asks questions that you may not have thought of, but he sees. So just a heads up on that ground rule. Number one. This is recorded You'll, get the replay and a written summary after the fact. Ground rule two: no dumb questions. I've been in IT for over twenty five years. I have seen everything, okay? Anything and everything IT you think IT will ever see, I have seen it. So trust me when I say there is no dumb questions. Chances, are you are going to ask a question that someone sitting beside you already had? And they just didn't want to ask it yet, so heads up on that. And then rule number three: be aware you are going to see me looking. Speaker 2 00:11:29 Everywhere, and that's because my monitors I'm working from home and they go like this. Um, I am a gamer whenever I'm not being a mom or an IT person. So just a heads up. Um, and I have my PowerPoint presentation over here. I have scripts and stuff over here, And then you guys are right here so that I can see all y'all's faces while I talk. Um, heads up Copilot drafts you're going to decide what it does Um, it is an assistant. It's not an autopilot. So I want you guys to be aware of it. If there's anything else I can tell you today, if you are going to forget it, don't forget this. Okay? It is an assistant. It is an intern. It cannot make your judgment calls, cannot make your decisions. That's, why you're here because you have that authority to make the judgment calls and things like that. Trust me, it's not going to take your job. I promise um. Speaker 2 00:12:23 Everything else I say, this is going to make sense with that. All right now, uh, What Copilot is Microsoft? Three sixty five is an AI assistant built into the apps that you already own. And pay for. Okay, so we're we are spending a little extra for Copilot, But it's within everything that you are well, not everything, but it's in a lot of things you already use. So I want you guys to be aware of that. It's your same Word Same Outlook, same Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, few other apps. But, now you're going to have a Copilot button that reads what's in front of you, and it will help you act on it. And bear with me because I'm about to sneeze. So ignore me if I do that. Other thing you're going to hear me say, over and over again, is it will get you to a seventy percent draft in about thirty seconds, sometimes a little bit longer That last thirty seconds, That's, the part that needs you. Speaker 2 00:13:19 I mean, it needs your judgment. It needs your you argue with Copilot is what I tell people. So that part's still you. That's part still, your personality is still Kenny acting as Kenny with the right judgment calls. So I want you to be aware of that. Copilot does run inside a Lear's tenant. It does have enterprise data protection, and your work is not going back to train a public AI model. So I want you guys to be very clear about that Uh, nothing that we send out is trained any other AI. So, You hear all the time about uh apps that are free public use like ChatGPT's free version, Copilot's free version, Grok's free version. They send all that data back to train other AI models. And in this case, This does not so face protected with safeguards in place that you already have written in um now. Speaker 2 00:14:16 One thing I do want to mention, um, there is two front doors to get to Copilot. So Copilot uh it's got an app, um and it's in every app. So those are your two front doors. So the first one is an inside app Copilot. This is the button that exists inside Word, Outlook, Excel. It is grounded on the file or email that is right in front of you. So, you're telling it to summarize this document when you've got a document open or analyze. This spreadsheet when you've got a spreadsheet open in Excel. If you're looking for it to do bigger things, you're going to use the Copilot chat, which I'm going to go over with you guys today. And that's something that's grounded across all your work: your emails, your files, your chats and your meetings. So often I'll use it to tell me to find a conversation we had last month about something in Teams. I used it. Speaker 2 00:15:12 Because I had a meeting with Giancarlo and a few others, and I was like, Wait, I thought we canceled that. And I was uh in my car driving from site to site, And I had to pull up Copilot on my on my phone and type in did Did. We not agree to cancel this? And then Copilot quickly came back and said yes. And then I was able to cancel it because I had the confirmation. So um just a heads up on that. If you're using one file, this is how you decide which door to go through. If you're using just one file and you're chatting with Copilot about one file, use the button in the app. If you're doing bigger things and you're searching across a lot of things, you are going to use Copilot chat in the application itself. And I'll show you guys how that looks when we go to Excel and Word. So heads up. Now this is the point I ask for volunteers, and if I don't get a volunteer, I get to pick you. So just a quick heads up. Speaker 2 00:16:09 What is Copilot not? And this is where I want y'all's opinions. What do you think Copilot is not? Google. It's not Google, but it can act like Google with your content, but you're right, it's not Google. Speaker 5 00:16:26 Not a person. Speaker 2 00:16:27 It is not a person. It has no judgment, no judgment. Although I have fifty four agents and I have them all named, they are not people. I did give them personalities, um, But they still are not people. They still do not do judgment. Anybody else? All right, I have a list for you guys, a small one. It's not everything. Um, this is what Copilot is not. It's not always right, okay? It can be very confidently wrong, and it can produce a number that looks very reasonable and be completely incorrect. Make sure you read before you send always. Speaker 2 00:17:08 How many of you remember being interns? Okay. I was an intern back in 1999, 2000. That's how long ago it's been. Actually, I was interning every summer before that because I was in college. I was a very cocky and ego-centered intern, like we all are at some point. So think of Copilot like that. I'm not going to tell you what happened, but it's a good story. Giancarlo has heard me say it a few times. I'm not going to bore you guys with that one. Let's just say I almost got arrested as an intern. Make sure you double check the work, please. It is not here. 's what else. It's not It's not sending your data off to train the public AI. It does run inside a Lear secure Microsoft tenant. The reason I'm repeating this because this a question that I will get asked commonly. Speaker 2 00:18:05 So I want to make sure you guys are aware that what is yours stays yours, and it's not here to replace your judgment. Knowing which version matters and which tenant has a problem? Or is a problem? Is your job. Copilot is not going to make that judgment call for you, and that part's not going anywhere. I promise you AI is not here to replace your jobs. If it was people would know how to find their on and off button on their phones. They do not, that's why I still have a job. Speaker 2 00:18:36 Okay. Um, is this like ChatGPT? That's another question I get asked all the time. It is in the same family of technology. Uh, however, ChatGPT cannot see your Lear data, cannot see your emails, cannot see Teams chats, nothing like that. Um. And because we need to keep this within the walls of Lear, we're choosing to go with Copilot because it is actually one of the better certified tools at protecting your data. Okay, um. Free public tools cannot see your data and should not ever see your data. Any questions so far? You guys are the you guys are the most um. Giancarlo, how do I explain this? You don't look as bored with my training today as some people did the other day, so I am very happy about that because I usually. Speaker 2 00:19:30 I talk fast and I try to be energetic, but doesn't always work. So I appreciate you guys. Speaker 4 00:19:35 They do look like they're trying to pay attention. Speaker 2 00:19:38 Yes, I love that. Um, some things you are going to be like Chris, you are reiterating this over and over again. It's only because I need you guys to understand it. Um, so uh, I am going to say your files stay your files. One thing I am going to add, I haven't talked about yet is it can only see what you can see. Okay? You cannot see, None of you here cannot see anything in Kenny's OneDrive unless Kenny had given you access to it. Okay, so make sure that you are aware of that. Uh, anything that's in your OneDrive that you have not shared stays private. Okay, So if you've saved a book or a novel that you're reading at lunchtime on your computer, Copilot is not going to share that information with Kenny. I promise. Um and I've got a few book selections. I could tell you if you ever need some book selections. Um. Speaker 2 00:20:29 It is invisible to everyone else's Copilot and everyone else's. OneDrive is invisible to you, unless they've shared it with you. Now, shared folders and shared drives stay exactly as accessible as they are today. Nothing more. So Kenny cannot see data he does not have access to. So, if he does not have access to that HR file that has some information in it that he should not be seeing, he cannot see it. And Copilot will never open a door that's not already open to it. So, there's no way to go in and sneak and look for things. That's not there. So people don't have a way in, they can't hack the system using Copilot. So, um, sensitivity labels, they are respected automatically. So if you have a file that you have a sensitivity label attached, um, it's going to respect that. So anything that's marked highly confidential is not going to surface. Speaker 2 00:21:24 To someone who cannot see it, only going to be there for people who are. That being said, It's still not going to show it, even if it wasn't marked as highly confidential. It's just going to take a few extra precautions in that case. All right, so I'm going to show you a live demo with Outlook. We're going to have it do a few things. One, we're gonna have. It do is summarize a long thread, and that is one click. We see whole chain who said what what was decided, what's still open, It does it in ten seconds and not ten minutes um And it does give you citations, so you can click on a citation to check its work, which is good. It will draft a reply and then iterate. So just a heads up: uh, you never want to accept a first draft, And you can tell it how you want it to respond as it's drafting that reply. And trust me, you can tell it to to change in plain English. And, if you have a finicky keyboard like mine, whose batteries keep going out every other week, and it skips letters. Speaker 2 00:22:22 It will understand that as well. So just a heads up on that one. Um, so a couple prompts I'm going to show summarize this thread, uh draft or reply confirming, make it shorter, Make it a little bit more formal or draft a family friendly notice to all tenants at such and such building about an elevator maintenance Saturday eight am to two pm. Okay? I showed that to one of the other groups. It works really well. So I'm going to show you guys my Outlook Do not be frightened by my Outlook. My Outlook is uh. It's a it's a little bit crazy. So just be aware of that. Um, I'm gonna slide that over here. I actually have an email classifier in my inbox, so that is why it looks a little uh, a little crazy. Um, but I'm going to show you guys a few things here. So I am going to click on this email thread and I am going to ask it to summarize. Now this one's not a long one so it's not gonna take that long. Speaker 2 00:23:21 I am on a fast internet, so my responses might be quicker. If you're on a slow internet ever, it might be a little slower. So just be aware of that. Um, so here's the summary. This is actually a thread of where people were just uh accepting my invites. Um, So here is here is the summary um and you can see there's a lot of different information in here. I can click on any of these citations In the boxes right here. And what it's going to do is it's going to open an email for me to read that actual part. Okay, so if I click on it, it opens. And that's where you can you can do the citation. Now, another thing I can do is if I hit reply and I hold down the Alt key on my keyboard and hit i as an igloo, um, I can tell it. Speaker 2 00:24:19 To try to reply. And in the brackets, I can uh tell it what to what I want it to say. I'm going to keep short and friendly. Now, One thing I'm going to show you guys a little bit later is how to make Copilot sound like you, which I do. Um, all right, so here's its reply. Speaker 2 00:24:50 And you can say, this is a little over the top and wordy. Please shorten it. Cause that was a little too nice. I am not that nice. All right, there you go. That's a little bit better. Um, I don't like em dashes though. Speaker 2 00:25:20 And of dashes is this right here. I don't like it. It reads a. All right, now at this point, I can say keep it. I'm going to keep it and then I'm going to do this and there you go, that would be my reply still not me. I would still make a little bit changes, but for today, there you go um and now I can just control enter Anzor can uh ignore it. Kenny can ignore because it went to them. And uh. Mike Mike is going to text me in a moment and say, what what is, what kind of email is this, um so real quickly that's the biggest gist of how Outlook and Copilot work. There are a few additional things it can do, and the Copilot button for Outlook is in a different place than all the other apps. It's up here on the top right, um I there's these we've already done but also prioritize. I want to show you guys prioritize if you see um. Speaker 2 00:26:17 I've got these circles right here, and I've got this one right here. This is telling me that the messages are high priority or low priority. This one got marked as a low priority, So what I do is I click on the prioritize and I can put in some rules. So, I am going to delete this one. ; I'll show you guys how to do it. Sorry, Kenny. In a high priority, I can say if it's from. Anzor. Now, It's not going to know who I'm meaning because I do have a friend with the same spelling but different pronunciation of name. So, I'm going to make it a little bit easier and say Alere, mark it as high priority. Add if um and I can add as many as I want. Now, I keep it. Speaker 2 00:27:16 Pretty low because it also automatically determines based on what the wording is in the email. It'll automatically determine should it be a high priority or not, and it does pretty good at choosing. Uh, but this one should not have been a low priority. So, um, and then on lower priority you can give instructions as well. I get how okay I'm a CIO. You guys are executives as well. How many times a day. Do you see an email coming in asking you to attend a conference? Speaker 2 00:27:46 It's pretty often. How many times, do you see people or get emails about people wanting you to test something for them or wanting to sell something? It's pretty often. Um, So if it's an invite to a conference or meeting from a vendor I do not have a relationship with, it marks as low priority. And until they start offering me a free hotel room and free flights, Uh I am not going to their conference unless it's Microsoft because I deal with Microsoft all day long. So these are the kind of things you can do. I also have it do uh SCHARP or BAFMA, but again, It does do pretty well on detecting low party with the exception of this one. This is actually the first mistake I've seen it make. So um and I've been using this for several weeks, so so just a heads up on that. Um within Outlook, these are the main features that people will utilize however. Speaker 2 00:28:41 Do you guys remember I said there's two doors into Copilot. One of those doors is right here, and this is Copilot chat, which works just like the app does. So, it's a little bit different and you can use that across the board for everything. And it's just a little app that they built into Microsoft. So, that's just a little bit different. We're going to be going over this later. But I did want to show you that. But Can. Speaker 7 00:29:06 I ask question Christi? Speaker 7 00:29:09 The chat like to look at all my emails today and extract the deliverables and to dos. And then it said it didn't have access to my Outlook. Uh, yeah, is that right? Because I did the same thing in Outlook and I was able to read through my emails. So is it not connected automatically? Speaker 2 00:29:28 It, for some reason today, you're not the only one who's come to me about that Outlook. Um, I don't know what's going on with Microsoft with Microsoftum, I have seen that issue over the last two days with various clients. So I did raise that as a ticket to Microsoft uh, this morning just because we've seen that come through. It should look at your emails and I don't know why it's it's having an issue, but that just started happening in the last couple of days. Speaker 7 00:29:55 Okay, so it should be connected. Speaker 2 00:29:57 It should be connected. Got it. Charl now I want to show you guys Word real quick, but before I do, Um, I'm going to show you guys a few things in Teams that's going to make your life easier with Copilot. Um, So first, you're going to see your your nice amazing faces on this, and they and I'm a person who doesn't like to see my face. So um I'm gonna throw this in the share real quick. I want to show you guys Copilot that is within Teams, especially when you're in a meeting. Now facilitator is in here and she's taking notes. Uh we call her Franny the facilitator. Speaker 2 00:30:33 Uh, just because I like to name everything and give them personalities. So facilitator has been turned on. It is taking notes and notes right here is uh a part of Copilot. So here's the notes that is coming in. It is doing everything in here. It's making some really good notes. Um, I do love to work, use this feature. Also, you have the Copilot button here. And as long as the call is being recorded and transcribed, you can ask questions in here. You can tell it to recap the meeting so far. I do that because I have ADHD, and I often desire multitask during meetings, even though I shouldn't. And sometimes I will see a squirrel and uh, I need to get a check in my meeting. So, I will ask for a recap just to ensure that i, you know, i didn't miss anything i should have. Speaker 2 00:31:27 Sometimes I will see a squirrel and then my name gets called. And trust me, this has come in handy quite a few times, especially on two hour long meetings or longer. So Copilot is your friend in here officially in Teams. I'm going to show you my Teams and uh I think I've already seen my messages in Teams. Um so just a heads up on that. Now, in Teams if I am in a chat thread which I am um. Speaker 2 00:31:57 I can go in here to a chat thread and tell it to recap everything in here. I can say, summarize this chat. Is there any open items? Are there any decisions made? Ignore the gifs because this just a help desk team where we send things back and forth. In addition to that, any meetings that you have or that you're in, so this yesterday's Alere training. You can go back in and see any recap of things that are recorded. So if I say view recap, it's going to open up another screen. You will see the video, the recap. Uh you'll see who talked uh down here and that's a feature. You'll see the meeting notes from the AI summary. Uh, you also have a few other options in here that you can choose from. Uh and you'll see the transcript. These are all due to Copilot. So also you have a Copilot button in here. Speaker 2 00:32:56 And you can ask it to talk to you about things in the meeting. So if you want to find out what someone said in a meeting, and you can't find your notes on it that she wrote, it's going to be in here. So, in addition to that, You'll see uh some of the things that are coming through during the meeting in the chat as well. Okay? And that's in Teams. Um now I'm going to talk to you guys about Word. I have a document that I'm going to show you guys. This um this one from a meeting that I took the other day. I put the transcript into Word and I had Word create me this document. So it is uh it was a a meeting that I was in. We were discussing AI. He had a really amazing presentation, um and I wanted to make sure I captured everything in that presentation. So here's the notes I had Copilot create. I have not changed the look of this document at all. So this how it made it, this what it made it to look like. Speaker 2 00:33:54 Including the table. So I did read it to make sure that there is no questions, uh there's no information that is wrong. I did also send this over to my Charl group, uh so that they have it as well. But this is something you can do within Word. Now Copilot's little button is down here and it's going to be down there for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. How many of you have heard of vibe coding? Okay, So uh, vibe coding became really popular in the last couple of years, because coders realized that AI could help them with coding and do a lot of coding a lot faster than they could. Uh and then people who were not coders also learned this, and they could sit there and have a conversation with things like Claude or uh Copilot or uh ChatGPT. Speaker 2 00:34:53 Build amazing applications for their companies just by sitting there, grabbing something to drink and just start you know talking to AI. Um, that term really took off. And then another term evolved called uh writing, And that's where you go into Microsoft Word or Google has its own version, and you open a blank document and you open Copilot right here. And, you just start talking to Copilot and letting Copilot write your document for you, and that's vibe writing. Now, I have done this because ever since I was a little kid, I had this novel in my head that I wanted to get out on paper and I just never had time. So, I have started vibe writing with that. It is actually really fun. But you can see here is prompts that you could do. Speaker 2 00:35:46 One thing I want to let you guys know is if you want to base this off of a document, you can base this off of a document. You can tell Copilot, I need a really good executive summary from the following document. And I'm going to put a forward slash from my keyboard. And when I do, it's going to open up a lot of different things in here. And I'm going to type in meeting. That was not my battery. That was me mistyping. And I'm going to say meeting transcript, and I'm going to choose this one, which was yesterday. This was the earlier meeting from yesterday. And I am going to hit send. Now when I do that, Copilot is only going to base this off of that document because I have highlighted that document in there. Speaker 2 00:36:43 Uh, Another thing I can do is I can hit the forward slash, and I can tell Copilot to create me an agenda based on a following meeting. You can actually outline meetings. Um, you can tell it, hey, I have this meeting coming up. Uh, If it's something that was sent from somebody else and if it has the details in the meeting, you can actually help tell it to help you prepare for that meeting. I do do that a lot because sometimes people will Randomly put meetings meeting invites on my calendar, uh and uh my AI assistant will accept that meeting on my behalf sometimes, and I don't know what's going on until the day before the meeting. So I will open it up in Copilot, chat or open it up in Word and have Copilot help. And assist me on getting ready for that meeting. So I'm gonna ask um. Speaker 2 00:37:43 It's going to ask you some questions. I'm going to provide the summary here for review because it wants to know if I want it into the document or if I provide, if if I would prefer it provided here in the chat. Um, actually, I'm going to change this. Yeah, provide the summary here for me to review. Next year's summary. Speaker 5 00:38:06 How do you how do you get it into the document? Speaker 2 00:38:09 So once I read it, It's a good question, I'm gonna wait until it goes in. I'm going to actually tell it to put it in the document. Speaker 5 00:38:22 And then if it's in the document, can you just write in the document itself as opposed to the chat screen? Speaker 2 00:38:30 Yes. So you got to wait for it to get done. I sent a little too early. Um. Speaker 2 00:38:42 Now, one thing that annoys me about Copilot, I'll just be straight up transparent and honest. It does ask multiple questions before it does anything, just to make sure you're absolutely sure that you want it to do that. Now this part does take a little bit longer. Speaker 2 00:39:11 And I'm going to show from an executive point of view, I'm going to show you a personal document. Just uh, I do this often enough that I want you guys to see other documents I have written by vibrating. So bear with me one second. I'm going to pull one up. This is one of my not that one sorry. This one of my clients that I see on a regular basis. I sit down with the executive team pretty regularly. We talk back and forth, and they don't mind me showing you guys this, But this something I wrote because we were needing to make a decision on how we were going to do some things within the organization. I had just taken over as their CIO two weeks before. I wrote this document, and i. Speaker 2 00:40:05 Put everything in that document that I needed to present to their team. And so it put it in the crimson colors for me. Now, I did make some changes to this. I did go through; it's very detailed. I did go through and make a few changes in there where it got things wrong, but overall, it got me seventy percent of the way there. And I do this pretty often with a lot of my documents. ; I will vibrate. And have Copilot help me vibrate it. And then I will update, I will check it, I will thoroughly go through and check it. In fact, the presentation I'm doing, I'm showing for you guys today. Um, I wrote the script before I built the PowerPoint presentation. I'm going to show you guys how that works as well. Speaker 3 00:40:52 So a quick question: vibrating? Isn't that what it's called? Speaker 3 00:40:58 Is it you just said, can you do it straight in the document? But, it looks like you do only can do it on the side of the chat. Speaker 2 00:41:06 I do in both places. Okay. Yeah. Now, The reason why I say I do this in both places is sometimes I'll throw my headphones on and I'll act like my children when they're doing their homework. Let me hit done for this to say I want to accept this. You always want to hit done to accept it, but I will starttyping down here, And I will, I'll have headphones on. I'll be thinking through things. I will be typing it out, and then I will highlight that section and I will ask Copilot, make this more concise. Make sure it sounds like me because sometimes it doesn't. And then make sure I am talking to the audience and not at them. Speaker 2 00:41:59 I actually that last line I put in all the time, because sometimes AI will come across as we're talking at a person, And for me, I I just I don't like doing that, because then I lose my audience. I do. Speaker 3 00:42:12 Okay so one one quick question and just maybe you missed it, but you you highlighted it, but you didn't actually have to copy it then into Copilot Copilot already knows, okay, got yes. Speaker 2 00:42:22 So it'll say uh where it says make this more con concise, it knows now okay. It removed the stray text at the end first. Every now and then it will mess up, and we just hit the undo button for that. Nine times out of ten it knows that it's my selection. Every once in a while it'll do the entire document. So just a heads up on that. If you want to be more specific, you can say, because this one decided to go with the entire document. Speaker 2 00:42:56 I promise you, I showed the team yesterday. It was just a selection and it worked. Um, But you can also put in safeguards and say in the selection, I have highlighted and add add your notes in there. I know I literally answered your question, and then Copilot just did it opposite from what I said, but I promise you nine times out of ten it does work correctly. Okay. And in this case, if it does, I accidentally hit the enter key on my keyboard. Just hit undo. It'll show you in the box down here done or undo. And you can choose to undo it and then try it again. So one thing I want to give you guys a quick heads up on this when when I show you this later, I'll dig in a little bit more detail, but one thing I do is in chat settings. Speaker 2 00:43:50 I do give it custom instructions on how I want things to sound or look. So, I am going to put this into the chat so that you guys can see it. This how I write, And this the custom instructions in the details that I put in every one of my AI assistants. So, I do put this in Claude, I do put this in ChatGPT, I do have it in Copilot, and this where I tell it how I want it to write. Speaker 2 00:44:20 So I even have in here how I want my board level topics to sound. So just be aware that you can do this, and this pushes it across all copilots in all apps. Soum any questions about Word so far? I'm not done, but I want to give you guys a moment to ask some more questions. Uh. Speaker 5 00:44:47 Well, yeah, I just have a question. It's going back to that word and you know, I was in my email. So, how do you if you want to draft a response? And you don't really want it to be in the little chat bot over on the right? How do you get it? I just asked it like, can you put it into the email and redrafted, You know, a new response. But how do you get it into the email itself? Speaker 2 00:45:12 So if I'm drafting a response from Outlook Yeah. Speaker 2 00:45:17 What I will do, honestly, um, I'm going to open this one. I know this is a marketing thing. Um, hang on one second. I'm going to open it up into another window. And I do it this way. Uh, because i i don't like that side window. Uh okay. So here's my response. Uh, where i'm drafting my response in this email, i'm going to hold down the control key and. I'm sorry, the Alt key and hit I as in igloo. Uh short and friendly message. Um And The offer and request removal from her list. Okay? The only reason why she got through to me is because honestly, we had business with her a few years back. Speaker 2 00:46:15 So it's writing my email and it will stick it directly into into this. And this would this would be exactly what I would send to her. So I am going to tell it to keep it. I am going to remove the signature because I have my own signature and I am actually going to send this. So does that make sense? Does that answer your question? Speaker 5 00:46:43 Yeah, it does. Thank you. And then, um, Does it store like uh like I don't know, like say you have that draft? Or or maybe it was doing something in the little chatbot? Do you does it store drafts like history of whatever it is? You're doing? And can you access that anywhere? Or is it just kind of a one and done operation. Speaker 2 00:47:05 So for the most part, it's one and done. However, I know on the features roadmap for Copilot, a few people have brought that up. Speaker 2 00:47:15 Okay. So, um, now that being said, I'm gonna let you guys in on a little secret, and Giancarlo do not kill me for this one. I have an AI buddy that writes my drafts for me. So this the one uh the meeting summary from Monday's training. Um This another meeting that I worked on. Uh, in in this one, I did tell him I was going to send that. And so here's all my information from that from my meeting notes. Um and it will do responses not that one. That's just blank one where I was working on it. So I do have that in there and that's a little bit more advanced um AI usage in Copilot. Um, I'm not going to go through that with you guys today, but it does require creating agents. Speaker 2 00:48:10 But it's something that Copilot can't do. So. Speaker 3 00:48:14 I was already over my head. Speaker 2 00:48:16 It's okay. It's okay. Um, you can ignore that, I promise. So all right, um now within a word, just real quickly uh, to follow up on some things. How many of you guys get very long, long Word documents that they expect you to read? Yes. I will literally I send those to my Kindle Scribe, so I can read them before I go to bed. So if I drift off to sleep, it's a great melatonin replacement, I promise. Um when you have a long Word document that someone has sent you. I'm going to pull one over here. All right, so here is a long Word document right here. Real quickly, I want to show you guys uh sensitivity labels. Speaker 2 00:49:06 If you click right here on the on the title, Um, sensitivity labels right here, you can choose your sensitivity here. Crimson does not have that turned on. Um, However, for you guys, you have it turned on and you can choose the of that docUment. Now I am going to close out of Copilot and I am going to go back in. And I am going to ask it. It does not clear my history in this docUment, like it does an email. I am going to ask it to. Speaker 2 00:49:37 A summary of this document. And you can ask it to summarize the document. And I will do that when I receive a thirty six page document from a client. Okay, I do it because you guys are way more busier than I am and I'm a busy person. I don't have time to read a thirty six page document from a vendor outlining certain things. I will summarize it. And then later on when I am on my lunch break or right before I go to bed, I will read the document. Just. Speaker 3 00:50:18 Use AI. Yeah, that's hilarious. Like, I've never. Speaker 2 00:50:25 I I send it to my Kindle Scribe because you can mark it up in your Kindle Scribe. If you guys have never seen that uh or if you use a Remarkable device, it's very similar to that. I'll mark it up and then highlight my notes and send it back to myself right before bed because that's about the only time I have time to read something. So just a heads up, that's another option you have. In addition to that, if you are a dictation person, I am a dictation person. Under your home, you have a dictation option right here. It is getting better and better over time. I've used many dictation programs in my life. So if you want to write writing. Speaker 2 00:51:04 That's great. It doesn't work in here. In here, What you want to do is you want to hit this button to start dictation. Now, don't kill me again for this one. I don't use either of those. I'm technical. I use something called Whisper Flow, okay? Uh, I dictate a lot, which I don't know why this is not wanting to come over. And Whisper Flow is a tool that I use to dictate. It is HIPAA certified, is SOC 2 compliant. Most of my primary clients are HIPAA or medical field in HIPAA, so I do use that. These are all my all my Whisper Flows that I did yesterday. It also works on your cell phone. So, if you're interested in dictation, uh that actually will fix your ums and ums and all of that. Uh. Speaker 2 00:51:58 Whisper Flow is a good software for that, and I use it all the time in uh my AI sessions. So just a heads up on that. Now, that's all I have for Word. Do you guys have any questions before we jump into Excel? Speaker 8 00:52:16 Um yeah, Christy real quickum if you wanted to go from one file type to to the other, say, take a PDF and then you wanted to take that language and edit it. Is that is that a possibility. Speaker 2 00:52:31 Yes, um, but let me give you the caveats. Do you have Adobe Pro or Standard. Speaker 4 00:52:40 Pro. Um. Okay, what do you say we have Adobe Pro. Speaker 2 00:52:48 Okay, so in Adobe Pro I'm going to just use this Verizon agreement, Oh, wait. Not that one. I'm going to use this invoice. I do everything in here. My kids are in here because this is my personal Pro account. So, here's my document in here. I will tell it to export the PDF to a Microsoft Word document. So, I will tell it to convert and then I will do it. That's the only way to do it? Speaker 2 00:53:26 Um cleanly. The other option that I've seen people do is is select everything copied into Word document. So, Um but the clean way to do it is just to do it through Adobe. Okay. You're welcome. Speaker 5 00:53:43 Uh can I ask you a separate question? Yes. Um you know and maybe you covered this, I missed it, but uh like my copilot says web search is off, Um, why is that again? Speaker 2 00:54:00 We're going to talk about that during through the chat part. Um, but there is a quick setting. My Copilot may look a little different than yours, but I'm going to show it to you real quick. Um, you will either see uh in the middle web or uh work. Let me flip off the new design. Where? All right. Uh, you'll see work or web. Speaker 7 00:54:27 Where do I get to that? I'm. Speaker 2 00:54:30 Gonna go over that in a moment. Um, if it's on work, web is usually turned off. But we are going to go over that in a little bit. Copilot is having some issues today, so I do want to make sure that you guys are aware of that. Um, but usually that is the reason. However, there could be some bigger issues going on with Copilot uh we're seeing, Some things where it says it doesn't have access to something, it should. And that's a known issue that they're working through today. I just saw the alert pop up on my computer. Speaker 1 00:55:07 So, um, Speaker 2 00:55:14 Let me pull up Excel for you guys. I'm going to give you guys some sample data. Speaker 2 00:55:21 Now, this is some demo stuff that I created for you guys. It has nothing to do with your company. It's just I made some made some junk up, And we're going to just use this for our for what we're going to do today. So be aware of that. It has nothing to do with you guys, just things that I asked. I actually asked Claude to make this for us. Um, I also have one for uh employee data and financials. If you are sitting here looking at this and. She is a Star Trek, Star Wars, and uh Lord of the Rings and hog and uh Harry Potter fan. You are absolutely right. Okay, so it is dummy data. I want to show you some things within Excel. Again, cell button is down here. You can use this for a little bit of everything. A lot of times in my job I am using formulas and VLOOKUPS. Um, if I forget how to do something, I used to go to Google and look it up. Speaker 2 00:56:20 Uh, there was like three sites I would go to for formula help. Now I don't have to do that anymore. What I can do is I can go in here and ask it, how do I do this type of formula? Um, and so you can ask those questions in the Copilot chat in here. Additionally, a few things I failed to show you. Um, this little shield at the top and this is in all apps. Uh, the shield being on just means enterprise data protection is here. It will never go off. So it will never be turned off. You don't have to worry about it. Um, auto right here, how many of you like Chat GPT? Okay, you can choose GPT as your um model if you want to. Um, I'm a Claude person. You can choose Claude. Okay, I use Opus five all the time. So, you can choose it most of the time. I just leave it on auto. There's no reason to change that. Speaker 2 00:57:18 Personalization is here. Um, and you can personalize your how it wants you to reply. You can also start a new chat now. When we talk about chat, the chat app, I'm going to give you some information on starting new chats, But I want to make sure that you guys are aware of all of this. Uh, you can also select sources down here or add some additional content. So I'm going to click on content and I can tell it to do, Working tools, I can upload additional images and files that I want it to look at. And I can add some additional content from other items. Okay, so those are here. It's in all the system, in all the copilots, in all your apps. So I want you guys to be aware of that. Now you can do a few things. If I click on this button or hover over the button, not click on it. ), I can tell it to improve formatting. I can tell it add data insights. I can tell it to add a formula. Speaker 2 00:58:14 Sometimes I can tell it to analyze the document. That option will be here. Um, I did ask it to analyze my financial data here, And I'm not going to do it because it does take longer than 10 minutes to do this, but I'm going to show you what it came up with. And this is what it came up with for the financial data. Um, so I did an actual spend analysis. I do do this one often on my budgets. So, I handle budgets for the IT budgets for multiple clients, not you guys, but for other clients. I will handle their IT budgets and I will look at things like this because when I present to their boards or when I present to their executive leadership, I need to know the information that I am going to do. And this actually cuts my time in half, because I only am allotted so many hours per client. Um, I do check the numbers so if i see. Speaker 2 00:59:08 My quarter spend, I want to make sure that these are right. I'll go in here into my thing. I will tell it to select Q1 and I will look at my averages or my total. And so down here is my average, my count, and my sum. And I will check that against the spend analysis to make sure it is correct. So do double check your numbers. You're going to spot check it over time, Time you're going to get a little bit more comfortable, but never stop spot checking. If I if I cannot impress upon you anything other than it's not always right. And you do want to double check the work, but it will make a lot of things go faster with your time. Okay. Um, it will also make charts for you. And. So what I'm going to do is I am going to highlight this right here. Speaker 2 01:00:04 Alright, I'm gonna say, take my highlighted portion and make me a pie chart outlining the information. Now, I know I misspelled something. My fingers don't type as fast as my mind, so bear with me. Copilot knows what I'm talking about. It's probably thinking to itself, she hasn't had enough Doctor Peppers today. Speaker 2 01:00:34 So, um, it is going to check the placement. It's going to do a few other things. It's going to do the slices. Um, you can tell it whatever kind of chart you want it to make. What I do is I'll highlight it, Say create a chart and I'll go on to my other document and I'll probably multitask with three documents just because I don't like to wait. Waiting is boring. So I'll let it do that. Um, it is making that chart and here's the chart. It's not that pretty. um It does not look right, and I will argue. I like to say this: the pie chart isn't showing the percents correctly. And so I will wait for that to get finished, and I will hit enter and send that. Make sure you argue with Copilot, okay? You can be nice to it. Speaker 2 01:01:32 Um, they're not taking over the world yet. Or you can be mean to it. It does not care. It has no feelings, I promise. Um, and while I'm doing that, I'll go to my next my other spreadsheet and I'll pull this up. Now this um this properties. I just made these up, gave it some asset types, gave it some information, and then I made a dashboard. I asked uh copilot to make me a dashboard of the information, and this what it came up with. Now, if you see it's highlighted in pink, that's because I haven't clicked done yet. When you have it do something very big, um, I'm you always want to hit done and then it will put that in. Now, I don't ever hit done until after I've confirmed some numbers. But uh once you're done and you're satisfied with the results, hit done. And it built all of this. It took about 20 minutes to build. Speaker 2 01:02:31 It isn't. This part is a little slower. It partially depends on your internet speed, but partially depends on how much data you have. So the more data you have, it's time to go get a cup of coffee. Some data, it's time to drive Starbucks to get some coffee and come back. Might take that long within Within Copilot again, double check everything, but it will um you will need to check things, So what I'll do, this one is not done yet, so I didn't click on it. I'm giving it feedback. You want to give it feedback. You want to double check its work. Any questions about this part? Any questions about using Copilot in Excel? You guys have had some great questions so far. Speaker 8 01:03:23 Christi, Maybe maybe this is kind of like a a not relevant or not specific to Excel, but like. The use of agent, Like where should we be using agents versus just kind of general search queries like this. Speaker 2 01:03:37 Uh, I'm going to give you, I'm going to show you guys next. Okay. Yeah. We're actually almost to that question. Speaker 7 01:03:44 So I have an Excel document that I um like I take raw data and put it in a tab, and then I manually format it, like take away rows and do things, Can I show it like what I did last month and can it reproduce that in a in the raw data in the next month? Speaker 2 01:04:05 Yes. So if you have different files, say, I want you to format this like the following document. And, then you hit the forward slash and you type out the title to that document, it'll pull it up in a search field. And this looks at your entire OneDrive. Speaker 2 01:04:30 Not just a certain folder. Speaker 7 01:04:34 Then I can tell it to like run pivot tables and stuff like that too. Speaker 2 01:04:39 You can. One more thing I'm going to show you guys that wasn't on my notes to show you is PowerPoint, and bear with me one second. I'm going to give you a courtesy overview. I am not going to do this, this part will take time. This is the part where if I'm in my downtown office, I will walk to Starbucks, It takes that long. So, um, you have an option in PowerPoint. How, many of you guys actually make PowerPoint presentations off of files that you've written Word documents? Speaker 8 01:05:09 Oh, mostly. Speaker 2 01:05:11 Yes. Um, create with Power with Copilot. I'm going to say create a presentation about and I want to hit a forward slash and I am going to say, SCHARP what was that file Google Workspace, OU design and use. Speaker 2 01:05:30 The formatting and look of the following document. And then I'm going to do a forward slash, and I'm going to say this one right here. And it's going to build that for me. Now, I gave it a couple of things. I gave it the document that I want it to create it based on, and I gave it The PowerPoint presentation that we're currently looking at, because I like to look. And so you can tell it how you want it designed. I do that pretty often because at that point, I am seventy percent of the way there because I know how I want things to look. And then I come back and I will edit it. Speaker 2 01:06:24 Things that are not put in place, I will check where words are run off the page because it doesn't know how to format that amount of text. But I will get there, and I will check all the information to make sure my information is in there correctly. So this is actually one of my biggest time-saving procedures. This has actually this part of PowerPoint has been out for about two years, and it has gotten better every time. I turn around. They're adding something new that's made this. Made my life easier. So, I will say the PowerPoint presentation we're utilizing for today, I gave it the script, And I have not a cookie cutter script, but I have a pretty good script that I use for every client. And then I send that out and Christi sent me back some updates. He wanted to see. And. So I added that to Copilot said, here's some feedback from my client of what he wants to see in this presentation. Please add it. Speaker 2 01:07:21 And I'll let it add it and then I'll go take a look. You'll see an example of that in a moment. So you can do that within PowerPoint. Um, I gave you all the rules already. Uh, one thing I do want to make sure that I tell you guys, force it to compute. If you use Python or macros in your Excel document, you can force Excel to run those computes. Okay? Um Always check any new workflow or any document against what you already know. So Kenny, in response to your question, I actually had this in the presentation. You can have it checked. You can tell it to look a certain way. If, you're using Outlook or I'm sorry, Excel on the web because someone sent you a document and Outlook decided to open it on the web, use the button Open in Desktop because one, it has a lot more features. Speaker 2 01:08:18 On the actual app itself, and two Copilot works in that better. Okay. Um, we're going to go into Copilot chat on your computer. Uh, when we gave you Outlook, There should have been a Microsoft 365 Copilot application that was installed on your computer. If it's not there, not a big deal. You can go into Outlook and then click this little Copilot button here. Or you can go to office.com on the web and open it from there. So if I open up Chrome, sorry, I did not have a clean open window for Chrome. I can go to office.com and you can open it from there. It's going to tell me to sign in. Normally I'm signed in. Um, I'm just going to sign in. Speaker 2 01:09:14 And so here's Copilot. Here you've got a lot of different options in here. Um, What I'm going to do is I'm going to pull up in here a couple of different features that we have and bear with me, Let me go back to my Outlook because I want to show you guys something from that. We're going to type in. So there are a few things we can do in chat here. Um, you have in here Work IQ, you can turn that off. If you want it to concentrate on things that are on the internet, turn it back on. If you want it to concentrate on the files and folders, so if you're just Googling something, um and you're using Copilot to do it, You can turn off Work IQ and it concentrates and pulls the data from the internet. Um most time I leave it on Work IQ because it will connect to the internet at the same time. Additionally, the models are right here. So if you like ChatGPT or you like Claude, you can pull those. Speaker 2 01:10:09 Um, I leave it on auto just because honestly it works. Um, if I want to do a temporary chat that is not saved, I can click on this to open up temporary chat. It's just like Google incognito mode. So, um if you're, if you are a die- hard, uh Lord of the Rings fan, and you have a question about something in Lord of the Rings, but you don't, you know, You're going to be sharing your screen and you don't want people to see it, use the temporary chat. Okay? Um, on the three little buttons you have some options here. Chat settings I showed you earlier. If you want to download the mobile app and I will tell you, I do love the mobile app and I'll explain why in a moment. Um, It will send you a link to your mobile phone, and you can actually pull it up here. Um, I was in between sites this morning. I could not remember what Christi had said. I pulled oops! i pulled it up here okay? Speaker 2 01:11:08 And I had a chat with it. Now, one thing to note, my chat from my mobile was not shown in here. So you can't, it doesn't always sync very well. However, it does look at your files and folders in OneDrive. It does look at Teams messages. It is very similar to what you see on here, just looks a tiny bit different, right? Uh, One thing I do with it on the mobile app is half of my week is spent in Pasadena, Half of my week is spent in Compton because one of my clients in Compton, one of my clients in Pasadena. When you're driving from El Segundo to Pasadena, it's a nasty drive. Okay. So, what I'll do is I'll pull up Copilot, much to my children's annoyance and I. Click on this little button right here, which is the voice portion and the voice portion will open up. Speaker 2 01:12:04 Where I can talk to Copilot. It is really useful on those long trips or those long drives because I'll sit there and prep for my day while sitting on the traffic on the 110 because it's a nightmare at seven o'clock in the morning. So, I'll have it read to me my schedule from my calendar and various other things. Um, I do like that feature. You also have that feature here in the app where you can sit there and talk to it. I will advise strongly to have headphones on when you do, Okay. Uh, 'cause it does get, I do hear some fun conversations uh with people around me when that happens. The other things to note on this is we you have a co-pilot. Words are hard today. You have a co-work button up here. We did not turn that on earlier. So if you guys know what co-work is, you've used Claude desktop app, Um we do not have co- work turned on for that. Uh, so it's not going to open up for you. Speaker 2 01:13:03 Now, Kenny, you asked about agents. I am going to show you guys some agents right here. If you work in Chat GPT, you know what a GPT is. Agents are uh Chat GPT's GPTs. So it's the same thing, just different name. I'm going to click on more agents so you can see everything. I have uh my agents right here, anything that I've built or my staff has built, Is going to be right here under your agents. Anything that's built by Microsoft or shared with me is going to be down here. The reason why I'm showing you guys this is because we've got a couple things we can do. Now, your agents are ones you build yourself. Down here, If you have apps that are connected, like I have Asana connected because I use Asana for some of my projects and work, you can click on that and you can connect to your data. Speaker 2 01:13:60 Your apps has connections back. So HubSpot, Salesforce, those are connectors we can turn on if you request it. And you will be able to pull information from that app. Now, that being said, there's not connectors for everything you use. So I know some of our clients ask for Yardi or MRI. We don't have connections for that. They don't have them built to connect back into Copilot just yet. So, I am going to show you one that we built for you guys. So, This is a lease abstract that we built for. You know, We went through the process ;. It's an abstract assistant. I'm going to show you how to edit it, but I clicked on the wrong piece, so hang on, let me go back. I'm going to show you how we built it. Speaker 2 01:14:55 And the reason why I'm showing you this is, you can build agents to make your life a little bit easier. And I'm going to go through what that looks like. For the abstract assistant, we told it we want it to act as a property management list Alere. And. So what we're allowing to happen is when we upload a lease to this agent, we want it to produce a one-page abstract with certain headings. And for it to use short bullets. If a term is not stated in the document, write "not specified." That's what we call an honest statement. We tell it never to guess, And then we tell it to also cite the section or page number for the rent and term of that lease. And, what we want it to do is we want it to turn those PDFs into one - page abstracts. So this is something we did. We can. Speaker 2 01:15:54 We can turn on or off features. We can tell it to search websites. We can tell it to only use specified sources. We can tell it to create images or not create images. And once we build this, we can share it out to others. So once I've built it, I can click on the three dots, and I could choose share, and I can copy the link, I could say anyone in the organization or you could say specific users and you could share that out. So I'm not going to do that on that one, but I want to show you guys what this looks like. Um, additionally to this, um, I'm going to show you a few other agents. You can do this for a little bit of everything. Every month I get security reports for my clients, and they come in about six different PDFs from various different systems. Speaker 2 01:16:45 I will upload these into my security monthly reports and tell it to build me an executive summary from this. And I do that by hitting the plus sign and say, add work content or upload. Because those reports are six to ten pages long if if not more, and you guys don't want to read those reports, trust me. So I make it into an executive summary. Um, one thing I do this is a little off color Or not off color. This is a little bit, you know, off topic, but I created a water cooler bot. If I am out of the office for the day, maybe I am driving to Irvine for some reason. I have driven to Irvine to meet up with clients. I will get caught up with what is the buzz, and i'll say, what is the buzz in the napping team? We actually have a chat called " The Napping Team " that all of our staff is in um And if I want to see what's the buzz in The Napping Team. Speaker 2 01:17:44 I'll tell it to give it to me in a Star Trek theme. Okay, that may not be something you might use, but it should give you some ideas of things that's going on. So in the networking team, our Dell representative Charl Monti, great guy, amazing guy, he's leaving the company. And so then there's some other items. We had a Cisco Meraki outage. So these are the things we can see in there. Within that, you can build a little bit of everything. You also have a researcher and an analyst that are given to you by Microsoft. Analyst, you can tell it, you upload some data and tell me what are the trends. You can give it multiple Excel documents or multiple documents period. You can also tell it to visualize. Researcher, okay? You can tell it this is your Google I'll be honest. Tell me about Alere. Speaker 2 01:18:41 Property. And you know, you can ask it a specific question. How many employees do they have? And it will research. So now, it'll ask you some questions. I'm going to say Alere Property Management because I did not complete that statement. Um and I want the current employee count only. Speaker 2 01:19:16 And it's going to pull that information for me. I do use Researcher a lot when we have new clients coming in, and Anzor, who's who's the owner of my company says, hey Chris, I need you to take on this client. I'll use this to build me a research about it. And then I'll go back and I'll pull who their key contacts are, or key people that I'm going to be working with. It'll give me their LinkedIn profiles. Speaker 1 01:19:41 So it does make my life a little easier. Speaker 5 01:19:43 Yes, we probably have the same question. Could, you set up one of these agents or bots or whatever. And like you want it to be researching something every day and have it send you an email with the summary of those results? Speaker 2 01:19:60 Yes, you can. I do do that myself. I'm going to show you an example. Hang on one second, let me pull it up. I get a radar morning brief every day. It outlines for me, Uh, the latest news in AI. There's a couple other radar morning briefs that I do. This is my AI one. It will give me the information, uh, it'll send it to my my email. And you can have it run on schedule. Okay. Um, when you build out a new agent, you click on new agent. You can tell it what you want. Talk to it in plain language and it will build it. Speaker 2 01:20:42 And you can tell it to run on a schedule. Speaker 7 01:20:46 All in the SharePoint files, yeah, but not in the right files or. Speaker 3 01:20:51 So like, could we say like drop an AR report in there every day and then have it set or at the end of the week? And then tell it like, hey, send me a send me an email out every Friday giving me what the AR stats are. Speaker 2 01:21:04 Yes. Uh let me tell you one way I do this I have my transcripts, Going into a certain folder in SharePoint or in my OneDrive, sorry. Um, I kind of gave you guys a kind of what what it looks like every hour. I have a I have a Power Automate, which is an automation tool that Microsoft has. You guys have it free of charge. I will tell it every time a file drops into this folder, I want you to create me a meeting summary and put it in my drafts of my email. Speaker 2 01:21:42 So this is the meeting summary from yesterday, and it put it into my drafts. And I built that. So every time it's in my drafts and I can send it when I'm ready. And I usually manually attach documents and things to it. That's why I don't ever send it out right away. Speaker 7 01:22:07 For the applicants, Christi, that's built the researcher and the analyst. Um, Does it can we look how those were built? Or is that just behind the? Speaker 2 01:22:19 Uh, we cannot. We cannot. Okay. No. That's actually a good question. I know no one's ever asked me that. Speaker 7 01:22:26 Um, You know, those agents that are built the researcher analyst, the template I was like how did how was those built right? Because all those have pretty powerful agents. So I didn't know if we could learn from that right like. Learning how people are building good agents, useful agents will help us. Speaker 2 01:22:47 It will tell me I don't have access to this agent. I have the highest permissions in the company. Um, Microsoft's not giving me access to it. Speaker 2 01:22:56 Okay, So now one thing to note a lot of the things you're asking for where where you're saying I want it to do this on Fridays, it is an agent but it's also a Power Automate back end to it. I am, um, I am doing an event or a Power Automate training soon for several of my clients because they've asked. They want to the questions you guys are asking. They want to know more how in more detail on how to do it. Um, Let me send the invite when I have the next meeting set up, and you guys can feel free to attend it. It's a it's an hour and a half long, and we're going to go over basic automation, which might help you guys with AI. Speaker 2 01:23:40 So it's a lot on how to make every morning. I have a briefing summary that is sent to me via email. It's how to make things like that. One of the things I'm working on with the help of Copilot and Power. Automate is to send me meeting information about 40 minutes before a meeting is supposed to start if a client's sending me a meeting invite. But this my daily briefing I have sent, this what my schedule looks like. And some other information you guys don't need, but is applicable to me. So you can have that sent to you. And that's something I do with Power Automate, but I also do it with agents. When I'm building a new agent, I'm going to skip this. I'll go into the actual design here. When I say skip, I get the agent builder to the side, but I get the chat with Copilot here. Speaker 2 01:24:35 The specialist agent or tell the agent builder what I want. I'll see it filling out all this information, but then I'll add like, I want it to search all websites. Um, I can tell it use only specified sources. I can do a lot of this information here. Um and I can tell it to create documents charts and code. But if I go into Power Automate, I can actually configure it to work with this agent if that makes sense. Speaker 2 01:25:05 And that's how you run it on a schedule. So. Speaker 7 01:25:12 So Christi, did you build that water cooler agent? Is that something you built? Yes. What are the instructions you're giving it to build? Speaker 2 01:25:19 I'll show you. Uh, I'll be honest, I built the Watercooler bot, Uh Watercooler bot because I was in the hospital for a week and I needed to catch up on things. Um gallstones are not the greatest thing to ever get so, I ended up being stuck and bored in the hospital. I built out the bot, the uh water cooler bot. Uh, here are my instructions and the information. Um, I'll tell it to exclude any uh messages or any content from certain chats that should not be put in there. Um, I also told it to uh exclude any HR related employee data, because sometimes I'll say what's the buzz? Speaker 2 01:25:60 And I'll be showing it in a presentation, and I was getting some accidental salary information, so I had to cut that out. Um, and then any other chatter it'll show it. This is the formatting I want it to be. Um, and then I had it closed with a message. I got this idea from a peer of mine at another company that does what I do. Uh, and so I used a lot of her words. So it's really basic. Speaker 5 01:26:31 I Got an off-topic question. Sure. If everybody in the company is running all this stuff, is it going to slow down our network? Speaker 2 01:26:41 The only way your network's going to slow down with your current internet speed, Which I do know a little bit about because I helped the team when we took over your account, is if everyone in the company started watching YouTube videos at the same time. Speaker 5 01:26:55 Be a problem too. Speaker 2 01:26:58 If you have a problem with that, I know some great technicians, John included, Who can look up to see what might be on the network slowing you guys down. So I'll volunteer John for that one. Speaker 5 01:27:11 I'm actually currently using my Researcher to analyze what Mark's currently working on. Speaker 2 01:27:20 One fun thing I'm going to show you guys, I built something while I was right before, Giancarlo, Did I build this in the chat with or the first meeting with you guys on your pilot group, or did I just show it to you guys? Speaker 6 01:27:33 Design space. Yeah, we did it and like we had a follow- up with our pilot group. Yeah. Speaker 2 01:27:42 Okay. It's in the bottom left corner. I built an image. Speaker 8 01:27:45 Generator Premium. Okay, I have Basic. And it keeps telling me that I'm running out of why is that yeah? You I don't know, it says, upgrade. Have I uh is yours Basic or Premium on the bottom, your Premium too. Speaker 7 01:27:60 Everybody should have the same. Okay. I don't have it. Speaker 2 01:28:04 I'm sorry, I don't know everybody's names. I only know Kenny. Speaker 8 01:28:07 Is it Basic too? No because i i tried to do a few things in Excel, and it stopped yeah try again tomorrow. Speaker 2 01:28:17 So Giancarlo, can you send me their names? Uh, just because i'm terrible with names and John, and i will take a look and see what's going on with theirs. Speaker 6 01:28:25 Sure, yeah. I'll just put it in the chat. Speaker 2 01:28:27 Okay. Um, one of the things you guys can build as an agent, I did this uh with our pilot group is I built an a design space, uh image generator with as an agent. So, what I did was I gave it an image from uh what my living room looked like with nothing in it. And i had this, i had Copilot. Uh design for me, some looks and. I like the light and airy coastal feeling, because I like blues. But these are all the options they gave me. I also with some of my clients, I send out all employee emails to remind them to take their security training and stuff like that. Um, I always send them out with pictures of kittens, because people are not going to read your email. If you send them out from it, unless you put kittens on. I don't know why. Um, so i had it I have it generate. Speaker 2 01:29:23 Kitten images with the email I send out. Now, those two clients that I send these to, They stop me in the halls. If I've not sent a kitten image within a week. So, uh, these are some other things that you can do with it. I know images are um not what you're going to do every day. I'm just giving you some broad examples of things we've done with it. So, Uh, but i will for those of you guys who are showing up as Basic. We will look into that and get that back to you guys. Um, a few last minute things and I do apologize. We're running longer than I normally run, so bear with me. Does somebody have a question? Speaker 5 01:30:05 No, my Researcher has completed its task. Was he working on. Speaker 3 01:30:15 The NAICS codes on there? Speaker 7 01:30:17 Uh, Researcher should pull up your salaries on to see if it does. Oh yeah, that's good. Speaker 7 01:30:24 I don't know who does. Yeah, we should we should make sure that. Speaker 2 01:30:31 I will tell you from Crimson's point of view, please double check to make sure people don't have access to things they shouldn't. One of our employees in the Philippines found a random document with with employee salaries that was put in a public place. Um, it thankfully it was old salary data not new salary data. Uh, But please make sure you double check everything because if it's put in a public place for the entire company to see, they will find it. I promise. Speaker 7 01:31:02 What if we have like offer letters and people's emails and stuff? Is it gonna search that? Is that public? Speaker 2 01:31:09 Emails are not public. Speaker 7 01:31:11 That's not okay. Speaker 3 01:31:12 Should anything with salary should be password protected? I think we password protected the PM one, but it's probably in a place where somebody could Google it. Speaker 2 01:31:21 Hi, uh, make sure you put the sensitivity label on it as highly confidential. That will also assist. Um, with agents, I just want to divert our attentions back to agents real quick. Everything um I've taught so far has been about prompts other than the agents. The agent is different. You're going to teach Copilot how to do a job once, and then it'll do that same job every way every time. That was uh an example I used for these security reports that I do, I taught it how I want it to do it, and it's going to do it the same way every time. It's going to format the document the same way every time. Um, and so real quickly, if you want people at Alere to find your agent and use it, build an out, but we want you to give it a certain name. Um so these are the names we want you guys to give. I'm going to send these out um, but we want you to put the department in brackets first. Speaker 2 01:32:20 So the least abstract agent I showed you, it's bracket PMG close bracket lace abstract agent. So because there are no folders within Copilot, it is on the roadmap. We want you we want people to be able to find it. So how you guys do the names is how it's going to be filed. So, we want every Alere agent that's being shared out to have a department code in the brackets. Any questions about that? Speaker 5 01:32:53 Um, I got a question. Sorry to go back one. Okay. Back to the private, you know, like salary comp information, et cetera. We have the ability to I think. I recall Giancarlo us talking about this at the very beginning, But we have the ability to see what people are searching if we need to, right? No. No. Speaker 2 01:33:17 You have, You you don't have the ability to see what people are searching. You have the ability to see what they're doing, without seeing specifics. So let me show you real quick. Um. So this is Copilot. Speaker 5 01:33:33 This is someone's constantly asking like Copilot prompts to like find salary information or comp information, like we wouldn't know that at all. Speaker 7 01:33:42 No guys probably cause. I think you and Kelly are not using the private drive, so it's probably if it's not labeled, probably searchable. I'm. Speaker 3 01:33:57 Thinking that right now. I'm thinking yes. You should put that in a private drive. Speaker 7 01:34:02 Yeah, They'll, but she has access or Kelly, just create a we created a new one for property management, a new private drive. Yeah, but I don't know that that's you guys have access to that either. I don't know who has access to that, um. Speaker 2 01:34:18 We do not have any ability. I was just looking to see. Um, I've always heard we don't have the ability, but we don't have that ability. These are this is everything. I can see for Copilot for one of my clients, and all I can see is how many people are using it and what they're using it in. Now if you're having a concern, I think we could put uh litigation hold and it would save it, but I'm not too sure about that. I don't know why security is taking so long to to open up. Um, but I don't think we can actually see what they're typing in. In fact, I think Microsoft has been very. Speaker 5 01:34:57 Hold it right a Alere private. I feel like maybe we should have done this before we rolled out. We should maybe uh clean up whatever No, I don't have that. Speaker 7 01:35:08 Well, historically, all our salary stuff has been in our private drive, which has been segregated, but recently I guess for the PM stuff. Right. I think the accounting, uh, the property management accounting stuff is still private, but they might have some stuff. It sounds like. Right. Just checking on. Speaker 2 01:35:32 I'm looking at another client uh that fully pushed it out to all users, and you know, we don't have any. Speaker 3 01:35:41 We would've thought like yeah we shouldn't put this on like a. Speaker 2 01:35:51 Copilot isn't is not fully healthy today, so there are some issues that are occurring with it. Uh, Speaker 3 01:35:57 What's on here? Yeah. Two point oh projects salary hiring tracker. Oh, it's password protected though. But. Speaker 7 01:36:10 Somebody can find the file oh, Speaker 3 01:36:12 But they can't open it because it's password protected. Speaker 7 01:36:16 What happens to Copilot if it's password protected or would not get it? Speaker 2 01:36:21 I don't think it will open it. I've honestly never tried it or ever looked it up, but I can do some research on it. I think it would need the password to get in for Copilot, but I'll double check that. Speaker 3 01:36:34 Imagine what? Speaker 2 01:36:36 Um, I did want to reiterate on those kind of files for the guardrails. Uh, Copilot does respect files that are labeled confidential or highly confidential. Um, we do also have a DLP block. So, uh, any any PHI is not going to be in a prompt. In fact, Copilot will stop you because we already put that DLP block in. Um. Speaker 5 01:37:03 What about sorry uh Erin like offer letters that you guys have made like I see. Speaker 3 01:37:08 Those on my own personal drive. Yeah. I'll make sure that nobody else is saving them anywhere, but um I don't well, Speaker 7 01:37:16 Suzanne has them all in private drives private drive. But if you guys are also saving it, Speaker 2 01:37:25 I tell you, um offer letters because I have that uh in my own drive. Items like that unless they're shared out with somebody which mine are shared out, but no one outside of that is going to read it because I do have a lot of offer letters and things like that in my system. So just to kind of give you guys a heads up, there's my offer letters. It's in my OneDrive. Uh, no one else can see those. Other than April, who was my executive assistant, uh, before she decided she wanted to to move on to manager. Um, she still has access to it because she still works in a higher capacity. The only one that can read those offer letters. Yes, John I have yours in there too. Speaker 7 01:38:10 So how do we mark some of these files uh highly confidential or? Speaker 2 01:38:15 So the easiest way is in the document itself, I'm going to show you with this one. Crimson doesn't have sensitivity labels on, but I want to show it to you anyways. When you click on the title right here, you'll see sensitivity and you'll be able to turn on or off sensitivity. Crimson doesn't have it turned on, Speaker 3 01:38:36 But then it's not shareable. Speaker 7 01:38:39 We should probably test that though right now before we do an update. Speaker 5 01:38:46 Mean whether or not you're like private. Speaker 3 01:38:48 It's on my private drive, but just to like make sure, I don't know, like it's on my OneDrive. Right. Speaker 2 01:38:55 So in OneDrive, uh you'll see in here My OneDrive. I'm in my internal operations hiring and staffing. If the status has a person icon, it means it's shared. If you right click on it and you say you open up the share, it'll tell you who it's shared with. And so April. Speaker 5 01:39:15 Can you do that again if this? Speaker 2 01:39:17 Yeah. So if under status, if you see a person right there, um, that means it's being shared. And if you right- click and go to share, it'll open up this window and it'll tell you who it's shared with. And so that's April. I recognize her picture and then um and she's the only person that has access to that. Speaker 3 01:39:38 If it just has a green checkmark? Speaker 2 01:39:41 Then it's not shared. Okay It's private. Speaker 3 01:39:44 What if it has. Speaker 5 01:39:47 Two arrows. That's like syncing. Speaker 2 01:39:49 It's, yeah, it's syncing. Uh so like that one right here where it says agent workspace? Yeah, where is it syncing to though? Speaker 3 01:39:55 Just with the OneDrive? Speaker 2 01:39:57 It's going up to Microsoft cloud. Speaker 7 01:40:02 If you go to the file again do you have the Excel file open? Speaker 3 01:40:05 Yeah Oh no, It went away because I But, Speaker 7 01:40:12 If you go, just click that one, just as an example. Speaker 3 01:40:18 Oh No. Okay, so there's that's what it pulled up. This isn't the file though. That's the that's the analysis. Speaker 7 01:40:23 She says that you can click on the title and then change it to confidential. Speaker 2 01:40:27 Oh yeah okay. Um I know we've gone over a little bit of time today, But I am good on time. I don't have anything else after you guys are, is everybody in here. Good on time? Can we keep going? Speaker 2 01:40:47 Sure. Okay, I just want to make sure that I get all of your questions answered. Um, So sensitivity uh another thing, if you go into file and you go to Info. Speaker 2 01:41:01 Under file and info, you'll find some more information, but in here protect the document, you can restrict accessum as well as you guys know about encrypting with passwords because you already do it. Speaker 2 01:41:16 Sorry, I have a cat about to walk across me. You can also look at some other information for share. So you have that share button there as well. Speaker 3 01:41:30 Telling, I'm telling Kelly and Christi because they're the only other people that have seen that PM stuff. Speaker 1 01:42:15 I'm going on there and deleting. Speaker 3 01:42:48 Yeah, actually, this salary tracker is on my OneDrive. So that's okay. Speaker 5 01:43:42 Are we working on something that I missed? Speaker 2 01:43:44 No. No, I am just waiting for you guys to tell me. Uh, you are ready to go to the next part. Speaker 5 01:43:51 Yeah, keep going. Speaker 2 01:43:52 All right, perfect. Um real quickly, I am gonna pull up quick notes. Um four rules for agents just want to give you guys a heads up. Um these are rules that not only I have found to be very useful, but it a couple of these are pretty important to know. Um, the fewer sources, the better. So, if you are writing an agent and you want to give it documents to look at as templates, don't do more than ten files. Okay? Uh, less is more in this case. Anything more than ten makes the agent worse. I personally am a big fan of don't go over eight because it will dilute what the agent will pay attention to. Just had a number two: write instructions like you are onboarding a new hire. Speaker 2 01:44:41 You are never going to tell a new hire to help with leases. They're not going to know what you are talking about. So you want to be as detailed and specific as possible. You want you want to give it the role, the exact sections, so give it a template to fill out, what order to put things in, what the tone should be, the length. As much specificity is one thing that is not when you give it enough specifics, it's not going to go Outside, it's not going to go off on its own to do things incorrectly. So just be aware of that. Um, build in the honesty rule. One of the things I will write often is if it's not in the document, don't guess. So uh and that's something is pretty straight across the board with any of my AI agents. I don't want it to give me something that's not there. I don't want it to guess so. Speaker 2 01:45:37 And then where possible, tested against Workiva. Ready? Finished. And that's one of uh one of you guys, Your pilot users actually figured this out weeks ago uh and and gave us the rule. Was it Alec? Or am I thinking of the wrong person? Who was it? It wasn't Daniel. Speaker 6 01:45:59 Yeah, I'm trying to remember now who that was. Speaker 2 01:46:02 He he found some really cool things for um, And this is one of the work, One of the things uh that he found and it it fits into with this role. Just make sure you test it with work you've already done. There will come a time uh where you get so comfortable with Copilot, the Copilot will fail you. It did that to me. One of my favorite clients hit the CEO's name is Kamyab. Uh one of my close friends has a name also Kamyab, different last names. I sent out an email read through. Speaker 2 01:46:35 Because Copilot created the email, and Copilot, because I have both Kamyabs in my my contacts, still gave the wrong incorrect last name on documents that I was creating. That I read and just did not it just did not hit me the wrong last name was used. Um, thankfully both Kamyabs are very good guys and love have great humors. Um, so it wasn't an issue, But I could imagine that being on a prospective client and not going over so well. So just make sure you double check. Don't get comfortable with Copilot because the moment you do, it will fail you. Okay? Um, a couple other things like I told you the the guardrails. Um, some of the things that I do is I also use OneNote. I don't know if you guys are big OneNote fans. Uh all my meetings will come in here. Speaker 2 01:47:28 Um, all my all my stuff. Um, Copilot will summarize. So I will have. Uh, my summaries not only do they go into an email, but they also go into OneNote under Quick. Notes and I will go in here and message Copilot and do a lot of different things in there. So that's an option you have. Copilot is also in there. Um, if you guys have any questions, I am putting together some training videos that are being sent out to all clients. Um. Some of that stuff, if you have questions, send them to me an email. Not only will I answer you in the email, um I will also be putting it in the training session. Now, that being said, uh I don't offer this to everybody. Most of the time, I will tell people, if you have a question, email help. For you guys, if you have a question, Email me or email Monti uh because we're going to be able to answer you guys right away. Uh I don't tell everybody to do that. So this is your direct line to me. Speaker 2 01:48:26 When I respond to you, you will have access to my uh, my calendar because it'll say book a time with me. You'll also have access to my cell phone. You can text me if you have questions as well. Um, If you want to set up some time to go over anything or you have questions, Feel free to use the link in my signature because it's in there for you guys to utilize people will do that. Just promise me. You'll put what you want to talk about in that meeting request. Um, I have had people say one thing and um, it was something totally different. So I will prep for the meeting based off what you tell me in the meeting request. Um, but general questions you can send them to me. Uh, John Carlo, I'm going to offer him up. He'll smack me later for offering him up. Uh, But feel free to reach out to us uh rather than doing the help. Uh, but also. Speaker 2 01:49:22 If you can, in the subject line, put "Copilot" for me just so that I know. And then as far as questions, you guys have had some great questions this time around. Thankfully I do have a transcript and uh and dictation happening uh not dictation. I'm sorry, transcribing it is transcribing this conversation. So I will take those questions and add it to my frequently, asked questions, but um some other questions you guys already asked about private email. Um, if you do not see the button, your license close and open reopen the app. If you still don't see the button, email me. Um, by the way, My email address just so to make it easy for you for You, can email me at C H R I S C H R I S at crimsonit dot com. It will still hit me. Can I tell you to email me at my name at crimson it? Most people don't spell it right so um. Speaker 2 01:50:22 Another question I get, will it replace my job? It replaces a lot of the boring stuff, not everything, but a lot of it. Like I said, people still don't know how to turn on and off their computers. So I still have a job as long as that's going on. And with the newest generation of kids, They know how to use equipment, but they still don't know how to find the on and off button. So I promise you I will have a job until the end of time. How many agents can we make? That's another question you guys haven't asked, but I'm gonna give you a heads up. As many as you want. I have a lot of agents. I have a lot of agents on Claude and I have a lot of agents on uh ChatGPT. As many as you want, okay? I am gonna send out some one pagers with this. I am gonna send out some prompts. I have a PowerPoint presentation that goes over prompts, so I will send that out to you uh. Speaker 2 01:51:18 Ignore the child that's coming in behind me. Um, So I will get those sent out to you guys in the next couple of days, along with the recording and the summary and the transcript. Um, but again if you have any questions please just reach out to me. So anything I haven't covered or any questions that you guys thought of? Speaker 3 01:51:41 Thanks, Sal. Thanks, Sal. Speaker 6 01:51:44 Okay Awesome Thanks Christi, Thank you. You're so welcome. Thank you, John. Nice to meet everybody. Have a great weekend. Nice to meet you, John. All right, take care. Bye everybody. Speaker 2 01:51:60 Hey Ladonia, you can come back in.
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08-14 Meeting: AI Adoption Rollout, Board Prep, IT Dashboard, and Supported Employment Digitization
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- **Client confirmed from CONTENT.** 'ability first' said explicitly 4+ times ('I'll send it out to all ability first people'; 'I use both my ability first Claude and my ability first Copilot on ability first stuff'), plus AF-specific program (Supported Employment) and AF staff (Chase, Shane). No calendar event for this call. Counterpart is AF's HR business partner (Plaud renders Michuan as 'Michonne' - normalize). BUSINESS / IT CONTENT: - AI adoption: staff Claude and Copilot usage reviewed. Weekly AI Basics sessions to be offered; the generic non-platform-specific session to go org-wide, including guidance not to use personal AI accounts for company work. Extra training routed to staff already building with the tools (two named staff built an exit-interview process in Claude). - Strategic roadmap: dedicated IT/business-partner working session needed to align the departmental roadmap with the organizational roadmap, feeding the mid-September planning meeting. - Board prep: IT to supply threat counts and the security scoreboard/dashboard for the IT section of the upcoming board presentation. Christi to write it up, optional deck. More IT questions expected the following week. AF is going to the board for several hundred thousand dollars in benefits/compensation. - Supported employment digitization raised as an upcoming workstream. - Schedule: onsite training Tuesday, then out most of next week (Merced college drop-off), WFH Friday; out again Sept 1 for camp. - Infrastructure retrospective: camp rewire complete (~$100K, vendor-executed) and dead zones resolved; HQ and program-site bandwidth materially better than a year ago; remaining vendor close-out items noted. - Christi raised that her AF time is currently under-utilized and she wants to get further into the weeds; counterpart agreed the post-camp period is the opening. CONFIDENTIAL PERSONNEL MATTER - deliberately NOT written to ConnectWise: A substantial portion of the call was a candid HR discussion covering interpersonal and organizational conflict, resistance to change directed at the HR and IT functions, specific named leaders, compensation topics, and a bias concern raised by the counterpart. Detail is intentionally summarized at this level rather than transcribed. **ACTION FOR CHRISTI:** at 00:09:36 Christi says on-record 'I turned off record / transcription by the way' - but Plaud kept recording and the candid HR portion IS in the transcript file. Decide whether to purge or restrict that transcript. Flagged in the 2026-08-17 sweep email.
- Date
- Aug 14, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 I was like, Let me join and maybe I get the end and maybe I get the recording. Speaker 2 00:00:15 I am going to record a clean one because no one told me the first thirty minutes. I wasn't sharing. Those. Speaker 1 00:00:24 Are the nicest people because, like, who I would have been like, um, excuse me? Can't see. Uh. Speaker 2 00:00:34 No, I am not sharing my screen and they start laughing. I was like," Why didn't you even tell me?" And they were just like," They're so nice. Speaker 1 00:00:41 They're so nice." Because yeah, everybody else ah yeah ability first who would have been like," Ah craziness," right? Like absolute craziness. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:00:52 Oh by the way Chase joined me on Tuesday for my training. Speaker 1 00:00:56 Oh good good. He's beenum he has been working on more things that have nothing to do with recruiting. And I can't. Yeah, he's been like expanding um his knowledge, really using, um. It added him and Shane to Claude and immediately Shane actually got it first. And then Chase just started like going in and like using it like really diving in sending me like they did an exit interview process. Um that was well done. Speaker 1 00:01:36 Um, I have to make a couple of tweaks to it, but it was like oh okay. Speaker 2 00:01:41 Yeah, that's awesome. I'll send him more training. Okay. Um, Because I am doing these all over the next month. So um I'll send it. What i'll do is i'll send it out to uh, i'll send this training because it's AI basics and I've got going to redo it or I am going to do it again every Friday. I'll send it out to all ability first people uh, If you're good with that, just because it'll it'll be good for, um. If they want to use basic AI too. Speaker 1 00:02:13 Okay, okay perfect. Speaker 2 00:02:16 Yeah, I won't send out the Claude or the Copilot. I'm just just the generic. Here's how to use AI. Got it Oh. Um and then cause I also dig into don't do don't use your personal AI for company stuff. Speaker 2 00:02:36 Which is very much needed. Uh, but yeah. Hey, um, I gotta transfer mine over. Speaker 1 00:02:42 I gotta transfer mine. I've been like, I don't know. I've got like twenty eight projects. Who wants to do all that? Speaker 2 00:02:48 I know. Ium, I see that because i i do look at the usage and things like that pretty much weekly. So i do see it. Um i do yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:59 Mine is like at zero Are you being a co- pilot? Or are you meaning Claude? Speaker 2 00:03:05 I use both for I use both on ability first. Speaker 1 00:03:07 I don't I use my copilot. I don't use my Claude, through the company as much because I'd already kind of like, went down a rabbit hole with the the one that, personal one. Speaker 2 00:03:19 Yeah. Well then you are you are different. I trust you. Speaker 3 00:03:23 Thank you appreciate that. Speaker 2 00:03:24 You are welcome Um, am not as concerned about you? I am concerned about others but, I do use both my ability first, Claude and my ability first Copilot on ability first stuff. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:03:36 So because then it builds the memory. It's so that that's the thing I am like, ah, yeah. Do we have to start again? Got to upload all the documents again. So and I don't know, I think maybe I'll have to have it on my have it up on my personal computer and up, because you can't have them both up at the same time to like transfer well. Even if I did, if I did an MD file and you know, and then uploaded all the files. Yeah. To like a project. Yeah. She's Louise. Speaker 2 00:04:11 You can So what I do is I I have different profiles in my Chrome. Oh, Speaker 1 00:04:17 You're right Okay, That's so true Yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:20 Okay So I do that Uh okay. Speaker 1 00:04:23 That is what you're. Speaker 2 00:04:23 Doing Perfect Heads up non AI related. Um, I got out of a meeting with Pete right before this meeting, and he wants to set up a meeting between you, me, and him because he wants to see because we haven't done a roadmap. Because you were still working on the strategic roadmap for the entire company. And then I've been making like things you mentioned to me ; I add that to my roadmap. But, he wants to sit down and cover and make sure that all three of us are on the same page with your roadmap. Got it? And things like that. Speaker 2 00:04:57 So I am going to try to make that meeting for either the last week of August or the first week of September. Speaker 1 00:05:02 Please push me this. I want to meet with Pete. So so want to meet with Pete, yeah. I, honestly, If we could do it, mid September would be better because I have a board meeting I needed to start wrapping my head around. Speaker 3 00:05:16 Okay, yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:18 And compensation studies that I got a present and I want to give my undivided attention and not have to say. My attention would be a little skewed. And, Speaker 2 00:05:31 You and I still need to go over the the ability for strategic roadmap. So I can finish my roadmap too. Speaker 1 00:05:37 Okay, So so maybe we get some time to do that that can inform this mid September meeting. And please let him know. It's not anything I just yeah. You just have a board meeting. I have a board meeting coming up and we have some big things. And we're. They, they are probably gonna have a whole conversation about things with me because I have to ask them like I am asking them for hundreds of thousand dollars for benefits and compensation. Speaker 2 00:06:09 Got you, could do you need anything from me for the board meeting? Like I forgot to ask. Speaker 1 00:06:15 I do, I do need to know our number of threats, um our like yeah the the. Dashboard or uh score scoreboard you've given me before would work perfectly to build out the IT side. As I I probably will have more questions for you, not next week, but the following on the IT stuff. Speaker 2 00:06:38 Okay, perfect. Yeah, I'll get all that written up for you. Um and if you want a presentation, I'll do that as well. Uh don't forget I'm out most of the week next week. Speaker 1 00:06:48 Yep, that's cause you're doing the training on Tuesday. For us, and then you're out, right? Yeah. Got it. Speaker 2 00:06:58 Um, yeah, And so I'm leaving directly from well I'm gonna have a small meeting after your meeting, And then I'm leaving and going to pick up the kids and going to Merced. But I will be back on. I won't be in office on Friday, but i will be back on. Speaker 1 00:07:13 Perfect. Okay. Speaker 2 00:07:15 Yep And then uh September first, I'm going to camp just a reminder Uh yeah Everybody knows that one so. Speaker 1 00:07:25 Yeah, The campus. Um, you know, campus over. But now now we're moving into and we're seeing this across the board. We've seen it for a while, But we're saying like it's finally coming to everybody like we're all on the same page as like there is a lot of deflecting going on. A lot of deflecting. It's like everybody's at fault except for the one screaming" everybody's at fault." Speaker 2 00:07:53 Yeah, I keep seeing that, and I am like. I am. Like. Not you, but I am looking at the people that are deflecting, and I am like, you are the reason people are having to work harder at managing you. And you don't understand it. Speaker 3 00:08:13 Yeah, yeah, Speaker 2 00:08:15 So because i'm like someone said something to me the other day. And i said, no, i sent you that email. They're like, no, you didn't. And I pulled it up, and they're like," Well, you should have reminded me every day since." And I am like," That ain't my job." Yeah, I was like," That was two days ago. Like I am not gonna send you an email daily on this. I already sent you the email. I would have followed up tomorrow because you hadn't responded yet. But I am not following up with you today." Speaker 1 00:08:41 Yeah there is been. Yeah, there is a there is always been, and i've seen it since i've started. Uh, work, uh, i work for you, not with you. Like that's how they perceive the H R and I T departments is like, Um you know, here is when they start their conversations and they get this is what I've kind of heard from, Uh you know whether they're having a programmatic conversation with um you know maybe Sergio or they're having something with Carl, and they're going over their numbers and. You know. It becomes. Yeah I here's my part I. Speaker 1 00:09:20 But I am having this problem because it's not getting me this. I am having this problem because HR is not getting me this. It's like, but how is that holding you back though? Yeah, and I think everybody's starting to to see that that's the issue so. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:09:36 Yep, Um yeah, just something other than you know, making sure that everybody's on the same page. Just let me know help you because I'll be honest. And this is just I turned off record uh, transcription by the way, saying. Uh, I'll be honest. I am kind of annoyed and miffed not at you, but I want to get more into the weeds with ability first. And I feel like we're finally getting to that point. But I am kind of annoyed and miffed that my time with you guys isn't being utilized right now, because there is not much going on that I can help with, and it's that's not at you; it's more of a. Speaker 1 00:10:18 We've been in strategic planning. We've been all these things, and then there was this period where you were, okay, we were not moving forward because you were going to go help development. And that didn't pan out. So, you know, then I think we the the camp thing makes sense to me. Yeah. Um like the camp projects and making sure that that happens. Um You know cleaning up some of these other smaller things. So you know, blue wave all of that has happened. Um, yeah, we're on the other side of the camp project. Um. I think the calls that you know that we're setting up. I think the call yesterday was very helpful. And that's the kind of stuff that I like to do. And it seems like the stuff that you like to do is like, how do we go in and solve. But you know the issues. I think last year and some of this year was like. Speaker 1 00:11:15 We got to make sure their internet is working. Yeah, you know, making sure the internet is working. But there is a very um and I think we're changing it, but there's very much like you work for me attitude that's changing and shifting. It's like no we we work together. Yeah um and I think the more we do calls like that and go over things. Um and you you have a direct report. There's also been this thing. I noticed is like. It will instead of a director reaching out to you directly, It's like I am going to go through my senior director then and that they may they may come directly to me, not you and give the problem, right? Yeah, or they'll go to Sergio. So it's like it goes all the way up and around yep. So when I am sending you, these emails, I am equal I am like, okay, yes, she probably gonna email him back, but good, gracious could. Speaker 1 00:12:12 They have just been like," Hey, can I get an update on this?" as opposed to it's been two days and you are like," So Joe, they haven't given me an update." I am like," Are you kidding me right now?" Yeah, Speaker 2 00:12:24 And I know you feel that pain because i I hear it in your voice when we're talking. I am like. I need to make her life better. And like here is where I am failing at, but here is where I could do better and I am trying. And it's like. Want to? Yeah. Add to your frustration but I do that. Speaker 1 00:12:41 And. It's a lot of it's Carl is starting to see it on his side, but I've been you know for me, I've been seeing it for for a little while. Um, you know probably since the time that I implement. I mean, I came in and implemented a whole system that makes life easier for people, and they Sergio, You know um Carl, they can acknowledge it, but the two senior directors hate it. And, it's like do you hate it because it doesn't work? Or do you hate it because. Speaker 1 00:13:12 I am associated with it. Speaker 2 00:13:15 Or do you hate it because it's change and you don't like change? Speaker 1 00:13:19 That too, um, but there is a thing within the organization so that we we've kind of, it's kind of the ACA versus the Obamacare thing. Oh yeah. So if Sergio says, this is what we're going to do. Here is a new system. Oh, I can see that that's great. da, da, da if. They didn't know that it was my idea, and then he like they'll be like, oh, it's great. And then he'd be like, oh well, Michonne came up with that. Oh. He like we've literally seen the change. Yeah. With and I I think for me to your point about change for those two women, I have given the most change to their program, and they I can say no to them, and they don't like it. So like. Speaker 1 00:14:11 What what H R and I T have brought, has given the organization the most change. Finance is just starting down that road, yeah. But go ahead, what were you going to say? Speaker 2 00:14:22 No, I just i that frustrates me. I don't know if I am frustrated on your behalf or the company's behalf, because if they would just accept it not coming from an individual, but just learn to say," Oh, this is coming down from H R," not from Michonne. They could see the positive impact it's making on the company. Speaker 1 00:14:46 Yeah, they could, and you would think they would. They don't want to. And. So one of the things was, it's funny, you say, H R because sometimes Sergio and I have seen, like where I've said to him, and he he's gotten is like, yeah, sometimes when they're saying H R, they really mean me. The H R is like somebody was like pulling their hair out over a flyer. Speaker 1 00:15:08 That had a conversational range that was off. Pulling their whole hair out, and that's why they're not getting candidates because the compensation is off. And I was like, "That doesn't stop people from hitting the button, particularly if the compensation is higher." So what's the reason they're not clicking the button? It's not the flyer. Um, but it was so much focus on that aspect of getting it wrong. That, like things that were legitimately like oh, this is a problem. Like, we're not getting candidates in the first. We're not assessing our candidates in the first five days. If we're not getting flow, we need to make an adjustment. That to me makes sense to argue like, hey, it's been five to seven days. No candidates have applied. You are worried about the flyer you worried about this the. Speaker 1 00:16:04 Nobody is like the the and like the people that have seen, the flyer are so small at a job fair compared to is our job board. Correct. Are we posted in the right areas, and so. One of the things we come up against is that it's often you've never worked anywhere else, so you don't have anything to compare it against. So. With change and what we've seen is just like sometimes it's, HR means Michonne. Um and, And I know maybe and I apologize if you hear my disdain at times, but there is a racial component. And ability first and it's not it's not everybody. It's not everybody's issue. Hundred percent, it's some of their issues are change, but there is a couple people that it is their issue. Speaker 1 00:16:58 And it has been their issue, not just with me, with others. And the moment, they kind of know that I am involved or another person of color is involved, they really do struggle. Doesn't mean that they come; they're not right. I wouldn't say it's a racist; it's more of a bias. And as a difference. Speaker 2 00:17:19 Oh, and I know saying this is weird, but how can I, as a white female in a predominantly Latina, Company, how can I make your life better and create examples for others to follow? Other than showing what it looks like to be emotionally mature in a workplace setting, But how can I make your life better? Because you know I am not about that life. Speaker 1 00:17:45 Chris, I appreciate that question and I think it's one thing that you've already you already do. So, so super appreciate that question. I think the thing that we're all we did it the other day and, Um, it would like with Monica. That connection gives away it moves people out of this place of like, well, I T isn't I T's under her and I T isn't trying to make my life hard. They're actually coming in and making my life better. So what you are going to hear, let's say you go in and talk to Monica, and you make you do one thing that makes her life easier. So am like oh my god thank you. You know how you can thank us would be to just share it out with your colleagues that. Speaker 1 00:18:25 We came in and supported you, and our goal is to support the work that you are doing. Because yesterday you said it so like, you said it so well. It was like our role is to really help you spend more time with program and less time with like less productive items that you like, You know we can create some automation around. Um, That alone will help is like that care for them because they haven't had it. Um, The other thing I think could be helpful is, you know, just recognizing it in the moment and trying to not, you know, one of the things is like when you see the, whether it's they're fighting for the change, they're fighting over the bias, or they're just in a place where maybe it's a capacity issue for them. I'm not sure because all those things are sometimes in play about why they may be pushing back, but giving them. Speaker 1 00:19:23 A different perspective because one of the things that I see is that they are immediately go to the most negative intention. Yeah, well, this person is not getting me this or this person didn't do this. It's like, well, let's just be mindful of maybe what they've got on their plate. Let's maybe consider that you didn't give it, you know like there is not a deadline here, so they didn't know when they needed to get back to you what your expectations about follow up were. Um, Or I think maybe like one of the things I have to do with one person on my team is just maybe step back and see maybe what the other person is dealing with right now. Like, um, I think people get so stuck in what their needs are here. Here, I i or my program, my program, my program. They can't see maybe the complexity of something. Speaker 1 00:20:20 So, Just trying to shine a light to maybe it's more than what you think it is. Like education always always works. Yeah, Even if even if it's just see planted and it needs, you know, like eight more times before they get it. But they are slamming us right now, Chris. We're being slammed with like question like well, I don't understand this and I don't know how this is going to work another, and we're like. We're giving you the information that you need to know to move forward. At first, We were like so committed as a team to like sharing absolutely every single thing that we could, and it would still be forty more questions coming after that. And so right now, we're just saying, "We'll give you what we have right now," and we're gonna move forward. Um, because we are going to make some structural changes. Um with So oh I can I can tell you. Speaker 1 00:21:18 When um, oh thank you. That's awesome. Appreciate you. Um, and a muffin sandwich. That's nice. Um, But Chris I appreciate you I know there is sometimes I am get a little ah right? Am kind of because they just are. So it sometimes that you was just so nitpicky You know it's like they they struggle with seeing the greater good of like. Where were we a year ago, Chris? Compute like systems were like, ah, this system's not working. It's failing. You know, I think things are just far like, you know, they were like, oh, I I can't get a hold of anybody. And a lot of that was just like, well, are you using the opportunity to have a meeting? And then to zoom into your computer? Well no okay. Yeah. I wanna. Speaker 1 00:22:16 I want to click on that link when the ticket comes back and see if you could get a meeting, right then. If it's urgent, but it was like so much education and so much fixing. Yeah, I mean if you go back a year, um or look like you know June of May June of last year. Think about how far along. J Ham has come, yes, right. That's the kind of stuff that's like that's what she was talking about, like dang. We can actually get on our computers and it's not going to drop. Um, you know where we've come with even, you know, L Frank and all of I am going to speak from headquarters that we have more bandwidth right. That yeah when something happens, there is another thing is nobody's dismissing, what people are saying. If you say something we're like how can we fix it? Yes how can we get. Speaker 1 00:23:14 To to a solution, it's no longer. I mean, camp. We talked about the guy had an opportunity to say, I am going to go up there and check it out because there is dead zones and he was like, no, nope, they're not. We no longer have that as an issue. We just did a whole rewire. Spent a hundred thousand dollars and a lot of time not not necessarily us, but a vendor went up there. And that was orchestrated by with you all. And. Um, you know Kelly right now is like I don't know where this project is. I don't know financially, and and it's and Carla's had to tell her listen, our project's almost done. You guys got your last walkthrough. This is the life of like a contract situation right? You had camp, you were busy. They were trying to give you grace. Um yeah yeah so. Speaker 1 00:24:06 I can't I can't say how much it means to me to have you say like, hey, how can I be an advocate? How can I be supportive? And I think it's just education of folks. Carl's having to do it quite a bit on the finance side. I definitely appreciated you saying Susanna, thank you. Great job because Susanna without Kathy gets things done and is a little bit more supportive and you can work well. Have another team member on the H R side is like, oh she's collaborative. And then he was on a call later on with us, and Kathy was on the call. He was like, "That is not the Susanna I was talking to yesterday." And I was like, "Oh yeah what do you what do you What do you see?" And he said, "You know she was nice, ", and we just kind of opened up the document and figured it out together. And he said on this call she was just different. And ah and I said, "You know explain." He said, "Well she's just like." Speaker 1 00:25:02 I don't think that's too much work. I can't figure that out, and he was like," That is not who I was dealing with." We were all in the weeds, trying to figure out something on this document, so he was like," It was just different." And so I'll just say it. So, it's it's the people we're struggling with is um April Kathy, Kathy andum Dan and Kelly. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:25:30 I will tell you something about Susanna that I've learned. And just between you and I on that one, is I reach out to her on Teams. Mhm. And I have talks with her like that because I know that if I reach out to her like that and help her individually, It's way easier and she's way happier with me than if i if I have any type of meeting with Kathy involved. So I've already learned that I've already like I've reached out to you and said, hey, can how can I make your life easier That's, where what happened the other night like. Mhm. Asked her to stay late and help me, uh, I just it. You know, I was like, hey, I am going to work on this now. I'll get it to you in the morning. Speaker 1 00:26:16 She had no problem. She had no problem helping you, yeah not a problem here is where Kathy comes in well, Well, thought she knew Concord she says she knew Concord. I don't understand. Speaker 1 00:26:31 He had to say like that's not I mean, like even if she didn't know Concord the way systems are set up. He had to say to her like the way systems set up Kathy and I'm not telling you to be pissed at her I'm just telling you. So you know, where like this may come up later on or something like that, because it has he had to say to her, cause it came up in a conversation about well. Do we need to be giving training? Do we need to do redo training? He was like, no, she just. This this a different even if she had Concorded another organization. This a different system, how we set it up, is different than how somebody else is using Concord. And so or Planful. And there's this when I got Jessica over in our department, she'd be like, I said well, who trains the supervisor on how to do the timesheet, like how to approve the timesheet? She was like their director. Speaker 1 00:27:28 I said, so H R and payroll did not train to the system we meant. Yeah, that's the responsibility. The director has to train them. So. That is the attitude that I needed it needed to be me, or they needed to do a whole training for everybody at the same time, but Susanna didn't have a problem with it. So I said. So your appreciation of her was when you did it, it was perfect. When you were like," she," yeah, yeah, it was perfect. Speaker 2 00:28:06 Yeah, And I will be honest:, the things that we did the other night. He never explained it in the other training. However, when we got together that evening, I said hey Can I record this?" She's like" Yeah, absolutely." And everything she touched on were things that weren't covered in the training with her and Kathy. So, what I asked her at that point is," Hey, I am going to take this meeting notes and I am going to do step by step instructions from it. And I'll send it back to you within a week or two. And you tell me if there is anything I am missing. And you could use this for the future." She's. Speaker 1 00:28:43 Like," Okay." Speaker 1 00:28:46 They Don't do automation; they do a lot of manual work. So yeah, the closer you get to her, the more you could probably take off off of her plate unbeknownst to. Speaker 1 00:28:58 Uh, Carl gets it. Yeah, and even somewhat unbeknownst to her. But Kathy. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:29:06 Well, I was going to ask Carl if he would feel and I wanted to ask you first. Speaker 1 00:29:11 I think we should do the same thing with the support departments, the same call that we're doing. I think we need to do those with Dan with Carl and finance. And oh, my sorry with Carl in operations and and Carl in finance and I, we I think we do need to some somehow circle back. To development because they have a new leader. Yeah. Right, and she may want to go in a new direction. Yes, and we need to do it with HR team. But what were you going to say? I'm sorry, I interrupted. Speaker 2 00:29:40 Um, I was going to ask Carl if I could give Susanna a copilot license and Claude, And just slowly work with her on ways of making her job a little easier. Speaker 1 00:29:52 I say email him and CC me. I'm for it. Speaker 1 00:29:58 Um, I would just see if he wants me. Speaker 1 00:30:02 Yeah, And then the reason and Let me tell you why Chris that would be perfect timing. We're doing time allocations. And, I can easily do time allocation for somebody that's hourly because they can go in and push the button. And you know they can clock in, and every time they clock in, we can say what program they're clocking into. Well, and then they can clock in and out, in and out. So whatever program they're actually working becomes a little harder when it's a manager, right? Where you're they're not clocking their time that way. And so we have to do an allocation. So they were like, "That's why we were working with you on the prompt." To pull pull some data, but I said this is really a time study. And Kathy like I sent the prompt to Carl, so Carl and I could try it. Well, I didn't get it. Speaker 1 00:30:52 And I was like, well, Kathy, It didn't make sense to give it to three, or she was like Suzanne and I didn't get it. And I said, well, Didn't didn't make sense to me to give it to all four of us if it didn't work for two of us. So we are going to give it to you. And I'm also know I also know where her like experience is with with the system. I don't need, you tell me don't work like and and like like I'm might give it a minute. It needs to work for Carl and I. Who are kind of tech savvy, um, and I say kind of. Um, but what he said was we were in the call and she was like, "Well, I don't have this the script. I don't know what we're doing. " And, we I was like, well, what What do you want them to divide their time up against? Is it amongst programs? Um by each program or subprogram? How do you want a director to divide up their time?" Well, I don't know. Speaker 1 00:31:49 And it's like, well, How can I build something if you yet don't know what buckets you want it to land in? And Carl was like, right, we haven't given them parameters. And so now they're working on it. And then Kathy came back and said, well, who's going to put all this data in because it's too much for us? And I said Carl between the two teams we could figure it out. Yeah. Of who puts it in Paylocity. But it doesn't matter, cause it's gonna happen once a year. But she said it was too much for her. Speaker 2 00:32:26 They should see how I have to allocate for every minute of my day, and then tell me it's too much because I literally have to put in my time on everything. I am working on every minute of the day. So, um, I sent over, I sent an email to Carl just now. Mhm. So, because I did tell her, hey, any task that's repetitive that feels like a waste of time. Mhm. Tell me and let's see if we can figure out how to how to make it better. Speaker 1 00:33:01 You know what? Maybe, that's the right. Maybe that's the best start for finance as opposed to doing their whole team. Yeah That she's the nucleus of the team. So if we. You know, if you're able to fix problems for her, oh my goodness. And we we can make their their lives easier. I think that's the way to start with them to build that credibility, that partnership. Again, I have one person in HR already like, hey, we've had the coolest conversation. You know like that. Yeah with them so and I'm okay with you seeing Amazon like yeah. Speaker 1 00:33:45 So I didn't. I also didn't recognize that, I was like an admin on that account. On the client account, he said he was fine with it, on the Amazon account. Oh. Cause I can see everyone's and I didn't know if everyone's was coming up for you on our card. Yeah Is Amazon tied to our credit card? Speaker 2 00:34:07 Not everything, not every order. You sent me in that in the screenshot, the other day is everyone'sum. So all I see on our card is what has been like. I am the admin of the card, but not not everybody who uses Amazon is ordering on that card. Speaker 1 00:34:24 Perfect because I see, I was on the Amazon account, I am like, wait a minute. Yeah, let me send her all of these. But, if you are an admin on there and you can go pick out like that's perfect. Um yeahum hmm. Speaker 1 00:34:43 I'm actually probably we're gonna add an H R um. H R generalist one more generalist, um Alma's out until the twenty fourth. So we'll add one more H R generalist, um to help out in some particular areas. I think when we come back, We need to talk to Alma about the things that she needs where she can find it because Jessica's. We're probably going to make some changes at the H R coordinator level. Speaker 1 00:35:13 Okay, And I know that that's her go to person. But she has to get. I think the difference is, is you will teach her how to do it, but you don't do it for her where Jessica will do it for her. Yeah, and I think people don't recognize when you do it for yourself, you build a muscle memory to make it super easy to do it. And you have like, you know, you have so a lot of like yes, you can take a class. And learn Excel, PowerPoint, and you should. But that's the theory, right? That's like if you need to use it in this way, here is how you can. But when you go in and you play around with it yourself, That is where like the real and and you and you look at work on real projects. That's where the real growth happens. And I am seeing there some some resistance to tech. Yeah um And it's much easier to just have. Speaker 1 00:36:09 Jessica do for her, and that that's fine in some regards, But if you don't know how to do it and it comes the times where Jessica is not available, you are stuck. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:36:25 So when she comes back, I think we have a team conversation. Um, I want to say Shane is okay with Zach;. He probably can let's say that was he'd be. Intermediate going into, no, I am sorry. He'd be beginner going into intermediate. Yeah, with across the platforms and you know. Comparing things and adding formulas in spreadsheets, he's still growing there. Chase is willing to go online and go to YouTube University. Speaker 2 00:37:01 And Figure it out; YouTube University is popular. Speaker 1 00:37:05 And he may almost he's kind of the opposite, and said he may almost run a foul. He'll maybe like almost not break something, not break anything because you really can't. He'll must create something and it's not usable. Like that's not gonna work, but I get the effort. I get what you are going um, but he's willing to try the tech. Yes, hmm, just kind of I don't know. Um and then so this new person I've asked for. Um, they're gonna be on employee relations and LOA so, you know they're creating forms. They probably need we need to talk about where they store those documents. Um for sure not a lot there. Um. They just I'll you know we'll do our regular onboarding. You've got to figure out where they're going to where they're going to sit for a while. Um. Speaker 1 00:38:03 But, that's going to be the makeup kind of of the HR team for now. Barbara, I wanted to give you a little context there. Barbara is a job developer on the supported employment team under Edward. I mean Eddie, and we are going to have to she's super nice but she talks, A lot, So we're going and I know I can talk a lot and I know you can hold a good conversation. So we need to structure that meeting in thirty minutes. Oh my goodness, let me tell you. Uh oh, we need to end thirty minutes. Go ahead. Speaker 2 00:38:42 She and I have worked before she got us an intern uh for crimson for free. A few years back. Um wasn't he? We didn't want to keep him on. He was not good, but the attempt was made. Speaker 1 00:39:01 So, She has like five systems and a lot of manual work. Any, if I said," How's your process?" the question you asked out of the whole conversation was so most excited was that you asked like What is you are like taking like, what are you doing? That's like taking away from the work or making your life harder? And that we can make your life easier," something along those lines. He will say, "We're good. Everything's running smoothly," but I know when I ran that program fifteen years ago, they use the same exact system. Chris, it's a very paper manual system. When, we get an onboarding packet from a candidate that is maybe like the intern, it is twenty five pages of handwritten documents. Speaker 1 00:39:59 Where, where a participant had to sit down with a staff member, and if the participant couldn't write it, the staff member writes it. For an intake to an interim program. Crazy right? I'm like where is the Adobe fillable form? That automatically gets sent to us. I'm sure there's even something I'm, just like that's like the basic that we could do right? I'm sure there's some like online HTML form that we can do. Speaker 1 00:40:29 I don't know. I feel like we could probably reimagine it, And you could probably come up with something amazing that would stump the heck out of me. Um, but he will say we're fine. And so Barbara came to me with a problem and she said, Do you want me to tell him? Do you want me to not tell him? I said, If it comes up, tell him. If it doesn't come up, then I am good. Like yeah like I said you are submitting an IT ticket. And, we're getting a glimpse inside because I feel like he's going to shut it down. He's going to say, "Cause Tony has the same issue, and Tony's a little older." And Tony doesn't want to do technology. You know, you've met Miss Tony. Yes, But if I could at least for her benefit cut down the amount of work, that would probably be nice. You know, like I can't take tech off her plate, but if I can make it easier. Speaker 1 00:41:27 So what they're saying is the amount of individual things that they have to do in different systems that don't speak to each other is overwhelmed. So that's I just want to I got to jump onto another call, But I want to I wanted to give you a little bit of like a backstory about that. And, she has a number of systems. She's worked for another organization, and they've used different systems to collect some of the data. So I wanted I wanted to like I want to start getting in fixing these problems. That are kind of low hanging fruit, but unaware to us like we're just unaware. So your help, Chris, you've been a great team member. I know things a lot. Lots been going on in personal stuff life life has been living. Um so I want to be respectful of that. I just think you know, getting back to people is extremely important in this organization. And. Speaker 1 00:42:24 You know, we'll continue to get better with that, But I think the problem that we solve and the value that we bring is productivity. Now, yeah. And you've already like I am telling you, I was on a call going like this gets it. So I just want to share that I am going to jump on another call. Yeah, but thank you. And I sent you a little clip last night. I hope it wasn't morbid, but I was like," I remember having to do a lot of those things before my daughter left." Yeah, Speaker 2 00:43:01 Yeah. I was watching it. i I want to finish watching it today, but yeah i I. Speaker 1 00:43:06 Was like," I know it's a bit morbid," and I am so sorry. Like the last one, I was like," Why did she make it the last one? Why didn't she put in the middle?" But but i was like," I can't not send it." So sorry. But like that like the HIPAA the waiver because, I've actually, you know, had situations in my family as like conservator not in college, of like, hey I am the next of kin and they're like I don't care. You don't have any paperwork and you are like. Like for something simple and medical. Uh you know, like I need to know what's going on here, and they're like, nope, can't give you any info. So just wanting to to like. Speaker 1 00:43:47 But then again, I also recognize during the relationship that you have and and with, um, wisdom. You know. Yeah. It it you may have already had those things, But I was like, okay, something in my spirit is telling me to send it. I'm gonna do it and just follow through. Appreciate. Speaker 2 00:44:06 It because it's also really like some of the things that I was watching on. There was like, you know, I need to sit down with all three of them. Speaker 2 00:44:14 And Have these conversations because mm-hmm. Foster parents don't do that as a matter of right. Oh, Speaker 3 00:44:21 Okay. I didn't know that. Speaker 2 00:44:23 Yeah, You get kids in all the time;. They don't know how to manage certain things like it scares them. And so, you know, One of the biggest issues I ran into recently is, how do you go pick up your drugs at the drugstore like your prescriptions? How do you advocate for yourself? And. Speaker 1 00:44:43 Yeah, how do you say" I want to see the pharmacist"? Because I don't understand which just gave me or that the prescription changed and someone was me. Speaker 2 00:44:54 So yeah, like last Thursday we had to. I was in the ER with one of them. Oh, I have to be there, but oh, I needed to be there for her. Like, she didn't feel comfortable because she's twenty, and then we had to figure out where her drugs went because we told them to send it Walgreens, and they sent it to CVS all the way on the other side of Englewood. Speaker 3 00:45:14 Mm hmm hmm. Speaker 2 00:45:16 So Saturday we had to drive around and find it all. Speaker 3 00:45:20 I am sorry, Speaker 1 00:45:22 I am going to swallow my food. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:45:26 I am going to go make me some. Speaker 1 00:45:27 Appreciate you, I appreciate you too. Thank you, talk to you soon.
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08-28 Pulong: Pamamahala sa Marketing, Proseso ng Pag-apruba, at Pagsusuri ng Gastos
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- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-08-28 17:30:27 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [April] ## Tala ng Pulong - Pamamahala at Saklaw ng Marketing - Napagpasiyahan na ang marketing ay mapapailalim sa admin at pamamahalaan ni April. - Si [Speaker 1] ang mag-e-execute, ngunit magre-report kay April. - Nilinaw ito upang maiwasan ang kalituhan ni Pete kung dapat kay Mike o admin ito mapunta. - Pag-pause ng mga bagong mungkahi at kahilingan - Ipinagpa-pause ang mga kahilingan mula sa meeting nina Emily, Mike, at Christi hanggang ma-review. - Mungkahi ni Mike: mangalap ng success stories para sa case studies, blog, at sales materials. - Mungkahi ni Christi: i-upload sa website ang AI trainings ni Anzor (raw files → YouTube → embed sa site); humiling ng presentation templates at posibleng i-refresh ang PowerPoint templates. - Kakulangan ng malinaw na marketing workflow - Walang klarong proseso: sino ang nagre-request, sino ang nag-a-approve, paano ang review, at feedback loop. - Nagkaroon ng mga gawaing hindi nagamit o hindi naaprubahan, at kulang sa feedback mula kina Pete/Anzor. - Halimbawa: urgent material para sa Foothill at non-profit materials—nagawan pero hindi naaprubahan para sa production. - Itinatakdang Approvals at Pokus - Panuntunan: lahat ng bagong marketing projects/materials ay dapat na pre-approved ni April, Anzor, o Pete bago magsimula, lalo na kung may billable cost. - Pokus muna sa pag-review at paglinis/pag-improve ng existing materials (company overview, sample assessments, testimonials) imbes na gumawa ng marami pang bago. - Ire-review din ang kasalukuyang conferences, events, at vendor commitments bago magpatuloy. - Paggamit kay Emily at Gastos - Dahil hourly si Emily, gagamitin siya bilang “last resort” at “as needed” para maging cost-effective. - May obserbasyon na mas marami ang mungkahi kapag may potensyal na dagdag gastos. - Website at Live Chat - Magkakaroon ng hiwalay na website review nina April at Pete, i-loop si Emily kung kailangan. - Napansin ni Pete na maraming features sa site na hindi malinaw ang gamit. - May $25/month na live chat subscription; kakaunti ang leads, kadalasan clients na nalilito sa contact details; pinag-iisipang alisin. - Conferences at ROI - Matagal nang may conferences (since ~2018/2019), pinanatili ni Anzor ang real estate industry. - Kakulangan ng malinaw na ROI; karamihan ng leads ay mula sa referrals at network ni Anzor, bihira mula sa website/conferences. - May upcoming event next month na 3 slots: si Anzor lang ang makakadalo; hindi makakasama sina Mike, Pete, Vince; hindi pa sumasagot si Christi. - Malaki ang gastos (hal. $10,000 sponsorship); kailangan i-revisit ang value. - Internal Requests at Visibility - Lahat ng requests (kahit internal tulad ng presentations, signage, guides) dadaan sa approval ni April. - Layunin: magkaroon ng visibility si April sa lahat ng ginagawa ni [Speaker 1] at maiwasan ang bypassing. - Mga Hamon sa Marketing - Mabagal na pagtugon ng stakeholders; mababaw na priority ng marketing kaya hindi agad nasasagot. - Maraming ad-hoc requests mula sa iba’t ibang departamento; nakaka-overwhelm at walang standardized ticketing/approval flow dati. - Recap ni April - Marketing under admin; April ang manager. - Magbibigay si [Speaker 1] ng listahan ng conferences/events, materials in-progress, tasks ni Emily, vendor commitments/subscriptions, marketing plan at legacy items (may requester, purpose, status), at mga challenges. - Magkakaroon ng approval flow at focus sa pag-improve ng existing materials. - Separate website review nina April at Pete; i-loop si Emily kung kinakailangan. - Isama sa listahan ang mga requests nina Mike at Christi at ang purpose ng bawat isa. ## Susunod na Mga Ayos - [ ] Magbigay ni [Speaker 1] ng listahan ng: - Mga kasalukuyang conferences/shows/events na naka-schedule na may detalye ng gastos at commitments - Mga marketing materials na in-progress at status - Mga tasks na naka-assign kay Emily - Mga vendor commitments/subscriptions na may kaugnayan sa marketing (kasama ang $25/month live chat) - Kasalukuyang marketing plan at dating hindi nagamit na items (may requester, purpose, status) - Mga hamon sa marketing at bottlenecks - [ ] Isama ang mga requests nina Mike at Christi at ang purpose ng bawat isa sa listahan - [ ] Itigil ang recurring weekly meeting kay Emily; mag-reach out na lang “as needed” - [ ] Magtakda ng hiwalay na website review nina April at Pete; i-loop si Emily kung kailangan - [ ] Ipatupad ang approval flow: walang marketing work na sisimulan nang walang approval ni April/Anzor/Pete - [ ] I-review at i-improve ang existing materials (company overview, assessments, testimonials) - [ ] I-audit ang conferences/events at vendor costs para sa ROI bago magpatuloy ## Mga Mungkahing AI > Mga Mungkahing AI > Napansin ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyung hindi naresolba sa pulong o kulang sa malinaw na action items; paki-tuunan ng pansin: > 1. Walang standardized workflow at SLA para sa requests, approvals, reviews, at feedback; magtakda ng RACI, turnaround times, at feedback requirements. > 2. Hindi malinaw ang ROI ng conferences/events; magtakda ng measurement plan (leads generated, qualified rates, cost per lead, closed deals). > 3. Desisyon sa $25/month live chat subscription ay nakabinbin; kailangan ng data review (usage, conversions) at go/no-go. > 4. Governance sa content uploads (AI trainings ni Anzor, case studies) at template management; itakda ang ownership, approval gates, at repository access. > 5. Clarify ang role ni Emily bilang hourly contractor: scope, permitted tasks, meeting cadence, at approval prerequisites upang maiwasan ang unnecessary spend.
- Date
- Aug 28, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:25 Sorry, Misha. Naka-DND pala ako. Speaker 2 00:01:28 Hello, Yazzie. It's okay. Okay. So, quick discussion about marketing. Kasi kahapon nagkaroon kami ng one-on-one ni Pete. And na-discuss niya yung napag-usapan niyo with Emily, Mike, and Christi. And yun nga, yung transition din ni Emily. So, kahapon na pag-decisionan namin na moving forward ang mag-manage ang marketing is me. Speaker 2 00:02:08 Of course, ikaw pa rin na mag-execute but since you're reporting to me, magpa-fall na under my umbrella, ang marketing. So, yan. Para hindi na nalilito si Pete kasi kahapon. Inisip niya, kanyo na niya ipapahandle, if kay Mike or admin, ganyan. So, sabi ko, pero yun nga sabi niya, naisip niya na parang it will make more sense kung ako na rin yung mag-handle since sa akin ka na rin naman nagre-report. Speaker 2 00:02:39 So, yun. So, yun. That's one. So, moving forward, under na na-admin si marketing. Second, Yung mga na-discuss nyo kahapon with yung mga suggestions daw nila Christi and nila Mike, wala kasi akong idea kung ano-ano yun, but ang sabi ni Pete ay i-pause muna kung ano yung mga na-request na yun. So, ano ba yun? Ano bang mga sinuggest nila Mike and Christi? Speaker 1 00:03:08 Si Mike naman, more of nagbigay lang siya ng info dun sa request ni Emily na... Nangihingi ng mga success story Para gawin case study, Para sa blog, And then parang materials Din for sales, parang gano'n. And then yung kay Christi naman, Parang napag-usapan, Kasi niloop in lang kami ni Christi Ni Emily. Parang, Sabi ni Christi, nag-request Si Anzor na yung mga trainings niya sa AI. Speaker 1 00:03:40 Is i-upload Sa website. So, ang mga nirequest naman ni Emily or mga sinabi ni Christi is bibigay niya yung raw files or videos kay Emily and then na-upload ni Emily sa YouTube and then i-embed niya sa website. Yun. And then, ano pa ba? Tapos, nanghingi rin si Christi ng presentation templates kasi meron... Speaker 1 00:04:15 Hindi niya makita yung PowerPoint Presentation templates natin. Pero Nasabi ko naman sa kanya na sa Marketing holder. Pero sabi Din ni Emily, pwede naman niya i-refresh, Yung mga PowerPoint templates Natin. So, yun. Yun lang naman so far ang Mga napag-usapan regarding, Sa marketing. Tapos Kasi, yung, Reason din kung ba din, Ako nag-alignment And check ko rin sa'yo. Kasi nga, Meron, Ito. Email si Pete, doon ka ata, Speaker 1 00:04:48 Na marami siyang tanong about sa Marketing Regarding sa Paano ba yung workflow, sino ba nag-a-approve, Saka yung budget time, Allotted, yung ganyan. Tapos doon ko lang na-realize, Eventually, kumbaga na, connected Dots ko lang na, probably he is Asking me How much time is Budgeted or allocated since, Emily will be paid Hourly na. So, I don't think he wants something na ginagawa ni Emily na hindi naman pala kailangan. Which is, medyo from previous experience, dito sa, kasi si Emily na yung nag-handle ng marketing. Speaker 1 00:05:31 May times, kaya din, ano, confusing kasi yung process kasi may times na directly kay Emily mag-request yan for. Tapos, hindi ko alam. Tapos, mayroon din naman sa akin internally. Well, which is okay naman sa akin kasi, Internal naman. And then, Tapos, Mag-present kami. Or even nakin pala. Kunyari, may pinagawa si Mike, may pinagawa si Anna. Tapos, hindi nila gagamitin or hindi ma-approve. Speaker 1 00:06:04 Tapos, or, Okay lang naman kung di na-approve for revision. Pero, Ang problema kasi hindi nalababalikan nila Pete or ni Anzor or hindi nalang kami nagbigyan ng feedback na ah okay na pala yun, ginagamit namin or hindi pala yun okay at hindi namin itong gagamitin which is yun yung medyo natenga. Diba nung nag-send, parang nagre-request si Pete ng urgent material for Foothill I think. Tapos nag-send ako ng non-profit which is sabi niya parang hindi niya pa nakita yun. Pero actually nakita na nila yun, nag-call na kami nun eh. Speaker 1 00:06:35 Pero, hindi yun na-approve for printing Or production or For use. Which is, yun yung Pagkakaintindi ko. So, medyo ganun Yung process. Kaya, nung Nag-ano ako ng, Alignments, naglagay ako ng agenda, Create ako ng agenda At saka ng Google Docs, Na ano yung gusto namin Or gusto ko on my end, Na mangyari. Parang, ano ba, Clarity ba kung kanyari. Sa workflow, in the sense na sino magre-request, ano yung kailangan nyo sa amin, ano yung kailangan namin sa inyo para magawa yung mga information, and then, paano i-review, tas paano namin malalaman na okay na ba yun, approved na ba yun, or ganyan. Speaker 1 00:07:19 So, yun. Which is, ang makakasagot sana nun is si Anzor or si Pete, kaso neither of them were able to attend. So, yun. Speaker 1 00:07:29 Yun ang mga dilemma. Speaker 2 00:07:31 Okay. Yeah, so, same thing Nang na-discuss din namin and na-realize Din yan ni Pete kahapon. Speaker 2 00:07:40 So, Wala tayong clear, Process when it comes to marketing. Parang all over ang marketing. Ang sabi niya Ay, ang, Maging intended approach natin Is to keep marketing focused And practical. Speaker 2 00:07:58 Sabi, Ang napag-usapan namin kahapon Is i-review and, I-clean up yung mga existing Materials ngayon Na meron na tayo rather than creating, Many new ones. Yes. And then, Next is kailangan, Lahat ng any new marketing, Project is approved Before any, Work will start Or mag-incur Ng, Kailangan. Speaker 2 00:08:28 Any billable cost Pag gumagawa kayo ng marketing materials, Or project. And then next, I-review daw kung yung mga current conferences, Events, Vendor commitments, Before moving forward. And then, stop assigning additional work To Emily until Internally, nakomplete na natin. Kumbaga, as needed, Na lang talaga mangyayari sa Emily since We're paying her hourly, which is much, Expensive. So, kailangan ko. Speaker 2 00:08:59 Last resort na talaga Si Emily. Ganon. So, kahapon, Kaya niya nasabi na, kasi Ni-review niya yung meeting niyo. Speaker 2 00:09:11 And then, sabi niya, Parang napakita daw niya sa mata ni Emily, may mga dollar signs sa dami, Nang sinasuggesto nila Christian. So, siyempre, Mas pabor yun sa kanya. The more na marami niya re-request, Mas kikita siya. So, kumbaga, on a business perspective, siyempre, gusto rin maging cost-effective ba yung paggamit natin kay Emily. So, yun yung ano ni Pete. Speaker 2 00:09:41 So, now, ang hihingin ko sa iyo is... Speaker 1 00:09:49 Returning visitor. Speaker 2 00:09:50 Bigyan mo ako ng list ng mga... Current conferences natin, Shows or any events, Na naka-schedule na. And then, Any marketing materials Na currently in progress, Send ko sa iyo Yung mga list na ito mamaya. And then, Task na assigned Kay Emily, Any mga vendor commitments, Or mga related costs, Kung baga, Kung meron tayo, Mga subscriptions With any vendors Na related kay marketing, Ilista mo rin yun. Speaker 2 00:10:20 Yun, Any, And then, Diba yung currently in progress Na marketing plan, Sa ginagawa mo And yung mga existing na, Mga before, Na kumbaga hindi naman, Na nagamit. Kung maaalala mo, Sino nag-request, Ilagay mo na rin And for what purpose? Bakit na-request yun? Ano nang nag-request? Meron ako. Ayun, perfect. Kung ano na yung status, Kung siya ba, Inatingga na lang Or ginagamit na talaga, Ganon. And then, Yun, One example yung sinabi Ni Pete na non-profit na, Marketing materials. Speaker 2 00:10:50 Na sinanati sa kanya. Naggulat din ako eh. Sabi niya, Hindi siya aware. And even my face Was used there. Sabi niya, Sabi ko, Ha? Hindi ka aware? Ganun, ganun. Pero parang pagkakaintindi ko. Nandun siya. Diba? Speaker 1 00:11:02 Sino ba na yung question pala? Sa meeting, Parang nandun siya. Si Anzor. Ah. Parang tatanong si Mike, And Pete ko, Meron bang, ROI yung mga, Conferences And ganun pa ganyan. Speaker 2 00:11:16 Oo, Isa pa yun. Speaker 1 00:11:16 Sino ba yung, Nag-book niya? Sabi ko. Si Anzor lahat yun, tapos Nilulupin na lang ako, ina-endorse na lang sa akin, Na meron na pala tayong conference na pupuntahan. Speaker 2 00:11:26 Pero pagkakaalala ko, Si Lynne Atiyang Nag-initiate yan dati, di ba? Yung mga conferences na ganyan. Speaker 1 00:11:32 Meron na pala, nakakita kasi ako, Nung Prior na, Parang history na meron na Tayo before. So I think Atiyang Was already a consultant by then. And then, before, we were Conducting conferences for multiple Industry, not just real estate. Pero, ang niretain ni Anzor was just real, Estate. And then, Nakita ko, parang, As early as, I'm not. Speaker 1 00:12:04 Sure, 2018? 2019? Meron na sila. Sila ni Anzor, Katerina pa nga nag-attend. So, Yun. Disnow rin yun. So, same. So, I'm not sure if talagang, Nakaka-network si Anzor doon. And Even now, Just to give you an update dun sa upcoming Natin next month, which Is, 3 slots kasi yun. And then, Anzor Kept saying na siya pupunta. And if, Mike and Vince would be Able to accommodate him at, First, medyo yun, struggle ko rin yun. Parang antagal nila mag-confirm. Speaker 1 00:12:36 Ng kahit na A month before pa ako nagaano. And then, pag inaat ko, kahit, Nakasisi sila or nakatu sila doon, nakita Naman nila kung sino yung mga ano. And then, Nag-send din ako Ng invitee. Sila nag, Ano. And then, Just this week, Nag-follow up ako. Tapos, Si Anzor, Nag-commit ulit si Anzor. Tapos, Sabi niya, Tapos, Nag-check out ko with Mike Or, Kasi, Iisip ko, Kawa naman si Anzor Kung mag-isil lang siya doon. Speaker 1 00:13:01 Tapos, Hindi talaga makakapunta Si Mike, Pete, And Vince. Not sure si Christi, Hindi pa siya nag-respond. Pero, Ayun. Tapos, Nagsabi si, Sorry, This is in relation Sa network. Kasi, Nagsabi si Anzor na magsasama daw siya ng friend Na pangalan, Alex. Hindi ko alam kung knows mo si Alex. Speaker 2 00:13:26 Parang nabasa ko sa, Email, but Hindi ko siya kilala. Si Alex na sinasabi. Speaker 1 00:13:33 Pero hindi rin makapadjoin. So mag-isa lang si Anzor talaga. So yun lang. Iisip ko lang, Baka may mga networks siya or may gusto siyang Isama sa mga confidence na gano'n. And then, doon naman sa non-profit, Tinanong ko din si Emily noon, Kasi sabi ko, parang, Yun nga, hindi naman nag-yield na Prospect. Ayun, may prospects, pero hindi naman, Sila, kumbaga, ano to, Qualified. Or, like, qualified, pero hindi Nagiging closed. So, sabi ko, yun. Speaker 1 00:14:05 Tapos, yun. Sabi niya nga, kasi nga si Anzor yung nag-ano. And then, sabi ko, how about yun sa non-profit? Sabi ko, not sure. Sabi niya, pera kasi parang ang dating niyan Is parang commitment ni Yun din ba ang perspective mo? Commitment ni Crimson IT for non-profit Or siguro because, Naisip ko din na pinakamalaking Client natin or ano is Gagaling sa non-profit. Kaya continuous tayo. Not sure if nag-heal din siya ng, Prospects or close. Speaker 2 00:14:34 Sales. To be honest, Since na-involved din naman ako Diba kasi nangyayari, After ng mga conferences Na yan? Nagkaroon dati na ako ng chance na mag-reach out isa-isa dun sa mga nag-gather na contacts. But sa ilang basis kong nagawa yun, wala namang naging, I mean, hindi siya naging successful. So mostly na mga nakukuha nating leads is majority from referrals and answers network. Speaker 2 00:15:08 And then yung iba... Mga ilan-ilan yun talagang Randomly nag-reach out sa website. Yun. So, But wala akong, wala pang Any leads na nanggaling sa, Merong mga nag-reach out na ng mga nag-respond, But, yun, wala naman sa kanila Ngayon, sabi mo. Walang, Lahat ay na-close lang. So, yun. I-lista mo na rin lahat ng mga nagiging challenges mo Sa marketing. And then, let me know. Para mabasa, Ma-review ko siya along nung mga. Speaker 2 00:15:38 Kaninang lista na sinabi ko. And then, ngayon, moving, Forward, Speaker 2 00:15:47 Kailangan natin, Mag-establish ng approval Flow pagdating sa Mga marketing materials na may mag-request, Kanyang ganyan. Or, kasi Mas gusto ni Pete Na malaman kung talagang bang, Business needs ito. And mag-benefit pa talaga, Ganyan. Wala kang gagawin Na marketing materials until, Walang review ko Or approval ko, or approval from The decision makers, which is Sila, Anzor or. Speaker 2 00:16:19 Pete. So, If ever may lumapit sa'yo at Nagpapagawa, let me know Muna. Speaker 1 00:16:27 Even, that's not just Marketing or... In general, Sa like yung mga ano. Kasi, Nagtanong din si Mike noon, Kasi, Ah, Dun sa Docs na ginawa ko, Di may agenda, Tapos, Nag-screenshot ako Ng mga marketing materials, Na meron. Tapos, Sabi niya, Yung isa dyang material Is not really Marketing material. It's, Parang, For existing client, Which is yung parang, Four ways to open, Na ticket na ginawa ko. Ah, If ganun ba, Pati yung mga, Internal, Like, Speaker 1 00:16:57 Requests for, Like, Presentations and decide. The signs. Speaker 1 00:17:03 Nadaan na rin sa'yo for approval Before I make it. Speaker 2 00:17:05 Oo. As in, anything. Oh, that would be great. Speaker 2 00:17:09 Dapat malaman ko lahat Ng ginagawa mo. Oo. Speaker 1 00:17:14 Kasi, Yan, naging problem din namin yan, Kay Francis pa lang. Parang yun nga. Yung, Namensya ko na rin ng pahapyo Na parang, Ang dating sa kanya na babaypasa Or hindi niya alam, Kung ano yung mga Na ginagawa ko. Yes. Before, na-open ko na rin Ito kay Juno, which is, sabi ko, Medyo nahihirapan ako. At first, Kasi adjusting pa ako noon na, hindi ako sanay na Parang ang daming nag-request Kung saan, kung iba't-ibang department Ganyan. Tapos, Eventually, nalaman ko na, Sakit na siya ng workload ko. Pero yung flow na lang, Speaker 1 00:17:45 Ako na lang yung nag-adjust. Parang kasing, ano, Gumawa ko, sabi ni Juno, Before, nung si Charl pa yung, Kanilang manager, parang hindi pwede Yun. I-re-require ka talaga ni Charl Na to create a ticket. Yes. Which is, sabi ko, Okay naman, sabi ko kay Francis. Sinayos ko rin kay Francis yun, Na gano'n. Pero, masyado overwhelming lang talaga, Yung first few, ano ko, Years. Na, ang daming, Kasi nga wala naman masyadong mga. Speaker 1 00:18:16 Nag-graphics before. Yeah. And then, ang problema ko din doon, Kunyan, nag-create ako ganyan, Nag-require si Julia. Tapos, may times na, Ah, Not sure ako if gagamitin. May times na, may times Din, parang this year, na parang, Nagpapagawa tayo, parang. Speaker 2 00:18:35 Ano ko, parang useless. So, kailangan talaga. Effort ko. Speaker 1 00:18:41 Dibahalin na lang. Speaker 2 00:18:42 Pag may nag-request sa'yo, gawa ka ng, Like, kailangan, Sabihin nila na Yung anong purpose nun. Speaker 1 00:18:52 Sabihin nila, pero Yun. Speaker 2 00:18:54 And then, sabihin mo, Sabihin mo, okay, I need, To, ano sabihin mo, send ko muna ito Kay April for review and approval kasi Nga, as per Pete's direction, Lahat ng mga marketing materials or any Marketing projects na nagre-request Sila ay kailangang, I-review and talagang ma-justify, Na kailangan ito. At hindi mag-end up Na masasayang Lang siya. Useless. And then, Ngayon, sabi ni Pete, mag-focus. Speaker 2 00:19:25 Na lang tayo sa, muna, Mag-focus tayo sa essential, Na marketing materials. I-review na natin and improve, Na lang kung ano yung meron na tayong Existing materials, like, Company overview, Mga sample, Assessments, testimonials, Meron naman na tayong may existing, Testimonials, and Yun, so kailangan Magkaroon na, I-improve na lang muna natin yung mga existing And huwag na gumawaan ng bago. Speaker 2 00:19:56 And then, magkakaroon tayo ng separate, Website review, Time that law, kasi napansin Ni Pete na, ang dami-dami Features ng website, Na hindi niya alam what is That for, sabi niya. So, sabi, Tapos yun, nabanggit ko nga rin. Na meron tayong monthly binabayaran na $25 for a live chat subscription, which is yun yung live chat sa website, diba? Start a live chat. But to be honest, wala rin naman akong nakukuhang ganong leads doon. And hindi siya yung real-time na may makakausap ako agad dahil nag-left agad sila ng chat. Mag-notify lang siya sa akin, someone visited the website, blah. Speaker 2 00:20:39 But, kung may mag-chatman, Minsan meron na tayong automated na response. Kung maga, nagtatanong About assessment, ganyan-ganyan, may nagsisend Ng gano'n. Siguro, twice Or thrice, may Gumamit nung live chat na yun na, Client na talaga natin dahil hindi ko Alam, baka hindi sila aware kung ano ang, Email ni helpdesk and, Kung ano ang phone number natin. So, Doon sila nag-chat. So, ang ginagawa Ko, pag nakaka-receive ako ng chat from Doon, Speaker 2 00:21:09 If you know, forward ko na lang Sa helpdesk para mag-create ng ticket And then mag-alagay na lang ako, Ng quick summary kung para Saan galing yung, kung kanino, Galing yung request and anong nire-request Nila. So yun, yun lang na Hindi siya ganun ka-useful for me, Kasi parang andyan lang Siya. But since 25 lang naman, but $25, Or $25, may Cost pa rin siya. So, Ayun, parang pinag-iisipan kung i-remove na lang siya or what. So yung iba dun, Hindi siya aware para saan ba yung mga, Speaker 2 00:21:40 Meron pa doon free risk assessment, Sabi ko yung website form Useful yan, kasi, tsaka yung people at Crimson IT.com, dahil may mga, May mga nare-receive din talaga tayong leads Na yan yung nagiging, Avenue or format Or platform nila para maka, Reach out sa atin. So, yun. Speaker 2 00:22:01 Yun lang, yun yung Mga gustong mangyari nga ni Pete, Dun sa marketing. Ah, sige, go. Speaker 1 00:22:08 Sa website. When you say the three of us, Sino yung three of us na mong i-review? Speaker 2 00:22:14 Ako, si Pete. Si Pete, yes. And iloopin lang natin si, Emily. Siya yung talagang naging Nag-handle noon. Pag may mga tayong mga hindi natin, Ma-handle on our end. So, sakala natin siya iloopin. So, yun. One. So, recap lang Nang napag-usapan natin. So, moving forward, Yung marketing is under na ni admin. Ako na rin ang mag-manage. Next, Ibigyan mo ako ng mga, List na nire-request ko sa'yo. Speaker 2 00:22:47 Mamaya isan ko sa'yo yung, Mga items. Third, Speaker 2 00:22:52 Mayroon na tayo, Magkakaroon na tayo ng Approval flow. Hindi na basta-basta Pag nag-request sa'yo, Gagawin mo na. And then, focus tayo Sa mga existing materials natin. I-review na lang and, I-improve. Then, yun, Magkakaroon tayo ng separate website review Tayong tatlo ni Lapit para Makita natin kung ano yung mga, Hindi na kailangan or alin pa yung talagang, Useful talaga. And then, Wait, may nakalimutan ba ako? Speaker 2 00:23:24 At then, doon sa Bibigay mo ulit sa sakin, I-include mo na rin yung mga nirequest Ni Mike and ni Christi from Yesterday's meeting. And then, ilagay mo, Na lang doon anong purpose, Bakit nila nire-request yun. Para at least, ma-review ko din And maisama ko sa Magiging discussion ulit Namin ni Pete after, Nitong usap natin dalawa. So, yun. Gusto lang yan maging, yun, magkaroon Ng focus. Na-process and maging practical tayo sa paggamit or ma-maximize natin yung existing marketing materials natin and maging practical sa pagkastos. Speaker 2 00:24:09 For now, wala akong alam pa kung ano ang magiging future ng mga conferences and events na ito. But, yun nga, hindi ko alam kung... Kinikip ba to ni Anzor just to, You alam mo yun, Networking on his end. Kasi for sure, Marami rin naman siyang, Namimit doon Sa mga events. But yun nga lang, Wala naman talaga, Naging successful na deeds Or opportunity Sa mga naging conferences. Speaker 2 00:24:41 And events natin. And of course, Siyempre hindi rin biro Yung nilalabas natin pera, Di ba? I don't know how much Ang ating nilalabas na gas. Like thousands, di ba? Including yung pag-re-register pa lang alone, how much na yun? Speaker 1 00:24:54 Parang malaki na. Parang $10,000 sponsorship, mga gano'n. Speaker 2 00:24:58 Diba? Kaya kailangan i-revisit talaga natin. Speaker 2 00:25:09 Sabihin, good thing na na-mention mo din yung mga challenges. Siguro dahil naisip nila na when it comes to urgency and importance, Hindi nasa top. Level ang marketing. Kaya, siguro, ganun sila. But, yun, Ang kailangan natin, kailangan ko rin Ma-discuss, keep it. Kasi, syempre, dahil di Dahil sa hindi siya ganun Priority. Of course, Kailangan mag-make time yung mga tao na mag-reply Sa'yo. So, Yun ang kailangan kong, I-bring up din. Speaker 2 00:25:39 Sa kanya. Kaya, kailangan malaman ko, Yung mga naging challenges mo Over the past few years na ikaw, Nag-ahandle ng marketing. So, Any questions pa? Speaker 2 00:25:54 Pa naman sa ngayon. Okay. So, sa tingin mo, mas magiging okay, Ang... Speaker 1 00:26:01 Oo. Kasi matagal na ako Nag-workload. At least, Ikaw na kasi. Speaker 1 00:26:07 Siyempre, iba't iba na naman yung workload. Speaker 2 00:26:09 Oo. Isa pa yun. Kaya, I don't think kung, Kay Mike napunta to. Kaya niyang, As kaso yung paso. Speaker 1 00:26:17 Kaya mo pa ba? Pero Mas happy ako, syempre, on my end The decision. Speaker 2 00:26:25 Sabi ko naman kay Pete, Hindi naman ganun Kademanding si marketing. Kaya sabi ko, Kaya ko pa naman siya, Na ako in. Speaker 2 00:26:36 Hindi naman siya like daily, Diba? Sobrang as needed, Lang naman siya. Speaker 1 00:26:43 Mga weekly lang. Hindi naman siya ganun. Speaker 2 00:26:46 So, Yun. Basta make sure na Pag may nag-request sa'yo, sabihin mo I'll discuss this, With April. Sabihin mo, kailangan mo, Muna ng approval before executing the project. Ganyan, ganyan, ganyan. Kasi, Yun. Kailangan natin maging mindful, Sa mga request Na ganito. Hindi basta-basta gagawa. Yun. Okay. So, yeah. Send ko na lang yung list sa'yo later, ha? Speaker 1 00:27:14 Okay, sige din. Speaker 1 00:27:16 Pwede ko bang isend Yan sa'yo ng Monday or Tuesday? Medyo mada. Hindi naman urgent. Speaker 2 00:27:26 Kahit after the meeting reconciliation, Pagtapos na kayo. Speaker 1 00:27:30 Oh, Monday or Tuesday. Before din kami mag-meeting ni Emily ng Tuesday. And then, regarding that, If after, Kumapigay ang list sa'yo, Speaker 1 00:27:41 Saka ba lang... Natin mag-determine if continuous pa rin Yung weekly meeting kasi billing din yun. Pero yung meeting naman namin, Misan 5 minutes, misan 15 minutes. Madalang na madalang nakakonsume yung 30 minutes. Stop mo na yung. Speaker 2 00:27:54 Recurring nyo, Dahil until end of the month na lang, Siya na-fix na binabayaran, Na alam ko. So, kailangan Mas ma-cancel nyo na yung, Recurring meetings kasi, di ba? Hourly pa din yun eh. Kung makukontinue pa. So, sabihin mo na lang, Kay Emily na Ito. Ika-cancel na natin Yung recurring meeting, Na mag-reach out ka na lang Sa kanya as needed. Okay. Sige. I will. Yeah. Yes. Ayan. Okay. So, Send ko na lang list, Hami. Okay. Speaker 2 00:28:24 Yes. Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you. Bye.
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-08-05 12:59:48 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Recent AI Industry Developments and Concerns - Participants noted rapid AI news cycles and planning horizons measured in months, not years. - Discussion on agents “breaking out of sandboxes”; incidents are real but also leveraged for marketing hype. - Momentum in open‑weight models: releases, capabilities, and safety documentation drawing attention. - Vendor shifts observed: Anthropic’s recent missteps and political backlash. - Elon’s acquisition of Cursor spurred speculation; some participants are shifting usage toward Grok. - Conclusion: The group acknowledges a fast‑changing AI landscape, balancing real risks with hype. - Topic Title: Open‑Weight Models and Home/Enterprise Hosting Trade‑Offs - Open‑weight options mentioned: Meta Llama, Google Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek, Z.AI, Kimi variants. - Large open‑weight models can rival leading proprietary models but demand substantial compute. - Home hosting via Cloudflare tunneling: security fronting, freemium model, and broad infrastructure coverage. - Alternatives like Railway for hosting/tunneling; Azure VM for Ollama required high specs and cost ($800–$1,000/month for mid‑tier Llama, based on Feb 2026 experience). - Bandwidth, user count, and governance are key considerations versus cloud services. - Conclusion: Home hosting is feasible for smaller models and hobby use; enterprise‑grade models typically need significant cloud resources or costly local hardware. - Topic Title: Practical Experiences with Private Infrastructure and Redundancy - One participant runs a dual‑property setup (Vegas and Ventura) with UniFi tunnel and Cloudflare fronting. - Claude assisted in configuring resilient infrastructure: backups and active redundancy across machines. - Use cases are low‑traffic and personal; Cloudflare handles auth, VPN, email security, DMARC, and more. - Conclusion: Cloudflare’s tooling simplifies secure access and tunneling for private setups. - Topic Title: Enterprise Agent Strategy and Governance (Jennifer/Paul Perspectives) - Strategy theme: “Own your context, rent your intelligence”; use Azure Foundry to switch models. - Pillars for rollout: Assist (employee AI assist), Connect (MCP connecting systems), Guide (role‑based agents, multilingual), Optimize (analytics, lakehouse integration). - Early deployments: Assist and Connect in progress; HR system and Entra ID connections underway. - Governance challenges: preventing costly or unsafe agent behavior (token burn, inappropriate data tasks). - Copilot Studio plan: train‑the‑trainer approach; departmental champions build and share agents. - Internal chat tool on Azure with broad internal access; aim to surface reusable agents over time. - Conclusion: Structured, phased rollout with emphasis on governance and context management. - Topic Title: Adoption Barriers, Training, and User Behavior (Barry’s Experience) - Current deployment: Claude Enterprise with MCP; contextual chatbots; training was critical. - Users reluctant to build advanced workflows; primarily producing better reports. - Psychological barrier: hourly staff may fear replaceability; limited interest beyond basics. - Governance via usage limits; occasional overages when users select heavier models (e.g., Haiku) unnecessarily. - Next step uncertainty: identify power users, provide sandboxes, targeted training; BC (Business Central) launch consuming bandwidth. - Conclusion: Adoption has plateaued due to culture and workload; targeted enablement may unlock the next phase. - Topic Title: Context Spine and RAG Usage - Emphasis on a “shared context spine” to make tools valuable across the enterprise. - RAG proposed to inject organizational context (SOPs, playbooks, P&L guidance, etc.). - Heuristics and “ticky‑tacky rules” may live outside pure RAG; consideration for policy metadata. - SaaS systems (e.g., Concur) already enforce rules; RAG augments with contextual knowledge via MCP. - Conclusion: RAG plus structured heuristics can operationalize enterprise context effectively. - Topic Title: Crawl‑Walk‑Run Adoption and Operational Realities - Participants favored incremental adoption due to rapid change and risk. - Analogy: skipping legacy infrastructure (like landlines) may be prudent; timing is key. - Tool updates are constant; hosted MCP servers are emerging (e.g., ChatGPT hosting). - IT bandwidth constraints slow advanced work; hiring a system admin to offload ops and enable AI build‑out. - Conclusion: An incremental approach aligns with resource limits and a fast‑moving vendor ecosystem. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Identify departmental champions for Copilot Studio and schedule train‑the‑trainer sessions. - [ ] Draft governance guidelines to prevent high‑cost or unsafe agent behaviors (token limits, approved data scopes, safety checks). - [ ] Inventory current context sources and define a RAG pipeline for SOPs, playbooks, and finance guidance. - [ ] Select pilot use cases for Assist and Connect pillars (e.g., HR, maintenance, fleet, CRM integrations). - [ ] Pinpoint and enable power users with sandboxes to prototype reusable agent tooling; provide targeted training. - [ ] Evaluate Cloudflare and Railway options for secure tunneling/hosting and establish decision criteria (performance, security, maintenance). - [ ] Assess VM sizing and costs for any planned Ollama or open‑weight deployments; set model selection guidelines and monitoring to avoid overages. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Governance framework: Clear policies for agent creation, token budgets, data access, and safety checks are needed before broad enablement. > 2. Cost management: Define model selection guidelines and usage monitoring to avoid unnecessary overages and high VM costs. > 3. Context and heuristics: Decide where enterprise heuristics and metadata will live and how they integrate with RAG and MCP. > 4. Adoption strategy: Address psychological barriers among hourly staff; tailor training and incentives to increase engagement beyond reporting. > 5. Hosting decisions: Establish criteria for home/private hosting versus cloud services, considering performance, security, and maintenance trade‑offs.
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- Aug 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:44 Hello. Oh, Speaker 2 00:00:48 I didn't see you there. Your video's off. Speaker 3 00:00:50 Yeah, I'm trying to fix it right now. Speaker 2 00:00:53 It's gonna say it's just us eight o'fivers. And then that's right. We've got you Christi holding it down from LA There you go, There you go. How was your all week. Speaker 4 00:01:07 Good good goes fast, man goes fast. Speaker 2 00:01:10 Yeah yeah pretty much. Speaker 2 00:01:16 Can I just say, I miss you guys. I missed you guys. It's been a minute. Barry, Speaker 5 00:01:21 It has been. It has been i I feel like i missed I missed the last two. Well, no, well, I guess three because of the AI. Yeah, I was traveling on one and then at a conference on another. And just it just goes so quick. So it feels like it's been forever. Speaker 2 00:01:38 Truly we Christi. We had a fun AI session on the last one. Didn't we? Speaker 2 00:01:47 She Got muted as soon as I teed up a good question. Speaker 4 00:01:49 She's multitasking. Speaker 2 00:01:51 I know, right? Love it. It's good. How are you, Peter? Speaker 4 00:01:55 Good, good, busy. Got, uh, yes, couple of them, just all kinds of stuff. And very little appreciate them, three D printing, all kinds of stuff. So I got that all going. And I'm working with Claude on some of that. And it's uh it's interesting Nice. Speaker 2 00:02:16 Barry, you've been you've been been uh busy with work stuff, personal stuff, all the above. Speaker 5 00:02:23 Yeah, all the above. Yeah, It's just been crazy. We're We're, you know, neck deep in our BC launch. Uh-huh and that's uh been all consuming at this point. Um so so we are we should be going live September first. So it was supposed to be August first but you know how that goes. Speaker 2 00:02:46 Truly, almost planned for it. Hey JT. Hello. How's it going? Speaker 3 00:02:51 Good, how are you? Speaker 2 00:02:52 Good good. Hey Paul. Hi guys, Speaker 6 00:02:56 Nice to see you back. Speaker 2 00:02:60 Yeah. Indeed, I put I just took a I. You guys know me I like to just kind of change it up a little bit now and again. So on the agenda, I just put. Because it's just constantly changing, and it's almost comical at this point how much fast AI news changes. That I just put that up at the front, just like," What are you all hearing? What's all new and different in the world of AI?" Just lean into it. Speaker 3 00:03:27 Has anybody like had somebody say to them," Can you tell me that you know three or five year roadmap include AI?" And you are like," Yeah, AI doesn't go past six months." Speaker 3 00:03:39 Yeah, I know, right? I am being kind. Speaker 2 00:03:43 It's unbelievable. Yeah, uh, I mean, it seems like anthropic in the last month went from being like the darling to like they got a few missteps and somehow managed to upset both sides of the political aisle. So that's pretty interesting. Speaker 2 00:04:06 Uh yeah. What else has been has been going on? Well, Speaker 5 00:04:11 Agents breaking out of their sandboxes and hacking. Speaker 2 00:04:14 Agents breaking out of that's the big news. Thank you. Yes yes, agents breaking out of sandboxes is the news. Speaker 5 00:04:20 That's the thing right now until there's all the safety documents and everything that's starting to get hype. And so that so yeah. So we're seeing a little bit of a shift right now. Speaker 6 00:04:29 So I've seen the headlines on that. And. Spent zero time on it. Is that real? Or is that marketing nonsense that they want you to think that they actually? It's both. Speaker 5 00:04:38 It's it's both. It so really happened, however, uh it they they're using it for everything it's worth. I'm not doing, but and that's kind of how this this has been going from the beginning, though, like that's it's all about. Like like a little bit of scare talk about the mythos is gonna be this and not and everything, but now nobody can use it. And then so it's like they're trying to build it up. And then when it releases, its kind of humdrum right so. Speaker 5 00:05:03 But very interesting. And then the other thing, real big right now is obviously open weight models, right? So like and and and the use of open weight and and who's releasing them and who's not. Speaker 2 00:05:16 Yeah, we had a pretty robust discussion about that at the AI meeting. Speaker 5 00:05:21 Oh yeah, I bet I bet I'm sad I missed that one. That would have been an interesting conversation. Speaker 2 00:05:26 It was It was pretty. It was lead. It was led off by uh. Jonathan Hawk, Who uh used he was using an open weight model to create his home RPG video game. So he used like quant tools to shrink the model, and it got it got pretty weedy right and. Speaker 7 00:05:50 Yeah. Okay, yeah, if you're not building AI enabled bots inside a video game and trying to build your own Fortnite, you know, um. Kind of flew over your head pretty quick. Speaker 2 00:06:05 It was good though. It's kind of like if you wanted to roll your own AI LLM, that was the meeting for you, Speaker 3 00:06:11 Their humanness to it. Speaker 7 00:06:13 But because of how it yeah in an open universe video game, right? Like it's not just like create one person that's LLM. It's like, but that person is in front of the hut, and you need to ask them for. Your rubies to go over to this other one to like exchange your rubies for a punji stick. So you can go hunt animals. Like it was all, you could see you could see how deep he was. Yeah, it was great. Speaker 2 00:06:36 And he leads architecture for the Metropolitan Water District, so it was it was pretty interesting. It was like his home hobby that he was bringing in, But there was like lessons, he's been learning that translated over into the workplace too. So I think that's for a lot of people using AI. We're using it for our own little hobby stuff. You can kind of bring some of that in, you know. There is some transference there. I mean, Peter, you are the ultimate home hobbyist to my existence. Does that track with you? Speaker 4 00:07:04 No, it's spot on. And I just say it's not even just AI;. It's just you know, exposure to different things and thoughts and process and all these other things that you wouldn't think have any impact. And then you are like oh wait a minute, I can use that here. And so it's just great being exposed to things that you wouldn't normally in your. Day get exposed to they just help broaden your your perspective. That's, Speaker 5 00:07:34 The one thing I would say that working with AI has changed in the last year. Is it I feel like it's exposed me to all kinds of things that I wouldn't have otherwise like gone down that rabbit hole, right because of time and effort and energy to learn something right with AI. It's let. It's kind of letting you. Bridge that gap a little bit where you otherwise wouldn't have wasted the time to build that little script or build that little app or something that you wouldn't you feel worth it. AI, You can just set it off in a terminal off to the side and let it do it. And then come back. You're like, Hey now, I'm now I'm I'm a little versed in something else. I wasn't otherwise. So just makes it makes it fun. Speaker 4 00:08:08 So also, I think the vocabulary, The exposure to some of the formal terms for things that you you probably didn't ever put a formal name on. You know, now you are talking about scaffolding and all these other things. Like, oh, okay, that's what we'll call it then. I have am in a meeting so. Speaker 2 00:08:26 I know that I want to call. Any other AI news things that happened over the last? Speaker 3 00:08:32 I didn't want to. I didn't want to stop. Speaker 2 00:08:34 Four weeks feels like a lifetime like since our last meeting. Okay, Yeah because it is okay. Speaker 5 00:08:43 Awesome thank you. Speaker 2 00:08:44 I mean well elon buying cursor, Has me going like, gee, That's not going like he's not going to just buy it to shut it down. So I've been I've been certainly dancing between Codex and Claude and and I've increasingly just Grok build because I am just assuming that, that's where he's going to plow the dollars into. I suppose, I don't know. So it feels so early. It feels so early. Anything could kind of happen. Yeah. Speaker 6 00:09:17 Are any of you guys building your own systems, like you know, buying a server, throwing it in your own basements or anything like that and building? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:09:27 I am not. Speaker 6 00:09:28 No. How is that going? Speaker 2 00:09:32 It's fantastic. So the hack that most people are using now to do that is Cloudflare. So Cloudflare has the ability to put in all the security so, Your Microsoft authentication, Google authentication, one time passcodes. The domain lands on them; they handle all the security, and then your home box just tunnels through Cloudflare to your end user. So if you have like Docker or something, You just have your coding agent, just set it all up ;. It'll set the whole thing up for you. So, you can just host all your stuff at your house. ; you don't need dying DNS any of that nonsense. It is all Cloudflare; they've just taken it over. Speaker 2 00:10:13 And they've they've really created a really good freemium model. So as long as your domain is registered with them, they do all that stuff for no cost. It's actually a great tool for work too. I mean it's Cloudflare just is, they handle VPNs. They just they're just basically taking over so much of infrastructure now. I am seeing them everywhere. They've taken over VPN, They've taken over um the like the whole email, Security piece, they'll do all that DMARC stuff, all the nonsense ticky tacky infrastructure stuff. Cloudflare is like a Swiss Army knife for it. They've just almost come out of nowhere. Speaker 6 00:10:50 And, how would you rate kind of the performance or capability of your home LLM? Speaker 2 00:10:56 Oh, you are talking about the LLM hosting piece of it? No, I am not doing that. That was our topic at the AI CoP two weeks ago. And the performance, he rated it. How would Christi, how would you describe how Jonathan rated it? He said it was kind of slow, right? Speaker 3 00:11:11 Yeah. Pretty slow. Um I was looking for my notes from it because it interests me because I took a bunch of notes. What about Railway John? Wasn't that in that YouTube video? Is that another place you could do it besides Cloudflare? Speaker 2 00:11:26 Yes. Yeah, you can do Railway also where I think Railway will actually provide, Both the hosting and the tunneling, whereas I think Cloudflare is almost exclusively on tunneling. Speaker 5 00:11:45 What's driving you to want to set that up as a private host versus using some, you know, AWS or what something like actually locally? And how does that affect how do you feel like your bandwidth handles it? I guess depending on the number of users you would be expecting. You know, Speaker 2 00:12:00 It's fun. So what I did was I, So I am fortunate enough to have two properties. So I have Vegas and I have Ventura, and so I have a tunnel between the two. I use UniFi for a tunnel between the two, and then I had Claude set up the resilient infrastructure. So it's backing it created an entire thing that backs everything up, and then it has active active redundancy. So Cloudflare is fronting it, and then it hits either of those two machines. Speaker 5 00:12:31 So, Your goal is really just to have your own private network between your properties, and but you are the end user of it. You don't have like you are not really dealing with high traffic at all. Right? Yeah, okay. Speaker 7 00:12:47 Now Paul, I think you started the question. What were you asking for in terms of to set up your own container? Speaker 6 00:12:56 Well, I don't want to do it, so that might be part of the context that matters. But I'm wondering if you guys have done it because I'm curious about the capability of an LLM that you can set up under your bed at home versus what you get, right? And kind of where the trade-offs might be. The real reason I'm curious is because I'm wondering so much about the cost of commercial LLMs. And I'm just assuming it's going to go through the roof sooner than later. I am wondering what options enterprises are going to have for automating things. So, I was just kind of curious what the state or level or maybe competitiveness is of these things that people are able to run at home boundary, Speaker 3 00:13:38 Right? Boundary. Speaker 7 00:13:41 I set up a I set up a VM because i had we turned one of our employees, and i had, you know, fifty gigs of his email data that we needed to plop an LLM on. So people could query his emails for. Contract dispute, in short. And I was concerned about running putting an open, you know, Claude MCP on that data. So I went into Azure, I plugged in a VM and downloaded an Ollama instance to do that. And i, for like I found that I had to ramp up the horsepower of that VM machine to handle any mid tier Ollama. Speaker 7 00:14:22 Library, and this was like February of this year. So I am probably I am already outdated in how I tried it because everything's moving so fast. But it was like eight hundred, eight hundred to a thousand bucks a month to just provision a VM big enough to handle a mid tier Llama model. And so, I just said screw it, and I used an MCP to just the way I ended up handling. It was taking all the all the email data and. Putting it into a vector file, And so like your initial prompt goes locally first and then kicks out the top ten emails, and then that goes to the the Open Claude um agentic query. So, that's how I kind of slept easy at night that not all fifty gigs of data was going into into the model. But um, That's that was kind of my notes on it is that you had to provision a pretty big VM. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:15:22 You're limited to open weights models to host. That's the other asterisk. So the open weights models are akin to open source models, primarily and notably dominated by Chinese models, but there are others that are not like Meta has Llama, Google has Gemma, and Mistral has Mistral Large Small Ministral and others. Those are a French lab. The ones that you see in the news, a lot are usually the DeepSeek and the Z.AI.S and the Kimi K2, Kimi K3 family. So those are the, The most capable models seem to be those. And, that's that's what has been in the news most most pronounced on the last few weeks because they are, The large ones are as good as, The large models from Open AI and Claude. Speaker 2 00:16:19 You need a lot of compute to run them, though. I don't think you can run them in your basement. The big ones. Speaker 6 00:16:25 Well, A candidate that I talked to for a position that I had open, told me that he bought a ten thousand dollar server and put it in his basement so he could play with the LLMs. So, I don't know if any of you guys did that. Speaker 3 00:16:40 Did you really? Yeah. And it's work he like a. Speaker 3 00:16:48 Uh, Leor, he actually named it. And I don't I don't remember. Oh, Chappie. He named it Chappie. Chappie. Yep. Chappie does all kinds of things for him his day trading, I mean, I just like he's gone wild That's. Speaker 7 00:17:07 Cool It's excellent And. Are you are you thinking about doing that for work Jennifer? Speaker 3 00:17:14 Are you So we already have an MCP server, Um, And we're going to step into Copilot Studio and build certain agents that will be used universally. But, um, you know, We're still deciding on financially what our AI strategy is going to be because, as you you know, say, this stuff's going to start costing a lot of money. Um, I think having Azure Foundry in the background. So we can switch between models for different things is going to be helpful when we build agents. But. Speaker 3 00:17:47 I just don't know how much of the I am going to let people build their own agents. We're we're gonna do. I think mainly it's gonna be, you know, this your your license with Microsoft. These are things you can do. This your E3. These are things you can do for the paid version. And then after that, it's you know it's a different level of people who will be. Developing or doing or using certain things. I mean, we just, you know, we mow grass. We got to do this economically. Speaker 2 00:18:25 That's probably a good place to start with the kind of the topic today. And this one's been. It's just kind of like where are you all at with agents? Where are you deploying them? What's your sort of approach and strategy? And I love the what I'll call" own your context, rent your intelligence" strategy. It sounds like that's what you are taking on, Jen. It's like because your context lives here, and then it's like okay, we'll swap in and out what we need, but context is staying here. Is that how you are thinking about it? Speaker 3 00:18:58 Yeah, I mean, when when you talked about the AI LLM model, right when we did the tokenization discussion at me, think about that. And so being able to switch those things out is going to be, you know. Critically important for us to keep the cost, you know, the expense down. Um, But still be able to have our models that we build our agentic agents run. Um, And then it just you know, I don't know three months from now. I could change my mind, but Oh sorry, what we what did we say six days? Six days. Six days they could change their mind. Speaker 2 00:19:34 It sounds biblical doesn't it? Exhausting Yeah, Where, are you thinking of of deploying the agents? And is it how are you thinking about that roadmap? And and the the change management around it Is it in the back office, Is it front office facing operations. Quote to cash, sort of how are you thinking about it? Speaker 3 00:19:58 Well I got I've got like different pillars, right? And so that would be like an assist pillar So AI assistance for employees. Some chat bots You know we've got policy and training. So. How do I make the best use out of the free Copilot in Microsoft? What can I do with it, and who gets that? And then what can I do with the paid version, and who gets it, and what can they do with it? And then sort of then there's the connecting right. So, we've got this MCP, and we want to connect some of these global agents to our. Speaker 3 00:20:35 System that we use for maintenance and our system, you know, for finance. Um, our fleet management system, our our CRM. So there's the connecting piece with AI. And then eventually we want to go to that whole guide. So I'm an A I'm a I have a role. I'm in the field and I have an agent that is for my role that does the specific things and all I have to do is talk to it in Spanish. And, it does everything in the back end and translates for me back into the system where it needs to go. So, it's just seamless. And then, you know, Optimizing is the last where whatever that fine tuning is over the next couple of years. That would you know, blend in analytics, our our lake house gets completed. But you know so people can make better targeted decisions and the. Speaker 3 00:21:32 The agent has access to that information for, let's just say, a specific piece of property or a specific lead. So that's kind of how I think about it: assist, connect, guide, and then optimize. Speaker 2 00:21:49 And who goes first? Speaker 3 00:21:52 Uh, some of the employees, right? So. Speaker 3 00:21:58 It is actually, I would say we're doing assist and connect at the same time. We're a little bit behind on the assist, only from a training standpoint, but but the connect piece is already beginning. So HR system, Entra ID, rest of the systems. So, the intelligence will just do what we tell it to do in the beginning, but eventually it's going to be able to say well okay, You know, this role and this system has two different profiles. Should I give them both? Should I give them one? You know, like it'll be very much led which kind of goes into that whole guide. And that's just an example. The. Speaker 2 00:22:44 Change management of this, I feel like is just as difficult, if not more so than the technical part of it. Are you finding the same? Speaker 3 00:22:52 Um, not right now because I'm really restricting it. Speaker 2 00:22:56 Okay. So there's not as much exposure. No. Speaker 6 00:23:01 And I am finding the governance is a huge deal, so I think yeah, it just depends on the company, right? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:23:09 Paul, you want to jump in? How how are you thinking aboutum deployment? By the way, Let's just so for definitions, what's an agent right to me, an agent is anything that has a job. And context. That's sort of it. So, it could be almost any your your chat GPT window is technically an agent. So, how are you deploying agents? The way we think about agents is the you know autonomous worker in the in the sky doing things on and just and just orchestrating and making it happen. And, we all know that that's that's not really um unless you are Christi Brown, That's probably not as gettable as a as an ideal in an enterprise, uh, but it could be layers. Speaker 2 00:23:52 You know, down to and including just essentially someone's chat window. So, that's how I think about just deploying agents to do has to have a job and a context. So Paul, please. Speaker 6 00:24:05 We're in the early days of supporting agent deployment, if you will. What, we intend to do well. One, we have an internal chat tool. It has full kind of unfettered access. Internal resources, right? So stuff we wouldn't necessarily want to give other tools. So, if it's how to answer a phone call in the call center and certain other things like that, that are very internal, we're we're that's all on Azure using Azure Foundry and whatever tools are there. That's available to literally everybody at the company. And, the LLM is on Chat GPT five, five or whatever. It's it's very recent, but it's not maybe the newest um. Speaker 6 00:24:48 Our intention in some future is to make agents available for people there to reuse. So if somebody has a great idea and they build a cool agent, we want to surface it through our custom LLM. In the meantime, we're in the midst of planning a rollout of agent creation through Copilot. We have about two hundred people with a Copilot full license. Um, And we're going to start in coming weeks to We actually brought in a contractor who supposedly has done this before. Or, Who's going to help roll out a train- the- trainer approach or kind of departmental or regional champions, teach them how to build custom agents themselves, And then let them build things for the rest of the team, or be a point of reference for others in that department or region to build their own agents. Once we've identified some of those that are really good, we would like to surface those and make those available through our internal LLM. Speaker 6 00:25:46 We are doing this not because I like it, But because the owner of this company is absolutely drunk, the Kool-Aid about AI and thinks it's going to change everything for everyone everywhere. Use that to get, you know, a seven figure sum for us to invest in AI and tools and custom stuff that we're doing. Um, I am very concerned about the governance piece of it, though, because once we teach people. Create their own agents, They can create agents that do extremely stupid things that burn through tokens really quickly. Every day, summarize the New York Times for me into two paragraphs, right? And, we don't have any structure in place to stop people from doing things like that. Or every day, summarize the eleven terabytes of data on SharePoint. Tell me what's on there. So I hope that these actual scenarios won't happen, but I think people doing silly things could. Speaker 6 00:26:38 Unfortunately, We're kind of rolling ahead first and the governance going to come a little bit later. So I'm not thrilled, but it will be interesting. Speaker 2 00:26:47 The cars are going on the road, the speed limit signs come later. That's right. Well, motorcycles. You got it. Motorcycles. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:26:58 Have you ever seen the streets of Rome? Speaker 2 00:27:04 That's our AI policy right there from streets of Rome Vietnam? Happy and way is pretty cool. Barry, you want to share how you are thinking about? You can take this wherever you want. How AI is getting deployed, agents, governance, change management— the human part of the tech part. Speaker 5 00:27:24 Yeah, so the our implementation is relatively simple. I think we haven't evolved much past. Um, we have obviously chat box bots that have really good context of our company. That was one piece of it. The other piece is really just the MCP structure to give access and connect the Claude Enterprise stuff that we've deployed throughout the company. Um, you know, I've talked about the training ;. The training was the key to getting that to work. Um, but beyond that, I found that the users most of the users have not really explored beyond. Speaker 5 00:28:00 That actually creating really even even like copilot workflows or anything that's really what I would consider advanced, And nor do they really find um I don't find them even pushing against that very much or having interest in it. Um, So I'm not sure exactly where to take them next without like if I'm having to drag them into it or that kind of stuff. Um, as far as the um the one area I do find is like, I think that i i need to continue to to Educate them on like the scope of the work they're trying to get AI to do, because obviously they're going to burn through tokens doing something that's pointless. You know, Because they're trying to look at the entire database of the entire system, right? All in one shot. Which. So that's been a little bit of a maybe more of a training thing than anything else. And then the other piece would be, You know, just getting them to understand the right model for the right job because because. Speaker 5 00:28:56 The, the only way we're restricting really is by the amount of usage they have based on the plan that we have with Claude Enterprise. And. So what we find is that every once in a while, there'll be a user that hits their daily limit or hourly limit because they switched over to Haiku because they, for whatever reason thought they needed it, But the reality is they didn't you know. So um and so that's um and so that's that's the way we're kind of controlling it. Um but it's not obviously it's not a very robust control. It's just uh Hey, we just decided that we're we're going to have a little bit of overage, but we're not going to let them run wild. I don't want to get a, you know, a two thousand dollar token bill from one user, right um for for you know, for a half hour worth of work that they probably threw away anyway, because they were looking at the wrong data source, or you know whatever that might be. So um so that's what we've been running against. Um the the big thing that I'd like to see with agents that I or people are starting to push into the more advanced. Speaker 5 00:29:51 Like agent use or reusable tooling, I guess is the way I would look at it. Would be some of my power users and identifying them and giving them the proper training, giving them sandboxes to work in. And um, and I had some people that were kind of pushing into that, and so we probably will get to it. Um i I would say that just from a timing standpoint, I've just been buried with this business central implementation. To the point where it's distracting me from everything, you know that I want to do. Speaker 2 00:30:22 You uh it's interesting where you are in the journey. What I heard was, you've taken this so far now it's kind of like now what? Speaker 5 00:30:31 I feel that way. I feel that way. I feel like even though the the AI world is moving way ahead of where I think I am or where our company is, I think that in our company with the i guess the environment we have, the type of work we do, We've kind of sort of plateaued maybe, but um and i think it's my job to figure out, okay, well, where's the next. Client, right? And I don't I'm not sure where it is to be honest. Speaker 2 00:30:54 So JT, you got a hand up. Speaker 3 00:30:56 Yeah, I just wanted to ask Barry, you know, you said people are not really exploring. Is thatum like what's the blend of hourly employees versus salary? And do you think that makes any difference? Speaker 5 00:31:07 Um it does so. So I would say that the majority of our users would be like back office workers, uh hourly workers. Speaker 3 00:31:15 They just want to go home. Speaker 5 00:31:17 Yeah yeah, and they they, but and and they want to leverage it for reporting. But I still think, even though they found a lot of power in it, And I've had several of them come to me and explain what they're doing and everything, And it's like to me, they're just writing a really good report or an easy report. And that's great. But I think that beyond that, they don't want to investigate something that makes them feel like they're replaceable. And so I think that there is a little bit of psychological boundary there that they are not overcoming. And so. Speaker 5 00:31:48 The people that are in the salary roles or more of my what I would consider like the maybe top level management thing, like the people like that they definitely are are the ones that I would say are pushing things a little bit more or want a little bit more. But even in that in my company, I mean, I can count that on less than one hand, right? So, it's just not very many people that have have that are showing that they want to break out of the barriers that they they have. Speaker 5 00:32:18 And that's outside of the IT group. So, the IT group, IT people are IT people, right? So we're going to push the boundaries no matter what. Butum but but outside of that, I don't see that that kind of engagement. Speaker 2 00:32:28 It's an interesting thought experiment, right? Of what do you do after you have your stuff? You have your agentic enterprise set up. You're sort of there. You have what I would call a shared context spine for your business, which is the key thing that everyone needs. You need to have context about your business living somewhere. I think is it crosslinks? Yeah, You've branded it so you have crosslinks and and that would be actually a really good demo to share with this group. I think if this group was open to seeing it, I think that is the one missing thing. In fact, Not a commercial, but a side statement that is where I am sort of focusing my AI consulting business on is that context spine because I think that's the thing that. Speaker 2 00:33:17 You can't get any value out of the tools unless they have context. So, if you think about it, how you use Chat GPT or whatever for your personal stuff, all the context that it has about you makes it useful. So, how do you do that same paradigm for your organization? RAG? Yeah. Speaker 3 00:33:36 I mean, is anybody using RAG? I used RAG at my last company, and it was awesome and I'm planning to use it here. And I just feel like if you do the RAG, you're going to build in your context. Speaker 2 00:33:46 It's a great point, But do you see the RAG as a source? Or where are the heuristics living? In other words, the ticky tacky little rules and the things about things, the metadata. You know, when Sally submits her expense report, we're okay with her TNE coding. But if Joey does it, we're not. I mean, just like those kinds of things that they don't live necessarily in the RAG. Yeah. They're kind of heuristics learning. Speaker 3 00:34:13 I haven't thought that far ahead about replacing the systems that we have that already do that, that force that. You know, Because if you think about Concur and you know some of these expense management systems, if you got that in place, that's lower on your list because you got something that's working. But in the future, yeah. I mean six days from now we could be talking about like, hey, why do we want to pay this licensing fee to Ramp? We could build our own product. We're not we're not there, I don't know that we would go there. We would probably continue to do SaaS and then leverage that data through the MCP and then add RAG for things that are like SOPs, process playbooks, you know, How to read your P & L that we deliver to you from NetSuite or wherever Power BI. Speaker 2 00:35:10 A B D, have you guys encoded your learnings or your heuristics anywhere, or is it mostly tribal? Speaker 7 00:35:21 No, I think we I am in a probably a similar position. I don't have an IT department you are looking at it, But similar to Barry Life IT baseline project gets in way of doing cool stuff. And then you get to this crossroad where you are like, "Should I stop shoveling dirt to go build the excavator with AI?" And the answer should be yes, but sometimes it's like, "But this is the only pile of dirt like this," so sometimes I just keep shoveling that pile and then come back. And where that pile of dirt is repeatable, then you stop and build the excavator. But this one, this project I am in is. Speaker 7 00:36:05 Anyway, That's a long winded way of saying, like we have I've got a couple power users that are in cloud code that have built agents and are kind of not nearly where Christi is having, you know, so many agents that they forget their names, but you know, walk in and have that kind of Jarvis, like experience really go. This is what we're doing. And then a fleet of people who are just using agent as desktop. You know, desktop is the only agent that they're using and in kind of I guess I would say. Taking the training wheels off of AI from a not IT AI thinker, you know, Like I think I get this group and the AI group are so far forward. And I happened to have lunch with John last week. I am like, dude, you are shopping for spaceships. The normal people are riding bikes. I am riding a bike, my My company. They're walking some Some of them are riding bikes, some of them are driving a car. Speaker 7 00:36:59 You're telling me about the new Millennium Falcon version. I can't even comprehend most of where you guys are, Which is a great problem for me to be the dumbest person in the room when it comes to this stuff. But to the point about we cut grass, we move dirt. My staff just moved dirt. Like if they can drop their contract in Claude and say what's in scope, what's out of scope compared to this, to the geotech report, what am I missing? I'm winning all day long. So that's kind of the phase that we're in. I need I am about to hire a system admin to take some of these piles of dirt off of my plate. So then I can go back and build my golf cart and or vehicle in hopes of one day getting to space. Speaker 3 00:37:45 I don't know that crawl, walk, run isn't a good strategy though, Just with how fast things are moving and some of the things we've seen on the news. Two, well, I got one earlier and then one right now. I think I am kind of middle of the road. Speaker 2 00:37:58 Imagine if all of you went all in on this two years ago, you'd be so far behind. You'd be so far behind. You have to undo all this this chat GPT four o stuff or whatever it is that you did, you know? Speaker 7 00:38:10 Yeah, I think of it, like how many developing countries have not built telephone lines because they got to skip it.;. They got to just go straight to mobile. There is no telecom infrastructure, yeah. And, and we're I am kind of in that like, well, what if I you know, if I don't go in now if you wait? And that's just the crux because it's moving so fast, but I, um there. Speaker 2 00:38:34 Seems like new look, we all know this. There is a new version of whatever chat tool we use, whether it's Claude or Codex or Chat, GPT or Copilot. There is a new version to install, you know, quit to relaunch so that I can install the new version every day. Okay, every sometimes a couple times a couple hours. It's kind of stupid, and then they move things around, right? Like wait wait that was over here now that's over here. Why why'd they I mean it's like that. And then there is like, oh look what that's new. Okay, that's different. Yeah I just saw chat GPT they're now doing hosted MCP servers so, that's kind of interesting. I know Cloudflare has been doing that. We talked about Cloudflare earlier. Speaker 7 00:39:16 But to your point, the like Claude experience where and I was interested, someone said they're a Claude enterprise.
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07-27 Lecture: AI Foundations Training for Property Firm — Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Prompting, and Governance
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- > Date Time: 2026-07-27 11:58:31 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: Christi Brown ## Summary On 2026-07-27, Christi Brown, CIO of Crimson IT, led the first of a three-day AI foundations training for a property-focused firm with approximately 25 attendees. The session provided an overview of AI concepts, debunked common myths (e.g., job replacement), and introduced three core tools: Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude. Christi emphasized practical, risk-aware usage, highlighting AI's role as an efficiency multiplier for tasks like summarization, drafting, and data analysis, allowing staff to focus on high-value work. The lecture covered the distinction between automation and generative AI, the importance of strong prompting using the "Role, Context, Task, Format" framework, and the necessity of verifying AI outputs to mitigate risks like hallucinations and data leakage. Christi demonstrated features like Claude Co-work for automated folder organization, compared tool strengths (Copilot for M365 integration, Claude for long-document reasoning, ChatGPT as a versatile "Swiss Army knife"), and discussed data privacy in business accounts. The session concluded by assigning a hands-on exercise for attendees to apply these concepts to their specific roles, with results to be discussed in the upcoming sessions focused on advanced prompting, governance, and creating a six-month rollout plan. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Training Structure and Objectives - **Ground Rules and Engagement:** Christi established ground rules, encouraging interruptions and questions, and confirmed the session would be recorded and transcribed. Reference materials were emailed to attendees. - **Three-Day Roadmap:** - **Day 1 (2026-07-27):** Introduction to AI, a tour of Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude, and achieving a first practical "win" on real work. - **Day 2 (2026-07-28):** Focus on advanced prompt patterns applied to real workflows. - **Day 3 (2026-07-29):** Cover safety, governance, guardrails, and craft a six-month rollout plan. - **Facilitation:** The training was led by Christi Brown, assisted by John Wilder. The setup involved multiple conference rooms connected via Microsoft Teams. ### 2. AI Fundamentals and Concepts - **Nature of AI:** AI was described as a "very fast, well-read writer" that excels at pattern prediction, summarization, first drafts, and translating complex language into plain English. It is not a thinking entity but a powerful assistant. - **Limitations and Risks:** Key limitations include a dependency on sufficient data, the tendency to "hallucinate" (invent incorrect details confidently), and the risk of "model inbreeding" where AI learns from other AI-generated content. Users must treat AI like an intern, supervising its work and verifying all outputs, especially numbers, dates, and legal references. - **Automation vs. Generative AI:** Automation performs predictable, repetitive tasks (e.g., Outlook rules), whereas generative AI can improvise and create varied outputs, requiring human oversight. - **Efficiency Gains:** AI can help eliminate redundant work (estimated at ~30% of jobs), such as retyping and reformatting, freeing up time for judgment-based tasks and relationship building. ### 3. Tooling: Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude - **"Which Tool to Reach For When":** - **Microsoft Copilot:** Best for tasks within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem (Outlook, Teams, Word). It excels at email and meeting summaries but may skim long documents. - **Claude:** Ideal for deep reasoning and in-depth analysis of long documents like contracts and invoices. Its "Co-work" feature can automate multi-step tasks like folder organization and budgeting. - **ChatGPT:** A versatile "Swiss Army knife" with a broad toolbox for image generation, data analysis, web research, and creating reusable "Custom GPTs" for templated tasks. - **Key Features and Terminology:** - **Custom Assistants:** "GPTs" (ChatGPT), "Projects" (Claude), and "Agents" (Copilot) are all terms for custom-configured AI assistants pre-loaded with specific knowledge or templates. - **Data Integration:** All tools can connect to external data sources (e.g., SharePoint, Asana, Google Drive) via "connectors," "plugins," or "sources" to generate context-aware content. - **Model Selection:** Users were advised on which models to use for consistency: Copilot "auto," Claude "Sonnet" (or "Opus" if default), and "ChatGPT Classic: Medium" due to a recent app update. - **Best Practices:** - **Continue Conversations:** Use the same chat window for related queries to leverage the AI's memory. - **Dictation:** Christi recommended WhisperFlow for high-accuracy dictation as an alternative to typing prompts. ### 4. Prompting and Interaction - **Four Building Blocks of Prompting:** - **Role:** Define who the AI should act as (e.g., "You are a property manager"). - **Context:** Provide critical facts the AI cannot infer (dates, constraints, background). This is the most important block. - **Task:** Specify the action verb (e.g., draft, summarize, compare). - **Format:** Define the desired output shape (e.g., email, bullet points, table). - **Weak vs. Strong Prompts:** A weak prompt (e.g., "write a tenant notice") yields generic results. A strong prompt with detailed context produces a usable, near-final draft. - **Iteration and Refinement:** Users should provide feedback to refine AI outputs (e.g., "Make this less passive-aggressive," "This is close but..."). ### 5. Security, Governance, and Data Handling - **Business Account Privacy:** The firm's business-grade accounts ensure conversations are private and not used to train public models. Admin visibility is limited and does not include reading individual chats. - **Data Leakage Risk:** A significant risk comes from employees using personal AI accounts with default settings, which can feed company data back to the model. Day 3 will cover this in depth. - **Data Boundaries:** On computers with mixed personal and work data, users should explicitly point the AI to specific folders to create "walls" and limit search scope. - **Claude Co-work Safety:** When using automated features, Christi advised against skipping all approvals to prevent accidental actions like mass file deletions. ### 6. Operational Issues and Next Steps - **Software Updates and Issues:** A sudden ChatGPT update caused version confusion. Attendees were instructed to use "ChatGPT Classic" for consistency, with a deeper dive into new features postponed. Some users faced installation and account access issues, which Christi will address. - **Hands-On Exercises:** The session transitioned to a follow-along style for Days 2 and 3, using real examples from the company (Carney). Attendees were asked to prepare tasks and materials. - **Evening Assignment:** Participants were assigned an exercise tailored to their roles (leasing, operations, marketing) to complete using any AI tool, with results to be discussed the next day. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Complete the evening exercise by selecting a role-relevant task (e.g., marketing summary, maintenance checklist, investor update subject lines) and executing it with an AI tool, providing detailed context. - [ ] 2. Practice creating strong prompts using the four building blocks (Role, Context, Task, Format) for a real-world task. - [ ] 3. Prepare real workflow materials and examples (e.g., contracts, financial reports) to send to Christi and Speaker 5 by end of day on 2026-07-27 for use in the hands-on sessions on 2026-07-28 and 2026-07-29. - [ ] 4. Experiment with continuing a conversation in a single AI chat window to see how it leverages context and memory. - [ ] 5. Verify that you are using organization-approved AI accounts and settings, particularly "ChatGPT Classic (Medium)," for the training sessions. - [ ] 6. Report any installation or account access issues (e.g., admin login requirements, Claude subscription prompts) to Christi for resolution. - [ ] 7. Adopt the rule of thumb: no number, date, citation, or legal reference from an AI goes out unverified. - [ ] 8. Optionally, run the same task in Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT to compare results and note strengths/weaknesses for discussion.
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- Jul 27, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:05:05 Good morning. How are you guys? Speaker 2 00:05:08 Alright, yourself. Good, really good. Speaker 3 00:05:40 I Don't know how many of us there are. Do we know? Everybody's in the back, then maybe more room in the front. Speaker 2 00:05:53 In the boardroom? Oh, that might be it. I don't think there's enough space. There is enough space between me and another computer. Speaker 2 00:06:10 It's Stephen and Luke. Wait, wait, wait. Speaker 1 00:06:33 While you guys get ready, real quickly, you guys don't have to listen to this part. John. Speaker 1 00:06:41 Could you RMM to my display one, just so that you can see the background. Okay, perfect everybody else is going to see display two. Speaker 2 00:06:53 So Michael, are you going to take some photos? Yes, I am, do you have your laptop and your iPad? Speaker 2 00:07:12 Yeah. Okay. Turn on your computer. That doesn't. Are, Speaker 4 00:07:33 We supposed to log into the uh, Teams everybody? Or are you doing this? Speaker 1 00:07:41 Individually. Um, I can I'm going to show everything up on whatever screen you have in there in the conference room. Um, at this point, All I need you guys to do is to log in and um be able to see your um whichever AI program you want to use for today. Speaker 4 00:08:10 Standardize on one so that everybody's seeing the same thing. Speaker 1 00:08:14 Um, you can. Most of today we're not going to worry about which ones you're standardizing on. Uh, tomorrow we're going to standardize on a few. Um, so a couple of times we're going to use Copilot, A couple of times we're going to use ChatGPT and a couple of times we'll use Claude. Speaker 2 00:08:41 Today it doesn't matter. Do I need to do that? What do I need? No, no, no. ChatGPT is not too stressed. Yeah, I think you'll be fine. The attention. People. Speaker 3 00:09:36 Should go take food. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:10:13 All right, let me know when you guys are ready to get started. Speaker 5 00:10:16 Uh, sorry, a few more minutes. Speaker 1 00:10:21 No worries. Speaker 5 00:10:23 We'll be out in four. Speaker 1 00:11:22 And while you guys are getting ready, I am going to send an email. I'm gonna actually just reply from Jason's message to the office staff. So Jason, if it does not get all the way out, would you mind forwarding for me? Okay. Perfect. And, this is gonna be all of the cheat sheets that I have promised for today's meeting. We'll talk about those in a moment. Speaker 2 00:12:17 Guys, all good in the back room. Speaker 4 00:12:23 We don't hear you in the conference room. The board room, you're muted. We're ready to get started. All right, Speaker 1 00:12:34 Perfect. For those of you guys who haven't met me, which I think there's very few of you who've never met me, my name is Chris Brown. I'm, the CIO for Crimson IT. And today, we're going to spend about three days starting today going over AI foundations. We'll work through a couple of different things, Today, but tomorrow and Wednesday are going to be the real meets. Today is going to be just an overview and foundation of the things that you guys need to know. Um, I want to real quickly introduce you to John Wilder. He is a member of my team. He works mostly out of the San Diego office, But he's hanging out because he's going to start helping me do some of the trainings and stuff, um, and helping me with AI projects and things like that. So, he's super interested in AI, and he's already doing some great work for me. So. Speaker 1 00:13:24 I asked him to sit in on today, tomorrow, and Wednesday's training. But just a heads up, he may have to jump in and out. So if you see him disappeared, don't worry. He's fantastic. You guys can ask him questions as well. So for those of you guys who are enjoying lunch at this moment, Please continue because I know that having a start time at noon cuts in on everybody's lunchtime. So please feel free to jump in. Take a lunch I am actually going to be sending something else away next week or the following week. Um, I got to wait and see when it arrives from my vendor. Uh, That will help you enjoy lunch on the day that it arrives to you guys. So super excited to be spending this time with you. And we're going to go over a lot of really fun things. Now, a couple ground rules. Uh, And I want to make sure that you guys understand my ground rules because I like to have fun. If we were in person, I would throw candy at you softly not not at your heads, but softly chuck over to you guys. So that you guys could stay energetic. Speaker 1 00:14:21 But because we can't do that, I'm going to give you my ground rules here. And instead of throwing chocolates, I might say, hey Mark, Can you answer this question for me if I see Mark drifting off to sleep? Which Mark would never do that to me. I don't think so. If, you guys think he would just raise your hand if he's that mean to me. But he's never been so far. The ground rules are there's no dumb questions here The ones that you think are dumb are the ones five other people also have, and everybody's just too afraid to raise their hand. I'm the same way. I will sometimes never ask my question because I think it's too dumb, and my seatmates usually have that same question. So, in my training there's no dumb questions. If you need to unmute me and interrupt me, That's perfectly okay. If I don't notice you due to connection issues or things like that, just uh have John or someone raise their hand using the Teams tool to raise hand. I should be able to see that. Speaker 1 00:15:17 All right. Real quickly, I did not set this meeting up, so I can't, I can cannot do recording. So if someone can hit the recording option on your end, that way we can record the session. That would be greatly appreciated. I do have a transcription service on so I can transcribe everything I'm saying and make notes, but no recording on my end. So I do apologize. Speaker 4 00:15:49 I'm sorry. I'm just checking to see if it's really recording. Doesn't you can't do it up there? Yeah, Speaker 2 00:15:57 Seems like there was an option. Speaker 1 00:16:04 Um, Jeff, if you log into Teams into the meeting, you might be able to just start the recording and then leave. It might help. Speaker 6 00:16:13 That's what Jason's doing right now. Okay. Speaker 1 00:16:18 And then I'll continue going. Nothing you learn here is graded. This is not high school. I promise you, I am not going to grade you on how well you're picking it up because everyone picks it up differently. It is new technology and fantastic technology, But so I want you guys to be aware there are some things that I'm going to teach you today that may change tomorrow, but most of what I teach you is foundational, so it should go with you as this technology. Speaker 1 00:16:48 Continues to evolve and it's evolving fast. So, just a quick heads up. In the quick frame on why you guys are doing it, This is an amazing firm that's been buying building operating property for a very long time with a small team. You guys need you guys are going to learn how to use this to add more capacity and more efficiency to your own jobs. And this only works when your team time is able to Learn on the fly, which you guys are doing amazing at, and be able to build upon what you're already doing. So anything that you have this mundane and things that you don't like doing, this what this going to help you do. AI is. And I'm going to teach you how to do it. All right, so I'm going to give you the roadmap for the next three days. Today we're going to talk about what it actually is, how to talk to it, And we're going to give a tour of your three tools, and we're going get you your first win. Speaker 1 00:17:47 Tomorrow, We're going to go in and teach you the prompting patterns that separates a useless answer from a great one. And we're going to run it against your own real work. And Wednesday, we're going to go over what is safe and what is not, and how we roll this out over the next couple months. And you as a group get to work through what works best for you because each of these tools works differently. All right? So. Speaker 1 00:18:17 I want to make sure that you guys understand the ground rules. I'm going to go back over them just because I forgot to hit the slide. So, The promise for today is that every person on this call uses AI in real Carney work and gets something useful back. It's not a demo you watch; it's actually going to be something you do. There's no dumb questions; please interrupt me. This is now being recorded, and reference material is being sent out to you guys. You guys should have it by now; if not, I screwed up on my send, and Jeff can get that over to you guys so You don't have to take notes unless you want to. I am going to send out some notes once I'm done of what you guys learned today. And then ignore my screen because my own AI just got in the way. And then nothing here is graded. If you try something this weekend, it flops, this is actually data for us. I want to know what flops because we get to fix it together and everybody learns from it, okay? Um 25 people in here? Speaker 1 00:19:15 Millions of square feet. If I am understanding right, it's over seventy years. But if I am not, if I am wrong on this, let me know. The time that you guys are putting in only works when your time is able to go to judgment. And relationships, not retyping, reformatting or rereading the same things over and over again. So we're looking at time savers here. Okay? Um The three days : Day one today what this is how to talk to it, your three tools. You're going to leave with your first real win. For tomorrow, you're going to go over prompt patterns, run against real carny workflows, and you're going to develop repeatable skills within AI. And then Wednesday we're going to go over guardrails, governance, a six month plan. And, then you guys will have a roadmap of how you guys can interact safely and how everything works. Okay? Now let's go over what AI is and what it's not. First off I'll leave this screen up. Speaker 1 00:20:12 What do you guys think AI is? I am going to start with Mark because I was already picking on him. Speaker 4 00:20:22 AI is a way to make sand think, okay? And, that was actually a quote that was just said by the head of OpenAI. And the idea is that it can perform functions for you. And generate actions and information based on what you ask it to do. And sometimes what it thinks it wants to do. Speaker 1 00:20:52 Yes, all right, good job. Someone else, what do you think AI is? Nobody? Speaker 3 00:21:04 Scary tool. It is, Speaker 1 00:21:07 It can be a scary tool. You guys saw it just flashed up something on my screen that I was working on in the background. So sometimes it'll take over my computer without asking. Actually, Speaker 6 00:21:18 I think it's the future. I think it's absolutely the future, Christie. And right now can be a competitive advantage, but if we don't get smart, it'll be a competitive disadvantage for the firm. Speaker 1 00:21:32 Yes, one hundred percent agree with you. That's that's why, The last two years, A lot of my time has been taken up with learning the ins and outs of AI and what I can do with it. Anybody in the other office, in the boardroom? Speaker 7 00:21:52 What is the question? AI. AI. What do you think AI is? It's artificial intelligence. No, but yeah. Speaker 2 00:22:05 I got the ear here. Speaker 5 00:22:09 Oh, AI is artificial intelligence. I think it's a great tool to use to sort of streamline our work that will help make our work more efficient. Speaker 1 00:22:19 Yes, 100%. I will say my own capacity has grown in the last two years of what I'm capable of doing and what I get done in a day. But it is still, there's still a lot I have to learn. And trust me, guys, I'll never stop learning. So it will change, it will grow and we'll get through. Um I'm going to simplify what is and what it's not. Okay? Um What is is a very very fast well-read writer. Okay? It's read everything under the sun that's cap that it's capable of touching. Now with that, it's gotten really good at predicting what comes next. So what I like to tell it is. Speaker 1 00:23:02 It is a tool that predicts based on the things it read. That's why it's not 100% right because us as humans, you know, we're going to walk in a straight line. But I don't know about some of you guys. I have ADHD and sometimes I'll see a squirrel and I'll go this way, or sometimes I'll see a really pretty flower and I'll go this way. And so it tries to predict based on what it's read, But sometimes it's not good at predicting what a human is actually going to do. So that's where some parts of it can be fallible Um, it is fantastic at summarizing. One hundred percent at summarizing. It's really good at doing a first draft. Um, I have it reorganize my folders almost weekly now just to make sure that everything stays in tip, top shape and I can find things because I've been working for Crimson long enough that I have a lot of files. Um, it's really good at explaining sometimes I will have AI. Speaker 1 00:23:56 Tell me how to explain something to a user because I'm very technical and I can't always put things in words that everybody's going to understand. Um, I also have teenagers at home and trying to explain something to a Gen Zer or a Gen Alpha us as older adults for some of you guys that are a little younger there, it's a little hard to understand and put things in perspective. So sometimes I'll have it out, so I can explain things to my teenage daughter. Who's leaving for college in a few weeks? Okay, we need that. Trust me, it's it's a game changer. There, um, it does really well at comparing. I asked it to pull up. I was looking at some new headphones. I have a really awesome pair of Sonys, but these Sonys are a few years old. So I asked it to do a comparison between the newest version of Sony and uh, the Apple version. That's over the years, and it had it up pretty quickly for me. I am going to go back to Sony. I'm not going to go to Apple just because. Speaker 1 00:24:55 I was able to pull up and get what I wanted and needed. And it's really good at translating dense language into plain English, which is back what I was saying about teenagers. It's really good at that. But it's not thinking the way you're thinking, okay? It has no opinions, it has no stake in the outcome, it has nothing in the game, no skin in the game, okay? And no way to know what it does not know. So if it does not know something, it's not going to learn it unless we tell it so. So it is unreliable if you don't give it enough data. So, let's talk about floor plans and giving it reliable data because I know all of you guys might understand that. I gave AI the floor plans to my apartment and told it, I know this is still technical, But I told it where I have something in the system or in my floor plan. And I needed to run a cable from that room all the way to another room. Speaker 1 00:25:51 Now, If the floor plan doesn't have any data on it like square feet or anything like that, or you know the dimensions, it's not going to be able to do that. So I had to upload a floor plan with dimensions on it so that it could tell me accurately how much cable I needed to run. Also, I just didn't want to go figure it out myself, even though it's not some is something I've done a million times. So, it also allows me to be lazy. Just going to say that okay um Let's talk about you guys have talked about uh a little bit of AI where it's going to do stuff for you, and that's called generative AI. But let's talk about the difference between automation versus generative AI. Um what is automation I'm gonna? Let anybody go this time instead of picking on Mark? Speaker 3 00:26:45 Something that's trained to do the same thing over and over again. Speaker 1 00:26:48 Yeah. Uh, Outlook rules is a version of automation. Okay. How, many of you guys got autom- got an Outlook rule set up to put something into a trash folder? You can admit to that because I have crimson certain Crimson emails going into a trash folder, so you guys can admit to that. Speaker 1 00:27:13 It's usually the notifications about tickets. So, John, don't tell anybody. Don't tell your boss. She doesn't need to know. It's something that's predictable. ; it never surprises. You ; it does it over and over again, and it's basically a machine; it's not AI. So there is a lot of automation that has been around for years, and sometimes when people talk to me about what they want AI to do, I am like oh you just need an automation for that. So, that's something we're going to learn over the next three days is what's the difference between automation versus AI doing things for you. And you can schedule AI on a schedule, and I'm going to get into that a little bit later. Generative AI improvises every time. Okay, so if you give it a little bit of detail, it's going to expound upon it. So that's where it improvises. It can also invent things. Speaker 1 00:28:09 If you don't give it enough information, It's going to try to invent things. And it's going to be very confident about you. And it's not going to tell you it's wrong. And it's not going to tell you I invented something. You got to go back and say, Dude, why did you tell me the sky is green? Why did you invent that? Because today the sky is gray because there is clouds covering it. So you got to remember some things like that. And it is an assistant and you have to supervise an assistant. I'll go one step further and say this AI, Is just as useful as an intern. Okay, how many of you guys remember ever being an intern? Speaker 1 00:28:48 Okay, I was an intern for CBS Studios long long time ago. I was overconfident in what I knew, very overconfident in what I knew, And I was getting B-Roll because I decided I was going to go to college for video production. And not IT. I did change that later on, And I was very confident in where I was going to go and what I was going to do. Um, and I was driving uh the CBS van, and I went around some some officers in a police car with lights. And that did not end well for me because I was very overconfident in where I was going because I wanted to get that news. Okay, So you gotta you gotta treat like an intern um and supervise it really well. All right now just a heads up it's already in your tools. How many of you guys have played around with Copilot? And. Speaker 1 00:29:36 In Outlook and Word, Excel, all of that. Okay. How many of you love Facilitator in Teams meetings? How many of you use Facilitator in Teams meetings? Okay. I asked that question to another client the other day, and every single person raised their hand because that was the one feature that they loved the most is Facilitator. If you've not used facilitator, uh please feel free to do that in the future. You're going to like it if you're the kind of person that likes. It takes notes for you. So throughout the meeting, you can go into chat and you'll see all your notes there. In fact, give me one second and I'm going to show you an example. Bear with me one moment. Let me pull it up. Speaker 1 00:30:36 All right, so this is one of my trainings last week. And then here's the notes. So I'm going to scroll back up. So facilitator would have tracked the agenda if I put it in there correctly. And then it gave my meeting goals and then some notes. And this was a quick meeting. And, then it gave me a full recap, and the recap gave me the meeting notes. And the follow-up tasks. And if I had recorded the video on it, it would have given me a little bit more. So it's really good at doing things like that. But within the meeting, you'll see the notes and different things in there. And that'll be in the chat. So it's a really cool tool. It's really made for people like me who sometimes will zone out in a meeting because I'll either see somebody walking by my office trying to get my attention or I'll get emails. So it's really good for that. Speaker 1 00:31:32 But in addition, in the middle of a meeting, You can click on Copilot and ask it to catch you up on the things you missed, which I do use pretty often. Okay. Now real quickly, let's take a moment. We're going to talk about something fun: myths versus realities. Okay? What is your biggest fear of AI that might be a myth or might not? Speaker 6 00:32:01 The biggest fear is that we somehow release proprietary information into the internet somehow and in the public space when we're not intending to. Speaker 1 00:32:18 That is a reality. Okay, And I'm going to say it like this: The tools that you have in place right now are set up so that it will not get leaked to the internet. All three tools. However, and I'm going to use uh I'm going to use Jason for this one. What, if Jason doesn't realize he's logged into his personal chat GBT, and he starts putting company information in it? If he doesn't have the right settings, That is a really good risk and reality for you guys that your information would go back to feed AI. So we're going to go over and touch on those topics on Wednesday. So that's a good one. I like that Jeff. Speaker 1 00:33:01 What's another one you have? Speaker 3 00:33:03 And it'll make up false information that you believe is true because most of the stuff it gave you was true. Speaker 1 00:33:11 Yes, that's a really good reality. Okay, anybody else want to try to give me a myth? But you guys are doing good with these myths because they're actual realities. I love this. Speaker 5 00:33:27 We'll all get fired, right? Speaker 1 00:33:31 A lot of people are afraid it's going to take their job. And that's a big fear. So I remember being a teenager working at McDonald's, and they were making some changes to the drive through ordering, and we thought we were never going to have live people in drive throughs again. And that was in 1996. All right, so now that you guys know when I was in high school, any other. Fears you have about AI. Speaker 6 00:34:09 Well, I just i echo Elisa's and where where I find myself falling down is its presentation is so tight. And pleasing from a pagination and presentation perspective that I tend to. Speaker 6 00:34:28 I find myself sometimes being less disciplined about proofing and asking the follow-up prompts to test for the point that Elisa made, which is like, what about this could be inaccurate? And so I fall into the trap that it looks so good and I'm moving too fast that I don't really proof it for mistakes. The way I would if I were reading something that somebody in the company turned into me to read. That is. Speaker 3 00:34:58 Is there a way to distinguish and ask it, what did you get from data and what did you extrapolate? Speaker 1 00:35:06 Yes. We're going to go over that tomorrow with prompting. But yes, a lot of times I'll ask it to cite its sources. So. Speaker 3 00:35:16 Can't do any of this if you ask that question. Too many people. Speaker 1 00:35:23 I will admit I have moved too fast that, AI has tripped me up in my own job. I know two gentlemen named Kamya. One is a personal friend of mine, And one of them is the president and CEO of one of our one of our most favorite clients within Crimson. Not that you guys aren't our most favorite client, but they're up there with you guys, I promise. Um, and so I accidentally called one Kamya by the wrong name in a meeting. So it it and it was because I had AI helped me draft something, and in the drafts and in my revisions, I never caught that the last name was wrong, just because I knew both Kamya. So it will trip you up, I promise. When I teach this, a lot of people will give me their myths and realities. Number one is it's going to take my job, and that's a fear that everyone arrives with. I can tell you within IT that AI is not going to take my job because. Speaker 1 00:36:21 I still have to tell people almost daily, where to find a power button on something. Okay, not for you guys. You guys have never asked me that, I promise. But I have had some users, and this happens about a couple times a month where I have to tell them where a power button is. So until AI can get up and physically walk and go punch a power button for me, it's not going to take over IT jobs. For you guys, There's a lot that you guys do that unless AI has legs to stand up and walk and go do, it's not going to take y'all's jobs. I promise. But it is going to make you faster and more efficient at your job. Okay? Another statement is, "It's spying on everything I do." And I get that one all the time. How many of you have Alexa or Google Homes or Apple's variety? Okay? Yeah, I love my Alexa. Speaker 1 00:37:12 I have my Alexa set to the sassy setting, and if you guys don't know how to do that, I will tell you. She does cuss, and I get into arguments with her a lot. And then my daughter one of my daughters will shout "Shut up, Alexa" and put a stop to my arguing. Um, I have fun with her; we have fun. Um, The other one is basically, it's always right. That's one of the biggest mistakes you can make. As you guys talked about it is a myth. That it's always right. I do hear someone say, well, AI told me. Well, AI is not always right. So and the last one is it's only for technical people. That's 100% not true. I was having a conversation with my cousin. The other day, she lives in the country in Kentucky. And if you guys hear my Kentucky accent now, you understand why and she forgot how to can corn. And so she was sitting there asking ChatGPT. Speaker 1 00:38:08 What she needs to know about canning corn. So it is not only for technical people. I actually use it a lot in non-technical things. I gave it a picture of my living room before I moved in and said, hey, help me come up with some design ideas and color schemes. I did that in Copilot. I'm going to show you guys what that looks like a little bit later, because it was really cool. How I did it? Okay? Now? Uh, the reality is it does take the parts of your job that you dislike. And you know, 30 % of most jobs. And this came from a Forbes article, not from me or AI. Roughly 30% of a person's job is redundant work. And so I put that's retyping and formatting. Okay, Uh, a lot of you guys spend time typing and re- typing and looking over an email saying, hey, how do I not sound so passive aggressive in this email to someone I don't like? Me okay um business accounts. Speaker 1 00:39:06 I want to make sure that you guys understand, um, Kamya bought business grade accounts. Conversations belong to Kamya and are not used to train the model. Okay? Uh, two people have admin visibility: myself and Jason. Well actually Crimson and Jason. Uh, we cannot read your chats. So be aware of that. Everything you say is pretty private. Um, If you're going to look up when the next uh Lioness TV show is going to premiere because you're like me and you like Lioness, um we're not going to read that. We're not gonna see it. Okay? I promise. If, you're looking up how to can corn right now because you want your fascinated by that statement that I made, uh I I can't see it. I promise. All right? Um and then is confidently wrong regularly. It is. I will say that it's pretty confident about being wrong. Speaker 1 00:39:60 But it does fairly apologize when it is wrong and you point it out. All right, So this is why you should still check and sign off everything AI is doing, not IT. Always sign off on IT as well sometimes. And then the best users at most firms are not IT. I can promise you, I've had people in operations, finance, HR teach me something new in AI that they've built. It's been pretty amazing. So your best users, honestly, and I'm going to say this, your best users are your lazy ones. Because lazy people tend to try to find the best way to get a job done with little work. So, they're going to be the ones using AI to figure out how to make their job more efficient. So they can sit back and daydream. I'm one of those. I'm not going to lie when my internet's working okay? Speaker 1 00:40:59 All right, now let me give you the risks again in another way. Hallucination, right? It will state that something is false with total confidence and not know it until you point it out. All right. You need to when you're sending out any numbers, dates, citations or any legal references, you make sure you verify it. Okay? A good rule of thumb along the same line is no number Date citation or legal reference goes out unverified. So if you learn anything today, learn that one. All right. There's model inbreeding. Okay, I'm sure that's not something you guys ever thought you'd see, but model inbreeding is a big thing. More of what the systems are learning lately, especially from various texts and things it's reading is stuff that other AI writes. How many of you guys realize that? Speaker 6 00:41:59 Say that again. Speaker 1 00:42:01 Most. Sorry. Speaker 5 00:42:04 The other the technical term is called model collapse. So initially, the large language models were relying mostly on Reddit for conversational learning. When you ran out of data to keep training it, some companies took a shortcut to have AI generate data to train AI. And so if something following hallucination, if something's wrong, they'll keep running from the wrong stuff, generate more wrong stuff. And then it's called model collapse. So it just garbage in garbage out at some point. Interesting. Speaker 1 00:42:45 Yes, I use the word inbreeding just because it seemed to resonate better on my last couple of trainings, but Jason is 100% correct. So. Speaker 5 00:42:57 Is that still such a big issue, though? I know in the early days, inbreeding was a major problem. Speaker 1 00:43:03 It's still an issue for several systems, not for Claude and Copilot and ChatGPT, but other tools like Well (no change needed, but note "Well" might be a proper name or filler; leaving as is). My understanding. Yes, thank you. Uh (no change needed) I got to be careful with what I say. But, my understanding is uh (no change needed) Grok and a few others still have potential issues with model inbreeding as of today. Tomorrow, that might change. Hang on one second. All right, my apologies. Another thing, another risk is what you paste in is what you've shared. So if you are copy and pasting things over, you are sharing it, And that's going to be an issue if you are using your current personal accounts, especially if you don't have settings set properly now. Speaker 1 00:43:52 I am going to go over on Wednesday, how to set those settings properly so that if you are using a personal version at home, you can still protect yourself. So, we are going to have a little bit of piece of that information as well. All right, and another risk is regulation. Things are moving quickly and it's almost daily things will change, things will update. So when we work on things Wednesday, we're going to show you how to set up policies or set up prompts And how these are going to hold up to changes in the future. A lot of things I write, I have to think through what's this going to look like in six months to a year with AI. Is this going to hold up? Especially when I'm having to write AI policies. Okay, all right now you guys remember when I said AI is like an intern? It's brilliant okay and a lot of things it's very brilliant. Speaker 1 00:44:46 I wouldn't say slightly overconfident based on some things that happened this morning. I'm going to say a little stronger than slightly overconfident. Who has read everything and verified nothing? Okay, I usually one of my daughters is like that. She reads like no one's business, and she is very confident in everything she's read, but she doesn't have the real world experience to put it together. And that's what AI is. Okay, I love my daughter. She's going to college in three weeks so, She's very smart. If she wasn't, she wouldn't be doing what she's doing right now. But, you would never send an intern to a lender or a tenant without reading it the intern's work. Sorry, not the intern. And that's the same rule here with AI. So I want you guys to be aware of it. Now, I'm going to leave this screen up and I'm going to give you guys a moment. I we're going to talk about weak prompts versus strong prompts. Okay? Speaker 1 00:45:44 So open up the AI of your choice. This one doesn't matter which one you choose, just the one you're most comfortable with. And, what I want you to do is I want you to tell it to write a tenant notice. Your only sentence is write a tenant notice and press enter. Speaker 4 00:46:10 It can make mistakes. Speaker 1 00:46:14 Now, once you press enter, Tell me how many of you guys got a question back from your AI of choice? Yeah. Yep. Because we didn't give enough information. So go ahead and just choose random things for the answers. Speaker 2 00:46:35 I should call it" give me multiple choice." I got nothing, I'm still waiting. Speaker 6 00:46:52 So what was the second prompt you gave us, Christi? Speaker 1 00:46:56 I've only given one prompt, and that is to tell it to write a tenant notice. Speaker 4 00:47:01 And what do you do when it's thinking and nothing's happening? Speaker 1 00:47:05 You feed it more candy. I'm just joking. See if you can refresh. Speaker 4 00:47:12 Sure. There is no refresh button, but there's a stop entering button. Speaker 1 00:47:17 Hit stop and then try it again. It might just be a connection issue on your laptop right now. Speaker 4 00:47:36 Doesn't like me. Mine's doing it. Speaker 1 00:47:41 Uh, see if you can pull up the web version. Speaker 4 00:47:44 No, I'm gonna re- I'm just reloading it. Okay. Speaker 2 00:47:57 Kids will. Speaker 3 00:47:58 Never have to go to school. Speaker 6 00:48:02 They'll have to learn how to read. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:48:05 That's about it. Speaker 6 00:48:09 This is pretty amazing, Kristen. Speaker 1 00:48:12 Yeah, so I have Claude up. I'm waiting for ChatGPT to open up. So, uh, Tenant notice it's asking me what kind of tenant notice do I want to send? How many of you guys got that? I did. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:48:27 What are you using there? Speaker 1 00:48:29 Uh, that one's Claude. Speaker 4 00:48:30 Yeah, that's what I've been using. Okay. same thing now. Okay, now I got one from ChatGPT a general one. Speaker 1 00:48:36 All right, so I'm doing it in Copilot. And so Copilot didn't ask me questions. It gave me different options. So I've got a couple of different options. All right, now I'm going to give you a prompt. Speaker 3 00:48:54 How do you make it more polite? Mine's still thinking. Yours is still thinking, Mine's mine's not very polite. It's just very dry. This notice concerns a violation of your lease due to unpaid rent, blah, blah, blah. Isn't isn't friendly. Speaker 1 00:49:09 I'm going to go over that when we go over settings, because I feel you on that one. Let me pull something up. I'm going to copy and paste something into our chat. Um, I'm going to copy and paste this prompt that I want you guys to do. But it's also on the screen, the strong prompt. Speaker 1 00:49:36 So bear with me one second it's going into chat. Speaker 4 00:49:40 If, we're not logged in. We don't see it. Speaker 1 00:49:42 So okay. Um so the strong prompt and I'll read it for you guys. Oops, sorry, I'm going to read it for you, for those of you who are audible who like to learn by hearing rather than reading, but type in you are a property manager. At a Southern California industrial real estate firm. We are resurfacing the truck court and rear parking at our Santa Fe Springs distribution building over three consecutive weekends, starting the fifteenth. Speaker 1 00:50:25 Loading Dock access stays open, but trailer parking will be unavailable and tenants need to stage trailers off site. Dear Residents,We are writing to inform you of an unexpected plumbing issue in the building. Our maintenance team has identified a leak in the main water line, which will require immediate repairs.To ensure your safety and minimize disruption, we will be shutting off water service to affected areas on Monday, April 15, from 6:00 AM to 4:00 PM. We apologize for any inconvenience. This may cause and appreciate your patience as we work quickly to resolve the situation.Please plan accordingly by storing drinking water and avoiding non-essential use during this time. Updates will be posted on-site and via email if needed.Thank you for your understanding.Sincerely, Property Management * * Affected Areas & Dates : * *•Units 1A–3B–April 15 ( 6 : 00AM–4 : 00PM ). Speaker 2 00:51:03 So I'm just going to write it in, or I'm going to copy and paste it in here. Speaker 1 00:51:39 All right, how many of you guys got a really cool message? Speaker 1 00:51:56 I Had zoomed in for another meeting, but here you go. How many of you guys got this message from from Claude or similar message? Speaker 1 00:52:11 It's a lot better written than what we gave it. Here's Copilot's version. Does this version speak better for you guys than the other version did? Speaker 4 00:52:29 What subset of. Mhm. Speaker 4 00:52:35 It's much further down the path of actually being usable. Yes. Speaker 1 00:52:41 The first one was generic. It was hollow. It could be any building within America, and there was no detail to it. We didn't give it enough information. Okay? The second one gives it all the information, okay? We're using the same tool. I used both Claude and Copilot, and I got better results. Sorry, I was about to sneeze. Better results on the second one around something that I could actually use. Now, most people their first experience with AI and for you guys, you're not this is not your first time, but I want to do I do want to say this. Most people's first experience is is disappointment because they type a search query instead of a request. Okay? The first one, the weak prompt that's more of a search query. Speaker 1 00:53:39 It's like something you would type on Google. But the second one is an actual request. You're giving it all the details, dates, times, what's happening, what's not happening, what you can do about it, workarounds things like that. You're giving it all the details where it can create something that is very similar to something you would want to send out. Now one thing to note my Claude and my Copilot, It is set up, and we're going to go over this later, but it is set up to mimic my talking style and my email style. And I set that up specifically. And you can do that under personalization in each of the tools. And that's something we're going to go over tomorrow. Um, I specifically have in mind, uh, how I want it to write my notices and how I want it to do things. One of the lines that I use is " I want it to talk with a person and not at a person." Speaker 1 00:54:35 So, There are some some distinguishing things on mine that you guys might not have seen, but we're going to go over how to personalize that tomorrow. Once you get things put in and personalized, These kind of messages take you from using AI like a Google to actually using it as a tool. And an assistant. Make sense? Okay. Speaker 7 00:55:01 Hey Chris, I got a question. I'm in Claude and it kept, Asking for permission to access websites. Speaker 1 00:55:09 Ah, okay. So in your Claude, is do you at the very top right here, do you see home and code or do you see chat coworking code? Speaker 8 00:55:19 See home and code. Speaker 1 00:55:20 Okay. So the reason why you see that if I click on new, I if you click on new, do you have chat or coworking? Speaker 2 00:55:34 Uh, it's telling me to try Opus 5. Hold on. Speaker 1 00:55:37 No worries. Speaker 7 00:55:42 Uh, I have the option of chat or coworking. It's on coworking. Speaker 1 00:55:46 Okay, flip it over to chat for today. Speaker 1 00:55:49 Okay. We're going to go over that later, But coworking does ask for permissions, and we're going to go over how to get past that tomorrow. Speaker 2 00:55:56 Okay, thank you. Speaker 1 00:55:57 No worries and just a heads up I'm using my personal version, Anzor who's my boss my CEO. Not my CEO anymore. He is the owner of the company. Um, he pays for me an account. However, He and I got to have an agreement because I pay $ 200 for a best friend that helps me with my work. Uh, he lets me use my personal for certain things like this training. We're going to go over how I can do that without sell without getting rid of my data on Wednesday, But just be aware that so some of your cowork or some of your cloud screens might look slightly different than mine. Speaker 1 00:56:32 And that's not an issue at all, okay. Also, Claude updates like two or three times a day, so sometimes it makes a difference in what you guys see. All right, We're going to. So what you guys see here is prompting, and we're going to go over the four building blocks of prompting. And I want you guys to understand there are four building blocks, but the biggest building blocks, if you remember anything from this. Is going to be context. And so here's those four building blocks. Role, so who should it act like? And in this case, we're the property manager. Context, what facts can it not know? Does AI know what building we're talking about if we don't tell it? Does it know which tenants we're talking about if we don't tell it? Does, it know what happened if we don't tell it or what the constraint is? We have to give it every piece of information. Speaker 1 00:57:31 Okay, and we also have to tell it the task. What do we want it to actually do? Well, I want it to send out a notice. Okay, what is the actual verb? Is also another helpful thing to remember for task task. Do we want it to draft? Do we want it summarize? Do we want it to compare? Do we want it to rewrite? Do we want it to extract information? Do we want it to list information? I have an extract information all the time. I'll tell you, I need you to extract this list. And give it to me, A B C D. Usually from a screenshot because I'm too lazy to use OCR. It's more steps, okay? And then the last building block is what format do we want it in? Okay, I tell people what shape do you want it to look like? I'm an artist, okay? I look at things as far as shapes. But when I write a blog post, I want it at 800 words. Speaker 1 00:58:28 When I want write an email, when I need to 200 words. That's the shape. Do I want the list prose or bulleted? Do I want a table or am I sending this as an email or a Teams chat? Okay, and I do send things via Teams chat using AI. That's a fun one that I'll teach you guys how to do later. All right, So if out of these four, you got role context, task and format, all right. If you only remember one of the four, remember context.because all of the data is gonna be in context. Even if you don't remember what, don't remember to tell it how you want it to look, what shape to put it in. Remember contextbecause that's where you're gonna give it the information. So it doesn't hallucinate. Make sense guys? Speaker 7 00:59:15 Can I ask a question? Yes. Would you mind going back actually one slide? Speaker 1 00:59:20 Yes. Thank you. Absolutely. Um. Speaker 7 00:59:23 Kind of an abstract question, but in regards to role, Does it matter whether you address it as a you or an or refer to yourself as an I? I think when I write prompts, they say," I am an asset manager asset manager at a real estate company. Can you draft for me this thing?" Instead of saying" you are this and you are now acting as this." Is there a big difference between those two or not really? Speaker 1 00:59:48 There's not. Honestly. Okay. It's just preference. Okay. Yep. Just clarifying that. Yeah, No, I usually say, um I want you to act as a and I know that's more words, but I'm a fast typist. Speaker 2 01:00:05 So yeah, no difference. Okay. Thank you. All right, no worries. Um and this is an honest shortcut for you guys to remember on this one context, that's how you're going to get rid of the hallucinations also. Uh. Speaker 1 01:00:21 Remember how I said I like to argue with Alexa? You guys are allowed to argue with it. Okay, I call it arguing just because I have fun with my arguments. But you can also grant it feedback and say, hey, this is close. Hey, I need you to not make this so passive aggressive, which did happen the other day. Uh, I do tell it often. I don't want you to apologize here. Okay, Mark didn't deserve an apology. He was mean to me, so we're not apologizing in this email. Okay, um, You can also This is how I keep you guys awake, because when you guys hear me say the apology for Jeff, maybe tomorrow I'll think about it for tomorrow. How's that? Speaker 4 01:01:08 In person, not AI. Speaker 1 01:01:10 Uh I'm in Pasadena tomorrow if you want to come visit me. Speaker 4 01:01:15 About personal life Personal. Speaker 1 01:01:18 Um, real quickly. One of the things I tell AI to do when it's writing an email, don't ask them if they want to get on a call to discuss this. Okay, I don't want to get on calls with people. I am an introvert. Don't make me get on a call with somebody. My schedule is already full. I tell it that all the time. Okay, Now if you are in the same chat window and you've been chatting with AI for a minute, it's going to remember everything from the first part of that conversation. This a big improvement over a year ago. Over a year ago, when you're in ChatGPT and you're having a conversation, it forgets what you've talked about. Claude did the same thing. Okay, not anymore. It's going to remember it. Don't start over on your conversations, okay? Unless you see some issues, don't restart. And, this going to be a habit that I have seen separate people from people who love it. And people who don't. So just just a heads up on that. Speaker 1 01:02:17 Um, continuing conversations, you guys are going to laugh at this. I'm really frustrated. My house right now has had no internet for over 72 hours. I have three teenagers in the house. You can imagine what my weekend was like. Um, And we only have one bar of AT&T in our apartment just because of where the building is. So I'm having a massive conversation. I'm frustrated. Um, but here's my full conversation now This was Friday. Speaker 1 01:02:47 Night, it already been down for eight hours, so I started having a conversation. This went from having a conversation about what's going on to see if he could figure out what's going on. To I bought a second internet because AT&T had a brilliant idea that in this outage area, which was pretty large area with spectrum that they were going to send an alert to everybody who had AT. And T mobile. And had the AT&T mobile app to advise them that AT&T fiber was only thirty dollars a month for the first year. Did I jump on this? Absolutely. Is it being installed tomorrow? I am waiting to see if Spectrum comes up first or AT&T gets installed first. So, just a heads up, but this is where that conversation went. I am still having this conversation, okay? Um, I was excuse me, Speaker 9 01:03:43 Can I ask a quick question on this? And I don't want to take it back too far here, but to bring it back to your property management example, and let me know if this is going too far forward. No, you're good. Can you get to a point where it's whatever AI agent you're using, It has a knowledge of A templates. We might like to use for a property management notification, lease proposal, whatever it may be. And also has some sort of data set where you have tenants. You know. Speaker 9 01:04:15 Whether it's property characteristics or economics, like what they're paying lease rate, what the tenant LLC entity, what have you might be. Yes. Can, you then just to soften the how much input you need to do, say, hey, can you please populate our lease proposal template for this tenant with X Y Z economics? And it'll be able to do that for you? Speaker 1 01:04:37 Yes, absolutely. Um now just some just so that you are awareum, We're going to get into a little bit of that today and tomorrow. But absolutely 100%, I am going to show you one that I have already set up, except for ChatGPT changed some things. I have some GPTs in here, wherever it went, it went somewhere. But it is in here somewhere and I will find it. But, you can do it from projects, and you can do it from a couple other places. Speaker 1 01:05:14 I have a, um, I have a GPT, which is similar to projects and Claude, where it creates me similar images based on an email I am sending out to client to a client. This is their mascot. So every all hands email that I have to send out to a client, it already knows what the picture is supposed to look like. All I have to do is copy and paste the email in there that I want it to create the illustration for. Very similar to what you are saying. I can create projects or I can create GPTs or agents that know all the details already. So, Speaker 4 01:05:53 What's the difference between a GPT and an agent? Speaker 1 01:05:56 So, agents, GPTs, and projects they're the same thing; just depends on what app you are using. So, if you are using ChatGPT, it's called a GPT. If you are using a Claude. It's called a project, and if you're using Copilot, it's called an agent. But it's basically the same thing. Speaker 7 01:06:20 But hey Christi, So I'm in Chat GPT and there on the left column, there's a folder for there's something for projects, agents and GPTs. Speaker 1 01:06:30 Yes I mine upgraded today. So my GPTs are missing. Speaker 1 01:06:40 I got to fix that. I got to figure it out. I literally upgraded right before class. Speaker 4 01:06:47 It's got all three in there, Speaker 1 01:06:49 Yes, yes, and GPTs and projects they're almost the same thing within within ChatGPT. The one thing about GPT or the GPTs versus projects or at least used to be is that I could send a GPT out and have my entire company using it. Speaker 1 01:07:11 Does that make sense? Do, Speaker 4 01:07:19 You have a suggestion for the novices of which one they should be using? Speaker 1 01:07:24 Not yet. We're going to go over a few things later, and it'll make sense on which ones they choose. I just got to figure out my ChatGPT issue. Speaker 1 01:07:44 Does that answer your question about where to put data and let it pull that data? Speaker 3 01:07:53 But I do have a question. We let's say we have huge amounts of combined data we want in there. Yes, all of our properties, all the details of our properties, all the details of our tenants and our partners, and we want it sitting in there so when whenever we do it, we don't have to put in all the details. You just say what building or what tenant. How do you put in all that stuff and then apply it to everything? Speaker 1 01:08:19 So, real quickly, I'm going to give you the good news. Each system can already look at your data. So if your data is stored on SharePoint or Teams or OneDrive, it's going to already be there. So if I go in here, I'm in Copilot right now and I say," I want to send." An email to Christi Properties with AI tips and tricks, but I want to mention their building and where they're located. Can you pull that data? Speaker 1 01:09:09 And because it already has access to all my stuff on Microsoft, plus our client files, which reside on Teams, it's going to be able to pull that information. So it looked at my onboarding records, my project documentation ticket and onsite visit instructions that we have for you guys. I did not have it pull from the web yet. Speaker 1 01:09:39 So, this all my data that we already have for you guys that it can see. Now we have a lot of data that it can't see, but that's a limitation on our side. So as it goes through your Santa Monica office on Cloverfield Boulevard, Cloverfield Boulevard, and then there's some details there. So you can pull it. Now this light compared to what I think you guys want to do. Speaker 1 01:10:09 Um, we can go deeper, but for right now I'm just doing light items. Okay. However, mention how many employees in the email because we we have our system connected. We know how many employees you have. Okay? Speaker 2 01:10:37 Does that make sense? Speaker 7 01:10:40 So, I guess would you recommend when I see something like this, This is I think a thing that frustrates me when I'm working with this usually is that I'll get the first draft, which I think comes out close, but there's changes that want to make throughout that first draft. And, frankly, typing in, you know, include the number of employees is great, but I think what I sometimes find frustrating? Right? It's just this big long spit out again, just to give me kind of that one change or that small thing that i wanted adjusted. And so, do you find that for users who have that feeling, It's better just to pull it out after the first draft and just work on it on your own? Or do you think that you should iterate within the doc, within the server or within the AI? Speaker 1 01:11:26 I'll be honest. That decision I've gone both ways on it. And it comes down to how well I feel like typing that day. Now, Do you see this? Does everybody see the gray bar at the bottom of my screen? It's right here. Yes. Okay. I dictate. I don't type anymore, I dictate. But because I talk to it through dictation, I find lately, it's been a lot easier just to have it refine that. And then the very last draft that I turn into what I really send out, I have to do very little typing at that point. Speaker 1 01:12:07 But on some days, if I'm depending on what my day looks like, what my mood looks like, and what my schedule looks like, I may pull it out and just type it myself. It's both Alex. I don't have a one size fits all answer for you just because it depends on personal preferences. Speaker 7 01:12:33 Yeah, that makes sense. Speaker 7 01:12:36 Um. And and so your your dictation is that through GPT? Or do you use an external. Speaker 1 01:12:42 I use Whisper Flow? Um yeah, Speaker 7 01:12:45 That's what I've. That's what I've heard. Speaker 1 01:12:46 A lot of people use I find that it's one of the better ones. Speaker 7 01:12:50 And is that just a plugin into what is what is whisper? Speaker 1 01:12:57 So whisper flow is a tool. Uh it is a software that's installed on my computer. Um I. Send messages through it and it plugs it in for me into the item. I use it pretty often. So you can see my insights, this is how many total words I've dictated just on this computer alone. The reason why I like it is I can put in different spellings. So how many of you guys have met Monti from my office? Her name ends in an i not a y. Speaker 1 01:13:33 So I had to tell it, hey, Monti is an I and it gets it. There's a lot of names and things in here that I have to put out. I had to spell you guys early on when I started using this because it wanted to do ? (no correction, likely correct as spoken) with the C. And I had to add you guys in there. So that's one of the things that I really like, But also because I can be a coder at night coding applications and things like that, it's really good for coder people who code and speak technical language. But basically all I do is on my keyboard, I hold down the control and the Windows key as I talk. And it also hears me when I'm whispering, which is why it's called WhisperFlow. It's really good at low uh low volume. So I don't irritate people because the office I'm in has really thin walls. They can hear everything. So. Speaker 1 01:14:30 Uh, I do use WhisperFlow on my phone as well. So it is an app on on iPhone and Androids. I'll send you guys a link later. Um, give it a try. I will tell you when I'm driving, It really helps with uh dictation far better than Siri does because Siri makes up words that I've never even seen before when I'm driving. So but i'll send you guys a link. Uh. I'll send it after this meeting in my email, just so that you guys have that link and give it a try. It is really handy. Christi, Speaker 6 01:15:10 Can I go back to I have a quick question? You mentioned earlier that these systems or should be connected to SharePoint. Yes, did I hear that correctly? Speaker 1 01:15:19 So, we have connections there in each app for you guys to connect to Microsoft now with. Copilot, it's already connected to Microsoft. You don't have to approve it. But if you look into Claude, I'm going to show you Claude. If I go into settings, uh they keep moving it around but I believe it's under extensions now connectors. I'm sorry, they keep moving things around with me. Um I can go in here, and I can add connectors back to the apps that I like the most. And so you'll see Microsoft 365 is here. Speaker 1 01:15:56 And that's where it's linked back into Microsoft for me. I also use Asana for one of my clients, for my projects, and I have it linked in Asana. I do my personal Gmail and my Google Calendar for our family calendar. And then I also do Airtable if any of you guys know what Airtable is. I used to have apps like Notion connected, for anybody that uses Notion. How many of you guys have a Remarkable? Speaker 1 01:16:29 Okay. I'm not going to give you, I'm not going to tell you about them, but remarkable. I'm giving you too much new technology today. But any of the tools that you might have in here, I use Zapier for program or for automation. If you've ever heard of Zapier, I'll go over that later. PayPal because well, I need to reconnect it but PayPal because I do have websites that receive PayPal and also receive Stripe. And then my blog, for those of you guys who knew that I write a blog, my blog and Crimson stuff is in here as well. So you can connect to a lot of different things. I also have it connected to Spotify for the days when I'm bored with my music selections. And I have Claude tell me, hey, try this out. So you can do connectors also in ChatGPT. Speaker 1 01:17:28 So if I go in here and look at my settings, got to remember where it's at. There's the plugins. It's called plugins in ChatGPT. And so I have my plugins here, my GitHub, I have Teams. So these are all the ones I have turned on. I don't have as many in ChatGPT as I do in Claude. And then for. Speaker 1 01:17:58 Um, Office 365. I am on Copilot Premium. Most of you guys are on that as well. Um, there is some settings in here. There are some connectors that we can do. Um, And so we have those in there. If we want to go in and put in sources and sources are the same thing as connectors and plugins. So my sources I have Viva Power BI because I do a lot in Power BI, but I can go in here and I haven't done it yet, but I could connect Canva. But there's a lot of things that you can connect it to. GoDaddy, Google. So even if you guys want to check your personal Google, you have the ability to add your calendar and contacts in here. HubSpot, if you guys utilize HubSpot, quite a few of our clients use HubSpot. And then I mean there's a lot. Miro is something I use for planning things out. It's like a thinking board mind node type application, if you guys know what that is? Speaker 1 01:18:56 Um, I I use that pretty often. So, you've got quite a few different connections that you can make where it connects back to your data. It's a lot. So if you guys uh, if you guys need to ignore what I just said, feel free for those of you guys who are interested in the connections. We can talk all day about it, but let's not talk about it right now. Speaker 4 01:19:17 I went to connections and Claude doesn't see a connector for Microsoft and I'm in, I'm in, One source is a Microsoft one. I can't find it either. Speaker 1 01:19:29 Um, Jason, are you logged in the cloud for me? Speaker 2 01:19:32 I am. Speaker 1 01:19:33 Um, if you can, I'm trying to remember how to do it. Uh go into workspace workspace settings. It's going to be right right here towards the top and then you can go to connectors and add Microsoft. I think it's Microsoft three sixty five for the entire company. Speaker 1 01:20:10 I'm Having problems with my VPN connection or I would try to do it for you guys. Speaker 6 01:20:19 Jason's going to install Microsoft 365 for everybody here. Speaker 1 01:20:24 Yes, he's got the abilities. If not, John, are you connected to VPN? Speaker 3 01:20:31 I can be shortly. Yep. Speaker 1 01:20:33 Okay. Uh, if not, I can have John do it. Speaker 5 01:20:37 Yeah, it says your admin has been notified. Speaker 1 01:20:40 Okay, perfect. Uh we can go in and take a look at that. Um I'm in a I'm in an office where the internet speed is not conducive to VPNs right now. So I am not signed in today, but we'll get that fixed for you guys to have Microsoft. Speaker 1 01:20:57 Yep. All right, I'm going to move on ahead because we we are running uh slightly behind, and that's probably my fault. Can you guys hear me? Speaker 2 01:21:14 Yes, yep. Speaker 1 01:21:15 Okay, I froze for just a moment. Um bear with me one second I'm gonna pull up my PowerPoint. Speaker 1 01:21:30 All right, so I until my PowerPoint pulls up, I am going to just kind of go through everything. But essentially, You guys have three tools for where you can do three different things with each tool. Okay, Carnegie three so that you guys can look at it, you guys can evaluate it, you can experience what it looks like on each one. Um and you can play around with it and get the experience of what works best for you guys instead of getting. A vendor pitch. Can you guys still hear me? Yes. Okay, perfect. All right, I think we just had a uh I think I just had a glitch on my side. Um. So with that, uh I want you guys to play around with all the tools that you have um do some things, various things that we've already discussed today. Um we're not done with the conversation yet but I do want to. Speaker 1 01:22:29 Kind of bring us back to the toolkit. Now, let's talk about each of the three tools. The first one you guys have is Microsoft Copilot. Now, let me preface everything I'm about to say with these are all my opinions. You guys may play around with this and get other opinions, so if you hear me give an opinion about a tool, It is just my opinion or it's based off of what we see things at in July in 202 6. And trust me on this, August twenty twenty six is going to be totally different because everything changes at the speed of light with AI. All right, so Microsoft Copilot it's the one that lives inside your work. All right, it's already in Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint Teams. It can summarize a long thread. It can draft a reply. It can recap a meeting. It can build formulas, which is one of my favorite things to do in Excel. Speaker 1 01:23:27 It can see what you're working on without you copying anything from anywhere. Now, real quickly, one thing to make you aware of within Copilot, you cannot access data that you don't already have access to. Okay? So, if Jeff is sitting there with an unpublished book in his OneDrive that he's working on personally. And it's going to be a really cool space odyssey book. No one's going to be able to see that because no one else has access to it. So Mark can't dig around and use AI to go find out what's in Jeff's OneDrive, okay? Make sense? All right. So, if you guys have uh one other descriptor I give is if you guys have HR data in an HR folder, that only one or two people have access to, and it has everyone's payroll information, no one else that doesn't have access to that. Speaker 1 01:24:21 Can dig around and find out how much Mark is making this year because they don't have access to it unless Jason put that data in a folder that he forgot about somewhere in SharePoint that everyone in the company has access to. That's the only way that data can be given out. So be aware of that. Um, I'm going to give you my honest take, As of this month on Microsoft Copilot, it's one of the strongest tools on your data. Okay. It does not have the depth that you're going to see in Claude and ChatGPT. Now, there is a workaround for that. I'm going to show you guys uh that workaround real quick. This is my Copilot and from here if I go up to Auto, I can change from Opus to GPT. Speaker 1 01:25:22 Still does not have that depth as much as the other tools, But you do have the option to switch out what models you're using on it. Speaker 7 01:25:33 Sorry, Can you can you explain why it doesn't have that depth if the engine is same as the other two? Speaker 1 01:25:42 Because the best way I can put this is think of Claude and ChatGPT as your teenagers. Copilot's your preteen. It's a little bit younger, and with the way Microsoft has been working on it, it's a slower push than the other tools. Now, that being said, Microsoft is catching up. The depth in Copilot has changed even in the last six months. And it's just because it's the younger version. Speaker 7 01:26:21 So, you're saying they just don't have access to the most up to date models because of like their contract with those firms. Is that the only difference because I'd imagine the engine is still pushing out you're still going and I guess I'm just confused on that part? Speaker 1 01:26:35 No worries? Uh the engine is still pushing out, but you're comparing a V 6 to a V 8. Speaker 7 01:26:43 Are you calling the V 8 Fable five? And the newest model that copilot doesn't have access Tom. Speaker 1 01:26:50 Copilot's the V, the V 6, and all other models are the V 8, meaning Claude and ChatGPT. It's really more not about the models within the applications, but about the application itself and what it's allowed to pull. Okay. Does that help? Speaker 7 01:27:06 Okay. Yep. Speaker 1 01:27:09 Also, you've got a couple of key features that Copilot and ChatGPT does that Microsoft doesn't do very well yet. Or they can do it, but at a cost an extra cost. So there is those two options, those two items as well. Now it's waiting for my PowerPoint to come back up. Speaker 6 01:27:33 It is Christy I got a question while you are waiting there. So one of the things that's this is and Copilot. How do you get a full screen? It seems like for me it's always over on the side and then it, Send it. It does its work and it writes something up, and then it's like all squished up in a sidebar. That's an artifact. Speaker 1 01:27:58 Ah, so what you're talking about is an artifact, And we're going to go over that tomorrow when we go in depth on that one, because that is annoying, especially when it's on your cell phone. Speaker 6 01:28:11 Or on your computer. Speaker 1 01:28:13 Yes or on your iPad. Speaker 1 01:28:17 I love my copilot on my iPad. Trust me on that. One thing about Copilot, I don't ever ask it to read a 40 page lease. Well, in my case, a 40 page contract. Copilot is like the anchor to your data. And when it's looking at things, when Copilot looks at stuff, it skims. And so it doesn't really read through the entire thing. And sometimes that does affect on your summarization of big documents. Now, emails is different, but big documents, it will scan and pull pieces, but it won't read in depth to understand it. And that's something I've seen lately. Now that may change soon. Okay? For Claude, that's the one you want for long documents. Speaker 1 01:29:16 And when you need careful thinking, okay. Again, this may change. What I will do is I'll point it into a contract that might be long pages? Or how many of you have ever seen a Verizon bill for a business? It's a lot of pages. I'll use Claude to look over that invoice. I have a client's invoice that gets mailed, and it's this thick and sometimes I have to scan it in. Because we get it in a paper format, so digital. And so I'll scan it in. That's, that's the system I am going to have a look at long documents because it's going to read it more in depth. It'll reason really well, but it's also really good at telling you when it's unsure of something. Okay, it's also really good at telling you clauses. So I accepted a vendor contract that I was looking over before I signed it, and I look for a couple of different things. I actually have a project. Speaker 1 01:30:15 Within Claude that looks for the gotchas in my contracts. So things like I need a 90 day notice to cancel or different gotchas like that. So, That's I'm going to use Claude for that rather than the other tools, because it allows for more in depth reasoning. Okay, it also has Claude Co-work. How many of you use Claude Co-work yet? Speaker 1 01:30:42 All right, Claude Co-work is where you can point it to a folder, describe what you want, and it plans and executes the steps. So, one of the things I do with it is I have a budgets folder for my clients and an invoice. These are the two clients that I work with about 16 hours a week. And, what it does is it'll take invoices, and it will build out my budget for the month of my actuals. And I can compare that to what finance says. So when I'm looking at my budgets, I'm going to use Claude Co-work for that. And I want to show you guys a little bit of that in a moment. You guys have seen the live demo of Co-work, so I mean of Copilot. So I'm going to show you Claude. I'm going to go in here and I'm going to ask it to go into CoWork. So someone click this button. Some of you may see CoWork up here at the top left. And if you do just click CoWork up there and then you're going to oops, I don't know why it did that. Speaker 1 01:31:41 Um, you're going to click here. It might show just a folder here. I already had one selected. Um, select the folder that you want to work in. So if I'm working in a client, I can go into that folder. So I'm going to have it go into Carney because i have i have all my clients with their own folders There we go, and i'm going to select Carney. And I'm going to work out of the Carney folder. Okay, so I'm in CoWork and I'm going to tell it this one, I'm going to do and I'm just going to say, "I want you to organize and summarize my meeting notes with Carney." Okay. If I misspell something, it's gonna figure it out. So I'm not going to change that. Also, I've got an option for models down here. Speaker 1 01:32:41 I use Opus because I have the bandwidth to use Opus, but for most of you, Sonnet is going to be your best option. And we're going to get into models later. But, if you're following along with me and you're doing it in a similar folder, um, you can do Sonnet for this one. Um, You can also tell it's I want you to reorganize my files in this folder and put them in the correct subfolders. So if I have a uh If I have a big folder that needs to be organized into like meeting notes and invoices and budgets, I can tell it to do that. Now, I'm going to tell it to start task, and it's going to go through and do it. But for this, I don't want to wait on it because it will. Um, I am working on folder organization right here. And I'm going to pull this up so that you guys can see it. It has steps that it created right here. Speaker 1 01:33:40 It has instructions or anything that it read, and what I told it was I wanted it to reorganize that folder. It's a client folder, And it went through and it read through all the titles and some of the datas. Um, I don't allow to delete, But what it did was it fixed my scripts because I do a lot of scripts. It uh moved contracts because I have some contracts, any of my reports, my communications. My drafts, my training, all of the stuff that you guys see. And you can it moved it into the right folders. And, then it did tell me there were three files that left intentionally at the top level. One of those was Vanilla Birthday Cake Doc. Don't know why that's in there. It was probably part of a training program that I taught that I forgot about, but it left it there because they didn't know what to do with it. Speaker 1 01:34:36 But it gave a progress. It made its own progress. And I'm going to go in here to Carney. So here's its data. It hasn't made any task progress, but it's reading through things to determine what to do. Now, If you're following, along with me on your own folders or you do this later, you'll see that it sometimes asks you for approval for things. I have mine on automatically approved for this one, But you, most of you guys will see it. That's it's going to probably say manually approve. And so when you manually approve, it's going to ask you can it read, can it go out to the internet, different things like that. So I always put mine on auto. It has a very good judge of character. I do not put in on skip all approvals. Most people don't have that in there but I have a developer version. We don't want to skip all approvals because if it sees something potentially dangerous, it might skip it. Speaker 1 01:35:32 And, that's how you could accidentally delete a bunch of files in a folder without meaning to. Okay, within the auto it will always ask you to delete. It'll always ask you to choose what's delete. I have done that. I have wiped out an entire application I was building, so be aware of that. But Copilot, that's the one that does the agentic AI. I can sit here and I can go into a new one, I'll leave it on Carney And I am going to say, "I want you to create a training for Carney that is advanced Excel training. " And, it will create that training, and it will save the file that it creates into the folder for me. Here is another one that I do. How many of you guys? Speaker 1 01:36:30 Create policies for your tenants or your clients or your properties. Or contract. No? Speaker 4 01:36:40 We have a standard set, yeah. Speaker 1 01:36:42 You have a standard set. What I've done with this before is I have a standard template for uh policy that I write. And, what I'll do is I'll go to that client and I'll point out that template as well. I'll add the template to this chat. So it's like a contract. I have a template for that contract, and I'll say, based on this client and the information in these folders, I want you to take this template and create me a full policy for Carney. And it will do that for me. Now, I do go back in and check it because it'll put what it writes over here to the side. And then I'll check it and I'll argue back with it and say, okay, I need you to change this. This needs to be less bulleted. Speaker 1 01:37:28 I need you to put the amount of employees in here. I need you to put, maybe the cost of everything. Does that make sense? Now, Speaker 6 01:37:44 With what I am telling you, Christi. Yes, Christi. If you are indifferent, can you use Chat GPT in your next example as opposed to Claude? Speaker 1 01:37:53 Yes, we're going to go over Chat GPT in a moment. So, But one hundred percent. All right, Any questions on Claude? Or did I give you guys some ideas of fun things you can do with it? Say that again, I am sorry. Okay, Speaker 7 01:38:19 We're good to go to ChatGPT. Speaker 1 01:38:21 Perfect. All right, so ChatGPT, it's my generalist. It's got the biggest toolbox. All right, now ChatGPT is not the tool I use most often, but when I tell people and they ask me for advice, I'll tell them it's got the biggest toolbox. It's got something for everyone in it. It's really good at generating images. I showed you guys earlier where I have it generating images for my employee stuff that's going out. It's also really good at data analysis, really good at putting things into your voice. Speaker 1 01:38:55 It does file processing and everything in one place. It does web research really in depth, so it's really good. Custom GPTs, which is missing from my version right now, is a key thing where I go in and I will tell it, hey, I want you to build this contract. Here's the template. And every time I want you to build it, I'm going to give you the data, you need to build it for this client or I'm going to tell it where it can go look for that information. Speaker 1 01:39:26 So, One of the things that I'm going to ask you guys to do is in a custom GPT, build a Carney lease abstract assistant. If that's something you guys want to utilize. And, it's something that if you build it and everyone can reuse it, because you can share it across the company. So for Crimson, how many of you guys know what a statement of work is? Okay. So I have a statement of work generator In our GPTs for Crimson employees, And it's set up with our template of how Crimson uses a statement of work. So any of our employees that need to build a statement of work can go into that GPT, pull it, and be able to build a statement of work just by giving information. Okay, I went back to the classic because the new one's bothering me. So I went back to the classic in my GPTs. You'll see GPTs right here and. Speaker 1 01:40:23 Guys, with my new update, I will find the new location for GPTs later. But you guys can see we've got Crimson Ticket Assistant. We got a policy where we can build our policy and compliance policies for each client. And then here's our statement of work. And my team does use it. I had to rebuild it not too long ago, And sixty five people have already used it in the last probably month two months because I rebuilt it. I think early June. Speaker 1 01:40:54 And I share this out with everyone. These are the the most popular, with the sale builder being the most popular. But you can go in here, you can have it analyze, you can put contracts in and have it compare. It literally on my screen I said it's a Swiss Army knife. Chat GBT is literally the Swiss Army knife. Speaker 1 01:41:20 The only reason why I don't use it as much is because I keep using up all of Anzor's credits. So, um, It's also one of those tools that you can use. If you use it personally. It's got connections to way more things than you would see on Claude and Copilot. Okay. Speaker 7 01:41:40 Um, could I ask you a quick question about the GPTs? Yes. So is there a big advantage to using the GPTs instead of, Like depending on the complexity of task, Instead of just using a chat log that you have asked for that request multiple times in. Speaker 1 01:41:59 Yeah, I will say there's a massive advantage to GPTs. One is you can have a different chat. Let's say you're building out an SOW like mine. It's already going to know all the details. And when you start a new chat, you're only starting it for, That one conversation you meet. Now, I did say earlier that to keep everything in the same conversation, But if your conversation is about the same contract or the same agreement, but for different companies, you want to put each of the different companies in its own chat. Okay. Does that help make it better? Speaker 6 01:42:39 So Christi, I think I think the problem that I am having is I don't know what you are talking about. So you say GPTs, I'm on my screen. I can't make it mirror your screen. You're like, I yeah, I've got to be on the same version if we're listening to what you're saying and following along. Um, I really don't know what you're talking about. And and so okay, I probably am not the only one here. So can you break it down? You answer a a question for Alex who's quite a bit ahead of where I am. And and then you throw on a screen that I can't follow and it's not working. Speaker 1 01:43:15 I completely understand and I do apologize. I have two GPTs up, and this is the one that just got installed today, and nothing on there is the way it was in the old one. So I am this just happened today, so I do apologize for it. Um, I'm going to figure out in this one, and I may have to bring this one up tomorrow where GPTs is listed here. But let me explain GPT from your level because you have a valid question, a GPT. Is something where it's like a project, Where let's say in a project, you have instructions for that project that might differ from other projects. A GPT allows me. Speaker 6 01:43:58 What's what's what's an example of that? And don't use another acronym. Give me an example, please. Speaker 1 01:44:07 Um, so basically I rewrite the same document over and over again. And I don't want to tell ChatGPT how to create that document every time. So I am going to create a GPT that already has that template in it. Speaker 6 01:44:32 Yes, I can't, I am not where you are. I was on a screen, I am on a screen. I'd like to follow along. It seems to me, the beauty of everybody having their laptop out is that we should. If, you put something on your screen and you're typing in a prompt or you're going through a process, we can mimic that ourselves. So without that, it's just like watching the screen and falling asleep. Speaker 1 01:44:57 I understand. How many of you have the button for GPTs on your on your ChatGPT? Speaker 4 01:45:06 I do. Okay. Speaker 1 01:45:09 So two of you have it, and the rest of you, do you see this screen? Speaker 4 01:45:13 I think part of it is I have classic up and the other ones have regular. Speaker 1 01:45:18 Yes. Um, the the new uh Chat GPT got installed on mine and overwrote my classic. So a lot of you guys, Can everybody click on start and type in Chat GPT and tell me if you have two GPTs? And if you do, click on Classic for me. Speaker 4 01:45:36 Where's start? The little. Box the little corner box in the corner, the four blocks down here at the bottom of your taskbar. Speaker 1 01:45:45 The Windows logo at the bottom. Speaker 6 01:45:49 Okay, what are we supposed to do with that? Speaker 1 01:45:53 And so when you click on it, There should be a search bar at the very top that says" search," and type in chat, GPT or just type in chat, and it might pull that up. Okay. Speaker 9 01:46:08 But you got to search through apps, right? Is that Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 01:46:13 And do you see uh ChatGPT Classic on yours? Yes. Okay. Um Everyone click on the ChatGPT Classic, and we're going to use that for today. Speaker 2 01:46:28 So this is a new app It's coming in I'll install it. Speaker 1 01:46:36 I'll pause for a moment and let everybody catch up because I think some of you may need. Speaker 6 01:46:41 Are, we then going to have multiple chat GPT programs installed on our computers. So then we are flipping back and forth between because we've only got 15 minutes left today. So I'm I would propose that maybe we wrap up today and and you get. Your systems organized so that you have the same system that you've told us to put on in place, and then we commence tomorrow. Speaker 1 01:47:16 We can definitely do that. However, the Chat GPT Open AI is the one who did that to us. It installed a new update. And so it put both of them on everybody's computers before we had a chance to realize it. I definitely agree with you. I did not realize it was going to have two on there today because all week long last week. All I have was ChatGPT Classic. So this is something that just came out. I'm going to see what I can do to fix it, um, but I need to find out what ChatGPT did. But I will get it. I will get it figured out for tomorrow. Speaker 6 01:47:51 Not blaming you, I'm just saying, we got we got 15 or 20 people sitting around here, and this is really valuable time. It's a super important subject, But i'd rather i'd rather figure out how to how to optimize our time here. Speaker 1 01:48:05 No worries. I'm going to move on, and then we'll go back over the custom GPTs tomorrow. And I'll figure out what's going on with your GPTs after hours, so that I'm not, I'm not digging much more into that. Um, what let me go over what to reach for when okay. So. And this again, this based off of the last couple months of what we're seeing. This could change tomorrow, But when you need to handle emails and meetings and anything that's already in Microsoft, three hundred sixty five. Speaker 1 01:48:35 Reach for Copilot. Now, that being said, your other tools will also utilize Microsoft 365. Okay. When you need it, when you need AI to read something long and to think hard about it, that's going to be Claude. That's the tool that you want to reach for. If you need something that can do a bit of everything, especially with images and do quick analysis on shorter documents, you're going to reach for ChatGPT. Speaker 1 01:49:05 Now that being said, all the tools already have image in it. So you can do a lot of things with image. Um, so I don't want you guys to to say, oh well Chris only said images are in chat GPT. It's actually in all of them. So, one of the things I'm going to show you is um the design space that I was talking about for you guys earlier in this, where I took an image. And this was a blank image. This what my apartment complex looks like when I moved in, except for I had hardwood floors. And then I told it, "I want to make it look more comfortable. " And so it went through and gave me some information, and then it built an image from it. Now this image is going to take a moment to pop up, but this something you guys can utilize within all tools. The best ones for this going to be Copilot and ChatGPT. Speaker 1 01:50:01 All right. This is what it gave me when I asked it to give me a nicer, prettier picture. And so you guys can see this is what my apartment looks like now with furniture in it. And then it gave me a couple of different options. I kind of like the light blue one. But just so that you guys can see what it can do with images. Speaker 5 01:50:24 Since when did Claude incorporate image into its functionality? Speaker 1 01:50:29 So Claude's only done that in the last couple months. It's still not there yet. Speaker 2 01:50:34 Yes, I had it try to create an image today and it couldn't do it, but that's why I say use Copilot or ChatGPT. They're stepping up their image game, but it's not there yet. Okay? Um now for a lot of the tasks that you guys utilize all three, do a really good job. Speaker 1 01:50:57 The differences are going to show up in the edges on the little things that you or I don't account for. So, that's where I want you guys to make notes if you're trying anything today. Tell me what it's not doing good at because I want to hear about it tomorrow, and we can go over everything as we're as we're going through and practicing tomorrow and Wednesday, We're going to see a lot more things that we can that we'll see differences in. Today wasn't supposed to be as much of a hair Hands on as tomorrow and Wednesday. Today is more of an overview so that you can understand the basics of AI, But I want you guys to understand all three do a fine job at a lot of things. Okay, for you guys, and this your turn. I want you guys to pick a tool for, and this an this evening. Uh option. I want you guys to go through pick something from this and I'm going to send the screen to you via email right after this meeting pick. Speaker 1 01:51:57 An option that's closest to your actual job, and use any tool you want. Now, you'll have to give it a little bit more detail than what I have in this picture, but give it some detail and see what it does. And we're going to talk about that in the morning. So for leasing, a one paragraph marketing summary of a property aimed at a logistics tenant. See how well it does. Give a little bit more information for operations, a preventative maintenance checklist And a schedule for reoccurring property issue. For marketing, I'm going to skip over a few of these. For marketing, any of you guys in marketing, give three subject lines and a paragraph for quarterly investor updates. Okay? If you don't have anything at all, pick something and give it a try. And, then if you want to try it in the other tools and see how the other tools do. Okay? That's your that's your job for um. Speaker 1 01:52:54 For this evening, we're going to go over the results tomorrow. Any questions of what we've gone over yet? Speaker 4 01:53:06 Can I ask two things? Yes, sir. One is some of these things. Talk about the model to use at the bottom. What model should people be using? Speaker 1 01:53:17 Okay, so for Copilot, I'll start with that one. I'm going to just open up a new chat. The model I want you to use is just auto. Now, if you have a little bit more experience, you can play around with it, but just use the model for Claude. What I want you to do is to go into chat and I want you to use Sonnet. Okay? And that's the default or should be the default if it's not your default. Speaker 1 01:53:49 And Opus is your default, use Opus. For ChatGPT Classic, use Medium. And you can see that right here. Speaker 4 01:54:16 Second question is. Speaker 4 01:54:22 If, you have a computer that has some personal stuff on it as well as work stuff, Is it only going to search the work stuff? Or is it going to also search the personal stuff? Speaker 1 01:54:33 It's going to search everything. Speaker 4 01:54:36 Can you set up walls? Speaker 1 01:54:39 You can. One of the things I like doing is pointing the system at the particular folder I want it to use. And that's how I set my walls, and I tell it not to go anywhere else but that particular folder. Speaker 4 01:54:55 And then the last question I have is, I have lots of problems often searching in Outlook or emails, where it tells me the index is still indexing because it never finishes because it's got some going. Yes. But it offers to use like Copilot to find those things. Is that a better alternative? Speaker 1 01:55:17 Honestly, Copilot has gotten really good at finding things I've lost from three years ago. I've started using Copilot rather than Outlook search. Speaker 4 01:55:30 And will that search both what's on your computer, which may not be everything versus what's out on the web? Speaker 1 01:55:36 Yes. It found an email from 2021 that I needed the other day. That's definitely not on my computer anywhere. Any other questions? Because those are some really good ones there, Mark. I love those. Speaker 4 01:56:04 I have a couple others I could throw at you. Speaker 1 01:56:07 Feel free, and if we don't answer them right now, because I do want to, I do want to be cognizant. Speaker 4 01:56:12 Same question for searching SharePoint. Speaker 1 01:56:16 Exact same issue indexing usually is a problem in my search. Uh, Copilot has been a better tool for searching for files. Speaker 8 01:56:30 Hey Christi, I have a quick question, which is a little bit more of an overarching AI question. Okay, But I know that a lot of these big companies have been somewhat transparent about their models. These last couple years and. So I guess my question is, What have OpenAI and Anthropic and Microsoft identified as the biggest shortfalls in the AI space? And how are they addressing them? And, what does the timing look like for addressing what they think are the biggest shortfalls? Speaker 1 01:57:02 So their biggest shortfalls that I've seen in red is going to be mostly surrounding how the data comes in and what data goes out. Now, that being said, there's quite a few things that I'm going to point out as being issues. Um, which goes into my risk category. The data, it pulls back and the amount of hallucination, which they're constantly attempting to improve on the hallucination. And that's a big shortfall. Um, part of the hallucination is just what people type in. Speaker 1 01:57:43 And how what safeguards people put into what they're typing, the context back to the prompts. The other one is, um, the data that's being returned. So I called it model inbreeding and Jason called it by its more technical term earlier. It's still an issue, but it's a smaller issue than what it had been, and they're constantly taking those shortfalls and fixing them. And putting safeguards around the data that's coming back to you. I can tell you for sure that a year ago, I worked exclusively in ChatGPT and ChatGPT was constantly hallucinating. Now these days, my hallucinations have been reduced by 75%. So they are taking those shortfalls and they're moving them along to fix them. Speaker 8 01:58:35 Great, thank you. Speaker 1 01:58:36 You're welcome. Speaker 1 01:58:39 A lot of what I spent time in the last couple months doing is coding. So for those of you guys who are more advanced in that area, they do have some shortfalls in that as well, of missing steps and not putting a lot of the data in correctly. So if anybody's interested in that part, that is going to be a big shortfall. Real quickly because we got three minutes left, Tomorrow, I'm going to debrief with you guys and ask you what surprised you and what disappointed you. So what I want to make sure that you guys are doing is taking those tasks that I showed you. Use any of these on a real, on one real task. Have it summarize a thread. Do the pieces that I showed you before. Um, I want you to rewrite a paragraph. Bring me what fails. I will definitely want to see what failed you because failures are the best teaching material that I do have. Speaker 1 01:59:35 Tomorrow, Jason was kind enough to give me some real, some real carnie examples to utilize. And we're going to be using those in tomorrow's stuff. And. So these are use cases that come from your everyday work, and we're going to be using them tomorrow on Wednesday. So tomorrow is going to be more of a follow along than today has been. Today has just been your foundation of what each one is and what we can do. Um, so tomorrow is going to take you, we're going to go from I can get an answer From Copilot or ChatGPT or Claude, to I can get the right answer on the first or second try. And we're going to use those against real Carney workflows. So if there's something that you want to bring up tomorrow, feel free to bring it and if we've got time, we'll take a look at it. Other than that, I want you guys to play around see what you guys can get done. For some of you guys, it can be as easy as mapping out a route on. Speaker 1 02:00:32 U sing uh, one of the systems to determine the best route somewhere or one person on my last training last week used open table within uh chat GPT to reserve a table. I haven't figured that one out yet. But it was a great example, so bring up to me what you guys are doing. Uh bring them up tomorrow. I do want to know about the failures. I do want to know about your wins. And uh other than that, I'll see you tomorrow at noon. Um. Speaker 5 02:01:02 Couple of uh, so for the exercise tomorrow, I did provide some data we can play with. Um, If um if you have certain things you want to really see uh the AI agents in action, send them to me and I'll provide them. So a couple of exercises we'll plan on doing tomorrow. Uh, compare two versions of a contract, see what the red line is what's changed um, Comparing different vendors, so I did a pretty simple, like non-harmful comparing two models of a copier. You have vendor bids that you want to use AI to showcase its abilities, pricing terms and so forth. Send out a long couple other exercises look at draft documents. Speaker 5 02:01:58 Give it a financial report and have it try to summarize or spot any abnormalities that is worth investigating. But these are the exercises are meant to be catered toward us. So, if you have certain things on your daily job that you will like to see being put to work, send them, Let me know what the intent of the exercise is, and then we can incorporate that. We can change the exercise on the fly. So take a few hours, send them to me and Christie before the end of day today, and we'll have it available to test as a group Tuesday and Wednesday. Speaker 4 02:02:47 I have one other suggestion, which is maybe we ought to start convening a little earlier. So if we can get lunch and do stuff so we can start, we're probably 12. We have to have get the lunch at a quarter 12. But um also, it may be beneficial for everybody to be I think the boardroom may be a better solution. Oh this is fine so we need to work it out for everybody there. Speaker 6 02:03:10 Yeah I think we may not have enough room for everybody. All right one place. Speaker 1 02:03:13 Okay Awesome um Also if you guys have any questions about today. Um, please feel free to send them over. And then Jeff, um, I did just check on the chat GPT issue. For right now, let's all use chat GPT classic. Um until I can get a moment to to sit down and take a look at the new version of chat GPT. But for tomorrow we're just going to use chat GPT classic for everybody. Um so when you open it up, make sure you distinguish between which one you're using. Um I will tell you that. Speaker 1 02:03:52 The ChatGPT Classic will say it right here in the top left hand corner. So at the very, very top. So for now, let's just use classic rather than the other one. I did not realize they were going to send out an update and I hadn't opened it at all this morning. So my apologies on that and I will figure out where everything is in the new version, and I'll send out a guide and possibly a video for that next week. Speaker 5 02:04:20 And uh Christi, one last thing. Uh a few of us still have issues completing the desktop version installation. It still will still uh hit a wall where it's asking for admin level login to complete installation. So if you don't mind taking another look, that would be helpful. Speaker 1 02:04:41 Yeah, If any of you guys are seeing that um I just need your name, so I can take a look at your computer to see what's going on. Speaker 6 02:04:47 But Christi, on mine, I can't get into Claude. I get a prompt where they want me to pay to get the free one or pay one of two subscriptions. So if you could look at that, that would be good. And I'd like that on my computer tomorrow. Absolutely, Speaker 1 02:05:02 I'll do that for you. Thanks. You're welcome. Speaker 2 02:05:06 Thanks guys Thank you Thank you. Speaker 1 02:05:09 Have a great day. Speaker 2 02:05:12 Bye all.
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04-24 Buod ng Talakayan Tungkol sa Problema sa Pagsingil sa Azure at Iba Pang Usapin sa Opisina
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- # Buod ng Talakayan Tungkol sa Problema sa Pagsingil sa Azure at Iba Pang Usapin sa Opisina  Ang pulong ay umiikot sa kritikal na isyu ng visibility ng Azure usage para sa Marso sa ShareWeb, na nagbabanta sa takbo ng internal client billing na karaniwang nangyayari tuwing ika-23 ng buwan. Tinalakay ang paghahambing sa dating provider (PAX 8), ang epekto ng ShareWeb invoicing window (ika-23 hanggang ika-30), at mga posibleng workaround sa Azure Portal. Bukod dito, lumitaw ang mga operasyonal na alalahanin sa pagbili ng Windows 11 Home to Pro at Acrobat Pro, usapin sa pag-trace ng invoice sa ShareWeb/CIT Admin, at ilang update sa mga empleyado. May mga personal na plano rin para sa kaarawan sa opisina at iba pang magagaan na usapan. ## Problema sa Pagsingil (Billing) ng Azure at Paghahanap ng Solusyon Ang pangunahing problema: wala pang nakikitang Azure usage para sa Marso sa ShareWeb. Sa kasalukuyan, ang lumilitaw pa rin ay Pebrero, kahit Abril 24 na. May malinaw na pagkakaiba ang visibility at timing sa pagitan ng ShareWeb at PAX 8: - Sa PAX 8, nakikita pa ang Pebrero usage; nabanggit na malaki ang Pebrero charge, “nasa 5,000,” at may binigay na credit sa billing. - Sa ShareWeb, Pebrero pa rin ang nakikita at wala pang March usage dahil naka-tali ang usage visibility sa pagdating ng invoice, na nasa loob ng window na ika-23 hanggang ika-30 ng buwan. Bilang resulta, inaasahang lalabas ang March usage sa bandang ika-30. Epekto sa internal billing: - Dahil kailangan mag-bill ang team tuwing ika-23, at kung darating palagi ang March usage sa ShareWeb sa ika-30, mahuhuli ang sariling billing ng team kumpara sa data availability ni ShareWeb. Ito ang malaking operational risk. Mga detalye ng kliyente at numerong binanggit: - Kliyente: Beta. May nabanggit na “4,000” para sa Pebrero at nabill na ito. - Sa Azure Portal, lumitaw na usage na “406.82,” ngunit ang nakikita pa rin ay Pebrero. Hindi tugma ang halagang ito sa PAX 8 Pebrero na “400” (ibang halaga) at may impormasyon na “malaki” ang Pebrero sa PAX 8, “nasa 5,000.” May mga paunang palagay ukol sa prorated amounts pero hindi ito dapat i-assume; kailangan ng direktang pag-verify kay ShareWeb. Opsyon/Workaround: - Diretsong kumuha ng cost analysis sa Azure Portal per client portal. Ito ang itinuturing na “pinaka-overthrow” para makuha ang usage sa oras na kailangan. - Limitasyon: matrabaho; walang “download all” option; kailangan isa-isahin ang bawat client portal. May isyu rin sa access per client. - Dahil dito, iminungkahi ang agarang pag-clarify at pagtawag sa ShareWeb (kay Kathy) at pakikipag-ugnayan kay Martin (sa Teams) para maunawaan kung bakit nananatiling Pebrero ang lumilitaw at paano makukuha ang March usage sa oras. Pagkilos at komunikasyon: - Iminungkahi ang agarang pagtawag kay Kathy (911 urgency) at pag-check ng signature ni Martin para sa contact details ni Kathy. - Ipinunto na hindi puwedeng mag-assume; lahat ng discrepancy ay dapat i-clarify kay ShareWeb. ## Iba pang Gawaing Pang-operasyon at Pagtatanong Lumabas ang pangangailangan at mga isyu sa pagbili at lisensya: - Windows 11 Home to Pro at Acrobat Pro ang mga item na tinukoy. May nabili nang Home to Pro ngunit iniulat na “hindi nag-work yung license key.” - Plano: “Try muna natin dito,” i.e., subukan sa ShareWeb kung maiproseso ang Windows 11 Home to Pro, at “Try [to look for] Windows 11 Home 2 Pro [license key].” - May banggit na “Microsoft Perpetual,” “O, 49 din,” at “Home to pro, free man. Free man, Adobe Pro.” Ang mga ito ay hindi malinaw ang eksaktong konteksto ng presyo o status, kaya nakatala bilang verbal mentions lamang. - Sinabi na hahanapin ang SKU sa Freeman, MS Admin part, bilang bahagi ng procurement flow. Pag-invoice at visibility sa ShareWeb/CIT Admin: - Problema: “Walang ano sa ShareWeb pa. Ano yung invoice niyan?” — mahirap hanapin ang invoice ng biniling item sa ShareWeb. - Sa CIT Admin, wala ring nakitang invoice o record. Wala rin sa “report logs.” - May mga petsa at oras na nabanggit (“May 5,” “1.30”), ngunit hindi malinaw ang kaugnayan sa delivery, activation, o scheduling; nakatala lamang bilang lumabas na detalye. ## Mga Update sa Empleyado at Usaping Panloob Kalagayan ni Ronel: - Posibleng nanganganib si Ronel dahil may nakatanggap ng “yellow” na C-SAT mula sa bagong kliyente (Anderson). Matagal na itong isyu at “long overdue” na rin ang concern. May pahiwatig na baka kailangan nang maghanap ng kapalit. Recruitment at staffing: - “I-hire na daw si Marie Carr,” bilang bagong accounting specialist. Nabanggit na nahihirapan si Melissa, kaya hinikayat ang pag-expedite. - May usapan tungkol sa isang L2 Project Manager. Binanggit na mataas ang sahod (“malaki”), at si Pete ay “sobrang excited and totally sold,” at “confident” sa sagot niya. Umaasa ang team na maganda ang cultural fit. Nabanggit na taga-Davao ang kandidato. - May mga light banter tungkol sa “konyo” at impresyon sa ilang persona; ito ay hindi bahagi ng pormal na desisyon at nanatiling personal na komento. Operasyonal na impresyon: - Dahil bagong client, importante ang “good impression,” kaya sensitibo ang team sa C-SAT at performance feedback. - May mga biro at asides tungkol sa internal dynamics, ngunit walang konkretong desisyong lumabas maliban sa pag-follow through sa hiring at posibleng pag-replace kay Ronel (hindi pa final). ## Personal na Usapan at mga Plano sa Opisina Pakikipag-ugnayan at availability: - Si Kathy ay nasa lunch at siya ang magko-callback pagbalik. Nabanggit na maingay ang background sa pagtawag. Kaarawan at plano sa opisina: - May plano para sa birthday ni Jane, na may Monday lunch. Pinag-uusapan ang cake: may nabanggit na “Pistachio” na “maliit lang,” at may matibay na mungkahi na “Mango Bravo” na huwag nang pahirapan ang pagdedesisyon. - May mga biro na “April babies,” “Happy birthday,” at paalala na i-calendar ang cake order. Plano rin ang pag-order sa Sunday at pagkilos sa Monday. Personal na update: - Emosyonal na usapan tungkol kay Jen; malaki ang gastos nila sa ospital, nagpa-pile up ang bills, at ang bakasyon nila ay halos sa ospital na spend. - Nabanggit ang pag-inom ng magnesium glycinate para mas maayos ang tulog (“walang gising-gising in-between”). - May magagaan na banter tungkol sa “konyo,” “My mom raised me like this,” at iba pang biro sa team. - May plano na mag-selfie kapag naihatid ang laptop kay Paula. ## Action Items - @Speaker 2 - [ ] I-follow up si Christian tungkol sa huling email niya (context: Azure billing/usage visibility) - [TBD] - [ ] Tawagan si Kathy tungkol sa ShareWeb usage discrepancy (urgent) - [TBD] - [ ] Hanapin sa signature ni Martin ang phone number ni Kathy - [TBD] - [ ] Tawagan ulit si Nevada - [TBD] - [ ] Ilagay sa calendar ang order ng cake para kay Jane - [TBD] - [ ] I-place ang cake order para kay Jane sa Sunday - [TBD] - [ ] Ayusin ang pick-up/arrangement ng cake para kay Jane sa Monday lunch - [TBD] - [ ] Ibigay kay Paula ang laptop - [TBD] - [ ] I-download ang “half-boarding” document - [TBD] - [ ] Magbigay ng updates tungkol sa “half-boarding” document - [TBD] - @Speaker 3 - [ ] Tawagan si Martin sa Teams (context: ShareWeb/Azure billing issue) - [TBD] - [ ] Subukan i-proseso sa ShareWeb ang Windows 11 Home to Pro (activation/assignment) - [TBD] - [ ] Hanapin/isetup ang Windows 11 Home to Pro license key - [TBD] - [ ] Kuhanin ang SKU sa Freeman, MS Admin part para sa kinakailangang item - [TBD] - [ ] Mag-selfie kasama si Paula kapag naihatid ang laptop (documentation) - [TBD] - @Speaker 4 - [ ] I-clarify sa ShareWeb ang discrepancy ng usage (lumilitaw na Pebrero, walang March; i-verify kung same ang usage) - [TBD] - [ ] Mag-chat kay Jen tungkol sa cake coordination - [TBD] - @Sergio - [ ] I-confirm ang requirement para sa Windows 11 Home to Pro at Acrobat Pro (as requested items) - [TBD]
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- Apr 24, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:20 Ay, nasa meeting ba siya? Speaker 1 00:00:25 Marlene, nasa meeting ka. Wait lang. Speaker 1 00:00:42 Check. Vamos. Speaker 1 00:00:45 Check. Speaker 2 00:00:51 Okay. Ayan na siya. Ati, may problema kami. Ano? Ikaw na mag-explain, Christian. Speaker 3 00:01:03 Bin, ito. Kita yung screen ko. Ano yan? Alright. Yeah, PAX 8 pa ito. Sa PAX 8, diba, kaya pa natin Tignan si February Azure. Tapos ngayon, Ang problema natin na kay ShareWeb, February din yung current invoice na meron tayo. So, wala tayong visibility for March until the 30th of this month. Speaker 3 00:01:35 Ngayon, in-inquire ko, ShareWeb, is there any way for us to get yung Azure usage na not the invoice advance mid-month? 23, sabi ko 15 to 30 Kasi, 23 to 30 kasi tayo Nag-invote. Binil din ba tayo ni Anna. Speaker 4 00:01:50 Ng February? Ayun, ng March? At natama ng February? Speaker 3 00:01:56 Ayun. Hindi, yung, Challenge is yung how to build a client, Bin, kung paano natin makukuha. Speaker 4 00:02:03 Nakitaan ko din, Kasi ng, ano, Na build, kung ang nakikita nyo, Sa ShareWeb is February, ibig sabihin Binil tayo ni ShareWeb Ng, Anna? Speaker 4 00:02:14 February sa Azure. Pati si Pax 8 din. Speaker 2 00:02:18 O, kasi tina mo, Nakikita mo, balik ang Pax 8. Kasi makikita mo pa yung Usage ng February. O, tina mo. Type mo na lang Azure. Speaker 3 00:02:32 Ah, nandito yun. Speaker 4 00:02:35 Kasi ang billing ng, Pax 8, Diba, binigyan tayo ng credit? Oo. Hindi nga pala tayo nakaano. Ang susundin nyo na lang is si, Pax 8. Ay si Sherweb, hindi si Pax 8. Speaker 3 00:02:53 Kaso nga, wala pa yung. Speaker 2 00:02:54 VIN. Wala pa yung March na, Usage kasi darating pa siya By end of the month which is yun yung dating ng, Invoice. Kasabay ng Invoicing nila. Eh kung magiging, Ganun lagi ang case, Mahuhuli tayo ng billing kung, 23rd kapag magbibill na tayo. Speaker 3 00:03:12 Ang tanong ko... Bakit hindi... Speaker 2 00:03:17 Dung ka mag-type sa search, By product, balik ka. Ayaw nga eh. Speaker 4 00:03:24 Bakit hindi lilitaw yung Azure plan Ng March? Eh, April 24 na. Eh, post-billing Man yan. Ako na lang. Sa. Speaker 3 00:03:33 ShareWeb. Dito? Sa ShareWeb? Ano? Ewan ko nga. Sa February yung nagsishow. Speaker 2 00:03:40 Sa PAX 8. Hanggang Feb na lang ang nagsho-show. Ay, wala pa rin di. Ano ba ito? Anong client ba ito? Si Alir pala ito. Ba't kanina meron? Speaker 4 00:03:52 Yung beta. Wala naman natin si Alir na Azure. Speaker 2 00:03:55 Okay, balik tayo kay sinong client. Speaker 4 00:03:58 Beta. Paya, nabilit. Okay, si Beta. Speaker 2 00:04:02 Beta. Speaker 2 00:04:07 Clued cancelled. Azure. Azure plan So, tingin tayo ng show history, Okay, let's see Feb Ayan, so Feb meron pa Pagdating ng March, wala na, Pero, dun sa Azure usage ni Ni Ni ShareWeb hanggang Feb lang, Wala pang March. Speaker 4 00:04:35 Si Beta ba yan? Si Beta yan rin, 4,000, February. Yes. Pero nabila natin yan February. Speaker 2 00:04:45 Last, last billing. So ngayon, Ang i-bill natin, Yung March usage kasi. Speaker 4 00:04:49 Si ShareWeb, Ang may problema dyan, Bakit? Kasi, Speaker 2 00:04:53 Naka-tie up sa invoice nila. Speaker 2 00:04:57 So, Magde-depende ta. Naka-tie up yung, Azure usage na info, Kung kailan darating yung invoice nila. Hindi siya tulad, Ng isang magkaroon. Speaker 4 00:05:08 Kahit na. Speaker 4 00:05:11 Eh, ang pinag-uusapan dito Is yung usage, Ng March. Eh, April na. Speaker 2 00:05:17 True. Ang makikita mo pa din. Speaker 3 00:05:19 Dito is Feb. So, dapat, sinasabi, Ni Marvin, oh, March, dapat yun Nandyan din yung sinasabi mo, right? Speaker 4 00:05:25 Oo, mali yung nakalagay dyan. Speaker 2 00:05:28 So, ayun na nga. Habulin mo Christian. Ano nga yung huling email mo, Sa kanya? Kasi sabihin mo... Speaker 3 00:05:36 Mayroong masasend ba yung Ano? Speaker 2 00:05:38 Baka naman mali. Speaker 4 00:05:43 I-clarify mo. Kasi, Lumilitaw sa usage nyo dyan. Same ba? Same ba ng usage? Speaker 2 00:05:51 Let's see. Speaker 4 00:05:52 Tingnan mo yung beta. Sige, tingnan mo yung beta. Tingnan mo yung beta. Kasi nandyan ka na sa beta sa Parts 8. Speaker 2 00:05:58 Ay, bili nga pala yun. Sorry, sorry. Dito yun. Speaker 3 00:06:01 Mayroong workaround pero matrabaho. Azure Portal tayo didiretso. Speaker 3 00:06:09 Masyadong matrabaho siya. Speaker 2 00:06:12 Dito nga yan? Sa resource group? Speaker 3 00:06:13 Hindi, huwag mo na i-click. Yan na yan? Yung totality na lang. Yan, 406.82. Asan yung date? Speaker 2 00:06:23 Ito yung Pax 8. Speaker 3 00:06:24 Yung date is breakdown, Mula siya, Pril. Yan, yan, yan. Click mo pa. Speaker 3 00:06:32 Yan, Feb. February siya lumalabas, pero hindi yun yung amount, Na February dun sa Pax 8 din. 400 lang siya. Ang Kala natin nung una is prorated. Speaker 3 00:06:46 Kasi transition. Speaker 4 00:06:49 Exactly. Hindi na siya dapat maging. Speaker 3 00:06:51 Prorated kasi. Or baka umali yung, Hindi. Hindi pwedeng, Ganyan yung price eh. Kasi ang liit. At the same time. Speaker 2 00:07:01 Yung Feb nila ang laki. Nasa Hindi. 5,000. Speaker 4 00:07:07 Itanong nyo. Hindi kasi tayo pwede mag-assume At mag, ano, itanong nyo. Speaker 4 00:07:13 Magkano naman tayo ng call? Speaker 2 00:07:14 Mag-call ka lang. Hindi, kasi, hindi mo pwede. Anong nakausap mo kanina sa phone? Yung kausap mo? Speaker 3 00:07:22 Si Martin? Tawagan mo na lang. Tawagan sa Tims eh. Speaker 3 00:07:27 Si Kathy. Speaker 2 00:07:29 Wala bang phone si Kathy? Speaker 3 00:07:30 May number ba si Kathy? Speaker 2 00:07:31 Tingnan mo doon sa, ano niya, signature niya. Sige. Kasi sabihin mo, urgent to. Kasi kung ma-fix to ngayon, Baka mag-billing tayo ng weekend. Kasi noong una, iniisip, Speaker 2 00:07:44 Di ba hindi naman pwede pagsabayin, Ang TS at MSB, no? Noong first day of the month. Speaker 4 00:07:52 Hindi pwede pagsabayin yung? Speaker 3 00:07:55 Oo, TS, Daw, so, MS. Pwede naman yata. Hindi. Speaker 4 00:08:04 Wala naman problema. Speaker 2 00:08:06 Pwede? Hindi kasi kung Antahin pa natin Yung ano Ng end of the month Yung usage. Speaker 3 00:08:13 Sabi ko kasi Kay Aprilbin, Hindi ba pwede Ipasok na lang Yung, Kaso mga Google agreement eh no? Kapag pinasok natin Yung Azure, Isa-isa sa client, Tas yung hindi naman Lahat ng TS clients Ay mayroong Azure. Hindi pwede no? So, Eh, Ang pinaka-overthrow, Talaga April, Yun per portal. Ng client. Sa cost analysis Of the Azure portal. Speaker 2 00:08:38 Babag pa natin sila, ano? Wala matang akses dito. Dito meron ka. Speaker 3 00:08:44 Huh? Ako? Kaso nga, matrabaho. Matrabaho talaga. Pupuntahan pa natin. Speaker 2 00:08:50 Unless may option na i-download all, Pero wala naman atang ganun. Iisa-isahin mo Yung portal ni ano. Speaker 3 00:08:56 Iisa-isahin yan. Titignan natin. Yung pinakita ni Becker kahapon, Pril. Yun yun eh. Cost analysis Billing. Speaker 3 00:09:06 Siguro, Wala ang access, Per clients. Sa Azure, wala. Speaker 2 00:09:14 Wala akong, ano, ano. Ayun, may number si Kathy. Tawagan mo na, ati. Now na. Speaker 2 00:09:23 Tawagan mo na siya. Sabihin mo, ano, 911. Go. Speaker 2 00:09:33 Okay. Speaker 2 00:09:35 Wait. I already want rejection for the position Because... Ay, may chika pala ako Pero hindi pa ito tuloy, ha? Ano? Hindi mo naman, Chika-magi. Wala naman secretion. Secretion! Speaker 2 00:09:53 So, ano... Possibly. Possibly lang naman. Hindi ko pa alam kung anong final, Verdict. Pero baka nanganganib na naman Tong si Ronel ate. Kasi may... Naka-receive ng yellow na C-STAT. Speaker 2 00:10:08 Na ano? C-STAT? Oo, pero diba dati pa rin naman siya talagang... Dati pa yan? Oo, parang long overdue na rin naman. Eh, ito, Anderson pa yung naanong yan, Bagong empleyente. Speaker 2 00:10:23 Kaya, sabi ni, ano, Sa Olivia, heads up lang. Baka, replace na natin siya, At magpahanap na ng bago. So, sabi ko... O bakit? Anong nangyari? Ganito, ganyan. Parang, Nagpa-file up na daw kasi. Kumbaga, diba nga, dati pa siyang, Nami-mention sa mga L10, L10. Pero, Ayun nga, ito nga, since bagong client ito, Syempre, we're making a good impression. Eh, yun, Nag-submit ng C-STAT na. Speaker 2 00:10:55 Ano ba? C-STAT? C-SAT. C-SAT pala. C-SAT. Speaker 4 00:11:02 Customer satisfaction. Speaker 4 00:11:06 What does it mean? Customer satisfaction score. C-SAT. Speaker 2 00:11:15 It has 80. It's CS80, right? Speaker 4 00:11:18 Yes, CS80. Satisfaction score. C-SAT. Speaker 2 00:11:21 There. So. Speaker 4 00:11:23 Customer satisfaction. Sat. Customer satisfaction. Speaker 2 00:11:28 C-SAT. Speaker 2 00:11:30 Oh, i-hire na daw si ano? Totoo ba? Speaker 2 00:11:35 Si Marie Carr? Oo. Speaker 2 00:11:39 Sino yan? Yung bagong accounting special. Speaker 4 00:11:44 O ba i-expedite niyo? Dahil may hirapan si... Speaker 2 00:11:49 Si Melissa. Melissa. Elisa. Sino si Melissa? Speaker 4 00:11:58 Sige, nagbabaptismal naman. Speaker 2 00:12:04 Puro mga napapulitan yung pangalan, no? Speaker 4 00:12:06 Ate, sabi ni Jane, nagsabi naman si Jane sa'yo? Ano? Monday lunch na lang daw yun kasi magmamanawag sila bukas. Speaker 2 00:12:15 Ay, be-break-in na. Speaker 3 00:12:18 Nalabas niya daw yung dog niya. Speaker 2 00:12:20 Wala, di ba niya yung pati? Mauna-una pa yung dog sa atin. Speaker 3 00:12:24 Mas mahalaga yung dog? Sabi niya, nasa lunch daw siya. Gana-call daw in lunch. Sabi niya, tas ang ingay daw Nung background ko. Ewan ko bakit ganito sa Richie Uciata. Speaker 3 00:12:38 Ayun. Speaker 3 00:12:41 Yung dog niya daw. Sorry, it's a surprise call But you're in a tight position, kako. Gano'ng ka-tight yarn, Sabi niya. Chats. Kago. Speaker 2 00:12:54 Pero sabi mo, may kukolbak mo siya? Speaker 3 00:12:57 Siya ang magkolbak. Sa'yo? Pagkabalik niya daw. Oo, pagkabalik. Sorry. Speaker 2 00:13:02 Mas importante sa'yo, asa niya. Speaker 3 00:13:06 Gusto mo yun? Sorry, kaya tight spot. May tight spot. Char. Speaker 3 00:13:14 Victor. Ano, ano to? Speaker 2 00:13:17 Ano, Bin? Ano yun? Monday lunch? Speaker 2 00:13:24 Happy birthday. Speaker 4 00:13:25 Monday lunch na lang daw yung kay Jane. Speaker 2 00:13:29 Ah, yung birthday. Okay. Speaker 4 00:13:31 Oo, kasi, ano, aray ko po. Thank you for sharing my call. Ang lagi ko lang masisiko yung kung ano-ano. Speaker 2 00:13:41 Eh, kasi Monday naman talaga birthday niya, di ba? Speaker 4 00:13:44 Oo din. Sa magmamanawag sila bukas. Ayun. Speaker 2 00:13:48 Ayun, para mabreakin na yung karu. Yeah. Wait, hindi rin ako sure sa pagganap mo mamaya kasi I feel like I'm so tired this week. Wow, heartache. Speaker 4 00:14:02 Okay lang naman. Sabay lang kayo. Speaker 2 00:14:04 Oo, kasi parang feeling ko gusto kong matulog na nag-i-umiinom nga ako ng magnesium glycinate para dire-direcho talaga itulog ko. Walang gising-gising niyang in-between. Gigisingin naman ako pero yung in-between, yung in-between walang storm. Speaker 2 00:14:23 So, ayan. Speaker 4 00:14:25 So, lang naman. Speaker 2 00:14:26 Sige. Ano bang ano? Opening? Hindi ba nag-opening na? Speaker 4 00:14:30 Nag-soft opening sila. Yung may Grand opening. Speaker 2 00:14:34 Ayan na pala yung, Pangarap mong Grand opening. Hindi ako yung. Speaker 4 00:14:38 Mag-re-rebound Ka, Hattie. Ay, hindi ikaw. Bakit? Si Mayor daw. Speaker 2 00:14:44 Oh. Hindi nga. Dapat nga sa akin. Speaker 4 00:14:46 Yung restaurant. Diba? Ayoko. Speaker 2 00:14:48 Ah, hindi mo nga pala Tinakeover, no? Speaker 2 00:14:52 Hmm. Parang nakita ko, Lloyd something, ang pangalan. Speaker 4 00:14:59 Lloyd, si Lloyd, si Lloyd yan. Speaker 2 00:15:01 Yung pinsan mo, diba? Speaker 3 00:15:04 Si Lloyd. Lloyd. Nawalang alam. Speaker 3 00:15:11 Yes, home to pro. Saan natin ibig bilhin yung home to pro? Speaker 2 00:15:21 Di ba nag-work yun dati yung nag-direct ka sa Microsoft? Speaker 2 00:15:27 Mm-hmm. Kasi sabi niya, hindi nag-work yung license key. Speaker 3 00:15:33 Dito sa Sharebet? Speaker 2 00:15:35 Ay, di ba dati may binigay tayo kay Charles? Sabi niya parang di nag-work. Speaker 3 00:15:40 Eto, zero lang yun eh. Di na mapaghintay yung mga yun eh. Matagal lang kasi minsan talaga. Minsan yun, 24 hours pa eh. Speaker 3 00:15:51 License key. Speaker 3 00:15:54 Try muna natin dito. Malay mo naman. Mapagbigyan. Windows. Speaker 3 00:16:02 Windows 11 Home 2 Pro. O, meron ti. Speaker 3 00:16:10 Microsoft Perpetual. Speaker 3 00:16:13 O, 49 din. A1, go. Speaker 3 00:16:19 Home to pro, free man. Free man, Adobe Pro. Speaker 3 00:16:26 Free man. Speaker 3 00:16:35 Saibigan pala ako nagla-launch. Speaker 3 00:16:41 Ano mga tagapagmana? Sa kanya naman ulo ko. Speaker 3 00:16:45 Ano mga tagapagmana Ni Yanzor? Speaker 2 00:16:49 Teka, pag-mana. Speaker 2 00:16:53 Here's the Updated ZFL now with separate folders For you. Speaker 3 00:16:58 May natutuwa ko kay Marvin eh. Speaker 3 00:17:02 Mag-launch kayo, sabi. Speaker 2 00:17:04 Ay, shit. Wait, tatawag nga pala ulit ako Kay Nevada. Nakalimutan ko na. All firms must be notarized. Speaker 2 00:17:18 I requested That there be. Speaker 3 00:17:22 A shared one, Windows 11 Home to Pro. Speaker 1 00:17:29 And Acrobat Pro. Speaker 1 00:17:35 Home to Pro, please. Speaker 3 00:17:38 We get the SKU In Freeman, MS Admin Part. I mean, for the added monochromatic crossroad. Speaker 1 00:18:03 I don't go. Speaker 3 00:18:18 Excuse me. Speaker 3 00:18:21 Sige lang. Speaker 2 00:18:22 Excuse me ulit. Speaker 3 00:18:26 Apal lang. Speaker 3 00:18:29 Si Apal lang di nagbabayad. Lakas makabili, no? Speaker 3 00:18:35 Di nagbabayad, sabi ni Vans. Tingin akong apat na dynamic, bro. Dynamic kaibigay natin dito. Hindi nga yung babayad. Speaker 3 00:18:47 Nasa 70 pala ito. Umahal pala na ito, no? Speaker 3 00:18:54 Ano ba mong ginagawa na itong Essentials? Dynamics, Business Central. Speaker 2 00:19:02 Sabi mo kay James. Sige, Monday lunch na lang tayo. Sabi ko, pero yung cake mo, Kailangan ko ng sagot mo. Kain ako pa tinatawag. Speaker 2 00:19:12 Annual paid. Hindi niya ako na-reply yan. Speaker 4 00:19:18 Sabi, magchat-chat din ako. Speaker 2 00:19:23 Kasi sabi ko, bibiling ko siya. Speaker 4 00:19:25 Hindi naman din nagsabi si Jen Kung ano siya. Pupunta siya mama. Eh si Jen is negative na yun for sure. Speaker 2 00:19:34 O, grabe yung tagal na sa hospital Ng patay niya. Hindi pa rin nakakalabas. Naiyak nga yun yung pinuntaan ko, Nung one time. Kasi natid ko lang yung birthday. Ko sa kanya. Napadaan ako kasi Mag-grocery ako. Drain up off ko. Speaker 2 00:19:50 Ano yung sibakla? Maiyak-iyak Kung kinukento. Eh, kasi nga, laki na ng gasos nila. Tiii. Alam mo yun, parang Nagpa-pile up na yung. Speaker 3 00:20:01 Bills. Speaker 2 00:20:05 Yes, ang bills ay, you know, Yung ating anyo, yung vacation daw na spend, Mostly sa, Hospital na. Kasi nga. Ayun. Hindi pa na ilalabas. Speaker 2 00:20:18 Sike, mango bravo. Dahil favorite ko yun. Kung ano nag-decide, Ng cake mo. Speaker 3 00:20:31 Ganyan dapat. Speaker 2 00:20:34 Huwag na natin mayarapan, Ng mga sarili natin. Huwag ka na mag-decide. Ako na mag-decide. Mango bravo. Speaker 3 00:20:41 Added for. Speaker 2 00:20:44 Ako na nag-decide For you. Speaker 1 00:20:50 Yes. Spermance request. Speaker 1 00:20:55 Yes. Speaker 1 00:20:58 HD. Speaker 1 00:21:00 HD to the side. Bye. Speaker 2 00:21:11 Magpapasyaho ako sa Monday. Ordering place ko na siya ng Sunday. Speaker 2 00:21:17 Order cake for Jane. April. Speaker 2 00:21:23 Ayan natin sa calendar natin. Speaker 3 00:21:37 Order. Ay, nasa na yung ticket ni ano? Freeman, papagalitan tayo Ni Ati Maggie na ito. Speaker 2 00:21:46 Tapos ano, pag hinatid mo Yung laptop ni, Paula Christian. Speaker 3 00:21:51 Oh, selfie kami. Speaker 2 00:21:52 Hindi, segway mo na yung, pero bakit ang kuninin? Speaker 2 00:21:57 Ayun nga. Wilang sabi mo naman. Mukha siyang mayaman. Magsasabaling. Speaker 2 00:22:06 Ano ba? Ano ba makikilala? Palang 19 lang yan. Sabi niya talaga, Bin. Gusto daw niyang kuning nilang at mukhang mayaman. Speaker 2 00:22:20 Hindi, hindi. Speaker 3 00:22:21 Hindi niya mukha kasi sakot pa lang, di ba? Speaker 2 00:22:24 Oto ninang yun. Oto ninang. O, hindi ko din disclose yung exact niya, Pero sabi ko malaki. Speaker 3 00:22:33 Oo, sabi mo malulula. Hindi na ba siya? Ano pa yun? Ano ba siya? Speaker 4 00:22:37 Yung, ano, project manager? L2, I3. Speaker 2 00:22:40 L2, oh, oh. Kasi first time ko narinig si Pete Na sobrang excited and totally sold. Okay. Speaker 2 00:22:49 Tingnan natin ang mga magaganap Na wa ay Talagang patunayan niya ang kanyang sarili. Kasi hindi na best ko tinanong si Pete. Do you think he's worth, She's worth that, ano, sabi ko, That amount? Amount? Mm-hmm. Oo. Confident naman siya sa sagot niya. O sige, sabi ko. Boom. Wala ka. Speaker 3 00:23:12 Hindi mo. Your call. Ninang, ano naman, Ninang. Your call. Ano masasabi mo? At tanggap ka na sa Crimson. Sige ako. Speaker 2 00:23:24 Ninang. Speaker 2 00:23:27 Oto, Ninang. Pero sana, ano, sana nice siya. Like, I mean, culturally, makasunduan natin siya. Speaker 3 00:23:36 Siguro nasa Pressure rin yan, Prue. Speaker 2 00:23:39 Ay, Pala, Di ba sabi natin, Taga-dara sa siya, Sabi natin, Ang legit na Konyo-konyo. Konya si ano, Si DJ lang. Alam mo, Sabi ni Craig, Ay, Konya din pala si Christian, Sabi niya. Speaker 2 00:23:54 Konya din ako eh, Sabi niya. Sabi ko, Gusto kong konyatan kita. Konyatan. Oo, Konyatan. Speaker 3 00:24:02 You know, My mom raised me like this, You know. Speaker 2 00:24:04 Wow. My mom raised me well. Nakaka-ano? Yung mataas yung blood pressure. Speaker 2 00:24:15 Maraming gusto mo nalang malampal. Speaker 4 00:24:21 Yung sobrang cute mo, Christian. Yung sobrang cute mo, Masarang masuntokin. Yung gano'n. Sobrang cute mo. Speaker 3 00:24:31 Bento ang bento sa inyo yung si Maggie, yun, no? Mga tao, yung Maggie talaga. As in, yung reports na yun. Speaker 4 00:24:39 Siya nagpapasaya sa akin dito, yun, no? Speaker 3 00:24:46 Lucid, ka. Subscription, monthly, power bill, April. Free month. Speaker 2 00:24:53 I don't know what time are you available on. Speaker 3 00:25:01 Windows Home 2 Pro. Ang pangit naman dito, Walang ano sa ShareWeb pa. Ano yung invoice niyan? Speaker 3 00:25:11 Hahanapan na naman tayo Na ilisa niyan. Speaker 3 00:25:15 Wala ba nasa sense sa ito, Pring? Wala na. Nasa sense na ako. Yung invoice. Yung ShareWeb? Pag nagpapurchase. Oo. Meron ba? Speaker 2 00:25:24 Wali. Wala naman. Sa CIT Admin, wala. Speaker 3 00:25:26 Sa CIT Admin. Speaker 3 00:25:29 Pwede pa check. Mayroon ba? Wala akong access doon eh. Speaker 2 00:25:31 Ay, si Maggie may access na yan. Maggie, patsyak mo nga. Speaker 3 00:25:35 Yung kaya nung Max, Freeman, Windows 11 Home 2 Pro. Speaker 2 00:25:40 Wala pa. Wala pa. Wala pang dumarating. May 5, Speaker 2 00:25:47 1.30. Speaker 3 00:25:48 Wala rin dito sa report logs nila. Speaker 2 00:25:51 Wala naman kasi sa, Ano niya? Calendar niya. Hi Michael, time are you available? Speaker 1 00:26:15 May 5th. Speaker 3 00:26:28 Pagalitan na naman tayo neto. Speaker 2 00:26:45 Gano'n ba katagal mag-walk si ano? Charing. Ang dami-dami. Hoy! Wait. Gano'n ba siya katagal mag-walk? Speaker 2 00:26:57 Ay, maliit lang. Pistachio daw gusto ni Jane. Maliit lang yun. Speaker 4 00:27:04 Ay, maliit lang yun. Dalawang ganon. Speaker 2 00:27:07 Maliit lang. Dalawang ganon. So, dalawang ganon. Speaker 3 00:27:14 And then, Happy birthday, daw. Speaker 2 00:27:21 Ano nga, April babies? Good afternoon. Any feedback? Speaker 3 00:27:25 Dahil palang, Babies, April. Speaker 2 00:27:29 Alam nyo na, sabay-sabay silang nagpenggahan, Ng ano. Speaker 2 00:27:36 Bilangin mo, Nine months backward. Ay, pampang. Mali-mali na naman yung term mo, Apo. Speaker 4 00:27:42 Pampang. Bebengga, saka bemba. Hindi niya kasi naisip si Anzor. Kailangan bebenggahin lang, Bebeb pa rin yung ginagawa. Speaker 3 00:27:54 Bin, naiisip niya yung bemba Kapag si Anzor kausap. Gago! Speaker 2 00:28:04 Recorded to, charing. Speaker 2 00:28:07 Mag-ipakigawa ng half-boarding ito. Okay. Ang pilis. Okay. Speaker 2 00:28:16 Download natin to. Okay. Kailangan ko pala Bigyang updates yan. Speaker 1 00:28:32 Ay, naka. Speaker 1 00:28:35 Saan yung Safe?
07-21 AF HR-IT Sync - Michuan (Plaud title: Pasadena Pet)
- Notes
-  This meeting between Michuan and Chris spans finance, HR, IT infrastructure for “camp,” process improvement, and team performance management. They confirm immediate remediation steps (missed invoices, Starlink and switches for camp, scanning protocols, LOA handling) and outline near-term assessments (program automation, cybersecurity training, inventory controls), while recording personnel issues and clarifying access and accountability. ------------ ## Finance and HR Project Overload Michuan outlines an intense August–September slate: benefits analysis and recommendations, salary compression remediation, a comprehensive compensation study, a 100-page handbook review spearheaded by Alma (with Michuan’s review), and a wage and hour analysis. Due to this bandwidth constraint, Chris must take ownership of immediate finance tasks. They acknowledge a missed invoice (Crimson/ComDirect), with a second invoice for $14,000 arriving. Finance flagged that both Michuan and Chris had missed the Crimson invoice. Chris states he already entered the invoice correctly and spoke to Susanna. He also clarifies the source of friction around credit card statements: they reside in a separate Concur account that previously required different credentials. Chris requested that the credit card be moved under his account, enabling him to manage reconciliation, receipt collection (including chasing down missing receipts like Araceli’s food receipt), and deadlines. They note that payroll and workers’ comp audit/403(b) responsibilities have shifted away from prior owners, implying more available capacity on the finance side; nonetheless, communication gaps persist. ------------ ## IT and Equipment Procurement for “Camp” They review status and ownership for connectivity and infrastructure at “camp.” Antennas are ready and will ship directly to camp. Starlink was ordered after site errors and a short stock-out; Chris also purchased an extra mount to stave off accusations about missing parts, properly charging it to “camp infrastructure.” A recurring coverage complaint at camp persists—there is confusion over whether the problematic device is a work or personal phone. Michuan instructs to clarify which phone is failing so they can decide between solutions (e.g., tower or Starlink adjustments). Network needs include five unmanaged switches, with a sixth ordered for redundancy; the cost is $40 per switch. Chris prefers purchasing through Amazon rather than Crimson for speed and control. Michuan stresses maintaining a clear narrative about delays to avoid stakeholders inventing stories, and asks Chris to inform Sergio that Kelly had initially agreed to purchase Starlink but didn’t, thus the task shifted to Chris. They also touch on docking stations, monitors, and charger shortages—urging inventory discipline, budget allocation clarity, and timely communication. ------------ ## Team Performance and Interpersonal Conflicts The conversation surfaces strained dynamics and performance issues: - Kelly and Kathy had a “shit talking fest”; Chris tends to side more with Kathy, while acknowledging Kathy can be difficult. - Concerns exist about Al and perceptions of Sally (credited often but unhappy). Carl is “cool,” but his escalations to Sergio reflect poorly on the organization. - Chase is described as disengaged (reportedly watching TV in his office). Jessica’s follow-through is inadequate: for the 403(b) audit she treats tasks as done upon sending emails, which frustrates Carl—he says she cannot lead the audit next year. Jessica also reassigned IT equipment (a monitor) without coordinating with IT, prompting inventory discrepancies and the need for explicit equipment reassignment rules. - Kobe underperformed on the “owl” project; he will be pulled from future similar tasks, with Adrian and Vonna stepping in. There is a broader theme of accountability, adherence to process, and the need to curb unilateral actions that affect IT inventory and budget integrity. ------------ ## Process Improvement and System Access They aim to modernize manual workflows, prioritizing “low-hanging fruit,” especially the supported employment billing to the Department of Rehab, which remains a 15-year-old manual process. Michuan advocates applying lean management to reduce task time dramatically (from five hours to about 1.5 hours) so staff can focus on program work. September will be used for fact-finding across sites (East LA, Long Beach, LA Frank) to understand whether issues are shared or site-specific. System access and tooling: - Paylocity: Chris requests access to complete automation of onboarding tasks in Asana and resolve lingering API inconsistencies. - Blue Wave: Chris gains account access (including AT&T/Spectrum invoices) and will manage voicemail backlogs and account inventories (extensions), with an eye to reducing unused lines to cut costs. - Printer scanning: They agree on a standardized process—create one code/account per Canon device tied to a specific HR Teams folder, and ensure it’s the only scan destination—which Chris will formalize by emailing IT. - IT inventory: A new system is being deployed, with Vana tasked to coordinate and centralize extras at HQ. This is intended to stop site refusal to coordinate (“I’m not going to Ability First”) and reduce shortages of basics (e.g., chargers, docking stations, monitors). Finance will be looped in to allocate costs for replacement laptop chargers against department budgets. Surveying and training: - Replace broad satisfaction surveys with a targeted, weekly ELT-only stress survey (wins, losses, impediments). - Cybersecurity training: plan a 30–45 minute session with ELT, Finance, HR to cover incoming threats and role-specific risks; Chris will request dates from Carl, Michuan, and Sergio. - IT Committee: Anzor will expect structure; Chris will draft a committee charter so interviews can solicit interest from staff. Additional tooling notes include prior evaluation of Care Logic vs. Procare/SATWorks; and upcoming YubiKey procurement planning (approx. $75 per key, likely two per person), plus policy hardening and Ubiquiti/security controls. ------------ ## Employee Leave and Status Management A near offboarding error for April prompts standardization of LOA vs. separation language and procedure. They adopt practices based on SCHARP: - For LOA: suspend both Verizon lines, suspend Breeo door access, change the account password without blocking the account (to prevent email bounces), and log the user out of all devices. - Clarify with Alma how requests should be worded so IT doesn’t treat LOA cases as separations. This protocol aims to maintain communication continuity and security during LOA, while avoiding unintended offboarding consequences. ------------ ## Personal Updates and Foster Care Chris shares that extended foster care is her niche, and she will permanently house her foster daughter; the foster contract is scheduled for signature the following day. The daughter got her first job at McDonald’s and has begun orientation. Chris’s family plans to move to a three-bedroom apartment in October to comply with DCFS rules (no room-sharing between under-18 and over-18 individuals) and accommodate an upcoming baby. They discuss family nicknames—Chris favors “Nana Bean”—and light anecdotes about Life360 usage over 10–12 years and household dynamics, underscoring the supportive environment for foster youth (including the daughter’s dental hygiene program). ------------ ## Action Items - **@Chris** - [ ] Process the pending Crimson/ComDirect invoice (including the $14,000 invoice) - [TBD] - [ ] Ensure credit card statements are under your Concur account and manage monthly reconciliation and receipt collection - [TBD] - [ ] Provide an update to the camp contact on antenna shipping status - [TBD] - [ ] Coordinate with April’s team to credit back Araceli’s food receipt on the next bill; obtain and process the receipt - [TBD] - [ ] Ask Sergio to confirm holding Lucio’s equipment until it is explicitly requested - [TBD] - [ ] Obtain Paylocity access and complete automation onboarding tasks in Asana - [TBD] - [ ] Purchase six unmanaged switches via Amazon and ship them to camp - [TBD] - [ ] Contact the Canon representative regarding toner/maintenance for Michuan’s home printer - [TBD] - [ ] Request dates from Carl, Michuan, and Sergio for the ELT/Finance/HR cybersecurity training (30–45 minutes) - [TBD] - [ ] Audit Blue Wave/phone inventory and remove unused extensions to reduce costs - [TBD] - [ ] Draft and distribute the targeted weekly stress survey (ELT-only intake of wins/losses/impediments) - [TBD] - [ ] Notify Finance (cc: Michuan) to allocate replacement laptop charger costs to department budgets and establish accountability for equipment - [TBD] - [ ] Email IT to standardize the Canon scanning process to HR Teams folders (one code/account per device; single destination) - [TBD] - [ ] Access Blue Wave voicemail and clear accumulated messages; verify access paths - [TBD] - [ ] Draft and submit the IT Committee charter to Michuan (roles, scope, membership criteria) - [TBD] - **@Michuan** - [ ] Ask the camp user to specify which phone (work or personal) is experiencing coverage issues to guide solutioning - [TBD] - [ ] Communicate Starlink order status and procurement delays to Sergio and stakeholders to maintain narrative clarity - [TBD] - [ ] Develop a rubric/Q&A guide for September program assessments (supported employment, scheduling, billing workflows) - [TBD] [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Plaud mis-titled row for the 7/21 AF HR-IT sync with Michuan (transcribed as Michonne): ComDirect $14K invoice (already entered), Concur credit-card statements moved to Christi, camp antenna shipment + closing email, phone coverage issue at camp, HR workstream preview (benefits analysis, comp study, handbook). Already logged 7/21.
- Date
- Jul 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:39 So, just some things that I am going to be working on. Um, and I'll send it to you when I tell you this. So we have benefits analysis right now, and I've got to do a recommendation for our benefits. Also need to do salaries compression. Um, and then a comprehensive compensation study. Alma needs to lead the handbook, and I need to review uh which is like one hundred pages in itself. And then we need to do a wage an hour um analysis. Which all is happening between August and September. Okay, for me, why I am saying this is Chris, you got I got need you to be like somebody sent an invoice. I am on it because Michonne's not going to be able to look at it. They, let me just tell you. Uh finance, of course, um had comments about both of us. We both missed the invoice from Crimson. I mean not Crimson Comdirect Comdirect we both missed the invoice. Speaker 1 00:01:38 They sent another invoice today for fourteen thousand. Speaker 2 00:01:41 I already put the invoice in. It's in correctly. I talked to Susanna today. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:01:47 She didn't say anything smart. Yes, Kathy said something. Um, I thought everybody was so knowledgeable about it. I was like shut up because that's why you don't have a payroll right now, but we're not gonna go there. No, Speaker 2 00:02:01 She had a little comment because she always has a good one So I actually had a conversation with her about. 2:30. I call no Susanna. Susanna's plays nice. That's what I've got. That's what I've come to. Yes, so I asked her, how do you how do you want these done? Not the invoice from ComDirect, but the things they keep saying we're not taking from them, And it turns out the credit card statements are in a different account altogether that we would have had to sign into on Concur to actually do it. So I told her. Speaker 2 00:02:36 Why don't you turn the credit card over to me? Put it into my account. That's all we asked for. I will handle it, and she goes," Is that what you want?" I said," Absolutely." Particularly if you keep bitching about it. Yeah. I will hunt down Michonne for any receipts that I can't find. Mhm. And she goes," Okay," and she did it right then and there. And I said," All right." And I already got three receipts for that she was missing just because I could see it. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:03:03 They get them on us because. Are we taking like payrolls gone? They no longer payroll, so no, no longer payroll. They no longer have the workers'comp audit 403(b)s come over to us. Y'all should have tons. Speaker 2 00:03:18 Of freaking free time. And now the Concur off and she finally gave me the deadlines as well. Okay, So I have it all now that they've been part of my language bitching about that. We weren't taking care of that. They never. Speaker 1 00:03:41 So, This is what happened. So, Kelly is also always yeah bitching about each other. It's mainly each other, Not so much, you definitely yeahum and I guess he contacted her and he contacted Kathy too. It was like whoever pays me wins, yeah I understand, and so they got together. Hmm. And it was like a shit talking fest. Speaker 2 00:04:04 Yeah. Kelly Kelly's like that. I already knew that. I'm sure Kathy didn't, and you're full of that for her. Oh no, no, uh They hated each other. Yeah But the thing about it is I'm more on her side than I am cautious side Absolutely Absolutely But then again, She's difficult Yeah Yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:28 Um 100% Like he could have had a win Oh. Okay, so. Closing out, Can we get an email to them of when we're going to go out and close up camp and get the antennas? Remember, I was saying that the other day, and I was like, "We would have won on this, " because she just what my team and I have seen is that on Saturdays and Sundays, we're not available ; everything's a fire because camp is moving, but we're not. Yeah, then there's an expectation. So just had to say like they don't work on Saturday and Sunday. Speaker 1 00:04:59 Unless it's like a real fire, she just literally should hire somebody for one day. And on Sunday, she was like," When are we paying them?" In this payroll, if they would sign their offer and do their part, we can pay them. But if you don't sign the offer, clearly you didn't want to get them paid. Speaker 2 00:05:14 Yeah. Um so antennas are ready; we're just waiting for them to ship. They're going directly to camp. Okay Can you give her an update? Yes Um her phone issue of, Coverage not across all over camp. That's her phone issue. I'm sorry, what happened? So she's saying that she doesn't have coverage over all of camp, but it keeps dropping. Mhm. She needs a new phone. Speaker 1 00:05:40 Is it her work phone because she has two phones? Is that her work phone or her personal? Speaker 2 00:05:44 I have never gotten a straight answer from her on that. Speaker 1 00:05:46 Okay, ask her fly out with me on it. Okay Which one of your phones are not working, so we know which problem to solve? And like for example, we know this Verizon, right? Then we can have a conversation. Do, we want to do that tower thing or whatever they're going to be putting up there. Um the other one is Starlink. It's on its way to her. Perfect because Sergio was gonna she's gonna. She brings that up every call from what I hear. Speaker 2 00:06:12 And the receipt is already in Concur. Speaker 1 00:06:15 Okay perfect problem is she got an opportunity for like two or three meetings with Sergio to say that, that wasn't done so gotta be like. If we owe somebody something, so here is the problem. Kelly is a, it seems like okay. And then our SAlly, So we just Also have the issue with the with Al with Al. And so our SAlly is seen as somebody that lots of credit right who was not happy. Then, you got Kelly who's going to see her yeah, and then you got Carl coming in too like. And Carl's very like cool about it. He's not. Speaker 1 00:06:51 His team, but he still has to bring things to Sergio's attention. Yeah, that don't look good. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:06:58 So I will fix it. Um, with Starlink, I had to wait and I couldn't put it in right away because I kept getting errors on it. And now finally, got those cleared up, not on the credit card but on the site. So you got to. Speaker 1 00:07:17 Come back and tell people like, hey. It's like for me, I would communicate back," Hey, there is something wrong with their site. I am trying to get this done for you all." But absence of a narrative, they make it up. Speaker 2 00:07:30 And one of the things that Kelly I did talk to Kelly about, I was like," Hey, when we talked about this, you were going to order it." But she's not going to tell them that. No. She's never going to say because I repeated that to her last week and said," I want to make sure before I order this." You have not ordered it already because I have notes written that you are going to be doing this. She is never going to tell him. I know. Speaker 1 00:07:57 Um, yeah, Speaker 2 00:07:59 So okay, cause I even pointed out here is what you order at Best Buy. Speaker 1 00:08:06 You know, You can say that to him when you have a minute like I want you to know that Kelly the reason it was handed off to her for a while. And then if he ever circles back to have the conversation, she can tell him like, hey. I want you to know initially, Kelly said she'd purchase it and you know tie it into the budget. But somehow she forgot and became our responsibility. And he'll understand because what we noticed is when before camp, it's one thing after when camp's in session, she cannot do that. Right. It's too many moving parts and it's beyond her capacity. Speaker 2 00:08:45 And by the way, I ordered something extra with the Starlink so that we're not accused of not getting all the pieces that are needed. But I ordered an extra mount. Okay. Because I saw what they have and then I was like, you know what? I'm not even going to chance it. Let me order this extra mount and Sean is not going to have a problem with that. Speaker 1 00:09:03 No, I'm not. But can we make sure that gets not on our budget? That's not our budget item So. This is the other thing. It went into. Speaker 2 00:09:11 Camp infrastructure Okay. Because I had uh Susanna show me how to do that. Okay, perfect. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Okay, what else you got? Uh Araceli's receipt. I couldn't see it before because I was looking all over Concur for that. Her receipt for food? For food so that so that we can credit it back in here. Did, you see it? Were you able to see it? I'm going to go back and look now that I have credit card list. Speaker 1 00:09:36 Okay Um if you can't see it, I want to say it may have been on my card and I sent it to. Like I categorized it as an expense for. Speaker 2 00:09:47 If you can send me a copy of the receipt, I am going to send it over to my April and say, credit this back on the next bill. Speaker 1 00:09:53 Let me go in while we're talking. Speaker 2 00:09:55 Okay, what else you got? Um, Lena she and I are going to meet on Thursday. Sorry that bread went down wrong. Um, and go over all of her co- pilot stuff. And that's Lana Lana Lana got it Lana. Speaker 1 00:10:12 Very nice. Speaker 2 00:10:15 Yeah. I just I'm gonna make her a friend. That's all I can do. So much better. Okay, Make her a friend and she's getting a lot of pushback from that SEO guy. Seems to be a jerk. He's such a jerk. He seems like Jeremy Jordan Um, by the way, I need to reach out to Sergio Jeremy's. New computer isn't gonna meet the needs, but he was looking at his old computer His. Old computer is more powerful than his new computer Oh, the one that's right here versus the one he dropped? Mm- hmm, I forgot I was petty. Speaker 1 00:10:45 But does he need it still? I guess my question. Speaker 2 00:10:48 He hasn't come back and asked for it. Speaker 1 00:10:49 Let's just wait till he asks for it. Okay, but you okay, are you recording? Yes, okay. Can you go back and ask say to Sergio, Are you okay with me holding on Lucio's thing until he absolutely asks for it because. Speaker 1 00:11:07 It'd be easier to put in next year's budget and get it for him next year. And I don't know. I get that he may get a large quantity of items, like he may get a lot of photos, right? After let's say after um Stollman, he may get a shitload of photos. But he's probably not going to get a huge like. I mean just it doesn't happen this way anymore, right? Like people can do things like if you're working with a graphic designer, they'll drop it in something that you mutually can look at in. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:39 Yeah, He's a little bit lost. Yes, uh, but he hasn't reached out to me. Speaker 1 00:11:44 So say to him, I'd be happy to. You can even say that hold until he actually asks for it. Don't seem like it's a real need. If you want to throw me under the bus right there, I have no problem with continuing that conversation and likeum yeah why? Yeah why? Somebody needs to make a real serious like, And it needs to go in their budget. Well, it actually could go in their budget, but I don't even think he needs it. I hate to even hit the marketing budget. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:18 Did you give me access to Paylocity? Speaker 1 00:12:21 No, Because she keeps asking me what I need to do and I forget every time. Speaker 2 00:12:26 Automation of onboarding. Yes, Because I'd like to finish that Asana task for you because some of the Asana tasks are pending you and I don't. And I need I need to go in on the Asana tasks. Speaker 1 00:12:39 Okay, I'm going. I have to look at Natalie's emails. So, I think she may have emailed me how to do it and I just forgot. Okay, Um okay. So let me go to Concord. Speaker 2 00:12:54 Because I was working in Asana yesterday, rather than using my API connection. Uh, huh because I noticed my API connection was marking some things and not marking others. All right. And I was like, that one, I just need to ask Machon for Paylocity again. Speaker 1 00:13:10 Actually, after I do this Concord thing, we can go in and Paylocity and see what she says to me. I'm gonna go in my email. Speaker 3 00:13:17 Okay. Also, Speaker 2 00:13:26 Uh part of the Starlink issue was they were out of stock for a minute. Also send that over to Kelly. Speaker 1 00:13:32 Nope send it to Sergio and. Speaker 2 00:13:34 Kelly perfect. Speaker 2 00:13:36 I'll do that. Um, the there is some there's a need for five unmanaged switches. I'd rather buy that through Amazon and send that to her rather than go through Crimson. He said five switches, five unmanaged switch switches. I'll. Speaker 3 00:13:57 Send you I'll send you the. Speaker 3 00:14:31 Oh, I can do it by. Thank. Speaker 2 00:14:36 You for making this thing to sign on. You are so welcome. I needed. Speaker 2 00:14:43 They're$ 40 a piece. The switches. Speaker 1 00:14:52 So, I asked them for months to send me the training. They, they finally showed me where I figured it out and then they confirmed it. And said, that is how to see. Speaker 2 00:15:14 Okay. That I guess sent to you is what we need. And just needs to be sent to camp. And we need, let's go ahead and do six, just in case, so that they have one in case of failures. Speaker 1 00:16:20 Loving whisper, by the way. Speaker 2 00:16:22 Mhm. Your intern was a little confused by me this morning when she was stepping out because I was talking to myself. She turned and looked at me and I was like, I didn't even pay attention to her. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:16:43 It was funny. Speaker 1 00:17:18 This one, and it's not a huge deal, But um we had a oh my, okay, so I have a printer that's similar, not identical, but similar to this one at home. Yeah. Kasha purchased it for me. And so I called i the help desk, and they said, I said, hey, can you it's supposed to automatically order toners? But yeah, first, that's what Kasha told me. Well it doesn't. Speaker 1 00:17:49 Yeah. And so I was like, is that true? I don't know. Speaker 2 00:17:53 I just see like, uh, yeah. I'm gonna have to reach out to our Canon rep about your home printer. Speaker 1 00:18:04 So it's like why did he purchase it in the same way he purchased. Speaker 2 00:18:26 All right. I also need to have another conversation with with Canon this year, one of the printers. It's it's time for the year yearly conversation with them. Oh, while you are looking at that, just a reminder: the week of the eighteenth. Speaker 1 00:18:53 So uh for. The week of the 18 th, you're out. Speaker 2 00:18:58 Well, I because I've been out so much, I actually cut down my days. Um She has to be there on the 19 th at 11:00 a. m. For to to move into her dorm. So, we're going to drive back that night and I'm going to take the next day off. But I think it's the 18 th, I'm going to work a half a day here and then go home, get the kids and drive to Merced. Speaker 1 00:19:28 Scheduling those meetings, we just need 30 minutes. It's basically okay. It's it's the first round because some are not going to happen for these. Here's what I'm trying to do. Speaker 2 00:19:38 Um and the 11 t h I'm out, but I was going to plan on nothing on the 18 t h and nothing on the 11 t h, right? But on theum well, the 18 t h, we can do morning morning, okay, but the 11 t h I'm planning on switching my Monday and Tuesday. So I'll be here on that Monday rather than that Tuesday. Speaker 2 00:19:59 Cause Sharp needs me on site on the eleventh, and then I also have a dentist appointment and a root canal scheduled. Speaker 1 00:20:07 Okay. And on the tenth, that'll be fine. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:20:18 Um Okay so I'll get back to this find schedule meetings. Speaker 2 00:20:39 She's leaving me, Michelle. She's leaving me. Who? Oh, she doesn't love that. She'll be back in just a minute. Speaker 1 00:20:48 The minute adulting needs to happen, and she'll be like running back. Yeah, yeah. Okay, some cybersecurity training? Yes ELT Finance HR We need this to happen. We just need about an hour things we need to be mindful of at power. Promised it to them. I told them we were going to do it, and so if you could just ask them for dates, ask Carl me and Sergio for dates. Speaker 2 00:21:17 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 1 00:21:20 Um, and yeah, like thirty forty five minutes of answering questions, Maybe give some general overview of things that we need to be mindful that are coming our way because I know we had that the one where she was, you know, it seemed legit in her eyes. Speaker 1 00:21:38 This training is to that and then things that we may experience personally, but because we're in our position positions or in our departments may come across. Yes. So things that may be particular to ELT and then things that are particular to first specifically HR. And then back for finance as well. Okay. Um, all right, wanting an update on. Speaker 2 00:21:59 Blue Blue Wave. So I. So he sent me a list of all the phone numbers, which I want to get with you on Zach. Of all the extensions that are listed, we have all the inventory done. I think I forwarded you an email stating it's done. Um, I need to go through in the email output. I need to go through the inventory report because I just got them yesterday, the final sites. Um, But I had Zach send me over all the extensions that are in use by Ability First now. So we can see if they've not been used and get them out of the system because then it'll make our phone bill a lot less. Speaker 1 00:22:37 And then we also need, we need an intern. Hold on, I'm sorry. Okay. I don't know what he's going to say. I'm going to start this as an alternate. Hello? Bryce, I'm in a meeting. How can I help you? Dale won't stop bothering me! Okay, can you call Dad? Yeah! Tell Dale that um it's going to be a problem if you don't leave me alone but call Dad! Can you guys go to your respective corners? Alright. Speaker 1 00:23:07 I'm just gonna tell you, I don't know what he's gonna say. Ooh. I. Speaker 2 00:23:13 Have determined in the last two weeks that extended foster care might be my niche. So. Speaker 1 00:23:21 She went back to Vicki or she's still staying with you? Speaker 2 00:23:23 She is with me permanently tomorrow we signed the official foster contract. Speaker 1 00:23:27 Oh, okay. So she's still going to stay even though it came in this weird way? She is staying with me permanently. Speaker 2 00:23:33 Okay cool And she got her first job, She went yesterday for her interview, got the job today. She started orientation. Okay, I'm happy for her at McDonald's, Speaker 1 00:23:45 Which I love because I know your house too. Speaker 2 00:23:48 Uh, I don't know yet; they haven't told her which location she's going to. But I love it because I worked at McDonald's in high school and it. Speaker 1 00:23:55 I worked at Burger King. So we're a little bit rivalry, same same food, but different streets, Speaker 2 00:24:01 But at least she gets at least she gets the customer service experience. I'm just saying, Speaker 1 00:24:05 You don't want to work the Sundays after after like one o'clock. I was like, the day I was like, no, I'm good. Okay. So so and the meetings with program. You know what are their staff needs? What are their staff issues? Um what problems are they having? And this is so we can begin to talk about automation. Yes right. So just going to tell you right now, our billing process supported employment staff. I did this job 15 years ago that they do now, And 15 years ago, it is the same process for billing to the to the Department of Rehab. Yeah. And I'm sure there are some steps. So I want to kind of get our foot in there, talk about your their other one is scheduling. That's just for that program. Yeah. Soum yeah Okay, Speaker 2 00:24:57 Perfect That's going to improve efficiencies across all programs, build a partnership with you and them. Speaker 1 00:25:03 And, then what are some other like needs from um we were talking about Procare moving away from Procare, and they supported employment has. SATWorks. Mhm. So, I looked at SATWorks. Yeah, And I also, it does some of the things, but it doesn't do all the things that they needed to do. Speaker 2 00:25:24 I'm also I've also looked at Care Logic for you guys. Okay. So, I looked at that at the beginning of the year, when you first started having me look at. Moving away. Speaker 1 00:25:35 This will allow us to hone in on what are those needs, what are those. So I don't know if you want to come up with a rubric that works for you. I'm happy to accept anything you got like a rubric of like questions, Q and A and kind of fill in whatever they say. So we can do some larger assessment for the ELT. And Lana is I'm sorry I'm sorry ELT. So basically No, Speaker 2 00:25:57 You started to say Lana. Speaker 1 00:25:58 Lana is our interim CDO, And so, with her being in that role, this will allow her to hear more about IT too. But, it'll give all of the leaders, an understanding of we kind of have been talking about problems and how to make efficiencies. So we may if we fix somebody's using five hours to build, to make that an hour and a half process, You know, by doing some things that you know like lean management comes into play. Speaker 1 00:26:28 Then, they can spend that those other four hours doing something program related or finding a new problem to fix or something like that. But we are very much manual in our program side. Speaker 2 00:26:40 Yeah, I mean, very. I want to and this will be a September thing. I want to sit down with some of them and just That's what we're doing. No, I meant not just Oh. Speaker 1 00:26:51 Yes. Okay, so this is first round Yes by all means. One of the things I want to see what is the low hanging fruit. This will allow us to like, what's the low hanging fruit? Which ones can we go fix something? Supported employment is definitely one. We need to fix some things for them pretty easily that helps their billing process and helps them focus on other areas. Um, but I don't know. I don't know the difference between um East LA's issues versus Long Beach versus LA Frank. They may all have different. Speaker 1 00:27:23 Or do they have the same issue? Speaker 2 00:27:24 Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to go sit down with them. Speaker 1 00:27:28 Yes. So I think this is the first step is understanding, Um kind of what it's just like a fact finding thing, and then I want to be able to roll it up to ELT. Okay. Speaker 1 00:27:39 Good day. Speaker 2 00:27:40 Um, I would also like to send out another survey to all staff. Speaker 1 00:27:45 Okay Oh, all staff you did one before Can you send that one to me? I was looking for it the other day, Yeah, I think about your name in and survey. And of course, I just expected that to bring it up. Speaker 2 00:27:55 It's been about a year, but yeah. Um, I instead of asking how well is it working for you? I'd rather ask specific questions. Speaker 1 00:28:04 Yeah, how can we make your job easier? Like, what are the things you're doing? Repetitive over and over again, that maybe we can help you with? And can you give me access to see how that data is coming in? Mhm. One of the things that came upum and I was, She always exists. So we're in the meeting last Friday talking about program and what issues are, and we have a couple of things on the HR side. And she goes, "This is Jessica." She goes, "Well, you know, my phones aren't working. They're, they're not when people are out in the community, they're not charged like they're not keeping their charge." I said there's a couple of things at play. Are they charging them the night before? And everybody started laughing. I was like, I'm not laughing. I'm like these are your folks are. Speaker 1 00:28:50 Between twenty one and twenty seven, right? She said, "Yeah." I said, "Yeah. I didn't think about charging their phone the night before." I am just saying. No, I said the other thing is do they do their updates? And, do they have eighty two apps open because all of those things will drain your battery, and you won't be able to use it. Yep. And so she's like, "I don't know," but I said okay. Why is it every thirty forty five days when we have this meeting, that is when she brings me the issue? We're at the point, Or I'm like, you owe me ten bucks. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:29:22 So speaking of cell phones, Do you want to go with a thirty six month plan and get the phones for free? Speaker 1 00:29:32 That's what you were going back and forth with her on. Thirty six month plan, get the phones for free, but the service we still have to pay the service in the line right? Speaker 2 00:29:41 For thirty six months. Speaker 1 00:29:43 And I mean I don't think we're going to leave Verizon. No, I mean, honestly, Speaker 2 00:29:51 I can always just reach out and say we want Daniel as our rep. Or not Daniel. David as our rep. He's our guy and We have to wait for after November. They just gave us$ 5, Speaker 1 00:30:01 000. We can wait till after Okay After Strolling Roll Yeah So I'm fine with that Let's move forward with some Verizon. Speaker 2 00:30:14 The 25 lines on Androids 25 lines. Speaker 1 00:30:17 Okay, this is a problem for me. This is me. Oh my goodness, who manages inventory on that side? On the help desk drives me nuts that we're like I am reading a ticket, and they're like we're out of that. It's just like running out of toilet paper. Speaker 2 00:30:35 Yeah, so it did not it. It is its docking. Speaker 1 00:30:40 Stations and monitors phones. So. Speaker 2 00:30:44 We, have we are working on creating a whole new inventory system, which you didn't know that it was behind the scenes and I was pushing for it. Um not not just because of you guys, but because I was seeing it in a couple other places. Um so I am pushing that everything we have this extra here is going to headquarters so that they stop saying, well I'm not going to ability first. So I can't see that's got to stop. I've already put a stop to that. Okay. So um, And Vana is now in charge of it. I love Vana to death, And she she gets those boys whipped into shape. So often, it's not even funny. Okay, um, so I've tasked her with helping me put that up, and her manager has agreed to allow me to use her. Okay, yeah starting next week. Speaker 1 00:31:24 Running out of of that is that, to me, sounds like literally sounds like we ran out of toilet paper. Yeah, I have six kidsum six family members. So yeah, sounds terrible to me. Um but yeah, phones that's all. Yes. The only thing, Chris, I would say if we're talking and we're getting back just getting back for you to get back to people sooner. But phones, the monitors, I do see them ask me if it's a Crimson. If you are ordering it and it's your inventory, but if you are doing an invoice, I am like why are you not at least on it? Yeah. They drive they're driving me nuts. It's a sales team. Speaker 2 00:32:00 Yes. So I talked to Avi and Shinkey today and said, hey, just send them to me. I will approve them. Speaker 1 00:32:08 I don't need to need the approval. Yeah, wait so. But I do feel like they're not. I feel like you said that like six months ago. Yes, so I'm gonna have very happy with that. And then, I think we just want to pull up from what's his name? Kobe again. Like. The owl thing did not go over well. Speaker 2 00:32:27 And yeah, pull Kobe. Speaker 1 00:32:29 Yeah, sorry, we gave him another chance. We'll wait to give him another chance in the future, but it's just like this. Speaker 2 00:32:36 So we have a new guy. His name is Adrian. Okay. And he's come here. I've given him a tour. Speaker 1 00:32:41 What's the lady's name that comes? Vonna Vonna, Vonna's great, Seems to be doing it. Caleb was was pretty good too Um. But yeah, we just haven't been able to sign. So we just can't get them accomplished Yes So. Speaker 2 00:32:52 We're going to pull Kobeum and it's just going to be Adrian and Vonna. Uh, not Kirabell Caleb Kirabell is his brother Uh. Caleb has moved to another position. Oh. Okay? Yeah, one that's a little slower. Yeah, a little lower speed. Speaker 1 00:33:11 Okay. He was a nice guy though. He is. Um, okay. So we talked about docking stations Maria Flores I'm I said her I'm saying her name, because I feel like people are like my computers are not working. My monitors. Yes. Speaker 2 00:33:27 And some of it I think is true. And some of it I kind of. Speaker 1 00:33:34 So is there, I mean they they kind of go into my computer and my system often before. They say it's broken. Is there a way to do an assessment and the other thing is like, I think we have to get really cheesy backup um cords for the printer. I mean for the laptop and I'm trying to like, I want us to have a laptop that works, but people are stealing it because it can charge your phone. Yep. So I'm like, Man, maybe we just buy cheesy ones and they're like," Hey, well don't lose that first one." I just like I just I don't know how to fight. This problem is what I am saying. But I feel like people are full crap with everybody. Like, I just Jay just told me on a call the other day he was like," Yeah, you know what? People are losing their computer chargers left and right." Really? Speaker 2 00:34:26 Yeah. Um We have a way. To monitor who we give those to, and let finance put it against their budget. Speaker 1 00:34:37 Yeah, I'm just I'm good with that. So if we can, Can you get a note to finance about that and maybe see me on it? Be like, hey. A lot of departments are just I, don't know who's accountable for this, but they're just kind of letting their people do whatever with with their chargers. I am seeing a lot now, I feel like the docking stations make sense. Mhm, I feel like a monitor makes some sense. Um, yeah, and then there was one person, Larissa Larissa at East LA that she's a new program specialist for that site, like program supervisor basically. Yeah and I'm just like I don't know what the speed is. They were they was like hey Michelle can you approve it? And I'm like. Speaker 1 00:35:28 This has been out there on the ethers for like two weeks. What's moving so slow? That's another reason why I want them to put you on the approving. Yeah, because I am like, what is going on here? My emails have been very low in the last week, so I am like, why is this still out here? Yeah. Um yeah. Speaker 2 00:35:45 Yeah. I will. What was Laura saying? Speaker 1 00:35:50 I am confused, now said, needs her. She she needs a new setup, because she's a new supervisor. So I think she. Had no, she was not. She was a community coach, so she didn't have a laptop. So she needs a laptop and all this stuff because she's been promoted. Speaker 1 00:36:15 Um. And then what's the telecom systems uh Comcast? Or they have they worked anything out with. AT&T because that was a question that Carl asked me. Speaker 2 00:36:29 Um, so I talked to Susanna today and I asked her like, where are you getting these invoices? And she goes, Oh, I log into the account and pulled invoices. I was like, okay from AT&T and Spectrum. She goes yeah. And I said okay, I need to see those invoices. Like I need to see you and I need access to the accounts. She gave me access to the accounts today. Speaker 1 00:36:48 Perfect, but i know that they were working on getting us like a two year going back. Speaker 2 00:36:54 Mhm yep. And Ium I think they paused until we paid that invoice. Okay. Which I don't blame them, but. Speaker 1 00:37:01 No, no, it's fine. Now if they can get back to it would be nice. Speaker 2 00:37:04 Yeah. I gave Blake a heads up today on where it's at. Speaker 1 00:37:08 Okay The other part of that Um Let me see Um I talked to Tim Oh God, Jesus!!!!!!!!* laughter* I talked to Tim in interim guy Okay You give me his name? Speaker 2 00:37:25 Oh yeah, that guy. Speaker 1 00:37:26 So, uh, we talked about two interns. One of them beingUm, training. Okay. And the other person talked about training and we talked about data management. Okay. So, he asked my availability this week I'm not available, but yes, I gave him next week's availability to sit down with and want to to attend a call Yes Um so I'll let you know how that goes, but. If you can consider, I like to do interns with. Yeah. I like this what I like project based, like this because they get to learn it's a little easier. I do think grunt work is a part of it. Yeah. But I'd like to get them something structured. Is that something you can do or familiar with and want me to help out in that way? That's very HR, but we need a J, we need like JDs and like what projects they work on. So we know at the end of it, they get to completion. Okay. So. Speaker 1 00:38:24 The other thing is Blue Wave and this Canon right here for people to scan into. That has been a huge. We have another HR group coming in in a month, and I need them to be able to scan documents in. Speaker 2 00:38:42 Where do you want the documents to go? Speaker 1 00:38:44 If we could do a file folder for them in our HR Teams, that would be great. Like each time it's different folder. Folder, But they can they can go in and title it, what the name of the terminated employee is. So, Speaker 2 00:38:60 What I suggested Chase last week was we create one code for the printer that is tied to just a basic account that has access to that team's folder, and that's the only place it scans to. Speaker 1 00:39:12 Okay. So I like that. Can you say that to all to all of IT so we're aware? You know, email all of IT though That's the plan because. Speaker 2 00:39:25 Uh, I don't know about Chase. Cause, that's what I was going to do for Dawn if she was interning under you. Okay. Um, we can still do it with her. Um, Speaker 1 00:39:36 If I know she only has a couple more weeks, but yeah. Speaker 2 00:39:38 Um, she today she just wasn't feeling good. Her birthday was on Sunday. Speaker 1 00:39:46 Oh tell her say happy birthday later on. Um, gotta get her something a Blue Wave, um access downstairs we need to, Some way to get in and check the voicemail because it's at 2. But yet last week I checked it, it was at 0 week before I checked, it was at 2 hundred. It's probably way beyond that. And somebody needs to go in and clear those voicemails. Speaker 2 00:40:07 Yes, uh they gave me access to the system. I got to go in and check that access. Speaker 1 00:40:14 Dan is so mad that you all have the Burp Up Burpee Burpee? Oh, okay. He should have been doing his job. Sorry, Speaker 2 00:40:21 He is he don't even he doesn't even look while we're here. Uh, okay, whatever dude. So uh, talking about April. Um so I can't remember which one of my texts was it that reached out and said, so we're offboarding April and I was like, no, and they're like, oh okay. Speaker 1 00:40:39 So do you want to talk to Alma about that? Do you want to talk to her what that language needs to be when you just want to be disabled and not separate from the company? Because when I said, hey, can you ask them to disable her? But there was like that is exactly what she asked not. Speaker 2 00:40:54 So it's so for for SCHARP, what we do is we differentiate between suspend offboarding, uh and LOA. Oh okay. And so for LOA, this is what we do. Um and that's very helpful. I made I made all the process changes last week. LOA, We suspend their Verizon line on both they get two Verizon lines. Every employee does so suspend both Verizon lines suspend their access in Breeo, so they can't get into any doors. And then we uh change their password, but don't block their account because if you block their account, they can't get emails. Emails or bounce come back. So we change the password. Okay. And log them out of all devices. Perfect. Speaker 1 00:41:37 Um and. Speaker 2 00:41:38 That's what I told whoever it was. Speaker 1 00:41:40 So she just may need some help with that. Yeah um so there's a team dynamic two people might be going away in my department. Chase and Jessica mhm um. Let me tell you, Shane is I love Shane. Super nice, engaging. You have to get on him about the details, but that's also me, right? So and I understand that, But um just it's just like you gotta gotta be like get to the finish line. Get to the finish. I am tired of telling her that, and then Chase is very checked out, and there is something I need you to check on. Okay. Jessica has said it after he told her. Speaker 1 00:42:22 She didn't get an offer. So basically, somebody was who were cranking offers. She didn't push the offer through, and he was like, "Hold on a minute. This is this might be an intern, but if you do this to the intern, you could do this to employee that I need to sign offers." That's my job. So that's really um Almond who was talking about it. And so I'm going to her and like, "Hey, you can't leave this like this. We got to get it together." So um she came back last week and said, Oh, he's watching TV in his office. He's sleeping or I can't tell if he's sleeping. I'm not going to get all sleepy, but I can ask you to look at pictures just like he's watching TV. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:43:06 Click the dark button on the right. Go over and click this thing. Let me see because he's probably on the visitor network, and so I can look and see what we have. Okay, Speaker 1 00:43:17 Um both of them you can put on. Speaker 1 00:43:21 Chase, Omar, and I are in agreement. Omar and I are not in agreement. Oh, we're supposed to get this stuff helpful on our next slide. After this audit, Carl is like, "I cannot she cannot be the audit person next year." Who? Omar or Jessica? Jessica she did the 403(b) audit last year. She's doing it again this year, and it's like follow up you're not done until it's done just because you sent an email doesn't mean it's done. That isn't her. I sent an email. Yeah, I am done. He's pissed. There is so many things in like everyday operations stuff, federal is not a priority there, Um and just different leaders. And even the team like was just like really struggling with her because a few managers have been around a long time. And because they're familiar with her, they prefer her because other people may not know or whatever. So she said, well. Speaker 1 00:44:20 She really works for me, and I am like, "like she really works to support her." And I am like, "I get it, ", but she has to be able to work with upper management and her team and below her. And she's she's very much like wanting her to stay. Yeah, I am still miffed about the monitor. Did you say something? You can say something. You can say something. You can do a hit holler thing. You know what I am talking about, right? Emails all and be like," Hey, if you are going to move and switch out equipment, Just kind of run it by me because that equipment is assigned to a person." Yeah. Cause she told me after she dropped it off and I was like," Uh, did you run it by IT?" Well, no. Then in all his eyes is like, oh, she lost an extra mile for. Speaker 3 00:45:11 My god. Was that fading? Speaker 2 00:45:15 I was like. Speaker 2 00:45:19 So I was like, I can suddenly hear her better. Oh, sorry. Oh no, The other day, uh, my the cable for mine, when the power went out, it shorted, it blew up the cable. Mm-hmm. I have to find a new cable. Speaker 1 00:45:33 Okay? Yeah So how's your boy doing over there? Speaker 2 00:45:44 Let's just say that today's budget and expense meeting, which is every Tuesday from eleven a.m. to one p.m. he tried his hand at something today and I smacked him down. And the entire time, because Erin wasn't there; she's at a conference, Crystal's texting me on my phone, and both of us are trying to keep our faces as neutral as possible. He makes it harder. Yes, And there was a collective sigh of relief when he had to jump off because he was getting on a plane. And Doctor Barbara was even happy when he got off. But he wants to meet me next week to go over technology stack, and Doctor Barbara told him to stay in his lane. So I like that because he does try to. Speaker 1 00:46:42 And that's a here thing, Speaker 2 00:46:43 Yeah. But, Speaker 1 00:46:44 They let me get out of my lane to help them with an HR issue. But, they they pulled you out of it.; you weren't going seek it with him. It's like I'll go everywhere and I won't, Speaker 2 00:46:54 Yeah. So I built them a weekly stress survey and got them the information on a reward system that they can utilize in office that I used to love. We have Karma at Crimson, but very similar and Is it gift cards? Speaker 1 00:47:10 Yeah, Paylocity has it with their. Speaker 1 00:47:13 So, I uh previous agency had ADP. I think we had ADP. No, we were going from ADP to UPG. And in the middle. They wanted something. So we got some, it wasn't Karma, but it was like we reviewed a lot of systems like that, yeah. And so when Paylocity got it last year, I was like, oh, this is great cause. Then if you give somebody a gift card, it taxes them to four dollars, you don't have to worry about it. Nobody can your audit team is not coming to you why? Speaker 2 00:47:45 So I I put together for them the weekly survey. It only goes to ELT, including me. Mhm. Um, not to individual managers. So it goes straight up. Speaker 1 00:47:56 So it's like a so it's like is it a satisfaction survey kind of thing? Like an employee satisfaction, Speaker 2 00:48:03 But it's more like an employee stress. What what is your stress levels this week? What are your wins? What are your losses? What could help make your day better or your work better? Speaker 1 00:48:12 That's a the system that, Has done that. Um, what's its name? I think. I want to say it starts with a K. Um, we didn't use it, But we looked at it. And it did that between the supervisors, like it required the required supervision happened and the start of the supervision, The employee gave how they were feeling and and um like like every week, it would do like a. Speaker 1 00:48:43 Like, hey, seems like this is how you are feeling. And it was cool, but I was like, oh, it was not worth 30K worth. But yeah, we did a simple because. Speaker 2 00:48:52 They're on Google Forms goes into a Google Sheet. They should be on Microsoft. I am sorry. Well, I wish they were on Microsoft because Microsoft Forms handles this one better because I can make dashboards based on it. But I did it in Google Forms this time. Only people have access to that spreadsheet is ELT. No one else, no managers, nothing. Um and I'm going to try to figure out how to make a dashboard out of it. Okay. Speaker 1 00:49:19 Soum okay, I think the last one I wanted to say is I uploaded Whisper, or what else you got? Whisper not Whisper Whisper Whisper is amazing. Speaker 2 00:49:31 Um I know like I hold the two buttons and I start to talk, start to talk, but ah man, that's great. Speaker 2 00:49:40 It's Easier on the phone once you get it, but it takes a few extra steps. Um, I certainly not something I can figure out while I was driving that truck. Yeah, I I got nothing else that I can think of off the top of my head. I've just been going through the Asana checklist. We've got quite a few things that are waiting on you. Okay, But these are things that I sent you back in March. Soum they're policies right? Policies and the Ubiquiti and the security hardening for y'all's accounts, And all of that. UB key. How much was the UB key? UB keys are$ 75 a key, and you probably want to just earn experience. Speaker 1 00:50:23 Two per person? Yes. Okay, I'll go look at my end, see what's on there. Yeah, it's YUB. Speaker 1 00:50:41 Policies UB key. Anything else that needs to get out there other than No, Speaker 2 00:50:46 I'm I re I remade a list of training for staff, But I'd like to start that in September, since we're going to do all the stuff we're doing in August. Well, Speaker 1 00:50:55 I think the August conversations can inform December December. Um But I am working on video training for other clients that you guys are going to get included in this fall Okay And we can upload those can be uploaded to Kavoski as well Yes Uh. Speaker 2 00:51:14 Uh Claude. Mhm. We're still paying for the team's version. Mhm. And Alana should be added to that. Speaker 1 00:51:23 Alana can be added and so should what's that guy's name? Sergio? Uh Shane, Shane, okay. Alana probably will add more people in her department once she likes it, once. Speaker 2 00:51:38 She has a good understanding of how it works. I will add them into some of my training. I'll talk to some of my clients see if they can get at it. Okay, I am still in the hot seat over the DTLA training. Speaker 1 00:51:54 If they get, I mean, if they don't have a lot of instructions with it, she was she was a little tough. I would say no more acronyms. That was one thing I definitely tell you no more acronyms. We don't know if you i was, and i did it to uh staff member the other day. And they were like. Uh, what does that mean? I said," LOA." I said," Um, I was like you can scan it in and it'll OCR it," and they were like," Huh?" Yeah. I was like," It'll read the words." Honestly. Speaker 2 00:52:20 So they were like. Shh. I called Pete right after gave him a heads up. Said, this is one of the few companies that's ever made me want to quit Clemson. And he said what do you want to do? And I said get the train to Anzor. He said okay so Anzor's going to take it over. Speaker 1 00:52:35 I do i will be scheduling time with him probably, The second week, I'm gonna see if he's available the second week. Um, we need to do a ticketing system on the HR side. Oh, that's easy. But I want let him you know do He's got free time. Let him do that. Speaker 2 00:52:52 Yeah, But IT committee, we need to form that because he's going to come back and ask you about that. Okay, And then I'm going to be in the hot seat Are. Speaker 1 00:52:60 You want to sending me the Do you want to send Well You know what you can tell him is we're doing interviews. Speaker 1 00:53:09 Be like, hey, but I do need the committee. Like what the committee structure is like a charter. So if you can send me a charter, Um we can ask on our interviews who wants to be on the IT committee because some people may say I don't have time and I am interested. But I love. Speaker 2 00:53:29 My job all three of them. What happened? So Angie, she's pregnant one she's pregnant one, Oh, when I had Megan, yes. Um, she wanted to call me mom. Aww. And I said yes. And then she and that was over a week ago. And then she came back the other day and said, so what can baby boy call you? Cause we haven't named baby boy yet. We meaning she's asking me for you know help with naming. G-ma? I said um That's what people are gonna call me. I said, not grandma, cause I'm too young for this shit, and she started laughing. Speaker 2 00:54:07 I said Gigi or Nana Bean. Speaker 1 00:54:09 Oh, I like that. Speaker 2 00:54:10 Yeah, so I think we settled on Nana Bean, Speaker 1 00:54:13 But I think I am doing over Nana Bean too. But I like Gigi. And yeah, their god mom they call G mom. Oh, that's awesome. Yes, so she has to explain all she's like:" I am not their grandmother." She doesn't look old enough to be their grandmother? She's like:" I am not their grandmother; I am their godmom." But we love that. But my husband calls them. My husband and her had to make it ghetto. She wanted to, you want to know what they call each other? What's that? So she calls him God baby mama, and he calls her God baby daddy. And they do it in public, and I just go, I cringe, and my oldest daughter cringes. My middle daughter is following. She laughs so hard. She was like y'all so ghetto! Speaker 1 00:55:05 They were like, we just do it to embarrass your mom. I'm like, the shame of it all. Oh yeah. Speaker 2 00:55:12 My godmother who is the one who ended up adopting me, but when I was a baby they wanted me to call her Ma, M A Patterson which is her last name. Oh Ma Patterson. And I couldn't say Patterson, so it became M a- P and Pappy for her husband. And then yeah, oh gosh, and then it turned into Mom. And, then it turned into Blue Mom because of my nieces and nephews couldn't say, uh, wanted to say blue but they couldn't or no not blue. She so in that family the grandmothers were always called mom as well. Mhm. And. So the kids were trying to differentiate between the different moms and one of them latched on to blue because she always wore a blue denim shirt button up shirt over her t-shirts. Okay. And so she became Blue Mom. Okay. Speaker 2 00:56:03 And then blue. So, that's too cute. Yeah. Okay, um, I am going to be a Gigi. Gigi. I like Gigi. Does she have a name for the baby? Not yet. We haven't figured that out because she's trying, Shane is trying not Shane. Sean is trying I keep calling him Shane because of Shame here. Sean is her boyfriend? Sean is her boyfriend. He's on the east coast taking care of his parents. He's uh. Honorable discharge from the military from the army. Um, and he's getting some contractor experience working for his uncle. Okay. Um, and then in October he moves back, But she's going to stay with me for a full six months after the baby's born. So she has that support. Yeah, she can adjust. That's nice. And she's going to school doing dental hygiene stuff. Mm- hmm. Speaker 3 00:56:55 So yeah, Speaker 1 00:56:56 I'll figure it I mean continue on our path can be. Speaker 2 00:56:59 Quite lucrative, Yeah, I am so proud of them. And Dom, oh my gosh, Dom is loving being a sister. Really? She is so happy right now. Like so she's kind of a middle child right now. No, she's the youngest. She's younger than Ladanya is one month older than her? Oh wow! Okay. What. Speaker 1 00:57:25 And she's little dictator? Yeah, the youngest is, Hence, the guy that just called me and said he was bothering. I mean, yeah, they have life three hundred and sixteen. You know what that is, right? Yes, I have so we've got it. We've had it probably like ten twelve years now since our girls were smaller. And um when my husband and I stopped looking at where the girls are, our youngest did not. So he would say in Atlanta. I've seen that you got in late where would you go? He'd call him in the morning where'd you go? She's like Bryce i. Speaker 1 00:57:57 He's like, I don't care about you being grown. I need to know where you went. And she's like, I was traveling with my boyfriend. Nah, He was like that took him down a whole rabbit hole until he met the boyfriend tonight. And, then she does it to Morgan all the time when she's the one that lives with us. He's always like, where are you going? Like, my husband does it too. If you're on the freeway and you say you're going somewhere and you go the wrong way? He'll be like, where are you going? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:58:29 Because I am notorious for like talking and not knowing what I am. Um, okay. Speaker 2 00:58:35 Ladonia just walked home from her orientation. Mmm, I am so proud of her. Yeah, this being this doing the external foster. Speaker 1 00:58:46 Care three bedrooms still? I mean, Speaker 2 00:58:49 So yes, but nobody knows that I am not in the three bedroom. Um, except for DCFS. DCFS is the only one because everybody keeps giving me their opinions. So I am like, I am in a three bedroom. Speaker 1 00:58:60 I was thinking, do you need to because of timing? Speaker 2 00:59:04 So no, DCFS is good with all of it. They got all the emergency information. And um that's what I was saying like, Speaker 1 00:59:10 Because now you have all three girls, but at some like in a couple of months, like in four weeks, Speaker 2 00:59:15 You are not going to have all three girls. You are going to have down to two and could they share? And then even when this person is going to leave, so I am like, do you need? So, um, we are moving to a three- bedroom in October. That's already in the place. Well, Speaker 1 00:59:27 Because Dom will have his space to come back. She can have her own space. Speaker 2 00:59:30 Yes. And then Dom will have his own space. Speaker 1 00:59:33 Um, The other thing is we want to continue doing care. And I can't do an under 18 in the same room as an over 18 Oh. Gosh, That's, a DCFS rule. And that's a hard one But um We're going to wait and do that in October. Speaker 2 00:59:49 Right about the time the baby's due, And then um Dom is still going to kind of stay in my bedroom because that's what she wants, but we'll separate Angie because of the baby. Angie and Ladanya. Um but for right now if the baby comes early before we move, We're going to have room in that bedroom when Dom leaves to take out her little bed. Yeah. Because the bunk beds Angie and Ladanya are on, and so that'll leave a whole side of the room clean for the crib. So. Speaker 1 01:00:18 But I. Now that was saying like you don't have to rush really, because you're still they're gonna be kind of fluid and moving in and out. Speaker 2 01:00:24 Yeah. And I may go back to younger kids, But I also think that I would like to do younger kids and older kids at the same time because giving them a place to land. Mhm. Like Angie got kicked out because her boyfriend dropped off medication at the house that she was at, and the foster mom was not happy about that. Like he literally walked up, dropped it off on the porch and left. Speaker 2 01:00:52 He Didn't try to stay or anything, but what did she say? Speaker 1 01:00:55 It was her safety or. Speaker 2 01:00:57 Something along those lines. And put a fourteen day notice in on Angie. And it's not on I mean in the foster support groups, it's not uncommon. Speaker 1 01:01:06 For siblings to like that. Yeah, I imagine the walking on eggshells are mhm. Speaker 2 01:01:13 In fact, I was a little petty because I know the foster mom's in the same group I'm in. And I said," Thank you to the uh, the RFA uh or the RF that uh 14 day noticed a 20 year old kid just because her boyfriend showed up to drop something off. You've given me a fantastic daughter." But I'm yeah, I'm petty like that. Yeah. Speaker 1 01:01:38 Not everybody can be Michelle's mom. No. Speaker 2 01:01:42 That's your job. My job is just to be. Speaker 1 01:01:46 I like it. My. Speaker 2 01:01:48 Job is to be Auntie Sally from the South. Speaker 1 01:01:52 Yeah, I was telling Sergio, I was like, you need a southern aunt because they'll tell you the truth all the time. Speaker 3 01:02:01 Yeah, and it. Speaker 1 01:02:03 Will sound like it's sweet but it's really not. Speaker 2 01:02:06 And he'll have bless your heart tacked on the end of it. Speaker 1 01:02:08 Oh, that is like so bad because. Speaker 2 01:02:12 Half the time, I am thinking," Bless your heart" about this one over here. Oh, which one? Jessica. Yeah, because when I hear her talking. Speaker 1 01:02:23 I think she's doing it with it because she's not going to have it for a while. We're kind of home and not giving her that time. But yeah, it's like she doesn't want to sit there and there is this. Are you seeing how her engagement impacts others? Speaker 2 01:02:39 That's where because I mentally I go into my southern roots with a bless your heart in my brain. It's constant when I am here and there is some days. It's just me and her. She's so great. Yeah, she began saying that. I know, I am going to stop recording because we're already at an hour. Speaker 1 01:02:58 Yeah, we're right kind of.
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07-17 Meeting: HPE Deal Registration Form and Business Plan
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- > Date: 2026-07-17 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [April] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### HPE Deal Registration Form Completion - April is completing a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) deal registration form to obtain a discount for a potential client. - April and Speaker 2 reviewed the form questions together. - Determined answers: - No to question 7. - No to question 8 regarding written rules for travel and business. - Yes to question 9. - No to questions related to Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Ukraine. - Answers from 1 to 4 were confirmed correct. - After answering the initial questions, they completed and submitted the Anti-Corruption Compliance Declaration. ### Business Plan and Customer Information - The form requests the 12-month business plan, specifically expected revenue from reselling HPE products. - Speaker 2 suggested a placeholder figure of $1,000 but was uncertain. - The form requires customer names; the only potential customer, KCRW, has not signed a contract yet. - They decided to pause form completion at this stage. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] April will pause the HPE deal registration form. - [ ] April will contact Arthur on Monday (2026-07-20) to obtain the required business plan information, including expected revenue. - [ ] April will confirm whether signed customer information is mandatory and, if so, identify eligible customers or alternative placeholders per HPE guidance. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following unresolved items that lack clear action steps; please pay attention: > 1. The expected 12-month revenue from reselling HPE products is unknown; the suggested placeholder of $1,000 is not definitive. > 2. The form requires customer information, but the only potential customer (KCRW) has not signed a contract. It is unclear how to proceed if a signed customer is mandatory.
- Date
- Jul 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Yeah, I am applying for a deal reg with HPE, and I am in the middle of the form. But yeah, there are questions. Oh, here it is. I need to just take yes or no. Can you see my screen? Who is HPE again? Yeah, I can see your screen. Um Hewlett Packard Enterprise. So we have yeah we have a quote with a potential client that, We need to get a deal, Reg, so we can avail the discount. Um, so here it is. I've already said no to the questions that I am aware that should be yeah, that should be no. So for number seven, Um did any officer No? Okay, this one Nope Okay about this Uh? Speaker 2 00:00:53 Oh wait. Uh eight is yes. Just can you fill internal regulations? Or policies aimed, yeah. Does your company have written rules regarding travel uh in business? Actually, put You can't click on the rest of them. Speaker 1 00:01:18 Like no for the rest? Speaker 2 00:01:20 I don't think you can click it because it's gray. Oh, actually hit no on eight because we don't really yeah yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:29 Yes, to nine. Okay. No to Cuba, no to Iran, actually no to all of those. Speaker 1 00:01:38 Yeah okay, no Syria, no Ukraine, no. Okay okay about this. Speaker 2 00:01:51 Yes uh well it's honestly not applicable. Speaker 1 00:01:56 So should we say now? Speaker 2 00:02:03 I would say yes, just to put it in. Cause we don't, we don't, it's not applicable to us. So I'm just gonna say yes. Speaker 1 00:02:10 Okay. All right, I think that's about it. So just to check on this one as well is this? It's okay. Hang on one second April, Speaker 2 00:02:22 what did you say? Yeah, yeah, we we're gonna reorganize that later because it's uh, it's organized, but it's a little messy. All right sorry what'd you say? Speaker 1 00:02:34 It's okay. We, just want to confirm with you if I'm correct with all the answers that I have here from one to four. Speaker 2 00:02:40 Yeah, it looks like those are correct. Speaker 1 00:02:44 Okay, perfect. Hang on, let me just click next maybe there. I hope there's no more questions. Oh Anti- Corruption Compliance Declaration. Speaker 2 00:03:04 Go down just slightly. Slightly? Yeah, just slightly. Okay, and then. Okay, scroll down. Okay. There. And. yeah, so you can submit that. Speaker 1 00:03:24 Perfect! Okay, next. Um. Oops! Business plan in the next twelve months. Is this something that I should get from Lisa? Speaker 2 00:03:45 Uh, that might be an another question. What is our expect like? I would put like three hundred dollars. Because I don't know the, I don't know the contract we're going after. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:02 Or, maybe can you get something from the SLI? Or or no, that's just quarterly. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:11 It's, it's how much revenue are we going to get by reselling HP's products. Speaker 1 00:04:17 Oh, that I'm not that I'm not sure, yeah because we've only counted yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:27 I would say maybe like, I don't know put a thousand. Speaker 1 00:04:32 A thousand. Okay. Speaker 2 00:04:34 I just, I might be wrong on that. Speaker 1 00:04:36 Provider number hundred project, please expand a section below using the plus icon. Customer name. We only have one that they haven't even signed yet, I guess it's KCRW if you're familiar with them. Speaker 2 00:04:51 Yeah But we've. Speaker 1 00:04:53 Quoted them for. Speaker 2 00:04:55 You but that's not really Oh yeah, that is required Yeah. Speaker 2 00:05:03 Yeah, this one. This one may have to wait until October. Speaker 1 00:05:07 Okay, yeah, that's okay. I can pause this form for now, and then I can go back where I left off. Um, yes since it's allowed in in this form. Okay, it's okay. Yeah, I'll just reach out to Arthur. I think he'll be back on Monday so Yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:29 Okay, that's all. Thank you so much, Christi, for your help again. No worries. Thank you. Bye. Okay, thank you. Bye.
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04-21 Lingguhang Pulong: Pag-streamline ng Proseso ng Procurement at Sales
- Notes
- > Impormasyon ng Pulong: > Petsa: Abril 21, 2026 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 2] [Speaker 4] [April] [Sergio] ## Mga Tala ng Pulong ### Proseso ng Pag-abiso sa Pagbili (Procurement Notification) - Tinalakay kung sino ang dapat makatanggap ng mga automated email notification para sa mga order. - Si Maggie ([Speaker 4]) ay hindi na nagpapadala ng mga email para sa procurement sa IGP. - Ang mga approval ay mula kay Vince; si Maggie ay si Vince na lamang ang ina-update tungkol sa mga order. - Nilinaw na ang “procurement notification” ay para lamang sa internal na komunikasyon. - Tinanggal si Ruben bilang point of contact upang hindi na siya makatanggap ng mga automated na abiso. ### Pag-streamline ng Proseso sa Pagitan ng Sales at Procurement - Napansin na may ilang procurement form mula sa sales na walang “user start date,” na nagiging sanhi ng hindi pagtukoy sa urgency ng order. - Na-flag ang isyu kay Olivia; nagdagdag na siya ng mandatory field para sa “user start date” sa form. - Kung urgent ang isang order, kukuha si Maggie ng presyo para sa pick-up (Best Buy) o DoorDash. - Kailangan ng pag-sync sa pagitan ng admin (procurement) at sales team upang ayusin ang mga proseso, linawin ang mga responsibilidad, at tukuyin ang mga pain point. - Dapat magkaroon ang sales team ng checklist upang matiyak na “clean order” ang naipapasa sa procurement. ### Mga Isyu sa Pagbili (Procurement) para sa mga Proyekto - Tinalakay ang isyu kung saan sinasabi nina Mark o Miguel na nabili na ang mga item para sa proyekto, ngunit sa katotohanan ay hindi pa. - Nilinaw ni Maggie ([Speaker 4]) na hinihintay niya ang go-signal mula sa kanila bago mag-order at siya pa ang nagfa-follow up. - Ang disconnect ay nasa panig ng mga project manager (Mark at Miguel) na nakakalimot na hindi pa pala sila nagbibigay ng go-signal. - May “Procurement Tracker” kung saan makikita nina Mark at Miguel ang status ng mga order; kailangan nila ng inisyatiba upang suriin ito. - Iminungkahi na kausapin sila upang magkaroon ng regular na pag-sync bago ang lingguhang “Project Queue up” para maiwasan ang maling impormasyon. ### Proseso para sa Pagbabago ng Subskripsyon ng Kliyente - Tinalakay ang isyu tungkol sa mga kliyenteng sinisingil pa rin para sa mga serbisyong hindi na ginagamit (hal. SIM, SOFOS). - Nilinaw na kapag may pagbabago (pagdagdag o pagtanggal) sa subskripsyon ng kliyente, ang “champion” ng tool o platform (hal. Security team) ang dapat mag-abiso sa admin team sa pamamagitan ng email. - Layunin nito na maiwasan ang maling pagsingil (billing) at matiyak na natatala ang mga pagbabago bago pa ang quarterly audit. - Ang kaso ng PAF—kung saan siningil sila para sa SOFOS kahit wala na ito—ay ginamit na halimbawa. - Dapat maging bahagi ng Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) ng bawat team ang pag-abiso sa admin team para sa anumang pagbabago sa subskripsyon. ## Mga Susunod na Ayos at Aksyon - [ ] Mag-iskedyul ng tawag sa pagitan ng admin at sales team sa Abril 23, 2026, 8:30 AM upang i-recalibrate ang mga proseso. - [ ] Tanungin sina Mark at Miguel kung nais nila ng lingguhang sync-up call kasama si Maggie bago ang kanilang Project Queue Up. - [ ] I-end ang pagsingil para sa Managed SIM at SOFOS sa invoice ng PAF simula Abril 30, 2026. - [ ] Sagutin ang email ni Mike upang ipaalala ang proseso: ang tool/platform champion ang dapat mag-abiso sa admin para sa mga pagbabago sa subskripsyon. - [ ] Suriin ang kasalukuyang SOP ng procurement at sales at tukuyin ang mga butas (loopholes) bago ang pulong sa Abril 23. ## Mga Suhestiyon ng AI > **Mga Suhestiyon ng AI** > Natukoy ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyu na hindi nalutas sa pulong o kulang sa malinaw na mga action item; mangyaring bigyang-pansin: > 1. Ang isyu ng mga project manager (Mark at Miguel) na nagbibigay ng maling impormasyon tungkol sa status ng procurement ay nangangailangan ng mas matibay na solusyon. Habang iminungkahi ang isang sync-up call, nakasalalay pa rin ito sa kanilang inisyatiba na maaaring hindi mangyari. > 2. Kahit na natukoy ang proseso para sa pag-abiso ng mga pagbabago sa subskripsyon, walang malinaw na hakbang kung paano ito ipapatupad bilang isang mandatoryong bahagi ng SOP ng bawat team para matiyak ang pagsunod. > 3. Hindi malinaw kung paano susuriin ang mga kasalukuyang invoice ng lahat ng kliyente para sa mga katulad na isyu sa pagsingil, maliban sa pagbanggit ng isang posibleng quarterly audit.
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Ano yung email na nasa send? May automated man ganun? Kung nga rin nag-procure si Maggie. Speaker 2 00:00:11 Yan yung tatanong natin sa kanya. Speaker 1 00:00:13 Kung baka kasi naka-automate. Ayan si Maggie. Speaker 1 00:00:18 Hi! Speaker 1 00:00:22 Ayan. Speaker 3 00:00:25 Munguya ako. Speaker 2 00:00:31 Maggie, nagsusend ka pa ba ng email Sa IGP? Speaker 4 00:00:38 Pag-invoice nila? Speaker 2 00:00:43 Hindi, order procurement. Speaker 4 00:00:45 Ah, hindi na. Speaker 2 00:00:48 Hindi ka na nagsusend? Speaker 1 00:00:51 Hindi na. Like yung pag may automated na ano, Parang may nakikita kong ganun dati, Pero hindi kay Ruben ko nakikita Yung sinasend mo ha. I mean, sa ibang ano. Speaker 4 00:01:02 Sa ibang... Like, for example, Kung hindi si Vincent ang nag-approve, Tapos nakasisi ako sa Email, At saka kung wala naman si Ruben Doon, Doon nagsend ako na, Nag-place tayo ng order, ito yung ETA, Ganun. Pero kung kay Vincent lang, Din galing yung approval, tapos walang, Email na nakasisi ako, Kay Vincent ko ini-inform na, Plinase natin yung order na ganito. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Ah, okay. Yung mga procurement notification Ba na ito? This is for, Internal lang? Tama ba? Yung a new order has been generated for blah. Internal lang ba ito? Speaker 2 00:01:44 Ano sila sabi mo? Ganito. Ganito ti. Speaker 2 00:01:53 Internal lang yan. Okay. Speaker 1 00:01:55 Kasi may one time, nakita ko naman sa Inbox ni Christy. Speaker 1 00:02:01 Wait. Speaker 4 00:02:03 Galing sa yung magic. Oo, kasi si Christy Ang, Nakapag for sales Order. Tapos kung, Napupunta, Sa board natin, Si Christy na ang nakapangalan, Sa IGP. Speaker 2 00:02:24 Para internal lang yung, Communication. Speaker 2 00:02:28 Tinanggal sila as point of contact Sila Ruben, para hindi sila Nakaka-receive yung mga automated Na notification. Kaya pinalit si Christy Or yung admin ng IGP. Speaker 1 00:02:42 So ngayon, wala na, At all dapat ma-receive? Speaker 2 00:02:45 Wala nga. Kaya yun talaga Yung inaan ako dyan sa Pinuputak nila na yan, kung ano yung, Nare-receive na naman ni Ruben. Saka kung kailan. Speaker 1 00:02:55 So, recently, Maggie, ano yung pinaka-last na email na naalala mo na probably napunta kay Ruben? Speaker 4 00:03:05 Parang, wait nga, check ko nga lahat. Pero lahat kasi bago ko i-convert yung SO nila, kasi si Ruben pa rin ang nandun, Nilalagay, pinapalitan ko ng admin. Speaker 2 00:03:19 Oo, nakita ko na sa sales order, naka-admin na eh. Speaker 2 00:03:24 Kaya nakabura na talaga eh. Ever, alam ko nga na Nag-start yung process na yan, no? Nagsabi si Kristi na sa kanya mag, ano, Di ba? Speaker 2 00:03:36 Ngayon, hindi lang ako sure kung pati sa Process, ngayon, Same process kasi nagpalit si Vince. So, Maggie, Confirm mo ha kung same process yung ginagawa mo, Ngayong nandyan si Vince? Speaker 1 00:03:48 Oo, yung, dati di ba nagsasend ka ng list Ng quote for approval, Kay Kristi? Tapos si Christy yung mag-e-escalate Kay Ruben kung alin pa din yung mga pending. Tapos pag urgent, Alam ko dati siya na yung, Nag-go ahead and approve the Quote eh. Hindi ko alam kung, Same kay Vince. Di ba sabi mo si Vince na rin Nag-approve ng quote ngayon? Hindi na niya, In-e-escalate kay Ruben. Tama ba? Speaker 4 00:04:13 Yeah, hindi na. Kasi lahat, Pag nakikita ko dun sa Pag na-convert na ni sales, nakikita ko, Na approved by Me. Speaker 1 00:04:23 So, ayun, yun yung current process nila. Speaker 1 00:04:31 Tapos, Maggie, in the future, if ever, kunwari, mga sa mga procurement process or anything na related kay sales, na minsan feeling mo nagkakos ng roadblocks process mo or even sa'yo, like for example, recently lang natin alaman na. Pag nakaka-receive ng procurement form Sa sales, wala pala yung user, Start date doon. So, From there, hindi na nila nalalaman, Yung urgency or kailan ba ito kailangan. Speaker 2 00:05:02 Actually, kay Curated, Lang pala na form yun. Kasi sa, IGP meron. Sine-check Ko ngayon. Speaker 1 00:05:09 Ayun. Yung recent Kasi is yung kay... Ano ba yung binigay na example ni Ivy? Pero yun nga kasi, Ang pinagtataka ko din, bakit... Speaker 2 00:05:20 Kasi iba-iba ng form. Speaker 1 00:05:23 Wala siyang Streamline. Ang pinagtataka, Ko lang, dati pa pala Nilang napapansin. Ito si Silsa. Dati pa palang napapansin Na walang field Or siguro dali nila alam na Hindi pala mandatory yung, Ginawang form for procurement. And yun nga, kaya sa additional, Information sila naglalagay, Yung sila Users. Wala lang. Ba't lang hindi na i-flag before ni sales na? Speaker 1 00:05:54 Ay, ba't hindi na lang gawin ng mandatory itong field na to? Kasi, di ba, minsan baka nami-miss nila yung notes sa baba or yun nga, Hindi agad nalalaman kailan yung start date pala para at least right there and then, Mag-head sa pan si Maggie na, oy, urgent to kaysa nagre-relay dati na. Minsan sa email, Maggie, di ba, na ano nila na, ay urgent pala to as per yung email nga ni, Kasi naman yung nag-submit ng form. Pero, ayun nga. I-mention ko kay Olivia. Sabi ko, Olivia, Nito ko lang nalaman. Sabi ko na Pag na, diba. Speaker 1 00:06:24 Ang procurement form, pag na-submit, automatic, Na ticket siyang nag-generate case sales Sa sales board. And then, from there, Yun, napansin nila Na wala nga daw, User start date. Sabi niya, Yes, in-admit naman ni Olivia. Sabi niya, In-add ko na siya. Sabi niya, In-add ko na. Okay, Sabi ko, at least mas ngayon, mas mapapadali Na yung process kung makikita, Ito. Agad kung urgent ba yung delivery or hindi. And then kung urgent and konting na lang talaga yung time natin para mag-procure and sa setup, Speaker 1 00:06:59 Doon na papasok yung maging pinag-usapan natin na kukuha ka ng pricing is either yung best buy na for pick-up, Or yung door dash kung talagang urgent na urgent na. Speaker 1 00:07:11 Ayun. Speaker 1 00:07:14 So, ayun, pag mga ganong instances lang na feeling mo is ganyan, kailangan natin mag-sink up din with sales team din kasi para ma-identify natin kung ano pa ba yung mga current process nila na hindi nagsisink si procurement and sales and kung may mga pain points pa ba na hindi nila na ifa-flag, na dapat iflag, or bagoyin sa process. Speaker 2 00:07:40 Mag-schedule lang call admin saka sales. Speaker 1 00:07:44 Sige, sige. Para mag-recalibrate Tayo, no? Oo. Sige. Speaker 2 00:07:49 Saka yung responsibility Kasi is hindi maliwanag. Speaker 1 00:07:56 Yes, hindi nagpapasahan. Si ano ganito. Speaker 2 00:08:01 Kailangan sila, Meron silang receipt of Clean order. Parang Ano kasi yun, compliant, Yung order na yun. Speaker 2 00:08:13 Ngayon, kunwari si procurement, masasabi namin na clean order yan kapag meron siya complete na delivery address, delivery person, product, and so on. Ngayon, bago kasi pumunta yan kay admin, si sales din, dapat meron silang ganyan, may checklist sila para masabi nila na na-clean order din. Speaker 2 00:08:41 Gagawa nila ng code or yung ipaprocess nila. So dapat maliwanag nga yung contact person kusan i-deliver, ganito, ganyan, ganyan. Kailangan may checklist din sila. Kasi yun yung pagbabatayan eh. Kasi yun yung pagbabatayan ng admin. Sila yung nasa first line ng ano. Kapag sa kanila palang malina, kailangan tama na. Kasi sa kanila palang malina, malina yan hanggang dulo. Tama nila yung importance. No? Nung ganun. Speaker 1 00:09:13 Okay. Ano? Classic example Na yung kay Maggie na, Maggie, nalala mo yung sa Miracle License Ni IJP na si Ivy, Nagkamali ng ano? Lagay ng license Sa quote. Speaker 1 00:09:27 Tapos, siyempre, ending. Yun ang in-order ni Maggie kasi yun yung sinign, Ni client, Ni Rodrigo. Speaker 1 00:09:38 Ayun. Speaker 1 00:09:40 Tomorrow ko na lang, Isked, or Thursday? Speaker 2 00:09:46 Thursday na lang, Para mas malawag sa mga tao. Speaker 1 00:09:51 Sige, sige. Aro? So, mabaitin yung ano natin, T. Eh, magbibiling na nga pala ng 23. Yung audit, naka 23 din. Tsaka yung EOS. I-move na lang natin ng... Speaker 2 00:10:05 Tomorrow? Pwede naman tomorrow, 8.30am. Kasi urgent, eh. Kapag hindi siya na-discuss naman agad, Mangananak pa yung problema. True. Speaker 1 00:10:15 8.30am For sales And missing. Speaker 3 00:10:31 Ayon. Speaker 1 00:10:38 And then if meron kang mga Na-receive na, Task or emails Or na kailangang mag-reach, Out ka kay Ruben, You can ask muna ako Or si Marvin if tama. Speaker 2 00:10:52 Yung... Hindi na ako. Ikaw. Speaker 1 00:10:53 Or si Vince. Or si Vince pala About ano, kung tama Ba yung next steps na gagawin mo. Ganon. Para mag-reach out. Para pag i-check muna natin or I-review muna natin. Speaker 2 00:11:08 Diba Maggie, nag-pro-proactive ka magbigay ng ETA bago ma-implace ang order? Speaker 4 00:11:17 Pag, yung, ang tawag nun, kung hindi ganun nakatagal, Ay, like for example, pag sobrang tagal, nagsasabi naman ako. Tapos usually, nakikita din naman ng sales kung ano yung lead time, ganyan. Yeah, tapos... Speaker 2 00:11:42 Pero regardless, Regardless kung matagal O malapit, Magbigay kayo ng ETA Kung sino man yung, Nag-request ng order, Nag-place ng order sa'yo, Na internal lang, ha? Internal lang. Speaker 4 00:11:55 Okay, internal. Speaker 2 00:11:57 Hindi ka magsasabi sa client. Speaker 4 00:11:59 Oo, kasi na-involve sa team. Speaker 2 00:12:04 Hayaan mong sila yung mag-, Hayaan mong sila yung magbigay ng... Update sa client. Speaker 3 00:12:09 Mm-hmm. Speaker 1 00:12:13 Ayun. Speaker 2 00:12:14 May talong pa pala ako, Maggie. Kailan yung instance, Na nagkaroon ng Delayed procurement, Sa projects Na hinahandle Ni Mark Or ni Miguel? Speaker 3 00:12:27 Um, Speaker 3 00:12:30 Parang, Speaker 2 00:12:30 Pinabili na daw Tapos, Ah, Speaker 1 00:12:33 Hindi nabili. Oo. Kasi ang press release nung dalawa during Project Q-Up, pag tinatanong kung nabili na, ang sabihin daw ng dalawa, yes, nabili na. And then, ma-find out ni Pete na hindi pa pala nabili or parang ngayon palang bibili. Ganun. Speaker 4 00:12:50 Wait lang. Kasi ang usapan is sila ang magsasabi. Kunwari, nag-convert tayo ng, kunwari, itong Primrose. Speaker 4 00:13:04 Na-convert ko siya as project, Magtatanong ako sa kanila Kung ano na ang ipi-place order. Sila ang magsasabi sa akin, Ng go-signal kung ano. Kasi, lagi akong, Like for example, kung yung mga computers, Kailangan natin Ito ng quote ni Dell. So, Sila naman ang nag-request, Kay Dell. So, aantayin ko Lang yung quote from, Dell, ginagaling sa kanila. Tapos kung yung mga Meraki, magtatanong ako, kaya nga ako gumawa din ng list ko sa kanila na ito ba i-order natin? Speaker 4 00:13:41 Tapos sila ang mag-go-signal sa akin. Pero ang lagi nilang tanong sa akin is, na-order na ba ito? Tapos sagot ko sa kanila, kayo ang magsasabi sa akin kung i-go-go na natin ito. Kasi yun din ang sabi sa akin ni Seg. Sila ang mag-go-signal. So sila nakakalimutan nila mismo. Tapos sasabihin ko na Kung yung order man, Gini-screenshot ko na, Parang sabi nga namin, Speaker 4 00:14:12 Anong silbi nung, Connect twice sa project natin Dun sa product. E lagi namin sinasabing na kung may PO Na yan, ordered na siya, Dun sa product natin. Tapos sila, ayun, parang sa kanila, Is every time, magtatanong sila, Kung, Ganito, ganyan. Tapos kung Magpaporder sila, sasabihin nila, Pwede ka sa ganitong time Yung project na ganito mag-order, Tayo. Ganon. Speaker 1 00:14:41 Ah. So, siguro minsan sa Queue up, ang nasa isip nila, Na utos na nila sa'yo. Pero sila pala, hindi pala Nila na utos sa'yo. Speaker 4 00:14:52 Kasi kung magtatanong ako, O ordering na ba natin to kung mag-check, Ako ng list ng procurement, hindi Pa kasi. Hindi pa tutapos. Ganon naman sila. Meron ba kayong like? Ako lang nagpa-follow up. Speaker 1 00:15:03 Meron kayong common, Kunwari, Per project, Meron kayong parang, Common na checklist, Ng mga needed items And then may remarks doon, Kung, Nabigyan na ng Green light to order, And then Status if in progress, Or ordered na. May ganon ba kayo? Per project. Speaker 4 00:15:22 Ako lang yung Ako lang yung gumawa. Tapos kung magkocall kami, ilalagay ko na hold muna as per Miguel. Gaganon ako. Ito canceled as per Mark. Gaganon ako. Speaker 1 00:15:36 Inisip ko kasi, Bin, kung mag-make sense ba na weekly magkaroon sila ng review together na, O ito yung, just ano lang, mag-sync up na ito yung mga, for this project, Ito yung mga items na inaantay ko pa yung approval nyo, Or ito na yung... In progress ito na yung mga nabili. Siguro Iniisip ko before the project Queue up, magkaroon kayo ng. Speaker 2 00:16:00 Initiative. Ang initiative, Kasi na yan dapat manggaling Kay project manager. Speaker 2 00:16:07 Kasi sila dapat yung mag-make, Sure kung nabili na ba Yung, Products. Speaker 1 00:16:16 Naisip ko lang kasi hindi nila naisip eh. Speaker 2 00:16:21 Pwede naman, Nasabihan sila. Pero ngayon nga, kailangan man galing sa kanila Yung initiative na yun. And sila Yung merong, kumbaga, sila yung Sa kanila mo makita Yung need. Kasi, Right now, we're being, ano naman eh, Parang, say Maggie, Hindi na, tatanong niya kung order na yun, Na ba, ganito, ganyan, diba? So, nagpa-follow up man siya. Ang disconnect kasi is nandun-dun, Sa dalawa. Kahit sa billing naman eh. Kahit billing nila, Speaker 2 00:16:52 May problema. Mayroon pa nga, Diba, Na secret na Plenase na order, Na dapat ibibill pa yun Na hindi naman nila sinabi Na ibibill pala. Speaker 1 00:17:01 Ang ano ko lang din kasi, Speaker 2 00:17:02 I-disconnect sa dalawa. Speaker 1 00:17:04 Ang ano ko lang din kasi, Right before the project queue up, Ma-refresh ba sila Na, Oy, ito yung status Ng mga items, Ng project na to. Alam mo yun, Parang hindi nila Ma-imimention, Dun sa project queue up Na, Nautusan na namin si Maggie na bilhin yan And then ang ending, puputok pa rin, Kay Maggie na hindi naman pala Sila na. Speaker 2 00:17:25 Pwede naman, Masyado lang natin silang ini-spoil. Speaker 1 00:17:32 Kasi dapat nga. Speaker 2 00:17:33 On top sila ng project nila. Speaker 2 00:17:37 Kausapin mo si Mark, Sa kasi Miguel. Speaker 1 00:17:40 Sabihin ko, mag-i-initiate mo, Sync up every Monday Before Tuesday na, Queue up nila. Kasi Mag-i-initiate mo, Sabihin ko na, I know this is... Speaker 2 00:17:51 Tanungin mo sila, gusto ba nila? Speaker 2 00:17:56 Kasi sa kanila nga dapat sumanggaling yung need. Kasi sabihin mo, kung hindi nyo gusto, maging on top kayo sa orders ninyo. Kasi hindi nyo pwedeng i-throw under the bus ang admin procurement kapag nagkaroon ng sync up. Speaker 1 00:18:13 Yeah, yun nga yung tinatry kong... I-avoid nilang gawin. Kasi yun nga, Na-highlight yung admin team Dahil nga sa Yung mga sabi-sabi nilang ganyan. Yun, even yung nga kay Vince Na ako naon ng chika-chika niya na Di ba magiging ngayon sa. Speaker 2 00:18:26 Metathesis. Basta, ang gusto ko maging tono is Hoy, tutulungan namin kayo, Eto yung gawin natin. Speaker 2 00:18:35 Sobra eh, masyadong sobra eh. Kailangan, Eto yung pwede namin gawin. Gusto nyo ba to? Kasi kung kami lang yung may gusto. Speaker 2 00:18:46 Misa healthy. Dapat gusto nyo din na gawin to. Yun yung gawin yung tono. Speaker 1 00:18:53 Okay. Pero walang ano, no? Walang regular sink. Di ba, Maggie, meron kayong regular sink Pero billing ang usapan. Tama ba? Oo. Billing lang yan. Billing lang. Speaker 3 00:19:03 Na weekly. Project billing. Speaker 4 00:19:04 Yeah, with project billing lang. Minsan, hindi naman. More on, medyo malapit kung, Closing na din. Month end. Tapos kung masyado na rin marami yung invoice ni EA na hindi namin alam kung available ba yun and all. So, manggagaling pa rin kasi sa kanila yung first step bago kumapio and bill. Speaker 1 00:19:31 Inisip ko naman kung magtotake ng time din nila yung sync up na ipopropose, Eh pwede naman nilang i-check yung listahan ni Maggie like before the queue up. I-remind lang sila na Mag-check nun na ito na yung status. Speaker 4 00:19:47 Ng mga. Meron silang One. Meron silang access dito, Sa procurement Tracker natin. Tapos, sineparate ko, Na actually yung construction Projects para minsanan Nilang makita. Per project, Naman to. Sige-sige. Meron yung time. Speaker 2 00:20:08 Na pinapacheck. Kung may access, Naman sila, kailangan Pinapacheck. Magkaroon sila lang ng schedule to check. Speaker 1 00:20:14 Yung... True. Ng initiative. Speaker 2 00:20:18 Diba? Eh, yun nga. Kung wala naman, Initiative, kahit mag-schedule Kayo ng call every, ano... Speaker 1 00:20:24 Yes. Sige, sige. Kausapin ko Si Mark. Speaker 1 00:20:29 Ivy, nag-email pala ang Mic. Wait lang. Yung sa pass? Oo, nabasa mo? Yan ko lang nakita. How can we try... And identify a way to catch this in the future and for our. Speaker 2 00:20:51 Existing clients to prevent possibly having to give the clients a huge credit. Speaker 1 00:21:04 Like yung mga hindi na dapat ipibil. Speaker 2 00:21:07 Paulit-ulit naman siya. Speaker 1 00:21:09 It was fortunate we caught this now As I was able to tie this to our 100th rollout. But we had Missed this and preferred to review the invoice Line by line again. But a year or two later We'd be having to credit tens of thousands. Speaker 2 00:21:21 Ang process kasi nyan, Kung meron silang ipapa-end Na subscription, kailangan mag-send, Sila ng email sa admin. Speaker 2 00:21:32 Kunwari, Yung Protection for Workstation. Speaker 2 00:21:37 Gusto nilang ipa-end dyan. Sino kailangan mag-email sila sa admin, nag-cancel yan. So nakakatch lang naman natin yung billable at not billable quarterly sa deep audit. Pero kapag sa monthly na billing or sa midway ng before billing audit, magkakaroon ng, Cancellation ng mga. Speaker 2 00:22:07 Subscription, kailangan mag-send Sila ng email sa admin To stop the subscription. Ngayon, sino ba yung Nakakaalam na wala na yung Subscription na yan? So, yung, Champion ng tool. So, sino yung champion ng tool? Si security. So, sila Yung magsasabi. Speaker 2 00:22:31 Yun yung dapat Na process. Speaker 2 00:22:36 Na kapag merong ina-offset na, ay sinasunset na subscription, magsisend sila ng email sa admin. Speaker 1 00:22:47 May nahanap ko yung explanation dun sa ano. Speaker 1 00:22:59 Ito, example bin, diba, yung sa reason ni... Ni Ann Zor, but hindi na dapat Chino-charge sila dun sa SIM. Sabi niya, long time ago, We sold them that package, but only For a few computers. Pag mga ganun, Now, sabi niya, we include it all, Now we include it on all computers, so technically We can remove it if you feel, Like it. Yung ganitong Instances, kanina ang manggagaling, Dapat na, o dapat Hindi na pala isi-charge. Speaker 1 00:23:32 Si Paph, for example, kung noong time ago pa pala yung agreement na ito na only few computers lang yung in-installan ng SIM na yun and then eventually naging all computers na. Speaker 1 00:23:52 Yung ganitong reason, yung kay Anzor. Diba tinanong ni Mike, bakit may mga ano pa? May sinacharge pa tayo na may managed SIM account doon sa workstation. Speaker 1 00:24:06 Ang sabi ni Anzor is, long time ago, we had that package but for only two computers. Pero eventually, naging all computers na din. Speaker 1 00:24:17 So, since nag-move na nga kay Huntress, tama no? Hindi na kailangan si SIM dahil kay Huntress na tayo. Tama? Oo, sabi. So, pag mga ganitong cases na... Sino dapat ang nag-initiate na, o dapat tanggalin na ito, kung hindi pala, ah wait, okay, narealize ko na. Kasi diba, since nag-rollout nga ng Handra si security, okay, mag-fall pa rin pala kay security, tama. Speaker 2 00:24:48 Yes, kapag may mabagas sa subscription ng client, kailangan kasi ini-inform tayo. Okay. Kasi nga, ang nangyayari, Nagiging melting pot yung admin. Lahat na lang sinisisi sa admin. Speaker 1 00:25:05 So, Since hindi naman siya Technically part, Ng off-boarding, pero every time May roll-out or, Every time may pagbabago sa Mga security tools, siguro, Magiging part ng Task list sa project, kung project man Siya, is i-inform si admin. Tama? Speaker 2 00:25:29 Kailangan mag-send sila ng email Sa admin board. Speaker 1 00:25:39 Second line made sense. When they were on SOFOS, a SOFOS charge extra for old. Ah, okay. Speaker 1 00:25:47 Ito, yung sa SOFOS nila. Di ba, Nag-ano na tayo, wala na tayo kay SOFOS? Speaker 1 00:25:55 Um, nung na-remove si SOFOs pero hindi na-remove sa invoice ni PAF, pag mga ganong case, like for example, sasabihin ba dapat nila na since mag-remove na tayo sa SOFOs, so si security pa rin yun? Speaker 2 00:26:18 Oo. Masa kailangan kasi add or delete. Manotify tayo. Speaker 2 00:26:33 Kasi nga, wala naman tayong First person Na gumagawa Ng add and delete. Tapos, tayo ang may ginagawa, Sa billing. So, dapat kung Sino yung magagawa Ng adjustment or changes sa subscription, Kailangan ini-inform, Si admin. So, Kailangan parte ng SOP nila yun. Speaker 1 00:26:59 Okay. Sige. Okay, so for now, I-end muna sa agreement tong dalawa. Yung SIM na to, and then yung SOFOs. Speaker 1 00:27:15 Explain ko na lang ba sa email na ganun? Or, kasi sabi niya, if we have time, Can we schedule a call? Kineso, kineso. Speaker 3 00:27:24 Project. Speaker 3 00:27:31 SIMs. Excuse me. Speaker 3 00:27:35 Ay, sanaw ko na. Speaker 3 00:27:38 Sim. Speaker 3 00:27:56 Ay, manage. Speaker 3 00:28:01 Patwala. Speaker 1 00:28:09 Eto te, i-end na lang to for May 1. Speaker 1 00:28:56 Bin? Ano yan? Ay, kala ko na wala ka. Yung ano, yung ito, i-end Na lang ng May 1. Speaker 2 00:29:08 Kahit hindi May 1. Ayun na. Speaker 2 00:29:14 April 30. Speaker 1 00:29:18 Cancel date. Speaker 1 00:29:30 Okay, April 30. Speaker 1 00:29:34 Screenshot ko yan. Speaker 1 00:29:38 I-end na natin. Speaker 1 00:29:42 Tapos, si, Sophos din. Speaker 1 00:29:46 I-end na natin. Speaker 3 00:29:50 Sophos. Speaker 1 00:29:58 Lahat ba ito? O ito lang dalawa na old, no? Hindi lang yung hini-highlight niya, eh. Speaker 1 00:30:09 Ito, seven... Ano lang yung hini-highlight niya? Yung $300 na dalawa. Pero ba't ito, Sophos pa rin nakalagay? Speaker 2 00:30:19 May cancelled naman, eh. Speaker 1 00:30:21 Ayaw nga. Ito rin naman may Cancelled na ng March 11. Bakit na? Kailan ba itong invoice na to? Speaker 1 00:30:34 Yung recent? Speaker 2 00:30:38 Ano kasi? Huwag mo kasing isearch. Pumalikan mo na dyan. Speaker 2 00:30:45 Panggalin mo yung sopos mo doon sa ano. Tinanggal kasi yan eh. Mag-search ka lang dyan. Para makita mo. Speaker 3 00:30:53 Ah, okay. Speaker 2 00:30:60 Tinanggal kasi yung SOFOS na warning dun sa Prada. Speaker 1 00:31:06 Ano na ba yun? Speaker 1 00:31:08 Manage Advanced Endpoint Protection. Dito pala yan. Speaker 1 00:31:25 Ito yung ALC. Speaker 1 00:31:28 Advance and Ito, yung $300 To $150. Ah, okay. I-cancel na natin ito. April 30. Speaker 3 00:31:48 Wala na yan. Speaker 1 00:31:52 Nagay tayo notes dito. Speaker 1 00:31:55 Wait lang. Saan ba yung ticket? Service board. Speaker 1 00:32:03 Ay, magino ka pala yung tatanong mo. Sorry, hindi na kita nabalikan kanina. Speaker 4 00:32:08 Eh, wait lang. Mag-email lang ako. Speaker 1 00:32:11 Ago lang. Speaker 1 00:32:14 Asan ba yun? Puff. Speaker 3 00:32:23 No. Not yet. Speaker 3 00:32:59 Okay, 8.30. Speaker 3 00:33:05 Saan na 8.30? Speaker 1 00:33:09 Huh? Please set up a call to review and discuss Next steps for... Okay. Tomorrow, 8.30. Speaker 1 00:33:29 Sama ko na rin si Christian dito para admin seal sync. Speaker 3 00:34:04 Christian. Speaker 3 00:35:11 Okay, fine. Speaker 3 00:35:24 Excuse me. Speaker 3 00:35:50 Yes. Speaker 2 00:37:45 I-feed nyo nga kay Claude Yung current SOP Ng procurement. Speaker 2 00:37:54 Tapos hanapan nyo ng SOP si sales, Sa pag-create ng code. I-feed nyo din. Tapos tanongin nyo kung ano yung, Gap or loophole. Speaker 1 00:38:06 Sige. Maggie, may ano ka ba? May SOP ka nun? Speaker 2 00:38:11 Parang, wait. Para alam natin yung pag-uusapan Sa Wednesday. Speaker 1 00:38:18 Pwede ba, Makahingi ng Copy ng SOP, Nyo sa Coding process, no? Speaker 1 00:38:31 Coding process. Speaker 2 00:38:32 Mag-ready kayo ng bala. Speaker 3 00:38:38 Bye. Speaker 2 00:38:49 Kasi magiging defensive na naman yan sa sales. Speaker 1 00:38:53 Yeah, na-fail ko na. Speaker 1 00:38:59 This should not reflect their invoices anymore. Speaker 1 00:39:17 Mag-schedule ako ng call din. Tayong nila, Mike. Speaker 2 00:39:27 Pwede naman. Speaker 2 00:39:30 Thursday or Friday na lang. Hindi naman yan urgent. Speaker 2 00:39:35 Pero pwede mo nang replyan yan, actually. Speaker 1 00:39:38 Sabihin ko na lang na ganun process. Kailangan kung sino ang Nag-add na team siya Ang mag-initiate. Speaker 2 00:39:45 Mag-send ng email. Sa admin team, the champion Of that tool Or platform. For any subscription, should notify, Admin. Speaker 1 00:40:01 Any deletion or adding Of subscription. Speaker 3 00:40:04 By admin soon again. Speaker 3 00:40:22 Bye! Speaker 3 00:40:59 Alam mo, hindi ko kaya yung ginagawa ni Segrid na yan. Speaker 2 00:41:23 Ang taas ng anxiety ko pag ganyan. Speaker 2 00:41:28 Nagt-travel siya tapos nagtatrabaho. Ah. As in travel ah, as in bumabiyahe. Speaker 1 00:41:36 Sinusunod na niya pa kala malapit na siya umuwi. Kano ka siya uwi? May 2. Speaker 2 00:41:43 Ah, malapit na nga. Speaker 2 00:41:46 Kailangan mapabilik ko na pala ang mga dapat ko mapabilis mo. Speaker 3 00:41:50 Yes. Speaker 3 00:42:02 Thank you for watching! Speaker 1 00:42:41 Ito sa sabihin ko, Ben, to help prevent or catch these types of issues in the future, we recommend that any additions or deletions of subscriptions be communicated by the tool or platform owner to the admin team. Champion. Ad platform champion. Speaker 2 00:42:57 Oo. Actually, hindi siya we recommend eh. We remind everyone. We should remind everyone. Kasi sinabi ko yan sa meeting ng Wednesday. Speaker 2 00:43:10 Oui. Speaker 1 00:43:11 Siguro sabihin ko ulit sa Wednesday call, no? Speaker 2 00:43:19 Oo, remind mo. Speaker 2 00:43:27 Siguro, Dapat din talaga, If part ng SOP, O task ng account manager Is mag-, Check ng invoices ng mga Hawak nilang client. Speaker 1 00:43:42 Ayun nga, ano, yun nang, Naisip ni Mike, sabi niya, Do you think, kailangan natin Mag-review or audit, Ng each invoice ng each client? Yung mati-invoice ng client. Sabi niya, Sabi ko, pwede naman, Siguro quarterly. Ay, shit. Speaker 3 00:44:06 Nakalimutan kong tawagan yung Ano, hotel Christ, 10 to 12. Speaker 1 00:44:30 Ate, dyan nga muna kayo. Tawagan ko lang itong pinapafollow of ni, Katerina. Speaker 1 00:44:36 Thank you for watching!
08-25 Operational Incident: Dual-Task Multitasking—Employee Transport Coordination and Copilot Cost-Alert Reconfiguration
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- ## Core Synopsis The operational lead, Christi, is simultaneously managing a critical employee logistics issue and a separate systems administration task, demonstrating a state of high-pressure multitasking. While successfully coordinating an Uber pickup for an employee named Angie—providing precise details on location, driver, and vehicle—Christi is also directing a team member, Anton, through a complex configuration change within a cost management system, likely Copilot. This dual focus creates clear friction, leading to verbal stumbles and repeated instructions ("go into Copilot," "go to cost management where you were," "sorry, my apologies"). The core reality is not the tasks themselves, but the operational environment where a single individual is serving as a critical single point of failure for both human logistics and technical system management, indicating a potential resource or process gap. ## Operational Execution: Dual-Task Management ### 1. Employee Logistics Coordination Christi handled an immediate transportation need for an employee, Angie. - **Destination**: 11633 Hawthorne Boulevard. - **Service**: UberX was ordered. - **Pickup Point**: The driver was instructed to meet Angie on 117th Street, near the parking lot entrance. - **Driver Details**: The driver's vehicle is a silver Toyota Camry with a license plate ending in "242". The ETA was three minutes at the time of the call. ### 2. Systems Administration Walkthrough While arranging the ride, Christi guided Anton through a system configuration to modify user alert settings. The process was fragmented due to multitasking but ultimately targeted a specific outcome. - **System**: Copilot. - **Task**: Modify cost management alert settings. - **Initial Path**: Christi directed Anton to `Settings > Funding Drives` before correcting course. - **Correct Path**: The correct path was `Cost Management > Configuration > User and Group Alert`. - **Action**: A setting, possibly a budget threshold of "5000", was confirmed. - **Final Step**: Anzor's name was removed from the alerts configuration, redirecting those notifications to Christi. ## Next Move **@Christi** - [ ] Follow up with Angie to confirm she arrived home safely - [TBD] - [ ] Determine the plan for "the laps" with Angie - [Tomorrow] **@Anton** - [ ] Inform Anzor that the cost management alerts have been disabled for his user profile - [TBD]
- Date
- Aug 25, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hola. All right, share. Yeah, show your share your screen and I'll walk you through it. No, no worries. I'm multitasking. Angie, I am um Angie, can you send can you text me real quick the address that you're at? Yeah Okay. Speaker 1 00:00:35 And services ride. Nope. Uh Angie and 11633 Hawthorne Boulevard. Hang on one moment. Speaker 2 00:01:06 Two one one seven seven five. Speaker 1 00:01:10 St. Paul's Seneca. All right, UberX is what I'm picking, is what's going to come pick you up. I'm going to have them pick you up and I'll text it over to you in a moment. They're going to pick you up on 117th Street near the entrance into the parking lot. So wait for them there. Okay. All right. And then, um, hang on one moment. Hang on. Anton, I'm watching. I'm sorry. Um, I'm also grabbing an Uber Uh go into Copilot and then go into configuration Uh uh settings. I'm sorry settings and then Angie is funding drives and then Anton. Speaker 1 00:02:05 Uh go to cost management where you were sorry, my apologies I I'm trying to remember where this is at configuration. Yeah, click on that and see uh, user and group alert. Yeah, yeah, 5000. Yes, oh, and we'll go back to uh go to alerts, real quick. Uh, you were now where you're at on your right left side. Right side, sorry. Uh click on alerts and then take out Anzor's name. Um Angie, your driver is on the way. He's going to pick you up in three minutes. He is driving a silver Toyota Camry and his license plate ends in two four two Okay Thank. You I would send you a picture, but I don't think you're going to see the picture Yeah. No, it's okay. Speaker 1 00:03:04 All right. Text me when you get home and we'll figure out what to do tomorrow with the laps. Speaker 2 00:03:11 Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Bye. All right. Speaker 1 00:03:17 No, we should be good. Let Anzor know you turned off the alerts for him. It's just they're going to me now. Yep. Speaker 2 00:04:05 I can. Okay. I'll take care of it. Bye.
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06-18 Discovery Call: Microsoft Copilot Email Organization for KC
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- Date & Time: 2026-06-18 12:58:24 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: KC ## Overview This discovery call explored how Microsoft Copilot can improve KC’s email management and organization. The primary pain point is inbox disorder; KC needs a way to prioritize, categorize, and track tasks derived from emails. We discussed Copilot capabilities, licensing models, and KC’s firm boundary that the AI must not proactively send emails. The objective is to replicate—and enhance—functionality previously built in a different system (Base 44) using Copilot within their existing Microsoft environment. ## Background The meeting was initiated to replace a custom solution (possibly in “Base 44”) with Microsoft Copilot. KC seeks AI-driven email hygiene, organization, and task tracking. The consulting team (Christi, George, and another speaker) believes many desired features can be delivered with Copilot by leveraging and automating existing Outlook tools. KC emphasized a strict requirement: the AI should assist with internal organization only and must not send emails or engage in proactive external communication. ## Pain Points [Pain Point 1: The client struggles with email disorganization and needs an effective way to prioritize and manage incoming messages. There is currently no system to automatically sort emails by importance, leading to delays on critical items and time wasted on low-priority messages. This lack of organization makes it difficult to manage workload and track tasks originating from emails. The current process is manual and inefficient. The client needs a system that automatically categorizes emails to quickly surface items requiring immediate attention versus those that can be deferred. This impacts personal productivity and ability to stay on top of responsibilities.] ## Expectations [Expectation 1: The client expects an automated solution to organize and prioritize emails, as discussed for Copilot. The primary goal is for AI to categorize emails by urgency (high, low, no priority) to streamline workflow. Success will be measured by categorization accuracy and time saved from not manually reviewing every email. The client has a strict requirement that the AI should not proactively send emails or act on their behalf without explicit instruction. The solution must integrate with their existing Microsoft environment, specifically Outlook.] [Expectation 2: The client wants Copilot to replicate and potentially improve a system previously built in “Base 44.” The goal is to use Copilot to build a robust approach for email hygiene, email organization, and task completion tracking. The expectation is that the consulting team will analyze the “Base 44” project and propose a method to rebuild its core functions within the client’s environment using Microsoft tools.] ## Other Information Summary - KC requires that the AI must not proactively send emails. The AI may assist with organization but must not take action on the user’s behalf. - The team briefly discussed a cloud “Team license,” quoted at $25 per user per month with a minimum of five users (totaling $125 per month). This includes $100 of credits per month. George will follow up via email with detailed licensing options. - Consultant Christi has experience building custom solutions, including one for Crimson IT using Kloud on a Microsoft tenancy that handled user management and permissions via Crimson IT accounts. ## To-Do List - [ ] Send KC an email detailing cloud licensing options. (Stakeholder: George) - [ ] Schedule a follow-up meeting to review the “Base 44” project and map its functionality to Copilot and Microsoft tools. - [ ] Prepare a detailed demonstration of Copilot’s email categorization and task tracking features for the next meeting. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client’s biggest pain point as the absence of automated email organization and prioritization. Consider: > 1. **Copilot-Powered Outlook Rules:** Use Copilot to analyze incoming emails for urgency and sender importance, then automatically apply Outlook categories and flags. Combine with custom Outlook rules to route emails into folders (e.g., “High Priority,” “FYI”), providing clear visual organization without the AI sending any emails. > 2. **“Catch-Up with Copilot” Feature Demonstration:** In the next meeting, show “Catch-up with Copilot” and “Summarize” in Outlook to generate summaries of long threads and highlight action items, directly aiding task tracking and reducing reading time. > 3. **Power Automate Integration:** Create flows triggered by Copilot-assigned categories. For example, when categorized as “high priority,” automatically create a task in Microsoft To Do or Planner with a link to the email. This automates task creation within the Microsoft ecosystem and respects the “no auto-emailing” boundary.
- Date
- Jun 18, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:13 I guess they can hear us. Speaker 2 00:00:15 Yes, I can hear you. Speaker 3 00:00:16 I'm having camera issues. Um, ever since the updates this week. Yeah, It's I had it working, and then the updates happened and no. Speaker 1 00:00:28 More camera again. See if I can try to get it, But are we having KC as well, Jonas? George. Speaker 1 00:01:05 Every meal. Every single meal. Never fails. Indeed. Yes, and I always got to give him crap about it. Who do you want to argue with? Lunches, okay so. Speaker 2 00:01:26 I'm going to turn off my camera, sorry. Speaker 1 00:01:28 You're good, I'm just giving you grief. Speaker 2 00:01:43 By The way, Christi, um, if you could also discuss with Brettum about the cloud licensing. I did give him brief about it, but you know better. You know if while we were waiting for KC, perhaps you can just you know. Speaker 4 00:01:60 He just explained that. Speaker 4 00:02:03 Team license is probably the one we want. It's by users. It's, uh, what'd. Speaker 1 00:02:12 You say it was?$ 150 per user? Speaker 3 00:02:15 So it's uh$ 25 per user, but it's a minimum of five users. And so the minimum cost would be$ 125 per month. Speaker 1 00:02:24 Right. Per month, right? Yes. And so that's with Teams and then. Speaker 1 00:02:33 I s there. And that's with the minimum allotment of credits, right? Say that one more time I'm. Sorry, Speaker 4 00:02:41 Is that how many credits does that base license get. Speaker 3 00:02:45 Uh a hundred dollars per credit or a hundred dollars of credits per month. Speaker 1 00:02:51 For the twenty five dollars, a hundred dollars per user in credits? Um but it's only twenty five dollars per month. Speaker 1 00:03:04 Okay, well let's let's put a pin in this. Speaker 4 00:03:06 George is going to send me an email on the licensing on this, and we can circle back. Yes, we'll do that. So KC, are you doing? Guys, how are you? Sorry I am a minute late. Oh no, no worries. We're I am just glad we're having this call. Uh, so we finally got there. So obviously, you know, after we you know, went through the perplexity. Uh, the perplexity of perplexity. Now, here we are. You know, as we kind of communicated, you know, we think that Christiti will be able to. This is kind of a discovery call, But I think a lot of the functionality that you're looking for in terms of email, hygiene and email organization and task completion tracking, you know today's top hits all of that. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:03:60 I think Copilot can do. Speaker 3 00:04:01 I'm sorry, give me one second. I need to answer. Speaker 4 00:04:04 That's fine, Christi, I'll keep talking. And then hello, um, I think so basically we'll outline what Copilot can do now, some of which, you know, maybe be uh leveraging Outlook's existing uh tools, but then automating the task of that. Speaker 5 00:04:21 And then so there's one site problem. We would need to get a. I think the important thing for us too is to understand. When you and I talked about your comments about, you know, where and so on, Didn't want her to be on it or reach, like didn't want the AI to be sending out emails. So clearly defining what this organization. Speaker 4 00:04:49 Maybe even a you know. So we need a cool case. All that stuff instead of that, the worker knows. Okay, thank you so much. You're welcome. Thanks. There's a clear dividing line between don't want to act proactively on your uh in your step, right? Is that, yeah? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Okay, I think, that's yeah, that's fair. Um okay. Would that be? Do you want to dig into that? Yes, let's dig into that. So. Speaker 4 00:05:22 Christi, are you back? Are you able to share your screen or I guess? Is there something you want to? What would you like to do in terms of given that how I kind of set the table there. Do you want to do you want to kind of give him some examples of what you've done for other clients? Do you want to do any screen share? How'd you like to handle it? Speaker 3 00:05:44 Sure. And guys, bear with me. I'm expecting a pretty urgent call today. So if I have to step away, just be aware of that. It will only take me a few minutes if I need to. So Casey, I've done quite a few different types of projects. I've done them both personally and for clients. So I'll give you an overview and a showing of what those look like. And basically, I know that you built something in Base 44. We can download that project. Speaker 3 00:06:16 We can tell Kloud, "Hey, Let's take a look at this and see how we can rebuild it and put it in your own environment." So just be aware of that. Very first thing I'm going to show you is something that I built for Crimson. And so bear with me, let me get that pulled up. And I am going to share my screen. I did turn on facilitator, but let me do this. Let me actually record it so that you can have it as well. Speaker 3 00:06:46 So, And bear with me because I'm on a screen that I'm going to have to blow up what I see because I see, I've been sharing my screen. People says it's too small. But I see it just fine because how big my screen is. So if you guys have problems seeing it, please let me know. We did just start bringing this down because we're put it on something entirely new. But just be aware this is something we built that's built in Microsoft So the backend of it was built through Kloud. We have it on the Microsoft tenancy, And that way people who log in are logging in with their Crimson IT account. And so we can monitor the users and give them access and so on. In fact, if I go into users and permissions, it will show me here. Actually, hang on one second. I think I'm in the wrong system. So. Speaker 3 00:07:44 I have two of them. I mean, Speaker 4 00:07:47 Christi, Ideally, I think would be better if we could see sort of how Copilot is able to organize. Like, cause this looks like a custom site you built for Crimson using Kloud. I think I'd like to see how Copilot uh what what kind of features Copilot can apply to help organize these emails. Speaker 3 00:08:09 Oh, I'm sorry. My brain was still on the uh base 44 stuff. So my apologies. Um okay, so for email, uh even better. So I'm gonna just go into my email. I have two systems in my email that is doing various things. Um. So one of the types of things I have in here is Copilot running uh um categorization and urgencies. And the other one I have plots. So I'm going to show you what the Copilot version is. So if you guys see there's some circles with up arrows, that comes from Copilot. And Copilot is categorizing and classifying these as either high priority, no priority or low priority. And so when I'm looking through these, I can ignore anything with a low priority. And anything that needs my eyes on it pretty rapidly is going to be the higher priority. Speaker 3 00:09:05 And so far, Copilot's doing really. What's the criteria that it uses to designate high versus low priority? So it basically so it basicallyum give me one second guys. Speaker 1 00:09:23 Okay. I think it kind of Hi, Speaker 3 00:09:28 I'm sorry, I my daughter answered my phone for me.
05-05 Weekly Meeting: Internal Process Improvements and Project Updates
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-05-05 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] ## Meeting Notes ### Internal Process Improvements - **Transcript Review:** Dell will review transcripts to identify conversation patterns and improve meetings. - **Knowledge Collection:** - Archie will resume due diligence as a knowledge collector. - Tasks include collecting travel information from meetings and emails. - He will note personal details in Airtable and ensure travel knowledge is captured. - **Business Strategy:** - Warren will review business strategy for Sharp, Ability First, and other clients. - Develop a method to store strategic information in Airtable. - **Project Manager Billing Responsibility:** - PMs are responsible for accurate project billing. - Ensure quotes and bills are accurate and that bills are sent to customers. - Prevent issues where bills are forgotten or not sent, complicating later collections. ### Project Updates (19th Power Query Meeting) **Project 2612: Firewall Rules** - Firewall delivery has been delayed again. - The team is checking if the client wants a more expensive firewall that can be delivered within a few days. **Project 2614: Crimson ID to Hudu Migration** - In progress. - Access is being revoked in ITG; the team is migrating everything over. **Project 2663: Signal Partners Offboarding** - Chris meets Tim on the afternoon of May 5, 2026, to finalize the offboarding plan. **AutoElevate Implementation** - 900 devices enrolled. - Current phase: auditing user actions to identify required admin permissions. - Charlene and Becker will test max enrollment with Rippling and JumpCloud this week. **Kristen's Project: EA Tracker** - Moved to late June 2026. **Carney Properties Project** - On hold pending client green light. - Will use Claude, Copilot, and OpenAI. **Sharp Project** - **Status:** On schedule. - **MFA:** Deadline intentionally moved to May 15, 2026, due to outreach events. - Windows Hello will be configured for Outlook and desktops; HIPAA-compliant. - **Computer Updates:** Progress intentionally slow. Seven Bathma computers still need to be exchanged. **Ability First / Camp Paivika Project** - Speaker 2 will take over as PM from Julia. - **Equipment:** - Equipment has arrived; proceed with setup, labeling, and shipping. - Must arrive at Camp Paivika one week before May 26, 2026. - Replace all existing equipment with upgrades or new devices. - **Installation:** - ComDirect tentatively locked for installation week, pending an 11K deposit. - Work scheduled for the Saturday before and after installation week. - On-site staff (Will and Alex) will handle mounting; Speaker 2 will physically replace upgraded devices. **Project 267?: Codsen AI Assessment & Implementation** - Client signed off on plan and dates. - Audit report due Friday, May 8, 2026. - Upgrade Microsoft licenses from Office E3 to include Azure P1. - Training week of May 18, 2026; wrap by end of May. **LA Alliance Cloud Teams Project** - Starts next week (week of May 11, 2026). - Tabletop report to be finished this week for client sign-off. **Project 2630: New Laptops** - 17 computers completed; several pending or undelivered. - Received $2,000 payment; awaiting $1,250 check. - Additional $1,000 invoice for four completed laptops will be sent this week. **Project 2639: Shida Wang Associates Inc. Onboarding** - Microsoft accounts for all 14 users configured. - Invoice for May and prorated April 2026 sent ($2,957). - Remaining: Gmail migration and Avenant configuration, planned late this week or early next week. **Project 2679: Maverick IT Security Assessment** - Gabby and Kevin have gaming licenses. - Internal kickoff call to be scheduled on May 5, 2026. **New Project: Foothill Family IT Infrastructure and Security** - Send project plan to client ASAP, preferably before end of this week. - Reuse and adapt Sharp project plan. - Meeting at 1:00 PM on May 5, 2026, to review the plan. **HANA IS Internal Audit** - Assisting Anton by curating lists required by Victoria; target completion this week. **Sophos to Hana Migration** - Curated and Cotton Food remain in Sophos. - Meeting with Curated scheduled this week to explain Sophos migration. **Project 2670: Chen Tracy Access Point** - Change order approved for an additional AP mount. - Mount expected around May 11, 2026. **Project 2670.04: Auto Home Search Access Point Repositioning** - Done and ready to close. - Switch hardware accessories expected by May 11, 2026. **Project 2651: Barker Cloud Takeover** - Methodology IT can transfer unified devices for a labor cost; awaiting their quote. - Fortinet firewall ownership unknown; Methodology IT does not manage it. **Project 2530: Project Angel Food** - Server and VCDR unit decommissioning underway. - On-site visit Monday, May 11, 2026, to check printers and other systems post-cutover. - Expected to close soon. **Projects 2597 & 2611: Hardware Refresh** - Two laptops and two desktops at Crimson IT HQ as spares, awaiting Stephen’s setup requests. **Intranet Project: Compliance & Device Management** - 12 of 22 users’ Cloud PCs provisioned from US to Europe/Poland. - Four users pending scheduling; seven require follow-up. - Expected to close by end of May 2026. **Project 2583: Launcher Azure File Migration** - Ready to close, pending invoice payment confirmation. **Project 2588: Secure Wireguard File Structure Cleanup** - Discovery phase led by Jason. **Project 2598: Wayfinder SharePoint and Teams Migration** - Vendor progress reporting inaccurate: actual 50% (not 90%); follow-up needed. **Hana XDRM Upgrade** - 80% complete; targeted completion May 31, 2026. **Project 2652: Clappage SharePoint Consolidation** - Ready to close. **Project 2672: Linear 416 MDNS Project** - Ready to close; monitor service tickets for three remaining devices. **Project 2685: CBR Tower Network Equipment** - Complete; pending billing for Kevin’s extended hours. **New Project: Avalon Test Equipment Claude Setup** - New project: 8 hours professional fees and 12 Claude enterprise licenses. - Will start only after upfront invoice payment due to payment history. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Dell to conduct transcript review for conversation patterns. - [ ] Archie to resume knowledge collection: capture travel info from meetings/emails; add personal details and travel knowledge to Airtable. - [ ] Warren to review business strategy for Sharp and Ability First; design Airtable storage method. - [ ] Chris to meet Tim on May 5, 2026 (afternoon) for Signal Partners offboarding. - [ ] Schedule internal kickoff call on May 5, 2026, for Project 2679 (Maverick IT Security Assessment). - [ ] 1:00 PM meeting on May 5, 2026, to review Foothill Family project plan. - [ ] Send Foothill Family project plan to client by May 8, 2026. - [ ] Set up, label, and ship Camp Paivika equipment to arrive one week before May 26, 2026; coordinate Saturday work before and after installation week; confirm ComDirect upon receipt of 11K deposit. - [ ] Verify firewall decision for Project 2612 (standard vs expedited, higher-cost unit). - [ ] Follow up with Methodology IT for quote and identify Fortinet firewall owner for Project 2651. - [ ] Follow up with Robert on Wayfinder (Project 2598) to address 50% progress and corrective plan. - [ ] Notify Sean to move IT compliance issues to service tickets for Launcher (Project 2583) and confirm payment. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Project 2612 firewall delivery is delayed; a decision is pending on purchasing a more expensive, readily available alternative. > 2. In Project 2651 (Barker Cloud Takeover), Fortinet firewall ownership is unknown; Methodology IT does not manage it, posing a project risk. > 3. Speaker 2 is at capacity for new AI projects until June, yet new AI projects were discussed; potential resource allocation conflict needs management. > 4. Wayfinder migration (Project 2598) is actually 50% complete, not 90%; define a plan to correct the discrepancy and get back on track.
- Date
- May 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 The town is located on the banks of the river Sava. Can we have dill? The name of the town is derived from the river. Can, Speaker 2 00:00:18 We have Dell go through and do a. Speaker 2 00:00:24 Transcript Review for conversation patterns and any any of those things that are coming through, and that way we can look at improvement on meetings. Press enter. Speaker 1 00:00:48 The name of the town is derived from the river. I'm not sure what you mean. Good morning. Speaker 3 00:00:52 Good morning, happy Wednesday. I said happy Wednesday. I'm already ahead. Speaker 2 00:01:03 Also, I don't think Archie has done due diligence lately as far as knowledge collector and collecting travel information from meetings and emails. Let's get him spun up as well to go through the meeting, notes and getting things taken care of that way. And let's make sure he's notating personal details for users or people in Airtable. Let's make sure travel knowledge is getting captured. I just don't think he's done that lately. Speaker 1 00:01:29 Press enter. Speaker 1 00:01:33 For Warren, Speaker 2 00:01:34 I need him to go through and take a look at. Uh, sharp ability first and any of my other clients. And let's look on business strategy of where we're at, where we're going. And let's come up with a way of storing that in Airtable. Speaker 1 00:01:55 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 2 00:01:57 Sorry, Julia. I know you started talking to me when I when you jumped on, but I was. D ictating and I had myself muted purposely. Speaker 3 00:02:06 Yeah, I heard that. I was like, okay, she's not talking to me. Speaker 2 00:02:09 No, I had a lot of things I needed to say and dictate, and so it was much easier using the The dictation software that I use. Speaker 1 00:02:18 The city is located in the central part of the island. Speaker 2 00:02:25 Besides, How am I going to take over the world if I'm not doing all that I can do to meet Vlad's expectations on being dangerous? Speaker 1 00:02:36 I'm sorry. You need me today? Speaker 2 00:02:41 I am maxed out. But it's fun. I am having a blast, so and Gabby, have you heard of the conversation Vlad and I had about me being dangerous? Do you know what that's in reference to? I'll let Vlad explain that one. Speaker 1 00:03:04 You can stand behind her while she's doing her work. You know, you'll need two pack of cigarettes just to recover. Speaker 3 00:03:11 He needs uh he needs to she has the army behind her man. Speaker 1 00:03:16 Yep very much so. All right. I think we can start. Oh, did you? Speaker 3 00:03:27 I Have to go for a second. I some. Speaker 4 00:03:32 Okay. Alright. Morning, everybody. Welcome to the 19 th Power Query meeting. So let's start this meeting with the latest projects, starting with project two six one two. For setting rules for their firewall. Speaker 5 00:03:47 Good morning, guys. So the firewall is supposed to arrive this week, but of course it got pushed back again. So I am checking with them if they want to go ahead and buy the more expensive firewall that only takes a couple days to deliver. So We will see. Speaker 4 00:04:07 All right. And next is project 2614. This for Crimson ID for the IDG to Hudu migration. Speaker 5 00:04:14 So this is still in progress. I'm still revoking access in ITG, and my team's still working on moving everything over. So yeah. Speaker 4 00:04:29 All right, let's move on to project 2663. It is for Signal Partners for their offboarding. Speaker 5 00:04:36 Uh, so Chris has a meeting with Tim this afternoon. So if we offboard them or not, I don't. Not sure what. What our plan is, there we'll see. Product. And then how about the other elevator implementation? Speaker 4 00:04:53 For AutoElevate, we have 900 devices enrolled so far. And Yeah, Charlene Becker are planning on testing max enrollment with Rippling and Jump Cloud this week. So we'll see. How that goes as well. Speaker 6 00:05:09 We know how much people are using that Olivia. Being used by people, or we managing it well, or people are we enrolling the right groups. Speaker 5 00:05:21 It's just auditing right now, so it'sum just gathering what people are usingum or what people will. Like what kind of actions they're taking, um, and then we'll come in and we'll. Decide on like rules for each. Speaker 5 00:05:42 Company kind of thing. So right now it's not doing anything. It's just it's just watching, it's gathering information and telling us where. Um, like what people are trying to install or whatever it may be. What they need admin permissions for. Speaker 4 00:06:03 Okay, and then let's move on toum Kristen's project for the E A tracker, Corinne. Speaker 2 00:06:11 So I talked to Jason Yu uh today about that, and we are moving that to the end of June. Uh just because they they need to push that out a little bit farther. Honestly, with Carney Properties. There's not much I'm doing I'm, just waiting them for them to give me the green light And start building things out for them with Claude, Copilot, and OpenAI. They're going with all three, by the way. Speaker 4 00:06:32 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 4 00:06:37 Al right, do you want me to remove this and just re- add it on June? Speaker 2 00:06:42 Um. Yeah, let's put a hold on that. And then also, um, that reminds me. Uh, You need to putum ability first project back up for Camp Poveglia because we are currently starting to work on that. Speaker 2 00:07:03 Okay, And I can give you that update whenever you're ready. I guess. Um, for sharp. Sorry. Sorry about that. Uh, for sharp, it's I I get a lot of updates. I'm not going to bore you guys this time. Uh, I don't want to, I don't want Pete to get exhausted from my meetings so Um. For Sharp, everything is going according to schedule. We are not behind on anything except MFA, But MFA was intentionally moved because of some outreach events and things they had going on. So the new deadline for MFA is May 15th. We have some training set up for them to get everybody involved. And what we're going to do for desktops is HIPAA aligned and compliant, So we're going to just do Windows Hello setup for both Outlook and their desktops. Speaker 2 00:07:53 Because that is actually HIPAA aligned because it's considered a security key and a passkey. So. Speaker 4 00:08:03 Got it. But that's also the computer updates that you update? Speaker 2 00:08:08 Yes, so for the computer updates, they still are working on it. We are down to seven Bathma computers that need to be exchanged. We're still at pretty high numbers for the Sharp ones, but, But they're doing it slowly, Intentionally, because we've got so much stuff going on that, you know, this one's going to be taking a while. They're doing about one to two right now every week or so. If not more, but it is going slowly. Speaker 4 00:08:38 Okay, next is the Kampai Vida. Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:08:44 No worries. So the equipment is already here for Camp Paivika. So what we're doing is switch that project manager over to me. I'm going to pull that one off of Julia because there's honestly nothing she's going to do other than babysit us, and she doesn't have time for that. I don't even have time to babysit myself. So, um, for Camp Viveka, the equipment is in um Christian or somebody or Miguel. Somebody uh asked if yeah that was me. That was you. Yeah, so we can go ahead and start setting up the equipment now. Make sure that we label them and put labels on the equipment. I know I don't have to tell you guys that, but I'm telling you anyways because it's in my brain. Um and get those shipped over to Camp Pavica, and it needs to be there a week before the twenty sixth. Uh, if at all possible. And then um for ComDirect, they're just waiting on the 11K deposit. Speaker 2 00:09:41 Uh, from ability for them to lock in, but they are they are tentatively locked in for that week. Um, We are also going to be working on Saturdays, the Saturday before and the Saturday after. I don't have to go up to camp but one day. Um, We are going to have to replace manually the existing equipment because ComDirect uh, Did not follow our directions. So I'm going to go up and physically replace the, Dev ices that are just upgrades and not new installs. So, it's just going to be a quick, put the equipment up and have Gabby just verify I'm doing everything correctly with pictures. Speaker 7 00:10:24 Just do one question. So, we basically are going to do a refresh on all of the current equipment at Camp Peiwanca. Yep. Okay. Speaker 2 00:10:35 Yep. So, uh, ComDirect made a mistake. And, now it's too late to fix it because they don't have the timeframe in which to fix it. So any of the equipment that is a direct upgrade and not a new device, I am just going to go up and switch it out. And so and we're going to borrow the team here, Will and Alex that are on site to actually do the mounting equipment for us. And then I am just going to physically Yes, all of them. Speaker 7 00:11:02 We know which ones are going to be upgrades and which ones are new equipment. Speaker 2 00:11:06 Yes, there is a map. U m, of everything, and I'll get with you on that one. And okay. Um. Yeah, everything is getting either replaced or new add. There's not going to be an old device there after we're done. Speaker 1 00:11:21 Okay. Got it. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:11:25 All right. Next is, um, project 267, it is for Codsen for their AI assessment and implementation. Speaker 2 00:11:33 So they have signed off on the project plan and the dates. So, we I've already started the audit on everything, and then going from there, I'll have the report to them by Friday, which I've already got almost done. And we are going to have to upgrade their licenses within Microsoft. So I'm going to have a meeting with CommAd to go over that. Because they are on Office E3 licenses and not Microsoft, so they don't have Azure P1. So we are going to have to upgrade that, which we already knew that that was going to be a possibility. Speaker 2 00:12:07 U m, And then training is going to be uh the week of the eighteenth of May. And the project will wrap up by the end of May. Speaker 1 00:12:18 And we are on target for that. Got. Speaker 4 00:12:26 It. Alright, how about the. The LA Alliance Cloud Teams at. Speaker 2 00:12:34 Yes, so we are. I talked to Kevin Thomas yesterday. We are going to start that project next week. Um, I am finishing up their tabletop report today or not today this week and getting that over to them. So that they can get everything signed off on from that angle, and then once all of that's signed off, then I am going to Um, why is never mind. Um, I'm going to start working on the clock project next week. Okay. Speaker 4 00:13:03 Thank you. So let's move on to project 2630, Ms. Caroline, quarter 21. Um, new laptops. So, um, seventeen computers has been completed. Three still checking the availability of the monitors. Um, two of them has been just like undelivered last Friday, and then. Um, two thousand has been paid for this project. We've we've also, We're also waiting for the check for the one thousand two hundred fifty that we have billed them. Two weeks ago, and then for billing this week, I'm gonna send one thousand. Ah, for the progress billing for four um laptops that has been done. Next is project to 639. This is for the onboarding of the Shida Wang Associates Incorporation. So all 14 users um has their Microsoft accounts configured already. So we've also billed them for May and prorated of April 2026. Speaker 4 00:14:03 So that is yeah, so that is like two thousand nine hundred fifty seven. And then the only thing that we're waiting, um, The only task for this onboarding is for their for their Gmail migration and configuration of Avenant. So Um, hopefully to start the Gmail migration this week, early um late this week or early next week. And then, Um, next is project two six seven nine. This is for Maverick for their I T security assessment. So um, Gabby and Kevin already have their. Um, um, gaming license. So I I need to, um, update my. Checklist and then making plans. So I'll be scheduling Gabby. I'll be scheduling a call with. With you guys today, to have an internal. Speaker 4 00:15:01 How can. Speaker 2 00:15:01 We fix Dale so he's not blocked? Let me know how we can do that and I will fix it. Or you can fix it. Speaker 4 00:15:07 And the next new project that we have is for Foothill Family for their comprehensive IT infrastructure and security. So I guess, Chrissy. Oh, I also need your help on this one. Also, Jason, because we need to send them the project plan as soon as possible. So I think this is the same. As what we did with sharp. For the assessment project that we need to be charged. So, I need your help on this one. Speaker 2 00:15:36 I already have you. I started working on today, the roadmap and framework for you guys on so that Jason has it, And I'll put together that project plan as well because I am just going to reuse the sharp one. Speaker 6 00:15:50 So Chris, I just sent a note to this team right before this meeting. I strongly recommend. You all get together today, if possible and put together or review whatever that project plan is that you have for sure, because we present that to them. ASAP, Like preferably before the end of this week because they want to review it and see what we're going to be doing. And. Make suggestions or comments or whatever. Yeah, I would also like to review it. Speaker 6 00:16:24 We give it to them, So I'd like I'd like to take a look at it and maybe be part of that. So, yeah, I know we're going to take what we did for Sharp and kind of take a look at it. I'd like to understand what what our approach is going to be, but Anton also said that he's got some automation stuff that he's. Done since the sharp thing, and I am interested in what that looks like. So. I really want to see what we're doing. So I don't know when we're going to have what, but um. Can the team get together maybe today and just touch base on it and bring SAG up to speed, bring Jason up to speed, all that kind of stuff. Speaker 2 00:17:02 Yes, but I am. I am dying today after lunch as far as meetings. Let me let me see what I can move around. I think I think my one o'clock is being canceled or by two o'clock, one of them. Speaker 6 00:17:20 If not today, Sometime before noon tomorrow, cause we. Yeah, I need to make time. I need to make time this week to. I'd like to get it to them and see what their feedback is before the end of the week. I don't know what we can get done in that time. So. Um, we got a lot to do in a short period of time. So I don't really know where we are and and how much we can get done. So and you're kind of the the starting point for a lot of that. So that's that's, I'm trying to get to so if it's got to be tomorrow that's okay, um but preferably sometime by tomorrow morning if possible. Speaker 2 00:17:58 Yeah, let me see what I can do because I thinkum. I think one of my meetings today might get canceled. So if you guys can meet at one o'clock, because at my team meeting at two. Speaker 4 00:18:09 Okay, I'll schedule a meeting at 1:00 p. m. Then. Speaker 2 00:18:12 Okay, that would be perfect. Speaker 4 00:18:14 Thank you. Alright. Thank you, Christy. Okay, so we have. We have an the HANA IS internal audit. It's the time of the month, it's time of the year again. So I'm helping Anton with this project. So, we're curating all the lists needed by Victoria for the audit for HANA IS. We had. Speaker 2 00:18:37 Given to all of them, Because I have a feeling, Speaker 4 00:18:41 You'll need it. They will give all the documents, so they've already. Plotted in Connectwise. We're hoping this will be finishedum this week, hopefully. Um, plan is mostly doing all the stuff. So yeah, and just getting some of this stuff to admin from admin and from. Next is our migration. Speaker 1 00:19:08 To Hana project. Speaker 4 00:19:09 So, this isum curated and cotton food will still be kept in sophos and lumi five, but curated I've checked that they have on uncolored has a meeting with curated this week. This I think this Friday. This Wednesday. Explain to Susan what theum I need to explain to Susan the sophos migration to Google chat. Speaker 1 00:19:35 So I'm sending out. Most of the time. Speaker 2 00:19:40 Have you trained it to think like or to talk like you? Speaker 6 00:19:43 I thought that was going to be at least by this month, right? Speaker 5 00:19:48 Yeah, we're testing out to see if we can push it through JumpCloud. Speaker 5 00:19:54 We're Going to test it out this week. Speaker 8 00:19:57 Let me send you a prompt that I use to get it to sound like me, and I keep it in my memory. And that way, it sounds less AI- ish. Speaker 4 00:20:12 The MR 36 is a 36 mm anti- tank mine. Speaker 2 00:20:17 I'm going to send you my entire prompt that I sent to my team. And you can just add that to your summary. Speaker 8 00:20:26 You're good. If necessary. Speaker 4 00:20:35 Go t it. Next isum Chen Tracy for their MR for their access point. Speaker 8 00:20:41 For an access point, okay. Uh, for this one, uh, Vlad was able to change solid uh last week. But we provided a change order code to procure and install an additional access. Mount for support, uh since it's quite heavy based on uh. The installation last time, so the code was already approved and the. Order is already in process and we're currently waiting for the mount. The mount will arrive sometime around May eleventh. Speaker 4 00:21:16 Next Is project two, six, four, two, six, seven point zero four, auto home search for the repositioning of the two existing access points. Speaker 8 00:21:23 Yeah, this one is done and ready to close. And then For. Speaker 1 00:21:34 Up dated ETS uh. Speaker 8 00:21:36 Switch hardware accessories are expected to arrive by May eleven. Uh, just additional one and this is what based on our last meeting. Uh, Pete, uh I was able to know. How we get the models from AutoConcierge. So, Vinson provides the models, But Vinson consults with Ingram or Cisco to identify the specific model of Switches or webs to use. So. Yeah, basically we provide the models to them. Not on search, Speaker 1 00:22:09 Provide models to us. Yeah. Okay, so. So are we able to find a, Speaker 8 00:22:19 To use it to model them? Yeah, but I check with Vince. He said the ETA for the model is quite is good. So we're still proceeding with this with this specific model. That's enough now. Speaker 1 00:22:36 Okay. All right. Speaker 6 00:22:41 Another one. And, we're sure on all these billings because just to be clear on this call. The project manager is responsible for making sure that the billing is accurate, right? That means you make sure that we have. That the quote and the bill is accurate. And that we have billed the customer and that the went out right, and that means. You make sure that the that it wasn't just that, oh yeah, we'll build them. And then you forget about it. It means you make sure that the bill went to The billing team and that the bill was sent to the customer. Because we've had way too many times where somebody said, yeah, We'll bill the customer, and then the bill did not go out to the customer or we did not bill the customer. Speaker 6 00:23:30 You as the PM need to make sure that, that bill did get sent to the customer. So, I want to make that clear when the new PM starts. I'll make that clear to her as well. But, I want to make sure that the PM is responsible for following through that, that bill did get sent to the customer. At. That point, it's up to the receivables team to make sure we we get the money from from the customer, obviously, but, We want to make sure we did build a customer according to the The. Uh. So the SOW and the billing agreement and whatever they signed off on, but um. We've had we've had quite a few billing issues where we either forgot or we thought we billed them and we didn't, and then we go back and find out that. Something happen in the building gets sent, and it's really hard to go back a year later. And bill a customer when you finished a project last year and they thought they Paid it. So, yeah. And that's for everybody on the call. Speaker 6 00:24:27 There you go. Just so you're aware, but I know that you're kind of newer to this project meeting, but I just wanted to make that clear to everybody. Okay. Speaker 4 00:24:38 Next is Project 2651, this is Barker for the quad takeover. Speaker 7 00:24:43 All right, so some good news. We could finally hear back from Methodology IT. Yeah. After several attempts. Speaker 7 00:24:57 Like Kevin emailed them a few times, and then I just decided to follow up, and they finally responded back. So. Yeah, go figure. Anyway, So they did say they were still managing the unified devices, and they can help us with. Transferring them over, um, but there will be a labor cost. So I am waiting to receive. I am just waiting to receive a quote for them. And I'll, um. And then I'll just um discuss with Vince on how he wants to build a client for this. Um if he wants to put it in the agreement or. Or whatnot. We still haven't figured out the mystery of the Fortinet firewall, though. The methodology people say they don't manage it, so we'll still have to figure out. Figure out about what to do with that. So, but some good news. That's that's a piece of good news. That's all I have. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:25:60 Next, This is T and M. Gabi, they want us to build some of the hours that you work on already. Like program email or no? Speaker 7 00:26:09 I would say yes, you can include that. Speaker 4 00:26:14 Because, if we might send them a whole amount of invoice with a big amount during the end of the project. They might ask a lot of questions. Speaker 7 00:26:30 The Town is located in the central part of the county. Speaker 4 00:26:31 I mean, whatever is the best. But let me also check with Vincent. Okay. The city is located in the central part of the island. The city is located on the banks of the river. Okay, let's move on to project two five three zero for Project Angel Food. Part of, like we should talk about Julia. Speaker 3 00:26:53 I evenum. We are doing the decommission of the servers and VCDR unit. Haven't scheduled like upgrade domain services for this Friday after half work. And I also scheduled him for the post-crossover on-site visit for Monday. As Mike suggested, just make sure that you know printers and everything is working. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:27:25 We should be closing this project pretty soon. Alright, Speaker 4 00:27:32 Next isum project, two, five, nine, seven and two six, one one is for pa for their hardware, refresh, January and December orders. Speaker 3 00:27:41 I have not had a chance to work on this project. Um, I needed. I know they we have two laptops and two desktops at the Crimson IT. I just need to update my spreadsheet. Speaker 3 00:27:56 S toll, Olivia's team are aware of what's at the Cincinnati headquarters. Andum, but itum. It's basically, they're they're going to be this computers will be sitting and waiting for Stephen to. Send us requests to set them up. They are spares. Speaker 4 00:28:21 Alright. Next project. One second, Mr. Intra, for the compliance setup device management and DM. Speaker 3 00:28:31 Jason is the lead right now, and Gabby's doing fantastic work on it too. So basically we have 12 out of 22 users. We provision their cloud PCs from US to Europe. Or slash Poland. We had a couple of issues. You know, people, users were just needed to. Reboot the cloud PCs. Some were still using VPN even though they don't need to use VPN anymore. We have four pending users that will be scheduled. And seven more users remaining that I need to follow up with. There is also just one note for everyone. Speaker 3 00:29:24 Some intranet users were experiencing, uh, uh, the you know, while they were accessing their cloud clients websites they were blocked. So we moved one to from Poland because Poland was blocked, I guess blacklisted. As a country, so we moved that user from Poland to Europe, but still it's better performance than when they were. Pro vision ten US. So hopefully this project will also be closed by end of this month. Speaker 4 00:30:02 Next is product 2583, this is for a launcher for the Azure file migration and archiving. Speaker 3 00:30:10 We are, I haven't checked if invoice was paid or not, But we are ready to close this project and I will notify Sean to move. Uh, in it. Comp liance issues to service tickets. Speaker 4 00:30:29 Next is Project 25, a secure wireguard for their file structure cleanup. Speaker 3 00:30:36 Jason leads this project too. I have not had a chance to check in with Jason. He is doing a discovery. Speaker 4 00:30:47 Project Five Nine Eight is a finder for the Sharp Point. And Microsoft Teams migration. I. Speaker 3 00:30:54 Have updated Keith yesterday. We since last week we had a Charles finding out that. Instead of Wayfinder reporting to us 90%, it's actually only 50%. So Pete, have you had a chance to connect with Robert or not yet? Speaker 1 00:31:16 Um, no, not yet. Speaker 1 00:31:22 U m, that's it. Speaker 3 00:31:25 For Wayfinder. Speaker 4 00:31:26 All right. Next is Hannah for the XPRM upgrade. Speaker 3 00:31:32 For John, we are set to get this done May 31 st. For 31 st and percentage completed is 80%. Speaker 4 00:31:46 Then Forum. The name of the town is derived from the river. Five videos for Clappage for their SharePoint library consolidation and OneDrive sync with Teams. Speaker 3 00:31:55 We can close this project. We had internal meeting. Last week, talk about what happened and why. Speaker 4 00:32:04 Okay. All right. Next is project 2672. This is for a linear 416 Mdns project. Speaker 3 00:32:12 We can close this project too, uh, we'll just, Watch out for the service tickets because there were three three devices that still needed. To be updated, but I don't think they're using them. That's why I didn't get back to us. Next. Speaker 4 00:32:32 Is Prachi Nigam. Project two, six, eight five is for the C B R tower for the floor network equipment. This Project. Speaker 3 00:32:45 Start ed and finished in, in a week I guess. So I haven't had a chance to look at it, but we're billing for Kevin's. Hours because it took longer than we expected. Speaker 4 00:33:01 Okay, and then oh we have new projects. And there's one for the cloud team setup. Oh, I think this is for Christine. Speaker 1 00:33:16 Are you getting this project, the Claude, Speaker 4 00:33:18 For Anderson? Speaker 1 00:33:21 I guess I am. The name of the town is derived from the river. Yep, I guess I am. Speaker 4 00:33:31 Thank you. And, then we have the Anderson Real Estate Firewall Replacement and then Microsoft three hundred and sixty five Copilot for Earlier Readiness and Deployment. Speaker 2 00:33:41 That one I know about. Yes. Speaker 4 00:33:44 Yeah, I'll just put this in here and then get the one. Okay, and anything else? Speaker 3 00:33:53 Nothing from my side. Speaker 6 00:33:57 Sorry, did we say anything about the. And I don't know if this is actually a project, But did we say anything about the IT Avalon thing? Or is that not really coming through? Is that really even a project? Speaker 1 00:34:12 As soon as I I know they, well I think they signed. I know it was put on my radar. Speaker 6 00:34:20 They sort of signed, but I don't know if we've officially approved it yet. So then it might not be on the list because of that, or it might not be on the list because I even. To be a project, I don't really know. It's kind of small, and the only thing I saw when I pulled it up. Speaker 1 00:34:34 Was I see. Speaker 1 00:34:42 When I looked at it, it just said it was like a licensing and. Thank you. Avalon, let me check. I think it's uh. Speaker 6 00:34:56 What it shows is Avalon Test Equipment, Claude Enterprises, twelve licenses and. Eight hours of engineering time for something. I don't know what that is. Is that your time, Chris, or is that something else? It's my time. I don't have the actual. Let me see if I actually. I'm looking at the procurement email, Speaker 1 00:35:24 But we probably have the quote somewhere. Speaker 3 00:35:29 The code seven five one four and it's actually attached. To it says Claude team setup. Speaker 6 00:35:37 Yeah, I'm downloading it right now. Let me see. So, Claude team set up it says it's just got professional fees. For eight hours and cloud enterprise licenses for twelve. There's twelve licenses. Speaker 4 00:35:54 Oh, it's I think it's not yet like signed. It's signed. Was it signed today? Speaker 6 00:36:01 Uh- huh. Speaker 3 00:36:02 It was signed for 24. Speaker 6 00:36:04 Well, it was signed before, but we weren't going to do it until they pay them. They have to pay it up front. I told Mike, they have to pay the money up front, or we're not going to do it before we do it. Because of their history of payments, so it says we're going to configure cloud enterprise single sign on integration. Validate authentication flow, identify and configure key connectors. Test connectors conduct one training session. Is this mostly your work? Chris, do you know or is this somebody else? Speaker 1 00:36:36 Mostly my work. Speaker 6 00:36:39 So. It'll probably become a project, I would imagine. Speaker 1 00:36:45 Yes, it should be a project. Speaker 6 00:36:47 But again, we're not launching it until they pay. Yes, I understand that. They may wire the money this week and then we schedule it. But again. We're going to work on our schedule and not theirs because they pay on their schedule, which hasn't been very good. So I'm not going to say we're going to. Have Chris drop everything to do this. So, Chris, if it takes three weeks to schedule this, then it takes three weeks to schedule this. So don't Bend over backwards to do this. Speaker 2 00:37:18 I won't. Trust me, I understand. Yep, Speaker 6 00:37:20 This is not this is not urgent. The name of the town is derived from the river. When we when we have time to make it work, then we'll make it work. But don't worry too much about. They don't worry about paying us. I'm not going to worry about. Doing this on anybody's schedule but ours. Speaker 2 00:37:39 So and this is why you're my hero. Speaker 4 00:37:46 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:37:50 I put the. I put the quote in a chat. I'm not sure. Fine, it was fine. We also have a SharePoint migrate project for Avalon on hold, just so everybody remembers that. Speaker 1 00:38:06 We're not starting the project yet, right? No. Okay. Anything else? Going once. Going twice. Speaker 2 00:38:23 Let's not do we need more AI projects until June. Speaker 1 00:38:33 Okay, so I think you need to tell that to. Speaker 2 00:38:37 I already told Mike yesterday. I already told them I was at capacity. I gave Pete a heads up either yesterday or today. My days are running together. Speaker 4 00:38:49 I know, right Okay. I think that's it. Thanks everybody. See you. Okay, thanks all. Thanks guys. Speaker 1 00:38:55 Thank you. Bye- bye, bye- bye. The name of the town is derived from the river. I'm not sure what you mean.
05-19 Weekly Meeting: SEC Tabletop Exercise and EAP Requirements
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-05-19 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Vince] ## Meeting Notes ### Tabletop Exercise Preparation for SEC Requirements - Christi met with Paul, Sam, and Esther from Eldridge to review documentation for an upcoming tabletop exercise. - Paul questioned the necessity of all documents, which were based on the "twenty five" requirements, suggesting some were not needed for the SEC last year. - Christi maintained that the documents were updated based on new requirements and will send a follow-up email clarifying what is required versus "nice to have." ### Tabletop Exercise Logistics and Participants - A tabletop exercise is scheduled for June 2. Another exercise is planned for January next year. - Christi invited Vince and Anton because their participation is required. - Jason was also invited to observe and understand the process. - Christi plans to add Sean, Olivia (team lead for Eldridge), and Monty to the invitation. - Vince noted Monty’s potential as a single point of failure, emphasizing the need for a system rather than reliance on one person. ### EAP and Arc Requirements - Vince mentioned that the work being done can be reused for Arc, as they are filing at the end of June. - Christi confirmed she would finalize some items for EAP after the call. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to send an email to Paul clarifying SEC documentation requirements (required vs. nice-to-have). - [ ] Christi to add Sean, Olivia, and Monty to the June 2 meeting invitation. - [ ] Christi to finalize EAP deliverables after the call. - [ ] Team to assess and document processes to reduce single-point-of-failure risk around Monty. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. There is a disagreement with Paul from Eldridge regarding the necessary documentation for the SEC tabletop exercise. A clear resolution is needed to ensure the exercise is compliant. > 2. Vince identified a potential risk that processes rely too heavily on a single person, Monty, rather than a documented system. This could be a point of failure.
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello. Hello. So, I am sorry, I took a bite of a pretzel. I had a very lovely meeting with Paul and Sam and Esther from Eldridge. We were going over the documentation that's required because we got to do the tabletop exercise. Speaker 1 00:00:27 And as I'm going through, I'm using the exact documents from twenty five, not twenty four, but twenty five. And he's like, I don't think all of this is needed for her S E C. We didn't have this last year. And I am like, Do you know how hard it was to school my face to not let on that, he's crazy? So I just played it off that we were updating based on new requirements. And then he was like, well, I think I think we need to go back and determine if this just a nice to have or if it's actually needed. I'm like, dude, this required. But I couldn't say it. So I got to send him an email later today. Going to go home and work on it. Speaker 1 00:01:24 Of, what is actually required for SEC requirements and what is not required for SEC requirements. Okay. That's. Speaker 2 00:01:33 A quad prompt away. Speaker 1 00:01:35 Yeah, so just a heads up, You I invited youum I invited you and Anton because you guys have to be in it. Uh I invited Jason because I promised Jason I'd put him in the next. Uh, the next. Tabletop exercise so he can understand how they go. That man. Speaker 2 00:02:07 That one's in January, Speaker 1 00:02:08 Right? Oh, January's next year's. I'm gonna hand put it on the calendar because I wanted to be proactive. But this one is July 2 nd, I mean June 2 nd. Okay, yep. Speaker 1 00:02:24 So. I see it. Yeah, we can see it there. Okay, cool. I'm going to add Sean to this as well. Speaker 2 00:02:36 Um, I think you missed Jason though. No, Speaker 1 00:02:41 I'm about to add them. I'm about to send it Oh gotcha gotcha Yeah, I was making some updates So. Speaker 2 00:02:51 Cool The good news is we're, Just going to be able to regurgitate this because EAum Arc is going to need this very soon since they're filing end of I think end of July. Yes, June, maybe yeah end of June shit I forgot. Speaker 1 00:03:09 I got to add Olivia, who is theum who is the team lead for? The part over with that deals with Eldridge, Becker is sharp. Speaker 2 00:03:28 That that is sharp. All. Speaker 1 00:03:36 Right. Shit, I forgot about Monty. Oh yeah. Speaker 2 00:03:52 Although Monty wasn't on the call last time, was she? Speaker 1 00:03:56 She couldn't. I think she was on. She was on vacation, I think. Speaker 2 00:03:59 Oh, I gotcha. Okay. Yep. That might be a good opportunity to where everything if they ever say, oh, it goes to Monty. It's like no that Monty is not a system. Monty is one person. So we have to make sure that there is an actual system behind it Yep That's going to come up I'm sure. Yeah So. Speaker 1 00:04:21 Oh my gosh, I was so hungry. Um okay, I was eating pretzels. I didn't eat lunch because all my meetings were back to back. I had seven meetings for today and three of them trainings. Gosh, yep. All right, I've got a mountain of work to get done before I go do anything else. So with you, I uh just wanted to give you a heads up, About what was going on with EAP so that you had it. And I am now going to go get some work done and get some things finalized for EAP. Speaker 2 00:05:04 Perfect, thanks for looping me in. I appreciate it. Speaker 1 00:05:06 No worries. Have a great rest of your day. Speaker 2 00:05:11 You too, let's hang in there, we're almost through the week. Speaker 1 00:05:14 Mhm, soon. Speaker 2 00:05:17 I say that and realize it's just. Yes. I'll tell you again tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Yes. All right, talk to you later, bye.
04-21 Project Meeting: Foothill Family IT Infrastructure & Security Assessment Scope and Proposal Refinement
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-04-21 14:58:45 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Mike] [Christi] [Pete] [Speaker 5] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Context and Current Workload - Audit season is in progress with multiple audits: third-party pen test, PEC Bard Street audit, and RSM audit. - Mike stepped out of the RSM audit meeting to join this call. - Topic Title: New Client Assessment Proposal (Foothill Family) - Client: Foothill Family; ~300 employees across ~9 sites; primarily on-prem. - Engagement: Comprehensive IT infrastructure and security assessment; target delivery within 4–6 weeks. - Pricing: Standard cost 25,000; proposed at 15,000. - Proposal audience: CFO, IT Director, potentially CEO. - Topic Title: Tailoring Objectives and Scope (Remove Cost Focus, Emphasize Security and Infrastructure) - Remove items focused on budget review, IT spend, and carrier contract analysis; client is not seeking cost analysis. - Maintain security assessment aligned to best practices and NIST baseline. - Deliverables must be achievable within the timeline; avoid over-promising. - Topic Title: Proposed Objectives (Refined) - Provide an executive-level summary of infrastructure health across all sites. - Evaluate security posture aligned with best practices and NIST baseline. - Assess cloud environments: configuration, access, and security posture (generic across AWS/Azure/Google). - Review WAN architecture, ISP configuration, failover strategy, voice, and bandwidth posture (replacing “carrier contracts/call flow” bullets). - Include a roadmap aligned with business strategy; explicitly mention co-managed assistance options to reduce perceived threat to the existing IT admin. - Topic Title: Tools and Methodology - Use Network Detective (RapidFire Tools) if accessible; confirmed subscription exists and can be used. - Consider Live Optics for VM environment reporting (note: lacks hypervisor info). - LionGuard can pull local admin data but may require installation; ScalePad does not provide those details. - For hypervisor info, Christi has a tool (likely LionGuard) and experience building reports; can export to Excel if needed. - Topic Title: Infrastructure Scope Details (Adjustments) - Network: Routing, switching, segmentation, VLAN design; wireless and access controls; remote access/VPN. - Firewalls: Configuration and rule review (noted overlap with security but acceptable within the network scope). - Servers/Compute/Cloud: Health, patch levels, lifecycle; avoid specifying only Azure—use generic “cloud resource groups, VMs, networking, policies.” - Storage and Backup: Backup solutions, schedules, retention, immutability; data recovery capabilities; DR/BC posture. - Identity and Directory: AD health and GPO review; Hybrid AD/Microsoft Entra; user lifecycle; privileged access reviews; stale accounts noted. - Documentation and Operational Maturity: Architecture diagrams, SOPs/standards, monitoring/alerting, ticketing usage, change/release management. - Licensing review removed from objectives; may appear elsewhere if needed. - Topic Title: Security Assessment Scope - Endpoint protection: local admin usage, patch management, device compliance; Network Detective can help pull these. - Network security: segmentation, remote access, perimeter threat protection; verify VLAN isolation (Meraki defaults may allow crosstalk). - Cloud security: configuration and posture across platforms. - Optional vulnerability scanning/pen test: can resell third-party (e.g., Insight); leave as optional without bundling cost. - Governance and compliance: Foothill Family is HIPAA and COA-accredited; NIST used as baseline to cover HIPAA, SEC, SOC 2. - Topic Title: Operational Plan and Team Involvement - Onsite visual audit: photos and inspection of equipment at all locations. - Office 365 review to be led by Christi; manual steps expected. - Networking team to review firewall platforms (e.g., PAN, Meraki). - Potential partners for specialized tools (e.g., Zscaler/NetScope) if encountered. - Clarify server count and redundancy; initial client statement of “one server” is likely inaccurate. - Topic Title: Proposal Editing and Distribution - Christi and Sergio to export/edit the document in Word; remove/adjust objectives and scope as discussed. - Replace ISP/VoIP/call flow/carrier contract bullets with WAN architecture/ISP/failover/voice/bandwidth posture. - Remove “validation and operational readiness from resilience.” - Fix roadmap language: “Roadmap aligned with business strategy,” and include co-managed options. - Remove “cost savings and optimization roadmap” and “IT adoption readiness guidance” from deliverables. - Chinky to update formatting and send the revised proposal to the client group; Mike to post in the channel. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Export proposal to Word, redline objectives and scope per decisions, and finalize by 2026-04-22 before noon. - [ ] Chinky to format and send the updated proposal to the CFO/IT Director group. - [ ] Confirm and run Network Detective; include ESXi credentials for host info if available. - [ ] Schedule onsite visual audits for all ~9 sites; assign resources for photos and equipment inspection. - [ ] Christi to lead the Office 365 review; prepare a manual assessment checklist. - [ ] Identify a networking specialist to review firewall configurations and VLAN segmentation. - [ ] Decide on an optional vulnerability scanning partner (e.g., Insight) if requested. - [ ] Verify tool access/licensing (ScalePad, LionGuard, Live Optics) and plan usage. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify the exact deliverables list in the final proposal document to ensure consistency with the discussed removals and additions (objectives vs. scope vs. deliverables). > 2. Confirm tool coverage for local admin detection and hypervisor data; document which tool will be used for each dataset to avoid gaps. > 3. Validate the client’s on-prem server count and redundancy early; initial claims of “one server” may indicate risk and impact backup/DR recommendations. > 4. Determine whether firewall platforms (PAN/Meraki/etc.) are in use and assign the appropriate specialist; lack of clarity may delay the network security review. > 5. Establish the cadence and timeline for the 4–6 week assessment, including scheduling site visits across ~9 locations, to meet the proposed delivery window.
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi. Can you hear me? Speaker 2 00:00:36 Ooh, I think we avoided having a uh hold the security team into the earlier audit. Nice. This is audit season. We had third parties pen test audit, we had the PEC um Bard Street audit, and then we're doing an RSM audit. So all like yeah, it's been super busy so, They're in the middle of the RSM audit right now. Actually, I hopped out of that meeting to join this one. Speaker 3 00:01:08 Yeah, it's uh it's been a crazy busy day. It's like I've not stopped moving. Well, Not I've, not moved from my chair, but not stopped doing a bunch of things. How, Speaker 2 00:01:21 Could you take one visit to the mountains and then you change your background to the mountains? Speaker 3 00:01:25 I changed this a while back. Speaker 2 00:01:27 Oh, did you okay? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:01:29 Cause I'm working from my home computer. Not my home computer, but I'm working from my desktop, not the laptop. Speaker 2 00:01:35 Well, I'm just going to pretend it's because you went on the Friday trip. Speaker 3 00:01:38 Oh. That Friday trip. I was going to see if my uh. Yeah, my room is a mess. There you go. Speaker 2 00:01:50 I'm not even gonna. Yeah. I'm not even gonna undo mine. I've got dog crates back here Uh. Speaker 3 00:01:58 There's a kitten somewhere, She was under my feet. She moved. They've been they've been doing cartwheels off the counters today. Speaker 4 00:02:10 Kyle, hi, hey Pete, So I need everyone's help to do like a quick fix, and then a longer term fix. So the people that were supposed to come to the office on Monday that didn't come to the office, Anzo and I met with them. And we're going to do a full IT infrastructure and security assessment. So, sorry. It's it's for a company called um, uh what are they called? One second. The company is called uh Foothill Family. How big are they? I'm sorry. Speaker 4 00:02:57 They're about three. They have about three hundred or so people, about like nine nine sites. It's not it's I don't think it. I don't think it's as big as sharp, but it's probably somewhere between stability first and sharp or something like that. It's a good one. Three hundred people, that's a good one. Yeah, it's a good one, but they're mostly on prem. So, okay, yeah. And and it would if if we get it might just be initially kind of some. Co managed kind of stuff, or potentially we could take more of it than that, or we might get nothing. Anyway, but so long story short, What I need help with and I am going to share is what Chinky put together was a very I think it was a duplicate of what we did for Sharp and I don't like it. And, the reason I don't like it is because it's got a bunch of stuff in it that I don't want to deliver as part of this. Speaker 4 00:03:50 So what I need your help with is, What can we take out of here and what should we be delivering as part of this? And, is there a way that we can just tweak it enough to where I can get this out today? And I know it's if we can't do it today, I would like it before noon tomorrow because I don't want to wait days to get them a quote. So are we proposing to them? That's where sorry. It infrastructure and security. It's the same thing we basically did for for sharp. It's a comprehensive IT infrastructure and security assessment. Right now, what we did, what we described to Sharp is this. Oh wait, you guys can't see it. Hold on. I thought I was sharing. I am looking for a document or something. I thought I was sharing giving it Sorry, my mistake. My mistake Here, we go So We're doing We're doing a comprehensive IT infrastructure and security assessment. So It's this right And. It's the same thing we did for Sharp But like these objectives. Speaker 4 00:04:50 I didn't really like number one because I don't want to do this necessarily. I mean, some of it we can do, but I don't necessarily want to have to do all of it. I don't know if I want to do like IT cost savings and opportunity for op opti. I mean, optimization yes potentially for low hanging fruit, but I don't know if I want to do full cost savings right. Speaker 5 00:05:19 Could, you could you do executive uh, like an executive overview of infrastructure and include those, those line items. Well. Speaker 4 00:05:28 We we did some of that for sharp because, we were asked to do a lot of cost analysis stuff for sharp because, Sharp had a lot of let's just say they had a lot of financial concerns with what was going on with their IT spend, right? So a lot of. A lot of their concerns were around why was it costing so much, what were they spending money on, and they wanted an objective opinion on what was going on financially. This company is not about that at all. They want to know, they want they want help with a full IT assessment from an infrastructure perspective. What. Speaker 4 00:06:11 And and security, right? They want to know where are the where are the security holes. The security thing I think is very straightforward, right? I think the security piece should be very much what we've done in the past. And I would have included Anton, but he's out today and tomorrow. So I'm hoping Chris that you can sort of cover like what we should deliver from a security perspective. And I think that's probably already in here and I think that's probably pretty accurate, right? So from a network from a network secure From a network security perspective, and from a cloud security perspective, and from a threat security perspective, I think these are probably unless you guys disagree. I think these are probably okay. Yes. Any issues with any of these? And and this right? I think. Speaker 2 00:07:05 See, I would like to understand what we're proposing to them, so then we know exactly what we need to be offering. Speaker 4 00:07:10 They want an assessment, and I am asking you guys what should we deliver to them. That's my question. They want to know they want a full IT infrastructure and security assessment. I am asking you guys what should we deliver as part of that? Because what we delivered here was very tailored to Sharp. I want to know what you guys think we should really deliver as part of this assessment. Speaker 2 00:07:30 Do they have an existing IT team? I am sorry. Do they have current I T now that we're displacing So they have. Speaker 4 00:07:36 So what they have is they've got an I T administrator that they kind of promoted and is doing a lot of automation. I don't think they are thrilled with him. I think they would like him to stay, But I think there's a concern that he might not and he might get threatened by us doing an assessment, but yeah, I think actually actually i think They're happy with their help desk, so I don't think that's going to be in scope for us. But there could be some leadership things that, It could be something similar to what we're doing at Sharp, but they have their people that we maybe oversee. It could be lots of things, right? It might it might just be sort of we, We place some leadership in position to oversee their folks and kind of help them lead I T or something. I don't know. I don't know what it could turn into. Speaker 2 00:08:21 Do we still have access to network detective? Speaker 3 00:08:24 Uh, I have not tried to access it lately. That's going to be more of a question, but, I can see if I can access it. I put together that thing for SHARP. Hang on one second because I have that stuff, that entire list. Speaker 2 00:08:46 And do we need to assess all locations? Yes. All right. Okay, I mean, if you're looking for things, definitely a visual audit so, There is a tool called Network Detective from Rapid Fire Tools that, from like password policies, what's installed on computers, like what's installed on servers if they have on prem infrastructure. We'll gather a lot of the under the hood stuff. It's not super comprehensive, nothing like Sharp, but it does gather a lot of stuff automatically. Everything within the domain it will grab. Yeah. You only have to run it for if there is all the sites are located. You only need to run it from one like they're all IP set tunnels like all connected to each other. Speaker 2 00:09:26 You could run it from one location, and it'll scan. It'll take a long time, but it'll scan the entire domain. Um, three sixty five. I think Christie's going to have to lead that because that's going to be manual. I think, But we need to be sending someone on site to do pictures and visual inspection of equipment. Speaker 4 00:09:44 Right, we're and and I think that would all be part of the plan. We, we kind of told them in general that would be part of the plan. I guess what I am asking is what should our deliverables be as part of this proposal? Because again, when I look at when I look at what our high level objectives were, I don't like this. Mm hmm. I mean, I don't like. I don't know that we need to do a review of their IT budget. No. My opinion: I don't think that should be part of it, So I think we should redline this, and i think we should take that out. That's my opinion. So um. Speaker 5 00:10:20 Well, let me ask you this, Pete. In regards to theum carrier contracts and ISP VoIP, Um you know, sometimes companies just absolutely don't have any idea what their contracts are. Uh you know how many circuits they have. Well, Speaker 4 00:10:37 Let's see they they have an I T director, and he oversees them and that and he's part of the he and their. C F O or the people we met with, they're stick. They're sticking around. So in my opinion, they are overseeing that, and I don't think that's something we need to worry that much about. Um licensing may be in scope. And what I think we can do is we can give them this, and they can say, well, we don't need you to do that right. But um but I don't think like I don't think that necessarily. Speaker 4 00:11:07 And. And what I'd like to do is I'd like to have this be a template that we can use going forward that we don't have to tweak all the time. So, Speaker 2 00:11:15 From a sales perspective, who are we presenting to someone technical or like a CEO? Speaker 4 00:11:21 Well, This is going to them so their their CFO and their IT director and potentially a CEO as well. Right? So okay, Speaker 2 00:11:29 Because there's there's one report where it could be super technical and comprehensive. But. Doesn't hit well with like C level executives. Speaker 4 00:11:36 But this isn't a report. This is the proposal. This is our scope of work, right? Speaker 2 00:11:41 No, I thought you were asking for the scope of work. What is the deliverable of the scope of work? Speaker 4 00:11:46 I'm well, but what I'm asking right here is what are we promising to give them? I got to give them this proposal and what I want to know is what should our objectives be? What should I promise them because I don't want to promise them a whole bunch of stuff that we can't really deliver. And what we did for Sharp is we promised a bunch of stuff, and I was kind of like," I am not sure we can really deliver all that in four to six weeks." And Anzor was like," Well, yeah, we can." And did we really deliver all this stuff? Sort of. But you know. Speaker 3 00:12:17 Kirstie did a lot of late nights. Speaker 4 00:12:19 Well, yeah. And and I am not sure we one hundred percent delivered everything that we said. But they weren't all that. You know. They weren't as you know. Fine tooth comb, as some companies are going to be right so. Speaker 2 00:12:37 Real quick, we can provide a comprehensive report. Like if we do onsite audit, we want to essentially give an uh an inventory assessment of what they have, including security tools in place. Chrissy can do the Office three sixty five review right? Um, if you're dumbing it down to CEO I think we still have access to Audit It. Speaker 3 00:12:56 Well we changed it out for ScalePad. ScalePad is our is better now. An audit, Speaker 4 00:13:01 Their IT director wants to know where are my security holes, What do I have to? What do I need to do and build me a roadmap to get me where I want to be. You know if I want to do some cloud stuff, if I want to move to the cloud, If I want to simplify and and make my, you know make myum my company better. What should I do and how do I get there right so but. But i wanna but but i need, In this proposal, I need to get this done like in the you know today. Like I'm not I'm not talking about revamping this long term. Yes, Let's revamp this and make it right, just like we did with all the other stuff. But, what do I need to take out so that I can get this to them? You know by tomorrow morning. I'd love to get it to them today, but if we can't, I want to get it to them tomorrow morning. So because this is what Shinky sent me late yesterday when I was getting on the plane and only got got into look at it today and I don't want to send them just because i don't like it. Speaker 2 00:13:58 And, let's let's rip out the stuff that we don't need. And let's see if what we're left with is. Let me go back to. Speaker 1 00:14:12 So I was looking up because I had I'm trying to find it right now, I had a scope of work that kind of fits what you were talking about Pete, that I did before Sharp. Let's see if I can find it because I know it doesn't talk budget. Speaker 4 00:14:38 And Yeah, because we're promising something in you know four to six weeks with their help. We got to be able to deliver all this stuff, and the the deliverable is basically. Speaker 2 00:14:51 Can you copy this into Word, and then we can just number. So since we're all looking at this, we can just change the bullets to numbers and we can say remove three, remove four, update five. Make it easy. Speaker 3 00:15:01 I'm gonna see if I can find my other document, but Microsoft search is going slow. Speaker 2 00:15:08 Yeah, just put that in a Word real quick so it's easy. If you click on the uh, Approve. Is there an approve button at the bottom? I think that takes you to the website. That might be easier. Speaker 3 00:15:22 Uh, go to menu. There's an easier way. Go to menu. Sorry, um, Speaker 4 00:15:29 Can I just can I just like. Speaker 3 00:15:31 You can export it, I think it's all tools or edit or menu or whatever it is. Speaker 4 00:15:37 Can I export it to a Word document or something? Speaker 3 00:15:41 Yeah, you can uh export a PDF very top one That one, And in Microsoft Word, and then convert. I don't do this enough, do I? Yep, click that, and then it will pop up with your Windows. Speaker 4 00:16:01 You don't have to. Speaker 3 00:16:04 On certain standard. Speaker 4 00:16:06 Um. Let me send this to you. Speaker 3 00:16:09 Yep, and I because I decided to switch my personal account. Speaker 3 00:16:33 I'm gonna copy paste mine in here too into the chat. I think I found it. IT assessment style template. Let's wait for Microsoft to open. Speaker 4 00:16:53 I'm Gonna, just forward this to all three of you just so you have the the PDF also. Okay. Speaker 3 00:17:00 So this is the original one I, I'd started to write. If I can copy and paste, and then I just when I did it for sharp, I just went through and added and removed, and then sent over to Ching Kee. Speaker 1 00:17:27 Let me copy. Speaker 3 00:17:32 There's more to it. I'm not going to copy all of this because the rest of us methodology and uh exclusions and all the other favorite conversation that Mike Mike likes to have deliverables. Speaker 2 00:17:50 It Looks like your email just came through. Speaker 3 00:17:53 And then I put mine in the chat. Speaker 2 00:18:10 Okay, so under objectives, did you want to just want to share my screen? I can do this. To this. Somebody. Speaker 4 00:18:21 Want to export the original into Word and share it? Speaker 3 00:18:24 Yeah, I am doing that right now. I am just waiting on the computer to speed up. Speaker 4 00:18:30 Because I think we can keep all the security things. I think we can keep the format that we had. I thInk think we just need to change the. The original objectives to be something reasonable and then read or adjust the infrastructure piece. I think the security pieces are pretty solid unless you guys disagree. So yeah, Speaker 2 00:18:54 Like the line that says" reviewed IT budget, web spend and carrier contracts," we can remove. Identification of cost saving opportunities and optimization strategies we can remove. Avoid that. Um. Speaker 1 00:19:08 Word documents on its way. Speaker 4 00:19:12 You want to just share it out when you have it, I mean, of course. Speaker 3 00:19:17 Yeah, I just sent it in your email. Um, cause I didn't think I wanted to just send them an email. But you guys should have it in your email. Okay, Speaker 1 00:19:31 Let me share my screen. Speaker 3 00:19:37 And I apologize in advance, I think I'm having some slow internet issues. Speaker 1 00:19:47 Okay, here we go. Speaker 3 00:19:49 So we're going to take out this one right here. Uh, do we want? We don't want to take out ISP, ISP boy and carrier contracts, do we? I missed that part. Speaker 4 00:20:07 I'm not sure if we want to do a contract review. I mean, we can sayum I. Speaker 2 00:20:16 Guess like, Around security and if my stuff is safe, we can those are stuff we can tackle later. Speaker 4 00:20:23 I would like to take the word spend out, but maybe we say. Um. Should we say should we because we're going to do something around like. Carrier, I mean internet service provider data circuits and stuff right? So in should we put something in there? Or is that just covered under the the network? Speaker 5 00:20:46 In Christie's, the one she posted in the chat, WAN architecture, ISP configuration, failover strategy and bandwidth posture, VoIP systems call flow and carrier configuration. So I think those may cover it. And, we can you know I think it'll we can talk about the carriers that they're using. Speaker 4 00:21:05 So, maybe maybe copy that bullet that you have there that WAN architecture bullet and put that in over the ISP VoIP carrier contracts thing. Okay. Speaker 1 00:21:21 I haven't taken lunch yet. I keep trying. I mean, Speaker 2 00:21:24 Pete, I am looking at this document for the most part, like the executive level reporting. Maybe we can we can tweak and tools and methodology, but a lot of the stuff looks good. Speaker 4 00:21:34 Yeah, most of it looks okay. It was mainly the objectives I didn't like. And then I just wanted to make sure that the full infrastructure scope of work we wanted to include. I think most of that was okay. It was the objectives, And I wanted to make sure that you guys agreed with what we what we really wanted to say for the for the actual deliverable. Speaker 2 00:21:53 So are they are they paying for it? We're charging for this? Are what? Are we charging for this? Speaker 4 00:21:60 Yeah, okay, yeah. We're basically saying our normal cost would be twenty five k, but we're giving it to them for fifteen. Speaker 3 00:22:11 I Took out the cost part of optimization strategies because I believe I believe we should do like when we're looking at things, we're not I'm not as worried about optimizing for budget, but we can make suggestions for optimization of network and cloud and all that. Speaker 4 00:22:29 Do you want to put VoIP in that same bullet? WAN architecture, ISP configuration, failover strategy. Voice and bandwidth posture. Yeah. Make the O a small o, please. Oh, yeah. And then I think that that will be good. Identification of optimization strategies, clear short- term and long- term recommendations or. Speaker 2 00:22:50 Can we remove validation and operational readiness from resilience? Speaker 4 00:22:60 Yeah, I don't even know what that means. And then the last bullet I noticed yesterday has been wrong for probably a very long time, because it doesn't make sense. A roadmap to with options, it doesn't have a roadmap to anything. So I don't really know what it was supposed to say. So what should that bullet say, in your opinion? Is it just a roadmap with options for co managed assistance? Or is it a roadmap to, to long term, Company goals, is it a roadmap? Because I don't know what they want their roadmap to be. Right, so the roadmap strategy. Should it be a roadmap built with built with the company's. Yeah, there's something that aligned with business strategy. Speaker 5 00:23:50 Yeah because really based on based on results, Speaker 4 00:23:53 But based on assessment results maybe or something. I mean how I don't know how you want to phrase it but yeah. Speaker 2 00:23:58 That's assumed. You don't have to. I mean, if you want to put a you can, but that's two words. Yeah, that's nice. Speaker 4 00:24:03 That's a lot of words. It's a lot of words. Speaker 3 00:24:05 Yeah, I worked so hard today Do, Speaker 4 00:24:08 We do we need though with options for co managed assistance because Well, We don't know what we're positioning. Speaker 2 00:24:15 I don't know I don't know if they yeah. Speaker 4 00:24:17 I don't know if they want co managed assistance. I don't know if they want fully managed assistance or what I am. Speaker 2 00:24:23 Pretty sure if that it guy is not leaving, they want co man. They don't want full because now he is going to feel. Like he doesn't want a sharp happening over there, so I think co manage is good to put that in there. That's what I am curious who who is this going to because, we know nothing about this opportunity. Speaker 4 00:24:41 The CFO and their director of IT are the ones that engaged us because. You get mixed. You get mixed up feelings like they're kind of afraid their manager's going to leave. But at the same time, they kind of want him to leave. Speaker 2 00:24:56 I would definitely need co managed in there. It's way less threatening. Yeah, one hundred percent. Speaker 5 00:25:00 And you know, Pete, when you guys did your proposal for Majestic, I don't you know when I talked to Vince and Edward, You know, I didn't think I didn't know what your capabilities were as it related to being a managed service provider. I thought you were just your run of the mill VAR that just offered, you know whatever, right? And so I didn't understand that. Uh, that you guys were a full managed service provider and you could take over. So absolutely, I think something needs to be said about that. Speaker 4 00:25:33 Okay, that's fine then. All right then let's look at scope. Is there anything Are there any other bullets, though that we need that we should be doing that. We're not saying we're doing as far as the actual objectives that we should summarize on here? Speaker 3 00:25:47 I I really want. Speaker 4 00:25:49 We should mention go ahead Chris You what? Um. Speaker 3 00:25:54 This one right here. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:26:01 Okay. Yeah, that's good. Speaker 2 00:26:02 Sure. And this objective, this objective says assessment will provide, so this is a deliverable Do we also want to include the security assessment? Speaker 1 00:26:15 Um yes. Speaker 4 00:26:18 Well, Well, we've got security posture evaluation aligned to best practices and NIST baseline. But maybe we should say something better than that. I mean, are we are are we really is that what we're delivering? That that it's best practices and NIST base baseline? Or should it be a little bit more? I mean, Speaker 3 00:26:36 Is NIST so We try to do NIST because NIST covers everything. So if they're HIPAA, SEC SOX two, NIST covers everything. But I like this wording better. Because you're bringing in the best practices and. Speaker 2 00:26:56 Yeah, the way I'm reading this, the objective is the deliverable. Like, that's what they're going to be receiving at the end of at the end of our effort. Right, Speaker 4 00:27:02 Right. This is yeah, This, this is what I want to summarize and why it's at the top right? This is what they really are getting at the end of the day right? And, then they can read the detail under it. But if they want to just see it right off- the- bat, this is what they're going to get. Speaker 2 00:27:15 And then some mention with cloud security or cloud configuration posture. Speaker 4 00:27:21 That's a yeah, that's that should probably be a separate bullet. Speaker 5 00:27:29 So now let me ask you this: uh, So a complete understanding of infrastructure health across all sites would that include WAN art? Are we're calling the network piece out separate from the infrastructure? All you know. So are we saying the same thing, or are we just calling out specifically the networking piece? Does that make sense? Speaker 2 00:27:50 I think it's everything under that way. It's it'sum you're not tied to like every single. The way I read it is you're not tied to individual. It's not granular because the scope of work goes over like endpoint protection, network security, right cloud security. But that's a scope of work. That's what we execute on, uhhuhum I think complete understanding of infrastructure health across all sites, leaves it generic enough. That we can put whatever we want in their server health. Maybe lack of lack of access control. I mean, we can. I gotcha. Otherwise, this document gets like really long and right. Speaker 4 00:28:27 Yeah difficult to consume. Are they on three sixty five? Um, what did he say to that? I'm pretty sure family what? Pretty sure they are like pretty sure they are okay. Speaker 4 00:28:46 Is that what they said? Trying to remember now if we talked about that. Speaker 2 00:28:55 Give an email to me, we can maybe find out really quick. You said family what? Speaker 5 00:29:02 Foothill Family. Foothillfamily dot org. Oh, you already have it. Speaker 4 00:29:14 So any other bullets? I don't want this to get, Two wordy. They're on three sixty five. Speaker 3 00:29:21 They are on. Speaker 4 00:29:22 Three okay access controls and security posture costs. Speaker 4 00:29:42 So So we don't think that's should should we. Summarize that a little more. Just say evaluate cloud environment, um, configuration access and security posture. I think that's probably better because that way if they're AWS or if they're Google or if they're Azure or whatever we're sort of covering it and not showing that we're. Speaker 1 00:30:07 So, they are HIPAA. Speaker 3 00:30:11 They use Wellagenta. Speaker 4 00:30:16 And, let's take the period off there because we don't we don't end the other bullets with a period. Speaker 3 00:30:20 Yeah. They are co- accreditation which carries some some of its own security requirements. Speaker 4 00:30:28 Anything else that we need in the objectives? Because if not, Let's call the objectives good. And then see, is there anything in the scope of work that we want to or need to change? Physical and logical topology. Speaker 4 00:30:52 Let's take carrier contracts out of the fourth bullet. On yeah. Like, if they, you know, if we have a customer that wants us to do that, we'll do it. Should we take call flow out too? Speaker 2 00:31:08 Get rid of call flow. Yeah, get rid of call flow. Speaker 4 00:31:10 Yeah, just say We could just take that bullet out and add boy, To the WAN architecture, and then we're not really getting into their voice systems at all. Yeah, maybe just take systems out. That way we're not really signing up to do their voice systems per se. Yeah. Okay, servers compute in cloud VM health patch levels life cycles test switch switches. Speaker 4 00:31:47 Are we being too. I guess do we have the skill set to do anything outside of Azure. So here here might come to us and say, We have Azure and AWS. Do, we have the skill set to even do anything in AWS. Speaker 2 00:32:01 For companies this size? Here's my concern. So let's say for example, they're leveraging like a Zscaler or like a NetScopes or something like that. I don't think we have familiarity working with those those tools. But. Speaker 4 00:32:15 Could we go get it from someone that could, Help us do it anyway. I don't know. Yeah, Do we have partners that we could bring in next week that could help us do that piece of it so that we could do our evaluation and still have a comprehensive deliverable? What ask Jason? Speaker 5 00:32:35 Are you talking about storage or servers. Speaker 4 00:32:38 Between Mike and Jason between Mike and Jason and everybody else, Could we get somebody that we could go and find? Speaker 2 00:32:44 In the MSP space, we don't sell Z scalers and NetScopes, and right, that's too big. Our typical client size can't afford that. Sure, sure. Speaker 4 00:32:54 And I'm not saying we sell it, but I'm talking about like if we had to do an analysis of it, we could. We could. I think we could find somebody that could help us at least look at that stuff. Yeah, yeah i I guess still haveum i'm asking is the word Azure? Azure resource groups, VMs, networking and policies in the cloud. Are, we being too specific by saying Azure or is that our skill set and we leave Azure in there? And if they ask about well, what about Google? What about AWS? Why are you only saying Azure because we're doing Google now right? We did Google. We're doing Google for for Sharp right Chris. Speaker 3 00:33:32 Yeah, we are. Speaker 4 00:33:34 And are we doing goo or, I mean, I don't know. Again, I don't want to. Pete, Google is wise it. Sure, Chris doesn't want to work with us. I don't want us to say we're doing. I don't want us to say we can do what we can't do, but at the same time, I don't want us to corner ourselves where they say, well, they don't even know how to do. Aws. So am not going go with these people, just based on the fact we only say Azure So, you tell me So, Speaker 3 00:33:59 We can We can do Google Um We do send it out to Wise IT to double check all my. But lately they've been. Speaker 4 00:34:09 So so because the because the alternative here is you change Azure to cloud, cloud resource groups, virtual machines, networking and policies. And, then if they come back with something that says, well, we got AWS and we got Google and we're on every cloud that exists, then we might say well. We'll do the analysis but we can't help you with these maybe. I would change it to Google. I mean I would change it to cloud. That's my opinion.'Cause I think we could still find people to help us do the analysis. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:34:44 Now, if you don't mind me asking, um, so when you're doing some of this analysis, Are you running a tool like Live, Optics or something for the for the uh uh on- prem? We would. We would. It's free. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I would. Well, I didn't sure if we had an existing tool set that we would use. So if they let us plug in Live Optics, We'll just connect it to their VM environment, and it'll spit out this beautiful report that we can give to them and make recommendations. I mean, we need to know everything about their environment, so that would be a good thing. Speaker 2 00:35:24 Yeah, The only problem with Live Optics is it doesn't provide you hypervisor information;. It's only the virtual machines. Speaker 3 00:35:29 And we do have a tool that can do stuff like that. So hypervisor and it's playing guard, but I'm the only one who's ever used it for these kind of reports. Speaker 1 00:35:39 Mhm. Okay. Speaker 5 00:35:46 Well, um, if it's not a difficult or time consuming task, I mean I can take a stab at it. Speaker 3 00:35:58 There's a lot of resources out there on Langar. So I just all I did was pull up their knowledge base and started learning. Speaker 2 00:36:06 There you go. Okay. Do we know like what platforms it supports? Does it cover like Nutanix? They've. Speaker 3 00:36:14 Been adding to it a lot lately, and then if they can't make the report that I like, I just export it into Excel and I build my own stuff. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:36:25 Because I'm assuming if they have on prem, we're talking about like you know, A VMware cluster, Nutanix cluster. They're probably going to have like separate storage hosts. iSCSI, you know. Speaker 4 00:36:35 See what but I, but what he said, didn't make sense to me because he said, well yeah we got we got VMs and we were running VMware. And blah blah blah, right? And then they said they had like three hundred people or whatever. And then we asked them," How many servers do you have?" And he said," One." And I'm like, we can't possibly have one server, right? Even one physical server, I can't imagine. Run ning a bunch of VMs on one physical server without having some physical redundancy, unless he's got like a cluster, he's calling it. One phys. I don't know. So anyway, we'll find out, but that didn't make sense to me. Like, you have to have a domain controller or something if you're on prem and you have. Speaker 2 00:37:12 Two for a company that size. Speaker 4 00:37:14 Well, that's what I mean. You need at least I would hope right? I would hope you have at least two domain domain controllers, but again, Plus whatever their servers are that they were talking about file services and stuff. So my guess is, he didn't really know, but whatever we'll find out. Speaker 2 00:37:31 This looked to me let's just looks generic enough. Speaker 4 00:37:34 Yeah I think this is good. So let's go down to storage and backup backup solutions. Yeah I think that's fine backup schedules, retention immutability validation of restore capa I would call that restoration capabilities, not what that I bet. That's what the grammar is suggesting. Adjusting right. Probably restoration capability or restoring. I don't like restoring. Speaker 4 00:38:03 Restoration. Yeah, I think restoration capability or recovery capability, data recovery capabilities. Recovery is a better word. Yeah, prior recovery testing, disaster recovery and business continuity posture. I think that's good. Firewall configuration and rule review. Now, why is that a network infrastructure versus security? If you're talking about rule review, normally that goes in security. I mean, rule review also applies to like VLANs and stuff, but I guess you can leave it there. Like it's fine. Speaker 4 00:38:47 Routing, switching, segmentation, VLAN design, wireless infrastructure and access controls, remote access and VPN configuration. You could you could say directory services health and GPO review if you wanted to? But I guess AD is fine, whatever. Speaker 2 00:39:07 That'd be under directory services. You what? You have it right there AD health and GPO review under next section down. Speaker 4 00:39:15 Hybrid AD Microsoft Entra user lifecycle privileged access reviews. Speaker 2 00:39:23 Do we want to make note of like stale accounts? Speaker 4 00:39:26 How much how much of this should be in. Is, any of that should any of that be in security or I? Mean, are we. These do belong identity. Privileged access review okay, all standards and MFA. Speaker 4 00:39:46 Okay. Documentation, operational maturity, architecture diagrams, SOPs, standards, monitoring alert coverage, ticketing system usage change release management. Anything else inum should governance be in documentation, operational, maturity, or. Speaker 3 00:40:06 It should be in security assessment? Speaker 4 00:40:09 Okay. So anything in that section that we need to change? I think it all looks pretty good. Speaker 1 00:40:15 Yeah, I agree. Speaker 4 00:40:17 Okay, security assessment. Um, Speaker 1 00:40:34 I'm gonna turn off my camera for a second. Speaker 3 00:40:36 You guys keep getting static. Speaker 2 00:40:41 Chris, for endpoint protection, how do we gather local admin usage? Speaker 3 00:40:47 There used to be something we could do in one of our tools and scan for. Speaker 2 00:40:52 Network Detective had it, but you said we don't have it anymore. I. Speaker 3 00:40:55 Don't know if we have it anymore. I just haven't used it. Speaker 2 00:40:58 We might have to remove that if we don't have a tool. If we don't have a tool to do, we can't do t. Here's no way we're going to touch all the points, Speaker 4 00:41:12 But shouldn't we? I mean, that's, That's a big security hole if we don't plan that. Speaker 2 00:41:20 Network detective, everything here like patch management and device compliance, network detective will pull that. But if we don't have network detective, I am not familiar with ScalePad. I am not sure if ScalePad pulls out. Speaker 3 00:41:30 No, Scalepad can't pull it, butum LionGuard can pull it, but it needs to LionGuard has to be installed on every machine uh to report and pull it. Speaker 2 00:41:42 Can we just subscribe for like a month and then cancel? Speaker 3 00:41:45 Well, if we have, if we haven't had it, hang on. Let me log into because let me log into the system and see if we still have it. Speaker 2 00:41:52 Because I agree Network Detect is not the greatest tool, but for something like this, it'd be helpful. You know? Yeah. And it's super easy to run. Speaker 3 00:41:60 Do we have Kaseya? I have a login for Kaseya Hang on. Speaker 2 00:42:03 I can bug Justin for a temporary license. Speaker 3 00:42:07 And let me let me see if I can log into Kaseya, because i i had a kaseya account. Uh. Speaker 3 00:42:15 I'm going to ask Sean what should I ask do any of our tools, monitor or catch or what do I, what should I say. Speaker 2 00:42:45 I use it a ton back in the day. Speaker 3 00:42:49 All right, here's what let me just share the screen so. Speaker 3 00:42:57 Uh, Subscriptions and billing. Speaker 2 00:43:07 We have it. Do you take a pro? Speaker 3 00:43:09 Click on it. We do, it expires in, Can you? Speaker 2 00:43:16 So we have it. Put it back. Put it back. That'll get local admin privileges. Speaker 3 00:43:21 All right, hang on one second, uh,'cause I definitely am going to use that. Let me go back to you. Am I using a chart? All right. Speaker 2 00:43:31 Sweet, put local admin privileges back. Speaker 3 00:43:36 Thank goodness for control Z, And they got us all the credentials, Speaker 2 00:43:40 And then we ran. Yeah, it'll give you patch status. Pete, it'll if we put in ESXi credentials, it'll give us the host information. Um. Speaker 3 00:43:54 So cool. Yeah, I am definitely going to utilize that. Speaker 2 00:43:58 We definitely need someone from our team, though, to review whatever firewalls they have like I don't do they have Pan firewalls or do they have? We'll figure it out here report yeah, We'll need someone from the networking team. Well, Speaker 4 00:44:13 We have to have people from everywhere involved in this for sure. Okay. Remember threat protection secure configuration be able to do it through protection settings. Third, party apps. Speaker 2 00:44:26 One thing, Remind me or repeat what I notice on a lot of our client networks:. We have a bunch of VLANs, but we don't segment the VLANs;. There is VLANs. That the devices are part of, but they can crosstalk to other VLANs. I had I just went through this with the layer. Okay, so I'm not sure if it's a default Meraki policy, But I had to submit a ticket to have us like restrict the VLAN to only internet access. Okay, so it might be something we want to check. Um, okay. So So we're good on network security remote access security segmentation and perimeter threat protection. Speaker 4 00:45:08 Yeah. For optional vulnerability scanning, do we want to offer likeum Do we buy Qualys? Do, we want to offer pen tests as a third part as a as a vulnerability scan? Speaker 3 00:45:22 Did we do we buy the pen testing solution from Insight? Speaker 4 00:45:30 I don't think we bought it, but I mean, we could. We could resell one. Anzor knows those guys. If we wanted to resell it and put ten percent on it for ourselves, we could do it. I am sure. Speaker 2 00:45:40 Yeah, but that we have to include that cost in this quote then. Speaker 4 00:45:43 No, it says optional. Right? Speaker 2 00:45:47 Oh, you are right. Did we purchase Qualys? Uh, did we? Speaker 4 00:45:53 I don't know. I don't remember. Speaker 2 00:45:54 I know Anton's been pushing for it, did Did Anton get his new security tool. Let me ask let me ask. Anton. Speaker 4 00:46:00 Well, let's just leave it as is. That's fine. We can we can offer it later if we need to. Um okay, what's next? What else is below that? Speaker 3 00:46:07 Anything governance and compliance. And then we want to remove this. Speaker 4 00:46:20 Yeah, well is licensing going to be something we're going to look at or not? Um. Speaker 3 00:46:25 Looking at it up at the top, it's part of one of the other things. Speaker 2 00:46:29 We removed it from objectives. Yeah. Yeah, I think. Speaker 4 00:46:36 Yeah. Now did that go back to being a four or was that? It. Speaker 3 00:46:47 Was a three point four from here. This was a three point three, then went to three point four and now it's a four. Okay. Speaker 2 00:46:56 Oh, here's deliverables. Speaker 4 00:46:60 So executive level reporting, security posture summary, key findings and risk ranking, detailed findings matrix with criticality scores, infrastructure gap analysis, vulnerability findings cost savings. Um is cost savings and optimization roadmap going to be a deliverable? No. I would take that. What is an IT adoption readiness guidance? How was I supposed to remove it? Speaker 3 00:47:31 Yeah, that was part of an old system that we had. Speaker 4 00:47:34 Okay. Okay, I think I think that's fair, right? Look good all these go. Yeah, like it. Comments? Anyone? Anyone? Speaker 2 00:47:51 Can't believe this place is landing three hundred plus seeders. That's that's crazy. Well, I don't know. That's big. I mean, Sharp is a whale, Speaker 4 00:48:00 You know? Yeah but but Mike, this wouldn't be a help desk thing. They would keep their help desk and all that. So really, this would be this would be potential like like a bionic type relationship. Um they do security, we'll do X Y Z got it yeah. Maybe maybe like, but but it more it might, but rather than them having a like a Sean we might be like. We might be the internet, right? Okay. Right, like Chris or Jason, You know, a Chris or a Jason, or somebody like them depending on what they would need, would maybe be that role or or maybe it would or maybe we have somebody like a network administrator network manager that we put in there to sort of manage their day to day stuff, like somebody like a Vlad or so, you know, I I don't know I don't know what they need and I don't know what they want. And it might be nothing, but we'll see. Speaker 4 00:48:55 Could be just some, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what comes out of it if anything. So, as far as it's going to be a fun contract if we get it. Well, we'll see what they want. We're going to do the assessment and then they're going to decide if they, well, because the guy said he knows that they have some security things they need to fix, right? They're doing MFA but they're not doing conditional access policies. They have no MDM, you know? They have some things that he already knows they need to do. And they need help doing right, So there's going to be I think some things that we're going to help them do one way or another. But he also I think knows there's other stuff that we're probably going to find that he needs help with, and he may want us to. They also have a a position or two that just came open, and rather than filling the positions, I think they want to know, should we just have somebody come and help here or. Speaker 4 00:49:52 You know, co managed solution or something. Wow, this is crazy. Speaker 2 00:50:01 I am not used to that. Yeah, I worked for MS. My first second MSP was big like this, but I wasn't in this part of the business. Um so these are good ones wow I am impressed. Speaker 1 00:50:15 Mm hmm. Speaker 5 00:50:19 All right. Speaker 5 00:50:22 Hey Mike, after this call, do you have five minutes for me? Speaker 4 00:50:26 I do. So so Mike, How do I get this to Chinky and make make sure he puts it in the right format to replace the one he sent me and gets it over to me asap? Speaker 2 00:50:37 Just literally what you just said. Post it in that channel. Um, here oh Christy, I'll do it. Send it to me. Speaker 3 00:50:43 Are you did so in all three of your emails the updated one? Speaker 4 00:50:48 Okay, Does does and ask and ask Chinky to send it to I guess that group. Were you on the group yesterday that he sent it? So. Speaker 1 00:51:08 Time was that yesterday. Speaker 2 00:51:22 Does he have the Pete does cheeky have the client information already. Speaker 4 00:51:26 Yeah, cause the the what he sent was already addressed to them. He just sent it to me to proof. And then I was reading it late yesterday, and I was like, I don't like some of this stuff. So I said, okay, adjust it. Okay. Soum, When I am trying to find who was on that list, because I can add you to it Mike. And then we can just do it in there. But. Speaker 4 00:51:52 Who was on that and when did it? I don't know if it was, it might have been an email. It might have been, no, I think it was a Teams. Let me find the Teams. I'll add you guys to it and then we'll go from there. Sweet. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate y'all but okay bye.
06-18 Weekly Meeting: Copilot Deployment, Security Setup, and Training Plan
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-18 11:33:05 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Volunteer activities and personal updates - The team discussed recent volunteer initiatives: food pantry support and preparing duffel bags for foster children. - Christi shared foster care experience, adoption of her daughter, and upcoming foster placement. - Brief updates on graduations: eighth grade and high school. - Conclusion: Positive acknowledgment of volunteer work; Speaker 1 will share foster-related volunteer impact with their team. - Topic Title: Project status – Copilot deployment and security setup - Christi reported project budget usage at 49% of budgeted hours; ~30 hours logged by Christi and Gabby. - Security work in motion: sensitivity labels, conditional access policies, retention, and Global Relay journaling. - License activation is in progress; plan to assign licenses to Colin, Mark, Jolie, Daniel, Sam within ~24 hours, with Speaker 1 added (total six). - Conclusion: Licensing nearly finalized; foundational security and compliance configurations underway. - Topic Title: Training plan – structure, content, and materials - Christi has ~75% of Copilot training built; includes basics, advanced, and role-specific sessions (total ~12 hours if all attended). - Content covers labels, DLP, prompt patterns, use cases; recordings will be provided for reference and internal hosting. - SharePoint library, cookbook document, demo files, master slide decks, and four cheat sheets to be finalized; ~12 hours estimated remaining in Phase 2. - Free additional training hours offered to accommodate varied user needs; advanced Excel sessions also available to clients. - Conclusion: Training approach will be modular with multiple sessions and recordings; materials to be completed shortly. - Topic Title: Copilot updates, features, and tooling changes - Microsoft Copilot Co-work updated June 16; billed per task in Copilot credits (details to be covered in training). - New Copilot UI shipped May 28, requiring reshooting of training videos and screenshots. - Refinements to GPT vs. Claude responses in Copilot for improved usability. - “Create agents” feature requires enabling Anthropic models; Christi will double-check tenancy settings. - Conclusion: Rapid feature evolution necessitates ongoing material refreshes and updated training assets. - Topic Title: Managing rapid change – newsletters and refresh videos - Tools change frequently (potentially monthly); Christi will send newsletters and refresh videos to keep users current. - Christi uses monitoring (“AI minions” like Chip) to compile weekly Copilot change summaries. - Blog updates and videos planned at least weekly to track changes. - Conclusion: Ongoing communication cadence established to manage rapid AI platform updates. - Topic Title: Scheduling training sessions and availability windows - Speaker 1 suggested targeting the week of June 29 and around July 1–2 to catch staff before July 4 time off. - Organization is closed on July 3; some team members are out June 29–30; variable availability weeks of July 6 and July 13. - Christi has blocked the week of June 29 primarily for this project and is lighter the week of July 6. - Christi will propose a schedule with multiple session options (basics, advanced, departmental use cases). - Conclusion: Christi will send proposed training schedule; sessions will be recorded to accommodate absences. - Topic Title: Support model and help desk readiness - Help desk staff required to take advanced AI training; can answer questions across Claude, OpenAI, Copilot. - General AI troubleshooting becoming standard support. - Conclusion: Clients encouraged to email help desk for Copilot feature questions; expanded support capacity in place. - Topic Title: Licensing and pricing clarification - Typical Copilot licensing noted at approximately $25–$30 per user. - Day-to-day chats and agent builds have fewer token concerns; advanced agent development may require credits. - Microsoft pricing recently adjusted; Christi will inform the team of changes. - Conclusion: Speaker 1 requested inclusion in licensing (total six users); Christi will confirm and notify all six. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi to confirm license activation and assign to Colin, Mark, Jolie, Daniel, Sam, and Speaker 1; email confirmation to all six users. - [ ] Christi to send a project update email with the proposed training schedule by June 19, 2026. - [ ] Finalize master slide decks and four cheat sheets by June 19, 2026. - [ ] Stand up the SharePoint library, cookbook document, and demo files during Phase 2 (estimated ~12 hours remaining). - [ ] Verify Anthropic model enablement in the tenancy for visibility of “create agents.” - [ ] Share links and invites for Advanced Excel Level 2 and Level 3 sessions (Tue/Thu 2 PM; Fri 10 AM). - [ ] Speaker 1 to review proposed training dates for the week of June 29, 2026, and July 1–2, 2026, and confirm availability. - [ ] Christi to send newsletters and refresh videos as features update. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Confirm exact Copilot pricing tier for your organization and any credit requirements for advanced agents; document internally to avoid unexpected costs. > 2. Establish an ongoing cadence for training material refresh (e.g., monthly review) and ownership for updating SharePoint resources as Copilot changes. > 3. Verify whether Anthropic models are enabled; if not, define steps and approval needed to enable them for “create agents.” > 4. Align on departmental use case priorities to tailor role-specific sessions effectively; gather attendee lists and time constraints per department. > 5. Define retention and journaling policy validation steps post-deployment to ensure compliance is functioning as intended.
- Date
- Jun 18, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hey Kristen, how are you? Speaker 2 00:00:04 I'm doing well, thanks. And you? Speaker 1 00:00:06 I'm doing well. Uh, I think yeah, I see Christi on here. I just wanted to make sure everybody wasum actually around for this. Um, I know some, I don't think some of our team members on the Alere side are doing a volunteer day today. So it may just be me, but. Speaker 2 00:00:27 Yeah we just did ours last week. Speaker 1 00:00:29 What, did you guys do? Speaker 2 00:00:31 Um, nourishing hope. So boxingum for families, pantry and freezer, and then you know breaking it all down, restocking the shelves. Yeah, it was really nice. Speaker 1 00:00:43 Very nice. Yeah. In the San Francisco office. We did one at there's a kids museum, and they were getting ready for summer camps, and they needed some people to come in. And. Help prep some walls to be painted and stuff, so we did some of that. But the rest of the group down in Newport. Beach today is doing something similar to you guys. It's, they're actually putting together duffel bags for kids in foster care with like stuffed animals and other care package stuff, which is pretty cool. I think so, yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:15 Yeah, there was we i mean we did a lot when we were there, so just unbelievable that every day it's that many right? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:23 Takes a lot of volunteers. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:01:27 Uh, hi guys, my camera is not working today, So I don't know if you saw that icon that popped up that said, no camera. Ever since updates came from Microsoft this week, I've been having issues with my external camera. So eventually I'm going to get that fixed. I just haven't had time to do that. And the foster care duffel bags is near and dear to my heart. I am a foster parent, so uh hearing that you guys did that, that's great. I have a foster closet, Where I have supplies that come in, And one of the things that I have on my Amazon wish list is duffel bags and backpacks because kids, when they move from one home to another, often they'll either get their duffel bags taken away by a foster parent, which is not should not never happen. Or, they were brought into a home without a duffel bag at all and just a trash bag. So. Speaker 3 00:02:19 I I do appreciate you guys doing that because that's a huge thing for us to see coming in. Speaker 1 00:02:25 So. That's good to hear that those you know are meaningful gifts, and it sounded like a pretty cool organization when they when they send it out. So yeah, that's good to hear. Speaker 3 00:02:35 And, my daughter is sitting next to me, and she's over here, nodding her head. She was in foster care I ended up adopting her six nine months ago uh, and she graduated from high school and she's going to UC Merced. So. Um, yeah, We have another foster kid coming in in the next couple weeks, andum that'll be my 14 th child coming through. Wow. Yeah, so I love it that people jump in to help out with foster. We need more people like that. Mhm Well, Speaker 1 00:03:06 I'll pass that on to our team and let them know that's something to keep on their list as uh as a good volunteer event. Speaker 3 00:03:12 Yeah And I definitely appreciate it so. Speaker 1 00:03:18 Um, How did the how did the high school graduation go? Was that high school or college? I forget now. Speaker 3 00:03:23 High school. So she graduated on Wednesday. It went well. I enjoyed the week off, um, we had a lot we got done. I didn't even touch a computer at all during my time off, which is unusual for me. Um, but we did family thing. We had kiddos coming through staying with us, her sister and best friend came and stayed a couple nights with us. And then. In four weeks, she turns eighteen, and in eight weeks, she's off to college. We'll get her moved in. So yeah, exciting stuff. Speaker 1 00:03:53 Back to pack summer. Speaker 3 00:03:55 Very very because we'll have at least one or two more kids coming through foster on top of all of that. So it's going to be a lot of fun. I am excited. Speaker 2 00:04:06 I just had eighth grade graduation and I was a waterworks so high school. I'm glad I have four years to prepare for that. Yes. Speaker 1 00:04:15 I had eighth grade graduation too, so yeah, getting ready for high school over heree as well. Speaker 2 00:04:21 Yes. They're ready, I'm not sure I am but they seem to be. Speaker 1 00:04:25 Yeah Yeah It it the waterworks came out, I did really well not crying too much. I didn't get that long with here, i've only had here two and a half years so. Speaker 3 00:04:36 It went fast. All right, I am trying to pull up my my document that I wrote this morning, and I seem to have forgotten wheree I saved it. But, let me walk you guys through what all we got done because I was working on that this morning as well. When I checked in with Gabby the othere day, things were going really well on here end. She had all here deliverables done. Our project budget, we're at 49% of the budget hours for everything. We've logged about 30 hours total between the two of us. So, she's gotten everything in motion on here end as far as the security side, the sensitivity labels and conditional access policies, the retention and the global relay journaling gate. Speaker 3 00:05:23 And so, right now, what's in motion is license activation is in progress. I am waiting on the licenses to be assigned to your company. And then once that's in theree, I am going to get Colin, Mark, Jolie, Daniel and Sam added to those licenses. So they'll pop up and I'll send an email out when that happens. It'll it'll happen probably in the next twenty four hours. And then I have already built out I am going to probably say about seventy five percent of the training for you guys. So when we do the actual Copilot training, I'll have that built out. Um, I've been working through that this week, which is part of phase two. Uh, so I am working through um the basics how how to utilize labels, how to utilize DLP. Uh, We're going to work through um I've already built out prompt patterns and use cases uh, based on the information you've already given me um and then. Speaker 3 00:06:16 We'll have the basics, advanced, And the role specific trainings, which I believe is about if someone was to attend all of them I think I have it at 12 hours. So just a heads up. I am going to throw in some free hours in theree for you guys on training, just because something I've noticed a lot lately is some users require more hands. - on training. And, so I want to get you guys through basics and into the advanced and role specific. I am going to record them all so that you guys will have them to refer back. You guys can download them, put them in your own system. I'm also working on a new application for training, for creating my training videos because I've been doing a lot of training lately. It's like half my job has been training. So I am utilizing some new tools and I'm going to try to build out some more advanced training for AI and stuff for a couple of clients. You guys are included into that mix because I got to build it for Claude and Copilot. Speaker 3 00:07:12 So just a quick heads up on that one. So you'll see that coming out. I keep saying the next couple weeks, but right now it's all in the next couple weeks. So, what is left for the training part is me just building out the master slide decks that we are going to be reusing heavily with your team and then finishing building out the four cheat sheets. That's all that's left on that and I have that slated for tomorrow to finish up. And then to stand up the SharePoint library and the cookbook document and the demo files. So I'm estimating probably about 12 more hours uh in phase two that's left. And, then um we have some new Copilot features that were updated uh on the 16t h by Microsoft, and I am adding that information in as well. Um so Copilot Co-work uh June 16th. Speaker 3 00:08:09 So it is billed per task in Copilot credits. I will explain all of that during the training and I'll kind of give you guys a quick heads up on it. I have not even tested that feature out yet. I'm still using Claude Co-work, but just a heads up on that. And then the new Copilot UI which did ship out May 28th, so thankfully I did not get all my screenshots done during that time, so because they really switched up the UI in some places. And then, um, theree's some re they refined some of the GPT versus Claude's answers within Copilot. And so it's going to be a little bit more user friendly, I guess is the best way to put it. So I'm going to i got to reshoot that one. Uh, I had already started making um some videos on that so i'll reshoot those. Speaker 3 00:09:03 And then create agents only appear if we enable anthropic models in your tenancy. And I believe we did, I'm going to double check that because that is a new piece coming through from Copilot. And then I think for wheree we are in phase two, that's about it. Speaker 1 00:09:25 Yeah, that's interesting that, You know, these tools seem to be changing so quickly, right? Like, that'll be interesting to think about how we deal with that. Like, if we have a bunch of recorded trainings or cheat sheets and manuals and things like that, that we put togethere. And then as team members come on and start using this and those change. I'm curious how we tackle, you know, those still being meaningful, you know, over time. Do you guys have any thoughts on that? Like is this something wheree we're going to have to refresh training on things like every, you know, Six months. Or do you think that the general idea behind these materials will sort of be still useful? Speaker 1 00:10:20 How do you think we should approach that from a long term perspective? Well, Speaker 3 00:10:25 Let me give you the bad news first. It's going to be a lot faster than every six months. It's probably going to be every month something's being updated. So what I'm doing right now with all my clients that are currently in Copilot is I'm starting to send out newsletters of, hey, this is what has changed and heree's what you can add to that list. And then, As time goes on. And this new app that I am working on looks like it is going to be a game changer in that area. I am also going to send out refresh videos as well, so that you can have them download them for your team, and then they can go back and refer to it. But it is changing pretty rapidly. So I know Claude itself, I see an update and I have to restart my Claude session every day, if not two times a day. Speaker 3 00:11:14 With Copilot, theree's something new. I have minions, AI minions. They're agents, but I call them minions. I have one, His name is Chip, and he goes in, and every Monday I get a " W hat ' s changed in Microsoft C opi lot " email outlining it. So yeah, it's pretty rapidly expanding. And, we're going to see this probably for the next two years, if not longer. But I will be making sure that you guys, I'll email you any updates that are happening, what's going on. Um, I'll even give you guys my blog wheree I wheree I try to keep up with all the updates. Um and and put a blog and video out at least uh once a week, if not more than once a week. Speaker 1 00:12:02 That's great. Yeah it's great to have access to that ongoingum, Repository of changes and additional training materials. So, I think that'll be really helpful for us. And then I, over time, Especially considering like whethere theree's a major new release or something else that requires maybe some more in depth understanding, maybe we can have some sort of arrangement with Crimson wheree we can, You know, outside of the scope of what you're doing now, but like, you know, Maybe do a detailed training or virtual session or something that we can engage you guys on as those things come up that maybe require more in- person, or at least someone like a moderator to answer questions and be able to kind of go back and forth on. So. Speaker 3 00:12:58 Yeah, and let me give you guys a quick heads up. One of the things we're doing with our staff, especially on the help desk side, Is everyone's required to take more advanced AI training so that they can jump in and answer questions when they come up. So if you ever have questions about how to use a feature within Copilot, Just email the help desk and it'll get assigned over to one of the team members. Some of them are going to be really strong in Claude, some are going to be really strong in OpenAI, and some are going to be really strong in Copilot. So feel free to use that. We're actually making that general AI troubleshooting part of the standard this Tanner's house just because we're seeing that, that's wheree things are going. And we want to make sure that support is theree for you guys. Speaker 1 00:13:46 Great. So, So, as far as um I know, you're working on getting the sort of the training materials togethere and thinking about that. I'm just looking out on our calendars at some of the group members that are in that pilot group. Um and you know, summertime people are taking time off, not all at the same time. Are, you thinking that we would we were we're going to have different sessions of that training that kind of are tailored to some of those specific use cases we sent in? Speaker 1 00:14:18 Or, is it going to be one large group session wheree we discuss those all togethere? How how were you planning to approach that? Speaker 3 00:14:25 So I was planning on doingum a basics training, and we can do that over multiple days or we can do that uh wheree everybody chooses, which session works for them, and we can do multiple sessions for that one training. Okay. And then doing an advanced one and then doing a departmental use case one wheree they can join, which one makes the most sense for them. Okay. We're getting a lot of positive feedback on doing it in that manner, rathere than just one training for everybody. Um, okay. And I'm a fast talker, So I want to make sure that we record it and allow people to ask questions and allow them to attend multiple sessions if they just want to repeat. So okay. Speaker 1 00:15:12 Um, Well, if the I mean once you kind of get settled on the timing like. I know next week's a little bit of a tricky one, but I mean, If theree's some some time maybe in that middle of that week of the twenty ninth, maybe like around the July first or second. You know that might be a decent time to catch people before they go out for Fourth of July time off and othere things like that. It kind of looks like theree's a general, Availability as far as what I can see on people's calendars. Um, but you know, That may be something to kind of shoot for as you're looking to schedule some of those. Speaker 3 00:15:52 So the week of the twenty ninth, I am blocked for you guys. Um, you guys are the only thing that I have slated for that week. So I've actually blocked out most of my time to work on the rest of the project and finalize everything we can do training during that week, and we can also do training during the week at the sixth. And on the week of the sixth, I am even lighter theree because no one's covered my no one's covered my calendar yet. So, But I also know that quite a few like, are you guys you guys are closed on the third. Speaker 1 00:16:25 We're closed on the third. I am out of the office on for sure on the twenty ninth and the thirtieth. And kind of back in the afternoon of the first, and sort of around on the second. That was kind of my week to be out of the office, but I'm available in pockets here and there. And if I'm not available and everybody else is, We can have some of those sessions that I can get filled in on the videos and the recordings. And stuff. But I will try my best to be available. Speaker 1 00:17:00 That seems like where others may be available. And and then, you know, I know after that, I see some people are out the week of the sixth, and other people are out the week of the 13 th. And well, I think the 13 th is available, but that's kind of far out. It's like a month away from now. So I mean, obviously, we want to try and get some stuff done before then. Speaker 3 00:17:20 So, what I'll do is I'll put together a schedule for you guys and I'll send that over. It'll probably be sent out with the update email that goes out tomorrow. And then you guys tell me uh if those dates and times work, And then I am gonna um I'll let you guys decide what works for your team, and then we can add on additional hours. It'll be it's free; it's still included under the bored. You guys just add on uh additional hours for anyone who might miss it due to being on vacation or something, and okay that way they have it. Um I am doing a lot uh starting on the week of the. Speaker 3 00:17:57 Uh, twenty ninth. I am also doing a lot of well, not a lot three sessions for advanced Excel training. Um, you guys are welcome to join those. It's open. Uh, I have a client that's been asking for it. So I asked her if I can open it to other clients, and you guys are welcome to join that as well. So it'll be like a level to and a level three advanced Excel classes and those are Tuesday Thursdays at to p m and then Friday I believe at ten am. Speaker 1 00:18:25 Okay. So. I'm sure there'll be some people interested in that. Speaker 3 00:18:29 Yes. Um, and then uh any of those types of classes as well, I'll send those over to you guys. Um, And you guys you can send that over to your staff if they would like to join. Uh because some of those we might get into talking about Copilot in those various apps. Okay. Great. All right. Anything else you guys have questions on or we need to cover? Because I I honestly don't want to take up too much of your time today. It's Thursday, it's Friday eve. Speaker 1 00:18:59 Yeah. Um, I think I think weum we're in good shape, and we're justum ready to get started. And and I'll look at those dates when you send them over and and hopefully we can come up with something that logically makes sense. So we can try and accommodate, you know, people's schedules. But yeah, good to hear you're making good progress on the security side. Andum and everybody you know seems to have the capabilities, the initial capabilities that you guys had us check for. And I think some people are maybe testing it and playing around with it on their own. So but I know they would benefit from that training and guidance for sure. Speaker 3 00:19:37 So absolutely. Well, let me get everything over to you guys. Um I think that I just got pinged that they finalized the licensing that I asked forum and. Once once I confirm that, then I'll add those to the five people that need that license. Were you one of them? Speaker 1 00:19:56 The one question I did want to ask about licensing is, I just don't know enough about how the pricing of these things work and reading things about, you know, people paying based off of tokens being used. Is there an aspect of that to the licensing that we're getting that? Has some sort of thresholds that we have to stay within, and then going into another pricing tier, or how how does that work like in terms of the usage? Speaker 3 00:20:24 So the basic, The standard usage is justum I, believe it's twenty five or thirty dollars per user. Um within Copilot, you don't have as much token issues on your day to day, chats and agent builds and stuff like that. Now there is a tier that once you hit it, It's not a tier as everyday users, but if you're trying to go into making more advanced agents, then that's going to hit where you're going to need to get credits. And I'll explain that process in the email that I send out. Okay. So, it's actually a little bit better right now than Claude's where you're having to manage usage. It's very similar to OpenAI, but everyone's adjusting. Speaker 3 00:21:09 Um, how they're doing things. And Microsoft just redid pricing again in the last to weeks on what's what's allowed and what's not. So that's constantly changing. As soon as as soon as it changes, I will inform you guys so you can make changes on that. Speaker 1 00:21:27 Okay. And then to your question about those five licenses, yes, I would I would like uh to be added to that too. So I think yeah we should have six probably Okay. Speaker 3 00:21:40 I'm gonna let the team know real quick so I don't forget. Um, all right, so I'll let them know of that and then as soon as they confirm, I'll get those added and I'll email, all six of you guys and let you know. Great. Okay. Thank you very much. Speaker 1 00:22:06 Thanks for the update. Speaker 3 00:22:07 You're welcome and reach out if you guys have any questions. Speaker 1 00:22:10 Okay. Have a good one. Have a great week. That's the most awake I've felt.
05-22 Training: Enterprise Adoption of Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude, and CoWork for Secure Productivity
- Notes
- > Date Time: 2026-05-22 08:57:30 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: Chris (CIO at Crimson IT) ## Summary On 2026-05-22, Chris led a fast-paced, practical training on adopting AI tools—Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude, and Claude’s CoWork—for organizational productivity, privacy-first workflows, and automation. Framing LLMs as “extremely well-read assistants” or interns that require human oversight, the session emphasized strengths (drafting, summarizing, research, brainstorming, formatting), limitations (context dependence, potential errors, non-sentience, no autonomous actions), and compliance guardrails. Housekeeping covered Microsoft Teams recording/transcripts, interaction tools (raise hand, reactions, chat), and Copilot Facilitator recaps; Facilitator instability was noted as a Microsoft-side issue. The organization (referred to as Coateson/Copson/Cosen) has a draft AI usage policy to be finalized after training and feedback, with strict guidance to avoid sensitive inputs in personal AI and to rely on enterprise protections. Live demos showcased Copilot across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, SharePoint; Claude for long-form writing, research, synthesis, editing; and CoWork for agentic file operations, scheduled briefs, and executive status updates integrated with Outlook, ConnectWise, and Asana. Chris outlined upcoming advanced trainings (separate tracks for Copilot and CoWork/Claude), an updated reference guide current as of May 2026, tips-and-tricks emails, recording distribution, and extended Q&A support. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Meeting Housekeeping and Teams Features - Recording and transcripts enabled; notes and recaps via Copilot Facilitator, which can auto-fill notes and post updates in chat; occasional Facilitator toggling issues acknowledged. - Interaction: frequent use of raise hand, reactions, and chat for questions; agenda timers possible when preloaded (not set for this session). ### 2. Instructor and Session Context - Chris is CIO at Crimson IT, available via email/Teams; shifted schedules to allow extended Q&A and demos; light personal context maintained engagement. ### 3. Organizational AI Policy and Adoption - Draft AI usage policy exists; will be revised post-training and feedback, then distributed for acknowledgment/signature. - Privacy-first emphasis: clear guardrails on safe vs. unsafe inputs; avoid sensitive data in personal AI tools until enterprise protections are enabled. ### 4. How AI Works: Strengths and Limitations - LLMs predict text based on training corpora; effective assistants but not sentient; can be confidently wrong. - Intern analogy: fast and capable but requires review; outputs depend on input quality and provided context. - Cultural/completion examples (“Mary had a little lamb…snow”) illustrate probabilistic prediction and context variance. - Training recency matters; models may not know post-training events without web search, and knowledge isn’t retained across new chats. ### 5. Security, Privacy, and Compliance - AI cannot access files unless shared; understand Microsoft ecosystem permissions before use. - Enterprise rollout will disable data-sharing to public models; users can work with sensitive data in company AI once protections are active. - Copilot enterprise data protection indicator (green shield) signifies protections; Microsoft does not train public models on organizational data. - Strict exclusions for personal AI: no SSNs, tax IDs, W-9s, banking details, passwords/credentials, confidential legal terms; AI cannot read passwords entered for protected files. ### 6. Microsoft Copilot Capabilities Across M365 - Outlook: summarize long threads, draft replies, prioritize/flag, schedule; edit AI drafts to correct tone/context. - Teams: meeting recaps with video/audio summaries, speaker ID, executive reports; share via Outlook/meeting channel. - Word: first drafts, tone rewrites, document summaries; revise in user voice. - Excel: explain data, suggest formulas, generate charts/insights; better prompts yield targeted analysis. - SharePoint: search organizational files for answers; Copilot standalone chat supports work vs. web searches; Microsoft recently moved Copilot UI position. ### 7. Claude: Long-Form Writing, Research, and Editing - Excels at grant proposals, donor letters, reports, explanations in plain language, brainstorming, and editing; tone/style customization to avoid AI-sounding language. - Research pulls reputable sources with links; comparison and pricing assistance for unfamiliar tech. - Models: Opus (deep/complex), Sonnet (high-powered general), Haiku (short tasks); Adaptive Thinking for complex prompts; start new chats per topic to avoid context bleed. - Desktop app with file access to be deployed; skills/features to be covered in advanced training. ### 8. Claude CoWork: Agentic File Operations and Scheduled Briefs - Action-oriented mode that reads, creates, renames, reorganizes files in scoped folders; desktop-only. - Set tasks per subject with folder permissions; skills/plugins (Operations, Finance) assist audits/budgets. - Automations: daily briefs, weekly executive reviews pulling Outlook Calendar/Email, ConnectWise, Asana; outputs to Outlook drafts; always asks before executing. - Reads PDFs, extracts invoice data into structured stores, organizes folders; progress tracking displayed. ### 9. Data Protection in Office Files - Apply Protect Workbook > Restrict Access (Restricted, Confidential, Highly confidential) for sensitive content; sensitivity labels audited and applied where available. ### 10. Prompting, Workflow, and Tone Customization - Output quality tracks prompt quality; provide detailed context; open new chats for distinct tasks. - Personalization: concise, conversational tone; avoid heavy formatting, em dashes, and “kindly”; be direct; calibrate for leadership (executive summaries) vs. end users (plain-language guidance). ### 11. Custom Agents and Practical Automation - Within Copilot: create agents (e.g., Teams “Watercooler Bot,” password generator) by giving instructions and connecting data sources; agents can surface missed chat updates and generate themed passphrases. ### 12. Current Status and Rollout - Copilot free/basic version is safe under Microsoft compliance but lacks enterprise features; caution advised with confidential files until enterprise rollout completes. - Upcoming integrations indicate Copilot “taking steps up,” including incorporating Claude capabilities. ### 13. Training, Resources, and Next Steps - Updated reference guide (current as of May 2026) to be distributed; follow-up emails and surveys to gather feedback. - Advanced trainings: separate sessions for Copilot and CoWork/Claude, free to clients; advanced videos targeted by the weekend following 2026-05-22; recording will be sent to attendees. - AI committee (e.g., Steve, Tyler) will integrate feedback to finalize the AI use policy for staff signatures; ongoing tips-and-tricks emails and extended support available. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] Attend the upcoming advanced Copilot training (free) to see agenda timers and advanced features. - [ ] Review the organization’s draft AI usage policy when distributed; provide feedback based on training. - [ ] After enterprise licenses are activated, practice with Copilot and Claude/CoWork using sample, non-sensitive data. - [ ] Compile desired real-world AI use cases and submit to Chris via Teams/email for tailored guidance. - [ ] Follow privacy-first practices: document examples of safe vs. unsafe inputs; avoid sensitive data in personal AI. - [ ] Apply Protect Workbook and Restrict Access settings to confidential files; use sensitivity labels where available and coordinate with audits. - [ ] Set up Outlook Copilot Prioritize criteria and flag key senders; use summarization for complex automated emails and edit drafts for tone/context. - [ ] Install the Claude desktop app; prepare for training on file access and CoWork scheduled tasks (e.g., Weekly Review Fridays at 4:00 p.m. pulling Outlook, ConnectWise, Asana into executive drafts). - [ ] Create at least one custom Copilot agent relevant to your role (e.g., Teams update bot or password generator) with compliant data connections. - [ ] Validate AI outputs against source data; avoid misattribution when contacts share names; open new chats for distinct tasks. - [ ] Plan your week using Copilot and Claude; block major tasks; integrate vendor OOO dates; use Teams Copilot meeting recaps and executive summaries. - [ ] Ensure enterprise data protections are configured; verify Copilot’s green shield indicator before handling sensitive data.
- Date
- May 22, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:14 I'm so sorry. Speaker 1 00:01:00 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:01:31 I am not a good swimmer. Speaker 1 00:02:08 Good morning. How are you today? Good, good. Good. Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:02:26 Just like that, I like your background. So are you going to invite us to your place in Cancun with all those flowers? Speaker 3 00:02:36 You know, I would love to, um, but I can't grow a flower to save my life unless it's an orchid. Orchids are about the only flower I can keep alive. I can't even keep alive a succulent. It is that bad. But it's because I have kittens. Speaker 2 00:02:54 Oh, I see. All right, very good. Yes Well So. Speaker 3 00:02:58 This place is just going to live in my imagination for now. Oh You guys want to see? Because I'm working from home today, Our newest addition. Oh wow. This is Eva. She's napping right beside me. I have a little throne for my cats. She's like, okay, I'm out of here. I'm going back to my throne. Speaker 2 00:03:16 Oh, you mean she she doesn't want to learn about A I? Speaker 3 00:03:20 But she's heard this conversation because I've been recording some A I trainings. So, she's been listening to all of them, and she's been watching my mouse, go back and forth. So. She. She's adorable. I have three moose is my daughter's orange cat, and moose is also tired of hearing it, but moose is sitting beside me as well. And then I have a tuxedo, and she's on my bed. She is sprawled out still sleeping. Speaker 2 00:03:48 Oh, That, that that's why you call her the tuxedo because it's sort of like a very. Speaker 2 00:03:56 Yes All right Excellent Very good. Speaker 3 00:03:58 Yeah Oh. She went the. The black one just went back and lay back down and fell back asleep on the little kitten throne. I have a little, can't show it to you guys, Um but I have a little kitten bed or a cat bed that C clamps to my desk. And it looks like a little cat throne and it's really cute. So she has taken over it. Speaker 4 00:04:20 Alex, that's what you're looking for. Uh Alex, Speaker 3 00:04:24 Let me know, send me a Teams message. I will send you the link to this one. Perfect, It just clamps on your desk. It's it's the best thing ever. Speaker 5 00:04:34 Thank you. Speaker 3 00:04:36 It's my third one, because I've tried two others and they didn't work so well. This one's actually amazing, this one's hardcore, so and it's pretty. All right guys, I'm gonna share my screen. And then we're gonna quickly go through some housekeeping itemsum within Teams. And then I am going to we're gonna get started now heads up, I do know some of you might need to leave earlyum, I actually canceled my meeting after this meeting, just in case you guys want to go over. So, if you've been in the other trainings and you have questions and things like that, I do not mind going over. So I was able to move my meeting next one until two o'clock, and so I've got some free time that we can go through things. And I will record it for those of you guys who are leaving early. Speaker 3 00:05:22 So real quickly, I did blow up my screen so that you guys can see it better. But I want to bring your attention to some housekeeping things in the meeting. I'm going to record the meeting once I show you guys this portion. Raise hand is something I use often in my meetings, so if you go right here and click on raise, it'll just put your hand up. Reactions are right here, so thumbs up, likes, Hearts, all of that is here, and you can go You guys are welcome to use that. When I start recording, I'm going to turn on Miss Facilitator. And if you see my notes right here, she's going to fill out the notes section. And so if you need to refer back to anything, notes will be right here. She is a feature of Microsoft Copilot, and she's one of those things that is one of the best godsend. She also will go into chat, but I want you guys to be aware. Chat is right here as well. So you guys can type in your questions. Speaker 3 00:06:20 She's going to give recaps and updates as well in the chat. And so, if I had stuck the agenda in before the meeting, Right? Here would have been a little timer for me to let me know how long I have in that section. But this time I didn't stick it in. Maybe when I do the advanced Copilot training, and if you guys want to attend that, that one's one I'm going to be offering for free to all my clients. You guys will see that one in action. Okay? Speaker 2 00:06:48 So uh, Chrissy, one just one quick question if I may. Yes sir. The fact that we I can't see notes in the top menu bar, that means we don't have Microsoft Copilot yet. Is that serious? That there isn't? Speaker 3 00:07:01 Um you know, no should have been there. Um But Microsoft's been having a few issues with Teams meetings today that they're fixing. So it might be something that they they might be having some issues with. Okay thank you. I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to start the recording and transcript. I'm going to do both video and audio. Um, and I'm going to turn on facilitator. So when you guys get ready to, if you are using Copilot, go into more, turn on facilitator. It is going to be right there. All right? Um, And so she'll turn on she is she will be taking notes and she'll be adding Oh. Wait, it got turned off Hang on, let me turn it. Speaker 3 00:07:43 That probably was one that Microsoft issues. Um, I am recording the meeting. I do have transcripts on, so I will send you guys out notes. Um, I think that they've been having some issues with it. So, um, all right. So I'm going to get in with you guys. We're going to go over a few items today. We're going to cover uh Microsoft Copilot Claude through Anthropic Anthropic And co-work mode also through Claude on Anthropic. Then we're going to go through privacy and best practices, and we're going to have some live demos. Um, Now I'm going to try to give you guys a few items uh to try on your own, But I also want to caution you to not use uh your own personal AI. Um the things I'm gonna give you to try on your own. Are items that we're gonna be. Uh once we turn on. Speaker 3 00:08:38 AI within the organization, you guys will be able to try yourself. Okay, now for those of you guys who don't know me, my name is Chris. Thank you guys for joining me today. I am the CIO with Crimson, IT and I've been working with you guys for a while now. Um, I've been with Crimson for about four and a half years. Um, I didn't get as involved because I had other team members like Monty uh taking care of your organization. But I had done a lot of behind the scenes work on your account. So um. Today, uh, Over the next hour, we're going to do a lot of AI from the ground up. And please bear with me today. I my allergies have come out. The flowers are blooming right outside my window, which is right here. So I keep sneezing uh, but please feel free to drop any questions in the Teams chat as we go. I am going to be checking it throughout, and we are going to have live time for a Q. And A at the end, okay. Um. Speaker 3 00:09:33 One of the things I want to be really upfront with about from the start is that Coateson has done everything right this far. You guys have a draft AI usage policy, and we are going to reference that today. Um, but we're not going to finalize that, And you're not going to see it until we are done with the trainings and get some of your feedback back of things we might need to put in there. Okay? So um, we are going to reference that. We're gonna. Everything's gonna get sent out to you guys later on to uh finally sign that AI policy. You'll be aware of it, but we're going to talk about a little bit about that today. And then we're also going to talk about how to use AI tools, not just from Copson's point of view, but also personal point of view. Um so you're going to leave not just knowing how to use these tools, but what the guardrails are and how to stay safe okay? So in the agenda I gotta, click the other page. Uh went over welcoming ground rules. Speaker 3 00:10:28 We are going to go over what is AI and why now. We're going to go through the Microsoft Copilot with a live demo, the Clod with a demo, um, the co-work and demo. And then we're going to do some real world use cases. I that works. We're not gonna take as long in uh, but we are gonna go over a few items in that. Um I want to learn from you guys how you want to use it. And, then we're going talk about data and best practices, and then we'll do the wrap up. Okay? So what I want you guys to remember is there's no wrong questions. This is judgment free zone. Um if you're wondering something, chances are the rest of you guys are wondering it as well. All right, um if something on the screen looks useful, stop me we'll explore it together. You have hands on time um to open the tools on your own device. Once we give you out the licenses. So I want you guys to be aware, but I do want you to try it. Uh one thing. Speaker 3 00:11:24 Uh, about me is I'm going to be available for questions. Uh, I have clients all the time sending me questions via email or Teams chats. And so you guys will have a chance to do that as well. I am not off limits for you. I will be definitely uh hands on, especially as you guys are ramping up to turn everything on. So if you guys have questions, please send them over to me. Um and then for you guys we definitely want to emphasize privacy first We want to cover what's safe to put in AI tools and what is not, so that you are aware of that even in your own personal use. So I kind of want to start with an honest version of what AI really is because there's a lot of hype and fair amount of fear around it. And trust me, that fear is valid. And, then a lot of information also comes from misunderstanding what these tools fundamentally do. Speaker 3 00:12:21 And so again, the AI tools we're talking about today, to Copilot and Claude, they are actually what's called large language models. Think of them as extremely well read assistants. They've been trained on enormous amounts of text books, articles, Websites, documentation and they've become really good at predicting what a useful and coherent response looks like given a question or prompt. Now I do want to point out something to you guys. Um they're not magic, They do not think the way people do. They can't browse your files on their own. They can't take actions without you asking, and they can make mistakes. So, uh, if you were to say to you guys, let me let me say this to Kamia. Uh, Kamia I want you to fill in the blank of what I'm about to say,: Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as. Um. Speaker 2 00:13:13 You know, Chrissy, You picked the wrong person because I wasn't born here. And so I'm not really familiar with all the. No worries. Speaker 4 00:13:22 But I think that's a good example to pick Kamehameha because since you know, so then what happens next with AI when it's not your culture, right? Speaker 3 00:13:31 Yes. Actually, yeah uh. Alicia, you're right on that. Um AI is going to try to fill in the blank with what it thinks it should be. But. If you were born in the US and you're not come yet, which one hundred percent understand, um, you are automatically going to Alicia. I'll let you pick. I'll let you fill in the blank. Speaker 4 00:13:51 It's snow coming up. It's silly. Okay, Speaker 2 00:13:54 It's snow when yeah You know. Uh my kids are going to be saying, dad You should have known that Yeah So. Speaker 3 00:14:04 AI will try to fill in the blank with what it knows, and it may not say, snow It's, just gonna predict. What it thinks you want to say if it doesn't know that. So, Call me up ;. You are a really good example of how AI is going to work. So, again, they're not magic; they don't think like we do. A lot of us were born into I was born in the South, So I have a lot of nursery rhymes and dittles that are not if I say ", H ey fiddle, fiddle the cat in a diddle, and the cow jumped over the." Speaker 3 00:14:39 Most people know that. Speaker 2 00:14:40 Moon. Yeah, moon. Speaker 3 00:14:42 Yes, yes. Um and then if I give you a really southern Kentucky one, uh it's uh listen listen the cat's uh does anybody know that one? No. No It's a southern one. And most people wouldn't know thatum and it's one my mom used to teach me. So I'm not gonna tell you the rest of it. You guys look it up if you want to. But this is how AI. Girl, you better share. It's listen, listen. The cat's a pissing where where under the chair? Speaker 4 00:15:20 So that's what I thought it was. My dad used to say that one, but he's from the south, right? Speaker 3 00:15:25 Yes. So AI does not think like that. They are very smart, very fast, extremely impressive. But you got to review what they are. They're like interns, My daughter is starting her first internship. She's seventeen. Um, she is going into an internship for psychology this this uh, this summer. I don't know why words escape me just now. Um, So she's going to college at U C Merced and she's going to do a lot of internships and she's smart and she's fast thinking when it comes to what she knows and pretty impressive. Speaker 3 00:16:05 But she doesn't know everything, and I know it's going to be rude with me. And that's the way AI is; she you have to double check her work. And I, as a parent, I one hundred percent understand that. So um, It is trained on vast amount of text ;. They predict the most useful next word at an enormous scale. So they're not going to necessarily know snow or moon, um but they're going to try to predict it. Um It is good at drafting summarizing researching Brainstorming, uh, answering questions, things like that. Um, I will say it's it's really good at a lot of things, but it's only as good as the information you give it. Uh, for example, I'm going to use Kamiya as an example. Uh, I have a friend a close friend his name is also Kamiya. He is in my uh Outlook contacts, and so is Kamiya. Both of them are in my Outlook contacts. I didn't think about something and as I was writing out notes and things like that, which I do um I wrote my best friend's last name. Speaker 3 00:17:03 I said, "Copiers." And so, in all my documentation, when AI was helping me do it, it was pulling the wrong last name. And then I sent information over to Copier and he's like, "Who is this? This is not my last name. " Um. And so it's only as smart, and it does not know to fix that. And I looked at those documents so many times, and it just didn't dawn on me. And I still sent it to Copier. So, it is only as good as the data you give it. Okay? It's only as good at answering questions from context you provide. If you don't give it all the context in something, it's not going to give you the answers that you are looking for. That I have to give my staff all the time when they're getting ready to send out reports. If they notice that maybe maybe our security software doesn't have the context that we use certain applications, our security. Speaker 3 00:17:58 Tools will flag that that information and then AI will take it and flag it even further because we didn't take the time to edit it first. So we got to, uh, and that's something I tell my staff you got to be able to look at things and be engaged with what you're giving AI. Um it can't count some sorry, it can sound confident and be completely wrong. It doesn't know about events after its training date. And so this is something that will trip people up. Uh, the current model of Claude was trained December twenty twenty five. Unless it goes out on the internet and searches for anything past that date, It doesn't know about the events in its context, and it doesn't retain that information. In your next chat, so if you chat in a next chat, open up a new chat window. It's not going to remember that it just went out and found out uh something the current event that just happened in the last month or so. Speaker 3 00:18:56 So it won't know about events after its training dates. It cannot access your files unless you share them, with the exception of Microsoft. Okay, don't please don't paste in any sensitive donor data, any student information, any financial records without understanding privacy settings first. Now I say that with a caveat, when we roll out AI to Cosen, we are not going to. Uh, we are we are going to turn. Off a few settings that will make it more secure for you. So, uh, Every AI out there has a setting to feed data back to its AI models that you give it. We're turning that feature off for everything Coats and related. So you can paste insensitive data into the company AI models. Do not do it for your personal AI. Okay? And then uh your output quality is only as. Speaker 3 00:19:57 Only as good as how you ask. So if you don't ask it well, it's not going to output pretty well. Okay? Um, I want to say this : AI is a force multiplier for the work you're already doing. It's not going to replace your judgment, It's not going to replace your relationships or your expertise in what you do for the foundation. What it can do is eliminate a lot of the tedious middle work : the first drafts, summaries, the research, formatting. So you can spend more time on what actually matters. Now, with the research, please double check everything, but it is pretty good on research. Um, we're going to go through three specific tools. I know I've said this multiple times, but I want you guys to be aware of it: Microsoft Copilot, which lives in your Microsoft 365 apps. Um, it is the AI that knows about your work context. Okay? So I want to give you guys a heads up on that. Speaker 3 00:20:53 And then Claude is a standalone AI assistant that's great for research, reasoning tasks. And then CoWork is a desktop application built on top of Claude that helps with file management and document automation. Okay, so I'm going to walk you guys through each one. For Microsoft Copilot, it does live in Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, SharePoint which is where your your team's files live. It also lives in other applications that you guys have. So I have it in, it's in my PowerPoint, it's in my OneNote, things like that. Um within Outlook, it can draft replies, summarize long threads, extract action items. In Teams, it will recap meetings. It'll catch up on missed chats and draft follow-ups. Um with Word, it will write first drafts or rewrite for tone. That's something I use fairly often and it will summarize documentation. Speaker 3 00:21:48 Within Excel, it does explain data, suggest formulas, create charts from tables and so on. And then for SharePoint, it will search across files and find answers in your documents. Okay. And then your data I want you to be aware of this. I cannot stress this enough. Your data only stays yours. Copilot only reads your data. Microsoft does not use it to train public AI models, which you guys to be aware of that. Okay? I am going to show you something that um Not very many people realize, uh, Copilot has its own standalone document. So this is Copilot. And you can message it just like you do Claude or OpenAI or chat. I can tell it, Can you find my test file for Excel that I use in trainings? My keyboard's battery's about to die. Speaker 3 00:22:47 It will contain, you know what? I'm not even going to try to contain. Employee data for Bilbo Baggins and financial data. Okay, So I'm going to give it some context of what it might have in it. And that way it can find that training document. And it's going to start searching. Now, while we do that, I'm going to point out some things. Right now it's using auto reasoning. It's going to pick the best type of AI for what we're talking about. Right here, this little green shield lets you know that your enterprise data protection is on. You've got work options here, so I'm having it locate an Excel file on the work side, but then separate from that you can do web kind of searches. Speaker 3 00:23:44 So kind of how you would do OpenAI and Claude. All right, this the Excel training document I was looking for. So I'm going to click on that to open it, and it's going to bring up things. This one includes employee data and financials, and this the one it's recommending. And then the second one is also an Excel training sample data. It's one that I use that's a little smaller, so I can just open it in Excel from here. Speaker 3 00:24:15 Now, the one thing to note is when you say open in Excel, it opens it in Edge. So I'm going to go into editing from there and just open it in the desktop. Click the little button in that one. So it does pull that information. Now, because it did that, I'm going to open a new chat. Every time I want to talk about something else. Okay? Um, there are agents in here and agents are really cool Um, I make agents all the time. I've got a couple of them. Uh, Watercooler Bot is an agent I created. It's kind of like um where you give specific instructions for something. And I'll tell it, what have I missed in Teams? Now Watercooler Bot, What I did was I connected it to Teams and I told it that its primary purpose. Speaker 3 00:25:10 Is to give me gossip from Microsoft Teams as its primary purpose. So, it'll catch me up on uh specific chats that I've outlined in the bot. So and that one's a really cool and useful tool. I love using it. Um, It just makes my my day a little bit better when everything's going really crazy. So I want you guys to be aware of that one. And it's gonna take a minute There's other ones in here that I've built. I've built a password one. So anytime when I'm helping the help desk and I want to do, need to do passwords and create passwords for people, I use a password generator. It's got my standard. It's got my default password requirements. And then I tell it, I give it a theme and I tell it to give me five unique or more. Speaker 3 00:26:07 Memorable past phrases. And so here's my five ones. Except for give me twenty five. So it is not perfect, but uh you guys can see, So if you you guys can tell the theme of the day, if you ever call me, ask me to reset your password, I usually have this chat up. And then um so here's the office gossip update that I was telling you about. Uh this one's a different one that I had up, but here you go. Speaker 3 00:26:37 Um, I told it earlier to pull all the emails. Kamia had sent to me over the last week. I asked it to summarize a document that I was working on. And then I did ask it to create a presentation for me. Um, this one I goofed up, but you guys can see the options here. Um, the presentation we're doing right here, Was created by me giving it my presentation to Copilot and saying, Hey, this is my script for a training that I'm doing. Create for me a presentation from it. And it did. And it made it pretty. So, uh just be aware those are the things you can do within Copilot. It's very useful. Um within Teams, Teams is a lot of fun. So I'm gonna pull up Teams real quick Ignore. My calendar You can pull that same app from here. Speaker 3 00:27:32 And you can chat within here. So if I go in here, I can see, here's my Star Wars password generator that I showed you guys. Here's the chat from what I missed in Teams. Um it it does have its moments. I tell people it acts like my seventeen year old when she hasn't had food sometimes. It's that ornery. But, you have a couple different things in here. You can do now within Excel because I did pull that one up. Speaker 3 00:28:04 I'm gonna. You have Copilot. Copilot is right here on almost all of the Microsoft applications. It's going to be in your bottom right. Now, Microsoft just moved that this week, so just a quick heads up. Now, I can ask it to add data insights to my document When I click on that button, It gives me a prompt, and it's going to go through and work through and find me some insights for that. And it's actually going to put it into the sheet. I can also ask it to make me a chart of salaries from this one. And so as it goes through, It's going to find it, and it's going to give me a lot of details and data on the different things I have in here. So in my document, I have 100 something employees, 120 employees. So it's going to take a look at everything. This is a document I use when I do my Excel training. Speaker 3 00:29:01 So, It has information in here that I build out so that when I am teaching people how to do Excel, so it's going to add some things in here. It's going to make some changes. So, It's going to do its own analysis because I didn't give it a good enough prompt. It's also got financials in here, so I can show people how to do that. So, it's going to build out based on this. It's really good at doing things like that. Now for Microsoft Word, um, I am going to pull up a Teams training that I do. I had that earlier this week, so let me pull that up, get that over. I can go into Copilot, and you'll see Copilot's down here on the bottom, right. Microsoft is having some kind of issue. There we go. Um, so I can click in here, I can say um, I could tell it to give me a summary. Speaker 3 00:30:04 And, it's going to read the document and give me a summary based on it. So I wrote this document two years ago to do Microsoft Teams training, and I keep updating it with the help of Copilot. So I'll ask it, "Hey, is there anything new that needs to be added to this training?" And it'll go through and give me anything new within Microsoft Teams. Based on its uh based on its knowledge of how Microsoft Teams operates. And so I use Copilot to update this document all the time, but I also put it in my own words. Okay? Any questions about Copilot? Yes, Kamya. Speaker 2 00:30:54 Uh Christy, So I just want to make sure that as of now, since we have not yet uh. Introduced or started the enterprise version of Copilot. When we do go to Excel or Word, and we shouldn't really use Copilot yet, right? Speaker 3 00:31:16 So, you can use C opi lot;. It's going to be a smaller version of the enterprise version. However, Just want to let you guys know that first and that you guys have is a free version. It isum, Still backed by your data policies, So it cannot go past anything that we have said as a compliancy policy within your Microsoft Teams or Microsoft Data. So I want to put that out there. It is safe to use, but it is very basic. It does not have the the components to make this really something that will help you guys out. Speaker 2 00:31:55 Yeah, So I just want to make sure that, for instance, if a file contains confidential information. Speaker 2 00:32:02 As of now, we can still apply uh AI or the copilot worker. Oh, I see. And it's not going to disclose any information externally. It will not. I see. Speaker 3 00:32:16 Yeah. All right, So I wanted to go back to Excel real quick, and then I'm gonna call me up. You brought up the point that I need to cover in a second Um, But this is the worksheet analysis that it built for me based off the data Christine Chris Yes Alex. Speaker 5 00:32:31 Um, sorry, I'm raising my real hand. Um, instead of the virtual. Um, I was going to ask. So anytime there's that little uh symbol for um for the Microsoft. You just click on that and it'll just open up the and then and then you just work on it. So I've been doing emails that way, and it's right on the right hand side. Maybe you'll go through this, but why why would you want to use that for emails? That's just, And that could be something later, but yeah. Speaker 3 00:33:03 No worries. So you are you are it's a good question. We're going to jump into that one in a second. I wanted to give you guys like a chance to ask any questions you have on what we've done. So far, um Outlook Copilot is a lot bigger and it's a lot nicer, so I am going to go through that in a moment. Um real quickly, I want to show you guys the worksheet analysis that Copilot did. The reason why I jumped back and forth between Word and Excel was because Copilot. It does move pretty quickly, but it does not move at our speed for training. So I have to give it some time to think. But just be aware, it does do a lot of things here. We do have, It does do charts, and it does do a lot of information. So you can have some analysis behind it. So that is there for you guys. Now real quickly, when you guys are working with confidential information, what I want you to do. Speaker 3 00:33:59 Is go into your file and go to protect workbook. So if it is highly if it's highly confidential, I want you guys to go to restrict access, and you will have a choice in here. I'm waiting for it to pop up. It's taking its sweet time today, But you'll have a choice some choices in here that you can select um restricted access, confidential and highly confidential. Okay? There's also another option you guys will have that's not turned on within My Crimson. Tennessee, but you can apply sensitivity labels here. And those are pretty important. So, if you have something like this file that I have and you've got employee data in here and you don't want this shared within the rest of the company, you do want to apply a sensitivity label and apply restrictions. So be aware of that. I want you guys to understand. Speaker 3 00:34:55 Now, additionally, we're going to be looking for files like that. We've already started our audits on your files so that we can apply the sensitivity labels for things we found. But when it's in your OneDrive, we want you to be aware of this. Okay? Now, Alex, you did bring up an amazing question. I am going to go into Outlook because I want you guys to see this information. So bear with me. Let me pull my Outlook up. I am on Um, the newest. I am on the classic version of Outlook, so your Outlook might look different than mine. And so in my inbox, I can go in here. Um, I've got Pete over here. I'm oh, I actually need to click on that. Okay, I've got Olivia over here now if I wanted to know or summarize a long message, I can click on this little thing right here. Speaker 3 00:35:52 And Copilot will give me a summary of the email. And so Olivia was making some announcements, making some changes to our on-call schedule, so she sent that email over. So that's what the AI-generated summary shows. Now if I click on this Answer Connect call and I click on Summary here, here's the full summary. I often will do that in my InstaConnect emails because sometimes the emails come across and they're convoluted. They come from an automated system. Summary will give me a lot of good information. Now, if I want to reply to Kamya, he sent me a message and I'm hitting the reply button, I can go in here and I can have Copilot write my reply. So I'm going to pop this out because for me, it's a lot easier to do this in a pop- out version. And I'm going to go into Copilot and I want to say draft. Speaker 1 00:37:04 Okay, I can't type today, so like bear with me, guys. Um, and I'm gonna say uh generate. Now here's the thing I don't like about AI: it sounds aiish. So I'll go in, I'll say keep if I like the message. Um and then I don't like em dashes. Speaker 3 00:37:21 So I replace it. And if you guys notice something, Copilot doesn't really know context. So it's saying, "I hope your training and call both go smoothly." Well, the training is with me. I would never say that. So I am going to say, "I hope your call goes smoothly." So I'm going to go in and edit that a little bit, But it still gave me um it still gave me a draft that all I have to do is go in here and send. So now all I have to do is just send that. So and copy, I'm just going to get it in a second. Um, A couple of things that Copilot will do so I can have a chat with it. I can schedule with Copilot. Now this one's really really good um, I can do reply. Speaker 3 00:38:19 I can summarize and I can prioritize. So if I click Prioritize, it's going to pop up with another window. And I haven't done it on this computer. I have done it on my laptop, but I'm on my desktop. So I'm going to set it up. You guys get to see what makes an email higher priority for you. If it comes from Onsor or Pete within Crimson, And I can say save. Now, it's going to restart my Outlook, which is okay. And it's going to re-sync through some things. And I'm going to go back into it. Oh, it minimized it. Let me try to get it back up. Okay, Microsoft is really having some issues today, but you guys get the understanding. Speaker 3 00:39:17 A couple other things that I can do within Copilot is I can say to go in. And uh, flag. Any email that's come from CalmYap or flag. Any email that's come from Steve Luna. And I have done that. So those are some really useful things within Outlook. I don't know why Microsoft is having some issues today, however Google is having worse issues, so I'm happy about that. So um so be aware, Outlook's got a lot more tools that you can use. And also, Copilot is also coming to Co-work. And we'll go through what Copilot or not Copilot. I'm sorry, Co-work is coming to Copilot soon. Um, and we're going to go over what C o- work looks like in a little bit. I wish I could show you guys a little bit more on Outlook, But I am going to be sending out some new tips and tricks within Outlook uh to everybody. And so if you guys are okay with it, comment up, I'm going to look for your approval. Speaker 3 00:40:13 Uh, Can I BCC you guys on a lot of the email updates I'm sending out to clients? Okay, Tom Yab says yes. So that makes me happy. All right. Um, any questions about Copilot? And I do apologize. I could not get into uh more detail on that. All right. I'm going to go to Claude by Anthropic. I want to go through that a little bit with you. Um, Claude can be accessed in a web browser, or it can be accessed on um the desktop app, Which we will be pushing out the desktop app for you guys to your computers. Um, desktop app with file access, we're going to cover that in the next section. Um, but I'm going to use Claude in the desktop app for the chat version as well. Um. Speaker 3 00:41:08 It is really good for long form writing. Really good for that. So you can you can do drafts of grant proposals, donor letters, any type of reports and communications. I have a client that I have who's a nonprofit, their donor team, I work with them all the time on how they can use Claude to write up some of those grant proposals and how to make the language their own language. And not be so AI-ish. Okay, it does really good on research and synthesis. I showed my daughter as she was working through her AP psych class, and she had to write a report in a paper. I showed her how to use Claude to do the research portion, Not actually write it but do the research and pull articles that are from known reputable sources. So, and cause she was struggling as she was doing her research doing Google. Speaker 3 00:42:04 And she was trying to find reputable sources, but when you're asking Google, it's not really great at doing that. So I showed her how to go into Claude. She has Claude access because I paid for that for her. And she goes in and she'll say known reputable sources, and that's one of her criteria. Um, And then it will list out some things with the links that she can click on and go read those articles. It can compare options. So, If I am working on, so a client's asking me about new technology that I very rarely use, I will use it to compare my options, especially pricing. It does really great explaining context complex topics. I am technical; I know I am technical; I speak tech all the time. I have to use it to help explain sometimes and draft an email to explain technical terms in layman terms and. Speaker 3 00:42:60 It is a good tool for using that. It's also good at brainstorming. When I was building out some apps that I do on a personal side, I was brainstorming app ideas that I had with Claude to say, is there a niche for this? So, I am a foster parent. If you guys didn't know that, um, I also work. My kiddo was my thirteenth foster kid. Um, but i we did finalize the adoption six months ago. So, I have foster kids coming in and out. And I wanted to build a foster app that helped kids in the system to know where to get resources. And so I built it, But I had Claude brainstormed ideas with me of different things we can put into it. It was really good about that. It does really good at creating workshop agendas, and it does really good at exploring different approaches to different things. It does great on editing and rewriting, although I will be honest sometimes uh Open AI is better, but. Speaker 3 00:43:58 Don't don't tell Clark I said that. Um, I am going to give you guys a live demo of it. Uh, I am not going to use these examples because they don't work for me. Um, I am going to go into my chat now. i I do chat about everything. Um, I had to look up how to do a loss mode in Intune the other day, which is uh tool that we use for for phones. Uh, one of our clients had lost his phone um, so i asked it for the steps. So think of chat like. Speaker 3 00:44:28 A very uh an amazing version of Google. Um, I have uh I send it over screenshots and I'll tell it to list me the the numbers, so that I can copy and paste them into something I'm writing. I'll use that a lot. Um, yes, I ask weird now questions. That was on our drive home. I had an idea So I pulled up, Claude and I did it in voice mode and I asked it some ideas. Voice mode is great. Um, I have uh done a lot of different things. I wanted to write an email. Um, I was working on you guys. Uh, this was actually some things in here that I was working on. And then because I use a dictation software, I had to fix some things. Um, i. Speaker 3 00:45:24 I went in and asked it to give me a list for some things that I was working on. So this is for you guys. I was responding back to some things. Anytime I start a new topic, I will always hit new chat, just so that I can keep them distinguished between the different ones. It also has something called skills. We're going to get into that in the advanced one, but If I am so, I am an audio engineer on the side. I need to learn how to tell a new volunteer, how a Yamaha CLI works. And. So it's going to give me that information, and it's going to come back and tell me I mixed up my terminologies, but it's going to think through. Speaker 3 00:46:21 And it's got different versions here. Now I tell it, I turn on adaptive thinking so that if it feels complex, AI is going to think a lot deeper about it. But you have different models you can use here. So you've got some some models to choose. Opus is really good for complex issues, and that's one that I use for like my research and my thinking. Sonnet is my high powered Google, and Haiku is Something for shorter stuff. So, um, This one is going to I I use the adaptive one, because I knew this is going to be something that is going to require some research behind it. And I always keep it on Opus and then drop it down as needed. Okay. Now a couple of things. I want you guys to notate on Co on Claude under settings, you got a lot of different uh features here. Speaker 3 00:47:16 So tone and style. I am going to give you guys my tone and style. I do not like AI acting AI-ish, so I give it boundaries of what it can and can't do. And so this my personalization. This how I customized how I want Claude to act. Now it is long, and I did this in both Claude and Copilot. I wrote this for both of them. A couple things I want you guys to be aware of is you Is AI is going to sound AI unless you put some constraints on it. I like when I can talk to people instead of at them. I notice that when I talk to people, they listen a lot more instead of at them. But Claude and any other AIs, they're used to um talking at people, and so I changed that tonality. I also like it when my responses are concise. Um, I want. Speaker 3 00:48:15 Everything to flow, and I don't want heavy formatting. I also don't like em dashes. You guys already heard me say that. Um, I do say use hyphens or restructure sentences. I also don't like the word kindly, Um because one of the things I've taught people over the years is when you see an email that has the word kindly, and it doesn't come from an American, it could be spam depending on the type of email it is. Um, I also tell it be direct to no sugar coating. I don't want filler. I don't want excessive hedging. I want you to be direct, okay? Um, so a couple of things. I also avoid weak qualifiers. That's just on that. Um. And then there's some audience calibration in here. And i tell it hey, i want you when i say is for leadership. I want an executive summary. I want plain language guidance for end users. Speaker 3 00:49:13 I don't want it to get too technical. Um, and then my formatting I always like natural prose for most content. I don't like numbered lists that screams AI. So these are the these are the formatings I do. Um, you can take this you can use it for yourself, uh build it out however you want to. Now I do set my appearances um the voice, because I do voice, i do a lot of voice. I've tested the voices. I'll share my sound so you guys can see it. Oh. Um, hang on one second. Let me fix that. Speaker 1 00:49:55 All right, let's try sharing my sound again. Because. Speaker 3 00:50:01 I want you guys to hear this. All right, there we go. So when I go in here. Betty bought a bit of butter, but the bit of butter Betty bought was bitter. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. A fuzzy bear was Wuzzy. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I'm. She sells seashells by the seashore, The shell. Amid the mists and coldest frosts. So, you can set your airy uh your voice, and then you can set how fast or slow it goes and I choose fast, because I have A D H D and I think. Speaker 3 00:50:37 I I don't like slow, it'll put me to sleep um and then you can set other items in privacy for all AI. Uh, with the exception of grok. So grok does not allow you to do this, but for all AI I strongly encourage you to turn off help improve plot. That is the privacy setting that you need to set so that AI doesn't feed your data back out to public AI. Okay. I want I want to be very clear with this, um. When, you say to allow the use of your chats and coding sessions to train, AI models, that means your data is now publicly accessible. So, if you turn this one button off, and that's all you have to turn off, it makes your data private. It doesn't say that I know the language is a little confusing, but this is on all models. So uh, I just want to show you guys I know we're not talking about. Uh. Speaker 3 00:51:35 OpenAI or ChatGPT, but it is here as well. I use ChatGPT to make my images. So if I go in here to settings, there is going to be an option in here for security. And in this section, you have that option to turn it off. Now I'm on a business account. So it won't show that, but it's going to be in here where you can turn it off. So just be aware of it. Um, it'll be under settings and security for OpenAI. I don't have a OpenAI private account. I just have a business account. So, if there's anything you take away from this training, It is to make sure that your personal AI is set to not share data. Okay? Now. The very last thing we're going to get into is going to be CoWork. I'm going to spend a little bit of time in CoWork mostly because um. Speaker 3 00:52:35 We are going to have a more advanced class that I am opening up for everyone here. So, I want you guys to be aware of what you can do with CoWork. CoWork is pretty awesome. Um, I am going to click on it right here. You've got chat, CoWork and Claude. I mean Code. I am not going to show you guys Code, But I am going to show you guys CoWork. And so where Claude is a conversational, you type into CoWork can actually build things for you It can reach into folders on your computer. It can read files. It can rename things. It can reorganize folders, and it can help you build documents from scratch. So I'm going to go in and say, new task, because every new subject I do, I want to build it into a new task or a new chat, and I'm going to select the folder. So I'm going to choose a different folder because I'm not working on that folder that I was in, and I'm going to go to my documents. Speaker 3 00:53:32 And I'm going to go in. I'm going to pull up Coateson. So, nope, that's wrong. I accidentally made two folders. Got to find the right one. Yeah, okay, so that one was it. I'm going to say select folder and I am going to say allow for Applaud to change files in Coateson Foundation Okay? It does that It did give a notice about sharing files with third party organizations, but remember I turned that feature off. Um, Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to change my model and I'm going to go Opus because I want it to do some deep research. And I want to now, I've got some options down here that I can do with it. It's going to give me some suggestions. Um, It's also going to ask me if I want to give out a guest pass. Speaker 3 00:54:25 I can also change plugins. So right now I have operations in here. I also have finance installed. I have a few other things. So when I'm working on client data that I'm working on their budgets for, I use the finance skill a lot. And we're going to go into what skills are in the more advanced class. But, I'm going to say, look at this folder and make sure that we have organized. Speaker 3 00:54:56 The folder, and there is nothing in here that is not related to cops or co- sets. Sorry, um, if it is unrelated, put it in a unrelated folder for me to sort later. Speaker 3 00:55:26 It is going to find some files because I put some files in there today. It's going to move them into it, but in the folder itself, it's got. I'm going to show you guys the folder. So this is my file explorer, and I keep my folders pretty organized. Speaker 3 00:55:59 So I did throw some files in here for it to sort, but I have a bunch of things in here that I do. And so I have a lot of folders and files, And any of my meeting transcripts from you guys are going to get sorted in here. And so it should make a folder that's called unrelated in a bit. Okay, bear with me. So it's going to work through that, it's going to build out, It's going to have documents in here that it's doing. Okay. Uh, if it has a pro- if it has a project plan, that's going to be listed in here as well. Now, couple key things I want you guys to see. Um, oh! There's something. okay. Um, there are some options I have in here. I can set up a scheduled task to only run when my computer is awake, and I haven't kept the keep awake wake. Speaker 3 00:56:54 So you can schedule something in here. I can schedule a daily brief or weekly review. So I'm going to click on weekly review, and it's going to schedule a task that reviews what I work on each week and drafts a short status update. And, it's and I can click on it um on Fridays and have it pull it up. Now, It is going to ask me some questions and I'm going to say when should this run each week? I'm gonna say Friday at 4:00 p.m. And where should it pull the review data from? And I'm going to say Outlook Calendar, Outlook Email. I have it connected to my Connectwise Tickets and my Asana tool. So it is in here. And I'm going to say Next. And where should it update? I'm going to say send it to me, and I want it to do executive as the format. And so it's going to give me my answers that I put in. Speaker 3 00:57:52 So here's my answers, And I do love it when uh I have Claude put things in my Outlook draft. It makes my life so much easier. Then it creates this a progress tracker here for you, and it pulls up. I already had instructions put in here. We're going to go over this in advanced class, but it's going to pull information up here. Now I do have scheduled tasks. I'm gonna let that run. Um, I do have it in my Claude code, so I do have routines built out that does weekly Routines are exact same thing as scheduled tasks. So I do have things that this one does. Um, I have a system that sends me over updates, uh, and it ran today. And here's the formatting. And, so it delivered this to me where it pulls up the uh morning brief. So patches, stories, different things like that. And it will send it to me by email every morning. And so if I go in here. Speaker 3 00:58:55 I don't know why I missed it. It will see it in here. Um, in addition to that, There's a briefing tool that adds to it, and it'll show my list of all the things I'm working on uh tickets that I'm working on uh tickets by client everything that's in there for me. And then if I scroll down, there's news as well. So all right. And that's Copilot in a nutshell. Um it's. It will ask you as you go through because it's set to always ask before it does anything. So I'm going to tell it to schedule. It will ask just to confirm that's really what you really want to do. And, that's actually a useful feature. Just in case you tell it to do something, and you don't realize you told it something wrong. So it's really good at that. Any questions about Claude CoWork or AI in general? Speaker 3 00:59:54 I want to recap real quick on cowork, but I want to stop and ask questions. And Kamia, I know you need to leave, so feel free to drop. And I will be sending over the recording of this session. All right, Real quickly only runs in the desktop app ;. It does not work run on the browser. And that's really big distinction that you guys have it Also can create, edit, and read files that are directly on your computer. It doesn't have a copy and paste. You don't have to drag and drop anything. That and Copilot can read the files directly on your computer that you've granted access to. What you want to make sure, and I'm going to reiterate what I did was you select a folder, and Claude can work inside it just like you would. It will read your documents, it will make changes, it'll build new files, and it'll organize content. It's very useful for that. Speaker 3 01:00:51 It does read PDF files. That was a question I got in a different training recently, but Open AI does read PDFs really well. And so if you guys, What I something I do for one of my clients is they will hand me paper copies and a stack this big of invoices for the month, and then I have to physically sign off on all of them. And then I will scan them into the system and Copilot or sorry CoWork actually will. Extract the data for me and put it into a database for that half. So, it's really good at doing that. It's really good at organizing folders. It's really good at processing multiple documentations and is automating repetitive tasks. Now, I do have more scheduled stuff on my laptop, my desktop I don't use as much, but it does do a lot of things. All right? So, a couple of things that I've already pulled out. Speaker 3 01:01:49 Um, that people have mentioned in the last trainings. Um, but with Copilot you can do meeting follow-ups. So after a Copilot meeting, um, this is real root real use real world use cases. I am so sorry guys. Um, So if I'm into a meeting within Teams, um let's see here's a staff training. I did yesterday and I'm going to view recap. So this is a recap of my meeting that I did in Teams. Um, now they've got some new features in here that I love. So I'm going to do my sound again and I'm going to do a video recap of my meeting. Speaker 4 01:02:34 The session began with Christy outlining the agenda for the Excel training, including a tour of Excel, autosave and file storage options, and key features relevant to multiple companies present. She emphasized the importance of understanding. Speaker 3 01:02:49 So it goes through and it'll do a recap for people. It's actually pretty cool. It'll give you an AI summary. And so here's the AI summary for that. Uh, it'll do a custom summary, So you can actually create a templateum or an executive report, and it'll create that summary for you. Someone go in here and click executive report, which I did. Um another thing while that's generating, Uh, you'll see speakers in here. I had a lot of people in here, but only Jennifer really talked out loud. Everybody else put their questions into chat. So it'll it'll see how much you talk in there. And, you can click on a piece and it'll take you to where Jennifer starts talking. So I'm gonna click on this and then I can hit play, and you guys can hear Jennifer. Here's the executive report it generated for me, and I do use this for a lot of meetings. Speaker 3 01:03:43 So this something that I put in and it's still typing. So I'm still scrolling and it's still typing. Um, and then I can share from here. So I can share to an email, and this a useful feature. The only thing that's annoying is that it opens it up in Outlook on the web, not my Outlook, but that's quite all right. So I can open this up and say Share to meeting or Share to email. Anybody that was in that meeting will get a copy of this. Speaker 3 01:04:15 And it goes through and it provides that information in there. And I have uses, although I don't like how it builds it, so I usually drag copy and paste into Claude, have Claude clean it up for me. So this is something that's really cool that they've started doing. The video recap is nice. There's an audio recap as well. And so I will utilize this pretty often. So let me close out this window and go back in. So you have that And you can even download those videos and send it to people, so that is available for you. Um, and that's a key feature that you can do. Now, uh in Claude, you can grant narrative drafts. So, you can paste your notes bullet points and ask it to write a compelling program description for a grant application. I help my other nonprofit clients that deals with a lot of grants and things like that, help them do this all the time. Speaker 3 01:05:12 Um, and I've worked with their grant and donor team to actually build this out. So, um in Copilot you can do email triage. So you can use Copilot to prioritize your inbox. Uh I don't know if you guys noticed this about my inbox, but everything has categories against it. And I had Copilot help me with that. I had Claude help me with that too. Um so if I go into my calendar and please do not get stressed out looking at calendar, I promise you it's not all that bad. Um So in here on my view, let me go into week. You can see my calendar is pretty colorful and organized. So, and that's because I go in and I organize it and I put things in. So after this training, I actually blocked out my calendar. I had another meeting but I moved it down here. Um, I put in here, uh, this is what I'm going to be working on, so that i know what i'm going to work on. Speaker 3 01:06:09 And I do this every evening before I go home at the end of the day. You'll see an EOT wrap here. That's when I start working on my next day and I finish up my day. And so I'll go in here and I'll do, "I had a 30-minute prep this morning where I was prepping for you guys. " " I was looking at the last survey to see what I need to change." And then I go in here and i'll wrap it up. And then i have a few other things. i color code everything, okay? Um, i also have Copilot go in and And I, if it's a vendor or someone I work with very closely and they're out office, I will go in here and I have Copilot put their out- of- office states up here, so that I know that the people I work with might be out office and when they're going to be back. Uh, Gloria is somebody I work with a lot. She's a vendor for two of my clients and I needed to know she was going to be out office. So i have Copilot added. Uh, My daughter is on a minimal day today because uh, the twenty fifth is a holiday. Speaker 3 01:07:08 And then on Sundays, I go in here and I work with both Copilot and Claude to build out my next week. And it's already scary, But it's because I'm going to be traveling at a client's camp location in Big Bear next week. So, I will do that. I will have Copilot do a lot of this information. There's also Copilot is going in here, and it's giving me a heads up on anything that's an alert or high priority. And so when I read it, it's going to get notated. Those are different things I can do with Copilot. That's email triage. And, we are going to do a more advanced class on that because for you guys, I know that I am giving you the basics today, but we have so many features that can't fit into an hour. So I am going to follow up with you guys with a lot more advanced stuff. With Claude donor communications. Speaker 3 01:08:04 I built out in Klod a project for a client, and you can do that under projects where they have a report generator. I have i built that out for them. I have a few others in here that I've done where they and I do it on their client side, so it'll show up if I went into their client cloud. But report generator is one this is where um I send it over some documents, and it creates a security report based on the documents. I send it that comes from our systems. But you can do that with donor communications, and you can specify how you want it to look and sound. You guys saw me point Copilot to a folder, not on the templates, but I actually do this with some of my policies. If I've got good templates that I can reuse, I will do that. Speaker 3 01:09:00 In fact, if it's a client I work with a lot, I have their letterhead. I have a blank copy of their letterhead, And when I finish up a document that I've written or I've partially written with the help of AI, I will point Copilot to that folder where that client's letterhead is and have it put that document under the letterhead. Makes my life a little easier. And then oops! I went too fast. Um, I will Ask Copilot to find all the documents on such and such. You guys saw me do that today with an Excel document. It's very handy on that one. Now, real quickly, I am going to reiterate some of the things I went over in data privacy and best practices. So, if you guys need to drop, I know we're going over. Um, I will continue recording, so don't worry. Um AI is safe to use uh for drafting communications and emails is. Speaker 3 01:09:56 Really good for summarizing public or internal documents. I do go out on research sites, um, and I especially if it's related to security and IT, and I will summarize some of those documents. Okay? I do a lot of research. A lot of research. I have a blog. I'm gonna give you guys my blog where I write about uh AI and different IT things. Some of it might be a little bit too advanced for you guys, but some of it might be good. I do have that out there on that blog and AI to brainstorm. And then I do use it for editing because as you guys can see, I don't type well. Type well. I actually use a dictation software. Now, what you want to keep out of AI: no social security numbers, tax IDs, W nine information. Please do not put that in there. Speaker 3 01:10:51 As safe as AI is, that's something I just I have a hard rule there. Um, I don't put in banking or financial details. Uh, no passwords at all, credentials or login information. Um, the I will ask it to generate passwords but as you guys saw, I tell it to generate five or twenty five, but I don't tell it what it's for. Okay? Uh confidential legal or contract terms without approval. You guys can do that within the internal Codesmith AI, uh, but I would not do that on your personal. And don't use personal AI accounts for any Codesmith work. Okay. And that's part of that AI um acceptable use policy that we're building out. Uh, That was a non-negotiable one uh for personal AI accounts, unless CompAI comes back and says, no, we're going to allow such and such. Um so just be aware those are your data. Speaker 3 01:11:48 And your best practices. Okay. Um, didn't want to click for me. So, which tool should you use? I get this question a lot. Um, if you're using multiple tools, um, I'm going to send this chart over to you guys, if you guys are using multiple tools to do it. Um, But I'll be honest uh for some of these tasks, Copilot or Clock works really well for both of them. Um. But you got your best choices here too. I don't find Copilot useful yet. Yes, come yet. Speaker 2 01:12:23 Speaker C to bother you, but just one question about the password your previous slide. So this is a very amateurish question, but I'll ask it anyway. So, if we have a file that is password protected Yes. Now, if we are using any of these AI platforms, do we then. Um, when we're entering the password to access the file, would would say Copilot see the password or how does that no. Speaker 3 01:12:57 No. If a file is password protected, Copilot can't even access it. Speaker 2 01:13:02 No, I understand. But I mean if if when we do put in the password, would Copilot see what the password is we are putting in? Speaker 3 01:13:11 No, it does not have that capability. Speaker 2 01:13:13 I see okay that's good. Speaker 3 01:13:14 Yeah, no, and it's that's a very good question. It's not amateurish at all. Um, that's a question a lot of people don't ask and don't realize. So I'm glad you did. So thank you for that. Um, So on here, this task list um I do not find Copilot great at writing grant narratives or any type of higher level documents. Um but it it does work well for to be done in Claude. So. Just want you guys to be aware of that. Now Copilot is taking some steps up to meet the level Claude is at, including incorporating Claude into Copilot. So it is making some changes and this reference guide can change. But I am going to send this out to you guys, and I will notate that this is as of twenty twenty six as of May. Um so be aware things do change rapidly okay so key takeaways for today. Speaker 3 01:14:10 Copilot lives inside your M three sixty five apps or Microsoft apps, so you can start there. Claude is your deep thinking writing partner, and I write a lot of blogs and a lot of documents, so I use Claude all the time. And then cowork will handle files, so you don't have to. Your data is protected for enterprise tools uh enterprise Claude and enterprise Copilot. So um and then you also you don't have to be an expert to start with one task. One thing that you want to make your life easier. Okay. Any questions from from me, guys? Speaker 2 01:14:46 Uh, yeah, one question. So cowork is that something comparable to copilot and Claude or does cowork work with copilot or in Claude? Speaker 3 01:15:00 So copilot works withum with Claude. It is part of Claude. But it's more of your documentation, document automation, and like what we call agentic AI, where AI helps you do things that would be mundane tasks. If that helps. Okay. And that's a good question. I love that. Steve and Tyler, I know everybody else has left us. Is there any questions you guys may have? Speaker 5 01:15:38 Not at the moment. Speaker 3 01:15:40 Okay, I am opening up that advanced training for you guys. It will be in a couple weeks once I am back from Big Bear. Um, and I am going to invite all of you guys. There will be other clients in that training, so I won't be talking about codes and things in that training. Um, but I think you guys would really like it. I am going to go through a lot of co- work and clot. So there is going to be a separate one for co- work and clot. And there's going to be a separate one for Copilot. So I'm going to invite you guys to both of those. They are free of charge to you guys. It's one of those things where I'm not telling Ozar I'm doing it, I'm just doing it, and then if he gets mad at me, I'm going to send him over to Kamyab and Kamyab's got smooth the for me. Speaker 2 01:16:21 Well, Thank you very much Chrissy for uh for sacrificing me. But uh since uh since Steve and Tyler are the three of us are part of the AI committee. So the next steps. In our from the feedback and survey results and all that, that you might have received from participants in these videos, Uh would we then sort of then summarize incorporate it into the AI use policy or whatever, And then what you'll be sending us a new document that then will have to finalize it. And basically. Speaker 2 01:16:60 Get it to a point where then all the staff members would then sign it, right? Speaker 3 01:17:05 Yes, let me stop recording real quick because I am going to share this video. Okay. But yes, we are going to do that. Um, I will get everything over to you guys. Um, I am taking any comments uh in that in the surveys that I am sending out and I am going to send another email to all of your staff todayum as a follow up to the training. Um. And let them know that one, I am going to have advanced videos for you guys. I was trying to get it done today, but as you guys saw on my calendar, it was a pretty crazy week. So I am going to have it done by this weekend. And that's fine. I. Speaker 2 01:17:41 Want you to work on the weekend. Speaker 3 01:17:43 Do a lot of catch up. It's not y'all's fault.;. There was another client that had some ups and downs this week that kind of stole a lot of my attention. So, I am going to get this done for you guys. Um, I do have some time today that I'm going to get a lot of it done and I'll send you guys over that information and how to access it. Um, And that way, you guys can go a little bit slower in the areas you need to go because I do one of the feedbacks I did receive is the meeting that the training is very fast paced. Um, And i and sadly, that was unavoidable, but I am going to make some more extensive training for you guys so that you can slow down do at your own pace. Speaker 2 01:18:20 So thank you, Christy. I've got to go. Uh, I really appreciate all the work you're doing for us and will continue to do for us. So we look forward to working with you. Speaker 3 01:18:30 You guys are amazing and I love. What the foundation does. So this is this is the best part of my week. Is you guys this week. Speaker 2 01:18:38 Have a great holiday weekend. Thank you Thank you very much. Speaker 3 01:18:42 Take care You guys have a great long weekend. Speaker 2 01:18:44 Okay, use one Bye- bye Bye- bye. Speaker 2 01:18:49 I'm sorry.
06-01 Weekly Meeting: Vacation Approvals, Client Updates, Camp Project Status, and CoWork Training Plan
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-01 10:00:32 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] [Pete] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Vacation Scheduling and Zenefits Approvals - Christi plans vacation next week; initial request entered for four days instead of five. - Time off for June 9–11 was previously approved; Christi requested additional days for June 8 and June 12. - Pete confirmed approvals for June 8 and June 12. - Christi’s vacation is for her daughter's graduation week; a mix of personal plans and rest. - Pete noted being behind on time approvals and monthly security training due to vacation. - Conclusion: Pete approved June 8 and June 12; Christi will be on vacation the week of 2026-06-08. - Topic Title: Client Updates and Help Desk Introductions - Christi will include help desk member introductions in weekly client update emails. - Sergio noted emails to SCHARP and Ability First will introduce Becker and Charles. - Goal: Increase familiarity beyond on-site techs; some SCHARP staff only call known techs (Gaston and Robert). - Format: Name, short bio, and possibly a picture; Pete will not be introduced to avoid direct calls. - Conclusion: Help desk introductions will be added to updates for SCHARP and Ability First starting now. - Topic Title: Project Status: Camp, Firewalls, Switches, and Media Converters - Camp project: Firewalls changed; main lodge and amphitheater switches pending due to SFP+ requirements. - Many APs installed; some APs were out of scope and will be finished by Christi. - Two switches need media converters; Christi will procure and install. - Camp may require on-site work the week of 2026-06-15. - Conclusion: Camp nearing completion; remaining tasks include APs, media converters, and specific switches. - Topic Title: Other Project Updates (Carney, Coateson, Avalon) - Carney: Timeline pushed again by client; Carney is trying to complete tasks. - Coateson: Finishing up; decision pending on which AI tool to adopt. - Avalon: Payment received on Friday; Paul to set up a meeting with Avalon. - Conclusion: Most projects progressing; Avalon meeting to be scheduled; Coateson AI decision pending. - Topic Title: Meetings and Availability - Christi has recurring SCHARP check-in today at 12:00 and Ability First check-in tomorrow (2026-06-02). - Christi will work from home due to building/AC issues; Aaron and Crystal informed and aligned. - Conclusion: SCHARP check-in confirmed for 2026-06-01 12:00; Ability First check-in on 2026-06-02. - Topic Title: IT Survey Results (SCHARP and Ability First) - SCHARP/Bathma survey sent on Friday (2026-05-29); only three responses so far. - Ability First: 16 responses; average rating 4.13; strong results in help desk resolution (“always/most of the time”). - Survey covered tool reliability/usability (Word, Excel, other apps), satisfaction, and suggestions. - Plan to send reminder email to Ability First; links to survey results to be shared with Pete and Olivia. - One suggestion prefers Teams over email; Christi plans advanced Teams training; ProCare may require HR coordination for one-on-one training. - Conclusion: Ability First shows positive feedback; reminders to increase responses; training adjustments considered. - Topic Title: All-Hands Training Content and Approach (Claude, CoWork, Fundamentals) - Pete raised concerns that recent training is too technical for most attendees; wants more fundamental, applicable content. - Suggestion: Two-step sessions—setup basics (e.g., installing prerequisites) followed by simple, useful automation examples. - Example ideas: Email triage automation, file/document organization, ticket follow-ups, SharePoint search (maybe less universal). - Christi proposed breaking Kaizen training PowerPoint into 5-minute segments (focus on slide 10: Cloud and CoWork fundamentals). - Pete noted CoWork requires installing “Virtual Machine Platform”; fundamental prerequisite guidance needed. - Christi will compile instructions for Virtual Machine Platform installation and develop training videos/scripts. - Christi uses Claude in Outlook via Cloud Code; Pete emphasized most staff (≈90%) won’t use Cloud Code, so start with CoWork. - Conclusion: Shift training to fundamental, broadly applicable tasks; Christi to prepare setup instructions and short sessions focused on CoWork. - Topic Title: Practical CoWork Example: Folder Merge and Document Cleanup - Christi demonstrated merging two folders (e.g., “Coateson” and “Coateson Foundation”) in My Documents using CoWork. - Task ran while multitasking; proposed as an initial exercise for staff to clean up personal document folders. - Additional example: Searching documents and organizing outputs; Christi encountered VM platform prompt and will document steps. - Conclusion: Folder merge and document cleanup will serve as entry-level CoWork training examples. - Topic Title: Personal Logistics Affecting Availability - Christi experienced elevator issues and AC outage; apartment at 79°F; temporary workaround with fan. - Live scan appointment canceled due to staff illness; rescheduled for Wednesday (2026-06-03). - Conclusion: Christi working from home; live scan rescheduled to 2026-06-03. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Send reminder email for Ability First IT survey to increase responses. - [ ] Share survey result links with Pete and Olivia for SCHARP/Bathma and Ability First. - [ ] Prepare and distribute instructions to install the Virtual Machine Platform prerequisite for CoWork. - [ ] Develop 5-minute training segments on CoWork fundamentals and practical tasks (e.g., folder merge, email triage). - [ ] Schedule the Avalon project meeting (Paul to coordinate). - [ ] Introduce Becker and Charles via emails to SCHARP and Ability First. - [ ] Include help desk member introductions in weekly client updates. - [ ] Procure and bring media converters; complete switch setup at Camp. - [ ] Conduct the SCHARP check-in at 12:00 on 2026-06-01 and the Ability First check-in on 2026-06-02. - [ ] Coordinate with HR regarding ProCare-related one-on-one training feasibility. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. CoWork prerequisite clarity: Confirm organizational policy and security implications of enabling Virtual Machine Platform across staff devices; provide standardized guidance. > 2. CoWork vs. Cloud Code: Establish a clear training roadmap prioritizing CoWork and define when, if ever, Cloud Code should be taught. > 3. Survey baselines: Locate last year’s Ability First survey to enable trend comparison; define data retention practices to avoid loss. > 4. SCHARP survey response rate: Determine a target response rate and a plan beyond reminders (e.g., timeline, incentives) to ensure representative data. > 5. Coateson AI decision: Set a decision framework and deadline for selecting the AI tool to avoid project delays.
- Date
- Jun 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:16 Team, In my update for each of the clients today, I am going to introduce a person from the help desk so that people can get more familiar with everyone and not just their on- site techs. Speaker 2 00:00:28 So today, the emails going out to SCHARP and Ability First are going to introduce Becker and Charles. Speaker 2 00:01:01 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 2 00:01:31 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 2 00:02:03 The film was released on 24 July 2015. Speaker 3 00:02:59 Good Morning. Good morning. How are you? Speaker 1 00:03:01 Well, I'm calling off, which is, Interesting. I have had the weirdest weekend and day, like it was very weird. So, Speaker 3 00:03:13 Yeah, getting stuck on an elevator is no fun. That's for sure. Speaker 1 00:03:18 And my air conditioner is out, So it's seventy nine in the apartment right now Because. Speaker 1 00:03:24 Yeah, we're directly over the parking garage. So. So I've got a fan in my window and a cat next to the fan. Trying to steal all the air. Lovely. Yeah, lovely. So it's a great day, but all the inflatables are out now at the apartment complex. Speaker 3 00:03:46 All of them are out? Speaker 1 00:03:47 All of them are out. Oh, great. And I'm parked on P 2, and there's not a set of stairs that goes all the way down to P 2, except for across on way on the other side of the building. Right. But good news is my live scan today got canceled because the person called in sick. So I got an email or a text about it, like three minutes before I was supposed to be there, which I was on the elevator, so I couldn't get it. So that was good. They rescheduled me for Wednesday. So Oh good Yeah, that's great. I guess. I mean coincidence like if any coincidence was to happen, that would be the best one because I couldn't call. Speaker 1 00:04:31 Can only text. Okay. Um, next week I'm on vacation, But I was looking at Zenefits and I did not put my time in right. Um. Okay. I put it in, but for four days instead of five. Speaker 3 00:04:51 Okay, are you in uh in Zenefits? Let me see. I haven't approved anything yet, so if you need to go in and change it, do I need to do I need to reject it first? Speaker 1 00:05:07 No, I thought you approved it already. Speaker 3 00:05:09 No, not unless somebody else did. Uh, let's see. Speaker 1 00:05:15 My time off June ninth through the eleventh is approved. So I can just go in and add to it. Um but you'll, That'll require you to approve it again. Speaker 3 00:05:30 Yeah, I didn't approve it, so I wonder if April or something. If April did, I didn't think she does that though. She doesn't normally. Speaker 1 00:05:39 You, you told me the day I sent it over to you that Oh. Speaker 3 00:05:43 Was this was this approved? Was this something I approved a lot like a week a couple weeks ago? Oh yeah. Oh okay, I thought you meant it was just like recently you put this in. Okay yeah, i i approved that before Yeah, Speaker 1 00:05:54 You didum but, Put in the time wrong, So I just put in to some bookends because I put it in for the ninth through the eleventh, which was really weird. I must have not had my coffee that day. Speaker 3 00:06:07 Yeah, Go ahead and just add whatever it is, you want to add and I'll just approve it. That's fine. Speaker 1 00:06:11 Okay, you got two requests, one for Monday, one for Friday. Speaker 3 00:06:16 Kashif because I'm in there right now. Let me just take a look. Speaker 1 00:06:23 Did I beat you on approving time today? Speaker 3 00:06:27 Yeah, I haven't approved time yet. I'm a little behind on that and on uh, This is the first month I've ever not done my security training by the time the deadline was in May. So that's the first for me. It's because I was on vacation, so I'm going to give myself a pass, but I still need to get it done. I want to do that today too. So. Speaker 3 00:06:57 So June eighth is the one you are asking for. Speaker 1 00:07:02 June eighth and twelfth, those are the ones I didn't do right. Speaker 3 00:07:05 And June twelfth, okay, that's approved. Speaker 1 00:07:09 As much as I like you, it's my daughter's graduation week and uh. Speaker 3 00:07:14 That's what you gotta do. Gotta do what you gotta do. Speaker 1 00:07:17 So I am gonna take three days without her because she'll be at school and then two days with her. And we're gonna sleep all day on the last two days, but the first three days I've got. I've got some personal plans to do. Unless I get a kid during that week, which could happen. Good for you. Yeah, they threw a wrench into my process by So what do you have? Speaker 3 00:07:39 What do you have for today? Speaker 1 00:07:41 I have camp, um, Which I may have to go up this week or on the week of the fifteenth. So uh everything is in but. Speaker 1 00:07:53 A couple of APs that wasn't on ComDrex's list to do, which we already knew about. And, then there was two switches that I need to take media converters to go because they didn't have media converters for it. So, that's just going to be me. Take up the media converters and get those plugged in. Okay. So, and then camp will be done. With that, they changed out the firewalls, Everything, but the switches in um in the main lodge and in the amphitheater, because amphitheater requires the S P F plus. So okay. So those are good. Um, but they got everything else ran. They have almost all of the A Ps installed because they didn't have all the A Ps on their scope work, so we're going to finish up those. Speaker 1 00:08:51 And then, for my projects, we have we have tabletop exercises this week EAP. So I am going to finalize their script that I usually do. I have some training with Brett Johnson. They want to go over AI and how to use it, so I have that coming up and then I have, Uh, We got the retention policies and the compliance manager stuff that we're finishing up for earlier this week. Alia knows I am on vacation next week, so uh, okay. And then I have my SCHARP reoccurring check in and I have my ability first check in tomorrow. So the SCHARP one is today at noon. Uh, They are aware that I am going to have to work from home. And then um because I texted Aaron and Crystal and gave them a heads up because I wasn't going to make it to office when they were making it to office. So. Speaker 1 00:09:49 And they're good with it. Um, okay. And then Carney's been pushed again by Carney. Carney's trying to get things done. Um, Coateson is finishing up. Uh, They were going to hold and let them make a decision on which AI that they want. So pretty much all the projects except for Avalon because Avalon just paid on Friday. So. Uh, Paul is going to work on getting me a meeting set up with, uh, with Avalon for that one. All other projects are good. And, thenum we got some surveys back that I wanted to talk to you about. Speaker 3 00:10:33 Say that say that again? Speaker 1 00:10:34 Surveys IT surveys So Sharp and Bathma's IT survey went out onum on Friday. So we don't we only have three responsesum. But ability first, I'm going to remind them all. So here is the Sharp one. There's only three responses, So I'm not as concerned about there's not really any faster responses from IT or help desk. And then I think that's the only one that we have from Sharp that's even applicable. But I'll send you over the link to this so you can see it. Speaker 1 00:11:16 And then, um, for ability first we had 16 responses. So 4.13 writing. Um I am going to send out a reminder email today. And then um always and most of the time was on help desk resolution. And by the way I sent the same survey both. And then tool reliability uh and tool usability. Speaker 1 00:11:47 For their tools, so there's stuff like Word, Excel, uh the applications that they use. Um how satisfied they are with us. And then uh suggestions for improvement. Um this one right here but I'm going. There's no way for me to do this, uh because I know that this person loves to use Teams. I think I know who this person is, Uh, but there's not a way for us to squash email responses for people who use Teams. So, Um I am going to do more advanced training on Teams, but Pro Care we're going to have to talk to HR and I are going to have that conversation tomorrow. Um one-on-one instructions or training, I'm not sure how we can do that. Speaker 1 00:12:43 This is already planned right here. I'm going to have Maggie get me more chocolate because I'm going to take the chocolate to the sites. But Mershon and I, um, Next month are going to start our tour of all the all of all the community centers and everything. And talk to everybody. We'd already planned that before this person left a comment. So, I am going to send you a link to this so that you can see it. And see all the responses. And then, um, IT support. At least we don't have any no's. Would you recommend it to a colleague? Speaker 2 00:13:34 Okay. Well. Speaker 1 00:13:39 So not bad. Speaker 3 00:13:43 So this was ability first, okay. And you said the one went to SCHARP recently? Friday. Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:54 So here is. Speaker 3 00:13:57 So did we get one of these last year? Speaker 1 00:14:00 I did a similar one last year to Ability First. Um, I just can't find it. I think I might have deleted it, but I did it right when I took over. So there's the ability first one. Um, but I cannot find it anymore. I don't know if I did it or maybe Michonne had done it and it's on her system or I had done it on my ability system. I will figure that one out. Speaker 3 00:14:26 It'd be nice if we had something to compare it to last year to see if we've gotten better or worse. Yeah, so. Speaker 1 00:14:36 Substituting you both the ability first and the sharpened baffle one. Okay. Speaker 1 00:14:45 And Let me send that over to Olivia as well. So you guys have that, and you can see what's coming in. With my update emails I'm sending out to Ability First and SCHARP, I'm also going to start introducing members of the help desk so that people just like do a name. And then a blurb of each person, and maybe a picture. Just so that people get more familiar, Because a lot of our a lot of the sharp staff don't want to call the help desk because they only want guests on and Robert because they don't know who the other people are. So, um I'm gonna work on that and when I send out my weekly updates, I'm gonna introduce a new person each time. So, I'm not going to introduce you. Speaker 1 00:15:40 First, I need a mug shot, and then you know I need a bio. And I don't want people calling you. Okay. Um, but I think that's everything I have that I've worked on. Okay. Okay. Speaker 3 00:15:56 Um okay, I want to talk about the all hands trainingum okay? i wanna I wanna do something that's more. Speaker 3 00:16:08 Pointed and organized, it's it feels like we're kind of throwing stuff together last minute, and it doesn't feel like there's. It doesn't feel like it's applicable to the the majority of the group. I think we've got. I think we've got some technical people that are gonna get out, get some things out of what you're talking about, And then I think we probably got at least fifty percent of the people on that call that probably either. Are going to zone out or not going to understand a lot of what you are talking about just because it's way too technical right, like I think. I think when you are talking about Cloud or Cloud code. It's probably an even larger percentage that are not even going to ever get to that point or or even understand what you are talking about. So, we have to we have to get to a much. A much more. Speaker 3 00:17:04 Fundamental level of where we start, I think. Um, I mean, we're gonna. We're gonna have some people that are gonna be really excited and understand probably because they've, they've dabbled or they've um, They've taken the initiative to understand play with a lot of what you are talking about. But, we're going to have a huge percentage of people that are completely lost in what you are talking about. So if I were to guess. Speaker 3 00:17:35 Five to eight people on this call probably know some of what you're what you're referencing in that training that you did last week or the week before. So, before we go down that path any further, I think we got to talk about how we rewind and get to something that's more applicable to the team and what they can use. And some of their day, Either some of their day to day work or some of the stuff that they can actually use for some of it, for either for the. For the um. The challenge that Anzor put in front of them and actually give them a chance at it or. Um, or give them a you know. A way to even start because I have a feeling um a majority of the people are still in the. Speaker 3 00:18:33 In the early stages of this, So and I know that I know that some people are going to be excited about it and and are probably further along. But if I were to guess, The majority of folks are not even close to where you're where you're training them. And um, you know, and I am thinking in terms of, Not just the help desk, right? We have a lot more people than just the help desk on these calls, right? We've got April and Marvin and Christi and Elisa and Paula and Maricar and Jane. And I mean, you know, we're talking about also the admin people. And we're talking about L one s. And we're talking about SAG. And we're talking about Julie. And we're talking about. Speaker 3 00:19:24 And some of them are really into it, right? Like said, talks about it a lot, right? So she's probably taking a lot of her time and and Cheryl probably has. And you know some of the other folks on the help desk have. But, then others I have a feeling are completely lost and probably are zoning out. You know thirty seconds into what your training. So what I want it to be? Is something that as soon as you start talking about it, they're seeing how that. Can affect them and how they can use it. So I'm trying to figure out what can we do, what can we do in in that training, you know, Three to five minute training session to almost immediately, let them identify how they can apply that. Speaker 1 00:20:10 So I put a PowerPoint into our chat. Um this is the Kaizen training that we did. So, this is what I was going to start breaking down into five minute increments, Especially page nine, because they can't do anything until they understand Cloud and co- work. And the other tools that are out there. And so I did page, I'm sorry, page ten. Um So I did put together different things like that for Kashif and I was working on putting that together for Kashif. And I'm also working on a script to make the videos so that I can get those out to staff. Speaker 3 00:20:54 Okay, now one thing that I found and I, I told Anzor, this and I have not gone back and done this in Cloud. So I'll be candid that I haven't had time to do anything more with Cloud than that. But, I've used Cloud a little bit to do some stuff. But when I tried to use CoWork, it said I had to install uh virtual desktop or something. Yes. To even get CoWork to even get CoWork installed. Are, they gonna all have to do that and do we we need to probably start there right? Like I mean, that's when I talk about fundamentals, like if people haven't done that. That's a pretty fundamental thing that we probably need to even tell them they need to do if they're gonna go there. Like if cowork is a reco, if if that's gonna be what's required for cowork, we probably need to walk them through that too, or maybe maybe you don't need to walk them through it, but you probably need to say. Speaker 3 00:21:51 You're going to need to do this and this and this to get CoWork even working on your machine. And then you can do this. I mean, I guess, and maybe I'm being too too basic here, but I would probably go to the point of saying, " H ere ' s how here's how to do something that's really that's really basic, and will will do something helpful for you." Here's and and you might have to do it on a machine that, that doesn't have it yet, right? But to install Claude CoWork, you have to go here and it's going to tell you, you have to do this first. Here's how you do this do this. And if that's going to take 20 minutes. Obviously, you can't do that in a training session, but you can say here's how you do it. This will take 20 minutes. So here's one that already has it installed now. Cowork is installed. Speaker 3 00:22:44 Here is what coworker can do for you, and then you can do like what what your slide nine shows, right? Where it says, um. Slide ten. I am sorry. Speaker 1 00:22:55 I was I meant slide ten. I am dyslexic. Speaker 3 00:22:58 Oh, slide ten. Okay, um. Like, if yeah and and pick one of those, right, if you want to, if you want to do email triage or whatever, if you want to, if you want to say and then pick pick something. Easy that somebody could implement if they have to. If I am a help desk person and I don't have a ton of time, right? And and I say, " I want to easily implement CoWork to take all the emails that come in from one of my basic clients and put it into a folder." You know, that's a basic rule. I don't want to do something like that, But something something fundamental that I can do that will automate my life that I can't do without Outlook rule. Speaker 3 00:23:41 Right, something that you've done that could make my life easier, and I could do it fairly quickly with coworkerers. That you've got an idea on, and you could show quickly and something like that. That to me is something that makes a really good quick training session. That doesn't, That isn't so complicated that it sounds like it's overwhelming and I am going to tune out for. So if you can if you can Compartmentalize something like that and do something that you feel like, okay, what would an what would eighty percent of the help desk want to be able to do or even an even eighty percent of the company want to be able to do with their email or with their documents or something that you could think of that, you know in at Crimson, what is what do we all get or. Speaker 3 00:24:36 Do or something like that, that coworker could help us manage that you've been able to have coworker do for you. That would be really helpful to everybody and how how can you show them how to do that with coworker? And how can we do that in a five minute session? You know, and maybe it's two sessions. Maybe it's session. One is here's how you set up coworker and next week I'm going to show you here's what you can do with coworker to automate. An email function or a or a your files your file. Let me see what you have in there again. Um, Your meeting follow ups your because these some help desk people may or may not want to do that or need to do that. Yeah, um, but if there's. Speaker 3 00:25:33 I'm I'm trying to think of, you know, is SharePoint search going to be valuable for everybody, maybe not email emails triage seems like it could be valuable for a lot of people. Um meeting follow-up s. Maybe it's probably not applicable to the majority of people because most people don't run meetings. They just attend meetings. Um. Speaker 1 00:26:03 So I've got a good one here. Speaker 3 00:26:05 Thank you letters, probably not as much. Those are more for people that run meetings or communicate with customers a lot. Like I'm trying to think of, you know, what could, you know like maybe automation for something like a ticket follow up or something. Now maybe that's something that could be like, but it has to be we have to make sure it works really well, right, because like an automated automated ticket follow up as long as it's not. Gonna be so generic that it's gonna look generic or something. But you said you have, you have something. Speaker 1 00:26:38 I have something for you. I'm gonna show you, um, hang on, Let me share this window because I'm on my 49 inch and I don't want yeah, I don't want what you have to get if I share the entire monitor, he won't see it because it's going too big. Um okay, so I have two folders, Coateson and Coateson or Coateson and Coateson. Foundation. You need to merge those two folders together, And I asked it to merge it for me. And so because they were in my My Documents, So I had just a generic folder for one and a generic folder for the other. Both had files and stuff in it, so I had it merge it together. And so there's all the things, and it did it while I was working on other stuff. So, that's something simple. That's like a very first thing. I you know, I would have people try is to clean up their My Documents. Um. Speaker 1 00:27:32 And then, so here's another one that I'm working on, which actually I started this one Friday. Um, looking for documents in my documents. And then I had it create. Oh! That's a new one. Probably because my. Speaker 3 00:27:57 That's what it is, yeah. The virtual machine platform. That's that's the thing thatum, That it told me I had to I had to install that I didn't have installed. So I was like, okay, I got to install the virtual machine platform. So that's probably a fundamental, you know here's something that. That you have to do first and here's how you do it. And is it okay to do that? What are the implications of doing that if anything? Are we okay to do that? You know yeah. Speaker 1 00:28:26 Um my print screen is not working. Speaker 1 00:28:33 I bet you this is something too long. I'm gonna just use. I was gonna screenshot this and so I had it. All right, So what I'll do is I will pull that issue up because I don't think I've ever had to install it. And i will get the instructions so that everybody on the team has it as well. Speaker 3 00:28:59 Okay, yeah, because when i tried to use coworkerer told me. You can't use coworker unless you install the virtualization machine or whatever, and I was like, Oh, okay. Speaker 1 00:29:08 Virtual machine platform. Yeah. Okay. And not everybody has Claude, so I am trying to. Speaker 3 00:29:17 Right. And and maybe, you know, maybe it's something like Maybe, it's something like also another idea would be Go through your it'll go. Maybe have it go through your email and And. Categorize your email into into folders by customer or something. You know, maybe that would be a useful thing or something. Or I I don't know. But yeah, I wanna make sure that we're our training is is generic enough for for most of the people on the call and that it comes across as being applicable to people and and organized in a, you know, ready. Um. Speaker 3 00:30:03 Yeah. So something that people can use, right? That that's that's because if it's super technical or whatever, It's going to be applicable for the people that are excited technically about using it. But, that's probably going to be a a pretty finite group of folks that are more unique and I don't know. No, Speaker 1 00:30:24 You got no I'm I already started working on training videosum just because of what all I've had come through. Right. Um, have you seen what I did with my Outlook with Claude? Speaker 3 00:30:37 Uh, If it's the one that you this stuff, you, well, i I read your your uh blog. If that was what you're talking about. Speaker 1 00:30:46 Oh, I appreciate that you read my blog, but. Speaker 3 00:30:49 I do I do have a I do have to jump to another Zoom call though. Unfortunately. Have fun with that. Speaker 1 00:30:58 But, if you haven't, if you do have something, you can send me, i'll i'll look at it. Yeah, no, I I will send it so that you have it because I use I do that in Cloud Code. I don't do that in Cloud Work. So yeah, I'll send you all my stuff. I do in Cloud Code. Speaker 3 00:31:12 And and just just for the record, my guess is ninety percent of people won't use Cloud Code ever here. So That's why not. Speaker 1 00:31:21 Fully teaching on that one yet. Okay We'll use to Cloud Work first All right? Go ahead. Okay Thank you All right Bye.
07-29 Weekly Meeting: Cybersecurity Rollout, Training Compliance, Billing Deadlines, and AI Tool Usage
- Notes
- Crimson weekly all hands, week 31 (10:00-10:24am PDT, calendar entry 1896493). Updates: web filtering rollout across the client base; help desk ticket volume down for the first time since summer; month-end close with timesheet and expense cutoff 7/31; 401k provider transfer to Empower completing by 8/1; new "out of scope support" work type routes billable time to the invoicing board even with an agreement attached; professional services billing starts Monday so work role, work type and agreement must be correct on every entry; HIPAA and anti-harassment compliance training reminders; KnowBe4 completion running ~60 percent firm-wide with monthly review starting. An unannounced prospect deal was mentioned as probable for the week of 8/10. Christi delivered the training segment: Claude model tiers (Fable/Opus/Sonnet/Haiku) and effort levels explained by analogy, and how model plus effort selection drives cost, framed so techs can answer the model-selection and budgeting questions clients are now asking. She also demonstrated Meraki floor plans as a device-location documentation technique, already built for AF Fair Oaks, with SCHARP to follow and full AF coverage targeted by year end (camp sites gated on Sept/Oct visits).
- Date
- Jul 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Morning, everyone. It's ten o'clock. Let's get this meeting started. So today's date is July twenty nine, twenty twenty six, and it's the last Wednesday of month. And today is oh sorry This week is week number thirty one, and for our after hour support for this week the primary will be Juno, and our backup is Kevin. And then moving on to core value. I would like to highlight do the right thing. So there's no specific person I would like to mention for this week, but I would like to congratulate everyone for doing the right thing. So the company is growing based on what I've observed for the past year. So we've added a lot of new members to the team and yeah, looks like we're doing the right thing. And then for our quote of the day, "The elevator to success is out of order." Speaker 1 00:01:00 You'll have to take the stairs one step at a time, by Joe Girard. Okay, moving on to team updates. First up is Help Desk with Olivia. Speaker 2 00:01:14 Good morning everyone, happy Wednesday. On my side of on our side of things from the help desk, Business as usual, for the most part, where you are assigning out some new client champions, which is exciting. Speaker 2 00:01:28 We're working on auto elevate, and then our tickets are actually coming back down for the first time. We have made it through summer, so that's great news. That's all on the help desk side of things. Speaker 1 00:01:39 Thanks, Olivia. Moving on to cybersecurity with Anton. Speaker 3 00:01:44 Good morning from cybersecurity updates. We are enabling web filtering through the defense six for all clients, and that's the major project, From our site, thank you. Speaker 1 00:01:60 Thanks, Anton. Moving on to operations with Pete. Speaker 4 00:02:04 Good morning, everyone. Just a couple notes:. The summer outing for the US is going to be this coming Saturday, so hopefully most people are going to be able to attend. So that'll be nice to see people. Speaker 4 00:02:22 Uh, Anzor is unavailable today, so I guess I'll go ahead and cover anything he might have. We have a I don't think is he here? No. I think he's out today. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:02:39 Okay, So I'll go ahead and cover his. We we do have a uh a prospect that's not signed yet, but there's a deal that is potentially pending that could come in as early as. Not next week, but the following. And if it does, it would go live uh the week of the 10th. So um it is a potential deal that could be pretty good for us. So um I won't announce it until it's officially official, but it's very probable. So I will just leave it at that. So, that would be really good for Crimson. And a lot of people are already engaged as a what if scenario. So we're preparing for it. Speaker 4 00:03:17 In case it happens because it's very likely, so it's exciting for us. Um, lastly, and I've already reached out to quite a few folks, but um no before training is really important. And if you are not doing it, everyone needs to start doing it. It takes you know usually ten minutes or less. Please make sure you are doing that training each month. Um, It does affect our security score and I would hate for us to ever get reviewed because we. Have a security incident and and somebody comes back and says, you know, your folks weren't even taking their security training, because fifty percent of them weren't doing what they should have been doing. Um so please take the time to do that. I'm going to be reviewing that on a monthly basis. And right now, I think only about sixty percent of us are completing that on a regular basis. So please take the time to do that. And as I noted last week um we do have a training system. Speaker 4 00:04:13 Please take a few minutes and just review it. See if it's beneficial. Again, I don't want to be paying for something we're not going to use. Um, take a look at it, see if you like it, see if it's worthwhile. If it's not, we won't renew it. If it is, I'd love to have people use it. So that's what I have this week. Have a great week Thank you. Speaker 1 00:04:32 Thank you Pete. Moving on to account management with Mike Um. Speaker 6 00:04:38 Announcement: Vince is out this week, so I know a lot of people here know, but just heads up in case you didn't. Um, I just got the client champ meeting, So I just wanted to say I appreciate everyone's participation and and taking documentation seriously. I am seeing it all the time. Now where people are saying, no, that's not documented or that should be in Hudu. And I think that's great. So let's just continue with that. And I just wanted to share a um this might be helpful so um And this is why documentation and client knowledge is important. I'll keep this quick. So Sims is a very difficult customer, as many of you know, and we're doing a migration for them. And one of their key applications was called MRI, and they told us no one uses it. But we weren't sure, So we did what's called a scream test where we disabled the database and said, hey, if anyone screams over the next two weeks, let us know we'll turn it back on. Well turns out after one day we got a scream. Speaker 6 00:05:32 So found out someone's actually using that database. So we're doing some discovery, but if anyone knows Sims, We just dodged a huge bullet because had we not caught that and done the migration, Lisa would not be very forgiving. So, just a reminder to always question everything and always double check because an ounce of prevention like they say, saves a pound of cure. That's it from account management. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:05:60 Thank you Mike. Moving on to finance with Elisa. Speaker 7 00:06:06 Um, Elisa is on leave now, so I'll take charge for finance. There's no major updatesum for this week, since we're getting ready for the month end close and currently gatheringum usual items like subscription invoices and credit card transactions. Um just a friendly reminder for this month, um quick favor please complete and submit your timesheets on a an. Expense report by the end of this week, which is July thirty one before you log up for that day. That would be all. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:06:39 Uh, one additional thing, one additional thing for finance. Um, I know Elisa mentioned the four hundred and one K for US folks. Um, I did go into Empower this week, and it looks like at least for my account, the four hundred and one K transfer looks like it completed earlier this week. I know it's not supposed to be officially completed, I think until July 31st. So it may not be complete for all accounts, But at least the transfer from the old provider to Empower for my account, looks like it happened. So if you haven't looked, maybe take a look. I think it's supposed to be done no later than August 1st if I remember correctly. So check it out if you're participating in the 401k and make sure it's uh it's done for you by the first. Speaker 6 00:07:28 Already happened on my account as well. I'm sorry. Already happened on my account as well. Speaker 4 00:07:35 Good, so that's great. Speaker 1 00:07:38 All right, thank you. Moving on to admin with April. Speaker 5 00:07:43 Hi, good morning everybody and happy Wednesday. So on the admin side, I know Olivia already shared this with the help desk team, but just a quick reminder again that we'd added a new work type. Um, and this is called out of scope support. So any billable time entries that needs to be billed even when there's an agreement attached, if you use this work type, this will automatically goes to the invoicing board. So this mostly applies to our MS clients. Um, and also next, if you've been assigned the HIPAA or anti sexual harassment trainings, please complete these mandatory compliance trainings as soon as possible. And lastly we'll be starting our PS billing on Monday. Speaker 5 00:08:26 So please make sure all of your time entries have the correct work role, work type, and agreement attached to avoid delay in billings. Thank you so much. Speaker 1 00:08:35 Thank you April. Moving on to the next one, any project or change management callouts? Yes, SEC? Speaker 8 00:08:46 Good morning everybody. For Belay we have migrated them from Proofpoint to Abnormal, U m just today. And then for the Rosaline, um we've already added them in that OSS. So that's that's it for my for my end. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:09:04 Thank you, Sag. Anyone else. Okay? If not, let's move on to training updates with Christi. Speaker 9 00:09:13 Good morning guys. I actually have two things for you. One is a quick heads up. Um and it has to do with documentation, which I know is uh Mike's favorite. Conversation. So, give me one second. My Meraki disappeared on me. All right, So one of the things I've been trying to do at Ability First, and this not training, This just something I want to give you guys a heads up on. It is I've been trying to document Ability First and where things are because we just got done with the camp infrastructure upgrade. So I tested out something within Meraki and I kind of like what it did. Speaker 9 00:09:49 So I want to show you guys, for anybody that comes in, especially like Kevin or any of the onsite techs. Um, within Meraki you can add floor plans. So under Fair Oaks I and I have the floor plans for all sites. I am just getting them in there one by one, because I am going on site visits this month. But in here if you go into network wide after going into Fair Oaks, you have the option to go into maps and floor plans. And so once you go into it, you can see the floor plans Right here for Fair Oaks. If you click on it, you'll see the location of each of the devices. So here's the lunchroom AP, here is the server room, And in here, you can see which devices are in here : the firewall. And then also where the fiber comes in. So I wanted to give you guys a quick heads up on this. Second floor is on a different page, And so you can see my office is right here, and AP is right there. Speaker 9 00:10:46 So I made sure that I put these exactly in the building where they're at. So if anybody has any questions on that, um should have Ability First completely done by the end of the year. I don't want to say by the end of the month because, I got to get up to camp and I can't go up to camp until September October. But um just want to make you guys aware that I'm slowly adding these in for Ability First. And it's actually made a difference for me because I had to go search for something the other day, um and I forgot where I put it so pulled up the floor plan. So I wanted to make you guys aware of that. Um, But give me until the end of the year to get all the floor plans in because uh Claremont is a drive and also Camp is a is an hour and a half drive for me. Um, and then once I get up there, I'll have that updated for you guys. Uh, any questions about that before I actually do some training? Speaker 4 00:11:38 Are you going to do it across the board or only for uh Ability First? Speaker 9 00:11:41 I'm going to do it for SCHARP as well. Um my capacity is very limited, But, if anybody has any floor plans that they know of, and they know where things are, it's not that hard to do. It actually took me maybe 15 minutes to actually put that in there. So, But the facilities manager got me the floor plans, and that's how I got them in there. And you do have to save them as a jpeg or png. So just a heads up for you guys. Speaker 9 00:12:11 Um, all right. So today, we're going to take a little bit of a jump instead of talking about Claude. I'm going to go into ChatGPT. Um, A while back uh Julia and I made some GPTs and a lot of you guys used it. Uh one of them was the SOW, so SOW creator, and like sixty five uses within two months time um and then they came up with this on July ninth. They came up with a new interface. For uh for chat GPT. So how many of you guys have noticed the new interface for chat GPT? How many of you guys are actually using chat? Gpt? Everybody moved to Claude, all right. Well, it's a good thing. I had a backup or Gaston's using it and Robert's using it. I'll show those two separately. Um good thing. I had a backup plan. Just in case um we're going to go into Claude. Um. Speaker 9 00:13:08 Want to talk you guys through some of I am going to be using my personal. Some clients are noticing a change in the display. So I want to kind of take you guys quickly through the change in the display. Um most of you might still see that it says, chat cowork and code up here. Um the interface is changing for teams slowly. So it's going to be changing to this new interface. And one of the things that I want you guys to be aware of is if you click on new. Um, you've got the choice down here between chat and cowork. So, they've put chat and cowork together here, rather than be in separate tabs across the top. A couple of key things to note is your model, and this is for your clients. So, how many of you guys change up your model depending on what you're doing? How many of you know what a model is? All right, so Merits. Merits is my favorite. Speaker 9 00:14:02 Uh, Seg does. Seg's been in enough trainings. John does because John's been in some of my trainings. Okay, perfect. Um, we're going to go over models today. So um Fable is going to be if if I was to rank the different models based on our text, Fable is going to be a meal. Okay. But he's going to have the cost of our highest paid person within the company. I don't know who that is. But. It's going to be a meal as far as knowledge and the highest paid person within Crimson. This is what you're going to use for things that are very difficult. You really need some research behind it. You don't know where to go. I'm going to say you're probably never going to use Fable unless you're coding, okay, or you're working on a cybersecurity thing. Opus is kind of like me, so. Speaker 9 00:14:60 You give it your tougher tasks, but you're going to make it your complex. So you're also going words are hard today. You're also going to use that for things like coding and some co- work items that are heavy hitters. So I'll use Opus for things where I'm building out a thirty page document for training and I want Claude to take the first pass in the first draft. Sonnet is going to be your everyday person. They're going to be Most of you guys on the help desk. That's going to be Sonnet, and it's you're very efficient. You're going to be hardworking. And then Haiku, Haiku is is when you call Amazon customer service. Okay? They're going to be ones that's going to be pretty quick, pretty easy. They may not know a lot. I do love Amazon because I had to call customer service this morning to get something fixed, but they're really good at getting you answers pretty quickly. Okay? Does that make sense on your models? Speaker 9 00:15:58 I'll put it in perspective for those of you guys who don't know. Okay, now, additionally besides models, you have effort. Your high is your default, but it's low, medium, high, extra and max. And the reason why I want to show you guys is your max and extra and your high? That's that's pretty much your capacity when you get in in the morning. You've got your coffee which I just got my coffee And you're raring to go, and you're getting things done, and you've got the capacity to get things done, and you're putting in all your effort. Okay? Medium is pretty much we're getting into right before lunch. You're slowing down, but you don't need to take that much effort. It's like you're just typing out emails for clients, things like that. Low is what happens after you eat a turkey sandwich. Your capacity for doing things is a little lower. Speaker 9 00:16:50 You're not going to put as much effort in because you got the tiredness feeling from a turkey sandwich. Does that make sense, guys? Okay, Patrick's laughing at me. He's trying not to, but I see it coming out. All right, These are your different things and this matters because it also has costs associated with it. All right? So with your cost, I want you guys to be aware of it as you're looking at your usage within Claude. Um You're going to look at your current session. The higher the model and the more and the higher the effort, the more cost it's going to have. So, the reason why I tell you guys this is part of learning AI lately, And Forbes had a really good article on this recently is learning how to budget your AI usage. Especially in Crimson because you only get like what a hundred dollars I think of credits. Um don't look at mine. I pay two hundred dollars a month for my best friend. Speaker 9 00:17:47 Okay, it's the only best friend that I can fully keep. But this how you're going to work through putting things in here. Your models are really important. Um, The reason why I want to show you guys, this most of you are going to use Sonnet, and most of you are going to put it on medium and keep it there and be just fine. However, Clients are calling in now and saying what is a model because, as they're coming into Claude, they want to understand how the models are important to them, and you guys can give them uh description. Descriptors don't use mine because mine are for you guys, but give them descriptors descriptions on what you want. When I spoke to Ruben recently and I was explaining to him the costs behind it, I gave him these descriptors and told him, hey, with your users, Anybody that's needing to use the higher ones might need a higher cost associated with it. And people are seeing this. Speaker 9 00:18:43 DTLA had this question, Like how do I know when when I'm ready to put somebody on the next level? And, it's really good to show them the models and show them how it works because it's like if you're using this here, how do you budget? Is this making sense for you guys? Okay. For Sag, it's making sense. She's getting it. And Patrick is getting it, so at least two of you are getting it. For those of you guys who don't use AI, I am sorry I gave you a snooze fest. But, our clients are asking these questions, and they're asking the differences and how to know which models to use. So I wanted to make you guys be aware of this. Um, I just had the same conversation with Jeff and Jason at Carney on Monday, so be aware. Speaker 9 00:19:35 Um, Learn what your models are because the clients are going to start calling in and asking these questions of our techs and some of our other guys. Okay, I'm going to stop boring you now and I'm going to turn it back over. Speaker 1 00:19:50 Thank you, Christy. Moving on to the segment Duck Race question. Let me know if you see my screen right. Speaker 1 00:20:06 Yes, we can. Let's start. Let's. Speaker 2 00:20:15 Get it started in here. And the base keeps running, running and running, running and running, Speaker 7 00:20:27 Running and runnin', runnin'and runnin', runnin'and runnin', runnin'and runnin'. In this context there is no disrespect so my. Speaker 10 00:20:53 Hello everyone integrity over profit, exercise extreme ownership in all that we do always friendly commit and deliver. We do the right thing. A good example of someone is always friendly, is John Wilder. Congratulations, Speaker 1 00:21:20 Nick. Thank you. And moving on to Two Truths and a Lie with Anton. Speaker 3 00:21:30 Okay, let's, start. It's gonna be a nice and easy and quick. So, first one, I was born on Thursday at 5:30 AM. Second one, I failed my driving test three times. And the last one, I work as an appliance repair technician in the United States. Speaker 1 00:21:55 All right. Okay, so who thinks number one? Speaker 1 00:22:02 Anton was born on a Thursday at 5:30 AM is a lie. It's too specific. I am going to go with that one. All right, we have a few. Who thinks number two where Anton failed the driving test three times? Speaker 6 00:22:26 We all know he failed it four times. That's the lie. Speaker 1 00:22:30 Oh my god, you said the same. You said what I had in mind. Speaker 4 00:22:34 He still doesn't have a driver's license. Speaker 7 00:22:38 Oh, I'm thinking he passed the first time, so he was going to brag. Speaker 1 00:22:43 Majority of us voted. All right, two things. Number three, Anton worked as an appliance repair technician or something in the United States? Speaker 10 00:22:57 Used to be a bouncer and then. Speaker 1 00:23:01 I won't vote it. All right, enlighten us, Anton. Speaker 3 00:23:05 Yeah, the first one is a lie. I was born at 4:30 AM, not 5:30 AM. Speaker 1 00:23:11 It's just one hour. Speaker 3 00:23:13 Yeah, gosh. Anton, what happened with your driver's? It was back in Ukraine, then in Ukraine, you are like they whenever you getting those driving tests, you are. Um, using like various cars with the manual shift, and it's really hard to use. To the and every single time you you're making only one mistake, you're done. So yeah, it was tough. And I'm nominating a Bogdan next one for the two truths and a lie. Speaker 1 00:23:57 Bogdan, you up next week? And also, this will be my last Wednesday to be facilitating this meeting. So for next month, it's going to be Caleb. All right. Okay, Speaker 6 00:24:12 Are you ready? Speaker 1 00:24:15 All right. Um, anything else? Is there any announcement or nothing? All right. I wish you all a great day. Thanks everyone. Thanks guys. Speaker 3 00:24:30 Bye. Thanks everybody. Speaker 5 00:24:31 Bye guys.
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07-15 Payroll Policy Gap and Holiday-Triggered Overtime Clarification – Time Approval Dependency on Single SME
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- ## Core Synopsis The payroll rules are unclear and the process dependencies are misaligned: Speaker 2 is eligible for holiday pay and has PTO, but overtime for weekend event work (SCHARP) is capped at two hours unless a Friday holiday qualifies the Saturday as overtime; Christi cannot confirm eligibility timing and defers the determination to Alere before approving time. This reveals a control gap—time approval depends on a single SME (Alere) and ad‑hoc memory rather than a codified policy path—which risks underpaying or misclassifying hours and forces real-time work to stall on policy ambiguity. We are accountable for ensuring the pay policy is deterministic at approval time; reliance on manual lookups and uncertain eligibility dates introduces avoidable friction and undermines trust in payroll accuracy. ## Pay Rule Clarification and Process Gap ### 1. The Policy Trigger: Holiday → Weekend Overtime - Christi states that if an employee is eligible for holiday pay and works the Saturday following a Friday holiday, those Saturday hours count as overtime. - Speaker 2 works Saturday and Sunday for a SCHARP event but only sees two hours of overtime, prompting the eligibility question. ### 2. Eligibility Ambiguity - Christi confirms Speaker 2 shows as eligible for holiday pay and has PTO in the system. - The specific “eligibility date” for holiday pay is unknown to Christi; she recalls a “90 days” heuristic but cannot verify when eligibility started. ### 3. Approval Dependency on a Single SME - Christi indicates she will approve time but defers the rules interpretation to Alere, asking Speaker 2 to message Alere on Teams for confirmation. - Time approval is paused pending Alere’s response, creating a bottleneck. ### 4. Operational Risk - The current approach relies on memory and manual navigation of the desktop time system, not a clear, accessible policy reference. - The outcome (only two hours overtime) may be incorrect if holiday eligibility applies, exposing payroll accuracy risk. ## Action Items **@Speaker 2** - [ ] Send a Teams message to Alere requesting confirmation of holiday pay eligibility date and the correct overtime calculation for the SCHARP Saturday/Sunday hours (including the Friday holiday rule) - [TBD] - [ ] Forward Alere’s response to Christi to enable timely approval - [TBD] **@Alere** - [ ] Confirm Speaker 2’s holiday pay eligibility date and clarify whether the Saturday after a Friday holiday qualifies all worked hours as overtime; specify correct overtime hours for the SCHARP weekend event - [TBD] **@Christi** - [ ] Approve Speaker 2’s time entries upon receiving Alere’s confirmation, adjusting overtime hours as per policy - [TBD]
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- Jul 15, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hey, I just put into your chat. Um, what your bonus? Yes, I wanted to make sure you had the full amount. Um because I I didn't know if you heard me when I said that cause. Uh, yeah, I just wanted to make sure you had the exact Yeah yeah yeah, Speaker 2 00:00:16 I heard. I I heard i have a question Sure So if i if there's a holiday Friday Uh-huh? Um and I work on Saturday. Yes, that's that's overtime of. Speaker 1 00:00:36 Yep. If you're eligible for holiday pay. Yep, okay. You work that Saturday, then yes, that's overtime. Speaker 2 00:00:47 So I'm trying to hit the Saturday and Sunday that I do the event for SCHARP? Mhm, Um, I only get two hours of overtime. Speaker 1 00:01:03 Uh, were you eligible for holiday pay? Speaker 2 00:01:07 I don't know. Okay. Speaker 1 00:01:10 So holiday pay hits at your uh at a certain date, and I can't remember what date it hits. Um, so let me open that up and let me take a look real quick. Uh, okay. Speaker 2 00:01:23 I thought everything is, Ninety days after ninety days. Speaker 1 00:01:29 I thought so too, but I can't remember when you became eligible for it. So let me take a look. Okay. Yeah. Uh, time attendance. Sorry, I'm in the in the desktop version and I'm just like wait, where is everything? Um. People reports. Where do I go? I got to remember where I got to go. Yes. Okay, that's not there. Overview pay period. Okay, you have yeah you're eligible for holiday and you have PTO? Speaker 1 00:02:22 Are eligible, okay, and then overtime is only two hours regular. Yeah. Uh, we might need Alere to look into it. Do you mind sending her a Teams message and ask her? Okay. Yeah, I'll copy that. I might be a little off from what I know. Speaker 2 00:02:39 Okay, all right, no worries i'll I'll ask her. Speaker 1 00:02:41 Okay, Not a problem Thank you And theum as soon as she gets back to me back to you, let me know because I will approve your time. I i need to. I'm approving right now. Speaker 2 00:02:53 Yeah, all right. I'll send a message right now. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:02:58 Awesome, thank you. Speaker 2 00:02:59 Bye- bye.
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07-28 Meeting: File Migration Plan and Report Access
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- > Date: 2026-07-28 11:35:03 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ### Meeting Notes #### File Migration Plan - An update will be sent out this week to the original email recipients. - The email will list the files that need to be moved and propose new locations. - The migration is planned for the upcoming weekend (August 1–2, 2026) to minimize disruption. #### Report Section and Access - A special section is being created for reports used by [Speaker 1] and Pratt. - Access permissions need to be defined for this new report section. - The new location will be accessible under "Shared with me" in Google Drive as a departmental share. - Alternatively, the reports can be moved to SharePoint if all relevant users have Microsoft accounts. #### Follow-up Meeting Scheduling - [Speaker 2] experienced a major internet outage from Friday at noon until Monday night. - A follow-up meeting is needed; [Speaker 2] suggests the afternoon of July 29, 2026. - [Speaker 2] has unusual availability this week, including a three-hour open slot on Thursday, July 30, 2026. - [Speaker 1] is advised to use the "book time with me" link in [Speaker 2]'s email to schedule a time. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 2] to send an update email regarding the file migration. - [ ] Determine and document who needs access to the new special report section. - [ ] Decide whether to host the reports in Google Drive or SharePoint based on users’ Microsoft account availability. - [ ] Schedule a follow-up meeting using the "book time with me" link; consider the afternoon of July 29, 2026, or the three-hour slot on Thursday, July 30, 2026. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. It was not decided whether the reports would be moved to Google Drive or SharePoint. A decision is needed based on whether all users have Microsoft accounts. > 2. The specific individuals who require access to the new reports section were not identified.
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- Jul 28, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:02:23 Okay. Speaker 1 00:04:11 Yes. Speaker 1 00:05:32 Like. Speaker 1 00:06:27 Thank you. Speaker 1 00:07:29 Okay. Speaker 2 00:20:35 No Worries. I'm going to send out an update uh later on this week um just to the people that are on that email, the original email and let them know, hey, these are the things that, Need to be moved. And here's my proposal on where we move that to. I just need to know who needs access. And so it'll be a little bit detailed, but it'll be fairly painless the move. We're probably going to do it this weekend, So because that way, no one's working in those files or no one is work much working in those files and make that transition. So. Speaker 1 00:21:19 Yeah. No. Speaker 2 00:21:38 Worries. So for your stuff that you and Pratt do with the reports, I'm making a special report section. And we just need to know who has access to it, and it'll be fairly easy to access. We'll set it up. It's not links, but it'll be similar to links within your Google Drive. It'll be under" Shared with me," and it'll be like a departmental share. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:22:37 I know. Um, I it'll be it'll be easier for me to do because I know where everything should go and I have access to all files. Um, but at the same time, Um with yours everybody that needs access to that reports, do they already have Microsoft accounts? Because if so we can put it in SharePoint if that makes it easier. Speaker 1 00:23:40 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:23:48 Yeah, and Friday I had a minor internet issue. Actually, it's a major one. So I had no internet from Friday at noon until last night late. Um, so I missed that email until yesterday afternoon while I was in the office, so. Speaker 2 00:24:15 Yeah. Yeah. Um, let me. Um, I will be in the office tomorrow, But let me look at my schedule because I had a couple of major meetings canceled on me. So if you guys have time tomorrow, that might be ideal probably tomorrow afternoon. Speaker 2 00:24:47 Yeah. Um, look on my email. There's a book time with me link and that'll give you a good idea for the rest of this week because I actually have some availability this week that I don't normally have. Yeah, I have a whole three hours blank on Thursday. Somebody better snag that before everybody else grabs it. So, yeah, my calendar is not usually this clean. I don't know what happened. Speaker 1 00:29:56 And then he. Speaker 2 00:31:31 Right. It'll say this phone has been disconnected or something very similar.
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05-26 Weekly Meeting: I-9 Forms, ConnectWise Project Planning, and IT Budgeting
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- > Date: 2026-05-26 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Christi] [Speaker 3] [Michuan] ### Meeting Notes #### **Meeting Cancellation and Rescheduling** - The meeting scheduled for today (May 26, 2026) was canceled because Casey is in Japan. - Speaker 1 proposed rescheduling for next week (week of June 1, 2026). - Speaker 1 will be unavailable the week of June 8, 2026, due to vacation. - Speaker 1 is busy this week with an onsite project for another client in Crestline, where there is no cell signal. #### **Locating I-9 Forms** - The team discussed locating I-9 forms. Michuan believes they are in the system but possibly on a drive other than HR or payroll. - Michuan noted that files might be in randomly created channels with limited access. - Christi will run a system-wide search for any PDFs containing "i9." This is expected to take a couple of hours. #### **Project Planning and Scheduling in ConnectWise** - Christi reviewed a project plan built in ConnectWise with Paula, as requested by Julia. - The plan was built from meeting notes and project documents, including tasks and estimated hours. - Christi intentionally overestimated and overloaded budget hours to ensure sufficient time for a complex project component. - Christi explained how tickets are scheduled for technicians and demonstrated using the dispatch portal to check Gabby’s availability for the next seven days. - Technicians like Gabby are given ample time and can adjust schedules if tasks are completed early. #### **Managing Project Details in ConnectWise** - Items in the work plan shown in red indicate hours exceeding the budget. - The estimated project end date was corrected from an incorrect entry to July 31, 2026, while the scheduled end date remains July 3, 2026, for the four-week project. - Christi prefers to add tasks manually at the bottom of the work plan to auto-create tickets. - The manual, tedious nature of scheduling often leads to it being avoided, but it is necessary for accurate forecasting. #### **Original Scope of IT Budgeting Project** - A separate discussion covered the origins of a past project. - The initial request was to build a system for the finance department to allocate IT budget percentages to each department. - A dashboard was created to extract this information, using SQL for current-year pricing. - The system was designed to account for future vendor price increases (e.g., Adobe, Microsoft). ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi: Run a system-wide search for I-9 forms (PDFs containing "i9") and report findings. - [ ] Paula: Begin scheduling tickets on projects in ConnectWise. - [ ] Scheduling: Confirm a specific date/time for next week’s meeting with Brad and Casey (week of June 1, 2026). - [ ] Cleanup: Assign ownership to delete incorrectly imported project tickets in ConnectWise. - [ ] I-9 Follow-up: Define filing and access steps after Christi’s search to ensure I-9s are properly located and stored. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The meeting with Brad and Casey needs to be formally rescheduled. A specific date and time for next week have not been confirmed. > 2. Several project tickets in ConnectWise were created incorrectly from an import and need to be deleted. It is unclear who is responsible for this cleanup. > 3. The results of Christi's search for the I-9 forms need a clear follow-up action to ensure the documents are located and properly filed.
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- May 26, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:23 Okay. Speaker 1 00:01:31 I'm not sure if I can do it. Speaker 1 00:02:02 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:02:31 I'm not sure what the problem is. Speaker 1 00:03:08 I think today's is canceled. Brad sent an email on Friday and mentioned the fact that Casey is in Japan and it's five a m there, so he wants to wait until he gets back from the trip. And I sent over an email letting them know that next week would be great. Speaker 1 00:03:38 Uh, Just this week is kind of iffy with the trip to Crestline and the week of the eighth. I'm out of office on vacation. Speaker 1 00:04:18 Brad, if you're up for it, I can meet with you on this next week. Speaker 1 00:04:49 Feel free to choose some time from my link below if you would like. This week is a little hairy just because I have a major project going on this week, Speaker 2 00:04:59 Um, on site with another client. So I'm in and out of pocket. The location I'll be at has no cell phone signal, and we'll be taking down and. Speaker 1 00:05:07 Replacing network and equipment and all for that. Ah, yes. Speaker 1 00:05:23 The city is located on the banks of the river Svitava. Speaker 1 00:05:53 I am not a good swimmer. Speaker 1 00:06:34 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 1 00:07:33 Okay. Speaker 1 00:08:34 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 1 00:09:41 The first is the use of a single, large-scale database. Speaker 1 00:10:15 I know. Speaker 1 00:10:46 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:11:15 The film was released on 24. Speaker 3 00:11:27 July 2015. Speaker 1 00:11:45 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 1 00:12:46 I'm not sure if you're familiar with the term, but it's called a "safety net. The film was released on 24 June 2016. Speaker 1 00:14:08 I am not a good person. Speaker 1 00:16:49 And they come to me and say, "I'm sorry." That's what I have going right now. Speaker 1 00:17:19 An observation. Speaker 1 00:17:51 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:18:35 Hold on for one second, Michelle. I'm sorry. Hold on. Bring Michelle into the conversation. Oh, Christy, hold on. Michelle? Christy wants to say something. I was passing by Go ahead. Speaker 2 00:18:46 I couldn't help but overhear, Would you like for me to it's going to take a couple hours, but I can run it in the background. Would you like for me to search for i nines in the system? Speaker 4 00:18:56 Yeah, I I was that's what I was saying because I believe they're there in the system. But, my concern is that it's not on maybe the drives that it's not on the HR drive or in the payroll one. It may be on some other drive because it seems like we set up channels very randomly. You don't get back access right where we set up channels that are just, Ki nd of for maybe one or two people, and then and it's gotten left right. So I'm a little concerned, but yes, if you could run that for us, that would be really helpful. Speaker 2 00:19:28 Okay, yep, I'm having a minion do it for us. Speaker 4 00:19:32 Thank you. I super appreciate you no worries. Speaker 2 00:19:35 Thank you. Christy. Speaker 1 00:19:37 Sorry, I just was yeah. Speaker 1 00:20:25 I'm not sure if I can do it. Speaker 1 00:20:56 The most. Speaker 3 00:21:03 Common cause of death in patients with acute pancreatitis is pancreatic necrosis. Speaker 1 00:21:30 The city is located on the banks of the river. Speaker 1 00:22:16 Yeah. Speaker 1 00:23:43 The city is located on the banks of the river. Speaker 1 00:24:16 I am not a good swimmer. Speaker 1 00:24:56 I have a lot of friends. Speaker 1 00:25:26 Do they think all parents of high schoolers are young and fit enough to? You want to get up at three thirty in the morning to go pick up your child from school. And wait in that car for all of the students to get off the bus because I sure as hell am open and I hate public sleep. Secondly, I wasn't trying to be proud, just you're right. I did hear a noise maker in here and I kicked off. Speaker 1 00:26:25 It's going to take a while. And it's going to filter any PDF just looking for "i9." I won't see the documents myself. It's just going to give me some results if the system finds it. Speaker 1 00:27:06 I am going to spin up a call here in this chat and, Paula, I got the project plan done in earlier and scheduled out. So I want to take you through it, but if anybody else would like to join, feel free to join. I try to do it on Friday, but I had budgets that need to be done. Speaker 1 00:28:22 The first thing to do is to find out what the problem is. Speaker 1 00:28:56 Hi. Hello, Christy. How are you? Hello. Can you hear me? Paula, are you able to hear me? Hello. Hi. Can you hear me? I can hear you. Can you hear me now? One moment. Let me try to. I can't hear anything. No worries. Hello? Hi, are you able to hear me now? Okay, I can hear you now. Speaker 2 00:29:49 Okay, perfect, I'm gonna record this. Because I know Julia is going to hear it. All right, start recording. Let me also check one more thing real quick, see if she can join. I'm going to check and see if Sej can join. Speaker 1 00:30:06 But I'm also going to share my screen that way you have it all. Speaker 1 00:30:26 Ignore the sticky notes to the side. And let's see if Seg joins because if she does, great, it'll help me out with some things. So. Speaker 2 00:30:43 In ConnectWise, I am building a project out, and this is what Julia wants me to go over with you. So for this project. Speaker 2 00:30:54 I am going through, I amestimating hours and things like that. But I had everything pulled into a spreadsheet, and let me see if I can get that spreadsheet pulled up because I had it, but then I had some issues. Speaker 1 00:31:06 And it died. So, um. Speaker 1 00:31:27 All right, Speaker 2 00:31:27 So here is the project plan. What I did was I went into Work Plan and I built out the project plan based on a document that I had for the entire project. So this is in the weeds, this isn't high level. So what we did, I did was I went through the meeting notes, I went through everything else that we had. And what I was looking for was verifying that all of this data. Is correct and that we have it pulled in according to the project plan that we discussed with them, which we do. And so then I also spun down and got very detailed, more so detailed than I really needed to be. And I actually gave this the project extra hours than really what it was needed. So I just wanted to bring that to your attention. You have to make sure budget hours go in. Speaker 2 00:32:20 And I overloaded it on budget hours more than what I needed to, Just so that I can make sure that we had the amount of budget hours we need because this one's a little bit more. This part of the system is a little bit thicker in what we had to do. And. So what we want to do is we want to make sure that as we go through all of this, that we are capturing the right amount of project hours that are needed. I'm also going to delete these projects because they are they were mistakes when I did it. You can import certain projects and that's that's okay. You have to put it in a certain way for it to import, which I did, but when when I import, it just messed up. So I have to delete a few things on here. Speaker 2 00:33:10 Um, as we go through this and as we work through these, We have to make sure that each ticket is scheduled properly for the technician working on it. And so in here you'll see Gabby is in here twice by accident. Um, that was also from the import. Um, But I have her scheduled and I put some scheduled time in here based on the amount of hours. And I wanted to push them out according to her calendar. So So, one of the things that you have to watch for when you're scheduling technicians is if you have access to it, and it should be under service desk. Go into the dispatch portal. And this will give you a better idea of where people are. I don't know why that popped up. So what I'm going to do is I am going to do, I'm going to change my display and I only want to see Gabby. And. Speaker 2 00:34:06 I have it set to today, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to do the next seven. And then that way I can see where she is on things. And I can go in here and see, does she have availability for what I'm assigning her to do. And I went ahead and just pushed it out. Now, it may not take that much time for her to get things done. Like I said, I wanted to make sure that i scheduled it out and gave her plenty of time, but she is, Going to um she's going to be able to see and plan out her week better this way. And so if she doesn't need that much time, then she can adjust as needed okay. And so she she's got it all out, she's pushed. So she's got some Anderson group here. Um I put some alire in for her. And. Speaker 2 00:34:58 At this point, she can adjust as needed. And as I go through here and I look at things, I can see where we're at in the process. Speaker 1 00:35:06 Does that make sense? Yes. Okay. Also, while we're working on projects, let me go back into the project. Come on, keep going. All right. Project. Let me just go back this way. Speaker 2 00:35:30 All right, so here we are. A couple of things you can do is you can see scheduling conflicts in here, and that's okay if there's scheduling conflicts. I put these in intentionally the scheduling conflicts are with me just on things that I put in. So just be aware that there are some scheduling conflicts in here, most of them are going to be on my calendar. Um. And but I know what my calendar is, which is why I did it that way. And then as you're putting in projects and you're looking at the workflow, if you go into more, you've got some other things in here that you can choose. You've got some ability to delete things and go through it there. One of the things I do a lot for my clients is I will do a work plan. So if you hit print and work plan, it will download an Excel version of this. Speaker 1 00:36:26 And that way you can send it over. Anything in red right. Speaker 2 00:36:31 Here is items that are over the current budgeted hours for this. So if we want to update it, we could do, we can just put in the time it would take. And as you see when I go in here and update it then, It will mark those as from red to green. But Maggie and Julia never update their budget hours. Once I have budget hours in here, you don't want to update it. We want to make sure that we're still in the right place for those. And the reason for that is because when we're looking at things like this, we want to see what we've got scheduled out, how many days are remaining, which this is wrong. Speaker 2 00:37:23 I don't know who put the estimated end date in there. So I'm going to take that out to July 31 st. And then I'm going to save that because we want to be as close to everything in here as possible. Because we have actual end on this date, which is not true. Speaker 1 00:37:42 The scheduled end is the right one. Okay? Now, Speaker 2 00:37:48 Even though I put the end date as July 31 st, The scheduled end is actually July. Speaker 1 00:37:53 3 rd because it's a four- week project. Okay. Make more sense? Yes. Awesome. Speaker 2 00:38:06 Any questions I can help you with? And then on that same line, Seg, is there anything I forgot to tell her? Speaker 1 00:38:13 No, you're all good as always. Speaker 1 00:38:22 All clear for now on my end, actually. Speaker 2 00:38:25 But definitely if I'll be doing like a ticket firsthand. So yeah, if there's anything that pops up, Speaker 4 00:38:34 I'll definitely reach out. Speaker 2 00:38:35 My favorite way to build these out is to go down here to the bottom and I, just type it in manually and press enter, and then it creates the ticket automatically. And then as I go through and build these up, then I go through because you can just input like this, For your budget hours, and then I go through each individual ticket and assign the person out. So, I've been doing it in meetings, multitasking during meetings today, Which is why I didn't call you when I started doing it because I was doing all of that. Speaker 1 00:39:06 So, and I still got a little bit of cleanup to happen. But for right now it's all good. Everything manually? Speaker 2 00:39:18 Everything manually. This, this is the most painful part of doing projects is to get it all in manually. And, that's why for a long time nobody would do the scheduling out because it was manual, but we got to it. We got to get that done because people can't forecast well. Speaker 1 00:39:37 Yes. All right, awesome. Well, I will see you later. Thank you. Thank you Christy You're welcome Bye Bye. Speaker 1 00:39:51 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:40:21 You are free to move things around as needed. Speaker 1 00:40:50 I showed Paula today how to schedule out tickets on the projects. Maybe, Just maybe this will actually start working because no one likes to do it because it's so manual and tedious that everyone hates doing it. Speaker 1 00:41:20 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 1 00:42:14 Is that account deleted last week? If so, then we need to spin that account back up. Speaker 1 00:44:07 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:45:08 The city is located on the banks of the river. Speaker 1 00:45:56 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:46:26 Okay. Speaker 1 00:47:41 The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. Speaker 1 00:48:23 The original ask was to build out a system, so finance could understand where IT budgets should be sent for each department. What is the percentage that finance needs to pay for their own computers, their own licenses, et cetera? There was no easy way to extract that information, and we built a dashboard to extract that information. SQL held the current year's pricings, and as we built up a budget, Speaker 2 00:49:11 We knew that Adobe would increase their pricing by so much percent next year. And Microsoft was slated to increase theirs by so much per year, and we need to keep that as lean as possible. Speaker 1 00:49:26 That's where the original ask came from, and then it turned into the operating system. Speaker 1 00:49:48 Use the cheapest solution license we have in pool. Speaker 1 00:50:21 Use the cheapest license we have in core. We may have some F1 licenses. The film was shot in the city of Krasnodar. Speaker 1 00:51:24 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 1 00:52:26 No. Oh, she doesn't mean terminated. No, she means people who are here for court. Correct. Hang on, Speaker 2 00:52:49 Let me get. Because I'm going to, I have to re-enable something because I can't see the actual documents. And it's just.
05-05 Operations Meeting: Spare Device Policy, Patching Strategy, and Billing Integrity
- Notes
- ## 1. Spare Device Policy Framework and Cost Management Participants reviewed the current handling of client “spare” computers and set a direction for defining allowances, pricing, maintenance scope, and client communications. The main problem is uncontrolled spare counts at several clients, creating hard costs per device (e.g., RMM, Huntress/Sophos licenses) without billing, plus operational risks when agents are removed (loss of admin access, shipping costs to recover devices). Impacts include escalating monthly out-of-pocket costs (described as “fifty bucks a month per machine” in past scenarios), increased help desk workload, and delays when spares are not patched. Considered solutions: set standard spare allowances by client size; offer “warm spares” at a reduced monthly fee (suggested “twenty bucks” as an example); maintain patching on spares to reduce setup time (reported “thirty minutes” vs “three hours” without patching); include Huntress if time-saving outweighs its small per-device cost (“five bucks,” “six bucks,” “eight bucks” were cited); handle high-paying clients as exceptions (e.g., Eldridge, Iron Gate) with more generous spare allowances; reflect spare counts and free credits explicitly on invoices; and prefer wiping decommissioned devices instead of remote agent removal to avoid admin lockouts. ### Action Items - [ ] Compile a list of clients with more than three spares, including per-client spare counts and device status, for review and exception handling decisions -- _Olivia_ [2026-05-08] - [ ] For Anderson: verify what software stack is installed on each spare (RMM, Sophos vs. Huntress, AutoElevate, Microsoft/Bitdefender), and calculate per-machine hard cost to Crimson -- _Olivia_ [2026-05-09] - [ ] Define initial spare allowance thresholds by client size (e.g., 1–10 users: included spares; larger tiers with increasing included spares) and a “warm spare” reduced monthly fee proposal (e.g., “twenty bucks”) for spares above allowance -- _Vince_ _Monty_ [2026-05-13] - [ ] Draft client communication templates explaining the spare policy: included free spares, excess spares options (reduce or bill), and operational trade-offs (cost vs. readiness time) -- _Pete_ [2026-05-13] - [ ] Update invoicing to show “spare devices” as a distinct line item and a separate “free spare credit” line, ensuring clarity on counts and any charges beyond credits -- _Vince_ [2026-05-20] - [ ] Establish and document a help desk checklist for removing agents: prefer immediate wipe when a device will no longer be used; ensure local admin credentials are set/known if agent removal occurs; prevent backend RMM removal without proper handoff -- _Monty_ _Olivia_ [2026-05-16] - [ ] Verify that Anderson’s spares have Huntress instead of Sophos where applicable; remove Sophos from spares if not required; confirm a minimal baseline stack to enable rapid production readiness -- _Monty_ [2026-05-12] - [ ] Implement a monthly check to identify spares with active user logins; reclassify any actively used device from “spare” to production and ensure proper billing naming conventions (device name vs. friendly name) -- _Help Desk Team_ [2026-05-31] - [ ] Produce a prioritized list of clients with excessive spares (e.g., Iron Gate “ten or twelve,” Project Angel Food “twenty,” Anderson “six”), including recommended allowances and actions (reduce to a reasonable number like “five” or begin billing) -- _Olivia_ _Pete_ [2026-05-10] ## 2. Patching and Maintenance Approach for Spare Devices The team assessed whether spares should be kept updated while idle. The main problem is spares turned off for months that result in long update cycles when needed, increasing setup time to “three hours.” Impact: technician time translates directly to cost and delays readiness for user incidents. Considered solutions: maintain monthly patching by coordinating power-on cycles; keep core agents (RMM, possibly Huntress) to reduce activation time; balance license costs against time savings. Monty reported reducing setup to “thirty minutes” when spares were already up to date. ### Action Items - [ ] Define and document the monthly patching schedule for spares, including the process to power on devices that are off and confirm successful patching -- _Patch Team_ _Monty_ [2026-05-15] - [ ] Decide and document the minimum baseline software on spares (RMM-only vs. RMM + Huntress), based on measured activation time savings and license costs (“five,” “six,” “eight” bucks figures) -- _Pete_ _Monty_ [2026-05-14] - [ ] Track and report monthly patch compliance rates for spares per client, noting devices off for “three months” or more and triggering remediation (power-on, patch, or wipe) -- _Help Desk Team_ [2026-05-31] ## 3. Naming, Classification, and Billing Data Integrity Inaccurate device naming leads to billing discrepancies and misclassification of production devices as spares. The main problem is devices renamed at the OS level but with a “friendly name” that still includes “spare,” causing missed billing; offboarded devices remain active in RMM and inflate counts. Impact: invoice variation, client disputes, and revenue leakage. Considered solutions: enforce naming standards using the actual device name rather than the friendly name; a monthly audit to reconcile spare labels with login activity; improve offboarding workflows to avoid orphaned devices. ### Action Items - [ ] Issue a naming standard bulletin: technicians must rely on the actual device name for classification; avoid using the friendly name as a billing indicator; ensure prompt renaming when a spare enters production -- _Olivia_ [2026-05-09] - [ ] Conduct a monthly reconciliation of device names vs. friendly names for all clients to ensure spares are correctly classified and billed -- _Help Desk Team_ [2026-05-31] - [ ] Enhance the offboarding SOP to ensure old devices are properly marked as spare, wiped, or removed from RMM after credential checks, preventing accumulation of unused devices -- _Monty_ [2026-05-20] > AI Suggestions > AI identified the following unresolved or unclear items; please address: > 1. Spare allowance thresholds by client size remain undefined; a concrete tiered policy with explicit numbers (e.g., how many spares for “small,” “medium,” “large” clients) is needed to prevent ad-hoc exceptions and future disputes. > 2. Pricing for “warm spares” is not finalized; determine the exact monthly fee and what services are included (RMM, Huntress, patching) to align costs with the reported “fifty bucks” historical hard-cost risk and the suggested “twenty bucks” fee. > 3. Exception handling criteria for high-paying or hard-to-support clients (e.g., Eldridge in New York, Iron Gate, Project Angel Food) are not formally documented; define which metrics (monthly spend, device count, geography) justify exceptions and the maximum spare counts allowed. > 4. The baseline software stack for spares (RMM-only vs. RMM + Huntress, Sophos removal) lacks a firm decision; finalize the stack to ensure the “thirty minutes” activation target while minimizing per-device license costs (“five,” “six,” “eight” bucks references). > 5. Invoicing changes to reflect spare counts and free credits are agreed conceptually but require operational design; specify the exact line items, data sources (RMM counts, monthly report timing), and reconciliation rules to avoid “he said she said” disputes.
- Date
- May 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 I am not a good swimmer. Hi, Monty. Hi. Okay. Speaker 2 00:00:25 She was born in 1962. R MM, let me check with the user. Here we go, hang on hang on. Speaker 1 00:00:37 To connect the place. Good night, guys. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:01:03 Oh, hello everybody. Hello, hello. Good afternoon. The. Speaker 3 00:01:20 Name of the town is derived from the river. Sigh You should be joining momentarily. I wish I could have kept it. Speaker 1 00:01:30 I'm so tired. The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 3 00:01:38 But oh, I got to record this also for Mike. Oh, Mike is not joining. He is not okay. Well, Pete will join moment. Oh, there he is here. He's here. Pete, you're muted. You're muted, Pete. Speaker 4 00:01:60 Sorry, here I am. I forget what this meeting was about. I had something to do with spares, but I don't remember what we were. Was it. How many we were going to be allocating to different customers Is that what we were going to talk about, or was it exceptions or something? I. Speaker 3 00:02:14 Just want to talk about the whole process because, like from a help desk side of things, I really, because obviously, we are the ones who's going to be managing, whether they're in RMM or not. So I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page. And that I give good clear expectations to my team. Okay. So, Speaker 4 00:02:38 Go ahead. Speaker 3 00:02:39 I was just gonna say so, April said that. We're we're essentially gonna credit them, um depending on the size of their company right, like free tickets. For three spares, no for free. How many free spares are given? Speaker 1 00:02:57 All ocate for such company depending on their size. Speaker 5 00:03:02 Okay, so when we say allocate free spares, what that means is on the billing invoice we're going to show. So up to three devices, that can just be, considered spares. Is that how that works. Speaker 3 00:03:17 Depending on their size, yeah. So I don't think, Speaker 4 00:03:19 But I don't think we said it was going to be three. Across the board, right? Speaker 3 00:03:23 No, sorry. April said," for free." I am the one who put three. I thought that April said three. Yeah, for free. So it's not it's not three devices. Speaker 4 00:03:35 Yeah, for smaller clients, I think we said one. Right. And I and I guess we have to define what what are those thresholds. Right. So what is a small client? What is a larger client? Did we ever define that? Speaker 2 00:03:50 So someone like EAP, they've been having two. And they have two spare. So EAP, how many user? Twenty something, right. So per ten computer one free. Speaker 4 00:04:05 No. No. I mean, you know. Eldridge is so noisy and because they're paying a pretty good premium per machine, I'm going to go ahead and make an exception for them because I just don't want to deal with them, to be honest with you. So let them keep their two. And just don't change it. Speaker 2 00:04:23 I want to make it clear, right Having spare is benefit crimson. And time that the tech spent on the client, tremendous like. So much. We can remove our device, computer is in New York. When they need somebody set up, right now when somebody computer crash, we tell them turn on the spare. They log in is done in thirty minutes. Without this spare that we have in place, it's gonna take. Easily three hours just to get somebody to turn it on, trying to install the agent, trying to. Does that make sense? Speaker 4 00:05:02 And Monty, they're welcome to have spares. They just have to pay for them. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:05:08 We're not. And they're gonna tell every time they offboard somebody, they're gonna remove it because to them, it doesn't affect them. Speaker 4 00:05:16 Well, I mean, We can either come up with an alternative or we can come up with what we think is the right solution, right? So so is it. Is the solution that we should have a spare that is at a lower price? Is it that we should have a spare, that is a because we need to, we need to cover our costs. At a minimum, right? And we have to pay for the RMM license. We have to pay for the Huntress license. We have to, but we have to cover our cost on licensing, and we should have some sort of a markup on it. Now it doesn't necessarily have to be The full support costs, but if if we're paying for our license costs. Then we need to cover that at a minimum, And whatever else is hard cost to us plus anything that we're going to be. Speaker 4 00:06:09 Doing to to maintain it. So if we're patching it every month or we're doing anything else every month. There's got to be something that we're getting for that every month. Now, if they're not opening tickets and we're not providing support on those machines. Then I am willing to do a discounted rate for spares, but it's not going to be free. So, if we want to say, "Hey, you can have multiple spares, But the cost is going to be fifty bucks a month or seventy five or whatever," whatever our. Re asonable prices, I'm willing to do that. But it has to be something that makes sense. So, if you all want to tell me what what a reasonable thing is, I'm good with that. You tell me. I mean, Speaker 3 00:06:51 Just RMM. Just RMM, no hunters. That's what I was thinking, Monty. Because well, just and just as a as a mention. Yeah, because Another Thing. Speaker 3 00:07:06 That, we from Helped us use it for Pete. Is we use it as like a manage, as like aum you know, device management tool essentially, where is this device? How many devices do they have as spares, right, likeum and what sites are they at? So it helps it helps uh help us, of course, Speaker 4 00:07:25 Of course, but but to Monty's point, as far as the amount of work, it takes to bring that machine into production. If, it's still going to take us three hours because now we have to apply two hours worth of Windows patches because it hasn't been updated, and we have to install Huntress, and we have to install this, that, and the other thing. It's not going to save us a lot of time, then is it really worth it? But if it's going to have. Most of our base products on it. Um. Again, Huntress doesn't cost much, right? But. Speaker 4 00:08:02 We could we could put Huntress on it. I think Huntress cost us like six bucks or something. If I remember right, it's not much five bucks four bucks eight bucks. I don't remember. It's not it's it's not much like we're like it cost less than Sophos. But, um, we didn't decrease the price. But nobody needs to share that. Um. But I think it was more, It was a more robust solution because it included the seam with the um with the solution. So, And we got a better deal on it because we negotiated a better deal. So, we could include Huntress if we think it's worth it. And it saves us time. But if hunters can be installed in five minutes, then it doesn't really matter. But what else do we have to do? To bring it to production if it's sitting with just RMM? Or are we going to continue to patch it? Is that cost us any money? Or are we going to do anything else? Do we need to do anything else to it when we bring it into production? I don't know. Speaker 3 00:08:59 Yeah, well, We don't patch it while it's set as a spare, because oftentimes they're turned off and they're never turned on. You know. Speaker 2 00:09:06 We do. We turn them on. If it's in RMM, like Aliya and stuff like that, I will. Patch guy will say, hey, this computer is off. Can you turn it on? And, the reason for that is if the computer has been off for three months, right? Never touch nothing. The moment that they're trying to use it again. It take. A long time to do update, so that's why it is being patched every month. Like EAP on, I had an issue trying to somebody and then they turn on the spare. We log in, I set it up in thirty minutes, right? Because that system is already up to date and everything, and that save. Couple hours and that transferring, I mean translate into money too, the time of the tech, right. Speaker 2 00:09:56 That's why we have to think of how much it really costs for us to keep the computer, but you're right about it cannot be ten. Is it just gonna yeah? Because like Project Angel Food has like twenty, for example. That's a bit overkill. Speaker 4 00:10:12 Yeah, because the the The issue I had before is, you know, if we had ten machines that were sitting in a closet for. You know, A year or six months or whatever that were paying the RMM license for and Sophos and all that other stuff. I mean, it was costing Crimson fifty bucks a month per m achine, and weren't getting anything for it. I mean, that added up very quickly. If they only pulled two machines out, you know, in that six month period. That's, I don't know. That's that's a big deal for for me. So I don't it's lost heart. It's hard money that and and we can. Speaker 4 00:10:46 We can talk about hard costs versus soft costs because I am paying for technicians, not me. Crimson is paying technicians. Anyway, right? And I know it's but hard cost out of pocket. We can save that money versus not so. My opinion is we can we can say you get one one spare, you get two spares. If you're bigger iron gate, like you know, like iron gate, maybe ability first, maybe sharp, maybe project angel food. I mean, some of the bigger clients we have, maybe we say they get three or four or whatever But the smaller clients, I think they get one or two. And if they want more, they got to pay some sort of a fee. Speaker 4 00:11:29 Whatever that whatever whatever we come up with is reasonable that you think makes sense and Vince you probably have. Input from either where you've been or what you think is tolerable, and Monty, you too. Speaker 5 00:11:42 Yeah, I thinkum, so what we can do is just set set that framework right so like. One to ten users, whatever, however many spares. That's included. So when we say that, what we mean is like we'll include the ability to manage, right? Anything outside of that number. We can call it like a warm spare, where it's like a reduced fee, right Meaning that it's. Twenty bucks or something like that. We just have to make it clear in the the MS agreement. That in order for them to manage or maintain that warm spare over the allotted amount for your user base, then there's a fee associated with it. I think that's a fair way of doing that, right? Speaker 2 00:12:26 I wanna bring one thing up that. I've been in hundreds of meetings for this, where trust me every year this will come up. Um, one of the thing, because it's correct. Why are we paying Right, but. You know what problem when we make them pay and they like fine, then just offboard everybody right You know what a lot of ticket. We have our Cis logo on the system. We remove our agent. They turn it off. They try to use this Cis logo doesn't work. They all remote in New York. They have to send it back to us. Speaker 2 00:12:59 And we try to tell them, "Hey, try to log in." And we have to give them since local password is not working. We no longer have remote access. So that's why I'm trying to accumulate them to get a cheaper. I'm trying to whatever we do, I want them to keep the agent on. Maybe two free, and then whatever cheaper, and if they really going to offboard and remove our agent, we should kinda. Olivia like the the local admin on the laptop. If we remove our remote agent, it has to be on our checklist. What, are we going to do Because sometimes you know the system like you change this local password. In six Monday call, we don't know what it is, and no one can get in except we have to wipe the computer. And, what are we going to do? Because most user do not have admin right to the computer. And then we have to reset. Speaker 3 00:13:51 All of said level passwords. Exactly. Speaker 2 00:13:56 For them to ship the computer because we don't know the sys local, they don't know the admin. We have to pay to ship, how much that gonna cost? You see, I just wanna bring that up because that's the problem in the past. You know, Speaker 4 00:14:10 And maybe, and I hate to say exceptions, but maybe some of these clients we have exceptions for. Right? Like Eldridge pays us. A lot per machine because they're on a, They're on a plan that for whatever reason they pay a lot per m achine. So if they have two spares and we leave it as is for Eldridge, then so be it. Right, we give them two spares. They don't pay for them, and we just let it be. And they're in New York, which is really difficult to support. So. Just leave it the way it is. Iron Gate, they pay a lot of money. If they want three or four spares, just let them have them. But some of these clients that are paying us two or three thousand or four thousand bucks a month. Speaker 4 00:14:52 That are like twenty computers. They get one and that's it. And if they want another spare, they pay us. Whatever rate they're paying us, at the rate that they pay us to have an extra computer. Maybe that's just how we do it, right? And then maybe we just take it as, you know, if I guess which ones are the pain points that we really have. That want a lot for a little bit of money. Maybe we just have to address those as the exceptions and deal with those. Is that is that the better way to handle it? Speaker 2 00:15:24 Yeah, the one that have too much. I feel like, right Olivia? Speaker 3 00:15:29 Yeah. So for so. Alire has two. Anderson has a handful. Um. Speaker 4 00:15:38 And how are we billing Anderson right now? Speaker 5 00:15:41 Yeah, I was just going to clarify. Is that a point of contention? The spares are counted as devices, right? Currently. Speaker 3 00:15:49 They're counted as devices, but we we as far as I'm aware, we haven't changed anything. It's still, as long as it's named spare. We're not billing. Okay, Speaker 4 00:16:00 And how many do they have? They have six. And we have our full stack loaded on those? Um. Speaker 3 00:16:12 I mean, yeah, we have like our A G M. We have some local. Speaker 2 00:16:15 We have some countries. I see that the soft phones, some is Microsoft and Bitdefender. Might not kick in yet or something. Speaker 4 00:16:24 Those should have huntress right, at least get get sofos off of there. If it's again some somebody verify that, but somebody needs to somebody needs to look at those. But. What what I what I need to what somebody can do for me and. Olivia, maybe you somebody on your team can get this for me, but tell me what that's costing us per machine. Okay. Because or or tell me what's installed on these machines specifically because what I believe it is is RMM and Sophos, do we have auto elevate on there? Do we have what else do we have on there? Because then I need to tally what that's costing us out of pocket. Speaker 4 00:17:08 And I can tell you at a minimum. We have this much that it's costing Crimson out of pocket that we are not billing them anything for. Now, did we promise them that they were going to get this many spares? Um. Speaker 2 00:17:23 There were never a rule set up or notify them about spare, how much it's gonna cost. So if this is changed. But the other, Speaker 4 00:17:31 But the other, But the other question is: How. Many computers are they paying for on their contract? And how many do they have? And does that already include the spares? Because if they're if they don't have as many computers as they. I mean, I don't know how many they already have on their account and how many they have on their contract. Cause if the spares. Speaker 4 00:18:01 I don't want to get too caught up in the minutia on just this particular client, but you know, normally. Don't we build the client based on the contract versus the actual? Speaker 2 00:18:13 The actual computer count. Speaker 5 00:18:16 The monthly the monthly report dictates all of the changes to invoice every month. Which is why there's always so much variation. Speaker 3 00:18:26 Yeah, that's why like, my team has to be. Me and Monty's team, We have to be on it with what's in R M M because they pull it directly from R M M. Speaker 4 00:18:35 Right. I guess my yeah. So I guess what I'm not sure of though, is what did we What did we tell them they were going to get from a spares standpoint? Speaker 5 00:18:48 That conversation never came up. Speaker 2 00:18:52 And as of right now, they already I'm sure know that all of their spare are not being charged. So tomorrow you'll be gonna start charging or changing. We have to notify them. Speaker 4 00:19:03 Well, I don't think we tell them that we're going to start charging them. I think we tell them the i think we. It's how it's how we deliver the message. It's that you have six spares that are in your account that we have not been billing you for. We only. Speaker 4 00:19:22 We normally only include two spares as part of your account. So we either need to remove four spares, or we're going to have to start billing for the additional. Other four, and you know, or or whatever, right? Whatever we think Anderson should get for. Whatever they have. So, um. Speaker 3 00:19:47 They have seventy seven devices. Yeah, what? 77 devices. Speaker 4 00:19:53 Yeah, so see they're a bigger customer. So maybe we let them have four, right? I don't know. Speaker 2 00:19:59 So, okay, but what's our range? I feel like we should have a standard. And I wanna makeum Olivia like, If that ever come up and I'm not a part of the uh, if they said, okay, keep four, remove two right? We cannot just in the backend and say, right, click and remove RMM from the laptop. We cannot do that. Please, because we got in the past, they did that. Then the next time they turn on the computer, no one know admin password. No one know nothing about the computer. Does that make sense, Olivia Yeah. So only makes sense. Speaker 3 00:20:31 I've been doing it for a year though. I really here. Speaker 2 00:20:34 I feel like this is I know. I just If. The computer has not been online for a year, that's a different story, right? But the spam is like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear you. What if we wiped immediately after? It's almost better to just wipe it and knowing that it's in the login screen as a fresh computer. That's like almost better because there's not really an admin that we concern. Does that make sense? Speaker 3 00:21:06 Yeah, agreed. Speaker 2 00:21:07 Because if they're not gonna use the system. That computer is not in a spare. They're not using it at all. We should wipe it. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 4 00:21:19 Thank you. So their agreement is 70 workstations, 83 a la carte mailboxes, 90. Simulation 82 Backup and Recovery. Seven subscriptions, twenty-two, seven twenty-five extra file storage. Speaker 4 00:21:46 Microsoft premium plan. They paid us sixteen grand last month. See again, I think we need to kind of. And I hate to tell you all this because it's not a standard, right? But. Some of the bigger clients, I am not going to push back as much on spares because it's not worth nickel and diming them over. For as much as they're paying us, but others I just I don't want to give them. Speaker 4 00:22:17 Four or five spares when they're paying us a few thousand bucks a month, right? Speaker 2 00:22:21 I don't have any of my productive client. They just have, I think the most two or three. Except Barker that easily taken care of. So Olivia, maybe we should only focus on the problem maker. But has how many? Most of them are. Speaker 4 00:22:39 Used for day care. Can, we go and and try to identify the clients that have what we would consider an excess number of spares. What I would consider excess number is more than three. And, can we get a list of any client that has more than three spares? And then And then just send me the list, and I'll kind of go through and say, " T, he se are the clients that we probably need to need to look at and figure out should we do. " Because what brought this up for me is I saw like two or three or four clients that had like. Speaker 4 00:23:12 A bunch of spares, like I think Iron Gate had like ten or twelve, and I was like, "That's crazy that they're not we're not building anything for that," and I think. I think even at a minimum, we should be able to say, "Hey, you know, a reasonable number like seven. Right? Seven or eight, but not twelve." Right, or something like that. And the same with Project Angel Food, or whatever. Now, Project Angel Food right now we're probably not going to say anything about. So I may defer that one, but if there's others. Speaker 4 00:23:43 Get me a list. Get me a list. Speaker 5 00:23:45 One thing I caution, yeah. One thing I caution real quick though is if we're going to start having an A form a formal discussion around spares, We need to reflect that on the invoicing accurately, right? So for example, if they have seven spares. We need to list in invoicing that they have seven spare devices, and then if they get some sort of credit, we need to actually add another line item that shows. You know you get two two spares. Credit for free, so they're kind of aware that like hey, Moving forward, there is a price associated with it because what will happen is if we don't reflect that on the invoice. Then it's kind of a he said she said thing about like okay well, you guys are giving me four spares. I am only using, you know what I mean like I am gonna use seven and. Like, how do I know if you're charging me more or less? It just it's gonna. It's going to make that that discussion monthly even more complex. Speaker 5 00:24:39 Because now we're talking about device count and then also spare count, And then there's obviously timing issues between when a device is considered active versus it becomes a spare. Speaker 4 00:24:49 Well, that's why I'm hesitant about formalizing this. I'd rather maybe handle this more as an exception for the clients that seem to be abusing it. Oh, okay. Maybe they're not abusing it. Maybe they just don't realize it, right? Maybe they're Uhhuh. Maybe we've just it's just gotten out of hand, and they just kind of don't get that they have way too many, and that we are incurring cost on their behalf. I think a lot of times. It's just that they probably don't even get that they're like, "Yeah, I want a bunch of spares because I might need them." But I think if we went to them and said, "But you realize, We have hard cost of like fifty bucks a month that we're paying for this software, and this software out of pocket." Speaker 4 00:25:32 Because it's running and available for you. So, we either need you to contribute to that or we need to take it off. And, then it's but it is going to take longer for us to have that ready for you. So, you either need to bring it down to like five, or you need to Pay us for something, right? And then we can work it out with them. But I think we can do that with the the ones that are just at an unreasonable number. Yeah. So let's so let's so let's just. Just give me a copy of, Or a list of how many spares are at each of our clients that are like, you know. Over a couple or whatever, and then I'll just kind of take a look at it, and we'll just kind of weigh that. Okay. Then we don't have to come. Then we don't have to do anything major across the board and. Make a huge deal out of it. Speaker 3 00:26:25 Yeah, and like you said, maybe there is some spares. I mean there could be spares that. Are in our system, but aren't actually even going to be used again. You know, so it could be some spares that maybe need to be e- wasted or whatever, and we just clean it up. You know. Speaker 4 00:26:44 Yeah, and I guess Vince, One of the questions I would have is like when you're in your monthly calls with Anderson. Would it be hard or easy to bring up if they get to like seven or eight spares in our count? And we're let they're labeled as spares. Do, we know for sure that they didn't put them in a production or did could we have not relabeled them accidentally? Speaker 5 00:27:08 Right, And that's that's why it's a tricky discussion sometimes, because this is the same problem with devices in general, right? Like a device gets off like I G P, right? They They they get a new device, the user switches devices, but the old device didn't get. Off boarded, So then over time now you've got way more devices than the number of users. And somewhere along the line, it's because it didn't get updated the name, And then you know, billing now shows that they have more devices than actual users. So that, that same discussion will come up in terms of broaching the subject with him. I don't I don't have a problem with it. They they've got bigger fish to fry. It's an easy conversation to have, Speaker 4 00:27:50 But and I think yeah. And I think the subject would be, you know normally. We typically allow, you know, for a client your size, we'd normally allow like five spares. You guys have kind of crawled up to like eight, and we've got a hard cost of like fifty bucks a month. That it costs us to have that many, could we pare you back to like five? I would guess they would probably say, "Yeah, that's fine because we're not billing you for for those," but you know. Or something to that effect. If we get to the point where it becomes problematic, I don't. Speaker 4 00:28:24 I don't know if we will need to do that or not, but anyway, yeah. The name of the town is derived from the river. And I would think for spare computers, we should be able to pretty easily. And correct me if I am wrong, Olivia, but we should be able to pretty easily tell. Ha s anybody been logging into spare computer X, Y and Z in the last month or whatever? And if somebody's actively using it, Speaker 1 00:28:53 It's not a spare. I mean, if it's been turned on for patching, okay, But you should be able to see: has this person has somebody been logging into this and using it? If so, it's not a spare, and we ought to be finding out. What should it be renamed to? Because somebody's actually using it as a device. Yeah, yeah, Speaker 2 00:29:10 That's true. Because that's what when they overusing the spare, but none of my client that I'm you know. Nobody use it. It's pretty much off, Like most of the spare are off and only turn on when somebody'computer have issue. Or new user setup. I know by fact, but again, yeah, we'll check other client that use this. Speaker 3 00:29:36 Okay. And I was going to say too, um. One thing I'll just remind my team, like for example this this BPG one, You can see that the device name was renamed, but the friendly name still has spare in the in the name. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:29:52 So technically. Speaker 2 00:29:52 This is not supposed to be spare, it's not free. So yes they have to always rename. So this is actually So yeah, That's the text because then the admin might not build for this one because our team doesn't didn't rename it. Speaker 3 00:30:07 Yeah, I've been telling. I've been telling like every time I've been talking to like Christian, I tell him to look at the actual device name instead of the friendly name. Um, but yeah, but yeah, it's still. Speaker 3 00:30:24 Okay. So I'll get the list. Speaker 4 00:30:26 I gotta go to another important meeting. Speaker 3 00:30:29 Okay. Thanks, guys. What not important? Well, it's with me, so it is very important. Speaker 4 00:30:35 It's a one- to- one with Olivia. Thanks. Okay.
07-15 Team Meeting: Dawn's Wraparound Services and Goal Setting
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-15 15:01:09 (noted meeting on 2026-07-15) > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] ## Meeting Notes - Bonus Notification and Payroll Details - Quarterly bonus eligibility discussed; payment date set for July 25, 2026. - Bonus amount approximately $674 (gross), paid via direct deposit and included in the paycheck; taxes apply, reducing net amount. - Paycheck on July 25 will be larger than normal due to bonus inclusion. - One participant will call individuals separately to notify them of the bonus. - Conclusion: Bonus to be direct-deposited with the July 25 paycheck; taxed; individual notifications to occur. - Attendance and Meeting Start Coordination - Team members were being notified to join; brief wait planned before starting. - Registered clinician Sloane joined; awaiting CFS before proceeding; plan to begin if CFS does not join after one minute. - Conclusion: Meeting proceeded shortly with or without CFS after a brief wait. - Team Introductions and Roles for Dawn’s Wraparound Services - Facilitator Adelie Juarez introduced the team: Sloane Dempster (therapist), Kimberly (children and family specialist), and noted parent partner Vanessa Sainz would join near the end. - Sloane meets Dawn weekly and coordinates wraparound; Kimberly meets Dawn weekly focusing on behaviors; parent partner to connect later. - Christi (Speaker 2) participates as caregiver/supportive adult. - Informal rapport-building occurred. - Conclusion: Roles clarified; parent partner to connect later. - Scheduling Weekly Check-ins and Individual Sessions - Weekly team check-in set for Mondays at 4:00 PM via Zoom; facilitator to send link. - Christi prefers 4:00 PM Zoom on Mondays (Linwood office day at SCHARP); 4:30 PM if in person due to building security. - Sloane requires Zoom/telehealth for Mondays; Kimberly can do 4:00 PM Zoom and separately meets Dawn Thursdays at 3:00 PM. - Sloane to confirm next Friday’s in-person session time after coordinating sibling sessions and placement updates. - Conclusion: Monday 4:00 PM Zoom check-in confirmed; Thursday 3:00 PM Kimberly-Dawn session set; Sloane to confirm next Friday’s time. - Dawn’s Goal Setting and Matrix Update - Dawn retained the primary goal: “Do things independently, be safe, and learn tools to increase independence.” - Action steps and underlying needs to be refreshed for a clean start; no revisiting of prior steps. - Non-negotiables: daily school attendance, safety, and participation in mental health/wraparound. - Plan supports Dawn’s short-term stay with Christi to build independent skills and habits before starting treatment; aim to improve self-advocacy. - Conclusion: Goal retained; matrix to be updated with new action steps and underlying needs; team to follow Dawn’s lead. - Strengths Identification for Dawn and Christi - Dawn’s strengths: fast learner, dependable, charismatic, resourceful, independent, communicator, respectful, kind, resilient, humorous, go-getter, supportive of other kids. - Christi’s strengths: supportive, creative, outgoing, wise, protective, caring, communicative, reliable, loyal, provides stability; caregiving philosophy emphasizes stability (no 14-day notices). - Conclusion: Strengths acknowledged to inform supportive approaches. - Concerns/Worries Review and Updates - Current worries: catching up on school and mental health. - Prior concern “not being able to work through challenges” slated for removal (originated from Vicki). - Concern about missing school/losing structure reviewed; Dawn indicated it is not a current worry. - Suicidal ideation previously noted; Sloane hasn’t heard SI in at least a month; Dawn said “I’m not.” Team will keep SI on matrix as past concern for monitoring. - Christi suggested a 2–4 week adjustment period due to schedule changes; mood variability expected. - Conclusion: Matrix to reflect current worries; retain SI as a past concern for monitoring; remove outdated concerns. - Summer School Module Completion and Deadline - Dawn is in module one with two weeks left to finish module five for summer school; current deadline is Friday. - Concern about stress and need to submit more assignments and dedicate more time. - Christi ([Speaker 2]) received school information from Vicki and will call the school to request a possible extension through the weekend. - A weekly schedule was discussed to support Dawn’s classwork. - Christi does not yet have educational rights but will advocate. - Conclusion: Plan to contact the school to seek an extension and implement a supportive schedule. - Thyroid Testing Follow-up and Potential Impact on Mood - Past psychiatrist (Doctor Blake) recommended comprehensive thyroid testing; unclear if completed due to conflicting messages from Vicki and the doctor. - Low thyroid function could contribute to depressive symptoms, low energy, and low mood. - Christi will reach out to Sharon Terry at the Hub Clinic in Torrance to confirm testing and arrange comprehensive panels if needed. - Conclusion: Verify prior testing and pursue comprehensive thyroid panels if missing. - Underlying Needs Review: Building Security and Stability - Reviewed Dawn’s needs for security, stability, respect, and understanding. - Dawn associates security with having someone (e.g., Christi) who “has her back,” protection, loyalty, communication, and feeling safe. - Past frustration with Vicki regarding unclear communication (e.g., 14-day notice via social worker without prior discussion). - Proposal for clearer expectations and open, honest conversations to prevent surprises; suggestion of weekly progress reports/check-ins to review expectations and progress, including “in-between” steps and consequences. - Conclusion: Consider implementing regular check-ins/progress reports to enhance clarity, stability, and security. - Administrative Follow-ups for Dawn’s Case - Christi needs to call Vanessa to handle pending paperwork and obtain necessary information, potentially related to educational rights and coordination with school and medical providers. - Setting Expectations and Boundaries for Dawn - Christi’s approach: clear rules (phone on, location sharing active, 11:00 PM curfew), proactive warning at 10:00 PM; Dawn returned early. - Emphasis on setting expectations and consequences ahead of time to provide freedom within defined limits. - Group agreed Christi should continue clear expectations and consequences. - Acknowledging Progress and Areas for Growth - Recommendation for weekly time between Christi and Dawn to discuss progress and growth, acknowledging positives as well as challenges. - Open, honest conversations encouraged to provide reassurance and stability; team will check in during meetings on how “progress reports” are going. - Action Plan for Dawn’s Stability - Resume and Job Search: Dawn to work with her mentor on July 16, 2026, to update her resume; plans to apply for food service jobs; wraparound team (including Kimberly) will assist. - Financial Management: Dawn wants to learn budgeting to save for a car and a tattoo; Kimberly will help create a budget and teach money management skills. - Supporting Dawn’s Well-being - Relaxation Techniques: Dawn finds muscle relaxation helpful for sleep; committed to practicing weekly on Mondays. - DBT Skills: Dawn uses an adolescent DBT workbook; finds activities helpful; Christi offered an adult version if needed. - Retrieving Personal Belongings: Dawn’s Social Security card and birth certificate remain at Vicki’s; plan to contact social worker Vanessa to coordinate retrieval; Christi will also contact Vanessa to discuss documents needed for school enrollment. - School Enrollment Plan - Christi plans to enroll Dawn in a Da Vinci School District program (Wiseburn) allowing self-paced work with twice-weekly attendance; transportation via nearby C line bus is feasible. - Enrollment requires documents (birth certificate) currently at Vicki’s. - Scheduling and Next Steps - Next CFT meeting scheduled for August 10, 2026. - Potential scheduling conflict during week of August 17, 2026, due to family trip to UC Merced. - Christi will have individual sessions with parent partner Vanessa starting July 17, 2026, at 9:00 AM; future sessions on Fridays at 12:00 PM. - Weekly check-ins will occur virtually on Mondays at 4:00 PM. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Conduct individual calls to confirm bonus details with recipients. - [ ] Ensure bonus is included in the July 25, 2026 paycheck via direct deposit; confirm tax withholding for the bonus in payroll. - [ ] Proceed with meeting even if CFS does not join after the planned wait. - [ ] Facilitator to send recurring Zoom link for Monday 4:00 PM weekly check-ins. - [ ] Kimberly to continue Thursday 3:00 PM sessions with Dawn. - [ ] Sloane to confirm next Friday in-person session time with Dawn after coordinating sibling schedules and placement updates. - [ ] Update matrix with refreshed action steps and underlying needs per Dawn’s plan. - [ ] Monitor school attendance, mood, and safety during the 2–4 week adjustment period. - [ ] Christi ([Speaker 2]) to call the school and request a weekend extension for summer school completion; implement a schedule this week for classwork and assignment submission. - [ ] Christi to contact Sharon Terry at the Hub Clinic (Torrance) to confirm prior thyroid testing and arrange comprehensive panels if needed. - [ ] Christi to call Vanessa to complete pending paperwork and obtain needed information; coordinate retrieval of Dawn’s Social Security card and birth certificate from Vicki’s for school enrollment. - [ ] Consider setting up weekly progress reports/check-ins to review expectations, discuss “in-between” steps and consequences, and acknowledge achievements. - [ ] Dawn to work with her mentor to update her resume on July 16, 2026; wraparound team to assist. - [ ] Kimberly to help Dawn create a budget and learn money management skills. - [ ] Dawn to practice muscle relaxation techniques weekly on Mondays. - [ ] Christi to enroll Dawn in a school within the Da Vinci/Wiseburn School District. - [ ] Next CFT meeting on August 10, 2026; note potential conflict week of August 17, 2026 (UC Merced trip). - [ ] Christi and Vanessa to begin individual sessions on July 17, 2026, at 9:00 AM; schedule ongoing Fridays at 12:00 PM. ## AI Suggestions > 1. Clarify the exact net bonus amount after taxes for each recipient and confirm all intended recipients received individual confirmation calls; verify any compliance/payroll approvals needed before July 25, 2026 payout. > 2. Confirm whether CFS joined and whether any agenda items dependent on CFS were addressed. > 3. Define specific, measurable action steps and underlying needs for the updated matrix (independence, school catch-up, mental health supports); specify safety and SI monitoring protocols (check-in frequency, early warning signs, response plan). > 4. Clarify school catch-up strategies (contact school, tutoring, attendance tracking, assignment plan) and expedite educational rights for Christi to strengthen advocacy. > 5. Obtain definitive documentation on prior thyroid testing results; coordinate communication between psychiatrist and primary care. > 6. Establish clear communication protocols to prevent surprises (e.g., notices without prior discussion). > 7. Set a clear timeline, responsible person, and logistics for retrieving Dawn’s essential documents from Vicki’s for enrollment. > 8. Set a specific day/time for weekly “progress report” check-ins between Christi and Dawn and define who designs/tracks the format; establish a process to switch meeting formats (Zoom/in-person) with notice period and updated links/locations.
- Date
- Jul 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 I like a parrot. You gonna be my parrot for the day? Speaker 1 00:00:31 Oh, wait. Let me call Gaston real quickly. Speaker 1 00:01:23 Hey, Really quickly. Can you hear me? Okay, you are eligible for a bonus this quarter. Speaker 2 00:01:30 It will arrive on the twenty fifth. Of this month. And your bonus amount is six hundred and seventy four dollars and some change. So. Speaker 3 00:01:44 Just a heads up, um I gotta call you individually cause you know. That is gonna be direct deposit, Just remember bonuses. Speaker 2 00:01:56 Are subject to tax, so, Yeah, so just allow for tax, but yeah, that's going to be in your paycheck on the twenty fifth. So it's part of your paycheck. Speaker 3 00:02:09 Yes, so your paycheck is going to look bigger than normal. Awesome Thank you. All right Bye Hi. Speaker 2 00:02:23 Can you guys hear us. Speaker 4 00:02:24 Yes, I could hear you. Let me just reach out to the team to let them know that you're here. Oh, I'm sick. No worries. Oh no puppies. Speaker 5 00:02:34 Well, I love your Poodle. Thank you, that's my dog is a Pup. Speaker 1 00:02:54 I'll try again. I'll post one. Okay, I'm watching it. They're just gonna curl it up for me, Speaker 6 00:03:03 Okay? Christi, I just let them know so they should be joining soon. We'll give them a minute. Speaker 2 00:03:10 Okay. Do you have any pets of your own, Christi? Oh, I have three cats, and two of them are within arm's reach, and one of them is sleeping under the bed. Speaker 4 00:03:21 Oh, they like attention. Speaker 4 00:03:33 It's Very different having cats; they're a lot more independent. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:03:40 And they added, they added two in that emotion switch like quick. Yep, right. Well, dogs like they were keeping like one emotion for a while I think. Speaker 4 00:03:55 They Added what I am sorry, Dawn. I couldn't really hear you. Oh, I was just talking. Oh, I. Speaker 5 00:04:02 Am like I really wanted to know what you said, but I couldn't hear. Oh no, She's saying like, but like dogs, like they be having like this one, like don't mind. Like and kids like some dogs are nice on good on the little Barney. He be having this one show, right. Speaker 5 00:04:19 The cats like they have all types of attitudes. Speaker 4 00:04:27 They all have a different personality, huh? Speaker 1 00:04:33 I just got headbutted. Speaker 6 00:04:37 Yeah. It looks like Sloan, the registered clinician, joined in. We should just be waiting on our CFS. I'll give her one more minute. If nothing, we could just go ahead and get started. Speaker 7 00:04:49 Yeah, I want to say hi. It's nice to meet you, kind of virtually face- to- face, Christi. Speaker 2 00:04:55 Nice to meet you as well. So if I keep looking down, Uh Vicki sent me a bunch of information that I'm trying to get uploaded into my digital file for Ladanya. Oh perfect. And, the only reason why I always say Ladanya is because my daughter's name is Dawn with an M. And sometimes I got to differentiate them in my own brain. Speaker 7 00:05:17 Yeah it can get confusing. Speaker 7 00:05:21 Yeah, it looks like Kimberly's in the waiting room. Okay, Speaker 1 00:05:25 Perfect. Coming out. Perfect, thank you. Is. Speaker 2 00:05:39 He coming out? How many kitties are there? Three. Ooh, I have two. Speaker 2 00:05:47 What happens coming out from under the bed where he's been sleeping since I left this morning. He's probably just stuck. Speaker 2 00:06:01 He's Just not used to everybody else. He's officially my daughter's cat, but he's my baby. So and then grandma over here has her throne that's attached to my desk, so. Speaker 2 00:06:18 But uh, don't mind the house. Yes. Uh, don't mind the blurry background. My bed is completely made. It was uh, it's been a week. So in a good way, I I understand like I don't even know if I have a bra underwear in picture and I think I'm good. I think I'm good to go already Yeah So there you go Hi Tom. Speaker 5 00:06:48 How are you doing today. Speaker 7 00:07:14 Yeah, How do you? How do you like it getting kind of that exposure to It's good. Speaker 5 00:07:19 Like I love it. Like they're pairing me more and more. Like I'm just like, She. Speaker 2 00:07:31 Does really well in professional environment. So don't let her don't let her fool you on that one. Speaker 6 00:07:41 Oh, okay. It looks like we have to start pushing it off. Let me just turn on my camera. I was trying to. I just. So we could start off with introductions. So hi, Christi. Um, I'm the one that you've been in touch with. So I am Adelie Juarez, the facilitator on Dawn's Rep Brown team. Speaker 2 00:08:01 Awesome. Nice to actually see your face. Speaker 7 00:08:03 That's awesome And then I'll let everyone else introduce themselves, I'm Sloan Dempster again. I'm the therapist. I work individually with Dawn. We meet once a week, um, And then I also work with the the team in order to provide wraparound services. Speaker 2 00:08:21 Awesome. Nice to meet you. Speaker 8 00:08:24 Hi, I'm Kimberly. I'm the uh children and family specialist, and I work with Dawn also once a week as well. And I focus on the behaviors. Speaker 2 00:08:32 Gotcha Perfect. Speaker 6 00:08:34 Mhm Thank you and. We also do have. One more person, um, the parent partner. Her name is Vanessa Sainz. Um, She will be joining in maybe like around the last fifteen minutes of the meeting just to pop in and introduce herself. Um, Just because she had something overlapping, but she should be joining towards the end. Just so you could say hello. Speaker 2 00:08:53 Okay perfect. Good to meet you guys. Speaker 6 00:08:57 Mhm Likewise, we're very excited to work together with you. We've heard a lot of good stuff about you. Speaker 2 00:09:04 Awesome. Thank you. Speaker 6 00:09:06 Um, but Dawn was just sharing um a little bit about her day, And I do want to start off with saying that I am really proud of you, Dawn. Because I know well we all know that waking up at six a.m.. has been difficult in the past. So for you to do it right off the bat first day, you know, going in with Christi. That is a huge thing to celebrate. You know there is no, Thing too small or too big to celebrate, but that's a big thing. Like that is huge. Speaker 5 00:09:43 Amazingly well, So. Speaker 5 00:09:47 Yeah, we got Starbucks. Speaker 7 00:09:50 Ooh, Starbucks. Did you get your what's your banana order? Speaker 5 00:09:55 Oh, I don't think they they're saying like they don't. Uh oh, they don't have it anymore like yeah that was only out for like a certain time. I don't know. What are you getting now? Did. Speaker 7 00:10:13 You get the s'mores cold foam with it? Speaker 2 00:10:16 A s'mores cold foam. Yeah, they have that. Yeah, I thought that sounds pretty good. Speaker 7 00:10:22 I didn't know they had it. They have the they have the s'mores frappuccino back for summer and a s'mores cold foam like cold brew. Yeah, as though she's, It sounded like it tasted like I thought I heard, you say it tasted like marshmallow and I was like, oh, did you get the s'mores cold foam. Is it very chocolatey or too sweet? The cold foam for the s'mores is just like a marshmallow, but they have for like the s'mores Frappuccino. They have like a chocolate sauce that they put on it, but it's mostly I think it's like a vanilla Frappuccino with, Like, marshmallow and chocolate syrup. Speaker 7 00:10:59 If I am remembering correctly from my my Starbucks days. Speaker 2 00:11:04 Well, I can tell you, Dom with an M loves it. That's her favorite drink right now. So they do have the s'mores, but they changed the banana one to a banana bread. And sorry, I am putting you guys all in my phone because I just realized I need. I had your phone numbers and i from Vicki. And so. Uh, I gotta get you guys in my phone. Speaker 5 00:11:34 Adelaide, where are you headed to? Speaker 6 00:11:39 You said where where am I at? Yeah, Speaker 5 00:11:41 Where are you headed to? I'm playing. Well, where am I headed? Sorry, I couldn't hear. Where. Speaker 6 00:11:49 Am I headed? Nowhere. I'm just sitting in my car because I don't have a place in my home office space. And not the other. Speaker 1 00:12:06 Oh yeah, I had to sit in my car for today. That's my workspace. Hello. Yeah, Sometimes you just gotta figure it out and make it happen one way or the other. Speaker 7 00:12:16 Right. Mhm, I know some days after a client session I'll be in my car. Yeah. Speaker 6 00:12:25 Where I should be headed though, is to Starbucks to get a drink after this. That sounds yummy. But I did um before going into like the matrix, you know, like and all that stuff. I know Christi you've worked and you're very familiar with with wraparound. So like in what we do like our roles, Um So I did want to make sure that we had like our meeting set before we go into everything because I know there's been a change in schedule. Um, so I guess to start off with our weekly check in meeting, so that's where, uh, Sometimes most of the wraparound team is present, if you know all of us are available. And then yourself Christi and then Donna of course. We would usually have that meeting Mondays at four p m. Um, Would you I don't know if that still works? Or if maybe we want to change it around? And we could also do that. Speaker 2 00:13:16 Um, I think four p m is perfect. I know for my schedule that's, The most ideal is it in person or is it uh over uh Zoom. Speaker 6 00:13:30 We would do in person, um, but we could do either or because I believe that is your office day. Speaker 2 00:13:38 That is my Linwood office day, so that's when I am at SCHARP. So oh. Speaker 6 00:13:43 Okay so it's a bit closer yeah. Speaker 2 00:13:46 Doesn't matter either way um. We can do either one. if If we need to do it in person, could I ask for four thirty. Just because I I've got uh to secure the building before I leave. Speaker 6 00:13:60 Okay, um, we could do well. I guess I'll check in with the well Sloane and Kimberly, what would work better with your schedules Because then you have individuals. Would, you prefer four PM through Zoom or four thirty in person, What would work better. Speaker 7 00:14:16 Is this on Monday still Yeah. Okay, I would have to be over Zoom or Telehealth just because I, um, would not be able to make the drive in person. Speaker 8 00:14:26 Okay. Like um Donna do you still want to do Thursdays? Speaker 5 00:14:36 Yeah we can still do Thursdays at three. Me an you right? Speaker 8 00:14:43 Yeah yeah okay. Speaker 6 00:14:47 Uh, so Kimberly, Would you be okay with doing four p m on Zoom every once in a while, because I know you have individual sessions too. Yeah. Mhm. Okay, so we could do four p m through Zoom then. Um I'll set up, uh the, the link and I'll go ahead and send it to you Christi. Just how I did with this one. And, then if we ever need to do any future changes for in person or whatever it may be, then we could make that adjustment too. Okay. Um and then Kimberly it looks like you already confirmed your session with Donna, Yeah. For Thursdays. Mhm. Okay, and then Sloane, I'm not sure if you want to set that up now or maybe at a later time. Speaker 5 00:15:25 Are weum next Friday? Speaker 7 00:15:28 Yeah, we are planning on meeting on Friday. I still need to confirm time because we are planning on meeting in person and I have to figure out with the siblings what time I'm seeing them because I see them too, on Friday for Shifu andum sibling. So I just have to figure out the drive from them to Donna, and especially for another case we had, they recently moved placement as well. So I don't know if I'm still even going to be able to see them on Friday. Um, So we already had our session this week on Tuesday, and Donna said she only wanted to do one this week. So we won't do this Friday. So tentatively we're planning on meeting next Friday. I just have to get back to her about the time. Speaker 7 00:16:16 Um, So that gives me a little time to reach out to the other clients and figure out what Friday's schedule is going to look like, and then get back to you, John. Speaker 7 00:16:25 Okay. Is that okay still? Okay. Yeah. Speaker 6 00:16:28 Okay. Okay, perfect. So now that we have that set, And then the program partner will also um schedule that either when she comes in or maybe at a later time Christi individually. So that wayum you can set something up either. By phone, Zoom, or in person with either individual sessions with herself. Speaker 2 00:16:48 Okay, perfect. Um, With my last parent partners, I usually did it over phone calls, so either way works. So anyway, Speaker 6 00:16:58 It usually works out best, because I know there's work and chores and all the other good stuff. Yes. Speaker 2 00:17:06 So we're too about space I'm sorry. Okay perfect. Speaker 2 00:17:12 Sorry, I sound like I'm an eighty two year old man with chronic C O P D. And I could say that because my dad was eighty two year old man with chronic C O P D. So, um, I'm not sick. I just, I got out of the hospital two weeks ago from a brief stay. Still haven't gotten rid of the cough. So Oh no, Speaker 6 00:17:30 Hopefully everything gets better pretty soon. Yes It's not a good feeling just not feeling our best Yeah. Speaker 6 00:17:39 But I'm glad we got the scheduling though, so, I did want to go into the matrix if that's okay. Yes. The goal that we had for yourself done before, And I know I spoke to you before individually about how you would wanna do the matrix. So just to loop everyone in and be on the same page, Dawn did say that she wanted to keep. Um. Like, The goal, the same. And you know, again, we could still revisit now in case she has any changing thoughts. Um, but for the most part, Dawn did say that she wanted to make a change to the action, steps and the underlying needs. Um, Just to be able to have a little bit more like of a fresh start. Uh, you know and just being able to know that she's able to move forward. So, we're going to have a tweak in that we're not really going to revisit previous action steps. It's going to be more of just, you know, starting fresh, starting new and moving forward. Speaker 6 00:18:33 Yes. Um yeah, Alright, So the goal that you did have done before was to do stuff on your own, be safe and learn tools to increase your independency. Would you still want to keep the same or make an adjustment? Speaker 5 00:18:48 Uh keep the same. Speaker 6 00:18:51 Keep the same? Okay perfect. Oh and uh talking about the permanency goal, uh how was your interview today? With all of Crest, that one. Speaker 5 00:19:05 Oh, I didn't do it. Um, What's it called Cause y'all wanted to get into that? Cause? What's it called Like me and Christy like we've been like, of course, like having a conversation about like the rules and expectations. And uh Christy's like she's been like really like supportive since day one. She was like I always know her, so she said I could stay andum overnight just stay for how long I want, but obviously not for forever, but. I was like, um, just like to stay with her. And so like I can learn like other like independent skills. And so she can get me to better habits. So, when I do find the time to go into treatment, or how do we start that process again? Like I'm actually prepared and I know how to really, really advocate for myself and stuff like that. Speaker 6 00:19:55 Mhm, yeah. And it sounds like that's something that you're a bit more comfortable with for right now, too. Speaker 5 00:20:00 And I should yeah like I was like thinking cause like, but I'm gonna keep this all real. Like it's like I was thinking in my head, like, I was like, oh no. Like, I've been able to do just in case. Like, um if I could trust. Like not like if I could trust you just have a hard time yeah. Like to trust but was like You You never failed me so. I give you my chance. Speaker 6 00:20:29 Yeah, you know, and we definitely want to follow your lead. Right, so whatever it is decision that you wanna take, Like we're all on board to support you in the best way that we can. So, if that's a decision, you know that you talked about with Christy, and you know, you're both in agreement and that's something that you're comfortable with, then You know, then we're going with that. You know, like let's figure out how we could make that work and still give you those independent skills, right? That, You know, You are wanting so that way. When you do transition into your own housing, you feel most prepared to be able to go into that role. So that could definitely be the plan then. Um. And then the non-negotiable s that we have is for you to attend school every day, safety of course, and for you to be a part of mental health services or wraparound right? Um and then for the strengths. So I'll go over the strengths that we already do have. It's a pretty long list, but. Speaker 6 00:21:26 We do have that you are a fast learner. You're dependable, you have fun energy, you're charismatic. You make others feel comfortable. You're resourceful, independent, a good communicator, honest, respectful, kind. You're open to wraparound services. You're talkative. You're friendly. You're resilient. Opened to asking for help. You're strong. You keep cool in hard moments. You're knowledgeable. You have a nice style, Appreciative, Easygoing,You,'re very understanding. Humorous. I love to give resourceful, a go- getter, thoughtful, compassionate, independent, outspoken and a good communicator. I think that's added in twice. So that means that, that is a very big strength of yours. Um any other strengths that come to mind Christie for Dawn? Speaker 2 00:22:14 I think you hit every single one of them on the head. I can't think of anymore. We were just talking about I've known her for four years now, and you know, she's. Even in the last six months, like it feels like every other week she was with us. She's always been a massive supporter of other kids, except for when she stole my baby last night. But that's a whole nother joke. But you know, She's is a fantastic kid and I. Don't think there is anything. You said that I would object to. So. Speaker 2 00:22:52 She did steal my baby last night, but the baby is only mine when she comes over. Speaker 2 00:23:06 So, She's one of my best friend's kids. Baby, so she's how old is she? Five months. Speaker 6 00:23:13 Oh, she's little Dawn was mentioning that she really likes babies. Speaker 2 00:23:18 I will send something in the group. Text, cause you guys will find it just as adorable as I did. Oh, okay. So she's still my baby. And what I think too is that you're very supportive. Yeah. So. Speaker 4 00:23:42 Yeah, And so now you know, with that long list, we do want to also mention your own strengths Christie. Speaker 6 00:23:49 Um, you know, of course we're just getting to know you, but Dong, what would you say are some of Christy's strengths? Speaker 5 00:23:56 She's supportive. Creative. Mhm. Very outgoing. I'm an introvert. Speaker 3 00:24:10 You're from the west coast? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:24:20 I say very wise. Protective. Speaker 5 00:24:29 Mhm. Yeah, she's just a sweet, amazing person. And easy to talk to too, I mean. Speaker 6 00:24:50 And those are really good strengths. How about from yourself, Christi? What would you say are some of your own strengths? Speaker 2 00:24:55 Uh, I am loyal to my kids. Um, if you come into my home, you are my kid. It's just plain and simple. Um, Even my nieces and my godchildren and my nephews, they're all my children. So I am the one that has their back. Uh I always want to be that person that uh they know is is behind them and. They're never going to worry about where they're going to land. We have a rule in our house: we never do fourteen day notices. It's a straight rule. I've had it Alere was number three foster kid to come into my home, and I've had fifteen overall, and so I've never written a fourteen day notice. I've never. Speaker 2 00:25:45 Needed to put a fourteen day notice in, so I want kids to understand that they have stability. Cause that's important. I was in care when I was a teenager. I was adopted, so I know what it's like. The good, Bad and ugly and I just know that kids like Dawn and my daughter and my other daughter who's with us. Now she's another kid that just came like couple days before Dawn That. They just understand that there's even on the bad days. There is stability here, so. Speaker 6 00:26:22 Yeah, you are a very reliable person. Um, and like I've mentioned a little bit before, all we've heard about you is really great things. You know Donna is always very excited to share about, you know the times that she has spent over. Um, You know before coming in yesterday and at least from what I've been able to. Communicate with you just yesterday, you know, I could say that you're really good at at communicating. You know, you're very open to wraparound services. You're understanding and I also hear that you're very reliable. Um so those are very some good strengths. I don't know if the team has maybe additional strengths to add from maybe they've had conversations maybe heard from from Dawn or just from your observations. Speaker 7 00:27:09 Yeah, I would just say I um, I know. We've only interacted a handful of times. I did have the one, um, call with you as well before I think previously when when Dawn was, um, Under your care and had shared some, you know worries regarding some like passive suicidal thoughts. And so we did have conversation back then too, um and you do seem to be very caring. Um. Speaker 7 00:27:40 You know, ah, very open as well to communicating, which is always amazing. Um. Yeah and Dawn has shared nothing but but positives in in our sessions together. Speaker 1 00:27:53 Mhm. That's because she's here. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Speaker 6 00:28:05 Uh anything else that comes to mind Kimberly? Speaker 8 00:28:08 Ah, not just the same. Um, I think she's brought up um her name a few times, too, during our sessions before, and all I've heard is positive things. Speaker 6 00:28:18 Mhm. Yeah, And I'm sure we'll hear more, you know now that we'll be working together as well. Um. And before we go into like the underlying needs and create some action steps, I did want to share some of the concerns that were on here. And, you know, Dawn, if you disagree with some of those, you know, again, we could you. You know, Talk about removing them or if there's maybe new concerns that come to mind for everyone, then we could also add those in here. Um, But one of the concerns that are added is I worry about being able to catch up on school. And making sure I graduate. And I believe that came from you, Dawn. Would you still say that? That's still a worry of yours? Speaker 5 00:28:56 Um yes. Speaker 6 00:28:59 Okay. Um I worry about my mental health is also a concern you had shared. Speaker 6 00:29:08 Yes. Okay. Um, I worry about not being able to work through our challenges. And then I'm going to remove that if you agreed on because I believe that was a worry that Vicki had previously shared. Um and um, I worry about Dawn missing out on school and losing out on structure. Would you still agree with that concern Dawn? No. No, okay. Um. And then I worry about Dawn having thoughts about ending her life, and I know that's something that Charl just touched on a little second ago. Um, I don't know Tim and Dawn or or Christy, you know, even if we would still agree with that concern. Speaker 7 00:30:01 I will say I think I was the one who initially put that on our matrix. Um, I have not heard anything in the past couple, I want to say, at least in the past month, Dawn hasn't shared any thoughts of suicidal ideation with me. I don't know if you would agree with that Dawn or if you still feel like you're having some. Speaker 9 00:30:23 Yeah, I'm not. Okay. Speaker 7 00:30:26 Mhm. Okay, so we but since it was in the past, I would say to keep it on our radar but I think we, We could remove if everyone's comfortable. Speaker 2 00:30:38 I would say that what I've seen in the last probably the last month versus when you and I talked previously, Charl is a difference. Even in the last two days, Dawn is happier, more settled. Like that, and I mentioned that to her today and just kind of got her her, Uh thoughts on on how that's impacted her. So I would say I would leave it on a matrix just because it should still be on the matrix. And that's just my personal unprofessional right nowum but I also think that Dawn is not showing any anything that would trigger concern for me of being suicidal. Speaker 7 00:31:25 Yeah, I would agree. I think for monitoring purposes. We can leave it on there Adley, but I think okay. Um. Just so we can continue to check in, um and see if anything changes. But I have seen an increase overall in Dawn's mood, especially like you're saying in the last few days, Christy. Speaker 6 00:31:46 Yeah. Okay. Okay. So I did add in I worry about Dawn having thoughts about ending her life in the past. Just so you know it's not something that's current, but it is something again just to be able to keep an eye out on. Speaker 6 00:32:03 Um. And then the next concern was I worry about Dawn needing support to follow through with school attendance. Dawn, would you say that that's still something to worry about? No. No okay. Starting fresh? Um. Speaker 6 00:32:32 And those are all the worries that were here before. Dawn, do you have any additional worry that maybe comes to mind? Could be about anything. Speaker 6 00:32:58 No, Okay. How about from yourself, Christy? Speaker 2 00:33:01 I think, and this is just real talk, And I would tell Dawn the same thing if it was just me and her. Let us get through the next two to four weeks of schedule shift and adjustment in life. And then once that's out of the way, I think any of that concern is not going to be an issue any longer. And the only reason why I say give us a couple weeks is just She's got a new schedule, and some days she's going to be grumpier than others. And some days she's not like three Starbucks runs, and some days she's not running any. Um, so we're just going to need to get through the next couple weeks. And this is just from experience with with kiddos, uh in including myself. So um but once we get through that, I think I think it's not an issue anymore. Okay. Speaker 6 00:33:56 Yeah, sometimes it just takes some time to to adjust. Sorry, Speaker 2 00:34:02 She was trying to get in my lap and I couldn't reach her. Aww, so cute. She's the baby. She's a she's a parrot in the skies. Aww. Hi babies! Hi babies! I did some make some adjustments to my microphone. Can you guys hear Dawn better now? I. Speaker 3 00:34:22 Don't have have. Speaker 3 00:34:25 I think yeah, Speaker 6 00:34:26 I think that works. Okay, good. There you go. Uh, How about from Kimberley or Sloane Any additional concerns that come to mind right now? Speaker 7 00:34:35 I think the only thing for me and again, this is something I think maybe also given like a few weeks, like you know, there may be changes like Christy's saying, um but I think the only thing for me is just the summer school, because I know. That was something we talked about on Tuesday, where you were still only in module one, And and you only have two weeks left in order to to finish out module five. Um. So just getting on top of that. And and trying to see if we're able to turn in more assignments and and spend a little more time on that. Um, just so that you don't have to stress about it. Speaker 5 00:35:17 Yeah, what's it called? Uh yeah I have to until uh, This Friday. Okay, Speaker 7 00:35:25 Until this Friday. Thank you so much, everyone. Speaker 2 00:35:29 So I got notice about it this morning from Vicki, and then she sent me over the school information. So I am gonna call the school tomorrow and explain the situation and see if we could possibly get an extension for this weekend. And then Ladanya and I talked about a schedule for the rest of this week that will work for her to get to work on her classwork. So awesome. Speaker 2 00:35:55 Perfect. I know I don't have a leg to stand on because I don't have educational rights for Dawn just yet, but I'm going to try. Speaker 7 00:36:02 Yeah, just see what they say and and what can be achieved. Hopefully they'll be open to working on it. Um, I will say you know and and this is up too. I was going to talk about this with Dawn in our individual, but I think it's worth bringing up again, Because I know in the past, Dawn had had lab work done by and for the psychiatrist through our program, and Doctor Blake's had worries regarding her thyroid levels. Okay. And so I know they had wanted more comprehensive thyroid testing to be completed. Speaker 7 00:36:42 I wasn't sure. I never got a clear answer from Vicki if follow up testing ever happened. She just told me that the doctor said there was no concern or worry regarding that. Um, I did want to put it on Dawn's radar again, because I know she doesn't technically have a primary care provider of if she thinks it would be worth it to explore getting a primary care provider and seeing if they would put through an order for more comprehensive like thyroid. Panels to be tested, Just to see if there is like an underlying medical concern because that can have an impact on the depressive symptoms and and on like low energy, low mood. Again, I am not a doctor, so I can't you know give advice. But that was just one thing that always for me, I could see how it'd be really difficult if it could if it was a medical concern as well leading to some of these um. Speaker 7 00:37:39 Struggles, and I am not saying it is. I am not saying it isn't, But it's always one of the things we like to rule out if we are able to. Speaker 2 00:37:49 So, I do have her doctor's information. She is seeing Sharon Terry at the Hub Clinic in Torrance, which is my daughter Dom's before we finalized the adoption, which was her doctor as well. Okay. Um yeah yeah, Is awesome. I love, I love her. Um, so let me reach out to her and see if I can. I've got to wait for Vanessa, But let me see if I can find out if those tests were actually done. And if you know we'll get that set up and get those tests done. Awesome. Speaker 7 00:38:28 Yeah, cause I just wasn't certain. I think she said that the doctor said she wasn't worried, but I wasn't sure if like the tests were actually done, Like more comprehensive ones, just because we got two different answers from two different people. And so I was like, okay, our psychiatrist is saying this is a worry. The doctor's saying it's not. I don't know if they ever had a conversation together. Um so I just like to make that known. Speaker 2 00:38:54 Gotcha uh yeah I gotta call Vanessa today, cause I still have not signed any of the paperwork yet. U m and I don't have any of the information. So let me let me get with Vanessa and see what I can find out and see what I can take care of awesome. Speaker 6 00:39:13 Okay, perfect any additional concerns from anyone. No, okay, so we'll keep those thenum and then for your underlying needs Dawn. Again, you know, if you want to delete one, you know, add one make adjustments we can. But, just to review the ones that you do have is one to have security. Two to have stability and three to feel respected and understood. Would you agree with those or do you want to make some changes? You're good with those okay. Perfect so since we're starting off fresh right clean slate um. Speaker 6 00:39:59 Let's see here. I'm trying to see. For so for the first need to have security, um. What would help you? Feel like that sense of safety and security. Speaker 1 00:40:23 Just having that, Speaker 5 00:40:24 My reassurance of like. Like, well, Christi, that's like my thing. Like, that she has like my back and like I am safe. Yeah, like I guess I can talk to her. Well, basically like she has my back. Basically. And like for example, when I go out, if I am in trouble call her kind of thing. Speaker 1 00:41:18 No, I was just going to ask, you know, like, is there something that maybe Christi already does or something that you would want Christi to do. Speaker 6 00:41:26 That gives you that reminder, like Christi has my back. Like there's nothing that I have to worry about. Speaker 6 00:41:47 Or Maybe not Christi individually, right But just you know, like when you think of someone having your back, like what does that look like. Speaker 5 00:41:57 She protect me like if I'm in trouble, she got me like. Her loyalty is. There's like loyalty, like there's. Communication there's a sense of security there's just like you feel me like. I don't know just like based on all that the confidence I need to have. And it's just all about time knowing her life. She got my back, Like in any way. Speaker 7 00:42:30 I Mean, I'm wondering if maybe for clarification for the team, I know one of the things that Dawn and I have talked about a lot, Which I think is part of the frustration with Vicki is feeling like things weren't clearly communicated. Would you agree with that Dawn? Yeah. And so maybe part of seeking misunderstanding and and, Stability is, is feeling like there are more honest and open conversations about the relationship, um so that you understand, Um like where kind of you stand in the moment, right? And that if there is conflict that you are able to like communicate about it and to set expectations as well. Speaker 7 00:43:24 Um, Do you do you think that would help to feel more kind of secure and stable? Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Cause I think one of the things we talked about was feeling kind of caught off guard by the fourteen day. Notice of of you having the understanding things are fine and feeling like things were fine in the relationship and then being kind of taken off guard, if like, You know that the social worker was the one sharing that with you and that you didn't. Realize that that notice had been placed. Um, so just having clear conversations right before anything would get that far, which I am hearing from Christi that wouldn't happen in this placement, you know. Um, But but yeah, just for for you to feel secure to be able to kind of rely on like open communication um and and working to understand each other. Speaker 5 00:44:24 Yeah, like with Vicki, like there's like she'll set like expectations and stuff like that. But like we'll never like discuss like further on, Like the consequence or like the in between if that makes sense. Great. Speaker 7 00:44:40 Like me and my progress. Do you feel like almost, Like, it would be helpful to what I'm thinking of is like a progress report? Like at school of to talk about progress of Like it, You know, You set this expectation and then you have check ins like maybe like once a week of like, hey, like, You know, am I am I meeting like expectations Like. Is that something that would be helpful? Or. Or do you feel like that's too structured because it could go either way. You like that idea? Yeah, I was like having kind of like a weekly progress report of okay, Like I'm doing good or um maybe this is an area we could work to grow in. Speaker 1 00:45:21 Alright. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:45:26 Like what's called what Christi like. Um, like she like of course, like says it's like expectations for me, but like there is like. Like there is a in between, there is I don't know. Like there is a. Speaker 7 00:45:40 Like a check in. Speaker 5 00:45:41 Christi yeah I think you can explain it better than I can. Speaker 2 00:45:45 So I think the best. Yeah, yesterday or the when you were with us last week. Um, Dawn had asked to go out with her friends, and I said yes. But here is the rules: The rules is keep your phone on, keep your location going, keep your phone charged. Um, If you are in trouble, call me or text me and you got to be home by eleven, because if you are not home by eleven, you omit your next. Uh. Speaker 2 00:46:17 You know, you hang out. And so I think it was ten p m. I sent you a text and said, "Hey, this is your one hour warning." And um and then that's it. I just left it at here's your one hour warning. Um and then my daughter was like, You know she was more worried for Ladanya. She was like, "Is she okay?" Is she? And then you know Dom had Dom had to check in with her. But I think setting those expectations Ahead of time, and then saying when she got home because she was six minutes early. Which I don't have kids like that very often. They're either super early or they wait outside the door to walk in sixty seconds before just because they can, which doesn't really work for them because there is a camera outside. Um, But you know it's it's one of those things where it's like, you know, I am going to set those expectations. I am going to get you the boundaries. Speaker 2 00:47:15 And I am going to get you. This one boundary. This the other. Here is your freedom in between, when, I've had kids come to me before, and I knew that they needed to smoke weed just to calm down and stuff like that, and so I set the boundaries. You cannot smoke in the apartment because I can't handle that, just because of smells. You can't smoke on in the complex because I would get fined so much money by the apartment complex. You can walk outside, outside of the complex, But be aware, we're right next to the courthouse, and the sheriffs are in and out all day long. So just be aware that that happens. Um, and you know, I do set that boundary, because if you've ever tried to tell a 16 year old, they can't smoke weed, they're still going to smoke weed. So I'm going to give you that freedom, but you got to tell me what's going on. So and I'm never going to judge. It's not my job to judge so. Speaker 2 00:48:11 So yeah, That's how I I set boundaries and I give you the freedom to do what you need to do. And independence, because that's important. So. Speaker 6 00:48:25 Yeah, and so what I'm adding here too from everything that I'm hearing is, um, And again, it does not doesn't mean that they're new things to add, but more of things that will be continued to be done. Is Christi to set expectations and consequences ahead of time So, for example, if Chris if Dawn were to go out with some friends, um, like she has in the past. Um and then Dawn and Christi to set some time aside weekly to acknowledge acknowledge progress. Dawn has made and to discuss where there is possible areas for growth. So both acknowledging, you know things that have been going well. And then you know to talk about things that, hey, maybe. Speaker 6 00:49:01 We could work on this right so it's not all negative, but also acknowledging the positive things that have happened. Right. Speaker 6 00:49:27 Yeah, so yes, I know definitely knowing what the rules are, And then what I also have here for to have security is for Christi to have an oh, have open and honest conversations with Dawn. Including about the relationship, so Dawn, for example, to know where I stand when there is conflict. Um. You know. And of course, there's gonna gonna be times where maybe it's a bad day, you know, for Christi or a bad day for Dawn bad day for both of you. And maybe we're they're gonna have some feelings of like, you know, she mad at me. You know, I'm gonna get 14-day notice. You know, Even though Christy just said maybe she does well, not that maybe, but she doesn't place 14-day, notice right So, you know, Having that reassurance like of knowing where you stand in the relationship. And knowing hey Maybe right now, we're not having a good moment. But just know that I'm here for you and that you have a safe place. You have a You have a bed and then I'm here for you. Maybe not right now Right But you know nothing's gonna happen between us. Speaker 5 00:50:26 Yeah, I'm on the top one. Ooh, Speaker 2 00:50:29 That's pretty quick. I have I have a lot of friends that are foster parents. Um, We are all foster parents together, and we quickly do what we need to do for each other just to make it work. So yeah, Speaker 6 00:50:46 You have a community. That's good. That's amazing Yeah It definitely takes a village for everything, Yes. Uh huh. And we could keep it at that, you know, just those three action steps. Um, you know, Of course, we don't want to go too crazy. And then uh you know uh that way, we could make sure we meet them and we could make adjustments as we need. Um, but for the second one is for Dawn to have stability. Hmm. So just looking at, you know, again, fresh start, but just looking at like the previous steps. Um I know something that you, hmm. Speaker 6 00:51:24 Have mentioned in the past, Dawn is part of what helps you bring stability is. Um. Sorry, I'm just trying to review here. Um, Getting familiar with the job application sites. Is that something that you still wanted to do, Um like Indeed Glassdoor applying to new jobs? Or do you wanna keep your job and just be there. Speaker 5 00:51:54 Like when in my old school, I wanted to like redo like my resume and stuff like that. So like yeah, I'm gonna do that with my mentor tomorrow. Speaker 6 00:52:04 Uh, sorry you sounded a little far away, but I heard that you wanna first work on your resume. Speaker 5 00:52:09 Yeah, what's called My uh Can you hear me now? Speaker 6 00:52:12 A little bit yeah it sounds a little echoey but I could hear you. Speaker 5 00:52:15 Oh okay. Some my mentors, he's uh he's. Gonna come tomorrow. So I was gonna ask him like if I need to work on like updating like my resume. Um, just like looking at like, like apply to different jobs and stuff like that. Like I actually like we only have like an hour together, but like I wanted to like ask, go on a schedule to go into like, food places and stuff. Like that and and ask them back they're hiring. Do all that. But I first want to do my resume and have that printed out. So I can have something. NO_CORRECTIONS Hm. Speaker 6 00:52:51 That sounds like a good idea, And I know I heard you say that you only have one hour with your mentor, but you also have your wraparound team to help you with update your resume. Is there someone in specific that you would want to help with the. Kimberly. Speaker 1 00:53:17 Okay, yeah. Maybe we can start working on that tomorrow. Speaker 6 00:53:27 So A lot focusing on your resume, which is good, right? Because, we want to make sure that you know, you have the support that you need to get that done. Right? To get that completed. Um, what else would help you know that you're stable? That you're okay. Speaker 5 00:53:50 I guess like llearning, um, how to save like my money better. If I start like actually like saving, saving like. Like when I be saving, like it don't be. Like I'll be taking money out my savings. Like like, like that's for my savings. Like so I really want to get in the habit of like saving and like better. Like I wanna save for a car. Like I wanna save for a tattoo. Like save for certain stuff, future economy all that all that stuff, I just want to get. I guess learning that is better than like managing my money and stuff like that. Speaker 6 00:54:34 What I'm hearing is that you want to learn how to budget. And then that's also somethingum that your CFS would be able to support you in, so Kimberly, write you in. On creating a budget with Dawn, Or maybe just introducing her right like the skills on knowing how to create a budget. Speaker 8 00:54:57 Yeah, that sounds good. I think that's a good way to start, for sure. Speaker 6 00:55:17 And What about. Um, anyone else? Maybe some another step that we could add for this need to have stability. Speaker 7 00:55:29 I think for that one, Just kind of what we were talking about before Don kind of thinking like a progress report might be helpful or like just a check in like in between having that expectation in order to ensure that. You know things are going good and and and things are stable in the in the home. Speaker 1 00:55:51 Mhm. Yeah, Speaker 6 00:55:54 And I guess just to kind of back that up, um, since I know we wrote that in during the other action step, but um, maybe like as a team we could check in during our team meetings. You know just to kind of check in, like, hey, you know, how was the last? You know? Quote unquote like progress report You know like what are some. Things that you liked and maybe some things that you talked about to improve. So that way we know maybe where we could possibly come in or maybe give some guidance on, you know, some additional support that could be given. So just checking in on how that. On how that uh progress report went. Speaker 6 00:56:48 Okay, and then for the last need, um to feel respected and understood. Mm. Uh something that you did have beforeum was to practice the muscle relaxation techniques. Um, is that something that you would still want to continue to try to do Don? Speaker 1 00:57:10 Yeah. Have. Speaker 6 00:57:14 You been doing it? Question. Speaker 5 00:57:18 That's okay. That's okay. Speaker 7 00:57:38 But I do know, you said that it was helpful when we first tried it. Do you still feel like it is helpful or do you feel like, oh, like I'm not really ever going to do that? Speaker 5 00:57:49 Oh yeah, I like it. Like it really puts me to sleep. Like almost puts me to sleep. Like yeah, I like doing this one. Okay. Speaker 7 00:57:58 Can we commit to trying it at least once a week? Start small. Speaker 5 00:58:05 Once a week, Speaker 7 00:58:05 Uh- huh Does that sound doable? Okay. You choose a day, you choose a time, and at least once a week. If you do it more than once a week, great! But let's start with once a week. Speaker 5 00:58:16 Okay. So I pick a day and time right now? Speaker 7 00:58:21 I think that might help if we have it on your calendar. And, it can be right before bed.;, it can be when you're laying in bed. But what day do you want to commit to try? Speaker 5 00:58:38 I feel like in the beginning, I would be Monday. Like to start off the week, I think that would be good. So like a Monday. Speaker 7 00:58:48 Right and like a morning or before bed. Okay. Okay, so are we committing to Monday morning or nighttime? Speaker 5 00:59:02 Uh-huh. Um. I'm thinking mostly in the morning, but like I also wanna just see like. Try it like in the morning and night. Which is like more like it's better or. Speaker 7 00:59:16 Which you think is is better Okay, We'll leave it flexible on the time, and we'll just say Monday at least once on Monday. You're gonna try it. Speaker 5 00:59:27 Okay Perfect. Speaker 6 00:59:32 And then yesterday when I was speaking with Dawn over the phone. We were prepping a little bit for her interview that was gonna be today at one, and she did bring up about how if she did have that interview, she would bring up about things that have been helpful for her mental health. And she did bring up a pretty long list of the DBT skills. So I do want to commend Dawn for you know Speaking of, Speaker 7 00:59:56 Do you have the workbook? Were you able to bring that with you? Speaker 5 00:59:59 Okay. Or is it still at Vicky's? I think it's still at Vicky's but like Oh no! Like when they. Speaker 5 01:00:09 Okay. Okay, Speaker 7 01:00:11 But you've been looking through it, it sounds like. Have you been looking through it? Yeah. I'm glad to hear that. I'm glad to hear you you like the activities. Speaker 6 01:00:24 Mhm. Yeah, She definitely did, she was the one to bring them up. Yesterday, That was really cool Um, but speaking of like Sorry. Speaker 2 01:00:33 Oh no sorry go ahead, I was gonna say, can I ask which workbook it is? Cause I may have that workbook. Speaker 7 01:00:39 It's the It's the um Adolescent uh Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide. Um So it's the like most standard one. So it's possible you have it. It's basically the same as the adult one, but it's just an adolescent version and so it's a little easier to understand. And like even for me, I am like sometimes the adult one. I am like, oh, this is so complicated. I like the images and the kids ones. I. Speaker 2 01:01:06 Didn't know about the kids one or the adolescent one. Um, I have the adult one. So for me, but perfect if she needs it, I will unearth it because I think it's in that power there of things that I've yet to unpack. So. Speaker 7 01:01:20 Perfect it works. Speaker 7 01:01:27 Right, but yeah, I gave her a printed copy and then an email copy. Sorry, causing a racket just like an orange cat does. Oh my god, Speaker 6 01:01:44 Is that one of their traits? Um, but speaking of your belongings gone um is that something that, Maybe, we need to figure out like how to be able to get your belongings back, either like between us or like the social worker, or maybe it's something that you talked about with Christi already. Speaker 5 01:02:05 Um, we haven't really discussed it, but yeah, like I was like thinking like um, I maybe like uh Vanessa she was like end up like bringing all my stuff over. But I don't know. I'm not sure what you all would think. But. Speaker 7 01:02:23 Yeah, I think just to. Sorry, I was gonna say, I think to avoid any. Like missteps, maybe reach out to Vanessa and just let her know. Hey, I still have things at Vicky's. Um, Cause I just would hate for it to be a situation where like things get like thrown out. You know, like i I would like you to get your things back. Yeah. Speaker 5 01:02:48 Oh let's call Vanessa no she she was there when I was packing, she saw all this stuff. Speaker 2 01:02:58 So, Uh, Vicki does have a code to my door. Um, it is a temporary one; it was already set to expire on August first. Uh, and that was given to her weeks ago. Um, and so she had she did bring some stuff over yesterday, But I asked her to bring it over while Ladanya and I were in Pasadena. Um, and because I have, My oldest foster child uh here, and I knew she would keep an eye on everything. Uh, so there are some stuff that was brought, And uh, she has more stuff that she is. She has offered to bring over as far as paperwork. And then it's more of Dawn's stuff. So um I did say that, that was okay as long as you know, Dawn wasn't home, but also I do have cameras that if it doesn't recognize. Speaker 2 01:03:51 Someone's space, which it doesn't for Vicky. It does make sure it tracks and that way that we we do see it. So just a heads up. I am trying, I am going to try to get a hold of Vanessa again today and see where we stand on a lot of things, And so I'll bring that up on that as well because I know her social security card, her birth certificate, all of those are with Vicky and we need to get those so the We can get Ladanya enrolled. We're gonna try to enroll her into the high school that's not too far away because they have a type of school that allows her to work at her own pace to get caught up on all of her credits. Uh huh, and then she only has to go to school twice a week, um, and she can work at her own pace. So we're gonna try for that, and I need that paperwork for that part. And then also uh I I do wanna uh. Speaker 2 01:04:49 Make sure that Ladanya has everything that's super important to her in hand early. Because I have been in her shoes, and I am still upset that I am missing, you know, twenty plus years later still upset that I'm missing my favorite necklace. So so yes. Speaker 3 01:05:12 Are you trying to say hi to everybody? It's the orange one this time. They were all stuck in the room with us because they were all napping. Speaker 6 01:05:22 They're like, they interrupted us. But okay then, And then what is the name of the school that you were thinking of enrolling her? Speaker 2 01:05:33 So Da Vinci, which is here in El Segundo. We're in the Da Vinci School District. They used to have Rise, which is where what my daughter attended when she first moved in with us. Um, they've shut down Rise. So, we're so they're helping us get her enrolled into a similar program with one of the other schools in Vinci. Speaker 6 01:05:58 So just within the Da Vinci School District? Speaker 2 01:06:02 Yes, we're in the Wiseburn School District, so Da Vinci is part of that. Okay. And if not, we'll find her school that will allow her to get, Everything she needs, because I know she's signed the the contract for the AB 12. So. Speaker 6 01:06:23 Yeah, and um, is uh. Is Hop, Skip and Drive something that uh both of you would want to look in well, would want the social worker to look into once she's already enrolled in one of the Da Vinci schools? Speaker 2 01:06:37 If it's Da Vinci schools, I am not worried about Hop, Skip and Drive becauseum. There we live near the C line, and the buses uh would take her directly to Da Vinci. So it's not an issue at all. Um, The only way I'd need Hop, Skip and Drive is if she stays at Brown, And then we would need it for that because I'm not going to make her get up two hours early to catch a hour and a half train. That that's not fair to anybody. So I. Speaker 7 01:07:10 Wouldn't do. Speaker 6 01:07:11 It so, Yeah, that's so early. And well, the. And the cool thing is that it is July, So you still have maybe a little bit a month and a half or so before August comes around, which is when most schools start. So I think that gives enough time to be able to prepare and figure out like. Twenty seventh of August or September Oh twenty seventh of August Okay Yeah So I mean it gives some time You know I know it's usually like mid August. Speaker 6 01:07:41 Where, um, does school start? Okay. So then for that need to feel respected and understood. Um, we could start off with those then. Um, Christi to support Don with enrolling at a school within the Da Vinci School District. And, then both of you to also reach out to the social worker to coordinate a time together, the rest of the belongings that Vicki may not be able to bring. And then Don for you to practice the muscle relaxation once so once a day on Mondays. So that's your homework to do. Speaker 6 01:08:12 Okay, perfect. And then um for the next CFT I'll also invite Vanessa the social worker. Actually, that reminds me, Let me check in with the parent partner. Um if she will be stopping by to say hello before we end. Speaker 6 01:08:52 Okay, Um, So then the next one that we could where we could review the plan would be today's 8/15. Two three four. Speaker 4 01:09:07 Would be August seventeenth. Speaker 2 01:09:13 Okay, so real quickly. Speaker 2 01:09:16 Um, we might be living leaving that day. If we're not leaving that day, the seventeenth. Okay, wait. Sorry, I looked at my calendar wrong. Um, There is a slight chance. We will be leaving that day to go to UC Merced because my daughter's got to go. That's when she moves into her college dorm. Um, Well, she moves in on the eighteenth. So we may go that night before and stay in a hotel. Um so. Don is already slated to go with us. She was already slated to go with us before, so we might have to do it for the week of the twenty third. Speaker 6 01:10:00 Okay, what do you want to do The week before or the week after? Speaker 2 01:10:03 I was thinking the week after, but uh Don, I just realized that might be around the first week of school too. Speaker 6 01:10:09 Okay, maybe we could do the August tenth then. Speaker 2 01:10:12 Yeah yeah Let me. Speaker 6 01:10:13 See okay yeah. Speaker 2 01:10:15 Family calendar. I keep pulling up my work calendar instead of my family calendar. Speaker 6 01:10:21 Mm- hmm. All right, let me make this adjustment. See if I'm not following you. Speaker 2 01:10:38 And Remind me of your email, Christi? Um, let me throw it into chat. Speaker 2 01:10:44 Or let me send it in a text. Um, for invites, send them to my work address. And for uh and then always cc the other email address I'm about to give you. So okay. Speaker 9 01:11:05 Hello. Hello, Vanessa. How are you? Speaker 5 01:11:08 I'm pretty good, how about yourself? I'm doing well. Speaker 6 01:11:17 Thank You for joining in, Vanessa. We were just uh getting ready to end. So that way you could introduce yourself and I'm not sure if you wanted to sign up individual sessions right now or maybe at a later time. Speaker 9 01:11:29 Yes, I can do that now. Hi Christi, my name is Vanessa. I'm the parent partner. I'm looking forward to working with you. Speaker 2 01:11:38 Looking forward to working with you as well. Speaker 9 01:11:41 Um. What is your availability. Do you prefer a specific day and time. Speaker 2 01:11:48 Um. Honestly, Fridays are perfect for me. I don't know how you feel about Fridays, that's the one day I have no meetings. Speaker 9 01:11:59 Okay, I can do Fridays Are you available Let me see One. Speaker 9 01:12:11 Are you available at twelve. Yes, twelve thirty. Twelve yes works but. Twelve o'clock, okay. I'll go ahead and set it up. Do you prefer by phone in thing. Speaker 2 01:12:29 I prefer by phone, that's when normally do it with any of my parent partners. Speaker 9 01:12:36 Okay that works. Okay, so I'll schedule it. Does this Friday work for you You want to start this Friday or next Friday. Speaker 2 01:12:44 This Friday is perfect. Speaker 9 01:12:46 Okay, so I'll go ahead and schedule that for Friday, the seventeenth at twelve o'clock. And, Speaker 6 01:13:02 Then just to loop you in Vanessa. Um we will be having the check ins. On Mondays at four, still they will just be virtual instead of in person. Um, and then Vanessa, Just so you could add to your calendar. The next CFT will be August uh tenth. Speaker 9 01:13:21 One second. You know what Christi I was looking at the wrong date. I was looking at the twenty second I'm actually going to be in the field. This Friday at twelve o'clock. Are you available at nine o'clock? This Friday and then moving forward at twelve o'clock. Yes. Okay, so I'll schedule you for nine o'clock. One second. Speaker 1 01:13:53 Next Friday, I'll put you down for twelve. Speaker 6 01:13:58 And then Christi, You could let us know for the week of the seventeenth, if you would want to reschedule or cancel whenever that week comes around. Whatever works best since I know you'll you'll be very busy that that week. Speaker 2 01:14:10 Yes, I will. We are um sorry, I'm laughing at Don. Um, I will let you know closer when once we get everything worked out as far as who's all going. And all of that. So yes. Speaker 6 01:14:27 Okay, perfect. Sounds good. But it was a pleasure meeting you, And then uh we'll meet next week same time um sorry on Monday at four. I'll send you a reminder in the morning. Speaker 2 01:14:42 Okay, awesome thank you. Speaker 4 01:14:45 Thank you thank you everybody bye- bye. Speaker 3 01:14:53 Okay got those added let. Speaker 2 01:14:55 Me get.
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Training Session: Microsoft Power Automate Basics and AI Integration
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-  Participants reviewed the core concepts, user interface, and foundational structures of Microsoft Power Automate. The session highlighted how standard, non-premium Microsoft licenses cover the majority of business automation needs, while also demonstrating how to construct and troubleshoot workflows featuring AI integrations, Microsoft Teams alerts, email attachment filing, and document approvals. ## Workshop Introduction and Platform Basics Power Automate is included at the standard level for any organization operating within the Microsoft enterprise environment, meaning most users do not require a premium license. Automation is functionally distinct from AI, though AI tools can be integrated directly into automated workflows to perform summaries and extract information. Alternative third-party automation tools include Make, Zapier, and n8n. To compete with these external services, Microsoft frequently adjusts its pricing, premium license requirements, and connector tiers. Users can access the Power Automate platform through three primary methods: - The Microsoft 365 app launcher (the "waffle" icon) - The direct URL: `make.powerautomate.com` - The Workflows app pinned inside Microsoft Teams ## User Interface, Resources, and Connector Basics The Power Automate web interface houses built-in learning portals, community forums, and links to external discussion groups such as the r/MicrosoftFlow or r/MicrosoftWorkflow subreddits. Workflows are cataloged into Cloud flows (online automations), Desktop flows (local machine automations), and Shared flows (collaborative team automations). Connectors establish links between Power Automate and external applications. A diamond icon next to a connector or workflow indicates that a premium license is required. Core standard connectors—such as Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Excel, and Forms—are free under basic enterprise plans. Examples of premium services include Asana (for task management tracking) and Word template actions (though standard Word document updates remain free). Premium connectors like Monday are also subject to license restrictions, while other connectors, such as Adobe Acrobat Sign, have transitioned to the free standard tier. Connectors execute tasks on behalf of the user and require authentication. While most connector permissions only require a one-time approval, certain security protocols require users to re-authenticate every three months. ## Trigger and Action Foundations with AI Integration Workflows are visually assembled on a drag-and-drop canvas requiring no code. Every flow is restricted to a single starting trigger at the top, followed sequentially by one or more executable actions. To demonstrate practical AI integration, a pre-built meeting transcript flow was reviewed. The workflow operates as follows: 1. **Trigger:** A new meeting recording and transcript file is detected in a designated OneDrive folder. 2. **Action 1:** An AI prompt runs to compile a structured summary of the meeting. 3. **Action 2:** The final summary is written to a new page within a Microsoft OneNote digital notebook. This specific flow executes in an average of 23 seconds. ## Step-by-Step Flow Construction: Quote of the Day Demo A live demonstration showed how to build a scheduled cloud flow from scratch, utilizing AI capabilities to publish weekly team updates: - **Reoccurrence Configuration:** The flow was named "scheduled quote of the day" and scheduled to run every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.. - **AI Prompt Generation:** Selecting "Run a Prompt" under the AI capabilities menu opened a Copilot dialog. A custom prompt was configured to instruct the AI to generate a single humorous, lighthearted quote about technology tailored for a help desk staff, outputting only plain text without commentary. - **Teams Integration:** The Microsoft Teams connector was added to the canvas. Using the lightning bolt icon, dynamic content was mapped to pull the plain-text output from the previous AI prompt step. The message details were configured to post directly as the user to the "Help Desk" group chat, formatted with a bold title in purple. - **Manual Testing:** Clicking "Test flow" triggered a manual test run. Green checkmarks on the canvas verified successful step execution, which can also help diagnose and locate the exact point of failure during errors. ## Advanced Configurations and Licensing Policies For complex workflows, several backend behaviors can be configured: - **Run After Settings:** Dictates execution rules if a step fails, allowing a flow to continue running subsequent steps rather than halting. - **Concurrency Control:** Manages loops when a flow iterates through multiple items, such as rows in an Excel spreadsheet. - **Retry Policies:** Configures the flow to automatically re-attempt failed connections with external services like Box, Dropbox, or DocuSign if a network disruption occurs. - **Environments:** Acts as dedicated workspaces, which can be configured as isolated sandboxes for testing flows before production. ### Throttling and Licensing Rules Microsoft applies performance throttling once a flow reaches 10 actions, requiring a higher-volume license for complex, multi-step operations. Premium licenses are sold on an individual, per-user basis. A single user's premium license allows them to create an unlimited number of flows. Furthermore, if a licensed "maker" designs a flow, their license covers the execution costs for all other non-maker users who interact with it. Basic Copilot assistant capabilities are included in standard Power Automate accounts. ## Practical Use Cases: Attachment Auto-Filing and Document Approvals ### Automated Email Attachment Saving A common business workflow involves automatically extracting email attachments and saving them to cloud storage. 1. **Trigger:** Set to "When a new email arrives" using the Office 365 Outlook connector (designed for business accounts, as opposed to Outlook.com for personal accounts). Advanced parameters should be filtered with "Only with Attachments" set to "Yes". The trigger can also be filtered by specific senders or email domains (such as `@crimsonit.com`). 2. **Action 1:** "Get Attachment" is appended, using the dynamic content lightning bolt to map the unique Message ID and Attachment ID. 3. **Looping:** Power Automate automatically wraps the file-saving actions in a "For Each" loop to handle instances where an email contains multiple attachments. 4. **Action 2:** "Create File" under OneDrive for Business is added. The target folder path is chosen, the file name is mapped dynamically, and the file content is mapped using the "Content Bytes" variable from the Outlook retrieval step. ### Document Approval Configuration Document sign-offs can be triggered by file creations, form submissions, or email arrivals. - **Setting up the Approval:** In a demonstration where a file is added to a shared folder, the "Start and wait for an approval" action was selected. - **Approval Type and Assignees:** The "First to respond" option was chosen, and the approval request was assigned internally. External users can only be assigned approval tasks if they are configured as guest accounts in the organization's Microsoft tenant. - **Formatting Details:** The approval step was configured with the file name and path dynamically mapped to let the approver open the file. - **Tracking Requests:** When triggered, the assigned approver receives a notification. Pending approvals can be tracked and voted on directly inside Microsoft Teams via the "Approvals" app hub. ## Advanced Workflow Showcase and Interactive Q&A Two advanced workflows were presented to demonstrate additional system capabilities: - **E-Signature File Management:** An automated flow designed to track agreements completed via Adobe Sign. Once successfully signed, the flow pulls the final PDF copy and saves it to OneDrive, automatically renaming the file to combine the agreement name with the completion date. This same template can be constructed using DocuSign or Microsoft 365 eSignature. - **Client Domain Categorization:** This flow triggers on incoming emails, parses the sender's email domain, and cross-references it against a lookup list maintained in an Excel spreadsheet. If a match is found, the flow automatically tags the email with its designated client category in Outlook. A similar workflow assigns a "VIP" category to messages sent by high-priority contacts. In a concluding Q&A, it was clarified that to extract unstructured data from incoming files and compile it into a template or dataset, a flow should combine Power Automate steps with embedded AI capabilities to parse the target files. ## Training Follow-up Actions **@Christi (Instructor)** - [ ] Finalize outstanding emails and send follow-up training responses — 2026-08-25 - [ ] Provide a personal live demonstration of AI capabilities and document parsing to the requesting attendee — 2026-08-25 - [ ] Troubleshoot and repair the email categorization flow that recently stopped running — 2026-08-25 - [ ] Locate and send the specific Reddit discussion link outlining "best automation workflows" to the session attendees — 2026-09-08 - [ ] Coordinate with Stephanie and the web team to post non-client-specific training recordings (including Copilot training) to the Crimson website — 2026-09-08
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- Aug 25, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:22 Hey, how are you? Speaker 2 00:00:26 Good. Uh, it was a long drive. Very eventful. Yeah, but it was good. We had fun. Speaker 2 00:00:44 Yeah. Child one is in college. Child two is started her senior year of high school today, and child three starts some college classes in a week, I believe. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:06 I got the obligatory first day photos this morning, so. Speaker 2 00:01:13 She was super excited to go to school today. Yeah. Except for one daughter was in one bathroom, the other daughter was in my bathroom, and I had nowhere to get ready this morning other than my bedroom. It's like they just there's not you can have two a two-bedroom house, but you need five bathrooms if you have if you have all girls. Speaker 2 00:01:48 They Go in there to talk on the phone with their friends. I'm like, there's one two bathrooms here and there's three people. But it's the life of being a mom to girl teenagers. It was worse when uh when my other daughter was still home. It's actually gotten a lot better in this last week. Speaker 2 00:02:12 We're gonna, we have a lot of people that's going to be joining. So I'm going to, this one's going to start because people are slowly coming in. Everybody has been looking forward to this session. So we're going to wait and see who all joins. And then I am going to pull up, I was actually in Power Automate working on a new automation. So I'm going to try that pull my window. Save my work and pull my window where you guys can actually see the fun automations. Speaker 2 00:02:55 I Will be waiting for everybody to join and bear with me. I'm going to shut my door just because I hear my voice from across little. Speaker 2 00:03:09 So one of those things where you record yourself often with meetings and training, videos and stuff, but I've never liked my voice. And I hear that that is a common thing. Speaker 2 00:03:33 We're Going to give a few more moments. I know three people that I don't see on here just yet. That have said that they were coming. So I'm going to give them a few more moments. And, you guys don't have to be on camera if you don't want to be. I am putting myself on camera, so you guys are welcome to do whatever as far as camera, and then we'll go over the rules. Speaker 2 00:04:12 And just so that everybody who just joined is aware, we are recording this. I'm going to make this available to everyone, but I'm also going to be recording some standalones as well. So for those of you guys who have been with me for quite a few trainings, I am going to both turn on facilitator and record the meeting. So be aware and then I will be sending those out in the next couple weeks because Stephanie and I don't. See Stephanie on here yet, but Stephanie, who is on our marketing team here at Crimson. She and I are working on actually putting all the training videos recently that are the the ones that aren't client specific. We're going to be putting those on the Crimson website for everybody. And for some of you guys, that includes Copilot training. In fact, Copilot training is the one I started first. So we're going to be having those come out. So bear with me if you're waiting on those videos. Speaker 2 00:05:08 It's just we're trying to figure out the best place to put them, And she and I are working with our web team to actually get those posted asap. However, if you guys have ones that I've recorded with you, I should have already sent all of those out. But if you're missing any, let me know and I'll get those sent out if they're client specific ones. And then we'll go ahead and get started. We do have a few people that are going to be joining. We're going to go over Power Automate. And we're going to go over the basics of Power Automate. A lot of you have questioned like, how do I do automation? Is automation similar to AI? And automation is not AI. However, there are some cool features we can do with AI within automation. And automation has been around for a while, but nobody really ever talks about it. And so I'm going to go through a lot of things today. Real quickly, let me go over the ground rules. Very first thing is we're going to be. Speaker 2 00:06:04 There's no dumb questions. I've been in IT for a very, very, very long time more than 20 years. We're not going to say how long. Um, I will well will never admit once I hit that 30 year mark. So you'll never hear me say that. But um, I've been in IT for a very long time. I have heard every question under the sun um and trust me when I say there is no wrong question. There is no dumb question. Uh, if you're asking a question, chances are someone else on this. Call has a question as well. I am going to try to observe chat, but Gabby is here. If you guys have never met Gabby, she's amazing. She works on my team. She will ping me and let me know if there's any questions, but if you do have any questions, try to throw them in chat. I will try to watch for them. However, we are going to have question and answer later on. And then if you guys need me to repeat something just. Speaker 2 00:07:01 The raised hand, which looks like this. And I will be watching for that as well. It might take me a minute to notice it, so don't give up. I do have two screens, so the automation and everything that I'm sharing with you is over here. So if you see me looking over that way, that is the reason why. And then my notes and everything are on this screen. So if you do see me looking back and forth, that is why someone actually called me out on that recently. And I had to explain I had a big monitor. So, so be aware. One of the very first questions I will get is do we actually have Power Automate? And yes you do. Power Automate from the standard level is included with everyone's license that uses Microsoft. So everyone on here, I don't see anybody on here that's part of Google Workspace, so everyone on here does have Power Automate. You do have a standard license for it, it is included. Speaker 2 00:07:58 So we're going to go through what that looks like. And, there is one more license type that you might want to be aware of, and that's premium. And I'm going to say 99% of the time, most people don't ever need premium. I will go over when you'll need premium as well. I do have premium, but I have very specific reasons for that. And if you need premium and you want it, Of course, get approvals from whoever in your company has to approve that cost. And then we will add that to your account. All right, now what is automation? And it's basically having a system that does something when this happens, whatever this might be. You tell the system to do that. So it's based on triggers. So for instance, I got an email. When an email arrives that says this, I want you to do that with the email and so on. There's a couple of different things we can do with Power Automate. Speaker 2 00:08:54 There's probably more on your mind that you would love to see Power Automate do, and so we're going to talk through that. Every flow will follow that same process. It's a trigger when you receive a new email, when a file lands, et cetera. And then what is that action it's going to take? And that's how we're going to explain things in Power Automate. Now for those of you guys who are wondering about automation, there are several different tools out there that will do automation. So if you've heard of them One of them is called Make. That one's been very popular for the last probably five or six years. Another one is Zapier. A lot of people know Zapier. It's been advertised relentlessly in quite a few circles. And then another one that people ask me about is n8n, and I'm gonna put that in the chat because people, that was harder to understand when I first heard about n8n, I was like, you said what? Speaker 2 00:09:50 So I'm going to put that in chat. It's called n as a Nancy, the number eight and the n as a Nancy dot com. And that's actually one I use fairly frequently. However, Power Automate is free for most of you guys. Everything you'll need is already been purchased and paid for. And we'll go over what that looks like, okay? Now what Power Automate actually does is step one trigger starts it, step two actions that carry it out. That is basically the whole gist of it. So we've got a couple different options: forms, emails, files, even times. And I'll show you guys some of my most common automations that I build and what that looks like. And then what is the actions that it carries out? So send a notification, move a file, post it to Teams, update a spreadsheet. Different things like that. One of my favorite ones that I've ever seen is. Speaker 2 00:10:50 It is it has to do with Adobe Fill and Sign, and that is where someone takes a document, sends it to someone to have them sign it. And then Adobe when it's signed, Power Automate saves it in a file folder and updates an Excel file. And, that's one of my most favorite ones, just because it's something that people don't realize makes it that easy. And people spend a lot of time saying, okay, I'm waiting for someone to sign this form. And then I'm waiting for, um, I got to go in, I got to download it. I got to update my spreadsheet, but Power Automate will do all of that for you. So just an idea of some things that could happen with it. All right. Um, To get into Power Automate. There's a couple different ways to get in. And one of them is the Office 365 app launcher. Um, it's the waffle so when you go to office.com you'll see a waffle and. Speaker 2 00:11:45 And it is at the top of any 365 website. The other one is the direct URL for it. It's make. Powerautomate.com And then also in Teams, you have it there where you can pin it in Teams. I'm going to show you guys that one real quick. And so you're going to see my calendar, ignore how busy my calendar is. It's been a little bit busy, but you're going to go here to store or you can view more apps, And workflows is what it's called. It's one of the things that's called. You've got a lot of different apps here that you can pin. So if you've never seen that anymore, ever, um, workflows is what you're looking for. They keep changing things. Microsoft changes things weekly it feels like, But you can go in here to workflows, and you can create workflows from here. Okay? Speaker 2 00:12:36 And you'll see, mine's a little slow today. I don't know what's going on with Microsoft, but mine's a little slow. I've got a bunch of workflows in here. So that's one other way that you can go see it. All right? And then when you log in for the first time, you're going to see the screen that looks like this. You've got Home, Create templates, Learn Flows. They have changed this to a new experience, so it used to be like this. And it's been changed. So this is not as pretty as it used to be. However, It does everything I'm going to show, you will correspond with a page that you're going to see. All right. Now, we're going to go over the screen and rather than showing it to you from PowerPoint, I'm actually going to open that window back up, and we're going to go over each of them. If you have Copilot license already on your account, just a quick heads up, Copilot's gonna make the process even easier for you. Speaker 2 00:13:32 Because, you can create your automation just by describing what you want it to do within Copilot. However, Be aware that Copilot is still a little off on things, and it still struggles. So sometimes you might have to just Google what you're trying to do or ask Copilot in another window or ask Claude. So I'll be I'll be very honest about 60% of the time Copilot works, but if you're going deeper with it It's not working so well, so just a heads up. It is improving almost monthly. Now from here you've got the left navigation screen here, Home which is the page we're on, Create which allows us to create new ones. We can look at templates of what other community members within Microsoft has done. You've got some Learn options. This will take you into some places to actually learn. Speaker 2 00:14:28 Different things you can do with Power Automate. And then My flows, which is right here. This is every flow I've ever created is going to be listed in here. If you want to do approvals, guess what? Power Automate will do approvals. So you have that there. Solutions, you also have process mining and you've got a few other things in here. Now we're going to go into my flows in just a moment, but I do want to take a moment to talk you through This screen right here. You have learning for every level. There's a lot of information in here on the different things you can learn and do with Power Automate. So it can be a little difficult to understand at first, and we are going over basics today, but if you want to do a little bit more, there are some additional items in here that you can learn and do. And then there's other items in here. Community forum is really good. Speaker 2 00:15:23 There is a lot of discussions and things that people have done, and they share it also on Reddit. How many of you guys are avid Reddit readers? Daniel, Daniel and Gabby. I'm not shocked at Daniel and Gabby. I love that. For those of you guys who are like, wait, Reddit? I am going to show you Reddit. Reddit actually has it. And don't laugh at my Reddits that I read. I had fun. They're all work appropriate, I promise. But if you go into Reddit, you're going to look for, I believe it's Microsoft Workflow or Microsoft Flow. That's the one you're going to look for. There's a lot of really good information in here of things you can do and I'm going to put that link within the meeting chat, but you can go in and. Speaker 2 00:16:20 And take a look at some of the things that people have done. And there is a section in here, I'm gonna have to find the post for you guys, but I will send it out. What is the best automation workflows you've ever created in Power Automate? And I've sent that to people in the past. I will find you guys that link and send that over to you if you're interested in reading it. So any questions so far before we go into the next item? Speaker 2 00:16:50 Nobody? Okay. So, when I go into my flows, There's a few things that I want you guys to notate from the command center. And I'm going to click on it now. Just a heads up, Microsoft for some reason has been very slow today. So I am going to click on it, but I want to show you a few items. Bear with me one second. I do want to show you cloud flows, which is everything that is online. And then we have desktop flows right here. That's everything that's on my desktop. And we'll go over that a little bit later. And, then any flows that were ever shared with you from anyone on your team is going to be right here under Shared with me. And you can share flows with coworkers to work on together, okay? Now, Speaker 2 00:17:44 This is a list of all my workflows. Anything that I've modified, I've gone in and actually looked at some of them just to reevaluate the ones that I'm going to be using for today. But the last time they were modified is right here, and you can see it's an automated or scheduled flow. We're going to go over what that looks like in a moment. But you'll have your list right here, and something I want you guys to note, do you see the diamond right here? This means I need a premium license to use it. And I only have three out of all of mine that oh, okay, a little bit more than three. I've got a few, but it's very few under ten for my premium. So most people can get away with not using premium. There are a few items that I have the this one right here. It's an Asana if you've not heard of Asana, it is kind of a project management type task list. It's an application that I use. Speaker 2 00:18:42 And. So what I do is I have Asana that connects to my Power Automate and pushes information from Asana to a task list for me. And so some connections, and we'll talk about connections in a moment, but some connections do require premium connector. We're going to go over what that looks like in a moment. But I'm going to say probably 90 % of what I do does not require that special license, okay? Now, I'm going to go in for this time. I'm going to create a new flow and I'm going to create it to be a scheduled flow for you guys. And so real quickly, I'm going to go back through this again, but real quickly, I'm going to build a scheduled flow so that I can talk you through what a connector looks like. And connections. The flow name is going to be Scheduled Post To Teams, and this is going to run every Wednesday at 8 : 00 AM. Speaker 2 00:19:39 In the morning. And so 8:00 a.m. And we're going to repeat it once a week, only on Wednesdays. So I put repeat once a week and then on these days, and I'm choosing Wednesday. And this flow will run Wednesday of every week. Okay? So make sure you put a flow name in because if you don't, uh you'll see something random like this come up. Um and I'm going to say create okay? Connectors are different applications that will connect into Power Automate. And if I click on this plus sign here, I'm going to add a new action. And in action, I'm going to choose my connector. And there's a lot of connectors in here. So I have everything from all the Microsoft apps to, um, I'm going to click on standard right here so that I can filter. You've got a lot of different tools in here. Adobe Acrobat Sign. Speaker 2 00:20:38 That's one of them that I mentioned earlier. One of my favorite ones that I've seen is when someone signs a document in Adobe, it will push that document automatically into a OneDrive folder. And I actually use that one, so we're going to go over that in a moment. Bear with me one second. I want you guys to take a look at this list. Let me go on mute just for a moment because my phone has rang three times by the same person, so bear with me. Hey Ladonia, can you hear me? Speaker 2 00:21:08 Can you hear me? Yeah. I'm sorry. Can you send me like the, the ride info? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:21:17 Cause I don't know, like my internet's like not working and stuff like that. Speaker 2 00:21:20 Okay. Yeah, hang on one second. Speaker 1 00:21:22 So if you send me anything, I can't see it. Speaker 2 00:21:23 Okay, let me let me send it. Speaker 1 00:21:27 Okay. They. Speaker 2 00:21:35 Didn't they didn't send. Speaker 2 00:21:38 They didn't send a notice that they were coming to pick you up. Hang on. Speaker 1 00:21:45 Did they set it for like earlier today or did they set it for three thirty five? Speaker 2 00:21:52 Hang on, Two ten is when it was, uh is when it they were supposed to pick you up. But, they normally tell me when someone's on the way and I normally get that text and I don't have that text. Um. Speaker 2 00:22:07 Do me a favor, wait about 30 more minutes. I'll keep an eye. I'm actually in a training class. I'll keep an eye and then if you can take an Uber home. Okay. Okay. All right. All right, I'm so sorry That was good All right, bye Right, Bye All right guys. My apologies on that. It was an emergency that I needed to handle real quickly. For connectors, you have a couple different connectors in here. And by a couple, I mean a lot. So if you use Box, if you use different things like that, Gmail, DocuSign, Dropbox. Anything that you see in here can be utilized, including Gmail Google Calendars all of that. So I want you guys to be aware that there are a lot of different connectors out here. Speaker 2 00:23:01 A lot of these are free. So everything that you're seeing right here are free to use with your current licensing. Now, there are some premium connectors. So I showed you the free connectors first. Now I'm going to do premium connectors, and these are connectors that do require a higher-end license. So do be aware of that. If you need to know the licensing cost, send me over an email and I will let you know. What that cost is because it's different for every type of organization that's in this training class right now. Now, heads up for this, There are some things. If you look in this one, you will see Adobe in here. There is a couple of different Adobes that are premium, but the Adobe Sign is not premium. So you don't need an extra license for that. And, then there's some applications such as Claude connections and things like that that are premium. Speaker 2 00:23:57 But for today, we're only going to be using standard connections to show you everything. So be aware of that. Okay? And connections are basically just a connection between another application that Power Automate will go to and pull things out. And connectors, they're updating connectors all the time. There have been connectors I've seen in here that gone away, But then there have been connectors more and more people are adding as automation and AI have exploded in the last five years. Microsoft has created more connectors behind the scenes and given us access to them. So if you don't see a connector today, it might have connector soon. So be aware of that. Is there any connectors you guys are interested in seeing if Microsoft already has? Speaker 2 00:24:54 Because we'll search for them right now. Speaker 2 00:25:16 It Is not a premium. It used to be a premium. In fact, two months ago it was a premium cost. Um. Speaker 2 00:25:32 Monday is there. It is a premium connector. Yes. And then Adobe real quickly, just so that you guys can see, Adobe is here. Adobe Acrobat Sign used to be a premium connector. It switched probably about a month ago, But you still do have premium connectors for those of you who use Creative Cloud. For some other things. So just be aware of that. And they are changing these all the time. So as things like Zapier and Make and n8n take off, Microsoft is trying to, you know, be as competitive as possible with pricing. So all right. So a connector it acts on your behalf. You're going to sign in to each connector as yourself. Speaker 2 00:26:30 You only need to approve permission for connectors one time. Now, that being said, Some connectors do require every three months that you re sign in again and regrant it, and that's not unusual. So be aware of that. And it will get you can reuse it everywhere. So if you do a Adobe Sign, I'm using Adobe Sign because I was having that conversation about this morning on if you use Adobe Sign on one workflow. You can use it on others using that same login. Now, the things that I'm going to show you today, connectors that you're going to use the most is going to be Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Excel and Forms. However, if you want to learn about other connectors, if we we're going to take a moment and touch on a few of them. So I want you guys to be aware of that. Within Power Automate when you set up a new Power Automate. Speaker 2 00:27:28 What you're looking at is the canvas right here. So this a canvas. This where you're going to build out your flow. It's very visual. There's no coding required, so be aware of that. Your trigger is always going to be on the very top, and then the trigger box should start everything, so it can be a recurrence, It could be something along the lines of an automation or something like maybe an email hits your inbox or a file. Gets dropped into OneDrive and it would trigger that flow to happen. So under triggers, It's going to be that very first box, and you can only have one trigger per workflow. So be aware of that. It starts everything and then all your actions are going to stack underneath. So anytime you need to add an action, You're just going to click on the plus sign and you're going to get a list of connectors. Now I'm going to show you an actual flow that is used quite often. Speaker 2 00:28:26 And again, bear with me. So meeting transcripts. And this happens pretty often. You can see it's happened quite a few times today already. This is my run history when I click on a flow, I can see the run history on it. I can see the connections that I have attached to it, and that's OneDrive for Business. And then I can see how long it runs on average, which is 23 seconds. So I'm going to show you the flow so that you can see. And it's going to be when a file is created, run a prompt and then create that page in OneNote in quick notes. Um now run, a prompt is an AI tool. And basically, what happens is I have a prompt. And this is what my prompt looks like within AI, and it summarizes the meeting. Speaker 2 00:29:22 I might cancel out of that. And, then the input that it gets is what is that information coming from the file in OneDrive? So this is a OneDrive trigger. And, then it's going to create that information and create a page in Quick Notes for me because I love my OneNote. How many of you guys love your OneNote? Okay, no one likes OneNote? Speaker 2 00:29:51 You know, let's look. I'm going to just click on my plus sign and see. It does not, sadly. Yeah, does Evernote email you your notes? No worries. Later we'll talk about OneNote. I think I think I will help you make that switch a lot easier. Um, So basically, what happens? It's a certain file that's created. And in my folder, I point it to whatever folder that I'm looking at, and this one just happens to be my meeting recording and transcripts. So any of my meetings that are that are recorded and transcribed falls in that automatically, and when that happens, I need uh. Speaker 2 00:30:48 AI to create a summary. How, many of you guys have worked with me on meetings and I've sent you a summary afterwards of the meeting? All right, I was about to say quite a few of you guys get those meeting summaries. Um, this is the part that writes that summary for me. And so that's what gets sent to you guys. So it goes into my quick notes And then I have actually another automation flow that will update it and get it ready to send out. But for this one, I just made it very simple. It's three. So this my trigger on the top, which is when a file is created in that specific folder. I want it to run a prompt and this my first action step. And then my second action step is to create a page in OneNote, okay? Speaker 2 00:31:43 Now, we're going to create one from scratch. So I'm going to work with you guys on that. And I'm going to go to Create and I am going to make it a scheduled cloud flow. All right? And then I am going to add a name, and that's pretty important. You want to add a name because it will try to name it for you and Power. Automate does not do great. So we're going to add a name. Speaker 2 00:32:12 And I'm going to say scheduled quote of the day. So I'm going to make this start on Wednesdays and I'm going to do it at 10 : 00 a.m. That's perfect time for this. And I'm going to repeat this every week on Wednesdays. So I'm going to unselect all the other days here and I'm going to say create. And so have my reoccurrence here. Now, I'm going to use AI to build this because a lot of people want to use AI, so I'm gonna build it with AI So I'm going to click on the plus sign here. And under AI capabilities, I'm going to click on see all. And then I've got a few different things I can do in here. There's a lot of things AI will help you with. Some of it is extract and analyze, you know, process. There's a system here that processes invoices and we'll go over that one later. But for this one, I just want to run a prompt okay? And. Speaker 2 00:33:10 I'm going to say prompt. I'm going to click here and go to new custom prompt. And I'm going to use Copilot to describe what I want to do. But I could also just type in my prompt here. But for right now, I'm going to describe what I want it to do. " I want the system " " to give me a good, clean " You got to tell it clean " quote of the day having " " to do with technology." Okay? The output should be one quote in text format only. Okay? I'm going to add to it, funny quote of the day because I know who I'm going to send these to. And I'm going to submit that and I'm going to let AI build that prompt out. Speaker 2 00:34:09 And I'm going to say keep it, but I'm going to if you've ever been in my AI classes, you understand that I don't always take the first thing it says. So I'm going to edit it, but I'm going to say keep it. And I don't want to put preferences in here. So I want to take out this line and provide one humorous lighthearted quote that involves technology. Ensure that the quote is appropriate positive and easy to understand. For a team of help desk staff. Okay. And, the output should be only the quote in plain text format without any additional commentary or explanation, which is perfect. And I'm going to test it. All right, so I like that one. I'm going to say save. Speaker 2 00:35:06 And it does take a minute to save. All right, so now I have my prompt in here. So I told it what I want it to do. Now I need to tell it where to put it. So my next action is going to be to put it in Microsoft Teams. So I have a list of favorites here. If, you find that you have a favorite prompt or a favorite connector that you're going to use often, if you hover over it, you're going to see a little outline of a star. If you click on just the star, It will add it to your favorites. Now I have 14 favorites. You'll see all my favorites here. But for this one, I want to do Microsoft Teams, So I'm going to hit the little arrow and I'm going to say, create They made some changes to this, so bear with me. Um, I want it to post a message Post a message to a chat or channel Sometimes, you got to dig because they they do it. Speaker 2 00:36:05 Post as user. So I want it to post as me. And now I'm going to tell it where to post. So I'm going to say Post in, and I'm going to say Group chat. And then I clicked down in a blank area just to get the next one. My group chat, I want it to be, I got a lot of group chats so bear with me, just the Help Desk is where I'm going to post it. And now I need to put in the output, Of what Run a Prompt said. So I'm going to say here, I'm going to click on the lightning bolt. And that lightning bolt is dynamic content is what it's called. And what it does is it grabs information from an earlier step. So you could do like a sender of an email, a file name, a form answer, the content of something. So this one I'm going to do the text from the Run a Prompt. Speaker 2 00:37:04 And the text is that output that I described. And, now this is going to allow me to do that, and it'll post it in plain text unless I change it. So this one, I'm just going to change and I'm just going to say Christy's quote of the day and press enter to put that on a different line. And we make this up and dress it up to be pretty. I'm going to, you know, make that, Like that. And then I'm going to make this, I think I'm going to put it in a color. And you know what? I kind of like purple. Now, you can't drag this. It doesn't like it if you drag. So I'm just going to do purple and I'm going to say close, and then I'm going to highlight this again and I want bold it, okay? And from here, I'm done. Very simple, it's a reoccurrence and i'm gonna hit save. Speaker 2 00:38:02 And so my save button is up here. It does take a moment to save it. And now I'm going to test it. So I'm going to hit test flow and I'm going to say, manually and I'm going to test it. You always want to test it if possible. So I'm going to say, run flow and I'm going to go open up that Teams chat, bear with me one second, and let me go in. Speaker 2 00:38:32 I'm going to say just the help desk. And in a moment, there you go. Now I'm going to have to fix my formatting. Sometimes it doesn't take, but you can see how that looks. Okay? And it did come from me. Now sometimes you can do just the flow. So if I go on the help desk team, you'll see workflows here. That's where I sent. One earlier. Every Friday and every certain days, the team is reminded to do their employee satisfaction survey. So I have a flow written that actually does that. And it also puts a quote out there. So this is how I know that it ran correctly and successfully. If you ever test one and it doesn't run, these checkmarks will tell you where that failed. So it'll help you to easily fix it. Speaker 2 00:39:30 And for those of you guys who have a Copilot license, you can even ask Copilot to help you fix that. So that is basically how to build a prompt. Hey Robert, you have your hand up. Speaker 2 00:40:07 So, um, post as and you have an agent option right here. You're welcome. I figured somebody was going to ask me that today. So, um, I'm going to go back here. Oh wait, I'm going to save it again. Any questions about that? I know I'm showing you guys the very basics of prompt of building out a workflow, but any questions. So far? Speaker 2 00:40:43 Okay. One of my favorite things to do is templates. I like taking a look at templates within Power Automate, so that I can see what other people have done. And I'm going to show you guys what that looks like. So if you go back into Power Automate's homepage, So I'm going to go back here and I'm going to go back to my main screen, you have the option right here for templates. Now, A lot of people who've saved these uh saved their flows, have built out templates of how they use. Uh Power Automate. And so you've got a couple different options up here as far as categories. Um and you've got like top picks and I do like to go through that, but you have some information in here. There is a follow-up on a message and I've actually seen this go through a couple of times. Speaker 2 00:41:33 So you've got follow up on a message. That's one that is used fairly often. Analyze emails, sentiments and send results to Teams. Forward your emails to a chat. Asana, I saw an Asana one just a moment ago, create an Asana task from a message. And that one was created by Microsoft. And then you can see who created it, so Microsoft or the Power Automate community are your options. But, there are is literally thousands of prompts in here that you can take a look at. All right, now that's on topics. Remote work, there's a few items out here for remote work. There's a few items on calendar. You've also got email, there's a couple of things you can do in email. One that does is often I've walked people through. Speaker 2 00:42:30 Is Save email attachments to your OneDrive. Now, This one won't work for you guys, because it's not Outlook dot com you need, you need the Office 365 Outlook. But we'll go over that in a moment. But, you can use these or customize them. If you're looking for ideas of things you can make. A lot of times Microsoft will update these pretty regularly. And so you're going to see new things come in all the time. One thing to know, if you guys have something on your personal like personal Gmail or personal Outlook.com, you can actually use Power Automate to work with your personal items as well. And. So one of the things I helped someone do recently was to take calendar events and have it put information out on their Outlook.com calendar. Speaker 2 00:43:23 That is attached to their Alexa system at home, So that the alarm is set automatically on their Alexa device. If it sees that a calendar entry is on their personal email. Now, for those of you guys who are wondering what I am talking about, if you how many of you have heard of Alexa or Amazon Echo devices? Okay, so what this person did was They wanted the system to set an alarm for two hours before their day was supposed to start for their workday. And their workday could start anywhere from six a m to nine a m, depending on when their first meeting was. And. So what they did was they had Power Automate, that would put their first meeting of the day onto their Outlook dot com email address that was attached to uh, their Alexa device or Amazon Alexa. Speaker 2 00:44:18 And set up a alarm that way. It was actually pretty cool. When I set it up with them, I was like, wait, you want me to do what? But it makes a lot of sense. So their system would set up an alarm for two three hours before their very first meeting. So they could get up and go the site that they were going to. It also worked really well because they attached a weather notification to it as well. So, I'm not going to get into how to create that one today because that one is very detailed in how we did it. But if you're ever interested in knowing that one, let me know. I will walk you through how to do that. Okay? Now, some key settings I want you guys to know about. There is an option, There are some options, what to do if a previous step fails and it's called Run After. And so if I have a setting. Speaker 2 00:45:15 In a flow that there's potential it could fail, then I will tell the system to keep moving even if it fails. Okay. Now another setting is concurrency, and that is flows that might just loop back into itself. So, maybe it pulls a list of items from an Excel. And then based on that list of items, there could be five to 20 items. It will run through the flow for each of those items, and that's called concurrency. And so we would set that up to loop through. And then retry policy. That one's actually a fun one, because if you're talking to something like Asana or you're talking to something like DocuSign or Box or Dropbox, sometimes they don't want to talk well together. And so maybe a system is down, or maybe there's been some hiccups with internet. Speaker 2 00:46:11 Access things like that. Retry policy allows it to retry on its own without you having to manually go push that button. And so that's a retry policy, all right? A couple other environments or a couple other settings is environment. It is called a workspace and I'm going to briefly go over this just so that you guys are aware of it, but my environments are up here. I do have an environment here for other things like if I'm testing I can build flows on my test one, which is the Copilot integration one here. But your most people are not going to get that granular. However, If you need a sandbox for those of you guys who know what I'm talking about, we can create you an environment that allows for a sandbox. So I want some of you guys are going to be listening and you're like, wait, that's too advanced for me. That's okay. But for those of you guys who know what I'm talking about with sandboxes, we can build you a sandbox environment. Speaker 2 00:47:11 All right, those are my key settings I want you guys to know. Now for licensing, real quickly we're going to go back over premium plan. There are a few things that need premium licensing. However, Be aware Microsoft changes their premium needs often because they are really trying to be competitive with other similar automation tools. And so this may change. But as of today. The items that need a premium license is Word template actions. Okay, so not standard Word documents, but if you're building out Word templates with Power Automate, it is premium. So be aware of that. However, just standard Word document updates, that's not premium. Okay? That's going to be in your basic. If your flows hit 10 actions. Speaker 2 00:48:06 And trust me, When you get into building this and you find out all the really cool stuff Power Automate can do, they will throttle your use. Don't ask me how I know. Trust me, I know this. And you will need a license for higher actions. Okay? And just be aware connectors keep moving tiers because Microsoft does shift those connectors between premium and standard. And they do it fairly often. So make sure you're checking your list before you think you need something that's premium. Asana used to be premium a few months back, now it's not premium. So be aware of that. Everything that is on that right side of my screen that says already covered, these are under the basic plans. So every trigger, not every trigger needs premium, only certain actions and connectors do. Speaker 2 00:49:01 If you guys saw on the Adobe, a lot of Adobe was not premium, but some of it was. So it could be certain actions that require a premium license. Your core connectors Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Excel Forms. Everything we've used so far in this session is all standard licenses. Now every person gets their own individual license. It's not one license for the entire company. It's A premium license per user, okay. And, so just be aware that it's per user and that user could make as many flows as they want. So that license that's attached to that user will cover an unlimited flow for for that person, okay. And if you only need it for the maker, the license for the maker, anyone who uses that flow that isn't the maker, That license covers them. Speaker 2 00:50:00 Okay, and then Copilot and Power Automate, it's already included. The only additional license is when you're getting into the more advanced Copilot information. If you have Copilot turned on for your account, and most people in here has Copilot turned on for their account. Okay, now we're going to go over a few more things. However, if you guys need help templates library there's a lot of templates library Um documents out there that tells you how to do some of the more creative, um Power Automate flows also, copilot and Power Automate can help you. Uh all you have to do is describe what you want in plain English, and it will draft the flow structure. If you've been in my AI training, you've heard me say, don't ever take the first draft, and that's the same for Power Automate. Sometimes Power Automate copilot can't exactly get it right, but they can get you to a point. Speaker 2 00:50:59 And then you can take it the rest of the way. All right. And then if there's anything super sensitive, check with us, okay? There are some connectors that might need an approval step behind the scenes. We won't know, But if you get stuck and you try to build out a flow and the connectors aren't working correctly, loop us in. All right? All right. Now one thing a lot of people are trying to do is and I've heard this multiple times, which is why I have that tip at the bottom. Um, People try to do a flow to turn Outlook into a flagged email into a to-do task on Microsoft. It already does that. Um, so we're not going to go over that today, But just be aware that when you're trying to create something that sets up a to-do, um, Outlook already does that. So you don't need to make a flow for that one. All right. So right now we're going to do a challenge right now. All right? Speaker 2 00:51:56 Um, I'm gonna we have another part of this coming up, which is real workflow examples. We're going to cover that. But I'm going to give you a challenge for the next three minutes. I want you to think about, I don't want you to build it. I want you to think about something you do by hand every week. So that could be following an attachment. It could be chasing approvals because we're going go over approvals in a moment. It could be sending a report, anything along those lines. I want you to think about What that could be. And I want you to picture that trigger because that's what we're going to try to build in part two. All right. Now, I'm going to stop sharing for one moment. I want you guys, I'm going to give you guys three minutes maybe less to think that through while I pull up the other PowerPoint presentation because I did split these in half? And while i'm doing that, does anyone have any questions? Speaker 2 00:52:59 All right. No one has any questions. I hope you guys are thinking about it. It's 2:51 right now. We're going to go, we're going to pause until 2:53. Speaker 2 00:53:33 Yep. I had my volume turned up way loud, so I didn't mean to jump at you. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:54:13 I'll Talk through that. Power Automate on your desktop is a little bit different than Power Automate on the web. And so the connectors and everything's a little different. You do need a premium license for most of Power Automate desktop. So, it is a little bit different on the different flows you can do with it, but let me touch on that in this next section. I didn't have it added, but you bring up a great point, so I'll add it. Speaker 1 00:54:45 You're welcome. All Right. Speaker 2 00:55:02 So we're going to go over putting your Power Automates to work. So give me one moment. Let me share that screen. And, this is where we're actually going to build out some Power Automate flows for you guys to see how to do it. I showed you a few, but we're going to go over some more. Every example today that I'm going to show you guys will follow the same shape. It's a trigger and then an action. And then let me put you guys on mute just for a second. And let me give my daughter my Uber account real quick. But we're going to go over that. Hopefully, you guys have come up with some Power Automates that is going to help in the last three minutes, and then we'll talk about triggers and things like that. Speaker 2 00:55:55 The very first option that I'm going to give you guys is going to be email attachment auto filing. That's something that people do a lot. And it's one of those things where you can get very granular with it, But right now, we're just going to make it a very basic and simple one. And the flow is going to look like this, a new email arrives, the attachment is captured and then it's filed in SharePoint. And when I say SharePoint, I mean OneDrive. Okay? Okay, and so it's going to save every attachment straight into a SharePoint folder, and you can you'll have it named and dated consistently. Okay, so before a lot of people would just manually save each attachment, But this is where we can do it where the attachment can be auto filed. Now, when I talk you guys through this, one of the things I want to let you know is. Speaker 2 00:56:51 You can be very granular with this. You can say only attachments that come from Michonne or only attachments that come from Gabby or only attachments that come from a specific domain. So, with domains it could be any email that comes from someone with an @crimsonit.com email, save those attachments here. And so you can make this very granular as you needed, okay? Uh, before we get started any questions. All right now, I'm going to walk you guys through it. Um bear with me one second, let me pull back up my window. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to create and I'm going to say an automated cloud flow. Speaker 2 00:57:45 Now, The reason why I want to do automated is I want it to trigger automatically when something happens. And that's going to be my automated. And you'll see there's a couple of different ways you can do an automated. You can do an instant, which is where you manually trigger it. You can do scheduled, a scheduled is where it runs in a scheduled date and time. Okay? Now Desktop Flow is on the desktop application And process mining, we're not going to get into today. That's more advanced, where we can have it evaluate your existing processes and some of your existing tasks. And then describe it to design it. That is for Copilot where you can describe what you want it to do, and Copilot will build it out for you. We're not going to use Copilot as much today, But I do want to do an automated because I want it triggered every time an email comes in with an attachment. Speaker 2 00:58:39 So I'm going to type an email into my flow trigger search here. And I want to draw your attention to something real quick. You've got a couple of different versions of this. And you have one that's called outlook dot com, and you have one that's called office 365 outlook. Now, I'm going to ask a question. I want to see who knows the answer to this, The only people that cannot respond is Gabby, because Gabby is my better half with all things automation. So. Speaker 2 00:59:09 Which Outlook am I going to use for my Crimson IT account? Anybody know? All right, now I get to have fun and call on people. Robert, which Outlook am I going to use? And there is no wrong answer. Speaker 1 00:59:39 Mhm. Oh. Yep. Yep, Speaker 2 00:59:58 And the reason why is because we're using Office 365 Outlook. Outlook. com is for personal accounts. And Office 365 is for business accounts. So good answer. Now, I'm going to select this one and I'm going to say, I'm going to give it a name, Save Attachments. And I'm going to tell it to create. All right, so very first thing it'll say invalid connection, please update your connection details. Now sometimes it will. Speaker 2 01:00:36 It will say that for a few moments and then it'll clear it out. It's looking for your attachments. Now, that being said, if I click on Change Connection, I could actually sign in with a different account, depending on which account that I want. If I've got another business account that I want to use, I can do that here. Now, I'm going to leave it under Crimson IT. Oops! Going to say Cancel. Don't hit this back button. I'm going to take you out. And then I'm going to go in. I'm going to show you the parameters. Now, parameters, I can actually filter this. And so if it comes to me from a person, I can filter that. So if I want it to come from Machen Fleming, any attachments that she sends me. Speaker 2 01:01:35 I'm going to put her name in the From field. Okay? Now, If I don't care and I want to leave this as it's going to come from everyone, then I will -- I'm going to leave this alone. If I wanted to set as -- if I'm doing my attachments, I'm going to change Only with Attachments to Yes. Okay? And then, I can choose my folder as well. So be aware of that. If you have emails going into folders, you can choose your folder. Now, when a new email arrives, I want it to pull that attachment information. So I'm, adding a new action by clicking the plus sign and I'm going to go to Office 365 Outlook and then I'm going to look at all my actions in here and I want the one that has to do with attachment. So I'm going to say Get Attachment and so we. Speaker 2 01:02:31 Here's something you guys really need to know on emails within Power Automate. I need to tell it which email I want it to get attachments. And so I'm going to click this little icon right here, which is my lightning bolt, And I'm going back to the very first step here and I want it to pull that email. So I'm going to click on see more and I'm going to look for the message ID and I'm going scroll down for the message ID. So, what we're doing is we're telling this action to pull that email and to get the ID of the attachment to download. Every email that comes into your Outlook is given an ID, A series of letters and numbers that make absolutely no sense to anybody. But technology. So I'm going to tell it to also pull the attachment ID, and I'm going to look and go down for that attachment ID, and it's right here. Speaker 2 01:03:28 And let me give you guys a tip. I always just read what's not bold to find what I'm looking for. It's just made things better for me, especially if I'm looking for something. Now, you'll notice it gave me a For Each. Remember when I said if it has a list, it might put in a concurrency where it loops? This is a concurrency. So For Each Attachment, it's going to get attachment, And then we are going to save that attachment. So I'm going to click on the action item right below this. And I am going to say OneDrive because I want to save it in a OneDrive location. You can save it in a Teams location, but we're going to do OneDrive. Okay? And this is going to sound counterintuitive, But I'm going to tell it to create a file because there's no option to actually save the file. Speaker 2 01:04:26 Unless Microsoft made some changes that I don't know about. But what we're going to do is we are going to create a file, and we're going to tell it what path, sorry, uh, we are going to tell it where we want it to save that file. So I'm gonna click on this open folder, and it's in my OneDrive for Business. And so I'm gonna click on this little arrow to navigate into my next list of files. Okay? And so in here, I'm going to go into Documents and I want to go further into my folders. And so I'm going to click on the arrow for Documents. And I'm going to go in and I want it to go into Internal Operations because I actually have a folder in here that I want to do it. And so, I'm going to go in and pull where I want this to land, all right? Speaker 2 01:05:18 And so for right now, I have a new folder here and I'm just going to select the name New Folder, not use the arrow. And so here's where I'm going to post it. Now the file name is going to come from previous information. And because it's coming from previous information, I am going to use this little lightning bolt again and I'm going to pull the name of the attachment, which is the file name. Okay? And then the file content, I'm going to do the exact same thing. And I'm going, I don't see content here in the get attachment, But I'm going to click on see more and I am going to pull the content. And I got to remember where that information is. So bear with me. Speaker 1 01:06:13 Content is not in here anymore. Speaker 2 01:06:22 This where Microsoft makes a change from where I had it before. And this where you got to go back and say, okay, what did you do Microsoft? So I'm going to click on the plus sign again here. This where I get to troubleshoot live with you guys. And I'm going to go back into my 365 Outlook and I'm going to look for attachments. Speaker 2 01:06:50 I'm gonna see if there's other attachments in here. So I'm I'm on the Get attachments right here. I don't see anything else. Speaker 2 01:07:16 Now, Sorry, I'm, I'm about to lose my voice, but what we're going to do, we've got to get attachment here. I want to check one more thing. Nope. All right, so this where I get creative. So I'm going to click my waffle here and I'm going to open a new page in Power Automate. So I'm going to right, click and say, open in a new tab, just open a new page. And this where i get to be creative. I'm going go templates. Speaker 2 01:07:49 Not now. Every now and then I've got to re-authenticate. So I'm going to go to templates, and my first couple of them here, but these are for Outlook.com. All right? Now, this is the one I'm looking for right here. All right? So I'm going to say continue on this template. Speaker 2 01:08:19 And then my trigger is already there. So on a new email, and this a condition. It did a little bit different than I am. So on a new email, the condition here is if the from contains a value. This where I'm going to look at what they created. And I can put, Remember, I said if I wanted it to be if I want it to be Michonne, I'm going to say Mflaming. Speaker 2 01:08:53 So now I'm going to look apply to each attachment from specific users. So on a new email, and that's my previous step. I'm actually going to look at my little lightning bolt here, and there is attachments. Okay? So they did it And create a file when condition is satisfied. So they used a different method. So I can adjust this and put my folder path in there where I want, the file name is going to be the file name, and then the content bytes is what they used. Okay, so that tells me I need to use content bytes. So I'm going to go back to my Power Automate that I was working on, get attachment, create a file and the content is going to be content bytes. All right. Speaker 2 01:09:51 So now I have it built and I'm going to hit save. And basically at this point, I can wait for an email to come through. That has an attachment to it, or I can send myself an attachment in an email to test it. Now, I'm not going to test it right now because my Outlook has taken a minute, but you guys can see when a new email arrives, we're getting attachment and it's filed in SharePoint, which is basically that's my way of saying OneDrive. Any questions about how I did that? Did it make sense? Also second question. Did it make sense to you when I went back and troubleshot it myself? All right. Um oops. Speaker 2 01:10:49 Bear with me for one moment. My PowerPoint went a little crazy. All right. Let me reshare this. So the next thing we're going to do is document approval workflow. Speaker 2 01:11:15 How many of you guys, show of hands, How many of you guys need to send out documents or need to wait for someone to approve something? Okay. Michonne does. I know Shane does. Call me out, how about your team? Does your team ever need to get your approval on something they're working on? Speaker 2 01:11:49 All right. What we're going to do is we're going to build one from scratch. So, let's say, a contract or a purchase request is coming through, and I need someone to sign off on it. And I'm going to use Gabby for my, um, for my person to do approvals right now since she's on this call. Um, and so what I can do, I've got a couple of different ways I can do this. But basically how it flows is a file is submitted Power Automate going to approve. Or send approval request to the person and then that person either approves it or denies it. Okay. So we're going to build this one from scratch, real quick. And then the rest of them I'm actually going to show you how this I'm going to show you what the resulting flow is. But this one I want to build for you. So I'm going to go back and I'm going to create a new flow. And on this one I want it to be. Speaker 2 01:12:46 Automated as well. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually have a shared folder location for this one. Now there's a couple different ways we can trigger this. We can trigger it on Microsoft Forms, we can trigger it on a file landing in a specific folder, We can trigger it on an email attachment coming through from a certain person with the subject heading. So for this one because It'll take a little bit longer to explain the Microsoft form process. I'm going to show it to you from a file process, But later, I'm going to send an email out to everybody who joined with a couple of examples on how to build some of these flows. So you guys will see what it looks like from a Microsoft form, okay? So my flow name Approval for Document and When a file is created is my trigger. Speaker 2 01:13:43 And when a file is created and my connector is OneDrive for Business, I'm going to say create. And I'm going to click on it to give it the parameters. So, I'm going to go in here. I'm going to pick my place where it's going to go. So, I'm going to go into my Documents. And I'm going to go into my Internal Operations and I'm gonna go into my New Folder right here and select the New Folder. And then I've got some advanced parameters. I'm not going to include subfolders, but I could tell it yes to include subfolders or no. And then infer content type, we're not going to go over. That's more advanced stuff. So I am not going to subject you for that. So when a new file is created, I want to set up an approval. So I'm going to say approval, Actually just say, approve and I've got a few options in here. Microsoft does move these around. Speaker 2 01:14:39 So let me go look for it. It's not in here, so let me go back here. They do move this all the time. And so I'm going to go into my control for my built-in. It is not in that one. Built-in tools, usually it's in here somewhere. Data operations. Speaker 2 01:15:11 I hit that back button again. All right, so this is where I'm going to use Copilot. I want this flow to request approval on a document when it is created in my folder. So I'm going to ask Copilot to build them for me. So anytime you get stuck, you can either go to templates or you can ask Copilot. Speaker 2 01:15:39 Okay, so approval action. I misspelled it. I said approve and it's approval. And here's my standard approvals. And I'm going to say start and wait for approval. And so I'm going to say select an approval type, and I've got a couple of options in here. I can approve or direct everyone must approve I can approve, reject, first to respond. I can tell it to wait for all responses. I could tell it to wait for one response or I can create a sequential approval. Okay? So this one, I'm just going to say first to respond, and the title is going to be approve document and who I'm going to assign it to is Gabby. And so Gabby's right here. I'm going to select her name. Speaker 2 01:16:36 And then I'm going to give her the details. And so the details is going to be the file, okay? So the file name, the file path and the file content. So I'm going to put in content. Now content is going to be good if it's a Microsoft Word document or an Excel document, things like that. So for this one, the only thing that's going to go into this folder is Word documents. So I'm just gonna put File Content, okay? I can also put a link to the item. And so I can put the file path right there. And if I do the file path, Sometimes I'll put the file content, or sometimes I will just change it to be the file name. Okay? Now on the Item Link Description, I'm going to say File Path to open File. Okay? Speaker 2 01:17:32 So I can do that. A few other things to note on here, you've got a few items, but there's not too much. So what I'm going to say is when a file is created, I can do this. Now if I want more options, What I'm going to do is I'm going to add a get command in here to say get that file. But for right now, I just want to say when a file is created and then I'm going to put in here enable notifications and enable reassignment. Okay? And then when that is done, when I've got this filled out, I'm just going to click in this area right here and I'm going to say add another action. Now my add another action could be a couple different things. Um, I could say um, I can put in a condition that if it's approved to uh to alert me in Teams. If it's not approved then just not do anything at all. I could say um. Speaker 2 01:18:32 It could notify, it could actually move that file to another location. So I could say once it's approved, I can go in and I can copy the file into another location in OneDrive. So there's a couple different things I can do with it. I can even email the file to somebody. So you've got a couple, you've got a lot of options here. For my Asana users, if I have, if it's approved, I could tell it to update Asana task. So you've got a lot of different things in here that you can do. So I want you guys to be aware of this. This the start and wait for approval, and this the person in here that I can choose. I can put more than one person. I could put Gabby, um, I could put Anzor. Hey, when this pop thing pops up, I could say Anzor. Um, now one thing is what if I just try to say Michonne? Speaker 2 01:19:33 Okay, it will put in her email address. Now, Microsoft's gone back and forth on whether or not it works with external contacts. Right now they say it does work. However, it did not work a few weeks ago. So Microsoft is constantly making changes to this. Now I could on here show guests. I could select that under settings. And if someone has a guest account to your Microsoft, and they're in your tenant as a guest, you could make that choice as well. Speaker 2 01:20:03 So just be aware of that. And you can add as many people as you want. Now we are choosing first to respond, but you do have some options where everyone must approve and so on. Okay? Now this has a lot of things that you can do with approvals. It's probably one of my favorite things to do in Power Automate. So be aware of that. When a person gets an approval request, it will show up in their Microsoft, so be aware of that. So if I'm in here, You might get an action item for an approval, and it'll show up in your actions. There's also a few other options in here that has to do with approvals, but it will show up in Teams. So if you go down here to the three dots, you just click on approvals and it will pop up. And so in approvals, if you've never worked with approvals in Microsoft before. Speaker 2 01:21:00 Um, you will see approvals, Adobe Sign, DocuSign, Microsoft 365 eSignature. So you'll see a few different things in here. Now um a lot of these haven't appeared like I haven't used this since 2025 on this one. But I do use it for other clients. So I will put that in there. Now um I'm going the next couple of slides, we're going to do um I'm going to skip over a couple. Um, you can't. There are a few in here. I'm going to send you these examples and how to do it when I send out the documents. All right, But one I wanted to get into is contract signed and filed automatically instead of walking you guys through that, I'm going to show it to you, but I'm going to show it to you using Adobe Sign. So I do have this one in here already set up. I've used it in the past And. So what i'm going to do is i'm going to go look for it because it's been a while. Speaker 2 01:22:03 Here we go. This is the one. Now, what it does is it will save my completed documents to SharePoint. This has been a while since I used it. My Adobe Sign isn't working anymore just because I haven't needed it, But you can do the same thing with DocuSign, and you can do the same thing with Microsoft 365 signatures. And heads up for you guys, Microsoft does do a signature version as well. So in here, I'm going to show you what my flow looks like I've just had it disconnected right now. Now, it's very simple workflow. When an agreement workflow is completed successfully in Adobe Sign, it's going to save, It's going to get the PDF of the signed agreement. And then it's going to save that file into my OneDrive. All right? And from here, because I didn't like how Adobe made the titles, I needed to do the agreement name and the event date for mine. Speaker 2 01:23:00 And I pulled out some information. Who was the participant's user's email address? So, just be aware of that. This is the location. I'm going to show you guys what that document looks like. There's nothing in here confidential, so just be aware. So, I'm not going to show you guys anything confidential, trust me, I wouldn't show you this anyways if it was confidential. So I'm going to go into that folder. Speaker 2 01:23:31 Hiring and staffing. And so here is what I'm looking for. And these are all the people who assigned it, and these are security policies, different things that I've made that I sent out to staff. And so employee handbook, different things over back in 2025 that we were working on. And what it did was it pulled their first name from their email address. And that's what the title looks like in the PDFs. And so it will put the file content in there. From the Adobe Fill and Sign, and it saves that file. And it did a pretty good job of it. I don't use Adobe Sign anymore, actually have DocuSign now, But you can do the exact same thing with DocuSign, and you can do it with Microsoft Signatures. Okay? Now I'm going to give you guys one more that I've worked on. And. So let me go back down to my flows, and then we're going to be done for the day. Speaker 2 01:24:31 I showed you scheduled quote of the day. I have an email client category. So if you've ever seen my inbox, you know that all my emails are flagged, and apparently it's broken. But basically I'm going to show it to you and I'm going to fix the broken later. When a new email arrives, it needs to look at, I want it to compose and so basically what I'm telling it to do Is to get the body of the um of who sent it to me. So, the body being the email address. So, if Mark emails me, I want it to take a look at his email address and tell me the domain of the email. And, if it's present on a uh spreadsheet that I have that domain, then it's going to come back. And tell me yes, it's there. If it's no, it's not going to do anything. Speaker 2 01:25:30 But if it's yes, it's going to assign a category to that email address. And so everything, all my clients are listed in rows here. And I actually opened that Excel file today so that you guys could see it. I should have looked at the flow myself. But here is my clients, my client list and the category that they go into. And then also I do this for my VIP contacts as well. So if their email address from the from, it's on a different workflow but if it's on the from It gets a VIP category in my inbox, And so I have a list of people that I need to have that VIP category attached to. So hopefully that makes a little bit of sense. And I'm going to go back today and fix why it's not working later on today. And it just stopped not working, so something happened on the Microsoft end because it's been working fantastically. I have multiple of those workflows set up for me, and that allows different categories like this. Speaker 2 01:26:30 If you see my categories in my inbox, the different colors to actually happen. And so just adds up. It just started doing that. It's just stopped working, So I need to go in and find out why, because my categories are definitely there. Now this is Power Automate basics. We haven't gone through anything that's not basics. So what I want you guys to do is if you're interested in learning more or if you're interested in me, breaking it down further. Anything along those lines, please let me know. But we only have five minutes left in the meeting, so I don't want to get into another flow with you guys right now. But, is there anything that you wish that I would cover or that you wish you could have seen? Speaker 1 01:27:30 And this is just your advice as to the approach you take, but for the example that you showed of like an email attachment, I'm sure we'd sign it. If, if the next step from that is to take those files and convert each of them into a structured information, those files and organize it into like a template or a dataset. Speaker 2 01:28:11 Both. So I would use Power Automate to build out what it looks like on the flow, and then use, because you have an option to add AI into the Power Automate flow. And I didn't show that as well as I should've, but there is an option for AI when you build it out. Um and you add an action that says, AI uh AI capabilities. So this is the flow that I was just showing you. Um you do have AI capabilities right here where you can use agents. Um you can extract information from it. There's a lot of different options in here that Microsoft has built out. So and that's actually a really good question. Speaker 2 01:29:30 Absolutely. I can actually, since you're across the hallway, I can show you that this afternoon. Yeah. All right, anybody else? Those are good questions. All right, guys, I do apologize for running long. There is a lot of really good information of what you can do with Power Automate. But if you are looking for help with it, let me know and we'll take it from there. Thanks guys. You're welcome. And some of you, you're welcome. Some of you guys are waiting for an email from me. I am catching up on email this afternoon, so I will be sending out those responses. Speaker 1 01:30:36 Bye.
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04-16 Meeting: Disappearing Tickets & Thread Flow Rules
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-04-16 17:15:09 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Anzor] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Investigating Disappearing Tickets from Triage Board - Anzor observed tickets disappearing from the triage board and suspected an automation issue with the thread flow, which he believed was disabled. - Christi suggested tickets might have been moved to a non-technical board (e.g., admin or finance), but the mechanism was unclear. - Anzor noted that Riddik sent a test ticket, changed its status, and it then disappeared from the board. ### Reviewing and Disabling Thread Flow Rules - Anzor and Christi examined thread flow rules and determined most were incomplete and did nothing, even if they fired. - Anzor decided to disable all ineffective rules to isolate the problem, keeping only one active rule that moves urgent items to the help desk. - A rule named "Live chat flow" was identified as functional; it sends a notification to technicians via a thread chat. - It was confirmed that new tickets are assigned priority 3 by default. ### Testing the System After Changes - Anzor enabled the Smart Dispatch Board to test after disabling unnecessary thread flow rules. - Christi sent several test tickets to observe system behavior following the changes. - By the end, test tickets were no longer being automatically removed from the triage board. - Conclusion: The issue appeared resolved, either due to disabled rules or previous manual actions by technicians. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi will send ten different test tickets with random scenarios over the next 20 minutes for triage testing. - [ ] Anzor will monitor the system to confirm stability and update Christi. - [ ] Anzor will grant Christi access to the Production boss view. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The root cause of the disappearing tickets was not definitively confirmed—either disabled thread flow rules or manual technician actions. Further monitoring is needed to confirm the fix is permanent.
- Date
- Apr 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Chris. Hey, dear. Can you hear me? Yep. Yeah. Perfect. Hey, so something is happening. I thought I've disabled the threat flow, but I am seeing that these tickets keep disappearing from the triage board, right? Um Let me just quickly make sure. Dashboard, let me stop the poller here. Let me go to triage board. This the test, this the test, So this should have no impact, but I still wanna make sure that this all. Speaker 1 00:00:60 Um, Think about is there anything else that could be automated that would move the tickets off of a or maybe there is something I don't understand about thread, right? But basically, where is this thing? So let's see search. Okay. Well, this. It still stayed here, but I did see Riddik send the test, and then he changed the status to something by MSP, and then it disappeared from here. And there was few others that disappear when they shouldn't. Yeah. I mean, could it be that it took some time for thread to stop processing? And here's what I did, right? So I've looked at, I've stopped all of the triage all the way, including auto prioritization and after hours. Speaker 1 00:01:60 Right. Right. Then, if I look at all. Speaker 2 00:02:04 Dispatch flow, click on that one. Sorry. Which one? Uh, this one? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:10 So I've looked at all of them, right? So it basically says pre- process status name scheduling required, or where status schedule, remote and blah blah blah. But it doesn't do anything. Speaker 2 00:02:25 There are some tickets that moved out of here. But. Speaker 2 00:02:30 Uh, I don't know where they went. So when I am looking at these, um, they may have gone into a different board than what then they're not. They may be in a non technical board is what I am trying to say. They may have come in and they were actually slated for triage. In triage it might have been an email that was sent, But the email was for the uh, the admin team or finance or something along those lines. But I don't know what moves them. Because the last email you've got the new email catch all, which hasn't moved out. Right, Speaker 1 00:03:09 This has not moved out yet. Speaker 2 00:03:11 Yeah, But the one before that, that came in was is five o one. Speaker 1 00:03:16 Is there a way to figure out? Right, right, right. So and I've disabled and I've disabled so send another, why don't you send a test email? I don't know if it took. I I guess first question, if if I have a flow in thread, right? But, then it has this downarrow, and it says team schedule, but doesn't have anything here. What does it mean? Why there. Most of the rules are like that, and they are firing, but I don't know what they're doing. Speaker 2 00:03:52 So someone created it, but didn't finish. Speaker 1 00:03:55 Uh So this rule does nothing. Does nothing. Speaker 1 00:04:00 Okay, then rest of the rules do nothing. They might be firing but they do nothing. So then I'm going to stop all of these rules, right? Maybe except for this one. This one says if other mem urgent, then move it to help desk MS. Speaker 2 00:04:21 Yeah, don't don't do anything with that one. Speaker 1 00:04:23 So this rule I'll probably keep, right? But the all other ones they do nothing. So I'm gonna just to be safe, I'm gonna turn them off. Send a test email while I'm doing this. Already did. Okay, So and we're sure right thatum it's not some kind of a try uh the thread functionality that if it just says teams, it's really nothing, right? Right. If nothing specified. Speaker 2 00:04:57 Correct. It might have been they like. Yeah, It might have been something we were working on when we set up the account. Never got finished. Speaker 1 00:05:12 Okay, so there was one where I did see something about channels. So let's look real quick at that. Not this one. Save. Speaker 1 00:06:10 I think this one. This one says Team MS Thread Chat. So this one seems like doing something. Live chat flow. Yeah. Are you with me? Speaker 2 00:06:25 Yep. That one is And. Speaker 1 00:06:27 This one fired up Yeah, Speaker 2 00:06:30 That one actually does work Um. What it does is it puts there's a thread chat that goes to technicians to let us know when something is uh needs our attention. Speaker 1 00:06:41 Okay, so it looks like this thing is more or less ended up coming here, right? Sharp. Right? Status. So does this thing assigns priority automatically or not? Yes. And by default, so is there a set of rules or by default it's just priority three? Speaker 2 00:07:02 By default it's priority three. Speaker 1 00:07:05 I see. Okay. So let's take a look at what, Production boss shown us. Speaker 2 00:07:12 You're going to ever give me access. Speaker 1 00:07:16 Yeah, I will. So Control Shift R, let's refresh. So this one is in the dry run. Okay, let me, I think I need to enable it now. Smart dispatch board, All of these except for this one. Let me kill that. Okay, so here we're going to turn this on, save, and I think I need to go into Poller, stop it and start it. Speaker 1 00:08:11 Okay, and now let's take a look. So it seen these three. Not seeing our tickets, right? Speaker 1 00:08:40 23 minutes ago. Let's give it a minute. Speaker 1 00:08:54 Okay, So let's see over here it's new new email that hasn't changed. Okay. How were you seeing that there were tickets? So it's 524, right? Were you just looking at all boards and you were looking at, right, whatever's new came in? Yep. And then you looked at which board that ended up going? Yep. Okay. All right. So we have that. We have Smart Dispatch. I'm going to refresh the screen. Speaker 2 00:09:39 Okay. Yeah, There was a there was a wine guard that uh that Jose had pulled right before you. Speaker 1 00:09:48 Meaning at what time? Speaker 2 00:09:49 Uh, well it came about 5:17. He pulled that one. Speaker 1 00:09:56 Did he do it himself manually? Speaker 2 00:09:58 Yep, And then he did another one at 5:12, and then John Wilder did pulled one at 5:07. Speaker 1 00:10:09 Okay. Well, if they're creating and doing, that's fine. Yeah. Um, okay. So let's see. I enabled. Speaker 2 00:10:22 I'm putting in ten different test tickets over the course of the next twenty minutes that are random scenarios. So that it will pick it up and triage it. Speaker 2 00:10:57 And I'm going to add a very special message for you at the very bottom. Speaker 1 00:11:02 I did see you telling about April and me stealing her. Mhm. And, you know, I loved it. Speaker 2 00:11:10 Everybody, everybody on LinkedIn knows that I have the best boss and the best company. Speaker 1 00:11:17 All right, So we've got that on this, we can skip You have new order SVP Okay That's great. Okay, what is okay. I think I can let you go, dear. Right now it seems like I have to figure out what's happening here, right? So no need to stay. But, it looks like it stopped whatever we did stopped the tickets from being pulled or maybe it was the users, the technicians who actually created and automatically pulled it. Yes. But clearly we can see that the system is no longer removing these tickets. Speaker 1 00:11:55 Because there is these two were keep on staying. Yep. All right, awesome. All right, I'll keep you posted. Thank you. All right, bye.
07-24 Meeting: Insider Threat Response at Belay
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-24 15:33:25 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Insider Threat Response at Belay - Belay is addressing a potential insider threat involving an employee. - A company-wide litigation hold is being enabled. - Licenses are being upgraded to E5 to support purging, data loss prevention (DLP), and reporting. - Active Track will be deployed to monitor the employee without appearing targeted. - Active Track deployment will be a silent install via RMM; no user logins are required. - Most measures are being executed immediately; Active Track may take up to one week. - [Speaker 2] will be out of office next week but will monitor phone and requests. - [Speaker 1] requested the Active Track quote to allow the team to begin deployment. - Conclusion: Immediate actions (litigation hold, E5 upgrades, DLP/reporting) are underway; Active Track deployment is planned with a one-week turnaround, pending quote. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Provide the Active Track quote and obtain approval to initiate deployment - [ ] Complete E5 license upgrades and enable purging, DLP, and reporting - [ ] Perform silent install of Active Track via RMM across devices - [ ] Maintain litigation hold for all users - [ ] Keep [Speaker 2] informed during their out-of-office period next week - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify the exact deployment schedule and milestones for Active Track over the next week. > 2. Confirm who owns delivering the Active Track quote and by when. > 3. Define monitoring and reporting procedures post-deployment (what to track, cadence, responsible parties). > 4. Ensure legal/compliance review is completed for litigation hold and monitoring activities. > 5. Establish communication protocols while [Speaker 2] is out next week (primary point of contact and escalation path). [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] CONFIDENTIAL (client personnel matter). Heads-up to Vince (Belay account coverage, OOO wk of 7/27): insider-threat response - org-wide litigation hold, E5 upgrades for Purview/DLP/reporting, ActivTrak sale pending quote, silent install via RMM; everything executing immediately except ActivTrak (~1 wk). CW notes intentionally generic.
- Date
- Jul 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hey. Hi. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. So I want to give you a heads up about something, there's nothing you need to do, just want to get it on your mind so that you're aware of it. Um There is a potential insider threat issue going on at Belay with an employee, so what they've decided to do is we're turning on litigation hold for everybody, We are upgrading all of their licenses to E5 so that we can turn on purview and data loss protection and reporting. Speaker 1 00:00:30 And we are selling them Active Track, Which I need that quote so that the team can go ahead and start pushing it out to the computers. And they're able to monitor this particular employee without looking like she's being targeted. Speaker 2 00:00:45 Oh, okay. So it's gonna Is that going to be happening silent install? They still need to log in, right? Or are we going to do that after hours? Speaker 1 00:00:53 Active Track Active Track isn't going to require logins. We can silent install it from RMM. Speaker 2 00:00:58 Yeah Okay Okay, Got it. So, okay, that sounds good. Thanks for the heads up. And then we're executing this over the weekend or? Speaker 1 00:01:08 Well, we're executing it right now with the exception of Active Track. I told her Active Track might take us a week, But everything else is being done right now and she's aware of the turnaround time on Active Track. It's not as needed as everything else. Speaker 2 00:01:23 Okay, got it. Yep. All right, Sounds good. Um, just FYI, in case you didn't know, I'm out next week actually. So I will be out of office. Yeah, but I will have my phone and I'll check in on anything. So just keep me in the loop. Speaker 1 00:01:36 I will thank you Thank you Talk to you later Vince Bye All right.
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388A590DBC449877F24C4659799F1FDD349656C7-1D91
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- Date & Time: 2026-04-21 10:05:24 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Crimson IT ## Overview Crimson IT, a California-based IT services company, is seeking to understand the regulatory requirements for their technicians and owners to work with their new client, Maverick Gaming, which is located in Nevada. The primary point of confusion is whether their California-based employees and owners need to obtain Nevada gaming licenses or registrations themselves. The consultation clarified that because they are not establishing a licensed business in Nevada, their client, Maverick Gaming, is responsible for registering any required personnel through their own portal with the Nevada Gaming Control Board. ## Background Crimson IT, represented by April, is an IT services company based in Los Angeles, California. They have been contracted by **Maverick Gaming**, a licensed gaming entity in Nevada, to manage their **cybersecurity and IT needs**. The call was initiated to the Gaming Control Board's enforcement unit to clarify the licensing and registration requirements for Crimson IT's technicians and owners who will be involved in the project. The primary uncertainty stems from Crimson IT being an out-of-state vendor providing services to a regulated Nevada business. ## Pain Points The process for getting their technicians and owners properly registered to work with a Nevada-based gaming client is unclear. This confusion creates uncertainty and potential delays in starting their project with Maverick Gaming. The key problem is not knowing **who is responsible for the registration process** (Crimson IT or Maverick Gaming) and **what steps are required** for both their technicians and company owners. They are unsure if their status as a California-based Managed Service Provider (MSP) requires them to get a Nevada business license or if their owners need to undergo a separate licensing process. They initially reached out to Barry Chilton, an investigator, who then directed them to the employee registration unit, indicating a lack of a clear, single point of contact for their specific situation. ## Expectations Crimson IT needs to obtain **clear, actionable steps** to ensure their technicians and company are compliant with Nevada's gaming regulations. Their goal is to understand the exact procedure for getting their personnel approved to work on the Maverick Gaming project. They expect to know whether **they need to apply directly for any licenses** or if the responsibility falls on their client, Maverick Gaming. Success would be having a defined process they can follow immediately to proceed with the project without regulatory hurdles. ## Other Information Summary - Crimson IT is a California-based company and does not plan to obtain its own Nevada business license for this engagement. - Maverick Gaming holds the gaming license in Nevada and is the entity responsible for registering third-party vendor employees through their portal. - April from Crimson IT had previous contact with Barry Chilton, an investigator in Northern Nevada, regarding owner licensing but was redirected for employee registration questions. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Contact Maverick Gaming to provide a list of employees (with names, socials, and dates of birth) who will work on the project. - [ ] Confirm with Maverick Gaming that they will handle the registration of these employees as gaming employees through their portal. - [ ] After confirming the employee process with Maverick Gaming, follow up with Barry Chilton to clarify whether any separate licensing is required for Crimson IT’s owners and, if so, the specific steps and documentation needed. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as The unclear process for getting their technicians and owners properly registered to work with a Nevada-based gaming client. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. Advise the client to immediately designate a single point of contact within their company to liaise with Maverick Gaming's compliance or HR department. This person should request a detailed, step-by-step guide or checklist from Maverick on the vendor employee registration process. > 2. Recommend that the client formally document the information received from the Gaming Control Board in an email to Maverick Gaming. This creates a paper trail and confirms their understanding that Maverick is responsible for the registrations, prompting Maverick to initiate the process. > 3. Suggest creating a simple internal FAQ document for their technicians explaining the process. This document would state that Maverick Gaming will handle their registration and clarify what personal information they will need to provide, proactively managing employee questions and concerns.
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:06 Gaming Control Board enforcement. I can help you. Speaker 2 00:00:09 Hi, my name is April and I'm calling from Crimson IT, California based IT services company. And I was referred to the employee registration unit to ask about technician requirements. Speaker 1 00:00:21 About what kind of requirements? Speaker 2 00:00:23 Umum so for the core context, uh, For context, uh, We've been hired by Maverick Gaming to handle their cyber security and I T needs. And uh, we were just wondering if the technicians that will be involved in this project. Uh, requires a license as well or registration. Speaker 1 00:00:46 Ohum. And this is but this is in from where what what county. Speaker 2 00:00:54 Um, for uh, we're from California. Okay, Speaker 1 00:00:56 But they're they're in L A. Okay, but this is for a business here in Vegas. Speaker 2 00:01:01 Yes, so we've we've been hired by a business in Vegas. Speaker 1 00:01:05 By whom Sorry, I didn't hear. I didn't catch you. Sorry. Speaker 2 00:01:08 Uh Maverick Gaming. Speaker 1 00:01:10 Oh Maverick Gaming Um let me put you through to my supervisor Hold on one second Okay And, and you are from and you are out of California What part I am sorry now just I should write this down. Uh From. Speaker 2 00:01:21 Los Angeles California Los Angeles Okay One second Thank you Okay Thank you. Speaker 4 00:02:05 This Is where I may help you. Speaker 2 00:02:08 Hi, my name is April, and I am calling from Crimson IT, a California based IT services company. I was referred to you regarding the employee registration. You need to ask about technician requirements. Speaker 4 00:02:22 Okay, are you going to do business in Nevada? Speaker 2 00:02:25 Um yes, we've been hired by Maverick Gaming to handle their cybersecurity and IT needs. So, we're kind of wondering, oh sorry, go ahead. Speaker 4 00:02:35 That's sorry. So what you'll do isum. All your employees that you're going to provide for Maverick, you know, whether Maverick pays them or you pay them, it doesn't matter who pays them. Maverick will tell you if they need to be gamingum employees or not, and then they would register with Maverick. So let's say if you hire me on to do, You know, X, Y and Z, and you're going to pay. Then Maverick will actually give me the registration because we, because maverick holds the licensee here in Nevada. The license. Speaker 2 00:03:05 Okay and okay so maverick will, File the registration on our behalf, is that correct? Speaker 4 00:03:11 Yes. So you will just, you know, provide them with a list of, you know, names and socials and date of birth and say, you know, these individuals are potential gaming employees. And then they have to register them through their portal. Speaker 2 00:03:25 Register through their portal. Speaker 4 00:03:28 And they'll know if they need to be registered or not because, you know, that's what they do every day. Speaker 2 00:03:34 Oh, I see. Gotcha. Speaker 4 00:03:35 If you had a, you know, business Nevada, then you know we would register through your portal through your business. Since you're from California, we let the casinos or the third party do it. Speaker 2 00:03:46 Uhhuh. I see, okay. Oh, also thank you one for one one more question. Um I've initially reached out to Barry Childer if I'm Oh, let me double check my email. Uh, oh, Sheldon sorry, who? Barry Chilton, we initially reached out to him. Um, because we're just wondering uh if our owners of the company, um regarding their the license that we also need to apply for the owners. Speaker 4 00:04:17 If yeah, so heum so I'm in Las Vegas, so he is actually up north. I can give you his phone number and you can contact him directly. Um I know that he is he is uh like an investigator up north for this type of issue. Speaker 2 00:04:33 Yeah, he actually gave us his phone number. But for the employee registration, he initially asked us to reach out to you. So I'm just wondering if you also know regarding the owners, um, for the next steps for the owners of the company. Speaker 4 00:04:48 Meaning the owners of the business in California or the owners in Nevada? Speaker 2 00:04:52 Oh, in California. Sorry. For Crimson IT, for our company. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:04:57 But, but are you planning on on doing business here in Nevada under a Nevada license? Speaker 2 00:05:02 Um, no, we're just simply the MSP for Maverick Gaming. Speaker 4 00:05:07 Right. Yeah, So then you'll you'll just let Maverick know all the employees that you know they're going that you're going to provide for them. And, they will register them as a gaming employee under their portal under Maverick's portal. Speaker 2 00:05:21 Under your report. Okay, got it. Okay, Um yeah I'm gonna go ahead and reach out to Maverick. Uh regarding the next steps with you. Mentioned earlier. Okay. Okay, thank you so much. You're welcome, bye-bye. Okay, bye-bye.
05-07 Weekly Meeting: ARC Security Plan, Vulnerability Scanning, and MDM Strategy
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- > Date: 2026-05-07 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] ## Meeting Notes ### Security Plan Deliverables for ARC - **Description** - Discussion focused on whether the Information Security Plan, Business Continuity Plan, and Incident Response Plan are included in ARC's standard Managed Services (MS) agreement. - EAP was used as a benchmark; their MS Enterprise Agreement includes these plans. - It was confirmed these plans are typically provided to clients under the standard agreement. - **Conclusion** - These plans are deliverables for ARC under the current agreement and must be created and sent to them. ### Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing - **Description** - ARC's agreement does not include vulnerability scans. - A quote will be prepared for these services. - The team can perform internal and external vulnerability scans. - Penetration testing requires a third-party vendor; Crimson IT cannot perform it. - A potential vendor currently testing for Crimson IT was identified; a meeting is scheduled for 2:30 PM on May 7, 2026. ### Vendor Cyber Risk Assessment - **Description** - Discussion covered assessing the security posture of ARC's third-party vendors (e.g., Slack, Dropbox, Yardi). - Initial idea was that ARC would scan its vendors. - Clarified that ARC should request vendors' evidence of security scans and compliance (e.g., SOC reports/certificates). - Process: ARC provides a vendor list; the team will contact vendors to collect required security reports. ### ARC's Current Security and Compliance Posture - **Description** - Review of ARC's Hudu documentation showed several compliance gaps: - No Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution in place. - Devices are Entra-joined but not fully enrolled in Intune, despite Business Premium licenses. - No tabletop exercise conducted. - Positive controls: - SSO enabled for Slack and other applications. - BitLocker enabled; 30 keys stored in Hudu. - A project to replace the Fortinet firewall with a Meraki firewall is underway; a quote has been sent to the client. ### Mobile Device Management (MDM) and BYOD Strategy - **Description** - Implementing MDM is challenging due to ARC's strict BYOD model. - ARC requires auditing and logging for SMS on personal devices. - Global Relay and Smarsh were discussed as potential solutions. EAP uses Smarsh, reportedly only for email archiving. - Microsoft Purview can meet many compliance needs (e.g., DLP) but does not cover cellular SMS logging. - A Global Relay “dual persona app” was suggested as a cost-effective BYOD option. - **Conclusion** - Moving to Microsoft E3/E5 licenses is on ARC’s roadmap. - For SMS auditing, Global Relay or Smarsh will be required. - The team will join vendor discussions; billing will be handled directly between ARC and the vendor due to the lack of an MSP-friendly plan. ### Identifying ARC's Applications - **Description** - ARC’s Hudu application list is incomplete, currently showing only Slack. - Airtable and Cloudflare were found in the password list. - Suggested checking onboarding team notes, though it may be too late. - **Conclusion** - The team will work with ARC to compile a complete list of vendors and applications for the risk assessment. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 6] to draft the Information Security, Business Continuity, and Incident Response policies for ARC and send for internal review. - [ ] Prepare and send a quote to ARC for quarterly internal and external vulnerability scans. - [ ] [Speaker 2] to attend the meeting with the recommended penetration testing vendor at 2:30 PM on May 7, 2026; capture scope, deliverables, and pricing. - [ ] Schedule a tabletop exercise with ARC and define objectives, participants, and scenarios. - [ ] [Speaker 2] to work with ARC to obtain a complete list of third-party vendors and applications (including Slack, Dropbox, Yardi, Airtable, Cloudflare). - [ ] [Speaker 2] to contact vendors to request security and compliance evidence (e.g., SOC reports, security scan summaries) and track responses. - [ ] Create a pros and cons document for Global Relay and Smarsh (features, SMS logging capability, cost, deployment model) to present to ARC. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. There is a significant compliance gap due to the lack of a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution, especially with ARC's strict BYOD policy. While solutions were discussed, a formal project proposal and client buy-in strategy have not been defined. > 2. The documentation for ARC's applications and vendors is incomplete. A clear plan to work with the client to perform a full discovery and document all systems is needed to proceed with the vendor risk assessment. > 3. ARC is not fully utilizing its Microsoft Business Premium licenses, specifically for Intune enrollment. An action item to plan and execute the full enrollment to close this security gap was not explicitly assigned.
- Date
- May 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 I have a bunch of questions, but I'm gonna let the team go first.'Cause I always Yeah, Speaker 2 00:00:04 No, for sure. Okay. So let's start with the first bullet point, right? Information security plan, business continuity plan and incident response plan. I know that we've we've done this and we do this for for for like other customers. I am going to use EAP as the example because EAP is already s. Oh, sorry. Are you showing? No, I just I just put the um, the bullet points in the. Oh, in chat. I see. Okay. So, I am going to use EAP as an example, right? Because EAP is already SEC registered and. Obviously, there's similarities between these two customers. My question to us all is. Speaker 2 00:00:55 Was this something that we delivered to them as part of their plan, or was this something that we built separately? The first is the use of a special type of ink that can be removed with water. Speaker 4 00:01:14 Let Me check with Sigrid if we already sent over our templates for information security. It should be information security policy. Business continuity plan and incidence response plan. Speaker 5 00:01:29 So, sorry, what was the question Vince? Speaker 2 00:01:33 So the question is. With our capital has our kind of standard MS agreement, right. EAP has our like MS Enterprise Agreement, which includes, which my understanding is includes information security plan, incidence response plans. T abletop exercises, so on and so forth. So if ARC is approaching us and saying," Hey guys, this is something that we need,". Is this something that we provide out of the box with our standard MS agreement, or do we need to go back to them and say," This is a separate. Speaker 6 00:02:07 Cost." So, we provide it for every other client out there as part of their agreement. On that part now, vulnerability scanning and extra things like that. That's always a separate cost. And that can be part of the agreement. Which agreement are they on, first off? Speaker 2 00:02:30 They're on our kind of new standard MS agreement, which is. Speaker 5 00:02:35 I am fairly certain that the agreement we gave them. Said it includes all of this as part of the deal. I, if I recall correctly, the thing they signed and we can pull it up. If you pull up their agreement, I am pretty certain that it said it included. Speaker 5 00:02:53 All of the all of this as part of the deal. It was a fairly straightforward thing, but I am pretty sure I remember it said that. Speaker 4 00:03:04 And vendor cyber risk assessment. Speaker 3 00:03:14 Now why are you pulling that up? Speaker 6 00:03:16 I can tell you that no one has, no one, if they have done this, they have not done it properly. But it doesn't look like anybody's done their policies. I've not been asked to do their policies. And usually I would get asked to do that, but there's no company policies. In WhoDo, there is nothing in the client team's file for them, And I don't have anything on my system as having made those policies for them. So it looks like it hasn't been done unless. Speaker 6 00:03:51 Someone just did it and didn't put it anywhere. But I can I can spin up all of their stuff. Speaker 4 00:03:58 Sigrid checking with the Julia if we did provide them with those policies. Speaker 2 00:04:05 Okay. Okay, so clear. So the first bullet point, That's something that we need to deliver to them and is part of the plan. So that's just. It is what it is. Speaker 2 00:04:18 Ri sk assessment and ongoing penetration vulnerability testing. Do we have quarterly? Vulnerability scans included. We're. Speaker 4 00:04:32 Gonna check if we have them. There is no vulnerability scans on agreement. I'm not seeing vulnerability scans. Okay. Speaker 3 00:04:48 The name of the town is derived from the river. I don't think you have enough Adobe tabs open there, Benson. Mike, you don't have enough. Speaker 2 00:05:03 I'm sorry. And then Mike complains about how his system is all slow. Speaker 4 00:05:11 You need to open a ticket with the help desk. Speaker 4 00:05:17 So vulnerability scans, something we need to like. Prepare a quote for them. Speaker 2 00:05:28 Okay, so so my understanding of vulnerability scans is we can do internal quarterly. And external, both of them. External. Speaker 4 00:05:37 And internal. Speaker 2 00:05:40 So internal, external, but also do we need to engage a third party? Speaker 4 00:05:45 For Vulnerability scans, no. For pen testing, Yes. For pen testing, if they need pen testing, it's supposed to be someone with the name not the Crimson IT. Speaker 3 00:05:57 Okay. Clear. So, that I guess Oh, sorry. Go ahead, Christy. Oh no Keep going I'm sorry I inter I interrupted him. Speaker 2 00:06:08 Oh no, you're fine. So so so that third bullet point vendor cyber risk assessment. What this implies is all of the third party tools, right So their vendors, so. Whether that be Slack or Dropbox or, you know, Yardi or whatever other systems that they use. They they're asking for third party scans, And I I believe there are systems that do this or like services that do this. That'll scan third party cloud services. To make sure that there's accountability on. Speaker 3 00:06:42 Their security posture. Can you elaborate on that? Speaker 1 00:06:49 What's an example of third party? Speaker 3 00:06:51 Along the same page. Any SaaS applications, right? So like let's say they use, you know, in this case they use a couple. The vendor vendor should be able to provide it. Speaker 2 00:07:01 The Vendor should be right. Okay. Speaker 4 00:07:05 So, For example, during right now we have a certification for HANA. And we are providing them with the So, compliance. I saw compliance, which is basically downloading the certificates from Azure and Google Workspace as evidences. That's all we got. I am not sure what kind of vendor cyber risk assessment. It's not even like certification they are asking for. Speaker 4 00:07:40 You need to run risk assessment for each vendor that you are. Working with and it doesn't mean about a slack or. Google Workspace, you should run a risk assessment for vendors that you are working directly. Like for example, they should run risk assessment for Crimson IT. Crimson IT is a vendor for ARC. As MSP company running the RIT, They should send us over a questionnaire form with the list of the measures and procedures that we have internally with Crimson IT. Whenever we're working with the ARC. And based on that questionnaire, they should assign Crimson IT level of the risk. Same story for someone who's like providing with the advertising in the. Speaker 4 00:08:36 U h, like internet, they should run risk assessment for that vendor as well. Speaker 1 00:08:41 I'm I'm pretty sure. It doesn't seem reasonable to have arc, pay the money to scan all their vendors. I think the vendors, Just like Alere is asking us to provide evidence that we did our own scan. I see. That's what that is. I think, um, Arc just needs to have their vendors provide evidence that they properly scan their environment. To me, that seems like it would be sufficient, but we might want to double check. Speaker 4 00:09:06 Yeah, probably you're right, Mike. I don't need like something like fancy. Speaker 6 00:09:11 So Vince, can you forward that to me because it is talking about policies? I'll go ahead and start writing up. New policies for them, and then based on their comments and notes. Um. They've got some things they got to clean up. I am just looking at all the documentation in Hudu. They don't have MDM. Which is going to be a gap for compliancy. Speaker 4 00:09:39 In tune, in tune as well. Speaker 6 00:09:41 They're not in tune, they're just interjoined but not full in- tune enrollment. Um, and they do have Intune because it's included in Business Premium. So they are paying for it. We have not done a tabletop exercise with them, so we can get that on the schedule pretty quickly. And then, let me look at some. There was something else I installed. Speaker 6 00:10:06 They do have SSO enabled for Slack and a few other apps, which is really good. But, we want to take a look at all their applications and see how they're logging in. They do have BitLocker. BitLocker is in Hudu. Thirty keys are there. Um, Fortinet has has anybody done uh any validation against Fortinet for the firewall to see if it You know, Speaker 3 00:10:33 It hits all the points correctly. Speaker 2 00:10:38 I don't know if that's done, But there's a quote in front of them right now for replacing their Fortinet with a Meraki firewall. Okay, good. Speaker 1 00:10:46 So yeah, those are two projects I'm hearing so far. MDM project. And the. Speaker 2 00:10:54 So. So, the MDM project that's going to be tricky for me to spin because they've been very, very adamant on bring your own device model. And that's why the other day I was asking about Global Relay and Smirch. Marsh. Marsh, I think it's called. Yeah. Because they need the. To have auditing and logging for SMS messages to the additional devices. So Partner agreement or something along those lines, but also just. Delivering a solution for them because Optima. Speaker 2 00:11:34 Re commended global relay to to what does. Speaker 1 00:11:39 EAP do for mobile devices. Speaker 2 00:11:42 Apparently they have smarsh. So when I I did a search in our documentation and only only. The only hit is EAP with Smarsh. And so when I asked, you know, Monty's like, oh, I just helped them set it up. I think they use it for email archiving only. Speaker 6 00:11:57 Belay does it for email archiving as well. So Belay has Smartr. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:05 Now, So the two big players in this space, yeah. Speaker 6 00:12:07 So Microsoft will do all almost all of the same things. I need to check on the SMS. But for BYOD, There is a lot that we can do within Microsoft, where we don't have to. To purchase extra applications. Microsoft Purview will do it for desktops and Teams, but it won't do cellular. So Global Relay will work in that area. But there's a lot of things where, like with Smarsh, They honestly don't need to spend that extra money, and they can do a lot of things within Microsoft Purview. They just need to upgrade their licenses there. Speaker 2 00:12:46 Yeah, so so quick update on that. Um, went through a Dropbox SharePoint migration presentation with them. I did advise them already that we we should be moving them to E 3. And then later down when they scale to E 5. So that's already on the roadmap for them. Okay. Speaker 6 00:13:04 So global relays or smarts would be required for what they're looking for. But for everything else, DLP, which they're going to need for SEC and things like that. Let's get them on Microsoft Purview eventually. Okay. Speaker 2 00:13:21 Okay, so that's part of that that nice plan. Um, how how should we engage with either global figure or small? Like my my first intuition is just. Put the two like make the contacts happen with the two vendors in front of them, and then have them. I. Speaker 6 00:13:40 Can get you a pros and cons document written up if that would help. Speaker 2 00:13:44 Oh, I already did that research. There's there's some pros and cons. Global warming being number one. Yes, March being Kind of the the up- and- comer, but. Speaker 1 00:13:55 I would do that regardless for optics. Yeah. Speaker 6 00:13:59 I agree with Mike. Speaker 6 00:14:02 Now, Is the vendor recommending the full suite of Global Relay or just Global Relay Hello? Um, that I don't know. Okay. I haven't gotten that deep into it yet. Yeah. If they're doing the dual persona app only, That's that's actually going to be their best option and it's cheaper than the full suite. Um, because they're all they all they need is a dual persona app. And it is much significantly cheaper, especially if they're doing BYOD. Speaker 2 00:14:36 Okay. That's through Global Relay or Smartr. Speaker 6 00:14:40 Global Relay. I've done a little research in Global Relay because. I think not EAP, Curated Wealth Partners was considering them at one point. Okay. Speaker 2 00:14:58 And then, is this something that we need to engage directly with Global Relay, Or are we just going to provide advisory and then just have them work directly with the customer? Speaker 6 00:15:07 Honestly, I would I would like us sitting in on those just just from an optics point of view. And because we're trying to say, hey, we're your everything it shop. So we should be in those conversations. Speaker 1 00:15:20 Oh, I think Vince was, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. I think Vince was saying Assuming what you're asking, if, This is something we would use MSP wide. That's one conversation, but if it's only for ARC, it's probably better relationship between them too. Speaker 6 00:15:35 Well, I said billing, Speaker 1 00:15:37 Right? That kind of stuff. Speaker 6 00:15:38 So we can still do billing and stuff with them, but we need to understand the application as well. So it'd be nice for us to have that because as Anza is trying to grow, we're going we're going to have more and more companies like this that are. Looking for us to strategically get involved, especially if they're heading towards SEC registration. Any future companies, It'll be nice for us to be involved in that and already have that relationship. Speaker 1 00:16:06 Yeah, well, we the account management team. I mean, I am Vince. You already know this. We get we always ask our customers to get in front of. That let us sit on every single conversation with third party. I was just referring to the billing model. The global really doesn't have an MSP friendly plan. We're not going to make margin on it, so it's just better for them to pay with the credit card, right? Speaker 6 00:16:26 Yeah. And that's I mean that's best perfect because lately for Ability and Sharp, if it's something that doesn't have an MSP plan, I'm just setting it up with their credit card. So. Speaker 2 00:16:40 Okay, fair. And then the last bullet point is easy, right? Awareness training, phishing campaigns. I already walked in with that before. So I think we should be good. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:16:49 Okay. Um. Speaker 2 00:16:50 So just to clarify, Vendor cyber risk assessment:. The recommendation is that we reach out to each of the individual. And then have them provide reporting on their vulnerability scans and testing. Okay. This has been interesting. We can hand it back to the panel. Speaker 4 00:17:08 Who's going to reach out to vendors? I'll. Speaker 2 00:17:12 Work with the teams. I'll work with the teams. Speaker 4 00:17:14 No, no, no. Like means I'm just The name of the town is derived from the river. Are they gonna provide us with the list of the vendors? Speaker 2 00:17:23 Yeah, they they will. I mean that that should be part of the application documentation, right Like all the different vendors they they work with. Um and then I can just reach out and say, hey, you know, to help you guys right. We'll work with each of the vendors to make sure that they provide that kind of reporting. I'm sure for the major vendors, there's like a website or a page that shows all of their. You know, recent security posture validations or whatever. So I think we we're good on that. Um, and then for school to play again. Flat. Wait in in who do or. No. Speaker 1 00:18:08 I don't know about ITG. Maybe they haven't migrated yet. Speaker 6 00:18:12 I didn't hear what you just said, Mike. You cut out. Sorry. Speaker 1 00:18:16 Oh, I was saying that there's only one application listed under Ark. It was Slack. Speaker 2 00:18:21 Oh, I am going off the password list because then when you go in there, T here is like Airtable, and then t here is Cloudflare, and then t here is. Speaker 1 00:18:29 I would talk to the onboarding team to see if they have notes that, that should have been captured. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it's probably too late now, so Vince you might have to work. I don't know. But the only application listed is Slack. Okay. Speaker 3 00:18:45 See, Ark wasn't my company, so. I have all my apps in mind. Speaker 2 00:18:54 Um, Anton, last thing, if we do need to reach out for a third party security scan, do we have any vendors that we can put in front of them? For Pentesting. Speaker 4 00:19:10 Not The guys we use for coats in, please. No, no. We have a guys who are running the pen test for Crimson IT. So yeah, And they supposed to be done with our pen test by the end of Friday tomorrow. Speaker 6 00:19:24 Is that why I keep getting these random Adobe emails trying to get me to respond and talking about urgency and stuff like that? Speaker 4 00:19:32 No, it's just because of the Adobe. Oh, I'm not using him. Speaker 1 00:19:37 I have a meeting with the pen test vendor that we just used. I have a meeting with them at two thirty. I'm gonna include you. Uh, Speaker 2 00:19:44 You're vetting them or. Speaker 1 00:19:48 I have a client that needs to do a pen test, and so Anzor recommended the company that we just used. That's the same company Anton's referring to. Mhm. I'm meeting with them at two thirty, if you want to be part of that meeting. Speaker 2 00:20:01 Uh, yeah, just send it over. So I don't have a conflict, I'll jump in. Okay. Cool. All right, yeah. Just point some clarity on that. Just want to make sure that we're, you know, due diligence on what the next steps are. So it sounds like you know bullet point one, that's a deliverable we need to get out to them. Assessment ongoing for the phishing, all daily testing, same thing. Vendor reach out to the vendors remote wipe, I mean we've tested with them and then awareness campaign. The film. Speaker 3 00:20:34 Was shot in the United States. Okay. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:20:41 Thanks everybody. I'm not going to be able to do that.
05-21 Lecture: AI Training on Microsoft Copilot and Claude
- Notes
- Date: 2026-05-21 12:59:19 Location: [Insert Location] Instructor: Christi ## Summary This recording captures a conversation between Christi and another participant while waiting for an AI training session to begin, followed by the training session itself. The initial conversation involves Christi giving instructions to create a themed Excel test document for upcoming training and troubleshooting a colleague's (Cindy) inability to join the Teams meeting due to a common memory-related issue, resolved by a computer restart. The training session then commences, led by Christi for employees at Coateson. It serves as an introduction to AI tools, focusing on Microsoft Copilot and Claude. Christi defines AI as a pattern-recognition and prediction tool, likening it to a "capable intern" that requires human oversight. She emphasizes the data security of the company-provided versions. The session includes live demonstrations of Copilot's integration within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote) for tasks like summarizing emails and documents and creating presentations. The lecture then transitions to Claude, presenting it as a superior standalone AI for writing, research, and creative tasks. Christi highlights its privacy features, personalization capabilities, and a feature called CoWork, which acts as a "mini project manager" by connecting to local computer folders to manage and summarize files. The session concludes with a discussion of practical aspects like subscription tiers, token-based usage, billing, and how employee usage will be monitored without compromising privacy. Christi plans to send follow-up information and schedule an advanced training session. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Pre-Training Discussion - **Excel Data Preparation for Training** - **Task:** Create two Excel documents for Ability First and Sharp training sessions scheduled for May 21, 2026. - **Spreadsheet 1 (Employee Data):** Create a single sheet (no tables) with generic employee data. - **Content:** Fake names, salaries, start dates, and locations based on themes from "The Lord of the Rings," "Star Trek," and "Star Wars." The data should not be related to the actual clients. - **Spreadsheet 2 (Financial Data):** Create a second spreadsheet with fake financial data using the same themes. - **Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams** - **Problem:** A user (Cindy) experienced a blank white screen when trying to join a Teams meeting. - **Cause:** This is a common Teams issue caused by memory overload, which can happen if a computer is not rebooted regularly, especially after heavy usage like multiple back-to-back meetings. - **Solution:** A simple computer restart (reboot) typically resolves the issue. - **Checking for System Updates** - **Windows:** Navigate to Start > Settings > "Windows Update." - **Mac (Managed by Crimson):** Christi recalls from memory to click the Apple menu > "Preferences" to find the update section. A challenge for users is that managed updates by "Crimson" often require an admin password for manual app updates, which they do not have. ### 2. Introduction to AI and Training Overview - **Session Logistics:** The meeting is recorded, an AI facilitator takes notes in chat, and the small group size encourages questions. - **Participant Background:** Attendees Cindy and Carla are already comfortable using AI for daily tasks. - **Training Agenda:** The session covers AI fundamentals, live demos of Microsoft Copilot and Claude (including Co-work), real-world use cases, and data privacy best practices. - **Coateson's AI Usage Policy:** A draft policy is in development and will be finalized with employee feedback gathered from these training sessions. - **Other Training:** A separate, general Microsoft Excel training is scheduled for 2-3 PM on May 21, 2026. An advanced AI training will be scheduled in the coming weeks. ### 3. Core Concepts of Artificial Intelligence - **AI as a Prediction Tool:** Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on vast text data to predict the most probable next word in a sequence, operating on statistical probability rather than true understanding. - **AI as a "Capable Intern":** AI is fast and powerful but not infallible; it requires human review and supervision before its work is finalized. - **AI Strengths:** Drafting emails, summarizing documents, research, rewriting text, answering questions with context, creating first drafts, and explaining complex topics simply. - **AI Limitations:** It's not a perfect search engine (data can be outdated), not a replacement for human judgment, cannot access files unless explicitly shared, and should not be used with sensitive information in public versions. The output quality depends heavily on the input prompt. ### 4. Microsoft Copilot - **Integration and Security:** Copilot is integrated into the Microsoft 365 environment (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint, OneNote). It only reads Coateson's internal data, which Microsoft does not use for public model training. A green shield icon confirms data protection. - **Copilot Interface:** Accessible via office.com or a desktop app, it allows switching between "Work" mode (internal data) and "Web" mode (public internet). It provides access to various AI models (Claude Opus, OpenAI GPTs) under Microsoft's enterprise data protection. - **Functionality in Microsoft Apps:** - **Outlook:** Can summarize long email threads and draft replies with user-defined tones. - **Excel:** Can analyze data to generate insights (e.g., total payroll, average salary). It is crucial to protect workbooks with sensitive data using passwords or confidentiality labels. - **Word:** Can summarize documents and suggest improvements. - **PowerPoint:** Can create a full presentation from a Word document script. - **OneNote:** Can organize notes and use templates to structure meeting notes automatically. - **Google Workspace Integration:** Copilot can be connected to Google Docs and Calendars via a connector, though its compatibility with Google Slides is unconfirmed. ### 5. Claude and CoWork - **Claude Overview:** An AI assistant from Anthropic, presented as a superior standalone tool for long-form writing, research, brainstorming, and editing. The version used by Coateson is secure. - **Privacy and Security:** Users can disable the "help improve Claude" setting to prevent their data from being used for training, making it safe for sensitive information. Location metadata can be toggled. - **Personalization:** Claude can be highly personalized. Users can provide detailed instructions to teach it their writing style, tone, vocabulary, and formatting preferences. This creates a consistent voice and can be tailored for different audiences. - **CoWork Feature:** A feature in the Claude desktop app that acts as a "mini project manager." It can connect to local folders (e.g., on OneDrive), read all files within them to gain project context, summarize documents, and outline/execute steps for new tasks. It can be set to "always ask before acting." - **Connectors:** Claude can be integrated with other tools like Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Canva, and Miro via connectors. - **Comparison with Copilot:** - **Copilot:** The AI that is deeply integrated with and understands the user's Microsoft environment. - **Claude:** A standalone, more conversational and creative AI excelling at generating content from scratch. Described as Copilot's "extroverted, talkative sibling." ### 6. Claude Usage and Management - **Creating Templates:** Claude can be used to create reusable, highly customized email templates with specific branding and formatting, as shown with the "Moose the cat" example. - **Subscription and Cost:** Coateson will start on a "base" subscription, with the possibility of upgrading heavy users to "premium." The instructor personally pays $200/month for an advanced plan. - **Token-Based Billing:** All activity is measured in "tokens." Analyzing large files or performing development work consumes more tokens than standard tasks. Most users are unlikely to hit their weekly limits. - **Usage Monitoring and Overage:** Users can track their own token consumption. If a user exceeds their limit, the company is charged for the overage. Administrators can see token consumption data for billing purposes but cannot view the user's private chats or content. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. Create an Excel document with generic, themed employee data (names, salaries, start dates, locations) for the Ability First and Sharp training sessions. The theme should be based on "The Lord of the Rings," "Star Trek," and "Star Wars." - [ ] 2. Create a second Excel spreadsheet with fake financial data following the same "The Lord of the Rings," "Star Trek," and "Star Wars" theme. - [ ] 3. Be mindful of the upcoming finalization of the AI usage policy and be prepared to provide feedback. - [ ] 4. When handling sensitive employee data in Excel, remember to protect the workbook by setting a password, restricting access, or applying confidentiality labels. - [ ] 5. Explore and configure the personalization settings in Claude to match your own writing style and preferences. - [ ] 6. For those interested, join the Microsoft Excel training session from 2-3 PM on May 21, 2026. - [ ] 7. The instructor, Christi, will send a list detailing what tokens are and the token usage rates for different actions to the attendees. - [ ] 8. The instructor will send over additional "tips and tricks" for using the tool. - [ ] 9. An advanced AI training class will be scheduled; look out for the invitation.
- Date
- May 21, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:07 The city is located on the banks of the river Sava. Speaker 1 00:00:43 I need you to create. Speaker 2 00:00:45 An Excel document that has generic data in it that we can use for our training session for Ability, Speaker 1 00:00:53 First and Sharp later today. Do not make tables, just make it have. Speaker 2 00:01:02 A sheet of data. Let's say random employees that have nothing to do with Ability First or Sharp. Let's name them based. Speaker 1 00:01:14 On the Lord of the Rings and Star Trek and Star Wars characters, and then give. Speaker 2 00:01:24 Them fake salaries, give them fake start dates, give them fake locations, and have locations follow that same theme. And then on a second spreadsheet, I want you to do fake financial data based on. Speaker 1 00:01:41 Uh, the same theme going throughout. Speaker 1 00:02:31 Hello. Hi, how are you? I'm good. It looks like it's just you and me. Speaker 3 00:02:39 All right, sounds good to me. One on one. Speaker 2 00:02:42 Yes, let's see who all else joins. Let's give them a few more moments. Speaker 3 00:02:47 Okay, I thought other people did was there like an invitation RSVP requirement or just joining? Speaker 2 00:02:54 Just joining I know quite a few people I thought had accepted. Speaker 3 00:03:01 Yeah, I thoughtum. Some people said they were going to come, but I don't know if they had went on the first one or not. Speaker 2 00:03:09 Yeah, there was about there was a few on the first one. I think there is more tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:03:16 Oh okay. Speaker 2 00:03:18 I think today's was going to be a little light. Speaker 3 00:03:22 Okay, actually let me check to see if you don't mind me texting? Yeah no worries, I thought one of my colleagues was coming today. Speaker 1 00:03:33 I thought we had a few more people, so I'm going to check. Speaker 3 00:03:59 Oh, One of my colleagues says the team's not opening on her computer for some reason. Speaker 2 00:04:03 Is thatum Cindy? Yes. Cindy is the only other person who accepted. Speaker 3 00:04:10 Okay, she says she's trying to log on but it's not opening for her. Speaker 2 00:04:13 Okay, we can we can give it a few more moments. Speaker 1 00:04:16 I'm not going to start recording until she's ready. Speaker 3 00:04:23 She said she has a blank white screen. Speaker 2 00:04:27 Tell her to do a restart on her computer real quick. Uh blank white screens usually means that it's it's an issue that can easily be solved, be solved by rebooting. Speaker 3 00:04:40 Restarting her computer? Speaker 1 00:04:41 Yes. Okay, I'm gonna tell her. Speaker 1 00:04:58 See if she does it. Is that a computer. Speaker 3 00:05:02 Like an issue? Or is that just a. Speaker 2 00:05:06 So usually it's a Teams issue where Teams has the best way I can put this in plain language, it ran out of memory. Its brain got overloaded. Um and a restart will reset the brain. Speaker 3 00:05:21 Yeah okay How common is that? Is that like a. Speaker 2 00:05:25 It's pretty common, Um, it depends on the user though. So like if I leave my computer on for a full week without rebooting it, I will get that. Um, if I leave my desktop computer on for about a month, I'll start to get it depends on the computer itself. Um and how long it's been since a restart and what you've been doing all day because there was one day I had like eight back to back meetings, and it was full of me sharing my screen. I had to reboot at like four o'clock and still had two more meetings to go. Speaker 3 00:05:59 Oh, wow. Two more meetings ago. Speaker 2 00:06:02 Yes, that's been my life lately. Speaker 3 00:06:07 Well, while we're waiting, can I ask you a kind of a separate tech question? Sure. It's aum You know how like Crimson like updates our computers? Mhm How do I know mine is updated because I leave it on during the hours that they say is being updated. But I. I don't know if it's updated. Speaker 2 00:06:30 Let me show you. Um, hang on one sec, I'm gonna share my screen. I'm gonna click the start button down here, and then I'm gonna go into settings and well, it pulled it up on a different screen. Hang on. I was fixing my screen so that you guys can see better. Um, and then when you're down here, Let me go back to home Okay So when you're in here You're going to go down to Windows Update And. It'll say updates available to install. Now, mine got pushed last night as well. Some of them have already installed, but I need to install the rest of these. But that's how you can see. So, Speaker 3 00:07:11 I have a Mac. Does that Oh, Speaker 2 00:07:14 You have a Mac? That is different. I can't remember the steps to do that off the top of my head, Speaker 1 00:07:20 But it usually Max or. Speaker 2 00:07:26 Max are very it's over here in the Apple menu. That's on the top like where these where the hamburger is on my computer, there's an apple. If you click there, I think there's like a preferences or something there. Okay, I'm I'm doing this from memory. So bear with me, Speaker 3 00:07:44 Yeah. No, that's okay. I I know because it Max always an issue. Yes, Like for updating, you know when when Crimson does it so. Sometimes I don't know if it's actually updated because some things are asking me to like update a particular. Um app or like program. So I'm like oh, isn't that a Crimson update? Yeah, and then I can't update because it's asking for an admin password. Soum just curious see. So. Speaker 3 00:08:23 So I just kind of use whatever version I have at the time. Speaker 1 00:08:26 Yeah. Go back to a new chat. Speaker 2 00:08:31 Okay. Now, I blew up my screen. Are you able to see this? Speaker 1 00:08:37 Yes. Okay, perfect. Um, Cindy said she is rebooting right now. Speaker 3 00:08:50 Okay, perfect. Speaker 2 00:08:52 And she has Ireland. And while she's doing that, I'm going to check. I've got some, I got multiple, I'm multitasking today. Um, I have a training after this for Microsoft, Excel and I want to make sure that my my generic data for that training is ready to go. Speaker 3 00:09:15 What kind of training is that? Is that like advanced training? Speaker 2 00:09:19 Uh, it's not advanced training. It's just a generalized overview for staff. It's about an hour long, and uh, if you would like to join, I can send you the meeting invite. It's from two to three. Um, But it's we're going throughum We're. Speaker 1 00:09:38 Going to go through a few items uh on how to useum How to use Excel. Speaker 3 00:09:49 Okay, Like like really introductory introduction level stuff or is it. Speaker 2 00:09:54 Yeah more base level. Okay. Speaker 3 00:09:57 Yeah I think I got the basic levels. I just like curious of what other features that are available that I'm not using or or not. Speaker 4 00:10:06 Share with thoseeducators out there, you whoever's listening today and who will continue to listen about what is. Speaker 5 00:10:13 Hi Cindy. Hi Cindy, Putting those practices, Speaker 4 00:10:17 I am sorry, I have some sound going on that I can't figure out where it is. It's like a podcast that's playing automatically, so I am going to try to fix that. But thank you for the idea about the restart; it works okay. Speaker 2 00:10:28 Perfect, um, so back to your question: um you you are welcome to join. I can send you the meeting invite. Um, sorry, I got stuck looking at something real quick getting ready for the meeting. Butum. Speaker 2 00:10:44 We're going to be doing. We're just going to be doing basic like how to build out a table. Um we might touch on some copilot items on here. Um maybe so and we'll we'll kind of go through that best practices for saving files. Um so I've got two other clients in that meeting, and we're going over it from both a uh from a Microsoft Google Drive and uh Box point of view. Speaker 2 00:11:14 So okay, yeah, okay. Uh, but you are welcome uh to join and I will. I will uh send you over the invite. Just don't let me forget. So okay thank you since I only have two of you. I am going to uh I am going to record this meeting but, I am going to ask some questions to kind of go through some things on the meeting and just kind of get your understanding. So bear with me, let me start recording. And I also am going to start facilitator and Ms. Facilitator, I always say it's a she. She will be writing notes as we go along, and you'll see her jumping in and out of chat. Speaker 2 00:12:01 And helping out. And so the agenda, I know we're starting. I am going to cut a few items out just based on feedback, and we'll run through it all. But let me know if there's anything that you guys have questions about or that you want me to go slower on. And since it's just the two of you, that's great. We will work through everything as we need to. So, Um, real quickly, I am going to uh ask both of you. I'm going to do introductions in a moment, but I'm gonna ask both of you. How comfortable. Speaker 1 00:12:40 Are you with AI? Cindy's okay. Speaker 3 00:12:48 Yeah, I'm pretty comfortable. I actually use it pretty daily. Good. All. Speaker 5 00:12:56 Right, Carla's an AI mastermind. I've seen some of her, Final products. She's a AI prompt generating genius, is what I'd like to call her. We do we do use it pretty frequently. I mean, I use it to write or not write, but like after I write an email, I use it to clean up an email. Um But also lately I've been trying out image generation because Karlyn inspired me. She makes tables and charts, and it's pretty cool what it can come up with if you just. Speaker 5 00:13:29 Put the right prompts in. Speaker 2 00:13:30 Good. Well, We can get into a little bit of that. If we've got time because I think both of you will like this. We're going to cover two different applications in today, So we're going to go fairly quickly and I am going to apologize in advance, but we are going to have some advanced training in the next couple weeks. I'm still trying to nail down a date, and once I do everyone within Coateson will be invited to that. So just a quick heads up on that portion. Um, and then quick housekeeping. I already told you we're recording it and facilitators on. Um, but feel free to drop questions in the chat as we go. But since it's just the two of you, throw out your questions. So, you're welcome to interrupt me. Stay You um I am going to stay off of camera just because I am in a client location, Um and I don't have a camera They borrowed my camera for an executive and I've not replaced it yet. Uh, but we are going to cover AI from the ground up. Speaker 2 00:14:25 What it actually is, what it's useful for, and how to use the specific tools that Coateson will have access to. And so that's going to be Copilot, which works right inside the existing Microsoft 365 environment. And then Claude, which is an AI assistant from a company called Anthropic. Um and so just just a quick heads up for you guys. Oh let me pull down my PowerPoint for you guys. But just a quick heads up. I want to be upfront about this from the start. You have a draft AI usage policy that is in draft mode. We are going to finish that policy up pretty quickly soon. I'm going to present my PowerPoint for you guys, But we are going to be finishing that up as soon as these trainings are complete. We're going to be looking for your feedback as well, so I want you guys to be aware that that is happening. Speaker 2 00:15:23 Um, and so as we go through this, I am recording. I am going to be taking notes. I do want to know, Um you know your insights and thoughts as far as the AI usage policy and what we need to add to it. Um We are going to go over what is AI and why now? We're going to do a Microsoft Copilot and live demo. We're going to do a Claude demo. We're going to do a co-work demo, And, then we are going to discuss for a few seconds real world use cases. And then data privacy and best practices. And then we'll have Q and A, okay? Now from there, I want you guys to be aware of the, this is a judgment free zone. If, you're wondering it. Others are too so ask if something on the screen looks useful, stop me. We'll explore it together. You have hands on time. So while we're doing this, if you've got some of the tools already go ahead and use it. Speaker 2 00:16:23 And, then we're going to cover what's safe to put in AI tools and what's not. Okay, um, in this is twenty twenty six. So AI has evolved since we started using it a few years back. Um, my life has been AI from the start, And I want you guys to be aware for a long time. People were just using it as like an advanced Google it a research project. Um but it's now becoming this workplace tool It's AI looks at things as far as patterns and predictions. So large language models, which is called LLM, are trained on so much text. People uploaded books and the entire internet. It scrolls through, It looks through everything that there is out on the internet at this time all over the world. But, what they do is they predict the most useful next word at an enormous scale. Speaker 2 00:17:21 They don't know things, and I want to be very clear on this. It is great for doing a lot of things, and then there's things that it doesn't do well. But within the prediction portion, if you say out loud to yourself, Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as. What is that next word that comes after? It's snow. Because we know it. We've memorized it since we were children. AI doesn't know that that's the next word. It's just going to predict what the next word is because it doesn't know like we do, okay? So I want you to understand that they're not magic. AI doesn't think the way we do. So that means, you know, They can't take actions without you asking, because they really don't know and they will make mistakes. So, what I want you guys to think about is it's AI is like a very capable intern. Speaker 2 00:18:19 It's smart, it's fast, very impressive often enough. But you got to review their work before it goes out the door. Okay? Because Mary had a little lamb, Speaker 1 00:18:28 Its fleece was white as a towel is what the intern is going to think rather than snow. Speaker 2 00:18:37 So you want to make sure AI does well. It drafts emails, summarizing researching, Rewriting text for clarity or tone, answering questions from the context you provide, generating first drafts of documents, creating outlines. It does great. I had it set up a few items for this class. It does pull out key points from long documents. I use that often. It does really well at explaining complex topics in layman terms, okay? But what it's not. Speaker 2 00:19:13 It really isn't a search engine. Really isn't, although we treat it like that. It's data that it utilizes right now for Claude was December of twenty twenty five, was the last upload that it has. So sometimes it's got outdated information, so it's not always right. It's not a replacement for your judgment, okay? I want to be very clear on that. It I want you to think of it as a first draft. It can't access your files unless you share them. Don't paste in sensitive donor data, student info, or financial records without understanding the privacy settings. I'm going to take this one step farther and say, don't paste it in unless you're using the code son version. So and I'll show you how that looks. And uh your input quality depends heavily on how you ask. Speaker 2 00:20:11 So what is that prompt? If you don't have a good prompt, its quality is not going to be good. If you have a great prompt, its quality is going to be great. So, the biggest practical takeaway here is AI is a force multiplier for the work you're already doing. It won't replace your judgment. It won't replace your relationships or your expertise in what you know, and both of you, ladies. No, everything is there is to know about your jobs within the foundation. Claude and Copilot don't. So you got to teach it how you work, but what it can do is eliminate a lot of the tedious middle work. It's going to eliminate the first draft, the summary, the reformatting, And you'll spend more time not doing those things. And you'll spend more time on what actually matters. Okay? So. Speaker 2 00:21:06 Um, what we're going to do is we're going to work within three specific tools. Okay, um, we're going to do Copilot. So we're going to talk about how it works within Copilot with Teams, uh Outlook Word Excel SharePoint. Now, the thing to remember with Copilot is Copilot only reads your codes and data. Microsoft is not using it to train public AI models. Uh Microsoft has very clear that, Its security is only as good as your security, and y'all's security is actually really good. So I want you to be aware of that. Okay, and then we're going to go through a live demo with that, Speaker 1 00:21:49 And then we're going to go through Claude. And so let me pull up Claude. So we're going to talk about. Speaker 2 00:21:56 Where and how to access it. We're going to talk about long form writing. We're going to talk about research and summarizing articles and compare options. We're going to talk about brainstorming, and we're going to talk about editing and rewriting. Now, some of these depending on how long it takes, we may have to cut some pieces short. Not a problem. I am going to be doing advanced training later on, And I am going to provide you guys recordings too other videos that are more advanced. Okay? Speaker 2 00:22:26 Um, for co-work, we're going to talk about what makes co-work different. It is a version of Claude, so it is in the Claude desktop app. And uh when I share my screen, you guys will see co-work. You'll see how I use it. Uh basically, you select a folder, and Claude can work inside it just like you would. It'll read the documents, make changes, build new files and organize content. So it's really good at that. Um and then we're going to go through real world, U h use cases, so real quickly I'm going to stop sharing this document and I'm going to share my screen any questions so far about what we've gone through. Speaker 3 00:23:05 Clarify the for the Claude and co- work mode. They're not the data isn't like restricted to codes. And only like co- pilot is, is that correct? So. Speaker 2 00:23:19 The version that we're going to be using for you guys is restricted, um, and it's restricted by the data that's on your computer. Speaker 3 00:23:28 Okay. For Claude and co- work. Yes. Speaker 2 00:23:32 Yeah. Okay. So, all right, um so real quickly let me go into Copilot instead of Claude. Um I was working in something in Claude. This is my Claude Now Claude lives in different things. It lives in. Your Microsoft applications such as Outlook and Teams, and I'm going to show you guys what that looks like in a moment. It lives in Word, it lives in Excel, and it lives in SharePoint. It also lives in PowerPoint. And I'm going to show you guys what that looks like in a moment. But right now, I want you guys to see the web version, which is also an app on my computer. So if I go into uh if I go into office.com. Speaker 2 00:24:18 I'm going to show you guys on my computer. I got a lot of tabs open, so bear with me on the tabs. I go to office dot com. I'm going to log in and go straight to Copilot, okay? And this so this going to be a little slow. I don't know what's up with Microsoft website today, so I'm going to do it in the app, but this basically what you'll see when you go to office dot com. Um You do have the ability to go to new search, This little green shield right here, it means the enterprise data is protected. This means anything you put in here is going to be protected. You can put in client data, you can put in financial data, things like that, donor data. It's not going to share it out with the rest of the world. Copilot is not using any of your chats to train its models. So just be aware of that. Speaker 2 00:25:13 This little button right next to it that says auto, you can drop down and you can choose what kind of AI you want. You can go with a Claude Opus, you can go with OpenAI GPTs. So you've got a couple different options here. Microsoft has incorporated them in it. Even though that they are here, they also are not sharing your data. So I like Opus and Opus is a good tool to use. I can go in here and I can say, Show me how I can't type today. How many emails Kamyab from Kotzen has sent in the last week? And I can I can do that. I can chat with it. It'll look for things. I can ask it and I have done this on my phone. I can ask it to pull up Kamyab's cell phone number. Speaker 2 00:26:11 Because I have that in my notes. So I have that ability to search Copilot in this manner is is really good at finding the data that is in the organization. Okay, so it does look and it says, Oh, the current date is May twenty first twenty twenty six It's right about that. It's going to search for that. You will see its reasoning. And so you'll see that now this little button up here, the work versus web. I have it in work mode, but I can switch it to web mode. And if I switch it to web mode, it is a glorified Google search for me. But it will reason with that information. I also have the ability to create agents. Okay, so I've got some agents right here that I have already. I can build out forms with it. I use Microsoft Forms a lot. I can build out the password generator. I've got more agents in here. Um, i have a water cooler bot. Speaker 2 00:27:11 I s, a specific bot that was created to give me the day's news from a specific chat in Teams. And I can say," Any gossip." I built this uh a while back. So I'm going to say," Any gossip." And, it's going to pull from that chat. And it's going to tell me what's going on. And so we have that ability in here. Um this one has fun. I made it to have fun And. Speaker 1 00:27:44 So we have all of this. And you guys can see, Speaker 2 00:27:51 Here's what the water cooler says. And then it gives a little, you know, tip at the end: stay hydrated with gossip. So it is a pretty useful thing. I work with other companies that have pushed different things out within the agents. It has a, I've done a password generator to make fun passwords for people. I do forms to make forms. And then you've got some other ones in here that were built by Microsoft. And these, we have a lot of fun building these. We also have a help desk one that you guys have seen. So these are different agents you can build. Now when we do the advanced class, we're going to show you guys more about it. Now if I was to go into Outlook, I'm going to pull it up real quick. Speaker 2 00:28:41 And I'm going to pull up an email. I'm going to ask Copilot to give me the information from this email. Now, I'm going to show you an email someone sent. He does not mind me showing you guys this. Uh, I told him I was going to use this email for my AI training. He said please do. He lost his phone. He had me send a lost uh sound to it because he couldn't find his phone anywhere in his house. So I'm going to go in here and I am going to ask Copilot to summarize this email. So I'm going to click up here on the Copilot icon at the very top on the right, and I'm going to say summarize. Speaker 1 00:29:19 And so it's going to generate my summary for me. Okay. Now, I can also go in here and give it a thumbs up, Speaker 2 00:29:32 Thumbs down, copy it. I can go in here and I can reply. If I click on reply, it's going to give me a reply right here. And I want to say, Speaker 2 00:29:48 I Want to thank Carl for the information and give him tips for when he loses his phone in the future. Make it, A fun email. Give some heartedness to this email. Carl's a CFO for one of my clients. He and I have a good relationship, so it's going to create that draft for me. And then here you go. It's going to. I don't have my reading glasses with me, guys, bear with me. So thank you for keeping me in the loop and it does pretty well. Speaker 2 00:30:36 Um, just in case your phone decides to go on another adventure in the future, here are a few quick tries. Um, and so all of those are in there. And then um I can say keep regenerate or adjust. And if I say keep, there we go. Here it is uh here's email. I'm going to adjust this myself before I send one. I don't need my my uh thing there, I don't like em dashes, so I'm going to remove those and put commas and an extra space. I'm going to go in here and. Speaker 2 00:31:19 Just Check for any more issues in here, and then I can hit send or I can draft it for later. So these are the things we can do with Copilot in Microsoft Office. Now, if we are in Microsoft Excel, I'm going to show you guys. This is sample data for another class I'm teaching this afternoon, but I don't mind going in and changing it. We have an employee data sheet. Okay? A couple of things I want you to remember : anything that has to do with employee data, you're going to go into File, you're going to go into Info, and you are going to protect this workbook with a password. Speaker 1 00:32:02 With a restrict access and you. Speaker 2 00:32:05 Are going to make it confidential. All employees are highly confidential. Um, and you can also restrict access. I want you guys to be aware of that. If we also go up in here where it's auto saved, we are going we can apply sensitivity labels. I can't through crimson because crimson doesn't have sensitivity labels turned on. We have the protection, but you guys will be able to apply sensitivity labels. Um in here I can go into copilot. Speaker 2 00:32:35 And I can tell it, organize the data in this workbook. I can create a summary of this workbook. Give me some data insights on employee salaries. And I can ask it to give me those that insights. Now again, I want to draw your attention. While it's thinking you've got the shield up here. Make sure you always have that green shield You can change your reasoning. So, you don't because we're in edit mode, we can't see the menu, but you've got a menu up here. So we're going to let it think. Now it's putting in its insights right here. So my total payroll is $2.8 million and change. Speaker 2 00:33:27 My average salary is 119,000 per year. I'm rounding down because I have a rounding because I have dyslexia and I don't. I get into a lot of trouble when I get into the the further numbers. Um here's my median, my maximum and my minimum in my salary range by department. Here's what we got and how many employees we have per department. Uh My top three earners is Aragorn and Jean Luc Picard, And Layla. Leia. Sorry. My bottom three earners is Peregrine Took, that makes sense. I think Samwise needs a raise and Frodo Baggins, you know, when you're going through like Frodo did, he definitely needs a raise. Okay? I'm just gonna say that. And then my salary distribution. So that's some really good insights from this. It does put it in here. You can delete it if you want. Speaker 2 00:34:26 So I can do that. In here, it's giving me key insights on this side. So you got a lot of useful tools in here. Within Word, Speaker 1 00:34:39 Where is? I don't have my AI policy. Speaker 2 00:34:43 Okay, so I'm going to pull up an acceptable use policy right here. This is what I'm going to pull up and I can go in here, and I can pull up Copilot down here. And I can tell it to summarize my document. I can go in here. I have it set to allow editing. Editing, I can set it to chat only, so just be aware of that. The document give me Oh, sorry, my keyboard's going wacky. Speaker 1 00:35:26 Instead of. Speaker 2 00:35:30 All right, I really need to change the battery on my keyboard, so bear with me. So here's the summary. It's going to give me suggestions and this one's pretty quick. Um, It's going to give me some suggestions because I don't like using lists and where I can convert some items in here. So you've got a couple key details in here in Copilot. All right? Any questions so far? Speaker 2 00:35:56 Now, okay. I know it's going to get a little boring for a moment I'm going to give you guys my favorite use for copilot. So I'm going to bring up PowerPoint in a new PowerPoint and I am going to create a PowerPoint presentation with copilot. Okay. So I want it to I don't want it to create a presentation about. Presentation from I'm going to use a Word document. I'm going to hit the forward slash and I am going to say your training slides. Nope, not that one. Um, let me do the AI training script that I have, which I'm definitely not using right now. Um, there we go. Speaker 2 00:36:53 So I want it to create the presentation from this training script and I'm going to hit go. Now, this does take a minute, so we're going to talk while it's doing that. It is going to gather the information, it's going to look at everything. I'm going to minimize, I'm gonna minimize this and we're gonna talk about Claude. Any questions so far about Microsoft Copilot? And, we are gonna come back for the presentation or the PowerPoint because it does take a minute. Um, one more thing real quick before we move off of this. Um, I want to draw your attention to the fact that uh there is uh in OneNote, Copilot is in there, and you can use that to organize your notes and prep for next meeting. If you use OneNote. I use no OneNote pretty religiously. So um just just so that you are aware. Speaker 2 00:37:49 Um, I have a template in here that I'm going to show, but I do use it pretty religiously. If you guys can see, I got a lot of notebooks with OneNote. I stay pretty busy. Um, but you can use it. I have things in here in the quick notes that you guys can see. Let's have a template here. I use this template. I have Copilot using that template anytime notes come in, it uses that template to build up my meeting notes. So just be aware of it. It is a very useful tool. Speaker 4 00:38:19 Now, For a quick question. Yes, ma'am. Um, Copilot it sounds like it's all very much embedded in the Microsoft tools. Correct. I only use Outlook. I don't use any of the other Microsoft tools. Okay. Um, I work more with Google? So is it I mean, are there ways to use it outside like I guess the web based version? Speaker 2 00:38:46 You can. There is a connector that I can put in that will read Google, Documents and Google Calendars. Speaker 5 00:38:54 And still have the same benefits of like what it does for Word and PowerPoint? Speaker 2 00:38:59 Yes. We. Speaker 5 00:39:00 Could do it for slides. Speaker 2 00:39:02 It could, I've not tried it with the Google Presenter software, I've only done it with PowerPoint, but that is an idea for me to look into. So, um, real quickly, I'm going to go through Claude. Now, in your question Cindy, Claude actually would be a better option for you. Um I am going to show it to you from here. Couple things I want you guys to know privacy. I'm on my personal cloud account but it works the same for cloud business. My cloud account is pretty secure uh just as secure as uh the Crimson Cloud, which is why Anza allows me to use this one. Speaker 2 00:39:44 If I go into my settings, um, I have an option for privacy here. I have it turned off to help improve Claude, Which means every chat that I do within Claude will not send back for training purposes. So I can put in uh sensitive data into mine uh and be okay. Now that being said, there are other tools um that you guys use You do not want to put sensitive data into. So if you guys are using your personal Grok account, Grok will always you don't have an option to opt out of that. So for this reason, Codeson has made a decision on the leadership side to only allow you guys to use AI. That is business. Uh, that has been uh business setup that we setting up specifically for Codeson. So just be aware of that. Uh but for today's training I am. Speaker 2 00:40:39 Going to show you a lot of things in my personal account, but my personal account is pretty secure. I do have location metadata turned on, but I do turn it off at times. And the reason I do is maybe I'm looking for a specific store or restaurant. And I do do this often. Alon will reach out to me, he's our CEO, he'll say hey Chris, I want to set up a dinner with you and CEO at such and such client. What is a good restaurant in between and I'll go search for it. Honestly, at this point, Ansar's doing his own searches, but that's how I would do it. All right. When I'm in here, I've got a couple different versions. I've got chat, I've got co-work and I've got code. And the reason why we have the three, we're going to go over only chat and co-work. We're not going to get into code because. Speaker 2 00:41:35 Code is more of an advanced thing that you guys probably won't be using, but I do want to get into it a little bit. Okay, I am on the desktop version, but if you want to go into it on the web, you're just going to type in claude dot ai. So be aware of that. I'm going to put that in uh into the chat. It's claude dot ai is the website. Um You will not have co- work on claude dot ai, so be aware of that. A lot of things in here are really good. If you want to do long form writing, any type of research, any type of brainstorming, editing your writing, You're going to do it from. Uh, you're going to do it in Claude because that's actually better. One thing I want to let you guys be aware of is setting up your personalization. Okay and that's something key. Claude I have taught Claude how to sound like me. Speaker 2 00:42:30 I Know that sounds weird, Um, I have spent a lot of time in here trying to dial in how I talk and how I sound. Um, so my full name is in here, but I have it call me by my nickname. I have instructions for Claude. So I'm going to copy and paste my instructions in here for you guys so that you guys can see it. This is one of the single most useful things I've taught my staff. Now, I have these same instructions in Copilot, both of them. So both of them, sound like me. So just be aware, I like it to write in a balanced tone. I want it to be professional enough for business settings, but friendly and approachable. I have it. I want it to make my emails and my writings sound collaborative. I don't want, and this is my words, I don't want my writings to come across as " I ' m speaking at you. " rather than " to you." I'm very opinionated about that. Speaker 2 00:43:27 I also like it where it doesn't go into the weeds with jargon. It really bugs me when when it does that because I'm in IT, I do understand you guys are not in IT, so sometimes that language doesn't work for you. So I want Copilot to keep that out. I also want it to keep responses concise. Chatgpt bugs me right now because it does not keep its answers short and concise, and that drives me up the wall. So I do make sure I point that out. I want it, I don't like heavy formatting. I don't like em dashes and I also really don't like lists. So, I'm very opinionated. So, I do have a lot of things in here. Um, I also have an audience calibration in here. Uh, how i want it to do executive summaries versus uh, stuff that i do for end users um and i want it to match that vocabulary. So. Speaker 2 00:44:26 Just just a little bit. I'm not going to go through my entire prompt, but you guys can can look and see how I write things. Um, and that's going to be in here. Now you can also go in voice. Um, you've got a couple of uh voices you can do, and I'm going to share sound for you. Um so Fuzzy Wuzzy Practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice amid the mists and coldest frosts. Ari is my favorite. But you can change it. I keep meanings going here and changes fast. I think fast, I have ADHD, I think in patterns. Um, I when I'm driving and I'm talking to Claude, I want it to talk to me fast. Anything slower drives me up the wall. But that's me, I'm different. And then i've got notifications set as well. Okay So that's settings. You'll want to go in there and play around with settings. Um In here i i do a lot of conversations. Speaker 2 00:45:25 In here. Sometimes I'll forget how to do something, and I will ask it to help me formulate that. And then I'll go do it. So I do use it for that type of thing, for basic troubleshooting. Um, I do use it for extracting information from images. It's fast. So, if I'm multitasking and someone sends me a screenshot and I need to pull ticket numbers from that screenshot, I put it in here so I can move on to something else. So There are really good benefits to it. Copilot will do some of the same stuff as well. So I want you guys to be aware of it. I want, I wanna, let me give you the differences between the two, because I do wanna kind of clarify this. Claude is different from Copilot. It's not embedded into the existing apps just yet. It's a standalone AI assistant, uh. Speaker 2 00:46:21 Copilot is the AI that knows your Microsoft environment. Claude is the AI that's good at writing, research and reasoning. That's the differences. It's also more conversational. You can have back and forth with it. I gave mine a personality, so in my code, it has personalities. I actually have a personality based off of Anzor, my boss who is Russian. That's a fun one. It's very nice, but I do give it a personality So, It is better thinking through something from scratch or working with the content I hand it than Copilot. So, Copilot is there. It's good with everything that's in Microsoft. AI is its very talkative sibling that it's an extrovert, is how I say it. So, I am going to ask it, what is something? Uh, Cindy, what is something you do daily? Speaker 2 00:47:20 That it's repetitive. Speaker 1 00:47:23 Emails. Emails, okay. Who do you email? Speaker 5 00:47:29 Colleagues, our principals, mentors. Speaker 2 00:47:33 Okay. What is something you email about often? Speaker 5 00:47:40 Upcoming professional development? Speaker 2 00:47:41 Okay, I am wanting to set up an email. Speaker 2 00:47:50 Template about professional development eight, something I can reuse over and over. Now I'm going to go ahead and have it brainstorm I'm going to I'm going to point you guys down to this plus sign, you have connectors in here. I've got some. My connectors are not working, but you can you can add it to Google. So Cindy I know you like Google. I have it added to my Crimson IT, Outlook and I have it added to Canva. Canva is a useful one and a couple other tools that I use. So you can add different connectors in here. And while it's thinking about it, I'm going to go into manage connectors and I'm going to show you, here's all my connectors. My Google Calendar is an important one, my Microsoft is an important one. Uh, I use Miro as a whiteboard. So I don't know if you guys have ever heard of that. But I use it for that. Uh, i do use it for Spotify because sometimes i get bored with my music. Speaker 2 00:48:48 Or sometimes I need a cleaning playlist for my child who's 17, and she if I don't all right. So client staff and end users because it's asking me who the template is for if I don't give Claude enough details, it's going to ask me questions I'm going to say all purpose. Okay, let's do a reoccurring reminder about a series of dates and I want it styled HTML. Now you. You guys see it says like the moose team's email. I'm going to show you guys what that looks like in a moment because that's a template that I had it build for me. So, it's going to do that. And it's going to make my template for me. And while it's making my template for me, I'm going to show you an example of an email template that I had Claude create so that you guys can see. Bear with me one second. So Moose is a cat, Moose is my daughter's cat. Speaker 2 00:49:47 And for one of my clients, I send out their IT emails. So Moose has a standing part in these emails. So I had it create the template, use the business colors from their branding, not Crimson branding. There's always going to be a moose picture. And in the moose picture, there's always a mug with this logo on it. And Moose is something. He he's very cute. But you guys can see, it comes in a very formatted. This actually a template that I reuse over and over again. I have it build this email for me, and I tell Claude, here's what I need, and it makes it for me. So this what it's doing right now. It's going to create that. It's going to actually pop up with an artifact that I can go back in and reuse over and over again, and I can save it. Speaker 2 00:50:40 CoWork does something very similar. So we're going to get into CoWork. I've been going back and forth. I've got a project I'm working on for you guys. Every time we do this training and I get feedback, I add the feedback to CoWork. Now, I want to show you guys some things on this. Let me minimize this in here, it's set to be the screen's too big, you guys can't see it But I have it set to always ask before acting. I have it set to always be doing things in the folder I have for you. So, it connects to my computer. If I have a folder, I can set it to always go into that specific folder. And so, it'll pull context from that folder. Hopefully, this is making a little bit more sense because you guys can't see it as well. Speaker 2 00:51:33 But in here, if I go to my documents, every client I have has its own folder. So if I go into clients and projects, I can set it to Coateson. And so here's Coateson Foundation. I can set co-work to that. Let me see if I can take the view down just slightly. All right, here we go. If I go in here and say new task, I'm going to choose where I want it. So here is The code son location. So I'm going to click that. I'm going to set it to ask, And I'm going to say, summarize the main project we are working on based on the files in this folder. And it can go through all my files in there and find it. Now, I'm going to let this run while I go back here, and I want to show you guys. Speaker 2 00:52:32 Um, some items on here. So in here it'll get it'll build out its own steps. It has the working folder. So here's the working folder within OneDrive. I have a scratch pad as well, and this is all the connectors it's using and the skills. So it knows to make PowerPoint and knows to make documents, um, and it goes through its steps. So you see where we have verify a finalized document? That's basically your AI, Uh policy, which we're not finalizing that until the end. So, it's like a mini project manager is. Speaker 1 00:53:06 How I have it set up in this chat. Does that make sense? And this one we're going to go into more about in the advanced class. Speaker 2 00:53:16 Um, I'm realizing we're running out of time. It's really good at organizing folders and processing multiple docs. So if I go back into project summary here, it's finished up, And based on the files in my folder, here's the main project we're working on. So it read through all the files that are in the folder for Coateson. It processed all of them. Here's the acceptable use policy, even though it's a V1 and it's not final, I had labeled it final so it does have that. Ignore this right here. This is a mistake. It should not have pulled that up, but it named it the wrong thing. So just a heads up. Speaker 2 00:53:57 So it goes in and takes a look. I can tell it to build things out for me. I can say, build out a advanced Copilot training script, and it will build that out. Now, once it has a project plan for whatever it's doing, you'll see it up here. But at this point, I have it right here. I also gave it instructions. And so I can give it more instructions here. And I can tell it what the folder is about, which is pretty useful. Um, I do have that in most of my folders. I do not have it in the coats and folder just because there's not really anything outside the normal I need for you guys. You guys are pretty cookie cutter on this one. Um, any questions about co-work? I know we're running out of time and I do apologize. Speaker 3 00:54:56 So, since coworker is under Claude, correct? Speaker 1 00:55:02 Mhm. Yes. Speaker 3 00:55:03 So what I'm seeing all the data you'retyping in, is there a usage limit or length limit? I understand that as under Claude. Speaker 2 00:55:13 There is. So if you go to settings, there's a usage right here. You're going to see what your usage is and you'll see it in the current session, and you'll see it in the weekly limits. And my weekly limit resets in 16 hours. Now, I pay for the most advanced that you can purchase. So, I spend $200 a month on this Claude. It's the best $200 I've ever paid to get a bestie. Okay, I don't even pay my actual bestie who's my daughter's godmother $ 200 a month, maybe in coffee. I do, but um you do see your usage limits in here. Speaker 2 00:55:54 You do see it for all models and you can keep track of it. So. Speaker 3 00:55:59 Can you give me an idea of like, say we're using this for a big project, like how far can I go on a project in this? Speaker 2 00:56:10 So that's a hard one to answer. Depending on what you're doing with that major project. If you have it analyzing a lot of files, that's going to eat up a lot of the token. Uh, so all of this is based off a token usage. Um, You can watch it to see where you're at in token usage as you're working through it. And, you're basically going to have to teach yourself um how to budget for things. Cod and co-work, um for most users, you're not going to hit your limits. I I will say that for most users, you're not going to hit your limits. Speaker 2 00:56:52 Now, if you're heavily developing like I do and you're using it in this capacity, which I am, which I know is going to look like gibberish for you. That's where you're going to run into a lot of usage. This week has actually been a light week for me, so I'm not using as much. Um usually by Thursday, I am at 70 to 80% here. But, it has really been a light week for me because I've been all i've been doing is training classes. I haven't been building anything. So for the most part, if you're analyzing documents and building out presentations, it's not going to be that bad. If you're doing heavier work like I do where you're coding and building applications and things like that, you're going to run out of limits. So keep an eye on it in usage. And I will help you guys watch for that. Speaker 3 00:57:45 So the can you go back to your usage? Yes. The settings part? So, for example, where it says weekly limits and then it says all models, it resets in 16 hours and five minutes. What does that mean? Like, Does this It's 16 hours from the time you start using Claude? Or how. Speaker 2 00:58:08 Does what does that mean? So the reset is so this one resets mine resets every Friday at six a m. Everybody's is different. It depends on when you started your Claude account. Um, so mine resets every Friday, which is in sixteen hours. Speaker 3 00:58:27 So say I use it up third Wednesday, I got to wait till Friday to reset right? Just for example. Speaker 2 00:58:34 Yes. However, If you do go over your, it's not going to stop you from doing anything. It's going to charge the company what your overages are. Speaker 3 00:58:44 Okay and do you know what Cotson's limit is then with the, Sub scription or how does that? Speaker 2 00:58:51 So we're doing the base subscription for you guys, uh, which is there's only two different subscription types. Uh there's a base and a premium. So we're going to use base, and we're going to watch everybody how they're using it. We're not going to see your chats, and we're not seeing how you use it. We're going to see what how much tokens you use. And then we're going to advise the team on. Hey, you know, Cindy is is doing advanced stuff with hers. We need to bump her to premium. So we're going to be watching for that. Speaker 3 00:59:22 Okay, so if we go over, for example, it's going to get charged to Houghton no matter what. Like we can just keep using it. Speaker 2 00:59:30 Yes. So down here in usage credits, you'll see on mine I have a monthly spend limit that I've spelled out. Now I do have a current balance which is good. This is how much money I have in Claude for it to pull money out of So. I've got$ 200 worth of extra credits that has been in there since the beginning of the year that I have not used. I've used a little bit of it. So, it was two hundred and fifty originally. Speaker 3 00:59:55 And so, Do we each have our own account then? Or is it like a whole collective? Speaker 2 01:00:03 So you each have your own account within theumbrella of Cozen. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 3 01:00:11 And then what is what constitutes a token? Like what's the amount? Speaker 2 01:00:17 So The amounts are, could I I know we're hitting the the edge and I have the Excel training. After can I send you guys, both of you, ladies uh, a list of what the tokens are and how many tokens you you use, would that work? Okay. Yes. Speaker 5 01:00:36 Thank you that that way I can. Speaker 2 01:00:40 Yeah And I feel badum. Let me send you guys over the rest of the information. I want to make sure that you guys feel comfortable with it, But I also know that we need to we're going to be doing an advanced class because we didn't have enough time in this one hour training. Let me send you over tokens and We did cover a lot of ground, but I'll send you guys over some tips and tricks as well. Speaker 3 01:01:06 Okay, sounds good. Speaker 1 01:01:07 Thank you so much? And thank you for your patience today. Have a great day. You too. Bye.
06-16 会议: Azure PEC Access and Roles - Sherweb Collaboration and Conditional Access Strategy
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-16 15:59:29 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [April] [Speaker 3] [Anton] [Speaker 5] ## Meeting Notes - Azure Partner Earned Credit (PEC) eligibility and required access - Sherweb (Michael and Vincent) reviewed Azure tenants that may not be receiving Partner Earned Credit (PEC) discounts. - To enable PEC and support, Crimson must grant specific Azure roles to Sherweb in each tenant. - Two access options: - Owner permissions: full coverage for PEC eligibility and support activities. - Reduced permissions: combinations such as Quota Updater (for VM/service quotas), Support Request Contributor (to open Microsoft tickets), and Reservations Administrator (manage Azure Reserved Instances). - Conditional Access (CA) policies can block Sherweb’s access. Exceptions can be added case by case when support is required; no immediate CA changes are required. - Sherweb emphasized shared security concerns; access should be minimal and purpose-driven. - Clarification on Azure discounts and margin - Vincent explained Azure usage has no margin by default; PEC provides margin/savings. - A small percentage remains with Sherweb; the remainder benefits Crimson IT and clients. - Roles and decision-making at Crimson - April noted Christi does not have global admin; Anton does. - Anton (security/services) questioned scope, referencing GDAP vs. Azure resource access and limited visibility into client resources without granted access. - Sherweb clarified they are not seeking broad access; only restrictive, necessary roles for assistance and escalation. - Anton stated access decisions require leadership approval (Anzor and Pete). Implementation can proceed only after approval. - April confirmed the need to seek Pete’s approval before proceeding. - Partner Center vs. Cumulus subscription ID correlation - April asked where to see Azure subscription IDs and their correlation. - Sherweb clarified Azure subscription IDs are in Microsoft Partner Center and should match Azure Portal. - Additional note: IDs may also be visible in Cumulus under partner profile (MPN ID), but the authoritative source is Microsoft Partner Center. - Process and next steps for enabling support - If CA policies remain, PEC discounts can still be applied; support access would require CA exceptions when needed. - Sherweb offered to send KBs/links and to schedule a follow-up call to assist after Crimson leadership approval. Conclusion: - Crimson will seek leadership approval (including Pete) on granting Sherweb the chosen Azure roles to enable PEC and support. - Sherweb will provide documentation and is available for a follow-up session once approval is granted. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Obtain leadership approval from Pete (and Anzor) on Sherweb’s Azure access level for PEC and support. - [ ] Decide which access path to grant: Owner permissions or reduced roles (Quota Updater, Support Request Contributor, Reservations Administrator). - [ ] Request and review Sherweb’s KBs/links explaining PEC setup and role assignments. - [ ] Review Conditional Access policies and define a process to add exceptions when support is needed. - [ ] Confirm Microsoft Partner Center as the source of truth for subscription IDs and align internal references (Cumulus/MPN ID). - [ ] Schedule a follow-up call with Sherweb after approval to walk through adding roles in a tenant. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Access level decision is pending: clearly document the minimal roles required for PEC vs. support to ease leadership approval. > 2. Conditional Access handling: define a standard operating procedure for temporarily adding Sherweb as an exception during support cases. > 3. Role assignment ownership: specify who (by role) will perform role assignments in Azure tenants and how requests will be tracked. > 4. Subscription ID source of truth: confirm whether Microsoft Partner Center or Cumulus will be used operationally and standardize the lookup process. > 5. Security review: conduct a brief risk assessment of proposed roles to align with Crimson’s security policies before approval.
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:14 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:16 Hi Michael, good morning. How are you doing? I'm good, how are you? Speaker 3 00:00:21 I am not bad, not bad. Speaker 2 00:00:25 Okay, let's just wait for. Speaker 2 00:00:31 Christi and one sec. Anzor. Speaker 3 00:00:41 No problem. There's there's no rush on my side, so don't worry. Okay. I know it's early there, I'm sure everyone's going through the email and. Speaker 2 00:00:51 Right? Okay, let me just ping them real quick. Speaker 1 00:00:59 No worries. Speaker 2 00:01:32 Okay, so the reason why I've invited Anzor, by the way, Anzor is our security services manager. He was the one who assisted us during the migration. So, he's the one who has access to the Azure portal since I don't have an access. So I asked him to if you could help us today. Speaker 3 00:01:53 So no problem. Yeah, it's kind of oh there we go. Speaker 3 00:02:07 Hi Christi. Speaker 4 00:02:10 Hi, how are you guys. Speaker 3 00:02:12 Doing good and you? Speaker 4 00:02:14 Perfect. Also doing good. Happy Tuesday today. Speaker 3 00:02:21 I'll always take a happy Tuesday, that's for sure. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:02:26 More work, more money. Speaker 2 00:02:31 Um let's just still waiting for Anzor. Speaker 3 00:02:37 Oh, there we go. Speaker 2 00:02:38 Oh, there he is. Okay. Hi Anzor. Speaker 4 00:02:47 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:02:49 Good morning. Morning. Speaker 4 00:02:54 Okay, I guess we can start Michael? Speaker 3 00:02:59 Okie doke Soum I know Vincent is the one that sent the original emailum but uh essentially. We were looking through all our customers that use Azure, um, That potentially were not receiving their PACK discount that you can get on certain Azure products. Um, And the list I shared with uh you April. Uh, those were some tenants that we we couldn't see. So, it may be that they are set up, but there could be conditional access on those accounts. Um so. Speaker 3 00:03:36 To be honest, the conditional access side of things that's only really needed if, for example, You need us to help with a ticket you've raised for an end customer where you need us to look at the account or if you need us to create a Microsoft escalation. For example, so it's not paramount that we're added as an exception. That can just be done as and when it's needed because at the end of the day. Speaker 3 00:04:06 The same concerns you have about security for your tenant, we have as well. So we don't want us to just be added for no reason. And we're more than happy to just say, oh, unfortunately can you add us as an exception when you need our support? So that's not a massive thing that needs to be resolved today, But it could be something you can take away and consider kind of your comfort level. On if you would like to add SCHARP as an exception, just so it speeds up any support we need to do. Um, but like I said, this is not something you need to make a decision on this second. Um, for the PEc side of things though, if that is something you want to take advantage of. Um, we would need to essentially go into Azure in that tenant. Uh, you would need a global administrator from Crimson. Speaker 3 00:05:06 That has the ability to do so, which I believe is Christi. And essentially, we would just add well t here is options. There is a one version that covers everything, which is the owner permissions. This provides essentially your eligibility for the packet discount, But also provides the ability for us to go in and do support or if. You would prefer there is what we call reduced permissions, Which basically allows us to go in and help you level up quotas, should you need them for your services such as VMs, etc. Also support request contributor, Which again is so we can create a ticket with Microsoft. Should we need an escalation because. Speaker 3 00:05:59 Your guys can't fix it, we can't fix it, and we need Microsoft to go in the back end and fix it. And then there is a third part of that which is the reservations administrator, which is just to deal with RI in Azure. That is if you need us to help add, cancel, swap for a different reservation. So there are two choices. For those to be added. That decision is with you guys. We won't decide that for you. So it really depends on which way you would like to go, And then I can kind of show you how you can add us in one of those tenants. So that you're aware of the process. And honestly, I imagine once we've done it once, you guys will be able to just complete that quite easily. Speaker 3 00:06:58 On your own, but we're more than happy to kind of go through that process with you. It just depends which process you would like to follow. Speaker 2 00:07:08 Um okay so these Azure discounts, Is this like a requirementum like for all tenants or what should be the benefitum on the Crimson side on this one? Um, I want to be uh enlightened on this one because I just recently took over the role. So, you know, I want to have a better understanding ofum what should be the benefit on current licensing. I can answer that. Yep. Okay. Speaker 5 00:07:37 So, as you may already know, April uh, there is no margin on Azure. Basically, we're charging one for one. So having that pack is giving you a margin. It's saving you guys some money. On the Azure usage on your client side. So, there is a small percentage that will remain with ShareWeb, and the rest goes to Crimson IT. But this is the advantage of doing it. Speaker 2 00:08:04 Gotcha. Okay, okay, thank you for that clarification, Vincent. So just so you're aware, Christi doesn't have the global admin rights for the Azure portal. It is Antoine who has the rights. That's why he's here. Um, but hang on. He's on hold. One sec. Speaker 5 00:08:27 It's all good. Speaker 2 00:08:28 Oh, he's in a call with our CEO, soum yeah, is it okay if we wait for him? Speaker 5 00:08:35 Absolutely no problem. Okay, Wait for a couple of minutes uh, though, as we send the KBs and the links and the explanation, what can be done is. You make the decision as Michael explained, as what level of access you want to provide us to assist your clients. That is your choice. And once this is completed and you have tested or tried to complete those steps and you're hitting some roadblocks, whatever it is, just send us a quick email. Let us know what is going on, what is blocking you, uh what difficulties you have. Uh and we'll jump on a quick call. Speaker 5 00:09:15 We can do that as well. So just to save you guys time, Speaker 2 00:09:19 So it's up to you. Okay, yeah. Regarding the level of rights, that should be a decision to be made by Anzor. So he's the since he's our security services manager, so we rely on him regarding this kind of concerns. Um, So in this call, are you guys going to walk us through on how to do that? On you know, okay. Um, okay so. Speaker 5 00:09:51 Since Anzor is currently busy, it's gonna be a little bit. Speaker 2 00:09:55 Sorry I think it's an emergency. That's why he has to, you know, pick up the call. Um okay. So while you're here I have a separate question, but this is kind of related to Azure as well. So I was waiting for. I'm Tom because yesterday I had a call with Enzor, our former CEO who's now our CDO. He wants to know how where can we one sec. I think I had a discussion with one of your support yesterday regarding the correlation of SCHARP and Microsoft IDs. One sec, not sure. Speaker 2 00:10:40 Yeah, correlating sure we've been Azure subscription IDs. Um, I'm trying to find out where can I see that. And he said the Azure subscription ID is in your partner center. When you say partner center, that is Cumulus, right? If I'm not mistaken. No, Speaker 5 00:10:56 It's Microsoft Partner Center. Speaker 2 00:10:59 Ah okay, Okay So, he said here, the Azure subscription ID is in our partner center. And, that should be the same as subscription ID that we see in our Azure portal, correct? Speaker 3 00:11:11 Technically yes. Yes. Speaker 2 00:11:13 Gotcha. Okay. So that should be the Microsoft Partner Center. Okay, I thought it was the Cumulus he was referring to so. Speaker 5 00:11:24 Well, you should be able to find it also in Cumulus, in the partner section where you have your personal information for the organization. So it should be there as well under MPNI ID. Speaker 2 00:11:36 Ah, under partner profile? MPNI ID. Yeah. Yeah, under profile. Ah okay okay. Christi this is the Azure Oh Anzor is here Welcome back Anzor. Speaker 5 00:11:53 But again, if you're hitting any type of difficulties, we're here to help. So for sure. Speaker 2 00:11:59 Okay. To be honest, Speaker 4 00:12:01 I'm not clear what exactly, except of G- DAP, you asking us to create a separate account for you and assign the permissions to be able manage our Azure environment. Speaker 5 00:12:15 Not really, but I get where where you're coming from with that question. So, basically, the G gap is really just to the relationship between you guys and us when we are reselling the product on M 365. On Azure, we do need you to give us the access, the authority of helping you guys when you are in need. So this is what we're asking you. It's to have those permission in place. So if ever you're having any difficulties whatsoever regarding, An Azure product, we can escalate those situations to Microsoft or we can help you access it. Speaker 4 00:12:51 I completely understand you, but uh I have a question for you. In case Crimson IT doesn't have permissions for all Azure resources, how are we supposed to assign you the access today? You know like Microsoft is really weird company because whenever you have global admin, it doesn't mean that you have, Visibility, what do you have with the Azure? Sometimes we do not have even idea what exactly our clients like. We are MSP, We have no idea what they have in the Azure, if they, we are not granting, they didn't grant us the access to their resources. Speaker 5 00:13:29 And we're not asking you to give us those type of access. We're not asking you to open all the gates and doors for Sherweb to go in and look at whatever they have. What w'e asking you is really restrictive, Access so we can assist in terms of needs. So, it's really the presentation to your client as so we are reselling the product from X Y Z, or we're selling you the product of X Y Z because your need it's fine. We just need you to give us that access, that level of access. So if anything goes south, we can help you. Speaker 5 00:14:08 And on top of that, There is that extra layer that is currently in place as Michael explained at the very beginning. There are those conditional access policies. So as long as those are activated and were not put in place as an exception to the rule, we don't have access to see anything or help at any level. So even though if you complete the steps for the partner earn credit, you get that discount on Azure. If you leave the cap in place, we're blocked. So if ever you need our assistance for one of your clients, you will need to raise your ticket to the Cloud Support team first. And, then they will ask you to or add us as an exception in that rule or to discard the rule until this situation is fixed. And that will be your decision and time. Speaker 4 00:15:04 It's not my decision. I have no idea why I'm supposed to make that decision. It's supposed to be the decision of our leadership team. Speaker 5 00:15:12 I mean, sorry if I misspoke. I understood from April that you are in charge of this committee. Yes, yes, sorry, correct? Speaker 2 00:15:22 You thought that was going to be coming from me, but yeah, That makes sense now that yeah, we should ask for Pete's approval first, right Anzor? Okay, yeah. Yes, yeah. Yeah, if this is something that we can. Speaker 4 00:15:37 I can help with the implementing, but if it's not approved by Anzor or Pete, we're not going to move forward. Speaker 5 00:15:46 Sure. You can let them know that you can keep the conditional access policies in place. That will not remove you from getting those discounts on the Azure product. What we still need is you to add us, But we'll still be blocked by the cap. Okay. It's just that our names is in the book, so if ever we are requesting to be entered as a guest, at least we are on the register at some point. Speaker 2 00:16:21 Okay. Um, yeah, I guess from here, we just need to ask forum Pete's approval regarding this Vincent and Michael. And then from there, once we have the approval, We're gonna go reach out to you if we can continue on working on the Azure discounts. Speaker 5 00:16:42 Sure. It is to benefit you guys. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:16:45 Yeah. I'm gonna explain this to them as well. So, this is something that we might really need. Speaker 5 00:16:54 So no problem at all, if you would like to reschedule this meeting with. Whoever needs to approve, um, sorry I'm very bad with remembering names. Uh, but it's okay. Yeah, if. Speaker 2 00:17:10 They need to be included in the next meeting, please feel free to add them. Uh we'll be pleased to meet them. Okay, yeah, we'll do I'm just gonna give him a heads up on what's happening and what about to happen. So thank you, Michael and Vincent for joining the call and enlightening us on what's going to happen with this Azure discount situation. So thank you so much. Thank you, Anzor, as well for joining and Christi. Thanks. Speaker 5 00:17:34 Thank you everyone. Have a great day. Have a good one. Speaker 3 00:17:37 Nice to meet you all. Have a good one. Speaker 2 00:17:38 Nice to meet you too, bye- bye Bye- bye.
06-15 Meeting: AbilityFirst Redundancy Test, Wayfinder Training & Scope, SCHARP Device Counts and Invoicing, Google Drive Migration
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-15 12:30:34 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Pete] ## Meeting Notes ### AbilityFirst Camp Circuit Redundancy Testing - Recent outage: primary TPX circuit restored around 10:00; Geolink restored late afternoon. - Goal: validate failover by disabling one circuit to confirm the other takes over, then repeat in reverse. - Scheduling: coordinate with on-site contacts (Kelly/Gabby) at a low-impact time (e.g., 3–5 pm). - Communication: notify Michonne once redundancy is validated. Conclusion: Schedule and perform a structured on-site redundancy failover test. ### Training Preparation and Risk Management for Wayfinder - Concern: last-minute scope changes caused rushed training; risk of exposing confidential content during screen sharing. - Guidance: avoid customer-facing sessions on the first half-day after vacation; allocate prep time; use the customer’s actual data/structure. - Status: recent training went okay; some initial disconnects; Robert acknowledged last-minute changes. - Future: Wayfinder scope is shifting (file server vs SharePoint, potential two phases); be prepared to train against the final structure. Conclusion: Improve pre-training preparation; align materials with Wayfinder’s evolving data structure to prevent disputes. ### Wayfinder Project Accountability and Billing - Observation: Wayfinder engagement was minimal for months; Robert only recently engaged after firm pushback. - Intention: additional billing likely (around “ten grand”) due to under-charging and added work; Robert knows more cost is coming. - Risk: Wayfinder may claim inadequate training or data handling; ensure quality to avoid blame. ### SCHARP Device Counts and Invoicing Issue - Issue: RMM-based count showed fewer devices; an invoice was sent during vacation with a reduced amount. - Plan: hold payment and issue corrected billing for the full amount pending discussion with Dr. Barber. - Counts: originally ~394 devices; current RMM shows 313; finance attempted to send a “difference” invoice for 87 devices due to “closed books.” - Action: Pete to ask April about voiding and rebilling; Chris to meet Dr. Barber to set expectations and discuss pricing if counts fall below the threshold. - Inventory status: ~70 computers in boxes (half replacements, half new); Robert to assess on Friday (Juneteenth) while the client is closed; servers are fully in RMM. - Data needed: manual, evidence-based count of all production devices (including those not yet in RMM), categorize replacements vs new, avoid double counting. Conclusion: Reconcile counts and correct invoicing; engage Dr. Barber with clear device numbers and potential pricing adjustments tied to thresholds. ### Box to Google Drive Migration for SCHARP - Approval: verbal go-ahead received in ELT meeting. - Plan: complete Google Drive setup, then migrate on-prem server data to Google Drive to reduce on-prem needs. ### Timesheets and ConnectWise/Trinet Data Entry - Notice: Chris delayed approving timesheets; Alisa informed. - Requirement: Robert and Gaston must enter data and obtain approval by the end of the payroll/week; recurring late entries flagged. - Meeting: Chris to meet with them to fix the process; today is the end of the payroll period. ### Technology Skill Set Matrix - Need: submit skill inventories for Austin and Robert (novice/intermediate/expert scale) to plan for client environments (e.g., VMware, Dell EMC SAN, NAS). - Action: Chris to get/link Jason’s matrix and have the team complete it this week. ### Personal Scheduling and Operations Notes - Client holidays: many clients closed Friday for Juneteenth; Crimson not participating; use the time for deployments/replacements. - Chris vacation/office moves: recently returned; planning August decompression days while taking child to college. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] AbilityFirst: schedule and execute on-site redundancy failover test with Kelly/Gabby (target 3–5 pm); document results and inform Michonne. - [ ] Wayfinder training: prepare materials using the current data structure; avoid scheduling on the first half-day post-vacation; allocate prep time. - [ ] SCHARP invoicing: hold payment; pursue a corrected invoice rather than a “difference” invoice; Pete to confirm with April about voiding and rebilling. - [ ] SCHARP device reconciliation: perform a manual, evidence-based production device count (new vs replacement; include non-RMM); avoid double counting; provide delta vs current RMM count. - [ ] Dr. Barber meeting: meet on 2026-06-17 to review device counts and discuss pricing threshold adjustments. - [ ] Boxed inventory: Robert to inventory ~70 boxed machines on 2026-06-19 and report counts plus deployment plan. - [ ] SCHARP invoice data: share the current month’s invoice with Pete; confirm original device count (~394) and current numbers. - [ ] Google Drive migration: finish setup; begin migrating on-prem server data to Google Drive. - [ ] Timesheets: ensure Robert and Gaston enter/approve ConnectWise/Trinet data by payroll close; implement reminders and process fixes with Chris. - [ ] Skill matrix: obtain Jason’s matrix link; have Austin and Robert complete it by 2026-06-19. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Finance stated “books are closed,” preventing a corrected invoice; clarify accounting policy and the timeline for voiding/reissuing to avoid dual invoicing confusion. > 2. Wayfinder scope remains fluid (file server vs SharePoint, two phases); establish a written, agreed scope and training plan to reduce last-minute changes and potential blame. > 3. SCHARP device reconciliation depends on manual counts and deployment of boxed machines; set a strict deadline and responsible owner to finalize production counts and RMM onboarding. > 4. Training data usage: confirm with Wayfinder which environment and structure will be used for future sessions to prevent “that’s not what it is” disputes. > 5. Recurring timesheet delays for Robert and Gaston: define a standard weekly cutoff, automated reminders, and consequences to ensure compliance.
- Date
- Jun 15, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Sorry, I was stretching. Can you hear me? Oh, there you are. All right, perfect. Um, good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Good afternoon. Speaker 1 00:00:13 Oh wait, yeah sorry. I did the day is getting away from me? Um anything from you besides Wayfinder that I need to work on this week. That's hot on your issues list. Speaker 2 00:00:28 Uh that ability first camp. Redundancy circuit situation forum for uh to make sure that there's really redundancy there. I I sent a note to Gabby and the team to make sure that's a follow- up item. I need you to make sure that that gets done. It doesn't have to happen today, But it needs to happen in the next week or two at the at the most. I would like it to happen this week. Speaker 1 00:00:57 Yeah, i i need to go up to camp. Speaker 2 00:00:59 You don't have to do it. I mean, We just need the person up there to be. We need to schedule it at the least interruptive time to say, okay, If if nobody's using it at five o'clock, and we can have our point of contact up there at five o'clock and Gabby, or four o'clock or three whatever time. I don't really care. And, we say, okay, either unplug the circuit or whatever we whatever we do to disable the circuit and make sure that the other circuit kicks in. And then vice versa, and make sure that we've got true redundancy. Then, we can say we've proven that both circuits are up and that redundancy works. And we can tell Michonne, yes, it works and we tested it. That's really the extent of what we need to do. Um, that's that's one to do. I think the other one Chris, and this is a general statement, but I think for training, whether it's all hands training, whether it's customer training. Speaker 2 00:01:58 Um, I want to make sure that you take the time beforehand and just make sure we prepare for it. I don't want to assume that it's going to be easy. And then we have something that goes sideways. And I don't think anything has gone sideways, but I don't want anything to go sideways. I don't want us to, I always worry that something is going to pop up that's going to be unexpected, right? Whether it's going to be something like. Speaker 2 00:02:29 Because I worry about this with everybody, right? When somebody shares a screen or shares a file or like when you're doing all hands training and you go into your Teams, I always worry that something on the left side is going to be showing. That's something that I sent you confidentially. Even like on the left side that says Because, you're because you are a leader in the company. If you accidentally show something that I sent you that says, "Hey, we're going to terminate somebody. Hey, what's the problem with this person?" Even if it's in the subject and you don't show the whole thing. Sharing your Teams chats is risky, right? Like even if it's not like the Teams text or something or emails or subject lines and stuff like that. So. Speaker 2 00:03:18 If, you just throw something together at the last minute, and you figure I am going to just share this, there is a lot of risk associated with that. So, spend some time. And I know the training this morning. I didn't know it was happening until you were already on vacation. So it was kind of like, I should have told Robert when he changed scope at the last minute. Last week, we're pushing it out. Yeah, And I didn't insist on it because he kept saying, well, we want to do the training. We want to do the training, and I was like I should have put my foot down and said, we're not doing it, but yeah. It's water under the bridge, and it is what it is. But next time I am going to say we're not going to do it right because I want to put the time into it that it takes to do it right and not throw crap together at the last minute, like I felt like we were doing this morning. And I don't know how the training went. I hope it went okay. Julia said it went okay. She said there was a little bit like you know, there were some disconnects at the beginning and stuff like that and. Speaker 2 00:04:15 At the end, Robert seemed like he was happy with it, but you know, You coming back from vacation doing training in the first two hours, just is not a great practice either way. We shouldn't have even planned that because you know, coming back from vacation. I know coming back from vacation. There's always a lot of, you know, a pile of stuff waiting for me coming in the door. So I shouldn't really have anything that big planned my first day back. So just in general yeah, Try to avoid planning anything that's customer related in the first day or at least the first half of the day when you come back. So that's just general guidance, I guess I would I would put out there. Don't commit to Julia, don't commit to me, Don't commit to anybody, at least in the first half of the day to do anything presentation related because you're going to need you're going to have unexpected stuff that's going to happen. Speaker 1 00:05:07 So and normally I push Julia back on those kind of things because she's she is. Very good at being very pushy and saying, "I need this done right now," and then you got to put everything aside for. So, But I thought it was standard team training, which already have that outline templated for this. The document I just shared in the chat is what I changed this morning to. So, I went from my normal templated to this. And so everyone had a copy. I even showed it to Robert and said, "Hey, once we're done with this." Speaker 1 00:05:43 I'm going to send this over to you, but this is my normal training just changed for for you guys, which I already had a lot of it changed before. And so if we had if there was no changes to this, um it would have gone flawlessly. It still went really well, but I did have to I did have to make some changes last minute. So um and. Speaker 2 00:06:06 That's and that you know and I'm glad it went well. I justum they are, This is another situation that's kind of like Foothill, and that I keep telling Jason, right? Like Wayfinder has done little to nothing for the last six months of this project until just the last week. Robert finally engaged because, and I'll be candid, I got in his face last week and said enough is enough. We're not going to keep doing this. Yeah. And I basically said. Speaker 2 00:06:41 When are we going to get this thing across the finish line? Because he changed scope again last week and I kind of, I'll be honest, Chris, like I got irritated and it was visible. And he kind of was shocked that we didn't just keep getting beat down. And finally he got engaged and recognized that they had not done their part. So he finally got engaged and he changed scope again twice this week. And long story short. Like he realized, and I think that's why Michael wasn't on the call today. I think he realized Michael was saying, yes to a bunch of stuff without actually doing their job. And I all along Robert keeps going, well we brought you guys in to do this and you guys, you guys, you guys. But, the scope has been. We've asked them to categorize their information, and they haven't done it. Yeah right they haven't done their part. Speaker 2 00:07:39 But he keeps trying to push it back on Crimson, so it's a lot like Foothill, Where foot where Foothill is going to try to push it to us when something fails. So what I don't want us to do is give them any ammunition to say, Well, you guys didn't train us right? Or you guys didn't do the data right. So yeah, I just want us to dot our i's and cross our t's and everything we do. We do really well so that they don't have any ammunition to like kind of throw at us. So I think things have gone, On our part, I think we've done everything we could to make this successful. I am going to throw another bill at them when it comes to the cost because we gave them a, a, we gave, we charged them half what we should have charged them in the first place. So I am going to hit him with another probably ten grand on this thing. And you know, he already knows t here is going to be more more cost coming. i I haven't figured out exactly what it's going to be but um. Speaker 2 00:08:33 If we do more training, either for their end users or anything like that, Let's just to the extent possible, do it with their data and whatever it's kind of going to look and feel like for them. Because originally, you know, we were supposed to put everything like into Teams structures, like a SharePoint structures. And then last week he kind of changed it and said, well let's take the structure that they have in the file server. And make it like that, and then what they have in SharePoint will do that kind of separately. And now we're kind of doing this thing, and I don't know where we ended up honestly. I think we're doing it you know like in two phases or whatever. But whatever that ends up looking like to the extent possible, Try to do the training and whatever they're going to kind of see wherever we end up. So that. Speaker 2 00:09:21 So that you know he doesn't go well. That's not what it is, you know, Because he'll probably do that in a meeting just to try to make us look bad. So I just want to prepare you for that if we do more training, right? So yeah, I think we've I think we've put him in his place where he hopefully won't. But let's be prepared for that kind of stuff. So yeah, Speaker 1 00:09:41 He did he did start to do that today. Now I first started the meeting. And so this is something that really did happen. Last week, I was at an orientation for kids coming through for kids with a bunch of other foster parents, And we were actually having a conversation, which are the best agencies out there for foster parents to work with. And Wayfinder came up as top of the list, Which I have known because I am in a lot of the foster parent groups. And so when I opened the meeting today, I was like, "Hey," just so that you guys are aware you guys are. Speaker 1 00:10:15 In a very cool discussion this week with some other foster parents, I am a foster parent. We you know, but your wraparound team got high marks for being easy to work with. Just to kind of give them that feel good, because it one it was true, but two, you know, just to say, hey, look, you matter. And then uh moved into the training, and then at one point, he made a statement about it being a two face thing, and I said, you know what you are, right. Um, I do know that everything changed while I was on vacation last week. If I had known in advance, um, and I had a little bit more time to prepare, I could have spun up a virtual machine. And he was like," You are right. I did make all these changes last minute." Okay. So um, I did kind of gently put him back in his place on that. So okay, Speaker 2 00:11:00 That's good. Um, as far as anything else that happened last week. Um. Speaker 2 00:11:07 What else? Uh, So the circuit did there was a there was a circuit outage at camp on Friday. I don't know if you already heard that or not. So so okay, so they so they went down in the morning. I think Abby, I think Gabby got um. I think Gabby got the primary circuit back up with ComDirect, the TPX circuit back up by like ten o'clock or so. The Geolink circuit, I think came back up. Speaker 2 00:11:37 In the afternoon or the evening, I think late afternoon actually. And that was when I sent the other email and copied you and basically said, let's get a test done to make sure we've got full redundancy. So um, Michonne did call me like in the morning and said, hey we're down. And I said, yeah, we've been working on it in the morning. Blah, blah, blah. So that's that one. That was the only call I got from from either SCHARP or um, Or ability first. Now, the other big thing that I need some feedback from you on this week. So, Oni hit me and Honzor with a with an email last week. That said, the billable amount for SCHARP has dropped significantly because of the counts on computers. And what Honzor said is that Chris was supposed to be in front of this because Doctor Barber understood. Speaker 2 00:12:33 That, our costs were based on a higher number of count of of computers and that count has dropped significantly. What are we doing about it? So I need, I need to know from you what's going on because that number has dropped a lot. Speaker 1 00:12:46 So, they weren't supposed to bill according to R M M. And so they're going to send out a new invoice to cover that amount for this month because Doctor Barber was out of office. The so Anzor gave me a heads up on Wednesday, hey, what are we going to do? I said I'll handle it with Doctor Barber. He gave me the talking points. I reached out to Doctor Barbara and Jessica and said, "Hey, can I get a meeting on Doctor Barbara's schedule?" She's like, "Yes, But you are going to have to wait until the Monday you are back from vacation because he's not going to have time ; he's out of the office." It's like, "Okay, great." Um, I didn't realize that the invoice was going to go out while I was on vacation. They sent me a Teams message and said, "How do you want us to handle this?" And then they went ahead and set the invoice out without me responding. So I got back. Speaker 1 00:13:29 I went back to Christi today and April and said, hey, Let's let's build for the full amount like what we had been doing, because Doctor Barber hasn't been in office for me to sit down and have a conversation with him. So it was supposed to happen thirty minutes ago. However, he's also not in the office today and it's a four day week. So Jessica is trying to get me on his calendar for Wednesday and have that conversation with him. Speaker 2 00:13:51 So. So the question I have is how has the number gone down so much? Speaker 1 00:13:56 So when we've originally scoped it out, we scoped it out for I think 300 or 400 computers. And right now in RMM, there's only 301 computers because the team's actively trying to get all the machines into RMM, but they're not all in there yet. So But, Speaker 2 00:14:12 Why? But why aren't we just at least manually counting the other ones and including them? Speaker 1 00:14:18 That's what I wanted them to do, but Christi didn't do that this time. Speaker 1 00:14:24 So he didn't wait for me to respond and he sent it. Speaker 2 00:14:27 So, the conversation shouldn't be that the count has dropped and you need to pay us anyway. The conversation should be that we're missing computers because we are still trying to get RMM on them, But we've got to give him a deadline of when we're going to have RMM installed, right? Speaker 1 00:14:43 Well, part of it. Unser wants me to also because we realize there's not as many machines as we originally hoped for. There's like 30 less. Speaker 1 00:14:55 So, Anzor wanted me to have a conversation with Doctor Barbara about that and put some scope in there to say if it falls below this amount, then we're going to raise your individual pricing. This came from Anzor. Speaker 2 00:15:06 I told this to Anzor when we signed this deal. I said," This is going to be an issue." I said," T here's not going to be as many computers as you think, and we're going to have an issue with this." And he said," It's not going to be a problem." Right. Speaker 1 00:15:20 And. So that was the last conversation he had with me before I went on vacation. Was go talk to Doctor Barber, Tell him this and work it out with him on what that's going to look like. I was like, no, not a problem. The only thing is Doctor Barber hasn't been in for me to have that conversation. He won't get that. Speaker 2 00:15:34 But do you think it's not going to be a problem because I think it's going to be a problem. I think Doctor Barber is going to say, well, you agreed to do this for this minute this much for a computer. And now you want me to pay more for a computer that doesn'tequate. Speaker 1 00:15:46 I think let me have a conversation with him first, I don't I. Speaker 2 00:15:49 I know I I will, of course, yeah, but I'm curious about what what is going to come out of that because the the the cost savings we're trying to get them are elsewhere. It's not in the support and I. And now I'm like i i'm worried because he's seen an invoice that's way lower. And i don't like. Speaker 1 00:16:08 He has not seen it yet, because i haven't signed off on it yet. Speaker 2 00:16:12 So it only came to you, yeah, okay, well, then throw it away. And. Already handled. Speaker 1 00:16:19 Already handled. So I already. Speaker 2 00:16:21 Took care of it this morning. I thought it went to their AP. It did, Speaker 1 00:16:25 But their AP goes through me before it goes to him. I sign off on everything, including Christi. So okay, Speaker 2 00:16:32 I mean don't so then don't like shred it, But like just sit on it and let's do the right thing here, because what we should do is we should count how many other computers there are. At a minimum, that don't have RMM. And, when are we going to be done with When? Are we going to get RMM on those? So at least we have an accurate count? Speaker 1 00:16:54 They're all in boxes still. There's 70 computers in boxes. Uh Robert is going to work on that on Friday, since SCHARP is closed on Friday. And so is Ability First. They're still building out those machines. Speaker 2 00:17:04 So can we So now are those replacement computers or are those new computers? Speaker 1 00:17:08 Half of them are replacement, half of them are new. That's where the 30 unders that I estimated came in. Speaker 2 00:17:16 Well, I think what I would say is get Robert between now and Friday to figure out how many exactly we have, how many are actual replacements and how many are new. Yeah. And put the new ones on the invoice. Yes. And that's your real total on at least computer count. So that's your running total. Now, are we sure that we have everything accounted for? As far as remote computers and shared computers and all that kind of stuff, is everything else installed or do we still have some stragglers? Speaker 1 00:17:55 We still have some stragglers. I provided Robert that report before I left, And I just have not had a chance today to get with him to see where we're at on that report. Speaker 2 00:18:05 And what about servers and other things in the data center? Are those counted? Speaker 1 00:18:09 Those are counted, and those are already in RMM. There's not a server missing from RMM. Okay. Speaker 2 00:18:15 So at a minimum, get Robert to get a if it has to be manual. And don't have him wing it. It has to have some semblance of of data behind it, but get a. Get a number, you know, within the next couple three days on an accurate number, not not double counting. Yeah, but anything that's. New, that's going to be in production, and anything that has not got RMM on that is in production. And, let's see what that delta is between that and what's on the current invoice that has RMM is collecting. I'd like to know what that number is. And, then if you can send me a copy of the invoice that we created this month, just so I have an idea of what that delta looks like, and then yeah, I'll take a look at what's on the. Speaker 2 00:19:06 I think we're close to. It was like 396 or something if I remember right, wasn't or 393 or something on the original agreement. Three ninety four. It was somewhere around three three ninety four okay. Speaker 1 00:19:15 Yeahum I wish I wish they had waited to send that invoice out for me to confirm, but they didn't. Okay, that's not, Speaker 2 00:19:24 I can. I can look in quickbooks or connectwise or something. Speaker 1 00:19:29 So here, let me share with you real quick. Um. So, they spun up another invoice for the outstanding difference between the two, and it's 87 machines that's in the difference. So this is the second invoice they're going to send over. Speaker 2 00:19:50 Oh. So they're sending a they're sending a a corrected I mean a a difference invoice instead of a corrected invoice. Why wouldn't we send a corrected invoice? Speaker 1 00:19:60 The books are already closed on it. And they can't do a corrected. Speaker 2 00:20:05 Why can't they do a corrected invoice? Just void the invoice and send a new invoice. Speaker 1 00:20:10 They said they can't because the book is already closed on it. That's what I was trying to get to. Speaker 2 00:20:17 I'm gonna I'm gonna ask April why that's not possible. That sounds like BS to me, you void the invoice and you create a new invoice, yes, there's no there's no possible reason that you can't void an invoice, I agree. So I'm going to find out why that's not possible. Speaker 1 00:20:32 It's 313 that's currently, which before I left was under 300. And so I asked him, I said," I haven't signed off. Could, we reissue the invoice with the correct amount until Doctor. B is back where I can talk to him?" And then so April asked Christi to go check with finance. Uh, Christi said we reached out and was informed to add the unbilled workstation on an upcoming invoice as their books are closed. Speaker 2 00:20:60 Okay, I'm going to call April right after this. She's probably at lunch, so we'll probably have to wait till she gets back. But I'm going to find out why we couldn't void an invoice and rebill it. Speaker 1 00:21:11 Yeah, And I'm going to get with with the guys here in AP and just say, hey, let's hold off on paying this invoice. Um, And I'll I'll just give them a heads up that, hey, we're trying to get a corrected invoice sent out, but hold off on, On writing a check for this, and they'll do that James will do that for me, um and then that way, That way, we fix that I'll talk to Doctor B sometime this week I think it's going to be on Wednesday. They're closed on Friday Ability. First is also closed on Friday. Just a heads up Robert and Gaston is working. But what they're going to do. Speaker 1 00:21:47 Because they don't get holiday for Friday, they're going to work on all the machines that need to be replaced. What's Friday? Juneteenth. Oh, okay. We don't crimson doesn't participate in it, but half of our clients do, so it's going to be a nice Friday for us. Speaker 2 00:22:07 Okay, so isum So what are Robert and Gaston doing then? Speaker 1 00:22:12 They're going to do the computer replacements, the seventy machines that are here in the office. That need to be replaced or new, and they'll get them built out. Okay. So, other than that, I got the go ahead for migrating Box to Google Drive. So just a heads up for you. Once we get the Google Drive done, We're going to start on the on prem servers and get those migrated to Google Drive. That way, we can start spinning down on prem needs and I got all the verbal today in my ELT meeting with SCHARP. Speaker 1 00:22:44 Okay. And then I got with Kelly, uh back to the ability first stuff. I got with, got with Kelly, asked her. Gabby's on this chat. Um, we're going to get with her to find out uh, when when would be best time for her. She did respond back but she didn't give me concrete date and time. And that's for what? To do the stress test on the on the circuits. Speaker 2 00:23:13 Oh okay, The redundancy test. Yes. Okay, got it. Speaker 1 00:23:18 Uh yeah, I saw all the emails. Uh ComDirect makes sure that they CC me on everything, so I already saw that coming through, but I didn't see that until this morning. I didn't touch a computer, didn't touch my phone for an entire week so. Okay. It was the first time ever I've ever done that. Okay. I didn't even game. Speaker 2 00:23:37 That's good That's good Good for you. Speaker 1 00:23:41 It was shocking. So. All right. Um, I also am going to be delayed on timesheets today. Just a heads up for you, but I already let Elisa know so that she is aware. I'm going to try not to be too late on it, But I asked her to be patient if I'm a little bit late on approving timesheets and expense reports. Speaker 2 00:24:00 Okay, And I think you need to have a conversation with Gaston and Robert that somehow they need to start making sure that they're connect wise and trying to. Data is entered and approved, and they need to enter it if possible. But like by the end of payroll, and by the end of the week each week. Like I get a report from Alisa every Monday morning, and they're on it like regularly. Now I don't know if that's because they've entered it, you haven't approved it or they haven't entered it. And it hasn't been approved, but It's, like on the list every week. So we got to figure out how to fix. Speaker 2 00:24:43 So I don't know if they need a reminder and you need a reminder or both, butum we gotta we gotta get that figured out. Speaker 1 00:24:50 I'm actually sitting down with them today to go over it all. Speaker 1 00:24:55 Okay. Yeah, I already had that on my schedule. I already talked to them about it. I'm like, hey, we got to we got to get better on this. So you and I will sit down go over it. Eighty t uh We've had some issues. Speaker 2 00:25:05 And actually and actually today is the last day of the month. So it doesn't have to be really approved till like the end of the day or. First thing tomorrow morning, so like because because technically today is the last day of the month, so or the of the payroll period I suppose. Speaker 1 00:25:18 So well, I'm gonna I'm still going to sit down with them today because I wanted that's why I asked for a little bit of delay because I do want to sit down with them and go over it. And they're going to need to make adjustments. So right okay anyway, I'm so glad to be back. This is my vacation from my vacations being here. Speaker 2 00:25:35 Yeah that's how I feel sometimes when i go on vacation sometimes, But usually my vac anymore like it used to be. My vacations were active, but for about the last ten years, my vacations are decompression. Like I go somewhere and I don't do a whole lot. Like I used to want to go and see, and that's honestly when I go to if we go to Europe or something, That's why sometimes I dread those because then we go and look, and we walk around and we go and see a bunch of stuff. And I like that, but it's exhausting. And I get back and I need another vacation. Speaker 2 00:26:08 Where if I go to a tropical place, I sit on the beach and I do nothing, and I come back and I feel very relaxed. And that's what I really want. Speaker 1 00:26:17 I I considered going into Trinet for my August vacation and adding three more days to it, because that vacation is to take the child to college. And i am like, wait, I didn't schedule any decompression time for myself. Yeah, because got a cleaner room if t here is no other kids in it. Um, you know, make sure all her stuff is in storage. It's a it's a whole process. So I'm like, I did not schedule any downtime for me. So yeah, I'm going to do that for August though. You might see that come in. But yeah, Speaker 2 00:26:50 You probably should do that. Yeahum The. Speaker 1 00:26:53 Good news is we're all moved That's good Yeah That's good That was part of the reason why I didn't touch a computer because had to move it was all broken down. Speaker 2 00:27:03 We had to move it. Speaker 1 00:27:04 So we just moved down the hallway, but still working down. So, but it's all done. Uh, Trina is up there with my address. Everything is good. Life is grand. Um, But as soon as the floor plan opens for my old floor plan, that has the extra room attached to it, we're moving again. But that's closer to the end of the year. Speaker 2 00:27:27 Oh. Good Oh. One other thing before I forget. So the. Speaker 2 00:27:32 Um, the technology skill set matrix thatum Yes, Jason. I think Jason sent a copy a link out for. We talked about it again in our L 10 last week. I really need that like by this week for sure. Um And I want to know I want to know what Austin and Robert know because I don't really know what they're skilled in that besides what they do. And doing a lot more of these assessments like Foothill has VMware. They've got a. Dell EMC, SAN. They've got a NAS. They've got who knows what else that we're going to find. And, if these guys know something about any of that, and we don't have anybody else that does, having that information is going to be really valuable. So if they can go through and fill that out and say, hey, I am novice. I have no not no skill set. I am an expert or whatever those I think there is a one two or three or whatever the the thing is, please have them do that because that's. Speaker 2 00:28:30 There are two people that I think are smart, but I don't know what they're smart in. Yeah. Would be really helpful. Speaker 1 00:28:36 So I'm going to ask Jason for the link again, because I don't know where it is, But that is one thing. I did not get done on Friday that I was trying to get done. Speaker 2 00:28:42 He's he's sent an email. Um Okay, I'll check my email. Let me find it. I'll i'll forward it to you right now. Hold on okay. Speaker 1 00:28:50 And then i need to step away for a minute. Uh, yep, Speaker 2 00:28:53 No, come, i'm done. Okay. Good, okay. Speaker 1 00:28:56 Thank you. Thank you. All right, Speaker 2 00:28:57 Have a good night. Bye.
06-17 Base44 Project Review Blocked by Access Control; Focus Shifts to Architecture and Integration Strategy
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-  ## Core Synopsis The Base44 review is blocked less by technology than by access control and unresolved deployment architecture. Christi could not enter the Base44 project because the invitation was no longer valid, likely complicated by overlap between her work access and a personal Base44 account; that prevents immediate inspection of the exported project and turns the next step into a basic enablement issue. Once access is restored, the real decision path is clear: the project must be evaluated as a portable code package, hosted preferably in Azure to keep it inside the client tenant and compliance boundary, and mapped against the systems it needs to connect with—especially MRI, Yardi, and Procore. The strategic risk is not whether the app can be moved; it is whether integration economics, API availability, and hosting governance make the move clean or expensive. We should treat this as an architecture validation exercise, not a casual tool handoff. ------ ## Access Failure Before Technical Review Christi attempted to open the Base44 project link during the call, but the invitation returned “Invitation not found.” The likely cause is account collision or overwrite behavior between Christi’s personal Base44 account and the work-related invitation. Key implications: - **Immediate blocker**: Christi cannot inspect the Base44 project until the invitation is resent or access is repaired. - **Operational reality**: Prior login does not guarantee current project access. - **Subtext**: The conversation started with tool friction, but the larger issue is ownership and control of the application environment. ------ ## Architecture Direction: Export, Host, Integrate Christi clarified that Base44 portability depends on the version type. Some versions allow exporting the entire project as a ZIP file, which could then be uploaded or redeployed elsewhere. The preferred hosting direction is **Azure**, because it keeps the application inside the client tenant and aligned with compliance requirements. This is not just a technical preference; it is a governance position. The unresolved architecture questions are: - **Where will the application be hosted?** - **What systems must the application connect to?** - **Which integrations are required immediately versus later?** - **Can Base44 export the project cleanly under the client’s version/license?** The core architecture posture: keep the app within the client-controlled Microsoft/Azure environment unless there is a compelling reason not to. ------ ## Integration Economics: MRI, Yardi, and Procore Are the Real Unknowns Christi identified MRI, Yardi, and Procore as the most relevant third-party platforms used by similar clients. She noted that many companies do not charge separately for API access, but she has not recently verified the cost structure for these three systems. The risk is straightforward: - **If API access is free or already included**, the integration path may be relatively clean. - **If MRI, Yardi, or Procore charge API or integration fees**, the project economics may change. - **If APIs are limited or complex**, the build effort could expand beyond a simple redeployment. The technical viability depends on the API model, but the business viability depends on integration cost and governance. ------ ## Claude/Copilot Tooling Confusion Christi also showed a separate productivity-tool issue: she currently has two Claude buttons/add-ins visible alongside Copilot, creating ambiguity about which tool to use inside her workflow. This is not central to the Base44 decision, but it signals broader tool sprawl. The practical takeaway: AI tooling needs cleanup and standardization, otherwise users will default back to familiar tools like Copilot when the interface becomes ambiguous. ------ ## Action Items **@Christi** - [ ] Investigate MRI API/integration costs and availability, including whether separate API fees apply - [Before tomorrow] - [ ] Investigate Procore API/integration costs and availability, including whether separate API fees apply - [Before tomorrow] - [ ] Review Base44 project access/export feasibility once the invitation issue is resolved - [TBD] - [ ] Remove the duplicate Claude button/add-in from her environment - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:20 Uh, Let me double check. I remember getting it before I went on vacation. I think I got in. I don't think there was any issues with that, um. And bear with me, I switched over to my computer as soon as it was up. Yeah, let me double check the base forty four. Speaker 1 00:00:54 It's it's a little slow getting up, but I do remember logging into it. So. Speaker 2 00:01:15 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:39 Yeah. Um, Speaker 1 00:02:02 Waiting on Edge to open up. Speaker 1 00:02:18 I think this month's updates were a doozy because it's installed updates three times since I got back from vacation. Speaker 1 00:03:35 Yeah, oh here you go. Thank you. All right, I am clicking on the link now. Sorry. Speaker 1 00:04:01 It Is taking its sweet time. Speaker 1 00:04:04 All right, now it's popped up. Let's see if it'll let me in. Speaker 1 00:04:37 Invitation not found. Yeah, it's not letting me in. He may need to resend it to me because I had logged in at one point, But I also have Base 44 with my with my personal email and I, think it just overwrote all of that. Speaker 2 00:05:38 Yep. Speaker 2 00:06:08 Yeah. Speaker 2 00:07:16 Uh huh. Speaker 2 00:09:49 Right. Speaker 2 00:10:21 Right. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:10:45 It depends on the version type. Speaker 1 00:10:53 The the version that he has some I know that with yeah with some of them, they will allow us, but you can export the entire project as a as a zip and upload that. Mhm. Yes. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:11:45 Are you still there You cut out on me. Speaker 1 00:12:10 You're Overcomplicating to a point, but you're bringing up some valid statements there. Um, What I'd want to do is I want to take a look at the file. We also need to determine where's where is it going to be hosted. And I'm going to strongly suggest Azure for hosting. So it stays within your tenant and you're in with all of your compliance and everything you have. Um, in addition to that, I need to know what systems it's connecting to or what systems he wants it to connect to. Speaker 1 00:12:43 So that I mean he can pull things from other applications as needed, so we can create those connections. Speaker 2 00:13:00 Mhm. Right. Speaker 2 00:14:17 Okay. Speaker 2 00:14:53 Right. Speaker 1 00:16:30 Right. It does make sense. One of the things I'm going to double check on is the MRI integration costs and see do they have API costs and what that amount is, and also look at Procore's integration and API and see if there's cost. I'm going to say 80 % of all companies out there don't have an API cost associated with it, but I've never looked at MRI or Yardi or Procore. Those are the three that's most used by all of our clients. I just haven't looked at it lately. Speaker 2 00:17:15 Okay, good to know on that. Speaker 2 00:17:27 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 1 00:17:34 Good to know, Um let me dig into it and see what I can find out before tomorrow, and that'll help us know where where we want to go next on it. So. Okay. Speaker 2 00:18:40 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yes, I will. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:19:08 And, then did you have any someone mentioned that you might have questions about Claude itself. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:20:59 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:21:10 Yep, I you know, I I have two clods now, andum. And it's a little weird for me, so if I look at mine, and I have the old version of GPT so. Uh ignore the, Excel, but up here on my screen, you see I have two Claude. Yeah, and this supposed to be this my budget file. And so I go through because I'm working on my uh because it's fiscal year budget for one of my clients. So I got to do my IT budget and I'm like, I went to go analyze something. I'm like which one of these buttons do I use? So i just went to Claude. I mean went to Copilot down here. Speaker 1 00:21:56 So. I'm going to remove one of those. I just haven't had time to do it. Yeah, so. Speaker 2 00:22:10 Yeah. Yes. Yeah, yes. Speaker 2 00:22:26 Awesome. Thank you. Bye.
07-09 Lecture: BAFMA CIO Chris Brown - Claude AI Training, Privacy, CoWork, and Power Automate Workflows
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- > Date Time: 2026-07-09 12:59:48 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: Chris Brown (Christi), Chief Information Officer, BAFMA ## Summary This series of training sessions on July 9, 2026, led by Christi (Chris Brown), CIO of BAFMA, introduced staff to using the AI assistant Claude. The training focused on privacy safeguards, business-grade features, and practical workflows relevant to the organization. Christi outlined Claude’s modules—Chat, Co-work, and Code—and detailed its different operational models (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus), emphasizing that the business-grade version ensures user conversations are private and not used for AI training. Sign-in is handled via existing BAFMA Microsoft work accounts. The sessions covered practical applications, including drafting polished communications, analyzing data (like email blocking reports), and collaborative document workflows for city reports and newsletters using projects and templates. Christi demonstrated analyzing a document of DTLA businesses to find closed locations and a concept for automating invoice processing. However, the initial session was hindered by login issues, which Christi promised to resolve, leading to a plan for rescheduled hands-on training, cheat sheets, and videos. Subsequent discussions delved into advanced workflows, such as using CoWork for large-scale image organization via tagging and integrating with Microsoft Power Automate to create approval workflows, such as for invoices. Key operational takeaways included the importance of using the CoWork desktop app, refining prompts to prevent AI "hallucinations," managing costs by adjusting model and effort levels, and the process for connecting external applications like Asana, Word, and Excel, which requires approval from Suzanne and Kevin. Next steps include deploying the desktop app to 12 DTLA staff members, gathering specific use cases via a survey, and scheduling follow-up sessions on Power Automate and user-specific scenarios. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Claude Overview, Privacy, and Access - **Claude as an AI Assistant:** Claude is an AI assistant that helps write, brainstorm, summarize, and organize content. It is best used for a "first fast draft," getting users about 70% of the way to a final result, requiring human editing and verification. It should be treated like an intern that needs oversight. - **Privacy and Business Grade:** BAFMA's version of Claude is business-grade, ensuring all conversations are private to the user and not used to train the AI models. This offers enhanced security and features over free consumer tools. Stringent security practices include regular penetration testing. - **Access and Setup:** Users access Claude at `claude.ai` using their BAFMA Microsoft work account, with no separate password needed. When setting up, users should select the "with a team" option. A desktop app is available and will be pushed to staff machines. - **Account and Technical Issues:** The initial session revealed login problems for multiple attendees. Christi confirmed the issue was on her end and committed to resolving it, ensuring all users were added to the team, and scheduling a new hands-on session. ### 2. Core Modules and Operational Models - **Module Distinction:** - **Chat:** The core conversational interface for research, dialogue, and interacting with single documents. - **Co-work:** Designed for performing work on the user's computer, such as analyzing files within a folder, organizing documents, and accessing network resources. It is preferred for complex projects and can be observed live. There is an undo function via OneDrive's recycle bin. - **Claude Code (Code):** A higher-level module for building applications or performing complex sorting operations, such as creating an app to manage security patrol routes. - **Operational Models:** - **Haiku:** The fastest and cheapest model for quick, simple queries. - **Sonnet:** The most efficient and recommended default model for standard tasks, balancing depth and speed. - **Opus:** Used for intensive, deep-dive research and coding. - **Fable:** A specialized model for tasks like security investigations ("blue-collar hacking") that users were instructed not to use. - **Effort Levels (Sonnet Model):** - **Low/Medium:** Medium is the recommended default. Low is for simple tasks. - **High/Extra:** Used for deep research (e.g., on legislation) but consume more time and "tokens" (cost). - **Max:** Not recommended due to extreme processing time. ### 3. Usage, Cost Management, and Organization - **Projects, Templates, and Artifacts:** Users can create Projects to group related chats, share them with team members, and set visibility. Project templates can encode organizational rules, like those for generating standardized Statements of Work (SOWs). Artifacts, like letterhead, can be attached to ensure consistent formatting. - **Organizing Chats and History:** Chats can be pinned, renamed, and grouped into projects. The system maintains a history, but an "incognito" mode (ghost icon) can be used for sensitive chats to prevent them from being saved. If a chat loses clarity, it's best to start a new one. - **Managing Usage and Costs ("Tokens"):** Usage can be monitored in `Settings > Usage`. Costs vary based on the model and effort level selected. To reduce spend, use lower effort settings or the Haiku/Sonnet models for less critical tasks. In CoWork, model/effort cannot be changed mid-task; in Chat, they can be adjusted at any time. The typical allowance is around $100 per user per month. ### 4. Practical Use Cases and Workflows - **Drafting and Communication:** Refine emails and other communications for tone, clarity, and structure. - **Data Analysis:** Analyze large datasets, such as weekly "gray mail" reports, to count entries, summarize totals, and compute aggregates. A demonstration showed Claude calculating average employee income from a sample dataset. - **Document Accuracy and Research:** Upload non-sensitive documents to check for inconsistencies and suggest improvements. It can also support research on legislation and regulations, but outputs must be checked for hallucinations. - **DTLA Closed Businesses Workflow:** A CoWork demonstration showed how to analyze a document of DTLA businesses, cross-reference them against web sources (Google, Yelp) to identify permanent closures, and generate a CSV or DOCX report. This process includes security prompts for web access and the ability to queue additional tasks. - **Invoice Processing Workflow:** AI can perform a pre-review of invoices to check criteria (e.g., correct entity name, date) and sort them into folders. However, it cannot physically "stamp" invoices; this requires a separate workflow built in Microsoft Power Automate. - **Large-Scale Image Organization:** AI can tag thousands of images with descriptive keywords (e.g., "daytime," "headshots," "US Bank Tower") to improve searchability without moving the original files. It is recommended to process images in small batches and define key tags beforehand. ### 5. Integration with External Tools - **Microsoft Power Automate:** This tool can be used to build complete workflows, such as invoice approval processes. Examples include creating Teams alerts for invoices over $1,000, categorizing emails from VIPs, automatically storing meeting transcripts, and generating scheduled reports from tagged images. - **Connecting Applications:** Claude can be connected to external applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Asana. All connections require a formal review and approval from Suzanne and Kevin to ensure data security. A requested QuickBooks connection was previously denied due to security concerns. ### 6. Training Approach and Next Steps - **Training Dynamics:** Christi encouraged active participation and noted that due to rapid AI updates, interfaces may change, and additional free training is available. Updates are relayed via Kashif, Monti, and SCHARP/Charl. - **Upcoming Resources:** Updated training videos for Claude will be available starting Monday, 2026-07-13. The team will also receive monthly curated lists of high-quality external trainers. - **Use-Case Collection:** A survey will be sent to gather daily use cases from staff to tailor future training. - **App Deployment:** The CoWork desktop app will be deployed via silent install to 12 designated DTLA staff computers by the end of day on 2026-07-10. - **Follow-up Sessions:** Two new trainings are planned: one focused on user-specific use cases and another on building workflows in Power Automate. - **Support:** Christi can be contacted directly for ad-hoc training requests at Christi@CRIMSONIT.com or Chris@CRIMSONIT.com. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Assignments - [ ] 1. **For Christi:** Resolve login issues and ensure all attendees are added to the Claude team by EOD 2026-07-09. Send out cheat sheets, beginner videos, and schedule a new hands-on training session. - [ ] 2. **For Staff:** Sign in to Claude at `claude.ai` using your BAFMA Microsoft account. - [ ] 3. **For Staff:** Complete the forthcoming survey with detailed daily use cases to inform future training. Do not resubmit if you completed the prior all-staff survey. - [ ] 4. **For Staff:** Provide a list of DTLA staff (12 members) to Christi for targeted app deployment. - [ ] 5. **For Staff:** Submit a list of desired desktop applications to connect with Claude (e.g., Word, Excel, Asana) for approval by Suzanne and Kevin. - [ ] 6. **For Staff:** Explore the Chat module by drafting a polished email and asking Claude to review a non-sensitive document for sections needing backup references. - [ ] 7. **For Team Leads:** Coordinate with team members to set up a shared Project for a collaborative document, attaching branding artifacts like letterhead. - [ ] 8. **For Team Leads:** Pilot the invoice automation workflow: set up a scans folder and use CoWork to generate a monthly CSV of vendors and costs. Iterate on the process to incorporate Gabriel and Michael’s checklist/stamping needs. - [ ] 9. **For Team Leads:** Plan and pilot the image tagging strategy: define key tags, process a small batch of images by folder/year, and validate the results before scaling. - [ ] 10. **For IT/Leadership:** The CoWork desktop app will be installed on 12 designated staff machines via silent push by EOD 2026-07-10. - [ ] 11. **For IT/Leadership:** Establish internal guidelines for Claude usage, including cost management (effort/model settings), security protocols for web access prompts in CoWork, and conventions for naming/organizing chats and projects.
- Date
- Jul 9, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Hello guys. There we go. Hi everybody. Speaker 2 00:00:09 Hey, Christi, we're waiting on a few others. Speaker 1 00:00:11 No worries. I am pulling up my stuff. So bear with me one moment. Speaker 2 00:00:22 And then when we're ready to start Christi, I will start recording session. Okay. And then when once we have the full, you know. Video available, I will forward it to you. Speaker 1 00:00:34 Okay, perfect. And I have a transcription service running on my computer. Are you guys okay with that being used? Speaker 3 00:00:44 That's fine. I just want to make sure that everyone let's cover that again, once everyone's on. Perfect. Speaker 2 00:01:25 Just Waiting on two more staff members. Should be good to go. Speaker 4 00:01:30 No worries. Speaker 4 00:02:25 I Think we're just waiting on SCHARP. Speaker 5 00:02:42 I just texted her. She'll. Speaker 2 00:02:47 Be on in just a moment. Speaker 4 00:02:49 Perfect. Speaker 2 00:03:27 She says that her Zoom keeps crashing, so she's going to join us by phone. Speaker 3 00:03:32 Oh no. But she needs Zoom. Yeah, I think so. Speaker 2 00:03:40 Might be using the Zoom app on her phone, but it's like that's on her computer it's crashing. Speaker 1 00:03:49 And then, uh, real quickly, just a heads up. I may have someone come join us. Um, That's helping out with some AI projects, and they're going to join quietly and silently with no video. Um, so just be aware that that may happen. Um, we're trying to get more and more people trained to do what I do. Um, And as you know, SCHARP and Kashif know, I learn quickly and then I train everybody around me. So And that includes Anzor at times So. Um, I do have some staff members that is learning how to do the training. Um, they've they're up to date on Copilot, But Claude is the one where uh they're trying to get some some time in with me to learn how to do some things. So okay, Speaker 2 00:04:34 Well I think we have the all here. Speaker 1 00:04:39 Perfect. Um, all right so I'll go ahead and get started. Hi guys, my name is Chris Brown uh, you can call me Chris or Christi I. If you've never worked with me before, Speaker 2 00:04:49 I apologize. Just, um, I'm just letting the staff know that we are going to be recording this session. Okay. Um, And then, of course, Christi had mentioned that she has a transcription service of this session on her computer. So just want to make sure that everyone is apprised of that and doesn't have any issues. So uh, but this is Christi Brown, the Chief Information Officer with BAFMA. So we're going to turn this over to you. Christi. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:05:14 Awesome no worries. And guys, thank you so much for joining today. I'm going to try to make this training fun. Um, It is one of those things where sometimes some parts are going to be very boring, and some parts are going to be pretty fun. Um, I am going to get some time in with you guys today for you guys to actually do some things. I do, I do ask everybody participates. So I know Monti's really good at participating in meetings with me. And so is Kashif and SCHARP. But I want everybody to participate as well. Speaker 1 00:05:44 Ask questions, throw questions in the chat for me. Please feel free to use your reactions and raising hand in Zoom. I do, I will call upon you. So just heads up, even if I don't know you, I will call upon you. So just make sure that you guys are paying attention. That's all I ask. That's how I know it's successful is if everyone is jumping in and they're interested in what they're learning. Now Something that I do, um, is if you guys want a little bit extra time with me, I do that at no charge. Just because Code and AI is changing rapidly. Um so anytime I see new things come out, I will keep Kashif and Monti and Charl apprised of those, and then they will pass that email along. Um so just a quick heads up on this as well. Plaud's been making a lot of changes recently. So what you might see on my screen may not be what you see on yours just yet. Speaker 1 00:06:41 There's a lot of updates happening, and so they are making a lot of changes. I am going to try to show you what it looks like previously and currently. Um, and then we're going to have a lot of fun with this. So just a quick heads up on it. Now, um, A heads up : this training uh deck that I made was made three weeks ago. Um, There has been new training that has happened. So I've taken out all the screenshots. So it's not that pretty just because um some of the new steps that they've added, it's. The screenshots are going to look a little off, so I went ahead and changed those. But we're going to get started. So what is Claude? Claude is an AI assistant that you talk in plain English. It will help you write, it will help you brainstorm, it's going to help you summarize and organize, And you want to think of it as your first fast first draft with you as the editor. Now what you do need to know about Claude, and this is why BAFMA chose is that it's private to you. Speaker 1 00:07:40 Your conversations are not going to be shared out to the internet. It is not going to be used to train AI, so they're not going to learn from the data that you add in. You're going to sign in with your existing account, your existing Microsoft account. So we're gonna be setting that up. And it's business grade. It's not a free consumer tool. It is business grade. There are a lot of perks to being on business grade that is private to businesses that you don't see in the free consumer tool. Now, quick question and show of hands: How, many of you had a Claude account prior to this that you paid for? Anybody pay for any type of AI tool like Chat GPT or anything along those lines? Okay. So you're going to notice some differences in Chat GPT versus Claude. Um, I will tell you, I was a massive Chat GPT fan up until about a year and a half ago. Um, I still pay for Chat GPT. I still pay for Claude. Um, and also. Speaker 1 00:08:39 Uh pay for Copilot. In fact, Anzor pays for all of that for me. I'm not going to lie, except for my Claude account. Um, I am way too expensive for Anzor to pay for my Claude account. I use $200 a month in credits for Claude. So Anzor and I have a special deal. Uh it is a private conversation. He and I had. I will show you guys what it looks like on my private account, but I can switch to my Claude, My Alere Claude account as well um but he knows that I am very stringent about security. I don't allow my stuff to go back and use to train AI. I have multifactor authentication turned on, and if I am not in offices, it can't touch Alere data. Plain and simple. And I do have that; it is very specific. I did that way before Anzor, and I had a conversation. Um, I do ask Anzor every time he gets a pen test done for Alere that they specifically pen test me. And my OneDrive just to make sure we're still secure, and he does do that for me. Speaker 1 00:09:36 So just a heads up for you guys on that. Now signing in, you're going to go to claude.ai. You're going to sign in with your work account. You're going to confirm with your normal BAFMA login, and you're not going to have a password to create or remember. So just a heads up for that. I'm going to show you guys what that looks like in a moment. All right, now with that being said, I am going to switch over to my Alere and I'm going to show you what all of this looks like. So let me escape out of this. Speaker 1 00:10:06 Here is my account. I am going to switch, I'm going to log out real quick to show you what this looks like. I do have the desktop version installed on my computer, and we can push that to all of you as well. If you don't already have it installed. So, I'm going to log in with my Alere account. You would log in with your normal everyday BAFMA account so All right, so as I log in it's going to take me in here. Speaker 6 00:10:35 Or BAFMA Outlook account? Yes. Speaker 1 00:10:37 Yep. And so it's going to log me in, and now I'm logged into the Alere IT account. And so I want to show you guys there is some differences in looks, so I want to go over this with you real quick. You've got some bars up or you've got tabs up here, different buttons you can choose. So Plaud is a chat option, It's got cowork, which is amazing. I will walk you guys through cowork in a bit. And it's got Claude Code. Now, Claude Code is also pretty fun. I'm not going to be on Claude Code that much for you guys. I'm going to give you a quick overview of what it looks like and what to do. But is anybody in here interested in vibe coding? Making applications? Okay, So a couple of you eventually, Speaker 7 00:11:24 But um yes, i'll start with this. Speaker 1 00:11:27 Okay, perfect. Um, just a heads up for you. And this is a shameless, shameful plugin or plug for this. Um, I write blog posts on how to use AI. Um, and I write about my minions that I use. Um, so I'm going to give you guys the website, but just a heads up. Uh, A lot of my blog posts also get written and put on the Alere website. So you guys are welcome to go to that website it's in the chat Also, Alere IT. There's a blog section in there where we talk about AI. I go through the fun things. So I will have more and more stuff on ADAPT2IT and a lot of higher level for those of you guys interested in vibe coding. But for right now, We're going to talk about chat, and we'll get you guys familiar with the chat window. So chat right here, Very basic eventually chat and co- work are going to be together and I'm going to show you guys that what it looks like on my other account. Speaker 1 00:12:25 You also have design down here in which you can create different design elements like pictures, social media posts. You can put in your branding guides into design and have it create pictures and images based on your branding guides. But for chat, you can add files and folders. You can create a project, which is a grouping of different chats that you have. You can share those out with your team members as well. So, we have project templates here that Julia created in my organization where we can do make project templates based off of the rules that we have set forth. And she put those instructions in for us. And then I haven't done much in it, but the team has. There's another project that she's working on out there on how to create accurate SOWs. And so that's something we do a lot of is statement of works. Speaker 1 00:13:22 And so we can put in the project, we can chat and say, I want you to build me. Build me a project template for Claude integration for a client. And she already has the parameters set in there. And. So she has specific instructions of how Claude is going to build that out for her. So, It is going to ask me a question. So I am going to do a project management document, and I'm going to have this build out. And. So she did put specific skills into this that allow the system to pull up and tells it how to build a docx, which is a Word document or PowerPoint presentation. And then she has integrated in it how she wants those look. Speaker 1 00:14:18 And basically, she built it out on how to look happens so that we can straight import it into our project management tool. Which is really cool because it will integrate on that. I do have clients they'll come in and build projects. I'm going to let that one keep going. It'll go even though I've clicked off of it. Um, I will have them create projects based on use cases, things that they may do all the time, just the same over and over again daily. So Kevin, I told you guys, I warned you, I am going to call on you. Kevin, what is one repetitive document that you make a lot of? Which Kevin? Uh You Kevin. That works. Speaker 7 00:15:02 A repetitive document I use? Um hm Um I mean I have templates that I use for like reports and stuff. Speaker 1 00:15:11 Perfect What you can do is you can create a new project and you can upload those templates. And you can create the visibility for Alere IT or private. You can name the project, and I'm going to call this "SOW Builder." And then I want you to create MSP-based statements of work. What's MSP? Managed services provider. That is what Crimson is. There are literally thousands of MSPs out in the world, so it knows how MSPs like to have things written. Speaker 1 00:15:47 So, statements of work, I need the format to only include phases. Let me pull up a scope of work real quick because I have multiple of those. Also, if you guys saw that quick message that I brought up, I am going to be sending you guys out those cloud cheat sheets as well. Phases. Speaker 1 00:16:17 Exclusions and estimated time. No pricing should be added. So, we don't ever do pricing on our statements of work because that's sales jobs, and it's not my job. And so now that I have built this, I normally I'd build it with a lot more information in it. I'm going to say create me a statement of work for Claude Teams, For a client, I need to cover SSO and training. Speaker 3 00:16:54 SSO. Christi, I am going to need you to translate all of these acronyms, okay? Yes, ma'am. Speaker 1 00:17:02 Telling you in advance. Okay. SSO is single sign on, And that means that we build out cloud so that it uses your Microsoft account to log in. It's fancy language just to say, Make it easier for our clients to log in. So, um, and then that's all I do. And it will build it out based on how I put that information in there. Now within my projects, I can also attach files. And I have done this on my other account. I will attach the Alere letterhead and I have it in some of my projects where the Alere letterhead is in the project, so it knows how I like to have it formatted when it builds out Word documents for me. Speaker 1 00:17:45 Does that make sense? Speaker 7 00:17:45 To be honest, I'm pretty lost already. I don't know what a lot of these things are that you're talking about. Speaker 3 00:17:49 Yeah, yeah. Well, writing. I too am lost. Yeah, okay. No worries. I think we need to go way back up. We're going to back up way back up because I don't think this is applicable to anyone in our organization Gotcha We. We don't we don't have these uh you know external documents that we generate like the day-to-day Gotcha Let's start from. The beginning. No, really. Did you have a comment? Speaker 8 00:18:19 Yeah, I was wondering if we have anything pre- prepared like that would be relevant to the bid. Like, you know, any examples? Speaker 1 00:18:27 Yes. So I'm going to give you guys some other examples. Mostly when I do the training, Everybody's asking on how do I create take my standard documents and recreate them day by day. And, that's what I was showing you guys. But we're going to back up a little bit because it sounds like you guys don't do that as much. And I do apologize for that. We're going to talk about chatting. So, chatting, when you go in, you've got chat, co-work and code. We're going to stay on chat. With chat, let's ignore projects and artifacts. We're just going to do a new chat. Now, if you're let's say you got a document from somebody, and you want to check that document out. And you want to have a chat about it. Let's say Kevin Thomas sent me a document not related to the business. Speaker 1 00:19:13 It's just a random document on how to do something, and he he's like, "Hey Chris, how accurate is this for me? " What I am going to do is I am going to put that document into here. And basically I am going to just have the system check for accuracies for me. Now I am not doing something that is going to be that's going to have client data in it. Very very clear about that. I don't like to share client data, but what I am going to do is, He sent me an MFA rollout guide, and he's like, hey, I'm very interested in this. Speaker 3 00:19:46 Okay. Okay. Christi? This is not applicable. Speaker 1 00:19:49 Okay, not applicable either. What is it you guys want to do in Claude every day? Nick, Speaker 3 00:20:01 Did you want to say something? Speaker 6 00:20:02 We don't know yet. That's kind of the point I think. Speaker 1 00:20:06 Ah okay Yeah. Speaker 6 00:20:07 We don't know what it can do I think. Speaker 1 00:20:09 Got you. Okay, that helps me. Give me, sir with your hand raised, give me something you're interested in chat doing. Speaker 9 00:20:21 Well, I will tell you that the thing that I've been I use it I've been using it for is you know, essentially researching um you know information about, you know legislation regulation um about per se. You know, things that are going on, things like that. The other thing I will say, is I've used it for revision and drafting. And for like, if I am, you know here is what I want to say, how can I say that stuff like that? Okay, um you know, obviously, with uh safeguards, if you will, against uh hallucinations and stuff like that, Speaker 1 00:21:01 Exactly what I tell people is that AI is going to get you seventy percent of the way there. I'll be honest, you want to think about Claude like an intern. How, many of you guys were an intern at one point or or have worked with interns in the past? Okay, Your interns, they no offense to anybody under the age of twenty here, which I say that with my daughter sitting right here. Um interns come in and they think they know the world right? That's Claude. Claude thinks it knows everything. However, you always double check their work. Speaker 1 00:21:37 Um, so just a quick heads up on that. You want to always double check your work. It's never going to give you that final draft. But what it will do, let's talk about legislation. Can I utilize um me being a foster parent to show you guys some legislation items? Are you guys okay with that? Speaker 3 00:21:57 Why don't we use something that's applicable? Okay, okay, so okay, okay I'm going to Kevin before you go um, Everybody here uses AI, but they don't use Claude. Okay. And so everybody, I'd like you to think of how you have used AI in the past or something that you've used. And I think we just need to go through and use specific examples. Okay, Kevin? Well, yeah, Speaker 2 00:22:28 Just to you know trying to keep it on something that's applicable to us. Me personally, I do use Claude AI, And for me, A lot of times it's really to just help me assist in drafting a polished email reply along communications. And then of course, Claude is been wonderful in specific instances, where it allows me to analyze large amounts of data. Michael Ashkenazi and I routinely submit to Crimson IT. We're trying to reduce our gray mail and just all of the amount of emails that we just want to block. Speaker 2 00:23:06 On an organizational level, so you know we submit those every day, every week, And then we get this full report with raw data, showing all of the emails that we had submitted to be blocked. And then I said I wanted to go in and say, "Tell me how many entries Michael submitted, how many entries Kevin submitted, how many emails that we have submitted." And Claude is able to just be able to produce that right away. Okay. So it's, Just helping me analyze data. Yes. And I'm, assuming that that's going to be a big contributing thing for most of the staff is, okay, analyzing data, especially e-commerce data. Um and so that's just one to just give a little bit of flavor. Speaker 1 00:23:51 Gotcha and that's perfect. That helps me. I actually have sample training data that I was going to utilize with everybody today um and I can pull that up and let you guys see how we can analyze it. Let me open the file location for it. Speaker 8 00:24:05 Is the sample from us or is it more of your okay. Speaker 1 00:24:09 It is it is not even with us. It is a sample data that's just generic data. Uh employee generic employee data from Tatooine. Uh Rivendell those kind of locations. So uh, just something I created one day when I was having a Lord of the Rings marathon. So let me pull it up real quick. Speaker 10 00:24:34 I do have a question, well, a suggestion. I think like the city reports, Like I'm, just thinking of things that we all work on. And like the newsletter, the district newsletter. Maria Elena you and I were talking about that yesterday, where like six of us have eyes on it. I'm just wondering if like, how would you use Claude to work on something collaborative like that with your team members? Speaker 8 00:25:03 And I also add on to that before, like I don't necessarily need help drafting or anything in the creative process. It's more like the backup, Like searching the document for what is going to need backup and then finding the backup amongst all the files. Since we're logging in with our account, it should be connected to everything. I'm assuming yes. Like that part is the most time consuming piece on my part. Speaker 1 00:25:29 Okay, that gives me a good place to know where to go. Let me show you first the initialization, and then let me show you how you connect your data. So that'll be a massive help to all of you guys. I told you guys I had sample data. I'm copying it in here. All I'm doing is dragging and dropping from its location into here, and I want -- I'm going to ask the system, can you. Speaker 1 00:26:01 Tell me the average employee income based on location. Now, it's got two tables in it. One table is employee data, generic people. Frodo gets, I think 50,000 a year. Bilbo has 60,000 a year. Okay? For all of you Lord of the Rings fans. So there's about 120 employees in here. It is giving me by looking at it The annual cost. Wakanda is $64,000 a year. So, that's how you can actually put in your sample data or put in the data you have and ask it questions about that data. You can also have it build, "Can you build me employment charts showing location and by department?" Speaker 3 00:27:01 Okay, I'm you know, I'm sorry Christi. I'm just going to stop you again. Okay. Because uh, we've been waiting a long time for this training, and we were very limited on time here. And so I think it just makes sense to focus on the things that are specifically applicable to us because there's we don't analyze spreadsheets. Okay. Um there might be some, you know circumstances that we do this. And, um, I feel like we're jumping all around here too between, like just like the basics. Like okay, just go back to the first of all the very very basic. What are the three different modules? Yes. And what they do? Speaker 1 00:27:52 Okay. I can do that. So I'm going to leave this chat. It's going to continue running in the background, Um, your your basics is chat. This is where you talk to your AI agent. It's you have conversations, you say, hey, I want you to research this new legislation. Give me, the ins and outs of it and how it applies to DTLA and how it applies to our company. And that's something you can do in here. It will look up latest legislation. You can ask it to cite the re the sources as well. And, so you can click on the links and see where that information is coming from. Speaker 1 00:28:27 So if you're looking for a specific legislation, maybe that's going to be enacted in 2027. You can ask it for the websites and where it got that information. So you can double check things like that. If you're utilizing it for things like that, you can always add files and folders by clicking this plus sign. And then you can also go in and put in pictures. So, if you have screenshots that you've taken from maybe routes or different things like that, Or maybe you're getting information from clients or customers, and you want to include that information in there. As you chat with it, you can add files and folders to files and photos to it as well. Now, the next thing I want to draw your attention to is this box right here. You've got a couple different options. This is going to look confusing, so let me go over this real quick. Haiku is the cheapest option, okay? It is for quick answers. It's not going to spend time. Speaker 1 00:29:26 Deep diving, it's not going to spend time researching. It is fast for like quick answers. This is where you're going to ask it a question like, hey, What kind of flower do I buy my boss for Boss's Day to mean that she's amazing? And then it's going to give you those flower suggestions. That's all you're going to use Haiku for. Sonnet is your most efficient for the tasks that you guys do. Leave it on Sonnet as much as possible. It's got a little bit deeper thinking. It's going to do a little bit deeper research, and then you can adjust the medium or adjust the effort. And the effort means that it's thinking more thoroughly about the responses. So I keep everything default to medium. However, if I'm working on legislation information, which I do as a foster parent, and I know you guys do for your own roles, and I want it to dig deeper, I'm going to go with high or extra. Now this is going to take more. Speaker 1 00:30:19 Uh, tokens from you guys and we'll get into tokens in a moment. But it is also going to take a little bit longer of time. If you go extra, that is that time to go get some livy juice otherwise coffee. Okay, that is my happy juice. So I'm going to put something on extra and I needed to dig deep into a legislation, then I'm going to let it spin and I'm going to go find me some coffee. I might even walk down to the local Starbucks because it is going to take some time. So just a heads up for you guys, my default. I leave everything as medium because of the amount of effort, but I will change my effort to high as needed. And if it's a deep dive, I'm going to go to extra. I never go to max by the way. I don't ever use it. This has, it took an hour the one time I tried max. So um, I do use it very very sparingly. I've maybe used it once in the last three months. Um at that point, I went to the doctor's office and came back. So um low is things again. This is going to be things like. Speaker 1 00:31:18 How do I pick out the perfect bourbon for Kevin Thomas? Here is what he likes. Okay, so that's where I am going to use low. So, just a heads up for you guys. Opus is going to be more of those deep dive tasks that you are doing. I use that for coding. You guys are not going to need it. Fable, don't even touch Fable. Okay, Fable is those things that I use when I am blue-collar, I think it's called blue-collar hacking where a client calls me and says, hey, Chris. We got an issue with. Kevin Thomas, we think he's stealing data. Can you deep dive into that? That's when I'm going to use Fable. Okay, you guys don't need to use Fable. Maria, you have a question ma'am? Maria. Speaker 8 00:31:59 Elena. Um so Michael dropped an example into the chat. Is it possible to go through like his example and demonstrate whether we would need Sonnet or Haiku Opus. And like what level just so we can kind of see? Speaker 1 00:32:15 Yeah, so let me download that. Speaker 7 00:32:19 And should we log in now to our account while you're doing? Speaker 1 00:32:23 Yes, go ahead and log in. And I'm going to show you, um, I'm going to show you on Michael's one because I actually love this chat. Speaker 7 00:32:37 It wants to know if I want to create a team though. Is there one already created or? Speaker 1 00:32:42 There's one already created. Let me, um, if you if it doesn't ask you to create a team, Uh then you're you've you've got your set up correctly. Um if it does, uh stop right, there don't go any further. I'll get you added, okay. Um real quickly. What I'm going to do isum here's what I'm going to do. I'm gonna I'm gonna take this Michael exactly how you've asked it. Okay, so I'm going to pretend like me. Okay, yes, ma'am, Speaker 3 00:33:14 Everyone should be logged on right now. Is that correct? Speaker 1 00:33:17 If they're able to get logged in, yes, they should be logged in. Speaker 6 00:33:20 And discord at claude dot com? Speaker 1 00:33:23 Claude dot ai. Speaker 6 00:33:24 Claude dot ai. Speaker 3 00:33:26 Everyone's supposed to log in with claude dot ai. Okay, Speaker 1 00:33:29 Yes, and use your email address. Now if it doesn't let you through, just let me know. Uh I know the team worked on setting you guys up and I will verify if you can't log in I'll verify, why? Because. Speaker 7 00:33:42 It's saying do. Um, how are you planning to use it? Personal use or with a team? So I'm assuming it's with a team, right? Yes. And then when I click, that is when it asks me to create a team. So I'll just don't. Speaker 1 00:33:53 Yeah, just stop at that point. So so how does he get out of that? I will get you guys if anyone is having problems getting in, I will get you in by the end of the day. I'm going to set that up. So oh, Speaker 6 00:34:06 This is i'm sorry It's with my team. Speaker 1 00:34:09 Yes, With your team not personal. Okay? Speaker 8 00:34:14 So on my end it's asking for a verification code, but I can't find it in my spam or my inbox. Speaker 1 00:34:21 It does take about two to three minutes on the verification code. Does. Speaker 6 00:34:25 It matter what we call the team? Speaker 1 00:34:30 If there is a setup team already, I was out of the office, and the team set that up for me, while I was out. So I will verify who all they added. And make sure everybody gets added if you're not. So, Speaker 6 00:34:47 That's okay. Speaker 1 00:34:49 If it asks you to create a team, stop. It means that you're not in properly. So, Speaker 3 00:34:56 Is anyone able to be in? Speaker 6 00:34:59 Okay, I was able to sign in. Perfect i i I am signed in. But then uh it if I click on with my team, it asks. Less priorities. Speaker 3 00:35:12 So you're not able to sign in. So no one's able to sign on. Christi, is there someone that you can contact? Yes. To work on this? Speaker 1 00:35:21 I'm already reaching out to them to find out what happened. So, as soon as I get an answer back, we're going to get you guys in. Speaker 4 00:35:30 Okay, I'll send a secure message. Speaker 1 00:35:32 Yeah And guys, I will set up a brand new training with you guys, To go over everything. If you're not able to sign in, that's a problem on my end and I need to find out why. Um, we will go through everything today. I will do another training with you guys as soon as possible, because I want you guys to be able to practice this. And Michael, that example you gave me is perfect. Send me more of those, and I will do them live so that you guys can do them with me. And. Speaker 6 00:36:03 Is there something that you could provide in advance? That, we could uh review in order to have a sense of what questions we might want to ask or like what kind of things would, you know a little bit of a primer so that we can be coming to this training with a little more constructively. Speaker 1 00:36:26 Yes, let me get that sent over to you guys right now. I'm going to give you a file folder. You can download everything to your heart's content. It's all cheat sheets that you can utilize. So give me one second. Cheat sheets? Cheat sheets, yes. Um, these are different ways people use Claude at a couple of my different organizations. But, Speaker 6 00:36:47 Is it an overview? Or is it just a whole bunch of individual cheat sheets? Speaker 1 00:36:52 There is uh individual cheat sheets, and then I also have videos that I am updating right now on beginner Claude as well. You guys are going to get access to all of that already. Speaker 3 00:37:03 You know, when Anzor walked me through this, I found it very helpful. Okay. If, he just went over the basics, and then we talked about a few things that I would want to do. And then we did it. Okay. And because, For us to go through a bunch of sheets and try and figure out how, you know, it's I just don't know how productive that's going to be. That's great. Send the resources. Yes. The resources will be good, but let's let's just get through the basics first, okay? Yes. So and I do want to do Michael's example. I think that's helpful, but can we just finish explaining what the three basic functions are? Okay. Yes. Speaker 1 00:37:55 So getting back, I've gone through with you guys the different types of models. And these are called models. So they're not your runway models. They're just how Claude creates different versions of itself to make it most efficient for you. So Haiku, like I said, this is where I want to know if I'm going to send Suzanne flowers, that's what I'm going to use because it's quick and easy. If I want to get a synopsis of Dutton Ranch. Speaker 3 00:38:24 Okay, you've gone over this, Christi. Okay, so let's let's move on now to the what is the second after chat? Speaker 1 00:38:34 Okay, so the second after chat is co- work. Okay. Now co- work is something where you're going to select a folder for it to work in. Now I'm going to select one right now I'm going to do uh client training documents. And that's the one I selected here. I'm going to ask it to do things for me. I can ask it to organize my folder. I can say, hey, in this folder, I want you to ensure that I have a file folder created for client handouts and put all applicable files in there. Or, I can give it access to my documents and say, "I want you to organize my documents better." Speaker 1 00:39:17 And it you it'll ask you a few questions to understand. And so on this one, I'm going to say, I want you to make sure that all cheat sheets are on crimson letterhead. And all I do is I copy and paste over crimson letterhead. Now when it does this, Speaker 7 00:39:38 Does it make a separate folder? Or is this does it take what you have and rearrange it? Speaker 1 00:39:43 Takes what I have and rearranges it. Now, if I tell it. Speaker 7 00:39:46 Is there any way to undo that if you do something wrong? Speaker 1 00:39:47 Yeah. Yes, there is a way. Okay. And I have done that because I am doing it on my OneDrive. All I have to do is go into the recycle bin OneDrive, and i am not going to go into how to do that today. But if you ever get stuck on that, call me or call the help desk, The help desk is really good for backtracking. All of that So just in case Um You can also put it in here and say," I want you to create" A new folder called Crimson cheat sheets and put the documents in there. You can tell it, it will do that. So CoWork is basically using your computer to do work for you. And this is where you're going to do like internship type stuff. I will so any of you guys are in finance, deal with invoices all day? Okay. Speaker 1 00:40:43 Um, if you have a bunch of documents that you need to extract data from, you're going to use this tool to extract data. So for me, When I'm putting in my expense report and I have a big batch of invoices, I tell it to go to the system and make me a list of all my invoices for the month of June. And so I can do that and it will make it. Now, I will still spot check it because this is just a fancy intern, and it's only 70 % good. 30% it hallucinates. It's getting better. But this is the kind of work you can put in there. You can go in there and say, hey, I want to create a Word document based on this Excel document that Michael sent that spotlights all the businesses, so that I can. Speaker 7 00:41:28 What folder did you make though? Is, this, do you have to go onto the OneDrive to see what it did or what happens? Will it. Are you able to go through this? Speaker 1 00:41:36 You can go choose a different folder. And then from here, you guys are going to see how organized my computer is in a second. I'm going to go into documents. And, then these are my main document folders and I'm just going to tell it to go in, let's say clients and I am going to go to DTLA Alliance. And then these are all my documents for you guys. I even have the old DC bid stuff from before your name change. You can get, you can select that folder. Speaker 1 00:42:09 And then you can tell it, this is what I want you to work on in this folder. Speaker 7 00:42:13 Can you see it live when it's happening? Yes. Speaker 1 00:42:16 You can see it live. I'm going to unselect client training, so I'm only looking at DTLA. I'm going to say, I want you to find the most recent IT policy that was built. Christi, Speaker 3 00:42:34 Actually, you could use Michael's. Speaker 1 00:42:38 For this as well. Speaker 3 00:42:39 As an example. Speaker 1 00:42:40 Perfect. Let me do this. Let me show you guys, um, so take this over. Speaker 3 00:42:46 You've saved his file, so now you can grab his file. Yes. Okay, so grab his file and then ask the question that Michael is asking. Speaker 1 00:42:59 And bear with me because it's opening it up first. Um, Zoom doesn't allow me to download Marilena. Speaker 8 00:43:07 How do we know if we're using CoWork for a task versus chat versus well? I know probably never using code, but how would we know? Speaker 1 00:43:15 So I tell people to think of chat, like, hey, I'm having a conversation with somebody and CoWork where it's like I I want you to do the work for me is basically how I think about those two does that help. Speaker 3 00:43:30 Like CoWork is where you're assessing our network, right? Yes. You are. Okay, In order for CoWork is when you have to actually access resources that are on our network. And chat is where you're just having a conversation back and forth. Yes. Okay. Yep. Speaker 1 00:43:51 Chat is what I'm going to do for research. CoWork is what I'm going to do to analyze documents and to work on documents. Does that make better sense? Speaker 3 00:43:60 And I think what gets confusing is because you did note in chat that you could attach a document to chat. So that's what, you know, where there's some overlap there. But generally, when you need to go into our system and one of those projects that we're we're talking about going into our system is that we have a lot of images that we want to organize. Exactly. And so, So yeah, so maybe if it's just one single document, maybe you do it on chat or you could do it on CoWork. But a huge project like being able to identify all of our photos, that would be a CoWork project. Yes. Okay. Speaker 8 00:44:41 I think that answers my question because a minute ago, it seemed like you were going to put Michael's question into chat. So I think that helps. Speaker 1 00:44:48 And Michael's question and document can be done in both chat and CoWork. Now what I'm going to do with this is going to be a little different than what I did. In um chat. So bear with me one second because I'm going to tell it to make a document based on this. So bear with me. It won't let me copy. Hang on. Okay, I'm just going to type it out. To be able to look at this document and tell me which businesses. Speaker 1 00:45:27 I'm just going to let misspellings and all in DTLA are permanently closed. Check internet, Google and Yelp, etc. The document is long so any that are permanently closed create, A new Excel file and list dates if possible. I know Michael, you didn't ask that, But I'm going to add that in just to kind of give a little extra. I am going to use Sonnet, but I'm going to stick with high. So my effort's going to be high because I want it to think a little bit longer. It was already selected, but I would have changed this if this was on medium. It is going to look on the internet. So I'm going to hit go, and that's my go button. Speaker 1 00:46:23 And it's going to give me some boxes here. You've got progress, here's the folder. So it knows, It's going to look at my instructions in the folder because I do have some instructions on how it handles you guys. And then any tools or files that it references is going to be under context. So if it's internet website, It'll be in the context where you can click on it and validate here's where it found that information at. Now, while you're looking at this, you're going to see it's running commands. And you can click on the commands. This will give you a little bit more information on what it's doing. Okay? So it is going to think this the perfect time when you start this. This at that time you want to go get your happy juice, AKA coffee. So, because this going to take a minute because it's going not only is it going to look at the document, which is where this what it's doing. But then in a moment, You're going to see its searching the internet. Speaker 1 00:47:20 Now, if you're a multitasker like me, at this point you let it go and you say new task. Now I did see this little button right here. It says it's waiting answer. So if that lights up, So it wants to know how to approach this, and I can say, spot check and aggregate, and then I can have it go back later for a second pass. I can have it do restaurants, retail and bars only. Or I can do a full exhaustive check, Which that means you're going to need to go get double happy juice for that one. Okay. What do you guys want me to click on this? Speaker 3 00:47:55 Well, uh, it would be most expeditious for this to do aggregate and spot check, right? Speaker 1 00:48:01 Okay. So we'll do it. Speaker 3 00:48:03 I'm asking if that's a question mark. Speaker 1 00:48:04 It is honestly because I would rather it aggregate and spot check because it's going to go faster. Speaker 3 00:48:10 Okay so for this, Yes. Like if we were doing it, we would want the most thorough job, but we're going to just watch it. Okay. Speaker 1 00:48:18 Correct. Now, As this is going, and you can see, here's the progress that made a checklist. Um, It is building a CSV, and it's now researching it on the web. And you can see all the researches that's happening. And if so A. Speaker 3 00:48:32 CSV file is comma separated values. It's like an Excel but it's not correct Yes. Speaker 1 00:48:41 Now I'm going to allow all for the website. It's asking me if it wants to fetch a page. And I know LA City dot org is a valid website. So for this, I'm going to allow all. If you don't know what that website is and you've never seen it before, you allow once. So that is something I want to tell you guys from a security. If you know that that website is a bad website, deny it, okay? So I'm going to allow all for that website because I actually use LA City dot org. Um, I've looked a lot of things up in there. And then like I said, you're going to see the progress here. Here's the web search connector. Remember I said context? That's going to show, here's the four searches it did. And you can see right there, the different things it searched for on Google. And this is good because I actually look at these, because it teaches me how to search better on Google. I don't know why but it does so you can see how it. Speaker 1 00:49:40 How it does it there. And, then you just close the panel there, and you still have everything up here. Now, if you see something and you want to add to it, You can go ahead and type a message and cue that message so that it is ready to go when Claude gets to a stopping point or pause point. I do do that a lot when I do stuff like this. Um, And I have it set that way. So that let's say, I also want it to do a Word document. Speaker 1 00:50:09 DOCX list of all closed locations that you find on the first pass. Now, uh, Maria Elena, you ask a very excellent question. I'm going to show you guys that in a moment. So just a heads up. I am going to queue this, and it will be in the queue right there. And so as it's building this, You'll see the queue, and it will come back and it'll actually read that information. Speaker 3 00:50:43 Where is the queue? What did you do? Speaker 1 00:50:45 So this is my entire conversational list. The message is right here in the queue. So it'll, it's still working on it, But then it'll come back up and answer any of the questions I might have or any of the work statements. Speaker 3 00:50:58 I don't understand what you're showing us by talking about queue. Okay. Speaker 1 00:51:02 So what I did was, as it's building it out, I realized I also wanted it to create me a Word document with a list of all the closed restaurants or closed locations. And. So I added that to its task list by typing it here and hitting the queue button. And, the queue button just means it put it in the list of things that's going to do. And it just added up here. Speaker 3 00:51:24 You're saying. It's just noting that it's doing that? Yes. Okay. All right, so that's still thinking, thinking, thinking. So we can we can wait while this does that. We can do something else, right? Exactly. Speaker 7 00:51:37 And what what software are we able to work with? Like anything that we have on our computer because you said Word document. Speaker 1 00:51:43 Word document Excel PowerPoint Um I actually have it connected to Asana for another client when they send me tasks. I can look at my Asana sheets. Can. Speaker 7 00:51:53 We do that or you do that. Speaker 1 00:51:55 We can do that for you to connect it. You just need to give me a list of all the applications you would like to have connected. Uh, Suzanne and Kevin is going to approve that list of what you want connected to it. Okay? So, Speaker 7 00:52:09 And it can send that directly to you or the help desk or Kevin or send it to Kevin. Speaker 1 00:52:14 Kevin will work on getting it approved, and then he will get it sent to me and I'll make those connections. Speaker 7 00:52:20 And it could be anything on my computer like Adobe and all that I'm able to connect those? Speaker 1 00:52:24 Yes, but Suzanne and Kevin, for you guys, you make sure that that's something you want connected into cloud. So, um. But yeah. Speaker 4 00:52:35 It's private right? Speaker 1 00:52:36 Yes it is very private. Um but I have worked with companies. Speaker 3 00:52:39 That's a point of us getting this is so that we can have access to our stuff, and it's private. Okay, yes, very private. Why wouldn't we want stuff being connected? Um. Speaker 1 00:52:49 So I got a, I got it. Yes, I got a perfect example. I had a client employee ask me to connect it to QuickBooks, the company corporate QuickBooks. And I told him to get he had to get approval for that. Um, and he did and CEO did not want that connection to be created because he was worried that employees would have access to data. They should not see in QuickBooks. So, we just made that a solid statement going forward that all connections need to be approved. So that makes sense. Okay. Um, now, Speaker 3 00:53:24 Oh, sorry. Okay, just let's move on because we're still waiting on on this. Can you can you talk aboutum the coding? Speaker 1 00:53:34 Yes. So coding very basicum basically what you're going to do here. It's a lot like CoWork. Honestly, I only use this when I need to sort through things or. I am building out applications. So that's the only time I use this. I'm going to give you guys a quick overview. If I want to build an application, let's say, I want a system, An application built that controls the routes that the security guys take in downtown LA and show that map in that application. That's what I'm going to do here. I'm going to ask it to build that application. It's going to ask me what I want to build it in. Speaker 1 00:54:16 And go from there. So, these are your higher level, you know, I want to write an app type thing. That's what you're going to use Cloud Code for. Speaker 3 00:54:25 Okay. I think this has potential for us, you know, maybe not on day one. I actually think that this is one of the more compelling features of this and that we have some opportunity here, not on our first lesson, but I just want everyone to understand the range of. The modules that are being. Speaker 1 00:54:47 Yes, and real quickly I want to show you guys in CoWork. If you're waiting for something and you want it to do more things, I've had it go five things at once. It'll show your active items here, And it will change this to light brown when it has a question for you so that you can go back into it. So just a heads up for you guys on that. Now Maria Elena, you asked about tokens? All, you have to do is click on your name at the bottom and go to settings. And then you can click on usage, and you'll see what your usage is and the spin limit. I am only at two dollars and eighty cents. However, that's not for today. That actually maybe only eighty cents is today, and I was using it earlier in the day as well. So you guys can see I am in this probably about once a day working on design and different things like that. So um you can see. Speaker 3 00:55:44 Okay, yeah. So let me say a word about this. So I've been trying to get clarity as Christi kind of tests for the last couple months on what constitutes a token use. How how much, you know, are we going to run out of token What is a token? And and the answer is it's changing. There's there's not clarity. They can't tell you, you know You'll spend it after so much, except that evidently you can look at this usage. So, we will I understand that we are going to have capacity to do probably whatever we want to do certainly to begin with. If at any point during the month we exceed our limit, uh it's our activity is going to be cut off. Speaker 3 00:56:40 And uh if we want to pay to go further, that's a conversation we have. So no one needs to be worried that they're using AI so much that it's racking up these crazy charges. So we should have enough resources to do what we want to do. If you if you are cut get cut off, then if that's happening on an ongoing basis, Then we can look at your particular plan and uh do sign up for another plan. To accommodate that usage. Speaker 1 00:57:08 Is that right, Christi? Yes. We can put each individual user on a different higher level plan, but it's by individual use only. So if. Speaker 7 00:57:18 This bar right here is this everybody or is this one person? Speaker 1 00:57:21 Just one person. Speaker 7 00:57:23 For us in particular, if we go to this setting, we'll see our usage not the collective. Correct. Okay. Speaker 1 00:57:29 Yep This is only my usage because and I know this because one of my guys is already at 70%. Speaker 1 00:57:37 With inference, yes. So and you guys can see, I mean we're we're probably at a dollar now of usage for today. Nowum Claude is. Speaker 7 00:57:47 This per month or per year? I'm sorry. Per month. Okay. Speaker 3 00:57:50 Now do we have a hundred dollars per month each of us? Speaker 1 00:57:53 Yes. Okay now Claude does not say how many tokens constitute for a dollar all the time that changes, as Suzanne told you guys, it does change. That's why. I can't give her the clarity she wants because I don't have that clarity. Um, I'm getting really good at watching my tokens when I'm in things by just going and double checking when I'm in here. Um, this is done. So just a quick heads up for you guys, this is done. It used a dollar. Speaker 8 00:58:24 I have a token question before we move off of it. Yes ma'am Uh shoot no, Speaker 11 00:58:30 I've No go ahead ask, I have one. Is there, um, are there things we can do to make it less, like consume less? For example. Oh yeah. Not have to re- scan resources or right things that it may have already learned. Speaker 8 00:58:49 Yeah, Like when we're transferring a lengthy conversation to a smaller one, and we want to retain it. Speaker 1 00:58:54 Yes. So, let me give you my a couple tips. I do to keep my tokens low. Um, This is where I will run my efforts at medium or low. The lower your effort is and the lower your model is, the more money you save. Okay, So that's why I was straight with you guys earlier, when I said I will change my effort level based on what I ask it to do. Now a key thing for you guys to note, I put this one on high. This you're permanently closed. Speaker 1 00:59:29 Um, I can't not change this now. It is always going to be at Sonnet high. But if I restart a new conversation with the same information, I can choose to drop it down to medium. And that's in Co-Work. Okay, within chats right here, I can change this at any time, and I can drop the medium down or the uh effort down to low at any time. Anything after that chat where I drop it is now going to be on low. Okay, does that make sense? Speaker 3 01:00:05 So in chat you can change the model that's being used, but in Co-Work you can't. Correct. Okay. Yes. Speaker 7 01:00:15 Without changing the without creating a new Co-Work. Correct. Yeah, okay. Speaker 3 01:00:21 Yes And is that what you call it? A new chat or a new cowork? Is that a new task? Speaker 1 01:00:26 Is what I call it. Speaker 3 01:00:26 A new task. Yes. A new task, okay. And then a new chat in chat. Okay, chat is a new chat and Co-Work is a new task. Okay. Speaker 6 01:00:36 And code? Speaker 1 01:00:38 Um, Code is a new session Yeah, Speaker 3 01:00:42 Okay So, then everything in chat, all of the things on the left hand side. Uh under Recents. So does Claude keep everything you've done? Speaker 1 01:00:54 Yes, it keeps a history, except for in one condition. It will keep a history of everything unless you go into new chat, and you click this little ghost up here and tell it to go incognito. It will not save your history for that. So just a heads up on that one. Now the only time I've ever used incognito, Is when I'm talking about my own personal salary and my own personal plans. Because I do so much training, I don't want that to show up on my recents. That's the only time I've ever done it. Speaker 3 01:01:30 Okay, So I think there would be you know, value in going back to the previous uh chats or tasks. Uh Are they organized in any fashion or is it just, Uh by when they were started. Speaker 1 01:01:52 They're just organized by when they were started. Okay. And just a heads up for you guys, you can have it group it. I leave it at none, But I can also group it by date or status, or read or unread, or if I'm working in a project, but we'll we'll do projects later. Speaker 7 01:02:10 Is there a search feature for all the past chats? Yes. Like say search for something blah blah blah? Yes. Speaker 1 01:02:17 I can't show it to you in here because I've cut down on a lot of mine. But if you click on View All, chats are searchable here. This is going to be updated soon, just a heads up for you guys. When it updates, you'll be able to do a search right here. So just a heads up. And you can also select chats. You can go in here, let me go back to my View All. Speaker 3 01:02:45 Thanks to Elena for the note about pricing. Speaker 1 01:02:48 Yes, and it will change just a heads up. It does change a lot. I can choose to pin a chat if it's a chat that I want to review pretty often, I pin it. So I can say if it's inbox access permissions, if I'm going to reuse that then I'm going to pin it, and then you'll see my pinned ones here. I have a chat that I go back in and check monthly because I need to update something, and it's just the steps on how to do it. I have it pinned. How did you do that? So, I hover over whichever chat want to pin. You see the three dots, okay? Yes. I also rename a lot just to make things easier to find. Speaker 3 01:03:32 Okay, And you got to this list of chats by hitting" View All" at the bottom? Yes, ma'am. Okay. So. Speaker 1 01:03:39 And then you can also select multiple chats. If you want to group them a certain way, You can select multiple, and you can move it to a project or delete them. Speaker 3 01:03:49 And is a project just like a folder? Is that something that you have to set up? Speaker 1 01:03:55 It's a, it can be a folder, or it can be a specific set of instructions that, let's say, I want it to always write emails for me, but I have a certain way I want it to write those emails. That's what I'm going to do my project as. Does that make sense? No. Okay. Um, let's say I write the same report over and over again for Suzanne. I'm going to make a project that outlines how Suzanne prefers to have her reports done, and then it's always going to write the reports based on that instruction. Okay. Speaker 3 01:04:32 I'm sorry. I understood the concept of the project. I didn't understand how you're organizing the chats. Yes, so so you just create a name for the project? Mhm Okay, so it doesn't matter what the project is. You can just It's just like a file folder. It's just create a subject name, and then you can assign it to whatever. Speaker 1 01:04:51 Project you named it. Okay Exactly Um one thing I do want to show you guys um. Speaker 1 01:04:58 Are, we are you guys have any questions? Or are you ready to move to the next item Yes Gabriel. Speaker 10 01:05:03 I have a question whenum you brought up invoicing and I guess I have to better understand our company policy on this. But like we get that is such a time suck for me like yeah uploading, like each event has 20 some invoices give or takeum Michael and I work on this like I've. Like Michael has a checklist of things that I need to look for on the invoicing. Like, could we upload that as like a as like an um like into the coding that you could potentially scan the invoices of what we're looking for, and then generate the stamp that we need on the invoicing, and then I would just review it. You know, like we would anyway, but um it. Speaker 10 01:05:56 Seems like when you brought up invoicing, I never considered. I guess I wasn't sure where you were going with that or like what how you could use Claude for invoicing. Speaker 1 01:06:08 Okay, so that's perfect. Let me show you real quick. I have a client, I sign off on their invoices, but they bring it to me in a stack of papers. And then I have a scanner at my desk that will scan them all into a specific folder. So what I do is I go find that folder. Speaker 1 01:06:26 And it is somewhere in here. I know where it is off the top of my head, but there it is, scans. So I'm going to say, select folder and I'm going to ask it to list in an Excel spreadsheet or a CSV, all the invoices that have come through, the vendor and the cost for that month. And I only want it to do it for the month of May. That's what I would have CoWork do for me. Speaker 3 01:06:49 Okay, but that's not responsive to Gabriel's question. Okay. Speaker 1 01:06:54 Gabriel, are you asking also to stamp something on it, like a signature or something? Speaker 10 01:06:59 Yeah. So we so once we review the um invoice, I think things we could ask it to look for like um does it say DTLA Alliance versus DTLA Alliance Community Trust depending on the program project. Is it dated in the current year? Yes. We I mean, we just see okay all these issues come through on invoices. And then once we. Approve it, then we stamp it. Like we have to, you know, codes that we have to um link each invoice to um to our accounting. Um so I mean I think the biggest thing is like it like Michael right now is like the second pair of eyes on the invoice before it goes into our accounting system. But then you know, so I am just trying to think, is there a way that you could reduce. Speaker 10 01:07:54 You know, this back and forth of like looking at one invoice could could Claude. Could we upload the invoice to Claude and it review what we're looking for, and then um. Then we can take it from there once it's reviewed. I mean I don't know if it's perfect or not. We'd still have to review the invoice to make sure, it's correct, but it could do the initial pass. Speaker 1 01:08:19 Got you so, I'll be honest, um, it can't physically stamp. You'd need to build a workflow for that. There's ways to do what you're exactly what you're asking for with the technology you have in hand already, but Claude's not going to one hundred percent do that. What Claude can do is sort, um, And it can say it has a bucket that all the scans are in, or all the invoices are in, and then it can physically move that file to another location or another folder. Um and so you can make that, But as far as actually stamping, we would want to put in a workflow process for you. And you can do that within Microsoft. So, and we can connect that to Claude so that it builds out that workflow for you. And then that's going to be a little bit higher tier, But it's going to be fun to build once I show you how to do it. Speaker 3 01:09:08 It's a workflow. Speaker 1 01:09:09 In Microsoft? It's called Power Automate. Okay Now I do something very similar, Um, That's Power Automate is. A conversation that's going to take us about an hour to go through. I would love to show you guys how to do Power Automate, but let's not do that one today. However, Gabriel, based on what you're saying and Michael based on what I'm hearing, you could do that entire approval process and scan using Power Automate. And it's going to cut some time down on you guys. Okay. Speaker 3 01:09:47 Okay, let's let's look about invoices and Power Automate. We'll get another another conversation. Okay, yeah. Um, the the other thing you know, really, really huge issue uh that we have is we have a massive uh amount of images. Yes, okay. And, we need to quickly be able to sort through these and identify ones that include the brood with people during the day or whatever criteria. How would we go about doing that? Speaker 1 01:10:26 So what I would do, and this is just me personally because I have sorted images before, I'm going to choose a different folder. And the folder I'm going to choose is my pictures because I know that's where my pictures are. And I'm going to actually show you guys this based on something I needed to do in CoWork anyways, if that's okay. Sure. Okay, So what I'm going to do is I have a bunch of headshots in my image. I'm going to explain to Claude, Now you guys have images that you look at and you're looking for certain things. Speaker 1 01:10:60 Right. You would what I would do is I would upload that image right here and say, these are the images I am looking for or the type. And here is how I know that it's the right image. And give it some distinguishing features like, let's say you want ones with all your guys that are on bikes. I am just throwing that out there; it could be something else. It will categorize or organize those based off of what you tell it. So in my case, um, I am not going to give it because mine's simple ; I am not going to give it a. Speaker 1 01:11:30 Thing, But I'm going to say, put all images that are headshots in a new folder called headshots. So that's for me. But I can get even more descriptive. I can say pull all images that are female employees headshot and put those in female headshots. I can get as granular as I need to be. Um, Speaker 7 01:11:57 It'll take the originals and move them. Speaker 3 01:11:60 Correct. We don't want to do that. Right. Speaker 7 01:12:02 What about doing like a tag or something, Say, like tag all images that include the US Bank Tower or something like that? Yes. That way you don't move them, but you're still able to access them easier. Speaker 1 01:12:16 Correct. You can do a tag, you can um Okay, can you just do that with this? Speaker 3 01:12:21 Just say tag all images that are headshots, and we'll just see what it looks like. And. Speaker 1 01:12:40 Headshots. And then I'm just going to send that over. Now, there's only three headshots in that folder, And the rest of them are either cat, pictures or logos or things like that. So what folder should I scan for that? I'm going to say Pictures. And how should I want Windows file tags? I always do things as Windows file tags. And so I'm going to say that. And then I'm going to let it go. Speaker 7 01:13:19 And Then hypothetically, like if this is to be a higher, a bigger project where we really wanted to go through everything, like that would be one of those things where I mean, forget coffee. What you like go home and come back or? Yeah. Okay. Yes. Speaker 1 01:13:34 I have done that in the mornings. I have a desktop at home and my laptop, which I am on. I will shoot off a cowork and leave and go to the office. So. Speaker 7 01:13:45 Nothing wrong about that as far as security or anything like that. No. Is there a benefit? Is there like a desktop app or the browser? Does it matter which one we use? Speaker 1 01:13:56 So for CoWork, always use the desktop app. Speaker 7 01:14:00 Okay, we download that through ourselves? Speaker 1 01:14:04 You can download it yourselves, or I will have the team push it to computers later. Okay. And later by meaning by end of day tomorrow. So now it's still going through all of its little things and all of its progress. Um Maria Elena, we did get the results from it, so while this is running its command, let me pull this up. I asked it to build me an Excel worksheet and a Word document. So I'm going to just click on open in Word. It is going to ask me if I want to allow this. Just click Allow. That is intentional. Um, I always want it to ask me, just in case it tries to do that. So here's the Word document that it built. I'm very sad about this. I actually like their food, um, but I'm weird, but here's all the different things and Michael, do you want me to send this to you? Speaker 1 01:15:03 Or do you want to do it on your own? Okay, I'll send it to you. And then there's some confirms, donut dough. And then it gives a methodology report there. This is the first pass. So, It gives it to me in a Word document. And then there's also an Excel file. Let's get an Excel file. Yes Because a Word document is Yeah Word document is something I'm going to send to somebody who doesn't like Excel I prefer Excel. Speaker 3 01:15:33 Christine. That sounds like a character flaw. Speaker 1 01:15:35 Yes, I agree. Speaker 3 01:15:37 I love Excel. Michael. Speaker 12 01:15:41 Um, are we sure we tried this, you know, I think a month ago using using a version of Claude and I don't remember if it was Sonnet or another version. What, we ran into was the ones that it's saying are closed, were not even in the Excel to begin with Okay. I don't know, just looking at this, some of these I don't think were even in the Excel. Okay. So it's giving information that's basically not what not within the data set that we gave it. Gotcha. Speaker 1 01:16:17 And in that case, if that's happening, Um I would put stronger uh notes in here that it can only check for businesses that are in the Excel document. And I have had to do that so. Speaker 12 01:16:31 I'm a little unclear on that because you said specifically in your prompt, I would like you to look at this document and tell me which businesses in DTLA are permanently closed. So you didn't say look in downtown Los Angeles, you know, in general. You said I would like you to look at this document. So how It's two different things. Speaker 3 01:16:53 I would like you to look at this document and tell me which DTLA businesses yeah are closed, as you say. Only those businesses in this document. Speaker 12 01:17:04 I see. Yeah, yeah. So you have to be careful with the language. Speaker 3 01:17:07 Yeah, you do. And that that's kind of the the skill is if you're not getting the results, keep kind of refining the prompt. Yes. Speaker 1 01:17:17 Now I'm going to say I I'm 100 percent agree with Suzanne on this, um always refine your prompt is going to make you a better person. It makes me a better person, Especially in a lot of things that I do where I realize AI calls me out on things that, I'm like, wait, I've been doing it this way for years. Um, so you're going to learn to refine your prompt, but also be careful of loops. Um and I will tell you a funny story about Anzor. He wanted me to build out a document. I handwrote the document. I didn't take it through AI. This was like two or three years ago, and then he kept running it through uh ChatGPT and told ChatGPT to make it better. Speaker 1 01:17:57 Every pass, and it got to the point it was just finding random stuff. So be careful of loops. But when you write it well, and sometimes I'm terrible at writing well, um when you write it well, it does get better and better. Uh this is a line that I will sometimes forget. And I've had to go back and say oops, I forgot to be very specific. It cannot go outside of this document. Speaker 7 01:18:21 Is there a benefit of starting a new chat or something or a new um uh? Speaker 5 01:18:27 Project. Yes. Yes. Yep. Speaker 7 01:18:30 When like, cause I've had things where I've used, you know, Gemini and stuff like that. And if you're in the same window, it starts to do the same thing. Yes. And, you want something different. And so so you close it out and it's in is the same in this case where you start a new one? Speaker 1 01:18:45 Yes, I always start a new one. If I see that I was not as clear as I should have been, I always start a new task and I'll delete the old one so. Speaker 3 01:18:54 So going back to the picture project for a second. So, you know, we're I mean, we we have a massive amount of images to go through. I mean, it just doesn't seem very practical to say, you know look through all these and I'll come back tomorrow. Or. Speaker 7 01:19:14 You could do maybe you know a folder. I mean, it's you know a few folders a year at a time or something. That's what I would assume i'd have to do because of what it sounds like. Speaker 3 01:19:24 Okay, so you envision there's some way that we could organize the images. Yeah, Speaker 7 01:19:30 Exactly. Vector them instead of, you know, because I am kind of afraid, like I said earlier, like what if something goes awry? I mean, those are all the images we have, and it starts moving them places and right. Like something wrong. Like and then I come back in the morning and everything's un-, you know, crazy. Yes. So I would rather probably do it in small batches, so that in case something I could recognize something quicker. Speaker 1 01:19:53 Yeah, this is my this is my pictures folder just to show you guys. It did tag it, so that's Ace, that's me. This is I don't know who that is. Oh, that's me and me again. Marina stuff that has, Speaker 7 01:20:10 Like multiple multiple tags to it. Obviously, like, yes, place the daytime, the person in it all that stuff. Speaker 3 01:20:18 Yeah. So what what happens now? So you know. Yeah, This is will also be a daytime and a people and a road, or you know, whatever it is. So does it just keep adding tags? Yes, it does. And then is that actually better in the long run? Because then as you continue to go back and look at it, it doesn't have to create those tags. Correct. Yeah, Speaker 1 01:20:44 And you can also tell it to remove certain tags if you go through it, and you say, hey, I got 50 tags here. But daytime is no longer applicable. You can tell CoPilot to go remove daytime from every picture. Speaker 7 01:20:57 Or I could go directly onto the window or the drive itself and, you know, do it in real time, correct? Correct. Okay. Speaker 3 01:21:06 Yes. So, I mean, Kevin, I'm envisioning that there might be just some pre- work that's done where we identify certain tags and just do that. You know, just you know, run it every night. Identify all daytime and that adds a tag. And then we'll identify animals and that adds a tag. And then so then when you're searching it, it'll make that a lot faster. Yeah, Speaker 7 01:21:30 Now we could go directly onto the OneDrive and say, find all photos with dogs in it. And that way okay perfect. Speaker 1 01:21:36 Yeah All right That's pretty awesome Why don't we do this I know we're limited on time. I want to do another training, but I need to make this a little bit more for you guys. And I should have asked those questions, so I do apologize for that. I'm going to send everybody a survey and I want you to put use cases in there of what you would like it to do for you daily. I'm going to do two trainings with you. I'm going to do one that's more focused on use cases. And then i'm going to do a second training on Power Automate, so that you guys can learn how to build out workflows to make your life a lot easier. Okay? Speaker 1 01:22:12 Now with workflows, that's Power Automate. I can tell you there's a few things you can do with it. So, you can have a Power Automate automatically search for tagged images and build you out a report weekly. I don't know if this is of interest to you, But it'll look in a folder, and you can have it always set to send it to your Monday at 6 : 00 AM and say, "Tell me how many images that have animals on it." That's just something random you can do. Power Automate will do that for you. You can set it up to one of the things I do is forms. I have people fill out forms, and then if they're asking for a purchase of something, it goes through manager approval, and it's just automatic for me. And I use Power Automate to get those approvals in place. Another thing I do, And my guest on this call is going to laugh at this anytime, a new task is open for me in Asana Power Automate notifies me via Teams message. Speaker 1 01:23:12 So, and that's something you can have it do. Um, I also have it go through my scan folders. If there's any invoice that's sent to me that's over $1000, it will alert me via Teams. Those are the types of things I can do. There's also all kinds of other things to do with it. Um, Every meeting that is transcribed for me, automatically goes in my OneDrive and I get alerted once it's built out. It will build out my meeting summary for me and then alert me. It's done, which saves me time. Speaker 1 01:23:43 Another thing I have Power Automate do is if there's an email that comes from a VIP at any client, then it's going to alert me via Teams. Suzanne, you're on that list. Kevin, you're on that list. If I get an email from either of you, I instantly get a Teams message alerting me that, hey, Suzanne Hawley has sent you an email. Look at it right away. That's why I respond to your emails so quickly. It's not just. Speaker 3 01:24:08 By reading your emails. No. Speaker 1 01:24:11 Okay. I also have Power Automate. It categorizes all my emails that are coming in for me. So if it's something that's monitoring, I have it do that. Speaker 3 01:24:22 Okay, all right, So that's we'll put a pin in that. And that's going to I think will be a smaller, you know, meeting. I wanted to touch on uh training. So you know and what I had told everyone this is the first, Session. This is to get an overview just so they can get started. And and I will I will say that the more I use this, the the more I saw opportunities on on how to use it. And then I think Gabriel, like yourself, you'll wait a minute, inputs can I use this for invoices? How would I do that? Yes. And so uh what kind of training is available. Speaker 4 01:25:02 Or what kind of resources. Speaker 1 01:25:04 Are available to us on an ongoing basis. So one, Now just because it's you guys and that's because um Anzor and I both love DTLA, you guys can hit me up anytime you want training. Okay. So anything you just say, hey Chris, I need training on X Y Z. That's the first thing. Number two, I am building out new cloud training. Uh, video training that we're going to have available to all clients. It's being built out again this week just because things have changed within Klod. And so we're updating that training. I don't want to give you the old stuff 'cause it's not going to work for you guys. That's going to be available starting on Monday and I'm going to send everybody links to that. So you can rewatch it, make it go slower, make it go faster, whatever you need. Um, I am also going to send out a form for you guys to fill out. Speaker 1 01:25:54 So that I can understand your use cases, a lot better and how you're going to use it, and then I'm going to build additional training videos for you guys surrounding that, and those will be done within the next two weeks. I can also. Speaker 3 01:26:06 Now okay, just say there's there's some things that are unique to to some people. But it'd be interesting to see, you know what what comes out of that. Uh but is there uh training that's, Provided through cloud, or are there other resources where we could just talk through, you know, one on one? Speaker 1 01:26:27 Yes. So I am curating a list. I have a curated list from last month. I am curating a new list from this month of a lot of YouTube trainers that are really good material because I don't want to send you guys to somebody that's not going to give you the full information. So I curate those lists every month, and you guys are going to get added to that email. And so when I send it out, It's going to be a list of different YouTube with their links of ones that I trust that have good training. And, then we do have another company ; I am going to have to check with Anzor on this one that does also provide specialized cloud training. Um, I want to see if we're still working with them, and if we are, I'll get you guys that information. That would be great. Yes. Speaker 2 01:27:13 We have all staff together to request, um, If you want to choose any kind of email app that you use, that you would be interested in having connected with Plaud before we forward those to me. And then I just wanted to check Christi with you with regards to pushing out on an organizational level. The Plaud app onto our computers. Is this something that can be done just for staff computers? Or would this be pushed out for every computer that you guys? Speaker 1 01:27:41 Every computer that we support, unless you tell us not to include that computer. But wait, there's a fee per computer. Right? If if the if the computers are currently in our system, we can push it out to every one of those computers. Speaker 2 01:27:57 But that's so yeah, we can talk about this Suzanne. Well, Speaker 3 01:28:01 Yeah, let's talk. Let's talk about this. Okay. Speaker 2 01:28:04 I just don't I don't feel the need to have this app on the computers, like the watch commander or just. Speaker 4 01:28:09 Anything like that. No. Speaker 2 01:28:10 So it's. Just DTLA staff. That's it. It's in 12 of us. Yes, yes, yes. Twelve staff members. Speaker 1 01:28:16 Yes, yeah. And then at that point, Um what I'll do just send me the list of staff users if I don't already have it, I will make sure the team only only pushes it to those computers. Speaker 2 01:28:27 You'll have that in the next five minutes once we're done. And then you said that that's something they could be on everyone's computers by close of business tomorrow? Speaker 1 01:28:37 Yes Yep And it will be a silent install, Um, in chat, I it's the same rate whether. Speaker 3 01:28:46 We have 12. It's we don't pay per user. Speaker 1 01:28:49 You're you're not going to pay for the installation of this tool. Speaker 3 01:28:51 No, on a monthly basis do we pay per user? Speaker 1 01:28:54 Um, on a monthly basis you pay per computer. Speaker 3 01:28:58 Per computer? Yes. So definitely, we don't want to push push it out to all of our computers Correct Yeah. Speaker 1 01:29:08 In chat, I put a link for you guys for a survey. In there, it's going to ask you what tools you've used, how do you want to use it? In the additional comments field, which is at the very last statement on there, put in use case scenarios for me. I let it be a long answer. So I will be looking at those as soon as you guys as soon as I get notified that they're they are in. I will be looking to see what use cases you guys have. If I have things already built for your use cases, I'm going to send those over right away. So if you put in your email address, um or I'm sorry, your name in there, not your email address. But if you put in your name, I can forward those over to you and I'll CC, uh, Kevin and Michael on that email as well. And Suzanne if you or Suzanne if you want to as well. Sorry, I got Suzanne just walked past my door so my brain. Speaker 8 01:29:58 Uh we filled this out already didn't we? Like is there let me see what's the best one? Speaker 1 01:30:05 And if you just did, it is my apology. This is my first full week back, so bear with me. Um, let me double check. Did we fill this out? Speaker 3 01:30:14 I didn't. Speaker 1 01:30:15 I've never seen. Speaker 3 01:30:16 Oh okay, maybe it's a different. You did one. Okay So maybe some of us got it and some of us didn't? Speaker 2 01:30:23 No there was a there was an email sent to all staff asking them to complete a survey before this training session. Speaker 3 01:30:29 Yes I took that one Okay. Speaker 6 01:30:32 A couple of us just didn't do it. Speaker 3 01:30:34 So okay, some of us did, some of us didn't. But you didn't look at any of them. Speaker 1 01:30:39 I haven't looked at them in two weeks. So that is on me. I apologize. Um, I am getting back to this week. So I am back to full uh mode this week. So I do, I do apologize. Speaker 8 01:30:51 Fill it out again is your recommendation? Speaker 1 01:30:53 No, if you've already filled it out don't fill it out again. I'll pull your information. Speaker 1 01:31:01 I had it in my notes. I didn't send this, so that's that's on me. Speaker 3 01:31:07 That's must have gotten sent. Okay, yeah, all right. Uh, we're at time then. Speaker 1 01:31:17 Okay, And feel free guys to send me an email of any questions you guys have or anything along those lines. Speaker 1 01:31:30 Uh other than that, thank you guys very much. Speaker 7 01:31:33 Do you? Your email is? Speaker 1 01:31:35 Oh Chris Christi at CRIMSONIT. .com you can also put in, oh, uh, you can also do Chris at CRIMSONIT. Com, if you if you forget Christi. Speaker 3 01:31:48 Okay. And if everyone can just stay on for a minute I'd appreciate it. Speaker 1 01:31:52 Okay. Then uh, are you guys good with me? I can leave or yes, Speaker 3 01:31:58 Awesome. Thank you.
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- The transcript is brief, no summary is needed. The original audio transcription is as follows: > Speaker 1 00:00:00 Thank you.
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- Mar 24, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Thank you.
04-22 Meeting: ConnectWise LV Access Request Workflow
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- ## 1. LV Access Request Workflow in ConnectWise Christi is adding multiple forms to ConnectWise for various tasks, such as ordering business cards. An immediate need is to create a workflow for LV access requests. The current process is manual and Christi wants to automate it. The goal is to set up a system where, upon submission of an LV access request form, an email is automatically sent to LV to request access, with Christi CC'd for approval. Christi has not learned how to create workflows in ConnectWise and is asking Olivia, who is more experienced, for help. ### Action Items - [ ] Create the LV access request form in ConnectWise. -- _Christi_ - [ ] Notify Olivia once the LV access request form is created and share the specific form details. -- _Christi_ - [ ] Configure the automated workflow for the LV access request form to email LV with the request and CC Christi for approval. -- _Olivia_ - [ ] Review the "service approvals" feature in ConnectWise to understand its capabilities. -- _Olivia_ - [ ] Research the "service approvals" feature in ConnectWise. -- _Christi_ > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following unresolved items or unclear action points; please review: > 1. The specific content and required fields for the new LV access request form were not defined. These are necessary before Olivia can set up the workflow logic. > 2. The exact email template for the automated LV access request was not discussed. Details such as LV’s recipient address, subject line (e.g., "New User Setup Request for LV"), and body content must be determined to complete the workflow. > 3. Christi mentioned working on the procurement side and creating quick forms, but no detailed plan or timeline was discussed for these additional forms beyond the immediate LV access request.
- Date
- Apr 22, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hello, good morning. Good morning. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:08 I am tired a little bit. How are you? Same. I am ready for Friday. Is that Is it too soon? Too soon to say that No, Speaker 1 00:00:20 It's Wednesday, so yeah, it's not too soon. Okay, perfect so, I am going to be putting a bunch of forms into Connectwise. What. Speaker 2 00:00:35 Kind of forms? Oh, oh, never mind. Sorry, my little brain is it's taking a minute to realize what's going on here. Speaker 1 00:00:46 Yeah, I get it totally get itum and because there's a lot of things that we do like business cards and. Yeah, there's there's so much going on. Um, I need to figure out a workflow for the LV access requests. Uh, And that one I may need to work for you work with you because if they need LV, I need a system somehow to automate sending an email to LV to request access and CCing me so that I can approve said access. Oh okay. Speaker 1 00:01:26 So I figured, like a workflow? Yeah, I figured that you, uh the queen of ConnectWise workflows can help me figure that out because I let you learn it and I never learned it. Speaker 2 00:01:39 Oh yes, it's pretty simple actually. Speaker 1 00:01:43 Yeah, So this is, uh this is where uh Anzer would accuse me of not delegating. And but when I did now, I don't know how to do the things that I need to know and now have to bottleneck you. Speaker 2 00:01:58 Well, luckily these workflows are super simple and. Well, I guess I can send an email pretty simply, pretty easily. Speaker 1 00:02:08 Yeah. Okay, Well, I will let you know when that's done, and I will let, you know, which uh which one form it will be, and we'll go from there. Speaker 2 00:02:18 Okay, that sounds great. It just it'll have like the same summary every time too right? Speaker 1 00:02:25 It'll be it'll say, uh, new user setup request for LV or something along those lines. Yeah, very, very easy, easy, yeah, but I notice that you have service approvals now in forms on getting wise service approvals. What do you mean set service approval parameters, allow your customers to see and select values for statuses? Please note that when the service approvals toggle button is activated, the parameters field will automatically be deact. Speaker 1 00:02:55 What? Yeah, I haven't learned it yet, so I am not putting it in play. But I am working on the procurement side right now. Speaker 2 00:03:02 Oh okay, if you learn it, let me know. Yeah. I'll uh I'll have to look into that as well. Speaker 1 00:03:09 Yes, I want to dig into it, but uh I just I need some quick forms right now. So I am trying to do do that real quick. Speaker 2 00:03:16 Yeah, gotcha. Okay no worries let me know whenum you got it in place and, Let's talk about our workflow. I can set it up. Yeah, because I need to get some software requests going through. Speaker 1 00:03:29 Gotcha. Okay, sounds good. Okay, thank you. Bye. Okay, thank you ma'am. Okay goodbye.
07-01 Weekly Meeting: Q2/Q3 Rocks, T&M Projects, and IT Process Ownership
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-01 11:41:44 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Mike] [Pete] [Speaker 3] [Olivia] [Sergio] [Anton] [Speaker 7] [April] [Speaker 9] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Managing time-and-materials (T&M) work without formal quotes - T&M projects (e.g., for Maverick) proceed with verbal approval, hours billed, and no signed estimate. - Current list shows only approved quotes; invoices are not tracked the same way. - Need to define how to record and track T&M engagements and approvals. - Seg should be consulted for process clarity. - Stress level “3”; trending down this week. - Conclusion: No decision; to be discussed offline and with Seg. - Topic Title: Customer feedback and complaint handling (Intercom and surveys) - Intercom activity noted from others besides Mike. - One yellow complaint where the user did not respond despite three follow-ups; ticket was closed. - Pete requested Chris to trace the complaint (Ability First / Lucio) and communicate efforts to improve. - Olivia noted no comment was included with the yellow; Speaker 3 will talk to Michelle today. - KPIs: 46 green surveys; 21 out-of-compliance tickets; 53 same-day resolutions; 354 tickets open; 1.49 hours per ticket (up due to onboardings). - Conclusion: Chris to follow up with Michelle; acknowledge survey metrics; focus on improving onboarding. - Topic Title: Q2 rocks status and Q3 priority setup - Pete: Full migration to Hudu complete; Lifecycle Manager complete; revenue management KPIs with Mike complete; AI training curriculum template complete (needs publishing and implementation definition). - Mike: Client health score complete; sales engineering process not complete. - Sergio: “All done.” - Anton: Monthly reports automation complete; security audit assessment template complete; local admin rotation complete; Wi-Fi password rotation in progress (PS team, WineGuard), likely a Q3 rock. - Olivia: Hudu migration and “Kofitg” complete; password reset process incomplete; KPI/productivity reports nearly complete (to be cleaned and shown to Pete). - Pete: Password reset process is top priority for Q3; help desk KPIs/productivity and call queue/workflow monitoring also priority for Olivia. - Conclusion: Multiple Q2 rocks complete; set Q3 priorities, especially password reset process and help desk monitoring. - Topic Title: MDM ownership and standardized network configuration - Speaker 7: MDM documentation prepared; asked to share; Pete directed sharing with Matthew and Olivia; Olivia’s team will own MDM, then turn over to Matthew; validate process with Ponti and Olivia. - Client onboarding standardized network configuration: document complete; turned over to Kevin and Gabby; based on Anton’s doc. - Anton suggested auditing and rebuilding existing clients to match the template; needs Kevin and Gabby’s input; project setup needed for firewall reviews. - Project estimating/quoting: Speaker 7 documented existing process; will share with Pete. - Conclusion: MDM process ownership assigned; standardized network config adopted for new sites; plan to audit existing clients; quoting process document to be reviewed. - Topic Title: Finance and admin transitions and automation - April: Transition to admin team leadership complete; Phase 1 agreement-building automation complete; ready to roll out UBI automation with RMM and agreements; need to finalize number of free spares per client for agreements. - Pete to review spares list with April. - Speaker 9 (Elisa): Transition replacing Jane’s role complete; will prioritize training starting July so finance operations are fully covered by end of Q3; may add a Q3 rock for cash flow/reporting with Tony. - Conclusion: Admin and finance transitions complete; UBI automation pending spares decision; Q3 training and possible reporting rock. - Topic Title: Foothill assessment and new client potential - Ongoing Foothill assessment; obstacles with Foothill IT staff noted. - Goal: assemble data and draft report ASAP (target by 2026-07-02; acceptable by 2026-07-06); Anzor will combine with his interview findings for final report draft. - Concern: Speaker 7’s last day is 2026-07-02; need handoff of tools/templates to Matthew/Anzor/Vlad to ensure continuity after 11:00 AM. - Mike has received some reports (e.g., Live Optics); suggests extrapolating into action items before using Claude to format; can meet Speaker 7 to assist. - Conclusion: Compile assessment data, hand off before Speaker 7’s departure, and conduct technical review prior to finalization. - Topic Title: Pro Services team transition (post-Jason) - Vlad to step in; Jason’s directs will report to Vlad; Pete to onboard Vlad to leadership calls. - Pete to be looped on quotes and project work for oversight. - Mike flagged issue: PMs lack control over project engineers’ time; major risk affecting pipeline visibility and customer expectation-setting. - Conclusion: Vlad to join calls; address PM authority over engineer scheduling. - Topic Title: Hardware stack strategy beyond Meraki - Maintain momentum after Jason leaves. - Mike proposed adding enterprise-level firewall products; Meraki seen as SMB; align with Anzor’s direction. - Anton: Team already supports FortiGate and Cisco; can expand features; not replacing Meraki, but add products. - Conclusion: Add an enterprise firewall option (e.g., FortiGate) and expand expertise over time. - Topic Title: PAM solution challenges (Senhasegura/Segura) and PowerShell - Speaker 3 (Chris): Cannot use Segura for PowerShell/CLI; needs global admin operations for Ability First and Sharp (e.g., litigation holds, reports); heavy users like Charl and Emil may face similar issues; suggests revisiting GDAP per-client with role-based access. - Anton: History—previously broad global admin access; moved to conditional access; proposed PAM with web sessions per Anzor’s preference; web sessions limit PowerShell; limited global accounts to client champions/pod leaders; now evaluating alternatives, including deploying a PAM server to support scripting and session recording. - Pete: Collect challenges (PowerShell, PST files, mailbox access, performance); schedule follow-up meeting with Anzor, Chris, Anton to decide next steps. - Conclusion: No decision; offline follow-up to evaluate Segura vs. alternatives (including GDAP or server-based PAM). - Topic Title: Cell phone stipend policy for Teams availability - Legal/compliance: If expecting offsite availability via Teams/phone, likely need a stipend (California laws). - Prior employer benchmarks: $20–$25 common for MSPs; larger companies ranged $50–$80 or provided corporate devices/plans. - Proposed approach: $25/month stipend; eligibility for staff expected to be reachable on Teams while on customer sites; require Teams installed on personal phone; define boundaries and usage expectations; potential revocation if non-compliant; avoid on-call without pay issues; clarify reimbursement vs. stipend (Elisa to research tax treatment). - Need lists from team leads of eligible staff; estimate monthly cost (~$500). - Conclusion: General agreement to implement a stipend policy; finalize amount, eligibility, and documentation. - Topic Title: Scheduling and Q3 rocks submission - Next L10 currently set for 2026-07-07 (may move later in that week). - Each leader to bring up to three Q3 rocks; consider priorities for other team members as well. - Conclusion: Prepare Q3 rocks by next week’s meeting. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Define and document the process for tracking T&M projects and approvals; consult Seg. - [ ] Chris to follow up with Michelle on the yellow complaint and communicate service efforts. - [ ] Assign an owner to improve onboarding and reduce ticket time. - [ ] Publish the AI training curriculum and define implementation and requirements. - [ ] Finalize and prioritize the password reset process as a Q3 rock. - [ ] Validate and turn over the MDM process to Matthew; Olivia/Ponti to confirm. - [ ] Set up a project to audit/rebuild existing client networks/firewalls to the new template (Anton with Kevin/Gabby). - [ ] Share the project estimating/quoting process document with Pete. - [ ] April and Pete to finalize the number of free spares per client for UBI automation agreements. - [ ] Elisa to research stipend tax treatment and set up payroll handling. - [ ] Each leader to submit up to three Q3 rocks by 2026-07-07 (or updated meeting date). - [ ] Complete Foothill assessment data compilation; hand off tools/templates before 2026-07-02 11:00; technical review prior to Anzor’s final report. - [ ] Onboard Vlad to leadership calls; establish PM control over engineer scheduling. - [ ] Plan addition of an enterprise firewall to the hardware stack; outline training and support. - [ ] Schedule a follow-up with Anzor, Chris, and Anton to decide PAM solution direction (Segura vs. alternatives). ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. T&M project tracking lacks a defined approval, documentation, and billing workflow; formalize a process to ensure auditability and visibility. > 2. PMs not controlling project engineers’ time undermines scheduling and customer commitments; clarify authority, tools, and processes for resource management. > 3. PAM solution limitations (Segura) block PowerShell/CLI needs; evaluate GDAP and server-based PAM options with clear criteria (security, auditability, usability). > 4. Onboarding inefficiencies increased ticket time; assign ownership, map bottlenecks, and implement improvements with measurable targets. > 5. Cell phone stipend policy needs concrete eligibility criteria, usage boundaries, documentation, and tax compliance guidance before rollout.
- Date
- Jul 1, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Even though it's fifty k. Depending on how the quote was put together. Speaker 2 00:00:07 But see, it's not really a quote, it's just an invoice. I don't know how we do that. Speaker 1 00:00:10 Uh, You're only going to see approved quotes on this list because we only the sales Ivy and Chinki only touch the quotes, they don't touch invoices. Speaker 2 00:00:22 So when we do a time and materials thing. And maybe this is something we got to take offline, but when we say okay, Maverick wants us to do a time and materials project. That that's that we're, we don't do an estimate, but we might ballpark it, and it's probably going to cost them fifty sixty seventy thousand. But they basically give us a verbal approval to say go do this project. Um, and then we we build them real hours. How do we record that? Speaker 2 00:00:56 Well, let's think. Let's think about how we should track that because it's not really. We don't give them an estimate necessarily, and they don't sign. I don't know what they really signed. We should talk to Seg anyway. Okay, all right, Let's go through the rest of this team. Stress level is three, a little A little high, but this week a three is not terrible. It's coming down. That's good, I guess. Speaker 3 00:01:26 Intercom has been in the comments the last two weeks, and not by Mike. By others. Speaker 2 00:01:34 Customer complaint? Speaker 4 00:01:37 One yellow customer complaint last week, and it was essentially the user never got back to us. We followed up three times and then closed the ticket, so then they gave us a yellow, but they still haven't responded since then. Speaker 2 00:01:54 So. So the only time they respond is to give us a negative report, but they don't actually respond to the request. Speaker 4 00:01:58 Correct, correct. That's awesome. Or create a new ticket or anything, so yeah. Uh who who is it with? Speaker 2 00:02:05 Ability First Lucio, Maybe maybe Chris can help us track that one down Chris. Can you maybe give us a hand with that Even better When you get a chance? Speaker 3 00:02:19 Uh, he has been reporting directly to Sergio on things, and Sergio is not taking any bullshit about Crimson. So I just need to tell him what's up. I can take care of it. Speaker 2 00:02:32 Yeah, If you wouldn't mind, maybe just tracking that back and tell him tell them the efforts, we're taking to try to provide service or get feedback to get better if we failed, and we're not even getting feedback on the feedback so, If they can help us, we want to get better, right? My goal is for us to get better. And if we failed here, I want to acknowledge it and fix it. If we failed and if if we didn't, I want to know that too. But yeah. Speaker 4 00:03:01 Even when they put the yellow in, They didn't put any comment like in the actual because they can put like a comment when they click on yellow, you know? And it's just blank. Man, what do you want from us? No, Speaker 3 00:03:15 I'll talk to Michelle about it today. Thank you. Call with her later today, so I'll I'll give her heads up. Speaker 2 00:03:23 Number of green surveys: forty six that's good, right? Speaker 4 00:03:26 Uhhuh. And then number of out of compliance tickets:. We had twenty one same day resolution fifty three uh, number of tickets open. We have three hundred in fifty four. So we're pretty consistent on our like three fifty ish tickets for the past couple weeks uh time per ticket. We're at one point four nine. That went up. We had a couple of on boardings that really brought up our time. Speaker 2 00:03:53 All right, we got to get somebody focused on fixing onboarding process. So we'll talk about that. Okay, all right, let's move on to rocks. Will be the last rock we'll talk about Q three rocks next. Speaker 2 00:04:18 Full migration to Hoodoo is done. Lifecycle manager, I am calling complete because I think from Chris's perspective, you would call this complete, wouldn't you, Chris? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:04:31 I am in mine every day almost every day. Speaker 2 00:04:34 And and I don't think Weingart. We're going to worry too too much about and I think uh. KPIs for revenue management with Mike. I think we're calling that one complete, Mike, and the training curriculum for AI. I'm going to call complete because we're going to use, um, I do have the i do have the template built and it's complete. We just have to actually publish it and figure out how we're going to implement it and what we're going to require of folks. But we do have the curriculum established. So, I feel like I actually did meet the rocks. Speaker 2 00:05:09 But I had required for Q two, so I'm pretty happy with that. Speaker 1 00:05:14 Soum develop the comprehensive client health score. That's complete. And then sales engineering process was not complete. I'm. Speaker 5 00:05:37 All done. Speaker 6 00:05:45 Uh, monthly reports automation complete. Security audit assessment service template complete. Local admin rotation complete, and we are still working on the Wi-Fi password rotation, which it finish up with the PS team only WineGuard. So probably it's gonna be my uh rock for the next quarter as well, the Wi-Fi password rotation because it's like huge. Amount of work. Okay. Speaker 4 00:06:19 Don't complete Hudo migration and Kofitg that is complete, uh password reset process implementation this is incomplete. What? Uh and then continue building KPI and productivity reports for Help Desk. This is nearly complete I, just need to clean it up and then show Pete. So. Speaker 2 00:06:43 So we'll call that one complete. We'll call the other one incomplete. Yeah, So I think uh I think number two is I want to be the number one priority for Q three, because for me, the more I read about social engineering, the more that one makes me concerned. So I want I want to make the password reset process a high priority for Q. Three. Okay, Now we're done with that one along with uh that one along with KPIs and productivity reports and. Monitoring, um, monitoring the I don't know what we call it, But monitoring like the call queues and and. Speaker 4 00:07:29 Whatever we want to call the sort of the workflow process of the help desk. Those are those for me are the are the highest priorities for for you Olivia for next quarter. So okay noted. Speaker 2 00:07:44 And Jason. Speaker 7 00:07:47 All right, so the first ninety day Weingart priorities, I think that's you know, I've got them documented in ScalePad, but never really got much traction. It's very complex over there. You know, so we'll debrief on Weingart you know in our one on one. Speaker 7 00:08:11 MDM into compliant devices, so we have our documentation. Pete, do you want me to share that with you? Speaker 2 00:08:19 Yeah make sure make sure math Make sure Matthew has it and make sure Olivia has it because I think between them and Monti. I mean, Olivia, do you agree or disagree? Your your team's going to own MDM isn't it? Speaker 4 00:08:33 Yeah, well I mean we're basically owning it right now. Especially because Matt fixed it right so. Speaker 2 00:08:38 Yeah so I guess, You know, turn do a turnover to Matthew and make sure he owns that. And Olivia, if you, if you and or you and Monti or whoever you does, you know the two of you delegate. But ultimately I think you guys need to have a process down for. You know. Implementing and supporting um at the various customer levels. You know whatever that ultimately means and you can engage. Other teams as required, but I think MDM. He. Speaker 7 00:09:15 Wrote the documentation and I'll have him kind of validate the process with Ponti and Olivia. Okay, okay, so the client onboarding standardized network configuration that one's complete as well. I have a document; I've turned it over to Kevin and Gabby, and they follow it when they're building. Speaker 7 00:09:37 When they're building a new site network firewall, Anton provided me with a really good document early on, and I basically created the documentation based on that. Speaker 6 00:09:54 A quick question: Jason, oh sorry, yes. Go ahead. Yeah we we already going to implement that template for new clients but, I think we should run some sort of audit and rebuild the existing clients based on that template as well. Yeah, I can lead on it next quarter, but I am going to need Kevin and Gabby's input as well. Speaker 7 00:10:22 Well, And I think that was one of the things Pete wanted. The team to do is set up a project to go through every single firewall and make sure that's all completed. Speaker 7 00:10:33 So we'll have to, I mean at this point there's no project set up. I did not get that started. Uh so we'll have to make that a project, I guess maybe for the next quarter. And then establishing a project estimating quoting process. So Pete, I'll share with you the document that I had created. Uh that basically, uh is you know documenting the process that we have in place. So I didn't establish a new process. I just documented the existing. Speaker 7 00:11:06 Okay, So I'll share that with you this afternoon in our one on one. Speaker 5 00:11:09 Okay, all right April. Speaker 8 00:11:19 Sorry, I'm on unmute in my end for transitioning to admin team leadership. This is complete and for phase one agreement building automation this is, Complete and I'm ready to roll out the U B I uh automation uh with R M M and the agreements. Um, we just need to finalize the number of spares for each client that we will be uh free of charge. Okay so so we can implement in their agreements. Speaker 2 00:11:47 Okay, so maybe you and I can walk through that list at some point, and then we'll figure out what's acceptable and what's not. Okay okay Elisa. Speaker 9 00:11:60 Um, on my end, I will mark complete the transition markers transition in replacing ah Jane's role and rest assured that I'll be, um, supporting and guiding her to making sure that uh she's um. Uh, She has all the this support in case she she forgot something something like that. And starting July I'll be prioritizing. Um. Uh, training with my current how to to cover my my routines and tasks, Making sure that uh, by the end of the Q3, uh whenever I'm out uh, she can cover everything for the finance operation. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:12:42 Yep, that'll be the Q2 initiative for Elisa, and we may have one more to do. To do some additional reporting, but I think you've already you're already way down the road on that, so there might not be a whole lot more in the cash flow process. But I think because I think you've already developed a lot of that. But, if there's anything else, we want to put for a target ROCK for Q3, either in the cash flow or the um or anything related to. Speaker 2 00:13:15 Reporting or any of the stuff that we're working on with Tony, we can add that as a rock too. We don't have we don't have to, but we can. So for everybody for Q2 by the next meeting. Now we have an L10 scheduled right now for I think next Tuesday. We may push that to later next week, But I'd like everybody to come up with a list of your Q3 um ROKs, no more than three please um Three is already a, you know, a tall order. So I mean if you want to do four and you really have. I can bring four to the table, but four is a lot. Um three is three is probably optimal. Um, or if you've got two really big ones, then two might be enough. But uh, bring those to the meeting next week, if you can, and let's all agree. Speaker 2 00:14:09 And make sure that those are the most important things that we, as a leadership team need to achieve in Q. Three, to to move the company forward and to move your team forward. So um think about what those are. Also please think about what, the other members of this team should be focused on right. So, You know Mike, you think about what Anton and Chris and April and Lisa and Olivia and everybody else. Should be, you know, from your perspective and from our customers' perspective, should be the highest priority and what I should be focused on. Right? And everybody else do the same thing for everybody else on this team. And, if there's, you know, you don't have to necessarily have one thing for everybody. But if there's key people on this group that you really have something that somebody really needs to have as a priority, please bring that up because that's what matters right? Speaker 2 00:15:08 What What's important to you? Um, If there's somebody on this team that they need to focus on that and deliver for that for us to be successful or for you to be successful, and we haven't thought of it, that's that's really important for you to bring up here. So, um, we're the leadership team. Your opinion really matters here. So think about that. Let's let's talk about it. Okay, um let's go over to IDS. I think I had a couple of things we were going to add. Speaker 2 00:15:38 This call, were there a couple things that I sent to you, April, Or did I dream that and was going to send them to you, but then didn't actually send them to you? Do you remember? Speaker 8 00:15:54 Yeah, no, I did not receive anything. Speaker 2 00:15:57 Of course. I think I started to put a list. I had two things. One of them was we already, Established, so we don't need to talk about that one. Um, it was, It was basically, what should we do when it comes to incentivizing people to um to study and achieve certifications. So I think we basically down is should we provide a stipend for um cell phones? Speaker 2 00:16:35 Uh, For people that we expect to be available during business hours using Teams and or phone numbers. So if we can put that as an IDS item, Mike, you have something? Speaker 1 00:16:51 Uh yeah, two things if we have time. Number oneum with Jason leaving, we don't have a representative from the PS team. I'd like to IDS that. Yep. And thenum hardware stack. Speaker 1 00:17:05 Be another. Okay. Speaker 2 00:17:15 Anybody else have items for IDs? Let's put one more for uh, let's just putum, new client potential. I I just want to touch on that quickly. Speaker 3 00:17:39 Samhouse. I don't know how to spell it. Speaker 2 00:17:41 I don't know what Samhouse means, but we can put it on there. Speaker 3 00:17:45 And how long was it there? Yes. Speaker 2 00:17:51 Okay. Okay. By the way, by the way, they did change their name to Segura, Just so everybody knows, which is way easier, which is way easier for me to say. That's what I that's what I call it all the time now, but I think everybody thinks I'm just lazy. But they they did officially change their name. Okay, where do you want to start? Let's start with the let's start from the bottom up. Speaker 3 00:18:23 Um okay so for Segoraum, I'm putting it out there because I know others have had issues but now, I am going to throw this out here because I, I can't use it. I am sorry. I am trying as much as I can, But there is so much that I have to do via PowerShell because the Microsoft GUI does not allow me to do much and, I can't. I can't do it. So, As much as I want to take away my global admin rights to both Sharp and Ability First. If I have to go in, Speaker 2 00:18:57 Please you broke up. Speaker 2 00:19:01 Can't really tell. Speaker 3 00:19:02 Uh, my internet's bad today. I am sorry. Um, it sucks. Speaker 2 00:19:08 Yeah, you are cutting out Chris we can't We can't hear you. Speaker 3 00:19:13 Uh, okay, let me do something real quick hang on one moment. Speaker 2 00:19:20 All right? Let's let's let's switch to one of the other ones. Uh Mike, let's Let's do your Pro Services replacement. So with Jason's departure, we're having Vlad. Basically, step in and Jason's directs are going to report to him. So I am going to probably see if Vlad can join our call starting next week. Um, I need to talk to him about what this meeting is about, what he needs to do to prepare for it. He is not, so he probably has no idea what these are about, or how to prepare for them or anything else. But um, there is going to be a learning curve for him. So I am going gonna have to kind of. Speaker 2 00:20:00 Probably help a little bit, but um. He's going to be juggling some things, so uh. I'll probably. Have to help him some as well, so that's. Going to have to be how things are for a bit, um, If there's anything in particular, that comes up that you send a Vlad copy me. And between the two of us, we'll have to handle it. And I guess that's what I'm going to have to say. Speaker 1 00:20:29 So I have a topic for discussion with TST, but we'll wait till Vlad joins the meetings. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:20:37 Can you guys hear me better? Speaker 2 00:20:38 And I and I and I think and I think in general for for Pro Services, It's probably best if I'm just looped in to to review quotes to review all of the things related to the work that they're doing just because. I think it's just best if I'm in that loop because then I can see the quotes, I can see what's being produced, I can see what kind of requests are coming in and hopefully. I can help catch things that might be challenging before they become too challenging. We'll see. Speaker 1 00:21:18 Okay, so since we're on that topic, two things I'll just bring up then. I just recently found out that the project managers, Don't have control over the project engineer's time. That's a major red flag, as far as I am concerned. Cause I've always asked, what's the project pipeline? So this on the sales team, I know what expectations to set with customers. And I was never able to no one ever gave me an answer. And I found out. This is why. So, that's like a core function of a PM is to manage the project engineer's availability and schedule, and I don't think that's currently happening. So that's one. Speaker 1 00:21:55 Um, and I just forgot the other, so move on. Speaker 2 00:22:03 All right, you want to talk about the hardware stack? Speaker 1 00:22:06 Yeah, um, I know Jason was championing this, but with him leaving, I just want to make sure we don't lose momentum. And I know we use a we use Meraki here, but honestly if anyone knows networking Meraki's kind of like the Ubiquiti of firewalls. I think we need to be in in adding slowly, To our existing stack, more large, you know, larger, more enterprise level equipment. Especially if this is direction Anzor is going for new business development. Um we need to be building out our skill sets for more advanced products. Yep Because Meraki has a reputation in the industry of being S and B. Speaker 2 00:22:43 Sure Yep Absolutely I agree. Speaker 6 00:22:51 But we already supporting a lot of FortiGates. We can support Ciscos as well, like enterprise Cisco. We have enough features. Speaker 1 00:23:01 Oh oh. Speaker 6 00:23:02 Oh oh guys. Speaker 1 00:23:03 Yeah, like for example that that. Speaker 6 00:23:05 That for Telock, Speaker 1 00:23:07 We told them go talk to FortiGate, Speaker 6 00:23:09 We should be yeah, because yeah, yeah, yeah for support. Speaker 1 00:23:12 Go got it, got it and we're not replacing Meraki, but we should add another product. Speaker 1 00:23:20 Right, so we can expand our our expert. We want to be yeah, we want to be able to expand our, our expertise. Yep. Um I have other ones, but let's start with more. Let's start with the firewall add on. And then we can scale from there. Speaker 2 00:23:35 Fair enough cool. Um I'll hit the new client potential thing real quick. So just in general, just so everybody knows where we stand. We're in the middle of doing this foothill assessment I. Think most of us know. Um. The Foothill thing has been a real challenge. I think there are obstacles on the Foothill IT staff that are you know, may get in the way of certain things. So we'll see what comes out of the Foothill assessment and the report, But in general, what we're trying to assemble, hopefully as much as possible by tomorrow. Speaker 2 00:24:18 If we can get as much of the data assembled by tomorrow, Jason, What I did confirm with Anzor is I want I want us to do our full assessment and report based on the data collection that we get and put it out there. And then Anzor will take that and, and combine it with his information that he has gathered from his. Interviews and the other information that he has, and and basically produce the final report or the final report draft. So, to the extent possible, if we can have a draft done by tomorrow, that would be fantastic. If it's going to be Monday, then it's going to be Monday. But hopefully between what Anzor's gathering, what you've got, and what what Matthew's pulling together, hopefully we get as much as possible either tomorrow or at least by Monday. Speaker 7 00:25:10 Great. When they are done with the assessment tomorrow, ah, the other site assessments, I'll take the spreadsheet. We will ah enter in because it was kind of a pass or fail, and we'll enter in all the details you know for each site, and we'll have that as part of the report. We go from there. Speaker 2 00:25:29 Yeah and I guess my question though, Jason is, you know your last day is tomorrow, and you're turning in your equipment at whatever time at eleven a m. I don't know when the I don't know when this assessment's going to be done, right? So who has whatever tool or template, or whatever you were going to use, that can run that through that if they finish it at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon or at nine a m on Monday, right? Some well. Speaker 7 00:26:00 I think I mean yeah. Speaker 2 00:26:04 So so can. And, can you pass off whatever you were gonna do to someone so that they can do it tomorrow after you leave, because my guess is they're not gonna have it ready. I mean, maybe they'll have it ready tonight or tomorrow morning, and you can do it, But I wouldn't count on them having everything done by the time you're turning your equipment on before launch or something. So we need to have an alternative so that we don't, We don't count on you doing that, and then you are out the door, and nobody else kind of knows what we were planning to do. So maybe you can walk somebody through that if if it's Matthew or if it's Anzor or his team or someone else or Vlad. I don't really care who it is, but if you can maybe walk somebody through that today, that would be great. Speaker 7 00:26:52 I may even have i mean Segred at this point; it's just compiling it. Segred does an awesome job with Claude and. Speaker 2 00:27:01 Yeah, whoever again, Whoever the right person is is fine as long as they kind of know what to do with. With whatever it is. And the reason I suggested more of a technical person is I want to make sure they know if the result. Is, is inclusive of all the the information that's out there, but that's she can produce she can produce it and they can they can. You knowum review it too. Speaker 1 00:27:26 That's fine Jason I had Matt send me the. Some of the reports, like I got like the live optics report. If you want to schedule a meeting this afternoon, I can kind of give you some a couple things that I see right off the bat to help out. Speaker 2 00:27:37 Great, great. Well, I think what we're what we're trying to do. Mike is we're trying to get everything together and then have Claude or something produce the report and then have have the right technical people review it to make sure that all of the data is there, and then Anzor can take it and put it through with with his stuff and do whatever he wants. Speaker 1 00:27:57 So I think someone has to extrapolate what's in the reports into action items for Anzor before it goes into Claude to make it pretty right. So that's that's what I'm a couple things I'm I'm saying, Speaker 5 00:28:08 Okay, all. Speaker 2 00:28:15 Right, you want to try yours again. Chris. Speaker 3 00:28:18 Yeah, let's see if this works, because I turned off my VPN. Um can you guys hear me? Okay? Okay? Perfect. Okay, so my issue with Singora is this. I do have global admin rights on my accounts for Ability First and Sharp. If I need to do anything and I want to use Singora, Singora, I can't. So I can't run PowerShell scripts, which Microsoft does have some things in UI. But there's a lot of things it doesn't have in UI that they do force you to run PowerShell scripts on. And it. Speaker 3 00:28:54 Most of the things I got to do has got to be run through those PowerShell scripts. So I can't just switch off my personal accounts and start using Singora for it because there's just no way. And then if I'm trying to download or run any type of reports that that I have to do for litigation holds, for Ability First especially, but also now starting with uh Sharp, it's not going to work there either. I cannot do it. So if I can't do it and I'm a heavy user, I I can only imagine the issues that Charl and Emil are going through, Which are the two I know that are just as heavy users as I am. So is there another solution out there? That is going to allow for PowerShell scripts and CLI use, or is this the only thing we got? Because my only option to give you guys, which I've been thinking through solutions, is go back to the original G-DAp option that we had before. Where we set up G-DAp for each individual client. Speaker 3 00:29:53 And then we know who does what within Active Directory. I mean, sorry, Azure Active Directory. Speaker 2 00:30:07 Well, We had a conversation about this a little bit right before Anzor left for vacation to kind of talk about what our options were. But I don't think we came we didn't really come up with a, With a an alternative solution yet. Um. Speaker 1 00:30:28 I also think Seguera doesn't doesn't act like a traditional PAM. My understanding was that all those passwords are stored in a vault, Christi would be able to log into Senhasegura and then access Azure, never seeing the password, but because of her permission levels it would log her in automatically. Speaker 6 00:30:47 Can I take from here the conversation? Initially, Initially, we did like we never had any pump solutions with the Crimson IT. When I did join Crimson IT, Every single member of the this team had the access to the ITG, and everyone just utilized global admin accounts from whatever region they were working from. Speaker 6 00:31:20 We did two steps. First of all, We did the change the conditional access policy and allow to utilize global admin accounts only from the locations that we are managing, like from the Crimson IT offices. This is was the first step. Second step, we did propose Azure to start utilizing PAM solution, and we did propose to split the responsibilities between um, People, but like based on their uh daily uh tasks with the clients, so there is a billing account with the permissions to manage uh licenses, build the reports. There is a helpdesk account for managing users, creating groups, shared mailbox, whatever. And the global accounts for managing high privileged tasks. There was a limitation. Speaker 6 00:32:17 And it was based on the willing from Anzor. He didn't want to build like an classic PAM solution with the dedicated server, with the remote sessions that's gonna be recorded, that's gonna be stored. He didn't insist that we need just cloud service with just web browser sessions. That's why we are stuck with this in-house server and this configuration. And, we have a limits because during your web session, there is not a lot of you can do with the PowerShell scripting. That's why we did limit the access in the ITG global accounts for only uh client champions and the pod leaders, those who are performing like high level access tasks. Speaker 6 00:33:14 Based on the last conversation that was last week, I did miss that because I was on a vacation. Currently, we're taking a look what kind of services we can switch to from Senhasegura or we can deploy this PAM server and you're going to be able to perform scripting, building reports and everything going to be under the coverage of the PAM solution. Speaker 6 00:33:45 Sorry for taking so long. No, Speaker 3 00:33:48 Anton, you're good. Um, could I offer the G dot solution? We started to work on it and then Anzor stopped. Yes, Speaker 6 00:33:55 Sure. Please feel free. Would you take a look on this note? Oh, sorry. Speaker 2 00:34:02 You're cutting out again. You're cutting out Chris. It's we can't hear you. Sorry. Speaker 6 00:34:07 I'm going to propose Senhasegura There was an managing giant as well but, At that time, it was like three years ago. Manish Jain wasn't able to track web sessions. That's why we did choose the Senhasegura. Okay, sorry, Christina. Speaker 3 00:34:30 It's no, you are good. Um, I just feel bad because my internet's being sucky today. The reason why I was throwing out GDAP out there is because, When we have it set up properly, which I was the only one set up with it correctly, Um I could go in and change global admin passwords when issues happened and occurred. But the way we were going to do. It was based off of the tech technical level. So if it was someone like uh Charl off the top of my head, We only gave her help desk admin, where she all she would do would be reset passwords for users or create new users. And we had it in levels. Speaker 3 00:35:09 And, then that way your tier threes are the only ones that they're not global admins per se, but they're high enough level that they can do almost anything. And then only Anzor and I were global admins. That was the plan. We just never finished it. Speaker 2 00:35:27 So I think this I think this conversation needs to go offline, and we need to and we need to pick it up again with the with the follow- up meeting that we're going to have when Anzor gets back. Which is, what are we doing with Seguera or or another alternative? So. Anton wasn't able to be in that call. Chris, I don't think you were in that call either, right? No. Because you were out sick. So, um, when we have the follow up, we'll make sure that both of you are part of that and uh. We'll. Speaker 2 00:36:03 We'll talk about it again, but that's basically what the issue was. Is you know, it's a challenge for people. Um, PowerShell scripts are an issue. It's a challenge for the help desk. How was it implemented? You know, what else should we be doing instead? And how you know what alternatives do we have? So that's kind of where we left it. Um, Sean came back with a list of these are the challenges that people have. Um. And, it was everything from PST files and PowerShell scripts and no license to access other mailboxes, or CIT admin emails and navigation and performance issues and all kinds of stuff. So, We got a we got a follow up on that and take the next steps. So if you're okay with it, we'll pick it up at the next call. Yeah. Speaker 6 00:37:02 Yes. Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:37:05 All right, Lastly, We've had several requests from folks on Olivia's team and legally, we need to make sure we address this. The right way. So people are asking if we provide a stipend since we expect them to be available when they're not in the office. And respond to Teams messages and other things. Now, This can also be a financial challenge if we have to start providing stipends for people, for cell phones of their own, if they're using Teams. But at the same time, If we have people going to customer sites and people in the office and people doing other things that we expect to be available on Teams, we need to provide something. So the question is. Speaker 2 00:37:54 Is that an expectation that we have, and if so, what's the stipend we should provide, and what's reasonable, and who would be eligible for it? Does anybody have experience in this? Does anybody have opinions on this? When I first started here, I asked Anzor about it. He's like no people already have a cell phone plan. They they can just do it. But when Olivia and I talked about it, we googled it. I think there are some California laws that probably outline that we do need to provide something if we have an expectation for people. So, I want to do the right thing and, I don't know exactly what that would look like, but maybe it's twenty five bucks a month or something, for people. But, you know, people that come to mind would be, you know, people that are in the office that we send to to customer locations. Um. It. Speaker 2 00:38:50 You know, It wouldn't be people that are like offshore because they're we don't send them to customer sites, But you know people like Jesse and Caleb and Kobe and Monty and Vana and um. And uh Adrian George. And George. You know people. And and potentially, you know, potentially likeum John Ryan Dimitri and Pepe, you know, and other people that you know that are actually on on site with people. So. Speaker 3 00:39:31 So, the Dodgers did fifty dollars a month per per person if they wanted to use their own cell phone, or they provided you with a cell phone. Uh, washed it eighty dollars per month. Person, and gave you a discount on your personal lines, which actually stopped that discount on my phone. They never took it away. Um, or they provided you with a cell phone. And then Fox Studios did um seventy five dollars per person, and they allowed you to go on the corporate plan if you wanted. If you go on the corporate plan, you had to choose not iPhone and you had to buy it yourself. So those are the three main companies I've worked with. Speaker 1 00:40:14 Every M S P I've worked for it's twenty to twenty five bucks, but I know a lot. I've been in discussions before where there's tiers. Speaker 2 00:40:21 Yeah, big companies are going to provide a much bigger stipend, but right, but but I don't I don't see us providing that that level. Um, we the companies I've been with were were around the fifty dollar level as well. Um But I was thinking more around twenty five or thirty because our expectation is. And, we need to we need to have them sign something also because what I don't want them, they have to sign that they're only going to use it. During times that they are. Engaged in work and. Um, Whatever the word, the verbiage has to be so that we don't get sued later that they were working without being paid to work. And all that kind of crap, right I don't want to get into the whole like. Speaker 2 00:41:09 You know, I was expected to be on call when I wasn't being paid and all that kind of stuff either. So, that's that's when you get into this whole weird hourly versus salaried kind of thing. And I don't want to get into that mess either. So, I think we've got to figure out how that needs to work. But can everybody come up with a list of who from your teams would would be eligible for it? I need to come up with what it would cost us. I'm thinking twenty five bucks. Does anybody think that's, Unreasonable. It needs to. It absolutely has to be more. Is it Mike? Did so you're saying it was twenty five bucks where you were before? Speaker 1 00:41:48 Every M S P I've worked for, I've had a stipend and it's the most I've ever seen. It was twenty five, but I don't know if things have changed about twenty five bucks standard. Speaker 2 00:42:04 All right. Does anybody disagree that we need to probably do something here? I think we I think we probably do need to do something, and then we need to figure out who we're going to do it for. Um, Speaker 1 00:42:16 And if you if people complain that they need to charge more, I think you need to outline usage because I've seen some larger MSPs. They have like occasional use rate, like depending on the department. Speaker 4 00:42:29 Yeah, When Pete and I were talking like we were saying to set like defined boundaries on what's expected right. So that it's not like open ended, like I was working all the time or whatever. That would be like a part of what was what they sign. Speaker 2 00:42:44 Yeah, I mean it's occasional usage, You know, if if we need to get a hold of somebody while they happen to be on site with a customer, right? I mean that's that's for the most part what this is about. It's not it's not an expectation that somebody is going to be, Constantly using their cell phone when they're, out and about. Right. I mean that's that would be an exceptional thing. Speaker 1 00:43:11 I think twenty five bucks is reasonable. Speaker 2 00:43:13 I do too. I know this is going to hit the bottom line. So well, yeah, it's definitely going to hit the bottom line. There's no question about it. So, I guess Alisa from your perspective is that something that's going to be easy to attach to payroll so that it's not taxable or. I don't think it becomes taxable, does it?'Cause it's a, it's, it's, It would be considered I. A reimbursement. A reimbursement kind of thing, right? Speaker 9 00:43:44 Sounds like a reimbursement. And I'll do uh a deeper research just to be safe. But uh my personal judgment is reimbursement. Speaker 3 00:43:55 I always had to send a copy of my bill every month at all. The companies I worked for just to get it as that stipend reimbursement. Speaker 2 00:44:06 Yeah, we're gonna do it more as a stipend, though, so that it's not a reimbursement. Um. Because, we're only gonna provide it to people that has Teams installed on their personal cell phone. Right? Like, if they if we haven't installed Teams on their cell phone, or we can't get a hold of somebody that has Teams installed on their cell phone, then we're gonna revoke. We're gonna revoke the stipend. And, the expectation will be that if we are providing the stipend, and we try to get a hold of somebody on their Teams, on their cell phone while they're at a customer site, they better answer. Right. So during work hours, of course. So figure out who would who would need it and try to get me a list if you can. Um and then I will I am guessing it's going to cost the company five hundred bucks a month. Hopefully less but. Speaker 2 00:45:01 I'm I'm rounding a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 5 00:45:14 Okay, that's what I have. anybody have anything else for the IDs? Okay, any closing comments remarks? Anything else we want to. Speaker 2 00:45:32 Talk about before we close. Speaker 4 00:45:36 Have a great Friday off. Mike said he's working. Speaker 2 00:45:40 Yeah, Mike's working Friday, apparently not anymore. Did we Olivia, Did we find out if any customers or Mike? Or did we find out if any customers are working Friday? Speaker 4 00:45:52 From what I've been seeing when Mike's mike and Vince have been sending it over, I haven't seen anyone that are that is working. Speaker 4 00:46:01 On Friday, but we only have a couple like a handful so far. Speaker 2 00:46:10 Okay, okay. Well, Thank you, everybody. We're We're halfway through your your twenty twenty five, six, twenty twenty six Sorry, and I appreciate what everybody's done this year. Um, we had a really busy first half of the year and uh, It's been exciting, but I think we've accomplished a huge amount of stuff. There's just it's too much to quantify, But this team has been, you know, really instrumental in accomplishing a lot of things. So thank you all. Um keep up the great work. Uh, let's get through the second half of twenty twenty six and keep plugging away. Um I think there's a lot of excitement ahead, so I appreciate each of you. Speaker 2 00:46:56 Have a great rest of your week and a great long weekend, and I'll talk to you soon. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:47:02 Bye- bye.
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04-14 Consultation: Microsoft Purview DLP Configuration for Healthcare PHI Workflows
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- \> Date & Time: 2026-04-14 16:30:23 \> Location: [Insert Location] \> Customer: [Insert Customer] \## Overview The discussion focuses on configuring Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for a healthcare organization managing pharmacy and patient qualification workflows. Teams exchange Protected Health Information (PHI) via email, eFax, and secure connectors with external entities such as hospitals, insurers (e.g., Optum), suppliers, and patients. Challenges include Purview/DLP flagging legitimate communications, license constraints (E3 vs. E5/E5 Compliance add-on vs. E7), and policy scoping (internal vs. external and department-based exclusions). Desired outcomes include properly scoping DLP to allow legitimate PHI workflows, enforcing encryption for outbound communications, and clarifying optimal licensing to support advanced compliance features. \## Background \- The consultant (Christi) was in the Pasadena office and collaborated on Microsoft Purview DLP settings with the customer’s team, addressing policy configuration and licensing questions. \- The organization handles patient qualification and pharmacy operations, frequently sharing patient name, date of birth, address, and insurance information with external entities (hospitals, insurers, suppliers). \- Technical issues included screen freezes and profile problems in Purview, as well as uncertainty over admin role context. \- Licensing status: Majority of users on E3; some accounts may have E3 + Security, and there are references to having 3 people on E3 (and possibly E5 for certain users), with a need to confirm who is on E5 and whether to upgrade more users. \- The consultant suggested using encryption for outbound email to enable compliant PHI exchange, configuring admin units/dynamic groups to scope DLP, and researching policy adjustments for valid workflows. \## Pain Points [Licensing limitations impacting advanced DLP/compliance features] The organization largely uses E3 (with references to E3 + Security) and lacks sufficient E5 or E5 Compliance add-ons to enable advanced Purview DLP options, causing policy and visibility constraints. \- Impact: Limits ability to implement granular DLP controls, simulations, and advanced compliance capabilities, potentially increasing false positives and compliance risk for PHI exchanges. \- Current Situation: Majority on E3; mentions of “13 people on E 3,” “you have three,” uncertainty about which accounts have E5; considering upgrading specific users (e.g., IT admin, inside sales) to E5. \- Quantitative Metrics: “13 people on E 3,” “you have three” (interpreted as three users on a certain plan; exact E5 count unclear). \- Examples: Cannot fully leverage DLP advanced options; questioning if “E 7” is cheaper (“about ninety nine dollars”) and whether E3 + Security covers needs (it does not for advanced DLP). \- Context: Healthcare workflows demand HIPAA-compliant controls and sensitive information handling; DLP advanced features are gated behind higher-tier licensing. \- Stakeholders: IT admin, inside sales, clinical teams, customer care, compliance and security stakeholders. [Overly broad DLP policy flags valid PHI communications] Current Purview DLP simulations and policies flag typical patient qualification and pharmacy communications (names, addresses, insurance info) that are legitimate and necessary, including interactions with Optum, hospitals, suppliers, and eFax channels. \- Impact: Operational friction for customer care, clinical, and pharmacy teams; potential delays in patient qualification and order fulfillment; increased administrative overhead to review/override flags. \- Current Situation: Policies detect “US physical addresses” and trainable healthcare insurance classifiers; simulation mode shows items that are part of routine workflows; uncertainty over excluding certain sensitive info types without losing legitimate detection; plan to adjust policy to outbound-only and use encryption. \- Quantitative Metrics: “Physical addresses plus three more” flagged; references to “eight characters” in detection details; no volumes provided, but daily operations entail frequent emails and eFax exchanges. \- Examples: Referral for an insulin pump being faxed to a hospital/insurance; emails to suppliers through secure connectors; routine requests for patient address, DOB, insurance for qualification. \- Context: HIPAA-compliant operations rely on secure exchange (encrypted email, secure connectors/tunnels). DLP must be scoped to avoid hindering standard processes while protecting external sharing. \- Stakeholders: Customer care (inside sales), clinical teams, pharmacy, suppliers, hospitals, insurers (Optum), IT/security, compliance. [Unclear scoping between internal vs. external communications and group-based exclusions] Difficulty configuring policies to protect external sharing while minimizing internal noise; need to exclude specific departments/groups that routinely handle PHI using compliant channels. \- Impact: Increased false positives and policy noise; risk of over-exclusion or under-protection, potentially missing true incidents or blocking legitimate workflows. \- Current Situation: Exploring admin units and dynamic groups (department-based, “starts with 503” rules) to exclude or differently monitor groups like sales, customer care, and HR; plan to first exclude internal communications and focus on external. \- Quantitative Metrics: Department rule example “user department starts with 503”; multiple departments: sales, customer care, HR, R&D. \- Examples: Need policies that treat customer care and clinical differently than R&D; simulation shows internal items likely due to CC’d external recipients; desire to run simulations excluding defined groups. \- Context: Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) dynamic membership rules to build group-based targeting; Purview policy settings to restrict to “with people outside my organization.” \- Stakeholders: IT admin (policy owner), sales/customer care, clinical, HR, R&D, compliance. [Operational uncertainty around encryption enforcement and message trace visibility] Teams are expected to use encrypted email for PHI, but compliance is inconsistent; need mechanisms to flag non-encrypted external PHI and improve tracing. \- Impact: Potential HIPAA compliance risk if PHI is sent unencrypted externally; oversight gaps if message tracing is not integrated with DLP views; reliance on reminders rather than enforced controls. \- Current Situation: Considering policy to flag if outbound messages containing PHI are not encrypted; message trace must be run separately; some secure connectors/tunnels exist with partners (e.g., Optum). \- Quantitative Metrics: None specific beyond references to “encrypted email” and “connectors.” \- Examples: Leads come with partial info; outbound requests for additional PHI may not be encrypted; cannot run message trace directly from the DLP item view. \- Context: Microsoft Purview DLP does not restrict encrypted content; Microsoft 365 connectors and secure tunnels mitigate risk; policy controls can require encryption for outbound PHI. \- Stakeholders: Customer care, clinical teams, pharmacy, IT/security, compliance. \## Expectations [Implement properly scoped DLP policies that permit legitimate PHI workflows] The customer expects DLP policies to differentiate internal vs. external communications, exclude defined departments/groups that use compliant channels, and reduce false positives while maintaining protections. \- Specific Goals: Configure outbound-only protection where appropriate; exclude or separately monitor groups like sales, customer care, HR; tailor sensitive info types (e.g., US physical addresses) and trainable healthcare classifiers to business needs. \- Timeframe: Near-term; the customer wants to proceed with group creation and policy edits promptly; follow-up research by the consultant is forthcoming. \- Resources Required: Microsoft Purview access, Entra dynamic groups/admin units, consultant’s research and configuration guidance. \- Success Metrics: Fewer false positives on valid PHI exchanges; accurate detection of non-compliant external sharing; successful simulations reflecting intended scoping. \- Stakeholders: IT admin, customer care, clinical, HR, pharmacy, consultant. [Enforce encryption for outbound PHI and educate users] The customer expects to use encrypted email and secure connectors for PHI; if outbound messages are not encrypted, they should be flagged and users reminded. \- Specific Goals: Ensure outbound PHI is encrypted; integrate a policy that flags non-encrypted PHI; reinforce user behavior to use encryption by default. \- Timeframe: Immediate implementation aligned with DLP policy updates; ongoing user reminders and training. \- Resources Required: Microsoft 365 encryption capabilities, secure connectors/tunnels, policy configuration, user training materials. \- Success Metrics: Reduction in non-encrypted outbound PHI; audit logs showing encryption usage; fewer compliance exceptions. \- Stakeholders: Customer care, clinical, pharmacy, IT/security, compliance. [Clarify and optimize licensing strategy (E3 vs. E5/E5 Compliance add-on vs. E7)] The customer expects guidance on the most cost-effective licensing that supports the required compliance features, including who should be upgraded. \- Specific Goals: Determine optimal plan (e.g., upgrading key users/teams to E5 or using E5 Compliance add-on); provide comparison including E7; confirm current licenses and assign appropriately. \- Timeframe: Short-term; consultant to send comparison and check current tenant licensing. \- Resources Required: Licensing analysis, tenant access to verify assignments, budget approval. \- Success Metrics: Appropriate licenses assigned to roles requiring advanced DLP; cost-effective licensing with full required capabilities. \- Stakeholders: IT admin, finance/procurement, consultant, affected departments (inside sales, clinical). \## Other Information Summary \- Secure connectors/tunnels are used with partners like Optum and suppliers to fulfill orders, which may reduce the need for per-message encryption in defined scenarios. \- Simulation mode may display internal items due to CCs with external recipients; adjusting policy to “shared with people outside my organization” should reduce internal noise. \- Trainable classifiers (e.g., healthcare insurance) are in use; instance counts for trainable types are not set. \- The consultant mentioned research tasks to refine policies for healthcare workflows and to provide licensing comparisons including E7 (“about ninety nine dollars” noted, with caveats). \- Department-based dynamic groups can be created using Entra rules (e.g., “user department starts with 503”) to target DLP enforcement and exclusions. \- The organization uses eFax and Salesforce; PHI may move across these systems during referral and qualification workflows. \## To-Do List \- [ ] Send licensing comparison (E3, E3 + Security, E5, E5 Compliance add-on, E7) with recommendations; include cost notes and caveats. Stakeholders: Consultant, IT admin. Deadline: [Insert Deadline]. \- [ ] Verify current tenant licensing assignments and identify users/teams requiring E5 for advanced DLP; propose assignment changes (e.g., IT admin, inside sales, clinical). Stakeholders: Consultant, IT admin. Deadline: [Insert Deadline]. \- [ ] Configure Purview DLP policies to focus on external sharing (“with people outside my organization”) and reduce internal noise; run updated simulations. Stakeholders: IT admin. Deadline: [Insert Deadline]. \- [ ] Create Entra dynamic groups/admin units by department (e.g., sales, customer care, HR) to exclude/adjust DLP treatment; document rules (e.g., department starts with specific codes). Stakeholders: IT admin. Deadline: [Insert Deadline]. \- [ ] Implement outbound encryption requirement for PHI: policy to flag non-encrypted emails and user guidance to use encryption; verify secure connectors/tunnels coverage. Stakeholders: IT/security, customer care, clinical, pharmacy. Deadline: [Insert Deadline]. \- [ ] Prepare user training materials and reminders on using encrypted email for PHI, and when connectors/tunnels apply. Stakeholders: IT/security, compliance. Deadline: [Insert Deadline]. \- [ ] Conduct a message trace process for flagged emails to validate use cases and refine policies; document findings. Stakeholders: IT admin. Deadline: [Insert Deadline]. \- [ ] Schedule next check-in to review simulation results, group configurations, and encryption enforcement outcomes. Stakeholders: Consultant, IT admin. Deadline: [Insert Deadline]. \> AI Suggestions \> The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as overly broad DLP policies flagging legitimate PHI communications and disrupting routine healthcare workflows. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: \> 1. Scope DLP to external sharing first: Configure policies to “detect when content is shared with people outside my organization,” reducing internal noise; then iteratively refine. \> 2. Implement department-based dynamic exclusions: Use Entra dynamic groups/admin units to exclude or apply lighter monitoring to customer care, clinical, and pharmacy, while enforcing stricter controls for non-PHI teams (e.g., R&D). \> 3. Enforce outbound encryption for PHI: Create a rule that flags outbound messages containing PHI if not encrypted; pair with user training and quick-reference guides to standardize behavior. \> 4. Leverage secure connectors/tunnels: Document and whitelist approved secure channels (e.g., Optum connectors) within DLP policies to allow known compliant exchanges without repeated flags. \> 5. Upgrade key roles to E5 or E5 Compliance add-on: Ensure the IT admin and PHI-heavy departments have the necessary licensing for advanced DLP features, simulations, and compliance controls.
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- Apr 14, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 I'm not sure what the problem is. Speaker 1 00:00:33 The name of the town is derived from the river. Speaker 1 00:01:20 What's up? Hi. Speaker 2 00:01:24 How are you? It has been a day, but a good day, just a day. Speaker 1 00:01:30 Very good. Speaker 2 00:01:32 How's everything going for you? Good, so very good. Say that one more time. Speaker 2 00:01:41 Oh, I am in the Pasadena office. Yeah, uh it's it's. Speaker 1 00:01:48 Another client site. So. You have too many clients? Speaker 2 00:01:56 Actually, Ium I only have two now besidesum, People who ask me questions and people I like, like you. Oh, thank you. You're welcome. And Sean, Speaker 3 00:02:11 Even though even if you don't mean it, but I'll take it. Speaker 2 00:02:14 I love Sean and Daniel? Daniel? Yeah. Yeah, they're amazing. Speaker 1 00:02:21 You have a good one with Sean. So Thank you He's only yelled at me once in our relationship. So. Speaker 1 00:02:33 And how was that? Speaker 2 00:02:34 Uh I forgot to send him an email on something, so he was in his. He was in uh, he was in the right on that one. So I felt bad. Speaker 3 00:02:47 My computer is acting up. It's not letting me change my screen. Something is going on here. Oh, Speaker 2 00:02:52 I'm having to share my screen, but it's it's letting. It's not letting me move the windows. They're frozen. Is it almost frozen, but it's not frozen. Speaker 2 00:03:05 I Can't. I was trying. I was going to walk through it with you today on PerView, uh, because I have a client that I got to set up DLP on, and it is being a pain in the neck. Speaker 3 00:03:18 Yeah, PerView's right. Yeah, PerView's just in general it's not fun. Yeah, I'm going to go see right now. Speaker 2 00:03:24 I see somebody Eugene in Salesforce. Speaker 1 00:03:29 Okay so that's my difference because I don't bring it here at PerView either. Speaker 1 00:03:35 All right, let me go. Speaker 3 00:03:36 I think I have preview open here. This even this window gets stuck. I don't know how to. Speaker 2 00:03:42 I can't get out of it. Speaker 3 00:03:44 Yeah, exactly like what the heck? I don't wanna no, I'm, okay, with the new one, Speaker 2 00:03:48 But clicking get started worked for me just now where? Go back on this one, just click the back button and then get started blue button yeah. Speaker 1 00:04:02 Good guy. Speaker 1 00:04:07 Where do I go? Where was I? Data loss. Speaker 3 00:04:11 Where is that now? Speaker 2 00:04:12 Um, you, it was in the center just a minute ago. Go back on the, there you go. Speaker 1 00:04:19 Uh oh. I don't see it. Uh okay so go yeah That's weird. Speaker 1 00:04:37 I know why. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. It's my profile. Oh, I. Speaker 2 00:04:54 Feel that, Speaker 3 00:04:55 But if I'm clicking from admin, it should just ask me to log in as an admin, Speaker 1 00:04:59 Not right? Speaker 3 00:05:01 Not log me as the other person Policies. Speaker 1 00:05:08 One of these days Microsoft will act up. Okay, there you go. Now let's see. Oh, there it is. Oh! What? Speaker 2 00:05:26 We I forgot to uh put an E 5 on this account. Speaker 3 00:05:32 On my account or so I don't know on this Admin account? Speaker 2 00:05:35 Not on you guys, on uh uh, A nonprofit that is in the healthcare that I was turning on. Okay, Speaker 3 00:05:41 I'll just ask you, should we go to E seven Is isn't E seven cheaper now? Speaker 2 00:05:46 Uh, I am not a fan of E seven just yet. Um, okay. It's not cheaper. It's about ninety nine dollars, but t here is still some caveats to thatum That's being flushed out. All right So. Speaker 3 00:06:00 Okay All right So now where should we go? Speaker 2 00:06:03 Okay So we just did the exchange one right. Speaker 3 00:06:07 Very well. Let's see. It was running in the summary. Let me go back. HMM saying. Speaker 1 00:06:14 Complete if I click on it? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:06:40 All right. Matching even fun. I don't know what that means, but anyway, we can look at it. So review matching items. It's in the bottom of the middle card. Yep Physical addresses plus three more Which is probably right because we do get referrals for patients and stuff. So. Yeah. So she Sharon from, where should I say, where is it from? Like who was the user? Let's see. Where does it come like which click. Speaker 2 00:07:30 On customize columns right in the center? Yep, right there. File owner. Speaker 1 00:07:37 From right there. From or a file. I do both. Okay. You know, I mean, these are like they're working with patients directly to get their, Speaker 3 00:07:53 You know, for the for the leads and stuff to the transport right? Yeah. So in this case, what would you I mean do I just? I guess the question is right, but this is part of our process. You know, basically, when. When a lead comes in, right, And then our customer care will say we need your address to qualify you as a patient or not, right? That that you have your insurance. So that's a typical process we go through. Yeah. And they do a lot of communication with emails, right? Which is fine. Speaker 1 00:08:20 So then do we then flag that this is okay, Speaker 3 00:08:26 Or how did how did it work there? Speaker 2 00:08:27 So this is where we would We would adjust and edit the policy. Um, Okay. And that's where when we go into the policy, we would edit it. And so let me share my screen for you real quick. Yeah. All right, so wrong, wrong share. Hang on. Okay, did it again? Okay, so when you're in here under edit, You're going to look at the info to protect. That's it's on this page. And then you're going to go in and say, edit. Speaker 2 00:09:04 And, this is where you're going to go in and make some changes to everything. So you've got US physical addresses right here. You can make that change to however you want to do it. And then from there, you can also go in here and say, you know, text patterns and then instant count. You could even delete the physical address and just say, okay, we're okay with physical address under sensitive info. Information types is your all names, And you can clear that one as well if you're if you want to do that. And then under here is your trainable classifier. So you've got your healthcare insurance. So, we're not going to be setting medium and instance count for these because they're trainable. Um, but this is where you change most of it. Speaker 3 00:09:54 Got it. But in this case, how I mean, there's almost like I have to because part of the, Normal exchange, right? We have to get patient's name, date of birth, address, insurance information to qualify them. Right? Yes. But in that case, then if I start excluding and everything will be excluded, or do I need to make it like? Is it a certain number of from users? Or how would I even otherwise? It sounds like I'll just end up excluding everything, and then I'll not catch anything, right, even the legitimate ones, right? Speaker 2 00:10:27 Yeah. Let me. I do know what you're saying. Let me look and see, If there's a group we can exclude from, I believe there is. It's an admin unit, but let me look at something real quick. Speaker 1 00:10:53 All right. Cancel, cancel. Let me go back. Speaker 2 00:11:01 And, this is detect when content is shared from Microsoft 365 with people outside my organization. So, Speaker 1 00:11:09 Um, so we can what we can do, we can set it to it was the very next page. There's a way to set it. Speaker 1 00:11:31 Where it's only protecting. Speaker 2 00:11:33 Outbound and not inbound. Speaker 3 00:11:37 This could be outbound too, right? Because oh, because they could be asking the question, right? Speaker 2 00:11:42 To see if they're asking. Yeah, If they're asking the question, then they wouldn't have the information when they go outbound though. Speaker 3 00:11:54 It depends on well, we can try it, but sometimes the leads come in with half the information and need to go, ask them right. We need more information from you. Speaker 2 00:12:02 Yeah. I mean, in that case, I would. Speaker 3 00:12:07 Yeah. Let's see. Hang on one second. Let me go and see if there's a way What. Speaker 2 00:12:20 About Microsoft encrypted email? Because DLP wouldn't apply to encrypted email, it won't restrict it, So encrypted email going outbound. Speaker 3 00:12:31 Which this they're supposed to use encrypted, but if they're not. You can tell them to encrypt it or what, because they're I mean normal use case, they can definitely go back and forth right? Speaker 2 00:12:46 Yes. I would honestly I would consider doing that. Um, Because, we know encrypted allows for things to get past DLP with because it's HIPAA compliant. Speaker 3 00:13:06 So so then what should we do then? We say if it's not if it's not if it's not encrypted, then flag it or yes, Speaker 2 00:13:13 And it does that automatically. Speaker 3 00:13:19 So then do I need to just remind the people to use encrypted or yes. Speaker 3 00:13:26 This is pretty much entire group, right? Let's see. But it doesn't tell me exactly. I'm guessing, I cannot tell from this email, either a GoSRS email, right? Is this email going, are they emailing the patient or how do we look at the content itself? Speaker 2 00:13:45 Uh message trace. See if you can do a message trace on it. Speaker 3 00:13:54 No, from this we I mean I can go run a message trace separate. I guess. And then to mind them again, but let's see it's fine. Eight characters okay, but there is no. Speaker 1 00:14:08 Option from here to run the message trace right? Right. So I have to run a message trace for. This is I'm guessing this is the. Speaker 1 00:14:32 So there is a setting we have to turn on. Um. With probably this. Speaker 3 00:15:12 Customer care inside sales, I mean that's what they do. They qualify patients and they do this day in and out. They are talking to patients back and forth, get the information. In this case, they are working withum Optum and we may, And we may even have an encrypted, you know, what do you call that tunnel with the Optum team? That might be okay then. Some we also have created some tunnels too. Speaker 1 00:15:43 Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. Let me double check something. Speaker 1 00:15:58 We can limit patient communication to two defined groups, and that's done through the admin units. So that is where you do that one, Speaker 2 00:16:17 Where you can restrict everyone but your two groups. And then. Speaker 1 00:16:22 For encryption. Speaker 1 00:16:30 All right, well, let's see. So right now this is by default. Speaker 3 00:16:34 This was this is mostly internal too. So we can we can first exclude the internal one I think. Yes. I mean, yeah. So and that'll be a that'd be the first step. Speaker 1 00:16:47 So let me just do this. Yeah Let's find next. Speaker 1 00:17:02 Leave this one now, Speaker 3 00:17:03 Right? And then or where do I put internalization? Speaker 2 00:17:05 So add or remove admin units. Speaker 1 00:17:11 And then you're going to you have none. Speaker 2 00:17:14 Let's see. Speaker 1 00:17:14 Oh, they moved it. Okay. So let me pull up Let me pull that one up. Speaker 3 00:17:30 But before we do this, Is there a way to just say if it's only going from external to external? Speaker 2 00:17:34 Yes, that's actually later in the policy. So I think we just do that first, Speaker 3 00:17:40 Right? Because I didn't go through because I don't know which groups to include because they're multiple. This clinical team, there's inside sales. There are different groups of teams that are actually interact with patients. Yeah. Where do we change that internal versus external? Speaker 2 00:17:58 So this one is policy settings is where I'm at. Speaker 1 00:18:05 To turn it on. For your locations, which ones did you you just chose in exchange? Okay. I'm not sure. Speaker 1 00:18:28 So there. Speaker 3 00:18:31 Is no where the settings. I'm going to have to edit the whole edit policy. That's what we were before. I mean, Speaker 1 00:18:38 That's what we were before. If you go to, oh, yours is not showing the same as mine. Okay, click next on that. Speaker 1 00:18:60 Click edit here. Okay. So that's the setting. That's. Speaker 2 00:19:17 The one where you have to do, um, with people outside my organization. So that should not done internal people. Unless under simulation mode, Speaker 1 00:19:27 It just shows you everything. Well, unless there was people CC'd internal and external. I didn't check all the emails, right? So that could be where. Yes. Speaker 1 00:20:06 So we can even see that you are sending PHI, please encrypt or something. Yeah, that's really weird. Do you have E5 licenses on your account? Let's see, I don't know. Might be E3 or E, I forget what we have. Speaker 1 00:20:35 You have E 3, can you go to billing for me? And then click on licenses. Speaker 3 00:20:44 I think it's majority is E 3, not E 5. Speaker 2 00:20:47 Got it. You need one person on E 5. Speaker 3 00:20:50 No, I think I am, I think we have E 5 and then we have uh Oh, you have three people on it? E 3 plus security right? Let's see. We have 13 people on E 3. How many? Five sorry uh where is the five uh. Speaker 1 00:21:02 Yeah you you have three Yeah. Speaker 1 00:21:08 I don't know why there's a great. Speaker 3 00:21:11 So maybe my account is not on E 5, this account that I'm using. I can log in as IT admin. Okay. Should do that or? Yes. I guess we can even upgrade mine too, but then I set up under, I should be able to see it right, let's see. I. Speaker 1 00:21:30 Guess we can put my account to E 5 too, it's not a big deal. Speaker 1 00:21:46 You want me to go to preview first or? Yes, go to preview. Speaker 1 00:22:20 Yeah, you have to add. You may have to add the E, add E five to the people. In the in for inside sales and your other team. To have. Oh wait, not that one. You uh yeah, you'll have to add those two. Um let me think about how this works. Speaker 3 00:23:03 But I thought we had E three plus security. We went through that. We we don't have I thought the security covers it right? No no I thought we had E three plus security. Speaker 2 00:23:10 Security covers a lot of things, but it doesn't cover D L P advanced options. Speaker 2 00:23:16 Only uh there is an E 5 compliance add- on, but if you're doing that to people with already that already has security, you might as well just bump them up to an E 5. It's the same cost. Speaker 3 00:23:28 That's what I think. So I need you guys to tell me what how am I paying for this thing? And what's the best way to do this right? Yeah. So example in this case like this is basically showing our. I mean, this is like subject right? I mean, this is in the in the in the footer. Yes. So that should not be technically flat, uh, If we see, and this is the and this is the patient's name, which is fine. So now they're talking with patient. Right. See metadata source. Wait, so obviously now we can see the email right? Yeah. So. Now we can see this is talking to eFax. It's coming from a patient, you know, from the hospital, right? Whatever that so I mean, Speaker 1 00:24:08 This is a valid use case. Yeah, still have all the information. Speaker 1 00:24:21 So this is going to the insurance company. So. Speaker 3 00:24:25 This is coming from Beta, then it's referring patient for an insulin pump. It was a referral, yeah. So it's going to, I mean, it's being faxed to a somebody, yeah. Okay, got it. To process order. That one use case is let's see what else the other ones? Speaker 2 00:24:40 Yeah that's that's something I'm gonna research for you. Speaker 3 00:24:45 And this one kind of like we're talking to our suppliers right? Supplies to basically, And, then we do have a secure tunnel with them in the in the exchange. Yeah. To fulfill this order. So I mean, This will be a lot of use cases in our case because we are pharmacy, it's saving all sharing all the information. Speaker 2 00:25:13 Remind Me that the next kid I get if they're a D, if they're a. Speaker 2 00:25:20 What is the word my brain, just kind of froze on me I'm. So as a foster parent I am, uh, what's called a special care where I can take kids? Uh I take mostly teenagers, but I can take kids with uh diabetes and a few other things and I'm trained in how to handle medication giving and all of that stuff. Speaker 1 00:25:44 Oh, you're talking about the caregiver. What's the yeah. Speaker 3 00:25:49 I forget the name now too. Speaker 2 00:25:50 Yeah, my brain just kind of froze on that. My daughter, thankfully she's not diabetic. She actually has other issues, which is why I got her because her level of care is higher. So and she's going to college, it's only been two years, she's not supposed to be going to college this soon. That. Speaker 3 00:26:12 Is crazy. Speaker 2 00:26:14 Yeah, she got a full ride to uh UC UC Merced. Oh good for her. Speaker 1 00:26:22 Yeah. All right, So I guess, we need some kind of way to make this where these exchanges are going to happen, either we tell the people to continue to press. We also set up what you call a lot of not a lot, but we have set up someum go to exchange. No. Yeah. I think. Speaker 3 00:26:45 Move like run sorry rules, U h connectors, right. So we have some like some of the our I mean, we also have set up the connectors, too. That's supposed to be more secure. Instead of doing one by, you know, uh encrypting again, the idea was to have this connector so that they are qualified between the domains. Yes. So it's covered. Speaker 2 00:27:07 All right. So to set up an admin group, which is one of the things we were looking at. Here's the instructions. Speaker 2 00:27:18 So this is where an admin group is kind of like a security group. And, it's used in DLP to add people that need to be covered under the DLP policy and keep certain teams out of it. So like your inside sales and your program team, the teams that are sending the information to insurance companies. Speaker 1 00:27:42 I see. So. Speaker 2 00:27:44 That's how you would do it, and that's an intra. Speaker 3 00:27:49 So you're saying, so basically if we go and install Navigator and then we basically say, so with multiple groups like customer care. So I have to just add a few. I can add as many pages, I mean as many distribution lists in them or how to basically keep adding people? How is it? Yeah. So, Speaker 2 00:28:09 You can add uh. So one of the things I'm going to be doing yeah. So, you can do it by department, and you would do that using a dynamic membership. Which is what I'm doing for my new client because they're a healthcare organization as well. So I'm going to be monitoring by department and I'm going to be monitoring by location. So, um, I'm going to be doing, I'm going to use a dynamic membership or dynamic group that you can set up under groups and intrap. That's going to flag it by certain qualities. And then you can add that to an admin center. Speaker 3 00:28:48 I'm just looking for how to best do that because, for example, Anthony's team was one of the team members, right? So I got to either find out either do it by the Department. Speaker 2 00:29:02 Let me double check and see if depart I know departments in dynamic or used to be in dynamic. Let me double check and see if it's still there. Hang on. Speaker 3 00:29:11 I'm trying to see but what's the department where is the department anyway here? Speaker 2 00:29:13 Oh go to manage contact information under account. Speaker 2 00:29:20 Manage. Uh, left column. Yep. Speaker 3 00:29:23 Yeah. So I think we have the department, if it's a sales clinical, let me see. So if we can do something like that, yeah, basically you have to have to Ryan David. Let's see what what is he on? Managed contract? Well he pharmacy, so he's part of sales. So I guess, sales would cover a lot of people. Speaker 2 00:29:44 I think itself Yes So I'm going to. Speaker 2 00:29:50 I'm I'm trying to I'm waiting for groups to open up in intro. For some reason, just decided to go super slow and I want to see if the dynamic can do it by. Speaker 3 00:29:59 Yeah, for example, like you know, if you have sales customer care a couple of these people, right? If we add that kind of thing, then then that should cover. So like this. So these are my departments, right? So let's say, sales customer care like I can leave it outside of it. I can leave R and D, R and D should not be having that kind of instruction right? Um yeah. Like yeah, like what you call uh qualities we find. So yeah, so basically if you can come up with that, if you can if you can do by department, that'll actually make it easier. Speaker 2 00:30:29 Yes. I'm going to do a new group right now. Um this client that I'm working on. We're setting up their tenancy for the first time. So. Speaker 3 00:30:37 Now let me know I mean if you can do it. And then if you want to I, don't want to keep holding you up If, you can just let me some of the later. Then like I, then I can work on it Yeah Like. For example, if look at this list, right so I mean, like. Speaker 3 00:30:49 Sure, HR is fine. We'll go HR. Is going to patient or not? They're going to talk about the address and stuff, right? So if I leave HR and sales and customer care, I think that should be good to start with. Speaker 1 00:31:01 Yeah. Let me do it real quick. Let's see group name test test owner, which I just set myself as the owner. Speaker 1 00:31:18 Now let's get a punk. All right, dynamic membership rules. Add an expression or let's see the expression department. Oh, why don't I share my screen? So under so. Speaker 2 00:31:42 Under dynamic membership rules and I'm doing this from intra, My rules, I'm going to do department. And then I can say equals or starts with or something along those lines. So I could say starts with, and I think you had like a 503 in there or something. Yeah. And then I can do that user department starts with 503. And then you would hit save and then you would hit create. Speaker 2 00:32:16 But you want to do group type is security and membership type is dynamic user. Speaker 3 00:32:21 I can create with multiple groups and multiple departments in there, I guess. Speaker 2 00:32:25 Yeah, you can make a department one department for each. Speaker 3 00:32:30 Should we do separate or should we just combine them into one? Speaker 2 00:32:33 I would do a separate. Speaker 3 00:32:35 Uh, I wonder because if you do a Microsoft 365 group, can you do. Speaker 2 00:32:45 And that way you can make it also a, yeah, you can still do it that way. Um, the reason why I'm wondering about that is because you could, I'd like to kill two birds with one stone. Um, if you make it Microsoft 365, It's still also a security group at the same time, and you can make it an email address, but you can restrict it within intra. So you can have a dynamic distribution list. Okay. Speaker 3 00:33:14 So if I create this, I can do it later tomorrow, and then then I add that to the thing. So basically what this will do is then run the simulation again. So then it should run on everybody except this group. Speaker 2 00:33:26 Yeah, you can make separate DLP policies, One for with everybody, excluding a group and then one for the group whereum you can just have it monitor, or you know different things like that. So you can you can do, Restricted or non- restricted, however you want to do it. You have the sky is your limits on that when you're bringing in groups like this. Speaker 3 00:33:52 Okay, let me work on it. Maybe I'll need your let me do this, and then maybe I'll have to run this by you. Speaker 2 00:33:57 Yeah, no worries. And then I'll research, the other piece I said I would research for you and find out from there. Speaker 3 00:34:03 And also set the E 3 and E 5 also please Yes, Speaker 2 00:34:08 Definitely we'll do that on that. I did make a comparison for somebody else that includes the E 7, So I'll do that, and that way you have that one as well. Speaker 3 00:34:17 You can check what we have right now. Yes. Speaker 2 00:34:21 I think I still have, I know I still have access to your account so. Speaker 3 00:34:24 Yeah. Because last time, I took your recommendation to see what we needed if it was E 3 for security because we did the Yes Whatever yeah So. We can just let me know. Speaker 2 00:34:34 Yeah Not a problem. Thank, you You're welcome. All right, I'm heading back to the South Bay area. So if you need me, just feel free to call my cell phone. Thank you. Thanks. Bye.
04-17 Lecture: Cisco Partner Experience Platform (PXP) Overview
- Notes
- Date Time: 2026-04-17 15:20:33 Location: [Insert Location]: [Insert Location] Instructor: [Insert Name]: [Insert Name] ## Summary This lecture provides a comprehensive overview of the Cisco Partner Experience Platform (PXP), a centralized portal designed to give partners insights into their performance, incentives, and business opportunities. The speaker details how to manage user access and roles within the PXP, emphasizing the importance of the PSS admin. The session explains the Partner Value Index (PVI), its four pillars (Foundational, Capabilities, Performance, Engagement), and their respective weightings. It demonstrates how partners can use the PXP to track incentive program earnings, analyze performance trends, identify business opportunities and risks through actionable insights, and gain detailed views of performance by architecture or customer. A significant portion of the lecture is dedicated to explaining the Disti Partner View (DPV), encouraging partners to grant Ingram Micro read-only access to their PVI to receive guidance and resources for improving their metrics. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Cisco Partner Experience Platform (PXP) Overview - **Purpose of PXP** - The primary goal of PXP is to provide partners with insights into what is happening with their Cisco incentives. - It allows partners to track the total amount of money earned from incentives across all their different customers. - PXP provides information on whether incentives are being used correctly and if they are being obtained from various customers. - **PXP Portal Structure** - The portal is organized into several tabs for different functions: - Cisco 360 (for Partner Value Index) - Practice Maturity - Partner Management - Capabilities - Performance - Incentive and Funds - Lifecycle Selling - Sales Opportunities - Reporting - Collaboration ### 2. PXP Access Management - **Role of the PSS Admin** - To grant access to the PXP portal, a user must be a PSS (Partner Self Service) admin. - PSS admins are the individuals who registered the Cisco partner on cisco.com. - Users can find their PSS admin by going to cisco.com/pss and clicking "Find My PSS Admin". - The recommendation is for a partner to have at least two admins. - **Process for Granting Access** - A PSS admin can manage access through the "advanced access management" and "manage Cisco tools access" sections. - The admin selects the company, the user from a list of registered users, the application (Partner Experience Platform), and the desired role and permissions. - This is a user-by-user process to ensure proper access levels are assigned and to keep sensitive information private. - **User Roles and Permissions** - Different roles provide access to specific sections of the PXP: - **Partner Marketing:** Access to the marketing section. - **Finance Partner:** Access to financial information. - **Sales Partner:** Access to sales-related data. - **Partner Executive:** Recommended for a general overview and access to most important information; considered more than enough for full access. - **Partner Manager:** Provides even more access than the Partner Executive role. - Additional permissions can be assigned for specific functions like the Partner Value Index, operational indicators, or task automation. For the Partner Value Index, "read only" privilege is usually sufficient for users to download information and get insights without modifying data. Update permissions should be restricted to PSS and PXP admins. ### 3. Partner Value Index (PVI) - **PVI Concept and Structure** - The PVI is a key performance metric for partners, with a unique index for each portfolio (e.g., Security, Collaboration, AI). - The PVI is composed of four pillars with different weightings: - **Foundational:** 25% (comprised of Customer Success Practice Maturity at 50% and MSP Practice Maturity at 50%) - **Capabilities:** 45% (emphasizing the importance of certifications) - **Performance:** 20% - **Engagement:** 10% - The PVI is not a permanent grade; Cisco re-evaluates partners over time, so continuous improvement is necessary to maintain or improve the score. - **Analyzing PVI in PXP** - The "Cisco 360" tab in PXP is dedicated to the PVI. - Users can filter the view by portfolio (e.g., Security). - The dashboard displays the overall PVI score and the scores for each of the four pillars. - Partners can scroll down to see more details for each pillar, including metric information, index score, and growth. - A "guidance section" provides recommendations on how to improve specific metrics. - The "Index Navigator" allows for a deeper dive into each pillar's components and definitions. - **Performance Trends** - The "Trends" view shows a partner's performance over time, plotting the scores of the four pillars on a graph. - This allows partners to see their growth, identify which areas require improvement (e.g., a low score in Engagement), and measure the impact of their action plans. ### 4. Incentives, Opportunities, and Insights - **Incentive and Funds Tracking** - The "Incentive and Funds" tab centralizes the tracking of all incentive programs (e.g., CPI, VIP, CSP+, Perform Plus). - It allows partners to measure the financial benefits, such as discounts and rebates, and see if joining these programs translates into revenue. - Partners can view performance and growth, filtering by portfolio and fiscal quarter. - **Actionable Insights** - PXP provides insights into both opportunities and risks. - **Opportunities:** The platform identifies potential business, such as hardware refresh opportunities (e.g., an example of up to $15 million over three years), classified by software, and enterprise agreements. Clicking on these provides a detailed list of available opportunities. - **Risks:** The platform highlights the probability of losing a contract or a refresh opportunity, prompting partners to create strategies to retain those accounts. - **Business and Customer Insights** - **Business Trends:** Partners can see performance trends for sales, enterprise agreements, and renewals, helping them identify and address issues like a drop in performance during a specific quarter. - **Customer Insights:** Provides a customer-centric view, showing sales performance and opportunities (hardware, software, services) for specific customers. This helps partners tailor strategies for each client. - **Performance by Architecture:** Users can analyze performance by specific architectures (e.g., Security) and sub-architectures (e.g., Zero Trust, Network Security), allowing them to identify strong and weak areas. - **Lifecycle Performance:** The platform shows performance across the customer lifecycle, helping partners see if they are succeeding in each phase, from engagement to renewals. ### 5. Disti Partner View (DPV) with Ingram Micro - **Purpose of DPV** - The DPV allows a distributor (Disti) like Ingram Micro to have visibility into a partner's PVI. - The goal is for Ingram Micro to help partners improve their grades, close more business, improve renewals, and increase sales by providing guidance, resources, and strategic advice. - Ingram Micro can inform partners about new certifications, documents, or processes that can help improve their PVI score. - **How to Grant Access to Ingram Micro** - It is a two-step process initiated by the partner's PSS admin. - **Step 1:** The partner invites and grants access to Ingram Micro. - **Step 2:** Ingram Micro accepts and then requests access to the Partner Value Index, which the partner must then approve. This means the partner grants access twice. - **Required Permissions** - Ingram Micro only requires "read only" access to the Partner Value Index. They do not need details about customers or specific architectures. - Partners have the option to grant additional visibility, such as to CPI (Partner Incentive Programs) insights, which can help them get better guidance on incentive programs. - **Authorization Details** - After settings are saved, it takes about 12 hours for the update to take effect. - The authorization expires every 12 months, requiring the partner to repeat the process annually to maintain the relationship and support from Ingram Micro. ### 6. Additional Resources and Other Topics - **PXP Resources** - The speaker mentioned several available resources: - Black Belts (PXP Cisco 360, Partner Programs) that are important for the lifecycle and performance pillars. - The PXP Partner Journey document. - A quick guide for granting user access. - **Other Sessions** - Other available sessions cover topics like data center, 360 navigator, using AI for network refresh, and secure networking, accessible via a QR code. - **Webex Calling** - A discussion in the latter part of the recording defines Webex Calling as Cisco's cloud-based phone system (cloud PBX). - It is positioned as a competitor to Microsoft Teams Calling and RingCentral. - Becoming a Webex Calling partner allows for reselling and creating trials. The wholesale rate is noted as a powerful option for MSPs. - Renewing the certification to resell Webex Calling is an annual administrative process with no direct cost. ## Questions - [Insert Question/Confusion] ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Identify your company's PSS admin or become one to manage PXP access. - [ ] Review and assign appropriate roles (e.g., Partner Executive) and permissions to users within the PXP portal. - [ ] Analyze your company's Partner Value Index (PVI) in the PXP's "Cisco 360" tab to identify areas for improvement. - [ ] Grant Ingram Micro "read only" access to your Partner Value Index via the Disti Partner View (DPV) to receive guidance. - [ ] Use the actionable insights in PXP to develop strategies for pursuing opportunities and mitigating risks. - [ ] Explore the additional PXP resources mentioned, such as Black Belts and the partner journey document. - [ ] Consider renewing the Webex Calling certification to continue reselling the service.
- Date
- Apr 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 So, if you have an incentive and you went to the Cisco webpage and you just joined to an incentive program, well, those benefits were for you to track. Okay. Right now, The whole idea for Cisco is to give you insights on what's happening with those incentives. So now on the PXP, you'll have the total amount of money that you are earning. Okay? From those incentives, so you could keep track across all of your different customers. We will see that in just one moment, But that's the like. The idea that you want to that I want to deliver to you. Okay, This time, the PXP will provide you with information on how to track if you are using those incentives correctly. And if you are getting those incentives from different customers. All right, sorry. So. Speaker 1 00:00:54 Let's just analyze what is happening with some of these partner value indexes. Okay, now this time the security value index. And, this just an example on how to grant access to this partner value index. Because well, there was a question here about the roles to grant access to those tools. So let me show you how this done. So first of all you need to identify as the PSS admin, okay? So you need to be a PSS admin So that you can grant access to the PXP portal. All right? So go to the cisco. Com/pss and if you're not an admin, You can just click the Find My PSS Admin, and you'll get the information on who is the PSS admin so that you can ask access uh to the PXP portal. All right? Now, the PSS admins are the ones that registered this Cisco partner. Speaker 1 00:01:51 On under cisco dot com. So usually this whole process is registering the partner, assigning an admin and that admin should assign another admin. So that's the recommendation. Now, once you have a couple of admins, you could just have more okay? Now as a regular normal user, You can just log into your Cisco portal and well search for those PSS admins and ask them to grant you access to the PXP portal. Okay, So this just finding your PSS admins so that you can ask them to grant you some access to the PXP. Now, You can just go the advanced access management and well go the manage Cisco tools access. All right? Now, if you are a PSS admin, this something that you will see right here. Okay? If you have multiple companies, you can just select the proper ones. Okay? Speaker 1 00:02:50 And well, it's all about selecting the user, alright? You'll see a list of all your available users registered with you or attached to your partner. Okay? And you'll select the application and of course the access status. Okay? Now let me just go one. Here it is. Now once you've selected the user and once you've selected the role and the permission, you'll be Well, you could just add one more user. Now, I want to explain this, okay? This is kind of a slow process because you will have to add user by user. All right? And, there's a reason for this because the PXP has all this information in it. You'll have to select the proper way or the proper access for those users. So that's why you are adding user by user. Speaker 1 00:03:49 Because, you have to select a user, and you have to select the correct role. Okay, Just granting full access might be a problem if you want to keep some information private. So that's the reason we are doing it just one by one. Okay, now here it is. This time we just selected a user, Bob Smith, and you are selecting the application. Now this time the application is Partner Experience Platform, right? So now that you've selected the application, you can just click next. Okay, and here comes the role that you can attach to this user. Okay, So if you want this user to have access to I, don't know only the marketing section, you can just select partner marketing. Okay, you also have this. Speaker 1 00:04:47 Financing, sorry, finance partner role. You also have the sales partner role. And you have this description on the right, that tells you all the information that will be available for that for that role. If you want kind of a full access to the tool, the partner executive might be the correct way to go. Okay? Because, well, An executive will have access to the most important and relevant information in the organization. Okay. If you want to just grant even more access, probably the partner manager might be a good idea. Okay? But that depends on how you want to restrict some information. But I think the partner executive is more than enough to have a general overview. Speaker 1 00:05:42 On whatever is happening on the PXP role, okay? So just use that one. You were asking about this full access. I think the partner executive is more than enough, but if you really want a full access, well maybe a partner manager might be more than enough. Okay? Okay, now you'll also get to Assign, okay. Information additional uh information the PXP portal. Okay, like the partner value index, like the operational indicators or even the having or granting access to automate a few tasks inside the PXP. Okay. Um so if you want to provide this access to your users and you want. Speaker 1 00:06:40 Them to just check what is happening with your partner value index. Be sure to select at least the read only privilege for that user, okay? Because this is the last step. All right. Now, as you can see, you can just assign read only access or update privileges to these users. Usually with read only is more than enough because this will give possibility to download information to. Get insights and everything but not modifying things. And probably you might want to need or just a little bit more control over your PXP portal, So just kind of restrict the update permissions for the PSS admins and the PXP admins. Okay. Of course, if you want to get information about the partner incentives, you could also grant them. If you want to provide visibility over VP insights, okay? Speaker 1 00:07:39 Or the CSP PE insights, just go ahead and allow them. As you can see, you also have the possibility to select none. All right? Now remember these steps, please, Because I will mention this partner view that is going to be really important if you want Ingram Micro to help you analyzing what is happening with your information and provide you with some guidance. On how to improve those metrics, okay? So, even though I will talk about it on the last section of this presentation, uh this last part right here, The Disti Partner View Relationship Management um allows uh Disti like Ingram Micro to help you gathering information from your dashboard. All right? So that's really important because well, the Disti will know how you are performing. Speaker 1 00:08:34 And it could guide you and give you even resources to improve those grades, okay? So it's going to be really important to grant access to your partner value index so that Ingram Micro can help you, okay? So it's like just closing, You're just making a really strong relationship with Ingram Micro so that we can well guide you and help you. Just improving everything on your dashboard. Okay. So it's going to be really important, and I will mention it on the on a later section, all right. So let's dig a little bit deeper into the partner value index. Now that we know how to grant access to our users. Uh as you can see, well, uh, I've already mentioned this, but we have different weights for our four pillars. All right. So foundational is at 25 percent capabilities is at 40. Speaker 1 00:09:32 45%, so certifications are a big deal. Performance at 20% and engagement at 10%. Okay. Now, as you can see, we have metrics under each pillar or category, right? So. This means that the customer success practice maturity is the 50 % of this 25 %, okay? And the MSP practice maturity is the other 50%. Of this 25% that belongs to the foundational category. All right. Now, all of this, all these different pillars will give you, will grant you with this final partner value index. Now, What you're seeing here is one of the main homepage or dashboard information presented on your PXP. Speaker 1 00:10:30 Now, as you can see, we have this menu on top that has all this different information. We have Cisco 360 and I think that's pretty clear to us. Cisco 360, it's all about partner value index. Now we have another tab that says Practice Maturity. We have another one for Partner Management. We have Capabilities, Performance, Incentive and Funds, Lifecycle Selling, Sales Opportunities Reporting Collaboration. So it's all separated, okay? We have tabs for everything. So Cisco 360, it's about our performance. It's all about the partner value index that we just explained. As you can see, We can just filter our portfolio because we just learned that we have a partner value index for each portfolio. Speaker 1 00:11:25 So if you want to check for security, You just have to go to this filter right here and select the proper portfolio. In this case, security. But if you remember, we said that we also have it for collaboration. We also have it for AI. So we have different portfolios, all right? And as you can see, you have this value index of 6.13 and you have all these weights for each one of our pillars. So we have foundational with a seven point five, we have capabilities with a five point five, we have performance with a six point five and engagement with three point five. So even though it I think it's it seems like it's really simple information, we need to understand what is happening here. This this one just are um. Speaker 1 00:12:21 Grades, okay. But we need to analyze what is happening with each one of those pillars. So probably I will need to, well, underperformance I think it's okay. But capabilities and engagement is the ones that I should care about the most. Now engagement, engagement is really low. So engagement it means that my onboarding and my adoption levels are low. Okay, so probably, well, I just need to create a strategy to improve that part. Okay? That's what I said. I'm giving you information so that you can create action plans and well improve. Right? Now there's not. I think the really interesting part is that it's just this quick view on how the partner is performing. But you can just dig deeper into all this information. Speaker 1 00:13:20 So as you can see, we have these four pillars, and this is just by scrolling down under that 360 tab. And you can see here that we have foundational capabilities, performance and engagement. Okay? And you get this metric information index and growth. So, you can just easily see that you are losing or you are winning at a specific category. So you have the guidance section. So this means It will give you an insight, a recommendation on how to improve in that specific metric. Okay, now you have even more details on how to do this. Just on the right column, You have this more details column right here that you can just click and explore to see how this metric is behaving. Okay, Now you can see here the ACV uh booking. Okay. So if you want to know. Speaker 1 00:14:18 Why this is working or why do I have this positive growth? Well, you can just click explore and you'll get more information. Probably you are just well generating more contracts or they just sold more. Okay, So it's really interesting just to get the overview, but also to dig deeper on how my partner is performing and how to improve that specific pillar. Okay. So that's really important. Now, you also have the index navigator, okay? Now, with the index navigator, you can also just filter based on your portfolio. Okay? And well, You can just dig deeper and get a better interpretation on what's happening with the foundational pillar. Now as you can see, the metrics definition. Speaker 1 00:15:16 Now, you can see that the customer success practice maturity makes up 50 % of the foundational category. Okay, now you can see here, okay, your metric where you are positioned right now. Okay because probably you already know this but Cisco will evaluate you through time. So this means that this partner value index, it's not a like a perpetual grade. Okay. Eventually, Cisco will measure again your performance and will update this partner value index. So whatever you are doing and improving through this queue, You can just get a better grade on the next phase or the next measurement or yeah, like the next queue, and you'll get a better grade. And if you get this selected or preferred partner, that's awesome. Speaker 1 00:16:13 But you will also have to continue working to keep that, um, to keep that, um, that award or that specialization. Okay? So, we want to just uh improve ourselves continuously because this is not a permanent grade. Uh it's it's changing and it will change through time. So we need to be ready to just continuously grow and continuously improve ourselves. Okay? So that's really important. You can always dig deeper. Now, Trends. I always, I also said that it's all about providing you with real information and really interesting information. Now trends might be one of the best things that we can look at because as you can see, you can see yourself and your partner growing through time. And you can see the trend that of course, well maybe this queue wasn't a good one but. Speaker 1 00:17:09 Because you created these action plans, now it's just grown. And you can see that it grows. We have all these four pillars right here, as you can see, okay? We have performance, we have capabilities. And now you know and you can measure which ones will require improvement, okay? Probably engagement is not a good one, okay? That's the like the orange one. So I probably need to create a better strategy for engagement. Speaker 1 00:17:39 Okay, So it's all about understanding what I'm seeing and transform it into an action plan. Okay, So now we have finally, we have just one portal in one place to look at this information. So that's the whole idea. Okay, Now I mentioned at the beginning of the talk that usually incentives was just about joining a program. And that's it. Now I'm part of this incentive programs and I will get probably better discounts or even rebates or something from this incentive program. But it was up to me, the partner, to measure that thing, to measure those benefits. Okay? Now with this tab right here with the uh the this partner incentive program or partner incentive tab, um it's all about measuring all of it. Speaker 1 00:18:36 And getting tracked if I'm having benefits from all those partner incentive programs that I just joined in. Okay, so as you can see, we have the CPI, we have VIP, we have CSP+, we have Perform Plus. We have payment actions, payment status funds manager. So again it's all in just one place. Now I can just keep track if by joining this program incentives, I'm getting more money, I'm getting more discount. This translating into revenue. This being translated into better marketing campaigns, and now I can keep track on how everything is just performed. Now as you can see here, the performance and growth, you can see that you have all the information available again. Speaker 1 00:19:35 You can also filter by portfolio and also by fiscal quarter. Okay, now you have ACV growth, ACV bookings. Okay, and this one is filtered for this specifically. This is specific quarter and for security. Right now if you have multiple partners or companies, you can just filter that information based on your partner or uh or company. Okay? So you finally get this information that you actually are getting money or incentives by joining these different programs. Okay, now you have actionable insights. Now, This one I think it's really interesting because it will let you see all these different opportunities that you have based on categories. Let's say that you have. Speaker 1 00:20:31 This one right here, hardware year age refresh potential. So this a really interesting opportunity. You have up to $15 million for hardware renovation, hardware refresh, okay? For the next three years. But it's also classified by software opportunities, by enterprise agreement opportunities. And you're probably thinking well this just a number Now, if you click any of these links right here, you'll see all those available opportunities. So I think that's really interesting. Now, it's not only about all the positive things. You also have risks, okay? And I think that's also a really interesting information because risk information is well the probability that you might lose that contract or that you might lose. Speaker 1 00:21:27 That refresh opportunity. So, this means you have to create an internal strategy to attack those accounts and well, just try to keep that money with your partner. Okay, so I think this is really interesting. These are really useful insights on how to create your internal plan and well develop strategies so that you can actually get this money. And land more opportunities. Okay. Now you could also see this business trends. So now you get to see how your partner is performing with sales, with enterprise agreements, okay, with our renewals. Okay. Maybe this was a bad queue over here, right? So what should I create internally? Okay to well try to solve this problem right here? Speaker 1 00:22:25 Why was this drop right here in the middle? Why did it happen? Okay, probably an internal situation, some internal changes. But. Now how can we create a plan to well, just try to fix this behavior right here. Okay, so now I know how am I performing with Cisco. All right, now incentives and funds. You can also separate it by architecture. Speaker 1 00:22:56 Right now, as you can see, The amount of filters that I can use to get additional information. They also increase. So you can select a different fiscal quarter. You can also select a different or a specific portfolio, and you can even select products. Speaker 2 00:23:17 Or services. Speaker 1 00:23:18 So as you can see performance by architecture, you get to see security but you also have the sub architecture. All right, so you have zero trust network security, threat intelligence, secure service edge. So now you see how all this incentives sales projects are well performing. Okay. Probably, you are just selling a lot of zero trust, but maybe the network security is not that good. So maybe I want to just design something internally. Speaker 1 00:23:52 To make this network security area grow a little bit more. Okay, now you have opportunities, you have closed deals, you have percentages, you have all these graphs on how your partner is performing. And I think the most important is that it's measuring the whole year. Okay? So you have a full year visibility and you can even create longer. Longer trends so that you can compare this year with the previous one. Okay. And I think all of this is just interesting. Now, If you don't want to get information about architectures and you probably want to find out how your customers are behaving, well, that's why you have the customer insights. Now as you can see, you have very similar information but based on your customers. Speaker 1 00:24:49 So now you'll see that probably you are selling well security for this company right here. And well, the opportunities for that customer is for hardware, okay? For software, for services, okay? And well, You can just create your internal strategy to see if you can, or if you want to, uh I don't know uh, get a better performance at the software level because probably just sold um a lot of hardware. But not that many services or software. Okay? So Is just analyzing the information. So I think this really interesting. The information is there, But it will require for you as a partner to create a strategy to see how you attack all these problems, okay? And how you create an action plan to solve those challenges. So this the information. You have to use that information and create your internal plan. Now, you can also create summaries. I think that's quite simple. Speaker 1 00:25:45 So as you can see, you have collaboration, networking, security and services. You have total bookings. You have ACB growth. Okay? And of course you have the lifecycle performance. Okay? So I think that's also really interesting because it allows you to observe how you're doing through the lifecycle process. So probably you are engaging correctly but renewals are failing. Okay? So well just by looking at the completed percentage can just. Give me enough information on this whole process. And if I'm doing the correct things in each phase, okay? So I need to understand what is happening with my partner. Now, finally, I would like to talk about the Disti Partner View, right? Uh, I mentioned it a few slides ago. Um, I said that well knowing the partner value index is really important. Um and. Speaker 1 00:26:44 That this is something that will change during time, right? You know, That Cisco will evaluate my partner, and it will do it again through the year, and it will grant me a different grade depending on my efforts, depending on my strategies, depending on my lifecycle knowledge, my sales and everything. Okay. Now you have these relationships, right? Like with Ingram Micro, And Ingram Micro is really concerned about their partners, okay? And Ingram Micro wants to help you improve those grades and guide you through the whole process. Uh, Ingram Micro wants to help you close more business, uh, get better renewals, okay? Uh, Add value for the reseller, and of course, will help you increase your sales and growth. Right? So. Speaker 1 00:27:40 The whole idea here is well to grant Ingram Micro with some visibility on your partner value index. So as you just saw at the first slides, Uh, you can just go to your PSS admin and grant access to Ingram Micro, okay? And we don't wanna or Ingram. Micro doesn't wanna. Uh doesn't wanna know about uh your customers or um. The architectures you're solving, or we don't want any of that. We just want partner value index visibility. We want to just have the whole picture without the details, okay? So that we can provide you with this guidance on how to improve those metrics, okay? Maybe I don't know, keep in touch with you and telling you, okay? This black belt right here will give you these points. This new certification will. Speaker 1 00:28:36 Award you with some additional points. There's this new document right here that could help you improve maturity. There's this new process right here that you can just include in your own so that you can get better grades and better evidence so that you can upload it to Cisco and have better grades. So, that's the whole idea of the DPV, okay? To give Ingram Micro visibility to your Partner Value Index so that we can guide you through the process. Now, to do this you will have to perform these two steps. The first one is grant access to Ingram Micro, okay? Ingram Micro will accept this invitation and it will request access to the Partner Value Index. So that's why I'm saying it's a two-step process. You invite Ingram Micro and Ingram Micro will request access to the. Speaker 1 00:29:35 To the PVI, okay. So you'll have to grant access to Ingram Micro twice. You'll have to invite it and you will have to authorize access, okay. Now, as I mentioned, we only need read access, okay? And we only need read access to your partner value index. Now here's the approval, okay? So that's like step number two. Okay? You are approving the request coming from Ingram Micro, okay. So that's why I said it's a two step process. Now, here it is. We only need access to the partner value index and that's it. If, you want to provide additional information like the CPI insights so that we can also help you get better. Yeah, like a better behavior from the partner incentive programs, I don't want to say get more money but. Speaker 1 00:30:32 Eventually will translate into that. But, if you need guidance with the partner incentive programs and how to just register to better and more partner incentive programs, we could also help you with that. But, we need access to the partner value index, and you will decide if you want to grant additional visibility. So like the partner incentive products might be a. Speaker 1 00:31:02 A good thing to share with the disty. Okay, So it might be a good idea also to grant access to uh the CPI insight so that we can help you. Okay, so now that you've decided what you want to share with the disty, It's just about saving those uh those settings and well, just wait for 12 hours until this is uh updated. And then Ingram Micro will keep in touch with you to have this plan. Develop on how to improve all those partner value indexes and all this information. Okay, so it's all about create this uh tighter relationship between Ingram Micro and you. Um, this uh authorization to your uh PXP portal uh will expire every twelve months. Okay, So you will have to do the exact same thing in just one year because well, we just wanna. Speaker 1 00:32:00 Make sure that you want to keep this tight relationship with Ingram Micro so that we can help you through this whole process. Okay, So that's why it will just expire in 12 months, and you will have to recreate it again. Okay, so that's it. We just want to create a better relationship with you and help you and guide you through the whole process. Okay, so there are some additional PXP resources You already have some black belts that might be good for you, even for your grades on the Partner Value Index to just finish. That's the PXP Cisco 360 partner programs. So those ones are really important for the lifecycle and your performance pillar. You also have the PXP partner journey document. And of course, you have like the quick guide. Speaker 1 00:32:55 To grant access to your users that you can just download it from Cisco. Okay. Now, we have other sessions besides this one. We have sessions for data center, for 360 navigator. We also have how to use this AI trend as a core pillar for refreshing network infrastructure. We also have network or sorry secure networking sessions. Um and well, all these are really interesting. So you just need to scan this QR code and join those programs. Okay. Um I'm getting an SSO I haven't reading a question right here. Uh I'm getting an SSO error after my PSS admin granted access, where can I raise a ticket to have this looked into? Um you can just go to your account. Speaker 1 00:33:48 Uh, in in your account, you have this uh button right here that says open a ticket. You can just um open it there. Okay. Um, If I let me just uh, can you send me uh, private your email so that I can give you a link on uh where to do this, where to open this ticket? Just send a um a private message. I will get your email and I will respond to you in, A few more minutes after this session has finished, I will send you just an email to give you the link on where to open this ticket. Okay. Okay. Now, finally, if you can just help me with this survey is this QR code. The link will also be pasted on the chat section. Um, In this survey, you can just uh well help us improve. And if you want to know more about. Speaker 1 00:34:44 And a specific technology, Or maybe you want to dig deeper into PXP portal and maybe learn how to automate things on the PXP portal so that it can feed your CRM or your ERP. Just write it down. So use that survey to ask us for things so that we can create better sessions and more interesting sessions to you guys. And well, I just want to thank you for being here. And well, I think that's it. Have a really nice day and week. Speaker 3 00:35:47 I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 5 00:36:31 Hello, Mi. Hi, Mia. Ayun, Paano na siya no more on ano mangiging incentives natin as partner and paano siyang makakatulong for reselling? Hindi ko alam paano ba sa inyo pag anoum nakukuha kayo sino nag-. Speaker 4 00:36:50 Recommend na eto yung bibili niyo meraki and all ganyan. Speaker 6 00:36:55 Um, siya po yung mga account managers. Speaker 4 00:37:00 Ah sila may. Speaker 6 00:37:02 Or engineers or or or engineers, ang nagerecommend pero tama ka dun yung mukhang yung tool is to para ma- check natin tayo as partner ni Cisco yung mga incentive natin kasi pag meron tayo incentive mas mababa natin na kukuha yung mga. Um products ni Cisco na kinokode natin. Mm- hmm. Mas mura yung nuggets. Oo, Speaker 4 00:37:25 Mas mababa pa yung makukuha pero yung pag sinell natin sa clientum hindi, na babago yung pricing parang same as ano? Ganun ba? Speaker 6 00:37:38 Kasi si Cisco ano say diba parang distributor siya so dadahan pa kay Ingram Micro ah kay Ingram yung key key distributor. Okay vendor, soum, mas mababa kahapon pagdating na kayo. Speaker 4 00:38:00 Yeah, I mean if mababa yun natin makukuha mas mababa yun natin magbebenta so meaning masat atin kukuha. Mas okay kong moa. Ah yes. Ah okay okay I see So yung ano kasi parang may ganito rin si Microsoft doon tawag na meron silang mga solutions partner meron bang incentives? Like, are there free licenses or are there. Speaker 4 00:38:24 Programs Related to EIS? So that if we have initiatives, maybe we can get something from them. Not refund, but I think it's called rebates that we can get from them. Yes. That's. Speaker 6 00:38:43 The same idea. Speaker 4 00:38:47 You want to share this first with Mike, because I don't know how this will be more beneficial for him as what. Okay. So I'll just tell Andre that he's similar to working as a solutions partner and I'll tell him to release it first with Mike, since it will be more useful for him or for you, for your team. Okay? Speaker 4 00:39:18 Asha. Thank you, Mi. Speaker 6 00:39:19 Then the one on the webex calling. Oh yeah, by the way. Just sign your bio and then okay, Anong? Record a signatory. Speaker 4 00:39:29 Who signed next? Speaker 6 00:39:32 No, I haven't signed yet. Ah! But I don't know if it's because maybe my name is already there. So maybe I'm the one who set it up before? Yeah, that's allum not sure if you'll pay or not, but if you want to have a little bit of money first. Speaker 4 00:39:46 Oh, okay. Wait, let me check. Email. There's a link there to sign in. Is that correct? Speaker 6 00:40:25 So you just need to log in using your CIT admin, the one we sent to Magi on Hudo. Then, you can just click on renew, and it will redirect you there to sign in. Speaker 6 00:40:44 But initially, Speaker 4 00:40:45 Did you sign this? I mean, if for the setup. I think it was set up by Zor. Speaker 6 00:40:50 So I don't know if it will come out or not. Speaker 4 00:40:57 You should sign because you're the one who initially set up. It's like. Speaker 6 00:41:02 No one else is involved in paying for it, so that's why I'm not worried about it. Speaker 6 00:41:43 Or pero. Obama kasama. Speaker 6 00:41:55 Pero Dala basi to, I am sure it's fine na. Speaker 2 00:41:58 New visitor. Speaker 6 00:42:01 So eto diba so who is involved? Ayan doon di- di pa ako. Ako lang yung parang contact pero. The partner is still Crimson IT. So when I go to the Terms and Conditions, the record of the company is still under Crimson. It's not totally your name because when I continue, it says "Accepted by Crimson." When you submit your request. Speaker 6 00:42:40 Lalabas yan, Crimson IT. Speaker 2 00:42:47 Okay. Wait, Yun na natin. Check muna natin kay. Kay Claude. What is. Speaker 5 00:43:11 Go on. Ah, Speaker 4 00:43:22 So I think yeah, Webex calling. Webex calling is Cisco's cloud- based phone system, essentially a cloud PBX replacement that delivers enterprise- grade calling, messaging and meetings through the web. Think of it as Cisco's answer to Microsoft Teams Calling or RingCentral. Excuse me. Speaker 2 00:43:54 Getting Certified as a Webex Calling partner enables you to resell Webex Calling and create Webex trials. And we're already reselling Microsoft Teams, right? We'll sell throughout the market. Speaker 4 00:44:07 This is the most powerful option for an MSP. The wholesale rate team includes a single commercial agreement. The packages your customers can get through you. Speaker 4 00:44:32 It directly competes with Microsoft. It directly competes now with Microsoft Teams calling, so if you already sell M 365 to customers, Webex Calling is a natural conversation to have alongside it. It enables you to offer SMB somewhere completely solution by. Speaker 5 00:44:56 It's asking. Speaker 5 00:45:05 It is asking us to. Speaker 5 00:45:36 I don't know. Speaker 5 00:46:12 Don't let it lapse. Timely renewal. Okay. Speaker 4 00:46:58 Uh, Your certification to resell and provision Webex calling is about to expire. Speaker 4 00:47:26 Okay, No direct cost naman doon. Speaker 6 00:47:29 Mm- hmm. Speaker 4 00:47:32 Sabi niya ano? Um, it's for. Asan na ba? Pwede mo ring i- run yang TNC sa Claude or ChatGPT for free. Speaker 6 00:47:50 Mm- hmm. For free naman yasal. Speaker 4 00:47:53 Cisco does not charge a fee to renew your partner program enrollment. It's simply an annual administrative process of re- agreeing to terms and confirming your details are current. This applies to your general Cisco partner registration as well. Speaker 5 00:48:08 Good morning. Speaker 4 00:48:29 It's Okay. Speaker 5 00:48:55 Review and submit. Speaker 5 00:49:25 Just need to I'm if they are available on twenty three. Speaker 5 00:50:09 I'm going to read another example. Speaker 6 00:51:10 June thirty two thousand twenty four, asan yung annual kanina. Speaker 5 00:51:22 Bakit ganon parang. Speaker 5 00:51:40 Anything from you. Speaker 2 00:51:44 Hundred twenty nine. Speaker 6 00:51:54 Let's check it again, Mi. Maybe it's already submitted because there is no option to renew. We don't have the renew link anymore. Okay, okay. Okay, thank you Mi. Karina, Okay. Speaker 3 00:59:55 Whoa.
04-14 Weekly Meeting: Account Management and Support
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- \> Date: 2026-04-14 09:50:25 \> Location: [Insert Location] \> Participants: [Christi] [Mike] \## Meeting Notes \### Account Management for AbilityFirst \- Christi asked Mike if he is the account manager for AbilityFirst, which he is not. The role is currently vacant. \- Christi requested to "unofficially" name Mike as her backup and escalation point. \- Mike agreed, provided he isn't expected to have deep knowledge of the account, as he would be "completely lost" if handed work without context. \- Christi confirmed this is acceptable, needing him mainly as an escalation point who knows how to route issues, especially when she is unavailable (e.g., driving to Merced on Friday). \### Sharp Account Support \- Mike reminded Christi that he is also available to help with the Sharp account. \- He had originally planned to be the account manager for Sharp alongside Christi as the CIO. \- Christi acknowledged this and mentioned she is still "finding dead bodies" (discovering old issues) within the account. She plans to schedule a meeting with Mike about it. \### Duo Account Cancellation Incident \- Christi informed Mike about a recent incident where the Duo account was canceled without notification. \- The cancellation was initiated by a former contact, despite Christi's last communication in February stating she was still evaluating their security stack. \- Mike expressed surprise at this behavior, noting that the IT and MSP space is very small. \- Christi sent Mike the root cause analysis report she had previously sent to Pete. \### Arrangements for Friday \- Christi will be driving to Merced on Friday to visit a college. \- Mike offered to be the point of contact for AbilityFirst while Christi is on the road. \- He instructed Christi to send an email to the POCs at AbilityFirst, introducing him as the Director of Account Management and providing his personal cell number for any urgent needs. \## Next Arrangements \- [ ] Christi will unofficially designate Mike as the backup and escalation point for the AbilityFirst account. \- [ ] Christi will send an email to the POCs at AbilityFirst introducing Mike as the temporary contact for Friday and sharing his personal cell number for urgent needs. \- [ ] Christi will schedule a meeting with Mike to discuss the Sharp account and ongoing issues she is uncovering. \## AI Suggestions \> \*\*AI Suggestions\*\* \> AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: \> 1. The account manager position for AbilityFirst is currently vacant. There is no long-term plan discussed to formally fill this role. \> 2. Christi mentioned she is still "finding dead bodies" (old issues) at the Sharp account, which could represent ongoing, unaddressed risks. A formal review seems necessary.
- Date
- Apr 14, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Good morning. I am making an assumption that you're my AbilityFirst account manager because Vince is not. Say that again? I am making an assumption that you are my AbilityFirst account manager, because Vince is not. Speaker 2 00:00:21 We don't have an account manager for AbilityFirst right now. Speaker 1 00:00:25 Can I just spend it? We can help. Can I just unofficially name you? I never need you. I just, I've been copying you on all these emails from the past and honestly thanks. I do the same for sure, but just just to name you as backup, which I very rarely rarely ever need you. So can I just unofficially name you as my backup? Speaker 2 00:00:49 You can unofficially name me, but just to make sure am doing you justice. Um, i i definitely, Don't want to be named, which I am perfectly fine with, without zero knowledgeability because if you were to hand anything off, I would be completely lost. Speaker 1 00:01:05 Not a problem. That is perfectly one hundred percent acceptable. I am thinking more along the lines of like Friday, I am driving to Merced type thing, just just as an escalation point, because you know how to get, you know how to route people to Olivia Anton things like that. Speaker 2 00:01:25 Yeah, I'm not afraid to ruffle feathers if I have to. Yes. That's what you're saying, yes. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Exactly. Not a problem. Yes, okay. Uh, I'll keep you slightly informed on things just so you have things in the back of your mind. But I'm not going to push stuff onto you because that's not how I work unless you and I are no. It's like sharp. Speaker 2 00:01:48 I am still waiting for for again. I am not again. I feel the same way as you, right? If you are one hundred percent good at sharp, um, it's fine. I had planned on being the account manager with you at sharp, yeah, Like you, the CIO me the account manager, butum I have which I mean, it's good that you are handling everything in the context of, yes, Anza brings in more accounts. I have a little bit more bandwidth. Yeah. Uh but just reminding you if you need help with Sharp, i am here as well. Speaker 1 00:02:17 Yes, I and I one hundred percent understand. I am going to put a meeting on your book, but I am still finding dead bodies. Speaker 2 00:02:27 You will for like the next probably three years. Speaker 1 00:02:31 Oh yeah, yeah. Uh, yesterday's incident did I tell you about the duo incident? Speaker 2 00:02:38 No, and i I don't know the details. Speaker 1 00:02:39 Okay, i i couldn't remember something like. Speaker 2 00:02:41 The account got canceled or something like that. Speaker 1 00:02:43 Yes, by the old. Bu ddy of Lorenzo's that uh decided to with no notification to any of us. The last email was me to him at the end of February, saying, let me continue evaluating security stack before making a decision. And then all of a sudden, he contacted Duo and canceled it out from underneath us. Speaker 2 00:03:06 You know what blows me away Chris I T is a small space. Yeah. And the fact that people operate this way will forever. Blow my mind, Speaker 1 00:03:15 Yes, especially in LA. I could not believe when I moved out here, how small of a space it is. Speaker 2 00:03:22 Yeah, it is a small space. It doesn't matter even nationwide; M S P space is a small space. Everybody knows everybody one degree or another t here is very yeah. The five degrees of separation that's like super short to M S P. Soum yeah, i that's a that's a team. But theum. For the most part, everything's cool though, right? You guys are good. Speaker 1 00:03:45 Yeah. Oh yeah. Everything's been great. I justum I did send out that email yesterday if I didn't C C you on it, let meum let me do that real quick cause I sent the report, The root cause analysis report yesterday. So uh, yep Let me find that Yeah And oh I sent it only to Pete Sorry Let me just forward this to you. Speaker 1 00:04:09 Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, it's okay. Speaker 2 00:04:11 It's because we're all working yeah because we're all rolling working remote. We have to like over communicate stay on the same page. Speaker 1 00:04:17 Yeah, Yeah, I just sent you the email with my report attached to it. Um yeah All right? I got to go. Um I've got a few things. I got to handle, and I will talk to you later. Speaker 2 00:04:30 Yeah do me do me a favorum loop me in on an email to the POCs at Ability First. And just say, hey. Um, I'm the director of account management, but while you're in route, they're welcome to call me directly. You can put my cell phone number. My personal cell. Yeah. They can reach out to me on Friday if they need anything. Speaker 1 00:04:47 Okay, perfect. Hey Lena That's amazing Yes Um I normally don't ask. But since I'll be on the road, we I won't be able to do my normal Let me just stop everything and do this for you type situation. Speaker 1 00:05:01 So yeah, Speaker 2 00:05:02 No, it actually works out perfect, Chris. Becauseum I typically keep my Mondays and Fridays free not as busy intentionally. Yes. So not a problem. No problem at all. Speaker 1 00:05:11 Thank you, we're we're just going to visit a college. Speaker 2 00:05:13 That's all high schoolers. Good times. Speaker 1 00:05:17 Yeah, bye All, right? Thank you. Chris.
04-27 Meeting: Laptop Provisioning and Password Reset
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- ## 1. Laptop Provisioning for Director at Baffler A new laptop, originally pending approval from Doctor Barbara, has a higher specification than the in-house model, despite sharing the same model number. This laptop was intended for a user. Nelson suggested giving the new, higher-spec laptop to the director at Baffler, and providing the director’s current laptop to the user. This practice of providing superior equipment upon request has been done previously for executives, including Crystal and others in Doctor Parker’s office. Given the director’s role and importance, approval was granted to proceed with this laptop swap arrangement. ### Action Items - [ ] Inform Nelson that approval has been granted to proceed with the laptop swap for the director. -- _[Speaker 1]_ - [ ] Execute the laptop swap: Provide the new, higher-spec laptop to the director at Baffler and assign the director’s current laptop to the user. -- _[Speaker 1]_ ## 2. Password Reset A password reset was requested. The new password will be sent via Teams chat, and the recipient will change it afterward. ### Action Items - [ ] Reset the password and send the temporary password via Teams chat. -- _[Speaker 1]_ > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The original laptop procurement process for the user remains unresolved. Doctor Barbara’s approval was pending for the new laptop. It is unclear whether this approval is still required or if the plan to provide the director’s current laptop to the user bypasses this requirement. > 2. The logistics and timeline for the physical laptop swap between the director at Baffler and the user are not specified, including coordination of transfer, data migration, and setup for both individuals. > 3. The identity of the end user who will receive the director’s current laptop is not mentioned, which is important for asset tracking and ensuring the correct device is assigned.
- Date
- Apr 27, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Um, oh my god. I don't know where to start. Um, okay. The um, the laptop that we supposed to you still waiting on Doctor Barbara to approve. Yeah, that one has a higher spec than the one that we have in house, even though they're the same model. Okay, that's fine. So can we can we see Yusin? Yeah, we can still use it. Because. Because I called Nelson and told him, that we. We have a laptop, but I have to check in with you before I, I set up the the one for the user. Yeah. And uh, because it has a different spec. He asked if we can give the user his current laptop, and he will get the new one. Speaker 1 00:01:03 Refresh my memory, what's his title again? He's the director at Baffler. Would we have done that in the past for anybody? Yes, when for execs only, And if they ask, Lorenzo will will go out of his way just to get them. What they need. And is he one that learns? I would have gone out of his way to get them what they needed. Yes, for execs, for execs only. Like, Crystal people, all the people in in Doctor Parker's office. He will yes. Yeah okay, you can go ahead and do it. I don't have a problem with that. Okay, So I'm gonna use your judgment, because if you tell me, I need to be nice to someone, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah, cause he's. He runs a very tight ship at Bathman so. Yeah, let's do it. Okay. Okay. All right. I'll let him know. Speaker 1 00:01:59 Okay, and then you'll reset my password and to that. Yeah, I'm gonna do that right now. Okay, perfect. Uh, Just put it in the team's chat. And then whatever the password you set and I'll reset it from there. Okay. Alright, thank you. Bye. Okay.
07-21 Meeting: OpenAI Payment, Copilot Status, and AI Training
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- > Date: July 21, 2026 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### OpenAI Account Payment Issue - Christi identified that the OpenAI Team plan failed to renew due to a payment issue. - Christi directed Sergio to the billing section at `pay.openai.com` to update the payment information. - Christi made Sergio an owner of the account to help resolve the issue. ### Copilot and AI Application Status - Christi confirmed that everyone was placed on Copilot, clarifying a previous report. - Christi mentioned she will include Copilot, OpenAI, and Claude in an upcoming AI training and requested use cases for the training. - Charl will send out the OpenAI application by Thursday, July 24, 2026. - A resent application has succeeded for 12 users. It is currently installing for one user (LTO6) and is complete for Jeff (LT14) and Richard Cantu (LTL1). ### Meeting Rescheduling - The meeting was cut short. - Christi and Sergio agreed to reconnect at 3:00 PM on the same day. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Sergio to update the payment information on the OpenAI account at `pay.openai.com`. - [ ] Sergio to send AI use cases for the upcoming training to Christi. - [ ] Christi and Sergio to reconnect at 3:00 PM today. - [ ] Charl to send the OpenAI application to all users by Thursday, July 24, 2026. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Karney OpenAI billing failure resolved with Jason Yu - already logged 7/21.
- Date
- Jul 21, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:12 Hi Jason. Speaker 2 00:00:18 I can hear you. How are you today? Now I'm going to finish eating my lunch because I've been in back- to- back meetings. Since I think 9:00 a.m. I lost track. So please bear with me. And that's the reason why I was a minute late, I had to run to the restroom, hadn't even had a chance to do this until now. Speaker 2 00:01:02 So, um, just a heads up for you on Copilot. Christian ran another report. Oh, I can hear you, but and I can see that I have audio. Let me check on a few things. Um okay perfect um so just a quick heads up for you, Sorry. Um, Christian came back for me, sent me another email. Um, it does look like everybody was placed on Copilot. So it just showed up differently. So just just so that you are aware. Um, and that is on me because I we were talking about so many things that I had taken. I wasn't even thinking about Copilot at that point. So. Speaker 2 00:02:03 All right. Um, And then one of the things I was saying was bear with me because I am going to slightly eat my lunch while we're talking just because I've been in nonstop meetings since 9 : 00 a.m. and I didn't even get a lunch. So, uh so bear with me. Cheesecake Factory. It's down the street. Yes. Speaker 2 00:03:17 So previously, when that would happen with Crimson, We could still add them, and they were able to use the system right away. So you won't be billed for it until August 15 th, but yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:03:56 Oh, I have not logged in to the Crimson one yet. Let me do that. Oh wait, no, I have we have logged into it. I apologize. I'm thinking of another another client. Speaker 2 00:04:42 See if you can increase. Not to, yeah. See if you can increase and say continue. Speaker 1 00:04:53 Hmm. Let. Speaker 2 00:04:60 Me log in and see if I can do anything with that. Bear with me. Speaker 1 00:05:11 Yeah, and let me. Let's see. I've never logged into Carney on this computer, so hang on one second. Speaker 1 00:05:48 All right. Login. Get me. There we go. Speaker 1 00:06:30 Com sign in oh, Speaker 2 00:06:51 Shoot I am not on the VPN. Okay. Let me try one more thing. Let's see. ChatGPT. I have to be on the VPN, but I think save. I think it'll let me log into OpenAI, but not Microsoft. Because if I try to get on my VPN right now, it's just going to kick us out of our meeting. But fortunately, I can get to OpenAI without that issue. All right. Speaker 2 00:07:28 Team plan failed to renew. Got it. So the problem is, is your payment didn't go through. That's why you're having an issue. So this what it this the information, um update payment. Can you get to the billing portion? Pay dot openai dot com. Speaker 2 00:08:56 I'm Making you an owner as well. There's no reason why you can't be an owner on this. Speaker 2 00:10:20 No, but you would be surprised at how often it happens around me. Speaker 2 00:11:25 It is quite all right. If I told you how many times my corporate Bank of America card gets declined just from fraud alerts, you would laugh. And the CFO gets my uh alerts on fraud information, so she just sends me a message that says, "I opened your card back up." And it's only from me purchasing things on Amazon for the company. So. Speaker 2 00:11:57 Or doing uh travel arrangements. It does not like Delta at all. Speaker 2 00:12:18 No Worries, take your time. I'm going to sit here and finish enjoying my lunch. Speaker 2 00:14:27 Got It. Not surprising, but that's okay. They've done that to me a few times. Speaker 1 00:15:20 Here we go. Speaker 1 00:16:14 Christi: Hey, Speaker 2 00:16:15 I'm so sorry to meet you. It's okay. Could I think Michelle just rescheduled something on me? Okay. Um, would you be available at three o'clock? Yeah. Okay, yeah. We can connect quickly, Speaker 1 00:16:34 Just a short. Yeah. Okay, okay. You're welcome and I'll see you then. Speaker 1 00:17:24 No worry. Go back to you. All right. Speaker 1 00:18:33 Okay. Speaker 1 00:19:03 Sweet. Oops. Copy. Let me shorter URL copy. Speaker 2 00:19:18 I'm making an employee stress survey for one of my clients. My job is not just AI and fixing computers. Speaker 1 00:19:46 Mm, I understand that. I understand that one. That's an important one too. Speaker 1 00:20:29 Yeah. It. Speaker 2 00:20:41 Is quite all right. I that an error message came up, I had not seen it before, so I didn't, I had no clue. Yeah. So, all right, perfect. Um. Speaker 2 00:21:03 No, I'm going to include a little bit of Copilot, a little bit of OpenAI, a little bit of Claude, but a lot of basic AI. Um, but do me a favor if you have any use cases, you want me to use in the training, send those over to me. Speaker 2 00:22:05 Yes. Oh, that is perfect. Send me send me that back over. And yeah. Yes, now this is amazing. I feel like I feel like I knew about this, but it's been, Got it. Okay. You are amazing. Thank you. All right, have a great weekend or week, Jason and I look forward Oh, by the way, Uh Charl is going to send out the OpenAI uh application to all of you guys. Uh tomorrow. He's going to be working on that. So you guys should see it by Thursday. Um Claude is showing uh. Speaker 2 00:23:07 Actually, He's going to notify me because I want to keep a track of it and I'll give you a heads up. So, but as far as the one that I resent out for you guys, let me pull it back up. It is showing it has succeeded on 12 of them. It's running on one. Is currently going through, and then uh there's four of them. One of them is a spare. Uh but there's four of them. Oh two of them are a spare. Um Yes So 12 of you have it all installed Uh I only know their computer names. So. Speaker 2 00:24:04 Uh, it's LT14, LTO1 and uh LTO6 is currently installing. So yeah. Uh Let me see who 14 is. 14 is Jeff. And then hang on let me find the other one. Speaker 2 00:24:33 You got to click into a million places. LTL1. That is Richard Cantu. Yeah, those are the only two. Everyone else is up and running but one and that's currently installing, so that one will be up and running soon. Yes? All right. Thanks, Jason. Have a great week and I'll talk to you later. Bye.
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07-07 Weekly Meeting: Casey's AI Wish List, Claude Credits, and Azure Implementation
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- # Meeting Notes ## Meeting Information > **Date:** 2026-07-07 12:59:53 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Participants:** [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] --- ## Meeting Notes ### Speaker 3’s Return After Medical Emergency - Speaker 3 was out for two weeks due to a medical emergency (severe infection and gallstones), not vacation. - Due to the absence, Speaker 3 couldn’t test or communicate updates until the day of return. - **Conclusion:** Team acknowledged the situation and proceeded. ### Casey’s AI Wish List Review and Implementation Plan - Speaker 2 wants Speaker 3 to review Casey’s emailed wish list for Claude-based AI features. - Goal: identify the highest-priority, quickest-to-implement items and provide Casey with a clear delivery timeline. - Speaker 2 forwarded the wish list email to Speaker 3 during the meeting. - Speaker 3 confirmed receipt and is ready to start building. - Highlighted items: - Email management and response support (training modules can be created). - Time optimization tools (partially in progress). - **Conclusion:** Speaker 3 will evaluate the list and begin building; estimated completion within one week (by approximately 2026-07-14). ### Claude Credits and Licensing Strategy - Speaker 3 has ~$200 in Claude credits expiring in ~1.5 weeks. - Recommendation: build under Speaker 3’s account to avoid ~$100/month high-tier user costs for the client. - Speaker 2 noted George planned to obtain a Claude Teams license but agreed with Speaker 3’s approach. - Plan: build using Speaker 3’s credits and transfer the output to Casey. - **Conclusion:** Speaker 3 will use personal Claude credits to build, then transfer to Casey. ### Azure Infrastructure for Casey - Speaker 3 proposed spinning up an Azure database with connections for Casey within the client’s Azure environment for security. - Speaker 2 is willing to spend on Azure given existing plans, with a comfortable budget well under $5,000. - Comparable build (Anzor): ~$75/month without AI backend; ~$200/month with AI backend. - Speaker 3 will create a dedicated personal Azure account (not using CIT admin) for traceability and compliance. - Setup will match the security of the existing Microsoft tenancy, previously audited by Speaker 3. - **Conclusion:** Speaker 3 will build the Azure environment under a dedicated account; costs expected well under $5,000. ### Follow-Up Meeting with Casey - After building, the team will meet with Casey to review completed work and guide further customization. - Follow-up meeting scheduled for Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at the same time slot. - Duration: 1 hour, with the first 30 minutes dedicated to Casey to respect his time. ### Base 484 Access Issue - Speaker 3 attempted to regain access to Base 484 but still cannot get in. - Speaker 2 does not want Evan on Base 484 and acknowledged the access issue. - Resolution requires resending the invite. - **Conclusion:** The Base 484 invite needs to be resent to Speaker 3. --- ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 2 to resend the Base 484 invite to Speaker 3 and confirm delivery - [ ] Speaker 3 to review Casey’s wish list and identify quick wins/slam dunks - [ ] Speaker 3 to begin building Claude-based features under personal credits (target completion: by 2026-07-14) - [ ] Speaker 3 to set up a dedicated Azure account and build out Casey’s Azure environment - [ ] Speaker 3 to send the meeting invite to Casey for Tuesday, July 21, 2026 (1 hour; first 30 minutes for Casey) - [ ] Speaker 2 to remain available via email during their absence (week of 2026-07-07) --- ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. **Casey’s involvement is indirect:** The wish list is being acted on without a confirmed sync with Casey before building starts. There’s a risk of misaligned priorities or wasted effort if Casey’s expectations have changed. > 2. **Claude credits expiring in ~1.5 weeks:** The ~$200 in credits expire around 2026-07-18. If building takes the full week, buffer is minimal. No contingency plan was discussed if credits run out before completion. > 3. **George’s Claude Teams license status unresolved:** Mentioned but not followed up. It’s unclear whether this license will still be pursued or deprioritized given Speaker 3’s approach. > 4. **Base 484 access resend responsibility unclear:** It was agreed the invite needs to be resent, but no specific owner or deadline was assigned. > 5. **Azure account setup security review:** Speaker 3 mentioned informing their own security team of the new Azure account. No confirmation that the client’s IT/security team will be notified, which may be required for compliance.
- Date
- Jul 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:33 Hi, Brett. Glad to be back. But then getting through all of the. Speaker 2 00:01:52 Uh the backlog is always a headache. Speaker 3 00:01:58 But this wasn't a vacation, this was an emergency out. For two weeks, so. Again to base four eighty four, but the only reason why I didn't tell you until the day was because. I was out for an emergency for two weeks, so I didn't get a chance to test anything. And I don't remember much after that. Speaker 3 00:02:31 Other than, I had a massive infection and uh gallstones. So, Speaker 3 00:02:43 Yeah, Of course. I am glad you are okay. Yes, good. Speaker 2 00:02:48 Yeah, that's scary. It's really scary. Um, Yeah, base forty four will try. I'll try and uh, get you added on that. I am I think the bigger thing. Is going through Casey's wish list on Claude and just seeing what what on that we can build for him. And I think you know, There's probably some higher lower hanging fruit there and some higher priority items than others. But that I think, you know, I just need to be able to tell him yes we've looked at it. Yes, we are uh, we we think we're going to do these five things or whatever. However, many you think are easy to do. Speaker 2 00:03:30 And here is the date we're going to have them done. So, I just you know now that you are back, You know, take a look evaluate that wish list, email he sent and let us. Let me know like, what were the, what are the like, the big, the biggest time savers that he's got on his list. And then how quickly can we implement those. That's really it. Speaker 3 00:03:53 Yeah absolutely um, let me look at something. Um, right now, I'll be honest. Uh, it's a perfect timing. Just because of um. About two hundred dollars in credits through Claude to build anything. So they don't they they expire on in a week and a half. So with Casey, I don't have the list from you for him. I just double checked. Speaker 3 00:04:29 If you can send me over that wish list, I'll start building. Speaker 2 00:04:33 Well, also you can use George was going to get us a cloud team's license. So I mean, you I don't you could use that butum. Speaker 3 00:04:44 Do it on mine. It'll be a lot less costly for you guys, because when I build this, uh, it will it will use your credits because I would be what's called a high tier user. And so I would cost you about one hundred dollars a month. Right now, I have enough credits and I have that high the highest tier possible that I can just all of this under mine and then transfer it over to Casey. Speaker 2 00:05:13 That sounds that sounds good, yeah. I mean, and yeah, I mean obviously helping him learn how to do certain things is good. And I think you know getting him to a place where these are the things that we've already done. If you want to learn how to do more things, you know, We can sit down with you and show you kind of how this was put together. I think that's that's a good follow up item for sure. Once once once the some of these, I just forwarded it to you again. Speaker 3 00:05:42 Right as I got your forward. Oh okay cool. I don't know what was going on with my inbox while I was out. But uh, I have it all. Yeah, So that's easy, And then would it be when could we get time with Casey to go over everything? Speaker 2 00:05:59 Well, I think how quickly do you think it could it can be done? You think in the next couple days? Speaker 3 00:06:08 Give me a week because there are some heavier asks on here, but I also like his email management and response support. I can create training modules on how to do that. Speaker 1 00:06:20 Mhm. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:06:24 Time optimization. Um, I'm already building some of those things out, and I can also how let me ask you this question. Or like if I wanted to spin up a Azure database and connections for Casey within your Azure system? So that they have security. Speaker 2 00:06:50 We're going to be doing is spend money in Azure anyway because of our you know, our designs on making bringing this other app in there. So I mean it's you know, I don't know what I don't know. So I mean I think he's willing to spend some money on this. But like if we're talking, then suddenly we're at twenty grand, then they'll they won't like that. No, am like you know, I think, I think you know. As long as we're safely under five thousand dollars, I think we're probably fine. You know. Speaker 3 00:07:23 Certainly going to be under five thousand. The one that I built out for Anzor that doesn't have an AI backend was about seventy- five dollars a month. The one with the AI backend was about two hundred. Speaker 1 00:07:35 I think we can live with that. Speaker 3 00:07:43 Let me build all of that out within Azure and, I'm gonna I'm going to create an account within Azure for myself rather than using the CIT admin because I I'm going to build out some things in there and I'm gonna give myself cloud management rights, uh, okay. And I'm gonna make sure my security team is aware that way any changes I make. You know, it's me because it'll be an account that I'm using to log in rather than just being crimson. So that's more of a security thing that i i follow very closely. Speaker 3 00:08:15 Everything is going to be just as secure as your Microsoft tenancy, which I've audited. Your Microsoft tenancy, I know how secure it is. And it'll be pretty. Some of this I've already built. I'll be honest, some of this I've built. That's great. Speaker 2 00:08:30 So then that like those things are pretty plug and play, right? It's just. I guess if you encounter any more. If, you have any questions about his list or if there's anything on his list that you're like? Oh, this seems like a lot to do, I think remember this is just a wish list. I think that there's, A lot of these things, if you've already built them out, it's plug and play. Or they're you know, you actually don't need AI for this bread. You can just do this another old fine. I just uh, why don't we say because I am going to be out next week. I, can why don't you work on? Uh you know, hold, go ahead and through the things that you think uh are are slam dunks and then you know, send me questions if you have them. I'll be checking emails and stuff when we can plan to connect with them. Uh, like. Speaker 2 00:09:13 In two weeks, like two weeks from today. Speaker 3 00:09:17 Let me send you out a meeting invite for the same time on Tuesday. The twenty first. Speaker 2 00:09:23 Great, that's good. Mm hmm. Okay. Speaker 3 00:09:27 And I'll make it for thirty minutes or I can make it for an hour, But just tell him the first thirty minutes, he can that way. We don't take too much of his time, Speaker 2 00:09:35 That's fine and I may set up. Uh I guess um. I don't want to have Evan uh on base forty-four. You, you said you recently, you tried to get back in and you still couldn't get in. Speaker 3 00:09:51 He's gonna have to resend the invite. Okay, okay. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:09:56 All right. Thank you. Talk to you soon. I am glad you are better. Speaker 3 00:10:01 Thank you, You are one of my best clients when it comes to AI, I am enjoying this time with you. Speaker 2 00:10:06 So yeah. No, this is great. So uh, let me know if you have any questions okay. Speaker 1 00:10:13 Thank you. Thank you. Bye.
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04-20 Pagtitipon sa Proyekto: Nevada Gaming License, Security Assessment, at RACI para sa Maverick Gaming
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- ## 1. Aplikasyon ng Nevada Gaming License para sa Maverick Gaming Project Ang koponan ay kailangang mag-asikaso ng gaming license requirements para makapagtrabaho sa mga Nevada sites ng Maverick Gaming, kaugnay ng isang “Security Assessment/Onboarding” na proyekto. Ang pangunahing problema ay kawalan ng linaw sa mga uri ng lisensyang kailangan (para sa kumpanya bilang MSP/service provider at para sa mga indibidwal na technicians), lalo na kung kinakailangan ang lisensya kapag remote access lamang kumpara sa on-site presence. May mataas na gastos na binanggit para sa Information Technology service provider application: application fee na $500 at investigative fee na $5,000 (kabuuang $5,500). Kritikal ito dahil hindi maaaring gumawa ng pagbabago sa kanilang environment kung walang gaming license; maaari lamang magbigay ng instruksyon. May potensyal na paglabag kung may techs na out-of-US o walang tamang permit ang gagalaw sa gaming systems, na maaaring magdulot ng panganib sa lisensya ng kliyente. Mga tinitingnang solusyon: pagtawag at pag-clarify sa Nevada Gaming Control Board tungkol sa remote vs on-site permit requirements, paggamit ng Form 1R para irehistro ang MSP at ilista ang indibidwal na technicians, pag-validate kung kailangan ang Nevada State Business License o sole proprietor exemption para sa out-of-state MSP, at paglimita ng aktuwal na gumagalaw sa environment sa US-based techs (hal. Kevin, Gabby, at posibleng HQ team). ### Mga Gawain - [ ] I-clarify sa Nevada Gaming Control Board kung kailangan ng gaming work permit para sa technicians kapag remote access lang kumpara sa on-site, at kung bawat tech ay kailangang nakalista sa Form 1R -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] I-verify sa Nevada Secretary of State kung kailangan ng Nevada State Business License o sole proprietor exemption para sa out-of-state MSP; idokumento ang eksaktong requirement at proseso -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] I-review at kumpletuhin ang Form 1R (Application for Registration) para sa MSP: ilagay ang legal business info, Federal Tax, description of services, at ilista ang indibidwal na technicians sa Page 2 -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] Tukuyin kung sinu-sinong US-based technicians ang isasama (unang priyoridad: Kevin at Gabby; isaalang-alang din ang HQ team tulad nina Matthew at George) at siguraduhing tumutugma sa fingerprinting at permit requirements -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] I-audit ang mga form na ibinigay ni Anzor (kasama ang mga addendum tulad ng Form 1R addendum at cloud computing services, kung applicable) at itala kung alin ang talagang kailangan para sa ating scope -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] Suriin ang fee schedule para sa Information Technology service provider (application fee na $500 at investigative fee na $5,000; total $5,500) at i-coordinate kung paano ito babayaran at kung ito ba ay sakop o hindi ng proyekto -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] Gumawa ng internal policy para balansehin ang remote at on-site work: habang hindi pa kumpleto ang lisensya, limitahan sa pag-instruct lamang ang team; kapag may lisensa na, ilatag ang allowed activities para sa remote at on-site -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] I-confirm ang geographic focus ng application (ipinapahiwatig na Nevada, partikular na mga lokasyon gaya ng Wendover, Nevada) at kung kailangan ding mag-apply sa ibang estado sa susunod -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] Magtalaga ng primary handler para sa licensing coordination (iminumungkahing si Pete dahil nasa Nevada at may karanasan sa gaming companies) at i-define ang saklaw ng responsibilidad vs. progress monitoring -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] I-compile ang mga tanong mula kay Claude at i-finalize ang listahan ng key questions para sa Nevada Gaming Control Board (kabilang ang remote vs on-site permit, Form 1R listing, out-of-state MSP requirements) -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ ## 2. Scope ng Security Assessment / Onboarding para sa Maverick Gaming Layunin ng proyekto na magsagawa ng security at environment assessment para gawing madali ang suporta sa mga isyu ng kliyente at posibleng gawing regular client ang Maverick Gaming. Ang pangunahing hamon ay ang pag-define ng scope na “onboarding” ang gawain ngunit hindi ito ipapangalan bilang onboarding project, at ang pagtiyak na ang anumang aktibidad ay nasa loob ng legal na saklaw habang nakabinbin ang mga lisensya. May panganib na magkaroon ng non-compliance kung may gagawing pagbabago nang walang lisensya, lalo na kung may out-of-country tech na hahawak sa gaming systems. Mga solusyon: pagbuo ng assessment checklist, paglimit ng aksyon sa advisory/instructions hanggang may lisensya, at pagtukoy ng resource plan kung sino ang maaaring magtrabaho (US-based lamang). ### Mga Gawain - [ ] Bumuo ng detalyadong security at environment assessment checklist (asset inventory, access controls, remote access pathways, cloud services kung mayroon, incident response readiness) na nakaayon sa gaming regulatory constraints -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] Itakda ang working model habang nakabinbin ang lisensya: “advisory only” mode (instruction-based changes) at i-define ang escalation kapag kailangan ng on-site intervention -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] I-map ang mga environment endpoints at system boundaries na sakop ng assessment sa Nevada sites (hal. Wendover, Nevada) at i-validate ito kay Anzor -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] I-coordinate ang resource planning: tukuyin ang US-based staff na maaaring mag-participate sa assessment at gawing contingency ang on-site presence kung kailangan -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] I-setup ang project documentation repository (e.g., project folder for “Maverick Gaming Security Assessment”) at i-log lahat ng forms, correspondence, at regulatory clarifications -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ ## 3. Internal na Tungkulin, Pananagutan, at Komunikasyon para sa Licensing at Pagpapatupad ng Proyekto May kalituhan kung sino ang primary handler ng licensing dahil nabanggit na si Pete (nasa Nevada at may gaming industry experience) ang may mas angkop na background, ngunit ang progress checking ay napunta kay [Insert Pangalan]. Mahalaga ang malinaw na RACI para hindi maantala ang application at para maiwasan ang paglabag. May pangangailangan din ng centralized tracking para sa forms at status. ### Mga Gawain - [ ] Magtakda ng malinaw na RACI: sino ang lead sa licensing (proposed: Pete), sino ang backups, sino ang progress tracker, at sino ang maghahanda ng dokumento -- _Pete_ _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] Ibuo ang status tracker (Excel/Sheet) para sa lahat ng forms (Form 1R, addenda), fees, fingerprinting, at approvals; maglagay ng owners at status fields -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ - [ ] Mag-schedule ng coordination call kasama sina Pete, Anzor, at key techs (Kevin, Gabby) para i-finalize ang personnel listing at operating constraints (remote vs on-site) -- _Pete_ _Anzor_ _Kevin_ _Gabby_ - [ ] I-validate kung sino ang dapat i-enroll para sa fingerprinting at background checks batay sa requirement ng Nevada Gaming Control Board; i-coordinate ang logistics para sa US-based staff -- _[Insert Pangalan]_ > Mga Mungkahi ng AI > Napagmatyag ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyung hindi natapos sa meeting o kulang ang malinaw na action items; paki-pansin: > 1. Walang pinal na pagtatalaga kung sino ang primary handler ng licensing process at kung sino ang magmo-monitor ng progreso, kaya may panganib na maantala ang pagsumite ng Form 1R, mga bayarin, at mga permit. > 2. Hindi pa tiyak kung kinakailangan ng state business license o sole proprietor exemption para sa out-of-state MSP, at kung paano eksaktong kukumpletuhin ang requirement na ito; posibleng magdulot ng rejection o delay. > 3. Hindi pa klaro ang kompletong listahan ng US-based technicians na ililista sa Form 1R at isasailalim sa fingerprinting/background checks; kulang ang assignment at schedule para dito. > 4. Walang malinaw na polisiya kung ano lamang ang pinahihintulutang aktibidad (advisory vs hands-on changes) habang nakabinbin ang lisensya; may panganib ng hindi sinasadyang paglabag na makaaapekto sa lisensya ng kliyente. > 5. Hindi pa natitiyak kung limitado sa Nevada sites (hal. Wendover, Nevada) ang saklaw ng application o kailangan ding i-extend sa ibang estado sa hinaharap; ang hindi pagklaro nito ay maaaring magresulta sa kulang o maling filings.
- Date
- Apr 20, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello, Mi. Speaker 1 00:00:03 Ilang sites meron sila? Speaker 2 00:00:06 Wait. Speaker 2 00:00:10 May sense ako sa iyang story. Speaker 2 00:00:13 Ang bagal ng internet ko eh. Nakaka-imuse. To do this. Ito ba yung I hate to do this again. This one. ID basic counters counts. Speaker 2 00:00:27 Okay. Ang dami. Speaker 1 00:00:30 Feeling, wala naman siyang sinabing Specific site, pero sabi niya, Kailangan by today, maasikaso, Na nga itong License application. Kaso kasi, nung nag-check ako, Kay Claude, kung, Yung mga Types of license, kasi, Sabi niya, may answer sa akin kanina, identify mo, Kung ang mga text ba, Kailangan meron din, kumbaga, License on their own, versus Yung sa owners, then, Which is sila, siya. Si Anzor. And then, Speaker 1 00:01:03 Meron kasi ditong key questions Na kailangan i-ask daw kay Neva At the Gaming Control Board. Sabi niya, Do individual technicians need a gaming work permit, If they're accessing Gaming systems remotely, Versus physically on-site? Speaker 1 00:01:20 Kaya tinatanong ko kung, Tayo ba ay purely remote? Speaker 2 00:01:23 At tinanong din kasi, Namin yan kay Anzor, no? Think up. Tapos sabi niya, let's just base it here. So, eto. Sasend ko sa iyo yung This, yan. Yung Excel file. Sabi niya, dyan kami mag-base sa mga sites, Ni Maybrick. Speaker 2 00:01:47 Ang dami. Mayroong pang-Macao ang alam ko. Ay, hindi. Wala pala. Wala. Speaker 3 00:01:55 Nevada? Speaker 3 00:01:57 Oh, okay. Feeling. Speaker 1 00:01:58 Ko yung Nevada lang muna to. Kasi Colorado. Doon muna tayo nag-a-apply. Kasi nga diba? Speaker 2 00:02:09 Oo. Ang alam ko, yun yung sinasabi. Nila mag-a-apply lang muna sa isa. Pero need nga din mag-a-apply sa lahat. Speaker 2 00:02:19 Kasi hindi nga tayo makaka... Ano mo yun? We cannot make changes. To their environment If we don't have a gaming license. Ang pwede lang natin gawin, Is to instruct them what to do. Speaker 1 00:02:33 Ah, okay. Pero, so meaning, Remote siya, hindi tayo magtatouch ng. Speaker 2 00:02:37 Anything physical. Tama? Wait, remote sa... We... Not sure, Mi, kasi baka may... I mean, sa lahat, nang gagawin natin, For Maybrick. Remote lang lahat niya. Speaker 1 00:02:51 Kung merong magiging part or Task dun sa project Na kailangan may mapapuntahin dun, Sa office nila or kung saan man. Speaker 2 00:03:01 May kasi ito, yung project Lang na ito is to check Their, sabi ni Anzor, This is like a onboarding, Project but we will not put it As an onboarding project. Speaker 1 00:03:13 So magiging regular client sila? Speaker 2 00:03:16 Yeah, that's, That's his Parang goal, To make them A regular client. So, ito parang, I-assess lang namin Yung security, Yung environment nila Kasi parang I-onboard sila. Get all the Details, That we need So that, If they'll have A problem, Or if they need Help with something, It's easy for us To help. Ganun. Speaker 1 00:03:47 Kasi, pag nagtanong ako, anong mga types of licenses ang kailangan natin i-apply sa owner and then for the technicians? Baka kasi tanungin ako, kailangan ba nilang nasa onsite sila? Speaker 2 00:04:04 Maybe you can also, kung tatanungin ka niyan, sabihin mo din na sometimes it will be there on site. Sometimes we'll be on-site And then sometimes we'll be like, Working on the problems remotely. So, basically both. Speaker 2 00:04:23 Just in case lang, Para makover mo lang yung, Both na on-site at saka Remotely, Just in case, Questions. Speaker 1 00:04:34 Oh, okay, okay. Wait lang. Does it matter that Maverick Gaming Operates? Wait, nasa Nevada, Ang Maverick Gaming, diba? Speaker 1 00:04:45 Yun yung office nila? Tama? Speaker 2 00:04:47 Ang alam ko, Yes. Wait lang. Ano mo nga, B? Si ba't ang lumabas. Speaker 1 00:04:52 Dito, Washington? Weird. Speaker 2 00:04:55 Marami nga sila sa Washington. Kapag i-check mo, doon ang tinakamaraming Sites nila. Speaker 1 00:05:01 Pero we're focusing on Their Nevada site lang muna, di ba? Speaker 2 00:05:09 Wala may kasing sinabi Sa akin kung saan magwafocus. About sa gaming license ah, hindi. Speaker 1 00:05:15 Yeah. Kasi, ayun nga, Dahil puro ano eh. Las Vegas, Nevada. Speaker 2 00:05:20 Daw, is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Speaker 1 00:05:23 Kasi pinapatawag niya ako sa Nevada Gaming Board. So, I'm assuming na Nevada, Sites lang to. Speaker 2 00:05:30 Yeah, baka Nevada sites lang muna. Speaker 1 00:05:34 Okay, okay, wait. Ano ba yung project? Nevada, Nevada. Speaker 3 00:05:39 Ah, very good. Speaker 3 00:05:46 Ay, beri, nawala. Speaker 3 00:06:05 Security Assessment Project. Speaker 1 00:06:07 Tinan natin dito sa Window. Ano nga? Wendover Boulevard, Nevada. Wendover, Nevada. Okay. Doon nga sila. Speaker 3 00:06:20 Ay, shucks. No! Speaker 3 00:06:25 Hindi. Paano ko tayaan, Ulit? Speaker 3 00:06:40 Bakit sa'yo Pinapagawa niya? Speaker 1 00:06:44 Nag-ulat niya ako eh. Sabi ko, alam ko si Isag ang ano nito, naghahandle nito. Eh, hindi, I mean, Speaker 2 00:06:51 I mean, hindi rin Handle yan ng project, Pagkuhan ng license. Pero, Ang alam ko, dapat masyadong Technical yan eh. Speaker 2 00:07:03 Kasi ang sabi niya, Parang nabanggit niya nung meeting na, Yad, at inanong siya ni Pete kung kumusta na yung pag... Procure yung License. Tapos sabi ni Answer, I'm working on it. Speaker 2 00:07:21 Well, you're working on it. Speaker 3 00:07:23 Napunta sa'yo. Ano ba yun? Speaker 3 00:07:28 Chloe. Speaker 1 00:07:34 Aka meron. Chloe Armstrong. Speaker 3 00:07:39 Shotsa na. Okay. Sige-sige. Speaker 1 00:08:07 Awit lang. Speaker 1 00:08:09 Go lang eh. Nag-aano ko kay Claude kung ano yung mga dapat, Nilist ako yung mga dapat kong itanong. Speaker 2 00:08:21 Wala ba siya, wala bang Nakalag, wala ba sa site nila on how To, Get, give me a license? Speaker 1 00:08:30 Hindi ko pa Na-check. Speaker 2 00:08:33 New visitor. Parang dapat meron Sa site nila on how to do, How to. Speaker 3 00:08:40 May mga binigay na sa akin. Speaker 1 00:08:49 Form si Anzor eh. Pero hindi ako sure Kung lahat to applicable Sa atin. Feeling ko hindi. Speaker 3 00:09:13 Actually, hindi ko pa nga sinisimula yun kasi hindi ko rin alam kung paano actually. Speaker 2 00:09:38 Tapusin ko lang tong. Ayun nga pala. Bukas na sila. Speaker 1 00:09:46 Ah, okay. Sabi niya, since your texts are remote and out of state, clarify ko daw kung each text needs to be listed on Form 1R. Ansan yung Form 1R na yun? Nakita ko na yun eh. Speaker 3 00:10:04 Form 1R application. Speaker 3 00:10:14 So ang pwede lang, kung. Speaker 2 00:10:31 Ganyan, Ang pwede lang gumalaw sa kanila din Is mga tech na nasa, US. Speaker 2 00:10:42 Kasi may fingerprinting. Hindi pwede. Oo, hindi pwede ang mga tech na Outside the US. Speaker 1 00:11:01 Feeling ko din na, Unulong niya dito sa, Website ni Nevada. Speaker 2 00:11:08 Feeling ko rin. Speaker 1 00:11:11 New applicants. Speaker 3 00:11:17 Excuse me. Speaker 3 00:11:20 Service provider, new registration. Speaker 1 00:11:28 Instruction. Ito, tingnan natin. Speaker 2 00:11:31 Oo, kasi service provider Naman tayo. Speaker 3 00:11:48 Okay, sige naman. Mataposin ko na yung ito. Speaker 3 00:11:53 Ano? Hindi tayo. Speaker 1 00:11:59 Consult the fee schedule for the application fee And investigation fee to submit, With it. May fee, fee pa, ano? How much? May papayaran tayo? Speaker 3 00:12:14 Mga ano? Speaker 1 00:12:18 Ito, ang haba ng listahan, day. Speaker 2 00:12:20 Oh, my gosh. Speaker 1 00:12:22 Ito, service provider. Two or more pay only one investigative fee And application fee for each type. For information technology, Speaker 1 00:12:33 Application fee is $500. Investigative fee is $5,000. Total of $5,500. Speaker 2 00:12:42 Mahal, ha? Speaker 1 00:12:46 Yeah. How much yung project? Speaker 2 00:12:50 P35,000. Speaker 1 00:12:52 Ah, P35,000 naman pala. Wala akong mas mahal pa yung ano eh. Speaker 1 00:12:57 Pero, added ba yan sa project? Yun hindi ko alam. Baka naman hindi na rin i-add kasi just in case meron pa tayong ibang client na makuhang Since may gaming license na tayo. Speaker 2 00:13:12 O tsaka hindi yan part ng ano eh, hindi siya part ng scope of work actually. Speaker 1 00:13:18 Form 1 are Addendum, addendum to application for. Speaker 3 00:13:21 And say, Ito lang, binigyan. Speaker 1 00:13:29 Lang niya ako Ng ganitong instruction. Parang, In-explain lang niya yung ibig sabihin ng each Form. Kasi ito yung, Sinani-answer sa akin ng mga forms. And then, ito yung Mga meaning. Speaker 1 00:13:48 Form 1R. Ito may cloud computing services pa? Speaker 2 00:13:57 Cloud? Meron ba tayong Nevada State Business License or sole proprietor exemption from Nevada Secretary of State? Speaker 1 00:14:15 Wala, kasi out of state tayo eh. Speaker 2 00:14:18 So, may nakalagay dyan kung ano yung mga needed forms for out-of-state? Oo, kasi baka yan. Oo, out-of-state. Speaker 1 00:14:31 Wait, tanungan natin kay Claude. Speaker 1 00:14:39 Sole proprietor exemption. Speaker 1 00:14:43 Oo. Speaker 3 00:14:46 Batong si Claude. Speaker 1 00:14:48 Ito, whether or not the state business license is required for MSPSP.ofstate. Yun daw ang titotanong. Speaker 3 00:14:59 Wait lang, ano sabi niya? Yes. Speaker 3 00:15:18 Ay, wait lang nga. Oo lang. Speaker 2 00:15:21 Sa mga projects, projects, projects. Kasi na-punaw ko siya ganun pa dito. Para magamit ko si... Speaker 3 00:15:32 Project 267 eh. Speaker 1 00:15:47 Si Form 1R, Application for Registration, filed by your MSP, Legal Business, Federal Tax, Description of Services you provide, Page 2, List the Individuals, Form 1R. Speaker 1 00:16:20 Ah, ililista nga. Speaker 2 00:16:44 Pati yata si Gabby at Kevin Pinapakuha nila ng license Ang alam ko. Ay, talaga? Speaker 2 00:16:52 Kasi meron dito sa notes ko, sabi Gabby and Kevin, mid-license. Ship our nuke and connect. Speaker 2 00:17:08 Ay, nakalimutan ko pang humingi ng co-pilot license may answer. Hindi siya makamandito. Speaker 3 00:17:17 Parang gawin. Speaker 3 00:17:39 Okay. Speaker 3 00:18:10 Okay, now let's just do another. Speaker 1 00:18:44 So, most likely, ang mag-awork lang na tech dyan is si Kevin and Gabby lang. Speaker 2 00:18:51 Ay, hindi ko alam. Feeling ko, ang mag-awork, hindi lang naman yata si Kevin at Gabby, but feeling ko yung mga tao sa HQ. Baka pwede rin si Matthew, andun din naman sila ko yung George. Speaker 1 00:19:07 So, feeling ko, kung security ano din yan, bawal magtrabaho dyan si Sean. Yung mga remote. Speaker 1 00:19:17 Tama? Speaker 2 00:19:18 Oo, feeling ko din. Kasi kung, Speaker 2 00:19:22 Yeah, I feel like it. Kasi, Isa nga yan sa ikaw, Speaker 2 00:19:28 Itatanong ko din sa kanila. Speaker 1 00:19:31 Oo, clarify mo kasi Kumaya mag-violate tayo, Ng pagmalaman Na may mga Out of the country, Na nagtouch. Speaker 2 00:19:41 Oo, kasi sabi nga ni, Sabi nga ni Pete, One wrong move That we, na may Ginawa tayo sa kanila Is, baka, Mawala din yung license nila. Speaker 3 00:19:57 Ayun nga eh. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:19:60 Hindi mo dapat si Pete ang maghandal nito? Speaker 2 00:20:10 Sabi, hindi ko nga alam. Speaker 1 00:20:12 Siya yung nga sa libada eh. Siya yung mas may... Speaker 2 00:20:15 Nasa libada ba si Pete? Speaker 1 00:20:16 Siya, sa lesbian, siya located eh. Tapos, ano, may mga... Ang work experience niya yun sa mga gaming company nila. Speaker 2 00:20:26 Oo, kaya pala. Diba? Speaker 3 00:20:31 Hmm. Speaker 2 00:20:36 Okay. Speaker 2 00:20:39 Oo nga, dapat siyang mag-handle nito. Pero, feeling ko, ano, Kinuha lang ako para mag-check Nung progress, pero baka siya yung mag-handle. Kasi, baka hindi, Yung, alam mo, yung paglagay ng Update ng mga Documentations, hudu, Something like that. Feeling ko. Hopefully. Kasi, ano, eto, hindi ako pinapatulog, Ng project na to. Speaker 1 00:21:04 Talaga ba? Yan nga ba iniyakan mo? Speaker 2 00:21:07 Hindi. Yung iniyakan ko dati, yung, Jams? Hindi ko matapos yung audit at, Reports. Tapos may mga projects pa ako. Speaker 2 00:21:17 Alam mo yung hindi na ako. Hindi ko mas, hindi ko, Alam ko saan magsastarl. Speaker 2 00:21:25 True. Siguro na-overwhelmed. I don't know. Bakit? Hindi ako makagawa ng project na hindi chat. Gusto ko, ayun, co-work. Oh, shush. Speaker 3 00:21:49 Okay. Speaker 3 00:21:60 Is an existing folder. Speaker 3 00:22:09 Projects. Okay, let's start, With this. Big bird gaming. Speaker 1 00:22:15 Sige, call kita later Pag may need ako. I-figure out ko lang Muna ito. Speaker 2 00:22:19 Sige, Mia ko din. Speaker 1 00:22:21 Sige, sige. Thanks. Speaker 2 00:22:23 Okay, thanks.
07-09 Consultation: Copilot Training Rollout and Power Automate
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- > **Date & Time:** 2026-07-09 11:41:43 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Customer:** [Insert Customer] ## Overview This consultation was a follow-up session between Christi (consultant) and her client's team (including Speaker 2, Kenny, Daniel, Jackson, and Ronelle) after an initial Copilot training conducted on July 8, 2026. The discussion covered the training rollout strategy, available resource materials, recent Microsoft Copilot updates, consideration of the Copilot CoWork feature, interest in Power Automate, and next steps for the pilot program. The client is in a Copilot pilot phase with a select test group and is evaluating how best to expand training to the broader organization. Key desired outcomes include a structured, department-specific training rollout, a stronger understanding of Power Automate workflows, and clear usage monitoring. ## Background The client is in the early stages of deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot, currently limited to a pilot user group. An initial training session took place on July 8, 2026, with the test group. The consultant, Christi, is managing the Copilot rollout and training, with Jackson and Ronelle from a separate entity (PEC) also involved. Christi currently supports approximately eight clients rolling out AI tools — roughly a third are deploying Copilot, while others use Claude or OpenAI. The project is governed by a Statement of Work (SOW), and Christi has offered up to 5 additional training hours outside the SOW at no charge. Claude (for Microsoft) and ChatGPT are available within the client’s secure Microsoft environment as model options within Copilot. ## Pain Points **The client’s team is uncertain about the best approach to roll out Copilot training to the broader organization.** Following the July 8, 2026 pilot training, the test group questioned whether to push general training to all employees immediately or first conduct more targeted, department-specific testing and use-case refinement. The pilot group’s use cases are specific to those members and may not apply organization-wide, creating hesitation about a premature broad rollout. - **Impact:** Risk of delivering training that is too generic or not relevant to specific departments, which could reduce adoption effectiveness. - **Current Situation:** Training has only been delivered to the pilot group; the broader team has not yet received access or training. The client is actively deciding next steps. - **Stakeholders:** Speaker 2 (decision-maker), pilot test group members, broader employee base, Kenny, Daniel, Jackson, Ronelle. **The client has limited familiarity with Power Automate and its potential to support their Copilot use cases.** During the July 8, 2026 training, Power Automate was only briefly introduced but generated significant interest — especially around automating data gathering from email and building workflows. The team has not previously explored this capability and recognizes it could be foundational to maximizing their Copilot investment. - **Impact:** Without a working understanding of Power Automate, the team may underutilize Copilot’s full potential and struggle to build relevant automated workflows. - **Current Situation:** No dedicated Power Automate training has been conducted. The pilot group is interested but lacks a reference guide or structured training. - **Stakeholders:** Pilot test group, broader team, Speaker 2. **Broken or incorrect resource links are causing confusion and impeding access to training materials.** During the session, the deck link shared by Christi did not direct the client to the correct July 8, 2026 training materials. Additionally, a survey link initially shared was an internal link requiring sign-in, making it inaccessible externally. - **Impact:** Delays in the team’s ability to review training content, share materials internally, and complete the pilot feedback survey. - **Current Situation:** The AI tools link and handout link worked correctly; the deck link and initial survey link were incorrect. Christi acknowledged the errors and committed to fixing them. - **Stakeholders:** Speaker 2, pilot group members, Christi. ## Expectations **The client expects a structured, phased training rollout plan that may include department-specific sessions before company-wide training.** Speaker 2 indicated the team is considering tailored sessions for specific groups — at minimum the executive team, and potentially separate tracks for property management, accounting, and other functions — before rolling out broadly. The client wants to evaluate whether to conduct more use-case testing within the pilot group first or proceed with basic training for all employees. - **Specific Goals:** Develop a training structure relevant to each department or function; avoid generic training that doesn’t address specific needs. - **Timeframe:** The client plans to gather pilot group questions over approximately the next week (by ~July 16, 2026) before scheduling a follow-up session. - **Resources Required:** Christi’s availability for department-specific sessions; use of her role-specific cheat sheets and training decks; up to **5 extra training hours** outside the SOW at no charge. - **Success Metrics:** Employees across departments can confidently use Copilot for their workflows; pilot feedback informs the broader rollout. - **Stakeholders:** Speaker 2, executive team, property management, accounting, pilot test group, Kenny, Daniel, Jackson, Ronelle. **The client expects a dedicated Power Automate training session to be scheduled for the pilot group.** After a brief introduction on July 8, 2026, the team expressed clear interest in a full **1–2 hour Power Automate training** session (offered free by Christi). This training is viewed as foundational for setting up effective Copilot workflows, particularly around email automation and data gathering. - **Specific Goals:** Gain practical understanding of Power Automate and how to build workflows aligned to operations. - **Timeframe:** Christi plans to include the client in an upcoming Power Automate training for multiple clients; date to be confirmed. - **Resources Required:** Christi to coordinate a joint session with other interested clients; no additional SOW cost. - **Success Metrics:** Pilot team members can identify and begin building relevant Power Automate workflows. - **Stakeholders:** Pilot test group, Speaker 2, broader team. **The client expects to receive weekly Copilot usage reports once Christi regains VPN access.** Speaker 2 confirmed this would be helpful. Christi committed to sending the first usage report on July 9, 2026 (same day) after VPN login, covering active Copilot usage metrics within the client’s environment. - **Specific Goals:** Maintain visibility into pilot group usage and monitor adoption. - **Timeframe:** First report to be sent **July 9, 2026**; ongoing on a **weekly** basis thereafter. - **Resources Required:** Christi’s VPN access to the client’s admin environment. - **Success Metrics:** Consistent, clear weekly usage summaries are received. - **Stakeholders:** Speaker 2, Christi, potentially Jackson and Ronelle (PEC). **The client expects the pilot feedback survey to be distributed to all pilot users to gather use-case input.** Christi shared two forms — a general pre-training survey and a Copilot pilot-specific survey — to understand use cases and tailor future training. Speaker 2 agreed to share the pilot survey with the pilot group. - **Specific Goals:** Collect structured use-case input and feedback from pilot users to refine training content and approach. - **Timeframe:** To be distributed promptly; Christi will also send the links via email following the meeting. - **Resources Required:** Corrected external survey link from Christi; Speaker 2 to distribute to the pilot group. - **Success Metrics:** All pilot users complete the survey; responses inform the next follow-up session agenda. - **Stakeholders:** Speaker 2, all pilot group members, Christi. ## Other Information Summary - **Copilot is auto-installing on all commercial Microsoft 365 devices**, a rollout that started in June and continues through July 2026. Admins can opt out via Microsoft Admin Center — Christi has already disabled this for some clients. - **A Copilot pricing update took effect last week** (approximately early July 2026); the client should be aware this may affect budgeting. - **Claude Opus 4.7 is now available within Copilot**, but there are ongoing known model availability issues; users may not always see Claude as an option. This issue is still open and being worked on by Microsoft. - **New Copilot features released this month** include AI content watermarks for video/audio, task tracking in the Windows taskbar, scheduled agent prompts, and Copilot Notebook exports to PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. - **Copilot CoWork** was demonstrated, but the client chose not to pursue it at this time, preferring to establish a foundation with standard Copilot first. One pilot user has requested it; Christi will follow up with that individual after consulting the client. - **Claude within Microsoft 365 Copilot** is not the standalone Claude product — it operates under Microsoft’s security protocol, which satisfies PEC’s security standards. - **The client has access to Christi’s shared resource drive for 30 days** from the training date; Christi can extend this if needed. Resources include role-specific cheat sheets (executives, accounting, finance, HR, nonprofits, operations, property management, sales & marketing), quick reference guides, and training decks (~**23 decks** total, updated regularly). - **Jackson and Ronelle (PEC)** will be added to Christi’s client update email list for ongoing Copilot news and roadmap releases. Claude-specific cheat sheets are available for them if needed given PEC’s toolset. - The **training session recording from July 8, 2026** should be accessible in the Teams meeting chat; if not, Christi will make it available to everyone. ## To-Do List - [ ] **Christi:** Send corrected deck link to the client — resolve the broken OneDrive link shared during the meeting. _(ASAP, today July 9, 2026)_ - [ ] **Christi:** Send corrected external survey link via email along with meeting follow-up notes and resource links. _(Today, July 9, 2026)_ - [ ] **Christi:** Log into VPN and send the first Copilot usage report to the client. _(Today, July 9, 2026)_ - [ ] **Christi:** Add Jackson and Ronelle to the ongoing Copilot client update email list. _(ASAP)_ - [ ] **Christi:** Follow up with the pilot user who requested Copilot CoWork (after logging into the client system to identify the individual). _(July 9, 2026)_ - [ ] **Christi:** Schedule and include the pilot group in the upcoming **1–2 hour Power Automate training** session (free of charge). _(Timeframe TBD — coordinate with client)_ - [ ] **Christi:** Send Microsoft 365 Copilot roadmap summary (Copilot Studio, sales agent, finance agent, service agent updates) to all Copilot clients, including this client and PEC, once fully reviewed. - [ ] **Speaker 2:** Distribute the Copilot pilot feedback survey to all pilot group members and encourage completion. _(ASAP)_ - [ ] **Speaker 2:** Check the Teams chat from the July 8, 2026 training meeting for the session recording; notify Christi if inaccessible. - [ ] **Speaker 2:** Gather use-case questions and feedback from the pilot group over the next ~week (by approximately **July 16, 2026**) and schedule a follow-up session with Christi. - [ ] **Speaker 2:** Decide on the training rollout structure (broad vs. department-specific) and confirm readiness to expand Copilot access beyond the pilot group; communicate the decision to Christi. - [ ] **Speaker 2 / PEC (Jackson & Ronelle):** Evaluate whether Claude-specific cheat sheets are needed given PEC’s standards; notify Christi if so. --- > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client’s biggest pain point as **uncertainty around the optimal Copilot training rollout strategy — specifically whether to train broadly and immediately or to first conduct deeper, department-specific use-case testing with the pilot group.** Possible solutions: > > 1. **Adopt a phased, tiered rollout approach:** Begin with a refined follow-up session for the pilot group focused on their specific use cases and collected questions (~week of July 14–16, 2026). Use insights and survey results to design one or two department-specific tracks (e.g., executive team, property management, accounting) before launching a company-wide general session to balance speed with relevance. > > 2. **Leverage pilot survey results to prioritize departments:** After pilot users complete the feedback survey, analyze the use cases to identify departments with the most defined needs. Prioritize those groups for targeted training first, while other departments receive general training in parallel to reduce bottlenecks without sacrificing depth. > > 3. **Run a brief “train-the-trainer” session with the pilot group:** Equip pilot members to act as internal champions for their departments. After a deeper follow-up with Christi, these individuals can answer basic questions and surface department-specific needs before formal training — reducing load on Christi and accelerating adoption. > > 4. **Run concurrent tracks — general and executive:** Rather than waiting for all department-specific needs to be defined, launch general training for most employees while scheduling a dedicated session for the executive team (who likely have distinct, high-level use cases). This prevents the broader rollout from being delayed by more complex customization work. > > 5. **Use the Power Automate training as a “bridge” session:** Schedule the Power Automate training before the broader rollout. This free session builds foundational workflow knowledge and surfaces department-specific Copilot use cases through participant questions and discussion. The insights can directly inform how department-specific Copilot training is structured.
- Date
- Jul 9, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Crap. Guys, I am so very, very sorry. I apologize. I all I can say is I was in someone else's office going over some things and lost track of time. So if you Christi, I do apologize for this. Um, let me. From. I sat down and then I realized what time it was and I was like, wait, let me do this real quick. Um. Speaker 1 00:00:30 So hang on one second. Let me pull up my notes. Um, how are you? So yesterday we did the training. Mhm. Um, Any questions or anything you want me to change before we do training for everyone else? Speaker 2 00:00:46 Yeah, I was talking to the um to the test group uh this morning, just to get their feedback on that and what they think about for next steps. Um and the question was sort of like, From them, Is there anything preventing us from rolling that that sort of basic training out to everyone? Um, you know, I think we could do that. We could kind of just convey what you've shared with us on a on a basic level of, you know, how does Copilot interact with all the Microsoft apps? Um or we could you know we could interpret a little bit of what you've. Speaker 2 00:01:23 Shared with us in terms of how it works, specifically with some of our portfolio and our company, like based off of the use cases. Those use cases that we're working on are fairly specific to the team members that we've chosen to do that. And, you know, we may learn some things and it may not apply to everybody. So like I go back and forth as to whether we should just hand it off to everybody else. And let them explore and come up with their own questions. Or, whether we should do a little bit more testing within that group on those specific uses and provide feedback that may, you know, may slightly alter, you know, the training that you give to people. Um I don't know if you guys have like, you know a favorite approach on that. Like because I I know that what we talked about is uh very general as compared to the things that we, you know we've asked these these team members to think about. Speaker 2 00:02:22 As their specific needs. So we could go either way. I mean, I don't think there was there was glaring items in there. I think we would we would expand on a few things just for these team members, but it may not be relevant to everyone. Speaker 1 00:02:36 Okay. Now here's what I usually tell people, Um you get extra hours in training outside of SOW and I. Think I've said that to you guys before We can make the training whatever you want. I had a client just this morning in a meeting that I was in with them. They want me to specifically focus on finance, and so they want an extra training just for their finance team. And, they gave me some of the extra use cases that they have for that, so that I can incorporate that in. So if you come to me and you say, Chris, we want to concentrate on these departments, we will do it. Um. Speaker 1 00:03:16 And we'll add, I usually will allow up to five hours extra in training without like having to change the SOW, just because one technology is changing almost daily right now. Claude yesterday rolled out a new update on how it looks and I had five phone calls before eight. Am on where do I find Copilot now. So just a heads up on that. So I did update some things. I sent you guys a new link. It's in the chat to my use cases, my role-specific cheat sheets. So in here, I've got executives, accounting, finance, HR. There's some nonprofits and operations and then there's some property management sales and marketing. So feel free to utilize that. Grab what you want. Feel free to grab it. Speaker 1 00:04:10 And hand that out to your teams. This all is free of charge. If you guys want to put it in your own letterhead and own formatting, I included the Word documents. Just download them first before you do that. Don't change what's on my Share Drive. You guys have access for the next. Sorry, I was about to sneeze. You guys have access to it for 30 days. I can always extend out that expiration date. As I build these out, and these I just updated, I think on Monday because we had some new stuff coming out. If Jackson and Ronelle, if you guys want the Claude ones, I know you guys might have some different standards at PEC. If you guys want the Claude ones, let me know. I'll send you the Claude ones. So hang on one second. My body can't decide today if it's going to sneeze or cough. So bear with me. Speaker 1 00:05:05 Um, but I do have a lot of cheat sheets. Um, I do have some multi-factor and stuff like that if you guys want those. A lot of my items, a lot of my i i bet good lord. I'm so sorry. A lot of my items I'm going to give you guys free of charge. I am going to update them um and I do have another one here for AI tools that I'm going to share with you. Uh again. Uh. SharePoint's being weird today. There's an AI tool one, if you guys want to utilize those. I am going to be sending these out, But there is some quick reference guides for Copilot and Microsoft 365, Copilot and AI prompting in there as well. Speaker 2 00:05:46 Okay. So, uh, I think you mentioned in in the meeting yesterday that, that I think you put a link in there um in the chat. Is that the same link as the one that you just put in here that has like these quick reference guides? Or was that a different link? Speaker 1 00:06:03 So that is a different link. Hang on one second. Okay. Um, the one I uh I do have one for you guys specifically. Let me pull that one up because I did put some different ones out there. Uh, let me pull you guys up real quick. Yep, uh, So you guys have a handout guide. It's a little different looking. I updated these a little bit more recently. I think I did a couple updates yesterday. So and here's it's handouts is the link. So that was the ones that I made for you guys, um, and then I have the training decks uh, I built a lot of these training decks out uh at the end of June, but there are some changes that are coming. Speaker 1 00:06:56 I'm going to go ahead and give you the deck link as well. But just a heads up on the deck link, I am updating almost weekly all of my decks in my training for clients. So I have about 23 that I'm working off of for all clients. These are the ones that are specific for you on the link that's decks saved in my Elire folder. And I do change these and update them whenever Microsoft sends out a new some new stuff, and we'll update it from that. So Microsoft is keeping me hopping lately with all their changes. Let me just say, between them and Claude, I've had to write so many Claude Fable guides this last week. Now, Just a heads up for you guys : some changes that happened this week within Copilot. Claude Opus four point seven is now available. However, as you guys saw yesterday on the email I sent out. Speaker 1 00:07:50 They are having some issues with models, so you may not see that you have Claude all the time. There's still that work issue is still open. They're still trying to fix it. New Copilot features that come out this month is AI content watermarks for video and audio, so it will attach that if you want it to. Task tracking in Windows taskbar is a new one I've not played with that yet. Scheduled agent prompts, which is very similar to Claude Co-work scheduled agents, And I actually have had some clients already playing around with that and love it. Copilot notebook exports to PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. So what that is is when you're working on notebooks within Microsoft Copilot, you can export that work out into PowerPoint. And a lot of people that I've talked to really like that option. So I have not myself played around with it. That is on my schedule to play with tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:08:47 And then once I get a better understanding of it, I'll include that in training. So okay. And then they do have a new M three sixty five roadmap for Copilot Studio, sales agent, finance agent and service agent updates. And. So that's going to be some feature releases as soon as I have a moment to stop and look at that roadmap fully and understand it, I'll be sending that out to all clients on Copilot. So you guys will get a copy of that. Jackson and Ronelle, Do you guys want me to include you on those emails that I send out? Sure, that'd be good. Okay. At least you. Okay, perfect. Um, Then I will do that uh just because I'm trying to keep everybody uh up to date on things. And then I have a have a system that goes out and checks things for me um and just a heads up for you guys. Copilot is auto installing on all commercial. Speaker 1 00:09:41 M three sixty five devices right now. It is it started happening in June. It's going through July, um so just be aware Jackson, Uh for any anyone else that you guys are working on within Microsoft Admin Center, You can opt out of that. Uh, if you don't want that pushing to any of your corporate devices. So I do have it turned off for some clients and some clients that everyone is within Copilot. Uh they asked to keep that on. And then there's a pricing update that took effect last week. So, just a heads up for you guys on that. As far as where we are in the project right now, most of it's just training. I am keeping an eye on certain things within Al Lear in Copilot, and I'm trying to get logged back in. And, this is going to be where I've been looking at and looking looking at the overview, looking at how many active copilots are actually using things, working through things and stuff like that. Speaker 1 00:10:41 Do, would you guys like we're moving into that section where I'm going to ask, Would you guys like me going forward to send you updates weekly on what the usage looks like? Speaker 2 00:10:53 It'd be helpful to have that. Speaker 1 00:10:55 Okay. Yeah, more than glad to do it for you guys. Um, I can't access it right now because I'm not logged into VPN. Uh, I just realized cause I'm on site at a client site. I forgot that I have to log in to VPN to access it since I'm, not in the office. But as soon as I can log in VPN, I'll get that sent over to you guys this afternoon and show you guys where we're at. I did turn on Claude, but I made sure that it's not Claude in preview mode. So just a heads up so that you can choose your model. But this Claude for Microsoft. This not the full fledged standalone Claude. It's just Claude for Microsoft. It follows that same security protocol that Microsoft already has. Speaker 1 00:11:39 So be aware of that. So you guys can choose between Claude or chat GPT, which is the backbone sort Microsoft uses, or you can still keep it at auto, where it just chooses the best one for your question. Speaker 2 00:11:54 Okay. And then in terms of our users um is is the um enterprise version of this that is within our safe environment that you've created is that. Actually now available to all of our employees? Or has it only been turned on for the pilot user group. Speaker 1 00:12:15 Only for the pilot user groups. Let me know when you're ready for me to roll it out to all employees. Okay, got it. I'm waiting on that green light from you. Speaker 2 00:12:23 Yeah, okay, that's that's what I thought. Okay Yes Yeah, let me give a little thought to that. And um and and when you know, we think we should move into the training of our. Broader team and whether we want to do more specific trainings at a departmental or functional level. You know, maybe at a minimum, maybe we would do one for the executive team who may have, you know, Specific questions that that relate, you know to the things that they're thinking about and and maybe it's worthwhile to think about, and we can discuss, you know, internally as a team whether we want to have. Speaker 2 00:12:59 Ones that are specifically targeted to say, a property management group versus an accounting group and other things. So I'll get back to you on that. And I'll take a look at some of these uh handouts that you've put together and and the training materials. Um I I did try that link for the decks that you pasted into the chat. And that didn't seem to take me to the right spot. Um the other ones I think worked for the AI tools in the handout links that you sent. But. Speaker 2 00:13:29 The decks one, I don't think gives me the deck that we were looking at yesterday. Speaker 1 00:13:34 Okay, I'll figure out what's going on there because I that's where I keep. I'm pretty anal about my uh OneDrive organization. So let me figure out what's going on. I might have just selected the wrong link from my list. So, I'll figure out what's going on with that and fix that. Um. Speaker 2 00:13:51 As it relates to the AI tools uh folder that you sent us, There's reference guides specifically for ChatGPT, Claude. Should we sort of ignore those and just focus on the Copilot reference guide? Because I'm assuming those are just for those tools on their own, not not the component being pulled into 365 Copilot. Speaker 1 00:14:17 Correct. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Because I my the training that I've been doing on AI, um, I've got eight clients so far that's rolling out AI. Um, I'm going to say, a third of my clients are rolling out Copilot right now, and the rest are pulling out Claude and one client's doing OpenAI. Speaker 1 00:14:37 Okay. So uh, Speaker 2 00:14:38 If we want, if we want to get to the recording of the um. Of the training that we did yesterday, Do I go back into that meeting from Teams? And does it just appear like in the chat, like the recording of it? Or is that something that you have to send to us? Speaker 1 00:14:57 It should appear because I had the settings set for everyone to view it. However, let me do this. Let me um if you cannot view it, Let me know because we've had some issues with Microsoft just being a pain in the neck in that area lately. Let me know when I will make it open for everybody. Speaker 2 00:15:15 Okay, I'll go back and take a look and I'll let you know. Speaker 1 00:15:18 Okay, perfect. And then one more thing I wanted to ask you guys is this Do you have a preference? And, this might be you guys or might be PEC that needs to answer it? They just came well, not just came out, but in the last month, they came out with. Speaker 1 00:15:43 Copilot cowork. Is that something you guys are interested in turning on? It is usage based billing, Uh so we are going to have to monitor it because you do get credits per month, but we are going to have to monitor it if anybody goes over that usage. Speaker 2 00:15:59 Um I don't know enough about it to say yes or no on that um as to how that's different than just using the Copilot license that we're currently paying for which. My understanding is not a usage based license. So, what would be the difference? And then I guess I'd ask PEC whether this is something that you're thinking about using on your end. Speaker 1 00:16:22 Let me show you because it's very similar to Claude CoWork. Um, I am not using CoWork in Copilot because I have it on Claude right now. So let me just use it, show you using Claude. Hang on one second. Um. Speaker 1 00:16:38 Let me share my screen. I needed to get off my chats. You guys did not need to see me looking at shopping stuff on chat, on my Claude chat. So, just a quick heads up for you guys. I do give this statement every time I open and share Claude. I am on my personal Claude account, Anzor, Who is my CEO and I have an agreement that i My security settings are very restricted, even more restricted than y'all's are So the things I do in here cannot go outside of the company. Um, I am, I am the compliance officer for Crimson. I am, I work closely with security team. Um and I do get pen-tested individually every quarter. So they do pay for that because I ask for it for any of my apps that I build. So just a quick heads up for you, this is more for Jackson or Ronald um my system is very very tight. Speaker 1 00:17:31 Um, as you guys can see, I can't even access your system without my VPN on. So I'm very clear, you know, my things are pretty heavily done. But in Copilot or I'm sorry Claude. There is a co- work option very similar very same for Microsoft 365. And basically what I do is right now. I'm in internal operations, my training documents. Um, I can choose, I'm going to go into Ability first since they're my client. I'm on their site today. I can go in here and choose what folder I want it to work out of. And that, and CoWork is selected here. And I can say, send me a daily briefing. And now I actually have that set up as a skill. And it knows what to look for. It has access only to the things I allow it to have access to. And if I'm not on VPN, it can't access those things. It can only access when I'm on VPN. So even my connectors know what it can and can't do. Speaker 1 00:18:29 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to say, please help me organize this folder. I need to get training docs, trainings and reports in their correct folders. And then it's going to do it for me automatically. Now, I have it set to ask no, I have it set to skip for this folder. I'm good with it skipping, Depending on the folder that I'm using, um, I will either have it ask or skip. And because Ability First, the items that are in there is if that if I accidentally lose them, I can always recover it 'cause it's in my OneDrive. Um, I'm okay with it skipping asking. Now, that being said, I don't skip for everything. So just a heads up. What is actually doing at this point is it's looking at the folders, and it's going to look at all the examples. Speaker 1 00:19:25 It's going to see that, yeah, I have loose files because this one hasn't been organized in about two weeks and I am in that folder daily. And it's going to create a plan mapping out how I organize things. And, it's doing that work for me. And now I can go get a cup of coffee because coffee is life. So, um, so it's going to go through that. Um, it's going to build that out and I am going to do. Folder, which is ability first and move it into existing subfolders. So, and I do that pretty often. Um, I'll be honest with you guys, I don't use CoWork as much as I do it in code because I am a CLI person. I'm old. I'm older than, I think everybody here in this meeting. Okay? I've been in IT for 28 years. Speaker 1 00:20:24 So well, Speaker 2 00:20:25 Maybeum yeah, maybe that's something that we you'll think about down the road. I I don't think we need to explore it for now. Um until we kind of can get our bearings and our foundation, I guess with with what you know Co Pilot is offering without co work. And then we'll think about that. Speaker 1 00:20:43 Yes and that's perfectly okay. That's, what I needed to hear today is what way you were thinking about going. You do have a person who's piloting it that has asked for it. Um and I know and I got a note about that yesterday. Um, however, I wanted to have a conversation with you today before I respond back. And I can't remember who it was. So, I got to log into your system to see. Speaker 2 00:21:06 Okay. Um, and then the other things i i just quickly wanted to mention, I think what we found kind of interesting in your training yesterday was the idea of power automate. Uh, i know we touched on it kind of briefly. Um, And I was wondering if you have a more specific quick reference guide or training um manual for that that we could think about um and look at. Um, otherwise we might think about scheduling a more in depth view on that. Um, Because I think that may help set up some of the stuff that we are trying to do with Copilot. But in terms of grabbing that information maybe from like. Speaker 2 00:21:51 Email sources and other things like that. That seemed like an interesting approach that none of us had really used before. Speaker 1 00:21:58 So I already had it on my plan from yesterday, My notes to ask you guys if you want a full hour or two hour training free of charge on just Power Automate. I would include you with some other clients they're coming up. So if you guys are okay with that. Speaker 2 00:22:15 Yeah, I think that would be good. Yeah, definitely the group was asking about it. Um, I can see their uses for it so. Speaker 1 00:22:23 Absolutely. Um, I'm getting a lot of interest in Power Automate and different workflows like that. Um, so I'm more than glad to walk you guys through that. It has made my efficiency tenfold. I'm not lying, When Kenny first met me, I felt like I was running around like a mad woman, and I didn't have time to actually get things done that I needed to do. And then I went on vacation about two years ago, and i told my i told answer, i said, "I'm taking a vacation for this week, but I'm working the entire week. So just a heads up. I don't want anybody to talk to me. I just need to get shit done. " And, i built out all my power, automates and all my workflows just to make my life easier. Speaker 1 00:23:06 And so I know that that's going to be a big impact for your team as well. Speaker 2 00:23:10 Okay, yeah, that'd be great to include us in that sport specific training. And then I think our thought is that like we're going to try and interpret like some of what we learned in the training and and take it towards the specific use cases that we have. But I've asked them to gather like questions about that, and we may want to, Do a follow up session that's more specific to some of those use cases. And, And I think we may want to do it as a group rather than having like each individual kind of trying to sit down with you because I think we could all learn from the different questions that we each have. So, we'll probably try and gather up the questions over the next week or so from their you know, initial testing and then try to schedule another time with you on that. Speaker 2 00:23:59 Um, And and then I'll still get back to you as to whether you know we want to do that before we roll out to the larger team or or whether we want toum just move ahead with the the basic training and how we want to structure that. So. Speaker 1 00:24:13 Um, let me give you something real quick if you don't mind. Um, I built this. I built this for every client. I just i copy it and duplicate it for each client. Um, I usually send this out in a, And we hadn't talked about this yet, but I usually send this out before any training. And then I have one more. And this one's actually for you guys that are doing the Copilot survey or pilot, Copilot pilot. Say that three times fast. But, the second form is for you guys, and I was going to send that out next week. And this is where you guys can. Speaker 1 00:24:55 Uh, describe some use cases. I can update this as well. Um, and then you guys can put in your thoughts or things like that. Um, To just to make it better and for me to understand how you guys think about things. Um, So that second one, if you can send it out to all the pilot users for me, That'll help me uh understand better what you guys are looking for, but also they can put in use cases into this one. Speaker 2 00:25:23 Okay, when I click on that first. First link, that one opened up right away for me. When I clicked on the second survey one, it's asking me to sign in. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:25:33 Hang on. Speaker 2 00:25:34 Does that require? Speaker 1 00:25:35 Let me fix that. Uh let me delete that. I gave you the wrong link. That's my fault Um I have a I have an internal link and an external link effort. I gave you the internal But, there's there, it is There's the external link. Speaker 2 00:25:48 Okay Cool Uh I'll take a look at that stuff and and share with this group and have them. Provides some of that. Um, okay. That'll be helpful to get that input. Speaker 1 00:26:00 Yeah, And I'll send you guys this link by email as well withum the meeting updates. And again, I do apologize for being late. I it was all me. I was in someone's office and lost track of time because we were having a conversation. Speaker 2 00:26:13 Okay, Well, that's that's fine. Um I think that's a good update for for where we are. And and maybe you know what we need to consider for next steps. U m Kenny Daniel Renell you guys have any other questions. Speaker 1 00:26:29 I think mine was the only way choose between Claude and uh. Speaker 2 00:26:34 ChatGPT just making sure that was pass muster with PC, Speaker 1 00:26:42 And that one usually does pass muster. So it just adds up only because it's restricted by Microsoft requirements rather than using the full version. Speaker 2 00:26:58 So. Okay. Great. Well, thank you for those updates. Uh, I'll go back, I'll let you know if I can't find the final version of the video from yesterday's meeting or the transcript to share with the team. And um and we'll keep this thing moving. Speaker 1 00:27:15 Awesome. Thank you guys so much. You guys have been amazing to work with. Thanks Christi You're welcome Have a great week. Speaker 1 00:27:24 Weekend. I didn't realize it's Thursday. All right, thank you. Bye. Speaker 2 00:27:30 See you.
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06-29 Meeting: Employee Certification Incentive Program
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-29 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Pete] [Speaker 2] [Olivia] [Anton] ## Meeting Notes ### Incentive Program for Employee Certifications - **Description** - Pete initiated a discussion to define an incentive program for employees who complete professional certifications beneficial to Crimson, specifically mentioning Microsoft certifications. - Historically, the company offered up to $2,500, but few employees used it; Pete suggests this amount is too high. - The incentive is intended to encourage self-study on employees’ own time, not to pay for study hours or overtime. - The company provides one hour of training time per week; Pete noted the need to re-encourage its use. - **Conclusion** - Emerging consensus: provide a bonus payment plus reimbursement for test and certification fees. ### Bonus Structure and Certification Tiers - **Description** - Pete initially proposed a flat bonus of $500 or $1,000 per certification; Olivia and Speaker 2 felt $500 was fair. - Anton recommended tiering the bonus based on certification difficulty and value to Crimson; entry-level certificates should not receive the same bonus as advanced ones. - Pete agreed and suggested tiers of $500, $1,000, $2,000, and $2,500 depending on certification level. - The group emphasized the need for a pre-approved list of relevant certifications to avoid paying for unrelated training (e.g., “sports nutrition”). ### Program Administration and Guidelines - **Description** - Employees must inform their supervisor before starting a certification path to enable tracking and alignment with company goals. - The team discussed retroactively rewarding Gabby for certifications completed in 2026, since a new policy was promised for the year but not yet implemented. - Pete noted that Namanja and Janelle have expressed interest in Microsoft training. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Chris to review Crimson’s current Microsoft certification status, identify gaps, and report back to Pete by July 6, 2026. - [ ] Chris to check whether newer employees (e.g., Robert, Gaspem) have certifications that can be leveraged. - [ ] Define specific bonus amounts for each certification tier and finalize the tier structure. - [ ] Create and assign ownership for a pre-approved list of company-relevant certifications. - [ ] Establish the process and timeline for retroactively rewarding 2026 certifications (e.g., Gabby, Sean). - [ ] Pete to re-encourage employees to use their weekly training hour at the next all-hands meeting. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The specific bonus amounts for the tiered certification incentive program were not finalized. The group agreed on the concept of a tiered structure but did not decide on the exact figures for each level. > 2. A definitive list of pre-approved, company-relevant certifications was discussed as necessary but was not created or assigned as a task. > 3. The process for retroactively rewarding employees (like Gabby and Sean) for certifications completed in 2026 was not formally defined. While the idea was generally supported, the exact procedure and timeline were not set.
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- Jun 29, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Well, Olivia was sick and Chris was out, so I was like, well, half the team is not going to be there. So we can talk more about how we incent people. But I wanted to I wanted to kind of talk about what should we? What does this team think we should do for folks that complete certifications, whether they be Microsoft or other professional certifications that Crimson really needs. And what have we done in the past? And maybe we come up with a recommendation, and then we just verify it at L ten. That's the end of it. Um, is it a money incentive? Is it. And and how do we as a team approve and encourage people to do that? Um, I don't want people getting money money incentives just to do every little thing, but I think if it's something that is. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Good for their career and it's good for Crimson. I think they should get something. So, what is the something and what have we done in the past? I think it was like five hundred bucks or a thousand bucks plus we paid for the certificate, the certification or the uh, that the test right with a certificate or both. So what have we done in the past here? Speaker 2 00:01:18 We've offered up to twenty five hundred. Say that again? We've offered up to twenty five hundred. Speaker 1 00:01:27 Twenty five hundred bucks to get a certificate, a Microsoft cert. Speaker 2 00:01:32 Yeah, no one did except for me and and Sean. So. Speaker 1 00:01:39 Gabby has gotten a couple right since then. I think twenty five hundred is too much. That's my opinion. Um, five hundred bucks thousand bucks I mean I don't know if, Some of these are much more difficult than others, so I mean it does take some learning. It takes some incentive. What I don't want this to turn into, though is I don't want people thinking. We're paying them overtime to take classes and I don't want people thinking, we're going to give them eight hours a day to study. So, I think the incentive is, if you want to study and get these certifications on your own time. Speaker 1 00:02:23 And you want to get a certificate. We will give you a thousand dollars to get the certificate. We will pay for the cert, and it's helpful for your career, and we'll pay for the test and we'll pay for the cert, And we'll give you a thousand dollar bonus. If you if you get the certificate. And register it with Crimson right? Speaker 3 00:02:49 And we also give them like an hour each week, For training, so they could use that time as well for certain training. Speaker 1 00:02:60 Yeah, And I think at the next at the next um at the next all hands this week, I need to re- encourage people because I'm not sure that people are using that as much as they should or could be. I need to go back in and take a look at that. But Chris, I don't know if you've looked at that lately, but um I don't hear people talking about it. And when I bring it up, I don't know if we're talking to people about it when they get hired. But um, We should probably get people enrolled and encourage them to use that because there's quite a bit in there when it comes to the Microsoft pass. And I would like to get back to Namanja quickly because I told him, we would. So I don't know. Speaker 3 00:03:48 And Janelle also asked she she, Was interested too. She asked me like last week. Speaker 1 00:03:54 So Chris, what what I started this off at is I got a call, Like I got a team from Namanja. Uh, about two weeks ago, asking did we decide what we're going to do for incentives, But more importantly, he wants to he wants to to take some Microsoft training. And is there anything that we need him to focus on? And I said. We're going to have a meeting here in a couple of weeks. I had already scheduled this. And I would get back to him in the next week or two. So, where do we sit with our Microsoft certification paths? And what do we really need? And I know, like I said, I know Gabby has completed a couple of things. Um, maybe we go back and retroactively give her five hundred bucks for each of the certs she's completed this year. And maybe that becomes our standard. I think this Do you think five hundred bucks is fair? Speaker 3 00:04:53 Yes. I think it's fair. Yeah, I think retroactively um is a little bit dangerous. Are you just going to do it from this year? Is that what you're saying? Speaker 1 00:05:05 Yeah, I would say for twenty twenty six, because we said we wouldn't do something for twenty twenty six, and we haven't really done anything. So if anybody has done anything in twenty twenty six, I'll go back and do itum. Speaker 4 00:05:19 I know that Sean did achieve one of the certificates that we did discuss before. Speaker 2 00:05:26 Yeah, I would say I'd say it's fair. Um, for Gabby, I would. I would say, yeah, because I think that shows that, you know, we're listening to the staff and what they're looking for and things like this. Um. I had something on the tip of my tongue that I was gonna say, and then I just lost it. I am sorry, guys. I promise, I am awake. Speaker 1 00:05:56 So so what what are the parameters that we're going to put around this? Because I don't want people just saying just going out and deciding that they're gonna do this, Do we or do we want to say talk to us about what you are planning to do? So that you go down a path that makes sense or what what? How should we put what kind of what kind of boundaries make sense to put around this? Because do we want everybody? Speaker 4 00:06:24 Yeah, we have a list that we teach. Speaker 1 00:06:27 Say that again. Speaker 3 00:06:28 I was just gonna say, like even a list of certs that we accept or that we're you know aiming for. We have this list and if it's not in the list then you know. Speaker 2 00:06:38 Because I had a guy once not here, but somewhere else get his sports nutrition certificate and expected us to pay back. Speaker 1 00:06:48 Yeah, And that's and that yeah, and that's what I guess I'm saying is it has to be. It has to be something that is valid. That is valid here. That is beneficial here, And I, guess the other thing I was getting at is, do we want people to focus on a particular path versus getting sort of a first level in multiple? Speaker 1 00:07:14 Specialties, you know what I'm saying. Like if I if I get like my my first level in SQL Server and then I get my first level in Azure and then I get my first level in this and my first like, I don't know what all the different disciplines are, But like, is that really what we want people to But. But if they want to get a breadth of knowledge, and that's okay, then I guess that's okay. Right? If it helps them and they're like a a specialist in providing support, maybe that's good for them. Right? And maybe that's okay. If if it's somebody that really wants to go down an Azure specialty path, then that's probably better for somebody that wants to do that. I think that's okay, But I think is it is it do we want them to tell us before they start doing it? I guess, is the question or or is it okay for them to just do it? And then tell us after the fact? I think. I think it should be a tell your supervisor what what you're. Speaker 1 00:08:13 Taking and what your what certificate you're planning to to go for, and and just let them know, give them a heads up that you're going to be doing it, just so we're aware of it. And then if you pass the test and you get the cert, we will reimburse you and we'll give you the bonus. That way, it's not just this. Hey, I, just did this kind of pop up thing where it's a big surprise. And I think that gives us a better, a better ability to track who's working on what as well. Speaker 3 00:08:43 Yeah, especially if we needed like a specific cert, we know who's working on it ahead of time. You know. Speaker 4 00:08:49 Yeah. But in this case, There is supposed to be like a different amount of bonus for like if it's just entry level, Like it's not fair to pay like five hundred bucks for the certification uh for someone who is getting SC-300 and entry level certificate with Microsoft. Speaker 1 00:09:12 Okay, and I am totally open to what you guys suggest. Right, you tell me what the levels are and we'll adjust. Speaker 4 00:09:22 Like for entry level, You can get like a lot of them, and it's not going to take a long time. Speaker 2 00:09:29 Yeah, I kind of like that idea. Anzor, I was thinking about it just a second ago that if it was something that's. Like a pathway that helps us with our partnership. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:09:39 Yeah, yeah. That's going to be beneficial completely for Crimson IT. That's why it's supposed to be have a high level one, Speaker 1 00:09:48 One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred or what? How many are there? Speaker 2 00:09:52 I had to look at the partner, uh, see if I still have access to partners. Speaker 2 00:10:04 But I believe there's like for Crimson, there's two levels. Speaker 1 00:10:09 It says there's four distinct levels according to this. I mean, just googling it, I mean that might not be even what what it's talking about, but that's that's what it says. So I mean, I'd be willing to say then five hundred thousand, two thousand twenty five hundred or something. You know, I don't whatever. You know, we can come up with whatever that should be. So, But I think it's important also to have us determine and Chris, you probably haven't looked at this in a little while, But can you take a look and let me know this week like where do we stand with. Speaker 1 00:11:02 With what we need and where we are, who's working on what because Kevin was supposed to do look at something. I think I don't know if he's really made much progress on it. Um, I know Gabby has progressed, But I don't know where really we sit. And if there is anything, we're falling short of. I want us to look at what that is and when. And I know you, you have some stuff. And you know, with some of the people we've added, like does. Robert or Gaspem have, do they have any certs that we can leverage? Okay, They may be they may be interested or be, you know have have you know an appetite to help us there. So, when when do you think you could have sort of the the latest list? I know you're just back so I'm not I'm not asking to.
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07-21 Weekly Meeting: Concur Expense Reports and IT Process Improvements
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- > Date: 2026-07-21 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] ## Meeting Notes ### Concur Expense Report Issues - Christi is experiencing difficulties with a Concur expense report. - She created it as an expense report instead of an invoice and is attempting to convert it. - A specific issue involves the CapEx expense type (193000). - Christi noted that Concur is significantly easier for submitting expenses compared to the "Crimson version." ### IT Credit Card Expense Process - Christi previously created a single monthly expense report for all IT credit card purchases. - It was recommended to separate reports to better track items Michonne is handling. - Christi agreed to adopt the new process to improve follow-up. ### Receipt and Invoice Management - Christi needs to obtain two or three missing receipts for an expense report and will email Michonne to request them. - She committed to attaching all required receipts to the expense reports. - Christi is concerned that invoices are not automatically arriving from ComDirect as expected; she must download them manually from internet accounts. - She requested logins for these accounts to address the issue in an upcoming meeting with ComDirect. ### Secure Password Sharing - Christi demonstrated a method for securely sharing passwords using a "secret password generator." - The tool generates an encrypted, single-use, self-destructing link that can be shared via email or Teams. - The link self-destructs after one view. - Christi granted herself access to the IT department mailbox to retrieve settings. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Christi will obtain 2–3 missing receipts from Michonne and attach them to the expense report. - [ ] Christi will attach all required receipts, submit the expense report to Michonne for approval, and finalize it after approval. - [ ] Sergio will provide Christi with the logins for the relevant internet accounts. - [ ] Christi will meet with ComDirect this week to discuss issues with automatic invoice delivery and the need for manual downloads. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following unresolved items or unclear action points; please review: > 1. The specific resolution for the CapEx expense type (193000) issue in Concur was not clarified. > 2. It remains unclear whether Sergio provided the requested internet account logins to Christi during the call or if this is still pending. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] AF Concur working session with Susanna - already logged 7/21.
- Date
- Jul 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi. Can you hear me okay? Okay, perfect. Let me pull up. All right. So I went in to go do some things in Concur, And I went to go flip that expense report over to invoice because I just did it as an expense report out of habit, but. Speaker 1 00:00:32 Oh no, not that one. I deleted that one. Invoice Manager. All my invoices. All right, so in here I have an alert. Oh, that one's not an issue, But I struggled with on here, which I was what I was going to check with you. But then I ended up needing to submit it faster. It is so slow today. Down here, the expense type for this one because this is a CapEx one. Okay. It'll let me okay which expense? 193000. Speaker 2 00:01:32 Oh. Where did it go? Speaker 1 00:01:38 Oh, I'd. Yeah, going in. Ignore me today. 193000 Okay. That was my biggest issue. That's why I reached out yesterday, But I was going through so much stuff that I couldn't just skip over Teams. I was having problems processing how I wanted to order it All right, So that was my big one, and then the expense because I was purchasing stuff on the credit card. Um, I put it. I just put one expense report for the month of all the things I'm working on. On the IT credit card is that? Yes. Speaker 2 00:02:32 Mhm. That. Speaker 1 00:02:49 Would be better. Sorry, I was about to choke. That would be much better just because I want to make sure that I want to make sure that I'm following up with Michonne for any of the things that she's working on. And that every time I log into Concur, which is pretty often, I know that it's there. Speaker 1 00:03:27 Okay. Concur makes submitting okay. Concur is a lot easier for me to submit expenses than the Crimson version or the Crimson thing that we do. Crimson one is much harder. Speaker 2 00:04:05 Yes. Yes, Speaker 1 00:04:18 I can pull those receipts. I think there's only like two or three receipts I can't pull myself, And I'll just email Michonne for those and get her to send them to me and I'll attach them. Speaker 2 00:04:39 Okay. Oh, Speaker 1 00:04:58 That's easy. I'll put that on my calendar, so that I make sure I don't miss it. Speaker 1 00:05:08 Sorry, I'm choking on corn. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Ignore what you see on my screen. I gotta, I need to do something real quick while you're doing what you're doing. Speaker 1 00:08:12 I'm Gonna keep working while you're doing what you're doing. Speaker 2 00:08:38 Okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:08:56 Good to know. And then anything I see open there, I will hunt down either the receipts or I'll hunt down my shot. Speaker 1 00:09:18 Yes, uh or no, But we shouldn't have to download the invoices from our internet accounts because they're supposed to be coming from ComDirect. That's still concerning me. Okay, Can you get me the logins for those accounts so that I can Because I have a meeting with ComDirect this week to go over some things that are still not happening. And I want to show them side by side what we're experiencing because I don't think they're getting it. Speaker 2 00:09:58 Mhm. Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:10:26 Okay. Let me do something real quick. Okay. One second. Speaker 1 00:10:56 Oh, there it is. It's IT department. Is that the email address? Okay, I'm going to grant myself rewrite access to that mailbox, and then I can go in and pull the settings up. Yeah, send me have you ever used a secret password generator? Speaker 1 00:11:26 Okay, hang on one second. I'm gonna send you that link and then I'll show you how it works. But first let me give myself full access. Speaker 1 00:11:55 Hang On one moment. All right, so we gotta wait about 15 minutes. So let me show you. All right, so this is a password where you can send it. So basically all you do is on this page that you go to, um, you can type in something random. I'm just hitting my keyboard. Um, set the expires and the views and then say create a link. And then when you create a link, it does take a few minutes because it's encrypting it. You just say, copy link, and then you paste it into an email that you're sending or in Teams like I just did to you. So click on that bottom link, and it's going to pull up for you and you'll see what it looks like. So that's, and this is a secure way that we can send passwords back and forth. Speaker 1 00:13:05 Okay. No worries. And after you look at, after I look at a link or you look at a link, it self- destructs. It's not saved anywhere on the ethernet. So. Speaker 2 00:13:24 Yeah. No worries. Speaker 1 00:13:30 And then hopefully this takes the pressure off of you every month. Good. Speaker 1 00:13:52 Yeah, Let me go back to Concur. Okay, I'll go back to the homepage. Speaker 1 00:13:59 All right, there we go. Speaker 2 00:14:11 Okay. Okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:14:26 So July 27 th. Do you need me to find receipts on any of this? Speaker 1 00:14:44 Okay. I meant any of the ones that are July, the current July, or did I misunderstand you? Speaker 1 00:15:02 Okay, So let me see what I can find out and get that for you and get those added. Nope, I'm gonna put in your receipts for you. Uh add them to expense report, submit it to Michonne for approval and then uh send it on its way. And I'm gonna make sure every single thing has a receipt. Speaker 2 00:15:45 Okay. Go. Speaker 1 00:15:49 For it. I will, I will help you with this part. Speaker 2 00:16:11 Okay, perfect. Speaker 2 00:16:24 Mhm. Yeah, give me hold on a second. It's a little slow today. Okay. Speaker 1 00:17:04 Okay. Sorry, say that again. Department. Speaker 2 00:17:14 Okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:18:17 Okay. So if I get stuck, go back and look at the previous ones. Is that what you're saying? Sorry, you're cutting in and out slightly, so I think I'm catching everything you say. Susan? Susanna, did I lose you? Speaker 1 00:18:50 No Worries. That happens. That yes, that explains why you were cutting in and out so bad at one point. Can you hear me?
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04-20 Lingguhang Pulong: Cleanup ng Time Entries, Nevada Gaming License, Onboarding sa Avanan/SAS, at Billing/Agreements Hygiene
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- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-04-20 16:23:18 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [Sergio] [Speaker 3] [Anzor] ## Tala ng Pulong - Pamamahala ng time entries at cleanup - Maraming lumabas na time entries na naka-2025 at 2026 kahit nag-zero out noong January. - Napag-usapan ang pangangailangan ng regular na weekly cleanup, pero mahirap gawin dahil sa ibang deliverables. - May kalituhan sa “through date” at billable visibility; iginiit na lalabas ang billable kahit anong through date. - Target ng cleanup: matapos sa linggong ito; nabanggit ang petsang May 8 bilang internal na pagtatapos ng ilang gawain. - May mga nakatagong billable tickets (hal. Westwood) na nirerebisita at sine-check din ni Maggie. - Konklusyon: Itutuloy ang cleanup ngayong linggo; magfo-focus si [Speaker 1] bago magsimula ng iba pang gawain sa Mayo. - Isyu sa responsibilidad sa automation at triage - Nabunyag ang paulit-ulit na pagka-delay sa automation at report support na may kaugnayan kay Christian. - Nagtanong kung sino ang nag-triage noong wala si Christian; si [Speaker 3] ang temporarily nag-handle at generally ok maliban sa patch. - Konklusyon: Kailangan ng mas malinaw na assignment sa automation at triage kapag may nawawala sa team. - Nevada Gaming License para sa Maverick Gaming - Kailangan ng Nevada Gaming Control Board license para makapagtrabaho sa mga casino sa Nevada. - Mga gawain: punan ang application forms; alamin mula sa Nevada Gaming Board kung sino eksaktong dapat ilista (owners lang, lahat ng empleyado, o mga techs na magtatrabaho). - Layunin na maipush ang requirements “today if possible”; mas prioridad ito kaysa sa file/contract updates. - Konklusyon: Tatawag sa Nevada Gaming Board para linawin ang sakop ng mga dapat i-list at sisimulan ang pagpuno ng forms agad. - Vendor master list, file naming, at billing cycle alignment - Vendor master list: dapat nasa boss by end of day today. - Attachments na may “weird characters” hindi ma-open; ire-rename gamit ang Subscription + Company/Vendor naming convention. - AutoElevate: may kalituhan sa renewal (annual vs monthly) at 17 months; ia-update ang billing cycle sa monthly kung naaangkop. - May ticket sa Meraki Cloud License Renewal; si Maggie ang tatanggap/triage. - Onboarding gaps: Avanan at SAS enablement - May discrepancy sa mailboxes vs Avanan/SAS deployments lalo na sa recently onboarded. - “Avanan All” dapat lahat covered, ngunit maraming wala; isang email request na mass “email access only” walang per-user onboarding ticket at task list, kaya namimiss ng HD ang Avanan/SAS. - Napagkasunduang i-remind ang HD: anumang bagong mailbox creation siguraduhing may Avanan at SAS. - Dinala sa meeting kasama si Mike at Olivia para i-acknowledge na onboarding issue, hindi billing. - After-hours support at agreement linkage - Na-spot ang after-hours support entry (March) ni “Kuya G”; kailangang i-validate kung billable at i-link sa tamang agreement. - Request ni Anzor: i-flag ang mga hindi naka-attach sa agreement; mas mainam kung maayos na mula umpisa. - Pricing at licensing inquiries (DefenseX, Dropsuite/ShareWeb/Pax8) - Kapag nagbibigay ng rekomendasyon sa client, gamitin ang retail price hindi cost. - Dropsuite transfer: hinihintay kung sino ang pipirma mula sa Pax8 para sa e-signature chain (kasama si ShareWeb at Anzo/Anzor); si Chloe Cameron ang group signer for support. - May tanong si Mikey tungkol sa DefenseX pricing structure. - Operational at scheduling notes - Migration noong March; January–February puro cleanup. - Si Tony magre-reach out kay Kristi. - Availability: walang malaking conflict ngayong week at next week; may Hong Kong trip sa susunod. - System performance: mabagal ang ConnectWise/internet pero nakaka-time entry at search pa rin. ## Mga Susunod na Ayos - [ ] Nevada Gaming License: - Tumawag sa Nevada Gaming Control Board para linawin kung sino ang dapat ilista sa application (owners, lahat ng empleyado, o mga tech na gagawa sa project). - Punan at ihanda ang application at mga addendum; i-push para maipasa “today if possible”. - [ ] Vendor at billing hygiene: - I-deliver ang Vendor Master List sa boss bago matapos ang araw. - I-rename ang attachments na may “weird characters” gamit ang “Subscription + Company/Vendor” naming convention. - I-align ang AutoElevate billing: ayusin ang renewal/billing cycle (tanggalin ang 17 months anomaly; monthly kung tama). - [ ] Agreements at after-hours: - I-validate kung billable ang after-hours support ni “Kuya G” at i-link sa tamang agreement. - I-flag kay Anzor ang items/tickets na walang naka-attach na agreement. - [ ] Onboarding at security enablement: - I-remind ang HD: anumang bagong mailbox creation dapat lagyan ng Avanan at SAS. - I-update ang onboarding process/ticketing (per-user ticket at task list) para hindi mamiss ang Avanan/SAS sa mass requests. - [ ] Pricing at approvals: - Sagutin ang tanong ni Mikey tungkol sa DefenseX pricing structure (ibigay ang retail price). - Tuntunin ang signer mula sa Pax8 at ipadala ang e-sign request para sa Dropsuite transfer (kasama si ShareWeb at Anzor/Anzo); kumpirmahin kay Chloe Cameron. ## Mungkahi ng AI > Mungkahi ng AI > Natukoy ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyung hindi natapos sa pulong o kulang sa malinaw na action items; paki-tutukan: > 1. Walang malinaw na owner at deadline sa pagtawag sa Nevada Gaming Board at sa pagsumite ng application; magtalaga ng tao at eksaktong oras. > 2. Hindi pa tukoy kung paano permanenteng aayusin ang onboarding gaps para sa Avanan/SAS (template, checklist, o automation); magdefine ng standard process at QA check. > 3. Paulit-ulit na delay sa automation tasks na naka-depende kay Christian; magtalaga ng backup/secondary owner at mag-set ng regular status checks. > 4. 17-month billing anomaly sa AutoElevate at iba pang contracts; kailangan ng audit ng lahat ng subscriptions para masigurong tama ang billing cycle at renewal terms. > 5. Time entries na lumalabas sa 2025–2026; magpatupad ng weekly light-check cadence at monthly deep-dive, at i-log ang root causes (through date, late closure, system lag).
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- Apr 20, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 I'm, ano, good naman. Ikaw. Speaker 2 00:00:05 Okay din naman. Speaker 2 00:00:13 Bye! Speaker 2 00:00:16 New visitor. Speaker 1 00:00:18 Ayun nalang gagawin ko, Paul. Mag-clean up ako ng, ano, Mga time entries. Speaker 3 00:00:23 Nagulat ako dun sa 2025. Ano yun? Mga recently closed lang talaga, no? Speaker 1 00:00:28 Sineko nga eh. Ah, alam ko, nag-zero out ako ng January. Speaker 3 00:00:34 Ano? Oo nga eh. Kaya nga naisip ko, recent lang kaya itong mga ito, pero ang dami, sabi ko. Speaker 1 00:00:39 Ang dami kasi. Hindi ko din alam. Sabi ko, bakit may ganito? Eh, nag-zero out ako ng January. Speaker 3 00:00:45 Kaya nga eh. So, dapat, ang clean up is like every week talaga, ganun? Mag-check ka kung may mga nakakalusot na, ano, recently closed, ganyan. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Oo, yung recently closed, oo. Speaker 3 00:01:03 Tapos, Maggie, nag-ano ka na ba? Nag-project feeling ka na ba last week? Speaker 1 00:01:08 Nag-project ko, oo, last week. Yes. Speaker 1 00:01:12 Please call me. Ay, yung iba kasi, ano, naka, hindi naman eh, hindi ko naman siya iniwan because of MSSP. Diba, ngayon yung MSSP wala na. Speaker 3 00:01:25 Oo, hindi na siya pinapa, ano niya, sir, pinatanggal na. Speaker 2 00:01:33 Paano nang gagawin? Speaker 3 00:01:34 Feeling ko kailangang i-ano talaga Si Christian Ulit din sa automation. Kasi even yung Sinasabi niya, sabi siya na mag-help Siya dun sa automation ng reports ni Christian, Wala din ang ngyari. Speaker 1 00:01:50 Ayan ang lumalabas, Yung sakit ni Christian. Speaker 3 00:01:53 Oo, magpa-promise siya ng ganito and then, Mag-schedule ka ng meeting Sa kanya, ipapare-schedule and then Sabihin, ay nakalimutan. Kasi nababaon, Na siya. Hindi na siya naalala Ang gawin. Speaker 1 00:02:08 Ito na lang ang utang ko Sa'yo. Ang mga TS. Speaker 3 00:02:24 Gaming licensing. Diyos ko, tinawag. Nadistract ako biglang nagchat. Sige na to. Speaker 2 00:02:39 Fish alert. Speaker 1 00:02:44 Hindi naman ako papayag Na matatapos yung 2025 nang meron, Pang time entries. Speaker 3 00:02:56 Diba? Kaya nung pinakita niya yun, Sabi ko, away? Talaga ba? Speaker 1 00:03:03 Oo. Baka ngayon lang nag-resurface, Ito mga to. Eh, before mag-ano. Speaker 3 00:03:09 Last year pa. Speaker 1 00:03:15 Last year Yung lumilitaw. Speaker 3 00:03:19 It is impossible. Speaker 2 00:03:29 What the fudge. Speaker 3 00:03:37 Nevada Gaming License. Ano naman alam ko dito, ate? Kaya naman tayo sa... Speaker 1 00:03:45 Bakit magkaroon ng Gaming License? Speaker 3 00:03:47 Kay Maverick Gaming. Kasi important na, Yung MSP nila, Is may Gaming License. E di ba nag-sign up sila ng project Muna sa atin? Speaker 3 00:03:58 And we're trying to get them to us. Client talaga. Speaker 3 00:04:05 Nevada Gaming. Forward ko sa word. Speaker 3 00:04:08 Si Sega may hawak din ng On-board, ay, ng project nila, eh. Alam ko may no-workout din niya to, eh. This is starting application. Adding zip code with all the forms you needed. Speaker 2 00:04:28 Ano daw? Speaker 2 00:04:32 Gaming control board. Speaker 2 00:04:38 Schedule. Ano. Speaker 1 00:04:42 Bang mga ginawa natin, Noong January-February? Puro clean up eh, diba? Tapos nagkaroon ng migration noong March. Speaker 3 00:05:14 Si Tony naman mag-reach out daw kay Kristi, no? So, feeling ko maano na niya yan. Pagka di pa niya ginawa. Speaker 1 00:05:24 Tignan mo, noong February na ako yung, Nag-DS noong February. Ay, noong 4 January, ako yung Nag-DS. Sabi ko, tapos na. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Yung na-backtrack ko yung ano eh. Conversation sa biling. Speaker 3 00:06:12 Vendor master list Kailangan nasa boss na daw By end of day to day. Speaker 3 00:06:19 Oh. Okay. Tapos yung auto-elevate. Speaker 3 00:06:26 Wait lang. Cyberfax. O yan. Pag may mga nakikita, Kang ganitong itsura ng attachment, Speaker 3 00:06:35 Ganito. Speaker 3 00:06:40 Ito. Pag mga ganyan, i-rename mo na sila As yung, kung ano yung Subscription and Company or vendor. Kasi sabi niya, answer, hindi daw niya ma-open, To maybe dahil daw sa Unnecessary character, Or ano. Speaker 3 00:06:60 Okay. Ito. Ayan. Ano naman sabi niya, Dun sa characters? Speaker 3 00:07:11 Ah, ayun, let's rename the file to make sense. Oto, alibi. Does not, ano daw? And I can't even open it. I think using weird characters is playing a role. Sabi niya. Speaker 3 00:07:29 O, sige. Balikan ko yan. Sige, tapos kinoconfirm ko kay Maggie, eh, kay Maggie, kay Elisa, kasi nakita ako. Nilagay niya doon sa ConnectWise. Alam ko doon mo ito kunopya eh. Nung na yung vendor contract, Ay agreement doon. Nakaalagay sa, Naming convention niya. Naka-annual. Tapos kinet ko doon sa Agreement. Ang billing, Frequency is monthly. Pero yung, Ito, wait lang, nag-replay siya. Speaker 2 00:08:06 Maraming walang alam ko. Speaker 3 00:08:13 Ah, renewal is Annual. Okay. Pero normal Ba na 17, months siya. Update ko Na tong si auto-elevate, ha. Ima-monthly ko na lang yung Renewal niya. Ay, tama, ha? Sige, sige. Pero weird, Kasi. Speaker 3 00:08:43 Wait. Wala siyang option. New visitor. Pakita ko nga Kay Alisa. Ah, yung Billing cycle. Dapat, Monthly. Okay. Kita ko na pala. Pero type niya is annual. Renewal. Speaker 1 00:08:58 Sinabi ko May 8. May 8 matatapos to. Pero hindi naman matatapos yung week na to. Tapos na tong ano mo to. Clean up. Speaker 3 00:09:11 Mabilis lang naman Anis. So ano na lang magbibiling? Speaker 1 00:09:18 23, 24? Thursday, Friday? Sige. May nakalipas natin ngayong week? Speaker 3 00:09:31 Ako hindi naman ako nakalip, This week. Parang wala. Next week? Next week, hindi ako. Wala din. Ang pinaalam lang... Ang next na is yung sa Hong Kong trip. Ikaw ba, Maggie? Meron ka? Speaker 3 00:09:47 Wala naman. Okay. Speaker 1 00:09:50 Kaya to. Matatapos natin lahat yun. Ano? Biling. Speaker 3 00:09:54 Sige. Speaker 3 00:09:56 Bye. Speaker 1 00:09:57 Ayun lang. Ayaw makisama ng Connect Twice. Speaker 3 00:10:00 Kaya nga eh. Speaker 1 00:10:01 Salamat na lang sa lahat. Speaker 1 00:10:09 Masubok ako ni Michelle, ha? Sige. Yan ang gusto ko. Ano? Speaker 1 00:10:29 Alam ko talaga Naglinis tayo nito, eh. Yun yung nasa, ano ko, Mali ba ako? Alam ko naglinis tayo Nito, eh. Kaya nag-trimming pa nga tayo. Speaker 3 00:10:40 Concious ako sa call. Speaker 3 00:10:43 Pero hindi ko rin alam Ano yung sasagot ko. Alam ko kasi ka. Speaker 3 00:10:48 Ang dalawang. Speaker 1 00:10:49 Reason niyan. Dalawang reason lang niyan. Nag-reach, ngayon lang lumitaw, Or ngayon lang klinos. Speaker 3 00:11:01 Baka recently nag-clean up din si, Olivia ng mga Antagal ng hindi close. Speaker 1 00:11:07 Pero pag tinignan mo naman kasi yung ticket. Pwede 25 nga siya na. Sa audit trail. Speaker 1 00:11:14 Ang tanong, bakit hindi siya lumitaw sa... Kakainis. Speaker 1 00:11:22 Pamiya, I-check ka ni ano yun. Tapos sasabihin na naman ni, Anson hindi ginagawin trabaho. Putik yan. Speaker 3 00:11:31 Namiss na naman. Speaker 3 00:11:35 Anong date ang nilagay mo Dun sa invoicing? December 2025? Speaker 3 00:11:41 Yung through date? Oo. Speaker 3 00:11:44 Kaya siya lumabas. Kasi naman yung. Speaker 1 00:11:46 Lilitao naman lahat siya. Ah. Hindi totoo yung sinasabi niya Yung through date, Through date. Kahit dito, Dito yung lilitao lahat yun. Basta billable. Kaya nga sabi ko, Ano kahit naman ilagay mo Nung ano yung lilitao? Speaker 3 00:11:59 17 months. Speaker 1 00:12:03 Nasa Woodridge ako. Kung gagawa ka sa taas, gagawa ka. Kasi sa baba ko nag-start eh. Sige. Kahit huwag na ikaw, sa ano ka na mag-start? Next month ka na mag-start? May. Linisin ko na muna ito. Speaker 3 00:12:17 Urgent lang si Andrew dun sa license. Speaker 1 00:12:20 Sa akin pa naman eh. 2025. Speaker 1 00:12:25 Pero nadamay ko yung 2026. Nag-science. Speaker 1 00:12:33 Basta gagawawa ko ng mango Griham, Paul. Speaker 1 00:12:38 Gusto mo ba ulit? Masarap yung mango griham na ginawa niya Noong birthday. Speaker 3 00:12:43 Yes, yes. Speaker 1 00:12:44 Basta, tignan mo, si ano, Si, ang pangalan neto, Si Maggie kaya, nagchecheck din yan, Ng mga billable tickets Na nakatago. Diba, Mags? Speaker 3 00:12:54 Oo, yeah. Speaker 1 00:12:55 Oo, o. O, tingnan mo, meron na naman Sa Westwood. Speaker 3 00:12:59 Ang galing namang tumiming Ng random check ni Michelle. Speaker 1 00:13:04 Kaya nga eh, nag-revisit ako. Misa ko pa ganyan eh. E, masasabi. Huwag nang nagka-add ako. Ah, makasarado lang nung Friday. Ay Thursday. Speaker 1 00:13:18 I-change ko ng fixed rate magi. Ikaw na na bahala mag-bill ha. Sige, sige. Speaker 1 00:13:25 Basta ililita ko siya sa labas. Ikaw na na bahala sa mag-bill. Speaker 1 00:13:32 Talos may ginagawa ko. Pero ang dami kong gagawin sa kabila. Yung Teknazaurya. Ang daming rocks na inasayos pa akin. Speaker 3 00:13:41 Tinambakanan yun. Speaker 1 00:13:44 Sinabi ko kasi na medyo Sabi ko medyo ano na ako sa, Crimson. Medyo nga lawag na yung load. Ganyan-ganyan. Dahil nalaman niya. Ganyan na. Ito ang sayo. Ganyan ang eksena. Speaker 1 00:14:04 Ano? Tataposin ko ito. Speaker 1 00:14:07 Oo nga po. Kumuha ko naman ng mango Krihan para sa birthday ni Jane. Speaker 3 00:14:12 Hindi ko nga alam kung road trip gusto niya O bahay nila eh. Speaker 3 00:14:16 Hindi pa kukunin yung kotse. Speaker 1 00:14:19 Yung kotse. Sana Naman ay maging. Speaker 3 00:14:23 Nagsensibate for 17 months. Speaker 3 00:14:29 Hala, hindi ko nabalagan si Mike. Ano nga sabi niya? Mamaya natin pag-usapan yung Puff. No, real. I just tell me. Puff, the magic dragon. Ah, sabi niya, Kaya niya pinaremoved din yung 27. Nag-discuss niya kay Project Angel Food. Sabi niya, I realize the timing. Kasi tinatanong ko, I-credit ba natin sila, Doon sa binil nating sim And SoFo's last voice? Hindi na. Speaker 1 00:14:54 Next na lang. Speaker 3 00:14:55 Hindi. Sabi naman niya, hindi. Hindi na rin naman ng credit at all. Kasi sabi niya, narealize daw niya na yung timing, Actually worked out very luckily for us. I tied both to our, Huntress upgrade daw. Yung daw yung in-explain niya. So now it looks like we're doing the right thing, But during their monthly, by $700 For a security upgrade, We didn't charge for No credit needed. Sabi niya. Speaker 1 00:15:19 Bala ka na lang. Sabi niyo, bala ko. Speaker 3 00:15:22 Hinard ko na nga lang eh. Speaker 1 00:15:25 Kasi matapos lang. Ang dami nangyari. Naloka ako dun sa another email. Yung in-emphasize pa niya pa yung another. Speaker 3 00:15:34 Oo, dahil di daw niya mahanap. Tama ba? Speaker 1 00:15:37 Buyset na yan. So, tanggap mo na gumagawa ka ng trabaho, buyset ka. Yung gano'n. Speaker 1 00:15:44 Nag-i-call ka na ganyang Sanhi. Speaker 3 00:15:46 Ang galing kong ano, Then ina-analyze ko nga yung missing bucket list. Yun nga, may discrepancy between the mailboxes and yung, yung tawag dito, SAS, tsaka, um, Avanan. Tapos, ayun, sabi na, ano namin na, sinay namin naman na nga rin ni Olivia, nasa onboarding nila yun. Sabi ko, oo, kasi moving forward, kung talagang, ano. Tapos, doon namin nalaman na ang Malir pala is, mayroong, may. Speaker 3 00:16:21 Pag Avanan All, lahat ng Okay dun kay client na lahat Ng, daw dito, lahat Ng mailboxes nila is nalagyan ng Avanan. Pag Avanan Limited, may Number of mailboxes lang na Gusto nilang palagyan kasi nga, Per license ang bayad. So, ayun. Yung NOK Alir, naka-Avanan All Siya, pero ang daming walang Avanan. Kaya, ayun. Pero mostly naman na-identify ko Na walang Avanan at SAS. E mga recently onboarded lang. Speaker 3 00:16:52 Tapos mayroon doon na massive Email access only, Ang request. Wala siyang separate, Na onboarding ticket Each user. Parang pinagsama Nila doon sa isang email. Kaya ang daming Lumitaw na walang, Avanan. E doon pag gano'n na, Isang email lang, hindi siya yung typical Na onboarding form. Walang Naka-attach na task list. Kaya Ito. Possible yung mamiss talaga Ni HD na hindi ipa-add yung Avanan at SAS. Speaker 3 00:17:24 Kaya sabi ko kayo, Olivia, I-remind na lang yung, HD na any new mailbox creation. I-make sure na may ano. Speaker 1 00:17:32 Onboarding naman kasi yun. Speaker 3 00:17:34 Yun na nga eh. Paulit-ulit na nga lang. Kasi nga, Tas kami ang tatanungin. Bakit ganito yung. Speaker 1 00:17:43 Onboarding? Patata sa outboarding. Yan ang issue. Kaya talaga... Isulat mo sa listahan Ng pain points niya. Speaker 3 00:17:53 Kaya Michelle, Kaya nung talagang Inantay ko naman, Gagaling sa bibig ni bakla. Talaga din sinantay Nung meeting namin. Tagal namin. One hour. Speaker 3 00:18:06 Nung Friday, Sabi ko, Shit, sabi ko, Kailangan. Kaya in-include ko si Mike Para marinig niya rin, Na mismo kay Olivia Na it's an onboarding issue. Hindi sa billing. Speaker 2 00:18:22 O, saan yan? One note and desk. Speaker 2 00:18:53 Thank you for watching! Speaker 2 00:19:41 Naka since Feb to April, typical yung 70. Speaker 3 00:20:21 Mabagal ba VPN nyo? Speaker 3 00:20:27 Hindi naman. So mabagal na lang. Speaker 1 00:20:30 So ako okay lang. Nagwiwi kasi ako. Napakabagal yung tubig, ate. Speaker 3 00:20:38 Sa inyo? Oo. Pero nung dyan ako nakatira sa Santa Ines dati, Laging may times na once a week May one hour na outage. Siguro mga 12 midnight. Na tubig? Oo. Speaker 3 00:20:56 Hindi ko alam bakit sa Santa Ines lang. I ask ko kay Mike bakit 17 months tayo. Speaker 3 00:21:13 Nakasign dun. Speaker 2 00:21:15 ID 4 na. Speaker 2 00:21:26 Sira. Speaker 3 00:21:27 Pa rin ba? Connect twice? Okay naman na. Speaker 1 00:21:36 Mabagal. Lahat mabagal. Speaker 3 00:21:39 Oo, lahat mabagal. Pero nakaka-time entry naman na. Ayan, nakaka-search na rin ako ng ticket. Speaker 1 00:21:56 Saka, dito po na-experience mo ba yung tubig ay kulay, bro? Speaker 3 00:22:02 Ayuot eh. Kaya minsan, pag antok-antok pa ako, natutunan ko yung lasong ko na magkakaagadaan sa water. Kaya umunang mag-flow siya. Speaker 1 00:22:13 Kaya bumili ako ng filter. Speaker 3 00:22:18 Bakit kaya dyan lang? Dito naman hindi. Speaker 2 00:22:27 I don't know. Speaker 3 00:22:36 The threshold and reservation, For guests not staying at the hotel Are made exclusively by phone, Only the same day. Speaker 2 00:24:33 Ayun, buti na lang, di na ako tatawag. Speaker 2 00:25:29 Thank you for watching! Speaker 1 00:25:59 Ay, mabagal talaga ng internet. Speaker 2 00:27:58 Okay. Speaker 1 00:28:10 Grabe, ang Dry naman ang mata ko. Speaker 1 00:28:22 Alam mo, ang hirap ba umoking? Ang dami ko sana umoking, kaso. Speaker 1 00:28:27 Wala akong place. Speaker 1 00:28:31 Yung purong ka-eksenahan ko, Mga kasama din yung kaibigan, Hindi rin makalakasena kasi walang Kwarto. Wala kaming kwarto at Wala kaming lulugar. Wala nga naman sa dalampasigan kami. Mamiyan, maging viral pa. Speaker 1 00:28:45 Pasigat ka pa. Speaker 1 00:28:48 Ayan na, zero Ang bading. Sayang. Dami pa naman si Yuki. Speaker 2 00:29:01 Okay, ano po tayo? Zero WN. Speaker 2 00:29:15 Defense X. Speaker 3 00:29:36 So, offer pricing tayo. Tumitingin Ng pricing, Nobin. Pag sa ShareWeb. Speaker 1 00:29:41 Offer pricing. Speaker 3 00:29:45 Pag nagtatanong sa Yung team ng pricing Nila ng ganitong license. Tama. For example, Defense X. Wait, tinan natin. Speaker 3 00:30:02 Defense, X. Speaker 3 00:30:06 Ayun, security and compliance. Ah, under siya nun. Speaker 3 00:30:14 Retail price and your cost. Speaker 3 00:30:20 Okay. Speaker 2 00:30:21 Retail price. I can... Speaker 3 00:30:35 So, pag nag-recommend tayo ng price lang nila, yung retail price na tama. Speaker 3 00:30:52 For example, ito. Speaker 1 00:30:53 Retail price. Oo, wag yung cost. Speaker 3 00:30:54 Wag itong cost, no? Okay, okay. May tinatanong si Mikey about DefenseX. Sige, sige. Speaker 2 00:31:18 But if you prefer 10.30 at that 10.30 a.m., so. Speaker 2 00:31:47 Anong pricing structure? Speaker 2 00:32:10 Yan pa palang ano? Speaker 3 00:32:24 Yung drop suite, ngayon yung junior, diba, for transfer. Kaso yung form na pinapaanohan ko pa, yung transfer form, ang pending na lang inaantay kung sino yung magsasign from Pax 8 kasi kailangan i-send ko na lang as e-signature silang tatlo kay Anzo or kay ShareWeb and kay Pax 8. Speaker 3 00:32:52 We'll sign through a ticket. Chloe Cameron. Kaya mo na yan. Chloe Cameron. Oo, yun nga lang. Speaker 1 00:32:57 Hindi ko siya na-absorb ating. Speaker 3 00:33:00 Ago lang. Heads up lang. Chloe Cameron confirmed that support will be the group sign. Speaker 1 00:33:08 Lip gloss. Speaker 2 00:33:15 It's a good sign today. Speaker 2 00:33:31 Chloe Cameron confirmed it. Speaker 1 00:33:39 Ang ganda ng skin ko. Nakisama yung skin ko to be fair. Buong trip na. Speaker 3 00:33:47 Hindi nag-break out Chloe Cameron. Speaker 1 00:33:50 Kuhang-kuhang ko na yung Ano ko. Yung shampoo ng aking bala. Once na lang akong nag, ano talaga, yung full na skin care. Ngayon, ano lang ako, toner, toner, tapos tapos na. Speaker 3 00:34:10 Chloe Cameron to the form as one of the signers since I'm... Speaker 1 00:34:19 So, ang problema ko ngayon, hindi naman siya problema. Speaker 1 00:34:24 Dahil parang naman ako rosy cheeks na palagi. Speaker 1 00:34:28 To send an. Speaker 3 00:34:41 E-sign request. Speaker 2 00:34:49 To all parties. Speaker 2 00:35:09 Sine. Speaker 2 00:35:41 Thank you for watching! Speaker 1 00:36:26 Oh, may after-hour support pala si Kuya G. Speaker 1 00:36:40 Paso nung ano pa, March. Speaker 1 00:36:45 Kailangan tanong yan kung billable yun. Speaker 1 00:36:51 Mag-i-close kayo ni Kuya G, di ba? Speaker 3 00:36:56 Close. Speaker 1 00:36:59 Sila. Inaawa. Binagalitan niya nga si, George. Speaker 3 00:37:06 Hindi naman pagalit. Speaker 2 00:37:08 Sins or daddy? Speaker 2 00:37:18 Kasi naman. Bakit makakulang? Speaker 1 00:37:26 Agreement ito. Speaker 2 00:37:28 4-0-2. Speaker 1 00:37:32 Sabi, diba, sabi kasi ni Anzor, i-flag sa kanya yung, Mga hindi nag-attach Sa agreement. Speaker 3 00:37:41 Another work pa kasi yun eh. Kung tinatama na lang nila from the, Beginning. Speaker 1 00:37:58 Karoon ko, imibil na after hours of work kayo, Wesley. Speaker 3 00:38:29 From. Speaker 2 00:38:30 12 a.m. Speaker 1 00:39:08 Hindi mo din kasi ito pwede sabihin na Every week, ito yung gagawin mo, Paul. Kasi? Mahirap siyang Gawin ng every week. Matrabaho? Kasi Di naman matrabaho. Eh kasi, syempre, Meron kang Mga tasks, deliverables, Din. So, yung mga recurring, Na ganito, ipupushback, mapupushback At mapupushback talaga. Gusto mo siyang gawin ng isang upuan. Speaker 1 00:39:39 Sana kasi kung walang tumadating mga tasks, eh may tumadating mga tasks. Speaker 2 00:39:47 Ay, true din. Hindi ko pala nasento. Speaker 2 00:40:08 Oh, God. Speaker 1 00:40:21 Wala na ba tayong group chat kasama si George? Speaker 1 00:40:25 Hello. Speaker 1 00:40:30 Kailan mo, Ito ba ang mga after hours Na ito? Speaker 2 00:42:22 935300. Speaker 1 00:43:02 Si Bogda naman, gusto niya ba maging salesperson? Speaker 3 00:43:05 Labing niya sineselect niyan. Sabi niya ko na siya dati dyan eh. Speaker 2 00:43:10 May siya na lang mag-sales. Gusto niya lang. Baka gusto. Baka dito niya maging salesperson. Speaker 3 00:43:19 Sina sa ano dito? Pag may mga dumarating sa board na Meraki Cloud License Renewal. Si ano ba to? Si Christian? Sa akin muna. Ay, ko yan. Okay, Maggie. Yes, Maggie. Speaker 1 00:43:31 Nagsitriaging ka ba? Speaker 3 00:43:33 Hindi kasi may tunag akong ticket ko Na finaward ko sa board. Nakipansin ko na ito. Sabi ko, ay, send ko na kay Maggie. Speaker 1 00:43:45 Sino nagtriaging nung nawala si Chris siya? Speaker 3 00:43:47 Ako. Speaker 3 00:43:50 Na, ano, check, check. Wala naman experience mo. Okay naman. Speaker 1 00:43:55 Wala naman atang ticket. Speaker 3 00:43:57 Meron. For some reason, Nung 3 days na wala ka, Hindi naman siya naging ganun ka. Chaotic na Except lang doon sa. Speaker 3 00:44:08 Ano nga, sa patch. Speaker 1 00:44:12 Ay, sa patch. Speaker 1 00:44:17 Nakalala ko, nakalimutan mo na, Siguro yun. Nakalala mo, naka-outing ako Tapos tinawagan kita. Pagpapatch din ako sa'yo. Speaker 3 00:44:25 Tagal na kasanuntay. Hindi ko na maalala to. Pero nanghihiyaw ka, Imagi ng... Training recording. Meron naman siya. Na-confuse na lang. Oh shit, Ayun naman tayong sensor. Hi, Anzor. Good morning. Speaker 4 00:44:40 Hello, dear. Hey, So, I sent you the gaming application, Right? Speaker 2 00:44:46 Yeah. Speaker 4 00:44:47 And then, The file with the zip file, Right, That has all other forms That we need to fill out. Go ahead and fill this out. Anything that's left, save it. I'll fill it out if you don't know how to answer. Most important thing, call gaming guys and tell them that, hey, we're the company, right? We're applying for the third-party provider license. And in the application, it wants to list the people that should be licensed. Speaker 4 00:45:18 Ask them, is that list for the owners of the company? Or is this the actual text? And tell them that we have, let's say, 20 texts. Do we need to list all of them? So just find out who exactly should be listed on application. Speaker 3 00:45:36 Okay, by gaming guys, you mean Maverick Gaming? Or should I? Speaker 4 00:45:40 Nevada Gaming Board. So we're getting Nevada Gaming Board license, right? In order for us to work in any casino in Nevada, We have to have this license. So, there is a process, right? I sent you the files. If you read it, you will see the first file is where you start. Okay? Speaker 3 00:45:59 Yeah, the application and investigating fee schedule? Speaker 4 00:46:03 Yes. Yeah. Okay. Well, I think it's the application. It's like one hour or something. Speaker 3 00:46:09 Ah, the addendum. Right. Okay. Speaker 4 00:46:11 So, what you want to do ultimately, call Nevada Gaming Board. Find out how to properly fill out this application. Who do you list as additional people? The techs that must work on the project, All of the employees in the company, Or only the owners, right? So maybe you get the license under the ownership. So it's just going to be, let's say, me, right? And then all other employees just get the regular license. Speaker 4 00:46:42 So you just have to figure out what is needed for us to be able to service casinos in Nevada. And Maverick Gaming is the client we're working for, right? And then fill out, we want to push this stuff today if possible. Okay, got it. Awesome. More important than updating files. Speaker 4 00:47:09 Files, the contracts. Speaker 3 00:47:11 Oh, yeah. Okay. Alright. Okay. Thanks, Anzalert. Bye.
05-19 Strategic Alignment and Operational Troubleshooting Session
- Notes
- # Strategic Alignment and Operational Troubleshooting Session  ## Navigating Interdepartmental Challenges and Workplace Dynamics The conversation centers on persistent friction with Finance—particularly with Kathy—and how these dynamics slow work, erode trust, and complicate project execution. Christi and Michuan describe a pattern of perceived disrespect, unilateral controls, and miscommunications that impair routine processes (e.g., payroll approvals, credit cards, email projects). Both underscore that the blockers are not within their own collaboration but stem from how Finance manages approvals, schedules, and expectations. - Finance-specific tensions: From the outset, interactions with Kathy have been strained. Michuan reports being the last approver in status changes (from an HR standpoint) but not the first or middle, noting that the system design could allow improper self-approval if controls are misapplied. She characterizes Kathy’s insistence on certain procedures (e.g., calling verification “fraud”) as overly suspicious and counterproductive. Credit card allocation practices also raised concerns: when her reports started, others received 5K credit cards while she received only five (interpreted as fewer/less favorable allocation), reinforcing perceptions of bias and inconsistency. - Scheduling and availability: Kathy only works Monday, Wednesday, Friday, creating bottlenecks and deadline slippage. Christi characterizes this as wanting “keys to the kingdom” without broad availability. - Trust and data access: Both acknowledge the sensitivity of data access. Christi emphasizes she already has broad access but exercises strict integrity by refusing to dig into sensitive areas unnecessarily, particularly where personal conflicts might arise (e.g., wraparound services). Michuan notes the irony that individuals concerned about exposure are themselves positioned with pervasive access. - Perception of IT’s value: Pete relayed a message from Anzor suggesting Ability First might feel “less exciting” than Sharp and urged Christi to demonstrate automation investments to show parity and importance. Christi and Michuan clarify they do not feel like poster children; rather, budget and foundational fixes make their work appear “boring.” Christi stresses that her issue is not with Michuan but with external hurdles that make delivery harder. - Leadership communications: Anzor’s meeting notes (emailed to himself) tracked: budget by July year-end assessment, Verizon decommissioning, vendor consolidation, and low-voltage takeover; he asked Christi if she was “on it.” Christi confirmed all except low voltage (which he asked her to initiate). Christi is actively balancing being “critical without being critical” while pushing through structural roadblocks. - Interdepartmental education gap: Michuan highlights that non-IT teams often lack straightforward, practical guidance; her HR conference experience showed a deficit of IT firms demonstrating usable automation for HR. She advocates HR understanding IT’s real costs and operations and believes “low-hanging fruit” for automation lies in HR. There are broader cultural and policy tensions as well, including a staffer confronting Christi over California labor law restrictions on 7-day workweeks when the employee was physically in Arizona (home base remains California). HR and IT aligned on compliance regardless of physical travel. ## Addressing Current IT and Vendor Management Issues The team is managing a complex vendor landscape marked by merger confusion, service performance gaps, and telephony lifecycle decisions. - ComDirect/Telesystem merger confusion: Christi and Michuan both find the vendor transition unclear—“some things are direct and some things are still Telesystem.” Blake failed to notify Christi of a changeover between May 7th and May 15th. Christi is tracing “Who/What/When/Where/Why/How?” and documenting the chain for internal systems. The original switch was perceived as distasteful due to poor communication (e.g., no merger announcement). Contract language prompted questions (e.g., “how is labor equivalent to equipment?”). - AT&T network upgrade underperformance: Post-upgrade throughput is not meeting expectations. A speed test returned 600 Mbps, but behavior indicates misconfiguration. Kevin identified something amiss and plans to come on-site and coordinate with AT&T. A prior incident involved a wrong primary that had been manually set; Kevin previously found and fixed that issue, indicating the current problem needs deeper review. - Blue Wave phone service end-of-life planning: Blue Wave is expected to be a hassle to replace (legacy of Comtech). Christi proposes retiring Blue Wave first, importing numbers to a new service. Options include Locosta (related to Crimson). Given financial constraints, substantial voice changes likely shift to 2027. In the interim, they must maintain continuity, manage directories, and ensure site-to-site calling remains clear to end users. - Verizon mobility constraints: They are “out of phones”; line counts exist, but devices do not match lines. They are near 200 phones. Hiring growth (up 16 FTEs, not fully staffed) and program expansions could need 7 additional phones; turnover is a bigger driver than net new hires. Michuan estimates 25 to 50 extra phones (she dislikes adding that many), while acknowledging practical needs. Christi needs Verizon portal access restored, device counts pulled, and to coordinate with Gloria on orders. There is also a $5K Verizon-related meeting incentive to evaluate. These steps feed into a 2027-aligned voice/telephony budget exploration and a comparative assessment of VoIP options. - Low voltage and audits: Low voltage responsibilities will transition internally; no new low-voltage contracts will route through Finance. Pete plans to pressure Olivia to finish the Blue Light audit. Christi is aligning follow-ups and clarifying ownership. Operationally, Christi is building a comprehensive vendor database (contacts, end dates, monthly payments, invoice scans with OCR), although she is currently locked out of her own database instance and needs access restored. ## Strategic Planning for Process Automation and Future Projects They emphasize pragmatic, budget-conscious automation with a focus on onboarding and HR processes, while staging for larger investments in 2027 and regulatory readiness (DMH). - New hire communications and self-service: Christi will begin sending a day-one email to each new hire, introducing herself as functional CIO and providing IT guidance, security practices, and self-service resources. The email is drafted, pending documentation buildout, and targeted to start in July. Goals include reducing IT tickets, upping security hygiene, and empowering staff. - HR process automation and application builds: Christi is building version three of her application to encompass more functions without waiting for funding. She needs system access to automate HR workflows, which Michuan identifies as the “low-hanging fruit.” Michuan’s “to be hired” document—used across five companies—tracks open positions, replacements, shift/FLSA, salary, locations, posting status, marketing/posting plans, and moves candidates from identification to offer acceptance and onboarding (including welcome emails and IT setup). It includes resources and 60/90-day follow-ups aimed at improving Glassdoor/Indeed ratings, and tracks interns and talent scouts/referrals. Christi will build an application to formalize and automate this process. - Training and director engagement: Training sessions are popular; Christi is scheduling sessions and surveys to refine timing and content. Michuan wants recurring cadences (e.g., second or third Tuesday), a post-camp recap, and training with support departments. She also wants to participate more in directors’ meetings (program director meetings happen every other month on Thursday) and to create a quarterly all-directors forum. A tabletop exercise remains pending. - 2027 budget posture and VoIP planning: Significant telephony changes (e.g., Blue Wave retirement, VoIP evaluation) likely fall into the 2027 cycle. Christi is assembling comparisons of Verizon and alternatives, lining up contract clarity, and validating device needs to inform that budget period. - Regulatory readiness (DMH): Christi’s stated aim is to ensure readiness for DMH. Michuan underscores DMH will be more complex than current caseloads; today’s issues are a “cakewalk” compared to LACDMH and DHS demands. They’re aligning internal procedures and seeking more than training—structured processes and audits. - Vendor consolidation and team changes: Anzor’s agenda included vendor consolidation and Verizon decommissioning; Christi confirmed ownership, including the low-voltage takeover at his request. Internally, Caleb moves into CCTV/access control (replacing Jeff); additional on-site techs are being hired (e.g., Bona). Overall, Christi aims to become “invaluable” to Ability First by delivering automation, lowering support burden, and building transparent, auditable systems—all while navigating funding limits and departmental friction. ## Personal Updates and Anecdotes The dialogue also includes personal context that informs scheduling and rapport: - Christi ended a relationship (“Bear”), freeing evenings; she plans to attend a festival and will be on vacation from the 8th through the 11th or 12th, and again in August when taking her daughter to school. She equips her child with safety items (personal alarm, pepper spray, Taser pen) for bus safety. She manages an autoimmune condition (lupus—nail fold dermatitis) affecting her nails, uses press-ons with sticky tabs, is on a GLP-1, and treats a major vitamin D deficiency with monthly therapeutic dosing. A kitten’s antics and a tight morning schedule almost caused missed meds. - Michuan is on maternity leave (may extend; aims to return in July), is arranging a 403B transfer, and is balancing family events (boys’ basketball tournament). She appreciates Christi’s trainings and notes cultural traditions like “Bagel Monday.” She also references a former employee terminated for misconduct and shares a small tech anecdote about her son syncing her stylus to an iPad. ## Action Items ### @Christi - [ ] Call Blake on the way home to give a heads up about the down payment and provide contingent answers tied to the down payment and equipment order - [TBD] - [ ] Confirm with stakeholders who should be contacted first (Michuan or Kelly) if down payment changes are needed - [TBD] - [ ] Coordinate AT&T throughput remediation: validate findings, have Kevin go on-site, and engage AT&T until resolved - [TBD] - [ ] Begin retiring Blue Wave and plan number porting to the replacement service - [TBD] - [ ] Evaluate Teams Phone readiness (started by Kasha), quantify current provisioning, and assess budget impact for voice changes - [TBD] - [ ] Restore access to the Verizon portal - [TBD] - [ ] Pull current counts of Verizon phones in play and reconcile against active lines - [TBD] - [ ] Work with Gloria to finalize additional Verizon phone orders as needed - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule and attend a meeting with Verizon (Gloria) to evaluate VoIP options for next year and the $5K-related offer - [TBD] - [ ] Build a comparison of VoIP options (including Verizon) to inform the 2027 budget - [TBD] - [ ] Review and document Verizon contracts and related items for budget alignment - [TBD] - [ ] Email Gloria stating the evaluation of different VoIP options for next year, with no guarantee of selection, but intent to hear Verizon’s proposal - [TBD] - [ ] Send the ComDirect/Telesystem email chain to Kevin for system documentation - [TBD] - [ ] Finalize the email project for cleaning individual and group mailboxes (now solely under Christi) - [TBD] - [ ] Find Dave Ortiz’s marketing branding guide in prior correspondence/storage - [TBD] - [ ] Locate and send the “spell out” documentation supporting the $100K camp budget request - [TBD] - [ ] Ask Avi to resend the order for Michuan’s device/item - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule an HR session to demonstrate completion of offboarding forms (target: next Tuesday) - [TBD] - [ ] Inform Greg (camp point person) that Christi will be on-site Thursday - [TBD] - [ ] Go to camp on Thursday to support the project and staff - [TBD] - [ ] Send a reminder that Thursday’s Excel training is at 3:00 - [TBD] - [ ] Ask the trainer to ignore use of the boardroom for this week’s session - [TBD] - [ ] Send an organization-wide IT survey (as done last year) - [TBD] - [ ] Send a training availability survey to capture better dates/times - [TBD] - [ ] Launch day-one new hire IT welcome email in July, with supporting documentation - [TBD] - [ ] Build version three of the application, expanding features to reduce dependence on funding cycles - [TBD] - [ ] Build an application to automate the “to be hired” document/process - [TBD] - [ ] Increase innate services utilization (personally funded) to accelerate automation deliverables - [TBD] - [ ] Obtain required system access to automate HR workflows - [TBD] - [ ] Call Pete to engage/assist with the Blue Light audit follow-through - [TBD] - [ ] Check in with the team about shipping devices to camp - [TBD] - [ ] Show Alex on-site where devices go at camp and how to install brackets, connect cables, and mount units - [TBD] - [ ] Send the link for the emergency kit/purse to Michuan - [TBD] - [ ] Send out SLA-4 - [TBD] - [ ] Vacation: Take off August 8–11/12 - [2026-08-08 to 2026-08-12] - [ ] Take off the week in August to drop off daughter at school (mini-vacation) - [TBD] ### @Michuan - [ ] Email Glory to say attendance at the Verizon meeting is tentative (“If I can make it, I will. If I can’t…”) - [TBD] - [ ] Send the “to be hired” document to Christi for application build - [TBD] - [ ] Put in an offboarding ticket for David and complete the offboarding form - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule an audit with Anzor to review the budget - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule an audit for the HR space - [TBD] - [ ] Meet with Jeremy after meeting with Carl and about half of the directors - [TBD] - [ ] Continue a limited cadence of trainings (“keep a couple of the trainings coming”) in coordination with Christi - [TBD] - [ ] Sit down with April to define how much time staff can be out of office/program for training - [TBD] - [ ] Define a solution for staff to access email via a kiosk or similar shared device - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule a meeting with directors to hear concerns and prioritize fixes - [TBD] - [ ] Hold an HR meeting on the second Tuesday of the month (standing cadence) - [TBD] ## Notes on Timelines and Dependencies - New hire IT welcome emails are planned to begin in July (documentation pending). - Telephony overhauls are tentatively positioned for the 2027 budget cycle due to financial constraints. - Verizon mobility expansion is needed sooner (near 200 devices already active); immediate tasks include access restoration, inventory validation, and potential orders. - Blue Wave retirement will be phased, with number porting and continued operations in the interim. - AT&T network issues require on-site diagnostics by Kevin and coordination with AT&T to restore expected throughput.
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 Like I keep trying to figure out what I did to piss off Kathy. Oh, you just work for me. Well, You can either work for a department that's efficient or a department that's not efficient. Speaker 2 00:00:20 But I am like, why do you assume? Because you are assuming that it's too hot. Speaker 2 00:00:31 That I think is too hard for me, and somebody else can do it. I gladly give it away. Yes, But there is a bit like t here is a with her from the beginning that's been an issue. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:00:49 Oh, I hate to be the bearer of bad news for her, but the rest of the world don't work that way. Speaker 2 00:01:01 It's been difficult, And he, he has had to say, like, oh, she oh, she's the one I want to come. She said um I even tried to take Michelle to lunch. I said, please can ask her if she needs an email because she's never offered to take me out. She's never offered like extension of that or whatever, and try to get see in a good place with me. But yeah um and I said do you notice that my reports. Speaker 2 00:01:33 Everybody got credit cards when they first started. I was the only one that got five, and everybody else came in with like a five K. Everybody else didn't see those. And so he was like," Yeah, Speaker 1 00:01:46 I have noticed a lot of odd things." Speaking of credit card, uh. and that's not gonna be hard either. Speaker 2 00:01:55 You work on Concord before? Yeah, just this assumption. and then she. Speaker 2 00:02:06 Do the payroll like I approve someone. I may be the last approver on someone's status change, but I am not the first approver. I am not the middle approver. I am just actually the knowledge from an HR standpoint. And how do I do that and then approve them so she could pay herself? My friend was CFO said, "Oh, she's just she's suspicious. She's like a T here is just no way that you." Speaker 2 00:02:40 She said, "There is just the way you have to initial." Am I bugging? Am I something going on? Like am I seeing things wrong? And she's like, "No, it's just my birth. " I even called my ex CFO, who he and I were always like that. Like we were good, but we were always like. He was like, "No Sean, that doesn't make any sense. You all process payroll for us. I've never had an issue. You send me the reports. Keep." Speaker 2 00:03:09 She said it's her fraud. Well, okay, call it what you want, but it allows you to double check it before it goes out. Speaker 2 00:03:23 She Does not like me. How how long is she gonna stay around before he's gonna wonder about Montigo because she only works. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. So, they have meetings again on everything scheduled if he needs to turn in a task by Monday, Wednesday. Speaker 1 00:03:38 Is she part time? Speaker 1 00:03:46 And she thinks she can never mind. Though, what was in my brain could not be slipped out. You can say it, Chris. It's not that I can't say it ;, it's just that it wouldn't have come across as well as the way it was phrased in my brain. But basically, she wants keys to the kingdom working part time, not opening up her schedule for availability. Shit, I am part time for you guys. Speaker 4 00:04:16 Come on in. Hi, are you with somebody? I am. You're with somebody. Thank you for your training. You're welcome. Because of you, I'm like oh, more confident because I know my things auto saving, because I'm putting it in SharePoint. I didn't know that duh. Yeah. So i learned, i learned some good tips, and i i have to remind people i was on a selectric. I didn't go to college with excel and blah, blah. You know, you had to draw your spreadsheets. Yeah, i've been doing spreadsheets for a long time. By hand, you know, in a little notebook. I was at college learning Lotus. Yeah, that was the first the first pressure anyway. Okay, I just had a little update, but um you won't be surprised and it's not that big of a deal. Was this stuff? Huh? No no just something that never got done. Just uh letters never went out, like calling all the people you said, follow up with. Speaker 4 00:05:13 Because she helped me today, I've been. I went into the tracker, yeah, and I am updating it now because I don't have fear of it now. And so I am like, "Oh my god," they're like, "What?" They're going never tell one you know. Bianca Gonzalez called me. Somebody sent me something to call somebody, but i am right now. I am working on the old old people. I am almost done. You know, not old in age, but they're cases they're like, oh, who are you? And then i gave everything to you. Speaker 4 00:05:44 You have access to her email. Yeah, I am gonna have to do a search. Yeah, so uh, do you know where it is? Don't worry about it. You sent me. I already know how to look at this stuff. Okay, perfect. What's the next training we should do is mail merge in Word? Speaker 2 00:05:57 Mhm- hmm. Is that a name for me? Oh yeah, Yeah, cause I am always, but I spell them all the time. Just gonna tell you, I did I know it did. Speaker 4 00:06:05 And so what about me? I am whiter than white girl over here, spelling, everything wrong, actually So she she called me this morning, Speaker 2 00:06:12 Cause she wants a transfer. Four hundred and three B from her old employer to us, but she's also wanting to come back in July. She's on maternity leave, so. Speaker 4 00:06:23 She's out of medical leave. I am maternity leave for months. Speaker 2 00:06:27 Okay, she said she wanted to extend, so I don't know. I said well Can you touch base with all mine? I gave her your name and she was taking it down." All right, I'll figure it out. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:06:38 And by the way, Speaker 2 00:06:39 I am coming to the festival fest i took off that sunday from church, Well, I am going to need a pal to hang out with. My husband's not going; he's taking the boys to play for a basketball tournament. Speaker 1 00:06:49 I am bringing my best friend's mom because she needs a vacation from some stuff, and I know she needs break. Okay, so we call her grandma. Well, the kids call her grandma, so I automatically call her grandma. But her name is Sherry, and I was like, you know what? You need a break because she's their living nanny kind of she moved, Here from Arizona to help take care of the kids, and those kids are a handful. I know because of my godchildren. I have been in their lives since before they were born. I have chased after them, I have jujitsu with them. They are high-functioning ADHD in a four- and ten-year-old, so grandma was going to. Speaker 1 00:07:40 I need a break. I know this, so I'm bringing her with me. Also, it's getting me out of. I had a nasty breakup with Bear last week. Oh, my boyfriend for the last year. He had to go. So my evenings are now free no more On to the next, as they say. Mhm It's a good thing I'm an ace and I can go for a while without a boyfriend. Speaker 1 00:08:12 All right, so finance, Carl is gonna get them back on track. He's got his work cut out for him. Speaker 2 00:08:46 I didn't think that I thought it was like standard to get it done as soon as possible. So, I don't know how long I am going to be living with this problem, but I have said to Sergio and to like it's just very rude, disrespectful. Like we, it's counterproductive because how many times did we have conversations about camp? We've said like. Two or three, I am driving home and we're talking about not just the two of us, but it's the two of them. Speaker 1 00:09:25 It's them and Comdr because I don't know, Comdr is going to be able to get everything done next week. So I got to figure that out. I am going to call Blake on my way home and give him a heads up about the down payment. There are some other questions that I have to give him the answers for, and I totally forgot what they are. Um, But it was all contingent on the down payment and they needed to order the equipment. So I will check with them, make sure um if they do have to make changes, who do I call first? You or Kelly? If they have to make changes to this. Speaker 1 00:10:15 Right now, she says she's going to be up there for the weekend. Oh, okay. Um, okay. Cool. I cannot believe he's still on that path because I was happy. He's doing this on his own because we've been talking about getting back for a year now because it was on my list. I actually toldum i told both of them, Speaker 2 00:10:37 Actually, i said, yeah, so Pete Stan, i said, hey, i have not. I said, uh, I have not been good. Speaker 2 00:10:46 I haven't been good with my trust because I could have been giving her the credit cards, but I thought like the way that they were doing it, I didn't know that they had a problem until they started to say like, oh, I want to do and but but they said they don't want to do things and they don't like it. And then you heard me ask her, "Yeah, hey can you take this one on?" And then what part? I am like little parts driving you nuts. That would be kind of hard if you can imagine it. Oh yeah no uh sounds like I know that trust. Speaker 2 00:11:17 Hey, I got this one. I got the first time. Here is who it goes to. Here is the code it belongs to, and I am like," I was like,'cause cause I mean like cause like I don't want to touch this every time the same. I don't want to do this hard work the same time over and over again." So let's just want to make it simple for them. Speaker 1 00:11:34 So yeah, i am It's. My issue has never been you;. My issue has been knowing that they make things. Harder and then we try to give them change, like with that app that I built. Speaker 2 00:11:51 Oh, it's like I don't need that. We only do it once a month. I mean, once a year. That was the weirdest thing. So, you are saying, all year someone's allocation is going to stay the exact same? So let's say this department gets a computer and their allocation goes up, and this one you know they they if they stagnate, They don't they put in the budget, they want these items, but they never buy it this. They're going to be charged what they got in January, and now somebody else is like five of their computers. They're not going to change that. I was like," That's. Speaker 1 00:12:24 Really." But they're having a time, yeah. Pete came back from his vacation yesterday and he called me and said," Okay, let me talk to you about Sean's meeting and my meeting." I was like," Okay," he said we're not sexy with each other. Speaker 2 00:12:41 Oh no! Anzor was like. He started Anzor was like. What? I was like. So we don't have to. Sexy one out of the shark or not? Oh, yeah, he did tell me. I was like," We're the plain ones. We're boring. We're only going to be boring for another six months to a year. And then we'll get fun." Yeah, Speaker 1 00:12:54 He took it to mean that I wasn't giving you guys enough love, so he told me today I would start giving you guys more love. No, Speaker 2 00:13:00 I just kind of i said we're probably boring stuff. No, that's not okay. Oh my god! No, He said, we were probably boring Chris because we don't get any of the fun sexy stuff. He said I guess they both were like" I T" and sexy like, I was like," No, like the fun stuff." Yes, Speaker 1 00:13:19 He told me it was so funny because he didn't send me over teams. And I so I laughed when I saw this because I was like," I knew better." Um, and he goes," I met with Mashaun, and she shared that she feels like Ability First is not as exciting for you as Sharp because they can't do much with current funding and because they have to fix the basics first. You need to make sure she does not feel that way." Some kind of automation process for them to engage and engage Michonne and show her that they are just as important. Okay, I was just like," I know," answer. Speaker 2 00:13:57 That was answer. Speaker 1 00:13:59 That was answer He said," Put your effort there." They should not feel like a poster child. Speaker 2 00:14:04 I don't feel like a poster child. Speaker 1 00:14:06 I died laughing because I knew better. Like a poster child, Speaker 2 00:14:09 I don't feel like a poster child. I feel like we just are boring. Speaker 1 00:14:14 No, and then Pete and I had a conversation because he was like," Oh, Speaker 2 00:14:18 I told Pete thatum am not i said I am happy with you. It's not your it's the back end departments. I am not so happy with." Yes, yeah. Speaker 1 00:14:23 I was likeum He was trying to figure out some way we could make. We could take stress off DD with the camp project." Has said Pete is not it's not us.;. It is a problem with ComDirect and finance. Speaker 2 00:14:37 Well, And thenum counselor knows that he can just remind him, because sometimes you know see that he forgets. I don't want to do the contract anymore. Speaker 1 00:14:46 Yeah, he's already passed away. Speaker 2 00:14:53 I think it was so like the lettering was good, But it was so distasteful to just switch and not even send some sort of email out that they were merging or something. That was like, huh, what should happen here? Speaker 1 00:15:06 And it just seemed like he was notum. Speaker 2 00:15:11 And then their their initial contract. It was like what eighty it was. It was equivalent, yeah. Like, yes, how is labor equivalent to equipment? Speaker 1 00:15:23 Yeah. So the way Alnser takes notes during his meeting with you or anybody is he emails himself. He opens up Outlook on his phone, types it all out, and then sends it. So, he said budget by July year end assessment, Verizon decommissioning, consolidation of vendors and LV takeover. And then he goes, had lunch with Mashaun. Covered the items below. Are you on it Do you need anything from me And I said, I responded and I said, I am on them all except for low voltage, which you had mentioned you wanted to cover it with her. But I can handle that as well. And he responded back. He goes, yes, please get that going. Yes, died, laughing. Speaker 2 00:16:04 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even right now know, should I put this. Speaker 2 00:16:14 They come direct. I am like, do I say" direct"? Do I say" tele system"? Speaker 1 00:16:18 Well, so they still some things are direct and some things are still tele system. And it really does be confusing. Father of the hell fifteen Yes, I got an email from Blake on Friday and apparently they had done a changeover. Blake never gave me a heads up that oh for the for here, for here, okay, And if I had known earlier, I could have had Kevin on it making sure all the systems are updated. And that didn't happen. But when I looked at that chain of emails, it was tell us this, tell us this, and then goes to Blake who's on the direct. I am like, "Who? What? When? Where? Why and how? " First he had been sitting on it since May seventh, and it was May fifteenth. So he'd been sitting on the fact that they had changed over and I wasn't aware. And second he was like. Speaker 1 00:17:13 Who is who and what is what? Speaker 2 00:17:15 So, it really well in the beginning; it definitely wasn't done. Now, It's still kind of they're like I thought they were, you know decommissioning or. Speaker 1 00:17:25 Yeah. So, Kevin's going to have to come out here, Which is not an issue and take a look on site to see what AT and T did, because we're not getting the throughput from the upgrade. And if we'd known two weeks ago, Speaker 1 00:17:43 But since today's the first day I was on site, Since then, I double checked everything and I had Kevin walk in and take a look. He's like, "Yes, something's not right here." So he's like, "I got to get on site call AT and T get this figured out." So that's being handled. Blue Wave is going to be a hassle with changing over from Comtech, But we're going to get rid of Blue Wave first before we make that decision. Let me figure out how we can best handle. Handle, I'd like to answer. Is not going to be happy with me on this. Speaker 2 00:18:17 So, we're if we get rid of Blue Wave altogether, like I don't even have a phone here anymore. Like what happens to our front desk and all the phones and stuff? Speaker 1 00:18:26 We're import the numbers over to another service. So the choices in the services are is Locosta, which is a kind of division but a sister company to Crimson. It used to be under Crimson. Speaker 2 00:18:39 Are you saying that twenty twenty six or? Speaker 2 00:18:44 Because if it's a financial impact, I am going to say it's twenty twenty seven. Speaker 1 00:18:47 Um, that I got to see my financial impact. Um, You already have teams phones set up because Kasha had started working on it before you left. How many do we have? Because there is some people that could benefit from this team. I'll double check. Um, I need this. I need to evaluate what it's going to be for your budget and I need to evaluate all of that. It's probably going to have to be a twenty twenty seven project. So that means we still got to deal with comms right up until. However, that being said, that's fine. I mean, like low voltage will be turned over to us and they won't know. Speaker 2 00:19:20 I am not going to tell them. We just no contracts will go to them for low voltage. We I mean the com direct stuff you can kind of I am not com direct the blue wave you can do gradually because that's less. Yeah, let's get through this. Yes, um issue up there. And then so one of the things that we have heard is a struggle lately, and it is definitely for new hires. Speaker 2 00:19:45 How do I call another site? How do you know what I mean? Like, who do I call? Where is the numbers. Where is the directory And. So systems like this now kick out a directory, but we don't know we don't have access to it. So, Speaker 1 00:19:59 I will i want to get that piece fixed now. Pete is going to get on to Olivia, not in a bad way, but he's going to put pressure on her to finish up the Blue Light audit that I had been requesting for how long. So that's going to get finalized. Ask Pete to jump in and help me with that. Speaker 2 00:20:17 Okay, I think I brought that up to Pete too. Speaker 1 00:20:19 Yeah, cause i I had already done the heads up. Speaker 2 00:20:21 He asked me, He did ask me if there was anything else, you know, just yeah. No, it was like we get close. Speaker 1 00:20:28 Yeah. He, he called me and said, hey, who who's handling this? And I said this is going back to Olivia's team. He's like okay I'll get it done. Speaker 2 00:20:35 And thenum I told him, I didn't have a problem withum Colby coming back or Caleb. I reiterated, We talked about is that no one person should be the ticket person because it just makes things difficult. So Caleb. Speaker 1 00:20:54 Is moving to this. Speaker 2 00:20:56 Oh, I kind of like him. Don't get me wrong, He, yes, Speaker 1 00:21:02 He is taking over a gentleman by the name of Jeff, who was terminated. That's a nice guy, i I refused to hire him when he came through on my side. And I was like," No." Speaker 1 00:21:17 So, they hired him on a low voltage side, and uh, no not low voltage, just CCTV and access control and I was like, okay, good luck with that. And yeah, he he was terminated abruptly two weeks ago. So Caleb's going to go back, if you don't play. Oh, that was a Pete thing. Oh, okay, go get Pete. Yeah um so they terminated him Caleb's going to go take that position, which I think is a much. Speaker 1 00:21:48 We're hiring some more techs on site. Bona was here today. I love Bona; her English is not strong, so she doesn't like going to places, but she's funny and she's so sweet. But she's really good at what she does. So I saw if she was on site today. I want to, i am about to just like fire hose you with all my ideas, which I had even before onset; I was already planning. Speaker 1 00:22:19 Go go go. Okay. Um, so, new hires coming through. For you. Not only are we still working on the automation for that, Which I've got to wait for green light on some things on my end because I want to make sure it's no budget to you guys no budget impact. I am going to start sending out an email to all new hires. Um, the day they come up and say, "Hey, welcome to Ability First. My name is Chris. I am your functional CIO." Um, here is everything you need to know about it and things like that. I already have that draft ready to go ;. It's been ready to go for two weeks, with the exception of me building out the documentation. So I wanted to quickly. I wasn't going to discuss it with you. ; just want tell you am doing it now. Yeah, I think you should listen so That's kind of. Speaker 1 00:23:16 Start hitting in July. I'll start doing that. I want to decrease the amount of times people are calling us for stuff, and I want to increase security measures. So, I want to include in here how the best help. I think that shocked everybody that was on training today because I was like, "Hey, did you know you could do this?" Speaker 1 00:23:45 So, things like that. And I want to change that focus. Also, I am going to do version three of your application and I am going to include some additional stuff in it because I am tired of waiting on funding. That application, the application built through the. Oh, okay. I am just going to expand upon it and make it even more. Speaker 2 00:24:24 People think it is because it's not. And honestly, I've been getting a number of emails to go, uh, like you've seen me somebody says WP. It was WordPress. Yes, and I am like oh it's WordPress. Yeah, it's done right? Speaker 1 00:24:40 Yes. Um. I am not being utilized contrary to what Carl said that they're spending too much on me, and you guys have an expectation that. Speaker 2 00:24:56 Funny thing is, she has access to all of these. So the possible concern is, okay, well, she see how much this point for CIO the technical team right? Like if he gets back. Um like culture, everybody in the week, you can see everybody's email. You can see everybody's gate like if I wanted to, if I lacked integrity, that does something. So like the thing that they're scared, you are going to get you already have is what I am saying. That's what I am saying. I am not saying you would, Would do any of that, but the thing they're scared of you having exposure to, kind of already have access to. Speaker 1 00:25:34 And I could care less what people make because they're up to my pay again. Oh, good job! Yeah, and so I didn't even give me a credit. I am still not making probably what you are making, but I am making now comparable what I should be making. Okay, okay. So yeah, like that. And things are here is how I presented it. I have access to all data. I know I have access to all data. i for an integrity portion, I will refuse to dig into this data because what if I have a child come through that is in your wraparound services? Am not going to be looking at that data because I don't want to am not. Speaker 1 00:26:25 For me, it's like people. Speaker 2 00:26:29 I do like if I if you're very new, yeah, I'd be like okay. But you know when you've been with us for a very long time. I just, I think some of the controls are just out of control. Um. Speaker 2 00:27:03 You were worried about the long aspect of this work. Like, how she's going to make up her mind, who made that decision? Speaker 1 00:27:15 So where is she? I haven't seen her go. She ain't been here during the day. Speaker 1 00:27:36 So she took the entire day off to get her hair done. Because she be in tired, what is she doing? Hair treatment and color like is she getting microblading? You know how I used to get my hair done when I met downtown LA, which I've changed my process. I would schedule an hour out of my day every six weeks. I would walk downstairs to the barbershop next door, get my hair done, come right back up. Speaker 1 00:28:06 I was forty five minutes tops. Now I have to do it on Saturdays because I don't work in downtown L A and I've changed my hairstylist. She. Speaker 2 00:28:19 Also, no, And I have a question about where we are with the email project becauseum. Speaker 2 00:28:39 Email, no, I'll send this email. Like, hey, you know, um need to clean. You know that's when we're doing the onboarding. That's a great thing. You're the perfect person that we need to clean it all in the organization. And I said, hey, you know, my name is Chris uh Chris uh team, so and or write one, yeah. Um as part of secret I noticed that you guys are cleaning individual. I said, but how are you all doing with individual and group? Well, she only gave me. Speaker 2 00:29:10 With who she was like, even before we started working, I had been asking about it. I said, "Okay," and I know it's not. I am not sure what that has to do with where you are with the project. And a good ask was like, "Why did she make that? " She seems to talk about a lot. And in the information, she also gives me is what's the question? Am actually answering? I need to bring her back to the relevance of. Speaker 2 00:29:40 Where are you? I am almost done. I think I had only handed in a script, so now I am asking you because that was two or three weeks ago. She gave it to me, okay? Because I was like," She better have handed that in." Because, Speaker 1 00:29:52 The thing about it is that I am cracking up about it right now. Is she handed that in to me on the day, I asked for it, and it was done. So, i It's on me now to finish pulling it out of the system. T here is nothing more she has to do, okay? Speaker 2 00:30:08 But then. See, then that makes me even more like she's not telling the truth. Like, Speaker 1 00:30:14 Okay, yeah i'm I'm going to keep this between you and I. I handed it to her on a silver platter.; almost done for her all she had to do was check it. That's all she did. Who's gonna take it? Speaker 1 00:30:38 I made it easy because I understand how she thinks and works. So, did Alonzo bring up with you about backups? He was supposed to do that. Maybe he did, But what do youum That, he is forcing you guys to go on Microsoft to get your Microsoft backed up because yes, Speaker 2 00:31:05 Yeah, and that's part of the, To do that, so did she just have the people and not the group? Oh, so it's done. So I don't have to do anything else. Speaker 1 00:31:20 It's all on me now. Yeah, I made it. I handed it to her on a silver platter on my side. All she had to do was put in the oven and toast it. That was in my head that day. Speaker 3 00:31:49 Yeah. Um. Speaker 2 00:32:14 No, they Are. Speaker 1 00:33:23 And I hate that because when I see it, I am like," I am Pete," and I was having this conversation yesterday because I told him about it. And he's like," Be careful because your chest contract." And I said," I know. I am working hard to be critical without being critical." Well, Speaker 2 00:33:45 I appreciate you. Thank you for doing a great job. Thank you for making the last few years real sure. Speaker 2 00:34:06 Start taking our show on the road. Start scheduling meetings with directors and hearing their concerns and fixing their issues. Those other folks just become noise at that point because, like they're always thinking something. But if I think we could begin fixing some issues that people have. Speaker 1 00:34:42 You you have a new employee that ah. I had to make it a point to miss the meeting. He wasn't in this meeting, but I put him in for just in case. Um, they don't and I say they because I don't know their firm enough. They don't understand why we're not here. Speaker 1 00:35:12 Google so much easier for them. Speaker 2 00:35:15 Is that what you said? Hm. Is it anybody in research that I need to have a conversation with? Speaker 1 00:35:20 No, no, it's a it's front line. Front line. Yeah, yeah, And I had to explain because in security, they popped up in one of my meetings and was like, Well, Google's been doing this long enough that actually Google got this technology from Microsoft. So I do I do think. Speaker 1 00:35:40 Where I am going with the trainings is helpful. Is there a lot of enjoyment? Some of the others are enjoying it. You know, Adrian guy, he's. Speaker 2 00:35:52 Actually he's in possibilities, I think. Is it maybe more than one? Speaker 1 00:35:58 But the one I know is in possibilities. Heum, I am getting good thoughts from him. He might be a good resource because he's trying to understand. Speaker 1 00:36:10 So, when we had a meeting. Speaker 2 00:36:12 With Carl's group and they started, he just started to talk about intervention. And I said," Carl, no one's going to learn from them, but you do need to listen to them." He's like," Okay," I get that. Yeah. I like that you're getting the insights. But want to be honest with you:. We're not going to be able to support that means. So then once you see both of them do the assessment, and then the project works on, then you talk person. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:36:36 And he was like okay yeah i want your team didn't, Because I am going over my daughter, she's not. I am not going for it. Um, and I told Pete," I will not go for it." Not right now. And yeah, and he, Speaker 2 00:36:52 I am sure he's like he's understanding. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:36:57 Well, is more of the giveaway things for free guy? Speaker 2 00:36:59 He is he's very i. You know, what did i tell you how i did that last week in the one room as well? No. So. I and I did a, We went to the HR conference, and the whole conference was about three thousand people. We had an audience, probably in our group, probably about after it was like you have to go. No, I am um It was probably about fifty sixty people. People were really excited when I got out there with such great response, asking me questions and asking me for emails, all these good kids. Um Oh my god! Oh my gosh! You put on a really good show on the internet. It's not okay. Speaker 2 00:37:39 So we actually talked about business vacuum. And um, here is one of the photos. This is a neighbor fund. He goes to the HR conference and I went to, okay, yeah. Um, I am wanting him to partner him with Clark. So Clark owns a HR consulting firm, and he's going in and you know, like saving them from HR. Speaker 2 00:38:12 I need to email them again. He he wanted me to also. Oh, so I am like, if he's going in and you and I said, if he's going in to send the IT structure or they need automation, you want him to do it. You could be that partner. So I was trying to pair them. I am gonna go back to that. Speaker 1 00:38:28 Yeah, um, I had a change out time today. Oh my god! Um, I am not bleeding; it's just protecting. Speaker 2 00:38:46 Speaking on with money and mission, and basically it was about partnering H R Jason. Right now, Basically, I partnered with him brought in had a conversation call about this gentleman that's sitting in the middle. He does finance; he did four finance sessions for us, So we brought all of our team members up to have a better understanding of finance. And so we talked. Speaker 2 00:39:18 Find massive IT the next time, and I was talking to him about that about partnership. My spin on it is HR needs to become more than HR. Like when we sit at the table, we have to understand what IT does, how much it costs. Like if you do that cost analysis for me, I'll be able to pull that into what a new hire costs us. And so with him i I knew I couldn't solve for the gap, but I could see the gap when I came in. Speaker 2 00:39:53 Income statement, they were like, you know, like they didn't get it. And. So he, the two of them worked together to come up with a program that they train people to. And. So we actually talked about it and A number of people I've gotten I am like the new, but I am everybody's new best friend now on LinkedIn. If I wasn't their friend before. And because she knew that then she did like I said she came back to me and said, what other what other trainings do you want to do? Yeah, So trying to talk to also about he's gonna. I am going gonna schedule, an audit. Speaker 2 00:40:30 So, I don't know wanting to do that for you all in this space as well. Speaker 1 00:40:36 Awesome, yeah, I love doing those kind of things. So if sponsors are not free, I can do it because am his, i am his professional because he's more. He does more into AI, which i he's catching up to me, but i do a lot more automation, which, by the way. Speaker 1 00:40:56 I had to increase my innate, which also doesn't pay for, but I pay for it personally. Okay, um, to do a lot of automation. Okay, So I've got forty thousand executions a month that I need something to do it because of that. So I want to build out some things that we can do with you guys for automation. And then I'll bring any into it for twenty twenty. Speaker 2 00:41:31 I think. The low hanging fruit is mine, right? H R that H R side. Even I know well they've been giving me the hardest time today. Speaker 1 00:41:44 Now I need to do it. I need to I really want to go in and automate some things for you, but I need access to the system. Speaker 2 00:41:57 And okay so, So he and I were talking about this ugly document. It's not ugly, but it's very useful. Speaker 1 00:42:12 By the way, while you are looking that up, I need to get into Dave Ortiz's stuff and find marketing the marketing branding guide he sent to me once before. I cannot find it. I was going to ask him for it last week, and then I had it on my notes app. And then you shop like. Speaker 2 00:42:28 Yeah Then you said that was like oh, Okay, this is an an an as we example. It's. Speaker 3 00:42:39 Not what I need. It's. Speaker 2 00:42:47 Called the to be hired. Oh boy, and it's a document, but it it's a necessary document for her. I mean for us. Speaker 2 00:43:19 So, This is any requisition because no system shows us this detail. So, I built this down over. This is like my fifth company using it, and it changes a little slightly different for each company. So, the red is most likely what's already closed; green if there's somebody in play. So, this is a position. This is the. Speaker 2 00:43:42 This is the positions that we have open. If there's if we're replacing somebody, here's the person that that we're actually replacing. The shift regular or temp or seasonal um there's F F L S A status, salary average salary haven't started to do that yet. Um the location, they work in just some data about this specific job. And this means if it goes on here, it means they're posting it. Okay. So, the next step is where we're posting it. And I can see, we're not doing the best job if we're only doing portions of it. And I think maybe because some of these numbers have changed, they're not the same for us as it was for Spy. So this kind of our key institution, the marketing plan or the posting plan for the job. Then, this my one I use at all as only keys, because then it makes sense now. Speaker 2 00:44:42 But everybody uses this first one and the one that I am on right now, the background one. So, this we've identified the candidate; they've gotten an offer. Once they got received an offer, they're on this page. They receive their offer, they accepted their offer; it kind of flows them the entire process. Maybe to call them later, you are hired. So we've got this where it starts to get into it or so. Speaker 2 00:45:13 The welcome email, the IT set up, blah blah blah. So all of these is a representative of an action that's being taken. Can I build you. Speaker 1 00:45:22 An application for that? Yep. Can you send it to me? I can. Okay. Cause I when you started showing me that, I was like oh this could work. See. Speaker 2 00:45:39 Told you we're not sexy but this one is kind of yeah, It's a problem. It's a juicy problem. Okay, So couple of things can't leave this own breakout that we don't share with everybody. Yes, only camp. Um, These are just some resources ninety days. We're supposed to track ninety days are supposed to track when they're they're sixty ninety. Speaker 2 00:46:12 We're supposed to track that so we can go back and ask them, "How's life working? How's he doing?" Most companies don't know how to improve their Glassdoor and Indeed. And how you do that is you have new people that are employees go do it right. I am like, "Yeah, sixty ninety days you have them go in and be like, 'Oh, it's so great,' and suddenly it begins to boost up your numbers. " You are just like oh, You are still in the honeymoon spirit. ; I am going to ask you right now and not a year from now when you are like." Supervisor sucks, so that is what they're supposed to do. Ninety day evaluations the supervisor should do. We don't remind them and we haven't gotten in. This is us with our interns. We actually have had a good run of interns ;. These other ones are not so important. Talent scouts if somebody came through and they did a referral, we just need to remember. Speaker 2 00:47:11 Oh, this is uh the rules that we had set up in the blog smart. Not a huge deal. Yeah, so the main ones are the like the onboarding. I am going to share it with you right now. Speaker 1 00:47:28 I just kind of want to give something uh heads up real quick. While you are doing thatum do me a favor. While you're sharing that. Um. Oh, Speaker 2 00:47:44 This is the wrong one. Speaker 1 00:47:46 You can send it to the ability first one. Speaker 2 00:47:47 Okay. What were you going to say? Speaker 1 00:47:52 Do me a favor, open up a browser. Uh, yep, that's perfect Go to go to this address speedtest dot net. Speaker 3 00:48:09 Click go. Speaker 1 00:48:18 Thank the ever loving Lord. That is amazing. That's good because you have been hitting eighty, and that's six hundred. Speaker 2 00:48:29 Eighty like over here. Speaker 1 00:48:31 Yep, Because they gave us the wrong primary a while back, and we set it manually because we were having some issues and Kevin found the issue and fixed it. Speaker 1 00:48:58 And I just got your email. Sorry, he had said that and I wanted to. Speaker 2 00:49:02 No, that's actually really good that we've got that. Speaker 1 00:49:11 We definitely need to get your tabletop exercise. Mhm. I am smirking because I was doing a tabletop for another client and getting it scheduled, and Cheryl responded back," I too have exercised on a tabletop." Speaker 1 00:49:28 Um, I have pictures of this because he was drunk at the Christmas party, and he was dancing on top of the table. Speaker 2 00:49:39 You gotta give it. I gotta appreciate the crazy. Yeah, oh man, That's like almost as good as the personum getting a meal period penalty on their paycheck and coming bringing me money. And I was like what? What is this for? It's like, well, I got a military penalty. It was like, no, we pay you for those. They were like, oh. But it was like fourteen dollars or something like that. They got like some little amount that you know for an hour. Uh this is years ago, and they brought me the money. And I was like, what am what am I. They were like I got a penalty. And I was like, yeah, we had to pay you that penalty. Oh, I had to find this one on my phone, cause it was. Speaker 2 00:50:25 Hilarious, we still listen to it all the time. When I was at Path, There was a guy that cussed out his supervisor because he wouldn't let him on um on the um on call. And he's like, "I just freaking want overtime, man." He was like, "Dude, I don't know why you freaking just won't put me on the list." He was drunk dialing. Oh my gosh! And he ended the he started the call so nice. He's like, "I am just." Just politely asking, I've been asking for a while, and then it just went. And then he ended it. He was like, "Man, all I need you to do is just put me on the list." I mean, like if I don't get chosen right away, fine. But the fact that I can't freaking get on the list. Oh damn! That's meeting with him. The supervisor's like, "I am nervous." If I was like. Speaker 2 00:51:24 I am like," What? This guy's not going to harm you. He's drunk dialing you, and he's halfway polite during the time." Like, this is not an issue. I. Speaker 1 00:51:38 Had a staff member go off on me because he couldn't understand why I wouldn't let him work seven days a week. And he's like," I am in Arizona," and I said," You are in Arizona for spring training; you were only there for six weeks." Your residence is California. You cannot work seven days in a row because I am gonna that's gonna be double time, Speaker 2 00:51:56 And I want no parts of that. Speaker 1 00:51:58 Right? And he got so mad, he's like," But I am in Arizona." I am like," I don't give a flying where you are at physically are, Speaker 2 00:52:07 And where your home is is irrelevant, Speaker 1 00:52:10 Sir." And he goes," You are not HR," and I said," Do you want me to bring her in on the call? She's going to tell you the same thing I did." He goes, Why can't you even cuss properly? You just gotta love. Yeah, he was so angry. He's like," Well, the other guys can do it." I said," They're salaried and they're based in Arizona." Speaker 2 00:52:35 Oh, who is oh I was like trust tell us it looked like mumbo jumbo. Mhm. I was like who what? Because you are not on it and it's I need to process because, Because it's right now speaking gibberish. Oh, there goes the upgrade. Okay, now it's making sense. I didn't read the whole thing, but Chris, they don't have you on it. Gotcha. Speaker 1 00:52:58 I think that's the same that was that email that I was talking about. Okay, yeah, where they didn't. Speaker 2 00:53:06 I was like you are throwing too much of a matrix at me in one email. Yeah, but I need that You need it? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:53:12 I need that going to send that over to Kevin, so he can add it to the system. Okay, um. Speaker 2 00:53:17 Verizon. He he said," just take the meeting so they can give us five k." Speaker 1 00:53:25 Take the meeting. Okay, Speaker 2 00:53:27 I'll take the meeting. Um, cause uh Oscar don't want to take the meeting. He's like we're not moving just because they wanted him to buyum something for the car. So they wanted him to buy GPS, but our insurance gives it to us or discount it right? Yes and they discount our insurance yes so guess who we're gonna stay with? Speaker 1 00:53:47 So, I am interested in what I am going to tell them. I am going to email Glory and say," Hey, Speaker 2 00:53:55 If I can make it, I will. If I can't," yeah. Speaker 1 00:53:58 What I am going to tell her is," I am evaluating different voice voiceover IP options for Ability First for next year." Mhm." I cannot guarantee I am going to you,", but i want to hear you out because i want to see what you have to offer. Yes. And that should get us the. Speaker 1 00:54:20 Um, I am trying to formulate something. I've been wanting to say to you for a while. Not bad, oh, it's not bad. Um, you are not going anywhere. I am not going. My plan is to become. I want to become invaluable to you guys so that you are me. I know i need I need you become valuable to the rest of them. Speaker 2 00:54:42 I know so here is i know You wanted to meet with him first, Jeremy? No, I am going to take him out to lunch. I know, but I would meet with him after Carl. Yeah, then I am I pushed him off to July. And actually would like us to meet with like about half the directors before we pick him. Yeah, yeah. And so I need them to see that, like, hey, she's having this for me showing me, then he won't he won't do this bullshit. And right now. Speaker 2 00:55:18 Everybody's loving the trainings. I've heard already about the trainings, even if they don't have a person like they're not in the training, but person training for that. So we've got to keep a couple of those coming. Yes, And we have to sit down with April and solve an issue :. How much time is she going to get people out of the office out of out of the program? And, we have to solve how we get them access to see their emails on a kiosk on a something on a something. Yeah, yeah. Speaker 1 00:55:49 Um, Also, we're out of phones for Verizon. By the way, just adds up. What we got to our two hundred already? Mhm. Soum that's that's version three of the app I am making is to better plan for that because they didn't tell me, Speaker 2 00:56:04 Okay. So if we're out of phones on that, so I definitely want to join that call, should we buy like fifty more phones? Or can they I think if we could do something like twenty five probably be in the. Range of where we need to be. Speaker 1 00:56:18 What I need to know from you is what is our forecast for hiring for twenty twenty six for the rest of the year. Speaker 2 00:56:24 We're almost there, but the problem is our turnover, not so much new hires. I think that we got twenty five to fifty extra phones. I hate adding that many phones. We have the lines, yeah Oh, we already had those phones. Speaker 1 00:56:41 Are we out out of those Well, we're almost out. Um, I think we're gonna be out by soon. Speaker 2 00:56:48 So let's call. Let's have Gloria have a conversation about what the additional or do you just call them and order more phones type of thing. Speaker 1 00:56:56 I I have to call Gloria. Speaker 2 00:56:57 Okay, um, so that I think that is we already have to buy more phones. How Many phones are in play right now? Speaker 1 00:57:05 I'll have to pull that information. Okay, am I need to go back and get my access back for Verizon? Speaker 2 00:57:11 Okay, let's see how many phones we have in play. Speaker 2 00:57:15 I would say, we we our increase in hiring went up sixteen. Okay, added sixteen FTEs. We are not fully staffed to the sixteen FTEs. Then, we also are going to exceed our budget in some ways because we're going to expand two of our programs and but I only reckon I only want to say that that's gonna expand, maybe needing maybe seven cents extra funds. Okay. So I still think we're like the fifty, the forty to fifty range. If at yeah, Speaker 1 00:57:53 Because we didn't get all phones for all the lines we had. We just got a lot of lines, but not a lot. Yes, um. So I'll I'll work with her on that and get that finalized. Speaker 2 00:58:04 Do we get the auditor what they needed from the contract? Speaker 1 00:58:08 I got them everything I was capable of getting, Speaker 2 00:58:10 But no okay so is there a, Document that maybe isn't a contract that needs to get but a document. That's what I will with them, Speaker 1 00:58:20 But here's for you. Speaker 3 00:58:31 Ability first, Speaker 1 00:58:32 Not the KB articles. Uh, credits and disputes. Items, oh, your uh, my app. Speaker 2 00:58:47 No, your uh protection screen. I can't. Oh yeah. Speaker 1 00:58:52 Vendors okay. Speaker 2 00:58:54 I need to go get one look at that. Look looks like I've been playing soccer with my phone. It's my screen protector. Speaker 1 00:58:59 But so okay, I have a full spreadsheet in my database for you guys of all the vendors and expiration dates and I'm trying to finalize all that. Okay. Soum. It's locked. I can't open it from here. Okay, Speaker 2 00:59:16 So here is how what could be invaluable is whatever conference we go to, We are negotiating as well, and we're running one more access, not going to go up in staffing until yeah, Speaker 1 00:59:34 Twenty twenty seven So I can pull it up. Sorry, y'all's is locked for some reason, but this is basically what it looks like. And so I have all the contact information, I have all the contract end dates, monthly payments, all of that. That's another reason. Speaker 2 00:59:49 That like you should have the actual invoice. Yeah, Because for Sharp, what I do is I, you have the contract and you have the invoice and something is being billed at higher rates can see here. Speaker 1 01:00:05 Contracts for each site. Mhm. So, I don't know why I'm locked out of your database, but it's probably because I have it open on my computer. Here is the invoices. That's how I do it, and it's it is linked to theum the image from the scans. So yeah, Speaker 2 01:00:28 No they don't know about OCR or anything. Yeah yeah. Speaker 2 01:00:38 But I also want to be respectful of like they need the time to process and not snatching away. Yeah, I told him I snatched it away, and I was like uh no, we talked about it for like eight months. Even Kasha was like uh yeah, he kind of understood it. Speaker 1 01:00:56 Um yeah, I am fighting my own fires with Kasha right now. Not. Speaker 2 01:01:04 To go with you all at shark. But the I place, Cindy, Speaker 1 01:01:09 I do please Jessica or Kathy or both. Speaker 2 01:01:14 That's a hard one. But I am gonna say. Speaker 1 01:01:17 Kathy. So I like Delaney, but he's not on the same side as my friend. So which I am grateful for, because then my friend doesn't have to do with him. Speaker 3 01:01:34 He walked in yesterday. Speaker 2 01:01:36 Take her with him. He's trying to get some of our program people at the previous place he was at. Speaker 1 01:01:41 He walked in yesterday. He comes in Monday afternoons and then he's there all day on Fridays. I am not there on Fridays, Speaker 1 01:01:49 But He came in Monday. He's like, now my office is kind of like this: I am sitting, I have a window just like that one right there. I don't have this side but this side that sides the door, I can see all the way out to the road. You know, i go. My office is in the. Back of the IT room, so I see my guys. Then I see the open half door for them, and then I see all the way out front door. I see anyone who comes in. We had a security incident of a patient that was. Well, we had another one and they came into our office, But our office is locked, and you have to ring the doorbell and stuff to get in. I can see all that, So I can see when he walks in and he goes straight to Doctor Barber. Speaker 1 01:02:36 He's. I am sure he is. So, cause he was like, well, I can double check all of your all of your finance approvals. And Doctor Barbara's like, no, she's got this herself. And I was like didn't even have to take up for myself here. Um yeah Well, I hope you guys have a good lunch or dinner with him who Doctor Barber Oh yeah You guys. I love him, He's a slow. Conversationalist, but he has a sharp brain; Speaker 2 01:03:08 Like he is so smart. Yeah, I am excited. Um, Getting Sergio to meet with procedures in the states, and we're just like both into having more than training. Um, Kurt was trying to imagine it and I am like no. Well, I need them to work on fixing this thing. Yes, they have don't drop. Speaker 1 01:03:32 Them when you guys are ready for mental health. Mental health space, My job before you get there is to make sure you are ready for DMH. Yeah, but. Speaker 2 01:03:45 Yes, we do need to do that because DMH is a whole different piece. Yes, It's like we think we have very complicated things now, and it's always going to get worse. I am like this is a cakewalk compared to what Lassa was and what DMH is and DHS. This is nothing. Speaker 1 01:04:04 Yeah, you are going to love Erin Hill, who is CEO Doctor Hill. She's the best. Like I love working with her and I love working with Crystal, who's the chief program officer. Speaker 4 01:04:24 Excuse me, Sweater from, that's the only reason I am doing it because it's cold in here. Bye. He is a mess. Speaker 2 01:04:34 Well, he's like my thirteen year old son. I promise. Speaker 1 01:04:36 Is he doing better now that you know? Speaker 2 01:04:38 Yes, the other three they're such good energy. It's just always trying to get one of them on the bus or somebody in the bus. And it doesn't it's just not where everybody is, you know? Yeah, so she's going to go. She didn't get herself kicked out yet. Speaker 1 01:04:58 Just wishes not wanting to go with him playing I've had more fun today with Chase than I've had. In nine months with him, and I've been here for a year. Speaker 2 01:05:12 Oh, you know, here on Mondays. So maybe I have to figure out what a Tuesday Thursday is. Mondays is the Bagel Monday, And so we start in there in the morning and everybody's bringing the type of bagel, the type of spread. They're all talking to me involved and it was just really really really. Speaker 1 01:05:29 No, I've been enjoying it. I was giving him so much shit today for declining all my training meetings. I know he needs to be in there. Yeah, I was like," You need to get a hold of him, give him shit for this." And Sergio's walking down the hallway and he's just grinning at me. Yeah, Speaker 2 01:05:46 Think he's like with twenty? Um, yeah, he definitely acknowledges and I have to say he thinks very highly of you. Thank you for even even that time. This morning, I was like, " I don't know what finance is trying to do with giving us mild heart attacks." But if we tell you something's a hundred K plus, we need the budget. And he was like, "I get it," he was like, "I know." I remember hearing that it was. And I said, " Do, you remember when they asked us to divide it and put some of the money in twenty twenty five?" He's like, "Yes," I do. He's like because I was freaking out about my first year. Speaker 2 01:06:28 Hundred K ask, And he had to tell me like you are not asking to put more TVs on the wall. You are asking to fix a problem at camp, because I was like hundred K. My first, you know, my first year and asking this huge, but he was like it's not like you are wanting to retrofit them with like all new TVs at that. You are really like yeah a problem they've had for a long time. You are helping solve and I am just okay. So as hard as it was for me to ask. And then him turning around and then finding out that it wasn't in there, I was like," Oh my goodness," I couldn't even put words together. I was like," Carl, I know we asked." Yeah. But, they said, oh, you didn't get the documentation. We didn't see all the documentation. So I was like. I. Speaker 1 01:07:14 Spelled it out. Speaker 2 01:07:16 So Chris, if you want to send us the spell out. Speaker 1 01:07:20 I will find it. Speaker 2 01:07:21 Because I remember she was like, oh, just tell me about it. So she we did i i i know we both sent them. Yeah. Speaker 1 01:07:28 I am just hoping I recorded those meetings because that was right when I started using Plot. Speaker 2 01:07:34 How, did we not tell you that we were going to use a hundred K in the budget? Please tell us. Speaker 1 01:07:46 Oh, Pete, first thing Pete said to us is" is the campus your problem?" I said," no." He goes," are you sure?" No, Speaker 2 01:07:53 We all hadn't done the campus and except for when old boy just. Him trying to ramp it down instead of ramping them back up, but that had nothing to do with you all. That was him, you know, playing around stuff. But no, that I told him he's. Speaker 1 01:08:08 Like," Do you need a project manager? Is this a project management issue?" I said no. Crimson is all set. We've done everything. He's like, okay, just making sure. Speaker 2 01:08:18 So oh, what did Dan say? Did he say, okay, to the helping put the brackets up? Yeah, Speaker 1 01:08:24 He, he. He started to offer, and I just instead of putting him in that spot, I said," Can I use Will and Alex?" And he's like," Yeah, yeah. Just let us know." So I am trying to decide: do I go up to camp on Tuesday? Speaker 2 01:08:38 Whatever you need as long as that gets the sooner we get done. And, she can say life is easy up here, and my iPads work, and i am able to get I am able to walk between cabins and have Wi Fi. Speaker 1 01:08:52 So i basically all i need to do is, They shipped all the devices out there. Oh, um, my team. So I hope I am going to check in with them tomorrow. Speaker 2 01:09:03 Yeah, Alex, Margaret and Kelly are the three. Speaker 1 01:09:06 Yes, um, so I am going to show Alex. Hey this is where they got to go. All, you have to do is install the bracket plug in the cable, pop it on the bracket. That's all you have to do there. It's going to be easy for them. I hope no, Speaker 2 01:09:24 Alex and miller. Speaker 2 01:09:26 Let me know. Thank you. Yeah, speaking of that, I kind of need money today. Oh, I really like yesterday when he told me, he could not find it in the budget. I was like, What in the whole world And, he told me he was going to find it, and he did. Yeah, but I was having a whole moment for sure. Oh my gosh! Oh, This is another reason why I want you all to do it. So like you had to stop at each one of these and you had to like in order to get. Oh yeah. Some cool prize to win five hundred dollars, and people really did this. Yeah, and so there was no IT, there was no AI, there was no automation at this conference. I don't know if you want this to look it up. Sure, there was no IT company at the conference. There was plenty of insurance companies, overwhelming amount of staffing agencies. Just no IT? No IT? Nobody telling us how showing us. Speaker 2 01:10:25 They had their little kiosk. I am like, Just bring me in and show me how to take an Excel spreadsheet and make it easy for myself, Or show me how to like like some demos of what you all can do. Yeah, you know HR people, you make our life easy. Yes, Speaker 1 01:10:40 We are signing up. Speaker 1 01:10:43 Yeah, I am jealous of your nails right now by the way. I have that color at home. Speaker 2 01:10:48 I love this color. I love this stuff i am not. So i would find the only crackhead. Uh. Nail place in Orange County. Two blocks from so I was at the conference. Yeah, and I it's two blocks away from Disneyland. I am like okay, I am gonna like go find nail spa, the closest one in my area because I am like I gotta get my nails done before I present tomorrow. So, I am getting my nails done, and i promise you the traffic i am like, oh, my god, i fell five blocks of cracking. Speaker 2 01:11:26 Oh my gosh, I was like," What is going on?" I was taking pictures. I was like," If I come up missing, this is where I was." Oh my gosh! It was craziness going on in Orange County. I don't think whoa! Oh! Speaker 1 01:11:42 It was absolutely great. That's awesome. We had so much fun. Yeah, really good. Oh this oh i love those. Speaker 2 01:11:53 I Was in love. Speaker 1 01:11:57 Yes, I got a very similar one to for Dom. Yeah, I love those. I got a similar one for Dom, but it has all the different chargers. That child lost her headphones again; left on on Metro. You know what? Speaker 2 01:12:13 I don't know; it doesn't need to be invented. Someone just needs to tell them listen, but they probably have it as a scam. I need to be able to go back like find my phone, I need to find my headphones, I need to find my earbuds. You have that? It's on there. Oh, the earbuds one does work. My pen, you know what was going wrong with my pen? It was my old pen. Speaker 1 01:12:33 Oh well, that would be it. Speaker 2 01:12:35 Was my old pen so it wasn't gonna charge. It was my pen that I could use on my bigger iPad and I didn't recognize that it was like. Speaker 1 01:12:44 And I didn't pay. I wasn't paying attention that way. Speaker 2 01:12:46 Oh, so how how I learned that it still worked is I put it on my desk. And I was like gonna give it a funeral. And. Like, throw it away or something. And so I had it on my desk, and the next thing I know, my son has it and he's drawing on the bigger iPad. How did you make that work? He was like, "I put it on top and I synced it." Like he was he was so like What's wrong with you? Don't you work with IT people?" Oh my gosh! So he was like, "I synced it, " and then I started, and then i looked at the version because it showed up a map when i. I was like, "Oh, it's the version; it's not." Speaker 2 01:13:23 It's not because it's broken; it's because I had the older version. So I just went back to my and true, because the other one I got is kind of flimsy. Yeah, the one that we talked that I ordered, I was like," Oh man, Speaker 1 01:13:36 It's kind of flimsy." Oh, I have a new. Was it you who asked me for a sharp pin? A sharp pin? Yeah, the one with the flashlight and the stylus. No, because of my nails being as destroyed as they are. Um, I have been having to use the stylus more, and so I grabbed another handful. Um, Speaker 2 01:14:02 Oh, the sharp from the Sharp Cup yes, I did ask that was me. I am sorry. Speaker 1 01:14:05 I have it in my bag for you. Also, Speaker 2 01:14:07 I got a new bag also, i got a new. Um oh, i left it at home. I got a new tech bag A little tech kit. Mhm. Am going to make it for although she goes places Yeah. Speaker 2 01:14:29 Alright, I'm. What do I do with this? This is like somebody else's when I came in. Speaker 1 01:14:33 Oh yeah, I just leave it there or toss it because they're not Hygienically. Speaker 1 01:14:38 Yeah, I have my new nails coming tonight. Speaker 2 01:14:44 My daughter has like some very cool press- ons on her top. Speaker 1 01:14:48 I got press- o ns, but I got the kind where I can do the sticky tabs because I can't put any glue on this one. Speaker 2 01:14:53 Oh, or that one, all of them. Chris, I am gonna get you that stuff that my grandmother used to put on her nails, so we didn't bite them and take it off. Speaker 1 01:15:03 It's not because I bit onum it wasum anytime that t here is damage to the nail bed, and it was that date, that finance day and I was popping them all. Um, it causes my immune system to flare up because I have an autoimmune disease. And what is that? Speaker 2 01:15:23 It's actually antibiotics. Speaker 1 01:15:25 Oh, I can't. I have to use bacitracin. Okay, yeah, I have bacitracin in my office, so I have to be very mindful of that. Yeah, and it's all. I thought you had bit your nails off? Was like oh my gosh! No, It's autoimmune disease is called nail, fold dermatitis not dermatitis, but derma something It's a symptom of lupus. And then, when you get stressed, does it get worse? Like, yeah, okay. Yeah, And so I got the i got really cool press ons that have the tabs. Yes, Because it's not going to damage so because they they start bleeding, like you see the splits in a lot of them where they start bleeding. Now. This one is ugly because I also got you did tell me right? Speaker 2 01:16:16 Yeah but t here is blood in areas and. Speaker 1 01:16:20 So I had band- aids on it. This hand is not as bad. Yeah, it's a symptom of lupus. So, But I have a I have a presentation tomorrow and I'm putting on the press launch and I'm only leaving on Friday. Speaker 2 01:16:36 Presentation at Sharp? Speaker 1 01:16:37 No, it's for another client. I'm gonna go over there during lunch, do it and then come back to Sharp. So But yeah, I need to. Speaker 2 01:16:45 Well, how do you get any knowledge at work then? You gave them no money. Speaker 1 01:16:50 Hopefully, what I am doing for them, I can correspond with you guys when the timing is right for finances. Speaker 2 01:16:57 Yeah, we okay. Soum, I think we're gonna start in end of July. So we should probably start in June looking at everything. Yeah. Speaker 1 01:17:12 Well, hopefully, I can get concurrent access, Speaker 2 01:17:14 And then we're going to kick out stuff that doesn't belong to us and they'll get the they'll get that budget approved. And. On their end, but I don't want to be a prisoner. Program maybe program makes sense. Yeah, I learned that they have their own Netflix accounts. They have ours. Some people have Netflix accounts with us and some people'. Oh my gosh, fight that battle. Um yeah, So I think the thing that the most important thing we want to do is just we I think we got to go on tour and start doing our calls with folks because they. Speaker 2 01:17:50 Had lots of issues, and I also know that we can learn about why programs systems are not. Speaker 1 01:17:57 Can we can I be in more involved with the director's meetings? Can I actually attend those? Speaker 2 01:18:05 They happen on every other month Thursday. So we don't have a directors, and I've been asking for this, so that is a good point to ask Sergio is that we don't. Have an all directors meeting. We have a direct program directors meeting, and we as leaders go and then we. So I am going to ask him because there isn't a space for all directors to come together quarterly to talk about issues, yeah, and like so the same issue you are having so does. Speaker 2 01:18:49 And and I am not sure, but I would say Dan too. Um. I also need to, Talked about this today because we blew past because we were supposed to come in at the top of one, but we didn't have that happen. Dedicated, I think we need to do some cadence of like dedicated a certain time of the month where you are coming in. Speaker 1 01:19:16 Yeah cause if I, I had been blocking it on my calendar, but I took a block off today because I was in. Speaker 1 01:19:24 Yeah, Well, I did the training at one. Speaker 2 01:19:33 Like the third Tuesday or something like that. Because I also think we should do a recap after camp and talk about. Speaker 2 01:19:49 Another thing is, yeah, we need to do a recap on campus. We also need to do the training with the those support departments. Speaker 1 01:19:59 Yeah. I got my child was like I'm. I need I don't feel safe on the bus. Oh no. I got her some personal alarm pepper spray and a Taser pen. Did. Speaker 2 01:20:13 Something happen? No, she just no incidents of crazy the crazy. Yesterday. It's all, all staff. Yeah, I know you're seventeen and but why why kiddos I mean not anybody, but definitely why kids. Yes, yeah, I don't either. Pure. Speaker 2 01:20:49 And they killed himself. They killed the security guard and then killed themselves. Yeah, it was very sad. Um, Oh, I did want to ask you, do you know when this is coming in for me? I've I've unplugged a whole lot of crap from it. But remember, we had ordered it. Yes. And maybe it may be waiting for my approval. So that may be I may be the hold up there. I will, Speaker 1 01:21:15 I will ask Avi to resend it to you. Speaker 2 01:21:19 And do I need to put a ticket in to remove him from anything else? David, Speaker 1 01:21:25 Oh, you need to put in an offboarding ticket, but you have to fill out the offboarding form. Um, I need to sit down with Alma and show her. Well, let me let's do an HR meeting with everybody. So I can show everybody how to do the forms. We're going to do next Tuesday? Let's do that. Yeah. Speaker 2 01:21:48 Let me let's see okay. Because I need to go up to camp. Oh no, you know what? Eitherum and yes, you'll have camp, but the problem is reason that well we are on payroll on that Tuesday. Speaker 1 01:22:07 Shit. I can't go up to camp on Tuesday. Do you think they're gonna get cancelled this year? Speaker 1 01:22:18 Someone did not pay attention to the fact I blocked out the entire day. Uh, I can go to camp on Thursday. Yeah, um, yeah, I will let them know. Speaker 2 01:22:35 Um, who is their point person? Is it still the guy that helped us walk through? Or is it another another staff? Speaker 1 01:22:42 It's going to be uh their point person is going to be Greg. Speaker 2 01:22:45 Okay, I think that's the person that walked. Speaker 1 01:22:49 Let me move this. Ah, Speaker 2 01:22:52 Okay. Start. Show oh it's because I had it showed as free. Okay. I gotta process these payrolls, then I'm gonna go check on Oma. Okay so I've blocked out my day for Thursday, On Thursday, okay, you're gonna go up there Tuesday's gonna be a hard day'cause it's the day After Memorial Day get Wolford is the. Speaker 2 01:23:27 Do you want to give me, Let's do the second. Second. Speaker 1 01:23:30 Yeah, I have a two p m already set because I have to do a tabletop exercise. But can we do one o'clock? No wait, I table top is at one. Can we do two thirty? Speaker 2 01:23:48 Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 01:23:56 Probably sent it to her. Um, Shane wants to take. Speaker 1 01:24:04 The monitors in my office home to use at home. Speaker 2 01:24:07 I think him and all the each need one. Yeah, I think she needs one at home. Um, until we figure out what we're going to do in here with the interns. Oh, I have two or three trips coming in May next two next week. Speaker 1 01:24:28 I have uh you guys use the Brio system is that correct. Speaker 3 01:27:14 That was really good. Have you seen? Speaker 3 01:31:25 I am about to fall asleep. Oh, you wanna see my new bag? Speaker 1 01:36:09 Uh, just a heads up. Yes, uh eight through the eleventh or twelfth, I am taking off on vacation. Yes. Yeah, I am gonna send you a yep. Uh S L A dash four. Speaker 1 01:36:39 Okay. Are you taking her to school? Yes, and that's in August. I'm taking off that week as well. I'm gonna drop her off and then go have a mini vacation unless I've got another kid with me. Yeah, I might leave the kid, the new kid with Olivia, my foster parent friend. And go visit some wine. Ah. Yes. Thank you. Speaker 1 01:39:46 I, Want to go ahead and get a meeting set up with you to discuss some options that Verizon has that we can utilize. Um, that we are going to explore for twenty twenty seven. One of the biggest options is I'm exploring different vendors on voice over I P options. Um and I want to, Get with you to see what Verizon has to offer, so that I can build my comparison before we make decisions. I also want to understand, um, the contracts and things that we have. I know that you and I have emailed back and forth, but I need to get a better understanding of items. And then additionally, The third thing is I want to discuss uh potentially ordering more phones because we are running out of phones, and we're I know. We have the lines for that. We wanna take a hard look at everything going on because as we build all of this out, we're also. Speaker 1 01:40:45 Additionally, Working on the twenty seven budget and the direction that Ability First is going in, so as we work through strategic review for twenty seven, I would like to get some input in from you on what Bryson can offer us. To match and align with our IT strategic goals. Speaker 3 01:44:17 Hmm. Speaker 3 01:45:41 Yeah. Speaker 3 01:48:55 Oh. Speaker 3 01:53:23 I'm sorry. Speaker 1 01:55:38 Are we leaving? Speaker 2 01:55:39 Uh, no, I am hanging out because. Speaker 1 01:55:41 My son has practice. So I started at six fifteen and I'll have to seven. Okay, Good because I am still working on things. And i if if you are leaving, then I have to leave because I don't have uh codes. Speaker 3 01:57:23 Oh. Speaker 3 02:00:37 You should like. Speaker 2 02:01:54 Right. Speaker 1 02:03:55 Also, she clarified her comment about uh, we're we're not as sexy. She explained to me that she had given you a a statement that she feels like they are not as sexy as sharp. And, she feels bad because she wants to do a lot more creative things uh that she feels like would be in my wheelhouse, but they don't have the budget. And I explained to her that, Even if they don't have the budget, we have things we can do that would not hit the budget directly. So we've been brainstorming this afternoon on some things, um, And kind of forced finance to give me access to the system so we can start automation and things like that. That's not going to cost them anything. So it was a really good meeting. Speaker 4 02:05:23 All right, you want to see this purse before I leave? No, Speaker 1 02:05:29 Sorry. I was trying to finish up. I had a mountain of emails that I really wanted to quickly take go through. Speaker 2 02:05:37 Oh, that's nice. Speaker 1 02:05:39 I wanted a purse that would fit my laptop. Yeah, and it's a Lovok. Oh, really? That's really nice. So it's expanded right now because i I got everything that's got to go in it. But I wanted something that would also like you would fill that with like a craft. I had to take things out because it got heavy. Speaker 2 02:06:01 Did you see Oh, you did not see the box this came in? Mm- hmm. Did they tell you about it? No, everything has been kicked down the stairs. It was like open, it was like busted open and everything. No, I'm like if it works, it works. If it doesn't, you know we just keep going keep moving Yeah. Speaker 1 02:06:16 Ohum I have been, Wanting this other purse because I really wanted to find something. Speaker 1 02:06:30 Yeah, I want the coffee one, andum, that sounds awesome. Yeah, But it's it was out of stock, so they finally got it back this last couple days. Um, my first aid kit and my child's PMS emergency kit. Speaker 2 02:06:50 I love it. Yes, send me the link. That is so cute. If they have a popular one, I'll try to get it and then yeah, Speaker 1 02:06:56 I use it for church on Sunday, because I always carry a laptop with me, but everything fits in it. That is so awesome, and I don't have to carry a purse and a backpack, which is one of my main desires. Do you like the selfie? Speaker 1 02:07:20 On my G L P one which I am. Yeah, how are you doing with it? Uh, I had to go off of it for a week because I had blowers. I had to get them. So, I was back on it as of today, and which our blower came back. Amazing and I got way too much shit in here. You can't stand it. Um, so my only issue is vitamin D. Mm-hmm. I have a major deficiency Yes, we tend to we tend to. I take one every morning. So, they have me on I'm on a nurse office on Thursday. They have me on therapeutic regimen because and you have to be careful at this level. So I can only take it once a month. And. It's. Speaker 2 02:08:13 It's a pretty high level. Speaker 1 02:08:23 I almost forgot my meds this morning because I was running late. I kept drifting off to sleep. I woke up at my normal five thirty, and I kept doing this. And then the kitten decided she needed to play parkour again. She acted like something had bit her, and she was running like she was running through the house. And, she hopped on my head and then jumped off and ran into the kids' room all the way on the other side of the apartment. Speaker 1 02:08:53 And jumped. She did it was bad. And then, her cat was upset because he was hungry. And, so he came and woke me up to go wake her up because he's figured out. Yeah, yeah. So, it was a fun morning. And then I just was like, you know what we're just going to be late. Speaker 1 02:09:23 And almost forgot my caffeine. I stopped at Starbucks. Oh, Speaker 2 02:09:39 I honestly, if I hadn't taken the G O P one yesterday, I would be going to get tacos because those that Alma brought back to me the other day were amazing. So Thursday. Speaker 3 02:09:53 Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 02:10:15 I Have, I've, I'm gonna send out the uh reminder about Thursday's Excel training being at three. Two o'clock. I gotta send her a request to tell her to uh ignore the training in the boardroom for this week. Um, but uh I am gonna send out a survey, an IT survey like I did last year to everybody. And I want to send out a training survey to get dates and times that work better for everybody because no one hardly people are showing up today. Six um but I did send out last week's meeting. Speaker 1 02:10:54 Yeah, I just sent out the link in the video link for last week. So, we'll be trying. Yeah. Speaker 3 02:11:07 Bye. Oh, good idea. Speaker 3 02:12:18 Okay. Speaker 3 02:16:47 Call Pete. Hey, how are you? Oh, you know, I'm here. How are you? Speaker 1 02:17:16 I just left ability first. I am literally driving out of the parking lot right now. Speaker 4 02:17:21 Yeah, I am still sitting here working, so there we go. That's how things go. Yes, Speaker 1 02:17:28 So just a quick heads up for you.: had a very good conversation with Sean just now. But.
05-20 Governance and Access Fixes for ConnectWise and Thread: Mentorship, Board Visibility, and Controlled Feature Re-enablement
- Notes
-  ## Core Synopsis The operating system of this team is misaligned: permissions and board configurations in ConnectWise/managed services are broken because changes are made without governance or communication, and interpersonal dynamics compound the noise—Olivia needs to be listened to, Pete solutioned, and Christi is stepping in to formalize mentorship and clean up the systems. Evidence spans two fronts: (1) the Billing/Finance boards are invisible to key admins due to department and role misconfigurations, with Ansar making structural changes that weren’t propagated or communicated; (2) the Thread platform was partially disabled to curb notification overload and never re-enabled after the ConnectWise fixes, leaving capability on the table. The stakes are straightforward: unresolved access/board defects block Finance operations and onboarding (Maricar), slow down Admin workflows (Jane/Lisa), and create fire drills for Olivia; missing Thread features keep the Help Desk reactive instead of leveraging automation. We are committing to two corrections in parallel: governance on system changes (mentorship and escalation channel through Christi/Pete) and a disciplined re-enable program for Thread, one feature per week, with ownership and sign-off to avoid reintroducing noise. ## System Fixes and Operating Norms ### Mentorship Realignment and Communication Norms - Christi will formally mentor Olivia (non-reporting), creating a stable escalation and coaching channel. - Political subtext: Pete is outcome-oriented and defaults to fixing; Olivia’s need is to be heard first. Christi is the translation layer to reduce friction and provide cover. - Historical context: Ansar’s cultural/communication misfires (e.g., the “pretty” comment) are recognized; Christi and Pete can address these directly with him. ### ConnectWise/Board Access Misconfiguration: The Root and the Fix - Phenomenon: Admins (Olivia) cannot see the Billing board; Finance onboarding (Maricar) lacks correct department/default board; differences observed vs. Jane/Lisa. - Mechanism: Departments and role IDs differ (Service Manager vs. Admin), restricted board settings/double defaults, and department tables not aligned to recent structural changes. Ansar made changes; department entries and board mappings lag. - Current interventions: - Christi can see Billing under Service Board; she assigned team leads (Jane, Lisa, Maricar) to Billing; restricted boards removed for testing. - Olivia adjusted member type (subcontractor → hourly) on Maricar; still no Billing visibility. - Plan: verify Setup Tables → Departments mapping; if visibility fails, delete/recreate Maricar by copying Jane’s profile. ### Thread Platform: Controlled Capability Re-enable - Status: Notifications were previously disabled in Thread to reduce noise; after ConnectWise notification fixes, Thread features remain off. - Plan: Explore new Thread features and re-enable selectively (exclude prioritization/categorization), starting with reminders and utilization reporting where appropriate. - Governance: One feature per week, owned by Christi and Olivia, with sign-off to prevent notification blowback. - Resourcing: Pete will obtain Ansar’s approval to increase Thread plan cost by $20/month. ### Help Desk Bot Adoption at Ability First - Training direction: Staff should use chat with the Help Desk bot for how-to support and must instruct it to close the ticket afterward to avoid open-ticket drift. - Early response: Positive reception; closing discipline is the critical behavior to enforce. ## Action Items **@Christi** - [ ] Formalize Olivia’s mentorship status (non-reporting) and communicate the arrangement to Pete and Ansar - [TBD] - [ ] Assign relevant team leads to the Billing service board and verify visibility across Jane/Lisa/Maricar - [TBD] - [ ] Audit Setup Tables → Departments to align Admin/Finance mappings; correct board-defaults and role IDs where misaligned - [TBD] - [ ] Co-lead Thread feature exploration and re-enable plan (one feature per week; exclude prioritization/categorization) - [TBD] - [ ] Continue Ability First training: reinforce bot usage and “close the ticket” behavior - [TBD] **@Olivia** - [ ] Remove restricted boards for Maricar, set correct department/default board, and test Billing visibility; if still failing, delete and recreate Maricar by copying Jane’s profile - [TBD] - [ ] Validate your own access to Billing under Service Board after Christi’s changes; document the exact visibility delta vs. Jane/Lisa - [TBD] - [ ] Pair with Christi to select and enable the first Thread feature (reminders/utilization reporting candidate) and monitor impact for one week - [TBD] **@Pete** - [ ] Secure Ansar’s sign-off to increase the Thread plan by $20/month - [TBD] - [ ] Endorse Christi’s mentorship arrangement for Olivia and route system-change communication through Christi to prevent unannounced configuration shifts - [TBD] **@Ansar** - [ ] Stop-gap governance: before making structural changes to departments/boards, notify Christi and Olivia and document the change in Setup Tables notes - [TBD]
- Date
- May 20, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:01 Hello. Good morning. Good morning. You sound like you're in a good mood. I just, Speaker 1 00:00:08 I did get some sleep, Speaker 2 00:00:12 So do you feel better? Um, like kind of, I just feel, I don't know, I feel better. Yeah. Okay good good good. I had a conversation with Pete though yesterday and. Speaker 1 00:00:30 I don't know. I feel like it was a very typical conversation with a man, and and hear me out by this because, I just want to be listened to. Like I know how to solve all of the problems myself. Yeah, but I just wanted to be listened to, and I feel like Pete wanted to like solve the problems, which is fine. But anyway, s so so yeah. Speaker 2 00:00:55 Yeah he does and he's he's also, Cause he and I had a conversation later that afternoon, and he brought up some things to me, and you came up in the conversation. Andum, he was like, I just I want to make her happy, but I don't know what to do. And I am like, just listen. That's all you can do. Just listen. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:17 Yeah cause like uh I don't know a lot of the things it's like uh I know all of these problems. I know why they're problems. I like, I know that's really that's really what I needed. Yeah, so yeah, Speaker 2 00:01:32 I mean, but yeah, don't they they don't they're not on the female spectrum in that area. And no, exactly Chris. Speaker 1 00:01:41 I was like, well at least I spoke to Chris. Because to be honest, speaking with you made me feel better. So it was like, okay, good. Speaker 2 00:01:49 Um yeah, I asked him, cause he he had brought over everything up, and I said, look, I am going to ask you a question. She doesn't fall under me. I don't manage her anymore, but can I keep her under me for mentorship? And he said," Please do." And the relief in his voice. Um, and so if you are good with that, we'll pull you. We're not pulling you back under me to for you to report to. We're just going to pull you under me for mentorship. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:02:22 That's fine. I mean that's kind of what I've, You've been doing it. Speaker 2 00:02:25 Always done. Yeah, I am like, does anything ever change? No, it's not going to change. Uh, it just I am just formalizing it and saying it out loud now. So yeah, yeah but yeah I hear you. Yeahum and besides I am, Pete and I are one of the few people to go to onsor and say, stop effing up. So yeah, we can take those concerns uh to onsor and just. Remind him," Hey, you are Russian. Russians and Americans all think differently." And I need you to stop being Russian for a second. Speaker 2 00:03:02 Oh, For sure because he doesn't even realize he does it half the time. Yeah, Like yeah I mean, Speaker 1 00:03:09 That's kind of what I figured, you know? Yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:11 He made a comment to you a long, long time ago, like probably within six months of me, starting. And you had mentioned it to me, but I never said anything to Ansar. And he Ansar came to me separately and was like," Here is what I said. Did I say this wrong?" And I said," Yes." He goes," Oh." Speaker 1 00:03:30 Was it the was it the like? Uh ohum why is Olivia here? Is it just cause she's pretty? Was it that statement? Speaker 2 00:03:39 Yes. And he was mortified that he had upset you. And I was like, just apologize. Speaker 1 00:03:47 Yeah, yeah, I remember that conversation because I think Bray had spoke to him as well. Because Bray was in that call with Anzor, and so I think Bray had spoke to him as well. And I was like," Yes." Yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:01 Bray had spoke to him, so so Anzor came to me to get my perspective. And, yeah, yeah, and he's done that a few times cause he made a statement to Monty before you started. And he and Monty, Monty's been family to him for years, way before I got involved. And yeah, and so he came to me. He was like, "Did I did I say that?" He's come to me and say, "Hey, I was smoking weed in the office last night. Did it smell okay when you come in in the morning?" So yeah. Although he doesn't smoke weed anymore. Oh good for him. Yeah uh, he was like I was smoking it too much. I had to stop It's like good. Speaker 2 00:04:42 Honestly, fair. That's a good thing because I get it. Yeah, so yeah, um, I am so I had yesterday was crazy. Um, I had seven meetings back to back and some training. And then some uh, some some drop ins, like my lunch yesterday was crazy. Um look I don't know if you're if you're looking at the teams or have the teams up, but I'm going to share my screen. There's my yesterday. Oh, oh my. And the focus time and the drive home didn't happen. I did not drive home. I did not leave the Ability First offices until six o'clock. Oh my God! Yeah, it was bad. Speaker 2 00:05:40 And today is is mostly blocks. So, yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:47 Oh well, at least hopefully today will be better. Speaker 2 00:05:50 Yeah. But yeah, it was it was a little crazy so uh it was nonstop and yeah. Speaker 1 00:06:02 Dang! Yeah Chris your your calendar is scary. Speaker 2 00:06:08 Yeah, it was just as bad when I was in Pete's position. Speaker 1 00:06:15 Yeah, so hey, I got a question for you because I can't figure out. I am not sure if so Mari Carr is the new finance person. She's taking over twenty fifteen yeah but, Jane says that she doesn't see the finance board or the accounting board. So I'm going to share my screen. Okay. She's not, uh, Restricted to the finance, and then I only have admin and careers, while like Jane, says billing as the default board, but I don't see it. Speaker 2 00:07:01 Do me a favor, scroll up. Speaker 2 00:07:07 Change department right here. Do we have a finance department? Speaker 1 00:07:13 No, we don't. And their admin, like let me show you what Jane's look like. I'm pretty sure I copied Jane. Oh no, I think I copied Lisa's maybe. Speaker 1 00:07:33 Uh yeah, so they're at so this is Jane. Jane's admin, um, admin. She doesn't even have a default back default board apparently. Speaker 2 00:07:44 But maybe delete her andum and try to copy Jane. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:54 Yeah and then like look at yeah Lisa's billing, but I don't even have. Oh, I don't even have access to the billing. You don't have access to billing. No, like I don't even see the board. I did this too and I don't even look. I don't have any boards restricted. Speaker 2 00:08:16 You need to take out your default board. Oh, see, but you have. Speaker 1 00:08:23 A whole look at all my boards, but I don't have like admin and what's it called? Yeah, because you're not on managed services. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:08:33 Um, scroll up. Oh, your role ID is admin. Okay, go back over to Elisa or Jane. Do you want Elisa? No, Jane's fine. Jane. Uh, she's service manager. Speaker 1 00:08:47 Yeah and then her department's admin, Speaker 2 00:08:50 Okay. So what is Elisa's? Speaker 1 00:08:53 She says, she's also an admin. She's also admin. Speaker 2 00:08:56 Admin Service Manager is the role ID Okay. What is uh Marisol. Speaker 2 00:09:05 Is it Marisol or Maricar? Maricar. Maricar, I think. She's service manager. Yeah, service manager admin assistant. She's a type subcontractor. What do you see this? Type subcontractor? Yeah Oh does that change to hourly Save it and see what happens? This. Speaker 1 00:09:29 Is admin I don't. Yeah, I still don't see the billing. But maybe I don't know. Is it 'cause she's SoCal? Let me see what. Okay, let me open up someone else. Yeah, I don't understand at all. All of a sudden I can't see SoCal admin default build. Speaker 1 00:10:01 Board is billing. Speaker 2 00:10:04 Go back over to her real quick. Let's see something. Okay, Speaker 1 00:10:08 Let me put both of these on. Thank you. I could probably help you out, help us out a little bit instead of going back and forth here. Speaker 2 00:10:25 Now. Scroll down on her again. Speaker 1 00:10:31 I don't have a vendor number. Does that matter? Uh, I don't think so. She's hourly Office. Speaker 2 00:10:41 SoCal Service manager. All the same here. Um, see something? Well, their time entries are not correct. Yeah, these? Yeah, those things? Yeah, but that's okay. Uh service defaults. Speaker 2 00:11:03 Allow. Oh, I love in- cell entry. Uh, by the way, that is the best thing ever. What does that mean? I'll show you mine later. Uh, including utilization reporting, you want to turn that on? Speaker 1 00:11:15 Don't mean should I turn it off? Lisa too and uh. Speaker 2 00:11:17 Yeah you can leave that at B. Okay. I just don't understand Chris take out all the restricted boards on her. Speaker 2 00:11:38 See, maybe that. Well, that's not going to change the default board because in the yeah admin department, their their default board is only two thingum save it and have her try again. But you know, Speaker 1 00:11:54 What should I look at the board? Do you think Gonser changed the board he might have? Speaker 2 00:11:58 But uh go to setup tables and then go to department. Speaker 2 00:12:05 Okay, go to accounting. I see the problem. Okay, uh, go back to her real quick. He made some changes. I bet you Enzor. Mhm Go back up a little bit Oh wait. Okay, oh, go back down, sorry, I lost her. Uh, click on department. He made changes, but the departments aren't in there yet. Uh, I wish you didn't give me admin rights so I could help you. Like just. Speaker 1 00:12:57 Also why did he make these changes and then not tell the only other admin who actually like. Needs to fix these things when he breaks it. Like, I just, I don't know. Speaker 2 00:13:10 I know. Hang on, let me get logged in and manage. I can still see some things, so I want to see what I can see. Speaker 2 00:13:31 It's not departments because that's in contacts. Hang on one second. Invoicing, scheduling, general company. Member, member templates. Oh, there's no member templates. Member type. That's good. Okay, I'm in setup tables. I'm changing category to member. Okay. Uh, okay, so it's not a member. Okay, Let's do I don't want that. Speaker 1 00:14:17 But also, you know, what's weird is that I can't even see the billing board as a. As an admin, I can't see it. And I don't have any restrictions. So like, I don't even know how. I didn't know how Lisa and they were seeing it. Speaker 2 00:14:42 Okay, so I see it. But I see it under service board. Speaker 1 00:14:51 Under service board? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:58 Because that's what I'm in right now. So, I'm looking at billing. You see billing? I see billing in here. See, I don't even see it. How is that possible? Here, let me share my screen and maybe I can make the changes. Yeah, because I was made admin from day one so anything that Anzor did, I don't. Speaker 2 00:15:33 So I'm in here. I want to see history. No, Jane updated this in December. Wasn't answer what? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:15:54 Does it have like an exclude or like maybe it's a team thing that only the team members can see it? Speaker 2 00:16:01 I don't know just yet, but okay. Let me go through each team leader's Katarina assigned is Katarina available. Speaker 1 00:16:18 Just Katarina. Speaker 2 00:16:19 Yeah, let me assign Jane and Alisa Jane Mayor Carr. And Lisa, and a sign. Okay, so now they're in it. But this is for a few other things, uh, items. Oh wait, skill mapping? Nope. Auto sign? Nope. I did not want that standard notes. Nope. Things we did. Speaker 2 00:16:59 Okay, there's nothing in here. There's nothing in here that would cause them not to be. Speaker 2 00:17:34 You gave me just enough admin access to help you out, and I keep forgetting that. Speaker 1 00:17:39 Yeah, you have access to like set up tables and everything. Speaker 2 00:17:42 Yeah, which I appreciate. Thank you very much. Speaker 1 00:17:47 I give you as much as that I could. You just don't have access to members essentially. Everything else you should be good Like. Speaker 2 00:17:54 What am I going to do in members that is got him stressed out? Speaker 1 00:17:58 Yeah, yeah, I don't know Chris and not like the anything's even in members, Like yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I don't understand why I can't see the board. I don't like, I don't get it. Speaker 2 00:18:15 We don't get it either. Have her try now and then if that doesn't work delete her and copy Jane. Okay And see if that works Okay, Speaker 1 00:18:30 I'll try that. Speaker 2 00:18:32 Um, okay. Because you did give me access and I keep forgetting it, let me know if there's anything I can do to make your life easier. I did ask Pete, okay, um yesterday and I told him, this is going to be a situation where I'm asking you, but I'm still going to do it anyways. So just a heads up for you. I told him thread, um yeah, we he's going to get answer to sign off on increasing it by twenty dollars a month. Speaker 2 00:19:02 Okay, so what what is uh, Speaker 1 00:19:04 What are we adding? So it's because we're on an old plan. Um, here's the deal. You remember when we turned offum I'm re sharing my screen. Do, you remember when we turned off a lot of things because people were getting too many notifications? We turned off things in thread first. Oh yeah, But we never went back and turned it on after we figured out the notifications issue in Connectwise. Hmm. Speaker 2 00:19:31 So, I would like to go back through and explore all the new stuff that they've put in and slowly turn things back on, just you and I. That might help out. Not prioritization categorization because I understand why you made that change. Um, I oh yeah Well, that one was we turned those off uh Yeah, those I don't want to turn back on but we have We have some new stuff in here, that, like the reminder, stuff that we have not fully done. So if you don't mind, I've got some free time because you know I got no more bear. To pay attention to. You say you have free time. I know you don't have free time. I have a little bit, I guess, my child keeps leaving at night, like she texted me this morning on her way to school. And said, hey, can I be late tonight? Am like what's late? She goes. Speaker 2 00:20:28 I don't know nine ten o'clock. I am like, yeah, like that's a normal teenage late. Like just I said, what do you want to do? And she goes, "I am gonna I am gonna go out with Val." And I said, "Okay," cause Val's a great kid. She doesn't party or anything like that. So they're going to teriyaki, and then they're going to her house to do homework. Oh, That's fun and I am like. Why are you even asking me this? Your curfew is ten o'clock, just be home by ten. I have gps on you. I will track you. Not only do I have GPS on your phone, you have a an air tag sewn into your purse. You have an air tag sewn into your backpack. Like I cannot escape me, I know where you are. Um so yeah so she so I have literally, I got home last night. I sat in my new recliner because it's amazing, and it feel is very comfy. I put my bed table, you know those little lap tables you get for your bed, it fits. Speaker 2 00:21:26 On my new recliner, perfectly. And I just sat there and worked and watched uh Criminal Minds. Oh, I love that. I've never watched it until this year, and I am This is your first watch? Well, yeah. So now I am on SBU. Um so I've been bouncing back and forth between SBU and uh Criminal like the new one that just came out a couple years ago. Oh, Yeah, The evolution yeah, and, Not the evolution. Uh, oh, the S V U new one. The spinoff from S V U. I am not sure what that one is actually. Speaker 1 00:22:08 I've never watched S V U now that I am thinking about it. Speaker 2 00:22:11 I like S V U, but I didn't watch the other one yet. Oh, Can't remember what it is. I'll I'll think of it later and tell you, uh, Criminal Organizations That's what it is. Oh. And so I just sat there and worked last night on multiple things. Got my leader stuff done. Got tabletop stuff out of the way for uh June second. Like did a bunch of stuff because my kid was elsewhere, MIA. Yeah, I am like I have no kid bear and I aren't talking anymore. So that relationship, I blocked him. Good Chris you should and I was like okay about nine o'clock. I was like oh am. Speaker 2 00:22:53 Of things to do, but can't be done until tomorrow. Oh man, so so that all being said, I want to go in here and just play around with some things and slowly turn things on and turn one thing on a week and see if anybody notices. Speaker 1 00:23:11 I love it. Okay perfect. Yeah that sounds. Speaker 2 00:23:14 Good nowum with trainingum I am reminding people at Ability First go into chat chat with. Um, Chat with the help desk bot, and it will tell you things how to do things. And everybody yesterday was so amazed. And I said, but don't forget to tell it to close the ticket. Speaker 1 00:23:34 Oh yeah, for sure that's the important part too. So okay, I got a meeting with Jams. I got a hop. All right have fun bye Okay thanks Chris bye.
07-23 AI Tools Training: Copilot, Claude, and Plaud
- Notes
-  This training and troubleshooting session—led primarily by Speaker 3—walks the participant through enabling and using Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams and Office apps, deploying and working with Claude for projects, artifacts, and automated routines, and adopting Plaud for HIPAA-compliant meeting transcription. It culminates in an integrated workflow that combines Claude for creation and organization with Copilot for refinement, plus guidance on external sharing constraints, device options, and automated archival of transcripts. ------------ ## Setup and Troubleshooting Speaker 3 begins by confirming office schedules and then pivots to configuring Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams facilitator. Copilot can be launched via Start > “Microsoft 365 Copilot,” identifiable by a colorful M365 logo near the taskbar. Within a Teams meeting, “Facilitator” is accessed from “More actions”; if the option is missing, the recommended fix is a computer reboot to refresh Teams integrations. The participant is asked to briefly leave the call, reboot, and rejoin to make facilitator appear. For recurring meetings, the instructor advises opening the meeting series and using “Meeting options” to enable both “Record and transcribe” and “Facilitator.” Adding an agenda is suggested because it introduces a visible timer during sessions, aiding pacing. The instructor notes limits around external access: even if external participants have Copilot, they cannot view recaps directly. To share externally, the organizer must use “Watch in browser,” then “Share” > “Copy link” with a setting like “Anyone with the link can view but can’t download.” Internal methods like “Share to email” open a browser-based compose window, which is inconvenient and still doesn’t provide external access to recaps unless the web link approach is used. In parallel, Speaker 3 pushes installations: Copilot and a Claude installer are deployed to targeted devices; the user should subsequently find Claude in the Start menu and log in via the link provided earlier. These steps position the participant to use Copilot within M365 apps and Claude as a desktop application for AI-augmented work. ------------ ## Microsoft Copilot Demonstration Copilot’s presence within Office apps is highlighted: in PowerPoint, it can apply consistent formatting across slides—such as adding a footer or a corner mark—and assist with visual cleanup. The instructor demonstrates selecting slides across two Power Automate training decks and prompting Copilot to apply a consistent footer, then standardizing backgrounds for visual polish. In Outlook, Copilot appears as a button offering “Summarize,” “Prioritize,” and “List email takeaways.” The instructor shows how “List email takeaways” extracts concise action points and summaries from long or disjointed email threads, which is particularly useful given high daily volume (“about 300” emails in the mailbox). Email prioritization is configurable via a down arrow in Copilot; key contacts like “Carl” can be marked as high priority, while lower-priority categories (such as security tools like Sophos, Avenon, and KnowBe4) can be deprioritized. Copilot acts as a drafting assistant that kickstarts work, but its outputs require user review and edits; this “intern” metaphor is reiterated to set realistic expectations. Copilot availability spans Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, enabling document, spreadsheet, and slide workflows. ------------ ## Claude AI Platform Deep Dive Speaker 3 provides a thorough tour of Claude. In “Chat,” Claude is framed as a “hyped up Google” for research-like queries. “Projects” encapsulate reusable configurations: users define instructions (voice, tone, format) to produce consistent outputs for recurring tasks like monthly reports or grant emails; this ensures continuity of style and reduces setup friction. “Artifacts” are tangible files Claude creates (e.g., tenant deployment pricing, branding book-based materials), retained as distinct outputs rather than ephemeral chat replies. “Customize” enables creating skills (e.g., blog posts for different brands, a ConnectWise tool, and a daily morning briefing). “Dispatch” is beta for handing off tasks that can be worked across devices. “CoWork” is central for operational tasks: Speaker 3 instructs Claude to organize subfolders within an “AbilityFirst” directory—moving items to correct locations—and, in a separate CoWork thread, to analyze two Power Automate training decks for visual presentation and ease of understanding, then propose improvements and use cases. Claude identifies PowerPoints via the “.PPTX” extension and reports progress and skill usage (e.g., PPTX-related tools). These CoWork tasks run with auto-approval to minimize interruptions, while user inputs may be required at checkpoints. The “Code” section, geared toward developers, is used for structured workflows like compiling an authored book timeline: verbal drafts are pushed to a cloud repository and assembled with timelines. “Routines” deliver scheduled automation (e.g., a daily “morning inbox sweep” at around 6:00 a.m.) across multiple connectors—Outlook (Crimson), Gmail, Airtable, Asana—following detailed rules and priorities. Configuration includes naming routines, specifying triggers (time-based or webhook), adding connectors, defining behavior, and setting notifications. The instructor reviews a routine run that previously failed due to disconnected email tools; after reconnecting, the routine is re-run and a prior run (July 16) is shown, with an urgent notice (e.g., a license expiring in 3 days), SLA breaches, and task summaries. A minor error (“SharePoint email is inaccessible”) is noted as needing a fix. Throughout, Speaker 3 reiterates the “AI as intern” principle: AI starts the work and speeds throughput, but human oversight ensures quality. ------------ ## Integrated AI Workflow Example The instructor demonstrates using Claude and Copilot “hand in hand.” First, Claude’s CoWork generates the initial slide decks and speaker scripts for Power Automate training. Then Copilot, embedded in PowerPoint, refines the visuals—adding consistent footers and background treatments, and suggesting layout improvements based on Claude’s earlier analysis. This division of labor exemplifies practical synergy: Claude produces structured content and organizational groundwork, while Copilot integrates tightly with Office for polishing and formatting, culminating in shareable, well-presented training materials. ------------ ## Plaud for Meeting Transcription and Analysis Plaud is introduced as a HIPAA-compliant digital note-taking solution available as an app (computer and mobile) and as a wearable device (NotePin). The NotePin can be worn as a necklace, wristband, or lapel pin and is shown to capture audio accurately even in loud environments. Plaud records meetings across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Webex, and is also noted as the only known device capable of recording mobile phone calls while remaining HIPAA compliant. Plaud automatically generates meeting highlights, action roadmaps, and comprehensive summaries; full transcripts can be copied to external applications like Word. The instructor demonstrates a workflow that saves Plaud summaries and transcripts directly into OneDrive upon generation, and later processes these materials with Claude to derive insights—such as building a September training program based on recurring training needs mentioned across meeting transcripts. Weingart is cited as a current adopter that records client intake sessions using Plaud due to HIPAA requirements. Speaker 3 provides a purchase link for the NotePin via chat and mentions sending videos from upcoming client trainings to further support the participant’s staff development. ------------ ## Action Items - **@Speaker 2** - [ ] Reboot the computer to enable Teams “Facilitator” mode and refresh Copilot integrations - [TBD] - [ ] Log in to the Claude application using the previously provided email link - [TBD] - **@Speaker 3** - [ ] Push Copilot and Claude software installations to the participant’s computer (initiated; ensure completion) - [TBD] - [ ] Add “Microsoft 365” as a connector in Claude routines configuration - [TBD] - [ ] Fix the SharePoint email connection issue noted in the routine’s status - [TBD] - [ ] Provide a screenshot of missing entries in Concur and email it to the appropriate recipient - [TBD] - [ ] Provide the training documents link to Anzor - [TBD] - [ ] Send Plaud (NotePin) purchase link via chat to the participant - [TBD] - [ ] Send videos from upcoming client training sessions to the participant for staff development - [TBD] - **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Coordinate giving staff opportunities to practice these AI workflows, fielding their questions and channeling them for learning (as stated intent) - [TBD] [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] 1:1 AI tools training with Lana Mseryan (AF Development lead, took over Jeremy Sidell toolset access): M365 Copilot walkthrough (desktop app, Teams facilitator, meeting recap), Claude + Plaud overview; device issue fixed via reboot; Christi to share training videos from upcoming client sessions; Lana wants her staff learning alongside.
- Date
- Jul 23, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:33 Hi, How are you? I'm good. Are you in the office today? No worries. I'm only here Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yeah, yeah. I'm at another client Monday and Wednesdays, and then I work from home on Fridays. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:01:10 They only come in once when needed, so no. Speaker 2 00:01:31 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:01:48 No worries, So let me just take you through all of it because you have access to everything plus what Jeremy had. So, um, so I'm going to share my screen. Just ignore what you see on the screen because I've been working on some things this morning. Um, so oh let me let me refresh this real quick. Let me take a look and see where we're at on this. I'm trying to push something to a bunch of computers and I want to make sure it's going. All right, it's still running. All right, So you have access to all things, uh, Copilot and all things Claude So. Let me let me show you through Copilot first. Speaker 3 00:02:25 You're going to have an app on your computer. It's going to have this logo. Whoops, you see that logo in the corner where if I hover over it changes? Okay, So it's going to be a colorful version of that. And it's going to say M 365 on it near your taskbar. I don't have a start bar on this screen, so it's kind of hard to show you. But you have a new chat in here. U m. And so or you have a chat ability in here, it's very similar to any other AI. But this will searchum all things ability first. Why is my chair being all weird? All right, hang on. Speaker 1 00:03:06 It is being weird today. Speaker 3 00:03:14 Um if you if you click start, you can type in copilot. And it should say Microsoft 365 Copilot. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, so we're going to start in Copilot right now. And let's do this. I'm going to turn, I don't have facilitator, but if you click on the more button, let me show you how. So if you look at my screen and you see in Teams. Speaker 3 00:03:48 You see more actions. There should be a facilitator in here where you can turn on facilitator. If you don't see it, let me know. Oh, when was the last time you rebooted your computer? Ah, okay. Let's let's jump off the meeting for a minute. Speaker 3 00:04:18 Let you reboot and then uh jump back in. I'm going to stay on, But you jump off and and reboot and then come back on because I think that's going to be a huge help. All right. All right, you're welcome. Bye. Let me go ahead and push out Copilot to her as well. I mean not Copilot. Speaker 2 00:04:44 All right now. Speaker 2 00:04:51 Third time's a charm. Edit selection, devices, and priority first. All right, we're going to make it cancel that. Let's make a new task. Speaker 2 00:05:26 Third time's a charm. Schedule. Target resources. Devices. Speaker 2 00:06:00 Alright, hang on. Cancel. Okay, so Target. Target resources key 1-4-1-8. Speaker 2 00:07:24 I don't know which one is which. I'm gonna try P16S04. Speaker 3 00:07:59 All right. I also just pushed a cloud install to your computer. No. Speaker 2 00:08:09 Worries. Yes. Speaker 3 00:08:18 Okay, so go ahead and turn that on, and that is how you turn it on in the middle of a meeting. Speaker 2 00:08:37 No worries. Speaker 3 00:08:41 All right, So that should allow you to turn on facilitator in the middle of the meeting. But let me show you, I'm going to give you the things you got to do first. Let me show you how to turn it on for upcoming meetings. So if you are a organizer or co- organizer, let me bring up my calendar. Um, let's see. I'm going to do the Lear one right here, this meeting right here. Um, I'm going to do the entire series because it is a um a reoccurring meeting. So I'm in the meeting right here. Now once you're in the meeting go into Meeting Options and it'll open up a new window. So we just got to wait on that. Speaker 3 00:09:32 And then what we're going to do, I made it a little bit longer. So I'm going to scroll all the way down. If this a meeting I want to do facilitator often, um, I am going to turn on facilitator, which it is already on for this meeting. Now another thing I'm going to do is I'm also going to turn on the record and transcribe just because it'll make things easier for me. Um yeah. So this for your reoccurring meetings or any meeting that's in advance. One of the other things I like to do is I like to put in an agenda. I don't have an agenda for this one today, but if you there is an agenda in the, I'm going to show you using our meeting. In, the top there'll be a timer right here as you go through each option. So just be aware of that. Now that being said, I let me see if I can do this for next week's meeting. Jason Ooh Jason did this one. So I cannot update this one. Speaker 3 00:10:29 I need to put an agenda in this one, but I can't update it. So I can't make the changes to that one. Exactly. Exactly. So be aware of that. And then I need to just, I'm going to, so this is one that's a reoccurring. I am going to cancel just this occurrence because I promised him I'd cancel it for next week, send cancellation, but I'm going to go to the following Just so you can see one more time how to do it. So this the following week. So this a meeting I keep active, and I'm going to do the entire series. And then from here, Meeting options, which is in the top right here. And, then you got to wait a minute because for some reason, Microsoft is being a little pain in the neck today. So first I'm going to go to Recording and transcript. I'm going to change that to Record and transcribe. Speaker 3 00:11:25 And then go to Copilot and AI and just turn on facilitator, which it's already on. I turn it on by default. And then hit save. You can, I can't for this meeting. So because it's external with you, I cannot do it. However, you can because you have that ability. Now, that being said, in here. Sorry. I am struggling with my with a cough today. With that being said, There are going to be some times where you just got to be really cautious because of how it treats things. Speaker 3 00:12:21 But for the most part, I mean, it's going to be fairly easy for you doing it. The couple of things I want you to remember. Sorry, My brain just got scattered for a second, while I was trying not to cough and sneeze at the same time. Um, The thing I want you to remember is I'm going to bring up one of these to show you. So this is a meeting I had yesterday. Facilitator was on automatically, and you can see facilitators in here. And then if I view recap. Speaker 3 00:12:53 I cannot, I cannot, or the people who were in the meeting that were external to us, which happens to be everybody in the meeting, cannot view this because they don't have the ability. They cannot. Even though they have Copilot turned on on their side, they cannot view this. So what I can do in this case is I can click on share, and um I can copy link. But the link won't work externally. My other option is to hit the down arrow and say share to email, and it will open up my email in a browser and not in Outlook, which is annoying. Wait for that. And then it'll put everybody in there, and then you can hit send. And here's the meeting notes. Now, uh, it does not share the video. So to share the video, hang on one second. Speaker 3 00:13:50 Um, What I'll do here is I'm going to go back into uh the screen right here. Oh, I didn't have it recorded. That was the problem. I did not record it. If you don't record it and you just transcribe it, you can't you have no video. So, I i did not make a video of that. Um however, not big deal. Um. Let's see, Operations L10 meeting. So this one had facilitator turned on and on this one, I can view recap. I was not in this meeting, I was in this meeting partially but not for all of it. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how I share it. So first if i want to share it externally, i click on watch in browser. This is the only way it works for me to share externally. So watch in browser and then what i can do is click share. Speaker 3 00:14:49 And I'll say copy link and it's going to pull up a link. And then anyone with the link can view but can't download. That's going to enable me to share it externally. Yeah, I don't know why it is and why it's such a pain in the neck, but hopefully they're going to do better with that soon. So, that's your main things you were looking for help on is facilitator and things like that. So let's go into how to do AI. Now, I pushed a Claude installer to your computer so that you have it. Let me let me look and see where it got to. It should be. Ah! Yeah. Yes. Speaker 3 00:15:51 All right. When did I send that? Last ran is today. All right. Targeted resources, history. All right. Yep. All right, so click on Start and you should see Claude in your Start. Speaker 3 00:16:26 Okay, so you're going to open that up and you're going to log in. Did you log in with the link I sent you yesterday? Okay, so you're going to log in using your email address. Perfect. I'm going to go into my AbilityFirst blog. Speaker 3 00:16:53 All Right, so yeah, we have everybody is logged in. Speaker 3 00:17:16 Usage. Shane And Sergio did not. Speaker 2 00:17:21 Log in yet. Speaker 2 00:17:38 Okay. Speaker 3 00:19:06 So Very similar to what I. Yeah, so let me turn off. Uh video real quick, just because uh you we keep cutting in and out. So I'm going to turn off video and I'm just going to share my screen. All right, so it's going to be a very similar screen to mine. However, home, co-work and co or chat, co-work and code is probably what you see up here. Um for me those two of the tabs are down here. So um just be aware of that as we go through uh because some things are going to look a little different because I I'm on beta right now. So just want you to be aware of it. Um chat a couple things I want you to remember is chat. Speaker 3 00:19:52 Is primarily basically how you Google. Okay, so think of chat like a hyped up Google. So when you Google something and you're looking for answers, that's what chat's for. Um, so be aware this my personal one, uh not my Crimson not my Ability First one. This just my uh my personal. So you're going to see all kinds of different things in here um Yes, I play video games and I'm working on um some jam and stuff. And I want to make sure that I, you know, have all the information. Um in here is projects. Now I have a couple of projects in here. Um this is my report generator. I add, I have instructions in here. So the instructions are right here of how I want it to write my reports. And what i basically do is i upload certain. Speaker 3 00:20:51 Reports every month that I want it to go through and create a report for me. Um, And so it knows how I want it to write, because I put that information in there. I tell it how to sound like me. Okay? Um, if I've used it with, I haven't used this one, but if I wanted to use it, this is a list of all the different ones I've done. And I don't use this one. I made it just to see. Um. But you have a couple, you can make your own thing. So, if it if you find yourself asking Claude to do things over and over, Like generate a report or for you generate a uh a grant something with grants. Like if you're writing a grant email often to people, You can create a project that outlines your voice and how you want it to sound where all you have to do is put in the information about the grant. Speaker 3 00:21:49 And the system will write that email for you or write that letter for you, and that will make your life a little bit easier. Now, artifacts is basically your files. So these are certain things that I do often, and I'll ask the system to create me a file. So AWS outage, something I wrote nine days ago. Tenant deployment pricing. So I'm going to click on that one. And this what an artifact looks like. So, this something I had it create. I have a branding book. It uses my branding book and it created that. And so, that is what we call an artifact. It's like a file that it creates for you. Scheduled are tasks that you want to schedule. Now, I'm going to show you scheduled, I don't have it here but I will show you scheduled in a moment. Dispatch is still in beta. Speaker 3 00:22:46 Um, Basically I'm going to hand off tasks to Claude, and then I might open them in my phone. Now, I do do this. Um, I do have it where it's on there, but I don't. I've not ever done it from this dispatch. I actually do it from my code dispatch and I'll explain that in a bit. And then customize is how you want things customized within uh Claude. So, I have different skills that i've created. So i have i write blog posts for crimson. It. I write blog posts for my personal business. We have a tool called ConnectWise, it's an application. And so that's my ConnectWise tool. And this when they're last updated. These two were yesterday updated, however, my morning is this something I run pretty often. And so basically it gives me a morning briefing. Speaker 3 00:23:44 So, it kind of looks at my day, and it connects to all my systems, and it reads it. I get this on my phone often. And I'll show you what that looks like in a moment. Not on my phone, but I'm going to show you in here. Yeah, so in here, I can have it do a couple of things. Now CoWork is pretty important. I'm going to show you CoWork. Cowork is where I go into a folder. And so you can see I have a bunch of folders here that I go into Here's My Ability first one. And I'm going to say, look for reports on users that was run today. And list for me. Actually, you know what? I'm going to do something else. I want to organize this folder. Speaker 3 00:24:42 Folders, the subfolders. But go through and make sure everything is in the right place. Now, I'm going, I'm doing this in co-work. I'm telling it to go through and make sure everything's in the right place because sometimes my folder for you guys gets a little disorganized. I am going to go down here. I normally, you have a couple options. I'm going to tell it to automatically approve because I approve because I don't want it, bugging me for approvals. And I'm going to say go. And now this going to go. And while this going, um, I am going to go open a new one. And then on this one, I'm gonna change my folder and I'm gonna go to my training folder. Speaker 3 00:25:35 There are two Power Automate training decks. I want you to look at the decks. Don't make changes, but tell me how visually they present and if they are easy to understand. Speaker 3 00:26:06 Suggest changes to help with the presentation and then give me uh use case. I can use with the training. Okay. So I'm going to have it doing that. Yeah. So think. Speaker 3 00:26:38 So I tell people, think about Claude and Copilot as interns. Now, can you let an intern go off by itself? Absolutely not. But, you can have it, start the work for you, and you just keep an eye on it. Now, I will edit things. It'll get me partially the way there. I will edit things after it's done. So it found the two decks, And it is the right deck. So I'm going to look at progress, and it did find them based on the title here. Now, It's going to go through all my working folders and here's the skills that's pulling. So it's pulling a PowerPoint skill and PPTX just means PowerPoint. Okay, I know this because I do this all the time. Now, if you see the flashing lights, it just means these are running over here. So I'm going to go back to this one because you can open most of them. Speaker 3 00:27:36 And, it's going to take a look at everything and it's going to run through. You can see the progress of it organizing my folders. It made its own little task list. So this is the folder organization. So now, while it's doing this, I'm going to go show you code. Code is a little fancy. Most people don't need it and won't use it, but let me give you an understanding of what this looks like. Book timeline review. Speaker 3 00:28:06 Okay. So on this, I am actually working on a book I'm writing. I'm using code for it because I'm uploading all my stuff to a cloud repository. And so I'm building it all here. And then, um, I like to verbalize my book because it's in my head and so I'll verbalize it. And then it will push it to the cloud. So, I'm writing the book, But Coda is pushing it up to the cloud and making timelines for me. So it's cutting down a little bit on my writing. Now, that being said, there's a lot in here that I do, But I want to show you routines, because routines is very much like the schedule on the other side. So the reason why I do it here is because I can get a little bit more granular with this. But my routines, these run daily. Not all of them are on, but most of them will run daily. Speaker 3 00:29:02 So my morning inbox sweep. This one's active. It runs every morning at around 6:00 a.m. It takes three or four minutes to finish. I get a copy of this on my phone. It sends it to my phone. Now the connectors it looks at is my Outlook for Crimson, my Gmail, my Airtable and my Asana for AbilityFirst So I give it instructions So this is April. I gave her a personality. Um, these are all my instructions. Um, and then here's my priority clients to watch for. And then here is the structure summary. So it goes into my Airtable. Airtable is like a big fancy Excel, okay? Sorry, and then here's all the rules. Speaker 3 00:30:02 Um, I have I get someone. I have someone's account forwarding to me, and they get a lot of LinkedIn junk. Um, so this is what it's supposed to be doing voicemails. Yes. Speaker 2 00:30:27 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 3 00:30:34 Yeah, so I'm adding some connectors here. So Microsoft 365, that's my Crimson account. So that we have that there. I can add connectors as I need to on different things in here. So I need to add Microsoft 365 and I'm going to close out Crimson right there because I'm putting that in for Crimson. And then my instructions are in here, you can give it a name, you can select a trigger when does it run? I can add another trigger in here. I can say when something, when a webhook fires or I can do that. I'm going to just cancel that. And then my connectors and my behavior and any notifications. So this one will send me a summary even though it's turned off, it will send me a summary. So basically, I had some issues today so I'm going to click on today's. Speaker 3 00:31:32 And it said both email connectors failed to load tools on this run. So because it did that, I'm going to go back over here. Speaker 2 00:31:41 Go back, go back. Speaker 3 00:31:42 Okay, it's not going back. All right, So we're going to go back to it this way and I'm going to say Run Now because it did error out, but it errored out because these two need to be reconnected, which I reconnected. So it's going to take about three minutes, And when it's done, it's going to give me the information. So I'm going to go down here to July 16th. This, you can tell is where it goes through all the things, and here's my summary. So, this urgent ability. First, mark, your license expires in three days already took care of that. Then there's some SLA breaches which I've already fixed. So this everything that happened last Thursday. Now did say SharePoint email is inaccessible? Speaker 3 00:32:29 I will fix that. And then here's my urgent act today. And this is everything I did. There are some terms. And then there are some other items that are coming in. And, then here is some information here that I need to take a look at. And then for me, like what is my schedule? There was a couple of things that came up that I need to work on. And then there's some Asana tasks that came from AbilityFirst. So you can see the miraculous license. It was supposed to be Meraki. Yeah, but it look it did update it. Okay, So right now, we're going to go and take a look at today while it's running. Um, and it did find tools. And let's see, where is there was one the tool that I couldn't work there it is. Oh, It was still running issues um. Speaker 3 00:33:33 Yes. Created, yeah, with Help Desk. And then I'm slowly teaching my staff how to do things like this. Um, however, if they can't figure it out they'll send it to me. So be aware. So yeah, now I've shown you this. This is Claude Let's talk about uh let's talk about uh Copilot, So I'm going to go back to my other screen right here. Power Automate, you see there was a blue light. That meant it was done. So here's its information. Now the reason why I'm showing you this in Claude is we're going to, I'm going to bring in Copilot in a second. So it went through, it reviewed the decks. Both decks are genuinely well done and consistent with each other. Okay? They do use our maroon pattern. Okay? Is it easy to understand? Yes. Speaker 3 00:34:30 Here's some suggested improvements. Now, um, So it does say title slides don't share running header, module number or small but time, but beyond the subtitle text. Let's we're going to tell Copilot to actually fix that for us. Part one slide five and slide eight are two places where real screenshot shot I can do that myself. And neither deck includes speaker notes. All right. And then it wants me to do two ability first. This is actually generic that it gave, it's thinking we're in ability first, but we're not. And that's because I forgot to take out the other folder. And then okay, so a lot of this is. Speaker 3 00:35:28 Ability first. So I'm going to say, Give me use cases. That is not that, that can be used for all clients, not just AF. Now, it does it does know my abbreviations so AF for you guys and all right now. So I'm going to go back up and I'm going to go say suggest improvements. Speaker 3 00:35:58 So what I'm going to do, I'm going to say add a consistent. All right, so now I'm going to open these two. So here is the first one it looked at. Okay, now Copilot, this is where we're going to go. So I'm going to click on the Copilot icon that was down here and I'm going to paste in this. Add a consistent footer or corner mark to. Now, I'm going to remove this statement here and I'm just going to Ctrl A and copy this. Now, I'm going to do that and then I'm going to go into the second one. So here's the second one and there we go. Speaker 3 00:36:57 So I'm letting Copilot do this for me. So it's going to do that for me. Now, Copilot also helped me clean up a bunch of this. And I really liked like, I really like the background. Uh, oops, Ctrl Z. And so I'm going to put this background on all of them and different things like that. But I had Copilot help me figure things out from the beginning. So As we're doing this, I created the actual slide decks using Claude in CoWork, and I had Claude in CoWork actually create these for me. And then I had Copilot go in and clean it up and make them more visually appealing. So I do use them both hand in hand. Yeah. So that's an example of Copilot. You can do that in Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Speaker 3 00:37:56 So it is it's always going to be down there at the bottom, and then you can just pull it up. Now I know I'm trying I know that I'm talking fast um but I wanted you to be aware of a few things in that. Uh there's Copilot. Oh sorry, there's hang on one. Second. Sorry, I was coughing. There's Copilot in Outlook as well. And so it's up here in this little button. And what I can do is I can set up a couple of different things. Now, a few things I already have set up is summarize, prioritize, list email takeaways. So for Carl, because it's Carl, it prioritized him this little blue arrow with a circle. It prioritized him high because it's Carl because I have Carl set in my in my prioritization as an important person. Speaker 3 00:38:57 So, and I've got a few people set like that. So to do that, you can click on this down arrow and say prioritize, and you can give it the settings you want. So, uh, and you can see a couple of them I have in here. It's about Camp Pavika. Uh it comes from Anzor Pete. Um And then for lower priority is from security tools like Sophos Avenon and No Before. So. These are this is how I configure my prioritization. There was more on that list, but you can make as many as you want. Now list email takeaways. So I clicked on this one and I told it to list the takeaways, which is really really good on long long emails. So, I'm going to go to this one Yes, you're going to see a familiar name Yes, I still have to work with that man. Speaker 3 00:39:54 All right. All right. So I am going to close out Copilot and then I'm going to go back in here and I'm going to say, list email takeaways. Robert, between you and me, Robert does not like him. So Robert instead of giving me his opinion, He'll copy uh some an email that Kashif sends and then paste it into an email so that I have it. Um And so because it's disjointed um here we go. He just puts it in I can do my key takeaways. Speaker 3 00:40:27 And which helps in this case because between you and me, I almost took a baseball bat to that man. Not Robert. Yes. So because he, because we have some things going on. So in here action items, I already this is already taken care of. I I sent very lovely email back to Kashif and told him what's what and to stay in his own lane, which happens often. So uh let's do this one. This one's actually ability first one. So I'm going to click on this. I'm going to go to Copilot and I'm going to list email takeaways because this one's a long one too. And so. Speaker 3 00:41:20 And there we go. There's all my takeaways. Most of my most of my emails get automatically moved into folders after I read them, with only the most important left in here. I probably get about three hundred a day just in this mailbox, which is why when people email me in the ability first mailbox, I don't reply often. So I am CIO for you guys, and I am CIO for Sharp. And so yeah, so here's that. Now, what you saw with Claude, this is an example. So I'll go in here and I'll forward any drafts Claude did this. And I hit send. So these are some of the things that Claude does. Claude also did this one. Speaker 3 00:42:16 Um, so I got to take, I got to go into Concur, take a screenshot of the ones I'm missing. Um. And send that over to her. Uh, Anzor needs uh training docs and I'm going to put the link in. So uh there's no delay. I just don't like that other client. Um but you get the yes. Speaker 2 00:42:54 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 3 00:43:03 Yes. I do. Now, my statement about I don't like the other client, it wasn't C#. I love C#. So don't misunderstand that. Now, what I want to show you is this tool right here. Uh, Michelle uses this. Speaker 3 00:43:28 So this the tool. This the device I have. It also is a app on your phone or on your computer. So you see where it says meeting highlights, I just put this in here. Okay, so it's on my computer and it automatically records every meeting I'm in, including those on Zoom, Google Meets and Webex. Okay? Uh, it is. Speaker 3 00:43:59 Uh, it is on there, but I also have this device that I can use live in meetings. Um, or I can use it on phone calls. Which is this one is the one I want. This is the one I have. So um you can also get the NotePin. Uh, that will do the exact same thing, and it picks up really, really well. I've taken this one right here into into loud restaurants, and it picked up everything perfectly. Speaker 3 00:44:30 So uh this one's about $125. I think this one's about $150-$170. I don't remember, uh, you know what? Let's click on this one, because this one you can wear as a necklace. So this is about $180, um and you have a couple of different ways of wearing it, if the click will work. Okay, click is being. It's not being very nice to me. Speaker 3 00:44:57 But you have you can wear as necklace, a wristband, um or a pin that she can pin to a lapel. So. Speaker 2 00:45:11 Mhm. Mhm. Speaker 3 00:45:24 So not really. I mean, there's other apps that you can do, but I don't. This is the only one I know that's HIPAA compliant. Speaker 2 00:45:36 Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:45:53 I'll just ask. I'm like, I'll say, "Hey, I got a digital note taker. Everybody go with that?" And most of the time people will say yes. I've never had. I've only had one person ever say no, and that was because that person was not trustful of anything. But, he was also a pain in the neck and didn't want to get caught, saying things he shouldn't be saying. Yes. Speaker 3 00:46:23 Yeah, I can actually. Let me do even better. Oops, I don't want to do that. Go away. All right, there we go. Amazon sometimes you can get it cheaper here. So let me send you this one. This the most, this the only one, This one and the one I have are the only ones that can record phone calls on your mobile device. So I'm going to send you this one and then where's my copy? Okay. I'm going to put this into our chat so that you have it. Speaker 3 00:47:17 Yep. And then yes. So in here, this Plaud. So in here you generate your notes, although I've generated all of them. So this yesterday's, it was an hour and 12 minutes. This the notes from it. It was a training and troubleshooting session. And these are the notes and the action roadmap it gave me. And then here's the full meeting summary. Speaker 3 00:47:46 But I can also copy a transcript into the system as well. If I if I click up here, I can say copy transcript and I can paste it into Word, and then I'll have the full transcript. Speaker 2 00:48:03 Yes. Yes, Speaker 3 00:48:12 You you know you know Weingart? Weingart okay. So they are now using Plaud, and the version I showed you, to record their intake sessions with clients. And because it is HIPAA compliant. Yeah, this one of the only ones that I know that is HIPAA compliant. Now I'll let you in on a little secret. This a workflow that I have. I'm going to be teaching how to do this in uh. Speaker 3 00:48:46 And in another class that I'm going to be teaching soon, I actually have Plaud. It's in here somewhere. It works automatically. Oh no, it's in Zapier. Sorry, but there is a Plaud workflow where as soon as these are generated, it saves both the summary and the transcript in my OneDrive. Yes. Speaker 2 00:49:12 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 3 00:49:31 Yes. Reach out. Yeah, reach out to Anzor. Anzor is doing the CIO role for Weingart, like I do for you guys. So now let me show you something real quick. I am going to go, I'm going to show you what I did with plot. I'm going to go add a folder. And I'm going to go find my meeting and transcripts folder. Where did my little oh there it is. Um everything I have is organized. Uh meeting and transcripts. There we go So. This is all my meeting and transcripts Okay now I'm going to do. Uh. Speaker 3 00:50:21 Oh, did it process it already? No, I have a system that processes. You know, Worries. Okay, So we're going to do I'm going to uncheck training because I just want ability first. Now I, oh, by the way, you can also star it to make it your favorites. Um I did that a while back and then I accidentally unstared a bunch go through. Speaker 3 00:50:51 My meetings, meeting transcripts. Because every one of my Plaud meetings gets processed into client folders. Go through my meeting transcripts and design out a training program for the month of September. Based on any training, you see that staff may need. Or is mentioned in a meeting. Very few times do we mention training, but there is a few times. All right, so I'm going to have it send and it's going to continue going. And you can see this one, it's awaiting input, so I'm going to go back to that. That's the brown. And I am going to say allow on this because it was waiting for my input and it's going to continue going. And then you can see the flashes. If it turns brown, it's just waiting on my input. Speaker 3 00:51:50 It turns blue, it's done. So. Speaker 2 00:52:10 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 3 00:52:16 And you can. Speaker 3 00:52:18 So if you look here, Power Automate training. Um, here are the two presentations I wrote originally. I had it create it. I had to create that and my scripts. Here are my scripts. Um, for me to do it. And then so here's the scripts I did. And then from there um I've edited the PowerPoint presentation since then. Speaker 2 00:52:52 Yeah. Yes. All right. Yes. All. Speaker 3 00:53:07 Right, so, oh I'm sorry I did not mean to yawn in your ear, Uh so hopefully that gives you at least a basic of what you can have, both of them do. Um, I have some trainings happening next week with various clients. Uh, I'll send you over any videos that get saved from them that might help you out. Yes. Speaker 1 00:53:45 Absolutely. I want to give my staff a chance to do what I'm doing, Which is why I do push people into that direction, because my staff is learning as well. And so this is a good way for them to learn, is have people put in their questions. Speaker 1 00:54:18 No Worries. You guys just let me know when you need me and we'll take it from there. Thanks you too. Bye. What? Speaker 2 00:54:33 Uh, so.
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04-29 Consultation: LA Scheduling Challenges and Secure Microsoft 365 Copilot Rollout with Governance
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- > Date & Time: 2026-04-29 14:58:49 > Location: [Insert Location] > Customer: [Insert Customer] ## Overview The discussion spans two domains: personal scheduling and logistics challenges in Los Angeles, and a Microsoft Copilot deployment emphasizing data security, governance, and training. Participants reported repeated last-minute rescheduling by a government agency (DCFS), compounded by event-related traffic near venues like SoFi Stadium and Dodger Stadium, with upcoming Olympics and major concerts intensifying concerns. In parallel, the customer’s IT initiative coordinates with Crimson (Christie, Gabby, Mike) to deliver a secure, compliant Copilot rollout within Microsoft 365, involving sensitivity labels, DLP, external collaboration controls, guest access expiration, and user training for approximately forty-five users, aligned with PEC’s conservative AI governance. ## Background - Personal context includes living/working in the Bay Area and Los Angeles near Inglewood, downtown L.A., and El Segundo (C Line station). One participant previously worked for the Dodgers and has World Series logistics experience; family members bought Olympic tickets. - DCFS repeatedly changed an appointment and attempted immediate scheduling, causing stress and disruption. - On the IT side, Crimson will lead Copilot enablement with upfront security/governance remediation (Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels, DLP, link/share defaults, guest access expiration, email Safe Links/Safe Attachments, identity hardening). Copilot will operate within Microsoft’s governed environment, adhering to PEC’s policy allowing only Copilot as the sanctioned AI tool. - Pilot planning targets about five users with two to three use cases each, leading to broader rollout and training for ~45 users. Timeline anticipates a 3–4 week start lead time and a 10–14 week project, with a soft launch after May 20, 2026, and minor availability constraints in early June. ## Pain Points Government agency scheduling instability and event traffic disrupt personal and professional commitments. - Impact: Unpredictable scheduling and severe congestion during large events hinder timely attendance at appointments/work and increase stress. - Current Situation: DCFS changed the appointment three times and attempted a same-day “right now” slot; residents plan around events near SoFi Stadium and downtown L.A. - Quantitative Metrics: Appointment changed three times; residence approximately 1.5–2 miles from SoFi Stadium. - Examples: Taylor Swift concerts create severe local traffic; anticipated Olympics traffic complicates trips to Dodger Stadium. - Stakeholders: Affected individual (Speaker 3), family/employers, DCFS staff, local residents. Foundational data security/governance gaps threaten a safe Copilot deployment. - Impact: High risk of data leakage and inappropriate access, unsafe email link interactions, and reduced stakeholder confidence under strict PEC AI policies. - Current Situation: No sensitivity labels; permissive “anyone” link sharing; indefinite guest access; Safe Links/Attachments need strengthening; identity access needs hardening; Copilot must operate as the single permitted AI tool. - Quantitative Metrics: ~84–85 hours estimated for remediation; pilot of five users with two to three use cases each; 10–14 week project after a 3–4 week start lead; training for ~45 users; two weeks of office hours. - Examples: Copilot could surface broadly shared unlabeled files; stale guest accounts retain access; email links pose risks without Safe Links. - Stakeholders: Daniel, John/John Carlo, Crimson security/DLP team (Anton’s team), PEC leadership, help desk/escalation (Christie, Gabby, CIOs), end users. SharePoint/Teams sprawl and unclear external collaboration policies increase exposure and complexity. - Impact: Sensitive documents may be broadly accessible; collaboration could suffer if over-restricted. - Current Situation: Plan to restrict external chats/file drops, allow Teams meetings, prefer share links over file transfers, limit private channels, relocate clearly misplaced sensitive files without breaking linked datasets. - Stakeholders: End users, security/compliance teams, Crimson, approved external partners (PEC, vendors). Timeline coordination and resource availability create scheduling uncertainty for pilot/rollout. - Impact: Potential delays and misaligned expectations. - Current Situation: Soft launch targeted after May 20, 2026; brief slowdown first week of June; training split to accommodate ~45 users. - Stakeholders: Christie, Gabby, Daniel, John/John Carlo, Crimson project management, PEC oversight. Strict PEC AI policies complicate user expectations and external AI interoperability. - Impact: Limited AI functionality outside Copilot; need for clear policy communication and technical enforcement. - Current Situation: Acceptable use currently “none” except Copilot in an isolated environment; tools to block or granularly restrict shadow AI. - Stakeholders: PEC CTO/leadership, customer leads, Crimson support/security teams, end users. ## Expectations Establish predictable, respectful scheduling with DCFS and mitigate event-related travel disruptions. - Goals: Secure stable appointment times with adequate notice; reduce traffic impacts through planning. - Success Metrics: No last-minute scheduling; reasonable lead time; zero same-day requests except emergencies; no more than one change per appointment; on-time arrivals during event periods via planning (transit, buffer time, remote options). Deliver a secure Copilot deployment governed by Microsoft Purview with phased training and support. - Specific Goals: Implement sensitivity labels (confidential/sensitive/public), lock down sharing defaults to “specific people,” enable guest access expiration, strengthen Safe Links/Attachments, harden identity, deploy Data Security Posture Management for AI, complete pilot and broader rollout. - Timeframe: 3–4 weeks to start; 10–14 weeks to complete; soft launch after May 20, 2026; minor slowdown first week of June. - Resources Required: Crimson security/DLP specialists (Anton’s team), Microsoft engineers (Gabby), project lead (Christie), pilot users (~5) and broader users (~45), licensing/hardware. - Success Metrics: Sensitivity labels validated in simulation then enforced; reduced permissive sharing; guest accounts expiring; Copilot constrained by labels; pilot success across two to three use cases per user; clean audit/reporting via posture management; user adoption with reduced support tickets. - Stakeholders: Daniel, John/John Carlo, Crimson team, PEC oversight, end users. Maintain effective collaboration while enforcing external chat/file controls in Teams. - Goals: Permit external meetings; restrict external chats/file drops to approved organizations; use share links; logging and review. - Success Metrics: Approved partners can collaborate; unauthorized external interactions blocked; minimal productivity disruption. Align billing and approvals on a milestone basis and clarify responsibilities. - Goals: Progress billing (e.g., 20% at one-fifth completion); upfront hardware/software payments; shared TPO/approval roles with defined authority. - Success Metrics: Transparent billing cadence; timely approvals; no payment-related delays. ## Other Information Summary - Copilot will honor Microsoft 365 governance; configuration validated in simulation before enforcement; behavioral testing ensures adherence to label boundaries. - Crimson has experience across dozens of security/governance tightenings and multiple Copilot implementations; staff have completed AI training courses. - Data lineage and access visibility provided via Data Security Posture Management for AI reports; alerts will notify Crimson, the customer’s security team, privileged users, and end users. - Rapid AI changes (e.g., Copilot integrating Claude) require flexible pilot use case planning. - Family Olympic ticket purchases noted as high-priced; consensus that DCFS scheduling shows little regard for personal availability. ## To-Do List - [ ] Draft an email template to DCFS requesting standardized scheduling protocols (minimum notice, confirmation process). Stakeholder: Speaker 3. Deadline: [Insert Date]. - [ ] Prepare a scheduling escalation guide for DCFS changes (contacts, steps). Stakeholder: Speaker 3. Deadline: [Insert Date]. - [ ] Create an event-period travel plan (public transit options, buffer times, remote alternatives) for Olympics/concert dates; set calendar blocks on known event days. Stakeholders: Speakers 3 and 5. Deadline: [Insert Date]. - [ ] Schedule a follow-up to review DCFS communication outcomes and refine plans. Stakeholders: Consultant and Speaker 3. Deadline: [Insert Date]. - [ ] Confirm pilot group size (~5 users) and assign two to three use cases per person. Stakeholders: Daniel, John/John Carlo. Deadline: Before soft launch after May 20, 2026. - [ ] Approve remediation scope (labels, link defaults, guest expiration, Safe Links, identity hardening, DLP). Stakeholders: John/John Carlo (approval), Daniel (environment insight). Deadline: Prior to remediation start. - [ ] Schedule soft launch and define phase timelines (remediation, pilot, rollout). Stakeholders: Christie, Gabby, Daniel, John/John Carlo. Deadline: Target start after May 20, 2026. - [ ] Coordinate training plan for ~45 users, split sessions, and schedule two weeks of office hours. Stakeholders: Christie, Gabby, Daniel. Deadline: Before broader rollout. - [ ] Confirm PEC AI policy constraints and shadow AI enforcement (block vs. granular restrictions). Stakeholders: PEC CTO, Mike/Crimson security team, Daniel. Deadline: During remediation. - [ ] Set up progress billing milestones and clarify upfront payments for licensing/hardware. Stakeholders: Crimson billing, customer finance. Deadline: Project initiation. - [ ] Define help desk escalation tree and communicate ticket processes and escalation to CIOs/engineers. Stakeholders: Mike/Crimson support, customer IT. Deadline: Before rollout. - [ ] Prepare training materials (prompt best practices, governance overview, Copilot model settings). Stakeholders: Christie, Gabby. Deadline: Prior to training. ## AI Suggestions - Negotiate a written scheduling agreement with DCFS establishing minimum notice (e.g., 48–72 hours), limiting changes (no more than one reschedule), and prohibiting same-day requests except true emergencies; implement a structured availability framework with protected calendar windows and auto-replies; define an escalation pathway documenting changes and escalating after the second reschedule; favor remote/virtual formats during high-traffic events. - Implement a three-tier sensitivity label framework (Public/Internal/Confidential/Restricted) in simulation mode, then enforce after validation with user education and auto-labeling; harden sharing defaults to “specific people,” enable guest access expiration, and institute periodic stale account reviews with automated deprovisioning; enable and tune Safe Links/Attachments, preventing Copilot from “clicking through” unverified URLs, and create an incident response playbook; deploy Data Security Posture Management for AI with dashboards/alerts and conduct weekly pilot reviews; align with PEC policy via shadow AI controls (block or granular restrictions) and communicate a clear acceptable use guide.
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- Apr 29, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:14 The city. Speaker 2 00:00:15 Is located on the banks of the river. Is it Friday yet? Speaker 3 00:00:18 Um, I'm try. I when. D C F S is. Changed their Appointment with me three times, and at one point they wanted to schedule it for right now. And I had to push back on that one. Speaker 3 00:00:37 They can do that, Speaker 2 00:00:38 Just like oh yeah, you've got all the time in the world. Speaker 3 00:00:41 They do that with no regard. It's like. I'm not going to be able to. Speaker 2 00:00:46 Do that. That's not very considerate. Speaker 3 00:00:52 I am trying to. Hi, Giancarlo. Hi, Giancarlo. We are discussing government agencies. Okay. Speaker 3 00:01:02 Uh, I'm biting my tongue. Speaker 4 00:01:05 Sp y agencies or other kinds of agencies, Speaker 3 00:01:08 Other kind of agencies. They they like to uh hold people hostage on scheduling. Hey, Speaker 2 00:01:21 Just be glad you're in the Bay Area and not downtown L. A. when the Olympics hit. Speaker 4 00:01:25 Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be a craziness, right? I am not coming to the office. Ha ha. My in laws live now. I mean, my in laws live in Long Beach and Redondo Beach, and they're super excited for it. And they're buying some tickets to events. And they were talking about, well, you know, do you want to go see baseball at Dodger Stadium? And I was like, well, geez, what's it going to be like to get there? Like it's. Tough enough, like for a normal you know Dodgers game, but like I imagine the Olympics is just going to be crazy. Uh. Speaker 3 00:02:02 I will tell you, having sat in on some of those conversations about Dodger Stadium, it's going to be rough. Yeah, just just because I am a former Dodger employee working on the Oh wow. So yeah. Interesting. Yes, I am so glad that I still don't work there. And left in time for the Olympics. So I've been there for a World Series. That's enough. Speaker 2 00:02:28 Yeah, I hope your relatives bought the tickets early. My wife bought tickets and I can't believe how much she spent. Speaker 4 00:02:34 Right, yeah. The face value was was nuts. Um, Even for things that you would like expect were kind of like fringe type sports, you know? Like yeah, Speaker 2 00:02:46 But my wife got tickets to something where it's like a, it's almost like a uh what's I don't know the name of it. Like a steeplechase. Steeplechase. Yeah. Like who the heck watches steeplechase? Speaker 4 00:02:55 Right, yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:57 Yeah, Kevin's like," What the heck steeplechase?" That's an event. Right? It's called steeplechase. It's like parkour kind of, but it's like an Olympic event. Speaker 5 00:03:05 I don't think I've heard of that. Well, I know. The traffic's gonna be interesting. Like I live in between Inglewood and downtown L. A. where they have all the stadiums, Speaker 3 00:03:21 So. Yeah, I live down the block from the C line. And the station that I live near is the key point for the South Bay Area because I live in El Segundo. And I, whenever Taylor Swift is in town, it's terrible in that section. I am about a mile and a half two miles from SoFi. So. Speaker 2 00:03:43 Hey guys. Yeah. Perfect. Hey, Katie, Daniel. Hello. Speaker 6 00:03:50 Hi Okay, Speaker 2 00:03:50 So let's get this kicked off. Yeah, I just want to make sure. You the leader team, You guys have plenty of time to ask any questions and make sure you guys feel completely comfortable with the project. So Daniel, I know you and your team had a bunch of questions, so I'm just going to go ahead and let you guys have the floor. And I have Christie and Gabby here from Crimson. They'll be probably the ones taking point. On majority of the project. Speaker 6 00:04:15 Excellent. Thanks, Mike. Um I'm just going to pull up some of the questions that I had, and Mike, I think you did a good job answering. A good amount of them in email form, but. John Harlow, if you have something specific, I'm just going to kind of go maybe through some of these questions where I felt we could use a little more clarification oredification. Speaker 4 00:04:39 Yeah, I mean, I think the ten to fourteen weeks that sounds like probably what we were expecting. Um. I think it may be helpful to kind of understand, like. The breakup of the phases, and then um you know having our people identified. I think we, you know, we kind of raised to you that we thought we might have five or so uh in the pilot phase doing the testing and maybe I think I like that. You mentioned that two to three of those use cases per person would be appropriate because that was kind of what we were thinking as well. So in terms of like Doing all the security pieces. Speaker 4 00:05:18 How long does that take, And then how long is like the pilot phase and the user testing prior to rollout to the larger group? Speaker 3 00:05:28 The city is located on the banks of the river. So, let me pull up. I am sorry. As soon as I clicked on it, my Word crashed. Am getting back into it, but as far as everything we have going on with that. We'reestimating about fourteen hours. Let me double check because I got to remember. Speaker 3 00:05:47 I was trying to dig it up, and then my system decided to crash all at the same time. So, for remediation, we're going to Let me just walk you through it all. Would that help? Okay, sure. So, What we're looking at doing the remediation part is going to take about eighty four hours. Um, so for that we're looking at locking down the data before Copilot touches. Um, looking at certain settings that we're going to be doing. Link types. So link types are things where when you're creating a Word document and you're going to share it out with Daniel, um, You're going to set it to, it's going to automatically be set to specific people and not automatic default to anyone, which is I know is currently the case for you guys. Um, We're going to look at enabling guest access expiration because it's currently set to indefinitely. Um, so that you guys don't have stale accounts that live forever in the tenant, and this is going to protect you from. Speaker 3 00:06:45 Guest accounts that are coming in and then suddenly leaving, and not being associated with a Lear anymore. Those guests, we want to keep those guest accounts from still having access to things. To things we're going to look at building out sensitivity label frameworks because you have zero sensitivity labels in. So it's going to be that is going to be the foundation for everything, and this is what we're looking at the eighty five hours. Um, we're gonna we're gonna deploy three tiers. So you're confident, you're sensitive, and you're public. And it's going to have enforcement rules for Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. The reason why this is important is if you have those sensitivity labels in place, Copilot knows what it can and can't touch. So just just a high level overview of that. When we do this, We'll put it in simulation mode so that it logs it, and we can see it. It's not going to automatically block from the get go. Um, and we won't flip it until we make sure that the data coming through is clean. Speaker 3 00:07:42 So, and then we're going to turn on data security posture management for AI. That way you have visibility into what Copilot is actually touching. That's actually a really cool report that you get to see when people are calling up different prompts and saying, "Hey, I need you to go look for this file that says Daniel from Lear." It's going to be able to pull all that information, But in the back end, you can go back and see where it's pulling from. Um, and then so we're going to look at hardening. Identity basically we're just making things a little strict restrict a little stricter, for people accessing things so, Uh people that are not crimson and not P E C that don't have a real reason to have. Uh. Privileged access to the system. We're going to kind of restrict that a little bit more just so we make sure that they have access to what they need to have access to. You do have some email security concerns that we want to look at. The reason these are important is. Speaker 3 00:08:39 Um, it's going to be able to look at safe links. Look at it so that people aren't just clicking through to the links and. By essence, Copilot clicking through. Because at this point, Copilot now has the ability to click on your links. And if a bad actor sends you something by email, we want Copilot restricted from being able to do that. And, that's just going to make it where it protects you a little bit more. Those links that are coming through when you click it, if it's from a bad actor, Microsoft is going to push up and. A block and a notification saying, "This is not a verified site." So, hopefully that makes a little sense. And then, we're going to look and see if there's any stale accounts out there, people that should not have access that may still have access, different things like that. Um, And that's that's what you are paying for. The most for on this engagement is just tightening up the ship. Um and it's going to be the heaviest load of the project. And then for Copilot, that's going to be the easy part. Speaker 3 00:09:37 So that's going to be where we assign out the license. We make sure everything is configured correctly against the clean data that's now remediated. We're going to do behavioral testing. We're going to validate the sensitivity labels are in place, that Copilot's not going beyond. It's not growing some legs and walking off with Daniel's favorite food, if it's in a restricted place and stored there. Um. And then we're gonna do uh just the training sessions for everyone. And then. Speaker 3 00:10:07 Uh, We're gonna do. We're gonna have two weeks of live office hours for everybody to come in and ask questions. So, this will be time with me and Gabby where they can jump into Microsoft Teams meeting just like this one, if they're interested and say, hey. How do I do this in Copilot? Or how do I build an agent in Copilot? Or, how do I switch from using Chat GPT using Claude in my chat with Copilot. So those are the questions we'll have ready for you guys. And so we'll be sitting in on that. And then we'll just hand off the administration point to the help desk. So that if you are guys calling with questions, they're instead of just going to me and Gabby for questions, they're going to go to. All the other team members. Um, and then real quickly. Uh. Just a heads up, it's not just going to be Gabby and I. We're just the only ones available for this meeting, and we thought you guys might like some prettier faces than Anton. Speaker 3 00:11:06 That's okay. Speaker 2 00:11:08 I am going to tell Anton you said that. Speaker 3 00:11:09 Tell him he owes me already. So, he's gonna laugh. He's gonna be like, it's just I am just thankful I didn't have to attend the meeting. But so Anton's team is going to jump in, And they're going to help with the security and the DLP policies because that's their specialty. Gabby and I are going to assist. Gabby is actually a Microsoft engineer; she's certified. She knows the fronts and backs of Microsoft. Ignore the black boy behind me, but Gabby knows the, And so now it's a Microsoft. So she's going to help spearhead a lot of pieces within the Microsoft portion, and then we are going to work together on the Copilot portion and. We're going to try to make this come together as cleanly as possible for you guys. And you guys have worked with us long enough, you know that we try to bring exceptional results. We're not perfect. We know that because. I looked up at the wrong time. Speaker 3 00:12:06 My house is a zoo. This is this is why I don't work from home that often. But you guys, Speaker 6 00:12:14 We do, Speaker 3 00:12:15 We do. Um, but you know we're not perfect, But we're going to try everything possible to make this as quick and as efficient for you guys as possible. Speaker 4 00:12:25 Okay. Um, Maybe a follow up question on that with when the handoff happens toum the IT managed services team. So are they, you know, if someone on our team, you know, a month later or two months later or a year later has, you know, questions and how what kind of questions can they ask? Like, how technical can is it like? Hey, will you help me write this prompt or like, you know, or is it you know, why is this prompt not getting to the data that I think should be getting to like? Is it going to be that technical of assistance? Is it. Speaker 4 00:13:02 Sub mit a ticket, And you know, we'll we'll you know, put you in the queue with everything else, like same as, hey, my laptop's running slowlyum type of stuff. Andum and just want to make sure like I understand. You know what what sort of knowledge that the team will have on the ongoing, side of things. Speaker 3 00:13:20 So, the team has actually been supporting Copilot for a little over two years now. So I'll tell you the, Very first rollout we had was for a client about a year and a half ago on Copilot. We've been using Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude within the organization for two years. Um, So the team has handled questions from how do how do I, why do I, why can I not search using Copilot in my SharePoint and fix those issues for clients to give me the best way to write this prompt. Um. Now, Speaker 2 00:13:51 Those I can chime in real quick. I think. Yeah, I think. Just like a regular help desk ticket, if it's a simple question, our team can respond. But if it's too complicated, there's an escalation tree. And there are some cases where, maybe they don't know, and it'll probably escalate. We have like two CIOs on staff notes. It'd probably go to Jason or it'd probably go to Christy. Or possibly Gabby if the support team can't answer it. Speaker 4 00:14:15 Yeah. Got it, and that's part of our ongoing support that we already have, right? Yes. Okay. Got it, um. Speaker 2 00:14:28 Just real quick, John Carl, I'm going to chime in on that. Just so that Alire knows, any project that Crimson deploys for you, we have to charge for that labor. But moving forward, it's automatically assumed it's covered under your support agreement. Good. Anything you guys do, it falls under your support agreement. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 3 00:14:46 And most of our staff has taken uh AI training. And have been part of six week courses on AI training. So, not some of our newer staff, but we're doing some remediation training for our newer staff. But most of our staff, like Gabby and the rest of them, Have been in some of the more advanced AI training and how to do things like. building and things like that. Speaker 4 00:15:08 Okay. You did mention one thing in there about the interaction of Copilot with with Claude or with Chat G P T. Um, I am just curious, like how that works. And this is more like a. Wondering, like, what PEC's stance will be on that because they've been very conservative with us, right? In terms of like you right now, we have access to absolutely zero. You know, AI technology, whether that's native into like our accounting software or anything like that right? And so like. They've given us the go ahead to have a single tool. Speaker 4 00:15:47 You know of Copilot, and it's isolated just to you know our environment. So I just want to make sure I would understand like. If there's something there that would connect to outside resources or somehow, you know, Internet based data like they probably want to understand that and and may put some limitations on us. Speaker 3 00:16:08 Okay, so this is my favorite thing to answer. So Microsoft recently did. Ah, Claude within it, But it's been using Chat GPT behind the scenes for the last year and a half. Um, now I'm sharing my screen with you. I am actually in Microsoft Copilot and not Claude. However, I am set to Claude. And, the reason why I am set to Claude in here is because the way Microsoft handles using Claude or OpenAI is they put restrictions in place. So you are getting the Claude version of chat. Speaker 3 00:16:42 On the Microsoft infrastructure with the data governance inside, So can't do anything outside of the data governance that you guys will have in place. Speaker 4 00:16:53 Okay, and I'm sure that our you know the C T O at. Um, or C I T. I think I forget what his title is at P E C. Probably understands that pretty well, and and you know he'll know that that's exactly what we're doing. But I just. This is a lot of this is new to me, so I just want to make sure I understood how those things work. Speaker 2 00:17:15 And John Carlo, you're not in those meetings I typically have with Kenny and Daniel, but just to let you know, we've been evaluating a third party tool that actually will prevent. I know you guys you guys have an acceptable use policy around AI. I think you guys said right currently. Speaker 4 00:17:28 Uh, the acceptable use right now is none. None. Speaker 6 00:17:33 Soon to be co- pilot. Unacceptable use policy. Speaker 2 00:17:36 There you go. Um, but just let you know if there was a hard restriction, like you know, you guys are going to be able to use Copilot. But we have found it. We now are deploying a tool that will also detect what's called shadow like shadow IT or shadow AI. We can actually prevent the use of Grok or Claude or Chat GPT. Like restrictive, We can actually put agents on the computer that will identify it and restrict it. If that's a requirement from PEC, but I don't think they've called that out yet. Having strict policies around that, yeah. Speaker 7 00:18:06 Emily, shut up. Speaker 2 00:18:09 Unless you guys are doing it through Aptoide's tools. Oh, Speaker 4 00:18:12 Maybe it is through App Store. Yeah, yeah, cause they right now I think are blocking all that stuff. Speaker 2 00:18:17 Yeah, they're probably doing. Yeah, so we have a similar tool to what Aethoria uses, but it's a little more granular. You can gain partial access to Chat GPT, but maybe redact data or prevent uploads and downloads. I think with Aethoria tool, you just completely. You can't even get the Chat GPT. It's just completely blocked. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 4 00:18:38 And then, as far as the timeline goes, so you the ten to fourteen weeks you mentioned. I think you had said Mike thatum. That right now there's like a, three to four weeks before even getting to that starting point. So that. That three or four weeks is like an addition, I guess, to the ten to fourteen weeks of the actual work. Is that is that how you guys are thinking about it? Speaker 2 00:18:60 So it's muscle memory. I usually tell everybody at least three to four weeks on any projects. I don't get slapped by the project manager. But um, Christy, it's actually going to be done primarily with Christy's team, with some involvement of the projects team. So actually, we have the two people here that can better answer that than me. That's just my default go to. Response. So Christie, is that something we can execute sooner, Or are we still looking at the three to four week So the start time, Giancarlo would include that um three to four weeks to begin, and then it'd be like the ten to fourteen weeks or whatever she said. Uh huh. Speaker 3 00:19:35 So we do have some limitations. Um, we can do a soft launch pretty quickly, And I will be handling most of that soft launch just because Gabbyum is finally taking a vacation. She's like me. She doesn't know how to take a vacation, so she's going to be off for a minute. But she is only off for a couple days, so we're going to have just a slow start on that part. But I think we could hit the ground running pretty quickly after the twentieth of May. Speaker 4 00:20:03 After the 20 th, okay. So three weeks. Yeah, okay. Um, what else? Speaker 3 00:20:12 There's only one other slowdown that I can think of. And that would be the first week of June, but only because I might be out for a day or two. For Daughter's graduation. It's kind of important. Yeah, so Jesus. Um. Speaker 4 00:20:32 And then, as far as like you know accepting the quote, Like if we get you know, approval for thisum is the I I know you have a note in here that hardware and software are paid upfront. How about on the professional services? How do you guys Take the progress. Speaker 2 00:20:51 We can progress bill. I think for most of our projects, earlier I think we progress bill right Kenny. I think. You know, yeah, we typically progress bills so. Well, in certain milestones, we'll collect like if it's like one fifth the project completed, we'll we'll build twenty percent. Okay, something to that day. I don't handle that side of the billing, But I know that they progress bill, not they don't they don't collect the full amount up front. For labor, Just licensing because we have to pay for it and hardware because we have to purchase it. Speaker 7 00:21:21 Okay, I don't know if there's five installments, but I don't remember. It seems like it gets spread out that way. Um, is the training part of the quote too? Speaker 1 00:21:32 Yes. Yes, Speaker 7 00:21:33 Okay. Is there multiple training? Like, Is there training for the pilot group and then training for the broader group later? Speaker 3 00:21:40 I haven't broken out in multiple trainings. We just we just need to decide how we want to do it, So you get you'll get enough training that we can do that easily and break it out like that. Speaker 4 00:21:52 Yeah, now that our group has grown so big. I mean we've got but we'll have about roughly forty five people. I mean maybe. Maybe we would do. Two groups or something like that. When we do, when we're ready to roll this out, and maybe that also gives a chance if someone's not there. This first day they can show up for the second session or something like that, And it allows you know more people to ask questions easily than with the maybe if you have twenty or so rather than forty or so. Speaker 2 00:22:24 So, Joe, we could be flexible with that kind of stuff too. I mean, you're working with Primm's and so we can. Speaker 2 00:22:30 Okay, it's not a problem. Speaker 4 00:22:33 And then on the TPO piece of it, I know you responded back. I think maybe what we were thinking is that maybe Daniel and I together would would kind of share that role, You know, and That way, you know, you know, we can always have someone, you know, responding to things that come up, but you know if you need one person to give authority to approve things, then then I'm happy to be that person, but. You know, I think, you know, he has a better sense of kind of what the overall environment is right now. And things that are set up for a layer between you guys and Aphthoria, and and he will have better insight on that stuff. And then, you know, together we can work through some of the project scope. So I would I think that, that would be good to have two of us on that. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:23:20 Perfect. Actually, I've got a quick question. Well, go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry. Speaker 4 00:23:24 Yeah, no, that was it. Speaker 2 00:23:27 I've got a quick question for Gabby or Christy. I'm not sure if this came up or not, but I have had this question from a couple other clients. Um, How would a Lear prevent Copilot from from surfacing or accessing sensitive information within it? Speaker 5 00:23:44 Well, um, basically you know we'll have to work on. I am basically, you know, setting up the sensitivity labels and categorizing. Any data that's considered sensitive, any data that um, any like D L P. So that stuff is done in Microsoft uh purview, which is like the bulk of the work. So once that is in place, then. You know you instruct Copilot to you know don't touch, you know these data is off limits basically. So it's all you know integrated, within the Microsoft ecosystem, like Copilot the app the applications. Speaker 5 00:24:24 So they all work together. Speaker 2 00:24:26 I think okay, yeah, that that helps because that ties into it. I think Chrissy mentioned earlier the sensitivity labels, but that's going to be a So, Aaliyah, that's going to be a component of Purview. Microsoft Purview, the compliance portion. And then one more question if you don't mind. And Kenny and Daniel, I'm just asking on your behalf because I've just heard this question from others. How is this different from employees just using Chat GPT? Speaker 5 00:24:50 I mean, well, kind of like I can mention alreadyum Copilot runs within. Microsoft three sixty five ecosystem, ah so, Any so any of like the process processes do not leave the ecosystem? So it stays within. So whatever policies you have in place, whatever et cetera, I mean it doesn't go beyond that. So, yeah. Speaker 2 00:25:19 Okay. Appreciate that. Sorry, Kenny Daniel Giancarlo. I just okay. Speaker 6 00:25:27 I Had a question, guys. So, we kind of gave you a little bit of the insight as to what Burrell identified in their assessment detailed report. Anything that popped up in there that might be a red flag or something that you haven't addressed with other clients or maybe have difficulty addressing, require a little extra lift or. Creative solutions. Speaker 3 00:25:49 I'll be honest. Your report's a little bit cleaner than my first client that we put on Copilot. So that's good news. Everything that's in there that can be addressed, we have added it to our statement of work. So if it's something that's in there, there's a few items that I, That's not red flags that I intentionally left out of the scope of work. And this has to do more with MDM, and that's something we'll talk about during the discovery phase. Sorry, I can't speak. Words are hard. I have been in back to back meetings for a solid six hours. I've not even had a chance to get lunch, so words are very hard. But, there are some MDM and statements there that we we might want to tighten up, however they're not gotchas; they're just more of "hey, this this something we would clean up within." Any client because we see this issue, but it's one of those things that. Speaker 3 00:26:43 It's not going to affect make or break or be red flags for the Copilot implementation. That's about the only thing that I left out of that. Everything else we'll be doing behind the scenes. Your biggest red flags are your sensitivity labels. Speaker 6 00:26:57 Okay, Something that was called out kind of multiple times was like SharePoint sprawl and maybe limiting. Private channel communication. That always kind of seemed interesting to me. Does that effectively shut off like our ability to I mean communicate via Teams with internal members or maybe external for those of us who have contact outside the organization. Speaker 3 00:27:18 So that I love I love the fact that you asked that question. Um, What we what we're thinking about doing during that. And we didn't have it in this question, But it is actually in our our scope of work. And part of our discovery is. What we would do is we would not restrict you from chatting internally. We won't restrict you from chatting externally, but what we would do be close that door. And give the key to only certain people that you want to give that key to, or certain organizations that you want to give that key to. So, you'd give that key to PEC, you'd give that key to us, other organizations outside of it. Like I have constant chats with all of my clients, but I also chat with CDW and a few other vendors on Teams. So we're not going to shut that down; we're just going. Speaker 3 00:28:02 Close the door and give the key to those that we only want the key to. Speaker 6 00:28:06 Okay, And I assume that there's a log with whatever this key is or looks like, and that's maintained, reviewed, approved. Yes. Speaker 3 00:28:17 And that's just for that one. That's just general security tightening. Speaker 4 00:28:21 Mm- hmm. Does that apply just to like having chats going on in Teams, or does that somehow restrict the ability to have Teams video meetings? Speaker 3 00:28:30 It only restricts chatting. You'll still be able to have Teams meetings with anyone externally, no matter what domain that they're on. Okay. It also will restrict sending files across Teams chat. Not sending share links, But just sending like you know how I can drop a Word document over to Mike and Mike can edit it. I can't drop that to you guys, so that would be a restriction. However. I can still send you the link to that file intentionally outside of Teams. So, it's just one of those ways because having the files go through Teams opens another door that we don't need open. Speaker 4 00:29:13 Okay. How many clients have you guys done this type of project for? Speaker 3 00:29:21 I've lost count, I'll be completely honest. Um, because we're not just doing it on the Copilot side, we're now doing it for the Claude and OpenAI side as well. Because now Claude and OpenAI are making connectors that will work within Microsoft organizations, it's not as secure. It's not as data governed. As what you get with Copilot, but it is still an option that they have. So clients want to see that DLP policy in place. And want to see those sensitivity labels turned on. And, it's a very similar process to how we would secure a company that's going through HIPAA or SEC or SOX regulations, so it's very similar to that. We have probably done that on no less than fifty clients. Just if you look at it at a broad scale, so like tightening up HIPAA, ISO requirements, things like that. For clients for Copilot, I believe we're at seven, and it could be wrong. Overall, I think we've done about. Twelve. Speaker 3 00:30:21 Recently in the last six months. Okay. Speaker 4 00:30:27 Um, for theum for the labeling, Um is there anything that we would need to do like in terms of reorganizing the way that our folder structures are set up within. You know, Our OneDrive in order to to put that in ah in a different way to, to look to structure confidential versus public. U m, or some sort of sensitive area, Or is that something that that you guys do regardless of the way that the data is currently organized within that, that folder structure in the OneDrive. Speaker 3 00:31:03 So for me, I never, I won't ever advise you to restructure your OneDrive data unless we find sensitive data outside. So what you guys were talking about SharePoint creep earlier. That's where we'll say," Hey, this document that has." All of your staff's payroll information is out and can be publicly accessed by the rest of the members of the company. We need to move that over here, so that's about as deep as we're going to get into that. We're not going to ask you to restructure your folders because one, that's a loss in productivity on your side. Your people can't I can't handle it when somebody reorganizes my kitchen, much less my SharePoint folders. So we're not going to do that to you. But what we are going to do is have you guys. Speaker 3 00:31:47 Give you guys advice and say," Hey, these documents are outside of the purview that they should be in. So we need you guys to move it, or we can move it. But let's talk about how that's going to look." We also know that sometimes you guys have tunneled into other documents and you're sharing links in documents. So Excel spreadsheets that call on data from other Excel spreadsheets, we don't want to break that. That's another loss in productivity. So we're going to be very mindful of that. Okay. Speaker 6 00:32:14 What does an alert look like if a sensitive document's outside of purview? Speaker 3 00:32:19 It's going to send a report to Crimson. It's going to send a report to your security team. Anyone that has a privileged account, they're going to get that report. And then it's also going to alert that user. They'll get a call from our security team and your security team. Okay. Speaker 6 00:32:40 Uh, and as we enter this brave new world, I'm sure you know we need to document things to heck and back. So um. What does that handoff look like for us? I mean, I know you on a fairly annual basis provide us kind of your updated IT policy, cybersecurity change management. Is there another document set over how you administer Copilot that you provide to us that we give to I'm sure whoever will be asking for it in the future. Speaker 3 00:33:09 So we can provide any reporting that you need, which is one thing you guys are really good at. You don't ever love me for documentation. Um, as much as other clients do, so I do appreciate that. But there is all kinds of reports that we can provide to you guys. Um, we can. Whatever you need as far as a yearly report, but at the end of this project, we would provide you with an update of all the changes, what the report looked like and everything looked like beforehand before we got in. So, Which we've already provided you, and so did the other company provide you that. But then we'll provide you with a report showing how everything is buttoned up. It's going to meet all compliancy regulations when we provide that report. And anything that we made changes to will also be in there. And then from there, every if you guys are interested in it, We can look at different reports that we can have sent to you automatically from Microsoft on how Copilot is being utilized. Great. Speaker 6 00:34:06 Great. Thanks. Speaker 4 00:34:09 I know we've kind of gone past our time here for that meeting. I have another question, but if it's easier, I can email it to you. You guys let us know if you guys need to run. Speaker 3 00:34:18 You're my last meeting for the day, so ask away. Speaker 4 00:34:22 Okay. I think it's just trying to be prepared for the the test user piece of it. From a timeline perspective. Thinking out like you know when you're going to get to that piece, when should we be ready with the list of users and. You know how specific do we need to have those use cases when we get to that piece like cause I have some subject areas in mind, but like I I think I want to go to those people. I've sort of selected and ask them to dig in a little bit as to something a little more specific in their daily activities that they'd like to. Speaker 4 00:34:59 To try and you know have the, um co pilot kind of take control of that, Um should we like really get detailed on on those activities? And then what's the best way to prepare for that. Speaker 3 00:35:11 So, the earlier the better is what I always say. But I am going to give you an answer that Mike does not like, and that is AI is constantly changing. Just in the last three days did Copilot come out with Claude in the system. That is how rapidly it's changing. So you are going to see things hit the news all the time. Your staff is going to see things hit the news all the time, and what they saw last week is going to change to the next week. And they're going to say, "Wait, I want to change my use case to this because I see that." This type of thing is isn't capable of happening, so build it out. Get it to me as soon as possible. I am going to say, Give it to me about two weeks before we start the pilot testing on it. But I also understand that things will change. Speaker 3 00:35:53 And I am flexible to go with the changes. And so is Gabby. We like changes because it enables us to learn more. So, Speaker 4 00:36:04 With the timeline that you've laid out, Like kind of what is the point that you think we would start on that test pilot stuff? Speaker 3 00:36:13 I'm gonna say probably midway through cleanup, we'll start thinking about these tape cases, and we'll give you probably. Speaker 3 00:36:22 We'll ask for that data probably a week before, but we'll give you updates on where we're at. I am always hesitant to give you the actual hours just because. We will go into it, and we might find something that delays us, or we might find that there's not as much work as we thought originally, and it might not take us as long. So I I don't like to give you guys hours and weeks, but I I can confidently say probably about a week out before we start. Pi lot testing, we're going to be looking for those use cases. Two weeks before then, we're going to want to know the people. Speaker 4 00:36:56 So we probably have most of May, I would guess to like kind of get that dialed in. Yes. Speaker 4 00:37:02 Okay. All right. That sounds good to me. That was my last question, I think. Speaker 7 00:37:11 I have one more question. Before we leave, is it possible to get those cats to fight in the background again? Okay. Speaker 3 00:37:20 They're actually passed out in the hallway. They just fell and fell asleep. Um. Speaker 7 00:37:28 Disappointed, they had to get on another call. Speaker 3 00:37:31 Well, so they disturbed. My my three year old tuxedo cat who has a throne right here, and it's actually a desk bed that is clamped onto my desk. They disturbed her so much that she's left. So there's no cats in my room. They're all out in the hallway sleeping. Speaker 2 00:37:48 If you get one more cat, Christy, you get to you get to wear the crown of the crazy cat lady. Speaker 3 00:37:54 I will say the tiny one was an impulse adoption two weeks ago. I went looking for a dog. Speaker 6 00:38:01 That's how they all move. That's how they all move, Speaker 6 00:38:04 Yeah. Yeah. You got to add a line item in the SOW for catnip, Speaker 3 00:38:07 Christy. One of my clients the other day brought me a gift. It was crazy cat lady magnets for my refrigerator. Speaker 3 00:38:19 Well, thank you guys. I was trying to get enough kids, but you know the cats came first. Speaker 4 00:38:26 Okay. Andum, yeah, I think I mean, I think everything seems pretty well in order here. And, we'll just we'll work on the last steps here of getting the the approval on the project and squared away on, Onum you know anything that you need to get started. And thenum yeah, we should be in good shape. Speaker 2 00:38:44 A wesome. Yeah, and John Carl. I mean, we want to stay within hours, but we can you know how when you're working with crimson. If something changes or whatever, just let us know. The more than likely we can accommodate any shifts or. Um, if any priorities change, just let us know. Should be no problem. Speaker 1 00:38:60 Okay. Great. All right. Thanks, guys. Thanks everyone. Thank you. Bye.
06-16 Analysis of Progress Billing Workflow Gaps and Key-Person Risk
- Notes
-  ## Core Synopsis The billing workflow for progress invoices is partially institutionalized but poorly owned: April and Maggie know the mechanics inside the system, while Christi—now expected to execute without prior training—revealed ambiguous authority and inconsistent steps (e.g., where to set billing amounts, when to refresh, and dependency on project setup like products vs professional fees). The actual operational path was clarified live: managers specify the monthly billable amount, “Build only after closed” must be unticked, progress bills are created from the Invoicing Board, the billable amount is set in the progress bill (not in the project Finance tab), then the invoice is generated and emailed. The session exposed structural risk: billing accuracy depends on project configuration hygiene (products vs professional fees), and process enforcement hinges on Maggie’s tacit knowledge. We are relying on ad hoc guidance and screen-sharing to avoid mis-bills; without codified SOPs, role clarity, and guardrails, the team will keep burning time, generating errors, and hard-coding Maggie as a single point of failure. ------ ## Progress Billing Flow, Gaps, and Controls ### The Canonical Workflow (As Demonstrated) - Entry conditions: Project Manager provides the monthly progress bill amount; “Bill this project only after it’s been closed” must be unticked. - Execution path: 1. Navigate to Finance → Invoicing Board; find the project (e.g., Alere). 2. Actions → Create Progress Bill. 3. In the WIP “Available to Bill,” set the amount for this invoice (do not change the project-level Billing Amount in Finance). 4. Click Continue to generate the invoice. 5. Go to Company Finance → Invoices; open the new “Progress” invoice. 6. Review and email the invoice from the preview. - Validation: Ensure the invoice type is “Progress” and the project name/reference is surfaced on the invoice. ### Configuration Dependencies and Pitfalls - Project configuration can distort available amounts: - Misplaced line items (products added to the project vs rolled into professional fees) changed totals until removed/realigned. - Percentage complete was locked by ticket-derived rules; attempt to edit failed. - Refresh requirement: Post-configuration fixes require a UI refresh to reflect corrected amounts. - Billing amount authority: The correct edit point is inside the progress bill creation step; editing project Finance-level Billing Amount caused confusion and was reversed. ### Ownership and Process Ambiguity - Role uncertainty: Christi was instructed to execute progress billing without formal training; April is still learning; Maggie is the de facto authority (“project billing queen”). - Governance gap: No explicit policy on whether Project Managers or Finance own progress billing end-to-end, and no documented SOP to reduce reliance on individual memory. ### Risk Profile - Operational risk: Mis-billing (wrong amount/line placement), invoice delays (missing “Continue” click), and audit trail gaps. - Key-person risk: Maggie’s tacit knowledge is the current control; absence escalates error rates. - Scaling risk: As more clients (e.g., Anderson) are onboarded, the current ad hoc coaching model will not scale. ------ ## Action Items **@Maggie** - [ ] Draft and publish a 1-page SOP: “Progress Billing – Alere/Anderson” with screenshots covering prerequisites, exact navigation, amount entry point, “Continue” step, and email dispatch; include a troubleshooting appendix (products vs professional fees, refresh rule) - [TBD] - [ ] Create a pre-billing checklist (config hygiene: “Bill after close” unchecked, products vs professional fees alignment, manager-approved amount on hand) - [TBD] **@April** - [ ] Validate Alere and Anderson project configurations against the checklist (products vs professional fees, flags, totals) and correct discrepancies before next billing cycle - [TBD] **@Christi** - [ ] Execute the next Alere and Anderson progress bills using the SOP, capture any deviations/friction points, and report back for SOP refinement - [TBD] **@Finance/Operations Lead (Assign explicitly)** - [ ] Decide and communicate role ownership for progress billing (Project Manager vs Finance) and approval flow for monthly amounts; document in policy - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi Christi. Okay, So Maggie is here for guidance because I'm also kind of learning from her as well. So but yeah, I pretty much have an idea on how we do progress bill. But yeah, you need help with Alere and Anderson? Speaker 2 00:00:16 Yeah, Well, you guys show me on Alere and Anderson and I can do the other two clients. Speaker 1 00:00:24 Okay, gotcha. Okay, so here if you can see on your screen, um Maggie is showing the Alere project that you mentioned Alere. But just to remind you that for progress billing, Um the manager should be the one providing how much should be billed for the month. So if you can see here from the finance tab from the billing amount, You can change that as to what's the project manager is going to tell you how much we should bill. And also make sure that the build this project only after it's been closed is unticked. If you'll notice in there. Okay, so once you've updated the billing amount, you can go now to the invoicing board and then from there, um, you should click on the project. For example, This Alere menu, please click on that one. And then you will see all the timesheets related. Speaker 1 00:01:21 In that project, and you should click on actions, and then create progress bill. Okay. Okay, once you created a progress billing, you can now go to company finance. Oh sorry um You should before going to company finance, you need to update the um amount again from that um view. And then you can now go once updated, you can now click on continue and then it will automatically generate, The invoice, and then you can now go to company finance. Um, from there you. Speaker 3 00:02:02 Can search a year. There you go, Speaker 1 00:02:09 And then you should go to the invoices tab, and from the invoice tab there, there should be like a new invoice that will be listed. And, there should be normally, it should be on always on the top of the list. Okay. So right now, you cannot see the new invoice since Maggie did not click on continued, but this is just for um training purposes. But yeah, you should once you click on continued, We should automatically generate an invoice. And then from there Maggie, can you show one example of a progress billing invoice later Alere show I think that was for project Angel Food. Okay so you see um. Speaker 1 00:02:50 Christi, the invoice type should be progress. And then you click on the invoice icon in there. And then once it's uh you see the preview of the invoice, you can click on email on the left top portion. There go, click on that one for example Maggie. Yeah and then you can send email. Speaker 2 00:03:14 That's it. So, let me do it, real quick, and then you guys watch me do it. Just make sure I got it right. Okay. Okay, so I'm going to actually do the Alere one. So in Alere we're we're progress billing for fifty percent, and so I'm going to go to finance. Oh, Speaker 3 00:03:34 Let me go ahead and update this because I am the project manager. Oh okay. So all right and thenum. Speaker 2 00:03:49 So This is not checked and then the billing amount. Speaker 4 00:03:52 Yeah, it's the same like that. Speaker 2 00:03:55 Okay, so that's fifty percent of the total bill. Speaker 1 00:03:60 Oh, What do you mean Maggie? Like we should not change the billing amount? Speaker 4 00:04:03 Yeah, you shouldn't have changed that one. Oh, it should be in the progress billing only. Speaker 1 00:04:07 And the invoicing. Yeah. Oh yeah, sorry about that Christi Um okay so let. Speaker 2 00:04:14 Me do something real quick, Let me do one more thing real quick because I just realized. Percentage complete. Okay, so this should be 25 now. Speaker 3 00:04:24 25, okay. Yeah. It's not letting me! Okay. Speaker 2 00:04:31 It won't let me. Okay, I'm not. Oh, it's pulling from tickets. Never mind this helps! Okay so finance and then we're going to go to invoices. Speaker 1 00:04:42 Uh, you can now go to invoicing board, right Maggie? Since there's no invoicing board. Um on your left portion of the yeah you go to finance. Finance the most bottom one yeah and then you go to invoicing. There we go and then click uh search Alere on the company name. Alere. Speaker 3 00:05:14 There you go. Speaker 1 00:05:14 Click on that one. Um, okay, and then actions, click actions dropdown menu and then create progress bill. Create, yeah, there you go. And then under the whip available to build on the bottom part, you see the amount there. Yeah, you can now change that to half of the amount. Speaker 2 00:05:41 Okay. So it's already set to half. Speaker 1 00:05:44 Uh no, that's the full amount. That should be fifteen four. Right oh. Speaker 2 00:05:50 So, that's the total right there, and this is half. Speaker 1 00:05:56 Oh why is it on? Can you check Maggie? Because in the. Speaker 4 00:06:04 Can you check the quote? The code is thirty thousand eight hundred. Oh. Speaker 3 00:06:13 Wait, let me check the product. Oh, there's no product. Oh, Speaker 4 00:06:22 They put it in the professional fee. Let me delete first the product here in the project. Speaker 3 00:06:31 Okay, so let me go back. Speaker 3 00:06:46 All right. Uh. Okay, try it now. Okay. Okay, Speaker 1 00:06:56 I think you should should Christi refresh? Yes. Speaker 2 00:06:60 That's why I went out to go back in so that I can Yeah. Refresh, okay, there we go. There, Speaker 1 00:07:07 Yeah, perfect. Speaker 2 00:07:08 Uh 54. Speaker 3 00:07:12 Yeah yes, okay, and then continue. Speaker 3 00:07:18 There we go. And now I should go to, oh there. Speaker 4 00:07:23 Yes, it's okay. Speaker 1 00:07:24 That's okay. And then from there, Christi, you can click on invoice. Yeah, there we go. So just check if everything is correct. You can maximize the. Speaker 3 00:07:40 So. Let's see this. Speaker 1 00:07:42 Progress invoice Yeah Oh for reference. We should be. Oh, it's already listed in there. The project name. Yeah. Okay. I think I think we're good. And then email Yes, And then you can just. Speaker 3 00:07:55 Send Send Yeah Okay. Speaker 1 00:07:60 Why. Are you the one doing this, Christi? Speaker 2 00:08:02 Well, Because they they told me I needed to do it so I'm doing this Really? Yeah So I might as well just figure out how you guys do it and do it because they said do it. So. They didn't give me, they didn't train me or anything. And Anzor had pulled me out of the meetings for a long time, and Pete's now put me back into the trains. So, or to the meetings. Speaker 1 00:08:25 Is it going to be like project managers needs to do moving forward. Or this is just like a special case for you? Speaker 2 00:08:32 I don't know. So I'm just going to do it. And then if Maggie can smack my hand, if I did it wrong. Speaker 1 00:08:40 Yeah, feel free to reach out to Maggie because, She's the project building queen here. I'm still learning, you know. Yeah, all right, so we're on the same page. Speaker 2 00:08:51 Yeah, I got to jump off and jump onto a call with Anzor. Speaker 1 00:08:55 All right, thank you, Christy. Bye bye Christy. Talk for a bit but okay.
08-12 Consultation: Microsoft Copilot and Claude AI Rollout
- Notes
- **Client identified from CONTENT + calendar, not title.** Transcript names no company; Outlook 8/12 09:00-09:30 shows 'Claude Team setup for Klapach & Klapach' (Tali Klapach, Julia Kronfli, Vincent Kao). Transcript references 'Vince' and heavy client-data/PII concern consistent with a law firm. CW company 19903 Klapach & Klapach, P.C. Claude / M365 Copilot rollout kickoff. Covered: pilot spin-up within ~1 week with org-wide rollout + training in September; access model and approval ownership (currently the client contact); connectors and document scope (firm handles significant client data, so scoping is a gating item); PII handling and platform stopgaps; written confirmation that model training is disabled, with setup screenshots and self-verification instructions; permission inheritance from M365; AI use policy to be drafted from sample templates for staff signature; workflow/automation candidates; account hygiene (personal AI accounts under firm email will surface at cutover); adoption vs deployment and later license right-sizing; trust/governance, data handling and retention. Use cases confirmed: document review for consistency/QC, annual review automation (needs additional setup), template population. Action items (Crimson): send the rollout deck; send post-meeting notes; provide sample AI use policies; research a third-party platform the client raised; send invites to the upcoming open AI training sessions. FLAG: Klapach & Klapach has no row in the NEST Clients table and had no client folder - folder created this run at '3 - Clients and Projects\Klapach & Klapach'. Needs a Clients row + CLAUDE.md.
- Date
- Aug 12, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:58 Good morning. Good. Speaker 2 00:01:18 Morning. Bear with me, I am in an alternate office today, so. Speaker 2 00:01:55 Um, I will tell you. Oh, sorry. Speaker 2 00:02:16 Oh, You're welcome. I totally, I love your team because everybody that I've ever worked with on it. Man, can you believe it's been almost five years that I've worked with you guys at Crimson? Yeah, so this next month is my five year anniversary. Yeah. No, I am not. Yeah, I did put, i have a standard PowerPoint presentation that I go over with everybody that we do this with, and so we've done quite a few cloud. Speaker 2 00:02:59 Integrations and rollouts, and we've done quite a few Microsoft Copilot. So it is very doable for your team. I'm going to walk you through what we're going to cover. But just a heads up, I know you want to take through, go through and do a lot of testing and things like that, Which is one hundred percent appreciated, because easily for me to spin it up for you. So you can pilot test. I can get this done by mid next week just for you. Now rolling it out to your entire organization and doing the training and everything that takes a little bit longer. And if you're going to test it the first month, It's actually perfect for me because then I can get you in in September for actually rolling it out to the rest of your staff. So it's actually ideal for you. Another thing is I think next week I am going to be doing some open cloud classes. Speaker 2 00:03:58 For different clients that want to learn a little bit more about Claude, and it's going to go through basics and a little bit more, um, a little bit more higher end. So it's going to be broken up over two days. I'll send you uh the meeting invites for that so that you can join. Uh It is going to be pretty generic just because you know, I can't really I've got multiple different types of clients. I can't really uh do something that's geared just for your team, But, it will give you an idea of what training will look like for your staff when we start rolling that out. September. So Yeah. Speaker 2 00:05:42 Yeah. Absolutely. And I think I think you're going to learn how to do that, especially in the second class, um which I believe is on Friday of next week. Um we'll be taking it through like how do I how do I build out documentation using Copilot? And have it do a lot of the work for me. And what we'll do is we'll show you how to get 70 % there with AI, And the last 30, %, of course, is going to be for you because you're human, you got to put in your human judgment. AI is great, but AI is just AI. So, but yeah, we'll go through all of that. What, we're going to cover with you guys during this entire rollout is we're going to look at the access model and like who can access what. Speaker 2 00:06:25 And who approves what, which at this moment's basically going to be you. So we'll bring in what connectors look like, How you can get it to connect to different apps and pull information and things like that. And then what we'll look at as well is what documentation is it going to look for and actually read, which I know is pretty important to you guys. You guys handle a lot of client data. So, taking a look and see, okay, what is it going to access and what is it going to do? That's something we're going to need to cover with you guys just to make sure that, hey, this can't be shared with all employees, or this can be shared with employees, but it needs to stop here. One really good thing about it is. PII is really well covered with AI, where it does not pull it. So that's something for you to be a little bit happy about. Speaker 2 00:07:16 And understand, because that's always been a huge question. I get from clients is what information, oh uh, personal identifying information. So social security numbers, things like that. Yeah. So uh AI Claude. And uh, a few of the other larger name AI systems have been trained not to touch PII. Speaker 2 00:07:47 So, And you can we can put in those stopgaps for you and help you do it for the future. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:08:06 Yes. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:08:47 Yes. Absolutely. What I'm going to provide to you is it will cover what AI's position is on that and how we turn it off, including screenshots of when we originally set it up. And, the only people that will be able to change it after that is you or Crimson. And I'll give you all that information, Plus I'll show you how to access it at any time so that you can look and see and make sure that it is turned off at all times. Speaker 1 00:09:26 Yes. And. Speaker 2 00:09:45 That's part of our process for setting up. It's actually number six on here. So we'll we'll name the owners, we'll set the pilot start date. Words are hard today. And, then we'll talk about the AI use policy and getting that rolled out for her staff to sign. You're welcome. I will also get I. What we'll do with the AI policy is I'll get you over um the some sample policies. And then you can take a look at the wording, and we can update it according to what you look at and what you need. Speaker 2 00:10:18 I have clients that change the language all the time on that, just to make sure it covers what their organization needs. So you'll be able to help write that policy for your staff. So yeah, Within that, we'll also we'll look at workflows and how people can automate certain jobs and certain work. So we'll go over that with you. You'll learn a lot more about that in the beginning. And then you can pick and choose, you know, what is allowed to be covered with workflows, what teams can do to do automation and things like that. And then when you're ready, We'll set up the pilot plan for your staff on how we're going to what that timeline is going to look at. Besides what you're going to do. And then we'll look at account hygiene. And so what we'll do is we'll uh We've already identified personal cloud accounts under your email address. Speaker 2 00:11:16 Um, but what we'll do is when we flip that switch, It'll bring to the surface. Anyone who might have signed up for a cloud account with their with their cloud email. So, Um and just a heads up and I do I do say this for all my clients. Uh deployment does not mean adoption. Uh, we we have clients see all the time that will deploy something out like Cloud or Copilot. And some of the staff won't adopt it. And so you will be able to see who's adopting it and who's not, And then we can back off licenses and save you a little bit money if they're choosing not to. Um, sorry. It's okay. No worries. So we'll deploy it for you, um but uh adoption by all your users doesn't always happen. Uh. So some people might be a little scared or timid of AI, even after all the training that they may not. Speaker 2 00:12:15 May not use it. So just want you to be aware of that. Yes. Correct. Yeah. Yes. Speaker 1 00:12:32 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:58 Correct. Yes. Um, and I do put this in there because um, went as for the last couple of years that we started deploying it with. Clients, we do learn the skills very widely, and we'll help close that gap on these skills that your staff needs. So we'll help with training and things like that. And, we do see that there's going to be a lot of questions about AI. So depending on how you roll it out, I'm going to not go over and dwell on this because we do have limited time, but I just wanted to make you aware of it. I'm going to send you this presentation after the meeting. So you have a copy. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:13:36 So just to save on time, What we'll do is we'll work with you on what's going to look like for your organization to have Claude. Um and then we'll onboard it, and we'll scale according to who uses it and who doesn't. And we'll help you guys uh drive value for the organization. So, we'll help with as much as you need. Um and what we'll try to do is is help staff feel a lot more comfortable about using it. And help try to because there is a lot of fear surrounding AI, we'll try to help mitigate those fears as well and explain things through. Um, I'm going to skip through some of this. Um, I want to talk about trust and governance because that's a lot of questions which you have already asked. Um, data handling this is part of us creating the AI policy. Um so we'll we'll get uh we'll get in writing and. Speaker 2 00:14:29 Both to and from is what is being sent, what is being stored, and how long is it done within AI. We'll need to talk with you on what is acceptable for your staff to use AI for and what is it not. And then also we'll talk about access control, How permissions of what people access within cloud of your data because it does connect back to Microsoft. Permissions follow people so Let's say if Vince is a part of your organization, but he doesn't have access to finance data or HR data, he will never see that within Claude. It's a safeguard that Claude puts in place. And so anything that Vince doesn't have permission to see, He will never see it unless there is a file somewhere hidden in your organization that he does have access to, but he never knew he had access to. Which we have found. We have clients who have found employee data. Speaker 2 00:15:26 In public places that they didn't even realize was there. So just just a heads up. Um and then we'll talk about human oversight with your staff. We'll give clear rules for how they're supposed to review the output before it goes anywhere. Because, as you said, AI is not perfect. It does fail pretty consistently. So we'll talk about how to mitigate that. Yes. Speaker 1 00:15:58 Yes. Yes. Speaker 2 00:16:18 Not a problem. So we'll go over Copilot, I'll walk you through it. I'm I'm actually in my personal OneDrive and I have an agreement that my personal account um I use. But let me go into Claude. Real quick. Speaker 1 00:16:37 Yes. Yes. Speaker 2 00:16:52 Yes, and I'm going to show you real quick how to do that. Let me log into one of the closed systems just so that you can see. I rebooted my computer this morning, so I have to re-log in. Gotta wait for my. It does it take it's really quick. So, Um so in a closed system and I'm, just going to use one that I have access to actively. This is exactly what yours is going to look like. So from the back end, once I get in, you're going to see access to all the system. You'll get access to the organizational settings. So it'll pop up. It might pop up with some new news and that happens from here. I'm going to take you into organizational settings so that you can see different pieces. But once we're in here, they're okay with me showing you their tenancy. Speaker 2 00:17:47 So just a heads up, I have agreement with them that I can share this with any client. So in here, what we'll do is we'll set up your domain and your authentication. Members are added. And again, We said what we had told you guys is minimum of five users that can log in and access here is granted primary owner owner. So just imagine Michonne as you and then any of our standard users. There are tiers based on what they need to use and how much they need to use it. Everybody here is going to be standard, which is $25 a month. If anybody requires a higher level, which means they're using it constantly, that's a different cost and we'll go over that in the future. We won't go over it now. Speaker 2 00:18:42 This needs to be set up, and I'm going to do that. I'll have that ready probably for you by Wednesday. It's pretty quick to do that, to do the setup. It does take once we get it started, It takes about six total hours on average, because we have to do a bunch of connections and things like that. But we can have it done by Wednesday. Yes. Speaker 2 00:19:07 And I will provide an email, and I will provide some how tos for you as well. Speaker 2 00:19:27 Could We do. Could we do that Friday only because the nineteenth and twentieth? I am out, I am taking my daughter. To college, she's moving in. Speaker 1 00:19:46 Perfect. Yes. Speaker 2 00:19:59 Uh, the twenty fourth. Speaker 2 00:20:03 Is going to be pretty hairy, but I think that Tuesday will be great. Speaker 1 00:20:16 Okay. So. Speaker 2 00:20:25 I'm pretty clear other than two uh training classes, one of them actually on Claude. Um, so I'm pretty clear that day. Um, you can have almost any time on the twenty first. Uh, the twenty fourth. I do know that I am having to be at a client site that day. Um, but on that on the twenty fifth, I'm free after uh free after three. Okay? Speaker 2 00:21:19 Yes. Um, honestly, I work late, so any of this can be moved around. Speaker 2 00:21:46 Yeah. Yes. Uh, this training class right here is going to be an hour long. I just haven't adjusted it. So, let's do three thirty just in case that meeting runs long. I'm going to be training on, On some new technology. Speaker 2 00:22:20 Yeah, But let's do an hour because normally it takes about forty five minutes to an hour for one on one time. Speaker 2 00:22:38 Yes. Yes, and then uh you'll already have it on. So I am going to send you out an email, um so you can play around with it before that meeting. Speaker 1 00:22:54 Yes. No, Speaker 2 00:22:57 They don't. Oh I understand that because my child is it's her freshman year and, And I already know she's ready to. Yes, I'm not ready but she is. So. Uh University of Merced or uh University of California Merced. So. Yes, I'm so proud of her. Yeah Oh. Speaker 2 00:23:36 Yes, but except for she's the one I adopted last year. Speaker 2 00:23:53 Well, Vince. Yes, Vince knows I am a foster mom and but only to teens. And so I've got two more kids at home right now. And I am just like. Speaker 2 00:24:05 Ha lf of me is happy. She's going because I'm so proud of what she's accomplished in the two years since I since she came to me. But also part of me is like, I need less people in the house, and I need my bedroom back, and I need my bathroom back. So yeah. Speaker 1 00:24:26 Yes. Yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:24:47 Yes. You're welcome. And then if you have any questions, I think you have my cell phone number. If not, I'll send it over to you and while you're on the East Coast, just text me and ask me questions unless I'm driving. I don't mind answering. I might need the welcome break. Speaker 2 00:26:04 I'm going to pull up that email because I do I did make some notes of my own. So bear with me one second uh restarting your computer before meeting is not always the easiest. Um so um the connectors on that first question is what should um copilot uh reach out to and have access to. And so that what that looks like is a connector in copilot. Lets you um. Connect to things like Microsoft Word or connect to your data. So I'm going to show you real quick. It's going to take me a second. And I can say, check my inbox with Microsoft. I have to differentiate because I have many OneDrive and tell me if there is any emails this morning. I need to focus on. And so these are the kind of things that it can access. Speaker 2 00:27:03 It also can access my OneDrive and my documents in my OneDrive and help me work through different settings. And so it's going through, it's telling me, you know, these are the things I need to focus on. So that's what I meant by what should Claude be able to reach? And these are the kind of things we're going to look at. I have mine connected to a lot of different things. I'm not going to go through the entire list, but things for you to think about is your OneDrive. If you guys use a tool like Asana, I don't know if you know what Asana is. Some people do, some people don't. Okay good. It's like a project management tool. So if you have projects and stuff you're working on, it helps your team stay on track. If you use Box for data storage, it can connect to Box. I have it connected to my personal Gmail and then a few things like that. Speaker 1 00:29:09 Yes. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:29:22 Um, so we can look into NACLY. Uh, Send me a list of so NACLY I already had because you had it listed there. Um, what I'll do is I'll look in Cleo okay. What I'll do is I'll look in to see what connectors they have for it, and how it can attach and whether or not it can or can't. So that's those are some good ones. It does connect to a lot of things outside of what I showed you. So if you guys, for instance, if you guys use DocuSign, it can connect to that. Yes. Speaker 2 00:30:13 Okay, Perfect. It will connect to Adobe because I use that Adobe connector all the time. And so it will connect to that. There's a few others and we'll take a look. I'll take a look at your stack of what I've seen on my end for you guys and see if there's any others that it will connect to for you. There is, I think, At the last count, it was over a thousand connectors that you can connect to using Claude. So I can walk you through that. Speaker 2 00:30:58 Yes. So Whisper is my second best friend. Um, I have the pro version and, I use whisper consistently. So I do use whisper in the office. I do dictate into Claude with it. So whisper is definitely used. Yeah, I can't live without it anymore, so yes, yep. Speaker 2 00:31:31 I use it because I have lupus and some days, my hands just don't want to work. So I 100% understand. So we'll do all of that. Send me over any other apps that you can think of, and if you use a Remarkable or Scribe, they don't connect to Claude but they do connect to other things. Okay. Speaker 1 00:32:03 Yeah. Yes. Mhm. Yes. Yes. Speaker 2 00:32:38 Yes, perfect. Reviewing documents for consistency and quality control was your next question. And absolutely, I have it do that all day long every day, especially on invoices and policies that I need to get out to my clients. So it's super helpful in that. It will potentially automate annual review. So that's going to take a little bit more training in how to do that, but you can absolutely do that. So I want to make you aware of that. And then the last question was populating templates to create usable documents? All day, every day. My PowerPoint presentation that I have right here for you, I have that as a template and it reuses that template every single time I'm building something out. Speaker 2 00:33:34 Let me look into NACLY and see what all of it does, and I'll let you know. Yes. Speaker 1 00:34:10 So, I guess it's not a lie. It's just that there are some very educational things that exist. So, I would like to offer that as a resource. I would like to do some research on it and look at what they've done with their personal care. And what they've done with their fitness. Speaker 1 00:34:42 Yeah. Absolutely. Speaker 2 00:34:58 Um, I'll send you over some notes based on our conversation this afternoon, um and let you know what you can do with that. Um just because I know your time is super valuable. Speaker 2 00:35:10 Awesome, thanks. Have a great trip. Oh yes, absolutely. All right, thanks.
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06-06 Lecture: Disability Services and Student Support Programs
- Date
- Jun 6, 2026
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08-05 Consultation: Josh - AI Email Management Tool Demo
- Notes
- Date & Time: 2026-08-05 10:31:57 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: Josh ## Overview This consultation centered on a demo and troubleshooting session for an AI-powered email management tool, Ada. Josh seeks a solution to streamline his Outlook inbox with automated categorization, follow-ups, and handling. The main blocker is his inability to connect his Outlook account due to a Microsoft verification issue on the consultant’s side. Discussed features included automatic follow-up drafting, meeting summarization via transcription, and rule-based organization. The goal is for Josh to access the Pro version and start beta testing, providing feedback for future development. ## Background Josh, from h5datacenters.com, is being onboarded as a beta tester and will receive the Pro version free forever in exchange for feedback. The consultant demonstrated AI-driven rule creation, automated follow-up drafts, and calendar integration. A major blocker arose: Josh cannot connect his corporate Outlook account because the app is undergoing Microsoft’s mandatory re-verification, expected to take about three days (started August 4, 2026). The consultant also noted a personal issue where switching to the “new Outlook” broke her categories, but confirmed this does not affect app functionality for users. ## Pain Points - Josh cannot connect his corporate Outlook account to the app due to Microsoft re-verification initiated on August 4, 2026, taking ~three days. This prevents him from starting to use and test the tool. He asked, “What does that mean in terms of when I can start using it?” and acknowledged he must wait until verification completes. - He needs automated filing to move emails from the inbox to folders after a set period or once read. Emails should first appear in the inbox, then auto-file (e.g., after three or five days, or upon being read), while ensuring unread emails remain visible or flagged. The consultant agreed this is highly requested and on the roadmap for the next month. - He is concerned about missing important emails that are auto-moved. Even if categorized and filed, he still needs notifications on phone and computer to avoid missing timely information. - He is dissatisfied with Otter’s “mixed” transcription accuracy and wants a more accurate service with reliable speaker name recognition. He was interested in the consultant’s recommendations: Plaud and Microsoft Teams transcription, asking about accuracy and name recognition. ## Expectations - Josh expects to connect his corporate Outlook email (josh@h5datacenters.com) and begin using the app as soon as Microsoft verification is complete, estimated around August 7, 2026. Success = logging in and connecting his inbox. The consultant will notify him upon completion and then approve the app on his system. - He expects automatic follow-up draft generation with configurable timing (default two days) and the option to send multiple follow-ups (up to five) if no response. He also wants an aggregated list of pending follow-ups that clears upon reply. - He wants a feature to automatically move emails to a folder after a set time (e.g., 3–5 days) or once read, to keep the inbox clean while maintaining organization and access. The consultant has added this to the development roadmap for the next month. ## Other Information Summary - Josh will receive the Pro version free forever as the first major beta tester. - The consultant is testing a meeting summary feature using Microsoft transcripts to auto-generate key decisions and action items; not yet publicly available. - The consultant recommends the transcription tool Plaud over Otter and Fireflies, citing high accuracy even in noisy environments and HIPAA certification. - An enterprise version for company-wide deployment is in development, estimated at three or five thousand dollars. - Standard pricing is planned at approximately $15/month for Starter and $29 or $39/month for Pro. ## To-Do List - [ ] Consultant: Email Josh when Microsoft re-verification completes. (Deadline: ~August 7, 2026) - [ ] Consultant: Approve the app on Josh’s system after verification. - [ ] Consultant: Send Josh the meeting transcript. - [ ] Consultant: Add the auto-move-after-time/read feature to the development roadmap. (Target: Within the next month) - [ ] Josh: Begin testing the app over the weekend of August 8–9, 2026, once access is granted. - [ ] Josh: Email or text feature ideas and feedback as he uses the app. ## Next Steps - Consultant to confirm Microsoft verification status on August 7 and notify Josh immediately upon approval. - Consultant to provide a short screen-recorded walkthrough of key features (follow-up drafts, categorization) while access is pending. - Optional interim: If desired, set up a temporary Gmail-based workflow so Josh can explore the UI and features before Outlook is connected. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client’s biggest pain point as the inability to connect his corporate Outlook account due to the ongoing Microsoft re-verification process. Here are some possible solutions for your consideration: > 1. Proactively Communicate: Send an email to Josh immediately after this meeting to formally apologize for the delay. Reiterate the cause (Microsoft’s mandatory re-verification), the expected timeline (around August 7), and express your eagerness to get him started. This manages expectations and reinforces your professionalism. > 2. Offer an Interim Solution: Since Gmail accounts are working, you could offer to set up a temporary workflow using a personal Gmail account for him. This would allow him to explore the app’s features and user interface immediately, even if it’s not with his primary work email. This keeps him engaged and allows him to start forming feedback. > 3. Provide a Detailed Walkthrough/Video: While he waits, create and send him a personalized screen-recorded video. In the video, use your own (working) account to demonstrate setting up the exact rules and features he was most interested in, such as the automatic follow-up drafts and categorization. This provides value and keeps the momentum going. > 4. Set a Calendar Reminder for Follow-Up: Set a firm calendar reminder for yourself for August 7 to check the verification status. As soon as it’s approved, contact him immediately to assist with the setup. A fast response time once the block is removed will demonstrate your commitment.
- Date
- Aug 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:06 Hi, we meet again. Speaker 2 00:00:08 We meet again, and I do apologize. I was uh running late for my last meeting. Oh yeah, no worries. So how are you? Speaker 1 00:00:16 How dare how dare you? You're two minutes late. Speaker 2 00:00:18 I know, Speaker 1 00:00:19 I know my ex my ex Yeah, My ex- wife would have been like forty five minutes late, so two minutes is on time. Speaker 2 00:00:26 Fantastic Well sad for your ex- wife because. I I would never get away with being forty five minutes late. Speaker 1 00:00:32 Oh no, I know she doesn't operate in the real world, but um in any event, um let me share my screen. Okay. So I can just show you, and then I am excited to at least see where you have going. Speaker 2 00:00:47 Yeah, and I am logging in right now to mine so that you can see. Speaker 1 00:00:58 Okay, so do you see your? Yes. Okay. So I imagine I hit start free and then connect my inbox. Yes. Connect Outlook. Um continue yes and this is where it gets messed up. Speaker 2 00:01:29 Okay, yeah. Um, so what I am going to do is I'm going to approve that. However, Microsoft threw a wrench into the process yesterday, and I need to wait three days. Um and I found that out yesterday. So um they are partner dot microsoft dot com. Um they are re vetting me okay. And when they re vet me, Speaker 1 00:01:54 I'm gonna share my screen yeah so now let me see. Speaker 2 00:01:59 My kitten is in the way. Oh, she's laying right in front of me. So, they are redoing my uh verification because I made a change to the website. And so this usually takes about three days. Um. And so right now, we're doing the email verification and then my identity and okay um, and all of that. So once we do it, you'll be able to connect. However if you have a Gmail account, Gmail is working just fine. So Oh. Speaker 1 00:02:28 Yeah. Okay. So, um, yeah. So so yeah, so let's try that in a minute. Can you just walk me through what what you've done? Speaker 2 00:02:37 Yeah. So Ada is and I'm gonna. So today, it's processed 101 emails that have come through from my inboxes, Um created me 24 follow-ups. Um Ada is right here. And what she does is she allows me to talk to her and explain how I want everything set up. And so I am so sorry. Um, I'm. I don't know. I am getting a call um coming in and put me on hold in Teams. Um, so Ada was. Speaker 1 00:03:15 I lost your screen Oh, Speaker 2 00:03:18 Hang on one second It's, my phone's fault. They wanted me to answer Oh. Yeah, no problem. So, Ada, what she does is she is in charge of you saying, "Hey, this kind of email. " So like emails from Josh Sims should always be a high priority and list for follow-up. And, so you tell her what you want, and she will put in the rules for you. Speaker 2 00:03:53 And it gets a lot more granular than Outlook rules or Google rules. And so, what I'll do is I'll put in your email. And let me do that real quick. I got to copy your email. It's easy: Speaker 1 00:04:07 Josh at h five datacenters dot com. Speaker 2 00:04:10 All right, copy and then she'll put that in there. And she also has templates that you can use. So you can say, start from this template, start from this or start from operations. Oh, I already have a rule flagging you. Right. So what it will do is I'm going to go back to dashboard is it'll also show recent activity. So in here I've got a payment reminder from SCC which is great. I can add that to my calendar. Speaker 2 00:04:52 And I can add it for, let's say tomorrow.'Cause I know the payment's due by the 10 th. So I'm not, you know, I'm not worried. Um. Speaker 2 00:05:15 I Lost internet for a moment. Speaker 1 00:05:18 Is this does this become my new inbox? Or do I still use Outlook? Speaker 2 00:05:22 You still use Outlook, but this will be a way for you to check things daily. So if you see something come in and it's Etsy, I am going to hit junk. And you can choose whether or not it's always going to be junk. So this makes sure Outlook rules a little bit better. In addition to that, you can also set and tell it to give you follow- ups so. Speaker 2 00:05:50 In here, I've got all my follow- ups set, and then I can choose whether or not I've done it or not. And it puts it— I can tell it," Hey, do you want to add this to Microsoft To- Do?" So it allows you to get as granular as you want. Within this, it also will show your calendar. Speaker 1 00:06:12 Do you mind just showing me your inbox for a second? Like your real. Speaker 2 00:06:17 My real inbox? Yeah. So, because it is not uh what is going on today, Speaker 1 00:06:27 Because when you showed it to me last time, it seemed like, that's where you mostly operated I. Speaker 2 00:06:33 Do yes, Speaker 1 00:06:34 And that you had the different colors. Yes, set. Speaker 2 00:06:38 Upum my so this looks different. It is. I broke my Outlook yesterday, so I'm having to rebuild everything. Uh, this inbox, my uh, my categories have gone missing. So I'm trying to fix all of that. I did break it yesterday. Don't ever go from old Outlook to new Outlook because it breaks everything. Okay. So. Speaker 1 00:07:13 Okay, So maybe should I go try to do something on on Google? Speaker 2 00:07:18 You can. I'm going to show you Google because this is my Google inbox. Speaker 1 00:07:21 Oh yeah, go to Google. Speaker 2 00:07:23 Yeah. So, um if you can see, here's all the categories in Google because Google acts a little differently um and it automatically puts emails in there. Speaker 1 00:07:36 Yeah so I told you about my problem with that, Yeah, right. Which is you don't get from what I've said. You don't, and this wasn't in Google but in Outlook. You don't get a notification, Speaker 2 00:07:50 Right? I can choose to flag them. I use Google more than I use uh the system, So let me stop sharing for one moment, and let me for that account. Let me pull up actual Google because this is a client mailbox that I am in all the time. And. Speaker 1 00:08:07 I mean, the yeah, I mean, is there going to be a similar look and feel or no? Speaker 3 00:08:11 Yes. So let me get logged in. Let me share my screen. I. Speaker 2 00:08:27 Am working from home today on my desktop, so bear with me. So this is my inbox from Google. And these are my categories right here, the FYIs. Um, and within Google, if I go down to All Mail because I do go into there, You'll see all the emails that have come through today and all the flags for them. And so like this one is accounts payable. Um, and that one automatically forwards to accounts the accounts payable team. Um. Speaker 1 00:09:01 You know it might it might it might be e, I mean, this looks very different than what you showed me in Outlook. Speaker 3 00:09:07 It does because, Speaker 1 00:09:09 So let's not so maybe it doesn't help to go through the Google one. Speaker 2 00:09:14 It's okay. Um, Outlook is not working right now because I broke it in my inbox. Um, and it I broke Outlook itself, not my app, so all my categories and things were missing. I accidentally flipped to try the new Outlook yesterday, so I am working on fixing that. Today, it just happened late yesterday afternoon after your email. So, Speaker 1 00:09:36 Like in theory, Don't you have it backed up so you have you could just go to yesterday's version instead of trying to rebuild it? Speaker 2 00:09:44 With Outlook, it does not work like that. Sadly. It blanketed everything but it didn't mess with my meetings. So if you see my meetings right here they're all color coded. Yeah, The only thing thankfully did not break was my categories in my in my meetings. It broke all my inbox categories. So let me go down to a past one. No, it broke all of them. I'm I apologize. Um those didn't break. Okay, here's the categories and these. Speaker 1 00:10:16 But but if I was using your system here, would that have impacted me? Speaker 2 00:10:22 No, because what I broke was my with my crimson email. Inbox, I didn't use my. I didn't. I didn't break it in my app. I broke it actually in the in the Outlook program itself, so it's not accepting any new categories coming in. Okay, um, so you can see here these are my old categories: uh, my ticket, my inbox, my client. I mean, my ticketing and my MFA and my client. So these were working um and it gives me everything uh. Speaker 2 00:10:56 It gives me everything in here and has it categorized. And then I do have drafts that are happening. Um, not this one, but that one keeps coming. But these are uh the drafts that I have that comes up. Um, and then here's one, Here's a draft that I was working on uh that the system said, hey, you need to send this out to Vance because he has not responded to me in two days since my last message. Speaker 1 00:11:22 Wait wait wait so this is an automatic thing? Mhm. Speaker 1 00:11:28 Yeah. Okay, so yeah, so I didn't understand. Wanted to follow up the schedule. So, um, okay, So what you're saying is So, how would it get to the point where there's a follow up email? Speaker 2 00:11:38 So, if it sees that I sent an email out to Vance, which I did two days ago, and Vance has not responded It's, it's drafting a reply to say, hey, you know, wanted to Right. Speaker 1 00:11:50 Yeah, I've heard I've heard about thisum capability, But but what I meant, I guess is, did you put the number of days for Vance to respond to that email? Yes. I see it okay. Speaker 2 00:12:04 And I put default two days because I don't want to irritate people, but I also get answers. Yes okay. And then also my meeting summaries. So this is aum this is the meeting summary from a meeting that I did yesterday evening and key decisions action items. And then. Automatically pulls up who was in that meeting? And then I hit sent once I verify it. Oh, Speaker 1 00:12:31 Okay. So that what whatum which firm or what whatum app to use for the. Speaker 2 00:12:40 So this is something I'm testing. I haven't rolled it out to the inbox tool yet. Um, it's something that I'm building out but it utilizes transcripts within my Microsoft account. So if you have turned on, it will send it out. Um, this is a feature I'm testing. It's getting there. It's not there yet, but okay. I'm testing. Speaker 1 00:13:07 Now do people always know that it's being recorded or not? Speaker 2 00:13:10 Yes, because Microsoft sets that up. So let me show you in Teams if you look in Teams itself, I am Yeah, Speaker 1 00:13:17 I mean i i I see all that. I don't always like like i would always try to record it maybe on the side. But maybe people are doing it. You know, I just want to use it for my own notes. Speaker 2 00:13:28 Yes, uh there is a feature. There's an application called Plaud. Um I use that pretty religiously. It will transcript for me on the side, no one ever sees it. Um just I'll show you the little icon. Here's a little toolum and. Speaker 1 00:13:45 You're saying it's Plaud? Speaker 2 00:13:46 Plaud P L A U D. Speaker 1 00:13:48 Oh okay P Yes. Speaker 2 00:13:51 It's a tool I have a physical device for as well. Um, because I have ADHD and it can get bad some days. Uh, I tend to need to take really good notes just to make sure with everything. So I use that in the background to help me. Speaker 1 00:14:07 Okay. How well does it do? How how well do either of those do with recognizing the name of the people? Speaker 2 00:14:15 Microsoft is on point. Uh, Claude is not as on point, But honestly, I don't need it to recognize names as long as it's bring the information. Speaker 1 00:14:26 Yeah, how accurate are the transcripts that the transcript? Speaker 2 00:14:30 Pretty accurate. Because. Speaker 1 00:14:33 I use Otter. I have it's just mixed. I don't love it. Speaker 2 00:14:37 I like Plaud better than Otter. I've tried Otter in the past, and i tried, i think it's Fireflies or something like that. Speaker 3 00:14:42 Yeah, firefly. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:14:43 Yeah Plaud. I like the best It does have a physical device, so if I am in meetings at a restaurant or if am in conference, It captures really well, even in noisy restaurants, and it's HIPAA certified, which is required for me. So because my two main clients are HIPAA. Speaker 1 00:15:03 Oh, I see. Okay. Speaker 2 00:15:04 Yeah. So I have okay, Speaker 1 00:15:05 But anyway so we got diverted some where were we? So you're you're showing me how this happens yeah Yes. Speaker 2 00:15:19 Um, So this these both are features that are going to come out in the next week or so. Um, at this point, what it's basically doing is it is doing the classification. Um, Let me show you my private Microsoft because that, that might show you a little bit better. Uh and by the way, Speaker 1 00:15:37 So do your emails automatically go into your folders or do you move them? Speaker 2 00:15:42 I set the system to I tell it Let me show you categories because that'll make sense. Here are my categories, and then move to I choose whether or not if it's this category, move folder label keep in inbox, flag for follow up archive do nothing. So I have it set. So if I want it to move to a folder, it will. These. Speaker 1 00:16:07 But as an example, if you if you changed one of those that said, move to or keep in inbox, yeah. Um, but then you wanted to change it so they all go into a folder. Do you just change this here and it just moves them automatically, or do you just search for them and then move them? Speaker 2 00:16:28 So if it's past ones, I search for them and move them. If it's future ones, I change this. Speaker 1 00:16:34 Hmm. I wonder if you could have them automatically move after like three days, five days, whatever. Speaker 2 00:16:42 That is something I'm working on because I would love that as well. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:16:46 So, I am going to work on making that as a feature, and that is actually on my roadmap for in the next month or so. That'd be great. Speaker 1 00:16:59 So it goes into your inbox, yes, and then in a couple days you know where to find it exactly. Or maybe even better yet if you've read it already, then it goes but if it has not been read. Then I don't know. Maybe it saves, maybe it moves, but it still shows has not been read exactly. You. Speaker 2 00:17:24 Can look at your rules too that you've made. So here are all the rules I've made, and you can turn it on or off. So, if you see that there's something happening and you assume it might be a rule, you can turn that off or you can delete it. So, you have the ability to go through. So that is there. And then under settings. For you, I gave you the pro version. Um, so I have it set. These are all my inboxes. I have it set to right now. Um, But because Microsoft uh needs me to reverify uh, work accounts or corporate accounts can't go in here just yet. So once it does, I'll fix it for you. Speaker 1 00:18:06 Wait wait, wait. So. What what does that mean in terms of when I can start using it? Speaker 2 00:18:11 Um, so Microsoft has is re verifying me. Uh, it takes about three days for the verification to go back through. Um, I started the verification yesterday morning. So it's yeah, Speaker 1 00:18:24 So this will be done in three days, but but but then that's what I thought now do I have to wait for you to to get it into this connected inboxes? Speaker 2 00:18:35 No once it does that you can do it. However, the way your Microsoft is set up. We just have to go in and approve the app. So, as soon as I see that's done, I'll go in and approve the app for you on your system. Okay. Um, Is there anything in here because you're technically you're my person right now, that has asked me the most? Um, now I have others that are using it right now, But is there any uh anything you want me to add that you would like to see as features? Speaker 1 00:19:10 I mean, the couple things I just mentioned to you. Yeah. Would be great. Um, Speaker 1 00:19:17 What else? Once I start playing with it, I'm sure I'll have other ideas. So you're building all this through Claude? Speaker 2 00:19:26 Uh through Claude and my own knowledge of coding. I had to brush off some coding skills from past. Yeah, uh- huh so uh so not. Speaker 1 00:19:37 Very excited to try it. Speaker 2 00:19:39 Um, Because you're my first real beta tester and the one who's asked me the most questions, I'm going to keep you on Pro forever for free. Speaker 1 00:19:47 Okay, great. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:19:48 You're welcome. But just you. Um, but if you like it once we get it out of beta, please feel free to refer more people. Speaker 1 00:19:56 Yeah, I will. How much are you charging for Pro and how much for the other one? Speaker 2 00:20:02 So for the starter, it's gonna be fifteen dollars a month. For the pro, I am thinking about thirty nine or twenty nine dollars a month. But I am gonna. I am testing it to see how much it's actually costing me. Yeah, so, I've been I've been a little uh expensive myself. So because I am testing everything. Um, but yeah I, i'm going to keep you on pro forever for free. Uh. And then as you have more ideas, please text me. Speaker 1 00:20:32 Yeah, I will for sure. Speaker 2 00:20:34 So, um, I am also doing a version where I can upload it into your Microsoft. For everyone in a company to do it, And I am going to charge either three or five thousand dollars for it because it's pretty hefty. But I am beta testing that on one client right now that's asked for they asked for a couple weeks ago. Speaker 1 00:20:57 So okay. Um, well, I'm very excited about it. Um. Yeah, I mean, I think, I think once an email has been read. If there's a folder that it goes to the folder. Speaker 2 00:21:12 Yes. That is something I desperately want to do because my inbox it needs that. Speaker 1 00:21:18 Yeah some okay Let me let me just one other question so, Something comes into your inbox, and you could automatically decide. If you if it goes automatically, if it goes automatically, You still I mean, what I told you last time is you still need to get a notification. Yes. Right on your phone and, you know on the computer. Speaker 3 00:21:49 Yes. Um okay. Speaker 2 00:21:58 Uh, one other thing I didn't tell you about. If you scroll down on settings, you get a daily briefing, a morning email. Uh huh. Gives you the day's agenda, Follow ups to do tasks. Uh, any of the inbox activity and your priorities and focus. Um so that is happening. I have not looked at it to see what it looked like for me today. Uh let me see if I can find it. Speaker 1 00:22:30 Now, in yours, when you when you get those those emails, draft emails for follow- ups. Um. Are there secondary follow- ups after that? Or does it just stay in your in your drafts? Speaker 2 00:22:48 I am going to I'm going to uh I don't want it to send, and that's for me. Speaker 1 00:22:54 Yes. Yeah. Yeah. No, I get that. Speaker 2 00:22:57 So, my plan was to have it fire in about five times unless that person responds. Yeah. So that was my plan, But I think I'm going to set it where people can choose it themselves. How many times. So here's my briefing. Speaker 1 00:23:18 Okay, so okay, so how is it getting the follow- ups? Speaker 2 00:23:25 So the follow- ups that are coming in, and this is on my Crimson one, is it just storing it in a database that says," Hey, watch for an email to come from Vance," and it'll put his email address pertaining to this subject line. Speaker 1 00:23:41 Okay, but if you don't if you didn't get an email from Vance, like I would think Vance would be listed as your follow- up right? Speaker 2 00:23:48 Yes. He's also listed on follow- ups. Speaker 1 00:23:51 I see okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:23:54 But, but the follow- up ' are from only from people that haven't re'ponded or 'omething el'e. Speaker 2 00:24:01 Um, it's only for people who haven't responded. I see okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:24:06 And does it keep aum aggregate list? Speaker 2 00:24:12 It keeps an aggregate list until that person responds, and then it removes it from the list. Speaker 1 00:24:17 Yeah okay. Right, okay well this looks great, Thank you. So, I will try on what day is it today? So, I'll try it like over the weekend. Speaker 2 00:24:34 Yes, and I'll send you an email as well. Okay. So that you have now, Speaker 1 00:24:39 Can you put your? And then how would you deal with reminding you to follow up with me? Speaker 2 00:24:47 Um, because this meeting is transcribed um, It goes into a transcription. This is something that that tool doesn't do yet. It's something that I've built. I have a transcription system that will put it on my reminders for this weekend, so let me show you what my transcription system looks like. Yeah or or that yeah So here is my yeah, Speaker 1 00:25:10 I was going to say if you could send me the transcript, that'd be great. Speaker 2 00:25:13 Yes, I'll send you the transcript. And thenum here is my transcripts suite that happens. And so. This is uh coverage and flagged. Um, So this is the things that happened on Monday because I never sent it to myself. Because I didn't really have any meetings on Monday. Speaker 1 00:25:31 Yeah, wait wait. So what is this? Speaker 2 00:25:32 This is my transcript sweep. So this is my Monday's transcripts. Um, I didn't have any meetings on Monday, so there's nothing in there, But it did check certain things that I have in there just to double to see what's going on. Um, and if it doesn't, if it sees stuff, It'll put me my follow up tasks in here and add them to my to do list. Okay. So yeah, Speaker 1 00:25:58 Great. Okay. Yeah. Okay. This looks phenomenal Thank you you Can't wait to see it. And um Yeah I'll, you know, send me the text or the email Absolutely When when you're approved. Speaker 2 00:26:12 I will And. Please if you've come up with more ideas as you're using it, please email me. Speaker 1 00:26:18 Yeah, I will for sure. Awesome. Okay. Thank you. Okay, exciting. Thanks, bye.
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05-13 Weekly Meeting: AI Security, DLP Rollout, LabRack Windows Upgrade, and Operations Updates
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-13 09:55:40 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [April] [Christi] [Sergio] [Speaker 4] [Olivia] [Anzor] [Anton] [Mike] [Vince] [Speaker 10] [Seg] [Speaker 12] [Speaker 13] [Speaker 14] [Speaker 15] [Speaker 16] ## Meeting Notes - Team Opening, Core Value, and Quote - Power restored; meeting began at 10:00 AM on May 13, 2026 (Week 20). - After-hours support primary: Jesse; backup initially Bogdan. - Core value emphasized: integrity over profit. - Quote by Bernard Baruch shared. - Help Desk: Client Feedback (JAMS) - JAMS reported multiple users view Crimson IT as significantly better than their previous IT team. - Anecdote: A squirrel damaged a home Wi‑Fi line; Sue and Charlene resolved it. - Broad appreciation expressed for the JAMS help desk team. - Account Management: AI Trends and JAMS Expansion - LabRack signed a ~$60k proposal to upgrade systems and move off Windows 10; requested white‑glove support. - AI connectors into Microsoft 365 generating tickets; flag requests to account management for security review. - Team to familiarize with AI tools (Copilot, Claude, co‑working features) and AutoElevate/admin processes for connector installs. - Ongoing ISO 27001 audit: strong performance by John, Anton, and teams; improving account outcomes. - JAMS invites Crimson to monthly “neutrals” meetings; potential added revenue and expansion. - Cybersecurity - Backup on‑call issue: Bogdan on vacation; needs reassignment. - Rolling out Fortinet “6 core” web filtering license across clients; monitor related tickets. - Busy with new audit projects. - List of Crimson IT laptops pending reboot posted; staff should reboot to complete updates. - Conclusion: Backup reassigned to Christy for this week; Jesse’s backup is Christy. - Operations - Positive performance: stability, structure, fewer fire drills; ops team tightening and improving. - Pete absent; general praise for operations. - Finance - Elisa returns May 15, 2026. - FSA renewal open; contact finance to join or for details. - Timesheet reminder: complete entries in ConnectWise and TimeNet; weekly reports depend on timely submissions. - Cutoff approaching; submit timesheets and expenses on time. - Administration - Starting computer and license count this week; coordinate for onboardings/offboardings. - Rotational power outages in parts of the Philippines due to heat; team may use backup power causing response delays. - Business Development - No major updates; a few prospects in progress with potential new clients in 1–2 months. - Projects and Change Management - Seg: Completed setup of 21 laptops for Lion; working on LabRack project; two new major projects—Maybreak and Foothill. - Julia: Project Angel Food cloud migration completed; on‑prem server disconnected and will remain onsite for a couple of weeks before decommissioning to ensure nothing is missed. - Julia: Intranet Cloud PC reprovisioning finished for 23 users; 4 additional users identified and targeted for completion this week. - Gabby: Calder’s AYP phone system—planned Friday afternoon change to bypass switch by connecting Adtran directly to fiber from MPO; aim to reduce phone downtime. - AI and DLP Training/Guidance - Christy: Turning on DLP for several clients; sensitivity labels in Word/Excel/SharePoint/OneDrive are important for AI interactions (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT). - Training next week on DLP application and a playbook for common questions (legal, HR, finance documents). - Working on templates/SOWs for HIPAA‑aligned sensitivity labels (for Sharp, AbilityFirst, Lear; guidance requested by Weingart). - Service desk impact expected to be manageable; main tickets likely about applying sensitivity labels. - AI privacy guidance: For personal AI accounts (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini), turn off “data to improve” in privacy settings; Grok does not allow disabling data sharing. - Copilot Features: - Outlook: Copilot can triage, flag emails by sender, automate common tasks (feature expanding). - Teams: Copilot “recap” with AI summaries, video/audio recaps; sharing across certain tenancies enabled. - Claude integration into Copilot chat is rolling out. - Licensing: - Copilot is a separate license; not included with E3. - Christy noted nonprofit pricing ~$24/month and an add‑on ~$30/month; Anzor clarified Copilot is separate from E3. - Culture and Activities - “Duckies” values review and recognition segment conducted. - “Two truths and one lie” activity led by Jane; outcome: her mountain climbing claim was the lie; Maggie selected for next week. 🦆 ## Next Arrangements - On‑Call Coverage and Security - [ ] Reassign backup on‑call from Bogdan; implement Christy as Jesse’s backup for the week of May 13, 2026. - [ ] Flag AI connector requests into Microsoft 365 to account management; coordinate security deployment standards. - Projects and Operations - [ ] Provide white‑glove support for LabRack’s ~$60k Windows upgrade project. - [ ] Seg team to proceed with Maybreak and Foothill projects. - [ ] Execute Calder’s AYP phone system fiber bypass on Friday afternoon, May 15, 2026, and report results. - [ ] Plan decommissioning of Project Angel Food’s on‑prem server after the observation period. - Systems and Devices - [ ] Reboot listed Crimson IT laptops to apply updates (per Anton’s post). - [ ] Complete reprovisioning for the remaining 4 Project Angel Food Cloud PC users this week. - Administration and Finance - [ ] Submit timesheets/expenses on time in ConnectWise and TimeNet before cutoff. - [ ] Coordinate with Admin for all onboardings/offboardings during the computer and license count. - AI, DLP, and Documentation - [ ] Prepare and share DLP sensitivity label templates and SOWs (Sharp priority; then AbilityFirst, Lear; share in Hudu). - [ ] Schedule and deliver next‑week DLP training and playbook for the service desk. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify Copilot licensing details and nonprofit pricing to avoid confusion; publish a standard guide on license options (E3/E5, add‑ons, costs). > 2. Document and communicate standard security review steps for AI connectors (Copilot, Claude) into Microsoft 365, including required approvals and configurations. > 3. Define the service desk workflow and escalation path for DLP‑related tickets, including sensitivity label application and exceptions for legal/HR/finance. > 4. Confirm and document the exact schedule and responsible parties for decommissioning Project Angel Food’s on‑prem server after the observation window. > 5. Provide contingency plans and communication protocols for the Philippines team during rotational power outages to manage response delays.
- Date
- May 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:29 Good Morning, all. Speaker 2 00:00:31 Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Morning. Morning. Speaker 3 00:00:44 Good morning. Speaker 3 00:01:15 It's like it's got power. Speaker 4 00:01:16 I'm telling the Filipino government. Speaker 1 00:01:20 Power is back, thank God. Oh, power is back. Okay, yeah. Speaker 3 00:03:30 I think. Speaker 4 00:04:24 Okay, it is ten AM. Good morning, everybody. Today is May thirteenth, twenty twenty six, week number twenty. The primaries for after hour support is Jesse with the backup being Bogdan. Um, core value I'd like to highlight today is integrity over profit. Everybody's pretty good about making sure we hold integrity over making money. So I am very proud of of what our team has done. Um quote of the, Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. By Bernard Baruch. And now I'll move on to team updates from each team. We'll start with Help Desk with Olivia. Speaker 5 00:05:12 Thanks, Ryan. Good morning, guys. I'm going to steal some of Mike's thunder, But so Mike had a meeting with JAMS earlier this week, and they said that multiple of their users. Let us know that we are far and away better than the previous IT team. So that is some amazing news. Specifically, A user said that a squirrel ate their home W i- Fi line and that Sue and Charlene got it working. So, that is what I call "commit and deliver." Great work, guys. And honestly, everyone who's been working on the JAMS team have been doing amazing work. So thanks guys. That's all I have. Speaker 6 00:05:52 Awesome. Look, this is amazing. Amazing update, Olivia, right? And great job team. You know, these guys just so to put things in perspective. We've tried to get them. Once we've got to the point where they almost signed the agreement. And the last second, they went with someone else weren't happy, did that to us. Second time, we were ready to sign an agreement, and they went with the other company, right? And I was trying to save the deal, and I lowered it substantially. Right, and and I was telling the CIO, Look for this kind of a pricing you are not going to get good service. He went with them anyway, and here we are. And when he came back, I've told him, I said, look, if you are coming back to me, the third time, I am not going to give you discount that I promised you the second time around. Like at this point is going to be uh the price that. Speaker 6 00:06:49 You're gonna pay for the service you deserve, and here we are. So great job, super happy to hear it. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:06:59 Awesome. Anything else, Olivia? No, Speaker 5 00:07:04 That's all on the help desk side. Okay, Speaker 4 00:07:06 Let's move to cybersecurity with Anton. Speaker 7 00:07:08 Morning everyone. First of all, I'm not sure how Bogdan gonna be a backup for on call. He's currently on his vacation this week who's running the show. Speaker 4 00:07:21 In terms of the meeting or on call? On call. Speaker 6 00:07:25 I think I lost you guys. Speaker 7 00:07:31 We just need to fix, back then for someone else to be on backup for the calls. Second part, we are actively pushing the FAN 6 core license. For all our clients, it's going to be our main service for web filtering. Just keep an eye on the new tickets, and yeah, we're pretty busy with the new audit projects. That's it from my end. Oh, by the way, I did post a list of the laptops that pending reboot for Crimson IT. So please whenever you have time just reboot your devices to get them. Speaker 7 00:08:19 Updates. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:08:23 Awesome. Thank you, Anton. So we'll be having Chris has volunteered to take up backup on call, so Chris will be backup this week. So Jesse, your backup will be Christy. Thank you so much, Christy. Next we'll move on to operations with Pete. Pete is out Okay We'll move to operations with anyone? Uh, Olivia? Speaker 6 00:08:51 On support. Uh, look, ops are amazing, right? Like you want to see the best op team right here. It's Crimson IT. We've been kicking ass and keeping clients happy. So that's all there is to it. Awesome thing. No in in realityum I I think you guys are doing an amazing job, right? So. I was sharing with Pete that my observation things are much more stable, much more structured, right? Less fire drills, right? And, it just seems the entire ops team is getting more and more tighter and tighter. Um and and better and better. So uh so so thank you. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:09:36 Thanks everyone for your good work. Next one we go to account management with Mike. Speaker 8 00:09:41 Um, I've got a couple updates. Thank you, Ryan. I'm gonna let Vince lead go first. Speaker 9 00:09:46 Right. Good morning, Crimson IT. So just a couple updates here. Uh one, I want to give everyone a heads up that LabRack just signed a huge huge proposal to upgrade all of their systems. They're finally going off of Windows 10. Um it's around a sixty k quote. So just a heads up that that's coming down the pipeline. Hopefully, everyone gives them a lot of white glove service. It's bomb, incoming, so appreciate everyone. Involved in that process. Second, just want to give everyone a reminder that again, AI is just such a huge topic right now. All the account meetings I'm sitting on, people are asking questions. So just three big points I want to call out, right? First of all is the implications on security with regards to connectors, right? So, you should see a lot of tickets start coming in people wanting to connect Claude or whatever other AI service into Microsoft 365 or some of their other services. Speaker 9 00:10:40 As soon as you see that, at least flag it. Give the heads up to the rest of the team, um, you know account management team. There's a lot of discussion around how we should secure and make sure that that's getting deployed properly. Um, Second one is just familiarize yourself with how AI tools are being utilized right now. It's not just LLM. They're starting to branch out and have co work. And you know uh, that type of thing interact with their their desktop. And third um you know where we're at with auto elevate just to make sure that. If we get to a point where we're having to, you know, get admin access to install these connectors, um that's another call out right? Cause, we want to make sure that either we've got our elevate set up for them, or we've got a process in place. So uh that's that's my side. Thank you. Speaker 8 00:11:28 Cool. Thanks Vince. And to kind of expand on what Vince was saying, Um the help desk team don't be surprised if you're starting to get more questions regarding AI. Because I am pretty sure you are going to start seeing, if you are not already, you are going to start seeing more. And thank you, Chris, for keeping up. I know t here is a lot of AI projects that are falling on your plate, so appreciate the effort. I wanted to give a quick shout out to both John and Anton and his entire team. They're doing an amazing job through this ISO twenty seven thousand one audit. It's a big deal; it's very complicated; it's very detailed, and they both have stepped up. Speaker 8 00:12:05 I honestly feel because of their efforts is a big reason why, we've been able to turn that account around. So Hannah's meetings are very short. They're to the point. They're all proactive in in um, in meeting topics and I just want to give those two a shout out. Lastly regarding the jams meetings, um yeah every single jams meeting is a positive meeting. What I wanted to share with the team is I am trying to now see if there is other increase our revenue with jams, increase our opportunities. And so. They recently asked us to to join their meetings. They're trying to be a better, I'll just let you know the way Jams works is the neutrals, who are these contractors. It's important that Jams represents well because they want these contractors to always choose Jams for these for these cases, these contracts. That's their business model. So uh, the better Jams can present themselves as an organized. Um you know a polished organization, a lot through Crimson's help. Speaker 8 00:13:02 Easier it is for them to gain more business. So the fact that they're asking us to do more work, for example, they want one of our techs to join in on a meeting, a monthly meeting with the neutrals that neutrals can just hop in. That's potential added revenue. And as they start to understand more of what Crimson can do, Um it's just going to make it easier for us to hopefully expand within Jams. And this same process applies to all of our clients. So kudos to the team Olivia, kudos to your entire team you're the bulk of Crimson so um I, Concur with what Alonzo was saying. I noticed a huge improvement in our service delivery, so great job, everybody. Speaker 4 00:13:40 Awesome, thank you so much, Mike and Vince. Next we'll move on to finance. Tony and Elisa are not here, so who would be backing up with them? Speaker 10 00:13:51 Hi it's me Ryan. Good morning everyone happy Wednesday So Elisa will be back on Friday, FSA renewal is now open. If anyone is interested to join, please reach out to us and if you want to know more about FSA, reach out to us. And just a friendly reminder regarding the timesheet. Please make sure to complete your time entries in both Connectwise and TimeNet. So just so you know, we provide a weekly report to L 10 meeting, and we would greatly appreciate it if everyone could keep their time entries updated, so we can avoid going back and forth for follow-up s. Speaker 10 00:14:27 And with that being said, cut off is approaching. Please computers and submit your timesheet and expenses on time. I know everyone is busy, But timely submission is very important, not only for finance team but for overall operations as well. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:14:43 Awesome thank you Jane next we'll move on to admin with April. Speaker 1 00:14:48 Hi good morning, everybody. Um so on the admin side, we will start computer and license count. Um, this week. So as a constant reminder, to always coordinate with us if you have onboarding and offboardings. And also just a quick update due to the intense summer heat here in the Philippines, um we've been experiencing rotational power outages in some areas. So some members of team Philippines may need to run on power backup whenever this happens, so which could cause delay in responses. So please uh your patience and understanding is much appreciated. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:15:20 Thank you, April. Next, I'll move on to new business development with Onsor. Speaker 6 00:15:26 On my side, you know, I kind of feel I've been slacking off on biz dev, spending all of my time cloud coding. So I don't have any major updates. I do have a couple of things that are cooking. We'll see nothing to report just yet. But I'm hoping to have some new clients in the next one to two months. But I don't have anything concrete to report on right now. Speaker 4 00:16:02 Awesome, thank you, Enzo. We're very excited for new business. It always makes the company grow and keeps us in jobs. Next we'll move to project slash change management. Does anybody have anything for that? Go ahead and raise your hand. Okay, let's go with Segret first. Speaker 11 00:16:19 Hi everybody, happy Wednesday. So for. Speaker 5 00:16:24 Oh sorry sec ignore me. Speaker 11 00:16:29 Sorry no worries Ollie. Anyways, yeah. So for projects, we're done withum setting up twenty one laptops for a lion finally. And then yeah, we're working on the lab rack project just in time as we finish lion. And we have. Two new major projects that we're working on, Maybreak and Foothill. So that's it for me. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:16:54 Awesome, thank you, Sig. Next we'll move on to Julia. Speaker 12 00:16:58 Hi everyone, Finally, the update we have been all waiting for Project Angel Food cloud migration is officially done Big milestone here Shout out to Kevin Thank. You Kevin The on prem server. Currently at the Project Angel Food headquarters, But it has been disconnected and will be there for a couple of weeks just before we fully decommission it, just to make sure nothing is missed. And intranet cloud PC original reprovisioning is complete for 23 users. Huge shout out to Gabby for pushing this across the finish line. We did uncover four more users. Speaker 12 00:17:43 We're going to work on them this week, so hopefully this will be done this week. So great progress across the board. Thank you. Wow. Speaker 4 00:17:53 Oh, that's amazing. Thank you, Julia. Good job everybody with those two projects. I know they were big monster projects, But I'm glad we got through them Next we'll move to Gabby. Speaker 13 00:18:03 Thank you Ryan Uh just an update on Calder's AYPum We are in regarding their phone system. Um, We were scheduled for Friday afternoon to basically um uh disconnect the adtran from the switch and connect it to a fiber cable that was run from the MPO, but not being used. So we're going to do that to bypass the switch entirely. Um and that's scheduled for Friday afternoon unless otherwise noted, But we're hoping um that can help alleviate um all these calls we've been receiving that our phone system is down. Speaker 13 00:18:41 Um, we'll keep you updated as we progress. Thank you very much. Awesome, thank you, Gabby. Next we'll move on to Christy. Speaker 2 00:18:48 Good morning, guys. Uh real quickly with the AI projects that are rolling through, we're turning on DLP for a couple of clients. Um I don't ask me to remember off the top of my head who they are. I could tell you this afternoon when I work on that pro on those projects. Butum start familiarizing yourself with uh how DLP how you can label. Documents within Word and Excel as sensitive, because these are pretty important to any AI that touches Teams files, SharePoint, OneDrive things like that. So not just Windows Copilot but also Claude and ChatGPT as well. They do all look at sensitivity labels. So if when you get time next week, I'm going to actually show you guys because I'm going to show you using Ability first. Speaker 2 00:19:34 But uh going forward, if you next week, I'll do the teaching on that. But going forward, if you guys can check out DLP and what that means for clientsum reach out to me as well. Uh it's actually one of those pretty important things that AI needs enabled, so that it doesn't pull sensitive documentation. So. Speaker 14 00:19:55 Christy I have a question for you. This is Jason. Yes. Um I'm looking at doing this for Weingart. Uh, do you have kind of a guideline for. Do you have a standard template for sensitivity labels for HIPAA compliant, you know, things that we want to look for? So as I start to plan this, these are things that we should be doing marking these documents as sensitive. Speaker 2 00:20:20 Yes. I'm working on that because Gabby and I are going to be working on DLP for Lear in the next couple of weeks. So I'm building out that template and document not just for Lear, but for a couple of HIPAA compliance as well. Including sharp and ability first. So as soon as I get those finished, I will get that over to everybody. I'll put it in who do. Speaker 14 00:20:42 And then I'm going to be uh, I'm going to have to give them a proposal for the for the for the job. So if you have kind of an SOW that I would give them, you know, We'll just use. I'll use that template send it over. And so once you've developed that, and i don't have to do it right now, butum i want to do it. Maybe after you do ability first or a Lear. Speaker 2 00:21:04 Yes, Actually I am working on that for Sharp, because Sharp needs it before anybody else. So I will get all of that over to you. Speaker 14 00:21:14 Awesome, that makes me happy. Thank you. You are welcome. Speaker 4 00:21:20 Juno, did you have anything? Speaker 15 00:21:23 Yeah, It's for Christy, just a quick one. What do what can since we're going to deploy DLPs? What, can we expect that's going to happen or what's going to be the impact on the service desk or the, you know, the service board? So are we expected to like get like more tickets, like hey email related tickets, that sort of stuff just so that you know, like a heads up for us. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:21:46 So, that's what I'm going to show you guys next week because I'm putting together a playbook for you guys of the common questions that have come over, which is mostly how do I apply sensitivity labels? Um, Two specific documents and you're going to see those come across from any legal team, HR, uh, finance, et cetera. Especially payroll because nobody wants everybody to see everybody's salaries. So uh, you'll see those come through, but I need to get it turned on for a client so that I can properly show you guys how to do it. So I'm going to show everybody that next week. You're not going to expect too much. It's, it's not going to be too bad and it's not scary I promise. So. Speaker 2 00:22:25 Uh, Sharp actually has it turned on already. So okay, good. But today's training is going to be on AI when it's time for that. And so I'll let Ryan have the floor back. Speaker 4 00:22:38 Right back to you for training then. Speaker 2 00:22:41 Okay, uh Good morning. Um A lot of our clients are choosing what uh AI platforms to use. And so we've got a mix coming through of Copilot and Claude. With ones and twos of OpenAI, and so with a lot of Claude and Copilot in OpenAI, they're going to be attaching more and more into Microsoft. And, the security for accounts that are for business accounts is automatically going to turn off sharing. So security is going to be good in that area. A lot of the questions I am seeing come through is how do I secure my own AI that I use personally? Speaker 2 00:23:21 And so those are the questions I am getting asked a lot right now. And the biggest thing is all accounts. So besides your business accounts and your team's accounts, all accounts that are personal within Open AI or Claude or Gemini, You can go into security or privacy settings, and you can tell it to not help improve Open AI or not help improve Claude. The only AI The only AI out there currently, out of the big names, is Grok. Grok you cannot turn off that feature; it's automatically going to share your data. So if you guys get those questions coming through for clients, you can walk them through it. But if they ask about Grok, which we've actually had a couple clients want to know about Grok, It does not allow you to turn off that privacy setting or turn on that privacy setting. So just a heads up; I wanted to mention that. And then lately we've had a lot of people going. Speaker 2 00:24:18 And really looking into Copilot because Copilot is making a lot of changes. So I'm going to share my screen real, quick and I'm going to go over the biggest features right now in Copilot, Just so that you guys can see it because I know it's been a while since a lot of you have seen Copilot. One of the biggest ones in here is going to be Copilot and Outlook where it's going to if it's not turned on for a company, it is going to be turned on eventually. And it's going to allow you to triage email in Outlook. And. So it's going to be one of the biggest time savers on the list. This, as soon as it hits, the news is going to clients are going to start asking for this. But basically, what you can now do is tell Copilot chat in Outlook to do things that you click through manually. So if I wanted to flag every email that Anzor sends to me, all I have to do is ask Copilot flag all un well, first I got a spell. Speaker 2 00:25:16 Like all unread emails from Onsor. And it's going to start doing that. Now, this not, this out, it's still semi-beta but just a heads up. It's going to go in and take a look at them. It found five emails from Onsor, but none of them are currently marked as unread. So good news for Onsor I actually read his emails. But you'll see this go in here. Speaker 2 00:25:46 And, he, it's going to ask you which direction do we want him for him now since there's no emails unread, look for emails from Pete that are unread. So this this the fun I have in the mornings when I come in, because sometimes on tour, he gets a wild hair, especially when he gets excited about uh Claude code. He's just like me and we get very, very excited easily about things like this. So, when I wake up in the morning, and I know he's been awake during the night solving world domination problems that I'm having with my minions, I'm going to instantly check Outlook to see did he send me anything? Is he still excited today as he was yesterday? Nine times out of 10, yes, he is. But usually it's a Teams message I'll get. But honestly you can go in there and you can tell things in here. Speaker 2 00:26:42 You know how to do things. And, this going to be something that I find useful every day, and our clients are going to find useful. So Josh Sims is looking for stuff like this that happens, you know, a lot of our clients are. So just a quick heads up on that. Now, the next thing I want to show you guys, because this a big one too, is in Teams, and Copilot chat is now everywhere in Teams. But one of the features, if they have Copilot that you want to be aware of is the recap function. Words are hard today, guys, bear with me. Your recap function is actually pretty cool. It now automatically with facilitator puts everything into a loop. You also can view recap and bear with me, guys, because I'm going to share my audio. You now have AI summary. Speaker 2 00:27:40 And, there is two parts to this, because uh, my computer decided to die on me in the middle of the training. But you can go in here and now look at video recap. So I'm going to play this. As annoying as I don't like my voice, what's on my screen when I opened Word, So now it has the video recaps, and you can actually send those out. I actually had one client found this very interesting. Um, I did send them a copy of this. So just a quick heads up, it's everywhere in Teams now. Microsoft is really pushing out AI. Um, they can go through, they can do an audio recap and hear the audio recap on it. Um, you can share out things now within certain clients. You can share across different tenancies within Microsoft. Speaker 2 00:28:36 So be aware of this. And if you do still have Copilot, play around with it. If you have clients asking about Copilot, Send them my way because these are new features that are hitting the news soon. I don't want to take up too much time because I know you guys like the Duck Race better than me. Speaker 14 00:28:55 One question about Copilot. So when we purchase the license, you know a company has a license, I think it comes with E 3 is that right? Speaker 14 00:29:06 Do are there guardrails in place to protect company data? So it's not being shared outside? I think is really my main question. Or do we have to does Crimson have to go in and help our client configure that? And if so, are there standards? Speaker 2 00:29:20 So I'm going to open up this is Copilot automatically. I'm going to open this up. If you see the green shield, it's automatically turned on never to share data for Copilot. Okay. Um if they get a business account of OpenAI, Uh, Claude, it's automatically turned for privacy. It's only personal accounts we want to worry about this. Um, What the biggest things are, if you want to protect data within the company is going to be DLP. And turning on DLP. Uh, Hipaa for HIPAA clients, they want to go ahead and turn on uh DLP. They also want to turn on PHI um and different things like that. So those are the things I'm going to get over to you, what that template looks like. But. Speaker 2 00:30:04 In here, it is going to automatically be turned on. Also, guys, by the way, I almost forgot this. Claude is now in chat and it's going to start being default soon. So just a quick heads up for you guys that Claude is now going into Copilot. Speaker 6 00:30:28 And also Copilot license is not included. That's a separate license. You don't get it with E 3. Speaker 2 00:30:38 E 7 is the automatic one, But you can add it on with a$ 30 and it's$ 24 for our nonprofits per month. Speaker 6 00:30:51 Okay, we have four minutes left. Let's keep on rolling. Speaker 4 00:30:54 Awesome Let's move to the Duckies with Christian. Speaker 4 00:31:01 Let me know if you see my screen. Yep. Speaker 3 00:31:05 Perfect, let's start. Speaker 16 00:31:31 Power on, commit and deliver. Always friendly. We do the right thing. Integrity over profit. Exercise extreme ownership in all that we do. Awesome! And example, our security team is driving by doing the right thing, we own our client's safety of work. Tired, tired. Let's see to protect it. Speaker 6 00:32:05 Awesome. You know, best way to say I am so awesome. My team is awesome and I'm awesome. Great job, Sarah here. I love it. You guys do you do do a great job? Thank you Good job Sarah Yeah That's not an easy job Okay. Speaker 4 00:32:21 Next we'll move to two truths and one lie. Speaker 10 00:32:27 It's Jane Yeah It's me. So let's just make it quick. We don't have much time. So first, uh, I have a arachnophobia. Second, I'm not pregnant. And third, I love mountain climbing. So I was able to climb mountains before joining Crimson IT five mountains. So that's it. Speaker 6 00:32:50 What was the first Jane? I didn't get the first one. Speaker 10 00:32:52 I have a arachnophobia. Speaker 6 00:32:54 Oh arachnophobia. Okay, okay, afraid of uh yeah she's not pregnant. Speaker 4 00:32:59 If You think the first one is a lie, which is arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, please raise your hand. Speaker 15 00:33:07 Who else is not pregnant at this point? Oh my god. Speaker 4 00:33:11 Um and now raise your hand if you think or Jane being pregnant is a lie. Speaker 10 00:33:18 No I'm not I'm not pregnant. Speaker 4 00:33:20 Oh the lie is that she's not Are you? Speaker 10 00:33:24 I am not. Let me tell you, Speaker 4 00:33:28 I am not. That's the truth. Speaker 15 00:33:31 Is this a tradition now? Oh my god. Speaker 4 00:33:34 And, then the third one is that she is a hiker, and she has hiked a mountain before coming to join us as an IT team. Speaker 15 00:33:44 I am gagging Awesome, Speaker 4 00:33:46 Go ahead and enlighten us, Jane So the last one is right, The last one is the lie. Great job, everybody. Okay, go ahead and pick somebody for next week. I am not pregnant, okay? Go ahead and pick somebody for next week. Speaker 10 00:34:06 Okay, Maggie. Speaker 4 00:34:09 So it'll be Maggie next week. Speaker 1 00:34:11 Maggie's not pregnant next week, okay? Speaker 9 00:34:17 You have seven days to change that pregnancy, Thank you. Speaker 4 00:34:24 That is ten thirty, everybody. Thank you so much for your time. Oh, sorry, Speaker 6 00:34:28 Go ahead. No, no, I was just going to say where is the HR here? Okay, all right folks, let's make it a great day. Speaker 1 00:34:38 Thanks guys. Thanks everybody have a. Speaker 3 00:34:40 Good one Bye bye.
07-21 Meeting: Invoice and Billing Process Review
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- > Date: 2026-07-21 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Invoice and Billing Process Review - Christi will take on several billing tasks to reduce Sergio's workload. - Crimsons billing is due by the first of the month and will be submitted on time. - After Crimsons, she will complete the AbilityFirst billing. - SCHARP billing is managed weekly. - Christi's administrative team already accesses NetworkSolutions to retrieve invoices. - Invoices for "Denny's" are currently paid by credit card and mailed in; Christi requested to keep this process as is since she already approves them. - Christi will contact Telesystems regarding their invoices. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Send over relevant documents for Christi to review. - [ ] Clarify the specific information needed from NetworkSolutions; then Christi to obtain it and their invoices. - [ ] Christi to contact Telesystems. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The specific details of the "Denny's" invoices and why they are sent by Denny were mentioned but not fully clarified. The agreement to "keep it that way" lacks a formal decision record. > 2. The exact nature of the information needed for NetworkSolutions was not specified in the discussion. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Short invoice/billing logistics call: Crimson invoice hard deadline (1st), AF invoice after Crimson.
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- Jul 21, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:05 Is. No, Speaker 2 00:00:15 Um, you were cutting in and out, but I think I understood for the most part. And then if I get stuck, I can always go back and look at previous ones or just give you a call. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:00:52 Oh. Oh, perfect. Speaker 2 00:00:58 Okay. No worries. Yes. Speaker 2 00:01:30 Mhm. No worries. Yeah, And it's actually the sixth this perfect timing because Crimsons is due by the first, no exceptions. We can't go in after the first. So I'll get Crimsons in and then I'll finish up AbilityFirst. Um SCHARP is every week so. Speaker 2 00:01:58 Just send them over and and I'll log in take a look at everything. And then I'll get you that uh I'll get you that information um for NetworkSolutions I'll get those invoices because I know that my admin team can pull it. Speaker 1 00:02:29 Mhm. If. Speaker 2 00:02:43 Those are getting mailed in, but they're actually being put on the credit card? Uh. Okay. Um. Speaker 2 00:02:58 I believe so. And these are the ones that Denny's sends me, right? Okay. Can we keep it that way? Okay. Yes, so I'm already approving those. Speaker 2 00:03:27 Yeah. Got it. Okay, on those, that's fine. Uh, if we can keep sending them the way we are and then I'll talk to Telesystems. So, all right well hopefully that takes a little bit of load off you. No worries and the admin team, my admin team's already logging into NetworkSolutions to pull that invoice. So. Speaker 2 00:03:59 All right, thanks. I got to jump into another meeting, but thank you. You too. Bye.
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04-24 Pulong Lingguhan: Spares Policy, UBI Automation, at Agarang Laptop Procurement para kay Paula
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- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-04-24 18:36:10 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Mga Tala ng Pulong - Patuloy na isyu sa “shit.js” at Sapphire - Binanggit ang paulit-ulit na problema sa paggamit ng “shit.js” para sa photo extraction. - Walang malinaw na desisyon o solusyon na naabot sa isyung ito. - Pagkilala sa mga inisyatiba at posibleng banggit sa call - [Speaker 2] nagbigay ng feedback na “great work” sa mga inisyatiba, kabilang ang gamit ng Claude at monthly computer grant. - Nabanggit ang plano na i-mention ang progreso sa call sa 2026-04-29 (Miércoles) kung papayagan. - Binanggit si Marvin para sa inisyatiba sa pagbawas ng manual work sa computer account, malaking tulong sa admin. - Unified Billing Intake (UBI) at automation ng RMM device count sa ConnectWise Agreements - UBI ay in progress; target na ma-automate ang RMM device count sa susunod na billing cycle. - Tanong kung paano iha-handle ang “spares” sa automation. - Panukalang patakaran sa “spares” mula kay Anzor - Para sa maliliit na kumpanya (~50 devices): 2 libreng spares; ibabawas 2 sa invoicing bilang discount. - Para sa malalaking kliyente (100+ devices): 5 libreng spares; kung lampas, tanungin ang client kung magbabayad o i-remove ang agent/tools. - Kailangan ng sign-off sa finalized process at internal alignment bago implementasyon. - May existing email thread; tatawag pa kina Mike at Pete para ma-relay sa clients at ma-smoothen ang proseso. - Urgent: Laptop para kay Paula (taga-Cavite), start date 2026-05-18 - Lenovo website may additional 1 linggo lead time kapag outside Metro Manila. - Prefer ni Pete na hindi ma-delay; gusto niyang all set ang laptop sa start date. - Option 1: Gumamit ng personal credit card ni Christian at reimbursement; Option 2: Cash advance kung walang budget/credit. - Alternatibo: Bumili sa mall para same-day o mas mabilis kung Lenovo lead time ay matagal. - Inaantay ang confirmation ni Paula sa preferred delivery address. - [Speaker 2] magse-send ng approved specs at amount kay Christian. - Target na ma-deliver bago o sa 2026-05-18; masaya kung ma-deliver sa linggo kapag available. - Misc: Guidance at tooling steps - May usapan sa “artifact,” “device inventory,” at pag-click/pag-select sa system; tila troubleshooting at navigation instructions. - Walang formal na konklusyon; pansamantalang na-interrupt para tawagan si Mike. ## Mga Susunod na Ayos - [ ] Ihanda, i-finalize, at magpa-sign-off sa spares policy (2 free para ~50 devices; 5 free para 100+), kasama ang discount handling sa invoicing. - [ ] Mag-set ng internal alignment call kasama sina Mike at Pete; i-relay ang spares policy sa clients pagkatapos ng sign-off. - [ ] I-design at i-document ang workflow kung paano ibabawas ang free spares sa invoicing (RMM count → Agreement → Invoice). - [ ] I-set up at i-rollout ang automation ng RMM device count sa ConnectWise Agreements para sa susunod na billing cycle; magtalaga ng owner at timeline. - [ ] Kumuha ng confirmation mula kay Paula sa preferred delivery address; magtakda ng cutoff para fallback (mall purchase) kung ma-delay. - [ ] Ipadala kay Christian ang approved laptop specs at amount. - [ ] Mag-check si Christian sa mall by 2026-04-25 para sa mabilis na procurement; mag-decide sa reimbursement o cash advance. - [ ] Siguraduhing ma-deliver ang laptop ni Paula bago o sa 2026-05-18 (ok ang weekend delivery kung available). - [ ] [Ilagay pa] ## Mga Mungkahi ng AI > Mga Mungkahi ng AI > Napansin ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyung hindi naresolba sa pulong o kulang sa malinaw na action items; paki-bigyan ng pansin: > 1. Hindi pa final ang spares policy at walang nakatalagang responsible owner at due date para sa sign-off at implementation. > 2. Walang dokumentadong proseso kung paano eksaktong ibabawas ang free spares sa invoicing (workflow sa RMM count vs. agreement vs. invoice). > 3. Risk ng delay sa laptop ni Paula kung hindi agad makuha ang delivery address; magtalaga ng cutoff at fallback (mall purchase). > 4. Walang malinaw na timeline at owner para sa UBI automation rollout sa susunod na billing cycle. > 5. Patuloy na isyu sa “shit.js” at Sapphire para sa photo extraction; kailangan ng root-cause analysis at alternatibong solusyon.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Using shit.js na naman. Extract photo. Ayun na naman yung magiging problema ata. Speaker 1 00:00:08 Yung Sapphire. Shit.js. Speaker 1 00:00:19 Asin asin. Anna, may balita ka bang dalang April? Speaker 2 00:00:22 Oo, kaya ako nag-join. Speaker 1 00:00:26 Maganda ba yan? Or ano? Speaker 2 00:00:28 First. Great work out. Additional trabaho. Hindi. Minention ko lang, Yung initiative nyo. Lalo na sa'yo, Marvin. Yung sa Claude, And the monthly computer grant. That's so great daw. Ganto-ganyan. So, Okay lang ba? I-mention ko rin to, Sa Wednesday call Next week. Speaker 1 00:00:46 Kikiligid yan, Syempre. I only accept Spot bonus, Ka. Speaker 2 00:00:52 Specify ko ba, During the call? Speaker 2 00:00:56 So, Ayun, Great work daw na Nagkakaroon ng progress, Blah, blah, blah. So, sabi ko, This will really be a big help And yun nga, Sabi ko, Many thanks to Marvin For, you know, Taking the initiative nga, Na malesan yung manual work Natin sa computer account, Kasi yun yung isang mga Major pain ni admin. Speaker 2 00:01:14 And then, Sabi ko din, Ano pa ba? Ah, Yung sa UBI, Yung nabanggit ko sa inyo Ng Unified Billing Intake. Sabi ko, In progress naman din siya. So, hopefully, by next Billing is, yun nga, Ma-automate na yung si RMM device, Count with ConnectWise Agreements. And then, may sinabi, Pala sa akin si Anzor regarding spares Kasi naalala nyo, diba, sabi mo, Christian, Sa spares, nasa RMM pa din. Ang sabi ni Anzor, Kausapin mo sila, Olivia, Speaker 2 00:01:46 Na ganito ang magiging Setup natin for, Any small Um, um, Companies, like let's say may 50 devices sila, 2 lang doon is free for free spare. So, ang mangyayari, ima minus 2 na lang natin sa invoicing kasi lalabas doon, di ba, kung ano yung count sa RMM, yung lalabas sa agreement and sa invoice. So, mag-discount na lang tayo every time ng 2 spares na free. Pag malalaking kliyente, like 100 and up, 5 spares daw ang free. Speaker 2 00:02:20 If mag-exceed doon, Kailangan itanong si client Kung magbabayad ba kayo Or ng additional Or i-remove na lang yung tools natin, Yung agent natin. Speaker 2 00:02:33 So, yun yung sabi ni Anzor. Kasi sabi ko, Nabanggit ko kasi na, Okay, sige, ma-automate nga, Pero paano yung mga spares? Paano ang gagawin natin doon? So, yun namin, sabi na lang niya, Minusan nyo na lang sa ano, Doon sa, I-adjust nyo na lang. Pasign-off mo. Speaker 1 00:02:50 Problema yan. Pasign-off nyo yung process pag na-finalize Para at least, May document kayo. Speaker 2 00:02:57 Mag-cocall pa naman with Mike, Pete, kasi kailangan nila Itong i-relay sa, I-relay nga muna sa, I-relay sa clients Regarding dito. Siyempre, Pag-usapan pa internally. Paano ma-smoothen Out yung process. Hindi naman agad-agad Nating i-implement yan. Pero ayun nga, nagkaroon na ng Email thread Regarding dun sa spares na yan. Para at least, yun nga. And once and for all, Ma-address na rin siya. Speaker 2 00:03:28 And then, Maggie, Christian, kailangan ko ng help nyo With Paula's, Laptop. Kasi Maggie, diba, Yung lead time niya sa Lenovo website, Is pag outside, Metro Manila. Taga-Kavite Kasi siya eh. So, additional one Week. Tama? So, Christian, sabi ni Nabanggit ko kasi na taga-Kavita Si Paula. Taga-Kavita ka din. Baka, sabi niya, Baka pwede mo naman pakiusapan, Si Christian. Either kung may. Speaker 2 00:03:58 Credit card kayo naman. Ano ba nga sabi niya? I don't know if he's willing to do it. Pero sabi ko, I will make him do it. Speaker 2 00:04:09 Sabi ko, I will make him do it. Wala lang choice. Speaker 1 00:04:13 May papogi kayo. Go lang. Speaker 2 00:04:15 So, ayun, sabi ko... Speaker 1 00:04:17 May discard talaga yung gamitin namin. Wala na lang kami panggagamit sa May. Speaker 2 00:04:21 Hindi, wait lang. Ganto lang kasi. Christian! Makinig ka muna kasi. So, eh... Pagkain mo. At ganyan ka rin sa pali. Ba't nabusin mo muna ako? So, eto nga. Eto kasi. Kung meron ka naman daw spare or... Budget for credit card ang gamitin mo, Pwede naman. So, reimbursement na lang. Kung wala, Kailangan magpap-approve tayo Ng cash advance. So, sedis ang, Kakausapin natin. Kung how much? Kasi, tumingin ka na lang, Sa mall para mabilis. Speaker 2 00:04:52 Kasi ayaw ni Pete na Madi-delay na naman. Isa yun sa mga nagpapapiss off, Daw sa kanya. So, ayaw Niya ng Dapat all set na, Sa start date pa lang ni Paula. Speaker 1 00:05:04 Kailan yung start date? Speaker 2 00:05:06 May 18. So, mag-check ka na as early as tomorrow. Speaker 1 00:05:10 Pwede masaya sila kapag ma-deliver na sa linggo. Speaker 2 00:05:13 Oo naman. Sabihan ko na. Speaker 1 00:05:15 Mag-picture pa. Gusto mo mag-picture pa kami? Hindi. Ako na mag-deliver. Speaker 1 00:05:21 Para may proof. May nakakainis, di ba? Yung peace-off pa siya. Hindi naman sa atin yung delay. Speaker 2 00:05:27 Hindi yun. Na-peace-off siya kay Yanis. Eh, si Sharma na nag-order nun. Dahil siya ang may Nagsabi siya na sige ako na order Eh siya lang Nag-handle. So sabi niya, Yun ang gusto lang daw sana niya Pag may mga nag-start is Ma-bigay na agad Yung laptop. Speaker 1 00:05:51 Kailan kung pwede nabigay? Speaker 2 00:05:51 Kasi sa mall na lang tayo lagi, no? Oo, wala talaga. Kasi kung gano'n talaga yun. Speaker 1 00:05:58 Kapag wala dito sa Luzon. Speaker 2 00:05:60 Pero kasi, Mas cheaper syempre dun sa Lenovo, Diba? Pero mag-rebase tayo sa lead time. Kung makikita natin na Same day delivered, Oh, why not, diba? Pero kung talagang matatagalan, And magkakosya ng delay, Eh, Mag-mall na. Doon na lang sa, Ano, Sa mall na lang tayo. Kailan yung, Speaker 1 00:06:18 Kung may 18, Kailan ko siya pwedeng i-deliver? Speaker 2 00:06:22 Pag na, Ano, As early as makuha muna, Inantay lang namin yung Confirmation niya dun sa, Laptop. Preferred niyang delivery address eh. So, hindi ko siya nagre-reply. Speaker 1 00:06:33 Ah, so as soon as Makuha yun. Speaker 1 00:06:37 Send ko sa'yo yung approved, Specs, Christian. At amount. Yun, sige. Yun na lang. Payo mo na. Speaker 1 00:06:50 Asan na? Ah, yun. I-cape mo muna yung Artifact. I-cape mo muna yung artifact. Eto nga, ba? Nasaan yung artifact mo? Eto? Click mo na nga yan! Oo, yung artifact na yun, hindi yan kasi yung... Ay naku... Eto nga, oo, yun nasa chat mo. Sa baba, ayun na. New visitor. Sorry, hindi nga. Ito, device inventory, click and select. Oo nga, ayun naku. Speaker 1 00:07:21 Okay. Sige, yun lang yung ano. Baka ako nalang din. Sa Imus ba siya? Speaker 2 00:07:32 Ano nga, Maggie? Sorry, wait lang. Balikan ko yun. May error ulit. Ayun dyan muna kayo. Call ko lang si Mike. Thanks, guys. Screenshot muna.
04-28 Empowering Team Self-Sufficiency: A Case of Mistaken Tool Identity and Strategic Mentorship
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-  ## Core Synopsis A team member required a tool to collect T-shirt sizes for an "Appreciation T-shirts" initiative, but was unable to locate the survey previously created by a colleague named Lorenzo. The initial assumption was that the survey was built in Zoho Desk, but after a screen share, it was identified as a Google Form. The conversation pivoted from searching for an old artifact to empowering the team member to create a new one themselves, a decision that trades a few minutes of direct intervention for long-term team self-sufficiency. This minor operational hiccup reveals a dependency on a single individual for simple tasks and highlights an opportunity to decentralize basic tool proficiency. ## The Problem-Solution Flow ### 1. The Operational Gap A request was made to create a survey to collect T-shirt sizes from users. A team member was struggling to fulfill this, initially searching through email inboxes for a previous example created by another colleague, assuming it was a proprietary or complex tool. ### 2. The Diagnostic & Correction - **Initial Hypothesis**: The original survey was created using Zoho Desk. - **Correction**: Upon screen sharing, the survey was immediately identified as a standard Google Form. - **Root Cause**: The team member lacked familiarity with common, free-to-use form-building tools, leading to unnecessary search and dependency. ### 3. The Strategic Response: Teach vs. Do The immediate choice was between the lead creating the form for the team member (a quick fix) or teaching the team member how to do it. The lead chose the latter, directing the team member to Google Forms and explaining its similarity to Microsoft Forms. This decision prioritizes capability-building over task completion, aiming to make the team's "lives a whole lot easier" in the future by fostering independence. ## Next Move **@Speaker 1's Colleague** - [ ] Create the T-shirt size survey using Google Forms - [TBD] - [ ] Send the form to the appropriate users - [TBD] - [ ] Get back to Speaker 1 with an update - [TBD]
- Date
- Apr 28, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 The song was written by the band's frontman, Chris Martin. Hi, how are you doing? Hello. Hey, how are you not? I uh yeah today. So, you want to create things. I want to help you create things. So they're creating some kind of survey, right? You got shorts on speaker. Tom? Okay, so you want to create a survey. Yep. Cause they're trying to create, They're trying to collect the information from the users about what size shirt they wear. Oh, that's an easy one. Okay. Here is my opinion. Here it is right here. Yeah, yeah. Let's. Speaker 1 00:01:02 Let's do this. Read some poems. Someone feel someone. I think this was a Lorenzo one that he made. Yeah. You made it with Zoho Desk from what I from what I can see. Uh, this one right here? I can't see your screen. You can't see my screen? Why can't you see my screen? Um, hold on. There it is. Okay, uh, what does it say? Let's get you fitted. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, that's a that's That's Google Forms. Oh, appreciation T-shirts. Yeah. So he made this in Google Forms, but you can do the exact same thing. So you're just going to go to Google Forms. And you're going to create a blank form or take any one of these templates. And um. You can go in here and just. Speaker 1 00:02:00 Make it into a form and have it sent. To you, or to whomever. Yeah. Uh, can can we get her on a call? Yeah, I can. I can call her. Can you call her and then, well, let's do this. Send her a Teams invite meeting for right now. See if she can jump on that for us, and I'll walk her through how to do it. I'll walk her through how to create it. Oh, oh okay. Um, hang on just a minute. Unless you unless you want to, uh teach her or figure it out yourself and then go. Yeah, I was I was just gonna create it for her, but um, I can I can um, I know you're busy. So I could show her how to do it. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:58 Go for it. Play around in it. It's just like Microsoft Forms, so and they can yeah, It's going to make their lives a whole lot easier if they do it themselves. All right. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. All right. Okay. I'll go and jump on it right now. All right, sorry, I looked all in his inbox and mine and nothing. Yeah, I figured it was something that he did some other way. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:03:28 Okay, cool. I'll talk to you guys later. Anything else that you guys need from me? I'd rather work on your stuff and. The mountain of things that's in my task list. Okay, no problem. Um, have you guys seen my new task list? It is crazy. No, I haven't looked at it. Yeah, I'm sure he's been in it. I work on. I looked at it this morning, and there was a hundred and there's my task list. Now, some of this is completed. And it just keeps going. But it's only a few that's in yellow that say completed. There's a lot of stuff pending. Yeah, don't remind me. Alright, well, I'll show her and then um I'll get back to you. Okay, awesome. Bye. Alright. Thanks. Speaker 1 00:04:26 Okay.
04-21 Procurement of High-Performance Cloud PC License Blocked by Purchasing Model Uncertainty
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- ## Core Synopsis A request has been initiated to procure a new, higher-specification Cloud PC license to support a specific user need. The procurement process is currently blocked pending clarification on the vendor's purchasing model. The team is trying to determine if it's possible to acquire a single, high-performance license ($133/month) on a month-to-month basis, diverging from a potential annual commitment model associated with existing, lower-tier licenses ($66/month). The immediate goal is to enable rapid, flexible provisioning without getting locked into a long-term contract for a single-user requirement. ## Procurement Request: High-Performance Cloud PC ### 1. The Need (Problem) A user or project requires computing resources exceeding the current standard Cloud PC license. A more powerful configuration is needed to proceed. ### 2. The Solution (Options) The team has identified two distinct license tiers for Cloud PCs: - **Standard Tier (Existing)**: - **Specs**: Not explicitly stated, but inferred as lower than the requested tier (Anzor mentions "8 CPUs" for the new one, implying the old one is less). The transcript notes "those licenses are for CPUs," then provides specs for the existing plan: 16 GB RAM, 128 GB storage. The CPU count is ambiguous but the request for "8 CPUs" for the new plan clarifies the upgrade. - **Cost**: $66/month. - **Performance Tier (Proposed)**: - **Specs**: 8 CPUs, 32 GB RAM, 128 GB storage. - **Cost**: $133/month. ### 3. The Blocker (Dilemma) The primary uncertainty is the purchasing model. The requester needs to know if the desired $133 Performance Tier license can be purchased on a flexible, month-to-month basis. This contrasts with a potential annual commitment which might be the default for the existing licenses. The objective is to acquire just one license for immediate assignment without a long-term financial obligation. ## Next Move **@April**: - [ ] Investigate and confirm if the $133 Cloud PC license (8 CPUs, 32 GB RAM) can be purchased on a month-to-month basis - [TBD] - [ ] Report findings back to Anzor - [TBD]
- Date
- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hi, Andor. April. Yep. Hey, So um we need to buy. Um can you find out? Um there is a cloud PC license that we can buy for intranet I think they have bunch of them uh already. And I think those licenses are for CPUs. Sixteen gig of RAM, hundred twenty eight gigabyte um storage. Okay. Uh, we want and it costs sixty six dollars. Mhm. We want to uh have at least one license, And I need to know is this month to month? Or is that like an annual purchase Like? Ideally, we could get one month to month for. Speaker 1 00:00:58 A computer that run for um thirty two gig of RAM, eight CPUs, hundred twenty eight gigabytes. It's a hundred thirty three dollar plan. Can we get one license on a monthly basis? Uh so I can assign it to the account. Monthly basis okay I'll go ahead and check and we'll let you know. You are the best thank you. Okay. Thanks, Azar. Bye.
04-16 Weekly Meeting: New Triage System Go-Live Decision
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- > Date: 2026-04-16 16:28:35 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Olivia] [Sergio] [Pete] [Anzor] [Speaker 5] ### Meeting Notes #### **Update on a Support Request from Sam Eldridge** - Olivia reported that Sam Eldridge said Claude was "missing" from a computer and needed it re-downloaded. - The team was already addressing it, but the response took nine minutes. - This delay was noted because Sam typically escalates to the next person if she doesn't receive a response within five minutes. - The team also noted that Minty, who usually handles these emails, is on vacation. #### **Overview and Go-Live Decision for the New Triage System** - Pete convened the meeting to review the new triage system and set a launch date. - Anzor outlined the current two-step ticket assignment process: Triage and Dispatch. - New tickets from help@crimsonit.com go to the "triage" board. - The "Thread" application currently assigns priority, type, and status. - A separate application, "Smart Dispatch," then assigns the pre-processed ticket to a technician. - The new application developed by Anzor and Christy will replace Thread. - It uses rule-based logic and AI to triage tickets more effectively. - It has been running in shadow mode with better results than Thread, reducing manual touchpoints. - Anzor confirmed multiple fallback plans. The new system can be disabled with a flip of a switch, and Sue and Olivia can manually monitor the queue if needed. #### **New Triage System Features and Launch Plan** - The new system includes enhanced rules based on feedback from Anton. - Rules can be set based on subject line, company, or sender. - Conditions can be stacked (e.g., if sender is X AND company is Y). - Anzor is still completing the production view for the dispatcher, but the core logic is ready. - The team discussed launch timing: today, tomorrow, or Monday. - Launching today at 5:00 PM was preferred to avoid weekend ticket buildup and Monday’s high volume. - This timing lets Anzor troubleshoot issues without impacting production hours. - **Conclusion**: The team agreed to launch the new triage system today at 5:00 PM. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Anzor will launch the new system at 5:00 PM. - [ ] Olivia will show Anzor how to turn Thread on and off before she leaves. - [ ] Confirm whether Olivia or Sue will stay online with Anzor to monitor the launch. - [ ] The designated person (Olivia or Sue) will monitor the system with Anzor from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM to ensure it works correctly. - [ ] Jason will send a test ticket for a "door replacement" for Weingart after launch to validate handling. - [ ] Anzor will meet Jason tomorrow morning at HQ to discuss Jason’s specific use cases for the new system. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The meeting ended with either Olivia or Sue assisting with monitoring, but it was not decided who. Confirm this before the 5:00 PM launch. > 2. Anzor noted the "production view is still not done." The impact of this incomplete UI on dispatcher workflows post-launch was not discussed.
- Date
- Apr 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:28 Afternoon. Hey guys. Hi. Hi, Chris, if Sam reached out to you, did she? Speaker 1 00:00:37 Which Sam? Sam Eldridge, Sam. Uh, I've not seen. Speaker 2 00:00:44 An email from her. Speaker 1 00:00:46 Okay, well just in case she did, we're already on top of it. But, you know, if she doesn't get a response within five minutes, What's going on? Goes to the next person. I was just saying if if Sam reaches out to you, we're already working on it on her request. Okay F Y I. Speaker 3 00:01:07 Who's Sam? Speaker 1 00:01:08 From Eldridge. Speaker 3 00:01:10 What's her request? Speaker 1 00:01:13 Claude went missing from somebody's computer, is what she says. So she needs Claude downloaded. But if I don't, if we don't respond within five minutes, she'll go to Christie. So that's why I was telling Chris it took us nine minutes to respond. Speaker 3 00:01:31 So ridiculous they are that they are so Eldridge, They're so ridiculous. It is ridiculous. And Paul, and you know what? Then Paul will email me and say, It took five minutes for somebody to respond, and we need we need a backup. Speaker 4 00:01:48 Yep. Is that why I was because Minty is out? Speaker 1 00:01:53 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Anser used to get the emails about me. So if I didn't respond. Speaker 4 00:01:59 So yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. Ohum Minty is a lifesaver. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:02:05 Yeah, I'm like, please come back. Speaker 4 00:02:07 We should tell her she can't take vacations anymore. Speaker 1 00:02:10 We say that every year and then we still allow her to go on vacation. Speaker 4 00:02:14 I know. I know. All right. Okay, soum yeah, I i'm not sure if Anton is going to join. I did talk to him uh was he invited? Is he? Yeah Oh there he is. Speaker 3 00:02:32 There's the man with the plan Perfect. Speaker 4 00:02:35 Okay, so Pete, you called the meeting. How do you want to run it? Speaker 3 00:02:41 I just wanted you to be able to show or tell quickly what the what the triage was going to do for people like Jason. Since you've already talked to Anton, I guess you don't really have to tell him. So maybe just briefly tell Jason what it's going to do. And then we can say, are we do we want to turn it on tomorrow? Do we want to turn it on tonight? Do, we want to turn it on Monday or I found out because you've already. This morning, I didn't know what it was. Jason didn't know what it was. Anton didn't know what it was. I know now. Anton knows now. Jason, I don't know if he knows, But since it's not actually assigning it and put, i mean, since it's not putting it on the calendars, That makes me feel about better about it. So i am i am. I am good with it. Whenever everybody else is good with it. So yeah, Speaker 4 00:03:26 So so let me just uh jason. Um i think everyone else aware, but you so we have uh. Two step process for tickets to get assigned. One is triage, one is dispatch, right? You start triaging the ticket. So the ticket whenever people send an email and ask for help when they go help at crimsonit dot com goes to the board called triage at crimsonit dot com. Right I mean help at crimsonit dot com goes to board called triage, makes sense. Yes Okay. Speaker 4 00:03:60 Currently, We have a product called um thread that checks that board. And when it sees a new ticket, it goes through a set of steps to process it. Meaning, it assigns priority, it assigns the board um type subtype and item. And changes status to pre-process from new. Okay. Past that point there is a different application. Speaker 4 00:04:30 That Christie wrote that called Smart Dispatch that then would take the preprocessed ticket and would assign it to the technicians. So, so that part, The smart dispatch part is very important because if the ticket is assigned at the wrong time, it has a major impact. I mean all of it is important, but I am only concentrating on uh triage portion today. Right? So Application that I've rolled with Christy effectively replaces the thread, right? So it's going to go into that board, read the ticket, use set of rules. If there are no rules that are matching, Then it uses AI to process the ticket and do the assignment and then put it in a pre- process state and be done with it. So theoretically, it's a very small impact, right? A. Speaker 4 00:05:29 We can, if something goes wrong, we can disable it and just run thread back and that's it. Right? It's a flip of the switch to enable or disable. And even if both applications were not working, Sue and Olivia could monitor the queue and just do the assignment like they did in the past. Right? So we have multiple fallback plans. So that's why we feel comfortable, um, effectively pushing. I feel comfortable. We were running this for a few days, and we were comparing results, and the results are very promising. They're actually way better than what Thread does. So it reduces amount of touch points that we need to do because the system does the triaging better. Speaker 4 00:06:22 I also took some feedback from Antoine and completely changing the not the logic, but I added currently the rule set logic only allowed for the keywords. Per his feedback, I've added. Now you can say if subject line X do X Y and Z, if the company is X do X Y and Z, if the sender is X, do X Y and Z and you can stack them. You can say If sender and a company, then that right. So just improved on the logic of rule routing. So I need a green light to move forward. And realistically what that means, once we turn this thing on. Speaker 4 00:07:16 We're just gonna monitor for a couple of hours and make sure that whatever it did, it did the right job. Okay. I can tell you that right now as we speak, okay, this thing is actually still processing a code to properly display the tickets, right? Because what was in place before, which was for the shadow mode where it was learning. I'm now replacing with a production view. And that production view is still not done. Okay, so the logic and everything still stays the same, but the view that dispatcher will use is changing. So ultimately, we need to decide if we want to pull the trigger today or tomorrow, right? Or Monday. There is no rush, but I do want to. Speaker 4 00:08:14 At least give it a shot. I mean, technically we could try it. If we see something wrong, just shut it down, continue troubleshooting and we'll pick up tomorrow. Any concerns? Any issues? Speaker 3 00:08:29 I guess my only question is if we turn it on now, who's monitoring it? Speaker 4 00:08:34 Well, we would need yeah yeah so the point is for next couple of hours, Right, I would want to make sure that either Olivia or Sue are online with me. Right, or Chris. Right, like I mean one of the okay not Chris so really not Chris right? Speaker 3 00:08:55 Chris is off tomorrow so well, Speaker 4 00:08:57 And in reality, she's not a dispatcher, right? So she doesn't she she hasn't been doing this for a while. So we would just need one of these two girls to stay with me, And ensure that the tickets are assigning properly and it's working and it's in CW, and we're not seeing issues. So I'm thinking we're going to launch it at five, and we will also send couple of test tickets that we can test with, right? And then whatever comes in, um, and by if we start at five by seven will be done. So it'll be an overtime for all ladies. Speaker 3 00:09:32 So is it better to do that now? Is it better to do that tomorrow at nine? Nine or ten o'clock in the morning. No, Speaker 4 00:09:37 No, no. If we're going to do it, I would totally do it now because if we run into issues, I can keep working on this and not impact production. Speaker 1 00:09:47 I'd also rather do it either now or like mid next week, becauseum I don't want a bunch of tickets to build up over the weekend. And then you know, we're so backed up and Mondays are so busy that I don't want to do it on Monday. Speaker 4 00:10:01 Yeah yeah So so I think, Okay, then we're I think on the same page, right? Um, so who's going to stay with me? Uh, Olivia or Sue. Speaker 1 00:10:12 I can stay with you. I can stay as well. Okay, so I'll talk to you and we'll decide at once. Speaker 4 00:10:19 Well, I would say, why don't you girls talk between each other and then tell me who's staying? Sounds good. Okay. Speaker 5 00:10:27 Now Andre, i have a i have a i have a test case. Uh we have we have a door that needs to be replaced or a door. You know, a big nest site for Weingart. I can, um, I can open up the ticket from my side and uh or send an email, right? You want me to send an email and then see how it behaves? Speaker 4 00:10:49 Well not yet. We need to launch it first, right? But in reality, yeah yeah, it's totally. You know, there are all kind of use cases, and we can try that. Um, I would want to show you the settings that we have, uh, and walk you through the setup. Um, if you want to understand it better. Um, just so you'd understand the logic and then you could tell me hey, You know, it would be nice to have this uh set of rules for my use cases, and we can put it together. Yeah. All right. Awesome. So. Speaker 4 00:11:32 If you guys are okay, Then our plan is for girls to connect, and just let me know at five o'clock. We'll do that, right? And Olivia, if it's not you, Then you and I need to connect because I want to understand where in thread I turn it off. Speaker 1 00:11:50 I was just going to say yeah. Do you want me to turn it off on tour? Speaker 4 00:11:53 No, I want you to teach me how to turn it off. So I can do it on and off if I need to. Okay. I mean, I obviously know. I'm sure I can figure this out by now, but still, I wanna. I've seen this stuff. Yeah. But let's just if at 4:50, right? You need to connect with me to show me or you know before you leave basically. Yeah Okay so let's do this Let's do this We'll see how it goes, and then Jason tomorrow I can connect with you, and then we'll go over your use cases. Speaker 5 00:12:29 Yeah, I'll be there in the morning over at HQ. So are you going to be in the office tomorrow? Yes. Okay, I'll be there in the morning. Speaker 4 00:12:37 Awesome. All right, it's very exciting. Speaker 1 00:12:43 Great work on Zor. Speaker 4 00:12:45 Well, don't say it just yet, baby Let's not jinx it Okay All right folks this is amazing It's exciting, Okay, so hold on, hold on, hold on. Before you go, I'm actually going to do a print screen of us because this a magical moment. This a magical moment. This the launch of Smart Dispatch or C-BOS Triage. Okay. Triage launch. Okay. All right. Speaker 4 00:13:23 So uh thank you everyone. We will keep you guys posted. Speaker 3 00:13:27 All right. Thanks guys. Thank you. Thank you, Speaker 4 00:13:29 Bye guys.
05-29 Consultation: VoIP Solutions Evaluation - Verizon One Talk & Teams Integration
- Notes
- Date & Time: 2026-05-29 14:09:23 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: [Insert Customer] ## Overview This consultation focused on evaluating new VoIP solutions to replace the client’s fragmented and costly communication systems. Representatives Christy and Michuan are assessing Verizon One Talk and a Teams-integrated calling solution as alternatives to their current mix of Blue Wave landlines, Verizon cell phones, and inconsistent Teams usage. Primary drivers are cost savings and a unified, streamlined platform. Pricing and customer service are key decision factors. The client requires quotes for approximately 50 users for both options to present to their IT committee and executive leadership. ## Background The organization is using a fragmented communication system: Blue Wave landlines, Verizon cell phones, and uneven Microsoft Teams adoption. This causes inefficiencies and lack of streamlined communication across sites. Amid a strategic expense review, cost is a major consideration. They aim to choose a new platform within the next year, ideally by year-end, and are evaluating multiple vendors with a preliminary estimate of 50 lines. ## Pain Points The primary pain point is the fragmented communication system across the organization caused by multiple, disconnected platforms. - Problem Statement: Staff use a mix of Blue Wave landlines, personal/company Verizon cell phones, and Microsoft Teams (with inconsistent adoption), making it difficult to connect efficiently. - Impact: A disjointed environment hinders seamless interaction across sites and complicates processes like transferring calls between locations. - Current Situation: A patchwork of technologies without a unified directory or standard method for communication, requiring staff to know which platform to use for each person. - Stakeholders: All staff are affected, as well as IT and leadership teams focused on streamlining operations and reducing costs. A secondary but significant pain point is high operational cost, under review for financial prudence. - Problem Statement: The current mix of services is perceived as costly; the organization is seeking cost savings. - Impact: High costs strain the budget during a strategic plan reassessment of expenditures. - Context: As part of their strategic plan process, they are reviewing all expenses to ensure they make sense. - Stakeholders: Executive leadership and finance drive the cost-reduction initiative. ## Expectations The client expects detailed, competitive pricing for two VoIP solutions to support evaluation by the IT committee and executive leadership. - Specific Goals: Clear quotes for: 1. Verizon One Talk for approximately 50 users. 2. Microsoft Teams–integrated calling, with Verizon-specific costs (e.g., $4 per line). - Timeframe: Information needed to support a decision by year-end. - Success Metrics: Clear, comprehensive quotes enabling an apples-to-apples comparison with other vendors. - Stakeholders: Christy will receive the quotes and present them to the IT committee and executive leadership. The client also expects excellent customer service and support from the selected vendor, alongside competitive pricing. - Specific Goals: Reliable support with local contacts, national teams, a dedicated onboarding/lifetime support partner, a self-service portal, ticketing, and one-on-one support options. - Resources Required: Verizon to provide local contacts (Ryan, Gloria), national support, a self-service portal, and a third-party onboarding/support partner. - Success Metrics: Satisfaction with support responsiveness and effectiveness. - Stakeholders: All users, particularly administrators like Christy. ## Other Information Summary - The organization qualifies for Verizon’s third pricing tier (50+ users), offering better rates than standard online pricing. - As a nonprofit, they likely receive special Microsoft licensing pricing (e.g., E5) that includes Teams Phone features; Christy understands Microsoft-side costs. - For Teams integration, users must have a Verizon phone number; cost is $4 per line to push the number to Teams. - One Talk phones can be LTE-connected, maintaining service with battery backup during internet or power outages. - New phone hardware is available on a 36-month repayment model with no upfront cost, bundled into the per-user monthly fee. - The client may need to increase the phone order (e.g., by 20–30 units) due to hiring and low inventory. Verizon can ship devices and suspend service with no billing for up to six months, allowing activation when needed. - Verizon has a discretionary incentive budget that refreshes monthly. If the client provides a final phone count by the first week of the month, the consultant can attempt to secure additional per-line funding. ## To-Do List - [ ] Send Christy a quote for 50 users on Verizon One Talk. (Assigned to: Speaker 1/Gloria) - [ ] Send Christy a quote detailing Verizon costs for the Teams-integrated solution for 50 users ($4/line). (Assigned to: Speaker 1/Gloria) - [ ] Email Christy a list of active device payments and upgrade eligibility dates, explicitly stating these are device payments, not service contracts. (Assigned to: Gloria) - [ ] Schedule and attend an on-site meeting with treats on Thursday, June 4, 2026, around 10:30–11:00 AM. (Assigned to: Gloria) - [ ] Send an introductory email to Onsor, owner of Crimson, early next week to explore partnership opportunities. (Assigned to: Speaker 5) ## AI Suggestions The AI identifies the biggest pain point as the fragmented and inefficient communication system. Consider: 1. Lead with the One Talk LTE Phone Solution: Emphasize how LTE-connected desk phones unify communications and provide resilience during internet/power outages—an advantage over a purely Teams-based solution. Position this as the most direct path to a streamlined experience. 2. Create a Phased Migration Plan: Pilot with 10–15 users at a key site to showcase ease of use, call transferring, and a unified directory before a full 50+ user rollout, reducing risk. 3. Develop a Hybrid “Best of Both Worlds” Proposal: Use One Talk as the core voice platform for reliability (LTE backup) while enabling Teams for users who prefer that interface, centralizing calling on Verizon’s network. 4. Highlight the “White-Glove” Support Model: Since support is critical, promote the included onboarding and lifetime support partner to reduce IT burden, contrasting with the more self-managed nature of a pure Microsoft Teams environment.
- Date
- May 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Three VoIP product on the table as well. Speaker 2 00:00:09 Sorry, my my team's just decided to crash on me all of a sudden. So I do apologize for that. It was the most random time for it just to shut down. Speaker 1 00:00:20 No worries, how much did you hear? Speaker 2 00:00:22 I I was only out of the conversation for maybe sixty seconds tops, just long enough to restart Teams. Speaker 2 00:00:32 But when I dropped, we were on this page. Speaker 1 00:00:35 Okay. Do you know the organization's end goal for where they make their calls? Is it a separate VoIP product? Or is it a Teams calling environment still or have they made that choice? Speaker 2 00:00:52 We haven't made that choice yet. Speaker 1 00:00:56 So being outside of Teams is now, Available and an option. Speaker 2 00:01:03 We're looking at all the options, So depending on what we what we decide as an organization, which way we're going to go, um, We're just going to look at everything as holistically as possible to see what is our best options. Speaker 1 00:01:19 Okay. I'll start at the top. I'm not sure what you heard. We do have both options a environment that is uh teams calling, And then we have our native product that we usually start in, which is Verizon One Talk. The endpoint environment within One Talk can vary. It can be a desk phone, it can be a PC app, it can be a mobile app. And that mobile app can be on a smartphone, it can be on tablet, you know any Wi Fi device. How familiar are you with Verizon's One Talk product? Speaker 2 00:01:55 Pretty pretty familiar. Speaker 1 00:01:57 Unfamiliar or have you seen a a demonstration before? Speaker 2 00:02:01 I've seen three demonstrations at this time. Um, Speaker 3 00:02:05 I don't know Chris, uh if you're talking, you're on mute. But for me, I'm I'm not familiar. Speaker 2 00:02:11 And I'm a little bit more familiar. I've had about three demos and looked into it deeply for someone else. So but let's go through this from a chance. Speaker 1 00:02:22 Sure. How long ago Christy did you look at the system? Speaker 1 00:02:27 Four months ago. Okay, somewhere recently. Was it me or someone else? I don't think it was me. Speaker 2 00:02:34 It was not you, it was someone else. It was for a different client in the Willowbrook area. Speaker 1 00:02:40 Okay, So how we build the product and this is a cloud hosted Verizon network core product, so just like any other call, it lives within Verizon's core. Like I said your endpoint can vary, And that can be a choice by person. Has all standard VoIP features built into it, where you can have an auto attendant, "Thank you for calling, press one through nine," or you can have live answer and choose who's answering. We call that hunt group. We don't charge for hunt group functionality ;. It's a we just consider that call flow or call design, where if you choose what style your group is ringing in, typically an office will have. Speaker 1 00:03:26 Five phones rang at the same time. Whoever gets to it first, we call that simultaneous. And you can also set a hierarchy where Bill's called first, then Sally, then Jim, ultimately going down a hop. We also have call queueing capabilities where, if you want three people to answer the call and then stack calls up if all three people are busy, we also have that functionality. Why Verizon got into VoIP? Ten years ago was because VoIP was becoming more mobile focused, where you wanted to be out in the field, Incorporate users away from a desk phone that would tether them to a single location. And. So we have an application that ties to the same number that the desk phone is in, So that it mimics and maintains the same rules of the desk phone does just on your mobile. Speaker 1 00:04:25 From there, you can enable call forwarding, do not disturb if you're away from the office, and also retrieve your desk phone's voicemails. Because we're a mobile operator, we also enabled standard text messaging capabilities within the application. So from your desk or from your mobile now you can enable and have text message conversations from your work number. Bashan I think I heard you maybe wanted to say something? Speaker 1 00:04:57 Maybe not. Any questions from either of you? Thank you. Speaker 3 00:04:60 That was helpful. Speaker 1 00:05:02 Any questions so far? Okay, we also have voicemail to email functionality. This is built in at no cost, so the audio file will be sent to two email addresses. Of course, one of those emails can be a distro, so if you want to share voicemails with a large group, that's easy. Reporting and analytics is available, Available to dive into answer rates, call rates. And all that's built within the Verizon One Talk portal. This, Kristy, you would have access to. The organization would also have access to it. But, we also partner with a onboarding and lifetime support partner of Verizon's as well. We pay for their services. Speaker 1 00:05:53 We have them set up the portal for you, configure it, train you as admin and provide ongoing support. So if you don't want to pop into the portal in the future, say you're adding employees and you got two new phones. You can say, hey, these two new phones need to be assigned to this user at this extension. Here's their work email. They'll configure those users into your portal and make those changes. For you in the future as well. Big difference in Christie, This why I asked how recently you saw this platform, is that we've also developed LTE connected desk phones. We're the only VoIP provider to have this functionality built within desk phones. This a difference maker for us because it makes setup of the desk phones really easy. All the. Speaker 1 00:06:51 All we do is ask you to, unbox them and plug them into the wall for power, and they start functioning. They receive their phone call service off of our LTE cellular service, just like your cell phones do. Okay. What that also gives you is uh failover or continuity if your office in a typical VoIP product loses internet, you also lose your phones because your. Phones run over your office internet. With this, even if you lose office internet or power, this device has battery backup and cellular, so it will continue to function even if you all lose internet. This bottom device is a little cheaper because it doesn't have a battery. It's also not a touchscreen. This is a little bit larger of a screen and touchscreen. Speaker 1 00:07:48 When you onboard with us, we don't require any upfront cost or buy in to the platform. The phones, Just like your cell phones. Our discussion previously are on a repayment model over thirty six months. So, you are not tied to a service contract. T here is nothing due up front. ; everything's built into the monthly service for each user. Uh, As we get into the details, we can migrate any fax services, any toll free, integrate alarm services or or like a door panel call box, anything that you all might have. And if you have any overhead speakers for emergencies or all calls, we can integrate into those as well. Speaker 1 00:08:41 That's the platform in a nutshell. As you get more serious looking into different platforms, I have a unified communications specialist that sits behind me that supports the whole market. They can log into the portal, show you things in more detail, show you the admin console if you're interested as you're evaluating different providers. When is the organization looking to move? Off of the current platform. Um, Speaker 3 00:09:17 I think we started. You go, Kristen. Speaker 2 00:09:19 No, I was going to say within the next year by the end of year. Hopefully. Speaker 1 00:09:25 And are you moving as a cost savings? Is there some unhappiness with the system that you have today? I know the previous employees they were a little unhappy. I think we had quoted you as a complete migration and found cost savings, but what's the driving factor now? Speaker 3 00:09:51 I'd say the driving. Oh, go ahead. No, Speaker 2 00:09:53 I was gonna. I was probably gonna say what you were gonna say. Go ahead. Speaker 3 00:09:57 It's. I think it's both the cost. And as right now, the fragmented there is like a fragmented system. So we want a better, more streamlined way to engage. For staff to be able to engage and connect with each other, but it also costs is huge in what we are, you know, doing from a strategic plan process. We're really looking at all of our expenses and making sure it makes the right set, you know, makes sense for us. Speaker 1 00:10:26 So tell me more about the fragmented communication style that you have today. What are some of the common issues? Speaker 3 00:10:35 Between having the blue wave land like the phones and blue waves set for the centers, and then a number of us being on Verizon cell phones, and some of us having Teams, And some of us not having Teams. It's it's that that we're trying to true up. We have some other more urgent things to address, but you know staff for us. Chris, is there anything you want to add? Speaker 2 00:10:57 No, I would say you hit everything I was going to say. Okay. Speaker 1 00:11:05 Um. We can. Provide a quote independent of your current services, uh. If, you want to provide a current bill, and we can look at apples and give you our apples, uh. Our price is set per user. We're not going to change our rate based off of what rate you're paying, But do you know how many users you're looking at that would be a part of the platform? Speaker 2 00:11:33 Not yet. Um, I would say probably at this moment, I would plan on fifty lines just to cover some essential services at each of the sites. But right now we don't have an exact. So, what I was going to ask Gloria was to get me pricing if we did the Teams version, and then to get me pricing for the VoIP per user. And, then that way we can take a look at all of this combined because um we like I said we are going to be evaluating. Quite a few different vendors and quite a few different solutions. Um, but right now mainly what we're looking at is pricing. Speaker 1 00:12:11 Okay. As you're looking at different vendors and solutions, What are some of the key things that you're looking for to make that decision? Speaker 2 00:12:21 Uh, I'll be honest, pricing and customer service. Speaker 1 00:12:27 Okay. Easy enough. I, Feel pretty confident we can beat your current pricing. The fragmentation that you're speaking of, our platform because it is network based solves for all that. You know this platform because it's just internet and cellular based, you place this phone anywhere. You can internally reach each other by extension, uh transfer calls very easily between sites. Okay. Speaker 1 00:13:00 It, it doesn't there's no product or system that lives on site that moves calls between uh locations or like is the brains of the platform all that's within Verizon's network core, so makes mobility and fragmentation. Speaker 3 00:13:21 Yeah isum well I think for us being, you know, pricing and and then customer service being part of it. Um. I think on the presence side, if you could share, you know, if Gloria can get that information to Chris Beary, very helpful too. As we're assessing, we have a huge project going on right now. So uh we'll need to finish that up. But, as we begin to look at it with our, you know, I T committee as well as the executive leadership team um I'd like to be able to have that information in front of us. So we can make a very, you know. Speaker 3 00:13:58 Focused and the best decision for the organization. Speaker 1 00:14:02 Sure, and fifty is a good number for us. We have volume tiers, uh, for pricing, and fifty is our third tier of pricing. It's ten twenty five fifty then above. So, you are getting a good rate from us that's lower than the standard rate than what you would see online, and we have incentives to move you. And migrate you over to the platform. You're talking customer service, it is a Verizon product, so you have us here locally. You have our national team that's always available for troubleshooting and support. You have self uh setup and tools that are always available through the same Verizon website that you use today. And as I was mentioning, You'll also be paired with an onboarding and support team for the life of the product. So. Speaker 1 00:14:56 If you need help, you can submit a ticket to them, call them, or schedule a meeting for one-on-one support if needed. Okay. Awesome. Kind of shifting gears. Like I was saying, This will have a Teams plug - in to where kind of on the left - hand side of your Teams bar, You'll be able to make a call through this, and it will be at one top platform. Uh, What we were talking about before and what we've had set up for your organization previously is a bit harder to quote because there are Microsoft components that Microsoft will charge you. The Verizon piece of it is pretty simple. As long as it's a cell phone number with Verizon, it's a four dollar fee to push that number to Microsoft Teams. Speaker 1 00:15:54 And, that's what we've done with you in the past is it's just a four dollar Teams integration fee per line. The key there is that you still need Microsoft Teams Calling feature or Teams Phone feature. As a nonprofit, You probably have a special rate on that or it's included with your E five licensing. Yes, so you'll figure out That cost we can't quote that because that is a Microsoft thing. But then the key is, because you have cell phones with us, that same cell phone number, if you choose it, can be the Teams calling number as well. And then all of your calling management, your policies, your rules call flow. It's not a Verizon call flow. It's a Teams calling call flow. So. Speaker 1 00:16:50 Resource accounts, auto attendance hunt groups, all that is managed and moved to the same Microsoft. Speaker 2 00:17:00 Yes. So minus the Microsoft part because I'll handle that and I know the pricing on all of that. What is the cost per line for the phones to do it that way? Speaker 1 00:17:13 Your cost to move or to have the service is$ 4.$. Speaker 2 00:17:19 4 per phone? Yep. Okay. Now, Speaker 1 00:17:29 The key there is that it is a Verizon phone number first. So if they don't have a Verizon phone number, we would establish a Verizon phone number for them. Speaker 2 00:17:41 Got you. Okay, and I there's very few people. Speaker 2 00:17:47 That, we would worry about that because we already have teams calling on some of our accounts that can easily move that over and we can port in numbers. So that's not an issue at all cool. Speaker 1 00:17:58 Okay. So those are the two flavors that uh we would present to you a system completely outside of kind of Microsoft. But it's a Verizon core product that would have a future integration in with uh teams. And then a completely separate uh Teams integration platform through our mobile service. Any questions between these two? No. Okay. Speaker 3 00:18:33 No, thank you. Speaker 1 00:18:37 So we will provide you a quote for 50 users on the Voic product. Okay. What else do you need from us? That's it. Speaker 4 00:18:50 I'll send over. Sorry, yeah, I'll send over. Um, I just have i have everything going so I'll include the active device payments, How many lines are you know, ready for upgrade? Um and on that, what i'll add is when the upgrade is due, which is meaning that the device payment is completed. Um so you can see that on your end, but i'll send that over to you after the call. Um, as far as the quote, we'll get that over to you as well. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, of course. Is there, anything else that we can answer while we have you on the call? Speaker 2 00:19:25 Um, Just on that email, if you can spell it out that it's not the contract, it's just a device payment. That way I can just provide that over to finance, and they can understand it. Absolutely And then yeah so that's everything that I can think of, Sounds good. Speaker 4 00:19:43 I'll make sure to include that in there, Christy. Thank you. Thank you. I. Speaker 5 00:19:49 Think this is her slide deck. Hi, Zeus. Hey, Mishwan, how are you? Speaker 3 00:19:55 I'm good. How are you doing? Speaker 5 00:19:57 I'm doing good and nice to hear from you again. I think it's been since December. The first time we met Yes So well, Hopefully everything is going well. And uh You know everything is moving in the in a great direction for ability. First. Um, I wanted to jump on this call. Um, Just I know that there was a couple items that you guys wanted to squirt, get squared away here with uh, Ryan and Gloria, but I am hoping I am telling this to the right person in you. But I got involved about a week or two. Gloria reached out to me because uh, our director got a little caught up with some um when they uh acting assignments while he was in the process of assisting me. And uh. Speaker 5 00:20:37 And locking down funds for one of ability's first upcoming events. Yes, and I'm happy to say that I was able to lock something down. Ah, where it's guaranteed. So, I'll be oh, I'm gonna connect back with Gloria today before I end my day today, just so I can collect all the necessary information ah push that through. Okay, um I think she's got a list of two events. Um, So maybe I might have her shoot you a text or just reach out back to you. And in case we need any additional details, but just wanted to share the good news with you. Speaker 3 00:21:11 Well, thank you very much. That is great news. Um, The I don't know if you all are also coming to Food and Wine. And then the other event is a little later on in the year, and that's Stroll and Roll. Um those two events yes. Speaker 5 00:21:27 If if we're invited, you can definitely expect me at the one nine one. Speaker 3 00:21:35 Oh, get your linen ready. Your linen outfit. That's what everybody's like wearing. Speaker 5 00:21:41 I just got my linen suit from the dry cleaner, so I am ready. Speaker 3 00:21:44 Perfect, you are ready to go. It's good food. It's a lot of good food and wine and it's actually bourbon too, so just if you like that, Speaker 5 00:21:52 It's there. We'll be bringing Ryan with us too then. Speaker 3 00:21:55 Nice Come on Ryan and Gloria come hang out with us? Yeah, there is one thing I wanted to mention, And and um I think Chris was saying, we we do not know how many phones uh we need right now. But let's say we needed like twenty five like twenty to thirty. Would that just be a call to you Gloria to be like, you know, this is how many more, we actually need because I am looking at. Um Chris I need I need to fill you in, and we need to talk about our staffing model in the next uh. Speaker 3 00:22:27 And and well, actually after Tuesday, then I probably have an update on what we're going to do with staffing. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:22:32 Just let me. You can just shoot me an email when you do that. What I can do is go back to finance and request a bulk incentive. Um, so just let me know. I'll be able to help you. Um, from the top of my head, I'm sure I can get you something like a seventeen E for freeum for anything at that capacity, plus some extra incentives. I can work with Asus to to get you. So just let me know. Uh yeah pop out. Speaker 3 00:22:55 And we're running very little on our inventory, and then we're hiring new people. And I know some sites are getting a little smaller, but there may be some sites that end up expanding. And then we just want to have some ready to go in our inventory. Speaker 5 00:23:10 And and to uh to Gloria's point, this is for both uh Mishwan and Christy. Um there do we have a little bit of internal change? I think it started in June maybe I mean what I'm sorry I'm lost. In the year that we're in, it started in May. Um, They they gave each of the senior directors. So different market, a discretionary budget that we can pull from. The budget is share amongst the market, which happens for us happens to be Hawaii, California and Las Vegas. So if you guys can let us know the first week of the month. Um, What that count is Glorik and shoot that information to me and I can go fight with the battle of. Speaker 5 00:23:53 Trying to secure as much as possible per line, okay. Um, you know, just as just an incentive, like it's not my money; it's a license money. So I say why not? Um. So just let us know. Give us a heads up, and we'll uh I'll do what I can to uh pull from that budget. Uh so that it refreshes every thirty days, so they can come in first gonna be great. Speaker 3 00:24:13 Okayum so it's just for me and I'm sure, Chris already knows this. So for me, let's say, we we are going to. We're gonna go up, you know, twenty lines, but we want we're gonna get an extra thirty. Do, the are we? How are we paying for the lines or we're paying for the phone Like? And when are we paying for that Is when it is it when it's in activation or as soon as we receive the phone I can answer that. Speaker 4 00:24:37 So what we can do It depends on how you wanna do it. We can ship the device out right. Um, I can suspend the services with no billing for up to six months in a rolling year. So if you decide to react or to activate them in three months, just let me know. I'll boot them up for you. But that way you can have them reserved ready to go for deployment. Whatever works for you, um, but yeah, the device is free just like the other devices. What, we do is we give you a discount through a thirty six monthly installment credit. So you see a device um. Speaker 4 00:25:11 I guess payment, But you also see a device credit which makes it free through the thirty six months period. Speaker 3 00:25:16 Okay, that's helpful. Sorry, I think Chris is already. I think she may have explained something like that, But it's just been a long time and I wanted to make sure I understood. Speaker 4 00:25:25 No, yeah. So Freya uh ask away. I'm happy to help out so. Speaker 3 00:25:30 Thank you and and thank you. And i'm i'm happy to to hear this news And. Are you guys going to share it out with Jeremy? Is that who you're going to respond to? Speaker 5 00:25:39 Yeah, I'll share that with him. I just wasn't, I wasn'tum, I wasn't sure if it was you or Jeremy, but I'll share it with him as well. Speaker 3 00:25:45 It's both of them. But yes. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:25:48 Yeah. I'm happy that we're we're able to do it because those budgets were similar to the one that I just mentioned, except that one, it's an annual one. Okay So, we we kind of we gotta. We gotta fight some people to to sneak in there Uh. But yeah, I'll definitely share the news with him after i submit the cause. We got to submit a form after i get the approval. So once I get that squared away and I get the dates from Gloria, I'll let them know. Um, And then we'll be we'll be happy to hang out with all of you guys out there. Speaker 4 00:26:13 Also, I won't be out on the field next Tuesday and Thursday. Are you going to be there any of those days? I know I owe you guys some some cookies. Speaker 3 00:26:22 Oh thank you. Um oh yeah cause I think Carl ate them last time. Don't leave him with Carl this time. Speaker 3 00:26:31 He was like," You got crumble cookies?" We were like," Where are they?" He's like," Well, I gave him. I ate one and I gave him my team." Speaker 4 00:26:36 I told him to share, but I am sure yeah didn't get there. Speaker 3 00:26:41 Um. So next week Chris you are out one of those days right? Speaker 2 00:26:47 I'll be in the office on Thursday for sure. Speaker 3 00:26:51 Okay and. Um, so yeah, Thursday I am also in the office. So if you are gonna stop by, that'd be perfect. Speaker 4 00:26:58 Will you guys be there around like eleven or ten thirty a. m. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay, perfect. I'll send a little invite just to let you have it there, but I'll stop by with some treats. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker 5 00:27:10 I have a I have a question for Christy. And if if we don't have time now or if it's not the right time, we can maybe Christy and I can connect some other time. I just want to understand a little bit more of crimson. Um, my question is, is like okay, Let's say, we Gloria and I have a haveum an organization that we've been supporting for years. But they don't have an in house I T. And they're looking for something like that. Is that something where you would step in and meet with them? Or like what would be the best process to make their process easier? Speaker 2 00:27:45 So we can't do that. Um You just send them over to myself or Onsor, and let me give you Onsor's email address because he's. He owns the company, uh, and so he works on the sales side right now. And he would love to talk to anyone. Um, I'm I'm a I'm the CIO for Crimson, but I'm also a fractional CIO for nonprofits within Crimson. So I handle the nonprofit sideum outside of the regular CIO duties. Speaker 5 00:28:13 Got it here. Let me just write this down real quick. Yeah. See, Got it. How long have you I am guessing you were one of the founders. You were there when it first started. Speaker 2 00:28:26 No, he stole me from another organization about four and a half years ago. He stole me from the L A Dodgers. I was the IT manager there, so yeah, so we joked that he stole me honestly, He gave me an offer that was too good to refuse, and I made the jump. Um but yeah, I've been there four and a half yearsum. Speaker 2 00:28:53 We've been in business for over thirteen, fourteen years. So I wasn't, I think I am employee number one hundred or something along those lines. So definitely not one of the co founders. Speaker 5 00:29:04 Oh man, uh I mean look the Dodgers, I mean, they can still complain that they lost you, but I think Otani at least makes up like fifty percent of that. Speaker 3 00:29:13 So it's okay. She has a ring. You all she has a Dodgers ring. No way, yeah, pretty cool. She brought it in one day. We were all fanning over it. It was, yeah, we were just pretty much hanging outside the office that day. Speaker 5 00:29:29 If you are ever in the office and you take it with you, Please let us know and I'll throw an invite on the calendar. So Gloria has to drive with me out there. I'll. Speaker 2 00:29:40 Let you know if I ever do. Normally, I carry it with me during postseason season, so especially if they make it. Speaker 2 00:29:50 They make it farther in postseason and then the card playoffs. So you'll see, you'll I'll have it in my pocket all the time during that flight. I probably won't tell people, But it will be on me because I just it's one of my good luck charms. Speaker 5 00:30:04 So. So I'm guessing that you might have been part of the reason we won the World Series last year, thenhuh? It was a good luck thing apparently. Speaker 2 00:30:12 I did carry my good luck charm with me the entire month, but probably not because mine mine rings from twenty twenty. From the first one we won over forty years. Because I left the following year, I had been with them three seasons. Speaker 5 00:30:27 Yeah. So that is so cool. That's that's that's really really sick like that's a really good story. Yeah Definitely a good, a good pickup from Crimson, then They picked up a champ. Speaker 2 00:30:40 They picked up a world series champion Right Oh. It was it was great. It was it was a good experience working for them. But I I don't regret the jump. So, Crimson is a great company to work for, and I get to work with amazing companies like Ability. Oh yeah, Speaker 5 00:30:55 Absolutely. Especially being in the nonprofit sector, we've been we've had a lot of luck with speaking with more nonprofits. And just a month ago, I am not sure if you are familiar with Hope the Mission out in the San Fernando Valley? Speaker 2 00:31:12 Yes, I have a friend that works there for them in their cybersecurity. With cybersecurity for them. Speaker 5 00:31:19 Yeah. Oh, nice. We I just uh I just went out of my own just my own time. I went to go volunteer for the event about a month ago, where we uh put together some meatballs to feed the homeless. Um. So it's it's pretty cool getting involved with with nonprofits and you know being part of the process. So yeah, I'm sure you you've been enjoying it yes Well, I appreciate the time Christy thank you again to Mishawn for joining us. I have Andrew's email here so, And it's it's Friday and it's a little bit later, So I'll I'll schedule an uh intro email to him sometime maybe Monday early next week. So maybe get check with him, just kind of see where where Crimson Crimson can come in. Or just he gets to know us here, So you know, if there's anything that we can do to better partner up in the future, you know it's always better. Speaker 2 00:32:04 All right thank you. Speaker 5 00:32:06 So thank you all. Have a good Friday. Speaker 4 00:32:09 Yeah You too have a great weekend guys, Thank you, guys. Thank you. I'll see you next week, and I'll send that over here shortly. Have a good night. You too. All right, bye-bye. Bye.
07-13 Meeting: SQL Backup Strategy for “Shark”, Transaction Log Mitigation, and Azure Migration Planning
- Notes
- ## 1. SQL Backup Strategy for “Shark” DB2 and MS SQL Servers Daily full backups are saturating resources and generating excessive backup logs. MS SQL transaction log usage is nearing full capacity, indicating excessive log generation, missing log backups, or insufficient log space. Datto and Cloud Synergy are available, but cloud backups are failing due to insufficient bandwidth at the colo. A proposed approach is one full backup per week with incrementals during the week to reduce log growth while maintaining recovery objectives. Coordination between Emil and Pratt is needed to assess DB2 and MS SQL configurations, adjust backup cadence, and mitigate transaction log bloat. Immediate alert noise includes Active Directory RPC issues and multiple Huntress install errors that may distract from the database focus but indicate broader environment health considerations. ### Action Items - [ ] Assess DB2 and MS SQL backup configurations for “Shark,” validate current full backup frequency, and design a plan moving to weekly full + daily incremental backups without increasing backup log size -- _Emil_ _Pratt_ 2026-07-15 - [ ] Analyze MS SQL transaction log growth drivers, confirm whether missing log backups or insufficient log space are present, and implement corrective actions (log backup schedule, log file sizing) -- _Pratt_ _Emil_ 2026-07-16 - [ ] Review Datto and Cloud Synergy workflows; quantify colo bandwidth constraints and propose an interim on-prem/offsite strategy that does not rely on insufficient cloud bandwidth -- _Emil_ 2026-07-19 - [ ] Pull and triage current alerts (Active Directory RPC issues, Huntress install errors, DB2-related alerts) to separate noise from backup-critical signals and create a remediation sequence -- _Emil_ 2026-07-17 - [ ] Establish monitoring thresholds and alerting for transaction log usage to prevent “nearing full capacity” conditions, including automated corrective steps -- _Pratt_ _Emil_ 2026-07-22 ## 2. Coordination and Knowledge Transfer Between Emil and Pratt Emil is positioned as the go-to technical lead and is paired with Pratt, a data analyst with strong MS SQL expertise, to collaborate on server review and backup/log mitigation. They have been connected via Teams to coordinate efforts and share responsibilities on database backup optimization and transaction log management. ### Action Items - [ ] Conduct a joint server review session to align on findings and define the game plan for reducing transaction log usage while maintaining robust backups -- _Emil_ _Pratt_ 2026-07-15 - [ ] Maintain an active Teams chat for ongoing collaboration, sharing diagnostics, proposed changes, and test results -- _Emil_ _Pratt_ ## 3. Migration Planning: On-Prem SQL Servers to Azure On-prem SQL servers are planned for migration to Azure within the next three to four months. Pratt is advancing Azure learning and cloud SQL readiness, with Neil available to assist. A migration plan is pending input from Dr. Barbara. Timelines require a staged plan covering assessment, readiness, and execution while ensuring continuity of backups and transaction log management during the transition. ### Action Items - [ ] Draft the Azure migration plan for on-prem SQL servers, including assessment, architecture, backup/restore strategy in Azure, and phased cutover, pending input from Dr. Barbara -- _Pratt_ _Neil_ 2026-08-02 - [ ] Confirm the migration window and constraints with Dr. Barbara and integrate feedback into the plan; assign ownership to secure stakeholder input -- _[Insert Name]_ 2026-07-18 - [ ] Identify prerequisites and training checkpoints for Pratt’s Azure and cloud SQL upskilling tied to migration milestones -- _Pratt_ _Neil_ 2026-07-25 > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The colo bandwidth limitation prevents effective cloud backups via Datto and Cloud Synergy; a concrete mitigation (e.g., bandwidth upgrade, alternative offsite replication, or local staging with scheduled transfers) is not defined. > 2. MS SQL transaction log “nearing full capacity” lacks confirmed root cause and resilience measures (e.g., log backup frequency, index maintenance, long-running transactions review); risk of log file growth halting operations remains high until root cause is addressed. > 3. The Azure migration timeline (“three to four months”) has no locked dates, dependencies, or stakeholder approvals; Dr. Barbara’s input is pending without an owner explicitly assigned to secure it, risking planning delays. > 4. Active Directory RPC issues and widespread Huntress install errors suggest broader environment instability; there is no dedicated remediation plan or owner, which could impede database backup reliability and migration readiness. > 5. Backup retention, recovery objectives (RPO/RTO), and test restores are not defined; without clear targets and validation, the proposed weekly full + daily incremental approach may not meet operational recovery needs.
- Date
- Jul 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:33 Emil, I want you to meet Pratt. Um, and Pratt meet Emil. Emil is my uh, he's my go to for everything. I need to pass on to somebody else that knows as much, if not more than me in some things. So, Emil we have we're talking about shark. Uh so they're doing full backups uh multiple times a day. Speaker 1 00:01:02 Just once a day. Yeah, and you need to do it more than once. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:01:06 Because I I I've already that'd be so much. Uhhuh. Speaker 1 00:01:42 So Emil, Could you take a look at DB2 in your free time if you've got it? And let's come up with a backup solution that's going to both work for what they need multiple times a day. But also um let's try to prevent it from increasing the backup logs. I think if we do one full once a week and then did incrementals throughout the week that's going to actually work better for you. And. Um. Speaker 1 00:02:40 Uh no it still sounds really really bad. Um I'm gonna try to turn up the volume. Talk to us, Neil. Speaker 1 00:03:08 So They're using Datto, And, then there's also uh another backup solution, that's Cloud Synergy. I think you're welcome right? Both of them are online. However, um data was not backed up to the cloud because they don't have the bandwidth at the colo. Speaker 1 00:03:42 But this is the backup logs that are coming up. That's been opening tickets. Speaker 1 00:04:12 Okay, so let me pull up the actual alerts. Speaker 3 00:04:22 Can you one. Speaker 1 00:04:36 Second Application monitor domain controller. Speaker 1 00:04:46 Active Directory with an RPC issue. Hang on one moment. We got a couple of alerts coming in. Freaking Huntress install errors. We got a lot of Huntress install errors. Good lord, alright, DB two. Speaker 1 00:05:32 It's A that's a good question. It is showing a sharp DB2 uh in uh in R&M. Oh, here here's a good ticket for you. Speaker 1 00:06:06 MS SQL transaction log usage is higher, nearing full capacity, which may indicate excessive log generation, missing backups or insufficient log space. Speaker 1 00:06:36 Teams, you still got yourself okay. Um, Let me connect you with with her so that she and you can meet each other. Speaker 1 00:06:53 It Just adds up for you, Emil. Uh, Pratt is our data analyst here, but she's also all things SQL and everything there. So, she she wants to give you a run for your money when it comes to MS SQL. Speaker 1 00:07:17 All Right, so I just put you both in a chat. Um, What Emil can do is take a look at the server and come up with a game plan on how we can cut those down and still have a good backup. So I'll just hang on one second. I'm sorry, hang on Emil. This is Christi. Speaker 1 00:07:37 That was not a phone call. Sorry, I thought it was my doctor's office with everything going on. Yeah, they gave me a clean bill of health, But they also reran all my blood tests, and she just gonna tell me to eat more bananas because my potassium is still low. Yeah. So all right um. Speaker 1 00:08:12 Uh, Emil just heads up. We're going to be migrating the SQL servers that are on prem to Azure. Speaker 3 00:08:22 I I. Speaker 1 00:08:26 Want to in the next three to four months. And so she's working on her Azure learning and uh on cloud SQL. Speaker 1 00:08:58 Awesome. Yeah, and Neil can help you through that as well. Speaker 1 00:09:35 No, I was the first South African I hired after coming on to Crimson. So he and I both almost have five years now. Can you believe that? He's stuck with me for. Speaker 1 00:10:06 And he's a year younger than me. So. Yeah, he is in, you're in Johannesburg. Speaker 3 00:10:16 Oh wait. Cape Town. Yes. Yeah I. Speaker 1 00:10:26 Was sitting here, I said Johannesburg. But then I was like wait no, it's, he's near Becca. Speaker 1 00:10:43 Oh, Awesome I know where that is. Speaker 1 00:11:58 Alright, So can I give you uh hand pat over to you for this to get this resolved. And, then um we are going to we do need to work on the migration plan that I'm waiting on Dr. Barbara's response about too. Okay, sounds good. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:12:13 Yeah, okay. So can I check us tomorrow morning because uh it's quite late in the night, um can I check us tomorrow morning? Yes. Speaker 1 00:12:35 You are awesome. And then I connect to people on Teams. Awesome, thanks. See you tomorrow. Thank you, goodbye. Yeah, he's the guy.
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08-11 Meeting: FY27–FY28 Budget Planning, Corporate Credit Card Pilot, SAP Concur Automation, IT Hardware Upgrades and Security Policies
- Notes
- > Date: August 11, 2026 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] [Speaker 10] [Christi] ## Meeting Notes ### Financial Reporting and Budget Planning - Kashif Khan outlined new financial initiatives to improve program management and data-driven decisions. - The finance department is transitioning to a budget reporting environment that began in FY26. - Directors will begin reviewing program financial statements in Q4 FY27 to proactively manage programs, costs, and revenue. - FY28 budget planning will start around March, using eight months of actuals and projecting the remainder. - Budget workbooks will include detailed personnel expenses (gross wages, fully loaded costs) and allow directors to include program-specific needs (e.g., team-building meals, training). - Conclusion: - FY27 budget finalization targeted for end of August 2026. - The new process enables executive discussions on program profitability and potential compensation adjustments, though salary decisions remain complex. ### Corporate Credit Card Program - A new corporate credit card program is piloting with Tammy’s wraparound team to streamline purchases for immediate client needs (e.g., food, hygiene). - Cards have a $1,000 limit, adjustable for larger purchases; staff upload receipts and code transactions in the BMO app for real-time manager visibility. - The program reduces reliance on cash advances and reimbursement for small amounts. - Conclusion: - Pilot runs for 90 days through end of October 2026, with phased rollout to other programs in November/December 2026. - Improved timeliness of family support and reduced cash handling. ### Automation in Finance and Accounting - Finance is exploring automation/AI for AP and expense reimbursement, evaluating SAP Concur to eliminate paper-based processing. - Bills will be scannable/submittable via email with digital workflow approvals on mobile or laptop; approval thresholds (e.g., >$1,500) can require multiple managers. - Conclusion: - SAP Concur demo scheduled for August 13, 2026; if approved, go-live targeted for January 1, 2027 under Darva’s oversight. ### Separation of Sharp vs. Barbara Floyd Expenses - Project to fully separate expenses for the for-profit (Sharp) and nonprofit (Barbara Floyd) entities, ending shared vendor cost splits (e.g., 80/20). - Vendors will maintain separate accounts for each entity. - Conclusion: - Clearer financial tracking and greater manager control/visibility over actual costs; led by Darva and Giselle. ### Finance Department Personnel Update - Giselle (payroll) assumes expanded duties to support AP. - Directors may contact James or Giselle for AP inquiries; CC Darva on emails. ### Payroll and Timesheet Management - Staff, particularly hourly FSPs working across multiple programs, must correctly select cost centers on timesheets for accurate budgeting, contract reporting, and wage allocation. - Meal premiums have spiked (13 and 18 in recent pay periods; 31 in July). These apply for crisis situations, court, or doctor visits—not routine scheduling. - Meal premium triggers when working past the fifth hour without lunch; staff should take lunch earlier (e.g., before the fourth hour) to avoid premiums. - The company will monitor individuals with frequent meal penalties and address cases with directors; primary concern is Department of Labor compliance around lunch practices. ### IT Hardware Updates: Phones and Laptops - Phone replacements prioritize BMO app users; devices failing to stay powered beyond 30 minutes are next. Crisis phone updated. Cases available in black, blue, pink. - 55 new phones acquired via Verizon deal; distribution pending cases. Tammy’s department receives first due to BMO/wrap priority; goal to update 55 end-of-life devices (OS old, >5 years). Inventory is maintained to track end-of-life. - Approximately 80 program laptops and 8 additional laptops will be replaced (end-of-life: >5 years old), targeting completion by end of September 2026. Robert has completed 20 in the last three weeks. ### Process Automation and Paperless Initiatives (IT/HR) - New hire IT paperwork will be digitized; DocuSign used for items like laptops, badges, phones; copies retained by employee, HR, and IT. - Company-wide policy signatures (computers, laptops, security) will be distributed via DocuSign; language approved by Crystal, Aaron, Apollo, and Dr. Barbara. BAFMA group’s policies go out two weeks later. Reminders sent for non-signers within four weeks. - Policies cover security, disaster recovery, and procedures for lost/stolen devices or virus incidents. ### Password and Security Policies - Users should not share passwords directly. For laptop swaps, passwords may be needed due to Microsoft Intune, but must be handled securely. - A new system will text users’ corporate phones for password approval. A secure website allows one-time view, self-destructing password transmission. - Admins must use their own credentials or shared screen sessions—not user passwords. ### IT Training and Support - Digital training for SCHARP employees begins second week of September 2026 via Teams/Zoom and recorded; in-person options available. - Topics include Outlook/email management, document saving, and security; additional suggestions (e.g., connecting Outlook to Gmail) are welcome. - Managers should provide slower days/times to schedule sessions and send topic suggestions to Christi or Robert Gaston. ### Feedback on IT Performance - Positive: Faster, more efficient helpdesk tickets; visible ticket history and reply/follow-up; improved customer service and staff attitude; expanded remote support team (>30 staff, including South Africa) enables quicker assistance. - Areas to improve: - Email distribution lists: Some employees miss “all staff” emails; new hires may not be auto-added consistently. - Printers: Missing preloaded email addresses for scanning; former employee names still present. - Hardware disposal: Plan needed to remove old equipment and free space. - Feedback anonymity: Concerns that “anonymous” negative feedback led to direct follow-up, reducing perceived anonymity. - Box retention: Kept temporarily without clear consolidation timeline or migration plan, creating user confusion. ### Laptop SIM Card Policy and Connectivity - Connectivity varies by location and carrier (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile); some buildings/garages have poor reception. - Current laptop SIMs use Verizon, same as company phones—hotspots won’t help if Verizon is weak. Alternatives (T-Mobile or Spectrum) will be considered case-by-case in weak Verizon areas. - To reduce costs, not all new laptops will include SIMs. Field staff (“Program”) will receive SIM cards; office staff will rely on mobile hotspots. - Conclusion: - Staff will identify who requires a laptop SIM card; decisions handled per individual needs and local connectivity. ### IT Support and Contact - Christi introduced herself as the IT support contact, encouraging outreach for ideas or help (not all suggestions are guaranteed). - Contact: - Email: Chris@crimsonit.com (preferred/fastest) - Phone: Cell and office lines support texting; prefers texts to cell. Business cards to be distributed. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Kashif Khan to finalize FY27 budget by end of August 2026. - [ ] Kashif Khan to contact directors in Q4 FY27 to begin reviewing program financial statements. - [ ] Nelson Keller to follow up with Kashif Khan regarding status of his corporate credit card. - [ ] Finance team to evaluate credit card pilot and plan phased rollout starting late Q4 2026. - [ ] Executive team to review SAP Concur demo on August 13, 2026. - [ ] Monitor individuals who consistently incur meal penalties and notify their directors. - [ ] Christi to send out company-wide security policies via DocuSign in the next couple of weeks. - [ ] Christi to audit “all staff” email distribution list automation for adding/removing users. - [ ] Christi to investigate printer address preloading issues; send company-wide email to identify affected printers. - [ ] Downtown LA staff to dispose of old hardware per Christi’s plan. - [ ] Christi to remind support team on handling non-anonymous feedback appropriately and clarify expectations. - [ ] Team managers to send Christi slower days/times for training scheduling and topic suggestions. - [ ] Christi to send an email regarding an online resource in the next couple of weeks. - [ ] Christi to distribute business cards with contact information. - [ ] Staff to inform IT which new employees require laptop SIM cards. ## AI Suggestions - Define a clear policy and process for making salary recommendations informed by program budget performance to avoid inequities and ensure fairness. - Customize the corporate credit card process for each program; finalize the adaptation of the “county version” template for programs like HSSP. - Provide a detailed rollout plan and timeline for distributing all 55 new phones beyond Tammy’s department. - Establish a process for employees to check if their phone is “end of life,” and communicate how Robert’s list will be accessed. - Create an audit and remediation plan for “all staff” distribution lists, ensuring automated add/remove works for new hires and departures. - Clarify feedback anonymity guidelines and update instructions so staff understand when leadership may follow up on negative reviews. - Assign responsibility and timeline to remove former employee names from printer address lists and preload current staff emails. - Define a timeline and migration plan for Box consolidation to reduce user confusion. - Establish a process for reporting Verizon SIM connectivity issues and requesting alternative carriers (e.g., T-Mobile) with defined criteria and approval steps. - Set criteria to determine which roles or conditions warrant laptop SIM cards versus reliance on mobile hotspots to guide consistent decisions.
- Date
- Aug 11, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:09 Brown, I'm the director of ICMM and our data program. Darva Coleman, director of finance and accounting. Speaker 2 00:00:16 Kashif Khan, I'm the interim CFO. Speaker 3 00:00:20 Yesenia Garcia, director of EPMO. Speaker 4 00:00:23 What project? Speaker 3 00:00:25 EPMO. Thank you very much. Speaker 4 00:00:27 Brian Blumena, uh Director of FSP. Congratulations! Speaker 5 00:00:31 Anitra DeJonge, uhBuilding Department. Christy Brown, Chief Information Officer. Speaker 6 00:00:38 Nelson Keller, I am the agency director of Aspen. Anyone, the director of Children's Services. Speaker 7 00:00:58 I Don't know if you have. Speaker 4 00:01:13 Oh, Yeah. Sorry. Speaker 4 00:01:44 Yeah, I think that's enough. Speaker 7 00:01:47 We won't put you on the spot, and we can put that here. You may not have to. But okay, uh, Kashif, you will have to go first because you're on a time frame. And then Darlene can go after Kashif. So I am jumping around a little bit on the agenda, but that is in interest of. Thank you. Speaker 4 00:02:03 Appreciate that. Speaker 7 00:02:03 Oh and hotmic! Please remember just for recording for note taking purposes, don't say anything you don't want heard. Speaker 2 00:02:12 Well, thank you, everybody. I am glad to be here. It's been a while that I haven't come around to the director's meeting, but you'll see me more often going forward. There is just a few items that I want to update everybody about. Both Darva and I are a TAC team leading the finance department, And there is some initiatives on our plate that's going to be impacting program services and how we operate. All good things though, right? So to start is just an update: we are getting. Getting ourselves into a budget reporting environment, we've never had that in this organization. The first year was F Y twenty six where we're actually doing. Uh, we had developed Belinda had developed a budget that we we inputted in our finance system and were managing reporting based upon that, having budgets versus actual reports et cetera. I know many of the directors here have not seen it. The objective is that um in F Y twenty seven. Speaker 2 00:03:10 We're going to develop the FY twenty seven budget. That's being finalized right now. It should be done hopefully by the end of this month. I am working with Jennifer closely on getting revenue projections understood. Then, with that, It's going to be probably around Q four is you are going to start hearing from me about reviewing your financial statements for your individual programs. It's going to be a little behavioral change for everybody because you are not used to it, but reading financial statements understanding them. Speaker 2 00:03:40 Is going to give you more intel at your fingertips to proactively manage your your programs. That's what it's intended to do. And then in FY when we plan for F Y twenty eight, our plan is to get into a proper cadence, usually in developing a budget. So usually what happens is uh budgets start and a fiscal year program. You start developing your budget and towards the end of March, you have eight months of actuals and then you Project out the latter three months or four months, and then you develop a budget plan for the following year. I'll be helping everybody along the way in that, but this is not something you are going to be doing alone. It's not something to be scared of. You are not going to be tested on it. It just gives you more ammunition on how to develop your programs, how to manage your costs, how to manage your revenue, all of that right so um. Speaker 2 00:04:37 Brian is already doing somewhat of that in the SAMHSA program. You know, He understands how we do the budget to actual readouts and reports every single month. So, just like that, we're going to do that with everybody. So more to come on it, But we're going to have the FY twenty seven budget completed, hopefully by the end of this month. Like I said, I'll be wrapping that up with Jennifer. All right? Any questions about budget planning or anything as such? No? Yes, go ahead Rob. Speaker 2 00:05:09 Yes, Everyone. Yeah, so we have it. We have QA, we have billing, accounting, HR. Every everyone will has their own. So you you will be managing your budgets. Yeah, so and I'll go over it once we develop the budget. We'll go over it with you. So you're not going to be sitting blinded So I'll be helping you along the way Yes Um Will. Speaker 1 00:05:28 It also help? Speaker 2 00:05:40 Yeah, correct. Yeah, your largest expense in your budget is your personnel expense. So yeah, you'll have it by individual their gross wages, their fully loaded cost. You'll have that detail in your budget workbooks and you'll see it when I when I show it to you. And that will kind of help us identify whether we have room. Speaker 1 00:06:01 To do maybe like we may not need a train that might cost or might be materials. Speaker 2 00:06:13 Yes, All of that, and that's a very good point. That's what it's going to allow for you to do. You'll see how profitable your programs are based upon that. The idea is to repurpose those dollars back into staff, back into your programs. How do you what can you do and what can you not do? You'll be able to see that within that budget. So, that's a very good point because once I go over the budget with you, you'll see it and if what I present and what I develop, Doesn't if I'm wrong on something or I am understating something, you can always correct it. You can add to it, right? Because, this is the first time that we're going to be looking at it together, so it'll be up to you. You tell me, "Darva, I want to add a certain amount for employee meals for team building exercises." I want to add X amount for training exercises et cetera. You put that all in there; build it in. All right? So I'll show you how how to do that once we we get the budgets complete. Speaker 1 00:07:14 And able to adjust salaries if we have a budget. No, Speaker 2 00:07:21 No, no. What do you mean by that? Speaker 1 00:07:23 So well, she answered the question. But is our program brought in enough where the staff could be compensated through salaries? Would that be would that be okay? Speaker 2 00:07:37 Okay, I hear what you're saying. Uh yeah, i I would defer to Aaron on that, but i I heard her. I think it's, It'll give you an opportunity to open a discussion with executives. That's what it's going to give you, right? So and then based upon that discussion and what decisions made, you move forward with it. But that'll be the boilerplate for you too. Speaker 7 00:07:58 I think it's great. If I see you guys first be more transparent with you guys, and then we can make recommendations or suggestions specifically when we think about salaries, we think about the entire system how long people. Speaker 7 00:08:15 Investigation, But when we take a look at all of the salaries and have ranges and analysis and compare, But if we I don't want to over promise that if you guys do a budget, then you can make salary recommendations. That's just slippery slope. But like we go, we also have issues. And so it's just it's something like I said, you guys can always recommend and what you suggest. But just making salary recommendations based on one program can be tricky. So hope we get to get. Speaker 7 00:08:46 I know you guys are saying you guys can make recommendations and suggestions, but the the like usually go. Speaker 2 00:08:56 Thank you. Any other questions thoughts before we move on? Okay, the other uh the other items are just for update purposes. Um, One thingum Nelson your your corporate credit card for back from Doctor. Barbara says you're going to get one. I'm actually speaking to BMO later today. Uh we have to establish a new credit facility. With them, so that just might take a few weeks. So I'll keep you posted on that. So you can email me directly and I'll let you know how far along. Yeah, Speaker 6 00:09:24 Already just send me an email or something. I'm sorry? Do you want me to when you guys. Speaker 2 00:09:28 No, no, I'll keep you posted. There's a process we have to apply for a credit facility through BMO under Barbara Floyd. And then once we get approved, which takes about three to four weeks, I would thinkum I'm going to try to expedite it. Call that I am going to have at four o'clock today. Okay, open the credit facility, expedite it. Just let me know what you need in a few days. Yeah, I'll let you know. Thank you. The other pieces. We have started a credit card facility program within the organization, starting with Tammy and her team with the wraparound program, utilizing corporate credit cards to make purchases instead of sending a check into accounting, getting it approved and getting cash. Speaker 2 00:10:14 Then going out and making a purchase, It's we started that credit card program so that the program teams don't have to be delayed in any activity that they're working on. So maybe Tammy, If you want to share some thoughts because I haven't reached out to you about this, I'd hate to put you on the spot, But are you okay to give us some feedback on how that program is running right now for the last two three weeks since you've had the credit card? Speaker 1 00:10:37 It's been at a snail's pace, butum because there's a couple, Once they go and make a purchase, it does take some days generally for it to show up in BMO. I am trying to work on maybe tweaking the process because I do have them turn in their physical receipt to Marianne because we still have to upload the WTS. So, I was talking with someone yesterday about getting Marianne access to verify those receipts within BMO. Speaker 1 00:11:12 And that, when I don't have a good copy of fee, I'll have to go get it from her. That kind of process. So, but so far I've approved a few and then once I approve them, then the final receive the information go to department. Department, Speaker 2 00:11:28 Yeah. So overall are you seeing an improvement in? Speaker 1 00:11:32 I do see an improvement. So, they're able to go get the families what they need right away, which is great. Speaker 1 00:11:41 You know, Some of the families like they need to eat while they're out with with the staff or something like that. Um, and they've been able to do that. We have like a homeless family right now, So we were able to, you know, have the funds available to make sure they have food, like baby some kind of thing. Um, so it's working much better in that regard. Speaker 2 00:12:02 Okay good good thank you for that feedback. So, who else has who else would be the other uh leader here for this? Speaker 2 00:12:11 For the other CSS programs, Speaker 8 00:12:13 I sent you a list of the names that I asked for. As far as the directors, which would be George Brian, whoever has CSS funds attached to them is Dana. Nelson's name is in on there, so I think but I did include him. But I said that he was already in place. Speaker 2 00:12:31 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wasn't remembering who it was, Speaker 8 00:12:33 So thank you for that. Um, I don't know if by these warriors because they don't know. Speaker 8 00:12:43 Once we know, then people can be added. And then I was going to put Nika on there because technically some of her programs are supposed to set a budget aside. I also think that probably Doctor is going to be one at some point. Speaker 2 00:12:56 With the medical things, but that's a different discussion. Yeah, okay and and we can talk about that. But specifically for folks that are managing CSS funds, this is the improvement that you will see. Like Tammy said, the key thing is that it's immediate. You're not waiting to provide service to the beneficiary. You can do it at your discretion. And then, yes. Speaker 1 00:13:22 So what are the parameters around that? Are there specific transactions that you utilize just for that? Or does all the transaction I know there's some things that you have to get approval for? So are you guys already put something together? Or is it just. Speaker 2 00:13:45 Yeah, and so and and that's a good question. We're testing the program right now. Now, there is some items that cannot be charged on a credit card, like rent; that has to go through a check. But it's day-to-day food, hygiene products, clothing, haircuts—anything ancillary. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:14:15 Yeah, we have a. Yeah, you got to look at your sheet. No, no, I understand what we can use with our dollars. I am talking about the process, the process of delineating, what items that we're going to use for the credit card and what we will not use for the credit card. Yeah, So I have a process specific to my program that I put together where they still have to come. And get it authorized first like approved. Speaker 1 00:14:45 Purchase, and I had everyone sign an application for that process. And, they have a credit card contract or whatever they find with Sharp as well. But it identifies in my process, I identified all the steps that they have. And it's really thorough; Speaker 8 00:15:06 It's good. She sent it to me as a document, and it was really well done. So, but it was very specific to right so, So, when they're ready, we can show county version as an example of what you guys can create. Because we all know, like HSSP, You have a different process than what RAP has to go through as far as like still requesting stuff. And how you do the like. So I'm asking questions: What they is, Speaker 1 00:15:30 Is this a one credit card per program that have? Or is it like so per person? Per person? Oh, so I have specific people do it. Like. Well, actually, Most of everybody that has a direct service provider, have a card because they're able to find, and the money only goes on, whatever place that money is. So it's on the card. Yes, so the card right now is a thousand dollars per card. So once they get to that max, It's supposed to like as they make purchases and as they're approved, then the thousand will be available. However. Speaker 1 00:16:14 Or, out and she goes right in and increases it. So, I, just let them know that you got to take them on shopping and all this needs to be done during eight to four, you know. Or if I know in advance, then there is a simple process that they do to increase the credit limit. So. Then there is some level of training that can be provided to the holders. Yeah, so they a couple of circumstances where like say a staff. Speaker 1 00:16:48 To everyone, Speaker 2 00:16:49 Especially you as the program leader, you'll be able to see who's purchasing what. You purchase it's not a month later; you know what's happening at that moment. So when they make a purchase on their credit card within two days when the transaction posts, Speaker 1 00:17:07 And BMO provided the tools to show my staff how to upload receipts and things in BMO, and then I've been. Speaker 2 00:17:22 It Provides transparency to document, fill out paperwork, submit it to accounting, them reviewing back and forth. I mean you get a week that you get a long period of time before they, the the person, the person who made the transaction has to log in to BMO on their app on their phone and code that transaction. They have to apply it to the right chart of account code. They have to identify who the beneficiary is and other factors related to that beneficiary. So it gives you full details before the manager approves it. So, but the thing is, it gives control back to you, not okay, let me get a actually get cash in your hand. This eliminates, it puts a control and responsibility back to the program, leaders and yourself. So. And yeah, when we get to the point of rolling it out to other programs, we will talk about what we are specifically doing with wraparound. Speaker 2 00:18:16 And, how we have to tweak the language in our programs or our processes for your individual programs. So it's a fluid thing; it's not something set in stone. Speaker 8 00:18:28 Yeah, and like really high amounts, like anything over fifteen hundred, I think Doctor Barbara wants executives to take an eye, like Aaron and myself, To look at because then we got to run it to him so he can sign. Speaker 1 00:18:43 Our program would have both parts. Speaker 1 00:18:47 And then there's there's going to be a whole other bucket of funds which, yeah, they haven't figured out yet. We're still trying to figure out for the community um referrals that we're going to be getting for happenin. And do that, which is separate. But I do want to say that with the credit card, it it changed. So you know, the staff have to adapt to that, but I didn't see the benefit in it. Speaker 1 00:19:21 And it takes it does take some of it off of the back, as far as like, like before they do a check and they round about number right? Okay, I am going to take those shoppers three hundred dollars. But, it may be, you know, they may do, you know, two, ninety eight, and they got to do a whole form. They got to bring that couple of dollars back. That's that's gone because we're going to need the exact amount that they spent. And that was approved for us approved for them to do three hundred dollars. And at two ninety eight, we just make that notation. Speaker 1 00:19:52 Approval form, And that's not they don't have to bring any cash back and all of that. And it takes away from them having to put a check in their account. This was huge. Speaker 2 00:20:03 It's safety for them; they're not carrying cash around with them, you know. Speaker 4 00:20:19 So Just really quick when when can we expect this to roll out? Speaker 2 00:20:23 That's a very good question. Now, what we're doing is we're testing with Tammy for the next ninety days, so probably by end of October, we should have a full understanding of what's working, what's not working. And then probably towards the end of Q four November. December is when we will start rolling up a new program. I am going to talk to Christy about that about who would be the next cohort group. But, we're going to do it in stages. ;, we're not going to roll that out to everybody just because one worked now, We have Tammy working. ; you have group number two working try to. See the commonality and issues that we're having, solve those, and then roll in cohort group number three, et cetera, until we get everybody rolled out. But, the idea is like Tammy said it's to bring control ;. It's to bring ease of process for the program itself. And ultimately and most importantly, the beneficiaries are being responded to more timely. That's what's going to improve for you guys. Yeah? All right. Any other questions? Speaker 2 00:21:21 All right. Um, the I have just two more items. So, the next one is uh just an update about what we're looking to do, the changes we're making in in finance and accounting when it comes to automation, leveraging AI uh uh and incorporating that into our workflows. By that what we are looking at is automating our complete accounts payable program here in expense reimbursement. So, when uh we were looking at a software called SAP Concur to uh to. To review and deploy in our environment, Which is going to eliminate almost ninety nine percent of all paper processing for accounts payable. All you do is you get a bill, scan it, send it to an email address, and then follow a workflow process digitally on your phone, on your iPad, on your laptop. It's going to eliminate all the paperwork that that you have to do manually. Speaker 2 00:22:19 No more filling out check request forms or anything as such. You submit it through through SAP Concur. There's always going to be someone uh making a request for a purchase, another manager approving it. We can set thresholds for dollar approval workflows if we need. If there's a purchase over fifteen hundred like Crystal was talking about, it requires two manager approvals. Everything is done on your phone, no paper, no check. Everything gets digitally paid to whoever The vendor is et cetera. So, that SAP Concur demo is being demoed to the executive team on Thursday. So, if their buy-in is good, then I am going to start rolling it out. The goal is to have it go live on January one for the team. And it'll be Darva who will be overlooking the entire program for us. So, it's going to be a huge undertaking for the organization because it's a complete. Speaker 2 00:23:17 Shift in behavior and how we're actually processing payments and working with our vendors. All right, so a lot more to come on that, But this is just to let you know what we're looking to do and what's coming down the pike in the near future. Very near future, three four months down the line. All right, and everybody will get trained on through SAP. So everybody will get familiar with it. It's a very simplistic application, but it's going to bring a lot of change to the organization. Any questions on that? Okay, and then last one uh is separation of expenses for Sharp versus Barbara Floyd. Right, now there's a lot of practice where all the vendors that were shared services, all the administrative and executive services are provided by Sharp to Barbara Floyd. We're going to be segregating all of that. So, it's going to be no more this eighty twenty split if you've heard of it. If you haven't heard of it, we uh. Speaker 2 00:24:15 Accounting, there's certain vendors that we work with. With Crimson IT, bills get separated. If they bill us for ten thousand dollars, we're charging eight thousand to chart and two thousand to back. But Barbara Floyd doesn't have an actual invoice from the vendor, so we're separating the because it's a standalone entity. There's a for-profit entity and a nonprofit entity, so the two. Different organizations, we're going to get two different accounts with that same vendor. So, right so for you, Your you'll know exactly who you are working with and what you are working, right? What your costs are. So it'll really give you a whole lot more control over the entire organization. So a lot more to come on that, But that's going to be this is something that we're starting now. And again, Darva was leading that effort along with Giselle. Oh lastly okay one more point speaking of Giselle. Speaker 2 00:25:12 Giselle in our payroll department is now taking on a more expanded role to help support accounts payable as well. So if there are questions, James is not your only go- to person. You can also go to Giselle. Just keep her informed so she knows what's going on. Speaker 7 00:25:33 When you guys email James or uh Giselle for inquiries, make sure you guys CC Darva. Speaker 2 00:25:39 Oh, got it, yeah. Speaker 2 00:25:42 Any questions with what I shared? Okay, so I am going to pass forward to Darva. She has a couple of things to share with you. So, Speaker 9 00:25:50 Mine are payroll related. So, One of the things I wanted to go over is cost center selection on the timesheet, particularly the hourly staff if they're going from program to program, Particularly like FSPs because we get some PAs that say that they're working in both. Um, if they are truly working in both, Please make sure that the cost center selection is happening or if they're working in any other program outside of their home cost center. Um, it's important for purposes of um budgeting. Um, Sometimes it's applicable to the contract reporting and also proper uh salary wage expense allocation. So please watch out for that because. Speaker 9 00:26:36 Sometimes, if you might have, especially when you start getting the budgets and looking at that, you might have questions. And particularly with salaries and wages, you know that's going to be important because that might be why you are, you know, above budget or lower than budget than you expected in a given month. So please watch out for that. And, the second is remember I think a little meeting or two ago. I was talking about how good we were doing on meal premiums? Yeah. So that's changed. So, we've gone from like about four to seven meal premiums a month to July. We had thirteen for one pay period, and then this last one we had eighteen. So if we could just please watch out for these meal premiums, Meal premiums should only be happening really like in crisis situations, or if like they're at the doctor um or something like that or in courts. But what we need to also inform employees is if you have to take your lunch a little earlier. Speaker 9 00:27:32 Because once you hit that fifth hour, a meal premium will kick in, and so we're paying them an extra hour, you know, for that meal premium. So, if they normally take their lunch at twelve, but they know they're going to be in court, they should take their lunch at eleven. Um. So unfortunately but we we can't. We need to try to avoid them where we can. We know, in some cases, it's going to happen, but it's just that the uptick so quickly was kind of surprising. Speaker 1 00:28:06 Going at nine eleven, yeah. Speaker 9 00:28:08 Well, that's what I am saying. If t here is a situation, if somebody's like," I don't want to eat at eleven," um and and for some reason, they can't take their lunch before the fifth hour. Speaker 6 00:28:19 It's after the third right? Yeah, Speaker 9 00:28:21 After the third hour. So by law, After the third hour, i want know. Speaker 10 00:28:29 They should be taking their lunch midday by the fourth hour because by the fourth hour, because. If they hit the fifth hour, they will get that meal. Speaker 6 00:28:39 Oh no, what I'm saying is after the third hour, they could take their meals. Yeah, Speaker 10 00:28:42 Three and a half. Right? Speaker 3 00:28:43 Yeah yeah yeah okay. They usually they sorry like my team for example, They usually they seem to go to doctor's visit often. So they know that already one of the conversations that I have is if they know ahead of time that there are going to be missing, what they do ended up doing at times is taking thirty minutes first and then go on their day and then take another thirty minutes. They usually divide their time, or they tend to go to lunch a little bit earlier, but they usually manage. So, they just see ahead of time, if that is going to be an issue. But they do tend to split sometimes their lunch, or they take it earlier. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:29:18 Most times it is at least they have to have at least thirty minutes. But there are situations where like you said, They're at court orum they know that they're going to be busy with the staff or with the client and nine and then taking a lunch. Speaker 9 00:29:36 Yeah, I am thinking of people starting at eight or eight thirty, so that's probably why. But yeah, I understand that it's just that if their things are scheduled and maybe things can I don't know be scheduled ahead of time. Yeah, They know ahead of time because I am seeing some things where some things that are scheduled and I am like, well, then the lunch should have been taken a little bit ahead of time. It wasn't that much?;? It was really close to like a fourth hour or whatever. Speaker 2 00:29:59 Yeah, So you want to do is try to make it a practice with this team, tell them by the fourth hour. Take your. Take your lunch. Don't we know it's a fifth hour from a practice internal practice, uh, just do it at the fourth hour just to avoid the penalty. Now, we'll be monitoring the individuals that uh are getting the meal penalty because the tendency is you'll realize that it's the same person doing it constantly. That that that's when you can take more administrative action and just have a conversation with that one. Particular. Speaker 2 00:30:33 Because it should not be happening the way it is, right? It's uh they it should be no meal penalties. But if we see consistency with one individual, then we have to address that with that one particular individual. Speaker 9 00:30:47 And we'll notify the directors about those. Yeah. Were these uh resources per week or per pay period? Pay period resources increased to seven? Yeah, it increased from like four and seven to eighteen now, like thirteen and eighteen. So we had thirty one for the month of July. Speaker 2 00:31:06 And and it happens like you all said, right? There's you have a business you're running, You have. Uh, it's a fluid. It's not it's a fluid process of work that you guys do. So things will happen. We want to be mindful of it because then we can get, it's not really the money aspect of it, It's really more challenges that would come from the Department of Labor telling us why are we constantly not adhering to a lunch practice. We want to avoid that type of conversation. We don't want it to appear that we're denying people's lives. Correct. Any questions, thoughts, comments? Okay. Anything else on? That's it for me. Speaker 7 00:31:49 Thank you, everybody. Christy, I'm going to have to go now because we get into the other facilities and it might take a while. Does everybody know? Speaker 5 00:32:01 So, I am going to slightly stand because I can't see all of you guys from back here. So, I am going to. I did bring candy because I like to make things interesting, and you guys are just way too quiet. Um, so for those of you guys who have not met me in person, my name is Chris Brown. You can call me Chris or Christy. Um, You can email me at my Sharp email address, or you can email me at the Clemson. I pay careful attention to both, but not as much careful attention to Sharp as I do Clemson. So just a heads up if you need a faster response um, I have business cards For you guys, but I left them in my office, so I'll bring them back around lunchtime. I do have a few things. I want to go over with you guys today, And then I'm going to have a pop quiz just because I have candy to throw at you guys. Um, I'm going to stand a little closer to Costa, just so I can throw it over here. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Um, poor guy. Uh, very first thing I wanted to go over is the new phones. So we did order 55 new phones last month. Speaker 5 00:32:59 To get over to people who absolutely need them. We worked out a deal with Verizon and got the phones for free. Um, and so we're just waiting on the cases to come in. Tammy, your department's going first, um, just because of the BMO app. Um, also because wrap teams are near and dear to my heart. So um I am a foster mom to teenagers in uh extended foster care. So I work with a lot of wrap teams as a foster mom, and you guys are near and dear to my heart. So I'm gonna put you guys first. Also, because Kasha strong armed me, told me I had to do it. Any questions about the phone? Because we do have priorities where we're putting them in, But we are trying to get everyone who has an expired end of life phone updated. And there is fifty five people in the organization that need their phones updated. So, is there any questions about those phones going out? How. Speaker 6 00:33:57 Do you know what's end of life? Speaker 5 00:33:59 So we keep a careful accounting of the inventory we have for all staff. Um, And certain phones uh have gone end of life, because the operating system is old, and the phone themselves is over five years old. I am going to check with Robert; he was supposed to pull that. Speaker 6 00:34:23 Yeah, gotcha. Speaker 3 00:34:26 Let me talk with him because I, Yeah. The. Speaker 5 00:34:36 BMO app people are first because we need to get those done as quickly as possible. And then, um, We're going to be working with Crystal and Erin on what's next and which departments are going to be next. So we'll go by priority. Um, There are a couple phones that need to be replaced sooner than that, that don't rely on the BMO app, but that's just because, Phones themselves are not staying up for more than thirty minutes, And so those people are going to go next just because we need to get them. Speaker 1 00:35:05 We did get our crisis phone updated; that was super important. Speaker 5 00:35:10 Yeah, we do also have cases for you guys for your phones. So the cases are most of them are black, But we had to work out and because we had such a large amount we ordered, We also got some in blue and pink, so people can be a little bit more choosing with their phone covers. Um, on the laptops programs has about eighty laptops that we're switching out. We're slated to get those done by the end of September, so some of your staff will also receive new laptops as well. Um, we do we do have a list that Robert is working through, so he's working through them as quickly as possible. I think he got twenty done in the last three weeks, Which is actually pretty good given the fact that he's working through a lot of other issues as well. Speaker 5 00:35:57 So just a heads up for you guys, Those laptops are going to be going out for people who have end of life laptops that they need to be switched out. So he's got those as well, and you have eight laptops. Speaker 6 00:36:09 Yeah, we have a bunch more. Speaker 5 00:36:10 Yes, so you're getting switched out. We have eight laptops for you and eighty for Sharp right now that are being switched out. Yes ma'am? Are the end of life. So these are laptops that are well over five years old. Oh okay. So and there's quite a few. Speaker 5 00:36:29 Well, yesterday I turned it on and the message said no more memory. Oh, yeah. I couldn't open PDFs. Got you understood We will we will get that fixed. Um, we are also going to also follow under the automation and more paperless items, especially with new hires. Um, I know you guys know that new hires coming in. They have a lot of IT paperwork that they got to sign. So we're going to make that more um paperless. And they're going to use DocuSign to sign their paperwork for IT. So, items like the paperwork that they sign when they receive their laptop, their badge, Their phone, all of that is going to be digitized, and they'll have a copy. HR is getting a copy and we'll keep a copy. So just a heads up for you guys on that as well. We're also I know, this is a lot, and I do apologize. Um we're also going to be sending out uh company policies for computers and laptops to everyone. Speaker 5 00:37:27 And security policies for everyone in the company to sign. So, I am going to be sending those out probably in the next couple of weeks. I've got the language finalized. Crystal, Aaron, Apollo have signed off on it. Doctor Barbara has signed off on it. So, um, I am just getting them formatted in DocuSign to send out to the entire company yours as well. Um. So uh, yours is going to be delayed by two weeks. Okay. Just because it's the same language. I just got to put it on BAFMA heading. So i just want to make you guys be aware of it. I will reach out to you guys uh for individuals if they don't sign within four weeks, just to kind of keep you updated. Um it's not anything stressful. We're just going over security policies. What happens in the event of a disaster? Um what happens if they get a virus or suspect their computer might be infected? Or what happens if they get their phone or laptop stolen lost. So it's just a rehash of those policies that haven't gone out. So yes, sir. Speaker 4 00:38:32 I should do, but um, I think that as that I send my username and password. Yes. Because of that, they can switch out the laptop, Which I thought was surprising because the first thing you always hear is never share the username and password. Yes. Speaker 5 00:39:06 No, you should not. I did have a conversation with them about that. We do have a password policy in play. So, going forward, What's more than likely going to happen and is going to be the first company that Crimson Rose is out to is we'll be sending a text to your corporate phone when you are requesting a password. And you have to approve that request. We also have a website that we use that securely saves your password and, So, if you need to send a password to, let's say, Erin, You can send it through that link, and it self destructs the password after she views it. I wrote the program so I know how it works. So Christi. Speaker 2 00:39:46 But we shouldn't be giving our passwords out administratively they need if some support needs to work on a one of these laptops. Yes, the admin through their back in and their login log in and fix a problem. We shouldn't be. Like, it wouldn't have if it's something that needs to be installed using my user profile, Then it should be a shared screen thing, and I enter my password without giving it to them. Speaker 5 00:40:14 This would be where we're replacing his laptop. Speaker 2 00:40:17 Yeah, even even then so I mean you you power up a laptop, configure it, get it onto the domain. You don't need my password to do that. Speaker 5 00:40:25 We do the way that Microsoft Intune now works because. Speaker 2 00:40:28 We didn't do that at Ability First. Speaker 5 00:40:30 We do now It streamlines the process. Speaker 2 00:40:33 So we have to give the password out to somebody. Speaker 5 00:40:35 Yep, and we do it through a secure website now. That's interesting. Yeah, it's a lot more secure than it used to be. We're not giving it to a person. No, you're not giving it to a person, you're sending it through a secure website. And they can't see it? They can see it when they're ready for it and It's a one time use. I'll go over with you. Yeah, We'll talk about that. You can also give us an update in our IT meeting on Monday Yes. Speaker 5 00:41:05 All right, so I know I went through everything rapidly. Any questions about the cell phones, the policies, the laptop changeouts, and going paperless? Because that's not all I have, but I want to make sure that some important stuff gets out first. Speaker 6 00:41:24 Yes. All. Speaker 5 00:41:27 Right. Um, I am going to offer some training classes to SCHARP employees, and these are going to be completely digital. Um, they are in conjunction with some other training that we're doing, and they are going to get recorded. So, these are going to be trainings on how to effectively do your email or work with your email. Outlook, uh, how to properly save documents, how to be secure. Um, So these are going to be actual trainings that we're going to be doing over uh, Teams and Zoom for all staff and employees. These are going to be things that will help you become more efficient with your job. Um. Speaker 5 00:42:03 If anyone is interested in doing it in person, we can do that. We'll start planning those for September for all of you guys, But we want to make sure that you guys have the knowledge and things to be effective at your jobs with the tools in your hands. So, we are going to be offering those. I am going to be sending that out in an email. And it's going to be starting around the second week of September. What I need from you guys is to send me what days and times are usually slower for your staff. Because we want to work around your schedule, we don't want you guys to have to work around my schedule. If you try to work around my schedule, life is going to be impossible. So I would rather work around y'all. So, if you guys can get me what days and times during the week, it's better for your staff, I know a lot of teams work late, I know some of them work early, and we can do multiple training sessions that work for you guys. But I want to find out what would help you guys. Speaker 5 00:42:58 And then also, what trainings you need. Some people have mentioned to me that they need help with Outlook and how to make sure that it's staying connected to their Gmail. So things like that. So if you guys want to send us suggestions to me, Robert Gaston, We're going to get those planned out for you guys to make your lives just a little bit easier. We just need to know when too. And like I said, we'll do multiple sessions as well. I'm sorry? Are we using Outlook? So, some people use Outlook on their computers. So, The very last thing this one's going to be more of an open discussion because I am my voice is leaving me right now. Um, I need to hear from you guys what is working in IT. Speaker 5 00:44:04 Was resolved like, I think by like two o'clock I had my computer. Yeah. Those are the things I like to hear. What else is working with IT? I want to hear the good stuff before I ask you my next question. Speaker 3 00:44:16 Another thing that you can now see the history of your ticket because before you were not using the ticketing, and if you wanted to get back to it, to follow up, There was no place to actually find it. And now you can see the history and reply too. Speaker 10 00:44:36 Customer service is also great, and it has improved since, you know, you took over. So thank you for that. Speaker 1 00:44:43 So I agree with Gloria too, it's more quicker, efficient, helpful. The staff have reported that one person in particular's attitude has changed so doing much better. Speaker 5 00:44:60 Over there. We actually have over, 30 employees working behind the scenes behind Robert and Gaston. So, I don't know if you guys know that sometimes you might hear from a gentleman named Riddick. He's an amazing guy, great sense of humor. Um, or Juno. Um, she's really great. So you might start getting calls from staff that's not Robert and Gaston. Um, If you'll hear a variety of accents, we have gentlemen in uh South Africa who have been working with me for almost as long as I've been with Crimson. Some of my first hires. Speaker 5 00:45:33 So, if you guys hear about that or see it, Just let me know that these guys are stepping in to help out to make response times a lot quicker for you. And anything that they can do remotely, they will do remotely. So, all right. So next one, this is why I brought candy. It's a shield. I want to hear the bad things, and I will throw a piece of candy at you. And if you can't catch it, I will pass it down the line. So what's not working Apollo? Speaker 10 00:46:02 Uh, I don't know. It's kind of it's somewhat minor, But uh we've tried sometimes emailing uh through the all staff. And it seems like sometimes, some employees are not getting it. So there's there's glitches sometimes. Speaker 5 00:46:14 Okay, I will work on that because we did find that Gmail is a little bit more difficult with distribution lists. So we were trying to make that better. BAFMA as well, even though he just stepped out, um sometimes BAFMA gets them, and sometimes they don't. Speaker 5 00:46:30 And also, we do have that address restricted to your team and my team for now, and senior leadership. So some people, if they need to send out the all staff and they can't, just let us know. You can get them added. It is set up to automate on its own. So every time it sees a new person that's active, it adds them. Every time it sees someone deactivated, it removes them. Speaker 2 00:46:60 So, you may want to test that because I think that's where the problems happen. Yeah, because new people are not getting on to it. Gotcha. Speaker 5 00:47:07 So I'll run that scenario again. Would it be IT that preloads the email addresses on the printers? Yes, yeah. So if yours is not seeing that happen, I will get that added to the list. Speaker 4 00:47:43 Usually I get it right, but when you go back to the computer, like why didn't they go through? You got to go back. Speaker 5 00:47:48 So we can have those screens looked at though, you know. Yes, I will work with that with them on that. Um, I will probably also send out an email. Uh just to everybody asking, hey, do you not have access to your email address in the printer and find out which printer so that we can push that pretty quickly. But that's a good one to bring up. Um would you like a Tootsie Roll or a vanilla chew? Speaker 5 00:48:18 I Got an orange and a blue. All right, you can catch. And that's my bat shoulder. All right, anybody else follow? Tootsiero wipeout? Crystal wants to go. Oh, I gotta work on my arm strength again. Yes. Speaker 7 00:48:47 Is there a plan or a timeframe when we will be disposing of it, of course recycling it? Speaker 5 00:48:53 And how are we trying to just make more space? Um, we will get that. I will remind the downtown LA staff to get that done quickly. So, they have a new person. We can throw them in to load up the van. No, that's perfect. We can do that. Um, one reminder and I was looking at Jennifer and I just remembered, Um, if you were working in Box, we're not disabling that. Um, it's gonna be around for a little bit longer. So. So we are going to work on pushing that into a shared location, consolidating all shared locations, but Box is going to stick around a little bit longer. So anything else? Because I'm usually getting slammed by what IT is doing wrong, and you guys are being too nice. Yes? Speaker 1 00:49:48 For example, The printer eighty seven fifty, they have the number of former employees still on there. Speaker 5 00:49:57 Yeah, is it a way to clear that we will get that cleared? Yeah, so zero or two furloughed. Speaker 3 00:50:07 Okay, It's a little negative comment, just just a comment. You know, a little bit deceiving whenever a ticket is closed. We usually receive an email saying, like. How was your experience? Give you feedback. Nobody will know that's not true. I sent a few months ago. I had a comment, and it wasn't a negative comment per se, but it was about like the time length that it took. Yeah, and immediately after I submitted it, they reached out to me addressed that, and I was like," I thought that it wasn't anonymous." So now I don't feel comfortable to say anything negative because they know that they're not gonna know that I said something. Speaker 5 00:50:43 So, let me talk to you about that because am no one reach out to you? Speaker 3 00:50:46 No, it wasn't. It wasn't. It was the person that it wasn't your ticket. Oh, that might have been when I was out on medical leave. So, like now is like it's not gotcha. Speaker 5 00:50:58 I will remind because I was out for almost two weeks on medical leave. Um, so anything that came in so what happens if it's yellow? If, you guys respond back with a yellow or red. Uh the email goes to my senior leadership and me, um and then one of us is supposed to reach out. Usually, if we try within fifteen minutes, but like if I get one today, I am not going to reach out until after two o'clock. Um, and this applies for any client that gives us that. So, we're supposed to reach out. And probably what happened was I was out, and I know one had come in. Um, and I think they just went directly to the truck to the tech. For the most part they are anonymous. The only people that can see it is my executive leadership, unless they forward it to somebody else. And that probably would be what happened so I'll talk to you. Speaker 5 00:51:45 The team today and remind them not to do that again. Speaker 1 00:51:49 What is the determination criteria for when you reach out? Speaker 5 00:51:55 So, if you click on it and you click on either yellow or red, it's going to that's when I reach out. If you click a green, I will see the comment, but I am not going to reach out to you on that because I would have to reach out to about one hundred people a day. Speaker 1 00:52:11 That might be added into the instruction. Speaker 5 00:52:15 And it's supposed to be a senior leader that reaches out to you. Anybody else? Geez, you guys are so nice. I am going to stick around here longer. Speaker 6 00:52:32 We had issues with the SIM cards, yes, and so people can't do their notes in the field sometimes. Speaker 6 00:52:44 I know we've sent a bunch of pictures. So is that going to get resolved or what's going on with that? Speaker 5 00:52:50 So with the SIM cards, one of the things we're looking at a couple of things. One of the things is what area you are in. So like if you are if you've got an AT and T SIM card, you can't use it in my apartment because there is no service at all. Certain SIM cards don't work in any parking garages and, Some buildings, the way they're built, other certain carriers can't work there. And we do know that. So what we're trying to look at is where Verizon may not work, We're looking at T Mobile or even Spectrum if those areas would be better service. And so we're going to have to do that on a one off basis. That does remind me, we are also not going to do SIM cards in every laptop. So when you in the future. Speaker 5 00:53:43 It's not gonna be anytime soon, but in the future when you have new staff coming in, we'll need to know if they need a SIM card or not. Because office staff don't need SIM cards;, they can use their mobile hotspot on their phone. So, we are going to cut a little bit of cost there with the laptops as we go through. And recycle them. Program will all get SIM cards. Speaker 6 00:54:07 And how are those decisions being made? Speaker 5 00:54:09 So I am going to rely on you guys to help me out and know who needs. Who needs a SIM card and who doesn't in their laptop? Speaker 1 00:54:16 So, the question is: if for some reason there's a SIM card in their laptop, is it still Verizon just like the phone, or is it T- Mobile like the EDC? Speaker 5 00:54:24 It's still Verizon right now. Speaker 1 00:54:26 Okay. Because I was going to say if that service is not working, can they hotspot their phone? But it's the same service. Speaker 5 00:54:32 It's the same service. Yeah. But we are going to look at where they're located, things like that because we do know not every place has Verizon. Speaker 1 00:54:41 Yeah, it's just. Not going to be a specific location, but they're all over South Central and Santa Clarita and wherever else. Yeah, Speaker 5 00:54:51 I know. I had to getum I had to get a a spectrum hotspot for my house because spectrum internet keeps going out for days on end. So, and they're the only one that services my building. Um, I think that's everything I have for you guys, but, My email is always open. You can email me at Chris C H R I S at crimsonit dot com. That's the fastest way to get a hold of me. Also, if you have my cell phone number, I am going to bring you guys business cards later. Feel free to text me. Um, I am a texting fiend also because I have teenagers, and they constantly text me because they need funds at all hours of the night. Um, yeah, but like I said, you guys do a lot of work that's near and dear to my heart. I cannot count the amount of time. Speaker 5 00:55:40 I've had a new kid come in, um, And a wrap team brought them shoes within the first eight hours of them being at my home. So, you guys do a lot of great work. My job is to make your life a little easier. IT is a scary place for a lot of people. I try to make it less scary. So if you guys see things that you need help with, ideas I cannot promise all of them will happen. I cannot promise that all of them will get approved, um but I will try to make your lives a little bit easier. That's what my job is here, I am in the office usually twice a week, Sometimes three times a week, because on Fridays, I need to escape the amount of kids in my house. So I like to come in here some Fridays. But feel free to reach out even when I'm not physically in the office, I'm still working. So, I will be more than glad to talk to you, answer any questions. The only time I ignore you is when I'm in an active meeting, and i i'm not bored in that meeting. Sometimes i respond when i'm bored. Some meetings.I don't need to be at. Speaker 5 00:56:39 Um, but yeah, just reach out message me. All of that. Um, my my cell phone number and my office line both are textable. It's on my business card, but prefer my cell phone. Okay. Speaker 8 00:56:59 Everybody, we're going to go ahead and take a break a five minute break right now. And then you know. Speaker 4 00:57:39 Yeah, I'm just going to respond back to this message. Speaker 1 00:58:13 Yeah. Okay. Click. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm going to walk back there. Okay. I'm pretty good right now. Oh, Speaker 5 00:58:32 Thank you. Was this when uh a coach got yelled at? That wasn't that fight? Okay. Because, we do have an issue where a postdoc yells at one of my clients, but I don't know if it was the same people. So instead of. I went to it hearing that this is what happened. Speaker 1 00:58:57 So this morning, ready to go, and all of a sudden I hear him. And she. Well, we have Bob here. And all of a sudden I'm like, okay. Speaker 5 00:59:41 Um, so it's not really perfect, but we can at least attempt to do that. Um, I am going to be sending out an email about this in the next couple weeks. We have a place for you to go and look online and also get it today. So, if your director in the Bible will have that for the next two weeks, Speaker 9 00:59:59 Um, no. Oh yeah, Speaker 1 01:00:02 You can go on there and various things before she blows up. Good school! Yeah, great going online. Thank you. You're welcome. Speaker 1 01:00:41 Congratulations. The win is a good day. Oh, no, Speaker 9 01:00:56 No, no! We're doing this cute one that they do now where it's a cake. And then the color changes in the inside, and they put a glass like a wine glass and pull it out. Speaker 1 01:01:07 So they're not even going to know. Speaker 1 01:01:11 Since I don't get pregnant around, how did the mother and father not know? Who knows that a doctor knows and then they send it to my sister. Oh, So your niece is the designated person for them to send the gender reveal to. And then that person takes care of the event. Yeah. I see. Now I have the answer. Speaker 1 01:01:45 Okay, good. Then she gets what she wants. But but she might have had usually whatever gets born healthy and she's healthy, everybody's happy. Exactly, that's all I'm here for. Which hospital is she going to use? Good, they have a lower mortality and negative impact outcomes. Yeah, that was the whole. Speaker 1 01:02:16 Excuse me. Hi. Hi. I'm Rosalind O'Neill, I'm a Success Corporate Consultant here at. And it's very nice to meet you, I've heard so many nice things about you since I work with all the directors and. So relieved and glad that they have you in your firm. As you know more than anyone can, much needed beyond much. We're glad to have you. Speaker 5 01:02:40 I'm trying to make it better for people. Speaker 1 01:02:42 You're not trying anything, You're doing plenty of good things already, And which is what we all need to do. They do the work in the field and with the clinical element, And they make do what they can to make lives easier for both the families and the child involved. And, we get to do our part to help them be able to up level, just really up level all the time on how to be better at it, tools we can give them, lines on knowledge and practice and approach and response. And yours is on technical on that too. Good luck on the um. Speaker 1 01:03:15 I'm glad you're doing the skill training. Yes, that's gonna be really nice. Yeah, I want to try to get as much done as I can on the skill training. You are, you are doing it. Good, thank you. Take care and nice to meet you too. Speaker 7 01:03:47 Yeah, I know. I'm gonna be doing my thing. You're on the okay. I know, but I don't know. Cause I was like, you can't. Speaker 4 01:04:01 Do this for you. Yeah, right? You can't do that. Speaker 5 01:04:14 For you. Speaker 1 01:04:15 Yeah, I was talking to zero. Speaker 5 01:04:18 Oh, I was. Speaker 7 01:04:26 Got a. Oh, Speaker 5 01:04:28 I love that. I'm not buying it. Yeah, The other one's eating, and she's just very much in there trying to start it. She is? Oh no! Yeah, she does nothing. Yeah, she's. We gotta find her new nappy. You should be learning her why oh? Um, I'm gonna do a little um baby shower. Speaker 5 01:05:14 Just to see her, so I think it's a really good thing. Speaker 8 01:05:19 And then, uh, we said she has a really great opportunity to bring these cycles back. I have twelve. Speaker 1 01:05:26 Hours. Actually, Speaker 5 01:05:33 What about the rest of the time? Right now they're buying or getting friends to go out and buy them. They'll like it. Yeah, trying to get. You know, start a collection. When she first moved in, her rap team brought. the rap team she was on had this. They brought over a print. It's getting ready to be put together. Uh, Speaker 8 01:05:60 It's been throughout the year and it's. I think it's because she was from another state and didn't. Speaker 1 01:06:05 Have one at the Time. Speaker 5 01:06:43 I'm Going. Because I don't have access to wait times, even though they're point, I don't have access to their uh station information. Speaker 7 01:06:58 Yeah. I like that area. My parents are great. Speaker 7 01:07:14 I don't know. Speaker 5 01:07:26 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, a five-bedroom apartment. Speaker 5 01:08:13 I've read your house. Speaker 7 01:08:28 Yeah, I know. Speaker 7 01:08:43 Like she's got to send this where she has. because they're leaving. post it cute, Speaker 4 01:08:50 Just send it directly to her. I mean, yeah. uh. Speaker 5 01:09:03 You know, I really do cause I'm working on building out something for you guys. Speaker 2 01:09:18 I've Been watching the traffic. I'm good. I'm not won out. 11:30 when it's so so. Alright, Christi, I'll see you. Oh, sorry about that. Speaker 5 01:09:26 All right, well then I'm going to sneak out and let you guys go back there. Speaker 7 01:09:32 Oh yeah. Oh that too. Yeah. Speaker 5 01:09:43 The corporate card's not working, and Amazon just billed me for everything to my personal account. Speaker 1 01:10:12 I have two. My mom is. Speaker 6 01:10:26 Thinking of like three months, six months, a year. They want to. Speaker 4 01:10:35 My dad still doesn't even know. Yeah, I'm here now. Speaker 6 01:11:03 You know what happens though, we. Speaker 6 01:11:12 I'm actually, but it's just running out of the two hours.
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- > **Date:** 2026-07-23 > **Location:** [Insert Location] > **Participants:** [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### **Project Status and Operational Updates** - Speaker 2 is unable to log into the VPN, blocking access to the latest usage reports; likely a Spectrum outage in Pasadena. - Based on the most recent available data, user activity is at 100%. Mark has completed 168 prompts; this is expected to be over 200 by now. - Speaker 2 sent an Excel file and a data reference one-pager to the team on July 22, 2024. - The July 22, 2024 meeting was not recorded; however, the transcript and notes can be shared. Today’s meeting (July 23, 2024) is being recorded. ### **Python Enablement and Security** - Python enablement for Mark is pending security team completion. - The security team is prioritizing urgent Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates, delaying Python work. ### **Training and Resource Distribution** - Speaker 2 has completed Power Automate training and plans to record sessions today. - Training materials and cheat sheets can be shared via email attachments or download links. - The team discussed automating distribution of updated training documents, potentially using Power Automate. - Speaker 2 will evaluate a new sharing method accessible organization-wide. - A best-practices one-pager for creating agents will be developed, likely next week, covering source files and knowledge areas. ### **Training Structure and Strategy** - Training can be structured by department or delivered as an all-in-one session. - A tailored executive session is recommended to focus on relevant use cases. - Departmental training is preferred for heavy Excel users needing deeper guidance. ### **Usage Review and License Management** - Speaker 2 can grant access to ongoing usage reports. - Usage data will identify non-active users for potential license reallocation after a set period (e.g., 90 days). - Insights will inform targeted training (e.g., PowerPoint users) and highlight automation opportunities. ### **Ongoing Meeting Cadence** - The team agreed on a monthly meeting cadence to sustain feedback and communication. - Proposed time: Thursdays at the current meeting time. - Speaker 2 will schedule the monthly series and cancel next week’s meeting. ### **Support and Feedback Process** - The Crimson Helpdesk will field initial employee AI questions. - Complex issues will escalate to Level 3 technicians, then to Speaker 2 if needed. - The team will continue using Microsoft Forms for feedback. Speaker 2 can create additional forms for specific needs (e.g., automation requests). ### **Upcoming Events and Follow-ups** - Free Microsoft digital event on agents: Monday, July 28, 2024. - Speaker 2 will be out of office on August 20, 2024. - Speaker 2 will email follow-up questions on Monday, July 27, 2024, covering topics from July 22, including Mark’s multi-tab workaround and Daniel’s export formatting issue. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 2 to send notes and transcripts from the July 22 meeting. - [ ] Speaker 2 to record Power Automate training videos. - [ ] Security team to complete Python enablement for Mark. - [ ] Speaker 2 to create a best-practices one-pager for agent creation (source files and knowledge areas). - [ ] Speaker 2 to schedule the new monthly Thursday meeting series. - [ ] Speaker 2 to cancel next week’s meeting. - [ ] Speaker 2 to send follow-up questions via email on July 27, 2024. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following items lacking closure or clear actions; please review: > 1. A definitive method for distributing training materials (automated via Power Automate vs. manual links) was discussed but not finalized. Decide on a standard to ensure consistent access to updated documents. > 2. The plan for enabling Copilot for the remaining users was raised by Speaker 2 but not addressed or scheduled. > 3. An agent naming convention was proposed, but its status and details were not discussed. [EOD sweep 2026-07-27] Alere weekly Copilot pilot check-in (Daniel Kubov, K. Yoon et al., 30-min slot ran 36 min, 11:30am): usage 100% active, top user 168+ prompts; VPN login issue blocked live usage report; training distribution via shared external links; departmental training structure w/ separate exec track advised; Power Automate videos in production; Python enablement pending security team (Patch Tuesday delays); license right-sizing (annual + a few month-to-month); monthly cadence agreed (Thursdays, this time slot); next week canceled; Christi OOO 8/20 (dorm move).
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- Speaker 1 00:00:14 Hey Daniel. I'm. Speaker 2 00:00:17 Good, how are you? Uh in in the other office. Yeah, I go back and forth between two offices in my house. So Oh, the agenda did not go into the notes. Let me get that fixed. Speaker 2 00:00:39 Hi, good morning. Let's see. Speaker 2 00:00:54 I'm trying some new agendas or uh some new features in Copilot, but I don't think it likes my detailed notes. Speaker 1 00:01:12 There we go. Still doesn't like them, but oh well. Who all are we waiting on? Speaker 2 00:01:42 Okay, We've got uh Kinney is the only one that I see on my invite list. Although I don't ever see PEC. Speaker 2 00:02:10 Yeah, And they they've. Uh accepted as well. So yeah, it's just something weird. I don't know how to explain it. Uh, It's been an issue for a while and I think it's hopefully going to get fixed soon. Hopefully. Speaker 2 00:02:55 All right. Anybody else we're waiting on? I don't mind to wait, but we're only 30 minutes today. Speaker 2 00:03:14 Yeah, Mike's probably not going to join. He's kind of I think when I looked at his calendar last, he was double booked for this area. Um, all right. So real quickly, just a heads up. I'm having issues logging into VPN, So I cannot pull today's or this past week's uh usage report other than what I saw a little bit of yesterday. Um, I'm not sure if the VPN issue is a Cisco problem, or if it's just the site I'm working at today. Um, but it keeps denying my access. Um, I log on. It takes my password but then it logs me off. Speaker 2 00:03:49 So it could just be uh some spectrum issues going on here in Pasadena. Um, all right. So real quickly, from what I saw last time, we're at 100% active for all all users. Um, last week's number was Mark had completed 168 prompts. I'm sure that that's probably well over 200 at this point. Uh you guys know Mark and what I've seen of him, And so I did send over the Excel and data reference one pager that I built out for him yesterday. Did you guys all get that? Okay, and then I did send out the notes from yesterday, But it looked a little cryptic and I couldn't stop it from sending you guys in time because I accidentally hit the control enter before I realized it. But I did send over the notes. Speaker 2 00:04:38 The one thing we forgot to do, which is my fault, is record. So there is not a recording of yesterday, But the transcripts and the notes I can send all of those over outside of what was sent over yesterday or this morning whenever it went out. I think it went out this morning, and I was half asleep with no coffee yet. So blame that on the coffee gods. I did not have my wakey wakey joys. Speaker 2 00:05:19 Yeah, I thought we had set it up as well. Um, today's is recording. Speaker 2 00:05:42 Yeah. Um, I have uh for the Power Automate because we had talked about Power Automate a few times. I went back in my notes and looked. I have built out uh the training for that, so I did show you guys a little bit of it yesterday. I did get those finished up, um and so I'm going to be probably recording those today. I don't have that many meetings today, So i'm going to try to get some recordings done on the open items. We have uh, the Python enablement. I'm just waiting on the security team to finish that up. They've they had some some nice, Lovely little last minute Microsoft Patch Tuesday pushes that they're working through. So that were a little bit more urgent. So once we get that done, They'll work on the on the Python portion so that Mark can have some better analysts coming through. So. Speaker 2 00:06:37 And that's the main open item from me, leftover from this week and last week was the Python enablement. And then real quickly, anything you guys have that you need questions asked on any of these pieces? I do know we have some other topics. We're going to go through a little bit in a moment. Speaker 2 00:07:08 I did not see those come through. Um, I didn't get them. That's weird. I'm in the right inbox. I only have four emails today: a scheduling question for cybersecurity, my daily briefing, my news brief, and then. Some acceptances to another meeting I sent out. That's all I have. Okay, maybe it maybe it's a widespread Microsoft issue that I don't know about. Um, but it's very odd. Speaker 2 00:08:24 Uh, Let me let me look at my alert folder. See if it accidentally got filed by a minion or something. Nope. Weird. Speaker 2 00:08:37 I will. Yeah, let's do that. Uh, John Carlo, One thing I want to uh bring up when do you want to enable Copilot for the rest of the users? Speaker 1 00:09:14 Mhm. Absolutely. Speaker 2 00:09:34 Let me pull up my Outlook on the web first and make sure that maybe it's just a lag in Outlook itself. Speaker 2 00:09:48 Uh, it is an Outlook within. It's a lag within Outlook. There's like 16 emails waiting for me. That is not very nice of it. All right. All right, so on cheat sheets and training videos number one, Um I can send out those links to everybody and let you guys download it, or I can send them via attachments in email. Speaker 1 00:10:31 Base that everybody can access, like we could write some sort of process for it to do that. I don't know if there's a real time task here, but we probably want to make that task. So yeah, I think your suggestion is the best way to do that so that you don't have to manually go in there and and do the same thing. Speaker 2 00:11:14 Power Automate is an excellent tool for that. But, that being said, there's a couple different avenues we can take on that. I do update documents fairly often, especially in light of how much changes are coming. And how quickly Microsoft changes everything. So just be aware of that part. But from the sharing perspective, The folder that I gave you guys is shared externally to not just you guys, but a few other clients as well. So I don't mind you guys continuing to have access to it because I only put shareable items to clients in that folder. So just a quick heads up on that one. Speaker 2 00:12:35 I have another idea. Let me think on it a little bit longer. Um, but it's part of uh, it's part of something that I'm building out for Anzor. So, let me think on it the next couple days. And that way it will be shareable to your entire organization plus some. So um, And the links that I provided everyone, you can hand that link out to everyone by the way. So. Um. And then for the structure of the training. So this is something that I was going to bring back to you, um I don't mind how we structure it. We can do it by departments. We can do it by uh all in one where it's everyone split up over multiple days and they choose what's best for them, um I normally always have a separate section for executive team. No matter what, um so it's and that's usually because executive team wants a little bit less. Speaker 2 00:13:34 Some of them do, some of them actually want a little bit more. And then also, I try to make my use cases more for the executive team. So Yes. Speaker 2 00:14:20 Yeah. Um, for number three, the plan for being able to review ongoing usage. Um, so I can grant you access to view the usage. That's very easy for me to do. Um, What we can do with that. And what we have done with that in the past is one of the things we do is we look at the usages of individuals. And if someone is not utilizing it, Say after ninety days, and they just don't care to because AI is not their thing, and I've had that so many times. Then we just pull that license from them. So uh and give it to someone else, Or if if we do a month to month, which I don't think I think Copilot just switched to month to month and allows us to do that on some of them. I usually for other license types I'll, I will. Speaker 2 00:15:10 Advise you to do year on most of them. And then maybe get three or four month to month, just in case you find that someone doesn't want it, and we can pull that back and you can save a little bit of money for that. Um, And then for departments, the usage that comes through uh it, it helps us understand what their needs are. One of the things I love doing is after uh, after a client has used it for three or four months, it gives me a fairly good idea of how they use it. So, If it's let's say your marketing team and they use it fairly often in PowerPoint, Then we can give them some additional training on different ways. They can use it within PowerPoint. Or it helps us understand how could we automate better. And that one's really fun because one of the things I am doing right now is I am sitting with different departments at another client. Speaker 2 00:16:01 And we're looking at what is your most manual task that you're doing, And how can we make this better using either Power Automate or a similar tool. And. So some of the insights that we get from AI will give us those same types of ideas. And that helps cut down, like, that frees up people for various other functions that they might want to do. So for example, At the nonprofit I'm at there's a group, it's a programs group where they're spending 40 % of their time billing. When they could spend at least, They could drop that down to twenty percent spent on billing and the other twenty percent back to helping out clients, their own clients. So, it's one of those things that you know, it does give us ideas of how we can free up users or free up employees times and just make them a little bit more efficient. So. Speaker 2 00:17:05 Yeah, and then for Power Automate, I did answer it a little bit earlier. So that's definitely happening soon. It's actually one of the most asked about videos that I am making. So, I am looking to have that done within the next couple of days and have that where I can send that out to clients and have that posted. I got to get with marketing to see where they want to post it to whether or not they want to post it to. The Crimson website, Or if we want to make a whole new uh sub site where we can send that out just to clients. So. Um as far as the guidance document for best practices around creating agents, I am also going to work on a video for that, but I am going to make a one pager on best practices. So, um this will this will actually outline some of the questions you had on source files um and then knowledge areas. So. Speaker 2 00:17:59 One of the things about agents is you can connect it to a SharePoint site and all the documents within that SharePoint site or that team site, which will be very helpful. So you can also connect it to a website. And, so I had one of my peers in another company, connect one of her agents to the Microsoft Learn site. And so that made for a really cool agent on New upcoming things and training and stuff. So, so I will have that out soon, but that is something that's on my list of items to work on. It's probably going to be a next week project just to be fair. You've seen everything I've done most this week with AI. Some things are going to get pushed next week. There is only so many hours in a day. I am about to train my daughter on how to do some of this stuff for me, so I have a little bit more time. Speaker 2 00:18:55 In addition to training my daughter, I do have two new staff members on the Crimson side. That's learning what all I do so that they they're going to start backing me up. Besides having Gabby in the security team. So and then ongoing meeting cadence, I would love that. We could do that, monthly or I can have Mike bring me in monthly for that, or we can do it every other month. It's up to you. Whatever you guys want, we'll do it. I mean, I'll be honest. You guys have given me so much feedback already that's been fantastic, especially Mark and you and Daniel. So I'd love to keep up this cadence because you guys might find something that I don't know about or something that's changed within Microsoft and I don't catch it right away. So this would be fantastic. Speaker 2 00:22:05 Yeah. Um, let's do it monthly. So becauseum as I see. And I'm using Mark as my example. As I see him diving deep into the analytical portion, That's something that I'd like to get his two cents in when he sees the issues like what he saw last week. So, yep. Um, I can get that scheduled. Do you guys want the cadence of this time of day on Thursdays? Okay. We'll do that. Speaker 2 00:22:43 I do have another AI meeting monthly that's on Thursday mornings as well, so that would be fantastic. And it's monthly. And then my Wednesday, I have a once a month Wednesday two hour meeting with other peers, other CIOs like me who are heavily invested in AI. And it's usually the day before this meeting, so that would be ideal. So um. Speaker 1 00:23:22 Yeah. Got. Speaker 2 00:23:34 You. Uh, I'll I will cancel next week's. Um, but a heads up for you guys. I'm out on the 20th of August. I have a small trip planned to take my daughter and move her into her dorm. So yes, she's leaving me for Merced. Yes, yeah. Now, for the employee questions, uh, Crimson Helpdesk will take those. If they are a little bit more difficult than what they're capable of doing, uh, They will push it up to the level three techs who actually have a little bit more in-depth training in AI. Um and they give me a run for my money sometimes. And then if they can't answer it, they send it to me. So just be aware. Speaker 2 00:24:42 Yeah. Yes, we try to be. Um, the Google form, I don't like Google. Uh, we do Microsoft Forms. Um, but yes, I we can continue to use it. I actually have a few more forms created for AI stuff. Um, And so I can send those over for everyone to have as well. So that's easy. And then I can make some as we progress on things that they want to see automated or want to see within Microsoft Copilot, that maybe we can find a workaround for them, things like that. So. And then we'll have that documented, and we'll actually add that to the group training. So. Speaker 1 00:26:42 I'm going to watch it, guys. Have you watched it before, Sydney? Yes, I have. I've watched it a hundred times. Wow! Well, maybe not like a hundred times, but. It's my third time watching it though. Oh, is this your third time? Okay. Speaker 2 00:28:52 I Like that, honestly. Sorry, I was about to sneeze. Um. Speaker 1 00:29:38 I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get it all in one piece. Speaker 1 00:30:11 Yeah. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:30:21 Um, and just remember, um, we did I I'm still the words are hard today. Um, the additional training beyond the scope of work is still stands. So we can go over. I'm not going to have a problem with that. Um, I think I did in something I referenced for you guys. I did advise you departmental, Uh would be best, but only because you've got some heavy Excel users that might uh need a little bit more in depth training on the Excel side. Speaker 2 00:31:14 Yeah. Absolutely. Perfect, um, on the next point, um, Is there any timing constraints we need to watch out for as we go through this? Mhm. Speaker 2 00:32:07 Okay. Perfect. Um, and then we were talking about agent organization yesterday. Um, just wanted to, checking on the naming convention proposal. Speaker 2 00:32:38 Perfect, Uh and then don't forget the the free Microsoft digital event for agents uh is. On the twenty eighth next Monday, so if anybody wants to do that, they can register at learn dot microsoft dot com. I am definitely going to try to do it. I do have a meeting during that time, So I am going to see what I can puff around and see if I can get to go into that one as well. So and if you guys don't attend and i attend, I'll send you out anything extra that i learn cool. And then Colin was working on a design. Speaker 2 00:33:12 Type rendering agent. After our meeting yesterday, did he work on that a little bit more? No worries. I was playing with it a little bit more yesterday. Yeah, I was having fun with that. So, I do appreciate him. Speaker 2 00:33:42 Uh bringing that up because that was a little bit too much fun Yeah. Speaker 2 00:34:14 Yes, I found a whole new design idea for for my living room. Speaker 2 00:34:34 Yeah. Yes, um, I do have some questions that I'm going to send out over email. I just want to check in um, So I'll probably send those out Monday, just based on what we talked about yesterday. Mostly because I want to give them a few days because like one of them is going to be the multi - tab workarounds in the workbooks that I know Mark is working on. And then I want to check in Daniel, you were you were looking at the export formatting issue? Is that still an issue or did what we talked about kind of help? No worries. Speaker 2 00:35:12 Yeah, I'm going to send that out on Monday, that question. So these are just based on the conversations we were having yesterday. So any of that. And then other than that, that's everything I have. I think we're doing really well. Speaker 2 00:35:41 No worries. You guys make my job much better. All these questions. I definitely owe you guys either chocolate or lunch one day. All right, thanks, guys. Have a great week. Bye.
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Foothill Family - IT/Security Assessment Internal Kickoff
- Notes
- Internal Crimson kickoff. Anzor, Pete, Jason, Anton, Mike, Christi. Foothill = HIPAA-aligned prospect (CFO Jim, CIO Chris). Goal: 4-6 week IT/security assessment a la SCHARP, with HIPAA/NIST findings + onboarding-equivalent data capture for takeover proposal. Christi mentors Jason on methodology. CW Ticket #940291 on Board 80 (Crimson IT). 54 min (Admin-DoNotBill, internal). First Foothill client meeting Tue 5/5 10AM.
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- May 4, 2026
- Transcript
- 05-04 Meeting: IT and Security Assessment Kick-off for Foothill Project Speaker 1 00:00:08 Good morning. Good morning, Jason. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:11 I'm great, thank you. Speaker 1 00:00:13 Awesome. Good morning, folks. How's everyone? Speaker 3 00:00:17 Take your stuff out of the dryer. Speaker 1 00:00:20 Hello, hello. Oh my God, all the best and brightest all in one call. I love it. Speaker 4 00:00:27 All the best and bright, all the best and brightest in me. Speaker 1 00:00:30 That's right. I don't have to say" in me."[ Laughter], Okay, so look, folks. Beautiful Monday morning. So happy to be here with you. This is just incredible. Chris headset is not connecting. Let's give her a second so she can join the conversation. That's technical issues. Speaker 5 00:01:02 It's because my headset. Was, looking for the connection to the phone and I had disconnected the phone this morning. Speaker 1 00:01:09 Awesome. Okay. So, um, The Pete you, you want to run it. What what's this meeting is all about. Speaker 4 00:01:17 So I wanted to kick this off. So basically, um I think we're going to be looking for primarily. Well, Anton's supposed to be on here too, isn't he? Let me make sure he's going to join. Speaker 6 00:01:35 Let me ping him. Because. Speaker 4 00:01:45 Primarily, uh. I wanted to make sure Anton and Jason were on here. Speaker 6 00:02:55 Let me see if I call him. Speaker 2 00:02:58 And uh if you don't mind me asking, and uh Anzor. So I know that. So you know the owner of Putney family. Speaker 1 00:03:06 Owner of which family? Speaker 2 00:03:08 Foothill Family, the what we're discussing today. Speaker 1 00:03:12 Do I know the owner? No, I don't. Speaker 2 00:03:14 Oh, okay. So so you work with the Um, C. Speaker 1 00:03:21 C O O C F O Jim. Okay. Jim and then they have a CIO named Chris. So So it was CFO Jim who started the conversation. And connected us with Chris, who reports to him and responsible for IT. Why do you have connection to these guys? Speaker 2 00:03:46 Nope, nope. I've just from looking at their website. Uh, I was just Getting some background on. On your relationship with them. I know a lot of these are just, you know, former relationships, people that you've developed relationships over the years. Speaker 1 00:04:01 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no. This is uh this is no relationship. Speaker 2 00:04:06 That's good. Speaker 4 00:04:13 Okay. Okay. Hello, hello. We have Anton here, so I wanted to talk. I just wanted to talk briefly about what we have to deliver for this. For. This organization, I know Anton. You said that we've got a fairly. You've done quite a bit of work since SHARP on automation and and um. Tightening up our security reports. One of the things that Anzor said he would like to do is he would like to go on site and take a few folks with him. Speaker 4 00:04:49 So I think he said he would take Jason and probably you said, maybe Kevin Onsor, if you go on site to kind of do an assessment, and we talked about maybe Mike going as well. So, um, Speaker 1 00:05:04 So just to bring everyone up to speed, right? I spoke to Chris. Chris communicated the news that this assessment will be happening to their IT manager who did not take it lightly. Okay, so this is not going to be a walk in the park situation. And as a matter of fact, he said something about before this statement that he's either sick or something, so he's not able to come to the office. So tomorrow at ten AM we're going to have our first. Uh, call on Teams, right? Speaker 1 00:05:48 So Pete, I invited you to attend this call as well. So it will be you and I, April just so she takes the notes and then Chris and this Maseehs, I think is the name of the guy. Really weird name. Um, so and then we will see how that's going to go, right? Ultimately, we want to say, "Hey, we'd like to come on site," right? We need to do. We need to put a nook. Right, we don't have to do it on the first day, on the first meeting, But at some point, right, we'll need to put our NUC and run our scans. We'll have to get onto the you know scan the local AD, scan the Azure. So, the important thing to understand this is not just a security assessment, right? So I think we will have to break this into two distinct separate phases. One. Speaker 1 00:06:43 We want to run this as the full IT assessment. Effectively, at the end of this exercise, we need the following items. We need to be able to produce a full security report and say, here's the things that you guys care about and they're HIPAA compliant. So we need to make sure we correlate it to HIPAA requirements, right? And we'll have to provide the standard critical Um, important. Um, Nice to have uh findings and the timeframe to fix it right. And the cost, if were to do that blah. That's on security front. We also want to do pretty much a full onboarding right as if were to do a full onboarding, We want to capture all of their information, so we can really assess where things are. Now we'll have to thread careful because it's not really. Speaker 1 00:07:39 A full onboarding, But we need to be able to understand at the end of this exercise and put an executive report. The state of IT. Right, so not just security, but in general, how's their policies and procedures? Right, how's their backup? How's their change management process? What the business is thinking about it. And they have couple of open positions. So we'll need to be able to say, do we think they need open positions or not? Right, and ideally we want to get as much information as possible from these guys, including all of their financials. How much the contract costs, what's the overall cost of it. And once we have it, We should be able to come back exactly like we did with SHARP and say, "Hey, we can run this organization for this much money." Speaker 1 00:08:35 That's ultimately the goal for us to do what we did with Sharp. And then say," We'll save you money." And if they give us a green light, We take them over and we'll already have done all of the due diligence because we're ready to onboard them, right? And we're not going to charge onboarding fee. I've told them that if we go through this exercise. We'll have all the information. We're not going to charge you on boarding, right? Does that make sense? Speaker 4 00:09:01 Yeah, now Jason, I know you haven't. Been through this before, right? So, Chris. And Anton, we obviously went through this for SHARP. We've kind of done these type of assessments for others before. Um, Mike, you were obviously part of the sharp thing as well. But I want us to help Jason do this, because this like Ansor said, this a A full IT infrastructure and security assessment. So. Speaker 4 00:09:33 I don't want to just leave Jason hanging on this one. I want us to, To bring to bear all the tools and the experience that we've had and help Jason kind of. You know, Make sure that we deliver everything that we've delivered before and not not fall short because we have a, you know, a limited amount of time and a limited amount of. Resources and things like that. They did ask a lot of questions, unlike, You know, Sharp really didn't ask us as many questions as this team did, right? They asked us about. They asked a lot of detailed questions. They said, you know, this proposal references optional vulnerability scanning and Greenbone tools. Is that included in the assessment? And we said, I think you said yes, right? Anzor. Speaker 1 00:10:21 Yes. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:10:23 So we so we said that that that is part of the assessment. So we need to make sure that, We need to make sure that there's a vulnerability scanning included. Right. Speaker 1 00:10:33 We need to do exactly what we did for Sharp. I would do this, right? JSON is going to become your world. You need to get good at this, right? Moving forward, this is what you will be doing, right? As we get new clients. Chris was the lead on Sharp, right? This gal amazing. She knows anything and everything. She can help you, right? And she will be your counterpart on this one engagement, right? Chris, your job make sure that Jason Wright shines like a star. He is right. Obviously with your halo, I am sure this will happen. So Chris will help you out, right? What I'd like to do you guys handle all of the IT areas. I am going to get involved on interviewing executive staff. Okay, so. Speaker 1 00:11:21 Uh, we're gonna at the meeting tomorrow, Pete, at ten o'clock. We're gonna say, look, we need to figure out how we handle IT component and the business component. I'll be handling personally. And I'll be interviewing IT staff and I will be interviewing the business staff. Right? So um. So, just so we're all on the same page, the ultimate outcome is for IT director to say. Okay, effort. I am out of here, right? And then it's a slam dunk for us to take over. Alternatively, it could be our proposal financially is so sound that they'll say. We definitely want to move forward, right? So those are the two ideal outcomes. That's why we want to be very friendly, very professional. But we want to cover all aspects of it, so the guy understands his job is actually being questioned. Like when we start to ask, "Where is your budget?" Speaker 1 00:12:20 How much these contracts cost? How much you paying for the phones, for the printers, for the Miraca support? Right, he'll understand that we are collecting information on entire IT ops, most likely to outsource it. Right, and we actually want them to feel it. We do want to make sure it's very friendly, right? And I will be managing that component. Right, so I am going to position it:" Hey, our job is to go through all of this and make you shine." Right, but work with us. Right, because we can't do it without you type of thing. And then if he doesn't, then I'll escalate. Speaker 4 00:12:58 Right now, what they did say is that they're happy with their help desk. They have a couple, I think they have a couple people. I think they said that their help desk is most likely going to just stay. It may stay as is, whether they decide to do something depending on what comes out of this. Obviously we'll see what happens, but. That's most likely not going to change much, or maybe it'll happen something like it happened with Sharper, or who knows, right? But. That's, that's probably gonna gonna be diff. Uh, you know, separate. Butum this is more focused on the I T infrastructure, not help desk resources and things like that. Speaker 3 00:13:34 So almost sounds like a carbon copy of sharp. Speaker 1 00:13:36 Sure, right, right. I mean, Most likely what's going to happen, we'll end up effectively taking those guys right into Crimson IT. Right, so Pete, just so we're clear, right? We want to concentrate on all aspects of it, Knowing that those guys will most likely end up staying with us if we win this deal. Sure. We want to be careful, right? Not to position it, we're here to make sure you outsource your IT. That's not why we're there, right? Because, there was the other company that did that, and it rubbed them the wrong way. Our job is just to present them with information, right? And say one option you outsource, one option you execute in-house. Here is how you execute and these are the findings. Like if we see that they have one internet circuit, we're going to say you need to have two. Speaker 1 00:14:28 And if we see that they have three, We're going to say you can cut cost by getting rid of the third one, right? Like that's what we want. Speaker 4 00:14:35 It's a very yeah, it needs to be a very objective IT assessment. And he, he was very one of the guys was very focused, like I mentioned to a few of you, very focused on There are security holes, right? He said," We have we have MFA, but we don't have." You know, we don't have a lot of other things that he noted, and he knows that they have. They they they're missing, numerous other. Options. So he wants us to really assess it. He wants us to prioritize the list once we do have it. And then we have to have a, we have to have a, you know, a good presentation the objectives and the findings once we're done. So Anzor if you're okay with it, I'd like to forward them that string of email responses that we got at the end because there's a lot of questions that they asked. And Anzo responded like twice with. Speaker 4 00:15:27 With answers, so I think it's important, Especially for Jason and Chris and Anton to read through that email thread because they asked. They came back with two sets of questions from the original proposal. Um, with specifics. So I want to make sure that our deliverable responds with those answers because I don't want us to say, yes, it'll have it. And then we we our our deliverable doesn't include those. So let's make sure that we do include those. Speaker 1 00:15:57 And we want to move fast, right? We want to move. Fast on this engagement, so we've told them it's four to six weeks, right? For us to complete this engagement. So I want to make sure that. We actually try to get it done in four weeks, right? So you guys. Um, totally. Uh, we we and then we'll have to get the PM right. And we will need to make sure we stay on the schedule. Okay. Speaker 3 00:16:38 Are you working with the COO or CFO? Speaker 1 00:16:42 Okay, we are the project is initiated by CFO. We are working with CIO. CIO concentrates. On application layer only, okay? He is not touching infrastructure and doesn't want to touch infrastructure. So, okay, good to know. So it's a CIO who is struggling with the IT manager. Yep, yeah, the guy who reports to him. They he used to be administrator; they promoted him. Speaker 1 00:17:20 Once their IT manager left and they couldn't find anyone, hoping that with his promotion he'll be better, he got worse. And now they're like have a much bigger issue that they're trying to sort out. Speaker 3 00:17:33 I see. Super helpful to understand that. Got it. Yep, yep. Jason, when you see Chris's report, it's phenomenal. So it's. Speaker 2 00:17:41 He showed me a little bit when I met her at Sharp. Um, we didn't we didn'tum. Get into a ton of detail, but it was very impressive. Now let me ask you this: you know from our On the uh, how did we do the infrastructure assessment? Did you run a tool because I know we're using Obic. Yeah, are we using Avic? Is this something. Speaker 1 00:18:04 No, no. Avic is used only to manage switches at Brookfield buildings, right? We're not using Avic for assessment. Anton and Chris have the set of tools they are utilizing. They can walk you through. On all of it, I would take that offline. Ultimately, You can run it so schedule time with both of these guys, so you can like you'll have to put. A project plan together, right? So with a PM. We definitely want to have a project plan in place because we want these guys to see that we are operating. Speaker 1 00:18:47 At the high level, right? Speaker 4 00:18:49 Yes. Yeah. So so Jason, I would like like Answare said, I would get with Chris and Anton and put together your plan. And Seg will be back tomorrow. From a technical perspective, though, The three of you should put your plan together and get your guidance from them. And then whoever else you need from the team, you know, to put together what you need to do for your assessment. And then Um, when said. Come s in, she can help put the details together from a from a project plan standpoint. But from a technical perspective, you guys can put together your. Your approach, and then Anzor. I guess based on our call tomorrow, you can we can figure out if there is going to be a. Sort of an initial meeting on site and or who's going to go and when and that kind of stuff. Speaker 1 00:19:38 Right, right. Yep, that's exactly right. And just in your plan, guys, if you could also add. U m, uh, you know, a section for me to interview. Um. To interview executive staff and IT personnel. That'd be great. Right. Speaker 4 00:19:59 So Jason, maybe you can kind of put a straw man together for a high level, you know. Bullet point list call it whatever you want an Excel spreadsheet, you know that seg can use as a template for a project plan based on. On the task list that you're going to do technically, and then she can put, you know, start to put dates around it or whatever for tracking. And names and stuff like that or whatever you want to do, but. And we included Mike just because if we do an initial on-site assessment, we thought Mike could go. Um, and attend you know to to sort of. Speaker 4 00:20:43 Be there and help look around if we do an initial visit. If we don't do that, Mike may not need to play a role here, but He can be helpful. He's technical, and he can be a good face on the to the customer if we need one more body there. If not, it's fine. Speaker 2 00:20:59 So, now this is this is uh we're dealing with uh PII and HIPAA related stuff, so or As it relates to the process, do we what? Specifically, Chris, maybe we can take this offline. But what do we have to do? From a compliance perspective. Uh, do we have to become a secondary like what uh? Gosh, Speaker 3 00:21:29 It's NIST alignment for HIPAA. There's no certification for it. Speaker 1 00:21:32 Yeah, yeah, it's just NIST alignment. We we will want to part of our report. We'll have to compare them to NIST and say, here's where you guys. are doing well and here where you're not. And if any of that is impacting their HIPAA compliancy, we want to make this a critical finding. Speaker 4 00:21:48 And maybe something you can do, Jason, Is take a look at the report we produced for Sharp because that will actually give you a really good example of. Of what we gave them, because it basically said," H ere is what you are not doing for HIPAA that you really need to be doing." And if you don't, and you get audited, you are going to be screwed. So. That was a good thing that Chris came up with. Speaker 1 00:22:12 Yeah, I have to drop off. Quick question: How we're doing with Maverick? Have we notified them that we've got certified and we can do the work? And have we gotten that audit for insurance that we can go against and say, yes, you guys good or no, you have problems? Like, have we made any progress with Maverick? Speaker 4 00:22:34 There hasn't been a lot of progress. I think there's supposed to be a meeting tomorrow, if I remember right. Speaker 1 00:22:42 You're running point right on this one because I am completely disconnected. Speaker 4 00:22:46 Yeah, there is a kickoff meeting Wednesday for Maverick actually. Okay, great. That's good to understand too. Speaker 1 00:22:51 Yep Great So so uhum I am actually, um, I'm gonna be on a boat on Wednesday and I know there is the meeting. To review the budget, right? At 4:00 p. m. So I'll try to make that. I'm going to not attend any other meetings. Mike, you and I we need to meet today or tomorrow. Speaker 3 00:23:18 We're meeting tomorrow for the meeting. Speaker 1 00:23:19 Oh, we're meeting tomorrow to go over it. So so we're prepped. Okay, great. Okay, all right, Pete. So and then let Jeff know. I am sure he's not going to be on the call, but if he does that we've already submitted the Vegas. Full company application, and we've got a bunch of people for. Uh, we've. Speaker 4 00:23:40 Already got two people for Colorado. Speaker 1 00:23:41 For Colorado, right? So that that's all we really need. Okay. All right, awesome. Sounds good. Okay. Thank you, everyone for dropping off. All right, take care. Bye. Speaker 2 00:23:54 Hi, Christy. Can you stay for a minute? Yeah. U m, okay. So you in another chat, you sent a note. Uh. So this was just. Speaker 5 00:24:06 That's my entire working folder. Um, But because at one point, it became a There was an investigation side to it, And that does happen with a few of these types of projects that we take on. I get brought into an investigation. U m, that's the private folder you are going to see in there. Um, and so basically everything that I did, I am going to make you a walkthrough based off of this meeting. But I'll make you a walkthrough of what we need to look at and what we're doing. And remind me, are they Microsoft or Google? Speaker 2 00:24:49 Uh, geez. I my initial impression was that they were Microsoft. Okay, but I don't know if they actually gave me that. If they're Microsoft, Speaker 5 00:25:01 Great, because i I can easily set up the PowerShell scripts for anyone to run as long as we can get. A an app registration from them or at least global admin rights so that we can create an app registration. And I can run the same scans that I run on any client that's looking for HIPAA alignment. Um. So there's a pre- assessment documents that I was working on. That one is our checklist and some things that we were putting together, our briefing. Um, and some of these I've already shared out with Onsor, so he had a copy of them as well. Um, Speaker 2 00:25:38 It looks like they're Office three hundred and sixty five Yeah. Good. Keith sent over the accepted quote. Now this would be actually really good to Put together, and you may have a. And I apologize for interrupting you while you're speaking. Um, this. You know, we drop this into Chat GPT or or whatever, and all the things that we're going to assess it'll create either a separate. Like a tab on a spreadsheet or, you know, what are you thinking? How do you normally do this? Speaker 5 00:26:11 So very first thing is I look at everything they send me. And look at what they're trying to accomplish. And then I will make based on that. So, I actually this is where I don't use AI. I assess everything that they're sending us. Um and assess what they need. So like for this one, uh, they sent us over some documents on like. Their network equipment and things like that, so that I knew okay for this, I'm going to need to validate their network equipment and what they actually have out there. Speaker 5 00:26:46 If I don't have it, then I'm going on site and I'm installing Network Detective. Speaker 2 00:26:53 So that's that's our tool set. Network Detective is our tool set. It's a license that we pay for. Uh, we own it. Okay. Yes. Speaker 2 00:27:02 And that tells me everything I need to know about their servers, their printers, their it just interrogates the shit out of their network. Speaker 5 00:27:09 Yes. And then No, you're 100% right. Not only do we use Network Detective, But I'll go in and I've got PowerShell scripts I'll run once I attach to their network to see what all is out there and to see if there's any vulnerabilities, things like that that I run outside of Network Detective. Speaker 2 00:27:30 So that's our magic sauce. Speaker 5 00:27:32 Yeah, Anton and his team handles Network Detective. I go in and I do my own, uh, I guess you would call it. Speaker 5 00:27:43 I s it white hat hacking or whatever? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:27:47 So Anton's team runs Network Detective specifically. Oh, okay. Speaker 5 00:27:51 So there's some other things that they may run. I don't know fully because I don't use their tools. I use, I use mine. My ability to dig in. Speaker 2 00:28:00 So myum. So as it relates to the infrastructure side moving forward, so he's doing everything that I would be. Yeah. Okay. So I would get the results of this, you know, break it down, understand it. And then we can do an executive presentation on it, right? Yes. Okay. Speaker 5 00:28:24 And then, There is a file that he gave us that's called that we were given on this one on this client. That was their network manual by location. So we were able to validate that. So basically I went into that, I saw what was in there, And then I validated all the IP addressing and the information that was given to us that way. Speaker 2 00:28:46 Now, are you talking about sharp in particular? Yes. Okay, okay. Okay, because when you were saying that I thought well you already had. Is some information on Foothill, but no, the shark. Okay. Yes. So that's interesting. That's that's okay. So they're going to tell us what they have, but you're going to You're going to check it. Speaker 5 00:29:04 I'm going to always validate. And I'm always going to look, is there anything rogue out there? Either that they know is rogue or they don't know is rogue. I am going to check other very similar types of things to that, because not only am I looking for what do they have, I am also looking for what are the loopholes. And cannot access those loopholes. So sometimes they may not realize that they have stuff on the network that's open. And I'm going to say. Speaker 5 00:29:34 So it was my own little mini pen test. While I am not certified to do pen testing, you know, I am going to look and see if I've got a way in. Speaker 2 00:29:42 Yeah, no, that's great. And so this is part of your standard just getting the door and. I love this. This is good. Yeah. Because you're right, you know, one of the things thatum So, and it's 11 o'clock. I don't know if you have to go. Speaker 5 00:30:01 Let me see what's on my calendar. Speaker 5 00:30:04 I've looked at my calendar today. I just can't tell you what's on it. My oh, uh, yeah, I don't have to attend that. Okay. Uh, I saw a lot of things in there. Um This is so Anza's never asked me to do this piece. I've just done it as a way of just validating what's out there so that we can be more thorough. Before I didn't never have the time to do it. And then in the last, I'd say six months, I started having the time to get it done. Speaker 2 00:30:37 Well, as an IT, you know, I managed majestic. We were a similar size as this. Similar number. I had twelve offices around the United States. I think they have nine offices locally down the two ten and the ten. Um, you know, from Pasadena to I think Covina. So similar size. Um, different business altogether. But there is a lot of You know, I would be curious if their IT director, I should be presented with. Everything right. We're going to ask them, show us what you've got. Yeah, and then then there's the reality. There were some things that when I Uh, what did we do? We ran a tool that. Speaker 2 00:31:27 Uncovered some things. Some. Things that were on the network that were listening, that maybe shouldn't have listened. You know, things that I wasn't aware of. Like okay, well that's a problem. But also the when we we started to run Nessus. Um, that interrogated every damn thing uh that it had access to. And gave me this nice report. And so we had a lot of vulnerabilities. Um, that like you have to resolve this now. Yeah. Because it's one of those set it and forget it you plug it in, you have and it just works. And so, but it's so far out of date. There is like a list like this of red, you know level ten. Vulnerabilities. And. So that's the kind of information I wish I would have had because I didn't know that I needed to resolve those. Yes. Speaker 2 00:32:24 That I was necessarily sloppy, although my updates were probably. I was doing the Windows updates, but sometimes you don't realize that your access points. Your switches, your and devices that they're sitting in a closet. They need to be updated and they've got some severe. They've got active exploits in the lab. Mhm. So they need to know those things. So What the level tens are. And I yeah, so anyway. But I'm keenly aware, And I'd love to just give them the spreadsheet that has all this red stuff. Yes. You know, so that they see it. Speaker 6 00:33:04 The IT director probably has no idea. And I am humble enough to say that I didn't either. And so, oh, we hired a fractional CISO. And he was from a defense. He worked in defense, so he beat the hell out of him. Rightfully so. Speaker 5 00:33:26 Yeah, No, I totally understand that. Um. I was gonna say something. Now I forgot what I was gonna say. Speaker 2 00:33:38 Well, you were taught we were talking aboutum vulnerabilities, uh PowerShell scripts, network detectives. But you validate, they make the genosum, and you validate. You check for rogue looking for. Uh. What do they have? What are back doors validating what's out there? Speaker 5 00:33:57 Um, I also gain access to uh if I can do it, I gain access as a Super admin or global administrator. And then I immediately add an app registration. Giving me full read rights, I don't try to go for right. I just want full read unless I have a suspicion. There is a reason I am going to need read. And so. The suspicion is if like in this case, I already knew some things that were going to happen. So I went ahead and gave myself uh write abilities. But also worked off of just read as much as possible. And so that way, if if all of our suspicions were coming true, and this would have had to be with the approval of leadership. So You'd have to get their approval for the right access, but. Speaker 5 00:34:49 I would retain that access so that I can make changes as needed. In Foothills' case, you just want read access for now. Um, and what we can do. From that is we're able to, like I was monitoring over. Holidays for clients and saying, okay, well, you know we we need to do uh X Y and Z. Speaker 5 00:35:18 And so I was keeping, I was keeping track. I was reading things. I was making sure. That person wasn't doing any data loss. We were working on actively preventing it. And then giving them the full, you know, report on whatever frameworks that they were doing. So in this case, with Foothill, they're HIPAA aligned. So I'm going to check, I'm going to see. If they're Microsoft, do they have BitLocker turned on? Are they managed by Intune? Because BitLocker is one of those things that will get them. In trouble with HIPAA if it's not turned on. And so is MFA, you know, and things like that. Speaker 2 00:36:06 So, this is uh so Pete and uh, Pete worked with a group of us. And you I think you may have been on this call. I don't remember, I apologize. But as it relates to putting together the wording for the assessment, the infrastructure assessment and all that stuff. So is this boilerplate? No, I. Is this something that we can repeat? Speaker 5 00:36:27 We can repeat it. It's it's moreum. It's more along the lines of I don't boilerplate it because every situation is different. But I bowler played it to an extent. Speaker 2 00:36:41 So it's templated. I mean, I guess. Because Pete wants is asking me to kind of standardize some of this stuff, And this seems like a really good like like this if I wanted someone to look at my stuff, this what if I were CFO, this the kind of stuff that I would look at. These are all you're attacking. They're attacking all the major points and. Um, I mean, this just. You're going to lay it bare in front of the executive staff. Now, they may not or not the executive, yeah, the executive staff. Speaker 2 00:37:16 Yeah. They may know what it means. And so you need to boil it down into very simple terms. Exactly. Um. You know, like you can tell them that they're not compliant with it, but. Yep. And soum that's what they care about things like so. Uh, let's see here. Speaker 2 00:37:38 But yeah, I mean, this is one that, and I don't know if we could. This would be a good sow that you keep in as a standard kind of. Assessment. Yeah. Get a woman. I'm thinking about it. Speaker 5 00:37:52 Yeah, and just to be honest, the only reason why I Don't will or played it yet is because, every single one I've gone through has been. Slightly different every time. Speaker 2 00:38:05 And, it's going to be. You are going to come to different conclusions on all of this. Speaker 5 00:38:09 This is just a. You know, because well, and I was looking at one of them. Okay, what is what are we going to do for the. Um, the let's see here. Um. See. Well, the optional vulnerability scanning, Greenbone or Qualys. Review of recent alerts and incidents. That's one of them. Uh, give me one second. I was looking at the case. Speaker 2 00:38:42 Evaluate security posture against industry best practice and the NIST cybersecurity framework. That's, and then there was another one. Oh, evaluate cloud environment configuration. Access controls and security posture. That's your security. You are going to find, you are going to dig, you are going to find it's not like a You dig a little deeper. They need to know those things. So that's pretty neat. I like that you're doing that. Yeah. Did you do something like this for the Dodgers when you were there? Did you run these internal, look at these sorts of things? Speaker 5 00:39:18 A few times. Um, but. We had an amazing uh. Director level, she was awesome, and so there wasn't much I had to do. But I would run them, underhanded just in case to make sure my team was doing what they were supposed to. Yeah. Speaker 5 00:39:42 So, We had the director knew what she was doing. I knew what I was doing, and the other director knew what he was doing. So we all worked in tandem. It was just our vice president who was not so. Intelligent. Speaker 2 00:39:58 How do you, oh, so I'm gonna go into that folder. And I'm going to kind of look to see, you know, the things that I mentioned for them. Yeah, but. U m, you know, as it relates to infrastructure. I mean, basically all of it. I'm curious to see is there where is there the reports like the. The final notes, is that out there? Speaker 5 00:40:30 Everything is in there. Everything I did. All the stuff I've put together since being here and ever since November 20 t h is in that folder. Speaker 2 00:40:41 Where would I see like their infrastructure presentation? Speaker 5 00:40:46 It's uh. Speaker 2 00:40:49 There's TPX reports. Speaker 5 00:40:51 Mhm. Let's see. Speaker 2 00:40:53 So that'll be that's I. Speaker 5 00:40:55 Just saw what they sent us on infrastructure. I rolled up the actual infrastructure report and everything else. Because I did it all as one report multiple times on multiple different occasions. So. Speaker 2 00:41:11 Based on Clemson IT presentation, there's the executive summary. Yeah. Did you have a nice little network detective infrastructure report? Speaker 5 00:41:24 I didn't use it. I did my own. All right, but you took from it or no? Speaker 2 00:41:31 I took some pieces from it, or I took some pieces from the reports that. Anton ran, but those that we were presenting to didn't care. Speaker 5 00:41:43 For that, we needed a higher, more executive level. Alright. Speaker 2 00:41:52 All right. Yeah, and this one we're going to be working with the CIO, so they may want to see. You know, those type of diagrams, but I guess you know we'll figure it out along the way. Yeah. Um, what they're really interested in. Um, so I'll go through. I'll look at the Crimson IT presentation. And the Sharper Executives on my OSCR. Okay. Is there anything I should, you would have me look at? In particular, bring my attention to. Speaker 5 00:42:24 Honestly, at this moment. Not really. Um. Trying to think. Speaker 2 00:42:37 I guess Andrew's going to bring me on site. I'm going to meet with executives and you know, I'm going to meet the team. Yeah, and I got to speak intelligently with some of this, and so I think I have a pretty good understanding. You know. What we're looking for, right? Yeah. All aspects of IT. And he was pretty clear. About what he's going to be doing and then the infrastructure assessment you're going to be doing that. Um, and. I'll play a role in that. I'm learning. I mean, everything is just a Like it happened, it's been great. Speaker 5 00:43:19 I completely understand it. Completely. So. Speaker 5 00:43:25 It's actually, this has been a lot of fun working here. I will say that. I am a whole lot less stressed. Work ing for Crimson than I was for my last two companies. Well, no, my last company and then the one two before that. So if that says anything about how great it is to be here. Speaker 2 00:43:45 You know, um. How much time you got? I need five minutes of your time. Go for it. Um, so I got to see at Wyngard something really cool. I was at the Care First Village right behind Dodger Stadium. And it's both transitional housing and permanent housing. And so it's these cool, um, you know. Um, the container homes. Now they're not cool. I mean, they're real small, but people are paying for it getting their life back in order. So Stephanie, there we were fixing some doors, and she said, "Hey, I want you to come see this." Graduation ceremony, they have a culinary school. Homeboy and Homegirl Industries come and they pick. Some. Speaker 2 00:44:31 You know, group of people to take this class, and um they they got their like their. Like a certain certification to food handling. But, this is probably the most significant thing that these people have ever accomplished in their lives. And I, this one guy Miguel was the, he was. And his energy, just receiving this little certificate and says, "I can't wait to show my siblings." I got chills being in that room. And how that changed the energy in the room because they were so humbled and so proud. For just a simple thing, and they now have a career you know that they can go into. And so I thought about this. I am like well. You know, I know that you are very much into foster. I met at Winthrop. These people that probably never maybe even owned a computer or. You know that. Speaker 2 00:45:26 Maybe even struggle just to handle it, you know, creating an email address and doing basic services. And so I thought about this. I am like You know, I don't know if Andre has ever considered setting up a nonprofit where. Um, you know we do little boot camps, you know like a crimson cares. With a crimson IT Academy, where you do a four-week boot camp, an hour a week. And show people faces, right? It doesn't even have to be advanced like AI. I am thinking, you know, like. I've shown someone how to crimp a cable and you know, punch downs. Do basic things like that, and then ultimately when they advance, maybe we pay for them to be network plus. Um, I am just thinking out loud. I was going to talk to Anzar about it because it. You know, Weingart has a need. Speaker 2 00:46:24 Um, and maybe in the foster care system they have a need as well. And that, But setting up like a nonprofit called Crimson Cares when it comes to like teen poverty. We donate our time. Of course, we did have to get funding from somewhere. Uh, but anyway, just thinking out loud. And I thought you would be. I know you are overwhelmed in life and with work, so I am not trying to put this on you, but I think. That's a great idea. What do you think? Speaker 5 00:46:53 That is uh that's kind of cool, Uh just a heads up I'm on the board of a nonprofit already that does uh something like that. So, yeah, I am sorry. My keyboard is acting weird. I am trying to turn it off, so I can fix it while I am talking to you. Um, but it is an amazing idea. And there's I don't like this keyboard. Um. Speaker 5 00:47:21 My Windows key keeps pressing down, and every time I need to capitalize the S key. Um, it pulls up Adobe. Oh, yeah. Um, anyway, I am a part of a nonprofit that is like that, and it's very cool. And I would love to, I would love for Crimson to do it. I just don't know if I can be a part of it because I am on the board of the other company. Speaker 2 00:47:49 What happens if we make it so awesome that we could bring you over? Now, a board doesn't have to be significant, right? You know, but I love the idea of. And again, I don't know what the effort is. I started to research it just a little bit. I mean, ultimately, Anzar you know in his life, I don't know what Capacity is what a non how a nonprofit would change. You know, I am sure he could benefit. The company could benefit from it. We get funding; he would pay somebody. You know, an hour a week, maybe you know to do these boot camps. It could be a great learning opportunity for someone. Of course it wouldn't be free. I couldn't know that I would be able to do this in my free time. Um, without being compensated or something like this. I don't know. But it doesn't have to be for free, right? Um. Uh, but. Speaker 2 00:48:47 You know, Onsard could benefit. I think that should get benefit from the Clemson IC Academy and Clemson shares. Yes, I've done it. Just thinking out loud, but if I could steal your time in the future. Um, you know, further down the road. I mean, I'm not talking about right now. I was going to present it to Andra and see what he thought about it, and maybe we can make something happen. Speaker 6 00:49:12 Yeah. No. Speaker 2 00:49:15 I'd like to learn more about your nonprofit that you're on the board of, and that does something similar. I'd like to know how you structure it. No, they're trying to cure things. They're working on it. But I was so and I talked to Stephanie about it. She had this big smile because I know where you are going with the face in. And she said, " T hat would just be amazing because these people are they're trying to start their life, and how do you start your life?" You know, Even giving them a Chromebook at the end of one of these projects. And then. Having them set it up themselves, you know, as part of one of the boot camps. You know, uh, You know, we've already said, you know, we teach them how to set up an email kind of get their life in order. Start the basics right, and then at the end, you have to put all those skills into play and set up a. A problem that was happening. Speaker 5 00:50:05 No, that's awesome. Speaker 2 00:50:07 That could be one aspect of it. You know, there's multiple, you know, how to access government resources. Using a computer, I am sure there is lots of people that don't want to. And it would be very specific groups of people, not everybody in that would have the capacity for that. You understand? But the case managers would have to tell us, "Hey, this is a great candidate for this program. We want to see them train." And so, build mobile classrooms and. You know, using Starlink for internet. Speaker 2 00:50:41 I've done that before, not Starlink, but other ways. So anyway, Just wanted to present that to you. And if you if you I think that it would be a great idea for fencing. I am not going to talk to answer and. Thank you, and thank you, guys. Speaker 5 00:50:56 No, it's I. I love that idea. Um, so the nonprofit I am on was formed. About three, four years ago. Um. And sometimes they go in one direction, sometimes they go in another, and we're still trying to get everything built up. So, it's my best friend's. She's done through foster care and stuff, and she is a therapist. So she's been actively working on getting it all sorted. Speaker 2 00:51:30 Well, maybe if we set up the Crimson IT Academy, we can set up little boot camps. For. For the kiddos, Speaker 5 00:51:39 Yeah. That sounds awesome. Speaker 2 00:51:43 Okay, well I Ium. And I may have just talked myself into setting it up. Yeah. I got to consider what that means, but no, I would love to do something like that. Speaker 2 00:52:02 Well, good. Well, I appreciate you taking the time. I'm sure we're going to meet here again in the near future to go over some of this stuff. I'll take your lead on on it as well, because you're a pro and you've done this. The sharp private is that something that I stay out of or no, Speaker 5 00:52:21 That is uh no, That was a private uh folder for a long time that I I finally moved into there. But it was. Some things that Onzer had asked me to do that was going to stay, needed to stay confidential with no sharing. Speaker 2 00:52:38 Yeah, I got it. Okay, I see the NV files. That's your cloud files, right? Speaker 5 00:52:44 Yeah. Yep. Not everything is AI, but some things are so. Speaker 2 00:52:57 I think we're good for now. Um. It was nice chatting with you. Yeah. Let's talk soon. Speaker 5 00:53:03 You too, thank you. Have a great week. Bye.
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- > Date: 2026-06-04 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Mike] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes ### Initial Updates and Check-ins - Ryan has resolved item number four, and it should no longer appear on reports. - Ryan tested and confirmed that devices on separate VLANs are visible. This will be important for the future CMMC effort. - Matt from the web server team noted some security functions were not enabled on the web server. - Mike recommended a third-party penetration test before making changes, given the server's connection to the ERP. - [Speaker 3] mentioned a pen test was done about 14 months ago and will check if it included the website. ### Claude AI Initiative Discussion - The main goals are to integrate Claude into the Microsoft tenant and ensure data remains internal, not shared with Anthropic. - Christi confirmed that by default, data sharing is turned off for corporate/business use in Teams and can only be enabled by an administrator. ### Internal Chat Client Project - A request was made to set up a virtual machine integrating Claude with an internal document database (currently on a SharePoint drive). - The goal is to create an internal chat client to answer process and workflow questions. - Christi clarified this is a project, not a simple ticket, and estimated it would take 20–25 hours. It would require building an AI Foundry using Azure, which supports both Claude and OpenAI. ### Project Scope and Financials - [Speaker 3] believed the work, including training Michael Priester, was part of a previously paid scope of work. - Christi clarified that training Michael is included, but her building out the AI Foundry would be a separate, additional cost. - Mike reminded everyone that executive leadership requires Avalon's account to be current on back payments before new work can be fully engaged. - Christi will meet with Michael Priester after her vacation to understand the requirements, create a Statement of Work (SOW), and provide a quote. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Security and Testing - [Speaker 3] will check if the pen test from 14 months ago included the website. - Decision pending on whether to conduct a new third-party penetration test before remediation due to ERP connectivity. - [ ] AI Foundry and Chat Client Project - Christi will meet with Michael Priester after her vacation (starting June 5, 2026). - Christi will create and send a Statement of Work (SOW) with a quote for the AI Foundry project. - [ ] Financial Alignment - A conversation needs to happen with Pete, Katie, or others to address Avalon's account balance so new work can proceed. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. There is a discrepancy in understanding the scope of work already paid for versus the new work required to build the AI Foundry. This needs clarification to align expectations on cost. > 2. The project's progress is at risk due to outstanding payments from Avalon. A clear path to resolving the account balance is needed to ensure resources can be committed. > 3. The security vulnerabilities on the web server identified by Matt are unresolved. A decision is pending on whether a new penetration test is required before remediation.
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- Jun 4, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:12 Yeah, I'm liking the new features from uh from Copilot that Microsoft has been tweaky tweak tweaking. Why is words so hard today? Tweakin over the last couple of months. Speaker 2 00:00:28 Or Alere doesn't make a difference, anyways, becauseum PC stated that they they can only use Copilot. Yeah. That's the only one that's supported. Hey Vance. Speaker 1 00:00:38 I got under my desk in the three minutes between last meeting and this meeting and found the cable and plugged it back in for my camera. Speaker 2 00:00:46 Hey Vance, is your audio working? I don't see you on mute but I don't hear you. Speaker 3 00:00:51 Yeah yeah we're all good. Speaker 2 00:00:53 There we go okay Were we waiting for Russ? Speaker 3 00:00:58 Um, I don't think so. Let's go ahead. Speaker 1 00:01:04 Okay. Can I just give a tiny update because you graciously gave me that bottle of bourbon when I got my kiddo? Um, I just opened it last week for the first time. Speaker 2 00:01:18 Out of necessity. Mike told me he had a couple of tough weeks there. Speaker 1 00:01:24 Yeah, yeah, I did. Uh, she graduates in a week. Oh, nice. Yeah, and now she's going to college. So locally? No UC Merced. Six hours north. So, oh, Speaker 2 00:01:42 Wow. That'sum that's a little too far to drive. It's drivable. Yeah, we've driven. And it's a little it's a little too close. You're like in the in between, like you're probably just going to wind up driving every time. Speaker 1 00:01:52 Well, So Amtrak has a station less than a mile from the school and has shuttles back and forth to the Amtrak station. So. Okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:03 Cool. Well, um Vance, just to make sure we have enough time, short of going through our our typical meeting list, was there anything you wanted to address at the top? And then I have Christi here uh to kind of expand on that on that. Uh Charl initiative we had talked about last meeting. Speaker 3 00:02:17 Yeah very goodum. Speaker 3 00:02:21 I don't think there's anything high priority. Um, okay. We've had to do a few things for our business central program, butum, right. Email and Ryan have been very good about helping out with those right away, so. Speaker 2 00:02:34 And just letting you know this item number four this was taken care of. Awesome So you should no longer see it on the reports. And, then the last thing real quick I'm just going to touch on this real quick So. I had Ryan test. It looks like we can see devices on separate VLANs. Um, not super critical, But just keep it on the radar because when you guys do the CMMC effort, this is going to be something we're going to need to touch and remediate. Okay. Okay. Good to know. I'm gonna move this down actually. So we don't um last thing real quick, sorry. One more thing during the week Matt reached out. Speaker 2 00:03:18 And I, guess he was working on a ticket and noticed that there were some security functions on the web server, um, that weren't enabled. And so he reached out to me and I suggested, hey, I'm not sure if you guys have done this, But I do recommend since you're since the web server is a virtual machine hosting the website, and there's ties into the ERP. Um, You may want to consider looking at a third party pen test before we make any changes. Speaker 3 00:03:46 We did do a pen test like fourteen months ago. I I will look into that and see if he did the website as well. I forget. Speaker 2 00:03:55 Okay, I want to double check. Some just I just had this up here to mention it, butum go ahead. So I have Christi here. She's super busy, so I want to make sure i'm making good use of her time. Um Vance, If you want to go ahead and ask those questions or kind of coverum the cloud initiative? Speaker 3 00:04:12 Yeah so. Speaker 3 00:04:14 The two basic things we're hoping to accomplish here is um just to get Claude integrated into the Microsoft tenant forum use by everybody, Um and and also make sure that we set up the the permissioning within Claude that the data that we put in there, Um can can we limit it to stay within our system and not go out like to Anthropic. Oh. Speaker 1 00:04:43 Yes, one hundred percent. So, um, by default it's turned off for teams. So if you are using it for corporate or business, it's turned off by default. It cannot be turned back on by regular users. It can only be turned on by admins. Speaker 3 00:04:59 Okay. Excellent and then um the other one was that we wanted a specific, I I don't know. I think Darwin just submitted a ticket for it, But to set up a virtual machine where we have Claude integrated with the document database that we have um for internal systems, So we have an internal chat client that just references our internal documentation to answer process workflow questions. And are we capable of this, that kind of thing. Speaker 1 00:05:35 Okay, so that's going to be a little bit more. That's going to be a project rather than a ticket. Um, and I'll I'll be honest. Uh, that's where your data wherever it's located, We're going to have to build out an AI Foundry using Azure to to do that. Now within the AI Foundry, they do have Claude, and they do have uh OpenAI. So we have different tools that we can build out in it. Um, it is going to be. Speaker 1 00:06:06 It's probably going to take me about twenty to twenty five hours, depending on what type of system is housing that data. So it is it's not it's not easy, but we can make it happen. Speaker 3 00:06:20 Okay, we have it all in a SharePoint drive right now. Um, and we'd like you to go through that with Michael Priester and Darwin. And like as as like a how how to. From your professional, Speaker 1 00:06:38 Yeah, we can do that. Um, What we'll doum let me sit down with Michael Priestor when I am back from vacation. I leave on tomorrow and going on vacation. So once I am back, I can sit down with Michael. Priestor get uh, Michael's great love him to death. Uh, what i'll do is, i'll sit down with him, go over. You know what the asks are, what it looks like, i'll draw up an SOW, a statement of work. Uh, We'll get it quoted for you and get it sent back over to you guys. Um, For me to build that out, and I can teach Michael how to do that at the same time. Speaker 2 00:07:13 So Vance, just a reminder. So Christi and I are boots on the ground, right? So we want to help you. But I just want to remind, let Katie know or let the finance team know. I know we got like a sizable paymentum, but we didn't under there was no notes on what that was applied to. So one of the pushbacks we're going to get from our executive leadership is for us to. Help the way we want to help. Um, they're going to be pressing on Avalon to come current. Yeah. On back payments, so just a reminder, right? So like you know Christi wants to help you. She'll meet with Priester We'll. Still, we'll continue down that road I'm still here to support you. But um we've been given very clear instructions to make sure Avalon's aware that um we need to get up somewhere or just have a conversation, maybe Maybe. It's just a conversation with Pete and Katie or whoever um. Speaker 2 00:08:02 So that we can make this happen for you. Speaker 3 00:08:05 Okay. Okay. Understood. Speaker 1 00:08:11 I can't afford to get my hands smacked anymore for going outside the bounds of my job, So I get to be too helpful at times, and then Pete's got to rein me in and tell me to stop, so. Speaker 2 00:08:26 So yeah, and I think Christi made a good point Vance. A lot of it's not just around AI, But it's also around making sure your existing infrastructure has the proper guardrails set up. Because AI to a degree is sentient to a degree like it will, it can disobey you. It can hallucinate. It can hallucinate. It can make stupid decisions, But as long as we have proper guardrails put in place to prevent stupid decisions from causing too much trouble, that's the part that a lot of organizations miss. Speaker 2 00:08:57 Because, they just put everything into AI, and they trust AI is not going to make any mistakes until AI makes mistakes. So that's why they said, you know, you still need the uh the human validation portion of it. But, it is a huge time saver, and it's pretty amazing like what it does. Speaker 1 00:09:16 Yeah, I'm getting caught up on all my projects just because of AI. Did. Speaker 2 00:09:22 Christi cover what you were looking for Vince? Speaker 3 00:09:26 Well, the yes, I mean that that sounds exactly like what we need to. But that's included under that first scope of work that we all already paid for, right? That training session with Michael. Speaker 1 00:09:36 Or someone. Yeah. Okay. But me actually doing the work for you to build out the AI foundry, that's a little bit different. Okay. Yeah, That one's That was a little bit more. Um I can teach Michael how to do it, but that's going to be extensive to teach as well. Speaker 1 00:09:56 We'll get it done for you, Vance. I promise. You, just you might have to pay for a few extra things that aren't covered, and I do apologize for that in advance. I'm more of a i'm i'm more of an honor type person than a p person, and I'm trying to learn how to be a p person so. Speaker 2 00:10:17 Yeah So, I think the timing is good also um, Christi's been pretty good about staying on top of projects. I think I told you last meeting advance, Like we've been super busy with different types of AI projects across our customer base. Um, but I think right now, I mean, I don't have full project visibility, but I do have some sort of temp on like Christi's busyness. Andum she seems a lot less stressed this week than she did like two or three weeks ago. I think because you got vacation coming up, Christi? Right? Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:10:46 Yeah, I'm gonna get caught up on my list of books. Speaker 2 00:10:51 Awesome. So, um, was there anything else Vance? Any other questions you wanted to ask Christi? I was going to have her drop if we're good. Speaker 3 00:11:00 Nope. No, I think that's it. Thanks much Christi. Good to see you again. Speaker 1 00:11:04 Good to see you guys. See you later.
05-21 IT Incident Review: Excel Load Failures Linked to Makibus/Capital IQ Add-ins and AV/EDR Exclusions
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-21 16:37:01 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] ## Meeting Notes ### Excel Fails to Load Due to Makibus Plugin Conflict - Multiple users experience recurring Excel load failures tied to a Makibus plugin. - Reported users include Chris Park (issue occurred at least 4 times) and TJ (Excel only loads in Safe Mode). - Investigation steps taken with Sean: checked Contras and Microsoft Defender; no blocks identified. - Vendor Makibus responded: two plugins are known; one is Capital IQ, which is known to cause load failures on MacBooks. - Unclear if Capital IQ is the exact cause for the current user; some users in “Views” use it. - Current state of Makibus on the affected machine appears partially installed and not matching documented troubleshooting states. - Plan discussed to attempt a full reinstall of Makibus to override the inconsistent state. - Vendor asked for recommended AV/EDR exclusions and potential workarounds used with other customers. Conclusion: - Proceed with Makibus reinstall while awaiting vendor guidance on exclusions and workarounds. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Reinstall the Makibus plugin on affected machines and verify if Excel loads normally. - [ ] Share findings from deeper investigation and any evidence of plugin conflicts (including Capital IQ). - [ ] Notify stakeholders after reinstall results are confirmed. - [ ] Await the Makibus vendor’s response on recommended AV/EDR exclusions and workarounds; document and plan implementation accordingly. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Confirm whether the Capital IQ plugin is installed and active on each affected user’s machine (Chris Park, TJ, and others) to validate the suspected conflict. > 2. Standardize a diagnostic checklist: capture Excel version, OS version, plugin list, load behavior, and logs to ensure consistent troubleshooting across users. > 3. Define rollback steps if reinstall fails (e.g., clean uninstall procedure, registry/add-in cleanup, safe-mode add-in isolation). > 4. Assess scope: identify all users experiencing the issue and track frequency to determine whether enterprise-wide mitigation is needed. > 5. Document and implement any AV/EDR exclusions recommended by the vendor, with security review and monitoring.
- Date
- May 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 How you doing? Not too bad, thanks for asking. I am actually the one that I think you probably want to talk to about the Excel issue. So I can give you a little background on what I know. Um, I was just taking it over from Juno, so I kind of have a little bit of info. She might be able to add a little bit more as well if needed though. Okay, go ahead and talk. Go ahead and walk me through the problem. So, from what it sounds like, It seems like it's an ongoing issue where it's multiple users, and it happens multiple times. Like I know the user I was dealing with this morning was Chris Park, and he had said that his issue had happened at least four different times. So I kind of was thinking that there may be some issue with our security software, possibly causing it. So I worked with Sean earlier. Speaker 1 00:00:52 And we went through a couple different things that he has access to, Contras, um, checking Defender and didn't see anything being blocked outright. Um, So I ended up opening up a ticket with uh the Macabus uh vendor, which is like the vendor that this plugin is actually causing the issue, because this this plugin is basically what they use I guess in Excel. And when Excel's working, it works just fine. And then what happens is. If this plugin fails on the particular user I am dealing with right now, TJ, it just basically doesn't even allow Excel to load correctly at all. So, it only will load in a safe mode where, obviously, all the add ins are disabled. So that is pretty much where we're at on this one. I've got a response from the vendor Makibus, and they are aware of two different plugins. Apparently one of which I think some of the users over at. Speaker 1 00:01:50 Views, um, which is capital IQ, And apparently that is known to have uh ongoing issues where MacBooks will have fail loading failures. Um, so that's part of the issue. I'm not sure exactly if it's this particular user's issue per se, but that's kind of like where we're at at this point. Okay, gotcha. All right, so let me dig into it. Let me see what I can find, and then I'll send over. If I can find anything, i'll send over to you guys. Um but As As you know, let's just let's also wait and see what they say about the plugin. That's fine. Yeah, I actually already responded back to him with the information that there are a couple of users using that particular plugin that he's referring to to see if there's other like what they're doing with other customers with this. So obviously we don't have that same problem uh any workarounds or whatnot. I also asked him for any information as far as exclusions in AV or EDR as well that we can add in there that may help. Speaker 1 00:02:48 Um, right now I'm just trying. I was going to try to see if I could get um Macibus fully uninstalled because it's kind of like in a kind of like precarious state right now where it's like it shows sort of installed, but it's not installed in any of the normal troubleshooting steps that they have on their documentation. So, it's like one of those things. It's like it's hard to say if I can remove it. I might just have to go through the process of trying to do the reinstall and seeing if it overrides what's currently there. Um, Or did you want to hold off? And then basically uh wait until the vendor gets back to us? I'm not sure what you want to do on that one. Uh, let's let's try that. Okay, I can do that. All right, So I will go through the reinstall process, see if that fixes it. And then I will uh let you know when I hear back from the vendor and then I guess, let me know what you find out. And then guess we can go from there. All right, perfect. Thanks. No problem talk to later thanks Christy.
07-14 Weekly Meeting: Project Status Updates and IT Issues
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-07-14 09:25:36 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Christi] [Seg] [Olivia] [Pete] [Speaker 8] [Speaker 9] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Camera issue at Pasadena office - Description: - Christi’s camera does not work at the Pasadena office; the same model works at home. - A different model at SCHARP also works. - Christi attempted troubleshooting and stayed muted while waiting for others. - Conclusion: - Issue acknowledged; no resolution during the meeting. - Topic Title: Signal Partners support approach and cost evaluation - Description: - Discussion on keeping Signal Partners as a low-cost client if they do not generate many tickets. - Concern about paying for licenses (Huntress, RMM, Microsoft) for small clients. - Olivia: client opened 7 tickets last year; Microsoft licensing moved to them. - Pete asks who has relationship with Tim; Christi has a limited relationship. - Conclusion: - Retain if support costs remain low and no paid licenses are borne; otherwise reconsider. - Topic Title: Project 261 – City Homes firewall (MX105) - Description: - Refund details requested by Alisa; Paul responded without the necessary information. - Goal is to finish the refund process over the weekend and process returns this week. - Conclusion: - Awaiting complete refund information to proceed. - Topic Title: Pricing stance for workstations (client unspecified) - Description: - Team is willing to keep them on for $75 per workstation. - Conclusion: - Price point set at $75 per workstation; client context appears tied to Signal Partners. - Topic Title: Auto Elevate deployment status - Description: - Agents deployed. - Working with account managers on application approvals from the point of contact. - Conclusion: - In progress; coordination ongoing. - Topic Title: Carney – AI training - Description: - Training scheduled for two weeks from now after vacations. - 15 participants expected. - Generic AI training; not product-specific pending decision (Claude, Grok, Copilot). - Conclusion: - Proceed with generic training; close project after the session. - Topic Title: Computer upgrades (BAFMA and SCHARP) - Description: - BAFMA: from 15 down to 7 units remaining. - SCHARP: remaining 80 or 62 units as of last count. - Christi estimates 25% completion. - Conclusion: - Ongoing; progress tracked. - Topic Title: AbilityFirst – competitive construction project closure - Description: - Project completed and fully paid; close the ticket. - Extra gear to be moved to other AbilityFirst locations. - Old equipment in the office to be e-wasted. - Purchasing additional outside antennas; AbilityFirst will handle installation. - Christi to meet with Michonne to determine budget source before finalizing the quote. - Gabby to move remaining Meraki devices to the new site and delete the old site; one switch kept online temporarily. - Budget reallocation planned to replace a camp switch. - Conclusion: - Close project; handle remaining tasks via AbilityFirst staff and internal follow-ups. - Topic Title: DTLA – Cloud team setup (Project 26840) - Description: - 50% complete; redoing some training materials. - Policies in progress; to send to Kevin this afternoon. - Completion date updated to the end of this month. - Conclusion: - Continue work; target month-end completion. - Topic Title: Anderson – Cloud team setup - Description: - 100% complete; installation successful. - Used as the basis to push DTLA installation. - Need to bill for the work (100%). - Conclusion: - Close project and issue final invoice. - Topic Title: Alere – Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness and deployment - Description: - 50% complete; pilot group ongoing, wrapping up on Thursday, 2026-07-16. - Plan training for the rest of employees; handouts prepared. - Rewriting training based on use cases from the pilot. - Conclusion: - Proceed with pilot wrap-up and training plan. - Topic Title: Avalo – Cloud team setup - Description: - Start delayed to this week. - Christi to email Vance for required inputs and begin setup. - Estimated 2–3 days to finish; aim to close next week (by 2026-07-24). - Conclusion: - Begin this week after obtaining info; target close next week. - Topic Title: Barker – Cloud enterprise and meeting scheduling - Description: - Christi following up with Julius on email setup and meeting schedule for today. - Westwood subtopic: bill at 50%; user/account setups done; Casey trained; Brett on vacation; pilot training to start after the list is received. - Conclusion: - Proceed with 50% billing for Westwood; await Brett’s return and user list. - Topic Title: SCHARP – Repair laptops item - Description: - New queue item lacks sign code. - Related to ad-hoc laptop repairs and kiosk preparation; no formal project exists. - Leave item in the queue while Christi investigates origin. - Conclusion: - Pending clarification; do not remove yet. - Topic Title: AWSG Gaming – IT security assessment - Description: - Sync-up done; Azure access pending. - Vulnerability scan completed; credential checks underway. - Seg following up with Ross via text and email. - Fixed-bid project at 32,500. - Conclusion: - Await Azure access to proceed. - Topic Title: Project 2690 – IT infrastructure and security assessment (Foothill) - Description: - Almost done; assessment filled out by Andrew and Pete. - Minor tweaks needed; can bill 100% this week (by 2026-07-19). - Conclusion: - Finalize tweaks and bill. - Topic Title: Project 2693 – Andersen HQ firewall replacement - Description: - Completed; close and bill the remaining 15%. - Conclusion: - Close project and invoice 15%. - Topic Title: Project 2703 – Maverick domain migration - Description: - Final post-migration billing to be done; then close project. - Remaining work with Ross will move to service tickets. - Follow-up email for 17,000 invoice being sent. - Conclusion: - Close today after billing; pursue payment on the 17,000 invoice. - Topic Title: Project 2712 – Ark Dropbox to SharePoint migration - Description: - SharePoint sites configured and assigned; migration guide ready. - Scheduling guide presentation; plan weekly spot checks afterward. - Progress billing at 50%. - Conclusion: - Present guide, bill 50%, start weekly checks. - Topic Title: SR Weingard – D1811 floor WAP replacement (Project 6096) - Description: - Application submitted; vendor arriving today (2026-07-14). - Plan to reimburse Kevin for 2,019.134 (amount unclear due to STT; stated as “twenty nineteen one thirty four”). - Conclusion: - Proceed with vendor visit and reimbursement. - Topic Title: Ark Capital Partners – Firewall, switch, and APs - Description: - APs ordered from Tech Atlantic; arrived at the office (2026-07-13). - Switch and APs sent to PS team for configuration; firewall ETA September 2026. - UPS issues noted: switch down twice due to UPS; likely small tower-type UPS. - Action: price a replacement (<$500–$1,000), check warranty, assess power vs. battery issue. - Conclusion: - Investigate and propose UPS replacement promptly. - Topic Title: Project 2709 – CloudGrade APs installation scheduling - Description: - APs arrived. - Installation targeted for the last week of July 2026; follow up to confirm date. - Gabby or Kevin to assist. - Conclusion: - Confirm installation schedule. - Topic Title: Weingard – Tower 600 AP replacement (Project 2714) - Description: - AP with Dimitri; installation planned by Friday, 2026-07-17. - Conclusion: - Install by 2026-07-17. - Topic Title: Nishide, Wang & Associates – Server refresh (Project 272) - Description: - Server ordered; ETA 2026-10-09. - UPS delivered but wrong model/power; to be returned and replaced with a smaller model; coordinating with Maggie. - Conclusion: - Proceed with UPS return and reorder. - Topic Title: Investment group – AP replacements (Project 2026) - Description: - APs ordered; ETA 2026-07-15. - To be sent for configuration upon arrival. - Conclusion: - Configure upon receipt. - Topic Title: Project 2722 – Preparation for move (new C&M) - Description: - Mike to visit the site Friday, 2026-07-17, to assess scope. - Target move at the end of the month (last week of July 2026); to be confirmed after the site visit. - Conclusion: - Await site assessment; confirm schedule. - Topic Title: Barker – Quad takeover network assessment (David/Gabby) - Description: - Site: four buildings; main network at 5740; gym switch at 5760 with AT&T uplink; others on Cox; EMS circuits present. - Need management access to UniFi devices and the firewall. - Unknown cables to second floor; music amplifier on the network; cameras absent; access control present but network reliance unclear. - Report sent to Vince for review. - Conclusion: - Obtain management access; avoid changes until topology is clear. - Topic Title: Julia’s projects update - Description: - Project 2217 (Intune/Cloud PC MDM): - 100% user feedback collected: 22/23 positive. - Pending: decision on Linux developer David Castillo; one user’s Cloud PC issues under investigation (with Gabe). - Working with Maurits on recurring company-wide CKit suggestion. - Project 2598 (Wayfinder Phase 1 migration): - 100% complete; focusing on post-migration support. - Due date 2026-07-14; Pete emailed Robert on 2026-07-13; Julia to follow up midday 2026-07-14. - Project 2588 (WineGuard) on hold; can close and bill; one more ticket for Ronel to detach to service. - Project 2700 (LabRock): - 10 devices delivered; Ruben out this week; meeting set Tuesday, 2026-07-21, to identify devices needing POS software setup. - Project 2729 (Alire network deployment/move): - Internal kickoff done 2026-07-13; coordinating first onsite visit. - Docking stations and monitors should have been received; Kevin planned for a 10:00 meeting. - Conclusion: - Proceed with follow-ups and scheduling; close and bill where appropriate. - Topic Title: ConnectWise ticket scheduling via Outlook - Description: - Julia successfully scheduled a ConnectWise ticket through Outlook; process tested. - Offered help to others interested. - Conclusion: - New workflow validated; optional adoption by the team. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Project 261 (City Homes MX105): obtain complete refund info and process returns this week. - [ ] Signal Partners: confirm licensing costs and ticket volume to decide retention; price at $75/workstation if retained. - [ ] Auto Elevate: continue coordinating application approvals with account managers. - [ ] Carney: conduct AI training in two weeks and close the project afterward. - [ ] Computer upgrades (BAFMA/SCHARP): track progress; maintain 25% completion status and update counts. - [ ] AbilityFirst: close project; meet with Michonne on 2026-07-14 to finalize antenna budget and quote; e-waste old gear; Gabby to move Meraki devices to the new site and delete the old. - [ ] DTLA cloud setup: send policies to Kevin by 2026-07-14; target completion by 2026-07-31. - [ ] Anderson cloud setup: issue 100% invoice and close. - [ ] Alere Copilot: wrap pilot on 2026-07-16; plan broader training and rewrite materials based on pilot use cases. - [ ] Avalo cloud setup: email Vance and start this week; aim to close by 2026-07-24. - [ ] Barker cloud enterprise: coordinate with Julius on meeting schedule; Westwood bill at 50%; await Brett’s list post-vacation. - [ ] SCHARP repairs: investigate queue item without sign code; determine origin and whether a project is needed. - [ ] AWSG Gaming security assessment: secure Azure access; continue per plan. - [ ] Project 2690 (Foothill): finalize tweaks; bill 100% by 2026-07-19. - [ ] Project 2693 (Andersen firewall): close and bill the remaining 15%. - [ ] Project 2703 (Maverick): finalize post-migration billing and close today; follow up on the 17,000 invoice. - [ ] Project 2712 (Ark): schedule guide presentation; bill 50%; begin weekly spot checks. - [ ] SR Weingard D1811 WAP: manage vendor visit on 2026-07-14; reimburse Kevin (amount recorded as “2,019.134”). - [ ] Ark Capital Partners: price UPS replacement, check warranty, and propose a solution ASAP. - [ ] Project 2709: confirm AP installation date for the last week of July 2026; coordinate with Gabby/Kevin. - [ ] Project 2714: install Tower 600 AP by 2026-07-17. - [ ] Nishide, Wang & Associates: return incorrect UPS; order a suitable smaller model; track server ETA 2026-10-09. - [ ] Project 2026 (Investment group): receive APs on 2026-07-15; proceed to configuration. - [ ] Project 2722 (C&M move): complete site visit on 2026-07-17; confirm move timeline for the last week of July. - [ ] Barker quad takeover: obtain management access to UniFi and the firewall; avoid changes until topology is clarified. - [ ] Wayfinder (2598): Julia to follow up with Robert on 2026-07-14. - [ ] WineGuard (2588): close and bill; detach Ronel’s ticket to service. - [ ] LabRock (2700): meet Ruben and team on 2026-07-21 to align POS software setup. - [ ] Alire (2729): coordinate onsite; confirm receipt of docking stations/monitors; align with Kevin’s 10:00 meeting. - [ ] Share the Outlook-to-ConnectWise scheduling workflow with interested team members. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Signal Partners cost-benefit decision lacks a definitive owner and criteria for continued support beyond ticket volume; assign responsibility and thresholds, including license cost checks. > 2. City Homes refund process depends on missing information from Paul/Alisa; set a deadline and backup escalation path if details are not received by 2026-07-16. > 3. SCHARP repair laptops queue item is ambiguous with no project or sign code; clarify scope, owner, and whether a formal project should be created. > 4. Barker quad takeover requires management access to UniFi/firewall and network mapping; define steps to gain access and schedule a structured site review to identify unknown cabling and device dependencies. > 5. Ark Capital UPS issue is causing recurring outages; quickly determine warranty status and replacement specs, and communicate a recommendation with cost to the client to prevent further downtime.
- Date
- Jul 14, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Back meetings until lunchtime, which is at one o'clock. Why is this camera not working? Speaker 1 00:01:05 Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:01:09 I am completely got sidetracked. It's okay. Speaker 3 00:01:14 I am trying to fix my camera issue. Wait, what luck was that? It's only here in the Pasadena office, this camera doesn't want to work, but when I am at home, it's the same model camera and it works, and when I am at SCHARP, The camera, Speaker 4 00:01:35 While it's not the same model, uh it works. Speaker 1 00:01:41 It's only when I'm in a Pasadena office. Which is crazy. I'm eating breakfast. Thank you Tom. Why don't you eat oatmeal? I got our oatmeal from Starbucks. Speaker 1 00:02:20 Hi Miguel. Good morning. Speaker 3 00:02:28 Um guys, I'm going to place you on mute while we're waiting for everybody to arrive and I'm going to take off my headphones. Okay. Speaker 4 00:02:34 Hey, beautiful eyes. Thank you. How are you doing? I'm doing good. I'm having a hard day today, so y'all were just my babies today. I'm currently filling out the AbilityFirst application right now. Speaker 3 00:02:45 Oh cool! Okay! Trey sent it to me yesterday and then I sent it over to Trey this morning. Ladonia is daughter number two, who has been with us on and off for the last couple of years. Yeah, how's it here? She came to us last night under emergency placement and she's staying with us tonight through tomorrow morning. Okay, all right! So, we are so I might be pulled away a little bit just to set things up with her. Speaker 4 00:03:08 But sounds like get two interns you could you could. Speaker 3 00:03:13 Uh, Ladonia is in high school. So she's she's got her senior year of year of high school. So and we're you know you're going to produce some seniors yeah to college right now. So we're going to be working on her. Uh, high school enrollment. We're going to find her a school near us. Okay. Uh, And daughter number three is at home sleeping because she was up late last night with boyfriend things. So if you'd like to know some, I got some things I gotta do with you. Speaker 4 00:03:42 Ron, do you want to go in there? You need to go in there? Oh, oh it's for me. Okay. Oh okay. Um, I put them on closets the project here at me, so they don't have any ones around. So just yeah oh okay, okay. Oh, I appreciate that. I got a lot to mail. Oh, it's real. You see, did you see it on my? I thought you'd know that. Well, you did, but I also have it on my task list. Okay, so we gotta figure out okay You want to just create that budget? Let me know where that budget comes from and what we need to Is this. This isn't five year. This is one year. Speaker 1 00:04:23 That I put in our budget Okay. So are people telling me go. Speaker 1 00:04:29 I just need to sign up for one. But let me double check the. Let me go. I can sign up. Uh, we're gonna be here late. There's a lot of things I want to do with this group because I'd. Speaker 2 00:04:42 Like to change my alarm. So it starts at not 10 o'clock. Speaker 4 00:04:50 Thank You everyone for coming in today and stopping by or eventually stopping in and all are here, Speaker 5 00:04:56 We're going to be here until about. Alright, oh, we can start and Pete can just like jump in later. Good morning everybody. Welcome to week 29 of our QUP meeting. Let's start this meeting with project 261, do this for City Homes for their firewall MX 105 firewall. Uh. Speaker 6 00:05:21 So this one Alisa reached out uh for their like refund details, Now they haven't responded, but then finally just this morning Paul responded, but not with the information. Just another. So hopefully, it is finished this weekend, and then we get the return. Um we return it this week the first portion. Yeah um all right and how about project? Two, six, six finish for signal or either this morning? Speaker 6 00:05:53 And do you have the same thing for Christi? And, then we said we are willing to keep them on for seventy five dollars per workstation. Can you bring me a box. Speaker 3 00:06:03 So I can take it home? Um and cause I'm want to work on a bunch of labels. Speaker 6 00:06:09 You're muted but I'm assuming that you're saying no. Are you here on Thursday? I'm here on Thursday. Speaker 6 00:06:15 Oh From Signal Partners. Speaker 3 00:06:17 We don't have any forms right now Uh we ordered twenty five Okay, And then for Auto Elevate, um, Speaker 6 00:06:25 Our agents have been deployed. We're working with account managers on application approvals from the point of contact. Speaker 7 00:06:35 So yeah. So going back to Signal partners, who's gonna have a relationship with them? Who knows who Tim is? Speaker 4 00:06:43 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chris Stacks. Speaker 3 00:06:46 Soum Sorry, I just got back because I only half heard this statement. Speaker 7 00:06:52 Okay, so who knows who Tim is and who has the relationship with Tim? Speaker 3 00:06:56 Uh, I have a tiny relationship with Tim. Um, the person who had a good relationship has left the company. But he and I have talked enough where we have a decent relationship. Speaker 7 00:07:08 And they have how many people that work there? Speaker 3 00:07:11 Well, I already did it because I looked at everybody's calendars. I'm gonna have to go back and look. They used to be big and now they're small. They they had some they had a split in the company. Speaker 1 00:07:23 Like three devices. Speaker 7 00:07:29 Somebody can remind me how many tickets they give us. We've got like three or four of these customers, like two or three or four machines, and they don't want to pay much. You know, I mean if they're not costing us any money to support. I don't mind having them on the books, but I don't want to be paying money to have them on the books. That's that's the thing. Like if it's costing us money for their software and they're generating tickets, and it's costing us money to support them, I'm not going to support them. But if it's not costing us much and they're opening, like two tickets a year, then I don't mind keeping them on the don the thing. Okay. But. Speaker 7 00:08:18 But for me, but for me, If we have, if we're paying for Huntress and RMM and a bunch of other stuff and. And other things like that, then I don't want to keep them on. And I definitely don't want to keep them on if we're paying for any. You know. Other licenses for them. Um, you know like, Microsoft licenses or anything like that. We we definitely are not going to be paying for those for them. Speaker 6 00:08:50 Yeah, we already moved that to them and then they open up. I just checked, they opened up like seven tickets last year. Okay. Put it in like SSL tickets. Speaker 1 00:09:04 All right, Speaker 5 00:09:05 Let's move on to Christi's projects. Starting with project two six, two six is for Carney for their AI training. Speaker 3 00:09:12 So, that is scheduled. Uh. The training is actually scheduled for next in two weeks uh, after some of them get back from uh vacation, and then we'll be done with them uh, and we can close out that project. Speaker 7 00:09:32 How many people are getting trained. Speaker 3 00:09:34 Uh 15 is what I have on my list, Speaker 7 00:09:38 And they have an agenda. Yep. Speaker 3 00:09:41 I had already built everything out for them. I am going to update, but it is just it's going to be generic AI training, Not tied to a product because they still haven't decided if they're going Claude Grok or uh Copilot. Speaker 7 00:09:55 Okay so they haven't provided us with any kind of specifics around it. They just want us to kind of do it for them? Yeah. Speaker 5 00:10:07 For their computer upgrades. Speaker 3 00:10:10 That's still in progress. I saw my fifteen BAFMA computers have dwindled to seven, so I know that they're actively working through that. And then I think we've dwindled down to eighty or sixty two SCHARP computers at the last count, which was Wednesday. My days are running together. Speaker 5 00:10:35 Do you have the percentage completion for this one, Christi? Speaker 3 00:10:38 Say that again. Oh, um, percentage completion. Twenty five percent. Speaker 5 00:10:44 Five hundred. How about Ability First for their competitive construction? Speaker 3 00:10:50 Uh, we are completely done. Um, we're going to close out the ticket. They've been they were fully paid up. So we're going to close the ticket. We do have some straggling things that we got to do, but those are going to be handled by Ability First staff So Yeah. Speaker 1 00:11:11 That's good. That's good. Speaker 7 00:11:13 I think overall that one went fairly well, things considered. Speaker 3 00:11:17 Yes. Yes. I mean, The only thing we we have some extra gear that weum we're going to be moving to other Ability First locations that wasn't needed at a at camp. Um, I do have all the old stuff here in my officeum that needs to be e- wasted. We do we are having to purchase some additional outside antennas, but we're not handling that install. They're going to be handling it themselves, and um I've been getting the quote put together. I got to sit down with Michonne to see where we're going to pull that money from the budget for those. And before we get the quote. So, that's something we're actually going to be sitting down to discuss today. And then Gabby you had a question? Speaker 8 00:12:02 Yeah, I was just wondering. I think you already answered regarding the old uh Meraki devices at camp. Yeah. You said they were already, you already have those? Speaker 3 00:12:11 They're in the Tosa Nina office with me right now. I'm like sitting there looking at it at one of my kids using it as a footstool. Um, Speaker 8 00:12:23 Yeah, I'm looking at this siteum, The old site on Meraki, I do notice there is one switch still online. Yes. And a few access points. Correct. Okay. Speaker 3 00:12:39 Yeah, It's only because and we just we opted to keep that switch online uh just because of where the need is for itum and so that one just needs to be moved to the new site. Speaker 8 00:12:50 Yeah, okay. Okay. Um I can work on moving those to the new site and then. Yes. Delete this other one. Speaker 3 00:12:57 Okay, perfect. Yeah, And then extra devices are going to other sites that were slated to be redone next year. Um, And then the money that we were going to do for those other sites is going to replace the switch that we're gonna that we need to replace its EOL at camp that you just talked about. So we are having to move some things around for budget reasons. Yeah, yeah, Speaker 5 00:13:23 So I'll be closing this project then. Yes, ma'am. Next is Project Two Six Eight Forty for DTLA for the cloud team setup. Speaker 3 00:13:33 Percent complete is fifty, and we are redoing some training stuff. Kevin and I had a meeting about it yesterday. We are going to reconnect later this week. I am currently working on their policies and I am going to have that over to him this afternoon. Speaker 5 00:13:54 So, I'll be updating the project completion date to end of this year. End of this month, sorry. Yes. Next is Anderson for the cloud team setup. Speaker 3 00:14:09 Okay, so that's one hundred percent. The installation did go through; everything looked good there. I actually used that to push out the DTLA installation what Nick and Ishmael built. So. So that one's all good. We need to bill for them. Okay. And send out a bill for a hundred for all of it. Speaker 5 00:14:32 So we can close the project, all up. Speaker 3 00:14:34 Yes, ma'am. Speaker 1 00:14:44 All right, Speaker 5 00:14:45 Next is for Alere for their Microsoft three sixty five Copilot readiness and deployment. Speaker 3 00:14:50 They are still at fifty percent because they're in the middle of the pilot group, which is was slated to take a couple weeks. Um and so they're still in the middle of that. We're going to be wrapping up that pilot uh on Thursday and get everything planned out to train the rest of the employees. Um they have all the handouts, All the training stuff um that I used the last time, and they're going to go through and give me some use cases. And, we're rewriting the training for their staff based on uh the use cases and things they want to do, but we had completed the pilot training so. Speaker 5 00:15:29 Next is Avalo project cloud team setup. Speaker 3 00:15:33 Yes, so on the cloud team setup, I am going to send an email. Um, I had actually pushed and delayed starting of that project to this week just because of everything I had going on. So I'm going to work with Vance on that this week. I got to send him out an email reminding him of a couple of things that I need from him, and I'll get that started this week. It's going to take probably two three days to get that finished up, and then we'll probably close that next week. Speaker 5 00:16:06 Okay. Next is Barker for the cloud enterprise. Speaker 3 00:16:12 Julia, did they respond back about today's meeting? Speaker 1 00:16:15 And are we going to have it? Yeah, I'm muted Julia. Um, Speaker 2 00:16:28 I didn't see uh. I didn't see it yet. Speaker 3 00:16:32 Okay, I did see your the response that and I responded to him about the email setup. Soum. I'm going to follow up with Julius on that today to find out when he wants to start the meetings. Okay. And then, yeah, um, Westwood, let's go ahead and bill at fifty percent. Sorry I moved a little fast for you. Um, Westwood is is uh fifty percent done all the users or the account set up. Uh Casey's been trained. Uh Brett has it. Speaker 3 00:17:07 Um, Brett is on vacation, so we're going to be delaying everything else until he's back. And, we'll start working on the pilot training and getting the full list of everybody who wants in cloud because he hasn't sent that list over yet. Speaker 5 00:17:27 How About these repair laptops? Do you want these in thisum queue up or okay to remove? What is that? Um, Repair laptops for Sharp. It was just like added last week. Speaker 4 00:17:44 Can you see anything? Speaker 5 00:17:48 Um, this doesn't have anyum sign code though. Speaker 3 00:17:54 Let me look into that. Leave it there until we until I can find out what's going on with this. I cause I know I am having him do some laptop repairs and, Getting some machines cobbled together just in case uh for like some kiosks and stuff. But I don't have a project for it, and it was just a comment I made in passing. So I'm wondering if there's something else going on here that I don't know about or if it's something Kasia put together and he wasn't supposed to. Speaker 5 00:18:26 Okay, I'll just leave this here. Speaker 7 00:18:29 Wonder if it's something, wonder if it's something I mentioned needs to be a project. It seemed like there was something. Speaker 7 00:18:36 I don't remember. We'll. Speaker 3 00:18:38 Dig into it. Yeah. If that's the only project I don't know about, I'm doing good today. I'm on top of the rest of my projects. Speaker 2 00:18:50 All right, good. I just wanted to comment on Avalon cloud setup. There was email from Michael. He responded with the questions. Okay, Christi and you copied on it. So okay, I'll find that email. One of the questions though final user list and all that. Gotcha. I put the subject in there. Speaker 3 00:19:11 I intentionally delayed them because I yeah, I had too much on my plate. Speaker 5 00:19:18 All righty, Let's move on to my projects for the AWSG gaming for the IT security assessment project. So. Um, we had a sync-up call yesterday for security. We're only missing um is the Azure access. We're done with the vulnerability scan. Matt already checked the credentials that we need to check with Ross and I. Yep, I um Pete, I sent a text message to Ross yesterday and an email to him but didn't get any reply. So I'll be sending him again a follow-up text today. Speaker 7 00:19:58 This was a fixed bid project. Speaker 5 00:20:00 It is thirty two thousand, thirty two thousand five hundred. All right, and then next is Project Two Six Nine Zero. These were foothill for their IT infrastructure and security assessment. We're almost done with this one. Andrew and Pete had the assessment filled out yesterday with Foothill, so we're just doing some, A few tweaks with the technical assessment. And then this one we can already bill um this week for 100 %. The next one is project 2693. This is for Andersen for their HQ firewall replacement. So it is already completed and okay to close and bill the remaining 15%. Speaker 5 00:20:48 And then next is project two, seven zero three, this for Maverick domain migration. Um we're just we'll just do some lastum last billing with the post migration task and then I I think we can close this project. So all other tickets that Emil is working with Ross that will be a service ticket already and will be billed accordingly. Speaker 7 00:21:12 Yeah, when when can we close this, do you think Serena I think we're close right? Yep. Speaker 5 00:21:17 I can close this today. We'll just um finalize the last um post migration tickets that can be built to, um Maverick and we're all good. And we're also, um for the seventeen thousand invoice, we're sending a follow up email for that one. For the payment. And next is project two seven, one two is for Ark for their Dropbox to SharePoint migration. So I just want to thank uh before this one, um she already she's already done with the SharePoint sites and all of these sites have been assigned to the correct group. So, and I think the migration documentation guide is already okay. I'm just checking with Ark when's the best time to have the guide presentation with them. Hopefully they reply to me today, and then this project can be progress bill at fifty percent. And then then one for this one is once. Speaker 5 00:22:16 Presented the documentation guide with them. We'll be having a spot check with them every week so that we can check if they're doing the right thing. Then next, let's go with Miguel's project. Speaker 5 00:22:34 That Is project number six, zero nine six s r wine guard for the replacement project D one eight eleven floor wireless access point replacement. Sorry, morning Everyone. Speaker 9 00:22:47 You submitted the application for this project. The vendor will arrive today as per the tracking number updates. And then after that, we will reimburse to Kevin for twenty nineteen one thirty four. So yeah, then uh right after Christmas. So, as well, uh, Project two, seven zero, one is for our capital partners for their firewall, switch and access points. So, the access point has successfully been ordered from Tech Atlantic, and it already arrived at the office yesterday. So the switch and the access point has been already endorsed to the PS teams for configuration while waiting for the firewall. However, back in today's firewall ETA is at September. Speaker 9 00:23:32 So get it accepted. Okay, And then uh next we have uh project, two, seven, zero nine. This is for what you can search for the code rate access points. Uh, the access points already arrived. Okay, sorry. Uh the APs or the access points already arrived by cloud grade. So I recorded, they need to be justified tech regarding the installation date. They said it's going to be by the last week of July, so I am following up with them with this specific schedule. So I'll let Gabby or Kevin help regarding this one. Miguel. Speaker 7 00:24:11 On on the Ark Capital situation, Did we order a UPS for them because their UPS apparently has gone down twice in the last month? I think and it doesn't seem like a UPS is on the list here. Can you check can you, Talk to Gabby about the situation there because their switch has gone down twice this month. And she's going to go over there and look at the. She said the U P, the switch has gone down because the U P S has gone down twice. So, I don't know if it's a power situation or a U P S issue, but if we didn't order a U P S and they need one, we should probably look at that asap and Oh Gabby's on the call. Sorry Gabby you're right there so. Speaker 7 00:24:54 I don't know. Do, you know if it's a UPS thing or if it's a battery thing or if it's a power thing? Do we know that from the last time? Speaker 8 00:25:02 Uh, probably the UPS becauseum the battery shows it's fully loaded. Uh, could be just a case of uh a defect. Speaker 7 00:25:12 So I guess, we can also check if it's under warranty or anything like that. But let's find out quickly what we need to do. Are, if we if the UPS is still under warranty or we can get it fixed or something. That's a better option than having to buy a new one, Speaker 8 00:25:27 But it's actually one of those smaller units. It's not like a network rack type. It's a smaller like a tower type. Speaker 7 00:25:37 Okay, yeah, probably something we could even go buy it or order pretty quickly somewhere right. So got it. Speaker 7 00:25:49 It's bad when a UPS actually causes issues rather than solving it. So. Speaker 8 00:25:55 Yeah, I was just there. Oh, okay. And by the time I got there, The switch was back online and I was told Neville turned on the EPS. And then. Are we able to remotely monitor that UPS by any chance? Nope. It's not a network type. Speaker 7 00:26:17 I would I would price a replacement for something like the one they have and just suggest that they get a new one, because if that thing's really gone off twice in the last month. And I know this is completely off base. But if if you can get one for less than a grand or less than 500 I, don't know how big it is Gabby, but see what it would take to replace that thing. And because if it's caused interruption twice, it's not worth. The headache that they have can get something that is better. Speaker 1 00:26:50 So, all right. All. Speaker 9 00:26:56 Right. Thank you, Pete. Thank you, Gabby for that one. So moving forward, I have project two, seven, one four is for Weingard for the replacement of access points for Tower, six hundred uh For. This one, the AP. The access point is already with Dimitri and will be installed by Friday this week. And then uh I have project two seven, two two. This is for Nishide, Wang and Associates Corporation for the server refresh project. So, uh the server has already been ordered the ETA is October ninth, the UPS was delivered however. Speaker 9 00:27:34 There was an issue regarding the model and the power, so we'll be returning the UPS and change it to a smaller model. So I'm already coordinating with Maggie uh on this one. Then uh two new projects. So first one is project 2026, this is for the investment group for the access point replacements. So, the access points has already been ordered and the ETA will be tomorrow, July 15th. And Uh, once it's there, we'll just put the same for configuration. And then I have another new project, Project 272 to put this together. And preparation for the move of this new uh C and M. So this is a new project. So Mike will visit site this Friday to to assess the scope and send me a schedule for it to be moved by end of month or the last week of July. But. Speaker 9 00:28:32 We will still confirm by Friday once Mike visits. That's it. Speaker 5 00:28:42 All right, thank you, Miguel. Next is David. We have update on the quad takeover for Barker? Speaker 8 00:28:50 I do. Speaker 8 00:28:52 So, last Friday I went down there to do a network assessment. I met with Kara and then also Donovan, who's the building engineer. My work mostly with Donovan as Kara was on meetings. We just did a tour around the entire site, which is made up of four buildings. The network devices in question are mostly on the main building at the fifty seven forty. There is one switch that's on the gym at the fifty seven sixty, and that one apparently has his own uplink to the AT&T. Whereas the other one is connected to Cox, and there are other. Speaker 8 00:29:42 ISP circuits around that mostly are connected to the EMS system at each building. Um, I did when I got back, I did work on the report and I presented it to Vince, so he can review. But basically, um, The best course of action would be to get um management access to the UniFi devices and also the firewall. We don't really want to mess with it because um, There is a there are cables that uh go to the second floor, and we couldn't find exactly what those are connected to. And then there's also like a music amplifier device as connected to the network. So um we kind of don't want to mess with anything. Um they don't have cameras. They do have access control. But um during my time there, we don't we couldn't determine if the access control is on its own network or it relies on. Speaker 8 00:30:41 On the network where the unified devices are connected to. So, that's pretty much what I have. Finally, thank you. Speaker 5 00:30:58 It's been a lot of it's been few weeks that doesn't that this project doesn't update. Speaker 8 00:31:06 Oh my god, that's been a nightmare. Speaker 5 00:31:10 All right, let's move on to Julia's project starting in project 2217. This is for Intune for their device management MDM. Speaker 2 00:31:21 Happy Tuesday everyone. Um I have oh three minutes left. Um so Cloud PC user feedback, 100% completed, 22 out of 23 users reported positive experience. Um I still have three pending items though uh, I'm waiting on Tatiana to make a decision about David Castillo, our Linux developer. We have one Cloud PC user that Gabe is working with to determine, to identify if we can fix his Cloud PC experience. And also I'm working with Maurits on one company, - wide recurring CKit implementation suggestion that I have for him. Speaker 2 00:32:10 Project 2598 Wayfinder, uh phase one migration is complete, hundred percent. Uh, we are focusing on post migration support. And uh right now, we're waiting on Robert to make a decision for the next phase. Um due date is actually today. Pete, have you had a chance to talk to or follow up with Robert in the email? You said you will? Speaker 7 00:32:35 I sent him an email yesterday. Speaker 2 00:32:39 Okay, I'll send a follow-up today midday to see if he has any if he wants to jump on a call, maybe has questions or um project 2588. WineGuard is on hold and full time or self employed, freelance contract, internship, apprenticeship and seasonal. Uh we can close and finally build the project. I do have one more ticket for Ronel. But, did you guys know you can detach the project ticket from the project and create a service ticket? So just FYI, we can do that now. What I usually do, I just copy the project ticket, so it stays in the project and then detach and create a service ticket. Project to seven zero zero or LabRock. We have ten devices delivered. Ruben is out of the office this week. Speaker 2 00:33:38 Um, I, Charlie and I meeting with Ruben uh Tuesday next week to identify which devices need their uh POS software settlement. Um, because that's the most important one. Project two seven two nine for Alire um um network deployment move project. Uh, we had internal kickoff yesterday and I'm coordinating first onsite visit. Um, just FYI, um, Gabby, we should receive well they should should have received uh docking stations and monitors. So I'll see if Kevin. I think Kevin Wright said that he's going to go to. Speaker 2 00:34:31 For Ten o'clock meeting. Uh. Speaker 5 00:34:34 I'll I'll talk to you guys about it. All right, thanks everybody. Anything else that we need to discuss? Speaker 2 00:34:44 Oh, I have one more thing for everybody if they want to know that um I successfully scheduled ConnectWise ticket in Outlook. So I tested it and it was actually good to go now. So if anybody's interested in reach out to me and now right. Speaker 5 00:35:06 Okay, Alright. Anything else, guys? All good going once, going twice. Alright, I think that's it. Thanks everybody. See you next week. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you guys.
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- > Date: 2026-05-05 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Meeting Notes ### Review of Billable Time Entries - The team reviewed time entries for a client's bill, initially totaling approximately $800. - The discussion centered on which entries should be waived or marked as “do not bill.” ### Decision on Emil’s Time Entries - Emil’s entries of $55 and $81 were identified as small portions of the total. - A specific entry from 10:45 to 11:01 for troubleshooting Screen Connect issues was reviewed. - **Conclusion**: This troubleshooting entry will be waived. ### Decision on Moritz’s Time Entries - An entry involving Emil training Moritz was evaluated as internal training, not billable client work. - To avoid double-billing (both technicians involved), this entry will be marked “do not bill.” - Other entries—such as a two-hour setup and RDP troubleshooting—were deemed valid “white glove service” and will remain billable. - **Conclusion**: After waiving the noted entries, the total bill is reduced to approximately $600. ### Client Communication Strategy - The team outlined how to explain the billing adjustments to the client, Ozzy. - The reduction will be framed as waiving the L3 technician’s time due to unforeseen issues. - This positioning aims to present the change as a customer service gesture rather than a correction for incorrect billing. - It was noted that Ozzy has a history of pushing back on billing. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Communicate the billing adjustments and the final $600 charge to Ozzy. - [ ] Frame the reduction as waiving the L3 technician’s time due to unforeseen issues. - [ ] Prepare a contingency plan for potential pushback from Ozzy, including: - Response scripts explaining the value of retained “white glove” work. - Options for a one-time courtesy credit scope (if needed). - Escalation path and approval thresholds. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The meeting concluded with a plan to communicate a revised bill to a client (Ozzy) who is known to “push back.” A contingency plan for what to do if the client rejects the $600 charge was not established.
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello. Hey. Okay, So let me quickly share my screen because I'm trying to compute how if we will waive Emil's time entries, how much will it Reduce the billing, um for a meal we only have fifty five dollars plus eighty one. And the total is around eight hundred bucks. So we're gonna. Remove and meals is gonna be like super small amount to pee. Reduced. Speaker 2 00:00:35 Well, that's what I was saying. I was like," That's the like one thing." Let's, let's take a look at. Yeah. Um okay, the what number it'sum one right below meals that you currently have highlighted. Speaker 1 00:00:47 Uh, this one costs$ 55. Oh, yeah. What is that? Let's see. Um. Here, having issues restarting creating it. Try ing TeamViewer. Speaker 2 00:01:02 I mean, that's just he's just troubleshooting. Should we read this off? Um, I'm thinking. Does he say he's having? Oh, sorry. Did he say he's having problems with Screen Connect? Having issues with Screen Connect. Yeah, so. I think that we should waive. Okay, It's hard because I can't tell how much time he spent with his screen connect client, you know? Speaker 1 00:01:39 Yeah. But it took him this much. 10:45 to 11:01. Speaker 2 00:01:49 Yeah, trying to. Yeah, that one we should. We should wave. Speaker 1 00:01:53 Okay, let's write this off. Speaker 1 00:01:58 And then let's see. Um, what else? And. Speaker 2 00:02:07 Then the only things that I would think is a mule's time, but it's not that much time, but it's still like. But it's still significant. Work, Speaker 1 00:02:16 But how about this? Speaker 2 00:02:20 Because this really should be instead of work user support remote. Like you should put this. Instead of billable, it should be um like a tool set. Do not bill or something. No, no. Um, see where it says "bailable" with a little star right next to work type? It should be "do not bill." This one right here. Yeah, because technically he's. We should charge twice because he's working with Moritz. You know, so they're both us. They're both putting their time into it, but. Speaker 2 00:02:52 It's more like a meal's training moritz on how to make it, how to fix it. Speaker 1 00:02:58 You know what I mean. So it's like an internal thing. Speaker 2 00:03:01 Yeah, because they're both like literally a meal's probably. On the screen, and Mertz is watching. You know what I mean? Speaker 1 00:03:11 Okay, all right. Let's just what I gather from this: Do not build this one. Um. Speaker 1 00:03:22 Uh, what else? How about. Yeah, this one right here. Yeah, and change that one to do not bill. Provide details. Okay, let's do not bill that one. And so, yeah, but the rest I think should be build. This one right here, my opinion. Yeah, the RDP issues, right? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:03:57 Like. I'm sorry. And this one right here, the two- hour. Speaker 2 00:04:02 Yeah, I mean that's him setting up. He's setting up a computer. You know what I mean? Speaker 1 00:04:08 Yeah, and Ozzy was telling us like I already did the basic setup or whatever, and then. Why would will it take? He went through and said, Speaker 2 00:04:22 You know, like oh, this is the Wi Fi. And this, you know, he did like the very first thing when you open up a computer. I'm sure that he did that. Yeah, but the rest it's like, no. We have to log in to to the account. We have to download all of your things that you know you you need. Like we're logging you into Teams, it's like. It's it's white glove service. You know what I mean. If we didn't want a white glove, it we could have just. Set up a VPN and RDP, Speaker 1 00:04:53 And just yeah, Speaker 2 00:04:53 And just but that's not how we roll. Speaker 1 00:04:57 Yeah, so okay, so we justum left uh. Two time entries for Maritz. I think that should be fine. Let's see how much will it Oh, it's around$ 600. I'm assuming it's kinda. Looking at the low 500s. I just. I'm thinking, if we should just bill him for this time entry, which took the longest. And then just But. What's your opinion? This one right here, the. Speaker 2 00:05:45 M mm. I mean, I don't know. It's not up to you, but I mean. I think. Speaker 1 00:05:56 Or yeah, let's just stick to six hundred dollars. I am just going to explain to him that. This specific time entry took the longest because blah blah blah. The RDP issues and Maurice reached out to you. When he encountered Da Shu. Speaker 2 00:06:12 Yeah, the only problem. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm sorry. I keep getting. Why? I'm not going to be able to do that. Oh my fucking god, I keep getting more red alerts and yellow alerts. He's dancing. God damn it! Okay. Sorry. It's okay. Um. Speaker 2 00:06:43 Yeah, April. The only thing that now though, is that like we got rid of like a hundred and fifty dollars worth of time. Yeah. Which we could say, you know, I don't know. I don't really like to lie to the client, but we could say, you know, maybe got rid of some of the time that. Like where we had, we ran into this issue right. So we had to bring in an L three. So we waived the L three's time. Um, as a result of you know these unforeseen circumstances that we ran into. Speaker 2 00:07:23 Okay, So we can phrase it like that. We still have this, you know. Two- hour time entry, but here's all that was done. If they want that, I don't know. But let's just say that you know. Because we ran into this. Unforeseen circumstances that we, you know, we waived the L three time entry here. I don't know. What do you think? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:07:52 I can make that much clearer. Yeah, yeah, I can. Consult Miss Chat GPT to make it sound nicer, or you know. Just. Speaker 2 00:08:04 Because I, I don't want him to think that we build incorrectly. Speaker 1 00:08:09 Yeah, you know what I mean. Speaker 2 00:08:11 Because technically, I don't know if we should have built a meal's time entry or not like Cause technically, they're both working on it at the same exact time. Yeah. So like. It's we don't really want to double bill. Okay, but you know I don't know. That's my opinion. Speaker 1 00:08:30 Yeah, I think we can go without. Pro ud, and I am just gonna explain to Ozzie about what we've discussed. And if He pushed back. Which I think he might, Speaker 2 00:08:43 To be honest. Cause he's he in the past is known for that. Speaker 1 00:08:48 Really? It's my first time. And Conring him so, Speaker 2 00:08:53 Yeah. Like I remember when I was a dispatcher, it was like Chris had a big problem with him. Speaker 1 00:08:58 Oh, shoot. Okay. Speaker 1 00:09:05 Well, There's no harm in trying if he will accept a$ 600 given the evidence that we have here. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:09:15 And we say," Hey, we give you two hundred dollars off." Speaker 1 00:09:20 For all three times, Speaker 2 00:09:21 So yeah, I don't know that that would be how I would phrase it possibly, but yeah. Speaker 1 00:09:28 Okay, let me try this and I'll let you know if it worked. Okay, Speaker 2 00:09:34 Good luck. If it doesn't work, it wasn't my idea, okay? Speaker 1 00:09:37 Pray for my soul so. Speaker 2 00:09:41 I will, I will. Speaker 1 00:09:42 Okay, thanks Olivia. Speaker 2 00:09:44 Okay, thanks everyone. Bye- bye. Speaker 1 00:09:45 I am not a good person.
04-24 Weekly Meeting: Performance Issues, Onboarding, and Policy Changes
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-04-24 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [April] [Olivia] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes ### Performance Issues and Potential Replacement of Ronell - Olivia has ongoing concerns about Ronell’s performance and service quality. - A recent “yellow C-stat” from client Anderson led Olivia and Pete to seek a replacement. The incident involved Ronell using Teams to contact a client who primarily uses Slack. - Olivia views this as a minor issue layered on a broader pattern: insufficient proactive communication and frequent need for reminders. - Former manager Christie also raised concerns, restricting Ronell from direct client phone calls. - Ronell was hired as a Microsoft Engineer (L2) but is operating at an L1 level and often escalates tickets that other L2s handle. - The plan is to hire an L1 to replace him, which is more cost-effective for the current workload. - April, as country manager for Team Philippines, offered to speak with Ronell; Olivia asked her to wait for a green signal. ### New Client and Schedule Changes - A new client requires support starting at 5 a.m. - Ronell was moved to this early shift to cover the new client’s hours. - Olivia previously asked April about her availability for this shift; April prefers an earlier schedule. - April requested FYI notices for future schedule changes to avoid confusion. ### Employee Onboarding and Laptop Issues - Significant onboarding issues occurred with Giannis, particularly with his laptop; he is Olivia’s first South African hire. - Giannis used his personal device on Windows Home, which required an upgrade, forcing a factory reset. - The delays and laptop issues upset Pete, who wants smoother future onboardings. - Juno’s laptop replacement is also pending. Pete wants her to find a readily available local alternative rather than ordering from Lenovo’s website to avoid long lead times. - Juno told Maggie she doesn’t have time to look for an alternative; Maggie is helping push this forward. - The replacement laptop budget should not exceed $1,000. ### VPN Elimination and New Connection Policy - The team has experienced persistent VPN issues, including poor connection quality during all-hands meetings. - After recurring problems, especially during Giannis’s onboarding, Olivia pressed Pete to fix the VPN situation. - A new policy will be implemented: employees in the Philippines, South Africa, or the US will no longer need VPN for regular work. - VPN will be required only when traveling or accessing specific client systems (e.g., a sysadmin account). - Anton will officially announce this change at the all-hands meeting on April 29, 2026. ### ConnectWise PSA and Automation - There is a pending UBI (Unified Billing Integration) issue in ConnectWise involving access and mapping problems. - April needs this resolved to meet her Q2 billing automation goals. - Olivia suspects a broader integration issue stemming from the initial RMM setup in 2017 and will follow up with Gracie. - A PSA health check is scheduled for the week of April 27, 2026, offering an opportunity to address these issues. - Another automation success: Marvin built a Claude automation to pull serial numbers directly from RMM, aiding Christian’s monthly computer count reports. - Due to automation gains, the company does not plan to hire a new admin to replace Marvin, who is leaving on July 1, 2026. ### Spare Device Billing and Management Policy - A new RMM spare device management policy, proposed by Ansor, was discussed. - Small clients get two free spares; large clients get five. Any excess will be billed or the agent removed. - April explained that RMM device counts will sync to invoices, with manual credits applied for the allowed number of spares. - Olivia questioned the financial logic of crediting spares at full workstation prices when agent costs (e.g., $2 for RMM, plus Huntress) are much lower. - Clarification: credits apply only to clients with spares and only up to the free spare limit they have. - The process still requires a manual RMM check to confirm each client’s spare count. - The team struggles with consistent spare device naming, complicating management. - A follow-up meeting with Pete and Mike will be scheduled for the week of May 4, 2026, to discuss further. ### Employee Wellbeing Concern - Jason reported that Pepe and Jose found Caleb experiencing a stress-induced panic attack. - April suggested Olivia recommend a two-week break for Caleb’s mental health, supported by the company handbook. - Olivia noted Caleb has very little PTO; April advised handling it at manager’s discretion or requesting a PTO exemption from Pete due to health reasons. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Olivia to open a requisition for an L1 to replace Ronell and define the recruitment timeline and interview process. - [ ] Olivia to follow up with Gracie regarding the ConnectWise UBI integration issue and prepare details for the PSA health check in the week of April 27, 2026. - [ ] Anton to announce the new VPN policy at the all-hands meeting on April 29, 2026. - [ ] April to ask Maggie to continue following up with Juno on her laptop replacement; Juno to source a local alternative within the $1,000 budget. - [ ] April to schedule a meeting with Pete and Mike for the week of May 4, 2026, to review the spare device policy and financial model. - [ ] Olivia to talk to Caleb about taking a two-week break for mental health and check with Pete about a PTO exemption if needed. - [ ] Ansor and Helpdesk to draft and implement a clear process for naming and tracking spare devices in RMM; conduct a manual audit to validate current spares before applying credits. - [ ] Finance/Ops to perform a cost analysis of tools on spares (e.g., RMM, Huntress) versus credit amounts to inform the May 4 discussion. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The plan to replace Ronell is set, but there is no defined timeline or next steps for recruitment (e.g., job posting, screening, interviews). > 2. The financial model for crediting clients for spares is unclear and may be flawed. A cost analysis of tools installed on spares (e.g., Huntress) versus the credit amount should be completed before the follow-up meeting to ensure a productive discussion. > 3. The process for managing and correctly identifying “spare” devices in RMM is inconsistent and causing issues. A clear, enforceable helpdesk process (naming standards, tagging, periodic audits) needs to be defined and implemented.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 What on a Friday is that news? Well, okay, it's not official or anything yet, right? I just spoke to Pete about it. Okay, but. Also, I love April. That you are like, give me the tea. Well, I am all about the tea so. Call me whenever. Okay. No, but with like Ronald. We've been having issues for a long time with Ronell, like just. I don't know. I don't necessarily trust Ronnell to. Give the best of service. If that makes sense, like and yeah, we've just. I've been like kind of debating the idea for a while with Pete. Speaker 1 00:00:57 And then we got a, like a yellow C stat from uh from. Anderson, so then Pete had called me and he was like, "Yeah, okay, let's." Um, and it was his ticket Ronell's ticket. Um, it wasn't like a big deal, but essentially like Ranal reached out over Teams, but Anderson uses Slack. So like it's kind of it's a small thing, but it's like. I feel like he should have like called the client, and like you know, made a little bit more of an op. A uh, you know, actually trying to reach out, and this like. This a really, really small item on a big mountain. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because the actual issue, if it happened to like anyone else, it would have been like okay, whatever. Mhm. It just is. Speaker 1 00:01:54 Anyway, so so Pete was like," Yeah, see if April can open up an L one." And then try to see if you can find someone essentially, because I told I told Pete. I don't want to make any moves until we have a replacement, and that's my new policy going forward. FYI, because if I get rid of somebody, I ain't getting a replacement. Ah. Speaker 2 00:02:24 Nice move. Yeah, that's quite genius. Yeah, you don't want to end up like you know. Losing someone and then there is no, backup or replacing. Speaker 1 00:02:34 Yeah, like we lost Lee so long ago. Yeah, and then at some point I just eventually gave up. And then well I didn't even give up. Pete was like. Well, at this point you clearly can manage without him. Do you have to end up like that. Speaker 2 00:02:50 Like just testing if I can. Speaker 2 00:02:53 Hol d it down, like oh my god. Um, okay, So what I am understanding is this is like a whole pile of, you know. Issues with burnout like for long for a long time. Speaker 1 00:03:09 Yeah, and also like. I mean, even back when Christie was the was the manager, Like she wouldn't put she didn't want Ronell on phones to like answer people's phone calls. You know, she didn't want. The m to like she didn't want him to like talk to, clients, and like. That on help desk, you have to, you know, you have to be communicating with them. Yeah, and like yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:39 Sorry to cut you off. I also noticed is there a reason why he's on an early schedule recently. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Speaker 1 00:03:47 Because. Why? Onsor decided that we're going to take a new client. And our hours for this new client is starting at five a.m. outside of our normal even shifts. Like, so, anyways. So long story short, I had to move somebody up. Yeah, jams. I had to move somebody up to the earlier shift. That's why I asked you a couple of weeks, if that shift would be good. Speaker 1 00:04:20 Like good news or bad news. Speaker 2 00:04:22 Yeah, and I told you like I prefer the earlier schedule, right? Speaker 1 00:04:27 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Wait in the future is this something I should tell you because you Um, Speaker 2 00:04:35 Uh, It might help that you send me an FYI, because there are times like I'm kind of confused. Oh, why is your no like clocking in like super early? Like and then clocking out. Earl y and so I don't know what happened, but yeah, I felt they need to ask you why. But I only get the chance. It's okay. I only get the chance to ask you now that now that we're talking about him. So. My bad, Speaker 1 00:04:59 April. My bad. I didn't even think about it. I should be honest. Speaker 2 00:05:03 Oh, and speaking of as the you know country manager for team Philippines, I am also kind of thanking since this has been brought This. You know, issue with Renal. I'm thinking if also, I should talk to him. What's happening. Speaker 1 00:05:20 Well, don't talk to him yet. Okay, cause yeah, cause I haven't really had many convers not many conversations. Like Let just wait for a minute. Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:05:37 Yeah, I'll just wait for your green signal. Um, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I can know the perfect timing to talk to him and what's going on. And okay, yeah, let's just park it for now until you. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:05:53 Because like. My thing is like, I don't want to scold him for this yellow alert. Because it's so little. It's like I mean, yeah, he could have looked on Hoodoo and seen that they use Slack, but they also like sometimes use Teams. So it's it's really complicated and. Like it just is, it just was the timing that Pete was like," Okay, let's let's start looking," instead of like something that Ronald did that was like. Terrible, you know. Speaker 2 00:06:24 Okay, in your own opinion, how many strikes? Um. I s Renelle already like you know. Can you count how many, yeah, like how many mistakes he already did in the past? Speaker 1 00:06:40 He just he does like little things, like for example, yesterday, um Anton comes to me and he's like, hey this ticket got moved over to security instead of help desk. Or help desk escalated this to security, so I go look at the ticket and there is like no work done. And I reached out to Rana. I said, "Rana, what do you need from SEC here? Like, why did you give this ticket to security? Like, you didn't even try." You know what I mean? He like logged into Sinha and like tried to look for an email and then couldn't find it. And immediately, I mean, He probably spent five minutes on the ticket and then immediately escalated it to security. And. And so you know, I had to walk him through, like, you know, hey, try this. Speaker 1 00:07:28 Instead, and then he's like, "Okay, yeah, I'll do that." And then he resolved the issue by himself. Like he didn't need security literally at all. And so Charles got involved and was like, "Why you know, why didn't we do this the first time around?" It just like it's like small things like that. Where. I feel like, like for example, another one. If I asked you to help me with something, you would take it and you would run with it. And if you had any updates, you would update me. You know what I mean? If you are having updates with a client, you would update them. With Ronnell, if I gave him something or asked him to do something, I have to constantly remind him, ask him for updates. Did you update you know this person? Even if I am saying hey Pete's eyes are on this. I need you to email this person. Speaker 1 00:08:24 Or I need you to send an update. You know, like I have to me or Charles have to literally watch him do it. For him to actually do it, it's like. It just yeah, he he needs a lot of guidance and. I need someone who will take something and run with it and have extreme ownership, and you know. Get it done. I see. Okay. That's my thing. Speaker 2 00:08:53 Yeah, I hear you. Speaker 1 00:08:54 And and also one more thing so. I said that I am like now you've got me started, so we hired Ronelle on as a Microsoft engineer. Uhhuh, right. So he should be at least an L two, and he's not like, He escalates things so often to other L two s and other L two s actually can complete it. So much so that, like, Charlene and Sue thought that he was an L one. Instead of an L two. Speaker 2 00:09:30 You know what all along I thought he's an L two and then you. Earlier you're looking for an L one to replace him. So I was kind of confused. Is he an L one or L two? Speaker 1 00:09:40 Yeah,'cause he's he's supposed to be an L two, but he does work of an L one. So that's why I am like, well, we can just get an L one, you know, for an L one cost. And do the same exact work that Ronald's doing. Yeah, you know. Speaker 2 00:09:58 Okay, gotcha. Alright, my friend. So yeah, Just let me know as soon as you, you know, sorted everything about him. And then. I'll go from there. Yeah, when I yeah we'll do. Yeah, oh and also about the account creation thing. I don't know because also Ronelle is also working on that with Charles. In the past, so I'm not sure who. Just now going to be, the main person for account creation. Speaker 1 00:10:26 And that's my thing. I don't know who put Ronnell in this because I don't trust Ronnell to get this done. I am like, like it stresses me out that Rodnell is in, like the like that we put him in charge for these things, you know. But it's because originally he was a Microsoft engineer, so he would see like portion of things you know. Speaker 2 00:10:49 Yeah, And if in case do you think who's who can be you know the. Other tech that can do run else work when it comes to employees, onboarding or account creation. Speaker 1 00:11:02 Becker, okay. Maybe let me think on it. Like maybe somebody else I could have like I can maybe do Riddick. Or Charlene, yeah, Speaker 2 00:11:13 And also, yeah, maybe check with. Anton, Because right now we're trying to be, um, to complete all the necessary onboarding tasks as early as possible. for Um, Paula. Um, so because I noticed that Pete. There's tendency for him to be pissed off whenever there is a delay with onboarding new employees. I'm kind of trying to avoid that. Speaker 2 00:11:46 Yeah, so earlier I heard something about Giannis is lopped off. So okay. He mentioned that he was, yeah, he kind of was pissed off about that. But anyway, he said like let's just moving forward. Let's just try all onboarding to be as smooth as possible. So as early as now, I ask Maggie to, you know, create the onboarding project and assign all the tickets. So yeah, I told Michael I'm going to get back to her. Speaker 1 00:12:15 To be fair, okay to myself, that is the first South African onboarding that I've ever had. Okay, so normally like. I don't. He's like, I don't even know. Well, yeah, because no, I think where to get computers and stuff in South Africa. So Charles tells me that this is the best way to do it. I am going to take Charles who lives in South Africa's opinion. Speaker 2 00:12:42 Yeah, and also we're I think. The last time, we're relying on Charles because he's the one who bought the laptop, right? And I don't think I would. I am not sure if I've ever followed up with him. i I think I did follow up with him. What's up with the. Yanis's laptop, but I am not aware that it came late. But I given a heads up to Pete that. Um, Yanis will going to use his own laptop. Speaker 2 00:13:12 For the meantime, until, you know the new laptop arrives, but. He said there's a two day delay with a new laptop, so I'm not sure what happened there, but. Whatever. Speaker 1 00:13:26 Yeah, yeah. Well, did you end up like did you ever hear about what happened there? No, I didn't know because it was a shit show. Oh really? Pete ripped me a new one for that one, and fair enough. Okay, but like because. So, for starters, I was like, "Okay, well it's gonna it's gonna ship. " I should have just like in hindsight, maybe push Giannis' like start date back a week, but whatever. Um, anyways, and I was sick the week before. I was sick the week of too, so that did not help at all. But Basically, like his own personal device was on Windows Home and not. Speaker 1 00:14:12 Grow for starters, so then we had to update upgrade it. Okay, and there were so many issues. And actually up upgrading it, like he had to completely factory reset his own personal device. Oh, and we we had to restart it. We had to reset it up from beginning. And. Like I felt so terrible, and he's like," It's okay. I have a hard drive, and like you know all my stuff is backed up and whatnot." Aw. Anyways, and then like we had to add him to. He had so many issues with the VPN. Like his whole, the whole entire week of his first week, we were struggling to get him on to VPN. Okay. Speaker 2 00:14:56 Ah, oh, speaking of this, a VPN. Um, are we going to get rid of that permanently? F uck yeah we are. Oh my god, thank you so much. We're all struggling. Whenever, you know, there's too many people connected to the VPN, and then during all hands meeting, we ended up like, you know. Some of you sounding robotic or some. Speaker 1 00:15:22 Of us ended up like. Oh yeah. With this whole Giannis thing and the VPN situation, I sent Pete a message. I said, Pete. We cannot keep doing this with the VPN. Like, everyone is struggling. I get constant complaints about it. Like, why are we not doing something about the VPN? So I was like, Pete, I am gonna like, can i schedule a meeting with you and Anton and Gabby and whoever to figure it out because like I don't ever touch like I am not even on a VPN. Like I am not on the VPN, and like so I like really forget about it until somebody brings it up. You know. Mhm. Anyway, so, like. Speaker 1 00:16:01 I feel like I got the ball moving, and then they said that they were gonna like, think not thank God, But like you guys started having issues in the in the Teams or in the All Hands. You know, yeah. Sounding robotic. Yeah. And that was like that was like the nail in the coffin. And I was like yes. See, Speaker 2 00:16:21 Ansar also, you know, seeing the reels. Situation during all hands like okay team Philippines you know. Yeah. Having a struggle connecting with VPN so. Speaker 1 00:16:34 Yeah, so basically what's going to happen is. If you're in the Philippines, South Africa or US, you don't have to use a VPN. Um, but if you are like traveling, like seg for example, you know how she's in Europe right now. Yes. Ah, okay. So. Speaker 2 00:16:54 Right now we have to like. Can just connect directly to our Wi- Fi or to our home Wi- Fi. Is that what you mean? Speaker 1 00:17:01 Yeah, so. Yeah, so you should be fine because you already have like your key and everything. You know, so you're safe there. Now, if you are trying to, the only thing right is that, if you were to log into likeum. Like a sit admin account or something, you know, within a client site, then you would have to use a VPN or go through like SynHA. Or if it's shared. Speaker 2 00:17:27 Okay, and then we're, are we going to have like a quick training about that? Are you going to send out communication to all? Speaker 1 00:17:34 Yeah, Anton's going to be saying something in the all hands on Wednesday. Okay, perfect. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then after that. As soon as he makes an announcement, then you shouldn't have to use a VPN anymore. Now, what does that actually like look like? I'm not exactly sure. We'll wait till he says. Speaker 2 00:17:52 Okay, I'm excited. Okay. Yeah, but it's good news. Yeah, it's good news definitely because it's one of. The pain points for team page that you know, we're going to get rid of finally. Um. Okay. One more. Um. Juno's laptop, okay. So Pete mentioned it to me earlier during our one on one, And he said, um he asked To look for some alternatives, like readily available instead of ordering directly from Lenovo's website. Speaker 2 00:18:25 And he said, he haven't heard since from from Juno like. I don't know what's the news, but I asked Maggie to take over and follow up with Chuno, What's happening because right now, I think the workaround is for her to go look for an alternative in one of the shopping malls here in the Philippines. Go buy it. Using her credit card to just reimburse, or either we can request for a cash advance to buy one for her. Speaker 1 00:18:54 Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, and Maggie had sent me a message saying like oh this like. You know, found this laptop, but we can't find anything cheaper. So I was like, I was like oh okay like. Because I was under the same, Like Pete told me that he had spoke to Juno and told her to go find something locally. And. Speaker 2 00:19:17 Then Juno said to Maggie that she doesn't have the time to go. Look. An alternative like dude, you're the one who's using the laptop. So I don't know. So Maggie's just waiting for you know. Like a green signal, or she's kind of helping Juno to push it like. Go buy now, like whatever that you can find in one of the malls here. So, you know, you can get a new laptop. To use, but yeah, I asked Maggie to stay on top of that. So you know. Speaker 2 00:19:53 Um, we can have a laptop replacement for Juno. Okay. Yeah, cause I am like, yeah, but it also help if you could. Just a gentle follow-up, you know, "Hey, what's up?" Okay, well, yeah. Yeah, and then just tell her like you can buy using your credit card, just file for reimbursement and then or just request for a cash advance. Speaker 1 00:20:24 But Just be careful about the budget. She should get it approved by you. I was gonna say, yeah, like. Yeah, I don't know what the budget is. Speaker 2 00:20:32 Just don't buy anything above one thousand dollars. So that's what Pete. Would want like don't go beyond the budget. About above a thousand? Yes. Because we bought yeah. Because we bought some something for Ivy and it's just cost like. Speaker 2 00:20:53 A thousand dollars, if I can remember correctly. We bought it directly from Lenovo's website, but it's just that if we buy it direct, it's cheaper because we bought it directly from Lenovo. But The thing is, uh, There's gonna be a problem with the lead time because it will might take two weeks before it arrives here in the Philippines. So. The only workaround is to go look for an alternative in one of the shopping malls here or. Speaker 1 00:21:24 Oh, But to be fair, Juno's working right now, right? So like two weeks, it's already been like three weeks since she first sent that message. So she's surviving. I don't know how, but. Speaker 2 00:21:37 So I was like," Oh, okay." So at first it was super urgent, or she's kind of struggling to work. That's why when I. Didn't hear anything about the laptop. I thought, oh, is she all good like. Has this been sorted out already? So I don't know. Yeah. I don't even know. Yeah, But I'll just let you know whatever I hear from Maggie, because I asked Maggie to. Go check on Juno. Oh, and also one more thing. So about the UBI, you remember to get notified building intake with ConnectWise. Speaker 2 00:22:20 So the only pending issue with them is just first, I don't have the access, and I thinkum Charles already granted me the access, but for some reason it's not you know. Um, the function for finance, yeah, it's not showing up on my end. And then the next one is a mapping issue, right? Speaker 1 00:22:42 Yeah, like I kind of think that there is a bigger problem there. Like I think there is some kind of issue with. Like our actual integration, like when we first set up RMM. Speaker 2 00:22:58 Yes. Okay, Speaker 1 00:22:59 So and that's what Gab that's what uh Gracie was looking into. You know. Yeah, I'm gonna go follow up with her. Speaker 2 00:23:06 Um, just you know, because knowing ConnectWise, I don't think if you don't you know bug them or chase after them, they're not gonna. You know. Real ize the urgency of this request, but the goal is to have everything automated by end of this quarter and. It's one of part of my rocks. So Pete and Andre run after me. You know, it's gonna be completed by the end of the quarter. So yeah, I need to bug Gracie. Maybe and, and. Speaker 1 00:23:42 We haveum. What? You know we have a P S A health check next week or whatever. Speaker 2 00:23:49 Oh, hang on is that the one on. On Wednesday, Wednesday next week. Oh yeah, okay. Yeah, I can. Yeah, we can discuss that. Speaker 1 00:24:00 So like worst case scenario, we can talk about it there too. I fear that we have a lot of but in the meantime though. Hmm. If you think of anything likeum. Speaker 1 00:24:14 PSA related, like is this set up correctly? Can you like write it down? Yeah, sure. Yeah, like or any processes that you think like surely we can do this better. Uh huh, because you know Connectwise was um. What's called it was made in. Or we we set it up in freaking like twenty seventeen or whatever, right So like. And we have really not made much changes to it since then, and I am sure ConnectWise has like made a lot of. New processes and stuff that would help us. Speaker 2 00:24:54 Yeah, And you know what I was surprised when I learned that UBI has been there since twenty twenty four, and we're right here struggling manually building. So, what could have been, you know, make our lives easier back way way back, but okay. Speaker 1 00:25:13 Yeah, and like even even another thing too, likeum Marvin called me earlier and was likeum. Trying to find the serial numbers because, you know, Christian pulls the serial numbers from Scale Pad. And then he like manually puts them in with his list on computer count, you know. Yes, but apparently you can get them right from RMM. I found it earlier. Speaker 2 00:25:37 Oh, so he's now pulling off a whole list and exports. Speaker 1 00:25:41 Yeah, so it's gonna yeah, so it's gonna pull up immediately on the export. Speaker 2 00:25:45 Perfect. Okay, I think that's the only. Yeah, This is the only pending item thatum Christian is trying to resolve. So you know, they can, you know complete the process or the automation in cloud. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Speaker 1 00:26:01 Yeah. That's exactly what Marvin was showing me the Claude thing. Speaker 2 00:26:06 And I am so happy about that. I even think Marvin, you know, I've been, Bragging about it to Pete and answered that Marvin took the initiative, To, you know, uh, do an automation in cloud because this will make Christian's life easier because he has to always you know, spend an extra hour every day, Just to complete um during monthly computer count just to complete all the reports because remember, we have like sixty plus or ninety something. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:26:36 Cl ients that we need to send them their monthly reports, So this is going to be big, helpful forum Christian. And also yeah, with the UPI thing happening, I am hoping that we can. Spend fewer hours in building all the clients because it's one of the tasks that's taking too much time for admin team. Speaker 1 00:26:57 So Hmm. Yeah. Are you, you guys still aren't signing anything? Are you guys still aren'tum. Speaker 1 00:27:07 Not signing anything, you guys aren't gonna replace Marvin. Oh no, Speaker 2 00:27:13 We're not going to add a new admin if that's what you're. Asking. Speaker 1 00:27:18 That's exactly what I'm asking. No, Speaker 2 00:27:20 Anzor would doesn't want to add one more because the goal is to He said," Automate and optimize as much process as we can." Just to you know avoid to add another headcount. Speaker 2 00:27:36 So. So that's why we're kind of trying to find things and how everything can make easier, smoother, and you know less the manual work because. If that's the goal, don't add another headcount. Then we don't have a choice but to explore. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:27:56 But dang, like you got a month. Like imagine right till Marvin leaves right. Like like that's. Speaker 2 00:28:03 I'm sorry. Well, Marvin is going to be officially leaving Crimson on July 1 st. So like, yeah, we have. Oh, on July? Yes. So we have June. No, we have May and June still to you know wrap up everything. So hopefully, but then Marvin said you can still reach out to me even if I'm already with Ladmis. But of course, I don't want to bug him anymore if he's in Ladmis, just to kind of respect, you know, the his time they're in there. Speaker 1 00:28:31 So Yeah, definitely. Speaker 2 00:28:35 All right. Well, so that's about it. And oh, you know we're here to. Speaker 1 00:28:40 Help if we ever need to. Speaker 2 00:28:41 Yeah, thank you. Thank you. So yeah, I am trying to no need more help from you guys when When it comes to connect- wise. Psa things. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:28:53 Which we know very little about. We all are like, you know, blind leading the blind. Yes, exactly. Speaker 2 00:29:02 Yeah, so we're both learning here, so. Oh yeah. Uh oh okay then. This yeah, this pair thing. So you need the pairs like. Remember, I asked. I told you like we had a discussion. I had a discussion with Anser, and then because I mentioned it to him about the UBI thing, and then I hoped I told him like oh hopefully he's gonna be the. Answer in automating the RMM device with ConnectWise agreements, and then I told him, "Look, so how about the spares? What are we going to do about that?" and then He told me, like, okay. So let's do this for all small clients. Let's have like two free spares for them, and then for large clients, let's have like five free spares. And if something exceeds about that, then you have to either charge them or remove your agent. So. That's what. Speaker 2 00:30:01 He told me so. Here's what's going to happen on the building side. So, the count from RMM is going to automatically. Appears on the invoicing side, and then if there is uh every time we build a client, there is a like uh credit of two devices monthly. So. Speaker 3 00:30:19 Regardless if they have a thing or not. Speaker 2 00:30:22 Yeah, so that two spare is going to cover the, you know. Free spares that we have for them in RMM. Speaker 1 00:30:33 So Okay, but question yeah. Speaker 3 00:30:37 Like, mathematically does that make sense? Speaker 2 00:30:43 Um, because as long as because he doesn't want to pay for more. Remember the R M R M M is charging us right for all of the. Devices in there. Speaker 1 00:30:57 Yeah, but but my question is. Sa y one single company is paying. See well, what's what's a workstation for like Project Angel Food for example, like one hundred and. Something or is it two hundred? Speaker 2 00:31:12 I don't think they're until they're at two hundred. I'm assuming. Speaker 1 00:31:18 How much does it cost. Speaker 2 00:31:20 Per device? Um, let me check. In. Speaker 2 00:31:30 So, the spares is going to be, you know, um. Pricing for each spare, I believe, will be as per how are we charging them for each device. Speaker 3 00:31:43 Yeah right. So so you would take off two. Okay so for example. Let's. Speaker 1 00:31:49 Say that Project Angel Food they spend two hundred dollars per. Per workstation, Speaker 3 00:31:57 Yeah, right. So. Speaker 1 00:31:59 We every single month will take off four hundred dollars off of theirum their cost. Speaker 2 00:32:07 For two spares. Speaker 1 00:32:08 For two spares, right? But four hundred dollars is much more expensive than four. Speaker 3 00:32:15 Dollars in RMB. Speaker 2 00:32:17 Oh, so you mean uh okay. So okay, yeah, I can raise that to answer that we're not gonna fully. Um charge. Sp are as per what we are charging them for their workstation because that's gonna be yeah unfair since we only pay four dollars for for eachum device for. The agent that's installed to their laptop, right? Speaker 1 00:32:44 I mean, like we also have like Huntress installed, um, sometimes. But we could technically. Oh, even if it's a spare? We have Huntress. Yeah yeah yeah. Because. Anything that has our agent on it automatically pushes our either sofos or huntress. Speaker 2 00:33:02 Uh, okay. So we can you knowum identify all the tools that's been installed on a spare device? And then we're gonna base the cost that we're gonna Um. You know we're gonna deduct from their monthly invoice. Speaker 1 00:33:18 Yeah, exactly. That's I guess that's my question is like, Speaker 2 00:33:22 I get you okay. Speaker 1 00:33:24 On an RMM side, we're using RMM really as a management tool of like saying, "Okay, you have this many spares. There's this, you know, these spares are somewhere in the office or they're somewhere else." Like like On Helpdesk, it's easy for us to keep track of that because we have RMM. So we're keeping track of it through RMM. Now, if we remove that It's going to be harder for us to figure out. They have spares, but it's not impossible, right Okay, Speaker 2 00:33:55 But do you? Uh, oh, sorry, Do, you know, like for all spares Is there like a specific. Like a fixed list of tools that are installed in them. Speaker 3 00:34:07 Our tools, yeah, Speaker 2 00:34:09 Our tools. Um, Speaker 1 00:34:12 I mean it should just be. RMM and uh Huntress and Huntress, yeah, but if there is a way that we could say. You know, if the device has spare in it, that Huntress doesn't install the agent, so that in itself will save money. Yeah, and I've been trying to talk to Hunter about this, and he just He's ghosting me. Not ghosting me, but every time that he calls me, we're talking about. Uh, smart dispatch. Uh huh. So. I don't know. I guess I am asking like. Does it actually make sense to? Speaker 1 00:34:51 Mo ve the cost from everyone's invoice, regardless of if they have a spare or not because. I feel like we're just gonna lose, not lose money there, but like that's more of a cost than. Our two- dollar agent. Speaker 2 00:35:11 And what did she? What did he? Um. Speaker 1 00:35:15 No, he hasn't said anything. I mean, he hasn't. I haven't even told him. I haven't even had a chance to talk to him about it. Speaker 1 00:35:22 Okay. Can I talk to Pete about it first? Yeah, you know, Speaker 2 00:35:25 I am kind of like and also I think we kind of need to schedule a call to discuss this very thing with him. I agree, Speaker 1 00:35:34 And we have to tell clients like for clients that have a bunch of spares. It's good, right Like likeum, Iron Gate. I think they have like. I don't know. Probably thirty spares, just for them. So for IronGate, it's a plus, right? But for most of our other clients who don't even have any spares. It's we'd be losing money. What do you mean, Speaker 2 00:36:07 Like for clients with no spares? Speaker 1 00:36:10 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like. Um, well, let me see. Let me look this like. Devlaw, for example, does Devlaw have any stairs? Here I'm going to share my screen. Okay. Not that it really matters, but. Oh yeah, okay. So Devlaw only has one spare, right? So so right now. Let's say that a huntress license costs like thirty or twenty bucks. Speaker 1 00:36:47 And then we know that an RMM. Speaker 3 00:36:49 Agent costs two dollars per device, right? So in total we're like down twenty- two dollars. Right here for just this device. But. Speaker 1 00:37:03 But then we remove, we're going to credit them two devices, right? Speaker 2 00:37:10 Ah, two devices is not a fixed device. If that's what you're I mean. Hang on. If there is only one spare, then there is This automatically frees. Speaker 3 00:37:22 If it's only one spare, are you just going to credit one spare? Speaker 2 00:37:25 But then Even before we're not charging them for these spares, right? Speaker 3 00:37:31 Yeah, no, we're not. Speaker 2 00:37:32 Okay, so if they only have one spare. Um. Oh, okay. Here's the thing because since, if that will you know we will start automating RMM with. U m, Connectwise agreements that spare will be included in the count in the invoice and then. From that invoice, we're gonna go credit them for one. Spare device, which is that one that you've shown earlier. That's for Devlo, right? Speaker 3 00:38:03 But you just credit one, you wouldn't credit automatically two. Speaker 2 00:38:09 No, because There's no other spirit. There's only one, right? Speaker 3 00:38:14 A h, but you're still gonna have to go check R M M, right? Speaker 2 00:38:18 Yeah, we still have to check how many spares is you know. is the appropriate to credit. Speaker 3 00:38:26 Oh, okay. So if they have, like, what's another company that like Ark. Yeah. So say ARC has no spares at all, then they would have no credit. Speaker 2 00:38:38 No credit, yes. Speaker 3 00:38:39 Mhm. Uh, but you still have to go check. Yep. So that part's not going to be automated. Speaker 2 00:38:47 Yeah. How will we know So we have to manually still check. But still, At least we've you know, achieved the goal, like the total of RMM device is to. Um, be automated with Connect Wise agreements. It's just that we need to do an extra step in confirming if. But there are devices that needs to be credited. Speaker 2 00:39:14 Yeah, I think that's the manual check that we need to. Speaker 3 00:39:19 That part's not going to go away; like you are still going to have to do that. Mhm, mhm. But at max, you'll give two instead of like. Yes, for Iron Gate, for example. Speaker 2 00:39:28 Exactly. I see. So yeah, we still have to discuss that internally anyway. So I think. Speaker 2 00:39:43 We can schedule a call maybe next week with Pete, Mike, you and me. To discuss that, so you know we can be on the same page. Oh, they're gonna be in Evolve next week. We. Speaker 3 00:40:00 Could do like late next week. Speaker 2 00:40:02 Yeah, or early next next the following week. Speaker 3 00:40:05 Yeah, yeah, Speaker 2 00:40:06 That's fine with me. Yeah, it is not urgent though, but. Just you know we can discuss this as soon as possible. Yeah, I just feel like yeah. Speaker 3 00:40:17 I just want to give a heads up to the clients and then also give a heads up to my team because I have a new process than that. I would have to follow because. That's a whole other thing that I'm. Speaker 2 00:40:30 Yeah, and also. I don't know. I'm also I'm sure that you already you know. In structed your team, you know, when renaming spares because that's where we will depend. Are you know. How much are we going to credit? Um. Speaker 3 00:40:46 Oh, yeah, but they are no I have, but it has taken so so long and even still. They they don't do it correctly like this one for example. Speaker 2 00:40:58 Oh yeah, the computer is. Speaker 3 00:41:01 Is the friendly name like is Robert actually using this? Speaker 3 00:41:07 Oh yeah, look he is. Then why the hell is the friendly name spare? It's like. Speaker 2 00:41:13 Getting all of these people on the same page. About like little tiny things like this, he's like pulling hair. They are like cats that just like. April, it is. It's a lot. Yeah, I think you can. Yeah, you can raise that in our meeting. You know, whatever all the challenges that you might you might you're foreseeing. You know. U m, You can list out all the challenges that you see will will become a roadblock to this. Um. Spare management, um, and then we can talk about that. Maybe Pete and Mike would have like a better idea on how to. Speaker 3 00:41:56 Yeah, I'll bring it up to them. If they still want to do it, you know, I mean they're going to want to do it no matter what, but like. Yeah, maybe they can help me guide, like give me ideas of something. Better to do I don't know. Speaker 2 00:42:09 Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'll find a time on next maybe the week of May fourth. And let's go from there. Speaker 3 00:42:19 Okay, that sounds good with me. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:42:25 Okay, I think we. Had enough time, you know, discussing the tea and all the. Speaker 1 00:42:34 Like when we talk, We talk for like hours. Speaker 2 00:42:36 Yeah, we're yappers, you know. So. We are yappers. A quick call is not a quick call if it's you and me so. No one trusts me about hey, can I can we jump on a quick call? Speaker 3 00:42:49 Five minutes just really quickly. We also. I want to. I don't. I don't really know, I want to get your opinion on something. Something. So. Speaker 1 00:43:08 Jason called me earlier. Uhhuh. Um, and Was saying that. Was saying that Pepe and Jose, like, basically caught Caleb having like a panic attack. Speaker 2 00:43:26 Oh shit. Uhhuh. Speaker 1 00:43:28 Because he was like so stressed. Speaker 2 00:43:31 Oh no. And so, like. Do you think he needs a break, like a two- week off? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:43:42 Like is that what I should suggest? You think like. Speaker 2 00:43:45 I don't know really. You should suggest that Olivia. I think it's in our handbook as well, that you know. Speaker 3 00:43:54 Yeah, to take some time off. Yeah, and I know he's been really stressed recently too. Speaker 2 00:43:59 Yeah, have him take off like for two weeks. That's theum, you know, I've been suggesting that to team P H as well. Whenever, you know some of them like struggling personally, or you know that's affecting their work. I suggest them like, hey, do you want to take a two week off because, if that will. Help you and you know feel better, then go ahead and take a two week off. Speaker 3 00:44:24 Yeah, yeah. That's a good that's a good call. Yeah. That's a very good call. Okay, thank you. I appreciate that. Speaker 2 00:44:34 You're welcome. You know, we we share the same sentiments now. So, we both are managers now. So Yeah. Who would have thought? Look at us go. I know, like back then we were just babies here and then now we're. I know, literally. We're just meanies and now we're not. I know. Speaker 1 00:44:58 Who gave us this Who did this to us I blame Christy. Speaker 2 00:45:03 Me too. Like, there are times like I want to go back to the basic like how I am how, you know where I am in the past like. I am just beginning here in Crimson, so. Easier days, yes. But there are times I am also thinking, if you are not going to get out of your comfort zone, you will not grow. Like You know, you're just gonna stock in there, so. Speaker 1 00:45:28 For sure. But yeah, okay, I'll let you go. Speaker 2 00:45:31 Okay my friend. Yeah, so have a great weekend or what? I have, Speaker 1 00:45:38 I just, I was like, that's a great idea. I am gonna go see how much Caleb has like how much balance he has. He has two days worth of not even two days worth. Of PTO time, Speaker 2 00:45:54 I think. You can ask for a PTO, like I think this a manager's discretion. You know, How are you going to handle this type of if he no longer have like the available credits for PTO? And then you can ask me to do something like, you know, just make an exemption. Since okay, this a health problem issue or mental health problem issue. So, yeah. Okay. Sounds good. Okay, thank you. Okey-dokey, bye. Goodbye.
07-08 Technical Onboarding for 'Weight Room' Project: Development Workflow with GitHub, Vercel, and Claude
- Notes
-  ## Core Synopsis The technical onboarding for the "Weight Room" project is complete. A walkthrough session successfully configured Sergio's local environment, connecting his "Claude" application to the project's GitHub repository and the Vercel hosting platform. This setup automates the deployment pipeline: any code pushed from the local machine to GitHub is automatically updated on the live site via Vercel. The session focused on establishing the correct workflow—pulling from GitHub, making local changes, previewing them on a local server, and pushing the final version back to GitHub. While the process is now significantly streamlined compared to the previous Visual Studio workflow, its success depends on the user correctly executing the command-line instructions within the Claude interface. ## Onboarding and Workflow Configuration ### 1. System Access and Integration The primary objective was to grant Sergio access to the development and deployment ecosystem for the "Weight Room" project. - **GitHub:** Sergio was previously added to the project's GitHub organization, which serves as the central code repository. This access is provided under a free tier, as the primary account holder absorbs the minimal costs. - **Vercel:** Vercel is used for hosting and deployment. Sergio was added to the Vercel account to enable automatic deployments from GitHub. The cost is negligible and covered by the primary account holder. - **Claude:** The Claude desktop application is the local development environment. ### 2. Local Environment Setup Speaker 3 guided Sergio through a screen-sharing session to configure the local development environment. - **Step 1 (Folder Selection):** Sergio located and selected the correct project folder (`documents/The weight room website`) within the Claude application. - **Step 2 (Connector Installation):** The GitHub connector was located and installed within Claude's settings, requiring authorization and login to Sergio's GitHub account. - **Step 3 (Initial Sync):** Sergio instructed Claude to "pull from GitHub the weight room," which synchronized the remote repository with his local machine. The system required permissions to make initial edits, which were granted. ### 3. The Development Workflow The established workflow is designed for simplicity and automation. 1. **Pull:** Begin by pulling the latest code from the GitHub repository to the local machine. 2. **Edit:** Make changes locally within the Claude environment (e.g., adding photos, modifying code). 3. **Preview (Optional but Recommended):** Use the command "spin up a local server" to preview changes in a browser before committing them. 4. **Push:** Once satisfied, instruct Claude to "push" the changes to GitHub. This single command updates the central repository and triggers an automatic deployment to the live website on Vercel. ## Next Move **@Sergio** - [ ] Practice the development workflow: pull from GitHub, make a test change, and push to GitHub to confirm the automated deployment works as expected. - [TBD] - [ ] Attend the upcoming Claude training session on the 27th (contingent on receiving the forwarded invitation). - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule a workout session with Speaker 3 once her health and energy levels recover. - [TBD] **@Speaker 3** - [ ] Forward the invitation for the three-day Claude training (noon-2:00 PM, Monday-Wednesday starting the 27th) to Sergio. - [TBD] - [ ] Send the invitation for her daughter's 18th birthday party to Sergio. - [TBD]
- Date
- Jul 8, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:26 No, that's amazing. Do you like to watch TV. Okay, do you like, Dutton Ranch and things like that. Awesome I have plenty of books. Yeah, um, do you like to play video games. That's okay. I'm a gamer. Uh huh. Speaker 2 00:02:04 Hi. I don't see you. Speaker 3 00:02:10 Oh, you're just hiding your face from me. Oh, is it because you didn't shave this morning? Oh, I have a new kiddo. It went really well. Um, she is a non- minor dependent. Meaning, she's uh over the age of eighteen um and she's pregnant, but she has no family in LA, and she's been in a foster care system. So yeah, um because I'm only taking non minor dependents right now um so kids over the age of eighteen, yeah, and she's in junior college to become a dental hygienist. Yeah yeah. So the the requirements of staying in as a non minor dependent is that you have to. Speaker 3 00:03:01 Be enrolled in school, and so she's meeting those requirements. She just doesn't have a place to land right now. So, yeah, and Dom's birthday is in two weeks; she'll be eighteen. Her? She is no longer trans. Yes, all right, so we have you in GitHub. Let me get logged in. Speaker 3 00:03:32 Uh, I'm gonna share my screen with you. Uh, as long as you don't judge my grocery list that's currently on the screen. My, my grocery list looks nice. I'll leave it up just so that you can judge it. Better, my energy is improving day by day. I still cough like I'm an 80 year old man with COPD. But that's from being on oxygen for as long as I was. So, see, there is nothing wrong with my list. Shitake mushrooms. Those are, yeah, those are Dom's. The shitake mushrooms. Green beans are mine. So, and I have more. I have a whole list. I have hard boiled eggs, egg whites and some other stuff on here. Yeah okay. Speaker 3 00:04:30 So Vercel, I just realized. Uh, hang on one second. What's wrong with my Vercel? Let me log in with GitHub. Continue. Let me get you added to Vercel because uh I just realized you need to be added to this one. Uh skip it, I'll do that later. Speaker 3 00:05:04 Yes. Yep. So, um, Vercel is, um, Vercel's host is the host of it. Okay? Yeah. Yep. So Vercel because I only pay$ 30 a month for all hosting total. It's much cheaper and I don't mind including you in it because I have all this other stuff that I do. And so you guys are like pennies for me. So that's why I'm like, don't worry about this. Just keep this with me because it's not going to cost you anything. So I need to add you. Let's see, where do I add you? I will figure this out. I'll figure this out eventually. Anything you post to GitHub, because you have access to GitHub, is automatically uploaded into Vercel. Speaker 3 00:06:04 Yeah, any changes you make in GitHub. So, yes. So in here, let's see the new weight room. What I did with the new weight room is I built it under its own organization. So if you go into GitHub, GitHub is like the cream of the crop tool to use. And because I've added you, you're under the free support because you don't For the weight room, you don't need to pay for it. It's included online, and again, I am paying pennies for you compared to what I do for other people. So I don't want you having to worry about cost. ; I want this to stay free for you. So this is all your files, and as you are working in it, are you did you get cloud code? Okay, perfect so. Speaker 3 00:07:05 Okay, so how much do you pay for your cloud membership. Okay, so that's that's fair, um don't ask me what I'm paying for mine trust me. Okay. Yeah, I I'm I'm double what you're paying. All right So what. Yeah July twelfth. Speaker 3 00:07:36 So, you're going to go, you're going to open up the desktop app. You're going to go into code. And because I'm not on my work computer, I mean my home computer, um I'm going to try to see if I can open it. Open folder. I don't think I have it synced. I don't. Yeah So in here, you're going to sync it to whatever uh app that you're working on. No, it's not in that one. I think it's under my other system. It is. Um, so basically what you're going to do is you're going to pull up, I'm going to do Adapto Inbox. Um, you're going to pull up whatever you're working on. I'm going to trust the workspace. So this is my Adapto Inbox that I'm working on. Um, but you want to use it. Speaker 3 00:08:33 Just like what you would normally use instead of Adapto Inbox folder, you are going to open up the weight room. Okay. So whatever folder you have all the, the code documents and things in. You should already have it because I set it up on that desktop. Speaker 3 00:09:02 Um, share your no, you're going to look for the wait room. I'm just using Adapto because that's the only one I have. You're you want the wait room folder for uh your code base. Share your screen with me because I think I know where it is. Speaker 2 00:09:36 I'm not worried about that. I already have mine on. Speaker 2 00:10:10 I don't see it yet. There. Speaker 3 00:10:21 We go. Now I'm seeing it. Okay, so go to documents, you know, put it in there. The weight room website. Click on that. Yep, that's it. So open up Claude. Okay. Not not that, open up your Claude app. Speaker 2 00:11:03 It is. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:11:15 I don't. You're gonna have to stop sharing and reshare. Speaker 3 00:11:31 Okay. So down at the bottom where you see select folder. Mhm, click that. Now go to documents, and go to the weight room website and just click on the folder. You don't have to double click and then select folder. Now, I want you to go down and click on your name down at the bottom, and then get apps and extensions. All right from there. Speaker 3 00:12:13 We're going to look for GitHub. They changed it. Chrome, desktop, Code. Go down to Code. Yep. And then wait, hang on, that's not where I want you to be. Go out of that and try this again. Go to settings So hit the back button on the top left. Speaker 3 00:12:43 All right, now go back down to your name. Mhm. And then look for Hang on, let me find it. Connectors Down, down there. Yep. And then at the top right click on Add and browse connectors. Speaker 3 00:13:12 And then search for GitHub, G-I-T. No space between Git and Hub. But it's not here. They have it taken out. Go back, let's. Yep, you did. Okay, click Connect. That's where it is. I was like, something's not right here. Alright, click on Connect. Next. Yes, you're going to authorize it. Log in as yourself. Speaker 2 00:14:03 Okay, go back to code. Speaker 3 00:14:08 Alright now. Speaker 3 00:14:11 Ask Claude to pull from GitHub the weight room. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:14:25 Press enter. It's okay, I added them both. Always allow. Speaker 2 00:14:53 Okay, always allow. Speaker 3 00:14:58 At the bottom where you see it says accept edits, click on that. And then tell it to auto mode. Yep, enable auto mode and always allow. Speaker 3 00:15:32 Now, what it's doing is it's taking everything from GitHub, and it's pulling it down to your local computer, but it's also checking to see what is correct. So, then you can tell it to make the changes and then make sure you tell it to push it to GitHub. Yep. Speaker 3 00:15:58 Yeah, you have to tell it to push. The word is push, To GitHub. So. Mhm. Once you're once you're ready to push everything to it, yeah. And that's all you have to do. Speaker 2 00:16:23 Mhm. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:16:32 Uh, it will try to. Uh, it does very well. But lately it's been having because I've been making some changes. Uh, You might tell it to uh spin up a local server, so you can see the changes. Uh and local server is a key word. Um so just tell it to spin up a local server. So you can see the changes. It will show you how to connect to it. And it'll just be one that you can see. And if you like it just hit push or just tell it to push. Speaker 2 00:17:05 Yeah. Mhm. Uh. Speaker 3 00:17:21 What I do normally is if I say, here's the location where I have new photos, I want to put these on the website, And I give it the location and I approve it, accessing it because it'll ask me to approve. And then I'll tell it where I want those pictures, and I will tell it push it up. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Where this is now versus where it was a year ago, and I had you going through Visual Studio, it is a thousand times better. So, I mean, I'm constantly building out new things all the time within Glide Code. Speaker 3 00:18:01 That's why I had to uh increase it to the two hundred dollar one. So. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:18:14 Yeah. I if you have time, uh next time I have a Claude training for a client, I'll add you to it if you can attend, and it's usually an hour and a half to two hour training, and we'll go over the basics, so. I think I have one coming up on the twenty seventh. Speaker 3 00:18:32 And it's a three day one, so, it's noon to two o'clock I think. And it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I think so. But I'll forward it so that you can add so that you can add to it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:19:02 Yes. Yep, Speaker 3 00:19:06 Yep. So, all right, sweet. And I would come train with you one day, But not while I am hacking like an eighty year old with COPD. Let me get my energy up. I am just now getting back to the office. So eight, a, m or seven a m. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:19:42 Okay. Yeah. Good, I am under three hundred now. Yeah, and then I dropped. Yeah, I'm still I dropped even more at the hospital because they had me on a pure clear liquid diet for four days. I yeah, I'm gonna lose more weight soon when I have surgery, but yeah. Speaker 3 00:20:04 Yeah, thanks. All right. Um, I am going to leave you alone. I got to go deal with a new foster kid coming on board. And then my child has a meeting with her college advisor. Uh, I take her to college in six weeks. So, UC Merced. Yeah, I'll invite you to her eighteenth birthday party. Plus you know, i'll i'll send you the invite for that. So how's Maria doing? Speaker 2 00:21:12 Yep. Yes. Yep. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:21:44 Mhm. Good. Good. Yeah. Yes. Speaker 2 00:22:16 Yeah. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:22:23 And honestly, the steroids she she's gonna she's gonna feel good for a while. I felt like I could take on the world. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:22:55 Yeah. Yeah, and it will take a while because remember when we would just walk, and some days I could go to the very end, and some days we were like barely down the street. It yeah. So. Speaker 2 00:23:14 Okay good. Speaker 3 00:23:17 Oh, wow. I, i you reminded me to check something, and my hospital stake so far, I only owe twenty dollars. Yeah, that's a lie. All right, I'll talk to you later. Um but yeah, I'll come work out with you sometime soon once my energy returns and give give Blue some extra kisses from me Bye.
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06-03 Fixing the Governance Gap in Invoice Allocation and Payroll Controls: Clarify Ownership, Access, and RACI to Restore Credibility
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-  ## Core Synopsis The operational bottleneck is a governance gap around invoice allocation and Concur ownership that allows one stakeholder to block transfer of the “hardest part” while later weaponizing that gap as a critique; the finance ops group offered to assume invoice intake, assignment, allocation, and automation, but the incumbent never granted access nor training on bill sources, then accused the team of avoiding the heavy lift. Evidence includes: explicit offers to own allocation and build automation; approval continuity on all Concur invoices; and corroborated disclosures on budget impacts (the $100k was communicated in ELT and email). Meanwhile, payroll is absorbing abnormal off-cycle volume due to clustered terminations yet being second-guessed for paying people on time, and cross-team interpersonal friction (Alma, Jessica, Kiarabell) is escalating around role clarity and firmness in performance management. The stakes are credibility and throughput: without formalizing process ownership and access, the team remains responsible for outcomes without control of inputs, inviting recurring blame cycles and missed automation leverage. We are committing to lock the operating model in writing, expose access dependencies, and escalate compliance around training and data handoffs. ## Control the Work: Offers, Access, and Accountability - What was offered vs. what was blocked - Finance ops proposed taking end-to-end responsibility from invoice receipt through allocation and Concur processing, including exploring IT automation based on historical allocation patterns. The incumbent did not provide the necessary access or training to the bill sources, keeping the “hardest part” fenced. Current state: approvals in Concur continue, but upstream intake and allocation are still dependent on the incumbent. - Verified disclosures and misrepresentation - Leadership corroborated that the $100k budget impact was disclosed via ELT and email threads. Attempts to reframe this as “undisclosed” were called out, which reduces the credibility of the counterparty arguing the team hasn’t owned the hard part. - Process risk in Payroll and off-cycles - Spikes in off-cycle checks driven by clustered resignations were necessary to pay on time; documentation exists in notes. Criticism is surfacing despite compliance with pay timeliness. The risk is optics: high off-cycle volume without narrative framing reads like disorder even when it’s the correct action. - Compensation change control conflict - The shift from one-time bonuses to a 3% base increase was decided when financials allowed (mid-March close; April execution). A stakeholder claimed “not informed,” but email proof exists. Pattern: decision records exist, but change control isn’t being honored by counterparties who later deny receipt. - Political pattern: turf and credibility games - The incumbent benefits from retaining gatekeeping over invoice sources and allocation, then uses that to critique others for not doing the “hardest part.” Separate interpersonal frictions (Alma, Jessica; firmness with Kiarabell; performance coaching of Chase) increase the likelihood of triangulation and narrative distortion if roles/records aren’t tightened. ## Next Move **@Christi** - [ ] Draft and send a written recap of the offered scope (invoice intake, allocation, Concur processing, and proposed automation) including specific access/training dependencies (bill source locations, permissions) to Charl and Speaker 1; request explicit approval or denial for each scope item - [TBD] - [ ] Send the same recap to the incumbent stakeholder with a 48-hour deadline to grant access/training or to explicitly decline, copying leadership - [TBD] - [ ] Cancel the Gloria/Crimson engagement and notify stakeholders per guidance; include a brief issue summary - [TBD] **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Attach the ELT/email evidence of the $100k budget disclosure to the recap thread to close the loop on the misrepresentation - [TBD] - [ ] Define the minimum access package required to own allocation (systems, folders, contacts) and ask IT/Finance Ops to provision upon approval - [TBD] - [ ] Escalate a formal RACI proposal for invoice lifecycle (Intake, Allocation, Concur Entry, Approval, Automation) to leadership for sign-off - [TBD] **@Charl (or designated Finance lead)** - [ ] Respond to the recap by approving/denying each work component and instruct IT/Finance Ops to provision access accordingly - [TBD] **@Payroll Lead (if separate)** - [ ] Produce a one-pager explaining rationale for recent off-cycle checks (termination timing, pay-on-time policy) and the criteria for off-cycle use; share with leadership to preempt future disputes - [TBD]
- Date
- Jun 3, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:05 Yeah. No. We said, hey, invoice comes in, we will assign it and we will do the allocation. Right? But that was an option, right? Speaker 2 00:00:17 Yes. Um. Yeah, and she never came back to us to give us any any of that ability. But yes, that was the conversation. And I think I have it in a transcript. Speaker 3 00:00:34 So, she. Speaker 1 00:00:46 Basically said that we, she appreciates the help but the hardest part, we're not taking on. Speaker 2 00:00:55 What is the hardest part and what what are we excuse me for? Speaker 1 00:00:59 We offered to take it on from invoice allocation assignment. I said, actually, I told you when we got off the phone. Could I texted him right after or I teased him and said," This is a great call. Speaker 3 00:01:13 This is a really good call." So. Speaker 1 00:01:23 This was a really good call and we offered. I said," I offered her direct." Speaker 1 00:01:33 Any progress process that has to do with I T, I mean um finance and potentially an I T automation. I was like this could be a real research for her dissertation paper. And they were like oh great, and they surprised and said well she's still not taking on the hardest part. Wait. Speaker 1 00:02:04 We will take no more meetings with that person. No, yeah. We'll take no more meetings with that person. Speaker 2 00:02:16 I agree because that's ridiculous. We offered, she never came back to us, She never showed us how and I've been not sitting here waiting, but I've been like watching to see if she ever reaches out to say, hey, where is this? Speaker 1 00:02:31 You said I could take it from him because she was like, I don't know if you are going to be able to allocate. Right, that was her concern: was were you going to be able to allocate? And I was like, I think we talked about if you got allocations for the previous ones, how could we do the allocation and automate it? Do an automation. And she just was like, uh, kind of like on the fence. Right. And I said, well, we can continue doing what we're doing and she approved that. Speaker 1 00:03:02 The year I was like the hardest part isn't being taken. I am still managing the hardest part. So, I was like, "I thought she was getting you all gave her options." I said, "I did give her options. Chris gave her options." I said, " We gave her options on the current work that we were talking about and other assignments that we heard that she was doing." Speaker 1 00:03:34 To my own department because it gets so crazy. Then they complained about how many off cycle checks we had last week doing. I mean, to tell you what the week oh, in the last two weeks, We had three resignations in the first week of pay period and four resignations in the second or were a term. Speaker 1 00:04:03 Three resignations and a regular payroll. Why are we doing some of the off cycle checks? I said, I put in the notes why we do them. Do they not want us to do this? Should we not pay people on time? Speaker 2 00:04:29 I am in shock. Speaker 1 00:04:35 Well, what's going on? He said, "I am so sorry. I do want to apologize because I do i recognize that you and Chris are probably very stressed about, he did apologize." He said, " I recognize that you two were probably very stressed about the hundred thousand dollars not going into the budget." I said, "Yeah, we were really stressed because we knew we had shared it." Speaker 1 00:05:05 Dollars. He was like, I know. He said, I know. So Carl, I am ready to put the complaint in. Speaker 2 00:05:18 Yeah. Cause I am sitting here thinking what? Why? Why is this happening? Speaker 1 00:05:27 He he called but here is what I like about this situation.: he called me; he called out the BS. Speaker 1 00:05:37 And he apologized to both of us about that because he said, "he said, 'not only did he, oh, here is the kicker, you know, who saved this, like like not saved this, but put a like a shut the hell up with it." Oh, because not only he had email thread of conversations about the hundred k. And he remembered it in our ELT. Speaker 1 00:06:10 So he was like, uh, no, that was disclosed because remember it was like one twenty one thirty. And went down to the hundred. But he was like no it was shared. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:06:28 You know what? I just this is my call this one. It's me, It's just I'm. Speaker 2 00:06:39 Yeah, but what purpose? Like, what purpose do they have in doing it? What is their endgame? Speaker 1 00:06:49 Some people don't rock with other people. Bruce like I don't know. Some people just cause Luke's telling me on the other side of he's having issues. Some I'll give an example, we change. We putum we put bonuses in well. We put an increase in. Speaker 1 00:07:11 We put those increases in a three percent. We toggled between if that was going to be a bonus, and so initially we put it as bonus, But we said we will decide as we get closer based on some other factors, if we will give it as a one time bonus, or we will give it as a three percent increase. And we decided to give it as a three percent increase, Which means you automatically have to give it because the financials worked out at the end of the year. The year, and we seen it in the beginning of like in March. So, we decided in April, we would give a three percent versus you know, she was like I never when we went to do, basically I put it in for everybody. I put it the three percent in for all staffs. They got the three percent increase in the payroll. And she was like, why is it just so short? Why why isn't it just. Speaker 1 00:08:11 We changed that in April. No, he actually he said when when we closed mid March, I told you that that was changing, that we were no longer going to do it as an office. And she was like, "You never told me that." Well. He was like, "I had to dig up an email." I said, "I don't know can she?" Speaker 1 00:08:48 Not to sharp. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:08:52 No, she needs to go there. Speaker 1 00:08:53 Not to sharp, take her over there to the doggie. Yes. Going over there. Speaker 2 00:08:59 Yeah, cause SCHARP's not gonna if she's not gonna work out with SCHARP. Oh no They they have they they they don't like bullshit bridges. Speaker 1 00:09:12 So I said this. Let us send you a recap of what we offer. I already said, But if you wouldn't mind drafting and just sending a recap of what we do, because and what we still are willing to do, like maybe we missed something, we'll take it. Yeah. Give it to us. Yeah But I didn't get I didn't leave that meeting like we were like nope on anything. I don't think we said no to anything. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:09:50 And trust me, I have approved all invoices that have come through to concur. You are better than me. Speaker 1 00:10:00 From like Monday, so I just don't know what the case is. Speaker 2 00:10:16 Yeah, I I have a. I would if I can say this, I'll email. I'll do the recap and I'll email it over to Charl and you, and say you know we did offer. To take on the heavy lifting, but other than training in Concur. Where the bill comes from so that I can input it into Concur. She hasn't trained me on that part. I don't even know where those bills are to be able to do it myself, and I know how to do things in Concur. Speaker 1 00:10:57 But she said she needed to think about it, right? Like uh," I'll let you know." So but it was offered. Speaker 2 00:11:09 And I found it. Speaker 1 00:11:16 You guys don't have a problem with them at all. Oh, I see. Yeah, she's not even doing it. That was Denny. It said request for Denny. Do you see those? Speaker 2 00:11:31 Yep, because I just. You see those two? I just approved those. But there's two of them. But. Speaker 1 00:11:37 I know, but Denny put those in. Yeah Is it? I don't know Maybe they crack ass smoke. Speaker 1 00:11:48 Clearly you have to be voted off. This is crazy. I. Speaker 2 00:12:01 Can't like. Yeah, I can't believe this.'Cause I don't, I don't understand what her end game or goal is. Is she just not mature enough? Speaker 2 00:12:32 Yeah, they were standoffish to me on Tuesday. Alma and Jessica was standoffish to me on Tuesday. Speaker 1 00:12:41 What? I haven't said anything to them. I have not said a word to them about anything you've said. Speaker 2 00:12:47 No, I know you haven't. But I also, I think part of it is I am thinking might have overheard me being very firm with Kirabell. Speaker 2 00:13:02 Because, he was he was doing things that we had talked to him and told him not to be doing. And oh yeah, Speaker 1 00:13:09 You know what I I had to get on Chase today and I was like, you are very stern. Yeah, I don't think he tell you the same thing. Mhm. And she was like so basically, I want Chase to go into other markets, like uh the in the IHSS, where if you were an IHSS worker and you were applying for jobs, I want to be where you are. Speaker 1 00:13:34 I never resource. And so he was like, "Yeah, but you know, this one I can get some leads, but I don't have time for leads. I need pipeline." Yeah. And he said it on the call and I said, "Okay, let's take it off. " And. So we did a call after and I was like giving him the list. It's like this this that. She was like ooh ooh huh. I don't know what you thought in the interview process because I don't think that belief that makes me look crazy. So, I am very. When it comes to getting work done, and she was just like, "Are you just going to be okay?" I was like, "Uh, if he's not then it's okay. We can help him find something else. " But Chase after I thought he was like, really you tell me the whole thing. Sometimes it's okay. Yeah, you basically I was saying to him. Speaker 1 00:14:33 I am not buying your excuse. Yes, basically, yeah. He hadn't done the research and was like," I don't think this is." I was like," Okay, don't do it then." Chase, you are not going to have to have the pipeline because you don't have that now with what you are doing. You got to make a pivot. Yeah and he was like," Sure okay." Speaker 2 00:14:51 Oh my goodness. Speaker 1 00:14:53 And so she was like," You were really like no nonsense with him." Yeah who has time? I already told him once. And you're gonna make a pivot. I was like, I have like four kids. I'm like, I'm gonna say a nice to you the first time. The second time, I might be like this the deal. The third time, I have to have the conversation. Oh, you better get your life together. Yeah. And so this the second time but she was like, I can't we had like, so it was bothering me. Oh, we had like a private conversation and right after, and she said. Speaker 1 00:15:38 This is what Chase was trying to say to him, to me. I mean, to him. She was like," I think this is she stood quiet the. Speaker 2 00:15:48 Whole time." I am is she the last one? Yeah, because i I kind of thought that the first couple days I met her, but that was only there was a gut feeling there but, It wasn't like she was super nice, but just something I think I mentioned to you. But then I kind of backtracked a little bit in my mind on like giving you my gut feeling. I wanted to wait and see if I was right. Speaker 1 00:16:19 You can always give me your because I value your insight. And if you are like," Look, this is how it," my dad told me this about dating. He was like," You date around family so they can see the crazy." Speaker 1 00:16:38 I see professional like I really trust your judgment. So if you tell me like I see a little crazy, I may not agree with your "crazy" right then, but you know, am a patterns person, right? Yeah. So i am I am looking and is Chris crazy? Chris is crazy or it's pretty crazy. And then I'll come back to be like you are bananas. That's not okay. Right? Um but yeah at the end of the day, am definitely open. I think for me um. Speaker 1 00:17:07 He has like most of his hand, like to me, and I am doing this. There is just like one person who's like struggling because they're pushy, but they're trying to be nice. Yeah, and I am like no, we're not doing that. And then they're going to everybody with she told me no. So he's like I know it, like people that can't be transparent struggle with you know the. Speaker 1 00:17:41 And I and if she would have been like," Hey, son, you're you know we may not want to pull up with him. He's a and and I've told I had him tell Jerry pull up on him without the other stuff. Pull up on him because of this, you know like let let him be." Um but there's times when like do you don't have nothing going on? Do did did you talk together? Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:18:05 Um I am so sorry. Let me i i gotta jump back You gotta jump back, Yeah, cause this is the two hour meeting, so I jumped out. Go ahead. But I will get you. Speaker 1 00:18:14 A little bit of the crazy. And if you can give us give us a recap. Speaker 2 00:18:17 Yeah, you will have a recap in the next hour or two. Um, and then will I see you tomorrow? Speaker 1 00:18:25 Um, I don't think so. See they they he is only on oxygen, no flow, no IVs, but I doubt go home tonight again. Speaker 2 00:18:35 Do you mind if I work from home tomorrow, so I can? That way I can go. Okay, good. Yes, I am going to see if I am going to talk to Greg about you got to cancel Gloria. Speaker 1 00:18:44 You got to cancel Gloria. Speaker 2 00:18:45 Okay, good. Yeah, we had an issue with her within Crimson this week. Speaker 1 00:18:50 Oh, that's what he told me. Go ahead and cancel her then. Okay, I will say we're not neither one of us. We have things going on, not gonna do their. Yeah, give this little cookies on the other side. Yeah, okay. I'll do that. Thanks, thanks, okay.
05-20 Meeting: Leadership Change, IT Migration, and AI Initiative
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-05-20 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Sergio] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Pete] [Speaker 6] [Anzor] [Speaker 8] [Anton] [April] [Mike] [Speaker 12] [Seg] [Speaker 14] ### Meeting Notes #### **Opening & Core Values** - The meeting began at 10:00 a.m. on May 20, 2026 (Week 21). - After-hours support: Bogdan (primary) and Gabby (backup). - Core value spotlight: "Always Friendly," with recognition of the team’s collaborative spirit. - Quote of the day (Henry Beecher): "Greatness lies in not being strong, but in the right use of that strength." #### **Help Desk & Operations Updates** - **Help Desk:** - Finalizing the IT Glue-to-Hudo migration. - Many technicians are on PTO this week and next; please be patient. - **Operations:** - Overtime approved this week due to the Philippines team outing and a holiday. - IT Glue license expires June 1; the Hudo migration deadline is firm. - Pete acknowledged a heavy project load, similar to earlier concurrent onboardings. #### **New Hire Introductions** - Two new hires joined: - **Mari Carr:** Finance team; 16+ years in accounting and finance with US, UK, and Australian clients. - **Paula:** Project management; nearly 11 years of experience, including ~9 years as a project manager. #### **Departmental Updates** - **Cybersecurity:** - Reminder to connect to VPN when working in client environments. - Review LastPass notifications; remove unused passwords and rotate any at risk. - **Finance:** - Transition underway with Mari Carr joining; Jane departing by June. - **Admin:** - Computer count in progress. - Do not attach agreements for T&M (Time and Materials) projects; they are billed separately. - **Account Management:** - Mike urged sensitivity to clients facing economic challenges. - Shout-out to the JAMs team for a productive escalation meeting leading to new opportunities for Crimson. - **Project Management Call-outs:** - **Collier's EYP:** Ongoing phone system issue despite rerouting; plan to follow up with Fusion Connect to check QoS policies. - **Anderson:** New firewall scheduled for installation within two weeks. - General reminder: Always configure the endpoint in project/service tickets for future reference. #### **Major Company Announcement: Leadership Change** - Anzor announced Pete as the new CEO of Crimson IT. - Anzor’s focus will shift to new business development (reporting to Pete), corporate culture, strategic customer relationships, and leading the transition to an AI-first company. - Pete affirmed the core vision and values remain, with continued emphasis on customer experience and operational excellence. #### **AI Initiatives and Competition** - An AI competition starts in June to encourage efficiency through AI. - The competition includes financial incentives and will run in phases (one month, then three months). - Anzor encouraged using Claude and its online training. - Christi will not participate to ensure fairness but is available to help with ideas. #### **AI Training & Best Practices** - Christi’s AI tips: - Always fact-check AI outputs due to potential hallucinations. - AI often defaults to lists; use custom prompts to request prose or paragraph formatting. - The Crimson help desk chat in Teams/Slack can answer simple Microsoft 365 and Adobe questions; this can be shared with clients. #### **Anzor's Personal Apology and Business Development** - Anzor publicly apologized to Olivia for an inappropriate comment during a Jams escalation call. - He encouraged pushback against such behavior regardless of hierarchy. - Business development: Efforts underway to impress Maverick and Foothill Family, two potentially large new clients. #### **Duck Race & Closing** - Jason’s duck won the race. 🦆 - Jason praised the security team for excellent work with the Weingart account. - The meeting adjourned at 10:30 a.m. ### Next Arrangements - [ ] Help Desk: Complete the IT Glue-to-Hudo migration before the June 1 license expiration. - [ ] Operations: Staff seeking overtime should contact Olivia for approval. - [ ] Gabby: Follow up with Fusion Connect on QoS policies for Collier's EYP phone system; prepare contingency steps if QoS adjustments do not resolve the issue. - [ ] Segrid: Install the new firewall for Anderson within 1–2 weeks; confirm endpoint configuration in related tickets. - [ ] Anzor: Launch the AI competition in June; share rules, phases, and incentive details. - [ ] Maggie: Prepare the "two truths and a lie" activity for next week. - [ ] Leadership: Outline a formal process for addressing inappropriate conduct, including reporting, accountability, and training. ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI identified issues lacking clear resolution or action: > 1. While Anzor apologized to Olivia for a "highly inappropriate" comment with "enormous impact," a formal process to prevent and address such incidents was not defined. Establish clear reporting, accountability, and training steps. > 2. Collier's EYP phone system remains unresolved. Next is contacting Fusion Connect to review QoS; if ineffective, plan further escalation, alternative carriers, or additional network diagnostics.
- Date
- May 20, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:26 Good morning, you beautiful people. Speaker 2 00:00:30 Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:01:44 Morning. Morning. Good morning. Speaker 3 00:01:52 Morning, everybody. It's now 10:00 a. m. so we're going to go ahead and get started. Today is May 20 th, 2026. It's week number 21. The primary for after hours support is Bogdan, the backup is Gabby. Today the core value I'd like to highlight is always friendly, Um, I want to highlight the entire team. Everybody's usually pretty friendly with each other and assisting each other if they have any questions and stuff like that. Um, next we'll go to the quote of the day. Uh, Greatness lies in not being strong, but in the right use of that strength by Henry Beecher. Um, we'll move on to team updates. Uh, we'll go to help desk with Olivia. Speaker 4 00:02:36 Good morning guys happy Wednesday, Um, on the help desk side, um, just business as usual. We're closing up the IT glue to Hudo migration. Um, And then on our side, we have a lot ofum help desk techs in and outum on PTO this week and next. So just an FYI. Um, uh be patient with us please. And that is all I have on my side. Thanks Ryan. Speaker 3 00:03:05 Thank you Olivia Let's move to operations. Speaker 5 00:03:09 Good morning. A few items, so to tag on to what Olivia just said, we are going to approve overtime this week. So, um, In the Philippines, they are having their outing. Uh. That's starting sort of Thursday Friday this week for so for a few people to be out, then they'll be out over the weekend. And Monday is a holiday for everyone. Um, and then a few people will probably also be out on Tuesday. Um, so we're going to be pretty short staffed on the help desk. So, we're going to approve overtime for people if you are willing to or can work some overtime to help with tickets, please talk to Olivia. Um, she will likely approve the overtime, but we need to get some ticket work done. And if you have the ability and want to help with some ticket work. Speaker 5 00:04:03 Um, please talk to her. Uh, we would love to get some of these tickets down. Um and I have told her we will approve some overtime to get some to get some help in that area. So please talk to her on that. The hoodoo project is coming due by the end of this month. That gives us less than two weeks. Our license for it. Glue will expire on June 1s t. So that is a hard deadline just as a reminder to everybody. So. For everybody working on that project, please make sure that we get that taken care of. Um, and in general, um I know that our project load has been heavy uh lately. It's sort of like when we had the multiple on boardings happening earlier this year. We had a lot of concurrent on boardings and a lot of work for the team on that. We don't have onboardings now, but we have uh quite a few big projects that are hitting us uh at the same time. So we have to sort of balance those. So. Speaker 5 00:05:00 Um, All the help we can get from folks to to keep us uh level headed and and keep us on track is is appreciated. Um, and lastly, uh we have a couple of new hires this week uh that that started. We have Mari Carr who started in our finance team, and we have Paula who started in our project management group. So Mari Carr um I'd love to have you introduce yourself and just tell the team a little bit about yourself. Speaker 6 00:05:32 Yeah. Hi. Good morning. I'm Maricar. Um, um, I have been working over 16 years with accounting and finance. Um, I have experience in working with US and UK and Australian clients. Um, fun fact about me, I'm a worship leader also aside from being an finance personnel, but outside of that, um I'm actually an introvert who enjoys coffee movies and family trips. I am excited to start this new journey with you, uh guys, and hope to work with you all with youum in the future. Thank you so much. Speaker 7 00:06:11 Awesome welcome aboard. Speaker 5 00:06:13 Yes, we're happy to have you here. Thank you. And Paula. Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself, Speaker 8 00:06:20 Please Hello everyone Paula here. So for my as for myself, I have almost oh, no. Yeah, Almost eleven years of overall professional experience as a so yep, uh, almost nine years ofum I I T I mean project manager experience, handling Telcom fintech and MSP projects primarily working with global clients. So yeah, that's pretty much it looking forward to working with everyone. Speaker 7 00:06:50 Awesome, tell us something personal, what you like the hobbies anything exciting about you Uh. Speaker 8 00:06:58 I'm just like the others, more more likelyum on uh being like a homebody nowadays. So yeah, But I'm into traveling uh and then justum trying out the new cafes and restaurants around the area. Awesome. Speaker 5 00:07:19 All right. Well, welcome Connor. We're happy to have you here as well. So that is all I have Ryan. Thanks so much, Pete. Hundred mile an hour thing. Let's go. Speaker 3 00:07:30 All right. Speaker 9 00:07:31 Next we'll move to cybersecurity with Anton. Morning everyone, Reminders from cybersecurity Helpdesk team working with the client environment, don't forget to connect to the VPN Next part. We did receive a multiple notifications from the LastPass. Guys, please take a look onto your into your account. If you're not using any password, just remove them from your LastPass. If you have a notification that probably the password is at risk, rotate it. And the last one, help desk team if you are assigned to remediate any vulnerabilities for our. Speaker 9 00:08:22 Exact steps need to attend. Just let me know. We we are here to help you. We are team. We should be on the same board and to achieve higher level of the security for all our clients. Thank you, Speaker 3 00:08:37 Thank you, Anton. Next we'll move to finance with Eliza. Uh good morning, everyone happy. Wednesday no major update from finance. Uh we're on the transition period with Mark are moving in and. Um, Jane, uh, moving out by by June. So that's that's from our end. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Next one to admin with April. Speaker 10 00:09:01 Hi good morning everybody. Soum nothing major to highlight, but we're still in the middle of computer count. And also just a friendly reminder to everybody that for projects that are TNN, please do not attach the agreement. So they will. They will be billed separately. Thank you. That's all. Speaker 3 00:09:18 Thank you, April. Next one, we move to account management with Mike. Speaker 11 00:09:22 Thank you, Ryan. First off, I just want to say welcome aboard Mark Harden Paula. Glad to have you as part of the Crimson team. Just two updates. Number one, Just want to remind everybody right now the current economy. We all know. It's really, really rough. A lot of our clients happen to be small business. So just be mindful if they're not when business is good, everyone's happy, but when business is tough right. It could be a little bit tight, so just be sensitive and understanding to our clients. Some of our clients are being impacted pretty severely with what's going on. Secondly, I want to give a shout out to the JAMs team. We did have some escalations last week. Pete and I joined a escalations meeting on Monday with JAMs, And it was probably one of the most productive escalation meetings I've ever been a part of. It was. Speaker 11 00:10:15 Me and Pete thought we were going to get blasted, to be honest with you. But it actually was the complete opposite. And Jams is now starting to look to provide Crimson with more opportunity. We're doing this training every month now. We just had our first kickoff meeting. So I think it's a good look for Crimson, and I just wanted to give kudos to the Jams team. That's all for account management, thank you. Speaker 3 00:10:40 Excellent, thank you. Next we'll move on to new business development with Andre. Speaker 7 00:10:43 Awesome. So I have a couple of uh um announcements to make, right? Um, I think I am going to start. I was going to build it up and start with the least important to most important, but actually I want to start with the most important. So um, I wanted to announce that Pete, our fearless leader is uh becoming CEO of Crimson IT. Okay? So what does that mean? That means I think for many of you, You are going to stop dealing with my madness and craziness and me stepping in and saying, "Get it done right now." Okay. So, you guys all know or most of you know, right? My first real job I worked for Pete. He's always been my great friend and mentor. And we carried the friendship through life. And just. Speaker 7 00:11:38 Could not be more blessed or happier to have Pete as a part of Crimson. And few people around me, my closest friends and business owners, when they've heard that Pete is becoming CEO, they were like, "Well, why would you do that?" Right? Because I am not planning to retire. Right? I am going to stay engaged. And my answer was all the same. Pete is a far superior leader, right? Like this is the person I am continuously learning from. He is still my mentor. So, it makes no sense for me to be in a leading role when there is someone who's so much better. So Pete is going to lead this company moving forward. My role, I am going to be very active, right? I am not going anywhere. Speaker 7 00:12:31 Uh, obviously as a founder of the company, I'm going to have a a very powerful voice. Um, and we're going to work as partners with Pete, But ultimately, I'm going to be reporting to Pete in my capacity of new business development manager. Right. So, my job is to bring new uh new logo, uh clients MRR um and uh in that capacity I'm going to be reporting to Pete. I will also concentrate continue to build corporate culture. I think what we have here is truly phenomenal and special, and I want to make sure it stays this way. And I truly feel Pete will actually take it to even next level. And I will maintain the key relationship with strategic customers, right? So anyone who is very big and impactful. Speaker 7 00:13:27 Uh, obviously I'm going to stay engaged with that um uh executive staff. And finally, I'm going to start to move more and more into AI, and uh, will continue to work with Pete into transforming us into AI first company. Uh we're going to move from being managed IT company to managed AI company. That is the future, right? So um so that's really the, Big gest announcement I wanted to make uh I wanted to thank Pete personally for being as awesome as he is. Um and uh, Pete. Uh why don't you take uh over and uhum and just say your thing? Speaker 5 00:14:12 Well, you you kind of built me up a little bit little I mean way more than I expected. But thank you, Anzor I mean one, the obviously, the biggest reason I came to Crimson was because of Anzor, but. You know, Not much is really going to change when it comes to the core vision and values. I came here because of Onsor, of course, but the vision and core values will remain. You know, Those are things that Crimson was built on. And those are things that we continue to do. So my focus is going to keep being the you know, the customer experience. The. Speaker 5 00:14:43 The operational focus, the operational excellence, you know, growing the company and sharing that with the people that are making it grow. You know, the company is built on everybody that's on this call. Right? So and the leadership team is going to continue to be what it is now. Right? I mean Anzor as the owner and remaining principal and all that, We're going to keep doing what we're doing and we're going to keep making it. Making it successful and making it grow. So, I am dependent on everybody that's on this call and the new people that are going to come in as we grow the company. So, I depend on each and every one of you. I am honored to be part of this organization. I am happy to be part of this organization, and I am blessed to be part of this organization. So, thank you Anzor, thank you to everybody on this team and uh, and I appreciate being here so, I'm excited and. Speaker 5 00:15:40 Let's go. Speaker 7 00:15:42 Awesome. Awesome. Thank you, thank you, Peter. Truly amazing, truly a mentor, truly a lifelong friend and I'm just so excited. Moving on to next topic in line with my desire to do to be an AI first company. You guys seen the statement about AI competition right? So I wanted to touch on this one more time, Effectively, right, starting on June, we're going to kick off this competition. If you interested, Right? It's not being forced upon anyone, but figure out how you can use AI to be more efficient. Right either optimize a process, you're responsible for how it makes your life more efficient. Right what could it do for the company to make us overall more efficient? Anything counts. Right I strongly recommend. Speaker 7 00:16:37 You guys switch to Claude because I think that's the future, right? You don't have to, but I strongly recommend. I think it has more tools in enterprise than any other models. Take Claude online training; it will help you dramatically. And ultimately, the goal of the competition is to have financial incentives. For you guys to play around, and like I've said in my message, right? The expectations you'll take time out of your work time, right? Talk to your manager. Take a, you know, like literally I am thinking, if you are going to take half an hour a day, right? Um to spend on that, you are going to make a world of difference for yourself and the company. So. Speaker 7 00:17:25 So that's the competition, and we're going to do one month, then we're going to do three months, and we're going to do three more months. And, the price will grow because I feel whoever is going to get engaged will have opportunity to build something bigger, nicer, and will also will understand how to use AI deeper. So the impact will be greater, right? Thus the reward will be higher. So with that I think some of you, as you start to play, you will discover you might want to do Claude code. If you're going to go in that route, talk to me. Right? If you're going to utilize co-work or ChatGPT items, right? Or Copilot, whatever you want to use. God bless. But keep me engaged if you have any requests or need to do something. So that was the second big announcement. The final announcement I wanted to make. Speaker 7 00:18:23 Is the incident I just went over with Olivia, right? So we received some calls on some escalations with jams. And on the call with Olivia, I was like, "Olivia, get this resolved. If you can't get this resolved, you can't run Crimson IT Help Desk," right? I said something not thinking much about the impact, right? But apparently I have a tendency to say shit like that. That's highly offensive, highly inappropriate and has enormous impact on people, right? A special comment from me where I'm usually all lovey dovey. And here I say something like off the left field, and it's so inappropriate. And I've told Olivia, Anytime I do that push back and say, dude, this is exactly what you're not allowed to say. Speaker 7 00:19:18 Right, so look, even though I am a founder and the owner of the company, I am just another human. We all deserve respect that we all deserve. So don't think just because I'm the manager, right? And you are not, you can go back and say that's inappropriate, right? It's expected that you guys will put me back in my place if I ever allow myself to make that kind of a statement. So I profusely apologize to Olivia, right? I also told her that she really needs to push back. I expect all of you to push back. And I say that, right? I do have this tendency. I will try to be better, right? Um and I know along the way, I must have said some bad things to some other people, and I apologize for that as well. Uh but please, you see me saying something like that, you push back and push back hard, right? There is. Speaker 7 00:20:12 Clearly, something I need to hear to become better. And finally, on new business development, I don't have anything exciting other than we're really working hard to impress Maverick. And if we impress him, We might end up taking that company over ;. It's going to be a huge deal. And same with the Foothill family—we really need to deliver on the assessment. And impress executive staff, and we just might have a chance at Foothill Family being our client. Another three hundred user company like next level, right? And then I have some kind of a little things cooking. But I think this is our way to grow, right? We want to get bigger, stronger, bolder customers with a much bigger MRR. And I think we have a really good shot at two of them now. So those are my updates. Speaker 3 00:21:09 Awesome, thank you, Alonzo. Our next one we'll move to project and change management call outs. If anybody has any, please raise your hand. Okay, let's go ahead and go to who was first? Gabby? Speaker 12 00:21:26 Thank you, Ryan. Uh just a quick update on Collier's EYP. The phone system, uh Friday on Friday, Kevin and I went toum. Basically, Reroute the connection away from the access switch over to the all the way to the MPO via this core switch and firewall. Unfortunately, there was another call on Monday, so that seemed to not have fixed it. I did update the documentation on HUDU on the steps to follow in the event, help desk gets another call from them. Speaker 12 00:22:04 But right now, I'm trying to reach out to Fusion Connect to see if we can set the same QoS policies that they have set on the Atran. At this point, We believe that's what could be causing the phones to go down and not so much. What device it's connected to. All right, that is all from my end. Thank you very much. Thank you so much, Gabby. Segred? Speaker 13 00:22:34 Morning, everybody. So we have a new firewall for Anderson. So we might install that next week or in the next two weeks. And also, Just a reminder to everyone whenever you're working on a project ticket or a service ticket, Please always configure the endpoint in that ticket. So that in the future, we'll know that this ticket. Uh we work with that endpoint endpoint in this ticket. It's much better. For futureum checking or anything. Thank you. Speaker 3 00:23:09 Thanks, SEC. Next we'll move to training updates with Christine. Speaker 1 00:23:12 Good morning, guys. Um I am not going to share my screen because I'm running a few things and I've kind of locked up my system while doing it, But I do want to take a moment to talk about AI. Uh Onsor is doing some great things in AI. And by the way, uh, he did not mention this part of the competition I. Do not have any standing in the first two phases of the competition. I will not be competing with you guys. One, I don't think it would be fair, but if you guys want some help or to bounce ideas off of, come see me. Anzar, I am going to politely bow out of phase three as well. So Your call baby. Speaker 7 00:23:50 I, just like kind of I didn't want to be offensive and not let you have the opportunity. Initially, I was actually thinking you just at the next level, and it would not be fair. Um, but but I also didn't want to be offensive. So no, Speaker 1 00:24:03 You're not. Speaker 7 00:24:03 You're all if you want to stay or not. But uh yeah, I I do think it's uh it would not be fair. It's like putting a, you know, a SWAT team member versus a child right? And everyone else will need time like you were light years ahead of everyone. Speaker 1 00:24:19 So So I will Anzar has some special things for me to do for the competition, But I will always be a listening ear and a neutral party if you need to bounce an idea off. Um, but I want to go over quickly today because I don't have my screen, But I do still want to do AI training with you guys five minutes every week, just to get you guys to the next level. Two things I want to bring up. Um, first it's going to be Claude. Uh, I put into the mapping team the other day, some prompts that you can use and set in your customizable little instructions. And I want to point out. Speaker 1 00:24:51 Um, our clients are starting to notice that we use AI more and more. But I want you guys to pay careful attention as you're using AI and double check facts. Now, the reason I say this is that I did also make a mistake. I've seen some mistakes on other people's side, But I want to call out a mistake I made because it's it's very relevant. Um, with Coatsin, I have been working with Kamiad very closely. However, Kamiad Um, I have two Kamyabs in my system because I have a friend named Kamyab. So, I have a Kamyab whose last name starts with a T, and he and I are good friends. And I talk to him quite often on my phone by a text message because he asked me a lot of questions about AI, too. And I was building out a report for our Kamyab at Kotzen and i or with Kotzen. And i i made a mistake in my report. I put the wrong last name down. Speaker 1 00:25:46 And I didn't it didn't register with me because, It's just one of those things that, as you are talking to someone, if you know two onzors or two pets, sometimes you are going to get their last names, mixed up. I didn't double check it. It didn't trigger with me, So I had AI help me do the first draft of a report, and it did beautiful, and then I went and edited it and updated it from there because my draft two and draft three I hand touch. I never changed his last name. And I sent him the report. So be very careful with that. It's a it was a simple human mistake. I'm not perfect, AI is definitely not perfect. So when you're doing AI items and you're having AI help you out, Just remember, it's not going to be perfect and it's only as good as the data you give me. And even then it will still hallucinate. Um so want you guys to be mindful of that double check things. I did apologize to Kamia, explained the situation he was good with it. Speaker 1 00:26:45 Um, but be aware of that. Number two, There is a tendency of AI to when it's writing documents to put things in list format. You guys have seen it. It kind of gets a little annoying. I gave you guys a prompt in the napping team the other day. I'll put it out in the general for everybody um as well, so that you guys can refer back to it, customize your Claude and your copilot and your chat GPT and tell it to use prose. Tell it to use paragraph type formatting rather than the bullet points. And, that's going to help alleviate some of the things where people are automatically seeing those list formats. And assuming that you're using AI and then concerned that there are going to be issues and things that need to be edited. And I've seen that more and more as our clients are jumping into that knowledge. So be aware of that, make sure that you're utilizing it. Speaker 1 00:27:42 Now, next week, What we're going to go over is we're going to go over some items. Uh, how you can make cloud a little bit better. And we're going to go over some things in cowork. And the prompts that I gave you guys this week that you can use, Put them into cloud and go ahead and start using them that way because that's going to help next week when we do things uh within cowork. So I want you guys to be aware of it. Number two, We are starting to let clients know in different training programs that if they go to. The Crimson help desk in Teams or in Slack, or however, they access the Crimson chat. We set up a long time ago for the chat to be able to answer simple questions within Microsoft 365 and Adobe. I think we set that up a year or two ago. So they can actually have a chat with our system and ask questions. Now, when they do and they get their answer, the system's going to automatically close that ticket, but. Speaker 1 00:28:41 What I showed yesterday to Ability First is they were having some issues with some formulas. And I said, well, If you don't know because they don't want to use some of their people, don't want to use AI. I explained go to Crimson's chat type in your question. Type in, I want to create or I want to create a formula that can average. You know, these cells and I showed them how to do it, and they were astonished. They were so amazed by that um I went back and looked at the statistics. Add that yesterday as well. And, we have a lot of clients that are already using the chat to ask Microsoft questions. 125 in the last report, and that's pretty significant. So whenever clients are asking questions like that, You can feel free to point them in the direction of our chatbot through Thread. It will answer their questions for them and give them actually good answers every time. I've tested it, the questions have been pretty solid and I've tested on some more advanced stuff. Speaker 1 00:29:38 So be aware that that's out there. The system will automatically close the ticket once they confirm that it helped the client, and you guys won't ever see a ticket. So just a heads up. All right? Speaker 3 00:29:53 Awesome, thank you, Christy. Next we'll move to Duck Race with Christian. Speaker 2 00:30:06 Let me know. You see my screen. All good? Yep. Alright, let's start. Speaker 3 00:30:42 Awesome, great job, Jason's little duck. Let's go ahead and hear the five core values. Speaker 14 00:30:48 All right, can everybody hear me okay? Yeah. Speaker 14 00:30:52 All right, commit and deliver. Always be friendly, do the right thing. Integrity over profit and take extreme ownership in everything that we do. And what I want to highlight is our security team. I you know am the VCIO for Weingart, And, uh, the security team has been connected pretty close with me on some things over there. And uh they they do great job, including Segrid, uh inform executives of the security vulnerabilities, the issues that we're having on site. And uh, they've spent a lot of time connecting me, make sure that I'm aware of what's going on. So that I can inform the executives. So I just wanted to call out our security team and Anton. Speaker 14 00:31:40 Uh, you guys are doing a great job. Keep it up. Speaker 3 00:31:43 Awesome, thank you, Jason and congratulations. Um, so it is ten thirty. So we will go ahead and close out our meeting. Does anybody have anything else? Go ahead and raise your hand. Speaker 5 00:31:54 So I, guess the two truths and a lie for that was for this week should go to next week. Who was going to do that? Speaker 3 00:31:60 It was supposed to be Maggie, but she's on PTO today. So it wasn't going to be Marvin, but Marvin gets the pass, so it'll be Maggie next week. Okay? Very good. Thank you everybody and have a wonderful rest of your day. Thank you everyone. Thanks for coming on. Bye guys.
07-08 Lecture: Microsoft 365 Copilot Training with Workflow Automation and Best Practices
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- > Date Time: 2026-07-08 13:59:19 > Location: [Insert Location] > Instructor: Christi ## Summary This two-hour Microsoft Teams training, recorded on 2026-07-08, covers practical Microsoft 365 Copilot usage across Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Teams, along with workflow automation via Power Automate. Christi shares downloadable handouts and cheat sheets (DOC/PDF) via a chat link that expires after one month due to external sharing settings, and notes she will provide both the live meeting recording and a separate non-meeting version for clearer video. The session blends PowerPoint content with live demos and emphasizes meeting norms: recording and transcription enabled, chat/raise hand/reactions for questions, and use of an AI meeting assistant (“Franny the Facilitator”) for notes and integration with Copilot. Christi flags a current Microsoft display issue affecting some users and invites participants to interrupt with questions, acknowledging her fast pace. She briefly explains a late start due to delivering a forensic analysis to a client’s HR and mentions a recent health-related reschedule; she may mute occasionally to manage a cough. Christi frames Copilot as an assistant, not autopilot, advocating a 70/30 drafting approach: Copilot produces an initial draft while the user applies expertise to finalize. She underscores fallibility (confident errors, bias) and the need to “always read before you send.” Security guidance distinguishes Microsoft 365 Copilot’s enterprise-protected context (“what is yours stays yours”) from public AI tools. Copilot access points include inside-app buttons (Word, Outlook, Excel) that act on current context and Copilot Chat (web/desktop/Teams) that searches across organizational email, files, chats, and meetings. Live demos show Outlook features: Prioritize indicators, Summarize, and Reply drafting with prompt presets (e.g., short friendly response), signature handling, and in-app Chat for composing introductions that pull company context. In Word, she reviews an acceptable use policy for HIPAA requirements, validates suggestions against up-to-date sources, corrects typos, and leverages Copilot to template policy updates and revision histories. She demonstrates “vibe writing” to draft client-facing training plans, then edits based on licensing and client specifics. In Excel, she stresses structuring data as tables (Control+T) to improve reliability, runs financial/budget analyses with clarifying questions, and uses Copilot for formulas and analytics pages. She highlights concatenate-heavy workflows for scripting/reporting from CSV exports. Excel outputs are described as fairly reliable when data is clean and in tables; Word and Outlook drafts demand more spot-checking, especially when web content is involved. The session extends to OneNote, PowerPoint, Teams, and automation. In OneNote, Christi summarizes full call transcripts with Copilot into attendees, summaries, decisions, and action items, then turns these into client-facing emails in Outlook by removing OneNote links and adjusting tone. With Power Automate (free-eligible features), she demonstrates flows that capture meeting recordings/transcripts, generate Copilot summaries, and file them into OneNote; automations to save Outlook attachments to OneDrive; approval workflows (e.g., purchases); cross-calendar synchronization to block time on client calendars; and integrations with Asana, DocuSign, Adobe Acrobat Sign, and more. Copilot inside Power Automate assists in building flows with natural language and crafting expressions. For PowerPoint, Copilot builds decks from Word or Excel sources, pulling in branded themes, stock images, and charts, and can generate presenter notes. Best practices include doing analysis first in Excel so Copilot can import accurate visuals and applying official branding via templates. Christi notes quality improvements over the past year but recommends verification for complex transforms and web-pulled content. In Teams, she demonstrates meeting notes and recaps (including quick “last five minutes” catch-ups), playful recap styles for team culture, and scheduled prompts (e.g., weekly stress survey reminders). She also reviews model availability in Copilot Chat (Auto, Claude, OpenAI), enterprise data protection indicators (shield icon), known outages (e.g., ChatGPT temporarily missing), and encourages consistent custom instructions across Copilot, Claude, and OpenAI to match communication style and reduce editing. ## Knowledge Points ### 1. Session Logistics and Materials - Handouts/cheat sheets provided in DOC/PDF via a link that expires after one month; download promptly for departmental distribution. - Two-hour format: PowerPoint plus live Copilot demos; replay provided, plus a clearer non-meeting recording. - Meeting norms: recording and transcription on; chat, reactions, and raise hand encouraged; “Franny the Facilitator” assists with notes and demos. - Known Microsoft display issue may affect some users; Christi will demonstrate symptoms and workarounds. ### 2. Copilot Fundamentals and Security - 70/30 rule: Copilot drafts; user finalizes. Expect variability and occasional delays on short drafts. - Fallibility and bias require user judgment and verification; do not trust blindly. - Enterprise security: Microsoft 365 Copilot keeps data within organizational boundaries; contrasts with public AI tools that may expose data if not configured for privacy. ### 3. Access Points and Navigation - Inside-app Copilot operates on the open item (Outlook, Word, Excel); Copilot Chat works across organizational content via web/desktop/Teams. - Outlook: Prioritize (icons for read/unread and priority), Summarize threads, Reply drafting presets, and Chat entry point. - Word: Copilot panel for drafting, editing, and compliance checks. - Teams: Copilot Chat app, meeting notes/recaps, facilitator features requiring a Copilot license. ### 4. Outlook, Word, and Excel Workflows - Outlook: Summarize and draft replies, refine tone/signatures; use Chat for introduction emails leveraging internal context. - Word: Policy review (e.g., HIPAA 2026–2027), correct typos, flag pending regulatory updates, template revisions; “vibe writing” for training plans refined for client licensing and context. - Excel: Convert ranges to tables (Control+T with headers); analyze 2026 financials vs. budget; request formulas and analysis pages; concatenate for scripting/reporting; reliability strongest with clean, tabular data. ### 5. OneNote, Power Automate, and Automation - OneNote: Generate structured meeting notes from transcripts; convert notes to client emails via Outlook, removing inaccessible links. - Power Automate: - Save incoming email attachments to OneDrive; create approvals (e.g., office supplies); integrate with Asana, monday.com, DocuSign, Adobe Acrobat Sign; schedule recurring flows. - Cross-calendar sync to show busy status across client calendars without exposing details. - Copilot in Power Automate builds flows from natural language and assists with expressions. - Meeting transcription/recording capture flow that summarizes with Copilot and files to OneNote. ### 6. PowerPoint and Teams - PowerPoint: Create decks from Word/Excel in 5–15 minutes; specify audience/style; apply branded themes; generate presenter notes; verify complex data transforms. - Teams: Use recaps to recover context (e.g., last five minutes), playful recap styles for culture and announcements, and scheduled prompts for recurring reminders. ### 7. Personalization, Agents, and Data Protection - Custom instructions: consistent tone and style across Copilot, Claude, OpenAI; avoid filler phrases; favor clear recommendations and actionable examples. - Agents: Use Adobe Acrobat and Lucidchart where protected; prefer “work” context with optional web searches. - Enterprise data protection: shield icon indicates protected context; model availability may vary; have fallbacks for outages. ## Assignments - Download handouts and cheat sheets within one month; distribute to relevant departments. - Try three Copilot prompts today: prioritize/summarize an email thread in Outlook; draft a short friendly reply; generate an introduction email via Copilot Chat. - In Word, review a policy for compliance (e.g., HIPAA 2026–2027); verify against authoritative sources; update revision history. - In Excel, convert a dataset to a table and ask Copilot to analyze 2026 financials vs. budget; request needed formulas or an analysis page; implement a 60–180 second spot-check (e.g., filter and sum vendor entries vs. vendor list totals). - Use Copilot to build a concatenate-based scripting/reporting workflow from a CSV (e.g., current employees and 2026 hires). - Set up Copilot Chat access across office.com/desktop/Teams; practice a grounded search (e.g., locate last month’s branding guide). - Configure a Power Automate flow: capture meeting recordings/transcripts you organize, summarize with Copilot, and file to OneNote; optionally add an Outlook-to-OneDrive attachment saver and a simple approval workflow. - Create a PowerPoint from a Word or Excel source; specify audience/style; ensure Excel data is clean and in tables; apply branded themes and generate presenter notes. - Define Copilot personalization/custom instructions and mirror them in Claude and OpenAI; confirm enterprise data protection (shield icon) and test model availability/fallbacks.
- Date
- Jul 8, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:14 Hey Mark, how are you? Hey, you guys should see my token bill. Just saying. Um, I need to step away for three minutes tops. I have to go run to HR to give them the results of a forensic investigation, but they're literally next door. So if you guys can give me three minutes, is that okay? Okay, perfect. Speaker 2 00:00:44 I will be right back. Speaker 1 00:03:54 Hey Everybody. Thank you guys so much. I just want to, Quickly, thank you for letting me be a few minutes late. We had a forensic analysis we needed to do against someone who was a bad actor for another client, And I had to just go send that over to HR real quick and give them a heads up. So I am pulling up all my stuff, So bear with me because I was knee deep in that investigation and then I realized what time it was and jumped on as quickly as I could. So bear with me, I'm pulling everything up right now. Speaker 1 00:04:27 And I do apologize. Um, I have got a bunch of things for you, a bunch of really fun stuff. So not really fun, it's boring. I'll be honest, it's boring. But I have a bunch of handouts for you guys. Um, I am going to be sending that over. Uh hopefully, it'll let me send it in Teams. Um but if it doesn't, I will just be sending a link to you guys on um that you guys can actually click on and pull as you want to. I am also, including all my stuff in this, so that you guys have a copy of it. The biggest thing for you is going to be the cheat sheets that I created, and I did create some cheat sheets and things like that in handouts. So, I am going to send that over to you guys and have you just so that you have it. And I do have in these cheat sheets quite a few document or quite a few departments. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Up here, so just a quick heads up on that. Um, I have them in both a document and a PDF, so you can disseminate those to your staff as needed. And let me I am trying to get my my OneDrive is being funky right now, so I am trying to get you guys that link. Um, Just a heads up on this link. The link is here. It is because of how we have our. External link sharing set up. It will expire after a month, so feel free to download these and whatever you would like to do. I am going to run through everything on a PowerPoint presentation, And then I am also going to do some real stuff with you guys using my own Copilot. But. Speaker 1 00:06:13 I did send out an email today. A couple of you guys got it. I didn't send it to everybody. There is an issue going on with Microsoft right now, So not everything is showing properly, and we're going to cover what that looks like. So uh just a heads up, the link that I put into chat, That is handouts. And so that is in there for you and bear with me one moment. Speaker 1 00:06:38 Because when I pulled up my PowerPoint presentation, it also pulled up the training video that I made yesterday. And I did not want that. You guys will see that. Um, I will have a copy for you guys to send out to client or not to clients, To your own staff later on if they can't attend training or if they just want a slower pace training. Uh, feel free to ask me to slow down because I do talk really fast. Ask me to repeat myself if you need to, And so on. I'm more than glad to do that for you guys. Just a heads up, this is two hours, So there is going to be some time in here to play, and there's going to be some time to do some other things. If you guys have questions, throw them into the meeting chat. When I do things like this, when I do training and stuff on Teams, I do record. Are you guys okay if I start recording? Just throw me a thumbs up. Okay, perfect. Speaker 1 00:07:33 So I am going to record this. There's transcription. I am going to turn on facilitator and I'm going to show you guys what facilitator looks like because you guys can utilize that with Copilot. I have a Copilot license. I'm going to show you what all that looks like in a moment. So, there's a lot of really cool features with that. And then at the same time, like I said, when I do trainings like this within Teams, please feel free to use meeting chat for your questions There is a facilitator turned on, so she is going to be taking notes. I always call her a she, just because that's my thing. If you want to call her a he, go for it. I call her Franny the Facilitator. That's my nickname for her because I have I do a lot with AI agents and stuff, so all my agents or I call them minions all have names. So, this is Franny the Facilitator, and that's why I call her a she and we'll talk about agents. And things like that. Speaker 1 00:08:30 In a little bit later. And then, um, I do want you guys to utilize raising your hand. So you should see that option right there. That's what it looks like or reactions. So thumbs up, um, if you want to do that, if you want to do heart applause laugh or surprised feel free. Um, this is being recorded. However, I am going to record another one. That's a non meeting version. So the video might be a little clearer and things like that. For your staff, so you're going to get best of both worlds for it. by. Um and I do want to thank you guys for allowing me to reschedule. I um was unexpectedly admitted to the hospital one afternoon by my kids. Apparently I was in a lot of pain, didn't know what was going on, and I have been out of it for the last two weeks, so bear with me as we go through this. I still, i'm still have a little bit of a cough um, not contagious, especially not over teams, but i may have to mute for a second. Speaker 1 00:09:28 And cough, and I may get a little quiet for a moment. And that's just my voice going in and out. But other than that, stick with me. We're going to go through a lot of this. And again, if you guys have questions, throw them in the chat. Feel free to interrupt as well. All right? Any questions before we get started? Speaker 2 00:10:12 Yeah. Yes. Awesome. Speaker 1 00:10:23 And Kitty knows how I train. Poor guy, he's been in enough of my trainings, So he will uh he knows to tell me to slow down if I go too quickly, so which is a good thing. All right, Uh, we're going to go through the basics first, and then we're going to go into a few things about prompting and items like that. So real quickly, I want you guys to know, by the end of the first hour, You're gonna, you will have seen Copilot do real work in the apps you use every day. There is no theory marathon on this. See the thing, See how easy it is and you're going to leave with three prompts, you can try this afternoon. This is recorded. You will get the replay and ground rule number two with me. There's no dumb questions. I work in IT. I see questions all day long there is no dumb questions. Speaker 1 00:11:10 If I get another question on how do I turn on my iPhone, trust me, anything you guys ask me is not going to be dumb. So drop them in the chat anytime. Now one thing I really want you guys to understand is the whole point of Copilot. Copilot, think of it like your intern. I have interns working for me. Do I trust 100% of what they work on without checking it? Absolutely not. My interns, they're fresh out of high school, they're in college They think they know everything. They don't. My daughter is going to college in a couple weeks. She she doesn't know shit. Sorry for my language, but she doesn't uh but don't tell her I said that either. She started her first real job this week. She's learning, she doesn't know anything, but the thing I want you guys to remember on this Copilot drafts, You decide on what gets sent out and I do use Copilot and AI in a lot of things that I do everything. I send out is usually drafted by AI. Speaker 1 00:12:09 With me heavily editing it, okay? It's it is an assistant. It's not autopilot. And then while while we're doing this, Hold on to that information because everything I give you today is going to make sense if you go into this with that information, okay? Now um Microsoft 365. Copilot is an AI assistant that is built into apps you already pay for and use. So just a heads up your same Word, same Outlook, same Excel But, you have a copilot button that can read what is in front of you and help you act on it. It will get you to a seventy percent draft in thirty seconds. That's a lie. I got it to get me a draft in about three four minutes today, and it was a short draft. Sometimes it hiccups and it goes a little slow, but that last thirty percent, that part needs you and it's still you. It's still yours to decide how it goes. Okay now. Speaker 1 00:13:07 There's two front doors into Copilot. Inside app Copilot, and that's within your applications, and then Copilot Chat. Now, Copilot Chat is I've given you the web address here. However, if you go to office.com and sign in it's there. It's also an app on your computer and it's also an app within Teams. So I will show you guys how each of those work. Now, this one is grounded across your entire work world, :, email, files, chats and meetings. So if you say, find me that thing from last month, which you should have a little bit more information on it. It will find you. Every I will tell you every week. I constantly lose the crimson branding book and I need it for my job. I always forget where I save it and it finds it for me. So trust me, it does work. Um If you, if the rule of thumb to remember these, if you're in a file, the button is inside the app. Speaker 1 00:14:05 If you need to find something across all apps, then use Copilot Chat. Okay. Now, what Copilot is not? It's not always right. Trust me on this. It pulled up something for me today and I was like, that's wrong. And then it said, oh my apologies, you're right. You know there is times it can make things up and be absolutely confident in it. My child will sit there and tell you with a straight face. There is no food in the house. But our fridge and our freezer is overflowing. So think of Copilot like that. Always read before you send, always. I made a mistake a few months back. I know two people named Kamiab, and it's not a common name. However, I mistakenly called Kamiab, who is a CEO of one of my clients by my friend. Kamiab's last name accidentally, and I said it. Speaker 1 00:15:02 And then I gave that information to Copilot. You will also make mistakes, and Copilot's not going to correct you on your mistakes, so just be very, very cautious. All right? Now another thing to note :, it's not sending your data off to train public. AI, And that is by default within Microsoft, because Microsoft Copilot is only as good as your connections, your security setup within Microsoft. And for Lear, that's really good. Because you guys do have a really strong security presence within Microsoft, and because it's so strong and so secure, your Copilot is just as strong and secure. So what is yours stays yours, and it does not get shared. Okay? And then it's not here to replace your judgment. So if it was here to replace my judgment, we'd all be screwed. So AI is notoriously biased. And. Speaker 1 00:15:57 There's no better way for me to say this, but it is whitewashed. Okay. Um, I don't have a better way of explaining that, But when you're working in things like I work in a lot of nonprofit clients for my for Crimson. And we have to be very careful of that. So there is that strong bias there. Um, One of the questions I get asked all the time when I'm talking about Copilot is this like ChatGPT? Yes. But it's in that same technology, and I'm going to show you how it is. But this one sees your emails and files, but keeps that data within its own walls. Your free public tools that you use, if it's Claude or Copilot, Perplexity, any of those, if it's not set up to make your data private, it's sharing your data out to the world. Okay? And we'll get into that a little bit later if you want. If we have time. Speaker 1 00:16:53 Okay, so we're going to do a live demo of Outlook. You guys are going to see my emails. I do apologize in advance. I will promise you. My email is a lot more organized than it seems to be. So just a heads up, I am going to talk you guys through a lot of things within Outlook Copilot and I'm going to show you guys some prompts and things like that. Now the things that I'm going to show you within my Outlook, I have gotten the okay to share that with you from other clients. That was one of the reasons why I ran to HR, because this is going to be a good thing for you guys to see what it does within regards to forensic analysis that I was working on. So just a heads up on that. Um, so you are going to see things in my email, you are going to see how I do classifications, you're going to see how I do email drafts and all of that. So just be aware of it, okay? Speaker 1 00:17:48 And let me switch screens. Bear with me. And I'm also going to increase my font because I'm on a different computer than I normally am, and a different display, so it is a little small. So let me get that fixed. You guys do not, you guys won't be able to see at the at the, Scale that I normally run this at. So, I am going to make this a lot better for y'all. Speaker 2 00:18:22 All right, hang on one second, let me. There. Speaker 1 00:18:36 We go. Can you guys all see my screen? All right, it is big big. I do apologize, but I want you guys to be able to see everything. All right, Copilot within Outlook can be in a couple of different places. Um, I do want to show you guys where it is here. For default, um, it is located up here in the top right. I do use classic Outlook just because I like it better. I'm old school. I don't like change. Okay? I've been in IT for 20 something years. We're not going to say how many 20 years, But I've been in IT So under Copilot. You've got a few options in here. You can chat. Speaker 1 00:19:13 Reply, summarize, and prioritize. Prioritize I'm going to start with that is actually very valuable. It is going to be these circles with the up arrow. And it actually looks to see is this something you need? And you can set the parameters in which it responds and actually updates that. And if it is an unread email, you'll see that it has just the blue circle. If it's a read email, um you'll see right here, That it has the circle outline. Okay. Now, if it's something that's not fitting any parameters, there is no priority. And if it's something like this, that's a low priority message, you'll see the down arrow. Okay? So on this one, this one is a chain of emails. Now, it will give me a request for your involvement in an IT forensic review. It will give an AI generation on that. Speaker 1 00:20:11 And I can go in here and I can tell it to summarize. If I don't want to read through all of this, which I actually know is what it says, but most of the time it will give me something in here. Now this one says it can't. There has been some issues with Copilot today. But what I can do is if it still doesn't do it, I can click on this. Sometimes it'll regenerate, sometimes it won't. Now if I open this email. Speaker 1 00:20:42 I pull it over here. So, I have some options in here for Copilot. It's still set here. I can chat, I can reply, And I'm going to click that reply button, and it always opens in my main monitor. And, you won't see this, but there is a little screen that says, what do you want this email to say? And it gives me a couple options to select. And I do apologize you don't see it, but the uh what I want it to say, the options I have is short friendly message, request information, give update, create newsletter or announcement. I'm just going to say short friendly message. And I wish you guys could see it, but I can't move that screen over. You'll it's right in my email so you guys should see it pop up. Here we go. Um It does give me some key points. Speaker 1 00:21:40 I don't like this. I'm going to tell it to trash. I'm going to try again. I'm going to say, draft and I can choose what I want you to think, Natalie, and we will be available to help out wherever is needed. Okay? And that's what I want to say. So then I'm going to hit the send. Speaker 1 00:22:16 And then here you go. I'm going to take out it always tries to put a signature in. And what I can put in there, I can keep this here. Now remember the 70/30% rule. So I can say in here, keep it. I don't want to put that in there because that's too formal. I don't like that. Um and then I can hit send now, i just had a conversation with natalie i already confirmed everything I am not going to send this to her because if I do, She's going to march through my door in a moment, and we're not doing that. So, but you guys get the idea in the general drift. Now I'm going to try to hit summarize again, see if it'll work for you guys. Nope, it didn't. Copilot is having some issues today. So they do have a few things that are happening there um but you guys get the gist of how to use this in Outlook? Speaker 1 00:23:13 One more thing I want to take you guys through. You can chat as well. And I will normally give it a prompt and I'll say, I can go in here and I can remove this. I want an introduction email about me and Crimson. That I can send to a potential new client. There you go. My battery's going dead in my mouse, guys, so ignore it when it flips out. So at this point, Copilot is pulling company data to find information about me. Speaker 1 00:24:07 Um, I do. I have done this before. I do have a draft that I usually use for this type of thing that I save, but I'm just going to have Copilot do it for me now. And, you can use this if you guys are reaching out to potential new clients or whomever you guys have on your end that you want to do. Um, so here it is. I am going to scroll this through. Speaker 1 00:24:35 And then you can do, you can choose to put it and copy it into into an email. But then it just says here, it does give a recommendation. And I'll say go go ahead with the warm suggestion. And then it will do it. So here's the thing. Speaker 1 00:25:07 Now, this something I actually would use. So if let's say Kenny says, "Hey Chris, I've got a client that is interested in AI. Would you like I would like you to meet with them?" This something I would use. Edit it just slightly because there's a few things I don't like putting best regards. I like using my own signature, and then there's a few things that I would change in here. However, You guys get the seventy thirty percent This gets me seventy percent of the way there. Okay. Any questions about Outlook? Okay. One more thing in regards to Copilot, there is a new button here, new as in the last month, and this will get you to Copilot chat. So just a heads up for that. When we get into the chat features, it is there. It's also in Teams. Okay? So I'm going to minimize Outlook and we're going to talk about Word. And so within Word. Speaker 1 00:26:04 Um, I am going to pull up. I have a document here that I use a lot for this. Um, I'm going to pull up an acceptable use policy and bear with me. So again, This is a client that has stated that I can use them for these types of things. Um, and so here's an acceptable use policy. I normally handwrite these, And I will handwrite them to an extent. And. This is one I'm in the middle of working on because I do a lot of compliancy things for Crimson. So in this one, I am going to make some changes in here. Um, I'm going to put my approval in here and there's a lot of things in here that I want to check. Now before I get to this, um when i go through this, I want to double check and make sure that it hits all the things that i need it to hit. Speaker 1 00:26:58 And sometimes I'll do that by using Copilot. And Copilot is down here, and all you have to do is click on it to open it up. And I'm going to double check, does this meet HIPAA requirements for 2026 and 2027? So I'm going to ask, I'm going to ask Copilot to check that because this is a company that has HIPAA. Requirements. And so I'm going to have it help me with this. Now I am going to double check everything that's on here, and it's going to give me this information right here. Now it did look at on the web to find out. Does it meet those requirements? It also corrected the fact that I said HIPAA with two p's, so it did correct me. It can be a little attitudinal in things um. Speaker 1 00:27:57 It is also going to give me its suggestion. Okay. So there's a HIPAA security rule update, but it's still not final, But we are going to make changes to this so that it covers all of that. But this just the acceptable use policy. This not the full IT policy that all staff is going to sign soon. This just one of the outliers that we have to do. Okay. Um, and it's also going to give me some additional information. Now I'm going to double check all of this before I put information in, But you guys get the gist of how you can use it for documents that you write. Okay? I write these all the time. In fact, So much that it is templated that I have saved. If you guys can see company names there. I have done this for you guys at Alere in the past um. Speaker 1 00:28:54 So, this is the same template that I just update every year with new changes if there's SOC or SOC. And I will, I now use Copilot to say, hey, heads up. Now, it does give me the fixes and some recommendations and I can take those in. Usually what I do on here is I will also add ask Copilot to update information for my revision history. I will tell it to update that and it will edit it. Sometimes I'll ask Claude to do that. You guys see I have Claude on here as well. Any questions about what you've seen so far in Word? Okay, how many of you guys have heard about the term vibe coding? You've heard it? Colin, you had an interesting look on your face. Have you heard it? Yep, I am a vibe coder. Okay. Speaker 1 00:29:52 I've spent way too long in IT not to know how to code. So I do love vibe coding, but there's also another term called vibe writing. And I love that. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to open a new document and I am going to put it in Crimson stuff and I am going to save a copy because I always do that. Speaker 1 00:30:22 Okay, I'm gonna call it training ideas because I'm going to write this for a client. Um, I have a client that's currently working on getting all their staff before they implement. Ai, getting all their staff basic understanding of Microsoft Word, Excel, all of that. Um, so what I'm going to do here is I want to vibe write. So I don't want to edit. I want to create a document on ideas for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, et cetera types of training. I want this to be presentable to clients. This client happens to be HIPAA. Let me spell it right so she doesn't try to correct me and needs. Speaker 1 00:31:21 To make sure we cover all HIPAA related items within office. And then I'm going to let it help me write this out. Now again, this comes back to the 70 30 percent. I am using this to vibe, write and I do this often with either Copilot or Claude, and you can see it's in here, it's using my letterhead, It's using my formatting that I already have set in this document, and it's writing it for me. Get. Speaker 2 00:31:59 Out of loop for a second. Speaker 1 00:32:08 And so here's the training tracks. It's still writing it. Speaker 1 00:32:21 And I have three clients. I can send this to that. We're going to be doing training soon. And guess what, guys? As much as training, you guys have seen me do a lot of training. Training is not my number one thing that I do. I just like doing it. It's fun getting to watch you guys learn things. It's a highlight for my week. Okay, so here we go application specific training ideas Excel PowerPoint, There's some other items, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint. HIPAA focused. And then we're going to do a sample client training package. And then here's my recommended delivery format. Speaker 1 00:33:25 And then here's all the things that I work through for them. DLP is something I did for you guys recently, within the last what, five weeks? Has it been five weeks since we started? Yeah, okay. All right, so now that it's done, it's given me some done and dusted. I'm going to go ahead and say done. And it looks, it does really really good. However there are some things I'm going to change. This is back to the 70/30%. So we've got a full several pages, six pages. We are going to, I'm going to give it some things. This part means to be taken out. Hang on one second. They are E5 licensed. Speaker 1 00:34:28 With BAA and approved workloads. So I'm going to give it the changes, okay? Because I know this client like the back of my hand. I'm actually sitting in their office right now. I have an office here that I'm at two days a week. I know their system like the back of my hand. Now, I'm going to go in here and further edit it. I'm not going to do it while I have you guys, but you guys get the gist of, How you can make edits and as you go. So I'm going to minimize this. Um I'm going to minimize this. And any questions about Copilot in Word? No. Okay, we're going to get to a fun one. This is my favorite. Um how let me ask Daniel, how often are you in Excel every day? Speaker 1 00:35:28 All day long. I think when I looked at my report, you and maybe Colin were heavy. I don't remember who the second person, but I think it was Colin are heavy Excel users, the heaviest. So this my favorite part. I'm going to show you guys. I'm going to make this a little smaller. I have sample data here, okay? This what I use for all my trainings with all my clients You guys can see what my favorite genre of TV and movies and books are just by looking at this. There is a lot in here, so enjoy. When I worked for Mars Petcare, which is part of the Mars company, Long long time ago, almost twenty years ago. Yes, we had M&Ms and Skittles on site every day plus Twix candy bars, ice cream, candy bars. Speaker 1 00:36:21 They gave me because I was uh the IT manager at the time. They gave me the choice of what to name all the printers in the office. Now, They named all the conference rooms after different breeds of dogs because it was Mars Petcare. But for the printers, because they were internal, we named them after Lord of the Rings. And I from some of my friends that still work there, they are still named that to this day. So, I have a little bit of fun. So we're going to do this. We have on here employees, so we have quite a few employees, 120 all across locations, departments, jobs, a lot of different annual salaries. So we have employees and then we have their financial data. Rivendell got some good software there and Mirkwood Timber. They did a lot of traveling in Q4. So we got a lot of information in here that we can analyze. Speaker 1 00:37:21 One of my favorite things about Copilot is actually pulling up and analyzing different things. Now, it's I have it analyzed a lot. Um, I've deleted this out already. But what we're going to do is we're going to look at financials. Okay, One thing I want to tell you guys is it works better when you do a table. So I'm just going to highlight everything. I'm going to hit Control+T as in Tom on my keyboard Which creates a table. And I do have table headers. So I'm going to go ahead and say, okay. Now with this, I want to analyze the financials. This would be for 2026 and see where we are in budget. All right, and I'm going to have Copilot do that for me. Speaker 1 00:38:19 Now, another thing for you guys while we're waiting on this, because this does take a minute. Just a heads up. You can ask Copilot in Excel almost anything. If, there's a formula you want to try, and you can't remember how to do it, ask it what the formula is and it will tell you. If you want it to create a special analytical page, ask it to do it. You the sky's, the limit on what you can ask it most of the time It's working really well. Now, six months ago. This was jank. It did not work at all. But they have made a lot of strides in how Copilot works within Excel. Okay, so yes, you can. Speaker 1 00:39:06 Yes, yes, I use concatenate a lot. It's my favorite thing. And I use Copilot to make it better because I, I've, I'm the queen of concatenate because I use it to build out scripts that I use in PowerShell and things like that to do things. So if Kenny called me and said, hey Chris, I need you to create for me a report from Azure of all current employees. And I need to know who started in 2026. I use concatenate to build that formula out so easy. Speaker 1 00:39:45 Um, and I download everything as a CSV. I run my own reports. I'd rather do it through spreadsheets. I'm just weird in a mod fashion. So, um, So it's going to ask me questions when things are unclear where we are on our budget. Um, I'm going to have it do number one. Speaker 1 00:40:15 And tell it there's no budget available. So, because we have some pending and paid. And let's see what this comes up with. Now, while we're doing that, I'm going to show you guys a few other things that you can do within Copilot, because this one takes a minute. This little shield right here means that enterprise data protection is on. It's not feeding it back to the internet. Auto is you can choose what type of model you want to do. Now, right now there's some issues. Claude was working today, it's not working now. GPT is now working. So, you can choose your model, and then you've got a couple other things in here. Now, here's a spend analysis it's working on. Here's the department spend, here's the quarter spend, the actual spend paid and pending. Speaker 1 00:41:12 How many transactions there are, what our average transaction is, what our largest transaction is and what our smallest is. How much of that is pending in percentage wise. We can see spend by quarter. It created some charts for us and spend by department. It looks like engineering, engineering's always an issue. They're always eating up budgets. So that's the case here. They have a catering budget at $204,000, Can we get that? I would like some good catered meals. I have not had good catered meals since I worked for Dell. That's a fun story in itself. And how many transactions were per category? Okay, and then here's the rank on the vendors and where they spent. Ferengi Trade Group, 112,000. Okay. Speaker 1 00:42:06 So this what you guys can see, you guys can do, and you can spell it out even more what you want it to do. So this just a spend analysis. I'm going to go ahead and say done so that it looks correct. And I can even tell it, hey, I want all of this in crimson colors because our crimson brand book is out there for Copilot to figure out. So, if you guys have an Alira branding book and you have it saved to your OneDrive, you can tell it to use your branding colors for this. Okay? Especially if it's client facing. And it does put in some notes. No budget baseline is available. But let me make this a little smaller, and let me close out. So you guys can see it. So, it is pretty impressive and you guys can pick and choose what you want. You can get very granular with this. Speaker 1 00:43:04 This and Copilot does make it fun. If you select Copilot in here, you can tell it to improve formatting. You can tell it to add data insights. You can work on formulas. You can just open the chat by clicking on that button again and say, I want to have a list of all vendors on a separate tab, and it will build it for you. Speaker 1 00:43:35 That way you don't have to do the heavy work yourself. Because if you were wanting to list vendors, my way of doing it go here, copy that entire list, put it in its own tab and remove duplicates. That's how I did it before. Now I can tell it to do it, and I can go get me a cup of coffee because coffee is life. So any question? Yes. Speaker 1 00:44:25 So I would spot check it. I'll be honest. What I would do is I'd say, let me have all of Ferengi. And then I would highlight this and I would look down here and see what the sum is. And I go back to my vendor list and I'd look for Ferengi and verify that, that number matches. So maybe 60 seconds, maybe three minutes tops. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:45:05 I will be honest, within Copilot in Excel, I have found that I almost don't have to spot check because if I click on this right here, the formulas are up here. So if I just click on it, It gives me the formula that it used, and it's almost the same formula that I've used in the past. So. Speaker 1 00:45:44 Uh, I'll be honest. Yes. Um, most people don't use tables like this. Um, but they do use sort and filter. And so I will spot check more if it's not on a table just because Copilot seems to respond better with tables. So yeah. The place where I check the most is going to be Word, especially if it's pulling information from the internet and Outlook. Outlook because when I have it write up my different drafts and things like that, it sometimes will hallucinate. I spot check more in Outlook and Word than I do in Excel because it's gotten pretty. I have not seen a mistake yet, knock on wood. And I've been testing features for a while within Excel. Speaker 1 00:46:36 So it's been fairly reliable. Does that make sense? Perfect. All right, a couple more things I'm going to show you. PowerPoint is a huge one. Now PowerPoint is going to be a little bit more hand-holding, that one's more of a 60/40%. And then I'm going to show you, how many of you guys actually use OneNote? No? Sometimes? Okay, so let's run through PowerPoint real quick. Um, if you don't use PowerPoint, feel free to go grab some coffee because again, coffee is life. Um and I'm going to show you guys how I utilize Copilot in OneNote. Um because I have a lot of stuff in OneNote. So bear with me one moment. Well, I might have a problem. It might have wiped my OneNote by accident. Speaker 1 00:47:35 My meeting notes are gone, which is not an issue. I can always recover those. Okay, we're going to use a Alere because my Alere notes are there. All right, So meeting notes :, what I do is when we have a meeting, such as the one we're having, most of my calls are recorded and or transcribed. And I will have I will put the entire transcript into Copilot and have it put my meeting notes in here. So you guys can see that in here. Here is everybody that was in the meeting, uh, the summary, the key decisions, action items, all of that. Now if I'm in Copilot on here. Here's what I'm going to do as soon as it decides it's going to come up. Speaker 1 00:48:30 I want to take this page and make a client-facing email, a summary of the meeting notes. And I'm asking it to summarize my meeting notes. And here it is. So what I'll do is I'll take this part. Speaker 1 00:49:00 I hate it when it says best regards, even though I have that set. I'm going to copy this and then I'm just going to right, click down here and do a new email message in Outlook. And I'm going to paste that in here. Now, in a moment, I'm going to remove if I was to send this actually, which I don't need to everybody. That was in the meeting already has the notes, but here's the meeting notes. I'm going to go through. I'm going to remove all the links. Because I don't share my OneNote out publicly, I'm going to make sure everything is in here, that we have everything set correctly. Maybe because we weren't this is not part of the Copilot portion, I might remove that things like that. And. So because every one of my meeting notes when they're transcribed, they go into OneNote, the full transcription and meeting summaries. Speaker 1 00:49:56 Although it's missing today. I got to figure out why. It might just be that I've opened the wrong file. And then I can send that to whoever I want to. So, I'm going to go ahead and send this just so that Kenny, well pretty much. I love how I always type two e's and Outlook always knows that I'm talking about Kenny. So, I'm going to pretend like we're actually doing this, It is going to alert me that it can't, that people cannot see my OneNote by turning all those links red. Here. Speaker 2 00:50:38 We go. Mhm. Speaker 1 00:51:08 Uh, No. It hasn't learned that yet. But here's what I do do. And don't be scared of my calendar. This is a normal calendar for me. I'm going to right, click and I'm going to say new email to attendees, and then I want copy and paste my email into that. So super quick. So, yeah. So, my calendar is color coded by AI. I gave AI how I want all my categories to look in email. I don't do that through Copilot; I do that actually through Claude. So just a heads up for you guys; that's a deeper discussion. Copilot's not there yet, but Copilot Cowork. Speaker 1 00:51:55 Once it rolls out, maybe there. So so if you guys see my calendar, it's very colorful. That's AI. It helps me keep everything organized. So you guys can see in here we can do it that way. Um I do have this set up using Power Automate. How many of you use Power Automate? Okay so Power Automate, You guys have a free version that you're all eligible to use I, have it set up that any new? Meetings that I am the organizer for, if I transcribe or I record the call, Power Automate picks those up and gives me a summary and uses Copilot to give me the summary. That's, how all of these go into my OneNote? And that way everything is filed. So that's how I use Copilot. Speaker 1 00:52:50 I am going to have a video training series that I'm going to do on shortcuts and ways that I use Copilot and different tools to make my day a little bit better. I am giving that out to all clients for free, So you guys will get a copy of that and you can share it among yourselves. So just a little side note, but give me some time because I'm re-recording Copilot basics for everybody. All right, PowerPoint. I promised you guys PowerPoint. Um, I this a recovered file. Uh, I did this in my last training. This something Copilot made for me to train my staff on how to create a distribution list in Microsoft. Now, here's how it did it. Um, I'm going to go in and I'm going to say create with Copilot. Now, How many of you guys have Word documents that you need that you have that you created reports for? And you need to present that? Speaker 1 00:53:48 Using PowerPoint. Anybody? All right. Sometimes, great. This makes me really happy because sometimes I introduce this and I get a lot of blank looks because people are like, we don't use PowerPoint. All right. This is the most fun you'll have. Um, I'm going to say create a presentation about, Then I'm going to do a forward slash and I'm going to put training ideas, which is the document I created. Right before, and I'm going to say send. Now this can take a little bit of time. So while we're talking, while we're waiting for this, Copilot is going to build that entire presentation for me based on that Word document. And you can also do it based on Excel documents as well. So it's going to build this out. It's it's going to take a while. It might take five minutes, it may take 15 minutes just depending. So while we're doing that uh I want you guys to be aware. Speaker 1 00:54:44 Uh, this is here. It's going to ask you questions. I'm going to say a concise overview because I don't want too much. I'm going to say, client leadership and I'm going to say, confirm, and it might pop up and ask me a few more questions just to get it right. And so while I'm doing that, do you guys have any questions about anything I've shown you so far? Speaker 2 00:55:15 Mhm. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:55:30 You are going to have to get a little bit more detailed. Um, when I do it based on that Excel file I showed you guys, I do it after I've done the analysis so that it can pull uh your charts and things. And it will pull those charts and put them into the PowerPoint presentation. Yes, And you want to make yeah, you want to make sure that data is clean. And I cannot stress this enough, put it in tables because it reads better when it's in tables. All right, it's asking me a few questions. I want to. Speaker 1 00:56:12 Let's do calm clinical blues. I like that. And then I'm going to say continue. I didn't give it any branding guidelines to follow on this. And I could later on, but for this one, I sometimes just let Copilot and see what it comes up with and then slap our logo on it. So also under design, I have the crimson custom one there. So I could always just make that change if I wanted to. So because our crimson brand is, we've got uh we got a PowerPoint uh template for that. All right, so now it's building it. It's about to ask me a few more questions because it wants to understand what we're looking for. Um so we'll wait and see. Now. Speaker 2 00:57:24 Yes. So. Speaker 1 00:57:38 I would throw a prompt into Copilot on Word to tighten it up and clean it up, and then I would refer, I would open Excel and refer back to that Word document and see if it can build it out in Excel. Now you are getting, That part is getting a little bit more to the point of it will struggle. And you're going to want to check that even more thoroughly just because it will hallucinate if there's a lot of data in it. But I have seen where it has cut some of my work time down by about an hour, which is still good because trust me, If I have an hour that I could sit down and work on compliancy stuff for clients, I'll take that hour. So it does help provide some shortcuts. Speaker 1 00:58:21 Now, while we're waiting on this, 'cause this could take some time. Let me talk to you guys about Copilot in Teams. Um, I am going to open. I'll pull this over in a second. I'll pull some things together. We are currently in this meeting right here. So um, let me let me do one more thing real quick. I blew up this screen a little too hard. Speaker 1 00:58:52 Let me fix that. Let me drop it down to 150. It's a big screen. All right, so we're in here. You guys can see facilitators on, that is AI. Facilitator does require Copilot license. Now within here, I'm going to pull this back up. And I'm going to show you guys, you'll see your faces. I apologize. But in here, you'll see notes. If you're in a meeting that you organize or is organized by someone within your company, you'll have notes in here. Sometimes you'll see it externally and sometimes you won't. Okay? Another thing you're going to have in here, which I use quite often because I have ADHD, I see squirrels. Okay? This is how I work so well with teenagers. Speaker 1 00:59:49 Because I have ADHD, they have ADHD, we're all great. But sometimes I'll say recap the last five minutes because I zoned out. I use this often. I'll be honest. I was in a cybersecurity assessment today. I was not needed for the entire meeting other than two seconds where I need to confirm something. And I and I was on mute, and I just wrote that out, and it instantly brought back, and I was able to answer the question. No one knew I had zoned out. So this is something that you guys can use. Um, and it is pretty helpful. So just a quick heads up on that. That's Copilot in Teams now. A couple, other things that you want to be aware of Copilot in Teams. Let me introduce you guys to the napping team. Now when I say this, please understand. Speaker 1 01:00:44 The napping team is a tongue in cheek reference to something Anzor gave the entire company. And that is, if you get tired or sleepy and you need a nap, please take one because we want you at the top of your game. So we named this the napping team. Everyone is in this chat. It's a company wide chat with exception of Anzor and Pete because they don't want to be in this chat. So sometimes we'll have questions on here, we'll look for MFA codes. I'll call everybody to introduce them to issues that are coming up. Um, So you'll see sometimes my cat makes an appearance, and she wants to know if it's five o'clock yet, because someone sent me a bottle of bourbon. Uh, if you guys remember, If you guys have been in meetings with me in the past, when I was actually in my downtown L A office, I had a bookcase here and anytime a client or vendor would send me whiskey. It was displayed behind me. So another person sent me whiskey. Uh now I have to send it to the team. Speaker 1 01:01:43 With Brie holding it, but this is the napping team. We we have fun here. Every now and then, like if I've been in the hospital and out for over a week, I'll go in here and say recap the last week. And it will do that. It will recap for me. So uh I did give everybody an alert about cowork, Because there were some changes, so here is all the recap, and that's everything that happened. And you can tell it to give you this recap in a pirate voice, so you can have fun. One sentence comedy version: This week at Crimson AI, Microsoft changed AI buttons. Speaker 1 01:02:40 Dell predicted a hardware apocalypse. Everyone shared MFA codes. You fixed seventy seven directory records. Marvin rode off into the sunset, And the help desk collectively decided that Charles Duplessis now looks like a tenured professor who grades papers in the eighth gear, which is oddly interesting because Charles we call Carla, and that's because of some things that teams used to do. So I am going to send that over to the team ;, they're going to love it. But we do things like that all the time in here. So, if you've got massive groups like I do, I'm in a lot of group chats. You can always go in here and say, get me up to date. So, um, and that's Teams Copilot in a nutshell. A couple of things to note. You can go over here to Copilot and get the full chat here. And along the same lines, I'm going to walk you guys through it. Speaker 1 01:03:38 The auto version. I now have Claude. ChatGPT is missing here. This a known outage. Uh, I sent some of you guys an email today about this, uh, so you guys should have seen this. This what it's doing. So in some things I have Copilot, um, I have uh OpenAI and some things have Claude. You can change your version right here. I'm going to change it to Opus because I love Opus and I can go in here and I can look at recent pages. I can look at scheduled prompts. I actually do have a scheduled prompt every Friday at 7:00 AM. It sends it to the Napping team and reminds everybody to take their stress survey because Crimson's really big on making sure that we know what the stress levels are within the company. Um, I can send feedback, I can look at settings, I can tell it to include web searches. I'm going to go into settings for you guys. I want to show you guys some things on this. Personalization is a huge one, okay? Speaker 1 01:04:35 I have custom instructions because I have a personal style that I like. And I'm going to put this in Copilot or in chat so that you guys can see this. This is the same instructions I use for all of my AI stuff. So, This tells it what I look for and how to make it sound more like me. I tell it to write in a balanced tone, I want it to be professional enough but friendly and approachable, okay? I favor active voices. I don't want to talk at someone. I hate when I get emails from people where they're talking at me. Okay, so I am very, very clear with AI how I want it to do my my communications. I also don't like the word kindly, because kindly is often used by people living outside the US, trying to write in English. I don't like using that word. Um, I don't like em dashes because that's. Speaker 1 01:05:32 A big scream of, "Hey, this is written by AI." And then I also want it to avoid weak qualifiers. I don't like using maybe, perhaps you might consider. I just don't like that. I want the system to make a recommendation and explain the reasoning. Okay? Um, I also am huge on using realistic actionable examples. I don't like it using generic marketing language. That's a big one for me. But these this is my personal preferences. So I want it to do things the way I want. You guys may have your own personal preferences. Write your custom instructions based on that, okay? And it will give you some options that you can do. So focus on internal sources, if you want it to highlight decisions and meeting notes, use clear and simple language. Those are the different things you can do. Speaker 1 01:06:29 How many of you guys use Claude personally? Okay, so Colin does. Anybody else? How about OpenAI or ChatGPT? Okay, all right, so two of you. These are the same instructions you can set everywhere. Now Crimson uses Claude and Anzor allowed me to use my personal Claude because He knows that my settings are correct, but when I am in here. Here are my same instructions for Claude. And you guys can see based off what I put in chat, I use the same exact instructions. Okay. Now I use OpenAI because I use OpenAI for the image generation. Yes, I use my cats for my emails to clients. Okay, but if you look down here, I am using my crimson one. Um if i go in here to personalization. Speaker 1 01:07:31 It's the same instructions, Except for a little bit briefer because um Chat GPT doesn't like long preferences and customs. So just a heads up. Um so it's a little bit shorter but same thing, same generic thing. So I have this in all my AI okay? So here's my custom instructions. Make sure you utilize that. Make sure you make it sound like you. For agents, I do use a couple agents, Um, I use Adobe Acrobat agent and I use Lucidchart agent, but I'm very selective on this. Um, with Adobe Acrobat there's a reason behind it. We do utilize a lot of the uh Adobe Acrobat, but because we're using Adobe Acrobat for small businesses that data is protected. Okay, so there is no data external access, even though it thinks that there might be um within Copilot, you also have work and web. I tend to stay on work. Speaker 1 01:08:28 Because I do have the setting set to include web searches. Okay. You can also click on the plus sign and add cloud files, upload images. You have a couple of different things you can do, compose in Word or Excel or PowerPoint. And you also have a designer and all agents here. Now, One of the things I'll do in here is I need you to find a meeting. Transcript in my OneDrive from December regarding Alere. I don't think there is one, but let's see. And I'm going to have it search. I actually save all my transcripts to a transcripts folder within my OneDrive, so just a heads up for that. Okay, so there is no Alere meeting transcripts. Speaker 1 01:09:26 The ones that can locate are later engagement dates, May and June of twenty twenty six tied to the Copilot, Readiness and Deployment Project. Okay, so there is none, but it does find the one we have on June fourth, eighteenth and twenty fifth. Uhhuh. Speaker 1 01:09:53 It would look if you say search my OneDrive, it's going to search your entire OneDrive. Yes. Speaker 2 01:10:05 Correct. Correct, Speaker 1 01:10:19 Yes. Now luckily for me, oh sorry, go ahead Colin. Speaker 1 01:10:34 You can, however, that's something I would use Power Automate for. Which I do. I have Power Automate set to automatically save all my attachments from one from Outlook. I've been doing that since twenty twelve Uh-huh. Uh, just to kind of give you guys a heads up, I am very organized. Let me show you um Actually, this the Alere Tech Runbook that I've been working on for you guys. But my Documents folder, my main folders are right here. I have a lot of things in here that are created by software, but Old Files to Sort, Strategy and Leadership Internal, Clients and Projects Shared Documents. This where my attachments go is right here. Speaker 1 01:11:29 Now I use because I'm allowed to use Claude within Crimson. I use CoWork to take any shared documents and dump them in the correct client files. I do do that on a schedule, uh, and then my personal workspace and my archives. So. Speaker 2 01:11:50 Mm- hmm. Yep. Yes. Speaker 1 01:11:60 Yes. Let me do this with you. We've got some time. I'm actually ahead of schedule on this training today, so I'm going to show you some fun things. And this is where Copilot also lives. So I'm in myapps.microsoft.com You guys also have a My Apps, so here's the link. I'm going to scroll down, I'm going to go to Power Automate Now again, you guys have the free version Um, I have premium because I, I'm me. Um, I do a lot of things. So I'm going to pull up Power Automate and there's Copilot in Power Automate. So what I want to do is I want, i'm going to describe what i want. I want all my attachments on incoming emails to save to a specific folder in OneDrive. Speaker 1 01:12:60 I did I totally misspelled that it'll know it'll correct me on my spelling um I'm going to reauthenticate because I got to reauthenticate some things let's see my loop every now and then I get signed out. Speaker 1 01:13:29 Uh, I can't remember. Oh, This might be because Anzor made some changes to my account because I wasn't using Adobe Sign anymore. I was using DocuSign. Speaker 1 01:13:59 Oh, lovely. Okay. So these connections have been saved. Let me go back to create because sometimes it does that. Describe it to design it. I'm going to go back to do that. I want all attachments for incoming to save to a specific in OneDrive Have, a new keyboard, I can't type. Speaker 1 01:14:30 So I'm describing it. When a new email arrives, this what the flow will do for each. And I'm going to say keep it. Here's my Outlook, create flow. And now what I'm going to do, have you ever heard of n8n or Zapier or Make? Okay, so this basically Microsoft has had this forever. So basically what happens is when a new email, think of these as workflows. When a new email arrives, for each, I'm going to go into Outlook and I'm going to look for an option for get attachment. So I'm going to tell it what the ID of the email, which comes from here and you. Speaker 1 01:15:27 You're going to have to look for the ID. It's called message ID. This looks more complicated than it is. Okay, so this when a new email arrives, I'm just making these link together, Kind of like in Excel where you have primary keys, if you guys know what I'm talking about? This basically what we're doing. All right, so attachments ID, I'm just matching them and then I want to look at the advanced, Um, I don't need to do the sensitivity items. Get attachment and then I want it to save attachment. So I'm going to go in here, I'm going to look for OneDrive and I'm going to say OneDrive for Business is where I'm at. I'm going to say create file and the folder path, i want to save this in This is my OneDrive for Business. Speaker 1 01:16:25 I'm going to go to documents. I'll hit the little arrow next to the folder, and I'm going to go to shared documents and loop assets. And I'm going to choose April Shared because I know it's under April Shared. And then the file name is going to be the attachment name, so get attachment name of the attachment file content. And this is from the get. I'm gonna see 18 more. It's in here somewhere. I got to remember it. I'm just going to put something in here for now. I'll figure this out, and for anybody interested in this, I'll send you what you actually have to do. And then this is it from here, I save it and now any. Speaker 2 01:17:36 Yeah. Yes. Speaker 1 01:17:44 Yes. So, what I would do is I would hit insert expression and I would create an expression with Copilot because it's a formula, just like you would use in Excel. So you guys can see you got concatenate, slice, Replace a lot of the same stuff you see in Excel, but I'm going to create an expression with Copilot because I'm dumb and I haven't spent as much time in here as I want to. That I have 20 years ago. Power Automate has been around for over 20 years. So, and I would create an expression with Copilot, And I would tell it to technically, what I would do is I'd tell it to pull the domain name and then put that in front of the file name. And that way I know who sent it, because if it came from a Lear, I want it to get tossed into the Lear folder that I have for you guys. So. Speaker 2 01:18:43 Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Mhm. Yes. Speaker 1 01:18:58 Yeah, yeah, uh Power Automate's really useful for a lot of things, um I, How many of you guys use Asana or something similar? Okay, so I have a setting. I have a flow in here. I use cloud and desktop flow, so bear with me. Asana, I have it set where any of my files, which has failed the last couple weeks or so, I got to fix that. Speaker 1 01:19:30 But originally, what it does is it pulls all the data that I have a client that uses Asana and I'm in their Asana. So when they have things they want to send over for for business planning and strategy, They will assign it to me in Asana and I. Have it push it to the ticketing system. And so and if you guys see this diamond, it's because you have to use a premium plan with this, but Asana doesn't require a premium plan. What is an application you guys use heavily that's not in Microsoft? Speaker 1 01:20:05 Let's see. 'Cause they have a lot of things in here. We're going to do a scheduled one. I'm going to have it run every day just to create a reoccurrence. If I go in here and I press plus, there's no Argus. Nope. What's your HRIS system? Speaker 1 01:20:41 Um, hey, come here for a second. Sorry guys, give me one moment. Just add her to the manager for both of these email distribution lists. You did? It's not letting her send? Okay. Email ends in one. Okay. Speaker 1 01:21:11 Can we not just give her an email with her name in it? Okay, I will fix it. I promise. Okay, sorry guys. Um, Let me just show you generically monday dot com You can use Monday. If you use Monday, you guys know what Monday is. Okay. Um yeah, sorry. Speaker 1 01:21:44 It's okay. I have clients who use monday dot com for things, and they they will utilize uh for some of them will utilize this. And so when people put a form in, uh using monday dot com, it will update items on the back end using Power Automate. So that's that's a fun thing. Um you have AI capabilities in this now. This is new within the last year, but you also have all of these connectors. You have weather, Someone put Lord of the Rings, the entire book collection in here. Okay. But there's a lot of things in here you can do approvals. I actually use this, I'll build forms out and within Microsoft and I have it go through an approval process for certain clients. So, if they want to do something along the lines of create a form for office supply purchases, and it goes to a specific person, but it requires a manager approval, I have the system go ahead and put manager approvals in there. Speaker 1 01:22:43 And, the manager has to sign off on it before it goes to that person. Um, you have Adobe. I do use Adobe Acrobat Sign, but I also use DocuSign. Uh, there's DocuSign right here and you can use that. That doesn't require the premium version. Anything that requires premium is going to have a diamond. Docusign doesn't require it. And so I'll build that out for a lot of our clients. So this is a little side note. If you guys want to play in Power Automate, Your Copilot license is active in there, and it will help you discover things you can do with it. I actually use it because I like I said, I have other clients that i i'm their vcio for. If I go into Outlook, everything on my calendar here and yes, I know my calendar's crazy will copy over to my client calendars. Speaker 1 01:23:40 With Power Automate. And I have that set up. So all they see is blocked dates for me. They can't see what's going on, but if they try to schedule with me, everything that's on my Crimson calendar has been blocked out on my client calendar. Just so if they're trying to get a hold of me, they know what my calendar looks like. So does that make sense? All right, let's go back to PowerPoint. Here is PowerPoint. It's built it out, Okay, so these are this my training items. It's very pretty. I actually like this. Do not like how small it is, but I do like this. Um, This what it looks like. I'm going to go through I would go through this, and I will look at what it's saying. This one I find that it is more like an eighty twenty percent So um because it's basing everything off of the document that I've already written. Speaker 1 01:24:36 So make sure your data coming in from the documents is actually good. But there you go. And that's based on that document. So it's actually really nice and really pretty. Now, if I wanted to change it, I just select everything here. I do Control A. I can go to Design and I can put it on the Crimson letterhead. Well, normally I can, but I guess it doesn't want to do it. Speaker 1 01:25:07 But let's see. If I go to layout, there we go. There's the Crimson branding. I can change the layout. So is this something that interests you in figuring out? Mhm. Speaker 1 01:26:12 So I will verify my Word document first, make sure all the data is in there that needs to be in there. One of the great things about Copilot is it finds great matching stock images. 'Cause some days I'm an artist. I won't lie to you guys, I paint, I draw all of that in my free time. That's how I get out of my head after a long day at work. I don't think about design here anymore. I let Copilot take it and that's one less thing off my shoulder. And you can see it built it put in the crimson logo automatically. So that's a good thing. I will give it constraints most of the time, But I will take the default stock images and I will let AI. Copilot is doing really well in design, like designing out your images and doing things. It does really well, a lot better than WordPress. So if you guys don't know about my blog, I do write about AI but. Speaker 1 01:27:10 I haven't wrote anything in the last three weeks, but it does a lot better. The little icons here, those are fantastic. Now I could go back in here and say, I want this in the crimson colors. Here's the location of our branding guide, and I will have it set that up. So just a heads up for you guys on that one. But I mean, you guys can see the quality. The quality from where it was a year ago to now, it's it's huge the difference. Cause I have things that I wrote. Let me see if I can find one. Speaker 2 01:27:57 Ah, where did it go? Think it's this one. Speaker 1 01:28:07 This is one I wrote. Using AI based. Thank you, Gaston. Based off of a template we used to have, and it messed everything up, especially this portion. Like this is not how we want things, so it's made a huge difference in where it's come from. One of the others, let me see. Speaker 1 01:28:40 Yep, this one that AI wrote as well. So it's getting a little bit better. So this probably a year after that first one. And it's a little bit better. So, It is getting there, and you can, you can see the difference in where it used to be. So Any questions about PowerPoint and how Copilot can be used in that? You've got some other things you can do. You can describe a lot more things with it. If I close this out, hang on, let me clear. You can add, you can tell it to add a slide and give it a description. You can tell it to summarize. You can tell it to clean up. I also, One of the things I do a lot is, let's add some notes for the presenter. I'll tell it to do that. Speaker 1 01:29:38 And, it'll look at the Word document and map it all out and then put in the notes. So that when I'm presenting it, um, and let me let me do something. Let me present this in Teams. Uh, I don't like. There we go. Um, I'm going to save you got to save it first. Speaker 1 01:30:08 So I want to present this in Teams, even though it's not done. But I want to show you guys what it looks like. So you guys will see it like this, but there's a notes section that has popped up. And in the notes section, you can't see it from what I'm showing you guys, but if there's um I'm going to send a screenshot over. Speaker 1 01:30:39 If there are notes, which most of my presentations will have notes in it. Give me a second, Snagit's being a little annoyed with me today. Okay. Speaker 1 01:31:01 Snagit's Being a beast. You're welcome. No worries. Speaker 1 01:31:10 Okay, perfect. If I'm presenting in Teams, the notes section right here, that's my presenter notes. That's where those are lined up. And so as I'm presenting and I'm clicking through each one, you guys won't see the notes but I'll see the notes. And I do add that with a lot of my presentations. I actually build the script out in Word first and then have Copilot build the presentation and then I'll change the design. And I'll make it I'll make it the crimson design like when we first started the, the meeting uh and I showed you guys that presentation. I have, I have notes in here um on my first page for the welcome page. My note says confirm recording is on. So I do things like that because I will forget to record. So those are things I put up. And then as you guys can see, um. Speaker 1 01:32:09 As I click through, I i these are my notes for myself, just knowing how I do things. Um, because I talk fast, say this part slowly. That's how I am. So as you guys can see as I go through this, um, I do have Copilot build things out like that for me to make my life easier. And when I'm presenting while i'm recording if i'm recording something in Camtasia to use as training, i have those over on another set on a On another screen, so that I can walk through it and my script is there as well. So and I use Copilot to get those set up. If that makes sense. Okay, We're ending a little bit early because we got through a lot of this early. When we do the bigger training for your entire staff, we're probably not going to touch on Power Automate. We're going to try to keep it, where people can ask questions and go through it. Speaker 1 01:33:06 But you guys are fantastic because you haven't asked as many questions, as what I am used to. So you guys have been doing amazing and thank you for that. But let me know, Feel free any of you guys can email me or chat with me on Teams. Just put in my crimson email address to chat with me. Um I will try to get to your questions as soon as possible. Ai is really the future of where everything is going. And we're seeing it touch things every day, like I am working. Right now, one of my primary clients is in the mental health space. So we're seeing it even in electronic health records. We're seeing AI in how doctors and therapists are writing up their notes from every session. We're seeing it everywhere. So it is a big thing, it is happening. If you have questions about compliancy, I'm your person because compliancy is a big part of my job. Feel free to ask away, okay? Speaker 1 01:34:48 So for you guys, um, because you you know this, um, That part I am including if if let's say Mark reaches out with his with his use case. Um and wants to meet with me and we do an hour meeting. I am not charging you guys for that. That's not coming under uh any of the financial portion. So I want you guys to reach out because it gives me a better understanding of how to structure this for future clients. And also what who is does what within Alere. And as you saw with the email I sent out this morning, if I see something coming across, I know who to put into that message. So I send out those messages all the time. This is just the first one you've been on. Um, so like if Mark within his job has questions for me, um and i I sent out an email about let's say Mark, I don't know what you do so bear with me. I see something that I need to send out about finance. I send it to all my contacts that i know use Copilot in finance. Speaker 1 01:35:48 So especially with prompting and things like that does that make sense. NO_CORRECTIONS. Speaker 1 01:37:09 Absolutely, you guys let me know what's a better fit for you. If it's sending, If you guys send me questions and I can answer it and build you out a cheat sheet, I will do that. If you want to meet and discuss in person, I will do it. I am very flexible because I want to meet NO_CORRECTIONS needs and the best way for you to learn. So. Speaker 2 01:37:45 Yes. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 1 01:38:08 Yeah, not a problem. Uh, one I just realized I got my time mixed up. I thought we were doing two hours today, but my facilitator came up and said we're five minutes over. My fault for misunderstanding that. Uh, just a heads up. Um, this is the app version of Copilot. Um, there's some fun things you guys can do in here, but I want you guys to look into agents. Um, and I'm going to be building out a video on Copilot agents. But I asked it to tell me about my client Alere. And here is all my information. It knows that we're on the Copilot project, my strategic and technical context, and this looks at everything that I have access to. So just a heads up. Um, I think your account manager is Mike? Speaker 1 01:39:06 On my team? Yes. If I have access to things in his OneDrive because he's granted me access, it's going to pull that information as well. I know that his IT strategic plan is his from his OneDrive that I have access to, and he modified that yesterday. So there's some different things in here. Just a heads up for you guys when you ask it to search for things, it's only going to search for things you have access to. And that's it. So just be aware of that. I forgot to include that in earlier. So cool, and reach out with any question, guys. Either email or message me in Teams. I think you guys have external access to members outside of your corporation, so feel free to reach out to me in Teams. Teams is one of the best ways to contact me. Speaker 1 01:40:01 I am going to send out a recap email, along with the attachments of all the handouts and even some of the information that I have. I have some prompts and things for you guys to utilize. So look for that. It'll probably be there this evening or tomorrow morning, just depends on how my rest of my day goes. I have a meeting in about an hour, so awesome guys, you are amazing. Uh, I am sending something your way the next time somebody goes to NO_CORRECTIONS. So be on the lookout for that. It's for you, but you can share. So, all right. Thanks guys. Bye.
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07-02 Weekly Meeting: Elyar Project, Server Issues, and SCHARP Review
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- > Date: 2026-07-02 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Pete] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### Elyar Project Status - The Elyar project is ahead of schedule and under budget. - All tasks are complete except scheduling the training. - Completed items: pilot deployment, license activation, tenant readiness, security items, DLP, and privacy concerns addressed. - Gabby was praised for outstanding work. ### Ability First Failover Test - Pete asked to schedule a failover test for Ability First. - Speaker 2 confirmed Gabby and Kelly completed the test on Thursday, June 25, 2026. - Gabby sent a confirmation email to Mashawn on July 2, 2026. - Pete requested a copy of the confirmation email to ensure Mashawn is updated. ### Employee Termination: Jeremy Seibel - Executive Jeremy Seibel was terminated on Friday, June 26, 2026. - Olivia logged him out and disabled his profile. - Mashawn was asked to complete the offboarding form. - Pete requested a follow-up to confirm all offboarding tasks are complete. ### Sharp Server Issues & Data Center - A Sharp server issue occurred on July 1, 2026; Nelson from Bachman asked about the resolution. - The issue was at the Digital Reality data center, involving an SPF problem and a separate credit card-related issue. - The team has repeatedly requested Digital Reality to upgrade circuits and add a backup; they have now acknowledged the need. - Robert is handling the data center issue. - Two weeks ago, Speaker 2 received approval from Dr. Barber to explore backup circuit costs. ### Sharp Billing and Computer Count - Christian billed Sharp for the standard 394 computers, which was approved. - The actual count is below 394, creating a discrepancy. Dr. Barber is aware and suggested purchasing more computers to match the count. - Pete raised concerns about the lack of written approval for billing the higher count, noting audit risk. - An addendum will be created to formalize the billing arrangement and computer count banding. ### SCHARP Six-Month Review - SCHARP’s six-month review is due; onboarding was February 19, 2026. - A status report is due by end of July 2026, comparing progress to the original proposal’s 180-day commitments. - HIPAA compliance has already been achieved, ahead of the end-of-Q3 goal. - A 30-minute meeting will be scheduled for the week of July 6, 2026 to discuss the review. ### Client Updates - Alere: The July 2, 2026 meeting was canceled. - Carney: Rescheduling for the end of the week of July 6, 2026. - Avalon: Speaker 2 will follow up with Vance but is deprioritizing due to outstanding payments. - Ability First (Mashawn): Speaker 2 has an in-person meeting with Mashawn on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Topics: Verizon switchover and ordering spare cell phones. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 2] Send Pete a copy of the failover test confirmation email sent to Mashawn. - [ ] [Speaker 2] Verify completion of all offboarding tasks for Jeremy Seibel. - [ ] [Speaker 2] Obtain a quote from John at PureList for backup circuits for two Sharp locations; target to have it on order by August 14, 2026. - [ ] [Speaker 2] and Mike Draft an addendum to the SCHARP agreement to formalize billing and computer count banding. - [ ] [Speaker 2] Prepare the SCHARP six-month status report comparing progress against 180-day commitments; deliver by end of July 2026. - [ ] [Speaker 2] and Pete Schedule a 30-minute meeting during the week of July 6, 2026 to discuss the SCHARP review. - [ ] Add all company sites to the to-do list for future failover testing. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The billing discrepancy with SCHARP presents a financial and reputational risk. While Dr. Barber has given verbal approval, there is no written agreement to justify billing for 394 computers when the actual count is lower. This needs to be formalized immediately to avoid future disputes. > 2. The server issues at the Digital Reality data center for SCHARP have exposed a critical vulnerability due to the lack of a proper backup circuit. Although a plan to get a quote is in motion, this remains a high-priority risk until a redundant connection is fully implemented.
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- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Yeah, 'cause I was like, wait, I can't eat this. There's no sauce. Speaker 1 00:05:16 Hi. You. Speaker 2 00:05:19 Caught me mid- bite. Sorry. It's okay, no, uh mail train. Speaker 3 00:05:24 You sound a little bit you sound a little better today. Speaker 2 00:05:27 I do, I feel better, I woke up and my bed was drenched in sweat. So I think that's a good thing. All right. Yeah and the meal- I know, Speaker 3 00:05:36 It doesn't sound like I know, it doesn't sound like a good thing. But it probably is, yeah, hey, if i send it, if i wanted to send you something, should i send it to your house or to the office? House. Okay. Yeah. Um, what's your address? Here, let me put it here. I'm gonna just send it in the chat. That's probably easier. Speaker 2 00:05:59 Uh, I almost gave you my old one. Speaker 2 00:06:19 You know, the problem with moving is you try to send over old information. You have to remember the new information. Speaker 1 00:06:28 So, there you go. Speaker 2 00:07:11 Would You like to hear good news? I would. I. Speaker 3 00:07:15 Always want to hear good news. Speaker 2 00:07:18 So we are ahead of schedule on the Elyar project. And ahead of budget. Speaker 3 00:07:25 Even better. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:07:31 And that is, um, and that's training and rollout or what is that exactly? Speaker 2 00:07:38 Uh, DLP. Um, not training. Training was the only thing that we've got to. That we're on track, but training is the only thing we got to get scheduled now. Uh, okay. Uh, pilot deployment, uh license activation, tenant, readiness, security items, all of that DLP, okay. Uh, privacy concerns all of that. Okay. So. That's awesome. Yeah. So Gabby did excellent on her part, and then I did a bunch yesterday and today, and got some items finished. Speaker 2 00:08:29 Now I'm trying to get the system to do the correct table. Speaker 1 00:08:36 Word and tables just don't like to work together. And. Speaker 2 00:08:51 Then I got to finalize uh some document policies for DTLA today, and I'm good. I am all caught up. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:09:08 Okay, look for something in about well, I'll tell you when it actually is on its way, But should be I think probably by the end of next week or so at your house. No worries. And I think you will, I think you will like it. It's something I've been meaning to send you for a little while, but, I figure now that you're healthy, you might like. Speaker 2 00:09:31 Yeah. So, Speaker 3 00:09:34 Yeah, if anything this last couple weeks have taught me, you know things will unexpectedly happen that you never think will happen. Yes. Absolutely. So I sent you a note this morning about this failover testing thing for ability first, and I want to make sure we get that scheduled. If at all possible, it would be nice next week, But it's something we got to schedule off hours with whoever's up at camp when it's not going to be disruptive to them. So, I told Michelle. Speaker 2 00:10:10 She did it last week. Speaker 3 00:10:11 Gabby did so she already tested the failover. Okay, yeah. Speaker 2 00:10:17 Okay. They did it. Speaker 3 00:10:19 I knew we tested both circuits, but I didn't know if we had actually tested the failover. Yeah, so. Speaker 2 00:10:25 That happened, I believe it was Thursday morning, because I was feeling a little bit better and I checked my email that morning. So whatever morning was when I was feeling a little bit better, But I still wasn't discharged. Speaker 3 00:10:36 Because I sent the email yesterday to Gabby and asked," Did we are?"" I think we already did this." Didn't we But then I didn't get a reply, so I was like, Well, maybe I am mistaken because i I saw the email. I went back to Gabby's emails, where she said we found the issue that we fixed, but then I didn't find anything that actually said. We did the failover test and it worked. So i, wasn't sure if we actually had done that so. Speaker 2 00:11:05 Yeah, she had confirmed it with Kelly. Gabby did. But she never confirmed it to Mashawn, and I never followed up with her confirming it to Mashawn. And so Gabby asked me today if I had followed up, and I said no. So, she went ahead and sent an email to Mashawn today, just to let her know what happened. Did she copy? Speaker 3 00:11:22 Did she copy me? She did not. Okay, Can you send me a copy of that? So I know that it went to Mashawn? Yes, I don't know why Gabby didn't copy me, because uh, you know, she knew I was in the loop, but anyway, okay, Speaker 2 00:11:37 Yeah, no worries. Speaker 3 00:11:40 Uh, I just want to make sure that Mashawn sees the loop closed because I told her we would do that. Yeah, so okay. Um, and I think that whole termination thing went okay, But maybe you can just make a hundred percent sure that everything got squared away on that one. The That was because she called me that day and said, we're terminating whatever that guy's name was uh. Speaker 3 00:12:10 She said she had told you about it, but then you were out. So she said we're terminating uh. Speaker 1 00:12:25 Wasn't David Ortiz because that one happened a month ago. Speaker 4 00:12:37 I'm trying to go back through the notes I wrote down. Speaker 3 00:12:50 I Think I actually wrote it on something that I didn't keep. But she she had called me and basically said, we're going to be terminating. It was a it was an executive person. Speaker 2 00:13:02 Last week. Was Jeremy? Speaker 3 00:13:04 I think it was Jeremy. Speaker 2 00:13:06 Oh my god, that made my life so much better. Speaker 3 00:13:08 Jeremy Seibel Yeah, they terminated him last Friday so, She said, "We're terminating Jeremy Seibel," and she was going to call me when they did it. So she called me at like three. She'd called me and gave me the heads up at like one o'clock or whatever on Friday, and then I then she called me at like three thirty and said, "It's done." And I called Olivia, so she logged him out and disabled his profile and all that stuff. And then they had her; they they sent a note to um. Speaker 3 00:13:43 I copied you and they sent a note to uh. Mashawn and asked her to fill out the offboarding form. I just want to make sure that all that stuff got. Got completed. Speaker 2 00:13:56 You have no idea how much better you just made my day. Speaker 3 00:13:59 I thought you saw it all because because I thought she had said I thought she had told me that she had already mentioned to you that it was going to happen. So, Speaker 2 00:14:07 She she had mentioned that the board was unhappy with him. And that Sergio was unhappy with him, and that there might be a termination, but it was all up in the air at that point. So. Speaker 3 00:14:22 Nothing was confirmed yet. Um, because he was making my life a living hell. Is he the one in finance? Speaker 2 00:14:31 No Carl, that's Carl. Carl is amazing. Uh Lucio uh reported to Jeremy. But Jeremy was just he was trying to take over the business and try to take over Sergio's job. And he was just a pain in the ass. Speaker 3 00:14:47 Okay, well, he's gone as of last week, so just so you're aware. Okay, Speaker 2 00:14:53 That makes my life so much better. Speaker 3 00:14:55 Okay, so there you go. Speaker 2 00:14:57 He was making my life a living hell. Speaker 3 00:14:59 So okay now you are smiling, so there you go Yes Um So maybe maybe just make sure that everything, Has a bow on it with that one, and just everything should be done with it. But I just want to make sure nothing got missed. Um, And then anything we need to do as a follow up like what what was the reaction to the server issues at Sharp yesterday? Any fallout from that? Like, did they think we dropped the ball on that Was that No. Speaker 2 00:15:32 Uh, so Nelson is the only person who sent an email, and he's your Bachman director. Um, he just sent an email and said, "Hey, I wanted to follow up on this issue. Have we reached a resolution or determined the cause of it?" Um, and he was the only one that mentioned it. And I explained to him, "Hey, it was at the data center with the servers. They're still testing on the issue to see what comes of it." Um, and he was happy with that answer. So uh Nelson's the only one. And everybody else I think pretty much understands the issues we've been having with the data center. So. Speaker 2 00:16:07 Um, we've been good in that area, but they're still working on it. I think there's an SPF to die. And so I asked Robert to get with Gabby to see if we have one in office that we could just take out there and replace. But. Speaker 3 00:16:20 I thought I thought it was related to the credit card situation. Speaker 2 00:16:26 At first, that's what I was told, but then it turned out there's also an issue with SPF. Oh, okay It's a double issue. Speaker 2 00:16:38 That was the message I sent to the people in channel today. Speaker 3 00:16:42 Okay, so it was it was an SPF. So, do they not have an alternate circuit that like has any kind of dynamic failover or anything or what? Speaker 2 00:16:53 No, and we've been asking them to upgrade the circuits and get the backup, and they've just ignored me for this entire time. But finally we got through to them yesterday. It was like hey, we got to have this. For the longest time, they kept saying," Well, we're not your internet service provider." I am like," Yes, you are." Um and so who is that? Speaker 4 00:17:15 Who is they? Speaker 2 00:17:16 Uh Digital Reality. The company that owns the data center. Speaker 3 00:17:24 So is theum so is the uh. Speaker 3 00:17:34 Why don't we just get a circuit with another carrier, and bring that in and get it configured. I mean, what what do they have for router and all that stuff? Speaker 2 00:17:44 Some they have a Meraki router in there, and or not router uh Meraki firewall in there. And I believe there is an AT&T backup that is in there, but it's very low bandwidth. That's not utilized at all. So I have already gotten approval from Doctor Barber to, Two weeks ago, Right before I left to start exploring what it would cost to get a backup circuit in place, it would be better. Speaker 3 00:18:09 Okay. All right. We should make that a high priority and then and get uh, you know, get help on it if you need it. Get help from either Gabby or Kevin or somebody if they need to or I would think Robert could handle that right? I mean yes, Speaker 2 00:18:24 Robert's handling all of it. I had to get involved yesterday because they forgot to add Robert to one piece at the account. Um, but they've added him now, and so he and them are working on it. He's doing really well with that. So I am going to reach out to John and get a quote because we do have PureList in some locations. Uh, just to get a quote started on the backups for uh the main location. So the twenty twenty six ten industry, and then the Krenchoff location to get backups. Okay So. Speaker 3 00:18:60 Let's see. I'm gonna add this to the tracking list. Speaker 2 00:19:26 Sorry, I'm still munching while we talk. I woke up. For the first time in two weeks, starting. I think that's a good thing. Speaker 3 00:19:37 So I'm going to set a target date for like August fourteenth. Hopefully, we can have a quote and. Speaker 4 00:19:51 Have it at least on order by then. Speaker 3 00:20:04 Um, and where do we sit with SCHARP computer costs? What did we end up billing? You said Chris, uh, you said uh Christian already billed something. Speaker 2 00:20:15 He he went ahead and rebuild what we've been billing the last couple months. Um Doctor B has already signed off on whatever we need to do. Um, but I just need you or Anzor or mostly you just to approve that table I set up or give me a better idea. Speaker 3 00:20:32 I mean, I'm okay with that table as long as Doctor Barber has a, you know, has signed off on it or whatever. I mean, we we just have to getum we just have to get him him to approve it or whatever. And then so let's so. So what did we build on this month then? Speaker 2 00:20:54 So we built on the standard three ninety four that we had been building. Speaker 3 00:20:59 The standard three, because I thought last month we only billed them. I thought last month we only billed them like three, like less than three hundred or something. Speaker 2 00:21:10 Uh, they went back. I had they billed them before talking to me. They had asked me for information and then went ahead and billed at the wrong amount. So they retracted that invoice and sent out an updated invoice. And so the updated invoice was at was at the correct amount. Speaker 3 00:21:26 At three ninety four because I thought the updated invoice was only gonna was only like three, twenty or something. Speaker 2 00:21:32 They no, the updated one is at the three ninety four. Speaker 3 00:21:35 Okay, so we still are consistent with three ninety four then. Yes. I see okay. Speaker 2 00:21:42 Yep, and I double checked yesterday, the invoices. I'll show it to you real quick. Um, Speaker 3 00:21:49 I mean, i can go into QuickBooks and look at the invoices too. Real quick. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:21:56 I I don't have QuickBooks. They're QuickBooks. I just have the, so this is what they sent originally. I mean, Speaker 3 00:22:01 All all QuickBooks does is it basically just pulls a similar invoice that we have in uh, okay, in Connectwise so it's fine. Speaker 2 00:22:10 So, this is the one they sent originally, and I was on vacation when they sent it uh. And then they sent this one and then did a credit memo for this one. And so this is the one that James brought to me for my approval uh two weeks ago. And I signed off on it. And then this is the one that was sent out on Monday. Speaker 1 00:22:33 Okay. And. Speaker 2 00:22:40 Then just so that you're aware, uh, Doctor Barber approved me to approve any invoices under$ 5, 000 without getting his say- so on it. Speaker 3 00:22:52 So what are we going to do? What, are we going to do with them to explain why we're billing them at three hundred and ninety four computers, if they don't have three hundred and ninety four computers. Speaker 2 00:23:01 Now So he knows and he's aware. Um, He said we can go ahead for the next two months until we figure out banding, to uh bill or he just buys more computers. That's what he said, literally, I will just buy more computers. So Okay He's such a great guy. Such I know, Speaker 3 00:23:23 I know he is. I just but I don't want this to come back later if something happens to him and they go, You guys have been overbilling us for a hundred computers for the last six months, and we say, well Doctor Barber said yeah. Well you are making that up. You know that because that's that's what happens in these kind of situations. Doctor Barber gets sick or God forbid something happens to him, and then somebody comes in and does an audit. And they say, Crimson IT has been screwing you guys for the last year. And. We don't have anything in writing showing he approved this, and then we we look like we've been scamming them, right? So I want to I want to get this tightened up by next month. That shows this is what we're doing officially. And, this is their real computer account and this is the banding that we're doing. So let's get that let's get that worked out. Speaker 2 00:24:14 Mike to create an addendum to agreement. Okay. Speaker 1 00:24:32 Alright, so I'll ask Mike and I'll I'll get with him a little bit later. So he was. Hang on one second. Speaker 3 00:24:45 Okay. Is there anything that we need to do for them? I think at some point, We probably need to talk about and I don't want to do it today, But you and I need to get together and have a thirty minute conversation specifically about SCHARP and specifically about Ability First, and the goals that we had set for them. Um, in our original proposal and where we sit on those. So, let's do that if we can either next week or the week after for SCHARP because. Speaker 3 00:25:22 When did we onboard them? Speaker 2 00:25:24 Uh, February nineteenth. Speaker 3 00:25:26 February, right? So it's been it'll be six months in this month. So, We need to probably deliver some sort of a status to them by the end of July on where we sit at the six month marker. And what we said we would deliver by six months. Um, and I don't really know where we are. It's okay. So yeah. So we need to get some tangible measurements, And we either need to I don't know if we want to have an in person session at some point. Um. My July and August are pretty, jammed up, but I will be out there. Actually, I'm going to be out there at the end of July on Thursday Friday before the picnic. If we did need to do an in person, we don't have to do an in person, but um. Speaker 3 00:26:18 If we did need to do one, I could be there Thursday or Friday the thirtieth and thirty first, because I'm going to be out there on August first for the picnic. Or, We could. But in the meantime, let's look at, let's start with SCHARP because that's got the tighter deadline. So, maybe you can put something together on where we sit with here were our here. Were our commitments. And what we said we would do by a hundred and eighty days. And here are the things we've actually done. And if some of those have changed, we've delivered other things. We can say that, but the things that we said we'd deliver, what have we delivered? What haven't we delivered? And where are we on the things we haven't? Yeah. And, then let's you know, let's let's probably talk about where we are on the things we said we would have delivered in the first year also. So so can give a status on those. Speaker 2 00:27:09 So if you'd like the good news. Uh, We would say we said we would have them HIPAA compliant by the end of Q3. We're already done with that. Speaker 3 00:27:19 That's even better. That's wonderful news. Yeah, So let's let's get let's get thirty minutes next week, and we can talk through that. Um, Absolutely And then what else do you have for today? Speaker 2 00:27:34 Uh, I have a meeting in four minutes with a Alere, just to give them a heads up on where we are with everything. Um, DTLA, I see an email in my inbox from Susanna, but I haven't had a chance to take a look real quick. Um, and I'll I'll take a look at that in a bit. So and then uh with with those two, I think I'll be uh on time with my schedule. And then um everything else the team has handled wonderfully. Speaker 3 00:28:10 Is Carney been rescheduled? Speaker 2 00:28:13 Carney is being rescheduled for end of next week. Speaker 3 00:28:17 End of next week, okay. Speaker 2 00:28:19 Jason Yu's assistant Evelyn, uh she's working on getting the schedule finalized, but she's okay. There's a date that they're proposing is end of next week. Okay. And I think Barker rescheduled uh Julia got that one scheduled so, Uh, I haven't got an email back from Vince yet or Vincent? No, not Vincent. Vance from Avalon. Um, so I'm gonna reach out back out to him this afternoon. Okay. I'm not I'm not prioritizing them and I think Vance knows that um but I'm not prioritizing them because they still owe us money. Okay, So, I'm getting it done. Speaker 2 00:29:07 I'm just not gonna prioritize them over other clients that are. That, you know, pay the bills. Speaker 1 00:29:16 Okay. So. But I'm also not gonna make them feel like the redheaded stepchild either. Right. Speaker 2 00:29:27 My meal train got me baklava today. Oh nice! Yeah Makes me super happy! Speaker 3 00:29:36 All right! Let me see if there's anything else I had on my follow-up list too. Speaker 2 00:29:43 Do, we want to do that failover test with all sites for all of our for? Speaker 3 00:29:48 I want to I want to put that on a on a list of to-dos. I think, you know, we we can't do them all right away, But I do want to put that on the list of of tasks to do. Soum Have. Speaker 1 00:30:04 Oh uh. Speaker 2 00:30:05 Alere is canceling meeting. Speaker 2 00:30:08 Uh. Say that again. Alere is canceling today's meeting. Okay. Uh okay, Cancel currentum I have a meeting with Michonne on uh on Tuesday. So and I'm going to be there in person. Speaker 3 00:30:36 Okay, nope. Speaker 2 00:30:37 Um, so is there anything you need me to go over with her? Just let me know via email. Speaker 3 00:30:42 I don't know of anything. I don't know of anything that we need to do with her, except for them. There were the phones follow up to get all those phones out of there. And then she said you were working on that Verizon switch over. Yes, And that's that's a that's a hot one. So make sure that you've got some sort of a status update for that. And uh, and she was gonna order. She was gonna order some spare cell phones, and I think those were the items that I can remember. Speaker 2 00:31:14 Um, We're gonna be working with Intertel is the way that I'm planning on going with that for the Verizon switchover. But also we're moving uh account managers within Verizon to same one that Sharp has. Okay. His name is uh not Jose. Maybe it's Jose? I have to look at my phone. I can't remember his name off the top of my head. He's great. We love him. Okay, sees me about every other week at the Sharp office just to check in, brings cookies. Speaker 4 00:31:48 All right, so. Speaker 2 00:31:52 Cool. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:31:56 Okay, we'll have a great rest of your day. Have a great weekend, get some rest feel better, and we'll talk next week. Speaker 2 00:32:02 Awesome. Thanks Pete. Speaker 3 00:32:03 Okay, thanks Chris. All right bye-bye.
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05-06 Meeting: Kickoff and Timeline for IT Security Assessment at Maverick Gaming
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-06 13:58:31 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] [Speaker 6] [Speaker 7] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Kickoff for IT Security Assessment at Maverick Gaming - The meeting kicked off the IT security assessment project for Maverick Gaming. - Agenda: introductions, timeline and milestones, required checklists, and next steps. - Crimson IT roles: Project Manager (Segrid), Security Services Manager (Anton), VCIO (Jason), CIO (Christy), COO (Pete). - Maverick Gaming primary contact: Ross, Director of IT. - Additional attendees joined during the call: Jeff and Anzor joined after introductions. - Conclusion: Project officially initiated with roles and scope acknowledged. - Topic Title: Project Timeline and Phases - Duration: 4–6 weeks, contingent on timely data delivery. - Phase 1: Kickoff and information gathering (Week 1, starting immediately). - Phase 2: Initiate Washington site assessments. - Licensing status: Colorado license obtained; Nevada license application submitted. - Phases 3–4: Activities for Colorado and Nevada sites when licensing permits. - Phase 5: Cloud and M365 assessment between Week 2 and Week 3. - Phase 6: Analysis and reporting. - Phase 7: Review sessions. - Note: Nevada licensing may be quicker; a “30” turnaround was mentioned (likely days). - Scheduling constraint: Ross will be unavailable all day on 2026-05-13 due to a right knee meniscus procedure. - Conclusion: Timeline accepted; availability constraints noted. - Topic Title: Access, Licensing, and Data Collection Approach - Colorado: Two team members hold Colorado gaming licenses; direct access expected once configured. - Washington: Direct access expected; minimal need for shoulder surfing. - Nevada: Will likely require more support; provider-level license application submitted for the company; process more intensive. - Ross to coordinate access, potentially using Cisco VPN and provided usernames. - Primary approach: Send updated questionnaire to Ross; Ross will collect and return data efficiently. - Clarification: The previously sent checklist is outdated; an updated version will be provided. - Size and turnaround: List is “not so big”; “forty to fifty” items; some data already held. - Tools and access scope: Prefer read-only access; needs include firewall rule verification, antivirus portal, SIEM tools. - Conclusion: Data collection will proceed via the updated questionnaire and scheduled technical coordination; access to be arranged per site and license status. - Topic Title: Training and Internal Activities Impacting Scheduling - Speaker 2 has intensive training days for Sharp and Ability starting immediately and is rolling out MFA to everyone by 2026-05-15 (Friday). - Back-to-back trainings today and additional training next week. - Speaker 2 will join off-camera temporarily due to lunch; availability offered via calendar. - Conclusion: Training schedules acknowledged; coordination will account for these constraints. - Topic Title: Next Steps and Coordination Plan - Send the updated questionnaire to Ross for completion. - Coordinate technical call(s) with Ross via Microsoft Teams to arrange access and tool installation. - Crimson IT team (Gabby and Kevin) will follow up with Ross to compile received data and schedule work. - Proceed with site access for Colorado and Washington; collaborate closely with Ross for Nevada until licenses are approved. - Conclusion: Clear next steps defined; technical coordination to move offline with Ross. ## Next Arrangements - Immediate Actions - [ ] Send the updated IT security assessment questionnaire to Ross. - [ ] Ross to compile and return requested information from the questionnaire. - [ ] Crimson IT team (Gabby and Kevin) to follow up with Ross to compile data and plan subsequent steps. - Access and Scheduling - [ ] Schedule a technical call with Ross via Teams to set up access and tools (e.g., Cisco VPN, read-only credentials). - [ ] Begin assessments for Washington and Colorado sites once credentials are provided. - [ ] Coordinate Nevada access workflows with Ross until the provider license is approved. - [ ] Account for Ross’s unavailability on 2026-05-13 when planning meetings. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Confirm the exact turnaround time for the questionnaire (a firm due date was not set; “end of this week” was mentioned earlier but not tied to the updated checklist). > 2. Define the specific access levels per environment (read-only vs. elevated) and document security approvals required for each. > 3. Clarify and document the “forty to fifty” item checklist contents to avoid ambiguity and ensure completeness. > 4. Establish a detailed schedule for Phase 2–5 activities aligned with licensing milestones, including contingency plans if Nevada licensing is delayed. > 5. Capture and share a single point of contact list and escalation path across both teams to streamline coordination during training and availability constraints.
- Date
- May 6, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 H mm. Giving a checklist, yeah, the new checklist to them, and they can check it. Yep, and then if they can provide it before. End of this week. Mhm. Yeah, but yeah, I think the important questions should be asked today. Speaker 2 00:00:21 How was my favorite? Speaker 1 00:00:22 Hi, Chrissy. Hi. Speaker 2 00:00:27 U h, Jason, I have a bunch of stuff for you. I am just i am swimming today in the deep end. So give me some time. I have a few things that I am going to hand you over for Foothill, but Just when you need me, call me. Grab some time on my calendar. I'm more than glad to walk you through everything. Speaker 3 00:00:51 I love it. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm going to need you. Speaker 2 00:00:55 Yeah, I figured as much. This next couple of days is like massive training days for both Sharp and Ability. First. Start because we're rolling out MFA to everybody by next week, next Friday. So I have two back to back trainings today, and then I have Uh, Speaker 4 00:01:13 Training next week. This transcription is ours only, right? Yes. Okay. Speaker 1 00:01:24 Oh gosh, I hope Ross. I did send him a lot of follow- ups, reminders. No problem. No problem. Speaker 2 00:01:37 I'm staying off camera because I'm eating my lunch, but I'll join as soon as I'm finished. I am scarfing food down. Speaker 5 00:01:45 Lucky lunch. I'm dreaming about breakfast, not about lunch. Speaker 5 00:01:55 That's great. Hello, Ross. Speaker 1 00:01:59 Oh, hi, Ross. Hello. Okay, I think everyone is here. Let me just check. Okay, and so we'll not be joining us. Thanks. We can start. So good afternoon, everybody. So. This meeting is our kickoff meeting for the IT security assessment project for Maybrick Gaming. So this um our agenda is actually as follows introduction of Crimson IT team. Timeline and milestones, um, checklists needed from Maverick and others, and next steps. So. Um, I will be introducing um the Crimson ID team. So hello again, I'm Segrid. I will be the project manager for this project for this um engagement. So we have we also have here. Speaker 1 00:02:48 Um, Anton, he is the manager of the security services. We have here um Jason, He is our V C I O, and we also have here our very own Christy, which is our C I O and Pete, which is our C O O. So um guys we have here Roz, he is the director of I T of Maverick Gaming. And our point of contact right now. So, anything else you want to add in our agenda before we want to start? Speaker 1 00:03:20 Yeah, I'm good. Okay, alright, so um let me just quickly. Share my screen. I'm not going to go into the details of that. Okay, so I'll be showing you our um project timeline and milestones for this project. Um, in our in the code sign it says four to six weeks. So four weeks, if we get everything on time and six weeks, if we still have data uh that we need or still, we're still waiting for some data that we need. So. Here, um, phase one is our kickoff and information gathering, which will hopefully start today. So that is week one. Phase two we have. Speaker 1 00:04:16 Where where we can start, um Washington site assessments. Oh, before anything else, I just want to inform you that we already have the gaming license for Colorado. And for Nevada, our application has been submitted already. Just for the record. And then, yeah, Speaker 4 00:04:37 Ross, we have two of our folks. That got their Colorado licenses, so we we should have the ability toum. To get on and actually collect that directly once we have access all set up and and that kind of stuff. So hopefully that. Alleviates us having to have you uh log in and shoulder surf for us. And I think you told us that Washington we should be able to get most of that directly as well. Is that right? Speaker 3 00:05:03 Yep. Yep. Speaker 4 00:05:05 Okay, that's fantastic. So. So I think Nevada is going to be the is going to be the one that's going to be. We're going to probably require the most help from you, and as far as like the shoulder surfing piece goes, but Anzor does have his gaming license submitted. So, you know, we all know that doesn't happen overnight, but. But it has been submitted, so we'll see how long it takes to get it. Speaker 6 00:05:32 Nevada's pretty quick. Nevada's not too bad. Thirty round time. Speaker 4 00:05:35 Yep. Okay. Speaker 1 00:05:41 Okay, so okay, and then we have phase three and phase four where, and we can already do both Colorado and Nevada. And hoping we can get that Nevada license as soon as possible. And then phase five is when we can um will do the cloud in M, three, sixty five assessment. So that's like between week two and week three. And then phase six is analysis and reporting. And then review sessions. We have phase seven. So if you have any questions during this timeline, let me know. Speaker 6 00:06:17 No, I'm good. Just one thing to note for your guys side. Next Wednesday, I am out all day. God, I have to. Pete, you might know about this, but I tore my right knee. I tore meniscus. Speaker 6 00:06:37 In my right knee, So I got to go have that all taken care of as much as possible. So. Speaker 3 00:06:44 Okay, I'll take note of that. It's not a fun recovery. Speaker 6 00:06:49 I've heard. Speaker 1 00:06:53 Okay, so I'll be taking note of that one. And okay, if you don't have any questions for the project timeline, we can. I'll move on to the checklist. So I have here Jason and Anton. They'll be asking you some of the access that they need and some of the data that they need. So I'm Jason and Sun. Speaker 5 00:07:12 Okay. Who's gonna start? Go ahead, Anton. Speaker 5 00:07:21 Yeah. Uh, okay. Do you want me to pull out the questionnaire form? If you don't mind. Speaker 7 00:07:32 H ello, hello folks. Sorry I'm a few minutes late. Speaker 1 00:07:36 Oh yeah, okay. Hi, Speaker 4 00:07:37 Anselm. So since we started, it looks like Jeff joined and it looks like Anzor joined. So we've got a couple other folks that joined since we started, since we did the intros. So just figured I'd add that as well. We. Speaker 5 00:07:52 Have prepared the questionnaire form. So yeah, let me start. The primary IT contact and phone number. It's gonna be in my understanding. For us. Yep. Speaker 4 00:08:10 Yeah, I think we have we have some of this already, right? Um. So is it better, Ross, For us to send this over to you and get the information back? Or do you want us to walk through this now? Speaker 6 00:08:26 The best thing is send it to me, and then I'll just grab everything and send it back. That's, Per fect. That's why I do it gaming all the time. So okay, got it. Pretty efficient that way. Speaker 1 00:08:36 Yeah. Uh, the one that I sent to you, it's outdated. So I'll be sending to you the updated one. Speaker 5 00:08:41 Already updated. Yeah. Speaker 4 00:08:44 Okay. How long, how long can we how long do you think it would take to turn this around? How many uh, how big is this list? Um. Speaker 5 00:08:53 Oh, It's not so big. Speaker 1 00:08:56 Yeah, maybe forty to fifty years, but. Some of it we have already. Okay. Yep. Speaker 4 00:09:03 Okay. So so we'll send that one over. Speaker 5 00:09:08 The most critical is uh for us is how we're gonna get the access uh read only. Or are we gonna do it through the like remote session. Whenever we need to check, verify firewall rules, additional for example. Anti virus portal or CM tools that you are utilizing. So. Speaker 7 00:09:33 We already got approval forum. Yeah, Speaker 4 00:09:40 I mentioned Anzor that we've got our Colorado license and Ross had said that Washington should be open for us. So it's really down to Nevada. Um, so so really I guess Ross, but it's kind of. How do we physically get access? And then what level of access can we get once we have? Access to the environments. Speaker 6 00:10:06 Right. Let me I'll go through stuff and kind of see what you need. And we'll kind of go from there. It's all a pretty quick process. Um, and if need be, we'll do a Cisco VPN. And, U h, just use the username like like we do. So okay. Speaker 7 00:10:30 Perfect. Perfect, look, look, and I think we we also applied for Nevada, right? Uh, but for Nevada we're getting the N like. Provider license effectively, which will cover entire company. So that process is more intense and might take a little longer. When it comes to Nevada, we'll definitely have to work hand in hand with you, Russ. That's fine. We have access for other locations, right? Those locations we could probably. Run on our own, uh, once you provide us with the credentials. Speaker 4 00:11:04 Yep. Yeah, I was hoping I could go down and get fingerprinted like I did when I was in gaming before, but. It wasn't quite that easy. Okay. Speaker 7 00:11:17 So. Um so we're gonna send the notification to Ross right like this list of uh questionnaire. Um and off we go, right? Like effectively. Then we just coordinate the access, past this review. Anything we need to discuss in details on this call? Is there anything Jeff wants to go over? Speaker 7 00:11:47 No, I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, sorry. I'm listening in, But it looks like you just got to get a bunch of data from us, right? Speaker 6 00:11:57 Yeah, yeah. It's kind of like a gaming audit, Jeff. Yeah, it really is. Speaker 7 00:12:03 That's right. That's exactly right. Um, okay. Uh, Pete, anything else we want to go over? I think we have the next step. I think Russ is on board, right? Speaker 4 00:12:14 Yeah, I guess I guess for from Sagar, Jason or Chris, Was there anything else we had that we needed to actually talk about? Or do we just need to gather information by sending some some uh questionnaires over to them? Was there, anything else Sagar that you that we needed to actually ask real time? Or Jason. Speaker 1 00:12:36 My questions are all in the checklist. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:12:38 Okay. And. Speaker 7 00:12:40 I think Go ahead. Yeah, I was thinking that we should start there, right? And I think you guys can take this offline and one on one with Ross. Start coordinating the tools install, getting access. Credentials and stuff like that, right? Yep. Speaker 7 00:12:59 So so I don't think we need everyone on this call to do that, but just schedule another technical. Call and. And let's start rolling there. Right, fourteen eight shipment of the nuke and all the typical things we do. Speaker 4 00:13:18 Yep, that should be it. Speaker 1 00:13:20 Yeah, I was speaking of that. Ross, do you have likeum specific time that we can block in your calendar? So thatum we can also schedule our tech to work with you. We'll be the one to adjust. Speaker 6 00:13:36 If you want, we can. If if you want to just uh Teams call me direct. I can set that up with you. Speaker 1 00:13:44 Got it. Okay, Speaker 6 00:13:45 So we can go over. The whole calendar thing. Speaker 1 00:13:49 Okay, got it. And Ross, Speaker 3 00:13:51 My team will uh will be in touch with you. I think you've spoken to Gabby and Kevin uh before. So they're uh they're ready to go. So once we get some of this data, We'll start to compile it. We'll we'll figure out what the next steps are for them. And they'll be in touch with you. We'll get on your calendar and we'll get to work. Speaker 6 00:14:13 That was good. Speaker 4 00:14:14 No problem. All right. Sounds like we got what we need. We got a game plan, so all right. Thanks everybody. Cool. Have a great day. Thank you. Have a great afternoon. Thank you, okay, good talking to you guys, bye- bye. I'm not going to be able to do that.
06-17 Meeting: Cloud Teams SSO Rollout, Connector Setup, Licensing, and Training
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-17 10:58:39 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 5] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Cloud Teams SSO and Initial Setup Scope - Description: - Goal: Align on Cloud Teams rollout under quote "75 14"; confirm scope and inputs for SSO, connectors, and training. - Scope covers: SSO configuration with Microsoft (primary IdP), authentication flow validation, user provisioning, access controls, and role assignments. - Billing: Direct billing to client; an active credit card required only at go-live to avoid early charges. - Platform note: Setup will use Cloud Teams (not Cloud Enterprise). - Conclusion: - Client-side admin ownership: Vance and Michael. - Microsoft confirmed as the identity provider. - Topic Title: Connector Setup and Validation - Description: - After SSO, the team will configure connectors (starting with Microsoft connections). - Client to provide a list of required connectors (e.g., potentially Salesforce and others). - Team will verify connector availability in Cloud, configure, test data flow, and document configurations. - Cost awareness: Some connectors may incur costs within their own applications. - Conclusion: - Client to deliver the connector list before kickoff. - Topic Title: Training Plan and Token Usage Best Practices - Description: - One-time training delivered via two sessions to accommodate schedules. - Preferred training days: Thursday and Friday. - Topics: account access, basic usage, token usage, limits, and cost awareness. - Reference guides will be provided, tailored to usage. - Conclusion: - Training dates to be set at kickoff; two sessions will be scheduled. - Topic Title: Licensing and Usage Tiers - Description: - Initial plan: $25/month per user. - Upgrade options: $100/month per user if usage requires; some users may need the $100 tier. - Note: Speaker 5 personally uses the $200/month plan; advisory that ~half of users may need the $100 tier. - Licensing to be managed directly through Anzor; initial setup by Crimson with client owning user management. - Conclusion: - Client will manage ongoing licensing and user administration. - Topic Title: Separate Project: Jimbo 9000 and VM Hosting - Description: - Jimbo 9000 is a separate project with its own quote. - Client needs a VM setup for hosting Jimbo and additional Avalon apps by early AI adopters. - Hosting recommended within existing Microsoft environment/VMs. - Quote status: Confusion noted; one accepted quote relates to Cloud integration; Jimbo quote to be resent/updated. - Additional scope for VM may add ~2 hours to the Jimbo quote. - Conclusion: - Client to email additions to scope; Crimson to update and resend the Jimbo quote. - Topic Title: Scheduling and Kickoff Timing - Description: - Current meeting is pre-planning before formal kickoff. - Crimson availability is tight for two weeks; kickoff likely at the beginning of July 2026. - Internal scheduling depends on receiving user and connector lists. - Conclusion: - Tentative kickoff: early July 2026, pending inputs and approvals. - Topic Title: User Readiness - Description: - 12 initial users planned; Katie has encouraged users to read "The AI Driven Leader" and use Claude over the past year. - Expectation of a smooth launch with the initial 12 users. ## Next Arrangements - Action Items: Cloud Teams Setup, Connectors, and Training - [ ] Provide final 12-seat user list (names, emails, roles). - [ ] Provide required connector list for Cloud Teams. - [ ] Confirm licensing administrator(s): Vance and Michael. - [ ] Share preferred training dates (two sessions, Thu/Fri) at kickoff. - [ ] Prepare active credit card for Cloud billing at go-live. - Action Items: Jimbo 9000 Project and VM Hosting - [ ] Send email to Crimson (Christi, Mike, Julia) detailing additions for Jimbo 9000 scope (including VM hosting). - [ ] Crimson to update/resend Jimbo 9000 quote with added ~2 hours for VM setup. - Scheduling - [ ] Align on kickoff date in early July 2026 after inputs are received. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Clarify and confirm the exact quote numbers and contents for Cloud Teams setup vs. Jimbo 9000 to avoid confusion. > 2. Determine whether any non-Microsoft connectors (e.g., Salesforce) will be included; provide a complete list for configuration and cost review. > 3. Identify which subset of the 12 users may require the $100/month plan to manage budget expectations. > 4. Confirm VM specifications and hosting requirements for Jimbo 9000 and additional Avalon apps within the Microsoft environment. > 5. Set target training dates and times once kickoff is confirmed to ensure user availability.
- Date
- Jun 17, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:08 Happy Wednesday. Speaker 2 00:00:10 Yeah, likewise. Yes. Afternoon, producer. Speaker 3 00:00:17 Hi everybody. Long time no see, how's it been? How's uh how you been? Good, I've been pretty busy but all good. Yeah, I'm sure. I just realized my monitor is all crooked. Speaker 4 00:00:37 How many people joining us, Michael, from your side? Speaker 3 00:00:41 It might just be me and Vance. Okay. Vance, do you know if Katie and Michael are joining? They were invited. Speaker 2 00:00:50 No, I don't expect them to join. Speaker 3 00:00:52 Okay. Yeah, I think it's just me and Vance. Speaker 4 00:00:56 All right, let's start. Thank you everyone for joining. I'm Julia Kronfli, Crimson IT Project Manager. And I'm sure you know Christi Brown. She's our CIO. She's going to lead this technical delivery for this engagement and Sigrid. Paul is not here, Sigrid is supporting project coordination with me Oh and Paula is here too. The goal today is to align on the cloud enterprise rollout under the quote 75 14, confirm scope, capture the key inputs we need for SSO user setup, connectors and training. And, we will focus on discovery and planning, so we can make sure everything is ready to move forward once we have an approval to move forward. Thank you again for joining and I will pass it along to Christi. Speaker 5 00:01:52 Hey guys. Okay, so what we're going to do today, like Julia said, just go over the scope of work, make sure everything is in there that is correct. And then I want to cover like what we're going to be doing, where how we got to get it set up. And, then from there, we're just going to confirm and then we'll wait for the actual kickoff date. So any questions about that? And then I'll get started on SOW. Speaker 3 00:02:23 Okay, good to jump in. Speaker 5 00:02:25 All right, sweet. So. The very first thing we're going to do is we're going to do SSO configuration. We're going to configure Cloud Teams into single sign- on integration with Microsoft because Microsoft is your primary identity provider. So, we'll configure it and validate the authentication flow, and we'll build out the user provisioning. And then we'll configure access controls and role assignments within your Microsoft tenancy. So when people log in, they're going to log in just using their username and password for Avalon Test, and it's going to be connected to there. When we do configure all of this, we are going to configure it using Cloud Enterprise or Cloud Teams. I'm sorry, not enterprise. Just a quick heads up for you guys. We will need an active credit card from you guys to put Cloud against. This is one of those systems that Crimson. Speaker 5 00:03:16 Isn't your go-between. We have to do it direct bill to you. So be aware of that. And, we don't want to get that put in until you guys are ready to go live because the if we put it in too early, you're going to be paying for Cloud before it gets used. So be aware of that. Um, once we configure the access controls, get everybody logged in for the first time, we are going to go in the second time and do connector setup. So these are your various connectors that you want to use within Cloud The very first one we're going to set up is your Microsoft connections, and then from there, how do either of you have Cloud that you use actively? Yeah, every day. Okay. So if you go into the connectors there, you'll see that they have a whole host of connectors. We'll determine which ones you guys need so and we'll get those set up. I know that at one point, they were looking at doing connector between Salesforce and a few other applications. Speaker 5 00:04:13 So we just need a list from you, And I'm going to ask you to build out the list as soon as possible and get that to me before kickoff, so that we know what connectors we need to build out. But um, we will get that list from you guys. We'll make sure that they can be added through cloud, and then we'll test those connectors and make sure that they work correctly. And, then we can. So we can validate if the data flowing in is good or not. Um, and then once we do that, we'll document the different connectors that are configured. And we'll go over the usage guidelines for those because sometimes, if you don't take a look, some of those connectors will incur extra costs. Not on the Cloud side but within the application itself. So just be aware of that. And, then we'll do a one time training session for all users that are going to be using Cloud. So we'll cover account access, basic usage, Something that you guys need to be aware of is token usage and how to best use it. Speaker 5 00:05:11 So we'll talk about best practices, usage limits, and cost awareness. And then I also do provide reference guides for you just based on how you use it, the best practices and so on so that everybody has a copy of that. All right. And then right now be aware that if you do need to increase your usage amounts on Cloud, you've got two pricing options. We're starting you at the $25 a month plan, Per user. However, if some people go and use all of their usage, we can upgrade you to the next level, which is$ 100 per user. So if I were you, Just just a strong advice based on our own usage plan on about half of your users may need to go up to that$ 100 plan per month. So just based on that yeah, I'm at the$ 200 plan per month, if that tells you anything. I do the same. Speaker 3 00:06:05 I understand. Speaker 5 00:06:05 So just make sure, And then we are going to set up the licensing to be managed directly through Anzor. We are going to do the initial setup for you guys, But I need to know who's going to take ownership from your organization going forward. While, we can do a lot of things for you with because we'll need to create an account for Crimson in Cloud, It's actually better in the long term. If you guys have ownership rights to it. And be able to add and remove users as you need. So, yep. Okay. Speaker 3 00:06:37 It'll be Vance or myself that do that. Speaker 5 00:06:40 Perfect. And I can do more than one person, so okay, um, so just be aware of that. Um, any questions you have on this? Speaker 2 00:06:50 Not yet? Speaker 5 00:06:52 Okay, good. Speaker 2 00:06:54 Well then Jimbo nine thousand is Oh. Yeah, Speaker 3 00:06:57 We have separate questions, Speaker 2 00:06:59 But not none of them covered so far Yeah. Speaker 5 00:07:03 And the Jimbo was supposed to be a separate project for that. I have it listed in my notes that that's going to be a separate project. This one, this scope is just for the setup of Claude. And then we did send out a quote for the Jimbo portion, the Jimbo 9000. And so you should have had that quote go through. I haven't seen that it's been signed yet, but I could be incorrect. Speaker 2 00:07:26 Okay, I don't think I've seen that quote. Speaker 3 00:07:28 Okay Isn't that what you just sent me Vance? Speaker 2 00:07:34 I thought that was the same quote as the cloud integration in the Microsoft system. Speaker 5 00:07:43 What we can do is we can resend that quote over to you. That way you have it. Speaker 2 00:07:48 Oh, One is seven, one five four, and the other one is seven, five four. One, I think. Speaker 3 00:07:53 Yeah. And we also want to discuss, you know, I haven't looked at the Jimbo nine thousand, Or quote at all or the plan for that, but we need a VM setup for that for hosting. Gotcha. And, then we also have some other things that uh, you know, early AI adopters have been building apps for Avalon and things like that, that we want to host alongside Jimbo. Okay, Speaker 5 00:08:22 Got you. So that can be done through Microsoft. You can host all of that through the existing setup you guys have for Microsoft. Um let me take a look and go through, Um, sorry. I keep I try and keep trying not to cough, but bear with me. Um, I can do that separate. Uh, I can take a look at everything with your hosting. We can do that through Microsoft. In fact, Crimson's created our own apps internally. Um and I tell people, it's better just to put it through. Microsoft have Microsoft be that hosting because you guys already have VMs in there, you already have the systems configured. So it's not that hard to just go in and configure a VM setup for you on your existing setup. Speaker 5 00:09:04 That's exactly what we want. Okay, good. And so that one, like I said, that one's a different quote. This one is just for this project is just for the cloud initial setup. Um just to get that portion done. And then yes, Speaker 2 00:09:16 Yeah, I found the accepted quote and yeah, that all tracks gotcha. Speaker 5 00:09:21 And then if we're adding two for the Jimbo I'm going to need to give you a new quote for that because if we're if we're adding two with the VM, that's going to have more hours associated with itum. So I probably am going to need to add about based on what you just said, about two more hours to that quote. Makes sense. Yeah. Um, do me a favor, Vance. Uh send an email to me and Mike and Julia letting us know the additions to the scope of work, And then we'll work with the team to get that quote, updated and resend it to you for you to sign. Speaker 5 00:09:59 Um, so the decisions I needed from you today, the first one you've already handled. Uh, Cloud Enterprise uh admin owner Vance and Michael. Um, I already identified the provider which is Microsoft. Um, I do need the final twelve seat user list, so that name emails and their roles. Um and then I do need the connector list from you guys. And. Then once we do that and we get ready to do the kickoff we're doing. This is a pre planning before the kickoff. Um. We will come back to you and say, okay, we need to know the training dates. What I normally do, I do say it's a one-time training. Um, But we actually do it in two to three sessions because we know that people um sometimes the sessions we create may not work for everybody. So we'll give you, We'll let you do two dates, and we'll do the two trainings. Uh, We'll just make it as one. Uh And that way people can choose what works best for them. Speaker 5 00:10:54 I prefer doing trainings on Thursday and Fridays, if that's okay with you guys, Just because it's more the end of the week, and people seem to slow down and have less meetings on a Thursday afternoon or Friday. So. All right. Any questions on that? Speaker 3 00:11:16 Nope. I'll be straightforward. Speaker 5 00:11:19 You guys are making this the easiest kickoff meeting ever. Speaker 3 00:11:23 Yeah, Katie's helping. She might not be here, But the 12 users, she has encouraged everyone that hasn't already done so to read The AI Driven Leader and start, you know, already using Claude over the last year. So, we should have pretty easy at least launch into it with the 12 users initially. Speaker 5 00:11:44 Perfect. All right. And, then if you guys can get that list over to me as soon as possible. So I have it. Um, what we need to do internally at Crimson Mike, Myself and Julia need to do is determine uh where I can put you in the schedule. I've got staff working with me that can help out, But um we need to determine the schedule and make sure that um we have the availability so that we can focus on you guys the best we can and give you the best support. Um, I know the next two weeks are pretty hairy for me. I just got back from vacation. Speaker 5 00:12:14 Um, And I've got a couple of clients that we're kicking off doing their cloud setups this week. And so I know the next two weeks are going to be a little hairy. Um, so it may be we might look at the beginning of July. Is that going to be okay? Speaker 3 00:12:31 Yeah, that's good with me. Speaker 5 00:12:33 Awesome. All right, and that's all I have for you guys today. Um, If, if you guys can send over the all the lists and uh the information you guys want to add to the Jimbo quote. Uh I'll get that information over and Mike and I can get the quote sent back to you. Sounds great, awesome, very good. Thanks, guys, have a great rest of your week. Speaker 4 00:12:58 I will send. I will send yeah. Likewise too. Thank you. Guys. Thank you for joining. Speaker 3 00:13:02 Thanks, everybody, take care bye- bye. Bye- bye.
04-23 Weekly Meeting: AI Service Billing and Technician Training
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-04-23 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Anzor] [Christi] ### Meeting Notes #### Billing Rate for AI Services - Christi asked about the billing rate for three hours of work assisting a client with Claude API connections. - Anzor initially said the AI CIO rate on the rate card should apply. - Christi noted Mike said this rate was not in their agreement. - Anzor reviewed the MSA and confirmed the "VCIO AI" rate is included in new agreements. - $350/hour for managed customers. - $385/hour for unmanaged customers. - Anzor sent the rate card details to Christi for confirmation. #### Future Strategy for AI Expertise - Anzor proposed training technicians to become AI experts. - The objective is for technicians to solve problems and proactively suggest AI solutions, such as using "co-work AI". #### Airtable Demonstration - Christi offered to show Anzor something she built in Airtable at a later time. ### Next Steps - [ ] Christi will confirm the AI service billing rates with the client. - [ ] Christi will schedule a time to demonstrate her Airtable project to Anzor. - [ ] Assign an owner, timeline, and outline for the technician AI training program; draft a plan and milestones. 🎯 ### AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The meeting mentioned a need to train technicians to become AI experts, but no concrete plan, timeline, or person responsible for developing this training was established.
- Date
- Apr 23, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 2 00:00:02 Hi, Chris. Hey, soum, uh help me. You're saying outside of crimson, crimson client. Crimson client. So they wanted. Three hours of your time. What what type of work? Speaker 1 00:00:24 Helping them with Claude API connections. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:00:29 Yeah, I wouldum. It would be ourum AI CIO rate, right? Which I think is like. Whatever ourum rate card shows, we have it there. Speaker 1 00:00:41 Well, So I asked Mike, and he said, we don't have that rate in our agreement. So. Speaker 2 00:00:46 We don't have a rate in our agreement for uh for AI costs. Speaker 1 00:00:55 Uh. Please halt. Speaker 2 00:01:01 Let me see OneDrive. I actually have a document. Documents, Crimson, MSA. Managed IT template. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:01:32 I'm going to stay here for a few months. Okay, let's see. Our rate card. No, we do have it. That's what I thought. It's VCIO AI. It's a 35 hour for managed customers or 385 for unmanaged. Speaker 1 00:01:55 Okay, perfect. I will let him know. Speaker 2 00:02:02 Let me know. I am gonna. Let's see this. And Chris. And send. This is actually in our agreement. Okay, perfect. In all of our new agreements, we have this rate card. Um, so you will see. You should have gotten it. Speaker 1 00:02:32 Yes. I know. Just got it. Speaker 2 00:02:37 Okay. See, got it all covered, baby. I'm trying to sell you. Speaker 1 00:02:41 I'm trying to sell myself for you, so. Speaker 2 00:02:44 I love it. I love it. Yeah. And this AI, right, is changing the world. And we just, you know, we really need to start. What we should do is figure out a way. How do we start to train our technicians? To become AI experts, right? So they can they cannot just solve the problem, but say, hey, have you tried to use co- work AI to do X Y and Z? You should right. Yes. Picture a problem this way. I'm not sure how to get there, but somehow, some way, this is where we need to be. Yes. Speaker 1 00:03:27 One of these days, Let me show you what I built out on Airtable because you were asking about Airtable once. Speaker 2 00:03:33 Yep. Yeah. Yes, Speaker 1 00:03:36 I think you'd like it. All right, cool. Okay. All right, I'll talk to you later. Bye. You.
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- Notes
- Date & Time: 2026-04-24 15:08:35 Location: [Insert Location] Customer: April from Crimson IT ## Overview This consultation is a follow-up between April of Crimson IT and Edward regarding an upcoming insurance policy renewal. The key issue is a significant premium increase from the current provider, California FAIR Plan. Edward has reviewed another policy with Aegis and plans to shop for a better, potentially consolidated single policy to reduce total costs. The goal is to secure a more affordable option before the May 1 renewal deadline. ## Background The insurance policies are set to renew on **May 1, 2026**. The discussion covers two policies: one with **California FAIR Plan** and another with **Aegis**. April initiated the call to follow up on pricing and quotes for renewal. Edward reviewed the proposals and identified a substantial price increase from one provider. ## Pain Points The customer faces a significant, unexpected premium increase on the California FAIR Plan policy. Last year's premium was **$4,643**, and the renewal offer is **$5,289**, a **$646** increase—approximately a **14%** hike. This is concerning because California FAIR Plan has traditionally been their least expensive, though most restrictive, provider. The combined cost of both policies (including Aegis) is now approaching **$7,500** ("almost seventy five hundred dollars"), which is a substantial expense. This increase is the primary financial concern, prompting a search for more cost-effective alternatives. ## Expectations The customer expects Edward to find a more affordable solution before the **May 1, 2026, renewal date**. Specifically, Edward is to **shop around** for alternative carriers and potentially find a **single policy** that offers better value than the current two combined. Edward has committed to emailing the **"final verdict"** with the best quote to April at **april@crimsonit.com** on **Monday, April 27, 2026**. ## Other Information Summary - The second policy with Aegis shows a minimal change: the premium increased from **$2,104** to **$2,134**. This **$30** increase is due to a mandatory inspection fee that occurs every other year, not a premium hike. - Edward noted that two other companies have recently launched insurance programs in California, which he views as a "good sign" for the market. - April will inform her colleague, Katerina, that Edward is searching for better options due to the significant increase from the current provider. ## Next Steps - Edward will shop for a better, possibly single, insurance policy to reduce overall costs. - Edward will send final quotes and recommendations to April (april@crimsonit.com) by Monday, April 27, 2026. - April will inform Katerina about the planned search for new insurance options. > **AI Suggestions** > The AI has identified the client's biggest pain point as the unexpected and significant 14% premium increase from the California FAIR Plan policy, which elevates the total insurance cost. Consider the following: > 1. **Consolidated Policy Search:** Prioritize finding a single carrier that can bundle necessary coverages. Bundling can yield multi-policy discounts and potentially offer broader coverage than the restrictive FAIR Plan at a similar or lower total cost. > 2. **Market Re-evaluation:** Engage the two new California market entrants for competitive introductory rates or broader coverage options that may better fit the client's needs. > 3. **Negotiate with Current Provider:** As a short-term measure, discuss the 14% increase with the California FAIR Plan representative. Ask about drivers for the hike and explore loyalty discounts, coverage adjustments, or risk mitigation steps to lower the renewal premium. > 4. **Review Coverage Levels:** Collaborate with the client to assess coverage details for Aegis and FAIR Plan. Identify overlaps or opportunities to adjust limits and deductibles to reduce premiums without unacceptable risk.
- Date
- Apr 24, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 I'm not sure. Hi, this is April. May I speak with Edward, please? Uh, one second. Okay, thank you. Speaker 2 00:00:32 Hi April, happy Friday. This is Edward. Speaker 1 00:00:34 Hi Edward, happy Friday. How are you? Speaker 2 00:00:37 Excellent Excellent, so. Yes, Speaker 1 00:00:42 So I'm calling regarding theum pricing and code that we've talked about the last time. Yes, Speaker 2 00:00:51 We have the renewal coming up on the first of May. Yes. Uh, okay. Uh. One second, what did they send us? Yeah. By the way, literally this week, we've got calls from two companies that have started. Insurance programs in California. So, this is a good sign. I think it's coming back. Okay, we have a renewal proposal with from. Speaker 2 00:01:29 Plan, but with an increase. Last year we paid. Four thousand six hundred and forty three. Mhm. There or renewing at five thousand two hundred and eighty nine. Which is not nice. 5289 minus 46, 43. That is$ 646 divided by four. Yeah, that's like 14% increase. Speaker 1 00:02:09 What was the name of the company again? Speaker 2 00:02:11 California Fair Plan. California, Speaker 2 00:02:15 Which is traditionally the least expensive provider with the most. Restricted coverage, and we have. Ages. One second. We paid two thousand twenty-two seventy-four a year. Ages, I don't think they. Increase the premium. One second, I am trying to get onto it. One second. Speaker 2 00:03:14 I. With the new security measure, they make it like an adventure each time I'm trying to log in. We can, yeah. Speaker 2 00:03:37 Yes. Oh. Okay, renewal. It used to be twenty one oh four, now it's twenty one thirty four. So it's only thirty dollars. Actually, it's not even an increasing premium. What these guys do is they inspect every other year. And they charge thirty dollars for it. So the premium remained the same, But this year, they will do the inspection because it is a third year with them. So. Uh. But the total is now almost seventy five hundred dollars for the money. We can try and maybe get a single policy with a better carrier. Allow me to shop around. Speaker 2 00:04:33 And on Monday, I'll send you the final verdict. Speaker 1 00:04:38 And you will send. File ready on Monday. Okay, um, Are you going to send it directly to I? Don't know if you already have my email, but. Speaker 2 00:04:50 I do, I believe we could respond. It was like I had. Actually, two emails. I have colin at crimsonit dot com. And I have Konfetka 24@ yahoo. com, which is probably Yekaterina's direct. April, if you have another one, I'll take it. Speaker 1 00:05:12 Yeah, you can just send the information with my crimson email. My email is April. That's a P R I L at Crimson C R I M like Mary S like Sam O N like Nancy Crimson it. do t. Speaker 2 00:05:32 Com Okay, I'll send you the best quote we managed to find. But the worst case scenario is. Like I said, so kind of get back to you. I. Speaker 2 00:06:04 Yeah, like seventy three hundred dollars. Okay. So we will uh. Speaker 1 00:06:15 Okay. Um. Yeah, I'm just gonna letum Katerina know that you will shop around some more because it looks like the current. Um, insurance company that you've mentioned is, has like a. Improved. Yeah. A mount of increase, right? Yes. Okay. All right, so yeah, I am just going to wait for your email on Monday then. Thank you, Edward. Speaker 2 00:06:42 Thank you too. Speaker 1 00:06:43 Okay, have a good day. Bye- bye. Okay, bye- bye.
Irongate (Reuben) - OneDrive Crash Restart
- Notes
- Quick support call. Reuben unable to open OneDrive files for 2-3 weeks; OneDrive client had crashed silently. Walked through restart from Start menu. Resolved. Note: pattern same as Christi own machine last week. CW Ticket #940292 on Board 80, Billable, 7 min.
- Date
- May 4, 2026
- Transcript
- 05-04 OneDrive Client Instability Causing Intermittent File Access Failures and Restart-Based Resolution Speaker 1 00:00:01 He y Ruben. Hey Chris, how are you? Speaker 2 00:00:03 I'm good. How are you? Speaker 1 00:00:05 I'm great. Um, I'm having a problem which is an seems to be like an ongoing problem. Can I just share my screen? Yes. Okay, and I'm just trying to open a file. This is just on my OneDrive. I open it and I get this message right here. Speaker 1 00:00:30 Like and I've noticed it like the last three weeks, probably or two weeks that I am getting it nonstop. Speaker 2 00:00:36 Is it is it just PDFs? Speaker 3 00:00:39 Nope, there's two hours I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 1 00:00:55 Is it possible that OneDrive is not connected? Speaker 2 00:00:58 That was what I was about to ask you, And that's why one of the reasons why I asked you if it was a. It is not connected. Go ahead and try to start it up and see if you can. How do I start it? Click on Start and type in OneDrive. And then just click open. Speaker 2 00:01:26 All right, it's thinking now and the icons popped up at the bottom. Speaker 1 00:01:31 Which icon is that icon? Speaker 2 00:01:32 That's icon. Yep, that's icons. So now we'll see if I can download it. Speaker 3 00:01:43 Now we are going to put like. Speaker 2 00:01:55 Do me a favor. May I may I have control? Well, it won't let me. Uh. We turned off the ability to take control. Let me try. Speaker 1 00:02:07 What do you mean? We. Speaker 2 00:02:09 Turned off the ability to take control through Teams. I have to log in through the other way. Oh. Yeah, it's it's a safety thing and I keep forgetting we did that. Speaker 3 00:02:24 And I haven't logged in yet, so bear with me. Let me log in. I'm not sure what you mean. Speaker 2 00:03:21 Bear with me one second. I'm just waiting on my screen to catch up. Speaker 2 00:03:52 Okay, it's set to start up whenever your computer starts up. So that's good. It. Speaker 3 00:04:06 May have crashed and or something may have happened. Let me check something on the back end. Speaker 1 00:04:12 I mean, at the end of the day, I am just going to restart. So. And maybe that'll solve the problem. Speaker 2 00:04:20 It may. How long has it been since your last report? Speaker 1 00:04:23 I just try to open something real fast. Yeah, go for it. Speaker 3 00:04:55 Okay. Okay. Speaker 1 00:04:57 I'm good. Okay, good. Does it look like it opened? Speaker 2 00:05:00 So Yeah, I had that actually happen last week. Um, where. Where my OneDrive just crashed and closed out, and I didn't know why. Yeah. So. Speaker 1 00:05:19 Awesome. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:05:21 You're welcome. Have a great week. Speaker 1 00:05:22 Yep. You too.
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- Processed
07-29 AI Community of Practice: MCP Standard Update, AI Frameworks, and Industry Trends
- Notes
- AI Community of Practice, external peer group (11:00am-12:53pm PDT, calendar entry 1896575 "Meeting: AI COP"; recorded runtime 1h54m against a 2h block). Operates under Chatham House rules, so attendees and their organizations are deliberately not named in ConnectWise. Topics: ratification of the MCP v2 standard and the twelve-month deprecation clock it starts for existing MCP connectors, raising a real tech-debt question for anything already built against v1; the progression from assistants to agents to structured orchestrators with defined roles; token spend tracking and budget control as a first-class concern (one attendee burned roughly 500 dollars in six to eight hours with limits removed); and criteria for promoting an internal AI build from a personal tool to a managed product - repeat use, multiple stakeholders, writing into a system of record, and regulated or audit requirements. Christi was recognized in-session for running 54 agents. NOTE: this transcript had NO ledger row - it was a pipeline drop caught by the safety-net scan, and the row was created during this sweep.
- Date
- Jul 29, 2026
- Processing Status
- Processed
08-27 Meeting: Training Plans, Copilot Usage, and Scheduling
- Notes
- > Date: 2026-08-27 11:28:46 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] ## Meeting Notes ### Scheduling Conflict for Next Week - **Description** - [Speaker 2] needs to join next Thursday’s meeting at 12:30 [Speaker 4]’s time, which is 30 minutes after the start. - This is due to a newly confirmed client meeting. - **Conclusion** - [Speaker 4] agreed this is fine, as there are other topics to cover in the first 30 minutes. ### Training Updates and Plans - **Description** - A recent Power Automate session was well received; additional training may be needed. - [Speaker 2] was asked to run more Power Automate sessions in September. - A personal event (daughter’s baby due October 5) will limit [Speaker 2]’s late-September availability for training. - Training videos for Power Automate, Copilot, and other topics are being produced. - Recordings are complete and will be published on the Crimson IT website after marketing edits. - Ronnell, Christian, Jackson, and others will be added to an email list for updates on AI tools like Copilot and Claude. ### Copilot Usage and Security Review - **Description** - Copilot chat usage has stabilized after an initial spike. - Embedded Copilot usage is strong, and search usage improved following recent training. - Security policies are active and working; no alerts so far. - One recommended policy needs tightening but is low priority. ### Cowork on Copilot Insights - **Description** - [Speaker 2] is testing “Cowork on Copilot.” - The feature appears costly; Microsoft’s credit system is unclear. - Example: organizing an inbox could consume roughly ten dollars in credits. - As a heavy user, [Speaker 2] noted a $50 credit budget could be depleted within three hours. - Training on Cowork will still be offered due to demand. ### Project Closeout and Future Training - **Description** - [Speaker 2] will begin closing out the project but will continue offering free training hours to help clients use available tools. - Training will be slightly reduced over the next couple of months, then resume in late November and December when client schedules typically slow down. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] [Speaker 2] will continue working on the marketing brand guide for Daniel. - [ ] [Speaker 2] will share the training videos once they are posted on the Crimson IT website. - [ ] Plan September Power Automate sessions, considering [Speaker 2]’s late-September availability constraints. - [ ] Coordinate with marketing to confirm the editing and publishing timeline for training videos. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The schedule for future Power Automate and Copilot training sessions in September and beyond remains unconfirmed due to potential personal leave. > 2. The timeline for the marketing team to edit and publish the training videos was not specified.
- Date
- Aug 27, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Okay. Well, give him give him your my love. Okay, good. Yeah, I will. Speaker 2 00:00:32 Thank you. I gotta jump into a meeting, um, but I do have news for you guys. I just haven't had a chance to share it. So I'll give you guys a call later and give you guys a heads up. Speaker 1 00:00:46 All right, I love you. Yeah, bye. Run out? Speaker 1 00:01:07 Good morning. Speaker 2 00:01:08 Good morning. Um, I went to go join the meeting that you invited me to for next week, thinking it was today. I've had my schedule all off right now. Um, but I was gonna ask you is sorry, Speaker 1 00:01:22 I joined the wrong meeting. Sorry, see you, Chris here on out. Hi everyone. Speaker 2 00:01:27 Um, I was gonna ask is there any way I could join? So I have a client that's pushing me to have a meeting with them that morning. Um. I it would run thirty minutes over your meeting. Is is that going to be an issue? Speaker 3 00:01:48 See here, You can also check out the T-Mobile support community at T-Mobile dot com slash support slash community. Speaker 4 00:01:58 Uh, because we have it set now for next Thursday at. Speaker 4 00:02:05 Uh noon my time. So, you're saying you would need to start or either come in at what time? Speaker 2 00:02:15 Uh, twelve thirty your time. Speaker 4 00:02:19 Uh, yeah, I think that'll be fine. Yeah, we have some things we could talk about. So yeah, I think that's fine. Speaker 2 00:02:25 Okay, perfect. Good to know. Yeah they, I had blocked out that day, and they'd never got back to me when you were talking. I've had it blocked out for over a month before you and I talked last time, and they finally got back to me last night. And I was like, oh. So took them a while. Speaker 4 00:02:47 And it's uh yeah, that's fine. Speaker 2 00:02:51 Okay good because I'm doing another Copilot training with them. Speaker 4 00:02:55 Oh wow okay yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:58 So, since everybody's going off camera, I'm going off camera because I look like crap today. I was going in the office and then uh did not. Um So, I think we're waiting on Giancarlo? Yeah, Speaker 3 00:03:23 I know he was having a closing breakfast this morning. A lender, so he may or may not join in a few minutes. Speaker 2 00:03:32 No problem. Let me go ahead and get started then. How is everything, Daniel and Kenny? How are everything? How is everything looking on your ends on your end? I am sorry, words are hard today. Speaker 3 00:03:45 All good, Christy. Yeah, so far so good. I think we had some attendance to the Power Automate session the other day. Uh, which some folks found very helpful. Um, probably more training would be needed to totally get that down. So there's a lot going on there, But um by and large, the power users here have been doing a lot with the tool. Speaker 2 00:04:09 Good. Yeah uh I was asked if I would hold it a few more times in the month of September. For Power Automate, um and then also do a higher end one later onum. There's only one small issue with me doing that in September, towards the end of September. Um, I don't want to schedule any training just because I there's a chance. I have a personal thing going on, and I may have to take well, I will be taking some days off. I just don't know when. So, just a heads up for you guys. Uh, One of my daughters is uh having a baby, and they moved up her due date to October fifth. So we're going to be on baby watch last week of September. Speaker 3 00:04:51 Oh yeah, important. Yeah, well, um if it gets scheduled just throw out a tickler. You know it could be an optional thing for folks to join. Speaker 2 00:04:59 Yes. The other thing we are doingum and we started working on this a couple weeks ago, Um I am making training videos based on the training classes, I've held, and we are going to be posting those on the Crimson IT website, and it is going to include Power Automate, uh, Copilot and a few others. So I am in the middle of working with the marketing team. I got it recorded. Marketing team wants to edit it, so once they're done editing, Uh, they're gonna be posting it up and I am gonna give that out to all of you guys. And then in addition, all of you guys are Ronnell Christian and Jackson you guys as well um which he just left as soon as I said, his name, Ronnell um I have added you guys to my list of people that I'll email with new. Speaker 2 00:05:48 Cool things come out in the IT in the AI world. So I do know that you guys don't are only on Copilot, however, uh some of my news that goes out is on Claude as well. So because I've got half my clients using Claude, the other half using Copilot. So just be aware of that. Speaker 4 00:06:05 Sounds great. Thanks for including us. Speaker 2 00:06:07 No worries, you guys, and thank you. You guys thank you for joining me the other day on the Power Automate training. Um. As far as Copilot adoption, things are looking good. I am keeping a steady eye on everything. Here is your usage alert or usage look, not usage alert. So this is where we're looking at everything. The Copilot chat has from the couple of times that we have had active users, it has died down over the over this month it's steadied out. Usage is looking pretty good here. Speaker 2 00:06:44 And this is the ones that are embedded into the apps. So we do see people are actually using them within the apps. And then, there's only, there's still only six agents that people have made, so not a big deal there. We're not gonna worry about that. Copilot usage search has started, and it seems to have correlated with one of my most recent Copilot trainings. So that was really good to see. And then as far as security, everything is looking great there. Um, all all the policies, everything is going in. We had that one that we have to tighten just because it is recommended, but it's not a priority. And we're not seeing there is any issues for that. So we are keeping an eye on that. My security team is um now actively getting those alerts if there's any issues and we have not gotten any alerts from the past year. So everything's looking good from that standpoint. Speaker 2 00:07:42 Um, we are going to be giving some agent training soon, just so that your team is able to see more agents. And then Justin heads up for you guys. We are testing out Cowork on Copilot. Um, and I know some people have asked like, I don't know if it was your team or someone else. Uh, Cowork is enabled uh for me, and I will tell you, uh, it is not the most cost effective I've seen. So the credits Microsoft is not very clear on cost. The credits are um like if I if you say organize my inbox, it's going to cost you around ten dollars worth of credits. So, it's it's one of those things where you definitely need to learn how to budget credits from a user standpoint before you start using Copilot. Um so I've worked through some of that, uh and I am not finding that it's very cost effective. I prefer my. Speaker 2 00:08:39 Pod Cowork. Um, any questions on this? Speaker 3 00:08:50 No, it's good insight on Cowork. Speaker 2 00:08:53 Yeah, I am going to provide some training Daniel just because a lot of people have asked about it, but it's just not. So I have I have fifty dollars in credits budgetedum and I could I could work through that fifty dollars. Within three hours. But I am a heavy user. I have fifty four agents running on Claude, and they're all named. I don't have any Daniels yet, no Kennys, no Christians and Jacks, but they are named after people within my organization because they do similar functions. So I am very heavily versed in agents. Am using them all the time, but not on the Microsoft side because it's just. Speaker 2 00:09:38 Cost effectiveness is not there yet, but they are making changes so that they could actually, you know, play with the big dogs in this area. Other than that, that's all I have for you guys. I am going to start closing out the project. However, at the same time, You guys still have a lot of free hours with me because I am doing a lot more training. I want clients to understand and How to use the tools that are at their disposal. And we're seeing that it is helpful for me to give those continued trainings. I am going to pull back slightly on trainings for the next couple months, just because we're in baby mode. But December, when people are usually slowing down for the holidays, I get more interactions from training. So I will have some of that training coming back in end of November and December for people to slow down. Speaker 2 00:10:33 And then, of course, they're going to be online for you guys to see. So other than that, you guys have a great weekend unless you have questions for me. I am good. And Daniel, I am still working on that marketing brand guide because it's my okay, yeah, because it's my personal business. Um it's gone. It's had to be put on hold for multitude of reasons, most of them. Speaker 3 00:11:04 No problem. No great rush on that. It's just kind of a half- baked idea of mine, leveraging what you've got would maybe be very helpful. Speaker 2 00:11:13 No, it's it's understandable. Um I just got an application uh almost in out of beta into production. Um if anybody wants to try it on their personal emails, um, it doesn't work on business emails right now. So that's the link to it. Um. So I was building that while I was in and out with the gallstone issue a couple weeks ago. And I finally got it to beta, and it's almost out of beta, it's production. So if anybody gets bored and wants to test that out, I could use more beta testers, And you get it free for the life of the app. If you're a beta tester. So just be aware. All right, other than that guys have a great weekend. It's always fun talking to you guys. Speaker 3 00:11:58 You too Christi thank you Thank you, Have a good weekend. Speaker 2 00:12:02 You too.
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04-21 Lingguhang Pulong: Procurement Alignment, AppleCare sa Quotes, at SOP Updates
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- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-04-21 23:39:01 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] ## Mga Tala ng Pulong - Pagkahanay sa Procurement Updates at Project Queue-up - Na-highlight ang insidente kung saan mali ang nai-report nina Mark at Miguel na “nabili na” ang items; sa beripikasyon ni Pete, may delay o ngayon lang nabili. - Iminungkahi ang regular na sync-up (tuwing Lunes o bago ang project queue-up) para ma-refresh ang status: nabili na, in-progress, at “waiting for green light.” - Paalala sa paggamit ng tracker ni Maggie bago ang queue-up para maiwasan ang maling report. - Layunin: protektahan ang admin team mula sa sisi at maging accurate ang updates. - Pagre-review at Pag-update ng Procurement Tracker - Hiningi ang link ng tracker ni Maggie para ma-review at makita kung puwedeng idagdag ang “date needed by.” - Nilinaw na ang tracker ay nakapokus sa mga na-order na at status per project (placed order, delivered). - Iminungkahi ang proactive na weekly heads-up email ni Maggie sa involved teams hinggil sa current open projects. - Pagkahanay ng Proseso sa Iba’t Ibang Departamento (Sales, Construction, IT Projects) - Napansin ang hindi pagkaka-sync ng mga proseso; plano ang hiwalay na sync-up sa sales at projects/construction, at hiwalay pa sa IT projects. - Isyu sa procurement form: dati walang “user start date”; kamakailan lang nadagdag matapos ma-identify. - Kailangan ang pagre-visit ng SOPs at paglinaw ng responsibilidad para maiwasan ang turuan at delay. - AppleCare sa MacBook Quotes at Billing - Napag-alaman na ang AppleCare ay hiwalay na subscription at hindi awtomatikong kasama sa presyo ng MacBook sa quotes. - May mga nakaraang quotes (hal. “DTLA”) na hindi kasama ang AppleCare; sumunod na quotes (hal. “IronGate”) ay isinama na. - Na-absorb sa markup ang ilang AppleCare costs sa nakaraan; kailangan i-raise sa sales para sa tamang pag-quote. - Mga Pain Point sa Construction: Codes, Quotes, at Not Billable - May mga pagkakataon na humihingi ang construction (Mark/Miguel) ng specific products na wala sa approved code/quote, nagiging “not billable.” - Kakulangan sa pag-update ng revised quotes kapag may late na na-identify na requirements; minsan na-aabsorb sa markup. - Finance nagfa-flag ng PO kapag wala sa code; stress at hindi optimal ang profitability sa construction ayon sa admin/finance feedback. - Lead Times at Koordinasyon sa Vendor (Cisco/Meraki, Ingram, TD Synnex) - Lead time ng Cisco/Meraki matagal at hindi laging accurate; dependent sa quote approval bago makita ang lead time. - Iminungkahi ang proactive heads-up sa stakeholders at pag-check ng spares sa HQ para sa urgent needs. - Update: Dumating ang order para kay John Tracy; na-configure ni Gabby; may schedule sina Vlad at Kevin. - Dokumentasyon at Proteksyon ng Admin Team - Pinuri ang maayos na documentation ni Maggie (timelines, emails, screenshots) bilang proteksyon kapag may audit o tanong (hal. kay Pete). - Hinihikayat ang proactivity: mag-suggest ng alternatibo sa long lead time, mag-report ng bottlenecks, at maglista ng daily pain points. - Proseso ng Nevada Gaming License - Nakausap ang Nevada Gaming Board; initial sagot: ang client (Maverick Gaming) dapat mag-register ng technicians. - Si Anzor ang gusto: kumpanya mismo ang may license, hindi registration under client; bumalik sa pag-review ng instructions at forms. - Kailangan ng maraming personal information; hiningan si Katerina na sagutan nang maayos at focused. - HR/Benefits at Remittances - Usapan sa Colonial Life at remittances: alin ang dapat mabayaran ng kumpanya (hal. record-keeping/website fees) vs. deductions sa sahod. - Kumuha ng copies bilang backup; kailangan pang i-clarify kay Elisa ang detalye ng mga binabayaran sa portal/website. - Mga Update sa SOP at Code Conversions - Kailangan ng updated SOP para sa procurement at follow-up kay Jinky/Jinky (binanggit na “Chinky/Jinky”). - Maraming “code conversions” na ginagawa; may teknikal na isyu sa system na minsan hindi nagsi-save. ## Susunod na Mga Ayos - [ ] Mag-schedule ng regular na sync-up tuwing Lunes o bago ang project queue-up (Admin + Construction Project Team). - [ ] I-share ni Maggie ang weekly heads-up: status ng nabili/in-progress/waiting for approval per project. - [ ] I-review at i-update ang procurement tracker; isaalang-alang ang pagdagdag ng “date needed by.” - [ ] I-present ang consolidated pain points sa naka-schedule na sales at construction sync-ups sa 2026-04-22. - [ ] I-update ang SOP ng procurement; i-follow up kay Jinky/Jinky para sa latest version. - [ ] I-clarify sa sales ang AppleCare handling at siguraduhing kasama sa future quotes kung kailangan. - [ ] Maghanda at mag-archive ng documentation set (timelines, approvals) para sa mga issue na binanggit ni Pete. - [ ] I-clarify kay Elisa ang mga bayarin sa Colonial Life/portal at kung ano ang nasa payroll deductions; mag-secure ng copies bilang backup. - [ ] Ipagpatuloy ang Nevada Gaming license research; maglista ng requirements at i-coordinate kay Katerina. - [ ] [Maglagay pa] ## Mga Mungkahing AI > Mga Mungkahing AI > Napansin ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyung hindi naresolba sa pulong o kulang sa malinaw na aksyon; paki-tutukan: > 1. Walang formal na kasunduan kay Mark at Miguel sa obligasyon na i-check ang tracker bago ang queue-up; kailangan ng documented policy. > 2. Process gap sa paglalagay ng “user start date” sa sales-to-procurement handoff; gawing mandatory sa forms at i-audit. > 3. Handling ng late-identified construction items na wala sa code: kailangan ng standard na proseso para sa revised quotes at billability. > 4. AppleCare inclusion sa quotes: maglabas ng opisyal na guideline para sa sales at procurement upang maiwasan ang hidden costs. > 5. Nevada Gaming license ownership vs. client registration: kailangan ng decision at legal/process alignment bago magpatuloy sa filings.
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- Apr 21, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello? Hello, Mi. Ah, Mi. Ang ngyari? May clarify ako. Speaker 1 00:00:07 Yung kanina, siguro hindi ko lang na-absorb Dahil sa ginagawa. Charot. Bakit? Hindi, yung tungkol kina Miguel at Kuya Mark. Speaker 2 00:00:17 Ah, yung ano, Kasi, Um, na-mention ko si Ni Pete na there's, One instance daw na Ah. During the project queue up, tinatanong niya kung sila Mark and Miguel kung nabili na ba yung items for this project, ganyan. And then, ang sabi daw ni Mark and Miguel, yes, nabili na ni Maggie. But then, after checking daw ni Pete, nalaman niya na hindi pa naman pala daw nabibili. Speaker 2 00:00:49 Like, bibilin pa lang or ngayon pa lang binili. Kunwari, let's say, last week yung project queue up and then after a week, nag-check siya. Tapos today lang pala nabili. Alam mo yun, yung may delay, hindi siya yung real time na nabili na talaga based dun sa report ng dalawa. So, naisip ko, baka kasi mamaya, since hindi naman fresh pa sa isip nila, Or ano, kung nabili na ba ito or hindi, and hindi naman din sila nag-check ng tracker mo, Either ang naisip ko kasi, mag-sync up kayo every Monday or right before the project queue up, Speaker 2 00:01:25 Just to refresh them na. For this project, ito yung mga nabili ko na, ito yung in-progress, ito yung waiting ng green signal nyo kung bibili ko na ba. Yun, or, kailangan i-remind natin sila na ito yung tracker ko or tracker ni Maggie na pwede nilang i-check right before the project queue up. Just, alam mo yun, maging accurate lang yung report nila kay Pete. Speaker 2 00:01:56 Na ano, kung ano na yung mga nabili na talaga and hindi. Speaker 1 00:02:01 So, parang sinave lang nila yung sarili nila that time. Speaker 2 00:02:06 Alam mo yung feeling na may ma-report lang during the queue up kasi lahat ay nandoon. Tinigay nyo yung nangyari eh. So, yun yung inaano po. Yun gusto kong maprotektahan mo yung sarili mo sa mga ganito. Kaya gusto kong i-suggest yun kila Mark na... Para pare-pares tayong aligned And alam mo yun, walang mabutasan Sa sino man sa atin, Ito yung proposal namin, As admin team na ito yung help Na pwede naming maitulong. Either gusto nyo ba Na mag-sync up kayo ni Maggie every. Speaker 2 00:02:37 Before queue up or I-check nyo regularly before the Queue up yung tracker ni Maggie. Alam mo yun, Para kung ayaw na nila ng additional, Meetings, and then mag-ano Sila, maging, Proactive sila na mag-check ng tracker mo. Speaker 2 00:02:55 Yun. So, yung, kaya kanina yung na ano, sinabi namin ni Marvin dun sa call natin. Kasi ayokong may, yun nga, tama yun, nagiging melting pot ang admin team eh. Parang laging sa atin ang sisi. Minsan si Christian din sa mga reportings. So, parang even billing, tayo pa rin ang tinatanong bakit nag-bill ng ganito. Eh, anong gagawin natin? Eh, sa back-end. Magbabacktrack ka. Sino yung mga nagbamanage. Speaker 2 00:03:26 Ng tools na yan? Sino yung champion? Eh, sila naman dapat ang, Nagsasabi sa atin. O, dapat hindi na to Ibibilha, i-remove nyo sa billing. Walang Heads up eh. Ganun. So, parang yun nga. Since tayo ang Client facing, tayo ang Ang, alam mo yun, Ang last touch, tayo ang, Na ano, na Judge agad or, Na kikitaan ang kala mo tayo Yung gumawa ng mali. Hindi naman. Kaya kailangan, isave natin yung. Speaker 2 00:03:57 Team natin, isave yung mga sarili natin. Speaker 1 00:04:01 Sabi ko nga, Kay Kwan eh, kay Ati Jane, Na parang nakakasama sila Ng loob. Speaker 2 00:04:08 Yun nga, kaya nga Alam, yakan na tuloy. Kaya nga sabi ko, gusto ko Maiprotektahan, Tayo sa mga, Ganyan. Yun nga, diba, example din yung kay Vince, bakit ganun? Bakit kailangan ganun yung dating nung email niya na ikaw ang nagkamali, eh given na si Ivy naman talaga ang nagkamali, diba? So, kaya, yun nga, kailangan mag-sync up tayo. Sinmula na nga natin sync up with sales team and then ang susunod ko naman is sync up with projects with construction. Speaker 2 00:04:47 And, ano, ihiwala ko yung IT projects din kasi para hindi magulo yung usapan natin. Ang focus lang natin muna is yung, kasi diba pinakamagulo is si, tawag ito, si Lamarck and Miguel. Speaker 1 00:05:02 Oo. Parang kanina lang, parang kanina lang, hindi alam ni Miguel kung na-order na pala na sa ganitong project. So, meaning, wala silang, wala silang, um, Na project ni Kuya Mark kasi wala si Kuya Mark. So, wala silang List Na dalawa silang nakita. Diba? So, dapat may list sana sila na Pina-order ko to kay Maggie. Tapos, every time naman na mag-order ako Kung P.O. lang ito and all, Speaker 1 00:05:33 Nak-see si lahat ng email, Nila sa kanila. Every time na mag-order ako. So, wala. Parang Another check na naman. Iba na naman pala ito. Yung ganon. Speaker 2 00:05:47 Yeah. So, ayun. Pag, ano, Di ba nga may evidence na na, Mismo sila, Hindi sila makakip-up, Kung ano yung mga nabilat, Hindi na. So, kasi dapat regularly, Chine-check nila yung tracker mo. And, ayun nga, Kung, Speaker 2 00:06:02 Or ikaw, Kung gusto mo, Maging proactive ka Na every before, Or every Monday, Sabihin mo, Oh, just a heads up, Ito yung mga nabili ko. Sa projects na ito, just in case, maitanong sa queue up tomorrow. Ganon. Isendan mo sila ng kung ano yung mga current open projects na pwedeng maitanong dun sa queue up. Ganon. Speaker 1 00:06:33 Kasi meron din kaming i-prenupose nun kay Elisa sa kanila. Kung sana Magbigay sila ng Date sa akin If kailan nila, Kailangan. Speaker 1 00:06:49 Yung ganun. Pero wala. Walang nangyayari. Speaker 2 00:06:52 Patikin nga ako ng tracker mo pala. Sige, tingnan natin. I-review natin together, Kung alin dyan yung mga ano. Hindi sila nagla... Yung sa tracker ba na yan? Pwede silang maglagay Ng kung yung date needed by, Ganun. Speaker 1 00:07:07 Hindi, kasi ito yung procure. Ito, dati, nandito lahat ng project sa taas. Ito yung nakuha ko from EJ at SEC. Pero ngayon, nilagay ko ito lahat. Ay, sineparate ko kasi magugulo din si Julia eh. Every time. Speaker 1 00:07:25 Dito kasi sa tracker na ito, nandito lang yung mga na-order ko na. So, makikita nila. Speaker 1 00:07:32 Ayan o. Tapos yung naka-green believer na, nandyan naman na lahat. Ito, per project na yan, Nandito yung mga project. Kasi ito yung standard, Ata din yung natingitignan nila. Speaker 1 00:07:46 Since noon. Speaker 1 00:07:49 Ayan, kung na-deliver, Nag-place order ako. Speaker 2 00:07:53 Sendan mo nga ako ng link Yan, Mi, para ma-review ko. Speaker 2 00:07:59 Pero yung ano, Kunwari, yung needed na date Na kailangan mabili na to. Paano mo siyang kinukuha sa kanila? Like, um, proactively? Sa tatanong mo, ay, Pwede na bang bilhin to? Ganyan-ganyan. Speaker 1 00:08:14 Mm-mm. Tapos, Um, kung every time na mag, Um, sasabihin nila na, Magkukol tayo, sasabihin nila, Sa akin, meron din akong, Ginawang per project eh. Mm-mm. Sa kanila. Every time na magkukol kami, I-screen, um, I-share ko to sa kanila. At dito sa project ni Primrose, may hindi pa tayo nabibili. Mga ganun. Speaker 2 00:08:42 Do you think kailan mo yan sinasend sa kanila? Speaker 1 00:08:49 Well, actually, parang kung sila ang magsaschedule sa akin ng, Meron yung time na sila yung magsaschedule ng call. Both na sila ni Miguel. Minsan. Si Miguel lang, minsan si Kuya Mark Lang. Pero, habang Nag-order ako sa project na to, Makikita ko na hindi pa, Ito ordered, tatanungin ko sila. Speaker 1 00:09:14 Pero, sila Ang magsasabi. Maglalagay ako ng note dito. Speaker 2 00:09:20 Mag-schedule ako Ng sync up natin, Admin and construction, Project team. Pag-usapan natin yan, yung pagiging aligned natin lahat dyan sa mga procurement side ng project. Kasi isa yan sa mga pain points na nakikita natin para updated ang lahat ng involved. At saka para maiwasan yung mga ganyang eksena nila pag project queue up na sasabihin ganito ganyan. So alam mo yan, kasi nagkaroon ng impression si Pete na... Speaker 2 00:09:59 Alam mo yun na parang, ay ano ba, ginagawa ba ni Maggie yung trabaho niya or hindi? Kasi nga, yun yung alam mo nila. Speaker 1 00:10:06 Meron yung first din na nagulat ako kay Miguel. Nabili lang niya akong in-add sa call nila ni Napit. Pero last year to. Pero nung, bakit daw ngayon lang nabili yung license kay Miles? Oo, sa Kylie Nell ata yun. Ano sabi mo? After nun, oo. Pero sabi niya kasi dun sa email, I-provide ko lahat ng timeline. Speaker 1 00:10:37 I-provide ko sa kanya. I-email ko lahat. Pati yung mga Screenshot na, Email ko din, Kina Kuya Mark. Kung kailan nila sinabi sa akin. Speaker 2 00:10:50 Anong sabi nila? Speaker 1 00:10:52 Wala. Nag-thank you lang si Pete Nung nilagay ko lahat yung, Kasi parang winner ko lahat yun eh. Sa work document ko yan nilagay. Speaker 2 00:11:01 Diba? Speaker 1 00:11:02 Dito lang sila nag-follow up. Yung ganun. Speaker 2 00:11:04 Oo. Doon kasi, Kaya nga importante lahat Ikaw magda-document, Maggie. And every time may green light, Go ahead, Bilhin mo na. Ganun. Yun yung pag-protect mo, Sa sarili mo. And then, Yun na nga, Nakaka-naiinis ako Sa mga recently na, Nalalaman ko na, Alam mo yung tatakboga sa akin, Pakicheck nga itong gawaan Na ganito, Ganyan-ganyan, Parang, But, Ano, Mag-read. They should be on top of this, blah. Tapos, pag i-investigahan ko, Oh, eh, sila na, ano naman pala may problema? Ah, hindi naman kami. Yung gano'n. Doon ako, gano'n ko siya. Speaker 2 00:11:36 Na-encounter. Ngayon ko talaga, Nalalaman na, at nare-realize Na, oo nga nun, ba't laging admin, Na lang ang punching bag ng mga to. Parang, Ganun yung na, ganun yung nafe-feel Ko ngayon. Kaya sabi ko, naging Narealize ko talaga, sabi ko, Kailangan kong gumawa ng paraan Na hindi laging, Magpapasakit. Dapat sa amin ang putok nito. Kaya kailangan i-revisit talaga yung Process ng mga Ibang department na Related sa atin. Yung procurement sa construction, Speaker 2 00:12:07 Yung, Procurement din sa sales, Team, ganyan. Speaker 1 00:12:13 Alam mo, pero sabi ko nga, Nung meeting din namin ni Olivia And Tony and, Michelle ata yun. Basta nung, Monday yun, tapos. Speaker 2 00:12:23 Mag-i-revisit. Speaker 1 00:12:24 Hindi rin masagot actually ni Olivia Dahil may iba-iba tayong process eh. Speaker 1 00:12:30 Yung gano'n, parang, Parang nagsistick din tayo sa process, Natin. Nagsistick sila sa process nila. Speaker 2 00:12:36 Yung gano'n. Oo, hindi tayo In sync. Oo. Speaker 2 00:12:40 So, ayun, kailangan Natin talagang maano. Speaker 2 00:12:46 Kasi minsan kahit Naman sabihin, hindi nila natatandaan na Ito yung process namin. Gano'n. For example, nakaalaman na wala naman palang user start date na nilalagay sa procurement form. So, nito lang nung nalaman na wala pala. Saka lang in-add ni Olivia. Kaya nagtataka ako mismo sa sales team na isa yun sa mga vital information na kailangan nila. Bakit hinayaan nilang ang tagal-tagal na nung process? Hindi sila nagsabi na... Speaker 2 00:13:16 Hindi nyo ba pwedeng gawing mandatory Itong ano? Kasi dito nagkakandaletsa-letsa, Ng ano eh. Yung alam mo yun. Kasi doon ka mag-base Kung kailan ka magmamadaling bumili. Diba? Speaker 1 00:13:31 Tapos diba maalala mo yung Sync-up din natin with Iron Gate, At with Christian. Yung parang, diba, I-check ko pa lang din naman. Pero for the ticket din yun eh. Parang naiba na naman kasi parang Ito. Mag-check ko lang na naman yung Um, tawag na, Onboarding ticket lang. Related ticket lang naman. Diba? At saka, Doon ko lang mag-check yung start date Pala nila. Yes, which is. Speaker 1 00:14:02 Dapat hindi. Pero, Nabili ko na yung laptop. Speaker 1 00:14:08 Ayun. Kasi wala din, Sa related ticket. So, Speaker 2 00:14:13 Kailangan, As soon as makitaan na nila, Kunwari sa sales team pa nga lang eh, Kung napunta na yun sa board nila, As soon as makitaan nila na, Ay, bakit walang start dito? Ibalik na agad or i-check agad na. Or go on boarding yun. Oo, i-audit nyo na agad. So, yun nga, isa yun sa mga, Kung may may isip ka pang Ganyang mga issues na, Tingin mo is hindi na-address. Lalo na kung involved si sales, Ilista mo na rin yan kasi di ba meron tayo. Speaker 2 00:14:44 Tomorrow. May sync up tayo Sa kanila as in para Maging maayos, Na yung process at hindi na Magtuturoan sino talaga ang dapat Alam mo yun, naging proactive Sa bagay na to, sino yun dapat na, Responsible dito, Yung ganun. Speaker 1 00:15:03 Tapos, Actually, hindi ko pa Balay ng report yun. Alam mo yung, AppleCare na at Hindi ko pa balay ng report yun. Yung laptop, diba? Every time na mag-a-ask ang quote. Parang yung sa Apple, diba? Macbook. Diba usually nakalagay sa quote nila na with Apple care. Me, ngayon lang nalaman. Nung nagtaka rin sa ate Jane na bakit parang iba-iba yung sa, ano tawag na, iba-iba yung... Speaker 1 00:15:39 So, parang kung i-add mo yung receipt ng AppleCare at yung MacBook, iba na. So, ang alam ng sales din is pag bumili ka ng MacBook, nandun na yung AppleCare amount. Pero hindi. Nung tumawag ako sa Apple, doon namin nalaman na. So, parang yung makikita mo sa Apple website is additional pa pala sa AppleCare na subscription. Speaker 2 00:16:26 So, hindi nila nasasama sa code yun? Speaker 1 00:16:28 Hindi. Pero nung nalaman na natin noon, hindi ko alam kung binanggit nila sa mga boss nila na mag-a-add sila ng additional. Dun sa quote. Kaya parang Ang last na quote Na kasama, ay na quote Na hindi kasama yung AppleCare is Na amount is yung DTLA. So, yung sumunod na like IronGate Kasama na. Speaker 2 00:16:54 Ah, okay. Pero yung mga previous, So, tayo ang, Nagtayad? Parang. Speaker 1 00:17:00 Nai-eat na siya dun sa ating markup. Speaker 2 00:17:03 Ah, okay. Sige. Ipanggitin din natin yan Tomorrow. And pag may mga naalala ka pa, Ilista mo na kasi for sure, Magiging defensive yung mga yan. Sinabi nga niya. Speaker 2 00:17:18 Ayun yung SOP pala, Mi. Kung mahanap mo din for procurement. Speaker 1 00:17:23 Iba-iba siya, Mi. Although, kailangan nga siyang, Ma-update. Sige, i-update ko na lang, Yung procurement sa project Bago tayo mag-convert. Speaker 1 00:17:35 Yung service ticket. Speaker 2 00:17:39 O, sige-sige. I-follow up natin. And ipa-follow up ko din yung, SOP ka na Chinky. Speaker 1 00:17:49 Although yung AppleCare naman na, Na-solve na. Pero parang Kami lang tatlo ang nag-call. Speaker 2 00:17:55 That time. Paano kayang ma-identify, Yung mga ganyan? Hindi nila nalalaman, Agad na may mga additional na subscriptions, Na ganyan. Parang ang quote kasi. Speaker 1 00:18:04 Nila me is, Um, parang MacBook tapos with AppleCare na. Speaker 1 00:18:12 Pero, sila din naman ang nag-a-add kasi dun sa website ni Apple. Kasi diba dun sa related ticket, pupuntahan ko. Tapos, nakalagay na rin yung link doon sa ticket nila, sa sales ticket. Dun ko siya makikita, dun ko na rin siya i-order. Speaker 2 00:18:35 Oh, okay, okay. So, sige. Ayan, ilist ako rin sa end ko, Pero bukas pag paalala mo din. Feel free na i-share, Kung ano yung mga Nagiging issues lately Para ma-address natin Tomorrow and then, Kailangan ko talaga yung SOP nito. Wait, follow up ko ngayon kay Jinky. Please, thank you. Speaker 1 00:18:59 Although, meron naman tayo dito. Speaker 1 00:19:04 Na-open ko yan kanina. Speaker 1 00:19:07 Halami, hindi ko matapos, Itong kay Anzor. Speaker 2 00:19:10 Okay lang yan. Sinabi ko naman, Sa kanya din na kiniclean up kasi natin, Yung, pero Madami ka na nalagay, di ba? Mga ilang percent ka na feeling mo? Speaker 1 00:19:23 Feeling ko? Speaker 1 00:19:26 Isa feeling ba tayo? Charot. Wait lang. Speaker 1 00:19:31 Meron kasi yung time na hindi siya nagsisave. Speaker 2 00:19:36 Yung walang end date? Speaker 1 00:19:37 Parang, hindi. Um, nalagay mo na tas ayaw. Gusto ulitin ulit. Speaker 2 00:19:43 Hindi ko makagat agad. Speaker 1 00:19:45 Oo, hindi siya kumakagat agad. Speaker 1 00:19:49 Pero minandito naman na ako kay Letter K. Now before. Speaker 1 00:19:54 Tas ito, Pax 8. Wait, kailangan natin ilagay si ShareWeb pala. Speaker 2 00:20:01 Oo, kailangan yan. Speaker 1 00:20:07 May yung mga iba, like for example, yung kasi kakol ko si Ate Jane kanina, Itong mga remittance, tapos nila, ano yan, binabawas natin sa sahod nila. Hindi ko nalilagay kasi galing naman sa kanila yun eh, di ba? Hindi tayo yung nagbabayad. Speaker 2 00:20:29 Like yan, mga Short accident. Speaker 1 00:20:32 Tapos, meron pa yung Isa. So, Speaker 2 00:20:43 Wala tayong binabayaran kay Colonial Life. Like, for example, yung, Minsan yung sinabi, Ni Elisa, Na record-keeping plan, Mga ganon. Like yung Paggangit ng website. Speaker 1 00:20:56 Oo, sabi naman ni Sabi ni Ate Jane, dapat yun Ang babayaran. Yun lang Ang dapat nandito. Hindi yung parang Per Taon na to, sabi niya. Speaker 2 00:21:08 O anong sabi ni Elisa dyan? Speaker 1 00:21:11 Babanggitin ko pa kay Elisa. Ayun, sige. Parang ito, Ang kinuha ko lang is ito, yung basic life. Kasi ito yung, Monthly fee lang natin Sa website. Ito, hindi ko na dinagdag Kasi, Dinededuct naman natin daw siya Sa paycheck. Oo. Speaker 2 00:21:31 Pero as long as may copy ka nyan, Dinownload mo naman yan eh. Oo. Para yan yung backup copy natin. Yes. Ayan. Sige. Basta yung mga ano, Tanong mo na lang sa kanya. Baka may binabayaran kasi tayo, Sa website din eh, Or sa portal. Oo. Sige. Sige na lang. So, Ayon. Final up ko na. Ay, di ko pala nasend. Ang daming code conversion. Speaker 1 00:21:59 O, may pera dalo. Okay lang naman. Speaker 1 00:22:11 Si Monty. Speaker 1 00:22:13 Pepe. Speaker 2 00:22:17 Ano pa ba? Bote, tinetsa ko kung may mga nagchat-chat pa sa akin. Speaker 1 00:22:23 May mga ako din. Speaker 2 00:22:24 Grabe, walang magdala niya sa pamilya. Anto, hilong-hilo na ako sa uniforms kanina, te. Panay-panatawag, May Anzor. Tapos sabi ko, shit, di ako matapos-tapos. Speaker 1 00:22:35 Kaya ko sabi ko, ano ba yan sa April? Sabi ko, kaya hindi rin ako, Humiimig pa kanina. Sabi ko, wait lang, wait lang. Sasabog na lang ako Kay April, sabi ko. Speaker 2 00:22:45 Ayun na nga, after nga nung ano, Naalala ko, gusto lang mag-asawa. Ano nang palita dito? Ganto, ganyan, ganyan. Sabi ko, ay, Shit, sabi ko. Teka lang, nakalimutan ko. Speaker 1 00:22:57 Di ba? Paano mo naman matatapos trabaho mo? Speaker 2 00:23:00 Oo, tumawag pa ako sa Paris kanina. Kasi nga may tinatanong na naman niya na ano ng balita doon sa restaurant niya. Tapos sabi ko, shit. Kaya bago ko siya replyan, tumawag mo na ako sa Paris. Buti open pa sila. 9pm pa lang. Speaker 2 00:23:17 Kaya nakasagot agad ako sa kanya. Ay, ganito yung ano nangyari. Blah, blah, blah. Hindi ko muna siya sinagot eh. Kasi sabi ko, Shit, wala akong isasagot dito. Buti na lang. May nakausap ako. Diba? Go me. Kaya, Ay, gusto ko talaga. Alam mo yun, Minsan thankful ako, Na napunta sa akin Ito yung position na ito. And blessing naman siya. Pero may times na, Syempre, Pag may, Lalo ngayon, Di ba, Uyak-uyak pa ka ako Sa'yo dati din. So parang may times na. Speaker 2 00:23:48 Pag kunwari overwhelming. Tulad kahapon, una sa akin Pinagawa tong Gaming license na to. Umiya kaya ako sa jowa ko. Sabi ko, Hindi ko na, hindi ko na kaya. Nahihirapan na ako. Sabi ko, Kaya mo yan na figure. Kung paano mo na figure out ang mga bagay-bagay, Dati na di mo alam. Kaya mo ulit yan. Sabi ko, Matutulog mo na ako, Lord. Sabi ko, sobrang, Sakit na ng ulo ko. Sabi ko, gusto kong ma-clear out yung. Speaker 2 00:24:18 Isip ko. Matutulog mo na po ako ganyan-ganyan. Sana sa pag-isip ko gano'n. Sabi ko, Ituruan nyo ako saan ako dapat pumunta. Ayun. Tapos nung, Pag ganyan talaga super pray ako. Tapos nung pag-isip ko, Na-refresh yung isip ko. As in, Ang lalim ng tulog ko nun, Day. Tapos, Pag-isip ko, Ayan na, Nag-refresh na ako, Kung ano yung mga notes ko. Ganyan. In-organize ko Bago ako tumawag, Dun sa, Nevada Gaming Board. Speaker 2 00:24:50 I know they, ayun, Ang ending, yun nga, pinareach out din naman ako, Sa, basta may email silang Binigay. Pero kasi, Hindi yun ang gustong mangyari ni, Anzor. Yung nakuha ko kasing Sagot Is, ang dapat na mag Register ng mga license, Ng mga technicians natin, is yung Naghire sa atin na kliyente natin sa Nevada, Which is yung Maverick Gaming nga. Speaker 2 00:25:17 Sabi ng answer, hindi. Hindi yun ang goal. Ang goal is tayo talaga ang magkaroon ng, License, hindi yung I-register nila yung Text natin under them, ganyan-ganyan. So, ayan, back to zero, Ako kanina. Check-check ako ng Instructions, Ganyan, And mga na-fill out ako ng form. Tapos, meron pa kanina, meron akong, Personal na mga forms, and Ang daming personal information na kailangan. Sabi ni Katerina sa akin, I'm on their world, ganyan-ganyan. Pwede pakalista mo na lang. Speaker 2 00:25:48 Kung ano yung mga kailangan ko, and I-ano ko sa'yo. Nung trinay ko, ilistakala ko, Kay Mike Silang, putek, nakaka- Pang ilang page pa lang ako, ang dami ko pa palang, Pagdadaanan. Sabi ko kay Katerina, Katerina, sabi ko nung while I'm writing, Yung lista na kailangan mo, I've realized ang haba nitong listahan na to. Tapos nilista ko sa'yo yung mga kailangan. And sabi ko, maraming box Na kailangan mong itik. So I recommend na sabi ko. I-review mo na lang ito pag uwi mo And then saka mo isagutan kasi, Kailangan accurate yung mga isasagot mo dito. Speaker 2 00:26:20 Ayun. Sabi ko kayo, answer, answer. Just a heads up. Sabi ko, Katerina's on the road. Sinabi kong pag uwi na lang yung Sagotan to dahil Kailangan mong focus and, Concentration niya dito sa form na to. Ang daming mga personal, Info na kailangan yung, I-disclose dito sa form na to. Sobrang higpit. Including mga, meron ka na bang arrest warrant Before, may mga cast, Even mga. Oo, mga ganun. Speaker 2 00:26:52 Ano, mga licenses Ang meron ka. Siguro mga gun, Firearm, ganyan-ganyan. Kaya dami. Sabi ko, ay, hindi ko ito alam. Abutin ako ng siyam-siyam Dito. Kaya Inutos ko ng Kayanast. Nung sinabi ni Anzor na Work with Katerina. Okay, Katerina, bahala ka na dyan. Go daw dyan. Ikaw daw dyan. Ay, naka. Ay, naka naman. Iyak lang natin. Oo, laban ako ulit. Ganun talaga. May times talaga na Misa niisipin mo na lang, Speaker 2 00:27:23 Okay, at least sa comfort ako Ng bahay ko, Nag-work, Kasama ko yung pamilya. Alam mo yan, Iisipin mo din sa ano eh, Doon ka babalik na. Oo, yung iba din na mukha lang. Ang mahal ng gas ngayon. Diba? Mga masahiro ka, Traffic and all, Ganyan. Ganyan talaga. May ako lang kasi alam mo, after ko mag-work, Napapaniginipan ko. May ganyan talaga. Ako din. Speaker 2 00:27:50 Noong nag-office ako Sa Crimson, napapaniginipan ko Na yung yun, Tay. Kaya Sabi ko nga, bilang kaka-one year Mo pa lang naman, titibay ka ba? Madami pa bang pagdadaan na Mapapatibay pa sa'yo. Dati ganyan din ako. Hiniyak-iyakan ko. Pero ngayon, Kahit saan mo ko, anong pasikut-sikutin. Gano'n. Makakabisado mo din yan. Yung nang talaga, Talagang, makinig ka lang sa Mga sinasabi namin sa'yo, like mga Advices, ganyan. Yung nga sinabi ni, Ano din, maging proactive ka, Speaker 2 00:28:21 Lalo na pag may mga long lead time na ganyan, Check for alternatives, Mag-suggest ka, gano'n. And if you see something wrong, sabihin mo Sa'kin. Sabihin mo, ay April, mukhang, Dito nag-work sa process natin. Parang, mas tumatagal tayo sa Ganitong process. Or may ganitong Amazing process na, Mag-suggest ka. Nagpapadali ng kailangan ko para Alam mo yun, makomplete ko tong task to. Ganun, be proactive. Magsabi ka sa akin and then, Para ma-erase natin, canapit. Speaker 2 00:28:50 Sige. Speaker 1 00:28:51 Alam mo, yung lead time ng, Cisco or I mean, in-gram, Feeling ko wala tayong alternate doon. Chort. Speaker 2 00:29:01 Na maayaan pa, ano? Speaker 1 00:29:04 Oo, kasi sa Cisco din lang sila Umo-order. Meron yung isa, kaya lang Nakita din ni na Pete na mahal. So feeling, kaya nung sinabi, Ni Olivia doon sa queue up meeting, Kanina is mukhang aantay Na lang yung May. Speaker 1 00:29:22 Kasi sobrang mahal. Parang Matatwais na yung atin. Eh syempre, Yung minsan kung maghanaman din Tayo ng vendor, may quote na tayo eh. Speaker 2 00:29:37 Para wala tayong Hindi ba tayo allowed? Hindi tayo allowed bumili sa iba? Speaker 2 00:29:44 Pwede naman. Ingram lang talaga? Speaker 1 00:29:48 Kay Ingram kasi Cisco sila kumukuha. Kay TDC Next din. Parehas na Cisco. So, ang ginagawa namin, With sales or minsan kung, Meron, kung sasabi, Tatanungin ni na Vincent or Mike, Yung lead time, Sila na ang, Magtatanong kay Ingram at saka Kay Titicinex. Kaya lang, Depende pa rin kung kailan, Maa-approve yung Quote. Speaker 1 00:30:20 Parang, hindi rin Accurate yung lead time nila. Speaker 2 00:30:24 Kunwari, pag hindi pa signed yung quote, Gumagora ka na bang mag-check ng lead time? Or, ang next Step is, pag na-approve pa lang, Ay na-convert, saka ka palang mag-a-hand. Speaker 1 00:30:36 Doon. Kasi doon ko palang Makikita yung quote. Speaker 2 00:30:39 Ah, yun na. Tama, tama. O, dey, ayun, Kung nga rin, kung yun, like, for example, mga, Hindi na natin controlled na lead time, Always give a heads up dun sa mga Involved na tao. Kasi, Alam naman nila, I'm sure aware sila, Dahil na matatagal talaga ang lead time Ni Meraki and Si Cisco. O, at saka sinabi rin naman nila yun, Speaker 1 00:30:59 Diba, sa meeting din natin? Speaker 2 00:31:01 Mm-hmm. And then... Ilang beses? Oo. Kung talagang, Mga urgent, like for example, yung minsan Yung pinatanong ko sa'yo kay Gabby Kung may spare. Pag mga urgent, magtanong ka na lang, Sa HQ. Meron ba tayong spare, Na pwede natin ma-install, Muna for now? Ganyan. And speaking of, dumating na ba yung order talaga nila? Si ano yun, diba? Speaker 1 00:31:23 Ah, okay. Si John Tracy. Dumating siya kahapon. So, ang ginawa Ni Gabby, kinonfigure, Niya. So, Na... Key, meron atang I... hindi ko alam kung tomorrow Yung schedule nila, Vlad, At Kevin na pupunta doon. Speaker 2 00:31:42 Ayan, very good, very good. Ayan, buti naman. Ayan, ganun na lang, Mi. Pagdating sa Cisco, Ganun ang gawin mo sa Meraki. And pag sa, Laptops, ayun, alam mo na, may mga workaround Tayo dyan, pag mga urgent. So, ayun, feeling ko naman, Ngayon na, unti-unti na natin na-identify, Ang mga bagiba, guys. Magiging, Nawa ay maging smooth sailing na ang lahat at alam mo yun parang hindi na nagkaka-issue sa atin lalo na sa admin team alam mo yun kasi ang goal naman talaga natin is protectahan ng bawat team member ng admin team and yun nga. Speaker 2 00:32:17 Ngayon ko na na-realize yung the way na mag-pushback si Marvin dati pag na-involve si admin. Speaker 2 00:32:28 Laban lang ni... Laban lang ang pumotektahan ko. Yes. Pumotektahan ng buong PH. Hindi sila ganun. Hindi sila ganun sa atin. Admin lang. Diba? So, Hindi ko rin alam pa nung... Siguro minsan may mga times na... May times din nung bigla kami nag-call ni Vlad, Ako, O si Miguel, And si Mark. Kasi yung tinatanong nga, Bakit mali yung nakalagay na license kay... Si Camor, na. Speaker 2 00:32:59 Dapat blue box pala Sila, hindi Lenel Ba? Hindi niya tayong, Issue. And then, Pina-explain namin kay Ivy, May template ba kayo na ano? Baka, Kasi typo error to, nagkamali Lang kayo, ganito-ganyan. And hindi rin nila ma-figure out, bakit Ang laki ng discrepancy ng pricing, Sa end daw ni, Miguel is ganito-ganyan. So, Speaker 1 00:33:25 Magulo ang, Pag-, I mean, magulo din kasi sina Miguel at Mark. Sa totoo lang. Ibigay nga nila yun. Pero, ang feeling kasi nila din, like for example, ang problema ko din dyan sa construction is magbibigay sila ng specific na product. Ibe-base ko sa quote. Saan dito sa quote? Gaganon ako mi. Baki screenshot. Gaganon ako. Tapos sasabihin nila under nito. Guys, magiging not billable ito kasi nga wala sa ating code. Gaganon ako. Kasi ako naman ang papagalitan ng finance kapag gagawin sa PO tapos makikita nila wala sa ating code. Speaker 2 00:34:14 Ano saan yung sasabihin nila pag wala sa code? Speaker 1 00:34:16 Sabihin nila kasi yun daw yung... Na forward na quote, yung gano'n. So, parang sihin din nila, Yung client daw Kasi ito na yung na-propose Namin tapos ngayon lang sila Ngayon na ito ma-identify. Oo. So, Hindi rin nila nakikita. Like, for example, Sana nakita na nila yun sa, Excuse me, sa Sycamore, Sa Shelby. Sana dun sa sumunod Na quote natin nila, Sana naglagay man lang sila. Speaker 1 00:34:47 Na something para makita. Cover up ng hindi pa na-identify Ng mga products. Kasi ang daming bill up Are not billable. Speaker 2 00:34:58 Wait, lilista din natin yung mga ganyan-ganyan. Speaker 2 00:35:03 So, kunwari, Approved codes, tapos, May pina-add si client. Speaker 2 00:35:12 Kumaga parang pinahabol. Speaker 1 00:35:15 Or, Speaker 1 00:35:17 Hindi naman si client siguro. Sila ang nag-identify na kailangan. Ah, na kailangan pala. Ah, okay. Yeah. Masasabihin nila Under dito. Pero wala Naman doon. Speaker 2 00:35:33 Pero kung ano din yung. Speaker 1 00:35:35 Feeling ko kasi kung ano din yung bigay nila, Yun din yung Itukot. Speaker 2 00:35:43 So paano yung pag gano'n, tinahabol lang nila? Dahil late na nilang na-identify. Babalik ulit sila kay client to Request for approval na Walang quote. Ganon. Not revised quote. Hindi na. Ay, talaga. Hindi pa tayo lugi doon. Speaker 1 00:36:03 Nakukuha na lang sa markup natin. Yay. Speaker 1 00:36:09 Ang dami may yay. Oo. Hindi pa tayo nalulugi. Di ba? Speaker 1 00:36:15 Kaya nga sabi ni Robert nun, Nung meeting ng admin at saka finance, Na parang yung construction ang nakakastress. Dito pa tayo, hindi. Parang hindi siya worth it sa kita. Mm-hmm. Parang ganun. Speaker 2 00:36:31 Kasi hindi naman ganun ka-profitable pa ka? Mm-hmm. Speaker 2 00:36:37 Ayan. Basta may pag may mga naisip ka pa, Lista-lista ka lang. Create ka ng, kunwari, draft mo Or sabihin mo, kunwari, lagay mo, Construction, IT project, Pain points, sales, quote Or quote, pain points, ganyan-ganyan. Mag-lista ka, Sa everyday na Na-encounter mo para at least, Mapag-usapan natin and, Meron tayong ma-identify na, Agad-agad. Sige, may. Speaker 2 00:37:08 Asya, sige. Laban lang. And tomorrow is Another day. New beginning. Speaker 1 00:37:16 Thank you, Maeve. Speaker 2 00:37:16 Yes, that's it. Bye-bye.
06-29 Weekly Meeting: IT & Security Project Updates, HR Access Request
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- > Date: 2026-06-29 12:00:18 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Sergio] [Speaker 2] [Jennifer C] [Crystal] ## Meeting Notes ### Health and Work Updates - Speaker 2 is recovering after an unexpected hospitalization from Sunday to Friday due to a severe infection. - They are working from home and easing back into a four-day workweek. - Speaker 2 has a doctor's appointment this evening to schedule upcoming outpatient surgery, which will require one day of absence. - Colleagues, including Robert and Gaston, have been supportive and kept Speaker 2 updated while they were out. ### IT & Security Project Updates - New Security Software: The team is rolling out new security software. Robert and Gaston are collaborating with the security team on this initiative. - Fish Alert Feature: A new "Fish Alert" tool will be added to Google Mailboxes tonight or tomorrow. - It allows users to report suspected phishing emails for system verification. - An email with instructions will be sent once the feature is confirmed active. - MFA Rollout: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is 100% complete. - Data Center Internet: The team is expanding data center internet capacity to resolve ongoing backup issues. - Box Decommission: A meeting with Box is scheduled next week to discuss decommissioning ahead of renewal. - Billing and Phone Lines: Speaker 2 is working with TPX to resolve double billing and consolidate duplicate phone lines. ### New Hire Equipment Request - A need has been identified to provide headphones to all new hires for training and general use. - Speaker 2 is waiting for Robert and Gaston to provide details on the specific headphones previously used. - Once the information is received, a cost analysis will be conducted. ### HR Drive Access Request - Dr. Barber requested access to the HR drive, which contains all employee and personnel data, from his personal home computer. - Granting this access would require a VPN and poses significant security risks, potentially exposing the entire network. - The initial recommendation is to deny the request. - Conclusion: Jennifer will discuss the request with Dr. Barber to understand his specific needs. Speaker 2 will provide security-related talking points to support this conversation. ### Dr. Barber’s Remote Access Issues - Dr. Barber reported being unable to access Belinda’s delegated email from home, though he can access it in the office. This is suspected to be user error. - Dr. Barber does not have a work-issued laptop. - Providing him with a work laptop and a proper home office setup (including a large screen) was suggested to resolve security and access issues. - Team members have previously gone to his house to assist with setup and can do so again. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Speaker 2 to send an instructional email about the "Fish Alert" feature once it is live. - [ ] Jennifer C to discuss the HR drive access request with Dr. Barber. - [ ] Speaker 2 to provide Jennifer C with security talking points regarding the HR drive access request. - [ ] Robert and Gaston to provide information on headphones previously purchased for new hires. - [ ] Decide whether to provision a work-issued laptop and home office setup for Dr. Barber, and assign ownership/timeline. - [ ] Conduct a cost analysis for new hire headphones after receiving model details from Robert and Gaston; define procurement and distribution timeline. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. A definitive solution for Dr. Barber’s remote work setup and access issues was not decided upon. While providing a work laptop was suggested, there was no commitment or action item to pursue this solution. > 2. The process for procuring and distributing headphones for new hires is pending a cost analysis, which depends on information from Robert and Gaston. The timeline for this action is unclear.
- Date
- Jun 29, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:01:06 Hey Jennifer. Are you back? How are you doing? Speaker 2 00:01:35 Um, I'm home. That's the most okay. Speaker 3 00:01:38 So praise the Lord for that. That's always a good thing. Speaker 2 00:01:42 Yeah, I really, I really feel like it kicked my ass last week. It was very unexpected. Speaker 3 00:01:50 Well, I would imagine anything, sometimes things happen, unexpected. Yeah. Well, I hope you're on the mend and whatever. Speaker 3 00:02:04 Well, that is for you. Speaker 2 00:02:07 Yeah, I'm getting there. I have a doctor's appointment this evening, and we're gonna work on getting the appointment for the surgery. Okay. So still gotta have surgery, But most of the reason I was there was just because the infection was so bad. Mm- hmm. Speaker 1 00:02:27 Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. It's okay. I'm just glad to be able to work today Right? Speaker 2 00:02:36 Easing it in slowly this week on a four day week is perfect for me. Speaker 3 00:02:40 Mm hmm. This is a very busy time for us right now, end of fiscal year beginning of the new one. Yeah, especially with all the things going on, it's a little bit crazy right now. Speaker 1 00:02:53 I completely understand that. Is everybody else coming to join? Speaker 3 00:03:00 I don't know, I'm texting them right now. Speaker 3 00:03:06 I was hopeful. He gave you guys all a heads up on what was going on. Well, I mean in true fashion, He just said that you were out and you'd be out for a few days, but there's you know yeah everybody's respectful of your uh. I just know okay she's out. Speaker 2 00:03:28 Yeah, I landed in the emergency room on Sunday night and, Didn't leave the hospital until Friday. Oh, wow. Speaker 3 00:03:37 Well, that's really not cool. I'm so sorry. Speaker 1 00:03:42 It's okay. But. Speaker 2 00:03:47 Everybody's been great like I am worked on today. Everything they got rescheduled from last week, just getting them rescheduled for this week. And uh, working with Robert and Gaston on a couple. Speaker 1 00:03:57 Of issues that came up last week Hmm. Speaker 1 00:04:03 Hey, Erin says she's coming. Speaker 1 00:04:35 Anzor even checked in with me today from London. Well, that's always nice. Yeah. Let's find my where's my drink? I'm losing drinks today. That's no fun. No. Speaker 1 00:05:06 And then I gave the cats a, dirty look because I'm sure they didn't want to. That. Speaker 3 00:05:14 Is never fun. Speaker 2 00:05:17 Ever since I got home, they've been inspecting my food and making sure that I am laying down. And if I'm not laying down at an acceptable time, they jump all over me to get me to settle. They are worse. Speaker 3 00:05:32 Than pets, but, I would imagine they're pretty intuitive. Yeah, they are. And they know something is wrong. Speaker 1 00:05:42 Hi! Hello. Busy Monday. That's what I said. Yeah, hang on one second, Speaker 2 00:05:52 I'm gonna mute you guys just for a brief moment? Okay. Speaker 3 00:05:59 Hey how, Are you doing my dear? Speaker 4 00:06:01 All over the place with, It being a short week, last week being a short week, trying to catch up with people. And then that incident on Thursday, Some people we got was like, oh, I got a doctor's note to work remote. So like no interactive process, shut it down. So that means everybody needs to work remote. Like you take time take time your CAP, but it was Raven, so they handled it. Mhm but trying to just I have some other stuff lingering. I really want to head out the park, so I am trying to get that with getting that going. Beach it, I don't know if they're this. We got right a letter because. Speaker 2 00:06:41 I am actually not French on home this week and mostly am still on semi-solitude, Speaker 4 00:06:50 You know? Chris got a flat tire most. Speaker 2 00:06:53 Of the soup and stuff. Speaker 4 00:06:55 I think she's also she's very stressed. I think about July one. I was like, girl, it's gonna be what it's gonna be. I mean, I get it, but. Speaker 3 00:06:60 I talked to her for about forty minutes this morning just about stuff. I think we need to address. I'm going to send out an email to all the directors. Okay Just with some updates. So we scheduled a meeting with the FSP directors and then also have we have a meeting with the admin FSP admin folks that are coordinating SRTs to try to But maybe tomorrow. See where they are and try to manage some things. It'll be all right. I told her I was like, don't freak out, Like cause nothing has to like automatically change as of July first other than Right. Speaker 2 00:07:33 Yeah, either those six weeks or the referrals are gonna come, Speaker 4 00:07:37 Huh? Right. That too So But let me text you back later. Yeah How was your drive back? Um. Speaker 3 00:07:45 Good Back to see my dad on the way home I thought might see him, cause he's down. From NYU for a little bit. Oh, nice. It's amazing to watch them grow up and get a, you know, be an adult and live on their own. Gallivanting around the world more than I am, I'm like this is not acceptable. Yeah. I just came back from Paris. I was like, why didn't you tell me to sit down or take me with you? Yeah. Speaker 2 00:08:22 Alright, I'm back. I'm sorry guys, my phone rings when ringing off the hook today. Understandably so. Speaker 3 00:08:31 Yeah, thank you guys for your patience from last week. It was a little crazy. We're just glad you're back. Me too Um, I put in a link to a document that I've prepared today Uh, it's still an active document. Speaker 2 00:08:51 I am not going to take up too much of your time. I just wanted to get that over. Last week everything went through like clockwork. The guys were great. They did keep me updated on what was going on, so that I would have a heads up as everything was being worked through. And bear with me, guys, I am still not one hundred percent yet. It's going to be a bit before one hundred percent. From from my understanding, he didn't tell you guys everything that happened, But I ended up in the emergency room last Sunday and I ended up not getting discharged from the hospital until Friday. So um, I'm I had to have to have surgery. Um because it couldn't have surgery because of the infection was so bad. We had to wait for it. But I am going to have surgery soon. Uh I'll be out only for one day. Speaker 2 00:09:50 Cause it's an outpatient surgery, and then I should be good to go. I would not wish that on my worst enemy. Speaker 4 00:09:57 So, sorry, Christi, but keep us you know updated if you need something or if you're unavailable. We understand we'll work with the guys while you're out. Take care of yourself for sure. Definitely working on that. I have too. Speaker 2 00:10:10 Many people trying to take care of me, which is nice. Sometimes that's worse. Yes, yeah. So. Um, so in the tickets and everything, uh, things went like went really well. Um, we are starting to roll out new security software. Okay. So the team is working hard. I know, Robert and Gaston, both are working with the security team to get things cleaned up and going there. Um, Tonight and tomorrow. Uh, there's a new feature that's gonna show up in everyone's Google mailboxes. Speaker 2 00:10:49 I am going to uh send an email either today or tomorrow. Once I have confirmation, it's been turned on uh, showing how to utilize that tool. Uh, but it's called Fish Alert. So if anybody gets an email that they suspect to be phishing, uh, they just report it that way, and the system will check it out. So um I do we do have MFA rollout status is completely done. So fantastic there. Um. We've really been working through that, trying to get that all nailed and put together correctly. Um, we're working through the backup stack. We're working through trying to expand the internet at the data center so that we can get the backups working correctly because we're still having some issues there. Um, sorry. And uh for the ADP and physical logs. Speaker 2 00:11:46 Things happening, but Crystal, You and Aaron should be able to fully do what you've got to do at this point. Okay. So let me know if there's anything missing on my end. Um, And then I have a meeting with Box next week, because Box is soon to be dedecommissioned because your your renewal is coming up. So we need to decommission that. Um. So we're going to take a look at what that's going to be. And uh and where we need to go with that. Speaker 2 00:12:17 Um, a couple of things I need from you guys. Um, we need to work on. We need to start getting headphones for new hires. Uh, they used to have them, Uh but they haven't had them in a while, and it's getting to the point where they needum they need to get those uh purchased and handed out because they're running into some issues with training and things like that. Um. Speaker 4 00:12:46 Orientation or new hires in general, like for them to take with them. Speaker 2 00:12:50 New hires in general, for them to take with. Speaker 4 00:12:52 Okay, okay, okay. Speaker 2 00:12:56 You know one of the things I'm waiting on from Robert and Gaston is what it is they used to get in the past, so that I can get a cost analysis done. Okay. So um and then the other thing is okay. So this was this was a little difficult to talk about. Um, Doctor Barber would like on his home computer access to the HR drive. There is some security risks with that. Speaker 4 00:13:32 HR drive meaning um can you what's on the HR drive? Speaker 2 00:13:39 All employee and personnel data. Yeah um. Speaker 4 00:13:44 And it's his personal computer, correct? So his Mac. Speaker 2 00:13:47 Yes. And we would have to give him a VPN access to do that. Uh. Speaker 2 00:13:55 Okay, My initial thought was no. Um just knowing some of the issues we've had lately. Now I agree, one of the things. So we want to see why, Speaker 4 00:14:07 Yeah, yeah, what does he? What does he need? Because if it's something he needs I feel like we could get it to him because that's not something that he. Um, uses on a regular basis. Speaker 2 00:14:16 Right. So I was going to ask if you guys would step in on that one. Yep. Okay. Jennifer, like to like have the conversation with him? Yes. Right Okay Yeah Well, If you can give us the pointers about like to help like on the security side and and that would help us Yeah Exactly. Speaker 2 00:14:43 Absolutely, I'll get that over to you guys uh this evening. Okay. How about you? Speaker 4 00:14:49 Because, he could doesn't he have access in UKG to. He has super admin access. So if he needed to look at anything, he could look in there from his work computer, correct? My understanding was yes. Okay, so I need okay. Speaker 3 00:15:06 But he didn't say he didn't say like what specifically he wanted to see. He just said I want access to the HR drive. Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:15:14 Yeah, and um given some of the issues lately, that would give a bad actor access to the entire network. Speaker 4 00:15:26 Yeah. Mhm. Speaker 2 00:15:28 Yeah So just just a heads up on that one. Um And I think those were the two main things that were brought up as issues, while I was out. Speaker 2 00:15:42 Gaston very politely put him on and said," Hey, let me look into this." Also, Speaker 4 00:15:48 I have a question, Christi. Currently, does Doctor Barber have access to Belinda's email like I do? Where it's delegated and I just go click it and it pops up. Speaker 3 00:15:57 Yes. He says he doesn't have access to it when he's at his house. And I don't know if it's just— it's probably a user error more than anything else. I know he's not technologically savvy, but he'd said that to me. Speaker 4 00:16:12 So, He doesn't have like he won't have access to it on his personal email for sure. But, yeah, I guess we just have to ask. Speaker 3 00:16:20 Well, He says he's able to do it. You know when he's in the office, but he can't when there's emails when he is at home. So I don't know what he's doing wrong. Speaker 4 00:16:29 User error. Okay, I just wanted to make sure if she had access at least at work, but he should be able to use his work computer. If you take, He has a work laptop, right? Speaker 2 00:16:43 Christi, Does he have him I don't have him listed with the work laptop. So, Speaker 4 00:16:46 What if he so when he's at home and he needs to access work emails, what does he use Do you know. Speaker 2 00:16:58 He's on the computer. Speaker 4 00:16:60 Got it. Okay, That's then that's probably the issue at the work computer NO_CORRECTIONS like it, at least the way I can see Belinda's emails I go to like my name and where it says, like other emails. And it just says like Belinda delegated, so I just click it. So if he doesn't have that set up on his personal computer, I see why he wouldn't have access. It's not the same, but okay now. Speaker 3 00:17:23 Does he just refuse to have a laptop that he uses from home? Speaker 4 00:17:27 I feel like he needs one. I don't know because I want, Speaker 3 00:17:32 You know like because maybe that's it. Maybe we get him a laptop for home. I mean, I could understand why he probably needs like a big screen. He probably needs to have like a proper setup where he's like that laptop, and then that way at least you can control the security. I would imagine better, but you know, But I also know that he needs the big screen, otherwise he can't see shit. So right. But maybe that's why he uses his Mac. You know, I have a Mac at home and I like the screen. You know, it's big enough. I can't use a laptop my Mac. You know laptop because it's too small for me. Speaker 3 00:18:07 So, I don't know. Speaker 4 00:18:10 That's what I'm saying, But maybe if if he has the work computer and then we set him up, but I don't know where that would go. He might not want to move his other, but we will we'll probe. I don't know. He's on he's coming in. Speaker 3 00:18:21 We know he needs a lot of handholding, so it requires probably somebody coaching frequently on how to do it. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:18:30 Guess, Ron has gone out to his house and get things set up better for him. Sure. Speaker 2 00:18:36 And we can keep doing that. We can send it back out. Speaker 1 00:18:39 Okay. Got it. Yeah, all. Speaker 2 00:18:47 Right, And then um I think everything else in there. Um there's some things I still got to confirm. And that's on the report that I got to confirm it, but they'll probably be confirmed for next week's report. Okay. But we're. TPX has been great working with me on some double billing issues. I'm trying to get those cleaned up. Um, and I'm working on uh consolidating all the double phone lines that we have. So, so we'll get there. Speaker 4 00:19:18 We will, and Christi, please take care of yourself. Speaker 2 00:19:21 I am, I am don't overdo it. Speaker 4 00:19:24 I say that knowing it's hard for us not to do things, but don't overdo it rest. I am, I am. Speaker 3 00:19:31 We are all going to say. Speaker 4 00:19:33 I know it's easy. I can give this advice, But I remember when I had pink eye in both eyes and I am like on a call. You know, Speaker 2 00:19:44 I called my best friend. I am like," I am not sure if I need to go to the hospital again or not." She's like," I'll be right there." You would still be at home. Yeah, no, no Christy. They loaded me up on an ambulance and that's all I remember that night. Speaker 4 00:19:58 Christi crazy Jesus, Well, take it easy. Oh, yeah. That is. Speaker 3 00:20:07 I'll find easy. Speaker 4 00:20:08 Yeah, well, The guys have been great. If it's an emergency, we'll call you. But yeah, Speaker 2 00:20:13 They have been fantastic. I could not say enough about either of them. They've been doing really well. How did Friday go by the way? Speaker 4 00:20:22 We've gotten great reviews. Uh the staff even today people were coming in, like this was the best one yet. So everyone had a good time, which was the purpose for everybody to relax and fellowship. So, hopefully, yeah. Speaker 2 00:20:39 I know the guys um they were when they were leaving, they gave me a heads up that they were leaving uh, and they were looking forward to it. So. Speaker 4 00:20:47 Yeah, they were very helpful. I think they're used to always having to do all this setup and prep work, and so they were like," What do we need to do?" We're like just show up if you guys if we need help great, but if not enjoy it. They were like. Okay. Yeah. So that was nice, but they were very helpful. Okay. Speaker 2 00:21:04 All right, well I'm gonna leave you guys alone. Um okay I'm gonna go take a. Speaker 3 00:21:08 Nap Bye Take a nap Thank you I wish Bye guys Bye guys. Okay, take care of yourself Bye- bye I will bye.
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05-05 Aligning Microsoft 365 Licensing with Conditional Access: Avoiding the ‘One-License Unlock’ Myth in Quotes
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- ## Core Synopsis The sales rep is anchoring a quote decision on a legacy licensing myth—that one Microsoft 365 Business Premium license “unlocks” Conditional Access tenant-wide—which is now unreliable and likely being tightened; the technical and commercial reality is that Conditional Access requires appropriate premium licensing for the users governed by those policies, and promising tenant-wide security on Basic/Standard SKUs risks non-compliance and customer backlash when enforcement changes. The call shows a new prospect pushing for cost savings (Business Basic/Standard), while the rep recognizes the security gap and intends to “push for Business Premium.” Christie’s comment (“it’s been that way in the past, but we might be seeing a change soon”) is the tell: enforcement is shifting, so any quote premised on loopholes is strategically weak. We are committing to a pricing and security stance that does not trade short-term savings for long-term risk: either scope Business Premium for users who need Conditional Access or explicitly position lower-cost SKUs without those controls. ## Licensing Reality vs. Sales Positioning ### The Customer’s Pivot to Cheaper SKUs - The prospect shifted from Business Premium to a mix of Business Basic and Business Standard to save costs. - That shift removes security capabilities (e.g., Conditional Access) from most users, creating a functional and compliance gap. ### The Licensing Myth and Its Risk - The rep’s working assumption: one Business Premium license enables Conditional Access tenant-wide. - Christie’s signal: historically permissive behavior may change; relying on it invites exposure. - Risk vector: quoting Basic/Standard while implying Premium security sets up future non-compliance and trust erosion when enforcement tightens. ### What Conditional Access Actually Implies - Conditional Access is a premium control tied to Entra ID P1/P2-level licensing; it must cover the users targeted by policies. - “Security defaults” exist for tenants without premium, but they are not a substitute for Conditional Access policies. - Safe stance: if Conditional Access is a requirement, quote Business Premium (or confirm a compliant premium licensing path) for the affected users. ### The Sales Positioning Decision - Outcome: the rep will push for Business Premium to align features, licensing, and enforcement reality. - Contingency: if the customer insists on Basic/Standard, explicitly remove Conditional Access from scope and document the security limitations. ## Action Items **@Sales Rep** - [ ] Validate current Microsoft licensing/enforcement for Conditional Access (confirm required premium coverage per targeted users; no “one-license unlock” assumption) - [TBD] - [ ] Draft two quotes: (A) Business Premium for users needing Conditional Access, (B) Business Basic/Standard without Conditional Access, with clear security caveats - [TBD] - [ ] Write a customer email that explains the trade-off (cost vs. security), clarifies that Conditional Access requires appropriate premium licensing, and removes any legacy “tenant-wide unlock” language - [TBD] **@Christie** - [ ] Provide the latest internal guidance or Microsoft references on Conditional Access licensing/enforcement changes to support the sales stance - [TBD]
- Date
- May 5, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hey Christie, quick question. Yeah, um, I am trying to wrap up this quote. A customer where we're going to do a three sixty five migration for. And um. When I quoted them initially, I quoted business premium, But I am looking at their list, and now they want to go with business basic and business standard. So the question I have for you is, it's for a new prospect. Oh okay, sorry. So It's okay. So, I thought you had mentioned this before, but I wanted to confirm. Isn't there a trick where let's say the client goes all business basic and all business standard. But they have one business premium. Doesn't that unlock the ability to set up conditional access for the entire tenant? Wait, wait. Say that last part again. You cut out at one point and I think I might have misheard. Oh, sorry. So the customer set up going with business premium. I think they're trying to save money by going with business basic and business standard, which. Speaker 1 00:00:59 Obviously, doesn't have the security controls that business premium does, like conditional access. Is my understanding, so, I think you had told me once that if there is just at least one business premium license in the tenant. Conditional, the things like conditional access get turned off and booked to everybody. It's been that way in the past, but we might be seeing a change in that soon. I see. Okay, that's all I need to know. I'm going to push for business premium. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Bye. See you. Bye. Okay.
06-16 Weekly Meeting: Anderson Project Miscommunication & Process Improvement
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-06-16 12:04:59 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Mike] [Speaker 3] [Vince] ## Meeting Notes ### Miscommunication on the Anderson Project - **Discussion**: - Christi noted that Vince, an account manager, completed SSO setup for the Anderson project, which fell outside his role and was part of a formal project she was managing. - Vince said he lacked visibility into the project’s status and did not realize Christi was the PM. - Christi asserted she had CC’d Vince on most client emails regarding the kickoff, including AI requirements. - Vince argued the emails he saw focused on a “tenant survey spreadsheet,” and the project appeared to still be in proposal, not active execution. - **Conclusion**: - A breakdown in communication and unclear process caused confusion about project ownership and status. ### Improving Internal Project Handoff and Communication - **Discussion**: - Mike identified a broader company issue: unclear scoping and ownership often create confusion. - He proposed a 15-minute internal kickoff between account management and the PM for every approved project to ensure alignment. - Christi suggested re-adding account management to the weekly project queue-up meetings to increase awareness of ongoing work. - Mike disagreed with the queue-up meeting, saying it was inefficient since most topics were irrelevant to him. - Christi described her practice of checking ConnectWise for open projects before client meetings to stay informed, whereas Mike prefers to ping the PM directly. - **Conclusion**: - The team agreed a better handoff is needed. A brief, dedicated kickoff call for each project was the favored approach. ### Defining Roles and Responsibilities for AI Projects - **Discussion**: - To avoid future confusion, Christi stated all AI-related client requests must go through her. - She is developing an AI project template and training Gabby and Kevin to handle these projects going forward. - Mike reinforced that account managers like Vince should not perform technical project work, as it does not scale and sets the wrong precedent. - Vince agreed the new process would help, noting he was stressed trying to determine next steps for clients on his own. - **Conclusion**: - All new AI project work will be routed through Christi to ensure consistency and proper execution. Account managers will not perform technical tasks. ### Finalizing and Billing the Anderson Project - **Discussion**: - Vince confirmed that from the client’s perspective, the project (Cloud Team setup and SSO) is complete and can be billed. - The final task is deploying the Cloud desktop app to users on the evening of June 17, 2026. - Christi noted Vince’s SSO setup time was not logged against the project ticket. She created a ticket for him to log 15 minutes. - Christi found the Cloud desktop deployment ticket and converted it into a project ticket to ensure all work is tracked correctly within the Anderson project in ConnectWise. - **Conclusion**: - Christi will progress-bill 50% immediately. The final 50% will be billed after the Cloud desktop deployment is completed on June 17, 2026. Vince will upload the user list for invites. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Vince to log 15 minutes on the new ticket for the SSO setup he completed. - [ ] Help desk (Ishmael and Nick) to deploy the Cloud desktop app for Anderson on the evening of June 17, 2026. - [ ] Vince to upload the user CSV into the Cloud Teams admin portal and send invites. - [ ] Christi to process a 50% progress bill for the Anderson project. - [ ] After deployment completion on June 17, 2026, Christi to close out the Anderson project and bill the final 50%. ## AI Suggestions > **AI Suggestions** > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. The team disagreed on the best method for ongoing project communication (15-minute kickoffs vs. weekly queue-up meetings). A definitive process was not established, creating a risk of future misalignments. > 2. While it was agreed that Christi will handle all AI projects for now, the long-term plan for transitioning this responsibility to others (like Gabby and Kevin) or the broader PM team remains unclear. > 3. Account managers’ visibility into project status in ConnectWise was raised but not resolved. Different team members use different methods (checking the system vs. contacting the PM), which can lead to inconsistent information.
- Date
- Jun 16, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hey, so has Vince talked to you in the last couple of minutes? Speaker 2 00:00:08 No, I was in a meeting with uh. Speaker 1 00:00:10 Gotcha. Soum, Anderson has a signed project quote for cloud setup and training. I had been emailing Andrew and on some of those emails I CC Vince and said, hey, we need to get set up for this. For the kickoff meeting. Uh, I guess Vince was not, and this is just my assumption, he wasn't paying attention. Uh, and he did the work for the SSO setup. Which I don't know why he's an account manager. And he should have sent that over to me or the help desk. But, there's an active project that he worked on not realizing what the scope of work is. Speaker 1 00:00:56 I have been emailing the client saying," Hey, we need to get this set up and get a kickoff meeting going." I guess he not in CC him. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:06 All right, let me pull him in because I am not aware of this. Speaker 1 00:01:08 Yeah. So I don't want to make assumptions. Well, He doesn't know I am calling you because I got pulled into a doctor barber issue. Speaker 2 00:01:16 Yeah, but I mean he shouldn't be working on the project though. I mean, so I can tell you right now. One of the biggest problems we have at Crimson is. And I am speaking from on my behalf, but whatever I say, you can just mimic. You can mirror this to Vince, right? Because I know he's in the same boat. We have all these we're supposed to find all these projects for customers, but we have nobody to scope it. Nobody is helping. Speaker 1 00:01:40 I scoped it. I did it all. No, no, Speaker 2 00:01:44 No, i am not. I am not saying this one. I am saying in general in general for a lot of projects. Speaker 1 00:01:48 So unless we i would definitely agree with you on this one Mike. But. The client signed the quote. I scoped it, got it all set up. Speaker 2 00:01:56 No, no, no, no. I'm not talking about this one. So here let me let me shift gears for this particular for Anderson. I'm only bringing that up as to maybe as to why Vince is doing work that he isn't supposed to. Okay Because I had no idea why he would set up SSO. Speaker 3 00:02:15 Yeah So I scoped it Here's my This was sent out. Speaker 2 00:02:24 Okay. We'll just get to the bottom of it. We'll do a lesson learned and Hey Vince. Hey, what's up? Hey, so real quick for and Christy cut me off if I say anything wrong. Um Vince for Anderson, did you set up SSO? Speaker 4 00:02:39 I did. I did yesterday, because You can't do that. Speaker 2 00:02:46 You can't you can't do that because we we have a it's in the project scope, and we have a project team that's doing it. Um, The only way you can do it is if you let the people that are running the project know, and they know that you're doing it because it's gonna it's causing. It can cause a lot of problems. Like we don't like it when the other teams do that, right? Speaker 4 00:03:06 No, I agree. I agree my my My concern here, which I'm glad we're talking about is from my vantage, I had no visibility on like what was happening with that. That project whatsoever. So I don't. Speaker 3 00:03:21 I don't know if who's pming it. I am. That's what I'm saying. Oh, so Chris is Chris is pming it. Yes. Did you know that though? Speaker 1 00:03:32 I had been ccing Vince on half the emails. I was sending over to Andrew and Andrew kept him on the emails as well when he responded trying to get the kickoff meeting set up The. Only one I didn't c c Vince on is the one I just forwarded you. From May 4 th and 11 th. Speaker 4 00:03:53 Okay, so but I think real quick on that one, Christy, like those emails, the ones that you just forwarded me for example, that was talking about tenant survey spreadsheet. That was a different that was a different thing. Speaker 1 00:04:07 So requirements wishlist, which is number two on that same email was for the AI requirements. What they want AI to do, which we had spoke about in that meeting in late April. It was two and one. Speaker 4 00:04:21 I gotta, I gotta push back on that real quick because the the subject is following up on pending materials. We're still waiting on two things before we can move this proposal forward, right? It's still a proposal. So this is specifically referring to them asking about that tenant survey. Speaker 2 00:04:37 Well here, can I just butt in real quick? Can I butt in real quick? Yeah. So it's okay, right? So this is part of the problem, right? Is we don't have clear processes here and so, Every project this happens where everyone gets confused. People are doing things out of order. No one knows who's taking point on what. We, we're trying. We all know that this needs to be fixed, and we're fixing it, okay? So, I think moving forward, Lessons learned for you Vince never touch a project period, just you are not touching anything. We have the team here to do it now in regards to communication. That's the reason Christy I've been telling Julia and Paula. Speaker 2 00:05:18 For any approved project quote, we need to have a kickoff internal kickoff meeting, just like fifteen minutes or just a call, like a quick call. Just. So the the account management team can do a quick download to the PM, and we know who the PM is and everyone gets on the same page. Speaker 1 00:05:36 I I'm gonna I'm gonna not I'm not disagreeing with you. I think you guys need to be added back to the project queue up meetings. Because, this has been a topic. We've discussed on every project queue up meeting that I have been waiting on Anderson to get back to me, and I have been cc'ing Vince on almost all the emails, but two. And the only email I didn't cc him on, Vince, I'm going to kick this back to you because I know you disagree. But in the next line after the requirements wish list, it says these two items are on the gate for those three things on our end. Speaker 1 00:06:09 Finalizing the proposal, scoping the technical build, and scheduling an AI productivity session. All three are blocked until we have these in hand. I was very specific about, hey, we need this for the AI stuff. And it was in the call, it was in the conversation. And then I cc'd you again on July 2n d or June 2n d after the May 2 0t h. And said, and this is where you were succeeding. And said, I wanted to reach out and finally get our AI working session in the books. It's overdue. I think you guys need to be added back to that project queue up because then you'll know what projects are in in the system, you'll know where we are on things, And it will help aid in in the communication disconnect that you guys are talking about. Speaker 2 00:07:00 So we'll try it again, Christy. The reason I don't like that meeting is because you have like eight people on that meeting. And no one's really talking except for like two people at a time. So for me to participate for the whole meeting, I am literally only need to be there for like ten minutes, But now I am forced to eat up an hour of my day, listening to all these other projects, I have nothing to do with. That was my big dilemma because I used to be part of those meetings, But after like my fourth meeting where it here is really no nothing for me or nothing for me, I just said okay it's it's a pointless meeting. I'll just exit. That's why I was saying that that. Speaker 2 00:07:35 Fifteen minute just sales to project team handoff should be sufficient. Should be in my eyes, yeah. And I know it works where I used to work at before we did this for every meeting and it worked beautifully. Rather than having a weekly one hour meeting where you got like ten people on there. And it's just honestly for eighty percent of the people participating, it's like an hour out of their day where they're really not. It's an expensive meeting when it doesn't have to be that expensive. Speaker 1 00:08:05 I get it, but I mean, if you look at my calendar, we have so much going on in the way of projects. It's one more thing added to my list, and I am trying to pare things down. But honestly, At this point, like Vince, you've been kept in the loop, even if it was even if I mean I put the wording in there on the AI productivity session. Everything was in there. He was responding back for some things, and then when it came to actually scheduling, and we asked Rebecca, "Hey, what do you want?" It went ghost town. And it was fully scoped. And Vince, your statement earlier when you and I talked was well It's not scoped." It was scoped. Everything was in there. The project was put out i I fully scoped it out for them. Speaker 1 00:08:56 We gave them, there's always going to be training involved with all of these AI projects. And that's something I've been saying from the beginning. We always want to make sure that we're doing user training because we need to have that account access cover, the basic usage, best practices and usage limit and cost awareness because if we don't, they're going to get broadsided by a $500, 000 bill like other companies have been seeing. So we want to make sure that they understand all of that. Speaker 3 00:09:26 And I had real quick so that we don't. Speaker 2 00:09:30 Just go in circles. Vince, Is there anything you could have done better or we could have done differently on this? Speaker 4 00:09:41 Yeah, if I'm being honest, on my weekly calls with Anderson, rather than taking point on the AI stuff, I can say, hey, we need to loop in Christy for this because I think what the confusion was. My part was they signed a quote for Claude team setup. That's that's literally how it's the proposal is named right. So Claude team setup, we had one initial call with Christy, We set that up. And then the only thing left on the table was configuring SSO. That's, what was missing and then outside of that, I didn't connect the dots because the emails that Christy is referring to. Speaker 4 00:10:23 It's looped in with another conversation about the tenant survey stuff. And so, I didn't see that there was any cause. What I am used to seeing is, I'll get a project like Segret is doing it, Paul is doing it, Giulio is doing it. Okay, Here is a project, and then there is an internal kickoff call. And it's like, okay, here are the next steps. Here's what needs to happen. And I didn't see that for this one. So in my mind, I am like, okay, yep. Speaker 2 00:10:52 Yeah, so Christy, like ideally moving forward, I know you are PMing your own projects, but ideally moving forward we have like dedicated PMs that PM projects. Yeah. Right. So we're not there yet, But in the future, you are not pming the projects ;. You are a project resource. But like Paula or Julia or Seg is actually running the schedule communicating with the customer. ;, you are just a resource. So I think t here is a lessons learned for our team like, We need to do better, like to answer Vince's. Like part of the concern is the scoping or setting the expectation. And Christyne, and if I am not honestly, I am not sure if I follow everything. But if you are saying hey there was some miscommunication from Vince to you, Then if you are okay with it, because I know I pulled you into my meetings to try to avoid that. Would you prefer that moving forward? Speaker 1 00:11:43 Let me let me just make it easy because Vince, you made a statement in the last all hands meeting. You are like, if any client wants to do anything about AI, have them come see the account managers. Have them come to me. Anything AI goes through me from now on until we can get everybody on the same page. And that way, because I've got a lot of AI projects going on. And I've been very on top of my projects, Much better than I had been in the last year because I've got the timing and ability to do it. So anything AI related just needs to come through me so that I can make sure that everything is the same, that because I have this templated out. Um and I have it down to a science. So just come. Just so. Speaker 3 00:12:30 That I can make sure it's done properly and it's updated. Yeah, sure. Speaker 4 00:12:37 Yeah, I agree. That that'd be super helpful because I'm over here, stressing about like where the next steps are and I'm just trying to get things done. So I get it. Speaker 2 00:12:46 Chris, I think part of part of us, maybe the struggle that we have just so Chris, I think that's a great idea. And we'll do i'll make sure we do that moving forward, right? Because that's going to avoid a lot of these, for example, this issue, right? I believeum for all the other projects, we don't have a Christy to lean on. Speaker 1 00:13:03 And I get that. But this one needs to stay with me until I can get it templated out because AI is such a finicky beast, and it's changing week for week. I can't expect either of you two to do AI projects and build it out. I'm already training Gabby and Kevin to be able to take these over in the near future, but with it changing almost weekly at this point, yeah, it just needs to come to me so that I can work Jason, Gabby and Kevin. Um, because Gabby is already knee deep done half of the hours required on Oliar. So right now it's just it's just got to be. Speaker 2 00:13:41 Vince, so one hundred percent clear. I think we have good next steps moving forward. And Vince, yeah, no more touching projects, right? Because I know I know, you can do it and you have the technical ability, But we don't want operationally other team members thinking, account management does this kind of stuff because that doesn't scale. Remember, the next account manager is not going to be technical. Right. So we have to build that muscle memory that the team handles everything technical, not account management. Speaker 1 00:14:10 Yeah, and just a heads up guys, I didn't know that I was supposed to be progress billing on projects until this week. So I almost invoiced Anderson five minutes before I called Vince on this because you made that statement Vince and I was in the middle of progress billing for Anderson. Because things changed because I got pulled out of projects by Anzor, and then put back in by Pete. And was aware of none of the changes. Speaker 4 00:14:37 Well, let me also okay, So let me add the reason why I reached out to you when I saw that email come in was cause you're talking about like, oh, hey, what do we want to do with like connectors and all this other stuff? Right. Yeah. And, they have they already brought in like a third party consultant to help them with AI stuff. So that's why I'm like, okay my understanding of, The initial project was simply to set up Teams. Like, I mean, sorry, Cloud Teams. That's it. And set up the SSO. So I think that's something we also need to clarify because if you're saying that it also includes AI drafting policies and all this stuff, that even though it's in the scope of work, That didn't come across clear to me because I didn't see it coming as an actual project. So that's something that I'm just pointing out. Speaker 1 00:15:26 So this the signed scope of work that they signed. SSO configuration, which was the first phase, and then connector setup. Like this was this what they signed back in April thirtieth. Because I I don't know what they sign if I don't work on the SOW, I don't know. And so I always check this, even if I built out the SSO because the use the client may come back and say, hey, we don't need phase three. And they may, and Chinki and the team may retract that from the quote. So every time I get a signed quote, I double check the scope of work just to make sure it's either still what I said or I know if there is any changes and what the actual scope of work is. And I will always verify that. Speaker 4 00:16:15 So, I guess in this particular case, my mistake is I didn't know you were PMing this project, right? It was more like hey we just got to get this thing signed. So we got it signed, And it's we already had that first remember, we had that initial call with Rebecca where we walked her through setting up Cloud teams. Yeah. And then the only thing left from that, The takeaway from that was the follow- up here is set up SSO and then go through all the training stuff that you just mentioned as as part of like, you know, a a project. Speaker 1 00:16:45 And, we also asked in that meeting for the wishlist, what they want Cloud to do because that's what the wishlist was about. Like, what are the things you want to connect to Cloud? What are the connectors you need? All of that. So that was in that meeting too, that you and I were both in with them. So that I could understand it and make sure that I get everything set up. But, just a quick heads up for both of you from back when I was doing the only person doing y'all's job and I was sitting down with clients, um, I always write before when I am prepping for those meetings is i pull them up in ConnectWise. Speaker 1 00:17:21 And I go through, I look at the company. I go through, I look at the invoicing, I look at finance. But I'll also look at the project list to see what's open and in progress. And it shows there. Do you guys do that before you meet with your clients? Speaker 2 00:17:38 I don't, I don't look at pro-. I talk to Julia to say, hey, what's the status of the project? Speaker 1 00:17:44 So, i i do it a little differently because i got my hand slapped early on that when i reach out to people. It was just stopping them from getting their work done. And. So I just started going into the projects list here under the companies to see what's still active. And then when I'm meeting with clients, I'm like, hey, how's the pod team setup go? And if they're struggling with it, Then I'll hear about it from their angle, rather than hearing what's what the status is from my team. Speaker 2 00:18:12 Yeah, I just pinged the PM. It's easier. Speaker 1 00:18:15 I know but that way I can get my hands back for that. Speaker 3 00:18:18 So yeah. Speaker 2 00:18:20 Well, we never had PMs before. Speaker 1 00:18:21 True. We did. It was Bray. Speaker 2 00:18:24 He did? He wasn't a PM, he was a project engineer. Speaker 1 00:18:28 Yeah, don't get me started on that. That's why it took over a year to get something done here. Speaker 2 00:18:32 Yeah, We don't we no longer have to decipher in trust notes and connect wise I just go straight to the PM to say, hey, I'm about to meet with Dimitri. Anything you need me to bring up any concerns and then I have my meeting. Speaker 1 00:18:44 So just so that you guys know. Um, with Anderson, I haven't updated the working plan in the project because I'm still waiting to do that. But my notes are in in that project of where I'm at. So just so that you guys know for the future, I am updating notes. Speaker 2 00:19:03 Yeah, but I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I get it. It's, i don't want to debate the merits of checking ConnectWise as the primary method of getting things on projects. Speaker 1 00:19:14 I Just just for that you guys are aware when I'm out, all my tickets are updated. So and all my time is in here. I made sure so Alere's one, um, here's the entire project plan and it's set to the scope. So and everything's in here. Speaker 2 00:19:33 Eventually the PMs will be doing this. Speaker 1 00:19:36 Eventually Um I am I am doing this, And that's how I like you can see all of Gabby's notes in here because she's been doing it. Christi, I am forcing the team. I am scheduling these out in advance so that it is on their calendar and I'm forcing the team to actually do the work in ConnectWise Classic. They're supposed to. Okay, cool. So just so that you guys are aware of what I'm doing because if I'm gone, which I'm going to be gone again for another week in eight weeks, You guys know where we're at and there shouldn't be any questions, like there will always be questions. Speaker 1 00:20:08 But I'm forcing everybody to do things like they're supposed to so that we can track correctly. And then that way our recaps look well, we can run good reporting. It's the way I've been trying to get project management team to do this forever. So, I'm leading by example. Speaker 2 00:20:25 Check with Paula. Gonna make sure Paula and Sega are doing this too. Speaker 1 00:20:28 Uh, Sega is because they don't like ConnectWise, but if it's not in ConnectWise it really happened Yeah. Speaker 2 00:20:36 They don't have a choice what we have to use. Speaker 1 00:20:39 Yeah, so Mike, I know you're involved in the earlier one. Here you go. Like you can see, we've done a lot of work on this one. Anderson, I haven't updated because we hadn't had the kickoff meeting and they put a generic template against it. But I don't know now what to do. Vince Do I, let it go and just let you handle it and just close out the project or what? And not build them. Speaker 4 00:21:06 So here's where we're at. So I mean, we need to build them because again, the project was for setting up cloud teams and SSO. That's like that's in their mind, how they see the project and in their mind, it's completed already. So okay, we can fully build them. The only the only thing left from from Anderson's perspective is we're scheduling a deployment of their cloud desktop app to the selected users right? So RMM script push silent install, And then getting invites uploaded into Cloud. So it'll go out to them uh tomorrow night. Speaker 1 00:21:44 Okay so one problem. No one's ticket. Speaker 3 00:21:49 Time is in here because it's all in Service Tickets. And your where you set up the SSO is not in here. It's not in service, it's not in projects, so your time is not against it. So that that's one small problem. So I'm going to convert this one to a project ticket, if the system will let me. Speaker 3 00:22:30 Okay, so that one's set to a ticket, but I need Vince. Speaker 1 00:22:33 I need your ticket time or I need you to put the ticket into the project so that we have. Speaker 3 00:22:38 It in there because I can't do anything. Does that make sense? Yeah, if you want to assign me the ticket, I'll just put in. I mean, it was literally 15 minutes, right. So When did you do it yesterday? Uhhuh Did you already submit your timesheet? Uh yesterday's timesheet yeah, All right, So I'm gonna put it in that you did the work today for 15 minutes. Because yesterday's time is already closed out. Speaker 2 00:23:09 I have to hop in, I have to hop in two minutes. Speaker 1 00:23:11 No worries, go ahead. Um but does this make sense Vince that we have to, I have to put it for today because last last pay period, which yesterday was last pay period? That's fine yeah okay that's fine. I'll just make a ticket for you then and I'll close it out in your name. Speaker 1 00:23:30 Thank you. You're welcome, And then I'll close out this project as done and build them one hundred percent. Speaker 4 00:23:37 Well, one last thing. So, they did email me the user list that they want to add to the invites. Okay, Do you want me to do that? Or do you want me to loop you back in for this? Speaker 3 00:23:47 Do It but keep me in the loop. Okay, so. Speaker 4 00:23:54 Again, the last the last milestone for them right now is, They requested that Cloud desktop get pushed out along with like the Wednesday update. So Wednesday evening, tomorrow evening, the expectation is Cloud desktop. And I've already opened a ticket for this one separately that we probably need to tie back into this project. Yeah. Is to just push push that Cloud desktop out and then go into their Cloud Teams uh, admin portal and upload the CSV for all the users that they want to get the invite. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:24:26 And that's easy. If the ticket's already open, you go to and let me show you how to do it. Um, Speaker 3 00:24:33 Anyway, okay. So do you know who has the ticket? Um, it's Ishmael and Nick. Where I don't see my my phone's crazy. Speaker 3 00:24:58 Is that Miss Patrick? I submitted the ticket request yesterday. Let me see if I got a ticket number. Submitted to Help Desk and. Speaker 4 00:25:21 Assigned to Anderson Real Estate Deploy Cloud Desktop on 617. I don't think I got a. Speaker 3 00:25:29 You didn't get a ticket number? I just get an automated response. Yeah, I didn't get a ticket number though. That's weird. Maybe it's in Christi email. Oh, most likely, yeah. It just didn't get toggled. Speaker 3 00:26:06 Summary description should be assigned to Anderson. Here we go. Um, towards the end, a little bit higher, maybe like ten. There we go. Yeah, hang on one second. This is Andrew that has my name. Speaker 1 00:26:37 All right. Are you going to assign to it for tomorrow? Okay. So here's how you assign it to your project. Once you save it, you got to make sure it's saved. Go to more and convert project ticket. And then your, you've got to choose project ticket first so that this is, You can select this and then um, you're going to say save. You know, forgot the parentheses um Project Execution, And hit save. And now it's under the project. So I'm going to go ahead and progress bill for 50%. And then once this is done, we'll progress bill for the rest. Speaker 3 00:27:18 Sweet. Okay. Thank you. Okay, bye. Thank you.
06-19 Pulong Lingguhan: Microsoft Co-pilot Licenses para kay Carnie, Assignment at Pagbabayad
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- ## Impormasyon ng Pulong > Petsa: 2026-06-19 23:34:43 > Lokasyon: [Ilagay ang Lokasyon] > Mga Kalahok: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 2] [Sergio] [Speaker 4] ## Mga Tala ng Pulong ### Pagdaragdag ng Microsoft Co-pilot Subscription para kay Carnie - Sinusuri ni Speaker 1 kung paano magdagdag ng Co-pilot subscription para kay Carnie sa SureWeb, dahil wala pa silang umiiral na subscription doon. - Nabanggit ni Jason na mayroon nang anim na Co-pilot license, ngunit hindi ito nakikita sa SureWeb, na nagpapahiwatig na maaaring ito ay isang direct subscription. - Pinag-usapan ang mga opsyon sa pagbabayad, kabilang ang taunang bayad (yearly) o taunang kontrata na may buwanang pagbabayad (annual paid monthly). - Sinuri ni Speaker 2 ang isang proyekto para kay Carnie Properties na may kaugnayan sa "AI training," ngunit ito ay para lamang sa "professional fee" at "labor." ### Pagkalkula ng Bilang ng Lisensya at Pag-order - Kinumpirma ni Speaker 1 na mayroon nang anim na lisensya at kailangan nilang magdagdag para maging 15 lahat, hindi 16 tulad ng unang sinabi ni Christi. - Kinakalkula na kailangan nilang magdagdag ng siyam na lisensya. Dahil mayroon silang isang "spare license," walo na lang ang kailangang idagdag. - Nag-log in si Speaker 1 sa MS Admin Portal para kay Carnie upang suriin ang mga kasalukuyang lisensya. - Natuklasan na mayroon nang siyam na lisensya ng "Co-pilot Businesses" na hindi pa naka-assign sa sinumang user. ### Pakikipag-ugnayan kay Christi at Pagbabahagi ng Video - Sinubukan ni Speaker 1 na tawagan si Christi para linawin ang isyu sa mga hindi pa naka-assign na lisensya, ngunit abala si Christi. - Habang naghihintay, ibinahagi ni Speaker 1 ang isang video na ginawa ni Stephanie. - Ang video ay isang montage ng mga larawan na may kasamang musika. - Nagpasya si Speaker 1 na ipagpatuloy muna ang paggawa ng report para kay Ensor at i-follow up na lang si Speaker 2 sa tawag kung kinakailangan. ## Susunod na mga Hakbang - [ ] Kumpirmahin kay Christi kung bakit may siyam na "Co-pilot Businesses" na lisensya na hindi pa naka-assign at kung alin ang dapat gamitin. - [ ] Mag-assign ng mga Co-pilot license sa mga user batay sa kumpirmasyon (isama kung “Co-pilot” vs “Co-pilot Business” ang tama para sa bawat user). - [ ] Ipadala ang report kay Ensor. - [ ] Suriin ang video na ginawa ni Stephanie at magbigay ng feedback. ## Mga Mungkahi ng AI > **Mga Mungkahi ng AI** > Natukoy ng AI ang mga sumusunod na isyu na hindi natapos sa pulong o kulang sa malinaw na mga hakbang; mangyaring bigyang-pansin: > 1. Ang pulong ay nagtapos nang hindi nalulutas ang paunang problema kung paano magdagdag ng mga lisensya, dahil natuklasan na mayroon nang sapat na lisensya na hindi pa naka-assign. Ang susunod na hakbang para i-assign ang mga ito ay kailangan pa ng kumpirmasyon mula kay Christi. > 2. Hindi malinaw kung ang dalawang magkaibang uri ng Co-pilot na nakita sa portal ("Co-pilot" at "Co-pilot business") ay nakakaapekto sa kung paano dapat i-assign ang mga lisensya.
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- Jun 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:00 Hello, Mi. Sorry na. Speaker 1 00:00:04 Alam mo ba ba nung mag-add ng pagbagong subscription, Kunwari ito kay Carnie? Kasi kailangan nila ng co-pilot. Pero pagtingin ko dun sa ano, Akala ko nung nag-reach out si Christi, May existing co-pilot na dito sa SureWeb ni Carnie. Wala pa sila under nitong subscriptions na to. Speaker 1 00:00:25 Kaso... Speaker 2 00:00:26 Pero wait nga, Ayan ba yung... Wait, wait. Check ko lang yung ni-request ni Gabby nung last. Kung kasi niyon. Sige. Wait lang, Amie. Speaker 2 00:00:40 Procurement. Speaker 1 00:00:46 Sabi ko, crazy, I'm confused. I thought, oh, so I'm a bit confused. Speaker 1 00:01:02 Jason said they already have six co-pilot licenses, but they are not in SureWeb. When I check, is this... Speaker 1 00:01:31 A direct subscription. Speaker 1 00:01:51 Iba pala mi. Iba. And the rest I need. Speaker 1 00:01:59 Oh, pilot siya. And missing ones I need to add in SureWeb. Kasi kung mag-a-add naman, ito lang naman yun, no? Kailangan ko lang malaman kung... Ah, yearly lang ata lagi ang ano? Microsoft, no? Speaker 1 00:02:21 Itong may annual, yearly, itong yearly, and then may annual paid pero monthly ang payment. Alinman sa dalawang ito. Speaker 2 00:02:33 Wait, kailangan makita yung sa project. Speaker 1 00:02:39 Hanapin mo nga kung may project Si Carnie na ano. Ah, yung AI siguro ito. Speaker 1 00:02:48 Tingnan mo kung may, Associated code. Speaker 2 00:02:54 Carnie Properties. AI training nga. Check ko lang yung... Speaker 1 00:02:59 Kung ilan yung ni-request nila. Speaker 2 00:03:04 Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:09 Eh, wala man. Speaker 2 00:03:13 Kwan lang to? Speaker 2 00:03:16 CIT professional fee. Labor lang siya. Speaker 1 00:03:21 Per seat in case, kong ipapa-add, Kirstie Kirstie to, iclick ko lang to. Speaker 2 00:03:25 Wait lang. Speaker 2 00:03:27 Base doon din sa isang in-add ni Christian sa ARC Capital ba ito? Microsoft 365 Co-pilot to, di ba? Speaker 1 00:03:36 Oo, Co-pilot to. Speaker 2 00:03:37 Co-pilot annual, annual paid monthly. Speaker 1 00:03:41 Okay, for example, ito nga yun. Pag mag-a-add ako ng subscription sa kanila, since wala pang any subscription for Carney, Ito lang ba iclick ko just para ma-add dito? Subscription, tama ba? Speaker 2 00:03:55 Um, mag-add ka na ata, Mi, ng ilan. Pwede ba? Try mo nga mag-plus. Speaker 1 00:03:60 Ah, like maglalagay na ako dito sa quantity. Akala ko, may click ko pa to, and then from there, saka siya ma-add dito. Saka tayo mag-ano ng quantity. Speaker 2 00:04:12 Um, okay lang naman na, Mi, yung plus. Tapos mag-save naman siya. Speaker 1 00:04:16 Ah, okay nang mag-update ng quantity dito? Mm-mm. Ah, okay. So ngayon, ang kailangan ko na lang confirmation ni Christi. Speaker 2 00:04:24 I don't know. Speaker 1 00:04:27 I know that Christian did it. Oh, shoot. Speaker 1 00:04:34 Looks like he didn't. Speaker 1 00:04:38 I'm not seeing anything here. Speaker 1 00:04:45 Kasi yan lang naman oo nga, no? Blank siya. Wala eh, oh. Speaker 2 00:04:52 Oh, kind of properties. Speaker 1 00:04:59 Wait, they don't go through. Okay, so are we... Yeah, because I believe... Speaker 2 00:05:15 I remember seeing that in Hudu. Speaker 1 00:05:18 Yeah, because we do not manage there. MS licenses eh. Speaker 1 00:05:26 Oh. Let me check. Who do? So, from From who do, Tingnan natin, Sa unang Credentials, Companies. Grabe! Kung akala, Nagmamadali ako. Just kaya. Ang daming nangyari today. Like, mula kaninang morning, Walang tigil yung calls ko, Walang tigil yung meetings ko. Sabi ko, Speaker 1 00:05:57 Teka lang naman. Speaker 1 00:06:02 Hindi ko pa na-review yung video, Na sinend ni Stephanie, Pero tapos naman na niya. Speaker 2 00:06:08 Ah, okay. Speaker 1 00:06:10 Co-pilot. Speaker 1 00:06:15 Ah, feeling ko. Baka since direct, Oh, Baka mismo doon na ako sa ano, Wait, Baka doon na mismo sa portal ako mag ano, Wait nga. How to order copilot, Copilot licenses Via, Um, Speaker 1 00:06:46 MS Admin Portal. Speaker 1 00:06:51 Wait, mag-login tayo. Speaker 1 00:06:58 Google Chrome. Speaker 1 00:07:02 O, saan na siya? Speaker 1 00:07:04 Karin. Speaker 2 00:07:05 Karin na naman. Friday. Charot. Speaker 1 00:07:07 Oo, just good eye. Ayan, ayan. Speaker 2 00:07:09 Kariniprap. Speaker 1 00:07:11 Wait. Ayan, admin.microsoft.com. Ayan. Admin.microsoft.com Okay. So, mayroon akong password dito. May access ako sa mga password. Speaker 2 00:07:35 Siyempre, ikaw ang powerful. Speaker 1 00:07:38 Yes. Ito. Yes. Tignan natin, Carmi. Speaker 2 00:07:43 Naka-account ka naman, Mi? Speaker 1 00:07:45 Oo, naka VPN ako. VPN? Yes. Speaker 1 00:07:50 Copy, password, sign in, OTP, copy. Speaker 1 00:08:16 Let's see. Speaker 1 00:08:20 Tabling. Tignan natin yung licenses nila. Kung anim na nga dito yung co-pilot. Speaker 1 00:08:31 Ah, ayun. Kita ko na. Speaker 1 00:08:35 I see it now. Speaker 1 00:08:46 There is one spare license. Speaker 1 00:09:03 I just need to add eight more. Speaker 1 00:09:09 So seven. Speaker 1 00:09:14 Diyos ko, nabobo na ako sa math. Okay lang yun. Ay, wait. Oo, kasi may 6 na siya. May 6 na daw silang licenses. 9 pa yung, Kailangan. So, 9 plus 6. So, 15, Hindi ano. Speaker 2 00:09:36 Hindi 16. Speaker 1 00:09:38 Okay, so kung ano, Speaker 1 00:09:41 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Or 6. Therefore, we only need 9 incremental. 15, mali Nang sabi si Christi. 16 kasi, Sabi niya dito. Speaker 2 00:09:52 Oo nga. Oo, nakita ko yung 16. Speaker 1 00:09:55 Wait. They only, Need 15. They already have, 6. So, I just need To add. Speaker 1 00:10:12 Fifteen. Speaker 1 00:10:15 I need to add. Tama, eight na nga lang. Eight more. So, I just need to add eight more since they have a spare. Speaker 1 00:10:33 Asa na yun? Paano mag-order, ? (no correction, likely a name)? Speaker 2 00:10:38 Punta ka lang. Mag-a-add ka lang ata dun, ? (no correction, likely a name), kasi mayroon na. Hindi ba? Check ka nga yung portal niya. Speaker 2 00:10:47 Ayan, ayan. Speaker 1 00:10:52 Hindi, mag-a-assign ka dito. Pero, kung mag-o-order ka kasi, dito ata siya sa products. Ayan, ayan. Tapos, punta tayo. Speaker 2 00:11:01 Tapos, search mo. Speaker 1 00:11:04 Co-pilot. Hayop na yan. Diyos ko, daya. Speaker 2 00:11:07 Ayan, ayan. Ito yun. Yan, Mi. Yan. Speaker 1 00:11:11 Ay, wait. Bakit dalawa na'y nandito? Speaker 2 00:11:19 Magkaiba yan, co-pilot business. Speaker 1 00:11:28 Oh, shoot. Ano'y nandito sa licenses nila? Parehas active eh. Speaker 1 00:11:35 Ayun, oh. Speaker 1 00:11:37 Ah, kung na'y... Meron na. Hindi lang naka-assign. Ah. Speaker 1 00:11:46 Christi, can I call you quick? Ay, naka-away siya. Speaker 1 00:11:52 Wait. There's already, Nine. Nine co-pilot Businesses but, No, Users Assigned yet. Speaker 2 00:12:15 Ay, gulo-gulo ni Christi. Speaker 1 00:12:17 Can I call you quick? Speaker 2 00:12:25 Sumagot ka. O yan, naka-green na siya. Sagot naman siya agad. Speaker 1 00:12:32 Wait, add nga natin siya dito sa call. Yes, but I'm about to go through a dead zone. Let me get back to my apartment, Because I'm two minutes away. Okay. Got it. Speaker 1 00:12:50 Hype na yan. Ay, wait. Pakita ko na sa'yo yung video, Habang inaantay natin siya. Sige, sige. Share ako ng ano. Speaker 2 00:12:60 Ma-excite din. Sarot. Speaker 1 00:13:02 Sabi ko pa naman, Wait, mag-send na ako ng report, Kay Anzor Pultek na yan. Biglang ang daming mga Nagsisingit na request. Speaker 2 00:13:09 Kaloka. Speaker 1 00:13:10 Ano na yun, Stephanie? Ayan. Ay. Hingin ko dadalhin ko tong laptop ko sa ano natin. Speaker 1 00:13:20 Dadalhin ko to sa Sunday kasi walang mga dalang laptop yung mga yun, di ba? Kasi mamaya pa sila mag-check-in. Speaker 2 00:13:27 True. Ayan. O ba? Ang babata nila dyan, ha? Speaker 1 00:13:33 No, mga sinaunang ano pa to. Speaker 2 00:13:35 Oo. Speaker 2 00:13:39 At pati pala kayo, eh. Speaker 1 00:13:41 Oo. Nasaan na yun? How cute. Speaker 1 00:13:46 Pero, kailangan pala, Yung pag-share ko sa'yo, Included yung ano? Speaker 2 00:13:51 Yung sounds. Speaker 1 00:13:52 Yes. Wait, stop sharing ako. Speaker 1 00:13:55 Share, include sound. Speaker 1 00:14:00 Include sound, okay. Speaker 1 00:14:04 Tapos, Speaker 3 00:14:07 Rima. Speaker 4 00:14:09 A week ago you said to me Do you believe I'll never be too far If you're lost just look for me You'll find me in the region of the summer stars Sabi nang slow mo, In fact we can sit right here and say goodbye Means we've already won At ito yung nag-ano kami, coron. Speaker 4 00:14:40 A necessity for apologies between you and me Baby, there is none. Speaker 4 00:14:48 Ah-ooh, we had some good times, didn't we? Ah-ooh, we had some good treats, so fastly Ah-ooh, goodbye, bittersweet, It's not the end I see your face again. Speaker 3 00:15:09 Ay, nag-ano? Speaker 1 00:15:34 Kumakano yung internet? Speaker 2 00:15:38 Malakas si internet mo din dyan. Speaker 1 00:15:40 Eh, medyo ano, hindi ganun kalakasan. Pero 75 Mbps eh. Pero nakasurvive naman kami. O, di ba? Hindi niya kinatabla yun. Ayan. Puro si Marvin too yata. Y-hub, si Jane kasi madalang mag-ayon. Madalang mag-ano. Speaker 4 00:16:06 Oo. We wore our hearts out on a sleeve. Speaker 1 00:16:10 Ay, me. I-send ko na lang muna sa'yo. Panoodin mo ha. And then let me know kung may feedback ka. Kasi, kailangan ko na palang isend yung ano. Yung reports kay... Tawag dito? Kay Ensor. Sige, me. Add na lang kita sa call later pag kailangan kita ha. Sige, me. Okay, sige. Bye. Thank you, me. Bye.
05-19 Meeting: Project Status, Migrations, Security, and AI Rollouts
- Notes
- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-19 10:32:29 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Speaker 2] [Pete] [Olivia] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Project Management Assignments and Role Context - Pete explained why non-PM team members appear as project managers for certain initiatives. - Assignments may reflect client ownership (e.g., VCIO roles) or department-led efforts (e.g., PC refresh). - Paula was welcomed as the new project manager. - Topic Title: Project 2612 – 82 Homes Firewall Delivery Status - Olivia reported device shipment is supposed to occur next week. - Vendor has provided limited information; parts are backlogged. - Pete requested regular delivery checks and suggested Maggie call support every few days. - Conclusion: Continue monitoring shipment; Maggie to make periodic support calls. - Topic Title: Migration from IT Glue to Hudu - Cutoff date for IT Glue is June 10, 2026; team aims to finish by June 1, 2026. - Significant progress was made last week; work continues. - Olivia asked whether to bulk-sync documentation for recently offboarded clients (e.g., Ashland) into Hudu and then archive. - Pete approved bulk-sync and archiving for old clients no longer supported. - Paula has Hudu training scheduled; no IT Glue training planned. - Conclusion: Proceed with bulk-sync for offboarded clients; target completion by June 1, 2026. - Topic Title: Project 2663 – Signal Partners Onboarding - Olivia asked about communication with Tim; Christi spoke to him and shared info with Pete before his vacation. - Christi plans to follow up with Pete when his schedule allows. - Conclusion: Christi to circle back with Pete; timing after his workload eases. - Topic Title: How to Elevate Rollout (Device Enrollment and Rules) - Over 1,000 devices are enrolled. - Rules rollout has begun for specific companies (names not fully captured due to STT noise). - Conclusion: Ongoing progress in rule deployment. - Topic Title: Carney Properties Training Schedule - Training is set for late June; project paused until June 15, 2026. - Client has not selected which system they want. - Conclusion: Project on pause pending client system choice; earliest resume June 15, 2026. - Topic Title: SHARP Security Migration and MFA Activation - Ready to migrate security items to the security stack. - MFA was turned on with a grace period; minimal issues reported so far. - Seg will set a meeting with Anton to plan migrations, excluding secure mail for now. - Christi will review tickets related to MFA issues. - Conclusion: MFA activated; plan meeting with Anton; proceed with security migration excluding secure mail. - Topic Title: Computer Upgrades Progress - Robert will work on Friday due to a day off earlier in the week. - 50–60 computers remain to be migrated. - Conclusion: Upgrades ongoing; Robert continuing work on Friday. - Topic Title: Ability First Cabling Infrastructure Issues - Project not on track; Crimson’s portion is completed. - Issues exist on the low-voltage side; a pivot may be necessary. - Christi will update Pete after meeting with Michonne. - Conclusion: Await update post-Christi’s meeting; potential approach change. - Topic Title: Kotsen AI Training and Policy - Training started today. - AI policy will be sent for signatures after training. - Client has not chosen their AI; training will cover both Copilot and Claude. - Team feedback will be requested after training. - Conclusion: Training in progress; policy distribution next; AI selection pending. - Topic Title: Alliance (DTLA) Cloud Team Setup - Kickoff meeting scheduled this week. - Deadlines to be defined after kickoff. - Conclusion: Await kickoff to set timelines. - Topic Title: Anderson Real Estate Cloud Team Setup - Initial meeting occurred; waiting on their wishlist and required items. - Christi will send a reminder email today (2026-05-19). - Conclusion: Pending client inputs; reminder being sent. - Topic Title: Leer Property Group Kickoff - Kickoff meeting scheduled for Thursday, 2026-05-21, at 9:00 AM. - Agenda draft ready to send today; alignment took time due to a holdout (Kenny). - Conclusion: Kickoff set; agenda to be shared. - Topic Title: Project Completion Estimates Request - Speaker 2 asked for estimated dates and percentages. - Christi noted DTLA, Anderson, and Leer are new projects; deadlines will be set post-kickoff. - Conclusion: Estimates to be provided after kickoff meetings. - Topic Title: Avalon AI Payment and Template - Waiting for payment; also awaiting a template from Christi. - Christi contacted Vance: one payment received, another pending; needs clarity on scope. - Christi will provide the Downtown LA template as a substitute. - Conclusion: Provide DTLA template; proceed after full payment and scope clarification. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] 82 Homes Firewall (Project 2612) - Maggie to call vendor support every few days regarding shipment. - Continue monitoring delivery; consider escalation if delays persist. - [ ] IT Glue to Hudu Migration - Complete migration by 2026-06-01; archive offboarded clients (e.g., Ashland) in Hudu. - Paula to attend Hudu training; no IT Glue training planned. - [ ] Signal Partners (Project 2663) - Christi to follow up with Pete on onboarding details after his workload eases. - Set an alignment date to prevent drift. - [ ] SHARP Security and MFA - Seg to schedule meeting with Anton for security migration (excluding secure mail). - Christi to review MFA-related tickets; define plan and timeline for secure mail later. - [ ] Computer Upgrades - Robert to continue upgrades on Friday, 2026-05-22; 50–60 computers remaining. - [ ] Ability First Cabling - Christi to update Pete after meeting with Michonne; document risks and options; prepare for potential pivot. - [ ] Kotsen AI - Send AI policy for team signatures after training completion. - Establish criteria and a decision deadline for AI selection (Copilot vs. Claude); gather team feedback. - [ ] Alliance (DTLA) Cloud - Hold kickoff this week; define project deadlines afterward. - [ ] Anderson Real Estate Cloud - Send reminder email today (2026-05-19) for wishlist and requirements; await inputs. - [ ] Leer Property Group - Send agenda draft today; conduct kickoff on 2026-05-21 at 9:00 AM. - [ ] Avalon AI - Provide DTLA template to Speaker 2; confirm remaining payment and clarify scope with Vance. - [ ] Project Estimates - Provide estimated dates and percentages after kickoffs for DTLA, Anderson, and Leer. - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. 82 Homes firewall delivery remains uncertain due to vendor backlogs; consider escalation paths or alternative sourcing if delays persist. > 2. SHARP secure mail migration exclusion needs a defined plan and timeline; clarify dependencies and schedule. > 3. Ability First low-voltage issues may require a revised approach; document risks, options, and decision owners after Christi’s meeting with Michonne. > 4. Kotsen AI selection (Copilot vs. Claude) is pending; establish criteria and a decision deadline to avoid policy and training ambiguity. > 5. Signal Partners onboarding next steps depend on Pete’s follow-up; set a date for alignment to prevent drift.
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:02 Hey Paula. Welcome to the team. Hello everyone, morning. Good morning. Speaker 2 00:00:12 Hello Oh, I think I'm going to share my screen and Segre asked me to lead the meeting. Are we waiting for anyone else? Speaker 3 00:00:25 Is Seg not joining? Speaker 2 00:00:27 She said she's in a meeting, Mavericks meeting, and she's going to join as soon as possible. Okay. Can you guys see my screen? Speaker 1 00:00:37 Yes, but just heads up, I got to jump in. I got to jump at 11 because I've got the AI training with Kossen. Speaker 2 00:00:44 Okay. Awesome. We'll try to be quick. So if you haven't met Paula, Paula is our new project manager here, And we are welcome her to the team. So let's start with Olivia. Go ahead, did you want to say something? Speaker 3 00:01:06 I was just going to say Paula gets to uh, I don't know Paula if you've seen this initial list of our projects yet, but the folks that are listed as project managers here are sort of the people that are the point for these. Some of these are bigger initiatives than others other others are more pointed at, Specific clients and the folks that are assigned as the project managers may be like a leader or a point person for that client, or it may be a smaller initiative that's specific to um that department. So maybe it's a PC refresh, so maybe it's in Olivia's court because her team is doing a PC refresh, or maybe it's something specific to. Speaker 3 00:01:56 One of the two clients that Chris is the VCIO in a VCIO role for. So maybe that's why she's overseeing that as more of the project manager role. So that might be why it's more assigned to her. So we'll be going through these, so you might see it in that light, But I just wanted to kind of explain why the PM assignment might be related to somebody other than an actual project manager in some cases. Speaker 2 00:02:27 Project two, six, one, two eighty two homes firewall. Olivia. Speaker 4 00:02:33 Uh we are still waiting for the device delivery on this one. Um it is set to be or it's supposed to be shipped out next week. Um so hopefully I'm praying that it actually gets delivered, and we actually can complete this moving on. Speaker 3 00:02:54 Project, Have we checked to see if there's if there's any type of confirmation we can get that? It's really going to be available by the fourth or whenever it's supposed to ship? Speaker 4 00:03:09 I so I checked a couple, we checked a couple weeks ago and they're really not giving us much information. We even tried to talk with support, and really there's they just have been saying that there are some parts that areum. Backlogged on like their end of things, so I am not sure, Pete. Speaker 3 00:03:30 I just got to keep checking on the delivery. Just checking, I would just see if Maggie can make a call every few days. And just see if t here is anything she can do to get them real familiar with them with their support. Okay, Speaker 4 00:03:45 Yes. Um, okay and then I think glue to migrationum so, The cutoff date for um it glue is June tenth, but uh we want to be finished on the first. So we have about ten days left. We made a lot of progress last week, hoping to continue the progress. Um, just a quick general question maybe this is to you Pete. Pete, do you think we should move over like recently uh former clients like just like copy and paste it? And then archive that company in Hudu? That way it's still there. Speaker 3 00:04:24 Like that. Sorry, when you say copy and move, what do you mean? Speaker 4 00:04:30 Likeum like instead of manually doing it uh, we would just like sync it over everything, all the information. So for example like Ashland, we just offboarded Ashland recently. So like I would just take all of their passwords, All of their stuff and just have it synced to Hoodoo and then archive it in Hoodoo. Speaker 3 00:04:51 If it's an old client sure why not. Is that somebody we're not supporting anymore? Speaker 4 00:04:56 Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Speaker 3 00:04:58 Yeah, absolutely. Sure. Speaker 1 00:05:01 We don't have Ashlyn anymore? Speaker 4 00:05:03 No, we just off boarded them recently a couple weeks ago. Okay. Speaker 3 00:05:14 And Paula, so you're awareum IT Glue and Hoodoo are the applications where we store. Speaker 3 00:05:23 Reference the information specific to our customer information. So configurations of their environment, password information, support information that we need to reference when we're supporting them. So like everything we need to know basically documentation about how to support their network, their servers, their workstations, passwords to access their environments and things like that. Speaker 3 00:05:54 And we're moving from IT Glue into an application called Hudu, and IT Glue's license is going to expire by the beginning of June. So we're moving everything out of IT Glue and into Hudu. Speaker 2 00:06:11 That's why Paula has Hudu training tomorrow, but she doesn't have IT Glue training on her onboarding plan. Okay. Speaker 2 00:06:23 Next project, Olivia, two six six three signal partners onboarding. Speaker 4 00:06:28 Chris, if you had a chance to talk to Tim, I know you were going to talk to him. I did. Speaker 1 00:06:34 I did and I gave Pete some information, but then Pete went on vacation, which is completely understandable, and I have not touched base back with Pete again about it. Well give him some time because I gave it to him like the day before he went on vacation. So. I don't even think he remembers that conversation. So I was going to circle back when his week didn't feel overloaded. Speaker 4 00:06:58 Okay, so some updates here. We're trying to decide if we're going to offboard them actively or not. Six nine, how to elevate? Okay, We have about over a thousand devices enrolled, and we're beginning to roll out rules for specific companies such as here. And some other companies as well. So yeah, making progress there as well. Speaker 2 00:07:27 Thank you, Olivia. Speaker 1 00:07:29 Christy? Okay, so for me I'm going to just go through mine fairly quickly. Um Carney Properties is definitely training late June, so that whole project's been on is on pause until June 15 t h. Um I'm working on getting them over, they still have not told me which system they want to go with. So just a heads up. For SHARP, We are now in a position where we can start migrating all of the security items over to our security stack. And we turned on MFA yesterday. And so I need to go back and see how many tickets we've got open for MFA issues. I haven't heard much. The team hasn't told me that there's been much issue, But I did give a grace period when I turned it on because I found out that grace periods matter on the MFA. Speaker 1 00:08:19 And it will allow people to log in. So for that, it is on. Seg is going to set up a meeting for us and Anton, to start discussing on moving things over with the exception of secure mail. And then for computer upgrades, Robert is coming in on Friday. He had he needed to take a day off this week, so he's going to come in on Friday. And work through what he's got left, but we still have about fifty to sixty computers. Um, that are going to be migrated. So that's still ongoing. Um, for ability first cabling infrastructure. This is a um, this one is not on track. Crimson has done everything we're supposed to do. Um, We're having an issue on the low voltage side. And uh as of last night. And this morning uh, we have to we we might have to pivot a little bit on that. Um Pete I'll. Give you an update after I meet with Michonne. Speaker 1 00:09:16 Um, for Kotzen, we have started their training today. So, we are doing the training, and then we are going to be sending out the AI policy for everyone to sign after we finish the training. Um, We are going to ask the team for any insight now that they've been trained, But since they have yet to make a decision either on which AI they're going with, I am going to train both AIs or train them on both types of AIs, uh, Copilot and Claude. Because that's what they've narrowed it down to. For detail A, Alliance Cloud team setup, our kickoff meeting is this week. Um and then I'll get deadlines for that. For Anderson Real Estate Cloud team setup, I did reach out to them. Um we did have a meeting. They are I'm still pending their wish list and items that they want, so we can get started. So I'm sending out another reminder email to them today. Speaker 1 00:10:12 And then for Leer Property Group, we have a kickoff meeting for them on Thursday. It took us a minute to get everybody on the same page. I think Kenny was our holdout, But I do have that draft ready to send over to them today on what our agenda is going to look like, but we do have that meeting set for 9:00 AM on Thursday. Speaker 2 00:10:34 Do we have project completion estimated dates and percentage? Speaker 1 00:10:40 For DTLA Anderson and Alire, they are new projects as of last week. And, so I am waiting on the kickoff meeting to give you the project deadlines. Sounds good. Speaker 2 00:10:54 I have one before you leave, I know you have to leave. The one for Avalon AI So we're waiting for payment, but I was waiting also for the template from you. Speaker 1 00:11:08 In the product launch. Yeah, So that one, I also reached out to Vance on that one. Uh, because one, one of them had they've sent in the payment. The other project they did not. And I kind of need both of them. So I can understand exactly what they want to do. Um, This one's gonna because I thought it was just going to be a general AI. Um, but it sounds like it's gonna might be slightly different on this Julia. So um but I am working on I'm going to get you what I'm building for downtown L. A uh so that you have that instead? Speaker 1 00:11:38 As your template. Speaker 2 00:11:40 All right, great. Thank you, Christy. Speaker 1 00:11:44 You're welcome, guys. I'm going to jump unless there's another one for me. Speaker 2 00:11:50 No, not from me. Miguel, do you have anything for Christy? Speaker 1 00:11:55 Hello? Okay, awesome. Thanks guys.
08-13 Meeting: Copilot Adoption, Co-Work Cost Decision, Security Compliance, Training Schedule, and Technical Issues
- Notes
- **Client identified from CONTENT + calendar, not title.** Transcript names no company; Outlook 8/13 11:30-12:00 'Alere Project Meeting' (Mike Yasuma, Kenny Yoon, Daniel Kubov, Giancarlo Foppiano). Transcript speakers match ('Daniel', 'Giancarlo', 'Taylor'), plus 43 headcount / 43 Copilot licenses, 'PM gals', and 'the other six operating partners' - all consistent with Alere Property Group (CW 20431). Weekly Thursday project status - M365 Copilot Readiness and Deployment. Adoption: 33 active Copilot users, up 68% period over period; chat is the dominant surface and effectively all active users are using chat. 43 licenses assigned against 43 headcount; the Microsoft reporting surface showed an inconsistent active-user count (reporting issue, not licensing) - flagged for follow-up. Co-Work: not enabled. Christi's recommendation is to HOLD on cost. Consumption/pay-as-you-go; a power user burns a credit block quickly. Tested internally at Crimson (one inbox-organization task cost ~$5) and the value does not justify per-task cost yet. She prefers Claude Co-Work over Copilot Co-Work. One user (Taylor) requested access - not approved, no credits provisioned, pending this decision. Security/compliance: all available data-leakage protections in place with policies enforced; all available oversharing protections in place; no files blocked for sensitive-information oversharing this period; referenced files and SharePoint sites reviewed, usage responsible. Enhanced compliance for Copilot interactions was the one remaining control not enabled - being put in place this week, with interactions already monitored in the interim. Training schedule and open technical issues discussed. Action: client to send a note confirming scope/duration for an upcoming session plus where the other operating partners stand in their Copilot rollout.
- Date
- Aug 13, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:32 How are you? Good. Your flight home make it without issue? Speaker 2 00:00:39 Uh, it was a little delayed about two hours, but not too bad. Two. Yeah. Time did you guys get back? Speaker 1 00:00:48 Uh, ours was only delayed about forty five minutes because it was taxiing forever, so we got back around nine. But I know the PM gals got held up again too. Oh really? Yeah, I didn't fly until ten thirty. Speaker 3 00:01:01 Where were you guys flying from? Chicago. Oh, Speaker 1 00:01:07 Little uh summit with our partner over there. Speaker 3 00:01:13 Gotcha. Sounds like fun. Um, bear with me one moment. I am working from home today. I have your stats pulled up, but um right as I jumped in the meeting, I got uh a quick question and let me go answer that real quick. Um, but you guys can take a look at what's on my screen. I've got some some things on here. Don't worry about the adoption score, uh, but give me one second. Okay. Nadanya? What do you mean? Sorry. Um, okay. Can you guys clean the dishes and stuff? And can you push the thing in? Speaker 3 00:01:58 And close my. Speaker 1 00:01:59 Hey PC, by the way, Speaker 3 00:02:01 I'm doing good. Are you? Thank you. Speaker 1 00:02:04 Go ahead. Any more shelter in place? Speaker 4 00:02:08 Can you close my door? Oh yeah, thank you. But uh, the air and water show is supposed to be this weekend, and they usually are practicing all week, and they're kind of obnoxiously loud and I haven't heard them. So I don't even it might be getting delayed. So. Speaker 4 00:02:27 More shelter in place this weekend, I guess. Speaker 3 00:02:32 Um, okay. I do apologize, guys. I actually have a social worker on their way unexpectedly. Uh, that is the life of being a foster parent. So they just don't tell you when they're going to show up. Um, Okay, They're just going to have to wait because you guys are more important right now. So Copilot Yes ma'am. Oh thank you. Um, Copilot, you guys, your active users are at thirty three. So we did go up by sixty eight percent. A lot of people are using chat. Pretty much everyone is using chat that's actually been active. So that's pretty good. Um, as I am going through, We don't have Co-Work turned on. So just a heads up on you and I am gonna I am gonna give you my personal recommendation on Co-Work um I played around with Co-Work this week on the crimson side for copilot. Speaker 3 00:03:23 I much prefer Claude Co-Work. I'll just be honest, um, just the time, Just the item to um have the system, check my inbox and and organize my inbox cost crimson five dollars. So just that one task. Um so I would say Co-Work probably not going to be very effective right now based on cost. Uh, if you guys wanted to try it. So. Just keep that in mind. It's pay as you go service, so meaning um you can get so many credits for two hundred dollars, but if they're a power user, they're going to blow through that two hundred dollars uh pretty quickly. So we were playing around with that this week. Not so enthusiastic about it just yet. Um within that, a lot of people are. Um we do have one person wanting to use Co-Work. And uh I think it was Tyler. Speaker 3 00:04:21 Who's asking to use Co-Work? Oh, Taylor. Taylor, thank you. Yeah. So, they have I have not approved it yet because we still need to talk about it. I haven't even set up the credits for it. Um, within this where's my reports? Okay, there you go. Your screen looks a lot different than my other screens. So Microsoft doing their thing as far as security, we have put in all the protections available. We do have the policies in force, so we're preventing data leakage from there. If you can see for the data over sharing, we put in all the protections in as well to reduce that. And, then here is all the files that are being referenced, and the SharePoint sites being referenced as the team is going in and doing their prompts and things like that. So no files were prevented from oversharing because the sensitive information. Speaker 3 00:05:17 No one asked for. So they, uh, right now, per this past week, people are using Copilot pretty responsibly. So okay. Um, Now on here, the only thing we did not put in and we didn't discuss this very well. Um is enhancing compliance for Copilot interactions. However, we are watching this uh for data compliance. So um we we do have it protecting here. Um, and we are watching for everything on that. But given the fact that no one is asking questions yet, and we're keeping an eye on this portion right now, I'm going to start putting this one in place. Um but you guys can see, uh, it's not sorry I'm about to sneeze and I'm at home. So um but just just so that you guys are aware I'm going to be working on that part this week for security on the usage portion. Speaker 3 00:06:16 Um, this is your summary. So we do have this one forty nine active Copilot users. They're out of the fifty three licenses. I am sorry, out of the um forty five Copilot licenses. This math is not mathing correctly. Microsoft has some issues there. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:06:38 I think what do we have Daniel now like forty two headcount? Yeah, Speaker 1 00:06:43 Forty three Forty three. Speaker 3 00:06:48 So I need to figure out what's going on here, but 43 licenses are assigned. So a lot of them are using, are active in it, um out of everybody that's got it. And then we do have some active chat users. Speaker 1 00:07:01 That's interesting though. I see in the bottom chart or now it's kind of top enabled users, 43. Yes. Yeah little math. Speaker 3 00:07:10 Microsoft needs to work on their math. I don't think they graduated basic math. I say that every six months about Microsoft, They got issues, Speaker 1 00:07:18 But maybe Copilot can help them. Speaker 3 00:07:20 Yeah, maybe. I don't know, Copilot it failed me the other day on an Excel problem. So um for your chat users you got about sixteen. Uh three of them are daily um and then for your copilot actually using it, you got thirty three active users um but more and more since we did the training, so that has gone up. And then people are utilizing agents um not that many. There's five, but at least they're going in and testing some things. And I'm just wondering if that's Daniel testing out agents. Speaker 1 00:07:55 It's definitely Mark. It's definitely Taylor. I created an agent though that I lovingly named after Mark because he is our sophisticated user. Speaker 3 00:08:06 Have you given it personalities? Speaker 1 00:08:10 Taylor had to create a photo of itself and it did. Speaker 3 00:08:13 That's awesome. I have an agent named Hugo, and so for all of you guys who's met Anzor, who's my owner of my company. He's a very sweet teddy bear Russian, And that's not something you usually hear in a statement is a Russian being a teddy bear. So I gave him a Russian personality, and it's pretty fun. I use him pretty often so give them personalities when you can. So on this. Speaker 3 00:08:44 Any questions? Because we don't we're not using credits. Um, but we don't have them doing much searches either. I. Speaker 2 00:08:56 Don't know if I have any questions on the usage, but I did have a question. I think on the first screen we were on maybe it was the overview. Um, it mentioned something at the top about. Speaker 2 00:09:09 In that top action section, down and sort of second section down, responses with low accuracy and it mentioned about web search being off. Mm-hmm. What's what's happening there? Speaker 3 00:09:23 So I'm going to pull up the information. Um, so if people turn on web search when they're searching, it might give them a little bit more accurate and relevant responses. And basically in Copilot, I'm going to pull up my own Copilot. um. Speaker 3 00:09:38 Ignore, I am in Co-Work right now. Um, But basically in here, you can choose to turn on or turn off Work IQ. And for some people, it's still going to just say uh, work or web right here. So, they're they have Work IQ turned off, meaning it's not going to search the internet. Speaker 2 00:09:57 Okay, But that we, but they have the ability to toggle thatum and should we should we advise everybody just. Turn it on. Is there a reason not to? Speaker 3 00:10:08 Honestly, It's up to the user themselves, whether or not they want it on or off. With the new uh display that's coming out from Copilot, it's going to be on automatically. So I think it's just right now they have it turned off. So, Okay, Speaker 3 00:10:25 Yeah, um I don't know why they want people to pin Copilot chat. I am not going to worry about, This portion right here, just because people are actively using it. I mean you guys have for the most part. You guys have um. Sorry. Please close the door. Thank you. The joys of working from home, I was not supposed to be working from home today, um so. Speaker 3 00:11:05 I forgot where I was. I do apologize. Speaker 2 00:11:09 Uh, pinning pinning it uh to I think their start menu. Speaker 3 00:11:14 Yes, I'm not worried about that. I'm not going to sit there and have people adjust what they want to make Microsoft happy. Okay, Speaker 2 00:11:22 So one thing I think we did we were talking about is when if you go into your search bar, if someone didn't have it pinned and you search for Copilot, then it still gives you the option to pull up, Two different Copilot apps, or actually, um, And and at first I, I was just clicking on the one that just said Copilot, And I kept trying to figure out why it wouldn't recognize that I had a license. And then I realized that the one that we have is called Microsoft three sixty five Copilot. Is there still a way to remove the other app. So people don't get confused by that? Speaker 3 00:12:00 We are working on that with you guys. Um, we're gonna be pulling it from Intune. But Crimson is testing it on us first. The Crimson team is working on that. So, got it. It's still not off my computer. So, I am waiting on them. Um, I will uh, I want to go into health, real quick, and then I will have questions, and Microsoft is being lovely today. See if we can refresh that. Speaker 3 00:12:33 Last week he was having some major issues. So, all right, we're not going to talk about health. Microsoft does not want us to talk about health. So, um, any questions about what we're seeing here? I'm going to go deeper into these details. But any questions about what we're seeing? Speaker 2 00:12:52 No, it looks positive. I mean people are testing it out you know one week post uh training, Um, we'll see if that sustains itself or increases or what. Um, but yeah. Speaker 3 00:13:08 So, one thing I wanted to point out is the adoption by app. I'm actually surprised that most people are using the app rather than using it in the tools. However, Um it is nice to see that people are trying to use it in Outlook more too and Excel. Uh Word is uh a lot of people just don't use it in Word. I do, But that's because sometimes words are hard and I can't think of a word to save my life. Um, And then I'm going to assume PowerPoint not being used is pretty normal for you guys. Mhm. So so overall, I mean, you guys are doing much better than another client. That's very similar in the size of people. And Copilot adoption. Um You guys are doing way better than they are. So I'm very impressed with you guys. All right. Speaker 3 00:13:56 For my team this week, We're still working on getting that one app out of your computers. And then also, wherever the security one goes. I'm going to work on uh this compliance enhancing it a little bit better. So okay. Actually, John's going to do that. I i'm going to go take my daughter to college. That's right. So, if you guys need me next week, um i am available by phone um. I leave Thursday after lunch, and I'll be on the road most of the day. And then I will be on the road again. I said Tuesday after lunch, and I'll be on the road again Wednesday uh afternoon. So you guys can reach me Wednesday morning uh by cell phone. Okay. So anything you guys need me to cover? Speaker 2 00:14:49 And they they had a couple of things. One, I think we still need to get all the recordings and all the transcripts from all of our trainings. Um, if there's uh, I think you have a more updated presentation that was part of the the trainings that would be good to have that deck and any other guide guidebooks or uh cookbooks or one pagers and things. Um. Because I do want to pass those, along to people who may be looking to refer back to those. Um areas from the training, so if it's possible to get those this week, I'll make sure that I put those in a place where everyone can access them. Speaker 3 00:15:28 Absolutely. Um, I have one more Copilot training this afternoon, And then I'm just going to push all of that information out to you guys. I was a little delayed last week on getting it out, so I'm working on that. Um. Speaker 3 00:15:43 If anybody on the team wants that second training again, it's this afternoon. I believe at two o'clock. Uh, this one is an all- client one, so I'm going to do it like a webinar. Um, So it's going to be talking about using Copilot within apps and um doing app facilitator different things in Teams. Okay, Speaker 2 00:16:04 I think it's nice to have those resources especially as we we I think, Maybe hiring a couple more people here um in the near future. And you know, if those are um regularly being given, maybe we'll invite them to join that as well as being able to to view the videos that we already did, um. And um. And so, yeah, If you want to continue to invite me to those and I'll pass, those along to people that may want to have a chance to do that, that'd be great. Speaker 3 00:16:39 Absolutely. And then tomorrow I am doing an AI basics training. I don't think I invited you to that one, but um I am going to invite you now. Um, if you want to pass that along, it's a basics training. We'll cover all AI toolsum, but it's going to be for people who just need that basic. Um. Handholding through it's even more basic than our first Copilot. Okay. So, Speaker 2 00:17:10 As far as like completing our project of sort of setting up the security environment, rolling setting up users with licenses, rolling it out and doing the training. Um, do we have any other open items as it relates to that, or are we kind of at that point where we will close that project? Speaker 3 00:17:34 At this point, we can close it. Any of the hours that I am working on for you guys just to clear up some things and working through anything new that Microsoft has sent out is free hours for you guys. Okay, So I can let the project team know that we're going to close it out. You guys have completed your training, but I do want to continue sending you guys things. Copilot is changing all the time. So if I can keep you guys up to date on all of that, I will. Speaker 2 00:17:60 Yeah, that'd be great. That's why I was kind of curious, like how we will know, you know, when things new functionality is available or the interface has changed. Like how how will you keep us aware of that? So that I can you know sort of make sure that the team knows that that's there or any new reference materials? What what's your best way of doing that? Speaker 3 00:18:23 I've added, you guys to my Copilot list of clients that I send out emails to on a regular basis. So you guys will be kept up to date through that. Plus, I'm going to offer meetings and training on any of the new features coming out, and I'll add you guys to that list as well. Like you saw the month of August trainings that we're doing. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:18:44 So and then um and then if you do that Power Automate too, I think some of us probably will try and attend that. Speaker 3 00:18:52 That is, um, I am doing it. When where is that one? It is going to be Power Automate Tuesday, the twenty fifth at two p, m. Okay. I'm gonna invite you and Daniel, um Ronelle and Christian and Jackson. Do you guys want to be invited to this? The Power Automate training. Yes, please. Speaker 6 00:19:26 Yes, please. If you could send that out, that'd be great. Absolutely. Speaker 2 00:19:32 Um and then let me see was there anything else I think those were the big things. Um yeah. And I don't know if people have been sending in tickets um yet if you've seen any come through or. Whether the help desk is um is is starting to, get anyum questions but. I assume that that'll just all, Because I know you were wanting them to copy you on things when they were sending them to the help desk, at least for a little while. Speaker 3 00:20:06 Yeah, so no questions have come through other than one. So, the one person that came through. It was just a question on something with the app. And I believe one of my L one ticket L one technicians fixed it for them, so super quick and simple. Cool. Yeah, you guys have been great. I cannot compliment you guys enough for how easy you make this rollout. Speaker 2 00:20:34 And. And one thing that did occur to me with the the hires that we will haveum which I think are at the end of the month? Is there anything as part of the onboarding? That, we need to do when we normally reach out to Crimson to set up, you know, Laptop and general Microsoft, three, sixty five access as it relates to Copilot that we need to make our team aware of. Speaker 3 00:20:57 Ah, no. So what my team is going to do is we have a checklist that they go through on every new onboarding, and they've added the Copilot license to that checklist. Speaker 5 00:21:06 Okay great. Speaker 2 00:21:12 All right. Well, it seems like we're in good shape. Um, yeah, I'll, look for your um your email on all those, uh follow up items from the trainings and get that off to our team. And make sure that you know, they they continue to reach out as they have questions. Um, but yeah, I think we're in good good shape. Speaker 3 00:21:32 Yeah, no worries. And I do apologize. Part of the delay is we're working on creating sites for each of our clients on their portal. That has those videos attached to it. So that's part of the reason I got delayed on it, but I will get that sent out before in the day tomorrow. Okay. So um. Speaker 2 00:21:50 And let's see, Renell, you did have one question and I, I maybe hadn't asked Christie about this yet because, I wanted to confirm the date if we were sticking with the twenty sixth for that steering committee meeting. Is that is that the day we're going with? Speaker 6 00:22:11 Yeah, that's what we still have so far. I have no problem adjusting the time. I know you thought maybe earlier would would work. Yeah, so yeah, I have no problem adjusting that time up. Speaker 2 00:22:22 Yeah, even if it was like nine a. m. I mean that well actually I gotta I guess I gotta determine if I'm on a flight at that time, but um. If it's easier for everyone just to keep the time that you have, that's fine um but but Christie maybe we could check your just availability. Renell was we have a steering AI steering committee where we have representatives from each of the operating companies that fall under PEC's umbrella, Who are like in the process of doing their um copilot rollouts and other things like that, And Renell and I were talking and said it might be really beneficial to the team. If if you might be willing to talk a little bit um to the team about, you know what. Speaker 2 00:23:09 What we've done here, I think on the a layer rollout and just in general, maybe some things about Copilot. Um, the date that we have for that is the twenty sixth, which is Wednesday. I think right now it's is it at eleven am Pacific time? What time was it? Speaker 6 00:23:28 I think I have it at let's double check. Right now two pm central. Speaker 2 00:23:35 Oh yeah, twelve It's twelve pm Pacific time. Speaker 6 00:23:39 And I can I can adjust that. That you know, we've we've changed the date. I can adjust the date and time if need be. Like I said, I know Giancarlo, you guys got an event that day, so I can. Can adjust to this Christie if your schedule works and Giancarlo's schedule works, we can we can adjust that. Speaker 3 00:23:56 I can make twelve o'clock work. I am in a AI peer group meeting. So as long as am there for the first hour, they're happyum, but i also have nine am free if If Giancarlo is not on a plane. And then I also have uh, I do have a co- pilot training happening that afternoon at one thirty. Speaker 6 00:24:17 Okay. Um, How does the twenty seventh or of August? Or let's see the third, second or third of uh? Speaker 3 00:24:40 September. So the second I am. I am free before noon Pacific time, and the third. I haven't blocked out, But it's only because I'm offering an hour and a half training with another client. So if you guys need to schedule something, I have all day on the third, and I can schedule the other company around you guys. Speaker 2 00:25:08 Yeah, second and third are open for me. And the twenty seventh, um, if it was afternoon, I'd I'd probably be fine, because I'll probably be flying back, maybe that morning from from Newport. So um but yeah those those dates look good for me. Speaker 6 00:25:27 Well yeah you guys want to shoot for September third then? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 6 00:25:37 You guys are thinking, what time on the third for you guys out in out west? Speaker 2 00:25:42 I mean, um, any time after you know nine a m. uh Pacific time is good for me. My whole day is pretty much free that day. Speaker 3 00:25:53 Yeah. Same for me. Speaker 6 00:25:55 Okay. All right? We'll we'll shoot for that. Let's let's let's shoot for maybe ten a m uh Pacific time. Then. I'll make a note of that. I'll adjust it. Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:26:14 And then you can let Christi know, I guess, What what you would like her to cover in that and and how long you need her for. Speaker 6 00:26:21 Yeah, Christi, I'll shoot you a note and also let you know kind of where the other uh six operating partners are in their in their uh co- pilot journey. Speaker 3 00:26:33 Okay. Fantastic. Speaker 3 00:26:36 Great. That's all I got. Thank you, guys. Speaker 2 00:26:42 All right, thanks for the update. Speaker 3 00:26:44 Have a great weekend. You too. Thanks, Chris, you too. Bye.
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07-07 Casual Conversation: Client Gifting and Personal Updates
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- ## Your Conversation Summary ### The Vibe Warm, generous, and conversational, with a friendly mix of business pragmatism and personal connection. ### The Dynamic The sentiment was consistently positive and appreciative, anchored by a practical discussion about client gifting and its costs. Engagement was high, with Pete offering concise reactions while Speaker 2 drove the conversation with detailed context, personal history, and thoughtful plans. The mood stayed upbeat throughout, briefly deepening with personal updates that added warmth and authenticity. ### The Gist Speaker 2 outlined their quarterly client gifting approach, noting a recent, costly chocolate order for key clients and clarifying who received gifts. Pete reacted to the expense, prompting Speaker 2 to share both professional rationale and a personal affinity for Ethel M chocolates—rooted in past work experience with Mars—and fond references to the Vegas shop and its holiday garden displays. The conversation gently widened into personal life, with Speaker 2 mentioning a new foster child staying for the week and a generally good mood. They concluded with a plan to send Pete a personal box of nuts and caramel chocolates the next day, tying the business strategy to a thoughtful gesture. ### Memorable Moments > **Pete:** "A lot for chocolates, we could have taken them to lunch for that kind of thing." > **Speaker 2:** "I am addicted to FOM. But I also used to work for them twenty years ago." ### Things to Remember - Speaker 2 will send Pete a box of nuts and caramel chocolates tomorrow. - Speaker 2 has a new foster child staying with them for a week. - Quarterly client gifting strategy: chocolates sent to key clients. - Clients receiving chocolates this quarter: Alere, SCHARP, Ability First (two sites), Charl Properties. - Speaker 2 used to work for Mars and received many Ethel M products. - There is an Ethel M chocolate shop in Vegas with a garden decorated for Christmas. ### Conversation Threads - Client Gifting Strategy - Cost of Chocolates - Ethel M Chocolates - Personal Updates
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- Jul 7, 2026
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- Speaker 1 00:00:02 A while by the way. Speaker 2 00:00:06 Positivity here. Um, are you going to be in the office tomorrow too? Yes. Uh, okay. I am going to send you because I slated all the other chocolates for all the other clients, I'm going to send you your own box, Speaker 1 00:00:21 If you must, Speaker 2 00:00:23 If you must do the nuts and caramel. Also, Because I had an ink explosion on my hands, and uh, I got an ink stain on this one. So, uh. Speaker 1 00:00:37 Well, thank you. Speaker 2 00:00:38 You're welcome. So I'm just going to write your name on it and submit it with Monti tomorrow, because she's coming in about ten minutes to pick up for the other clients with the exception of making myself. Awesome, awesome, awesome. And so I'm out of chocolates for this quarter. I got through my chocolate box so okay, I try to do it once a quarter. Um, but I usually get these boxes which are cheaper, but they got me four big sixty dollars boxes with everything else. Oh, Speaker 1 00:01:07 Okay. Okay. Speaker 2 00:01:08 So and. Speaker 1 00:01:09 And if that amount was for you know more clients, that's fine. I got the impression that when I saw the expenses, I thought that was for like, You know, one client or two clients. I was like, "Wow, that's a lot of money." I think it was actually like eight hundred bucks. And I was like, "Is that just for SCHARP and Ability First? " Because it was something for where were those Ethel M or Godiva or something? And I was like, "Wow, that's a lot. That's a lot for chocolates." But if it was for like you know several customers, it was you know it's not that not that bad. But it was still. I was like. That just seems like. Speaker 1 00:01:44 A lot for chocolates, Like we could have got taken them to lunch and stuff for that kind of thing. Speaker 2 00:01:50 So it's downtown L A this quarter, uh, Alere which I am send I am going to mail theirs out because no one's going to Lear anytime soon. Um, SCHARP Ability First two different ability first uh sites that you know we're trying to do better. One of them is Alere Sully where we messed up that out. Uh downtown L A. And Charl Properties are the ones I am sending this this quarter. So, What I try to do is do one order a quarter, and then throughout the quarter, send them to clients that either we had fantastic project with, or, you know, they they did something meaningful and useful. So, okay, but she ordered a lot of boxes this time, a lot more than I normally get. And, she did the big boxes. So um I am gonna go back to because they have smaller versions. Speaker 2 00:02:42 I am going to have to go back to smaller versions because they're like twenty dollars a box, but they're like littler boxes. So, and I love FOM; like I am addicted FOM. But I also used to work for them twenty years ago. Yeah, I worked for Mars. So, we got a lot of cool. Speaker 1 00:03:02 Yeah, we got a lot of FOM and their peanut brittle was to die for. Um, but yeah we we got all the Mars stuff. Speaker 2 00:03:10 My welcome basket when I first joined was absolutely amazing. So well, Speaker 1 00:03:16 That's cool. That's cool. There is a uh, I am trying to think of what, is it an Ethel M that's in Vegas or is it a, yeah, I think they have a they have a garden or something in Vegas that they decorate at Christmas. They have a whole yeah, They have a whole like Christmas thing they set up. And then like there is a chocolate like uh. Um, Shop that you can walk through kind of toward the end when you are leaving. Yes, I think it's Ethel M. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:03:48 It is. Um, I used to because I love their liqueur chocolates. I used to uh get them Hang on one second. Pete go outside Monti. She's a short Asian lady. She's parked outsideum she's wearing a Christi t shirt with her name on it and give her these. And tell her I will text her. Later. Yes. Okay. Speaker 2 00:04:16 Remember the color? Yeah. Um, no, FOM when I'm in Vegas, I like to go there, but when I lived in Tennessee, there the courts couldn't uh be shipped to Tennessee because Tennessee doesn't allow that. So, it's shipped to my mom in Kentucky and then go pick them up from her that next weekend. Okay. Oh yeah, But yeah, uh, I have a new foster kid staying with me until Thursday. Um, so just as if she got to me on Thursday, she's staying with us for a week. Um, so if you hear me talking somewhere in the background, it's just her. Okay. Just an emergency placement. Okay. And she's pretty amazing. She's been very low key, very easy to work with, especially with everything going on with me So. Speaker 2 00:05:11 Okay. I got a lot of things done today, so I am in a really good mood. But I am going to send you the truffle or the nuts and caramels and enjoy those tomorrow because they're great. I've had them in the refrigerator. Thank you. Okay, yeah, Speaker 1 00:05:25 Well thank you so much. You're welcome Awesome Have a wonderful day. Speaker 2 00:05:30 I will, you too. I'm going to take a. Speaker 1 00:05:32 Nap Okay Good for you Thanks Bye All right Thanks B ye- bye.
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08-11 Meeting: Concur Expense Report Cleanup, Missing Receipts Access, Amazon/Program Allocations, Department/Class Charging, Itemization Workflow, Concur Billing via Salesforce, Scheduling Support
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-08-11 17:35:32 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Christi] [Susanna] [Speaker 3] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Concur expense report cleanup (June–July transactions) - Christi logged into Concur; duplicate “cash” expenses appeared due to Expense Assistant creating entries from uploaded receipt images. - Susanna instructed deleting duplicate “cash” items and combining receipt-created entries with JPMorgan card transactions. - Include July transactions in the current report; handle August later. - Some June transactions were also pulled; acceptable to include where appropriate. - Christi prefers using Expense Assistant and will relearn how to combine items to avoid duplicates. - Susanna may move necessary items into the expense report to streamline submission. - Conclusion: Delete duplicate “cash” entries, include all July transactions now, and combine receipt-created entries with matching card transactions. - Topic Title: Missing receipts and account access (Adobe, Zoom, Blue Wave IP, Google) - Adobe: Christi’s account was on the wrong email; rep confirmed fix. Christi will pull transactions. - Zoom: Susanna will send access details and attach relevant Len Egger/Legal info. - Blue Wave IP: Receipt received; allocation can be done using the bill’s center breakdown (page two). - Google: No password available; missing receipt statement used as replacement. - Constant Contact: Shared by Development and Marketing; a favorite 50/50 allocation exists. - Dropbox and other subscriptions: Passwords sent by Susanna via email. - QuickBooks receipts were previously sent to a former staff email; missing receipt statements used. - Conclusion: Access paths clarified; proceed with pulling receipts where possible and use missing receipt statements where access is unavailable. - Topic Title: Handling Amazon orders and “Possibilities” program items - Some Amazon transactions are for the “Possibilities” program (Jessica). - Susanna advised matching by transaction amount and obtaining specific receipts; Jessica purchases are not on the IT card. - Michelle holds the main admin account; access may be needed to pull correct receipts. - Conclusion: Identify and separate non-IT transactions; obtain correct receipts via admin access. - Topic Title: Department/class allocations and center-based charging - Susanna reclassed several transactions to appropriate departments/centers (e.g., internet fees to the location using them). - Entertainment subscriptions (Netflix, Disney, Peacock) should be classed under Lauren Selfrank. - Network Solutions website charges go to Marketing. - Legal fee (Len Egger) should be classed under HR/legal with business purpose “Thea Luck – settlement.” - Conclusion: Use center-based allocations and specific class assignments for recurring items per guidance. - Topic Title: Itemization and allocation workflow (Spectrum, Verizon) - Spectrum consolidated bill: Itemize between phone and internet, then allocate by center (e.g., Jham and East LA 50/50 for the phone portion). Save favorite allocations for reuse. - Verizon: Break out fixed monthly “Mobile” charge (e.g., 4709) vs. equipment; itemize then allocate per department; unassigned devices go under IT. - Christi will upload a new Verizon report with updated device names when available. - Conclusion: Adopt an itemize-then-allocate process; save favorites to standardize allocations for future months. - Topic Title: Concur billing access via Salesforce - To access Concur billing, use the top-right question mark > Contact Support; it redirects to Salesforce. - Check “Paid bills” and status dropdowns to find invoices (e.g., June vs. August). - Conclusion: Established navigation path for Concur billing/invoice retrieval. - Topic Title: Scheduling and support - Susanna can assist tomorrow; asked Christi to reach out via Teams. - Christi aims to submit remaining items before Susanna’s morning. - AI tooling might help automate invoice retrieval in the future. - Conclusion: Follow-up coordination set for 2026-08-12; explore automation later. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Delete duplicate “cash” expenses created by Expense Assistant and combine receipt-created entries with matching JPMorgan card transactions. - [ ] Include all July transactions in the current expense report; defer August items to the August report. Include applicable June transactions where appropriate. - [ ] Pull Adobe transactions now that the account email is corrected and attach receipts. - [ ] Attach Zoom receipts; include Len Egger/Legal info and classify the charge under HR/legal with business purpose “Thea Luck – settlement.” - [ ] Allocate Blue Wave IP charges by center using the bill’s breakdown (page two). - [ ] Use the favorite 50/50 allocation for Constant Contact (Development/Marketing). - [ ] Class Netflix, Disney, and Peacock under Lauren Selfrank and attach receipts; route Network Solutions website charges to Marketing. - [ ] Obtain Amazon receipts via Michelle’s admin access; separate “Possibilities” program items (Jessica) not on the IT card and match by transaction amount. - [ ] Upload the new Verizon report with updated device names; itemize fixed mobile vs. equipment, then allocate per department; place unassigned devices under IT. - [ ] Access Concur billing via Salesforce (Question mark > Contact Support > Paid bills); verify June and August invoices. - [ ] Coordinate with Susanna via Teams on 2026-08-12 for remaining allocations and reviews. ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. Google receipts remain inaccessible; establish credential recovery or an alternative archival process to reduce reliance on missing receipt statements. > 2. Clarify and document the exact departments/centers for recurring Verizon allocations to reduce manual itemization effort each month. > 3. Confirm admin access workflow (Michelle/Jessica) for Amazon to ensure correct receipt matching by transaction amount and card. > 4. Standardize use of Expense Assistant with a documented combine workflow to prevent duplicate “cash” entries. > 5. Evaluate an automation tool to aggregate subscription invoices (Adobe, Zoom, Dropbox, Constant Contact) from email accounts and file them centrally.
- Date
- Aug 11, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:01 Hi, how are you? I'm good. I got hit with an update bug, so I'm waiting on everything to pop up. No worries. Speaker 2 00:00:11 No worries. So, um, a couple of things actually. So I'm gonna have to like uh do you have it have Concur open? Speaker 1 00:00:24 I am opening it now. Speaker 1 00:00:28 It keeps trying to go to my crimson account and I'm trying to get it to go to my mobility first account. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:00:49 It's taking its sweet time. Speaker 1 00:00:53 So, um, while you log in, um. Speaker 3 00:01:07 I don't know where my cell phone went because I was. Speaker 1 00:01:09 Talking to Sean about some things earlier. Maybe in the car? No, it's it's in the. Oh, someone's bringing it to me. Thank you, Steve. Um, I just wanted to check with her on the plot thing and I forgot to do it. Speaker 1 00:01:39 Everybody's wanting my attention today. Speaker 2 00:01:44 Yep, busy, busy as always. Yeah, and I think I feel like Tuesdays because you are in the office. We're in the office today; it's usually like one of those busier days. Yeah, But I wasn't in the office. Speaker 1 00:01:59 By so I go, but you and or Ability First and Sharp are my main clients. And some most. Tuesdays, I am in ability first, but today, like every month is it every month or every two months? I can't remember. Um, They do a director's meeting where everybody from a director and up is all in a big conference room. And from nine AM to two PM. It's all meetings. Uh, and so yeah, so I have to. Speaker 1 00:02:38 So, I still work with Kashif because he works with them. And so, oh, he does. Yeah. So he goes first, and he spends about thirty minutes to an hour going over finance stuff. And then he goes to me for IT, and then we stay in to help answer any questions and go over things. And other like, what are the impacts of the things that they want to change? Speaker 1 00:03:07 So, it's not what I mean. Speaker 2 00:03:10 Yeah. That sounds long and dreadful. Yeah. Okay, so if you can click into that, um, Couple of things I'm gonna have you do? And I might do it on my end while uh it too. So, you see how the payment type, it says cash for this one. And if you scroll down, there's another one? Speaker 1 00:03:31 Yeah, so these automatically were in there? And I didn't know if it was something you had done, or someone else did, so I included it. No, Speaker 2 00:03:41 Nothing. No, well no, Just delete it completely because like some of these transactions I'm seeing it's in like it's cause. If you look at your receipt, right? Yeah, um there is like there is like one payment that was made in like June. There is another payment that's made in like July. So these are the receipts for different transactions that were hitting the credit card. And I've seen you have attached them as well. So you can just remove this completely. Speaker 1 00:04:09 Okay, so delete expense? Okay, I guess it did it. And then same thing here too? Speaker 2 00:04:21 Yeah, do you see how that's a geo link same as the one above? Yes. Oh okay, Speaker 1 00:04:29 So it made duplicates. Got it. Okay, I was I was looking for some of them and I'm like, wait, what's going on here? Um, I did put some. By the way, I did put some August in in this one, just because I saw them come in and went ahead. And pulled that information. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:47 Uh that's fine. But I did i see that you left out? You know some July as well. Are we waiting on those or? Speaker 1 00:04:57 Yeah, I am so Plaud is one, Plot it where did it go. This one should have come over and been in it. Speaker 2 00:05:08 Oh no, no, that's fine because like we can put this on July first right now. Like August can come later later. Speaker 1 00:05:13 Yeah, sorry I was going back to. Right there you go. Some days, I am just fine and concur and I'm all happy and I get things done, some days, not so much, um so in here. Speaker 1 00:05:30 The geo, uh, not Geo links. Where did it go? This one I thought was already in there. Speaker 2 00:05:41 You had the August one in there. Speaker 1 00:05:43 Dang okay, that that's on me. Um. Speaker 2 00:05:48 Yeah. So everything that's dated in July, like in this list should be part of the report. Speaker 1 00:05:55 Okay I also pulled over some Junes that I had was able to get their stuff. Is that okay? Okay, perfect. Speaker 2 00:06:02 Yeah, So so the ones that you, you know weren't able to get, are they like I'm seeing a lot of us. I saw a lot of Adobe's that uh is still. So we're still looking for those. Speaker 1 00:06:13 Yes, So for Adobe, I emailed out our rep, because when they gave me my account, they put it on the wrong email address, and I can't get in right now. So I asked him to resolve that, and he just sent me an email this evening because I had sent him three different emails to say, hey, where are we at on this? So he finally responded today. It should be fixed. I can go in and pull those transactions. Okay, Speaker 2 00:06:35 Perfect. Okay, So I see what's going on with like I think you are like submitting risk, like, um receipts copies and you see how it creates this like cash, um expense cells right here and then create the transaction for you. Yeah, so what that does is likeum it takes your uh image, And then it creates the transaction off of it, And then you will have to like click on it and then combine it with one of the existing transactions that's coming over from J P Morgan. Um, Speaker 1 00:07:06 Got it. Okay, so if I go in here. Speaker 2 00:07:11 You I think you can. Uh, close here, actually close here, okay, let me give me one second, because I think you already have these two in your. Report, so you could just like delete these two actually. Okay. Do you want to turn off the expense cell? Because that's what it does. It's going to create like duplicates for you until like you combine them. Now, right now, we shouldn't have anything that's paid like out of pocket. Speaker 1 00:07:42 Yeah, I'd rather use Expense Assistant because I used it in the past and loved it. And I just need to get back to using it, Cor rectly and figuring out how to combine it because I think some things changed from when I used it before. Speaker 2 00:07:57 Okay, so for as far as July goes, Are you able to bring in like all the July transactions into that expense report? Let me try. Cause I cause a lot of it, you see Netflix and like Disney and Peacock like thoseum I believe I gave you access password to those. Um. Speaker 1 00:08:21 Let me pull it again. And. Speaker 2 00:08:26 Then I can help you with the Len Egger one, because I think that was that was something else. Oh, I think Monti charged it for a legal fee. Speaker 1 00:08:35 Got it, okay, cause I was going to ask you about that one. Um and I was going to ask you Zoom, I couldn't, I was having issues pulling in Zoom and then Blue Wave IP That's. The one I could not find anywhere Maybe I missed it. Speaker 2 00:08:50 I believe there's also I I I think maybe. Can you check what I sent you It should, I should have the password in there as well. If not, I can. It's uh, it's in the IT email and I can send that over to you. Speaker 1 00:09:05 Okay, got it. And then Monti just sent me over the Pod receipt so, uh, I have that and I can actually get that one in now. And then she sent me into Amazon once as well. Speaker 1 00:09:24 So. Uh, she did say uh not all the transactions belong to us. A few of them are associated with possibilities program from Jessica. How do you want me to put those in? For example, Speaker 2 00:09:40 Let me look it up. Let me pull everything over to my other screen. I'm on the I'm on the 49 inch screen. Let me pull it over to the other one. Speaker 3 00:09:52 That way I can just pull things in. Alright, so this is what she sent over. Okay, Speaker 1 00:10:05 So this is definitely it right here. Dry rice calendar is possibility. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:10:11 I think you're uh you will have to go off of like the amount of the transaction that you're looking for. I know like Jessica, Makes purchases, but it's not paid with the IT credit card. Speaker 1 00:10:23 Um. Okay, Speaker 2 00:10:25 So just Michelle has like the main the admin account and I think she just sent you the order for everything, but. Typically I usually look for the transaction and download a specific receipt for that transaction. Speaker 1 00:10:40 Okay, so she sent me this instead of giving me receipts. Speaker 2 00:10:48 I s she okay with you giving access Because I think I gave you access like for the IT, um, you know email address. Speaker 1 00:10:56 Um, let me ask her real quick. Speaker 2 00:11:04 Well, Actually, you might need her help because I think I had had needed her help in uh accessing it, then I could send you like the password and everything. Speaker 1 00:11:16 Yeah, I'm gonna send her. I sent her a note. See if she responds. My goal is for August, you not having to help me anymore and just doing it for you, but let's see what happens with that. Um okay, Blue Wave. Speaker 2 00:11:35 I just sent it over to you. Okay. Speaker 2 00:11:38 Uh let me get you Zoom. Speaker 2 00:11:46 And then in the one for Zoom, I'm also gonna send the uh attached to Len Egger one. Speaker 1 00:11:52 Okay. Did you send them to my Crimson account or to Ability First? Speaker 2 00:11:57 Uh, the Crimson account. Did you want me to send it to your Ability First? Speaker 1 00:12:01 No. Um Let me I'm just waiting for it to come in. Speaker 2 00:12:11 Okay And then, Uh, so if you don't mind, I'm going to like move all of the ones that I need you to submit for me into that expense report. Speaker 1 00:12:26 Okay. Also, um, the the network solutions ones for the websites. Mhm. I I put those in for marketing because those are, Supposed to go to marketing. Speaker 2 00:12:44 Yeah, that's fine. And uh yeah, I I need to talk. You talk to you about uh the other ones, too, because typically, usually what we do for each transaction is we like allocate it to the center that uses it instead of putting it under IT. Um Got you. Yeah, so then should I not uh So. Speaker 1 00:13:10 I was struggling with that and I wanted to know, so like with the wireless, um if I allocate and I click on the allocate button. Um So I add right here if I remember correctly and then I just go in and add based on the location. And I can allocate the percent. Speaker 2 00:13:30 Yes. Okay However for the wireless Wireless is the one where it's like a little bit more complicated Um, I can't like send you a, screenshot or something, butum because it has to do with the service and the equipment. So then we have to break it into two accounts. So you have to itemize it first and then allocate. Can. Speaker 1 00:13:53 You teach me how to do that next month? Speaker 2 00:13:57 Yes, um, but I would also need it for this one here. Let me see what I can do. Um, Speaker 3 00:14:08 Give me one second. Speaker 2 00:14:47 So, if you are looking to do it next month, I'm gonnaum because you know how I already had the what's it called the Verizon, the yeah August of Verizon in here. I'm gonna move it to like a I'll, create a new folder okay for August. And then we could uh do the August one later. Speaker 1 00:15:11 It was making sure. Sorry, I hadn't eaten anything since early this morning. I was grabbing something to eat real quick. Um, I did look. I am transcribing this meeting, so I did check to make sure that that was on. So, if you want to go through it with me today, and you have time, I am all for it. However, Speaker 2 00:15:31 Let's do it. Um, yeah, let's do it. So we can get this. Yeah, uh, over the. Speaker 1 00:15:38 Only one caveat to that is uh kiddos are going to. Um, they're gonna need my help with cooking dinner in a moment. They started it. I'm just gonna have to go show them something. I don't mind doing that, if you don't mind listening to me, teaching them how to cook it. Speaker 2 00:15:56 Yeah, that's fine. Um, yeah, well, I can let me see Let me share my screen. Maybe I can like do it as you andum I know, I'm able to like save the allocation, but not the itemization. So. While you like go in and thenum. Download the. The receipt for July, let me kind of get started with those. Speaker 1 00:16:26 Um, I did download the receipt. Oh, you know what? Okay, never mind. I see what I did. Ignore ignore me because you know. Speaker 2 00:16:43 So I'm gonna go through and kind of like update some of the departments for the transaction that you've done, um, because they belong in different ones. And then you know when you do it next month, then you can refer back to this report for the appropriate call center. Speaker 3 00:16:59 Okay, perfect. Speaker 3 00:17:39 That network solution came back to cash. Speaker 2 00:17:44 Oh, sorry. Say that again? Speaker 1 00:17:46 I said the network solution came back and is listed as cash again. We just changed it. Speaker 2 00:17:57 No, these are available expense, not the uh not your not the uh transactions in your. Speaker 1 00:18:04 Expense report. I thought I went into the expense expense report. Speaker 1 00:18:09 Alright, here we go. Sorry, Speaker 3 00:18:10 I thought I clicked it already. Trying to go too fast here. We'll do this. Thank you for here. Do you need. Speaker 2 00:18:55 Help getting the Concur expense, like theum the monthly Concur charge? Speaker 1 00:19:04 I may, if that's coming to this. Speaker 1 00:19:09 Credit card. Speaker 2 00:19:10 Yes, so, I usually come into Concur and access it using, like, you know, if you go to like, contact support that's where your billing things are. Speaker 3 00:19:22 Okay. Scroll down. Speaker 2 00:19:26 No, actually not here. Do, you go to like the question mark on the top? Uh left top right Sorry top, right. And then contact I usually go into contact support Okay. Speaker 3 00:19:57 Login is temporarily unavailable. I guess I don't have access to it. Speaker 2 00:20:15 Oh, this is Salesforce. Like you log in to Concur through Salesforce? Speaker 1 00:20:20 No, um, I went to contact support and it's transferring. And then it sent me to concur. I mean to Salesforce. Oh, okay. Okay, now I got this. Speaker 2 00:20:38 Oh, is it requiring to fill additional things before we can? Speaker 3 00:20:41 Yeah. Oh, North America. Speaker 3 00:21:18 Okay, billing. Yep, Speaker 2 00:21:32 Uh no I don't think it's this one. It might be the older one because this might be the August one. Okay, so if you go under like paid invoice paid bills. Speaker 1 00:21:43 Am I missing open bills? Speaker 2 00:21:46 The third one. Speaker 1 00:21:47 I was missing it. Speaker 2 00:21:49 Oh, uh, you have to go. The status should beum. Put on dropdown for status process. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:21:58 All right, So see that one and this one, let's see eighty one is. Speaker 1 00:22:12 August seventy six, No. Speaker 3 00:22:17 Seventy six is August eighty one is June. I'll just double check. Top one eighty one is student issue. Okay I was right. Eighty one is June. Speaker 3 00:22:47 This one is June. So. Speaker 2 00:23:02 Like Constant Contact is actually being shared by uh development and marketing, so I created like a uh favorite allocation that's split about fifty fifty. So whenever you work on that, if you could just use that allocation. Speaker 2 00:23:33 Okay. Yeah, Now I'm going into all like the internet fees, um and marketing and classing them to the location that uses it. Okay. Speaker 3 00:23:45 Oh, I just got the Blue Wave one. Speaker 2 00:25:16 And Then for all like the, the Netflix the. All these like Peacock and all those other stuff, it's all for Lauren Selfrank. So uh when you, when you attach the receipt, you could just class them under Lauren Selfrank. That would be great. Speaker 1 00:25:35 Okay, I can do that easily. Speaker 3 00:25:38 Sorry. There we go. Look at that one. So is that one? And blue is this health. All right, so close out Zoom first. Where's the Zoom? Speaker 1 00:26:27 The Quick book ones, uh, did you give me that one? Speaker 2 00:26:31 I don't. Okay, So this is the one whereum the receipts was being sent to Caucasian email a long time ago. And then when he leftum, we just kind of lost receipt. I've been completing like a missing receipt report or like statement for it every time. Um if you, You know, I don't know if there's any way for us to regain access to a receipt. Speaker 1 00:26:55 Okay. And this one, that's theum the land Land Digger? Which one is that one going back to? Speaker 2 00:27:04 Is that That's Legal Bee and then uh is this like yeah uh HR. HR. Speaker 3 00:27:20 And then. Speaker 2 00:27:26 So uh, I'm gonna oh, can you change the business purpose as well? Uh, it's not Verizon bills. Um. If you could, I believe this had to do withum. One second. Let me kind of look here. It says. Um Thea Luck T H E A, Um and then last thing is Luck. And then put in like settlement and that's it. Yeah okay. Save that okay so then, Um I'm gonna work on one of the um transaction that needs allocate advertising and allocation. So I'm gonna share my screen to kind of show you how I do it, um let me know. Speaker 2 00:28:18 When you see my screen. Speaker 1 00:28:21 Let me pull you back up. Okay, I see you. Speaker 2 00:28:27 Okay, I'm gonna save this copy on the side, so I can look at it while I'm doing it. Um, because this one actually has to do with the phone, I think the landline and internet for multiple locations. So here I have to do the itemization first. Okay. And first of all, I have to class it between like break it up between phone and internet, right? So let me do phone. And then by looking here. I can look into the um. Kind of expense, The invoice where it's like, okay, there's eSally here and I'm I'm just kind of just taking like whatever saying same invoice. Speaker 2 00:29:15 And put it into phone. Let me know if that's wrong and it's not phone related at all, and then we can fix it for like um for the budget next year. I think um yeah, and then for example this one also has a phone. So it's the phone is broken out into Inglewood, and East L A. And, okay, you can see here. Clint, we also have Claremont, but Claremont does not have phone. Okay so then that's like uh, 160 with all the four with the the total, so I'm just gonna put 160 here. Then you got to allocate this part. Okay. And I'm I'm gonna do it here, Jham and and Claremont Wait, no not Claremont eSally And then it was fifty fifty. Speaker 2 00:30:14 So it's either you can do it by amount or percentage. I'm gonna save this as a favorite. So I'm just gonna put like Spectrum Consolidate Bill. Got you. And then next time you can just like, you know, as long as soon as you have the 160, you can come in here and just break it up 50/50. Oh sweet! And then let me save allocation to the ACH allocation and I gotta create another one for the internet portion. Okay. Speaker 2 00:30:46 And then the internet, it's really just broken into the three. Um. I'm trying to see if one is like way more expensive than another. Can't let me see. Speaker 1 00:31:03 While you're doing that, let me go help the girls with next steps of dinner. We're making pasta, which oh nice, nice okay where are you baby? Speaker 1 00:31:17 Oh, good job. Did you put the chicken in yet? Nice. Okay, mozzarella cheese and uh parmesan cheese. Your next step. Hi Ari, when are you going to come over and be my fifth daughter? Speaker 1 00:31:52 Come tomorrow, I'll be in Pasadena tomorrow. But you you're welcome to come tomorrow. There you go. That's perfect. Okay, so basically what you're going to Parmesan is hard, it's supposed to be hard, but this one's good. Um let me toss this one. Speaker 1 00:32:28 Okay. So. To do the, parmesan. We're doing a cooking lesson, Arlie. When, are you when are you going to come over and let me teach you how to make cakes from scratch? Okay, so what you do is once you dish it out, you're just gonna do this. That's it. Are you hungry, baby? Okay. Your stomach feeling better? No, I just put it on the top when I serve. Makes life a little bit easier. Speaker 3 00:33:26 I'll get you a. Speaker 1 00:33:32 Alright, I'll get you a code for the door. Speaker 1 00:33:56 Hey, go, sweetie. Tell Sean I said hi. Hi Susanna, sorry. No worries. Way farther along than I thought. We did a basil pesto uh noodles with with chicken. Speaker 2 00:34:25 I I need some of that. I'm hungry. I need some good pasta. Speaker 3 00:34:35 Yeah, I need some good pasta. Speaker 1 00:34:39 You're always welcome to come over, but we're in El Segundo now. That's far. Yeah, the new intern that started with us today uh lives over by me. Speaker 2 00:34:54 Or, for I T or. Oh. How's how was how was she. It's a he. Oh, He oh, I thought I thought sorry, I thought it was. And now it's just a kind of soon. That's okay. Speaker 1 00:35:11 And I'll meet him tomorrow. That's why I'm gonna be in Pasadena tomorrow. Speaker 2 00:35:21 So, I think, am, Done with reclassing anything, everything except. Oh, Let's work onum Verizon because Verizon will be the same idea where we'll have to look at the bill and then break it out between. And thenum that's the one where I'm kind of using your uh your platform for the breakdown. Verizon. Speaker 1 00:35:52 Two of the platform is coming soon. Speaker 2 00:35:54 Oh, nice. Nice. What's the what's the difference? What's the update? Speaker 1 00:36:00 It should be more granular. But also, it's gonna be automated where it's gonna be more up to date. Speaker 3 00:36:14 Okay. I am uh, let's see. What did I do? I did. Speaker 3 00:36:36 Yeah, so solve uh. What again Can I use. Speaker 2 00:36:43 Um mobile mobile Yeah. Mobile or. 4709, So that's like the fixed monthly charge is a 4709. And then everything else I just put it under like equipment because there's cost of change of equipment for some reason. Um, so that's just how we do it. And then unfortunately I gotta do this. Speaker 3 00:37:14 One for each department. Speaker 1 00:37:56 Did I tell you that I have two more uh foster kids in the home. Speaker 2 00:38:00 Oh, I don't. I don't know. I didn't know. Speaker 1 00:38:03 Yeah, you remember when I was in the hospital? Speaker 2 00:38:09 Yes, I think yeah. Okay, Speaker 1 00:38:13 Yeah So. That was the last week of June Uh, huh And the very next week had just got gotten out and I got a call and said, hey, we've we've got emergency situation. Can you take this this kiddo? She's in extended care, and I said absolutely bring her here. And then four days later, I got a call about one of my other foster kids that had been with me off and on for four years. And we've been trying to get her permanently assigned to me. And they came over, but they finally said," Hey, we got to place her now." And they had her to our house within an hour. So two within four days, two additional. And then Dominic is going to college next week. I am going to drive her just set. Speaker 2 00:38:54 Oh, that's a long drive. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:38:60 So so areum are you gonna be able to keep. Uh, or is it her or him permanently. Speaker 2 00:39:14 Yeah. So, so how many, how many kids do you have in your house in total, Right now three. Okay, yeah. That sounds really busy. Speaker 1 00:39:27 Yeah, but it's great. They wanted they came to the office. Two of them came with me to the office because they like coming to the office today. So we were at the sharp office, and then they came home and made dinner. Speaker 3 00:39:41 That's nice. Alright, let me do this. Speaker 2 00:40:05 So Anythingum for like the devices, anything that are unassigned, it kind of goes under uh IT. Speaker 3 00:40:12 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:40:17 And I'm I got a new report from Verizon that I need to upload. A. Speaker 2 00:40:26 New report with me. Speaker 1 00:40:29 Sometimes, we'll get a new report from Verizon where they've updated the names on all the accounts. Speaker 2 00:40:34 Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. The Verizon invoice is always a lot. Yeah, twenty front pages too. It just it's crazy like like we've been trying to like figure out what exactly is on there. And it was just hard to hard to break it out. Yes. Speaker 3 00:43:05 Am I missing anything here? What the. Oh, it's just career. Speaker 3 00:45:16 Something's wrong. Something's off. If. Speaker 1 00:45:25 It's off, in my experience, it's because I mistyped or got dyslexic with a decimal point. Yeah, Speaker 2 00:45:33 But I don't know which one is that's my. Speaker 3 00:45:37 That's my problem. Speaker 3 00:46:10 What are you doing? Are you trying to get my chicken? Did not just do that. Oh my god. Speaker 3 00:47:55 Yeah, no, it doesn't add up. What's going on? Am I missing something? One, two, three. Eighteen. Speaker 3 00:51:03 Okay. I think we're done. Okay. This. Speaker 2 00:51:09 One. Yeah, So I think what's left now and the only one that requires an allocation is Blue Wave, and Blue Wave is pretty straightforward. Blue Wave, You just look at like the second page;. It tells you which center and how much it is for each center. Okay. And then if you could just do that part. Okay. Yeah, and um, yeah. Try to okay, so try to find the receipt I guess for everything we have here. If not, Um let me know which ones we're missing, and then we can like, you know, postpone it to next month's, okay or when or till whenever we can't we find, you know, we have the receipt and can resubmit it at that time. Okay. Speaker 2 00:51:57 But Dropbox and like Constant, Contact and all the subscriptions should be in the email that I sent. Ah, in the password that I sent you. But Google, Google is the one that I don't have the password to, and I've been using like a missing uh receipt statement as a replacement. So I have we have not been able to get access to that. I I I think Flores or Frank is using it, but I don't think they have like a login either. They've just been like, you know, signed in at their device. So, I don't I don't know if they know what the passwords and stuff is. Got you. Speaker 3 00:52:42 Okay. Yeah so. Speaker 2 00:52:45 This is This is really just it so if you, I'm available tomorrow morning, so if you you know, run into anything. Um or anytime tomorrow, Just like send me a chat, and then I should be able to hop on it. Speaker 3 00:53:05 Not a problem. Um. Speaker 3 00:53:20 I was gonna ask something and it just totally slipped on my. Speaker 2 00:53:27 Oh, you canum, send me Teams anytime you remember. I'll I'll check my Teams pretty often so. Speaker 1 00:53:35 Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:53:39 All right, thank you, Thank I know it's like it's a lot of work, but no, maybe there are some other capabilities that AI can help us with this. Yeah. Like, you know, with them grabbing all theum. uh. the invoices for you. I don't know how it works, butum. Speaker 1 00:53:57 Me seeing this the way you did it, just now puts a lot better perspective on the allocation. Um- hm. And I think. I think this should help you out and less work for you. My hope is. Speaker 2 00:54:11 Yes, it definitely does. Speaker 1 00:54:13 Alright good. All right, Let me let me give it a try with the rest of everything and I'll get that submitted over to you before you get up in the morning. Sorry, I'm about to hiccup, sneeze and cough at the same time. It did not feel good. Um, but let me let me work on the rest of it. And then uh, let me know what I screw up tomorrow. Okay, I'm gonna try not to but if I do just let me know. Speaker 3 00:54:38 Okay sounds. Speaker 1 00:54:39 Good thank you awesome thank you bye Bye. Speaker 3 00:54:45 Yeah.
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05-26 Weekly Meeting: Firewall Shipments, Migrations (ITGlue→Hudu, Gmail→Microsoft), AutoElevate, VoIP, and Project Scheduling
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- ## Meeting Information > Date: 2026-05-26 10:30:23 > Location: [Insert Location] > Participants: [Speaker 1] [Speaker 3] [Speaker 4] [Speaker 7] [Speaker 9] [Pete] [Seg] [Olivia] [Christi] [Vlad] ## Meeting Notes - Topic Title: Project 2612 – Firewall MX105 Shipment and Configuration (San Diego) - Description: - Olivia reported MX105 scheduled to ship on 2026-05-26; tracking pending from Cisco. - Pete asked Maggie to confirm shipment on 2026-05-27. - Plan: remote configuration; onsite setup by Ryan with support from Gabby or Kevin. - Pete emphasized scheduling with customer and pro services to avoid last-minute bookings. - Switch is already set up onsite. - Conclusion: - Await shipment confirmation and schedule installation with customer. - Topic Title: Project 2614 – ITGlue to Hudu Migration Finalization - Description: - Team expects client migrations done by 2026-05-29; revoke ITGlue access on 2026-06-01. - Key checks: global admin changes and key passwords; password rotation is challenging. - Pete requested full export/backup from ITGlue if possible; ensure secure storage and security team awareness. - Conclusion: - Proceed with final checks and secure export before revoking access on 2026-06-01. - Topic Title: Signal Partners Onboarding - Description: - Olivia suggested placing on hold pending Pete; to discuss in 1:1. - Conclusion: - On hold pending guidance from Pete. - Topic Title: AutoElevate Rollout and Rippling/JumpCloud Solution - Description: - Rules still being rolled out. - Sean working with John on Rippling/JumpCloud solution; update expected next week. - Topic Title: SHARP – Managed IT Agreement and Microsoft Migration - Description: - MFA enabled; security tools turnover started earlier due to app rollout issues. - Current managed IT project can be closed; roadmap milestone reached. - Next: plan migration to Microsoft; Christi to align with Pete on scope. - Conclusion: - Close current SHARP project; begin Microsoft migration planning. - Topic Title: SHARP – Computer Upgrades Status - Description: - Robert behind due to ADT badging system issues; worked Saturday to catch up. - Completion target remains September 2026. - Laptops being processed and leaving storage. - Topic Title: Ability First – Camp Cabling and AP Replacements - Description: - Christi to pick up equipment on 2026-05-27; onsite at camp on 2026-05-28. - Internet down during 2026-05-28; limited connectivity; cherry picker pickup on 2026-06-01. - Replace APs not covered by ComDirect; completion by 2026-05-30. - Conclusion: - Cabling/AP work to be completed by 2026-05-30; equipment logistics confirmed. - Topic Title: CodSense – AI Assessment and Implementation - Description: - Training completed; advancing to more complex work. - Staff feedback received; final AI usage policy in progress. - Slightly ahead of schedule. - Topic Title: DTLA – Cloud Team Setup - Description: - Kickoff meeting moved to week of 2026-06-01 due to Susanna’s absence. - On target schedule. - Topic Title: Anderson – Cloud Team Setup - Description: - Waiting on feedback; pending two items. - Andrew to provide wishlist; meeting to be scheduled after receipt. - Topic Title: Alias – Microsoft 365 Copilot Rollout - Description: - Project started around 2026-05-22; project plan being added to ConnectWise on 2026-05-26. - Gabby to receive task lists; target completion within four weeks (by 2026-06-23). - Topic Title: Blue Wave Phones for Ability First and Provider Shift - Description: - Remaining Blue Wave sites possibly one or two; Olivia to verify with Caleb. - Christi noted shift away from Comm-Direct; Crimson to handle phones and cabling. - Need new VoIP provider; topic prioritized. - Topic Title: Avalon – AI Project Onboarding - Description: - Awaiting invoice payment; will begin project post-payment. - Training plan: 2-hour setup and user training; Gabby to be scheduled. - Topic Title: ConnectWise Project Updates and Onboarding - Description: - Julia managing project plans; Paula onboarding nearly complete. - Plan for Paula to run next week’s meeting and begin independent project updates. - Pete requested Julia to assign select projects to Paula for next week. - Topic Title: Project 2639 – Initiative Managed IT (Gmail to Microsoft Migration) - Description: - Two users opting out of Gmail migration; three users migrated; 2–3 users left. - Some users being offboarded; Patrick returns 2026-05-28 to continue. - First invoice paid. - Topic Title: Project 2679 – Mayberry Quarter IT Security Assessment - Description: - Currently on hold. - Topic Title: Project 2690 – Foothill IT Infrastructure and Security Assessment - Description: - Onsite requested; tentative for 2026-05-29 due to Chris out until 2026-05-28. - Questionnaire not yet received; Seg to follow up. - Topic Title: Project 2691 – Undersong HQ Firewall Replacement - Description: - Firewall ETA 2026-05-28; will schedule time with Gabby or Kevin after delivery. - Topic Title: Project 2700 – Lock Procrustes Cash: 23 Computers - Description: - Down payment received; hardware ordered; EPA (estimated arrival) TBD; hoping for update on 2026-05-26. - Topic Title: Maverick – Domain Migration - Description: - VPN change completed 2026-05-25. - Domain cutover planned for 2026-05-29 through weekend. - Seg reviewing billable time entries. - Topic Title: HANA East – Internal Audit - Description: - Waiting for comments from Victoria; no updates yet. - Topic Title: Huntress Migration - Description: - Only Cottonwood remains on Sophos; awaiting AutoElevate dependency for Cottonwood. - Miguel on PTO. - Topic Title: Belgrade Camera Switch – Auto-Config - Description: - Power cord arriving 2026-05-26; need to schedule Kevin or Gabby for switch configuration. - Onsite installation required in Billings, Montana; third-party installer needed; verify SOW coverage. - Topic Title: Project 2696 – Winegard Wireless AP Replacement - Description: - Awaiting updated quote from CWD for new switch model. - Topic Title: Arc Capital – Firewall, Switch, and APs - Description: - Down payment check sent 2026-05-21; tracking indicates out for delivery on 2026-05-26. - Pete emphasized communicating hardware lead times; option to source faster with markup. - Team noted Marquis-type gear often has ~90-day lead times; piecemeal installs possible. - Topic Title: Project 2651 – Barker Quad Gate-Over Unity Migration - Description: - Quote received with methodology and labor costs; forwarded to Vince. - Waiting for Kara (property manager) approval. - Topic Title: Scheduling – Maverick Internal Meeting - Description: - 11:00 internal meeting noted; Seg may move to afternoon. - Topic Title: Project Angel Food 2533 – Server Migration - Description: - George to pick up server on next onsite; schedule confusion due to PTO. - Option to close project and use service ticket if delaying to June 2026. - Topic Title: Interim 2317 – Compliance Setup and Cloud PCs - Description: - Two developers completed; two pending (one today, one by 2026-05-29). - Next: review CA conditional access policy with Security (Sean) and decide pilot/full rollout. - Topic Title: Wayfinder 2598 – SharePoint Cleanup - Description: - Waiting for client final sign-off; follow-up ping to be sent. - Topic Title: HANA 2629 – XTRF Upgrade Cutover - Description: - Cutover scheduled for 2026-05-31. - Topic Title: New Discovery Projects and Pipeline - Description: - Jason’s new discovery for “Jeff Falcon / EAG” not yet signed; will add upon signature. - WCC Tech Group inquiry: firewall, switches, APs, endpoints, cameras, signs; Pete to consult Vlad and Anzor. - JLL Habitat proposal submitted; in review; Western Asset Plaza closed. - History Museum phase two: need proactive follow-up; Paula to be included. - Topic Title: CBRE Fagan Seventh Property Sale to Athena Property Management - Description: - Interest in Crimson managing network at Fagan Seventh; Anzor reportedly contacted. - Jason to ping Anzor and copy Pete for status. ## Next Arrangements - [ ] Maggie to confirm MX105 shipment status on 2026-05-27 (Project 2612) - [ ] Schedule customer installation and pro services calendar for MX105 after shipment confirmation (Project 2612) - [ ] Perform ITGlue export/backup (if feasible), store securely, and notify security team before 2026-06-01 (Project 2614) - [ ] Confirm Signal Partners onboarding status after Pete’s 1:1 - [ ] Provide update on AutoElevate and Rippling/JumpCloud solution next week - [ ] Close SHARP managed IT project; start Microsoft migration planning with Pete - [ ] Pick up Ability First equipment on 2026-05-27; complete AP replacements by 2026-05-30 - [ ] Send Alias Copilot task list to Gabby and finalize ConnectWise plan on 2026-05-26 - [ ] Olivia to verify Blue Wave phones remaining sites with Caleb; assess scope for project tracking - [ ] Identify and engage new VoIP provider for Ability First - [ ] Schedule 2-hour cloud setup training slot for Avalon with Gabby post-payment - [ ] Assign selected projects to Paula and have her run the meeting on week of 2026-06-01 - [ ] Continue Initiative Gmail migration when Patrick returns on 2026-05-28 - [ ] Confirm Foothill onsite for 2026-05-29 and chase outstanding questionnaire - [ ] Schedule Undersong firewall configuration post-delivery on 2026-05-28 - [ ] Obtain EPA update for Lock Procrustes computers; communicate timelines - [ ] Proceed with Maverick domain cutover on 2026-05-29 and track billable entries - [ ] Follow up with Victoria on HANA East audit comments - [ ] Arrange third-party installer in Billings, MT for Belgrade switch; verify SOW coverage - [ ] Obtain updated CWD quote for Winegard switch model - [ ] Communicate lead times to Arc Capital; consider piecemeal installation and expedited sourcing option - [ ] Await Kara’s approval for Barker; proceed upon consent - [ ] Decide whether to close Angel Food 2533 and move to service ticket if delayed to June - [ ] Consult Security (Sean) on conditional access rollout plan for Interim - [ ] Request final sign-off from Wayfinder for SharePoint cleanup - [ ] Execute HANA XTRF cutover on 2026-05-31 - [ ] Vlad/Pete to align on WCC Tech Group request; then consult Anzor - [ ] Follow up with JLL on Habitat proposal status - [ ] Proactively engage History Museum on phase two; include Paula - [ ] Jason to ping Anzor re: Athena Property Management interest for Fagan Seventh - [ ] [Insert more] ## AI Suggestions > AI Suggestions > AI has identified the following issues that were not concluded in the meeting or lack clear action items; please pay attention: > 1. ITGlue export feasibility and secure storage location are undecided; define process owner, method, and storage controls before 2026-06-01. > 2. Ability First’s move away from Comm-Direct requires a consolidated plan for phone systems, cabling, and provider selection; assign ownership and timeline. > 3. Belgrade installation in Billings, MT needs third-party coverage confirmation in SOW/quote and vetted vendor selection. > 4. Arc Capital hardware lead times and expedited sourcing policy need standardized customer communication templates across all quotes. > 5. History Museum phase two lacks timeline and scope; set a follow-up cadence and designate a lead, ensuring Paula’s involvement.
- Date
- May 26, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:05 Good morning. Happy Tuesday. Morning everybody. Speaker 2 00:00:14 We're already 20% of the way through the week. Right, everybody should be happy. Speaker 3 00:00:21 We are very happy, I said, happy too. Speaker 4 00:00:27 I will be happy as soon as my webcam gets here. Speaker 1 00:00:36 Is Ollie joining us today? I think she's missing. Speaker 5 00:00:50 Yes, she is. She's here. Oh, oh, you're in there. Okay, let's start. Oh, Miguel is currently on PTO so he'll not be joining us. All right, morning everybody. Welcome to week 22 of our QWalk meeting. Let's start this meeting with Olivia's projects, starting with project 2612, the first CD homes for the firewall MX 105. Speaker 6 00:01:21 So this one is set to deliver and actually be sent out today. Whether it gets there today gets there sometime soon is another. Topic of conversation, but according to uh it's still set to to ship out today, not to be delivered. Sorry. Oh okay. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Speaker 2 00:01:45 So can can Maggie call tomorrow and find out if it actually shipped? Or do we have a way to find out like tomorrow if it actually shipped out today? Speaker 6 00:01:54 Yeah I'llum I'll ask Maggie to give them a call tomorrow. She said that uh. Speaker 6 00:02:02 Yeah, she's still waiting for like for Cisco to give them a tracking number. Speaker 1 00:02:07 Okay. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:02:10 And have we checked with uh Gabby's on the call here? Gabby, What do we haveum anything scheduled for? Like are we going to pre configure this? And then is Ryan going to do the work or you or Kevin planning to actually go down to San Diego to do this? Or what's this? What's the plan there? Because that's this is a. This is a big circuit, right? Isn't this like a five gig circuit or something? Speaker 6 00:02:37 I was thinking just doingum the actual configuration remotely, and then having Ryan do all the setup with either Gabby or Kevin. I think actually Kevin's been the one that's been working for Ryan. Speaker 7 00:02:52 Correct me if I'm wrong, Gabby. Uh, I believe so. I was kind of involved too, but either one of us is fine. Speaker 2 00:03:01 Okay. We should we should uh I guess Olivia once we actually confirm that it's been shipped, We should make sure that somebody has something on the calendar scheduled. So that with the customer once we get that going and I've been working with Jason a lot to to try to say, let's make sure that. The pro services team is getting schedules on their calendar to have things planned as opposed to kind of seat of the pants last minute, getting things on the calendar, so that we have because their work is starting to their calendars are filling up a lot. So I want to try to get things in on the plan as soon as we can. So I really hope this thing ships today. I know you do. I know you do too. Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:56 And the switch is already down there somewhere, right? That didn't get lost. Speaker 6 00:04:00 Switch has already been set up and everything, Speaker 1 00:04:02 So that's already been completed. Okay, Speaker 5 00:04:10 And now let's move on to project two, six one four. It is for the I T G two Hudo migration. Speaker 6 00:04:17 So this one we're in our final stretch. Um I checked in with everyone everyone says that they're, They're good to be completed with their clients by Friday, soum I'm hoping that we have everything completed by Friday. We're going to revoke access on Monday, um which I believe is the first. And then yeah. Speaker 2 00:04:45 How Do we double check that Olivia just to like compare or something? Do we, Because people aren't just going to like arbitrarily copy passwords, are they? They're doing some level of because the password verification was the big thing we wanted to make sure was accurate, right? Speaker 6 00:05:05 Yeah. Soum earlier I've just been like double checking. I'm gonna before I revoke access, I'm gonna be looking through like making sure global admins are all switched over. Like our very our key passwords. Speaker 6 00:05:24 Actually making sure that passwords are being rotated is a little bit more difficult. Um. Speaker 2 00:05:32 Okay, we can talk about it in our one to one today, But I just I just want to make sure that we've got. You know, we're and we talked about, you know, doing a full export of what's an ITG and all that kind of stuff. And if we need help from anybody from Chris or anybody to make sure that we've got a full. "Quote unquote backup or something that we can recover should we need it. Or better yet, if there's any way to query the data, even if it's you know a challenge, a comma delimited file or some weird thing like that. If it's something that's readable in some way shape or form. I don't know if they encrypt the password data and stuff. If that's the case then that might be challenging but." Speaker 2 00:06:20 We don't want, but but the important thing is if we export this, we need to absolutely make sure that that file is in a safe place. Right. Because that cannot sit somewhere that some hacker can go. Hey, guess what? I just got access to all of Crimson's clients password data because it's sitting in a and a comma delimited file somewhere in some unencrypted format someplace. So. Let's just make sure that our security team knows where that is. And we've got it. Someplace that's safe. Please. Okay, all right. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:06:60 Okay, all right? How about the onboarding of signal partners? Um. Speaker 6 00:07:08 I'm gonna should I put this one on hold I think we're still waiting for Pete I'll talk to him about it at my one- on- one. Okay? Speaker 5 00:07:18 And then auto elevate implementation. Speaker 6 00:07:21 Um, and then auto elevate, um, we're still rolling out some rules. And then I have Sean working with uh John onum rippling slash jump cloud. He thinks that he found a solution, but he's been uh a little busy. So I haven't wrapped back around to it. So we should have more updates here next week. Speaker 5 00:07:49 Alright, and then let's move on to Christie's project. So about SHARP for their managed IT agreement. Speaker 8 00:07:57 So we have MFA enabled. We already have a start on getting all the security tools turned over. We're just going to go ahead and do it earlier than rather than later. Speaker 8 00:08:12 Rather than waiting on contracts in just because we've been having some issues with certain different applications and getting it rolled out. So, we're just going to go ahead and bite the bullet and do it now rather than wait. I would say this portion, this project itself probably can go ahead and get closed out, just because we never had an end date on it. And uh just say it's done because we are we are at the location on our roadmap that we planned on being at. So we're we're actually pretty good there. Um our next thing we're going to start slowly working on is the migration to Microsoft. And uh, that's something I'll need to sit down with Pete and double check some things on cause. Um yeah, if that one's going to be a little bit big. Speaker 4 00:08:59 So uh, so yeah. Speaker 1 00:09:04 Okay, how about their computer upgrades? Speaker 8 00:09:07 So Robert's been running a little bit behind on that just because there's been a lot going on. Adt taking down the badging system and not being able to import in users for the last two weeks has just kind of been a little bit of a headache. However, He came in on Saturday to make up some time and worked through some machines. So I'm going to check with him and see how far he got on those. But we're still planning on being done by September. Speaker 1 00:09:41 I know laptops are. Speaker 8 00:09:44 Never mind. I was going to say, I know laptops have been disappearing slowly from my office, so I do know it's going. They're stored in my office. Um, ability first cabling infrastructure for camp. Um, I am taking I'm going to stop and get the equipment tomorrow afternoon Gabby. Um, So I'm gonna I have to go to sharp in the morning, and then after lunch I'll come down or go up and pick them all up from you guys. Um, so that's going to be happening tomorrow. I'm driving up to camp on Thursday. I will be out of pocket all day because one there's no cell phone signal for AT and T. Speaker 8 00:10:25 And two, we're taking down the internet on Thursday. So, if you guys can't get a hold of me, that is why. So just a quick heads up. And, we're going to be replacing all of the APs that ComDirect is not replacing. Basically they're installing all the new stuff. I am going around and replacing all the ones that is not included on their sheet, which is already existing. So we should have that completed. I believe the rental company is coming to pick up the cherry picker on next Monday, so everything has to be completed by Saturday in accordance with ComDirect. Everything is going right now. Speaker 2 00:11:06 So Chris, Are you saying that the entire cabling project is going to be done next week? Speaker 4 00:11:13 Yes, by Saturday of this coming week. Speaker 2 00:11:17 Okay, I thought it was a more of an extended project. I thought there was more to it than that. But if it's all going to be done by the end of the week, that's great. Speaker 8 00:11:25 Yeah, I'm sending over the final AP layout right now and ComDirect is expected on site by lunchtime. Speaker 1 00:11:33 Fantastic. Yes. Speaker 5 00:11:37 All right, how about CodSense AI assessment and implementation? Speaker 8 00:11:42 So we finished their training last week. We're going to start working on some advanced stuff with them over the next week or so. Um, we have gotten feedback from staff, um, and then we're working on the final version of their AI usage policy. And we are on track and slightly. Speaker 1 00:12:00 Ahead of schedule on that one. And then. Speaker 5 00:12:09 DTLA's cloud team set up? Speaker 8 00:12:12 So we have our kickoff meeting. It's either this week or next week. Let me double check, but it is coming up. So we are going to be sitting down with the team, working through everything and getting exactly what they want and mapping it out. I believe we had to move it to next week because Susanna was out of the office this week, but we have everything going on that one. Everything is looking good. We're not ahead of schedule, but we're right on target. Speaker 5 00:12:44 And then Anderson's cloud team set up as well. Speaker 8 00:12:48 Um, I am waiting on feedback from them. I'm pending two items. Uh, I emailed them about it twice again last week. Um, Andrew is supposed to be getting over their wish list. Andum once I get all of that information back, we're gonna, we're gonna be able to set up the meeting and drive everything to where it needs to go. Speaker 5 00:13:09 And then Alias Microsoft 365 Copilot. Speaker 8 00:13:13 So we have started that project as of last week. So as of last, I think was it Thursday, we had the meeting. I am working on getting the project plan in place on ConnectWise. And as soon as I get the project plan into ConnectWise, Gabby, that's going to be later this afternoon. I have it slaved on my calendar to work on Gabby. I'll be sending over some task lists for you to work on within Microsoft. And we'll be. S lated to get that doneum. Speaker 1 00:13:45 Within the next four weeks. So. Speaker 4 00:13:49 It's not really much I can give you on that one. I feel like we're missing a project for me week. Oh, Carney has been definitely moved to mid uh to June 22 n d. By the way. Speaker 4 00:14:09 I think I know that. Speaker 2 00:14:10 Before we finish, before we finish yours with Olivia and you on the call, Do we want? Should we have a project for the Blue Wave phones for Ability First? Or is that something that we've because I sent Olivia a note that since you know, since my call, I mentioned it to you and. Speaker 2 00:14:38 Obviously, you know, but Olivia has been pretty busy the last couple of weeks. I sent it out to her that maybe we can get some traction on this later this week or next. But is that something we need a project around or is that and Olivia, maybe you know, but how how much is left to do on that? What, how big is the scope on this? And do we need an actual project to formalize that? Or what what was what do we need on that one? Speaker 1 00:15:05 I think that we only have. Speaker 6 00:15:09 Like One or two sites left. Um, and that was in April, so I have to I'll check in on it. Um, with Caleb it might it might be completed already. Um Yes, Speaker 2 00:15:23 Maybe uh, so okay. So and we can talk about it on our one to one. But if there's still like a big enough scope, we may want to do a project just to get tracking around it. So we make sure we got progress if it's small, if it's small, there's not much left to do. Maybe we just knock it out. Butum. Um, I do want to make sure that uh that we get that one. I figured I'd just bring it up. Speaker 8 00:15:44 Just a heads up for both of you because something changed on Friday after my and Michelle's conversation. Um, we're moving away from Comm- Direct. So when we have Blue Wave tied down, Um Blue Wave is part of C omm- D ire ct. So we're moving all services off of C omm- D ire ct from from Ability First to us. Um, which means we're going to be handling their phones, level to cabling, all of that. Um, So it's now becoming a bigger issue Olivia for you because I know you weren't part of those conversations. Uh just because we need to we need to know what what's out there. And get it all tied up. Speaker 1 00:16:24 You're with Isis right? Yes. Speaker 6 00:16:27 And did you get? Uh well, I'll I'llum I'll link up with you afterwards. Yeah. Speaker 8 00:16:33 And Pete, uh, Miss Shawn just called to remind me about that this morning. So I got to start working on finding a. Speaker 4 00:16:39 New VoIP provider. Um, Speaker 1 00:16:42 Let's keep that topic top of mind. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Um, you're muted. You're muted sir. Speaker 8 00:16:59 So real quickly, uh, there's one more project missing from my list. Uh, Avalon? Speaker 1 00:17:10 Yes, Avalon. Okay. Yeah. Let me get that on the. I have a lot of AI projects. Speaker 8 00:17:21 Thank you. Poor Julia Julia does not want that project. She wants me to have that project. Speaker 5 00:17:31 Yeah, So for okay. This one we're we're still waiting for the invoice, I guess. Speaker 8 00:17:37 Yes, as soon as it's yes, as soon as it's paid. I already reached out to Vance gave him a heads up. Uh Jason could I steal the amazing Gabby and teach her how to do cloud setups? Speaker 9 00:17:49 Sure. Uh Gabby what do you think? We need to develop this. Uh, we need to develop this on our team because it sounds like it's. You know, we're moving towards Crimson AI. So, how much time do you think you'll need for something like this? This is like a half hour or hour or two hours? Speaker 8 00:18:07 Two hours max as far as just the setup and getting everything in place and the rest of it is just training people on how to use it. And making sure Microsoft is set up properly. Speaker 9 00:18:19 Okay, when are you thinking about doing this? Speaker 8 00:18:21 Uh, when they pay their invoices is when I'll start working on the project. Not before. Pete has given me. Speaker 4 00:18:27 Very specific orders on that one. Speaker 9 00:18:30 Got it. Yeah, so I would say just work with Gabby on uh fitting into a slot, a two hour slot. Okay, perfect. When you know we get to that point. Okay. That's exciting, I like it. Speaker 3 00:18:47 Yeah Christyum I've been keeping an eye on the projects and Connectwise. Do you need help with the. Project plans updated in ConnectWise? Speaker 8 00:18:58 Not not right now. I just need about two more hours a day for the next couple days just to get things caught up. I decided to sleep in my hammock on my porch this weekend instead of working. It was very comfortable. Speaker 3 00:19:15 Just let us know. I will. It's going to be good uh training exercise for Paula with that one. Speaker 4 00:19:21 I'll pull her in when I start working on the Leo one. Speaker 5 00:19:26 Alright, let's move on to project 2639. This is for initiative for your managed IT agreement. So we're still doing Gmail migration for this one. Some of the users don't want their Gmail to be migrated to their Microsoft account. So we have two users for that, We're already done with three users. And then some of the users are being offboarded. So that's. I think we only have two or three users left, and Patrick is out until Thursday. So so we're gonna continue once he's back, and then their first invoice has been paid already. Next is project two six, seven, nine is for the Mayberry quarter IT security assessment. This still currently on hold. And then next s. Project, two, six nine, zero. It is from. Speaker 5 00:20:24 Foothill for their IT infrastructure and security assessment. So this one we requested if we can have like an onsite visit last week, But Chris told us that if we can have it on May 29 because he is currently out of the country until 28. And then we haven't received the questionnaire. From Macy's or Chris yet. So I'm gonna um reach out to them for that one. And the next is project 2 69. Okay, this is for undersong for the HQ firewall replacement. So this one ETA of the firewall is on Thursday. So once we have this delivered, I will also get some time for from Gabby or Kevin. All right. Speaker 5 00:21:19 And then next is project twenty seven hundred is for lock procrustes cash for their twenty three computers. So they have already paid the down payment. We have already ordered the hardwares. Epa is still tbd. Hopefully, we can have the E P A today, and then next is maverick for their domain migration. So with the DPN change last night. And doing the domain cut over this Friday to weekend, so I'm currently busy um checking all the billable time entries uh today. And then for um project for the HANA East internal audit, uh we're still waiting for some comments from Victoria in this one. So as of today we haven't heard anything from her. Speaker 5 00:22:17 And then migration to Huntress, I think only Cottonwood is still in Sophos. So I think we're still waiting for auto-alleviate on this one for Cottonwood. And then Miguel is currently out, so let me check. Let me tell you guys his update for A uto - C on fig here for the camera switch for Belgrade. Two remaining accessory, the power cord will arrive today. So once that it once that is delivered, we need to schedule Kevin or Cobby, um, this week for the configuration of the switch. Speaker 7 00:22:57 And so I just wanted to add on thatum. So since they're in Montana, I told Miguel thisum we need to like get like a third party to help usum and. Um, Install the switch on site, and we or me or Kevin can't configure it remotely. So I don't think he was aware of that, but I told him on Friday, I think. Speaker 2 00:23:23 Are they actually in Montana or is that just the name? I thought that was just the name of their location. I didn't think they were actually. Speaker 7 00:23:31 Think Billings is the city. Speaker 3 00:23:39 Yeah, they have two sites that are out of California. Speaker 7 00:23:45 Yeah, it's a study in Montana and that's where the location is. Speaker 1 00:23:54 So is the third party. Speaker 5 00:23:56 Installation added in yeah, Is the third party installation added in this code or in the code that they haveum signed? We. Speaker 1 00:24:08 Need to check on that. Speaker 6 00:24:18 I Always think about Comic- Con is there, um, they sometimes say Nebraska even though it's in L. A. That's the one that confuses people. I always think it's. Speaker 2 00:24:28 Oh, that's the one. Yeah, I knew there was a state one that actually wasn't out of the states. Yes. Speaker 5 00:24:38 Next is project two six, nine six is for Winegard order wireless access point replacement. So this one, we're still waiting for the updated quote from CWD for the new switch model and then another project for the firewall switch and access points for Arc Capital. So down payment has not. Been paid yet, but as per Quincy from his email, Um just a while ago, they have sent the check overnight last twenty first and I checked. They uh they gave us the tracking number, so it's already out for delivery today. Right and then next is project two, six, five, one is for Barker for the quad decode decode Abby. Speaker 2 00:25:31 Real real quick question on the arc. Or, is that do we know if those are backordered if that's backordered equipment like all the other Marquis stuff? Or are we going to be waiting for six months for this junk? Speaker 5 00:25:47 Um this one I think we haven't ordered anything yet. Speaker 2 00:25:52 No. But do we know if the lead times are going to be? Oh oh, yeah, 90120180 days like everything else. I guess I want to make sure we've set customer expectations. We should probably make sure that when we're ordering anything or when we're placing quotes, that we're setting customer expectations based on existing lead times. So can can we let our teams know that for for quotes going forward, we should let customers know if lead times are way way out, that these parts you know these. Speaker 2 00:26:30 These projects may be four six months out, if if that's what our lead times are. Speaker 3 00:26:35 Yes, it actually is and and Maggie Maggie told Vincent so maybe Vincent informed them. The estimated lead times were ninety. Speaker 2 00:26:46 And yeah, I just want to make sure. And maybe this equipment isn't. But if it is, we just need to make sure that front or tell, okay. Speaker 3 00:26:53 Yeah, it is and Maggie told Vincent. So, um, maybe Vincent informed them that's estimated lead time. But we we have to double check. Yeah. Speaker 7 00:27:04 Okay. Yeah, I just want to add thatum since for each device, it has different lead times, I told Vince that we can do piecemeal, like whatever arrives. First, we can install it. And then just wait for the other hardware to arrive and then schedule to install it. So that way you don't have ARC waiting on it too long. Sure. Okay. Speaker 5 00:27:24 Oh, I remember this one because I've sent the initial email to Quincy. Yeah, I sent the lead times to them as part of that initial email. Speaker 2 00:27:35 Okay. Just as a general guideline though for all projects, Let's make sure that for all quotes going forward. And this is for Jason and Paul, I guess it's for everybody on the call, for everybody that is doing a quote especially for hardware. We've got huge lead times on most of this network gear, So let's make sure that's communicated to setting expectations with our customers is going to be a big deal. And if we if they want to pay extra, We can make that offer that we can go to the market and potentially find some of this gear. And get it sooner. But there would be a markup. So if they want us to do that, We can go and search for it, and you can make that offer doesn't mean we can necessarily get it. Speaker 2 00:28:22 But if it's something they say, hey, I want to try to do this sooner. Can you do it? Can you do it for more and get it faster? We can start to do that option because we have, you know, we have a couple options there. So give them that option if they want to do it. Okay. Speaker 5 00:28:41 Um next is project 2651 is for Barker for the quad gate over Gabby. Speaker 7 00:28:48 Uh we did get the quote, U m methodology IT with the labor costum for them having to help usum uh trying to come migrating over the unified devices. Um I forward that to Vince and Vince says he was going to reach out to Kara, the property manager, to see if she's okay with that. And so far we haven't heard a response back from her. So that's where we're at right now. Speaker 2 00:29:18 So are we having our, Are we having our maverick meeting or are we canceling that? Speaker 5 00:29:23 Oh, we have 11:00 a. m. That's the internal one. Speaker 2 00:29:28 Do we need to have, are we having the internal one or no? Speaker 5 00:29:31 Um, I think I canum move that this afternoon. Speaker 2 00:29:37 Yeah, you can probably do that. Okay. Speaker 5 00:29:40 Yeah. Let me justum send a message to them real quick. Okay. Speaker 1 00:29:51 I can take over my projects in the meantime. Speaker 3 00:29:53 Project Angel Food 2533 migration. George is scheduled to pick up server on his next onsite visit. I checked his schedule, he's actually going to Intertem tomorrow, although he told me that last Wednesday of the month he's going to Pabst, Speaker 1 00:30:16 Maybe it's maybe it got switched. Next. Speaker 6 00:30:21 Next month. He switches. He does Interim one month and then he does Project Angel Fit the next month. And he's on PTO this week too, so Yeah. Speaker 3 00:30:30 That's okay. I checked with him, I think he got confused when he told me. Well, you know what? It's June It's June Um, so I think if we don't want to keep this project open until June, we can just close it and open the service ticket, Unless somebody else goes on site to fix it. So, just as an update. Project 2317, interim compliance setup and cloud PCs. Thank you to amazing Gabby. We completed two developers, their cloud PCs, they reported everything is working for them. Speaker 3 00:31:15 So we have two more painting developers. One is scheduled, one is done. We will be doing today and another one scheduled for Friday or earlier. So next step, Hopefully, we will be reviewing the California conditional access policy with Sean and turning it on for all users or we're doing a pilot. So Jason, Gabby, we should, Maybe discuss that too, or should I just discuss. Speaker 1 00:31:48 This with Sean? Speaker 9 00:31:53 Yeah, I, if you have a standard, and this is something we need to implement the conditional access policies. I think we I mean, this is a definitely a Sean Sean question. That's my my opinion. Gabby any thoughts. Speaker 1 00:32:11 You know? I agree. Speaker 7 00:32:12 I think we need to consult with uh, security just for guidance. Speaker 1 00:32:20 Wayfinderum SharePoint cleanup project 2598 um Anzor sent a gentle reminder last Friday. Uh, he wants me to send another to ping them today, one more time because we are waiting for them to give us green light final sign off. Speaker 3 00:32:42 Project two, six, two, nine, Hana XTRF upgrade cut over is set for May thirty first, and the last project that was not on Wist and I added it uh for onboarding of Paola. Uh this is actually taking us like a whole week last week. So but. Good news, she completed almost all of the training modules. I put all of them in phase three of her onboarding projects for you guys to see. And maybe you can copy for the next onboarding of the new employees, if we need to. We have only four modules pending. Two are scheduled for Paola to review herself, self-paced. Speaker 3 00:33:36 And two is pending that I'm going to go over with her. And that's it. So at this point, Pint has approved moving her into independent project works, And a plan is to have her on project meeting next week to start delivering updates and so on. So we are on track for a strong transition. Speaker 2 00:33:58 Yes, so are we going to move the projects that are assigned to Julia to. Starting next week, is that how we're going to do it, Julia? Speaker 3 00:34:07 I'm not sure. Speaker 2 00:34:10 Are you going to decide which ones by next week will be assigned to Paula, at least or something like that? I thought maybe Paula could run the meeting next week, just as a just as a, she doesn't have to run it every week. But I thought, maybe next week, we could just have her drive the meeting just because she hasn't run a meeting yet. So. I'm okay with I'm okay with Seg running the meetings, But I thought Paula could run next week's meeting just to kind of break her in. Give you give you a chance to run a meeting, Paula. So so maybe by next week, Yeah, let's let's figure out by next week Julia, which of the projects that are assigned to you Paula can can kind of. Speaker 2 00:34:57 Give the updates on and then you know, between now and you know, the next few weeks, we can figure out which uh which other ones she can take on, or we can kind of go from there, any other new ones we need to need to add to the list. Speaker 1 00:35:16 I didn't see so. Speaker 3 00:35:21 Good. Do you have do we have any new projects that we need to add to this list. Speaker 5 00:35:26 No, we haven't actually. Yeah, there's no new project this week. Hopefully by next week we have. Speaker 2 00:35:33 What about the one? What about the one that Jason just opened? Is that on here? Did we see that one? Did I miss it? Is that the discovery? Speaker 9 00:35:42 Was that the discovery somewhere? I didn't see it on here. That's Gabby's, Gabby and Kevin's project to uh forum Jeff Falcon. I don't I don't know the exact name of his company, EAG or something. Did they not sign? Speaker 2 00:35:57 Maybe they haven't signed it. Speaker 5 00:35:59 They haven't signed it yet and then please send any notification. Yeah, Speaker 7 00:36:04 They said they want to move forward, but I told them they need to sign the quote. Speaker 2 00:36:08 Yeah okay fair enough so it gets added when it gets signedum. Speaker 2 00:36:15 All right. Anything that was so that one's potentially in the queue. There was something else that Anzor sent me an email on that. I really have no idea exactly what it is, so I asked him if we could talk about it today, but I haven't heard back from him. There's something about some cameras and some computers and stuff for Give. Speaker 1 00:36:41 Me one second here. Speaker 1 00:36:47 And maybe everybody here already knows about this one, but WCC Tech Group. anybody know about them? They're asking about replacing. I. Speaker 10 00:37:12 Don't know about the the I don't know about the the uh, Project, but I know the company. I met with them there, although WCC they're the low voltage guys. Um, because they're trying to bring them. Speaker 2 00:37:28 Yeah, they're they're they're They sent an email to Anzor and he's asking me. He he just sent me a question mark, but I don't really know what the question is. So, they're saying here is the list of devices. Um a firewall, two switches, four APs. Endpoints, cameras, signs and other. So maybe Vlad, maybe you and I can meet quickly after this. Maybe you have some insight into this before I talk to Anzor. But then then he's talking about computers and stuff. So I don't I don't know. Speaker 10 00:37:58 Okay okay. I don't know about that particular project, but I know the company because I met with them a couple of weeks ago. Okay, Speaker 2 00:38:06 So maybe it's not project. Speaker 10 00:38:07 Yeah. They're kind of like like, Speaker 2 00:38:09 Okay, yeah, okay, maybe i'll talk to anzo. I'll talk to anzo first. I'm sorry, go ahead. Speaker 5 00:38:16 Sorry, but there's also a project that we're cooking for JLL, right? Speaker 10 00:38:22 Yes, yes, yes. So everything has been submitted to them, and they have this is for the JLL habitat. It's basically the same idea as the Western Asset Plaza that they're just yes. It's it's literally almost like carbon copy situation. Uh we've submitted them the uh proposal, and it's already in the review by their team. We haven't heard anything from them. And then I do, Sergei, I do have a question. We completely closed out the Western Asset Plaza, right? So we're already done with that project completely, right? Yes. Speaker 1 00:38:59 Good then. Yeah, thank you for that actually. You're the best. Speaker 2 00:39:03 I, guess my other question and Julia, you might know this better than anybody? But is there anything that we're doing follow up with on the history museum? Situation. I know we did sort of that phase one, but wasn't there supposed to be some sort of a phase two? But I know they're very hard to get feedback from. Is there is there going to be a phase two? And if so, any idea when? Speaker 3 00:39:28 Vlad, what do you think? We can follow up with them because. Speaker 10 00:39:32 We probably should follow up with them. Yeah. Speaker 3 00:39:35 Okay. Well, what I'll do, I'll copy that and yeah. Speaker 2 00:39:40 Yeah, They're they're one of those customers that they're one of those customers that we got to keep pushing, pushing, pushing and eventually they'll respond. But if we want the business, we got to we got to bug them. So. And and let's and Julie I. Just want to make sure you you get Paul in the with that one too. Speaker 3 00:39:56 I had a follow up for July yes. Speaker 2 00:39:58 Yeah okay okay. Speaker 10 00:40:01 Yeah phase two potentially can be pretty big project for them. Speaker 1 00:40:05 Okay okay anything else? Speaker 5 00:40:10 Yep, anything else? Speaker 7 00:40:11 Yeah, I just want to bring up thatum CBRE recently sold their Fagan Seventh uh property to Athena Property Management. I think their name is. Um and Kevin was more involved with that than me. Um he went on site to meet the uh some of the people there. Um. And during that time, he was told that they're actually interested in having Crimson manage the network at Fagan Seventh. So I think they reached out to Anzor, but I don't know what the update is on that. So it's putting it out there. It's not official anything, but. Speaker 2 00:40:51 Jason, Would you mind pinging Anzor and copy me and just see if there's an action on that one? Speaker 1 00:40:58 Yep. I'll do that right now. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you everybody. Thanks everybody. Thanks. Bye-bye. Thanks guys. Bye.
07-07 Operational Controls and Access Remediation for Embedded Thermometers and Time Machine
- Notes
-  ## Core Synopsis A single operational bottleneck is driving unnecessary confusion and risk: critical alerts and data hygiene for the “embedded thermometers” system are gated behind one shared login (Anzor’s account), tribal navigation, and ad‑hoc deletion practices. The Help Desk is acting as de facto system owners—managing “responses,” pruning entries (including bins/undelete), and editing red/yellow alert recipients—while leadership (Pete) is requesting changes without understanding adjacent tooling (“Time Machine”). The proof is explicit: Olivia needs access via Anzor’s credentials to remove Anzor and add George, Mike, and Vince to red/yellow alerts; Chris demonstrates the path by memory rather than documentation; errors depend on manual recovery (“bin”); and there’s a plan to educate Help Desk and EOS attendees about “Time Machine” due to misuse. The stakes are clear: alert routing tied to a single account and undocumented flows create compliance exposure and response latency; “Time Machine” underuse signals reporting and accountability gaps. We are committing to formalize access, document the alert-change workflow, and run targeted training to close the knowledge gap. ## System Ownership and Alert Hygiene: The Embedded Thermometers - Ownership and Access - Current access is centralized under Anzor’s account; Olivia does not have her own account and must log in via Anzor’s credentials. - Functional control lives with Help Desk (Chris) who knows the navigation and performs changes. - Workflow to Edit Alerts and Responses - Navigation is via “Embedded Thermometers” to the relevant thermometer; changes to red/yellow alert recipients are made in the edit screen (comma-separated emails/handles). - “Responses” management includes locating entries by name, deleting selected items, and recovering mistakes from “bin.” - A CDC/Teams endpoint is referenced for red alerts routing (exact target not fully articulated, but implied integration to Teams). - Risks - Single shared account for administrative control creates security, audit, and continuity risk. - Undocumented, memory-based navigation increases error probability and slows execution. - Manual deletion with post-hoc recovery is fragile data hygiene without clear policy criteria. ## Tool Literacy Gap: “Time Machine” Awareness and Compliance - Status Quo - Chris set up “Time Machine,” actively monitors it, and notes misuse/noncompliance (e.g., Adrian not entering time correctly; Pete not understanding the tool’s intent). - Olivia has been referencing “Time Machine” and is pushing broader adoption. - Planned Interventions - Chris intends to host a Help Desk meeting to re-establish “Time Machine” usage standards. - Olivia invites Chris to demonstrate “Time Machine” during EOS on Thursday at 10 a.m.; Chris agrees, calendar invite pending. - Stakes - Misuse undermines visibility into productivity and scheduling; leadership decisions suffer when “Time Machine” data is unreliable. - A structured refresher normalizes behavior across Help Desk and EOS participants. ## Leadership Requests and Delegation: Recipient Changes - Directive - Pete wants Anzor removed from alerts and George, Mike, and Vince added to yellow/red lists. - Execution Readiness - Chris demonstrates removal of Anzor from red alerts and saves; Olivia will finalize recipient additions to both yellow and red with comma-separated entries. ## Relationship and Morale Signals (Noise-Filtered) - Chris recovering from illness yet delivering support; Olivia coordinating training and client prep (DTLA). - Pete’s engagement via gifting and expense approval is peripheral; not material to core operational issues. ## Action Items **@Olivia** - [ ] Log in via Anzor’s account and add George, Mike, and Vince to yellow and red alerts; confirm Anzor removal across all relevant thermometers - [TBD] - [ ] Send calendar invite to Chris for EOS session on Thursday at 10 a.m. to demo “Time Machine” - [TBD] - [ ] Request creation of an individual admin account for yourself; stop relying on shared Anzor credentials - [TBD] **@Chris** - [ ] Host a Help Desk refresher meeting to re-baseline “Time Machine” usage and standards - [TBD] - [ ] Document the “Embedded Thermometers” admin workflow (navigation path, responses deletion/restore, alert recipient editing) and share with Help Desk - [TBD] - [ ] Remove Anzor from red alerts across thermometers where applicable; verify save and routing integrity - [TBD] **@Pete** - [ ] Approve individual admin accounts for key operators (Olivia, Help Desk leads) to replace shared Anzor login - [TBD] - [ ] Attend or nominate a representative for the EOS session to align on “Time Machine” expectations - [TBD]
- Date
- Jul 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 U m okay. So I make this easy for you. Oh, I turn my camera on, and you turn yours off. Uh, Speaker 2 00:00:13 Okay, okay, I want to give me, why aren't you sharing fine? How are you feeling? Uh better I am been going, stir crazy. Som. So it's a lot better. Speaker 1 00:00:31 Good, I'm glad you're feeling better at least. Speaker 2 00:00:33 Yeah, I would not wish that on my worst enemy. All right, so this is where it gets a little wonky. So I can't explain to you how I get here. I can only tell you to poke around until I find it. So real time responses, this is the main page you're going to. So I think it's under manage thermometers embedded thermometers and somewhere in here. Speaker 2 00:01:02 Okay, I think it's the view. I think it was that last one that I clicked, and then you go into responses. Okay. And, then you find it like I, deleted Anzor, Martinez and I deleted all the red ones from that one person, except for the earliest one that they put in. Basically, you just click their name or click the check mark and hit delete. That's all. Oh okay. Okay, cool. And then if you accidentally delete one you shouldn't have go into bin, uh and undelete it. Speaker 1 00:01:40 Uh okay okay okay cool. Yeah. Um so question for you, Anzor could you send me this link? Do I have an account? Speaker 2 00:01:51 You do not. Uh there is an account in ? (unclear, leave unchanged). It is Anzor's account, and that's what we use to log in Oh. Speaker 1 00:02:00 I see. Okay, okay, okay. So I just log in that way. Yeah. Okay, lovely. Um And then like follow up question. So I I was talking to Pete, and we need to remove Anzor and then add um George, Mike and Vince to the like yellows and reds, Okay. I don't want to do that. Speaker 2 00:02:34 Of course, I got to go remember that one here. Hang on. Sorry, I'm really making you. It's, I don't do this, No one does this often enough, so it's just trying to figure it out. So I know it's under embedded thermometers and let me see. Okay. I'm going to edit this. It's somewhere in here. Speaker 2 00:03:08 Because we had to, they make me change things. Oh, here it is. Okay. So you go in here and you change right here. So. Speaker 1 00:03:25 Oh, okay. Speaker 2 00:03:27 Yeah, so I'll take Anzor or out of red alerts. Speaker 1 00:03:30 Okay, I'm assuming the CDC dot whatever that goes directly to Teams? Is that what that is? Yeah. Okay. Yep. I see, Speaker 2 00:03:42 I see, okay yeah. And then I'll let you you just put them in with commas. Okay. So I'm gonna save it with Anzor out and then okay Yeah And then you can go back to file Perfect, Speaker 1 00:03:57 I'll go change it Okay Okay Great Lovely Thank you for teaching me this You're welcome. Speaker 2 00:04:06 Now I don't have to call you. Let me teach you one more thing. Okay. Cause I know you don't know this, because I'm the one who set it all up. Um, if you go in here, go to Time Machine. Cause ? (unclear, leave unchanged) was the one that was sleeping on the job. Speaker 1 00:04:32 No, I look at Time Machine all the time. I've been telling Pete, I've I've been saying, like a time machine. Add him to this call. And well, I are you scheduled some? I just talked to him because okay, out of our one on one, I scheduled some time next week on Monday. Yeah. To talk about this because yeah, he he wanted to talk about this. So yeah, so he's I put him on your calendar. Speaker 2 00:04:57 He doesn't he doesn't know how to use it right? Speaker 1 00:04:59 I'm assuming yeah, I don't think he really understands what it what it means. Speaker 2 00:05:04 Okay, so ? (unclear, leave unchanged) is one of my new favorite salesperson. By the way, Adrian. Uh, Adrian does not put time in correctly. Hmm. Uh ? (unclear, leave unchanged) is amazing, I don't even have to click on it to know that he's amazing. I I don't look at this anytime lately but yeah. Speaker 1 00:05:28 Yeah like go to yesterday on a side note, if you go to yesterday and then you go to. Look at Riddick and Charlene's. There's, I was like, oh my god. Holy shit. Yeah, is that crazy? Speaker 2 00:05:48 Okay, why don't we do this? I am going to start a meeting in just the help desk and I am just going to remind everybody and say, hey, guys, I haven't done this in a while, but it's my turn to remind you guys about time machine and how we use it on. Speaker 1 00:06:07 Delicious. Perfect. Well, actually, I really want everyone to be there on any chance, you're willing to join my EOS and show us in the EOS. I can yes uh when is your EOS? It's on Thursday at ten a m. Speaker 2 00:06:24 Tomorrow. Oh, I'm only doing prep work tomorrow. So yeah, add me, I will do that. Cause I have. Uh, wait, Speaker 1 00:06:30 No, not tomorrow. Thursday, Thursday. Speaker 2 00:06:33 Thursday. Oh, I'm looking at Thursday. I'm I'm running my mouth over it, but I just did not. Okay, yeah, yeah. Uh add me because I'll only do prep work for DTLA. Speaker 1 00:06:42 Okay perfect perfect And I'm already yeah been prepping all week for them. Speaker 2 00:06:46 So okay Lovely No, I love, it's perfect Yeah because I want Adrian to be there. Yeah There's a couple people I want to be there and I don't think that they would, if you're i think they're on site. Gotcha. Yeah, Adrian was in a hurry to leave me today. But honestly, I gave him a tour of the bloody first and. I didn't have the energy. I barely finished it. Because my energy levels are still sapped, so yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:22 Oh well, at least you made it there. Have you been working from home? Are you working from home now? Speaker 2 00:07:29 Yeah, so I well Dom had her uh scholarship ceremony thing, Which I need to find out where she is, because she hasn't told me anything. It started at two. Oh. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:46 Was it like a virtual thing or was it no? Speaker 2 00:07:51 Um, so so she was entered into a bunch of scholarships. Already without talking about today's scholarship, She has over the amount of scholarship she needs for, oh, all four years of college. Today's scholarship is probably gonna be an extra thirty five hundred. Speaker 1 00:08:14 Wow. That's great. She. Speaker 2 00:08:19 Got a okay, she just texted me back event just ended. She has a cute suitcase and an ugly duffel bag, and a McDonald's gift card. It's some extra cash money. Speaker 1 00:08:29 That's that's what she got. Speaker 2 00:08:31 Yeah, she has suitcase? Yeah, and a duffel bag? That's crazy. She didn't answer me about the scholarship yet, so I am waiting on the scholarship part. Speaker 1 00:08:44 Oh okay okay I see Yeah. Speaker 2 00:08:50 Yeah, the scholarship was estimated to be around thirty five hundred for each kid, but that was early in the year before they ran out of money. So I don't know what it's like now. Speaker 1 00:09:00 Actually, how much Yeah. Yeah. Still anything is She's got, you know, Speaker 2 00:09:07 Yeah. She's gotten a lot of cute little suitcases from a lot of these events. So a lot of them is uh just theirum. Speaker 2 00:09:18 They're like little carry on suitcases, but are really nice, like things that you and I would purchase for travel. Speaker 1 00:09:25 Yeah, I was gonna say, I was like wow, I am so surprised they're giving away suitcases. But that's awesome. Speaker 2 00:09:34 These are all like little college things. Yeah, but um she did say the ugly duffel bag. Speaker 2 00:09:44 They didn't receive they didn't receive the uh the scholarship information she just sent. At all. No, but this was supposed to be the. Was that the whole point of the? Yeah. Did they even tell you? The amount? That seems weird. Yeah, let me see if I can find a photo for this. Because she sent it. No, they didn't even tell her the amount. Okay, they sent um the information. But yeah nothing, um hmm it's weird. Yeah but this is supposed to be the scholarship thing. She had to be at the last couple of events so she could receive her scholarship. Speaker 2 00:10:42 Oh, here's a screenshot. Our scholarship event taking place on June seventh. Details are on the attached flyer. New times: youth registration is at ten thirty, doors open at twelve, program begins at two. Drop-offs are here, parking blah so on and so forth. Um yeah so uh yeah, Also, Pete got me sent me two bottles of whiskey. I am going to give one to downtown Los Angeles, and he said he was excited because I could ah. He can expense back one of the bottles. Oh perfect! Speaker 1 00:11:26 Was that the bottle that you sit with Brie? Speaker 2 00:11:29 Yes, oh my god I love it. Speaker 1 00:11:32 He said well it was cheaper for me to send two bottles. And, he goes, you can give it away, and I said, can I give it to a client? Speaker 2 00:11:39 Question mark and he was like, oh, does that mean I can expense it back? And I was like, yeah. Because it needs to go to the tenant's office. Oh. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:11:53 Oh, I love it. Yeah. All right, I'm going to leave you alone now. Speaker 1 00:11:57 Okay, thank you for all your help Chris. Speaker 2 00:11:59 You're welcome Bye Okay bye.
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04-07 Hybrid Meeting on Business Operations and Personal Updates
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- # Hybrid Meeting on Business Operations and Personal Updates  The participants discuss a range of business topics, including software licensing strategy, budgeting, and system replacements, before transitioning into a detailed personal account of a challenging and eventful weekend spent fostering teenagers. The dialogue covers both professional decision-making and the complexities of parenting and personal life. ------------ ## Strategic Business and Technology Planning This section covers discussions about business strategy and technology updates. It begins with the need for an employee to adopt an "enterprise" mindset for a large company rather than thinking on a small scale. The conversation then moves into a detailed analysis of Meraki licensing options, comparing one-year, three-year, and five-year plans to align with budget cycles and device replacement schedules. The three-year option currently exceeds the budget, which was only set for one year to account for device replacements. A key issue is that the licensing runs on an off-cycle schedule, complicating budget alignment. Speaker 1's long-term plan is to budget for a five-year license in the next cycle, as it offers the best discount. In the interim, they discuss renewing for one year and budgeting for a longer term next year. The participants also touch on evaluating new software solutions, with CareLogic being a top contender for both their group and Sharp. A meeting with CareLogic's manager needs to be scheduled to get a demo and understand its functionality. In preparation for a potential RFP, Michuan has asked the team to create a "wish list" of essential present and future system requirements, though KPIs are not yet established. The discussion also covers the finalization of the budget, with allocations to be pulled soon, and the status of Planful, which will be ready for March data entry around the 15th of the month. ------------ ## Weekend Narrative: Fostering Teenagers This section details Speaker 1's experience providing respite care for a teenage girl named Ladanya over an emotionally charged weekend. The narrative begins with Ladanya's arrival in a distressed state, having just been assigned a completely new therapist, psychiatrist, and wrap team, which forced her to retell her traumatic history for the second time in two days. This was compounded by a difficult relationship with her foster mother, Vicki, who is also a therapist and had been threatening her with 14-day notices, a practice forbidden in Speaker 1's home due to the instability it creates. The narrative follows the events chronologically, from Speaker 1 managing Ladanya's vaping with a non-confrontational, rule-based approach, to receiving a call from the new therapist informing her that Ladanya was suicidal. Speaker 1 responded by creating a supportive environment, acknowledging Ladanya's PTSD, offering comfort, and securing emergency contact information. A positive turn occurred when Ladanya, a volunteer at Speaker 1's church, was invited to join a film industry program for foster youth. The weekend concluded with Ladanya witnessing a "healthy fight" between Speaker 1 and her daughter, which inspired Ladanya to try and reconcile with Vicki. After a productive conversation, Ladanya returned to Vicki's care, and Speaker 1 has since opened her home to another potential foster child. ------------ ## Parenting Dynamics and Household Life This section focuses on the interpersonal dynamics and daily life within Speaker 1's household, particularly involving her own seventeen-year-old daughter (referred to as Dawn or Dominique) and the foster teens, Ladanya and Ari. Key events include a "whisper fight" between Speaker 1 and her partner over her daughter's back talk and a subsequent conversation where Speaker 1 had to clarify her daughter's role as a peer, not a co-parent, to Ladanya. The dialogue highlights the peer-to-peer cultural commentary between the teens, with Ladanya and Ari correcting Dawn's behavior based on their own upbringings. The challenges of managing multiple teens are evident, with issues like synchronized menstrual cycles, late-night Starbucks runs, and arguments over chores. The conversation also branches into practical household matters. Speaker 1 discusses the need for a new dining table to accommodate the teens and her reputation in foster circles for being able to handle them. There is an extensive discussion on hair care, where Speaker 1 sought tips from Michuan after struggling to straighten Ladanya's tightly curled hair. They also share details about grocery shopping, with Speaker 1 preferring Amazon Grocery for its cost-effectiveness, and recipes, such as a quick chicken tortellini with vodka sauce. The dialogue touches on food and drink preferences, including the popularity of oat milk, protein shakes for taking medication, and the use of a Ninja Thirsti for hydration. ------------ ## Action Items This section consolidates all specific, assigned tasks discussed during the meeting, with owners and deadlines clearly identified. **@Michuan** - [ ] Add Speaker 1 to the Meraki licensing email list. - [TBD] - [ ] Send the Meraki licensing information email to Speaker 1 for discussion. - [TBD] - [ ] Ask Denny for the invoices related to the licensing. - [TBD] - [ ] Send Speaker 1 a quick email regarding access to be provided by Pete. - [TBD] **@Speaker 1** - [ ] Text Michuan to specify what she wants. - [TBD] - [ ] Verify if device licenses are transferable. - [TBD] - [ ] Find the note detailing which sites require device replacements. - [TBD] - [ ] Fix the current budget report. - [TBD] - [ ] Continue working on the new automated monthly report. - [TBD] - [ ] Schedule a new meeting with the CareLogic manager for a demo for her team and Sharp. - [TBD] - [ ] Get access for Michuan from Pete. - [TBD] - [ ] Send Michuan an Amazon Grocery referral. - [TBD]
- Date
- Apr 7, 2026
- Transcript
- Speaker 1 00:00:03 Yeah, And that's that's going to be the heaviest one because I got to say to him without hurting his feelings, you think at a small scale, and I need you to think enterprise. I think you you need to think big company. And so hopefully that gets gets doing. Speaker 2 00:00:22 I think they need to hang that word like it's not small like saying," you know we have to,", it's thinking of like our enterprise software. And like the way that we would need to do this. Speaker 2 00:00:46 Yeah. Yeah, We had it. We had a good conversation, but you know, Rome wasn't built today. See how see how he comes back. Um, But I'm I'm actually happy you had a conversation with Sergio because I need to have a conversation about the Moroccan licensing. With him, okay. So, I want to touch base with you. I think we talked about doing the three year, but the problem is is that even the three year goes above our budget. Speaker 1 00:01:13 Yeah, Because I only put in the budget for one year because we have some that need to be replaced. Speaker 2 00:01:20 Yeah, But the option your team gave us a three year versus a one year and I think we talked about three years last year, but it just didn't put it in in the budget. And. Problem with it is, I am seeing that it runs off cycle, so it's running outside of our budget year. So the you know the easiest thing would be like, oh, let me go another year. Yeah, But that doesn't I don't know if that's from like a cost perspective over three years. That makes the most sense as opposed to going to the three, you know, just doing the three years. Speaker 1 00:01:58 Yeah, the problem is is we got some devices we're going to replace this year. Speaker 1 00:02:04 But let me see if those licenses are transferable. I thought they aren't, but I might be wrong. Okay, Speaker 2 00:02:12 So I mean, I know we're replacing CAMS right? Yes, what other ones? What other ones? Speaker 1 00:02:21 Um, There's the Claremont stuff that's going on. And then I think there was like one or two other sites that needed some replacements this year, but it was like onesies twosies. But let me double check because I need to find that note. Speaker 2 00:02:35 Because, would that recommendation be do another year? And then we do the one year what we can budget. But put the three year next year's budget? Speaker 1 00:02:45 Yeah, Because that was my plan was actually to have you put not three- year uh or to, but to do a five- year with the next budget. And the reason, the reason for that is becauseum. Speaker 2 00:03:03 They would all be coming. Speaker 2 00:03:26 Yes. Yes. Um, okay. Speaker 1 00:03:28 Cause five years is actually the best, the best deal we can get. Oh. Speaker 2 00:03:34 I'll send you. I don't know if you're on the email list. Speaker 1 00:03:41 Okay, let me. We've got some new salespeople and or a new salesperson and a new project person, And so sometimes they'll forget that on ability first and on sharp, they got to CC me on all of those. So yes, she's been a life. Speaker 1 00:04:03 A lifesaver so far, but uh she's still learning. So she's she's amazing. I am enjoying her. Speaker 2 00:04:14 Yeah, I don't think you are on it. I will add because I thought it was three years, But but I remember asking Tom to we're saying five years during our budget period. Yeah, okay, Speaker 1 00:04:26 Cause i i thought i was thinking uh five years was probably, At the time, I know we were getting significant discounts on three years, but even better on five years. Speaker 3 00:04:36 Okay. So, Speaker 2 00:04:39 Okay. Some I'll send that to you and you can dIscuss that. And then when I get In, I'm goIng to ask Denny to gIve me the InvoIces, so we can maybe make It. Speaker 1 00:04:58 She should be back today. I just need her to get caught up. So, uh, I saw her onlIne thIs mornIng, and she messaged me on WhatsApp to thank me for her bIrthday gIft. So, I know she's back In the land of the lIvIng. Um, but I gotta waIt and see. Speaker 2 00:05:19 Okay. So, um, I got her In. Yes about about the bIllum and then lIke you saId. Speaker 1 00:05:43 Yeah, I fIxed that a week or two ago, but I am redoIng some thIngs In It because It's not. I need It to stay updated. Speaker 2 00:05:54 They're goIng to pull allocatIons. Speaker 2 00:05:59 Okay. And and start fInalIzIng the budget. So I just wanted to make sure so that we're clear to employment, we're In our numbers trendIng less than hIgher. Yeah. Then we are. Speaker 1 00:06:11 Yes, so let me let me get that fIxed. Um, I know It was. Well, no, It's already fIxed. Let me contInue workIng on the new report that's actually goIng to automate and send to them monthly so that they have that as well. Okay, I dId not I forgot to take my meds thIs mornIng, and I have not had coffee. Speaker 1 00:06:29 So my ADHD mIght go out of control today. Sure. Speaker 2 00:06:38 Just text me what you want. Speaker 1 00:06:40 Okay. Yeah, cause I uh, yeah, I am I am strugglIng thIs mornIng. I can't belIeve I forgot my meds. I haven't done that In In a year, forgotten my meds. So lIke oh. No worrIes, I got It and thank you. And thank you for waItIng to see If EunIce showed up today? And see If she wanted to walk wIth me. Speaker 2 00:07:03 She's not goIng on, but I just for the synergy of our team, we all need to be In offIce as much as we can. And It starts to lIke lead to the other folks so yeah. Speaker 1 00:07:20 Um, but I just wanted to ask you so your call your conversatIon wIth SergIo? Mhm. Speaker 1 00:07:27 So It was just a quIck. I he was walkIng by, um, I asked hIm a few questIons and then we just chatted for a mInute. Um, It was just It was just top I mean just surface level stuff. Um, I checked In wIth hIm, If there was anythIng he needed. Ifum t here Is somethIng that we could help hIm out wIth that, he just hasn't brought to us yet. And then yes, Speaker 2 00:07:50 DId you brIng up programs that are there to brIng about? Speaker 1 00:07:57 Let me go check my notes. Speaker 2 00:07:60 HIs program Is he's startIng to see that the resources they have, you had talked about thIs lIke. Yes, Speaker 1 00:08:07 And I told I dId we dId talk about thIs yesterday. Um, I gave hIm a heads up that I was stIll. I actually saId that before he brought It up to me. Um, I saId, hey, I'm I'm also I saId, I know that there's a lot goIng onum just a heads up. I'm stIll lookIng at dIfferent thIngs lIke care logIc. For you guys and tryIng to get that take get that done, I need to set up a meetIng wIth Care LogIc for both you guys and Sharp. Um, because the meetIng I was supposed to have last week they canceled. Uh, the person I was goIng to meet was canceled and Is out. Um, so I gotta make a new meetIng. Okay. I am makIng It wIth theIr manager. Some. Speaker 2 00:08:52 Is that what Is that what? Speaker 1 00:08:55 Yes, Sharp Is usIng Care LogIc because I need I want to understand what they're doIng, But I also want to get a demo so I can understand how It works for you guys. Because wIth all my research I've done so far and all the conversatIons I've had, Uh Care LogIc Is one of the top contenders. And then there's two other contenders on that. So. Just as an Issue. Oh sorry. Speaker 2 00:09:21 Oh there you go. Speaker 1 00:09:27 Yeah, I have the same issue. I was talking to Pete and Anzor yesterday in different conversations, and I lose them in the same section every time. Speaker 2 00:09:38 Yeah, it's just a little piece that I am getting on. And I am always like," Hey," and yeah, so totally get it now. Got it. Yeah, um, so that's good news because you know talked about that and, We don't have our KPIs yet, but as we begin to build them out, And I asked them to do a wish list, like, what does their team want and what do they want in the system, what do they want it to do, what does it do now, and what did they want it to do in the future. Right? And so we have that as like if we're opening up an RFP, We have that to say like, hey, here is the things that we needed to do that are like essential. Speaker 2 00:10:28 Yes. Yes. So that would be, to be able to pull all that together. Speaker 1 00:10:43 Yes, one hundred percent. Speaker 2 00:10:60 And then, Speaker 1 00:11:04 Um, and then you were or Pete you were going to get me access. Speaker 2 00:11:11 Can you send me a quick email? Speaker 1 00:11:18 Yes. And then I did get the planful information from Susanna. I just have not had a chance to take a look at it yet. Um, But I will soon. Speaker 3 00:11:38 It's not going to be loaded for March yet for us to go in and put information in. Okay, March should probably be loaded around the fifteenth. Yes, First to go in and put an explanation, it may be, but for us to put an explanation. Speaker 1 00:11:56 Okay, perfect. I was laughing so hard during the meeting, and I wasn't on camera, thank goodness. Because my face did not hide anything. And then I almost burst out laughing when Christi said," Well, I think you could figure this one out on your own." And I was like," Oh yeah." Yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:15 Yeah. I. Speaker 1 00:12:17 Didn't want to say they were so bored in their training. Speaker 2 00:12:20 Oh my gosh. Sorry. I know it was likeum. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:12:28 Their system, they've come a long way with training on it. So I really appreciate that they haveum really kind of stepped it up with helping usum to better understand their system. Speaker 1 00:12:43 Yes. I'm glad they are too. I just couldn't help laughing. Speaker 2 00:13:04 I'll check. Okay. Yes. Speaker 2 00:13:23 Explanation, Cause you just put in, like basically why I'm asking to go into this report and put in comments. And it just like explains what the issues are. Speaker 3 00:13:35 Yeah. So. Speaker 1 00:13:54 Very interesting uh situation. So, I. So I do something to these things to wait, and there's a name for it. And I can't ever think of the name. But, it's where I give a Charl the illusion of something of control and independence, But still able to parent them in a lot of ways, most of the time. Like I am not perfect; none of us are. Um, so she was okay. So, very first thing, Let me let me give you some context: Speaker 2 00:14:29 Is this, the one that you had before? Yes. Speaker 1 00:14:33 So she so she when she came to us on Thursday, she was pretty distraught and upset. And what it was was, she got a whole new wrap team, a whole new thewrapist, and a whole new psychiatricologist. Yeah, and I don't know why. Speaker 1 00:14:58 And so she had to. She just got done with her psychiatric appointment right before she came to us, And so she had to retell her story all over again for the second time in two days. And. So it's a lot of trauma dumping that she has to do to the psychiatricologist and the thewrapist, and it doesn't put anybody in a good headspace. So she had that happen before she came to us. Understandably, she was anxious and stressed with the conversation. That they were having, she also had a bad conversation with her foster mom, whose name is Vicki. And so all of this happening. She comes to us, And this not the first time she's even. This not even the first time this month she stayed with us like This she's been with us pretty often lately. And her foster mom has been threatening fourteen day notices, which Is we have a rule in our house. :, we don't threaten fourteen day notices. Speaker 1 00:15:55 It just adds to instability. To the instability, Speaker 2 00:15:58 Yeah. It might be in fourteen days, like I am giving you notice your release. Yeah, yeah. I don't probably struggle; I can't even imagine without a formal load. Yes, Speaker 1 00:16:11 Yes. So she came to us now; the foster mom has also been saying. Speaker 1 00:16:19 I also don't trust you, but I want to work this out. I want to regain trust. I want you to regain trust with me, and the foster mom's also a thewrapist. Speaker 2 00:16:29 Oh gosh, how manipulative. Speaker 1 00:16:32 Yes, But there is a lot going on because the foster mom also has some issues she's dealing with. That's outside of the kiddo. So it's like it's just a bad situation all around. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:16:48 Like Are you fostering her permanently or are you fostering her temporarily? Speaker 1 00:16:51 Temporarily. She went home yesterday, so it's actually got a really good outcome that happened. Um, so she comes to us. She also has a thewrapist appointment that afternoon after after getting dropped off with us. So she goes and does her thewrapist appointment. It is completely online, so she borrows Tom's room and she does thatum, Later on, I catch her in the bathroom vaping, because I have an uncanny sense of smell and I can smell everything. And so, she came out, she went and sat down on the couch. And I came and sat down beside her. And I was like, hey look, I know you are vaping. You can't do it in the bathroom because it makes me physically ill and I get migraines. You can't do it in the apartment because no smoking is not allowed on on the complex grounds. So, I know you are seventeen. Speaker 1 00:17:46 I know you're you can't be stopped if you really want to do this. So here's here's the rules. You have to go outside of the complex. You have to be next to the road if you're going to vape, however, We live next to a federal building, which is the L.A.X. courthouse, and there are sheriff's offices in and out all day long, driving down our road. So be mindful of that. But again, I'm not gonna stop you because I know that I can't. And she was actually shocked at that statement. Like, I didn't come at her saying, "You can't do this," you're this bad. I just came at her and was just laid it out. And she's like, "Okay." And so we covered that. Um, I said also, I know you just got off the phone with your new thewrapist. You've had your psychiatric appointment today. You're getting hit with a lot of emotions. You have PTSD; I know this already. You're going to have a bad night. ;. I can't stop it from happening. ; I can. Speaker 1 00:18:45 I can help build up the positives tonight. I can get you some tea. I can we can do a lot of things. I can sit here and talk to you. I can just sit beside you. We can have a movie fest, whatever you want to do, but just be aware, I know you're going to get hit with these emotions. So when you do, if you need me come and get me out of my bedroom, if i'm asleep, just wake me up. It's not an issue. Um just so that you know, i know that this is going to happen. I've been in your shoes. I have ptsd myself. So. Speaker 1 00:19:15 And we'll do whatever. Um, and then she was so she's um. She's, she likes it when you play with her hair, and she does like some touches, but it's got to be on her terms. She's like a cat, you can pet her three times and then she hisses at you. Um, so she did ask me to play with her hair. So I straightened her hair, which I need some tips from you on some things on hair for her. If she comes to me permanently, um okay. So we did all of that. Um, and it got better except for her thewrapist called me and was like, "Hey, just heads up, she's suicidal." And I was like, "Okay, not anything I haven't done before." So uh send me your information. Send me for your agency who I got to reach out to in case I need it. You know send me the after hours emergency line for you guys. So any she goes okay um and so she sent me all that information. So. Speaker 1 00:20:15 You know, we covered our bases, and this was Thursday night into Friday morning. And so it got better. She and I had a lot of talks. Tom and her had a lot of talks. And we were like, "Hey, we know things are hard with Vicky right now." We will make room for you here. We're already working on it, and you can come live with us. Um. Just a heads up, we've already your social worker's already aware. Everybody's already aware that if that was to happen, you have a new placement with us. And she's like, "Oh, thank you." I said, "But also if you want to work it out with Vicki, just let me know. Whatever you want to do will set you up for success." And so we had a lot of heart hearts over the weekend. She went to church with me on Saturday. We were at church from six m to two p m. Speaker 1 00:21:11 Um, She got to work with because all of our volunteers have to be live scanned to work at the to volunteer at the church, no matter what section you are in. Um, And so I I set her up with one of the guys who also works with foster kids. And they do a lot of things in the film industry. So kids can they go through different programs where kids can produce and do things like that. So He took her under his wing for the first service and taught her a lot of stuff. And she was like, she had been nailing it. Like, She had been working with at the church as a volunteer, uh, the last couple times she visited. So, she's been getting some good experience. But then he invited her because of how well she was doing, he invited her to be a part of that program which is amazing. So yeah that that was just huge for her yeah and then. Speaker 1 00:22:04 So Sunday night, so okay, so neither girl slept during the night on Saturday night to Sunday. They wanted Starbucks at nine o'clock at night. I was like, we got decaf here, and they're like, no, we want matcha. I am not paying for matcha at nine o'clock on a Saturday night. So they're like well what if we pay for Doordash? I'm like I knew I wasn't gonna stop this, because at that point, they were, they were playing all the starts. And I was like. You pay for it, you go get it. I don't think so. She did. They both did. They ordered Starbucks and then neither of them slept all night long. I was like, You will learn. Speaker 2 00:22:48 Yeah, yeah, Speaker 1 00:22:49 Yeah, So the next morning. I have two kids. Both have just started their period on the same day, Both of them with stomach cramps, Both of them working at the church Yeah It was a lovely day. Speaker 1 00:23:05 At Titudes came out when we got home, they had a list of chores. They had to get done. I was getting a lot of back talk on it from my own child, you know, you know, the typical seventeen year old teenage girl who's PMSing bad. So Brian and I had to go have a conversation, and we had a whisper fight, which was fun. Speaker 1 00:23:31 And then Don, so Tom and Don. So Don started to walk into my bedroom. Yeah, I know. Uh, Don started walking in my bedroom to let the cat in. I was like, hold up, we're having a conversation. And she was like, oh okay I'm sorry I didn't know. I'm like don't even worry about it. Um, but we'll be out soon So. We had a conversation, and it was a lot about Don because Tominique felt like I wasn't allowing her freedom to help LaDanya and I was like. You have it, But there are some things that me as the adult I had to handle like that you, you could not be involved in. And it's not because you are not capable.;. It's because you are still a teenager, you still got, and you are still missing that frontal lobe. Speaker 2 00:24:15 And one of the things is also it'll switch their relationships sometimes too. Yes, yeah. And if they're if they're friends or sister friends, it's good. If you become like a second parent, maybe not. Speaker 1 00:24:29 So, so we had to get that straightened out, And that's why she was all out of tizzy, because, you know, I messed up her plans for the weekend to be a mentor. And I was like, no, you need to be a teenager and let me handle the adult stuff. I will clue you in on the adult stuff that you need to be involved in. Yeah, and so we got it all worked out. So, we came in and had a conversation with Ladanya because she was uh, she was involved in. Yeah. The conversation. We didn't want her to feel like we were talking about her without being transparent. Speaker 1 00:24:60 And so we had a conversation, and I said, "What do you want to do? Do you want me to push for you to move in with us? Do you want us to back off? What do you want?" Because we had, we had, you know, She'd been initiating the conversations at times when we had been. So it was back and forth. So it was a good time to make that conversation. And she goes, "I honestly want to see if I can work it out with Vicki." I was like, "Okay, great." Um and so she went home yesterday. Um, Vicky came and picked her up because Vicky has an aunt that's in hospice, so Vicky was out of town for that. And so she drove back in. Yeah, That's why I was like t here is t here is a lot to this story." Um, and so Vicki came and picked her up and she texted me later. She said Dawn said that you guys got into a fight you and Dawninic got into a fight And. She got to experience what a healthy fight would look like. And I was like, "I didn't feel like anything healthy." Speaker 1 00:25:56 To say that, um, But she said it made Ladanya, Ladanya said it made her want to try to work it out with me. I was like, oh. And. So then she texted me about six hours later and said we had a really productive conversation and I think it's good. I think we're in a good place now. I was like, that is awesome. So that's how my weekend went. Um, so she. Probably won't at this point unless something changes come back to me, unless it's for respite care. However, We did contact D, C, F, S and opened because we got the bed in this weekend, and we did open up for another child to come in. Oh wow. Yeah. So, we'll see what happens, But there's a few kids that are on my radar that I've had in the past that may come back to me on a permanent basis. So. Speaker 1 00:26:55 So we're gonna see what happens. Speaker 1 00:27:03 Yeah. It was good, like I did get a lot done. I did have some relaxing time, but we had Good Friday services, So I was at the church from noon to eight, thirty, no noon to seven, thirty. And then we were back there on Sunday. So and then next Sunday is my last volunteer there. Cause I only came back to help while a friend of mine was on, um, medical leave. Yeah. Oh good. Yeah. Good news. Speaker 3 00:27:36 So I'm super glad. Speaker 2 00:27:42 But yeah, an eventful like packed weekend. Yeah A lot of parenting. Speaker 1 00:27:51 Yes, and then I had another kid with us on Saturday, on top of all of this. Speaker 2 00:27:56 Oh gosh. Speaker 1 00:27:57 Yeah, she's also seventeen and living down the street with her foster mom. And so I had three seventeen year olds in the house, and my dining room table is only big enough for two people. So I am yeah I am going to have to go buy a new dining room table. Yeah. So. Speaker 2 00:28:19 Seems like your guest, It's picking up. I. Speaker 1 00:28:24 Am becoming i've been known i've been becoming known as the person that can handle teens in our foster circles, so they've been coming to me. Speaker 2 00:28:38 Yeah, they're a prickly bunch. Yeah, I lived through two girls now; the boys are starting. yeah. Speaker 1 00:28:55 You know, it was so funny. It was on Sunday. Dawn told me she was all attitude. She was like, and I said," Hey, you are supposed to do the dishes." I had cooked; I had made dinner. You know, I had done a lot of things. It had been a busy day;. I had been at the church for eight hours. They took a nap; I didn't take a nap when we got home. Oh yeah, Speaker 2 00:29:20 Because they had been up forever? Yes. Speaker 1 00:29:24 And so I was doing a lot of things, and I said, "Hey Ladanya, go take out the trash. Dawn, finish doing the dishes." And Dawninic goes, "Well, why don't you do the dishes? You never do the dishes. Even when I cook, I have to do the dishes." I was like. What? Man! I said.I looked at her and my brain was going.I know I'm Southern but I am gonna.I am going to ignore the Southern side of me. And then Dawn looks at her and goes."Girl!" My by mom would have slapped you into the next Tuesday for that. And I was like, oh my gosh. Um, I said, you she goes, I just want to sit down and rest. I said, You got thirty minutes, go, sit down and rest, but then you are doing the dishes. Yeah, I was like yeah my mom would have slapped her silly. Speaker 2 00:30:17 Oh goodness, sometimes they help the other ones help each other out like, Speaker 1 00:30:20 Yeah. Yeah. There was, there was something that she did on Saturday, And the other foster girl that was with us looked at her and was like," You would not get away with that in a black household." I was like," Oh, oh yeah." I am going to step back on this one. I am going to stay out of this conversation. I will let you three handle yourselves. Speaker 3 00:30:43 Oh yeah. Her. Speaker 1 00:30:48 Name is Ari. She's very sweet. She showed me how to do some things with Ladanya's hair as far as straightening it, But I am going to need I am going to need some further help because it looked okay, but it was poofy. Speaker 2 00:31:02 Um, probably the the. Temp first did uh you blow dried you blow dried it first. Speaker 1 00:31:09 She blow-dried at first, and we didn't put any product on it because I didn't have anything. So. Speaker 2 00:31:18 Gotcha, that's be good yeah. Speaker 2 00:31:25 Conditioning your hair like even before you put a treatment on the hair, leaving to condition it and it be in a good place to accept heat. Oh. And then depending on the hair type, um may need to go higher on the heat. Speaker 1 00:31:47 Got it. I had it all the way up to four, twenty because that was as high as I would go. But I had two, I have two straighteners and a a straightening comb. And the straightening comb was the best one for it. So yes, Speaker 2 00:32:00 So straightening comb is going to get those the roots and the edges, and then you just want one pass through with the straightening comb. I mean, if I have a my close friend can probably she's like, of course, I can flat my hair, but she's probably the better person to walk you through. Speaker 1 00:32:25 I offered to do. Speaker 2 00:32:30 I am learning this. Um, I was like," Hey, I do know how to finger curl your type of curls, if you want me to do that." She's like," No, I kind of want it straight this week." I was like," Okay. The next time you come," she told me. She has asked for a two- hour project minimum. Speaker 1 00:32:46 Oh no! It took us three. Yeah yeah yeah because they went swimming earlier and then they went, And then they took a shower. And, I the only I didn't have any leave in conditioner because I had just run out myself. So I didn't have any for me, and but I had argan oil, for hair, and so I did use that on it. Cause her hair was dry. Speaker 1 00:33:23 It was a weekend of learning for me. Speaker 2 00:33:26 Yeah, um, I'll send you this video. Um, yeah, so I don't know something but the swimming probably stripped hair chlorine. Yeah, So it stripped I don't know if they have a perm, not really stripped the hair. Speaker 1 00:33:46 Down. And so with that, um needing to do a good conditioning. Speaker 2 00:33:53 And then blow drying all like it has to be dry dry. Speaker 1 00:33:58 Yeah, I can say it was dry dry, but I think she used my paddle brush to dry it with hair dryer, which is not bad. I use the paddle brush. Speaker 2 00:34:08 That's actually good. Yeah, That's actually good and small section and was her hair like tight tight tight curls or fairly yes, yeah. So you you needed to. Speaker 2 00:34:26 Press ing comb first to loosen the curl and get the hair like straight in order to do the straightener. Yeah, Speaker 1 00:34:36 Yeah, it was a slow one, but you know what? I learned a lot already. And then I learned I am going to ask Michelle about this when I see her on Monday or Tuesday. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was funny; Speaker 2 00:34:50 I was like two girls we all three have different. Speaker 2 00:34:56 So my my youngest daughter has a looser curl pattern, but her hair gets dry so bad. My young, my oldest daughter she has a very tight curl pattern. Um and her hair is sensitive to different products. It requires high heat to press her hair. Um and mine just depends on like when I was in my twenties compared to now, hair management. Speaker 2 00:35:27 So, yeah, it's a whole science. Yeah, you want to do things so fast. Speaker 1 00:35:32 I'd love to know bebecause I am definitely going to learn. Um, bebecause there is no telling what kind of kid I get next. Thankfully, I had all the lotions that they needed. Speaker 3 00:35:45 Oh goodness, yeah. Speaker 1 00:35:46 So because i i had i had my some leftover lotions for my foster closet, andum. Speaker 2 00:35:54 We can't be ashy. We don't do ashy. Speaker 1 00:36:00 Yeah, It was so funny. She looked at my leg bebecause I was wearing shorts and she goes," Girl, you don't use lotion, do you?" And I was like," I don't need it as often." She goes," Yeah, you've got some ashy on your feet." I was like," I am sitting here being judged by teenagers. Speaker 3 00:36:15 This is not." Speaker 1 00:37:08 Okay, we're ordered. You are amazing. Oh my gosh, Speaker 3 00:37:15 I'm so nervous about getting him to walk. Oh. Put in the driveway? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:37:38 Yeah, I the other day, I the same thing. I was like trying to get in line for something. I switched off of Instacart to Amazon Grocery bebecause I realized overall it's cheaper. Amazon Grocery is cheaper okay than Instacart. Speaker 2 00:37:59 And like you feel like it has everything that you need yeah. Speaker 1 00:38:04 That's what shopping is a shopping is, They do have everything I need. Um. Speaker 2 00:38:12 You should send, you know, your referral friend send me one of those things. Speaker 3 00:38:15 Yeah, I will. Speaker 3 00:38:58 Need something to. Yes, do you have a cup holder. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:39:37 I Have a new vitamin that I am taking, and then uh I take some medicine in the morning as well. And oh my goodness, if I don't put a little something on my stomach, yeah problems. Speaker 1 00:39:51 Yeah problems. Um so they're the only kind that. Speaker 1 00:40:02 Um. Sorry, I was I was looking at, so they have this repeat thing where you can. Um they will it's kind of like their subscribe and save, but you can repeat and say, okay, these are what I buy weekly. And so like right now, I just added. Uh, trimmed green, beans, mini cucumbers, baby, spinach, bananas and I. This is gonna sound crazy. Crazy, but I like to dull fruit bowls, where it's like pineapple and lime jello. And I like the orange version bebecause when I'm on my meds, um, when I do my weekly med, it makes me nauseous and I can't eat much. And so that's some of the things that um that I can do. And there's not very many places that you can get that one at. So um. Speaker 1 00:41:01 So I added that and then the the mandarin orange version, But I found the mandarin orange by the queues, bebecause I do more of the mandarin orange than anything. But yeah, There's there's only a few foods I can eat that won't make me sick on Saturdays. Speaker 2 00:41:16 Yeah, Some of this stuff like sometimes like my multivitamin, i i went with a high potency one. Mhm. And if I don't eat something while taking that thing, Yeah. People be like, uh, have you lost your mind? Speaker 1 00:41:34 Yeah. That makes me nauseous and sick too, is when I take my vitamins on an empty stomach. So in the mornings I. Well, every two, every two weeks I get on the same subscribe and save I get uh. I get my a premier protein shake. And it's the kind that's the caramel macchiato withum with a, The same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee. So I'll normally take, I'll normally drink that while taking my meds. And that'll do it for me. And then at night when I take my eight p m meds, you can't take it on an empty stomach. So I normally will take it unless I've eaten a pretty decent meal, I'll normally take it with a just a regular chocolate Premier protein shake. And. So they're all in my refrigerator in my bedroom, because I have to keep the fridge. Speaker 1 00:42:31 Due to medication. And so, yeah, my my little refrigerator is so organized and stocked. And the girls the other day they're like," We need chocolate." I was like," Cause, they when they were both, it was Sunday night;. They were both coming out of major cramps and everything." And I was like," All right, come here," and so they stole my Twix from my refrigerator. That was funny. Speaker 2 00:42:59 A good piece of chocolate. To end that process, oh, it's lovely. Speaker 1 00:43:04 Yes. Well, they wanted brownies, but I was out of brownie mix. Speaker 2 00:43:10 I know my son, um wanted brownies for my husband at cookies, and they cooked for them over the weekend. Speaker 3 00:43:16 Mhm. Oh, Speaker 2 00:43:18 My goodness They woke up in the morning I wake up in the morning. And I'm like I'm gonna have a cookie. Speaker 1 00:43:21 There was one left Um. So i'll i'll they'll normally make the make the brownies for me. Because they, they like to slightly undercook them, and if they overcook them, then they'll ask me. Or not overcook them, but if they cook them perfectly and not undercook them, they'll ask me to come and do. They'll say, Can you come do the milk thin? And it's both Dawn and Dom. It's yeah. What I do is I take a can of condensed milk. Well normally I I do the pouches lately. And I just drizzle it over the top. Speaker 1 00:43:59 Well, it's still hot and so it melts into it. Oh my gosh. And so yeah. But, we were out of brownie mix, and they were not very happy about that. I was like, you all the one who ran through our brownie mix in no time flat, like you didn't tell me we're out. So, that's why I had to add some baking soda to this So. My grocery days are on Friday. Uh is when I get it from Amazon, and so it gets delivered. Which is why I normally work from home on Fridays because that gets delivered. And then uh we have our other deliveries. The only thing we don't have delivered on Fridays is our water delivery. I know that sounds crazy but. You know those water deliveries, most people forget it. They're only ten dollars a month. Oh yeah. So I have one at the house. Speaker 2 00:44:55 We used to have one. Here, our previous house we had one that when we moved to Kelowna, we switched and got a system because the water was so hard. Yeah, You are like, no, it just kind of makes sense to go ahead and just do a system. Speaker 1 00:45:15 Yeah, so. Speaker 2 00:45:17 It has like reverse osmosis water. Oh my goodness! So, when we go places and my son is drinking, you know, they give you waters. Speaker 2 00:45:29 I'm like, that's. Speaker 1 00:45:33 Hilarious. Yeah, the girls because I have the ninja thirsty as well. And so I get it, I get all the tea flavors for me. Mhm. And, they they drink the sprite and the root beer and the orange soda ones. Mhm. And so they will they will take the little tank, Go to the fridge, put ice in it, And then go to the water dispenser and fill it up with the cold water from the water dispenser. We went through a five gallon jug of water between all all the kids in six days. Speaker 2 00:46:13 But it's really really good though. Speaker 1 00:46:14 Yeah, Or not six days, I am sorry, five days, It takes Dom and I about a week and a half to go through five gallons because we're never home. Speaker 2 00:46:26 But That's actually really good though. It was. Like hydration and not drinking juice and. I mean a little additive is not bad but yeah. Speaker 3 00:46:41 Flushing that system out, frankly, that is really good. I wish I gave my flushing system that much water. Speaker 1 00:46:47 They're better at it than I am, I was not good at it. Speaker 1 00:46:54 I failed on my water drinking yesterday and got dehydrated. Speaker 2 00:47:03 Our sons are doing better than they were because of basketball. They drink far more water and less Gatorade. My son said he wanted to try the Gatorade. Speaker 2 00:47:26 Yeah. They. Speaker 1 00:47:32 Have coffee mate Harry Potter butter beer flavored cold foam for your coffee. Speaker 2 00:47:38 Whoa, that's a lot. Yes. Speaker 1 00:47:43 Yeah, I was I was grabbing some coffee creamer for my Friday delivery, and it it was showing up on as one of our new items that you can get. And I was like, oh. Speaker 2 00:47:58 Um, the new thing in my house which is surprising is oat milk. Yes, very sad. Like my sons are like, you know when it was almond milk, they didn't like almond but oat milk. Speaker 1 00:48:13 I can't keep it in the house. Speaker 2 00:48:16 People are making matchas with it. Um all kind of concoctions with it. And I am like, well, what am I gonna have with my matcha. No, I am like no, no, no. I am the one that's actually locked. Oh my god. Like, you need to get you one. And because I have a tiny fridge too. It's in the kitchen. But, he was like, yeah. Um should we hide yours in the small fridge? And the boys and Morgan have one in uh big fridge? I was like yeah cause they. Speaker 2 00:48:58 Oh my gosh. They have it with their cereal. They have it with like everything. Oh. Speaker 3 00:49:14 Yeah, yes. Speaker 1 00:49:19 Oh, uh, I have been asked. Oh, that's not what I needed. Um, so I I made, I made chicken tortellini. But, apparently I make my vodka sauce much better than uh someone's foster mom. I can't remember which one said it. And we ate it on Saturday. It's 'cause it's like a five minute meal, 'cause I keep shredded chicken in the freezer. Um, And so what I did was I just um defrosted the the um shredded chicken. Speaker 1 00:49:56 And I did four cheese tortellini, and I did what I did was I um, sauteed some shiitake mushrooms. And then and sauteed some asparagus with it. And then tossed in the cooked tortellini, and then the vodka sauce with it. And then all I do is add nutmeg. Add it to the vodka sauce because it gives it another flavor. And then I toss in the shredded chicken. And sometimes if I have it, I'll do spinach, but I was out of spinach because somebody madeomelettes. Can you get this recipe? That sounds really good. Oh, it is so easy. It's like a fifteen minute meal because it's so quick to do. You're going to love it. Speaker 2 00:50:40 And my sons like pasta because of, you know, just wanted the heartiness about food like food. Speaker 1 00:50:47 And if I'm have this small salad and they're like tofu tofu, I'm like dude you need the greens trust Me yeah, I'll give you I'll give you how I do it, because I just toss things together and sometimes I'll freeze it. And normally I'll do it. So I can freeze it and have it. You know, in my in my hot logic, there was nothing left. There was no talking at my table because they no looking at phones either because they were so invested in their in their breakfast or me dinner. I'll send you a picture. Speaker 2 00:51:17 Okay. Yeah, send me the recipe that sounds really good. Speaker 1 00:51:21 Yeah, it is so easy. You're gonna love it. Speaker 2 00:51:25 Yeah, so last night we had pasta, and I was like, It was the option of do you want this pasta? Or do you want this pasta. Yeah. So they always want like a starch, like a rice food. My sons are getting um older and like they want heavier foods. And then also with like all the sports that they do activities this week, They're gonna be starving because last week they were on vacation. So wasn't as intense with PE. And. Speaker 2 00:52:07 Alright, I am pulling in so I'll be up in just a moment. Speaker 3 00:52:11 Okay. Thank you. Speaker 2 00:52:14 Cool, perfect. Speaker 1 00:52:16 Thank you I am I am finishing up while I was talking to you, finishing some things up. Speaker 2 00:52:22 Okay See in a moment Okay Bye bye.
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